Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 135, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1923 — Page 2

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‘PROHIBITION CANNOT BE ENFORCED UNDER VOLSTEAD ACT’

EDWARD C. TONER TOSSES HAT INTO G. 0. ESTATE RING Blue, Sky Law Changes and 5 Lower Utility Rates Are Advocated. Edwrd C. Toner, Anderson, today threw his hat in the ring as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Governor. He is the first •candidate to make a formal announcement. Toner, who is editor of the Anderson Herald, was a candidate in 1920 and was defeated for the nomination by Governor McCray. He was formerly Progressive State chairman. In his announcement. Toner advo'cated strengthening the “blue sky’’ law. “A ‘blue sky’ law that doesn’t accomplish what it professes to accomplish is worse than no law of the kind,’*' he said. “The present law, however, can be amended and can b made efficient. In discussing tales and utility rates, he said: * “I want to lower taxes in Indiana and I want to help lower utility rates in Indiana. I beliveve r I can do both. At any rate, my unremitting effort during the four years of the administration would be along these lines.” “Strict Economy,” Is Promised He said his,method of tax reduction would be the “strictest economy” in Government and a partial "letting up” of road improvements. He advocated the assessment of personal propertyjat its full value, the same as land is assessed. He said this would aid the farmers. “I favor strongly law enforcement and I favor the rigid enforcement of law against men in high position as well as against men In low estate,” he said. “The safety and perpetuity of our institutions cair*b maintained only by keeping all men on the same level. “The enforcement of law should know no favorites. “I believe a marked improvement in the enforcement of laws in Indiana would be possible if there were a closer cooperation among the various law-enforcing agencies in the States.” Primary Election Advocate Toner is a strong advocate of the primary election system. He was one of the leaders in the fight against primary law repeal in the last Legislature. While Toner is the first candidate to announce, there are numerous other potential candidates among Rspublicans. They Include Edgdlr TD. Bulk, Salem, former Lieutenant Governor; Mayor Shank of Indianapolis; Ed Jackson, secretary of State; Ora Davis, mayor of Terre Haute, and Win--1 field Mijler, State fire marshal.

RATE REDUCTIONS ORDEREDBY STATE Gas Consumers in Northern Indiana Benefit, Consumers of gas will be saved approximately SIOO,OOO annually in Ft. Wayne. South Bend, Mishawaka and the town of River Park, through a rate reduction order which will be - passed by the public service commission Friday. The reduction comes as a result of a special investigation by the commission of the rates, service and operating expenses in nearly 100 cities and towns in the State. The Northern Indiana Gas and ‘Electric Company, serving the cities ; in which the reductions will be effected, was one of the larger utilities un- , der investigation. Asa result of the Investigation the commission has ordered utility rate reductions in Richmond, Gary, MiUtown, Whiting, Knightstown, East Chicago, Attica and Hammond. Commissioner Oscar Ratts. in charge of the investigations, said reductions would be made in other cities later. FOREIGN FOIdTS HARDONHEALTH Dietetic Expert Speaks at Convention, Food as prepared in some foreign sections of American cities Is against all dietetic laws and is conducive of poor health, according to Miss Gertrude Gates Mudge of Huntington. W. Va., who pxesided and spoke at the national convention of the American Dietetic Association at the Claypool today. Hospital clinics are coming to realise the value of scientific food preparation, said Miss Fairfax Froudit of the Memphis General Hospital, in a talk, “The Diatition and the Hospital Clinic.” The convention will close with two speeches tonight, “Recent Development In Diatetics,” by Miss Lydia Roberts of the University of Chicago, and “The Problems of Feeding University Student Bodies,” by Miss Mabel Littleton of the University of Wisconsin. A tea and business session was held this afternoon. Many Varieties Collars of fur are novelties on winter gowns. Not only are there the regular choker effects, but sailor coiup? and shawl collars of fur like ermine or kolinsky.

State Executives, Guests of McCray, Visit Hoosier Capitol on Way to Meet

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FIRST ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT)—GOVERNOR CHARLES A. TEMPLET )N. CONNECTICUT; GOVERNOR CHANNING H. COX, MASSACHUSETTS; GOVERNOR WARREN T. M’CRAY, INDIANA; GOVERNOR F. LEE TRINKLE, VIRGINIA; GOVERNOR CLIFFORD M. WALKER, GEORGIA; GOVERNOR PATRICK M. NEFF, TEXAS, AND GOVERNOR JAMES M. HINKLE, NEW MEXICO. SECOND ROW, (LEFT TO RIGHT)—GOVERNOR THOMAS G. M’LEOD, SOUTH CAROLINA; HARRY A. RICHARDSON, SECRETARY TO GOVERNOR DENNEY; GOVERNOR WILLIAM D. DENNEY, DELAWARE; GOVERNOR ARTHUR M. HYDE, MISSOURI: GOVERNOR REDFIELD PROCTOR, VERMONT: GOVERNOR GIFFORD PINCHOT, PENNSYLVANIA; GOVERNOR W. B. ROSS, WYOMING; GOVERNOR CHARLES R. MAHEY, UTAH. THE GOVERNORS WERE AMONG GOVERNOR M’CRAY’S GUESTS ON THE MOTOR 'TRIP TO WEST BADEN FROM INDIANAPOLIS TODAY. "

ATTORNEYS SEEK TO SAVE DIAMOND Appeal From Death Sentence ,in Wife Murder Filed. Attorneys McMahon and Conrad of Hammond were before the State Supreme Court today seeking, a stay of execution for Harry Diamond, sentenced to death In the shooting of his wife in Porter County, Feb. 14. Diamond was ordered executed Oct. 12. Governor McCray granted a sixty-day reprieve lending appeal to the Supreme Court. A 900 page transcript with the appeal was filed today. The Supreme Court granted the stay until April 4. reolenM STATEPOWWOW Banquet, Reception, Dance on Evening Program. The Great Council of Indiana Red Men will close this evening with a dance and reception at the Denison after a two-day session at the K. of P. Bldg., where election of officers was held Tuesday afternoon. William IL Larue of Anderson was successful against nine other candidates for great junior sagamore. D. Newt Lewis of Lebanon was elected great trustee, the only other office contended^ Other new officers are Fred E. Hines of Noblesvllle, great sachem; William A. Morris, Frankfort,# great senior sagamore; James R. Stocksdale. New Albany, great prophet: Arch H. Hobbs, Murtcie, great chief of records; Ralph S. Baker, Sheridan, great keeper of wampum. The Degree of Pocahontas, allied with the Red Men, will hold its State convention in the K. of P. Bldg. Thursday.

‘Parents Must Keep Up With Speed of Youth’

Parent - Teacher Leader Says Children Are Sound as Ever,

SHE natural place to go to find out parents are to do about the "moral laxity” of the “younger generation,” their sons and daughters, is to a mother. One representative of all American mothers is in Indianapolis. She is Mrs. A. H. Reeve of Philadelphia, president of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations, here to* attend the convention of the Indiana Parent-Teacher Association, Tuesday through Thursday. Pre-War Conditions So The Times asked her about the matter. “Parents must keep up with their children, as they never can return to pre-war conditions,” she said. “They must set anew high standard in the homes. They must b.e ready to go out and have good times with their children —not ‘wild’ times at roadhouses, but wholesome fun. “Boys and girls are fundamentally as sound as ever. They are going a fast pace, just as every one else is in these timeS. There are as many good ones as ever. “They are beginning to realize, too, that it is no more fun to get drunk than it ia to do any other disgusting thing. The thrill of going sixty miles an hour is wearing off. They see that they must pay the price, and they don't think it’s worth while. | MoraJ I’phcgul “P&eent conditions to the moral upheaval jrvery

Golden Wedding Anniversary Happy Though in a Hospital A golden wedding anniversary l n a hospital! Gloomy? Not at all, ln the case of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Unversaw. Plans for a real celebration at their home ln Franklin, Ind., had been

made. But the husband had to go to St. Vincent's Hospital here for an operation. He is recovering rapidly, so the anniversary Monday was happy, after all. Unversaw was born in Lexington, Ky., May 20, 1847. and Mrs. Unversaw in Madison, Ind., July 80. 1858. They were married In the Presbyterian Church at Southport, In and., Oct. 15, 1873. "It was somewhat of a trial to have to be in a hospital at such a time*” said Unversaw. “But Mrs. Unversaw and our

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daughter, Mrs. Grace Stevenson of FrankUn, were here with me and we were very happy. "To lodk back upon fifty years of married life, successful because we always shared everything, is something to make any one happy, though ln a hospital, these days.”

N. D. BAKER DISCUSSES LEAGUE OF NATIONS Former Secretary of War Speeaks at South Bend By United Press SOUTH BEND, Infl., Oct. 17. “When the time comes for the United States to decide whether or not she shall enter the League of Nations, let her decide on well grounded information and not on impulse.“ Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War said in a speech here last night. "When we deal with the world we should wipe out party Mnes and present Amerioi as a unit,” he said. The League of Nations controversy is not and political question. "There are three ways to preserve peace,” Baker asserted. “Two have been tried and failed. The Roman method of conquering the world and the method of forming two alliances among world powers of equal strength, lost out. The third is an slliance of all nations.”

MRS. A. H. REEVE

war. Mothers were opt of their homes doing war work. They had to be. Young girls were allowed to dance with any soldier and to pick up any man In a uniform to take him riding. The greater freedom that started then is stijl affecting us. “After all, young people now are only doing the things that some young people used to want to do, but didn't have the opportunity to do. The good and the bad were separated more definitely then. That separation has worn off, but now it is coining back. I know that young men, for Instance, once more are beginning to pick out the wholesome girl from the others. "We cannot go back to the old times. But we can go forward with our children, letting theta mm that we are real companions.”

MR. AND MRS. HENRY UNVERSAW

MOTHER’S PLEA FOR BABE DENIED Husband Is Held on Charge of Perjury, Mrs. Mildred Fleming of Paoli, Ind., failed to rgeain possession of her infant son and lost company of her husband, through officials today. Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lahr denied Mrs. Fleming’s plea that her baby be given back to her. The husband brought the child to : the court several months ago, reprei sented himself to be from Marlon County, and asked that it be given a horhe. Mrs. Fleming sat outside the Courthouse while this was done. She testified she did not know that the husband had given the child to a court. The baby is being reared by a local family. Because he swore he was a resident of Marion County, officers say, Fleming today was arrested on a perjury charge.

PSYCHIC MEDIUM ‘SUMMONSSPIRITS’ Science Impressedj but Not Convinced at Phenomena,’ By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Scientists today were “impressed, but not convinced,” by apparent production of objective psychic phenomena by Mrs. J. H. Stewart, pastor of the First Independent Church at Cleveland, Ohio. The tests were made in daylight in a garden at the home of Mrs. Ned Wayburn, Bayside, L. I. Mrs. Stewart sat near a small rustic table and used flowers and fernß in summoning the spirits of another World. She pressed the flowers between cards. J. Malcolm Bird, associate editor Scientific American, looked through the cards. He read: “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again. ” Written on a second card was a message signed “William James—hew happy I should have been for such an opportunity as this.” Turban Effective The closely wrapped turban of bright red silk la worn with distinction by the woman with regular features and clear complexion. If her hair is the effect ia usually better. u

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Assistant Attorney General Mabel Willebrandt Declares Teeth in Law Are Lacking—Cites Case of George Remus as Example. By C. A. RANDAU Times Staff oorreepondjfnt WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Prohibition cannot 4>e enforced in the United States under the present Volstead act, Assistant Attorney General Mabel Walker Willebrandt says. “Until Congress modifies the law to provide adequate punishment for the big commercial bootleggers the purposes of the eighteenth amendment cannot be satisfactorily attained,” said Mrs. Willebrandt. “No matter how great his illegal operations, the violator of the Volstead act faces a maximum of only six months in jail. To put him behind the bars for a longer period means charging him with the violation of some other law, or of Conspiring to break the Volstead act. *

CO-ED ELOPEMENT IS PROBEDBY U. S. Bridegroom-to-Be Disappears Leaving Girl at Hotel. While Federal authorities today investigated a etory of a college elopement which .began at DeKalb, 111., and terminated with the disappearance of the about-to-bo bridegroom here, Miss Edythe Hein, pretty co-ed left penniless in a local hotel, was tack home in Chicago. According to Miss Hein, she came here to be married to a DeKalb student and football player. The last she saw of him was when he departed, supposedly to obtain a wedding ring, marriage license, suit of clothes and to arrange for the honeymoon. That was Tueeday|momlng. Late Tuesday evening he had not returned. J Miss Hein, a co-ed at Northwestern University before her entrance at De Kalb, said they acted on an impulse Monday and eloped, sending brief telegrams announcing the marriage to the dean of women and her father, a Chicagoan. Fear of parental wrath kept her from telegraphing her father, she said "I didn’t think I was taking a j chance,” she said. "He has been a perfect gentleman: he has made no undue advances, and was very atten- j tlve.” At the hotel where Miss Hein was registered until late Tuesday evening the clerk said he never saw her com panlon. PARK BONDS ARE SOLD Meyer-Klser Ban Is Successful Bidder The Meyer-Kiser Bank was the successful bidder on a $30,000 park i bond Issue awarded today at the office of Joseph L. Hogue, city controller. The bank bid par and accrued \ Interest with a premium of $411,111 The Fletcher Savings and Trust Com j party and Seasongood and Mayer of Cincinnati were other bidders. The issue will finance paving of boulevards. Ladybirds are bred in Italy and France to produce the larvae* which destroy Insect pests of the vines.

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Statues of two former Governors of Illinois, Richard Yates, and John M. Palmer, were unveiled Tuesday at Springfield, 111. A slight concussion, believed an earth tremor, was felt by officers aboard the Leviathan, twenty miles from New York Tuesday. High tides have washed out 100 miles of railway in Alaska. Legislative power to limit the height of buildings in Wisconsin was sustained Tuesday by the State Supreme Court. ; Armed men Tuesday held up Carmine Darengela, New York truck driver and robbed him of $60,000 in raw silk. Mayor Hylan, New York, has suf sered a relapse. Absolute rest is prescribed. Six firms in New York and Philadelphia are classed as coaj gougers by the Government in its suit conducted by the Federal trade commission at Washington. , One hundred thousand more Illinois war veterans are soon to receive bonus checks following sale of $15,000,000 bonds. Governor General Leonard Wood’B message t* Filipino congress Tuesday was received with grim silence on part of native solons. A mosquito bite, resulting In bjood poison, cause death of Mrs. Rose Johnson, Chicago, Tuesday. John Cline, 79, and his wife, Rebecca, 63, were found murdered in basement of their home at Hagerstown, Md., Tuesday. B. F. Welty. eV-Congressman, Lima, Ohio, was found guilty of fraud in United States District Court at Toledo Tues<?ay._ His coffin laden with money, after traditions of his race, Louis Mitchell, “k*g of Gypsies," was buried at Cljicago Tuesday. John C. Gilmore, 101, St. Joseph, Mo., died Tuesday as result of fracture of leg. First National Bank and First Trust and Savings Bank, Mitchell, S. D., closed doors Tuesday. Russia' has offered to recognize Czar debts to France totaling $3,000,000,000, if France will recognize Soviet. Twenty-four were arrested and $23,000 worth of booze confiscated when

i “It is actually a fact that under the present law a man may be given a heavier sentence for merely having conspired to break the prohibition law than for the act of breaking the law itself. Remus Under Sentence “For Instance, Gorge Remus, the Ohio bottlegger, was charged with seventeen of his confederates under the conspiracy statutes. He was found guilty. The judge Imposed the maximum sentence —two years. If he had been charged with the violation of the prohibition law Itself he could have been sentenced for only six months. This despite the fact that h!s profits ln illicit liquor had exceeded, according to his own sworn statements, $3,000,000.’’ Remus is under heavy bond at present on a charge of transporting liquor at Shelbyvllle, Ind. Charge of Tax Cases Mrs. Willebrandt Is in charge of all prohibition and tax cases that come to the attention of the attorney general of the United States. In this capacity she has gained an intimate knowledge of the activities of the great illegal traffic both within the United States and across the country’s borders. Mrs. Willebrandt regards the Volstead act as sufficlentlj draatlo In Its penalties when it comes to the "hip pocket" violator. AUTO, AFIRE BURNS BARNAND 2 CARS Residence Saved as Firemen Work Under Handicap, A fire starting from a back fire or short circuit in an automobile de- j stroyed the large barn carpenter shop. j two automobile and a tool house and portion of the residence of Walter A. Ray, 2855 N. Hillside Ave., Tuesday night. The loss is estimated by firemen at $2,500. The house was two blocks away from a fire plug. After hose was laid, firemen devoted efforts to save the residence. Ray said he was In the barn with his daughter, Violet, when the auto burst Into flames. One comer of the residence was burned.

yacht Mirage was raided in Long Inland sound Tuesday. President Obregon of Mexico is seriously 111 and will undergo operation. Thomas Masaryka, one time professor In Chicago University, now president of Ozecho-Slovakla, was received with pomp in Paris Tuesday. Premier Mussolini, Italy, firmly insists on a voice In the England-France-Spaln conference on Tangier. Congressman Benjamin Humphreys, Mississippi, died suddenly Tuesday at his home In Greenville. United States Shipping Board has announced plan to merge five United States Atlantic lines to British ports. Question of union of Congregational and Presbyterian Churches and breaking of relations with Protestant Episcopal Church are principal issues before National Council of Congregational Whurchee In session at Springfield, Mass. Canada has extended sale of booze on fast trains In the Dominion. Mementoes of late President Harding in Washington home were sold at auction today. Francis O. French, cousin of 'William Vanderbilt, millionaire, Is employed as taxi driver by New York firm. Former Judge David Rockwell, manager of Cox forces In 1920 Democrat convention, is to become manager of William G. McAdoo’s presidential campaign. Seventh Day Adventists will meet In Milwaukee In 1926, convention decided. Sensational charges of alleged relationship between "powerful secret organization and National Educational Association” were made by Dean W. P. Burris, of College of Teachers of University of Cincinnati at Cincinnati, Tuesday. President has cancelled his proposed trip to Marion, Ohio, for memorial services. Reginald Denny, motion picture star, is recovering from Injuries received In auto accident at Los Angeles?. Lack of funds to pay stenographer halted court martial of Capt. Samuel Gwynne, at Washington, Tuesday. Nine men were burned, five seriously, In explosion In plant of Midvale Steel Company at Fhiladalphla, Tuesday

Local Man Renamed Masonic Treasurer

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VESTAL W. WOODWARD

Grand Council, Royal and Select Master Masons, re-elected Vestal W. Wdodward, Indianapolis, right illustrious grand treasurer at the State meeting at Masonic Temple herer FACE~POWDER AND HAIR Waitresses Should Be Careful, Wrathful Citizen Writes. Girl waitresses ln restaurants should not ruffle their hair in the immediate vicinity of food, nor should they sprinkle facepowder over the clothes of patrons, is the essence of an admonition from an anonymous writer, received today by Dr. William F. King, secretary of the State board of health. The letter said waitresses in a restaurant patronized by Shortrldge hig£ school students and students of the Central Business College do these very things day after day. Such girls ought to have an “oldfashioned spanking,” the writer declared. The communication was signed. "American Citizen and Taxpayer of this State.” Large and Small Fans In contrast with the large feather fans that have been so decorative with the plain type of evening gown, are small ones of lace or spangles, mounted on delicate sticks of carved ivory-Sweet-pea dates back to 1699, when the plant was first cultivated by a priest ln Sicily.

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DO NOT LOSE A MINUTE If you lose something valuable do not lose a minute in sending an advertisement for insertion in the “Lost and Found” column. Many a true tale could be unfQlded of miraculously quick results from little ads in this column. We could tell of that newly found Newfoundland dog nearly wagging his tail off with joy . . . of the returned securities that restored peace of mind to a frantic treasurer ... of the tears which changed to cheers when a lost bracelet was found . . . Whatever you lose, do not lose time In letting the world know about it. The world is honest and the world hds a thousand eyes. Phone f your “lost” ad to THE INpiANAPOLIS TIMES Main 3500 f Ask for an Ad Taker

WEDNESDAY, -OCT. 17, 1923

JACKIE AND DOUG LEADING HEROES OF HOOSIER KIDS Report to Association Shows That Young America Is Good Judge, Young America is a good judge of moving pictures, acording to the report submitted by Mrs. Francis Ake, chairman of the department of better films of Indiana Parent-Teacher Association to ay at a convention of the asociation at the Severin. During the Statae fair the department conducted a vote among rural school children to determine the child’s favorite type of movie picture and hero. Jackie Coogan in “Oliver Twist” and “Daddy” received the highest number of votes as most popular actor and movies. “Robin Hood,” starring Douglas Fairbanks, ranked second. The following players received the following number of votes; Jackie Coogan, 162; Tom Mix, 94; Douglas Fairbanks, 58; Thomas Meighan, 53; Mary Pickford, 53; Norma Talmadge, 63; Milton Sills, 22; Harold Lloyd, 40; Rudolph Valentino, 15; Baby Peggy. 12; Wesley Barry, 14; Charles Chafclln, 20; William S. Hart, 14, and Ruth Roland, 7. Reports of the various committees were made during the morning session,. Francis N. Maxfleld, director bureau of special education of Pennsylvania, delivered an address in the afternoon on "Mental Hygiene in the Home.” Round table discussions followed. The annual banquet will he held tonight at the Severin. Mrs. G. G. Derbyshire, president, will act as toastmlstress. Addresses will he made by George R. Grose, president of De Pauw University; Mrs. A. H. Reeve, president National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers’ Association, Philadelphia, Pa.; Edward C. Elliott, president of Purdue University, and Benjamin J. Burris, State superintendent of public instruction. Alleged Thieves Bound Over An indictment charging Cleo Overi shiner, 536 Drover St., and Alvey DeWitt, in jail, with receiving stolen goods and gran larceny was returned today by Marion County grand jury. Both are accused of taking and helping to take headlights, storage battery and tires, valued at $96, from an automobile of Homer C. Groves, R. R., box 379.