Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 125

M’CRAY WITNESSES SHIELDED

Special Prosecutor Asks Public to Volunteer Information

ATTEMPT TO ROUT CONVICTS IS POSTPONED

NEW SMOKE RULE REVISION READY FOR CHAMBER 0. K. Walter W. Wise's Plan Gives Power to Building Commissioner. The revised smoke abatement ordinance written by Councilman Walter O. Wise was under consideration today by Charles M. Wells, head of the Chamber of Commerce civic affairs department, and Edward O. Snethen, chairman of the smoke abatement committee. Enforcement of the new ordinance is put entirely into the hands of the commissioner of buildings. The technical and advisory committees, provided Vy the original ordinances, have teen eliminated. Clause permitting of smoke six minutes an hour is retained. Between the hours of 4 a. m. and 7 a. m. the ordinance will not be in effect. This is to permit manufacturers to fire furnaces. Penalty of $25 is provided. The other ordinance provided from $1 to SSOO. An umberscope, consisting of several thicknesses of glass, is designated as a means of determining smoke density. According to Wells, the revised ordinance is modeled after that in effect in Philadelphia, Pa. He said the ordinance there has been found workable and has resulted in many convictions. Wise recently visited Philadelphia. The citizens’ commltte appointed bv Snethen to work witn councilmen in drafting anew ordinance will meet the first of next week to consider Wise’s bill. A meeting of the citizens’ committee and councilmen will be held Thursday in Wise’s office. The ordinance will be presented to the council Oct. 15

TRACE OBTAINED OF JOYNER MOVES Muncie Doctor Tells of Knowing Him Last Spring, Further trace of the movements of Milton Joyner, alias Rex Forsythe, ■whom detectives have questioned in their Investigation of the $41,000 securities robbery of the Indiana National Bank here, was obtained today by the United Press from Dr. George S. Mackay, Muncie, Ind. Dr. Mackay is in no way involved In the affair, police say. He said the man, under the name of Rex Forsythe, came to him in Muncie last spring and borrowed SI,OOO. which he has not repaid. He said he took Forsythe into his home, but upon hearing rumors he was a bootlegger last June, ordered him out. Forsythe is held at Wilmington, O’., as a suspect in a $15,000 bank robt>ery there. STOP SIGNS PROTESTED Rikhoff Would Have All Main Streets Protected. Councilman Walter W. Wise, In a letter to Police Chief Rikhoff today said stop signs on Washington Blvd., north of Thirtieth St., were unauthorized, the clause including "Washington Blvd. in stop sign ordinances being stricken out. _ Rikhoff said the signs on the streets were not yet worn off and that officers knew of the situation. He says had he the power he would have all main thoroughfares protected by stop signs.

MEREDITH NICHOLSON OPENS RILEY MEMORY STOREHOUSE

L 111 J7.TH friendship at the wheel, |\ly I Meredith Nicholson, IndianI TT } apolis novelist, took a trip into' the Land of Memory today to bring back to the city that loved him James Whitcomb Riley. Nicholson is one of the many to whom the ppet was “Jim” Riley, whimsical, lovable, companionable. As Sunday, the seventieth anniversary of Riley’s birth, nears, they skip over the years since he died to the years when his presence brightened his home in Lockerbie St. “His companionship—that’s what those of us who knew and loved him best like to remember," Nicholson said today. “He was not a loud laugher. He could not be forced When he was not In a talkative mood. His whimsical humor was his great attraction.”

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ME band or rum runners (J mourns the wreck of an autoA' mobile today. They ought to, after viewing “the remains’’ above. Deputy Sheriff Roland Snider and George Riddle chased their car from Bridgeport to a culvert near Eagle Creek at sixty-five miles an hour through the mist Thursday right. Riddle fired through the gasoline tank. A curve at the culvert was too much for the rum runners. When ttte deputies caught up the bootleggers were gone, but their car hung over the culvert, about to drop. Sixteen five-gal-lon cans were found, with twenty four gallons of grain alcohol In them. Police emergency squad captured

LLOYD GEORGE IS WELCOMED TO U. S. New York Presents Vast Carnival Scene as Thousands Cheer British Statesman on Arrival.

By LAWRENCE MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. p Lloyd George, Britain’s war premier, landed at the Battery at 11:50 a. m., today. A vast crowd which Jammed the big square and filled the streets leading Into It, greeted the statesman with a roar of cheers as he left the police

200 TONS OF COAL SPILLED IN WRECK Five Cars Jump Track Near Maywood Junction. Two hundred tons of coal were scattered along the Vandalia Railroad, a half mile west of the Maywood Junction today, when five loaded cars jumped the track and turned over. Several thousand dollars damage was done. A. C. Thomas. 1426 E. Ohio St., conductor; R. E. Crone, 91V4 E. Fifteenth St.; Herman Cleveland, brakemen; >V. E. J. McAllen, 267 N. Randolph St., engineer, and Claude Crawford of Indianapolis, fireman, escaped uninjured. According to the crew, the train was going about fifteen miles an hour. Two other cars left the track but did not capsize. Cause is not knowm. The wreck was cleared In time to prevent a tie-up of traffic. NEW SIGNAL IS PLANNED Meridian and Kail Creek “Silent Cop” Goes to Another Corner. Work on anew automatic “stop” and “go” signal for use at Meridian St. and Fall Creek Blvd., has Deen started by the city electrical department. The present signal has proved satisfactory, but will be moved to another dangerous corner. City officials have indorsed the signal designed by John Barry, city electrician. It has a vantages over commercial signals on the market. The safety board Is considering installing a number of similar signals.

The novelist dug Into the memories of ten, fifteen years ago, when he and "Jim” used to drive together almost daily. “He loved to drive,” Nicholson went on. “He used to do most of his writing at night, so he had all day to be with people. He would keep the first draft of a poem with him and revamp it from time to time. “He was not strong for showing his poems before they were printed.

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Eowarri Dale. 544 S. Illinois St., near Warman Ave. and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Deputy Snider said Dale’s clothes were saturated with whisky. Meanwhile Sheriff George Snider and Deputy Howard Wilcox sighted a small car, loaded to the top, near the Hendricks County line. In the chase toward the city the sheriff went into the ditch and the rum runners escaped. To wind up a wild night the sheriff got his car going again and chased another bootlegger until he his car near the west county line,’ leaving sixty gallons of white mule behind.

boat Macon and entered an automobile for the ride to city hall. Hundreds of American and British flags were waved. From the skyscrapers, long steamers of ticket-tape were strewn, giving a carnival aspect to the scene. Officers Form Escort Ranks of policemen stood stiffly at attention as Lloyd George landed. Moimted officers formed an escort for the distinguished visitor. Motorcycles roared as the outriders rolled their machines into line. The brisk music of ,a police band aboard the Macon was drowned by the noise of the crowd. The approach of the Macon was heralded by the whistles of harbor craft and the other steamers, tooting a welcome. Passing the Statue of Liberty, the Macon saluted with three long blasts of Its whistle. A few minutes later the Macon swung in alongside Pier A, where the distinguished visitors have landed for scores of years. Eyes Twinkle. He smiled broadly and his eyes twinkled as he stepped across the gang plank. When he stepped Into view of the crowd a tremendous cheer went up. Lloyd George stood for a moment, gazing almost in awe at the spectacle afforded by the great square walled With the towering buildings and cheering men and women. Then he flourished his silk hat and stepped into his automobile. With him were his wife and daughter, Meegan. As the procession started up the canyon of towering skyscrapers the (Continued on Page 15) Loss in Church Fire $230 Sparks started a fire which destroyed one-fourth of the roof of the gymnasium at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Nineteenth and Alabama Sts., today. Loss, $250; covered by Insurance.

I remember one morning, though, when he showed me a poem he haul written the night before. It was ‘The Poet of the Future,’ one of the best of his serious works. He was very happy that morning.” Memory reminded Nicholson of a strong, superstitious strain which ran through the poet’s nature, in keeping with his whimsicality: “While I was In Denver one time, a sign was blown onto my foot, by a wind storm, and I was laid up for

A few of the writers who will cover the Giants-Yankees games for this paper are: HENRY FARRELL, sports editor of the United Press; who will give the play by play account; TOM SIMS, snappy humorist; BERTON BRALEY, who writes in rhyme; WESTBROOK PEGLER, funny fellow, whose reputation is national; BILLY EVANS, noted umpire. The United Press, United News, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, with its corps of trained men and photographers, will be thaje from the time of “Play Ball” until the championship is decided.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 5, 1923

Three Slayers at Kentucky State Prison Hold Soldiers at Bay. Bu United Press EDDYVILLE, Ky., Oct. 5. All action in an effort to dislodge the convict murderers barricaded in the State prison mess hall has been postponed until 5:30 p. m., Captain Radford, commander, Company C, Kentucky national guard, announced. Another national guard unit was ordered to reinforce the small army. At least one of the prisnoers who kilted three guards and wounded another in attempt to shoot their way to liberty Wednesday is still alive. The two-story mess hall into which tho three convicts fled after their battle Wednesday with prison guards, is crumbling. Machine gun and rifle fire have made three breaches in the brick walls. The convicts are barricaded on the upper floor. Members of attacking force during the night entered the ground floor of the building. Several tear bombs were hurled up the stairway, but a strong wind ,blew the fumes back and they were Ineffectual. Tho beleaguered convicts are Monte Walters, Lawrence Griffith and Harry Forland. Hodge Cunningham, a guard, was killed initantly during the first outbreak shortly after breakfast Wednesday. E. B. Mattlngley and Will Gilbert, guards, were wounded find died later. Will Gllham, another wounded guard, will recover.

Reinforced! The power of a uniform was caUed on today to dislodge a 2 or 2-year-old boy who defied Junior traffic officers at school No. 9, while he played In Vermont and Fulton Sts., bordering the school. Trafficmen Paul and Owens were sent to tell the boy’s mother to keep him at home. When schoolboy officers tried to keep th edeflant lad out of the streets, where he had been playing for several days, he refused to give his address, and struck one of the boys.

BRUM FROST STARTS BARRAGE Temperature Near Freezing Is Predicted, HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 3710 a. m El 7 a. m 39 11 a. m 62 8 a. m 43 12 (noon) 63 9 a. m 50 1 p. m 64 Wrap up your potted plants, cover up the pet shrubbery and get ready for the heaviest frost of the season to date. That’s the advice of J. H. Armington, weather bureau meteorologist, today. Temperature not far above the freezing point may be expected with heavy frest. Thursday night a temperature was recorded of 37 degrees above zero, low mark for fall. A light frost was noted. Angola was the first city in the State to report freezing weather, with a temperature of 31 degrees. POLICE DOG IS STOLEN Guardian at Home Fails to Live Up to Tradition. A Belgian police dog valued at SIOO •was stolen from the home of Oscar Haug, 519 E. Thirty-First St., according to police.

some time. After I returned to Indianapolis I met Riley one day down in Washington St. As we stood talking, he pulled on anew pair of gloves. “ ‘The jinx Is after you, Isn’t It?’ Jim asked. ” ‘Oh, I’m all right now,’ I replied. Just then a brick, from a building being repaired above us, fell between us. “Jim looked up. 'They’re after

Norma’s Double to Receive SIOO Cash as Honor Award

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HTTIORMA TaLMADGE today inIpj I structed The Times to anL* 1 1 nounce that SIOO In cash will he given to the Indianapolis woman who Is declared to be the film favorite’s double. A SIOO wrist watch was first announced as the winning trophy, but the star has decided to permit the winner to spend the money In her own way. “Miss Talmadge feels many women have beautiful wrist watches and that it would be best to permit her double to buy her own gift,” Ace Barry, manager of the Circle, said. Miss Talmadge in "Ashes of Vengeance,” Is coming to the Circle. Several younger women of the city have expressed the wish that If they were winners they could use

POISON FOUND IN BODY OF HEIRESS Probe Into Mysterious Death of Woman Reveals Mercury In Vital Organs—Doctor Before Jury,

By United Press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Oct B.— “I was given blue tablets.” These last words of Mrs. Gertie Gorman; Webb, uttered shortly before she died of a mysterious malady will be placed before the White Plains grand Jury investigating her death. Dr. William J. Meyer, who attended Mrs. Webb is ready to go before the grand Jury Monday and repeat the death-bed conversation. The report of Dr. Gettler, toxicologist who examined Mrs. Webb’s vital organs for poison reported discovery of mercury in the liver, brain and kidneys. Dr. Gettler’s report has been placed before District Attorney Rowland of Westchester County.

both of us now,’ h© said gloomily. "He continued to pull on his gloves, a pair sent by a friend from England. ” ‘Yes, they’re after me, too,’ he said, glancing down at the gloves. Both of them were for the left hand. "Another time, I took Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son of Charles Dickens, to see Riley, while Dickens was in Indianapolis to speak at a teachers’ convention. Jim was much impressed with the idea that Charles

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a hundred in cash better than a wrist watch for paying their expenses through college. Miss Talmadge was communicated with and decided to make the winning prize (100 in cash Instead of a watch. Interest In the contest Is growing hourly. Among the new contestants is Rosalind Hammond, Forty-Second St. and Sutherland Ave. Many of her friends feel she is the living double of Miss Talmadge. Every girl and woman in Indianapolis and Marion County is eligible. Three representative Indianapolis citizens will judge the photographs submitted. Send your picture to the Norma Talmadge Contest Editor of The Times.

Dr. Meyer has already testified before Jhe grand Jury and is expected to appear again next Monday. Relatives and friends of the dead woman discuss, placing the case In the hands of Attorney General Sherman. Relatives also made plans to contest Mrs.-Webb’s will, which leaves everything to her husband, Charles Webb. Dr. Meyer told a dramatic story of the dying woman’s last moments. Two Get Finos and Sentences John Price, 552 E. Court St., and Albert Nash, 627 E. Wabash St., were fined SIOO and costs by Judge Collins in Criminal Court today on blind tiger oharges. Price was sentenced to thirty days in Jail, and Nash six months on the Indiana State Farm.

Dlokens* son should visit Indianapolis. “Two days later, In New York, Dickens died. On his desk was found a letter, addressed to me. It was sent on without being opened. “When I received it Jim was awed. 'Think of receiving a letter from a dead man!’ he said.” Nicholson showed why Riley, although he wrote in the Hoosler dialect, was beloved everywhere “He used to say,” explained the

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Police Patrol Third Floor of Courthouse, Keeping AH Who Do Not Have Business With Grand Jury Away From Room, DETECTIVE ASSIGNED TO WATCH NEWSPAPER MEN Judge Collins Tells Investigating Body to Inquire Into Any Criminal Action Within Jurisdiction —Utmost Secrecy Observed. ~ Evidence concerning Governor McCray’s financial activities was invited today by Charles W. Moores, special prosecutor, as bte Marion County grand jury started its investigation into the Governor’s affairs. The invitation was in the form of a statement to the press. Unusual precautions were taken to keep the evidence being heard by the jury secret. Policemen patroled the third floor of the Court House, where the investigation was being conducted. The entire west.half of the floor was shut off to all except wit-

nesses and court attaches. Worley Watches Reporters Claude M. Worley, special investigator for the Criminal Court continually watched newspaper men, flowing them as they moved around the building. "Witnesses were Instructed not to talk to reporters and not to give their names. When the jurors left the building they left singly*and In pairs, thus avoiding waiting photographers. So far as could be learned, four persons, other than Jurors and court officers, left the grand Jury room at noon. These Included H. L. Sammons, Kentland attorney, who has been proseouting suits against Governor McCray, and E. E Blackburn, president of the Marion National Bank. The otherds could not be identified. Gus S. Condon, Marion attorney, who asked the grand jury investigation, paced the floor below the grand jury rooms. Moores said in his statement: Presumed Not Guilty “This is a grand Jury Investigation only. Every person charged in court with wrong-doing Is entitled under our constitution to ‘due process of law,' and also to the presumption that he is not guilty until the contrary has been esablished. “Due process of law means that in matters involving violation of law the Courts ‘proceed upon inquiry.’ The grand Jury is organized to conduct suck an inquiry. “It will entertain any Information that tends to support the charge that any laws were violated by Mr. McCray in Marion County, Indiana- It will also hear any competent evidence which tends to explain or answer the charges which may be made. Evidence in Writing "Evidence material to the subject matter of this Inquiry is invited by the grand Jury and should be submitted to the special prosecutor, preferably in writing. Before the jury went into session Judge Collins called the members into his courtroom and read them Instructions covering their duties, and an explanation of why Moores was appointed special prosecutor. Moores will conduot the investigation In place of Prosecutor Wiliam P. Evans, who is a son-in-law of Governor McCray. It was not indicated whether the investigation will include an Inquiry into the handling of State funds. Instructions by Judge Collins: "It is the duty of the court to charge you as provided by law when you are Impanelled, and in such charge Instruct you to your duty, and it Is the further duty of -.he court to give you additional Instructions during the term and to give you such in(Continued on Page 15) WOMEN TO GRAND JURY Nellie Moon Bound Over on Grand Larcey Charge. Miss Nellie Moon, 20, of 596 S. Marlon Ave., was held to grand jury under SI,OOO bond on a charge of grand larceny in city court today. Miss Ha Leonard, 20, and Miss Beulah Danforth, 18, of 723 E. SixtyThird SC, and Detta Schaler, 18, of 326 E. Henry St., held on a charge of receiving stolen goods. The four were arrested when, it is alleged, merchandise valued at $304.41 was stolen from the Pettis Dry Goods Company, for whom Miss Moon worked.

novelist, “that you must hit the universal appeal—that what you wrote about the Indiana farmer must be understood In California and New England.” Nicholson was to tell of his friendship with Riley, at a Riley Day program at James Whitcomb Riley School No. 43, Capitol Ave. and Fortieth St., this afternoon. The program Included Riley readings by Harvey Hale c 2 the Nature Study Club and Riley poems and songs, by pupils.

Forecast FAIR, continued cool tonight and Saturday. Frost tonight, probably heavy.

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Hug and Mac Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. s.—Miller Huggins, Yankee manager, considers th teams have equal chances to win the series. “The Giants can do some things better than we can do and we can do some things better than the Giants. It looks to me like an even bet,” he said today. McGraw also expresses the opinion that chances are abcut even as far ae paper form is concerned. Most fans figure like Connie Mack, that the "breaks” in a short series are all-im-portant. '

NAVY FLIERS TRY TO WINHONORS .Hope to Even Score With Army in St. Louis Races. By United Frees ST. LOUIS FLYING FIELD, BRIDGETON, Mo., Oct. 5. —The Navy, with colors drooling today, went Into another contest with the Army in the air raoes, determined to even the score before the Pulitzer speed classic Saturday. Lieutenants Schurr and Reber, driving 520 horse power Navy planes, took the field against eight Army fliers, four of them piloting huge Martin bombing planes, each with two 400 horse power Liberty motors. At 11 a. m. nine civilian pilots driving planes of 200 horse power, took the air in the Aviation Country Club of Detroit trophy race, 250 kilometers, POSTAL MEN PfIOMOTED Twenty Substitutes Given Regular Standing. Substitute Mail Carriers Edgar F, Floyd, George H. Harmon and Samuel A. Staaper were promoted to regular standing today. These substitute pcptoffic© clerks were made regulars: Henry P. Maloney, Julius F. Carteaux, Hubert H. Ogden, Frank D. Stump, Grafton Anderson, Hester White, Robert F. Wilson, Henry Schmidt, Philip O. Smith, Samuel C. Cottlngham, Clyde Epera, Vernon. C. Fairbum, John T. Bertsch, Charles H. Mosley, Ruel C. Davenport, Herahel G. Brawner, Joseph P. Ford, HOOSIER, 104, IS DEAD Five of His Twelve Children More Than 60 Tears Old. By Times Special SALEM, Ind., Oct. 5. —Henry Fleenor, 104, died at the home of his son, Emory Fleenor, near here. Five of his family of twelve children are mor* than 60 years old. Surviving are thirty-eight grandchildren and sev-enty-eight great-grandchildren.

Other schoou will have Riley programs Monday. A wreath will be placed on the Riley grave In Crown Hill cemetery Sunday afternoon, James W. Carr, executive secretary of the Riley Memorial Association, announced. •The former home of the poet, in Lockerbie St., and the site of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for Children will be open to the public Sunday. The children’s ward of the Robert W. Long Hoapital will be open from 2 to 4 p. m., so visitors may see the sort of work that will be done In the Memorial Hospital. Miss Emma Colbery. of the faeulty of the Indianapolis Teacher** Cc liege, will give a Riley program at the AJtruea Club luncheon Saturday at the Lincoln.