Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1923 — Page 1

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G. O. P. ASKED TO JOIN IN RATE FIGHT _ * Mayor Requests Republican State Chairman to Get Busy in Water Case, Declaring Utility Has Broken Promise to State Board, POINTS TO POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY OF MOVE BY PARTY Writes Governor McCray Letter Demanding Commissioner Edgar M, Blessing Be Ousted Because of Reports of Relations With Geist, i Action by the Republican State committee in “using its in*fluence“ against the proposed Indianapolis Water Company rate increase was asked in a letter written by Mayor Shank today to Clyde M. Walb, LaGrange, Republican State chairman. Shank •aid increased water rates will mean Republican defeat.

At the same time Shank wrote a letter to Governor McCray asking that Commissioner Edgair M. Blessing be relieved of sitting in the water case because of what the mayor terms as his "admitted" friendliness with C. M. Geist, president of the water company. J. Stephen Pullen, 1031 Blaine Ave., acting as a tax-payer and water consumer, filed a petition with the commission asking that Blessing be prevented from sitting in the water case on the ground he has been disqualified by various actions. In his letter to Walb, Shank said the water company had promised it would not ask for a rate Increase. “I see the handwriting on the wall," he said. “Do not underestimate the importance of this." The letter to McCray: “I believe that the people of Indiana have explicit confidence in your honesty and integrety, and believe that you would do the things that are best for the people of Indianapolis in the hearing of the water rate case before the public service commission. Cites Club Gossip "You are quoted as saying that you. did not consider seriously the statement made by me regarding Commissioner Blessing being friendly with Mr. Geist, president of the water company. I do not bellve that you have heard remarks around the clubs and in public gatherings as I have. “I consider this question the most Important and the most serious which has been brought before the public service commission sfnce I have been mayor. As mayor representing the citizens of Indianapolis I am asking you to use for the benefit and for the good of the citizens of Indianapolis and for Commissioner Blessing as well your influence with the proper authorities to relieve Commissioner Blessing of any participation in the hearing of this case. People Have Rights “I believe that the people of Indianapolis have the same rights that a man would have in any court of justice and I feel that Mr. Blessing has-admitted friendlv relations with Mr. Geist and the rumored entertainment of him at Mr. Oeist's summer cottage disqualifies him to sit as a member of the commission during the hearing of this most important case, directly involving the interests of every citizen of Indianapolis and the future welfare of the city at large." Speech Recalled In a speech at Garfield Park Monday evening Mayor Shank said that “a short time ago one member of the commission and his wife were buying some new gowns and things. When their neighbors asked them where they were goin& they replied they were going for a visit with Mr. Geist of Philadelphia at Atlantic City.” C. H. Geist is president of the water company. Blessing issued a statement Wednesday in reply, saying the water case would be decided upon its merits and not upon friendship. No mention was made of the visit to Atlantic City mentioned by Mayor Shank.

No Demonstrations Regardless of what the city is planning there will be no demonstrations permitted at the hearing which will be conducted “in an orderly wa}," said Chairman John \V. McCardle of the commission. The hearing will be in the House of Representatives chamber. He said that the Governor ha* the power to summarily remove a member of the commission, as Shank asks. Blessing left the city late Wednesday, and It Is not known where he is, McCardle said. Governor McCray refused to comment on Shank's demand Mayor Shank said no definite procedure had been decided upon except to send the protest to Governor McCray. He said he would confer with members of the legal department on the matter. Committees to Meet All precinct committeemen of the Republican city organization will be called together in ward meetings tonight preliminary to a house-to-house canvass for signatures to petitions demanding a reduction in water rates rather than an increase. More than 30,000 signatures to petitions will be obtained by Saturday night, according to plans perfected at a meeting of Republican ward committeemen and commit tee women at the mayor's office Wednesday night. The meeting was in charge of John F. Walker, superintendent of street cleaning. A number of Democrats were present. The principal talk was made by John F. Geckier, a Democrat. Showers failed to dampen the enthusiasm of hundreds of people who

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gathered in the municipal theater at Brookside Park Wednesday evening to /hear Mayor Shank give another five-minute remonstrance against the proposed increase. Shouts of applause greeted the mayor’s denunciation of the public service commission. Following the speech petitions were circulated by Trafficman W. E. Paul and signers were plentiful. “This commission wants to take a half million dollars from the people of Indianapolis and send It to Philadelphia,” yelled Shank. "I’m here to do all I can for the people of Indianapolis and, believe me, we’ll have to put our shoulder to the wheel and force the commission to decrease the rate instead of increase it." ' Story Repeated The mayor repeated his story of "one of the commissioners whom you all know” going to Atlantic City to play golf. "We’ve got some of the finest golf links in the country right here,” he said. “They wanted me to cc-me down and play golf with them, but I never did like the game. If it had been horse races I might have gone. “Jesse James at least poked a gun In your face,” shouted the mayor, in referring to the company’s methods of obtaining money. Clarence E. Weir, president of the College Ave. Civic Association, will meet with a committee of ten from his organization at his home. 2428 Broadway, at 8 p. m. tonight, to discuss legal aspects of the water question. o Plans will be formulated whereby the organization can bring a large delegation to the rate hearing. Weir said he hoped citizens, whether members of civic clubs or not, would be present.

What I Was Doing at 20 —By— Harry B. Smith, Adjutant General of Indiana

IWLAS working for my father in the firm of F. P. Smith & Cos., on N. Illinois St. where the Rink store now stands. The firm dealt in china, glassware, queensware, lamps and oil. At one time before I had worked for John T. •Brush in the When store. I got another job, my boss died a month later and I finally landed the job with my father, working for $9 a week. I had been a member of the Indiana National Guard two years when I was twenty.

YOUNG ELOPERS WELCOMED HOME Missing Girl Returns to Parents as Bride, Oran Lee, 19, and his wife, formerly Miss .Mary Metcalf, 14, who eloped July 4, causing police search throughout the Middle West, and who - returned to Indianapolis Wednesday, plan to go housekeeping just as soon as they can find a house. This announcement was made today at the home of Police Lieutenant Charles Metcalf, 247 Leeds Ave., grandfather of the bride. - Sanford Metcalf, 847 W. New Tork st., welcomed his daughter, and her husband homer Oscar Lee, 205 Minerva St., father of Oren, also welcomed his son and the young bride. It was stated the couplf were married in Covington. Ky., and had lived in Cincinnati since that time, coming to Indianapolis in their automobile Wednesday. The bride, her relatives say, was glad to*be home again and was just a little homesick. Runaway Girl Sent Home Pollce_ took Miss Ruth Scctt, 13, cf Logansport, Ind., into custody at the Colonial Hotel early today when Logansport police reported she ran away. She was sent home.

Dance and Golf Marathoners Have Rival in Non-Stop Auto Driver

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DANCE marthoners, golf marathoners and dishwashing marathoners, look to your laurels! The auto marathoner Is stealing your thunder. > H. L. Lockwood, trying for a nonstop automobile driving record, has -been driving, while handcuffed to the wheel of his Durant car, for 145 hours without a stop and he Is still going strong. Lockwood says he is feeling fine.

BRITISH DEMAND END OF RUHR OCCUPATION

MATTRESS MAKER IS DEFENDANT IN STATE LAWSUIT Attorney General Asks $3,500 Damages, Alleging Contract Fraud, Suit for $3,500 alleging fraud in a contract to clean 170 mattresses for the Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont was filed in Superior Court today by U. S. Lesh, attorney general, on behalf of the State, against Frank Weisenberger, 3107 E. New York St. Weisenberger, who has a factory at 247 N. Gray St., contracted to clean the cotton and hair stuffing in the mattresses, but substituted shav,ings, Inferior Ijair and Inferior cotton In them, which was unclean, and dangerous, Lesh charges. He returned 145 mattresses. It is said, saying that shrinkage caused loss of twenty-five. Weisengerger was indicted June 2 on charges of unlawful manufacture of mattresses, brought by Dr. Kenosha Sessions, superintendent of the girls school. “Shoddy,” made from old carpets, old clothes and mattresses, was used as stuffing, the indictment states. A fine of SIOO and coats was assessed the dealer recently in Criminal Court on similar charges. The defendant could not be reached for a statement. FINE WEATHER is BEING PROMISED Clear Skies Anticipated by Forecaster, There will be no return of recordbreaking high temperatures for 'the present at least, was the promise made today by J. H. Armington, weather bureau meteorologist. > Throughout the day there may be a few showers, he said, but this will 'cnly be preliminary to fine weather for the opening of the Rainbow Division Veterans Association Friday and for the national clay court tennis championship tournament Warm weather, but not so warm as Wednesday, and generally fair weather are in 'prospect, he predicted.

FARMERS TO LOSEHEAVILY ON WHEAT President of Marion Bureau Blames Decrease in Price to Manipulation of Market,

Farmers in Marion County will lose thousands of dollars again this year in their annual Struggle with the wheat crop and the market, William Bosson, president of the Marion CSponty Farm Bureau, said today. “Every acre of wheat in this county cost the farmer from sl6 to $17,” he said. “A freeze in April decreased the ylejd to an average of between twelve fifteen bushels an acre, perhaps lowefl v

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He plans to continue driving between Indianapolis and Richmond until 3 a. m. FYiday, when he plans to leave for Lansing, Allch. He does not expect to stop until he arrives in Lansing. The driver is now being accompanied by his wife, who feeds him as he drives. It is estimated the car has been driven more than 3,600 miles with-

England's Premier Outlines Mew Policy Amid Thunder4ng Applause, By United Press , LONDON, July 12.—Great Britain, through Premier Baldwin in Commons* and Marquis Curzon in Lords today, demand-, ed occupation of the Ruhr come to an end, and that, the allies unite in fixing a fair amount for reparations and asking Germany to pay it. This was the gist of the long awaited statement of British policy toward the reparations problem. Stanley Baldwin was cheered to the echo as he pleaded for allied cooperation as well as an end of the Ruhr venture. A break with France is considered averted if the French government returns a favorable answer. "The essential factors of settlement of Europe’s ijls,” Baldwin told a crowded house, are: "1. Payment of reparations. ”2. Settlement of 'inter allied debts. ”3. Security of Europe.” Italy With England Italy, the prime minister said, is understood to be In agreement with Britain on these points. Referring to the last German reparations offer, Baldwin said that whether the late enemies’ offer was adequate or not. should not be ignored but should be examined to discover if there were any possibility of progress. “Our proposals have no other aim than pacification of Europe and the recovery of tin exhausted world*” Baldwin declared, while Commons cheered. German Note Answered A British reply to the latest German note, he said, Is to be forwarded forthwith. It will be first submitted to the allies, however, In the hope of securing joint jiction. This will be the chance for France andj Belgium to renew the bonds of the entente. Unity of action, cooperation by the allies, is a vital necessity, Baldwin declared. Germany, he said. Is rapidly approaching economic chaos which may well be succeeded by social and industrial ruin. In the meanwhile genuine apprehension exists as to food shortage conditions, which are causing alarm to Great Britain. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 74 10 a. m 80 7 a. m 74 11 a. m /. 80 8 a. ,m 75 12 (noon) 80 9 a. m 77 1 p. 80

“Now the annual depression of prices for new wheat is In full swing, and the farmer will get 80 cents a bushel, totaling about $lO an acre.” Part of the drop In prices Botton laid directly to manipulation of the market. “We cannot store the wheat,” he said. “If we do. a look into the granary 4 couple of months later shows weevils in It.”

out-a stop, an average of about twenty-five miles an hour. VLockwood left New York last Thursday and arrived in Indianapolis without stopping. He.hufi continued driving since. Gasoline, oil water are put into the car at Intervals without a stop being made. Lockwood says he is making the trip on a $5,000 wager.

TRACTION HEADS PROPOSE LARGE TERMINAL FIRM Interurbans Would iForm Company to Erect Nw Freight Depots, Petition for permission to form a $2,250,000 realty company to finance the erection of additional freighthouses at the Kentucky Ave. terminal and to acquire additional land on which to erect the buildings was filed with the public service comission today by heads of traction companies operating in Indianapolis. Hearing was set for 10 a. m. Monday. , The proposed company would issue $750,000 in common stock and $1,500,000 in 6 per cent first preferred stock. The property and buildings would be leased to the various interurban companies. The proposal is In keeping with plans pending for several years. It would Involve the abandonment of downtown freight houses. According to plans submitted with the petition, the terminal property would comprise s twelve acres, including the site of the present freight houses. addition to the present plant 540 "feet long and thirty feet wide would be built. The .plans also provide for anew structure 928 by thirty feet. The cost of land and proposed improvements is estimated at between $700,000 and SBOO,OOO. Petitioners are: Dr. Henry Jameson, president of the board of directors of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company; Arthur VV. Brady, president of the Indiana Union Traction Company; Robert I. Todd, president of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company; Charles L. Henry, president of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company, and Harry Reed, president of the Interstate Public Service Company.

CARS NEEDED FOR VETERANSSUNDAY Sightseeing Tour to Cover 35 Miles, An automobile sightseeing tour Sunday morning for visitors to the Rainbow Division convention will cover about thirty-five miles, including one lap around the Indianapolis Motor Spedeway track. The trip will be led by a Hoosier Motor Club pilot car. The club will also supply a “trouble shooter" service car, Frank Wampler, president, announced today. “The public does not seem" to realize there will be several thousand ‘buddies" to take this trip,” said Wampler. “All automobile owners who are willing to supply car and driver are asked to assemble on Monument Circle Sunday at 9 a. m.” “By request *of the Rainbow committee, no flags should be draped or festooned on autoltiobiles. Draping flags is contrary to military regulations. # One small flag attached to a stick on th,e radiator* is all the decoration recommended by the committee.”

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FURIOUS STORMS WRECK SHIPS IN TROPICAL WATERS Terrific Wind and Waves Drive Scores of Vessels Onto Rocks, By United Press MONTEVIDO. Uruguay, July 12. Four large steamers and scores of smaller Craft are wrecks, still lashed by furious trophical storms, sweeping Chile; Argentina and Uruguay. Hundreds of houses are roofless, tremendous property damage has been occasioned, while the harbor is a tangled mass of confused shipping. Four vessels are aground, driven high on rocks by the terrific storm that whipped up and down the coast for three days without cessation. The Tuscany, out of Liverpool, one of the stranded vessels, finally disappeared altogether in the storm, her crew believed safe. Three hundred and nine passengers from the German steamer liugia were landed with the aid of life boats near Santa Rosa. A French steadier, the de Bonier aiyi another, the Mont Ferland, are aground. The British steamer Trefusis out of Hahia Blanca bound for Europe, sent out “S. O. SU’ calls during the height of the storm, giving her latitude as 37 south, longitude 54-10 west. Still another steamer, the Mont Cenis, was damaged in the harbor here. a Telegraph communications were disI rupted, but have been re established. | Scores of houses had their roofs whirled from them. Gas service here was seriously interferred with and many parts of the <fity still are in darkness at night. Damage to property will run well toward $1,000,000. PLEAS FOR KUBY ARE TURNED DOWN F.vans Says Convicted Man Must Go to Prison, Despite pleas from numerous Influential sources he says he has received, Prosecutor William P. Evans today said he had refused to recommend to Governor McCray that a stay of sentence be granted Samuel Koby, 1714 N. Alabama St., facing cne to fourteen years in the Indiana State prison for receiving. stolen goods. Koby today completes a six months Federal Court sentence in the Marion County pajil for violating the prohibition law. Evans said Sheriff Snidfer has committment papers to the prison for Koby. Judge James A. Collins, of Crirnnial Cotirt, who sentenced Koby in 1921, said that so far as he is concerned Koby will go to prison. The Koby Federal Court case attracted wide attention because Koby, with two brothers, then under prosecution, charged that Louis Wein, Jr., and John Mount, special Federal prohibition agents, tried to sell them confiscated liquor. The charges were not substantiated.

LOVE CAUSES GIRLS TO SWALLOW POISON Two Young Women Now Fighting for Lives —'Jilted' by Sweetheart, One Says She Still Is Loyal,

In the bare-walled hospital rooms, two young women, both 22, both disappointed in love, lay today after attempts to end their lives with poison Wednesday night. Miss Gladys Howard, Surrey ApartDeaconess %U o spital, will recover, ' £^ aßß of poiaoq she g|K Kjt had started to knocked from her band by Morrison The condltion_pf a Miss Fannie Taylor of 526 E. St. Joseph St., at the GLADYS city hospital canHOWARD not be determined for several days, according to physicians. Miss Taylor, whose home is in

‘Buddies’ Pour Into City in Advance of Division Convention —Busy Program Arranged for Generals \ Pershing and Gouraud, WILLIAM J. DONOVAN AMONG EARLY ARRIVALS ‘Lion of Argonne’ to Arrive Thursday Reception Committee Headed by Governor McCray— American Leader Due Saturday, Advance guards of the Rainbow Division Veterans’ Association arrived in Indianapplis today for the fifth annual cbnvention, which will be in session Friday through Sunday. . “Buddies”, poured into Indianapolis by train and in automobiles bearing the licenses of every State in the Union.

Among the early arrivals were delegates from Illinois and South Carolina. William J. Donovan of New York, national president, arrived Wednesday. In the evening he talked to Marion County Rainbow men in Superior Court, at the courthouse. During the war Donovan was colonel of the 165th. New York Regiment. Gouraud’s Program Arrangements for the reception of Gen- Henri Gouraud of France, the "Lion of the Argonne,” were completed today. General Gouraud will leave his car at the Union Station at 9 a. m. Friday and will be met by a reception committee headed by Governor McCray. He will be the house guest of Mr. and Mrs- Frederic M. Ayres, 1204 N. Delaware St. Friday morning he will call upon Mayor Shank and Governor McCray and will visit the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument. At noon he ■will be taken to the Indianapolis Country Club for luncheon. Friday night he will attend the boxing exhibition at Washington Park. General Pershing will arrive Saturday at 11:12 a. m. He will go directly to the Palace Theater, where he will address the convention. Pershing to Be Busy He will take luncheon at the home of Mr. and Mrs.Ayres and at 1:45 p. m. will take part with General Gouratyi in the Rainbow Division parade. After this the general will attend the special race at the Speedway. Following the race General Pershing will speak before the Reserve Officers’ Association at the Claypool. Both generals then will visit national headquarters of the American Legion and will attend the banquet at Manufacturers' building at the fairground. General Pershing will leave after the banquet. Sunday General Gouraud will visit Ft. Benjamin Harrison and attend memorial services at Cadle Tabernacle at 2:30 p. m. He will leave for Chicago that night. Rainbow veterans will be the guests of honor Friday night of the Irvington Post. American Legion, at their French Fete at Jameson park. The festivities will be as nearly as possible a duplicate of the celebration of Bastille day, the French national holiday. The woman's auxiliary will serve a banquet. Registration Begins More than 200 veterans had entered their names at registration headquarters at the Severin More than fifty women had registered. Registration of women was in charge of Mrs. Melvin Moon of Indianapolis. Roy Murphy and Thomas B. Hibben will meet General Pershing's train at Richmond Saturday morning, it was announced. Murphy, a D. S. C.-man, wifi act as personal orderly to General Pershing. Sergt. F. H. Whitlow, Company C, 11th. Infantry, stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, was assigned by General Aultman,

Mitchell, Ind . and who works at the L§wis Meier Overall factory, was said to have quarreled with her sweetheart Sunday night. “I still love him,” Miss Howard said today, as she told how her ewf atheart, after eight months of courtship, had “jilted” her. "He used to tell me he loved me. but lately he seems to want to go out with other girls. I cannot run around as he does, for I am weak from an accident at Edinburg, Ind., two months ago. I was away from work, at the Kahn Tailoring Company, for six weeks. My old-time ambition has gone. "I don't know what I'll do when I get up. But I know I still love my sweetheart.” Ten Deaths Reported PARIS, July 12.—Ten deaths were reported here today as a result of the unprecedented heat wave gripping Paris and its environs. Because of the heat the governmeht has ordered the military narade scheduled for July 14, France’s r Jour de Gloire,” abandoned.

Forecast GENERALLY fair tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature.

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comaaandant, as personal orderly to General Gouraud. A welcome on behalf of the Department of Indiana of the American Legion was extended to the Rainbow veterans by Frank H. Henley, department adjutant, today. “Indiana can well be pboud of the glorious record of her troops in the Rainbow Division,” the welcome read, “and to all the men of this organization who will gather from the far corners of this great United States, your buddies of the American Legion wish a royal good time and large successful reunion. May you soon 'come back again in Indiana.’ ” Police Assigned Assignments of police for the convention were announced today by Chief Herman F. Rikhoff. Details for the entire three days will be stationed at the Terminal and Union Stations. Sergeant Cummings wiil have a detail of ten patrolmen at the Palace Theater Satmday morning during a business session. Details will be assigned Saturday to the Speedway aqd the French canteen at Georgia and West Sts. Sergeant Claffey will have a detail of eleven patrolmen at the .fairground Saturaday night, when Rainbow Vets only will be admitted. Lieutenant Johnson will have a small detail at Jameson park Friday and Saturday nighty. Capt. Herbert Fletcher .will have twenty-eight patrolmen at Washington ball park Friday night for the boxing matches. Captain Fletcher also will have charge of details along the line of march of the parade Saturday. HOMEPRODUCEIS STILL ABUNDANT Large Supply Keeps Market Prices Low, Continued abundance of home-grown produce was found at the city market today. Produce is not being shipped in due to the lower prices of the homegrown supply. Very few cherries are left, bringing the price up to 20 cents a quart. Black raspberries are found in limited quanities, selling at 20 and 25 cents a pint. A late crop of strawberries is expected to appear soon. Local produce included green beans, selling at two pounds for 15 cents; carrots, beets, and onions at three bunches for 10 cents; lettuce at 3 cents a pound: cabbage at 4 and 5 cents a pound; kale at 5 cents a pound; and potatoes at 8 pounds for 25 cents. Peaches and red plums generally averaged three pounds for 25 cents. Pears and early apples are expected pn the market soon. , Fifty-six Germans Drown DUSSELDORF. July 12.—Fifty-six Germans, driven by stifling heat waves to bathe in the Rhine, have been drowned since Saturday,

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