Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1924 — Page 1

I Homne Editiomi ■ TT? ULL service ot the United BL* Press, the NEA Service, the Newspaper AlI liance and the Scripps-Paine I Service.

VOLUME 35—NUMBER 276

■MF OF pi. 0. P. PLOT L IS PLEDGED Benator Walsh Says He Will ■ Produce Witnesses to Bear ■ Out Story of Conspiracy to ■ Name Secretary of Interior S in 1920. Sinclair bail fixed at I $5,000 ON INDICTMENT ■ One Associate of Late Jake I Hanion Substantiates Al I Jennings’ Testimony, While k Another Denies Truth of Statements. “Jl'.M MAR i I Jake Hamon substantiates la ■ Daugherty by 'he late oil magnate. ■ Brton to investi-- ite S-<- ,-tary Mellon. i 11< : i• -* <-ii ■ uiitcmpt HnufM, urges speedy trial. Bail is at $5 000. ■ By PAUL R. MALLOX H I'nit'd Prrs* staff t'orretpcnilrtit ■ WASHINGTON, April 1 HSenator Thomas J. Walsh declared at the Senate oil comraitBee hearing today he expected to ■prove a conspiracy, led to apHiointment of,“a Secretary of Inferior” and subsequent lease of ■the Government. naval oil re■6erves through that appoint■uent. Walsh, during a discussion in the HK>mmlttee. told Senators Stanfield, r\ _ egon Republican that he Intended HLproduc* witnesses to bear ot. ; h!s Mgaf* 4 tit'* ' :r. Wale-. Find rjSSSSm ' ;.e nvijnT •" JMkWT-. 19*0 P. II ~ed. ■ wjrtSßfosn T n* ■ • HBfJHSJ.'' W'te-i.-n at’ * 1 RUSMiCt.'e :-'"d tSMSrut iHnjroy • fcs©3ofe-ar<s'?;g v•• • • • irr yUfu le!I ,f ( < .1 1 % {■■ !<n r< yGnqrj. which t.H.k •;•<< a *U | ()J i 'I UflKnet M> !l--i i'-t-Fc. of a Vr see you put it over.’ lie said, ’Ves, ■ had good lie I got what I went ■ e'ter.’ I asked turn how he did it. ■He said the committee was broke and I he made it up." I Senator Walsh asked Wilson if I Harnon referred to Harding’s camI paign fund. “Yes. he said he gate $25,000 to the Maind through Harry Daugherty, ile say. however, just what he ex gain by it." ■ -- b> S- ■ a tors .-pentS^Wj^Vsour. Republ:- an. and StanyjMiOC'regoll. lb-: ati. failed to LdpjMjHrhe wiuie.-.;.-- • ~r- n-. was RSySr, :ured. l >ych- ■ Hi nag- f;, • I: when iiafighting .1.: • Me':raw for a the R-pubiic.u; national eomwas stand -Uor Stanfield. said he is now a prohibition

Bin earns to me in 1920 and e to manage his campaign,” aid. "1 was a delegate and l of the Oklahoma delegation the Republican national eon.arted to elect a joint General mon delegation, but Wood ay from Hamon early in the r e then asked for selection of ates personally for Hamon. elegates Ininstructed s far as a pledge for a preei nominee, we were unin- * said Hamon didn’t attend the ns meetings and never atto control the delegation, edged ourselves to Louden of he said. ou read A1 Jennings story In (Continued on Page 2) SON BILL PASSED s Puymente to Civil and Indian War \ etcrUns. A Press \pril I.—The Sen passed 111, Bursurn pension vote pensions of Civil and Indian MHgpHrerans from SSO to $72 a month 9 the pension of their widows Appropriation measure is estimated at

‘FIRSTS' of APRIL

SPORTSMEN FOOLED Bti I'nited Prcxs WASHINGTON, April I.—April fooled them all. Golfers were all set to go today, when the municipal courses were to open. “Sports" and real horse lovers were just waiting for the day, as it marks the opening of Maryland’s spring race meeting at the Bowie race track. And then it snowed. And rained. And hailed. And sleeted. Gentle spring’s April fool joke. WEDDING OFF Bit L'nit-a Prrx KANSAS CITY, Mo., April I. “April fool,” said Norman Frazier to his bride-to-be when arrested two hours before his scheduled marriage to Mrs. Alma Derr. Frazier admitted passing worthless checks on a Lafayette (Ind.) bank. ‘CALL AGAIN' By l'Kilt'd Prrsx CHICAGO, April 1 —The yeggs who broke into the office of the Chicago Journeymen Bargers’ Union did not realize the significance of April 1 until they cracked the safe. Three 1-cent stamps, two old shaving brushes and a bar of soap were on a. card bearing the words “Call again.” Fiank Hango, secretary, anticipated a burglary and prepared. DOUBLE-CROSS Hello! This is police headquarters."answered Fred Houcks, station operator. “There's a terrible shooting out here at Oxford St. and Oakland Ave.,” shouted a feminine voice. “Oakland We. and Oxford St.?” queried Loueks. "Why those two streets don't c ross each other, they run-parallel. Are you sure you have the street right?” "Sure they cross each other on April Fool day,” was the reply. NOT LEW Political dopesters should get a kick out of this: Shank today filed declaration of candidacy for State Senator! Twasn't Samuel Lewis, though. H. Lyle Shank. Angola, is the new aspirant, and a Republican, too. MONEY THERE Old Mother Hubbard sprung this surprise today at the Sjtatehouse as employes were wondering if the $!45.000 pay roll would be met. The cupboard of the general fund bad a balance of $225.580. HE'S STUCK John 11. Shulz, like a good citizen, went to police headquarters immediately when be found a stick er notifying him he had violated the traffic code. A policeman examined the sticker and smiled as he handed It back to Shulz. It was sighed by a friend of Shulz instead of an officer. MISSING BOY NEAR HOME Police Asked to Search for lad Who Comes Back to Change Clothes. Thomas Barton. Twenty-Second and School St., today asked police to aid In finding his son. Junior, 12. who has been missing since March 28, and who Barton believes is hiding in the neighborhood. Barton said evidence showed the boy ivul returned home Monday and changed clothes while his mother was away. •MYSTERY' IS EXPOSED Brian! Saiulo and Harold Noble Are Gyro Club Knterfajners. Briant San do and Harold Noble, boosters for the Gyro Club luncheon at the Lincoln today, exposed "The Mystery of the Great Whatisit," to the great mirth of members. Wayne P Westfall, president of the Tabulating Machine Company, is a new member.

GASOLINE JAKES OVER $3,000^330 170,405,600 Gallons Are Sold in Nine Months, State gasoline tax collections for nine months ending Feb. 29 totalled $3,403,1 12. Charles J. Benjamin, collection chief, announced today. This shows 170,405.600 gallons sold in the period. Tax rate is 2 cents a gallon. Benjamin said the showing since the law went into effect last summer leads him to believe the collections for a year will far exceed the $4,500,000 total originally estimated. Collections for February, reported in March, were $227,823, lowest of the period. January total was $273,860. All of the money goes to the State highway department. PUMPER DRAINING STREET Fire Apparatus Used to "Dry Up” Flood in Broad Ripple. The Broad Ripple fire department has been pressed into service to pump water from the street at Sixty-Sixth St. and College Ave. The water has hacked up from sewers and is several feet deep. The pumper has *been working since Monday. No damage was reported. Firemen said the "flood” wae receding.

CITY TO SEE CAR COMPANY ABOUT PAVING TANGLE Resolutions for Improveemnts Useless if Railway Can Not Guarantee to Do Work Between Tracks, NEEDS TOTAL $400,000 Important Street Work Is Held Up by Utility’s Failure to Cooperate. If the Indianapolis street railway cannot guarantee to pave tracks, resolutions for street improvements will be useless, and city traffic wijl ! be held up, John L. Klliott. city en j gineer, says in a letter to the boaul | of works. 1 . The board decided tn confer with I street car officials. Klliott estimates I that needed street improvements will ! cost $400,000. of which W 25.000 rep- ! resents cost of pa\ing between tracks. Law requires the car company to | lay original paving between tracks | when the rest of a street is paved j and to hear excess cost of track re j surfacing when material and labor | costs are higher for 'he track section j than the vehicle section of the street. Streets needing immediate pernui- | nent improvecent delayed by failure < of the utility to assure paving be- ; tween t'ne car tracks: Forty-Second St. from Boulevard PI. to Hat ghey St., Pennsylvania St. | from Forty-Sixth to Fifty-Fifth St. Roosevelt Ave. from Hillside Ave. to j Temple Ave., W. Tenth St. from ] I ersiung to Tibbs Ave., Harding S: from Twenty-First to Twenty-Seven’!; St. Howard St. from Belmont to Pershing Ave. Minnesota St. from j Shelby to Harlan St . Twenty i Sevent l ' St fro.n Northwestern Ac, !to Clifton St.. Twenty-Seventh St ! from Harding St to Parkway Drive. Streets needing resurfacing: Michigan St. from Noble St. to ! Tacoma Ave , Noble St. from C’hio to Michigan St., Pennsylvania St. from | Ohio to St. Clair St. St from dhio to Sixteenth St.. Senate Ave. from Tenth to Twenty-Fir ;t Si., ! Central Ave. from Twenty-First St. j io Fall Creek. Shelby St. M'CRAY JUROR BACKS UP But Not on Evidence—lie Just Had An Embarrassing Accident Much to the amusement of those in i the Criminal Court room, M. I? Ruv, one of the jurors in the trial of Governor Warren T. McCray, hacked into the jury box and hacked out. today. "Trousers are torn," the whisper went the rounds of the roont NO, THANK YOU. SIR! Board of Safety Frowns on Tear Gas Bombs as Police W eapons. | Indianapolis cops will net be armed with tear gas masks and bomba. At least not for a while. The board of safety had a proposal i today from a firm manufacturing such i equipment. But the board members | dodged, us the various devices clicked | in the demonstration. MORE ‘CANNED HEAT' Three More Die in Toledo, Bringing Death Toli to Ten. I Bi/ I’nilrd Prrsw TOLEDO, Ohio, April I.—Three more persons died of "canned heat” ! today, bringing the total n igober of fatalities in “heat” orgies to ten here j within the last forty-eight hours, j On Sunday night and Monday seven i men died from the effects of drinking ! “canned heat.”

‘BONDED WHISKY SEIZED’ Four Are Named by Police in Liquor Violation Charges. Police say they seized fifty two quart bottles labeled “Bonded Whisky” when they raided 1244 E. Tenth St. Lieut. Stoddard rind squad filed a blind tiger charge, .lames Long. 36, was held. Others named in similar charges: Leonard Volver, 30, rear of 411 W. North St.: Len Wickard, 34, of 705 N. Emerson Ave., and Carrie Bradley, 26, colored, of POLICE NAB 13 SOLDIERS Unlucky Number Found in Alleged Gambling Raid. Thirteen soldiers from Ft. Harrison, three civilians, and two women were slated at city prison today following a raid on the home of John McGillivary, 26. of 204 Thiele Terrace, 624 N. Capitol Ave. He is charged with keeping a gaming house, the others with visiting a gaming house and gaming. Carl Raymond,, / 32; Lena McGilllvary, 21, Juanita Freels, 23, of the Capitol Ave. address and John Wilson, 21, giving his address at 4212 Broadway, were the civilians. YOUNG GIRL SOUGHT Mary Tyler Reported Missing From Aunt’s Home in Cincinnati. Cincinnati police arc searching for MIU Mary Leona Tyler, 14, daughter of Mrs. Blanche Greathouse of Indianapolis. according to dispatches received here today. She is reported to be missing from the home of Mrs Alice Ream of Cincinnati since Sunday. Mrs. Grea* house ii said to be in Cincinnati.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAYf APRIL 1, 1924

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CHEMICAL BLAST BURNS TWO MEN G, & J, Employes Hurt — Laboratory Wrecked, Two chemists were burned today in a chemical explosion which wrecksd the inside of a house used as a labo ratory at the G. & J. Tire Company, 216 R Noble St., and blew off the entire north side of the frame building. The Injured• Arthur H. Becker. 28. of 1799 Arrow Ave. Royal Wot ring, 25. of Roseville, Ind.. rooming at the Y. M. t\ A. Both men, burned about the arms and head, were taken to the cornpar y’s hospital. It wns thought Becker’s burns might be serious. Becker anfl Wot ring were on the second floor, re-distilling carbon bisulphide, when the cap of the still blew off. According to Wotring and J. E. Cady, 53 'Whittier Place, head chemist, w ho was on the first floor and escaped injury, cither hot steam pipes heating the still, or a. hot plate in the next room. Ignited the carbon bisulphide fumes. The explosion occurred at noon, when hundreds of employes were leaving the plant. T. A. Jordan, superintendent, said damage probably would be several hundred dollars. The side of the building which was blown out fell In one large piece. Postofrict, Takes in $342,255 Total receipts of the Indianapolis postoffioe for March were announced today by Robert Bryson, postmaster, as $342,255 81. an increase of $5,605.17 over March, 1923.

‘RALSTON PS. COOLIDGE ’

By CHARLES P. STEWART NKA Service Writer April I. \a/ Coolidge versus Ralston! J Washington politicians have about made up their minds that these- two men will lead, respectively, the Republican and Democratic tickets in November. Despite all the investigations, Coolidge is accepted as a foregone conclusion. Ralston is regarded merely as the best bet: not, like Coolidge, as a. certainty. McAdoo’s victory in Georgia is considered nearly to have ruined Underwood without helping McAdoo much. And La Follette! The politicians speak of a third ticket as beyond question now. Nobody mentions anybody but La Follette as its head. Some politicians say the Wisconsin Senator will draw as

April Fool!

Utopia By I nil id Prrsg BUENOS AIRES. April I.—Sal anes without work—a monetary millennium —come true in the Argentine today. Under the new pensions law. effective totbiy, everyone who has worker! for twenty-five years for anyone ip any capacity is en titled to toil no more and to receive the full salary he w-as earning at the time as a life pension.

DRIVER IS SENTENCED Pharos Ovimiai, Fined and Given Thirty Buys in Jail. • Pharos Overman. 843 N. a Salle St., was fined $25 and costs on a speeding charge and $1 ana costs and thirty days in jail on a charge of assault and baitery today In city court. Police say the car he was driving March 2(1 struck Kenneth De Ford, 7, of 915 E. St. Clair St., at Massachusetts Ave. and Bellefontaine St. The boy suffered concussion of the brain, evidence showed. TRACTION PROFIT LIGHT Union Railway Company Shows Gain in 1923 Report. The Indianapolis ft Martinsville Rapid Transit Company, operated by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company, made a profit of only $291.43 In 1923, according to the annual report of the former company, filed today with the public serv—ice commission. Operations of the Indianapolis Union Railway Company secured financially by the Big Four railway and the Pittsburgh. Cincinnati. Chicago & St. Ix>uis Railway, netted the company $228,920 during 1923, the annual report, also filed today, showed. The Income represents an Increase of $48,781 over the 1922 total.

many votes from Democrats as from Republicans, but few think so. T.a Follette will get the "ultras” from both parlies, but the Republicans are \Vorse split than the Democrats. The investigations have aggravated mutters in the Republican ranks. They’ve damaged certain Democrats, too, but even the damaged Democrats can’t blame much of anybody in their own party for it. The damaged Republicans can and do. For Instance, Daugherty thinks the Republican ‘‘organization" ought to have done something to help him. All the others who are in Daugherty's fix feel the same way. E. B. McLean is one of them. In his newspaper, the Washington Post, he said the other day: “Members of the Republican party are daaed and shamed by

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LDDEKDORFf FREE IN TREASON CASE Hitler and Associates Are Found Guilty. Hu I tittrd Press MUNICH, April i.—General Ludencorf!' was acquitted today on a charge of treason for his share in the embryonic beer cellar putsch of November, 1923. Adolf Hitler, one of eight other defendants, was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment. Troops and special police kept people moving on the- streets and broke up all gatherings of two or more, fearful of a nationalist, demonstration. j Word that General Ludendorff had : l een freed was received with en- ; thusiasm. Reichwher, marching with rifles on I their shoulders and "potato masher’' i hand grenades stuffed in their belts | prevented any outburst, i Os the defendants, Ludendorff was 1 (lie only one completely exonerated. Hitler, together with Weber, Kriebel and Poehner, was found guilty of high treason.! They were fired 200 gold marks and sentenced to five years in the fortress. The remaining defendants. Bruck ner, Rcehm, Parnet. Wagner and Frick, were found guilty of aiding high treason. They were fined 190 gold marks each and sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment. These latter sentences were immediately commuted and the defendants will be released on probation. HOURLY TEMPERATURE C a. ni........ 25 JO a. m 29 7 a. m 26 11 a. m 30 8 a. m 26 12 (noon) 31 9 a. m 28 1 p. m 31

the lack of leadership in their organization. What is the matter with the Republican leaders? There is beginning to be a widespread belief that there is corruption back of the silence w'hich the leaders fear to face.” Coming from “Ned” McLean, this is interpreted in political circles as meaning that the Republicans, the investigations have hit hardest, plan to resent being sacrificed. President Coolidje did try to get Congress’ mind off investigations, by suggesting haste with legislation, so there can be an adjournment June 1. But all the party leaders agree three isn't a ehunce of this. The Democrats and Progressives won’t permit anything but a recess for the conventions. They mean to keep on investigating all summer. Being in a minority, the Republicans t stop them.

B oFmeyiji AS IMS! MM Former Agriculture | Board jfpjb Admits Governor Gave Him! for Between S6OO and s7oH| That He Kept It at Home.^J SECURITY WAS TURNED OvN SINCE TRIAL OPENING J Defense Attorneys Question : smm Upon Testimony in Federal I ruptcy Hearing—Negative Upon Conversations. v B A rinic. existence of which never before has '•••*i'*’l- figured in the testimony of I. Newt former secretary-treasurer of the''lndiana..boaitf.'-■BKS& who still was on the witness stand in Criminal'.‘Cbart'pKj the trial of Governor Warren T. McCray, charged with. eS ment and grand larceny. Brown testified, on cross-examination, that MgGrajlj given him a note for between S6OO and S7OO, as interest oJ !>OO turned over to the Governor by the board. -- s.l He testified that, although he had severed his concl with the board on -Tan. 10, 1924, he did not turn the note ql the board until after the start of the present trial. He si was not sure whether he had ever entered the note on the! of the board. He said he thought he had told Harry M. "f Siu*lbyvilie. former president of the board, about the JK On Advice of Attorney The Attorney General of Indiana, Brown said, him i" take the note for interest. * &JH The defense looked upon this revelation as a f"nv attorneys declared that acceptance of the note fHwjp . showed the money tin ned over to the Governor was }n|ljg|||[.i loan to him, not as a deposit in the Discount and Bank Kent land, of which McCray formerly was tin* prosecution contends. Michael A. Ryan, one of the defense attorneys, etTnrts to shake Brown's story that the money was iffijjjjlfl the hank. Ryan asked about conversations alleged to have IfLjp' t ween Brown and members of the board. In s <iid that Ryan had quoted conversations “Dd you say, on occasions when 3soberty i .o i lie Governor wanted some more money?” Said More Than That v "1 sai ’ more than that,” Brown replied. ’’You never did say to Mr. Moberly that the Govern®;;, sum,- more money for his b a uk?'’ HB| "1 think l did say it,” Brown replied. , C 1 He paused, and then added: “I won't be positivejjH I cannot recall.” * "Did you ever call the Discount and Deposit bIB time to make inquiries as to certificates of deposit fSjPeSf two $25,000 cheeks?” "Yes. sir: about July 25 or ”Did you not testify, under oath, in the Federal fpSjggi bearing, that you never called the Discount and Pi3ba?2 and never talked to anyone about the certificates of eept ttic Governor?”

“I don’t remember.” ‘lf you did, it was not true?” ‘lt was not.” Talked With Cashier "Whom did you talk to about certificates of deposit?” “To Amos D. Morris, casher of the bank.” “Do you know that Morris testified to this jury that you never ask,ed for certificates of deposit?” Eph Inmaai, attorney for the prosecution, objected to the question, declaring that Morris had made no such statement. The objection was sustained by Special Judge Harry - O. Chamberlin. Ryan then continued hkr questioning. "What did Morris say to you?” he asked. “He said that no money ever came to the bank from the board of agriculture.” “Did you ever ask the ; defendant for certificates of deposit for checks given him on June 11, July 27 and July 13?" “No, sir.” "You never inquired of the bank about these transactions?” "No, sir.” Monev Was Paid Back ‘‘Was thi: Anoney paid back?" “Tes, sir. “You didn’t receive any money from the Discount and Deposit Bank?’’ "No. sir." "Did you ever mceive anything frorp., the defendant for interest on these nAr ligations?” • • ; JS "Yea. sir.’’ ' v "He gave you a note payable tojfdm and indorsed by Jrn?” ff "For how For six ™ rsJm tilllllsSlfe

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note on the books of thefj&rX “I am not sure about JuTjyl “When did you retire fifQfUaF ice of the board?” * ”On Jan. 10. 1934.” “You did not turn this (Continued on PagfClfeg! ——— ■ JMt SNOW IN EX® OF APRIL II y——-JhISaSSS Weather Man Then Rejenlf*?sM When m'Oi'e than flhe snowfall pbmß on<* ffejP weather ‘■‘ma.ri thinks that daSL’ enough April fool joke, so l*NhJ. that tonight- and to*o.orr<-M clear with rising tempera;. ’4 The average snowfall fo&ggS .8 inched'but apob* G*lar and Monday 2.2 incSiks. TW heaviest ’April, fording,H. meieoroJd&Uhi ’2* 5 inches fell, - •“.It. It * bit, f fj’.u, ton. \ one April mgwf; ipßfap 'xAni! * nearly was jn May. - White .River is & here, ff hadtfellen 3. ‘j.*j Mondsyi i In t&L souther?!*; L-. , J , y /?>-• KJ Lm a