Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 7

RALSTON IS MED W Republican Senator Says His Democratic Colleague Is Certain of Presidential Nomination at National Convention, KEYNOTER SAYS KLAN WILL NOT BE ISSUE Harding-Coolidge Administration, Taxes and Agriculture Seen as Principal Questions to Be Stressed in Campaign, By WALTER A. SHEAD Senator Samuel Ralston will be nominated for President by the Democratic national convention. The Ku-Klux Klan will not be a political issue in the Indiana campaign. The Republican State platform will not mention the Ku-Klux Klan. The record of the Hsrding-Cool-idge Administration, taxes, and the agricultural question will be national issues on which the Republican party will stand in the presidential cam paign. “I am not a candidate for the \ ice Presidency and have no desire for the office.” These were highlights of an inter view today with United States Senator James E. Watson, Republican Senate leader, here at the Severin to deliver the keynote speech at the Republican State convention, which opens May 21. Washington Relieves It “I am just as certain as that I'm sitting here that Sam Ralston will !,e the Democratic nominee for President,” the Senator said. “Three fourths of the Democratic .Senators in Washington firmly believe it, and what's more, the Demo crats could not get a better man anywhere in the country. Sam and 1 great friends and I admire him greatly,” Watson said. Watson laughed heartily when asked about his candidacy for the vice presidency. “You know I have been attending national conventions for forty years and I never knew but two men to “run” for vice president, and neither of them were nominated. “I am not a candidate and would much prefer to remain in the Senate where I am very firmly seated. A Vice President is always drafted, more or less, and his principal duty is to make speeches. "I am always a party man, whether I disagree with the President on issues or not and 1 could not make speeches on the President’s policies if I disagreed with them,” Watson said. Watson, however, did not say he would not accept the nomination for Vice President if thrust upon him Why He Indorsed .Jackson Watson declared the campaign would be made strictly upon State and national issues. He raid he would stress the rec ord of the Harding-Coolidge Administration, the tax question and conditions of agriculture in his keynote speech before the convention. “I am for Ed Jackson for Governor of Indiana because he is the party nominee. I indorsed him just as I would have indorsed any of the other candidates had they been nominated. “When I indorsed Ed, the cry went up that I was a Klansman because Ed belongs to that organization. "As far as I am advised the Klan will not be a political issue in the campaign and I am sure the Republican State platform will contain no mention of the Klan.”

GUARD AGAINST FIRE OfHi-ials to Take N’o Chances When Republicans Meet. Fireworks and heated oratory may warm the atmosphere at Tomlinson Hall when the Republican State convention meets Wednesday and Thursday, but delegates need have no fear of fire. Fred Schortemeier. secretary of the Republican State committee, today asked Newton T. Miller, State fire marshal, to inspect the hall for fire hazards. Miller, after conference with Fire Chief John J. O’Brien, said six to eight Indianapolis firemen and four men from his office would be stationed at the hall. $2,000 Fire Investigated Officials are investigating the origin of a fire that damaged the home of Chester Shackleford, 965 W, Thir-ty-First St.. Sunday. It is probable that the fire started from defective wiring, although no official report has been made, according to headquarters. The damage was estimated at $2,000. Thief Takes $257 From Office Mrs. W. C. Wanser. 902 N. Tuxedo St., reported to police that some one opened the office of the La Forde Chemical Company, 720 Massachusetts Ave., of which she is manager, and stole $257 and a 110 watch during the lunch hour today.

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FARE JUMPS TUESDAY New Kate to Go Into Effect at Midnight Tomorrow. Save your pennies. Seven-eent cpr fare and one-cent transfer rate on Indianapolis Street Railway goes into effect at midnight Tuesday. Ten-cent “owl” fare remains in force. Four of the seven-cent tickets may be bought for a quarter. APOLOGY AWAITED FROM FRENCH FOR BOOING U. S. FLAG Olympic Officials Believe Incident Will Be Smoothed Over, TWO AMERICANS HURT Temper of Parisians Blamed, Wrought Up When Yank Team Wins, Bn United Presg PARIS, May 10. —Following official expression of regret for the conduct of the crowd after the American rubgy team had defeated the French team, 17 to 3, in the Olympic championship match yesterday, it is probable that the unpleasant experience of the Americans may be officially forgotten. Most of the Paris papers today deplored the incidents that occurred during the match and after it, when the American flag was hissed and jeered as it was pulled to the top of the staff, when the strains of The Star-Spangled Banner were almost drowned out by jeers and when two American students were knocked out by cane wielders in the stands. Most of the Paris papers agreed that the Americans played cleanly and that the hostility of the crowd was deplorable. Franz Reichel, secretary of the. French Olympic committee, said “the action of the crowd was abominable.” Rene Lassere, captain of the French team, said his players had no cause for complaint. “We w.-re beaten,” he said, “by a better conditioned team. We were beaten fairly, and I can't understand what caused the crowd to act like it did.” B. F. Larsen of Provo, Utah, and Guidon W. Nelson. De Kalb, 111., two American students, who were knocked out in the stands when the flag was hissed, were not seriously injured. Nelson was looking today for “a big fellow with *a lot of whiskers” who bounced a cane off his skull.

APOLOGY IS AWAITED American Olympic Committee Takes Paris Incident Calmly. By t nil td Press NEW VOKK, May Ift.—No action will be taken by the American Olympic committee as a result of the anti-American demonstration in Paris during: the Rugby championship match until a report has been received by American represent:! fives in Paris, it was said here to day. If the French Oiyompic committee officially apologizes tor the hissing of the American flag and the jeering of the Star-Spangled Banner, the American committee may forget the whole incident and accept it a.s something that might have been pardonable under the circumstances. SHOOTS WIFE, ENDS LIFE lli lleallh Itlamed for Art of Wealthy South Bend Man. Uil United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 19. Stanley Grzeskewicz, 42, wealthy clothing merchant, committed suicide here today after shooting his wife in the temple while she was sleeping. Mrs. Grzesgewicz is in a critical condition. Grzeskewicz and his wife were in poor health. Today he went to his office as usual but returned after his two sons left for school. Grzeskewitcz entered his wife’s bedroom, fired a shot into her head and then he walked into the dining room, where he committed suicide.

SOUTH DAKOTA FREED Johnson to Let Delegates Go I'niii* strutted to Convention. Bn United Press PIERRE, S. D.. May 19.—Hiram Johnson w’ill release South Dakota’s delegates to the national Republican convention and they will go to the convention uninstructed, John Sutherland, Staie manager for the Johnson campaign, said today. Sutherland said he had received a letter from the California Senator saying he would release the South Dakota delegates pledged to him in a few days. Assessor Drops Dead Bn Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., May 19. —Daniel Conrad, assessor of Madison Township, Montgomery County, is dead at his home in Linden. He dropped dead suddenly in the Courthouse here Saturday afternoon. Okey Bond Is*ie Permission for a $761,500 bond issue to refund underlying bonds was granted the Interstate Public Service Company today by the public service comm'Hon.

AFFIDAVITS ARE FILED County Authorities Charge Three With Complicity in Attempt to Collect Money as ‘Protection’ From Liquor Raids, PROHIBITION AGENTTRANSFERS INQUIRY Affidavit Alleges Attempt Was Made to Collect *slso From Proprietor of Liberty Beach—Potential Victims Appear, Affidavits charging blackmail were filed in city court today by Claude Worley, Criminal Court investigator, in probe of an alleged plot to obtain money from liquor law violators to insure “protection” from raids. Those charged: W. W. Maddux, who gave his address as 1135 N. Meridian St., attorney. Oliver B. Jameson, 16U5 N. Delaware St. Cnet Fowler, 1920 N. Capitol Ave. Federal prohibition officers, who turned their datJ over to Prosecutor William H. liemy when they decided no f law was violated, charged that ex.ster.ee of a ring to systematically mulct bootleggers and citizens who had liquor in their cellars, was discovered.

File Affidavits The city court affidavits charge the defendants with attempting to blackmail Frank Buchanan, proprietor of Liberty Bearn, dance h;.l! north of the city on White River. Federal Prohibition Agent George Winkler arrested Jameson late Saturday m the Katies Lodge rooms. Winkler said Buchanan had Informed the Government that he was to meet Buchanan there. Buchanan had not violated the law, Winkler said. At a prearranged signal, Winkler stepped into a room and caught Jameson in tlie act of accepting $l6O from Buchanan, Winkler said. Fowler was a driver for Jameson, it is charged. According to the prohibition agents, information showed Jameson was to turn the money over to Maddux, who was to pass it to another lawyer. “Prospect” List Federal agents charge that Janfl?son had a list of about thirty “prospects.” Some widely known citizens are said to have been on the list. Federal officers said that two known bootleggers had told them they were to have paid SI,OOO each by noon today and that announcement wf the alleged plot, by Bert C. Morgan, prohibition director, saved their money. Morgan charges that Jameson and other “go-betweens” were to collect $l5O from liquor law violators on the promise of immunity from raids. The “go-betweens” were to get $l5O for protection until July 1, after which the rate was to he SIOO a month, Morgan says. The “go be tweens” were to turn the money over to a young lawyer, who was to pass it on to another attorney. The young lawyer has been interviewed by Morgan, who said the attorney was to give the names of three other attorneys involved. Dodged U. S. Law The conspirators did not represent themselves to be Federal officers, Morgan said, hence the case becomes a county affair. A woman worked out the scheme, Morgan said he understood. It was learned that one known bootlegger had mad four trips to an attorney’s office and paid SI,OOO for the reputed “protection,” the director stated. Jameson had names of thirty “prospects,” he alleged.

FIGHT FIRE IN CRANES Ship Building Plant Destroyed With Loss of $1,600,000. By United Press NEW YORK, May 19.—Firemen traveling on huge moving cranes battled flames early today which caused losses to the plant of the Federal Shipbuilding Company, Kearney, N. J., estimated at $1,600,000. Four moving cranes in one of the buildings were used as fighting tops. More than 1,000 men were thrown out of work temporarily by the blaflp. FREIGHT HEARING OPENS Lower Interstate Rate Attacked in Superior Court. A hearing expected to last a week in which the B. & O. Railroad and twenty other companies seek to have an order of tiie public service corn mission lowering interstate coal freight rates set aside, began today before Superior Judge Linn D. Hay. The plaintiffs allege the decrease will cost them $1,000,000 a year. \ HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 61 10 a. m 59 7 a. m 54 11 a. m...... 58 8 aim....- 58 12 (noon) .... 58 9 a. m 59 1 p. m....... 57

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1924

Air Mail Service to Be Restored on July 1

TOP—A GROUP OF MAIL SERVICE FLIERS. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. C. R. JOHNSON. WESLEY 1,. SMITH, E. G. LEOXHARDT. E. M. ALU SON AND DANIEL KISER. CENTER—THE ROUTE THE PILOTS WILL FOLLOW. LOWER LEFT—ONE OF THE BIGGEST OF I'.V'l.i; SAM'S MAIL PLANES. LOWER RIGHT—ONE OF THE GIANT BEACONS THAT WILL LIGHT THE FLYERS’ WAY. LEFT—ONE OF THE POWERFUL BEACONS PLAYING ITS KAYS SKYW ARD. RIGHT—A LANDING AT NIGHT

SENATE PASSES BONUS MEASURE Bill to Become Law Despite Coolidge Veto, Hu I Hit' ll Press WASHINGTON, May 19.—'The Senate this afternoon overrode President Coolidge’s veto on the soldier bonus bill. The bonus bill now becomes a law. The House'overrode it Saturday. The vote came within half an hour after the bill was called up by Senator Curtis, Kansas, Republican whip, shortly after 2 p. m., all debate being dispensed with. The vote was 59 to 26. fiUEENCASTLE HAS Jlf BLAZE Defective Wire Causes Fire in Garment Works. By Timex Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 19. Fire early today damaged the Greencastle garment factory $50,000. It is said the blaze started from defective wiring. Automobiles valued at $20,000, stored in the basement, were saved.

COLORED VOTERS .WARN Will Vote Democratic Unless Klan Repudiated, Says Society. Ity United Press NEW YORK, May 19. —Unless the Republicans of Indiana cast aside their allegiance to the Ku-Klux Klan, the colored voters if that State will vote a straight Democratic ticket this fall, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, announced today. RED PIG IN MENAGERIE Police Court White Mules and Blind Tigers Reinforced. Another animal was added to the police department menagerie today. White mules and blind tigers were already in the collection of animals. It was a red pig this time. Two motorists who almost ran over the animal at McCarty and West Sts., brought, it to police station. Fugitive in Shooting Police are searching for Willie O’Hara, colored, 30, of 1317 E. Twen-ty-Second St., on a charge of shooting Miss Ella Hester, 26, colored.

Hu V/; t Sen ice WASHINGTON, May 19.—The "dream" of the Postal Department —continuous transcontinen ,-tal air mail service—is to become a reality juty 1. An air mail pilot will take off fi'irn New York at noon, arriving in Chicago at sundown. There another pilot will take off with his cargo of mail in pursuit of the setting sun. When darkness falls, he will be guided by a line of beacons 1,000 miles long, between Chicago and Cheyenne, Wyo. Coining into Cheyenne with the dawn, the second pilot will be relayed by a third, who will wing over tiie rugged ups of the Rockies and Sierras and land by the shores of the Golden Gate before sunset. Giant Beacons Light Way At the same.time, a relay of three pilots will be making the eastward trip. It is upon night flying—the flight between Chicago and Cheyenne—that the fate of transcontinental air mail service depends. Automatic acetylene lamps have been placed every three miles. Every twenty-five miles there is an emergency landing field, equipped with a revolving electric searchlight. At intervals of 250 miles are the regular landing fields, provided with revolving searchlight beacons of 500.000,000 candle--I,ower, casting their beams 150 miles. Special Stamps The personnel of the air mail flying force—forty-one pilots and 157 mechanics —will not be augmented! nor will the number of planes now in use—varying from seventy-five to eighty—be increased. Special air mail stamps have been printed and distributed, while the route has been divided into three zones—betwen New York and Chicago, Chicago and Cheyenne and Cheyenne and San Francisco An S-cent stamp will carry a letter anywhere within one zone, a 10-cent stamp within two zones, and a 24-eent stamp within three zones.

GAS TAX TOTAL GROWS From June 1, W 33, to May 1, $1,000,000 Have Been Collected Returns from State gasoline tax between June 1, 1923, and May 1, this year, totaled $4,000 000, according to officials of the gasoline tax department of the State auditor’s office. By June 1, this year, $4,500,000 will halve been collected, they say. When the hill providing for a gasoline tax was passed by the Legislature it was estimated it would yield $3,500,000 a year. Seek Connersville Man Indianapolis police today were asked to search for Carter Farrington, 51, missing from Connersville, Ind., believed to be in this city. He is described as being partly bald, smooth faced and having no teeth. * Bank Custodian Dies By ignited Press KENDALVILLE, Ind., IVI-iY 19. Levi Anthony, 65, was found lying dead in front of the safe of the Noble County Bank here when it was opened today. He had been custodian of the bank for thirty years. Death was accidental, the coroner announced. It is thought Anthony was placing a light in a ceiling socket when he fell trojpi a stepladder fracturing* his skull.

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LEGION HEAD IS SILENT ON FIGHT Rumor Move to Stop Car-pentier-Gibbons Match, Edward E. Spafford, commender of the New York department of the American Legion, today refused to confirm or deny reports he would ask Governor Branch to stop the Carpentier-Gibbonr hoxing bout scheduled for Michigan City, May 31. “Naturally the affair is one of vital importance to every New York Legion man,” Spafford said, “but I cannot say what steps, if any, we will take.” The New York department was to receive a percentage of the receipts of the proposed Carpentier-Tunney match, to be in New York in August. This match may not be held, it is said, as a result of the Michigan City bout. Spafford is in the city attending meeting of the national executive committee of the Legion. He said he was to leave for New York late today. JUNIOR LEAGUE PLAY Entertainment for Shortiidge ParentTeacher Body. “Ths Neighbors,” a play by Zona Gale will be presented by the Junior Drama League before the Phortridge Parent-Teacher Association in Caleb Mills hall. May 20. The cast of eight is directed by Miss Flora Love, teacher of English at Shorirklge and censor of the Junior Drama League. Officers will be elected by the association. The meeting will be the last one of the year. BERLIN RUM TREATY U. S. Given Bight to Search German Ships for Liquor. E u United Press WASHINGTON. May 19. The rum treaty between the United States and Germany, giving this country authority to seize and search all German vessels suspected of violating the prohibition laws within an hour's sailing of the American shore, was signed at the State Department today by Secretary of State Hughes and Ambassador Wiedfeldt. The treaty is identical with that recently negotiated with Great Britain. POSTMASTERS IN SESSION Address of Welcome Given by Robert 1L Bryson. The annual convention of the National league District Post Masters, Indiana branch, opened today at the Federal Bldg. A two-day program began at 1 p. m. with an address of welcome by Robert H. Bryson, Indianapolis postmaster. Other speakers on the program are John T. Clapp, of Beech Grove, national president, and C. O. Alton, Milan, Ind., Indiana branch president. Postmaster General New will talk Tuesday.

HIGH TELEPHONE RATES TO REMAIN IN EFFECT PENDING STATE ACTION Federal Judge Page Orders That Injunction Against Indiana Public Service Commission Be Made Permanent. CHARGES MAY GO UP WHEN AN AGREEMENT IS REACHED t Solution of Problem Again Is in Hands of Utility Body Court Discusses Payment to Parent Company. Federal Judge George T. Page, Perioa, 111., today granted the Indiana Bell Telephone Company a permanent injunction prohibiting the public service commission from enforcing telephone rates for Indianapolic and most of Indiana, published Aug. 11, 1923. The effect of Judge Page’s ruling will be that the present rates, higher than those granted by the commission, will continue in effect until the commission and the company agree upon rates which would be in conflict with the court order. The rates now in effect are slightly less than those the company originally asked the commission for. It is understood the company will contend it now is entitled to a rate even higher than the present, while the commission will fight to retain the present schedule.

Judge Page ruled that the rates set by the commission Aug. IT, 1923, upon the Bell petition for increased rates, were confiscatory. He sustained these contentions of the company. Company’s Contentions 1. That the commission property valuation of about $28,090,000 for rate-making purposes was too low. 2. That the allowance of less than 4L per cent of the company's revenues under the license contract with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is illegal. 3. That a 6 per cent rate of return is too low. 4. That a 4 per cent depreciation rate is tc-o low. The caurt made no attempt to set a "proper” valuation, although he intimated that the figures of plaintiff, based on a five-year average cost from 1916 to 1920 of $35,773,299, was about correct. Utility Is Continued The company was criticised in several particulars. The judge said he believed “that the inclusion for rate making purposes of any increase in value of property occurring after it has been incorporated in the utility is fundamentally unsound.” “The public pays for all depreciation.” the court said. “If appreciation through the increase of market values is to be added in the rate basis then the public pays not only for appreciation, but for depreciation.” Judge Page also said, referring to a license contract between the Bell and the A. T. and TANARUS., “my own opinion is that the company should be able to devise some better method of fixing the compensation than 4 J i per cent of the plaintiff's gross revenue.” Equipment Used The license contracts are for use of various patented equipment of the A. T. and T. by the Bell. “There is much in what the commission has said about the compensation being greatly increased by additional gross revenues without any additional service being rendered,” he said. But, Judge Page said, the commission failed to exercise its power to require the plaintiff to record exactly what it received under the 1 cense contract. No bad faith or fraud was shown in regard to the contract, the court held. The judge criticised experts and accountants of the commission, saying that their findings were not based upon any inventory or appraisal of the company property. William H. Thompson, Bell attorney, told the court he would prepare an order covering the points of the injunction immediately. It probably will be submitted to Judge Page for his signature in Chicago within a few days.

GAS TANK EXPLODES Six Men Burned, $200,000 Loss in St. Paul Blaze. By United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., May 19.—Six men were burned, two perhaps fatally, when a carload of high test gasoline exploded and set fire to the Craig Oil and Refining Company plant here today. Flames spread throughout the plant which covered a square block and destroyed SOO,OOO gallons of gasoline, 100,000 gallons of lubricants and forty tons of greases All buildings and tanks were razed. The loss was estimated at $200,000 by the owner, Henry Max

Forecast UNSETTLED tonight and Tuesday with probably thunder showers. Cooler Tuesday in this vicinity.

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M’CARDLE DEARS FARE RAISE PLEA Commission Head Does Not Indicate Outcome, The Union Traction Company today asked authority to charge 7-cent fare to Broad Ripple, declaring the fare necessary for an equitable basis of competition with the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, whose 7-cent fare order goes into effect midnight Tuesday. A hearing before John McCardle, chairman of the public service commission, was held. The company has been charging 5 cents to the city limits and 10 cents beyond that point. McCardle said he could not tell whether the decision would be made before midnight Tuesday. Hearing on the petition of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company for approval of a ticket interchange contract with the Beech Grove Traction Company was held this afternoon. Granting of the petion would, in effect, grant a 7-cent fare to Shelby St., where the company's u-acks begin. JUST LET KNIFE SLIP Prosecuting Witness Refuses to I'ress Cutting Case. “He was just playin’ round. Judge,” explained Mrs. Ruth Sevier, colored, 323 W. Thirteenth St., “I don't want to prosecute Mr. Rickman.” \\ lliam Rickman, colored, 1217 N. West St., was on trial before Cri ninal Court Judge Janies A. Collins for attempting to cut the throat of Mrs. Sevier during a post-Christ-mas celebration, Dec. 27. “Yes, Wiliam, did let the knife slip a little,” Mrs. Sevier replied to a qt.estion of Chief Deputy Prosecutor Byron K. Elliott.” But we was lust playin’. I don’t want him put in jail.” Her husband has been gone “bout a year,” and she has kept company wuh William, she testified. “Well, if you don’t care any more about those three scars than that, neither and ol,” said the judge. “Defendant discharged.” BROTHERHOODS DECLINE \ Wisconsin Conference Disapproved by Rail Unions. By United Press MADISON. Wis., May 19.—Railroad brotherhoods and many other La Folleltte followers have declined to participate in the conference for progressive political action on which, many third party advocates pin their hopes. At the “organization” meeting of the Wisconsin conference here yesterday the railway brotherhoods, although supporting Senator Robert M. La Follette, withdrew after the conference got under way, saying its promoters were “too radically inclined.” Republican progressives, who are partisans of Governor John M. Blaine, and who also favor La Foilette, were sparsely represented at aka meeting, and formes promoters of the Non-Partisan League con trolled the convention.