Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1923 — Page 1

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MOTHER OF 2 CHILDREN HANGS SELF Abandons Fight for Health and Takes Own Life at Home as ‘the Best Way’—Body Is Found by Grocer’s boy and Neighbor, Mrs. Ida Weise, 47, of 750 Carlisle PI., N took her ow t u life toPay by hanging herself with a clothesline in the basement of her home.

HOST OF BUYERS INSPECTS LATEST IN MERCHANDISE Heavy Purchases Stimulate Fail Business of Retailers, Wholesale housese cfffitinued today to transact thousands of dollars in business as hundreds of buyers from all over the state inspect fall stocks of the various wholesale firms in observance of “Buyers* Week’’ of the Chamber of Commerce wholesale trade division. At 1 a. m. today the ladies attending Buyers’ Week met at the Circle Theater, where they embarked in automobiles fr. a tour if the city. The guests will assemble tonisht at ||he Atheneaum, where they will be Pntortained by the local wholesalers with vaudeville entertainment. An infdftnal party and dance will follow the show in the Athenaeum ball room. PREACHER SCORES BANANAS SONG Tune indicates Lack of Religion, He Says. "A crowd of young people that learns to sing 'Yes, We Have No Bananas’ better than ‘Praise the Lord’ hasn’t much of & chance in getting the real things out of life.” Evangelist Ouy Wilson of Boston declared today In a sermon delivered before the general convention for Promotion of Holiness at the Cadle Tabernacle. •’The young people of today,” he •aid. “do not need pool tables bowling alleys and the like to hold them In the church. Yon give them a job and hold them to it and you will keep them in the church. -‘‘The trouble is we have made errand boys out, of many of our ministers. I would rather stay home and read a magazine than listen to some fetures that pastors deliver on police and social problems.”

WEATHERMAN GETS INQUIRING LOOKS Shivering City Told That Aug, 22 Was Colder Than Today Many inclined to Doubt Statement,

hot;rly temperature 9 a> 51 10 a. m 5$ ' *- m 53 II a. in s<t “ *• ® 12 (noon) 58 9 a. it, 57 The weatherman tola his story to4a.y and tuck to it, despite incredulous looks from the oily's shiver era. Bs said that this was not the coolest morning of the season. Then he ro*d it. by showing that the thermometer which registered 53 degrees *1 ? t in today, dropped to 52 at 7 a rv Aug Jt. •a It must have been imagination •let made the city take its overcoats •ul of mothhaiis that made ooai a AOpse of real interest at last, after II bad triad to foroe itssif into publo notice tor wmkj through the n-ad that prompted wo/neo to put W th3r summer tors for the ♦.• inter Os oouree H mas be that :n A ; fust, ft never would oorur to eu,v or.** ttrai winter really was oo Uie vt< u Whatever the rwaaor. ell (ten* wh<. maeallad the roorotilni sun of th* ec Mkd wet of September sc lai? rvvd a lard dan eoavlnclug tbeioseivee that

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Coroner Paul F. Robinson said she had been dead about an hour when he arrived. The body was discovered hanging to water pipes in the basement by Mrs. Ethel Hartzler, 823 Bosart Ave., a neighbor. Wendelin Mauzh. a grocer’s boy, knocked on the back door of the Weise home. When he received no answer, Mrs. Hartzler said: “Wait a minute. I talked to her at 7:30. She is surely there. She said she was going to wash this morning when I asked to borrow her clothesline. She must be in the basement.” Looking through the basement window the boy and the neighbor saw the body. A son, Paul, 16. was attending school at Techijical High, and a daughter, Genevieve, was at her place of work, 1107 Hume-Mansur building, when the tragedy occurred. The husband has been dead several years. Neighbors said Mrs. Weise had been suffering from a nervous breakdown for some time and was despondent. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

PENNILESS VET OIESIN ATTACK Stricken While at HotelCause Is Probed, Frederick C. Darlington, 52, of 12114 j N. Alabama St., at O'Brien Hotel, died I on the way to the city hospital today ! after he had taken suddenly ill at the | hotel. Attendants said Darlington. I penniless, was given a room at the • hotel on Wednesday. Discharge papers showed he was a Spanish-American War veteran. He had been in a soldiers’ home, attendants said. Coroner Paul F. Robinson is in- } vestigating. ONE-DAY MAIL SERVICE TO EUROPE FORECAST | By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Mail I communication with Europe in one | day was forecast today by Rear Ad- ! miral William A. Moffatt, chief of the | bureau of naval aeronautics, as one I result of the Navy dirigiblo ZR-l’s successful flight to New York and | Philadelphia from Lakehurst, N. J. Even Steal From Policeman Traffic Policeman Eddie GlennT 222 Blake St., reported the theft of S3O worth of accessories from his automobile Wednesday night.

j that August morning really was colder than today. But the mercury did something to-, day it didn't do Aug. 22. It reached 59 at 11 o’clock and then dropped to 58. In the meantime, Metereologist J. H. Armington forecast fair and continued cool weather tonight, with fair weather Friday. SNOW FLURRIES REPORTED Cold and Frost Ilit Northwest as Winter Approaches. Hu T'nitcil Press CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Snow flurries and frost, accompanied by cold north winds, today gave the Northwest and Great T-akes region first indications of approaching winter. Frost blanketed wheat fields from Montana to Michigan. Cold winds were especially noticed in Chicago, Detroit an-1 the lakes country Hv; ;'ro;. *} this time will nia '•rfallv ter nag* isf- crops, according ■ o crop “*i vris. Tfi cW *-nr,p will pet con tiltt;e long";- tnm tonight, however, accord:.-,g :o predictions.

The Long and Short of It —as regards the proper length of women's skirts is a senous question. But you need not worry as Marian Hale will tell you. / She will write daily of autumn fashion on the Womans Page in The Times. Read her exclusive stories from Paris starting on Page 5 today.

FARMERS’ NEED IS MARKETS. CLAIMS WOOLLEN IN TALK Tenth Annual Convention of Indiana Realtors Hears Local Banker, "Our success in business is dependent in some measure on our success in anticipating the conditions of the future,” asserted Evans Woollen, president Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, in delivering the principal address this morning before 600 Indiana realtors who are attending the tenth annual convention of the Indiana Real Estate Association at the Clay pool. He declared the farmer’s need was not for more credit, but for better markets. The market for agriculture commodities suffers from over-supply and over-demand, he said. “The farmer’s market can be improved by curtailed and diversified production and by the restoration of European demand,” Woollen said. “The former is within the control of th 9 farmer and it is said that the rt ports of the Department of Agriculture indicate a reduction of 15 per cent in wheat acreage. The restoration of European demand waits cm the abatement of the greed and passion that destroy the purchasing power. About all that can be said regarding the dislocation of our economic organization manifest in the unfavorable condition of agriculture is that progress toward readjustment h-as been made and that the time and method of complete readjustment are in the lap of the gods.” Building materials have declined 7 per cent since April, he said. Woollen warned the realtors against too much installment buying. He declared that jtoo much of it, especially of property at a price beyond the means of the purchaser, is demoralizing to the buyer. Strong bids for the 1924 convention are being made by the delegations from Ft. Wayne, Hammond and Terre Haute. TRUSTEE CHOSEN FOR M’CRAY LAND

State Savings and Trust Cos, Named by Creditors, The creditors’ committee appointed I to handle the property of Governor Warren T. McCray today selected the State Savins and Trust Company, 9 E. Market St., to act as trustee for the McCray property which will be turned over to the committee. The trustee under the trust agreement will hold title to the property and will be the depository for funds and securities in connection with the settlement of the McCray difficulties. Members of the committee are John W. Van Natta, Lafayette; W. H. Arnolds, Kokomo; Henry Barr, Princeton; J. ,T. Kiser, Indianapolis and John Moorman, Knox. HOOSIES IS SAFE, U.S.IELLSTIMES Earlham College Man Not Earthquake Victim, Paul W. Gordon head of an American school in Tokio, is safe. The Times learned today. Friends and relatives of Gordon, whose home is In Bluffton, had not heard from him since the earthquake. Alumni of Earlham College, where Gordon was football captain in 1919. asked The Times to help find him. Tie Times notified the State Department and through that department’s representatives in Tokio Gordon W# P found to be safe.

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QUAKE FOND NOW PASSES 80,11 FORMARION CO. More Than $50,000 Raised Here to Help Japanese ' Quake Victims, Indianapolis has raised its quota of $50,000 for the Red Cross Japanese relief fund. Collections will continue and it is expected the quota will he greatly exceeded. Already it is several hundred dollars over the mark for the city. William Fortune, chairman of the local Red Cross chapter, sent this message to Elbert H. Gary, chr.irman of the Red Cross Japanese relief committee: “The voluntary contributions to the Red Cross Japanese Relief Fund flowing in to us from our people reached a total of more than fifty thousand dollars this morning and they are still coming in undiminished volume. We are confident that we shall largely exceed our quota, although we were put in the class of cities two and three times as large as Indianapolis. This is particularly gratifying to us because our fund has come from many thousands of our people who have given voluntarily wholly without personal solicitation. Our newspapers have relieved us from conducting a campaign of solicitation and have rendered splendid service.” Contributions of $l5O from the Lions Club and $335 from the emP'oyes of the Bell Telephone Company added to the fund. Bed Cross headquarters received a check for $4,800 from the Merchants' Association today through W. B. Balch, manager, in addition to S2OO given earlier in the campaign by the H. Lieber Company, which actually makes the amount contributed by the Merchants’ Association $5,000. IT. S. Fund Near $6,000,000 The Red Cross executive committee will meet at noon today at the Chamber of Commerce to make plans for receiving contributions indefinitely for the Japanese relief fund. Remittance of money on hand by the local chapter will be forwarded to national headquarters late today. The Red Cross will continue gathering money. Fortune said. Many large cities, including New York, are .still receiving funds, although their quotas were filled several days ago. The national fund, according to reports from Washington, Is nearing $6,000,000. This morning’s first delivery of mall brought a check for SIOO from D. Sommers & Company. Another check for SSO was received from Ralph A. Lemcke. Teachers, Clubs—AH Give Grade school teachers, not including the high schools, raised $1,452 for the fund. At the noon luncheon of the Kiwnnis Club Wednesday, $586 was realized. Indianapolis lodge No. 13, B. P. O. Elks, sent a check for SIOO. City employes have raised more than SI,OOO which will be turned over within a few days.

Prince Dances to Strains of Banana Song

Hu United Press QUEBEC, Quebec, Sept. 13.—" Yes, we have no bananas," floating up an elevator shaft late Wednesday night caused Lord Renfrew to suddenly alter his plan to remain in his apartment and go to bed early. The prince hurried downstairs and was easily the best fox-trotter on the floor. More than one hundred thousand visitors poured into Quebec last night and today to get a look at England’s next king. The prince dined ip his suite at the Chateau Frontenaii and then chatted with a friend in the lounge. FIRE HOUSE SALE IS ANNOUNCED BY BOARD Rids Must Be $37,400 or More Appraisers Decide. Auction sale of the Maryland St. fire engine house has been set by the board of works at 2 p. m., Friday afternoon, Oct. 5, it was announced today. The auction will be held in the offices of the board of works. Appraisers appointed by Judge Chamberlain in Circuit Court have fixed the valuation at 837.400, the lowest price the auction bid must start. Herbert Fieber, Charles H. Badger and William L. Elder, were appraisers.

Baby Tennyson Diin’t Mind Falling Twenty-Eight Feet

CROPS MARKS THIRD STORY WINODW AT 547 N. SENATE AYE.. FROM WHICH TENNYSON PHILLIPS JU. (INSET). FELL WITHOUT BEING SERIOUSLY INJURED.

Stiff and sore, but otherwise apparently' none the worse for a twenty-eight-foot fall from a thirdstory window Wednesday, Tennyson Phillips Jr.. 23 months, apartment 26, 547 N. Senate Ave., rested today while on admiring family circle gathered around him. Tennyson, playing in the kitchen, where his mother was working, climbed upon the low window sill. He stretched out his arms. The screen became losened from the frame, and Tennyson tumbled out. As the baby landed on the cement

SACRAMENTAL WINE FIGURES IN COURT Defendant Tells Judge of Sale of Liquor to Members of Congregation,

"Anybody who ever attended our church at 435 E. Market St., was eligible to buy sacramental wine.” Samuel Hdrtman, 53 E. McCarty St., replied to questions by Deputy Prosecutor William Remy as to who was eligible to quench his thirst in legal fashion. Hartman was appointed “distributor” for the Hebrew Hungarian Congregation, of which his father, Jacob Hartman, is rabbi, he said in his Criminal Court trial today on charges of selling wine at $1.50 from a stock of 500 gallons seized April 27, by Federal officers.

Lost at 2 A. M. "Lost!” "Locked in!" Clifford Kealing, attorney for the city board of health, muttered as he stumbled around in the darkness of city hall at 2 a. m. today. The night watchman couldn’t be aroused by a series of Indian whoops. So Kealing called the police. Police called the firemen. And the fire laddies notified the Gamewell on the fourth lloor of the building who rescued Keal ing after his last, match-flickered out. Kealing today said it was just a part of the duties of lawyers employed by the city lo work most of the night preparing mandamus suits.

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sidewalk, George J. Berry, proprietor of a grocery on the first floor, rushed out and picked him up. The child's grandfather, S. E. Berry, 4405 E. New York St., arrived at the apartment just as Tennyson fell. Although the boy was not allowed to be moved from his bed „today, Mrs. Phillips said the doctor told her Tennyson had suffered no broken bones and evidently' had no internal injuries. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips and Tennyson have lived in the Senate Ave. apartment just a week.

The State alleged that Irvine Hartman, his brother, indicted jointly with him, distributed a quart on April 6 to Max Klein, 445 Union St., who delivered it to Georgo A. Anderson. 3353 N, Capitol Ave., said to be a Ku-Klux Kian investigator. Interest was taken In ascertaining the status of the whole sacramental wine question. Ten gallons per year is what 'each member old enough to be a worshiper is al’owed, Bert Morgan, prohibition director for Indiana, testified, but distributors are not allowed to sell it. The church buys the wine. The 700 gallons tested’lß per cent alcohol. It was testified. Judge James A. Collins took the case under advisement until Sept. 20, end of the Jewish New Year holiday. $43,157 CHECK TO CITY The city treasury was enriched by $43,157 today when James Ogden, city attorney, presented Controller Joseph L. Hogue with a check representing the city sale of the old Greenlavn cemetery to the Terminal Realty Company. The land will b# uaed for iaterurhan freight terminal. HAgue turned over the money to th# g#eral fund. Shopper Loses Purse, $8 While shopping in a downtown store Wednesday, Mrs. George Emmick, 2150 Webb St., told the police she had a small purse containing $8 stolen.

United States Certificates Are Taken From Officers’ Desk at Indiana * National Institution. Forty thousand dollars worth of United States certificates were taken from a desk in the Indiana National Bauk, Virginia Ave. and Pennsylvania St., this afternoon by a thief who walked from the bank without detection. The certificates are negotiable Government securities. The certificates were on the desk of Edward Moore, vice president of the bank. According to Frank Stalnaker, bank president, Moore left his des kfor a few* moments and when he returned the securities were missing.

“Other bank officers were sitting at tKeir desks surrounding Mr. Moore's desk,” Stalnaker said, “but they saw no one who mthey suspected.” Stalnaker said that while the securities are negotiable, the bank is covered by insurance. The bank has a record of the serial numbers of the certificates. The denominations are three SIO,OOO certificates, one $5,000 and five SI,OOO. Interest Is $l,lOO Besides the face value, the certificates carried $l,lOO interest. Police and private detectives wre put on the trail immediately after the robbry was discovered. Bank officials told the police Moore had been summoned to the telephone by a bank policeman. The thief evidently walked directly past the policeman, bank officials said.

REVOLUTION HITS AT GOVERNMENT IN SPANISH CITY \ Civil War Threatens and Is Aimed at Cabinet in Power, By United Prcsa MADRID, Sept. 13.—The council of ministers at 34:0 a. m. today declared “a state of war” in Barcelona as the /result of the Catalonian separatist movement. Military garrisons in Madrid were ordered to bo ready for immediate duty and all troops and men on leave recalled. An immediate mobilization o fpolice and civil guard was ordered. The decision of the cabinet cs me after an almost continuous session beginning Wednesday, during which the ministers were notified of an armed threat by the army unless steps were taken to down the Catalonian separatists and take energetic measures to push the Moroccan campaign through to a successful conclusion. An extra edition of El Sol at noon said the Madrid garrison will assist an armed movement started by the troops in Barcelona. General Cavalcanti, in a statement to the press, said the movement was no more than a flare-up, but had been carefully planned in all Its details and possible consequences. The general said the movement was aimed against the “ruling politicians.” Military units are acting under Capt. Primo De Riveira. Martial law has been effective in Barcelona since 3 a. m. It is rumored Foreign Minister Alba has been captured by the revolutionaries. The United Press Madrid bureau cabled the following message, which evidently had been closely censored: “The Spanish cabinet in an extraordinary meeting last night and early today, discussed the situation in Catalonia, and a report from the captain general of that district, who urged, in case martial law were declared, it would be better not to cut communications. “The captain general also asked the king to dismiss the whole cabinet for the sake of the country, ana demanded the court give assistance to the garrisons in other districts. “The cabinet has decided nto to abandon power unless forced to do so. “The king is due to arrive in Madrid today.”

MURDER TRIAL STARTS Father of Thirteen Children Accused of Killing Fellow Miner. WASHINGTON, Ind., Sept. 13. Arguments were begun this afternoon in the murder trial of Berry Hudson, 64. father of thirteen children, charged with the killing of William M Gilley, a fellow in a meeting at the Greenmount local of the United Mine Workers last April. The men were arguing over Gilley’s membership in the Daviess Countv Detective Association at the time of the shooting, Hudson contending that no miner should belong to a detective association.

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0.0. P. SEEKS TO OUIET WESTERNERS IN NEW REVOLT Friends of A, P, Davis Jump Traces Over Muddle in Reclamation Service, By LAWRENCE MARTIN. Copyright, 1923, by United Press' ’ WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Coolidge Administration leaders are concentrating their political sagacity on quqUing anew revolt in the West that threatens to result in a Congressional investigation this winter and unpleasant handicaps to the efforts to win the West for Coolidge. The revolt grew out of the resignation of A. P. Davis as head of the Federal Reclamation Service. He was replaced by D. W. Davis, former Governor of Idaho. A. P. Davis maintains he was discharged: Secretary of the Interior Work says Davis just resigned. Davis’ friends in the West are up in arms and resolutions demanding Congressional investigation will be presented in the House and Senate unless tire angry westerners can be pacified. Two major steps have been taken in an effort at pacifying them. These are: 1. An extensive western trip by D. W. Davis, the new commissioner, the purpose of which is to bring about an understanding of the administration’s purposes and to create a tact with the people. 2. Creation by Secretary' Work of a “fact finding” commission to investigate the whole system of reclamation. Davis is no| moving westward on bis peace-making mission. He will visit Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, North Dakota and Montana and Oregon on his first swing around the circuit and later will visit all projects not touched on his first journey.

PRINCESS TELLS | OFJTO SIT Wife of Egyptian Answers Murder Charge. LONDON. Sept. 13.—" After threatening to kill me, Fahmy crouched, ready to spring. I lifted my arm without looking ahead of me. Then, not realizing what had happened, I saw Fahmy On the floor in front of me.” Through a piece of dramatic testimony, Princess Fahmy, French wife of Ali Kemal Fahmy Bey, described how she shot her Egyptian husband Tearful and frequently on th • verge of fainting, the princess survived the third day at the Old Bailey in the trial for her life. She described his tender wooing, his pleas she become his bride. But marriage, she said, was a nightmare of torture in a golden prison. Chief of the prosecution Percival Clarke began the cross examination by eliciting the fact that when the princess met the fairy .prince she was the daughter of a Paris cab-driver. At this point, the trial was adjourned. Girl Struck by Truck Ethel Huffman, 16, of 823 E. Tenth St., was slightly injured when struck by a truck at Broadway and Tenth St. Charles Jose, 1815 Orange St., was driver. Dr. D. A. Leathers, 1021 College Ave., attended the injuries. Clothing Taken From Car A traveling bag containing women’s wearing apparel was taken from the automobile of Lewis Fackler, 1918 Hoyt Ave.