Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1923 — Page 1

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p£ s*•< Wj*k Id 4 v JAMES A. STILLMAN MEMBER OF PARK BOARD NAMED IN INJUNCTION SUIT Fred Cline Denies Irregularity in Filling Station Permit. Charges that a permit issued Nov 8, 1922, by the board of park commissioners to the Standard Oil Company of Indiana to erect a filling station at the southwest corner of Maple Rd. and Fall Creek Boulevards is illegal because Commissioner Fred O. Cline was interested in the Sunnyside Realty Company, which sold the land, were made today in an amendment to a suit for injunction filed by William H. Oakes and Alice Oakes In Superior Court. "Damages of $50,000 end permanent injunction are asked. Cline denied any irregularity. The Standard paid $27,500 for two lots, which are in a residence district on city plan maps, getting a deed Dec. 20, 1922, although the lots were on the market at $12,000 for some time, it was charged. “The Standard Oil Company knew from the fact that It was paying $27,500 for property worth J 12,000 that a permit to locate a tilling station at a junction of the two most beautiful boulevards in the city was being obtained for it, and said permit was worth to the Standard Oil Company SISXOO more than the actual value of the land, and plaintiffs aver that the Standard Oil Company violated the law In obtaining the permit,” the complaint states Cline in 1921 was vice-president of the Sunnyside Realty Company, which owned the land when the permit was issued to the oil company, it Is charged. Regal permits can only be issued to owners of land, statee the complaint.

CHARGE AGAINST CABLE IS DROPPED Brazil Authorities Fail to Come After Him, Charges of being a fugitive from justice against E. Howard Cadle, founder of Cadle Tabernacle. were dismissed in city court today. He had been ordered to appear when a Braizil. Ind., justice of the peace asked police to apprehend him, stating he had failed tQ appear for trial on a charge of speeding. Detectives here said the fugitive charge was dropped because Brazil authorities notified them they were not coming after Cadle. NEW DEPARTMENT • IN CUT PROPOSED Care of Streets Discussed at Cabinet Meeting, Formation of a department of transportation and maintenance to care for all unimproved streets and to clean improved streets in the city was discussed at th emonthly cabinet meeting of city officials today. At present unimproved streets are under the supervision of Martin J. Hylan, street commissioner. The mayor advanced the plan of placing these under the supervision of John W. Walker, superintendent of street cleaning, and leaving only care of the city sewer system in Hylans' department. The new department would take the place of the street cleaning department. An inspector would be given all the 'streets of a certain ward and be held directly responsible for them. As planned by Mayor Shank, each inspector would have headquarters in h:s ward. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m SO 10 a. ra 1. 60 7 a. m 51 11 a. m * 61 8 a. m 53 12 tnoon) .... I 62 > a. m. 56 \

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(Copyriaht. 19ZX, by United Press) (Copyright in Canadat NEW YORK, May 21.—Florence Leeds, named as the “other woman” in the sensational Stillman divorce case, is contemplating legal action against Janies A. Stillman for support of her child. Jay, aged 5. “He cut me adrift a year ago, and stopped the allowance of $1,500 a month he had provided for support of my baby since it was born,” she explained, in an exclusive interview. Mrs. Leeds' decision to break her two years’ silence follows publication of a story to the effect that Stillman now Is interested in a New York society woman. Stung by revelation of a secret she herself long had known, Mrs. Leeds, who shielded the banker for two years after the suit became public. said today she at last had tired of bearing the brunt of what had been for her a “tragedy.” Now she tells in her own words for the first time that: She was not the cause of the hanker s seeking a divorce from his wife. She had lost her claim to first place in Stillman's life before he began action. Cut Off Money Turning from her, after she had heeded his pleas that she shield him during the trial. Stillman cut her

SUGAR GOUGERS FACE ARREST AS CONSPIRATORS Government Will Swear Out Warrants if Supreme Court Knocks Out Injunction Proceedings—Plan to Ask Congress for New Laws, By LAWRENCE MARTIN. Copyright 1023, by United Press. WASHINGTON, May 21.—Warrants for arrest of alleged sugar speculators will he issued under indictments for conspiracy if the government is beatpn in Supreme Court in its effort to stop the sugar gouge by injunction. This step will be taken as part of an effort to determine once and for all whether the government will all its laws and powers is helpless before a conspiracy to run up prices of tlie necessaries of life.

Every law that seems applicable . will be tri®d. If the gougers cannot j be brought to justice under any of | them. Congress will be asked to make j new laws. Part of "Showdown” The Government's motion, filed to j day In the Supreme Court, to expedite the sugar case there, was part of this "showdown’ which President Harding has instructed the Department of Justice to bring about. Offlciajs are convinced they must have more power before they can obj tain legal sanction of their position I that it Is a crime or a violation of | ! law for speculative traders to jug j glc- prices of foodstuffs. A request from the administration for a law covering this situation is certain to be made to the next Congress, no matter how successful the government may be in the sugar case. The President is convinced a specific measure of protection against such conditions must be enacted. He will have trouble getting It through Congress. Boycott as Example All the constitutionalists in Congress and those who are opposed to more government Interference with business will oppose such a law. The administration will use the sugar boycott —the only effective means thus far discovered of combating the profiteers —as an example of the dangers of leaving the situation as it Is. If a buyers strike can be organized j on sugai—and it was right that it j should be, under the circumstances, ; Mr. Harding feels—it could equally ! well be organized on other things and I for less laudible purposes. More dangerous conspiracies than the sugar gouge might be engineered. Officials are not going to encourage the boycott or buyers' strike as a j principle of American economics or politics. PURSE FOUND; $52 GONE Thief Has No I. se for Policewoman's Badge or Street Car Tickets. Mrs. Anna Brunner, policewoman, | again has her purse, missing since j May 13. But —$52 which was in the i purse when she missed it on an interurban car at FYanklin ( was gone. Her police badgj and a book of street car tickets were still there. The purse was returned by Pennsylvania Railroad detectives, who I found It on tracks one mile north of Columbus, Ind. Police believe that the thief threw the purse on the Pennsylvania tracks, running parallel to the interurban line. AUTO WILD; STRIKES BOY Son of Water Company Head Hurt— Driver Arrested. Clarence L. Kirk, Jr.. 4 of 3340 X. j Pennsylvania St., son of the manager of the Indianapolis Water Company, was Injured today when he was struck, while standing on the sidewalk, by an automobile which hit a hole In the street, ran on the sidewalk and did not stop after the accident. The boy’s injuries are not serious An hour late rthe police arrested j Glenn Marsh, 33. of 2426 N. Illinois j St., on charges of speeding and failure j to stop after an accident. They say Harsh was driving the car. The accident occurred in the 300 j block of W. Twenty-Sixth St., where j the boy was visiting.

off without provision for herself or their son. Despairing from Stillman’s “doing the right thing” she is contemplating seeking suppYn-t for her son through legal proceedings. In the meantime, she says she is compelled to sell her home. Appraisers are daily visitors at the fashionable Park Ave. apartment where she has lived quietly for three years anij where she secluded herself after a fight that took her across the continent when the Stillman divorce-suit was filed. , Apartment Cost $.55,000 “The apartment cost $55,000. paid for by me on the installment plan, and I am selling it to raise money with which to live,” she said. And then she told for the first time the story of her life with Stillman. "Although I was referred to as a "show girl' In the Century Theater. as a matter of fact I was In that play but six days. My stage career was interrupted by fitness. It was jusj after I was able to get out of bed that I met Mr. Stillman for the first time. That was in 1916. "I did not know then he was married. “He lived with his father, as a

SLAYER BELIEVED TRAPPED IN WOOD Wabash Officers Surround Alleged Murderer of Policeman, By I nited Press WABASH, Ind Many 21.—A man believed to be John Leonard Whitfield, alleged slayer of Dwinls Griffin, Cleveland policeman, is held at bay, surrounded i na wood by a cordon of police twelve miles from here. With him is a girl .said to be Marie Price. 20, of North Manchester, Ind. Whitfield is alleged to have murdered Patrolman Griffin May 11. following the former’s arrest on a speeding charge. The officer's nude body was found in a wood near Cleveland, partly buried in a shallow grave. Fragments of his charred uniform were found nearby. Whitfield is traveling in an auto mobile by night and keeping under cover by day, police said. Cleveland police were notified. COMMISSION SUIT TRIED Heal Estate Dealer VsUs SIO,OOO From Stegemeier Brothers. Trial of a suit for SIO,OOO, claimed as a commission for obtaining lessee for 17 and 19 N" Illinois St., brought by Adolph J. Meyer, real estate dealer, began today in Superior Court before a jury. Henry and Richard Stegemeier are defendants. Meyer charges that in 1919 he was asked to obtain a sublessee for a ninety-nine year lease taken in 1909 by Stegemeier brothers, who would erect a $60,000 building. The commision was refused ,he charges, after he had done the. work. FALLS DEAD IN FIELD Oscar S. Porte us Succumbs While at Work—Heart Trouble Cause. Oscar S. Porteus. 55, a fanner living two miles southwest of Acton, Ind., fell today while working In a field, Deputy Coroner Samuel MeGaughy of Acton reported to Coroner Paul F. Robinson. Death was due to heart trouble.

You Owe It to Your Family To give them every pleasure and comfort within your means. With summer almost here and the long warm evenings ahead, wouldn’t it he a fine thing to surprise them with a nice little car this- year? Many a used automobile Is well within your reach if you just knew where to find It. You don't have to lay off a day to shop around from place to place If you can just keep watch on the “Automobiles For Sale" columns of the Want Ad section in The Indianapolis Times Main 3500

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923

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By United Press NEW YORK, May 21.—“1 am ready to take little .Jay into my own family and give the little 'chap the chance he should have, ’ Mrs. Anne l . Stillman declared upon hearing that Florence Leeds, “other woman” of the Stillman divorce ease, was forced to sell her home to provide for the child, the hanker having cast her adrift. “1 am truly sorry this has come to Mrs. Leeds,” said Mrs. Stillman, “but what else might one expect from Mr. Stillman? W 1 ion lie no longer has use for any one, he turns away.” Mrs. Stillman said she is bringing up her boy Guy. whose paternity was disputed by the banker, to regard Jay, Mrs. Leeds’ boy, as bis half brother.

bachelor. I lived with my father and mother on Washington Heights. “In November, 1916, he gave me a platinum wc-lding ring, set with diamonds. Inside the band is inscribed: " ’J to F. Nov. 14, 1916.’ “On Sept. 17. 1918, Jay was bom.

Wife Describes Escape of Former ' Hoosier in Hot Springs Flood

MARQUETTE HOTEL AFTER THE HOT SPRINGS FIOOD; BELOW STREET SCENE AFTER THE DELUGE.

Miraculous escape from death of A W. Jackson during tho Hot Springs disaster last week when fire and flood swept the city, causing damage of $2,000,000. is described in a letter from Mrs Jack

Take Crepe! Some thief expects a flock of funerals in his family in tho near future, police believe. When James Mitchell, 323 E. Tenth St., funeral supply salesman. returned to his coupe, .parked in front of 956 English Ave., he said he found four door crepes stolen.

NOG PRICES DROP TO LEVEL OF 1921 Market Depressed by Heavy Stocks in State, If your favorite waiter gives you an especially large portion of pork a few days hence, you will know that hog prices have taken another dropotherwise you may lead a normal life without knowing that the prices paid lor hogs at the stockyards today were the lowest since July 24. 1921. The best hogs marketed brought only $7.70 per hundredweight, while the bulk sold at a nickel less.' Indiana farms are reported to be heavily stocked with hogs ready for market and continued heavy receipts at all primary market centers have served to depress the market. Approximately 75,000 hogs were sold at the livestock exchange last week at prices that have not been equalled for two years. LOS ANGELES POLICE AND FIREMEN’S BAND COMING Police and Firemen’s Organization Will Give Concert Here. The Los Angelos Police and Firemen's band of seventy-five pieces will stop In Indianapolis June 8 on route to Buffalo, N. Y., and give a concert in University Park. The Chamber of Commerce has asked the city administration to cooperate in receiving the band. The local police and firemen's band, will be detailed to meet the Los Angeles delegation at the station, William T. Bailey, assistant city attorney’, lias charge of arrangements.

He was christened Juy Ward Stillman, the Ward being for a member of my mother's family. “He is the manliest little fellow that ever was,” she continued, the the light of a mother’s pride in her eyes. “We call him 'Sturdy.' he is so chubby and strong; so adorable. “My whole fife is wrapped up in

son, formerly of Indianapolis, received today b> her sister, Mrs. Clinton Davis. 101$ Congress Ave. Jackson owns a cigar st, re on Central Ave. near the Marquette Hotel at the Springs The letter reads: "Jack heard someone calling for help in the burning Marquette Hotel, so he started out In the water, which was up to his shoulders. He got through safely, but when he turned to come back he was knocked off hts feet and carried down stream. “An onlooker threw a rope to him, but lie became unconscious before he could grasp it and was washed away. Word was sent that Jack was being carried away. So a rescue party of about fifty started after him. "Farther down the street he was washed up under some big sign boards with a lot of debris. The water was so swift he couldn’t swim Rubbish had torn his Vlothes and cut him terribly. He finally became conscloius.” WATCHMAN IS STRICKEN Julius Reck. 70, Fulls at Post—( audition Critical. Protecting the lives of drivers and pedestrians, Julius Beck-, 70, 256 Caven St., Pennsylvania railroad crossing watchman at Downey Ave., fell at his post today. He was found lying on the ground in ’front of his shanty by Torn Titus, 27 Eastern Ave. At the City hospital physiicans said that Beck had been stricken with apoplexy and that his condition was critical. FUND APPEAL IS MADE Holies Asks Money to Decorate Graves of Soldiers. An appeal for funds for decoration of graves of American soldiers abroad will be shown on the motograph on the Merchants Heat and Light Company Building beginning tonight. The message reads: “All patriotic citizens of Indianapolis are granted the privilege of contributing to the American Legion’s endowment fund to provide permanent annual decoration of graves of 32,000 World War dead in European cemeteries each Memorial Day. Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant, American Legion.” AUTOIST IS SENTENCED Driver Accused of Intoxication Given Ten Days in Jail. Roy Hatley, 437 Lynn St., was sentenced to ten days in jail and fined S4O and costs by Judge Wilmeth of City court today on a charge of eperating a motor vehicle while under the Influence of liquor.

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that boy: he is all T have to live for r.ow; to bring him up along the best possible lines and to give him a chance. “I thought Mr. Stillman loved ‘Little Sturdy,’ too. He used to take such an interest in the baby and help me plan for the future. “Contrary to opinion, my fife with Mr. Stillman was quiet. I was very much in love with him. and believed he was with me. It was no wild romance, but we were very congenial. “I never cruised on his yacht. It was the other woman whom he took on pleasure jaunts, while I sat alone, with our baby at Miami, waiting for him. I did not know then he enjoyed gay parties. Since I have found out. "He kept me secluded, more as though I were a wife. But I did not care, for I loved him “I knew then what I was doing was wrong, and that I would have to pay for it, but no one knows what I have endured. “Mr. Stillman talked to me of divorcing his wife, but I felt it was wrong. “The action, when It came, was a great shook to me I was in Miami and he was in New York whet# I (Continued on Page 11)

WHIPPING NEEDED 10 CHECK YOUTH, SAYS JUDGE LAHR Public School Teacher Freed on Charges of Chastising Unruly Pupil, Public school teachers in Indianapolis schools have a right to whip their charges, if all moral suasion fails, holds Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lahr Judge Lahr found Maude Merriweather. teacher of grade 4A in School 23. for colored children, not guilty of criminal intent in chastising Mildred Fuquay, in. of 1426 St., with a back trap, for disobedience and using bad language. Miss Morriweather hit the child in the face with (he strap as she threw herself *o the floor, school children witnesses ai.l Blood flowed from a wound on the fare. The mother. Mrs. Grace Fuquay brought charges. Teacher Well Liked "I am sure this was an accident such as apt to happen any time a parent or teacher is forced to inflict corporal punishment,” said the judge. The principal and school childlren testified that the teacher was a "good" teacher, well liked, and only whipped when necessary. “Children must not he allowed to take the bit in their mouths and run away with home or school." said Judge Lahr. “Corporal punishment, is the lowest form of suasion, but I am firm. If all moral suasion fails, the child must be ‘licked.’ Whipping Defended “1 would recommend that parents and teachers use something that makes the most noise and least damage—like a folded razor strap.” “I have sent many a child to the reform school Just because it was not thrashed enough by parents, too.” he said. “If we were to punish teachers and parents for whipping children, do you want to know the result?” “We would have to triple reform schools. Homes and schools would go to wreck. These modern American children, taking liberty as they are. would run wild if I convicted this woman." KIDDIES FIND -CATCH’ IN SALE OF SCHOOLS Nine Old Buildings Are Disposed of Lndcr the Hammer. fly Times Special PERU. Ind.. May 21.—Hilarity ran higli among school kiddies when they saw nine schoolhouses sold under the hammer for prices ranging from $203 to $540. and when announcemnt was made that the buildings would never again be used for school purposes. Joy shortlived. A fine new consolidated school will, be ready for the children this fall. South Bend Man Bankrupt Andrew L. Shimp of South Bend filed a petition in bankruptcy In Fed era I Court today. He listed his liabili Ties at $13,312.65 and his assets at $782.50.

fMMMm N Dt RCUcueche ■'-r *sl Chairman Safe Dnve/s'Club

The heavy auto traffic season has begutTand the death list from auto accidents over the nation grows despite campaigns far careful driving.

Here are some helps to cut do”, n the heavy death toll as prepared by the chairman of tie Cleveland Safe Drivers’ Club. Read them.

LESSON No. 1. Pedestrian crossing street. 1. At the curb, LOOK LEFT. 2. At the cCj ier of the street, LOOK RIGHT,

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PRAYER OFFERED FOR SAFETY OF BANDIT VICTIMS Three Thousand Bow Heads as New York Pastor Leads * Presbyterian Assembly in Supplication for Freedom of Prisoners in China, Prayer that Christian captives held by Chinese bandits be delivered safely was asked today by Dr. Robert E. Speer, president of tJie Federal Council of Churches oLNew York, while 3,000 commissioners and guests to the Presbyterian General Assembly bowed. Work was halted when Moderator Charles F. Wishart asked all to how in prayer and give thought to “the sinister and ominous conditions in China.”

"We pray for the children in peril,” Dr Speer prayed. “We ask that Thy protecting grace fie given to *hat little band and snield them from ail peril “Put kindness in spirit of thos* who hold them in captivity. Give wisdom to those who are working in their behalf an 1 may no foolish act impair the ends they seek. ■’Let not one hair of their head be harm, d.” Cooperation Favored Regarding the Presbyterian Church and the Churches of the Reformed family, the assembly decided “to share in all interdenominational and international movements of the Churches of Christ. We are especially desirous of helping forward the realization of the organic union of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches of our nation. To this end we reaffirm our desire and declare our purpose to continue our activities for the realization oV one Presbyterian Reformed Church in America.” The assembly decided in favor of the proposed joint committee of the General Council to‘he know-n as the committee on education of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches. It will consist of representatives of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (colored). the Reformed Church in the United States, the Reformed Church In America. the Unite,! Presbyterian Church and the Presbyetrian Church in the United States, consisting of a total of fifteen bodies. To Guarantee Education Dr. Joseph A. Vance of Detroit declared that “without collective action we are not going to guarantee religious education for the young generation." The canvass committee reported five overtures sent down by the General Assembly had received sufficient votes to be declared passed by the moderator. The overtures: Forbidding voting by proxy in congregational meetings.

Forecast FAIR tonight; Tuesday, increasing cloudiness; probably unsettled by night; warmer.

TWO CENTS

Enabling pastoral service in more than one Presbytery by same minister. Correcting phraseology of sections of Chapter XIII. form of government. Setting up a general council to take the place of the executive commission and the new era movement. This council will be executive and promotional body -of the church continuously throughout the year, with authority over the boards of the church while genera! assembly is not in session. Dividing rolls of communicants Into resident and nonresident groups. Risliop Vincent Introduced Bishop Boyd Vincent, Episcopal bishop of Cincinnati, was introduced. ■Dr. W. H. Wray Boyle of Denver, Colo , delivered the report for the committee on relief and sustentation. The assembly voted to refer the following overtrure to the executive committee: "That In response to the overtures of so majiv Presbyterians and Synods asking the General Assembly to appoint a committee of laymen to secure funds to increase the endowment of the board of ministerial relief and sustentation. and in view of the fact that the board has been authorized by many previous General Assemblies, to secure sufficient endowment, to provide suitable pensions for the aged and disabled servants of the church, and In view of the pressing need of carrying this effort to a successful conclusion, the board of ministerial relief and sustentation reports that after consultation with representatives of the other boards, it has devised plans, looking ; to the speedy securing of such endowment and reserve, and it requests the General Assembly to elect the following committee of representative laymen to assist in accomplishing this purpose: John Willis Baer, Pasadena, Cal.; E. J. Cooper, Minneapolis. Minn.; Will H. Hays, Sullivan. Ind.; J. N. Jarvie, New York: Robert Lansing, Washington: Richard B. Mellon, Pittsburgh; Senator Wm. B. McKinley, Champaign, 111.; Nathan G. Moore. Chicago, and A. H. Whitford, Buffalo, N. Y.” The afternoon session was devoted to questions pertaining to the proposed new governmental system of assembly agencies. Tonight at Tomlinson Hall a popular meeting will be held under the direction of the board of missions for freedmen. ACCUSED WIFE SLAYER IS PLACED °N TRIAL Insanity Will Be Plea of Attorneys for Harry Diamond. . By t'nffrd Prpo.t VALPARAISO, Ind., May 11.-j Harry Diamond, 24. went to trial her.<|* today charged with slaying his wife and wounding William Armstrong, chauffeur. “Insanity” will be the plea. The slaying oecu-red Feb. 14. Diamond and his wife were being driven on a lonely road in the Calumet district, near Gary. Mrs. Diamond was shot four times. Armstrong, wounded by one bullet was left lying beside the road.