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

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WOMEN VOTERS PICK NOMINEES FOR NEW OFFICES U. S, Participation in Foreign ; Affairs Advocated by Convention Speakers, , State director of the Indiana League of Women Voters were nominated at c this afternoon's session of the convention at the Claypool. Mrs. W. T. Earnes was chairman the nomination committee, which • included Mrs. Alice Foster McCulloch of Ft. Wayne, Mrs. Homer McCray, : Kendallville; Mrs. Charles A. Carlisle, isouth Bend, and Mrs. Joseph E. Hen- 1 ' ley, Bloomington. New directors will ?*be voted upon from 11 until 2 o'clock ; Thursday afternoon. Committee Reports Made At themorning session today re-, ports of the treasurer, Mrs. Chester , A. Evans, and standing committees ; were given. Following the afternoon business session a garden party was given at -the home of Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston for delegates and alternates. Mrs. Walter S. Greenough, State president, will review the year’s work of the league, following a dinner for the - league presidents at the Severin this evening. "Women do not expect to plan or - dictate foreign policies, but they Jn- ' tend to understand and give their support to such international cooperation as will serve to prevent future wars,” ; declared Miss Ruth Morgan, chairman of the national committee on International Cooperation to Prevent War, in an address at a mass meeting at the • Claypool Tuesday night. of Nations Praised - Those who oppose the entrance of the United States into some form of - international conference to prevent -war were severely criticised and the of Nations and the World Court, advocated by President Hard- ‘ ing. praised by Miss Morgan. Prof. Robert Philips of Burdue University who followed Miss Morgan, cited the benefits to be derived ; from a world court. "The man who ■claims we can continue to live the Olfe of a hermit has lost touch with -'the march of progress," he contended. REPUBLICANS PLAN SUMMER MEETING Committee Here to Set Date of Session, Members of the committee' bn arrangements for the summer meeting of the Republican State Editorial Association at South Bend met here today to agree on dates for the meeting. June 7-9 had been set at the tentative dates, but they conflict with -convention dates at South Bend. Announcement of a final date has been left open pending receipt of President Harding's decision on an invitation to address the meeting. It is understood he will not be able to attend. Members of the committee on arrangements are George Lindsay, Marion. president of the association - . Will Feudner, Rushviile: George Elliott, New Castle; Herbert C. Willis. Waterloo; Chester Adams, Vincennes; Walter Montgomery, New Albany; Ed "'Neal, NoMesviile, and F. A. Miller, South Bend. MRS. KILGORE IS MOURNED Private Funeral Services Arranged at Residence Thursday. Mrs. Dorothea A. Kilgore, 42. wife of Dr. Byron Kilgore, who died Monday at her home. 116 W. Twenty-First St., after a three months illness, will "The burled Thursday In Crown Hill Cemetery. Private funeral services will be held at the residence at 10:30 a. m. • Mrs. Kilgore was bom in Sept. 1880. She had been a lifelong resident of Indianapolis. Beside her husband. Mrs. Kilgore is survived by five sons; David, a Butler College student, Frederick. Obed, Byron Jr., and Charles Kilgore.

MUSKRAT SKINS ARE HIGH Federal Jury Awards Man Damages for Theft From Express Company. Muskrat skins come high with Federal Court juries. William Alyea of Hebron. Porter County, was awarded damages of $4.306.90 against th American Hallway . Express Company by a jury today for 862 muskrat furs which were stolen from the office of the express company the night of April 2, 1920. The express company attempted to prove that it was nqt liable for the furs, as Alyea had not called for them within a reasonable length of time after they reached Hebron. MARKET EXPERT SPEAKER Nebraska Professor Studies Conditions in Indianapolis. Dr. Paul Ivey, professor of marketing at the University of Nebraska, will be the chief speaker at a banquet at the Lincoln May 10, for representatives of retail stores of the city. Reservations up to 500 may be made through the retail bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Ivey has been in Indianapolis some time gathering figures on market conditions. Educators to Consider License Law. Bv Times Special TERRK HAUTE. Ind.. May 2.—A committee of twenty educators of the State has been appointed to consider proposed recommendations to the board of education in connection with the operation of the new teachertwining and license law passed by the last General Assembly. Dean Bogar - due of the State Normal la chairman.

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TRAFFICMAN OWENS IS SEEN HOLDING PEDESTRIANS IN CHECK BY THE NEW CHAIN ARRANGE MENT AT MERIDIAN AND WASHINGTON STS.

MOTHER LOVE IS WOMAN'S PLEA IN FIGHTFOR CRIED Future of Girl in Balance as Two Battle for Custody. By Up'ted Prat CHICAGO, May 2.—The future of Beatrice Nuttall, 12, was dramatically

in the balance today as two Superior Court judges resumed hearing pleas of two women who would have her call them mother. Mrs. James Morris, real mother, fainted before she told of the romance that resulted in the child's birth. She declared relatives who spirited the ; baby away and gave it in adoption : through feat of disgrace told her Beatrice was dead. Mrs. James Nuttall. foster-parent, is to present her claims today. She adopted Beatrice a few weeks after the baby was bom. Although Judges Joseph B. David > and Claire C. Edwards announced the ; case would be determined on “cold ! law" aione. attorneys quoted both the Bible and fiction profusely to estab- - lish claims and emotions of mother love. 560.000 Judgment Asked Judgment of SBO,OOO against the In- | diana Power and Water Company and the Indiana Power Company, both of Bicknell, was asked by the WorthHuskey Coal oCmpany of Chicago, in a suit filed In Federal Court today. Complaint charges that the defendants refused to accept shipments contracted for.

Wise Birds! Federal building pigeons, wise from years of observation of downtown construction, have gone in for steel construction of nests, according to Morton P. Bonham, assistant custodian of the Federal building. Bonham decided to destroy pigeon apartments above the doorways. Every nest was found lo be skillfully reinforced with heavy nails, he said. “The modern pigeon sure is a wise bird,” Bonham observes.

League Commission Rules on Double Taxation Issue Report Declares Fundamentals Are Location of Property and Residence of the Individual,

By United Financial GENEVA. May 2.—Largely for the benefit of American financiers and industrials, on whose capital the future reconstruction and development of Europe must, to a great measure, depend the League of Nations has just made the first recommendations, for solving the problem of double taxation. Under the presidency of Professor Seligman of Columbia University, a commission including three other international experts has just devoted several months of study at Geneva to the subject. Besides Professor Seligman. the three other members of the commission were Sir Josiah Stamp of Great Britain, Professor Bruins of Holland and Senator Einandi of Italy. The report points out the two fundamental elements of economic allegiance are. first. location of property for origin of income): second, residence us the individual. Finally, the four possible solutions

GIVE! To the James Whitcomb Biley Memorial Association: Please record my pledge of $ for the building fund for the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. I understand in making this pledge that It is to he paid in four annual installments of $ each, the first installment being payable Sept. 30, 1923, and the three installments thereafter on Sept. 30 of the next succeeding years. I also understand that I am to be notified of the amounts due as they are payable Signature Address Credit this pledge to or (Name of orranizattonl in memory of Date 1923. Solicitor Fill out the above blank and mail it to the campaign headquarters. J 503 National City Bank Building All pledges are payable over a four-year period, one-fourth of the total pledged being payable on each s * w 30 n x

‘CLARA PHILLIPS’ FIGHTS CAMERAMAN AND GUARD Woman Held in Honduras Bests Two Men and Breaks Up Photograph Flate,

'Copyright, 19IS, by United Press I TEGUCIGALPH. Honduras, May 2. —The woman held as Clara Phillips, Los Angeles hammer slayer, and her woman companion, succeeded in besting the photographers and a jail guard In a hand-to-hand movie fight over a camera. The photographer had gone to the jail to take the woman's picture. This she refused to permit, but he snapped the shutter anyway, and despite the

PURSES OP SEVEN COOIR MEMBERS TAKEN BY TOIEF Robber Believed to Be Same Who Stole From Universalist Church,

Detectives today declared the thiet who robbed the choir room at the First Baptist Church. Vermont and Meridian Sts.. Tuesday night, answered the description of the thief j who committed a similar robbery at ; the Central Universaiist Church. New Jersey and Fifteenth Sts . Sunday. Seven women were robbed of their i purses containing a total of $122 at | the First Baptist Church and six were robbed at the Central Universaiist ■ Church. Motor Policemen Pfaffenberger and Rubush were called to the First Baptist Church at 9:45 p. m. ; Tuesday. The women who reported their ; purses taken from the choir room | were Phoebe Wood, 842 N. East St., j money and checks amounting to : $47.50: Elma Simmons. 2938 E. Michigan St., $33; Gladys McKain, 2214 Ashland Ave.. sl2: Esther Coffel. 3919 i W. Vermont St., $7; Marjorie Gorman, ! 1947 Adams St.. sls: Grace Price. 2126 ' Ashland Ave., $5; Lucille Stewart, ; 2621 College Ave., $2.50. The thief was described as being a white man almost 23 years old. 5 feet

of the problem of double taxation to which the commission arrived are as follows: 1. An income should be taxed in the country of origin. Irrespective of the residence of the taxpayer, and the country of residence should remit the amount of such tax. The difficulty with this solution is admitted great creditor countries might refuse to accept it. 2. The residence of the taxpayer and not the origin of his income should be the controlling consideration and' countries should refrain from taxing non-residents. 3. The taxes should he divided according to a fixed proportion between the country of -origin and the country' of residence. 4. Instead of dividing the tax between the country of origin and the country of residence there should he a classifica*lon of the categories of wealth, some to be taxed according to origin and the others according to domicile.

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presence of the guard, the woman hurled herself upon him In an effort to destroy the plate. Her companion, Mrs. R. M. Young, came to her assistance, and together they subdued the reporter and guard. The fight for the camera lasted about five minuter,, beginning in the bedroom In which the prisoners are confined, and ending several yards down the corridor toward the street entrance.

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AVERAGE FARMER EARNS $2.40 A DAY Fourteen Per Cent of Farms Fail to Break Even, WASHINGTON, May 2.—Suppose you had a business with an annual turnover of $16,400 for materials and labor, and that It yielded you a net cash income of less than $2.40 a day. If you did, you would bo In the same fix as the average farmer as just revealed by a, survey of 6,000 farms by the Department of Agriculture. On the average, receipts for 1922 were $715 greater than the expenditures In cash, plus $202 greater In added Inventory value. Fourteen per cent of the farms failed to break even, and about twothirds of them returned less than SI,OOO each and only 8 per cent, or one farm In every twelve, returned more than $2,500 net for the year. Security Firm Incorporates Formation of the Security Discount Corporation of Indianapolis was completed today with the filing of articles of incorporation with Ed Jackson, secretary of State. Capital stock will be SIOO,OOO. Incorporators: Wil liam M. Jones. Tames A. Houck, John C. Springer and Eldon W. Houck of Indianapolis and Carl Yeple of Ft. Wayne. Garden pSiduce grows more quickly by moonligßt than by the light of the sun.

WATSON’S VISIT IN STATE SIS G. 0. P. LEADERS Senator's Presence Here Is Expected to Aid in Settling Disputes, Appointment of anew Republican chairman to succeed Lawrence Lyons, who is expected to resign, came to the front among politicians here today, following the arrival of Senate! James E. Matson in Indiana. Senator Watson has discussed the chairmanship with party leaders, but there is no evidence any conclusion has been reached. Watson is making an effort to smooth out factional difficulties and to restore harmony. It is possible a meeting of the State committee will be held soon to take up the chairmanship. Watson Boosts Harding Watson's advocacy of President Harding for the Repunilcan nomination next year, discussed in the Senator's Bloomington speech Tuesday, was a subject for discussion. It was taken by politicians as an effort to prevent the world court issue from becoming serious within the party. Watson is one of the leading opponents of the President's court proposal. Opposed to Court "1 am especially opposed to that i part of the court plan which gives j the British six votes to our one fn | the election of judges to the court,” ;he said in an interview. "But that j does not disturb my relations witn I the President or my determination to I aia in his nomination. “My personal opinion is that the | differences between the President and Senators over the court issue will be i reached through reservations. There 1 will be no split in the party."

MRS. TOON LENKER PONERAITHURSDAY I Death Comes at St, Vincent's Hospital Monday, rites for Mrs. Barbara Lenker, 70, a resident of Indianapolis fortynine years, will be at the residence, 11 N. Tacoma St., at. 2 p. m. Thursday, and at 2:30 p. m. from the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. Death came Monday at St. Vincent's Hospital after a brief illness. Burial wil! b© in the German Lutheran cemetery. Mrs. Lenker was born in Bavaria. Germany She came to the United States when she was 17, and four years later came to Indianapolis. She was an active member of the ladles Aid Society In the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. She is survived by her husband. John Tinker: a son. August Lenker: four daughter*. Mrs Frank Hanley. Mrs. Floyd Harrell. Mrs. William Paul and Mrs William Brinkman, and two sisters. Mrs, I .awreno© Hoe'zer and Mrs Charles IJongus, all of Indianapolis

MARION COUNTY GIVES $450,000 TO HOSPITAL Factories Form New Organization.*! to . Donate to Fund. Announcement was made at noon ! today that the Marion County total j exceeds $450,900 in the campaign fori the building fund of the James Whit- | comb Riley Hospital for Children. Workers were urged to continue canvassing with no report until Thursday noon, when tabulation will be announced at a. meeting at the Chamber of Commerce. Twelve more factories are being organized as part of the group sutscriptiodn plan. It was announced by P. C. Reilly, In charge of th** factory campaign division. Employes of the Polk Sanitary Milk Company have pledged themselves to raise a fund sufficient for the placing of two beds in the hospital. Persons wishing speakers for meetings are urged to communicate with headquarters where a speakers' burealu has been organized. WITNESSES ARE QUIZZED Coroner Probes Death of Girl Who Fell From Maypole. Coroner Paul Robinson today questioned witnesses of the accident which caused the death of Virginia Carson, 13. daughter of Mrs. Carrie Carson, 423'6 Abbott St. The little girl was Injured two weeks ago when she fell from a Maypole at school No. 12. West and McCarty Sts. She died at the city hospital Monday afternoon. Dr. Robinson said death was due to a fractured skull. For some time after the accident Mrs. Carson said little attention was paid to the accident until the girl complained of pains in her head. MAJESTIC PLANT BOUGHT Tire Company to Resume Operations Under New Name. The plant of the Majestic Tire and Rubber Company, Cruse and Daly Sts., will resume operations Monday under the name of the Intercontinental Tiro and Rubber Company, It was announced today. The plant was purchased Monday for $135,000. Purchasers are v.ndarstood to be John D. Wiggins of Anderson, S. T. Davis and Herbert L. Lantz of the International Rubber Company and Park G. Haynes and Otto J. Feucht of the Fletcher American National Bank. Parked Car Robbed R. A. Kelshaw, 3741 N. Keystone Ave., today told police a thief took a tire and rim, valued at S2O, from his car, parked at Meridian and Pratt Sts.

Sorority Gives SSOO to Riley Hospital Sr MRS. ROBERT E. BRAGG (ABOVE), MISS RUTH SIMMS AND MISS JESSIE YOUNT. The Phi Gamma Rho sorority of Indianapolis, with only nineteeen members, lias' pledged a special memorial fund of SSOO for the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. The sorority will give a dance ' at the Athenaeum, May 10, to raise part of the sum. Officers are: Mrs. Robert E Rragg. president; Miss Jessie Yount, treasurer, and Miss j Ruth Simms, secretary. Members of the sorority are: Misses Kathryn Ashe. Helen Bade, ! Gladys Belts. Theone Hayes, Marie Jones, Helen Lentz, Gertrude Lieske, Kathryn Myers. Vivian McDaniels. Ruth Simms. Esther Unversaw. Pauline Vogel, Beulah Wiebke, Jessie Yount and Mesdames Cleston G. Berry. Robert E. j Bragg. Harry Herikle. Paul Koebler, j Donald H. Smith and Edgar West. ATTORNEY BELIEVED MURDER VICTIM Authorities Also Push Theory of Kidnaping, By Unit'd Press i AI RORA. ill., May 2.—Warren J. j Lincoln, missing from his home since I Monday, has been murdered or kidnaped, authorities were convinced today. Theories that the lawyer and kins man of Abraham Lincoln might have disappeared in order to collect insurance money, were abandoned when j tests of blood found along a path leadI ing from his bungalow home on the ; outskirts of Aurora, showed that it i was from a human being. Several dead chickens had been found in Lincoln's yard and Sheriff W. E. Orr for a time believed the blood might have come from the fowls.

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FEDERAL POLICV ON RUM RULING is BEINGDRAFTED Announcement of Bone Dry Enforcement Decision Expected in Month, By United Press WASHINGTON, May 2—A declaration for rigid enforcement of the Supreme Court liquor decision in American territorial waters was awaited from the Treasury Department today as Secretary Mellon. Assistant Secretary Moss and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair met to put finishing touches on a program of policy ordered drafted by the Cabinet yesterday. Such a decision was forecast in a statement by Attorney General Daugherty, who said that within thirty days the Government would be “vigorously enforcing” the law as construed by the Supreme Court. The possible exceptions to bone dry enforcement were however, considered possible. They were: 1. Liquor consigned for Washington diplomats, which the State Department has announced is unaffected by the Supreme Court decision. 2. Stores of medicinal liquor on foreign ships required by the laws from the country' under whose flag a vessel sails. BRITAIN PONDERS PLANS Rum Ship Decision Submitted to International Ijeaguers. By United Press IKiNDON, May 2.—British steamship officials have submitted the United States Supreme Court liquor ruling to the highest international lawyers for an opinion as how best to combat it. Four policies are being considered: 1. Make all British ships to North , America wholly dry. 2. Establishments of liquor depots outside the American three-mile limit. 3. Run liquor ships west-bound only. 4 Stop at Halifax to load and unload liquor. FIRES BEAMED ON WOODEN SHINGLES Loss From Jan, 1 to April 15 Is 5373.008, From Jan. 1 to April 15. 50 per I cent of the 1.856 fires in Indianapolis [ were caused by sparks falling on I .shingle roofs, Jacob Riedel, chief of ; the bureau of fire prevention, stated i today. The largest number of fire ; alarms in any twenty-four-hour period here was on Feb. 23. when sixty-eight , alarms were answered. Fifty-seven i were chargeable to sparks on wooden | shingles. Carelessness with cigarettes and matches was found to be the cause I of the majority of fires in the mile i square. Total fire loss for the quarter was estimated at $373,008.84. Building I loss was $186,710.50, and loss on conj tents. $186,298 34. Sparks faying on a two story frame residence occupied by , Walter M. Bassett, 2033 E. Tents St., and a plumbing shop occupied by Bassett ; & Cos., caused a loss estimated at $2,000 today. Planes Drop Flowers on Grave By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., May 2. Aviators in two planes from Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Indianapolis, dropped flowers on the newly made grave of Lieut. Ralph Huntington, who was killed Sunday in an airplane crash at Shelbyville.

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Butler News Writers Given High Offices —Photos by Dexheimer. ” PATIA CARVER (ABOVE, AND ORVILLE HOOKER. When the Indiana Intercollegiate Press Association meets in Indianapolis next October, the president and secretary will be Butler College students. Orville Hooker of Anderson, a junior, was elected president at the convention at Terre Haute last week. Miss Patia Carver, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs James E. Carver, 119 S. Emerson Ave.. was elected secretary. She is a sophomore. Hooker is an athlete, as well as a journalist. Slayer of Woman Held By Times Special MUNCIE. Ind.. May 2.—Muncie police will go to Cincinnati after Herman Williams, colored, alleged slayer of Mrs. Lillie Ferguson, his divorced wife, who is held hv authorities there. Williams was caught following a gun battle with farmers and B. & O. Railroad detectives Tuesday night

H. J. OSBORN The English Psychic Lecturer and Journalist, at the Masonic Temple Auditorium, 8:00 p. m.. Friday, May 4th. Mr. Osborn will speak on "Science Philosophy Religion” and will show a choice selection of Spirit Pictures. Adults 50c, Children 25c, war tax paid. Tickets now on sale at 215 Marion Bldg., 222 Baldwin Bldg., and at the door.

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