Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 304

DO YOUR BIT TO DEFEAT GAMBLERS

Here are some suggestions for cutting down the use of cane sugar made by Dr. Minna C. Denton of the office of home economics of the department of agriculture at Washington: Use brown sugar instead of white when ever possible. If dried fruit, such as dates, raisins and figs, are added to cereals little or no sugar will be required. Delicious cake frostings. without white sugar, can be made with brown sugar, maple sugar, honey, or corn syrup. Marshmallows may be used on cakes instead of frosting.

FRANCE SHIES AT GERMANS’ • PEACE OFFER Sum of Thirty Billion Gold Marks as Reparation Payment, With Evacuation of Ruhr Unacceptable to Paris, \ By United Press PARIS, May 2.—The German offer, as announced today, is unacceptable to France, according to first comments heard from official sources. The amount —30,000,000,000 gold marks with the clause requesting French evacuation of the Ruhr—and the request for an international commission as suggested by Secretary Hughes are said to be unsatisfactory from the French point of view. Berlin Proposal Makes No Mention of Railroads as Security for Payments

BY CARD D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, May 2.—Germany made her first actual offer ot solution of the Ruhr difficulties in a note dispatched to the allies today. Under her proposal, announced officially, Germany would pay a basic sum of 30.000,000,000 gold marks as reparations due the allies under the treaty of Versailles. If Prance accepts, Germany would evacuation of the Ruhr valley a resumption of the previous system of payments. The German note, a copy of which also will be dispatched to Washington, agrees if this proves unacceptable an international commission such as suggested by Secretary of State Hughes several months ago, could be empowered to determine how much Germany Is capable of paying. Several last minute changes were made in the proposal, which was drafted by Chancellor Cuno and his government and party agents In conference since last Saturday. There is no absolute' pledge that CHAIN CONTROL QF WALKERS SUCCESS Capt, Glenn Pleased With New Traffic Regulations. Satisfaction over regulation of pedestrians by chains at Meridfdn and Washington Sts. was expressed by Traffic Captain Glenn today after its first trial Tuesday night. Glenn said that when bells are installed and pedestrians and police become accustomed to the rules, the new #stem will work much smoother. The al test will come-Saturday, he said. Operation of the traffic tower is now started at 7 a. m. following orders of Glenn. It formerly started at 7:30. All downtown corners will have traffiemen stationed at 7 a. m. Policemen will be stationed at Illinois and Washington and Meridian and Washington Sts. until 9 o’clock in the evening. These corners will be protected by police on Sunday hereafter. THEODORE MAUCH SUED FOR DIVORCE Wife Charges He Bought for Another Woman, Charging that Theodore M. C. Mauch, 1250 Speedway Ave., department superintendent of the Indianapolis Water Works, bought another woman a handsome diamond ring for Christmas present in 1922, and partly paid for it with his wife’s money, Mrs. Ada Mauch, 320 N. Meridian St., today filed suit for divorce In Superior Court. Mauch also made love to another woman while his wife was ill in a hospital, she charges. She could see Atem in a “compromising position,” W' e says. He urged her to go out with other men, the complaint states. Although her husband earns $7,000 a year, she says, he has discontinued paying her an allowance of SIOO a month. She asks alimony. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a, m 58 10 a. m 88 7 a. m 66 11 a. m 70 • a. m........ 80 12 (noon) 71 9 a_ m. 67

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In bread making, use corn syrup, malt syrup or cane syrup Instead of white sugar. - Use molasses, honey, Jelly or jam for the ifweet part of the meal. Instead of candies made with white sugar, eat molasses candy, penuche made with brown sugar, pralines, maple sugar sweets, dates, raisins and figs. With griddle cakes and waffles, use corn syrup, maple syrup or brown sugar syrups. Either honey or maple syrup are just as good as white sugar in a boiled frosting.

the railroads and other national properties will be offered as pledges. This is one point upon which French officials heretofore, have Insisted.

Marble Games Are Set for Saturday Two more elimination games In The Indianapolis Times marble tournament will be played at 9 a. m.. Saturday. The schedule: School No. 45, at 2301 Park Ave.—Pupils attending schools Nos. 73, 26. 27. 29, 45. 66, 38, 51 and 10. School No. 9. at 740 E. Vermont St. Pupils attending schools Nos. 1, 15, 9, 14, 33. 3, 64, Technical High School, the Potter Fresh Air School, St. * Philip Nerl School and Holy Cross School. Elimination contests are nearing the end. When they are con-' eluded there will be twelve sectional champions, who will playin the city- tournament. The city champion will be sent to Atlantic City with his or her father or mother, all expenses to be paid by The Times. More than forty city champions will, play In the Atlantic City tournament. If you attend any of the schools named In this week’s schedule, be on the job at the places designated at 9 a. m. Saturday- and bring your marbles with you. ifou may be the city or even the National champion.

RACE CAR WILL BURN ALCOHOL French Entry to Try New Fuel in Classic, For the first, time in the nistory of American motor car racing alcohol will be used as fuel when the Bugattl car, driven by Count Oborowskl, takes the track In the 600 mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 30. Bugattl cars, which are built at Strasbourg, Lorraine, will race under the tri color of France. The last time a Bugatti was seen 1 nactlon here it raced under Germa ncolors, as Lorraine was then a German possession. If is understood Count Oborowskl wil bring 250 gallons of alcohol, manufactured in England, with him.

Police Are Convinced Hazers Killed Student

By United Pre V CHICAGO, May 2.—Leighton Mount, Northwestern University freehman, was killed during inter-clasa haring and the body placed in lime in a Lake Michigan pier, Police Chief Charles W. Leggett and physicians declared today. Mount disappeared after a "class fight" among university students in 1921. The skeleton was found by a small boy playing about the pier Monday night. Doctors George Tyson an£. Joseph Springer, the latter a coroner’s physician, declared examination shows that a chemical was placed over the

MORE HOUSEWIVES IN SUGAR BOYCOTT

THE sugar boycott was gaining strength in Indianapolis and other cities today. Prices have soared to 11 cents and 12 cents a pound retail. Dealers, who are helpless because of gamblers' control of the market, admit no reduction is in sight. Women’s clubs and civic associations have taken up the fight against high prices and many either have pledged their members to use ias little sugar as possible or arc planning to do so. The Marion County Housewives League already has taken action, Mrs. W. H. Hart, 651 East Dr., Woodruff Place, president, announced. It asks other organizations to co-operate. More Join in Fight. The Local Council of Women will take up the boycott at its meeting next Tuesday night. The Woman’s Department Club will discuss the subject Friday. Representatives of the Housewives League will be present at both meetings to urge the boycott. Directors of the Catholic Women’s Association are expected to vote tonight to join the boycott, Mrs. W. L. Mooney, 4332 College Ave., president, announced. Mrs. Charles Benedict, president of the Home Economic Club, said she approved the boycott and that it will be discussed at the ne*t meeting of the organization.

CONSUMERS ASK FOR DIRECT SALE OF COKE SUPPLY

’ Local Federation Seeks to Have (3as Company Here Retail Product, | Indianapolis coke direct to InI dianapolis consumers! I The Indianapolis Federation of J Community Civic Clubs hopes to ac- ! compllsh this, Edward O. Snethen, i president, declared today-. A committee has lje p n named to confer with officials of the Citizens Gas i Company, which produces enough I coke to supply every household In Inj dianapolis, according to Snethen. j Effort will be made to eliminate the j practice whereby the gas company j sells its coke to a Cincinnati jobber, 1 acting as the utility’s sales agent, which in turn sells it back to Indianapolis retailers. Consumers can buy coke only after it has passed through the Jobber's and retailer's hands. It has been shown In hearings before the public service commission that the jobber does not handle the coke. It generally Is shipped direct from the gaa plant to the retailer. | The Jobber collects his profit “for i keeping books.” It is asserted. Snethan’s organization hopes to | save one of these two profits for the consumer. It has no objection to the retailer, since this is a purely local enterprise. Extensive use of coke in residences | would eliminate a lot of smoko, ; Snethen said. j The federation committee which ; will consult the gas company consists I of W. H. Hanley, chief engineer for j EU Lilly & Company: Dr. I. H. Darbey and Mrs. J. W. Moore.

CULT MARRIAGES MERE FORMALITY Witnesses Say Girls Under 16 Favored by 'King,' By United Frees ST. JOSEPH, May 2—All the marriages of the House of David were regarded as a formality to "get within the law.” witnesses appearing before Judge Dingemnn. oonductlng a grand jury Investigation Into the Immorality of the cult declared .today. Former members of the colony declared that girls under 16 years of age were favored as attendants In Shiloh, the home of “King” Benjamin Purnell. On reaching the age of 16, the girls were married In large groups to husbands chosen by leaders. Beanmn Heads Civic Body George Beaman was the new president of the Mapleton Civic Association today. He was elected Tuesday night to succeed Harry E. Calland. J. G. Bowen was elected vice president. and Miss Nannie Moffitt, secretary. Ray Mock remains treasurer until the next meeting, June 1.

body before it was hidden, to prevent early discovery. All class rivalry contests ' were bcnned at the University today, as a sweeping probe into young Mount’s death got under way. Leggett Evanston, chief of police, announced every student participating in the sophomore-freshman “rush” of 1921 wili be summoned for questioning. Leggett believes Mount was accidentally drowned by rival classmen and his tormentors, feari’.g consequences, secreted the body Mlcl probably visited the m hiding times afterwards to apply filSjgHßjatminti of lima.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1923

Flames Rout Half-Clad Guests at Grand Hotel

FIREMEN EXTINGUISHING BLAZE IN WATER TOWER WHICH ROUTED GUESTS AT THE GRAND HOTEL TODAY.

One hundred guests warned by the ringing of fire alarm bells that the hotel was burning, rushed into the hallways of the Grand Hotel, Illinois and Maryland Sts., early today. Some were dressed In pajamas, some wore bath robes. Almost every guest carried an arm load of clothing, or suit cases and traveling bags. Fire of unknown origin started in an old water tower house on the roof of a five-story section of the hotel. The unused tower, extending twenty feet above Iho roof. Is fifteen by eighteen feet, of heavy covered with tin. The flames had a

Giant T-2 Wings Way West on Coast-to-Goast Flight Ship Which Landed Here on Previous Non-Stop Attempt Piloted by Macßeady and Kelley,

By United Press MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y.. May 2. —The giant monoplane T-2 started on its coast-to-coast non stop flight from Curtiss field today. The ship, piloted by Army LieuEGGLESTON TRANSFERRED Keith’s Manager to Run Cleveland Theater Temporarily. Roltare Eggleston, manager of Keith’s Theater here, arranged to leave for Cleveland. Ohio, late today to manage the new Keith’s Palace there because of the illness of Manager John F. Royal. This Is the most costly theater the Keith interests have erected. As soon as Royal recovers Eggleston wyi return. no smokeTnoconductor Passengers Stage Near Riot When Tobacco Is Barred on Car. Passengers on a stock Yards car, threatened to throw Conductor Miller Jones, off the car early today when he objected to them smoking In the car, police were told. The passengers were gone when the police arrived.

Finding of the body created a, greater sensation than it would otherwise because of the fact that stories had been circulated that Mount disappeared on his own account. A score of students were quizzed today. Leggett says he especially wants to talk to one young man who claimed to have seen Mount alive pome time after the class rush. Coroner Wolf, Evanston, who started an extended Inquest called upon university officials for a complete list of all freshmen and sophomores in the institution in 1921. Mrs. J. L. Mount, mother of the dead boy, was the tragic fly -ce ta ths

Mrs. C. E. Bacon, president of the Women’s Research Club, and Mrs. (feorge Buck, president of the Irvington Woman’s Club, expressed themselves as favorable to the movement. The Garfield Civic Association has asked its members to cut the sugar. The movement for a boycott has become nation-wide and an effort is being made to reduce sugar consumption 100,000 tons during the next ten days. The Market Would Crash. “If every one would refrain from the use of sugar for one week the market would crash,” Stanley Wyckhoff, former county food administer, declared. Wyckhoff went to Cuba in 1920 to study the sugar situation for the Government. He said the situation now is similar to the one then when the retail price in Indianapolis went to 35 cents. “I predicted when American bankers loaned $50,000,000 to Cuba in January, there would be an advance in sugar prices,” Wyckhoff said. “Cuban producers have borrowed money on their crop and are storing it. The only way to bring prices down now would be for American and British bankers to withdraw their credit. This is not very likely.” Wyckhoff said he anticipated the price increase will continue until August, when the American beet crop will be on the market.

start, as the towr rosembled a giant torch. The alarm was sent l.n at 6:54 a. m Fire Chief John J. O'Brien said, the fire might have started from sparks reaching some part of the tower w here the wood was exposed, or from spontaneous combustion. The structure, one of the oldest of large hotels of the city, was built in the early seventies. There are sev-enty-six guest rooms in the section of the building still used as a hotel. The building Is owned by Joquelln 8. Holliday. Damage was estimated by the fire chief at not more than $2,000, covered by insurance.

tenants John Macßeady and Oakley nose west for its fight to Rockwell TThlly, rose stoutly and pointed its field, San Diego, Cal. On a. previous fight they came eastward to Ft Benjamin Harrison, Ind., from San Diego without a stop. The ship's course has been laid out straight to Dayton, Ohio., then via St. Louis southwest to Tucumcari, N. M. Cooked rations for two days and two gallons of coffee were stored in the hold of the pjane. The machiite has been especially fitted to carry 723 gallons of gasoline in a huge tai.K and provides other facilities for the non stop transcontinental dash. The weather in the path was reported clear. PARKS OPEN NEXT WEEK New Benches Made at Brookside Shops to Be placed. City parka will be opened for picnic parties next week. It. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks and recreation, announced today. At least 500 new benches, made at the Brookside repair shops, will be placed In the parka.

case today. Since the youth’s disappearance she has ignored reports that Leighton ran away or took his own life and spent every cent she could afford for private detectives. "X have always said I would be happier to know Leighton was dead than to have the suffering over the possibility that he might be out wandering friendless, alone, possibly hurt. ‘‘But now that I know, my sorrow is ,lust beginning. If only the university officials had helped the search when Leighton disappeared, by now I would have the dull sorrow that twenty months at obedl4ce to God's will bring*." \

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MANY ASSESSORS UNABLE TO PAY THEIR OWN TAXES Township Deputies Have Not Received Salaries Due Since March 15, Citizens who kick about taxes have the sympathy of the clojnjty assessors of Center Township Half of the corps of 163 who have been assessing since March 1 will not t) able to pay their taxes. None of the assessors has been paid since March 15 There is no appropriation for their salaries, Martin Klmmell, chief deputy assessor said. “When the county-auditor failed to call a meeting of the county council In January, jus is usual, we faced the alternative of working without funds <>r not assessing th township," said Kimrnoll. "Most of th deputies are poor, many of them widows.” he said. “Grocers come in every day to ask how much longer they will have to carry people. It Is criminal, as they only get $4 a day. Many of them handle as high as 1,500 tax lists.” “Ix>an sharks” # and others will get. as much as 10 per cent of matiy of the deputies' pay when they finally collect it. May 12, deputies Said. Khnmelt expressed indignation that his force Should be accused of omitting 2,300 taxpayers from the lists. “Os course some are left out. Many are in Florida,’or are professional tax dodgers,” he said.

WOMAN HANGED AS MURDERESS Execution Follows That of Man on Double Gallows, By United Prrti FORT SASKETCHEWAN, Alberta, May 2.—Florence Lassandra, the first woman hanged in Canada in twentyfour years and one of the few ever hanged on the North American continent, went to her death on the gallows today. Her hanging followed that of Emil Pioarillo. who was hanged at 6:15 a. m.—approximately half an hour before Mrs. IjHSSitndra. The two had been convicted of the murder of Constable of Crows Nest Pass Alberta, Before the trap was sprung, Mrs. confessed that she had fired the first of the shots which killed Lawson. The sarno gallows were used for both executions. Mrs. who never until yesterday gave up hope of being reproved, was in a state of almost complete collapse when she was summoned by the guards to be led to the gallows. At the last moment she was said to have mumbled in dramatic fashion, a complete confession of her guilt, describing in some detail her part in the murder. LOCAL PASTOR HONORED Dr. Matthew Smith Appointed on New National Church Board. Dr. Matthew F. Smith, pastor of the First Presbyttrlan Church, Sixteenth and Delaawre Sts., today was appointed a member of the new board of national missions of the Presbyterian Church, according to a telegram he received from New York. Os the forty members of this important board fifteen are women. Dr. Smith represents the Central West. Woman Freed Rebecoa Olar, 1201 Nordyke Ave., tried on charge* of operating a /blind tiger. wu found not guilty by/Judge Wllmeth la city court today. ■ /

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PLEA TO FIND STOLEN BOY HEARD HERE Listeners in All Parts of Country Receive Radio Message From Broken-Hearted Father of _ New York Youngster, • A father’s appeal for aid in the search for his son. kidnaped in Schenectady, N. Y., was heard in Indianapolis Tuesday night at the radio receiving station of W. W. Bowman, auditor of the Indianapolis Union Railway Company, 266 Hendricks Place: Speaking brokenly as if he were on the verge of collapse, E. F. W. Alexanderson, chief engineer of the Radio Corporation of America, told “listeners in” in all parts of the country of the kidnaping of his son. Verner, 6, by a man who promised him some rabbits, and asked all to keep a lookout for the man and boy, who were described. Bowman and Milo A. Webster, assistant purchasing agent for the Indianapolis Union Railway Company, heard the message, which was sent from WGY. sending station of the General Electric Company, at Schenectady, and largest station in the country, outside of Arlington. A message also was heard here Monday night. Wireless Calls in Vain Throughout Night for News of Lad Who Left With Stranger

By United rrrss SCHENECTADY, N. Y.. May 2. Wireless waves called vainly throughout the night for news of 6-year-old Verner Alexanderson. kidnaped son of the chief engineer of the Radio Corporation. The chubby little victim of the “radio kidnaping,” who has enlisted wireless amateurs s and others In eastern North America in the search was not found, although Iris father, who did much in the development of wireless telegraphy, broadcasted descriptions of the boy and appeals for assistance. One report reaching police headquarters today said a child had been seen trudging the road near Fonda, N. Y., crying bitterly, but up to S o'clock this had not been verified nor had any trace o' Verner been found since the hour when he went confidently with a stranger Monday afternoon “to get some rabbits.” Mrs. Alexanderson, who bore up bravely under the ordeal and the torture off not knowing her child’s fate, found some hope in the report of the boy seen nsar Fonda. She declared that if Verner had a chance to break away from his captors he would take care of himself.

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The vast wireless resources of the country were called Into play last night when every station of Importance broadcast the description of Verner and his supposed abductor. Alexanderson also made a personal appeal from WGY for aid In finding his boy. FRANCE THREATENS TO QUIT PEACE CONFERENCE Demand Kemailst Troops Bo Withdrawn From Syria. By United Press ATHENS, May 2.—France is reported in a dispatch from Constantinople to have forwarded a note to Turkey threatening to withdraw from the Lausanne peace conference unless Kemalist troops are reported from the Syrian border. $750 Stolen From Room Walter Hill. 537 Douglass St-, reported to police today that someone .stole $750 from his room at the Douglass St. address some time during the night.

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