Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1923 — Page 2

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WARDING WORLD COURT IDEA WINS INDORSEMENT IN UTAH

DRY LEADERS ASK FOR USE OF ARMYAND NAVY ‘War Council' Wants ThreeMile Limit Increased to Twelve. t By EARL J. JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent WESTERVILLLE, Ohio, June 27. —Demands that President Harding wield the full force of the Army , and Navy against liquor law violators were made in resolutions placed before the $2,000,000 war council of national dry leaders today. Other resolutions called on the Federal Government to extend America's territorial waters twelve miles from shore to combat rum running on the Atlantic coast. . Administration Hall, on the sleepy campus of Otterbein College became the dry eapitol of the United States as fifty high officials of the AntiEaloon League resumed discussions preliminary to their renewed fight to “dry up” the country. Wheeler’s Version The league’s general counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, presented historical evidence intended to show the three-mile limit is out of date. His version is that the imaginary line three miles from shore was drawn in the eighteenth century on the basis of the distance a coast defense cannon of that day would shoot. Every dollar of the league’s annual income of approximately $2,000,000 will be thrown into the war on State prohibition repealers, P. A. Baker, general superintendent, declared. “Prohibition today is purely theoretical,” said Baker. "Our campaign is to make it a reality. “It may be 1980 before America-4s strictly dry, but we are prepared to hold out as long as there is opposition.” Canadian Drys Scored Baker scored Canadian drys for “permitting Manitoba to vote wet in the last election in Ontario.” The Dominion campaigners, he said, made a big mistake when they did not force the adoption of an interstate shipment law as a first step toward prohibition. The league’s slogan for the present Is "Dry up America First.” After that, instead of turning over its huge reform machine to other crusaders, the league intends to carry its dry fight abroad.

MERCHANTS NAME SIX DIRECTORS AT ANNUALMEETING Banker Gives Address to Dry Goods Dealers of State. Six new directors were elected by the Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association today at Its annual convention at the Lincoln. They are Ben Alien, Washington; E. & Kinnear, Marion; W. F. Senger, Peru; L. C. Stiefel, Angola; Dan Niblick, Decatur, and Lee B. Nusbaum, Richmond. Eugene W. Short, assistant treasurer of the Bankers Trust Company, addressed the convention on “Imagination in Business.” Love of the artistic and care of the future is a selling point for both dry goods dealers and bankers, he said. A. R. Kroh, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, spoke on "The Basis of American Prosperity.” The day’s program included addresses by R. G. Guild of L. S. Ayres & Cos., on “Research Work in Retail Stores and Its Value,” and W. R. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, on “The Relation of the Farmer and the Merchant.” DEATH SUMMONS ARTHURLAWRENCE Former Local Man Will Be Buried Here. Marion Camp, Modern Woodmen of America, will have charge of the funeral of Arthur Lawrence, 60, at the Wald funeral parlors, 1222 Union St. Mr. Lawrence died at his home in Terre Haute Tuesday, following an illness of more than a year. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mr. Lawrence was born in Indianapolis May 21. 1863. He was a salesman for baking and meat concerns. About six years ago he went to Terre Haute to live and engaged in the meat business, supplying retail grocers there. Mr. Lawrence’s body arrived in Indianapolls at noon today, with his widow, Mrs. Emma Lawrence. Two brothers. Will and Charles Lawrence, both'of Indianapolis, survive.

HERE’S A PICTURE OF THE BROOKLYN ELEVATED CRASH. * EIGHT PERSONS, SEVEN WOMEN AND A MAN, WERE KILLED AND MORE THAN SEVENTY INJURED WHEN THIS BAY RIDGE TRAIN OF TWO CARS LEAPED THE TRACK ON A CURVE ABOVE FOURTH AND ATLANTIC AVES. AND HURTLED TO THE STREET BELOW. TWO PASSING AUTOMOBILES WERE BURIED UNDER THE CARS. THE WRECK OCCURRED EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON WHILE TRAINS AND THOROUGHFARES WERE CROWDED WITH SHOPPERS.

Boy Kills His Brother; Falsely Accuses Father

By United Press CHICAGO, June 27. Joseph Geralka, 12, confessed, police said today, he accidentally killed his brother, John, 3, and then “made up” a story that caused police to arrest the boy’s father.. John was shot while the boys were playing on a bed. The parents were away. Joseph summoned police and told them a man “with a red handkerchief over his face” shot the child. This descrip-

FARM HAND SEEN AS HINDRANCE i County Agricultural Agent Scoffs at Proposal That Busi- ; . ness Men Harvest Crops,

County r Agricultural Agent Royal McClain was skeptical today about' City Controller Joseph L. Hogue’s plea that business men stop playing golf in the afternoon and help farmers save crops. It had been suggested that McClain help organize the business men into groups and parcel 'them to the farmers. “The farmers probably would put me out of office if I sent golfers to them,” McClain' declared. “What they want is wheat shockers, not golf players. # They want experienced men. The average golf player is not in condition to do such work and most of them wouldn’t follow orders-

HOOSIER BRIEFS

W. H. Hart, *2, figures a 39-year-old wife is a luxury. Suelng for divorce, he asserted she cost him $2,500 in two years merely for whimsies. Di_vorce granted. r . Naomi Sprong and Lelah Cooper, Columbus school girls, were winners in the W. C. T. U. essay contestForrest Coats, Connersville, dreamed he was being chased by police. When he awoke he found himself in the front yard with a fractured hip bone from a fall out of the second story of his home. , Mabel Clark, wife of a Madison county farmer, does housework, milks, feeds chickens, washes, mends, sews, cultivates a garden, cares for five children and keeps expenses below $5 a week. Hubby sued for divorce on charge she was Indolent, according to court records. Members of the Tippecanoe county branch of the Mountain Detective Association were appointed special constables. The Lebanon kindergarten opened with an enrollment of thirty. It cost Logansport $48.34 for each child in school last year, according to D. W. Horton, superintendent. Corrections by affidavits were made in records of the births of two World War Veterans at Logansport- Birth records listed them as girls. Judd Vanator, 21, was arrested at Warsaw on charge of being a deserter from the Great Lakes Naval Station, Chicago. Organization of a tennis tournament and a baseball team to represent Winona Lake has been undertaken by Harvye Slutz, new athletic director. A community sing was held on the campus of Franklin College. Townspeople and students participated. The corner stone of the La Porte High School building was laid under auspices of the Masonic fraternities of the city. A large snake took possession of a car driven by N. R. Davison, Corydon. He kept the owner away until he was injured and dragged out. The first home-grown peaches have appeared on the Mt. Vernon market. A skeleton was unearthed by workmen "at the Henry Rex gavel pit,

Off the Bridge of Death

tion tallied with that of clothing worn by the father. A red handkerchief was found in the latter’s pocket.Joseph stuck to his story for several hours before admitting the shooting occurred while he was playing with a gun. The father was released and Joseph, along with another brother, Frank, 8, who substantiated the “masked man” story, were sent to a juvenile home.

;> “The farmers want men wo will spend the whole harvest season with them, not free help, inexperienced help, just for afternoons." McClain said he believed there would be no farm labor shortage in Marion county. He pointed out that sometimes one man with harvesting machinery can organize a group of farmers and take care of the harvesting situation Una whole community. Governor McCray's suggestion that in case of labor shortage on the farms, employes in the city recently coming from farms aid farmers during the harvest season, is more practical than that of Hogues', McClain said.

near Goshen- Investigation by the coroner showed It to have been buried many years. George H. James, near Brazil, received a large supply of baby bass from the conservation department, with which he stocked Raccoon Creek. BUSINESSBOOMING, SAYS GOVERNMENT May Production of Iron and Steel Is Expanded, By United Preen WASHINGTON, June 27.—“ Business is booming,” according to an official statement of the Federal Reserve Board today, summarizing conditions throughout the different Federal Reserve districts of the country for May and June. “Production of iron and steel, cement and petroleum was larger In May than In any previous month, and mill consumption of cotton was close to* maximum,” continued the board. There was a 2 per cent advance In May of production in basic industries. A further decline In prospective building was reported from principal cities. However, contract awards continued to increase generally, though declines occurred In the New York and Chicago districts, where operations were held up becauto of wage demands. LIONS HEAR LOCAL MEN Albert Stump and Alvin Owsley Speak at Lodge Convention. Albert Stump, Indianapolis attorney, and Alvin Owsley, national commander of the American Legion, with headquarters here, were on today’s program for the seventh annual convention of the International Association of Lions Clubs at Atlantic City, according to a dispatch. A number of Indianapolis members an attending, among early arrivals being Mr. and Mrs. James G. Thomas, 2202 Central Avei Barometer rises higher at Irkutsk, Siberia., than anywhere else in the world. ' •

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HERE’S AN EXCLUSIVE PICTURE OF ASA G. CANDLER, MULTIMILLIONAIRE SOFT DRINK MAN UFACTURER OF ATLANTA, GA.. AND HIS BRIDE OF A FEW DAYS, PHOTOGRAPHED AT WASHINGTON, D. C., AS THEY STOPPED O N THEIR HONEYMOON. CANDLER IS 72. HIS BRIDE, WHO WAS MRS. MAY LITTLE RAGIN IS 35.

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Peter Hand Brewery at Chicago olosed temporarily by Government authorities following sedzure of truckloads of beer said to contain “kick.” Lawrence Tweedy Is new president of New York Consolidated Stock Exchange, reorganized to insure customers against losses. Secretary of Labor James L. Davis, fraternity director general of Loyal Order of Moose, scores public charity system and calls for reforms in care of dependants in annual report to lodge. Three liners saJI from New York with 3,500 heat-doging touristsBarriers on exportation of Canadian pulp wood will be lifted following action by House of Commons at Ottawa. After wondering forty-eigt hours in mountains near Santa Fe, N. M., Miss Minnie Austin, Kansas City, was found by posse. She had gone for a drive and her horse got away. Secretary of War Weeks is pushing plans for airplane flight around the world by army blrdmen. Declaring European labor unions are “surrendering to communism,’.’ American Federation announces policy of isolation from foreign trade movement. Fred ("Frenchy”) Mader, former president of the Chicago Building Trades Council, must servo a year In jail and pay, SI,OOO fine, Appellate Court rules. Mader was accused of hindering construction of the Drake Hotel at Chicago. Miss Adele Ash, stewardess on the steamer City of Honolulu, believed to have leaped overboard shortly before the lfrier reached Honolulu. She was a former Army nurse and was shellshocked. Ten I. W. W. war-time prisoners, whose sentences were conditionally commuted by President Harding, prefer to remain in Ft. Leavenworth Prison rather than accept terms of pardon. f Charles I. Dawson, former attorney general of Kentucky, nominated for Governorship at a party convention. Governor Edwin P. Morrow nominated [him.

President's Declaration That Plan Will Be Long Step Toward Prevention of War Is Cheered by Throng at Salt Lake City. X By LAWRENCE MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent NATIONAL PARK, Utah, June 27.—Speech-making was taboo for the President today, as he and Mrs. Harding took the opportunity to enjoy the wonders of nature in National Park. The presidential party motored from Cedar City to Zion Canyon. 'Some Salt Lake City folks misgivings lest the trip prove too much of a strain upon Mrs. Harding, but she insisted she was perfectly able to go.

Following a day of sightseeing, the presidential party will leave tonight for Idaho. Last night's meeting was turned into an unexpected and enthusiastic indorsement of the world court when Mr. Harding, after talking about taxation, reminded his audience that 85 cents of every tax dollar goes to pay for war expenditures, past or future. The President asserted that v/as why he was asking American adherence to the world court, declaring that it is a long step toward war prevention. The crowd broke into cheering and applause, giving a demonstration of enthusiasm thus far .unequalled on the trip. Mr. Harding said after the meeting it ’jjas a most heartening expression of popular feeling. The world must pay its debts and reduce its expenses, President Harding warned in his address on Tuesday night. He said no event since the

Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador to the United States, goes home for three months ’rest. Mark Kane, Terre Haute, Ind., suffers broken back when thrown from motorcycle at Vinton, lowa. George Maxwell, president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, enters not guilty plea to indictment in New York charging him with sending ‘‘poison pen” letters to promlnen; folk. Squadron of American battleships, headed by Dreadnaught Arkansas, is at Copenhagen for ten-day stay. WHITFIELD FLIGHT ENDS AT DETROIT Alleged Slayer of Officer Is Found in Lumber Yard, Bv United Treat DETROIT, Mich., June 27.—John L. Whitfield, wanted at Cleveland for the murder of Policeman Dennis Griffin, who was shot and burled in a ghallow grave, Was held hero today pending advices from Cleveland. Whitfield was captured last night by detectives armed with riot guns. He was working as foreman in a lumber yard. The capture ended a six weeks search. Whitfield was caught in Wisconsin several weeks ago, but escaped. Mario Price, 14, of Pt. Wayne, Ind., who was with him at that time, has been returned to her mother. Policeman Griffin was a brother of Michael Griffin, of 25 S. Arsenal Ave., Indianapolis. Whitfield had been arrested by the officer in connection with the theft of auto accessories. When searched at his Cleveland home he was-unarmed. He asked permission to step into the house to get some clothing. When he reappeared he was not searched. Whitfield promises to waive extradition, saying he will take his "chances in the Ohio courts."

armistice had done so much to restore world confidence and stabilization as the British debt funding agreement “This settlement of the British debt haa been acclaimed all over the world as one of the most notable and successful fiscal accomplishments ever recorded,the President said. “There had been too much talk of possible cancellations or repudiations of the war debt. Such a program would have wrecked the entire structure of business, faith of confidence in the obligations of governments throughout the worldI “There is but one way for a comj munity finally to get back on its feet, and that is to go seriously about paying its debts and reducing its expenses. That is what the world must face. The greatest and richest government must face it, and so n ust the humblest citizen.” Nothing About Reduction Although his subject was taxation and expenditure, the President carefully avoided discussing the question of reducing taxes. He cited many statistics showing that the per capita cost of the Federal Government in 1914 was $6.97, rose to $58.68 in 1920, and will be $26.29 this year. For those who complain of high income taxes, Harding said a man with a Mfife and two children, earning $5,000 a year, paid S6B income tax last year. Ir Canada he would have paid $156, in Germany $292, France $96 and Great Britain $320.76. The same man ea’/ning $13,000 would have paid $456 here and $1,128.32 in Great Britain. “I would not urge the stingy, skimpy, hoarding life of* individuals, or an inadequate program of government,” Hafding said, but he did insist upon the necessity of private and public thrift.

LEADER OP GRAIN DEALERS PRAISES 20 YEARS’ WORK Variety of Subjects Come Before Mid-Summer Convention, “The evils In the grain trade of twenty years ago are disappearing rapidly because of the activities of the grain association,” said Fred E. Watkins, president of the Grain Dealers National Association, today at the mid-summer meeting of the Indiana grain Dealers Association at the Board of Trade building. t "No longer is one dealer able to take an unfair advantage of another,” he said, The address of welcome was given by L. L. Fellows, president of the Board of Trade. E. K, Sowash, vice president of the association, responded. “The Practical Use of Screens by Country Dealers” was the subject of a discussion led by H. A. Rhodes, Federal supervisor of grain inspection, Indianapolis. Other speakers for today were John W. McCardle, chairman public service commission, on “How Transportation Matters Seem to Me;” Harry E. Van Deventer, Attica, Ind-, “Some Phases of the Country Grain Business;” J. A. Shields, Seymour, Ind., “Timely Topics;” H. E. Kinney of the Indianapolis Board of Trade, *How the Wheat Export and Domestic Market Situation Looks at This Time;” E. C. Dreyer, St. Louis, Mo„ "The Relations of the Feed Business to the Country' Elevator;” Dr. J. W. T. Duvel, Chicago, “Various Phases of the Grain Futures Act,” and George M. Williamson. Chicago, "Liabilities and Hazards Under the Compensation Law as Affecting Country Elevato.-s” A banquet will be held at the Lincoln tonight Eben H. Wolcott, first president of the association, will speak.

TROOPS RULE IN OKLAHOMA COUNTY Governor Charges Abuse of Power by Sheriff’s Men, By United Treat OKMULGEE, Okla.,' June 27. State troops assumed control of law enforcement in Okmulgee County today. Six National Guard units, two of which are Okmulgee companies, took charge of the county after Governor Jack Walton proclaimed a state of lawlessness and terror existed and declared martial law. The Governor declared Sheriff Russell had failed to enforce lew. He cited three instances of alleged abuse of official authority by the sheriff’s forced, including detention of a minister who came to Okmulgee in the Interests of a relief campaign; .the claim by two men that while riding on a public highway with two girls they were stopped by deputy sheriffs, insulted and subjected to abuse, and the shooting of a negjpo by a deputy, who was alleged to have fled at the approach of the officer. *

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MISS CECILLE ROBINSON By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., June 26.—Out of 286 students taking examinations s at Franklin College, in history, literature, mathematics and Psychology, Miss Cecille Robinson, Shelbyville, received the highest grades. Her average was 178 per cent. Miss Robinson has set an enviable record at the school. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Robinson, Shelbyville.

HOOSIERS ACTIVE AS U. S. REALTORS OPEN CONVENTION Tax Address of Will Hough Holds Interest —Local Men Arrive Early, By Times Special CLEVELAND, June 27. —Interest cf the National Association of Real Estate Boards in session here centered today on an address of Will A. Hough, of Greenfield, member of the Indiana tax board. Hough will tell realtors how Indiana curbs local expenditures of taxation by the taxboard. Realtors are devoting chief discussion to reduction of taxes. They are advocating taxing of “hidden wealth” as found in tax-exempt securities. Preliminary sessions and registration occupied the morning sessions today, as representatives poured into the city from every State. A dance in honor of early arrivals was given by the Cleveland real estate board at the auditorium. The Indianaoplis delegation of thirty realtors arriving in Cleveland at 8:15 (eastern time) Tuesday night formed the vanguard of visiting delegates. They immediately went to the Hotel Olmsted, headquarters of Hoosier delegates. Henley T. Hottel, executive secretary of the board, met the delegates, and attended to registration. Hottel, who arrived early, has prepared a book on real estate organizations, which is attracting unusual attention. Alberst Shaaf of Ft. Wayne, national vice president, is active in preliminary organization. Twenty of the local realtors were accompanied by their wives. Several made the trip by automobile.

CHINA’S FORBIDDEN CITY IS DESTROYED PEKING, June 27.—Fire swept through the “Forbidden City” today. The ancient imperial historical hall, containing ancestral relics . of all the emperors, was destroyed, together with dozens of small-d er buildings surrounding it. Wooden plaques, upon which were carved histories of dynasties stretching back into almost forgotten ages, were devoured by the flames and stories of many centuries before Christ were wiped out.

According to seemingly authentic reports, the fire was of incendiary origin. Servants are said to have sold valuable curios to American and British tourists and have set fire to the ancestral hall to escape detection. Little credit is attached to reports that the fire resulted from a plot to drive the emperor from Peking. The imperial palace w'as damaged, according to police, and the emperor's life was not threatened. The Forbidden City lies within closely guarded walls, and few foreigners have penetrated its mysteries, although in recent years Chinese authorities have looked upon the spot with less reverence than when a long line of emperors ruled with absolute authority. GET RICH QUICK! NIP German Postal Inspector Takes Funds From U. S. By United News MUNICH, June 27.—Chief Postal Inspector Pfaffinger grew rich overnight by the simple practice of opening registered letters from America, and stealing the dollars Americans were sending to erman relatives and friends. He lived high and entertained freely. Then he told people that the Virgin Mary had appeared to him in a vision and instructed him to do good. So he took some more dollars out of registered letters and built a church. Federal authorities investigated. He got! I. Six years’ imprisonment. 2- A 100,000 mark fin*. 3. Ten years' loss of citizenship.

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OWNER OF GHOST 1 AT SOUTH BEND BECOMESPACIFIED Citizens May Never Know Details of Noises, Apparitions and Spooks in Mystery, By United News SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 27.—The “ghost” at 21 S. Kaley St., South Bend, probably never will be brought to trial. Wolf as Tomaszewski, proprietor of the house and perhaps legally the owner of the “ghost,” has decided not to prosecute Francois Lesage, who claims to have been driven from the place by the alleged spook and whom Wolfas charged had slandered his property by telling the tale of the "eviction.” Lesage and his family came here recently and moved into the house. Lesage was awakened one night by the screams of his wife. She told him she had seen a ghost. Lesage gave her what is technically known as the ringing razzberry- I Mrs. Lesage’s claims, however,™ were soon confirmed. Two nights later two boarders on the first floor reported that their slumbers had been disturbed by noises. But Lesage remained unconvinced. He had to see it himself, and, he declares, he did! The “ghost” awakened him a few nights later. Without even bothering to bide awhile under the covers, Lesage grabbed his trousers and fled from the room. Gathering up a few belongings, the Lesage family and their boarders departed from that house forthwith, spending the rest of the night in a hotel. Police investigated and foun% some mounds under the house that looked like graves, but reported nothing smacking of the supernatural. Word came to Lesage that Thomaszewski was about to sue, and Lesage hurried to Attorney George Sands with another former tenant who had also run up against the “spook.” Sands has been consulting law books to determine whether the landlord would have to prove the place free from whosts or whether Lesage would have to prove the thing’s presence. Other lawyers declared the only logical thing to do would be to subpena the ghost and put It on the witness stand. Thomaszewski has now saved the St. Joseph county court a ticklish problem by announcing that he probably won’t sue. But Thomaszewski won’t tell the j reason for his change of mind. And! all South Bend is wondering. BIG PUBLIC MEET SET FORTHURSDAY Three Speakers to Discuss Americanization, Whi.t will perhaps be one of the largest Americanization meetings ever held In Indianapolis will be held at Seventeenth St. and Roosevelt Ave. Thursday evening. The public is invited. A musical program and fireworks are planned. Three of the best speakers on Americanization in the city will talk.

VANDALS DAMAGE NEWRESIDENCE Contractor Said He Had Been Threatened. Vandals damaged anew residence at 515 W. Blue Ridge road early today. The damage was estimated at $7,500. The new home had Just been completed for Dr. W. F. King. Frank Bremerman of Frank Bremerman & Son Contracting Company, 3221 N. Illinois St., told Motpr Police Bartlett and Pfaffenberger he had been threatened. He said he had refused to employ union labor in the construction of a downtown garage. The residence built by Bremerman on W. Blue Ridge road was entered by “jimmying’’ a rear window. AA hatchet and chisel had been used to" cut holes In woodwork, plaster and hardwood floors. Large Still Seized By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. June 27. Federal prohibition agents today seized a 500-gallon still, one of the largest ever taken In Indiana, in a farmhouse near here. t 1 Two foreigners were operating tIJ ■till. One escaped and the other arrested.