Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 120

MYSTERUUS TUNNELS IN Elaborate Secret Passageways, Discovered Under Capital, Revives War Atmosphere and Talk of Spies, OLD GERMAN PAPERS FOUND BY SEARCHERS Labyrinth Unearthed Wher Truck Wheel Sank Into Street Tiled Walls and Wire for Electricity Are Features, By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—A labyrinth of subterranean passages j discovered beneath several blocks of Washington's most exclusive residential section, littered with German newspapers of 1017 and 1918, has revived some of the old war atmosphere in the Capital and talk of spies. A gaping hole made when the wheels of a motor truck sank through the earth led to its discovery and investigation. Once penetrated it was found to be large enough for a person to stand upright, walled with enameled j tiles and wired for electricity. A searching party has followed several avenues, but has as yet failed to trace them all to their ends. One tunnel skirted the rear of the home of Edward B. McLean, local publisher, and is thought to have an unlocated outlet on a street several hundred yards away. Another passage led to a walled garden on an adjoining street; still another was blocked by a cement | door which could not be moved, while a fourth, only partly explored, j extended as ftif as the banks of Rock Creek, two blocks away. The walls of the passages were lined with white enameled brick. On the celling were pasted numerous copies of German newspapers dated ■■ during the summer of 1917 and , 1918. By electric torches it was possible to discern in newspaper articles frequent reference to submarine activities. The papers were defaced to some extent by cryptic designs and engravings in cipher. Investigators also discovered an iron ladder extended downward into the earth. After consider,ble digging. several rungs of the ladder were uncovered and a cement arch, which is believed to be connected with apartments still deeper in the earth was revealed.

TURKS ADVANCE AGAINST BRITISH Appeals to League of Nations. By United Press BAGDAD, Sept. 26—A battalion of native British soldiers under British officers, is retiring to Amadia, sixty-five miles northwest of Mosul, in the face dt a Turkish advance. England, Thursday, made representations to the League of Nations council at Geneva, claiming Turkeq was violating the Lausanne treaty by military maneuvers near Mosul, disputed oil center. The difficulties . between Great Britain and Turkey center around the question of a border line for the British dependency of Iraq. The British want Mosul included in their territory, while the Turks claim Vilayet. Lord Parmoor complained Turkish troops were advancing and appealed to the league, lie said there had been invasion of Iraq territory and that British airplanes had killed some Turks in driving tut the intruders. FRIGHT KILLS WOMAN Dies When Husband Attacks Fatlierin Law With Hatchet. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—Mrs. Nancy Sargis, 25, was literally scared to death Thursday when her husband’s mind gave way and he attacked his father-in-law with a hatchet. The coroner stated the woman died from heart failure, brought on by fright. Erriana David, the woman’s father, may die from his wounds. John Sargis, the husband, is under medical observation. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 61 10 a. m ... 74 7 a. m...... 61 11 a. m. 76 8 a, m 67 12 (noon) .... 77 9 a. m...... 71 Ij. m....... 78

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Woe Is Us Love’s Labor Lost Seven Times in One Day at Office of County Clerk —Marriage License Disappointments,

EOVE'S labor was lost seven times today at the office of County Clerk Albert H. Losche. Seven young lady applicants for marriage license were refused merely because they don’t live in Marion County, a slight technicality in the law not many Hoosiers know. After half an hour delightful nose-pulling, shoulder patting, soulful gazes, etc., two young couples finally finished their application blanks and turned them in to Losche. One young miss was from Knightstown and the other from Richmond. “Shoot! Just to think, we violated the speed law and made all this trip, and now it's for nothing," said the Knightstown girl, pouting her pretty lips. One of the boys lives in Ohio and the other in New York, though as far as they wore concerned they could have had licenses. The old double standard has crept into the latv, w r hich allows men to get a license anywhere in Indiana, if they have $2.50, while the girl must take out hers where she lives. Five other couples, one from Noblesville and one from Columbus, and the rest from out of the State, were rejected. Each day sees more or less of lovers from various parts of Indiana refused license here. They want a secret marriage for one reason or the other, and c&me to the great city to s*ip bv( Losche said. Os course, if the emergency j is rushins. Circuit Judge H. O. Chamberlain may grant permission to Losche to give non resident licenses, and often he does. T. R. CANCELS DATES Indiana Will Not Hear New York Candidate for Governor. Theodore Roosevelt, assistant Sec- j retary of the Navy, and Republican nominee for Governor of New York, today announced he had cancelled ' all speaking dates in Indiana, ac- j cording to a dispatch from Washing- \ ton. Roosevelt was scheduled to speak j at Logansport Saturday. He will devote his entire time to his New York campaign. PASTOR ELOPES WITH CHOIR GIRL Chooses ‘Path of Roses’ With 14-Year-Old Miss, By United Press ALLUWE. Okla., Sept. 26.—Alluwe was agog today over the elopement and disappearance Thursday night of the Rev. Joseph E. Yates, 40, pastor of the First Methodist Church, and Dortea Fields, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Fields. Six hundred residents gathered in groups today to read the farewell message left by its pastor. "The path of roses abounds with j thorns,” the message read. It concluded with a plea to withhold news of the elopement from newspapers. Dortea was a member of the church choir. Yates said in his farewell message "she is willing to forsake with me, and leave everything behind.” Yates had obtained a marriage license to wed Dortea in Independence, Ivans. No record of them being married in Independence could be found, however. His wife obtained a divorce Sept. 8 on charges of infidelity. ADVICE FOR FRESHMEN Firs! Thirty Days Hardest, Says Dr. William Lowe Bryan. Bit T’nitrd f*rr#* BLOOMINGTON, Tnd., Sopt. 26 “Be ready wjth your lesson every day for the first thirty days of your college career and thp other days will take care of themselves,” Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president* of Indiana University, told the freshman class at the convocation of first year students. “It is the start that counts,” he said. “The days when you are becoming adjusted to new environment are the most important of your eoilege life.” ROAD LAWS DISCUSSED County Engineers Lay Plans to Go Before Legislature. Officers of the State Association of County Engineers and Surveyors met today with John J. Griffith, Marion Ccunty engineer, to lay plans for road legislation at the next session of the Legislature, and the road school at Purdue University in January. The weight of loads hauled over the roads and regulation of busses and trucks was the subject of part of proposed regulation. Griffith is secretary-treasurer of the organization. Others present were: Don Heaton, Fowler, Inch, president; Fre Catt, Rushville, vice president; Howard Horton, Richmond, and Charles AV. Miles, North Vernon, members of the legislative committee.

NEW HEAD OF LEGION WELCOMED James A, Drain Says He Will Be ‘Real Citizen' of Indianapolis During His Year in Office Severs Business Ties for Work, WANTS TO GET OUT ON GOLF COURSE AT ONCE Says He Is ‘Rotten Player,' but Challenges Friend — Met at Union Station by Notables of ex-Service Men’s Organization, Showing the same spirit in which he embarked for France in June 9, 1917, with hundreds of his "buddies," Brig. Gen. James A. Drain, newly elected national commander of the American Legion, arrived in Indianapolis today to take charge of the organization. He was accompanied by his wife. Mrs. Ethel In, and Paul J. McGahan, historU* - ' national of the Forty and Eig ... General Drain immediately went to the Legion headquarters, Pennsvl vania and Vermont Sts., wher< he met his staff and conferred with workers. "I take the position as national commander of the American Ijegion exactly in the same state of mind as I accepted my commission in the military forces of our country during the World War,” ho said. Severs Business Ties “Since the Legion convention in St. Paul and my election on Sept. 19 when I became national commander I have severed every professional and business tie previously held. I have arranged my affairs exactly as I arranged them when 1 received my orders to go overseas in June, 1917. When 1 left Washington I boarded the train in the same spirit as I did in boarding the

JAMES A. DRAIN American Expeditionary Force headquarters ship when abroad. “Indianapolis and not Washington will he my home now for a year. Indianapolis is a city I have always liked, and so far as my duties will permit me, I hope to enter into the social and civic life of the city.'* Is “Rotten" Golfer The new commander is eager to get on a golf course. “I am one of the roftenest golf players, hut one of the most enthusiastic,’’ he laughed. “My best score was 89, but my average is 110,” he said. One of the first, things he did upon arrival at headquarters was to challenge a friend. General Drain and his wife were met at the Union Station by Brig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman, and by national, departmental and local Legion heads. Call Me “Jim” “Call me Jim,” said Drain. “Don't address me as General Drain—it's just plain Jim.” Born on an Illinois farm in 1870, Drain began a struggle against circumstances which led him eventually to the Legion commandership, a position which he regards as second in importance only to the presidency so the United States. In 1900 he lost his right hand while hunting. Despite this handicap he was commissioned in the ordnance department. While in France he .worked out methods, to perfect the ordnance supply and repair section. Later he devised a scheme for assembling tanks in England. He worked out a special treaty between the United States and England to create the Anglo-American tank commission of which he became a member. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Cross of the King of Italy. RIOTING IN BERLIN One Killed When Communists Raid Fascisti Meeting. By United PresBERLIN, Sept. 26. —One man was killed and several wounded today when Communists broke up a Fascist! meting.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 26, 1924

Most Costly Auto in World Can’t Compete in Nick Matesick’s Mind With His New Car

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Till E most cos’ly automobile in till the world probably brings less happiness than the small one in which Nick Matesick, 15 year-old cripple, took his first ride today outside his home, 9940 K. Twenty Sixth St. His foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. W illiam Bell, took turns pulling him. Nick had expected a velocipede, to replace the pushmobile that was stolen while he was at a neighborhood theater Thursday, Sept. 18. But the woman who asked to be allowed to help Nick, after she read of his plight in The Indianapolis Times, bought him the automobile because it was more comfortable. She asked thal he>n.TiTie be withheld. The little green car, just the

PATIENT DROWNS 111 WHITE RIVER Body of Walter W, Dazey of Hancock County Found, The body of Walter W. Dazey, 36, of Hancock County, who police records show to be an escaped inmate of the Central Hospital for the Insane. was found in White River two blocks north of the Oliver Ave. bridge, near Kingan dam today. The body was discovered by Herbert Schooley, 533 Coffey St., who was fishing off of the dam. Police said Dazey had been missing from the hospital since Sept 20. He had only been at the hospital for about two weeks, attendants there said. Papers on the body aided Dr. Paul F. Robinson in establishing the victim s identity. G. 0. P. BOOKS SHANK Mayor to Speak in Maryland and West 'Virginia. Mayor Shank has accepted speaking dates for Republican addresses in West Virginia Oct. 14-16 and for Maryland Oct. 17-18, he announced today. The cities In the trip will be decided by the national Republican headquarters. The mayor is considering motoring through to fill the engagements. DR. SAWYER IS BURIED Laid to Best in .Marion Cemetery Near Harding’s Tomb. MARION. Ohio. Kept. 26. —Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer was buried in Marion Cemetery today near tomb of President Harding, whom he served as personal physician. Dr. Jesse E. Swank of the Epworth M. E. Church, who conducted the last rites for the late President, presided at Dr. Sawyer’s funeral at the Sawyer home, White Oaks Farm. There was no funeral ser ; mon. Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, widow of the late President, who has lived with the Sawyers since her husband's death, attended. FLOOD SINKS STEAMERS Russian Ships in Gulf of Finland Damaged by High Water. By United Press LONDON, Sept. 26. —One warship was sunk, a German steamer grounded and ships of the Russian government squadron were badly damaged by the flood waters which poured down on Leningrad Tuesday, dispatches to the Exchange Telegraph said today. The ships were anchored in the Gulf of Finland. All shipping activities there have been greatly damaged, owing to the! flood. Every large family in Leningrad has been obtained to provide two workers for reconstruction.

NICK MATESICK AND MRS. WILLIAM BELL

right size for Nick, arrived Thursday afternoon. Nick was delighted. He slept with it at his side Thursday night, and this morning he took his first ride. One of Nick's legs is in a plaster cast and the other in a brace, so he cannot pedal. He puts his feet on a cross-board. Bell attached a rope to a cross-bar in front. Nick was eager for his friend, Clifford Gibson. 3930 E. TwentySixth St., to come home and give the crippled lad a “haul” in the new auto Clifford always is at. Nick's service when he is not at school or working at a grocery. This is almost like a birthday week for Nick. His foster father gave him anew fountain pen, of

GANDHI GROWS WEAKER Indian leader, Fasting as Protest Against British. Near Death. By r T nitrrl Press SIMULA. Sept. 26.—Mahmattma Gandhi, who is enduring a self-im-posed fast in protest against British rule in India, is growing steadily weaker in his bungalow in the suburbs and his family is anxious about his life. All India is apprehensive and telegrams are pouring in from all parts of the country urging Gandhi to cease fasting. THOMASTAGGART REPORTED BETTER Operation for Appendicitis May Be Necessary, Word by long distance telephone from the bedside of Thomas Taggart, in a Boston hospital, is to the effect that the veteran Hoosier Democratic chieftain was much improved today, although an operation for appendicitis may be necessary, according to word given out at Democratic State headquarters. Taggart went to the hospital for seven or eight days ago from his summer home at Hyannisport, Mass. Miss Lucy Taggart, his daughter, and his son, Thomas Jr., are with him. INSTALLATION SET OCT. 1 Knights of Columbus Fleet Officers for Year. New officers for the coming year elected Thursday night by the Indianapolis Fourth Degree Assembly, Knights of Columbus, will be installed at the home, Delaware and Thirteenth Sts., Oct. 1. They are: George A. Smith, faithful navigator; Daniel T. Doyle, faithful captain; Humbert P. Pagani, faithful admiral; Oscar Barry, faithful pilot; Leo W. Welch, faithful comptroller; George Oefelin, faithful inner sentinel; Thomas J. Blackwell, faithful outer sentinel. FLIERS REST IN ’FRISCO Expert to Reach Seattle, End of Journey, Sunday. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.-—The army round-the-world fliers rested in San Francisco today instead of leaving this morning for Eugene, Ore., as originally planned, while anew motor was being installed in the Boston 11., Lieut. Leigh Wade’s plane. They will leave for Eugene Saturday morning at 9 o’clock, according to present plans and probably will reach Seattle, the end of their journey. Sunday.

which the invalid is very proud. Thursday a Mrs. Roberts, who said her young son had died, vis ited Nick. She had read of him in The Times. She left the boy a dollar, with which he asked Bell to buy films, so he could take pictures. Another gift, a surprise for the boy, will be sent within the next day or two. It will he bought with $lO.lB collected hv Mrs. Dolly Peak. sl6 Indiana Ave„ from neighbors, before she knew Nick was to automobile. A desk probably will be bought with this money. Nick and Mr. and Mrs. Beil asked The Times to express their appreciation for the kindness its readers have shown Nick.

BRANCH BOOSTS VOTE MOVEMENT Urges Manufacturers to Aid Employes, Indorsing the Associated Employers’ effort to get out the vote In November. particularly its encouragement of manufacturers to aid employes to register Oct. 6, Governor Emmett F. Branch has written: “A voter who does not register is a man without a country.” George H. Healey, clerk of the State election board, also expressed approval. “I have no desire whatever to suggest how any person should cast his ballot, but I am exceedingly anxious that every qualified voter should register and thus qualify himself to vote as his judgment and conscience may dictate.” wrote Branch. The Governor cited that in 1896 eighty per cent of the voters went to the polls and since then there has been a decline until in j 920 only 49 per cent voted. GERMANY ASKS FRANCE Inquires About Attitude on Entrance to League of Nations. By United Press BERLIN. Sept. 26.—Germany today sent a note to France asking attitude of the powers on Germany's entrance to the League of Nations and whether it is intended this country shall be represented on the league council. The Marx government also voiced objections to proposed export deductions of 26 per cent in connection with the experts’ plan, and suggested this endangers the entire scheme. ‘SAX’ IS CRIME ITSELF Judge Raps Horn Tooter on Theft Charge. Charles Brown, 17, who confessed to stealing a saxophone, was released on judgment withheld today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. “Madam, some mothers didn'a raise their boys for soldiers and you would have been better off if you had raised your’s not to play the saxophone, a crime in itself,” said the judge. “Judge the reason I stole this saxophone was because someone stole mine, and it made me mad,” explained the youthful musician, who said he “loved to toot the horn.” T. R. Marshal Opens Office A law office in rooms of Walker & Hollett, 200 Indiana Trust building, has been opened by former Tice President Thomas R. Marshall. Marshall said he would continue writing and speaking and accept such law cases as appealed to him.

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‘STRANGE PROCEEDINGS’ IN HAWKINS CASE SCORED BY JUDGE A. 8. ANDERSON Federal Jurist Criticises East St. Louis Referee in Bankruptcy Who Appears as Lawyer for Company in Adjudication in Court Here. STATUTE PROHIBITING SUCH PRACTICE READ IN HEARING Case Transferred From Allen County Remanded Things Which Transpire While Head of Local Bench Is on Vacation Termed “Nasty.” “Strange proeedings have been carried on in my absence,” declared Judge A. B. Anderson today as he sat on the Federal bench the first time since his vacation and mercilessly flayed ‘foreign" attorneys and Charles B. Thomas, referee in bankruptcy under Judge George W. English, who presided in the Indiana district during Judge Anderson's vacation, for “impropriety" in connection with the Hawkins mortgage case. Thomas is referee in bankruptcy in English's court at East St. Louis, 111.

Thomas appeared here as attorney for Hawkins interests Aug. 15 before Judge English in a hearing on a petition for injunction to prohibit District Attorney Homer Elliott and lawyers for various creditors from taking action the Hawkins interests regarded as liable to emasculate the Hawkins Mortgage Company's assets. Indictments Pending Adjudication in bankruptcy is pending. Federal grand indictments charging use of mails in a scheme to defraud are pending against eighteen officers and persons connected with the company. It has been charged that hundreds of investors in Indiana and elsewhere have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in Hawkins and subsidiary concerns. "Aren't you familiar with the statutes?" Judge Anderson asked Thomas. “It is strange that you should come into this court to practice when you are a referee in bankruptcy. I’m surprised that Judge English would allow you to enter the court. Tt looks nasty to me.” There was silence in the courtroom. "You heard what I said, didn’t you?” said Judge Anderson. “Yes," your honor," said Thomas in a low voice. Judge Anderson then read the statute prohibiting a referee in bankruptcy to practice in*such a case. “I'll not hear from you,” said the judge. Out of Case “T’H withdraw, your honor,” said Thomas. “You won’t need to." declared Judge Anderson. “You’re not even in it.” “There is? still some degree of propriety to he observed in practice in this court.” he concluded. Thomas left the courtroom. Judge Anderson then remanded the case of John Youse and others against the Welfare Loan Society of Ft. Wpyne to the Allen County court, from which it had heen transferred to the Federal court on a petition of Hawkins that the company's “civil rights” had been evad ed. “What ‘civil rights’ has a corporation?" asked Judge Anderson. Judge Anderson then referred to an agreement made by attorneys on both sides, Feh. 23, in open court, under which adjudication in the bankruptcy case was to bo delayed until after the criminal trial. “Delay for Fairness” “The delay was agreed to in the interest of fairness,” said the jud#;e, “in order that the jury in the criminal case might not he unduly prejudiced. “When I was away and when Mr. Martindale, one of the parties to the agreement, was in Europe a judge is brought here who assumes to criticise the court, apparently on behalf of those on whose behest the agreement was made.” After Thomas left the courtroom he was referred to by Judge Anderson as “the gentleman who was physically here, but not officially present.’ Judge Anderson took the motions of Carter and Martindale to strike out the petition for an injunction under advisement. “I am disposed for the present to let the petition stand,” he said. ROOSEVELT TO RESIGN Assistant Secretary of Navy Tenders Withdrawal in Person. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Thedore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the Navy and Republican nominee for Governor of New York, today personally tendered his resignation to President Coolidge. He will submit a format letter of resignation- late®,

Forecast • FAIR tonight. Saturday increasing cloudiness with showers or thunder storms. Cooler Saturday night.

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MARION SELECTED AS 1925 MEETING cum DOCTORS Hammond Man Elected President —Local Physicians Honored, Marion was chosen as the 1921. meeting place of the Indiana State Medical Association at the convention at the Claypool today. Lafayette stepped aside for Marion. I>r. E. M. Shanklin, Hammond, was elected president; Dr. A. G. Beal, Ft. Wayne, first vice president; Dr. John M. Hare, Evansville, second vice president; Dr. M. F. Johnson, Richmond, third vice president; Dr. Charles M. Combs, Terre Haute, sec-retary-treasurer. The convention chose Dr. J. Rilus Eastman, Indianapolis, as delegate to the American Medical Association, and Dr. David Ross, Indianapolis* alternate. Dr. Marshall Chosen Dr. A. L. Marshall. Indianapolis, was elected to a vacancy on the medical defense committtee, and Dr. E. J. Dent. South Bend, on the hospital standardization committee. The public health meeting at Cadle Tabernacle Thursday night drew a tremendous crowd. Every seat in the big auditorium was taken an 1 spectators lined the walls. According to Dr. Eastman, who presided. it was the greatest meeting ofi its kind ever held. Dr. Patrick Speaker Dr. W. A. Pusey of Chicago spoke, on syphilis; Dr. Hugh T. Patrick, emeritus professor of Northwestern University Medical School, an expert in the Loeb-Leopold murder ease, spoke on nervous diseases and Dr. William Mayo of the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn„ discussed cancer. In opening the meeting. Dr. S. H. Earp of Indianapolis, president of the association, declared that medical science was advancing so rapidly that in a few years it will be an unpardonable sin for a man to die before he reaches 75 years ofi age. BANDITS MAKE HAULS Two Hold-Ups in Chicago Net Bobbers 520,000. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 26. —Two bands of robbers staging hold-ups almost at the same time in different parts of the city escaped with SIO,OOO each here today. Three bandits held up the West City Trust and Savings Bank and secured fiO.OOO in currency and. securities. Six bandits stopped a machine driven by Clinton Norris, messenger for the Tyler HipacK Plate Glass Company and robbed him of a payroll of SIO,OOO. EIGHTEEN DIE IN CRASH Russian Express Train Wrecked —Sixty-Three Injured. By United Press MOSCOW, Sept. 26 Eighteen persons were killed and sixty-three injured, many seriously, when sixteen cars of a fast express train, which left Odessa for Moscow wen# demolished tolay-ia & iubuft