Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1924 — Page 2

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GERMANS EXPECT QUICK APPROVAL OF LONDON PACT Officials Confident Reichstag Will Ratify Agreement on Reparations, By fritted Pre-fg BERLIN, Aug. 20. Government circles are confident today of obtaining the necessary two-thirds majority for ratification of the pact of London. The government confidence grows out o fthe trying straits in which the nationalistic forces have been thrown. Should nationalists adopt an over-mild attitude toward the Dawes-Young plan they will lose many adherents and should they be over-antagonistic they are certain of numerous defeats in the general election. Conferences Today Today various political parties are meeting to decide what attitude to assume at the Friday meeting. The committee on foreign affairs is studying over the report of the German conferees. The Reichstag must decide swiftly whether there Is anew two-thirds majority available for the Dawes legislation as the London agreement must be signed by Aug. 30. Consequently Germany is expedV ing the Reich decision early next week. The meeting of the premiers of the German states Tuesday is indi eatlve of the way the country feels toward the London agreement. The premiers. Including the one from Bsvaria, decided the pact of London did not fully meet all expectations, but that It was the best solution so far offered on the reparations question. ‘ Government officials trust that the Reichstag will adopt a similar attitude toward the report. Evacuation < French evacuation of Offenburg and Opperrweir Monday was cause Os much favorable comment from the press. Citizens of both towns refrained from demonstrations, but they were most pleased at the sight s>f the retreating troops. J Government spokesmen throughput the sessions Tuesday and again today were confident that the evacuation of the Ruhr would he completed before expiration of the year's time—this of course, depending upon success of the London agreement in the Reichstag and the Fredch Cham ber and Senate.

STREETS FLOODED IN HEAVY STORM Eiectricaf Display Does Slight Damage, t Heavy rain, combined with a Revere electrical storm, visited Indianapolis and vicinity late Tuesday fight and early today, flooding streets and doing other slight jamage. • Police reported a trolley wire down at Virginia Ave.. and the elevation. ; Lightning struck the homes of Robert Nicely, 678 Madison Ave., and Hfrs. Emma Syerup, 433 N. Bevilie St. Damage was under $lO in both eases. t The M. and H. Laundry, 933 E. fdarket St., reported a large plate glas3 window smashed. ! The fire department was also bailed to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ ilonument, where lightning, it *a thought, burned out a fuse and Caused a short circuit. Damage was small. Water was reported two feet deep at Indiana Ave. and MontCalm st. • Total rainfall, the weather bureau said, amounted to .43 of an inch. I The storm visited practically the entire central portion of the State. • Martinsville reported a near-cloud-burst, with 3.33 inches. Columbus bad 2.60: Terre Haute, 1.48: Shelhyfille, 1.89, and Greencastle 1.10. Additional thunder-storms were predicted by the weather bureau for this vicinity. And warmer weather, too. Many Things Lost LONDON. —Forgetful women travelers have lost so many handbags, flmbrellas and parasols that, with jimilar losses by Londoners, the lost property office at Scotland Yard has been forced to fit up new cupboards and shelves. An average of 17.000 Tost articles are brought to Scotland i’ard every month. Few are ever called for.

NEWLYWED SPENDS FIRST NIGHT IN JAIL Bridegroom Separated From Wifie Immediately After Wedding When He is Arrested on Speeding Charge,

•‘Who ever heard of spending your first night of married life in jail,” was the lament of Roy Lessard, 22, of Nohlesville, Ind., as he climbed down off a bunk in the city prison his morning after being held over Ught when he was unable to give nd after his arrest on a speeding large late Tuesday. Lessard and Miss Thelma Clover of >blesville, Ind., accompanied by i bride’s father, Samuel Clover, re married late Tuesday by Isaf Wulfson, justice of the peace. As |the trio were on N. Meridian St., en route to Nohlesville, a machine (whizzed by them. The bliss of married life probably having an affect pn Lessard. a race started. It was (ended at Fortieth St. by Motor Policemen Hudgins and McMahon, peseard and Arthur Von Behning,

General Dawes ‘Hears’ and ‘ Accepts ’ Nomination

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BRIG. GEN. CHARLES G. DAWES ACCEPTING THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HE IS SHOWN HERE SPEAKING FROM A PLATFORM ON THE LAWN OF HIS HOME AT EVANSTON, ILL., SURROUNDED BY PARTY NOTABLES AND BY THE MASSED ENTHUSIASTS FROM FAR AND NEAR WHO STOOD ON THE RAIN SOAKED GROUND TO HEAR HIM.

NEW PARKING LAW ENFORCED Ordinance Extends Limited Time Down Town, Parking troubles were multiplied today as motorists found police enforcing the new city ordinance ex tending limited parking rules to Michigan S’.. Senate Ave , New Jersey St. and the track elevation. The new measure defines this district as the congested area and prohibits parking for more than one and one half hours. Former houn daries were Canito) Ave . New York. Alabama and Maryland Sts. Parking in the renter of Market St., he'ween Delaware and Pennsylvania Sts.. Is prohibited. Michael .1. Glenn, inspector of trof sic. announced motorists found guilfv of violating the new traffic ordinances would not he fined on first offense, hut would have provisions explained. After the one warning, "look out,” he said. Parking in alleys in the new congested area will also be prohibited, Glenn said. Another traffic ordinance passed by the council, in effect in two weeks, provides flat to curb parking around city market except in Market St., between Delaware and Alabama Sts. DAWS PUTS MORE PEPiNTO SPEECH First Draft Fails to Sat'sfy Campaign Manager, By XJnited Press NEW YORK, Aug. 20 —After taking a course In campaign oratory from his managers, John W. Davis, Democratic candidate for President, began to inject more forceful language in his speech to be delivered Friday at Seagirt, N. J. Although Davis sought to adopt the "treat 'em rough" slogan given him by Governor A1 Smith, the first draft of his speech is said to have failed to satisfy his managers. Immediately after his Labor Day speech at Wheeling, W. Va., Davis will .swing on throuh the West in his first invasion, which is ex pected to carry him as far as Denver. Before reaching Denver, Davis will make his big appeal to the farmers in a speech tentatively set for Dos Moines. Instead of returning to New York after his Oj-gt trip, the present plan is to have Davis maw his temporary headquarters in Chicago.

21, of 3ioo Orchard Ave., the other driver, were held on speeding charges. "Thelma and her father said they were going to get a bondsman, but I haven’t seen anything of them yet," Lessard said. **Here I am a married man and I might lose my job if I don’t get to work at 7:30.” the young bridegroom said rather surprised to find he was due at jvork in ten minutes and only had more than a score of miles to travel. Turnkey Charles Icenogle said he would gee Judge Wilmoth and try and get the newlywed released on his own recognizance. "It sure is a shame, but law is law,” Icenogle said as he took up his pencil to slate an early-morning speeds^.-

PHIL LA FOLLETTE HITS MAJOR PARTIES Son of Presidential Candidate Declares Democracy of Nation Is Speech at Convention,

Following is text of Phillip I.a Follette s speech before La Follette State convention today: "The doctrine that governments are Instituted among men to preserve and perpetuate 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is the first and fundamental principle of the progressive movement of today. "This movement Is not a movement hv or in the Interest of any one class or element, of the United States. The progressive movement represents the great mass of the people of the United States. "If the Republican or Democratic parties had remained true to the principles which gave them birth, if they had adhered to the leadership which brought them into being, there would he no progressive movement in the United States today. “Tho Government of the United States was established upon the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence. Those principles are the soul of America. The Democratic, party was founded to preserve those principles. The Republican party came into being because of the failure of the Democratic party to fulfill its sacred obligations.” lincoln Is Quoted "The greatest and first leader of the Republican party, Abraham Liacoln, said: “ * . . . All the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn .... from the sentiments which originated in and were given to the \ world from this hall (Independent Hall). I have never had a feeling, ] politically, that did not spring from j the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.’ "The greatest leader and founder j of the Democratic party, Thomas Jefferson, said: " 'Men by their constitutions an: j naturally divided Into two parrDs: Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the "higher classes." and those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them and cherish and consider them as the most, honest and safe . . depository of the public Interest. . "The American people are confronted in 1924 with the greatest fundemental issue which has presented itself on two or three occasions in our history'. The great issue of today Is not tariff, railroads, foreign affairs. These Issues are manifestations of a more fundamen- j tal one. The real question is: Shall \ Aiuerica remain a great democracy with a Government "of, by and for the people," or shall America travel the high-road of imperialism and become an autocratic reincarnation of imperial Rome and autocratic Greece. Two Great Divisions "There are those that inherently favor democracy, and those that seem to Inherently favor Imperial autocracy. These are the two great divisions stated by Jefferson in the foregoing quotation. Each represents a different and antagonistic philosophy of government, and economic and social life. Democracy means political and economic freedom for all the people, with either the extreme of enormous, swollen fortunes, nor abject, heart-rending poverty. "Imperialism means enormous economic wealth for a few with frightful poverty for many. The first means peace and the pursuits of peace; the latter Is provocative of war, and the pestilence and disruption which follow war. Democracy means the powers of government in the hands of those that are governed, while imperialism means those powers concentrated in the hands of a limited few “The Government of the United States, under both Republican and Democratic Administrations of late, has been moving away from th£spirit and design of the Declaration of Independence end toward the doo

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trine of the divine right of the limited few to live and profit from the lives of the many- This has been done and is being done, not by the will of the people, hut in open defiance of that will. It has been and is being done by betrayal by both Republican and Democratic parties of the ritizens composing each. Parties Desert People "The people of the United States have not deserted either of the old parties —the Republican and Demo nratie parties have deserted the people. Each of those parties have as their fundamental principles—principles which brought them into ex istence —ideals In which the American people believe. But neither of those parties are following those princlplesin fact, lip service to these principles on the part of Re publican ami Democratic party leaders has i>een used as a smoke screen to hide the betrayal of those two organizations into the hands of the ’money changers.’ Tile time has corno in the United States to drivtthe ’money changers’ from the temples of our ideals. The progres- j sive movement Is not out to destroy. The Progressive movement is a great uprising of the American people to restore representative, democratic government to the people. This movement will be victorious, because 'in a righteous cause there is no such thing as defeat. GUNNERS PLAN REUNION 139th Field Artillery Veterans to Meet at Kushvffle. Annual convention of the 139th Field Artillery Reunion Association I will be held at Rushville, Ind., Oct. j 4 and 5, Barnett W. Breedlove, president, announced today. Capt. John H. Kiplinger, Rushville, chairman of the committee on arrangements, announces he has invited Governor Branch. Adjt. Gen. Harry I>. Smith and Brig* Gen. Augustus Mclntyre, who commanded the 6.3- ’ Artillery Brignde, of which the : was a unit, to address the cot ->ntlon. Col. I bert L. Moorhead. Indianapolis, ib former commander of the unit. Floyd E. Anderson, Elizabethtown, Ind., is secretary-treas-urer of the association.

MRS. FROSCHAUER DEAD Rites for Aged South Side Woman to Be Held Frid:f. Mrs. Rosa Froschauer, 68, of 424 S. Now Jersey St., died at 8 a. m. today at her residence following a short Illness. Mrs. Kroschauer, who was a member of an old German family In Indianapolis, was the wife of Charles P. Froschauer. Funeral services will bo held at 2 p. m. Friday at the residence. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. She was an active member of the Women’s Little Club, the Liederkrantz. and the Ladies’ Auxiliary. Besides the husband she Is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Ida Keeler, Mrs. Flora May and Mrs. May Truempe.r, aH of Indianapolis. Six grand-children also survive. Cars Conide; Two Arrested ' Charles Morgan, 130 W. Nineteenth St., and Charles Riggs, 2151, N. Capitol Ave., were under arrest today on assault and battery charges, following a collision of their autos at Nineteenth St., and Capitol Ave., Tuesday night. Mrs. Riggs was bruised. Slippery Streets Blamed Slippery streets were blamed for an auto collision at the Emerichville bridge, Tuesday night. Cars driven by Oliver Stuckwlsch, 2154 N. Illinois St. and Ora Keller, 2545 N. Delaware St., crashed together. No arrests wer* •>—

MAH JONG BEING RESCUED FROM MONET MAKERS j At Last a Standardized Code of Playing Has Been Made, The dove of peace may yet hover ovrV the Mah Jong tables on summer resort verandas, now that by public referendum, American fans | have helped formulate a standardized code for the popular Chinese game, j The lengthy arguments which have I preceded otherwise friendly games i may now be averted. But most im- : portant of all. those who have | changed Mah Jong for financial puri poses may soon he put to rout, j According to Lee Foster Hartman, associate editor of Harper's Magazine and of the Austion Bridge and Mah Jong Magazine, the game, like many other worthy institutions, has • been tainted by commercialization. Hartman is one of the four members of the standardization commitj roe, which includes J. R Babcock, R. F. Foster and Milton C. Work. In | his forthcoming hook. "Standardized I Mah Jong.” which will be published I in a few days and which is the first ; book to present tho new American Code, Hartman thus explains the Mah Jong confusion which ha3 prevailed: Instructors Born Over Night “Sets were imported by jobbers and equipped with pamphlets of rules devised by anonymous authors with little or no knowledge of the game. 'Expert’ instructors were horn over night and when a slight smattering of knowledge of the*game hastily ac- j qulred proved inadequate. im- ; promptu rules were invented .and i passed on to pupils, who in turn 1 passed them on to others. Worst of j all, there have been those who have ) not hesitated to ’lmprove’ the game ! according to (heir own Ideas, and j then to carry on a syndicated propa- | ganda for their own financial profit, j Even the Chinese in America are not ! without reproach, for certain of them have posed as professional teachers when their acquaintance with the game has been of shorter duration than that of many Amerkfins. “But a reaction has set irf, and there aro today many encouraging signs that the real Chinese game is coming into its own, now that it has j been rescued from the welter of conflicting rules and usages which have threatened to submerge it." Interviewed on the commercialization of mah jong. Hartman said that many instructors who know little or nothing about tjie game, have been getting from sl6 to S2O an hour. He recalled an instance In which a player of special reputation was offered SIOO an hour for private instruction, by a member of a prominent New York club. The swagger set at the watering places have been imposed upon most, he said. They feel that mah jong is "the thing to do.” Innumerable auction bridge instructors tried to learn the game over night to meet the demand. Mr. Hartman cited the case of a "professional Chinese instructor" who was giving lessons last summer at Newport at exhibtlon prices, and who was In reality a Japanese making capital of his yellow skin .ilmond eyes. “Those fashionable women simply flocked to take lessons from this Japanese who hardly knew .. the count,” said Hartman. Film Company Robbed Burglars successfully manipulated the combination of a safe in the offices of the Fox Film Corporation, .326 N„ Illinois St.. Tuesday night and efiraped with $10.82, police were told today. One Hundred Chickens Gone George F. Ellis, living two and one-half miles south of the city on S. Meridian St., reported to police today thieves stole 100 young chickens from his codp. They were val--d at SIOO.

VOTERS TO HAVE LARGE FIELD TO PICK FROM NOW No Excuse for Not Casting Your Ballot ir\ November, Timet Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Notwithstanding the fact that the total vote cast for all presidential candidates in 1920 was the largest vote ever cast at a presidential election, there was a stay-at-home or absentee vote of nearly 26.000.000 votes, the total vote cast being nearly 27,000,000. You can write your ticket on why about half the eligible voters of the country don’t vote at a presidential election, but one of the reasons may be that there was little else to do but take a choice between two ma-chine-made old-party candidates. In Pennsylvania a little less than 2,000,000 voted while nearly 2,500,000 who could vote didn’t vote. Only 35 Out of 100 Vote Taking Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin as a group, for every 100 who did vote sixty-five who had a right to vote failed to do so. In New' York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, taken collectively, for every 100 voters there were ninetyfour stay-at-homes. It is customary for editors and politicians to lecture those citizens who fail to vote, but like most of the lecturing of people for failing to do something that somebody else thinks ought ttv do, this particular lecturing is mostly bunk. Nobody can prove that the man who does vote when he has only a choice between two evil sis any more patriotic than the man who doesn't bother his head about voting. Large Field to Pick From There wasn’t anything wildly exciting about choosing between Cox and Harding in 1920. though both were fairly good citizens so far as regular partisan politicians .stack up. And there wasn’t enough difference between the Democratic and Republican parties to he visible to the naked eye. The fellow who didn’t vote was just as wise as the fellow who did. interesting thing about this year’s campaign is that voters have a bigger field to choose from. If they can’t see any difference between Coolidge and Davis, they can take a wallop at both of them by voting fjor LaFollette. Voters don’t need either a microscope or a spectroscope to distinguish the difference between La Follette and either Davis or Coolidge.

GOVERNOR MAKES PLEA TO LABOR Scores Communism in Holiday Proclamation, ! Governor Emmett F. Branch to- | day uttered a warning against com- | munism in national labor circles in j his Labor day proclamation issued j today. Monday. Sept. 1, was proclaimed a legal holiday in the State j as a trii ite td labor, j Branch paid high tribute to the in his message and i pointed to the superior condition under whi.h the laborer lives and I works in America. "Notwithstanding our sound economic conditions.” the Governor said, "candor compels the acknowleldement of minor industrial tendencies today in the advocacy of communistic principles. Let the American workman survey his conditions and he must conclude that America Js founded upon tho basic principles of honest reward for just j effort. In sound judgment and good ! conscience, let labor accept the bless- j ings of the American system as best I assuring labor's continued welfare, j Capital and l-tbor are each the corollary, of the ether. Neither succeeds alone; together both are successful.” The Governor directed that all State, county, township and municipal offices be closed. RIFLE TEAM CHOSEN Guard Seinets Men Who Will Attend National Shoot. The Indiana National Guard rifle; team, which will represent Indiana] at the national matches next month,] has been selected from contestants j who attended the State shoot at | Frankfort a few weeks ago. The | personnel of the team: Captain, Lieut. Col. Milo D. Snyder, ’Cromwell. Ind., coach; Lieut. CoJ. Manford G. Henley. Indianapolis; range officer, Capt. Ernest H. Weimar, Shelbyville; team members: Lieut. Col. Basil Middleton, Culver; Capt. Edwin C. Ball, Indianapolis; Capt. Uawrence O. Rariek. Warsaw; Lieut. Harry M. Turpin. Newcastle; Lieut, j Damon C. Wray. Darlington; Lieut. | John Yuhasz, Gary; Lieut. Robert S. Creacey, Evansvilje; Lieut. Paul D. Harter, Terre Haute; Sergt. Fred T. j Alexander, Newcastle; Sergt. William R. Mitchell, Indianapolis; Sergt. William A. Sandy, Martinsville; Sergt. Herbert C. Watson. Tipton; Corporal Joel E. Randols, Gary. I,ad Falls Through Window Francis Steinberger, 11, of 2235 N. Delaware St., lost his balance while riding on his bicycle and crashed through a plate glass window at 1.32 E. Twenty-Second St. He was badly cut on the arm. An Exception "Tommy, stop eating with your fingers.’ “But mamma, weren't fingers made before forks?” “Not yours, Tommy.”—American

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Has any one seen a dog resembling this one? She is white, with brown markings on each side of the head and a brown patch on the left shoulder. She disappeared' from the running board of a tourist automobile on Washington St. Aug. 6, and the baby of Harry Fies, 245 Duluth Ave., Marion, Ohio, wants her so bad Fies has written Sheriff George Snider about the matter. $lO reward and expenses are offered. NEW DELAYS FDR ELEVATION SEEN Proposed Opening of Shelby St. is Criticised,

Further delays in the elevation of the Pennsylvania and C., I. & W. tracks from Davidson St. to State Ave, were seen by H. H. Wray, city track elevation engineer, today as result of the proposed opening of Shelby St. This is the first section of the city's track elevation program. Opening of Shelhy St. would cause the Pennsylvania Railroad to elevate their proposed yard tracks along Southeastern Ave. at tremendous expense. Wray said, in predicting that the affair mijfcn be thrown into court. Plans now being worked out call for opening of Oriental, Leota and Cruse Sts. Wray, in conference with John E. King, chairman of the council safety commmittee, pointed out the elevation at Southeastern Ave. and Oriental St. would Create a dangerous traffic hazard. A dangerous Jog cannot be overcome, he said. Arsenal Ave., admitted to he the one to open, would cause the C., t. & W. railroad th elevate their yard tracks at great expense _ and cause a legal fight from that road, Wray said. Pennsylvania officials advocate joining Cruse and Shelby Sts., with anew curved street directing Shelby St. traffic under the Cruse St. elevation, but city officials have opposed this plan. King insisted the Shelby St. opening be carried out.

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HALSTEAD URGES SPEEDOMETERS ON EVERT AUTO Says Such a Law Would Curb Fast Driving—Bus r Driver Arrested. A law requiring every vehicle driven on the city streets to be equipped with speedometers would aid materially In putting a clamp on speeding, Lieut. Earl Halstead, In charge of the motorcycle division, said after -a survey of testimony given in speeders’ trial in city court. ”1 have found after looking over the records a, great majority of those arrested on speeding charges haven’t any speedometer and they drive along guessing what their speed is,” Halstead said. “O large number of those who are breaking the speed law are doing so unconsciously, and If their cars were equipped with speedometers they would probably stay within the law. A bus driver and a special delivery mail carrier were arrested on speeding charges during the night. H. E. Simonton, 462 S. Harding St., a bus driver carrying a load of eight passengers bound for Ft. Wayne, Ind , was arrested by Lieut. Halstead who said the bus was traveling thirty-two miles an hour. Cleo Rodenberg, 19, 2539 N. Talbott Ave., a special delivery mail carrier was arrested on charges of speeding, no license and failure to display light. Both drivers were released on their own recogizanee. | Others arrested on speeding charges: E. C. Haupt, 36, of 312 W. TwentyJ Eighth St.; Charles Ott, 21, 2161 S. ' Meridian St.; Paul Marlow, 28, 1034 Congress Ave.; Earl Sharkey, 18. 637 Eugene St.; Arthur Von Behning. 22, 3900 Orchard Ave.; Roy Lessard, 22, Nohlesville, Ind.

COOLIDGE VISITS BOYHOOD SCENES Hears Dawes Acceptance Speech Over Radio, By Vnited Press PLYMOUTH, Vt., Aug. 20.—President Coolidge today prepared to visit the scenes of his boyhood in the mountains around here and to visit with the mates of his early school days. The visit will Include a tramp through the maple thickets where he hunted and a stop at favorite ponds where as plain Calvin Coolidge be once attempted to entice fish to his hook. He also will visit the home of his cousin, Dick Brown, who has. a farm below Plymouth. The farm ha? been changed to the headquarters of the Home Town Coilidge Club, which is understood to have a membership of 14,000. Tuesday night the President and Mrs. Cooiidge, with the President’s father. Col. John Coolidge, gathered in front of the stove in the parlor of the Coolidge farmhouse and listened to the acceptance speech of General Dawes, Coolidge’s running mate, over the radio.