Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 240, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 240

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FREIGHT CAR OF WHISKY IS CONFISCATED Local Federal Agents Seize Consignment of 'Doctored' Booze From Brooklyn—Bootleg Value Estimated SIOO,OOO, A carload of whisky, consisting of 3,000 gallons valued on the basis of bootleg prices at SIOO,OOO, was seized by Federal officers and police in railroad yards south of police headquarters today. According to Prohibition Group Chief George ’Winkler, who with Police Capt. William Paulsell, conducted the raid, the booze was “doctored” so as to come within the law.

CRIMINAL ACTION IN TEAPOT SCANDAL APPEARSUNLIKELY Special Counsel Declare Necessary Dependable Witnesses Are Lacking, By United Pres t WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Lack of witnesses essential to a criminal prosecution threatened today to prevent such prosecution in connection with the oil leasing scandal. Atlee Pomefene and Owen J. Roberts, President Coolidge's special counsel, toid the Senate Teapot Dome Committee there was not one witness who could be depended on to prove violator# of the criminal laws against anybody involved in the leacing scandal. . .Committee members said they agreed with the counsel The counsel probably will confine their efforts therefore Jo a suit in equity, designed to cancel the Teapot Dome and California leases and restore the reserves to the Government. Confer With Coolidgc Following a conference with the President, Pomerene and Roberts made arrangements for a meeting with the Senate Teapot Dome committee. President Coolidge personally handed the two counsels their commissions just signed by him when they entered his room at the White House. Roberts brought as his assistants George G. Chandler and U. J. Alengent of Philadelphia. Pomerene brought A. J. Powell and John Dempsey of Cleveland. Assistants Clean Records The assistants today were going through the files of the congressional record and the report of the Senate public lands committee hearing. Inquiry was being made to see whether the action would have to be 1 rought in separate States in which the oil reserves are located, or whether the actions could be combined in some court that has jurisdiction over all the leases.

NEED FOR MORE TEACHERS CITED Board Warns Against MidWeek Basketball. Members of the State board of education went on record today as sensing the need for more well-pre-pared and competent ieaqjaers. A letter will be forwarded to every high school principal, city and township superintendent in the State asking cooperation in urging young people to enter the teaching profession. George Allen, Clarke County attendance officer, was removed from his office by th§ board. E. E. Hamsey, State school inspector, named three local high schools with forty-seven others as having violated the State board’s resolution against basketball in mid-week. He recommended, ihat the schools be warned of rheir violation. LOUISIANA AT POLLS Voters to Select Governor and Two Other State Officers. By United Pres • NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19.—Louisiana voters went to the polls today to name a Governor and other State officials who failed to secure a sufficient majority in the first primary held Jan. 15. The governorship contest is between Henry L. Fuqua of Baton Rouge and Hewitt T. Bouchand, who has served as Lieutenant Governor during the John M. Parker administration.

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Winkler said animal oils and other ingredients were added to the bqoze, but that one distillation would remove them and make the liquor drinkable. Billed as “Chemical” Bills of lading in the hands of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad show that a carload of “chemical” was shipped Feb. 12 by the Empire Products Company of Brooklyn, N. Y., to the Empire Products Company of Indianapolis, care of the Indianapolis Drug Company. According to \Winkler, neithec of the two concerns exists. Police and Federal officers first “spotted” the car Feb. 16. Since that time, they have been watching the railroad office for the car to be claimed. No one claimed it. Reconsignment Asiced Today the railroad office received a message signed “E. C. Woodruff, Brooklyn.” asking them to reconsign the car tq th'e Empire Products Company, care of the Illinois Wholesale Drug Company, Peoria, 111. Following receipt of this message, the car was seized and the contents taken to police headquarters. Winkler ha# been in communication with W. C. Quinn, New York, head of the alcoholic division of the prohibition enforcement division, who has been checking the shipment from New York. Yhe booze was contained in five-gal-lon cans with two cans in each case. Officers admit they Have ho clew to the owners.

NO RELIEF EROM SLEET EXPECTED Indiana Is No-Man's Land in Weather Barometer. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 27 10 a. m 25 7 a. m 26 11 a. m 26 Ba. m.. ,T- •.. 26 12 (noon) 26 9 a. m..,.--.. 26 1 p. rn 26 Indiana today was the "no man's land". in the great battle between Eastern rain and Western snow. The result was sleet covered streets slippery' sidewalks, skidding automobiles and terrified pedestrians staging startling acrobatic stunts. No relief from these conditions is to be expected before Wednesday, J. H. Armington. weather bureau meteorologist. said. He predicted a minimum temperature of about 26 degrees above zero tonight, more rain or snow, more sleet and colder Wednesday night. The motoring and Walking public rapidly is learning the art of ice navigation and no serious accidents were ; reported. Bu Times Bperial WINCHESTER. Ind , Feb. 19 - Boys and girls here are going to school on skates while the country schools are practically abandoned on account of the icy walks and roads. Although traffic is practically demoralized and several minor auto accidents have been reported, no one has been seriously Injured. Professor Injured in Fail By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind . Feb. 19.—The condition of Dr. Andrew D. Ward, 50, professor of English literature In the Central normal school here, is serious today as a result of a fall on an icy walk here Monday'. He sustained a fractured skull and numerous bruises. MAN HURT ON ICY WALK Louis Brown Seriously Injured in Fall at Greencastle. Louis Brown, 423 W. New York St., was seriously injured today when he fell on an icy pavement at Greencostle. He was taken to the county hospital there. Brown is a frequent visitor at police headquarters, where he is known as a bondsman. He was bondsman for Charles (Chuck) Wiggins, prize fighter, whose $2,000 bail was forfeited at Greencastle several weeks ago. Wiggins reported at Greencastle later and was taken to the State Reformatory at Pendleton on a sentence for attempting to escape from the Indiana State Farm.

Winner of SI,OOO in Times Proverb Contest Says ’ He Will Use Money to Aid Son in University

Ofher Local Persons Honored Tell What They Will Do With Awards,

jHARLES W. CONEWAY, 1101 Oakland Ave., a mail clerk, is v__J the winner of the SI,OOO first prize in The Times Proverb Contest, the judges announced today. Prize winners w'ere announced after a month's work in going over the 5,000 sets of answers submitted. Forty-five prizes, totalling $2,500 were awarded. The second prize of SSOO went to W. A. O'Brian, 149 Y. C. A., an employe in the finishing plant of the Nordyke & Marmon Company. Third prize of $250 went to Herman Imbus, Cincinnati, Ohio; fourth prize of SIOO to Louise. Bright, 727 Superior St., Ft. Wayne, and fifth prize of $75 to H. T. Osborn, Gary', Ind. The judges were Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal Court; EdON PAGE SEVEN Y’ou will find a complete list of winners and correct answers to all 'proverbs in The Times Proverb Contest. ward J. Gausepohl, president of E. J. Gausepohl & Cos., and George Buck, principal of Shortridge High School. The contest started Oct. 29 and closed Jan. 5. Sixty pictures were printed on sixty consecutive days. Contestants were given until noon Jan. 19 to submit their answers. • GOING to use my SI,OOO 111 to help my son finish 1 1 I college.” said Coneway. Charles Jr., is a junior at Purdue University. “The money will come in mighty handy. “I always have been interested in proverbs,” continued Coneway. “I had entered other contests of a similar nature, so I knew just how to go about hunting up the proverbs.” Coneway displayed his proverb library of about a dozen books. “It took quite a bit of time. CViuldnT say just how long. Soma pictures were easy. Others pretty hard.” • • • | ’BRIAN, winner of the SSOO If J I prize, said liq entered the 1 I contest because he anciplpated a “lot of fun.” “I'm going to bank the money for my old age. “If more pei-sons would live up to the old proverbs there would not be so much trouble In the world today.” * • • (< | |T was like a good novel: | | I when you start, you have , *——l to finish it," said Edward La Poorest, automobile salesman. 2711 N. Illinois St., who won sls. “I put all my spare time on the j contest, and think it the host ever j conducted.” • • • Ur— i 'At going to put my prize j 1 I money In the bank," said i I I I C. If. Essig, bill clerk, j 2859 N. Meridian St. “Os course, | sls isn't much, but neither Is my I bank account. It will add a little. “I had lots of fun working on the i proverb contest. I bought several j proverb books. I always waited j until I had about ten pictures; then ! I went through my books hunting j answers.”

** fr-pi |HE proverb picture nf the I tailless cow with swarms LA I of flies about her gave me the most trouble. It was hard; but the others were just difficult enough to make it fun in guessing,” said IT. M. Tebay, internal*revenue deputy, 2358 N. Delaware St. Tebay used the Bible, school books, almanacs and Poor Richards’ sayings in determining correct answers. He said that he thought he would spend his prize money on subscriptions to The Times for several years. Tebay W'on $25. • • | IHE $25 won by Miss Luelle I. I I Row, singer and dancer, 1019 1 1 College Ave., will be spent. In furthering her musical education, she said. "The pictures were just hard enough to make the guessing fun." SMOKE TESTER ARRIVES Umberscope Aids Enforcement of New Ordinance. With the arrival of two umberscopes today. 11. F. Templeton, assistant chief smoke inspector, today speeded up operation of the city’s new smoke abatement ordinance. The umberscope is used to determine smoke density by varying thickness of colored glass. Evidence gained by using the instrument is'used in court. Templeton has sent out twentyseven additional first notices of smoke violations and thirteen additional second notices, bringing the total first notices to ninety-two and second notices to forty-one. Templeton has made seven investigations. Woman Drinks Poison Bit I nitrd Pre*B MTJNCIE, Ind., Hughes, recently divorced, is in a hos pltal here recovering from burns. She drffisk poison at bet home last night with alleged suicidal intent.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEB. 19, 1924

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ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT), CHARLES W. CONEAVAY, W. A. O’BRIAN. H. M. TKBAV. (CENTER. C. H. ESSIG. (LOWER LEFT), MJSS LUCILE ROW. (LOWER RIGHT), EDWARD LA FOUREST. (PHOTO BY FOLKERTH STUDIO.)

AUTO SALESMAN IS REPORTED MISSING John (J, Davis Disappears From Home. Mr-\ Ncrvell Davis today asked police to aid In search for her husband, John Calvin Davis, 29, who disappeared from his homo, 211 E. TwentyFifth St., Friday. Davis was employed as an automobile salesman by H. B. .Tones, 229 E. Sixteenth St , -Mrs. Davis said An automobile which Davis had been demonstrating was found in _£he rear of Jones' establishment Friday night. KOKOMO WANTS ADVICE Fire Chief to Inspect Apparatus and Recommend Betterments. Fire Chief John J. O'Brien will go to Kokomo Friday to inspect fire Jightingi apparatus, water pressure, and condition of public buildings, at request of the fclty administration. Kokomo has been swept with costly fires and the city officials believe recommendations of O’Brien will save the city additional fire loss. Jacob Riedel, chief of firo prevention, will follow O'Brien with talks on preventing fires.

Mental Patient Jailed Three Months by Legal Delay

f _,) HE case of Charles E. Bratm* j J I English subject, held in jail since Nov. 9, suspected of insanity. will be decided today by a Circuit Court jury. He was arrested when, it is said, he, applied to the American Uhity League for protection under an hallucination he was being persecuted. Authorities have been puzzled as to his disposition because of his citizenship. Nov. 10 he w'as declared insane by a jury in the justice court of

STOLEN WATCH IS FOUND Police Investigating Prisoner’s Record Held on Grand larceny Charge. Police today were investigating Jack Kleinper. 22. of 1025 S. Senate Ave., charged with grand larceny after detectives say they found him in possession of a watch stolen from Jack Hendricks. 3335 N. •Meridian St. A band book bearing (lie name of Jack KJapper, 2950 Clifton St... indicating large deposits made In the Northwestern State Bank, and a S4OO diamond ring also were found, police say. FIRE LOSS IS SIBO,OOO Chief O’Rrieii’s Report for January Shows Damage Increases Over 1923 Fire loss in Indianapolis in January was estimated at SIBO,OOO by Fire Chief John J. O'Brien today. The loss for January, 1923, was $44,272.27. The department answered 105 bell alarms and. 404 still alarms during January, an increase of 86 over January last year. DEMOCRATS ~ CONFIDENT / .. . . i . Republicans and Progressives Abandon Hope of Tax Compromise. - 811 United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Democrats were conflden today of sweeping aside all Republican proposals as the House prepared to vote on the income tax schedules of the new revenue bill. hope of a compromise between Republicans and progressives has been abandoned and. adoption of the Garner plan seems assured.

Edward Dietz. The case was turned over to Circuit. Court when it was found that only that court could make disposition because he was not an American citizen. In immigration official from Cincinnati insisted Braim be deported to Canada, but the matter was dropped. , ‘ * A similar case was that of Henry C. Jarina'n, 'colored. 29, of 441 Indiana Ave., lodged in the county jail Jan. 8 on vagrancy charges, suspected of insanity. Jarman was

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BOVS’ADVENTURE ENDED BY POLICE Lads Intended to ‘Grow Up With Soutli America,' While parents and teachers frantically searched the woods north of Broad Ripple. Ralph Ratty, 13, of 653*2 Cornell Ave.. and James Weller, 12, of 5120 Parker Ave., who last Friday started to South America “to grow up with the country,” were safe with Louisville (Ky.) authorities. Juvenile Court was notified today. “Ralph has been learning in school about South America, and several times suggested we move there/ ’ said his mother, Mrs. Leona A. Batty. “He said it is a land of opportunity." Mrs. Thusnelda Barrett, teacher of the two lads in public school No. 80, put in Monday afternoon scouring the woods north of Broad Ripple for. the wanderers after some playmates said they saw them “camping out." BULLET WOUND SERIOUS By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 19.—The con dition of Senator Frank 1.. Greene of Vermont, seriously woundgii Friday night by a. stray bullet between prohibition agents and bootleggers, was “extremely critical" today, his physician, Dr. Borden, announced. “The chances are against Senator Greene's recovery,” Dr. Borden said.

detained for lack of witnesses to file an affidavit against Jiim. Judge D. O. Wilmeth of city court, has ruled that police officers are not required tg file such affidavit since they “hr# liable to damage ' suits for false imprisonment in case the suspect is declared sane. The Family Welfare Liociety lo- • cated a brother in Dayton, Ohio, who made the affidavit in the court of Justice of the' Peace W. A. Conner. He was declared insane Feb. 13, and the case was turned over to the

Attorney General Refuses to Resign in Face of Hint From Coolidge Cabinet Member Declares He Must Be Given Fair Hearing Before Critics By United Brets "W ASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—1n the face of an open demand that lie resign and Tvhat was regarded as a broad hint from President Coolidge to the same effect, Attorney General Daugherty today was clinging to his post in the Cabinet. A three-hour conference last night, a Cabinet discussion today and a brief conference with President Coolidge resulted in Daugherty deciding not to quit until he had been given a hearing and a chance to reply to his critics.

Daugherty remained with President Coolidge after the Cabinet meeting broke up. When he came out he again refused to say anything. “The only thing you can quote me on,” said Daugherty, “is that I have nothing to say.” Other members of the Cabinet were equally reticent, but Indicated they did not except any development today in Daugherty's case. It was stated on Daugherty’s behalf when he had anything to say, he would say it in a general public statement. No intimation was given as to when such a statement might he expected. Urged Investigation Daugherty urged friends in the Senate to call up at once and have passed the Wheeler resolution for an investigation of his department. Daugherty wants the resolution to eliminate a statement in the preamble that he has lost the confidence of the country. He wants a special Senate Committee named to make the inquiry and he will appear before such a committee if it is named. At a conference with Wilrlis, Oh:o; Pepper and Reed, Pennsylvania, and Moses, New Hampshire, Daugherty discussed in detail the ham dUng of the resolution and requested the amendment be made. At that conference. Senators said, he gave the impression he did not intend to resign unless asked to (to so by President Coolidge, until he had been given an opportunity to reply to his critics. His resignation was discussed "only incidentally” at the conference. Senators said. Borah Makes Demand The' big factor in the expected resignation of Daugherty is a strong demand made by Senator Borah of Idaho in a Sunday night conference at the White House that the attorney general retire immediately from public lire. * t While Coolidge and Mr. Daugherty sat and listened, Borah dramatically insisted the Attorney. General resign. He gave as his reasons tftfr President had found it necessary to go outside the Department of Justice in arranging for the prosecution in the oil lease cases, that the public had tost confidence in the administration of the Department of Justice, while Mr. Daugherty's department is the only branch of the Government that the public can look to in the administration of justice. Roosevelt May Go Assistant Secretary' of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt, has stated that he would not resign, but it has been freely predicted that he would take this step before long. It is oipected Roosevelt will remain at least until anew Secretary of the Navy is appointed. Assistant Secretary of Ititerior E. C. Finney also is believed to be in a difficult position, following his testimony before the Senate Committee of how he shielded the action of former Secretary Fall in leasing the oil reserves. DOWN COME STICKERS Candidate Walker Asks Removal of Newspaper Boxes, Too. John F. Walker, superintendent of street cleaning, today told Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff that he has ordered removal of hundreds of stickers, pasted on utility' posts, advertising his candidacy' for the Republican nomination for sheriff. Walker said that overenthusiastic supporters did not know they' were violating a city ordinance. Then Walker asked the chief to re-, quire a morning newspaper to remove newspaper boxes on poles all over the city, asserting they were equally unlawful. Rikhoff said he would refer the matter to city lawyers.

county clerk for his commitment to the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane. County Clerk Albert Losche said the prime need was a special officer to take charge of such cases for the purpose of filing affidavits so that Inquests .can.be held and .the case disposed of immediately. The rule of city court that officers may not file affidavits necessitates location of relatives for the purpose, a practice which holds suspects in jail an unwarranted length of time, Losche said.

Forecast RAIN or snow and probably sleet tonight and Wednesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 26. Colder Wednesday,

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Silence By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. President Coolidge today announced a policy of silence regarding the oil leasing scandal effective at once. It was stated on his rehalf the oil leasing cases would not in future be discussed at the White House conferences with newspapermen on Tuesday and Friday. The cases are now in the hands of counsel for presentation to the. courts and for that reason the President believes he must refrain from talking about them.

POINDEXTER TALKED TO SUCCEED DENBY AS HEAD OF NAVY 'l* Dixon, Dawes, Allen and Butler Are Others Discussed for Post, By United Pret• WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—1f President Coolidge takes the advice of “insiders’ ’in the Navy department he will , appoint an “iron man” to succeed Edwin Denby as secretary of the Navy. A man who will brutally wield a big stick Inside the department end take measures to check a waning morale is the crying need, of the Navy today. President Coolidge has said no naval officer will be named and nobody from Michigan. This apparently eliminated Charles B. Warren, Detroit. Warren is now mentioned for attorney General Daugherty’s job should Daugherty quit. Miles Poindexter, American ambassador to Peru, was much talked of today as Denby’s successor. He was formerly acting chairman of the Senate Naval AffsJrs Committee, Governor Dixon, Montana, also haa been spoken of as filling the requirement. “Hell and Maria” Dawes, former director of the budget and now a member of the commission studying the reparations situation, is another. Former Governor Henry Allen of Kansas and Blrg. Gen. Smedley Butler, safety director of Philadelphia, were being discussed today. Denby quftu March 10. His successor will have about a year of Ditffr by's term to serve.

LIVE COINS TAKEN FROM ESOPHAGUS Unusual Operation Performed on Small Boy. Buddy Kisker, 3, of Anderson, li.d,, returned home with his mother, Mrs. Alma Kisker, from St, Vincent’s Hospital a wiser, if not a sadder, boy. He came to Indianapolis Monday evening. At the hospital Dr. Lafayette Page. 603 Hume-Mansur Bldg , removed forty-one cents—four dimes and a penny—from Buddy’s esophagus. Hospital attendants and Dr. Page said that never before had they heard of such a case. Buddy swallowed the money last Saturday. The operation wap said to be an exceedingly delicate one. An X-ray picture located the coins, lodged lit a bunch. The lad had been unable to eat since he swallowed the coins. Leg Is Fractured By Times Special SCOTTSBURG. Ind., Feb. 19.—Mrs Olive Smith is suffering today from a double fracture of her leg, received in a fall on the icy street.