Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1924 — Page 1

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BROAD RIPPLE TO BE BOUGHT AS CITY PARK \ j Kessler Blvd, Bids Referred to Engineer Lowest on Bituminous Macadam $620,000, and on Rock Asphalt, $745,135. - Preliminary resolution to acquire Broad Ripple Park Mas adopted by the board of park commissioners today.

If the proposal is carried out, the city Mill acquire 115 acres, consisting of forty acres of park proper and 75 acres of other land. The park Mill give the city a river frontage of about a mile and will connect with the boule vard system. w rohn Elliolt, city engineer, estimated the park Mill cost the city about 1300,000. The board plans to retain the amusement features and release them, using the money thus obtairjpd to pay interest on bonds. The Broad Ripple Realty Company owns the park. Hearing Set March 1 A public hearing on the project Mill be held at 10 a. in. March 1. The board also adopted preliminary resolutions to pave Pleasant Run Blvd. from Prospect St. to "Washington St., :md to construct swimming pools at Rhodius and Brookside Parks. Boulevard 100 Feet Wide Bids for the construction of Kessler Blvd.. along Fifty-Sixth St., west to Cooper Ave. and south to the Crawfordsville Rd., a distance of about seven miles, Were referred to John Elliott, city engineer. The boulevard will be 100 feet wide and will be paralleled by a bridle path. The low bid on bituminous macadam was $620,000 by the Marlon County Construction Company, and on rock aitfHtit: J74S ,135, by James McNamara Company. EMPLOYE HURT IN THEATER FIRE House Is Emptied Without Confusion, Merl Moore. 900 E. Washington St', Mas burned about the hands while attempting to extinguish a blaze in the projecting room of the Manhattan Theater, 136 W. Washington St., Friday night. Moore said that the picture Mm became Jammed in the machine nd before he could use a fire ex ringuisher the entire room was in . liames. Seventy-five persons were in the theater at the time. Moore told them that there M-as a “little trouble in the projecting room,” and they filed out without confusion. Firemen extinguished the blaze before much dam age was done. Earl McCoy, Apts., manager, could not estimate the extent of the damage. ENGINE TIE-UP REPORT Business Men to Tell Government of Inspection Results. A report to the Interstate Commerce Commission and to Congressmen on Inconveniences caused by Federal condemnation of locomotives will be made by a committee representing the Board of Trade, the Associated Employers, and the Industries and manufacturers’ committee of the Chamber of Commerce, it was announced today. It was decided to continue the committee indefinitely. The report wiij be made some time next week. MAIL ORDER BOOTLEGGERS Twenty-Seven Indicted at Philadelphia by Federal Jury. Ry United Press PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Feb, 9 Warrants for the arrest of twentyseven persons, indicted by the Federal grand jury Friray on charges of being implicated in a million dollar mail order bootlegging plot, were signed by United States Commissioner Mant ley today.

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SINCLAIR CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY IN DOME LEASES Complaint Made'by Denver Man Declares Plot With Pioneer Oil Company Secured Teapot From Albert Fall, By PAUL R MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON* Feb. 9.—Harry F. Sinclair w as enabled to pet his lease of Teapot Dome from former Interior Secretary Fall by means of a conspiracy with the Pioneer Oil Company, the investigation committee was told today.

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Please? |S an obliging citizen _____ Ralph Dungan, 233 W. Pratt St., held all laurels today. On Nov. 17. 1921. Mrs. Effie Dungan, 21. go* a divorce from Ralph. Then she met Carl. Wrr.y, Chicago, and desired te marry him. Friday she asked Dungan to go with them to the Courthouse to get a marriage license. There they found the court costs had not been paid and the divorce incomplete. Wray paid the costs, $12.50, according to officials. Then they went to a justice of the peace. Dungan went, too. He was best

CITY HAS AUTO PROBLEM Park Board Considers Paying Upkeep of Private tars. Mounting costs of keeping up city owned automobiles today led the park board to consider substituting a systCTn whereby the city would allow employes expense accounts for using their private c*rs on city business. R. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks and recreation, and Edward E. Mcßride, director of recreation, asked for replacement of their city cars. Mcßride said he would take an expense account of SI,OOO a year and operate his own car instead, if the board desired. When City Engineer John L. Elliott astyed for anew car for his park corps President Bookwalter adjourned the meeting. SIX NEWSBOYS KILLED Man Also Victim When Train Hits Auto Truck. By United Press MILWAUKEE, Wls.. Feb. 9.—Six newsboys and a man were killed today when the truck in which they were returning from a party was struck by a Northwestern railroad train. Bodies of the victims were scattered for several hundred feet along the track. Circus Man’s Widow Succumbs By Times Specia. PERU, Ind., Feb. 9.—Mrs. Florence Fuller Wallace, 70, widow of Benjamin E. Wallace, former circus owner, is dead at her home here from an apoplectic stroke.

Still Looking for ’em “f\Y/i HAT this country needs ( ** I most is, a good 5-eent cigar." This is one of the remarks that helped make Thomas R. Marshall, former Vice President. famous. Today he was discovered in a cigar store buying 25-cent cigars. “There aren’t any good 5eent cigars yet,” he explained. “The dern things won’t huru. ’ ’

The conspiracy was charged in a complaint prepared bv Leo .Stack, of Denver, but never filed in court, ■ barging the “Pioneer company en, tered into a conspiracy" with Sinclair to abandon its just rights to Ul# Teapot Dome reserve. Dropping by the Pioneer company of its claims permitted Sinclair to go* ahead with his leasing negotiations with Fall, the complaint charged. Read at Walsh Request The complaint was read to the committee at request of Senator Walsh. Montana by his secretary. Stack contended the Pioneer had “double-cross* and“ him and asked the court to award him $5,bC0,000 damages. Senator Walsh contended -Stack’s suit was unjustified and he no just right” to the leases. “Isn’t it a fact,” he asked F. G. Bonfll3. Denver Post publisher, who today resumed his story of dealings with Stack and Sinclair, “that ■‘.he Governor of Wyoming ha<J declared the claims of the Pioneer Oil Company invalid?” “I think that is the case,” Bonfils answer^. Told of Agreement “Stack told me one time it was very clear in his mind, there was an agreement between Sinclair, Doheny and the Standard. Oil Companies to have Sinclair get Teapot Dome and Dohpny get the California reserves,” Bonfils said today. “I also have heard the Pioneer Oil Company was to get $1,000,000 in oil from Sinclair. It was to be paid, I heard, from oil Sinclair obtained from Teapot Dome and a rate of $1 per barrel or something like it.” “What relation did Stack have &ith the Pioneer company?” “They treated him more like an office boy than anything else.” SUIT JN TWO WEEKS Pomerene and Strawn Promise Larly Action on Dome. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.—Suit will be led to cancel the Teapot Dome and California oil leases within ten days or two weeks at the longest, Atlee Pomerene and Silas H. Strawn, presidential counsel, indicated today. This action depends on the promptness with which the Senate acts on their names, however. The Puhlic Lands Committee, to which the nominations were referred, Is expected to them up at an executive session early next week. Senator Dill, Washington, will demand tftat certain witnesses be heard before the committee acts on the nominations.

CONSTABLE POSHED WOMANJS CHARGE Worley Alleges Plaintiff Is Mistreated in Court, Among sixteen affidavits filed today in Criminal Court by Claude M. Worley, special investigator, was one charging John F. Taylor, a constable, with assault and battery on Mrs. Anna Rooker, 712 N. Alabama St., on Jan. 31. Worley said the affidavit grew out of charges by Mrs. Rooker that Taylor pushed her out of the Justice Frank Glass' court when she appeared to demand S3B judgment awarded last spring by the justice on a board bill against Noble E. Traylor. 312 E. North 9ft. 40 affidavit charging the constable with assault and battery on Traylor was also filed. Traylor, it is said, accompanied Mrs. Rooker to the court and asked why she had not been paid, as he had his receipt. Taylor ejected him. algo? it is charged.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 1924

SLAYER OF FILM ACTRESS SOUGHT IN UNDERWORLD New ¥ork Butterfly's* Apartment Ransacked by Gem Thieves, Bn United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 9.—Back home in the Texas town where her daddy kept the grocery store. Louise Lawson was a child prodigy. Not a girl for miles around in the Lone Star State could play the piano as Louise could at 12. Her folk sent her to New York from Walnyt Springs to complete a musical education—a little slip of a Texas girl with a winsome, cultured manner that made her influential friends. Today a grief stricken mother was hurrying north and physicians were performing an autopsy upon the brain of the girl, Who wae 24, when she met violent death Friday, to determine whether she was straggled or smothered in her luxurious west side apartment known as “The Monastery.” And it was not in musical circles police and detectives searched for murderer and motive, but in the haunts of bootleggers and 'fences” and the murky byways of the city's underworld where jewel thieves hide. Wealthy friends ,and sponsors of the Texas girl, including Gerhard M. Dahl, chairman of the executive committee of a big transit company, were being questioned. Sprawled Across Bed Miss Lawson's body, clad in a blue silk nightgown, was found sprawled in tbe abandon of death across the lace coverlet of an expensive ma hogany bed in her apartment. Silken hose and torn slips of filmy underwear bound her hands and feet, while across her mouth, apparently the cause of death, a Turkish towel had been fastened with strips of surgeon’s plaster. Two men, who gained admission to Miss Lawson's apartment a few hours before her dead body was discovered, told the elevator boy they were bootleggers. - Three jewel case* fashioned In mahogany that matched the furniture In the apartment had been ransacked. Platinum watches, diamonds and other jewels were missing. When police, summoned to “the monastery” by calls of a colored mall, found the slain girl's body and the evidence that jewel thieves, masquer ading as bootleggers, had committed the brutal crime, they turned to a search of the victim's personal belongings. Photographs of men, one on the mahogany dresser In a big silver frame, others scattered about the daintly furnished apartment led to the true story of her life for the past four years. She had been friendly with Angler B. Duke and had been present on the yachting party when that heir to a $5,000,000 tobacco fortune was drowned last September. Signature Translated

One of the photographs was inscribed “Jerry Doll” and astute detectives soon bad translated this into Gerhard M Dahl, of the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit executive committee. , “Mr. Dahl was interested in Miss Lawson's musical career. She was a remarkable pianist. I hear,’" said Frederick Landeck, attorney. Stock of the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company to the value of $12,000 was found In Miss Lawson's name, held by Hayden, Stone & Cos., where Dahl had, his offices. A pass book issued by "ffie Commercial Trust Company showed a balance to Miss Lawson's credit of SI,OOO. The murderer or murderers made their “get-away” cleanly. The men who were early callers at Miss Larson's apartment Friday left singly, with a remark to the elevator boy that “she wanted rye instead of Scocth. You know how women are,” and a wink. Louise Lawson’s sojourn In screenland had been brief. It developed A few “extra” parts had been played with indifferent success by the am bitious little southerner Then she had returned to her musical education amidst the wealthy friends St whom Angler B. Duke and Gerhard M. Dahl formed a part. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 23 10 a. m 26 7 a. m 23 11 a. m 27 8 a. m 24 12 (noon) 28 9a. m..•••*.. 25 1 p. m 29

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor B r ~~~ ERLIN, Feb. 9. —Complete settlement of the whole t— European snarl now seems to be only a matter of months. Europe is scared stiff over what is likely to happen unless an entente is reached. Europe bids fair to reach a basis of general agreement by mid-summer. This is the outstanding impression I gain after a personal study of the situation in England, France and Germany. Here is why 1. I found England, menaced by unemployment, stagnant trade alkd kindred ills- resulting from the

Dog Guards Body of His Mistress in Sudden Death ft* Jwl

xxr j ITH unfailing devotion, Uu a 3-year-old beagle hound, ■ ■ watched the body of Mrs. Highland. 85, early today when bis mistress died at her home 723 Buchanan St. Mrs. Highland had been ill several months. When she attempted to get out of her bed today, the end came. Laddie crept under the bed. When Mrs. Clara Slack, 3005 E. New York

CREW IN WRECK ON. DUTY FOR 13 HOURS Anderson Coroner Expects to Return Verdict Upon Fatal Traction Crash Late This Afternoon,

Rollin Flynn, motorman. and Sidney Sawyer, conductor, crew of the eastbound car in tlie Fortvllfe collision on the Union Traction line last Saturday, were required by the company to work thirteen hours on the day of the accident, it was learned today Under anew schedule adopted by the company, all motormen and conductors on the Anderson division have been required to work a thirteen-hoUr-day alternatively with an eight-hour-day. Flynn and Sawyer began their run Saturday at 4:30 a. m., it has been learned. They were required to report at the station at Indianapolis at 4:15 a. m. According to Information, the crew was allowed fifteen minutes rest at each stop in Indianapolis. They made two stops here during the day. They were allowed three five-minute periods at other towns. Flynn and Sawyer had already been working approximately twelve hours when the accident occurred at about 4.3o*‘p. m. The number of identified dead was Increased to fifteen today when relatives and friends of Sherman Fay, traveling man of Ft. Wayne, claimed a charred body at the E„ S. Albright morgue. Identification was possible by a piece of uhderwear on the body. Remnants of two bodies remain. Resume Work Monday Members of the public service commission with officers of the Interstate Commerce Commission adjourned their investigation Friday with the ex aminatlon of H. A. Nlcholl, general manager of the Union Traction Company. The probe will be resumed Monday at 2 p. m. with Elmer E. Slick, claim agent for the traction company, as first witness. Other officials may be examined. Sessions Friday at the Anderson city hall were behind closed doors. Every witness called was employed by the traction company, indicating that safety devices, the block signal system ar.d condition of cars were under investigation. It was revealed that on the day of the fatal crash, the block signal system was not working. The commission also investigated the manner of sending and receiving orders for car crews.

Settlement of European Snarl Matter of Months

European chaos, grimly determined ,to obtain an early settlement at whatever cost. Great Britain’s new laborite premier, Ramsey MacDonald, earnestly desires an entente with France, but has warned all concerned* this is impossible if France remains in the Ruhr and continues her present reparations policy. He has strongly intimated unless Germany if; allowed to get on her feet ’ n Anglo-German accord is likely. 2. I found France badly frightened by fall of the franc and eagerly seeking a way out before a further drop came. Poincare and other French leaders realise a formal break with Great would be

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St., who had been caring for his mistress. tried to approach the body Laddie objected. Mrs. Slack called a neighbor, but Laddie would not permit her to move the body. It was only when Police Officers Griffin and Reidey pulled him away that Laddie yielded. Dr. William Doeppers.. deputy coroner, is investigating. •

Ray Gibbons, State investigator of public utilities, not only has charge of 1.100 miles of interurban trackage, but 9.000 miles of steam road, all overhead Wire crossings, and all interlocking systems of the State, it was shown at the hearing The former State administration had five men to do that kind of work, Gibbons raid. The lack of adequate fire extinguishers on the cars was in vestlgated by Coroner Helbert today. Witnesses from Indianapolis, Marion and Muncie, were called. Other witnesses testifying before State and United States officers Friday were: J. O. Penniston, superintendent of power distribution, Anderson; Ralph E. Royle, dispatcher, Anderson; M. V. List, signal tnaintainer, Anderson: H. W. Engle, con: ductor on the trailer of the westbound car, Muncie - Thomas Nieholl, superintendent of motive power, Anderson, and Chester Campbell, line foreman, of Anderson. Coroner Jesse A. Helbert of Anderson said he probably would announce his verdict late this afternoon. Among witnesses before the coroner today was Claude Miller, 1262 W. McCarty St., Indianapolis, who says he was told by another passenger on the east-bound car that a fire extinguisher on the car was empty. Eyewitness Is Called Otto Kincaid, who lives near thh scene of’ the acident, was called as an eyewitness. The public service commission still Is keeping secret the evidence obtained in Its hearings at Anderson. Mem hers defended the policy as “absolutely necessary" to public welfare. John W. McCardle, chairman, stated that the report of the commission would be issued at the discretion of the board and that a ninety-day period as reported was not compulsory by law. “The hearing at Anderson was held in secret session,” one member explained, "In order that no evidence could be obtained by shyster lawyers for the purpose, of damage suits.” It was pointed out that acts of 1911 provide “the commission shall not give publicity to such information if in its judgment the public inteersts do not require it.”

a colossal disaster and are willing to concede much to avoid such a crisis. No one wants isolation. French statesmen watch MacDonald's friendly gestures toward Russia and Germany with great misgiving. Sensing danger, the semi-official Paris newspaper, Le Temps, forecasts a shift in the French policy. “Oceifpation of control of Germag territory fy France and Belgium enhances the security of those nations only on condition such occupation is made the cause of pretext of any Anglo-German coalition directed against France,’ says this paper. 3. I Germany in a totally different jnood than when I was (

Klan and Anti-Klan Forces Clash and Bullets Riddle Windows and Doors Martial Law Imminent in Williamson County as Troops Patrol Streets By l nit a. Press HERRIN, 111., 1* eb. 9.—The Carboudale troop of the Illinois National Guard took control of the Williamson county mining camp today, and with loaded rifles patroled the Herrin hospital, which was fired upon early today by a body of 100 alleged Ku-Klux Klansmen. Several men for whom the alleged Klansmen said they bad warrants for the killing of Caesar Cagle, Klan leader, on the street ast night, took refuge in the hospital and fired a volley at the approaching band. The tire was returned.^

The attackers then retired from the hospital, in which John Layman, deputy sheriff and leader, of the antiKlan element lies with a bullet wound, received in a gun battle shortly after Cagle was shot. • Martial law for Herrin is imminent, and probably will be declared as soap as two or three more troops now on their way here arrive. The trouble and troop movement were precipitated at a protest meeting of persons opp. sed *o the whole-ue drv raids made under the leaiersi.ip of S. Glenn Young. Waylaid by Crowd Cagle was waylaid by a crowd of men, hit on the head, then shot twice and killed. \\ hen word of the <jeath peached Marion. Young swore out warrants charging Sheriff Galiigan. Deputy Layman. Ora Thomas, Hugh Willis, “and others," with being in the crowd which slew tbe Klan leader. Galiigan was arresteTl on a first degree murder chat ge. A band of Klansmen under Young started for Herrin in automobiles, and were fired upon by persons from th roadside. Leonard Stems, son of Sam Sterns, Klan cvclops, in one of the cars, was slightly wounded in the back. I.ayman was shoj at the meeting of Italians at “Rome" Hall, according to available information. This was shortly after Cagle’s death. Immediately fallowing Layman’s shooting Galiigan took three Herrin policemen, including Chief John Ford, who were in the hall, to Murprysboro because he feared mob violence, it is said. Latef the band of men came to the hospital, where the sheriff’sfgllowers had come to see Layman. Both bands were armed, and firing started. About 100 shots were exchanged. Several persons were shot. None was seriously hurt. • Windows and doors of the hospital were riddled. . v A company of troops from Cairo arrived later and the two companies are quartered in the city hall and the Elks Club. The trouble started in a meeting of several score victims of ‘the liquor raids, gathered in a Herrin hall to formulate plans of retaliation against activities of Klansmen led by Glenn Young, unofficial prohibition czar” of the county, who is employed by the Klan as raid leader. Arrest Nearly 1,000 Young and his raiders under Federal v.-arrante have arrested nearliy 1,000 alleged liquor law violators in two months. The meeting also was a gathering of the Knights of the Flaming Circle, anti-Klan organization. Sheriff Galiigan, who led the protest against the Klan’s activities by calling State troops because of “riot conditions” a month ago, came ,to the meeting with Layman, trusted deputy. The sheriff started addressing the liquor raid victims, advising them to “take it easy” and let things take their legal outcome. The door of the hall and John Ford, chief of police of Herrin, and two of his policemen entered with drawn shot guns. An uproar started, followed by a half dozen shots. Five Missing Men Safe By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—-Coast guard officials todaj* reported the small boat and five men from* the cutter Seminole missing this morning and believed to have been paptured by rum runners, have been located off Rum Row with all safe.

here a year ago. Germany now apparently realizes she could better pay than continue opposition. The limit of resistance seems to have been reached and she is now in a frame of mind to accept any solution proposed by Daw r es, Young and the other experts. Thus,agreement between the three governments seems near. England dreads a military outlay. French finances are. not in shape to face a rupture with England, while Germany, with nerves taut, is eager to end the ten years of contiuous bittre struggle her people have endured. * ** Experts will report Germans .is able to pay a formidable surra on

Forecast CLOUDY weather predicted for tonight and Sunday. Warmer tonight with lowest temperature about 32 degrees above zero.

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LIQUOR SCANDAL INVOLVES FEDERAL DEPUTY MARSHALS Five Officials Are Suspended Pending Investigation of Charges, By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—A new liquor scandal involving Federal officials reared its head in the Capitol today. Five United marshals are under indefinite "suspension, while Snyder and the Department of Justice, the Federal prohibition unit and the treasury - ’a secret service investigate charges against them. The charges include not only viola lion of the prohibition laws, but the white slave and anti-narcotic laws. The liquor angle of the case links up with the prohibition scandals which recently stirred Washington. In those cases two "syndicates” of I bootleggers were believed to have been broken up. Marshal Snyder today refused to reveal cases against the five marshals. ‘I have heard serious’ charges," he said, “and the men .are suspended until a* thorough investigation has been made.” One rumor was some of the suspended men were using their official positions to shield violators of the Federal laws. It was reported the city vice squad had traced to the home of some of the deputy marshals large quantities of bootleg liquor and had found them acting as wholesale distributors of it. GUN RUM CAR GETSSjXMONIHS For ‘Loaning Her Pretty Face as Camouflage to ’Legger.* Pretty Evelyn Johnson, aiias Thelma Patterson, 21, of Clinton, Ind., faced Judge Collins today in Criminal Court. “Young lady,” said the judge, “loaning your pretty face as camouflage for a bootlegger will Just cost you SSOO and six months at the Indiana Women’s prison.” The girl was arrested recently In an automobile containing 105 gallons of alcohol, after the driver tied. She denied all knowledge of the liquor, saying she had asked the driver of the car for a ride. The liquor was ordered destroyed and the car, an expensive model, sold. Miss Johnson’s attorney’s indicated they would appeal. '* One Dead In “Checker" War By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—One man was killed and two seriously wounded when guns blazed here today in what police believe is a reopening of the “Checker taxicab factional war.”

condition she is allowed to work and that the Ruhr is returned to German hands. They will not oppose a temporary occupation of the left bank of the Rhine, which would be similar to the German occupation of France after the Franco-Russian war. I believe France will agree to this on condition she is given satisfactory guarantee against future German aggression plus some definite arrangement with regard to her own debts to her allies on a basis which wfll allow her to survive. While some hot-head may yet throw a monkey-wrench into the works, as matters now stand, the chances of an agreement are better than at any time for a deoada. _