Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 307

Lloyd George Says

BANK MAKES GOOD $337,000 SHORTAGE

VIOLENT-EARTH TREMORS ROCK COASTOF CHILE Tidal Wave Follows Quake, Rolling in Upon City—Life Toll Unknown. By Unit'd Press SANTIAGO, Chile, May 5.—A strong earthquake shook the State of Atacoma in northern Chile, toppling buildings from their foundations and causing great damage. A tidal wave which followed swept over the city of Carrizalillo, inundating a large area. The population fled in panic from the place and sought refuge in nearby hills. Homes were destroyed and many were believed to have been caught in the sudden onrush of the sea waters. At Vallenar, a ooast village, the chief buildings of the town were shaken on their foundations and lay in partial ruins. Dispatches say there was great damage there, especially to Irrigation ditches. No estimates were made as to the loss of life. Only those two towns were heard from in the area stricken by the quake and giant wave A careful cHeck-up of the other sections is being made by authorities to determine the full extent of disorder. Serious •damage and perhaps loss of life in other communities is feared. The Andes Mountains dip into the ocean in the State of Atacama, which is little more than 300 miles north of Valparaiso. The region is settled as thickly as the normal Chilean states. News of the -quake caused special interest here because of the reeen* Chilean earthquake disaster in which 1.200 were killed and drowned. RUHR INVADERS IN ACOGRO ON TERMS France and Belgium* Reach Agreement On Payments, By United Press PARIS, May 5. —France and Belgium reached final agreement late today on an answer to the German , reparations proposal. Premier Poincare received the Be! ’ gian acceptance of his note and announced that the text would be sent to all the allies The note, however, will dot be handed to the German charge d'affaires in Paris and Brussels until Sunday morning. It is understood; Great Britain, likewise. is planning a separate note i which is said not to 4e in conflict with | the position of France. EXPRESS FIRM TO MOVE American Company Plans to Change Location. The American Express Cos. is plan- ; ning tc move from its present quar- j ters at 32 S. Meridian St. to 257 and 259 S. Meridian St. some time this summer. The Paul H. Krause Cos., clothiers, has leased the present home of the express company. The work of remodeling the building will be begun about June 1. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 49 10 a. m 59 i 7 a. m 49 11 a. m 60; S a. 61 12 (noonj 64 - 9 a. m... 55 1 p. m 65 j

l ord Becomes World’s Richest Man bv ‘Service’

fit/ United Frees NEW YORK. May 5. Ilenry Ford is today the world’s richest man. A corporation statement filed today in Massachusetts shows the automobile king now has a personal fortune estimated at from $600,000,000 to $750,000,000. His automobile business, which twenty years ago was capitalized at SIOO,OOO, now has on hand, in actual cash, $159,605,687. In actual cash

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BRITISH DRYS PIN HOPES ON “AMERICA’S BID FOR SOBRIETY” —And Then This is What Happens — New York Solons Kill Enforcement Act —France and England Protest Ban on Foreign Ships Bringing Liquor Into Ports in This Country

Former Cashier of First National at Columbia City Accused of Defalcation —Officials of Institution Save Depositors From Loss, Warrant tor the arrest of Thomas L. Hildebrand, former cashier of the First National Bank of Columbia City, was issued today by Tharles AY. Moores, United States commissioner here. Hildebrand is charged specifically with forging the name of Levi Keiser to a note for $7,000 and keeping the moiley. Federal officials said Hildebrand has admitted the embezzlement of $337,150.94.

Hildebrand was discharged from the bank five months ago. Recently the bank was examined and pronounced sound. The shortage has been made up by officers of the bank, United States officials say. S. J. Peabody, president, contributed $250,000 to make up the shortage. United States officials say. Hildebrand was employed by the bank for twenty-five years. According to officials. Hildebrand would take the money of clients of the bank for investment and then inform them the money had been invested, although he had kept it for his own use. Liberty bonds Intrusted to his care are said to have disappeared. Hildebrand is said always to have appeared to be living within his means and officials are at a loss to know what he did with the money he is alleged to have taken. The bank has a capital of SIOO,OOO and resources of $1,850,000. Deposits amount to $1,400,000 and- loans *l.300.000. Hildebramf is a bachelor and lived at the home of his mother. Mrs. Anna Hildebrand, a widow.

To Mothers of Heroes Places of the sons who sleep in Flanders will be taken, in a measure. by members of the American Legion Auxiliary on Mother’s day, May 13. Dr. Kato Waller Barrett, national president, at headquarters here today, urged all Auxiliary members to set aside an hour on Mother's day to write to a mother who lost her boy. “There are many among the women of America to whom this anniversary brings memories of anguish still —gold star mothers and lqnely wives, whose grief Is tempered only by the_ pride of a splendid sacrifice.” said Dr. Barrett. -v.

PREACHERS SPOIL OLD NON-ATTENDANCE ALIBI Baby Can lie Taken to Church and Checked. By Times Special SULLIVAN, Ind., May s.—Preachers have ruined one of the old standby excuses for not attending church. No longer can mother say, “I can’t leave baby at home, and can’t lining him to church.” . j A baby nook has been established j at the Christian Church. Babies will j be cared for by competent nurses j while his mother enjoys the sermon, j Nothing lias been ommitted to make j the place agreeable for the Infants. j PRISONER IS RETURNED Police Say Man Robbed Columbus Jewelry Store. Bryan Strawn. alias Earl Raymond, 24. of Columbus, Ind., arrested recently after it is said he atempted to pawn two diamond rings valued at S3OO, was in custody of Columbus authorities today. Merchant Policeman George W. Kinney told detectives the man had entered a Columbus jewelry store and stolen diamonds valued at $565.

the P’ord Motor Company leads, while in securities it is second only to the United States Steel Corporation. The motor company’s net profits last, year were $119,000,000. “No man should start to make his fortune until he is forty. ’ ’ This was one of Ford’s directions in a recent observation on the “quickest and happiest road to wealth.” '' I never attempted to make a fortune in my life,"

THEATERS ASKED TO ASSIST DRIVE I Shank Requests Money for Riley Hospital, With Charles Olsen of th Lyric | Theater volunteering to donate a'part ! of the on a specific day of the Lyric and Apollo theaters to the Riley Memorial Hospital fund. Mayor i Shank today addressed a letter to all other theater managers of the city ! asking similar cooperation. The mayor asks all theater managers to donate 20 per cent of the gross receipts of a specific day to the ; fund. BONN GOES 10 ATLANTA PRISON Former Gary Judge to Begin Serving Sentence, William M. Dunn, former city judge of Gary’, left for the Federal prison at Atlanta, (la , this afternoon, where he will begin serving a sentence of one year and one day in Federal prison. Sentence was imposed by Judge Ferdinand A. Oelger after Dunn, together with Roswell O. Johnson, mayor of Gary, and other County and Gary officials had been found guilty of conspiracy to violate Federal prohibition laws. Dunn was the only prominent defendant not to appeal. He was accompanied to prison by Oscar Johnson, deputy United States marshal. COURT CONTINUES CASE Morris 11. Kennedy Charged With Embezzlement. Case of Morris H. Kennedy, 26, of 945 E. Minnesota St., charged with embezzlement, was continued until May 18 in city court today. In an affidavit signed by Floyd E. Payne. 144 N. Illinois St., owner of a chain of restaurants, Kennedy, a bookkkeeper, is charged with taking $790.43. BOND ISSUE APPROVED Commission Grants Request of Ijake County Utility. The public service commission today authorized the East Chicago and Indiana Harbor Water Company to issue and sell $39,000 worth of its first mortgage gold bonds to reimburse the treasury for expenses on additions and property betterments. The commission also approved a contract executed between the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company and the Lafayette Street Railway Company for supplying electrio power, to the latter corporation.

lord said. “There is only one sure road to success. That is the road of service. Render a real service and you can’t help make the fortune. ‘ ‘ Many men make the mistake of trying to save; denying themselves proper recreation, opportunity for study and self-improvement in their earlier years. T don’t believe in the theory of thrift as a necessary basis for a fortune. “A man should always save

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1923

j Anti-Liquor Forces Demand Governor Veto Measure Approved by Solons, By United Press ALBANY. N. Y., May s.—New York will be without a State enforcement j act if Governor Smith signs the Cu- ! viliier bill repealing the Mulien-Gage I act, passed by the Senate and assem- | bly late last night. Millions of dollars’ worth of illicit booze that has flowed into the United \ States across New York’s northern I border and up her rivers and harbors j may enter unchecked by State officials. Federal agents may have to | take over the entire duty of Volstead enforcement. The bill becomes a j “thirty-day” bill and drys are marshal- | ing their forces to plead with the Governor not to sign it. Meanwhile wets are jubilant with victory and insist Governor Smith will sign the bill that will wipe out all State prohibition enforcement, release thousands at present held under bond as malefactors, possibly cause with- ! drawal of State constabulary from j liquor patrols and relieve the police i of New York City from duty as guari dlans of the Volstead act. Dunningan Bill Fails Having failed of passage in the as-, sembly yesterday afternoon, due to j the absence of Assemblyman Nugent, | an ex bartender, who just missed the I roll call, the Dunningan bill to repeal j the State’s dry enforcement act was ; thrown out and drys had their turn 1 of jubilation. The solid Democratic wet group, however, was not to l,e denied, and the Cuvillier bill, which previously had; passed in the Senate and which also ■ was a repeaf measure, was brought; ; back to the assembly and went over; I the top under the impetus of a’ ’sweep j ing wet vote” that would not be I j denied. The final vote In the Senate was;! . For repeal. 28; against. 23 Twenty-six Democrats voted as a ’ am were joined by two Republic-1 a s. Robinson of Herkimer and Whit .ley of Rochester. Robinson is a nephew et the late Colonel Theodore { Roosevelt. Seek Legal Opinion Legal opinion is sought by both 1 dr-y and wets as to the exact! outcome to be expected front passage* j repealer, if the Governor signs. Among other effects of tho repeal ; suggested by wets are: 1 Thousands of Indictments under the \tu3len-Gage art. now pending, will he nolle i rossed and defendants I discharged. 2. Enforcement of the Volstead act I ! w *l* be exclusively in the hands of ’ Federal prohibition agents, i 3 Upward of 1,000 police in New York City, whose only occupation has been to hold down chairs in saloons and cabarets watching liquor offenders. will go back to the pavement. { 4. The State pqlice may no longer j | patrol the border to arrest liquor ; smugglers, nor bold them up on high- i j ways 5. Police of all cities and other peace l officers will be relieved of Volstead enforcement duties

! “WILL INTERRUPT COMMERCE” I French Official Protest on Sliip Ruling Delivered to Hughe* \By United Press WASHINGTON. May B.—France* | protest against enforcement of the Supreme Court's decision barring liquor on foreign ships front American territorial waters was delivered to Secretary of State Hughes today by Ambassador Jusserand. Jusserand called in person at the State Department and spent, some time with Hughes. Neither official would comment on the conference. Later, it was intimated, the exact nature of the French protest would be revealed. Juaserand was ordered by Premier Poincare to file the protest, and to point out that enforcement by this Government of the booze ban against. French ships might result In interrupting commerce between the two nations. Sir Xuckland Geddes, British ambassador, is known to be in communication with his government regarding the situation. On high authority'it.'is learned that should this government undertake to carry out the decision of the Supremo Court as is contemplated by the regu ltaions being prepared by the Treasury Department, the British government is almost, sure to deliver a “solemn diplomatic protest” to the United States.

enough to provide for certain necessities, sickness, to secure a home, etc., on the same basis that, a man should not take a railroad trip without having enough money to buy a return ticket. But saving should not be the dominant idea of a yong man’s life. Self improvement should be. \ “’Men and women should devote their lives until they .are at least forty to one ideal —that of making themselves as efficient as possible in their

Woman Lawyer for Railroad Is Spurred on by Husband's Illness

MRS. ESTELLA BOLLING PRINCE.

The distinction of being the only woman lawyer among the 200 employed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad belongs to Mrs. K*tella Bolling Prinee of Brownstovrn, Ind. Faoed with, the necessity of providing for them both when her husband, Henry H. Prince. wna stricken with apoplexy and left an invalid in 1919, Mrs. Prince took over her husband's legal business. "You get Just what you go after

TWO MORE MARBLE KINGS WIN HONORS

Technical Freshman Will Represent Section in City Tourney —Twelve-Year-Old Boy Is Victor,

Technical High School gained the distinction today of being the only Indianapolis high school with a marble champion. The champ is Fox Thompson, 14, of 1722 W. Washington St., a member of the freshman class. He was the winner of the sectional series at School No. 9. at 700 E. Vermont St. The other winner today was Kennard H. Ong. 12, of 2861 Park Ave. Kcnnard attends School No. 45 at Twenty-Third St., and Park Ave., and ho won in the game at that school. The games a I School No. 9 were hotly contested They finally narrowed down to Fox Thompson and Dan Mooney, 12, of 518 N. Beville Ave., a pupil at the St. Philip Neri School. In the final game it looked for a while as If Dan had the boat of It.

business or profession. If they do that they will make so much money after they are forty, all the money they scrimped and save before they are forty won’t matter. “I never saved any money before I was forty. The money 1 have accumulated since means nothing to me, except as it gives me an opportunity to do things, to make opportunities for other men and women to become financially independent.”

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in this life,” is Mrs. Prince’s philosophy. ”1 am 100 per cent feminine. I like pretty cio;hes and all that sort of thing, but I had to go out and work and there was nothing that helped me succeed like thinking success. "The Jackson County bar was wonderful to me. The lawyers did all they could to encourage me and there is nothing I <an say about them that is too nice."

I Finally Fox succeeded in getting his taw in the middle of the ring and knocked six marblos out in close succession, winning the sectional * champonahip. Fox put something in his shots few boys in the elimination games thus far have had. His shooter seemed to stop dead the second it hit a marble. but the marble flew out of the ring The two boys who won today bring the number of sectional champions up to seven. The remaining five v/ifl be chosen next Saturday, and the Saturday following. Then all will be ready for the city championship tournament in which the twelve sectional champions will play. The city champions will go, accompanied by his or ner mother or father, to Atlantic City to play against champions from thirty-nine other cities for the National championship. All expenses will be paid by The Times. The Times also will give the winner a bicycle. The schedule of games to be played next Saturday will be announced later. FLOWER FUND SUCCESS American Legion to Decorate 1,813 . Unmarked Graves in Europe. Success of the American Legion graves endowment fund, providing flowers In perpetuity for the resting places of American World War dead, means that 1,813 unmarked graves of heroes will be decorated annually, it was said at national headquarters here today. In the eight United States cemeteries in Europe, now shrines of patriotism for Americans, rest the bodies of nearly a regiment of "unknown dead.” The inclusion' of the unmarked crypts among the 32,000 other American graves In Europe will reoonseerate their graves with the others still remaining In ftsreign soil.

Former Premier Believes Next Movement in His Country Will Depend on ‘Success or Failure’ of Dry Law in United States, By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Former Premier of England. Copyright, 1923. LONDON, May 5. —Four years ago, the United States, by a two-thirds majority, voted for prohibition. The British House of Commons has just voted down a bill for the same purpose by a majority of 236 to 14. America treats prohibition as one of its greatest moral triumphs. Britain treats it as a joke. This remarkable disparity in the attitude of two great Englishspeaking communities can not he a fundamental difference in. temperament or in moral outlook. The men who engineered prohibition in America are of our own race and kind, bred in Puritan traditions that came originally from our shores.

The consumption of alcohol in the United Kingdom before the war per head of population was twice of the United States. The poverty, disease and squalor caused by alcohol were therefore much greater in Britain than in America. What, then, accounts for the readiness of America to, forbid sale and the reluctance of Britain even seriously to restrict? Russia Has Experience I set aside the suggestion that property owners are frightened by the sequel to prohibition in Russia. I have heard it argued that the prohibition ukase of the Czar was responsible for the Russian revolution. is probably true, for people stupified by alcohol will stand anything. There is, of course, the ready explanation that old countries are very conservative and do not take kindly to change. lam .tfraid this explanation will not hold. Old countries, when thoroughly moved, can leap like a hart. Europe Can Act The French revolution demonstrated how vigorously one of the oldest nations of Europe could tear along unbroken tracks when impelled by a new passion. And ! saw Britain spring to arms in 1914. when 5.000.000 of men joined the colors without the lash of compulsion to stir their blood. England renewed her youth and her movements had the energy, the audacity and the endurance of a people untired by a march of centuries. If they were convinced that the liquor traffic mtrst be destroyed they would execute it with as little com(Continued on Page I)

EIGHT ARRESTED ON POOL CHARGE * I / Police Continue Drive on Baseball Ticket Sellers, Eight men were arrested today on charges of gambling and selling baseball pool tickets. A1 Talbert, 44. of 217 1 ,-j N. Illinois St., poolroom proprietor, was charged with keeping a gambling house and pool selling. His brother. Joseph Talbert. 46. of 2448 N. Talbott Ave.. also was charged with keeping a gambling house. Leo Feulhaber, 53. of 326 Spring St., was charged with gaming. Theodore Franoy, 38. of 2448 N. Talbott Ave., and Frank Kothe. 52, of 625 N. Rural St., were charged with pool selling. Arrests were made by Lieutenants Jones and Summers and squad. Captain Worley arrested the following men on charges of pooi selling: A1 Talbert and Jack Tyndal, 29. of 1135 Union St., poolroom proprietor; Gus Manson. 42. colored. 160 Douglass St., shoe shine parlor, and Charles Hasse, 30. of 622 N. Keystone Ave. ASK SUNDAY SCHOOL AID Committees Front Marion County to Assist in State Convention. Cooperation of every Sunday School in Marion County has been asked by the committee in charge of the annual State convention of the Indiana Sunday School Council of Religious Education to be held at the Cadle Tabernacle, June 19-21. Each Sunday School is asked to appoint a committee consisting of a chairman and three vice chairmen to make arrangements with each local church for the convention.

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Forecast 1 ' PARTLY cloudy tonight, followed by fair and somewhat warmer weather Sunday.

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DOCTOR DENIES CONNECTION WITH ; DEATH OF SHEA Physician, Held on Dope Charge, Asserts He Never Heard of Dead Man, All statements that he was in any way connected with the death of Bernard Shea with an overdose of “dope” were denied today by Dr. William B. Hartsock. charged by Federal I officers with violation of the Harrison | nracotic law. He was held to the Federal grand jury and released under j SI.OOO bond. , Shea was found dead at LaBoF 4 i Temple. IV'. Pearl St.. Apri 11. "I never heard of Bernard Shea except what 1 learned through the newspapers at the time of his death,” said Dr. Hartsock today. “He was never a patient of mine at any time.” “All charges in connection with him .ire false, and the claims against me ; untrue. The patient for whom the ; morphine was kept in my office is an ex soldier sent to me by government I officials for treatment of incurable j tuberculosis. * “Innumerable efforts have been | made to place him in government ! hospitals, but no satisfactory place had ibeen arranged. ; “Sanatorium officials had said that it wasn’t worth while to give him the drug cure because his condition is suob that he could not stop drug treatment.” lOWA ‘DIRT FARMER’ GETS FEDERAL JOB Edward N. Cunningham Appointed on Federal Reserve Board. Bv United Press , WASHINGTON. May 6.—President Harding today appointed Edward N. Cunningham of lowa as “dirt farmer” member of the Federal Reserve board. Edward E. Jones of Pennsylvania was named a member of tho farm loan board. IDENTITY STIITm'ySTERY Court Does Not Know Who Is Booze Defendant. Special J udge Frank Symrnes doesn't know yet whether the colored man who appeared before him late Friday in Criminal Court as William Bell, 37, of 1316 N. Senate Ave., on a blind tiger charge, is the real defendant. Deputy Prosecutor William P. Remy and police insisted the real Bell had fled and his bondsman had substituted another to save the $1,500 forfeit. Tho case was postponed until Ira M. Holmes. Bell’s attorney in a city court case, from which he appealed, returns from Kansas City. State Normal Wins. By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., May The State Normal baseball team had an easy time with Hanover here Friday, winning 15 to 4. The Teachers got twenty safeties off Williams and Cezar.