Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1923 — Page 1

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COMMUNITY FUND DRIVE IS opened Rousing Send-off Given 500 Volunteer Workers at Luncheon, CAMPAIGN TOUCHES ALL Initial Gifts Committee Reports Total Contributions of $204,821, “This Community Fund is not your job or my job; it is a community enterprise—tbe task and duty of us all to help the unfortunate,” declared Nicholas H. Noyes, executive committee chairman, today at a luncheon at the Claypool in the rousing “send-off” given 500 volunteer workers who will raise $662,889.46 for the Community Fund. “We Cos not want a nickel from any man or woman who honestly cannot afford to give a, little.” he said. “But there is a great moral obligation on every man and woman in Indianapolis to subscribe what he or she can afford. “There is no reason in the world why we Instead of others should do tbe work of this Community Fund, except that we were chosen this year. This is the Job of Indianapolis citizens es a whole. We are doing their work as well as ours. I am confident the citizens of Indianapolis appreciate this fact and that they will meet our canvassers gladly, and subscribe promptly and generously, thus expediting the work." Hoke Tells of Work The Rev Jean S. Milner, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, pronounced invocation. Fred Hoke, president, related the history of the Community Fund. He stressed particularly the part the fund played in taring for the unfortunates of Indianapolis last year. Final instructions were given by Homer W. Borst, executive secretry of the Community Fund., The city has been mapped into five geographical divisions in which the volunteer workers will canvass. An, Initial gifts division and six trade divisions have been assigned special territory to canvas. Quoto Is 5662.889.42 The campaign has been organized t-o that few will be missed. Sixtythousand contributors will be needed to raise the quotk of $662,889.46, Borst said. O. Barret Moxley, chairman of the initial gifts committee, reported that his teams have raised 1204,821.88 from less than 200 persons. This is an increase of $39,976.12 over gifts from the same contributors last year. Moxley said his men expect to raise their quota of $410,000 by Wednesday. Workers will meet Monday noon at the Claypool to report. Outcome of the campaign will be forecast by the reports submitted them, Borst said.

CREDIT MEN TO HOLD STATE MEET Thirty Local Members Go to South Bend Today, Thirty members of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men, with their newly elected officers, will leave at 5:30 today to attend the eighth annual conference of the State Credit Men’s Association at South Bend Saturday. The conference will open with an address of welcome by Eli F. Seeblrt, mayor of South Bend. Edward F. Scheumann of Ft. Wayne will discuss the Federal reserve system in one of the principal addresses. Other speakers for the afternoon and evening are: John M. Fitzgerald of Terre Haute, Prof. David A. Weir of Notre Dame University, Benjamin B. Tregoe of New York and Arthur J. Morris of New York. Local men who will attend: Omar A. Farthing:, president: E. C. Johnston. vice president: A. R. Tageart, second vice president: Ulysses Jordan, treasurer: K. E. Smith, secretary; E. A. Morris, Indianapolis representative, and A. G. Mueller. W. C. Brass, C. E. Foreman. F. A. Guth. D. A. Murphy, H. F. Pavey. Edwin Manouge, H. A. Brown. E. L. Funck, G. W. Farthiogton, J. E. Still, F. B. Slupesky. C. W. Steeg E. C. Johnson. Walter V. Bozell. John C. Rugenstein, J. D. Meek, Paul Keller, I. L. Daye. Byrom J. Smith. E G. Holmes. R. L. Petit. A. P. Stephenson. C. E. Wagner. H. F. Connell, H. L. Watson W. E Carver. B. J. Forsha. R. C. Williams and J. A. Corn, of Trankfort. BORDER-TO-BORDER NON-STOP FLIGHT ENDS LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26.—Lieut. John P. Richter and Capt. Lowell Smith today completed their non stop flight from the Canadian to the Mexican borders. They flew 1,280 miles in twelve hours, fifteen minutes and forty seconds.

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STEINMETZ, ELECTRIC WIZARD, DIES Man Who Harnessed Lightning Bolts, Succumbs to Grim Reaper

By United Pren "p"ICHENECTADY, N. Y., Oct. 28. —Death today ended the career of Charles P. Steinmetz, the electrical wizard, the man who snatched lightning down from the skies and made the thunderbolts do his bidding. As Steinmetz lay in bed at his home at 8 a. m. recovering from exhaustion resulting from a long lecture tour, his heart ceased to beat.

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SOUSA WILL LEAD COUNTY IN PAVING TRIBUTETO NAVY Musical Pictures Feature Band Concerts Saturday at Tabernacle, Marlon County will pay tribute to the United States Navy Saturday with a program In which city and State officials and the famous John Philip Sousa Band will exercise leadership. The band will play at Cadle Tabernacle Saturday afteronon and evening Festivities will open when Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank and stall and the Navy day committee, of which Maurice T. Tennant is chairman, will meet Sousa and his band at Union Station at 11 a. m. The Police and Firemens’ Eand, with the city official staff, will e'seort the musicians to the Claypool for a short concert, as courtesy to Mayor Shank. A luncheon honoring Sousa will be given at the University Club at 12:30 p. m. A musical picture will be staged by the visiting band, sailors, members of the marine corps at Cadle Tabernacle Saturday afternoon. Governor McCray, Mayor Shank, Gen. Dwight E. Aultman of Ft. Benjamin Harrison and their staffs will occupy places of distinction for the evening program, in which 600 sailors and members of the Marine Corps will give a pageant patterned after one given by Sousa and his band and sailers at Madison Square Garden, New York City, recently. Three local bands, the Murat Shrine Temple band, the Ft. Harrison band, and the Naval Reserve band, will combine to furnish music for the pageant in which Sousa's organization will participate. All marines in the State have been ordered to Indianapolis for the event. ST. LOUIS PAPER PRINTS WORLD’S RECORD EDITION Sixty-Four-Page Edition Due to Increased Efforts of Retailers. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 26.—The St. Louis Post Dispatch today Issued a s.xty-four-page newspaper, setting a world's record for a regular'week-day edition. Many department stores are setting records in volume of business and the big editions are due to increased efforts of retailers, it was said.

SNIDER WARS ON CHURCpOALS Molesters at Services Sought by Sheriff, Sheriff George Snider today promised the Rev. C. H. Scheick, pastor of the Lynnhurst Baptist Church, on tbe Dandy Trail near Ben Davis, that he would give adequate protection against vandals who have been molesting property of members while they attend church. The minster reported that automobiles of members were painted with insisting remarks while the cars were parked outside the church on prayer meeting and Sunday nights. “I’m going to swear in a member of the church as a deputy, and if necessary go out there myself vo put a stop to this thing,” said the sheriff. Nationa.il Known Architect Succumbs By United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 26.—Frank L. Packard, nationally known architect, died today.

AGRICULTURE BOARD ASKS BOOKAUDIT Check In McCray Loan Tangle Bears Stamp of Kentland Bank, DATES ON PAPER DIFFER State Records Show Six Payments to Newton County Institution, Immediate examination of records of the State board of agriculture has been sought of the State hoard of accounts by I. Newt Brown, secretary-treas-urer of the agriculture board, it was learned today. In the meantime arrangements have been made for calling a meeting of the agriculture board to clear up misunderstandings and rumors current since it was learned the board had “loaned” Governor McCray $155,000. Despite’ the statement of William Darroch, receiver for the Discount and Deposit Bank at Kentland, formerly headed by McCray, that the bank did not receive a cent of the board of ag riculture money, scrutiny of one of the checks made by the board to McCray shows on the back the stamp, "Discount and Deposit Bank, Kentland, Ind.” The check, for $25,000, was cashed June 26, at the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, and reached the Indiana National Bank here, June 29. Although the check was made out June 27, the Chicago bank’s stamp on the back shows it was cashed there June 26. Check Marked "Loan” This check was made out to the Discount and Deposit State Bank and in typewritten letters says, “LOAN." Brown has denied repeatedly that any "loans” were made to McCray. The check is signed “Indiana State Board of Agriculture—Harry M. Moberly. Pres. —l. Newt Brown, SecretaryTreasurer.” Above the stamped indorsement on the reverse side of the check Is written in ink "Discount and Deposit Bank." Indorsements Shown The following checks were examined today: June 11, 1923; check for $43,625 on Fletcher American National Bank, payable to the Discount and Deposit State Bank; signed by Moberly and Brown; Indorsed in ink, “Dis. and Dept. St Bk„ W. T. McCray, Pr.” Cashed June 29 at Indiana National Bank. July 13, 1923; check for $30,000 on State Savings and Trust Company of Indianapolis to Discount and Deposit State Bank; signed by Moberly and Brown, indorsed in Ink, “Disct. and Dep. St. Bk., W. T. McCray, Pr.. W. T. McCray.” Cashed at Fletcher American National Bank July 14. June 11, 1923, check for $6,375 on State Savings and Trust Company of Indianapolis to Discount and Deposit State Bank; signed by Moberly and Brown; indorsed in ink, "Disct. and Dep. St. Bk., W, T. McCray, Pt,” with signature in ink. Six checks altogether were made out to the Kentland bank. LAW SCHOOL ELECTION Juniors Name Members of Sigma Delta Kappa. New officers of the junior class of Indiana Law School, elected Thursday afternoon, took office today. They are: K. W. Danner, president; D. M. Ream, vice president; Miss Gladys Woody, secretary, and John Buentlng, treasurer. Miss Woody is from Huntington, Ind., and the others live here. All except Miss Woody are members of Sigma Delta Kappa. ENTOMOLOGISTS IN l/lEET Sixteen Attend State Conference at Purdue University. By United Presa LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 26.—A conference of entomologists of Indiana is being held today at Purdue University for the consideration of entomological problems and interests in the State. Sixteen entomologists are in attendance.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 26, 1923

I feel fine today,” he said to his nurse a minute before the end. “I will soon be up and around again.” A few seconds later his soul slipped away. “His heart just stopped beating,” said Dr. H. T. Groesbeck. The brain which devised means of harnessing the elements and creating “toy thunder storms” in laboratories was alert to the end, but the body could no longer stand the strain which so many years of driving force had put upon it.

Steinmetz, the liunch-backed little German who became chief consulting engineer of the General Electric Company, returned Oct. 1.3 from a speaking tour which had taken him to all parts of the United States. Over-Taxed Strength As in the case of the late President Harding and of Woodrow Wilson, he had over taxed his strength endeavoring to see all the people he was called upon to see and to make all the speeches expected of him. His body began to crack under the strain when ho made an address to 3,500

“Think Which; Then Switch” By United Press SCHENECTADY, N. Y„ Oct. 26.—Charles P. Steinmetz, the man who played with death from electricity many days of his life, was always afraid of the tremendous power he controlled. In the laboratory of his home on Wendell Ave. in Schenectady he had this sign over his miniature electric switchboard: “Think which, then switch."

people at Denver, Colo. He had ex> pected to talk to 300 or 400 and the larger audience made the effort much greater. Nevertheless, and although he was fully aware of the weakness of his heart, he went through with his program. Upon his return to Schenectady, the exhaustion from which he was suffering forced him to give up hlfl work temporarily and take to his ted. He seemed to be showing steady Improvement and physicians were much encouraged. Brain Continued Active As he lay In bed, physically too weak to rise, Ms brain continued working and planning new electrical miracles. Workmen ware busy constructing, on top of one of tbe General Electric Company buildings a Stelnmets lightning laboratory, where "the wizard” intended to make the elements perform according to his whim. In this laboratory he planned to continue the experiments with thunder bolts with which he startled the world a year or two ago. At that time, in the presence of scientists and newspaper correspondents, he produced a miniature thunderstorm. The lightning flashed and snapped. Bolts darted down from an artificial heaven and struck toy houses in a little village '■■(Conttnned on Page 10)

LIHLE GIRLS HURT GOING TO SCHOOL Driver Arrested After Two Are Struck. Two llttlo girls on their way to school were seriously Injured today when they were struck by an automobile which police say was speeding at New York and Beauty Ave. Alsfretta Boone, 8. daughter of Walter Boone, 1032 W. New York St., has several fractured ribs, and Juanita House, 7, daughter of Mi's. Verna Haase, 366 Beauty Ave., has a possible fracture of the skull. They were crossing the street and did not see the automobile. Officers Maas and Chitwood, arrested Charles Boss. 19, of 245 Richland St., on a speeding charge. Police said Boss skidded seventy-five feet after the accident. The children were taken to city hospital. DEFENSE SCORES IN STOKES CASE Cook Refutes Testimony of Witness for Millionaire, By United P^ett NFW YORK, Oct. 26.—The defense scored again when the Stokes divorce trial -was resumed today. Mrs. Martha Jones, former cook and housekeeper for Edgar T. Wallace, named as co-respondent In the case, testified Anna Mclntosh, star witness for W. E. D. Stokes, never was in the apartment at 13 E. ThirtyFifth St., where the San Francisco mining man was alleged to have entertained Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes. Anna Mclntosh testified two weeks ago, as a witness for Stokes, that while employed in a pastry shop she delivered food to Wallace’s apartment while Mrs. Stokes was there.

Helping the Coroner Is Interesting Occupation

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til . | T’S interesting,” says Mrs. | I I Margaret Kretzer, 1231 Me- > Lain St., speaking of her work as secretary to Coroner Paul F. Robinson. Sho was appointedly recently. "I was afraid it was going to be grcwßome, but after taking testimony in two or three murder

‘Prunes/ Protest Peaches Parted From Patooties | | RETTY peaches picking parking places for petting parties with | i | pet patooties protested to pitiless police patrolling Federal bulld- *■ 1 ing corridors today. But all in vain for the edict has gone forth that use of Uncle Sams big building as a target range for the old marksman, Daniel Boone CupJd, must cease. According to Federal authorities attractive young women, some of them Federal employes, and their swains have been clogging up traffic in the corridors gazing soulfully into each other’s love-lit orbs throughout the greater part of the dally lunch hour. Wherefore custodians were Instructed gently, but firmly to Intimate to the lovelorn that while t he pigeons may roost on the outside of the building inside must not be used for love nests.

ABDUCTION ARREST EXPECTED IN CITY Sheriff Snider Says He Knows Who Took Daughter-in-Law to Danville (III,) Hotel,

Arrest of a local man in connection with the abduction of Mrs. Roland Snider, 1549 N. Meridian St., Caughter-ln-law of Sheriff George Snider is expected immediately. Sheriff Snider has sought a warrant charging contributing to child reglect against an Indianapolis man. This afternoon he said the warrant had not been issued and that ho expected 1o make further investigations. A dispatch from Danville, 111., where Mrs. Snider awoke In a hotel Thursday morning, saying she had lost her memory, indicated Sheriff Snider had tojld police there to cease their efforts, as an arrest was about to be mjade in Indianapolis. / Lost on Local Corner According to hotel employes at Danville, the man who accompanied Mrs. Snider registered, as "George Kafader and wife.” Mrs. Snider insists she remembered nothing of what happened to her after she was standing at Sixteenth and Illinois Sts., Wednesday afternoon. According to the Danville <llspatch, the man who accompanied Mrs. Snider left the hotel In a taxicab. He rode about the city for an hour, then walked across the square and chartered another cab. Bought Ticket for Here He told the driver of this cab, Danville police learned, to take him to

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cases the Job became fascinating. Some of the characters who come before the coroner are so unusual. "I do not let my mind dwell on death. "Speaking of technicalities, I wish I were a medical graduate. It’s so hard, to catch some of the terms the doctors use.”

Crawfordsvtlle, Ind. After going three miles he ordered the driver to take him to Paris, 111. At Paris he is said to have bought a ticket for Indianapolis. According to Sheriff Snider, "Kafader’’ asked for the address of a sis-ter-in-law of Mrs. Jessie Rush, mother of Mrs. Snider, but never appeared at that address. Mrs. Snider still was ill, but It was said she was recovering rapidly. She refused to talk other than to say she was at Sixteenth and Illinois Sts. when her memory failed. Mrs. Snider recently underwent an operation and, according to her husband, has suffered lapses of memory since. Carried From Automobile Sheriff Snider and his son went to Danville early Thursday and brought Mrs. Snider home Thursday evening. They carried her from the automobile Into the house. She spent a part of yesterday at St. Elizabeth's Hospital at Danville, where she was stint by a physician called by the hotel management. At her home It was said It was not known whether she was drugged. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 44 10 a. m 44 7 a. m 44 11 a. m 46 8 a. m 43 12 (noon) 47 9 a. m 44 1 p. m 48

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POINCARE LIKES U. S. PROPOSAL French Premier, However, Insists Body of Experts, as Outlined in Hughes Note, Be Designated by Regular Reparations Commission. h GERMANY WILL. REFUSE FURTHER DICTATION Belgian Troops Restore Order In Alx, Intervening In Favor of Separatists—Krupp Released From Jail. fe it; By United Press PARIS, Oct. 26. —France will accept the proposal of Secretary Hughes for settlement of the question of Germany reparations by a commission of experts, only if such a commission is designated by the reparations commission, it was learned from a semi-official source here today. France will insist the commission of experts must report to the reparations commission on any possibilities for readjustment of the entire question of German debts. Final decision on all these questions must left to the reparations commission, admittedly under French control. Premier Poincare, the semi-official statement said, will be delighted if the United States will agree to collaborate thus in a settlement of the reparations question “within the limits of the treaty of Versailles.” Stresemann Warns Poincare Germany Cannot Stand Further PaHs Dictation

By CARL D. GROAT, United Press Staff Correspondent. BERLIN, Oct. 26.—America’s offer to participate fn an impartial Inquiry into Germany’s abllty to pay reparations has been made by a fresh declaration from Chancellor Stresemann that Germany will abide by results of such an examination. The chancellor, in a speech at Hagen, reiterated the willingness of his government to submit the question of Germany’s capacity to pay to an Impartial commission as suggested by

Washington Hails Hughes Note as Step Forward in Long Reparation Controversy

By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct 26.—The fate of Atherican readiness ,o aid in bringing about a settlement of the European crisis today again rested upon the disposition of France. The notd 'of Secretary of State Hughes to 'the Government of Great Britain definitely setting forth America's willingness and readiness to aid in a reparations solution, was hailed TRAPP REPLACES WALTON IN OFFICE Governor Will Continue Fight Against Impeachment, By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 26. M. E. Trapp today assumed the duties of Governor of Oklahoma, replacing J. C. Walton, suspended during impeachment proceedings in the Legislature. Trapp took over the powers of office by virtue of a decision of the Supreme Court, after Walton challenged the right of the State Senate to oust him, pending hearing on the Impeachment proceedings. Walton’s sole hope of retaining office today rested in his chances of preventing a two-thirds vote in the State Senate for his removal. The lower house of the Legislature has now adopted fourteen of the twenty-two accusations brought against the. Governor, and expected to complete voting on the entire indictment today. “I will continue to fight,” the Governor said.

FOUR CHILDREN PERISH IN FIRE Father Saves Eldest Son When Home Burns, By United Frets DILLONVALE, Ohio, Oct. 26. Four children perished and their parents ware severely burned by flames which swept the home of Frank Andrejskl near here at midnight. The dead: Stanley, 12; Dennis, 9; Lottie, 7; Alex. 5. Andrejski and his wife were driven back and severely burned when they attempted to enter the room where four of their children were asleep. The father succeeded iiy rescuing his eldest son, Stanles, 1?.

Forecast CLOUDY tonight and Saturday. Probably with light rain. Not much change in temperature.

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Secretary Hughes In his New Haven address. At the same time Stresemann warned France what he can expect If sho rejects the United States offer. '‘We have already offered moro than we can fulfill,” the chancellor asserted, “and we uannot stand dictatorial treatment much longer.” Stresemann in his speech reiterated his previous declarations in the Reichstag that he would not sign any agreement that did not recognize the Ruhr and the Rhineland as German.

[ today as a great step forward in the long history of the reparations controversy. This communication was regarded as ranking with the Hughes proposal of nearly a year ago, If not as the most Important step so far taken in the European situation by the administration begun by the late President Harding. 4 arm™ CIVIC BODIES TO FETE GEN. HALLER ______ 9 Famous Polish Commander to Arrive Here Nov, 3 From West Coast, Representatives of the Army and Navy and civic organizations will take part in the entertainment of Gton. Josef Haller, commander In-chief of the Polish army, who will arrive here Saturday, Nov. 3, according to a telegram received from Bowman Elder of Indianapolis, now in San Francisco, Cal. General Haller, who was one of the distinguished guests of the American Legion at the National convention in San Francisco, will be met at Union Station by committees from the Army and Navy Club of Indiana, the Chamber of Commerce, Marlon County Legion posts and citizens of Polish descent. Following a tour of the city, he will be honored at a luncheon at the Claypool. The luncheon ptogram Includes music by the Ft. Benjamin Harrison band, singing of the Polish National anthem, address cf welcome by /Stephen C. Noland, president of the Army and Navy Club, Introduction of General Haller by Brig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman of Ft Harrison and singing of “The StarSpangled Banner.” An aeronau-lc demonstration at Ft. Harrison will be given, following the luncheon. The garrison will be reviewed. Decorations of Polish and American flags in downtown business establishments have been requested by the committee. BUTLER CLUB FORMING Departmental clubs are In vogue at Butler College. A German club, tinder Prof. Milton D. Baumgartner, Is being organized. The Biology Club, with Prof. Henry Lane Bruner as sponsor; the Home Economics Club, with Miss Grace Wilhite as director, and the Spanish Club, with Prof. Glno Ratti as supervisor, are in their Initial stages. Officers will be elected soon.