Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1924 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JAN. 19,1924

SUDDEN WEATHER CHANGES AGO TO OANGEROF HILLS State Road Director Warns Motorists to Use Special Care. Signs warning motorists of approaching hills should be especially heeded at this time of sudden weather changes, John D. Williams, State highway director, said today. The Putnamville Hill on the National Road has been the scene of several accidents in the past few days. A half-mile gap in pavement south of Westfield on Road No. 1 is now •pen. Other roads around Indianapolis. Xo. 1 (Xew Albany. Indianapolis. South Bend, Michigan line!—Open from Indianapolis to Westfield. Detour one mile east, thence north to intersection of SheridanXoblesville roads, thence northwest back to State road. A detour further north is in force btfore reaching pavement nine miles south of Kokomo. Water over road between Scottsburg and Crothersvllle. Xo. 3 (National Rd.. Terre Haute. Indianapolis, Richmond)—lf sleet or snow is on pavement at Putnamville Hill, drive with special care. One-way traffic only over Monon railroad overhead bridge at Putnamville. Xew bridge and fill over Deer Creek at Putnamville will be opened next week. Xo. 15 (Indianapolis. Logansport. Michigan City)—Closed from three miles to two miles south of Knox, and at north edge of Ba Porte, account of pavement construction. Bridge out four miies north of Indianapolis. Because of small bridge and culvert eontruclion in Marion County, traffic is advised to leave Indianapolis via X. Meridian St., cross ■anal bridge to Illinois St. and continue north four and one-half miles, thence three miles west back to Xo. 15. Xo. 12 i Vincennes. Spencer. Martinsville, Indianapolis)—Widening fill at new bridge seven miles south of Spencer drive carefully. No. 6 (Madison. Greensburg. Indianapolis. I.ebanon. Lafayette Oxford!—ln leaving Indianapolis. north-bound traffic follow Meridian St. to Canal, west and across bridge to Illinois St., thence north, about four and one-half miles, thence west three -miles to Road 15. ■ Turn west at junction of Roads 15 and 33 and proceed via Lebanon. Xo. 22 < English. Paoli. Mitchell. Bedford. Bloomington. Martinsville. Indianapo'is) —Avoid heavy construction from Paoli to Road Ik. Grading crews north of Bloomington and blasting crews north of Oolitic. Will I EH CRITICISES BOH PEACE PLAN 'Too Much Risk From a Business Standpoint, The Bok peace plan, while good in many particulars, is inadequate to the needs of the world, S. J. DuncanClark, editorial writer of the Chicago Evening Post, declared Friday night in an address before the Tabernacle .Men’s Club at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. "There is too much risk in it.” he j said. "There is no guarantee that life will last long enough to realize such a pian. W<* have no promise for tomorrow. There is too much risk from a business standpoint. There is too much risk from a moral standpoint in living to serve others after a man has served himself first.” “However, God has created an adequate program for man’s needs and service. It was created for man. No one knows better what is sufficient for life than the Giver of life.” INDIANA TO CELEBRATE Foundation Day Speakers Include Mary M. Brewer. Foundation day anniversary will be celebrated by the Marion County \iumni Association of Indiana University with a banquet at the Hotel Lincoln Wednesday night. Mrs. Mary Morgan Brewer, New York, and Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of the university will speak. Foundation day exercises will be heid at the university Monday. It will be the 103d birthday anniversary. Jewels Worth §2,000 Involved By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. 19. The case of Marion Bailey, administrator of the estate of Luna Hendricks, against Pierce Gilchrist, is on trial here. Bailey is claiming possession of threi diamond rings, valued at $2.U00, which belonged to the estate of Mrs. Hendricks. The Gelendant a nephew of 7 Irs. Hendricks and Is claiming the diamonds by right of gift. Anderson Merchant Dies By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 19. —Edward H. Thompson, 84, merchant and salesman here thirty years died suddenly Friday at his home. He is a former resident of Indianapolis. Two sons, M. R. Thompson, and E. O. Thompson, Anderson, and a daughter, Mrs. W. R. Piper, Indianapolis, survive. Richmond Man Is Suicide. By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 19. Rudolph Wester, 52, asked for a xevolver to kill a rat he said was in the room, secured the weapon and shot himself through the head Wester was a leather cutter and had been ar. invalid for some time. His widow four daughters and seven sons survive. Wins National Poultry Prizes By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 19. —Thirteen prizes are the honors car ried home from the Chicago national poultry show by Thomas Campbeii, fancier, living near here. He won three firsts and two seconds on white Langshan birds and four firsts and two seconds on Selrighta. I. U. Debating Team Wins By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Jan. 19. Cincinnati University’s debating team -suffered defeat at the hands of Indiana’s affirmative orators here last night. Subject of the debate was: •■Resolved, That the United States Should Enter the World Court.” Indiana’s negative team deflated the negative side of the question at Cincinnati at the same time.

LLOYD GEORGE ON POUOYOF FRANCE (Continued From Page 1) huge armies throughout Central Europe and to effect military understandings for striking together when the hour arrives. All these armies tend to become provocative and oppressive to disarmed neighbors and may well induce conflicts with more powerful neighbors. Great armies were directly responsible for the Great War. There are greater armies in the aggregate being raised and organized today and they may well plunge the world into a greater war. And they will do so unless something or somebody Intervenes. Tramp of Armed Men The tramp of armed men and the rattle of artillery have an intoxicating effect upon the nations. There is no wine that turns the head as completely’ as the military swagger. We know from experience what a danger to peace one nation with a swelled head can become. What will happen when several nations are so affected? Poor Europe! Central Europe has alway’s been a volcanic region. One had hoped after the terrible eruption of 1914 volcanic fires would have been so exhausted they could not break through the crust of good sense for at least a generation—if ever again. But the French will not leave them alone. They’ are working with diabolical ingenuity to break down that crust and bring us once more face to face with these hidden fires. If this goes on they will once more flame up w’ith consuming fury. I hate having to revert so often to this topic. I only do so because I am convinced of the danger to civilization which is involved in the reckless policy pursued recently by French statesmen. Catastrophe Likely Unless means are taken to arrest it in time, an overwhelming catastrophe to mankind is inevitable. The aggressive policy pursued by the French ministry is as cowardly’ as it is foolish. Trampling on a fallen foe is as contemptible an act as a man can commit. It does not make it any less despicable that the fall was not compassed by the trampler’s own prowess, but by the active help of others, whose combined efforts at last succeeded in tripping up the foe and pinning him to the ground. When he lies prostrate, securely pegged and roped, the kicking of him begins. It is a poor sport and it is very foolish. These ropes will not be roped forever. One way or another, the vanquished nation will arise infuriated with the base treatment, and France will then discover how her behavior in victory has disgusted all the friends who stood by’ her in her trouble before. French Realize French statesmen realize this since the new military combinations, which are being organized elsewhere. France, who cannot afford to honor her obligations to Britain and the United States of America, can find plenty of money to equip European nations with destructive weapons, to intimidate—and when called upon to tear —their neighbors. She cannot afford to pay interest upon these debts, so the burdened taxpayers of Britain and America must continue to do so whilst she is utilizing her resources in militarizing Europe. What does she hope to gain by this policy? Instead of Russia, the British Empire, Italy and the United States of America, next time there will be by her side Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Jugo-Slavia 'and Roumania! That is the calculation. What statesmanship! If war came again between France and Germany, one word from Russia would neutralize three cut of j four of these new allies. And even if Russia were mute, no Polish, Czecho - Slovakian or Roumanian statesman would commit their armies to an invasion of Germany with the knowledge that a redoubtable Russian army stood on the other side of vulnerable frontiers. Russia wants Bessarabia and Roumania does not want to part with it. Poland has Vilna and Galicia and her slice of White Russia to think about. Russia is not too pleased about these territories being in Polish hands. The Questio/ What would happen if Poland marched her armies into Germany at the request of the French general Etaff? There would be a smaller Poland for the remnant of these armies to return to. And as for Czechoslovakia. the Czechs are

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UNUSUAL PEOPLE Hero of War of ’9B itu XKA Service jrr-2> ASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Leigh |\)y C. Palmer, rear admiral, U. S. LI .J N., retired, just missed being chosen to sink the Merrlmac in Santiago Harbor duraing the SpanishAmerican War. But he did have a chance, to vaunt his heroism when he Inspected the enemy’s guns within 200 yards, pr e p a r alory to this expedition. Palmer was a young officer out of Annapolis then. Now he has been appointed by President Coolidge as head of the EmerPALMER ’geney Fleet Corporation. During the World War he was rear admiral in charge of the Bureau of Navigation. Just before the armistice he accepted assignment as captain just to be on active service in the war zone. wedged between 3,000,000 Germans inside their own frontiers on the west and 7,000,000 hostile Magyars on their southern frontier. Under these circumstances, I cannot see a prudent minister entangling an army corps of Czecho-Slovakia in the mountains of Bavaria on a French quarrel. Mr. Benes may negotiate protocols in the hospitable atmosphere of Paris. He is a fussy little man, who trots about Europe—to adopt a Gilbertian phrase—“running errands for French ministers of State.” But the Czechs are a hardened, practical race and very few of them have lived in Paris and inhaled its incense into their systems. They have struggled hard to win back the national freedom they lost centuries ago. They have secured it largely by luck. I predict that when the time conies they will not risk that precious good fortune by engaging their national existence in a quarrel between France and Germany, provoked entirely by French politicians anxious to pose as heroes before their own public. Interest to Czechs It Is the supreme Interest of the Czechs, having regard to the geographical 'position of Bohemia and Its Internal racial conditions, to be on terms of amity with their neighbors. It does not suit their interests to become mere jackals of the French lion. When the German rhinoceros recovers his strength, the Jackals may be trampled in the coming struggle. For these reasons these military conventions will break down if ever the time comes for relying upon them. French statesmen will then find that they have recklessly thrown away friendships that proved steadfast in days of trial and got nothing in return but shadows That shrink before the fires of war. By the aid of those friendships France has been emancipated from the constant terror that darkened her outlook for over forty years; she has recovered her lost provinces, added hundreds of thousands of square miles to her colonial possessions and become the most powerful military power in Europe. No French statesman in his riiost radiant dreams ] ever had such a vision of triumph. The Poles, the Czecho-Slovaks, the Slavs of southern Austria and the Roumanians of western Austria have, by the same means and without much effort or sacrifice on their own part, recovered their national rights. Are all these dazzling gains to be thrown away because there is not enough wisdom amongst the men who guide' the affairs of Europe to restrain greed, ambition and insatiable vanity—national as well as personal? That is the question of the hour. ' CANDIDATES ASK SUPPORT Three Appeals to Ex-Service Voters’ League for Indorsement. The Ex-Service Voters' (League today has—before it today requests for indorsement from three candidates. They are Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch. for the Democratic nomination for Governor; William H. Remy, for the Republican nomination for prosecuting attorney, and Otto Ray, for the Democratic nomination for sheriff. Humphrey C. Harrington has been elected president of the league; John H. Murray, vice president; Fae W. Patrick, secretary, and Harry E. Taylor, treasurer.

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WAR MANEUVER PROVES DEFENSES OF PANAMA WEAK Military Authorities Propose Immediate Remedies to Strengthen Forts, By United Press WITH THE ATLANTIC FLEET, OFF THE PANAMA CANAL, Jan. 19. —Three definite remedial measures for weaknesses in land defenses of the Panama Canal, exposed by a crush ing “enemy” victory after the first week’s mimic war maneuvers, were proposed by military authorities today. The paper war of 1924, In which spectators witnessed all the grandeur of movement and dash of real naval warfare and saw the “shattered” defending fleet huddled in ’ Cristobal harbor, while the "enemy” rules the Carribean, proved the defenses of the canal are inadequate. The three preposed remedies are: 1. Greater naval patrols strength to prevent landing parties, such as that which on the morning of the 17th, captured Ft. Randolph at Cocosolo. 2. Tho gin power of Forts Randolph and Sherman should be sufficient to enable them to hold off an enemy fleet while the American fleet debouches from the canal. 3. Infantry and field artillery units should be increased for defense against landing parties. This should include better housing, storage and transportation facilities to accommodate reinforcements which could be rushed to the canal zone in time of war. It ia pointed out that emplacement of the big guns, found necessary, would take a year under emergency orders and five years under the War Department's project which went to Congress in 1921, providing for expenditure of $13,000,000. Falling Tree Injurire Man MARION, Ind., Jan. 19.—Harlan,! Tarr of Van Buren, is in a hospital at Bluffton today, suffering from a fractured back and several broken ribs received when he was struck by a fall lng tree while cutting timber.

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NEW INSURANCE MANAGER Milford L. Johnson Honored by Fidelity and Casualty Cos. Milford L. Johnson, for thirteen years special agent for the Fidelity and Casualty Company, 1415 Merchants Bank Bldg., has been named resident manager of the company to succeed the late Edgar M. Heaton, who died Sept. 15, 1923. W. A. Reid, assistant superintendent, agency department, New York, made the formal announcement of the appointment at a luncheon of leading agents at the CLaypool. ROTARY HEAD~TQ~VISIT t Arthur H. Sapp, governor of the Twentieth Indiana Rotary district, will make his official visit to Indianapolis Tuesday He will attend the Indianapolis Rotary meeting at the Claypool. Sapp was elected at St. Louis last June. He will confer with the directors at 10 a. m., on work of the club. He will speak at the luncheon.

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SPEAKERS NIED FOR CONFERENCE Young People of Sunday Schools to Meet Feb, 1-3, Speakers of national prominence will be on the program of the fourth annual young people’s conference of the Marion County Sunday School Council of Religious Education, Feb. 3, at Roberts Park M. E. Church. Among them are. Roy A. Burkhart, Dayton, Ohio, national young people’s superintendent of the United Church in Christ; Leon C. Tyler, Chicago, superintendent young people’s division of the Illinois Sunday School Association; Miss Jane Farmer, young superintendent of the Indiana Sunday School Association; E. T. Albertson, general secretary Indiana Sunday School As-

L. S. Ayres & Cos. is very proud that its services should have been called upon in the creation of a home for that great achievement in civic enthusiasm —the new Indianapolis Athletic Club. And it deems itself no more than justified in feeling pride in the way in which that call was answered. * The decorating throughout, the hangings, the lighting fixtures, the floor coverings and the furniture were all furnished by or through L. S. Ayres & Cos. That the precisely harmonious treatment might be accorded every room and every part of every room we not only designed and had made many distinctive furniture and drapery creations, but drawing on the whole world as our source of supply, also secured for the club many distinctive things from , France, from Belgium, from England, from other European countries and from the Orient. The great lounge and smoking rooms, the cozy, secluded library, the mammoth club dining room, the women’s reception and dining rooms, the living quarters on the upper floors—all bear splendid testimony to the soundness of Ayres taste and the completeness of Ayres facilities. In turning over this great home to the Indianapolis Athletic Club, we do so with the earnest hope that through the years to come it may fulfill in every respect the promise it now gives of being one of the most important of all factors in the progress of the city. Home Furnishing Sections, Fourth Floor • %- DiSAyres CCo-

sociation; Rev. F. R. Daries, pastor Zions Evangelical Church, and Miss Julia Winterrowd, assistant county young people’s superintendent. Local churches will be visited Sunday by young people to advertise the conference. The Marion County Council will meet at 6:30 p. m. Monday at the Y. M. C. A. to complete plans. Alleged Forger Awaits Hearing By United Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 19. —George Brown, alleged forger, is

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held in the Montgomery County jail today awaiting a preliminary hearing on a charge of giving two bad notes totaling SI,BOO to the Linnsburg State Bank. Married Half Century. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. I*.—• Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Miller observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary Friday. They are the parents of nine children, all of whom were hcne for this event. Mr. Miller is 72 said his

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