Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 55

THREE WINNERS IN TIMES CONTEST FOR INDIANAPOLIS ‘DOUBLE’ OF BABY PEGGY WILL BE FILMED BY LOCAL MOTION PICTURE COMPANY

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MAXINE CHRISTY

The three winners of The Indianapolis Times Baby Peggy contest are "going” into the movies. The Rhodes-Chou.nard F.lm Company, 511 Merchants Bank Bid-, which is making a movie for the L.ttle Theater Society, has donated .ts services to The Times and the Lyric

BLESSING OUT AS RATE ARBITER

GIRL MISSING SINCE JUNE 7 HOME AGAIN Appearance of Frances Webb, 16, Ends Nation-Wide Hunt —Tells of Trip to Chicago on $l5O , i Given Her by Friend. Frances Vinne Webb, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Len S. Webb, 420 N. Emerson Ave., home again today after being missing thirty-seven days, told Women Detectives Rogers and Rupert the story of her disappearance. Frances was as happy as a child I

Just returning from a vacation trip. Most of her time since leaving home nad been passed in Chicago, she told her parents and the police. At 10:30 p. m. Saturday a neighbor telephoned Webb and stated he had received a telephone call from a girl who asked for his daughter. Webb said his daughter was not home. Then the girl said, “This is Frances talking.'’ Mother and Daughter Meet “trances who?” he asked. “Frances Webb,” was the answer. The telephone connection then was cut off. For more than two hours the girl’s parents waited for news. Then the telephone bell rang again. The same neighbor said, “Frances is on our porqh.” A minute later Frances Webb was talking to her mother over the telephone- Mrs. Webb and another daughter, Ruth, 13, hurried to the home x>f the neighbor, where they found Frances waiting. They returned home. At first Frances told her parents she had been in Chicago working. Then she told a complete story of her disappearance- | Gives Her $l5O On the night of June 7, when Frances left hime, she went to a residence near New York St. and Colorado Ave., where she telephoned another family, asking permission to etay all night, she said. She want to this house and, upon learning that her mother was on her way there, went to another house in the neighborhood. , (Continued on Page 10) WESTERN FARMERS IN WHEAT CONFERENCE Representatives of Five States Seek to Bolster Price of Grain. ttV United Press WICHITA, Kan ' July 16.—Concerted action by farmers to bolster the price of wheat was sought today at a conference of representatives of five hard wheat producing States. The suggestion of Governor Jonathan Davis, Kansas, the farmers urge a “sellers strike" was considered by the delegateeEMPLOYES GIVE PICNIC Prizes Are Awarded at Hatfield Company Event. Two hundred and fifty employes of the Frank Hatfield Company, automobile dealers, held a picnic Sunday at Northern beach on Whin Riv-sr, about eighteen miles northeast of the City. l Specia awards were made for the 'various sthiefc events. O. M. Grays, superintendent, and G. B. Hurd, sales BArager. were in charge of the plociu and contests. HOUKLf TEMPERATURE e s. an....... 7310 a. nu- >1 7 a., m. 73 11 a. m........ 37 * e/'m 73 55 (noon) 8? • c ft 1 M

The Indianapolis Times

MARJORIE CRONIN

Theater for the filming of the winners. This genefWus offer will enable the Lyric Theatre to present the three little winners to be announced on the screen Wednesday, It will enable Indianapolis mavis

Thanks Times “I wish to thank The Indianapolis Times for its kindly interest in this case,” said Len S. Webb today when telling of the return of his daughter, Frances Vinnie Webb, 16. ‘‘l wish to say it was your efforts more than any other agency which brought about the return of our daughter. We are a reunited family and my wife joins me in thanking you from the bottom of our hearts.”

STATE INSPECTS STREET IN CITY Accounts Board Investigates New Pavement, A. L. Donaldson, chief engineer of the State board of accounts, with a corps of engineers, today begfln inspection of the Twenty.ninth St. coiy crete-asphalt pavement between Capitol Ave. and Riverside Park, as requested in a p4Ron filed wdth the board by twenty-seven taxpayers. The engineers are taking three cores of the pavement from each block. By examination the cores they say they will be able to determine if the work was done accohdlng to specifications. They say the work will require three days. Horner Klmberlin, secretary of the board, said this was the first inspection in Indianapolis under a law passed at the last session of the Legislature. PICKETING CASE DECIDED Judge Holds Theater Violated Law by Sunday Operation. Contention of counsel for Alvin Cole, union motion picture machine operator, that Cole could not be punished for picketing a movie whne the theater was violating the law by operating upon Sunday, was upheld in city court todav by Special Judge Vinson H. Manifold. Cole was arrested June 18 on a charge of picketing the Savoy Theater Klan Chiefs In Conference By United Press ASHEVILLE, N. C., July 16.-r-Grand dragons and grand titans of ♦.ho Ki-Klux Klan representing thirty Elates went into >r>nu*l #ecret conference baJay.

MARY MARGARETT BENSON

fans, parents and hundreds of others who have aided in the quest fear the Indianapolis Baiy Peggy to see films of the tote. With the arrival of Mia Judith Lowry, a member of the Stuart Walker Company, who will represent

POINCARE’S RUHR POLICY WIDENING ENTENTE BREAK Premier’s Speech Slams Door of Conciliation in Britain's Face, By United Pres* LONDON. July 16.—Whefe Premier Stanley Baldwin, in his recent Com mons statement, left the door open to resumption of cordial relations with France on the subject of reparations. Premier Pincare has slammed it in Britain’s face. This is the unofficial view taken of the French prime minister's speech at Senlis Sunday. Poincare attacked the proposal for an International commission. This the very gist of the British plan. Great Britain's note to Germany, which is ready save for the finishing touches of cabinet approval today, will not be acceptable to France if Poincare has truly outlined the French attitude. v The morning papers agree there is little sign of conciliation in Poincare's words, although some are of the opinion he Is marking time until the British note is received in Paris. VERSAILLES TREATY UPHELD Poincare Declares Ruhr Only Occupied to Guarantee Security of France. Bu United A'eic* PARIS, July 16.—Veiled condemnation of England for her lack of support in enforcing Uw Versailles treaty marked the Sunday speech of Premier Poincare at Senlis, where he dedicated a monument to the war losses of the village. "We do not covet foreign soil. We wish only that the treaty signed by twenty-eight powers shall not be considered an antediluvian fossil and placed in an archaeological museum after four years. It seems that we ask too much. Certain friends say to make concessions for a common interest," Poincare said. “We occupied the Ruhr for our own security when the allies failed to keep their promise of the security pact with France.”

MAN IS HIT BY CAR Frank \V. Clark Cut and Bruised in Accident. Frank W. Clark, 67, of room 2, Victoria Hotel, 607 E. Washington St., was cut and bruised when he stepped from behind an interurban car in the path of a city street car at Liberty and Washington Sts., Saturday night. Charles Willis, 2110 Shrlver Ave., motorman told the police he saw the man too late to stop. . LEGION ARRANGES PICNIC Post 4 Will Discuss Plans at Auxiliary Garden Party. Indianapolis Post, No. 4, American Legion, has arranged a picnic for Sunday afternoon, July 29. The place and other details will be decided at a supper and garden party at the post auxiliary party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Nathan Swain, 1125 W. Thirty-Sixth St..'Sat 6:30 p. m. Plans for the State convention at Michigan City Sept. 10-12 will be discurred $36 Reported Stolen John C. Henley. 2137 Park Ave., reported Jo police today th>t his home had beenfentered and s3# taken from hie trouser*.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1923

HELEN E. STEPHENSON

The Tidies as a judge, from Cincinnati today, the three judges are ready to begin the task of selecting the three little girls who most resemble Baby Peggy, youthful Century star whose films are being released by Universal Film Exchange. The other judges are Jean Marks of the Lyrlo

The Kipling of Borneo — i % EDMUND SNELL *** has been called. It’s an apt description of him, as" you’ll agree after reading his extraordinary talc of The Yellow Seven — | a. A story of the desperate fight waged, to the death, between “Chinese” Pennington, the white man’s champion, and Chai-Hung, arcli-eriminal and leader of a terrible band of oriental cutthroats who sought to dominate —and DID long dominate—-the tropic fastnesses of the • world’s greatest island—an island, of mystery to which the Darkness of Africa is like noonday. Snell is A New Writer _ His earlier life was one of adventtire in earth’s,strange places. A soldier in the World War, he took up the pen when the conflict ended and already he is the literary sensation of England. In America he makes his debut with The Yellow Seven Beginning in The Indianapolis Times, Thursday, July 19 Summer Reading Par Excellence

GARY CITIZENS STAGE HOSPITAL FUND DRIVE i New Methodist Institution Is Last Word In Construction. By Times Special GARY, Ind., .July 16.—With more than 160 captains, lieutenants, and workers in the field and with nearly SIOO,OOO pledged, the drive for funds to liquidate the indebtedness of Gary’s new Methodist Hospital has an excellent start. The hospital is already completed and rendering a good service to the community. The building lc the fulfillment of a long felt need In tne city. / TWELVE HURT IN WRECK Interurban Freight and Passlnger Cars Crashed Head-on. By United Press ELGIN, Ills., July 16.—Twelve people were Injured, one perhaps ft tally, this morning when an Elgin and Belvidere elect-'lc lnterurbean car and a freight car crashed head-on at Illinois park, one half mile west of Elfin.

T.TTfTI.T.F, BEAUS

Theater and Ed V. Hunter of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis. A total of 881 pictures had been submitted when the contest closed at midnight Friday. The winners win be announced Wednesday In The Times.. Although the contest Is closed. The

JEALOUS GIRL HELD FOR SWEETHEART’S MURDER Feared Ex-Prize Fighter Would Give Her Up, She Says. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 16.— Miss Margaret Allister, a 21-year-old country- girl, was held in Jail today accused of murdering Paul Murdock, ex prize fighter and saloon keeper, whom she loved. Margaret said she feared Murdock was going to give her up for his wife’s sake. ‘L’ AND SUBWAY % CRASH Six Injured as New York Trains Meet on Trestle. By United Press NEW YORK, July 16. —Six persons were injured today when a Ninth Ave. “Jj” train crashed into a stalled subway train on a trestle. Motorman Joseph Higgins, of the ‘‘L’’ aqd five passengers was hurried to a hospital suffering- from serious Injuries. __________

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

JUSTINE STAFFORD

Times today publishes pictures of eight more entrants. The first prize Is SSO In cash and the other two, two life-sized Baby Peggy dolls. Among the entrants: Alberta Dot McKinney, 5, of 1154 Bacon St„ daughter of Mr. and Mrs Ed McKinney-, Marguerite McCUaln,

CONCERTED DRIVE ON GASOLINE TAX LAW INDICATED Studebaker Company' Aads Protest Against State Collection, Concerted action on the part of automobile manufacturers and oil distribution Arms against the State twocent gasoline tax Indicated today when the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend made formal objection to payment of fees represented In a check enclosed to Robert Bracken, State auditor. In a letter an official of the company said the payment was nvoluntarily. under duress, under protest, under coercion, by compulsion of law and to prevent the exaction of penalties threatened." The tax law, the letter stated. Is in violation of the State constitution and of the Constitution of the United States. The Sinclair OH and Refining Company made a similar objection Saturday. The St. Joseph County Circuit Court recently sustained the State’s htmurrer to a suit brought to enjoin the State fAjm collecting the tax. Bruce Oafill, president of a South Bend firm, brought the action. The action has been renewed and hearing set for July 20. Sinclair representatives have said they will take their case to the courts If the amounts they have paid are not refunded by the State.

MARION MAN TO TAKE CHARGE OF HUGE ZR-3 Capt. G. W. Steele Will Pilot Craft Across Atlantic. By Times Special MARION, Ind., July 16 —Capt. George W. Steele. Marion, will soon take preliminary instruction, preparatory to taking command of the new German dirigible airship, ZR-3. now being built by the German government for the United States. Captain Steele will pilot the ship across the Atlantic under Its own power. The disaster which destroyed the ZR-1, a ship of similar design, makes the position of commander a precarious one. The return trip will be made some time in August. The dirigible, an installment of the German war debt, is valued at $2,000,000. DRIVERS ARE ARRESTED Speeding Charges Placed Against Three Men. Robert Emerson McLaughlin, 125 Ribold Ave., and Ora Johnson, 1242 Ashland Ave., .were arrested on speeding charges. Eugene Davis, Y. M. C. A., and R. M. Stafford, Brevort Hotel, were arrested on charges of not having automobile licenses. The arrests were made by State Policemen Shlmm and Young and Sheriff Snider. AUDITOR’S BOOKS OKEHED State Examiners Report Receipts of $48,738 In County Office. Receipts of the office of John W. Castor, Marion County auditor, amounted to $48,738.25 in 1922, according to an examination of the books by examiners of the State board of accounts. The books were found accurate. Os this amount recording of deeds amounted to more than $15,000 and mortgages to more than $14,000. Castor’s salary was SIB,OO, to which was added commissions of $9,221.46. Hs pays hi.. anaittUalfl.

MARGUERETE M’LAIN

2, of 204 Hamilton Ava, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Isaac McClain; Justine Stafford. 1114 Atwood St, 'laughter of Mr, and Mrs. S. Stafford; Lucille Remix, 4, of 136 E. Forty-Fourth St.; Helen E Stephenson, 5, of 1720 N. Rural St. daughter of E L Siephen-

Public Service Commissioner Withdraws From Water Increase Hearing Following Charges Made by Mayor Shank, LETTER IS WRITTEN TO CHAIRMAN M’CARDLE Governor McCray Expresses Confidence in Official —Agitation Characterized as Propaganda—Petition to Be Considered Wednesday,. Edgar M. Blessing, public service commissioner, today withdrew from the hearing oi the Indianapolis Water Company rate increase ease. The action followed statements of Mayor Shank that Blessing had visited Clarence H. Geist, president of the water company, at Atlantic City, and the demand of the Mayor that he be relieved of hearing the case.

John IV. McCardle, chairman of the commission, said the other four commissioners will sit in the hearing and that it will start Wednesday morning in the House of Representatives as scheduled. He said he had not decided who will preside in place of Blessing. Besides McCardle, the remaining commissioners are Glenn Van Auken, Oscar Ratts and Maurice Douglas.

Writes Letter Blessing s withdrawal was in the form of a letter to McCardle. At the same time Governor McCray made public a letter to Blessing, In which he approved his action and In which he commended him for his integrity. “I am conscious of the present agitation which exists in certain quarters regarding the Indianapolis water rate case, which is v holly unwarranted,” Blessing said In his letter. “In the first place, I wish to state that I have no apology to offer to any one for any of my actions while a member of this commission. I cannot understand the viewpoint of some that friendship or social acquaintance would in any degree Influence the Judgment of those who are bound legally and conscientiously by their oath of office taken when they accept the responsibilities of their position.” “All Propaganda” Blessing said he has a great number of acquaintances in Indianapolis, but that no suggestion had been made he favored the city because of this fact. “It is apparent that the whole thing is y-merd propaganda,” he said. “However, I am not blind to the fact that the public should have the fullest consideration in gll matters be(Continued on Page 11) CLUB* PLANNING OUTING Golf Will Be Feature pi Traffic Picnic. The Indianapolis Traffic Club will hold Its annual mid-summer picnic at Riverside Park Thursday afternoon and evening. More than 300 are expected to attend. A miniature golf tournament will lie held in the morning, games for women and children are arranged for the afternoon. Dancing will be the feature of the evening. CHIROPRACTORS TO MEET Seven Hundred Expected to Attend Session Here. Nationally known chiropractors will address the annual convention of the Indiana Chiropractors Association at the Claypool Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. About seven hundred are expected to attend. The program Is now being completed by a committee working with George G. Rlnier and Dr. Maud M. Jones, secretary of the association. Fighters Escape Four men had a free-for-all in Fountain Square Sunday Might. 'they eluded poll CO.-- - -

Forecast GENERALLY fair tonight and Tuesday- Not muen change in temperature.

TWO CENTS

ALBERTA DOT M'KINNET

son; Mary Margaret Benson, 8, of 1213 N, Arsenal Ave.. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R- E. Benson; Marjorie Cronin, 5 of 723 Woodlawn Ave.. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John L Cronin, and Maxine Christy, 6. of 2651 N. Hardirq- St, daughter of Airs. Guy Christy.

MM ADVISES WHEATHOLDING Need for Cash Would Hamper 'Selling Strike,’ He Says.* Although approving the plan of a "selling strike,” en wheat by producers in order to boost wavering prices, suggested by Western farmers. Governor McCray, who has SOO acres in wheat said today he did not believe the idea would be feasible because it was based on "sentimentality." “It would be difficult for many farmers to hold their wheat this fall because too many have immediate and pressing need for their money," said McCray. “However, I do encourage the farmer who is able to hold his wheat until late fall when prices are likely to improve.” The Governor said he favored tile plan of banks extending loans oo wheat as security, thus permitting the farmer to hold his grain for better prices. WHEAT TUMBLES FURTHER July Futures Drop to 97 Cents in Chicago Trading. CHICAGO, July 16.—Wheat prices continued to fall today on the Chicago Board of Trade. Afer opening at 98 cents, July futures closed at 97c. September deliveries closed at 96H%c and December at 99 %c, the latter falling below $1 for the first time during the present break. The prices are new lows since 1914. BERKELL IS DEFENDANT Violation of State Industrial Law Charged In Affidavit. Violation of the State Industrial law in permitting Betty Claire Richardson, 6, to appear in the cast of “Daddies” at English’s last week was charged against Charles Bert ell, manager of the Grand Players, today by Miss Luella Cox, director of the women’s and children’s division of the State industrial board, in an affidavit filed In city court

EVER ATTEND A BIG SALE? If you have, you haven’t forgotten the Jam you were in. Now ' multiply that “crowd” many ~ hundred times and you have some Idea of the “crowd" that Is attending the TIMES Used Car sale, appearing In the Auto Columns every day. Tell thqpe people about the car you have for sale. Phone a Used Car ad to MAIN 8600. 1