Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 5

SPUN BY ‘FRIEDA’ Here Are Original Contributions by Times Readers in Contest for $5 Prize, Howdy, readers of The Times. Have you written a “Follies?" Many have. Because a $5 prize will be given To the reader who sends The best this week. “Frieda,” whose subtle humor Appears on the last page. Is responsible for this contest. Those who send contributions Merely are exercising Their literary talents And what they say May not have happened. Because some of tho characters Are revealed too boldly. The contest closes Saturday. Herewith are some of the entrants: By MARIE SPAHR, Liberty, Iml. I was invited out to lunch. The hostess bad “swell eat3." | The cake nc\er was intended to be Put. I looked longingly at it. She mov“d it to one side. I went closer to it. She looked scornfully at roe. I had intentions to destroy. _ She placed the cake on a chair. And turned away. Oh, of course. I never intended to. I sat down, on the cake. -I- i + By C S. G It was the end. I was “sacked." The girl was mid as ice. “I don't love you. ' This is good-by forever. "Do you want your letters?” T was awfully peeved. I didn’t lose my head. Being a bit literary helps. "Thanks. I’ll take them. “They're good enough to use again.” •!■ -I- -!- By E. B. T. Mrs. Wargold is so patronizing. She is a dear thing. I was Introduced yesterday. She Is going to give my husband ah ter trade. I said I hoped she would very soon We met at a reception today She did not speak. Mv husband is an undertaker •!• -i- •! By RODNEY PERKINS 33“ Downey Ave. She was a sweet young thing. I took her out to lunch. We ate heartily. . I know because I paid. , Iwhen she ate her apple pie. She got a little excited. And got some on her face Instead of in her mouth She didn't notice that. We were about to leave And she said:' “I left my case at home. f “Does my face look all right?” I turned red. but rallied, and said: “It’s in appie pie order.” -I- l- -!- ' By MISS FERN REMLER, 1554 Shelby St. My wife had a one-time lady friend. I bad a gentleman friend. She disliked her friend. And I mine. We made them acquainted. They married. Now my wife and T are content. / -!- -I. .1. By MRS. CARL STINT. Edinburg, Ind. My cousin is a beautiful flirt. She steals the girls' beaus. My sweetheart is in town for e ■hort time only. My little brother has the measles. T sent her a plate of fudge By him. I’ve had the measles. But she had not.

LACK OF CONFIDENCE IS SHOWN IN CHINESE VOTE House of Representatives at Peking Votes Against Government. • United Press PEKING, May 17.—At the height of the Chinese government’s embarrassment over bandit and other outrages to foreigners, the House of Representatives sitting in committee today voted a lack of confidence in the administration. The %'ote was 251 to 70. FAIRGROUND BIDS OPENED Erection of Purdue Ituilding Is Postponed By State Board. The State board of agriculture today opened second bids on buildings in the 81,000,000 improvement program at the State fairground. Bids were received on a dairy cattle pavilion and on sheep mams. Revision of the program'has enabled the board to eliminate construction of the sheep barns, I. Newt Brown, secretary of the board, said. The board will superintend construction of the new hotel and has postponed erection of the Purdue building. Bids received last week were rejected except that o nthe swine pavilion because the offers were in excess of the engineer's estimates. OPPOSE LONG ROUTING State Chamber Seeks Coal Freight Rates Based on Direct Mileage. Objections to circuitous routing of coal shipments from Indiana mines to centers of consumption were made today in the case of the Indiana State S’* ir,her of Commerce against the "Baltimore & Ohio and twenty-eight other railroads before the public service commission. The chamber is asking rate revision based on direct mileage. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m........ 51 10 a. m 68 7 a. m........ 5211 a. m 59 8 a. m.. 53 12 (noon) ...... f.O $ g nv. ■.*-. 64 1 p. m.. 43

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VETS’ HOME UNDER FIRE ONCE IRE Irregularity in Guardianship Proceedings at Marion Is Charged, JUDGE TELLS OF TROUBLE Hospital Head Denies Accusation of Soldiers' League Secretary, Officials of the National Sanatorium, Government mental hospital for Span ish-Atnerican and World War veteran* at Marion, Ind.. for months have been insisting with Grant County authorities that guardians for patients be appointed in Grant County. C. A. York, secretary of the National Disabled Soldiers’ League, declared today. His statement followed denial by Dr. William Mac. Lake. hospital commandant, of charges of patients, that a patient bad been mistreated by guards. Bash Makes Statement •fudge Mahlon E T'.isb of Marion ’ounty Probate < ourt agreed, in part, with York’s statements. Judge Basil has sent approximately fifty persons to the hospital. T have had much trouble because of efforts to have guardians appointed at Marion.” said Judge Bash. ’The law says a man’s guardian must be appointed in his home county.” Trouble came to a head iast fall, the judge said, when John Huitt, a ward of the. Marion Probate* Court, was given a furlough over Judge Bash's protest and appeared here In the middle of a trial. He carried a pocketful of rocks. •Fudge Threatened "Hunt wrote me a l°tter and said be wanted his guardianship trans ferred to Grant County,” a:d the judge. “When lie got away h* wrote at.other, denying it, T wrote Dr. MaoLake and ask’d him to keep Huitt inside, as he had threatened me. However, he was given a furlough and came to see me. York said that on Nov. S. 1922, hg took Ebert McCToUtC a legal resident of Danville. Ind., to the home, and had orders to go to Danville next and file guardianship proceedings so McCloud could draw compensation. “Before 1 left Marion the next morn ing I learned a trust company at Maridn had been informed of his arrival and guardianship proceedings instituted as soon as the courthouse opened for business. I didn't go to Danville here.’ said York. Sanatorium officers denied all charges of any irregularity.

BUTLER BUILDING POSITIONS®! Students Raise $63,000 for Endowment Fund, Proposed building sites of Butier University at Fail-view were outlined in detail to the entire student body at Fairview today by Lawrence V. Sheridan, landscape gardener, who Is directing location of buildings. Administration and classroom buildings will be located on the ridge In the south part of Fairview. facing the proposed entrance on Forty-Sixth St.. Sheridan said. The athletic field and stadium will be erected on what is known as the east forty acres, where natural slopes will aid in effecting the construction. Students and faculty members have pledged nearly 863,000 to the endowment fund campaign now under way. Two hundred students have not yet been solicited. The goal is set at 575,000 by Friday. Faculty members pledged SIO,OOO of the fund. Every fraternity and. sorority has pledged SSOO. SUMMER INFLUENCE' FELT Thief Takes Porch Swings While Chilly Spring Winds Blow. Chilling breezes did not keep thoughts of warm summer evenings from one person in Indianapolis today. B. E. Koeher, 1637 N. Capitol Ave., reported two four-foot swings were stolen from the porch of his home. While the automobile of Harry H. Stump, 802 Broadway, was parked in the side yard a sl7 tire was taken. Four metal window frames, worth $25, were stolen from a house being built at 823 N. Senate Ave., W. A. Sides, 121 Garfield Ave., contractor, reported. New Building Damaged Damage amounting to SI,OOO was done by vandals to a garage being built by the Advance Paint and Color Company. 536 W. Norwood St., during the night. Tom Kelly, president, told police today. Sixty-one Sentenced to Die By United Press MOSCOW, May 17. —Sixty-one persons have been sentenced to die in the Russian government’s new campaign to clean Its departments or bribery.

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MISS BLANCHE NEW COM BK OF FOSTORIA, OHIO, HAS THE MOST PERFECT RACK IN NORTH AMERICA. SAY JUDGES AT THE RE CENT NATIONAL CONTEST CONDL’CTED BY THE NATIONAL I,EAGLE FOR PREVENTION OK SPINAL CURVATURE SHE RE CHIVED fl.ooo RIB DEVELOPMENT WAS THE CHIEF POINT STRESSED IN THE CONTEST HORSEBBACK RIDING ON WESTERN PLAINS DEVELOPED HER BACK. SHE SAYS

HARDING PLEA HITS AT WETS

Harding's Revival of State's Prohibition in Attitude of Bu t mted /‘ret* WASHINGTON. May 17.-- President Hard, ig has issued the boldest and most sweeping challenge to the foes of. national prohibition they have yet received. He believes they will not dare aoept the issue. If they do, he is con NEW YORK WOMAN IS CALLED IN MOUNT CASE State’s Attorney Seeks Light on I/Otters to Freshman President. By United Pr> ** NEW YORK. May 17.—District At torney Banton has summoned to his office for questioning Mis. Kathleen Hotchkiss Loveinaid of Larchniont, N. 5".. in connection with the Leighton Mount case. Mrs. Lovemaid, State's Attorney Crowe thinks she may throw some light on alleged correspondence between herself and J. Allen Mills, 1921 freshman class president at Northwestern University. TWELVE REPORTED DEAD IN BLAST AT PICNIC Lighted Match in Can of Essence Cause of Explosion in Mexico. By United Prc*s vESCANAD A, Ixiwer California. May 17.—Twelve persons wore killed and a number injured In an explosion at Tupam, State of Ayarit, on the west coast of Mexico, reports said today.' The explosion occurred at a picnic when a drunken man dropped a lighted match into a container of essence. Seven persons were burned to deatn and five others who plunged into the river were drowned. Auto Hit at Grossing By United Pres* BRAZIL. Ind., May 17.—Dr. Hames A. Rawley, 56, was probably fatally injured today when u. Pennsylvania passenger train demolished his car at a street crossing.

DEATH AT THROTTLE IN WRECK

By United Press LIMA, Ohio, May 17.—A dead man was at the throttle when the east-bound Lake Erie & Western passenger train, last night, crashed head-on with a freight near here, injuring thirteen persons, authorities believed today. A physician’s report following an autopsy on the body of George Bassler, 61. engineer, indicated he had died of heart trouble a few minutes before the crash. P. O. Early. Bassler s fireman, who leaped to safety before the uncontrolled passenger crashed with the freight, said his shout of warning was unheeded. Disregarding an order which he

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1923

Rights Issue Puts Foes of Subverting Constitution, fident they will be swept to defeat under a wave of public opinion which wiil at the same time carry prohibition enforcement toward the goal 1 larding has set for it—loo per cent enforcement and a bone dry nation. The president wrote his letter to Wesley Walt, of Newburgh, N. Y., with a full appreciation of what he was doing. He simply stated the issue involved in New York's repeal of its State enforcement code as he sees it. Doctrine Outworn To Harding that issue Is: Shall Federal enforcement of a law and a constitutional amendment adopted after fifty years of consideration and debate be endangered by the revival of the outworn doctrine of the individual State? The difference between'Harding and State's rights advocates is that ho re gards the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law aa a unit, one and inseparable. They regard the Eighteenth Amendment as one thing and the machinery for its enforcement as another If Harding's view about the unity of the two measures is right, he has put the State’s rights enemies of prohibition in the position of attacking the Federal Constitution. iftj believes the country will agree attempts by the State’s to Interfere with enforcement by putting the entire burden of it upon the Federal Government is an attempt to subvert the Constitution. Ready for Test The President is ready to make a thorough test of the question both practically and politically.. Governor Sfnith—and with him the whole Democratic party—must now choose between reviving the State's rights issue as support, for their wet platform and giving the Republicans a powerful issue in 1824 or robbing Harding and the Republicans of the issue of unqualified support of the prohibition amendment and law by retreating from their stand for modified enforcement

clutched \n his right hand to stop at Oakland, Bassler’s body swayed with the engine as it sped along fifty miles an hour. “I called to him we had passed the Oakland switch,” Early said today. “He paid no attention. The next instant we piled up the freight. 1 am satisfied Bassler. dean of engineers on this line, was dead at the throttle—how long 1 can’t say.” This version of the accident was supported by Mrs. Bassler, who said her husband, before starting out Wednesday morning, had complained of pains in the region of his heart.

BRYAN BOGHII LAUNCHED IN CONVENTION * Name Is Placed Before Presbyterian Assembly as Moderator Candidate, OTHERS ARE MENTIONED Contest Appears Imminent as Business Session Opens —Commoner Cheered, A spirited contest over the election of moderator for the 135th Genera! Assembly of the Presbyterian church at the opening session at Tomlinson Hall this afternoon when William den nings Bryan was nominated. Names of other powerful candidates were advanced. They were Dr Charles F. Wishart, president of Wooster College at Woos ter. Ohio: Dr. William Hiram Foulkes. of New York, general secretary of the New Era Movement: Dr Hugh Kelso Walker, a pastAr of Los Angeles. Cu! and Dr. Clarence O. McCartney ■ PhiladelphiaOpen for Business Dr Calvin C. Hays, retiring moderator, declared the assemblyopened for business. Delegates were seated and the roll was called. The commissioners were then divided into voting groups or sections. It was ejrpeoted the vote for moderator would be announced late in the afternoon. When Bryan entered the First Baptist Church to attend devotional service, he was given a prolonged ovation. It is known possible .-an didates for the high office have not allowed their names to be used until it was definitely known _whether Bryan would be a candidate. Bryan Is Silent Since arriving here. Bryan has increased his strength among the com missioners by not making public statements regarding the contest for moderator. Those who are cioae to Brayn pointrut he Is n commissioner from Florida and the South never hga had a moderator. One of the arguments presented in favor of Bryan by his supporters v.-.Ts that in the penod of reconstruction tinough which the church is passing, his knowledge of law and parlimen tnry law would be of unlimited value Also it was contended that as Bryan is a world figure ho would bo able to take the lead hi a program of In creasing church membership by mak ing addresses throughout the country. It also was contended that because of Bryan’s personal knowledge of conditions in foreign fields his leadership would be of service to the missionary movement. SOUTH BEND SCHOOL BOYS ARE SENTENCED Youths Get One t-o Fourteen Years al Jeffersonville Reformatory. /ill I nitrd Pres* SOUTH BEND. May 17.—Huel Hoi loway, 18, high school Junior class president and football caplain; John Hartman, 18, and Oscar Johnson. 19, were each sentenced by Judge Funk iii Circuit Court today to from one to fourteen years in the State prison at Jeffersonville. The three youths pleaded guilty to charges of grand larceny. BOYS USE BAD EGGS TO SHOW DISAPPROVAL Girls Were Entertaining Out-of-Town Company. Bu Time* Special GREENFIELD, Ind., May 17 —An investigation is being conducted by Acting Mayor Gordon, to determine who was responsible for throwing eggs at the home of two young women Sunday night. The girls were entertaining some boys from out-of-town. It is understood that the culprits disturbed a sitllpg hen to propagate their plan. Debenture Company Formed The Vincennes Debenture Company, preferred stock $75,000, today filed articles of incorporation. Incorporators: David L. Watson, Harry O. Bronson and David 11. Bronson.

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Missionaries Here From Siam

AFTER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF SERVICE AS MISSIONARIES IN SIAM. I>R. JOHN B. DUNLAP AND HIS WIFE ARRIVED HERE TODAY FOR THE MEETINGS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

‘TOO MANY Here are maxims from the ad dress of Dr. Calvin C. Hays, retiring moderator of the- Pres'oytorian Church, delivered today. No appeal to force, no recourse to law. no ecclesiastical bull, will drive out hereby where heresy appears. We should be dean who bear the vessels of the Lord Hell has enlarged herself in the effort to recover her lost stronghold. Mur chief business as Christian men and women is to build up the Kingdom of Christ and iret the gospel to those who ,To riot have it.

BALL NAMED G. A. R. HEAD Veterans Considet Resolutions Denouncing Ku-Klux Klan and McCray Speedway Veto,

ftp United I'rr** MI'NCIE. Ind.. May 17.—Albert J. Ball. Indianapolis, for live years asBRYAN NOT HERE IS TALK POLITiCS 'Commoner' Centers Interest on Church Assembly, William Jennings Bryan is not talking politics! This unusual condition, he explained today, is due to the fact that he is giving his entire attention to the Presbyterian general assembly and he does not care to mix church affairs with politics, So far as could be determined, no ! Indiana politicians have called on Bryan. He usually is the center of political activity when in Indianapolis. Indiana Democrats are not enthusiastic about Bryan's recent statement advocating the nomination of Oscar W. Underwood for the presidency. Bryan indicated in his Underwood statement he did not think much of Senator Samuel M. Ralston as a possibility. UNWRITTEN LAW IS INVOKED BY HUSBAND Shoots Farmer He Believed Alienated Vffections of Wife. Bu United Pres* CARMI. 111., May 17.—Fred Frymiere took the law into his own hands when his attorney advised him ho had insufficient proof to show Sam MeReynolds, wealthy farmer, had alienated the affections of Frymiere’s wife. Meot'ng Mcßeynolds on the street. Frymiere drew a revolver and killed him.

REBEKAHS GIVEN POWER i Odd Fellow Communication t omes to Close. A resolution giving the Rebekah Assembly of Indiana unlimited power to make assessments for the Odd Fellow's Home and Rebekah Assembly was adopted today at the olghty-sev enth semiannual communication of I the Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., of InI (liana In Grand Lodge Hall. Odd Feli low building. The communication convened Wednesday and closed at noon today after several business sessions. J. A. Leverton, Huntington, grand patriarch, was a guest. PRISON CONTRACTS LET Reformatory Trustees Award $418,490 Worth of Work on Cell House. Announcement was made today of the award of contracts amounting to $418,490 for cell house construction for 648 cells at the Indiana State reformatory at Pendletdn by the trustees. The contracts: Automati clocking cells. Van Dorn Iron Works. Cleveland, $382,980; doors and grating for guards ’hall. Pauley Jail Building Works. St. Louis, $10,936; entrance doors, the Pauley firm. $ 3 . 738 : window guards, St. Paul Iran Works. St. Paul. Minn.. $30438.

DEADHEADS’ We have succeeded so well that we are bound to push our work or suffer humiliation and disgrace. One difficulty about our finances is that we have so much dead timber on our rolls and too many deadheads. The church is not an ark for the mere saving of an elect few. Nor is it a ferryboat, all obligations settled when the fare is paid. It is not an insurance company organized to insure against loss in the world to come. ,The church exists for work as well as worship, for service as well as sociability, for this world rather than the next.

sistant adjutant genera! was this afternc ,n elected department commander of the Indiana G. A. R., by the veterans in session at their State encamp inent. Resolutions denouncing the Ku-Klux Klan and condemning the action of Governor Warem T. McCray for vetoing the Memorial day bill were presented for action at the opening of the business. Indications were that Terre Haute would be chosen for the encampment nex tyear. Veterans peeped fearfully from the coverlets in hotels early to find the deserter from the ranks. Old Sol. was shining forth in an effort to make up for shortcomings of the first three days. With the sunshine came increasing high spirits among the Boys in Blue, who were out early on the park benches and streets. INDUSTRIAL LENDERS TO TART PUBLICITY DRIVE Association Would Educate Ihiblic on Objects of Organization. Plans for an extensive publicity campaign to educate the public to their principles were made today by members of the Indiana Industrial Lenders Association in convention at the Lincoln. The association operates under the special Indiana law known as the Uniform Lending Law, providing that not more than 3>4 per cent interest be charged. H. E. Arnett of Marion spoke on the “New Type of Competition.” The convention will close late today with election of officers. More than 200 are attending. ASSESSMENTS PUSHED

State Tax Board Hopes to End Work by Monday; Bonds Denied. Assessments on utilities, banks and other corporations under jurisdiction of the State board of tax commissioners will be completed by Monday, John J. Brown, chairman, said today. The lists may be reviewed. The board today denied three bond issues because of excessive esstimates. The issues denied were. SIO,OOO for Clavin Skeen road In Center Township, Ripley County; $68,000 for oounty unit road in Knox County, and $16,360 for Isaac N. Herrington road, in Jefferson Township. Green County. MAN SEARCHES FOR WIFE Hunt for Woman and Child Brings Frank Redman to Indianapolis. After traveling over the country. Frank Redman, Royal Oak, Mich., arrived today in Indianapolis to search for his wife, 27, and son, Lee M. Redman, 6, who disappeared March 29. He believed they may be in Indianapolis. Redman described his wife as slim and weighing 90 pounds. She has a light complexion, dark brown hair and blue eyes. The boy is light complexioned and has light hair and blue eyes. Mrs. Redman disappeared from her home near Detroit. Colorado Senator Named By Un<led Press DENVER. May 17.—Alvin B. Adams, prominent Democratic leader and attorney of Pueblo, today was appointed by Governor Sweet to fin the unexplred term of Bhe late United Stages Senator Samuel D. Nlcholnm of Colorado. f

Forecast FAIR tonight and probably Friday, with slowly rising temperature for Friday.

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MOOEIH HITS CRITICS OF CHURCH Hays Says Charges of Widespread Unbelief Are Without Foundation. ASKS CHRISTIAN SPIRIT Speaker Asserts Evil Forces Are Challenging, but Not Entering Pulpit, ' Declaring “the charge that rationalism and unbelief are widespread among us and are even creeping into many of our pulpits, is a charge that cannot be sustained,” Dr. Calvin C. Hays, retiring moderator of the Presbyterian Church, hurled a challenge to heresy in his annual sermon at the opening session of the 135th. general assembly of the Presbyterian Church at the First Baptist Churcif today. Standing before the thousand commissioners and guests, Dr. Hays took positive stands on many of the vital problems facing the church. Assisted by Dr. Matthew F. Smith. Dr. Frederick Taylor and Dr. Lewis C. Mudge, stated clerk, the retiring moderator offic Med at Holy Comcunion which formally opened the conference. Heresy Not Present "Those of us who have been much over the Church in the last year have found no evidence of this (widespread heresy) hut only deepest regret everywhere expressed that such sweeping asertion should be made,” Dr. Hays said. Continuing on the subject of heresy, he said: “The real trouble Is we have not been stressing the cardinal truths of our religion with the emphasis they merit. We have had so many other things to think about and so many special days to observe, little wonder some are saying we have departed from the faith. And how shall we meet accusations such as this, which are more or less a reflection on us all? By going forth (Continued on Page 10) FORMS OF VIGO COUNTY GETS ONE YEAR Dry Law Must Be Obeyed Whether We Like It or Not, Says Anderson. Dennis Shea of Terre Haute, formerly sheriff of Vigo County, was sentencedw to serve a jail sentence of one year and pay a fine of SI,OOO by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today after he had been found guilty by a jury of violating Federal prohibition laws. Sentence® were imposed on four other defendants found guilty with Shea as follows: Joseph O’Mara, councilman. nine months, Ike Shastoff, bartender, six montlft; James Carroll. porter, six months: William Crockett, property owner, nine months. All are residents cf Terre Haute. The defendants refused the offer of Judge Anderson t>> name a lawyer to defend Them and when the case opened Shea sa!S: “Go ahead with the funeral.” Ordering SI,OOO bond of Henrietta Heyden forfeited, Anderson said: “I understand she said she wouldn't come here for the President of the United States. So I want the marshal to bring her here right away. "Shea must learn to quit violating the law at Terre Haute. It doesn’t make any difference whether or not we like the prohibition law. There are some features of it I don’t like myself, but I have to obey it just the same.” MAYOR RETURNS TO DESK Will See Derby Race at Louisville Saturday. flavor Shank was back at work today after a trip to Des Moines, lowa, where he spoke before the Credit Men’s Association of that city. The mayor leaves Friday for Louisville where he will witness the Derby race Saturday.

Still Is Found in Graveyard By Times Special STEWARTSVILLE, Ind., May 17. —Manufacturers of moonshine sometimes pick queer places to conceal their stills. Two boys rambling in the Stewartsville cemetery noticed the top of a monument which was loose. The boys’ further investigation revealed a hollow metal affair painted to resemble stone. Within was a largo a till. The owner has not called at police headquarters to claim his property.