Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1927 — Page 13

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GERMANS TO PAY LUSITANIA DEATHCLAIMS Awards of $2,500,000 Will Be Made as Result of Ship Sinking. HEIRS TO GET MONEY Elbert Hubbard Relatives to Receive $57,000, Biggest Is $140,000. BY ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Buried deep in the gigantic $180,000,000 war claims bill now before Congress are awards for approximately $2,500,000 to be paid by the German government for the sinking of the Lusitania, torpedoed off the Irish coast on May 7, 1015, with a loss of 128 American lives. More than twelve years after a German submarine sent the big liner to the bottom, American heirs and survivors are due to collect death and personal injury claims. They may get their money in ninety days. The German government admitted liability for the loss of life and injury, in the treaty of Berlin. The Mixed Claims Commission —composed of one American, one German and a neutral umpire—heard these claims, as they did thousands of others, and made the awards. The Germans are paying, under the Dawes plan annuities, but as ali this money will be seventy-five years in coming, Congress is preparing to advance the money for payment of death and injury claims now and collect from Germany in due time. Hubbard Award Prominent among the hundred Lusitania awards is one for $57,500 made to tne heirs of Elbert Hubbard and his wife, who both drowned. Elbert Hubbard 11. now following in th* footsteps of his literary father, is to get $25,000. A daughter. Katherine Hubbard, also by his first wife, is to get $7,500. Miriam Hubbard, a daughter by his second wife, is to get $25,000. The commission’s measure of award in all cases was not the wealth of the decedent, but what the heirs had jost by his demise. For instance, the estate of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who went down on the Lusitania, put in a claim for $250,000 and was allowed nothing. Vanderbilt left $15,594,000 which went to his widow <now Mrs. Ray T. Baker) and their two children. The commission held that since it had been shown that Vanderbilt had not been adding to his estate during his lifetime, the heirs suffered no financial loss by his demise. The record showed, incidentally, that Vanderbilt spent $300,000 a year on himself and his family.

Frohman Heirs Get Nothin? A somewhat similar ruling was made in the case of Charles Frohman, the famous theatrical producer. Frohman was unmarried. The claim filed by his aged sisters was denied, on the ground that his stock holdings in the Famous PlayersLasky Corporation had increased to spch extent that relief was not needed. The sum of $50,000 is to be paid to the children of Charles Klein, another famous theatrical producer, who went down with the ship. His widow gets nothing, as she was a British, subject and has since married a British citizen. A unique case is that of Albert L. Hopkins, 47, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, also drowned. Hopkins had a salary of $25,000 a year—and, according to the record, never has saved a dime, “spending all his income on his family because of business and social connections. ’ The commission held that this was an investment by Hopkins to improve himself toward a bigger income. Consequently, it awarded his widow $50,000 and his daughter Mary—7 years old on the day the Lusitania went down —$80,000. $140,000 Biggest Award The biggest award in all the Lusitania cases is $140,000 to the widow and children of Albert C. Bilicke, 49, a Los Angeles realtor. The record showed that Bilicke went to Los Angeles in 1891 with $16,000. By profitable real estate investments, he increased this to $2,706,000 by 1914. Thus, it was demonstrated that he was a man of very great earning capacity, hence the award of $50,000 to his widow and $30,000 to each three children. The Lusitania claims are among the 12,425 filed with the commission, for which $180,000,000 in awards have been made. Three hundred eighty-four awards, representing $4,091,066, arose out of death and personal injury, about a fourth of these being due to the Lusitania’s sinking. The rest of the awards have been for American property loss and damage in the war zone and on the high seas, for American marine incompanies who lost through the depreciations of submarines, etc. SHOPPING TRIP FATAL Mother Returns After Buying Toys to Find Two Boys Killed. Ifo United Press GARDNER, Mass., Dec. 21.—Returning from a shopping trip for Christmas toys for her three sons, Mra. Anna Bogdanowitz found one dead and another dying after a shotgun In the hands of the third boy had been accidentally discharged.

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HOLLYWOOD—‘BOOB’

Syracuse Beauty Is ‘Danish Star’

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Sonia Karlov . . . she fooled Hollywood.

Bu yEA Service HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 21.—Hollywood was fooled. And oh, how Hollywood hates to be fooled—especially by a little 19-year-old girl. Beautiful blond Jean Williams came here fishing for a movie contract. And blase Hollywood swallowed not only her bait—but hook, line and sinker as well. • Jean Williams won a bathing beauty contest in Syracuse, N. Y. Then she went to New York City, where she got a job in Flo Ziegfeld’s Follies. Six months ago she came to Hollywood but the movie town didn't give her a tumble at all. So she went away—and came back again as Sonia Karlov, Danish actress.

Hollywood bowed at the feet of Sonia Karlov. She fras society’s toast. She was invited everywhere. Handsome leading men, directors and producers were taken in by her charm and quaint “Danish accent.” tu • * SONIA was a great actress and she was smart. Her first move was to engage a “high-powered press agent,” whom she fooled into believing that she actually was a great foreign actress. Newspaper writers clamored around the beautiful, fiery creature seeking interviews. And even they —“hard boiled” and wise to such stunts—were taken in. The daily papers were filled with stories of Sonia Karlov. Producers who wouldn’t even see her when she was Jean Williams were bidding for her services. m m m ONE day Sonia was invited to be the guest of honor at a newspaper luncheon. That was her Waterloo. One of the men present, a former New York reporter, recognized her as Jean Williams of the Follies. The writer didn’t call her bluff, but all during the luncheon he continued to make “cracks” that showed her immmediately she had been recognized. Sonia stood up under his barrage beautifully—she never even batted an eye. The next morning Sonia Karlov appeared in the office of Cecil B. DeMille, who just had given her a contract. She was as foreign and intriguing as ever. But she confessed her bluff tc DeMille, who also had been captured by her radiant charm. She told the producer her whole story and begged him not to tear up her contract, to give her a trial. am*' THAT’S all right, replied DeMille. “You fooled my staff and you fooled me. You even put one over on all Hollywood. If you're a good enough actress to do that you are good enough for my pictures.” , So Sonia Karlov still has a job —and she’s dropped the name of Jean Williams forever. Hollywood thought it smart—but it isn’t. Inexperienced, beautiful Sonia Karlov came here with nothing but a world of courage and made all Cellulcidia believe every word she spoke with her acquired accent. Building Official Chosen Bu Times Special ELKHART, Ind., Dec. 21.—George D. Wuerfel, at present building inspector of Toledo, Ohio, has been chosen for building commissioner here under the recently adopted city code, Mayor D. M. Hoover announces.

THE OLD-FASHIONED WINTER IS THE KIND WE HAVE NOW, FORECASTER SAYS

The “old-fashioned winter” is all the bunk! That’s the jolt that J. H. Armington, metorologist in the United States Weather Bureau office here, hands to reminiscent souls who delight in arguing that “these h’yre winters ain’t what they used to be.” “There’s not a scintilla of evidence in weather bureau records here or anywhere in the country to support the contention that winters are less severe than they were fifty years ago,” says. Armington. “And still every one likes to argue with me that winters now are more mild than they were thirty, forty, or fifty years ago. They believe it, of course, and • i

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NO. BEER’S NOT ’NAUGHT?’ BOOK Obscene Literature Warrant Used in Booze Raic,. Beer, no matter what reviling names the Anti-Saloon League calks it, is not obscene literature, Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins ruled in effect this afternoon. Therefore the Judge ruled out evidence of officers that they found two bottles of beer in the ice box of Jerry Vivolo, 2631 W. Walnut St., when they raided his house Sept. 20. The officers had a warrant to search the house for obscene literature. Vivola was found guilty in municipal court of operating a blind tiger and fined SIOO and sentenced to thirty days. He appealed to Criminal Court. “No evidence obtained under a search warrant for something else is admissible,” Collins declared. “It is the duty of officers after serving such a warrant to take all articles found before the judge from whom the warrant was obtained and allow him to pass Judgment and order destruction if there is any contraband.” But because two other police testified Vivolo had sold them beer previous to the raid, Collins withheld judgment until Dec. 27. Vivolo pleaded he is suffering from tuberculosis.

REED BQOM PUSHED BY MANY FRIENDS

Bu United Brest WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Missouri friends of Senator James A. Reed definitely have put him in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. “While it Is perfectly true that he is not seeking the nomination, ’• said Samuel W. Fordyce, St. Louis, Missouri State Democratic chairman, “I wish to state most emphatically that his friends are seeking it for him and that he is cognizant of the fact.” Fordyce also said that Reed will not under any circumstances run for re-election to the Senate next year.

“What other Democrat surely can

will argue that way Til the cows come home. “They say,—'Well, I remember whefi .... “Our records here go back to 1871, when the office was established in Indianapolis—and so we have records which go back as far as most of our contemporary memories around here. And the records don’t support the widely prevalent claims that snows were deeper and, temperatures lower, on the average a few decades ago than now. a a a “TNCIDENTALLY, our records A show that the lowest average temperateure for three months covering December, January, and February, in Indianapolis, occurred at the recent date of 1917-1P 1 8, and was 23.1 degrees.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1927

MEXICO BRIBE PAPER FORGED, WITNESS SAYS Hearst Sleuth tainted as Dealer in Counterfeit % State Documents. EX-REPORTER ON STAND Tells Senate Probers How Spurious Letters Were Offered for Sale. Y LEO R. SACK WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Miguel Avila, 50-a-week detective for the Hearnt newspapers, who produced the documents alleging that the Mexican government had paid sl,215,000 to four United States Senators for their influence, was pictured Tuesday afternoon to the' Senate committee investigating the charges, as a trader in spurious documents, by Robert H. Murray, New York representative for the Bank of Mexico. Murray, fdr seven years the Mexico City correspondent of the New York World, testified under oath that Avila had tried to sell to Murray a document which he later told Murray was a forgery, in which it was alleged that Murray was to en- - gage in propaganda work in the United States for the Mexican government. Avila later agreed, according to Murray, to sign an affidavit to this effect and corrected the document, but because Murray did not lend him S3OO, he did not sign the paper. State Department Informed

Murray informed the State Department at the time of the forgery, he said, and filed with the committee a copy of his letter to the department. Murray testified that when he returned to Mexico Feb. 7, 1927, he saw a copy of a document which purported to be a copy of a New Year’s letter from President Calles of Mexico to the twenty-eight State Governors. The letter after the usual felicitations and observations concerning economic conditions, discussed Mexico’s international relations. This discussion included a severe attack on then American Ambassador Sheffield. Spurious Letter Traced “1 was surprised that President Calles would make such an attack on a friendly ambassador,” Murray testified. “It seemed such a baa presedent for the head of a nation to put In black and white such thoughts for general circulation. “I checked up and found it to be false. Calles had not writteh such a letter, nor did he even write a New Year’s letter, while the attack on Sheffield was a fabrication.” Murray said he got the letter from Arthur Constantine, World correspondent in Mexico City, who haa got it fram Avila. “Who is Avila?” Senator Johnson of California inquired. “He is a sort of sleuth, a gumshoe man. He was then employed it the American embassy. I was told he claimed he could get anything from the files of the Mexican government which he wanted. This document had been sold to the American embassy, I was told.” Murray said his own investigation ot the document Avila offered to sell, which contained his name, proved It to be false, because: “First, it was a clumsy forgery; second, all statements contained therein are wholly false; third, I had never been employed by the Mexican government for propaganda purposes; and fourth, I had never engaged in activities alleged in the document.”

carry Missouri, as well as the solid South, in 1928? Do they realize that Roosevelt, Harding and Coolidge all carried Missouri?” he asked. “What other Democrat has as good a chance to carry the ‘doubtful’ States of West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Oklahoma and Kansas? “What other Democrat appeals so strongly to the States between the Pacific and the Great Lakes?” Norman E. Mack, Buffalo publisher and member of the Democratic national committee, declared in a statement that Smith’s strength in New York makes him the best candidate.

“And the highest average for the three midwinter months occurred back in 1890, when the mark was 40.8 degrees. “In searching about the reasons for the prevalent belief that winters have become less severe, I’v come to the conclusion that several factors enter into it. “In the first place, passing years have dimmed our memory of the easy winters that fell between the severe ones in our childhood, and looking back was remembered only by bad ones. “Looking down a railroad track, the telegraph poles in the distance seem to touch one another. Looking back over thirty or forty years, the severe winters seem continuous, too, in the same manner.

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TROOPS REMAIN UNTIL SPRING No. 3 Head—See Fuzzlc No Winter Changes at Fort, Robinson, Updike Say. Senator Arthur R. Robinson and Representative Ralph E. Updike have obtained definite assurance that no troops will be moved from Ft. Benjamin Harrison this winter, according to a Times dispatch from Washington today. The assurance was given by Major General C. P. Summerall, Army chief of staff. The War Department had contemplated moving a battalion of infantry and a tank corps platoon to Camp Knox, Ky., because of the bad condition of their barracks at Ft. Harrison. Fearing this would be the beginning of the abandonment of the fort here, the Optimists and Exchange Clubs sponsored a movement to fight for retention of the troops at Ft. Harrison. A mass iheeting several weeks ago was attended by several hundred, persons, who protested the proposed removal. A committee which had made an extensive investigation reported it would cost more to put Camp Knox barracks in habitable condition than it would to rehabilitate the barracks here. Robinson and Updike announced they would endeavor to have the $300,000 expected to be authorized by Congress for permanent improvement of the Indiana post made available July 1. Temporary repairs will be made soon, It was said.

MARQUETTE SERVICES ARE SET FOR FRIDAY Veteran City Coal Dealer Had Gone to Florida for Health. Funeral services will be held Friday at t2:30 p. m. at Irvington M. E. Church for Harry Marquette, 57, for many years a coal salesman here, who died Monday at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The Rev. J. B. Rosemurgy will conduct the services. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Mr. Marquette went to Florida in September for his health, accompanied by Mrs. Marquette and his youngest son, Joseph. Their local residence was at 4749 E. Washington St. Mr. Marquette was a member of the Irvington M. E. Church and Center Lodge No. 23, F. and A. M. At one time he was a Shrine chanter and director of music at the North Park Christian, Woodruff Place Baptist and Garfield M. E. Churches, Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Marquette; two sons, Joseph and Arthur of Chicago, and a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Newman of Evansville. City of Ft. Wayne Sued Bu Times S serial FT. WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 21.—The city of Ft. Wayne is defendant in a patent infringement suit filed in Federal Court here by the Electric Bleaching Gas Company and the Wallace & Tieran Company, both of New York. The companies allege the city is purifying water by a process on which they have fuii patent rights.

< * ROWN men and women wilt talk about snows which ‘came up to their waist’ or drifted ‘high as their heads,’ but fail to recall their waist then, or their heads maybe were no higher than their kqees are today! “Houses are built warmer today. Heating plants are better. Coal has come into universal use and youngsters don’t have to wade out thruogh the snow to fill up a kindling'box. Those trips made indelible impressions on the memories of youngsters a generation ago, you must remember. "Roads then were dirt or gravel. Cut by wagon wheels, they held the snow. Now the wind blows, pavements clean. The old-time rail fences served to catch and hold the drifts, often extending

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(Above)—Tap by tap came first word to a waiting world from the living members of the sunken S-4’s crew of forty; “There are six (of us). Please hurry.” “Is the gas bad?” “No, but the air is.” How a naval diver hammered out his Morse code signals on the submarine’s hull 100 feet below the surface of Provincetown harbor and received his heartening response from the men trapped within is graphically envisioned here by George Clark, NEA Service and Indianapolis Times artist. (Below)—Denizen of the deep is Thomas Eadie, among the first of the Navy’s crack divers rushed to help in the S-4 rescue work at Provincetown, Mass. Eadie, here pictured getting into his underwater equipment, reported that he had received response from the trapped men to signals he hammered on the sunken sub’s hull.

POLICE COVER MANY MILES TO GET ’EM

You’ve read stories about how the brave Canadian mounted policeman trecked a couple of thousand miles “to get his man” . He’s not in it, compared with Indianapolis policemen. For just a small portion of the Indianapolis police force has traveled more than 300,000 miles to get their “men”— to be exact, 323,602 miles, a distance equal to nearly thirteen times around old Mother Earth this year. In the last nine months the thirty police department automobiles have traveled that distance, since the thirty new Buicks, Chevrolets and Stutzes were bought for police, Lieut. Eugene Eldridge, in charge of the police garage, has kept an accurate check of how far each car traveled on police business. This, of course, does not include the many weary miles afoot which the numerous unfortunates not provided with machines by council and the taxpayers trudged. Nor the many thousands of miles the police motorcycles journeyed.

One of the ironies of Lieutenant Eldridge’s figures is that the two machines assigned to detectives who

from fence to fence across the roadway. Try to find a rail fence now. “Years ago a lone buggy, or sleigh, made its way over snowcovered highways. Today a thousand automobiles whisk by, breaking the snow and sending it off the road in swirling clouds. “These are some of the contrasts which lead folks nowadays to think the winters are more mild. man “IJUT here’s the most conclusive proof that this generation hasn’t discovered somethings new in this respect,” and Armington drew from his desk a typewritten card which he uses to silence uie “old-fashioned winter” champions. It is a commentary of Thomas

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trace stolen automobiles have traveled 22,300 and 18,250 miles. The two machines used by the squads which cruise in search of gambling, boose and other vice have journeyed a total of 42,500 miles. Sergeant Frank Owen of the accident prevention bureau has ridden 7,734 miles, much of that distance to lecture to school children on safety. The new stutz emergency machine has ripped off some 3,885 miles at high speed in seatch of bandits. One of the two new luxurious police patrols has covered 2.784 miles, taking prisoners to jail, in the last three months. The other has journeyed 2,435 miles in a little more than two months. Walts In Governor Race Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 21.—Frank C. Ball, local manufacturer, says “It is too early for me to decide,” in commenting on repeated requests by Indiana members of Congress that he become a Republican candidate for Governor. "I have told them all t am not a candidate. I am not seeking the office, anyway.”

Jefferson, written in 1781 ana first published six years late. Said Jefferson, much in the same manner as the sage of 1927: “A change in our climate, however, is raking place very rensibly. Both neats and coles are becoming much more moderate, within the memory even of the middle-aged. Snows are less frequent and less deep. They do not often lie, below the mountains, more than one, two or three days, and very rarely a week. “They are remembered to have been formerly frequent, deep and of long continuance. The elderly inform me that the earth used to be covered with snow about three months in every year.” “There,” says Armington, “the delusion is no new one!”

MOTHER IS IN AIR AGAIN, ON WAYTOLINDY Reaches Dallas From Tulsa, Then Takes Off for San Antonio. MEXICO PLANS HONOR American Aviator May Be Made Honorary Citizen of Republic. Bu United Press DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 21.—The Ford monoplane carrying Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh from Detroit to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her son. Col Charles Lindbergh, refueled at Love Field here and left for the border at 11 a. m. A short stop was to be made at San Antonio, Harry Brooks, pilot of the huge plane* said. The party expected to spend the night in Bronswville, Texas and proceed to Mexico City tomorrow. The monoplane landed on the snow-covered field here at 10:15 a. m. Brooks spotted an uneventful trip from Tulsa, which they left at 7:45. Mrs. Lindbergh arose this morning in high spirits. She said she had been relieved considerably of the pain from an infected tooth and expected to enjoy the flight to Mexico and warmer weather. The mother of Qol. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in Tulsa from St. Louis shortly after 5 p. m. yesterday. The party, which, besides Mrs. Lindbergh, includes W. B. Stout—designer of their all-metal Ford monoplane—and his wife; A. L. La Jose, Ford representative in Mexico; Pilot Harry Brooks, and H. A. Russell, mechanic, left Detroit Monday. Their departure from St. Louis yesterday was delayed several hours because of stripped starter gears. Mexico Will Honor Lindy BY G. F. FINE • United rrtsi Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, Dec. 21.—While Col. Charles A. Lindbergh awaited the arrival of his mother on her Christmas visit, the Chamber of Deputies was trying today to find means of making him an honorary citizen of Mexico—the highest possible honor they could accord him. Senor Ricardo Topete, majority leader in the Chamber, announced that effort was being made to find authority under existing laws to make the good-will aerial ambassador a citizen. Parliamentarians were uncertain, he said, regarding the course to follow. But they hoped to find a way similar to that by which the Unitea States made descendants of General Lafayette American citizens, Hope for Signal Tribute “We hope that in this way we can show a signal honor to Lindbergh—higher than that bestowed on him by any other country,” said Senor Topete. * Members of the chamber have not told Lindbergh of the honor they plan to accord him. They intend to say nothing to him until they have found a way to make him a citizen or have obtained the opinion of authoritative legal experts on how they can do it. It is hoped that the honor can be conferred on him at a ceremonial joint session of parliament before his departure next week for his Central American tour. Few Engagements Ahead Lindbergh’s program has been cleared for his mother’s visit. Only a few engagements were ahead of him. He was to visit the ministry of communication in the morning and to attend a banquet by the National Chamber of Commerce tonight Lindbergh planned to fly from Valbuena flying field part of the way to Tampico to meet his mother's plane and escort it to the Mexican capital. He intended to fly the Spirit of St. Louis, &hich carried him on his flights from New York to Paris and from Washington to Mexico City.

BUS DRIVER IS HELD UP $27 Taken by Midnight Passenger on Emerson Ave. Line. Homer Shaw, 31, of 239 S. State Ave., Peoples Motor Coach Company bus driver, reported to police that he was held up and robbed of $27 by a lone passenger at Emerson Ave. and New York St., Tuesday midnight. The bandit left the bus at Pleasant Run and was picked up by two accomplices in a sedan, Shaw said. CUTS ICE FOR PLUNGE Wisconsin University Youth Insists on Lake Swim Daily. Bu United Press MADISON, Wis., Dec. 21.—Ice covering Lake Mendota didn’t prevent Theodore Case, junior at the University of Wisconsin, from taking his daily plunge. He walked 100 feet off shore, cut a hole through the ice and jumped in. After a few minutes, he walked back to the University Y. M. C. A. and finished his bath with a cold shower. No wagers were involved. Loans Tapestry to Club Bu Times fivecial LEBANON, Ind.. De’c. 21.—An Aubusson tapestry loaned by Henry C. Ulen has been hung in the lounge of the Ulen Country Club here. The tapestry was bought by Mr. Ulen at the Bon Marche, largest store In Paris, France. It was made eighty years ago.