Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1923 — Page 2

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PEOPLE SUPPORT BALDWIN IN STAND ON RUHR QUESTION

AUDITOR TERMS • EFFORT FOR SUIT POLITICAL MOVE Labor Leader One of Two Who Petition for Recovery of $72,243, Demand that county commissioners sue Leo K. Fesler, county auditor, on his bond, to recover $72,243 alleged to have been illegally paid from county funds was filed by Charles W. Kern, president of the Central Labor U,nion, before the election Monday night, Kern said today. Alleged discrepancies were discovered, Kern said, "while investigating sums paid the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Company,” and the petition for suit followed. The petition, also signed by Charles W. Roberts, demands that “suit be instituted against Leo K. Fesler, his bondsmen and concerns named to recover sums paid out of the county treasury contrary to the provisions of the county council act.” The auditor paid for work done at Julietta from the wrong fund, it is admitted by all concerned. Fesler Says Politics "It is a technicality,” said Fesler. "The county is out no money. It has had the work done, and value received. I believe this move is merely an attempt by the county council to ge; me in hot water, and that politics is behind it. All warrants issued were on order by the county commissioners.” He then cited a State law providing exemption for auditors who made mistakes in paying money "in good faith.” The statute under which the petition is filed makes it mandatory on commissioners, on petition of a citizen, to bring the suit if money Is believed to have been illegally disbursed. If not done in thirty days the petitioner can bring suit in the county’s name. Cassius L. Hogle, president of the council, with whom Fesler Is at war, denied the council inspired the action. “It was not necessary for him to make those appropriations from the Julietta fund,” said Hogle. "We would have authorized them. The council is not going to permit laxity in care o county affairs. He has followed the same practice for seven years. Fesler violates the law by using money from 'an appropriation made for another purpose.” The trouble in a nutshell is this: One hundred and fifty thousand dollars was appropriated last year by the county council to build additions to 'Julietta, county hospital for insane. .The contracts were let. Then "emer.gcncy” work had to be done first, overhauling the heating system, etc. Fesder paid for the emergency work out 'of the Julietta bond fund, instead or the general county fund, creating a in the Julietta fund. Non-Union Labor Used The contractors for whom the Imoney was appropriated demanded •pay. and secured a mandate from Superior Judge T. J. Moll to that effect. Judge Moll ordered Fesler to draw a 'warrant to himself from the general _fund and put it in the Julietta fund, •which was done. The county council is deadlocked with the auditor because councilmen, •of opposing Republican faction, felt .Fesler had exceeded his power. , "He had twenty-one days in which *to call a council meeting to provide an appropriation for the emergency work.” said one councilman. "Then all could have been done legally.” • The Central Labor Union became -Interested when A contract for part of the Julietta work was given the Pitts&urgh-Des Moines Steel and Construction Company, which used nonunion labor. . J

RITES FOR MRS. J. W. FLANDERS WEDNESDAY Burial of Widow of Former Dupont Physician at Old Home. Last rites for Mrs. Florence inlanders, 67, who died Monday at the Methodist Hospital, following an 111ness of a month, will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at her residence, 2234 Ashland Ave. The body will later be taken to Dupont, Ind., where burial will take place at 1 p. m. Thursday. Mrs. Flanders was the widow of Dr. Jerome W. Flanders of Dupont, Ind. She had lived in Indianapolis seven teen years. She was a member of the Dupont Baptist Church and of the Eastern Star of that city. Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. Grace Flood and Miss Dolly Flanders, of Indianapolis. Harding Honor Badges Received Ribbons presented by the late President Harding have been received at Bey Scout headquarters and will be distributed to twenty-one Boy Scout troops of the Indianapolis council for a 25 per cent Increase in membership. The ribbons bear the name of the late President, who was Honorary Scout President. Directory Publisher to Talk. Rupert L. Burdick of the Associated Business Directory Publishers of New York City will talk to the members of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis at their weekly luncheon Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce on “Merchandising and Media." Short Day Inaugurated Bu United Preen LORAIN. Ohio, Aug. 14.—The National Tube Company announced today it will inaugurate the eight-hour day In its mills Aug. 16. It will be necessary to employ 700 additional men. Gloria Swanson Improves Bu United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—Gloria Bwanapn. film star under treatment In a private hospital, was reported to “improving" today.

Former Phone Man Named Commissioner

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FRANK WAMPLER.

Governor McCray today announced appointment of Frank Wampler, former vice president and general manager of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, to succeed Glenn Van Auken as a public service commissiioner Sept. 1. AOTO RONS INTO CONCRETEMIXER Man in Motor Car-lnterurban Crash Seriously Hurt, Dennetta Calhoun, 1854 Peck St., suffered cuts on her right hand from a broken windshield when the car she was driving struck a concrete mixer attached to a truck driven by Clark Kelly. 213 E. Tenth St.. at Ft. Wayne Ave. and New Jersey St., today. Both automobile and concrete mixer were damaged. F. M. Gross, Kathclamar Apts., Morris and Meridian Sts., was still in a serious condition today at St. Francis hospital, where he was taken Sunday afternoon after the car in which he was riding was struck by an Indianapolis and Shelbyville interurban car at the Acton (Ind.) crossing. His wife also was seriously Injured and was taken to the home of her mother, Mrs. Sofia Gerhardt, 240 S. Walcott St. It is believed both will recover. Another passenger in the automobile, whose name was not learned, jumped to safety. According to friends of the Grosses, the occupants of the car were unable to see the approaching interurban. Mr. Groes is a salesman at the Oakley garage In Meridian St.

Friends Miss Little Girl Killed in Street Play ma t e s missed Irene Barton. 5, the f daughter of E. 1 W. Barton of ' Beech Grove, . j Monday evening Irene was 1 iflL V ; playing in 'he •18 wjtP , sand in a street & <' Jffy**' near her home. P? wP? • 2 She started to ’ run across the ' .. .., street. An automobile driven . ' by W. R. Hank •\** ins. 706 N, Ban- •~ croft St . struck her. She died IRENE in St. Francis BARTON hospital a short time later. LUTENS ASK INJUNCTION Dismissed Protest Appealed to Superior Court. Erection of a $150,000 Jewish temple at Thirty-Fourth and Ruckle Sts. Is opposed by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Luten, 3367 Ruckle St., whose property adjoins the church site. The Lutens have appealed to Superior Court from dismissal of a protest by the board of zoning appeals. A temporary Injunction to halt work until the appeal Is heard is asked. Violation of the city zoning ordinance is charged. The district involved is reserved for the erection of exclusive dwellings, it is claimed. The Beth El Congregation Is building the temple. United Mechanics to Moot Members of the State Council of the Junior Order of United Mechanics and the Daughters of America will hold their State meeting at the Den ison, Aug. 23 and 24, It was announced today. Indianapolis members will entertain visiting delegates. A. E. Rettig of Indianapolis is chairman. An acre of tobacco plants yields about 700 tons of tobacco. Steam vessels are usually six times as long as they are wide. Asparagus Is believed to be the oldest known plant used for food. A normal man's heart beats 92,160 times a day. There are 2,174 different characters in the works of Dickens. The first typewriter was made in 1867. There are about 556,000 seeds in a wheat. It would take 5,000 bM to weigh a pound.

MARTIAL LAW IS POT INTO EFFECT AT TULSA, OKLA. I Governor Walton Declares Floggings in State Must End at Once, By United Press TULSA. Okla., Aug. 14. —Tulsa, oil capital of the Southwest, was placed under martial lhw at 6 a. m. today. Two companies of crack National Guards took over the enforcement of military law under orders of Governor J. C. Walton, who suspended the operation of civil procedure due to failure of local authorities to prosecute masked bands, who whipped many victims. Three hundred militiamen from Oklahoma City, Muskogee, Okmulgee and Tulsa, armd with automatic* rifles, set up camp within the city limits. Guards paraded the streets. All civilians wer ordered indoors between 11 p. in. and 6 a. m. The Insurrection against civil law, declared by the Governor to exist here, has resulted in great numbers of alleged bootleggers and dope peddlers being kidnaped and whipped. Floggings have been weekly events. At one time five men and one woman were kidnaped, and all were whipped except the woman, escaped by crawiing through under brush. Another woman‘was kidnaped, her hair cut off and forced to submit to other indignities. The climax was reached when Nathan Hantman was seized on the streets, within one block of the police station. He had just been released by police, after being questioned regarding sales of liquor and dope. Yelling and screaming, he was taken through the streets to the outskirts of the city, where he was stripped, tied up to the limb of a tree by his arms and flogged until great gashes were cut on his body. Hantman accused the police of having turned him over to his abductors. The experience was related personally by Hantman at the Governor’s office. In promulgating martial law. the Governor reiterated his determination to stop floggings. 2,000 of are alleged to have occurred in Oklahoma within a year, even if he has to place the entire State under martial law.

TABERNACLE CHOIR NEAR COMPLETE DISRUPTION Customary Meeting Not Arranged By Cadle Management. Failure of the Cadle Tabernacle management to arrange for a rehearsal of the choir tonight, as has been customary during the two years the organization has existed, together with announcement of the choir’s advisory board that "no meetings will be held until further notice,” has been taken by many persons as significant of the early termination of activities. Fewer than 200 members of the 1,200-voice chorus were at the meeting last Sunday, It is reported. Factionalism, which developed during the Bulgin evangelistic meetings early this year, coupled with efforts of one faction to incorporate under the name of “Gypsy Smith Choir, Inc., are believed to have been precursors to the break. LEGION CARDS FOUND Americans Held In Bergdoll Affair Belong to Soldiers’ Organization BERLIN, Aug. 14—Press despatches from Eberbach today said police had i discovered membership cards of the j American Legion on the Americans i arrested in connection with the attack on Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, notorious draft evader, on Friday night. Two Bellhops Arrested Two Denison Hotel bellhops today were under arrest on charges of operating a blind tiger. Lieut. Jones and Ia squad of Federal officers allege the bellhops smashed a quart bottle of gin in the lobby when they entered the hotel. The bellhops gave their names as Owen Pender. 526 W. Twelfth St., and General Bell, 852 W. Pratt St.

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Four persons are dead from drinking poisoned water a Cuyahoga Falls today believed polluted by sewage. Two blocks in the business district of De Quincey, La, was destroyed by fire Monday at a loss estimated at $75,000. Twenty-three persons were killed Monday in a motor-bus accident at St.-Sauveur, a resort In the French Pyrenees Mountains. Meteors of unusual brilliance were seen at St. Louis Monday night. Minnie Woodward, 13, living near Farmington, la., died Monday from effects of a rattle snake bite. Oscar Rutledge, El Dorado, 111., was kidnaped and flogged Saturday night by masked and robed men. Olga Petrova and her husband. Dr. John D. Stewart, have booked passagee on the Majestic for Europe. Mayor Hyland, New York, is seriously ill from a cold contracted while attending the funeral rites of President Harding at Washington. Col. W. B. Haskell sails from London on the Homeric Wednesday, United States relief work In Europe having come to an end. Sixteen thousand grocery olerks in Chlcagoarethreatenlngtostrike

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Child Playing ‘Little Mother , Is Injured

HARRIET DIXON AND LUELLA STONE (INSET.)

Harriet Dixon, 10, of 1525 S. Belmont Ave., was playing “little mother,” when she got hurt. She was carrying Luella Stone, eighteen months, of 1635 S. Belmont Ave., across the pavement at Belmont Ave.. and Miller St. As usual, it was an automobile that did it. The baby was injured only Rightly when she was hurled out of Harriet’s arms to the pavement, but Harriet received serious cuts about the head.

COURT UPHOLDS SEIZURE! SHIPS Federal Judge Interprets U JB. Power Outside 3-Mile Limit. Bu f : nlted Press NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—Seizure of British ships which hover outside the three-mile limit to aid in surreptitious landing of liquor cargoes in the United States, either directly or In cooperation with small bootleg craft, was upheld today by Judge W. Woodroilgh in United States District Court, Brooklyn. The ship was seized off Fire Island while landing liquor from small craft. The decision is regarded as an Important Interpretation of power of the federal government as to the seizure of foreign ships engaged In the liquor trade, although outside of the threemile limit. RITES FOR MRS. MARY COYLE ON WEDNESDAY Services to Bo Held at Home of Daughter, Mrs. Henry Leiman. Funeral services for Mrs Mary | Coyle, who died Sunday In Detroit. Mich., at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Peter Greeley, will be held at 130 p. m. Wednesday from ths n.nne of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Leiman, 115 E. Twenty-Fourth St. Services will be held at 2 p. m at St. Patrick s j Church. Burial at Acton, Ind. Mrs. Coyle Is survived by three ! daughters, Mrs. Henry Leiman, Indianapolis; Mr*. Charles Haynes. Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Peter Gre<le>. Detroit. Mich., and one son, Or- ! vide Coyle, of Indianapolis.

NINE COUNTIES ACCEPT TAX RECOMMENDATIONS New Facte I>ead Board to Rescind Suggestions in Four Cases Nine counties of the twenty four to which the State board of tax commissioners sent recommendations for equalization of property assessments have accepted the board’s recommendations, it was announced today. The counties which have complied are: Adams, Allen, Case. Hendripks, Hamilton. Morgan, Newton, Tipton and Warren. New facts received in connection with Valuation in four counties have justified the board to rescinding Its previous recommendations to Howard, Jackson, Pike and Owen counties, it was said. The board has issued detailed orders to the following counties: Black ford, DeKalb, Floyd. Fountain, Grant, Jefferson, Posey, Vigo, Wells and White. No report has been received from Harrison County. Girl Hurt in Fall Downstairs Selma Chemer, 18, 1029 Dawson St., suffered dislocation of her light shoulder today when she fell downstairs at her home. She was taken to the city

Sept. 1 unless weekly wage boost of $lO Is granted. Records in United States pat-. nt office at Washington show for past two years patents granted have averaged 9,000 per month. Yu Fu Heng, former head of student’s self-governing school at Shanghai, China, and two cooks were sentenced to death Monday for partlei pation In plot to poison the entire student body. George L. Harvey, 66, widely known architect, died Monday at his home in Chicago. Richard Burchard Eaton, American newspaper correspondent, arrived in Riga, Russia, Monday after three week’s imprisonment at Moscow. Alvin Owsley, national commander of the American Legion, declared dt Chicago Monday night, the American Legion had no part in attempted kidnaping of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll in Berlin. New York court ruled Monday William H. Anderson, Anti-Saloon League head, must stand trial on five counts, of grand larceny, forgery and extortion. Senator Reed Bmoot, speaking at New York Mo*(3ay, declared Europe is facing another war unless America

Britain Already Has Determined on 'Separate Action' Towards Germany Which Will Be Taken Following French Negative Reply. By ED L. KfiEN, General European Manager of the United Press (Copyright, 1923, by Unit ed Press Associations.) * LONDON, Aug. 14.—The extreme gravity of the Anglo-French situation, which long had been growing more intense and was brought to a head by the British reparations note, is emphasized by a growing solidarity of public opinion in each country, as well as by the record low level of the franc*. Here is England, popular home support for the British government, is comparable to those days of August, 1914, when the great war was getting under way.'Support for the French now is almost as scarce as it was for the pacificists in those days.

Restaurant Owner Is Accident Victim

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THOMAS E. THORNTON.

The body of Thomas E. Thornton, owner of the Spencer Cafeteria and member of the Kiwanls Club, killed in an automobile accident near Vevay, Ind., will be brought here for burial. SCOUTS TO TEST SKILL Invitational Swimming Meet Will Be Held Near Nobleevllle. An Invitational Boy Scout swimming meet, the first of its kind in Indiana, will be held Saturday at Riverwood bathing beach, four miles ncrth of Noblesvllle, Ind. Alexandria. Anderson. Elwood, Indianapolis and Muncie and other central Indiana towns will send entrants. F. O. Belzer, local Scout executive, is cooperating with Chauncy Jones of Anderson, Ind., in conducting the event.

Guide Posts of Business

** KIDING along an unfamiliar road, you depend upon sign posts to guide you. Whether you’re hitting the thank-you-mams in a flivver or . soaring along in a costly car, they do their * work equally well. Today, as you spend your money to fill your needs, advertisements waiting to direct you. They are the guide posts of business. They point the short,, straight road to satisfaction in buying. They will serve you ' well, whether you spend much or little. . I Do you stop to read the advertisements? They are published to tell you exactly where to i go for what you want. They lead you to values of which you would never know were they not there to guide you. And remember that advertising always points out goods of unquestioned value. When Be guided a store or manufacturing concern puts its name , t ; on goods and tells you about them, you may be - sure that they are worth consideration. It does advertisements not pay to advertise unworthy merchandise.

Premier Baldwin, of course, has one advantage not enjoyed by Herbert Asquith in 1914—the cabinet is not divided regarding a policy towards France, whereas at the start of the war there were several resignations. British public opinion has been steadily solidifying against France since the invasion of the Ruhr began. There is, however, no question but that Premier Poincare has even stronger backing in France. French Refusal Expected The British government frankly does not expect the Curzon note, the latest communication to the allies, to affect the slightest change in France’s position. Consequently, the government already has determined upon the first steps of "separate action” towards Germany, which will be taken shortly after reception of France’s negative reply. It is understood that this "separate action” will Include not only an independent note to Gehmany, but also the summoning of an international conference for the purpose of determining Germany’s actual capacity to pay and the best methods of insuring collection. The question of when British troops shall be withdrawn from the Rhine has not yet been determined but it ir inoonclevable they would remain after separate action had been initiated. Further steps probably will not be decided upon without the sanction of Parliament, which will probably be summoned to a special session. Britain Serve Entente The general European crisis now has two centers. The first is among the presumable victors of the war. Great Britain, tired of acting the role of banker, with no securities, while pavdng her own debts, has now prac tlcally severed the thread by which she was tied to the entente by demanding what she believes to be means of stabilizing matters in Europe. The second center is in Germany, where they have signed on anew crew to take over the ship in the midst of the storm. Everywhere in the continent, Fascist! and radicals are combating for power,* physically and politically. Italy alone has successfully passed the crisis with the Faaclsti stemming the tide of t 'mmunlsm. Tire* Worth S4O Stolen Claude F. Cain. 133 N. New Jersey St., told police today that two spare tires were stolen from his machine while it was parked In front of his home. They were valued at 120 each, he said.

He Knows Why He’s Glad to Be American

FARRINGTON BRIDWELL

A prize of $lO was awarded Farrington Bridwell, 1512 Spann Ave., at the Veterans of Foreign Wars lawn fete Saturday night; for an essay on “Why I am glad I am an American.” The contest was conducted through The Times and was open to grade school pupils. The second prize of $5 was awarded Alvin Bridges. 1115 N. Gale St.

SCOUT TROOP 30 LEADSCAMPAIGN Twenty-One Awards to Go to Indianapolis Boys. Boy Scout Troop 30 of the Englewood Christian Church led local troops with a membership increase of M 6 per cent-in the national membership campaign recently closed by the death of honorary president Warren G. Harding. American flags and streamers are offered troops making the highest increases. Troop 50 of the Jewish Communal Building and Troop 11 of the colored Y. M. C. A. were other local troops attaining 100 per cent increases. They will be awarded streamers. Other local troops to be awarded streamers are; Troops 1,7, 8,9, 10, 20, 21, 24. 28, 31, 32, 46, 52. 54. 55, 62. 65 and 75. The awards wil’ made Saturday night, Sept. 15, a cout rea ervatlon. Alcohol Report Investigated. Coroner Paul F. Robinson today was Investigating reports that a gang that beat Rob Buchanan, night watchman at the Eli Lilly Cos. plant, Friday night, was hunting grain alcohol. Buchanan shot and killed Homer Dearinf, 820 S. Alabama St., one of the gang alleged to have attacked him. John N. Wright. 2718 N. Pennsylvania St., and Walter B. Henderson, 8663 N. Capitol Ave., testified they saw the gang drive up to the plant in two automobiles and a few minutes later heard four shots.

TUESDAY, AUG. 14, 1923

TOURISTS DISCUSS DISADVANTAGE OF - POSSESSING CASH Servants and Fortune Hunters Trouble Minds of Newly Rich. GENOA, Italy, Aug. 14.—Associating on terms of intimacy, as it were, with the idle rich is novel and edifying. The Cook tourist rich or "the cookie rich,” as he is better known, is always funny, but It does him no Injustice to admit he is most amusing when he least Intends it. For example, one of these dear people was conversing the other evening on the subject of antique blue glass and its extreme mortality, so to speak. "Servants are so frightfully careless, aren’t they?” she purred. “Really my dear, I think butlers break more glass than maids, don’t you?” Butlers in Movies Our acquaintance with butlers being confined to those of Norma Talmadge on the screen, we were unable to make intelligent reply. It was most embarrassing. Last night on the upper deck, under the influence of a heavenly moon, the conversation turned on the raising of children. One dear old dowager from a Southern city sighed as she said: “My own children were well trained, if I do say it, but my grandchildren, oh, dear!” She also allowed that there ought to be schools for the younger generation to teach girls how to train and hold servants. Two heavily upholstered ladies sat on the deck. The conversation again turned on the raising of children. Fortune Hunters Feared ”My daughters,” said one, “are to be provided with a modest trust fund, $5,000 a year each on graduation from finishing school, but you know there are so many fortune hunters nowadays that we will not allow either of our girls to touch the principal. You know, it is just awful the way handsome young sons of tradesmen are ogling up to our daughters these days—and the girls so often fail to differentiate. Don’t you find it that way, my dear?” And "my dear” did, with a sigh. "Does your husband give you an allowance?” asked another beautiful young thing of fifty. "Indeed my husband has gratified my every wish since the first day we were married,” replied the other, “and,” she continued, "do you know when I expressed a wish to take this trip, he turned to me and said so sweetly, ‘My dear, here’s the check Dook. Take it and stay away as long ui you wish—make It a year, it will be all right with me.’ Men are so thoughtful, aren’t they, now?”