Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 62

HOW. IS CITY TO CARE FOR ITS MENTALLY ILL?

-MH- f-M-J , | U w Probation Officer Tells of Pitiful Results of Putting Patients in Jail

FACTS in support of the movement for immediate establishment of a psychiatric ward at the city hospital, where persons suspected of insanity or awaiting commitment to the State’s overcrowded asylums are presented iff* the following article by Miss Laurel C. Thayer, city probation officer. For years Miss Thayer has been in close touch with conditions at the county jail, where insane persons or those suspected of insanity are held until their ca§es are disposed of. Judge Delbert 0. Wilmeth recently urged Mayor Shank to establish a ward at the city hospital, where these persons could be humanely and scientifically cared for, pointing out that al-

CITY HEADS PLAN PURCHASE OF WATER UTILITY

SHANK CALLS FOR KLAN STATEMENT FROKCABINET Bays Administration May Be Wrecked if Activities Continue. If activities of the Ku-Klux ! Klan continue in Indianapolis they may wreck the city administration, Mayor Shank declared today at a meeting of his cabinet.! The mayor demanded an ex-; pression from department heads; as to whether they wete “for or; against” him. t “If anything’ causes trouble we want | to get It thrashed out,” he said. I “You can either stand with me or gat out. k “I don't care how many Klansmen 'there are here or how* many are Catholic* or Jews, we want to thrash this thing out. We want tcTVtarid together, but if the administration fails we all want to go down together.” Hogue First to Reply Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, was the first to reply. “I am loyal to Mayor Shank and his administration," he said. “I am not saying whether I belong to the Klan or not. That doesn’t make any difference.” Hogue said fifery crosses should not be. burned inside the city limits, as burning of them is a violation of an Drdlnance. He declared there Is rto basis for rumors that the Klan is threatening to demand Impeachment of Mayor Shank. “If that were going to be done it would have been done long ago,” he said. He declared the law should be enforced regardless of who it affects. All Express Loyalty / Following Hogue’s statement each department „ head expressed himself as loyal |o the administration and in favor of law enforcement. John L. Elliott, city engineer, said he was not a member of the Klin and lid not believe any public officials should belong to that organization. Opposition to salary increases in iny department was expressed by Shank. “Taxes are high enough now,” he said. “We must have more employes .from time to time to take care of the Inatural growth of the city, but if they raise salaries it must be ’over my head.” Increase in Budget Despite Shank’s opposition to higher taxes Hogue said that the budget will be larger than ever and that this would 'necessitate an increased tax rate? * A budget committee composed o! Charles E- Coffin, president of the hoard of public works, R. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks and recreation, and Elliott, was named. Pursuant to the plan announced by Shank several weeks ago the .committee will meet with about twenty citizens representing business, inlustrial and labor interests to discuss She budget.

3ASOLINE DROP RUMORED Oil Officials Expect Decrease; New York Price Falls. Officials of the Standard Oil Company and Webern Oil Refining Company today said a slight drop in the price of gasoline may be “expected loon,’’ because of increased oil production throughout the country. Slight cuts have been made in New York. The local managers said they could not tell exactly when the decrease would come here or what it would be. U. S. S.MENDORA AGROUND Cruiser Cleveland Rushing to San Sal- | vador to Her Assistance. iy United, Press ' WASHINGTON. July 24.—The American steamer Mendora is aground in the west side of the island of San Salvador, one of the Bahamas, and (he cruiser Cleveland is rushing to |er assistance, according to a wiPetes mesia ge received by the Navy Department today from the translort Kittery.

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Operator’s Voice Familiar to Sleepy-Heads at Hotel

t - MRS. MILDRED SIDDOMS ,

GETTING 150 PEOPLE OUT OF BED THANKLESS JOB * \ V, Hotel’Phone Girl Tells of Various Ways Guests Receive Unwelcome Morning Call. SILENCE! Unfathomable depth of quiet. Then faintly, f6r, far away, a small insistent ringirfg, jboring in upon your consciousness like a cold steel drill. The deuce take all telephone operators who haven’t enough sense of humor to let a fellow sleep a few rninuts later than the hour he asked to be awakened.

With some such mental attitude, Mrs. Mildred Welch Siddoms has to deal 365 days in the year, when she calls 150 guests every morning at the Lincoln. She has been doing it four years. “Oh, they’re usually nice,” said Mrs. Siddoms. “But they’re most goshawful sleepy. ■> “You have to be very accurate, you know. To call the wrong room would be terrible. “We seldom make mistakes, but it takes close watching. Very often a guest calls down ar.d in an angry voice asks why he wasn’t called on time. I can tell from the record whether he was, and if I have caljed him it develops he lifted the receiver sleepily knd promised td ‘get right up.’ Then he flopped on the bed, Just as he used to do when he was a school kid. ' x “One of the most common happenings is the case of the traveler who arrives from the East and forgets to set back his watch. He wakes up. and, in a frenzy of fear, sees that he is an hour late, and frantically calls me. But when I explain you should hear him sigh with relief.” Ho Hum’.! SAKE ensconced in your hotel. With the call srirl on the line. You ask her please to wake you up At four or six or nine. AND in the morniny when she rings You scratch your sleepy head And strumbling to the telephone, You “wish that she were dead!’’ OR. maybe, on the other hand. You're sweet as apple brandy. And. underneath the shower bath. You chirp. "Boy. she's a dandy 1" WELL, anyway. it*s all the same To the girl who,spoils your dreams— . A sweet-voiced angel ’on the job. Who beams and beams and beams I

though Sheriff Snider gives such prisoners the best care possible, a jail 4s in no way equipped for the situation. The only step taken by the city has been announcement by the board of health that an appropriation would be included in the 1924 budget for the psychiatric wal'd. By MISS LAUREL C. THAYER Os the eighty-five men and women held in the Marion County jail as insane, or suspected of insanity, since Jan. 1, thirty-two were found sane. ' ' These persons were held for periods varying from twenty-

LAUSANNE PEACE TREATYISSIGNED Pact Brings to End GreecoTirrkish War. By United Press LAUSANNE, July 24.—The Lausanne peace treaty, bringing to an end the Greeco-Turkish wad and involving important agreements regarding the Near East and Turkey’s relations with the allies was signed here at a plenary session today). Ismet Pasha, Turkish representative was the first to affix his signature, signing at 3:10 p. m. ADDRESS CHECKED UP Herman Glover, Arrested at 309 Dorman St. Herman Glover was arrested at 309 Dorman St., not at 310 Highland Ave., as reported Monday, a check-up showed today. Glover was charged witn keeping a gambling house and later rearrested on a charge of speeding. HOURLY JTEMPERATURE , e 6 n. m 72 10 a. m 82 7 a. m 75 11 a. m. s 82 i8 a. m. 76 12 (noou ~.... 82 b a. m ~,,77 Ip. up....... $2

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1923

FILIPINOS DEMAND FREEDOM FROM U. S. GOVERNMENT Interference of Civil Affairs Charged Against Governor in Appeal to Harding. By United Press MANILA, July 24. iate and absolute independence of the Philippine Islands to solve the present political crisis was demanded here today by resolutions adopted by the independence committee composed of all members of the legislature. Action of the council of State and department secretaries in handing resignations to Gen. Leonard Wood because of alleged Interference with civic aLffairs by the Governor'General wu indorsed. Wood “I’ndemooratlc” .Jfhe resolution demanding Woods rwricval-flald he was unfitted because of military training, temperament, and associations to govern In a democratic manner. He is surrounded by Army officers who are without legal status or responsibility tq this government in " open disregard to Filipino responsible officials. Continuing, the resolution states: "We, therefore, resolve we will defend the constitutional liberties of our people against all usurpation or invasion by the Governor General, and that wo will maintain inviolate and Intact the autonomous* powers already granted to the Philippines snd secured to them by organic and other laws of the land. hold if is a duty we cannot evade under the present to all legal means within our reach to the end that we may secure the complete and unequivocal vindication of the constitutional liberties of our people which have been deliberately trampled upon, and last>-we declare-this compact phasizes more than ever that adequate and absolute independence of the Islands to which our people aspire is the only complete and satisfactory solution of the Philippine problem.” Governor on Trip , This latest development found Major General Wood away from the scene of turmoil on an inspection trip ,to the southern islands. Reports cabled of sympathetic editorials by many prafnlnent American newspapers have greatly cheered the leaders of the peaceful revolt against Genral Wood. The former hold the favorable editorials justify Filipino fajth In the sense of fair? play of the American jieople. The native press comments editorially on the American sporting spirit. „ t t CHARLES GLASS MISSjNG —i —~~t Wife Tells Police Husband Was Despondent,. Charles E. Glass, 40, of 117 Highland Ave., has been missing since Saturday morning, Mrs. Emma S. Glass, his wife, today told police. She said that when her husband left home he put on a bathing suit under his clothes. She said he has been despondent. Glass is five feet eight inches tall and weighs 145 pounds. He has dark brown hair and brown mustache. He wore a brown suit and brown hat.

COACHES DERAILED AS TRAINS CRASH 9 L. E, <&, W. Passenger From Indianapolis Hits Pennsylvania Freight at Kokomo/

Two coaches were derailed, passengers shaken up and the englneeer and fireman slightly injured today when a Lake Erie & Western passenger train, which left Indianapolis at 7 a. m. plowed into a Pennsylvania freight train at a crossing in Kokomo, according to a dispatch. J. W. Smith, 3428 Carrollton Ave., conductor, and Lewis Trippeer, 2511 Central Ave., brakeman, were uninjured. According to the engineer, O. D.

four hours to two months on vagrancy charges in city court in order thaj, they might be examined jpd committed if insane. That one of these should die in jail while the long, involved process of commitment was in progress places tragical emphasis upon the plea for Stale and city appropriations for the scientific care of the insane. But when thejocal papers carried the news items of this man’s death, no one paused to ask '“why.” No friends pr relatives called at the court after his commitment to jail on Feb. 23, wh,en the case was Continued to March 7. He had to be given the fjame shelter and food that convicted crinjnals are given at the county jail. No social worker was as-

Relatives Find No Trace I • of Woman Absent 18 Days : ' ■' N \, •/ • / . i ' ■ • i • * .1 * ,) '"i / / t L. / . . v 1 J

WIFE MISSING, HUSBAND UNDAUNTED IN SEARCH Woman, Who Left Home on Rainy Night, Said She Would Write in Three Weeks or Not at All. ii * THE monotonous beat of a steady, hard rain, sounded on the streets as a slight, dark-haired woman stepped from her home, locked the door, hid the key and disappeared into the darkness.

That w.as Friday night, July 6. The woman was Mrs. Anna M. Cook, 51, of 2017 Hoyt Ave." Today her husband, George E. Cook, druggist at State and Lexington Aves., alked The Indianapolis Tidies to iiid him in his search for his wife. Cook said he had returned home from his store about 11 the night of his wife’s disappearance. A note from his wife said he might hear from her in a couple of weeks, but that if he had not heard withirt three weeks he would not hear at all. The three weeks will be up Friday. The man, 'broken in health and spirit, -without sleep for days, told of g.n illness ho believes responsible for Mrs. Cook’s disappearance. Mrs. Qook’s aged mother, Mrs. Emma Conrad, of near Anderson, Is broken hearted over her daughter’s dlsappearance, CJook said. Cook thought his wife might have

Burkholder, Peru, the crossing signal was not set against the passenger train until it was within 400 feet. Burkholder set his brakes and stuck with the engine, which, while badly smashed about the front, did not leave the rails. He was bruised and' scratched. Fireman B, Cox, Peru, jumped, ' spraining his ankles. Two cars of the freight, loaded with scrap iron, were derailed.

MRS. ANN.\ M. COOK

gone to Cincinnati, where the family has an intimate friend, but she had not been there, nor Los Angeles, Cal., where Cook’s mother lives. He said she had plenty of money. Mrs. Cook is described- as 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 125 pounds^with dark brown hair, very slightly streaked with gray, gray eygs and prominent cheek bones. At the time of her disappearance, she wore either a tan skirt and white blouse or a black dress, a tan hat with flowered ribbon, low tan .shoes and a tan jacket. GERMAN PRICESS SENT TO PRISON Found Guilty, of Aiding Escape of Capt, Ehrhardt, By United Press LEIPZIG, July S4 —Princess Margarethe Von Hohenlohe-Oehringen wa3 sentenced today to serve six months in prison, from which she is suscepted of having aided her lover, the notorious Captain Ehrhardt, to escape a fortnight ago. The princess was -found guilty of assisting the royalist officer, famed for his Krupp putsch exploits, to evade the authorities of republican Germany who hunted him for months after breaking up tbt attempted coup de etat. , .

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signed or paid by the city or State to search out his friends, learn his family history or expedite an early the insanity inquest. This inquest was held the day after the arrest, and the result was reported to me by the physician ordering the inquest. This was all he could do. The paper** as. is customary in such cases, then went to the office of the county clerk to be sent to the Central Hospital for acceptance or rejection of the patient, - On March 9, the man died. At this time, and for many months priob to this date, the (Continued on Page 2) *

Mayor Declares Cjjty Might as Weil Make Moneyas Private \ Company—Cabinet Votes Unanimous Approval.i FAIR RETURN IS SUBJECT OF DEBATE AT HEARING Attorneys for Consumers Object to Expert Expressing Opinion Upon What Constitutes Proper Profit. The city administration today agreed to take steps leading to fyie purchase of the property of the Indianapolis Water Company, which now has a petition for increased rates before the public service commission.

The action was taken at a meeSng of Mayor Shank with his department heads. Every department head agreed the property should be purchased by the efty. The matter will be referred to the legal department with a view of determining the steps necessary to bring about the purchase. _ It was said a session of the Legislature may be necessary before such a purchase could be completed. An 8 per cent return on the value of the property of the water company is fair and necessary." Leonard Metcalf, engineer and expert witness for the company, declared in the rate hearing today. “The city can borrow money at about 4 per cent and if the company is earnifrg 8 per cent on a $17,000,000 investment the city might as well have the 4 per cent difference.” said Mayo- Shank. John Elliott city engineer staid n-dlanat-oHs was one of the largest < ities the country' having a private Ij owned water plant. Attorneys representing consumers objected to Metcalf expressing an opinion as to a fair and necessary return and much of the morning session was consumed by arguments on this subject. The commission finally admitted the testimony under a stipulation previously made that the commission need not consider evidence it consider* irrevelant. Clarence E. Weir, attorney representing consumers, opened the objection on the ground the company was jnaking an effort to put into the record a conclusion, the making of which was the duty of the commission. Objects to Opinions "The result will be unfair if Interested witnesses are permitted to express opinions on return,” he said. "The question does, not call for a statement of fact bat for a conclusion. If the company wishes to introduce evidence as to the rate oFreturn made by other businesses it would be competant.” William A. Pickens, attorney for the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. objected the question was not an engineering auestion. but one of (Continued on Page Six)

MARKET PRODUCE PRICESSTILL UP Green Corn Only Item to Fall —Potatoes 21/2 Cents, In spite of the expected drop in market prices, city market produce remained about the same as last week when market opened today. Green corn was the only item to take a drop. It sold at 35 cents a dozen. Green beans (Kentucky Wonders! remained at 15 cents a pound. Beets, turnips and carrots were two bunches for 5 cents. Apples were quoted at five and eight pounds for 25 cents. Potatoes remained at 2Va cents a pound.' Tomatoes sold at two pounds for 25 cents. Cabbage averaged 3 cents a pound. Head lettuce was 5 cents a pound. A few cherries remained at two quarts for 25 cents. Blackberries were selling at 20 ent§ a quarts raspberries were selling at 15 cents a pint. t Salesmanship Address Louis Bonsib of the Indianapolis Engraving and Electrotyping Cos. will %peak before the Advertising Club of Indianapolis Thursday at its luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce on “Putting Salesmanship Into Pictures.” A special attraction will be irthe

Forecast *** * FAIR tonight and Wednesday. Somewhat cooler tonight.

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BANDITS STAGE DARING HOLD-UP; BOUNTYISSB3,OOO Three Bank Messengers Are Wounded in Sensational Street Battle, By United Press TORONTO, Ont., July 2i.— Shouting down three bank meson a crowded Toronto street, six automobile bandits fled today with a bag containing $83,000 in cash. The sensational hold-up occurred at a crowded comer with pedestrians held spell bound, some too frightened to run, looking on. Others caught in the fusillade of bullets flung themselves face downward on the cobblestones , The messengers from the Sterling Bank turned into one of Toronto’s main streets just as the bandit car swered up to the curb. Two of the hold-up men leaped out and ran toward the messengers while others opened fire. A moment later two bandits and two messengers were roiling in a hand-to-hand struggle, wMle over their heads other messengers and bandits kept up a steady fir®. The robbers’ car moved slowly along the street, its occupants firing until three of the messengers were disabled. After a brief burst of firing on both sides had died down and only excited shouts of spectators and the roar of the exhaust of the bandit car took up the turmoil, the robbers were back in their auto with a satchel containing $83,00 in cash. The car made its way through a congestion of confused traffic without any one attempting to arrest it* progress and a few minutes later W'as reported speeding westward on the Hamilton highway. The three messengers injured are James Harris. Standard Bank, two w r ounds ? in thigh and abdomen; A. F. Duck, Bank of Commerce, gun shot wounds; David Campbell, Stirling Bank, wounded in left shoulder. Allen Ward, a pedestrian, was injured when he fell during a scuffle with the bandits.

DATES ANNOUNCED JOR CHARITY MEET Goy* McCray to Address Conference, B J! Times Special ‘ANDERSON, Ind., JuJy 24—Anderson committees on the ennual session of the Indiana conference of charities and corrections have been informed that Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 has been fl eed as the time of the meeting. Governor McCray has accepted an invitation to addfess the meeting on Sunday, Sept. 30. Miss Vida Newsom cf Columbus, president, will preside. Discussions will be held and talks will be given pertaining to child welfare, county charities,, family welsjjre, public health and State charttlea.