Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35 —NUMBER 265

EDITORIAL Shall Fare Go Up by Default?

HE Indianapolis Street Railway Company has filed its petition for increased fare with the public service commission, the only authority with power to order such an increase. The commission is empowered and expected to hear BOTH SIDES of a rate question, that of the users of a public service as well as of the utility asking for an increase. Who is going to look after the public’s interest? • • • The company is prepared to go before the commission with experts. It will present the testimony of engineers and accountants with interminable complicated facts and figures. The public interest, unless somebody acts soon, probably will be inadequately represented or not represented at all. The company says it must have more money and it proposes, among other things, 7-cent cash fare, which, it says, will produce the amount necessary. There is some question., as to whether the company with more efficient conservation and distribution of costs,' could not obtain more money without increasing rates. If the rates must be increased, there is a question of whether the rates proposed are not'too high. These are questions that should be answered before any action is taken on the petition. The city administration is inclined to agree with the company that it needs an increase. It ts not preparing to make a fight against higher carfare. • • • At present it appears the case will be won by the company by default, unless someone who will compel the company to show good cause for an increase steps in. What about the thousands of street car riders who are not convinced that an increase is necessary. or who at least would like to be shown in a public hearing? Dfi. MORGAN ASKS VACCINATION EDICT Request for Order Will Be Made Thursday. A compulsory vaccination order against smallpox, applying to all school children, will be asked by Dr. Herman T. Morgan, secretary of the city board of health, at a board meeting Thursday night. The board was scheduled to meet tonight, hut members were unable to attend. With 115 cases of smallpox reported in March, Dr. Morgan said the situ ation still continues serious. The number of cases reported dq4ly is increasing. Os 70,000 school children in the city, only about 20 per cent has been vaccinated. Dr. Morgan said. City physicians have vaccinated nearly 5,000 in the past two months. If the compulsory vaccination order is issued, it will be first in the city since 1918. Vaccinations, according to the proposed order, must he completed within a week, or the child will be refused admittance to school. REUNION DRAWS MANY Registration at Scottish Rite Convocation Is Heavy. Scottish Rite members continued to at rive today from all parts of the State to attend the fifty-ninth annual convocation and reunion of the Valley of Indianapolis. Monday's total registration of 1.400 was expected to he surpassed today. The fifteenth and sixteenth degrees will be given a class of 350 candidates at Murat Temple at 7 p. m. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 30 10 a. mL36 7 st. m 31 11 a. m 37 8 a. m 32 12 (noon) 38 9 a. m........ 35 1 p. m 41

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M’CARDLE MAY BE AT HEAD OF FARE PETITIONJEARING Corporation Counsel Favors Taking Many Cars Off Washington St, Hearing of the public Service commission on the petition of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company for a 7-cent fare will be conducted by John W. McCardle, chairman, he indicated today. The matter will be considered formally Friday by the commission. Date for the hearing has not been set The law requires at least ten days’ notice. A review by an official today showed the fact that the past four petitions for fare changes made by the Indianapolis car utility have been granted by the State commission. In ms the company uetitioned for a 5-cent fare with free transfers. Persons under 5 years of age rode free. Two years later the company asked for a 1-cent transfer fee. The commission approved. Six-Cent Rate in 1921 A 6-cent fare was granted April 18, 1921. Twenty tickets for $1 was ordered. Five-cent fare with two-cent transfer charge was ordered May 28, 1921. Previous to 1918 the company sold six fares for 25 cents. Patrons continued today with no organized opposition to a fare boost. Attention has been directed toward improving car service by re-routing and new methods in operating street cars, yet no organization to date has indicated any legal counsel would be employed to insist on retaining the five-cent fare. Taylor Groninger, city corporation counsel, has admitted that he will take the stand that some fare increase is necessary, although he will insist on seventeen tickets for $1 instead of sixteen as proposed. He has not opposed the 7-cent cash fare. Civic Clubs Undecided Edward O. Snethen, president of the Federated Community Civic Clubs, said it would be ten days before the federation would adopt a policy. Individual clubs are now voting on the car fare Increase. “Tl* j*reet railway company could do a few things to improve its service and af the same time really reduce operating expenses if it would,” said Councilman Heydon \V. Buchanan, who has been opposed to increased fare. “If a downtown loop were established car service could be speeded up, transfer facilitated and the same effect as added cars could be gained by reducing downtown looping seven or eight minutes.” Re-routing Favored

Groninger has also favored re-rout-ing of cars to speed up service. He has suggested a belt line where cars might loop and transfer be made easier. Another suggestion is a belt line where trunk lines would end, and pas sengers would transfer to belt cars for points downtown. Groninger has also advocated taking street cars off Washington St., except those of the E. and W. Washington lines. John N. Feasey, purchasing agent of the Pettis Dry Goods Company, will head a special citizens’ committee to investigate street car re-routing. Groninger announced. Groninger will appoint the other members later. It has been proposed to combine some lines so that care might go out one line and return on another. A combination of the Illinois and Central lines has been proposed in this connection. Other suggestions being discussed today included one-man cars on certain lines where travel was light, and trailer cars for the heavy traffic lines. The company, however, is still clamoring for the higher fare as the only solution of its financial condition. CYLINDER GRINDERS MEET Motor Builders’ Branch Discusses Education Means. Second annual conference of the Central Cylinder Grinders’ Association convened today at the Chamber of Commerce with representatives from affiliated associations in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky attending. A means of educating the public as to the purpose of cylinder grinding was discussed. The association is a part of the National Motor Builders and Cylinder Grinders’ Association. EXTRA! -BILL HART’ SHOT! Backyard Movie Ends In Fines for Dudley Anderson. Colored. Dudley Anderson, colored. 4950 Elliott St., was fined $5 and costs on a charge of unlawful possession of firearms and $lO and costs on charges of shooting within the city limits in city court today. Evidence showed he was “Tom Mix” and' Howard Robinson, colored. 5011 E. Sixteenth St., was “Bill Hart." in a backyard movie. "Tom” shot “Bill” In the heel, police say. “Could Lick Regiment” Mrs. Grace McCurdy, 28, of S. Illinois St., in her own words, “could lick a whole regiment,” according to police, who arrested her at Merrill and Illinois Sts., today. Intoxication was charged.

Dog, Lost in Indiana, Travels 2,000 Miles to Rejoin His Owner in Oregon

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| j ERE’S a dog that just can’t il I h® lostl J Last summer G. F. Brazier and family of Silverton, Ore., were separated from their pet “Bobble,”

COOLIDGE LEADS DAKOTA PRIMARY Johnson Votes in Country Cut Down City Plurality, By United Press FARGO, N. D.. March F.—f’resident Calvin Coolidge had a lead of more than 2 to 1 in retains from cities today as the presidential preference vote in North Dakota was counted. Country precincts cut dc*rn his lead as they began coming In. and Senate* Hiram Johnson's supporters were confident he would win. Senator La Follette's "sticker” cam palgn amounted to much more than Johnson’s following expe.oted. Two hundred and eighty seven precincts gave: Coolidge, 16.609; Johnson. 8,964; I.a FoUette. 5,312: SUBMARINE SINKS WITH FA ABOARD Japanese Under Sea Craft Collides With Warship. By United Press LONDON, March 19. —Four officers and forty men have gone down in a Japanese submarine, which collided with a. warship oft the port of Sasebo on the west, coast of the island of Kiui.hiu, thirty miles north of Nagasaki. Rescue workers are at. work. MIDNIGHT AND BLOOD! Shot in the Dark and Feathers Have Eamiarks of Frank. Midnight, Vociferous argument outside Butler University dormitory. A shot in the dark. “Police! Murder!” The corridors fill with slightly clad co-eds. “Ah! Blood on the front steps,” says Special Watchman Wilford Londen, 275 S. Audubon Rd. A terrified scream or two from the huddled group In the halls. ButChicken feathers found on the lid of a can used to deposit the blood on the steps gave all the earmarks of a frame-up by fraternity boys down the street. PUTNAM SETTLER iS DEAD John Sellers, 88, Ihoneer of County Dies of Heart Disease. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., March 19. John Sellers, 88, a pioneer settler of Putnam County died suddenly of heart disease at his home near here today. A large family survives.

Veteran Engineer Warns Motorists

(t | p, iOME motorists are getting liJ 1 crazier a h the time,” said 1 IJ. M. Covington, 3206 College Ave., Monon passenger engineer, today. "If they don’t drive more carefully than I have observed them between Indianapolis and Chicago this winter we are going to have a terrible spring and summer. “Train crews are up against it.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1924

BOBBIE AND ROUTE OF HIS LONO HIKE

while motoring through Wolcottville, Ind. The family drove on to Oregon. A few days ago “Bobbie'' limped Into the Brazier home, his toe nails

Sure Signs of Spring j ANITORSj yawned as they I washed the windows at. the I—si Statehouse. The panes shone nevertheless. • • • l Willow trees along Fall Creek bej tween Central Ave. and Meridian | St. look a little as if they had been | in the midst of a bombardment. The pussy willows are peeping out and hundreds of small branches have been torn from the trees. • • • Walking sticks are being worn by ; the women. They trip merrjly along, tap tapping as they go. What would happen to their high heeled satin slippers; if they took up their staffs and took a real hike? •• • * A twenty-five-pound carp, a threepound bass and a two-pound sucker were caught by Jack Williams, 2230 Bellefontaine St., In White River neir Broad Ripple—That's what Jack snys. • • • The station-hoUee radiator has lost some of its charm for policemen They’re getting quite active. That's the opinion of F. J. 0.. who wrote to The Times that he saw a squad halt a man with a basket. They looked for liquor. The man carried nothing but a cat. • • • Housewives all over the city hope the soot season- will he over soon. They can't hang their washing <put of doors. Clothes are dried in cellars and attics. Father stumbles into a wet sheet carrying ashes to the alley—another domestic tragedy blamed on the smoke inspector,. • * • And then there are all those “first robbins.” • • • Workmen are repairing open cars at the W. Washington St. car barns. Soon he time to slay a few grandparents and trek to Washington Park. t• • • City hall heating plant is undergoing its annual overhauling. Mayor Shank is expected to order the ice water (poolers cleaned next. VETERAN REPORTER ILL WWlam 11. Blodgett Has Ibar Pneumonia at Home. William H. Blodgett, 68, veteran newspaper reporter, Is seriously 111 with lobar pneumonia and an port to dilated heart condition at his home, 2934 N. Capitol Ave. He has been ill since Sunday. WOMAN ‘OVER-ASSESSED’ Man “Values” Property—and Walks Off With Purses. Mrs. Mary Ricketts, 1310 >4 Oliver Ave., told police today she was "over assessed” this year. A man who Represented himself as an assessor came to her home and, while going through, picked up a purse containing $6. Mrs. John A. Henry, 915 Oliver Ave., said the same man took $1 at her home.

They have to make schedule time. Some drivers display absolutely no caution 'u.t crossings. "A train going sixty miles an hour travels ninety-six feet a second. Sbme drivers don’t stop to think of thisv They try to beat us. We can’t stop within a few feet, as automobile drivers*can.” Covington has been operating

worn to the quick. He had traveled 2,000 miles. Dispatches say the Oregon Humane Society will give “Bobble” a silver medal for his faithfulness.

GLOBE FLIER HAS SLIGHT ACCIDENT t ’Wing of Plane Broken — Ready for Third Leg. j By I nited Press EUGENE, Ore., Mar. 19.—The three "round the world” uir cruisers .headed by MaJ. Frederic V'- Martin, hopped off here at 10:46 a. m.. today for Vancouver Barracks. Washington. j By United Press ! EUGENE, Ore., March 19. Three I planes of the Army's ’round thc-world j flight were today ready to take off for | Sand Point near Seattle, on the third j leg of their 30,000-mile journey. ; Major Frederick L. Martin, com- | niander, and Lieut. Lowell Smith i reached Eugene shortly before 4 p. m. Tuesday. The third flier, Lieutenant Wade, started from Mather field, Sacramento, with Martin and Smith, but was forced at land at Cottomvood, Cal., I and did not reach Eugene until 5:23 p. m. „ Wade said a petcock on the radiator of his machine had been left open. He broke- t\ wing in a tail skid, causI ing additional delay. RATE CASE IS HEARD Gravel Company Alleges Transportations Costs Are Inconsistent. A hearing of the Western Indiana Gravel Company against the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company for adjustment of freight rates, was held today in the Federal Bldg, by W. M. C. Chelseldine, attorney and examiner for the Interstate Commerce Commission. The gravel company holds that transportation rates of sand and gravel in carloads from Lafayette, Ind., to numerous points on the railroad company’s lines are not consist-1 ent with the rates granted competing j concerns. CAR RUNS OVER FOOT Greenwood Man Slips on Pipe Beside i Tracks—May Lose Member. Lora Tucker. 39, may lose his right foot as the result | of an accident at Illinois St. and the | Union Btation today in which he fell under an in-bound stockyards car. Tucker said he stepped on a small Iron pipe near the track and slipped under the cor. Walter Shinn, 1318 Barth Ave., motorroan, was held technically. Tucker was taken to city hospital. Mystery In Alleged Robbery By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., March 19. —Mystery surrounds the alleged hold-up of Clayton Jackson, treasurer of the* “Pierian,’,’ the annual class publication of the Richmond high school. Young Jackson says he was held up and robbed of $136, part, of which was “Pierian’’ money.

trains through Indianupolis for forty years and had his first accident Inside the city limits Monday night when Charles Higgs, 40, colored, 1901 Highland Ave., was Injured at Nineteenth St. and the, Monon tracks. Police said crossing gates are not down and'Higgs drove his automobile into the train. The train crew was exonerated.

XT’X X XX Ts X? a/TXCC ATT AC’ The st ° ry starts in The Times tomorrow. It Was writllJ l j lily IJfJ\ Pi IVI I r\ I>l r\ ten by Pouglas Grant. Previous stories by him have A - X met with great success as serials and in the movies, starring such celebrities as Corinne Griffith and Marie Walcamp. Mystery, romance, adventure and action reign in "Miss Alias.” ON TISE STORY PAGE TOMORROW. “

Entered as Second-class Matter at Post office Indianapolis, Published Daily Except Sunday.

OHIO OFFICIAL TELLS STORY OF OIL BRIBE

m m mum HIIIS b si* Selection of Jury Continues Slowly—Second Venire of 100 in Court,

In Jury Box These twelve men were in thi jury box when the Criminal Court trial of Governor Warren T. McCray adjourned at noon. Harry L. Rapp, branch manager of the United States Radiator Corporation, 824 E. FortySecond St. Arthur J. Randall, secretarytreasurer of the Henkel-Randhll Printing Company, 6660 E. St. Clair St. John C. Hufford, Cumberland, Ind., salesman. Leander Williams, fanner, Camby, Ind. Paul M. Richey, advertising man, 3078 N. Pennsylvania St. Lewis Hamilton, 4450 Balti more Ave. C. F. Alarms, 40 W. Georgia St. Louis Harmon, farmer, Beech Grove. Percy H. Dickerson, insurance man, R. R. E. Harry P. Foxworthy, painter contractor, 4503 Schofield Ave. Lawrence Dinkel, farmer, R. R. D. I.eland S. Hendricks, farmer, Acton.

Inquiry into political activities and affiliations of prospective jurymen was made today in the criminal court trial of Governor T. McCray, charged with embezzlement and grand larceny, by Eph Inman, special prosecutor. Defense attorneys objected to thin line of questioning, but were over ruled by Special Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. Jury selection progressed slowly. Only four cf the men who were in the box when court convened remained at the noon adjournment Fifty-one veniremen had been examined and thirty-nine of these excused. since the trial opened Monday Only ten more men remain in tha first venire of 100 drawn for the case. A large number of this venire could not be found, or were excused from appearing. A second venire of 100 re port pd today. During the morning session ten men were examined and excused. Seven were excused because they said they had formed opinions as to McCray’s guilt or innocence. One was excused because he said he could not hear questions put to him; one because he is not a citizen of the United States, and one hy agreement of attorneys. The new line of questioning was developed when Inman asked William E. Ratcliff. 3550 Graceland Ave., whether he had been active for Me(Continued on Page 11)

WILL H. HAYS IS SINCLAIR COUNSEL? Evidence Shows Sullivan Law Firm on Pay Roll, Times Washington Bureau, J.IIB \'ew York Ave. WASHINGTON. March 19.—Evidence has been placed before Senator Walsh of the Teapot Dome Committee showing that Will Hays, through his connection with the law firm of Hays & Hays of Sullivan, Ind., has been an attorney for Harry Sinclair’s oil interests since 1922. Records in legal directories list the Sinclair Company among the clients of the Hays firm, of which Will Hays and his brother Hinkle Hays ere the senior members. ' The date of which Kays became a Sindtrir lawyer has not yet been established, but a legal directory published by J. C. Fifield in November, 1922, shows the connection had already bee n established at that time. Hays left the cabinet March 4. 1922. Information has also come to the Senate Committee to the effect that Hinkle Hays, resident senior member of the firm in Sullivan, has grown wealthy during the past few years. Insurance Charters Granted Charters were granted today by Thomas S McMurriay Jr., State insurance commissioner, to the White River Farmers Mutual Insurance Company, Washington, and to the Mutual Home Fire Insurance Company, Dale.

Witness Has No Evidence, but Relates Gossip Which Bartered Presidency as Stake for Control of * Nation’s Natural Resources, MAGNATE RAISES FUNDS FOR HARDING IN 1920 Wood Turned Down Offer as 'Shady Deal,’ Tiffin Gilmore Tells Senate Committee —Carmi Thompson Linked With Rumors, By PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent W ASHINGTON, March 19.—Determined to learn how much politics and oil were mixed in the 1920 presidential campaign, the Senate oil committee today began its investigation of rumors that the presidency that year was the bribe offered in exchange for control of the Nation’s natural resources.

Tiffin Gilmore, an Ohio State official, who was in the Wood campaign at the Republican national convention at Chicago In 1920, opened this phase of the investigation by relating rumors he heard that Gen. Leonard Wood had been offered support for the nomination if he would let oil interests name the Secretary of the Interior in his Cabinet, if elected. Gilmore had no evidence: only stories repeated to him by an individual he described as a “Wood publicity man from Des Moines, lowa.” Acj cording to his story Wood turned the ! proposal down as a “shady deal.” I, The witness did not know whether i Jake Hamon, Oklahoma oil promotion | and politician had been involved as | related by Leonard Wood, Jr. Conversation Is Vague He told of a conversation with Carj mi Thompson of Ohio, a Harding supj porter, about oil lands, but this talk vague It shed no light on the rumors of an oil “deal." ji Gilmore said he went to the last i Republican national convention with | the Columbus contingent that was i with General Leonard Wood. He was associated with the Wood forces during the primaries. “What story did the publicity man tell you?” “The story about the offer toGeneral Wood was that big oil operators had offered their delegates to Wood if he would allow them to name the Secretary of the Interior.” Gilmore said. “I do not know who made the offer to General Wood. I could not even swear that he was approached.” “What oil companies at that convention?" Senator Bursum asked. "Did you gather the impression that Jake Hamon had something to do with this deal?” Hamon Mentioned “I don’t know what oil companies were there. Ido think, however, that a young man named Motter told me Hamon was mixed up in It. Motter was from Oklahoma but not a delegate.” "Who was around Wood headquarters?” Walsh asked Gilmore. - "George Sunday, Billy Sunday's son: Charles 11. Gerrish. Haro' E. Wolf. George Berber. Harry A. McKenzie, General Glenn, U. S. A. retired,” Gilmore said. “Did you see Carmi Thompson (Harding backer) coming home from the convention?” Walsh asked. “Relate what conversation you had with him.”

Failure to Prosecute Texas Lottery Is Center of Interest in Trial of Daugherty

Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 19.—Senate investigators of Attorney General Daugherty today hunted facts concerning charges the Department of Justice refused to prosecute lottery concerns in Texas, in spite of repeated reports to Washington the law was being violated. The inquiry centered around inquiries of the activities of the United Home Builders in Texas and the reluctance of Federal District Attorney Seweifel to proceed against the concern without direct orders from Washington.' Ruling Is Made From 1. D. Dawkins, postal inspector at Dallas, the committee finally learned prosecution of this concern was withheld because an assistant attorney general attached to the postoffice department had rendered an opinion holding that, with certain changes, ihe operations of other companies engaged in similar activities would be satisfactory to the postoffice department. This opinion. Dawkins said, was believed to have hurt any chances of conviction against the United Home Builders. Following the examination of Dawkins, the committee adjourned until 10 a. m., Thursday. Will Substaitnate Charges Aroused by charges against her character made by Daugherty. Roxte Stinson, divorced wife of Jesse Smith, is prepared to substantiate her sensational testimony of money deals between Smith and Daugherty when

Forecast MOSTLY cloudy tonight. Thursday unsettled, probably rain or snow. Not much change in temperature. Lowest tonight near freezing.

TWO CENTS

"There were rumors-around the convention that a deal had been made about Government lands. I said, ‘what did you want that land for?’ and Thompson said ‘the Indians want to live on It.’ I asked him if it was oil land. He said it had never been tested. Another man in the compiartment then spoke up and said two wells already had been drilled and more would be drilled right away.” Spied by Publicity Man “Where did you hear about it?” “I think a young publicity man around the Wood headquarters first mentioned to me somebody had approach him about a deal for ’lands’.” “To what lands did you refer.” “My impression was that it was land adjoining Bakersfield, Cal. I had never heard of Teapot Dome at that time.” “You know nothing but gossip about the supposed oil deal?” "That's all ” Walsh asked if the story about the offer to Wood gave the reply made by Wood.” “The man who related it to me said AVood turned it down. He said Wood walked up and down the room several times and said ‘boys, it’s a shady deal and I’ll have nothing to do with it. They’ll have to beat me on the floor of the convention,' ” replied Gilmore. “What did you suppose the deal was about?” Senator Dill asked. “I supposed it was about oil lands. I knew it was reported that lands were to be opened.” Oil Man Called After Gilmore completed his brief recital Col. James G. Dardefl, head of the Mutual Oil Company, began a story of collecting campaign funds for Harding's primary contest. “Did you aid In any way to help Mr. Harding's nomination?” Darden was asked. "Yes, I raised some money from my friends for the primary campaign —some of them Democrats.” “It appeared from some of the documents jou at one time acquired interest to certain claims in Teapot Dome.” “We got 150 acres in Teapot Dome, but tried with the Interior Department to get it changed, because we thought at that time it would never be thrown open. “President Wilson's brother was hired as our attorney. We went before Secretary Payne and he gave us rights to another 160 acres in Teapot Dome.”

she returns to the stand Thursday. She will be fortified by the documents which Daugherty charged she tried to sell his friends for $150,000. Wheeler said witnesses are increasing at such a rate that It may fie next week before Secretaries Mellon and Weeks will be called regarding charges of liquor deals and the aircraft case, in which Gaston B. Means, former Department of Justice agent, said Jesse Smith got SIOO,OOO from a Japanese firm. BURNS STRIKES BACK Secret Service Head Denies Story About Dempsey Fight Films. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. March 18.—William J. Burns, head of the Department of Justice 3ercet service, today struck back at Gerald O. Holdridge of Baltimore, for his testimony before the Senate Daughei-ty investigating committee. Burns said Holdridge was dismissed after he had been arrested for an affray In a roadhouse near Troy, N. Y., and was reinstated on pleas of himself and wife, "It was apparent to me,” said Burns, "that Holdridge was under the impression he had impressed me with the Muma story. Asa matter of fact, the fight films were promptly Investigated by our agents in every State in the country where they were shown, and arrests were made and the matter placed in the hands of United States district attorneys.”