Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1924 — Page 7

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MOVE IS STARTED TO FREE SOLDIERS HELDINPRISONS Gold Star Mothers, Nurses and Veterans Organize in Chicago. Bn United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Relief for the “lost legion of soldiers in Leavenworth prison” was organized here today, by Gold Star mothers, Red Cross nurses and war veterans. The “lost legion” consists of soldiers of the World War imprisoned for various offenses during and after the conflict. The sentences are out of proportion to the crime involved, it is held. Unfairness Charged Twenty-four organizations met in the council chamber last night for a preliminary conference. Speakers declared three presidents—Wilson, Harding and Coolidge—have given consideration to freeing slackers, spies and political prisoners but have given no thought to the veterans jailed for offenses committed in the heat of fighting or induced by disorganized nervous system after two years in the trenches. “Saying these men are criminals is absolutely wrong,” Judge Phillip L. Sullivan declared. “They are behind the .bars because army courts and courts-martial gave life sentences co men a civilian judge would simply reprimand. ) “We must let the world know these men wore catapulted into crime by being catapulted into war and thqt we alone are really responsible for their becoming criminals.” The soldier-prisoners are under sentences ranging from fifteen years lo life, the meeting was told. The “lost legion” numbers 176, according to word here. FIRE HAZARDS PROBED Reports of Lack of Outside Escapes on Buildings Bring Action. City and State officials are investigating fire hazards on down town buildings, following reports of lack ®f proper tire escapes on the Odd Fellows and National City Bank buildings. Fire Chief John J. O'Brien, Jacob Riedel, chief of fire prevention, and James Ragan, of the State industrial board, are basing their probe on a 1919 State law requiring outside fire escapes on public buildings more than two stories in height, except by special permit of the city fire chief, if he believes sufficient stairways are provided to eliminate Are hazards.

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Father, Held for Girl’s Death, in Turn Accuses Own Sire of Brutal Crime

By ALEXANDER HERMAN rrrh RIDGETON, N. J., Feb. 20. rS —The “eye for an eye,” I 1 preachment of the* ages makes an 83-year-old man ready to sacrifice the life of his son to avenge the death of his grandchild. It’s a tragedy of hate that has arisen in the wake of love turned stone-cold by murder. Its principals are: EMMA DICKSON, 15, whose mutilated body was found on a road not far from her home, nine days after her disappearance last September. THOMPSON DICKSON. 55, the girl’s father, now lodged in the county jail charged with her murder by his own father. BENJAMIN DICKSON. 83, whose five months’ struggle between paternal love and conscience has brought him close to death’s door. The three lived together in a little house at Bricksboro, not far from here. The girl was a freshman at the Millville high school. The men were caretakers of an estate of a wealthy Philadelphia lawyer. One day the girl disappeared. More than a week later ner body was found on a road between Elizabeth and Millville. Her skull had been crushed and her right arm broken. The hub cap of an automobile was found nearby. The police believed that she had been taken for an auto ride and then beaten to death. An arrest was made. But the charges were then dropped. Months went by. The authorities seemed stumped Then one day the old grandfather sent for ais pastor. “I have been a Christian all my life, and I hope to die one,” he said. “For the last two weeks I have been so troubled that I wasn’t able to sleep.” The Grandfather's Story Then, according to the police, he told this story in detail: "The night of the murder, Emma left home at 7 o’clock to go to a dairy half a mile away for milk. An hour passed and she did not return. The grapes she was cooking to make jelly began to burn. “Her father became angry. He went out to look for her.” The grandfather, according to this story, was in the house at the time. Suddenly, he says, he heard a scream. Then—

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“Muncie is cleaner morally than ever,” the Rev. W. J. Sayers, pastor of the Friends Memorial Church, says, urging support for the police department. The Indiana Federation of Rural Letter Carriers convenes at Lafayetto, Feb. 22. Richard Costello, former member of the Logansport fire department Is new street commissioner, succeeding John Clary, resigned. Jesse Eschbach, former member c*f the State board of accounts, will speak at the annual Washington day banquet of the Logansport chapter, American Legion. • _________ Pete’- Oldenski, Clinton, has sued the Vermilion County Horse Thief Detective Association for $25,000 damages. He alleges a raiding part v visited his home, broke furniture and beat hij wife. “Don’t taste that stuff,” Andy Bech, Columbus, warned the mayor and pol'.ce attaches when arraigned on a “blind tiger” charge. He pointed to liquor confiscated at his place. Madison County tomato growers demand ?15 a ton for the 1924 crop. If they do not receive this they may build a packing plant at Elwood. A groifti of Monroe County and Bloomington citizens has organized the Clear Creek Quarries Company, dealing in limestone. Capital, $200,000. With the death of Samuel B. Rowe, 88, of Shelbyvtlle a lifelong comradeship with his twin brother, James R., has ended. They were believed to have been the oldest twin brothers Gone, but Not Forgotten An automobile reported stolen belongs to: Dr. R. G. Howard, 3518 Balsam Ave., apartment 3, Ford, from Delaware and Washington Sts. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found by police belong to. Paul Kervan, 3240 Rucklo St., Ford. C. H. Wallerich Cos., 833 N. Meridian St., Dodge.

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EMMA DICKSON, THE VICTIM: BENJAMIN DICKSON, HER OLD GRANDFATHER (ABOVE) AND THOMPSON DICKSON, HER FATHER.

The old man became excited as he tried to continue. “Take him away! Take him away! I’m afraid that he'll kill me, too,” he cried. And the detectives took him away to the jail. There the younger Dickson has been lodged since Feb. 3. There he turned against his father and accused him of the crime. In a written statement he said: “My old dad did the job. He was

in the United States wlho served in the 'Civil War. Their birthday was on Armistic© day. Marion De Witt is held in the Wells County Jail as a deserter from the Navy. He was arrested at his mother’s home at Bluffton. The Women's league of Voters and the Home Mission Society have started a movement in Tipton for the election of at least one woman on the school board. EDITORS DENY REQUEST G. O. P. Association Refuses Resolution Favoring Higlnrr Pay for Postmen The request of Indianapolis mail employes for a resolution favoring a pay Increase was denied by the resolutions committee of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, J. W. Pierce, editor of the Daily Clintonian, Clinton, Ind., and chairman of the committee, has Informed local postal officials. “Not a man on our committee talked against favoring the postal clerks getting more money, but all agreed it was hardly our duty or province to set this out,” Pierce said. CONVENTION NEEDS TOLD Cleveland Man Explains Problems a( Sahara Grotto Luncheon. “Problems of Convention Management” was the subject of a talk by Arthur J. Althens of Cleveland at a luncheon of Sahara Grotto, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, at the Lincoln today. The talk was in connection with preparations for the entertainment of about 75,000 Masonia visitors expected for the thirty-fifth supreme council session next summer. COMMUNITY WORK IS AIM Legion Organizing Department to Encourage Playgrounds, Atliletics, Etc. Organization of the American Leggion community service department was being completed today by F. R. McNlnch, New York, of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, and Garland R. Powell, director of Americanism of the Legion. The department will encourage establishment of supervised playgrounds, community athletics, community singing and community centers. , COURT REFORM PROPOSED Judge Collins and Miller for Domestic Relations Tribunal. A court of domestic relations, and municipal courts to take the place of justice of jteace courts, will be the aim of a bill in the next Legislature, Judge James A. Collins said at a meeting of the Social Workers Club Tuesday night in the Roberts Park M. E. Church. Superior Judge Sidney S. Miller spoke on “The Legal Profession and Social Work.” He advocated a domestic relations court. Funeral of Mrs. F. W. Crist Held Funeral of Mrs. F. W. Crist, who died Monday at the residence, 2417 N. Pennsylvania St., was held today from St. Paul’s Episcopal .Church. Burial in Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Crist is survived by her husband and two sons, Frederick T. Crist of Indianapolis and MRchell P. Crist of Chicago. Flower Society to Meet The Garden Flower Society will be addressed tonight at the Chamber of Commeroe, by George R. Phillips, assistant forester, an “Our Indiana Trees.’* The public is invited.

going to kill me. too, if he got the chance. He wanted tho $1,200 left to Emma, and was going to get mo and my little out of the road. After he killed Emma there was nothing for me to do but help him get rid of her body.” Tho Son's Retort The men later confronted each other In Thompson’s cell. “I saw you through the window,” cried the old man. “You killed her. I say it if it's tho last word I say.” ••you are a liar," retorted the son “Whoever says I did, killed her himself.” The old*man went back to the home of his sister, the younger man went back to his cell. And tho little victim, once beloved by both, remains but an unpleasant memory to each. TUI HAIR DARK WITH SAGE TEA If Mixed with .Sulphur It Darkens so Naturally Nobody can Tell. The old-time mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur for darkening gray, streaked and faded hair is grandmotb-' er’s recipe, and folks aro again using it to keep their hair a good, even color, wliich is quito sensible, as we are Jiving in an age when a youthful appearance is of the greatest advantage. Nowadays, though, wo don't have the troublesome task of gathering the sage and the mussy mixing at home. All drug stores sell the ready-to-use product, improved by the addition of other Ingredients, called "Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound.” „It Is very popular because nobody can discover it has been applied. Simply moisten your comb or a soft brfcsh with It and dfaw this through your hair, taking ofto small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair disappears, but what delights the ladies with Wyeth's Suge and Sulphur Compound, is that, besides beautifully darkening tho hair after a few applications, it also produces that soft lustre and appearance of abundance which is so attractive. —Advertisement.

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Lincoln Players Open With ‘Balloon Girl’

The Lincoln Players as organized on stock lines by Charles Mercer of this city, will open a season at the Lincoln Square Sunday afternoon. The opening bill for the first week will be “The Balloon Girl” with Sara Frances Haynes and Tom Coyle in the leading roles. The company -will number about nine regular players and when casts are larger new members will be added. The policy is to change the bill on Sundays. “I feel,” Mercer said, “that we will give value at popular prices. We have gathered together a good playing unit and hope to establish ourselves at the Lincoln Square.” -I- 'I- -I* WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY CONCERT ANNOUNCED The choir of the Southside Christian Church will give a George Washington. concert at the church on Thursday night at 8 o’clock. The program is as follows: (a) Dixie. (b) Old Black Joe Chorus Swirl? Low Sweet Chariot. Mixed Quartette Miss Helene White, Miss Qlenna Wilcox. Mr. Leo Gustin. Mr. Paul Roberts. Three Blind Mice (Round) Chorus Annie Laurie Soprano Solo Miss Heleue White. (a) Old Black Joe. (b) Long, Lon % Aero Chorus Two Little Maids Duet 1 Little Misses Mao' Edith Taylor and Margaret Miller. How Can I Leave Thee. ... Mixed Quartette Mrs Ruth Clark, Mrs Nellie Makaw, Mr. Carl Hensley, Mr. G. L. Stuckey. In the Gloaming; Soprano Solo Yi*s Wanda Johnson. Just Before tho Battle Mother Baritone Solo Mr. Walter White. fa) Massa'e In the Cold. Cold Ground. (hi Jingle Bella? (Sleighing Son?) ... Chorus Tentin? Tonight Male Quartette Mr. Walter White, Mr. Leo Gustin, Mr. Harvey Sparks, Mr. Richard Miller. Asleep in the Deep Bass Solo Mr. Estal Lee Taylor. Auld Lang Syne. Old Oaken Bucket Chorus Sweet and Low Ladies Quartette Mrs. llelllbee Gustin. Mrs. Myrtle Miller. Mrs Harvey Sparks, Mrs. Nellie Magaw, Hocked in the Cradle of the lieepp. Bass Solo. Mr. Richard Miller. Juanita Mixed Quartette Mrs. Myrtle Miller, Mrs. Lillian Sparks. Mr. Leo Gustin. Mr. Richard Miller.

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On Thursday night Joseph Schildkraut opens a three-day engagement in “The Highwayman,” a stnart comedy, at the Murat. Indianapolis gats a look at this play before New York seets It. Ben Bolt Soprano Solo Mrs. Edith Taylor. Home, Sweet Home Chorus -I- -I- -IAttrßctions on view include: Julian Eltinge and his revue, with the Six

Brown Brothers, English’s: J. C. Mack in "Mother Goose’’ at the Palace: Alexander at the Lyric; Wee Georgia Wood at Keith’s: Hollywood Follies”’ at the Capitol; “Fads and Follies,” at the Broadway; “Anna Christie,” at the Circle; “Wild Oranges,” at the Ohio; “The Virginian,’’ at the Apollo: “The Eternal City,” at Mister Smiths’; “The Leavenworth Case,” at the Lincoln Square, and “Below the Rio Grande,” at the Isis. On Thursday night, Mitzi opens at English’s in “The Magic Ring” for three days. School Board Demurs A demurrer to a complaint seeking an Injunction that will prevent the board of school commissioners from rescinding a contract with Kopf & Woolling, architects, for plans of the new Shortridge High School building, has been filed in Superior Court by attorneys for the board. Burial at Former Home By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 20. Mrs. Jacob Greenwald, 34, wife of a well-known traveling salesman, died at her home near this city last night. The husband and three children survive. The burial will occur Thursday at Rochester, Ind., her former home.

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FUQUA LEADS IN PRIMARY Bouanchude Beliind in Race in Louisiana. By United Press NEW ORLEANS. La.. Feb. 20. Henry L. FNtqua today piled up a big lead over Hewitt Bouanchude in the race for nomination for Governor in Tuesday's primary. Returns from the city of New Orleans and 465 out of 1,082 county precincts gave a vote of: F*uqua, 81,352; Bouanchaude, 63,649. Attorney General A. V. Coco, who prosecuted the famous Mer Rouge investigations of the murders of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richards, has apparently been defeated for re-election fey Percy Saint. MODERN FAGIN FOUND? Metal Found at Man’s Home Stolen by Small Boys, Police Say. By United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 20.—With the arrest of Charles Jeffries on a grand larceny charge, police believe they have discovered a modern Fagin. Jeffries was discovered with large quantitiese of metal in his home which officers say he had small boys steal from local factories