Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 12

CHANGE IN K.K. ROUTE IS SOUGHT Rikhoff Orders. Complete Night Strength of Police —Will Ask Klan Officers to Keep Parade Out of Foreign Districts, BUSINESS MAN SAYS ASSOCIATES FEAR RIOT Ku-Klux Gather at State Fairground for Celebration of Victory in Republican Primary—Meeting Is Closed to Public, Saying that he feared trouble, Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff this afternoon was attempting to reach Emmett M. Hardin, grand marshal for the Ku-Klux Klan parade tonight, and Grover A. Smith, exalted cyclops for Marion County, in an effort to get the line-of-march changed. William Mooney, saying he represented twenty-five business men who feared a riot might result, and Prosecutor William Remy. asked Mayor Shank and Rikhoff to order the parade route changed so as to take It out of the colored and for-eign-born residence districts around Military Park and West and Washington Sts. Rikhoff had been unable to locate the Klan officials at a late hour, so he ordered heavy police protection tonight. Thousands at Fairground Klansmen by the thousands gathered at the State fairground for ceremonies and speeches this afternoon. They will wind up a eelebra tion of the Klan victory in the Republican primary with the parade, scheduled to start from Sixteenth St. and Capitol Ave. at 7:30 p. m. Rikhoff directed that the day shift ~f police work up to 7 p. m. and that the 3 to 11 p. m. shifts. 7 p. m. to 3 a. m. shifts and 11 p. m. to 7 a m. shifts go on duty at 7 p. m. and work straight through until morning. AU detectives and trafficmen also will work all night. Rikhoff originally had intended assigning only the ordinary parade detail. Line of March The Klan announced it would march from Sixteenth St., down Capitol Ave. to New York St. to West St., to Washington St., to Meridian St., around the monument on the left to Market St., to Pennsylvania St., to Washington St., to New Jersey St., to Massachusetts Ave. Mooney and Remy suggested that trouble might be avoided if the parade went up Capitol Ave.. to Washington St., and then turned east, avoiding the colored and foreign born districts. Smith was scheduled to make an address ot welcome at the fairground at 3 p. m. It was after noon before the crowd began tr> assemble. The gates were guarded carefully, pass words were demanded and every effort made to see that none but Klansmen gained admittance. Kokomo Delegation Features About 100 Klansmen on horses and thirty-two motorcycle riders from Kokomo will be features of the parade, it was said. The marchers will be in full Klan regalia. The celebration is in charge of the Walter Bossert faction of the Klan.

DECLARES NAVY IS ‘DEPLORABLE’ Rep, Britten Says British and Jap Both Stronger, B;i T'nited Prr ** WASHINGTON, May 24.—The United States Navy is in a “deplorable condition,” weaker than both Great Britain and Japan. Representative Britten, Illinois, ranking Republican member of the House Naval Affairs Committee, declared in the House today. Britten urged members to study the recent report of the Secretary of the Navy in order that they might be prepared to vote wisely on the $150,000,000 naval construction program when it comes up before the House Wednesday. CAREY TRIAL CONTINUED Man Accused of Complicity in Auto Theft Case. Trial of Willie Carey. 329 Kentucky Ave., on one of the numerous charges in Criminal Court against him in the last year, was continued until Thursday today by Judge James A. Collins. Carey is accused of complicity in the stealing an auto of Charles C. Cray. Indianapolis Water Company, an Nov. 21, 1923.

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Pet Parade Mary’s Lamb’s Fleece Affected Somewhat by Local Conditions Weatherman Only One Who Fails to Cooperate in Novel Event—--360 Children in Procession.

By RUBY WEIL it _ _j ARY had a little lamb”— |W| whose fleece was not white i T as snow, because he lived in Indianapolis. ‘‘She took her lamb to” —the Library Pet Parade, today. So Mary Kathryne Walsh, 530 E. Vermont St., armed with a slate and milk bottle, and drawing her lamb by a blue ribbon, joined some 360 other children and their pets, for the march south in Meridian St., east in Michigan St., north in Delaware St., and east in St. Clair back to the public library. The weather man was the only one who failed to cooperate to make the parade a success. Even he relented. after keeping away many of the 900 entrants, and sent the sun from behind the clouds for a few minutes as the parade got under way. The Indianapolis Humane 'Society did its part to help Miss Mary Dyer Lemon, librarian, who had charge. The police band led the march. The Red Cross had women on hand to give first aid. But. so wellbehaved were the animals, that first aid was not needed. Only one dog and one goat were reported to have escaped, and they were captured, after exciting chases. • * • Santa Claus had anew steed today—but not a very dependable one. Stanley Boles. 515 E. Twelfth St., all dressed up in red and white, tugged and tugged at his goat, drawing a green cart. ‘‘He won’t go." Stanley explained, as the parade started without him. • • • i, r ETS in Bookland.” came IJ from the Madison Ave. branch of Camp Fire Girls, the Wahwahtaysee. Phyllis Dichmann, 609 Cottage Ave., and Martha Armstrong, 1039 S. East St., were Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rabbit. The ‘‘Bears of Blue River.” sat comfortable and warm, in “rivers” of blue tissue paper. Marion Wood, 3. of 372 Prospect St., was the black bear, and Verna Buses. 4. of 1256 Madison Ave., the Polar bear. • • Little Ruth Townsend, 850 Ash land Ave., borrowed a cat ond her kittens from a neighbor to enter in the parade. She put them in a basket. But the cat hopped out and had to be put back, and finally the basket became so heavy for Ruth that Mrs. Hugh MeGibeny of the Red Cross carried it part of the way.

Perhaps the smallest pet was a ! three-week.s old turtle, about one and | one-half inches long. Robert Raker. ! 525 X. Alabam St., carried it in a water-filled bowl. The Carrollton Avenue Pony Club led the pets in the parade. In the club are Rose Ellen Mitchell. 5547 Carrollton Aw.; Grace Ruscher, 4346 Carrollton Ave.; Willis R. Summers. 4320 Carrollton Ave., and Kathryn Jean Stout, 4358 Carrollton Ave. * • A rabbit in a wire cage looked hungrijy at its owner, Kerop Ashjjian. 4234 Cornelius Ave., all dressed | up like an ear of com, in green and I maize tissue paper. In a three-deck cage, Charles Edward Fisher, 1209 Evlson St., displayed six homing pigeons and four I rabbits. The cage was decorated | with twenty-six blue and two red ribbons Charles’ rabbits have won at Indiana State fairs. After the parade Charles iet the pigeons out. to fly home. 6 light wood branch library, which | had an entry list of 150, claimed the j youngest child entrant, Marian Gay ! Kester, 2, of 2631 X. Olney St. Her | pet was a bulldog. “Mickey.” MjVjVl HR Teacher's Pet.” was Glen i I I Dixon. 37 W. Twenty-First I I St., in red velvet knickers, j a white waist, Windsor tie and sailor j hat. The “teacher." very prim in a black skirt and white waist was Clifton Matlock, 2104 X. Meridian St. After the parade. Ward’s Pet Shop gave each dog a biscuit and each cat a catnip mouse. SEVEN PERISH IN FIRE Mother and Six Children Die When Home Is Destroyed. By United Press CANTON, Mass., May 24. —Seven persons were burned to death today in a Are which destroyed the home of Vincent D'Annastacio. Mrs. D'Annastacio and her six j children, the youngest 2 and the oldi est 12, were trapped in the flaming i building and died.

Photos by Radio Is Latest Feat of Movie Machine Inventor

Timm Washington Bureau, IS2B Sew York At’c. ASHINGTON, May 24.—C. \X/ Francis Jenkins, a scientist here, who in 1890 in- ! vented the first practical motion picture machine, has gone one better the telephone company’s feat of transmitting photographs by j telephone.. He has perfected a j machine w r hich sends photographs j by radio. He thinks that his method of j quick photo transmission will be j preferred to the telephone method, ; because it requires no wire con- | nections. He is preparing to rent his machines to any user who has the need for them. He says i he will have them ready for commercial use in a few weeks. Last year Jenkins successfully | transmitted photographs from | Washington to Philadelphia. The test was witnessed by a newspaper

Doctor, on Tour of World in Search of 111 Health, Stops at Riverside Camp With Family and Rolling Hotel —Laboratory

DR. WILLIAM BIALC-OUPRE BILINS, FAMILY AND OUTFIT AT RIVERSIDE TOURIST CAMP.

f yrIOST persons seek the out-of-IlYll doors in quest of health. k ——-* Riverside tourist camp has a guest who is touring the world in search of ill health. He's Dr. William Bialc-Oupre Bilins. of Cleveland, Ohio. With him are his wife and their children, Theresa Henrietta. Edam Napoleon and Blanche Grace. The doctor is writing a book up-

‘DAWES PLAN WILL SUCCEED’ -LLOYD GEORGE Former British Premier Is Optimistic Over Reparations Report, By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, M. P. Copyright, 1924. Former British Premier BON DON. May 24.—(8y Cable) — Just as France was swinging heavily to the Deft, Germany lurched to the Right. Just as the Frenchman had become more supple and reasonable. the German became more stubborn and fractious. It is once more the secular misunderstanding between the Gaul and the Teutofi which has troubled Western Europe for ages. Neither the French nor the German elections are decisive. They reflect the bewilderment of counsel that disturbs the peoples everywhere. France cannot quite make up her mind either to renounce her hopes or to pursue her ambitions and Germany calnnot altogether quite resolve whether she ought to bear her burdens or to dare her fears. The Right in Germany is hesitating what to do with the ex perts' report, and the Left in France Is not clear as to what it. ought to do about the Ruhr. And neither in Germany nor iin -Franco is there possible a combination of parties with a sufficiently strong parliamentary majority to take risks. Situation Is Complex It is difficult to gauge the situation in either country. There are twenty-three parties in Germany and at least eight in France. In the confusion, it is impossible to calculate the majorities for or against a policy by any mathematical process. There is no party discipline or loyalty to party chiefs that makes for steadiness. You have a number of little groups who have just emerged from a raging struggle, where they have been engaged in knifing each other for love of country and humanity. Can they get together for a common purpose which must, if it leads to peace, he unpopular in both countries? To increase taxation in order to pay' damages to France cannot, make a government popular in Ger(Turn to Page 7) MacLAREN DISCOURAGED British World Flyer May Abandon Attempt Because of Weather. P.y United Press LONDON, May 24. —A Central News dispatch from Rangeen says that Major MacLaren, British round the world flyer, may abandon his attempt. unless favored with a spell of good weather. MacLaren still jis at Akyah, prevented from flying by terrific rain squalls and strong winds.

which published the Photographs. Jenkins says he can work his apparatus over any distance now. The apparatus is little larger than an ordinary radio outfit. Unlike the telephone apparatus, w r here one sensitized cylinder is used to transmit the picture and another to receive it. Jenkins' radio apparatus uses ordinary photographic negatives. The essential part of the apparatus is anew optical device known as the prismatic ring, which ha v s been patented by Jenkins. This ring is a glass prism, of circular construction, about fifteen inches In circumference. It is so peculiarly designed that, in rotation, beams of light having a fixed axi% on one side of the /prism are madj to have a hinged or oscillating axis in the other^side.

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on physical culture, stressing the particular needs of the principle rations. To get first hand information the physician is studying the physical defects of persons in each section of each country he deals with. In the last two and one-half years Dr. Bialc-Oupre-Biiins and

AUTO THEFT CHARGED Three Held as Alleged Liquor Law Violators. An affidavit filed today by Claude M. Worley, investigator for Criminal Court, charged Raymond Jones, 230 S. Noble St., and George Wilson, 320 N. Oriental St., with vehicle taking, grand larceny and unlawful possession of the auto of H. Wlltsie, 2118 Prospect St., on April 15. Henry Nance, 440 Rankin St.. Franklin Thomas, 715 N. Noble St., and Charles Baumann. 909 College Ave.. were charged with violation of the liquor laws. INDIANA 10 GEL 10 JUDGES, BUI ONE! ONE COURT Committee, Studying Hickey Bill, Sees No Reason for ‘ Dividing State, By C. A. RANDAN Times Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 24.—Indiana is to have two Federal judges, hut only one Federal Court, according to information available today as to the fate of the Hickey court bill, which will be taken up by the Senate judiciary committee on Monday. The Hickey bill provides for two districts, one for northern Indiana, and one for the southern part of the State. The Senate sub-committee has come to the conclusion that while two judges may be needed there exists no good reason for dividing the State into two sections. The provision in the Hickey bill providing that the court shall sit at stated intervals at Evansville, New Albany. Ft. Wayne, and Hammond in addition to Indianapolis, has apparently been retained. If the hill is passed by Senate and House, it will in all likelihood mean the appointment of two new judges, as Judge Anderson will soon be promoted. Leading candidates for the position as successor to Judge Anderson are Representative Everett Sanders, who has the support of Harry New and of the United Mine Workers; Robert C. Baltzell of Gibson Circuit Court, who is Watson’s favorite of the moment, William M. Sparks and Lewis Eubanks. Candidates from northern Indiana, for the second judgeship include Representative Hickey, author of the bill, and Archibald Graham, South Bend attorney. ROAD ROUTE BROADCAST Best Highways to Speedway Sent Out by Wireless. Several large newspaper in the middle west will broadcast by wireless the State highway commission’s special motor speedway race bulletin to be issued early next week. The bulletin contains the best and main routes to the Speedway after the fan reaches Indiana.

The entire process of sending a picture by radio takes only from three to nine minutes, depending upon its size. Light Waves Become Electricity Four revolving prismatic rings are placed in front of the picture to be reproduced and the .apparatus set in motion. Then light waves are changed into electrical waves by a special part of the apparatus and are then broadcast by rdio. The receiving apparatus then picks up the "radio or electrical waves and changes them back into light waves by passing them through four more prismatic rings. Then light waves are then directed directly on the photographic negative and the recording is soon completed. “Unlike the telephone? process where only pictures placed on

his family have toured India, Russia, Poland, Italy, Greece Germany and England. The doctor was a political prisoner of the Bolsheviki in Russia for eighteen months. He expects to spend about a year more in America before he is ready to publish his book. The parents speak six languages

CYCLONE STRIKES MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS; 8 DiE Heavy Damage Reported—j Communication Cut Off From Affected Area, I By I nitrd Press j ST. LOUIS. Mo.. May 24.—Eight wore killed in southeast Missouri in last night's cyclone, a message by !H. H. Jordan of the Southwestern j Bell Telephone Company. from Poplar Bluff. Mo., stated today. I Seven were killed east of Kssenin, Stodard County and one was dead and between seven and nine injured in the vicinity of Carutheisvllle, Pemiscot County, the message said. Southeast Missouri and much of ! southern Illinois was cut off from I communication as a result of the storm. A report was received here l,v the j Bell Telephone Company that j several persons were injured at Sikeston, and others at Joplin and other points in southern Missouri. Roads were impassible from the heavy rains proceeding the storm, it was reported, and telephone wires were down in niar.v sections. STORM NOT DUE HERE : No Indications of Cyclone for Indiana, Meteor- dogist Says. There are no indications today that a cyclone will be f,-lt in Indiana, (according to J. H. Armington, Weather Bureau meteorologist. No reports have been received at. the Weather Bureau here, Arming j ton said, of th<> atmospheric condijtions which resulted in the cyclone | today in Missouri and Illinois. 1 The cyclone was probably a local storm. Armington said, caused by general atmospheric condition. Buildings Are Unroofed i Fly l nitrd Press WATERLOO, 111.. May 24.—Fifj teen hotises. several garages and the {First National Bank building here (were unroofed last night by a thiriy- | minute cyclone which st ruck squarely in the center of town. Telephone ! service hero was virtually eliminated. Storm in East By United Press WASHINGTON, May 24.—A storm of marked intensity is central over Lake Ontario, moving swiftly eastward, the weather bureau announced today in ordering storm warnings displayed on the Atlantic coast from the Virginia capes to Eastport, Maine. Auto Kills Boy By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. May 24. Sydney Freer, 21, was charged with involuntary manslaughter today following death of John Harvey, 7, who was struck by an auto driven by Freer Friday night. The boy was playing in the street.

specially prepared cylindrical negatives can be reproduced, my apparatus can take not only from flat photographs direct, but also can reproduce solid objects or any outdoor scene at which the lens is pointed,” Jenkins stated today. Jenkins says the number of reproductions that can be made from one radio photograph is limited only by the number of newspapers or concerns equipped with his apparatus. "Likewise the distance is limited only by the power of the sending stations and the sensitiveness of the receivers used,” Jenkins said. Jenkins does not intend to sell the apparatus, but wall lease it just as telephone companies do their telephones. Under present conditions Jenkins says the cost of reproducing a radio photograph will run from two to five dollars.

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and the children, French, Polish and English. The family tfiavels in a specially equipped McFarlan touring car with trailer. The children sleep in tiie* trailer. The automobile is fitted with radio and telephone instruments and contains a complete laboratory and medical and surgical outfit. It has twenty-two electric lights.

PARENT-TEACHER MEET I*tM Yearly Gathering at Potter's Fresh Air School. The last regular meeting of the Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations of the year will t>e held on Wednesday. June 28, at 3 p. m., in the auditorium of the Theodore Potter Fresh Air School, on E. Pratt St. Reports will l>e given by federation chairmen of the committees. A musical program has been arranged by the Shortridge Trio, which consists of Miss Lorinda Cott Ingham. violinist: Miss Susan Woodbury, cellist, and Miss Opal Mae Thomas, pianist.

Watch for The Indianapolis Times’ Annual VACATION GUIDE Appearing Monday. May 26. with all editions of The Times. It will tell you where to go on your vacation and how to get there It will contain, as well, valuable information on short and long motor trips.

SECOND GRAFT OF SKIN NEEDED Doctors to Operate Again Upon Evelyn Ice, Evelyn Ice, 4, on whom was grafter 50 square inches of her fath er's skin, will have to have skin from her own body grafted to the burned places, city hospital doctors said today. Only part of the skin from her father, Harry Ice, 111 W. North St., began to grow. Evelyn is getting along splendidly, the doctor say, but they will have to take about ten or fifteen inches of skin from her leg and graft it to her side where she was burned. Harry Ice, Federal prisoner, removed to the city hospital to supply the skin for his daughter, is still in the prison ward as his leg from which the skin was taken requires medical attention. Ice's jail term expires June 2, Federal officials said today, provided he is given the thirty days off for good behavior. NICHOLSONSAYS OE SPENI 531 Author Files Expense Account in Primary Race, Campaign expenses of Meredith Nicholson, Indianapolis author, in his successful race for Democratic nomination for Representative, were s3l, according to a list filed with the county clerk today. Julia E. Landers, unsuccessful in her race on the same ticket for nomination for Congresswoman, spent $351.80, while Miss Alma E. SicklerJ defeated for nomination for State Representative, spent $5.29, according to her statemem. Omer Hawkins, Republican nominee for sheriff, paid out $282.34, while William E. English, nominee for joint State Senator, spent $340. Claude F. Johnson. Shank adherent defeated for sheriff nomination, spent. $350.72, he stated. Paul F. Robinson, Republican nominee for coroner, had expenses of $74, while Howell Ellis, newspaper reporter, spent $8.50 in an unsuccessful race for nomination for representative.

POLICE SENT TO GUARD FAMIV OF FRANKS VOIUN. MURDERED 81 KIDNAPERS State’s Attorney Receives Telephone Call Saying Threats Made Against Relatives of Boy—Protection Is Rushed Immediately. AUTHORITIES ADMIT THEY ARE BAFFLED BY KILLING Theory That Lad Was Attacked by Perverts Is Gradually Being Abandoned—Say Ransom Letter Copied After One in Magazine Story. i By In ltd! press CHICAGO, May 24.—The murder case of young Robert h ranks, sen of Jacob Franks, wealthy Chicagoan, slain by aid- ! napers, took an even more sensational turn at noon today when hall a dozen detectives were hurried to the Franks home following a telephone call to State s Attorney Robert E. Crowe that | threats had been made against the family.

Two throats were marie. One was contained in a letter which was received by the father. It threatened death unless the hunt for the slayers was abandoned. Enclosed was a picture of Josephine Franks, 17. daughter of Jacob Franks. "She's next.” the letter stated. It also contained abuse for the father. “You're a skunk," it said. A second threat of death was received over the telephone. A woman called the Franks home and warned reprisals if the hunt continued. States Attorney Robert E. Crowe was notified of the new developments by a friend of the Franks family. No further details were divulged. Police admitted they were baffled in their hunt for the slayers of the boy. Additional complications resulted from another kidnaping cas a reported in the city. Miss Nellie Taylor. 18. was seized by several men in an automobile in front of her home and carried away. The coroner believes Franks was suffocated. Chemists, however, are still working on the theory that (Turn to Page 11) COMPROMISE TAX BILL CALLED OP Senate to Vote on Final Adoption Today, The compromise tax bill was called up in the Senate today for final adoption. Chairman Smoot, of the finance committee brought the conference report up without objection. Smoot defended the revised bill which contains the Democratic income tax rates and urged its immediate adoption. OWNERS MUST SELL School Sit Will Be Condemned Unless Price Is Accepted. “Unless the holders of the property required for the site of the negro high school are filing to sell at the appraised price, steps will be taken to. condemn the property,” Richard Johnson, business director of Indianapolis schools, said today. “Negotiations under way have resulted in acquisition of about half of the required area,” Johnson said. The school site is just north of Eleventh St. and West St., in the rear of School No. 17. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 44 10 a. m 45 7 a. m 44 11 a. m 50 8 a. m..--.. 43 12 (noon) 52 9 a. m 44 1 p. m.... - ■ 53

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Forecast FAIR and cool tonight with probably frost. Sunday fair with slowly rising temperature anticipated in this vicinity.

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SHANK CANDIDATE BEATEN, RECOUNT j OF VOTES SNOWS Precinct Committeeman Figures Changed When Ballots Are Checked, Official recount in Circuit Court today of votes cast for Republican precinct committeeman in Ninth precinct. Thirteenth ward, showed that Emanuel Wetter, deputy county auditor and Coffin-Dodson candidate, received 228 votes, and Fred S. Beck, assistant smoke inspector, Shank- | Armitage candidate, rceeived 140 votes. Beck had been declared elected j w ith a vote of 197 to 184 for Wetter. Hearing to Be Asked A hearing will now be held before I the county commissioners in an effort to get Wetter declared elected | instead of Beck, it is said. Wetter j had asked for the recount charging | the precinct board was dominated | by Shank men. The recount today was watched !by Wetter and Beck. It was made by Eddie Hall, 1012 E. Minnesota { St., and Verne Miller, 1115 S. West St. and Paul Malcom deputy county clerk, appointed by Circuit Judge H. O. Chamberlin. Seals Broken City Attorney James Ogden was present. He voiced objections because he said the seals on the sack | containing the ballots had been bro- ; ken and other seals placed over the { broken ones. County Clerk Albert K. Losche j said the seals had ne v er been broken | and that the extra seals had been placed over the original ones when It | was learned the recount was necesj sary, Bailey Fesler, son of Leo K. Fes- | ler, treasurer of Shank's political j organization, did the extra sealing I under Losche’s supervision, Losche said. Henry Trial Monday I P.v Times Special | SHELBYVILLE, Ind., May 24. 1 Special venire of twenty-five was ! drawn today for selection of a jury for trial of Charles E. Henry, colored. Indianapolis, on first degree murder. The trial begins Monday. Henry is charged with shooting Patrolman Jesse Louden in Indianapolis on June 14, 1923. Louden died two days later. The case was venued from the Marion County Criminal Court.

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