Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1924 — Page 6

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TAGGART SOUGHT BY DEMOCRATIC PASTY LEADERS Hoosier Delegates Seem to Hold Key Position at Convention. By C. A. RANDAU Times Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 24.—Attempts on part of New York papers to make it appear Tom Taggart was about ready to switch over to A1 Smith caused little, but merriment among llonsier delegates this morning aa they prepared to attend the first session of the convention. “We are for Ralston. We have no second choice and we do not be lieve we shall need a second choice,” i> the practically unanimous sentiment o i the Indianians. They fully appreciate the fact that they hold •what appears to bjt the key to the whole situation. No, man in New 1 ork is more sought after than their leader. Tom Taggart. x The whole delegation, naturally, is basking in this reflected glory. Taggart has not sought out any leaders from other States. It is the other leaders who have worn out ’he rug in the hall outside his door at the Waldorf in beating a trail to his lair. After Franklin Roosevelt had waited for three days for Taggart to call on him. He could he’d his patience no longer and finally called on Taggart. After a brief conversation he emerged from Taggart's* quarters and handed out information to the effect that “all is well,” which was the least he could have said even if Taggf.rt had discouraged him most j emphatically. Taggart subsequently assured sundry and all that Ralston j was the only man on his voting list ! Hoosiers here for the hig show seem to have fared better than most visitors in getting seats inside Madison Square. Playtime of Prophets Only orange juice, but a spirit of friendly rivalry developed between Jinnistan Grotto, Los Angeles. Cal., j and Selama Grotto, St. Petersburg. I Fla. Asa result, the ridal orangeists ] distributed truck loads of the golden ! fruit to the crowds., Florida dis-j pensed the famous Florida "national emblem.” while California put out j the equally famous Sunkist variety Jinnistan delegates are at the English and Selama at the Denison. The California bunch enlivened things about the English with their j songs of the Golden State. At (he Denison the crack patrol of Aut Mori, Youngstown, Ohio, gave j a drill in the lobby Monday and expertly dodged and circled about the posts. The patol is a snappy lookir aggregation and drill with clock-like precision. A real mardi gras, patterened after their own nationally famous fun festival, is planned by Shalimar Grotto j of New Orleans at Rainbow Casino Gardens all night tonight. The Delta City delegation, thirty- j one strong, with their own jazz! dance orchestra, announce they will he hosts to other Grottos at the ] popular resort. The Johnny Bayers dorffer Newel Orchestra from the ! Spanish Fort at Tokio Gardens of j New Orleans will furnish the music j assisted by the Wolverine band of! Chicago The Ka-zoo band of *Amra Grotto j of Knoxville. Tenn., promised every ! person in Clark and Cade drug store, 1 Illinois and Washington Sts , chicken i and dumplings if they would only j come to Knoxville C E. Wringle. William H Hites. John W Sherman and David Campbell, playing guitars and ukeleles and blowing Ka-zoos. j entertained a crowd at the store ah Monday afternoon. Prophets were slow in starting the fun making today after a hard night of hilarity and amusement. Late risers drilled about singly and in pairs getting back their “marching" legs. Birmingham provided some amuseFRENCH WOMAN TELLS HOWTO SET THIN Without Diets, Absurd Creams, Exercises or Reducing Girdles. 1 reduced my own weight 50 pounds in less than 5 weeks, and at the same time marvelously improved my general health and appearance with a, new Flench discovery called SAN-GKJ-f A. 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ment, and seemed about the only bun< II not affected by the first day's rigor. While one bunch of the southerners gathered about a yell leader in the Claypool lobby, another gang undertook to direct traffic at Meridian and Washington Sts. A crowd ; gathered at the corner to watch the j antics of the enthusiastic amateur j cops. A colored junkman was enter- | tained by the sov,therners for some time and his nag was kindly un- ! hitched from the wogan. While traffic waited, four of the Birmingham boys engaged in a game of marbles and some of them would have qualified for the Indianapolis Times marble tournament. A patrol wagon was commandeered by the Kamram enthusiasts and they took a joy ride at j the expense of police. ' Carl Sanor, playing the accordion, ' and George Shields the banjo, of i Nazir Grotto. Canton, Ohio, serenad |ed The Times today. DM you hear ; them play "Gypsy Sweetheart?” Amrou Grotto of Zanesville, Ohio, i paraded this morning with band and ! patrol. The Knoxville. Tenn., boys of Amra Grotto gave a concert in front ■of the Washington and featured ‘ The Old Gray Mare, She Ain t What She L'sed to Be," aid “How Dry I Am.” Alhambra Grotto. St. Louis, were lout in full uniform this morning and : the Alhambra girls were in full cosjtume for the first time. j Hindoo-Koosh Grotto of Ontario, I Canada, at the Spink Arms ha ve a j sign across the street at the hotel that would do credit to a national political convention. The Canadians are advertising themselves strong and getting a lot of fun out of the convention A1 Time. Grotto of Atlantic City were jubilant after announcement | came they had won the convent.on j for 1925. [ Oola Khan of Cincinnati will banj quet tonight in the Lincoln room at j the Lincoln. Some members of A1 Si rat band of | Cleveland pulled a stunt at the Clayi pool lobby imitating a caliope. It I sounded like old circus days. Those citizens who went downtown Monday night to see the fun voted | the prophets a dandy- bunch. The | be-fezzed visitors were up to all | kinds of stunts, some of which were I decidedly embarrassing for the viej tims, but the prophets had a way about them that prevented offense. Hotel lobbies continued to be dance floors. A score of bands, each with its string of followers in snake-dance formation, paraded and paraded Monday night. Every tme they saw a hotel they went in and played. The dancers enjoyed stunts of their own between ucneerts. There was might ly little tim* between, however. Alhambra Grotto's Kitchen Band of St. Louis, Mo., gets music out of everything from a coffee pot to a funnel. Dressed in white caps, coats I and aprons, sixteen prophets sereI The Times today.

SON OF RICHES IN HEIM AGAIN Milton Dailey Named in Divorce Suit, Further activities of Milton H. Dailey, 22, University of Illinois sophomore and son of a Chicago millionaire, while in Indianapolis for the Speedway race, were aired in Superior Court before Special Judge Thomas C. Whallon. Costello Converse, 24, of 3338 N. Illinois St., was granted a divorce after Judge Whallon heard test! mony that Mrs. Evelyn Converse, 23. of 1103 tl. Michigan St., had visited Rainbow Casino Gardens with Dailey, returning about 7 a. m. next day. Dailey jumped into local prominence* when charges he had issued* three bad cheeks here after losing bets on the race were raade to the prosecuting attorney. Dailey was arrested in Washington, Pa., on charges of taking an Indianapolis auto for a drive to New’ York to keep a date with a Broadway actress, according to his tale. Mrs. Converse admitted on the stand she had been out with Dailey, but denied she got home as late as 7 a. rn.

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. BOYE. LEFT TO RIGHT, VIOLET FORBES. VULVA ROSE M CLAUGHLIN AND GLADYS REEVES. BELOW, DOROTHY TURNER. (LEFT) J. ENGLE AND "BINGO" WILSON, The three misses above are from Grotto. And when the wee girls Memphis, Tenn., and what, they got tired, Miss Turner of Memforgotten about jazz dancing equals phis. Engle of South Bend. Ind.. what n.ost persons know. They t . K [ Wilson of Mempnis put on. rai.ie to Indianapolis with Mazda ( log danct s. COLORLESS CANDIDA TE IS SEEN AS RESULT OF SCRAP % \ 1 Senator Gill Refers to Samuel Ralston as Fine Old Gentleman, By C. C. GILL United States Senator From Washington (Written for (lie United Press.) NEW YORK, June 24.—Wi1l t.IOO fighting delegates fight and light, only to nominate a colorless.candidate on a platform that straddles the vital issues? That is the question m the minds of observers and listeners at this convention as tlie delegates assemble and caucus. McAdoo is a fighter at all times, on all subjects and tells everybody so. Smith is a character of positive convictions, which he slates in militant words.

If precedents of other Democratic conventions were to be relied upon, one of those two leaders would be nominated. Wilson beat Clark at Baltimore in 1912. Cox beat McAdoo in 1920. But in neither convention were there such specific charges against either candidate as here. McAdoo Attacked The opponents of McAdoo charge | that, being Doheny’s lawyer, secur i ing tax refunds for big corporations, j from officials in the Treasury DepartI ment who had been his subordinates and appointees, helping millionaries out of shipping board troubles and having an alleged alliance with the | Klan, detsroy all chances of his election. Opponents of Smith say that his religious connections, his reputation as being a wet, his lifelong identification with Tammany and the claim that Wall Street wants him, make his election equally impossible and declare that his nomination will mean the party would be committing hari-kari in the West. These definite charges go beyond generalities used in Ba *imore and San Francisco. Colorless Candidate The Republican convention at Chicago in 1920 furnishes a better precedent. Both Wood and Bowden were tarred with money. They were charged with spending millions in buying delegated. The result was Warren G. Harding, a colorless can didate. \ * If the Smith and McAdoo followers kill off one another until neither can win, to whom will the delegates turn? Os course, there is Bryan, but he is not merely a fighting leader. He is rather a political institution. Most of the delegates refuse to discuss seriously the possibility of his candidacy. Underwood is the business man in politics and could not furnish thrills for a Democratic campaign if he tried. The most subtle campaign being

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made these opening days for any dark horse by the conservative and big business interests is being made for John W. Davis; but he is J. Pierpont Morgan’s lawyer and buys his silk stockings on Fifth Avenue. That is as line a red flag to unfurl across the West as Ba Follette can ask for. Besides Davis is too dig nified and too deeply steeped In the law to lead a fighting campaign. Ralston is a fine old Indiana gen tleman, and if nominated his oppo dents will have great difficulty in ! fastening anything hurtful upon him. j But he, too. is colorless. He is new to the country. He ! might prove more nearly a prog j ressive leader than any other dark horses. His record in the Senate; is progressive, but he lacks the virile leadership which the millions of dissatisfied voters are ready to follow. Glass, Robinson, Cummings and Governor Bryan and a dozen others ' would fail to meet the needs of the hour if the Democratic ticket is to hold the progressive Democrats in line against La Follette. They cannot appeal to the psychology of the masses. There is still one hope for a fight ing candidate even if McAdoo and Smith "do destroy one another, namely some unknown, unheralded man, who with eloquence, personality and th power to appeal to the imagina tion of the plain people may stride across the political stage and repeat the precedent of Bryan in IS9B. The night is dark/indeed but there may be such a star of hope NO FEAR OF EVIL resulting from change of diet, water or climate, concerns those who take on the short trip, summer vacation or long journey, CHAMBERLAIN’S COLIC and DIARRHOEA .REMEDY Ready mergency - night or day.

ANTI-SPEED WAR RESULIS SHOWN IN ARREST DROP j Only Five Persons Appear on Slates Today as Record Tor Monday, Police records today show only five arrests in which alleged speeding j figured. Chief Herman F. Rikhoff said he 1 thought results on the Intensive I (drive of last week were just beginning to appear. “There will be no let-up in the*, anti speed war," Rikhoff said. “It's the everyday job of policemen from now on to arrest fast drivers.” Rikhoff urged that drivers stop the practice of attempting to pass every car in a traffic line. “This can be remedied if the driver of the first car will proceed at brtsk, but moderate, speed.” The chief said police will watch for th> person who drives alongsiie! another car and makes a remark such as: “Is that all you can get out i of that junker?" Melvin Peacock. 25, of 425 E. Michigan St.. Elmei Arnold. 27. of 111! j Sanders St.: H. (.' Brooks, 30, of; I Ren Davis. Ind.: Harvey Bunion, 29, of R. R. B, box 141, and William McCoy, 30, of 3429 Kenwood Ave . face speeding charges. W. S. Reed. 38, of Barton Hotel, is charged with failure to stop .after an accident, operating a vehicle while intoxicated and driving on the left side of street; Horace H Page. 36, colored. I'd 9 Fall Creek Blvd., improper driving: Ileury C. Brown improper driving and failure to dis play certificate of tirle anil Laurel Benton, 31, of 815 N. Wallace St., improi or driving. ST. PETERSBURG IS HOSTTO THIRSTY Thousands Given Orange Juice by Sunshine Men, | They , ame 1.000 mile* to tell Inj dianapoiis and brother prophets ! about St Petersburg. Fla., and Sefarna Grotto, the town where they give the newspapers away if the sun doesn't shine, and latest reports were that they were succeeding. In sass, if you don't know that Selauf Grotto is in town it's becaus*e you are deaf and dumb and blind. Headed by Bob Smalley, 28, the youngest monarch at the convention, the outfit from the land of sunshine

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These four young women from Columbus, Ohio, Achbar Grotto, with their crack band attracted wide ! attention in the big parade Monday, and at the Denison, their headquar ters, they are the King pins. A large booth erected in the lobby i advertises the Florida city and their : famous (T inges. More than 4,51)0 guests were served with orange , juice and "Fountain of Youth I Water." They brought along a carload of j oranges and grace fruit and fifty j alligators which they will parade today Their officers are Smalley, monarch Teaff. chief justice, and York, master of ceremonies. OIL ACTION IS DELAYED Grand Jury Probing Scandal I’ostt/ones Report. i Hu fnitrrt /’> <* WASHINGTON. June 24. —Action on indictments sought by the Government in connection with leasing of the naval oil reserves, today was ef-rred by the special grand jury hearing the evidence until next Monday

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were having the time of their lives when snapped in the crowd by a Times photographer. GIRL HELD BY POLICE Charged With Entering House—Man Also Arrested. A man giving his name as John Durnell. 23, of 2Gn N Keystone Ave.. and a girl who said she was Miss Martha Morris P.icknell, 19. of 3032 Meredith Ave., were slated at the city prison today, Durnell charged w;th entering a house to commit a felony, vagrancy and malicious trespass. and Miss Bicknell with entering a house and grand larceny. 'Police called by neighbors to the home of John Rogers. 3030 Meredith St., saidt hey found the couple in :he house. Miss Bicknell is alleged to have admitted she took a coat and dress from the house earlier in the evening. Building Nears Completion Announcement was made today of the opening July 15 of two floors of the new ten-story furniture displav building. 603 E. Washington St b\ W H. Stewart, manager. Other floors will be opened as soon as cun struction is completed. *

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ARREST OF TAXI DRIVES FOLLOWS AUTO COLLISION Frank Cardis Seriously Hurt —Four Others Escape Injury, One man was seriously injured and four persons escaped injury when a sedan in which they were riding turned over after being struck by a taxicab at Georgia and Delaware Sts. Monday night, police records showed today. Melvin Peacock, 26, of 425 E. Michigan St., driver for the Bird Taxi Company, was charged with assault and battery and speeding. Frank Cardis, 1404 Silver Ave., was taken to the city hospital suffering from cuts on the right arm and head. Cardis, his wife Elnora, and son i Richard. 3, were in the auto with i John McNulty and his wife, Mrs. | Florence McNulty, 1339 Silver Ave. ! Mrs. McNulty w i driving. Peacock j was going forty miles an hour, ac- | cording to witnesses’ statements as j given out by police. Charles Sexton, 2, son of Samuel j Sexton, 2606 Cornell Ave., was taken i to the city hospital suffering from i severe cuts and loss of blood. An i auto in whicn he was riding with ' his father collided with another auto I at Delaware and Washington Sts. ! The name of the other driver was not j learned. Police said Sexton admit- | ted he was to blame. Lawrence Dugan, 23, of 316 Mi- { nerva St., was charged with assault | and battery. Sergeant Tooley said ; Dugan struck Miss Florence Pulliam. 18, of 120 W. Fifteenth St., at Geori gia and Illinois Sts. She was in- ! jured about the head and body and | her clothes torn. N W. Curler. 34. of 2359 Central Ave.. wa i charged with failure to | stop after an accident. E. J. Carter j proprietor of a sales room at 512 N. j Delaware St., said he heard a crash land found a large plate glass in the I rear of the place broken. The auto that struck it was gone. He obtained a description and followed. N E XT~TIM e~ h eulTn 0 w Bootlegger Walks Right Into Federal Agent's Trap. ' An alleged Dootlegger who gives ! only the name “John Doe” faced Federal prosecution today because he did not know' a prohibition agent when he saw one. Agent George Winkler said he j learned liquor could be had by calii mg a certain telephone number He ! ordered two quarts The bootlegger walked right into the trap, set at a hotel. j Tracing the phone number, Wink- ! ler said, led to the apartment of the i secretary of a widely known Indi•anapolis citizen. She denied knowi Log her phone was being used in such manner.