Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1920 — Page 4
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WORK FOR PEOPLE TOOK THEM WEST G. v O. P. Charge Falls Flat When Explained. x t - WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. —Assistants to Attorney General Palmer today asked the Senate campaign fund Investigating committee to permit them to explain trips they took to San Francisco at government expense at the time of the Democratic national convention. Vouchers showing that their expenses ■were paid were presented at yesterday's hearing. Representative Stewart, assistant attorney general, said he made a trip to Chicago and Seattle in June In connection with Seattle shipyard oses, and to consult local agyits of the department in Chicago regarding the outlaw railroad strike. He went to San Francisco, he said, because some of the department's agents he wished to consult could .not go to Seattle. Stewart named Robert Scott, Palmer’s private secretary; John Laskey, United States attorney in the District of Columbia; Thomas Speilacy, assistant attorney general; J. \ Creighton, an empire of the department, and George Montrose, another employe, as members of Palmer's Washington staff, attended the convention. Stewart also named John Murphy, assistant district attorney of Detroit ns one of those who were at the convention. Frank Nebecker, assistant attorney general in charge of public lands, next on the stand, said oil litigation involving twenty-five cases and $22,000,000 took him to California. He also desired to go into a case involving ownership of an island off Coronado Beach, be said. •‘I admit candidly that I delayed my trip somewhat," said Nebecker, "so that I could attend th-. Democratic convention.” \ On the way. h stated, ht stopped at Chicago and Sait Lake City to consult on departmental matters that required attention. "All the time I was in San Francisco I doubt there was a day when I "wa not engaged in official bnsiness,” said Nebecker. ‘‘l did attend the convention and worked for Palmer." Nebecker added the name of Judge Ames, special assistant to Palmer, to the list of department attaches who were at San Francisco. Ames voted for Senator Owen for the nomination, Nebecker testified. Joseph Heffernin, secretary of the Stars and Stripes, next took the stand. ASKS -ABOUT RAID ON CONTROL.
Senator Reed inquired whether auy 'effort had been made to wrest control of the newspaper from its present owners. Heffernan said constant efforts were made to present the success of the paper. * He said Secretary of War Baker was used as the instrument to prevent the use of the name of Stars and Stripes. Leaders in ‘la Legion and particularly Theodore Roosevelt Jf- tried to get control of the pr.per, Heffernan declared. He said Richard H. Waldo, an employe of "The Dupont,’’ tried to get the paper's owners to sell. Heffernan didn’t know which branch of the Dupont family Waldo represented but said he understood those for whom Waldo spoke were Interested in foreign language newspapera In the United States. "Waldo told us if we didn't sell we wouldn’t last six months and- that the big interests would not let us have advertising.'’ Heffernan stated, and added that the paper is unable to get advertising: Hetferman demanded that Senator Edge, Os. J ) retire from the committee while he testified. ** "He is sitting here as both Judge and prosecutor," said Hefferman. "I have information that Senator Edge is In on the plan to wreck our paper and has been in consultation with those who are concerned in the plan against us.’’ Heffernan named employes of the American Legion Weekly as having been called and told of the plan to wreck the Stars and Stripes and said he had "confidential information that Edge knew all about It, AT ONCE DEMAND NEWS SOURCE. Edge and Kenyon demanded that Heffernan tell them at once the source of hla confidential information. Heffernan said Richard S. Jonas, his assistant, told him about the matter, and that Jones had learned of It from some employe of the American Legion Weekly. Jones was at once subpoenaed. Edge emphatically denied Heflfernan’s statements and raid he knew none of the men Heffernan named. Because Secretary of War Baker was opposed for sentimental reasons to continuance of the Stars and Stripes after tho war. Heffernan said be went to Democratic headquarters here in ah effort to get the Democratic national committee to influence Congress not to pass a bill prohibiting the use of the name. Mrs. E: M. Parks, secretary ofjW. D. Jamieson, finance director of the Democratic national comrsi-'oe. became interested. Heffernan said, and agreed to finance the paper. Mrs. Parks put $48,000 Into the paper and got 51.000 shares of stock out of 101,000 issued, Heffernan said.
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66 PCT. OF ROAD COSTS IN STATE FOR ‘OVERHEAD* (Continued From Page One.) were $84,507.75, or 72 per cent of the expenditures of the period. During this period the highway commission contracted for the construction of 133 miles of highway at a cost of $4,738,7*06, an average cost of $35,633.37 a mile. In return for the $84,507.78 the tax-, payers got contracts for 133 miles of roads and additional engineering work. Hv this time, at a total cost of $141.864.08, the State had succeeded in letting contracts for 133 miles of roads, 308 miles of roads had been surveyed, 192 miles of plang had been, prepared, fifteen bridge plans submitted to the Federal authorities and six of them had been approved. STORY OF “OVERHEAD" CONTINUES ALL THROUGH. Thus it will be seen that there was an "overhead” expanse attached to the operation of the commission of approximately SI,OOO a mile for each mile of road built even before the commission had organized its maintenance department. In the period from Oct. 1, 1919, lo Aug 1. 1920, the commission continued to build up the most tremendous overhead ever attributed to any department of the State. its total expenditures during this interval were 51J593.917.39. Os this sum $953,756.29 was paid for construction work and the overhead, consisting of salaries and expenses, amounted to 5640.16L10. At the conclusion of this period the State of Indiana had spent through the highway commission the sum of $782,026.08 as overhead on the letting of contracts for 133 miles of highways at a contract price of $4,738,741.36. The total amount of money expended on construction work during the life of the commission up to this time was $974,751.82. • The total overhead costs to the State in obtaining this amount of road building was $782,026.08. In other words, for bringing each mMe of the 183 miles of road under contract to a point where it was approximately one-fourth constructed the State of Indiana had paid out in overhead expenses approximately 15.879. COSTS MOUNT TO STAGGERING TOTAL. The logical conclusion is, of course, that since it costs $5,879 to bring a mile of road-building to a point where it is worth to the State one-fourth of its contract price, it #lll require four times that amount of overhead to complete the task, and the average coat of overhead for one mile of completed highway in Indiana will be $23,616. As the average cost per mile of construction work done by the contractors of the highway commission is $35,633.37 a mile, the relation of the overhead to the actual road construction cost would be approximately 66 per cent, a proportion of overhead that li almost unique in construction vfork Carried to the extreme limits the figures are staggering. If $35,000 a mile be taken as the average cost of construction the peorde of
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We’ve Got Kind Acts ' * -.3 DAVID K. BYRNE. MONTREAL, Canada, Sept, 24.—A kind act rendered thirteen years ago has brought a $10,000,000 fortune to David K. Byrne of Montreal. Byrne has been named as principal heir to the estate of W. G. Byrne of this city, whose death occurred recently. Byrne, then David 8. Kidd, a tea salesman from Toronto, was attracted by the beauty and intelligence of a 20-year-old girl in a saloon iu a Chicago slum. That was in 1907. His reading of the story o.* Mary Magdalene so affected the girl that she prom- 1 : ised to return tocher parents, who nt ' that time knew' nothing of her where- ! abouts. A few weeks later Kidd received a letter from the girl s father, \V. G. Byrne, asking him to become the latter's heir and change his name to Byrne. Kidd compiled with the unusual request, with the resnlt that he at one* became a man of affluence and now la to become the owner of extensive mining properties formerly owned by the man whose daughter be befriended.
ludiana'wonld be required to pay $126.000,000 for the permanent improvement of the 3.600 miles of highways entering into the "designated system." And in addition to this actual construction coats. If the average of past performance is any criterion, they would also be compelled to pay $23,516 a mile "overhead," or a total of $Bl,657 600 “overhead'’ in the construction of 3.600 miles of highways. This is an appalling cost when it is remembered that the total" of 3,600 mile* of roads to be improved is only 5 per cent of the coeds in the state.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,1920.
TAGGARTCLUB HAS 1,000 MARCHERS Meets Next Tuesday to Plan Street Debut. Membership in the Taggart for Senator Marching Clpb, organized a few weeks ago, has passed the 1,090 mark, according to a letter sent to members of the organisation by Jerry Foley, president. Mr. Foley says marching paraphernalia has been bought and a meeting will be held Tuesday, Sept. 28, at 8 p. m. at the Denison, Hotel, when arrangements for the first public appearance of the club will be made. It is expected Thomas Taggart and other prominent Detaocrats will address this meeting. Each member is asked to bring anew member to the meeting. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch. Democratic candidate for Governor, will be the chief speaker at a meeting tonight at the Indiana Democratic Club. Frederick Van Nuys, United States district attorney, will address the meeting. \ Henry N. Sp'aan, Democratic candidate for congressmen from the Seventh district, will address a corner meeting tonight nt State avenue and Washington ’ street, the Democratic speakers bureau announces Other speakers at tills meeting will be James E. Deery and John W. Holtzman. It is announced by the chairman of tha Republican county speaker's bureau that the time of the meeting at which Mrs Corlnne Douglas Robinson, sister of Theodore Roosevelt, was to speak has been changed. Mrs. Robinson will speak at 2 O’clock Saturday afternoon nt thiv Propylaeum. 17 East North street, instead of In the Odd Fellow Hall auditorium, as announced yesterday. Fred Robinson, chairman of the Republican State speakers' bureau, announce dtoday that Albert J. pevertdge, , former United States Seantor from Indi- j ana. would apeak in Indianapolis on the night of Oct. 29. Mr. Beveridge will make five addresses in Indiana, speaking at Evansville, Oct. 30. and at Ft. Wayne, South Bend and Richmond at dates to be selected. The Republican National Speaker*’ Bureau has scheduled Mr. Beveridge for ten addresses in some of the country's larger cities. He will speak in Chicago Oct. 2, opening bis tonr, going from there to Lincoln, Neb., for an address on Oct. 4. Other addresses are to he made at Denver, Colo., Oct 6, and Salt Lake City, Oct 8; San Francisco, Oct. 10; Lo* Angeles. Oct. 12: San Diego, Oct. 14: Kau *as City, Oct. 18; St. Louis, Oct. 20. and Louisville, Oct. 23 Arrangements were being completed today for fße pllgrlmmage tomorrow of the members of the O. O. P. Travelers' League to Marlon, Ohio, where they are to Join other delegations, to hear an address by Senator Harding on "Buainess." The travelers will leave from the Union station at 7 o'clock Saturday morning, returning late at night Senator Harding, who Is to address a State rally meeting at Tomlinson Hall, on the evening of Oct. 15, win make a
thirty-minute talk at Terre Haute at noon Oct. 16. It is probable the candidate also will nuke, stops tor a few minutes at Greencastle and Brazil on the way to Terre Haute. Senator Harding also will make brief talks at Columbus and otlier towns between here aftd Louisville on the trip to Indianapolis. A mass mooting under the auspices of the Indianapolis branch of the National 'Anti-League Association, will be held on Sunday night in Tomlinson Hall, when Patrick H:' O’Donnell, Republican, of Chicago will speak. WOMAN SOUGHT IN MURDER CASE (Continued From Page One.) said, was when he cabled her on the telephone.from San Francisco, June 4. The woman said an attractive Spanish girl came to Denton’s home. “The Spanish girl had a key to the house and came there frequently,” she said. "I felt uneasy about it, so" (luring my absence from the "house on i everal occasions I found evidence someone had been there while I was away." Telling of the circumstances of her business relations with Denton, she said; "I met Denton the middle of last May and arranged to rent his house. He gave /me the house rent free on condition I was to take care of the place, show prospective buyers through and make a sale. “Denton offered me all over $25,000 1 could obtain for the home in case I sold it. "These were the only ’business arrangements’ I had with Denton.” SAYS DENTON RETAINED SUITE FOR HIMSELF. Mrs. Peete said Denton retained several rooms in the house for his own use “Mr. Denton and I occupied rooms on the same floor of the house with a gueet chamber between our 'bedrooms,” she said. After Denton’s disappearance she continued to use his automobile, she said. Mrs. Peete said Denton made his will Just before she met him last May, in which he left practically everything to hie first wife, who was divorced, and her daugbttf Telling of the basement where Denton's body was found, Mrs. Peete said: “There was a door in the basement which had been nailed up. This Spanish woman told me not to open it, as Mr. Denton had some liquor there. "She advised me to stay out of the basement." Mrs. Peete said she jnd purchased her railroad ticket for Lo* Angeles and would leave Saturday to aid authorities in clearing up the mystery. MONOS FORCE Cl'T DOWN LAFAYETTE, Ind . Sept. 24.—Bullettns posted at the Monon railroad shops here Thursday announced a 5 per cent, reduction in the working force, beginning Tuesday, Sept. 28. The office force and the traffic men will not be affected at this time, it Is said.
LEMAUX SAYS SERVICE BOARD'' RETARDS CITY (Continued From Page One.) the Virginia avenvie track elevation are completed, which is expected to be next Monday or Tuesday. The West Washington street tracks will be repaired Immediately after tho New York street job is completed, the traction head said. EXPECT AVENUE TO BE OPENED TUESDAY / He added that he believed that south side cars enn resuipe operations through 4 irginia avenue probably by Tuesday. The board had a it.ter from Mr. Todd outlining the routes which Virginia avenue and west side cars will followdowntown after the avenue is reopened and these routings were approved/ ns follows: All Virginia avenue lines inbound leave the avenue at Maryland street and run Wf*t to Pennsylvania street, south in Pennsylvania to Georgia street, west in Georgia to Meridian street, north in Meridian to Maryland street, cast In Maryland street back to Virginia avenue. West Washington. West Michigan and West Tenth lineß follow present routing inbound to Washington street and Capitol avenue, thence east in Washing, ton to Illinois street, south in Illinois to Maryland street, west In Maryland street to Capitol avenue and north in Capitol avenue to Washington street. The Virginia avenue routing, which is as outlined by the board some time ago, will leave only the South Meridian, Gar. field Park and Stockyards lines running under Union Station elevation in Illinois street, which is the route which practically all south side cars have fol- | lowed for almost a year.. NEW WATER MAINS ARE ORDERED LAID. Upon (he recommendation of Fire Chief John C. Loucks. til’ board ordered water mains laid in Winthrop avenue, from Forty sixth to Forty-ninth aims, and in Forty-ninth street from Winthrop to Carrolton avenues. This is for the purpose of giving fire protection to the plant of the Capitol
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Lumber Company, which is to be rebuilt following a recent fire. Property owners of the district, some of whose homes were destroyed with the yard, objected to the board of safety issuing a rebuilding permit to the company until adequate fire protection,yvas provided. Dr. Sumner A. Furniss, member of the city council, reported that since the Big Four Railroad has installed two switches on a high grade in a common' which colored school children of Norwood have had to cross to get to the school building ht Cottage and Golay streets, it is dangerous for them to go to school. The only other possible route to the school from the district from Pleasant street to five blocks south between Vandeman and Earhart afreets is around Prospect and Golay streets, which route also is dangerous to small children because of high jrade crossings and a maze of level grade tracks. .. The board instructed the city civil engineer to make an inspection of the problem and report recommendations. Bids for the construction of a local sewer in South Meridian street, from Frank street to a point 950 feet south, were received as follows: Sheehan Construction Company, $6.27 per lineal foot, and Columbia Construction Company, $6.31. Accused of Beating Girl of 7 to Death WILMINGTON, Del. Sept. 24. Frances Crockett, 7, was beaten to death by her foster parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stewart, according to the verdict of a coroner’s Jury. The little girl died suddenly yesterday under suspicious circumstances. Investigators found her body covered with wound*. Partially healed scars showed she had been beaten on previous occasions. CHURCH TO SHOW FILMS. KOKOMO. Ind.. Sept. 24.—Moving pictures at a church will be shown for the first time in Kokomo tonight at the First Presbyterian Church. The pictures will be of the best instructive entertainments obtainable.
WILL RUSH OHIO IMPROVEMENTS Bids for Street Work to Be Asked Immediately. Upon insiste-ce by Gustav G. Schmidt,, president of the city council, in a conference today, that Ohio street, between Alabama and Delaware streets, be widened and resurfaced so as to provide for the laying of street car tracks, the board of public works announced that it will immediately advertise for bids for the Improvement. The board has had before it for several months a resolution calling for the widening and resurfacing of Ohio street from Delaware to East streets and it was decided to Jet the contract for the whole improvement with the understanding that the section from Delaware to Alabama streets be completed before winter and the remainder early in the spring. The city council favors the improvement, Mr. Schmidt safld. for the reason that when the street is widened and tracks Installed interurban cars which run Lhrough Delaware street to Washington street, creating a dangerous traffic problem on city market days, can be routed out Ohio to East street and thence to Washington street. This, Mr. Schmidt said, is part of the council's general plan to relieve street car congestion of which his wider loop ordinance is the principal phase. .
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