Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1924 — Page 1

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VANDALISM CONTINUES; LOSS $5,000 Damage to Steel Lockers at New Connersville High School Building Estimated by Contractor Police Get Number of Auto, DOORS TWISTED AND ENAMEL IS CRACKED Authorities Withhold Publication in Hope of Apprehending Trespassers Ohio Firm Loser Through Sabotage. Destruction of more than 400 steel lockers at the new high school building at Connersville with damage estimated at $5,000 was made public for the first time today, although the vandalism was committed Aug. 8. The new building is being constructed by Leslie Colvin, contractor. 214 Board of Trade Bldg. E. E. Dunlap Company, Indianapolis, ar-i architects. The lockers are the property of the Berger Manufacturing Company, Canton, Ohio, and were sold to the Connersville school board by a Mr. Truedeau, State agent. Hoover Brothers. Indianapolis, are representatives of the firm here. Iftft Are Damaged According to word from Conners ville today, the contract called for 450 lockers. About 400 were installed In the building. On the night of Aug. 8 entrance was gained to the building and the steel doors twisted and went with wrenches and the enamel eo cracked, thev are useless. Connersville police secured license cumber of an automobile seen on the school premises the night of the sabotage Police said the automooile was property of a man living in Indianapolis No arrests have been made however, but early action is promised. Police say they are hindered in work of investigation by the fair there this week Authorities have withheld publication in hopes of catching the vandals. Remy Promises Action Complete investigation by the Marion County grand jury of acts of vandalism on buildings under construction was promised by William H. Remy. county prosecutor, today, j However. Remv made it clear contractors must play fair with the police, the prosecutor and property owners, by telling at the earliest possible moment of any threats received by them and not waiting un (Turn to Fage 11)

POISON FOUND IN MAN'S STOMACH Widow Suspects Headache Tablets, Poison was found in the stomach of Harry D. Harlow, 33. of 948 Tecumseh PL, who died Aug. 9 in a hospital at Sandusky, Ohio, according to a dispatch today from Columbus, Ohio, where C. F Long, commercial chemist, has Just completed an examination. Mr. Harlow's widow. Mrs. Annie Denoe Harlow, who was with her husband when he became critically ill on a ferry crossing from Sandusky to Cedar Point, Ohio, se/eral hours before he died, said Coroner F. J Ceblice at Sandusky told her he had found signs of poison in headache tablets Mr. Harlow had been taking. Mrs. Harlow said her husband had great faith In the tablets, but never had been known to take more than one at a time. She denied any possibility of suicidal Intent. Three Drivers Arrested Roland McCormack. 32. Knightsiown. Ind.. bus driver, and Roland Osborne. 32. of 1115 N. La Salle St., were arrested today on speeding charges. Leo Murphy, 23. of 2002 N. Delaware, was slated on an improper driving charge. Do You Remember — the jail was in the courthouse yard at the southwest corner of Alabama and Market Sts. T

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FAT WOMAN PLANS STAY Mrs. Winnie Hopkins, 700-Pound Widow, to Visit Parents Here Mrs. Winnie Hopkins, 700-pound widow of a Spanish-American War veteran, plans to visit her parents in Indianapolis, It is reported from the Michigan Soldiers' Home Hospital at Grand Rapids, where she has been confined for several months. Mrs. Hopkins has been afflicted with a mysterious disease which has caused her to increase in weight at the rate of 100 pounds a year for the last three years. Details of the method she proposes to use In her intended visit have not been disclosed, but when she was admitted to the hospital It was necessary to remove the doors and to convey her from her home on a bed placed in a moving van.

DAWES ATTACKS KU-KLUX-KLAN IN CAMPAIGN SPEECH Also Scores Radical Labor Leaders, Declares for . Honest Organizations, BULLETIN B v Unit'd Press AUGUSTA. Me., Aug. 23.—Declaring that the Ku-Klux Klan is 'contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution," General Charles G. Dawes added bis stamp of disapproval to the hooded orders here today. Speaking to a huge gathering of Republicans at Island Park, Dawes departed from his prepared address to make the first formal reply to the challenge issued by John W, Davis, that the Republican standard bearer also condemn the Klan. By I fitted Press AUGUSTA, Maine. Aug. 23.—General Dawes today formally opened his campaign tor election as Vice President In a speech before Maine Republicans here during which he assailed "radical labor leaders" as th worst enemies >f trade unionism. "The benefits of trade unions, honestly administered." he said. "are recognized not only by me hut good citizens also. It has elevated and dignified labor." Replies to Davis Dawes also dealt with the acceptance speech of John'W. Davis and said: "The speech of Mr Davis is indicative of personal high purpose, hut it is an example of that kind of ora torieal presentation of general prin ciples designed to put to sleep practical thinking as to the actual results involved at this Time by a change of national administration.” La Follette success in the coming election would mean chaos, with lower wages and lower standards of living. Dawes declared. "In Illinois and elsewhere I have been denounced because I have opposed the kind of union tactics whicn have made building operations in Chicago dangerous to human life. Trades unionism abhors them as much as I do,” he said. Hurt Selves "I undertake to say that the few labor leaders who in this campaign are attempting to influence patriotic, law-abiding union men info political combinations with Socialists flying the red flag, more than they endanger anything else, are endangering their own leadership." Dawes denounced the stand of Davis on demanding that American representatives "sit as equals among equals." He said success of the ex perts’ committee was that it was not dragged into "political dema goguery." He said that the Democratic nominee invited the Nation "back intx> the fog bank of debate on the Leagfe of Nations and into a referendum for which there is neither law nor procedure.”

CHICAGO SPECIAL TODAY Nine Thoroughbreds Strive for 515,000 Purse at Hawthorne. By T'niled Prcet CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Nine thoroughbreds were named in the $15,000 Chicago Special on the Hawthorne race program today. The distance is one mile and three-sixteenths. Giblon, Chacolet. Hopeless. Princess Doreen. Red Wingfield, Tiptoe Inn, The Runt, Polvo and Belphrizonia were to face the barrier if there were no late scratches. ABATEMENT SUIT TRIED Anti-Saloon league Endeavors to Close Grocery. Abatement proceedings for violation of the prohibition laws were heard today In Superior Court. Room Five, against Mrs. Mary B. Schott, proprietor of a grocery at 1704 E. Forty-Second St. Efforts are being made by the Anti-Saloon League to close the store where it Is alleged liquor was sold. RUNAWAY YOUTHS HELD Arrested by Detectives in Machine on National Rd. Amlel Davy. 21. Washington, Ind., and Dallas Hoke. 19, Bicknell, Ind., were arrested today on National Rd. west of the city, and are being held until word is received from authorities at Washington. The boys were in a car stolen, it is alleged, from Seth Yarbrough of Washington

LOST FLIER SOUGHT IN ARCTIC SEA Italian Aviator Accompanying U, S, Airmen Disappears Cruisers Start Search for Foreigner Who Wears Many Medals, AMERICAN ACES READY TO RESUME Three Theories Advanced in Hunt for Missing Birdman —Brother Officer Aboard U, S, S, Richmond Confident of Safety. ’ By I nited Press ABOARD THE U. S. a. RICH MONO, Aug. 23 —Just 130 miles from Greenland, at the spot where the destroyer Barry last saw Lieu tenant Locatelli, the Italian flier, at 2:3<>* p. m. Thursday the U. S. S. Richmond took up its station to direct the search for the missing airman. The heavy fog. into which Locatelli plunged from sight two days ago. was still enveloping the sea wastes early this morning. No word has , ome that Locatelli has been found and Admiral Magruder was waiting only for the mists to lift before putting out the Richmond's seaplanes to begin a search. Three Theories The planes will Is* used between here and the shore while the cruis ers Raleigh and Barry are also ' scouting along the east coast of Greenland. There are three ♦heortes among naval officers as to Locate! li's whereabouts. 1. That he flew over Greenland, lost his way, ran short of gasoline and was forced to land somewhere on the West Coast This theory is given support by Danish warships which report they heard an airplane i headed North from Frederieksda! about 8 p. m.. Thursday. Natives j along the West Coast also report ’ they heard a plane about that time. | 2 That Ijocatelli descended along j the coast outside of the thirty-mile! coastal ice pack and is now floating at sea. 3. That he descended on or inside i the ice, in which liis plight would be grave, as in this event he would be in an uninhabited wilderness. Four Men Aboard Lieutenant Marcsalchi of the Italian navy, who is a guest aboard the Richmond, says Lieutenant Locatelli's cruising radius is only soft miles. He expressed the belief that, with four men aboard there would j be a food supply ample for six days! and a twelve days' supply of water. The plane. Marscalchi said, is sea ■ worthy. j Locatelli is 28 years-old. unmarried ! and wears five medals for extraordi- . nary courage. The search for the Italian Is not expected to interfere with plans of the American fliers, who expect to ! leave Frederieksda] for Ivlgtut as soon as weather conditions permit. Meanwhile the Richmond is run j ning short of fuel oil and Admiral | Magruder has ordered a fresh sup ply sent to New Foundland or some 1 point ndi-th of there

BLAST IN OHIO MINE Immediate Relief Asked—2oo Men Were Employed. By T'nltrd Pr'•** COLUMBUS. Ohio. Aug. 23.—"A serious explosion” occurred today In the Lincoln coal mine of the Lorain Coal Dock Company at Blaine, Ohio, near Bridgeport, according to a report received at the State department of industrial relations. The mine employs 200 men and has been running at capacity. The report received here did not say , whether any workers were entombed. but asked for ‘‘immediate relief." WHAT DOES LEW THINK? Applicant Wants City Job Until Well Enough to Work. To work or not to work. Anyway, there are who believe city employes merely put in their time. A letter was reported to have drifted Into the city hall today running like this: "Dear Mr. Mayor—l wish you could get me some kind of city job for awhile. I have been sick, and want the job until I’m strong enough to go back to work.” But city employes deny all Insinuations. PEACHY GIFT, EH WHAT? \ Governor Receives Sample of Knox County Fruit. Gvernor Emmett F. Branch today received a peach weighing a. pound and a half from T. H. Adams, owner of the Vincennes Commercial. The peach, nearly five inches in diameter and without blemish, was grown in Johnson Township, Knox County. Adams, in a letter to the Governor, said the peach was of the Hale variety ajuj there were plenty more like it it? Knox County.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 23, 1924

Veteran School Custodian Sees Generations Pass With Little Change in Human Nature

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ABOVE —HOME OF K N. KINGSBI ItV AT 72" E. TWL.VI > FIRST M BELOW—STANDING—R. N. KINGSBURY AND RICHARD NATHAN HALL. SEATED. ABOVE—ROBERT WILLARD HALL AND MRS. R N. KINGSBURY. BELOW—CHARLES CLINTON HALL AND WINIFRED ELLEN HALL.

P 1 "j AST the little home of R. N. Kingsbury’ at ”20 E. Twenty- . first St. hundreds of children soon will file every day. on their way to and from school No. 29, next door, at Twenty first St. and College Ave, "That's Bill Smith's little hov." they will pay. “Remember when Bill user! to go over here?" Or: “There goes Mary Brown s little girl—looks just like her." For thirty-two years Kingsbury has been custodian at the school. He has chased away boys who have grown up to he prominent business men: he has made friends

HIGH HUMIDITY PREVAILS AGAIN Heat Made Oppressive by Saturated Atmosphere, t Atmosphere, saturated again as result of thunder showers, resulted in high humidity today, which combined with a soaring thermometer, gave Indianapolis another torrid day. Showers shortly after sun down Friday night brought temporary relief, but temperature jumped back and reached the high mark for the night at midnight. Humidity this morning was 86 per cent. Temperatures rose from 70 at 6 a. m. to 81 at 9 p. m Generally fair was forecast for tonight and Sunday, with warmer weather Sunday. Suffering from heat and humidity was general over the State. Kokomo reported a heat fatality. David McKee, 63. a factory worker there, dropped dead while on the way to work. He was overcome by heat Friday.

‘Waa Waa’ Said Young Man in Women’s Auto

Mrs. L. P. Eaies, 3416 Salem St., and Miss Myrtle Pratt, 18 E. Thirty-Third St., drove down town Friday night to the Severin and parked their car on the south side of Georgia St., between Meridian and McCrea. Sts. When they returned about midnight, they found a young man

with little girls whose children now come to school. When Mr. and Mrs Kingsbury moved into their home, Sept 7, 1892, the house and coal was provided free bv the school—board. But, after about ten wars, the board abandoned that practice. Now Kingsbury pays rent to the hoard, and buys his own coal Most of the houses the board once pro vided for custodians have bean torn down With the Kingsburys now live their four grandchildren Robert Willard, Richard Nathan, Charles Clinton and Winifred Ellen Hall. They all go to school No. 29.

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—Friday— 2 a. m 70 3 p. m $5 3 a. m 70 4 p. m $8 4 a m 70 sp. m 86 6a. m. 69 6 p. m 84 6 am 70 7 p. m 78 7 a. m 72 8 p. m 72 8 a. m 77 9 p. m 71 9 a. m 81 10 p. m. 71 io a. m ...... 63 11 p. m 71 11 a . m 34 12 midnight . . 72 12 (noon) 84 —Today— 1 p. m 85 1 a. m 71 INFANTILE PARALYSIS Two Cases. First in Several Tears, Reported to Board of Health. Two cases of infantile paralysis, the first in several years, have been reported to the city board of health. Health board officials believe rigid quarantine regulations will prevent spread of the disease. One case Is reported In South Emerson Ave. and the other on East Michigan St. Pickpocket Charge Fared King Hall, colored. 309 Toledo St„ was held today as a pickpocket. Patrolman Smock said he caught the man In the act of snatching a $1 bill from Miss Mary Pavey, 2028 Olive St., while she was shopping in a downtown store.

in the car—a very young man, about a month old. Pinned to his pretty dress was a note which read: “Please put this child In an orphans home if you don't want it as I am a poor widow and can’t take care of it.” Police today took thjj child to ,

Savs Kingshury: ‘The boys who cause the most trouble when they're in school often settle down and are the best citizens. "Sissy boys are the bad ones when they grow up. They break out. "Many of the children have too much time to play now and too little work to do. Their mothers don't stay home and cook their meals ard they let their children run around. Blit I guess they grow up all right, same as they used to. Human nature doesn't change much, after all."

TINY GIRL’S BODY FOUND IN CREEK Mother Makes Grewsome Discovery, Just ten minutes after Mrs. William Knuse. residing on a farm -outh of Indianapolis on S. Meridian St., missed her 2-year-old daughter. Maryann, and started search, she found the child's body In Lick Creek, near the farm. Resuscitation efforts of doctors and the police emergency squad failed. The chijd was barely able to walk. Several days ago the father constructed a wire fence around the yard for fear the baby might get Into the creek. Rody wMI be taken to St. Anthony's Cemetery at Jasper, Ind.. for burial. Only the parents survive. Embezzlement Charged Calvin Chrisswell, 38. (right), of 1227 Park Ave.. was arrested today on an embezzlement charge on a warrant sworn out by L. T. Allen of the Allen Overland Sales Company, 917 Virginia Ave. Allen told police Chrisswell, an employe, took out a car, sold It for S4O and failed to turn over the money.

the Indianapolis Orphans’ Home. Before the baby left, Mrs. Eaies and Miss Pratt christened It: "Augustus Mars.” Augustus for August and Mars —well for that fresh star Friday night. Police said the well dressed There as to its ideptity.

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IDARROW BRINGS TEARS TO EYES OF SPECTATORS WITH PLEA FOR MERCY Leopold and Loeb Sit Rigidly in Their Chairs as Defense Counsel Pictures a Hanging in “Cold, Gray Light” of Dawn. MONEY PROMPTED ALIENIST’S ‘DEATH’-TESTIMONY, HE SAYS Declares People of Twentieth Century Have Instincts of Revenge and Blood Lust Transplanted From Savage Race. By EDWARD C. DERR r fit rd prr*9 stnfl Correspondent CRIMINAL (’OT'RTROOM. CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Blending law, logic and medicine with philosophy, tolerance and understanding, Clarence Darrow today delivered a powerful sermon against man's inhumanity to man. For minutes at a time Darrow seemed to forget he was pleading for the lives of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, who murdered the boy, Robert Franks, and talked only as the kind philosopher, the humanitarian, decrying the taking of human life by organized society. Darrow today wove the same spell which Friday brought tears from scores of spectators and even broke down the phenomenal calm of Richard. *

“Yesterday 1 was asked the motive lin this ease and stated that no i human being could have done what these boys did without diseased I minds,” he began. “I propose to I show you that certain facts in the lives of these two boys show beyond ; all shadow of doubt that their minds were diseased." parrow said there was nh motive, ! passion, hatred, in this case. "Doing of Children” “It was simply the doing of children." hp said. "They had no one in mind as their victim, and so they • went to the playground at the Hari yard school to pick out some little t hoy—they cared not whom—that they could kill Loeb's own little brother was there. There were others who knew him. It was foolhardy, hut they did it. “Your honor has been In this ! court for a long time, and T ask you did you ever see in all your experience such a case as this'’ Xo judge, no lawyer, no man of affairs has ever seen its equal.” Parrow made a savage attack on Dr. W. O. Krohn. chief State alienist. First. Harrow pointed out that T/oeb trailed Johnny 1/evinson, son of a millionaire lawyer here, bent on a killing. By some circumstance, lack of op- ! portunity. the boy was not killed. Darrow said. Then, switching to Dr. Khohm. i Darrow said “Dr. Krohm for sixteen years has been going in and out of this buildi tng and other buildings, trailing vic- | tints regardless of age or sex. seeki Ing death, and the motive is cash." | Darrow shouted, pounding the desk I "One is a mad act of a child, the j other is deliberate act of money j dealing in blood." Darrow painted the whole picture j of the crime, quoting often times in (Turn to Page 11) KLAN IS TRAILING Ma Ferguson Ahead in Texas Primary A'ote. ! By Unite] Preen j DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 23. —Mrs. ! Miriam A. Ferguson, candidate for ! Governor, was running ahead of I Felix D. Robertson. Dallas Klan | candidate upon the face of early reI ports from a score of polling places | throughout, the State at noon. Mrs. Ferguson led Robertson in ! many places, 3 to 1, reports in- j I dicated. TAX WARNING ISSUED Watch Public Budgets, Says Indiana Association. Taxpayers of the State have been i urged to take united action to guard i against excessively high public I budgets and tax levies for 1925 in a bulletin issued by the Indiana Tax- ! payers' Association, 314 Hume-Man-S sur Bldg. Harry Miesse, secretary of the association. said that taxpayers throughout Indiana are taking an unusual amount of interest in the situation this year. Memories of 1909 Detroit and Pittsburgh may renew their world series battle this fall where they left off in 1909. That j year the Pirates copped the blue ribbon classic by defeating the Tigers four games to three. Babe Adams, then a youngster just breaking in. being responsible for three of the Pittsburgh triumphs.

Forecast GENERALLY fair weather forecast for tonight and Sunday. Somewhat warmer anticipated Sunday.

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Lloyd George Says — PACT OF LONDON WAS FORCED BY ALLIED BANKERS insistance of International Financiers on Evacuation of Ruhr is Felt, By DAVID LLOTD GEORGE Former Premier of England Copyright, 1924, by United Features Syndicate. Ir.c. LOXDOX. Aug. 23.—After wandering for four weeks through the jungle of multifarious disagreements ] that had grown around an agree-; , ment, that agreement has at lasti j been agreed to by all parties. Who ;is responsible for this triumph of' ; diplomacy? One fact stands out so conspicuously that any observer may see It: That agreement would never have; .been reached without the brusque j and brutal intervention of interna- ! tional finance. The ;#otocol which was signed on j Saturday last between the allied and associated powers and Germany is the triumph of the international financier. This settlement Is the joint work of King Dollar and King Sterling. The Dawes report was theirs. They 1 inspired and fashioned it. The reparation commission had mixed politics and finance and mixed them so badly that, its decisions were never good finance nor good politics. The Dawes company of high financiers would have none of this absurd mixture. They examined the whole problem solely and exclusively from the point of view of finance. As soon as the report was issued (Turn to Page 81 THREE KILLED IN REVOLVER BATHE Two Policemen and Bandit Murderer Shot Down, By United Preen MARQUETTE, Mich., Aug. 23. Marquette's chief of police, a patrolman and a bandit, who may be an escaped convict, were killed in a revolver battle here early today. The bandit fired the first shot, fatally wounding Patrolman Thomas Thornton, oil the latter's command to halt. Thornton pursued the thug three blocks and then collapsed. Chief of Police Martin Ford was killed after he and Patrolman Lloyd Ford and Walter Teppert had cornered the fugitive three miles from the city. Ford. who. is the chief’s son, was wounded seriously in the stomach, but Teppert shot and killed the pandit after the latter had plunged into the river. <