Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 166, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1924 — Page 1

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mAMES GAETHERUN was a mine boss at Jasonville, Greene County. The night of Sept. 13, 1021. he was taken by a mob, maltreated and run out of town. The civil authorities remained supine during the outrage. This week his suit for $50,000 damages against the participants is before Judge Anderson in Federal Court. Probably if the money equivalent of the time, worry, and litigation, this affair has cost the participants, had been tendered the victim before episode he would have left town gladly. More quickly than he responded to brute force. And would have testified to his appreciation by a fountain or other suitable memorial for the town's public square. Eut reason must be coaxed to perform. While tempers lie much closer to the surface. There is, in people, a destructive instinct gratified by an explosion—whether the burst of passion or a fire cracker. So mobs are easily formed. However, they signally fail to right wrongs. Because their objectives are always lost to sight in the flames of fury. After these fires die their only permanent achievement is the smudge on the fabric of civilization. Pull T~T| RICKMAN HUDyI GINS halted a speeder —.— other night, but released hi n when the man claimed friendship with the chief and the president of the board of safety. He thought th*man had a “puli.” “Tell the next speeder who tells you that tale that he is no friend of mine or he wouldn’t speed.” admonished the chief. And Tuesday the man was ordered rearrested for the ordinance violation. Which is the usual fate of one who would evade punishment or secure advantage by pull. In the old corrupt days, when municipalities were administered for the benefit of the few. venality of police forces was common. Pull nnd the cash register drew civic virtue all out of shape. But now pull is a mighty uncer tain factor in accomplishing a purpose, either in the law-breaking line or in private affairs. The same enf-rery and initiative exerted in grimy push moves the world much farther than a beautiful but fragile pull. Mystery i "IN unknown cue expert exA hibited lbs prowess at a •* *| local billiard parlor this week. He is the “Masked Marvel.” For he cloaks his Identity in anonymity and his features in a black mask. He is an attraction. Not because of his adroitness in making the ivory balls behave. But because of h’’s mask and hokum to preserve his incognito inviolate. Mystery Is the thing. It whets appetites. And people feed on it. In drama, literature and daily existence. Surround naked truth with an impenetrable veil of romantic secrecy —and people break down doors to court him. He is a sensation. The unknown is the lure. If folks knew whence they came, whither they are bound, and why, mankind might just as well jump in the lake. For life is the courted mysterious stranger. Poison 1 . I LML’S FIELDS of N. La I Salle St., received threatenI I ing letters of the home disupiing breed for two months. But .nored them. The other day. according to his • ife, a ft range woman visited the "use and demanded—with a gun—eturn of the communications. And ousted she was determined to retk up as many homes as pesjble. The occurrence was reported. And mother malevolent scribe is sought. Writing scurrilous letters —blastig reputations and wrecking hapuiness—is a perennial industry. Vnd their receipt a common annoymce. Without much redress. There is little satisfaction in knock mg an offensive letter down, kicking it and calling it a liar. So vindictive people will pen screeds that will singe the hide of a rhinoceros, sign them ”A Friend.” And send them on their way to stab in the back. And ever since the moving finger wrote at Belshazzar's feast, unsigned epistles have spelled disaster and unhappiness to their recipients. The old adage lauding the potency of the pen is true. For in it there is joy and sorrow, happiness and pain, laughter and tears—and poison.

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SERIN LURED WIFE 10 DEATH, MINISTER SAYS Mrs, Sheatsley, Stirred by Description of Heaven, Crept Into Furnace, Husband Believes, DETECTIVE CONVINCED Pastor Cites Religious Fanaticism of Hindus to Support Theory, Bn T'nited Press COLL’MBL’S, Ohio, Nov. 20.—Insensible to pain because of a strange religious fanaticism which had unbalance i her mind and lured ; 1 ward self-destruction by h<-r husband's eloquent description of Heaven, Mrs. Addle Sheatsley crept in upon the red-hot coals of th* Lutheran parsonage furnace and burned to death. This, according to her husband, rhe Rev. C. V. Sheatsley. is the solution of the now famous furnace mystery which came into being last Monday night v. hen the pastor found his wife’s remains smoldering in the furnace fire box. From his experience as a mis- j sionary in India, where it is the ' custom of Hindu women to cast. ■ themselves upon the burning funer.,! I pyres of their husbands, the in*a:st%r believes it would nut have be-n physically impossible for his wife to enter the miniature .inferno. Detective Convinced Detective C. Cox, who has been working on the case, announced today he is convinced Mrs. Sheatsley committed suicide. “I am convinced Mrs. Sheatsley { crawled into the furnace feet first, holding to the edge of the clean out door below.” he said. “It is possible an insane person of a certain type may become so insensible to pain as to permit such a method of suicide as may have caused the death of Mrs. Sheatsley,” Dr. William 11. Pritchard, superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, said. Authorities accepted the minister's explanation “for what it may be worth in the light of future developments." John It. King, county prosecutor, left on an early train for Canton to question the furnace victim's aged mother. Discussing the case with the United Press, the Rev. Sheatsley told how his wife had been deeply impressed by the sermon lie preached last Sunday night on “Paradise Regained.” Before dawn the next morning, the day of 1-er death, Mrs. Sheatsley told her 14-year-old daughter. Elizabeth: “Your father will never preach a ‘>etter sermon than he did last night.” Described Heaven The sermon, the Rev. Sheatsley said, was largely a description of Heaven in which lie declared Heaven is - ihe Garden of Eden restored “through Jesus, the second Adam " The pastor and his four children today were in Paris. Ohio, where his wife's remains are being interred in the family burial plot. Meanwhile the State chemist was examining a segment of Mrs. 'Sheatsley's bones in an effort to dc ‘ermine whether she was breathing when her head went in over the slowing coals. islrdm GRAVE CONDITION Passes Into Semi-Coma, Physician’s Bulletin Says. By Lnile-i Press MARION. Ohio, Nov. 20.—Mrs. Warren G. Harding today has passed into a semi-coma and her physician entertains grave doubts that she will ever again completely regain consciousness. Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, in a bulletin issued at S:3o a. m. today, said: “Mrs. Harding was restless most of the night. “This morning she is in a semicoma condition. Her heart action is only fair. “She is very weak and exhausted." A telegram was received today from President and Mrs. Coolidge expressing “affectionate regards” and the hope that Mrs. Harding will recover. George B. Christian, the late President’s secretary, took the message into the sickroom and read it to Mrs. Harding. “Isn’t that nice?" Mrs. Harding said. It was one of the few times she had spoken in the last several days. HOI RLY TEMPER ATI RE 6 a. m 36 10 a. m.... -fl 7 a. tn 31 11 a. in 48 8 a. m ”8 12 (noon) .. ... r ,l 9 a. m 40 1 p. m 53

‘Speakeasy ing 111/ Iniied Priss ,--"t",KW YORK, Nov. 20. I IV I “There was no petting L 1 I party, we were just dis cussing plans for my opening a ‘speakeasy,’ ” declared beau tiful Audrey Maple, musical comedy star, whom Mrs. Pincus names in her divorce suit against Alexander Pincus. Mrs. Pincus said she found Miss Maple in negligee in her apartment entertaining Pincus.

CONSTABLE VICTIMIZED Overcoat. Revolver and Blackjack Stolen From Auto. J. F. Taylor. 93S E. Washington St., constable, would like to make a particular arrest today. Thieves took an overcoat, revolver and blackjack from h;s auto at 339 E. North Sk., Wednesday. HEINZ PAYS RESPECTS Plants Over World Honor Worker of 51 Years’ Service. By 7 iir.es .special PITTSBURGH. Nov. 2'V—A signal mark of respect was paid to Mrs. Agnes Dunn, who died of pneumonia Sunday after working fifty-one years for the M. J. Heinz Company. All plants of the Heinz Company in the United States. Canada and England were r!*>s-d Wednesday in memory of Mrs. Dunn. AND THE JUDGE SAID? "Sure, I No Lie,” Said Chinaman; “I Live 26 One Way St.” By Times Special BOSTON. Nov. 2". L*‘z Wing Sing, laun Iryrn :ri of course, knows exactly \\hre he lives. He proved it when he was called as t witness in Municipal Court Wednesday, “1 want you to tell me where you live, and I want the truth,” th* judge said to Lee. "Sine. I no lie.” answered the celestial. "I live 26 One Way St.” Thanksgiving Feast Is Likely liu T’Utrs Special I J f 20. -The t<,vv n my.st ■ LM solved. For a week, citi/’ iis have heard queer noises, strange flappings of ghost wings and have s< cn weird figures flitting about an unoccupied house. Wednesday night the police force, augmented by firemen, armed with guns and flashlights, went to the house. With fear and trepidation they tiptoed into the house. A strange white form flapped past them. “K nih-ee yak!” croaked a voice. It was a huge white rooster. W. E. ENGLISH IMPROVES State Senator Recovering From Attack of Influenza. Condition of State Senator William E. English, ill at his .*untry home at Knglishton Park, Scott County, is much improved, according to word from Airs. English today. English lias been suffering from influenza resulting from a cold acquired during th*- recent campaign, and. although recovering, he is extreme!;,' weak. Mrs. English said. Hi? daughter. Mr*. Rosalind I’arsons, is also at his bedside. MOB SUIT NEAR END Jury to Get Jasonville Miners’ Case Today. The $50,000 damage suit of James Gaetherun, ex-mine boss of near Jasonville, Ind.. against thirty-two alleged members of a mob, went to a Federal jury at noon,today. Gaetherun charges on Kept. 13, 1921, the mob drove H(il,< from home and threatened to kill him if he ever came hack because lie was of foreign birth. John Messier, T. I. Roberts and William Mitch, all of Terre Haute, Ind., president, vice president and secretary of the United Mine Workers District 11, were witnesses. WATER BILL GOING UP Increase Since I 111 9 Shown by (lie City Controller. Up goes the city’s water bill. Comparative figures from 1919 to 1524 show the city annually pays more for its water used for fire protection, parks and public buildings. Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, estimated the total bill this year at $360,000: in 1923 it was $252,000: m 1922, $240,374.24; in 1921. $262,903.16: in 1920, $165,687.63. and in 1919. 5167.279.84. FEET BURNED; SUES CITY Bn Times Vpedal ANDERSON. Ind., Nov. 20.—Because a lire was permitted to burn on the city streets, city of Anderson today, togethei with W. H. Staves, were defendants in a suit brought bv Raymond Bigham, 8, who asks SI,OOO because he stepped in the ashes of the fire aoid burned his feet. /

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, NOV. 20, 1924

BUG TERMINAL WORK STARTED ON MARKET SUE I Station and Business Building, Backed by Hiner and Frenzel, to Cost $200,000, READY IN 100 DAYS Shed Will Accommodate 40 Cars at One Time, Owners Say, Excavation for the $200,000 motor bus terminal, store and office building of the Union Bus Terminal Company, on the old H-tymaiket site at M ryland St. and Senate Ave., was begun today. James F. Frenzel, vice president -if the coni' my, s--n of Oscar Free: - •! of tie- Merchants \ itional Bank, said the terminal would he ■ •omploted within ninety or 100 days. W. B. I liner is president of the com panv. Fretiz*! announced that another corporation, controlled by Miner and himself, would cr.-ct a twelve-pump filling station building t* cost be twe, rt $25,000 and s3s.tiuo on the west end of the Haymarket property. Large Bum Shed The bus property will be built upon the east section of Hie hay market measuring P't feet in Mary- j laud St. and running south 163 feet, j The bus shed proper, ac oiumndat- j ing .about forty busses, will run from ! Kentucky Ave. to Senate Ave., joining the main building in the par. The west end of the bus shed thus will be part of the first floor of the building which fronts on Maryland St. The riled will be eighty feet wide. The main building, fronting on Maryland St., will be two stories high, so constructed us to permit ,f < i< tories. It will ho of brick. Storerooms will front on j Maryland St. on the tits: floor. Office rooms will He provided on the second floor. Th eteiniir.al waiting room in the main building will 1-e reached | through -i lobby from Maryland St. j Open to All Lines The Union company will sell priv- I 11* gc of using the terminal to all bus lines. Mi -T and Ur- nzel now operate one bus litm and plan two more. Th.> pr sent line runs from Indianapolis t*> Monon. Ind. Fridav blisses Will be started h*-t\\*■*-ri Ji ■ti.apolis and Richmond ,nd fatly ne,\t week the line will be ex‘*-nde 1 to Dayton, Ohio, Frenzel aid. Late next week they hope to start a line to Terre Haute. Tlie busses .are operated by the Hitler Re I Bail Lines. Inc. CHILD FATALLY SCALDED BY AUTO Second Victim of Crash Dies at Columbus, fill limes Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Nov. 20. Scalds received from boiling water from the radiator of a wrecked automobile proved fatal today to Robert Talkington, 3, second victim of an accident here Wednesday night when the machine driven by bis father, Edgar Talkington. collided with another ear. Mrs. Edgar Talkington, mother, was instantly killed. A babe sitting on lior lap was not scratched. The Talkington car smashed into a machine owned by Grover Pittman, a Brown County farmer, which had sta'led on the road for lack of gasoline. INCOME TAX FIGURES •I. I\. IJily Listed for $18,232 on Revenue Bureau Books. These income taxes, payable this year by three Indianapolis citizens, were found on internal revenue records today: J K. Lilly, 1-120 N. Meridian St., president of the Eli Lilly Company, $18,232.81, L. C. Iliiesmann, 210 S. Capitol Ave.. president and manager of the Central Supply Company. $11,341.78. Hugh McK. Landon, Woodstock Dr., vice president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, $2,034.71. Dean Coulter to Speak Prof. Stanley Coulter, dean of men at Purdue University, will speak to the Purdue Association of Indianapolis at the Severih at 6:30 tonight. Meeting la open to all Purdue men.

S UCCESS-LO VE? SHE MUST PICK w From Oklahoma, Lillian Foster Came and Conquered Broadway—Now Cupid Calls From the Oil Fields—Which Shall It Be?

It II V1.'.1 Sen-ice N 1- JEW YOKK, Nov. 20.—Broadway writes happy endings as surely as it writes tragedies. There is, for instance, Lillian Foster, of the flirtatiously squinty eyes, retrousse nose and naive smile.

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She b,d rnme from Oklahoma—Ponca City to be exact. T.ike one mill.on, eight hi.-i liv.l thousand nr more young girls from all the Main Str- cts , f America, she thought she was an actress. She came t*• Broadway and haunted the agencies. She took Jobs !n small st.-ck companies She was told her work was pretty bad. Then she traveled the '‘corn belt' —Kansas, Missouri, Indiana. 11l and Discouraged 111 from a touch <>f fin and quite discouraged, she went back to Oklahom.i. She wasn't through yet. She was just resting. And there she met “the man.” Now Bert Scarborough was from New York and had left there witli s.".* He didn't think much of Broadway, but had a lot of faith in oil wells. y<>u've gu> -d it—they fell in love. But lie wanted her to leave the stage, to marry at once. No, she must “finish her career.” Aral back she came. It is recorded by the critics that tit 8 o'clock of a certain night not so long ago th* name of Lillian Foster was unknown and that at 11 o'clock the same night it was being spread front ear to car and banged out on a dozen critical typewriters. Lillian F> st* r had arrived! A play snapped up from one of the "arty” little theaters and shipped uptown had put iter name in the bright light*,. Now down in-Oklahoma, meanwhile, the young man from New York had foun t oil oozing out in ever-increasing quantities. He was fabulously rich. “Conic at once and we will be married,” he wired. A Broadway Dilemma And there she was again. Broadway was up to its tantalizing and ironic tricks! First she had waited ipdi! success should come, and now success had come she liked the taste of it. It was in this position on the see-saw that I found her. “Os course l love him.” she Insisted, and there was no belying the sincerity of her .yes. “And I Intend to marry him. if he is still of the sarin mind —some day. But what am I to do? I can't leave the stage now. After all, this is my first success." And, after a bit of a pout, she added: “Furthermore lie has gone much more ahead in his line than I have in mine. I really couldn't think of marrying him until I was on the same parallel of success. When I have tried two or three more parts and scenes—why then—” Tims Broadway writes its new-made love problems.

FIVE LOSE LIVES IN HOTEL BLAZE Flames Spread—Five Other Buildings Destroyed, Hn I’nited Press WILKESBARRE. Pa., Nov. 20. Five persons were burned to death and a dozen others seriously injured today when fire destroyed six buildings with a loss of approximately $150,000, at Plymouth, near here. The dead arc Mrs. Mary Sherako, 50, owner of a hotel in which the fire started; Emily Petroski, 11, and three unidentified men, whose charred bodies have been removed to a morgue. The fire was discovered at 1:45 a. m. in the hotel conducted by Mrs. Sherako. A deputy sheriff orga tiized a rescue squad and aided ha;f a dozen lodgers in the hotel to escape. SIR LEE STACK SERIOUS Condition of British Officer, Wounded in Cairo, Grave. Bn United Press CAIRO, Nov. 20.—Sir Lee Stack, governor-general of Soudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian army, passed a good night but his condition is considered very serious, it was an nounced today. Sirr received three wounds from assassins Wednesday.

ELLIOTT IS CONSULTANT To Render City Free Service on Street Lighting Problem*. John L. Elliott, former city engineer, lias been named consulting lighting engineer by the board of works, to assist the city in planning and installing the new cir.y lighting system. Elliott will receive $1 a year for his services. The new lighting contract was drafted by Elliott when he was city engineer, it becomes effective April 1, 1925. He refused a larger salary, saying he desired to render a civic service. H. F HARDIN IS GRANIN Odd Fellows Elect Marion Man, H. F. Hardin, Marion, wos elected grand warden of the grand lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, on the second ballot in eighty-eighth annual convention at Odd Fellow Bldg, today. Office leads to post of grand master by rotation. George E. Hershman. Crown Point, was elected grand trustee. F. L. Beliymer, Liberty, becomes grand master by rotation of officers. Adjurnment will follow election of officers.

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EIGHT UNMASKED BANDITS ESCAPE WITH 14,000 FROM BANK AT COURSE, IND. Four Stand Guard in Front of Institution While Other Four Enter and Order Officials and Customers on Floor. GANG COMPOSED OF YOUNG MEN WITH ELDERLY PERSON IN LEAD Posse Organized for Pursuit—Robbers Flee in Two Automobiles—Authorities of Surrounding Counties on Lookout. By Vnitcrl Press COXYEipSE, Ind., Nov. 20.—A gang of eight unmasked bandits swooped down on this town today, held up the Farmers State Bank and escaped with between $4,000 and $-3,000 in cash and securities. The bandits drove up in front of the hank shortly before noon in two automobiles. While four men stood guard in front oi. the bank the other four entered and forced three employes of the bank and two customers to lie on the floor while they rifled the cashier's cage.

A tall, elderly man. wearing a long overcoat, appeared to be the ringleader of the gang, according to bank officials. Other members of the gang were young men ranging from 18 to 21 years af age. All were unmasked. With a final threat to the bank employes and customers not to move from their places on the floor of the bank, the bandits backed out, entered their cars and fled. Posse Organized Authorities of Howard, Miami, Wabash and Grant Counties were immediately notified to he on the lookout for tiie bandit cars. A posse of citizens was organized here to take up tiie pursuit. Jos.-jib Rich, cashier, said the bandits fired several shots, one going through the windshield of a truck driven by D. C. Cook. Cook was driving down the street and was ordered to “get out of the way” as the bandits sped from in front of the bank. Rich said officers in the bank when tiie bandits entered were: Richard Green, president; H. G. Boyd, assistant easlier. Faye York, bookkeeper and himself. A customer, John M. Reeves was also in the bank. Ordered on Floor “Four of the men came in and pulled their guns and ordered us nil to lie down on the floor. Then the big man. older than the rest, ordered me to open up tiie safe,” Rich said. “They scooped up all the currency and some Liberty and gravel road bonds.” Rich said the men went east from Converse. “Four of the men remained on the outside of the bank and kept the motors of their cars running. As the men first came in one of them fired a shot from his revolver.” WOMAN ROBBED OF J 1,500 BROOCH Slugged by Bandits as She Awaited Car, George H. Bassett, 909 N. New Jersey St., reported to police today his wife had been struck on the head with a blackjack Tuesday midnight j while she was cranking her auto, i which had gone dead in Woodruff Place, and robbed of a $1,500 diamond brooch. Mrs. Bassett today stated slie and Mrs. P. W. Pinnell, 838 E. Tenth St., and Miss Vianna Felske of Kokomo, led., were driving in their car when the battery went dead. While the other women went for aid, Mrs Bassett said she got out and tried to crank it by hand. She j said she noticed another auto pass and then someone struck her. She did not regain consciousness until the other women returned. Junior Hibernians to Meet Boys juvenile division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will meet in Machinists Hall Friday at 8 p. m. Band and drill practice will precede the meeting.

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight, probably becoming unsettled Friday. Warmer tonight.

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jiAILBREAKER Os FOUR TEARS AGO SURRENDERS SELF Youth Tells D rosecutor Remy He 'Wants to Get Square With World,’ “I've come to give myself up'.” With these words Harry A. Hardacre, 25, Portland, Ore., surrendered j today in the office of Froseeutor Wilj liam H. Remy. j He had been a hunted man ever i since he “broke jail" here July 4, j 1920, in company with twenty other prisoners. Worse than haunting fear of police. however, was the incessant lash of conscience and a desire to “square himself with the world.” the youth told Remy. “My mother is getting old. so 1 wanted to straighten things up on her account,” he said. “I have visited her a week in a little southern Indiana town, and now’ I am ready to atone for what I did." “I had a good job as auto salesman in Portland, Ore., but I have gone through hel! these four years. I have had enough. That’s the reason I paid by own expenses back here.” Hardacre was indicted in May. 1920, on charges of robbing the grocery of Charles H. Brown, 130 S. Traub Ave., of S4B. He was 19, and held an honorable discharge from Ur-ited States Marine Corps. Emory E. Ayers and Lawrence Belis. 948 W. Thirty-First St., were In--1 dieted with him for the same of- ; sense. Ayers escaped from the city 1 prison, but was later given fifteen years in prison by a Federal judge in Kansas. Bells was acquitted because the State could not make a cast against him. Criminal Judge James A. Collins I turned him over to Sheriff George ! Snider, who put him in the jail from which he fled. MAYOR’S HOME GUARDED Shank Mansion Watched While Workmen Set Furnishings. Police are guarding Mayor Shank's new Golden Hill home while the mayor is in New York addressing National Association of Credit Men. At the mayor’s office it was explained officers were asked to be on guard while workmen were busy putting in the furnishings. PLAYWRIGHT IS STRICKEN Willard Mack Taken to Hospital Suffering From Pneumonia. Bn I'nited Press MOUNT VERNON. N. Y., Nov. 20. —Willard Mack, noted actor and playwright, w r as taken to a hospital today suffering from bronchial pneu-in-apia. His condition was said t* be'dangerous.