Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1923 — Page 2
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Judges Going Over Hundreds of Pictures in Times Baby Peggy Contest
GENEVA V. LOCK
Who Is going to be the Indianapolis Baby Peggy? ine three judges seleced to find Baby Peggy’s double in the Indianapolis Times contest today were trying to answer that question.
LA FOLLETTE WILL : BE BIGGEST POWER 1 IN NEXT CONGRESS Wisconsin Solon Builds Political Empire in Nation's Capitol. By I'nited Pre*t WASHINGTON, July 17.—The elee•tion of Magnus Johnson. Minnesota • farmer-laborite, will make Follette !,the biggest power In the next Congress and strengthen the rebellion against the Harding Administration on the ! eve of the presidential election. This is the interpretation placed on ■ the victory of Johnson by the farm bloc in the Senate and House today. B Lance of Power Beaten down by the Republican party during the war until he stood as a lone figure against the world, Senator La Folleltte, individualist and progresssive, now has builded himself a virtual political empire in Washington, where he will hold the balance of power between the opposing groups. The farmer bloc chieftains claim Johnson was elected on a La Follette i- program. This means a drive will be inaugurated in the December Congress to: Repeal the Esch-Cummins law ’'so that lower freight rates will be provided for the farmer. Revision of the Fordney-McCumber high tariff. Government marketing of food to guarantee to the farmer a - living wage. Revision of the Federal Reserve sys- _ tem. further control of the packers, ' abolishment of Supreme Court decisions by a majority vote. Great Fight Expected It Is doubtful, of course, whether |k La Follette will be able to force any _ of his bills on these subjects through , x Congress, but he l is now strong enough to make a greater fight than hfe ever made before, tg With Brookhart,' Shipstead, and Magnus Johnson squarely with him .itln the Senate—and many other pro•g gressive—Republicans like Frazier, Ladd, Norris, Borah and others favoring at least half of his progress—hte s* is certain to accomplish a lot. Frazier heads the Non-Partisan League and ** was recently elected Senator from —North Dakota.
CAREER OF NOTED ' EDITORJS ENDED John M, Siddall, of American Magazine Dies at Home, By United Xetcs NEW YORK, July 17.—John M. ■ Siddall, editor of the American ; Magazine,, died Monday afternoon at his home in Ardsley-on-Hudson, after a lingering illness from stomach trouble. He will be buried at Oberlin,' Ohio, where he was born in 1874. Siddall graduated from Oberlin College in 1898. The next year from Harvard. Then he joined the staff of the Cleveland public schools, a position he left to go on the staff of McClure’s Magazine in 1904. From McClure’s he went to the American Magazine as an associate editor in 1905, becoming editor-ln-"hief In 1915. His editorials had been widely Quoted for several years. He leaves a widow. CATHOLIC CHURCH OPENS THREE-DAY LAWN FETE Children's Parties and Chicken Supper Feature Affali. A lawn fete for the benefit of St. Mary's Catholic Church opened on the church grounds, Vermont and New Jersey Sts., today. It will close on Thursday. Parties for children have been arranged'for each afternoon and card parties in the auditorium of St. John’s School each afternoon and evening. Many attractive booths have been been provided. Women of the church will serve a chicken supper on Wednesday night. Home-made candles and other delicacies wjll be sold each day. The committee rf>n arrangements: Herman GainstAier, chairman; Her ry Gerard, Miss Agnes Kehrer and the Rev. Edward Bonk hold. Subcommitteemen: .Hauppert, Frank Mayer, Mrs. Margaret Ankanbrock and Miss Al-
JUNE L. GASTMEAN
Mrs. Judith Lowry of the Stuart Walker Company, representing The Times: Jean Marks of the Lyric Theater, and Ed W. Hunter of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis are the three judges who began selecting the
Filipino Movie Star
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MISS ELENA JURADO, FIRST FILIPINO MOVIE STAR, “BROKE IN” WHEN ALL SAN FRANCISCO WAS COMBED FOR SOME ONE TO FILL A SPECIAL PART. SHE WAS SUCH A SUCCESS SHE NOW' HAS HER OWN COMPANY. SHE IS A COLLEGE GRADUATE AND WILL MAKE PICTURES FROM HER OWN SCENARIOS, USING SCENES IN HER NATIVE LAND FOR A BACKGROUND.
PAINTER ORDERED TO PAY DAMAGES CAUSED BY BRUSH Board of Safety Will Give Building Inspector Hearing, Throwing a paint brush through the windshield of an automobile belonging to Harry Renick, 837 N. La Salle St., because he thought Renlck tried to run over him while he was painting safety zone lines, will cost George Roth, police department employe, the amount of damage to Renick's clothes and car, the board of safety ruled todajk 8 Renick told the board damage amounted to $175. Roth and Renick com proml sed. * Patrolmen Named Patrick J. McMahon, 918 Fairfield Ave., and Roy F. Conaway, 4131 Boulevard PI., were appointed patrolmen, McMahon pending physical examination. Action last week in appointing M. T. Clark as building Inspector was rescinded. John E. Horton, 1216 Eugene St., and W. c!" Christina, 325 Berkley Rd., were appointed building inspectors. Inspector to Have Hearing William * Rogers, building inspector relieved from duty June 28, will be allowed a hearing at the board’s next meeting. Charges of neglect of duty were preferred against him today by Francis F. Hamilton, building inVpector. Wilbur Lovinger, 421 S. Noble St,, was appointed substitute fireman. M’NAUGHT GETS NEW JOB Attorney Will Head Anti-Saloon League in lowa. S. H. McNaught. attorney for the Indiana Anti-Saloon lieague, has teen appointed superintendent of the lowa Ajiti-Sdloop League to succeed William A. Wade, resigned, a dispatch from Des Moines, lowa, today said. McNaught is out of the city. The attorney will take his new Sept. 1. He has figured in a number of important liquor
HELEN LITTELL
winner today out of 391 entrants. The judges will announce the three winbriers in The Times Wednesday. The judges found it difficult to make the selection as many of the entrants were close duplicates of the youthful
TRUE BILLS FILED BY JURY AGAINST NINE DEPENDANTS Three Names Witheld Until Arrest of Persons Indicted, Indictments against nine persons were returned by the Marion County grand jury to Judge James A. Collins in Criminal Court today. The names of three were not made public as they have not been arrested. Indictments given out were against Charles F. Diggs, 4544 Guilford Ave., charged with issuing fraudulent checks. Harry Williams, 512 W. Michigan St., burglary and grand larceny, theft o°f S7OO worth of property from the home of Lydia Whitcomb, 3105 N. Pennsylvania St., June 23. Herman Stern, 3637 N. Illinois St., receiving stolen goods. He was said to have received the property from Williams, William Broyles, 728 Edgemont Ave., grand larceny. He was charged with stealing a watch and ring from the home of Mrs. Mary Allison, 524 Central Court, north. Harry Perkins, alias Elliott Scott, forgery. The Indictment charged him with forging the name of Samuel M. Goldsmith to a check for S2B. John Noble, issuing fraudulent checks. He was charged with issuing a fraudulent check for $55 to the Evard Store, jewelers. BOARD RAISES SALARIES Superintendent of Ash and Garbage Collection Gets SOO Boost. The salary of Truly Nolen, superintendent of ash and garbage collection, was raised by the board of sanitary commissioners today from, $240 to S3OO a month. The board raised the salary of Floyd Barber, superintendent of the garbage reduction plant at Sellers Farm from $46 to SSO a week. Dressed as Abraham, a London clergyman recently drew record crowds to a Sunday evening service. Dancing in crowded rooms Is said by doctors to be responsible for a large proportion of throat and nose
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES-
JOANE LOUISE SHELBY
Century Comedy star. Among the 391 entrants being considered by the judges are: Mary Jane Smith, 4, of '532 N. Oxford St„ (laugh ter of Mrs. Ralph Smith; Leona Alberta Owens, 4, of 3115 Indianapolis Ave., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nlch-
DE VALERA SAYS ERIN FREE STATE DOOMED TO FALL
Erstwhile Republic President Gathering Sinn Fein into New Organization for Irish Freedom —Policy for * > Present Is Political. (Copyright, 1923, by United Press) (Copyright in Canada) PARIS, July 17.—Breaking*a silence of many months, Earaonn de Valera, erstwhile President - of the “Irish Republic,” predicts in a statement smuggled by airplane, the Irish Free State is doomed,, and Ireland will soon be striving again unitedly for independence.
The United Press received from the famous Irish rebel leader a signed statement saying, despite efforts of the Free State troops to capture him, he Is in Dublin, gathering the scattered republican elements of Sinn Fein into anew organiz.ftion. De Valera Indicates his new policy is based on political lines, rather than military, for the present. Authority With People , ‘‘The Sinn Fein movement is being reorganized,” De Valera assorts in his statement. ‘‘lt's policy probably will be an assertion Irelands’ independence cannot be signed away or voted away. Nor can any portion of Ireland’s territory be so disposed. All governmental authority in Ireland comes exclusively from the people; any pretended treaty or contract that contravenes these principles will b® null and void. "Parallel with this assertion will b\ a denial of the right of any following authority to rule in Ireland and refusal to recognize or cooperate with that authority or its agents. "On the economic side, Sinn Fein will initate a program of reform, and strive to make Ireland economically self-sufficient. "Tho full strength of the republic ans will not appear in the coming elections,” De Valera’s statement continued. • “The most active workers are either
FROM FAR-AND NEAtR
John R. Early whose detention as a leper caused a country-widg sensation two years ago, escaped for the fourth time from the colony Monday and visited haunts in Washington. D. C. Anqox, smelting town in northern British Columbia, is reported burning. George L. Olos, former mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, said Monday he would rather stay at home among and make less, than take a $20,000 job as city manager of Norfolk, Va. Princess Marguerite, 29,. daughter of late Prince Maximilian, of Hohen-lohe-Oehr; ngon is under arrest at Munich in connection with escape of Captain Erhardt from Leipsic prison. General De Bono, director general of Rome police, has banneiWH gambling in Italy after Aug. 1. Chased by a swarm of hornets, Henry T. Williams rushed into a New York pcfilce station Monday and slammed the door. The hornets, thus outwrltted went home. Morris Gest, theatrical producer, while visiting in Paris, has hired a body guard to keep French girls, ambitious for a stage career, from mobbing him. Kisses he didn’t get cost Samuel Katsigianos $25 and costs in Chicago court Monday. Mrs. Helen Denkowicz said he attempted to kiss her several times. Relatives of William H. Swett, late head of Knickerbocker Ice Company, Chicago, are contesting provisions of his will, which left $250,000 to charity. A knife fiend entered the New York home of Morris Briggs Monday and cut the throats of Mrs. Briggs and her two daughters, Marie and Grace. National Ascociatlon of Credit Men, In session at' New York Monday, declared there is nothing in present
Bravo! Regular warm, but not unpleasant weather will be with us for several days, J. H. Armington government meteorologist, predicted Jtoday. With the mercury climbing from 65 to 78 between 6 and 9 a. m., Armington said he did not believe it would be much hotter than Monday, when the higjli point was 87 degrees.
BETTYE lOLA POPPENSEAKER
olas Owens; June L. Gastmean, of 48 S. Gladstone Ave., daughter of Mrs. F. E. Gastmean; Geneva V. Look, 1019 Newman St.; Bettye lola Poppenseaker. 2, of 1416 Roache 3t.; Veldonna Heck, 2, of 1721 Orange St., daughter I of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Heck;
prisoners or prevented from organlz ing or putting their views before the electorate. They are hampered by every device which the odntrol of the entire press and executive machinery enables their opponents to adopt. "But these conditions cannot last. A state founded as the Free State was founded is doomed. This new union with England w::ll be as illstarred as its predecessor of 1800." De Valera maintained that a majority of the Irish people are republican at heart but are intimidated by the cry that maintenance of the republic meant a war of extermination by England. But the republicans are not disheartened by their military defeat, the rebel leaders declared. Aspirations Traditional “I know that republican aspirations are traditional aspirations," he continued. "The nation has outlasted seven centuries of tyranny, and is certain to ultimately triumph. The republicans are convinced that the Independence for which they have been striving will again soon become the objective of a reunited peopje. "To friends of the republic I can only Ray we, on whom responsibility has rested, have only tried to discharge i our obligations. The funds so gener- ! ously subscribed in the United States I have been applied strictly to the pur- ! poses for which they were subscribed.”
business situation to cause depression or elation. Dow, Jonefc & Cos., financial news agency of New York, issued a statement Monday declaring abolition of twelve-hour day in steel industry within next six weeks is impossible. PICKPOCKET CASE GOES J JURY Deliberation Starts Following Second Trial. The cause of John Webber, charged with stealing S2OO from H. H. Woodsmall, president of H. H. Woodsmall Company, Inc., went to a jury In Criminal Court shortly before noon today. The jury disagreed at a former trial, the vote standing 11 to 1 for oonvtctlor*. Woodsmall’s pocket was picked at the Union Station, while he was on the way to attend the Kentucky Derby at Louisville, May 17. On alighting from the train at Louisville he identified Webber as the pickpocket. The defendant did not take the stand today. At the former trial he testified and was subjected to a severe cross-examination by the prosecution. CONCERN FILES New Company Will Kent Building to Slate. Plans of a firm to take over a large armory at Evansville and to rent it to the State for military purposes were revealed today when the Evansville Armory Realty Company filed articles of Incorporation at the Statehouse. The capital stock of the firm is given as $127,500. Incorporators: Henry F. Bosse, Christ Ziss and Fred A. Diekmann, Evansville business men. Accident Ends Race. By Time* Special PRINCETON, Ind., July 17. Luther Bruner, 20, and his brother Paul 16, were suffering today from injuries received when the elder brother drove nis car into the side of an Evansville and Princeton interurban, north of the city. It Is under? stood Bruner was racing with another car and did not see the approaching
VELDONNA HECK
Helen Littell, 6, of 717 E. TwentyFirst St., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Littell, and Joane Louise j Shelby, 3, of No. 4 Broadway Apts., 1 Broad Ripple, daughter of Mr. and ; Mrs. C. V. Shelby. The winner will be given SSO in
Missing Cincinnati Woman Is Sought in Indianapolis
Belief that Mrs. Anna Marie B-*dinger, who has been missing from her home in Cincinnati since June 22, is in Indianapolis visiting friends, under an assumed name, today led police to ask the public to join In the search. I A reward of S3OO has been offered by Mrs. Bedinger’s husband, Louis E. Bedinger, for any information leading to the finding of his wife. Mrs. Bed-
inger disappeared after receiving a ttlephone call that her husband had been injured in an automobile accident and was In the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. Bedinger had not been hurt. Police believe Mrs. Bedinger, who was about to become a mother, may be temporarily mentally ill. Mrs. Bedinger te 38 years old, 5 feet 8 Inches tall: she weighs 180 pounds and has light hair, a light complexion and blue eyes. When she disappeared she wore a white turban with a blue ribbon, black knitted waist with black satin girdle, dark blue skirt and dark brown oxfords. She wore a solitaire diamond engagement ring and white gold wedding irng. She had a Jagged scar on the back of the middle finger of her right hand, a ruptured leader on the inside of her left
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wrist, showing a small lump and a solid gold upper tooth in front,
PURSE SNATCHER IS BELIEVED GIRL DRESSED AS lAN Pair, Operating With Automobile, Holds Up Two Women. A purse snatcher who participated in two robberies Monday evening may be a young woman dressed as a man. detectives said today. Mrs. Carrie Harding, 50, of 858 Buchanan St., told police a sport model roadster, covered with mud, stopped beside her at Delaware and Washington Sts. at 9 p. m. A person appearing to be a young man got out. A man remained in the car. The young person ducked his or her head so Mrs. Harding could not see the face, snatched her purse, jumped back In the car and was whirled away. The purse contained sl. The young person may have been a girl, about 16, dressed in men’s clothing, because his or her hands were very small, both Mrs. 'Harding and Mrs. Stella Carter, 120 Spencer Ave., robbed by the same pair at 11:3)0 p. m., at Spencer Ave. and E. Washington St., said. Detectives said there was no doubt the same pair figured in both robberies, because the descriptions of the persons and automobile tallied completely. Mrs, Carter left a street car at "Washington St. and Emerson Ave , walked east to Spencer and turned south. The young person appearing to be a woman walked toward her in Spencer Ave., grabbed her purse and jumped into the automobile, which sped away. Mrs. Carter lost $3.50 and two rings valued at $75. Hotel Company Forms Articles of incorporation were filed today by the Standard Hotel Company, preparing to operate a hotel in Anderson. The capital consists of 2,500 shares of no par value common stock and $50,000 in preferred stock. Incoporators are E. C. Embich of Anderson, M. F. Embich and Edwin Embich of Indianapolis. In Foulness Island, off the marshy coasts of Essex, fifty miles from London, strangers ar regarded almost pr'tV, ..ignlMnn
LEONA ALBERTA OWENS
cash by The Times and the other two : will be given each a life-sized Baby Peggy'doll, the “last word" in dolls. They talk and walk. The Rhodes-Chouinard Film Comj pany, 511 Merchants Bank building, will make movies of the three win-
MRS. ANNA MARIE BEDINGER.
GIRL BIDS SWEETHEART GOOD-BYE —EH'QS LIFE Motive for Act Is Not Determined by Friends. By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 17. “Good-by, Walter, I’m going on a long, long journey.” With these words, Miss Mary Brown, 17, closed a telephone conversation with her sweetheart, Walter Hartman, today. The girl then drank poison. She died several hours later. Friends could find no reason for the suicide. The -girl was In apparently good health. NAVY ENLISTED IN CONVICT CHASE I Escaped Men Headed to Sea in Stolen Boat. By United Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va., July 17. The man hunt for six convicts escaped from Eastern Penitentiary Saturday, turned to the high seas today, with the services of the United States Navy, and all ships at sea enlisted in the chase. Radio messages were received, giving warring at least four of the escaped band are believed to be headed out to sea In a powerful boat, stolen from a Maryland police chief. Cordons of boats have been thrown across the York and James Rivers to prevent the convicts running their boat inland. Cigars, eighteen Inches long, weighing half a pound, and priced at $8.75, were recently exhibited in London. Copper money bearing the un-i crowned head of Queen Victoria Is being called in by the Bank of England. About 18,000,000 tons of coal are consumed in London annually, 5,000,000 tons being used for domestic purposes. Ancient heiroglyphics discovered north of Matabeleland, Africa, point to a very old civilization which has been lost for centuries. A collection of 5,000 American stamps, valued at $125,00, was recently exhibited in London. It belnoged to the United States. A greater proportion of London's street accidents happen between 3 and 4 in the afternoon than at any or the fey nr tdrhfr.
TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1923
MARY JANE SMITH
ners. These movies will be presented at the Lyric Theater, which cooperated with The Times in discovering the Indianapolis Baby Peggy. Every picture entered in the contest before It closed last Friday night was considered by the judges.
BOARD OF HEALTH REQUESTS 1314,831 BOOST IN BUDGET Provision Made to Establish Psychopathic Ward at. City Hospital, The ‘1924 budget of the city board of health today calls for an appropriation of $730,380, as compared with $415,549 received this year. This is an increase of $314,831, whiclj means a tax lev? of 12 cents, as compared with 7 cents this year, according to Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, into whose hands the budget was placed Board in Debt The increase is needed, according to members of the board, tc meet increased expenditures and maintenance costs, provide for a proposed psycopathic ward at the city hospital, furnish and equip, the new administra tion and nurses’ home building under construction and pay the saiary of additional nurses when room for more patients is provided and put the board on a sound financial basis. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary, said the Increase was asked largely to insure sufficient revenue to jclear the board of debts carried since its organization in 1913. Large School Budget It is estimated that $60,000 a* year will provide for the administration building and the nurses’ home. One item calls for $75,000 for the establishment of the psycopathic ward. Two new ambulaiffies would cost $lO,000, while provision is made for X-ray equipment to replace worn-out machines, and improvements in the pathological laboratory. The school health budget calls for SBB,OOO, as compared with $29,700 this year. There is a corresponding Increase on nearly all other items.
COAST SURVEY MOST EFFICIENT U.S. DEPARTMENT Ramshackle Buildings House 'Million-Dollar Brains’ of Service. By Times Special WASHINGTON, July 17.—With "a million dollar collection of brains” busily at work in a group of old buildings that used to be a cow stable, a boarding house and a dwelling back In Civil War days, the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey has won for Itself the reputation of being the only Government bureau that Is 100 per cent efficient. The oldest scientific bureau In the Federal service, but has charted the Nation's coasts for the protection of navigators, kept tab the declination of the magnetic compass, predicted the tides and suppliel the control figures for land surveyors ever since it was founded by President Jefferson 117 years ago. Beginning with the collection of data by its own survey parties in the field an don it carries Its work right through'ln every detail to printing of the finished charts. Because Congress has not provided money for a suitable building, the Coast and Geodetic Survey is housed i several old structures just south of the capitol. An excellent Job of remodeling, under the supervision of Col. E. Lester Jones, the present director, has made the old buildings fairly habitable. In the old stable, where cows once munched their hay, lithographers are now turning out maps and charts almost big enough to cover a wall; In icoms 26-cent lodgers once spent the night, nathematlclans pore over dizzy problems in trigonometry: in what was once the front hallway of a dwelling is the most complete library cn oceanography and geodesy in the world. “We are doing the work, despite our diflfculties,” said Colonel Jones. w r ho has been director for the past ten years. What’s the spirit behind all this? That is expressed in a framed slogan on the wall of the director's office: “It Can’t Be Done, But here It Is.” That typifies Colonel Jones, say th~