Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 43

POLICE SHAKE-UP INVOLVES 22 OFFICERS

Board of Safety Promotes Mullin to Detective Captain —Other Changes in interest of Department Efficiency, Says Rikhoff. Twenty-two men were involved in anew board of safety police shake-up today. Upon request of Jerry Kinney, made inspector of detectives late Friday when John Mullin was reduced to patrolman, Mullin was promoted to capthin. Kinney said he needed two captains in the detective department. Lieut. Fred Simon was promoted to captain today. Eight men were reduced, and fourteen promoted in the shajte-up The board investigated the handling of the L. S. Ayres & Cos. robbery early Wednesday oy police and detectives and declared itself satisfied there had been no bungling. Only one of the alleged robbers was captured although police arrived before the gang of from four to eight yeggman were supposed to have left the building. Shake-Up Foreseen The shake-up. Police Chief Rikhoff said, has been contemplated for some time and was made solely “for the good of the department.” The men reduced were not considered as good officers for the posts as those promoted, Rikhoff said. Reductions: Capt. Frank E. Row to detective sergeant. Sergt. William O. Fields to patrolman. Motorpoliceman William' A. Bastin, Edward G. Harris, Thomas J. Leonard, 'William M. Hansford, Patrick Dillane and William E. Noraiaji to patrolman. Promotions: Lieut. Charles Sumner and Lieut. Fred H. Drinkut to captain. Detective Sergt. Othello D. Thomas to police lieutenant. Motorpoiicemen Leroy C. Bartlett and John Gish to sergeant. Patrolman Charles J. Russell to sergeant. Patrolmen John L. Stump, Jesse Giles. Victor Houston, Francis O. Reilly, Ary A. Powers and C. Golder to motor policemen. Two Are Transferred Transfers: Trafficman Raymond J. Wachstetter to motor policeman. -Police Sergt. Thomas J. Harris to detective sergeant. Rikhoff said he would take Sergt. Claude Johnson from the field and (Turn to Page 11) KLAN SUITS HEARD Three Petitions .Allege Fiery Cross Near Insolvency. Hearing on three petitions for a receiver for the Fiery Cross, official Ku-Klux Klan publication in Indiana, was held this afternoon before Superior Judge Clinton H. Givan. Hearing was precipitated by petition Friday by D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of Indiana, on an alleged unpaid debt of $1,200. A petition filed in March by Ernest W. Reichard, director, and one by Charles W. Boyer, arvertising agent, were Incorporated in the hearing. All three petitions allege the concern is near insolvency. Reichard alleged mismanagement by two other directors and that the paper has been ‘ milked” in the interests of the national Klan organization. Team Runs Away T team of horses, driven by Frank Collester. 2282 Kenwood Ave., em ployed by the Pittsbford Purity Pie Company, standing at 330 N. Capitol Ave., was frightened today and struck cars parked on Capitol Ave . between Market and Washington Sts. Damage was slight. Lightning Strikes House The home of Mrs. Fannie Crone, 1730 Ingran St., was struck by lightning during the storm early today. Firemen called, estimated damage at sls. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 72 10 a. m.---.. 71 7 a. m 71 11 a. m 76 8 a. m 68 12 (noon) 85 9 a. m 67 1 p. m.. - •.. S7

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N. Y. WORLD IN ATTACK ON RALSTON Democratic Organ Booming Al Smith for Democratic Presidential Nomination Turns Guns on Hoosier as He Draws Close, SAYS KLAN SUPPORT IS SWINGING TO INDIANIAN Newspapermen and News Reel Photographers Flock to City as Chances of Senator to Head Party Look Better, By Timet Special MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, June 28. —The New York World, which has been conducting a bitter campaign against McAdoq in the hope of helping along Al Smith's candidacy for Democratic presidential nomination, this morning switched much of its heavy artillery on Ralston. Having at least in its own belief, succeeded in killing off McAdoo by advertising his oil connections, and by over-em-phasizing his so-called Klan leanings, the World is apparently attempting similar tactics against Ralston. Eight Klan-controlled States, so the World is reliably informed, will begin ‘o swing to United States Senator Samuel M. Ralston of Indiana, after five or six ballots have been taken in the Democratic national convention, and it appears that William Gibbs McAdoo cannot be nominated, reads the World's opening paragraph. Rises in Betting It is significant that this Klan propaganda comes just at the time that Ralston has taken 3econd place to Smith in the Wall Street betting odds, where Smith is now 2*4 to 1, Ralston 3*4 to 1 and McAdoo 5 to 1. Much to Tom Taggart’s anger and dismay there seems to be some truth to the world story. Texas and Georgia, the real Klan delegations, are known to be almost as strong for Ralston as they are for McAdoo, their avowed candidate just or unjust as the Klans estimate of Ralstons friendly feeling toward it may be Klan support of any candidate at this moment is not a matter of strength and if mention of the Klan can be kept out of the platform as now appears likely, there is little doubt that the candidate chosen will be an anti-Klans-man a sort of compromise selection in the hope of appeasing those who had to back down on the platform wording

RALSTON IS SILENT Tells Visiting Newspaper Men He Will Make Statement if Named. With United States Senator Samuel M. Ralston's name today looming as the most likely nominee of the Democratic convention at New York, correspondents from eastern news(Tum to Page 2) TWO HURT; ARREST TWO Cai-s Collide, Passengers Cut by Flying Glass. Sylvester Abel, 24, of 929 W. Twenty-Seventh St., and Sidney De Wire, 30, of 242 N. Oakland St., were arrested today on assault and battery and speeding charges, following a collision between their cars at Ray St. and Capitol Ave. Granville Padgett, 929 W. TwentySeventh St., and James Nicholas, colored, 408 Toledo St., who were in the AbeJ car, were badly cut by flying glass and were sent to the city hospital. Britisher at Bankok By United Press LONDON, June 28.—The Central News Bankok corrrespondent says Maj. Stuart MacLaren, British round-the-world filer, arrived there today.

When Lieut. Maughan Crossed U. S. in a Day

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Here is the finish of man's greatest >-ace against time and fatigue --Lieut. Russell Maughan's “dawn-to-dusk” flight from New York to San Francisco. Left, Maughan is shown as he halted his plane at

Ten Years Ten years ago today in the little town of Sarajevo, in Bosnia, then an Austrian province with a Serbian populatio t , a fanatical student shot and killed ’ Archduke Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austrian throne, and his wife. The shooting was the spark that Ignited the powder keg of Europe and started the World War.

MOTORIST FINED TWICE Walter Johnson Pays on Charges Growing Out of Accident. Walter Johnson, 5607 E. Washington St., was fined $1 and costs on an assault and battery charge, and $1 and costs on a charge of driving on the left side of the street, in city court today. A charge of failure to stop after an accident was dismissed. Johnson's car struck William Greene, 9, of 606 Linwood Ave., at Hawthorne and Lowell Ave., April 17, while the boy tvas skating in the street with companions. The boy has recovered from a concussion of the brain sustained at the time. Judge Delbert O. W’ilmeth said he would not send Johnson to jail because the boy probably was partly to blame. TWO AUTOISTS FINED Noblesville Men in Crash on BeSefontaine St. Two Noblesville men were fined in city court today after an automobile owned by one of them and driven by the other, struck a car owned by William Hill, 1222 King Ave., at 1520 Bellefontaine St. Thomas Gaines, driver, was fined S2O and costs and sentenced to ten days in jail. Russell Eller, owner of the car, was fined $5 and costs. POLICE ARE WONDERING Five Razors and Money Stolen From Drugstore. Police are tvondering today if the bobbed hair craze which is making a "quick shave" impossible in many barber sh'ops. ;s not responsible for the robbery at the of W. C. Freund, 502 Highland Ave., Friday night. Freund reported fie razors stolen aqd $1.75 in money.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1924

Crissey field, San Francisco. Right, the sun racer is shown fifteen minutes later, after he had been carried through an enthusiastic mob, with soldiers using bayonets to open a lane through the thousands

CICERO MAN .RENAMED Seventh I>ay Adventists Close Indiana Convention. C. S. Wiest of Cicero will head the Indiana Conference of Seventh Day Adventists for another year. He was re-elected at the final session of the annual convention Friday at Bethany Park, Brooklyn, md. O. G. Albert, Cicero, secretary-treasurer, also was re-electerl. “Why I Am a Seventh-Day Adventist" was the subject of a talk Friday night by William Guthrie of Berrien Springs, Mich. He closed his talk with a strong appeal for general observance of the Ten Commandments. HE’S A TRUE OPTIMIST Remy Prepares for Trial Before Arrests Are Made. Prosecutor William H. Remy today visited scene of the robbery in the store*of L. S. Ayres & Cos. to get the “lay of the land." Remy said he was preparing for trial of the bandits, expressing confidence they soon will be arrested. “Whenever one of a gang is caught, depend on it the rest will soon be taken,” he said. ‘NO YEARLY MODELS’ Wallerich Company Stages Parade of Dodge Automobiles. That Dodge Brother “no yearly models” was ■ .iown by C. H. Wallerich Company, dealers, in a parade through downtown streets today. About seventy-five cars and trucks, all models from 1915 to 1924, were in the line. YE BANKS AREN’T SAFE He Took Off His Clothes to Go Swimming—Loses $26. Forest Stucker, 829 Buchanan St., says banks aren’t safe—that is, the banks of Lick Creek. He went in swimming and when he came out he found a watch and his money gone. Total loss $26. Police are Investigating. Commission Condemns Land The State highway commission has been successful in condemning land belonging to G. W. Stafford, of nea.r Attica, Ind., for purposes of straightening State Rr. No. 10. A sharp corner will be eliminated and a long curve constructed.

who broke through the patrol lines and swarmed into the field to welcome the world’s greatest flier. Comparison of the pictures shows the fatigue that overcame Maughan as soon as he was clear of the plane he had piloted for over twenty-one

REPORT THREE MISSING Police Hunt Two Young Girls and Boy, Who Leave Homes. Two girls, 14’and 15 years old, and a boy were reported missing to police. Alma Graves, 14, of 651 Arbor Ave., who has dark brown hair and complexion and was wearing an orange-colored dress, white stockings and patent-leather slippers, left home with Thelma Clark. Miss Clark, 15, of 649 Arbor St., has dark brown bobbed hair and was wearing a blue silk dress, white stockings and black sandals. George Akard, 1401 E. Market St., left his home wearing a brown coat, blue shirt and black trousers. He has dark hair. POLICE SEEK TRUANTS Motorists Who Played Hooky From Speeders School t fi-dered Re-Arrested Two motorists who City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth said failed to complete their course in the city court “speeders' school" were ordered re-arrested today. The judge said George Winnegar, 1310 Shelby St., attended two nights out of four, and Roy Hoermann, 270 Hendricks PI., only one night. The men will be ordered to pay fines of sl7 and costs. REMY’S LAST WARNING Sellers of "Lurid” Magazines May Face Grand Jury. Numerous complaints that retail dealers continue to sell magazines of the “lurid” type despite warnings, will be laid before the grand jury in July, Prosecutor William H. Remy said today. “The dealers have all had fair warning,” he said. “They are the judges of what they can sell without breaking the law. lam not going to issue any more warnings.” SEEK ALLEGED SPEEDER Autos Collide al Thirtieth St. and Washington Blvd. Police today were seeking Harry Lapp, 616 E. Fifty-First St., on a charge of speeding and assault and battery. Motor Police Hague and Pettit said his car struck another driven by Kenneth Cline, 28, of 4020 N. Delaware St., at Thirtieth St. and Washington Blvd. j

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hours. Below is San Francisco's welcome, with Crissey field jammed with tickled humanity, rushing through the flare lighted space to get a glimpse of the man who traveled from coast to coast in less than a day’s time.

Summer Hours Early closing hours for stores in the Merchants’ Association go into effect July 7 and continue through July and August. Stores will cjose at 5 p. m. except Saturday. Many of the stores will close at noon, beginning July 12.

BRIDGE PROTEST HEARD Judge Tawes Petition for Injunction under Advisement. Heated arguments on the question of building new bridges over White River at Kentucky Ave. and at W. Morris St., as part of the flood prevention scheme, took place today before Superior Judge Linn D. Hay. Attorneys for the Big Four Railroad, fighting the proposition as a taxpayer, and City Attorney James Ogden presented the case. Railroad attorneys argued the bridges, which will cost $1,200,000, are not properly part of a flood prevention scheme under the law. Adjacent property owners should not be required to pay 10 per cent of the cost, they said. Judge Hay took the petition for injunction under advisement. FATHER IS MISSING Wife and Three Children Looking for Their "Daddy.” Walter R. Merchant, 28, missing from his home at 2111 E. St. Clair St., was sought by police today. He has a wife and three children. He was described as partly bald, thumb missing from left hand, dark clothes and cap. Now Historical Director Christopher B. Coleman, professor of history, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., a Butler University faculty member from 1901 to 1919, has been named director of the Indiana Historical Commission to succeed Harlow Lindley who will teach history at Earlham College. Samuel M. Foster, Ft. Wayne, vice president, was elected president. Musical Features at Church Mt. Olive Church at Ben Davis plans to introduce special musical features Sunday night, directed by Dillard E. Harker. Mrs. W. Kimble is organist. Quartette: Mrs. Roy Manson, soprano; Mrs. E. Cox, contralto; Edwin Moore, tenor, and Karl Thiesing* bass.

Platform Committee Deadlocked on Klan Plank Ohio Leader Threatens to Bring Issue to Floor as Delegates Reconvene. TWO HUNDRED EXTRA POLICEMEN ON DUTY Morning Session Adjourns When Chairman Cummins Asked for More Time in Which to Reach Agreement—League Fight Looms. BULLETIN By United Press NEW YORK, June 28. —The resolutions committee adopted a religious freedom platform plank today without any mention of the Ku-Klux Klan by a vote of 3 4 to 16. By ROBERT J. BENDER (United Press Staff Correspondent) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, June 28. Thoroughly enmeshed in the issue of the Ku-Klux Klan, the Democratic national convention is scheduled to reconvene at 3 p. m. (1 p. m. Indianapolis time) in a session fraught with every possibility of the most sensational meeting in political history. Talk of possible rioting is heard on every hand. Two hundred extra policemen have been ordered on duty inside historic Madison Square Garden and reserves have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness for duty.

After one of the most dramatic sessions a resolutions committee ever held, at the convening of which members stood with heads bowed in prayer as William Jennings Bryan, with upraised hands, sought Divine guidance. Chairman Cummings reported to the convention that an agreement had not yet been reached on the Klan plank. A recess was taken until 3 o'clock this afternoon. Meantime Ed Moore of Ohio, leader of the anti-Klan faction, is planning a coup for this afternoon which would unquestionably throw the convention Into a turmoi’ Ohioan Aroused Moore's temper has been aroused to fever heat. If the committee still is not ready to report at 3 p. m. he intends to demand the floor and will move the committee be discharged from further consideration of the Klan plank. This will bring on immediate test vote. Planks would then be submitted from the floor, and for the first time in American political history religious issues would be fought out in I open convention with all the attendant bitterness that invariably arises. Everywhere temper is rising. The factions are so far apart upon the issue of the Klan that State delegations have started quarreling among themselves. Candidates are afraid to make statements for fear they may become so involved that nomination possibilities will be wrecked before balloting starts. Old experienced leaders foresee even a possible wrecking of the party upon this question of religious tolerance. The McAdoo forces at noon were claiming, mildly, that the outlook is for the adoption of a plank that will not specifically name the Klan. “The outlook is most promising,” Judge Rockwell said, “and the judgment of the wiser men in the Democratic party is about to prevail. By that I mean that the platform will reflect a national party view, rather than a local view.” A conference of leaders was called at noon at the Manhattan Club end Governor Smith left his hotel to attend it. Long before Chairman Walsh called the convention to order this morning the leaders had brought the word that the resolutions committee was deadlocked on the Klan plank and a recess of the convention would be necessary. Leaders Worried The party spokesmen were obviously worried over the developments! Numerous conferences were under way throughout the hall on the platform. After the invocation by the Rev. John Roach Stratton, the viewpoint of Chairman Walsh was revealed when he announced: “The gravity of the situation which confronts us suggests that we have song as well as prayer.” Walsh then introduced Miss Bennett of C-oncoid, N. H., to lead in the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. Walsh then presented Chairman Homer S Cummings of the committee on resolutions. “I realize that you are impatient for our report,” Cummings said. “I think a word of explanation is due. “In accordance with the custom of our party, we proceeded to hold public meetings. These meetings lasted for many hours through Tuesday and Wednesday. A sub-committee was then appointed to prepare a draft of the platform. That subcommittee has been in almost continuous session until a recent time when it reported to the full committee. It worked in perfect harmony. It was the desire of every one to complete a platform which would be

Forecast LOCAL thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight. Cooler tonight. Sunday, fair and cooler.

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commensurate with the duties that lie before the party at this time. Almost Completed “We have almost completed this i platform, and it will be laid beofre | this convention within a very few hours. I think you will be proud of that platform. And I think you (Turn to Page 11) STORM STRIKES ILLINOIS TOWN; FIVE ARE KILLED Heavy Winds Do Property Damage Estimated at $1,000,000. By United Press PEORIA, 111., June 20. —A heavy wind and electrical storm which struck Peoria early today resulted in death of five persons and caused damage estimated at nearly a million dollars. Windows in the business district here were smashed in, automobiles blown over, smashed and hurled through store windows. Four persons were drowned In the Illinois River and one was killed by lightning on a railway bridge near Pekin. A Big Four passenger train en route from Indianapolis to ePoria, due here at 6:4 a. m., could not be located. With all telegraph wires down along the road's right of way, the train was cut off from all sources of communication. Washington, Morton. Cloverdale and Urbandale—nearby villages—were reported practically wiped out by the cloudburst. Unconfirmed reports of three other deaths in the storm area have been received. TRAIN ARRIVES LATE Several Washouts on Road Reported by Telephone. Big Four officials here said that their telegraph wires were down between here and Peoria, but that by telephoning over a round-about route they learned that the Indianapolis train due in Peoria at 7:40 a. m., arrived at 9:18 a. m. The train left here at 12:30 a. m. Several washouts, but no accidents on the road were reported. HOW TO CATCH PLANES Postmaster Give Information on Air Mail Service. Air mail for San Francisco will close at Indianapolis, at 6:50 a. m. and will be dispatched to Chicago ar.iving there in time to eatefh the mail planes for 'Frisco. A letter mailed here before 6:50 a. m. would reach can Francisco the following day.at 6:40 p. m., according to Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. East-bound mail is dispatched to Cleveland or Chicago as the postal authorities see fU. The air mail service will be effective July 1. Bryson s#d.