Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1923 — Page 1

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s " l \ R. L. Dollings Stockholders* Give Vote of Confidence to Bert Mcßride, Receiver

mWO hfmdred stockholders of the R. L. Dollings Company, now in receivership, were feeling anew confidence in the future of their securities today following a meeting at the Indiana Pythian Bldg., Monday afternoon, in which it was agreed that operation of the plant of the Hugro Manufacturing Company, Warsaw, a Dolling concern, should be continued. It was a disheartened crowd that gathered to find out what had happened to the stock and what would become of their sav-

RIOT TOLL GROWS IN GERMANY * Chancellor Stresemann Will Present New Coalition Cabinet With Slogan of Food Money for Ail — Franco-Brftish Situation Precarious, By United Press In the face of overwhelming difficulties, with communists throughout Germany inciting workers to revolt, and strikes, Dr. Gustave Stresemann succeeded overnight in completing anew German cabinet. The most important post (outside of chancellor. which he will occupy), the foreign ministry, is to be filled by Herr Giego Von Bergen, ambassador to the Vatican. A growing death roll from rioting throughout occupied and unoccupied Germany, a strong Rhineland separatist movement approaching the French with a view 4 o establishing separate currency and allegiance to France, and the last act of the Cuno ministry, which announced cessation of all payments in kind to the allies until Germany gets on her feet, were some of the new developments that increased Stresemann’s difficulties.

The Franco-Brittsh situation was rendered still more precarious by issuance last night of a French yellow book, outlining semi-officially France’s reply to Britain’s latest reparations note. The French express resentment and insist they will go their own way toward collecting from Germany.

Germany Willihg to Present Ruhr Crisis to International Court, Stresemann Says

By CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Aug. 14.—Germany Is willing to present the question of justice or injustice of Franco-Befgian occupation of the Ruhr to an international court. Chancellor Stresemann declared this afternoon in his maiden speech in the Reichstag. The chancellor suggested if the expelled German population of the Ruhr is permitted to return, if all the Ruhr is permitted to work freely, and if Germany is granted a reasonable moratorium, the Reichs-government will be able to meet its reparations obligations. , Police reported more than a score of wounded when a mob in the Her-

WANT CENTRAL? TRY RIVER PARK Phone Company Employes to , Picnic, Employes of the Indiana Bell Telephone Companies and their families, about 4.000 in all, will take Broad Ripple Park by storm Thursday for their annual picnic. Beginning at 11 a. m. with a ball game between the auditing department and the plant department, races, contests and athletic events will be held throughout the day. An address of welcome will be delivered by C. H. Rottger, president. Vail medals. In recognition of special acts of heroism, will be'awarded. . The swimming pool will be open for events in the afternoon. There will be free dancing In the pavilion in the evening. Committee chairmen: C R. Woods, refreshment; R. L. Kessing, dance; F. A. Montrose, presentation of Vail medals; A. R. Henry, telephone pioneers of America; Fred 1,. Thomas, get together; J. L. Wayne, placement, and George Wellbaum. athletic events.

BOY TRUANT HANGS SELF AT SCHOOL Despondency Qver Recent Punishment Is Cause for Suicide, Officials Believe,

By United Prttt CHICAGO, Aug. 14. —Two hqurs after a quantity of hydrochloric acid j bad been found in his room, the body , of Jamea Wright, 15, was found hanglug in the guardhouse o? the Chica--1 go Parental School, a truancy insytutlon, today. I Superintendent Fred Smith, of the school, said the poison was seized in . the boy’s room after a companion j had told Dr. Walt Ash, the school phy- ! aldan, young Wright Intended to^atHOURLY TEMPERATURE • a. m........ 66 10 a. m. 81 1 a. m,- 68 11 a. m 84 ft a. 73 13 (noonj 86 •a. 7ft lp. *7

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Meanwhile, foreseeing an end to the entente, allied capitals are nervous about the exchange situation and It was proposed continental bourses close until Monday. The franc fell to below 18 to the dollar for the first time in ulstoty.

mannsplatz this morning stormed a detachment of police who finally were forced td use their weapons. In the Berlinerstrasse.|demonstrators attacked police who routed the mob after one man had fired at a policeman. Minor riots were reported in the suburb of Schoenburg and other districts In which several were wounded. Stresemann Is Calm Observers saw calamity ahead for the new regime, but Stresemann faced the situation with apparent calm. He planned an opening speech calling on the workers in the Interest of themselves and the Fatherland to abstain from wooing the Lorelei of communism. Overnight flashes in the kaleidoscope of Gerfnan events included a strong movement for separation of the Rhineland and formation of the (Continued on Page 11)

ROTARY ENTERTAINS BABE LUNCH Bambino, King of Swat, and Manager of Yankees, Are Guests. Babe Ruth, king of swat, was the guest of the Rotary Club at Its noon luncheon today at the Claypool. Miller Huggins, manager of the New Y'ork Yankees, and Everett Scott, Y'ankee shortstop, also were present. The three are here to play an exhibition game with Indianapolis at Washington Park this afternoon. Scott, an Indiana man, has played in more than one thousand consecutive ball games. Huggins was to make a short talk. , I. M. Mathews, director of the division of practical economics, Babson Institute, Wellesley Hills, Mass., spoke on “The Prevention of Business Panics.” Many Banks Apply An unusually large number of banks have applications before the State Charter Board for charters as new inFtitutlOns and for renewals, Eben H. Wolcott, State bank commissioner, said today. The applications will come before the meeting of the board on Wednesday.

tempt to “get” I. 51. Davis, an instructor. ■*’ ' ' Wright comm 1 ted suicide because of despondency over being punished, school officials believe. Mrs. Olive Wright, his mother, said she would demand an investigation. The boy had been in school for truancy since 1919. A number of aldermen, sitting in at a habeas corpus hearing to release a boy from the school, recently conducted an Investigation of charges of cruelty at the school. Testimony at this hearing alleged that the boys were whipped, placed in solitary confinement and in one case attaches caused a group of youths to beat a companion so badly that be die^f-

ings. In the crowd were many'who had been employed by the Dollings company to sell stock and who had invested their savings in the securities. There was an unusually number of persons above middle age. There were men who wore the sunburn of the fields. They were coatless with suspenders displayed. There were a large number of women. At one' point a baby cried and its mother took it from the room. x Bert Mcßride, receiver for the Dollings Company, was the center of constant questioning.

Reformatory Life Mas Not Dulled Love for Thrills in Miss Opal Isley

Leg Is Broken in Fall While Trying to Escape From Girls' School. ■pT“|EFORMATORY life has not dulled the love for -thrills In 1 Opal Isley ,17. The latest episode In Opal’s exciting young life was a fall from the third floor of the Indiana. Girls’ School at Clermont several days ago, while trying to escape, it was learned today. She lies in the Robert IV. Long Hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg. A doctor attending her said Miss Isley ran 100 yards before she was forced by pain to drop to the ground. The girl is under sentence for complicity with the robber band, led by her mother, Mamie Isley, who took several thousand dollars in cash and Liberty bonds from the Alert (Ind.) State Bank In May, 1921. She Is pretty. Detectives declare that her mother used her ee a tool. The girl was arrested last fall when she was caught trying to smuggle saws into the Jail to Cecil Johnson, one of the members of the gang. Johnson cared for her, detectives say. Later the girl led detectives to a spot on the Isley farm, east of the city, where they found a Jar containing several thousand dollars’ worth of Liberty bonds from the Alert Bank burled.

TEXAS GOVERNOR MAKES ATTACK ON WETFACTION Al Smith Flayed by Chautauqua Speaker for Signing Repealer. Bu United Preee CHAUTAUQUA. N. Y„ Aug. 14. The “solid dry South" today made its first attack on “wet Democracy.” Governor Pat M. Neff of Texas, speaking before the Chautauqua assembly late today, bitterly attacked the New York prohibition enforcement act repealer. His words were tempered somewhat to the non-polltlcal nature of the Chautauqua and he mentioned no names, but his speech was a broadside attack upon Governor Al Smith of New York. “He is a spineless citizen who gives encouragement to these law breakers and law defiers by raising in their behalf the question as to power of the government to enforce her constitutional and statutory laws,” he said “Instead of repealing these laws, they should all be strengthened and perfected. \ “The prohibition amendment is the of the nation and of every State in the Union. “Therefore, each State should as sume Its responsibility and courageously discharge its duty.”

FRUIT DEALER ADMITS MURDER OF WIFE Mother-in-Ijiw Also Killed—Bodies Found in Packing Cases. Pv United Pre BEDFORD. Mass., Aug. 14.—Nunie George Tsekos. 35, a fruit dealer of Franklin, N. H., was arrested today after the mutilated bodies of his wife, Natalie, and her mother, Mrs. Katherine Adams, were found in packing cases In salt marshes. Tsekos confessed, according to police, he murdered the women Saturday night In his fruit store In Franklin. Homo Robbed in Absence When Irvin Whitman, 5230 College Ave., returned home today after a week’s absence he found a burglar had taken silverware, a watch and an electric fan, total value of $565. Police were notified. Prowler Frightened Away A colored prowler was frightened from the home of J. L. Shelton, 404 Goodlet St., early this morning, police were told today. Shelton saw the man standing In the rear doorway of his home, he said. The prowler ran down an alley, .according to police. / Boy, 6, Bit by Dog Mrs. Fred Brink, 928 Garfield Dr., told police today that Frederick Burgman. 5, 940 Garfield Dr., was I>itten on the cheek by her dog with which the boy was playing. Dr. George W. Kohlstaedt, 2174 Madison Ave., ordered the dog locked up for three days pending developments from the boy’s injuries.

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SMALL OIL FIRMS FACE BANKRUPTCY Independent Companies Charge Standard With Attempt to Ruin Them by Price Cut, BULLETIN Independent distributors today moved in an attempt to end the price war which driven the price of gasoline down to 14 to 19 cents a gallon in twelve mid-western states, it was learned by United Press. Charging that the Standard Oil Company of Indiana is attempting to wipe out the independents and control the market with its sweeping 6.6 cents a gallon cut, a delegation of independents will call on Governor W. 11. McMaster; the South Dakota executive, whp started the price slashing and,ask him to “call off the war.” Independents in other states declared they fear bankruptcy.

Indianapolis gasoline distributing companies through their service stations today made 5.6 cents a gallon reductions in the price of gasoline, in line with a like reduction made by the Standard Oil Company throughout the central West.

Reductions followed the “price war” started a few days ago by Governor McMasters of South Dakota and taken up Monday by Governor McCray. Although McCray took no Immediate action, he said he would communicate with Standard OH officials at Chicago and would confer with Attorney Gqneral U. S. Lesh as soon as the latter returned to Indianapolis. “Naturally, I am very much gratfied with the reductions which have been affected,” Governod McCray said. “f[ is, however, unreasonable to suppose that the present prices can be continued. The service stations undoubtedly are selling gasoline at an under-production figure,” he said. Local agencies, without exception, instituted the B.flc reduction today, in some cases on direction of central off flees and in other on orders from local managers. These independent companies made (Continued on Page 11)

Now He Takes His Salary in $1 Bills

BY A T. B. M. ON A FAMILY ERRAND mAM known aa a pretty decent citizen. I’ve never been caught at anything I could be arrested for. But now I know how it would feel —cold perspiration upon the brow, tremulous knees, the effort to appear unconcerned about It all and the consciousness that thwfliext minute you’re going to be accosted by a Federal agent and led before Judge Anderson. All because I had a S3O bill. Ordinarily it’s a source of intense gratification to get hold of a twenty spot—it comes so seldom.

“Where are the $19,000,000 worth of resources they told us about?” one stockholder asked. ♦ “I don’t know,” said Mcßride. “What'is going to become of all the claims?” said another. “That is up to the courts,” the receiver said. Another man, a salesman, said he had a check from the Dollings Company he had neglected to cash. He was uncertain about it. • Mcßride told the stockholders and salesmen he believed the Hugro ’Company could make a profit and advised it be kept

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CANAL VALUATION TAKES J>7, 000 JUMP To the Gates, Men, Quick! Shut ’er Off! There's Gold Some’ere Nearaboutsi

Edward O. Snethen, 416 Indiana Trust Building, attorney who aided Taylor E. Gronlnger, city corporation counsel, in fighting the Indianapolis Water Company’s petition for increased rates, was confronted this morning by a stranger who demanded that Snethen turn off the water in the canal. • “There is $7,0000 buried in that canal,' said the stranger. "When that canal was built two Chinamen murdered a man for his money and buried the money in the canal.”

But now—give It to me in onedollar lots. I went Into a downtown drug store to buy some soap. While the pretty young woman was wrapping it I drew a $5 bill from my purse. Then I thought of the twenty. Better get it changed now, I decided. Back went the five and out came the. twenty. The young woman eyed me. I handel her the twenty. Coldly she surveyed the bill. , "I—l—l can’t change it,” she stammered. “Take It to Mr. ." Across the aisle wap Mr. . He took the bill, trailed It throiurh his

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FRANK WAMPLER IS APPOINTED TO P. S. COMMISSION Ex-Head of Phone Company Succeeds Glenn Van Auken Sept. 1. Frank Wampler, 2161 N. Meridian St., president of the Hoosier Motor Club, and former vice president and general manager of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, today was appointed a member of the public service commission by Governor McCray. He la a Democrat. Wampler will succeed Commissioner Glenn Van Auken, Sept. 1. Van Auken tendered hia resignation to the Governor several weeks ago. Wampler resigned from the viee presidency of the telephone company more than a year ago, one day after the 50m pany had begun its effort to get rates increased throughout the State. It was reported AVampler waa not in sympathy with higher rates. Taylor Groninger, city corporation counsel, expressed satisfaction over Wampler’s appointment. "Wampler is a man who will be fair to the public and to the utility,” said Groninger. “Governor McCray, could have made no better appointment.” A report Commissioner Edgar M. Blessing Intends to resign while on his vacation in Colorado Springs, JColo., or Immediately after he returns, was discussed the Statehouse today. A person very close to the commission said he Understood this to be the case. Blessing left Saturday for a month vacation. Asked If Blessing had tendered his resignation, Governor McCray said: "He has said nothing to me.” The report that Blessing intended to resign was current shortly after Mayor Shank attacked him for his visit with Clarence N. Gelst, president of the Indianapolis Water Company, In the East before the water rate petition was filed. At that time the Governor said to a Times reporter: "Edgar Blessing as a private citizen visiting C. N. Gelst as a private citizen is one thing. Edgar Blessing as a member of the Indiana service commission visiting C. N. Geist as president of the Indianapolis Water Company is an entirely different thing.” Commission records show Blessing still Is on the pay roll.

Snethen assured the stranger he was powerless to authorize the turning off of the water and advised the man to appeal to officials of the Indianapolis Water Company. ”1 did, and they sent me over here,” the man said. Snethen said he believed the water company sent the man to him because during the water case hearing before the public service commission recently he dealt with the canal in his argument for reduced rates.

fingers half a dozen times, shook his head, tried to glance significantly at the young woman without my notlolng it and then passed the money on to the manager. The manager opened the cash register and pulled out half dozen other S2O bills. Carefully he compared each onq, with mine. He bit his lips. Then with the air of “Oh, well, I suppose we’ll get stung on this, but we mustn’t lose a customer,” he handed me the change. It finally dawned on me— Capt. Halls of the Secret Service has Issued warning to merchants that a number of bogus S2O bills are In circulation in the city.

in operation. The stockholders agreed this should be done. Mcßride suggested that working capital be secured through the issuance of bonds. % “Let’s not liquidate the Hugro property,” said one man. “If.we do we will never get a cent. I’ll bet you my old horse, and that is all I have left, that if we liquidate we will never get anything. ” The stockholders took a vote of confidence in Mcßride. The meeting was called by Edgar M. Haas, Richmond, who presided. Orville Easterday, Portland, acted as secretary.

School Board Believes Examination of Records Will Show Some of Remonstrators on Building Program Are Not Taxpayers as Law Requires, The remonstrance signed by fourteen persons, said to be taxpayers, against the issuance of $1,650,000 worth of bonds for the erection of additions and new buildings at eight public schools, may be invalid, school officials said today. Examination of the records, it was stated, failed to show that several of the remonstrators were taxpayers and one has expressed a desire to have his name taken off the petition.

The law requires that a remonstrance must be signed by ten persons who pay taxes other than poll tax. If the records show that ten of the four-

15c a Year Rased on the present population of Indianapolis it will cost every citizen of Indianapolis only fifteen cents a year to pay the principal on the $1,650,000 bond issue asked by the school board to erect new buildings and additions at eight upblic schools. Fourteen persons have attempted to hold up the building program which would enable many of the 5,000 school children i now housed In portables and temporary shacks to attend school in modern, fireproof buildings. The bonds if issued will cover a period of thirty-two years, the first instalment to fall due In ten years.

teen are not qualified the State board of tax commissioners will be asked to disregard the remonstrance. IHan Fight Meantime the board of school commissioners is making to fight the case at the hearing Aug 22. Plans Vlll be discussed at the board meeting tonight and bids on a number of the buildings ordered advertised. “If the bids are ordered advertised tonight it will be Sept. 5 before they can be received,” Richard O. Johnson, business director the board, said today. “The hearing before the State tax board on the bond issue should be completed long before that date.” Official notification of the hearing has not yet been received by the school board. “I saw in The Indianapolis Times that the tax board had set Aug. 22 for the hearing, and that is all I know about It,” Johnson said. "We never have been officially notified.” Favor Receiving of Bids Members of the tax board were said to be in favor of the school board receiving bids first and asking for the bond issue later. “We were advised by our attorney not to do that,” Johnson said. “But even if It were legal to do so I doubt very much if we could get contractors to bid on buildings and then have their bids held up Indefinitely while the matter of a bond Issue was being thrashed out. In the meantime prices of material and labor might vary greatly, and contract ros would be afraid to bid under those conditions.” The necessity of new school buildings in Indinaapolis is becoming greater every day, school officials declare. With a school population growing at the rate of 1,200 to 1,500 a year, it will be ruinous to the publio "school system to delay erection of new buildings further. Already about 6,000 pupils are housed in portables and temporary buildings, and not a single new permanent grade or high school building has been erected In more than two yeans. Advertise in Groups It is the plan of the board to advertise the buildings In groups of two and three each. “We feel we will get better bids by this system,” Johnson said. ”By advertising In groups the bidders who lose out on the first bunch of buildings will be stimulated to try all the harder on the following groups.” MOTHER TAKES POISON Mrs. Carrie Pruett in Serious Condition at Hospital Following an attempt to take her life by swallowing poison, Mrs. Carrie Pruett, 32, of 2164 S.'Meridian St., was In a serious condition at the city hospital today. Roy Pruett, her husband, said she had been 111. Mrs. Pruett has two small daughters by a fgrmer maajlage. One of the girls was with het vwhen she took the poison.

Forecast • PARTLY cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Not much change in temperature.

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COOLIDGE FAVORS {126,000,000 COT IN FEOLRAL BUDGET President Has Plan for Banishing Threat of Coal Strike, By PAUL R. MALLON United Prett Staff Corregpnndent WASHINGTON. Aug. 14. President Calvin Coolidge approved today a slash in Government expenditures of $126,0007000 for the next fiscal year. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, director of the budget bureau, conferred with the President at the White House and submitted his estimates of expenditure® contemplated by the various Government departments for the next year. Lord's work, which was begun at the instance of President Harding, w ,s wholly sanctioned by Mr. Coolidge. The threatened anthracite strike, and the Immigration situation, were the other principal problems confronting President Harding's old Cabinet as it met for the first time today to advise with the new President, Calvin Coolidge. .Mr. Coolidge haa drawn up and already put into execution a definite plan to banish the threat of a coal strike“'*by having representatives of both sides meet at New York tomorrow and seek an agreement. Two Fined After Fight Jasper White, 58, of 1116 8. Belmont Ave., was fined sls and costs, and Walter Manuel, 38, of 1024 S. Tremont St.. $1 and cost, by Judge Delbert O. Wllmeth, In city court today They were arrested July 20, following a fight In Rhodius Park, In West Indianapolis.

- Let’s All Tell the Tax Board Citizens of Indianapolis can get what they want if they go after it. The Times is convinced that Indianapolis citizens want adequate school facilities. Fourteen persons are trying to prevent the city from obtaining them. What do you think of it? •'What you think Your word with the State tax board, which must settle the problem, is as good as the word of any of those fourteen persons who are standing in the way of new buildings. Write a letter to The Times telling what you think of this situation. The Times wants to know and The Times wants the tax board to know. Make your letter brief, but tell what you think. Write it now! |