Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1923 — Page 1

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DEATH ENDS LEADERSHIP OF KUCHIN North Carolina Statesman Guide of Democratic Lawmakers at Washington, IN CONGRESS 22 YEARS Fatal illness Traced to Strain Suffered During World War Days, Rj/ United Press WILSON. X. C.. May 31. Kitehin, noted Dernoleader, died early today. Kitehin. Democratic leader in the House, had been ill for a long time with stomach trouble. He had a relapse several days ago. after what appeared an improvement in his condition. His death came at 6 :10 a. m. Kltchin's death removes one of the most influental characters in the House. He was bom near Scotland. Neck. Halifax County. N. C.. March 24. 1869. the son of 'William H. Kitehin, a r ember of the .Forty-Sixth Congress, and Mary F. Kitehin. He graduated front J.ake Forest College # June. 18S8. and in the same year married Miss Kate Mills. He was admitted to the North Carolina bar in September. 1890. Elected in 1900 Kitehin never held public office before his election to the Fifty Seventh Congress as a Democrat from the second North Carolina district in November. 1900, but once having donned harness he never left It. He was successively re-elected to every Congress after th fifty-seventh, and at the time of his death was member elect of the Sixty-Eighth Congress, his twelfth consecutive office, and th twelfth House member in length of service, with twenty-two years. Kitehin worked himself through Democratic ranks in the House to Ichairmanship of the powerful Ways “end Means Committee. When Champ Clark waa Speaker. Kitehin became majority floor leader. He relinquished the position of Democratic loader to Clark when the Republicans regained control of the House In the SixtySixth Congress. Was Minority Leader Upon Clark's death Kitehin succeeded to the minority floor leader*hip which he nominally held at the time of his death. Kltchin's illness dates back to war days, when he, like all other conleaders, was under a tretaandous strain of labor. Kitehin Worked day and night and as a rejfcult developed, nervous indigestion Which became a more serious form of •toroach trouble. ' A year ago Kitehin was virtually forced to retire. He had been in the hospital for several weeks and it became apparent noon after his admission to the institution his vitality was so low that death was only a matter of time. Two days ago Kitchin's physicians gave up all hope. His family was at his bedside. WHY THEY MISSED RACE Airplane Propellers Are Caught in Wheat Field and Broken. Bu Timet Special SEYMOUR. Tnd.. May 31.—An airplane flying from Camp Knox. Ky.. to Indianapolis for the Speedway races into a field at the edge of Ptown. The* propellers caught in growing wheat and were broken. Occupants escaped injury. ALLEGED SPEEDER SPEEDS Makess Rapid Getaway by Hurdling Chairs in Court. Flank Marcuio didn't like the courtroom of John Egan, justice of the peace at Greenfield. Egan told local police today a State police officer brought Marcuio in his court Wednesday for speeding. Marcuio hurdled chairs and ran down the steps to his getaway. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 60 10 a. m 78 7 a. m.. 64 11 a. m 79 8 a. m 68 12 (noon) 81 9 a. m 76 1 p. m 82

HOW THE AUTHOR OF ‘GAPPY RICKS’ STORIES LOOKS BACK AT SPEEDWAY

Peter B Xyne, famous as the author of the "Carry Ricks stones, which have been read by millions of Americans, is in private life an enthusiastic patron of the more strenuous eporta. and is especially a devotea of automobile racing. He was at the Speedway classic. —Editor’s note. By PETER B. KTNE (Copyright, 1923, by United Xetc) AT 10 o'clock yesterday morning Tommy Milton, driving a car described as an H. C. S. Special, grabbed a purse containing nearly thirty thousand dollars, fled five hundred miles with it. pursued by fwentv-three competitors, and at 3:30 p. m., established legal title to the proceeds of his raid by virtue of a checkered flag which Eddie Rickenbacker waved at him from the bridge of sighs that connects the soore-board with the press stand at the Indianapolis Speedway.

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First-Year Speakers Best at Shortridge JRt .r ■ JULIA BRETZMAN AND RAYMOND JOHNSTON. Although they have been members of the Shortridge High School Senate only one year. Miss Julia Brc-tzman and Raymond Johnston are ranked as the beet extemporaneous speakers. They recently won the Melville S. Cohn annual prizes. Cohn gives them in honor of his son, Gordon Kiser and daughter, Diane Kiser. FAKE SPEEDWAY “ TICKETS TRACED Refund Awaits Victims at Police Headquarters, Forty-nine p rsons who unwittingly tried to get into the Speedway on un : official tickets can get their $2 back from police, it was announced today Detectives J. Dugan and Reynolds sav this is the story: Elvin Thomerson. 16, of 231 Highland Ave.. employed by the Allison ; Coupon Company. 536 E. Market St.. printers of Speedway tickets, stole a ! block of fifty white press general admission. pasteboards. May 18 Discovering the loss printers all press general admission coupons i on red paper. The boy gave th tickets to Albert Farb, 15. of 3 236 E. Ohio St., to sell on a “50-50" basis. Albert gave them to his brother, who passed them on to Paul Trainor. night bell captain at the Claypool. who sold them. He said he did not know the tickets were not good until he tried to use one. He notified detectives and turned all the money over to them. Thomerson is charged with petit lar ceny. PENNSY TRAIN WRECKED Crew Escapes Injury As Cars Go Over Bridge—Traffic Routed on Big Four. 1 ' Pennsylvania trains between Terre Haute ami Indianapolis were routed over the Big Four today following a wreck at 6:45 a. m. in whidi ten cars on a fast east-bound freight train on the Pennsylvania went through a bridge over White Lick Creek, sixteen miles west of the city. Traffic on the Pennsylvania, St. Louis & Indianapolis division will be closed at least twenty-four hours, to | build a temporary track around the ,\ reckage. a quarter of a mile east of Cartersburg. No one was injured. KLAN DEFENDER FLEES Restaurant Patron Swatted When He Gets Into Argument. While in a restaurant near No. 6 fire engine house. C. E. Lovett, 821 F. West St., heard several men outside “knock the Ku-Klux Ivlan." He went out to argue for the Klan and was chased several blocks. He told police today one of the men struck him on the head with a blackjack.

It was murder in the first degree. It was obvious from the start that insofar as Tommy was concerned theN International Sweepstakes was no. contest- He Just naturally grabbed first place and kept it for the sake of the profits accruing thereto. He is crass and commercial, that boy. He is out for the spondulicks. His friends may say of him that, like all champions, he has an artistic side to him and is kind to his fo’ks and loves children, but I doubt if .limmy Murphy thinks so. And I know I don't. I placed a small bet on James, hanking on his indomitable Hibernian ancestry and his record and he disappointed ihe terribly. The next time he starts I shall play him

SI CHILDREN ARE CARRIED FROM FIRE Four Nurses Risk Lives in Flames-, but Save Sleeping Charges, HOSPITAL LOSS $60,000 Sixteen Rescuers Overcome by Fumes Pet Dog Spreads Alarm, Bu United Pres* PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 31. Four nurses, fighting their way through flame and smoke, carried 67 crippled and sick children to safety when fire partly razed the Children’s Hospital today. The children were taken from I the burning building while still I asleep. I John Cosnell, engineer, risked his life to reach the power room and | close an open gas cock, thereby avertj ing an explosion and saving two eonj cretp wings. j The fire, which started from exj plosion of a hot water heater de- ; stroved the main part of the hospital at a less of $6(1,000. Sixteen firemen were injured or i overcome by fumes. The four nurses who carried the children out of danger are Agnes Stover, Mildred Weigel. Mrs. Francis Pugh and Lillian Zimmerman. “Patty,” the Pomeranian pet of the kiddies for years, died in spreading the alarm. Soon after the explosion, which rocked the building. “Patty" went dashing through every ward of the hospital, barking, apparently set upon seeing all awakened. In the rush to get out the children, 'Patty'' was overlook'd. PASTOR OF FASHIONABLE CHURCH KILLS SELF Professor at George Washington University Has Nervous Breakdown. 1 Bu United Press WASHINGTON. May 31 —Dr. James Mcßride Kterritt, associate rotor of the Fashionable All Souls Epls- ■ copal Church and professor emeritus j of philosophy at George Washington j University, shot and killed himself i at his co'untrv home near here today. I A nervous breakdown was the cause | assigned. DOCTOR’S SALARY IS CUT Superintendent of Sunnyside to Get $3,000 Instead of $1,200. County commissioners today reduced salary of Dr. H. S. Hatch, superintendent of Sunnyside, county tuberculosis hospital, from $4,200 a year to $3,000. effective immediately. “To omuch money is being spent for doctors.” was the consensus of ! opinion of th ethree commissioners. “There are three doctors at Sunny | side. The other two get S2OO a | month." ON WALL STREET ROCKS Jones & Baker Suspended Following Probe of Market Transactions. Bu United Prctt NEW YORK, May 31.—Officials of | the curb exchange this afternoon an- ] nounced the suspension of the firm i of Jones & Baker, the biggest dealer I ir the outside market. Th® suspension followed reports j u hich have been circulating in tho | financial district during the lasl' few j days , ’at the officers of the curb marj ket hal heen conducting a quiet inI vestigation of market transactions. | HEARING IS CONTINUED j f,miis W, Camefix Charged W ith Distributing Hrohol Improperly. Louis W Carnefix. druggist. 1012 River Ave., -will he called before Bert O. t Morgan, Federal prohibition director for Indiana, June 9, to showwhy his permit to handle alcohol should not be revoked. The hearing was originally set for today, but was continued because Carneftx's attorney is out of th<ycity. Federal officials charge that Carnefix distributed alcohol improperly.

across the board. At that, perfect honesty compels me to admit that, for the first eighty miles he clung to Tommy Milton like a case of pernicious eczema.; if he had only had the common decency to keep hiH spark plugs or something clean he might now be buying bonds of the Irish Republic instead of making excuses. I suppose that, as automobile races go. this one was neither better nor worse. The weather was 'perfect. The crowds good-natured and orderly; they came earlv and brought their lunches; they got the usual thrill at the start, bore up bravely under the tedium of the long 500-rnile grind and went home satisfied at a not very spectacular finish. t Excitement was never intense at

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1923

Street Is Torn Up More Than Year While Litigation Hinders Improvement

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For almost a year residents of King Ave., north of Tenth St., have nanugeci to urge flivvers through a nuddy. torn-up street as Curt Thomis. 251f, W. Tenth St., is shown doing ibove. They are still wondering how much longer they must wait before they can drive over an honest-to-goodness pavement. More than a year ago they petitloned the city for street Improvement. Preliminary; plans were sub

$5,000,000 IN DAY! Indianapolis is almost $">,000,000 richer by reason of liio Speedway race, it was estimated at the Chamber of Commerce today. Race visitors dropped approximately that amount in business channels here during the stay, with all lines of trade benefited, figures indicate, of the Speedway spectators 100,000 came from outside the city, it is estimated. The total expenditures include monef spent at the Speedway for general admissions, of which a large amount will be kept in the city to pay employes. Hotels, restaurants and automobile business obtained a large share. •

INQUEST STARTED IN SELF-POISONING CASE Motive Sought In Act of Mrs. Mary Harrell, May 19. Deputy Coroner Dr. W. A. Dei oppers, started an Inquest today to determine motive for the suicide of ' Mrs. Merv Harrell, 32, of 4917 Park Ave who died at St. Vincent's Hospital from poison taken May 19, at hi r homo. Mrs, Harrell was organist at the Ohio Theater for some time, and be came despondent when she was forced to give up her work- due to failure to recover after an operation in January, it was said. She is survived by her husband Max Harrell, ami her mother Mrs. ; •Margaret Gray, of Carmel. Funeral services will be held at the home of Mrs. R C. Arnold, 4119 I College Ave., at 2 p. m. Friday with I burial at. Crown Hill. EMSLEY JOHNSON NAMED < ommissioners Give Attorney Post (K-er Rurkelshaus. County commissioners today unanimously chose Emsley W. Johnson county attorney for the year beginning June 1. He succeeds John C. Ruckelhaus. Salary is $3&400. Both are Republicans. Commissioners Harry D. Tutewiler and Albert Hoffman are understood to have favored retention of Ruckelsbans, but John Kitley, Democratic member, who favored Johnson, prevailed. Tutewiler’s term ends Dec. 31, and it is understood the two Republicans I let Kitley have h!s way^since advent ! of another Democratic member would practically give-him control next year. SUICIDE MOTIVE SOUGHT Police Believe Domestic Troubles Caused Ruby McCord to End Life. Domestic troubles caused the suicide of Mrs. Ruby McCord, 25, of 1739 E. Thirtieth St., today. Deputy Coroner William A. Deoppers, is investigating. Mrs. McCord was taken to tho city hospital Wednesday night in a critical condition. She died early today.

any stage of the race. When the announcer in our section told us that so and-so had pulled out of the race because he had broken a connecting rod, a man behind me sighed and said: “Why couldn't he have broken his hack? Are.if't they going to give us something for our money?" Os course, for a while Jimmy Murphy and Tommy Milton, being good showmen, competed quite noticeably while passing the grand stand, but that excitement gradually died away after Jimmy made his first visit to the pits. After that it was just a case of waiting to see that burglar, Tommy Milton, skim the cream. I got a real thrill out of a French prince. To me he was just No.

mitted by the city engineer for a pave merit of asphaltic concrete. Thinking this sort of material too expensive, a number of residents signed a remonstrance. They favored two-course .concrete. But only fiftytwo signed the petition. It was necessary to have fifty-four. Hearings on the remonstrance were postpined several times. The city let the contract for asphalt to th'- Marion County Constru:tion Compare The street was torn up last summer. Work started

CHINESE BANDITS WAIVE RANSOM Release of Captives Expected Today, Advices Say, Bu United Prctt PEKING. May 31. —All remaining bandit captives In tne Chinese camp may be release,! today. This was the indication contained In advices, from the interior, where J. B. Powell, newspaper man. and Roy Anderson, government confidante, are concluding negotiations with the out law chiefs. Maj. Robert A. Allen, American army offider, and W. Smith. English man, already have been freed. The brigands, it is said, have decided to let the foreigners go without ransom, although they expect to hold Chinese prisoners, for whose release they are demanding heavy payments. Major Allen is attached to the army j medical corps at Manila and was on', vacation leave when captured by the bandits several weeks ago. ALIMONY OF $5,000 ASKED Mrs. Alberta L. Carter Files Suit for Divorce. A divorce, alimony of $5,000 and , restoration of her maiden name of! Stella M. Nicholson are asked in a suit filed today in Superior Court by Mrs. Stella M. Carter. 22 of 920 Broadway, against Albert L. Carter. 1222 Bellefontaine St., a solicitor for the Thomas Cusack Company. Mrs. Carter alleges that her husband used physical violence on her. quarreled, and failed to support her. tin one occasion he expelled her from tho house and locked the door, she charges. Short Is Exchange Treasurer Eugene Short has been elected treasurer of the Exchange Club to succeed Brandt C. Downey. Representatives of several new business houses will be entertained by the club at the weekly luncheon Friday at the Lincoln,

19. He drove a Bugatti, or words to that effect, and from the start it was evident that he was not the proprietor of great expectations. He drifted casually by, -doing as much as sixty miles an hour; when he was many laps behind the winner he was,- apparently, as cool as when he started. I suppose that, being of noble birth, he could not descend to disturbing his dignity by undue haste. Didn't wait to see him finish, hut I am positive he did stay and finish it. He was. doubtless, contending for the championship of France. Charley Schwab was there, but his company had no car in the race. Harry Stutz appeared, dressed in white linen was almost mistaken for a Motion picture

Entered as Second-class Matter at Postoffiee, Indianapolis Published Daily Except Sunday.

Immediately some residents filed an injunction suit. Work was halted. The case was set for hearing June 7 before Superior Judge Janies A. Leathers. According to City Attorney James Ogden, the city has not asked for 9 continuance of the case. Ogden says that, although about fifty signed the petition for an injunction, he understood practically all residents oi tin street are willing to let the city go atvad with the work.

DEMOCRATS WASH HANDS DF SMITH DRY LAWAGTION National Organization Wiil 'Stand Aloof From Both Party Factions. By LAWRENCE MARTIN (Copyright. 1923. by United Press.) WASHINGTON, May 31— The Democratic national organizatfbn, like, Pilate, will wash its hand.-- and declare itself innocent of any part in the death of the State prohibition enforcement in New York, if Governor Smith signs the repealer of the State code. Standing aloof wet and i dry factions in the party th na- j tional organization will seek to pre- | vent a break over Smith's action, ‘whatever he does. Let every State decide for itself about prohibition enforcement as a State issue; let ail men obey the law as it stands, so long as it stands, as a national proposition That is the position now Democratic leaders in- : tend to take. If Smith sides with the wets, he j and Governor Sulzer of New Jersey j will at once be hailed as the leaders of the “wet Democrats." GIRL'S WANDERING REMAINS MYSTERY Found in Nightgown on Street, at 2:15 a. m. Although her identity had been established. police this afternoon still were trying to find out how a pretty young woman came to be wandering In Noble St. clad only in a tom nightgown at 2:15 a. m. today. After repeated knocks on his door, W. P. Henderson. 416 S. Noble St., found the girl on bis front porch step. Police sent her to the city hospital. After she had given two different names and asked that three persons living on the south side"be notified, a woman giving the name of Ora Troutman. 1411 Nordyke Ave.. went to the hospital and said the girl was Blanche Stoutman, 22. According to nurses, the girl said she had been in an automobile with several friends and did not remember anything until ’she awakened in the hospital. Police investigated on the theory the girl had drank poisoned liquor.

director. Although the day was quite warm, only nine men. including myself, wore white pants. And I spilled punk lemonade on mine. The citizens of Indianapolis, however, appeared to find the weather quite cool. Many of them wore sweaters and fur-lined garments, and manifested considerable interest in No. 23, which I was informed by an expert was distantly related to Henry Ford. In fact, it most genuine car in the race, being unable to conceal its lowly ancestry. It did about eighty-five miles an hour, honestly and consistently and helped materially to spread still further the epidemic of alleged automobiles that may yet boost Henry into the White House. 2 thought at first this car might be a Ford with

SMOKE FOES CALL MEETING TO MAP WAR Public to Get Chance to Consider Ordinance Which Chamber of Commerce and Scientech Club Are Sponsoring—Consider Time Opportune. NEW MEASURE IN EFFECT BY FALL, IS SNETHEN HOPE Theodore Weinshank Has'Written Bill After Investigating Provisions in Thirty Large Cities —Would Require Boilers to Conform or Be Closed. War on smoke in Indianapolis tvill be re-opened in earnest within the next two weeks, Edward 0. Snethen, president of the Federation <>f Community Civic Clubs, declared today. A public mass meeting will be held, probably in Tomlinson Hail, at which citizens will be given opportunity to consider the proposed smoke abatement ordinance which the Chamber of Commerce smoke abatement committee and the Scientech Club are preparing.

Snethen said he thought it opportune to re-op <n the smoke fight now. so an ordinance with teeth in it might ne in force by the time furnaces are started in the fall Theodore Weinshank of the Americuu Society of Engineers and Scienteck Club has prepared the ordinance. It will be presented to the Chamber of Commerce committee Monday. Weinshank investigated smoke ordinances now effective in thirty large ities, including Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville an*l St. Louis. His ordi >ance provides that all boilers for heating and power which produce smoke must be inspected by the city building inspector before operation. If not in accordance with the ordinance they would be ordered removed. SPEED RING SLEEPS AFIER HARD RAGE Long Grind Wears Heavily on Milton. Tommy Milton, new speed king, was sleeping today while the rest of the world returned to its pace. Milton said drowsily at 9 a. m.: "I haven't had enough sleep for two weeks and I'm trying to catch up a little. It's no telling when I'll get up.” Some of Tommy's speed colleagues at the Lincoln, where he is staying, said the grind wore heavily on him and that the combined ordeal of the race and the days of preliminary training had telling effect. Tommy's complexion is fair and does not weather the heat and grime of a race as well as that of some of the darker complexioned speed boys. His hamti still are bandaged. They blistered an the heat of Wednesday's battle. JAIL BIRDS PROMISED DIET OF HONEY DAILY \\ asliinglon Sheri/T Captures Swarm of Bees. Bu Tim's Special WASHINGTON, Ind.. May Sl.—lndications are inmates of the Washington jail will be treated to honey these times daily this winter. A throng gathered around the jail yard to watch Deputy Sheriff Ol Meyers j and a boy, Harry Bray, corrall a swarm of bees that-lighted on a tree in the yard. A hive was secured. The boy j climbed the tree and sawed off the limb on which the bees lit. Witnesses stayed at a safe distance. Yets to Report Friday Chairman of committees of the Rainbow .Veterans' Association, Marion County chapter, will report on preparations for the national Rain- | bow Division convention, in Superior Court Room 3, Friday at 7:30 p. m. Bond Issue Approved The State tax board approved a $25,000 bond issue for construction of the Monticelle Water Works plant. Hearing on the petition was held at Monticello May 18.

Harry Miller glands, but it seems Henry still rolls his own. I was interested to learn that while all of the cars entered appeared under different chaperons, in reality the majority of them were built by one Miller of Los Angeles. It appears that when real racing motors are desired the speed maniacs go out to Los Angeles to get them built. This. I know, will be taken by the captious and critical as a boost for my native State, but it was the gossip of the track and I repeat it for what it may be worth. Uncounted tons of hot dogs, dill pickles, lemonade and other nightmare producing nutriment was consumed by the youth of the and I predict considerable profiteering in the castor oil market be-

Forecast Gi ENERALLY fair weather f tonight and Friday. Little change in temperature.

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REPUBLICANS GIVE IMPORTANT POST ID MRS. BUCKLIN Brazil Woman Named Vice Chairman to Succeed Mrs, Barr, Mrs. Edna Her.- Bucklin, of Brazil, was elected vice chairman of the Republican State committee today to I succeed Mrs. Daisy Douglas Barr, of I Indianapolis, who resigned recently. Mrs. Bucklin was chosen un- | animpusly by the women district rice j chairmen and the selection was ! ratified by the State committee, which I met at the Seveirn simultaneously with the women’s cor mittee. Mrs. Bucklin is vice chairman of the Fifth district. She was county chairman in 1920. Mrs. P L. Beck of Elkhart presided at the meeting of women. Mrs. Bucklin was nominated by Mrs. Arthur H. Hopkins of Rensselaer. The State ccmmittee has two women vice chairmen. The other is Mrs. Etelka J. Rockenbach. Efforts are being made by the Re- ; publican organization to straighten out differences among women members. There, has been some difficulty since the “fifty-fifty" bill, which would have given women a vote in party affairs, was killed by parliamentary maniplation in the last Legislature. Clyde A. Walb of La Grange, new State chpirman, presided over the State committee for the first time. WOMAN RENTER VICTOR Charge of Malicious Trespass Is Dismissed. A charge of malicious trispass brought against Maryland S.Kraus. 3250 N. Capitol Ave., by the Indianapolis Fancy Grocery Company was dismissed in Criminal Court today by Special Judge Frank S. Roby after the State presented its evidence. The company, which rented the woman a storeroom at Thirty-Third St. and Capitol Ave.. wanted possession, evidence showed. A “Little' Mother's Club" for small girls was operated in the place by the defendant, It was said. She showed a valid lease. Shrlnors Hit Trail After passing Wednesday at the Speedway race. 160 Sbriners from temples from as far West as California, “hit th trail” for Washingtor. D. C., today. The annual Imperial council will be held June 4-7. Motor Company Incorporates The Brady Motor Company of Lafayette today filed articles of incorporation. The capital stock Is sl*r 000. Incorporators: Joseph B. Bradff, Mary E. Brady, Dora C. Brady and Kathleen Kohl.

fore the memory of this race will have been obliterated from our family life. While at the Speedway I made the acquaintance of the Indiana sandwich. It is edible. Not much on technique, but designed to take up space and furnish sustenance. The crust is left on the bread and they cut the bread in half-inch slices. If you dislocate your jaw while crowding the apex of an Indiana sandwich into your face the directors of the Speedway Association disclaim responsibility. In conclusion. I rise to ask: Why do people go to see automobile races and take an interest In racing automobiles when all over this great free land of ours they put one in jail for doing mor* than thirty? I ask to lnqulrw. *