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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
CONSTABLE PUSHED
WOMAN, is CHARGE
WorIey Alleges Plaintiff Is
MiStreated in Court,

Among sixteen affidavits filed today
in Criminal Court by Claude M.
Worley. special investigator, was one
charging John F. Taylor, constable,
with assault and battery on Mrs.
Anna Rocker, 712 N. Alabama ST., on
Jan. 81.
WorleN said the affidavit grew out
of charges by Mrs. Rocker that Tay-
Tor pushed her out of the Justice
Frank Glass court when she appeared
to demand $38 judgment awarded last
spring by the justice on a board bill
against Noble L. Traylor, 312 E. North
So
An affidavit charging the constable
with assault and battery on Traylor
was also filed. TrayIor, it is said, ac-
companied Mrs, Rocker to the court
and asked why she had not been paid,
as he had his receipt. Taylor elected
him, alsoe it is charged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09

If the proposal is carried out,
the city will acquire lis acres,
consisting of forty acres of park
proper and Is acres of other
land. The park will give the city
a river frontage of about a mile
and will connect with the boule.
ward system.
John Elliott. city engineer. esti-
mated the park will cost the city
about 100000. The board plans to
retain the amusement features and re-
lease them, using the money thus OBJ
tained to pay interest on bonds. The
Broad Ripple Realty Company owns
the park.
Hearing Set March
A public hearing on the project will
be held at 10 a. m. March 1.
The board also adopted preliminary
resolutions to pave Pleasant Run Blvd.
from Prospect st. to Washington St.
:tnd 10 construct swimming pools at
Rhodius and Brookside Parks.
Boulevard 100 Feet Wide
Bids for the construction of Kess-
Ter Blvd, along Fifty Sixth St, wes-
to Cooper Ave. and south to the Craw-
fordsville Rd., a distance of about
seven miles, were referred to John
Elliott, city engineer.
The boulevard will be 100 feet wide
and viii be paraIleled by bride path.
The low bid on bituninous macadan
was $4,000 by the Marion County
Construction Company. and on rock
asphsIt ST45,135. by James Mcnamara
Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
EMPLOYE HURT
i IN THEATER FIRE
House Is Enptied Without
Confusion.

Merl Moore. 900 z. Washington St,
was burned about the hands while at.
tempting to extinguisn blaze in the
projecting room of the Manhattan
Theater, T56 ". Washington St, Fri
cay night. Moore said that the picture
dlm became TANNED in the machine
md before he could use a fire ex
cinguisher the entire room was in
flames.
>Seventy-five persons were in the
theater at the time. Moore told them
that there was a little trouble in the
projecting room" and they filed out
without confusion. Firemen extin-
guished the blaze before much dam
age was done.
Earl Mccoy. Vienna Apis, man.
ager, could not estimate the extent of
the damage
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09

European chaos, grimly determined
to obtain an early settlement at
whatever cost. Great Britain's new
laborite premier, Ramsey Mac
Donald, earnestly desires an entente
with France. but has warned all
concerned this is impossible if
France remains in the Ruhr and
continues her present reparations
policy. He has strongly intinlated
unless Germany is allowed to get on
her feet soois~~an Anglo-German
accord is likely.
3. found France badly frightened
by fall of the franc and eagerly
seeking way out before a further
drop came. Poincare and other
French leaders realize a formal
break with Great BrMain would be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
GIRL IN RUM CAR
GETS SIX MONTHS
For loaning Her Pretty Face
as CamoufIage to Logger

Pretty Evelyn Johnson, alias Thel-
ma Patterson, 81, of Clinton, Ind,
faced Judge Collins today in Criminal
Court
Young lady" said the Judge,
'1oaning your pretty face as camou.
f1age for a bootlegger viii just cost
you $500 and six months at the Indi-
ana Women's prison."
The girl was arrested recently in
an automobile containing los gallons
Of alcohol, after the driver fled.
She denied all knowledge of the
liquor, saying she had asked the
driver Of the car for a ride.
The liquor was ordered destroyed
and the car, an expensive model, sold.
Miss Johnson's attorneys indicated
they would appeal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
Anything Else,
Please?

a IS an obliging citizen
~ Ralph DUNCAN, 233
W. Pratt ST., held all laurels
today.
On Nov. II, 1921, Mrs.
Effie DUNCAN, p, got a di-
vorce from Ralph.
Then she met Carl. Wray,
Chicago, and desired tG
marry him.
Friday she asked Dun
gan to go with them to the
Courthouse to get a mar.
riage license.
There they found the
court costs had not been
paid and the divorce incom-
plete. Wray paid the costs,
$3.50, according to officials.
Then they went to n Jus
tice of the peace. DUNCAN
went, too. He was best
man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
CITY HAS AUTO PROBLEM
Park Board Considers Paying Upkeep
of Private Cars.

Mounting costs Of keeping up city
owned automobiles today led the park
board to consider substituting a sys-
TEN whereby the city would allow en-
ployes expense accounts for using
their private cars on city business.
r. Walter Jarvis. superintendent Of
parks and recreation, and Edward E.
Mcbride, director Of recreation, asked
for replacement Of their city cars.
Mcbride said he would take an ex-
pense account of $1,000 a year and
operate his own car instead. if the
board desired.
When City Engineer John l.. FL
lott asked for new car for his park
corps President Bookwalter adjourned
the meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09

condition she is allowed to work and
that the Ruhr is returned to Ger
man hands. They will not oppose
a temporary occupation of the left
bank of the Rhine, which would be
similar to the German occupation of
France after the Franco. Russian
war. I believe France will agree to
this on condition she is given salts
factory guarantee against future
German aggression plus some def
mite arrangement with regard to her
own debts to her allies on basis
which will allow her to survive.
While some hot-head may yet
throw a monkey-wrench into the
works, as matters now stand the
chances of an agreement are better
than at any time for decads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
ENGINE TIE-UP REPORT
Business Men to Tell Government of
Inspection Results.

A report to the Interstate Commerce
Commission and to Congressman on
inconvenience caused by Federal con-
demnation of locomotives will be made
by a committee representing the
Board Of Trade. the Associated En-
ployerg, and the industries and manu-
fscturers' committee of the Chamber
Of Commerce, it was announced today.
It was decided to continue the COM
mittee indefinitely. The report viii
be made some time next week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
Settlement of European Snarl Matter of Months

a colossal disaster and are willing
to coneede much to avoid such
crisis. No one wants isolation.
French statesmen watch MacDon-
AIDS friendly gestures toward Russia
and Germany with great misgiving.
Sensing danger, the semi-ofticial
Paris newspaper, lie Temps, fore
casts a shift in the French policy.
Occupation of control of Germap
territory fy France and Belgium EN-
han ses the security of those nations
only on condition such occupation is
made the cause of prstext of any
Anglo German coalition directed
against France. says this paper.
s. / found Germany in totally
different mood than when l was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
SUIT IN TWO WEEKS
Pomerene and Strawn Promise Early
Action ON Dome.

By United Press
WASHINGTON. Feb. Suit will
be led to cancel the Teapot Dome and
California oil leases within ten days
or two weeks at the longest, Atlee
Pomerene and Silas H. Strawn, presi-
dental counsel. indicated today.
This action depends on the prompt
ness with which the Senate acts on
their aames, however
The Public Lands Committee, TO
which the nominations were referred,
is expected to take them UP at an
executive session early next week.
Senator Dill, Washington, will de-
mand that certain witnesses be heard
before the committee acts on the
nominations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09

here a year ago. Germany now ap-
parently realizes she could better
pay than continue opposition The
limit of resistance seems to have
been reached and she is now in a
frame of mind to accept any solu-
ton proposed by Dawes, Young and
the other experts.
Thus agreement between the three
governments seems near. England
breads huge military outlay.
French finances are. not in shape
to face rupture with England,
while Germany, with nerves taut,
is eager to end the ten years of con-
tiuous bittre struggle her people
have endured. "a
Experts viii report Germany Is
able to pay a formidable sunuS on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
SIX NEWSB0YS KILLED
Man Also Victim When Train Hits
Auto Truck.

BIZ United Press
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. Six
newsboys and man were killed to-
day when the truck in which they
were returning from a party was
struck by a Northwestern railroad
train.
Bodies of the victims were scat
tered for several hundred feet along
the track.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
MAIL ORDER B00TLEGGERS
Twenty-Seven Indicted at Philadelphia
by Federal Jury.

By United PTcSS
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. o.
Warrants for the arrest Of twenty
seven persons, indicted by the Federal
grand jury F'riray on charges Of be
ing implicated in a million dollar mai
order bootlegging plot, were signed
by United States Commissioner Man
ley today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
Five Missing Men Safe

BIZ UHtted PTeSS
guard officials today reported the
small boat and eve men from the
cutter Seminole missing this morning
and believed to have been captured by
rum runners, have been located off
Rum Row with all safe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
Klan and Anti-Klan Forces
Clash and Bullets Riddle
Windows and Doors
Martial Law Imminent in
Williamson County as
Troops Patrol Streets

HERRlN, ILL., Feb 9-The Carbondale troop of the Illinois
National Guard took control of the Williamson county mining
camp today and with loaded rifles paroed Herrn hospital
which fred early today by body alleged Kuux
klansmen
Several for whom the alleged Klansmen said they had
Warrants for the killing of Caesar eagle leader ON the street
asst night took refuge in the hospital voey at the ap-
preaching band The fire returned.~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
Hourly TEMPERATuRE
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Times Foreign Editor

In IERLIN, Feb. 9.-Complete
H settlement of the whole
- European snarl now seems
to be only matter of months.
Europe is scared stiff over what
is likely to happen unless an en-
tente is reached. Europe bids fair
to reach a basis of general agree
ment by midsummer.
sion gain after a personal study
of the situation in England, France
and Germany.
Here is why:
1. l found England, menaced by
unemployment. stagnsnt trade AID
kindred ills resulting from the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09

Still Looking
for 'ern

"EV1HAT this country needs
wv most is a good 5-cent
cigar.
This is one of the remarks
that helped make Thomas r.
Marshall, former Vice Presi-
dent, famous.
Today he was discovered in
a cigar store buying 25-cent
cigars.
"There aren't any good s.
cent cigars yet, F" he explained.
"The dern things won't
burn. +"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
CREW IN WRECK ON
DUTY FOR 13 HOURS
Anderson Coroner Expects TO Return Verdict Upon Fatal
Traction Crash Late This Afternoon,

Rolhn Flynn, motorman. and Sid.
ney Sawyer. conductor. crew Of the
eastbound car in the Fortvilfe COLI
sion on the Union Traction line last
Saturday. were required by the com
pany to work thirteen hours on the
day Of the accident. II was learned
today
Under a new schedule adopted by
the company, all motormen and con-
ductors on the Anderson division have
been required to work a thirteen-hour-
day alternatively with an eight-hour-
day.
Flynn and Sawyer began their run
Saturday at 4:30 a. M, it has been
learned. They were required to re-
port at the station at indianapolis at
Ais a. m. According TO information.
the crew was allowed fifteen minutes
rest at each stop in indianapolis. They
made two stops here during the day.
They were allowed three five-minute
periods at other towns.
Flynn and Sawyer had already been
working approximately twelve hours
when the accident occurred at about
4.30~p. m.
The number OF identified dead was
increased to fifteen today when rela-
tives and friends of Sherman Fay,
travelling man Of FIT. Wayne. claimed
8 charred body at the e. S. Albright
morgue, Identification was possible by
a piece of Underwear on the body.
Remnants of two bodies remain.
Resume Work Monday
Members OF the public service COM
mission with officers OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission adjourned
their investigation Friday with the ex
animation of H. A. Nicholl, general
manager Of the Union Traction Com
pany. The probe will be resumed
Monday at p. m. with Elmer E.
Slick, claim agent for the traction
company, as first witness. Other Off
cials may be examined.
Sessions Friday at the Anderson
city hall were behind closed doors.
Every witness called was employed
by the traction company, indicating
that safety devices. the block signal
system and condition of cars were
under investigation. 1t was revealed
shat on the day of the fatal crash,
the block signal system was not
working. The commission also in
Vesticated the manner of sending and
receiving orders for car crews.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
Circus Mans Widow succmbs

81 Itm6S SDecM
PERU. Ind, Feb. 9.-Mrs. Florence
Fuller Wallace. 70, widow Of Ben
Jamin e. Wallace, former circus own
rr, is dead at her home here from an
apoplectic stroke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09

Ray Gibbons, State Investigator of
public utilities, not only has charge
Of 100 miles Of interurban trackage,
but 9 900 miles Of steam road. all over
head wire crossings, and all inter.
locking systems of the State, it was
shown at the hearing The former
State administration had FIVE men to
do that kind of work, Gibbons said.
The lack of adequate fire ex-
tinguishers on the cars was in
vestigated by Coroner Helbert today.
Witnesses from Indianapolis, Marion
and Muncie. were called.
Other witnesses testifying before
State and United States officers
Friday were: j. o. Permission,
superintendent of power distribution,
Anderson; Ralph E. Boyle, dispatcher,
Anderson; NJ v List. signal main
tainer. Anderson: II. w. Engle, con;
ductor on the trailer of the west
hound ear. Muncie Thomas Nicholl,
superintendent of motive power, An
derson, and Chester Campbell. line
foreman. of Anderson.
Coroner Jesse A Helhart OF An
derson said he probably would an
nounce his verdict late this afternoon.
Among witnesses before the coroner
today was Claude Miller, 1862 w. Nc
Carly St, Indianapolis, who says he
was told by another passenger on the
east bound car that a fire extin-
guisher on the car was empty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
One Dead in Checker War.

By United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-One man was
killed and two seriously wounded
when guns blazed here today in what
police believe is reopening of the
Checker taxicab factional war"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09

EU7 ITH unfailing devotion, Laddie,
IWI 3-year-old beagle hound.
Ll watched the body of Mrs. Sarah
Highland. IS. early today when his
mistress died at her home 72S Blu
chanan st. Mrs. Highland had been
i'll several months. When she at
tempted to get out of her bed today.
the end came.
Laddie crept under the bed. When
Mrs. Clara Slack. S005 f. New York
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
CHARGED
WITH CONSPIRACY
IN DOME LEASES
Complaint Made by Denver Man Declares Plot With Pioneer
Oil Company Secured Teapot From Albert Fall.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
Trnffed pgess STAFF Corresnotsdc .,

WASHINGTON Feb 9Harry f. Sinclair enabled to get
his lease Teapot from Secretary Fall
of conspiracy with the Pioneer Oil Company the
vestigation committee told today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
RIPPLE
BEBOUGHT
AS CITY PARK
KeSSIer Blvd. Bids Referred to Engineer = Lowest on
Bituminous Macadam S620,000 and on
Rock Asphalt, S745 1885,

Preliminary resolution acquire Broad Ripple Park
dopted by the board Of park commissioners today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09

St. who had been caring for his mis-
tress, tried to approach the body Lad.
die objected.
Mrs. Slack called a neighbor, but
Laddie would not permit her TO move
the body.
1t was only when Police Officers
Griffin and Reidev pulled him away
that Laddie yielded
Or. William Doeppers, deputy
coroner, is investigating.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
Eyewitness Is Called

Otto Kinca1d. who lives near the
scene Of the accident, was called as
an eyewitness.
The public service commission still
is keeping secret the evidence obtained
in It's hearings at Anderson. Mem.
bers defended the policy as lab
solutely necessary" to public welfare.
John w. McCardle, chairman, stated
that the report Of the commission
would be ISSUED at the discretion of
the board and that a ninety-day
period as reported was not com.
pulsory by law.
1.-THE hearing at Anderson was held
in secret session." one member ex-
planned, 'in order that no evidence
could be obtained by shyster lawyers
for the purpose of damage suits"
1t was pointed out that acts of 1911
provide "the commission shall not give
publicity to such information if in its
judgment the public interests do not
require it..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
Arrest Nearly 1000

Young and his raiders under Federal
warrants have arrested nearby 1000
alleged liquor law violators in two
months.
The meeting also was a gathering of
the Knights Of the Flaming Circle,
anti-Klan organization.
Sheriff Galligan, who led the pro-
test against the Klan's activities by
calling Stste troops because of "riot
conditions" month ago, came to the
meeting with Layman, trusted deputy.
The sheriff started addressing the
liquor raid victims, advising them to
take it easy" and let things take their
legal outcome.
The door Of the hall opened and
John Ford. chief of police Of Herrin,
and two OF his policemen entered with
drawn shot guns.
An uproar started, followed by a
half dozen shots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09

The attackers then retired from the
hospital, in which John Layman.
deputy sheriff and leader of the anti
Klan element lies with a bullet wound.
received in a gun battle shortly after
eagle was shot.
Martial law for Herrin is imminent,
and probably will be DECLARED as soon
as two or three more troops now on
their way here arrive
The trouble and troop movement
We're precipitated at a protest meeting
Of persons opp sed 30 the wholesale
drv raids made under the leadership
of S. Glenn Young.
WayIaid by Crowd
eagle was waylaid by a crowd of
men, hit on the head. then shot twice
and killed.
When word OF the death reached
Marion, Young swore out warrants
charging Sheriff GalIigan. Deputy Lay
man, Ora Thomas, Hugh Willis, land
others. with being in the crowd which
slew the Klan leader. GalDzan was
sater arrested on first degree alurder
charge.
band of Klansmen under Young
started for Herrin in automobiles, and
We're fired upon by persons from the
roadside. Leonard Sterns, son of Sam
StsFns, Kian cyciops in one of the
cars, was slightly wounded in the
back
Layman was shot at the meeting
OF Italians at Rome" Hall, accord.
ing to available information. This
was shortly after eagles death. I'm
mediately following Layman's shoot
ing. GaIligan took three Herrin po-
licemen, including Chief John Ford.
who were in the hall, to Murprys-
boro because he feared mob violence,
it is said
Later the band of men came to the
hospital where the sheriffs followers
had come to see Layman. Both bands
were armed. and firing started. About
100 shots We're exchanged. Several
persons were shot. None was seri-
ously hurt.
= Windows and doors of the hospital
were riddled.
A company Of troops from Cairo
arrived later and the two companies
are quartered in the city hall and the
Elks Club.
The trouble started in meeting of
several score victims of sthe liquor
raids. gathered in a Herrin hall to
formulate plans of retaliation against
activities of Klansmen led by Glenn
Young, unofficial prohibition car Of
the county, who is employed by the
Klan as raid leader.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-09
Home Edition

HULL service of the United
J Press, the NEA Service, the
Scripps-Howard Newspaper AL
ance and the Scripps-Paine
Service.
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Forecast

HL0UDY weather predicted
~ for tonight and Sunday.
Warmer tonight with lowest
temperature about 80 degrees
above zero.
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