Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 308

CHINESE BANDITS ASK RANSOM OF MILLION TO FREE HOSTAGES

HILDEBRAND GIVES BOND OF SIO,OOO Bank Cashier of Columbia City, Arraigned Here, Maintains Silence,' Thomas L. Hildebrand, formerly cashier of the First National Bank of Columbia City, who is said to have admitted embezzlement of $337,150.94 .of the bank’s funds, waived arraignment before Howard S. Young, United States commission today. He was bound over to the Federal grand jury on a charge of violating national banking laws under bond of SIO,OOO. Accompanied by Samuel W. Steele, sheriff of Whitley County, two deputy sheriffs, his attorney. L. T. Bailey, and three bondsmen, Hildebrand drove In an automobile from Columbia City to Indianapolis. They appeared in the office of Homer Elliott, United States district attorney, shortly after 11 a. ra. After a brief conference he was taken to the office of Linus P. Meredith, United States marshal, for the commissioner’s hearing. Refuses to Comment He refused to make any statement, said only a few words in answer to formal questions and left the Federal Building Immediately after the hearing. His bond was signed by Ephriam K. Strong, L. T. Bailey, Levi Keiser and Frank T. Risk, ail of Columbia City. The fact that Keiser signed the bond was the cause of considerable comment. The affidavit on which the charges against Hildebrand are based stated that Hildebrand forged Reiser's name to a note for $7,000 and diverted the money to his own use. Trusted in Community News of Hildebrand’s shortage came as a great shock to residents of Columbia City and Whitley County. Foi years he occupied a position of trust and confidence and had the respect of the entire community. According to friends, Hildebrand did not profit by the transactions. They say he made thousands and thousands of dollars worth of bad loans. The deaflcatlon. they say, came about through attempts to cover bad loans. Federal officials say Hildebrand admitted the charges to Federal bank examiners and to directors in the bank. They say he assisted in checking up his own books to determine the amount of the shortage. Warrant for his arrest was issued Saturday by Charles W. Moores, United States commissioner. The shortage was made up by bank of ficials and stockholders.

LEGAL AID BUREAU URGED Representatives of All Lines Support Movement Here. John S. Bradway of New York, secretary of th National Alliance of Legal Aid Societies, was the speaker at a luncheon attended by lawyers, doctors, nurses and others interested in establishment of a legal aid bureau for Indianapolis at the Lincoln today. Paul L. Benjamin, executive secretary of the Family Welfare Society, is endeavoring to establish a legal aid bureau in Indianapolis under the auspices of the Family Welfare Society. LAST DAY RUSH EVIDENT Taxpayers Hurry to Avoid Being Declared Delinquent. Anxious to crowd “under the wire’’ at the last minute, hundreds of taxpayers thronged the county treasurer’s office today, the last day to pay the spring installment before being declared delinquent Payments were unusually heavy last week. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 61 10 a. m 70 7 a. m 53 11 a. m 72 8 a. m 56 12 (noon! 74 9 a. m...'. 60 1 p. m 80

Nation Honors ‘Uncle Joe’

9f/ United Pre*s Danville, iu.. May 7.—Joseph Quemy Cannon, the beloved “Uncle Joe" of Congress. was honored by the Nation today—the eighty-seventh anniversary of his birth. The veteran Congressman, who is now prepared to rest the remainder of his life, was given the highest honor and tribute by Government officials and by home town folks, who combined a birthday celebration and official welcome on bis return home after his retirement from Congress. Ail roads leading to Danville were crowded early in the day witli automobiles carrying residents of the Eighteenth district, which Can* vearly two yea-

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FIRE CAUSES $25,000 LOSS AT PLAINFIELD Flames Sweep Heart of Town —Citizen Volunteers Slightly Burned—lndianapolis Department Called In —Derailment of Train Adds to Excitement,

Plainfield, fifteen miles west of Indianapolis, had a double thrill today. A fire swept through the heart of the town, wiping out residences and business buildings. Total loss was ! estimated at $35,000. At almost the same time a passenj ger train on the Pennsylvania Rail | raod was derailed at Gibson, six miles CLEWS FOUND IN SEW FOR GIRL Youth, 18, Held for Contributing to Delinquency. Joseph Wilbur, 18, of 215 S. Liberty ! St., charged with contributing to the ! delinquency of Mattie B. Short, a 16-year-old girl, was released on $l5O bond today while authorities made efforts to locate the girl, missing from her home, 403 Hanson St., since last week. The girl’s father. John E. Short, reported to police that the girl's sis j ter had seen her in Lafayette. La- , fayette police have been notified to : look for her. A card signed “M. B. S.” and dated Indianapolis. May 1, was taken from Wilbur bv detectives as evidence in the search for the girl. The card j read: “Dear Joe —I'm leaving this ; afternoon for ‘D'S.’ Will write or call ! you. I'm making the folks believe I eloped with you. Don’t write home, j Did you get my special delivery? j Isabel Somerville, probation officer. I reported she found letters In Wilbur’s j room which she said implicated him I in the girl's disappearance. DOG’S DISLIKE IS BLAMED Owner Faces Charge of Harboring Vicious Animal. A dog owned by Albert Willis. 24, ! colored, 2005 Massachusetts Are., does no. like white folk or very light colored folk. Willis told police today, j Willis was in city court to answer a charge of harboring a vicious dog. The dog bit Mrs. Wills Taylor, 2013 Massachusetts Ave. when she went ; to the home of Willis’ brother ln-law, William Poke. 2029 Massachusetts | Ave., to telepnone, police said.

•rations In Congress, who wished to pay homage to “Uncle Joe.” A score of men who had voted for Cannon more than twenty-five consecutive times over a half a century were among those joining in the celebration. All Danville declared a holiday. Streets were gaily decorated. A huge parade, in which floats depicted the rise of Cannon to a dominating position in the Republican party, passed In front of a review tug stand, erected on the Cannon lawn J. L. Davis, secretary of labor, represented the national government and made the principal address of the day. A great toviag oug es silver end

west of the town No one was hurt. The train left Indianapolis at 7 a m. for St, Louis. Gas Tank Explodes The fire started when a gasolin% tank exploded in the Robert Cook garage. The flames spread rapidly and It .took the combined efforts or the Plainfield fire department, the fire department of the State Boys’ School at Plainfield and four companies of the Indianapolis fire department to put it nuder control. From the Cook garage, the flames spread to the Qicker Service Garage, next door, then to three residences and a barn and finally to the Red Men's hall, a two-story frame structure Fire Fighters Burned The houses destroyed belonged to Dr. C. B. Thomas, Robert Cook and Mrs. Lillian Boyd. John J. O'Brien, chief of the Indianapolis fire department, directed the work of extinguishing the flames. A number of Plainfield citizens who aided In fighting the fire were slightly burned. BUILDING DRIVE LAUNCHED ('hurcli Will Give Dinner to Start Campaign for $25,000. To launch a ■ ampaign to raise $25,000 for the first unit of the proposed new plant of the Woodruff Place Baptist Church, a dinner will he held tonight in the basement of the church. In a sermon Sunday, the Rev. L. C. Trent, pastor, told hla congregation that the church membership had outgrown Its present quarters. The first unit is planned as a recreational building. PASTORS MEET TONIGHT , City Church Federation Will Elect Officers at Y. >l. C. A. Dr. Matthew F. Smith, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church; the Rev. Paul Judson Morris, of the Emerson Avenue Baptist Church; ■William P. Evans, county prosecuting attorney, and Earl R. Conder, president of the Indianapolis Bar Association. will be the principal speakers tonight at the annual dinner of the Church Federation of Indianapolis at the Y. M. C. A. Reports will be read and officers elected.

burnished gold, three feet high, a gift of the residents of Danville, was presented to Cannon. Shortly after came a birthday cake with eightyseven rosettes, each holding a blazing candle, from the Chamber of Commerce. Telegrams and messages of greeting from all parts of the country were received at the Cannon home. “This lemonstration is compensation for my half century of public service,” Cannon said. Cannon urged the people of America to “have faith.”, •'I have learned that good will triumph over evil and that America will rise to meet her problems,” ho said.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1923

A DOG and four eats at 2034 X. Capitol Ave. are | not “living like dogs and eats." In fact, they belong to the same “family.” The “family” consists of a mother cat, who is as black as midnight, three black kittens and a black and white pup. a little younger than the kittens. The car mothers them all and they live happily. The kittens, being more active ‘than the pup, “treat it rough” sometimes, hut the “mother” looks after the pup's interests. “The “family” is the prop ; erty of Mrs. E. P. Brennan. Mrs. Brennan obtained the pup i when it was two days old. The former owner had planned to chloroform it. For a couple of days the mother cat was somewhat doubtful about the addition to her family, hut she finally decided to adopt the “pup.” MRS. ROBINSON FUNERAL IS SET FOR TUESDAY Resident of More Than Twenty Years Dies. -Mrs. Lila L. Robinson, 62. who died Sunday at the home of her son, Earl M. Robinson, 709 Day St., will be j buried Tuesday 3 p. in. at Crown Hill ! cemetery. The Rev. F. E, Webb, paaj tor of College Ave. Baptist Church, j "ill conduct funeral services at the | son's residence at 2 p. m. Tuesday, j Burial will be private. Mrs. Robinson was a resident of Inj dianapolls for more than twenty years. Khe was an active church member. She Is survived by her husband Charles Ford Robinson and one son, ! Earl M. Robinson. TWO SLIGHTLY INJURED Man and Child Hurt When Automobiles Collide Adam Schnam, 1524 S. Randolph fit., and a child, whoso name wb.s not learned by the police, were slightly cut and bruised in an automobile coli lislon at Bherman Dr. and South- | eastern Ave today. Both were taken I home. I According to police. Schaam was | driving his machine south on SherI man Dr. and Harry Crall. 858 S. I Sheffield Ave.. with whom the child was riding, waa going west of Southeastern Ave. WINS $9,750 IN COURT Term Haute Man Given Federal •Judgment. - Judgment of $9,760 against the Federal Carbon Company, a Delaware corporation with offices at 305 Transportation builidng, was returned in favor of Harry Felling of Terre Haute by a jury' in Federal Court today. The suit grew out of the sale of stock In the concern to Falling. He charged misrepresentations were made to him at the time of purchase. He had asked judgment of $13,600. FRIENDS OF JACOBI FOUND Body of Aviator Taken to Elwood, Tnd. On Information of Capt. W. F. Donnelly. government aviation instructor at Kokomo, that friends of,Capt. Benjamin R. Jacobi had been located, Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith today ordered Jacobi’s body sent to Elwood. Ind. Jacobi, an Indiana National Guard aviator, waa killed at Brooks San Antonio. Tex . In an automobile accident last week.

LOCAL WOMEN ARE HELD ON CHARGES Os PETIT LARCENY Mrs, Nelda Cain and Mrs, Mary Ricketts Alleged to Be Shoplifters, Two fashionably-dressed women apI reared before Judge I’ro. Tern. Jo- ' seph Beckett in city court today to i answer charges of petit larceny. Both j were charged with shoplifting. One registered as Mrs. Nelda Cain, t 27, of 523 Garfield Ave.. wife of Dr. j Norman H. Cain, assistant medical examinee for th>- Pennsylvania rail- | road. The other registered as Mary i A. Ricketts. 24, of 2321 Southeastern I Ave . who told of her longing for j pretty things which she said her husband could not afford to buy for her. Mrs. Gain was fined $25 and costs I and sentenced to ninety days in prison. Judgment was su, pended because she has three small children. Case Under Idvisement The case of Mrs. Ricketts was taken under advisement until late today when her huaband was to appear in court. She said she did not want him to “lay oft ’ because they needed the money. She tstified she had i been married nine years. | Women Detectives Duclus and Osborn. who arrested Mrs. Cain, alleged she had taken a child . suit, valued at $1 48, a 65 cent necktie ; md a 39 cent belt from L. S. Ayres & Co.'s store and 'a child's suit, valued at $1.48, from the Pettis Dry Goods Company store. The detectives said she had $135 in her possession when arrested Satur dav. Dolls Were Talom Operatives for the Quigley Hyland Detective Agency, who arrested Mrs. Ricketts, testified site had In her possession three 10-cent dolls, from Wool wort h's Five and Ten-Cent store; a silk vest, one pair of plain and one pair of fancy stockings, a pair of 98oent earrings, a pair of silk gloves, t j brassiere, a necktie and a bottle of perfume. from the Ayres store and a pair : of $1.48 earrings, a necktie, a pair of | men’s socks, some silk tassels and ' two key ring holders, front the Pettis store. fihe admitted having *l3 when ar- ■ rested and said it was for household ; expenses. • She testified that she took the dolls ! to give to some little children.

WALL STREET IS VICTIM OF HOAX Stocks Jump, Then Tumble as Forged Checks Pour In, NEW YORK, May 7. —A gigantic hoax, which may have resulted in tremendous profits for the as yet unidentified perpetrators, was played upon Wall Street and stock brokerage houses in Boston, Philadelphia and other eastern cities today. Spurious buying orders, accompanied by forged checks. were dumped into brokers offices by the first mall. The market went up with a boom. Then the checks proved to have been forged, and the market reacted with a crash. Wall Street, observers believe the perpetrators of what they say is a huge swindle, maybe an inestimable [amount of money from this manipulation of the entire New York stock market, one of the greatest known frauds in the history of the street. KLAN DEFECTIVES ARRESTED BY COP Lieut' Sumner Says He Wit- , nesses Pool Selling, After they are alleged to have purchased baseball pool tickets from George H. Cranor, 44, of 801 N. New Jersey St., clerk at the cigar store of Charles IT. Green. 84, at 476 Massachusetts Ave., two men admitting themselves to bo Ku-Klux Klan investigators were .arrested today by Police Lieutenant Sumner. The men gave their names as Harry Wilson, 47, Brervort Hotel, and John Meyers, 40, of S. Meridian St. They werc> charged with gaming. Cranor .was charged with pool selling and Green with keeping a gambling house. Sumner said he saw the transaction upon which He made the arrests. Deny Koad Bonds Denial of a petition of Greene County citizens for a. SIO,OOO .bond issue for paving the Pearl West road in Taylor township, -|fas announced today by the State board of tax commlMlonan.

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Fear Felt for Safety of Editor Touring Orient 4 : Mm Jfe J C-, - V/ , A . MMsgl —Hk : ROBERT P. fiCRIpPS, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWSPAPERS. MAY BE ONE OK THE AMERICANS HELD AS HOSTAGES BY CHINESK TRAIN ID >ll HERS.

Bath Costs SIOO While Lewis C. Kutner, New York City, was in the bath Sunday. a thief entered his room at the Severin and took SIOO. he told police

TEACHER OBTAINS PROPERTY DEED Dream of Little Studio May Come True, I>oug cherished ambitions to own a little studio seemed nearer realization today for Miss Rhoda Selleck, for many years head of the art department of Shortridge high school. Judge H. O. Chamberlain in Circuit Court ordered property at FiftySecond St. and Capitol Ave. redeemed to her. Miss Selleck. who said she was ‘nearer 70 than 60.’’ last summer deeded It to Harry J. Schmidt, on condition he build her a studio such as she had dreamed about above the garage. Funds to complete the large house and garage were held up when Mrs. Schmidt refused to sign a mortage. Liens totaling SB,OOO were filed against the property and Miss Selleck saw' her plans crumble. Judge Chamberlain gave her the whole property. Including the buildings, as Schmidt had Induced the veteran teacher to loan him $3,000 cash, testimony showed. MAN HITS WIFE. KILLS SELF AFTER QUARREL Tragedy Ends Domestic Strife of Wabash Couple. Hu Timc Special WABASH. Ind.. May 7, —Following a quarrel, which lasted several hours. Ed Hart, 60. today struck his wife on the head with a hammer and then shot himself in the temple, death en suing. Police said Hart and his wife had been having trouble for some time, and that they were summoned to the police station Saturday night in an es fort to settle difficulties. According to police. Hart had threatened to kill his wife if she attempted to leave him. MINNESOTA LAW VALID Statute Attacked By All Iron Ore Mining Companies in State. By United Prree WASHINGTON, May 7.—The Minnesota occupation taxx on ore mining was held valid by the Supreme Court today. This statute, which Imposed a 6 per cent tax on the value of all ore mined in the State minus its cost of production, was attacked by all the iron ore mining companies In the State.

‘Heaven City’ to Rival Eden?

By United Sews CHICAGO, May 7 —Albert J. Moore, founder of the Life Institute and leader of a socalled “Love Cult,” is founding a community to be Jciown as “Heaven City,” to be designed along the plans of Paradise itself, a locality with which Moore claims to be well acquainted. Heaven City is located on the outskirts of Maryland, 111., where Moore has purchased 130 acres of land. “Twenty-eight brothers and ’sisters, are already in Heaven City,” Moore announced. "They have sixteen cows and are learning how to milk them. We hope to have 300 persona there by the end oil the.

I Two Americans Shot by Peking National Troops When Brigands Use Prisoners as Barricades —U. S. and Britain Intervene in r War,’ ENGLISHMAN ALSO IS WOUNDED BY RIFLE FIRE I Robert Seripps, Editorial Director of Seripps - Howard ' Newspapers, May Be Among r Missin% Tourists John D, Rockefeller’s Sister-in-Law Released, Report. | Bit i nited Prr** PEKING, May 7.—(11:30 p. in. Peking time) —One million dollars ransom is demanded by the Chinese bandits for the safe I return of the foreigners, including many Americans, who were kidnaped Sunday after their train was wrecked in the wilds near Lin (‘heng. The demand for the ransom was brought in from the bandits by an aged Chinese, who had been taken prisoner with others on the train. bu’> was released upon condition of his delivering the message. In addition to the million dollar payment, the bandits set forth full terms under which this will lie accepted. The first condition is that the bandits be assured of freedom from attack by troops while negotiations for the return of the prisoners are in progress. The second condition is that full pardon be granted the outlaws upon completion of the negotiations, payment of the money and return of the prisoners. The terms have been transmitted to the government, hut it is regarded as certain that they will be immediately rejected. BRITAIN AND U. S. INTERVENE. The British and American legations served notice on the government in the form of a demand that China must obtain release of the captives, and explain the situalion. which is considered grave. Five thousand soldiers have been detailed to the pursuit of the brigands, and the hunt is now being vigorously pressed. The government admits that it. is seriously embarrassed in its efforts to round up the outlaws as the bandits, following tactics they have 1 pursued in the past, may massacre their captives if they are sorely pressed by the troops. It is pointed out one of the conditions set forth in the terms forwarded by the bands in their rfeniand for $1.0(30,000 ransom, is that they be free from attack while negotiations for ransom are in progress. Two Americans an done Englishman are reported to have been shot when government troops attcaked the bandits. When government troops began closing in the bandits are declared to have made a human barricade of their prisoners. Placing the foreigners in front of them, the bandits defended themselves with a brisk return of rifle fire in response to the attack by the soldiers. EXPOSED TO FIRE OF SOLDIERS Exposed thus to he fire of the soldiers who were endeavoring to rescue them, tiro Americans and one Englishmen fell. At the time of filing this dispatch, no word had been received as to whether the bullet victims would recover. Immediately following receipt of this report, arrangements were made for a meeting of all foreign diplomats here Tuesday with American Minister Schurman. Shanghai reports were that the women captured by the bandits had been released. At least ten persons who escaped or were released by the bandits were understood to be on their way to Tien Tsin. The first story of the bandit gang wa staken to Tien Tsin by five of the foreigners who escaped. This band of refugees included Mrs. Allen, wife of Capt. Allen, and Mrs. R. X. Pinger, wife of Maj. Pinger. These women are Americans. They declared the bandits fired a fusillade of shots at the train just before it was derailed. When the express went into the ditch the passengers heard the rattle of rifle fire on all sides. TRAIN WINDOWS ARE SMASHED IN. Then the outlaws smashed in with hatchets the windows not already broken by'the impact of derailment. The passengers, barefoot and in their pajamas, were forced to walk from the train through wreckage,, and across ground littered with broken glass. N They were robbed of everjdhing of value, even the eyeglasses of several being taken. Their captors forced them to march briskly'over the rough (Continued on Page 2)

Moore has drafted his plans with Mrs. William Talcott. whose husband committed suicide because of her addiction to the cult. When Moore was arrested for an alleged attempt to defraud the wife of Justice James Henry Cartwright of the Illinois Supreme Court, who claimed she had given the Cult leader $2,900 when he claimed he could heal the sick and raise the dead, Mrs. Talcott pledged her late husband’s home for bail. Moore was convicted' and sentenced to three months, but won his freedom or*an appeal. There will be no banks, .no hos pitals, no physicians and in Heaven City, accm^^^^^| |MM|No O' ... .Vl*'. -***■} i

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there will be nothing to spend it on. Members of the colony will be housed rent free, fed at a community table out of a community kitchen, bathed in community batha, warmed by a central heating plant, given perpetual passes to the community theater, have their clothing washed at the community laundry and clothed out of the community purse. The only money involved, Moore said, would be the contributions of those who wish to join. Moore and his appointed trustees, he pointed out, were pledged not to own anything. but the managers will need l automobiles and airplanes to enable Lfhem to get about in attending t* ■he community's business affairs la Hie outer world. ■ i