Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 66

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LAUSANNE PACT HITS AT ALLIES Former British Premier Declares Near East Peace Treaty Portends Disaster for Civilization —Lauds Cunning of Turk Delegates, By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Former British Prime Minister Copyright, 1923, by United Feature Syndicate. E" ONDON, July 28.—The Turk may be a bad ruler, but he is the prince of anglers. The' cunning and patience with which he lands the most refractory fish, once he has hooked it, is compare. What inimitable play we have witnessed for six months on the shores of Lake Leman. Once the fish seemed to have broken the tackle—that was when the first conference came to an abrupt end. It simply meant, however, the wily oriental was giving out plenty of line. He knew the moment would come when they would return with the hook well in their gullets and the play begin once more—the reeling in and the reeling out; the line sometimes taut and strained, but never snapping. Time and patience rewarded him. At last the huge tarpon are lying beached on the banks—Britain, France, Italy and the United States high and dry—landed and helpless, without a swish left in their tails, glistening and gasping in the summer sun.

Peace Hailed as Victory It is little wonder Ismet had a smile on his face when all was over. Reports from Angora state peace is hailed there as a great Turkish triumph. And so it is. If the Turk could govern as well as he angles, hia would be the most formidable empire in the world. Unfortunately he la the worst of rulers, hence the trouble—his own and that of those who unhappily have drawn him as governor in the lottery of life. The able corespondent of the London Daily Telegraph at the Lausanne conference suppled us from time to time with vivid pen pictures of the four greatest powers of the world struggling in the toils of the squalid and broken remains of an empire with an aggregate population equal to .that of a couple of English countries r (Continued on Page 4)

CAPTAIN POPE 10 REPORTMONDAY Mayor Shank Expected to Get More Evidence, Report of Capt. Roy Pope, special Investigator of the mayor, who Investigated “Guest of Geist” charges in the East, will be made Monday, Mayor Shank said today. Pope returned Thursday from Atlantic City and Philadelphia with information, it was said, that members of the public service commission had been guests of the president of the Indianapolis Water Company. Mayor Shank had made charges thought to have been supported by pictures and letters Pope has sent Shank. BOY KILLED WHEN , HIT BY MACHINE Deno Kreth, 8, Dtes on Way to City Hospital, Deno Kreth, 8, of 420 Douglass St* died on the way to the city hospital today after he had been struck near near 757 Indiana Ave. by an automobile by Wilson Loving,46, colored, 722 N. West St. Patrolmen Sneets and Hubbard reported witnesses as saying the boy was crossing the street behind another machine which obscured Loving's view of him. Bud Loving, Wilson’s brother, drove Deno to the hospital while his brother was being held. Loving was slated at the city prison on a charge of manslaughter. PRISONER IS FOUND DEAD Man Dies In Cell at City Jail; Had Been Adjudged Insane. Charles Taylor, 52, colored, 1428 N. West St., was foun ddead today in his cell at city prison, where ho was held on a technical charge of vagrancy. * Taylor was taken to. prison last Monday. He was adjudged insane on Wednesday in Justice Dietk’s court. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m. 6910 a. m.. 68 7 a. m 6911 a. m 68 | 8 a. m. 6912 (noon) 68 f 9 a. m. 69 1 p. m. • 69

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INDIANA DOLLINGS FIRMS . PUT INTO RECEIVERS HANDS Bert Mcßride Is Named Handle Affairs of Three Subsidiaries, Three Indiana manufacturing concerns, subsidiaries of the R. L. Doll- " In. gs Company, were thrown into receivership by Judge Lynn D. Hay, in Superior Court, today. Bert Mcßride, president of the Continental National Bank, receiver of the Dollings interests in Indiana, was named receiver of the three companies. They were Rude Manufacturing Company, Liberty, manufacturers of farm Implements; Hugro Manufacturing Company, Warsaw, makers of novelties, and the Millholland Machine Company of Indianapolis. It may be another week before a definite statement in regard to the Dollings interests in Indiana can be made, Mcßride and Harold Taylor, his attorney, said today. ‘‘Any statement as to liabilities in this State would be guesswork at this time,” Mcßride said. ‘‘Until we get complete data, no definite figures can be given. We are doing everything we can to speed up Investigations in order that we may protect Indiana stockholders and avoid all possible expense.” The fact that the affairs of the local Dollings organization were so involved with Ohio and Pennsylvania companies has made the gathering of information especially difficult. “The Indiana interests are going to stand on their own feet,” Mcßride said. “We are going to work out this matter for the best interests of Indiana stockholders, regardless of Dollings’ affairs in other States.” Blast Kills Twenty-One Miners By United Press ROTHERHAM, Yorks, England, July 28.—Twenty-one British miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine today, according to first reports frpm the colliery.

COUCH INDICTED ON SHORTAGE CHARGE True Bill Accuses Former Statehouse Custodian, Under Arrest, of Embezzling $9,000, >

Roy Couch, former Statehouse custodian, was indicted by Marion County grand jury on charges of embez zling 69,000 of State funds and presenting a false claim. He was arrested several weeks ago and has been In jail since in default of $5,000 bond. According to officials of the State board of accounts. Couch was short in his accounts approximately SIO,OOO. Indictments against twelve other persons were returned. The names of three were not given out as they had not been arrested. Others indicted were Edward Bader, 917 Chadwick St., assault and battery upon Andrew Richardson, 1242 E. Minnesota St., with intent to kill, June 3; Lorence Sims, vehicle taking; Frank Nichols, 809 S. Missouri St., liquor law violation; Stanley Raeburn, Vine and Bertha Sts., liquor law violation;

CRY LIQUOR PLOT IS PROBED Lower Local Gas Rate Indicated -

Commission Engineer Values Utility Less Than Federal Master, $5,000,000 DIFFERENCE Service Body Usually Given Great Weight to Such Estimate, Valuation figures which may indicate a future reduction in the gas rate in Indianapolis were announced today by Earl L. Carter, chief engineer of the public service commission. Rates are based on the value of property and the valuation of the Citizens Gas Company property will be used in a hearing before the commission preliminary to fixing rates. An unofficial calculation of Carter’s figures indicates hia present valuation on ay property except intangibles ia ti 1,571,085. William P. Kapeps. ape clal master In chancery, found in toe Federal court gas case the vnlut. without intangibles was $16,249,517.85, or more than $5,000,000 above the figures indicated by Carter’s calculations. Not Bound by Figures The commission is not boun dto follow Carter's figures, but it Will fix a valuation of its own. The commission, however, usually gives grtsat weight to the figures of its engineering department. Kappes found intangibles, such as going value and working capital, to total $1,624,831.78. He added this to his physical property valuation of $16,249,617.8. These valuations were not given by ‘Carter. The present gas rate is $1.15 a thousand, cubic feet, fixed by the commission in March, after the commission had fixed l 90-cent rate and the company had protested the action in Federal Court. It tvas indicated at that .ttme _thp.t the $1.15 rate was temporary pending a valuation finding by the ecommisston. Hearing Coming Boon A hearing on gas rates probably will be held soon. Carter’s figures show the present value of the Citizens Gas Company’s orglnal operative property to be $6,469,789. as against a reproduction cost of $7,827,361. Present of nonoperative property is given as $61,232. with a reproduction value of $70,066. Operative leased property of the Citizens Gas Company, specifically that part of the old Indianapolis Gas Company taken over, is $4,222,052 against a reproduction value of $5,019,063, Carter’s report showed. "Not used,” property in this class has a present value of $637,936, with a reproduction value of $1,035,675. The non-operative property is shown to have a present value of $146,915, with a reproduction value of $185,750. Pintsch Plant Valued Carter showed the present value of the Pintsch Gas plant, which manufactures lighting gas for old style railroad passenger cars, to have a present value of $33,161, with a reproduction value of $49,986. The Pintsch plant Is leased by the Citizens Gas Company. In the Citizens Gas Company’s valuation, instituted by Itself, the ten-year average value of owned property Is given as $8,064,428, and the value July 1, 1922, on a reproduction basis, $8,855,484. Leased property value on a tenyear average was given as $7,473,118, and with a value July 1, 1922, of SB,291,455. Similarly, the Pintsch gas plant was shown to have a ten-year average value of $49,307. with a value of $61,788 on July 1. 192.

Luther Jackson, burglary of the office of State Construction Company, July 9; Charles Williams, robbery and grand larceny; Manuel Viera, statutory assault.

Pola Says Charlie Lacks Matrimonial Requisites

Bu United Prete EOS ANGELES. Cal., July 28. Pola Negri announced today her engagement to Charlie Chaplhi is definitely at an end. Simultaneously, the exotic Polish film star, lowered her long black lashes and sighed rapturously when someone frnentioned she*name of William T. Tilden IIT tennis champion. Blushes carmined the soft contours

INDIANAPOLIS, SATUBDAY, JULY 28, 1923

Tum-te-tum! Here*They Come! Funnel for Clarinet and a Dishpan for a Drum

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TOP, LEFT TO RIGHT—MISS A. GRACE HAWK, MISS KATHRYN KEELY, MISS ROSALIE HANKINS, AND MISS HELEN KRIBS. BELOW, MISS BETTY PARKER. MISS MARY O. SIEBENTHAL, MRS. ALAMAE SHEAD, MISS LEONA SMITH, MRS. FRED DEMPSY, MISS ELIZABETH TYNAN, MISS CHARLOTTE ROBERTS. AND MISS CATHRYNE ROBERTS.

Women of the Overseas Kitchen Band will take their dishpan drums, skillet violins, egg beaters, funnels and other familiar utensils to Falrvlew Settlement next week, to entertain kiddles at the summer mission camp for sick children. The band is composed of members of the Women's Overseas League. Mrs. Horace Mitchell, a member of the band, has promised to ar-

GARDEN PRODUCE PRICESUNCHANGED Cost of Fruits and Vegetables Remains Same, No noticeable change In prices on garden produce was made at the city market today. Fruits were practically the same price as eaVlier In the week. Apples sold at seven and eight pounds for 85 cents. Pears, peaches and plums averaged two pounds for 15 cents. Potatoes brought 2% cents a pound, tomatoes, 10 cents a pound. Carrots, beets and turnips sold at two bunches for 6 cents; green onions, three bunches for 10 cents; roasting cars, 30 cents a dosen; green beans, (Kentucky wonders) three pounds for 25 cents. JURY PROBES HOLD-UP Two Men Accused by Auto Party Waive Preliminary Hearing. The grand jury today began Investigating cases of Oral Hanson, 23, of 5146 E. Walnut St., and George Parker, 24, of 6135 E. St. Clair St_, who waived preliminary hearing in city court late Friday before Judge, Delbert O. Wilmeth. Each man is charged with assault and battery, impersonating an officer and criminal assault. Bond on each was fixed at $4,000. According to police, the two men stopped a car In Arlington Ave. on the night of July 18 and held up a party of three men and three young women. WEIGHTS ARE INSPECTED City Orders Market SI andholders in for Measure Check-up. Inspections of all weights and measures used by stand owners on city market is under way by the city. Investigation will Include approximately 200 stand owners. Thirty have already appeared for examination of scales and measures. Eight scales were condemned.

of Pola’s lowered face as she replied to the latest 'Hollywood rumor that she had “dropped” the custard pie for a tennis racquet, saying; “I can say nothing except I admire Mr. Tilden very much. You must not ask me more.” More blushes and a sudden switching of the conversation to why Charlie was jilted. "Mr. Chaplin should never marry.

range three weekly programs at the camp to follow the "concert” next week. Members of the band are Miss A. Grace Hawk, 2423 Park Ave.; Miss Kathyrn Keely, 668 E. Twelfth St.; Miss Rosalie Hankins, 622 Centennial St; Miss Helen Kribs, 655 N. Jefferson Ave.; Miss Betty Parker, 2348 Coyner Ave.; Miss Mary O. Siebenthal, No. 38, BI&cherne Apts.: Mrs. Alamae Shead,

Lack of Defense atPanamaCanal William Philip Simms, foreign editor of -the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, begins a series that will open your eyes. Turn to page two for the first article.

BOUR6ONOLA CREW ADVERTISING HERE Klee and Coleman / Rights to Bottle, A. S. Thompson advertising field manager of the Lexington Bourbonola i Company, Lexington, Ky., manufacturers .of Bourbonola. a beverage, announced today that Klee & Coleman, bottle^ 3 - 421 S. Delaware St., had obt*Jft(i\the Indianapolis franchise to bottie Bourbonola. Mr. .Thompson, with four assistants, Is Indianapolis to popularize Bourboobla. He be assisted here by J. 'Kelly Laughlin and a crew of specialty men. The Lexington eomapny has been incorporated for SIOO,OOO.

POLICEMEN UNDER FIRE Chief Prefers Chargee Against Traffic Officers. Charges of drinking while on duty were to be made to the board of public safety today by Police Chief Her man F. Rlkhoff against Robert Nelney and Earl Davis, motorcycle policemen, and Trafflcman William Roberts. According to Traffic Captain Michael J. Glenn, Herbert Jones, 19, of 616 E. St. Clair St., who is charged with operating a blind tiger, took the policemen into the old Tudor Hall building at Sixteenth and Meridian Sts., one by one, for “refreshments.”

He is lacking in all the matrimonial requirements,” Pola declared. "I realized five weeks ago It was an impossibility. H6’s a charming little fellow and we’re still friends, but I realize now I never could have married him. "He experiments in love, in my opinion. I’m glad it’s over. I have ambitions and I am sure I never could

Miss Maurice J. O’Connell. Winner of Times Traffic Problem Contest, Says:

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727 Fairfield Ave.; Miss Leona Smith, 2 University Terrace; Mrs. Fred Dempsy, 104 Spink Arms Hotel; Miss Elizabeth Tynan, 3126 Central Ave.; Miss Ch&rlotte Roberts, 45 N. Itandolph St., and Miss Cathyrne Roberts, 45 N. Randolph St. The band has been reorganized and will have a large number of engagements, according to Miss Hawk. Applicants will line tap on the left.

MAN BADLY HURT IN MOOT FALL Charles Carr Injured at Union Station. AfVhen a board on which he was standing tilted, Charles Carr, 2129 Lexington Ave., fell fifteen feet and was seriously Injured while washing walls Inside the Union Station today. Carr was employed by the Emil Fertig Paint Company. He was taken to the Methodist Hospital in a city hospital ambulance. He tvas injured about the head and shoulders. Patrolman Ray investigated. WOMAN IS ROBBED OF $2,437 CASH PAY ROLL Three Bandits Make Escape by Commandeering Auto Truck. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 28.—Three bandits held up Miss Ella EUerman, treasurer for a printing company, as she made up the pay roll in her office today, and escaped with $5,437 in cash. In leaving, one of the bandit trio failed to catch the automobile planted for. the get-away, and compelled a truck driver, at the point of a gun, to take him away.

MILK BLAMED FOR PRISONERS’ ILLNESS State Fpod inspector Declares Cream Separator 'Deplorable'—l9,o Prisoners Fill Hospital.

Mysterious illness of 190 prisoners of the Indiana State farm at Putnamville Friday has been traced "unquestionably” to skimmed milk from a cream separator which was “deplorable, dirty, covered with swarm-

be a great actress as Mrs. Charlie Chaplain.” Pola dined the other night with “Big Bill” Tilden*-and at another table ignoring them sat Charlie Chaplin with Lenora Ulrich of “Klkl” fame. Which gav* rise to rumors Charlie might be consoling himself with another film engagement.” • "Not with me,” said Lenora. "I think engagements are old-fashioned."

Three Men Held to Federal G rand Jury on Charges of Conspiracy to Transport Booze —Clinton, Chicago, St, Louis and Indianapolis Involved, U. S. AGENT SAYS HE HOLDS FIFTEEN WARRANTS Investigation Expected to Uncover Gigantic Ring, Georgs Winkler intimates — Details of Alleged Activities Withheld, ith three men under arrest George Winkler, group chi el of prohibition agents for Indiana, today announced that the Government is starting to uncover what he believes will be one of the biggest liquor conspiracies ever found in the State.

Operations at Clinton. Ind., Chicago, St. Lords and Indianapolis are involved, Winkler said. “1 have fifteen affidavits in my pocket, some of them for very prominent persons,” said Winkler. “I think this is going to turn out to show operation of a gang In one of the biggest conspiracies to violate the prohibition law I ever have worked, on.” Winkler worked in the Gary and Ft. Wayne liquor Investigations. Nunzio La Rosa, 23, of 566 N. Tremont Ave.; Edward Dean, 21, of 820 Woodlawn Ave., and Pete Pacina, salesman, 4257 Guilford Ave., were held to the Federal grand Jury on charges of conspiracy to transport liquor by United States Commissioner Charles W. Moores today. Worley and police arrested La Rosa and Dean at La Rosa’s home Friday night. Paclna was arrested today. .Worley said ten gallons of white mule were found at La Rosa's place. Worley said this was the start of the move to uncover the reputed big conspiracy. He would not state how the three men were Involved or how ■the reputed conspiracy worked. There was no testimony at the commissioner’s hearing, all three waiving examination. La Rosa and Paclna are held under $2 000 bonds and Dean under SSOO bond. They were making arrangements to provide the bonds this afternoon.

Adventurers Willie police feere searching for Harold Hensley, 8, and William (Buster) Hagen, 9, of 616 S. New Jersey St., who disappeared from their home Friday, the boys were sleeping on a lumber pile in railroad yards about 100 feet south of police headquarters. It developed today. Two railroad men at 6 a .m. today awoke the boys and took them to police headquarters. They were sent to the detention home on charges of being delinquent. This is the third time they have run Sway, police say.

GIRL WILL TAKE STAND IN WHITFIELD TRIAL Court Closed Today and Case is to Be Resumed Tuesday. By United Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 28—Marie Price of Ft. Wayne, Ind., will take the stand Tuesday against John L. Whitefield in his trial for the murder of Patrolman Dennis Griffin. The Ft. Wayne school girl was Whitfield's companion on his desperate flight following the slaying. Court was closed today. The case against the mullatte prisoner will be resumed Monday.

Ing flies," a report of Dr. A. B. Oiler, flejd inspector for the State food and drug division, showed today. Governor McCray declared that an immediate investigation would be made of sanitary conditions at the farm. John A. Brown, secretary of the State board of charities went to the farm. Oilar brought samples of all the food on the Friday breakfast menu to the State laboratories for examination by F. C. Wilson, bacteriologist. Wilson will report Monday. The men became violently 111 between 9 and 10 o’clock Friday morning. Physicians were rushed from Greencaatle to augment the hospital staff. Most of the men were wbll today, but a few serious cases still were In the Farm Hospital, a dispatch stated.

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Forecast FAIR tonight and Sunday, Somewhat warmer Sunday afternoon.

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PAVING‘LOOKED bad; residents ON STREET SAY Hearing to Be Resumed by Board of Works Next Week. Property owners on Twenty-Ninth St. admitting they knew nothing of specifications and mixtures, testified before the Board of Works investigating the new paving on that street that the paving "looked bad,” ‘‘was rough,” and that the concrete base "appeared soft and sandy.” Following closing of hearing at noon, attorneys for property owners and the Mansfield Engineering Company, contractors, joined in a ‘lov6 feast’ before board members after Charles Coffin, president assured them that “all interests would be protected." Hearings will be resumed next week when reports on cores will be ready, ahd additional witness es wiU be introduced. Transfer Motion Lost Merle N. A. Walker, representing the company, attempted to have the matter taken entirely from the State board of accounts and left to the city. His motion failed. Mrs. Rose Holder, 403 W. Twenty* Ninth St., Mrs. Annie Bailey, 436 W, Twenty-Ninth St„ Mrs. C. P. Hargett. 518 W. Twenty-Ninth St., and Mrs. Ora Newman, 435 W. Twenty-Ninth St„ testified on faulty condition of the pavement. Homer Kimberlln, secretary of the State board of accounts testified he saw faulty spots on the concrete base. The battle opened late Frld ay, when nearly sixty property owners were sworn in as prospective witnesses that work of the Mansflel<L.Engineer lng Company, which recently com* pleted the paving, was faulty. Lawn ence Orr, chief examiner for the State Board of Acoucts, was the first witness. Sand Scooped Ont J. C. Burris, 444 W. Twenty-Ninth St., testified that eight days aftei the base was laid, he broke a cons crete crust a half inch thick and scooped sand out with his hands, Frank Foltz, 429 W. Twenty-Ninth St. said he saw faulty places in the concrete not repaired by the company. BICYCLE RIDER INJURED BY CITY POUND TRUCK Cedric Foust, 20, Seriously Hurt Beneath Overturned Car. Cedrlck G. Foust, 20, of 21 Linwood Ave., was seriously -Injured today when he was caught beneath a city dog pound truck which turned over at Massachusetts Ave. and Hazel St. after crashing into a car driven by J. H. Thompson, 1623 Montcalm St. Foust was riding a bicycle. He was sent to city hospital. John C. Pitts, 34, 035 Highland Avi!„ was driving the truck. Pitts and Thompson escaped injury. Calvin HL Clugston, 2810 Olney Sts., riding with Thompson, was slightly bruised. Foust was knocked unconscious and suffered serious bruises about the shoulders and legs. CASE OF ‘PULLING’ WOOD Two Thousand Pounds of it St (den From Bara. About 2,000 pounds of wool, valued at SI,OOO, were stolen Friday night from a feed born at the wool market of Thomas Nye, 326 fe. Wabash St, Nye reported to police today. According to Nye, the thieves used a truck to get the loot away.

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