Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 86, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1923 — Page 1

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U. S. MAIL PLANES ON LONG TRIP Government Starts Transcontinental Service With System of Relays, QUICK FLIGHTS PLANNED Aviators Leave New York and San Francisco Carrying Pouches, United Press WMITCHELL FIELD. MINEOLA, L. 1.. Aug. 21.—The modem pony express took the air today. Carrying 500 pounds of important luggage, a United States mail plane left here at noon on a trip that is expected to terminate safely in San Francisco in twenty-eight hours, carrying letters from coast to coast in the fastest time on record. A plane on a similar mission left San & Francisco this morning. The Innovation of the postoffice department recalls the days of pioneering when men rode swift steeds in a mad rush to carry the United States mails across the plains. The pony express rider of old flung himself off one horse and on to another at the relay stations, continuing his mad gallop with hardly a pause for a fresh mount. The pony express rider of the sky will make -aimilar changes. At several stations across the continent the mail plan? will descend and its cargo will be transferred to plane with a new pilot. No one pilot, or plane, will make the entire trip. The first stop will be at Cleveland, 1 Ohio. The second zone of the trip—from to Cheyenne—will be flown the night Strong baeons of will mark the path to be fol lowed by the mall man of the air. The special emergency landing fields are provided all along the line. The last long lap, over the mountains, will bring the messenger of Uncle Sam into. San Francisco, at approximately the same time mail from the Far West will be landed in New York. The schedule will be maintained for five days. If it Is successful the service will be continued. PILOT MAKES FIRST STOP Flight Is Without Incident; Trip Is Continued. By T nited Press RENO, Nev., Aug. 21.—Air Mail Piiot Burr H. Winslow arrived here with the east-bound trans continental mail shortly before 8 o'clock Pacific ume. He left Francisco at 5:59 a m. He reported the fight of 200 miles from San Francisco had been devoid of incident. Pilot William F. Blanchfield. m another De Havlland, was waiting at the air mail field, and as Winslow’s plane came to a stop the pouches j were quickly transferred to the relay plane, which immediately took off eastward with the loss of but a few minutes. Winslow reached the landing field j at 7:48 a. m , Pacific tlnje. and at 7;50 Blanchfield swooped away on his ! eastward journey to Elko. Six pouches of mall were taken on J e, and one dropped off, making Ital of thirteen pouches in Blanche's care.

BOARD REASSURES DOUBTINGCITIZENS 'lnterests' Protected in Erection of Garage, Residents of West Indianapolis were assured that their “interest’’ would be protected in any action the sanitary board might take toward erection of garage and barns at Kentucky Ave. and White River, In conference today. Henry Harmon headed a delegation of five citizens who appeared before the board. Board members did noFbnake their plans for the project clear, but assured citizens that the barns and storage houses would be “sanitary," if erected there. It Is understood the board will no* take definite action until plans of Mayor Shank for municipal garage by purchase of the Indianapolis Brewery plant are considered. W'est Indianapolis residents have asked that the ground, consisting of •even acres, bs used for a park. Mother and Daughter Hurt Special Wendell Dei6t and her daughter, Dorothy Jean, of Pittsburgh, were cut and bruised Monday when their automobile collided with another car. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 81 4 J ru 71 Ha. m 8b 8 a. m 75 12 (noon) 86 * "

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Must Indianapolis Continue to House Pupils in Quarters Like These? / " . \ ■:

I,EFT. ABOVE, ONE OF FOUR RESIDENCES AND PORTABLES AT •AT NO, 9. DAVIDSON AND VERMONT STS.; RIGHT, ABOVE, ONE OF- '"VSCHOOL 23. MISSOURI AND THIRTEENTH STS.; LEFT, BELOW, FIVE RESIDENCES AND PORTABLES AT NO. 30, ELDER AVE AND- feSIS FOUR OF EIGHT OLD COTTAGES AND PORTABLES AT NO. 42. RA W. WASHINGTON ST.; RIGHT. BEI.OW, ONE OF FOUR TEMPORARY DER AND TWENTY-FIFTH STS:CENTER. FIRETRAP RESIDENCE j BUILDINGS AT NO 38, WINTER AND BLOYD AVENUES

I .EFT. ABOVE. ONE OF FOUR RESIDENCES AND PORTABLES AT SCHOOL 23. MISSOURI AND THIRTEENTH STS.; LEFT, BELOW, FOUR OF EIGHT OLD COTTAGES AND PORTABLES AT NO. 42, RADER AND TWENTY-FIFTH STS.:CENTER. FIRETRAP RESIDENCE

COAL OPERATORS AND MINERS IN WAGE DEADLOCK Lewis Stands Firm for Increase Which Owners Say Is Impossible, BULLETIN Bu l nited Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Aug. 21.—After a session lasting several hours, it was reported late today that anthracite operators and miners were near a decision on the wage question. This does not necessarily mean that they are 1 -near an agreement—it might be a decision to disagree. By Vnited Press C ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 21. Anthracite miners and operators nave reached another deadlock on trie first question brought up for discussion in their renewed negotiations—the wage scale. The demand for a 20 per cent increase for cutters and a S2 a day raise for laborers met with strong resistance from the operators. Samye! D. Warrlner, chairman of the policy committee of the employers, announced today that his conferees could not possibly accept the wage demands as presented. AS today's conference proceeded, it was reported that the miners might abandon their demafld for a check-off if the operators would give the wags increase demanded. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said the Increase must be granted if a suspension of mining Sept. 1 is to be avoided. A report on developments, sent to the United States coal commission for transmission to President Cootldge by the secretary of the joint conference, stated that wages were discussed and no progress made In the first meeting, held here yesteray. The two factions resume their de liberations here at 10 o’clock this morning.

ROCK MARKS CABIN SITE Granite Boulder to Be Placed Today Will Locate First Log House. A granite boulder, weighing 74.000 pounds, will mark the site of the McCormick cabin, on the south side of Washington St. west of White River, the first in Indianapolis. The boulder Is from the farm of Raymond T. Hanch, six miles southwest of Indianapqjis. It Is said to be a meteor. It will be set In a concrete base. Work started today. An appropriate tablet will be placed on the rock. BOMB~WRECKS Fifteen Persons Narrowly Escape Injury In Detroit. By United Press DETROIT, Aug. 21.—Fifteen persons, seven of them children, were blown from their beds, but uninjured when a bomb partially wrecked the house of Ignazlo Maniscalchi, here this morning. The bomb was thrown from a large touring car containing four mefl, according to passersby. The car sped away before a description could be obtained. Maniscalchi could give no reason for the attack.

VENUS AND BOY FRIEND CAUSE LOT OF TROUBLE

By WESTBROOK PEG I.ER United News Staff Correspondent TJEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Venus, a young Woman who was -J prominently mentioned in several family scandals in the exclusive Mt. Olympus section of ancient Greece, anjl her boy friend, Adonis, who doesn’t seem to know as much as he might, have been given twenty-four hours to behave themselves or clear out of New Rochelle. New Rochelle is an intensely artistic suburb on lx>ng Island Sound near New York, peopled with artists whose names have b*en leaping to th. .nr. from

Corn on Top By United Press PETERSBURG, Ind., Aug. 21. —For the first time in years grain dealers are bidding higher for corn than wheat. Corn Is bringing |1 a bushel. Wheat price Is 90 to 95 cents.

JAP SUBMARINE MED LOSE Craft With 130 Men Aboard Reported Wrecked in Gale, J United Press TOKYO, Aug. 21.—The new Japanese submarine Kobe has foundered at sea in a gale and the entire crew of 130 men and officers are believed to have perished, according to radio advices to the Japanese Navy Department here today. The Kobe Wrtia the newest type of Japanese submarines and had been in commission only a short time. She was on a trial trip.

BUILDING $2,000,000 AHEAD OF LAST YEAR Semi-Annual Report to Board of Public Safety Shows Healthy Increase in Indianapolis,

Increased building activity in Indianapolis is shown In the semi-annual report of Francis Hamilton, city building commissioner to the board of safety today. The report for the first six months shows a total of 7,568 permits for construction valued at $14,CLEWS ABSENT IN WATSON MYSTERY Police Unable to Obtain New Line for Search, Detectives today were about at the end of clews m their effort to unravel the mystery of the fatal stabbing of Robert Watson. 19 of 215 N. Richland St.., last Thursday. They awaited the return to the city of a woman said to have been a friend of a man suspected of having stabbed Watson. Detectives still are working on the theory that an argument involving religion had something to do with the stabbing, which occurred in the Tfear of 221 N. Richland St. No one has positively Identified any of several pictures held by detectives as the slayer. KU-KLUX |s ENJOINED Order Against Body In New York Made Permanent. By United Press ALBANY, N. Y„ Aug. 21.—The KuKlux Klan and the Kamelia, sister order, today were permanently enjoined from continuing as membership corporations in New York State. Final order of Supreme Court Justice Staley was filed In the office of the county clerk.

many years, with flappers and their daddies and with amateur yachtsmen known as the New Rochelle salts. Sergt. Maltble Underhill of the New Rochelle police force is the municipal morality expert, having been forced into the latter position by a sudden rush of circumstances. Sergeant Underhill did not realize that this Venus woman had quite a record as a bit of a free-lance lover when she and her boy friend, Adonis, and Adonis’s dog, Elutherios, arrived in town last week to take part in an art exhi]bit on the lawn of the public library. When

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUG. 21, 1923

AT NO, S, DAVIDSON AND VERMONT STS.; RIGHT, ABOVE, ONE OF FIVE RESIDENCES AND PORTABLES AT NO. 30, ELDER AVE. AND W. WASHINGTON ST.; RIGHT. BELOW, ONE OF FOUR TEMPORARY BUILDINGS AT NO. 38, WINTER AND BLOYD AVENUES.

BOARD HOPES HEARING WILL BE SHORTENED

Engineer for State Accountants and Business Director for Education Department Go Over Plans of Structures Involved in Remonstrance,

Photographs of some of the 120 makeshift buildings used for school purposes by more than 5,000 Indianapolis school children will be shown the State board by school board representatives Wednesday. These buildings will continue In tise and their number will Increase alarmlngjy If the tax board refuses to approve a $1,650,000 bond ?se for the erection of new buildings and additions at eight schools, at a public hearing at the Statehouse at s a in. Wednesday. The eight new buildings asked by the school board will he. If their erection is permitted, the first step In a live year building program which will

597, compared with 7,011 permits totaling $12,093,332 for the same period last year. Fees collected this year amount to $23,096 compared to $12,526 70 last year. Hamilton’s report classified the number and amount of permits for the first six months this year as follows: Permits. Amount. Repairs, additions, Alterations 3,716 $1,453,487 Single one-story . dwellings 953 * Single two-story dwellings 301 Double one-story dwellings 85 Double two-story dwellings 180 Total $7,007,144 Sheds, stables 1,330 $547,520 Brick buildings, non-flreproof 92 1,340,175 Fireproof construction 26 2,809,850 Concrete block 114 287,840 Tenement houses 20 787,850 Miscellaneous 752 361,662 BOY HIKING TO CANADA?, Glen Whittaker, 12, Missing From Home Since Monday. • Glen Whittaker, 12. 1404 Holliday St., son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Whittaker, who disappeared from home Monday morning at 10 o’clock, may be trynig to walk to Canada, said his mother today. The boy is reported to have told a 10-year-old companion that he was going to go to Canada. Glen left home to go to th® Garfield Park tennis courts, said his mother. He was wearing a white waist with black stripes and short sleeves, khaki trousers, black stockings and brown shoes. He has one blue eye and one light brown eye. The mother will appreciate any information about the boy.

carrying-on he at first was inclined to tell the complainants to mind their own business and not Interfere with the pleasures of visitors la New Rochelle. He rifled the card index at headquarters and found nothing on either Venus or Adonis and the only violation of law seemed to be a very minor matter. Namely that dog, wore no muzzle. Then carprf an anonymous communication signed “indignant parent,” protesting against the couple on the library lawn, hinting that the strangers were not married and

| get school children out of shacks, i portables, illy ventilated basements, i stuffy and dangerous third floor ! rooms and church auditoriums, and Into modern, fireproof, sanitary, well equipped buildings. Itemonstrance Halts Program The program was halted, temporarily at least, when fourteen persons, only or.e of whom, school officials say, has children attending public schools, filed a remonstrance against the bond issue. This- necessitated the hearing before the tax board. Tn an effort to facilitate the hearing as much as possible Jacob H. HMkene, inspector of construction for the school board, and Harry V. Wenger, engineer for the State tax board, conferred on plans and specifications of the proposed buildings Tuesday. This will prevent the long discussions and delays over petty details which caused the last bond issue hearing two years ago to drag out over a period or several weeks. Doiay Lusts Two Years The hearing two years ago resulted In cessation of all school building when the tax board refused to approve a bond issue for four school buildings on remonstrance of ten members of the Taxpayers League of Indiana. Since that time there has been no construction of permanent grade or high school buildings Meantimo the school population has increased at the rate of about 1,200 annually. Blocked In its efforts to provide modern structures the school booard was forced to turn to temporary makeshifts. When school opens next month there will be about 160 class rooms in old residences, portables, church auditoriums and third floor and basement rooms of school buildings. REPORT VINDICATES MAN . IN KILLING OF RELATIVE Coroner Recommends Release From (’barge of Murder. Coroner Paul F. Robinson recommended the release of Damon Graham, 20 colored, 2227 Yandes St., from charges of murder, in a report filed with City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth today. Graham shot his brother-in-Jaw, Eugene Allison, 27, colored, July 17, ■when, it. was alleged, Allison attacked his wife, Gertrude Allison, Granam’s sister, with a hammer. AlUson died July 23. The coroner’!! verdict stated Graham was defending his. sister and the phrase ’’justifiable homicide’’ appeared tn the report. Burglar Arouses Woman Mrs. L. M. Warner, 1630 Park Ave., told police today her daughter was awakened by a burglar in the home Monday night. She arousal the family but the man escaped. Blx dollars were taken. Home Robbed of $45 C. Furry, 945 Southeastern Ave., told police today his home had been robbed of $45.

ter of a certain authority on Greek mythology. Then Sergt. Maltbie Underhill learned about Venus. He read about her affairs with peveral hitherto reputable gods, about sundered family relationships on Olympus. So Sergt. Maltbie Underhill locked up the police station and took a walk down by the library to have a look. He saw Venus there, very chic in her form-fltting epidermis, making very aggressive advances upon young Mr. -Adonis, \vho. also is dressed only for an occasion of the

No Jobs —Jail

Nine men, seven colored, were arrested on charges of vagrancy today after a representative of a construction company failed In an attempt to get them to go to work. The men 'were loafing about the courthouse, according to police. When they all refused jobs, the labor agent called police.

BANDiTS OBTAIN CASH IN CHICAGO ; SI,OOO and_ Deposit Boxes Taken From Office, By t nited Press CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—Cash totaling I SI,OOO and twenty-one safety deposit 1 boxes believed to contain thousands jof dollars In money and valuable were stoleri by two armtJ bandits who held up the N. Salk & Company steamship ticket agency and safety deposit box company hero today. The bandits, working daringly on a crowdfed street, forced Nathan Greenberg, a clerk, and a custonler to he, face downward, on the floor. They got the money from a safe. Officials of the company said that, although the check-up of the loot Is impossible until customers are heard from, it is believed a considerable amount of money was taken. The firm Is patronized by many persons who keep large sums In deposit boxes, police said. AGREEMENT ON MEXICO IS NEAR Recognition Expected Within Few Days, By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—President Coolldgo and Secretary Hughes have accepted the accord reached In (he Mexico City conference between American ad Mexican commissioners for a basis of resumption or diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico, the United Press was informed on high authority here today. Extension of American recognition tq. the Obregon government of Mexico and the details of the complete agreement reached in the so-called” recognition conference" at the Mexican Capitol, will be announced In a few days, according to this authority. APPOINTMENT IS DELAYED Commissioners Favor One Nurse, Fester Another. Although county commissioners last week agreed that Miss Ruth Armeritrout rtould be hired as county nurse to succeed Miss Hope Fuller, who resigned to be married, the Contract was unsigned today. The commissioners received a recommendation, Jt was said, from Loo K. Feslor, county auditor, lha tanothe rnurse receive the appointment. Feeler has a letter from the Parent-Teacher Association indorsing Miss Armentrout.

lie appearance on the library lawn In New Rochelle. “Here,” said Sggt. Maltbie Underhill. “'What do you two think you’re a’doin’, anyhow? Get oft our lav/n. Hey, Mike, bring a blanket Bring some pants. Bring a vest. Mike, get a tent.” And so an army pup-tent was cast over Venus and her boy friend and lashed to their several ankles, completely obscuring, if not reforming their conduct on the library lawn of New Rochelle, Coles Phillips, one of the most fa-

Entered as Second-class Matter at Poatofflce, Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday.

WIPE TELEPHONES. HUSBAND AFTER DRINKING POISON Hands Bottle to Mate With Remark, 'Here It Is, I’ve Taken lt,L With the remark, “Here it is. I’ve taken it," Mrs. Ethel L. Carpenter, 32, Apt. 4, 430 N. Meridian St., today handed a bottle which had contained j poison to her husband Harold of 713 !W. North St. She is in the city hospital. i Police said they were told the couple have been separated about two | weeks. The husband, according to the police, said this is her fourth attempt to take her life. Mrs. Carpenter Is a stenographer for the VaAium Oil Company on the fourteenth floor of the Merchants Bank Buildjng. Shortly after noon she went to. the ninth floor, drank contents of the bottle while in the hall, went to a telephone and called, her husband, then went to the rest room on this floor and waited. The Carpenters have an 11-year-old son, it is said. PRESIDENT TO MOVE Coolidge and Family Ready to Occupy White House. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—President and Mrs. Coolidge plan to move Into the White House some time late today, it was announced at the executive offices. BIBBINS HERE WEDNESDAY Waffle Expert From Washington t© - Make Survey. J. Rollin Blbblns. expert traffic engineer of Washington, D. C., will arrive in Indianapolis Wednesday morning for prelmlinary survey of local transportation problems. Bibbins will confer with city plan officials Immediately upon his arrival. He will work as advsor to local officials. Loea ltraffic congestion will be analyzed to speed up motor and Interurban freight, and develov> major thoroughfares through the city. POLICEMEN PROMOTED Minor Changes Are Made By Board of Safety. Sergt. Barrett Ball and Patrolman Edwin Ball were granted a leave of absence by the board of safety today to partlcipatA in th estate rifle shoot at Frankfort Aug. 20 to Sept. 1. Sergt. Leonard B. Forsyth was promoted to lieutenant, and Patrolmen Fred Russ, Frank Dailey and Roy Lacey were promoted tfi trafflemen. The resign of David Strode of truck company No. 27 was accepted. Multiple Listing Topic. Multiple listing will be discussed Wednesday noon at the luncheon of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board a the Chamber of Commerce.

he thought every one knew the sort of woman Venus was and therefore assumed that the people of New Rochelle knew what to expect when they let her come to town. Nell Brinkley, Norman Rockwell; the Lyendecker boys, Frank and Joe — or la It George and Charles?—and many other artists all said very much the same thing. They had understood that the Venus woman •decided to go straight several aeons ago, although people only winked and looked wise at the time, sayUig it was only a matter of a few tbfu-

, Forecast PROBABLY thunder showers today. Wednesday fair and cooler.

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BANDITS ROBMAIL TRAIN ANDJESCAPE Four Members of Crew Are 'Slugged and Coach Is Forced Open, \ - SHOOTING IS CONTINUOUS Outlaws Flee to Oklahoma Hills —Posses Conduct Search in Wilderness, By United Press BARTLESVILLE, Okla., Aug. 21.—A1 Spencer’s notorious "Will. o’-the-Wisp gang was credited by authorities today with the daring hold-up and robbery of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger train No. 23, near Okeaa at midnight. The robbers, after slugging four members of the train crew, disappeared into the fastnesses of the Osage County hills with twenty packages of registered mail. The bandits struck Fireman B. D. Towers and Engineer w. O. Miller on the head with revolvers as the train rolled to a stop. A volley of bullets then was sent through the door of the mall car, forcing an entrance. O. D. Weiss and M. Burch, mail clerks, true to traditions of their service, attempted to hold off the robbers, but were severely pummeled. After rifling the car the bandits fled westward through the hills amid a parting volley of shots from the train crew. All of the injured are from Parsons, Kan. Train Is Separated The express ancl mail car was cut from the train and the -engineer, with a revolver pressed against his back, obeyed the bandits’ orders and pulled the car about 300 yards from the passenger coaches. The spot chosen for the hold-up was j ideal In every respect for the bandit I operations. The country around has few settlers. Several outlaw gangs j make their hiding places in the rocky ! kills that extend for miles on either | side of the • railroad tracks. Automo- | biles are unable to go close to the scene of the hold-up, back from Okesa. because of the rocky roads. Bandits Take Their Time Able to work without fear of Interruption, the bandits took their time an<J carefully went over the contents of the car. No official estimate of the loot was obtainable, but It was said to include at least a score of packages of registered mail. A constant firing was maintained while the hold-up was in progress. After obtaining their loot the bandits apparently were satisfied and did not further disturb the passengers. They warned the engineer to take his time about coupling on to the main part of the train again and disappeared into the darkness. Look for Cave Authorities believed the robbers have well stocked cave hidden in the recesses of the hills, where they'' took refuge. As soon as the train, bound from Kansas City to Oklahoma City, reached Okesa, the alarm was spread, and a quick pursuit was organized. Sheriffs of surrounding counties were called upon for assistance. All roads surrounding the hilly country where the bandits are believed hiding were guarded. Deputies were stationed at quarter intervals. Authorities believed there would he little use In attempting to storm the robbers’ stronghold immediately. The hold-up men have undoubtedly fortified their position well and are prepared to resist an attack. To Starve Outlaws Plans were made to keep the outlaws bottled up until they attempt to leave for provisions; to cash in on their loot, or to separate in order to avoid detection. Railroad detectives who arrived on the scene early today are confident that It would be but a short time until the robbers become tired of their desolate surroundings, and attempt to make a break for Bartlesville or Okesa. Five Injured In Crash By Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind.,—Aug. 21. Five young men were injured near here Monday In the ( collision of two automobiles. They are Harold Smith, 17; John Watts, 16; Watts, 13; Paul Layman, 21, and Cecil Layman, 26. Check Cl large Denied Lloyd Kelley, SB, of 939 E. Traub Ave., Is under arrest today charged with issuing fraudulent checks. A warrant filed by Charles W. Eller, 825 Lexington Ave., charges Kelley with giving him a worthless check for $25. Kelley denied the charge.

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