Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1924 — Page 2

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EXAMINERS ARE NAMED FOR QUIZ INTOBUILDINGS Commissioners and Contractors Agree Upon Julietta Structure. * An investigation of new buildings at the county poor farm and the hospital for the insane, Julietta, will be started Tuesday by Field Examiners U. M. Frazer and W. P. Cosgrove, Lawrence F. Orr, head of the State board of accounts, announced today. The examiners will begin at Julietta and make thorough tests to ascertain whether specifications have been complied with, and whether the ceilings are in danger of collapsing, as charged by county councilmen. The new poor farm building and Julietta wings cost $268,000 Possibility of grand jury investigation developed. Deputy Prosecutor Daniel V. White said he discussed the Situation with Cassius L. Hogle, president of the county council and will present it to Prosecutor William H. Remy. Investigation Petitioned “We are going into the examination thoroughly,” said Orr. “We won’t stop until we hit the bottom of the whole thing. If there is anything wrong, we certainly -will bring it out into the daylight. The buildings will be examined minutely.” Petition to the State board asking the investigation was circulated by Hogle and was signed by prominent business men, farmers and bankers. Signers were: A. V. Brown, president Union Trust Company; Fred C. Dickson, vice president," Union Trust Company: Frank D. Stalnaker, president Indiana National Bank: William Bosson, farmer; El* Schloss, Schloss Brothers’ Company; Otto N. Frenzel, president. Merchants National Bank. Bert A. Boyd, grain dealer; Evans Woollen, president, Fletcher Savings and Trust Company; A. L. Block, president, L. Strauss & Cos.; £arl Taylor, president, Taylor Carpet Company; Charles Mayer Jr., Wash ington St. merchant; Frederic M. Ayres, president, L. S. Ayres & Cos., Charles J. Orbison, lawyer; C. A. Baker. Sol Meyer, president, MeyerKiser Bank. To Meet Contractors William S. Frye, transfer man; L. G. Rothchild. George J. Marrott. shoe dealer; William Gale, president, Irvington State Bank; Felix MeWhirter, president, Peoples State Bank; J. F. Wild, president, J. F. Wild & Cos.; James Lilly, William Kothe, wholesale grocer: Lewis E. Morrison and Herman P. Lieber, Washington St. merchants. Hogle conferred with White primarily on charges that county records in the auditor's office of the sale of the old ■workhouse grounds for $150,000 to Fairbanks, Morse & Cos., were charged after sale to show the county keeps .35 acres less than intended.

Agreement Reached After a conference today with George A. and 'Windsor Weaver, of the firm that built the new buildings, county commissioners announced their investigation will be pushed. A board of three arbitrators will go over the building and determine what the contractors shall do. Commissioners appointed John J. Griffith, county engineer, as their member of the board. Weaver named Lynn R Millikan, contractor. The two will select the third man. The plan is provided under the contract to settle difficulties. Griffith was instructed to take the contract to the State board of accounts and have it approved. Commissioners John McCloskey, John Kitlev and Albert Hoffman expressed views that the entire second story floor of the Julietta wing should be torn out and rebuilt. It sags dangerously, they said. Where mortar is soft, the walls must be rebuilt, they said. The final decision will be with the board. The examination will take place independent of the State investigation, It was thought. The contractors, county commission era and architects for the Julietta building Saturday looked at the sagging ceilings and soft mortar in the new men’s wing at Julietta. Cause of thfe sagging still Is a mystery, all present agreed. Th>s contractors propose a weigh* test for the ceilings, which are specified to hold twenty-five pounds a square inqh. The test may be made by the State board. Prisoner inmates are living in the wing at the Julietta asylum, which County Engineer John J. Griffith declared Saturday “might fall in.” The new building at the poor farm, termed a “cow barn” by the county board of charities and corrections, was accepted from the Weavers last Wednesday by commissioners, whp said it has been brought up to specifications. It is empty, awaiting outs come of the State investigation. FINK FAILS TO SHOW UP “Dastardly Plot” Is Not Revealed to Senate Daugherty Committee. By United Pres* WASHINGTON, June 2.—A. L. Fink of Buffalo, failed to make good his promise to disclose a “dastardly plot" against President Coolidge before the Senate Daugherty committee today. Fink, who was accused by Miss Roxie Stinson of helping to “frame her” publicly stated Saturday, that if permitted to testify he would involve Frank A. Vanderlip and Senators Wheeler and Brookbart of the committee in an attempt to discredit the President. He did not appear, however, when the committee called for him and Instead his attorney, George P. Koegel, asked permission to make a statement for him. Brook- , hart refused to hear it. Jumper Under Arrest Police today were holding Leonard Smith, colored, Louisville, Ky., on a vagrancy charge. Smith jumped through the window of a poolroom when Wilkerson tapped him on the shoulder, aplice said. Wilkerson okptr.red him Rafter a chase.

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JOHN PAUL RAGSDALE JR. How would you like to see your own little son garbed in these rags? / This is the way he might look if he were an orphan in the Bible lands of the Near East. This “distressed” little lsllow Is John Paul Ragsdale, Jr., who has a very happy home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Paul Ragsdale, at 88 Whitter PI. He is one of the boosters for Near East Relief Bundle Day, Wednesday of this week, when generous hearted folk are asked to leave their old and cast-off clothing at fire stations and churches. The boy with the cooperation of his mother decided to give his friends in Irvington a view of a “real Armenian orphan,” He took great pride in designing the clothes. It is needless to say that John Paul, Jr., attracted some attention when he appeared. He is a grandson of Mrs. E. C. Rumpler, head of the Woman’s division of Indiana Near East Relief. The boy invites all of his little friends to help in gathering bundles next Wednesday.

AGED EVERGREEN r IN SNOW BATTLE Tree in Glacier Park Crushed to Ground Every Winter, 'By Time* Special WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 2. The first hundred years may be the worst ordeal a human being has to endure, but there is an ancient evergreen tree in Glacier Nation xl Park, Montana, which experts say shows evidence of having battle! fo.r. Uj existence with the elements for three centuries. Huge snow drifts each winter crush itr to earth, and there it lies, growing along the ground. Each sprirjg it tries to rise, but it can never grow up like other trees, because every winter there is a 100foot drift in this particular spot in Cracker Canyon. Glacier Park foresters regard this tree as one of the queerest freaks of nature in the park. HOSPITAL BETTERMENTS Board of Health Plans Expenditure of $300,000. The city board of health met late today to consider city Hospital improvements authorized recently by council. Expenditure of $300,000 is planned. Corridors connecting new hospital units with old buildings, anew heating system, and additions to the nurses’ home are considered.

AMERICA’S REPLY 10 JAPAN’S NOIE TO BE COURTEOUS Will Bring ‘Gentlemen's Agreement’ Formally to an End. By I'nitrd Press WASHINGTON, June 2. The American government in the near future will dispattih a courteous reply to the protest of Japan against the new law excluding Japanese immigration to the United States. One of the principal points in the American response, it is understood, -will be to bring formally to an end the gentlemen’s agreement by which Japan voluntarily restricled her immigrants here to a minimum. Japan in her note of protest declered the new law mails it impossible for her to continue the gentlemen's agreement. Whether the Japanese claim that the exclusion law violates the spirit of. the commercial treaty of 1911 will be refuted in Hughes’ reply is not finally decided, but the State department is in a position to show that this government made ample reservations at the time of the negotiation of the treaty that the right of the United States t.o legislation on American immigration was not to be affected. HEARING IS POSTPONED Commissioners Delay Move in Precinct Vole Dispute. Hearing on the disputed election for precinct committeeman in the Ninth Precinct. Thirteenth Ward, was postponed until May 10 by county commissioners today. Fred S. Beck, assistant city smoke inspector declared elected by the precinct board, and defendant in the case brought by his Coffin-Dodson opponent, Emanuel Wetter, could not be present. A recount in Circuit Court gave sWetter a majority. The hearing before county commissioners is to settle Weber's for committeeman credentials. There are approximately 1.400 establishments engaged in ihe carriage and wagon industry in the United States.

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MTSS MOLLY GOLDSTEIN Miss Molly Goldstein, 1030 S. Meridian St., at the age of 14 years, is a music teacher and pianist. She is a graduate of the Sherwood Music School of Chicago and from the classes of "Kliss Mabelle Hendleman, flhdianapolis.

Boy Slayers Insane, Should Not Hang; Says Alienist

Bu United Press | CHICAGO, June 2.—t“ Nathan I Cl Leopold and Richard Loeb L , I are victims of society's ‘conspiracy of silence’ —they j are not responsible for the crime they have committed and should neither be Ranged nor imprisoned,” fcr. Max Thorek, surgeon and psychiatrist of international reputation, declared today. “These boys are insane. They are In the same class with Harry ' Thaw and Oscar Wilde. To hang them or send them to the penitentiary would be barbarous. They should be confined, 6t course, but as patients and not prisoners.”

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Ho Kom Tohg. banker and phi! nthropist at the Far East, has arrived in Canada en route to London. He has an appointment with King George. Then he will visit Rome, where he has been promised an audience with Pope Pius. He is the first Chinese citizen to receive the order of St John of Jerusalem. And it is rumored the Vatican soon will knight him in this order.

From Far and Near

Capt. Pelletier D'Oisy, the French avitor, has reached Peitaiho in his j flight to Tokio. President Coolidge now has 1,066 national convention votes, according to a statement by William M. Butler, his campaign manager. Chauncey M. Depew is confined to his bed and his condition is reported serious. Bequests George F. Baker, New York banker, has given to various public institutions was increased to $10,000,000 with the that he has donated $5,000,000 to Harvard University. Eugene Debs is seriously ill in a Chicago sanitarium. Five persons were killed at a crossing near Zebulon, Ga., when an automobile in which they were riding was hit by a passenger train. Tokio will hold a public funeral for the “unknown" Japanese who committed hari kari as a protest to tno American's immigration ban. _a Mari non Head Nanips Aid Announcemeryt was made today in Indianapolis of the appointment by G, M. Williams, president Nordyke & Marmnn Company, and of Carl J. Sharer, former secretary and treasurer of the Dayton Wright Company, as a special assistant to Wil-' liams in the management and financial control of the company. Sherer was treasurer of the Speedwell Motor Car Company front' 190!) to 1914. He was high In council of the general Motors Corporation.

Dr. Thorek expressed great interest in the case of the two young intellectuals who, “just for the fun of it,” they said, killed Robert Franks, hid the body under a '•ailtoad culvert on the outskirts of Chicago and devised an elaborate alibi to cover their crime. In an interview with the United Press, Thorek explained from a medical and scientific, standpoint what he believed actually prompted the murder. “I have studied this case carefully because it is in line with some professional work I have been dt"ng,” he said.

BIEL FOR II INDIANA JUDGES IS REPORTED OUI Revised Senate Measure Would Add $19,820 to Annual Expense. By c. a: RANDAU Times Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 2.—Senate Judiciary Committee today authorized Senator Shortridge to report favorably on the bill- to give Indiana an additional judgeship. This measure is a substitute for the Hickey court bill which proposed division of Indiana into two Federal Court districts. The proposed measure is satisfactory to Representative Hickey. As reported it has been placed on the' Senate calendar and will have to take Its chance with many other measures now awaiting action. Under the terms of the bill as reported, the State of Indiana/ shall constitute one judicial district as now, but, for the purpose of holding terms of court, the district shall be divided int seven d'v'sions with seats of justice in Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, South Bervd, Hammond, Terre Haute, New Albany and Evansville. New Seats. Court is now held in all these cities save South Bend and Terre Haute, which become division seats. The division of which Indianapolis is to be the seat of justice includes the counties of Boone, Clinton, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Herfry, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Putnam, Randolph, Rush, Shelby, Tipton, Union, Tippecanoe, Warren and Wayne. Terms of the district court for the Indianapolis division shall be held on the first Mondays of May and November of each year. The bill provides that all civil suits and proceedings not of a local character which shall be brought in the district of Indiana against a single/defendant, or where all the defendants reside in the same division of the district,' shall be brought and tried In the division in which the defendant or the defendants rereside in different divisions, the suit or proceedings may be brought and tried in any division. Seven Offices The President Is authorized and directed by and with the advice and consent of.the Senate to appoint an additional district judge for the district of Indiana. The clerk of the court for the district of Indiana shall maintain an office In each of the seven cities in which seats of justice are established. The general law takes care of the appointment of deputy clerks- and assistants so no mention of these is made in the bill. Under the redrafted measure additional court officers such as United Slates district attorney, clerk of the Uni'ed and United State marshal will not be named, although these court officers will have additional deputies in South Bend and Terre Haute, where court is to be held, for the first time. The cost of the new legislation is placed at $19,820 a year, which total is made up of the following items: Salary of judge, $7,500; salary of his secretary, $1,500; salary of messenger. $720; expenses of judge, $SO0; expenses of his secretary, $300; two additional deputy clerks, $3,000, and five additional deputy marshals, $6,000. It is not possible to determine in advance what the proposed legislation will cost in the matter of per diem or bailiffs, and criers, fees of jurors and witnesses and traveling expenses of marshalls and other court officials.

WOMEN OF KEAN SUEFORS 1(1,000 Charge Organizer Owes for Person’s Naturalized, By United Press MARION, Ind., June 2.—Complaint demanding judgment approximating SIOO,OOO was filed 'fn the Grant County Superior Court today by Women of the Ku-Klux Klan against Daisy Douglas Barr, Fairmount, Ind., Klan organizer. The corrfpjaint says Mrs. Barr failed to pay the plaintiff, a corporation organized under the laws of State of Arkansas, the sum of $1 for each person “naturalized ’ into the Klan. It is claimed that the sum of $5,085 is due the organization for persons initiated. Judgment of $40,000 for members initiated, but who were never reported to the organization is asked. Accounting by Mrs. Barr on profits of from Jifif.OOO to $67,000 on robes for the organization purchased in violation to the contract Is also asked. Cha’rges were denied for the plaintiff. (

,T in the first place, we can eliminate the ransom theory because both boys are sons of millionaires. They did not need money. That fact convinced me that the murder was committed in a fit of insanity. The particular form of insanity is what interests us.” Dr. Thorek insisted that there is nothing new in the case from the medical or psychological stand point. He scouted the theory that the murder was committeed “for the fun of it,” or was inspired by exaggerated ego. "It would be impossible, of i

Clifty Falls Ninety Feet High

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The feature of Indiana’s southernmost State park, near Madison, Clifty Falls, after -which the park is named. The falls are ninety feet in height, and are supplemented by smaller cascades.

STATE CLOSES IN HENRY TRIAL Defense to Prove Alibi, Attorney Tells Jury. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., June 2. The State today closed its case against Charles E. Henry, colored, Indianapolis, charged with fatally shooting Patrolman Jesse Louden in Indianapolis in June, 1923. George England, colored, now a prisyner in Indiana State prison, testified Henry told him in the Indianapolis jail that he had confessed to shouting Louden and asked what to do. >Roy England, colored, testified that he had met Henry the night of the shooting and Henry said he had Just shot a policeman. Patrolman Shehan and Detective Thomas and Landers, and Mrs. Jess Louden, widow of the murdered officer ail of Indianapolis, were other State witnesses. The detectives late Saturday told of securing a confession from Henry, Attorney W. E. Henderson, colored, Indianapolis, told the jury that the defense will prove that Henry was it home at the time of the shooting, that he waj of unsound mind an ) that he had been forced to sign the alleged confession. PRE-CONVENTION MEETINGS HELD (Conthiuod From Page 1) ters, Thurman W. Gottsohalk, Berne, minority floor leader in the House of Representatives, will be a candidate for Lieutenant Governor. T. N. Taylor, president of the State Federation of Labor, Saturday issued a statement denouncing the record of Senator Cravens in the Legislature. Holt has declared he has the backing of the labor federation. Taylor is seeking a plank in the Democratic platform similar to that

Seeks Death

Mrs. Lauretta Thompson Alberts, 24, for a year the secret wife of Albert Alberts of New York, is near death in a Chicago hospital from a bullet she fired herself while riding in a cab with Victor Hasterlik, married, and vice president of a bank. She and Hasterlik were in love, though each knew the other was married. “Now, I want to die,” says she. “Death is sweet, but life is bitter.”

course, for two boys in a fit of irresponsible dare deviltry to kidnap someone, lead officers on a wild chase, and after a few weeks produce the victim. “But the element of murder must be considered. No mere craving for adventure can account for that. “It is my opinion that these two boys, both super-intellectuals, petted and pampered, given all the money they panted and without proper restraint, lost their moral balance. Respite their mental precocity, they uecame what some people call morons.”

The park is rugged, thick 1 y wooded, and has many deep gorges. It was a gift of the people of Madison County to the State, tl has an area of some 500 acres.

presented to but ignored by the r epublican convention, calling for revision of the Workmen’s Compensation law. The convention will be called to order by State Chairman Walter S. Chambers, Newcastle. The Rev. Ward Applegate, „ pastor of the Firends Church, Centerville, will give the invocation. Miss Gertrude Fanning McHugh, secretary of the State committee, will read the official call for the convention. Frederick Van Nuys, Indianapolis attorney, will deliver the keynote address. Van Nuys will be followed by Mrs. A P. Iflynn, vice chairman of the State committee. Senator Samuel*M. Ralston will deliver an address covering the National tax question. Following reports of committees on rules and credentials, John S. Meradden, Rockville, permanent convention chairman, will deliver an address. District Meetings Eight delegates-at-large to the national convention will be elected. Wednesday night district meetings will be held in the Statehouse as follows: First district, room 240; SeeSnd, room 319; Third, room 332; Fourth, room 227; Fifth, room 431; Sixth, room 329; Seventh, room 30S, Eighth, room 206; Ninth, room 237; Tenth, room 202; Eleventh, room 2*7; Twelfth, room 317; Thirteeath, rodm 401 The rules, credentials and resolutions committees will hold separate meetings at 9 p. m. Wednesday at the Claypool. HARD TO GET ‘KEYS’ TO CITIES Shank Writes Letter for Marble Champ. Kennard Ong, marble champion of Indianapolis, playing in the National tournament at Atlantic City, will be given the keys tc any city he visits on his return trip, with a letter written by Mayor Shank for him today. Kennard expects to visit several eastern cities. Shank’s letter; ' "To whom it may concern: “This will introduce to you Kennard Ong, marble champion of Indianapolis. He and his father and mother have been friends of mine for years. "Kennard is a mighty fine young man, and any favors shown him will be greatly appreciated by me. “S. L. SHANK, Mayor.” SHANK CALLS A HALT

“Drives for One Fool Thing After Another,” Are Displeasing. Solicitors for drives and campaigns will not get such a hearty reception at the city hall from now on according to Mayor Shank. He called a halt on contributions after what he termed a “continual drive for one fool thing after another.” The mayor contributed to two campaigns today, and began to reconsider when others came in sight. “We have a lot of city hall employes who are constantly broke because of these campaigns," said Shank. “People seem to think city officials- have to give to everything, and lots of them can’t afford it." CANADA IS IN LEAD Dominion Controls 80 Per Cent of Newsprint in United States. By Times Special MONTREAL. June 2.—Canada will probably capture 80 per cent of the newsprint market in th 6 United States within the next fifteen years, according to Lord Rothmere, noted British publisher, in a statement on a visit to this city. “The Dominion is already supplying about 50 per cent of the United States newsprint,” said Lord Rothmere, “and if the present rate of increase in export is maintained, Canada will soon be America’s principal source of supply for paper. Two Mett Reported Absent Police today were looking for two men reported missing from their homes. The men are: David Berry. 37, of 3148 N. Harding St„ and Clavin Ditmer, 74, of 602 E. Ohio St.

MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1924

FORKOOLIDGE DEAL IS HINTED IN NORRISREPORT Wonders Why Manufacturer’s Displeasure Turned to Love, By U nited Press WASHINGTON, June 2.—A veiled charge that President Ooolldge bargained Henry Ford over Muscle Shoals for political reasons, marked the Senate Agriculture Committee’s report on legislation for disposition l of the project, drafted and laid before the Senate today by Senator George W< Norris, Republican, Nebraska, chairman of the committee, Norris declared a “vacillating Administration” offered to deduct $3,472,487 —the sale price of the Gorgas steam plant—from the $5,000,000 first payment offered by Ford “to 1 appease Ford’s anger” at the sale. '“This kindly favor,” Norris’ report! continued, “perhaps superinduced by! other considerations, so pleased Ford that his displeasure with the Ad-! ministration turned into love and admiration.” Norris termed Ford’s bid “by far the most undesirable of any that has l been submitted,” so much so “it is l not in the same class with any of! them,” and condemned Ford’s refu- 1 sal to appear before any congressional committee to testify in unmeasured terms. The report recommended that Con- 1 gress provide Government control' of the project through enacting the Norris bill. TEN LOSE LIVES IN TRAIN WRECK (Continued From Page 1) rushed to the scene from Attica, Williamsport, West Lebanon and Lafayette. All available physicians and l nurses in the four cities were taken l to# the wreck. Rescue work was hampered until nearly daylight by steam from the boiler of the freight locomotive. The engineer of the freight is believed to have been burned to death by steam. The fireman and head brakepaan are unaccounted for, but it is believed they Jumped from the train and mingled with the rescue workers. Screams Bring Help Frantic efforts were made to reach the victims, whose screams brought persons running from farm houses near the tracks, but it was impossible to get near the wrecked cars until the steam had poured from the freight locomotive and cooled. Coroner Colvin Briggs of Warren County started an Investigation into the cause of the wreck at daybreak. It is believed the switch which flew open was either defective or had not been locked. The flyer was running about fifty miles at the time of the crash. The wreck was the eighth of a series of serious accidents which have occurred on the Wabash Railroad near here in the last twelve years. The freight train in last night’s crash was in a wreck three week* ago tonight at Peru. Ind., when seventeen ears went into the dit’ch. killing three men who were bumming a ride. Survivors of the wreck are unable to furnish many details. Most of them were asleep. They were hurled from their berths or awakened by the noise of the crash and’ showers of broken glass. Deafening Roar There was a deafening roar as the boiler of the freight locomotive burst. Some of the passengers or. the Pullmans freed themselves and escaped before ‘he wreckage was enveloped with steam. Then, for wt at seemed hours to the rescuers, it was impossible to penetrate the clouds of steam and get to the wreckage. AmbuiUtces and autos bearing physicians to the scene of the crash were delayed by a dense fog along the Wabash River, which made fast driving dangerous. INVESTIGATION STARTED Public Service Commission Sends Two Men to Wreck Scene. Investigator Ray Gibbons of the Public Service Commission left for the scene of the Wabash wreck near Attica today to investigation in conjunction with the probe being made bj’ the Warren County coroner. Investigator David Matthewg was to go to the wreck scene later.

FATHER IS NOTIFIED Z. T. Dungan. Succeeded by Son* Killed in Wreck. Z. T. Dungan, clerk of Suprem* Court, was notified of the death o| his son, Carl, in the Wabash Rail* road wreck today. He left sot Lafayette, Ind., 6t£ a. m. Carl Dungan succeeded his fathej as claim agent for the Wabash, with headquarters at Huntington, Ind., when the elder Dungan took hig State office two years ago. Flour Export Increases MONTREAL, Quebec, June 2. Export operations in Canadian flour* are fair and there has recently bees a noticeable improvement in the vol* urne of business with the* Near East* and larger shipments are expected in the near future in that direction, especially to Constantinople. Clear* ances from New York last week con* sifted of 1,555 barrels and 210,668 sacks, while _ shipments from St, John, New Brunswick, were 62,000 sacks. IY is not generally known. that flour, sugar, starch, or grain dusts are capable of working greater havoc than a high explosive such as dynamite. %