Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1923 — Page 1
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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 184
PARDON GIVEN ' TO WAR TIME U. S. PRISONERS Coofidge Presents Political Offenders With Christmas Commutation of Sentences Without Any Conditions, CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY AND SACRAMENTO INCLUDED Indiana Legion Commander Protests Announcement Is 1 Made at White House Session Late Today, Bu United Press V ASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—President Coolidge has commuted fthe sentences of all war-time prisoners in Federal jails convicted at Chicago, Kansas City and Sacramento. The commutation of sentences was announced at the "White a louse today. No conditions were attached to the executive eleinc \cy, according to the White House statement.
CJLLINS ORDERS VENIRE OPFIFTY FOR SHAW TRIAL Drawing of Special Names Expected to Be Made Monday. A special venire of fifty men, from which a jury will be picked to try John Thomas Shaw, 24, colored. 1418 E. Maryland St., charged with the murder of Mrs. Hlene Whelchel, 22, of 1854 Applegate Stf, Nov. 28, was ordered drawn today. Criminal Judge James A. Collins ordered County Clerk Albert H. Losche to instruct jury commissioners to make the drawing. The trial tarts Wednesday. It is believed the drawing will take place Monday. |( The belief that James "Hunky” Vohn, an Albanian. 403 W. Maryland St., to Whom Shaw declared he loaned his car the night of the murder, did pot know how to drive an automobile, was substantiated today, according to Inspector John Mullin. Relatives, friends’and neighbors of John, Mullin *aid, have testified John count not drive a car. John told detectives he could not. Shaw was arrested a few days after the body of Mrs. Whelchel was found lying between the Big Four tracks beneath the High School Rd. bridge, one mile north of Ben Davis. She had been abducted the night before as she alighted from a street car at East and lowa Sts. Statements of witnesses showed she was carried off In an automobile believed to belong to Shaw. W. S. Henry and Joseph K. Brown, colored attorneys, have been retained by Mrs. Roy Gill, colored, of 1418 E. Maryland St.. Shaw's sister, to assist In the defense. Mrs. Gill appeared in Criminal Court today and informed Judge Collins she wished the *.id of the two attorneys. Judge Rollins said they could confer with H. B. Pike and C. H. Thurston, whom he appointed to conduct the defense. TWO GET ONE YEAR EACH One year reformatory sentences Were given to William Winters. 23. of 61 E- Frank St., and John Farricane, |6. of 67 N. Bradley St. today upon jcharges of transporting liquor, by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Sheriff Snider captured them after a two-mille chase in the east part of the city Sept. 19. 7more SUOPPING CAVA
Lloyd George Calls Present British Premier “A Reckless Amateur”
By THE RIGHT HONORABLE DA■FID LLOYD GEORGE, O. M.. M. P. Former British Prime Minister (Copyright, 1923, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Reproduction In whole or in part prohibited. EONDON, Dec. 15.—Most people when climbing great heights have at one time or another experienced an unaccountable impulse to throw themselves down. So engrained In human nature is this dizzying effect of an altitude that the devil, with his sinister knowledge of cur weakness* on a famous occasion used this temptation as one of his tfertt tasting allurements. I can find
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LEGION STAND CITED Holies Says Every Convention Has Opposed Prisoners’ Release. Disapproval of the action of President Coolidge in releasing thirty-one political prisoners was expressed today by Lemuel A. Bolles, national adjutant of the American Legion. "The American Legion at every convention has gone on record against j such action," Bolles said. CHICAGO MASTER SWINDLER LEADS DUAL LIFE ROLE Millionaire by Night and Plain 'AI Bronson,' Salesman, in Daytime. Bv United Free* CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Convinced Leo Koretz, Chicago's master swindler, has fled from the United States, aui thoritles today planned a network of legal complications with which they hope to make certain his conviction in event of capture. Two avenues of escape which Koretz is likely to have taken were investigated and found to lead nowhere. The man who swindled his family, friends and scores of wealthy Chicago men of more than $5,000,000, did not escape on a private ship or by airplane. police said. Reports he had purchased the power boat, Flying Fox, were found false when Dr. John A. Harriss. New York, told authorities he still owned the vessel. I Two aviators, stopped in a flight from Chicago to Georgia, were found to have no knowledge of the swindler de luxe. They were held twenty four hours at Fitzgerald, Ga. Led Dual Life Stanley Klarkowski, assistant State's attorney, announced he had obtained evidence Koretz lived a dual life. "From 6 p. m. this man was a wealthy club man, an extravagant millionaire, flitting among the bright lights, mingling with men*of wealth and affairs,” Klarkowski said. "After his round of theaters and cabarets—after negotiation with friends and acquaintances to sell his fraudulent oil stock, he went home to his wife and children. "But in the daytime.” Klarkowski said, "he was 'AI Bronson,’ traveling salesman of moderate means, and kept an apartment across the city with another woman.” Koretz is said to have obtained atleast $5,000,000 through sale of stock In the "Bayano River Trust of Panama,” a mythical oil project. PAUPER BURIAL FOR sl4 Funeral With Casket Over Five Feet in Length Costs $32. A contract for burial of Marion County poor in 1924 will be awarded, county commissioners said today, to Royster & Askin, who offered to handle all funerals for sl4, in which the casket is less than five feet long. All over that will be $32. Burial, including ehmbalming, burial clothes, digging a grave, furnishing a lot and casket.
no other explanation for Mr. Baldwin's mad leap into an abyss from the pinnacle of the premiership. When I left for America last week in September I should have suspected any man who foretold such a possibility, of displaying symptoms of incipient lunacy. Here was the prime minister with an unbroken and unchipped majority of seventy-eight. That majority would have carried him through the next four years with patient joy, whatever path he chose to travel. Suddenly Mr. Baldwin had a seizure. No one In his senses thought that it had anything to do with the urgent problems which be wm called upon to
Did Marion County Get ‘Stung’ on the $130,000 Poor Farm Building Termed ‘More Like Cow Barn?’
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ABOVE. FOUR OF SIX WINGS OF NEW POOR FARM BUILDING; MIDDLE. SHOWING WHY SCREENS CAN NOT BE PLACED ON WINDOWS AND THIN METAL FRAMES; BELOW. ONE OF THE SIMPLE ENTRANCES OF THE $130,000 STRUCTURE. KEITH STARS GIVE CARRIERS A TREAT Boys and Girls Who Carry Indianapolis Times Are Given Wonderful Entertainment,
By WALTER D. HICKMAN Oh, Boy, it was some show. ** More than 1,500 Times boy and girl carriers filled every seat on the first floor of B. F. Keith’s this morning. Keith stars got up In the middle of their "night” so they could be at the theater* by 10 o'clock for the big show. There was no money in it for the actors of the five acts on the bill as everyone donated his service. The
Lincoln’s Son, Hermit, Calls on President
K, t v : >ed Sews Dec. 15 —Long, slanting shadows were fall- . ...J lng across the White House. A huge limousine of ancient vintage. rolled under the portico, with a short, stooped, bearded little man sitting in the rear seat. There was a sad, distant look on his face. A negro servant ume with a silver card tray in his hand®. The pensive little man leaned out and deposited his card on the tray. The old darkey glanced at thq name on the card, stiffened suddenly, his eyes wide open, and then bowed low. The stranger lifted his hand In a feeble salute, and drove off. He was Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, and he had lived at the White as u youth more than half a century ago. Although he has been Secretary of War, minister to Great Britain and prominent in the business world In his time, he is now a recluse, and the simple act of respect In leaving his card for the President and Mrs. Coolidge was one of his few departures from his hermhslike seclusion. Ind'ana Alumni to Mt Prof. Herman J. Toung. department of psychology, Indiana University, will speak at a lunhceon of the Indiana Alumni Association of the University at the Lincoln next Monday. Former students and friends of the University in the city attending the conference on mental heajth will be guests.
solve. An amendment of the safeguarding of industries act would have achieved everything that he even pretended to be in the least relevant to the prob’em of unemployment. No pledge stood in the way of such an amendment. However, he had his fit and before even his cabinet knew it he had jumped over the rails, dragging behind him his government and hi* prfrty, and they all came crashing tojgeher to the ground. Verdict for Free Trade In large measure the feat was attributable to the refusal oX the British public to alter the system upon which their industries bad been
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carriers saw five of the regular acts on the current bill. The children saw these acts Just as they are presented at a regular Keith show as the complete stage crew and orchestra was used. If yells, laughs, screams and smiles mean anything to actors, then "Pop" Cameron and all the others were wonderfully repaid. It was through the kindrtbss of Roltare Eggleston, manager of Keith's, that the big variety chow was given. The children cheered and yelled when it was announced the Universal Film Company, through W. H. Each, had sent over the new Baby Peggy inovle, "The Darling of New York.” Abe Hammerschlag and members of the Keith Orchestra took their place* in the pit. Phil Brown as master of ceremonies introduced the acts. F’lrst came "Topics of the Day” and "Aesop's Fables.” Then Billy Glason, a former newsboy of Boston and now a Keith star, opened the show with a bunch of lively songs. Billy started things off right. Then Heras and Wills presented their comedy gymnastic act, "Back(l'ontinued on Page 11)
BOARD TO APPEAL IN BEDFORD CASE Order to Reinstate Officer to Be Contested, Order of Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin that the toard of safety reinstate Patrolman Harvey W. Bedford will be appealed to Supreme Court, the board decided today. Chamberlin decided Bedfard had been illegally-dismissed with Lieut. Arthur McGee upon Insubordination charges growing out of their fruitless trip to Colfax, Ind., to serve' a warrant upon a young man charged with murder of Robert Watson several months ago. It was charged the officers did not obtain permission from headquarters for the trip. The judge did not over rule the dismissal of McGee.
• ased for the last eighty years. It was not altogether due to that issue. The utter discredit into which the government had fallen through its inept handling of foreign affairs and the consequent lowering of the prestige of this country in the world, had a good deal to do with it._ On the whole, however, it would be fair to assume that the decision is a verdict in favor of free trade. Lord George Hamilton said the best thing ever uttered about protection as a party policy In Great Britain, “protection is a good starter but a bad stayer.’’ Bott\ Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Joseph Chamber--1
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M’CRAY ANNOUNCES NAMING OF FOUR Successor to Late Dr, Wilmer Christian Is Chosen, I'our appointments to State boards wore announced today by Governor McCray. Rush G. Biidd, Rushvllle, was appointed a trustee of the Indiana Village for Epileptics at Newcastle to succeed the late Dr. Wilmer Christian of Indianapolis. George E. Nichdte. Anderson, will succeed J. L. Cowing, Rushvllle. itsigned, as a trustee of the Eastern Indiana. Hospital for the Insane. Harvey M. Anthony, Muncie, and | Harry M. Bell, Logansport, were reappointed members of the State Board of Registration of Professional Enr.ireers and Hand Surveyors.
For Shoppers Downtown retail stores will remain open until 6 p. m. next week. Beginning Thursday clothing stores will remain open after 6 p. m., including Christmas Eve, the Merchants’ Association announced today.
LAWYERS TO AID M’CRAY liyan, Rurkrlshaus & Ryan Are Retained by Governor Governor McCray has retained the firm of Ryan, Ruckelshaus & Ryan, attorneys, to assist In his defense against criminal charges pending aganst him in Criminal Court. These attorneys will work with James W. Noel and George Barnard, attorneys already retained by Mc( ray.
j lain, who each in turn committed their [ brilliant talents to the advocacy of protection, lived to realize the shrewdness of this observation. Foreign Influence Lacking The appeal to foreign example does, not influence the British mind, and for very good reason. What suits other countries is not necessarily adaptable to our trade. We are international traders to a much larger extent than any other country in the world. We are more dependent upon catering for overseas trade and business than any other country. The prosperity of our main industries, i therefore, 1* built upon Iht &Mi§ f£ ■
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While the county commissioners astutely deny the new buildings at the county poor farm “look like cow barns,” as described by the board of charities, little groups of ag’.'d persons gaze wistfully at the new brick buildings and wonder. Most anything would be accept able, of course. They have spent their days in dark, ill-smelling, utterly wretched quarters in the old building, anl now they wonder If even a “cowbarn” were not as well. The now building, built at a cost of $130,000 after much stroking of chins In the commissioners' chambers. are one-story briqjt. The ctilings are about nine and a half fed from the floor. The floors are concrete. cold and damp. The roof, of composition shingles, has no metal comb and no sign of eaves to carry water away. No Screens Are Planned The window frames are composed of a thin iron strip ijet against the brick through which much daylight Is visible. The window sashes ate of steel. They swing on a horizon tal axis and therefore no screens can be used unless it be an expensive box screen. According to the board of chart ties, no screens are contemplated. The patients and inmates are frea to associate (perforce) with flies and mosquitos. The board of charities stated no hospital quarters were provided in the new buildings. The commissioners denied the charge. A portion of the old building will be kept intact. The board expressed disgust. “Loathsome —smelling and unfit,” It said. “The dead and dying, the suffering and the well must occupy the same quarters In the old part," the report stated. Thirty .Sick Men in Room Thirty sick men lie In a room in the old part of the building. Dally cleanings under direction of William Lewis, superintendent, seem to be of no avail. The wretched, nauseating ('dors of decay' still avail. Lewis has been found not at fault by the charities board. "We cannot help but feel that very little attention has been given the planning or erection of this new building and that a large amount of money had been spent without obtaining results.” charities board said. "It looks more like a cow barn at the State fairground than anew home for the unfortunates of Marion County. "I deny that the new building looks like a cow bam," said Harry D. Tutevviler, county commissioner. “That building was patterned after Chicago's and Is supposed to be a model.” Much water will flow under the bridges and there will be much tugging at beards until we know what a cow barn really looks like. Meanwhile and some time after, the poor will stand about in small groups and wonder.
SLIGHTLY WARMER TODAY’SFORECAST Lowest Mark Is 24J)egrees, Registered at 7 A, M, HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 24 10 a. rn 29 7 a. m •• 25 II a. m 31 8 a. m 26 12 (noon) 33 9 a. m 27 1 p. m 35 Tingling ears and fingers may belie the assertion, but it’s warmer today than Friday, according to the weather man. Mercury dropped to 22 degrees at 6 a. m. Friday, while the coldest mark today was 24 at 7 a. m. Sunday temperature will be moderate, it was forecast. There may be a slight cold wave again Monday, but this can not be definitely predicted, the Government bureau said.
the purchase of material, equipment and accessories In the cheapest markets. Cotton, cati. shipping, shipbuilding, engineering, building and entreport trades have thrived on the cheap buying. Foreign, countries are satisfied with their own markets a comparatively small percentage of exports. British industries would starve without a very large export trade. At least 40 per eent of the produce of British labor, either in goods or in service, is paid for by buyers beyond the seas. Os no other country can this be said. Heno* |t is that Britain EVW** tiBA gtOJC Um >£<4* ItJtH Ift
‘CHARLEY AND LEW COMBINE’ LATEST DOPE Jewett-Lemcke Faction Understood to Have Decided to Throw Lot With Shank for Governor if Ed Jackson Shows Strength, FAVORED MAYORALITY CANDIDATE A QUESTION Political Feud of Long and Bitter Standing Comes to End With Reported Agreement Upon State Campaign Affairs, By FELIX F. BRUNER Settlement of long-standing differences between two factions of the Republican party in Marion County, the Jewett-Lemeke group and the Shank group, was near today as the two elements prepared to join forces to defeat Ed Jackson, Secretary of State, who is expected to announce his candidacy for Governor soon.
If Jackson is a candidate, Charles W. Jewett, Ralph Lemcke and their friends will join Mayor Shank in an effort to beat him for the Republican nomination, is the word that has been passed around. First Signs of an impending coalition came when Shank named Leo K. Fesler, county auditor, as treasurer of his campaign. F’esler, while always a personal friend of the mayor, has been considered a part of the JewettLemcke faction and has received the support of publicity agencies friendly to that faction. Against Jackson Leaders of the Jewett-Lemcke group are understood to have informed Shank and his friends that they are for him “if It come to a fight between him and Jackson.” Jackson has been considered a candidate for Governor almost since the last election. He has been busy for many months building political fences. Jackson will j have the support of the Ku-Klux i Klan, it Is expected, while Shank has l>een In open opposition to the Klan. The combination of these two factions of the party may lead to complications making working agreements necessary. Local politicians are looking forward to the next mayoralty election. It is in such elections that the two elements have been most bitterly opposed. It has long been reported Fesler would like to be mayor. It Is possl- ! ble he would be satisfactory to the j two elements. On the other hand, 'Joseph L. Hogue, city controller. Is j said to have similar ambitions. He Is distinctly a Shank man. Want Hand in Flection It has been reported that the JewettLemcke faction expects to be allowed a hand In the selection of the next Republican candidate for mayor In event of Shank's election as Governor. Mayor Shank in discussing the situation denied he had any candidate for mayor or that there had been any agreement so far as the next city election is concerned. ‘‘l am not for anybody for mayor,” Shank said. 'I believe in giving all the boys a chance. If anything like that is settled it will be after I am in the Governor’s office.” A third faction in local Republican politics still is to be reckoned with. This is the Coffin-Dodson faction, headed by George V. Coffin and Charles O. Dodson. This element is strong in the courthouse and it has been reported that Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal Court might be a candidate for mayor acceptable to this faction. Former Opponents The wide division between the Jewett-Lemcke faction and the Shank faction became most apparent in 1917 when Jewett and Shank were opposing candidates for the Republican nomination for Mayor. Jewett defeated Shank and Shank bolted the party, running as an independent candidate. Jewett succeeded in being elected by a narrow margin. The division continued in county and State politics and became pronounced again in the last city election. Thomas Carr Howe was the choice of the Jewett-Lemcke faction in the primary and Shank again was a candidate. Shank succeeded in obtaining the nomination and the Jew-ett-Lemcke element switched much of Its support to Boyd M. Ralston, Democrat. Asa result. Shank succeeded In obtaining a large part of the Democratic vote, and a goodly section of the Republican vote, leaving Ralston only the Jewett-Lemcke Republicans and the Democrats who vote the party ticket as a matter of habit.
Congress Today Senate Consider calendar bills. House Considers committee assignments.
the world. That is her line of business and It pays her well. Housewife Shrank There was the additional reason that the housewife shrank at the inevitable increase in the cost of living which follows a tariff. She viewed with distress proposals for taxing her apples, tin goods and other luxuries of humble homes. She suspected that all her other household expenses, especially clothes, would also become more expensive. Free trade has thus once more renewed its life. But in beating off the attack on free trade tta vot&* has created % problem of novpl character
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PARTLY cloudy and warmer weather tonight with lowest temperature about 32 degrees. Sunday fair.
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BUSSES BANNED ON MERIDIAN SI. NORTH OF CREEK Operation Upon Substitute Route to Begin Sunday, I Operation of busses upon Meridian I St., between Fall Creek and Maple | Rd.. is prohibited, Charles A. Bookwaiter, park board president, an- ; nounced today. Smith Bowman, b°ad of the firm which intends to run ten busses from Monument PI., to Maple Rd., said the J route would be changed so as to run in Meridian St., nortn to Creea or a street immediately south, thence east or west to Central Ave., or Illinois St., across the creek and on north to Maple Rd., over some street not containing car tracks and not a boulevard. The park board prohibited operation on Meridian St., north of 'The i creek because it is a boulevard. Heavy I traffic Is not allowed on boulevards. The new' route and schedule will be | completed In time to start operation ! Sunday morning, Bowman said. Sev- ; oral routes were being tried out. HARDING MEMORIAL FUND AT $7,543 Campaign to Close Officially on Sunday, With the Harding Memorial campaign to close Sunday, today’s contributions brought the Indianapolis total up to $7,543. Campaign headquarters at the Union Trust Company and The Times are still receiving contributions. Members of the committee expressed satisfaction with results of the campaign. Indianapolis compares favorably with other in the campaign, it was said. Those contributing SIOO today: J. H. Trimble, E. C. Atkins & Cos., Polar Ice and Fuel Company, and Frederick M. Ayres. The Knights of Columbus Luncheon Club contributed $37.25. The Times received a subscription of $25 today from William H. Avant, 34 N. Pennsylvania St. FORMER BEDFORD MAN IS COOLIDGE APPOINTEE John H. Edwards Named Solicitor for Interior Department. Bu United Pres* WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. —Among nominations sent to Senate by President Coolidge today is: The solicitor for the Department of Interior —John H. Edwards of Indiana. John H. Edwards formerly lived at Mitchell and at Bedford. He at one time was a member of the legislature and has recently been connected with the postoffice department. He was legal assistant to Governor James P. Goodrich during sessions of the Legislature in the Goodrich administration.,
In British political history. Asa result of the election there is no party in the new House of Commons strong enough to govern without the support or at least the acquiescence of another party with which it has just been at deadly grips. The electorate definitely and decisively turned down the idea of coalition between parties in the 1922 elections. It was never popular. It was purely a disagreeable necessity born of exceptional conditions and It was always watched with suspicion by every party in the state. The experiment can not be renewed either on the right or on the left The (Continued on Page 1)