Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1923 — Page 2

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STREET CAR RUNS' INTO WAGON; MAN AND SON INJURED Police Hunt Muncie t Driver and l-foid Companion After Accident, H. A- Day, 803 E. Maryland St., and son, Roscce. 13, today were recovering from injuries received late Monday when a wagon on yvhich they were riding*? was struck by a car, in front of "30 E. Washington St. As Day drove around a parked automobile, E. Washington street car no. 933, in

charge of motorman Earl Saxon. 139 S. Oriental St., hit the wagon. Day was taken home in an ambulance. R osc o e was only slightly bruisedCarl Moore, 870 W. TwentyNinth St., was under arrest today charged with drunken-

ftTI P e r ions If have been / I killed in " a u tomobile accidents in Marion County tbia year. ft ft Hare been UK /injured ill I t in traffic w w a e eidents. It Is your duty to make the streets safe.

ness and police were searching for Walter W. Applegate, Muncie. Ind., whose automobile is being held at police headquarters. Applegate is said to have been the driver of a car that struck an auto mobile owned by Victor Raible, 2616 E. Washington St., in front of that address Monday night. Applegate's car was taken to a garage at 2705 E. Washington St., but two men in the car had gone before the police arrived. Later the police arrested Moore, who said he had been with Applegate, but did not know where he had gone. Bernard Meyer, 6, of 619 N. Noble St., was suffering from a broken collar bone and bruises today. The boy was rolling a hoop at Noble and North Sts. late Monday when he ran from behind an automobile into the path of another car driven by Henry Muegge. 341 Lincoln St. Witness told police Muegge was driving about ten miles an hour. whillctife GIVESSTATE SLIP Prosecution of Alleged Slayer Hard Hit by Disappearance, By United Press CLEVELAND. July 24.—Mrs. John L. Whitfield, wife of the man now on trial for the murder- of Patrolman Griffith, has vanished. The prosecution had relied on her to supply a most important link in Its chain of evidence. She is the only witness the State had to prove Whitfield was armed when the policeman started with him in Whitfield's automobile for the police station on May 11- /

JILTED SUITOR TRIES SUICIDE Blames Fiancee Who Changes * Mind for Rank Act, Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 24. —The uncertainty of a woman's mind on her love affairs resulted* in Boyd Meyer. 21, shooting and seriously wounding himself at midnight when he saw his former fiancee riding with a rival. Miss “Ted” Lawrence and Meyer had been engaged to marry and the date for the ceremony set on several occasions, but the girl changed her mind. In March a license was obtained, but again the girl wavered and jilted him. Last night Meyer called for Miss Lawrence, but she refused to accompany him on a ride. She went with B. F. Kindall in another automobile. Meyer followed half block behind. Patrolmen found Meyer leaning over the wheel of his automobile, probably fatally wounded. ‘‘The woman made me do It,” Meyer said. WIFE GOES TO RESCUE ‘FATHER OF 57 CHILDREN’ Mrs. Mina B. Allen Has §2,500 to Get Hubby Gut of Jail. By United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 24 —Mrs. Mina B. Allen is speeding toward Los Angeles, Cal., today with $2,500 to get her husband, Dr. Helon B. Allen, o,ut of jail. Allen, known as the “father” of 57 children, mostly girls, was jailed in Los Angeles on a charge of violating the Mann act. Miss Gladith James Allen, the girl he brought to Pittsburgh, is at pre* ent under the care of the Children’s Service Bureau. NEW ORPHANAGE WANTED Cliild Welfare Society Proposes Building Cottages. Leo K. Rappaport, represented, the Child Welfare Society oLthe County Welfare League at a meeting held before the county commissioners at the courthouse -this morning where proposals are to be considered relative to the erection of anew colored orphanage in Indianapolis. The .old orphanage is said to be unfit for use any longer and the Welfare League is endeavoring to put across & measure calling for a number of cottages to house about thirty children each. The meeting after a brief discussion and will reassemble Wednesday morn-

Minnesota’s Dirt Farmer Senator-Elect Says “Call Me Magnus’’ — Overall-Clad Rustic Likes to Do “Chores” About Rural Home

Johnson Says ‘Those Fellows’ Ain’t Going to Learn Him Anything, By GEORGE BRITT NEA Service Writer KINGSTON, Minn., July 24. "You’ve come a long way just to see an' ordinary Minnesota farmer.” That is the comment of the neighbors in this village, ten miles from the railroad, when an interviewer asks the road to the farm of Magnus Johnson. And when the visitors arrive at the old white six-room house overshadowed by a huge barn, it is a perspiring, overall-clad faxmer with two dogs bounding beside him, who "tomes out to give them welcome. His impressive sincerity and zeet for combat does not appear until later. The neighbors’ phrase of ‘‘ordinary” fits Magnus Johnson so far as his appearance on the farm is concerned. He is slightly below average height, but broad of frame. His hair is brown with a bald spot on top, and his bushy mpstache is reddish brown. Small, light-blue Sejjes snap behnd hea\ly-irlmmed cver-thlck glasses. It Is a squarecut, cheerful, alert face. His picteresque crudity externally will make him anything but ordinary in the Senate. Aside from the ordinary is a striking similarity In appearance to Theodore Roosevelt which this rustic radical is delighted ta hear referred to. “Call Me Magnus” First greetings include the new title of “Senator.” “Call me Magnus,” says the Senator, and the manner Is anything but a pose. A rich Swedish accent shows as he bellows his words in the conversational tone which can be heard on the next farm. The accent will be found to include “yentlemen” for “gentlemen,” “wery” for “very” and “shores” for "chores.” “This Is Magnus Johnson, Jr.,“ he says, as he seizes his stage-frightened 14-year-old namesake and drags him forward for introduction. Then are introduced the others of the family—“Ma” Johnson, a large, pleasant-smlling, unaffected countrywoman; Lillian, 23; Victor, 21; Francis. 19; Agnes. 10, and Florence, 9. They bore the burden of farm Work

GIRL BELIEVED ON WAY TO ARKANSAS Mother Thinks Josephine Taylor, 16, Missing Since Sunday, Is Hiking to Sister's Home,

Relatives of Josephine Taylor, 16, of 130 S. Davidson St., who has been missing since Sunday night, today expressed belief that she is hiking overland to Ft. Smith, Ark., where her sister, Mrs. Ida Lawrence lives. Miss Smith once told her mother she some day Intended to take the tramp. Mrs. Rachel Taylor, the girl's mother, has appealed to police. The girl had no money with her when she disappeared. Mrs. Taylor said she also thought there was a possibility that Josephine had been encouraged to leave by a man. Miss Taylor had been In a peculiar humor about three days previous to her disappearance. “She acted silly and foolish,” Mrs. Taylor said. “She always wanted to get a night job In a restaurant, but we never would let her. She said she wanted new clothes. She once said that she would be missing some day, and that she would either be in a creek or would be at her sister’s home in Ft. Smith.” The girl has brown bobbed hair and was wearing a white sailor suit with a blue collar, brown stockings and white and brown shoes. She was not wearing a hat wTien she w r as last seen. Any one with any information about the girl, should communicate with the

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Judge Yeatman, Cincinnati, Monday dismissed a murder charge against Mrs. Bessie B. Bush, declaring the woman did right in protecting herself and daughter, although she killed her husband in so doing. Arthur Beckwith, concert master of Cleveland orchestra, refused to lanti Monday from the liner Orduna, when his family was refused admission to the United States because British quota is filled. Red tape was cut and the family admitted. The United States gunboat Pampanga, patrolling West River in China, was fired on Monday by artillery and rifles at Dosing, by Kwangsi troops. A radio set Is to be Installed in the death house at Sing Sing Prison. Burglars stole gems and silver plate valued at $12,000 from summer home of Mrs. Marshal Field at Manchester, Conn., Monday. Premier Bethln of Hungary has challenged Colonel Pronay. Magyar chief, to a duel, British House of Commons Monday rejected a resolution for a second disarmament conference. Thousands of Londoners besiege Canadian Pacific Railway offices asking for Jobs in Canada as harvesters. Total plurality of Magnus Johnson, elected Senator from Minnesota, was 94,846. i Dr. Crystina, Italian specialist, announced at ©pme Monday discovery of a scarlet fever serum. Dr. Wellington Koo was named foreign minister by Chinese military leaders Monday. Scores of New Orleans pedestrians watered burglars enter a Piggly Wiggly store Monday night, turn ou

during the campaign. On election day Mrs. Johnson herself milked seven of the family’s twenty-fdur cows before going to Minneapolis to receive election returns. “Ma” and Magnus will take the younger three children to Washington when they go. By a bock door the Senator leads his visitors through the dining' room to the “sitting room.” The kitchen is in the Tear, but in the dining room

MISS JOSEPHINE TAYLOR city editor of The Times or with Mrs. Taylor.

truck and depart unmolested. The safe contained S6OO cash. Chicago court ruled Monday a man may* cut off his first wife in his will, if he so desires. Late Walter Flanders, auto manufacturer, left $500,000 to his second wife. Jury trying Adelard Delormer, former prifest, at Montreal for murder of half-brother, disagreed Moiiday. Rounftnlan delegates to Baptist convention in Stockholm declare native Baptists in their country are suffering persecution comparable to middle ages. DUNHAM’S FATHER DiES Marion County Council Adjourns Meeting Out of Reepect. Because of the death of William Dunham, father of Daniel Dunham, member of the Marion County council, -the council tdjourned until Wednesday at 9 a. m. after a brief session today. No business other than reading the proposed appropriation ordinance and a short discussion of conditions was transacted. Body Crushed by Train By Times Special PORTLAND. Ind., July 24.—Frank Wible, 61, was instantly killed Monday under the wheels of a G. R. &-I. north bound passenger train. Wible’s left leg and shoulder were mangled and his skull crushed. I He was unmarried, living at home with his mother, Mrs. Matt Wible. Military Funeral Held By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 24.—A military funeral for Ralph Watkins, 23, a. World War veteran,, who was killed Sunday while dynajplting fish, i was to be held today. He l,s survived

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is a sink with a pump at the end instead of water faucets. On the side- | board stand freshly filled kerosene lamps. > As Magnus talks he opens letters at a small roll-top desk in the slt- , ting room. There are two sections ' of bookcases over the desk, but the | books consist almost entirely of voli umes of Minnesota legislative proceedI ings. Most conspicuous on the walls

WHAT WILL COUNTRY DO FOR ITS MENTALLY ILL? (Continued From Page 1)

“new wing” at Julietta still was in process of construction, so no help could be expected from that source. And Central Hospital was reporting that “seventy men,were sleeping on the floor, and that the Marion County quota was full.’’ So the man died. What if Indianapolis could, in another case, have seen the grav-haired old man wearing the coat of a Civil War vetcfan. knocking for admission at the iron door of the county jail? He had been picked up on the street by the police and brought to the city prison in the police-station to await court action. When found, he was bewildered and helpless. He had wafidered from the Soldiers’ Home at Marion. The Sheriff and officers at tha jail Were kind to the olcj man, and cared for him as best they could until his daughter came and took him home Another, a feeble-minded mqn who had committed a misdemeanor, had to be released after serving a ninety-day commitment made necessary for the protection of society in the absence of any other institution to which this mentally ill sent, and further, to enable an investigation to be made which might lead to permanent care for him at the 'colony for feebleminded at Butlerville. But no one was willing to sign commitment papers. This man had run away from the School for Feeble-Minded at Ft. Wayne three times. He is a menace to any community, but in the proper institution, would be self-support-ing at least, as he is able-bodied. At present he is at large. Another, a woman viciously insane, cannot be committed for the same reason. She, too, is at large. When last heard of, she was brandishing a meat knife in the face of her employer. This woman is a non-resident, and efforts to locate relatives have failed. Family Does Not Help. t A man, a legal resident of this city, was in jail from April 11 until Junc\l3 because neither Central Hospital for the Insane nor Julietta could admit him. Daily he grew more thin and pale, herded in the crowded quarters in the jail. I finally located two brothers in a distant State, but they merely wrote: “We would be glad to learn wha£ action is taken in regard to our brother. ” Mr. M. had been a steady worker, and his employer spoke well of him. Also his “land-lady” said he had been honest, industrious and sober. And what of the refined the daughter of a former business man of another State? In search of employment she had come to this city, had taken a room and tvas sewing by the day. One night, she suffered severe pain in her head, a doctor was summoned, advised hospital care, but instead, the police were called because the City Hospital cannot take mental cases. She awoke to find herself on an iron cot in the city prison. There were others in the same cell, women arrested for drunkenness and even worse offenses. “Why was I brought to this terrible place?” she asked the matron the next morning. Oh that her sorrowful face could have been seen, and this question could have been asked of the committee of the last Legislature that killed the bill providing an appropriation for more State hospitals for the insane! Perhaps they could answer. This happened on May 3. State Board Acts. It was June 15 when she was removed from the environment of prisoners and taken to a State institution, and this was done only after I had made a special appeal to the board of State charities, which alone has authority to authorize the permanent care of non-residents. Meantime, they and other organizations had-eooperated in an effort to locate friends or relatives. The relatives could not be found and friends were unable or unwilling to come for her. There were letters in her trunk giving highest praise both as to, her character and ability, one from an employer for whom she had .worked thirteen years.

MAGNUS JOHNSON LIKES TO CARE FOR HIS HORSES. HE CERTAINLY LOOKS HAPPY IN THE UPPER LEFT-HAND PHOTO. THE SENATE WON’T SEE HIM THE WAY HE IS IN THE UPPER PICTURE. BUT HIS NEIGHBORS OUT IN MINNESOTA DO. MRS. JOHNSON, WHO HELPS "MAGNUS” RUN THE FARM, IS SHOWN (LOWER ' LEFT) MILKING ONE OF THE COWS.

are old-time enlarged portraits In tarnished gilt frames, showing Magnus and his first wife. Some of the children sleep in couches in the sitting r om. Magnus tells his visitors that he was bom in Sweden 52 years ago. He got good marks at school but left when he was 12. He worked on coast sailing vessels, developed his lungs in a glass factory and came to America at 20. After a few years as a lumberjack he moved to the farm which is home today, paying sls an acre for the first forty acres. Jjte’s an Organizer "I chopped over all this land myself,” he tells you. “For sixteen years I hauled cordwood to town, and the

first organizing I ever did was to get farmers a fair price for wood.” Organizing has been his hobby instead of golf. He "had ten Jobs at once,” he tells you. He has held various township offices and was an effective representative and State Senator. If is suggested that Washington I will be different from the serenity of I the farm. "Those fellofvs there ain’t going to learn me anything.” says Magnus. I've been going to school in politics since I was a boy in the old country. I’ve been to Washington a c< uple of times, and they're not going to slip anything over on me.” Again it wasn’t a pose. Magnus is convincing.

New Pastor Comes to Reformed Church

REV. F. H. DEIIIM The Rev. Frederick* H. Deihm, formerly superintendent of Fairview Park Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, has accepted the pastorate of the Second Reformed Church at Alabama and Merrill Sts. following the resignation of the Rev. Ernest N. Evans, who went to Pittsburgh to become superintendent of spiritual resources of the Pittsburgh synod. The Rev. Deihm is living at 881 Fletcher Ave. Two Arrested in Fight Marvin Ballinger, 608 E. New York St., was under arrest today on charges of disorderly conduct and provoke. Harry Craig, 518 Douglas St., was charged with assault and battery. The arrests followed a fight at James Armltage’s livery barn, 134 Geisendorf St., where Craig Is foreman. Marks 425,530 To Dollar NEW YORK, July 24.—A new low record low was marked up for German marks at the opening of the foreign exchange market today. They were quoted at 425,530 marks to the dollar.

returned from hoboing the West, and arrested for “vagrancy” a few days before his aged mother became ill. The mother rapidly grew worse, but the' little slip of paper on which the telephone number of police headquarters was written had been misplaced. While the son was pacing the corridors of the Marion County jail, the spirit of his mother took flight, and when he was released from jail, she had been buried a week. Although this man is insane and desperately in need of hospital care, he had to be released because his relative, after being persuaded to take the steps necessary for such medical treatment, found that they could not answer the"required as to his personal and family history. I am glad that I was not present when this wandrer asked, “Where is mother?” Such are the stories of a few of our eighty-five helpless, sick, distressed pieces of human drift wood. As The Times pointed out recently, and as the public is beginning to know, a jail is the worst possible place for mentally sick folks. Except victims of alcoholism, none improve even under a kindly sheriff’s care, and iron bars have turned the insipient insane into raving maniacs. Does Indianapolis, by ignorance, indifference or miserliness wish to increase the sura, of humrfn misery or will it bfipg scienoe and ann.inl sarvion to het.r on t.hk nrnhlem ?

SCOUTS TO GIVE FETE Athletic Events on Program at Fountain St. Church. • Scout mothers of Troop 73, Fountain St. M. E. Church, will hold a lawn fete Monday night, at the church, Roosevelt and Fountain Sts. A musical program and athletic events will feature the program. The troop will take an overnight hike Friday to the Scout reservation near Ft. Harrison. Scoutmaster G. B.’ Watkins will be in charge. ALLEGED THIEF IS CAPTURED AFTER DOWNTOWN CHASE Store / Manager and Others Lead Pursuit Suits Dropped in Flight, Fifty persqps, including several women, joined Trafficman Charles Viles today in a chase through downtown streets today, which ended in capture of Virgil Peters, 23, colored, 727 Edgemont Ave., In a machine shop at Kentucky and Senate Aves. C. Murphy, manager of the’ Hub Clothing Company, 139 W. Washington St., told police he looked up from some work in the rear of the store to see Peters walking out the front door with an arm load of suits, valued at $169. With crips of “Stop thief,” “Catch him” and “Burglars,” the manager and several clerks started after Peters. Viles, stationed at Capitol Ave. and Washington St., heard the commotion and started after the alleged thief. * The faster Peters ran, according to Viles, the faster he dropped the suits, one by one. Viles said Peters was reaching lor his hip pocket when captured. The trafficman whipped ovjt his own revolver. Just then Smith Meyer, 22 S. Capitol Ave., came into the shop and declared, Viles said: “Why, that’s the same guy I chased yesterday. “He came into my store and left with a bundle of leather and a gross of nibber heels. He dropped the leather and left me behind.” Then In came HiiUard Morris, 23, colored, 616 Hiawatha St., and, according to Viles, remarked: “Never mind, Virg, I’ll get you out on bond,” So Viles arrested Peters on a charge of grand larceny and Morris on a vagrancy charge.

MARYPICKFORD’S BOOKKEEPER SUED Husband of Mrs, Adams Claims She Deserted Him, Hollywood proved more alluring than home here to Mrs. Dorothy B. Adams, a bookkeeper in the office of Mary Plckford, movie queen- according to a divorce complaint filed by Klnloch C. Adams, editor of the American Coal Miner, 307 Guaranty building, in Superior CourtAlleged desertion is thp basis of the action. The complaint states the couple was married March 6, 1919, and Mrs. Adams left home here July i* 1921, and went to California. The suit was filed by Frank C. Riley, attorney for Adams. NEWSBOYS GET' THRILLS APLENTY Times Carriers Are Guests at Rialto and Circus, Every seat in the Rialto Theater was taken this morning as well as all standing room when more than 600 carriers and newsboys of The Indianapolis Times were the guest of the management at a private showing of D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation.” It was not necessary to take a vote of appreciation of the kindness of Manager Hughes, who is presenting the Griffith movie. They all had a great time. Tuesday seems to be a lucky day for The Times boys as they will all go to Gentry Brothers dog and pony show and Patterson’s wild animal circus tonight.

TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1923

RABBI MESSING TO CONDUCT FUNERAL OF FIREVETERAN Capt. Isaac Rosengarten to Be Buried Wednesday Afternoon, Rabbi Meyer Messing will pay last tribute to Capt. Isaac Rosengarten, 57, retired fireman who died Monday, at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the home, 2326 N. Alabama St. Burial will be In the Jewish cemetery. Mr. Rosengarten had lived in Indianapolis all his life. For thirty years he -was connected with the fire department. He entered the department Jan 3, 18$1, at Chemical House No. 2, In Prospect St. His last post was Fire Station No. 17, Madison Ave. and Prospect 5)6., where he served fifteen years. He was promoted to captaincy In 1900 and held that position until he retired in 1921. During his many years as a fire fighter he suffered many injuries. Once while he was sitting in front of the c4d Prest-O-Lite plant in South St. he was thrown several feet in the air by an explosion in the plant. Before he became a fireman, he was a clerk for O’Connor & Cos., wholesale grocers, in S. Meridian St. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and Eagles. Surviving are a brother, Moses Rosengarten, and two sisters. Miss Fanny Rosengarten and Mrs. Rachel Steark.

ILLINOIS POSSES CONTINUE SEARCH FORI3LUNATICS Authorities Believe Several of the Men Have Made Good Their Escape, By United Pres* CHESTER, 111., July 24.—Thirteen lunatics —inmates of “bad men’s row” at the Illinois State Hospital for the Criminal Insane —were still- at large today following a whoelsale jail break at the Institution Sunday night. Twenty-seven of the forty-one mad men in Ward D-l s restricted tp the most dangerous cases, were taken into custody by posses of several hundred guards, police and citizens who have combed the surrounding territory since the escape. The round-up was still, in progress today with fresh reliefs of possemen taking the place of those who have searched throughout the night. Several of those at large have made good their escape, authorities believe. While some of those who escaped were actually insane, officials of the hospital said several were merely “shamming” to escape heavy work at the State penitentiary. Those taken into custody were oaught wdthin a few mijes of the penitentiary. Thirteen were caught in a graveyard and clubbed into submission. One was taken from a tree and four others were caught In the act of stealing a car. William Jackson, insane negro murderer from Chicago, was killed in the escape, but officials are still puzzled as to whether his death was due to the guards' bullets or clubs of his fellow Inmates. The two guards injured will recover.

BODY OF DR. PINK 10 BECREMATED Complications Result in Death pf Physician, In accordance with his wishes the body of Dr. Herman Pink, w'ho died here Monday at the Methodist Hospital, will be cremated. There will be no formal funeral services. Death was due to complications following an operation about tw-o weeks ago. For seven years Dr. Pink resided in San Diego, Cal Previous to that he lived In Indianapolis for forty-two years. Dr. Pink was born in Germany. He came here in 1847. He retired In 1908 following his retirement he traveled in Europe and the United States. In 1880 Dr. Pink married Miss Lillie Levinson of ShelbyviUe, Ind. They had one child, a daughter, who died at the age of 9. Mrs. Pink, who accompanied her husband to Indianapolis, is stopping at the home of relatives at 623 E. Thirty-Sixth St. SCHOOL CONTRACTS LET Increase of Summer Class Tuition Fee Suggested. Contracts amounting to $17,169 were let today by the school board to the A. A- Mitchel Company for changing windows in School 27 and removal of the present cinder fill roof ana rebuilding of anew roof and papapet walls on SchooJ 66. William N. Otto, head of the summer school at Shirtridge, asked the board to raise the summer school tuition next year from $6 a subjeo tto $7.60 and to authorize a loan of SBOO to pay present debts. The request was referred to the finance committee. Well Equipped Burglar Mrs. Charles Scrimscher, 4081 College at*., told police today a burglar used a key to open the rear door of her home. Scrimscher said IS Was taken from hie trouser pocket, Mrs. Scrimscher said $7 war miming from