Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 158

Right Here In INDIANA By Gaylord Nelson

r~ —UT at Fortville an old worn|fj | an, who lived alone in a IN_J dreary shack in an alley, was found dead. She had been dead a "Week, reported the coroner, and from natural causes—probably starvation. Death from starvation in Hancock county, Indiana, U. S. A. —in the heart of a fruitful land and in the midst of the most generous people in the world —is unbelievable. But such things happen. For coroners seldom garnish their verdicts with sprigs of fiction. The occurrence would seem to be a scathing indictment of society. We send money and food and nurses to strange lands and alien people, while a woman dies from lack of a couple of potatoes almost within sight of the Iluosier Statehouse. But it was not altogether the fault of society. For twenty years the woman had lived alone in the squalid hovel, with windows and doors boarded. No one had been permitted to enter her home. Although friendly, kind hearted folks lived ail around she always shunned them and flickered out in miserable seclusion. People are mighty trying at times. Every one occasionally gets disgusted with them and longs to withdraw into a shell and avoid any further contact with mankind. It's seldom done. For human nature can't thrive on isolation. The fate of the crusty recluse is always starvation —spiritual or physical. Library SHE Indianapolis Public Library’ is praised by Dr. William S. Learned in his recent book. "The American Public Library and the Diffusion of Knowledge.” Most communities boast of public libraries- Some are costly structures —imposing on the outside but full of cobwebs and solitude within. However, books are made to be read, to entertain, to instruct. Volumes that are stuffed away on shelves perform r.o useful function. Too many public libraries just purchase, catalog and shelve books. That is all. No attempt is made to acquaint the community with its facilities —to sell it to the people, a* the snappy drummer phrases it Books tumble from the presses at a prodigious rate. And somewhere in the mass is a volume to fit the specialized needs of every person in every hne of activity. If the person and the book can be brought together. That is help a library* can give. To sort out and bring to the attention of individuals books in which they age interested. The Indianapolis Public Library is that sort. Outside it is a building of dignity. Inside it is filled with activity. For it servesDivorce mUDGE SIDNEY MILLER of Superior Court recently addressed the Y. W. C. A. forum on some of the aspects of the divorce problem as seen by a ju Ige. “Too many divorce cases ar*' brought into court on the basis of wild accusations.” h*- said. "Many quarrels of husband and wife could be nipped in the bud if they would quit imagining a lot of things.” Wild accusations may be the obvious grounds for a divorce —but there is usually a deeper reason. The little spurt of creative fiction that produces the action is only the spark from long accumulating, high tension domestic electricity. Vivid imagination is one of the common ingredients in divorce and also in marriage. The ardent fancy of courtship smears a Sir Galahad and Lady Guinevere gloss on very ordinary mortals. Which the daily friction of conjugal intimacy later wears off, revealing quite common human clay beneath. Even clay Is useful. From it by fire can be made bricks and poree lain. If a wedded pair lack vision to fashion such articles of strength and beauty from their lumps of clay :.jid domestic heat, those lumps will crumble to c-ozy mud in divorce court. Ho long as people have imagination there will be weddings. And so long as they retain that gift more will stay married than seek divorce. Armistice ODAY is Armistice dax And all over the country * is being observed with appropriate ceremonies. Probably Nov. 11. 1918. brought a feeling of relief to some -Indianapo!i-- young man, “somewhere in France.” For he was tired of pursuing war with blistering feet and shoes too large. Tired of mud and toil and grime. He wanted a bath, clean clothes, rest and victuals such as mother used to cook. His country made him a soldier, and he learned the trade and did the work. But his country couldn’t make him like it. And he wanted home. For he was an American. There were millions like him. Perhaps on Nov. It, 1924. that same young man is back in Indianapolis in a prosaic vocation. He may grumble about his boss, his pay, his hours, the weather, and the fit of his overcoat. But lie’s glad he is a civilian again. He xvouldn’t go back into the Army for a fortune, he says. The next time his country must make the world safe for somebody it needn't offer him the job. But he would go through it all again—if occasion demanded. For he's an American. There are millions like him. Which is the reason we observe Armistice day.

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POLITICAL FOES SHEATHE BARBS TO HOKOR PEACE DAY Governor-Elect Jackson and Dr, McCulloch Speak on Armistice Program Here, SEMI-HOLIDAY OBSERVED Happy Memories of Six Years Ago, When Worid War Ended, Recalled, Two foes of the platform laid aside their barbed shafts of political argument today and joined as friends and Army comrades in expressing from the same stage the happiness of Indianapolis in the peace of her | sixth Armistice day celebration. Two weeks ago Dr. Carleton B. | McCulloch, Democrat, and Ed Jacki son. Republican, Governor-elect. | were opponents for the same office. I Both were in the Army in the World War. Dr. Meulloeh was a colonel overseas. Jackson was a major in this side. They spoke at the Armistice day meeting at Keith's Theater at noon. Semi-Holiday Observed The city observed the day as a : semi-holiday. City hail was closed j all day and the Statehouse and most ! county offices and courts this after‘noon. “It is time for Americans to be |on guard against foes without and within who seek to destroy the principles of the’ American Republic,” said Dr. McCulloch. "It is rather , for us to dedicate Armistice day not as a time to pay tribute to our war dead, but to dedicate ourselves to the principles which they advanced. All Depends on America "If the American republic falls, then democratic government is lost to the world. There is no need to fear this as long as American citizens, schools, churches and civic organizations are watching for any encroachment on American principles.” Armistice day should be a day in : which every citizen finds way to j further American ideals and do it, j said Jackson. “Le* us remember there is just as , much opportunity to serve our coun- | try in peace as in war by advancing ; and holding to those principles for which our boys died in France,” he said. "Let us pick up the torch which they I threw to us and carry on. We have | inherited the greatest wealth and j the greatest form of government of any nation in the world due to the : heroic sacrifice of our men.” Preceding the meeting the Polio: ! land Firemen’s Band paraded the I downtown streets. William P. Evans, general chairman of the day and Vayne M. Armstrong, Seventh District American Legion committee- | man, ha charge of the pro- , grant. The Rev. George W. | Allison, pastor of the Irvington Presbyterian Church, delivered the invocation and the Rev. Raymond Noll, pastor of St. Francis do Sales Catholic Church, delivered the benediction. Indiana section of the American War Mothers and American Women's Overseas League took part in the ceremonies. Celebrate at Fort At Ft. Benjamin Harrison more than 1,500 men observed the day with a dress parade at 11a. m.. with , Col. J. T. Drew as reviewing of j fleer in absence of Brig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman. Schools in the city held patriotic programs and various entertainments in the are scheduled, among them a dance at Riverside Park under auspices of Hilton U. Brown post of the American Will M. Cressy and Blanche Idayne, i(Mrs. Cressy) joymakers on Keith's I bill this week, will be honor guests !at the dance. Mr. and Mrs. Cressy were entertainers in the Overseas Theatrical League during the war. Governor-elect Jackson will address the Irvington post of the (Turn lo Page 11)

A. W. O. L. Fear of being A. W. O. L., prevalent six years ago today, was the excuse Kenneth A. Wilson. 18. soldier at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, gave police early today for being in an auto belonging to James Zaeharias, 318 E. Merrill St-, parked at Illinois and Maryland Sts. Wilson said he was trying to get back to the fort and all ’he busses and interurbans I\d stopped.

GOLD STAR MOTHER FINDS PEACE WITHOUT BITTERNESS IS BEST

~,~iHTS is an Armistice day UT I story—i * i Os how an Indianapolis soldier. Maxwell Parry, gave up his life for his country— And how his mother went through four years of anxiety, not knowing what had happened to her son, only to learn at last of his death — And how she sent out this message today. Armistice day: “I have no feeling of unkindness toward any one, not even the Ger-

JUST SIX YEARS AGO TODAY!

rpT"|TX YEARS AGO today Indianapolis released the pentI jup happiness that had grown for days as the Allies drove the Germans back and back and threw herself into a frenzy of celebration, with the rest of the anti-Hun world. As the word spread like wild-fire that the Armistice had been signed in the wee small hours of the morning men, women and children donned whatever was at hand and

STILL DRIZZLING O VER THERE Peasants Toil in the Fields, Small White Crosses Dot the Landscape, Shell Craters Gurgle With Muddy Water, Some Villages Sleep, Others Have New Life —That's the Battle Front of France on Nov, 11,1918, as It Is Today,

EIGHT KILLED BY POISONED CIDER Inmates of Elks National Home Stricken, /! I nited Press BEDFORD CITY. Ya., Nov. 11.— Eight inmutes of Elks national home are dead and seventeen are riot ex pe<-ed to liv® as result of drinking cid< r which contained arsenic. Joseph A. Kenny of Marion. Ind., is among the dead. Charles Sidenletopf of Terre Haute, Ind., is among those seriously ill. Ail available doctors in the surrounding country have been rushed to the home. Robert A. Scott, Linton, Ind.. home member of the board of trustees of the Elks, has ordered no expense be spared in aiding the sufferers. The cider was bought from a storekeeper in the country for a pariy ,f about fifty inmates. MAYOR STiLL REFUSES Court Contempt Threatened in Water Fight. By I nit erf Press BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Nov. I. Contempt of court proceedings were threatened today against Mayor Harris if he continues to refuse to sign the $125,000 Griffy Creek water bond issue in compliance with the order of the Owen County court. Harris was directed to sign the bonds in a court order after a long legal fight. MRS. HARDING WEAKENS Sleepless Night Exhausts I ,ato President's Widow. By T nited Press MARION, Ohio, Nov. 11.—Mrs. Warren G. Harding today is weak and exhausted after a sleepless night. Dr. Carl W. Sawyer said today. "Mrs. Harding had a poor night,” the bulletin said. “She feels weak and exhausted this morning. Her general condition is not so good.” lIOI'KLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 51 10 a. m 01 7 a. m £1 11 a. tn C 4 8 a. m 53 12 noon .... 68 9 a. m 56 1 p. m 70

mans, who probably started the war. "The men have sat around the peace table for six years, and still we have no promise of permanent peace. Now it is time for the women all over the world to join hands, without bitterness, and say: 'We want permanent peace.’ “Without, bitterness " Mrs. D. M. Parry said. “It is only in that way that we can have peace.” When Second Lieutenant Maxwell Pajrry, 147th Aero Squadron,

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOV. 11, 1924

WASHINGTON ST. SIX YEARS AGO TODAY.

By WKISB M 1 LI,HR, V nit id Press tflnff 1 ■ • e-sprind r,t "pnx THE OLD A.VKIHt AN BATTLE l- RONT, Nov. 11.— VJ This story is for the half million or more Yankees who were in the Argonne and the front lines along the Meuse at 11 o'clock six years ago today and the million or more who were just, behind the front or on the lines of communication. Probably someitime your thoughts will turn backward to that day six years ago many with a tug at the heart strings for the Buddies left behind under the little white crosses.

And probably you'll wonder how the old places look today. W'-11, at least the w> .ether is the same—there Is that cold, clammy fog in the Meuse valley. As usual. it has drizzled all morning and the roads ahead are as muddy as ever. Peasants Arp Rack It's a safe bet you'd never recognize most of the smashed, deserted villages you piarched through chasing the Roche back out of the Argonne. The peasants have come back and have cobbled up the ruins and are today busy spreading fertilizer in the fields for the spring crops. Many villages were never rebuilt. They are only memories. There is a great strip of many desolate miles through the Champaigne and across the Argonne. It is now a gray wilderness overgrown by dead weeds among twlstbd strands of barber wire. The grass-grown trenches have fallen in. but here and there a rusty broken rifle, a bullet-pierced trench helmet or a rotted shoe conjure a grim picture of what happened here. The shell-smashed fragments of the Hindenberg lino in the Argonne are pretty much as you saw them last —a scene of man-made desolation. Around the places where the fighting was the fiercest the earth is still poclted with shell holes, water-filled just as six years ago. Remember Verdun Those of you who were in or near Verdun six years ago this morning never will forget how the Germans, as soon as they received the armistice orders' about 10 a. m., opened with hundreds of guns all along the line —how they turned scores of guns upon the town to vent their last spite —how the ruins became an inferno of bursting shell—how the boys were needlessly killed a few minutes before the fateful hour of armistice —and how the Yanks retorted in kind, especially the old plunkett's great fourteen inch naval gun mounted on flatcars (Turn to Page 11)

went to his <k“ at h July 8, 1918, in a battle with thirteen German planes behind the German lines near Soissons, France, he gave up a life full of promise. A glimpse of his study, preserved just as he left It In the Parry home in Golden Hill, gives an Indication of the versatility of his talents. Pictures of famous actors and of himself as an actor with the Washington Square Players in New York are reminders of the days when he wrote plays that

rushed for the business district. Factories and business houses made no attempt to operate. About everything with wheels on it was commandeered for the dozens of impromptu parades and to get where the crowd was. The noise did not die down until late in the day when everyone was too tired to cheer more. Then they all went home to begin planning for the day when the boys would come marching back.

Urban Snake A three-foot blue racer snake was killed in the Indianapolis business district Monday. L. W. Brumit, 614 Ashland Ave., reported today. Brumit, employed by the Mail Press. 312 E. Market St., said the snake evidently crawled out of a grating from under the printing plant and into the street, where it was run over by an automobile. Brumit said no one in the neighborhood could tell how the snake got downtown.

JOB FOR T. R/S NEPHEW T. Douglass Robinson to He Assistant Secretary of Navy. ( By ( nitid Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. -T. Douglass Robinson of New York, nephew of former President Roosevelt. very probably will be appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy, succeeding Theodore Roosevelt Jr., resigned, it was indicated at the White House today. Robinson called at the White House at invitation of the President. YEGGS START BLAZE ! One Fireman Fatally Burned— Tenements Houses Destroyed. By Vnited Press CHICAGO, Nov. 11. —One fireman was fatally burned and another fireman was severely hurt early today while fighting a fire started by yeggs, which did damage estimated at SIOO,OOO to the Dechman Lumber Company yards and destroyed two tenement houses. Firemen carried out four families trapped in one of the tenementsSecretary’ Davis to Quit By Vnited Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 11 tary of Labor Davis has definitely informed President Coolidge he cannot serve after March 4 next, it was said at the White House today.

were produced, and occasionally “filled in” as an actor. Pen-and-ink sketches show a decided talent as an artist. Books recall the fact that, although he was only 30 when he died, he was becoming recognized as an amateur astronomer. He had given to the world only a little of the fruits of these talents. when the war interrupted his career, With his two brothers, Addison J. and David M. 1 arry, he enlisted. For four years after' Maxwell

WO TIKE AT CHESTERTON * Schoolhouse Destroyed— Furniture Store Burns, By Vnited Press CHESTERTON, In,1„ Nov. 11.— Fire of undetermined origin early today gutted a two-story brick school building and damaged an ad Joining furniture store. Loss was estimated at $200,000. The blaze started In an old barn and fanned by a high wind, spread to the schoolhouse. Fire apparatus was sent from Gary, Valparaiso and Michigan City. PILLOW MAKERS ALLEGE SWINDLE Art Company Head at Ft, Wayne Held, By 1 nited Press FT. WAYNE. Ind}, Nov. 11.— Glenn B. Fryer, proprietor of the Nile Art Company of Ft. Wayne, was arrested here today by Federal authorities on charges of using the mails to defraud. It is alleged Fryer swindled customers of $200,000 to $300,000. Advertising throughout the country, he is alleged to have sold clients materials for making a*t lamp shades and pillow tops on promises to accept their work, which he failed to keep upon claims the wares were faulty and did not meet requirements. TROOPS GUARD NEGROES Race Rioting Relieved at End in Kentucky Construction Camp. By Vnited Press DANVILLE, Ky„ Nov- 11.—Negro workers were returning to their quarters under protection of a troop of national guards and race rioting was believed at an end in the Dxi River construction camp near here today.

Parry disappeared In battle, his family tried in vain to learn what had happened to him. "I was sure he had been taken prisoner,” Mrs. Parry said. ‘‘l spent a year in New York hoping he would be brought in there." Then, in August, 1922, word came that he had been buried in a German soldiers' cemetery near Soissons. He was the only American buried there. At last the story of his death filtered through. Parry was sent up

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DROUGHT DAMAGES WHEAT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, STATE GROWERS DECLARE Crop Stunted and Will Have Little Vitality to Resist Winter, Farmers Fear Only Rains With Warm Weather Can Save It. # FIRES TO BE COMBATED; WATER FAMINE IS FEARED Indianapolis Supply Is Safe, but Other Cities Are Alarmed With Streams at Lowest Level in Years Corn Is Good. The Indiana wheat crop lias been damaged, thousands of dollars, by the drought, aceording to James 11. Gwaltney, Posey County, president of the Indiana Wheat Growers’ Association. Water supply of several Indiana cities is threatened, due to low streams, but Indianapolis is in no danger. State Fire Marshal Newman T. Miller is considering better means of combating forest tires than those now in vogue.

Gwaltney declarer! in the wheat belt in Posey, Gibson, Knox. Vanderburgh, Spencer and Dubois Counties the wheat is stunted, much of it is turning yellow and even though a rain comes now the crop will go into the winter with little vitality to resist rigors of cold weather. The only hope held out is for an early rain with weather following. Rain and freezing weather would further damage the crop, Gwaltney said. Plowing Is Delayed According to Perry Crane, secretary of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, farmers are three weeks behind in their fall plowing because of the drought. In the southern I>ari of the State, Morgan and Martin Counties particularly there is a scarcity of water. Streams are low, springs are drying up and in many instances farmers are hauling water for at, ck. After a late start, because of tno wet spring and summer, the corn er,op has been benefited by the dry weather. Crane said, and although in some sections the crop is not as good as expected, the general run will bo better than last year. Streams Ix>w in State J H. Armington of the local weather bureau, who has just returned from a trip of inspection over t lie State, declared rivers and streams were far below the average for October. In most cases rivers were far below the Government (Turn to Page It) DENTON GAINS VOTES Democrat Favored by Reports From Two Counties. Although officials tabulating the State vote in last Tuesday’s election will wait until the official totals are obtained before making any announcement of results, reports received today indicated the unofficial total, showing Benjamin Willoughby. Republican, election Supreme Court Judge over George Iv. Denton, Democrat, might be reversed. Howard County reported it would certify 265 new votes for Denton and Sullivan County hits certified 130 more for Denton, in addition to the official vote already sent in. Indiana Anti-Saloon League officers, who oppose Willoughby, issued a statement urging every precaution for a fair count. HILL WINS SKIRMISH Ruling Favors Congressman on Trial for Making Cider. By Vnited Pres* BALTIMORE, Md. Nov. 11.—Congressman John P. Hill today won the first step in his fight to obtain ruling on the section of the Volstead act applying to manufacture of cider and fruit juices in the home with an alcoholic content higher than onehalf of 1 per cent. Judge Morris Soper in United States District Court ruled evidence might be submitted to show wine end cider which Hid manufactured and for which he was indicted, wero not intoxicating “in fact.”

with twelve other airmen to meet a German squadron. The others, realizing the impossibility of success. turned back. But Parry, probably stimulated by the success of the day before, when he shot down a German plane, went on, to death. Parry’s body now rests in the permanent American cemetery of the Oise-Aisne, at Seringes-et-Neales, Department of the Aisne, France, near the spot where Quentin Roosevelt is buried and

Forecast UNSETTLED with showers and eolcler tonight, followed by fair and colder Wednesday.

TWO CENTS

ONLY TWO HOURS TAKEN TO OBTAIN HAWKINS JURORS : Mostly Farmers on Body to Try Mail Fraud Case — Chief Absent. Jury for the Hawkins Mortgage Company mail fraud case in Federal Court today was sworn within two hours after court opened, thirteen veniremen being dismissed. Homer Elliott, United States district attorney, began presentation of the case shortly before adjournment at noon. Seventeen officials of the Hawkins Mortgage Company and affiliated and subsidiary concerns indicted on charges of using the mails to defraud, through the sale of alleged worthless stock of the Hawkins company. are on trial. Defense counsel challenged nine jurors peremptorily dismissed one for cause. The Government dismissed one for cause. Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger excused two. Jurors: W. H. Smith of Shelbyville, Ind.. farmer; L. R. Young of Frankfort, farm overseer: Fred : Alexander, Frankton, merchant; Fred It. Widmer, Dayton, druggist; Jerry Echelbarger, Howard County, farmer: John A. Stevens, Kitchell, farmer; IV. H. Swinda, Elnora, (Turn to Page 11) NO TURKEY SHORTAGE Plenty of Gobblers at Reasonable Prices, Is Good News. "Rumors of a turkey famine are not well founded,” said Stanley Wyckoff, manager of the Beatrice Creamery Company. “There will be plenty of gobblers for every one at prices higher than last Christinas’ quotations, but lower than last Thanksgiving prices." he said. From present indications, wholesalers say, the retail price will be around 45 to 50 cents a pound for dressed turkeys and the wholesale price will probably be 38 to 40 cents. Wyckoff says turkeys are not of as good a quality as in previous years due to the exceedingly warm fall. FOURTH VICTIM DIES New Death in Fatal School Hack Accident. By Vnited Press JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Nov. 11. —Frieda Holden, 8, colored, died here today from injuries suffered when a school hack was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train near here Monday. Her death brought the toll from the accident to four.

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has erected a monument. It has been more than six years since Maxwell Parry died. In that time, his mother has found peace of spirit. This peace she wants tjd spread to all the world. ■. "Tne world honors the Gold Stjr> mothers,” she said. ‘‘PerhapiVv /, can start the movement to s ,‘y' women join hands for peace. “And ’ —her eye twinkled, for fe'-L time “what the wob>| ; want, they get.”