Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 123

‘SAVE INDIANA,’ IS G. O. P. PLEA

FIFTY ESCAPE WHEN TRAIN JUMPS TRACK C,, I, & W, Passenger Cars Derailed by Faulty Switch Near State Ave, —Coming Into City From Cincinnati at Thirty-Five Miles an Hour, Fifty passengers on a C., I. & W. train inbound from Cincinnati escaped injury when the engine and five cars, including two coaches and a Pullman, were derailed about 600 feet east of the State St. crossing about 11:30 today.

GERMAN TROOPS ARREST PLOnERS AGAINST REPUBLIC Two Hundred Men Charged With Attempted Coup Against Government, By United Prett BERLIN, Oct. 3.—Military today arrested 200 men near Doebritz camp, outside Berlin, charged with an attempted military coup against the government. Authorities 6aid the plot was similar to that at Kuestrin, broken by loyalty of government troops. Doebritz was the starting point of the Von K&pp coup of March, 1920, and always a center of monarchist plotting. It has a large and important garrison. The fate ofthirty plotters taken prisoners at Kuestrin has not been made known. RILEY’S BIRTHDAY TO BE OBSERVED Meredith Nicholson to Speak at School No. 43, The anniversary of the „ birth of James Whitcomb Riley will be observed by Indianapolis public schools at various times within the next few days. Riley’s birthday Is Sunday, Oct. 7. Meredith Nicholson will address the pupils of James Whitcomb Riley School No. 43, Capitol Ave. and Fortieth St., this Friday. A program of Riley songs and recitations of the poet’s best-known poems by school children has been arranged by the teachers under the direction of Miss Nell V. Green, principal. At other schools talks by teachers and receitatlons of poems by pupils will make up the program. A request that Riley’s birthday be observed was sent to all schools by E. U. Graff, superintendent of schools. ANTI-WOOD FACTION WINS FILIPINO BALLOT tween Governor and Natives. By United Prett MANILA. P. 1., Oct. 3.—The Quezon, or anti-Wood group, won a decided victory in Tuesday's election. The election was precipitated by recent clash between Governor General Wood and Filipino leaders and resignation of the cabinet. Returns indicated Ramon Fernandez, coalition candidate, was elected to the Legislature by 15,000 plurality. Candidate Stunts at Dance Nominees for offices of the Indianapolis Optimist Club will give stunts to "draw votes” at a dinner dance at the Claypocl tonight. Elections will be Oct. 12. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 49 10 a. m 63 7 a. m 50 11 a m 65 S a. m 64 12 (noon) 67 # &. m 58 1 p. m 69

Indianapolis Happiest Medium as a City, Says Contest Winner

By MRS. KENNETH F. TRIGGS. mHAVE always wanted an avenue of expression as to the reasons why I like Indianapolis. Now that I have one, I am anxious to do justice to your "no mean city” and at the same time to appear modest in my eulogy, For eulogy it Is, either way you take It. Between the typical Main St. town of the Middle West and the broader, more genuinely progressive and Intellectual city, I find the happiest medium In the world— Indianapolis. It has all the advantages of a metropolis and yet maintains a characteristic peculiarly

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A loose pin in a switch, caused the entire tran going at thirty-five miles an hour to leave the track. The track for 200 feet was chewed and twisted into a mass of steel. Several passe gowns were thrown from seats, although the shock of the accident was not noticed in some cars. Switch Recently Repaired Investigation by police and railroad officials, showed that the switch had been repaired recently. New' spikes had been driven near the switch. The train left Cincinnati at 8:15 a. m. and was due in Indianapolis at 11:40 a. m. After the accident taxicabs trans ferred passengers to Union Station. V. L. Vandercook, expressman. 911 W. Seventh St., Cincinnati, was bruised on the arm when he was thrown about in the express car. Some Ignorant of Wreck J. W. Crus. Chicago, porter in the Pullman car, said: "Half of the passengers in my car kenw what had happened, and the other half didn’t. Our car was the last one of the five behind the engine. I guess that was perhaps the reason.’’ -The train crew: Michael Ryan, 647 Hawthorne Ave., Cincinnati, engineer: Arthur Smith, 7418 Main St., Cincinnati, fireman, and Brakeman Pershbaucher of Butlerville, Ind. “The train was going no more than 35 miles an hour," Ryan, the engineer said. The expressman believes the train was going about 25 miles an hour. The express car was on the second track, its trucks tom off, and was lying at a 30-degree angle. The contents of The baggage and express car were scattered about and suffered considerable damage. Tho mail car stood crosswise of the second track. Two day coaches were between the main and second track, while the Pullman car had split the switch, one set of trucks covering the switch. Tower Knocked Over The rails were twisted and in all directions. A water and signal tower w r ere knocked over by the tender. Engineer Ryan said he put on the air brake before any car other than the tender had been derailed. The train was stopped within Its own lngth. C. G. Slagle,' master mechanic, and Harry Earl, general foreman of the C., I. & W. Railroad, reached the scene promptly. Slagle refused to make any statement as to the cause of the wreck. Earl said It seemed to be due to a split switch. Brakeman John Pershbauer, Butlerville. Ind., said he believed a bolt had popped out of the switch. Thorough Investigation of the switch cannot be made until the Pullman car Is moved. The engine cab struck the signal tower at the window where the fireman usually sit while ringing the bell. He happened to be down In the cab when the crash came. The engineer said the crew would undoubtedly have been killed had the engine jumped the track. He said it would have crashed into a Panhandle locomotive standing ten feet from wnere the C., I. & W. engine stopped The wrecking crew was clearing the track this afternoon and the tender had been righted. Damage to equipment will amount to $25,000, said A. P. Donadio, a C., I. & W. official. Section hands had left the place where the tender Jumped off the track and would have been swept along with It had they been standing there, witnesses said. Stewart Donnelly Appeals Stewart Donnelly, 1211 College Ave.. ex-pugillst, convicted twice In Criminal Court in four months on charges of bootlegging, today appealed the second sentence, sixty days on the Indiana State Farm and S2OO fine, given last week by Judge James A. Collins, to the Supreme Court. Bond is $2,000.

native to foreign countries. It does not give the impression that, after all, society means the fading away of personalities, the erasure of character and individuality of peoples. On the other, hand, unlike most large cities, it preserves a natural flavor, born of the fact that persons do not seem to lose their identities in its hum of activity. The Hoosier city teems with commercial ,and intellectual life, yet, unlike the huge population centers of our country, the individual Is a living, separate entity in that life—not overwhelmed by a flood of humanity which makes of New York, for instance, a see* i ing trass of tiny midges •■* *

Step Up, If You Are Double of Norma! , Times Will Give SIOO Watch in Contest

Circle Theater Joins in Hunt for Girl Resembling Film Favorite,

Yell 110 is the Indianapolis W double of Norma Talj madge ? Look at the accompanying i pictures of the famous First I National movie star and see if ! you Took like Norma, provided. I of course, you belong to the femj nine division. The Indianapolis Times and ; the Circle Theater herewith I begin a whirlwind quest for the | Indianapolis double of Norma. Miss Talmadge will give a I wrist watch, valued at SIOO, to the entrant who is chosen as the winner. There will be three judges. The film star, in a telegram, says the watch must be purchased at one of the leading jewelry shops in this*city. Any girl or woman who lives in Indianapolis or Marion County may be entered. Three judges will make the award after judging photographs of the entrants. Send your picture with name, address and occupation to the Norma Talmadge Quest Editor of The Indianapolis Times. All pictures will be returned. .Search lor Norma's double is timely, as her big costume photoplay, “Ashes of Vengeance,” will open an engagement at the Circle Oct. 14. Miss Talmadge is considered a “universal type.” It often is remarlied in a theater where her pictures are being exhibited that “Miss So and So looks like Norma.” Hundreds of photos will be entered in The Times quest. The ’ thing to do is to enter at once. Judges will be three representative citizens of Indianapolis. Help find the Indianapolis double of Norma Talmadge. GIRL, THROWN FROM • AUTO, IS NEAR DEATH Telephone Operator Found on Cincinnati Street with Fractured Skull By United Prcit CINCINNATI, Oct. 3.—Thrown from an automobile, suffering fracture of skull, fractures of both lege and fracture of nose, Marcella Sanborn, 20, telephone operator, of Chicago, waa In a dying condition early today. CITY REPAIRS TO BOARD Improvement of City Hall, Market and Auditorium Considered The board of works considered a new roof for the city hall and repairs at Tomlinson Hall and city market at a special meeting today. No action will be taken until engineers investigate. Rains this summer caused heavy loss In the upper city hall floors. Board members say the present checkered copper roof without expansion joints has proved Impractical. A strip copper roof is considered. Fined 8200 on Booze Charge Sam Bayoi, 424 W. Maryland St., waa fined S2OO and costs In city court today on blind tiger charges.

and excitable, in which individuals or personalities cannot be recognized. George Ade once said, in a characteristically droll moment, “Indianapolis is the place where people water their lawns.” I might add that it is the place where people do a hundred other things left undone in other elites. The beauty of Indianapolis, the comfort of its well-kept streets, parks, and residences, the wholesomeness of its whole civic atmosphere is an intense experience to me w*. has liv3d in village and

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1923

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Volunteer women motorists are needed by the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross for service in connection with the campaign of the Community Fund. There will be no compulsory service, and calls upon Individual motorists will be infrequent. Women who drive are urged to send their names, addresses, telephone numbers and car capacity to motor service division. Red Cross. 409 Chamber of Commerce Bldg.

AW AND IVY FLIERS DUST OFF Speedsters of Air Prepare for St, Louis Races, By f nitrd Prms ST. LOUIS FLYING FIELD. Bridgeton, Mo., Oct. 3^—Army and Navy air speedsters warmed up their racing plane today over the thirty-one-mile course on which the international air races will be staged tomorrow, Friday end Saturday. The first race tomorrow, the flying club of St. Louis trophy, at 11 a. m . is a race of 150 kilometers, three times around the course of thirty-one miles for two-seated airplanes of ninety horsepower or less, driven by civilian pilots. At 12:30 members cf the First Army Pursuit Squad will compete in the 200-kilometer race for a trophy offered by Brig. William Mitchell in memory of his brother, killed in air service overseas. One Navy, one Marine and thirteen Army planes are entered In the 300kilometer speed and endurance race for 2 p. m. Thursday for observation planes. Two Reported Missing Orville Scott, 13, of 9111 E. TwentyFirst St., light hair, blue eyes, wearing a light suit and cap, was reported missing from his home today. Police also were notified Elmer Sturgeon, 56, of 1124 N. Jefferson Avc., wearing blue trousers, green sweater, checkered shirt and a black hat, Is missing from his home. Hand leaves for Convention \ Forty-five members of the Police and Firemens’ Band, with other city officials, left today on a special interurban for South Bend for the State firemens’ convention. The band will participate in a parade and concert late today, returning to Indianapolis tonight. Fire Chief John J. O’Brien is representing the local department.

“Why I like Indianapolis,” was best “told in the. contest during State fair week by Mrs. Kenneth P. Triggs, Huntington, Ind., it was announced today. She won SSO. The Chamber of Commerce, Hoosier Motor Club and Advertising Club conducted the contest, which was open to Hoosiers living outside of Indianapolis. Miss Kathryn Zapp, R. R. 6, Madison, Ind., won second prize, $25; Mrs. John W. Spindler, R. R. 3, Grabill, Ind., third, sls, and John H. Jollies, Rockville, Ind., fourth, $lO.

whose activities are for the welfare of Indianapolis seem always to be working overtime. And what is i ' ” -■•* '•i'an' - o’' 0 ’' rr-nj-

NORMA TALMADGE AS SHE APPEARS OUTSIDE STUDIO.

PRISON GUARD SLAIN BY ARMED CONVICTS ‘Blue Steel 1 Automatics Used by Men in Unsuccessful At- * tempt to Escape, By United Prett KENTUCKY, STATE PRISON, EDDYVILLE, Ky., Oct. 3. Barricaded behind prison dining-room doors, following slaying of one guard and wounding of three others in an unsuccessful dash for freedom, three convicts held guards at hay this afternoon. The convicts, armed with blue steel automatics, attacked the guards at 7:30 a. m. Hodge Cunningham, guard, was slain by the first volley of shots and Will Gilbert, E. B. Mattingly and Will Gillham, guards, were wounded.

At the first outbreak the prison was thrown Into uproar. Guards raced to the aid of their fellows and the three convicts fortified themselves in the dining room, keeping up a steady fire on the baffled guards. All attempts to dislodge them failed and guards surrounded the room, keeping a close watch on doors. Warden Chilton kept his men from attacking that no more blood should bo shed. Other prisoners listened to the shouts and barking of guns, making no attempt to escape. The three besieged convicts were ell sentenced for murder, according to the WR.'den. They are: Monte Walters, Louisville, lifer. Lawrence Griffith, Mayfield, lifer. Henry Serland, Newport, serving sixteen-year sentence. Guns were smuggled irf by pals on the outside, was the theory of the warden. RETREAT BETTER PART OF VALOR, DANCER THINKS Chicago Man Takes Chance of Bullet Rather Than “Red-head” Girl. By United Presti CHICAGO. Oct. 3 Rather than dance with a tltian-thatched wallflower, Philip Laßose took a chance on being shot. Laßose was dancing with a brunette Tuesday night when Mrs. Josie Caccavalo, proprietress, pistol In hand, said: dance with that red head or I’u kill you.” He took one look at the girl and jumped through a window. SAYS HE WAS NOT TARGET Councilman Bemd Assert* Ray Did Not Throw Tickets at Him. Councilman Theodore Bernd today denied that Councilman Otto Ray tore up four tickets to a boxing show and threw them in his face Monday night in an anteroom just before the council meeting. Tickets were thrown on the floor, Bernd said. Ray has been dissatisfied, it is said, with the manner in which Bernd as chairman had been conducting the city boxing commission.

ects calculated to lift the lives of the citizens into something of a better standard of liAing—and they nch*ev th*' ' T’-e 5 - n-

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ZR-I COMPLETES 1,100-JLE FLIGHT Dirigible Makes Trip From St. Louis in 21 Hours. By Untied Preet LAKEHURST. N. J„ Oct. 3 —The naval dirigible 2R-1 arrived at 6:48 a. in. from St. Louis. The ground crew landed the airship. She made the trip in twenty-one hours. The air cruiser was sighted from the hangar at 6:08 a. m. The dirigible made sixty knots ox*er Pennsylvania, Commander McCrary said. Rear Admiral Moffatt. chief of the naval bureau of aeronautics boarded the ship in St. Louis and made the return trip, with a rear admiral’s flag hoisted and fluttering in the breeze for the first time In history on such a craft. The naval dirigible made the 1,100 miles between Lakehurst and St. Louis in twenty-two hours and the return trip in one minute more than twenty-one hours. WOMAN GETS 1-8 YEARS Mrs. Ruth Burton, Colored, Convicted of Arson Charge Her six year old daughter filled the Criminal Court room with screams and Mrs. Ruth Burton, 27, of 1123 N. MlssourlSt., colored, shrieking her Innocence, was taken to jail today to await commitment to the Indiana Women's Prison for one to eight yearn. She was found guilty of arson, Judge James A. Collins hearing evidence that Mrs. Burton set fire to the house of Kittle Minter, 2157 Boulevard PI., after a family quarrel.

thusiasm is not exhausted in empty movements. There is constant concrete evidence of civic societies adding to the pleasure of Hie as a painter applies the warmer colors with his brush. Foreigners talk of the “killing speed” of American activity. There is more than a grain of truth in that observation. Yet to me, Indianapolis represents an oasis in a desert in this respect. In a city of 360,000 where there is a John Herron Art Institute, a Little Theater, a Stuart Walker, there need be no alarm for the hearts and the min* 1 - of P~ r-v-p’r

President Coolidge Urged to Visit Hoosier State in Interest of Party—Executive Denies Knowledge of McCray Affair, WATSON AND NEW ARE ASKED TO DECLARE PEACE Leaders Gloomy Over Outlook for 1924 Campaign as Result of Discord and Strife Among Local Factions, / By LAWRENCE MARTIN Copyright, 1923, by United Prett) WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—The political tempest in Indiana caused by Governor Warren T. McCray's financial troubles today w r as made occasion of a warning from President Coolidge to those who would draw him into local or State political squabbles that he wants to be let alone to do his work. The “highest authority” at the White House, through whom statements on behalf of the administration are made, said, with more than usual emphasis, Mr. Coolidgp had taken no hand in the Indiana party situation, would take no hand in it and would have nothing to do in situations in States where his influence in behalf of one facton of his party has been sought.

Statement of John Moorman, McCray’s adviser, in Indian-ipolis, that meeting of the Republican State committee to discuss McCray’s affairs had been ordered by Coolidge, was declared to be utterly without foundation, tails for No Interference It was stated Mr. Coolidge knew nothing of the McCray muter; that ithad not been brought to his attention. except possibliy “in a casual way,” and that it “certainly called for no Interference by the executive.” While Mr. Coolidge disavowed meddling in a State situation, other Repubilcan party leaders were full of gloom about Indiana. Even though the leaders of his party, Including Postmaster General New and Senator Whtson, have washed their hands of McCray, and virtually thrown him overboard, his troubles coming on top of the Republican defeat in the last senatorial election have caused fears Indiana is lo3t to the Republicans in 1924. Urged to Visit Indiana President Coolidge will be put under pressure In this regard. He will be told by influential party men. some of them said frankly today, he has got to get out and save Indiana to the party. As the expected nominee for 1924, that job will be up to him, his lieutenants argue. He will be strongly urged to make personal ape pearance in the State. Furthermore, they will read the riot act t<f* Senator Watson and exSenator New, between wTiose followers there Is an old sued. Party leaders here will demand that New and Watson get together for the party’s good and forget old scores. DAWES SAYS BRANCH BANKS MENACE RESERVE Daugherty Rules National Institutions Cannot Conduct Subsidiaries. By United Prat WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 Attorney General Daugherty has ruled national banks cannot conduct branch banks. Controller Dawes told the congressional committee Investigating banking today. Dawes declared branch banking has grown so in some States “it threatens the balance of the Federal reserve system” and unless It is is curbed It will constitute a serious i lenace to the reserve plan. ‘MONKEYIN' ’ IS LUXURY Pair Assessed Assault and Battery Fine by Judge Bonifleld. “We were just monkeyin’ ” was the plea of Theodore Barnaby, 330 Patterson St., and Christie Thorpe, 334 Beauty Ave., when arraigned before Judge Pro Tern Bonifield today, on an assault and battery charge. The monkey business will cost each of you $1 and costs,” replied the judge. The men were arrested In a “dry beer" saloon at Tenth St. and Indiana Ave., Sept. 24. DEATH IS ACCIDENTAL Carlisle Farmer Dies When Gun in Hay Is Discharged. By Timet Special CARLISLE, Ind., Oct. 3.—A verdict of death by accidental shooting has been returned by I. N. Botts, Sullivan County coroner. In the death of James McConnell on his farm three miles south of here, A shotgun McConnell had placed on hay In the truck he was driving Is believed to have been accidentally discharged by jolting. He Is survived bv three sons. Wallace, Bailey and Edward McConnell: a daughter, Mrs. Raymond Roberts, and the widow.

"Real” people live in Indiajiapolis, too. Something in the list of its older residents makes it lift its head in a wholesome pride and dignity. Indianapolis is cultured, repressing those gross banalities of sophistication in fa\ r or of fundamental wholesomeness. And yet it Is not sentimental—lt has outgrown that Main Street stage of life. And with the aforementioned culture—grace and courtesy. The Advertising Club of Indianapolis is settling on fundamentals in lta advocacy of a slogan: “Indianapolis, the City Courteous.” I would like sometime to "nothe" “Voire of the O.

Forecast FAIR tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature.

TWO CENTS

iY STATEMENT IS FACT,’ MOORMAN REPLIESTOCRITICS Friend of Governor Stands by Story of Committee Session, “I have nothing to add to or detract from my statements,” John Moorman, of Knox, friend of Governor McCray, said today in commenting on the statement of James P. Goodrich, former Governor, issued in reply to a statement by Moorman that the recent meeting of the Republican State committee to discuss McCray’s financial affairs waa called at the instigation of President Coolidge. “I think I have stated tae absolute facts. Os course, I co :ld not undertake to prove them in t court of law. Nevertheless, I believe them to be facts.” Governor McCray denied responsibility for the Moorman statement. The statement prompted a stinging reply from Ex-Governor James P. Goodrich, president of the National City Bank. "I am not responsible In any way for Mr. Moorman’s statement,” Governor McCray said. “It was made Without my knowledge.” Moorman declared the committee meeting was ordered by the President on representation of Goodrich that McCray’s failure as a farmer would hamper the Republican party in ob tainlng the farmer vote. He said Goodrich made the President familiar with the situation at a luncheon at the White House. He pointed to the attendance of Postmaster General Harry S. New at the meeting as proof that the affair was being directed from Washington. “The statement of Mr. Moorman Is absolutely false and there Is not the slightest foundation for it,” Goodrich said. “The President never at any (Continued on Page 11) DETECTIVES IN DILEMMA Witnesses Refuse to Identify Suspects in Window-Smashing Case. Detectives working on window smashing cases were balked today when suspects refused to talk and witnesses refused to Identify suspects. Ralph Reynolds, 21, Pat Hickey, 51. both of 808 Arbor Ave., and Raymond Reynolds, 21, of 1120 W. Ray St., were arrested Tuesday on vagrancy charges and are held for Investigation.

PRIDE OF POSSESSION A place to call home is one of the greatest possessions a man can hare, especially If It Is his own. There la a sense of security -and satisfaction In home ownership that can never be fully appreciated until after you have taken the step. Why wait lonspr? Make the first move now. Consult the real estate ads listed in the Classified Columns of The Indianapolis Times.

Henry did. I would not have Indianapolis silent, as the city In O. Henry. I wviuld have It with • voice soft and cool, temper'4 by the winds of the world, without tragedy, without frivolity, breathing the dignity of its past, pride in. its present and assurance for its future I would have it say: “This is n# mean city. We do not shout out achievements to the world. Rathsp do we wait, assured that the worjfl will come to us. Our name is our mind is open, our heart is clean; our spirit Is the modern spirit, fre* upward-striving, self-renewing. Thls •io "lean city.” I