Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1924 — Page 2

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ONE DEAD, THREE HURT BY BULLETS IN FOUR MRS Dr, J, C, McGrail Shot by Bandit Conductor Innocent Victim, Three persons were held today in investigation of four shooting affairs Wednesday night. Dr. Joseph C. McGrail, 46, of 5433 N. New Jersey St., dentist, .died in St. Vincent Hospital after he was shot by a hold-up man at FiftyFourth St. and Washington Blvd. . Howard Cole. 22, street car conductor, 1423 W. Court St.,, Mrs. Marie Dowden. 28, of 2510 Southeastern Ave., and Virgie Thomas, colored, 626 E. Wabash St., are in city hospital, victims of three other shootings. Tried to Take Ring Dr. McGrail told police a short time before he died that two robbers stopped him as he was returning from a late appointment. They ordered him to put up his hands. He did and Ihey took $38.50 from his pockets. Noticing a ring, one of the bandits ordered Dr. McGrail to lower his hand. He complied, but -said the ring was too tight to come off. The 'bandit remarked, "I can get it off.” and started pulling on it. In pain Dr. McGrail dropped his other arm on the bandit's hand. The bandit fired into the victim's stomach. Robbers Speed Away As the robbers sped away in an automobile. Dr. McGrail walked to his home. Police took him to the hospital. Motorcycle Officers Hudgins and Slate held a colored man in investigation of shooting of Cole at Blackford and New York Sts. Cole has a buffet in the right knee. A\ colored man entered the Century Biscuit plant, Blackford and New York Sts., and ordered Carl Sedan, 350 W. Washington St., and William Wesshaar. 232 Douglas St., employes, to hold up their hands. Note Demands Money He handed Sedan this note: Bwant all the money in the drawer and or any one. If so you will die. Let _leave^ if" flBSj started to get the jU’V p| money v. hen some BE-taaf raßone tapped on the window. The holdup man ran out COLE and Howard Thiel, R. R. F. another employe, grappled with him at the side door. The colored broke loose and fired. The bullet struck Cole, whose car was passing at the time. Preparing to answer a call from a fellow member of the Horse Thief

DR. J. C. M’GHAIL Detective Association, Roy W. Evans. 37, of 2510 Southeastern Ave., accidentally discharged a revolver while removing it from under a pillow, the bullet striking Mrs. Marie Lowden, a roomer, who was lying in the bed, police say. Mrs. Lowden's condition was reported not serious. Mrs. Virgie Thomas, 28, colored, of 629 B. Wabash St., was accidentally shot, police say, while her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lovie Thomas, 30, of 628 E. Wabash St., was unloading an automatic revolver in her home. Mrs. Dovie Thomas was charged with vagrancy pending further investigation. McGrail Services Saturday Funeral services for Dr. McGrail will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the residence. Members of the Masonic Dodge will officiate. Burial will be in Crown Hil’ cemetery. Dr. McGrail had practiced in InA dianapolis fifteen years. He was associated with his stepson, Dr. Floyd Fults, with offices at 46 N. Pennsylvania St. He was born in Savanah. 111. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Louisville College of Dentistry, Louisville, Ky. Besides the widow, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Jennie .McGrail, Savanah, I1L; five sisters, I.lisses Margaret and Jewell McGrail, Mrs. John McKenna and Mrs. Otto Enz, all of Savanah, 111., and Mrs. Harry Scofield, Aurora, 111., and one brother, Leo McGrail of San Francisco, Cal. Two stepsons. Dr. Fults and Lewis Fults, both of Indianapolis, also survive. Dr. McGrail was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Elks and Knights Templar. Old Engineer Active MOSINEE. Wis., May 15.—Frank Pond, 83. engineer of Lincoln’s funeral train in 1860, is still in active service-running a pony engine in the paper mills here. Pond also was fireman of the train which carried Lincoln as Jjremdent-elect to Wash-' ington.

HUNDREDS OF ALIENS, DENIED ADMISSION TO U. S„ ‘BOOTLEGGED'ACROSS AT DETROIT

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Bu NEA Service DETROIT. May 15.—Hundreds of aliens, denied admission to the United States through legal channels, are “bootlegged” across the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers every night, declares P. L. Prentis, In charge of the Eleventh immigration district. He does not attempt to estimate the number smuggled across the line each year through Detroit, which is believed to be one of the principal centers for such activities. Several methods are used to “bootleg” aliens into the United States. A. known ring on the Canadian side transports aliens at from $lO to $25 a head across the river in small boats. These smugglers have recently become so bold that they carry on their operations in broad daylight. Other aliens effect an entrance by posing as American citizens when they arrive on the numerous ferry boats plying between Detroit and Canada. These ferries carry monthly 500,000 passengers. Great numbers of other foreigners are hidden in box cars on the Canadian side, and, after passing through the Michigan Central Railroad tunnel under the Detroit River, make good their escape hundreds of miles from the border. Dr. Prentis says he is powerless to check this “back door” entrance. He has but 54 employes to aid him. Most (Ts this force is detailed to clerical duty. Inspectors, hard to find because of the inadequate salaries paid, are all needed at the ferry slips to examine passengers dumped upon the American side at fiveminute intervals. Immigration inspectors stationed at the ferry docks are faced with a tremendous task. Playing at the game of “guess who I am if you are able.” these agents must make pretense of sorting the multitude. Inspectors resort to canny tricks to aid them in their trade. Canadians trying to pass the gates for other purposes than to work in Detroit factories are spotted. the inspectors say. by mailorder house variety of clothing and ruddy complexions. Canadians also wear their hats straight, while Americans nearly always pull theirs down with some degree of rakish tilt. Relief Is Promised By XT A Service WASHINGTON. May 15.—Tire V. S. Bureau of Immigration Is organizing it forces in a desperate effort s o stem the tide of contraband aliens now pouring over the country's borders via the smuggling route. By enlisting a band of border ran-

PHONE COMPANY PROVIDES LIST OF ‘DAYLIGHT CITIES Merchants Would Do Well to Watch Time on Long Distance Calls, In order that Indianapolis business firms may keep in mind the working hours in other cities a list of cites throughout the country in which daylight saving time became effective May 1 is provided by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. For example, an Indianapolis firm would hesitate to call business houses at Chicago at 6 p- m., as the Chicago office would he closed an hour before the call was placed. The following are the points effected: Time ahead Point. of Indiana. Battle Creek. Mich 1 hour Benton Harbor. Mich.... 1 hour Brooklyn. N. Y...., 2 hours Buffalo. N. Y 2 hours Bellcfontaine, Ohio 1 hour Ctneago. 111., and X hour Cheboygan, Mich 1 hour Cincinnati. Ohio 1 hour Dayton. Ohio 1 hour Grand Haven, Mich 1 hour Grand Rapid?-. Mich 1 hour HaTnilton, Ohio 1 hour lonia, Mich 1 hour Kalamazoo. Mich. 1 hour Lansing 1 . Mich. ............... 1 hour Lancaster. Ohio . . 1 hour Middletown. Ohio , 1 hour Newark. N. J. 2 hcurs New York City 2 hours Philadelphia 2 hours Phoneton. Ohio 1 hour Pittsburgh, Pa 2 hours Springfield. ■ Ohio 1 hour Entire State of New Jersey. ... 2 hours Berwin. 11l X hour Blue Island, 111 1 hour Evanston. 11l 1 hour Harvey, 111 1 hour LaGrange, 111 1 hour Maywood, 111 1 hour Oak Park. 111. X hour Wlnnetka. 11l 1 hour Urbana, Ohio 1 hour

‘Chinese Blues’ Causes Delegate at M. E. Conference to End Life By Vnitet Prens SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 15 Roger Rahn, 28, a Chinese delegate to the Methodist Episcopal conference, committed suicide today by drinking poison. Rahn. who came from Chunk in, China, was a Christian convert. He was said to have suffered greatly from homesickness and despondency. He left a note addressed to the general conference, in which he asked forgiveness of his friends for what he was about to do, but said he was “tired of living.”

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THIS IS CONSIDERED THE GREATEST “ALIEN BOOTLEGGING” DISTRICT ON THE GREAT LAKES. YET ONLY TWO IMMIGRATION AGENTS PATROL THE LINE AT NIGHT FROM CHEBOYGAN ON DOWN TO TOI/EDO. gers, 450 strong, the bureau hopes to hold back the Illegal immigration flood. •_ ~ A law authorizing the ranger organization. and appropriating $1,200,000 for its work, is pending in Congress. Immigration authorities are confident of its speedy passage.

New Republican State Committee Organises

COMMITTEE TO 1 ACI ON CHURCHES Question of Moving Buildings Ready for Decision, Action of the World War memorial commission as to the disposition of the Second Presbyterian Church and the First Baptist Church, now situated on the memorial plaza, hinges upon the commission’s committee report, scheduled for today, on a conference with church officials held some time ago. Two representatives of each church were to be present at the meeting of the commission at the memorial headquarters, Chalfant building, at 3 p. m. The plaza plans make no provision for retaining the churches. The churches are fighting removal. Today was the last day to receive bids on the first memorial building. It will be four stories high and will be used as American Legion national headquarters. It will be situated in St. Clair Park.

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A FERRY BOAT ON WHICH MANY OF THE IMMIGRANTS COME OVER FROM THE CANADIAN SIDE.

The new Republican State committee, which organized Wednesday, is shown here: Top Row, Left to Right—Schuyler Haas, Indianapolis, Seventh district; Lawrence Cartwright, Portland, Eighth: E. W. Bowen, Delphi, Ninth; George M. Poland, Crown Point. Tenth; Hurd Hurst, Peru, Eleventh; Lloyd Gates, Columbia City, Twelfth; E. M. Morris, South Bend, Thirteenth; Frederick E. Schortemeier, Indian--a polls, secretary. Bottom Row, Left to Right— Stewart T. Fisher, Princeton, FirfifT“Kwing Emison, Vincennes, Second; Archie Bobbitt, English, Third; Clyde A. Walb, Lagrange, State chairman; Dally McCoy, Versailles, Fourth; Mark Nebeker, Clinton, Fifth; George Elliott, Sixth. EMPLOYERS VOTE AGAINST RAIL BILL Oppose Measure That Would Abolish Board, Associated Employers of Indianapolis are on record today as opposed to the Barkley-Howeil bill to abolish the railroad labor board. ResoluWors adopted Wednesday night declare the employers view the bill as an effort to place principles of the closed union shop in effect on railroads and allied industries. “The businesses of the country are already feeling and beginning to show the deplorable nad depressing effects of injudicious legislative proposals,” says a letter of the employers to President Coolidge. “It would be suicidal for Congress to enact the Barkley-Howell bill as a further step in a legislative program that tends to obstruct rather than construct our economic institutions.” Employers indorsed the citizens military training camp to open at Canp Knox, Ky„ In June.

DEDICATE CAPITAL SIMM] Boulder Will Mark McCormick's Cabin, Dedication of the" huge granite boulder marking the site of * the cabin of John McCormick, where site for the capital of Indiana was chosen 104 years ago, has been set for Juno 7, it was announced today. The boulder stands on the east bank of White River, just north of Washington St. A bronze tablet designed by Paul Hadley will mark it. School children have been asked to study the journal of John Tipton, one of the commissioners named by the State Legislature, then meeting in Corydon, Ind., the old capital, to locate the new city. The location was decided upon June 7, 1820. Tipton telis how he and Governor Jennings journeyed by horse, met the other commissioners and finally picked the location. At Brandon, England .descendants of ancient flint shapers, once a flourishing industry, shape fiflints f<jr the decoration of the interiors of buildings.

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CITY EMPLOYE THIRTY YEIS, ENGINEER QUITS

Shank Says He Is Pleased Over Resignation of Charles Brown, Charles Brown, city sewer engineer, submitted his resignation to Frank C. Lingenfelter, city engineer, today, as the latest development in the city administration shake-ups. Mayor Shank denied he demanded Brown’s resignation, but said he thought it would be a good thing “if he had given way to a younger man.” Lingenfelter had not accepted the resignation at noon. He said he thought Brown's experience was too valuable to lose. Brown has been employed in the engineer's office for nearly thirty years. Reported additional shalmups in the engineer’s office indicated Mayor Shank was ready to continue swinging his political ax in the way of all city employes who “'crossed” him. Assistant to Go William L. Lacey, second assistant engineer was slated for the discard, his position going to Richard W. Johnson, a park engineer. Johnson is a son-in-law of Dr. M. J. Spencer, Democratic member of the board of works, and close personal friend of the mayor. “We want to get some new blood in that department,” explained Mayor Shank. Lacey has been connected with the engineering department for nearly thirty years. The mayor gave that 7 as his only reason. He said thirty years was too long for any man to stay in one place. I nspeetore^Disiharged The board of health finished and added to the work of the mayor Wednesday night when it dismissed Alonzo Stansfteld, James Claude Thompson, and E. J. Burns, inspectors. who were on Shank’s blacklist," and also added James Clune and Dr. Dana LaMar to the victims of Shank's war on political enemies. T. J. Southern. VV. T. Johnson, John Guedel and Harry Willis were appointed to four of the places as inspectors. The mayor’s "canning season" at the city hall is expected to keep him from attending the Kentucky Derby at Louisville Saturday, an event which he has not missed in years. Shank said he would continue his onslaughts until he was sure his city employes’ were “for" his administration. Laundrymen Meet Hu Tine* Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 15. Laundrymen ' from every State in the country are attending the thirtieth annual convention of Indiana Laundry Owners Association today. George Woody. Indianapolis. State president, presided at Wednesday’s sessions.

COFFIN WIOVES TO OUST SHANK AS ‘BOSS’J)F CITY Contest of Precinct Committeemen Seen as 'Opener/ City hall politicians sec in the contest of elections of twenty-one Republican precinct committeemen in Indianapolis, instituted by defeated candidates, the first move of the Coffln-Dodson Ku-Klux Klnn county machine to gain control of the city as well as county party machinery. The Coffln-Dodson element wrecked the Shank-Armitage county organization Saturday when George V- Coffin wab elected county cha.irfhan. The Shank wing, however, is understood to retain enough loyal committeemen in precincts inside the city to insure election of a Shank-Armitage city chairman in the municipal campaign of 1925. Coffln-Dodson leaders do not control the city organization. The city chairman is Irvin W. Lemaux of the old Jewett-Roemler-Lemcke faction. which was friendly to the Shank-Armitage group in the county scrap. If the Coffin-Dodson group can unseat the twenty-one committeemen in precincts where it is charged there were fraudulent elections, in each case a Shank committeeman winning, the Shank majority of committeemen inside the city limits will be wiped out and Coffin and his aides can do about as they please In the Republican municipal primary. For this reason the Shank-Armit-age men are expected to fight the election contests more bitterly than under ordinary' circumstances. Baptist Brotherhood Elects E. O. Steele, W. S. Johnson, C. W. MoCollum and D. B. Elroy have been named president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, respectively, of the Brotherhood of the First Baptist Church. H. E. Kinney was former president.

Rent a Room

Persons who will rent rooms to Speedway race visitors should fill out and mail this blank immediately. Convention Bureau, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, 28 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. I will be glad to help house visitors to the Speedway race, and you may list my room(s) as per the information given below. Name Phone.... a . Address . ... x . ... Number of single rooms Number of double rooms Price per person per night $... Note: Telephone reports on this subject cannot be handled by the convention bureau. Names and addresses should be printed to avoid mistakes. TEDERALBOARD ACTS TO PREVENT RAILROADSTRIKE Hearing Set for Wage Controversy Affecting 90 Western Roads, By Vnitei Pre** CHICAGO, May 15. —An order for sixty thousand locomotive engineers and firemen, and the managers of ninety Western railroads to remain at "status quo" was issued today by the United States railroad labor board for fear the deadlocked wage dispute between the employes and employers will cause a tie-up of tra n s po rt ation. Representatives of both sides were ordered to appear before the board on June 3 unless a settlement is reached before that date. The engineers and firemen demand wage increases of approximately 5 per cent. The managers insist that certain rules and working conditions should be made part of the wage discussions. Representatives of the men bolted the conference. An executive session of the labor board discussed the situation. In a statement pointing out the demands of both sides, the board said, in part: “In view of these circumstances the board has reason to believe that a dispute exists which is likely to substantially interrupt commerce. The board therefore exercises its authority and hereby orders the paxties directly involved to attend a hearing which he set for June 3 unless In the meantime a settlement is reached. Pending hearing and decision thereon both parties are directed to maintain status quo by oixler of the board” Collins Troubles Johnson Walter Johnson eays he finds Eddie Collins of the Chicago White Sox the hardest man in the American league to strike out. He simply won’t hit at a bad ball, says Walter.

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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1924

BUSY DAY MARKS CLOSE OF WOMEN VOTERmG Legislative Recommendations and Election- Hold Center of Stage, By Times Special MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., May 15. The second day of the League of Women Voters’ convention in Michigan City began this morning with a full program on hand. Officers and eleven directors were to be elected. There were no rumors to indicate the new presidential possibilities. Mrs. Janies A. Stuart of Lafayette is chairman of the elections committee. The legislative recommendations which were to come up for action today were to cover child welfare, education, government efficiency, international cooperation to prevent war, proposed plans to defeat blanket or “equal rights” legislation In the “uniform laws legislation introduced in the 1925 Legislature, and cooperation with the national league in the work of the living costs committee. Visitors were to be entertained at tea at the Golfmore Hotel on the dunes following a motor trip to the State penitentiary, late today. night the annual banquet was to close the convention. Talks by Mrs. Harold R. Peat, wife of “Prtvatei Peat,” on “.Amazing America, From the Viewpoint of An Irish Woman,” and Mrs. May WoodSimmons were scheduled. The “Fifty-Fifty Bill,” supported by Miss Sara Lauter, Indianapolis, chairman of the efficiency in government committee, received some strong opposition on the floor Wednesday. It was expected there would be some further discussion today before the motion recommending it was acted upon. A budget of $7,500 is being asked for by the finance committee to meet State Headquarters expenses and national dues. More than $1,500 was pledged at a dinner of delegates on Wednesday evening. THIRD DEATH IN CROSSING CRASH John Freeland Jr, Dies After Centerton Accident, John Freeland Jr.. 11, of 1638 Ashland Ave., died today at the Methodist Hospital from injuries received Sunday when the machine in which he was riding was struck by a Martinsville interurban at Centerton, Ind. The death of Freeland brings the toll of the acident to three. Fred L. Pierce. 47. of 163S Ashland Ave., died early Monday and his wife, Mrs. Josie Pierce, 48, died late Tuesday. Others In the accident are improving. The Freelands and Pierces were returning from Bloomfield, Ind.. when the accident occurred. The machine, driven by John Freeland Sr., crashed into the side of the interurban and was hurled against a telephone pole.