Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 9

WALB IS ELECTED BY G. O. P.

Selection Made From Within Republican State Committee for Harmony, SENATOR WATSGN ACTIVE Lawrence Cartwright Named Vice Chairman in Smooth Session, Clyde A. TValb of LaG range was elected Republican State chairman today to succeed Lawrence E. Lyons of Brook, who resigned. The resignation was presented to the State committee at a special meeting at the Severin and tlje election followed immediately. Walb was succeeded as vice chairman of the committee by Lawrence Cartwright. Eighth District chairman. "Walb is Twelfth District chairman and will retain the chairmanship of that district for the present. Walb's was the only name presented to the committee. Some friends of Ed Bowen of Delphi were still in-' slating: he should be considered, but committee members at a conference previous to the meeting: decided the selection should he made from within the committee. Lyons Makes Statement. In presenting his resignation. Lyons said: "As precinct committeeman, as oounty chairman, as district chairman and as State chairman, T have kept in view the best Interest of the Republican party. I have never held office, kever sought office and never tmend and all my political activity has been directed toward Increasing the strength and usefulness of the Repub Hear, party. "With these things in view, I deem It best under the existing conditions to sever my relations with the State central committee and to that end I hereby ender my resignation as chairman to take effect immediately.. Expresses Gratitude ‘‘l can not take this step without expressing my deep gratitude to the members of the committee and to the secretary, Mr. Schortemeier. for their unfailing courtesy throughout the years of my connection with the organization. Their cordial cooperation and sympathetic support have enabled nr to work together In the spirit of harmony and I shall cherish the recollection of their unfailing efforts and their unalloyed friendship so long as life shall last. I wish for each of the members of the committee great personal prosperity and for the party you so ably represent unbounded success." The committee adopted a resolution commending Lyons’ record as chairman and extending to him “sincere wishes for his welfare and happiness.” Agreement Before Meeting The final decision that Walt) should be chairman was not made until early this morning following a long conference. Although Bowen is considered a Watson man. Senator James Watson was insisting on the selection of Walb in the interest of party harmony. Walb was second choice selection of most party leaders and when it was found no first choice main could be named without bitter feeling resulting Walb was decided upon. Watson was still active as the committee convened. State officials and other party leaders flocked to the hotel to participate in discussion. Among those present at a meeting In Watson's room were Governor Warren T. McCray. Lieutenant Governor Emmett F. Branch: Raymond C. Morgan. speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph B. Kealing, Republican national committeeman from Indiana; M. Bert Thurman, collector of Internal revFhue; John C. Moorman of Knox. Ind.. and Fred C. Robinson, secretary of the State purchasing committee. Fight of Long Standing. The appointment of Walb comes as the conclusion of a long controversy within the party, dating back considerably farther than the action of Lyons in Joining the Ku-Klux Kian and then leaving that organization, the Immediate cause of the change in leadership. The committee adopted resolutions of regret over the death of Miller and of James A. Bemenway, former United States Senator. Organization details were discussed during the afternoon. |.ONG ARM GETS PURSE Two Checks and S6O are Stolen FYntn Fred YV. Moller. Fred W. Moller. 1220 N. Illinois S’., left his purse containing S6O In cash and two checks on a stand near an outside window. Someone reached through the window and stole It Moller told police today. Robert Liedrich, 2101 Talbott AV, reported the loss of a sl6 raineL •rom his car, parked at Meridian Al ▼ennont Sta.

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Political Newcomer Heads Republicans

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CLYDE A. WALB A comparative newcomer in State politics, Clyde A. Walb of Lagrange was elected Republican State chairman today. Walb was elected Twelfth District chairman a year ago and made vice chairman of the State committee. He is head of the Walb Construction Company, drainage contractors. He is 43 years old.

‘PETTING’ RAPPED IN CHURCH MEET

Presbyterian Woman Speaker Brings Up Question of Social Evils —Assembly Commends Harding,

By WALTER D. HICKMAN The evils of "petting parties” and of cigarette smoking by women, the menaceeof the public marrying parlors of justice of the peace and The growth of the divorce evil were injected into the Presbyterian General Assembly

CASPER KLEIFGEN DIES IN THEATER Succumbs After Two Years of 111 Health, Casper Kleifgen, 66, of 402 Orange St., fell dead in the Circle Theater shortly after noon today. Dr. John W. Cluss. 901 National City Bank building. said death was due to heart trouble. According to the story told Mortor Police McClure and Pierson. Kleifgen asked Francis Broder, 15 S. Elder St., and Janies Duncan, 316 Muskingum St., employes of the theater, whether he could go inside the theater to rest. He died a few minutes later. Coroner Paul F. Robinson ordered the body sent to the city morgue. Mr. Kleifgen’s wife said he had been in ill health for two years. Before his illness he was employed at the Statehouse. He was born in Germany and came to Indianapolis when 21 years of age. OUTSIDE POLICE TO HELP Large Central West Cities Will Send Detectives to Speedway. When crooks from other cities are “picked up” in the crowds that visit Indianapolis to see the automobile races at the Motor Speedway, they will be “spoted” the next morning by detectives from their home cities. Detectives from many of the larger cities of the Central West Mill help the Indianapolis detective department protect visitors Memorial day. These visiting detectives ahe especially valuable in recognizing criminals. The plan is to have visiting detectives assigned to duty with local detectives. In this way criminals will be apprehended who might escape if officers from Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Toledo, Louisville, Cleveland and other cities were not on duty here. Power Extension Asked The city of Peru today petitioned the public service commission for authority to extend transmission lines irom its electric power plant to the American Stationery Company's plant, two miles outside the city. F etition came as a result of requests tor rural patronage. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 46 10 a_ m 56 7 a. m 48 11 a. m 68 8 a. m 60 12 (noon) 61 9 a. in. 63 1 p. m. 61.

HOUSEWIVES WILL MEET President Acknowledges Receipt of Resolutions on Sugar Question. Acknowledgment of receipt of resolutions passed by the Indianapolis Housewives’ League, condemning sugar speculators and calling on the Government to act, has been made by President Harding’s secretary and Attorney General Daugherty, Mrs. W. H. Hart, 651 E. Drive, Woodruff Place, president, announced today. The league will meet in the council chamber at city hall at 2 p. m. Wednesday, when plans for the coming year will be outlined and a secretary and a treasurer will be elected.

TRUSTEE FACES CHARGE OF STATE ACCOUNTS BOARD Examiners Say $5,164,35 Is Unpaid—Hearing June 22, Total unpaid charges of $5,164.35 against Lot C. Runnels of New Carlisle. as trustee of Olive Township, St. Joseph County, are shown in a report received today by F. Orr. chief examiner of the State board of accounts. Insufficiency of bond also is held against Runnels, reports of the field examiners, E. P. Brennan and A. W. Picker, show. The unpaid charges range over a period front Jan. 1, 11*21 to Dec. 31, 1923, during which time lie served as trustee. Various disbursing checks are shown in the report to have been signed and cashed by persons other than those to whom they had been issued. Runnels also made frequent payments to members of his family, employed, he said, to do work for the township. 4 The State board will hear Runnel’s case here June 22, Orr said. Everett L. Field of New Carlisle) is the. present trustee. Runnels, the examiners reported. said he had employed members of his family in good faith and that all payments made to them represented actual value of work done for the township. )

today by Miss Maude M. Aldrich of Pittsburgh, as a member of the board of temperance and moral welfare. Coupled with the exposure of social evils by Miss Aldrich, the Assembly passed resolutions commending President Harding for his stand for law enforcement and for his support of the Eighteenth Amendment. New York Criticised. Drastic criticism of the action of the New York Legislature in repealing the New York State prohibition law was contained in a resolution submitted by the temperance and welfare committee ar.d passed hv the assembly. "There is one divorce for every five marriages.' Miss Aldrich declared. "Any woman who smokes cigarettes j H cheap. There is a general lowering of social standards.” She spoke of the “hip flask” and petting parties" and declared that “trust” in boys and girls was being misplaced by parents-.who allowed their children (Continued on Page II)

BOARD OF SAFETY OUSTS RATLIFF investigator for Juvenile Court Discharged, Patrolman Elburn W. Ratliff was found guilty of charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and discharged by the board of safety today. Ratliff’s trial was held last Tuesday. At that, time Mrs. May A. Solin., keeper of a rooming house at 914 N. Meridian St., testified that Ratliff had often paid the room rent of Mrs. Daisy Henry, a roomer at Mrs. Sofia's. Ratliff denied the charges. lie was Investigator for juvenile court. He is married. Lewis G. Bishop and William B. Russell were appointed substitute firemen. Fire Chief John J. O’Brien was granted a four day’s leave of absence to go to Detroit.

LORD HEARS JIMMY’S PRAYER

By United Press CHICAGO, May 22.—Jimmy Nallin. 6, of Tiptonville. Tenn., who is in St. Luke's hospital, prayed for the Lord to "come on down here" and aid science in giving him feet like other boys. Jimmy volunteered to undergo an opera t ion by surgeons who. in a series of experiments cfn animals. perfected a method for Straightening “club feet.” The youngster, of poor Tennessee par-

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1923

BALDWIN IS NAMED PREMIER

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STANLEY BALDWIN

Baldwin Wears Flannel Shirt at Confabs Stanley Baldwin, new premier of Great Britain, la the least known of the leaders of the conservative party and has established a record in British politics by his rapid rise. Baldwin was president of the board of trade in the Lloyd George coalition minlstery, a po §!tion corresponding to Secretary of Commerce at Washington. When the conservative revolt against Lloyd George occurred last year, Baldwin stuck by Law. His political seniors among the conservatives remained with the coalition. When Bonar Law carried the general elections, Baldwin was rewarded Jor his loyalty by being made chancellor of the Exchequer, which Is regarded as including the vice premiership. He Is an admirable parliamentary de bator, and he showed great, force of character by his handling of the negotiations for refunding the British war debt to America. When Baldwin returned to London from his visit to Washington last January, with the debt agreement in his pocket, he was opposed at first by Bonar Law himself. But Baldwin finally won over his chief and the settlement was accepted by the British cabinet. Baldwin is the most available man among the conservatives, for ear Vying on Bonar Law’s policies. He is very Democratic. He receives visitors in a flannel shirt and puffs his pipe during the conversation as if he were a laborite instead of a conservative.

INDIANA ISONS OPEN CONVENTION Report Shows Membership Exceeds 117,000, The membership of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, Free and Accepted Masons, exceeds 1 17,000, according to a report at the 106th annual meeting today at the Masonic Temple, North and Illinois Sts. The meeting will continue through Wednesday afternoon. Robert W. Phillips, grand master, presided. William Ilerschell gave readings. The afternoon session was devoted to business. Wednesday morning the lodge mem hers will visit the new Masonic Home ai Franklin. Ind. Business matters will occupy the afternoon session. SCHWAB IS HONOR GUEST St ntz Executives and Employes to Banquet May 29. , Events planned at a banquet of executives and employes of the Stutz Motor Gar Company of America, Inc., at. the Lincoln May 29 will have an important bearing upon the future of the concern, it was announced today. Charles M. Schwab, controlling stockholder will be the honor guest.

ents, responded. He hobbled off tliS train here with a tag around hts neck, addressed “St. Luke’s." The operation was declared t. success. Jimmy’s feet will he straight and he will walk, play hall and grow Into a physically normal man. Jimmy is suffering the pain resultant from the operation in the same way he went under the knife. “Lord come on down here and help these dootors make me

Chancellor of Exchequer Will Form New Government at London, CONSERVATIVES’ CHOICE i Latest Guide of Britain Popuj lar Candidate for Honor Over Lord Curzon, \ By United Press LONDON, May 22.—Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of tlie Exchequer in the old Bonar Law j ministry, has been made premier | >f Britain. j Baldwin was 1 summoned to j Buckingham Palace by King George this afternoon and after a conference it was announced he had accepted the invitation of the King to form anew government. Selection of Baldwin was made after the king had Indirectly communicated with leaders of the Conservative party i of which Baldwin is a member. The conference between the king ! and the new premier lasted more than an hour. Baldwin went to the I I royal offices In a taxicab. His wife j accompanied him. Baldwin was the popular candidate for successor to the office made vacant Sunday night by the resignation of Bonar law. whose throat illness made it impossible for him to continue. The most dangerous rival of Baldwin for the premiership had been Lord Curzon, but Ourzon's place in the House of Iyords handicapped him. All the vital political action in Great Britain occurs in the Commons, and the prime minister ought to bo a member of the lower house for that reason, and that is not an advantage while the labor party is pressing so hard for power. Baldwin Is expected to receive the automatic resignations of the 014 Bonar law cabinet members forthwith. The new cabinet probably will be appointed tomorrow. There will be no material changes. "I need prayers rather than congratulations.’’ Baldwin told persons who swarmed around to shake his hand as he arrived in Downing Street after his appointment. EX-SENATOR RESCUES SERGEANT FROM RIVER Army Man Rights Canoe and ton tinues Voyage. By Times Speeial LAFAYETTE, !nd., May 22.—Sail ing calmly down the swollen Wabash River in a canoe with a s’nil attached. Sergt. George Bowman did not at all look like a man who had just been res cued from the Jaw r s of death. When a gust of wind struck the boat j It was overturned.* Bowman was saved j by Alva O. Reser. former State sena j tor. w r ho was on the river in a motor boat. After the mishap Bowman righted j his canoe and continued bis voyage.

ENTIRE VILLAGE IS SOLD I’ncle Sam Steps Out—l .and Speculators Gobble Sites. By United Press GUJUCESTER, N. J., May 22. Brooklawn, Government-built town of 45] cozy dwellings and business houses, is in the hands of real estate speculators today. The little town was sold at auction. Prices soared so that only ffbout ten per cent of the tenants occupying the houses were able' to buy their own homes., The entire village brought $1,769,Oslo. it cost the Government a little more than $3,000,000 to construct Brooklawn. during the war. TWO CHARGES ARE FILED i Proprietors of Dry Drink Parlor and Pool Room Arrested. John W. Williams. 34, proprietor of a dry drink parlor at 228 Indiana Ave., was arested today by Lieut. Cox and squad on charges of operating a. blind tiger and selling baseball pool tickets. Police said they found a soda bottle half full of whisky a.nd an “arm-load” of pool tickets. Patrolmen Dailey and Smock arrested Restor Bozich. 32. proprietor of a pool room at 10 S. West St., today after they said they found several baseball pool tickets.

well.” he murmured as he went under the ether. "Come on down here and make me well," he prayed as nurses, doctors and visitors heaped caresses and playthings upon him. ”1 ain't aiming to ask you for anyihing else," Jimmy is the hero of St. Luke’s surgeons. Besides getting a good pair of feet himself, he has opened the way for thousands of other children to obtain straight feet, the surgeons say.

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Women Quarrel Over Contractor’s Body

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MRS DOROTHY DAVIS AND JOSEPH T DAVIS. JR., (ABOVE) MRS. MABEL ' RIBBEL DAVIS TNI) JAMES JOHN DAVIS (MIDDLE) AND JOSEPH T. DAVIS. SR.

CHARGES MADE AGAINST THIRTEEN Gounty Grand Jury Returns Series of Indictments, | Thirteen persons were indicted today by the county grand jury on charges Incluiing embezzlement and liquor law violations to serious criminal charges. Those indicted and changes: William Carey, 1110 E. Thirteenth St , statutory charge; Donald Welch, an employee of the Floyd E. Payne Company, 144 N. Illinois St. and Morris K. Kennedy, employe of the Payn<? Company, embezzlement of $1,200; James M. Shepon, issuing fraudulent check for $5; Frank H. Wickam, 92-. N. Tacoma, selling liquor; George Franklin, 65! Thornton St,., selling liquor: Ida M. Duffey. 605 Russell St., selling liquor: Crank Radgley, stealing automobile; Edward Radgley. stealing $2 in stamps. 95 cents cash and a revolver; Ross Browit. stealing revolver; Jess Brown, stealing two tie pins worth $210; Earl Weltzel, 1255 Madison PI., criminal assault; Joseph Moore and Edward Connelly, conspiracy to s eall S9? from Gather Minnis,'9lß El. Georgia St. POSSE AVENGES DEATH Deranged Man FTes Four Shots at / Officer. Bu United Xews MARINETTE, Wis., May "22. Shortly after Sheriff Emmett Butts of Marinette County was slain in a gun duel, Monday with John Holtz, a posse avenged his death by killing Holtz. Holtz was wanted for a mental examination and barricaded himself In his home as Butts came to take him in custody. Four 22-oaliber bullets struck the under sheriff *ln the face. He died. Holtz continued firing until firemen and police finally shot him down. Bond Petition Reviewed The public service commission today reviewed-petition of the city of Bluffton for authority to issue and sell $10,715.15 in bonds for improvement of the waterworks. John W. McCardie. chairman, presided.

TRIANGLE IS BARED BY DEATH

AMERICA WOULD DEAL DIRECTLY WITH BRIGANDS Cabinet Members Discuss Seizure —Harding Regards Situation as Dangerous, By United Press WASHINGTON. May 22.—The United States Government will negotiate directly with Shantung bandits to obtain release of American and other foreign prisoners if this is necessary to bring about their liberation, it was stated on the highest authority at the White House today. The problem of the Americans and other foreigners held by the bandies was tbe sole topic at today's Cabinet meeting, it was revealed. Fallowing the Cabinet meeting, it was declared that the President regards the situation as most serious.

COLT MEMBERS MAY BE JAILED Refusal to Testify Will Be Contempt of Court, ; By United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich., May 22.—Addl ! tional members of the House of David | will be jailed if they refuse to testify I in the probe of the cult, Judge Harry Dingeman announced today. Two are now in jail on contempt charges. Judge Dingeman said conspiracy | warrants may be Issued for reluctant | witnesses, and announced that evij dence has been procured sufficient to janes! several colony members for ! minor offenses. Kate Glover, a former roommate of Etta Dorpha Smith, who Is wanted to tell who is the father tof her child born !at the colony, testified today. Percy Bulley. a chauffeur, was also sumI moned in an effort to determine which direction the girl fled when she left the colony after becoming a mother. ELVIN JOHNSON IS DEAD Services Wednesday for Man Survived by Two Sons. The Rov. Mount V. Foster, pastor of I the Eighth Christian Church, will con- I duct funeral services at 2 p. m. ! Wednesday for Elvin E. Johnson. 20. j who died Monday at his home. 1226 I X. Sheffield Ave. Burial will be in | Floral Park cemetery. Mr. Johnson was bom in Fowler, j Ind. He had lived in Indianapolis j twenty-two years. He is survived by two sons s Edward j and George, of Indianapolis; his par j ents. yr. and Mrs. Eddy C. Johnson, and four sisters, Mrs. Lola Hawk. Mrs. Icy Hinshaw and Mrs. Eva Roppenberger of Indianapolis and Mrs. Helen Von.st eel of Niagara Falls. N. Y.

RECORDS SHOW 3,802 LAWYERS One in Every 772 Hoosiers Is Member of Bar, A lawyer, in india'na. comes mighty near to being one man in a thousand. Specifically, th-we is one attorney to every 772 persons. For each county of the State there is an average of forty lawyers. Zachariah T. Dungan, clerk of the Supreme and Appejlate Courts, completing a survey front which the first judiciary- book since 1908 will be compiled, gave the following figures: Marion County has about 950 attorney's. There are~2952 in the State, exclusive of Marion County. Union County has five of them, Ohio County seven and Starke County, eight. Lake County, has 207, with Allen anti Vigo. 330 and 134 .respectively. South Bend has 136. The figures do not Include lawyers who hold public office. The new judiciary book, soon to h<* compiled, will show all judges, prosecuting attorneys, clerks, sheriffs and lawyers. DEATH TAKES WATCHMAN Julius Beck, 70, Found Unconscious at I'ost of Duty, Dies. Julius Beck. 70, 256 Caven St., died at the city hospital today. Death probably- was due to apoplexy, according to Coroner Paul F. Robinson. Beck was found unconscious Monday at Downey Ave. and the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks where he was crossing watchman. *■

Forecast CLOUDY and unsettled tonight ; probably showers. Not much change in temperature.

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Two Women Claim to Be Widows of Joseph T. Davis, Contractor, BOTH TO GO TO FUNERAL One Says She Knew of Other for Seven Years, but Did Not Act, For seven years Mrs. Dorothy Davis, 39, of 643 S. Illinois St., believed her husband was married to another woman, hut she remained silent because she loved him and their son, Joseph T. Davis, Jr., and did not want Lhe father to be arrested, she said today. Joseph T. Davis, Sr., 42, died Monday at 15 S. Gray St., wher he lived with Mrs. Mabel Davis, 31. James John Davis. 2, also lives there, according to Mrs. Dorothy Davis. The body was taken to the Shirley Brothers undertaking parlor, 948 N. Illinois St., on order of Mrs. Mabel Davis. Mrs. Dorothy Davis has asked Coroner Paul F. Robinson to give her custody of the body. The coroner is trying to unravel the reported triangle. Funeral to Be Wednesday Coroner Robinson announced after he had taken testimony of Mabel Ribble Davis today that she had agreed that Mm. Dorothy Davis and other re’atives on that side of the triangle should attend the funeral at Shirley Brothers’ chapel. 948 N. Illinois St., at 9:30 Wednesday morning. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. When Mrs. Mabel Ribble Davis complained through her at’omey, James W. Meilen. that she had received threats Police Captain Edward Schubert announced he would detail throe patrolmen to the funeral. Mrs. Mabei Ribble Davis told the coroner that a year ago she left Davis when she learned for the first time he was supposed to be married to Mrs. Dorothy Davis. She said, however. that she had received information since, which led her to believe that Davis had been divorced from Mrs. Dorothy 1 *avis several years before. “Couldn’t Believe Anything” "I suspected something seven years ago," said Mrs. Dorothy Davis, but 1 couldn't make myself believe anything. I loved Joe so. "In his work as a building contractor he was away so much that I nover thought for a moment he was living elsewhere. We lived in Terre (Continued on Page 11)

RUFE PAGE AND PARTNER ON TRIAL Prosecutor Brings in Name of Armitage, Trial of Robert "Rufe" Page and John Overton, colored political leaders, on charges of maintaining a gambling resort in their soft drink parlor at N. Senate Ave. w’as resumed this afternoon in Criminal Court before Judge James A. Collins. Page and Overton were Indicted with eleven other colored men Jan. 9. The testimony introduced by Prosecutor William P. Evans was similar to that in trials of Harry "Goosie” Lee and others already convicted. The name of William H. Armitage. political helmsman of the Shank organization, was mentioned as before by the prosecutor during testimony by Claude M. Worley, his investigator. Evans said that Armitage told Page he could only run one gambling house at a time, so he had to give up the “Keystone Club,” in favor of Henry Flemipg and William "Big" Jackson, colored editor, who are alleged to have taken It over. They were indicted, too, though not tried yet.

Andrew Carnegie Said: “Save and Invest” This is one of the surest ways of getting the things you want. A small savings wisely invested soon enriches its owner with an income that Is both large and steady, and enables him to get what he desires. A careful and regular reading of the “Houses and Lots for Sale" column in the Want Ad section of this paper will reward you with the golden opportunity that will turn your small investment into a large and steady income. The chance is there; read and find it, and then use It. The Indianapolis Times Main 3500