Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 299, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1924 — Page 2

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INJURIES IN FALL PROVE FATAL TO PIONEERCITIZEN William H, Cook, 70, Died Sunday at Meridian St. Home.

With the death Sunday of William H. Cook, 70, at his homo, 946 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis lost a pioneer

business man. Mr. Cook was vice president of the Fahnley - McCrea ■Wholesale Milli nery Company. He had been associated the company more than fifty years. He entered the employ of the company as a young man and worked his way to the vice presidency. Mr. Cook was born In Indianapolis and had spent his entire life here.

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Death was the result of a fractured skull received in a fall. April 19. While on his way home he was seized with a fainting spell, falling to the sidewalk. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Mary Ip, Cook: one son. Norman W. Cook of Englewood, N. J . and a daughter. Mrs. Margaret XikoJoric, also of Englewood. He was a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Wood Stock and Contemporary Clubs. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Burial in Crown Hill cemtery.

HAMON'S AMBITION TO GAIN CABINET ? COST BIS LIFE

Woman Who Would Not Be ~ Shelved Fired Fatal Bullet. By United Press r; OKLAHOMA CITY, April 2*.—Jake ! JJamon’s ambition to be a Cabinet Member, brought to the fore once again the son of Gen. Leonard Wood, cost Hamon his life. Believing high offidaj position was coming to him in the Harding Administration, Hamon suddenly sought respectability—and got a bullet for Ms pains. |=He died of a shot fired from a little fejfcr-■pearl-handled "22” held by the wornTan who had done more than any other person in the world *o make Hamon Tpeh and powerful: wno saw him grow, £ rough many hardships, from a cheap :aj politician to a position close to 4£fce Republican throne —the woman refused to be shelved. . Z The son of General Wood tells how Hamon offered to deliver delegates to -Wood in the 19-0 convention if Wood Would promise to make Hamon Secretary of the Interior in event of Wood’s Bornination and election. * General Wood refused to promise, to his son. Riding on Crest However, that may be, when the JSardlng wave started Jake Hamon wa3 riding the crest. And when it Landed he was high in the councils of the mighty. yFrom his ample bankroll he had put up the cash with which to pay sfer the Harding convention headTfuarters. He was a buddy of Harry M. Daugherty, then the master-mind of the Harding organization. Then, during the fall campaign of 1920, Hamon staged the spectacular LHarding speaking trip Into Oklahoma, defraying personally much of the expense, and turning into the Republican camp a State that had always been a part of the solid South. ;By election time Hamon’s power -With the administration that was to be, was unquestioned. He expected to be made Secretary of the Interior and so told his friends. Reputation Only Barrier T The only barrier was Hamon’s personal reputation. And nobody iisalized that barrier any more than Hamon himself. A hard drinker, a bard gambler, and an ardent and unjfbcretive chaser after women, he was mot ideally fitted to assume an office of greet dignity and supposedly smug Respectability. i Clara Smith had been Hamon’s secure tary. She had been his political and Efinancial adviser. ■To gain what he knew he needed Harder to realize his dream of ed office, he must patch up the iSSCJkttion with his wife who was jJrYW* 1,000 miles away in Chicago. must act quickly, for March approaching. Many quarrels with Clara Smith Yellowed. Shooting Announced • Then, late one night, it was an--aounced Hamon, while cleaning a gun , preparatory to a hunting trip, had shot himself accidentally. He was taken to a hospital, and in a -few days he died, still sticking to his # (ttory of the accidental shooting. But after his death the true fact ’ Was revealed. chra Smith had fired the bullet that ended the political career of r the multimillionaire. Clara Smith, after one of the most Sensational murder trials in court history, was acquitted. She admitted firing the shot, but pleaded justifiable :<sause. And so Jake Hamon parsed out of the making room for Albert B. FhlL The belated ambition for respectability had proved fatal.

Speeders Gamble With Death in This Section

TERRITORY BOUNDED BY WASHINGTON, WEST, SIXTEENTH STS. AND WHITE RIVER. STREETS LEFT UNSHADED ARE GOOD. BLACK PORTIONS ARE STREETS IN BAD SHAPE. DOTTED SECTIONS INDICATE FAIR STREETS AND PARALLEL LINES INDICATE PLACES WHERE STREET PAVING IS ROUGH BETWEEN TRACKS.

Citizens of the district shown in the sixth section of The Times street survey can at least be satisfied speeders won't roar up and down their streets. Mounds and sinkholes in their unpaved streets prevent any kind of comfortable travel. The city is patching Indiana Ave. with asphalt, but branching off on

O’CONNOR EONERAL TO BE WEDNESDAY

Vice President of Furniture Company Dead, ■£ Funeral services of C. A. 60. of 4461 Park Ave., vice president of Thomas Madden Son and Company, who died Sunday,

will be held at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Wednesday at 9 a. m. Private burial services will be held at the Holy Cross Cemetery. Mr. O'Connor was ex-president of the -National Upholstered Furniture Association and the Indianapolis Furniture Associations. He was a member of the Indianapolis

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Athletic Club, Chamber of Commerce, K. of C., and Traffic Club. He sang In the SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral choir for many years, but at the time of his death was a member of the St. Joan of Arc church. Mr. O’Conor was born In Louisville, Ky., but had lived In Indianapolis since 1889. Th"se surviving: the widow, five sons, George TANARUS., H. P., Loulsß., R. M., and the Rev. E. C. O’Connor of the SS. Peter and Paul Church and two daughters. Miss Florence and Mrs. L. C. McNamara, all of this city. Peeper Runs, Breaks Leg A boy who police say is Marshall Richard Gioscio, 39, of 1921 College Ave., Is in city hospital today suffering with a broken leg. Police say the young man was caught peeping at the home of Thomas Walters, 1539 E. Thirty-Fifth St. After being challenged the lad ran and broke his leg when he stepped In a hole.

Rich and Poor Pay Homage to Murphy

By FRANK GETTY (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, April 28. —Past the sidewalks of New York where stood with bowed heads and tear dimmed eyes thousands he had befriended, the funeral cortege of Charles F. Murphy carried the remains of the dead Tammany leader to their last resting place today. Up from the teeming east side where the clatter and roar of traffic was stilled for an instant as the smoothly rolling black limousines went by. to the cool sweeps of Fifth Avenue and the lofty height of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the solmen procession moved- And in the pro-, cesion and on the sidewalks of both sections were men and women of all avenues of life who owed much to Charlie Murphy and tearfully acknowledged that gratitude today. Prince of Politics Murphy had been a prince of politics indeed; power he wrested from the rich; Jobs he gave to the poor. Probably no other individual ever provided personally so many joos and thus won so many friends. Undemonstrative and aloof in life, MuJfjiy would permit effusiveness from no one; after his death the pent-up gratitude welled forth. The voice of the city was husheu;

every hand are unkept dirt streets just as they were when winter traffic left long, deep ruts. Not a single city truck was seen grading these streets when The Times investigated. On W. Walnut St citizens said they had not seen any trucks working this year on unpaved r,„ii-?ts. Michigan St. has rough car tracks

Unusual Feat Performed in Sawing of Paper

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Sawing in two a roll of news print paper seventy-two inches long, thirty-two inches in diameter and weighing 1,300 pounds in five and one-half minutes Is an unusual feat performed for the Times by the Indianapolis Sawed Veneer Company, 224 W. Fourteenth St. FIRE AND SHOTS PROBED Chauffeur Says He Used Gun on Man Seen Running l Yom Garage. Brooks Storms, 20, chauffeur for Dr. Clarinda Jeter, 2230 VV. Michigan St., was questioned today following a fire at the physician’s home, in which an auto was damaged. Storms said he fired at a man he saw running from the garage. William Euless, 510 N. Sheffield Ave., and Mrs. Grace Dickerson, 511 N. Shes-

so many men and women, officials and employes attended the funeral that there was virtual cessation pt city business. It was probably the most extraordinary demonstration ever accorded a private citizen. In the procession rode the justices of the Supreme Court in a body, aldermen,’members of the boards of estimate and the heads and staffs of the district attorney's office. There was Governor A1 Smith and his aids, representatives of the Army and Navy, and politicians of national fame who played the bigger game with Murphy. Shabby Pay Tribute But in the silent line that passed the still figure in the coffin and in the back benches at the cathedral and on the sidewalks as Murphy passed for the last time, there were tired-faced scrub women and laborers and crippled elevator men and others in shabby regalia, all with a last prayer of thanks for what “Charley'' had done for them. The scene around the brown-stone house on the easte side park where Murphy lived and died was a remarkable one. Here, indeed, rich and -poor rubbed elbows in a tightpacked, orderly throng tha t stretched for blocks In all directions from the home

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practically all the way out. W. New York St. is rough. Many of the streets north of Michigan 9t. and west of the Long Hospital are only trails through dumping grounds and vacant lots. Washington St. has rough sections west of the river where car track paring protrudes in the way of all vehicle traffic. •*

SAWING A PAPER ROLL

The Times ran short on the smaller rolls of paper and as It took two men two and a half hours to saw one of the big rolls in two, a quickc-r methodAvas sought. J. D. Marls, Fifty Seventh St. and Michigan Road, president of the I field, said they heard shots. Loss was estimated at $2,5u9. Hold-Up Men Get S4B. Police are searching for the two colored men who held up William Cook, 664 E. Seventeenth St., and took S4B and a watch at Nineteenth St., and Cornell Ave. Saturday. A pickpockets obtained s£o from Edward Norton. 2025 College Ave., $26 from Mrs. Della Gasserly, 814 N. Temple Ave., and sl6 from John Miller, 3301 E. Thirtieth St.

Beside the silk hats and frock coats of the west side, worn even In solemnity with that jaunty air that only an Irishman can impart, there were the cape and flannel shirts of the east side. The brogue of old Ireland ran through the throng, thickening where the white-haired mourners of Tammany stood at the steps as the, casket was carried down. This was the clan that Murphy ruled for twenty-two years. * Widow Heaves lied The widow rose courageously from bed for the first time since she was t*Jd of her husband’s death and came uown stairs to take her part in the last ceremony. Heavily veiled, she was escorted to a limousine. * A thunderous spluttering from the motorcycles of the police escort signalled the start of the procession. As it moved northward, all traffic was stopped and people came running to windows and stood bareheaded on either side of the muddy, cobble-stoned streets where the man they honored today had played as a boy and driven a horse car before he rose to political power. After services at St. Patrick's the remains were to be buried in Calvary cemetery.

ARRAIGN HUSBAND ALLEGED TO RAVE FED WIFE GERMS

Authorities Charge' New Yorker With Trying to Poison Rich Spouse, By United Press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., April 28.Charles Clarence E. Baring, administered arsenic to his wealthy wife in an attempt to murder her, were to be presented to a grand jury here today as authorities delved deeper into the strange tales of intrigue and jealousy surrounding the life of the couple. District Attorney Arthur Rowland of Westchester County says he has evidence that pneumonia and diphtheria germs were given the wealthy woman. Baring is held -in the county jail without bail and will be arraigned today. \ The authorities charge that for three months Baring—an amateur chemist —fed arsenic and germs to his wife in stuffed dates; malted milk, ginger ale and other foods. They say her frequent illness from the poison first caused suspicion to point toward tpe husband. Mrs. Baring f s described as jeal- \ ous and has accused her husband of relations with another woman. The couple was on the verge of divorce a year ago, but a reconciliation ended with a second honeymoon to Europe, i Friends say Baring is a neurotic ( with a passion for studying chemis-! try. He has a small laboratory In his home. They feel his hobby for chemistry may have resulted In hi 9 experi- j mentlng on his wife. Civic league to Meet i Study of the downtown traffic ■ problem will be made at 8 p. m. Wednesday at a meeting of the j Thirteenth Ward Civic League in the South Side State Bank. 1125 S. Meridian St. Plans for appeal to the ! board of safety for more protection, will be formulated, Joseph L. Doorr, president, said. An effort will be made to obtain additional equipment j for a public playground at S. Meridian I and Kansas Sts.

veneer company, was appealed to and although he said he never had sawed anything but logs, he would undertake the job. The Singer-Davis machine with an action saw was brought into play and just “ate up” the big rolls. Marls is a pioneer veneer man.

THREE LADS LEAVE HOME Prisoner Escapes From Statp Farm With Auto Truck. Police are searching for Ansel Phillips, 14, of 1115 King Ave.; Herbert McWhlrter, 15, of 818 W. New York St., and George Nortnan, 16, of 74.6 N. Bello Vleu PI. The lads left their homes Saturday and their )>arents believe they were headed for North Dakota. Police also, seek George H. Johnson, who escaped from the Indiana State farm Saturday, taking a truck with him. Hoboes Seek Chief HAMMOND, La., April 28.—From Weary Willie Camp, south of here, where the hoboes have gathered for the strawberry picking season, has come a call for Klondike Pete, Kansas City Slim, “boss” of the camp for several years, was killed recently in Kansas, and the hoboes want Klondike Pete to come here and take up the. job where Slim left off last spring. Capital Likes .Jazz WASHINGTON. April 28.—As the result of a careful inquiry and summary of requests received, the District of Columbia radio broadcasting stations state that more than 30 per :ent of llsteners-in want and ask for Jazz music. The class next in demand is "standard” music. First Absent Voter The first absent voter’s ballot cast in the primary election to be held May 6 was that of Otto McCracken, man. About fifteen persons have cast absent voters’ ballots so far. The last day is Saturday. Ballots are obtained at the county clerk's office. Morgan Arrives at London By United Press LONDON, April 28.—J. P. Morgan arriVed here Sunday night from Paris.

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WILLIAM HOYT. ON POLE AND J. P. HUTTO William Hoyt, 2528 E. Eighteenth St., enjoyed the brisk breeze as he painted the flag pole, sixty feet jibove the top of the ten story Terminal Bldg, lloyt and J. P. Hutto are partners in their dangerous business.

SURTAX BATTLE, FORCED BT SMOOT, OPENS IN SENATE

Mellon Proposal for 25 Per Cent Rate Certain to Be Defeated, By United Press WASHINGTON, April 28.—The big tax rate battle is on. After weeks of maneuvering. Senate leaders today unleashed their forces to fight out the income and surtax rates which will be levied next year. Chairman Reed Smoot of the finance committee forced the rate fight when he asked the Mellon proposal for a 25 per cent surtax be brought up for discussion. Democrats Delay Fight The Mellon proposal was put into the bill by the Senate Finatiace Committee after Democrats decided to postpone their opposition until matter reached the floor. They did not wish to delay final disposition of the tax hill by putting up a determined fight in committee because they were confident there were greater chances of victory before the Senate. The Democratic plan is for a 40 per cent surtax. Progressives want 50 per cent which is the present law. The House adopted a 37% per cent compromise Secretary Mellon asks 25 per cent.

Victory for Democrats Indications as the fight got under way were that the Democratic rates, would triumph. Smoot Is determined to force a vote on every possible compromise. When the 25 per cent surtax proposal is defeated —as it is certain to he—Smoot will ask a vote of 30 per cent, then 32 Vi per cent and perhaps even 35 per cent. HEALTH .WEEK .BOOSTED Silent Orator Carries Slogan Urging Care of Children. In (he Interest of children, the "silent orator,” motograph on the Merchants Heat and Light Company building, is carrying a slogan this week as follows: "Children are the real wealth of Indianapolis. Keep them well. The best spring tonics are fresh air, nourishing food, sleep. May day and every day. Child Health week. April 27May 3. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer.” Mbre Indians Yearly WASHINGTON, April 28. — The number of Indians in America is steadily increasing, the annual report of the commissioner of Indian affairs reveals. "Since 1913 the Indian population has increased more than 13,000,” the report says, “until now they number 344,303.’’ Weapons and Change Stolen Four revolvers and a quanlty of small change was stolen from the EmRoe sporting goods store. 209 W. Washington, it was reported to police today. Entrance was gained through a rear door. Blackmail Is Charged Russell F. Shafer. 29, of 111 E. Sixteenth St., professor at the Indiana Dental College, was held by police on blackmail charge. Police said he wrote a letter to a woman offering information about her husband.

Moonshine CHICAGO, April 28—Two more cases of moonshine madness were recorded here today. One man took a dive in the lake and was drowned. The other leaped from a window and was seriously hurt.

FAIR SEX INVASION OF BARBER SHOPS BARS BEST PONS

Women Also Give Tips When Pleased With Appearance After Bob, Poor meek man is placidjy sitting still and calmly watching the “weaker sex” invade the barber shop to have their hair bobbed or shingled. Which all goes to prove ‘worsens’ rights’ is robbing man of some of his liberty. Remember the days, and they are not so long ago, when you heard the best of all jokes? Were you not in the barber chair when you laughed? And can’t you recajl how you waited to get into the shop with the boys and swap stories. But those merry tales are taboo, with the debut of girls and women in barber shops. It isn’t wise to talk about your bosses’ or neighbors’ wife any more because she might be in the chair hearing it all. Brings Friend Along After a woman enters the barber shop for the first time and feels the clippers, all is well. She comes back, and, nine chances out of ten, brings a girl friend Why do they bring this friend? "She comes to see that the on'e getting her. hair cut gets it cut right,” said Harold C. Adkins, a Butler student, who works after school hours at the Circle Barber Shop. “And if It Is not being cut the way she wants it, she lets the barber know.” Whenever they are pleased with their appearance they always reward the barber with a coin, Adkins said. Several days ago a pretty young woman entered the Circle Barber Shop and climbed Into a barber chair. “Give My "Seek a Trim” “Want your hair cut?” politely asked ihe barber. “Naw,” retorted to customer, “You cut it the last time and almost ruined it: give my neck a trim.” The women have one habit that ofttimes proves embarrassing to the male customers. Instead of removing their wraps and hanging them upon the hook they Invariably pile them into a chair. CREENTELDMAN HELD IN HOLD-UP Police Say Alleged Partner of Robert La Rue Confesses, Charles La Follette. 21, giving Greenfield. Ind., as his home, arrested in a rooming house at 421 E. Market St., Is held today a partner of Robert La Rue, St. Louis, Mo., in nine hold-ups. La Rue was arrested on the night of the fatal shooting of Edward Gordon. switchman, by Police Sergt. John Sheehan. La Rue said he knew his partner as Charles Dickinson. A letter mailed to La Rue i njail said “Hold a stiff lip. kid, I don’t know you and you don’t know me. When you get this I will be In St. Louis. Mo.” When arrested La Follette denied the holdups but later is said to have confessed. Delegates to Travel by Auto Representatives from Indiana TJniversalists churches will go to the national convention of the Y'oung Peoples Christian Union, at Ferry Beach, Me., by auto caravan. The convention will be held July 12 to 20.

What Is Your Hope? .e- r Is it business advancement, t marriage, furnishing or buying a home? It may he education for your children or something entirely different from any of these. Whatever it is. it won’t just happen. It must be worked for—half the joy of it lies in the struggle. The surest way to realize your hope is to accumulate money in an interest account. Without money your hopes will not be realized. You can place your savings in no stronger or more convenient bank than the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company. Main Office and Branches Open Saturday Evenings from 6to 8 JFlttclitr failings anti Crust Company Northwest Corner Pennsylvania and Market BRANCHES AND AFFILIATED BANKS 1233 Oliver Avenue 2122 East Tenth Street 1533 Roosevelt Avenue 474 West Washington Street 1541 North Illinois Street 458 East Washington Street 2969 North Illinois Street 2812 East Washington Street i , ,

MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1924

BANKERS CONDEMN CONGRESS FOR TAX REDUCTION DELAY

Revision Held Prime Cause for Certain Business Depression, * Bu United Financial AUGUSTA, Ga„ April 28.—The spring meeting of the executive council of the American Bankers Association opened here today with speakers flaying members of Congress responsible for the delay in the tax revision which was held the prime cause for the present depression in some lines of business. Bankers from every section of the country listened to condemnation of the Washington probes. Among the speakers were Walter H. Head of Omaha, Nebraska, president of the association; Francis H. Sisson, vice president of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York; F. I. Kent, vice president of the Bankers Trust Company of New York; Evans Woolen, of Indianapolis; T. B. Preston of Tennessee, Oliver C. Fuller, of Milwaukee; C. A. Hinsch, of Cincinnati, and Alex Dunbar, of Pittsburgh. The most Important political question upon which business depends today, according to President Head, is the settlement’ of the foreign trade situation. The foreign market for agriculture products will be extended to a material degree by the settlement of European political and economic difficulties. Oscar Wells of Birmingham, Ala., second vice president of the association, said in part: “There is but little question that the markets for securities as well as for commodities are being affected by the Investigations. This neams an effect on business, for business cannot be normally conducted if Its securities are depressed. LONG ILLNESS FATAL TO KINGANOFFIGIAL Funeral of John M, Shaw to Be Held Tuesday, Funeral services of John M. Shaw, 72, of 1306 Park Ave., general manager of the local plant of Kingan & Cos.. Ltd., since 1876, will be held at the home Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. The Rev. Jean S. Milner and the Rev. Lewis Brown will officiate.

J. M. SHAW

traoted the attention of Samuel Kingan one of the founders of the packing company and when the young man was only 25, Kingan engaged him as general manager of the Indianapolis plant. He was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, the Woodstock Club, the Chicago Board of Trade and a charter member of the Columbia Club. During the war he served on the United States Food Commission under Herbert Hoover. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Blanche Burchardt Shaw, formerly of Cincinnati, and children: TA illiam Shaw of Edinburgh. Scotland, John Maxwell, of Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. William M. Rockwood, and Miss Josephine Shaw, Indianapolis.

Burial will be in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Shaw died Sunday after a two-year illness. Mr. Shaw was born in Kirkcubbin, County Down, Ireland, June 20, 1851 and came to Indianapolis in 1876. When 14 years old he became an apprentice with a provision firm of Belfast and then started in business for himself. His ability at-