Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1924 — Page 2
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RELIGIOUS FIGHT IN CONFAB RUINS VIOTORYCHANOES Writer Believes Democratic Party Is Divided Following Klan Clash, Ev LOWELL, MELLETT, Times Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, June 30.—This is the next morning after the night before in the Democratic party. It is “Black Monday.” The party of Jefferson and Jackson has an awful headache. It is drinking ice water and black coffee and bromo seltzer. It is fairly eating aspirin. There’s a cold towel around its head and it has only one candidate for anything. His name is—KEMORSE. For the Democratic party went on one of its periodical drunks Saturday night. Not a whisky drunk, certainly not a beer and light wine drunk; but an emotional drunk. I*, was one of these Saturday nights that last till Sunday sun-up and the party spent most of yesterday in bed trying to sleep it off. Hopes Are Slim Perhaps things aren't as black as they look to leaders but these leaders now feel that hopes of winning in November are pretty well gone, for one thing, and that a lot of the candidates for the nomination have been eliminated in advance of the balloting. McAdoo is gone, and Smith, and Ralston, and Baker, and Cox and Walsh and Underwood. The Klan fight and the after bitterness have eliminated all these. For one reason or another. The reason is pretty obvious in the case of McAdoo and A1 Smith, since the fratricidal strike that came to a head Saturday night was waged largely in the names of these two candidates. ’’ Underwood as one of the first promoters of the intra-party war goes out and Cox goes with him. Newton Baker follows closely. His clear “aye” on the vote to insert the Klan-by-name plank was beard by al.i the delegates fighting against that course. The case of Ralston requires a bit of explaining. Tom Taggart had maneuvered smoothly to keep Ralston’s name out of the controversy and had succeeded to a large extent until the roll call came on the Klan plank. Then all but five of the Hoosiers voted against the program of the anti-Klan leaders. Ralston is out so far as New York. Illinois and Ohio are concerned. The leaders of these State delegations says so frankly today. Has No Chance Senator Walsh, as a Catholic, is not given much consideration today in the light of the intensified religious feeling, of course, but an effect of the contest on the floor between midnight and Sunday morning to wig him-many friends in the Kian camp. His dogged determination to be a fair chairman, no matter whose feelings were hurt, resulted in a lot of sore spots among the anti-Klan leaders. John W. Davis, apparently is untouched. The whole business has worked to the benefit of his candidacy, according to the general opinion. His name never has been drawn into the religious dispute, and his sixteen delegates from West Virginia managed to divide their votes so evenly as not to offend either side, without making it so even as to appear obvious. They voted seven one way ami nine the other. “It looks like Davis has the situation made for him,” sail one of the shrewdest among the important politicians here today. Hopes Wrecked “He can have the nomination. I believe, but as his long-time friend I’m not sure that I would advise i him to take it. Our hopes for November are just about wrecked a* a result of this damned church fight.” Friends of Davis are think:ng about this seriously. New York’s financial interests are still completely committed to Davis in the secret recesses where their hearts should be. They have gone so far as to speed the intimation that if La Follette’s candidacy Bhould seem to be endangering Coolidge’s chances they will drop Coolidge in time to throw their support behind Davis. Typical of the devastation wrought by the Saturday night carnival of emotion is the case of Gecrge White of Ohio. White is a former chairman of the Democratic national committee. His chief desire is not for any particular candidate, but party success this fall. He was one of the many like him who watched the development of the fury over tte* Klan issue with dread. Saturday nigki he voted his convictions on that subject. He voted against the Klan plank. He felt it didn’t bejong in a political document. Later, when he knew that his action might turn the result, so close was it at that time, after the war had reached the bftter stage of that moment, whether the plank was in the platform or not. So he switched his vote to bring himself into personal alignment with Ed Moore, head of the Ohio delegation. *
ADVENTURES IN PRISON Police Say Eastern Youths Failed to Pay for Food. Headed for Kansas in quest of work in the fields at harvest time, three eastern youths found themselves behind the bars of city prison in Indianapolis today. Police said the trio ate heartily a. the restaiyant of Mrs. Belle Findley, 1524 W. Washington St., and then had nothing with which to pay the 51.10 bilL Mrs. Findley did not want to prosecute. but the police charged vagrancy. The adventurers are Henry Dabney, 19, and Raymond Mallory, 21, both of Buffalo, N. Y., and Carl McCall, 19, of Columbus, Ohio. Henry W. Marshall Renamed Henry W. Marshall, Lafayette, to-, day was Anted tryss.ee of Purdue University by Governor Emmett SIT. P-snch
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EMMANUEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH, LORAIN, OHIO. WHICH WAS JUST BEING PREPARED FOR EVENING SERVICES WHEN THE TORNADO WRECKED THE BUILDING; SEARCHERS ARE IN THE RUINS AT THE REAR.
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DEAD WAGONS, AMBULANCES AND MILK WAGONS WERE BACKED UP HERE AT DAWN SUNDAY TO BEAR AWAY THE DEAD. A CORNER OF BROADWAY, MAIN STREET OF LORAIN, OHIO, WHERE MANY WERE KILLED.
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SEARCHERS HERE WERE UNABLE TO EXPLORE THE RUINS OF THESE DWELLINGS FOR INJURED AND DEAD UNTIL THE WRECKING CREWS COULD MOVE THE ROOFS. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT DAWN SUN DAT.
OR. RILL TURNED OVERMERIFF Physician to Begin Three to Foarteen-Year Term, The six-year legal battle of Dr. A. A. Hill, against a charge of performing an illegal operation, in which*a 19-year-old girl died in 1918, ended today when Hill was turned over to Sheriff Snider for transportation to the Indiana State Prison for a term of from three to fourteen years. Hill's attorney made a final effort to stay his deliverance to the sheriff until Thursday, to wind up business affairs, but Judge James A. Collins refused. Hill was sentenced March 9, 1921, and appealed to Supreme Court, losing the appeal and petition for rehearing. The doctor faces a similar charge in a case in which It Is alleged another 19-year-old girl died in February, 1923. SLOGAN CONTEST GROWS C. of C. Committee Calls Attention to Rule. More than 250 entries have been received by the Chamber of Commerce in the $25 prize contest for an Indianapolis slogan. The committee said many entries have been returned because the rule requiring that the slogan, without name or address of the author, is inclosed in an envelope and mailed with a separate slip bearing name and address of the sender. Wife Sues Manufacturer Bu Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 30. Charges that Walter G. Ely, vi *c-■vr-sident of Highland Iron ant Steel Company, “has been -eeking to poison the minds of their six children agair.st her” are made in a divorce suit filed by his wife, Mrs. Charlotte Ely. Doctor Called to Cammp Dr. Samuel McGaughey, Irvingtoa major in the' Officers Reserve Training Corps, has been ordered to Camp Knox, Ky He will be stationed with the 345 hospital battalion of the 345th Medical Regiment. Indiana • will send 1;000 civilians to training camps, July 2 to 31. Os these 115 are fw>ro Mari''-, f\?-
THREEAREHELD IN AUTO CRASHES Two Motorists Sought After Sunday Accidents, Three drivers were under arrest today on assault and battery charges, and police were seeking two motorists, as the result of accidents Sunday night. Isaac Harrison, Arlington addition, said a car collide*! with his machine at Prospect and Fountain Square. The drivor stopped, but refused to give his name. Delotus Farmer, 658 Eugene St., reported a head-on collision with another car at Capitol Ave. and Pratt St. The car did not stop. License number, police say, show the car owned by James Starks, 940 Superior St., police are seeking him on charges of failure to stop after an accident, and failure to display lights. Mrs. Charles Neckels, 3740 E. Twenty-Eighth St., was slightly injured when the car which her husband was driving, was struck by another machine driven by Louis Kinard, giving the Severin as his address. Kinard was slated. George Thompson, 804 W. Washington St., W'as slated on assault and battery and drunkenness charges, following an accident in which his car struck another machine, driven by Clarence Doan, 539 Coffee St., at Washington St. and Senate Ave. Schnull & Cos., to Move Schnull & Cos., 110 S. Meridian St., wholesale grocers, have sighed a ten-year lease for space in the new warehouse of the Central Public Warehouse Company, Kentucky Ave. and Sand St., where it will relocate within 90 days, it was announced today. Need for additional floor space was given as reason. The company has been located for forty nine years at the present site. Monthly Musical Given Under direction of Dilalrd Harker the first of a series of monthly n-.osi-cale was given Sunday night at Ben Davis Mt. Olive Methodist Episcopal Church. Those on the program were: Mrs. William Kimble, organist; Mrs. E. Foltz and Mr. Harker, duet; Raymond Huff, violinist; Elvin Moore, tenor; Mrs. Roy Mawson, soprano; Mrs. Ed Cox, contralto, and Karl Thieaing, bass.
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RAILROAD MEN ELECT Jeffersonville Man Heqfls Pennsylvania Veterans. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., June 30Veterans’ Association of the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, meeting here elected - President Thomas L. LeClare, Jeffersonville, vice president: W. T. Henderson, Louisville; William H. Dowel!, Madison; C. A. Wetzel, Columbus; A. Talkington, Jeffersonville; secretary-treasurer, S. E Mullings, Louisville; chaplain, Everett Murray, New Alba"ny; members of the executive committee —A. H. Parker, Columbus; .1. P. Berry, Louisville, and L. M. Potts, Columbus. INSOLVENCIES DECREASE Last Week Shows 319 Failures; Over 400 the Week Before! Insolvencies last week, as re ported -! - y R. G. Dun & Cos., show quite a iharp decline, the number reported m the United States being 349, as contrasted with 412 two weeks ago and 420 three weeks ago; a year ago there were 292 failures. Defaults were fewer last week in all sections, as compared with the previous week, except in the West, but only two more are shown there There were 195 insolvencies last week in the United States whera the indebtedness was in excess of $5,000, against 245 the previous week For Canada, 41 failures were re ported last week; a year ago the Canadian defaults number Ofi. There were 22 last week with liabilities of $5,000 or more, against 25 two weeks ago. HONOR BEST STUDENTS Thomas Kavanaugh, Indianapolis, Is Star Accountant. Bv Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. June 30. Thomas W. Kavanaugh, Indianapolis, attending the school of commerce and finance at Indiana University, has been declared the best scholar in auditing, and has been awarded the “accountants’ index" offered by the American Institute of Accountants. Other prize students are: Herbert L. Plowman. Gary; William P. Halstead, Terre Haute, Ind., and Charles Branson, Connersvilje. Dean William A. Hawies has announced that twenty prizes will he given annually from now on, ranging from SIOO to valuable sets of books on commerce subjects.
PLEA MADE FOR ROADS President of Community Clubs Pro- j diets 500,000 Population “Undoubtedly Indianapolis will 1 have a population of 500,000 persons in twenty years from now, and : if she is to keep pace she must build ; adequate and sufficient highways j leading into the city,” said Edward O. Snethen, president of Indianapolis ; Federation of Community Clubs, in an address on “Work of the Federation” at a meeting of the Seienteeh Club at the Chamber of Commerce today. Snethen said that civic organiza- j tions which operated near the city ; limits and just outside are doing I much toward the development of the city. JEWISH CAMP OPENS Thirty-Eight Children and Seven Mothers Go to Resort. Thirty-eight children and seven mothers wen| to Camp Ida Wineman, health resort, when the camp opened today. Miss Lucille Goldstein is camp director, and Alan j Fleve. athletic director, assisted by Miss Hattie Feldman. The camp is conducted by the Jewish Federation, assisted by the Council of Jewish Women and the j Marlon County Tuberculosis Association. Dr. Harry Jacobs, chairman of j he committee in charge, said about j 150 mothers and children had signed up for the season. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE Action Taken to Restore Building at State Farm. The balance of Indiana State Farm j funds is sufficient to rebuild and reequip the industrial building which was practically destroyed by fire Friday. trustees said today. Loss was 1 eestimated at $25,000. The trustees j met in an emergency session Sunday and named a sub-committee to' purchase material and equipment for the tailor shop and for the laundry and canning factory which were destroyed. Plans are being drawn to rebuild the building. Estimated cost of re-equipment is $12,000.
WATCH YOUR GARAGE! Police Ask Cooperation in Booze Drive—Arrests Drop. Watch your garage. Capt. William M. Paulsel, head of the police prohibition division, asked i property owners to do this today. Garage booze caches are hard to locate and citizens can help a lot if they will refuse to rent them to suspicious persons, Paulsel said. Reporting on the six months ending today, Paulsel said his twelve men made 837 arrests, as, compared with 1,045 in the same period of 1923. ! Industrial depression cut the amount I of money drinkers had to spend for i booze and bootlegging dropped ac- i cordingly, he declared. Water Hearing July 18 City and Company Seek Ivower Valuation for Tax Levy. Public hearing on the State tax j board’s $17,500,000 valuation of the Indianapolis Water Company will be held July 18. The city also peti tinned for a rehearing, declaring the value should not be more than sl2. 000,000. The public service commission set the value at 515,200,000 tot rate.makin-g purposes. The company itself asks a valuation of $19,000.000 for rate-making purposes
VARIETY SHOWN IN PROGRAM FOR FOURTH OF JULY Sport Events, Picnics, Patriotic Ceremonies Are Planned for Day, If any resident of Indianapolis, from the peppiest youngster to the most sedate old gentleman, fail to find amusement to his taste Fourth of July, he will have none to blame but himself. Never before in the history of the Glorious Fourth in Indianapolis has such a variety of events been planned. An all-day celebration at the State fairground has been planned by Veterans of Foreign Wars, Hoosier Post, with McGrew camp, United Spanish American War Veterans, cooperating. The program includes athletics, band concerts, horse races, a sham battle and a fireworks display. An impressive event will be presentation of colors to twenty new posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Motor Races Races will be held at the Hoosier Motor Speedway. One of these, a novelty in Indiana, is a race for light stock cars. Cars must be the ordinary light cars, and no doctoring, “stepping up” or special equipment will he permitted. The big event will be a 200-lap race for the real racers. Bicycle races will be held at Riverside Park. Winners will be given a chance later to compete in nationai events. Golf courses will hold special events. At Woodstock Club, the Western open tennis championship tournament will be nearing the final •stages. Such stars as Bill Tilden. national champion; the Australian Davis cup team members, Gerald Patterson and'Brian I. C. Norton, and a great flock of younger stars will play. Big Day at Parks Amusement parks at Riverside and Broad Ripple have made arrangements for a busy day, ending with fireworks displays. Knights of Columbus will observe .the day in connection with their sllver jubilee celebration at Columbia I ’a i k Already the pop of the forbidden firecracker Is heard. Despite ordi
A Comparison of the PRESENT and NEW Telephone Exchange Rates for Principal Classes of Service at Indianapolis is shown Effective July 1, 1924 MONTHLY RATE CLASS OF SERVICE PRESENT NEW BUSINESS—UNLIMITED Individual Line $12.00 • * Extension „„ 1.50 BUSINESS—MEASURED Individual Line—9o Messages per month $ 5.50 $5.50 Next 50 Messages, each..... 05 .05 Next 50 Messages, each .04 .04 Above 200 Messages, each 03y 2 .03 V 2 Extension I.CO 1.00 RESIDENCE—UNLIMITED Individual Line $ 4.50 $4.50 Two Party Line 3.50 3.75 Four Party Line 2.75 3.00 Extension 1.00 1.00 RURAL—UNLIMITED Business $ 3.75 $4.00 Residence 2.75 3.00 Additional Mileage for each 2 miles beyond 2 miles from Base Rate Area .25 PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANCE—UNLIMITED Cord Board—One Position $ 6.00 _...„ Cordless Board 3.00 ‘ Stations, each 1-50 Trunks, each 18.00 ...... PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE—MEASURED Cord Board—One Position $ 6.00 $12.00 Cordless Board 3.00 3.00 Station, each 1.00 1.00 First Trunk, including 250 Messages „„ 12.00 12.00 Additional Trunks, each 2.60 2.50 Additional Messages, each .0 3y 2 .03y 2 Tour particular attention is directed plans and Install the necessary apto the withdrawal of the Business Flat paratus and eqnipment so that all rate servloe, and all business telephones the business service in the Indianplaced on a Measured service basis. We apolis exchange area may be put on believe this to be the most fair method a measured basis.” of making charges for business service In prepar ,ng the new schedule of rates, in a city the size of Indianapolis. This we have ho^n mlndful ot the xf>rylng principal was recognized by the Public needs of our Bubs< . rlb< . rß aild ha , „ s< . t Service Commission in its order of Aug- up to m<N . t these requirements hr the ust 11, 1923, iu which it commented as furnishing of various classes of iervice follows: from which the subscriber maj choose “The Business service at Indian- the ,n ° Bt e< ' onomic<U and tbat heat suited apolis should be on a measured basis to hig particular needs, and the Commission believes the if there is any question regarding the Company, as goon as its finances will new rates or class of service, please call permit, should proceed to perfect the the Manager. •s Qy INDIANA BELL TELEPHONE CO.
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DELEGATES TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WERE APPEALED TO BY SIGNS BEARING SATIRISTIC COMMENT ON PLATFORM ISSUES. THE SIGN BEARER TO THE RIGHT WAS MADE UP TO RESEMBLE WILLIAM ANDERSON, FORMER NEW NEW YORK ANTI-SALOON LEAGT E CHIEF.
nances forbidding shooting of fireworks before July 4, a lot of youngsters just cannot resist the temptation to try out some of the crackers. PAGEANT TO BE HELD i Part of “Welcome Butler” Celebration to Bo Given at Park Tonight. The pageant, “The Value of An EducatUm.” postponed as a part of the “Welcome Butler” celebration at Fairview Park Saturday, will he presented at the park tonight. Mayor Shank, Frederick E. Schortemeier, representing Governor Emmett F. Branch, Emsley Johnson, representing Butler University, and John W. Atherton, executive secrej Lary of the university, were speakers ! following a parade and demonstra- | tion Saturday. \ I legion Seeks Members A membership drive of Indianapoj list post, American liegion. is under | way. A barbecue picnic was held at the country home of Robert L. Moorhead on the Brookville road Sunday.
SMITH MANAGERS CLAIM STRENGTH Predict Nomination of Governor on Tenth Vote, SMITH HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK. June 30.—As the Democratic national convention began balloting today, managers of Governor Alfred E. Smith were claiming their candidate would become the party’s candidate on the tenth ballot. A total of 225 votes, with a possibility of 270 Vs, will be shown for the Governor on the first ballot, they claim, and this strength will l*e steadily increased as the voting concludes. On the tenth ballot, according to Smith managers, the Governor will receive the necessary two-thirds
MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1924
C.M.T.C. ORDERS ARE SENI TO 110 IN THISJOUNTY Candidates Ordered to Report at Camp Knox, Ky., Wednesday, Orders from the 84th Division Army headquarters directing them to report at Camp Knox, Ky. Wednesday for Citizens’ Military Training Camp were received by 110 Marion County young men today. One hundred and two are from Indianapolis. Nine hundred and fifty men from Indiana will attend camp this year. Two hundred alternates for who there was no room will be given preference next year. Marion County men ordered to go: Charles M Boaz. Fred F. Cooney. James Durham. Arthur W. Kesele. - . Arthur F. Nauert. William G. Watts. Henry M. Banta, Thomas R. Bayne. George A. Bier. Rob ft J. Boyle. Kevin D. Broenan. James T. Bugbee. Walter E. Bums. Kenrich W. Canvield, Charles K. Carson. Lewie L. Clark. Edward M Daria. Frank B. Daugherty. Earl D, Elliott. Howard C. Fessler. William D. Filler. Frank O. Goode. Robert P. Grove** Robert Q. Hummel, George R. Hunt. George B. Hurt. George W Jaimet, John E. Keton. Paul B. Keller. William H. Krieg. Henry J. I.angenkamp. Lowell S. Lore, Frederick X. McAninck. Floyd W McWilliams. Simon Marmalad. Cornelius >f. Meyer. Robert B. Minta. Francis J. Morrison. Vernon F Newman. Harold T. Norton. Joseph J. Reiss. Edwin J. Ryan, Edward J. Schneider. Wilbur F. Coghill. Harry W Craig. George V Hockersmilh, I aurenee F Lambert. Harry J. Sheriff. Paul A. Zartman Charles Bayless. John A. Beckett. William C. Bole, Herbert H. Brmer. Ivan X. Brunson. John L Buebrle. George A. Buskirk Jr.. Riley T. Canfield. Charles Cassell. Frederic H. Cochrane. George E. Dietz. James F. Duncan, Morman J. Faust. Francis L. Fish. Keith A. Frazer, Kenneth Grimes Ed J. Haerle, Lewis A. Hunt, Tevie Jacobs. Frank D. Jones, Paul H. Keister, Donald L. Kiefer. Frederick W. Lahr. Arlie O. Lewis. George T. Lowes. Roy A McGill. John J. Maloney. Robert M. Marshall. John E. Miehaelis. John T. Moriarty Wayne J. Negley. Wilfred C. Nolle, Carlos Recker. Jr., Lawrence D. Ritter, Willaim H. Schlender. Laurence J. Schultes. Arthur J. Schultes. Keither Smith. Jack T. Smith, Richard C. Sperry. James R. Stonehnuse. Ear! T. Stucky, Gordon B. Sutton. Edwin B. Twyman. Le Roy T. Waggoner. Junior D. Wiltrout, Glen A. Yowler, George C. Sears. Amos V. Smith. Hugh J. Socks. Harold W. Stearns, William P. Strange. Albert G. Sturm Pa’ll P. Thompson, John W. Vestal. Joe T. Wells. George D. Teazel. Louis A. Zeller. Harry 0. Kelso, Carl McTevis and Maynard Runkle. Officer Faints at- Post Traffic Policeman Otis Tyner, 3338 X. Illinois St., fainted while on duty at Delaware and Washington Sts. to-, day. His condition is not serious.