Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 67

HARDING’S ILLNESS SERIOUS

Engineer’s First Wrecks Kill Thirteen

DRIVER OF DEATH TRAIN TELLS OF DOUBOAGEDY Veteran Railroader, White and Shaken, Says Sunday Is Day of Dread, By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 30. —For thirty-six years Glenn E. Duffy of Terre Haute has been a railroad man. For twenty-five years he has been an engineer. In 11 those yers he never had an accident —until yesterday. Yesterday he picked the bodies of three children frfom the pilot of his locomotive, and helped with the removal of ten other bodies from the debris ol automobiles wrecked by his train, “The New Yorker,” crack Pennsylvania limited running between St. Louis and New York. Today he was white and shaken after a sleepless night. “The first thing I saw,” he said, speaking of the crash at Liggett. Ind., near here, where nine persons were killed, “was that the car was full of women and children. That other ac cident down at Highland, 111., where the train had struck an auto and killed four, had been on my mind all afternoon. Sees t rash Coming “I was standing with one hand on the brake valve and the other on the whistle cord. But I knew in an instant when I saw how fast the car was coming that if the driver didn't swerve the car we would hit it.” Duffy’s voice trembled as he spoke. He has a son 12 years old. “Just the size of the lad whose body I took oft the pilot at Highland,” he muttered. “I get a dozen scares a day,” he continued, “but these were my first accidents. Just two weeks ago a I young fellow with a girl dashed across in front of us. We didn’t miss him a yard. My fireman's face was green as he turned to me and whispered hoarsely ‘we didn’t hit him” Sunday Feared Day "Sunday is our day of dread. I would never like to go out on my engine on Sunday. Every engineer feels the same way. But, we go, even though we’re sick or shaken from accidents. We know the road. We couldn’t rest with someone else driving our engines. “The watch-word with ever y engineer is eternal vigilance.”

HEIGHTS ADDITION ANNEOT CITY Suburban District Becomes Part of Indianapolis, University Heights was officially annexed to Indianapolis following a meeting of its officials with the city officers in the office of Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, today. Members of the town board through their treasurer, Edward G. Fischer, turned over $1,331.80 to the general fund of the city, representing present balances of the town. It was said University Heights was practically debt free. University Heights was represented by John A. Cummings, Shelby T. Finch and L. O. Tomey, trustees: D. L. Eaton, clerk, and Ed. L. O. Harman. attorney. The cify w as represented by Hogue and James Owffen, city attorney. _ TYPHOID WARNING GIVEN Health Officer Advises Safeguarding of Water. Warning to provide against typhoid epidemic by safeguarding drinking water and sewage outlets was sounded today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian. , Cases are showing gradual increase, although the situation is not alarming, Dr Morgan said. Efforts will be directed toward checking the epidemic, which usually starts the middle of August, reaches its peak in September, and subsides in October or November. City health officers report a lull in other epidemics. Duck Shooters Fined Shooting Canada-bound ducks proved expensive to Robert Finska of South Bend and William E. Boeblke of Wanatah, Ind. They were fined $lO and costs by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court to|lay when they entered pleas of guilty to chargee of ialrd act Usi

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Leave Lockerbie St. as It. Was When Riley Wrote About It, Say Residents

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“THE SHELTERING SHADE OF THE TREES WAVING OVER THE LONG PROMENADE” OF LOCKERBIE ST- AND JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, WHOM CITIZENS SAY WOULD NOT HAVE PERMITTED LAYING OF A PAVEMENT IN THE STREET

RATE CASE NEARING CRISIS AS PARIS ANTICIPATE FINALE Reconciliation of Varying Valuations to Govern Commission's Action, Attorneys continued today to prepare for the closing of the Indianapolis 'Water Company rate case before the public service commission. The hearing will reopen Tuesday morning and on the events of the next few days may depend future rates to be charged consumers. The city has before the commission Its valuation theory, greatly at variance w?th that of the commission’s engineers and that of the company. There is a variance of $6,000,000 to $7,000,000 among the figures. On the adjustment of this variation by the commission depends the result of the case. If the commission agrees with its own or those of the company, rates may be higher. If it finds with the city, rates may not be changed or may even be reduced. The company’s attack on the city’s set-ups based almost entirely on the company’s history, will come immediately on the reopening of the case when cross-examination of Benjamin Perk, expert witness for the city, will start. Following this cross-examination the city will put on the stand engineers who have been studying the company’s property. Following the close of the city’s case the company may put on the stand rebuttal witnesses. Adjournment probably wiU be taken then to permit attorneys to prepare arguments and to file briefs. Indications were the hearing would last most of this week.

Michigan Town Smashes Old Blue Laws With Gay Abandon

Bp United Ife tc* EUDINGTON, Mich., July 80. —Ludington knocked her ancient Sunday blue laws for a row of hand-painted wax petunias on the first Sabbath of their scheduled resurrection. Ludington golfed, motored, swam, drank soda pop, went to the movies and rattled the bones on cigar counters with even more gay and reckless abandon than on other Sundays. It did these things so unanimously, in spite of the fact each was a violation of the old laws which County BteMKcutor Fitch promised to engdSjjvxSfcbfody made any attaint to

SHEY want to pave Lockerbie St.! From beneath the “cool shady coverts of whispering trees” there comes a protest, the kind of a protest that is meant to-be heard. The other day a steaming, roaring machine invaded the sacred precincts of the street and started to remove the old cobblestones laid along curbs bordering the dirt thoroughfare. Immediately the telephone at the office of the board of works started, ringing. Residents of Lockerbie St. were protesting. Officials heard

the protest and the machine was stopped and takon out of the neighborhood, pending settlement of differences between citizens and officials. “Mr. Riley would never have let them pave this street,” said Miss Kate Kimball, who has lived on the •street “so many more than thirty years I hate to tell you how long.” Miss Kimball was Riley’s housekeeper, and she still has charge of the old hoitie, now a museum. “We don’t want them to tear up our brick'sidewalks and our hitching posts and carriage stones,” she said. “All we want Is for them to grade the street and plant some more trees.” Lockerbio St. folk are not seek-

BANDITS KILL ONE AND GET $85,000 LOOT \ Four Wounded in Battle Aboard Speeding Passenger Train In Pennsylvania,

Bp United Frees WILKESBARRE, Pa., July 30.—1n a battle aboard a speeding electric passenger train, five bandits today POLICE AFTER MONKEY Animal Empties Milk Bottles on Front Porches. Residents of the 1500 block In W. Twenty-Seventh St. reported to police that a monkey early today tore up their flower beds and emptied milk bottles on their front porches. Patrolman Franks was sent to try to get the monkey. BUILDING PERMITS GAIN Construction Valued at $474,944 Shown Last Week. Construction valued at $474,944.50 is represented by 295 building permits Issued last week, records show today. A total of 364 was issued the previous week, with a value of $426,371. Real estate transfers last week totaled 335.

stop Ludington’s regular Sunday fun. r A few people who ventured out timidly In the morning, expecting to observe all the blue statutes, soon saw how conspicuous they were and proceeded to violate with enthusiasm. This left among the law observers only Mayor E. M. Hellett and County Prosecutor Fitch, whose idea it was to confine all local Sunday activities to walking and church-going, and Major O. E. Barbour, 84-year-old chief of tei'tives. who wanted ;o reformers to mind their oMmV'/ 1 i business.” ’

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Such a dear little street it is. nestled sway From the noire of/the city and heat ot the day. In cool, shady coverts of whispering trees. With their leaves lifted up to shake hands with the breeze. Which in all its wide wanderings never may meet A resting place fairer than Lockerbie street. • ••*••• There is such a relief from the clangor and din Os the heart of the town to go loitering In Through the dim. narrow walks, with the sheltering shade Os the trees waving over the long promenade, And littering lightly the ways of our feet With the gold of the sunshine of Lockerbie street.

lng publicity and they hesitate to give their names, but they do not hesitate to talk confidentially. “Riley’s poem about Lockerbie Street Is the greatest poem he ever wrote,” said one woman. “He reverenced the street so much that I have seen him take his hat off when he drove Into it. “It really Is cooler out here, but if they would put In hot pavements it wouldn’t be the Barne street any more. They should keep it Just as it is, as nature Intended it should be.” So the controversy continues over the question of whether the street shall remain as Riley described it.

killed a passenger and wounded four others before t£ey snatched a satchel containing an $85,000 pay roll and escaped into the hills. Posses are rushing in pursuit. While the train wai-i speeding along through a wooded section, the five men suddenly drew guns and demanded that all passengers hold up their hands. Then they began a systematic search to ascertain whether any one had weapons. PLAN OUTDOOR MEETINGS Methodist Union Committee Will Arrange Services. , Plans will be made tonight by the Methodist Union for a series of out-of-door meetings to be held In Indianapolis at a committee meeting at the Roberts Park M. E. Church, AB. Cornelius announced. The object of these out-of-door meetings will be to increase religious thought and spiritual feeling in the city.

Steps taken by officials to enforce the blue laws were : The Mayor—Visited all churcheg and took numbers of automobiles standing outside. With a view to prosecution. The County Prosecutor—Scowled at the procession of lawless automobile drivers. Announced complaints would be filed and went into seclusion. The Chief of County Detectives—urch for an hour au:-..mobile of i. i in of - ■■■ committee IBlMßaß^ißfeN : oMy a tailed it ail

AUTOISTS BLAMED FOR CRASHES AT TWOCROSSINGS Local Conductor Says Motorists Are Getting ‘Awfully Careless, 1

Death Harvest in Accidents Twelve persona were killed In week-end automobile accidents In Indiana. Fatalities in the entire country numbered forty-three. Nine were killed when a train struck an automobile at Terre Haute. Four were killed three hours earlier, when the same train struck an automobile at Highland. 111. Two wero killed an£ a third perhaps fatally injured when a train hit an automobile at Columbus, Ind. One was killed and four Injured when an automobile hit a telephone pole at Newcastle. Four were killed on Long Island, 4 at Gainesville, Ga.; 4 at Poplar Bluffs, Mo.; 3 at Chicago; 3 at Glassboro, N. J.; 2 at Wadesboro, N. C.; 2 in California; 2 at Augusta, Kan.; 1 at Detroit, 1 at Castletown Corners, Vt., and 1 at Atlanta.

Report* of two crossing accidents In which thirteen motorists were killed on the St. Louis division of the Pennsylvania Railroad by the same train, west of Terre Haute, Sunday, checked over in the office of W. C. Downing, division superintendent here today, charged the automobile drivers were to blame in both .ragedles. Train No. 30, the New Yorker, east-bound, first struck & car in which four were killed at Highland, 111. Toll of First Crash The dead; JOHN SEZS, 40. SERA DANKA. 30. JOE LENGYLE, 35. JOHN SEZS JR.. 14, all of Highland. Speeding eastward at fifty miles ar, hour to make up two hours lost in caring for bodies of these victims, the train struck another automobile bearing nine persons at Liggett, Ind., eight miles west of Terre Haute. G. G. Gillishe, telegraph operator in the tower at Liggett, thought to be the only witness, said the car was stopped on the tracks, view of which was obscured because of a curve. The drived had started to go on when the train, pulled by two engines, struck. In Second Disaster The dead: MRS. VELTA BOSTWICK, 41, Danville, 111. RICHARD BOSTWICK, 16. a son. CLARENCE BOSTWICK, 13 months, a son. MAY BOSTWICK, 13. a daughter. CRILLA BOSTWICK. 13, a daughter ELDIA BOSTWICK. 3. MRS. ETHEL SLAVENS, 21, Terre Haute. LEONA SLAVENS, 3, her daughter. RAYMOND THOMILSON, 21, Danville, driver. “The most terrible part of the accident was picking up the children,” declared Charles F. Hornshu, 3430 Birchwood Ave., conductor of the train, who still was greatly affected at his home today. “The train ran three-fourths of a (Continued on Page 2) NAVY TRUCK STARTS TRIP _______ \ “Hoosier” to Boost Summer Reserve Camp on Journey. Camp Shank, United States Naval Reserve summer camp for boys, at Riverside Park, will be boosted in a trip of the Navy recruiting truck, which leaves Indianapolis tonight for Great Lakes, 111. • The 'truck will stop at Lebanon, Frankfort, Kokomo, Logansport, Crown Point and Hammond, Ind. Lieut. F. F. Knachel, commandant, and Max Rawlings of the local sta tlon will make the trip.

When it urged abolition of Sunday dancing. Sheriff Andrew Anderson—Went automobillng with his family. City Prosecutor Matthews—Raized Fritch and eold the cops td do nothing. The county prosecutor, after retiring for the day, left his son to talk to the press and other inquiries. This son was no less than Roscoe Conkling Fitch, the former Northwestern University freshman who recently bounded into the limelight with a weird and quite fictitious confession of knowledge of the death of Leighton Mount in Evanston, lU,

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Chief Executive Stricken on Coast

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SHANK PREPARES MOVES IN CITY’S WAR AGAINST KLAN Police Arrest Four Street Salesmen of ‘The Fiery Cross,’ • Further moves against opposition of the Ku-Klux Klan to the city administration were outlined at a secret conference today at the mayor's office. Mayor Shank said he was satisfied ; after the conference that steps had ; been taken against “rumors of imi ptachrnent proceedings and graft in the administration.” I Joseph L. Hogue, city controller; Joseph B. Keallng, Republican national committeeman; William H. Freei man. Republican county chairman, and member of tho board of works. . attended the conference. None of them would make a statement. Arrest Order Issued “Eyery newsboy who cries out the name or headlines of the Fiery Cross. Down or Tolerance will be arrested,” said Mayor Shank following the conference. The order for arrest was unuerstood to have been issued before the mayor called the meeting. “We had a general understanding on Klan and politics at the meeting,” said the mayor. "I'm well satisfied with hte present situation. We are tracing all rumors of impeachment an,lngraft. We are finding how every one in the oity administration is' standing. Four Are Arrested Four men selling “The Fiery Cross,” were arrested today on charges of violating • Section 851 of the city ordinance making it “unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, in person or by employes, to solicit trade or custom for any business, profession or calling upon any street, alley or sidewalk, by any outcry or personal means or to solicit trade any person passing such place of business.” Newsie Warned The men: George Tipife, 24, 441 N. Meridian St.; Albert Starkey, 21, of 2008 Parker Ave.; Herbert C. Keyt, 27, of 534 W. Thirty-First St.; Martin Cook, 31, 306 E. Washington S:. Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff said that in order to enforce the ordinance, the street carriers of the three daily papers were warned against crying their papers. Representatives of the circulation departments of the three papers were to confer with Rikoff at 3 p. m. VETERANS ENTERTAINED Legion Auxiliary Arranges Program at Sunnyside. _ World War veterans, who are patients at Sunnyside, were to be entertained today by the auxiliary to the Irvington post of the American Legion. Virgil Moore’s orchestra from the Apollo Theater was to play. In the committee Mrs. J. Daven-pefr-t, Mrs. C. E. Donnell, Mrs. E. Perkins, Jr., Mrs. Simon Riesler, Mrs. Dora Reilly and Mrs. Elizabeth Hester. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 6710 a. m 81 7 a. m. /. 7111 a. m 82 8 a. m.- 7412 (noon) 82 9 a. ra ... 77 1 p. m. 84

Rescoo accepted his responsibility with becoming dignity and announced he had wfe-ed the attorney general at Lansing for Instructions. Roscoe said he was considering advising his father to ‘‘let things drop temporarily.’’ Mrs. Knight, who, according to the major, had the misfortune of having her husband lose an eye playing Sunday golf five years ago, had 500 names on her antldanciig petition. v Th| statute, which Ludington was call ftn to observe, prohibits: “xA|eping open shop, warehouse or workhouse, doing any mapper of

ENTIRE PACIFIC HAST PROGRAM CANCELLED AS HEART SYMPTOMS SUM Four Physicians Are Consulting Upon Chief Executive's Case —New Attack ‘indicates Complications'— Patient Is in Cheerful Mood.

“Condition Is Temporary”

SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.—Physicians attending President Harding “are inclined to believe , ' his “condition is temporary,” Dr. Joel T. Boone, who spent the night at the President’s bedside, said at 10:15 a. m. today. By LAWRENCE MARTIN . United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.—President Harding, wh.<\is seriously ill with heart complications, following an attack of ptomaine poisoning at Seattle, was improved this morning, Secretaries Hoover and Work said at 9:40 a. m. After a conference with physicians, the President’s entire Pacific coast trip was cancelled. Secretary of Commerce Hoover was the first member of the President’s immediate party stirring this morning. He was up before 7 a. m. and soon went into the presidential suite, where he remained for a short time. “There is nothing I can say,” he declared on leaving the suite, “All announcements of the President’s condition must come from medical men.” Hoover then went to the room of Secretary Work.

Four physicians In consultation and an early bulletin declared serious heart symptoms have complicated his case. i Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, head of Leland Stanford University and former head of the American Medical Association, a noted stomach specialist, and Dr. Cooper. San Francisco heart specialist, were summoned by Dr. Charles E. Sawyer and Dr. Joel T. Boone, the President's personal physicians. , , George B. Christian, the President’s secretary, issued a statement cancelling Mr. Harding's entire California program, announcing he had notified local committees at Los Angeles, San Diego and other points the President was to visit, saying the chief executive would be unable to carry out his program. President Harding is somewhat concerned the serious turn his illness has taken, but is In cheerful spirits. Dr, Sawyer at that time stated were three stages in the digestive disorder from which Mr. Harding was suffering. The first stage, he said, was marked by weakness, which was easily thrown off; the second stage being exhaustion, required a longer rest, while the third was prostration, in which considerable time was required for development of symptoms and the effect on the toxic condition of the blood. • Heart Symptoms Develop The heart symptoms developed with surprising suddennes late Sunday evening, causing Drs. Sawyer and Boone to call in the other physicians. Mrs. Harding remained at the President’s bedside until an early hour this morning when she was ordered to bed by Gen. Sawyer. Trip Plans Undecided No decision has been reached as to the time the President will return to Washington. Neither has it been decided whether he will go through the canal or by rail, though Gn. Sawyer said It would he better for him to go by rail rather than subject himself to the intense heat of the canal zone. The illness from which the President now is suffering first developed a week ago and it appeared to come simultaneously with a small epidemic among the members of the official party aboard the Henderson. At that time it was blamed upon too* free indulgence In crab meat. Since then, however, Dr. Sawyer has expressed the belief it was partly due to canned goods eaten on the ship or in Alaska. Everybody else in the party, after cabling on Dr. Sawyer or Dr. Boone recovered. Mr. Harding, however, put in some of the hardest work the trip following his departure from Alaska. He even passed up the fishing trip at Campbell River, B. C., to work for hours on speeches to be delivered on the Pacific Coast. All the time he was suffering some pain and was unable to eat much. Sawyer was treating him and by the time

labor business or work, being present at any dancing place or place of public diversion or show or entertainment or the taking part in any sport, game or play.” This same law also bans ‘‘hugging, kissing or the holding of hands,” except that this shall not apply ‘‘to the making of mutual promises of marriage nor to the solemnization of marriage.” “But how,” phoned a justice of the peace in a neighboring tqgnship to Fitch early Sunday, tell the difference between an gagement kiss and tb* kind HH JH

Forecast t PROBABLY cloudy with local thunder showers tonight and Tuesday. Not much change.

TWO CENTS

Recalls Wilson Illness in 1919 By United Press President Harding is the second chief executive to be stricken while on a speaking tour through the country. In September, 1919, Woodrow Wilson was forced to abandon his trip in behalf of the League of Nations when he suffered a nervous collapse aboard his special train near Wichita, Kan. Mr. Harding had an attack of ptomaine poisoning and developed heart symptoms and is 111 in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, having been forced to cancel the remalhder of his Paciflo Coast speeches.

the party arrived in Vancouver the President was feeling fairly comfortable. He had a recurrence of ths attack in Vancouver, due to nervous strain, but the next morning, as ths ship approached Seattle, he felt better and said he thought hs wo.ild get through the day with no trouble. President Harding and his pa’ty arrived in San Francisco shortly osfore 9 a. m., yesterday after Saturday night’s decision to cancel the scheduled trip to Yosemite valley and oome to this city for two days’ rest. Reception Prepared. The local reception committee had been quietly notified of the time of arrival and the mayor and a few dig'nitaries were on hand to greet ths President, but his coming was marked by a comparative absence of crowds or of demonstrations. * Mr. Harding smiled as he stepped from the platform of his private oar and walked to the waiting automobile of Mayor Janies Rolph, in which he was whisked through back streets to his hotel, where the presidential suite had been prepared. He entered the hotel by a side entrance and it was half an hour later before the crowd of approximately 1,000 people waiting around the main entrance knew that he had arrirved and gone to his room. The corridors on the floor where the President was quartered were kept clear by secret service men, while a detail of sixty police and plain clothes men stood guard in and about the hotel.

BOY IS KILLED IN FALL FROM TRUCK Robert Emerton Loses Life in Accident, Robert Emerton, 13, 418 S. Leeds Ave., was killed today when he fell from a dump truck driven by John Dithmer, IS, of 2130 N. Capitol Ave, at 5309 Brookville Rd . as they were driving to dinner from where the Marion County Construction Company is working near the city limits. The dead boy was recently transferred from the crew of Fred Duvall to the gang with which he working today as waterboy. Fred Willis, 18, of 2516 N. Pennsylvania St., was sitting beside Duthmer with the Emerton boy on his lap, when Dithmer swerved to avoid a chuck hole in the street. The two hoys fell off the truck. Willis was knocked unconscious, but was only lightly injured. Polios belie vs ths Kk passed over ths other box'*