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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
ARMENIAN GIRL AWAITED
Adrienne Marzbanian, III in Gotham,
Due Here Soon.

Adrienne Marzbanian, Armenian
girl, who was detained at Ellis Island
until indianapolis people secured her
release through Senator New, is ex.
pected to arrive here Tuesday or
Wednesday to become a student in
the College of Missions.
Miss Marzbanian has been i'll in
New York, said Mrs. Sarkes Hagopian,
2S06 Washington Blvd, an aunt. A
$500 bond required by immigration Of
fcials has been forwarded by Sereph
Ashjian, local Armenian merchant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19

BIZ United Press
ESSEN, Feb. 19.-Fighting
between French soldiers and
German policemen in different
parts of the Ruhr was reported
today and the situation seemed
to be drifting toward guerrilla
war.
A German policeman shot and
wounded a French soldier ut GIensen-
kirchen. the latter returning the fire.
wounding the policeman.
Feeling through the occupied areas
became extremely bitter, this clash
coming a few hours after a French
officer was found dead, believed slain
by German policemen here. Several
other clashes between police and
troops were reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
PRESIDENT FIRM ON
NEWS APPOINTMENT
Wood Calls on Harding Opposing indiana Senator as
Cabinet Member but Conference Comes to Naught.

be postmaster general IS expected here
by tomorrow. according to the infor-
nation at the White House.
The Presidents closest friends in
sist he has determined upon the ap-
pointment and that nothing viii de-
ter him. Wood insisted he did not
oppose New because Of personal ami
mostly. lie said he voiced the op-
position of Republican leaders in In
diana He had been informed, he
said, that ten of thirteen members
of the Republican State committee
and IS per cent of the county chair
men We're opposed to News appoint
ment
Il have been represented as oppOs-
ing Harry New because of personal
reasons" he said 1T is not true"
Wood was asked why the Republ-
Iicans were opposed to New; he said
he had been informed that News fail
ure to assist Albert j. Beveridge in
the last campaign had aroused the
opposition. He said New was criti-
cised for sulking and permitting per
sonal animosity to control his course
in the campaign.
While the Wood fight on New has
ended here and without apparent re-
suits for Wood, the intimation here
is that an echo may develop soon
in Indiana Republican politics.
That a contest may develop to test
the strength Of the Republican State
chairman has been inferred. It is
recognized that such a test would
inevitably determine also whether
Senator James E. Watson was to
continue in control of the State COM
mittee or whether News friends We're
TO return to power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19

Records Show Highway Commission Breaks Promise Made
Last June-Buk of Material Goes to One Firm at
Low PriCeS-No Law on SaIe @'
oriCeS-No Law on Sale,

the records of the State highway commission
indicates the commission has not been keeping promies made last
put surplus material received from the Gov
ernment which could not be used work. the open
market
It revealed that time that nearly all the goods consists
conceivable article used in warfare being
sold NJ L. Goldberg dealers used goods later
that Goldberg still is receiving
the bulk of the goods prices apparently very low.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
KYNE DENOUNCES
MOTION PICTURES
Declares They Are by Dumb
bells and for DumbbeIIS.

BW JN{tCd prCHS
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 10
Motion pictures are built by dumb
bells to appeal to dumbbells," Peter
B. Kyne, author declared today in
farewell bombardment.
4 am leaving the fourth largest
industry in the United States to face
it's fate without any regrets, said the
1T is a misnomer to call motion
pictures an art--they are a cannery."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
SPEEDWAY HOLIDAY
LATEST PROPOSAL
Bill introduced to Give Mayor and Council Power to Set En-
pIOyed People Free for Race.

In anticipation Of the passage of
the bill prohibiting sporting events,
including the indianapolis Speedway
race, on Memorial day. bill was in
troduced in both the House and the
Senate today, to give the mayor and
city council Of indianapolis power to
designate legal holidays.
The theory is that a legal holiday
may be designated on which citizens
would be away from their work and
free to attend the Speedway.
The new bill was introduced in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
$1,000 BOND FORFEITED
Lawyer and Woman Fail to Appear
in Oil Case.

The $1,000 bond Of Daniel A Levy,
Philadelphia lawyer, under Indictment
in Federal Court on a charge of using
the mails to defraud. was defaulted by
Judge Anderso ntoday. Levy failed to
appear when his case was called. Mrs.
I. Keener of Philadelphia, a defand-
ant, also failed to appear. Fred c.
Minte, the third defendant. pleaded
guilty.
The three were charged with op-
Grating a fake oil company stock
selling scheme in Gary and Chicago
in 1919 and 1920.
Homerf Elliott. District Attorney,
said attempts to have the case dropped
had been made by persons of in
duence in. the East.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
Luck

a sprained ankle IS not con-
sidered bad luck by Charles Kin
ney, As, of 1912 Morgan st.
Kinney was at the top of a lad
der on the Illinois Central track
under the Belt Railroad bridge
work near White River, putting
up smoke boards"
The foot of the ladder was on
the track. \ switch engine came
along The ladder was broken
in two and Kinney dropped to
the side of the track If he had
fallen in another direction, he
N,o0ably would have been crushed
* pr the engine wheels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19

Senate by William Z. English and
Winfield Miller Of indianapolis, and
IN the House by Asa J. Smith of Indi-
annapolis Another bill providing that
Memorial day shall be the last Sunday
in May is pending in the Senate.
The Speedway bill is ready for third
reading in the House, where a test
vote indicated it would pass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
LOITERERS ARE 'GASSED'
County Engineer Yields FOrmaldee-
hyde at Courthouse.

Armed with a sprinkling can John
j. Griffith, county engineer. started
an exodus of weary citizens from the
basement of the courthouse today.
He sprinkled a solution of formalde-
hyde on the radiators ''in the cause of
sanitation and ventilation"
Tomorrow / am going to put a
couple of old rubber heels inside this
radiator if the formaldehyde doesn't
hold 'em," said Griffith.
Numerous clean-outs have in no
way interfered with the congestion
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
Worlds Oil King Likes to
Wander Alone in Early
Morning,
LIKES MUSIC OF ORGAN
Aged Millionaire Takes Daily
PummeIIing From Mas
S6Ur,
Bv JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIF
Copyright. 1923, NEA Service. Inc)

ORMOND BEACH, Feb. 10
~ For week | have been liv-
ing across the street from the
worlds richest man; walking
with him, brief strolls though
they were; talking with him,
though not officially interviewing
him; watching him as he played
golf; going to church and musi-
Gales, in his wake; getting a pic
ture, intimately, of his playtime
life.
So I found out many. things
about John d. Rockefeller, Sr.
Here are two of them that stand
out:
He isn't exactly the guarded,
coddled Croesus you may imagine
He is being treated here in Ormond
as an ordinary neighbor.
There is no fence around his house
at the corner Of River Rd. and Beach
Rd.; I can see it from my window in
the Ormond Hotel There are no
guards. either. And one morning I
met him at the haIflight hour Of
six strolling along the bank Of Hall
fax Rd., unattended.
r FELL into step with Rockefeller
on the toll bridge. after he had
dug into his pocket for the nickel
which Adolf d'Grom. tollgate keeper,
exacts from rich men ard reporters
alike.
Looking at me keenly. Rockefeller
said: Are you n reporter"
(And foolish people say age has
dimmed the eye, blunted the wits, and
dulled the human intuition OF this
man0
I admitted my identity and told him
many things I wanted to know.
We'll" he smiled walking along
with me, Il don't think have any
thing to say about those things. In
stead, won't you accept this?" (And
Continued on Page ID
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-stirring
tales of herolsm in the face of death
by fire. with the roar OF flames and
the shrieks Of naniacs mingling in "a
vii requiem, We're told today as Fire
Commissioner brennan started his in
vestieation Of holocaust on Wards
Island in which twenty-five men were
killed.
Michael Campbell, Alexander Hill
and Charles r. Corey, who rescued
scores of the luuatics as the flames
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
RUHR POLICE
IN BATTLES
WITHFRENCH
Troopers Officer Is Slain
Guerrilla War Tactics De-
veIop Bitter Feeling,
Ruhr Survey

Carl D. Groat, United Press
correspondent, has just com
pleted a trip through the Ruhr
district.
Read what the trained news
paper man has to say of cOEdi-
tions in the German Industrial
centers. On Page > Of today's
Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
FLU MAY FLARE UP AGAIN
Morgan Says Germs Down. but Not
Entirely Licked.

Five deaths from pneumonia and
one from influenza have been reported
10 the board of health since Saturday
noon.
DR.. Herman G. Morgan said he felt
sure the high mark of the present
wave had been passed but a recurrence
could be expected at any time. There
has not been enough settled cold
weather 70 make any noticeable differ
ence in the number of deaths reported,
Morgan stated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
Postal Clerk Is Suicide.

BU United Press
COLUMBUS, Ind, Feb. 19.-John
Marshall Pherigo died late last night
after he had been found hanging In
his garage in a suicidal attempt.
He had been despondent over i'll
health. He was chief clerk in the
postoffice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
Richard Lieber Is Speaker

The Mercator Club will hear Richard
Lieber, director Of the State depart,
ment Of conservation, Tuesday noon
at the Spink-Arms. A member5hi
drive will be discussed. DR.. John w.
Puffer is silent booster for the day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
READ THIS-YOU MAY
BE JUROR SOME DAY
Courtroom Is Scene of Lecture in
OcuIist's Trial.

"Conjunctivitis is an Inflammation
of the mucous membraneous lining
of the eyelid caused by a malignant
micro-organism, explained DR. Joel
Whitaker, oculist, 305 Hume Mansur
building, to a jury in Superior Court,
today.
The jury, composed Of farmers and
retired business men, absorbed the
testimony.
"Please your honor we had better
have a map drawn said one of the
lawyers. 81 don't believe the jury
quite comprehends.
WhereupOn, chalk and a blackboard
We're produced
Dr. Whitaker is defendant in a
suit for $4,000 filed by Joe Syero,
720 Lord St, who charges the oculist
caused the loss of his lsft eye. a.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
WOMAN OF 27 TAKES POISON
Mrs. Agnes Simons Recovering at
City Hospital

Mrs. Agnes Simons. %, of 238 N.
Pine St, today was recovering in the
city hospital from poison taken, police
said, with suicidal intent. She has
been in i'll health for some time. After
she took the poison Saturday night
she handed the bottle to her son. Wal
lace Simons, Jr., police were told.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
PRICES STILL FAR
ABOVE 1913LEVEL
Local Food Prices Increase
Over December,

Food prices in Indianapolis on
Jan. 10 were 80 per cent higher than
in 1913, according To statement to-
day from the Department of Labor.
Prices increased , per cent over Dec.
Is. Over Jan. Is, 1922, the increase
was 1 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
NATIoNALIsTs FAVOR WAR
Sentiment Runs High at AngOra on
Pasha Report.

q . tUItFW EIt8H
CONSTANTINOPLE. FEB. 10
Turkish Nationalist sentiment favor
ing war is reported high at AngOra,
where the Ottoman assembly today
was to receive the report Of Ismet
Pasha on the Lausanne conference.
The Turkish foreign minister left
for the capital carrying a note from
Great Britain urging that the Kemal-
lists sign the peace treaty Ismet re
jected at the Lausanne conference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
THREE DIE IN WRECK
Thirty Injured as French Blame Ger
man Sabotage.

BIZ United Press
DALSHAUSEN. Feb. 19.-Three
French We're killed and more than
thirty were reported injured when five
coupled engines were sent crashing
into the rear of a French engineers
train between Weitmar and Dalhau-
sen.
Signals on the line failed to work,
It was reported, the French blaming
sabotage.
One Belgian soldier was killed and
e number wounded when a Belgian
train hit a French supply train at
Crefeld.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19

This surplus material includes, be-
sides hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of goods the commission could
not use, a number of trucks which
have been put into use. The State
pays the freight and sells what it
can not use. Thus, without any pro-
vision Of law. the highway depart
ment not only is in the business of
constructing roads, but also is in the
used good business.
The books of the highway depart
ment show that during the last seven
months of 1922 the department sold
S209 036.48 worth Of surplus material
through the motor transport depart.
ment.
OF the sales, NJ. L. Goldberg &
Son bought goods amounting to
$169,855.72.
Prices Paid Far
Below Market ..Iats ~
In no case was there any ad-
vertising for bids by any Of the usual
mediums. In few cases is there
dealers We're notified. In most cases,
Goldberg merely bought the goods at
a price agreed upon between the used
goods dealers and some one in the
department, usually far below the
market as fixed by other dealers.
Moses L. Goldberg, of NJ. L. Gold
berg and Son, said that in every case
in which he has bought goods, he has
been under the impression he was the
high bidder. He admitted that in
many cases the bids were verbal.
The highway commission people
always look around before they make
a sale" Goldberg said. In some cases
have made prices and have not been
able to buy the goods because, I sup
pose, some one else offered more"
Goldberg displayed contracts show
ing he had sold steel rails bought
from the highway commission at
S20.50 a gross ton for $22.50 and s22.
In another instance he declared goods
billed to him actually was sold to the
Hyman Michaels Company of Chicago.
and Goldberg and Son had merely re-
ceived so cents a ton for supervising
the loading.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19

IIWrS NtdG ,COTFfsp0nfCNt
a ShII\GTONt. Feb. 1g.-T

WASHINGTONt Feb. 19.-Repre-
sentative VIII Wood. Indiana. today
told President Harding Senator Harry
S. New should not be appointed to a
Cabinet position.
Wood was in conference with the
President about twenty minutes.
When he emerged he said the Presi-
dent had indicated nothing as to his
position. The appointment of New to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
ABOUT A BULL
AND A
COLUMN WIDE

Though it's a bull story, the
truth is not trifled with in the
yarn we're going to spin.
It's all about the black and
white bulldog, Arthur Gresham,
1902 Brookside Ave, lost. The
pup wandered away and caused
Nh Gresham some concern.
Did he let him alone and trust
he'd come home? No. he sent a
Times Want Ad out to find him.
1t found him all right Things
just can't stay lost when you
call Main $500 and tell about it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
THE WEATHER

Forecast for indianapolis and vi
cinity is unsettled with light snow
fiurries and warmer tonight Lowest
temperature 20 to - above zero. Tues
day fair.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19

Although some of the commission s
transactions with Goldberg were larg-
er than some transactions for the con-
struction of roads, the law requires
the submission of bids by road con
tractors. while there is nothing in the
law that permits the department to
engage in the usd goods business,
either by the rcipt of bids or other
wise
Dec. "A the commission sold Gold
berg and Son $50,889.05 worth Of
property without asking for bids. Nov.
13. $35. .44O.65 worth. July II. $21, ,404.-
Al worth.
State Officials Buy
Small Articles.
There are dozens Of other smaller
transactions. In no case does a sale
to any other person exceed $1,000,
and those exceeding 81 900 are rare.
Members of the highway commits
sion and State officials, however, are
not excluded from the list of pur-
chasers. Their names appear fire.
quently, always for small amounts,
usually automobile tires.
Here are examples:
Sept. 1S.-W. G. Zahrt, member of
the commission. 1856; Sept 2S,
Charles Zeigler, chairman of the
commission, S38S8; Aug. 16, J. W.
McCardle. chairman Of the public
service commission, $40.42; Aug. %,
Maurice Douglas, member of the
public service commission, S204.7S;
Aug. %. Earl Crawford. member OF
highway commission. S4Z9s: Sept. 5,
Charles W. Zeigler, $40.08; Sept. 5,
Estes Duncan, secretary of teachers
pension board, STATS; Sept. Il. George
BARLEY. employe of the highway
commission, SIS
Governors Down
For Item of SS0.50
Aug. 29. Charles L. Zeigler. S1S.14,
Aug. 4, Walter Zahrt, $3.50; July 10,
Maurice Douglas, $42; July u, L. E.
Lyons, chairman of the Republican
State committee, 50; July IS. B.
Urbahns, deputy treasurer of State.
>2S.6 .65: July Is. Charles Zeigler. SCI. 40;
June 3, Governor Warren T. McCray,
SS0.50; June 3. John j. Williams
director of highway commission, $27;
June IA. Frank n Wallace, State en-
tomOlOgist, 5000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
Bernhardt Has ReIapse

BIZ UHited Press
PARIS, Feb. 19.-Sarah Bernhardt
has suffered another relapse and is
once more confined to her bed. Her
condition is said not to be serious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
CIVIL WAR Renewed
IN IRISH FREE STATE
End of Amnesty Marked by Violence
and Arson.
BU United Press

TW z IIiitW ft66
DUBLIN, Feb. 19-Renewed civil
warfare marked the end of the Free
States amnesty offer today.
Fighting between nationalist troops
and the rebels continued, and the
rebel campaign of arson and bombing
was resumed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
MINERS BACK ON JOBS
French Pit Men Secure Wage In
crease by Strike.

BU LHitCd Press
PARIS. Feb. 19.-Having secured an
increase in wages. representing a com
promise between their demands and
the offer of operators, French miners
who struck Friday returned to work
today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
Temporarily Rational

The unnamed maniac, whose one
passion was a lust to kill, temporarily
became rational during the fire and
helped many Of his companions to
get out through a window, calling to
them soothingly
When the danger was past he
lapsed again into insanity. The three
attendants who died rushed into the
flames again and again, dartins down
a veritlble corridor OF death, to carry
on their work of rescue. One was
found pinned in a doorway by a
charred beam, his hand still clutching
The shoulder of the man he was trying
to save
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
ACTS OF HEROISM
MARK ASYLUM FIRE
CLAIMING Is LIVES
ReScuerS Face Death From Roaring Flames - Three At
tendants Tell Stories of tioocau8-Unnamed
Maniac Saves Many Companions,

swept the Manhattan state Hospital
for the Insane. are the living heroes
OF the tragedy They We're required
by brennan to tell their stories Of
what happened
Maniac IS Hero.
An unnamed aniac. veteran of the
World war, is another hero who sur
vived. Those who perished We're
George II. Demo. Patrick Gilhgan and
George Reiss, attendants. who gave
their lives in the effort to save the
madmcn in their charge Twenty
two lunatics died
Nineteen bodies had been recovered
at noon and grim squads of SCOT
blackened workers were digging in
the debris hunting for six more.
Fireman McDonough chopped
through a heavy doorway with his axe
so the lunaUcs could escape into
another ward. As the door fell the
madmen leaped upon him and he had
desperate fight to save himself
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-02-19
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Putnam patriot., 1923-12-21
CHAMPION COMING
Victor Townsend to Visit Local Check
err Club January

The Putnam Checker Club has ar
ranged for Victor c. Townsend, Bos-
ton checker expert, to visit this city
on the first day of the new year, and
that evening he will give an exhibit
ton in the Red Mems Hall.
The club will throw this exhibition
open to the public, and every one is
invited. A small fee will be charged,
one just large enough to pay the ex-
pense Of bringing Mr. Townsend to
this city. Mr. Townsend is an expert
in simultaneous playing, playing from
twenty to fifty boards Mt a time. work
ing around in circle. and moving on
each Of the boards in turn. He is also
a crack bhndfolded player. playing
four boards at time blindfolded.
naming the moves. while he sits in
a corner and ehews his cigar and
thinks.
In his two previous visits to this
city, he has proven the most popular
of any of the exhibition players who
have ever visited here under the aus
pieces Of the local club.
Putnam viii be one of the first
stops on tour from Boston To Chi
eago which Mr.. Townsend will make
the early part Of the year. All along
the way to Chicago. Mr. Townsend
will give checker exhibitions.
Putnam patriot., 1923-12-21
BAPTIST CHURCH

The Baptist church Christmas pro-
gram includes special Christmas an
them singing at the morning and eve
ming services on Sunday. and Christ
mas evening there will be a concert
and ehildren's party. The Tuesday
entertainment is under the direction
of the Blue Ribbon class Of the Sum
day school.
Thursday afternoon the Conerega-
tional church held its Christmas en-
tertainment for the children of the
church. and the older people as we'll.
At this service Santa Claus was pres
ent, and gifts were given out to the
children in the lower classes of the
Sunday school The showing of a
motion picture, THE Prince and the
Pauper," which was open TO anyone
in the church. was feature of the
exercises. The Sunday services at
this church will have special music.