Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1924 — Page 1

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Senator Robert M. La Follette Will Carry Standard of Independent Party in Conference at Cleveland —May Choose Own Running Mate. By PAUL R. MALLLON United Prt%s Staff Correspondent MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM, CLEVELAND, Ohio. July 5. —The progressive convention which is launching Robert M. La Follette’s presidential campaign today ousted the lone communist representative and went on record in opposition to radical forces opposed by their leader. AVilliam D. Mahoney, representative of the St. Paul third party convention which was dominated by communists, was refused a seat in the convention when a report of the committee on credentials was adopted “without objection.’’ The report stated that Mahoney’s : ~

purposes could' not coincide with the purpose of this convention and. therefore, he had no place here. ¥ Refused Floor After the report was accepted several delegates tried to get the floor to protest against the decision, but they failed when the convention voted with a storm of “ayes” against a few scattering “noes" to refuse them the privilege of the floor. Meantime reports came from the resolutions committee that plan of submitting a platform might be abandoned. Some leaders say the platform plan which La Follette has run for years is well known and needs no re-stating. Presentation of the platform might lead to aftempts to get over irrelevant planks which might hinder La Follette's candidacy. • Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, in a speech, asked the convention to forget petty differences. The nomination committee was presented with a preposition whereby no nomination would be made of a vice presidential running mate for La Follette at this time, tender this plan favored by some leaders a committee would be appointed to confer with La Follette after the Democratic convention is concluded and have him say who his running mate will be. Scores of Telegrams Scores of telegrams from progressives all over the world were read to the convention at the opening of the session this morning. The successful British labor party cabled “hopes that your convention will accomplish the assertion of political Independence of American labor." Wires from Edgar E. Snyder, Se Utle, Wash., and Daniel O'Connelj )f San Francisco, assured the convention that La Follette would sweep the Pacific coast In the coming election. The first notes of discord among the minority were sounded when a group headed by Nicholas K. Klein of Cincinnati served notice that a plank denouncing the Ku-Klux Klan by name would he submitted from the floor if the resolutions committee carried out its announced intention of ignoring the Klan issue. James Francis Murphy, claiming (Turn to Page 2) TWO DIE: 350 RESCUED Steamer, Loaded With Holiday Passengers, Bums. By Vnitrd Prrm BALTIMORE. July 5 —Three hundred and fifty passengers were rescued when the steamer Three Rivers of the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Company burned to the water’s edge early today in Chesapeake Bay off Cove Point, thirty miles below Baltimore. The only known dead, according to advices received at 4 a. m. today, are two negroes, a man and a woman.

LOCAL MEN HONORED C. F. Schmidt and Paul Robertson Are Named Officers. C. F. Schmidt, president and manager of the Century Bldg., has been appointed a member of the executive committee of the apartment house section of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers at the seventeenth annual convention held in Colorado Springs. Paul Robertson, secretary of the Hume-Mansur Bldg., was elected first vice president. Lee Thompson Smith of New York was elected president. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 61 10 a. m 72 7 a. m 62 11 a. m 73 S a. m 68 12 (noon) .... 75 9 a. m 71 1 p. m 75

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PLOT TO KIDNAP YOUTHTHWARTEB Son of Illinois Senator Is Threatened —Two Held. By t'nited Prcts CHICAGO, July s.—Details of a plot to extort $50,000 from United S’.ates Penator Medill McCormick under threats of kidnaping his 8-year-old son, John Medill. were being uncovered by Chicago postal in specters and Winebago County authorities today as they questioned two men arrested near Rockford. 111. George and Clarence Peek, farni .•mployes, were arrested Thursday at midnight when they came for a l“coy package “planted” near the McCormick summer home at Byron 111., in answer to a threatening letter received earlier in the week. Brought to Chicago for questioning. they were returned to Rockford ar.d released, only to be rearrested rarly today at the request of Chicago authorities. Courage of Mrs McCormick, a daughter of the late Mark Hanna, caused the arrest of the two men. UTILITY HEARINGS SET Ijehanon Telephone Company Asks Increase in Rates. John McCardle, chairman public service commission, will preside on Wednesday at a hearing -of the Lebanon Telephone Company’s petition to increase telephone rates. July 11 he will hear the case of the Citizens’ Telephone Company and the Indiana Bell Telephone Company for approval of a contract to purchase and sell a pole line in Vigo County. Other commission hearings in the near future are the Indiana Service Corporation, July 15, for authority to purchase 95 per cent of outstanding stock and all the assets of the Ft. Wayne & Northwestern Railway Company and the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to fix freight rates on limestone.

ELWOOD MOB FEARED Fat her Accused of Scalding Child Taken to Anderson. By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., July s.—John Larrison is held in jail here today on a formal charge of murder in connection with the death of his 3-year-old step-daughter. Larrison was brought here from Elwood after being charged • with scalding the little girl to death with boiling coffee so he could collect $175 insurance. * FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY Couple to Hold Reception for Friends Monday. Mr and Mrs. W. F. Williams. 363 W. Twenty-Eighth St., will celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary Monday with a reception from 1 to 3 p. m. for friends and a dinner for relatives in the evening. STATE V. F. W. MEETING Set for July 11-13 at Bedford; City Vets Going. Indianapolis members are planning to attend the annual State mcampment of Veterans of Foreign Wars at Bedford, Ind., July 11-13. There are fifty-one posts in Indiana.

STATE WAR ON PHONES IS OPENED I Commission Sets July 16 as i Date for Hearing to Start New Rate Making Move — immediate Legal Relief Considered by Lesh. Rallying its forces and calling up its heavy legal artillery the State ! of Indiana today prepared to launch ! its counter attack against the recent rate increases of the Indiana Beli Telephone Company. The commission set July 16 as the date upon which hearings to determine the value of the company's ! property for rate making purposes will open. This is the first definite step in the battle. Meantime legal ; steps of some description will he taken to obtain immediate relief. An attempt to settle the question 1 by mediation will he made by the ; State Chamber of Commerce at a meeting Wednesday at 1 p. m., at the Board of Trade Bldg Mayors \of more than sixty cities, rep 1 tesentatives of the public service commission and of the; telephone company will be invited. Just what form the State's attack will take will not be determined until after a conference of IT. S. Lesh, attorney general of Indiana and Governor Branch. This conference will be held as soon as Governor Branch returns from Martinsville, where he spent the Fourth, Lesh said. State Rule Ignored Lesh and public service commissioners conferred this morning. Althottgn nothing official was given ; out it is known that there was a gen era! feeling that the telephne company had gone beyond the scope of the injunction dperee of Federal Judge George T. Page in establishing ; rates higher than those originally asked of the commission without | complying with the State law requiring utilities to file rates thirty ! days in advance of the date on which they are to take effect and to obtain [approval of the commission. In ignoring the State law it is be lieved the company relies upon the sections of the decree enjoining the commission “front preventing or attempt to prevent the plaintiff in any way directly or indirectly from charging and collecting such rates for services rendered by it as will provide a fair return upon the fair value of the plaintiff's property, used and useful in the service of the public.” State Sees Violation The commission takes the attitude that Judge Page by this paragraph of the decres did not intend to make the company independent of all State law requirements, hut only to prevent the commission from inter sering with collection of rates not in excess of those asked by the company' originally'. Injunctive relief in State courts may be sought,, and if the company j persists in collecting increased rates j without the commission's approval. (Turn to Page 2)

WHY HAIR GROWS GRAY Miss Stella Doeppers of Scout Headquarters Gives Reason. Foolish questions are one of the reasons why office secretaries, stenographers, etc,, get gray, according to Miss Stella M. Doeppers, secretary Indianaoplis Bov Scout Council Recently a hurried and excited mother phoned Miss Doeppers and said, “My William is to carry the flag in a parade today, and I want to know whether he should hold the right hand over the left, or the left over the right.” “That depends on whether your boy Is Je/t or right-handed I suppose,” replied Miss Doeppers. GEE GOSH! CAN WE WAIT? Next Year’s Auto License Plates Are “Gonna” Be Artistic. Indiana is going in for art. Auto Jicese plates next year will be cream with maroon numerals. Next year's plates are already being shipped to the ninety-six branches cl the 1 secretary of State's office. However, they won't be sold until Dec. 15.

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INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1924

Heads Progressives *— m SENATOR ROBERT M. I.A FOLLETTE OF WISCONSIN. WHO WILL LEAD INDEPENDENT TICKET FOR PRESIDENT AGAINST REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS.

COLLINS CLEARS CRIMINAL DOCKET Hartman-Francis Cases Are Among Those Dismissed, More than 190 cases were dismissed in Criminal Court today' by Judge James A. Collins on motion of Prosecuting Attorney William H. Rcniy. Most of the cases arrj of long standing, and were termed “deadwood” by Remy. The Judge was to leave for the English Bar Association meeting at London late today. Among the cases nolled were charges against Robert F. Miller, former sheriff of neglect of duty. A whYiie series of indictments arising out of the charges against J. Herbert Hartman and Fred Hartman of receiving stolen goods from Frank Francis, the “confessing burglar," were tossed Into the discard. .1. Herbert Hartman, arrested while candidate for city judge, was tried and acquitted on the strongest case by a Criminal Court jury, Remy said, making it hopeless to obtain convictions on the remaining charges. Francis is serving a prison term. Reasons for dismissal of other charges are death of defendants or prosecuting witnesses, conviction on other indictments covering same crimes, reversal hy the Supreme Court of convictions and inability to find witnesses. FLIERS FIGHT STORMS American Round-the-World Airmen Reach Calcutta Safely. By f nitrd Prrnx CALCUTTA, India, July s—The United States Army fliers, flying around the world, hopped from Multan to Karachi Friday, winging their way through violent storms. The American airplanes reached Karachi at 1:10 p. m., after leaving Multan at 6:10 a. m. They were given a great welcome by the British air forces.

Britisher in Japan By United Pr< ss TOKIO, July s.—'The British round the world amphibian plane, piloted by Maj. Stuart MaeLaren, arrived in Japan today. Thousands of people were along the water front at Kagoshima as the big plane came roaring out from the China coast. RIVER SWIM SCHEDULED Annual H. A. C. Event Sunday Morning—Eight Girls Entered. The third annual two-mile river swim of the Hoosier Athletic Club will be staged Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. Swimmers will enter the water at the second island above Ravenswood and finish at Broad Ripple Park boathouse. Entrants are requested to report at the starting point at 9:30. Forty-five swimmers have entered the event. Eight girls are among the number. A silver loving cup will be presented the winner, the second prize is similar, gold medal for third, silver medals for fourth to tenth and bronze medals- to all others who finish. Missing Man Sought Police today were asked to find Charles Jones, 25, of 522 E. Merrill St., missing from his home since Thursday. He was described as being tall and fair and wearing a blue pin stripe summer suit.

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FOURIH leaves ACCIDENT TRAIL Faces, Hands, Eyes on Burned List. Miss Indianapolis patched up her scarred countenance today and painfully went back to work after an old-fashioned rip-roaring Fourth of July. One your.fi man was burned severely about the eyes and two children were injured less seriously. Lawrence Lumping, 19. of 805 E. lowa St., was taken to Deaconess Hospital and later to his home with severe burns about the eyes ?s a result of premature explosion of toy cannon. His sight w>* not impaired. Don Linson. 10, son of William Linson, University Heights, and Mary Frances Spaulding, 6. daughter of ,1. I> Spaulding. 4s 11 Winthrop Ave., were slightly burned.

Page Mercury Uncle Sam may send his Indianapolis messages by foot Instead of telephone, at hast part of every month. U. S. Marshal Linus P. Meredith today notified the Indiana Bell Telephone Company to give notice when the ninety call limit. under the increased measured service rate, is reached on the marshal's, clerks’. Judge A B. Anderson’s and district attorney's phones at the Federal Bldg. Then the marshal ordered service stopped. The Government has set aside so much for telephones and unless authority is received from Washington officials here etrn not pay excess.

GOING TO S. AMERICA Miss Emma L. Clinton Will Visit in Chile. Miss Emma L. Clinton, 2434 N. New Jersey St., assistant clerk in Probate Court, will leave Sunday for a visit in Chuquicanata, Chile, South America. She will visit her nephew and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Charles VV. Eichrodt. Eichrodt is a former Indianapolis resident and is a mining engineer with the Chile Exploration CoiTipany. Miss Clinton will go through New York and the Panama Canal. She will return for the opening of court in September. NEW CONSTABLE NAMED Broad Ripple Is Given Additional Protection. Residents of Broad Ripple will rest easier tonight as the result of action Ihday in appointing a constable for Washington township. George B. Davis, 4421 College Ave. He will work out of the Justice of Peace Court of 6. P. Rebinger, who annually springs into fame by fining persons arrested while crawling over (he fence of the State fairground. Justice Bebinger and a number of citizens c-ornplained there was no regular constable in their township.

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Lloyd George Says — PEACE HAS CHANCE AT CONFERENCE Former British Premier Says Since the War America Has Been Dumb at International Conferences in Europe. By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Former British Premier (Copyright, 1924, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) LONDON, July s—By Cable.) —The coming conference is Europe’s best chance since the armistice for establishing peace. There arc many reasons that contribute to this opportunity. The lapse of years sines the war accounts for a good deal. The angry passions have had time to subside. They cooled down more rapidly in England than in France. The French losses were heavier and the devastation of the war was greater and more visible in France. Britain arrived at a stage of reasonable judgment long before French opinion had worked off its war-time heat. M Poincare, by stirring up the hot cinders, exposed them to the air and thus experlitedthe cooling process. And this leads me to the second propitious condition for the London conference—the Ruhr fiasco. At the last conference I ever had with M Poincare, when the question -.f the Ruhr was mentioned he was warned that, if he pursued the policy on which he subsequently launched, he would reap lots of trouble—and no cash. His answer was a confident smile. It was the gesture of a man who knows better. All Had Sniff All the French prime ministers have been tempted by the rich and savory cheese placed by nature at the very notsrils of France. They nil had their sniff at it —Clemenceau, Millorand, Brian.! and lastly Poincare. M. Rriand had a nibble, but went no further. M. Poincare walked right Into the trap, and, after vain r efforts to carry away his prize, found to his astonishment that coal mines are not portable property. The French electorate were disap(Tum to Page 7)

CHAUFFEUR GETS 20 DAYS IN JAIL Driver Appeals After Trial on Wild Ride Charge, Fred Walker. 23. of 212 W. North St., private chauffeur for Fred Cline, former member of the park board, was given four fines, totaling $56, and sentenced to twenty days in jail upon charges growing out of an alleged wild drive on Meridian St. north of Maple Rd., April 23, in city court. He appealed to Criminal Court. Police charged that Walker cut a young woman with a knife, chased two young women up to a porch with the Cline automobile, bumped into a taxicab in which the girls started for police headquarters, and led the police a merry chase through alleys before he was captured. Junior C. of C. to Banquet Boosters’ Club of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will give a stag dinner Monday night in the Rainbow room of the Severin. Vaudeacts and a musical program will feature the program. Fugiilve Captured Grover Bowman, 34, of 1113 W. Eighteenth St., who escaped Patrolman Sullivan Thursday night on a plea he wanted to see his wife, was re-arrested today on a charge of impersonating an officer. State Department Official Dies By United Presx WASHINGTON. July s.—Alvey D. Ade, for nearly thirty-eight years second assistant Secretary of State, lied at his home here today at the age of 81.

Figlit Breaks Out on Floor of Convention at New York —Delegate Takes a Poke at Another—Governor Bryan Is Jostled. BULLETIN By I Prcsx MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, July 5. After passing a motion calling upon the various candidates to confer and roach an understanding on a compromise choice the convention adjourned until 11a. m. Monday. The motion was presented by Tom Taggart of Indiana. TtTrWbert j. bender I nited Pre .* Start Correxpon'lcnt MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, July 5. Still floundering in its deadlock, with bad temper rising rather than diminishing, the Democratic national convention today entertained and voted down a resolution to adjourn the present convention in New York to reconvene in Kansas City today. Other similar resolutions were expected to be presented unless some means was found of returning to regular business of balloting for a presidential nominee. As the taking of the roll-call on the Kansas City resolution was starting a fight broke out in the runway directly beneath the speaker’s stand.

John Costell, national committee man from the District of Columbia, became tangled in a Klan argument with John O’Reilley and finally punched O Reiiley in the face. There w*as an immediate hubbub and delegates and policemen rushed to the scene. Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska was jostled out of hi? chair under the speaker's stand when he had been dozing in his black skull cap for ten days. Police cleared the runway as rapidly as possible and restored peace. Meanwhile voting was continued and Ralston's name reappeared in the totals. On the seventy-sixth ballot Ralston polled 4L votes in the Ohio delegation. McAdoo on that ballot had a total of 513 and Smith. 368. Ohio offered is forty eight votes to Ralston, but they were declined by Taggart. Ralston is now out of the convention. having withdrawn yesterday, and if he is to be nominated now the party must draft him. And many of the leaders now regard Ralston as being in the best position of any in the field and still regard his nomination as a strong possibility. Adjournment Voted Down Two attempts to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution which would provide for the elimination of the candidate getting the lowest vote on each ballot failed during the early session today. A motion to adjourn the convention to Kansas City also failed. A. H. Ferguson, a delegate from Durant. Okla., introduced a resolution providing that if no nomination was made hy the seventy fifth ballot the convention adjourn to reconvene July 21 at Kansas City. Mo. McAdoo delegates voted “no" and the resolution was defeated, 1,007 to 82 7-10. Afetr disposing of the motion to adjourn to Kansas City, the convention heard a further resolution covering question of eliminating candidate.? submitted J?y Thomas B. Ball, a delegate from Texas. His resolution provided that at the conclusion of each roll call each succeeding roll call would drop the name of the candidate having the lowest number of votes. It was defeated. The Ohio delegation decided gt a caucus to/ leave Newton D. Baker on the seventy-fourth ballot. That reduced McAdoo total on the 74th ballot to 510. Smith polled 365 and Ralston 3% from the Ohio delegation. On the seventy-fifth ballot Ralston received votes from Ohio. Smith received a total of 366 and McAdoo 51<3. Smith gained two on the seventysixth and McAdoo and Ralston totals remained unchanged.

Leaders in Conference Meanwhile representatives of MeAdoo ar.d Governor AJ Smith were in conference in a closely guarded room in the Garden. Closeted in the conference room with Chairman Cordel Hull, were Judge Rockwell, McAdoo's manager; Norman E. Mack, one of Smith's principal leaders; Bruce Kramer and Breckenridge Long of the McAdoo forces; W. J. Bryan, E. T. Meredith of Iowa; Tom Taggart of Indiana and Homer S. Cummings of Connecticut. It was the hope of Hull that some agreement might be reached. However, the only solution seemed to rest with the withdrawal of both Smith and McAdoo, and whether this could be accomplished was problematic. Tom Taggart of Indiana appeared to have brought the session in the

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Forecast GENERALLY fair today and Sunday. Somewhat warmer Sunday.

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Garden about and was an activa figure. There was little change on the first ballots today. On the seventyfirst. the first of the, day, McAdoo polled 528 1 x votes: Smith, 33354- McAdoo lost a vote on the seventy-sec-ond. receiving 52754, and Smith gained one, polling 3345a- A motion. made after this ballot, to eliminate the lowest man on each roll (Turn to Page 2)

Vote by Ballots SEVENTY-SIXTH BALLOT Total votes cast, 1,097; one absent. Smith, 368. McAdoo. 513; J. W. Davis. 7514: Underwood, 4714' Glass, 29; Robinson, 25; Owen, 4; Ritchie, 16' 2 : Saulshury. 6; Baker, 1; Walsh, 2. Cox, 1; Bryan, 4; Ralston, 414, and 1 absent. SEVENTY-FIFTH BALLOT Total votes cast, 1,097; one absent. Smith. 366; McAdoo, 513; J. W. Davis. 781-2: Glass, 28; Robinson, 25; Underwood, 4S; Owen, 4; Ritchie, 16 1 2 ; Saulsbury, 6; Baker, 2; Walsh, 2; Governor Bryan, 4; Ralston, 4)4; Cox. 1. SEVENTY-FOURTH BALLOT Total votes cast, 1,097; one vote absent. Smith. 365; McAdoo, 510; J. TV. Davis. 77’-2; Underwood, 47; Glass 28: Robinson, 23: Owen, 2; Ritchie, IS 1 ?; Saulsbury, 7; Baker, .-• Walsh, 4 '-2; Cox, 1; Governor Bryan, Ralston, 3Va; Dr. Pilchard Kevine. 1. SEVENTY-THIRD BALLOT Total votes cast, 1,097; one vote absent. Smith. 334; McAdoo, 528; Davis, 66; Underwood, 3814: Glass, 25: Robinson. 21; Owen, 2; Ritchie, IC I --: Saulsbury, 6; Baker, 54; Walsh, 2; Bryan, 3. SEVENTY-SECOND BALLOT Total votes cast, 1,096; two votes absent. Smith, 334; McAdoo, 52714; Davis, 65; Underwood, 3714; Glass, 26; Robinson, 21; Owen, 2; Ritchie, 1 6; Saulsbury, 6; Baker, 5714; Walsh, 2: Bryan, 2. SEVENTY-FIRST BALLOT Total votes past, 1,097; one vote absent. Smith, 33314: McAdoo, 52814; J. W. Davis, 68; Underwood, 3714; Glass, 25: Robinson, 21; Owen, 2; Ritchie, 1614; Saulsbury, 6; Baker, 56; Bryan, 2; Walsh, 1. SEVENTIETH BALLOT McAdoo, 52514; Smith. 33414; J. W. Davis, 67; Underwood, 3714; Glass, 25; Robinson, 21; Ritchie, 16*4: Saulsbury. 6; Owen, 2; Baker, 66; C. Bryan, 3. SIXTY-NINTH BALLOT * McAdoo, 530; Smith, 335; J, W. Davis, 64; Underwood, 38; Glass, 25; Robinson, 21; Ritchie, 1614; Saulsbury, 6; Owen, 2; C. Bryan, 2; Baker, 56; Daniels, 214. SIXTY-EIGHTH BALLOT McAdoo. 49914: Smith, 33614; J. W. Darts, 7214; Underwood, 4614; Glass, 26; Robinson, 21; Ritchie, 1614; Walsh, 1; Saulsbury, 6; Owen, 22; C. Bryan, 3; Will Rogers, 1; Marcus A. Coolidge, 14; Baker. 57. SIXTY-SEVENTH BALLOT McAdoo, 490; Smith, 33614; Darts, 7514: Underwood, 4614; Glass, 25; Robinson, 21; Ritchie, 1614; Walsh, 2: Saulsbury, 6; Owen, 22-; Baker, 54; Bryan, 3.