Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1924 — Page 2

DAWES DISREGARDS POLITICS IN REPORT ON EUROPE’S FATE Body Resembles Group of Surgeons Cooly Planning Major Operation, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Times Foreign Editor. PARIS. Feb. 27. —As the Daw’es committee frames the report on which hangs the fate of Europe for the next hundred years, I don’t think I ever saw a more completely detached body of men. They exactly resemble a group of noted surgeons dispassionately planning- a major operation to save a desperately sick patient. Not the slightest regard has been paid to internal policies or politics of the nations interested. Chauvinistic howls of the press have been ignored. I am in a position to state authoritatively the Dawes plan will be a strictly business one. France must choose between a business settlement and a political settlement. Germany must choose between paying or dying. France must decide whether shQ prefers payments or reparations to Germany's full capacity or military occupation of the Ruhr and control of Rhineland railways. Faces Alternatives Germany must decide whether she prefers to accept an International system of checking upon proper fulfillment cf pledges or loss of the Ruhr and economic, If not political collapse. The report will clearly demonstrate Europe is doomed unless the. world comes to her assistance with loans sufficient to stabilize finances. I have an eminent authority for the statement the world will not invest big money in an armed camp. Despite reports contrary wise. I do not believe Germany will refuse to accept the checking up system, as rest sal would indicate she had no intention of living up to her agreements. Nor do those in a position to know believe FVanee will refuse to allow the Rhineland and Ruhr railways to be included in the Reich system, to serve as security, for a foreign loan to Germany. Will Demand Guarantees France will demand other guarantees to replace these, but the committee believes it will be possible to satisfy her demand. France will also insist on guarantees against German aggression in some form, but the committee considers this a political question, thus outside its province. Meantime Premier Poincare is fighting like a bearcat. He has pushed through his financial reforms, thus winning a free hand with which to tackle the experts’ report. Andre Tardieu. with whom I talked today, is skeptical about “American doctors" for European ills, but admitted the ghances of settlement are better now than they once were.

HOOSIER STATIy HONORED Hospital in Near East Is Namesake, Says Woman Speaker. A peculiar honor has come to Indiana. One of the largest trachoma hospitals in the Near East is named ' tor the Hoosier State, Dr. Mabel E. Elliott, Nep.r East worker, told the Indianapolis Medical Society Tuesday night. The “Indiana Building’’ was | formerly the late czar’s military plant at Alexandropol, she said. When she took charge of relief work at Alexandropol there were 20,000 cases of ftfrfachoma among the 30,000 babies in her charge. Dr. Elliott said. “American surgery is gradually mastering this age-old disease.” A resolution expressing sorrow over the death off ffDffrf.f Henry Jameson was adopted by the society. 10-YEAR DIVORCE ASKED Wife of Wealthy Logansport Banker Also Seeks SIOO,OOO Alimony. By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., Feb. 27.—A ten years' divorce was sought todayin a suit by Mrs. Lena Streckler, 65, wife of George Strecker, 65, wealthy retired hanker. Mrs. Strecker asks SIOO,OOO alimony and names Miss Mary' Hartz, music teacher, and Jennie Secrist as corespondents. In another suit Mrs. Strecker asks| $50,000 damages from the alleged corespondents and Strecker’s sister, Miss Kate Strecker, alleging she acted as a go-between for Strecker in his love affairs. ROTARY TO ‘GO TO SEA’ Forty Indianapolis Members to Take Great Lakes Trip. Forty Indianapolis Rotarians have made reservations for a lake tour from Michigan City, to Toronto, with a four-day stop-over at the International Rotary conference. Secretary Wilbur Grueber said today. A special chartered boat for the Indiana Rotarians will sail June 12. They will return June 24. The Rotarians will visit Charlevoix, Harbor Springs, Mackinac Island, Detroit, Niagra Falls, and the paper plant of the Chicago Tribune at Thorold. Clinton Motorist Arrested Mike Pedrotti, Clinton, was arrested today after, police said, he failed to stop when his automombile struck that of Carl Wittinger, 2048 Parker Ave., at New Jersey and Market Sts. He was charged with vagrancy and failure to stop after an accident. Wife Asks SIO,OOO Alimopy Mrs. Eva S. Whitlock, 243 Trowbridge St., today filed suit in Superior Court for a divorce from Thomas W. Whitlock. She demands SIO,OOO alimony. Cruel and inhuman treatment are alleged.

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Moving of executive office equipment and equipment of the city dispensary into the new city hospital administration building has begun. The new nurses’ home, constructed on the same design, as the adminis-

OUR PROMISES TO NAME EXAMINERS Investigation of Behmer Road to Start Immediately, Lawrence Orr, chief examiner of the State board of accounts, today promised John D. Williams, State highway director, that he would name examiners immediately to investigate the Behmer road affair in Marshall County. Williams asked Orr to start the probe four days ago. Williams demanded the investigation on the ground Chesleigh D. Gray, chief highway engineer, was indicted in Marshall County upon a report of A. L. Donaldson, engineer for the accountants, and that the report set out specifications for the road different from those’ furnished the highway commission. Gray is accused of accepting the road when it was improperly constructed. C. OF C. CONSIDERS PUBLICITY MOVE City May Try to Have Name on Army Plane. Advisability of a campaign to have one of four Army airplanes which a re to start *on a trip around the world, March 16, named for Indianapolis, will be considered by Henry L. Dithmer, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and John B. Reynolds, secretary, Reynolds said today. The planes will start from Los Angeles on their 35,000-mile voyage. “If one of the planes were named ‘lndianapolis,’ the value to the city would be very great," said Reyonlds. An essay contest on “Aviation and Business” may be conducted by the Chamber of Commerce.

SURE! WE’RE ALL HUMAN Governor McCray Says He Will Keep ' Auto License Fund. Twenty-eight dollars is S2B to Governor McCray as well as the humblest citizen. When the question of whether excess automobile license fee payments should be returned to auto owners was up the Governor suggested that citizens forego refunds in the interests of good roads. The Governor was the first to benefit when refund checks were written, getting sl6 on a Cadillac and sl2 on a Buick. Asked, through his secretary, Miss Adah Bush, whether he would keep the money, he replied today that he I would. MYSTIC CLAN FORMED New Society Organized by Clarke to Rival Ku-Klux Klan. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 27.—The Knights of the Mystic Clan today joined the list of rival societies of the Ku-Klux Klan growing out of internal differences in the hooded order. The new secret organization was (launched Tuesday night at a conference of 200 delegates from thirteen States. The meeting was called by E. Y. Clarke, former imperial wizard, to “cure or kill” the invisible empire. Ink Company Incorporates Articles of incorporation were filed today by the Monument Ink Company, manufactures of ink, paste, mucilage and office supplies. Capital stock is SIO,OOO. Incorporators Andrew A. Broshears, Hazel C. Broshears and Isidore Feibleman. Police Seek Finder of $566 Police today are searching for some one who might have found $566 in checks and cash reported lost by W. C. Freund, druggist. Highland Ave. and Michigan St., on his way to a bank Tuesday. Bandits Get $5,000 in Getns By United Press CHICAGG, Feb. 27.—Two masked bgfidits today held up Samuel Troeky in his jewelry store apd escaped with $5,000 worth of diamonds.

NEW CITY HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

tration building, also is reaefy for occupancy. The city dispensary is being moved from 10(5 N. Senate Ave. The nurses’ home will accommodate 200. Provisions for extra wards

Attorney Declines to Be McCray Judge CHARLES S. WILTSI* Charles S. Wiltsie, attorney, chosen Tuesday as judge to hear the Criminal Court case against Governor Warren T. McCray, today said he would not accept the position. He said he could not arrange other cases to preside at the trial, set or March 4. UNUSUAL TRUSTEESHIP Trust Company .Assumes Responsibility for Real Estate Organization. Deeds and contracts to property involved approximately $200,000 were turned over by the J. F. Cantwell Company, Indianapolis real estate and home building organization, to the Fletcher Savings & Trust Cos., in an unusual trusteeship, it was announced today by Burt. E. Richardson, manager of the real estate trust department of of the trust company. The trusteeship was created to provide a system of preelection for the individual property - buyers. Deeds to the propert. placing it under the trusteeship were filed today. Under the agreement signed by the trust company and the real estate organization, the trust company will hold the title to the various parcels of property. The system will centralize the collection of monthly payments of buyers, it was pointed out. HE’S NOT HUNGRY NOW Tliief Cleans Out Ice Box Before Walking Off With Clock. It was a hungry thief who visited the apartment of Harold Reed, 146 W. Eighteenth St., during absence of the Reed family, according to police reports today. The prowler looted the ice box before walking off with a mirror and clock. Loss was estimated at s3l. Herbert Vogelsang, 2032 Lexington Ave., reported six funeral chairs, marked “Shirley 8r05.,” stolen or lost from his truck. Dr. J. E. Hoover, 2958 Broadway, told police a bag of surgical instruments, valued at $75, was taken from his car, parked at the Union Station. DONNELLY SURRENDERED Bondsman Gives Up Defendant Charged With Tiro Theft. Patrick L. Donnelly, 35, of 24 S. Denny St., today was surrendered to Criminal Judge James A. Collins, by his bondsman. Edward Berser. Donnelly’s sentence of from one to fourteen years in prison on a tire theft charge was affirmed by State Supreme Court Jan. 17. Donnelly has sijaty days to ask for rehearing. He was searching for a new bondsman. FREE BED AND BOARD Modem o’llcnry Character Lands in Jail for Long Term. By United Xetcs PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 27. Julius Probersy was hungry, penniless and out of a job. So he walked over to the nearest fire-alarm box, called out the Passaic fire-fighting apparatus and | waited to be arrested on charges of I sending in a false alarm. But Prober--5 sky was undetected. It seemed nobody j Wanted a poor homeless man. But he wr<e not discouraged. He tried again, another day, hut was again unmolested. Probersky was “caught,” at last, on his third attempt. The court has obliged him with a year’s shelter’in the local Jall-house-4-and food. |

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are being made, since only 100 nyrses are now employed. Rooms vacated in the old portion of the hospital will be fitted up as wards. The total cost of both wings was $425,000.

C. OF C.SPEAKERS TO GREETVISITORS Convention Guests Will Be Given Welcome. The Speakers Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, will furnish speakers to welcome visitors to all conven tions held here. Henry L. Dithmer, president said today. The first speaker is Don U. Bridge, who will address the Indiana Winchester Club at the Claypool, March 4. Jessie E. Hanft will welcome the Indiana Egg and Poultry Association at the Claypool. These chairmen have been named on the general financing committee: Dwight,A. Murphy, financial: William A. Atkins, hotels: John B. Dubuc, taxi cabs; Guy K. Jeffries, transportation; J. F. O'Mahoney, restaurants: Herbert S. King, manufacturers; Roltara iSg gleston, theaters: Gustav G. Schmidt, motion pictures; Harper J. Ransburg, wholesaJe; James E. Fisher, miscellaneous. DEALERS’MOTOR licenser™ Decision on Law Restricts Use of plates. Automobile dealers can use license plates only on demonstrators, in testing cars and in transporting cars as a result of the State Supreme Court’s decision that a 1923 law is Invalid. In a letter to Traffic Inspector Michael Glenn. Secretary of State Ed Jackson pointed out that the invalidated law- allow'ed use of dealers' plates on service trucks, tow cars, wreckers ar\d delivery trucks but they now must be licensed separately. Inspector Glenn today announced a campaign March 1 against motorists operating without new plates and certificates of title. The law applying to dealers also will be enforced rigidly, he said. Certificates must be placed in the front compartment of the car. he said. BODY FOUND IN BOX CAR Well Dressed Woman Believed a Murder Victim. By United Brets GIBSON, Ind., Feb. 2 T. —’The well dressed body of a woman about 65, with two bullet wounds in the face, was found in a box car on the Indiana Harbor Belt Line Railroad near here today. A. L, McGinnis, special agent of the road, said the body was still warm when workers discovered it. The body was clad in a costly fur coat and two large diamond ear-rings were untouched. Two empty shejls and two railroad tickets from Gary to Chicago were found. McGinnis said indications are the woman was slain in the vicinity of the town and thrown into the box car. / AUTO THIEVES KILL MAN Victim Left Lying in I(oad as Robbern Speed Away. By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 27.—Martin Say, 36, died of injuries received when auto thieves making their escape in a stolen car struck him and left him lying unconscious in the road. It is believed the robbers were from Chicago. The car was stolen from Dr. E. L. White. Schortemeier on Program Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of the Republican State committee, will speak at a meeting of the Indiana State Junior Republican Club at the Marlon Club Thursday night. Queen Mary Is Indisposed By United Brett LONDON, Feb. 27. —Queen Mary is indisposed, suffering from a cold, according to a bulletin from Buckingham Palace. Alabama Singers to Appear The Alabama All-Star Singing Troupe will appear at the West St. Seventh-Day ''Adventist Church at 7:45 tonight. No admission will be

COUSIN WRECKS DEFENSE PLEA OF BANKER’S WIFE Woman Who Claims to Be Unnatural Daughter Identified as 'Susie Lee,' By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—“ That’s my second cousin, Susie Lee, no doubt of it,” declared Dan, P. McCoy of Lafayette, Ky., on the witness stand in the Harris marriage annulment case today, indicating the pretty defendant. Action in the suit of Beverly D. Harris, former vice president of the National City Bank, to have annulled his marriage to the defefndant, centered today around efforts of his counsel to establish her identity as one “Susie Lee” who lived in Tennessee and who was mistress of a gambler. Mrs. Elaine Lea Harris, smartly Persian lamb coat turned high up Persian lamb coa tturned high up about her dark, attractive features, stirred indignantly in her seat. But all the strenuous cross-examin-ing of her counsel could not shake the witness from his certainty that the Southern beauty, who claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Eli Ilaynour, celebrated gambler, was none other than the daughter of S. C. Lee, a cousin of the witness.

TRAP AT HOME OF GIRL SLAYER WINS (Continued From Page 1) hours later. It was then I decided to make an effort to see my father. When we drove up near his home the capture came.” I>eteetive Gets Tip Inspector of Detectives Mullin re- j ceived a tip that the girl was in a j taxi bound for the Union Station. He ; and four detectives drove in an auto- i mobile to the station. They saw the j taxi leaving, chased it and tried to j stop It at. Senate Ave. and South St. ; The driver sj>ed on. Detectives Rugenstein and Lansing j had been stationed near the Daniel Ellis homo all day. Mullin and his squad went to Ellis’ home by way of alleys and sis the S cab turned into IV. Henry St. off of Illinois St.. Mullin drove out. of an alley directly in front of the taxi and stopped. Admits Identity The taxi driver stopped. Miss Ellis; started to leap out. Detective Dalton, j who was on the running board of the j police car. was thrown toward the taxi by the sudden stop. He euught the taxi door and opened it Just as the girl attempted to get out. The girl sank back. “Who are you?” Dalton asked. “Betty Bastion.” “No, you’re not," said Dalton "Well, I guess you’ve got me," said j the girl. She was taken to police headquar ! ters. The girl had been preparing for her j escape since one week after she was taken to the prison, Jan. 28. She said she discovered that the padlock and cage look on her cell were being left unlocked and that a wooden door and another cage door separating her from the corridor between the cell and Miss Richard’s room were locked. Later she discovered that only the wooden door i was being locked, she said. Ificked Door Ix>ck Several times preceding the murder • she picked the wooden door lock with j a hair pin and a spoon, she said. “Once I was told that a member of the pardon board was coming to see me that day. I had picked the lock and was out in the corridor. 1 heard footsteps, rushed back into my cell and was sitting peacefully on the bed when they unlocked the door. “Monday I know that Miss Richards was off duty and after I was served my supper, and heard the dining room girl go past the midway door which my cell room lead to, I picked the lock and went over into Miss Richards room. First I selected a dress and shoes and took them to my cell. I went back to her room. I heard Miss Richards coming and hid behind the dresser. She read a newspaper and then retired. I crept from my hiding place and in going to the bed lumped a table. Miss Richards flashed a light on me and I warned her not to scream, hut she yelled twice for Miss Elliott (the superintendent and once for Miss Hanly, (a matron). I then stuffed a sheet in her mouth and fcound her.” Movements Deliberate "Taking her coat and hat from the wardrobe, and the money, I went to my cell, dressed and unlocked the door to the main corridor. Passing down the steps to the basement I unlocked a door and then ran to the gate and unlocked it. I ;walked slowly to Washington St., on. Randolph, and started to town. A man in an auto picked me up and I alighted at the hotel. I registered as ‘Betty Bastian.’ I could not sleep, fearing recapture. “I ate breakfast, walked down the street and felt all right until I returned and saw that paper with the head lines on the clerk’s desk. Then for the first time I realized what I had done. “Oh, my God!" I never meant to do that. I did not think I was binding her that tight, and in the struggle she put up with me her hand slipped and the keys struck her head. I would never had done such a thing.” Disgusted With Outlook “I was just disgusted, because Miss Elliott said that I stood chances of getting a ten to twenty-year sentence for that forgery offense, and I did not want to stay at that place. ’’ When told the nurse was fooled by the hair left in her bed Miss Ellis said: “That was an awful thing to do, wasn’t it? I did not want them to miss me.” She said she cut about twelve

Chatting Outside White House

This photograph vas taken in December. 1573, and shows Attorney General Daugherty (left) talking with former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, both of whom are

PRETTY LIPS OF GIRL TO PASS JUDGMENT Teacher Accused of'Stealing' Kiss From High School Girl May Hear Fate From Owner,

KANSAS CITY. Kas., Feb. 27. —The smiling lips of pretty Miss Margaretta Pratt, 16-year old high school senior, which he is accused of kissing, may speak the punishment E. E. Damon, printing instructor, is to receive for his act. One of the more influential members of the school hoard Tuesday declared that Inasmuch as Margaretta was the recipient of the kiss, she should be the one to pass judgment and not the school authorities who weren't kissed. Damon resigned be-causa of the notoriety which accompanied an investigation of the episode which took place in the halls of the high school. Later he decided to stand trial before the hoard. When he did not appear in the classroom Monday, more than 500 students threatened to “strike’’ unless Damon was reinstated.

Inches of her hair off two weeks ago with scissors obtained from the sewing room. Prison authorities did not notice it because her hair is unusually long. She had been permitted to work in the sewing room because she complained her cell was cold. Again breaking into sobs, Miss Ellis pleaded that simething be done for her insisting that outside of “one or two little arguments” she never had words with Miss Richard* Miss Ellis' mother committed suicide when the girl was 9 years old. At 11 she said she was sent to a girls’ school as a delinquent, and later paroled. At sixteen years she was tried for stealing $5 from a family she worked for and given a suspended sentence of 1-8 years. The parole was revoked because she was accused of stealing $5 from her grandmother. After another parole, revocation and escape she was

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repeatedly brought to public attention in the investigation of naval oil land leases. It was snapped just outside White House executive offices.

Leaders of the insurgents were called into conference and it is said were told that the case would be reopened upon the return here of Clarence T. Rice, principal, and M. E. Pearson, superintendent of public schools, who are in Chicago attending an educational meeting. Miss Pratt merely smiled Tuesday, when told she might be chosen to pass “sentence’’ on the instructor. “But I wasn’t kissed,” she protested again. “Os course, I don’t want to say what my verdict will be until after I’m selected to he the judge. And then I must hear the evidence, too. Isn’t that the way trials are conducted?” There was just a faint twinkle in her eyes as she spoke, which left an impression that Damon will not fare so badly if she passes sentence.

confined again in woman’s prison, Jan. 28. The girl asked police to request her brother, Russell Ellis, 37 W. Henry St., to visit her cell. Funeral arrangements for Miss Richards await arrival of a niece, Mrs. Anna Glover, from La Cruse, X. M., only surviving relative. The body is at the Bert S. Gadd undertaking establishment, 2130 Prospect St. Burial may be in the family plot at Lafayette. Ind.

B\CK HOME AGAIN

An automobile reoorted found by police belongs to: Glen R. Tuttle. 136 X. Delaware St., Maxwell, found in Maryland St.-, near Illinois St.

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latent leather, satins, kidskins, suedes, in airedalo, jack rabbit gray—so many styles and patterns and shades we haven’t the room to describe them here.

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1924

CANDIDATES SHAPE CAMPAIGN AGAINST TAGGARTFAVORITE Seven Democrats Definitely in Governorship Race, With seven candidates for the Democractic nomination for Governor definitely in the field, the Democratic primary campaign was shaping itself into final form today. Republicans still have five candidates i :■ r Governor. This may be the final number. . Undoubtedly the best organized of the Democratic campaigns at present is that of Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch of Indianapolis. He has the support of Thomas Taggart, an elaborate headquarters organization and all the machinery for an intensive campaign. Resentment Stirred Joseph M. Cravens of Madison, plans to open headquarters at the Claypool some time next week, with Lincoln Dixon, North Vernon, former Congressman, in charge. The campaign, observers believe, is taking the form of the field against McCulloch. While considerable support was obtained for McCulloch by the support of Taggart, some resentment also has been stirred up. It is considered a foregone conclusion that the nomination will go into convention. Five Others Named The convention may result in jockeying among candidates with a view to forming a coalition against Taggart and McCulloch. Besides the candidates named, those w r ho have announced they' will file are Dale J. Crittenberger, Anderson; Charles S. Batt, Terre Haute; George Durgan, Lafayette: James Kirby Risk, Lebanon, and Dr F. A. Priest, Marion. They represent seven of the thirteen congressional districts.

KLAN MEMBERS ATTACKED BY MOB Barricaded in Hotel Following Free-for-AII Fight. By United Press WAUKESHA. Wis., Feb. 27.—Under the guard of policemen and volunteers. a score of Ku-Klux Klansmen were spirited from a hotel today, following the mobbing of a Klan meeting last night. Furniture and windows on thfe-iower floor of the hotel were wrecked in a spirited fight between several hundred persons opposed to the Klan and members of the Klan. Most of the Klansmen escap'd, the rest taking refuge behind barricaded doors on the second floor of the hotel. Klan leaders from Milwaukee arrived today and took the besieged Klansmen out of town while police guarded against further attacks. The meeting was called to organize a local unit of the Klan. Citizens opposed to the Klan attended and jeered at the speakers. NEW SIGNS OF SPRING Auto Accessory Thieves Bring Grief to Motorists Auto accesory thieves made an early spring appearance Tuesday' night. Charles Hoffmayer, 1709 N. Illinois St., reports he recovered his stolen car only to find it stripped of bumper, tires, horn and motometer valued at $65. Other theft victims; Mrs. Clara Gregg. 26 S. Bolton Ave., tire, sls: C. H. Breitfield, 721 Parkway, tire, S2O; Payne Maitlen. 1721 W. Market St., motometer, $10.50; John S. Williams, Franklin, Ind., tw r o tires, S3O.

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