Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 64

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HARDING SPEAKS OF LASTING PEACE IN CANADA TALK First U. S. Executive to Speak in Official Capacity on 'Canadian Soil. LAUDS PROGRESSIVENESS Compares Friendliness of Two Countries With Foreign Conditions, By LAWRENCE MARTIN Uni f ed Pre*s Staff C'a^rrapandrn* VANCOUVER. B. C. July 26. —“lf European nations Would heed the lesson ' conveyed by Canada and the United States they would strike at the root of their own continuing disagreements and in their prosperity forget to inveigh constantly at ours,” President Harding asserted here today in the first speech of an American President in official capacity on Canadian soil. He spoke before a distinguished company of high officials of the dominion government.

"Public Will, Not Force” "It is the publis will, not force, that makes for enduring peace,” Harding continued, ‘‘and it is not a gratifying circumstance that it has ! fallen to the lot of us of North Amer- j lea living amicably for more than a century under dierentff flags to present this most striking example produced of the basic fact that peace can i always be kept, whatever be the i grounds of controversy between | peoples that wish to keep it.” Europe should not be reproached for its resentment or envy against the fortunate countries of North America.” the president said. "Rather should we sympathize with their seeming inability to break the shackles of age-long methods an rejoice in our own rfcative freedom from the stultifying effects of old world customs aud practices. "What an object lesson of peace is shown today by our two countries to all the world. Only a scrap of paper, recording hardly more than a simple understanding, safeguards lives and properties on the Great Lakes and only humble mileposts mark the inviolable boundary line for thousands of miles through farm and forest. Our protection is in our fraternity, our armor is our faith and the tie that binds more firmly year by year is an ever increasing acquaintance and comradeship through interchange of citizens. The compact is not of perishable parchment, but of fair and honorable dealings, which God grant shall continue for all time.” Praises Country's Credit Harding referred to constant exchange of citizens between the two countries and said that the fact that two billion five hundred millions of American money have been invested since the armistice in Canadian securities is a tribute to scrupulous maintenance of Canadian credits "to a degree equalled only by your mother country across the sea and your sis ter country across the hardly visible I border." He spoke of the ancient bugaboo of American annexation of Canada as having died, saying “we have troubles enough of our own now,” and facetiously advised Canada not to consider plans to annex the United States. "Let us go our own gait along parallel roads, you helping us and we helping you,” he said. “As long as each country maintains its independence and both recognize their inter-dependence, the3e paths cannot fail to be highways of progress and prosperity.

ALLIES IN UNITY ON BRITISH NOTE France, Belgium and Italy Agree on Ruhr Policy. B" United Pres PARIS. July 26. —Accord has been reached by France, Belgium and Italy on the subject of their replies to Great Britain with reference to the British reparations note to Germany, It was stated semi-offldally today. Premier Poincare, storm center of the dispute, announced he Is going to ►the country for a few days’ rest. In well Informed circles', it Is understood separate replies to England will be sent by France and Belgium. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 62 10 a. m 76 7 a. m. ....... 6SII a. m 77 t a. 70 12 (noon) 77 9 a. TS 1 p m SO

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Milady Prepares for Winter While It’s Hot

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MR3. D. E. CHRISTIE

In the summer, a woman’s fancy turns to thoughts of—fur boats! Undaunted by heat waves, wives and daughters peruse fashion books with a view to pointing out to husband or father the most fashionable and most becoming styles for the coming season. For August fur sales are in the offing, all over the country. Indianapolis stores are getting out

READER OF RILEY’S POEMS OFFERS AID IN ENTERTAINING FAIRVIEW CAMP KIDDIES

Boys, Just Tots, Lug Toys, to Times for Needy Children. Arms laden with playthings, Wil- ! liam Spacke, 9, of 946 S. East St., \ aided by Edward Hallen, 14. of 948 [ S. East St., and John Flower, 9, of | 935 S. East St., today was the first j person to respond to The Times ap- j peal for toys for the sixty children at ! the summer camp for sick children at ; Fairview Settlement, south of Fair- j view Park. Helen Spacke, 10, 946 S. East St., shares the glory, for she sent several of her cherished toys by her brother. I “Dear Editor,” reads a letter Helen\ sent to The Times office with her brother, "We are glad to have the pleasure of giving a few toys to help make other children happy.” Authorities at the camp recently appealed for toys, but got only five dolls, two balls, a horn and an old , drum. These were not enough for sixty children. So The Times is appealing for more. Send them to the j city editor of The Times or to offices of the Family Welfare Society in the ‘ Baldwin block or the Marion Couuty Tuberculosis Association, K. of p. Bldg. Here's what the three boys brought today: A teddy bear, a pitching-for-the-take game, and a comic paper doll given by William Spacke; a patent leather cat that meows, a sleeping doll, box of paints, jacks, lotto game, ball, and a cardboard doll by Helen Spacke and a bunny by Edward Haller. Tragedy attended the trip to The Times. Helen had intrusted a toy lawn mower to the boys. It was dropped and broken. The boys took It home to have William’s father fix It. Members of the Service Club sent; to The Times two big boxes, contain- - lng: Two donkey games, six checker 1 boards and enbeker sets, six rubber balls, twelve puzzle picture books, one | Indiana game, six sets of dominoes, j forty books, two author games and miscellaneous toys. FIREMAN ASKS DAMAGES Ralph Treadway Seeks SIO,OOO From Street Railway. Damages of SIO,OOO were asked by Ralph G. Treadway, city fireman, 909 N. Sheffield St., In a suit against the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, filed In Marlon Superior Court today. The complaint charges that Treadway, a fire department chauffeur at the time, was severely Injured In a fire truck collision with two street cars which failed to stop at W. Washington St. and White -River Parkway, Aug. 13. 1921. Difficult Question Unsolved Police today have not determined whether Irvin Knecht, 2005 Ashland Ave., seen climbing out of a window j of a garage at 1906 College Ave. at 8 p. m. Wednesday, was a burglar or prowler. Nothing wras stolen. The t garage door was unlocked.

MISS JESSIE DAT

brilliant displays of ermines, caraculs, Hudson seals, minks in various colors and many styles. The short jacquette, popular throughout the summer in light furs and knitted materials. is prominent. Linings are on a richness which makes them a most important part of the coat. Collars are high and skirts are flared.

PRO—WATER CASE—CON

Presentation of evidence by the Indianapolis "Water Company in tne water rate hearing before the public service commission and cross-examination of the company’s witnesses by the city completed late Wednesday, today left fhese facts as developed:

BY THE COMPANY

T r ~~* HE property of the company Is worth $lB,000,000 ip the opinion of engineers who t- believe it should make an 8 per cent return on this figure. The company is now making less than 5 per cent on that figure. The growth of the city and increased demands necessitate expensive additions and betterments which can be financed only through increased rates, in the opinion of experts. The installation of meters on the premises of most of the consumers would reduce the use of water and make necessary fewer additions. The city has been snpplied with an enormous quantity of water without cost. The city immediately agreed to pay. Fire protection service is costing much more than the city is paying for it.

CAPTAIN POPE IS BACK FROM EAST Shank's Detective Declines to Discuss Mission, Police Capt. Roy Pope was back In the city today after spending a week and a half In the East Investigating for Mayor Shank reports that members of the public service commission were guests of Clarence H. Gelst, president of the Indianapolis Water Company at Atlantic City or Philadelphia. Pope said he had nothing to say until he talked with the mayor, who is out of the city. CLUB IS INCORPORATED Meridian Hills Society Has Option on Country Place. Directors of the Meridian Hills Country Club today tiled articles of Incorporation with the secretary of State. No capital stock was specified in the articles. The directors: Alexander M. Taggart, Frederick M. Ayres, Anton Vonnegut. OscJir Schmidt, Dr. I,oa!s Burckhardt, Ilobert H. Hassler, William M. Rockwood, John G Rauch and Russell T. Byers. The officers have obtained an option on part of a A5-acre tract of land hot ween Merman St. and the Spring Mill road, near B*vsnty-Firat St.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1923

MISS RUTH KRABBE

Here are some of the styles Indianapolis fur-hunters will see when they attend the sales: Mrs. D. E. Christie, SO7 N. Sherman Dr., of H. P. Wasson A Cos., is wearing a rich dark northern mink coat, lined with imported, heavy brocade. The skins are worked into a panel back, diamondshaped at the bottom. The Jacquette which Miss Jessie

r™ - ! HE company paid dividends aggregating nearly $500,000 last year and showed a -I 1 i surplus of $109,000. The valuation of $18,000,000 includes & number of "fanciful figures” based on guesses and estimates, including $2,000,000 for "going value,” 15 per cent for "structural overhead" and $500,000 for water rights that originally cost nothing. That the public service commission in 1917 fixed the value of the property at $9,500,000 and that in subsequent orders it arrived at a valuation merely by adding the cost of improvements. That the company made a sworn statement to the State tax board that its property was worth only a little more than $10.000,000 and that it was valued for taxation at only $12,000,000. That commissions in many other States do not approve the valuation methods insisted on by the company.

INSANE MURDERER IS TAKEN AFTER ESCAPE Seven of Mad Men Still at Large Following Wholesale Jail Break. By United Prei CHESTER, 111., July 26. —Seven mad men of the forty-one who overpowered guards and escaped from the Illinois State hospital for the criminal insane Sunday night, remained at large today. This number may be brought to six, when identity of a man held at Bush, is established. He Is believed to be Dirk Ympna, a Chicago murderer, who escaped. OREGON SENATOR WANTS SESSION OF CONGRESS McNary Will Ask Harding for Immediate Relief to Farmer. By United Preee PORTLAND, Ore., July 26.—Request for a Special session of Congress to enact legislation fixing a minimum for the 1923 wheat crop of $1.76 per bushel will be laid before President Harding Saturday by Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon. Senator McNary will board the presidential train at some point in the State as it goes south to California and confer with Mr. Harding. Broker Is Expelled By T'nitcd Financial NEW YORK, July 26.—A. L. Schneider was expelled from the curb exchange at the regular meeting of governors. He was charged with violating article XV-11, section 6 of the Constitution.

MISS MARGARET RYAN

Day, 3024 N. Capitol Ave, is displaying from Selig's, Is of cocoa dyed caracul, with natural red fox collar and cuffs. The long wrap worn by Miss Ruth Krabbe. 1143 College Ave., of the Pettis Dry Goods Company, also is fashioned of caracul, beige, with natural badger trimming. Soft, dyed cocoa ermine is used in the tight, flounced-cape worn by Miss Margaret Ryan, 628 North-

BY THE CITY

COST OF ROASTING EARS TAKES DROP Potatoes Show Increase Over Last Week’s Price, Prices on produce at the city market today varied from last week. Potatoes went up to eight pounds for 25 cents. Apples remained at three pounds for 25 cents-Peaches remained at 10 cents a pound- Plums and pears were selling at two pounds for 25 cents. Blackberries averaged 15 cents a quart. Green corn dropped to SO cents a dozen. Tomatoes were as low as 10 cents a pound. Green beans ranged from 10 to 15 cents a pound. Cabbage and head lettuce remained at 5 cents a pound. Beets, turnips, and carrots were two bunches for 5 cents. JURY IS DEADLOCKED Mine Union Official Tried for Murder Gets Split Verdict. By United Prete. LEWISBURG, W. Va., July 26. The jury deliberating (he fate of William Blizard Is deadlocked. H. H. Karrah, foreman, reported to Judge Sharp this afternoon. | The Judge said he would take no action In the case immediately. Blizzard was tried for murder In connection with the Logan £ounty miners’ insurrection of August, 1921.

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MISS GEORGIANA CULLIVAN

western Ave., ?>f L. S. Ayres & Cos The lining is of tangerine velvet, with a wide band of metal cloth around the hips, and trimming of ermine tales. Miss Georgiana Cullivan. 2424 E. Tenth St., is slipwing a Hudson seal wrap from Rink's. The sleeves may be snapped or worn open, giving a cape-like effect. The skirt is flared- Collar and cuffs are of fox. *

Dayton Woman Will Speak Under Auspices of Times Friday, Need of the sixty children at the summer camp for sick children at Fairview settlement, south of Fairview Park, for restful entertainment prescribed as part of the process of making their little bodies strong and well, will be answered by The Times. Friday morning at 9 o’clock Mrs. Clem Kerr of Dayton. Ohio, reader of James Whitcomb Riley poems, will entertain the children under auspices of The Times. Representatives of the Family Welfare Society and the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, which operate the camp, said they would be delighted to have representatives of community civic clubs come to the entertainment so that the work of the camp might be generally known. Mrs. Kerr has been in the city for several days giving her readings in the Riley Memorial Hospital fund campaign. She is widely known as a child mimic. “I thought when I read the appeal for toyq and entertainment for the sick kiddies in The Times Wednesday that It was a very fine effort in a worthy cause, and I decided that I would be very happy if The Times and the camp authorities would let -me aid,” said Mrs. Kerr. TRAFFIC BLOCKADE IS RAISED IN RUHR ZONE Serious Food Shortage Is Result of Ban on Shipments. By United Prees BERLIN. July 26.—The traffic blocade Imposed upon the Ruhr by the French and Belgian troops was lifted at midnight, authorities announced here today. A serious food shortage in the occupied areas resulted from the imposed blockades and foodstuffs were piled high at the limitations of the forbidden zones. PREDICT STEADY RENTS Real Estate Men See No Radical Change in Indianapolis. Real estate agents today said no radical Increase or decrease in rents is in prospect in Indianapolis. Dispatches report changes both upward and downward in several Middle Western cities. Rental of some houses affected by the ordinance requiring connection with sewers has been raised to cover original cost and maintenance of the equipment. Agents said more people than ever are buying homes on payments. Three Bicycles Stolen Bicycles* were reported stolen today by W. F. Welland, 1621 Lexington Ave., who valued his at sls; the Lining Store, 17 E. Ohio 3t., sls, and Joseph H. Bell, 491 N. Pennsylvania It. Ut

Attorney Accuses Water Company of 'Lulling Consumers Into Sense of Security’ Before Asking Commission for Rate Increase, JORDAN AND LAWYER iN HEATED ARGUMENT Banquets and Inspection T ours Seen as Efforts to Prevent Suspicion of Petition Before Securities Valuation Order, C harges that the Indianapolis Water Company “lulled the public into a sense of security” before starting its move for increased rates featured the rate hearing before the public service commission today. Banquets and tours of inspection preceding the ease were recalled.

An argument, ono of the most heated since the case started, was opened when Sumner Clancy, an attorney representing consumers, asked Frank C. Jordan, secretary of the company, on the witness stand, about a banquet preceding the petition of the company fer an order of the commission fixing a valuation of the company's property for security purposes. Attorneys for the company immediately objected. Commissioner Intervene* "The company banqueted and dined large numbers of people and took them on inspection trips in order to lull the public into a condition where they would not resist,” Clancy said. ‘‘Do you think the public really was lulled?” asked Commissioner Oscar Ratts, looking over the large array of lawyers ( who represent consumers. Clancy continued without'replying, declaring that before the securities valuation order was asked the company announced it would not ask for Increased rates. “Public Defrauded” "If the public had known the securities order was to be used to obtain Increased rates it would have been at the hearing,” he said. “The public has been defrauded.” Fred Bates Johnson, attorney for the company, characterized the argument as “sheer nonsense and utterly absurd,” and moved it be stricken from the record. “I don't think even your co-counsel will stand with you on each an aigument,” Commissioner Ratts said to Clancy. "You seem to be laboring under a somewhat smoky impression (Continued on Page 2) MT. VERNON THREATENED BY $25,000 BLAZE Early Fire Destroys Mill and Lumber lard. By United Pres* MT. VERNON, Ind., July 26.—-Fire early today practically destroyed the Smith A Sons saw mni and lumber yard and one residence here. Damage was estimated at ?2P.C00. For some time the entire west end of the city was threatened.

BANANA GONG BRINGS IN WOO Authors of Medley Hit Are Cashing in on It, By United Pro* NEW YORK, July 26. —“Yes, We Have No Bananas” Is a $60,000 tune. When the squawking fruit vender the early morning sleep of Frank Silver, leader of a jazz band In a New York food and noise emporium, he started something. Silver and Erwin Cohen banded together and taking a rib from the fruit dealer’s plaintive plea made a life long hit. It will net them between $50,000 and $60,000. The piece already has sold into a million copies'and it is estimated that another million copies will be sold. Stacks of phonograph records like cakes in the Childs’ restaurants have been purchased. The music rolls for player pianos pasted together would be nearly as long as an expense account. It is the first piece Silver and Cohen ever sold. They had written many before. When they took it to a prominent publisher, he offered the usual S2OO advance. They were so sure they had a hit they held out for an advance of SI,OOO and got It. They get a royalty of two cents per copy and a royalty for each record and music roll sold. On top of that they jumped from comparative obscurity into musical fame and are now known as “the banana boys.”

The TURK’S TRIUMPH As Seen by Lloyd George Terming the Lausanne treaty and the triumph of the Turk a probable disaster to civilization and a humiliation of the Western powers, Lloyd George, special contributor to The Indianapolis Times, in his next article outlines the causes of the allies diplomatic retreat and warns that peace has not been secured. Barbarism, he says, has extended and perpetuated its sway from Black Sea to Mediterranean, through the Lausanne agreement. IN THE TIMES SATURDAY Don’t Miss This Article

Forecast INCREASING cloudiness tonight. Probably showers. Not much change in temperature.

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OFFICIALS CLASH IN PROBE OF ALLEGED DOLLINGSFRAUDS Departmental War Waxes Hot as Charges Are Hurled, IS* United Pres* COLUMBUS. Ohio. July 26.—Departmental warfare resulting directly from the failure of the R. L. Dollings Compahy, mother of twenty-six manufacturing and stock selling concerns throughout the country, broke out in Ohio today as Assistant Prosecutor J. A. Goodwin prepared to enlist the aid of a grand jury in probing the sale of $1,000,000 worth of Dollings’ stock in Franklin County. $30,000,000 Fraud Charged C. C. Crabbe, Attorney General, after interviewing stockholders, issued a statement declaring the people of Ohio had been defrauded of $30,000,000 and blaming the State securities division of the Department of Commerce for “this great -wrong that has been done the people.” Normal E. Beck of the securities division countered with a statement accusing Crabbe of lax enforcement of the State blue sky law, and calling upon the Attorney General to publish a list of conviction he has secured under the statute. The Dollings Company j>f Ohio—plunged into a chaos a week ago ■with the application for receivership—is said to have sold stock to SO,OOO persons and, according to the petitions, paid huge dividends from the capital stock and treasuries of its various subsidiaries. Investment Totals $60,000,000. Eight Ohio subsidiaries of the DoUings Company, comprising a total investment in the neighborhood of $60,000,000, are now In the hands of receivers. Crabbe's statement was bitter in denunciation of the entire Dollings affair and declared officers of the company should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. LOCAL PEOPLE ARE KILLEDBY TRAIN Car Stalls on Track Ten Miles West of Greencastle, Mr. and Mrs. Pharley Crowder, 2145 Adams St., were killed at 10 a. m. today when the automobile In which they were riding was struck by a Vandalia passenger train at LeesvQle, ten miles west of Greencastle, according to a dispatch. Crowder was an employe o £ It. A. Ayres & Cos. The couple were on their honeymoon. according to the dispatch from Greencastle. They had been In Paris, 111. Crowder drove onto the track and the motor stalled, according to the message. Receiver-fillip Asked By United Financial MINNEAPOLIS, July 26,—A receivership for the Minneapolis ft St. Louis Railway has been asked in the Federal Court.