Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 256

OUST DAUGHERTY, IS ADVICE OF CURTIS

TRACTION COMPANY SHIELDED Commission Admits It Withholds Wreck Report for Sake of Utility, ) RECOMMENDATIONS GIVEN ‘Sartling Information' Which Might Be 'Damaging' Kept Secret, Members of the public sendee commission frankly admitted today that they are withholding their complete report on the fatal Union Traction wreck near Fortville Feb. 2 because they wish to protect the traction company. The Union Traction Company, commissioners explain, is in a bad way financially, as are most other traction companies. Adveree publicity might endanger its financial status, they said. For this reason the commission is withholding from the public facts with which the public is vitally concerned. The commission has made public, without comment, its recommendations, which the company has accepted. Shorter Hours Recommended The recommendations provide that the company must put In force shorter working hours for train crews; that it Imust provide adequate rest periods f every five hours for crews; that it must Btop a practice of relaying orders from one crew to another, and that it must report to the commission when block signals are not working. “You can see from these recommendations what the report must contain." one commissioner, who refused to make the findings public, said. “The recommendations are a direct outgrowth of the facts revealed in the investigation.” -He added that the report contains some rather startling Information that might damage the company if made Inown. Law Provides Delay The report contains a number of Jiings not revealed by the newspapers, kn employe of the commission, who Mid he was not permitted to give out the facts, asserted. "Whether the recommendations seek to remedy all the things found to be wrong with the operation of the system before the wreck was not revealed. “The commission probably will make the report public in ninety days," an employe said. The law provides the commission may. if it believes its action would be for the public good, hold up the report for ninety days. "But why the ninety-day delay?" he was asked “T suppose it is to permit the public to forget some of the details of the wreck,” he said. Report of a head-cn collision l>etween a Union Traction Company mk tcrurban car and a company work- " train at Muncie Tuesday was made today to Artnian. by Rav Gibben, of the commission’s railway Inspection department, no one was injured. Artman is considering the report before making details public ‘SHEIK’ LACKED A KICK .Judge Frees Allege Peddler After Olefactory Investigation. After sniffing a beverage labelled “Sheik.” alleged to have been peddled up and down Indiana Ava, by A. Klein, now of Chicago, and which Police Lieutenant Harley Jones said contained Jwne-tenths of 1 per cent alchohol. Criminal Judge James A. Collins found Klein not guilty of operating a blind tiger. Special Judge Ferdinand J. Montani had given Klein SIOO and costs and thirty days in jail. An appeal was taken. SIGS 'ARRIVE FOR FROLIC Aiuiual State Dance and Banquet to Be Held at Athenaeum. Members of Sigma Chi fraternity* were arriving in the city today for the annual State dance and banquet at the Athenaeum. The dance was to be held from 2:30 to 5 this afternoon. Cabaret entertainment is planned k for the banquet at 6 p. m. Mora J than 300 alumni and members from Purdue, Wabash. Indiana, Butler and De Pauw will attend. Postmaster General Harry S. New, grand consul, is expected. The province convention closed Friday night at the Butler chapter house. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 20 10 a. m..-- 28 7a. m. •. 21 11 a. m 81 8 a. m. 23 12 (noon) ...... 32 a. 25 1 p. m.. 34

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MORTON HIGH FIVE MEETS SOUTHPORT Otterbein Drops Crawfordsville and Lebanon Downs.Kokorno in Basketball Upsets,

Throughout Indiana today basketball teams were fighting desperately for the right to enter the State finals for the Indiana high school net title next Friday and Saturday at the Coliseum. The Marion County sectional winner, Southport, was in readiness for its battle with the fast stepping team from the Morton High of Richmond at 2 p. m. today at Richmond. Southrales are BEUEVEDTRAPPED Meaget, Reports Received of Blast in Utah, By United Pm* SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. March 8. —One hundred and seventy-three men are believed to be trapped in the Utah Fuel Mine No. 2 at Castle Gate, Utah, as the result of an explosion in the mine today. Reports state 173 men entered the mine this morning. No word has been received yet as to whether any of the supposed entombed men had been to make their way to safety. STRAY DOGS FILL POUND Owners Turn Animals Loose Because of Taxes Because their owners feared action of justice of the peace, hundreds of dogs have been turned out to slink along the streets, cold and friendless, or, if they are more fortunate, to find .-heit.er at the city dog pound, on Pendleton pike. Asa result every nook of the pound was filled today. Dr. Elizabeth Conger, poundmaster, said there were between 150 and 175 dogs. Unless homes are found for the dogs within several days, they must be chloroformed, Dr. Conger said. J. M. Tan turn to Speak J. M. Tantum, export manager of E. C. Atkins & Cos., will speak before the Chamber of Commerce foreign trade commission Tuesday on “Our Early Experiences and Present Policy in Foreign Trade.” Carl S. Wagner will preside.

HOLDING OUT ON THE PUBLIC

The public service commission should go all the way in making public its report on the Union Traction wreck at Fortville, in which nearly a score of persons were killed Feb. 2. The commission has acceded to some extent to public demands and has made public its recommendations to the company without comment. The recommendations do credit to the commission. It was revealed that some Union Traction train crews have been compelled to work thirteen hours a day without adequate rest periods. The commission insists hours be shortened and rest periods be provided. Nothing is so disastrous to safety as exhausted railway employes. The commission has obtained an agreement from the company to do away with the practice of relaying orders from one train crew to another. Goodness knows there is enough room for error in sending orders direet. It is almost unblievable that a railway company should allow orders to go to any one else except the crew for which they were intended. The commission also has insisted that its inspection department be notified when block signal systems break down. It should go farther Uian this and insist that the State iqapectioh department take the trouble to find out whether signals are

port, big, rough and rangy, must match those qualifications against five men who are fast, shifty, keen-eyed and experienced. Richmond was eliminated by Muncie in the semi-finals last year 33 to 30 in a wliirlwind finish. It was a thrilling game and the Morton five fought gamely against a deluge of Muncie baskets that came in the final moments of the contest. Richmond Has Edge Southport is regarded as the underdog, but is expected to make Richmond step out. The score will probably be close. • In the upset of the morning play Otterbein dropped the crippled Crawfordsville five, 18 to 12, in a hard scrap at Lafayette. The Otterbein crew showed well and, led by John Greenan, forward, flashed through to victory. Cummings and Dinwiddle were out of the Crawfordsville line up and Dickerson bore the brunt. Dinwiddle. despite his injuries, was sent into the game in the last half in a vain effort to stem the tide. Columbus Eliminated Bedford dropped Columbus, 31 to 23, according to schedule with little trouble. Muncie bumped Mooreland, 39 to 16 and Connersville defeated Versailles 38 to 2.4 The Shelbyville Muncie game at Richmond is the cream of the final games tonight. The teams met earlier in the regular schedule and Shelbyville was victorious by four points. The game was at Shelbyville and the two enter the game tonight even up. The winner is expected to show well in the finals next week Lebanon sprung a surprise by defeating Kokomo 33 to 31. Scores and accounts of the Regional games will be found on the sport page today. NEW TRIALS ARE DENIED Alleged Rank Bandits Given Time to Appeal. Motions for anew trial for Oscar Sanders, and Leroy Young, sentenced this week to ten years in the Indiana State prison for robbing the Tuxedo State tank, 4303 E. New' York St„ were overruled today by Criminal Judge James A. • Collins, Attorneys were given three months in which to perfect an appeal. Barney Cavanaugh was fined $1 and costs on cha.rges of assault and battery. Charles Brown was given sixty days in Jail on a petit larceny charge.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1024

mm REPUBLIC IS CALLED FARCE BY C.H. GRIFFIS Man Who Attempted Capture of Bergdoll Guest of Legion Post Here, Asserting that the German Repubj lie was a farce which blamed its plight on President Poincare of France and : the American Legion, I-ieut. Corliss ‘ Hooven GritYls, who spent s : x months I in a German prison for his pnrf in the i ttempted kidnping of Grover Cleveland j Bergdoll, Is in the city today. Griffis addressed a puhlio meeting 1 in Cadle Tabernacle this afterftoon and | will speak again tonight at 8:15 under auspices of the Robert E. Kennington legioij prfct “Bergdoll is worse than a draft evader. He lc a traitor spreading propaganda In Germany against the American Government and the Legion." said Griffis. “He is constantly armed, and it would take an army to get him.” Griffis smiled as he recounted details of the attempted capture. Skull Tliickness Misjudged “Yes, we didn't count on two things —the thickness of Bergdoll's skull and the fhet that we didn't plan a retreat." said Griffis. Five stitches were required to close a scalp wound inflicted on Bergdoll in attempt to capture him. The group of soldiers who participate,! represented allied nations. A French sc Idler was killed by a bullet from Bergdoll's revolver. During the escapade, Griffis sat outside in an American Army car. He was arrested Oct. 10 and kept in solitary conflnment four months before the trial. During this time, lie was subjected to “third degree" methods in efforts to involve the legion. “The German government would have let me off lightly if I had not taken all blame at the close of [the trial for planning the capture," I said Griffis. “Then I got mine—one year and nine months.” He Calls It Deportation “They say I was pardoned, but I was really deported,'* Griffis said. “They were so afraid I would go to France that they didn't know what to do.” Griffis was met at the Union Station by Henry L. Dithmer, Chamber of Commerce president, John B. Reynolds, secretary and Earl L. Ferguson, head of the wholesale trade division. Others in the party included H. B. Williams. Frank Henley, Walter Myers, R. E. Kennington, and James L. Dale. I

working. The company should not be depended upon to make reports. Ts the department, is not large enough to do this work k it should be enlarged. The acts of the commission are to be commended—as far as they go —even though a fight was necessary to obtain for the public the details that have been given out. But why should not the commission give the public all the facts concerning the wreck? Perhaps someone would be inconvenienced by this course, but if the findings of the commission are based on facts—and there is no reason to believe they are not —no one should complain. The commissioners are public servants. The public is vitally concerned with the wreck and the reasons why such a wreck occurred. There is no reason to protect any one. There is every reason why the public should be told the WHOLE TRUTH.. Ts the compiissioners do not make known the truth they are not doing their duty to the public which employs them. And the commission should go into the operation of every electric r lilway line in the State and it should see that safety regulations are enforced. It should apply the same rules to every other line that it has applied to the UniQn Traction Company. ,

MICHAEL ALL SAFE FOR ANOTHER YEAR Eggleston Produces 'the Papers’ When Squire Threatens to Foreclose on Pet Dog,

"Long Boy Michael,” literary name for a Russian wolf-hound owned by Os. Roltare Eggleston, manager of Keith’s Theater, caused Eggleston to I appear today before T. R. Rainey, [ justice of the peace, in Irvington. Eggleston was charged with falling to taxes on “Ixmg Boy Michael.” Tiie squire smoked a cigar. Martin Hugg. attorney for Eggleston, deMEDICINE ERROR ■ CAUSE OF DEAID Poison Tablets Given Young Woman Patient by Mistake, Poison tablets mistaken for medicine and given by an attendant at the home to Miss Cecile Norris, 22, of 1047 W. Thirty-Third St.. Feb. 22. caused her death at the city hospital Friday night, according to the parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Norris Miss Norris had been ill for several years. The mistake in medicine occurred Feb. 24. Coroner Paul F. Robinson is investigating. Funeral services will be held at the home. Sunday at 3:30 p. m. The body will be taken to Darlington. Ind., Monday for burial. GOOD NEWS FOR GOLFERS City May Slave New Course Adjoining Pleasant Run Links. A resolution to acquire seventeen acres adjoining Pleasant Run Golf Course on the nortty and east for a new eighteen-hole course was adopted by ttfe park board today. The board increased the salary of Ed Ferry, park engineer, from $2,400 to $3,600 a year, and increased the salaries of Paul Brown and D. B. Monroe, draftsmen. Brown’s salary was increased from 8180 so S2OO a month and Monroe’s, from sllO to s'2s. Getting to Be Habit Bn United Kews ATHENS, March 8.— I Ttfe Greek Cabinet headed by 'Premier Cafantaris resigned today as result of pressure brought to bear by the army.

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manded trial. M. A. Howard, constable, did the talking for the squire's office. Eggleston was armed not only with his receipts, but with a letter from M. L. Jefferson, assessor, showing payment in full. Shows “The Papers” “I have paid the trustee of Center Township $3, the receipt which is enc’osed. for your fame us dog," Jefferson wrote Eggleston.” You are all right'and immune from fine and imprisonment for 1023." But Eggleston was in court. “We demand trial.” Hugg said. “I am a business man, losing my I valuable time " said Eggleston. “It is an outrage,’’ said Hugg. “It is.” said Constable Howard. “The township records do not show it was paid." "But we have the receipts," said Hugg. He Wanted Trial "As far as I am concerned, I am ready to dismiss the case.” said the court. “I want trial.” said Eggleston. Constable Howard asserted there are 10.000 delinquent tax dog owners. “But I am not one of them," replied Eggleston. 4 “It is a disgrace," said Hugg. “I am not to blame," said Howard. Howard showed Eggleston’s name was misspelled on the receipt. “But Jefferson’s letter shows it has been corrected " said Eggleston. “I, want to have the records show* that, the tax has been paid," said the constable. "Immaterial to me," said Eggleston. "Case dismissed,” said the squire.

JUDGE RELEASES MARJIEJALAHAN Sentence Withheld in Trial of Young Woman, Upon promise of good behavior. Judge James A. Collins in Criminal Court today withheld sentence and released Miss Margie Calahan, 23. formerly of Howe, Ind. Miss Calahan pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving part of the money stolen from the Tuxedo State Bank. 430 E. New York St.. Nov. 23. She testified for the State Wednesday in the trial of Leroy C. Young and Oscar Sanders, charged with the robbery. They wex*e sentenced to ten years in prison. Attorneys announced they would appeal.

AUTO VICTIM IMPROVES Edward Franklin Suffers Injuries at Tenth St. and Park Ave. Edward Franklin, 2206 Nicholas St., is recovering today from bruises about the body received Friday when he was struck by an automobile at Tenth St. and Park Ave. L. M. Harris, colored, 1727 N. Arsenal Ave., was charged with im.proper driving and assault and battery. The car he was driving struck Franklin following a collision with a car driven by K. A. Schneider, 215 N. East St., police say. ALL SOUTHWARD TOUND Members of Indiana Hot Springs Club Leave for Arkansas. Eight Indianapolis and three Shelbyville members of the Indiana Hot Springs Club left today to join three other members at the Eastman Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. Those who left: Gustave A. Efroymson, C. L. Kirk, Charles O. Roemler, C. W. Wells, George J. Marott, John R. Ward, C. L. Smith and E. J. O’Reilly of Indianapolis and Bert Swain and Mr. and Mr*. Charles fipeigle of Shelbyville.

Senate G. O. P. Whip Admits He Told Coolidge to Look for New Attorney General. First Witness in Department of Justice Probe Held for Questioning in Texas —lmplicated in Mexican Revolt. Drippings From Oil Spigot Charges renewed that Nation’s natural resources were bartered in political deal at Chicago G. 0. P. convention in 1920. Regard Wood, Jr., tells of offer of late Jake Haraon to support General Wood in 1920 if Hanion was made secretary of interior. Daugherty refuses to divulge names of two Congressmen charged with bribery. Curtis admits he advised Coolidge to ask Daugherty to resign because of ill health. Testimony of Ira Bennett, Washington editor, and Senator Curtis, Republican whip of Senate, show startling discrepancies. Curtis denies he is “principal” referred to in McLean telegrams. First witness, John Camp, in Daugherty trial, held for questioning at Houston, Tex. Camp alleged to have fomented revolutions in Mexico. Denby charges Daniels is responsible for suggestion of exploitation of naval reserve leases. By United Pres* < WASHINGTON, March B.—Attorney General Daugherty today refused to give the House the names of the two members of Cpngress involved in charges presented to a Federal grand jury in Chicago.

Copyright. 1P24. Scripps-Howard Newspaoer Alliance. Reproduction In whole or part prohibited. WASHINGTON, March B. One of the first witnesses to be summoned by the United States Senate committee investigating the Department of Justice, is being held for questioning by the Department of Justice. This was revealed today by word from Houston, Tex. The man held is an agent of the Obregon government. His name is John Camp. The man .who took charge of Camp is Gus T. Jones, chief operative in the San Antonio district for the Department of Justice. Brother-in-Law of Daugherty The subpoena had been served on Camp in San Antonio by United States Marshall Walker, who is a brother-in-law of attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. Jones questioned Camp, later releasing him. Following Camp's release Jones and Walker held secret conference. The message from Houston said: “HOUSTON, Texas. March 8. — John Camp, secret agent for the Obregon government in Mexico, was detained shortly after having received a summons from the Wheeler committee to appear in Washington. ■ “Gus Jones, chief Department of Justice operative for the border district. questioned and shortly afterwards released Camp.” ‘■Camp to have been investigating for the Obregon government. plots by American oil and financial interests to foment revolutionary activity in Mexico. Gus Jones is the one referred to in a recent telegram <read before the Teapot Dome committee. a telegram from A. B. Fall to Jones. Is Protege of Fall Jones is a protege of Fall, having spent his boyhood on Falls Ranch in New Mexico. His immediate superior in the Department of Justice is William J. Burns. Camp’s summons to Washington by Senator Wheeler reveals the Senate committee intends to inquire into the activities of certaifc Americans in connection with attempted revolutions in Mexico, including that launched in the name of Estaban Cantu in Lower California, late in 1921.

It is thought Camp will aid in clearing up the disappearance of large quantities of rifles from Ft. Bliss and El Paso almost a year ago and from the arsenal at San Antonio more recently. Also Camp is in possession of proof, it is said, that a Department of Justice special agent late in 1921, shortly (Continued on Page 2) YOAKEM GOES ON TRIAL Highway Superintendent Declares He Won’t Quit Under Fire. By United Press . MUNCIE, Ind., March 8. —Declaring he was ready to resign, but he would not quit under fire, Martin Yoakem, county road superintendent, went on trial before the county commissioners today. He is charged with malfeasance in office and incompetency. SERVICE FOR TAXPAYERS Revenue Offices to Be Open Evenings Next Week. Income tax offices on the' third floor of the Federal Bldg, will be open from 7 to 9 o'clock every night next week, M. Burt Thurman, collector of internal revenue, announced today. Next Saturday will be the last day to file tax returns. Thurman said his department was doing a rush business that is inoraii&uig every day la momentum.

• Forecast INCREASING cloudiness, probably followed by snow late tonight or Sunday. Not much change in temperature. Lowest tonight about 20.

TWO CENTS

By PAUL R. MALLON United Prr*s Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. .March B. senator Curtis of Kansas, RepubI liean whip of the Senate, advised President Coolidge to get rid of Attorney General Daugherty on the grounds of Daugherty’s ill health, Ira E. Bennett, editor of the Washington Post, today testified before the Senate Oil Committee. “Curtis told me the new President had asked him for some advice about the new duties imposed on him,” Bennett said. "Curtis said he advised him to get rid of a certain Cabinet officer. Tt was Attorney General Daugherty. He said he told the President Daugherty was in ill-health and no one would blame him if he changed his Attorney General.” President Coolidge replied, according to Bennett, he did not want Daugherty to resign because he had several important cases pending.” Testimony Is Forced Bennett’s testimony was forced from him after Senator Curti* had taken tfie stand and denied he was “the principal" mentioned in the telegrams from Bennett to McLean in Palm Beach. Recalled to explain further following Curtis' testimony, Bennett insisted he had two or three conversations with Curtis which the Senator had not told a]jout. He at first declined to reveal them, on the ground that “he did not want to spread scandal." But when he was ordered to tell, he said he first consulted Curtis on instructions from McLean, to get advice about how the Washington Post should handle the oil scandal in its columns. Then he said Curtis brought up the question of Daugherty's resignation.

Curtis Takes Stand Curtis thereupon took the stand again and explained he told Mi*. Coolwould have to look for anew Attorney General because Daugherty was HI, but did not tell the President he ought to force Daugherty out. Curtis took the stand at his own request. Bennett said Friday Curtis was “the principal” who gave McLean “political advice.” “I have no prepared statement,” said Curtis to the committee. “I have not read the testimony. All I know about it is what I have read in the papers. “Along about the second or third of January Mr. Bennett or Mr. Major (John Major, confidential agent of McLean) came to me. They said Mr. McLean was in Palm Beach and that (Continued on Page 11) MORE SNOW ON BILL Temperature May Rise, Causing Rain Predicts. A possibility <*f more snow again tonight or Sunday was the prediction today of J. H. Armmgton, meteorologist. The temperature may rise to freezing or above Sunday causing the snow to become rain, Armington said. Lowest temperature tonight should be about twenty above, he said. SISTERHOOD ENTERTAINS Society of Hebrew Congregation to Be Host to National President. The Indianapolis Chapter of the Temple Sisterhood of the Indianapolis Hebrew- congregation will be hostess to Mrs. J. Walter Frieberg, Cincinnetl, national president of the Tempi* Sisterhood, on March 17, it was announced. A vaudeville show will be held March 26 at the K. of J?, U*