Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1924 — Page 2

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SELECTION OF M’ADOO WOULD ELIMINATE 808 La Follette Probably Would Not Enter Race if Californian Is Named. By LOWELL MELLETT Times Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 27.—Here’s one fact that readers of The Indianapolis Times might as well have in advance of the delegates to the Democratic convention. They won’t get it until about Monday—if at all. It is this: If McAdoo is nominated, there will not be any Cleveland convention -worth speaking about July 4. In other words, if McAdoo is nominated, the conference for progressive political action will not nominate or indorse or ask Robert M. La Follette to run. If McAdoo is not nominated the convention will take place as scheduled and La Follette will be asked to put his name before the country so that the labor interests and progressives generally may have a chance to vote for a man of their own choice. Fact Is Significant If McAdoo were as nearly within striking distance of victory as his enthusiastic supporters say he is, this would be the most significant item in any newspaper today. It would be enough to put him over, probably, for every Democratic strategist, as well as every Republican, is agreed that the one thing which chills the heart of managers in both parties is the thought of the votes that La Follette will get in November if he runs. In New York at this time there is a group of railroad labor leaders who are immensely interested in MeAdoo’s candidacy. They have not been shouting from the house tops, but they have caused it to become known that if McAdoo is not nominated they expect labor to vote enmasse for La Follette. Their manner and their tone has been reasonable but their implication is a threat. They haven’t changed a whole lot of votes thus. Will Remove Worry* Now, however, comes another proposition. It is that if McAdoo is the candidate, all worry concerning La Follette will be removed. They will remove it. They have the votes, It is said, in the conference for progressive political action to decide the latter organizations course with regard to candidates at the coming Cleveland convention and their decision wil be that McAdoo’s nomination makes La Follette's nomination unnecessary. The Cleveland convention would confine itself to the consideration of candidates for Congress and for Slate offices, under this program. Substantiating this story is tho knowledge that preliminary draft of a public statement to this effect ha3 been writtefi. The railroad labor leaders here are waiting only until what they consider the critical moment arrives. That probably will he Monday w r hpn the first half dozen ballots have been taken and some definite line on McAdoo’s strength has been obtained.

BOY-MOTORIST IS HELD Slated Following Accident in Which Child Is Injured. A 14-year-old boy motorist was slated at the detention home today on charges of assault and battery. Motor Policemen Hyland and Amsden say the car he was driving •truck and seriously injured Harold Broadstreet, 3, of 827 Buchanan St., several days ago. When autos driven by Vincent Perdew. 19, of 248 Dorman St., and Thomas McDuff, 27, of 3021 E. Tenth St., collided at Pine and New York Sts. Thursday night, Mrs. M. Perdew, mother of the driver, was injured about the body. Police arrested both drivers on assault and battery charges. DOBBIN ‘COMING BACK’ Demand for Horses Growing in Country, Says Turfman. By Times Special ASBURY PARK. N. J., June 27. The demand for horses in the country districts is greater today than at any other time in the history of the nation, according to William E. Murphy, secretary of the National Horseshoers’ Protective Association which held a one-day convention here recently. Mr. Murphy said he based his statement on a national survey by the GovernmentThe use of horses in the large cities is also growing, the secretary said, and the automobile will never replace the horse for short hauls. He pointed out that the Federal Government has appropriated more money for horses than ever before. RAIL~~PROJECT COSTLY “Cast let on Cut-Off’ Built at Expense of §25,000,000. By Times Special NEW YORK, June 27.—The most extensive single railroad construction project now under way in the United States is the "Castleton CutOff.” over which the New York Central will within a year be routing its through freight traffic, cutting out Albany. The cut-off will cost $25,000,000. It forms the hypothenuse of a triangle whose base is the Hudson River and whose third side is the Mohawk River. It stretches, roughly, from Castleton to South Schenectady. For the first time in 300 years, Albany will cease to be a gateway through which great volumes of freight move east and west. Body Found in Lake Police received word Thursday that the body of a well-dressed man, identified by police as that of Peter Smith, 45, a waiter, believed to have been Chic age, was found in a lake at Milwaukee.'

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HTCAGO hair dresser of au- { thority presents to the world her new “Merry Widow’’ bob. The name of the headdress does not limit it to the husb.ndless, and even school girls have their locks shorn to the new lines. Miss Agnes Verne, recently “mer ry-widowfcd” by the hairdresser, shows how- it looks. In Indianapolis they call it a

JUDGE WHIM SENDS TWO AUTO DRIVERS TO JAIL Sentences Given on Charges Growing Out of Accidents, City Judge Delbert O. Wiimeth sentencing two motorists to jail today on assault and battery charges, declared he was going to hand out sentences left and right from now on in a determined program to stop motor accidents. “Any speed that is dangerous, even if it is only eight miles an hour, is in violation of the Indiana law,” the judge said in sentencing Horace Howard, 707 E. Eleventh St., to five days in jail and fining him $5 and costs on an assault and battery charge and $25 and costs on a speeding charge. Officers testified Howard was going twenty miles an hour when his car skidded and struck J. W. Pettes. 1928 Lawrence St., as he was alighting from a street car Thursday. Lowell Calvin, 149 S. McKim St., was fined $5 and costs and sentenced to five days in Jail on an assault and battery charge. Testimony showed faulty brakes resulted in his truck injuring Robert Myson, 2802 Franklin Pi., at Senate Ave. and Michigan St., June 14. Judge Wiimeth flayed motorists who drive cars with poor brakes. John Howard, 38 S. Grace St., was fined $5 and costs on a charge of driving on the left side of the street. His car struck another driven by M. W. Perry, 3043 College Ave., on Keystone Ave., June 16. Charges of operating a car while under the Influence of liquor and failure to stop after an accident were dismissed. Marriage Licenses Clarence H. Rode. 25. R R. G, box 85. machinist: Dorothy L. JTahrbaeh, 21. 759 Terrace. Henry S. Dulln. 32. 338 W. TwentySixth. chauffeur Mae V. Franklin, 21. 359 W Twenty-Fifth. James B. Spear, 32. Ohio Hotel, musician; Margaret McCarthy. 22. 310 E. Kew louts Smith. 31. Noblesvllle. Ind., machinist: Ethel Safrln, 37. 928 6, Meridian, saleslady. . „ „ Jack Strickland. 22. 15 X. River, sales correspondent; Daisy M. Folkerth. 19, 328 N. Bancroft. Thomas G Johnstone. 29 4243 Broadway. salesman: Johanna Burns. 31. 2356 N New Jersey, teacher. Carl E. Huffman. 21. Indianapolis, assistant buyer: Rosalee Smith, 20, 010 N. Meridian, saleslady. John A. Lawler. 23. 240 W. ThirtyFirst. bookkeeper: Perly Dillon. 22, 30 N. Llnwood. clerk. Ford B. Freers. 22. 928 E. Morris, chauffeur; Pearl Fisher. 03, University Helehts. clerical. Thomas Hines. 1118 Woodlawn, foreman: Louise Davis. 40, 1118 Woodlawn. Thomas E. Quill. 25. 1202 S Meridian; Marearet H. Snyder. 25, 1416 Laurel, cashier. Reginald Dunlap 23. 2438 Sheldon, laborer: Letitia M. Thomas, 18, 1943 Alvord. Baldwin Franklin, 23, 020 Indiana, butcher; Fannie B. Johnson. 27, 835 W. Pratt. Frank A. Garten. 20, 3242 N. Meridian Garten Feed Company Kathryn Turney. 25, 2421 Ashland, teacher. Charles L. Coons. 28. Connersvtlle. Trd., pharpnacist: Ruth E. Tucker. 25. Acton. Ind., teacher. Births * Boys Fred and Ina Carter. 2950 E. Michigan. Basil and Myneanna Cochrara, 909 St. Peter. Mathew and Mattie Kopp. 3030 Jackson. Homer and Mabel Lollar. 2539 Ashland. John and Edith Williams. 325 N. East. Charles and Jessie Nea'. 1531 Gimber. George and Edith Crawford. 27 Sycamore. Horace and Emma Whitehouse, 1437 Central. Scott and Bonnie Thompson. 2009 S. Pershing. Benjamin and Matilda Korthaus, 1220 E. La Grande. George and Catherine Kraeszig, 1013 Union. Marshall and Helen De Wit. - .. 1320 Churchman. Girls Jacob and Dora Weisenbach, 335 N. Jefferson. Irwin and Carrie Reed. 1433 Roosevelt. Edward and Hilda O'Riley. 21* N. Minkner. Deaths Gladys Emily Jackson. 42, St. Vincent Hospital, general sepsis. Charles Wesley Green. 1. 2124 Central, meningitis. Mary F. Smith, 74. St. Vincent Hospital peritonitis. Chris Brumhoefer. 48. city hospital, hypostatic pneumonia. Almyra Ann Alexander, 74. 2838 Central. carcinoma. James W. Dorsey. 74. 1805 S. Keystone, chronic myocarditis. Margaret Phelps. 100. 1050 W. TwentySixth chronic interstitial nephritis. Infant Watkins. 4 hour*. 42* N, West, prematura birth.

“Mae Murray” bob, but it gives the same effect. The official trimmers at a number of Indianapolis beauty shops say that the girls like it just as well as by any other name. They give lots of them. While on the subject, by the way, who put out the information that American girls were imitating the French demoiselles when they trimmed their "crowning glories”? That's all wrong, says Mrs. Albert N. Connvtt, Jr., president of the American Women’s Club in Paris. “No French woman ever did this until she saw Americans doing it,” she asserts. Furthermore, French designers and costumers say it is an acknowledged fact in Paris that it is the American women who are infti >i styles, instead of the Parisians. The tailored suit so popular this season in Paris is an American style made popular by Americans and in turn created in Paris for them. The boyish frocks worn so gen-

Russian MRS SONIA NEFF A feature of the welcome Butler celebration to be held Saturday afternoon and evening at Fairview Park under direction of the Mapleton Civic League will be a musical program by Mrs. Sonia Neff. Mrs. Neff, who was born in Odessa, Russia, will give several Russian selections on the piano-accor-dion. She will also play Friday night at a meeting of tho Federation of Community Civic Clubs at the home of WUiiam M. Swain. 2537 Parkway Dr. Plans will be completed for the event Saturday, which will be in the form of a basket picnic. Following the parade at 1:30 p. m. downtown all will embark for the park. Talks will be made by Governor Emmett F. Branch, Mayor Shank. Myron Green, executive secretary of the Paul Dresser Memorial Association, and Dr. Robert J. Aloy, president of Butler University. Police and firemen's band concert and a pageant also are on the program. Several thousand persons are expected to attend. Building Permits Jacob Schulmryer, garage, 1545 Shelby. 5450. Theodore Marshall, remodel. 1414 Oliver. SSOO. Baker Bros., sign. 223 E. Washington. $350. _ Walter T. Company, sign. 30 Kentucky. $325. Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, sign, 3 W. Market. S2OO George C. Frecker. garage. 421 Wallace. S4OO I. N. Darter, double, 333 Congress. $3,400. I. N. Darter, furnaces. 333 Congress, $275. Mrs. Homer Elliott, dwelling. 511 N. Denny, $2,500. Ella White, garage. 46 N. Ritter, $373. H. C. Keever, dwelling. 2430 Ashland. $3,830. Adolph Alexander, building, 3411 W. Washington. $250. Holis E. Tucker, addition. 1218 Villa. $565. I Dittmer. dwelling. 1043 E. Tabor, $3,700. O. E Bren del, dwelling. 6728 N. Meridian. $12,500. O. E. Brendel, furnace, 5723 N. Meridian, SSOO. S A. Morrow, double, 754 N. Emerson, $5,500. 8. A. Momow. furnaces. 754 N. Emerson, $350. John Crehan, addition, 3124 E. Washington, SBSO. Louise Boyd, garage. 130 S. Butler, S2OO. Mrs. G. A. Haller, addition. 401 N. Arsenal, $2,350. A. E. Garland, garage. 3357 N. Capitol, SSOO. S. A Bain, addition. 2012 W. New York. S3OO. George W. Carter, double. 1314 Bradbury, S3OO. George W. Carter, furnaces, 131 Brad4bury, S3OO. H. C. Wyman, remodel. 17 S. Brookville. S4OO. John C. Kord, repair furnace. 315 W. Tenth. $3lO. George Kalb, furnace. 5817 Julian, $450. M. E. Carton, garage, St. Peter and Prospect, SOOO. J A. Matriea, repairs, 442 S. East, $1,500. J. A. Matriea, repairs, 448 S. East, $1,500. C. E. Jones, dwelling, 2907 W. Sixteenth. $5,000. C. E. Jones, furnace, 2907 W. Sixteenth. S2OO. Cobb Realty Company, garage, 2828 Shriver. $250. George L. Stalker, garage, 4703 Guilford, $225. Wesley Hall, addition. 1053 W. TwentySixth. S3OO. There axe no records to prove that the children in ancient Greece or Romo ever played with toys.

erally on both sides of the Atlantic are just Paris adaptations of the frocks America has worn for yea rs. The reason for this is, of course, the way the Americans have been traveling since the war. During the summer months last year there were more Americans than Parisians in Paris. This year they are planning for at least 100,000 of us. ?

VETERAN POLICE OFFICER IS TO RETIRE MONDAY Otto H, Simon Completes Twenty-Five Years of Commendable Service, Otto H. Pi non. 52. of 1439 Woodlawn Ave,, telephone desk man at police headquarters, will terminate 25 years and 57 days of active service iat 2:30 p. m. Monday. He will resign to engage in farming near Five Points. Ind. Simon has held some of the most hazardous assignments as an officer and never once was reprimanded. He has been praised for courageous work. Simon was promoted to bicycleman on his appointment May 5, 1899. In 1904 he was made a detective sergeant. He retained this rank for seventeen years, figuring in such famous cases as tho rounding up of OTTO H. SIMON. Gorty Martin's gang at New Palestine, Ind., and the McNamara dynamiting affair. He narrowly escaped death once because a crook’s revolver failed to work. Simon's health began to fail and on Nov. 14, 1920, he was given an inside job. At the beginning of the Shank administration he asked for reduction and his present position. His health has improved and he hopes to entirely regal® it in the country. Lead Miners Strike Bv Vnltcil Press BONNETERRE, Mo., June 27. One hundred miners of the St. Joseph Lead Company of River Mine, seven miles south of here, are out on srtlke today in protest against dismissal of two miners who complained against safety of the mines. Garage Proprietor Burned Edward Rother, 3S, of 1629 Eugene St., proprietor of the Plaza Auto Repair Shop, 30 W. Vermont St., was burned about the hands and arms today when gasoline exploded whiie he was cleaning a motor. He was taken to the Deaconess Hospital. Slight damage was done to the shop. Money Is Taken Harry Elder told the police today his tire repair Shop at Fifty-Fourth St. and College Ave. had been entered and $25 taken from a desk. Robert Hall, Seventy-Ninth St. and College Ave., reported his room entered and clothes valued at SBS ptaken. 11l Health Blamed By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., June 27. 11l health today was assigned as the cause of the suicide of John Rice, 48, farmer, who hung himself from a rafter in his barn. Kansas Congressman Dies Bn United Press WASHINGTON, June 27.—Representative Ed C Little of Kansas, died here today, following a stroke of paralysis.

YACHT OF KLAN EX-DRAGON BURNS AT TOLEDO, OHIO D, C. Stephenson, Indianapolis, Says He Believes Enemies Started Fire, The private yacht Reo-Mar, belonging to D. C. Stephenson of Indianapolis, former Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku-Klux Klan, known as the “Old Man,” was burned at Toledo, Ohio, at 3:30 a. m. today, with a loss of approximately $95,000. Two explosions accompanied the fire, endangering the lives of Earl Klenck, guard; Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Einhart and Vernica Rose of Toledo, guests of Klenck, and Ernest De Forrest, guard. A1 escaped in row boats before the yacht sank. The yacht, which Stephenson said was second largest on the Great Lakes, formerly belonged to R. E. Olds, automobile manufacturer. The boat was 110 feet long, luxuriously furnished and registered in the Toledo Yacht Club. Stephenson Investigates Before going to Toledo to Investigate today, Stephenson charged that enemies burned the yacht. “They have threatened to do so for some time,” he said. According to Toledo dispatches, Klenck was sitting on the deck on watch when he was startled by an explosion. Almost instantly flamer, leaped into the air. Klenck ran to the stern, where others were sleeping. Klenck, last to leave the boat, was still aboard when a second explosion raised the deck. Companions lielped him into a row boat. The yacht which, valued at $125,n OO, is a total loss, is partly covered by insurance. Threats Had Iteen Made According to Klenck threats had been made to destroy the boat, a strong searchlight had been provided on deck so that it could sweep the water at night. Klenck said he used the search light on several occasions. Recently when mysterious noises were heard late at night on an islnad narby. Last Saturday night the boat was visited by unidentified persons and the searchlight put out of commission. Although there were 200 gallons of gasoline on board. Klenck is said to have told firemen that he could see no way in which the gasoline might have become ignited. The speed with which thp flames spread in the hold indicated that the boat iiad been fired, witnesses said. The Reomar was used by Stephenson for cruising about inland waters and known in most of the ports along thp Atlantic coast. She was brought here from Cleveland, June 12, where she had been lying while Stephenson was attending the Republican convention. MOVE IN RATTS CASE Lesh Files Neiv Answer—Commissioner Kilters Claim. Attorney General U. S. Leah today filed anew answer to the. suit off Oscar Ratts to mandate State Auditor Robert W. Bracken to pay Ratts SSOO salary as a public service commissioner In May. Former Governor Warren T. McCray named Oscar B. Smith to succeed Ratts, effective May 1, but Ratts maintained that since McCray resigned before that date the appointment was illegal. Ratts kept possession of the office. Bracken refused to pay his salary. Ratts today filed claim with Brack on for his June salary. Another Charged With Speeding Robert Ware. 22. colored, 521 W. North St., was arrested today on a speeding charge.

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JULIETTA CEILING WITHSTANOSTEST Arbitrators Take Down 252 Sand Bags, Twelve tons of sand were removed today from the concrete ceiling of a second-story room, 349 square feet in area, at Julietta, county asylum for the insane, by three arbitrators making a test for county commissioners. County counrilmon had told the State board of accounts the ceiling had sagged eight inches, and was about to fall down. Two hundred and fifty-two sand bags, each weighing 105 pounds, were placed on the ceiling Thursday noon as a weight test, averaging seventy-six pounds to the square foot. Specifications call for a maximum of sixty pounds resistance. The weight was left on over night. John J. Griffith, county engineer representing the commissioners, said the ceiling sagged another inch under the strain. Merle N. A. Walker, attorney for the eontratcing firm, George A. Weaver & Son. was pleased with the test. The arbitrators are Griffith. Leslie Colvin, who represents the contractor. and Robert Frost Daggett, architect, chosen by the other two. Murder Suspect Held By United Press ANTIGO, Wis., June 27. —A man under arrest here has been partially identified as George Cummings. Victoria. B. C., wanted at Shawano on charge of first degree murder in connection with slaying of his bride of a week at a tourist camp near Wittenberg June 15.

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News Hound By Times Special TIPTON, Ind., June 26. “Nigger” has proved himself a real "news hound.” When the Tipton Times recently suspended publication, “Nigger’ lost his home. George Cook, farmer, agreed to take him home, give him three square (or rather round) .bones a day. “Nigger” stayed on the farm . one day. Now he has adopted the Tipto Tribune as a home.

DEMURRER IS OVERRULED Ogden i/oses in Fight to Halt Election Contest Case. A demurrer filed by Attorney James Ogden in the election contest case of Morton Matthews against Wilfred Norrington, was overruled by Superior Judge James M. Leathers today. The judge ordered the defendant to file an answer to the complaint. The decision applies to nineteen suits in which defeated Coffin-Dod-son cand ! 4ntes for Republican precinct committeemen asked the judge to mandate the election board to hold a recount and issue certificates cf election to them. Matthews is from the Second precinct of the Fifteenth ward. The demurrer held the court had no jurisdiction over the cases because they do not apply to public offices. Quarry man Killed By United Press BEDFORD. Ind., June 27.—Joseph Simmer-man, 36, a quarryman, is dead from injuries received when he was struck by a flying piece of stone.

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SCHOOL BOARD ‘CONVINCED’ ON . BUILDING NEED President Talks on Plans After Inspection Trip to Ohio Cities, Surrendering to an overwhelming demand for adequate school facilities, the majority faction of the school board composed of Charles R. Yoke, Charles L. Barry, and Fred Bates Johnson, at last will inaugurate a comprehensive building and renovation program. This was indicated by a statement by Yoke, president of the board, today following the return of school officials from an inspection tr.’p to a number of Ohio cities. “Three high schools, Shortridge, the West Side, and colored high schools, will be started. The big work of repairing and remodelling old schools, will be undertaken and some additional grade schools will be built,” he said. “This will tako a great deal of money and time, but we plan to have the work all well along within three years.” Direct Taxation Planned Yoke said that to carry out the program it would be necessary to resort in some instances to direct taxation for construction purposes, as the school city now is within little more than $2,000,000 of the limit i of bonded indebtedness allowed by* law. “We should not run up to the very limit,” he said, “for fear that some fire, flood or catastrophe might wipe out one or more school buildings which would have to be replaced unexpectedly. We must hold out some money for emergency purposes.” According to rumors, certain board members will not stand by Barry should he attempt to obstruct extension of school facilities further. It was freely predicted that unless he joins in with the building program he will find himself once more a minority member of the board, a position he has occupied the greater part of the time he has served as school commissioner. Three R’s First From an educational standpoint the “three R’s” must not be neglected for other matters, Yoke declared. . “The fundamentals of education must be adhered to,” he said. “In some cities we visited we found swimming taught as a regular course in school hours. Every child should learn to swim, but my idea is that lie should learn on time given to recreation and not in regular school hours. “The public does not realize the extent to which subjects other than the ‘three Rs’ have become a part of our school system. In the days an eight-class room meant building of little more than eight rooms. Now, -with cooking, sewing, manual training, etc., an eight-class nom building is about three times the size of a similar building in the pest. This, of course, means that modem school buildings are far more expensive than they were formerly. STILL IS CONFISCATED Three Men, Two Colored, Arrested by State Agent. William Rogers, 4344 Baltimore Ave.; Charles Richmond, colored, 4402 Allisonville Rd., and Bert Sullivan, colored, 1707 N. Senate Ave., were arrested at Sixty-Third and Lasalle Sts. today, charged with operating a still, following a raid by State Agent Horace Lyle, Lieut. Louis Johnson and a squad of police. A thirteen-gallon still was seized. When the men entered the house they were placed under arrest. A small quantity of whisky and three barrels of mash were confiscated, Lyle said.