Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 22

Miners, Safe After 80 Hours in Cave-in, Spur Rescuers by Making Bets

By United Press * BICKNELL, Ind., June 6.—Jim Bertillo, Joe Bernardi and Frank Maberto went to sleep for twenty-four hours today, under doctors’ orders. They were rescued late last night after being entombed for eighty hours in the caved-in New mine near here. More than 2,500 persons waited at the shaft for the rescue. Jack Ogilvie, head of the rescue crew, had promised that at any time after 4 p. m. the men would be reached. Sigh followed sigh as hour followed hour and the cage brought up only heavy timbers and yellow clay. The blow of each hammer driving nails into the cage was heard by every one, so intense was the silence. “I’ll get them out tonight, sure!” Ogilvie promised. At 10 o’clock he kept, his promise.

HATCH WILL > QUIT IF PAY IS BED Sunnyside Head Not to Ac- ‘ cept Reduction More Protests Received,

This Is Your Business Public health, “economy,” politics or what? The question of cutting the salary of Dr. H. S. Hatch, superintendent of the county home for tubercular patients, is the business of every taxpayer, every citizen, everybody interested in public welfare. Managers of Sunnyside will meet Saturday with county commissioners, who have ordered Dr. Hatch’s salary reduced. If you believe the commissioners should keep “HANDS OFF” the institution, tell them so.

If the salary of Dr. H. S. Hatch, superintendent of Sunnyside, county tuberculosis home, is cut from $350 a month to $250, as ordered by county commissioners. his resignation will follow, he said today. “When a man is getting only $4,200 a year for managing an institution like this and his salary is cut to $3,000, there can be no alternative but to quit, as I see it,” he asserted. Protests continue to pour in to commissioners against their action taken last week “in the interests of economy.” Directors of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, at their moVithlv meeting Thursday in the Spink-Arms, are expected to pass a resolution denouncing the action and upholding the superintendent, Mary A. Meyers, executive secretary, announces. "Dr. Hatch has done wonderful work,” she said today. “Good sanatorium men are exceedingly scarce.” ft The board of managers of Sunyside, w hich is supposed to have direct control of expenditure of the Sunnyside budget, will meet with the county commissioners and Dr. Hatch Saturday. The commissioners, who postponed final action on the salary cut, deny all charges of “politics.” Paul Coble post No. 26 of the American Legion, composed of doctors and surgeons, has sent a letter protesting against the action of the commissioners. COURT VINDICATES city mim Heydon Buchanan Is Discharged on Two Counts. City Councilman Heydon W. Buchanan today was cleared of charges of drunkenness and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, brought by Patrolman McDaniel. City Judge Pro Tern. George G. Rinler held there was not sufficient evidence to support the charges. Buchanan testified he had been ill. He was arrested Saturday night in Blaine Ave. Cult Probe Resumed By United Xews ST. JOSEPH. Mich.. June 6.—The "one man” grand jury, probing alleged immoral conditions in the House cf David, has resumed its investigation. after an eleven-day recess. HOURLY TEMPERATURE ta. m 68 10 a 7S 7 a. m 7111 a. m 81 8 a. m 73 12 (noon) 82 9 a. m 75 1 p. m 82

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Restaurant Owner Who Has Vanished RICHARD STEGEMEIER. CHINESE BANDITS TAKE AGGRESSIVE ON KOREANBORDER Success of Shantung Brigands Spurs Others —Six Soldiers Killed, By United Press PEKIN, June 6.—Chinese bandits have assumed aggressive operations on the Korean border. Brigands and troops met in battle at Ershitataoku. Six soldiers were killed, and a score kidnaped. After dispersing the troops, the outlaws kidnaped thirty laborers at work under protection of the soldiers. The j rest of the laborers escaped to other I towns along the border. The object of the bandits, who recently kidnaped many foreigners, including Americans, was to force the government to reinstate them in the army. The success of the Shantung bandits who seized Americans probably has encouraged others. Bandits Sought Detectives are searching for two colored men who held up and robbed U. T. Featherstone, New Delaware Hotel, 51T N. Delaware St. The men took $5 from -Featherstone, and then got into an automobile at Delaware and Vermont Sts.

THEY LEAPED LIKE GRAY DEMONS-

Maberto, eldest of the three, <|ame up in the bucket first. He was wrapped in blankets and supported by rescuers. The crowd, urged by a constable to be quiet, was as silent as if in prayer. But when the other two men came into sight, joy reigned. “Hello, Jim!” and “Hello, Joe,” was shouted in unison. The three men were hurried into a waiting machine and taken home. As the car went down the street. Bertillo’s wife leaned out of the car. “Hello! Hello!” she called to her neighbors. Jim’s home! Jim’s here!” Neighbors surged from their homes. They followed the blanketed figures into the house. When the men were seated in chairs, the blankets were taken from their heads. Relatives

bodv no Its FILS AT MARA Relative of Miss Sadie McGroarty Will Attempt Identification, A body believed to be that of Mias Sadie McGroarty, 36, secretary of the Indianapolis park board, who disappeared from a Buffalo hotel May 6, has been found below Niagara Falls, relatives of Miss McGroarty learned today. Hubert S. Riley, 2365 N. Delaware St., brother-in-law of the missing woman. will go to Buffalo tonight to attempt to Identify the body. Buffalo police said ih ?re were no identification marks on the body. Miiss McGroarty lived with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius McGroarty, 630 S. Meridian St. She left home just before her disappearance, saying she intended to visit relatives at Danville, 111. A few days later relatives received a telegram from Buffalo saying she was coming home. When she did not appear Riley went to Buffalo and remalnoi several days. Miss McGroarty’s valise was found in her hotel ropm Miss McGroarty was ill at the time of her disappearance. CITY WILL CARRY OUT FIRE PREVENTION IDEAS Agents of Underwriters to Make Hecoru mend at i ons. As soon as representatives of the national board of fire underwriters, who are making an inspection of the city fire department to determine what Is necessary to obtain lower fire insurance rates for Indianapolis, re port their recommendations will be met as far as practical, Fire Chief John J. O'Brien said today. Representatives of the board will report to Thomas S. McMurray Jr., State insurance commissioner, who will make the recommendations to Chief O’Brien. RAID ARRESTS EXPECTED Sheriff Snider Will Follow Cases of ; Persons Found at Resort. Several arrests following a raid on I William Sullivan’s place on the river! north of the city Saturday night will ! be made as soon as Sheriff George Snider returns from a trial at Franklin. The raid was made by the sheriff and a squad in search of liquor. When the back door was broken men and women guests stampeded through the front door, Snider said. Several shots ' were fired in the air. Four cases of “Chicago beer" were seized.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1923

‘Hello Boys, Will Be With You Soon’

While rescuing parties worked franticayy to free the three miners entombed In the New Mine near Bicknell. Ind., friends, relatives and their miner buddies shouted en-

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and friends threw their arms around them and kissed them. The men smiled. “Hello! Hello!” they said. But the torture of a hundred years was in their eyes and their faces. “I feel fine,” Maberto said. “I get cold in the mine, I tell them through the pipe. They send me hot soup and I sleep against our pony. lie keep me warm.” The men fed the pony hot soup and gin, too, they said, and Maberto insisted that it liked both. The miners were near the shaft when the rope broke and the cage, full of coal, went (trashing to the bottom, causing the cave-in. They began to try to dig themselves out. For about five hours they dug. reaching a height of ten feet. Then they heard the noise of the drill. They went to the place where a

couragement through a two-inch pipe drilled down to them. Hot foods, stimulants and fresh air were supplied the men through the pipe.

Only Slight Changes in Food as Summer Weather Arrives. Summer heat has brought down prices of some food products, but most of them remain ,M the usual level, survey at the city market shows. Lard is retailing at 15 and 16 cents a pound with a price as low as 12% cents a pound in some stores. A year ago, when hogs were selling at $10.50 a hundred pounds tho price was about the same. In 1920, however, when pork sold at sl6 “on the hoof,” lard sold at 25 cents a pound.' Pork chops retail from 20 cents to 26 cents, somewhat lower than a year ago. Retail beef prices are slightly higher. Sugar prices remain steady at 10 cents, and 10% cents, slightly under th price charged before the boycott. Strawberries on the city market have dropped to 15 cents a quart. Home-grown berries are arriving. Lemons, which usually go up at this time of th? year because of Increased demand, are steady to a little lower. They can be bought on the market as low as 20 cents a dozen. Increased supply is responsible. New potatoes appear to be plentiful at prices ranging from 4 1-3 cents a pound to 6V* cents, according to quality. The first sweet corn has appeared, but was rapidly sold out, mostly to restaurants, at $1.20 a dozen. Watermelons also made a brief appearance at extremely high prices. Apples are nearly off the market, the new supply not yet having arrived. SCORES DIE IN CLASH OF MOORS AND SPANIARDS By United Press MADRID, June 6. —Forty-five Spaniards were killed and 110 wounded in a battle with Moors in northern Morrocco. Many hundreds of Moors were slain. A Spanish column of 10,000, including three air squadrons was advancing near Tiazzia yesterday morning when a tacked by 7,000 Moors.

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The above picture shows one of the rescuers yelling down to pals under ground. The men were taken out of the mine last night after eighty hours under ground.

WATSON IRONS OUT WORLD COORI SPLIT Hoosier Senator Has Conference With President. By United Press WASHINGTON. June 6.—Danger of a serious split in tho Republican party over the world court is gone. Senator Watson of Indiana said today after a conference with President Ilarding. “There will be a reservation making it clear the court will not take us into the League of Nations,” said Watson. "Neither President Harding nor the Senate want to enter the league." Watsdn predicted the court proposal would be approved at the coming session of the Senate. ‘JUST WEAR SOMETHING,’ CHICAGO BATHING EDICT One-Piece Suits Are Cut to Irreducible Minimum on Beaches. CHICAGO, June 6. —In Chicago, where the end of every East-West street is a beach, the authorities have realized the futility of trying to enforce an antique bathing suit ordinance. The one-piece suit Is still the vogue, but it’s an appallingly small piece. The irreducible minimum is being featured heavily. “Just wear something,” Walter C. Wright, beach censor, told the girls a few days ago, "and leave something to the imagination.” Thief Takes Trousers Miley Young, colored, living at the Hudson House, told police today a thief stole his trousers. James Burt, colored, living at that hotel, saw a colored man reach through a hole into the closet of Burt’s-room.

two-inch pipe was inserted by rescuers. They took the pony with them. It was this pipe which supplied air, food, water and cheerful messages. Ordered to stop digging, the imprisoned men spent their time in feeding the pony, sleeping in turn, eating and holding conversations with their friends through the tube. They joked and made bets with the men above as to how soon they would be rescued. They talked to th 6 pony all the time. “They get him out tomorrow when the hole is big enough,” Maberto said. * “That pony sure is a good horse!” Bertillo and Bernardi agreed. The rescuers promised that the pony would be gotten out of the shaft today.

POLICE BEGIN SEARCH FOR STEGEMEIER Restaurant Owner, Who Vanished Late Tuesday, Had Made No Plans for Trip, Detectives Are Informed — Son Tells of Father’s Illness, Richard Stegemeier, 47, one of the most widely known business men of Indianapolis, is missing from his home, 1626 Pleasant St. He left the restaurant he operates with his brother, Henry, at 17 N. Illinois St., at 4 p. m. Tuesday, to go to a physician’s office, lie did not reach there. A physician wds summoned to the Stegemeier home to care for Mrs. Stegemeier, reported to be highly alarmed. It was said at the home that no motive for the disappearance was known. Stegemeier had made no plans for a trip, police were informed.

Richard Stegemeier Jr., a son, said his father had been slightly ill for four days. The missing man has thousands of acquaintances. “I don't think he has an enemy In the world.” said his son, associated with him in the business. Richard and Henry Stegemeier. located at 17 N. Illinois St. in a saloon and restaurant business in 1592, Henry taking care of the bar. In lpio Henry became ill and took a trip to Europe Richard bought our hit interest except half of the building. The brothers also have a restaurant in the Occidental building. The missing man is widely associated in business enterprises and is an active member of the Zion Evangelical Church. "I am positive he will return after recovering from a mental laps* that I feel has affected him,’’ the son said. Description of Stegemeier was read at police roll calls. No detectives were assigned to search for him. it was said. PEORIA (ILL.) MAN WINS OUTERGUARD 111 MYSTIC Sill Kansas City Ge:S Next Convention —Dikman Is Imperial Potentate, By United Press WASHINGTON. June 6.—Clifford Ireland. Peoria. 111., today was elected imperial outer guard in the Imperial Divan of the Mystic Shrine. Ireland won the place over three other candidates. His election means that in eight years he will become imperial potentate of the order by succession. Conrad C. Dikeman, Brooklyn. N. Y., today became imperial potentate, succeeding James S. McCandless of Honolulu. Kansas City today won the 1924 Shrine convention. It will meet there June 3. 4 and 5 next year. The sweltering heat, which caused more than 100 prostrations yesterday disappeared overnight. Clad in dazzling costumes that would give a chamelon nervous prostration, the nobles vied in an effort to “out-stunt’’ the other.

LABOR FAY BOOS! BEFORE CITY DADS Increase of 10 Per Cent Will Be Up to Council Tonight. Wages of city laborers would be increased by an ordinance prepared on orders of City Controller Joseph L. Hogue for Introduction at a special meeting of the city council tonight. Following a series of conferences between city officials and a council committee, an ordinance was prepared readjusting the entire city employe wage scale, making a total increase a* approximately $90,000. This ordinance was given to Councilman Walter W. Wise, but was not introduced. According to Hogue, only the second ordinance -will be acted upon. It gives laborer* an Increase of about lu Decent in all departments.

Forecast *• UNSETTLED tonight and Thursday. Probably thunder showers. Not much change.

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CITY SAYS HELLO 10 SOMMER WITH ‘COLD’ MEMORIES Reporter Gives Several Suggestions to Help You Forget Climbing Mercury, By FELIX F. BRUNER Tom Sims says: "When you begin wishing it were winter, summer has come." Now. honest to goodness, haven’t you been kicking about the weather? And don’t you think it takes a lot of nerve to do it? Less than a month ago you were kicking as hard as you are now, maybe harder. It was snowing, a real blizzard. Why, the kids even got out and threw snowballs at one another. That was on May 9, just twenty-eight days ago. Mercury Climbs You said you’d be blamed If you would stay in such a place any longer. Snowing in summer! The very idea! And now you would rather like to see snow again, wouldn't you? The maximum temperature that beautiful May day was 41 degrees and for a while the mercury registered as low as 31 degrees. Today the mercury started at 68 and rapidly climbed up into the eighties. The weather man. J. H. Armington, said no lower temperature is in sight. Not Like California Twenty-eight days ago the rose bushes were covered with snow. Today they are covered with Gowers. Everybody thought the peach crop was ruined, and now homegrown strawberries are on the market. It's some climate, isn’t it? In California the people talk about going from roses to snow in a short time. But they have to climb mountains to do it. In Indiana we go from snow to roses in a few days and energy is necessary. How to Keep Cool It isn't so hard to keep cool as you might think. Just look at that girl going down the street in furs and think how much cooler you are than she must be. Think how long it win be before you have to buy anew overcoat or rescue the old one from the moths. Then remember it isn’t nearly so hot as it seems. It’s merely the humidity that makes you imagine it is hot. Wasted Energy. Remember the couple of lumps of coal still remaining in your bin and how you worried because you were afraid it wouldn’t hold out. Ice costs less than coal, even if the price has gone up, and you don’t have to shovel it into the ice box. If you are fat, the heat is likely to cause you to become thinner. If you are thin, think how much hotter a fat man must be. And when winter comes again, don’t waist so much energy wishing it were summer. Robl*ers Take Watch Frederick Bennett, 3575 Evergreen Ave., today told detectives hi 6 son, Leonard, was robbed of & $5 watch " by two young men who seized him as he was passing under the Monon Railroad elevation at Fall Creek Blvd.