Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1924 — Page 1

Homme Editiomi BILL CRESSY, humorist, is writing about the New York convention for The Times. First article Friday.

VOLUME 36—NUMBER 35

MAD BULL DASHES THROUGH DOWNTOWN STREETS

COPS OPEN FIRE AS ANIMAL KNOCKS WOMEN DOWN IN WILD RUSH—BULLETS END CAREER OF CITY’S VISITOR

Firing fifteen shots police chased a mad bull through crowded downtown streets at noon today. Some of the shots were fired in streets filled with the noon lunch crowd. It finally was killed in front of 407 \Y. Washington St. The bull got loose at the Bell Packing Company plant, Ray and Dakota Sts. Police emergency squad armed with revolvers, riot guns and rifles met the enraged animal at Meridian and Maryland Sts. The big black animal, frothing at the mouth, dashed up the east sidewalk of Meridian St. to Pearl St., where it turned east. A policeman attempted to shoot the animal in Pearl St., but the rifle was not loaded. The bull turned back into Meridian

Jam so r KIDNAPERS Millionaire Furniture Dealer Tells Police He Received Threatening Letter Demanding SIO,OOO or His Young Son, I, H, HARTMAN HOME IS NEAR THAT OF FRANKS Police Believe Crank May Have 'Planned Scare — Cordon of Blue Coats Surround South Side Mansion, However, By United Press CHICAGO, June 19.—Police and private detectives today guarded th*? homes of wealthy residents on Ellis Ave., on the South Side, following receipt of a ransom letter by Irvin H. Hartman, millionaire furniture dealer, threatening to kidnap Irvin. Jr., 10 years old, unless SIO,OOO is paid. The Hartman home is within a block of the home of Robert Franks, the -4-year-old schoolboy, kidnaped and slain by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, millionaire youths. Hartman reported to police he had received a special delivery letter as the family were about to start dinner late Wednesday, threatening kidnaping if the money was not paid. The letter concluded: “Details will be given later.”

Phone Call* A few moments later Hartman received a telephone call. A man’s voice repeated the threat and ransom demand, Hartman said. The caller also said he would communicate with Hartman later and give directions for payment of the money. Police are somewhat inclined to the theory that a crank sent the letter.' Another theory is that some one is trying to capitalize the hysteria aroused by the Franks case and frighten Hartman into paying the money. A police guard is on duty at the Hartman home. Other homes In the neighborhood also are being guarded. , Irvin, Jr., was one of the boys considered by Leopold and Loeb in their hunt for a rich man's son to provide them with excitement before they finally selected Robert Franks, police said. “The letter said to watch for a telephone call at 8 o'clock.” Hartman said today. “But the call came about a half-hour earlier. The man told me to be careful to turn over the money to him and pointed out what had happened to Robert Franks.” Directions Given Hartman said the man told him to wrap up SIO,OOO in bills and directed him to a street on the west side “You will come to a picket fence and the money is to be thrown over it,” the man told him. “I was furious and told him in strong terms what I thought of him. Then he hung up.” Irvin may be witness in the trial of Loeb and Leopold for murder He was the last to see Robert Franks alive. Irvin, a short distance behind Robert, stopped to look at a flower-bed. When he looked up agaiq Robert had disappeared and an automobile that had been parked at the curb was speeding away. Police also are looking for the persons responsible for a flaming cross, put up within a short distance of the homes of Leopold and Loeb. The cross burned in a vacant lot opposite the home of Martin A. Ryerson. millionaire steel man. POLICE HUNT FOR BOY Man Also Missing From aome—Suffers Heart Attacks. Roger Douher, 11, of 728 N. St. Clair St., is missing from his home according to Mrs. Alice Douher. his mother. Abe Bennett, 50, of 44016 E. Wash ington St., is also missing. Police w T ere told he suffered heart attacks.

CAMP MEETING OFF Illness of Billy Sunday Causes Cancellation. Billy Sunday, evangelist, because of illness, has been forced to cancel his camp meeting schedule at Winona Lake for June 27, 28 and 29, it van announced today ’y Don Coch ran, representing the Winona Assembly and Bible Conference. Sunday, who has been ill for sometime, has been ordered to take a complete rest by his physicians. DOG GUARDS CLOTHES Sons of Farmer Drown While Swimming in River. By Times Special HARTFORD CITY. Ind., June 19. —Siler Fox, 14. and Joseph Fox. 17, brothers, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Fox. farmers near Montpelier, were drowned Wednesday night in the Salamonie River while swimming. Parents found the clothing of the boys on the bank, guarded by their pet dog. One body has been recovered.

HE WAS ONLY FISHING Youth Arrives as Police Prepare to Probe “Drowning.” Police were called to Westfield Pike and White River today to record what was feared to be the first drowning of the season. Stewaj-t Maxwell of the Maxwell Gravel Company, wa'king along the banks of the river, spied a fishing pole with no fisherman- Tracks also led to the bank. He called police. Motoreyclemen Cooney and Bernauer ariiyed Just as Walter Weller, 18, giving his address as Broad Ripple, walked up. Weller explained he had parked his pole to hunt for a better fishing hole. WIFE TRIES SUICIDE Worried Over 111 Health, Woman Takes Poison. Worry over continued ill health was assigned as the motive for what police said was the second attempt of Mrs. Verlie Whittington, 23. of 814 Madison Ave., to take her life. Shortly after breakfast this morn ing she swallowed poison. She was found unconscious on the kitchen floor by her mother, and was sent to city hospital, where .her condition is said to bfc critical. She is the wife of Paul Whittington

RECOUNT IS ORDERED Evansville to Have Second School Enumeration. Anew school enumeration of Evansville, Ind., as ordered today by Benjamin J. Burris, State superintendent of public instruction. He said several hundred duplications ■were found in the original enumeration. Ft. Wayne authorities requested the check on Evansville figures. Upon the outcome hinges whether Ft/ Wayne or Evansville shall have a representative on the State board of education. The first enumeration showed Evansville 198 names higher than Ft. Wayne. Investigation of Ft. Wayne figures also is being made. LET'S GET PICTURES TUK Former Newsies, Now Successful, to Be in ‘Y* Movie. A number of business men, who were former newsboys, will be in the motion pictures taken tonight at the boys’ department Y. M. C. A., showing the benefit of the “Y” work. Downtown messenger' boys and newsboys, who automatically become members, spend two r.ights a week at the “Y” where they have supervised play and gymnastics the year round, receiving personal attention from adult workers. { The pictures are to be used by the publicity department in community welfare work. BRITAIN SNUBS MEXICO Withdraws Agent and Calls Off Recognition. By United Press LONDON, June 19. —Prime Min ister MacDonald, speaking in House of Commons today vigorously defended actions of H. Cunard Cummins, British diplomatic representative in Mexico City whose expulsion has been ordered by the Mexican government. Without formal announcement, Great Britain has broken off relations with Mexico to extent of recalling H. Cunard Cummins and abandoning a proposed recognition mission.

and dashed madly across to the L. S. Ayres & Company store, where it leaned against a plate-glass show window. While pedestrians gathered a policeman took careful aim at the steer’s head with a revolver and fired. The animal jumped and the bullet missed. Another shot was fired by an officer at the curb. The animal plunged into the air and dashed around the corner into Washington St., where it knocked over Mrs. A. W. Cox and her mother, Mrs. Martha. Sneider, 1260 N. Belmont xYve., and Mrs. Marie Arch, 32, of 1043 N. Hamilton Ave. They were cared for in Ayres restroom. Injuries were minor. Lawrence Huckleberry, shipping clerk, Cleveland Stf and Sherman Dr., was grazed by a bullet on the arm.

SvES FOR IfADOO Supporters Hope to Nominate Him at Democratic Convention Before Tenth Ballot Campaign on Coue Principles, OPPOSITION WORKS TO KILL BOOM GRADUALLY Smith Forces Will Have Second Chance Then —'Dark Horses’ Will Forge to Front —Endurance Contest Predicted, By ROBERT BENDER, United Sews Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 19.—William Gibbs McAdoo today called his strategists into conference to map out a short, sharp campaign to effect his nomination in the Democratic na tional convention on or before the tenth ballot. Those called were Senator Carter Glass, diminutive statesman from Virginia, who arrived today in a Panama hat and white Palm Beach suit to find himself a prominent larkhorse; TcAjn Love, Texas; J. Bruce Kramer and Homer S. Cummings, formerly chairman of the Democratic national committee. At the same time the opposition forces were preparing to prolong Lie struggle in hope of breaking down strength of the former Treasury chief and pushing him out oi the running.

Peak at Fifth Judge Rockwell, campaign manager for McAdoo, fays the latter's strength may reach its peak as early as the fifth ballot and that McAdoo will surely go over by the tenth. George Brennan, Illinois chieftain, who wants A1 Smith nominated, says there will he no early decision and intimates voting .nay surpass the endurance test c-f 1920—when it required forty-four ballots to nominate James M. Cox—and the record set in 1912 when Woodrow Wilson was nominated on the forty-sixth ballot. Strategy of the Anti-MeAdoo forces at the outset will be to “get rid of McAdoo first.” Then Smith will be given his big chance and. if he fails of nomination, the time will have arrived to agree in the rival camps upon a compromise. “We Will Win” McAdoo's supporters are carrying on a Coue-ized campaign of "we will win, we will win.” They are talking it constantly and as Judge Rock well says, “we’re going to yell every time McAdoo’s name is mentioned, every time a ballot is announced —in fact we’re going to yell for him constantly.” On the other hand, Brennan, almost isolated in t—he room of the eighth floor of the Waldorf, con ferred with Smith, Mayor Hylan and other of the Smith and anti McAdoo leaders, as he laid his lines for the coming struggle. One of the first balloons to go up from these conferences was labeled ‘ Smith-Hearst political peace reported.” It was said the feud between the Governor and the publisher had been healed through Brennan’s efforts and that Hearst papers will not attack the Smith candidacy. Meantime, the Hearst papers in New York appeared today, devoting much of their space to friendly consideration of McAdoo Anti-Klan Plank Another storm signal sent up by Brennan was announcement that h£ favors a plank in the platform mentioning the Ku-Klux Klan by name and denouncing it and its principles This might be construed as a dou ble edge stroke —directed on the one hand against McAdoo, who has been alleged frequently to be profiting by Klan support -and indicating on the other hand that Brennan might ulti mately take kindly to candidacy of Senator Underwood of Alabama, who makes the Klan one of his major issues.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1924

Nature Shows Angriest Mood as Torrents Rush Down Iron Mountain in Tennessee

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NATURE WAS SEEN IN ITS ANGRIEST MOOD IN A SERIES OF PHENOMENAL CLOUDBURSTS NEAR JOHNSON CITY, TK.NN. FOUR SEPARATE TORRENTS RACED DOWN IRON MOUNTAIN. CUTTING GREAT HOLES IN ITS SIDES, SWEEPING BOULDERS AND TREES IN ITS PATH. THE PATHS CUT IN THE MOUNTAIN ARE SHOWN IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH. THEN IT DASHED THROUGH TWENTY MILES OF ,CARTER COUNTY, CARRYING STORES, HOMES AND RAILROAD TRACKS ALONG WITH IT. A DOZEN PERSONS WERE KILLED AND SCORES OF FAMILIES WERE FORCED TO FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES.

N. DAKOTA STORM IS FATAL 10 TWO Cloudburst and Heavy Winds Wreck Towns. ST. PAUL, Minn., June 19.—Two were killed in North Dakota and inestimable property damage was done by a storm which swept across. North Dakota and Minnesota early today. Originating in Montana, the storm swept eastward, reaching its greatest intensity at Dickinson, in western North Dakota, where two were killed and twenty-one injured. Scores of buildings were wrecked at Dickinson and Eland. A cloudburst, which accompanied the nnety-mile wind, washed out railroad embankments and highways, blocking traffic west on the coast line of the Northern Pacific and stopping the Soo Line north of Bismark. aimost• evety building in son suffered damages. A camp of 400 at a Chautauqua was drowned out by torrents of rain and two injured when a tent collapsed. Joe Froelich, a farmer, and John Freed, a dray line owner, wen killed at Dickinson when a shed collapsed.

‘MOVIE’ TRIAL NEAR END Jury Hears Charge Against Film Star’s Chauffeur. By United Press LOS ANGELES. June 19.—Trial of Horace A. Greer, chauffeur for .Mabel Normand, film star, hn charges of shooting Courtjand S, Dines, wealthy Denver man, was expected to reach a jury late today. Taking of testimony was almost complete and opposing counsel expected to make their closing statements this afternoon. SCHOOL TROUBLE AIRED Old Augusta Case Is Referred to County Grand Jury. Trouble in thjr Old Augusta schoolhouse last February was referred to the county grand jury today by Prosecutor William H. Remy. Criminal Judge James A. Collins dismissed an appeal from the justice of peace court of Walter Glass of a fine of $5 and costs, totaling $39.75, assessed against Mrs. John Christian. Old Augusta, on charges of provoke. Judge Collins held Glass had no jurisdiction. Mrs. Christian is said to have had trouble with truant officers. Grain Dealers Meet June 27 The Indiana Grain Dealers’ Association will hold its mid-summer meeting at the Board of Trade June 27. Many new features in the grain business' will be discussed. Monon Brakeman Killed By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 19. Walter Benson, 28, Monon freight brakeman, was killed by , a fast, freight near Orleans. It was his second week as brakeman. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m. ■ 73 9 a. m 81 7 a. m...... 76 10 a. m..--.. 84 8 a. m..--.. 80-1 p. m 89

A bullet fired from across Meridian St. broke a plate-glass window of the William B. Burford Company, 38 S. Meridian St. Then the animal dashed on down the south sidewalk, west on Washington St. Several other pedestrians were knocked over and brushed by the animal in its mad flight. With police and John Heinrichs of the Bell Packing Company hot in pursuit the animal finally paused in the 400 block on W. Washington St. The officers had been firing occasionally in the pursuit from Meridian St. Motorpoliceman Fred Oakley did most of the shooting. As the animal paused police fired several shots and it fell

A TWENTY-FOOT GULLEY WAS CUT THROUGH ACRE AFTER ACRE OF FARM LAND. NEAR THE CENTER CAN BE SEEN A BUSH TO WHICH WALTER LEWIS, 7, CLUNG, AS HE PULLED HIS OLDER BROTHER, CHARLES, 12. UP ON THE BANK. THEY MEEK COMPELLED TO REMAIN THERE UNTIL All) REACHED THEM. THEY AND THEIR FATHER. CECIL LEWIS, WERE THE ONLY MEMBERS OF A FAMILY OF NINE TO ESCAPE DEATH.

LEGION WILL PICNIC Delegates lo State Convention to Be Fleeted at July Meeting. The Indianapolis Post of the American Legion held their .Tune meeting in the library of the Board of Trade Bldg. Wednesday night. Robert L. Moorhead Invited the post and auxiliary to a picnic at bis summer home, on Brookville Rd. Malcolm Lucas was appointed '’hairman of the committee on arrangements. Delegates and alternates to the State convention at Evansville, Aug. 25-27, will be elected at the July meeting. SIX KILLED IN CRASH Ohio Tnterurban Smashes Into Auto at Crossing. By United Press GENOA, Ohio, June 19.—Six persons were killed today when their auto was struck by a. Lake Shore interurban car. The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Peterson, Sandusky; Mrs. S. Hendrickson, sister of Mrs. Peterson; Mrs. Emil Hendrickson, sister-in-law of Mrs. S. Hendrickson, and Mrs. Emil Hendrickson's two small children. ELECTION HEARING HELD Decision Taken Under Advisement by Commissioners. County commissioners today finished a hearing brought to contest the election of Fred S.. Beck as Republican precinct committeeman of the Ninth precinct. Thirteenth ward, by Emanuel Wetter. Decision was taken under advisement. Befik is the Shank-Armitage man, and is assistant city smoke inspector. Wetter in an adherenet of the Cof-fin-Dodso l faction. • Boy Bicyclist Hurt In a collision ’between a bicycle and ap auto at La Salle and E. Tenth Sts., Wednesday, Leonard Shugate’, Jr., of 1106 Parker Ave., rider of the eye! A received a crushed ankle. Robert Caldwell, 36, of 1118 Ewing St., driver of the auto( was charged with assault and battery.

Entered as Second-class Matter at Postoffioe Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday,

FLIER USES PARACHUTE Non-Stop Flight Hero Jumps as Plane Crashes. /*// I nited Pres* DAYTON, Ohio, June 19.—His plane plunging earthward from an altitude of 5,000 feet directly ove4 the business district of Dayton, I/ieut. John A. Macßeady, hero of the first non-stop flight across the continent, averted a disastrous accident late Wednesday when he walked calmly out on the wing of liis hurtling ship and stepped off irto space, supported only by his emergency parachute. The ship he had left fell to earth and exploted just outside the city limits. Maoßeady's parachute landed in the tree-tops at the brink of a ravine. He was uninjured. EVELYN THAW DIVORCED Husband and Former Dancing Partner Gets Decree. By United Press NEW YORK, June 19.—Justice Wagner in Supreme Court today filed an interlocutory decree of divorce in favor of Jack Clifford against Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, his former dancing partner. The decree becomes final in ninety days. WORLD FLIERS IN SIAM American Airmen Arrive Safely at Bankok. By United Press ■ SHANGHAI, June 19.—The American round-the-world fliers arrived at Bankok, Siam, at 7 p. m. Wednesday, according to advices here today. LOCAL FIRM LOW BIDDER Moyer-Kiser Bank Offers Best Terms for $2,500,000 State Ix>an. The Meyer-Kiser Bank, Indianapolis, was low bidder on the State $2,500,000 loan which will be used to pay a similar loan maturing June 30, necessitated by deficiencies in the State general fund. The local bank bid for the whole loan, asking 2.67 per cent! interest and offering a premium or $13.75. Five other-banks submitted bids.

over Heinrichs cut its throat and the chase was over. Police first heard the animal was loosfs when Heinrichs telephoned from Morris and Wests Sts., where James Hayes, 1147 Maple St., was attacked. He was sent to city hospital. The animal galloped east to Madison Ave., and turned north. While a motorcop team was searching for it on the south side, Heinrichs again telephoned from Manual Training High School. Sergt. Sheehan, Oakley and Detective Dugan then were ordered out in the emergency. Heinrich said the animal was purchased at the Indianapolis stockyards this morning and was being placed in a pen at the packing plant when it got loose.

STORE MOSOR PH FIRES | Clli COURT Twenty-Five Drivers Choose to Quit Motoring for Twenty to FortyFive Days When Found Guilty by Wilmeth. THIRTY-FOUR PREFER TO PAY THEIR PENALTIES Judge Does Not Adhere to Old Schedule of Punishment —Ninety Cases Out of 153 Disposed of—Many Are Continued. Pleading with them to cut down the number of automobile fatalities in Marion county, City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth, in speeders’ court today, gave alleged speeders the option of paying fines or putting up their cars for twenty to forty-five days. Os ninety cases disposed of by noon, twenty-five drivers chose to store their ears and turn their keys and certificates of title to the court baliff for the number of davs designated.

Thirty-four drivers paid fines Twenty-seven cases were continued and four were dismissed. Judge Wilmeth varied greatly from the schedule of fines adopted several months ago. Stores Her Car Among those who agreed to store their cars was Mrs. Marie Etter. 1923 Adams St., who agreed not to drive for twenty-five days rather than pay a fine of S4O and costs. She pleaded not guilty when charged with driving thirty-three miles an hour. Judge Wilmeth explained to the motorists the pfreat diversity in fines imposed on various drivers charged with the same number of miles by saying that he took into consideration the time and place iff arrest and traffic conditions. Fines for thirty miles an hour ranged from $lO to SSO. During his lecture Wilmeth lined the prisoners up along the wall of tlie crowded courtroom. Judge Quotes Figures “In 1923.” h£ said, “twenty-four persons were killed in Indianapolis in accident? involving automobiles. Thus far this year, twenty have been killed in the city and twentysix In JJarion County. At that rate the fatalities for his year will equal those of last year. “The percentage of deaths involving automobiles was fourteen to every 100,000 population in 1922. In Los Angeles for the same year the percentage was twenty-nine for every 100,000 population; in Chicago twenty-two. All of these figures are too high. Ts you hear any of your friends complaining that driving in Indianapolis is slow, remind them that of the difference in the 'percentage of deaths in Chicago and Los Angeles and Indianapolis. Asks Better Laws The judge cited instances of children and adults injured by automobiles who had appeared before him in traffic cases. He said he hoped that more stringent laws regarding speeding would be passed, and ended with an explanation of the new system of fines. Judge Wilmeth continued the trial of cases after the hour that was customary. During the morning he stopped hearing on traffic cases long enough to try an outside case so that a woman carrying a baby could leave the sweltering courtroom. Turning to resume the traffic trials, the judge remarked: “It flight interest citizens to knew that 32,000 cases went through this court last year and 2,400 last month.” They Quit Driving These motorists agreed to store their cars; J. R. Sicktly, 2347 E. Michigan St., thirty-five days, in preference to S6O * (Turn to Page 11)

Forecast ♦ LOCAL thunderstorms this afternoon or evening. Cooler tonight. Fair and cooler Friday.

TWO CENTS

STRIKERS BATTLE COMPANYGUARDS State Police Patrol West Virginia Mining Town, By United Press MORGANTOWN, W. Va., June 19. —State police today patrolled Brady, a little mining town in the mountains near here fdilowing battle between striking miners and company guards of the Brady-Warner Coal Company. One man was injured in firing which lasted from midnight to 3 a. m. The union hall was destroyed by fire and many of the miners' homes were riddled with bullets. Four blasts of dynamite rocked the town and between 500 and 600 shots were exchanged between the strikers and the guards. The Brady mine recently went on open shop basis, and when the union miners refused to accept a cut in wages the company brought in nonunion men. A vote taken by the strikers to drive the non-union men from the settlement Wednesday night precipitated the trouble, it 1b said. FAMILY SEES MAN DIE Quicksand Slowly Closes Over Head as Neighbors Work Frantically. By Times Special WILKESBARRE, Pa., June 19 As Anthony Antanartis sank slowly in quicksand in the rear of his home, near here, his wife and children watched. Neighbors worked frantically for two hours to rescue him, but were unsuccessful., the water finally closing over his head. HEAT AT HIGH MARK Temperature of 89 Recorded by Weather Bureau. Unhampered by clouds the sun beat down upon Indianapolis to set anew heat record for the season today. At 1 p. m. the weather bureau reported temperature of 89 degrees. Previous high mark for the season was 84. J. H. Armington. meteorologist, said the heat wave was due to the fact that several cloudless days have permitted the to become thoroughly warmed, offering no opposition to the heat of the sun. /Sovaf relief was promised for Friday.