Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1924 — Page 2

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ELECTION BOARDS RUN DOWN ‘BEAR : g STORIES’ GALORE •r Leo K, Fesler Says Reports of Irregularities Show Need for Smaller Precincts. “They’re holding out the returns in the Ninth Ward, where there's a big Klan vote, although the ballots have all been counted.” or "none of the big precincts from the black belt are in—the Shank boards are holding back to see how many votes are needed.” All day the county election board received these complaints or others of similar tenor from nervous candidates as the vote swayed this way and that. Out goes the panting lizzie and a ' dash is made into the mooted Ninth. Some men are smoking leisurely on the front porch. "Yeah, we had 811 votes cast here,” said one. “Got 200 counted. The two women clerks gave out about S a. m. and went home to bed. Nope, no arguing with them.” One Hint Enough Another trip up Yandes St. into the territory of Windy Johnson and Bell ’ Howard, colored 1 Kisses, to see about a complaint from a candidate that “the returns in one precinct didn't suit Bev Howard and he’s making them count over.” Voting place dark. Dogs barked. No one knew anything, being suspicious to a liquor raid. Repeated knocks on a door resulted in a terrified voice from a second-story window: "If you all don't go on away right now, I’m goin’ to start shootin'!” Election commissioners didn't have to be knocked down with a hint, and departed, to find the missing ballots safely at the courthouse. Another trip out toward Riverside in the Fourth resulted in some startling information from a group of unofficial watchers looking through the open' door at the election board. Another “Bear Story” “There's ten people in there counting the votes. Three extras, and onej is the Shank candidate for precinct committeeman, who is voting all the incomplete ballots for himself. And | the inspector can't read or write. Look at him unfold them ballots and hold them upside down like he's reading. But he's not. The three “extras” turned out to be official watchers, and the inspector was left to the tender care of the rest of the board. And so on and so on, until the last precinct was in. "These rumors and complaints are the result of too big precincts.” said Leo K. Fesler, county election commissioner, who personally investigated many "bear stories” of graft, crooked work and rascality. “When a group of avcerage citizens are put to work to receive 800 votes and then count them without stop ping, it is too much of a strain. Exhaustion, delay and breakdowns occur. Then people get suspicious and nervous because the counting is done in twelve hours. “There certainly will have to be a reduction in size of the precincts." SECOND LODGE TO ELECT Louis G. Buddenbauni Named Adoniram Head. Annual election of Saraiah Council, Princes of Jerusalem, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, will be held next Wednesday night in the Scottish Rite Temple. Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection, governing Scottish Rite body in the Valley of Indianapolis, elected these officers Wednesday night: Louis G. Buddenbaum, thrice potent master; Walter J. Le Saulnler, deputy master; Arthur R. Robinson, senior warden: Fred I. Willis, junior warden; Edward D. Moore, treasurer; Robert G. McClure, secretary William W. Thornton, orator; Martin T. Ohr, hospitaler Vincent V. Smith, master of ceremonies; Frank E. Floyd, captain of guard; Frank Borns, tyler, and John T. Saulter, trustee for three years. Man Falls Under Train .By Times Special SHELBYYILLE, Ind., May B.—The body of Donald Lonon of Pitts. N. C., is being held here until arrival of relatives. Lonon was killed Wednesday when, attempting to board a freight train near the Big Four passenger station, he slipped and fell under the wheels. Bicyclist Dies By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., May B.—lnjuries received when he was struck by a street car were fatal to H. P. Conand is believed to have become confused when he met the car at the approach to a bridge.

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BELIEVE IN GOD? FANATIC ASKS; DIES IN BATTLE Cowboy, Carrying Bible and Gun, Creates Sensation at Kansas City, By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., May B.—Peter Gaston, believed to be from Pierpont, Mich., walked into the lobby of the Federal Hotel here today with a Bible in one hand and a revolver in the other and was shot and killed in a battle with police fifteen minutes later. Dressed in high leather boots, corduroy trousers and wide brimmed cowboy hat, Gaston stalked in the hotel and registered, changing his revolver to his left hand as he penned his name. He placed his Bible on the cigar counter. Then he turned on the guests in the lobby and calmly asked: "All of you men believe in God?” “All of you put your left hand on the Bibje and your right hand on your heart.” A clerk, seated at a switchboard, called George Fleischer, a Federal narcotic agent, who lives in the hotel. As the four men placed their hands on the Bible, Gaston turned to one and demanded: “Where is the girl you stoje from me a year ago at the North Hole?” “I’ll go get her,” the guest replied. At this point Fleischer appeared on the stairway. Simultaneously, a police car stopped in front of the hotel, and Gaston opened fire at the officers. Fleischer startipd shooting from the rear and killed the fanatic instantly. COOLIDGE DOUBLES CALIFORNIA LEAD Over-Night Returns Give Him * 40,000 Plurality, By Untied Press SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May B. President Calvin Coolidge doubled his lead over Senator Hiram Johnson in, the California primary election count in overnight returns. The count today with a few less than 600 precincts missing gave Coolidge a majority of 40,224. tor 6,370 out of 6,974 precincts in the State was; Republican—Coolidge, 294,895; Johnson, 254,471. Coolidge's majority, 40,224. The majority of William G. McAdoo 1 over the unpledged ticket by which his delegates ape ypppaod -W-ofe, heavily fficre-asod-7f!uriT~g’ ilie night.* The count today stood: Democratic —McAdoo, 105,263; un I pledged. 18,360. McAdoo’s majority, I 86.903. SOLDIERS GUARD DOOMEDSEXTETTE Extraordinary Precautions Taken on Eve of Hanging, By United Press AMITE, La., May 8. —State troops maintained a close guard today on the little Amite jail which holds six Italians sentenced to hang at noon tomorrow for the murder of Dallas Calmes. Guardsmen, camped in the jail yard, kept vigil throughout the night while inside the jail, guards did not leave the prisoners un watched for a second. Another company of guardsmen is due here Friday. Precautions are being taken to prevent the prisoners from attempting suicide and to frustrate any effort that might be made to assist them In escaping. Threats of death have been received by all officials connected with the executions and large bribes have been offered if the men are allowed to escape. FOREST MAKES MONEY Reserve in Clark County Brings Profit to State. The State forest reserve in Clark County is makng money, according to figures of the State department of conservation. Eight carloads of rail road ties and several thousand feet of lumber were marketed. The department is advocating reforestation of more than a million acres along the Ohio water shed, now a waste area. Scarlet and black oak on 2,900 acres of forest near Henryville in Clark County Is being cut to make way for white and chestnut oak. Evangelistic Career Opened Henry W. Lewis of the Henry W. Lewis Realty Company, 46 N. Pennsylvania St., who plans to enter evangelistic work, preached his first sermon in Union Tabernacle Baptist Church, Senate Ave. and St. Clair St., Wednesday night. His text was: "I Know' My Redeemer Liveth.” Dies at Worse By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, May 8. —Frederick Maxwell, 65, former school teacher, was buried from his home at Byron, Ind., Wednesday. He dropped dead while working in the fields. Fiery Cross Burned Police were called to the corner of Eleventh and Olive Sts. late Wednesday on report that a “fiery cross” was burning. When they arrived the cross had been extinguished and they were unable to learn anything of the circumstance*.

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GUIDE AT STATE PARK Nature Study Instruction to Be at McCormick’s Creek Canyon. ■ The State conservation department has sent Miss Luci Pitzschler, Indianapolis, to McCormick’s Creek Canyon State Park near Spencer to act as a guide and nature study Instructor for two weeks. Miss Pitzschler is official representative of the Indiana Nature Study Club. According to Richard Lieber, conservation director, this is an opportunity for those interested In wild flowers and birds and trees to inspect the park. LAMBERT ON WAY TO PRISON AGAIN 4k Deputy Returns Captured Man. Harry Wertz, deputy U. S. marshal, was to leave Louisville today on a sec ond trip to Federal prison at Atlanta. Ga., with Robert Lambert, New Albany, Ind. Lambert, who escaped on his first trip to the prison with former Governor Warren T. McCray by eluding Wertz and leaping handcuffed from the window of the moving train near Chattanooga, Tenn.. was captured yesterday by Louisville police. Lure of a former sweetheart brought Lambert to Nt-w Albany, Ind. His first thought \%hen seized by Louisville police in the kitchen of a soft drink stand, where he had secured hiding by telling the proprietor he was an army “buddie” of his son, was of the girl. Lambert, was sentenced to two years in the Atlanta prison by Judge A. B. Anderson for conspiracy to violate the national vehicle stealing law. CHURCH REMOVAL URGED Architects Say Buildings Would Detract From Memorial. The Indianapolis Architectural Club has adopted resolutions recommending that the World War Memorial Commission be authorized to proceed with destruction of properties now standing on the proposed plaza site. The First Baptist Church and Second Presbyterian Church, are protesting their removal from the site. The resolution says the presence of the churches “will detract from and make incomplete the proper execution of the w'hole memorial.” Governor May Decide Site Governor Emmet F. Branch may cast the deciding vote in selection of anew site for the State School for the Blind, if members of the committee on re-location are unable to agree. The Governor will inspect four proposed sites Sunday. The committee considered fifty-six of the sixty sites with Branch Wednesday. Appointment Sanctioned Judge Gustav 11. Hoelscher, Rich mrind, appointed to succeed the late Judge William A. Bond, Wayne County, may serve the remaining two years of Bond’s term, according to an opinion by Attorney General U. S. Lesh. Governor Emmett F. Branch made the appointment Tuesday.

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BOY CHARGED WITH THREE BURGLARIES Confesses to Entering Drug Store Twice, Police Say, With arrest of a 15-year-old hoy charged with burglary and larceny, police solved three burglaries. Sergeant O'Connor and night Patrolmen Van Sickle and De Barr found several articles stolen from the Neidhamer drug store, 2028 N. Rural St., which was entered both Monday and Tuesday nights, at his home. In presence of his parents the boy told of planning to enter the place Wednesday night, and or entering a home near Miliersville, Ind., where he stole the suit he was wearing, the officers say. He was unable to turn the suit over to police because he had no other to wear. Otl Wisehart, 54. of 1617 Delxtss St., complained of being robbed of $55 and was arrested on intoxication charges. Liter his story' to police caused arrest of Robert Cottrel, 34. of 2340 Gale St., ex-police officer, on vagrancy charges. Wisehart charged Cottrell took the money from his pocket while he was in an auto with Cottrell and another man, according to police. KLAN WINS LAKE COUNTY Candidates Get All hut Two County Offices on Republican Ticket. II U United Press GARY, Ind.. May 8. —Complete of ficifil returns from the Like County primary today showed the Klan can didates were swept into the Republican nominations for county offices with two executions. The pluralities of the Klan candidates were as high as 6,000. Jackson received a big majority for Governor. State Senator Hodges carried the county over Will R. Wood, Lafayette, in the congressional race by a vote of 15,835. Official returns In the Democratic race for Governor have not been completed. but It was indicated that McCulloch carried the county. Friendly Settlement Reached A settlement through friendly conferences, instead of a public service commission hearing, has resulted In lower electric rates for Vincennes, according to John W. MeCardle, commission chairman. The city petitioned for an order for lower rates. MeCardle induced company officials to confer with Mayor Grayson.

NEXT SUNDAY IS MOTHER’S DAY No finer tribute can be paid to your mother, the noblest of all beings, than a gift of beautiful flowers ou her day of days—that is next Sunday. Don’t forget your best friend. Say it with flowers and make her happy. LET US TELEGRAPH YOUR FLOWERS A. Wiegand’s Sons Cos. As Near as Your Phone 1610 to 1624 North Illinois Street Phones, RA ndolph 0256, 0257, 0258, Q 259 *

ADDICTS BLAWIEn FOR DRUG STORE NARCOTICS TUEFT Thirty Dollars Worth of ‘Dope’ Taken From Place at 450 N, Riley Ave, Narcotic addicts are blamed by police for a burglary at the B. D. Brown drug store, 450 N. Riley Ave., early today. Thirty dollars worth of narcotics, of various kinds, was taken. Police said the front door glass was broken. Mrs. H. B. Smith, 849 N. New Jersey St., told police her daughter screamed when she saw a man in her room. He jumped through a window. Miss Marie Hartman, a roomer, said her purse, with $25.75 in cash, was missing. Mrs. Harry Condit, Washington Hotel, reported $45, two checks, one for $l5O and another for SSO, both signed by her husband, and a strand of pearl beads taken from her room. Miss Laura Cain, 137 E. Palmer St., said a pay check for $lB, $8 in cash and a wrist watch were taken from the office of the Progress Laundry, where she is employed. Rudolph Heyne, 1125 Broadway, reported furnishings valued at s',o taken from a vacant house at 150* College Ave. Miss Goldie Van Horn, visiting at 715 S. Meridian St., reported clothing valued at S3O taken from her room. From Far and Near A graduated tax on undivided j profits of corporations has been adopted by the Senate. To prove his theory that any bright criminal can prove himself insane and thus escape punishment, John Duncan, a Des Moines newspaper reporter, feigned insanity and was adjudged as a dangerous lunatic by a sanity com-! mission and remanded to the State j asylum. Germany has radio “bootleggers.” They’re the folks who try to evade the government tax on radio sets. Sophie Lyons Burke, former internationally known pickpocket and one j of the most picturesque figures the j country has ever known is dead at j Detroit. Doug Fairbanks and Mary Pickford j received the shock of their lives in j Denmark. They requested an interview with the King. "Who Are ■ They?” asked the King. Victor Berger, Wisconsin Congress- j man, has :?ked the House to repeal j the provisions of the espionage act under which he was sentenced during the war. ROOM FOR ALL IN AUTOS Commissioner Says Machines Could Empty State in One Trip Indiana’s 600,000 registered motor vehicles could haul every person and all their wealth in $lO hills, out of the State in one trip, declared Earl Crawford, member of the State highway commission, today. “That is something the State highways could do that all the passenger equipment of railroads and traction lines combined could not do,’ 'he said. The 4,128 miles of road in the State system touch every' county seat and ; every city of 2,500 population or over \ excepting four, he said. CATHOLICS TO GIVE FETE. Charities and Notre. Dame Will Receive Proceeds. Catholic charities in Indianapolis and the Notre Dame University endowment fund will receive proceeds of the Catholic Welfare May Festival, to be held In the Knights of Columbus auditorium, May 14-17. Cards and lotto will be played the j afternoons of May 15 and 16. There will be a musical entertainment nightly. A children's party will be given the afternoon of May 17. George Rice, general chairman, has as assistants W. P. Holmes, W. P. Flanary, Daniel T. Doyle, James E. Gavin, T A. Flaherty, John J. Methane, John J. Clancy and James B. Mahan.

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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1924

G.O.P. TURNS TO FIGHT FOR PARTY CONTROL IN STATE Klan Leader Mentioned as Contender for Place of Clyde Walb, > With the Ku-Klux Klan successful in putting across nomination of Ed Jackson, secretary of State, as the Republican nominee for Governor, factional fights for party control in the State loomed today. According to reports, Walter Bossert, Imperial representative of the Klan in Indiana and ex-Sixth district Republican chairman, seeks to oust Clyde A. "Walb as Republican State chairman and set up an organization controlled by the Klan. It is rumored Bossert has the backing of James P. Goodirch, ex-Governofi. Although the nominee for Governor generally has his own way about naming a party chairman, it is understood Jackson will not interfere in the factional fight and will accept party machinery as it is chosen. D. C. Stephenson, known as the "old man” in Indiana Klandom, also is a power to be reckoned with in the fight for party control. Regulars in the party will put up a strong fight to retain W'alb in control, at the reorganization meeting here May 14. There appears to be little contest on in the Democratic ranks for State chairman. It is freely predicted that Walter S. Chambers, Newcastle, will be re-elected.