Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 85

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ORDINANCE AIMED AT GLARING AUTO LIGHTSJRAFTED Councilman Berndt Proposes Dimming on Signal of Driver, TO BE OFFERED TONIGHT Drivers With Non-Dimming ’ Globes Must Stop for Others, An ordinance striking at glaring automobile headlights will be introduced in city council tonight by Councilman Theodore Berndt. '"'The measure will provide that motorists must dim or extinguish their lights on signal of either driver. The ordinance will supplement the State law on headlights. Automobiles wired with bright lights only, or having lights connected with the motor must stop and put out their lights, the ordinance provides. Fine of not less than $5 or more than S2O is provided for violation on first offense, and not more than SSO on second offense. SI,OOO Appropriation Asked An ordinance appropriating SI,OOO to pay the city’s share in the phone rate war also was ready for introduction today. Eleven other cities affected by the rates are expected to vote money. Indications of opposition to the smoke ordinance, as finally approved by civic organizations and the Chamber of Commerce, were evident today. Councilman Buchana said it would be carefully considered before any action. He said efforts to pass it under suspension of rules would be defeated. Friends of the measure planned to introduce it. Newsies Measure Up The measure exempting newsboys from the city ordinance prohibiting crying of wares on streets was ex peeled to be passed with little opposition. Councilman Wise’s measure requiring property woners to trim trese and hedges at street intersections is in a legal tangle which may kill the measure. It is up for consideration tonight. An ordinance being drafted by Coun riiman Claycombe, increasing vehicle license fees, will not be ready tonight, Claycombe said. An ordinance making substitute firemen regular firemen after one year of probation service will be introduced hv John King, president of the council. A similar provision Is already in effect on the police force.

COMMUNITY CHEST URGESPAYMENT Pledges Fall Off During Vacation Period, X. An urgent appeal to all Community Chest subscribers to prevent a tempo rary shortage of funds by paying their pledges immediately is made by Frederic M. Ayres, treasurer. Vacations are held responsible for failure of hundreds of persons to send in their checks when due. “On the basis of pledges made last fall, we have to thirty-six organizations amounts totaling more than $38,000 every month,” said Ayres. “So far collections have kept up with demands, but during August there has been a decided falling off. To date we have less than half this amount In hand. With prompt payment on the part of those whose pledges are due and with advance payments from those who can make them, we should be able to keep faith with the thousands of men, women and children who look to our societies for help.” Summer camps for undernourished and under-priviledged children are threatened by shortage of funds. FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF If Judge Get# One-Third Less Than He Pays—What’s the Use? T. J. Moll, Judge of Superior Court room 5. has leased his home at 2026 Park Ave., and moved to Apartment No. 4, 2933 N. Meridian St. The change from eleven rooms to three was not very profitable, the judge said, as he receives one-third less rent from the house than he pays for the apartment, he said.

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WORK IS STARTED DN INDIANAPOLIS TIMESBOILDING New Newspaper Plant Will Be Modern in Every Particular, Work was started today on the new $125,000 IndKinapolis Times Building, 214-223 W. Maryland St. The structure will be ready for occupancy Jan. 25. It will house a modern newspaper plant, complete in every detail. The general contract has been let to the William P. Jungelaus Company. Hayes Brothers have been awarded the plumbing contract. The electrical contract has not yet been lei. The building will be 6714 feet by T2O feet. It will be two stories nigh with a full basement having a four-teen-foot ceiling and windows on all four sides, assuring an abundance of light. It will be of steel, brick and concrete construction. The front will be finished with brick and stone. First Floor Plan The first floor of terrazza construction, will have a four-foot elevation from the sidewalk level entrance. The floor will be occupied by the business office, including circulation and ad vertislng departments, with mailing rooms in the rear. The second floor will be occupied by the editorial department, the United j Press office, the composing room, en- j graving department and stereotyping, room. The mechanical part of the building will be of factory construction with metal sash, giving plenty of light and air. Every effort will be made to assure pleasant working conditions. All metal pots and gas-using machines will have connections with a modern ventilating system. It will be equipped with numerous toilet rooms, a rest room for women and shower baths for mechanics. / Conduits Flidden All plumbing and electrical conduits will be hidden in concrete. The entire building will be lighted with the Holophane system, which will make it one of the best lighted structures in the city. Presses will be in the basement and connected with the upper floor by a large freight elevator. Automatic paper carriers will deliver papers from the basement to the mailing rooms. A hydraulic drop will deliver finished plates from the stereotyping department to the presses. In addition to a modern sextuple j press, the press room is built so that } one-quad press may be replaced with ! a unit type octuple press the last i word in newspaper printing presses. Provision for Newsboys Connecting with the mailing room will ..be a large room, equipped with toilets and a drinking fountain, for newsboys. Arrangements will be made to take care oi various wires necessary to the operation of a modern newspaper. Cables of the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Unitea Press and the United Financial will enter the building. A universal telephone system will be installed so that telephones may be connected at any point in the building. There will be thoroughfares on all four sides of the building, insuring rapid movement of circulation trucks. W. Earl Russ is the architect.

BLIND, COMMITS SUICIDE Evansville Man Hangs Himself to Attic Rafter. Bv United Preaa EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 20.—Clifford Barton, 23, was dead today, a victim of despondency. Friends and relatives believe his blindness caused him to hang himself to an attic rafter last night while his parents were away. Since he was stricken with typhoid fever four years ago, he continually complained that his life was unbearable, relatives said. WILL POLI£E PERMIT IT? Gyro Club to Have “Some Disturbance,” Secretary Indicates. “An ex-vaudeville star will yodel, sing and otherwise disturb the ozone; he admits that he’s the duke's cuticle, no foolin’; and good for a four-bagger any day,” announced Brlant Sando, secretary, today, In speaking of the program for the Gyro Club luncheon at the Lincoln Tuesday. Gustav E. Hoppe is booster for the meeting. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 61 l s a. m 76 7 a. m 62 11 a. 8 a. m 66 12 (noon) ...... 78 9 a. nv. 71 1 p. m 83

Reader Says Some of Buildings in Use in Indianapolis Are Worse Than Hog Pens —Opponents of Bond Plan Are Censured on Eve of Hearing, Use of public money for buildings to relieve intolerable housing conditions in Indianapolis schools is not extravagance nor a poor investment in the opinion of a mother, who is among persons who have written letters indorsing The Times’ fight for better educational facilities here. The State hoard of tax commissioners will begin a hearing at 9 a. m. Wednesday upon the remonstrance of fourteen persons against the $1,650,000 bond issue to finance new buildings and additions at eight schools. Herewith are letters typical of those being received by The Times:

Children Entitled to Best

The children of this city certainly are entitled to the best educational faciUties. From my viewpoint the taxpayer's money is sometimes used extravagantly In poor investments. Ir invested in good schools our*Mty imould reap a harvest of good, loyal citizens.

Not as Good as Swine Pen

Shall Indianapolis have up-to-date school buildings? It seems quite strange that the people of Indianapolis, the most beautiful city of the central w’est, should be confronted by a question of this kind. The question itself impels us to believe our school Children have not been and are not being properly cared for, or in other words, they are not being educated up to the standard, either due to insufficient number of buildings or improperly constructed buildings. Anyway it is a sad picture. The first and paramount feature of our system of education is properly constructed buildings, for upon the construction of the buildings depends the construction of the child mind from its perception until maturity,

For a City of Schools

I am glad to extend to you my ap preciation for the effort you are mnk ing to secure better and more school buildings. The most any one can do or most all of us can do, is doing only a little for the thousands of children who are required to attend classes in fire-trap shacks, which are not as decent or as safe a shack as the writer attended when a boy thirty years ago in a backwoods town, where they made no effort to properly house the school children. Indianapolis Is as well, If not better, known than many other cities its size arfd any number of more and better public school buildings will only add to the present fame of our “No Mean City." Instead of spending thousands TEN DROWN AS LAUNCH SINKS Only One Body Recovered After River Disaster, Bv United Preaa ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 20.—Only one body had been recovered early today following the drowning of ten persons who were in an outing launch in the Mississippi Rivet near South St. Paul, Sunday night. The launch went down mysteriously. Filled with men, women and children, it sank without warning. There were no survivors. Coroner A. H. Meeker, who Is investigating the tragedy, said he believes it struck an obstructioft Just beneath the water’s surfade. The current at the place is extremely swift. The body recovered was that of Mrs. Paul Martinalli. It was pulled out of the river by John McCoy, a fisherman. The dead Include seven members of the Martinalli family, Frank and Robert Gaultiers and Margaret Mahn. Danville Robber Sought Detectives searched today for a man who, according to a long distance call received by Inspector of Detectives John Mullins, from Officer Vial at Danville, Ind., is wanted there for the robbery of the home of Ora A. Porter, where $26 was taken.

BABY IS KIDNAPED FROM BUGGY

Bv United Preaa NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Search for three months’ old Lillian McKenzie, who can be recognized "because her feeble health causes her to cry frequently,” has extended to every city and village within 1,000 miles of New York today. Radio was called into broadcast a description of the infant and the woman believed to have kidnaped her. More than one hundred detectives, thousands of patrolmen, taxicab stnd truck drivers and plain citizens were joining in the hunt for the sickly child. Every newspaper in New York featured a statement from the phyaioiana who had at-

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, AUG. 20, 1923

Ignorance belongs to the dark ages, but certainly not to a democracy. I have one child In the public schools. Am glad you are fighting in tne interest of the education of the children of our city. MRS D. F. PLUMMER. 2919 Stuart St.

taken either from a physiological OP physical standpoint. That education is expensive we do not deny. The parents are not oposed to the expense, but they are opposed to their children being housed in hovels not as good as the average farmer’s swine pens. I>t every parent, every’ person and every society Join hands and fight to the finish not only for buildings but for beautiful school buildings that are befitting our city, and as monuments to our intelligence. As parents we should commend The Indianapolis Times for the firm stand it has taken in this fight. W. D. BUTLER, (Formerly a teacher.) 3692 E. Vermont St.

upon thousands of dollars for improvement of highways, let’s spend some on public school buildings for the children of today and the children of the future. The names of all those who signed against our public school building plans should be long remembered by the many thousands of school children and their parents. Let’s build, build and build, not for the child of today, but to he ready for any number of thousands that may want to attend our schools in years to come. Make it a city of schools, known far and near ns such, and that fact will become well-known if only the people will get behind Mr. Bert Gadd. who is honestly and earnestly trying to do what he believes is best for our school system. Give us school buildings that will be a credit to our city and a decent and safe place for our children and for the teachers in which to carry on their art of teaching our children. R. A. HUBBARD. 4663 Sunset Ave. SORRY BULLET MISSED Mrs. Katherine West Answers Order To “Stick ’Em Up.” "I wish I had hit him.” said Mrs. Katherine West, Apartment 4, 919 N. Pennsylvania St., today, recounting her experience with a burglar Sunday night. “I was preparing for bed. "I heard the voice of a negro command me to ‘stick 'em up.’ "I happened to have a revolver on tfye dressing table. With 'one hand I turned the lights o and with the other I grabbed the revolver and fired.” The only damage was to a window sill of a neighboring apartment.

30 Cents!

Bv United Preaa DES MOINES, lows, Aug. 20. —E. T. Meredith, secretary of agriculture lit Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet, announced through attorneys today he will sue Senator Smith W. Brookhart for 30 cents libel and damages. Brookhart charged recently In a speech that Meredith participated in the deflation of farm prices and former secretary Is dteermined to make the Junior lowa Senator “submit his proof,” the attorneys said

tended she infant outlining the diet necessary to keep it alive. The baby disappeared from her perambulator in front of a downtown shop Saturday while, her mother, Mrs. Ella McKenzie, was shopping. The mother was frantic with grief today after two sleepless nights waiting in a police station for news of her child. “I know my baby will die,” she said. “She has been kept alive only by the,most careful treatment and special diet and In the hands of any person heartless enough to kidnap her she cannot get the care she must have every hour of the day.” Meantime, Captain of Detectives

‘Golf Widow’ Whose Love Is Valued at SIOO,OOO

Divorced from William H. Reed. 37, city golf champion, last May on the ground she was a “golf widow," Mrs. Mary L. Zaiser, 33. of 3945 College Ave., returned to Indianapolis from a honeymoon in the Bermudas with Edward W. Zaiser. 43, president of the American Finance Company, to find that Reed valued her love at SIOO,OOO. Reed filed suit Saturday, alleging alienation of his former wife's affections. Zaiser is a member of the Highland Golf and Country

COOLIDGE ASKED TO RECOGNIZE MEXICO United States Commissioners Confer With Secretary * 1 Hughes on Resuming Relations,

Bv United Preaa WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—American recognition of the Obregon government and resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States ar.d Mexico will be recommended to President Coolidge and Secretary of State Hughes by the American commissioners in the recent so-called “recognition conference” at Mexico City, it was learned authoritatively today. The, two commissioners, Charles B. MARK FINDS EASY MARKS Kansas City Citizens Eagerly Buy German Paper. Bv United A Jetca KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug 20.—At the present quotation of the German mark the people of Berlin are reporting going to market with great wheelbarrows loaded with marks to do their day’s trading. Yet it took but one 1,000-mark note In the hands of a glib salesman to draw a larg eenough crowd to block traffic in one of the main sections of this city for many minutes. Men stopped to pay a nickel for a 1,000-mark note, some to keep it as an oddity, while others have hopes of future gains. Police forced the salesman out of business after he had sold more than half a million marks, which netted him a profit of $26, he said, for his hour’s work.

William Funston and Captain H Ayres of the bureau of missing persons warned the kidnaper that a charge of murder would be placed In event the baby died away from Its parent. Mrs. McKenzie told a story of the heartlessness of New York in connection with the kidnapping. When she discovered the baby's perambulator empty, she said she immediately ran screaming for aid. She asked a passing man to mind her other child, while she called a policeman. The man said he was busy. When she found a policeman, he told her to inquire at the police station where “lots of missing kids

MRS. MART L. ZAISER

Club. The champion, a department head for the Standard Oil Company here, charges Zaiser paid for the divorce. He also alleges Zaiser paid the rent on the former Mrs. Reed's apartments in the Seville and Grnylyn following the separation July 3, 1922, and paid her way at Butler University during the second semester of 1922-1923. Reed has the custody of Billy Jr., 9. Zaiser could not be located for a statement, but the charges were emphatically denied on his behalf.

Warren and John Barton Payne, arrived here from Mexico City and aent into conference with Secretary Hughes. After the conference at the State department, Hughes and the commissioners were expected to go to the W'hite House and confer with the President. FISH ARE UP TO DATE Swimmers Get Thoir Meals by Elec- ~ tricity. Bv United Sewa PRATT. Kans., Aug. 20.—Channel catfish at the Kansas State Fish Hatchery are being fed by electricity. Large electric light bulbs are placed at the edge of the fish pond. Moths, millers and other bugs are attracted by the light. A curious catfish followed by his more curious companions, come to the top to see what it Is all about. Result—supper for the fish. THIEF 'TRADES' SHOES Here’s Clew for Police in E. Washington St. Robbery. A burglar entered the home of Lewis L. Harding, 6827 3. Washington St., during the night and stole a pair of shoes and a small bank containing S3O. A pair of old shoes left In exchange and was turned over to the detective department today.

were turned in every day.” Clerks In a department atore sftid women were always getting excited about missing children and always found them sooner or later. It was the same wherever Mrs. McKenzie turned and It was not until she got her husband, Peter McKenzie, that a real man hunt for the baby was started. Police today had only one faint clew. Mrs. MeKenzie remembered that shortly before the baby had disappeared she had seen a woman leaning over the carriage looking at the child. The woopm was shabbily dressed.

Entered e.a Second-class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday.

Wiiliam Van Camp, 34, Shot to Death Near Brookville While Attempting to Arrest Two Men Believed to Have Stolen Automobile, NET FOR SLAYERS THROWN AROUND INDIANAPOLIS Posses Start Search in Southeastern Indiana—Bullet Victim Had Been Married T wo Months —Was Serving Second Term, While attempting to arrest two men whom he suspected of having stolen an automobile, Sheriff William Van (j imp, 34, of Franklin County, was shot to death at 7 a. m. todaj while in a woods eight miles east of Brookville, eighty miles southeast of Indianapolis. v

Judge Cecil Tague of Brookville telephoned local police to watch to I two men in a Nash car, bearing an Ohio license. Immediately after the shooting hundreds of men in southeastern Indiana and southwestern Ohio began a search for the murderers. Judge Tague told The Times over long distance telephone. Slayers Young One of the murderers was short and the other tall and slim. Judge Tague said. Both were between 25 and 30 years old. They had gone into the woods during the night. They were not known around Brookville, the judge said. A few minutes after the sheriff entered the woods five shots were heard by persons near the scene. It is believed Van Camp fired two shots. The sheriff apparently was shot from ambush. Judge Tague said. As the murderers left the woods in the auto, they waved to Albert Bittlnger, Pete Schultz and other farmers and called “good-by.” The farmers had heard the shots, hut thought the sheriff had not yet reached the woods. They went Into the woods to investigate, and round the body, with three bullet wountts. Sheriff Van Camp was serving his second two-year term. He had been married two months. Police Watch Roads Squads of motor policemen, sent cut from local police headquarters, were posted on all roads leading into the city from the direction of Brookville. The slayers went north from the scene of the murder, local police were informed. The report of the murder was received here two hours after it occurred. This would have given the slayers time to enter the city before police were notified, officers said. RABBI BIENENFELD RECEIVESTHREAIS Mysterious Parties Intimate Bomb Plot, Rabbi Jacob Bienenfeld, 2229 NMeridian. told police today he was the victim of numerous telephone calls threatening to place bombs underneath his home. Sunday a group of intoxicated men came to his front door and demanded admittance, he told police. Rabbi Bienenfeld, who is the head of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, told police he thought he was being threatened because he refused to sell sacramental wine to unknown persons.

WIDOW GETS ALL VAN CAMP ESTATE Holdings Include $500,000 Personal Property, The will of the late Cortland VanCamp, president of the Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company, admitted to probate today, leaves the entinv estate tc the widow. Mrs. Fannie A. Van Camp. 1354 N. Delaawre St. Os the three children named executors, Samuel G. Van Camp Is dead. The other two, Raymond P. Van Camp and Mrs. Ella Van Camp Martindale, qualified under a $600,000 bond fixed by Probate Clerk John Welnurecnt. The person estate Is estimated at $600,000, according to Jackson Carter, attorney for Mrs. Martindale. There is a large amount of real estate, located mostly in the South, Carter said, the value of which has not been determined. The will directed that Mr. Van Camp’s watch be given his eon, Raymond P, Cortland Van Camp Sr. died Aug. 7, the third of his family to die since Jan. 1. Samuel G. Van Camp died a month before his father, and Cortland Jr., Samuel's son, was drowned New Year’s eve in Fall Creek. BOY ‘BANDIT’ IS CAUGHT Police Send 7-Year-Old I>ad Home— Tobacco Is “Loot.” James Hatfield, 944 S. West St., called police today, saying his place was being robbed. Police found a 7-year-old boy, with toba>’.=3 and matches in his possession. The boy was taken home and h|fl parents advised to watch him.

Forecast GENERALLY fSrir and warmer in this vicinity tonight and Tuesday.

TWO CENTS

MINE CDNPERENCE IS OPENED WITH WAGEDISCUSSIGK Lewis Determined to Settle Pay Question Before Going Further, By United Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 20. Mine union leaders in conferences here today decided to make the demand for wage increases in the anthracite field the first order of business in their meetings with operators to agree on anew contract. The union men, led by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, will endeavor to force a settlement of the wage question bei fore taking up the check-off and other disputed points. A twenty per cent increase for coal cutters and a straight $2 a day raise for laborers is demanded. As the conference prepared to open, miners stood on this position: “Recognition of the United Mine Workers in the contract, official introduction of the check-off system of collecting union dues from the miners’ pay. a 20 per cent increase in wages, an eight-hour day and a board of arbitration to settle remaining differences." The operators insisted: “The check-off is illegal under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania and we cannot recognize the union in this way. We are willing to submit the other questions to arbitration.” Miners representatives expressed hope the argument might be narrowed down after a few days to subjects which had been left over until after Sept. 1, the day set for suspension of work. In this case, a walkout might be postponed. ‘NEEDLE IN A HAY-STACK' Farmer Asks PoHce to Look for Cow „ at Stockyards. W. H. Evans, R. R. 2. Greencastle. Ir.d., asked police today to watch the stockyards for a cow stolen from his farm Sunday night, according to police. "Some job.” commented police when ■ they read market reports showing hundreds of cattle received at the stockyards daily.

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