Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 86, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1923 — Page 2

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SI,OOO REWARD OFFERED FOR SLAYERS OF COUNTY SHERIFF

MAN CONFESSES TO MURDER OF HIS SON-IN-LAW Other Members of Family Involved in Georgia Kidnaping Plot, By United Press NOONAN, Ga„ Aug. 21—John W. Mintern, father-in-law of Millard Trouten who was kidnaped,, and killed on the night of Aug. 10, confessed to the slaying, officials announced last night. In his confession, Mintern took all the blame for the slaying. He said mistreatment of his daughter, Trouten’s wife, said she had received at the hands of her husband, preyed on his mind until finally he called his sons, and sons-in-law into conference, and planned the killing “as the best way to settle the matter.” W. M. Feltman, the confession stated, was employed for sls to decoy Trouten from his home so the Minters could kidnap him. Mlnter said following the abduction, L. L. Goodrum, a son-in-law, drove the automobile to a woods. While his sons and sons-in-law held Trouten, Mlnter said he fired five shots into the victim's body and it was then thrown into a creek, where it was discovered five days later. Those implicated in the confession against whom charges of murder were filed include: Ben, John. Jeff and Grady Mintern, sons of the confessed killer; Goodrum, B. F. Weldon and Claude Washington, eons-in-law, and Feltman. OFFICERREPORTS POOR TREATMENT OF SICK IN JAIL Lack of Medical Attention in City Prison Charged by / Schubert, Prisoners sick or wounded in city prison are suffering from lack of medical attention, Captain Edward Schubert reported to the board of pub•lic safety today. Prisoners are treated by the turnkey or matron with little scientific medical attention, the report adds. The board immediately ordered the police surgeon to purchase alll supplies needed. The board also instructed Police Chief Rikhoff to investigate a complaint of twenty-eight property owners along Keystone Ave. in the vicinity of Bethel and Churchman Sts. that speeding is prevalent there. W. T. Bailey, assistant city attorney, was instructed to investigate city ordinances referring to keeping of dogs in the city. Thirty residents in the vicinity of Park Ave. and Tenth St. are protesting against a veterinary hospital owced by R. H. Boyd. 44C E. Tenth St. The crying of dogs during the night disturbs the peace, the complaint stated.

BROOKHARTREADY WITH HIS DEFENSE By United Preen DES MOINES. lowa, Aug. 21. —Financiers and former Cabinet officials will be called to testify or sign depositions f former Secretary of Agriculture E. T. Meredith's 30-cent libel suit agaipst Senator Smith IV. Brookhart comes to trial, Brookhart intimated today. The entire story of the alleged "deflation” of the farmer in 1920 will be dragged into court when Brookhart seeks to prove his charges that Meredith “sat in the Wall Street game and helped produce the greatest panic in farm prices in history of agriculture.” Brookhart - s reply to Meredith's statement announcing the suit will be made in a sjieech before the American Legion at Jewell, la.. Friday. "And it's going to be a good one,” the Senator said of the speech. Meredith, who is a Bimldjl, Minn., refused to make any further comment, but declared he would Issue another statement within fe. few days. MEiISLOSE INTERESTIN ORDER Mayor Shank, a week ago, ordered the city market and streets around it kept clear of refuse. Observers noticed today tnat the effect of the "ultimatum” had begun to wear off and that waste material once more was strewn over the place. In the market, few changes in produce or prices since Saturday were found. Eggs still retailed at 30 cents a dozen, although standholders said the freshest eggs now are sold wholesale at the same price, due to scarcity. The retail purchaser refuses to pay more. one. standholder said. Okra appeared on the market. Although it is raised in Indiana. It is originally a nroduet of the southern

Where Nine Persons Were Killed in Cloudburst

NINE BODIES OF CAMPERS HAVE THUS FAR BEEN RECOVERED ON THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY BETWEEN SALT LAKE CITY AND OGDEN, UTAH, FOLLOWING A CLOUDBURST RECENTLY. HUGE BOWLDERS WERE WASHED INTO'THE CANYON THROUGH WHICH THE HIGHWAY RUNS. TRAF- - ' FIC WAS BLOCKED FOR FOUR DAYS.

BRIDGE PLANNED WILL SYMBOLIZE UNION OF STATES Marble Edifice Across Potomac to Connect North and South, WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.—Directly opposite the $3,000,000 Lincoln Memorial and on Virginia soil just across the historic Potomac River, a magj niflcent memorial to General Robert E. Lee! Such is the plan, already under way ! here, hat Is to be submitted to ConI gress in December. Connecting the two great edifices, built to endure for centuries, would be a stately bridge of pure white | marble and lasting granite, beautifully symbolical of the spiritual union between the reunited North and South. The Arlington Bridge Commission, a Federal body given $25,000 by Con- ■ gress to make plans and submit es- | tlmates. is now busy at work. It hopes to submit complete recommenj dations to the next sessioij. I’ooHdg* Chairman President Coolidge is chairman, having succeeded the late President Hard- | lng to that position. Other members are Speaker Gillette of the House of Representatives and Senator Fernald and Representative Langley, chairmen j of the public buildings committees of the Senate and the House respectively. Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, superintendent of public buildings and j grounds of the District of Columbia, iis also a member, and the one on which most of the work has fallen. ‘I think the plan of a memorial to General Lee just opposite the memorial to President Lincoln is a most beautiful idea," said Col. Sherrill. “General Lee was the soul of the South. Lincoln-typified the North, and i nothing could be more appropriate | for a re united nation than memorials j to these men, connected by a handI some bridge.”

Appropriate Material The bridge, according to estimates r.ow, will cost from $5,0000,000 to SB,- ; 000,000. Os purest marble and strongest granite, it would perhaps excel in i splendor any other similar structure j in the world. Congress, which directed that the | estimates be made, will be asked to ap- ! propriate the money for the bridge. | Little difficulty is expecteu, as | anothei bridge is needed at Washingj ton. now the gateway of so many transcontinental highways. ; While no plans have yet been made, | the Le.e Memorial may be the South’s gift to the nation, with the dimes of millions of Southern children playing an important part. The great structure, which would be of white marble and equally as heroic as the present Lincoln Memorial, would cost from $2,500,000 to $3,500,000. The proposed Lee Memorial and bridge would fit in wfell with the scheme for a hfstoric hall, equal to that In any foreign capital, that has beer developing slowly in Washington for. many years. For fifty years, the suggestion of a memorial bridge across the Potomac River at Washington to commemorate the reunion of the North and the South, has been discussed. The plan appears now' to have neared the stage of action. NEW AWAITS REPLY Has Not Heard From Blessing on Job Offer. By Time* Special WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.—Poetmaster General New today said he has not yet received a reply from E. M. Blessing, Indiana public service commissioner, who has been offered a poet as solicitor of the Postofflce Department. Assistant Solicitor H. J. Donnelly has filled the position since Judge John H. Edwards resigned several months ago to become solicitor in the Interior Department under Secretary Work. 4 Attorney to Be Speaker. Frank M. Jeffery, attorney, will speak before the members of the Bible Investigation Club of the Y. M. C. A. It the bean supper Wednesday

Boy Dies as Explosion Wrecks Groceries

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A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY DIED OF INJURIES AND MANY OTHERS WERE HURT WHEN AN EXPLOSION WRECKED TWO COVINGTON (KY.) GROCERIES, A FAMILY OF FI YE. LIVING IN A FLAT JUST ABOVE ONE OF THE STORES, ESCAPED ONLY A FEW SECONDS BEFORE THE FLOOR CRASHED IN. MANY OTHER. REMARKABLE ESCAPES FROM INJURY WERE RECORDED.

Playing Hookey to Go Swimmin’ Only Answer to Natural Urge, Says Mermaid

Euphrasia Donnelly Gives Her Views Upon Water Sport.

Kids stealing away from school to "go swimmln’,” despite parental objection. are tempted by something I more, fundamental than the desire to have a good time. They are following the urge of a natural law Impelling 1 the human animal to spend at least | part of his time In the water. That’s the theory of Euphrasia Donnelly, 17, swimming star of the Hoosier Athletic Club, who believes there j is an important tip in this knowlj edge for mothers who attempt to stifle j in the breast of the child the longi ing to get about in the water. Miss j Donnelly will compete In the national | amateur swimming meet at Broad , Ripple pool Thursday, Friday and Saturday under auspices of the Cham- [ her of Commerce. She is the girl f hope of local swimming enthusiasts. Miss has been swimming : since childhood, first taking part in ! races at the age of 11. Some folk, whose acquaintanceship j with water is limited to tlpe bathtub, j appear to think that man is a “landlubber," according to Miss Donnelly, | forgetting that primitive man swam as a matter of instinct, in the same manner that a young dog, thrown into the water and, faced with the necessity for self-preservation, discovered that swimming is a natural function. “It is my opinion.” says Miss Donnelly, "that people who do not make it a practice to 'go swimming' regularly miss something In their lives that they are never quite able to lay a finger on. I believe .on the other hand, that people who spend part of their time In the water get a certain satisfaction out of living that would not exist otherwise. "It is necessary, of course, in the ease of young children, to protect them from their own Ignorance of danger, particularly since civilization has had a tendency to stifle some of the natural instincts of man. ‘‘The Indians, apparently, considered swimming a part of everyday life. Almost every one has heard how they took their young sons and threw

Nebraska Governor Starts War on High Coal Prices

By United Prtt LINCOLN. Neb., Aug. 21.—Governor Charles W. Bryan, a brother of William Jennings Bryan, today notified coal dealers that unless their prices are lowered he will furnish coal to the public at $8.25 ft ton. Bryan also directed his ultimatum at the municipal coal yard which expects to sell coal, costing $6.60 in carload lots, at $9.50. He

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EUPHRASIA DONNELLY them into deep water. It is significant that the Indian children, thus left on their own resources, almost invariably swam. Muscle and brain

Great quantities of coal are being stored throughout the country and an Investigator reveals a movement by operators to force a strike to make possible exorbitant prices, the Governor asserted. “We expect to protect the people from the coal monopoly," he said, ading that he is negotiating for purchase of coal to furnish to any municipality that wants It. The fuel will be sold by the state direct to the public at 55.25 whenever

Citizens Put Price on Heads of Murderers After Twentyfour Hours of Fruitless Search by Posses of Hundreds in Southeastern Indiana and Southwestern Ohio,

By United press BROOKVILLE, Ind„ Aug. 21.—A reward of SI,OOO was offered by Franklin Oounty citizens today for the capture of the two auto bandits who killed Sheriff William Van Camp yesterday when he attempted to arrest them in a woods eight miles east of this city. Offer of the reward came after twenty-four hours of fruitless search by posses of hundreds of citizens in southeastern Indiana and southwestern Ohio. 'Search continued throughout the night. Funeral services of the dead sheriff wifi be held at 2 p, m Thursday in the Methodist Church. Early yesterday Glen Luse, a farmer, discovered the men in the woods They were sitting on the running board of their auto and Informed Luse they were on the way to Piqua, Ohio. Suspecting them to be automobile thieves he called the sheriff. Farmers heard the shots, five in number, before they were aware Van Camp had entered the woods. They rushed to the scene and found Van Camp dying with three bullet holes through his body. Every effort is being made to locate the murderers who escaped, and who,

that nature had put there to guide them In the water came to their rescue, and their bodies moved through the water with perfect ease. "Naturally such a system would be considered barbarous In the twentieth century, and might prove disastrous. But I do not believe the same instincts still lay dormant in children and should be cultivated rather than stifled.” NAMES OF HEIRS LEARNED Family of Traskovich to Get. 34,900 Kronen From Court. Under the seal of the "consulate general at Chicago of the kingdom of the Serbs. Croats and Slovenes," County Clerk Albert H. Losche today learned the names of the heirs of Dancho Traskovlch, who died here several years ago, leaving an (-state of? 600. Dancho's heirs, who will receive 34,900 kronen, are Mrs. DJurdJa Traskovlch, mother. Mrs. Anna Andrejlck, sister. Mrs. Ljuba Zivich, sister. Mrs. Draga Lazich, sister. They all live in Dobrotln, "over there somewhere,” Losche said. The heirs will get $877.77 only, due to the defalcation of Richard V. Sipe, ex county clerk of trust funds two years ago. It will be paid when Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash returns from his vacation. THREE BODIES FOUND Death IJst in Canadian Hotel Fire Grows. By United Prei* HUNTSVILLE, Ontario, Aug. 21. Finding of three additional bodies yesterday In the blackened ruins of the Wawa Hotel, Lake of Bays, which was swept by Are early Sunday morning, brings the total known dead to eleven. The three bodies were charred beyond identification. SMITH TO SPEAK SUNDAY English Evangelist to Preach at Cadle Tabernacle at 3 P. M. Gypsy Smith, English evangelist, will speak at Cadle Tabernacle at 3 p. m. Sunday. C. C. Gohn, chairman of the committee In charge of the evangelist's former visit, will preside. The meeting is under auspices of the Church Federation of Indianapolis. Smith is visiting friends here. Hearing on Zone Amendments Public hearing on two zoning ordinance amendment* were to be held by the city plan commission this afternoon. The amendments would classify the southwest corner of Sherman Dr., and Prospect St., as business, and a strip of territory along Bluff Rd., and Southern Ave., as residential, with

according to police, drove north In their touring car. When the men left the woods they waved good-by to some farmers. According to persons who saw the suspects one of the assailants is about thirty years old, was dark com plexioned and was wearing a dark suit and cap. The other is about twenty-three and was wearing light trousers, a shirt and a brown cap. The older is short and the other tajl and slender. They were traveling In a five-passenger Nash touring car. It was found that automobile license number 8306 Ohio, which was said to have been on the car driven by the murderers, w-as issued to Edward Luthman, 364 Xenia Ave., Dayton, for a hearse. It was also reported the automobile carrying the murderers w'as reported found abandoned by pursuers of the slayers near West Elktown, 0., seventeen miles southeast of Richmond, Ind. SEVEN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY Train Searched Three Times in Hunt for Murderers. A police emergency squad, acting on a "tip” received by Captain Fletcher, stopped a C., I. & W. fast freight train at Keystone Ave. and the C., I. & W. tracks and searched for two mon supposed to be those who killed Sheriff William Van Camp of Franklin County early Monday. Railroad Detective Schlagctnn told Sergeant Dever he had been on the train from Hamilton, 0., and that a smrch of the train at Connersville, Ind., revealed six men who were taken into custody and that at Rushvllle one man was taken off. Detectives received a report that a Nash touring car bearing an Ohio license plate, such as that in which the murderers escaped, stopped before an apartment at Walnut St. and Park Ave. today. Inspector Mullin dispatched men to investigate.

COUNTY EXPENSES 51,105,70 HIGHER Fesler’s Budget Shows Need of $2,954,597 in 1924. County expenses for 1924 will be, $2,954,397.50, according to the annual budget prepared by County Auditor Leo K. Fesler, to be submitted to the j county council Sept. 4 and 5. The j amount is an Increase of $1,105,870 over 1923. Fesler predicted a decrease of possibly 5 cents on the SIOO valuation, | or 21 cents instead of 26 cents, despite the increase In expenses. This will be accomplished, he thought, * through sources of county Income other than taxes. Chief among the j other resources are a possible $400,000 balance, fees from offices, balance ! from bond funds, Interest, and tax- j atlon on personal property of corporations. Nearly all county offices and institutions are asking Increased allowances, and the national election will cost the county $105,000 next year. County offices will cost $315,471 more and 1591.300 additional is asked for payment of principal and Interest on bonded debt. SPEED CAUSES WRECK Commission Reports on Crash Near Craws ordsvUte. By United Prei* WASHINGTON. Aug 21.—Excessive speed In rounding a curve near Crawfordsville. Ind., coupled with slightly uneven track, diminished coal and water supply, and the absence of swash plates to prevent surging of the water were responsible for the derailment of a freight train July 19. resulting In the death of four employes, the Interstate Commerce Commission declared today In a report on the investigation. Collection Trailers Wanted Bids on sixteen two and and oie halg ton trailers for collection of garbage and ashes will be received by the city sanitary board up to 10 a. m. Sept. 18. Estimated costs of the trailers Is $1,600 each.

‘Quarters or Embarrassment’ Is Motto of Guides at U.S. Capitol

WASHINGTON Aug. 21.—‘Get your quarters ready, ladies and gints, and step right this way.” It’s the ballyhoos the laud’s biggest sideshow you hear, the ballho of the “official guides" who ply their highly lucrative graft at the United States Capitol. It costs you 25 cents to join one of the parties of sight-seers constantly being shown through the great building. There are thirteen of these “official guides,” appointed through political pull and accountable to nobody but themselves. Nobody knows how much they make because ,there is no way to find out, but the average per guide hat been estimated as high as $25 a day. A rising wave ftf indignation that has brought about §ew condemnation of the system here promises to put an end to it when Congress meets again. An effort will be made in Congress to have the soft jobs abolished and the work done by salaried capltol policemen. Os course, you are free to roam about the building at will during visiting hours, but the “official guides" usually spot you and manage to make it so embarrassing that you are will-, ipg to pay 25 cents to join their jmj^^u^nov^awav^lnreturnforl

Former Patrolman Dies at Edgewood Customers of the J. F. Wild & Cos. Bank today missed a familiar figure. Clement T. Dunn, 59, special policeman for the bank the department C. T. DUNN five years ago and went with the banking institution where he made many friends. BRAZILIAN DOCTOR STUDIES AMERICAN HEALTH METHODS Child Hygiene Is Subject of Research by Physician From San Paulo, NEW YORK. Aug. 21.—Babies in Brazil don't have grade A milk left at their doors in the morning, nor even grade B, unless B happened to stand for Bad. In fact, that Is about the only- kind there is, and it is Increasingly recognized that pasteurization of the milk supply’ for children in the big cities is the first and most urgent stei to be taken tow’ard bringing down the high infant mortality rate that prevails in Brazil, according to Dr. Octavio Gonzaga, public health officer of the State of San Paulo, Brazil, who has been in this country on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship for a year's study of American methods in child hygiene. He has spent this time till now exclusively in the study of pediatrics and child care at Harvard University and the Children's and Infants’ Hospital of Boston, and in New York and Philadelphia. As part of the field work assigned to him he has been making a study this summer of the methods of the American Child Health Association, a national organization working for the advancement of standards of health care for children of all ages throughout the Nation, under the presidency of Herbert Hoover. The headquarters of this association are at 532 Seventeenth Bt., Washington, and its administrative office* at 370 Seventh Ave., New York City. In September he will go to the Federal Bureau of Education in Washington, and for the succeeding two months to the School of Hygiene of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Dr. Gonzaga has been especially Interested In American methods for treatment of Infantile paralysis, and the development In the United States of the various phases of social work, cspeoiaaly hospital social service. He is eager to apply in his own country the Ideas In nutritional work for physically subnormal children, and for safeguarding baby health through standard testing of the milk supply, which he has seen jn operation here. Babies In San Paulo now are dying at the rate of 300 to 400 In every thousand children bom. This may be compared with the average rate of eighty in the United States during 1922. The city of San Paulo has a population of 600,000 while the state has 3,000,000. A special problem in child health conditions In the city Is constituted by the families of Italian immigrants who have no public health nurses in Brazil, and no school nurses. There are school physicians, but only one on average for every 10.000 children. The Infant death rate In Brazil, high as It is. Is by no means the highest among South American countries The annual loss of baby life is lower only in the Argentine; In all other countries of the southern continent, notably Peru, It Is even higher.

“Here’s where a notorious criminal was executed," says one of the guides as he pilots his flock to the door of the Supreme Court chamber and grins as he waits for the look of surprise and wonder to cross their faces. ‘‘Yes,’’ he grins again, “his name was John Barleycorn; guess you have heard tell of him.” You are advised to visit the ‘Tiber ry“ at night, to see the wonders of the Illumination. The glowbig descriptions of the great historfal paintings hanging In the rotunda and of the classic decorations of the President’s room all sound pretty well; but there Is something about them that makes you think of a sing-song schoolboy repeating a lesson from memory. Dates, names and facts pertaining to some of the greatest events in the Nation’s history are droned out like the speaker was In a hurry to get through—and grab another party of sightseers at 26 cents a head. For tourists who oome In the rubberneck wagons, the guides have a special rate of 15 cents, this being collected from the company as It Is Included in the price of the rubberneck wagon ticket. The new agitation against the timehonored graft started the other day when a little school girl from Kansas

TUESDAY, AUG. 21, 1923

SEPARATE ACTION BY CITIES URGED IN RATE BATTLE Grand Rapids Phone Expert Gives Advice in Indiana Case, Indiana cities affected by increased telephone rates following issuance of a temporary restraining order by Federal Judge George Page at Chicago were urged to act independently of the Indiana public service commission in fighting higher rates, by E. G. Wagner, consultant telephone engineer of Grand Rapids, in conference with Taylor Groninger, city corporation counsel, today. While admitting that they should cooperate with the commission, Wagner suggested that the cities combine in seeking lower valuation for ratemaking than that fixed by the commission. An intervening petition wau suggested. fl Conference Indorsed Groninger’s plan to have Mayor Seebright of South Bend, president of the Indiana Municipal League, name a mayors’ committee to confer with the commission was indorsed by Wagner. Action on this will follow a special meeting of the league at the Severin Thursday afternoon. Further investigation into possibility of forcing the A. T. & T. under the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce commission was made by Wagner and Groninger. Wagner submitted briefs filed In other States in which the same opinion was held. Groninger hopes to bring the fight to the attention of the Governors’ meeting at West Baden. Regulation Urged “The Indiana Bell is just a pawn on the board played by the A. T. & TANARUS.,” said Groninger. Telephone companies, he maintains, should have earnings regulated, just as railroads are. Patrons of the Bell are Instructed to retain receipted bills of Sept. 1. In the event the company's suit is dismissed the patrons will be entitled to refunds equal to the amount of increased rates. Increased rates in Indianapolis and eleven other cities and the increased tolls authorized in the commission's order will go into effect Sept. 1. Toll charges for the period between today and Sept. 1, will appear on statement* to be rendered Oct. 1, instead of on tIH September bills. Defense Prepared Glenn Van Auken, presiding commissioner at the Bell hearings early this year, said the case probably would not come up In Federal Court before the first week in October. The commission’s time limit for filing answer to the suit is Aug. 28. The State's legal department today was preparing a defense for the commission. Attorney General U. S. Lesh would make no statement as to what procedure he will follow.

PERSHING MINST MILITARYSCOUTS Chief of Staff Pronounces Boys ‘Wonderful/ NEW YORK. Aug, tL~—Geo, JW'J J. Pershing, chief at staff, War Department. on the occasion of tit* thirteenth annual meeting at th* National Council, Bor Boosts ot America, spent a morning With members of his staff Inspecting the Bor Soout camps In the Palisades state Park, and pronounced thmr “wonderful." "The wort* you are doing," he afterward told the National Council members at a luncheon address, “ should appeal to rarer citizen. It would be an education to many mfen to Inspect Boy Scout camps and witness the work being done by them." General Pershing also went emphatically on record In favor of the non-military program of sooutlng for boys of scout age, declaring with earnestness: "I would not introduce military training into the Boy Scout movement if I could. I bellevt the work you are doing Is perhaps more broadenelng than that which would be given under a military regime. In any event, you are teaohlng boys the right thing—to be good citizens. Any man who is a good citizen will make a good soldier in time of peril." MEN HELD AS FUGITIVES Three Prisoners Wanted In Indiana and Tennessee Towns. Detectives today held three men arrested on vagrancy and fugitive charges for officers of the towns wanting them. Charles Wyant, 41, of Morgantown, Ind., was held for Franklin (Ind.) authorities, who will try him on a charge of child desertion. Jack Bottoms, 58, of 887 W. Twen-ty-Seventh St., was held on oharges of violating the liquor law at Murphysburg, Term. Forest Baker, 22, of Anderson, tm Jk Is alleged to have embezzled and odtr mltted larceny while a driver tor a laundry at Anderson. One of th* Largest Popular £rle* Stores In th* Statfc