Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 78

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Lloyd George Says RHINELAND REPUBLIC LOOMS • • * MONARCHISTS AND COMMUNISTS TO CLASH PROVINCE OF BAVARIA THREATENED By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, 0. M., M. P. (Former British Premier) Copyright by United Feature f Syndicate. LONDON, Aug. 11.—What a muddle it all is! France and Germany are both anxious to settle, but too proud to say so. The struggle, therefore, goes on, and ■will continue to the detriment of both. Belgium Is sorry she ever entered the Ruhr, but cannot get out of It. Every time she tries to get away, France pulls her back roughly by the tail of her coat. So she his to do sentry duty at Essen whilst her franc is leading a wild life at home. Italy has forgotten she ever sanctioned occupation, and her moral Indignation is mounting rapidly, although it has not yet risen to a height which is visible across the Alps. Great Britain is growling futile notes of dissatisfaction with everybody— France and Germany alike. The confusion of tongues is deafening and paralyzing, and no one is quite happy except the spirit of mischief, who is holding his sides with laughter. He never had such a time—not since the Tower of Babel. And this time it may' end in a second deluge. The real issue involved in all this struggle is a comparatively simple one. How much can Germany pay, and how can she pay? America, Britain, Italy and Germany are all agreed that the oojy way to settle that question is to appoint competent experts to investigate and report upon it. The pope also has blessed this obvious suggestion. France, on the contrary, says it is a question to be guns and generals —both equally fitted for the task. Germany must present its accounts to the mitrailleuse and argue her case before the soixante-qulnze. It is a mad world. Poincare Prejudiced Every one is interested in one question—or perhaps two. How will it all end, and how soon is that end coming? Although I have nothing to fear from recalling the predictions of my early articles on this subject, I hesitate to hazard fresh forecasts. But one may review the possibilities and note the drift of the whirling current. In assessing chances you must begin with some knowledge of the man who will decide the event. M. Poincare is a man of undoubted ability and patriotism, but he is also a man who lives in a world of prejudices so dense they obscure facts. Look at one statement "in his last note, where he says that the conferences and ultimatums of the past four years got nothing out of Germany. What are the facts? During the three and a half y ear it"-that preceded the Ruhr invasion Germany paid to the allies in cash and in kind over 10 milliards of gold marks —500,000,000 pounds in sterling; 2,000,000,000 in dollars—a considerable effort for a country which had Just emerged out of the most exhausting of wars and whose foreign trade was down 60 to 70 per cent. You might imagine that (Continued on Page 7) WHIPPING IS ~PROBED Oklahoma Governor Sends Agents to Tulsa to Investigate Flogging By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 11. —Governor J. C. Walten today sent state agents to Tulsa to Investigate the whipping of Nathan Hantman. Although no action will be taken until the report of the investigators is tecelved. the executive announced he will enforce martial law in any county whre local police are unable to maintain order and prevent mob action. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 74 10 a. m 86 7 jn. m 77 11 a. m 87 8 a. m 81 12 (noon) 88 9 a. m 84 1 p. m. 89 10 a. m 86

Marion Alone With Her Dead

'ted Press [jTT] \lt I ON, Ohio, Aug. 11.— jlVl Marion is alone with her ueau. ■> Tattered vestiges of a crushing throng strew the route along which "Warren G. Harding yesterday passed on to the tomb. The multitudes are gone. Plain citizens tramp the littered avenue where the power of a Nation rode in the funeral cortege of a native son. Out in Marion Cemetery twenty soldiers stand guard over a vine-covered house of stone. They will stay on duty as long as the body of Warren. G. Harding, twenty-ninth President of the United States, re-

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Press Services Report CHANCELLOR CUNO ASKS TO RESIGN^ ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED IN WILD DISORDERS • • • HUNGRY WORKERS PLUNDER GRAIN FIELDS By CARL D. GROAT, United Press Staff Correspondent. BERLIN, Aug. ll.—An infantry company, with machine guns, was dispatched to guard the residence of Chancellor Cuno today—fourth anniversary of establishment of the German republic—when bloody clashes between workers and police were reported from Hamburg, Bremen, Leipzig, Kiel and Duebeck. Chancellor Cuno filed his resignation with President Ebert, but the lattter refused to accept it. Eleven workers were killed at Aachen when hungry men raided potato and grain fields. One worker was killed and many injured in fighting with the police at Hamburg, while two were killed at Ratiber. The tramp of troops down the almost deserted Wilheimstrasso In the early morning called up memories of previous uprisings and bespoke the government’s manifest uneasiness. But this time it is from the proletariat trouble and possible revolt is feared. k Threat of a “soviet” republic in Germany was heard from the lips of a communist deputy In the Reichstag Friday, and President Ebert immedi ately issyed a proclamation warning radicals to refrain om circulating hand bills or posters, holding meetings or making speeches calculated to endanger public order. It is tantamount to a mild state of siege for the entire country. Orders Disobeyed Morning found the order disobeyed by demonstratore taking advantage of "U o listit uti o n Day”—anniversary' of (Contiqued on Page 11)

BOULEVARD PROJECT WILL BE CONSIDERED Park Board Will Hear Property Owners Saturday*. Consideration of the plan to make Fifty-Sixth St. a boulevard from Grandview Blvd. to Northwestern Ave. will be taken up by the park board next Saturday when interested property owmers will appear. The boulevard is a part of the system proposed by the late George Kessler, and is Intended to form a northern connecting link between the east and west parts of the city. A. B. Carter, local realtor, appeared before the board to obtain an adjustment with the city on his property damaged by construction of the boulevard along the canal between Meridian St. and Sunset Ave. The city agreed to consider his claim at the next meeting. ARMINGTON SAYS ‘DITTO’ y No Relief Sighted by Weather Man From Heat and Showers. High humidity, occasional thunderstorms, no relief tf om the heat —the same old story. This, according to J. H. Armingtcn, weather bureau meteorologist, will be the weather menu for Indianapolis for today and Sunday, just as it has been for many days past. No immediate relief from the round of heat and showers is in prospect, he said. YORK RITE PICNIC IS HELD 20,000 Masons And Relatives At Broad Ripple Park. Twenty thousand York Rite Masons, relatives and widows and orphans of Masons attended a picnic at Broad Ripple Park today. Events included races, jumping, games, a sijent tribute to the late Presdent and patriotic speeches.

mains in this temporary resting place. 100,000 in Town. The path back to normalcy for this little town of 30,000 people which yesterday handled a crowd soldiers estimated was in excess of 100,000 is to be long and difficult. The East Center St. home of Dr. George T. Harding, father of the late President, was patrolled by soldiers throughout the night. The front door of the Harding home had been taken off to allow the tens of thousands to pass through for a last look at the face of their dead neighbor and chief. The door could not be replaced last night

SCHOOL BOARD IS TO INSIST ON BUILDINGS

Pictures of Indianapolis Persons By Local • Photographer Hung in Convention Gallery

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NEWSY GIVES UP ‘HIKE’TO TOLEDO Clarence Lawrence, Missing 'Three Days, Returns. ■Weary-footed, dust-covered. Clarence Lawrence, 12, arrived back' at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Anna Burns, 604 N. Jersey St., today. * Clarence, a Times carrier, set out on foot Wednesday morning for Toledo, Ohio, where his mother Is working. He told his grandmother he was going swimming at Willard Park. While police searched for him, Qarence picked up a boy companion on the road. They spent Thursday night with a banker and his wife in Sharpsvllle, Ind. It took little persuasion by the banker to Induce Clarence to start back to Indianapolis. “I didn't think they’d worry about me,” Clarence said as he reached home. ■ REALTORS GIVE PICNIC Fun On Program At Boys’ Prepare tory School. / Members of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, their families and frienis, held their annual picnic today at the Boys’ Preparatory School, Riverside Dr. SSfoiming, baseball, horseshoe pitching, racing and other athletic contests were held. Dancing and a chicken dinner was on the program.— YOUNG WOMEN ARE HELD Officers Say Bottle of Gin Is Found In Apartment Ruth Dunn, 21, and Ruth Bennett, 22, were arested and a bottle of gin seized in a raid on Miss Dunn’s apartment, 10 the -Avalon, Tenth and Alabama Sts., today, police said. Charges of operating a blind tiger were placed against Miss Dunn. Miss Bennett was held on a vagrancy charge. Their bonds Were Bet at $1,600 each. The raid was made by officers Houston, Marcy, Ruse and Dunwoody.

and a soldier guard was assigned to keep watch about the porch. The carpet in the front room where the casket stood Was worn bare and the wide lawn outside was turned in a day from bright green to dusty brown. Marion realizes today the son she gave to the country that wanted him was never, in a true sense, given back to her for h’r own. The huge crowds which followed Warren Harding to his resting place gave the funeral that aspect of national importance which his friends, school mates and fellow townsmen had hoped to avoid.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 11, 1923

MISS JEAN OLIVER

T r " —— -| HE pictures of Peggy Willis, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Willis, and Jean Oliver, leading woman In the Grand* Players, who spent the summer season at English's, were among sfx by H. P. Dexheliper, Indianapolis photographer, given signal honor at the recent convention of

HUNT FOR MISSING MAN IS CONTINUED —; De Witt V, Moore and Taxi Driver Are Not Heard From — Relatives .Search, * \

De Witt V. Moore, former secretary of the Stato board ot registration of engineers and land surveyors, who disappeared from his home, 2719 N. Capltot Ave., at 4 a. m. Thursday, loft Indianapolis in a rented automobile with a chauffeur, it was learned today. Neither • Moore nor the chauffeur has been heard from. According to Don Herr, head of the Herr Cab Company, from whom Moore rented the car, Moore appeared at the garage of the company, 111 Kentucky Ave., early Thursday morning and told the night man wished to make a business trip to Detroit, to be gone three or four days. Hei r said the trip was started Immediately. He said it was customary

ILLINOIS TROOPS ON STRIKE DUTY Ten Military Units Rushed to Hillsboro to Quell Outbreaks in Smelter Walkout,

By United Press 3PRiNGFIELD, 111., Aug. 11.—Responding to an urgent call for military aid, Governor Len Small early today ordered ten military units to proceed immediately to Hillsboro to halt a threatened outbreak at the plant of the American Zinc and Lead Smelter Company. On instructions of the Governor, Colonel Taylor ordered mobilized as early troop movement to Hillsboro as possible, with the following com mands: t Troop F and G of the 106th Cavalry, the Headquarters Company, and Company C of the 130th Infantry, Springfield. _ Troop E, 106th Cavalry, Urbana. Company A, 130th Infantry, Decatur. Company E, 180th Infantry, Champaign. Company D, 100th Infantry, Danville. Company M, 130th Infantry, Paris, (Machine gun Command.) Medical detachment, 130th Infantry, Effingham. v * In a message to the Governor shortly after midnight, Sheriff mil of Hillsboro said: “I respectfully request that troops be sent to Hillsboro at once, as I can no longer cope with the situation.’’ A hurried conference was held, followed by immediate orders toe the troop movement. The trouble at the smelting plant began last Wednesday, when efforts were made to unionize the workmen. The following day there was a clash in which one deputy was shot and seriously wounded and two other persons were beaten. Officials c! the company appealed for troop protec-

the National Photographer's Association in New York. The pictures were hung in the convention gallery, an honor accorded to only a selected few photographic artists from varlapa parts of the country. Judges who selected the pictures to be honored were nationally known photographers and artists.

for drivers to report in occasionally during a long trip. "I don’t feel there \is anything wrong, however," Herr said, “o* we would have heart! about it. In a case of this kind I believe no news is good news.” Berg Moore, son of Jhe missing man, said he had found no trace of his father. Moore did not tell members of his family where he was going when he Jest. ]ferg Moore said he expected to ask police to help him If he did not hear from Tils father 'today. The elder Moore had beef) ill. He was engaged in a controversy with the State board of accoi)nts over approximately $3,700 the board says he owed to the registration board. Mdfcre told the board he owed the money, but disputed the amount.

' tion and representatives of State military forces were sent to make an Investigation. The call for troops today by Sheriff Hill is believed to have come when officials of the company intimated they would attempt to operate the plant. TWO HELD AFTER FIGHT Prisoner Escapes and Is Recaptured by Cop. Following an alleged fight between Virgil Edwrads, 26. of 902 Churc® St., and Roy Lyman, 30, of the same address, both were arrested today on charges of assault and battery Edwards. according to Patrolman Curan, ran when he attempted to arrest him. Curran caught him and Edwards asked permission to wash blood ffow his face. Permission was granted and Edwards raiv again. Curran caught him again. ’During the fight Mrs. Sarah Butler, a neighbor fainted. She was found lying on the sidewalk. Too much booze, according to the po lice, was responsible for the excitement. _ BURGLAR DOESN’T REPLY Man Escapee When Householder Questions Him. When Harry Basker, 164 Blackford St., awoke at midnight Friday night a man was standing beside his bed. “What do you want?” Basker demanded. \ The man departed by way of a window. l

—Photos by Dexheimer. PEGGY WILLIS

CLERKS OBJECT TOEXTRAWORK 'Strike', Threatened When Court Asks Service, Muting was threatened by deputy city clerks today when City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth announced he would hold court this afternoon. Time-honored custom gives the clerks a half holiday on Saturday. Wilmeth ordered cot At this afternoon to clean up ninety cases continued from Friday, when court was closed because of the Harding funeral. After a two-hour deadlock, in which Chief Depifty Clerk John Ambuhl said the clerks would not work ouid in which Wilmeth insisted courF would be held, Ambuhl announced that one deputy would remain on duty. And .court was held. LIQUOR CASE CONTINUED Chargee Against 8t rath man to Be— Heard Aug. 14. Blind tiger charges against Edward 8. Strathm&n, 4220 Central Ave., were continued in city court, today until Aug. 14. Police allege they found 722 gallons of w'lne, 620 quarts of beer. 802 pints ot beer and two gallons of grdin alcohol in a refrigerator room in the basement at Stratbman’s home. ANOTHER- UNION IS OUT Hoisting Engineer Withdraw From c. u u. The local Hoisting Engineers’ Union today is among those that have withdrawn delegates from the Central Labor Union, according to Bert Robinson, member of the executive committee at the union. The decision was unanimous, Robinson said. Although no reason was given for the withdrawal in the resolution, it was Intimated that introduction of matters foreign to labor into the ’deliberations of the C. L. U. was the cause.

Courageous Widow Faces Future

By LAWRENCE MARTIN United S rets Staff Correspondent vvTj ASHINGTON, Aug. 11.— ** Facing lonely years with courage, and calmness, Mrs. Warren G. Harding today prepared to gather up the broken threads of her life and to weave them into anew design. ' She re-entered this morning the empty White House to collect personal belongirga, every; one of them certain tfc remind her of the husband she left in that quiet Marion Cemetery yesterday, but just as there was neither hysteria cor self-pity, in her demeanor during the ordeals

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Battle to Get Children Out of M-akeshift Quarters to Be Waged Until Modern Facilities Are Obtained, Says FYesident, HEARING ON BOND ISSUE REMONSTRANCE SET AUG. 22 Dr, Marie Haslep Declares Program Was Carefully Worked Out and Education Heads Know It Is Right and Will Stick by It, ' The school board will stand by its guns in the battle to get the school children of Indianapolis out of temporary shacks, portables and makeshift buildings and into modern, fireproof sanitary buildings, Dr. Marie Haslep, president of the board, said today. x i

Meantime civic clubs, parentteacher associations and others interested in the welfare of the public schools prepared to assist the board in its efforts to gain the approval of the State board of tax commissioners for the $1,650,000 bond issue for additions and new buildings at eight pipces which was held up Thursday when fourteen taxpayers filed a re--1 monstrance with Leo K. Fesler, county auditor. •Hearing Aug. 22 The State tax board today set the hearing on the remonstrance for Aug. 22. - % “The board studied the school building needs of Indiana carefully. We moved carefully in adopting our program and we know we are right. We are going to stand fcy it,” Dr. Haslep said. According to law ten taxpayers can hold up a bond Issue, pending a hearing before the State tax eommlssioners. Advocates of schools insist that the remonstrance filed Thursday is nothing more than an attempt to delay or prevent the erection of school buildings, as it was not' filed until late the last day provided by law, and the remonstrators failed ta avail themselves of the invitation extended to the public to appear oefore the board and discuss plans when the buildings wesre under consideration some time ago. Poorly Posted on Lair It also was suggested that the remonstratora were poorly posted on the provisions of the law. "A number of remonstratprs have critised the board for making the -bond issue before bids on the buildings w'ere received, according to statements made Ijy them to the Indianapplis Times.” R. O. Johnson, business director said today. "Apparently they are ignojant of the fact that the law specifically provides that money for the erection of school buildings must be on hand before bids fan be received or contracts let. We got the ouinion of the school board attorney on this very point. If the remonstrators do not agree with the proceedure they should blame the law and not the board. “One remonstrator was quoted as saying that 4ie objected because the contracts were to be awarded without competition. He should familiarize himself with the law custom of the board in awarding' contracts. Contracts are awarded only after bids hare been advertised, publicly and the widest competition has been sought.” Hoped to Avoid Delays Members of the board said today they had made every possible effort to have the entire matter thrashed out before issuing the bonds in hopes of avoiding long, complicated, technical delays, such as hearings before the tax board. They said that when the plans were originally considered public discussion was sought, State boards, city officials, "civio organizations and the general public were invited to attend hearings on the various buildings. 'Harry V. Wenger, engineer for the State board of tax commissioners, spent several days in going over the plans, they said, and at the end of his Investigation expressed himself as satisfied with them. 'v Eleven Cents at Dallas By United Press DALLAS, Tex', Aug. 11. —Gasoline was sold at 11 cents a gallon today by the Magnolia Petroleum Company and many independent cqmpanies. Other large companies were expected to follow with price cuts. 4

of Mr. Harding’s illness, death and burial, so there will be no heroics about her final days in the White House. , Practical Woman The best way to meet life now —the life without the man to whose comfort and well being she ministered constantly—is to be active, she believes, and now that she has laid the dead to rest she intends to devote herself to the living. Her first task is to remove her belongings from the White House so President and Mrs. Coolidge may move in. v On her arrival in Washington at 9:20 today f she

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature.

TWO CENTS

TWO COURSES IN TELEPHONE RATE CASE CONSIDEREO / Public Service Commission Holds Lengthy Conference, Public service commissioners today the Statehouse, ostensibly engaged in held another lengthy conference at discussing action of the Indiana Bell Telephone . Company In seeking, through Federal Court, to enjoin the commission from interfering with the collection of increased rates and tolls. Although commissioners were silent as to the conference, it was believed they were w’avering between a decision to issue their order in the Bell Telephone case and to file a demurrer to the Federal case. Fred Van *Nuya and George Barnard, attorneys for the commission during the Bell case some months ago, wjere consulted. John W. McCardle, commission chairman, has held conferences with Edward M. White, assistant attorney general of the State. When the Bell attorneys, early this week, brought suit asking for an outright injunction against the commission, several of the commissioners Indicated relief that the case had passed from their hands. This might be taken as an indication that the order will be Issued, as pjajined. It was said today that the order, although completed, is subject to revision at any time pridr to its issuance. Bell officials first asked for an out* right injunction and late Thursday, through Federal Court, asked for a temporary restraining order against the commission, hearing on Which will be held at Hammond next Wednesday, GAS PRICE CUT TO 16C IN SOUTH DAKOTA Governor Wins Fight for Reduction By Establishing State Depots. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 11. —Governor W, H. McMaster, South Dakota, today won his fight to reduce gasoline prices in his State to 16 cents a gallon. Governor McMaster ordered fuel sold by State highway Bupply depot at Mitchell for 16 cents, and Bald he proposed to establish similar depots. The Standard Oil Company of Indiana today cuLto 16 cents a gallon In South Dakota ’’to meet competition.” NO PRI#E CUT IN INDIANA Western Refining Company Reports Drop Expected for Some time. While cuts in the price of gasoline were reported from other States today, the price in Indiana remained at ' 21.8 ceqts, including the 2-cent tax added June 1. W. H. Trimble, treasurer of the Western Refining Company, said a drop had been expected for some time. Other companies reported they had no knowledge of any decreases.

went directly to the White House and as rapidly as possible will have household effects and other belongings crated up and removed. / Christian Will Aid George B. Christian, Jr., her * late husband’s secretary, and Harry Barker, the secret service man assigned to her when she entered the White House, will* stay with her to help until the work of removal is finished. She has not definitely decided whether to send her effects to Marion or to put them in storage in Washington.