Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1924 — Page 1

Homme Edition! FOLLOW the Democratic National Convention in New York in the columns of The Indianapolis Times.

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RALSTON STOCK IS GOING OP Indiana Delegation at Democratic National Convention Enthusiastic Over Chances of Hoosier for Presidential Nomination, RALSTON REMAINS AT HOME NEAR THIS CITY Request That He Come to New York Reported Sent, but Solon Says He Has Received No Direct Word . Frpm Hoosier Party, By United Press NEW YORK, Juno 25. —Indiana today became so enthusiastic over the chances of -Senator Samuel Ralston emerging as the eventual choice of the Democratic convention for President that the delegation is considering urging the Senator to come to New York. He has declared that he would not raise a hand in an effort to obtain the nomination. Tom Taggart has been extremely busy in his behalf, however, and a definite Ralston undercurrent was said to be evident today. Boosters of other candidates have beer, gossiping a great deal over RalBton’s age and physical well-being and some members of the Indiana delegation would like to have the Senator come here so that delegates may see he is not "the old man" he has been represented to be. A request that Ralston come to .the convention has been sent, his supporters said today. RALSTON TO STAY HERE Still Has No Intention of Going to Convention, He Says. Senator Ralston, who returned !rom Lebanon Tuesday mg'nt to his home just outside of Indianapolis, said today he still held to his original Intention not to go to the Democratic national convention at New York, despite reports that the Indiana delegation had urged him. “I have not heard direct from the Indiana delegation." he said, "and there is nothing yet to cause me to change my original plans to remain here during the convention. RAY WANTS TO KNOW Just Why His Brother Was Reduced From Fire Lieutenant. Councilman Otto Ray today was trying to find out whether the fact that Albert Ray, 1045 Harlan St., is bis brother was the only reason Mayor Shank had for dictating Albert Ray’s reduction from lieutenant to fireman. Albert Ray was reduced by the board of safety Tuesday, he learned today when Acting Chief Harry Johnson ordered him to report Thursday for duty as a fireman with pumper company No. 10. He has been a lieutenant of truck company No. 13. Otto Ray was the leader of the council's investigation of the city administration. He said this was the only reason he had been able to discover for Shank’s enmity toward his brother. Father Accuses Son Father accused son in a blind tiger arrest made by police today. George Schultz and son. George Jr., 935 Dorman St., were slated by popolice when, they alleged, they found thirty gallons of beer at the home. The father said the beer belonged to his son, according to officers.

The Arch-Criminal of two continents —a master crook who preys upon other crooks! John Ainsley's name spelled terror among the gentleman thieves who congregated in bright-lighted cases. He was their foe—and at the same time made society pay another debt it owed to him! Don’t fail to read— John Ainsley, Master Thief BY ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE Starting Thursday in THE TIMES

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KLAN—OIL MAIN TOPICS AT CONFAB

/ Mention of Ku-Klux by Alabama Orator Causes Wild Scene in Convention Hall Many Fist Fights, By ROBERT J. BENDER United Press Staff Correspondent MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, June 25. —Kian and oil mingled in strange confusion in the Democratic national convention today. Sweltering beneath a hot June sun, delegates listened to the speech of Permanent Chairman Thomas J. Walsh, in which he attacked the Republican Administration, charging wholesale corruption and reciting the story of the oil scandals. Then came nominating speeches for this afternoon, with Alabama first presenting Senator Underwood. Pandemonium broke out ■when Fordney Johnston, Alabama, placing Senator Oscar W. Underwood's name before the convention, denounced the “hooded and secret organization known as the Ku-Klux Kian.” With a crashing cheer delegates arose to. their chairs, shouted, threw their hats in the air and finally started a parade. Fights broke out in the Missouri and Colorado delegations. requiring policemen to intervene. The standard holder in the Mis souri delegation started off to follow Alabama in the parade of delegations. but was hauled back by a fellow delegate with the aid of two women. A fist fight nearly broke out in the Colorado delegation. Bitter feelings developed as several members fought for and against adding the Colorado banner to the parade. The standard was wrecked in the melee. The worst of the outcries ended when the band struck up “America,” and men and women paraded with American flags. The call of the roll of States was resumed and Governor Brough of Arkansas went to the "‘pteitfbrm to nominate Senator Robipson of that State. He spoke briefly and was given a good hand when he concluded. ) After the second nominating speech, the leaders held a conference to considr taking adjournmnt until Thursday morning. It appeared that the California delegation which has McAdoo as its favorite was wiling, but that the Smith forces did not 1 wish it. McAdoo Nominated i It was finaly decided to proceed | with the roll call, and on the calling | of California, former Senator Phelan - mounted the platform to nominate William G. McAdoo. Many delegates rose in their chairs holding a demonstration amid cheering and waving California flags. The galleries applauded, shouting, ringing bells and blowing ! whistles. The demonstration lastj ed several minutes. When Phelan concluded a group |of California girls, representing a 1 tableau of liberty, led a demonstra- | tion parade.. Events Breaking But. at the Waldorf Hotel and in ; Washington, even more important | events were breaking. ! Throughout the morning the res- | olutions committee at the Waldorf I heard arguments for various planks jto be put in the platform The Kian battle led all the rest. It ap- ! pears that the fight on this issue j will certainly go to the floor of the I convention unless the platform : committee returns a strong antiKlan plank specifically mentioning the Kian by name.

Meantime, in Washington the Government announced the filing of suits agaist fifty oil companies on charges of conspiracy to violate the anti trust laws. News of this action reached the platform just as Senator Walsh was starting his speech as permanent chairman. It was regarded by Democrats as a very apparent counter political move, timed to the mo(Turn to Page 11) NEW SENTENCE GIVEN Poolroom Proprietor Found Guilty of Keeping Gaming House. Daniel A. Brosnan, proprietor of a poolroom and soft drink establishment at Oliver and Warren Aves., is under sentence today of thirty days' imprisonment in jail on conviction of keeping a gaming house. He was found guilty by Criminal Judge James A. Collins Tuesday. Brosnan was sentenced to thirty days in jail last week by Judge Collins on charges of violating the nuisance section of the liquor laws. The sentences will be served concurrently. A suit filed by Prosecutor Remy to close the premises has been venued to Hancock Circuit Court. QUARTETTE TO GET CUP Knoxville (Term.) Prophets Win Sahara’s Award. A silver loving cup is to be formally presented Amra Grotto’s string quartette of Knoxville, Tenn., first prize winner, tonight at thp Washington. The cup is given by Sahara Grotto. Courier McCormick will make the presentation speech and Charles E. Wrinkle, director, will accept the award.

First Picture of Democratic Convention

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN WAS A RIOT OF-COLOR TUESDAY WHEN CHAIRMAN HULL CALLED THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION TO ORDER. THIS PICTURE OF THE OPENING OF THE CONVENTION WAS RUSHED TO THE TIMES BY AIRPLANE, TRAINS. AND AUTO.

Sad Joke! Tty Times Special NEW YORK. June 25. Frank Kent, writing for the Baltimore Sun, today says: "It would be a sad sort of joke if the only aspirant for the presidential nomination not personally in attendance on this convention should become Its candidate. "It would be a cort of joke over which more Democrats would shed tears than shout. It is. however, not unlikely. “Out home in Indiana, Senator Rajstpn listens in on the radio, but all the rest are on the spot—McAdoo, Smith, Davis, Ritchie. Glass, Bryan, Underwood. Except for that kindfaced, stolid, weary old fellow in Indiana, there is not a single missing man.”

ANOTHER BULL LOOSE Second Animal of Bell Packing Company on Spree. Evidently in a hurry to reach the place where he was doomed to die, a bull jumped from a truck in which he and four others were being hauled to the Bell Packing Company, to day, at West and Morris Sts. Heading north in West St,., the animal snorted his way to Ray St. where he made a quick turn and soon reached a lot behind the pack irig company, at Ray and Dakota Sts. There his brief period of freedom ended, when a man who gave his name as William Miller lassoed the bull, and he was pulled over Into his “home.” His fate was more fortunate than that of another more vicious bull frem the same packing company. Last Thursday he died at the hands (>f a police squad after stampeding his way through the downtown district. SHERIFF NABS DRIVER Motorist Held on Speeding and Blind Tiger Charges. Sheriff George Snider, who is conducting a speed war on country roads in cooperation with the police today was holding Sam Harmon, 25, of 709 Ft. Wayne Ave., on speeding and blind tiger charges. Snider said Harmon was going forty miles an hour on Maywood Rd., and when overhauled threw away ten pints of liquor. The sheriff stated he recovered five of the bottles. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 67 10 a. m 73 7 a. m..,... 71 11 a. m 73 8 ,a. 70 12 (noon) .... 75 9 a. m 73 1 s>. m...... 74

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1924

CHILDREN’S TEETH BAD But Most of Them Use Brush*.-, in Indianapolis Schools. Five years ago 90 per cent of Indianapolis school children did not use the toothbrush, while today all but 5 per cent do, according to Dr Herman G. Morgan, secretary of city board of health. A school dental survey' just prior to opening of summer vacation revealed that out of 16,204 pupils examined 11.622 had teeth in need of repairs. Out of that number 6,296 had permanent teeth needing repair. It was disclosed that 1.384 had teeth beyond repair. Over 50 per cent have gone to dentists since the survey. ASK NEW WASTE BOXES Ordinance to Be Submitted at Next Council Meeting. An ordinance to provide for new waste paper containers, prepared by the board of works to approve contracts let to two companies, will be presented at next council meeting, James M. Ogden, city attorney, said today. According to contracts the Sanitary Waste Paper Box Company' will supply about 360 boxes in the section bounded by Sixteenth St., State Ave McCarty St. and White River, and all other territory will be equipped by' the Clean Service System. The companies will remove all waste paper regularly and pay the city for It. VISITS" WOMAN; JAILED Corespondent in Divorce Suit Sentenced for Contempt. Wililam Nell, 27, of 1844 Gent Ave., Is serving a ten-day sentence for contempt of court meted out on Tuesday by Superior Judge T. J. Moll. Chester JacKson, 1215 W. Nineteenth St., alleged that Nell, corespondent in a divorce suit filed by Jackson against Mrs. Eula Jackson, visited Mrs. Jackson Sunday in defiance of a court order. Mrs. Jackson and Nell were cited for contempt. M’-s. Jackson was found not guilty and let off with a warning. A. A. HILL SUMMONED Doctor to Be Committed to Prison at 9 a. m. Monday'. On receiving notice from the Indiana Supreme Court that, con viction of Dr. Albert A. Hill, Spink Arms, of performing an illegal operation has been upheld, Criminal Judge James A. Collins today or dered Hill produced In criminal court Monday at 9 a. m., for commitment to the Indiana State Prison. Hill received a sentence of three to fourteen years in 1921. Robert B. Fitch, 329 Lemcke Bldg., is his surety on a SIO,OOO bond.

BRENNAN SAYS ANTI-MEN NAVE MAJORITY Fight Against Ku-Klux Looms on Democratic Convention Floor, By PA’. L R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. June 25.—After a careful canvass of the sentiment in the Democratic convention on the Klan issue, George E. Brennan, Democratic boss of Illinois and leader of the anti-Klan movement, claimed today that more than 700 delegates are nnw pledged to vote for a plank denouncing the hooded organization by' name. Brennan is more determined than ever to carry the fight for a strong Klan plank to the floor if there is any pussyfooting or attempt at straddling the question in the committee on resolutions now drafting the platform. Public hearings before the resolutions committee were closed at 12:52 p. m. today' and adjournment, taken until 2:15 when the drafting sub-com-mittee will meet behind closed doors, to begin the real work of hammering out the platform. Walsh Has Plank Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, leaped into the fight today. He said those who have been opposing the Klan plank or favoring compromises ere now leaving their positions "like rats deserting a sinking ship." Walsh offered a Klan plank today before the resolutions committee. It follows: “We vigorously denounce the organization known as the Ku-Klux Klan which has been spreading religious bigotry and exciting racial hatred. "Equal protection under the laws must be secured for all. irrespective of religion or race and we deplore the super-legal activities of this association as violating in letter and spirit the guarantees of freedom, of worship and equal standing before the law contained in the bill of fights. These guarantees the Democratic party unquivocally pledged itself to preserve.” The first open clash on the Klan issue—now looming as the chief point of dissension in the Democratic convention —split the platform committee wide open early today. Committee Warned Congressman Harry B. Hawes of Missouri fired the opening shot when he issued a warning to the committee that if the Democratic convention did not take a firm stand against (Turn to Page 6)

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SICK JURORS SLOW TRIAL Two New Ones Selected in Frankfort Hold-up Case. Bn Time* Special DELPHI, Ind., June 25. —Two new jurors were to be selected today, in the trial of Dan Morgan, 24, charged with robbing a filling station at i Frankfort May IS. Two of the original jurors became sick Monday, when the trial opened here. The 1 case was venued from Frankfort. Morgan’s two alleged accomplices j in the holdup, escaped police at the I time of the robbery and have not been apprehended. THREE KILLED IN CHICAGO ! Cornice Work on lx>op Hotel Building Collapses. Bn Vnited f’riss CHICAGO, June 25.—Three per- | sons were reported killed today when | the cornice work of the three-story Berella Hotel, in the loop, collapsed and fell to the pavement amidst noon-hour crowds. More than fifty' persons, struck by falling stones and bricks, were injured. WIDOW IS APPOINTED Mrs. .Jessie P. Crane Named Adminisrtafor of $5,250 Estate. Mrs. Jessie P. Crane, widow of George A. Crane, today was appointed administratrix of the estate left by her husband, consisting of $5,000 in personal property and $250 real estate. Mr. Crane was president of the Crane Motors Company, now in receivership. He committed suicide Monday. Joseph Ryan, appointed receiver for the motor company by Superior Judge Sidney Miller, is in charge. John S. Hunt was appointed by Superior Judge T. J. Moll, but proceedings to vacate the latter receivership will be started by Ryan on the ground his petition was filed half an hour before the other. RESCUE CLASSES URGED Ibrowning Spurs Movement to Teach life Saving. “If the 14-year-old youth who pulled out the body of William A. Burgess, 39, who drowned while fishing Saturday in the canal, had been taught life saving there would have been a possibility of saving the man's life.” This is the belief of Miss Helen Cruse, director of life saving corps, Indianapolis chapter American Red Cross, who advocates teaching of the Schaffer prone method of resuscitation in public schools. “The youth showed great resourcefulness, but there was considerable delay before first-aid could be obtained,” said Miss Cruse.

Gang of Several Men Make Two Watchmen and Three Bakers Prisoners While They Leisurely Blow Three Safes and Pile Up Loot. STORE GUARD WORKS FREE AND TELEPHONES TO POLICE Robbers Flee, Leaving More Than $15,000 in Money and $5,000 in Valuable Clothing Behind One Captured by Officers. Three safes were blown and approximately $20,000 in money taken by a band of armed, masked yeggmen who overpowered the watchman and three bakers in the L. S. Ayres & Co.’s department store early today. Most of the loot was recovered and one of the alleged robbers captured. Victor Kendall, secretary, said all but a little over SI,OOO was in bags left at the rear door of the store as the robbers fled. The robbers took about $5,000 worth of furs and women’s silk underclothing to the basement ready to load in their car, but left this loot behind. The watchmen said they remembered seeing five different men in the gang, which was in and around the store from a few minutes after midnight until 3=50 a. m., but that tliev believe there were eight in all. The bandits got into the store by way of the roof of the building just west of Ayres. The top floor formerly was occupied by a bowling alley and is vacant. The men reached this roof by and fire escape and got through a fourth floor window of tlie store build' ing by a repairman’s ladder, taken from the former bowling alley. There were four men in the first party to enter the store, according to John Y. Sturgeon, 1126 N. Tuxedo St., night watchman, who met them near the window. They covered and disarmed Sturgeon and forced him to take them to the ninth floor on an elevator, where they made three bakers prisoners. On the way down to the first floor afterward they asked Sturgeon: ‘ 4 Where’s Voyles ?’ ’ This indicated the men were familiar with the store, because “Yolyes” is Milford Voyles, 62, of 1355 Olney St„ the other night watchman. Sturgeon replied that Voyles was on the first floor. Second Watchman Covered When the first floor was reached the yeggmen compelled Sturgeon to call Voyles. As Voyles ran up the robbers covered him. “I haven’t got anything to put up; you’ve got the guns on me,” Voyles said. One of the bandits said: “Well, Voyles, keep quiet or we’ll kill you.” “I believe you, you look like you would,” Voyles replied. On the ninth floor Clarence Hagemier, 1958 Tailman Ave„ and Ralph Eaton, 215 Audubor Rd., bakers, were taken into custody. George Johnson, IS Brookville Ave., anothec baker, was in another room. Struck Over Head MILFORD VOYLES machine. Voyles was handcuffed to the baling machine. While one of the bandits stood guard over the prisoners, pacing back and foffih in front of a door the other bandits, meanwhile augmented from somewhere by several others, took Sturgeon to upper floors. Protected by A. D. T. The store is protected bv the A. D. T. call system. The ’•jhbers compelled the watchmen to tell them their call system, which requires that two boxes on each floor be “pulled” every fifteen minutes. One of the bandits led Sturgeon around at the point of a gun during the entire raid, compelling him to “pull the boxes” at the proper times. Meanwhile there was a report from the seventh floor. The safe in the bookkeeping office had been blown. About fifteen minutes later there was another report in the basement. The robbers had blown the safe in the delivery room. Meanwhile some of the yeggpien made several trips to (Turn to Page 11)

Forecast PARTLY overcast with probable local thunderstorms tonight or Thursday. Not much change in temperature.

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