Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 160, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 160

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SWO Indiana men—in Ft. Wayne and Earl Park—were arrested Tuesday on charges of using the mails to defraud. They were operators of "work at home" enterprises. The spare time work scheme Is exceedingly simple—for the promoter. He furnishes—at a price—material and directions for making artistic knicknacks, gloves, or socks. For which there is unlimited market—his ads assure. As an inducement to prospects he'll buy at good prices the completed articles they turn out. Only he seldom accepts the handicraft sent by his clients. The articles fail to pass his inspection. To sell Instructions and outfits at inflated prices is his real business. Spare time shpuld be employed. However, the dabbler In any line just dabbles. Lamp shades, pillow covers, paintings or socks that thrill the world with their beauty are not the result of casual industry, but of artistic talent and arduous application. Spare time can be more profitably employed on cross-word puzzles than on “work at home” schemes. Still the dream of converting idle hours into stately incomes by pleasant home sidelines enchants prospects. And the schemes prosper—for the promoters. For many people are gullible—they still believe in fairies. Cows M" ARION County dairy cow pop. ulation increased during the past year, and the percentage is greater than for the State at large. So figures just announced by The Blue Valley Creamery Institute reveal. Dairy cattle are pleasing posed In he foreground of a landscape paintng—or as the motif in decorative vail tiles of a Thompson restaurant. They are also useful in chastening the spirits of mettlesome country lads. Doing chores on brittle morning indelibly impresses the solemitics of life on youths, Xo boy is ! he same afterward. But the principal purpose of dairy cows is economic. Dairy products • nter largely into the bill of fare of most people. The yearly sumption of milk in this country's fifty-three gallons per capita. A woman couldn't keep house without milk and Its derivatives. And to the farmer the dairy cow is a friend. For the quiet, patient • •feature holds up one corner of the farm mortgage and prevents it from -quashing the struggling husbandman. So to all an increase In cow population iVi this county is desirable. Fixture RS. JANE HOOTEX. a 79-year-old woman of Martins, i— ville, vlrited Indianapolis for the first time the other day. Yet all her life she has lived in Morgan county, not thirty miles away. And until this trip she had not been In a city larger than Martinsville In all her seventy-nine years. She is a fixture—not a gad about. When transportation facilities were crude and uncertain people did not roam carelessly. They stuck where fate and their parents had placed them. With occasional exciting trips to the county sent. Xow we are a race of ‘ramps. Our abodes are not places in which to stay, hut spots from which to start. Our real homes are where our hats are. We buy a clean collar and an eyedropper full of gasoline and whisk away to Florida, California or a warmer destination that is frequently mentioned. And nothing Is thought of it. And this very restlessness—this itch to get out and go—gives this country a homogenous population and the broadest outlook of any people. One can stay in one little locality and take root like a tree. But how much a tree misses. The whole world is beyond its horizon. It's only a landscape fixture.

Securities OHE ghost of the Hawkins Mortgage Company in which thousands of investors lost—has started to walk in Federal Court, where the principals in that promotion are on trial. Stock for which Hawkins received 585 per share was only worth waste paper prices, testified one witness. Millions of dollars have been lost :n Indiana through worthless stocks. As has happened in every State where people have funds to invest. Capital once was gold in ironbound chests salted away in cellars. While now it is represented by bits of paper. Which makes securities j easy to sell. For it is hard for the ordinary man—and occasionally experts—to distinguish between good securities and bad. So wildcats fatten. And the next Legislature will be asked to strengthen the securities law to 1 keep out the brood of worthless pa- j per. But the question of making se-! curities secure cannot be solved by legislative enactment. For the safe guard is not cash assets nr visible | property—but men behind the paper, i Heal security rests always in the hu- j man equation, not in balance sheets.

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WIDOWS RELATE LOSSES THROUGH HAWKINS CRASH Elderly Women, Testifying in I Mail Fraud Case, Tell How Life Savings Were Swept Away. W, M, JONES IS NAMED jAlexandria Witness Says Her Home Now Is 'Where Hat Is Off.’ Sad eyed, disillusioned, financially ruined, widows and aged women followed each other on the witness is tand in Federal Court today, rej luting pathetic, tragic tales of life- ; time savings, the sole means of l support during the declining years ;o flife, lost, through the tortuous : mazes of finance of the Hawkins Mortgage Company of rortiar.d, Ind. The women were star witnesses j for the Government against sixteen : defendants conneeted with the Hawkins company and affiliated con- , corns, charged with using the mails j in a gigantic scheme to defraud. Typical of all stories was that cf t Mrs. Edna Pierson, 77. of Alexandria, formerly of Plainfield and FairI mount. Her entire savings of $3,200 : had been lost, she testified, and now \ her home Is only “wherever my hat !is off,” she said with a wan, sad | smile. Exchanged Her Stock In a slow, hesitating voice, helped frequently by Hornet Elliott, United States district attorney, site testified : that her #3.200 had been Invested in stcek of the Indiana Rural Credits Association, which was taken over by the Hawkins Mortgage Company. William M. Jones, formerly an of fleer in the association, and now secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Board of Agriculture, and a defendant in the case, induced her to j change her stock for stock in the Hawkins Mortgage Company, which turned out to be valueless, she said. On cross-examination she said ; that when postoffice inspectors were investigating the Ilawkins Mortgage Company affairs Jones advised j her to turn over all correspondence with the company,, stock and other ! matter and to give • the inspectors | every possible assistance. I Mrs. Pierson was followed by i Mrs. M. M. Cloyd of Richmond, who | lost S3OO and Mrs. Julia Fawcett, a ' widow, of Wabash, who lost $1,500. Literature Is Read Elliott read Hawkins' literature recommending the securities as safe investments for widows and aged persons. Income tax returns showing the Hawkins company lost $1 <5.300.57 In 1318. $20,068.7% in 1919 and $58,766.1 4 :n 1920 were presented by Elliott. The district attorney then read cirjculars and letters mailed out by the company stating the Hawkins com- ] pany was a “sound financial conjeern”; a “reliable and safe invest(Turn to Page 13)

DIAMOND CALMLY FACES ELECTROCUTION TONIGHT

l.yil HILE his father and mother made a last futile appeal for clemjVVl enC> " t 0 Governor Emmett F. Branch in Indianapolis today, —.i Harry Diamond, 26, convicted wife murderer, paced his narrow cell in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City and thought of death, which will overtake him tonight. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Diamond of Gary, were at the Governor’s office early. The Governor stood upon his ruling of late Wednesday —that Diamond was sane at the time he .<hot his wife, reputed to he almost twice his age and wealthy, on a rural Lake County road the ARMITAGE-COFFIN FIGHT TO BE TAKEN TO COURT City Hall Faction Does Not Believe City Chairman Lemaux Will Recognize ‘Ousters.’

Suit to enjoin George V. Coffin from ousting twenty-seven Republican precinct committeemen will be filed immediately, according to William H. Armitage, leader of the Shank-Armitage-Freeman faction in Republican county politics. William Bosson, city attorney and James M. Ogden, corporation < >unsel will handle the case. “We intend to fight this thing to a finish,” Armitage said. “Coffin has absolutely no authority to discharge any precinct committeman, and if there is any legal authority it must lie in the State committee.” Committeemen under fire by Coffin for alleged disloyalty to the Re publican ticket include: Otto Smelt zer. First precinct. Tenth ward; Frank Crowdus, Eleventh precinct. Tenth ward; Peter H. Miller, Fourth precinct. Eleventh ward; Edwin Jordan, First precinct. Twelfth ward; John B. Sautcr, Sixth precinct. Thirteenth .vard- Charles W. Hulsman, Seventh precinct. Thirteenth ward; Martin J. Kane. Eleve.nh precinct. Thirteenth v.a v d: Edwa:d English. .Seventh precinct, Ninth ward; \aron *’olin. Sixth precircl. Twelfth ward; Barney Conroy, Fourth precinct, Sixtii ward; Horace Wilson, Eighth precinct, seventh ward; Robert B. Cope-

‘SWORDS OR PISTOLS, ’ SAID CLEM TO DA VE Former London Editor Discloses‘lnside Stuff'in New 800k —Says Woodrow Wilson Intervened in Row Between Premiers of England and France at 1918 Peace Parley in Paris Challenge for a Due! Followed, but There’s No Record of It Taking Place.

v By LLOYD ALLEN United Press Staff Correspondent EON DON, Nov. 13. —Woodrow Wilson separated Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau when the British prime minister had the French premier by the collar and was demanding an apology for being called a liar. Wickham Steed, former editor of the London Times discloses in his hook 'Through Thirty Years,” published today. The row Occurred during the

Ho Girls! Wigs to Rescue if Cruel Shears Snip

CLEVER FORGERS ARE SENTENCED Watched Depositors and Imitated Signatures. Maurice Stanley, 32. and W. D. Walters, “pen artists” from Denver and other points in the West, today received two to fourteen years each in the Indiana Skate Prison from Criminal Judge James A. Collins, on conviction of forgery. The two woj-ked one of the cleverest “easy money schemes” local detectives ever encounter, testimony showed. They watched Andrew J. Taylor, R. R. B, box 14, and c. B. Milan, Pittsboro, customers of the Fletcher Pavings and Trust Company. make out deposit slips, obtaining their names. Then they got the cancelled checks of the customeis, ascertaining the balance and studying signatures. I.a ter they forged checks on {he accounts.

land, Eighth precinct, Washington Township. The Shank-Armitage faction expressed belief that Irving W. Lemaux, Republican city chairman, would ignore Coffin's action when .the city committee is called to meet ,in January. Eemaux is Identified with the old Jewett-Uoemler-Lemeke faction. Lemaux is out of the city. The same precinct committeemen serve on the city committee as on the county committee. The city hall faction believes Lemaux will call the “ousted” coin mitteemen as if nothing had happened. They pointed out that liepublican State rules provide county chairmen may remove committeemen for cause after a hearing and that the committeemen have right of appeal to district and State chuiri men. Driver Given Ten Days Roscoe Monico, 35, of 535 E. j Maryland St., was given ten days in | jail in speed court today to reflect |on driving through a safety zone and striking Marion Thompson, HI Is. Summit St., at Cruse and K Washington St Monico was fined 515 and costs, another 515 and costs f<*r speeding and 55 for assault'and battery.

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Versailles peace conference and led to Clemenceau challenging David Lloyd George to a duel, Steed said. Clemenceau flatly accused Lloyd George of repeated inaccuracies, the editor says, describing the incident referred to. “Lloyd George rose and seized Clemenceau by the collar, demanding an apology. “Woodrow Wilson separated them. Then Clemenceau offered Lloyd George reparation with pistols or swords —as soon as the

MRS. ADAH KIEL, “BOBBED” (AT LEFT) AND “TRANSFORMED” lIIS imt n “before and after bobbing” picture, in tl. * in stance, lhe bobbing came first, then the “transformation.” At the left. Mrs. Adah Kiel. 2101 Singleton St., of tl. Little Beauty Shop, appears in just an ordinary marcelled shingle bob, the kind the gals have worn for a long tint**. At the right, she is “transformed." Two minutes’ work, a “threestemmed switch” and a bunch of curls —and she has added several years, and dignity, to her appearance. Incidentally, she ha hawed to the dictates of Dame Fashion. Unwilling to give up the comforts of bobbed hair, hut submissive to fashion's will, many Indianapolis girls are using switches, .aids, etc., to give a “long hair” appearance for evening wear. During the .lay they remain "bobbed.”

DOWNPOUR BREAKS LONG DROUGHT; WHEA T SA VED Nine-Tenths of an Inch Precipitation Reported Betweer 7 a. m. and Noon.

Indianapolis today enjoyed jts first . til rain in two months and the heaviest since Aug. 19. with a total precipitation of nine-tenths of on inch between 7 a. tn. and noon. The rain broke a drought which has • xistcil since the early part of Ortober, and was worth thousand* of dollars to f irmers. The downpour, which flooded city streets for more than three hours

night of Feh. 14. 1923, has been sane since, has had n fair trial by jury and therefore the executive cannot legally commute the death sentence to life imprisonment. The parents were to lie permitted to see their son a few moments this afternoon before he is ltd to the death coll. Sometime he tween midnight and sunrise tomorrow he will he led to the electric chair. Warden H. J. Fogarty, according to a United Press dispatch, believed Diamond would go to death calmly. He paused his pacing of his cell a moment and listened intently late Wednesday when informed

PROPOSED MERGER UP Indianapolis Post Will Act on Ijcgion Consolidation. Whether Indianapolis post of the American Legion, one of the first in the United States, shall join in the proposed merger of the local chapters into one organization, will be decided at regular monthly meeting of the post Wednesday night on the seventh floor of the Board of Trade Bldg. Auxiliary will meet jat the same time. BODY TO BE CREMATED Services for Mrs. M. K. Richardson at 10 A. M. Friday. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary K. Richardson, 59, who died at her home. 123 Euclid Ave., Wednesday, will be held at the chapel of Shirley Bros., 546 N. Illinois St., Friday at 10 a. m. The body will be cremated and taken to Terre Haute for burial.

Battlefields Looted for Unexploded Shells

lip I nited Press —| (J IS SONS, France, Nov. 13. —The battlefields of France are giving up their unexploded ammunition to the cause of revolution in Spain. Arms, shells and grenades, left behind when the allies and Germans quit the fields, are being gathered up and sold to Spanish plotters against the King and directorate. An extensive plot was discov-

British prime minister had re--sided in France long enough to acquire a domicile—and meanwhile ‘the Tiger’ refused to apologize.” On another occasion, Steed says, he himself suggested to Clemenceau that the premier of France talk with Wilson and ascertain what Wilson wanted. “Talk to Wilson!” Steed quotes Clemenceau as retorting. “How can I talk to a fellow who thinks himself the first man for 2,000 years who has known anything

I this morning, will save the wheat i .•> op, it is believed. Wheat, * • pecinlly, it was said, had suffered from the long dry period. Plants had not had enough moisture to attain sufficient strength for the winter rigors a head. More rain was forecast for Friday, clearing by Friday nigh:. Saturday, red letter day for Indiana football, is expected to dawn fair and cool.

WHEAT RISES TO NEW NIGH HIM Canadian Crop Estimate Starts Price Boom. Bp United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 13. —Wheat prices lit the highest maiks for the season on the Chicago Board of Trade today'. Estimate of 'he Canadian crop, indicating a yield of 20,900,000 bushels less tTian previously expected, was responsible. December wheat was sold at $1.55%, up cents from Wednesday’s close. May' reached $1.63, which was 3%c above Wednesday. Juliy sold at $1.41%, up 2 cents. Corn and oats prices also scored big advances.

ered today at Soissons. The wheat fields across which the Americans fought in the summer of 1918 are being cleared and great quantities of ammunition obtained. Police today arrested two Spaniards and charged them with purchasing grenades from gangs of workmen cleaning up the battle fields. From the prisoners it was learned that considerable quantities of arms

about peace on earth? Wilson imagines he is a second Messiah. He believes he is sent to give peace to the world and that his preconceived notions are the only notions worth having. “I’ve done everything to gratify him. 1 receive him at the foot of the staircase as though he wore the King of England, but still he's not satisfied.” Clemenceau added, Steed said, that talking to Wilson was futile; that they never would reach an understanding.

FIVE LISTED FOR M’NAMARA JUDGE ■ .. Collins Submits Names in Blackmail Case. Criminal Judge James- A. Collins today submitted names of five men to Prosecutor William H. Remy and diaries E. Cox, attorney for John J McNamara, who was rele;fced Wednesday on $20,000 bond, from which one may he selected as judge to try McNamara on blackmail In- | dictments. Names are; .Tames D. Ermston, Romney Willson, W. W. Thornton, I'r.Miion l Alford and Superior Judge i James M. Leathers. Prosecutor Rejmy will strike off two names and j Cox two. j Judge Robert C. Baltzell of Prince, j ton. Ind.. who was to try the case j had to refuse because of a heavy docket in his court.

the Governor had sealed his doom. Without a word he resumed his walk. Diamond will he rhe tenth man to die in the electric chair in Indiana. Nine have died this way since the chair was installed at Michigan City in 1913. From 1901 to 1913 when State law provided for hanging at Michigan City, twelve men were put to death. Indiana is far behind some States in exacting life penalties. Ohio, for instance, has electrocuted 101 persons. The man who invented the electric chair was put to death in it in Ohio in 1911.

DECATUR BOV FIRST Riley Hospital Expected to Open Doors Monday. Mark* Noble, 10, of Decatur, Ind., is applicant No. 1 for a place In the ltilev Memorial Hospital for Children when the institution opens its doors next week. He is suffering from paralysis and is crippled in both legs. Patients expected to start entering the hospital Monday. MRS. HARDING IS WORSE Restless and Painful Night Brings Bad Turn, Doctor Says. Itii United Press MARION, Ohio, Nov. 13. —The condition of Mrs' Warren G. Harding took a turn for the worse today after a restless and painful night, according to Dr. Carl W. Sawyer. "Mrs. Harding had a very restless and painful night and is not so well this morning,” he said.

already had been secured. The Spaniards had just purchased sixty cases of grenades at 1,000 francs a case. The grenades were packed fifty to the case. The Spaniards had five cases in an automobile. From various villages near what used to be “the front,” it was learned a number of Spaniards recently scoured the battle fields, paying peasants fifty francs for rifles and gathering up all kinds of ammunition.

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F Maryland Congressman Wins Fight to Test Volstead Act Provisions —All Counts of Indictment Against Him Dismissed. QUOTATION FROM SCRIPTURES SETTLES 20-HOUR ARGUMENT Verdict Hailed as Victory for AntiProhibitionists, but Federal Authorities Declare They Will Continue Prosecution as Before. Bp United Press BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. Hl.—Manufacture of wines and cider of ordinary alcoholic content in private homes is permissible. a jury in United States District Court here decided today. The jury dismissed all counts of the indictment against Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, which had charged him with unlawful manufacture of .11.64 per cent wine and 2.7 per cent cider in his home.

Hill provoked the trial to test the power of the Volstead act over home brewing. The jury reported to Judge Morris Sopor, after twenty hours' d°lioeration that .it ciftcally with the HILL manufacture and possession of intoxicants and with creating a common nuisance by having intoxicants in his home. Judge Soper directed that Hill he declared not guilty of the latter charge. The specification In the Volstead act ‘prohibiting manufacture of any beverage of more than half of I per cent alcoholic content cannot apply to the case in which the defendant made hisp-beverage only for personal use within his own home, Judge Sillier ruled. Another outstanding development of the trial was the ruling of Judge Soper that burden of proof rested upon the prosecution. The defendant did not have to prove that the wine was non-intoxicating, but the State was forced—to prove that it was intoxicating, he contended. The jury was composed of a grocer, coal dealer, two insurance men. (Turn to Page 13)

DRIVER ATTACKS VICTIM Judge Wilmeth Met£s Thirty Days and S4O Fine, Paul Creed, 255 Trowbridge St., will have an opportunity to cool his pugilistic tendencies at the Indiana State Farm for thirty days. Not content with driving his automobile into a bicycle ridden by H. F. Fillenworth, 1540 English Ave.. Nov. 4, he got out of his car and knocked Fallemvorth down, breaking his nose, According to testimony before Judge Delbert O. Wiln.eth in city court today. Fillenworth testified that after the collision as he was getting up after being knocked from the bicycle, Creed came up and asked: “Are you hurt?” “No,” Fillenworth said he replied. “Well then you are going to be,” Creed said as he knocked Fillenworth down, the latter said. "A vicious assault,” Judge Wilmeth said in passing sentence. A fine of 540 accompanied the thirty days. HOTKEY TEMPERATURE S a. ni 45 10 a. m 4S 7 a. ni...... 47 11 a. m 48 8 a. m 48 12 (noon) ..49 S a. m........ 47 1 p. m...... 51

Forecast RAIN tonight and Friday, clearing by Friday night. Colder Friday.

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SENTENCED TO PRISON Xoblesville Youth Given Long Term for Murder. Bp Times Special XOBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 13. Claude Belzer, 18, entered a plea of guilty before Judge Hines today to second degree murder and received a life sentence in prison. A month ago he killed Robert Tompkins in the Arcadia Glass factory by striking him over the head with an iron rod. In a confession made on the day of his arrest Belzer said the purpose of the attack was robbery. He said he wanted 15 cents to add to 10 cents which he had so could attend a movie show. 58 FINES GIVEN IN ‘SPEED COURT’ Cases of Thirty-One Drivers Are Continued. Fifty-eight motorists charged with speeding were fined in city “speed court” today. Highest fine was S3O and costs, and lowest $lO and costs. Thirty-one cases were continued, ! rue to the absence of Motorcycle PoI lice Moorman and Beeker, who were unable to testify because cf injuries sustained recently. Eight drivers were discharged, two dismissed, judgment in three cases withheld, and one driver ordered re-arrested. Arrests Wednesday night maintained their average, with eight drivers slated. They were: Ray Wide, 28, of 526 Harrison St.; R. M. Irvin, 29, of 523 N. Alabama St.; Allen Clarady, 24, colored, 1001 N. Delaware St.; Marshall Rowe, 24, of 1064 Oliver Ave.; Walter Wire, 27, of 6328 College Ave.; George McAllister, 20. of 5021 Guilford Ave.; Henry Henderson, 31, colored, 1727 Linden St., and William Collins, 30, of 4929 College Ave. John D. Johnson, 28, of 25 W. Eighteenth St., is charged with driving while intoxicated. BUTLER MADE SENATOR G. 0. P. Chairman Appointed to Succeed Henry C. Lodge. It a United Press BOSTON, Nov. 13.—William M. Butler of New Bedford, who was President Coolidge's campaign manager, was appointed by Governor Cox today to succeed the late Henry Cabot Lodge as senior United States Senator from Massachusetts. Butler will serve until the State election in 1926. RUNAWAYS ARE SOUGHT Boy With Bass Horn Seeks Fortune —Police Hunt Him. Runaway boys and girls attracted police attention today. Dayton, Ohio, authorities asked that Ruth Warhen, 14, light bobbed hair and blue eye3, and Hazel Laughlin, also known as Hazel Manning, 15, brunette. be returned there. Sheriff Ehiman of Jasper, Ind., reported Robert J. Coffman, 15, wearing a blue sweater and corduroy trousers, on his way here. He said the boy had a bass horn and 1 would probably seek employment with band.