Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35 —NUMBER 214

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DRY LAW IS FLAYED IN HOUSE Veteran Congressman Declares Prohibition Has Failed to Show Moral, Economic or Financial Benefit to Society, Business or Nation, By L fitted Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—“ Prohibition has failed to show to show one moral or economic benefit to society, to business or to the Federal treasury.” General Issac Sherwood of Ohio told the House today in one of the bitterest attacks on the dry law ever heard in Congress. General Sherwood, in his 89th year, has been a teetoler 76 years. He is the only veteran of the Union Armies in the Civil War now in the House.

After four years of prohibition. , Sherwood said, ‘‘not one promise of j the alluring program of the AtnitSaioon League for reforming the nation has been kept.’’ ‘‘Cnme has Increased 40 per cent, divorcee in fifty cities have increased 35 per cent and murders have increased 40 per cent. And worse than all the calamities is the Federal record of the dope fiends now numbering nearly one million.” fling at t pshaw Sherwood took a fling at the dry champion In the House—Representative Upshaw of Georgia—and dubbed former Representative Volstead of Minnesota, author of the dry law. a "humbug.” Upshaw In two hours of “skyrocket oratory" utterly ignored the record in pointing out the "glories” of prohibition, he said. One of the “more baneful influences of prohibition,” Shewood said, was the large increase in "booze drinking among young men and young girls.” "Young men who never indulged in liquor before are now carrying flasks in hip pockets, loaded with moonshine or bootleg whisky, and young girls are induced to drink the vile stuff in dance halls and automobiles parked along lonesome roads.” Spend "Huge Sum” Referring to the financial side of prohibition, Sherwood estimated the American people last year spent $550,000,000 for imported Scotch whls 1 ky alone. He estimated at least $22,536,936 was spent last year for thj 11,268,614 liqu/r prescriptions Issue/, by doctors. Sherwood said the Government w**.s losing $600,000,000 a year in reven je and could pay the national debt in ,en years by a stiff tax on light wines and beer. While the people clamor far tax reduction, he said the Administration asks for $20,000,000 to build a “dry navy.” Sherwood declared that shutting out “the best quality of Imported liquors gives the bootleggers a larger demand for home-mads 'undertakers delight.’ ” DOGGONE! DOGGONeTgOOD Officials in Beech Grove Finally Remove Dead Animal from Street. As Beech Grove residents stirred this a. m. they heaved several sighs of relief. The reason—a dead animal that had lain on Churchman Ave. since last Sunday had been removed. "Just give ’em time, and you’d be surprised,” they chorused.

CHURCH SOCIETY PARTY Holy Name Members to Give OldTime Dance Jan. 24. The Holy Name Society of St. Philip Nerl parish will give an old-time dance In the church hall the evening of Jan. 24. Old-time quadrilles and walt2.es will be interspersed with modern dances. Weidley Sale Approved of the Weidley Motors Company to the Showers Brothers Furniture Company of Bloomington, Ind., for $215,500, was approved this morning by Circuit Judge H. O. Chamberlin. The Weidley Company is in receivership in Circuit Court. A motion by the receiver to pay the Government $42,000 as a compromise for an SBO,OOO tax claim, also was approved.

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INTERIOR SCENES OF INDIANAP OLIS ATHLETIC CLUB. LEFT TO RIGHT—MANTEL IN LIBRARY, lIALL FROM BANQUET ROOM ON FOURTH FLOOR, CORNER IN MAIN ENTRANCE HALL, AND LOUNGE ROOM.

CONTEST CLOSES WITH GRAND RUSH 1,100 Proverb Answers Come in at Last Minute, More than 1,100 - proverb answers were received at The Times office in the final rush this morning. The $2,500 contest, with forty-five prizes of from SI,OOO to $5, closed at noon. These judges who will begin selection Monday: E. J. Gausepohl, E. J. Gausepohl Company; Judge James A Collins, Criminal Court, and Georg*Buck, principal of Shortridge High School. SNOW PLOWS IN ACTION State Highways Covered in Central and North Sections. Between fifty and sixty plows have been put into action in the central and north sections of the State to battle snow on State highways, A. H. Hinkle, superintendent of maintenance, said today. Snow to the depth of ten inches has fallen at Crown^olnt. MORE SMOKE WARNINGS Flight Second Notices Sent Out by Templeton Today. Eight second notices of violation of the- smoke ordinance and fifteen additional first notices were sent out by H. F. Templeton, assistant chief smoke inspector today. The number brings the total first notices to fortynine and second notices to nineteen. BOARD MAY ANNUL RULE Statutes Specify \Deposit Security, * Says County Attorney. The county boaijl of finance ruling that depositories must secure county deposits 100 per cent instead of the usual 50 or 60 per cent will be reconsidered Jan. 24 by the board, according to Auditor Harry Dunn, who called the meeting. Dunn said Coun ty Attorney Ryan a'dvised the security was fixed by statute and the board could not arbitrarily set the amount.

Twelve Deer Die Because Butler Does Not Want Them

vyTjUEN is a deer not a deer? ** Answer: When it’s a white elephant.” And when is a deer a “white elephant?” When it is kicked out of a home, has no place to go, no friends to protect it, and no room to roam. This was the fate of twelve of the fleet-footed, graceful beasts sheltered in Fairviaw Park until four weeks ago.

G.O.P. ASPIRANTS OPPOSE PROPOSAL TO LIT EXPENSE Candidates for Governor Answer Bush —Shank Offers Headquarters, There will be no agreement among candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor to limit campaign expenses. Candidates to whom this suggestion was made by Edgar D. Bush of Salem, former Lieutenant Governor, and prospective candidate, made this plain today. Mr. Bush asked the candidates to meet him at the Keverin at 10 a. m. Monday to talk over his proposal that campaign headquarters he closed, that no money be spent for advertising and that political workers not he employed. "Interesting,” Says Shank “In answer to your free advertising In this morning's paper I want to say that the article Is very Interesting reading—puts me In the mind of some one trying to write an article on how to run a city by radio," Shank said In a letter to Bush. "To tell the truth. Ed. I tried your scheme with Bob Metzger over twenty \ years ago. I stayed out of his ward and he stayed out of mine and when j the votes were counted In his ward. | the Thirteenth, they didn’t even count Imy brother-in-law’s vote. 1 tried the j same thing again In 1916 and came j very nearly getting skinned. “You Can Hang Around” "I do not want you to mortgago ! your farm in trying to run. I have ! three dandy rooms in the Claypool Hotel, and if you want to you can hang around there either for me or for yourself and It will not cost you a cent. Senator Penrod, my campaign manager, is absolutely donating his services, and up to the present time has been paying his ow n ex]>enses. Os course you realize the same as I do that this is just a two-horse race between Ed Jackson and myself. If Ed would promise you to live up to your proposition. I would not believe him. "Seriously speaking, the taxpayers and voters of Indiana are entitled to know who they are voting for and what the candidates stand for. I am going to see and meet as many of them as I can and tell them of the things that Ed Jackson stood for as a State official —Dollings stock, Columbus oil stock, Cadle Shoe Company stock and headlights on automobiles —this is going to make interesting reading. The most important thing to the Republican party pf Indiana is the defeat of Ed Jackson for the nomination. The Republican party <qannot afford to nominate a man from the Statehouse at the present time. •Every day in every way another little indictment.’ ” Ed Jackson, secretary of State, who ha* not announced his candidacy officiallyficially, said he would not attend Bush’s meeting, although he received and invitation. He said he expects to write Bush a letter. “I am glad, indeed, to know' that you intend to pitch your proposed candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination on the same platform that I announced some months ago,” Edward C. Toner of Anderson said in a letter to Bush. He said that inasmuch as his position was the same as that of BiYSh ho did not feel it necessary to attend a meeting.

The Indianapolis Street Car Company sold the park to Butler University. Included in the transaction were the deers. But, what university wants deers chasing over the campus kicking up their heels and lis turbing studious young education seekers? There were enough “little dears.” And what university wants to pay from S6O to SIOO a month

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 19, 1924

Pretentious Building, Erected at Cost of SI ,800,000, ComGines Beauty With Facilities for Sports and Recreation, I D IROBABLY the most pretentious building of its kind in the I * Middle West, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Meridian and Vermont Sts., erected at a cost of sl,’Bt>o,ooo, will open its doors to members at 5 p. m. today. Following inspection of the club, dinner will be served at 6 :30. after which a jollification will be staged.

The building Is nine stories high. The exterior is c,f brown brick. It follows Italian design throughout. The building is entered through a spacious hall, whose stone floor is richly overlaid with heavy rugs. Tapestry and a large divan In brilliant upholstery give an air of warmth. On the right is the lounge room, with an lonic bronze column on each side of the entrance. Besides two enormous chandeliers, throughout the room are numerous brightly colored table lamps. A piano, two antique Italian cabinets and many overstuffed divans and chairs, all In Italian design, complete the furnishings. A wide opening leads from the lounge room to the library. Here are writing tables, comfortable chairs and reading lamps and marble fireplace. Plans are to make the library the most complete athletic library In the country. Some members are donating hooks; thers are giving money with which to purchase hooka. 1 Violet Rays Purify Water Across the hall la the smoking room. Here are more overstuffed chairs, more divans and another fireplace. The walls are wainscoted In oak. Stretched before the fireplace Is the skin of a giant bear. , At the rear of the ground floor Is the swimming pool, thirty by seventyfive feet. It contains 250 tons of water, purified every three hours by ultra-violet rays. In the basement are howling alleys, a turkish bath and men’s and women’s lockers and dressing rooms. In the second lxisement Is the machlner}’/ Water for both drinking and for the pool Is furnished by two ten-inch wells. Privacy for Women The women's entrance is on the Vermont St. side. The building is so arranged that the women may enter the building, use the gymnasium, swimming pool and women’s rooms and leave without entering the men’s part of the building. On the second floor are the gym and lockers. On the third floor are the general offices, grill room, kitchen and billiard room facing Meridian fit. The main dining room, which will seat about 500, the palm room, women's dining room are on the fourth

ACCOUNTANTS HELD ON HAWKINS CAPIAS Haight and Willis Charged With Inflating Audits—Declina to Comment on Charge.

Frank J Haight and Frank O. Willis, accountants, 810 Hume Mansur building, were arrested today on Federal grand Jury capiases charging use of the mails In a scheme to defraud and conspiracy. They were released on bonds of $5,000 and $3,000, respectively, signed by the Royal Indemnity Company. They will be arraigned before Judge Albert B. Anderson Feb. 4. They are among nineteen defendants named in indictments returned Wednesday after investigation of the Hawkins Mortgage Company of Portland, Ind., affiliated organizations. Haight arid Willis made inflated audits of property of the company, Homer Elliott, United States district attorney said. They declined to make

for upkeep of said deers, even if there were ample space for them ? Not Butler. Then possibly, the city, *r some private park owner in Indianapolis or elsewhere might want them? If so they should have made themselves known when they had-the opportunity, or forever hold their peace, says J. W. Atherton, financial secre

floor. In.' addition there are four handball courts, a “squash court” and a golf instruction room. On the fifth floor are five private dining rooms arranged so they may be thrown into one large room, and the banquet room, seating about 100. On the sixth, seventh, and eighth floors are living quarters. There are 151 single rooms. Three suites of llvingroom. bedroom and bath are located on each of these floors. About 10 per cent of the single rooms are to he reserved for transient guests. The top floor is occupied by a roof garden. The corner stone of the new club was laid May 27. 1922. Governor MoGray • officiated. The building occupies the site of the old Fred Fahnley home. The club was organized in 1920. The Idea originated with George J. Mnrott, who discussed it with Harry C. Stutz. now chairman of the house fyrmmitte*. Several prominent In/hanapolis men were called together at a meeting in March, 1920. by Marott and Stut*. Officers Named First plans were laid by fifty men at a second meeting in April. Henry F. Campbell was elected president. Lucius M. Wain wright. vice president; W. H. Barrere Jr., sec retary, and Stoughton A. Fletcher, treasurer. A committee of sixty was appointed to secure members. The goal was set at 1.000. Bite for the new building was leased in April. 1921. Contract was let to the Bedford Stone and Construction Company Dec. 21. 1921. Ground was broken in the spring of 1922. Members of the building committee were Harry C. Stutz, chairman; Ralph A. Lemoke, A. M. Glossbrenner, E. W. Stelnhart and S. E. Rauh. The house committee succeeded this committee. Membership Now 1,800 Personnel remained the same, except that Ralph H. Edgarton and K. K. Woolllng were added. Present membership of the club in about 1,800. Robert Frost Daggett was chosen as architect. Present officers are the same as those chosen at the first election, with exception of treasurer. T. E. Myers now holds that office.

Any statement following their SLI> rests, saying they had not read the Indictments. William "M. Jones, secretary of the State board of agriculture, and Mord Carter, Indianapolis real estate dealer and broker, were arrested Friday. Other defendants under arrest are Morton S. Hawkins, Anthony A. Scheib, and Carl B. Anderson, all of Portland, Ind., and Charles E. Succop, John A. Clark and Harry J. Bovard all of Pittsburg. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m... 34 10 a. m.. ••.... 35 7 a. m 35 11 a! m 36 8 a. m 34 12 (noon) 33 9 a. m 35 1 p. m 31

tary of Butler University, and R. S. Ludlow, superintendent of the park. Diligent efforts to find such a city or park owner were without avail. Atherton and Ludlow declare. Then, whence the deers? They are no longer at the park. Ah, the sad part. To the butcher to be,carved into choice venison steaks, for which cravers

Entered as Second-class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Published Daily Except Sunday.

WOMEN WANT INSANE KEPT OUT OF JAIL

fdihes aansK nnweiK pmum - ; Predicts Forthcoming Disaster If Present Ruhr Movements Are Continued, By The Right Honorable David Tdoyd George, O. P. (Former British Prime Minister) LONDON. Jan. 19.—(8y CabftV— If the oWect of .statesmanship he to convert Europe into a shambles with: i the lifetime of this generation, then Qual d’Orsuy is on the right track. Under the Poincare regime, French policy has set itself assiduously to the task of exasperating an exhausted bu: still formidable people of 70.000.000 by arrogance, insult and stinging op pression. Some Methods Revealed The special correspondent of The j Times has revealed something, but by i no meajis all, of the methods of the French military occupation in Ger many. No self-respecting people could possibly tolerate what Is happening in the occupied areas without banking up their resentment for future action The black troops—the kind of accommodation which decent German citizens are forced to provide for them—subsidizing and protecting by the French of the movement for tearing the Rhineland from the fatherland—the holding down of Germany by French troops whilst she was defending herself against mutilation—denor- ; tatlon of tens of thousands fron. their j homes In the Ruhr —negotiations with gTeat Industrial magnates of terms which can only be carried out by increasing hours of labor and diminishing wages of workmen —abuse of powers given by the Treaty of Versailles on the Saar in order to manoeuvre permanent annexation —all done with the thousand petty insolences that military men in the ascendant naturally Indulge in. A Different Kind A people who will bear ail this tamely, are not the kind that would hold an armed world at bay for four years and surrender then only wnen their children were starving. Let us own th* truth about a brave foe whom we havi vanquished. As if to make sure the explosion, when It burets, shall spread over the whole continent, special measures are being taken to arm, equip .and train (Continued on Page 3) 65 DEAD FROM ‘BOOZE’ Indiana Report Shows F'atalities From Alcoholism in 1923. Sixty-five persons died in Indiana from acute alcoholism, many of these from poison booze, in 1923, H, M. Wright, statistician for the State board of health, declared today. The booze toll in 1922 was 69.

of meat gladly paid 60 cents a pound. “Would you Hke something7 ’• the butcher asked of a fair feminine customer. “Yes, deer heart,” she sweetly replied. The butcher blushed, A sad fate for the xloes, bucks and their five children, to De sure, but it was the last resort, Ludlow declared. And thus trustees of Butler

Voters' League Favors Obtaining Temporary Quarters Because Situation Demands Emergency Action. Immediate relief for insane persons sent to the county jail to await admission to hospitals was demanded today by the Indianapolis League of Women Voters. The local affairs committee of the league has been instructed by the board of directors to investigate the possibility of providing temporary quarters for insane persons held in jail.

"The emergency is such the county should rent quarters immediately,” Mrs. Allen T. Fleming, president of the League, said. “We should not wait for a bond issue and the construction of a big building while unfortunate persons are being held in jail. Action Is Heeded "We should have immediate action. The League will do everything it can to relieve the situation.” The committee in charge of the investigation of relief possibiltities is headed by Mrs. Leßoy Kahler, 1508 N. La Salle St. The committee will report at the next meeting of the board of directors. Feb. 15. The action of the League followed somewhat similar action of the Seventh District Federation of Women's Clubs, which adopted a resolution asking that some immediate steps be taken to relieve the situation. F’irst Concrete Suggestion The action of the League of Women Voters is the first eoncrete suggestion for immediate relief. Other suggestions have contemplated relief after authority is obtained from the Legislature or appropriations are made. The idea of the League of Women Voters is that comfortable temporary quarters could be obtained and proper medical attention provided at a comparitively low cost. Records in the office of the county clerk show that insane persons confined to jail are being admitted to hospitals somewhat more rapidly than formerly, although the number of Insane cases Is Increasing/ JAMES MOUCH ARRESTED Mother of Dayton Girl Files Charge Against Indianapolis Man. James E. Mouch, 22, of 3361 Carrollton Are., was to be arraigned in Juvenile Court today, on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of Irene Holslnger, alias Corrine Stoddard, 17. of Dayton. Ohio. The affidavit was filed by Mrs. Mary Holsi’iger, who came to the city following word of her daughter's arrest Tuesday on a charge of grand larceny. Mouch filed the larceny warrant which alleged the theft of $974 worth of clothing and jewelry, all of which was recovered by detectives except a watch valued at $375. STATE AUfO TOLL IS 533 Report Shows 1923 Is Grim Year on Highways. Automobiles killed 533 Hoosiers In 1923. an Increase of 171 over 1922, the greatest in history, the annual report of H. M. Wright, registrar-statistician State board of health, stated today. In 1910 the death toll was only thirtyeight; in 1915, 124; in 1920, 351.

University and others involved say the deer case is closed. Many citizens—who have just learned the deer no- longer are at the park—are expressing indignation. “Why,” they ask, “was no effort made to place the deer in some other park? Also, why was everything done so secretly? Did somebody fear a storm of protest?” >

Forecast UNSETTLED with probably snow tonight. Colder tonight with lowest temperature 15 to 20 above. Sunday fair and colder.

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PASSENGER TRAIN THROWN £F TRACK None Injured in I, & V, Wreck in City, H. B. Reynolds, trainmaster of th Indianapolis-Vincennes division of the Pennsylvania railroad, today was investigating derailment of a passenger train from Vincennes due at Union Station at 6;45 Friday evening. _ The train left the St. Louis division tracks at the Belt railroad at 6:25 p. rr, No one was injured, but about SI,OOO damage was done to engine, coaches and tracks. Reynolds said that prertmtirtiTy investigation showed that Towerraan R. R. Towles sent the train in on the outbound tracks, instead of inbound and the engine struck a derail at the Belt tracks. I. R. La Porte, 16 N. Brookville Rd., was engineer and P. E. Gastineau, 215 N. Tacoma Ave., conductor of the train. RECOMMENDATIONS MADE Names Mentioned for Vacancy on Agriculture Board. Recommendations for appointment to fill the vacancy created on the State board of agriculture by resignation of William M. Jones of Fairmount, who became secretary recently, have been made to Governor McCray by various agricultural organizations. Among names mentioned are William Walton, La Porte: Harry Stamp. Roaehdale: Harvey Smith, Boswell; Arthur Hamrick, Greencastle, and C. J. Murphy, Brookston. All are Democrats. The apointment Is expected to be announced when the board meets next Tuesday. RESCUES SICK CHILDREN By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. I*. Carrying his five sick children from an upstairs room of their burning farm home to the home of a neighbor saved the lives of the family when the home of Everett Straley. near here, was destroyed by fire Friday afternoon. The home was razed and the contents were destroyed. WOLF WILL GET ’EM Same Old Story—Bills Due; State Flat Broke. With a $135,000 State pay day due in two weeks, the balance of the State general fund today was only $15,484.60. Bills are pending of more than s3l,* 000 from the State Farm and State Reformatory, Carl A. Cue, deputy State auditor, said today. Salesmen to Sail Three Indianapolis representatives of the National Cash Register Company will sail for Bermuda, Jan. 26. as members of the "Hundred Point Club” of the organization. They are C. D. Brackett, sales agent; E. L. Uncapher and C. E. Brackett, salesmen. The club is composed of salesmen who sold 100 per cent, of their quota last year.