Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1924 — Page 1

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ISS RODA E. SELLECK. teacher of art in Shortridge i____ High School, died Saturday afternoon, after forty three yeats’ service m Indianapolis schools. In all those years, though of frail constitution. she was never absent from school a day on account of illness. Such devotion to work is unusual. Many deem a hang-nail sufficient ex cuse for an extended lay-off. But she found her work more than salary, and put into it more than hours. Her work was her life, in it she expressed herself. Asa result, though she has passed her influence lives. It is part of the cultural life of the city. For she imparted to generations of pupils something of her spirit. She was an irtist. Although no painting from her hand hangs in a world’s famous gallery. But what is art? Just the expression of the soul's <i.-t vir.tr for beauty. She loved beauty and taught others to appreciate it Judged by the bank balances her career might not be counted successful. Some men make fortunes before they are 30. But they are not successes. True success is measured not in cash, but in realization of ideals. Miss Selleck realized her ideals. Asylums ARIOX County council Saturday appropriated $30,1100 fi r repair- to new buildings a* the hospital for the insane at Juli etta. Because of faulty work done by the contractors. The county will go ahead with repairs and the dispute with the contractors will go to court. Society recognizes the duty of suit able provision for crazy persons A century ago each county cared for its own demented. Awful local madhouses abounded to disgrace civilization. But ?, w care of mental defectives is considered a State function, not the concern of local government. State hospitals have superseded local madhouses. And is a more enlightened policy. Yet Marion County—alone of the counties in the State—continues to operate its own little lunatic asylum. Despite the fact that Indiana has five : nsane hospitals. The oldest and largest of these State asylums is in Indianapolis And these five Plate irstitutions are supported in part by taxpayers of this county. With the State asylum west and the county asylum east of town. Indianapolis las a lunatic fringe. Naturally’, for the .Marion County taxpayers must be looney. Gamble SHE weather is a gamble. And since the day Noah won his bet that it would rain—which his scoffing fellow-townsmen lost— It has formed the basis of many wagers For men like 1o gamble. And there j* n good deal of uncertainty in the world. Only death and taxes are sure. Every bit of uncertainly extant can be made the basis of a wager. And is. If not the weather, it is something else. But there is amateur and professional gambling. The former reprehensible. the latter criminal. The weather has graduated from amateur to professional class in Indianapolis. For the latest game is a pool on the daily temperature readings. Conducted bv and for sports. Tickets are marketed in poolrooms and similar haunts. The -.veathcr It---comes a too! for those who prefer sweating a card to the sweat of the brow. And police declare efforts will be made to stop this newest lottery device. Ho! Hum! Probably it will be suppressed as sternly as baseball pools or election bets. They all breed in the same places Which apparently the authorities can't locate—without trying. Veterans f ,, 1 OR thirty-nine years J. M. j£* Newman, 620 E. Thirteenth St., has been a passenger conductor on the St. Louis division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. And has worked for that company since Oct. 9. 1572. Division officials paid tribute to him for his faithful service Saturday in the railroad’s publication. Recently the Standard Oil Company of Indiana presented gold service buttons to 422 men who had been with the company ten or more years. And four went to men with thirty years’ service. This corporation with 20.000 employes has 2,634 men wearing the service button. Great corporations honor their industrial veterans. Back in the dark, sweatshop age of industry loyalty was not cultivated but eradicated. Human machines were worn out and contemptuously cast aside. Eabor turnovers were costly. And destructive strikes the rule. But now the veteran employe, however humble his position, is valued. He is the industrial pearl of great price. For he brings to the job loyalty.

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KLAN ISSUE SEEN AS PARAMOUNT IN POLITICAL MOVES Bitter Fight for Control of G, 0. P. Through Creation of New Posts Is Expected, CENTERS IN COUNCIL Anti-Ku Klux Forces May Seek to Name TwentyFive Committeemen, A hitter fight between Klan and anti-K!an forces for control of the city Republican organization preceding city primary election will get under way at an early meeting of, the city council, according to information in Republican circles today. The Klan faction, represented by ’ O.'iiupo V. Coffin. Republican county chairman and member of the Coffin bnCon group, and the anti K an, led by Charles W. Jewett and Ralph Lemeke of the Jewel t-Roemler- ; !,er>:i ke faction, will clash in an at- | tempt to redistri, • the city wards, providing for an additional I five precinct committeemen. Republican leaders predict. Antis Trump Card j Should the court sustain the in- ! junction to he brought by city atj torneys to prevent Coffin from oustI jng twenty-seven committeemen said ! to be anti-Kian. and the city counj oil, said to be anti-Klan by a safe margin, provide for twenty-five additional committeemen, named by the tcity chairman, Irving Lernaux. the Jewett faction would control the ; city organization. Lernaux is certain to be a candidate in a receptive mood for the norm | ination for mayor. Th“ same Republican leader is authority for the statement that , Charles \Y. Jewett, former mayor, will be a candidate for United States Senator against James E Watson in 1926. E. Howard Cadie. who has announced himself a candidate, is -x j peeled to have Klan backing. Whether Coffin will throw his organization behind Cadie is not ' known. Slates and Slates Coffin has said lie has no candidate as yet ,and would support "any good man." | According to information. Arthur R. Robinson attorney, is Coffin's ! candidate for United States Senate | It is said Robinson has the backing 'of the Klan. W'th Jewett, Robinson and Watson in the race hadors say Jewett would get support of the Harry New faction, Robinson, the Klan. and Watson, his own organization Another slate for city offices dis :cussed in political circles as possible recipient of Klan backing includes j Clarence Baker, furni’ure dealer, for i mayor: Charles York, Indianapolis I Candy Company, city controller and iChauncey Manning, private detective, for chief of police. G. 0. P. CHAIRMAN DEAD Maryland .state leader Found With Crushed Skull. } flv United Prr** LEONARDTOWN. Md.. Nov. IS. ; —Body of Joseph If. Ohing. 55, chairman of the Republican State I central committee, was found in front of hK home here today, his I skill! crushed apparently by blows of some heavy weapon. St. Mary's County authorities appealed to Washington so. - detectives to assist in unraveling the mystery. ALL READY FOR RIDE Street Railway Employes Will Collect Election Ret in Wheelbarrow. Two employes of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company will collect their freak election bet Thursday at j 1 p. m , when Earl Swope 1419 Mai ! Ison Ave„ motorman. and Hubert ; Sconce. 82 N. Ritter Ave., office ; clerk, will be pushed in a wheel-j I harrow from the Louisiana car b •/’ns to the Union Station by R. 11. fdulI vihill, salesman. f Cincinnati. Mulvihill bet Swope and Sconce that Ed Jackson would be defeated : for Governor.

Give More! We believe the people of Indianapolis want the Community Fund campaign to succeed. We 8 believe many have not given to the fund, who are perfectly willing to contribute. We believe a number who have already given are willing to contribute still more generously. In fact it is necessary for a larger number of givers to subscribe and for those who have already given to increase their gifts, if we are to succeed in this campaign. We ask every citizen to greet the self-sacrificing solicitor with a smile, give what is needed to complete YOUR job. Let’s put this campaign over NOW. J. K. LILLY, Chairman, (ieneral Campaign Committee.

INDIANAPOLIS SHIVERS AS 10 LIE OEAD IN NEW YORK

Temperature Drops to 24 Degrees at 9 a, m, — Relief Calls Heavy,

mXDIAXAPOLIS, softened by the benign smiles of Old Sol all fall, shivered today in freezing weather and felt real sympathy for Greater New York, where ten persons wore dead as the result of the cold wave. The sharp drop in temperature, which started Monday, bringing with it tin* first snow of the season in Indiana, continued. According to weather bureau figures. the temperature at 9 a. m. was 24 degrees ,above zero, a drop of 2 degrees in three hours. A minimum temperature of about 3" degrees is predicted for tonight. v. itli rising temperature Wednesday. The cold weather brought an increase demand for assistance to various charitable and welfare organizations. At Salvation Army headquarters fifteen applicants for -holter were received Monday, a record for fall. Officials said more calls for clothing were being received than for food or coal. Volunteers of America headquarters reported an increased number of requests for aid. “There has been a sharp increase in applications since M,,nday.” Paul L. Benjamin, general -• i retary of the Family Welfare Society said. “Th,- requests are for various forms of assistance.” TEN LOSE LIVES Nine Perish From Exposure as New I ork ''utters Front (old. fly United /',r> NEW YORK. Nov. 18.—Ten persons were oead In Greater New York today as result of the cold wave which descended suddenly on th® ,-itv Sunday. New York shivered to work on the coldest Nov. 18 ever recorded by the weather bureau Temperature at 8 a. m. was 19 above zero. Coldest previous weather on this date was 23 in 1891. Throe ,f the dead were women one of whom was struck by an uitomobile, which she failed to hear on account of the gale. The other nine perished from exposure, one dying in his unheated home Intense cold was accompanied by a gale, which at times reached a velocity of seventy miles an hour and reached cyclonic proportions Kt sea. Tlie Adriatic reached port after fighting the storm for hours and reported the loss of r, seaman, who had been blown overboard. Seven other persons who put out in a small fishing boat early Monday were still missing and are believed drowned. 00. GOSH. WHERE ARE WE Two Men Don’i Know Where They Are Going, hut— Two drunks probably rubbed their eyes today and wondered where they • ware. Alva Payne, assistant superin tendent of the Indianapolis Water Company, railed police late Monday to thr* plant, telling them that there wore two drunk men in a freight car on a siding there While police ] were en route along came a switch engine and took away the car, I drunks and ali. Police couldn’t find I the car. COMMUNITY FUND WIND-UP STASTED More Than SIOO,OOO Needed to Meet Quota, BULLETIN Tne Community Fund campaign will end Friday with a luncheon at the Claypool, it was decided at today's meeting of the workers. Total contributions reported today were .>30,064.41. Another luncheon will be held Wednesday. Crusaders for the Community Fund, who to date have obtained . $578,338 or 83 per cent of the $700,215 quota started winding up the campaign with a report luncheon at noon today in the Travertine room at. the Lincoln. Employes of the Fairbanks-Morse Company turned in 110 pledges for a total of $956, one of the highest averages for any company, campaign officials said. Other contributions were: Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Darrach, $2,000 and Hetherington and Berner, including subscriptions lof Louis E. Berner, $275. The fund was increased by $75,415 Monday, the last official day of the campaign. With 17 per cent of the fund unsubscribed, J. Iv. Lilly, general chairman pointed out th-> necessity of getting increased subscriptions from those already subscribing as well as adding as many new subscribers as possible. H.OI REY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 26 10 a. m 27 7 a. m 25 11 a. m 29 8 a. m 25 12 (noon) .... 31 9 a. n\ 24 1 p. m 33

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOV. 18, 1924

if -Jiff >%' wtmi* MISS MARY BLACK. 2320 TWELFTH <T . SNUGGLES UP IN HER COAT ON HER WAY To WORK UNDER WINTER'S CHILLY URGE.

PEOPLE OE WORLD TIRED, SA VS GEORGE Desire for Tranquillity Brought Conservative Victories, Former British Premier Declares,

By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Former Premier of Gr> it Britain. Copyright, lli'.’l t'r le<j ,ii :ir-s S>. wle LONDON, Nov iv -The British, American, French, Italian and German elections all point in one direction. The people In evorj country are tire ! of alarums nnd excursions tof all kinds, whether military or MR. TURKEY WILL BRING HIGH PRICE Sixty Cents Dressed Asked by Local Dealers, There will he no 40 arid 45 cent | turkeys for Thanksgiving, city market standholders said today in an emphatic denial of recent price predictions. Dressed turkeys today were sell | ing at 6d cents a pound and live tur i keys at 45 cents. Fletcher Smiser, poultry dealer it (the market, said he did not look for any price rise or slump in gobbler i prices before Thanksgiving. "It is an impossibility," said I Smiser. “for dealers to sell dressed | turkeys of even half-way decent quality at 45 cents a pound and stay jin business. Any one who is prodieting such quotations is misleading the public." Smiser said there will he plenty of fowls to meet the demand and that the quality is as good as last year. FRENCH GRANT AMNESTY Senate Pardons Caillaux and Malvy for Dealings With Germany. Bfi T'vitrd Prr** P4KIS. Nov. IS.—The French i Senate today voted Article Two of ithe amnesty hill which carries ! amnesty and restoration of civil 'rights for ex Premier Joseph Cailj la.ux. ! Only about half the Senators were j present and the galleries were empty save for a handful of newspaper men as the final chapter of the famous case was written. Fully twothirds of those present today were members of the Senate which condemned Caillaux to exile for his dealings with Germany' during the war. Earlier in the day amnesty had been granted Ex-Minister Malvy.

Barber's a Barber Despite Effort of Newfangled Title

HTROTONSOR7 What do mean chirotonsor? I’m u_J nothing of the sort. I'm jt st law-abiding, respectable barber, and I never did anything in my life to warrant any epithet like that.” replied an Indianapolis tonsorial artist today'. After the barbers. beg your pardon. chirotonsor’s, anger cooled down sufficiently to allow for explanation, he was informed that the annual convention of

ooldicol, m 1 wan' to settle down •to attend to busin* -s. The elc;ors of Great Britain, the United States. Germany and Italy, turned to the right—the French ; electors turned to the left. But they all without exception swung in the direction where tiny thought trim qUlllity was, for the tune being, most likely to he found. The Conservative Party in Britain i appealed to the electorate in a -hngthy manifesto, full of promises of :<f, rm and changes. Had Mr. ! Baldwin followed President Cool- : ulg-Vs example and said nothing, his ■party would not have lost a seat bv Iris reticence. The hulk of the people were not asking to he Improved and uplifted. They were yearning to he left alone for at least one term by warriors, politicians am) labor leaders. That is the present moo t of the world. Represent Tranquillity Calvin Coolidge and Stanley Bald j win are the Anglo Saxon exprosJ sion of the inevitable collapse from jtlv strained temper of high endeavor which the war aroused j Harriot is the incarnation of a disi illusion,',! France. ! No douhht the defeated parties in all these countries committed blunj ders which increased tlie disaster I that befall them. But the real explanation of the j Conservative victory in Britain is that the electors were in a more (Turn to Page ,3) RIKHOFF ‘IS ASKED' Chief Boomed as Candidate for Mayor. Police Chief Herman F. Bikhoff I today admitted he had lieen asked by several business men and other friends to he a candidate for Rej publican nomination for mayor. Bikhoff said he had not given the | matter “serious thought.” It. was said that colored leaders in | *he Indiana Ave. district favored : Bikhoff because of his anti-IClan • stand and that they made tills ! known to William TT. Armitage, Shank faction leader, when Armi- ‘ tape recently toured the avenue to j sound out sentiment. T. TAGGART IS IN CITY Democratic Ross Confers With Leaders at Headquarters. Thomas Taggart. Indiana Democratic boss, arrived in the city today from French Lick. Ind.. for a short visit. He conferred with Democratic leaders at State headquarters.

Associated Master Barbers of America at Chicago had expressed themselves as in favor of a more dignified title for the word barber. "A barber's a barber, that's all there is so it. I never saw anything wrong with the name, it beats that new chiro-what-you-mav-call-it all to pieces. If I spring anything like that on my customers I would not get two shaves a week out of all my five chairs,” snorted the loc:H shearwizard. *'

MYSTERY SEEN IN FINDING OF OFFICER’S STAR Trafficman P, F, Kinney Is Sought for Explanation of Blood Stains on Badge, BRAWLS ARE REPORTED Residents Tell of Seeing Man Run in Street Without Trousers, Police Sergeants Shine ami Jones today sought Trafflernar, Patrick F. Kinney, 102 Koehne St., following the finding of Kinney’s badge, spat to red wit it blood,* in an alloy beside 339 Minerva St. Kinney has been on vacation since Saturday. At hi- home it was said he came in about midnight. appearing bruised, and left early today. Poli.-e Chief Herman !•’. Bikhoff ordered an investigation when he was informed of the affair by an Tndianapr lis Times reporter before official reports had reached him. Reports of Motor Policemen ('hit wood am! Maas on three different run during th ■■ night indicated that there bad be'r a f,-ee for all figh* near the j ~o e where Kinney's Bulge was found. Probe Is Delayed Until RJkhoff was notified by the new-piper man no effort had been made *o locate Kinney. At midnight Chitwood and Maas were ml!. ! to New York and Blake Sts. on report ,? a fight There was evidence of a struggle, but p.artic'pants •: fled. Two hours later the same officers w •- j e called to Vermont and Minerva Sis. on another brawl c-port. They arrested Joe Ford. 30, WilLim Ford. 34. both of 743 W. New V S' John Ford. 19. Grail Hotel, and Mrs Viola Kress, 30, of If 6 N. Blackford St. All wart chapel vith intoxication and vagrancy. They refused *o talk At 6:20 a. m the same officers were called to 339 Minerva St. by Harrison Tucker, who had found Kinney's badge. Tucker said that during the night he had heard a fight in the alley. Residents Hear Brawl Mrs Jesse Logan arid Mrs. Albert Brannum. 425 Minerva St., said they heard a fight in front of their home and heard a man say: "Get his badge.” Th' v said they also heard a woman say that "they're killing him." Someone said "Who,?" according to Mrs. Brannum and Mrs. Logan, and the answer came back "The Fords. Half a dozen residents of the neighborhood told police of being awakened by the brawl. They said that three men gave a man and id only in underclothing a terrible beating, (Turn to Page 11) ATTACK SURVIVED BV IS. HARDING Rallies and Gains Strength, Physician Says, ftv l nitn! Pres* MARION. Ohio, Nov. 18. —Mrs. Warren O. Harding has survived another serious heart attack and now seems to be a little stronger. I)r. Carl W Sawyer said today. “Mrs, Harding's condition remained unchanged during the night, 1 Dr. Sawyer said. “Early today her puise became very weak and her respiration shallow. She is now rallying from this and seems to be a little stronger.” LOWDEN HURT ON TRAIN Fortner Governor of Illinois Suffers Sprained Ankle. rtv I niteil Prr** SAVANNAH. Ga., Nov. 18. —ExGovernor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois was jolted from his seat and suffered a sprained ankle when a Central of Georgia passenger train made a sudden stop near here earlv today. Lowden was en route to Savannah for the annual convention of the United Daughters of the Confed-q-acy. The former Governor, walking on crutches, said at noon he would fulfill his speaking engagement.

He also waxed wrothy over the action of the convention in asking members to boycott Rudolph Valentino films until the Viandsome one submitted to an operation for removal of the beard he recently acquired in Europe. “Better let that stuff alone. Why advertise whiskers by fighting them,” he demanded. “You can’t settle the whisker question by resolution.” The convention a lot

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COLUMBUS PASTOR GRILLED AFTER CHARRED BODY OF WIFE IS FOUND IN FURNACE Rev. R. V. Sheatsley Is Released After Investigation—Fashionable District Is Shocked by Discovery—Husband Declares It Was Suicide. PROSECUTOR SCOUTS THEORY ADVANCED BY MINISTER Believes Mrs. Sheatsley Could Not Have Been Crowded in on Bed of Coals —Son First to Notice Smell of Burning Flesh. fly United Prr** < <>LI Mill's. Ohio. Nov. IS.—lnsisting he is as much baffled by the mystery of his wife's death as are the police, Rev. R. Y. Sheatsley. pastor of the Lutheran Church in the fashionable Bexley residential section, was dismised temporarily today after a severe grilling by County Prosecutor John K. King. The charred body of his wife was found Monday night flu the furnace of the parsonage. Rev. Sheatsley told authorities he discovered his wife’s remains after noticing an odor of burning flesh in the house. She must have committed suicide,” the pastor said in reporting to police headquarters.

The death of Mrs. Sheatsley : shocked the exclusive residential district of Bexley where her husband Us pastor of its leading church. Coroner Murphy wanted to issue :a verdict of suicide and let it go at | that, but Prosecutor King insisted Uhe whole thing be opened up and made the subject of a thorough ln- ; vestigation. “It is ridiculous that Mrs. Sheatsley could have crawled in on that glowing bed of coals and pulled the ; door shut behind her.” King said. Pastor Teils Story Questioned at police station the 1 Rev. Sheatsley told the same story • he had told the coroner earlier in ; the day. He arrived home Monday night after calling on members of his eon- ; gregation and found his older son, Milton, a student at Capital University, investigating tile odor of burning flesh. The hoy said lie had looked in the ■ furnace several times before his father came home, hut that hr ; thought the odor came from some rabbit skit s which he had burned. It was the pastor who discovered his wife's charred remains and reported to police. Only a few bones and pieces of jewelry remained. The hones were in such n burnt condition that it was 1 impossible for the coroner to detcr--1 mine whether the body had been i hacked to pieces before the eretnaj tion began. j No one was at the parsonage dur- : ing the afternoon. The children ; were at school and the pastor was out making calls. The Rev. Mr. j Sheatsley said he had intended goj ing hunting but stayed at home un- : til about 1:30 p. m. because his wife | appeared to he extremely nervous i and he didn’t like to leave her. I The Rev. Sheatsley was not j nervous during the questioning save when the prosecutor appeared to he asking leading questions. At these times lie moved uneasily in his chair. Asked whether he and his wife had been happy together, he replied, i "yes, yes. of course, of course.” No Sign of Struggle The parsonage bore no evidence of struggle, authorities said. King then called E. E Rrideweser. | a student at Capital University, who said he had called at the parsanoge Monday morning with some Sunday school papers which he wanted to submit to Rev. Sheatsley. “It was about the middle of the morning when I went to Sheatsley's house.” Brideweser said. “I knocked at the front door and nobody answered." "Are you certain that nobody wan at home?’ King asked. “ Can’t say for sure. 1 knocked as hard as I could and kept on knocking, but I couldn't raise anybody.” “Then did you give It up and go away?” "Yes, T left then, hut as I was go(Tttm to Page 11)

of time worrying about hob-haired love bandits invading the sanctity of the shops and vamping a lot of more or less innocent chirotonsors. “You can’t change human nature.” the barb—-chirotonsor —phi losophized. "If you are going to be vamped you are going to be vamped, and it might as well be in a barber shop as in an automobile, picture show, porch swing or anywhere else.”

Forecast FAIR tonight and Wednesday. Rising temperature Wednesday. Lowest tonight about 30.

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CHILD LABOR LAW DEFENDED BEFORE MK LEAGUE Investigator Scorns Charges of Opposition to Amendment, Refuting arguments of the opposition. namely the National Manufacturers Association, to the amendment to the child labor law, by information gathered by personal contact and information. Edward AY. Macy of the national child labor committee presented the amendment without bias today at a luncheon of the League of Women Voters at the Spink-Arms. i The text of the child labor amendment. Macev said, gives Congress ! the power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 1 $ years of age and does not impair tiic authority of any State except where State laws conflict. Ratification will raise the standards of child labor. Failure to ratify, he said, would result oppositely and lower child welfare in general. Macey addressed American Legion 1 adjutants in session here Monday. FORD PICKS TWENTY-ONE , Selects Names of World’s Greatest Inventors and Scientists. Bv United Pres* DETROIT. Mich., Nov. 18.—Henry ! Ford has selected names of twentyI one men whom he considers the | world's greatest inventors, scientists and philosphers. which will be engraved on the facade of the new Ford executive office building at jDearborn. Topping the list are Luther Burbank. Thomas A. Edison and John Burroughs. Others are Darwin, Ampere, Devinci, Franklin, Fulton, Whitney, Beil. Marconi, Wright, j Kirby, Diezel. Faraday. Curre. Otto, Newton, Dunlop, Pasteur and Gallieo. HUNTER FATALLY SHOT Farmers Fire at Rabbit Same Time —One Instantly Killed. Bv I'nited Pres* LA PORTE. Ind., Nov. 18.—The first hunting fatality in this vicinity this season occurred late Monday afternoon when Walter Goor. 24, a farmer, was accidentally shot and i killed by a neighbor, William : Thomas. The two men were hunting rabbits and both fired at the same time. The charge from Thomas' gun struck Goor in the breast, killing him instantly. Do You Remember— When Sellers Bros, had a tin shop and a rag and old iron yard at the northwest corner *of Illinois and North Sts. T