Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1923 — Page 2

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‘NEXT WAR' IS SEEN AS ONE OF UNIVERSAL ANNIHILATION

LEG BROKEN WHEN MACHINE SUES THEODORE SKATES Occupants of Car Take Injured Man to Home and Escape, Theodore Skates. 50, of 646 Vis E. Market St., was at the city hospitaj today suffering from a broken leg. Skates was __________ walking across nr Persons Washington St.. ML have been Thursday morn- _ 1.1 killed in j nK when he was U W automobile . . , > accident. In struck by an auMarion County this tomobile in f ear - which two men - . _ . and a woman 1 1 fl 1 bee'n niiing, ac 1 5U I Ini ured cording to poIn traf- lice. The au { o . no ac- . .. cidents. It Is your mobile Stopped duty to make the and the injured streets safe. . man was taken * to his room. The men said they would call the landlord. Skates told police, but they failed to return and Skates did not get their names or the license number of the automobile. Two and a half hours later the police were notified A fender of a police patrol vas dam aged when an automobile driven by Ray Randel, 3744 N. Meridian St., collided with the patrol which was parked at Meridian and TwentyEighth St., early today. Randell told the police he would have the fender repaired. Joe Thomas. 23. 15X5 Reisner St., driving a truck owned by The Thomas Thayer Transfer Company, was seriously injured today when the front wheel of the truck broke as he was turning south on Denny St. from Washington St. Thomas was thrown from the truck which did not stop moving until after the left rear wheel had run over his abdomen. He was taken to the city hospital.

VERDICT SOON IN SULUVAN DEATH Evidence in the coronet’s inquest into the mysterious drowning of Jack Sullivan, 52, of 5-fl S. West St., was to be completed today with the testimony of Mrs. Pearl Pearcy, Spring Lake: Wade Williams, 802% S. West St., and John Ward, 827 S. West St. Williams and Ward found Sullivan’s nude body Wednesday morning In a cottage they had rented on Spring Lake, southwest of Indianapolis. They had spent Tuesday night in Indianapolis. Coroner Paul F. Robinson said a verdict would be given soon and that if evidence showed any signs that Sullivan was forcibly submerged in the lake, or that there -was a fight at the cottage, evidence would be turned over to the county grand Jury. MISS IRENE BENSON FUNERAL ON FRIDAY Last Rites for Girl Who Died Suddenly to Be Held at 2 p. m. The funeral services for Miss Irene Benson, 21. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Benson, who died unexpectedly Monday at Barnes hospital. St. Louis. Mo., following a hemorrhage which seized her after she had just recovered from a minor operation, will be held at the home of her grandparents, 226 X. Beville Ave.. Friday, at 2 p. m. P.urial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Miss Benson was born in Indianapolis and attended the public schools here. Her father is in the newspaper business in this city. Surviving Miss Benson besides her father and mother are her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. .1. 'J. Benson, an uncle. Herbert Benson, and a sister. Margaret, of Indianapolis; two uncles. Harold of Portland, Oregon, and William of Seattle, Washington. The two uncles on the coast are also newspaper men. BOY STILL NEAR DEATH Tetanus Serum Administered to Lad at Order of Court. The condition of Roy Cole, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cole, living southeast of the city, is “serious" today, despite administration of tetanus serum under juvenile court order Thursday afternoon, according to Juvenile Court Attache Charles Downey. The boy Is lying at death’s door in a private sanitorium at 1108 Park Ave., maintained by the religious order of his parents, who do not believe ir. medicgl treatment, officials said. Evidence in juvenile court showed that two weeks ago the child ran a rusty wide in his foot, and was without attention of doctors other than those of his parent's faith for ten days. Dr. C. E. Stephenson, 427 Bankers Trust building, was put in charge of the case by Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lahr, following the hearing. TRUCK DRIVER IS INJURED Lora) Man in Hospital as Result of Accident. George H. Conner of 5021 E. New York St., Is in a serious condition today at the Witham Hospital in Lebanon, Ind., as a result of .Injuries suffered Thursday night when the truck he was dri\(jng west on the Crawfordsvllle road crashed into a touring car driven by Lebanon people. His truck turned over three times and landed In a ditch, hurling Miller from the machine. He suffered injuries about his head and shoulders. It Is thought his skull may have been fractured. His niece. Miss Evelyn Evans, who wm with him. was pinned under the rn? Tu.r was uninjured

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—Photo by Indianapolis Photo Company MISS FLORENCE WILKINSON, 1830 MONTCALM ST., WINNING FORTY-PARD DASH FOR WOMEN AT BELL TELEPHONE PICNIC.

Four thousand employes of the Indiana Bell Telephone. Company and their families were still talking today about the good times ; hey had at the company’s picnic at Broad Ripple Park Wednesday. Headed by a band, the Telephone Pioneers of Indiana, those who had been in the employ of the company twenty-five years or more, entered the grounds and marched to the athletic field, where they were special guests.

DAGGER MURDERER MAKES GET-AWAY ON GROCERY TRUCK New Clew Obtained to Direction Taken in Flight of Unknown Assailant Who Killed Young Man— Detectives Probe for Motives,

How S. F. Arthur, grocery proprietor at W. St. and Dandy Trail, unwittingly ®ided in the escape of the boy Sought to be the murderer of Robert was fatally sf&bbed Thursday morning while In the rear yard of Charles Conner’s grocery, 221 N. Richland St., was told to police today by Arthur. After the stabbing occurred at 11 a m. Thursday the slayer is said to have been pursued by four boys and an umber of men, all of whom claimed the man escaped In the weeds in a field south of Washington St. and west of Harding St. “I was busy Thursday night and did not read the newspapers,” said Arthur today, “but when I heard people talking about the murder I got a newspaper and then I recalled the man who asked me for a ride. “I had been to the Kingan Company and was driving west on Washington St. It was between 11 and 11:15 a. m. Thursday. A tall slender young man about 19 or 20 years old ran from the sidewalk on the north side of Washington St., and signaled for me to stop. It was about two blocks west of the elevation. ‘‘.Mother Dying” “Before I could stop he jumped on the running board of my car and said ‘Go ahead and drive fast, my mother has had a relapse and they telephoned me she is dying. I want to get home quick.’ I felt sorry for him and I got up my ne-ve and drove faster than I ever did. It must have been almost thirty-five miles an hour. When we reached the street one block east of the end of the W. Washington St. car line, he said ‘Thanks for the ride, please let me out.’ I stopped and he ran south.” “The man, when he got on biy car, seemed extremely nervous afid was panting as if he had been running,” declared Arthur. “He did not tell # me Where he lived or where he worked. He said his mother had been ill three or four weeks and she seemed to be in a more serious condition, but that he went to work any way and had just received a telephone call that she was dying. , Description of Man. Arthur said he did not think the man wore a coat. The people who saw the stranger talking to Watson and also persons who pursued him sad the man wore a blue shirt and blue coat. All agree the man wore a cap. All say he was about 20 years old, slender, and about 5 feet 10 inches or six feet in height. He weighed 150 pounds, it was said. The information given Sergt. Wilkerson today by Arthur does not disprove the story told by Ray Harris. 127 Minker St., who soon after'the stabbing said he and a man employed as a molder attempted to halt a young man who ran west on Washington St. under the elevation. The man drew a revolver, Harris said, and ordered him to “sfinnd back.” Then the man ran west and the pursuers told the police they believed he | escaped in the weeds in* a field near Washington and Harding Sts. This field was surrounded by police and citizens soon ofter the fatal stabbing r.nd combed by the police until they

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Governor Groesbeck, Michigan, is considering calling out National Guard to fight menacing forest fires. Wholesale murder plot is suspected with finding of eight sticks of dynamite in a bundle of oats about to be pitched into a thrashing machine at the Paul Eden farm near Fond Du Lac, Wis„ Thursday. The submarine N-3 was damaged Thursday in a collision with tanker Monroe off New/ London, Conn. Troops are being kept at Hillsboro, 111., until all danger in Smelting strike is over. Governor Kendall, lowa, is planning extended leave of absence because of ill health. He may go to Honolulu for seve -aj months. > A* rial freight service between Cleveland and Detroit is scheduled to start Sep(. L —l’hmese have aLarTed a nation-wide

Baseball games, dashes, shot-put-ting, hobble-racing, potato-racing and games for the children took up the afternoon. Pole-climbing contests and rope-throwing were held by members of the construction departrhent. The athletic events were concluded by swimming races. The feature was presentation of Vail medals to H. C. Ballard. toli repairman who saved the life of a

said they were positive no man could be concealed there. Claims N’o Quarrel Watson told the police there had been no quarrel. He said the man was a former school mate who had been in his session room at Technical high school but whose name he did not know. Watson denied the police suggestion that it was a quarrel over a girl. Then &ergt. Wilkerson requested all persons ' leave the room and the two men were left alon. Ku-Klux Klan Mentioned The policeman . again asked Watson who stabbed him. "I think it was—” and the young man gave the name of a religion. Later. Miss Dorthy Neese, 15, a cousin of Watson, said, "Robert appeared worried about something today. He did not eat any breakfast. Perhaps he did not feel well. I think he was a member of the Klan, and that may have caused the trouble.” Louis A Kaufman, a carpenter, who was building the garage near where \the stabbing occurred, declared the two men were laughing and talking together and he heard no quarrel. He left for a minute and returned in time to see Watson stagger and the other man run. This statement was verified by others who saw the two men talking together before the stabbing. Funeral arrangements for Watson have not been completed. Officials said they learned that two agents of the Ku-Klux Klan are investigating the murder. Woman Faces Liquor Charge Stella Harris, 159 Blackford St., today is under arrest charged with operating a blind tiger. A small amount of white mule was seized in a raid at her home by Lieutenant Jones and squad, police said. She poured the contents of a bottle into the sink, hut Lieutenant Jones saturated a handkerchief with the mule and took It to headquarters as evidence, police say.

INCUBATOR BABY SETS NEW RECORD Girl Born Four Months Before Normal Birth Has Fine Chance for Life,

(Copyright, 1923, by United Press) IINDLAY, 0., Aug. 17.—A remarkatle story of how lnfa,nt life was miraculously sustained after coming into the world nearly four months previous to date for normal birth, was revealed today by authorities of Findlay Hospital. The case Is that of Rose Mary—“the child without a chance"—and is believed to set a record for premature babies. Rose Mary—a living triumph. of.

boycott against Japan in hope of forcing settlement of Manchurian question. Mrs.. Orion W. Manson, superintendent of Georgia Training School for boys at Midgevllle has asked Governor Walker for machine guns “to protect the institution of mobs.” OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR THREATENED IN LETTERS “Same Punishment as Others” Unless Troops Are Withdrawn. Bu United Prets OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug .17.—Governor J. C. Walton ,who declared 'martial lhw In Tulsa, as the result of j many whippings in that city waft threatened today with "the same punishment as the others’’ unless troops are withdrawn. The governor wAs threatened in an anonymous letter made public at the executive's office.

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fellow employe Nov. 25, 1922, and J- E. Batkin, garage man, who, Oct. 25, 1922, extinguished a flaming acetylene tank which was on the verge of exploding In the company's garage. Although the majority of the employes of the Indianapolis force were at the picnic, employes were left at the switchboards and other necessary points in the system to render efficient service.

Woman Reports Husband Gone Mrs. Opal Cayne, 2333 Haynes Ave., told police today that her husband, Fred Cayne, left home Wednesday noon and has not been heard from since. He was described as being six feet tall, weighing 146 pounds and having brown hair and blue eyes.

Mother Opposes Youthful Ace in Plans for Future

“After his second fall, I told him the third would kill him,” said Mrs. Julia Stewart, mother of Rollin Stewart, 19, 3023 Boulevard PI., pilot and owner of a Curtiss plane which fell 1,500 feet Thursday without scratching either him or his mechanic, Lawton Bidel, 442 Boaart Ave. “But he was lucky, although the third fall did completely wreck his machine.” "Well, mother, when I get my next plane—" Stewart started. “I’m not sure you are going to have another plane,” Interrupted his mother. But Stewart is evidently Just aa eager to go up again as he was before the fall. Control W’tre Breaks * After examination of a broken control wire which caused the accident, young Stewart Is of the opinion that the wire was tampered with, probably cut by home vandal, before he w-ent up. “I inspected the wire Wednesday,” he said. “I cannot understand why it should'have broken.’ The plane fell straight down for a short distance and then Stewart was able to “bring it out" by kicking the rudder. It then fell in a wide curve until about 20 feet up. There the rudder broke from the extra strain and the machine plunged to the ground. It hit two small trees, probably breaking the force of the fall, and landed on the left wing. Proud of Distinction The plane bounded over some big bowlders and crumped up. Stewart and Bidel emerged and started to laugh. “I’m kind of glad It happened.” said Stewart. “It’s a distinction very few people get—to fall 1,500 feet without being scratched. “It was a queer feeling not to have control of the plane. All I was thinking of was that T wished it would hurry and get to the ground." Stewart’s two other accidents were minor affairs at Osgood, Ind., and Shelbyville, Ind.

modern obstetrics —was given a four months head start in life through a Caesarian operation necessary to save her mother, Mrs. O. E. Jelley. Hold Slight Hope The operation was directed by Dr. Don B. Biggs and he and his assistante held slight hope the infant would live. Placed jn a steam-heated incubator, however, life was sustained and today the approximate date for her birth—had been nortnal—physicians announced Rose Mary is about to be “graduated” to a full sized crib. At birth, the tiny Infant weighed 1%, pounds ,waa approximately eleven inches iong and an ordinary tea cup would "have fitted comfortably over her head. Heat in the incubator was maintained at ninety degrees and Rose Mary took food through a silver tube. Her mother has recovered from the operation and will be able to care for her child when she is removed from her incubator. First Such Case According to authorities in obstetrics. there are many cases on record where premature babies have been saved by Incubators, but this is believed to be the first time an Infant takeii from Its mother at such an early date has lived more than a few hours. The theory has been that babies are not viable until three months before the date.for normal birth. Hospital charts show Rose Mary has grown to? a length of 13 V& inches and weighs 3 pounds, 11 ounces. She Is to be* removed to a crib in a week or ten days,

Opinions Differ as to Outcome of Present Chaotic Condition in Europe—Air Service Is New New Element. “It is foolish to say that war is impending; in Europe.’’ says John W. Davis, former American ambassador to London, just returned from Europe on the Olympic. Senator Smoot, returning; a few days before, had seen war as nearly inevitable. Senator Hirain Johnson and others pictured war in the making. Opinions vary, but the war talk remains. * Arther Ponsonby, member of the British Parliament, sees in the present European war scare the seed of terrible destruction. In this article he paints a ghastly picture of new war horrors, the relentless, brutal murder of entire nations, which, he declares, “is being worked out and perfected in the war offices " of powers of the western world.” By ARTHER PONSONBY, M. P. (Copyright U. S. A., United News) (Published by Arrangement With Reynolds’ Newspaper) LONDON, Aug. 17.—-War scares are bound to arise from time to time considering the condition Europe is in, and considering also the very distant hope of improvement. People may find themselves forced by the inflammation of public opinion to open their minds on the issue of peace or war with this Nation or that Nation. It is just as well, therefore, every one .should realize exactly what war means. The next war will resemble as little the last war as the last war resembled any previous war. There will be more difference between the next war and any other war than there was between the war when gunpowder was first invented and the war before it, when there was hand to hand fighting.

William Overacker of Pawpaw, Mich., sought refuge from the rain in anew building at Sixty-Third and Ashland Ave., Thursday night and went to “sleep. During his nap he rolled from the first floor to the basement and was badly bruised. He was taken to- the city hospital. He is being held in the detention ward on a charge of vagrancy pending investigation by detectives. Air Is New Element The new element, the new form of armament which is to upset all #ur calculations. Is the air service. As an offensive weapon, aircraft is

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rapidly reaching a degree of destructiveness which reduces the battleship, the tank, the long-range gun, and even the submarine, to toys. At the same time, it must be remembered aeroplanes are comparatively cheap, and can be rapidly constructed. How will they operate? In future Instead of aiming at some particular center, zones will be marked out for general demolition. Over the first zone, a hundred squadrons will operate; 1,200 machines will be able to make three raids ki iwenty-four hours, carrying and dropping 900 tons of explosiveo and gases. In three days 2,700 tons of bombs will fall on the area in question, while other squadrons will be free to fly over to further and more distant zones. No city, village, building or railway will be safe. The rain of explosives, well aimed and highly destructive, will spare nothing above ground, while the gas bombs will cover the whole district with a pall of heavy gas, which will make life above ground Impossible for days. Railway lines will he torn up, so that escape for the inhabitants who are not crushed under the ruins of their houses will be impossible. Driven Underground Driven underground, if they can firtd such a refuge, the panic stricken population will remain cowering in terror, lest on emerging they may succumb to poison gas, or again become the target for another shower of bombs. This is no fantastic picture. To carry out this work of universal annihilation is a perfectly easy task for modern aircraft, and it will require the construction of vast bombproof shelters if any appreciable number of people are to be saved from a hideous death. The civil population including women and children, who were the last to be reached in former wars, will be the first, defenseless as they will be, to be sacrificed in the warfare of the future. People Will Be Helpless The people will be ns capable of resistance as ants in an antheap when boiling waters is poured over them. Terror-stricken, they will dive under the ground wherever they can, and where they cannot they will be asphyxiated or blown to atoms. The one consolation which will be offered to them if consolation it be, will be that the Nation which has been selected as their enemy is being treated in the same way.

Mrs. W. T. Camden Dies After Illness

Indianapolis lost a respected resident in the, death of Mrs. Mary Katherine Camden, 80. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Patrick Morrissey, 2007 Shelby St., Thursday night, following a brief illness. The funeral will be held Saturday at the home of another daughter, Mrs. Lon Tracy, 2314 N. Alabama St. Mrs. Camden was born in Clarkesville, W. Va., in 1843. She married William T. Camden In 1869. A great part of her life was spent in Ladoga, Ind. She moved to Indianapolis eight years ago, making her home with her daughter at the Shelby St. address. Mrs. Camden is survived by her husband, her two daughters and two sons, E. D. Camden of Indianapolis and W. J. Camden of Greenfield. and a brother, J. W. Dunham of Frankfort, Ind. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

CITY EIGHTEENTH IN VALUATION OF BUILDING PERMITS Local Records Show Drop From High Mark of July, 1922, % Indianapolis, twenty-first city In population, ranked eighteenth in value of building permits during July, a report made public by the American Contractor shows. The value of permits in Indianapolis, however, is considerable less than in July, 1922, although the total value In 210 cities reported is higher than for the same month last year, the report shows. During July, 1,413 permits were issued in Indianapolis for buildings to cost $2,055,748. This compares with 1,167 permits in July, 1922, with a valuation of $3,349,348. Cities which exceeded Indianapolis in new building in July, 1923, are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago. Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Louis, Buffalo, New York, Cleveland, Columbus. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Milwaukee. The report shows a total value in the 210 cities in July of $232,519,111, as compared with $208,331,282 in July, 1922. Fifty-three cities, the report shows, issued building permits during July of more than $1,000,000. The total of permits, the report shows, is slightly less than that for June.

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LEGMEN BEAR HARDING MESSAGE TO FOREIGN VETS Delegation Will Sail Saturday for Inter-Allied Conference in Belgium, Bearing expressions of approval of a "world court to outlaw war” gathered from man y leaders In America, the American Legion delegation to the Brussels conference of the Interallied Veterans’ Federation, Sept. 1 to 5, will sail Saturday on the Leviathan. National Commander Alvin Owsley will be in the party, of which 11. Nelson Jackson, Burlington, Vt.. vice president of the federation, is chairman.Owsley will be the first Legion head to visit Europe since Marshal Foch of France toured the United States. While his visit will be in the nature of an observer of the conference, he will investigate conditions of veterans o fforeign nations. The delegation will visit France, Belgium and England. Chief among the replies received by the Legion in preparing material for the meeting is that of the late President Harding. The executive wrote: “I have read with great interest and quite general approval the policies set forth in the manifesto. ' I do not subscribe to unconditional agreement In every detail, but as a general enunciation of principles and purposes, It lays down a very wholesome program which gives great promise of promoting peace.” STORY OF LOAN PROBED Three Men Held in Investigation of Automobile Theft. Detectives today were investigating the story of Edward Johnson, colored, arrested Thursday on a vagrancy charge when it is said that an automobile stolen from Uniontown, Pa., was found in a garage rented by Johnson in the rear of 1814 N. New Jersey St. Two other men giving their names as Harry Smith and Eddie Jones were arrested In the investigation. Johnson said the machine was left as security for a SSO loan. Fiery Cross Incorporates Th eFiery Cross Publishing Coni pany, publishers of a Ku-Klux Kian organ, have filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of State, an nouncing a capitalization of SIO,OOO. The incorporators are Ernest W. Reichard. Milton Elrod and George Cowan,

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