Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1923 — Page 2

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BANK OFFICERS ARE SUMMONED AT NOBLESVILLE Hamilton County Grand Jury to Hear Executives Saturday, By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. Nov. B. Summonses were issued here today tor officers of the Farmers National Bank of Sheridan and the American National Bank of Noblesville to appear before the Hamilton County grand jury Saturday. These bank officials are expected to testify concerning their dealings with Governor McCray. Judge F. E. Hines of the Circuit Court recently instructed the grand jury to go into the dealings concerning banks. Later he said his instructions referred to transactions of McCray. The session Saturday is expected to be the final meeting of the grand jury. A report may be made Saturday or Monday. Ralph Waltz, county prosecutor, refused to discuss the inquiry. Governor McCray is said to owe 11,000 to the Noblesville bank and the Sheridan bank is said to hold 84,000 worth of McCray paper. It is said the original note of the Governor in the Noblesville bank was 85 ,000, but a 6hort time before McCray called a meeting of his creditors hs reduced the amount of SI,OOO.

M'CRAY TAX KNOT UP TOCREDITORS Crops on Dakota Farm Are to Be Sold, The problem of how to pay the taxes on property of Governor McCray, turned over to the creditors' committee, was concerning members of the committee today, following a session Wednesday. Taxes on most of the property are now delinquent. John Moorman. Knox, a member of the committee, will go to South Dakota to sell crops of corn and hay on a farm there. There are said to be approximately 5.000 bushels of corn on the farm. This is said to be the only readily saleable crop on the Me-1 Cray property. It was said that unless money can 1 >e raised some of the property may ; i'Rve to be sold tor taxes. The impossibility of borrowing further money on the prop! ry was' -monstrated in a recent letter sent by the committe to creditors describing incumbrances. COBURN SLAYING NAS TRAGIC NOTE Lebanon Woman Was Attorney's Intended Bride, By United Press LEBANON, Ind., Nov. 8. —The slay ing of W. S. Coburn, attorney for the insurgent element of the Ku-Klux Klan, Atlanta, brought tragedy into the life of one Hoosier woman. Coburn and Mrs. Louise Metcalf of this city, were engaged to be married. The ceremony was to have been performed here, it was understood, immediately after Coburn finished his part in the suit for a receivership for the Klan. SPOILS TO VICTOR, SAYOEMOCRATS Kltley and McCloskey Firm for Dr, Potter, “If the Republicans dismissed every Democrat in county office when they came Into power in 1916 the Democrats can cut loose the Republicans in 1923,’' declared County Commissioner John Kitley, Democrat, today. He was discussing circulation of a petition by prominent citizens tor retention of Benjamin M. Morgan, as superintendent of Julietta insane asylum after Jan. 1. Kitley and John McCloskey, Democratic commissioner-elect, who goes on the board Jan. 1. said the petitioners might save their time and trouble because their minds were made up to restore Dr. B. S. Potter to the job. Potter was dismissed by Republicans in 1916. "Dr. Potter served seven years as superintendent at Julietta and he was the best we ever had." said Kitley. The committee Which seeks Morgan's retention has called a mass meeting at the Chamber of Commerce at 4 p. m. Monday. Mrs. John W. Kern will preside. FRAT DANCES OUTLINED Phi Gamma Phi Social Plans Entertainment Series. Plans for a series of dances at the CommunaJ building were outlined at a meeting of Phi Gamma Phi Fraternity at the Tahmud Toral building Wednesday night. Saul Rabb. president. named this committee to direct activities of the fraternity during the winter: Morris Kaplan, athletics; Louis Wides. program; Louis Bledstein, entertainment; Ezra Rosenberg, Bergeant-at-arms. Names of fifteen candidates for membership will be voted upon Sundays

Lewis W. Daugherty Funeral on Saturday

LEWIS W. DAUGHERTY

The Rev. James E. Aikins, former pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, will officiate at funeral services of Lewis W. Daugherty, 51, of 410 E. Forty-Third St., who died at St. Vincent’s Hospital Wednesday. Services will be held at the home 2 p. m. Saturday. Burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Daugherty was vice president of the Travelers’ Mutual Life Insurance Company, and a director of the Indiana Travelers’ Insurance Company. For thirty-five years he was a salesman for the Fahnley and McCrea Millinery Company. Surviving: The widow, a daughter. Mrs. G. A. Ferguson, Indianapolis, and two sons. John Daugherty of Indianapolis and Maurice Daugherty of New Kensington, Pa.

‘Mums’ on Display at Athenaeum

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MRS. CLARENCE R. GREENE

Chrysanthemums as large as a. woman's head, and as fair, are on display at the flower show of the Chrysanthemum Society of America

COUNTY MEET IS HELD * Bu Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind , Nov. B.—Several hundred Modern Woodmen attended a county meeting here at which a large class was initiated. The Forivilte team gave the degree ana the Sheridan team an exhibition drill. John IJ. Volz. Indianapolis, a member of the national board of directors, spoke. SPEEDING AUTOIST SOUGHT BY POLICE Woman Injured as Driver Races Stceet Car, Police today searched for the driver of a large black touring car on a charge of failure to stop following an accident in which Mrs. Frank Crone, 333 N. Walcott St., received a badly sprained ankle and bruised leg. Mrs. Crone started fiom the curb to board a street car at Walcott and E. Wavh.ngton Sts., she told pol.ee. The auto, trying to race the car, struck her a glanc ng blow. Her daughter Imogene, 13, was pushed to safety ahead of her The dr.ver slowed up nearly to a stop, looked back and then sped away Edwin Rice, 3318 W. St. Clair St., suffered scratches when the car he was driving struck a truck parked at 91 N. Warman Ave., owned by Frank Head, Lebanon, Ind. Rice, according to police, said he was blinded by lights of autos coming in the opposite direction. E. E. Witt, 3344 Guilford Ave., was charged with failure to stop after the car he was driving collided with one driven by Miss Lulu Johnston. 2919 Highland PI., at Tw’enty-eighth St. and Capitol Ave.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen belong to: Harry’ L. Clark ,3705 Robson St.. from Kentucky Ave., and West St.; Claude Brillhart, 1202 Southeastern Ave., from 2518 E. Tenth St.; William Neal, Columbus, Ind., from Capitol Ave., and Ohio St.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Claude Brillhart. 1202 Southeastern Ave., found in rear of 936 N. Olney St. Labor Bank Asks Charter. The Union Labor Bank and Trust Company of Ind.anapolia with a $1,000,000 cap.talization, has filed applicat on for charter with the State banking department. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, is president. Sheridan Short Course Arranged By Times Special SHERIDAN, Ind., Nov. B.—John R. Gilkey, county agricultural agent, has arranged a farmers’ short course to be at Sheridan, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. Several well known speak era will on the program.

IORIST DEFIES KLAN TO OUST HI IN BASTROP HEARING Judge Odom Overrules Motion < Filed by Attorneys for * Skipwith. By United Press BASTROP. La., Nov. B.—Defying the Ku-Klux Klan to prevent his sitting in judgment of further misdemeanor cases in Baitrop wherein Klansmen and others are involved. Judge Fred Odom today over ruled a motion to recuse him. The motion was filed by attorneys for J. K. Skipworth, exalted cyclops of the Ku-Klux Klan in Moorehouse parish, and others who scored Odom as biased and incompetent after five supposed Klansmen were found guilty of misdemeanors. Judge Odom overruled the motion and an appeal was immediately taken to the Supreme Court. The defense then filed a motion for a re trial for Jeff Burnett, convicted yesterday of holding up a youth whom he mistook for Thomas Richards w r ho disappeared a week later. No further cases will be tried until the criminal term of court here next spring. Tools Reported Stolen George Cochran, 221 W. Thirtieth St., reports tools valued at S4O stolen from a job at Forty-Sixth and Pennsylvania Sts.

'at the Athenaeum. Mrs. Clarence R. Greene is aiding her husband, proprietor of Greene's Flower Shop, 5 E. Ohio St., at the show.

MISS DEARTH CASE STILL_A_ RIDDLE Nation-Wide Search Brings No Clew. By United Press MUNCIE. Ind . Nov. B—The mys tery surrounding the disappearance ol Miss Marguerite Dearth, 22, daughtei of Judge and Mrs. Clarence W. Dearth of Muncle, is still as baffling as one week ago today, when the joung woman was last seen. Despite the fact that a nation wide search has been under way, no clew has been received. The fact that not the slightest clew bus been uncovered here or elsewhere gives basis tor hope that she baa not ended her life but is in a larger c.y. where she may be found doing social service work or working as a student nurse in a hospital. The,e is a possibility that the young women may have ended her life by drowr ing somewhere in this vicinity, m which event the waters may not give u;> their victim tor some time STOKES VERDICT MAY BE RETURNED BEFORE NIGHT Summing Up of Evidence Nears Completion. •liy Ltitled Press NEW YORK. Nov. B.—The Stokes divorce trial may go to the jury and a verdict is possible before night, attorneys said as Samuel Untermeyer, counsel for Helen Elwood Stokes, started completion of summing up for the defense when the case was tesumed today. SHEIK •OFFICER’’” IN~ JAIL Young Man Detained by Government on Two Charges. Slicked black hair and vamping eyes of a young man with S6OO in his pocket and a “supposed” United States Government badge On his chest, proved irresistible to many Indianapolis girls, and helped put Hftrold Van Aken, alias Buehl, 25, back in jail, according to officers. He is charged with impersonating an officer. and vagrancy. Van Aken, according to Federal Officer Seth Ward and Detectives Roach j and Fossa tti, served a term at , Leavenworth prison on conviction of i obtaining money Under false pretenses. He came here from New Orleans and took up abode at the Lincoln. Lilly Executives to Talk The Altrusa Club will hear a talk on “System in Business” by Harry S. Noel, assistant manager of Eli Lilly ft Cos., at a lunhceon Saturday at the Lincoln. The club has been invited to the Y. W. C. A. Friday night, when Miss Julia Tolman Lee, tional worker for the finance division of the national Y. W. O. A. board. Will speak on "Educational Salesmanship and Service.” liradwhr* From Slight fnlitu T,*xive BROVO QUININK Tablets relieva the Headache by curing the Cos and. A tonic axatire and germ destroyer. Xhu box bears the signature of E. W Qrotfc. 30c. —Ad fltwmint,

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MRS. PEARL OWENS IS COP VOLUNTEER First Woman Driver to Offer Services for No-Accident Week Stunt —Parade Program Given,

The first woman automobile driver to volunteer to act as a traffic officer at Washington and Meridian Sts., from 12 m. to 12:30 p. m. Saturday, the last day of No Accident week, was Mrs. Pearl Owens, 1127 Bacon St. Four other women will be on duty at this corner. They will be assisted by uniformed officers. Mrs. Pearl Owens walked into the police accident prevention bureau today to offer her services. “I drive through the downtown district every day,” she said. ”1 think we women drivers should co-operate with the traffic officers. 1 sincerely W’ant to see traffic from a traffic cop's standpoint.” Parade Line-up The complete line-up of the No Accident Week parade starting from Vermont and Meridian Sts., at 2 p. ru. Friday was announced today by Miss Rachel Bray, secretary of the accident prevention bureau. In the parade will be the 1,200 Junior traffic officers from the schools, and school safety councils. Because of objections of their parents, some mem hers of safety councils will not march. The parade will move south In Meridian St., around Monument Circle to the right, to Washington St., east in Washington to Pennsylvania, north in Pennsylvania to Ohio, east in Ohio to Alabama. It will disband in front of the City Hall, where the Junior officers will assemble on the steps. Traffic Officer Frank R. Owen of the accident prevention squad will introduce speakers. Addresses will be made by E. U. Graff, superintendent of schools; Father Morris J. O’Conner of the Catholic Community Center, and Mayor Shank. Badges will be presented to the boy officers by Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff, Traffic Captain Michael J Glenn and the safety committee of city council: Ernest Klngstqn, Jesse Sisloff, tflmer F. Gay, Walter W. Wise, Ben H. Thompson, Lloyd Claycombe, Theodore Bernd and William E. CJauer. Chief Rikhoff then will give the pledge of office to the boy cops. Division Positions

Parade divisions will form In this order: First Division School children marching in this division form in northwest section of University Park. Automobiles form In Meridian St between Vermont and Michigan. Detail of mounted police; police and firemen's band; Chief Rikhoff and officials in auto; Captain Glenn and members of accident prevention bureau in auto; speakers’ auto, with Mayork Shank, Superintendant Graff and Father O’Conner; board of public safety and City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth in auto; board of school commissioners and Assistant Superintendant D. T. Weir in auto; 500 school children marching; Five Prevention Chief Reidel in auto; fire prevention display; police and firemen marching; Marion County coroner’s car: members of city council in autos; Kingan & Cos., float; E. C. Atkins Company, float. Second Division—School children for this division in northeast section of University Park. Autos form in

Meridian St,, between Michigan and ! North Sts. Hoosier Motor Club auto. Chamber of Commerce auto, Nordyke & Marmon float, Polk Mil!. Company float. 500 school children marching, educational Film Comiwn.’ float, Hilgemeier Company floar. National Cask© Company float. Indianapolis abattoir Company float. School Children in lane Third Division—School cl ildren tor this division form in southeast seotlon of University Park. Autos form in Vermont St., between Meridian and Pennsylvania. Shortridge High School band, Indianapolis Auto Trade Association. Yellow Cab Company display. 500 school children marching, Lyk-Giass Company locomotive. Max Trexler wrecked car display, Prest-o-Llte Com pany float. National Oil Company float. Fourth Division —Children for this division form in southwest section of University Park. Autos In Vermont St., between Meridian and Illinois. Stewart-Warner Company, float; Link Bell Company, float; Advance Paint Company, float, 500 children marching; w’eber Milk Company, float; Dilling Candy Cos., float; Standard Oil Company, float; Checker Cab CcmPiany. ARMED MEN ARE SOUGHT Suspicious Circninstances Puzzle Gasoline Slation Man. Police are watching the activities of the ow’ner of a auto whose license w v as taken down by a titling station man under suspicious circumstances Wednesday night. The car. driven by a white man, and a dark negro, both of whom were carrying guns, stopped and filled the auto tank with gas. After traveling north, they turned down a dark, unimproved street.

Auto Cute Traction Business Decrease of more than 500,000 in the number of passengers carried during the last five years by the Inj dianapolis ant} Cincinnati Traction Company is laid to the growing use lof automobiles and motor busses, in !a petition to discontinue the use of certain signal devices, on file today with the public service commission. In 1917. according to the petition, the I line carried 1,349,245 passengers, and ; in 1922, it carried 800.045. During the first nine months of 1923 , the line transported 526,884 passengers. Hod Carrier Clubhouse Anew clubhouse on a vacant tract on N. Missouri St. south of Indiana Ave., is planned by officials of the Ilod Carriers’ Local Union, No. 120, it was announced today. The Hod Carriers’ Building Company has been organized with $20,000 capital. Prowler Seen by Neighbor Police made a hurry up run to 134 S. Gladstone Ave. Wednesday night and fou.rd a negro had been seen prowling around the house occupied by J. A. King, whose family has been away three weeks

RALSTDN PLEADS FOR CONFIDENCE IN U. MARY ‘Governments Rest on Courts or on Bayonets,’ Says U, S, Senator, Strong pleas tor faith in and respect for the judiciary were made by Senator Samuel M. Ralston at a dinner given in his honor by the Indianapolis Bar Association at the Lincoln Wednesday night. ‘ The lesson of history is that governments rests either upon the courts or upon bayonets. Intimidate a judge so that neither his power to discriminate nor his conscience can be given effect in his opinion and you will strike a fatal blow at the Nation,” he said. “I am opposed to what is termed the recall. I do not believe in it applied either to judges or their decisions. If such a policy should become universal in this country, this nation soon would become a rope of sand. “Lawyers commonly are regarded as lacking in progressive sentiment,” he declared. "There is tendency to get into a rut, to support a Vested wrong merely because it is vested. "The 'golden age’ of the legal profession in Indiana was the period following the Civil War," he said. "The men of that period had learned the basic principles of law and knew how to apply them,” he said. “They were Independent, not merely appendages to captains of industry." INDUSTRIALGIRLS TD PRESENT PLAY

'Colored Glasses' Sketch Has Cast of Fifteen, The student industrial cooperation group of the Young Women’s Christian Association will present a sketch, "Colored Glasses,” at Hollenbeck Hall 4 p. m Sunday. The group is composed of twelve girls from Butler College and twelve from the Industrial Federation of the city Y. W. C A.. The first group was organized In Indianapolis about six years ago. The plan is now being carried out by the Y W C. A in thirty different cities The local student industria' group meet® every other Monday night, for a supper and discussion, alternately at Butler College and at the association building. Cast for the sketch. "Colored Glasses,; - is: Laura Hard, Chloe Mehnrry, Florence Lupton, Ruth Bales Mildred Stocklale, Katherine Lennox. Lena Weitknecht, Estelle Fisk, Louise Strickland, Jeannie Patno, Marie Schenk, Eleanor Salmon, Myra Majors, Dorothea Nordholt and Clara Vincent. Miss Dorothy Bean, industrial secretary, in charge. U.S. GIVES FRANCE LAST WORD ON REPARATIONS Climax in Negotiations Reached to Force Settlement. By United press WASHINGTON, Nov. B.—France today is understood to have the last word of the United States as to whether it will he worth while tor this Government to proceed with proposed expert conference on Germany’s capacity to pay reparations. The climax is believed reached in the negotiations to reach a basis of agreement between the different powrers for this final attempt to bring ebout a real settlement of the reparations controversy.

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FATHER’S TALE JAILS SON Man Is Fined S3OO, Sentenced 120 Days for Abusing Parents. Ernest Lang, 38, of 909 N. Pershing Ave., was fined S3OO and costs and sentenced to serve 120 days at the Indiana State farm Wednesday by C.ty Judge Pro Tern. Lloyd D. Claycombe on a blind] tiger charge. Lang was arrested Tuesday following a complaint by bis father,'Leon ard Lang, 80, who testified that h.s son, w’hile in a drunken condition, abused both Mrs. Lang and himself. ‘SHEIK’OF BANDIT GANfijS HUNTED Information of Robbers’ Pal Asked of Police, Inspector of Detectives John Mullin, today received an appeal from Sherift William Traeger of Los Angeles, Cal., for information the*. might be obtained from Jack Holloway and Thomas Dranginis as to the identity of “Biackie” or the “Shiek," who Traeger says was with Holloway and Dranginis in a bank robbery there in August. Dranginis and Holloway were arrested here several days ago after they held up the filling station attendant in Mayor Shanks front yard, and were captured by Police Sergi. Pat O’Connor and Patrolmen Deßarr and Golder. In statements to detectives, they admitted the Los Angeles bank hold-up. Traeger in his letter today said he had indictments against tnem and “Biackie.” Traeger wrote: "If you will let me extradite those men I know I can get them sentences on charges of banditry and of assault and battery’. “I also know that Holloway was connected with the robbery of four filling station robberies here, for his identification was made perfect. “If you do not allow’ me to have them now’, I will come after them when they finish whatever sentence they get." Muffin said the men would be tried here on the automobile banditry charge which carried a prison sentence, of ten to twenty-five years.

STREET CLEANING LANDCONSIDERED $74,000 May Be Asked of City Council, Purchase of land at Fifty-Second St. and the Monon railroad, with a $74,000 bond issue, tor a unit of th t city street cleaning department barns may be asked of city council tonight in an adjourned meeting. The board of works passed a preliminary resolution tor acquisition of this ground late Wednesday. The old Shelby St. barns have been considered inadequate. John King, president of the council. said today that it was possible the adjourned session tonight would resolve itself into a special eeting to consider ordinances intr ffuded Monday night. The motor bus ordinance, creation of office of public utility con. .lltant, and a number of traffic ordinances may be considered. An ordinance regulating the use o! gas and off burners in homes to comply with National Fire L'nderwriters’ regulations is ready. Part of Windshield Gone Miss Ethel Sparrow, 24 E. Ray Sttold police today the upper part of The windshield on her car was stolen I while the car was parked in her back yard Wednesday night.

THURSDAY, NOV. 8, 1923

GIFT OF RODO NIADETDBDTLER Albert C, Snider and Mother Aid University Fund, Albert C. Snider, president of the Hide, Leather and Belting Company, and his mother, Mrs. Alice Snider, have given $25,000 to the Butler University endow’ment and building fund, officials of the institution announced today. The gift was made anonymously late in the summer. Mrs. Snider was graduated from Butler in 1866 and her son attended Butler as a member of the class of 1900. "Viewing the program for a bigger Butler from the standpoint of the business man. 1 can see where it is to my. interest and the interest of all other business enterprises in our city to bring in new blood and raise the standards not only of living but of thinking as w’ell,” Snider said. ROBBERYTRACES NEARLY REIVED ( Spencer Recovers From 'Frontier' Hold-up, By Times Special SPENCER. Ind.. Nov. B.—All visible traces of Spencer’s "frontier robbery” in which fifteen or twenty bandits blew the safes of the Exchange and First National Banks early Tuesday morning and escaped with about $20.000 loot while holding townspeople at bay were gone today. Telephone communication, destroyed when the bandits cut all wires, is practically restored. Vaults in the banks are being rebuilt and within a short time a few scattered bullet marks in the casing and doors of several buildings wffl be the only remaining testimony of the daring robbery. Frank Gray and John Barge, wounded in the gun battle with the gang, are out of danger. George Smith, who suffered a slight flesh wound, is going about his work. However, excitement still prevails and the daring robbery is the chief topic of conversation. Scattered rumors concerning the identity of the men are heard, but no definite clew has anywhere been uncovered. $1,200 SUITCASE MIX-UP Two Travelers and a Policeman in This Triangle Play. . Patrolman A1 Ray. assigned to the" Union Station, set out to rectify a $1,200 mistake caused by two identical suit cases. Louis Nolan. Detroit, Mich- carried a suit case around he thought w’as his. Ralph Cunningham, Detroit, did likewise. Patrolman Ray finally found Cunningham in the station’s restaurant set the two grips down, mixed them around and then sought to Judge which was which. Nolan, however, showed an interior of different description. Has grip contained $1,200 in currency. OFFICER’S TRIAL STARTS Jurors Examined to Hear Policeman Shooting Case. Trial of Admiral Harris, 2019 A1 vord St., colored policeman, charged with shooting Eugene J. Cordier on Feb. 4. this year, began in Criminal Court today. Harris was attempting to arrest Cordier on charge of liquor law violations, and shot him when he resisted arrest, it was said at the time of the shooting. During the morning Jurors were examined.