Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1924 — Page 1

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POMS CAMPAIGN FOND BOH Progressive National Committee Heads Plan New Idea for Financing Bob La Follette’s Race for President This Fall, LARGE CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE. BARRED Millionaire Donations Are Not Wanted Fightin' Wisconsin Solon Plans Speaking Tour Radio Also Will Play Big Part, By United Press WASHINGTON, July 12.—La Follette leaders today Were proud parents of a brand new political idea. They call it “The poor man's campaign fund.” Birth of this strapping youngster was announced unofficially as executive heads of the progressive national committee went into closed session here in their first important meeting. The poor man's campaign fund, its originators say, will solve without trouble the difficult problem of financing an independent party. “Popular and Practical” “It will prove at once popular and practical.” Large contributions will be barred. Millionaires, even if thet see fit. will not be allowed to assist La Follette toward the presidency. A finance sub-committee of six members has been working out this plan for small.and widely distributed gifts sinc4 the Cleveland conference and today they were to report. They will not attempt to raise a large fund. “Our organization has accomplished great things with littftf money in the past and we expect to do as well in the future,” one spokesman said. “The American people are not corrupt. All we need is enough money to broadcast the truth.” Senator La Follette Friday was approached by the organized railway men. He conferred with representatives of practically all the brotherhoods regarding the political situation and, although a definite allegiance was not pledged, progressive leaders expressed themselves as pleased with results of the visit. “Fighting Bob-” has decided that he will not confine his campaigning to the radio, but will make a number of speeches in carrying his issues to the country. He will not leave Washington for the West for at least three weeks, however. It is understood the executive committee today will also consider names of different men for La Follette’s running mate.' The field of vice presidential candidates will then be canvassed and the full national committee will meet here July 18 to make a selection in accordance with Senator La Follette’s wishes.

OUT OF JAIL, BUT STILLjNTROUBLE Larrison Family Pursued by 111 Fortune, By Timet Special . ELWOQD, Ind., July 12.—Troubles are showering: down on John W. Larrison, recently released from jail at Anderson, where he was held in investigation of the fatal scalding of his little step-daughter. Larrison returned home to find his wife prostrate with heart trouble, A daughter, Cassie, 8, was struck and seriously hurt by an automobile. And now authorities are investigating a report that Larrison has another wife. FLIERS LEAVE TURKEY Head for Bucharest; Expected in Paris Monday. Bn United Brest CONSTANTINOPLE, July 12. The American round-the-world airplanes left here at 8 a. m. for Bucharest. Led by Lieut. Lowell Smith, the three big Army planes circled over Constantinople and then disappeared to the west. The weather was favorable. The airmen are expected in Paris Monday. By Press TOKIO, July 12.—The British ’round-the-world amphibian plane, piloted by Major Stuart MacLaren, left Kasumigaura today for Minato. according to a message from Jhe former city. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m i .. 69 10 a. m. 83 7 a. m 73 11 a. m 80 la. m 76 12 (noon) 77 t a. m 82 1 p. m 71

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Altogether, Folks; Nine Rahs! JIVIC CLUBS may burn bon fires, Chambers of (fommerce may adopt resolutions of gratification and the mere business man i__J may kick up his heels in joy /ver the public victory in the telephone rate fight in Federal Court, but they can’t be any more joyous than a certain set of hard-working young women in Indiana today. The h. w. young women? None other than our long suffering friends, the telephone operators. For a week they have suffered because they were the point of contact with the red hot public. But now—A long distance operator was feeling so relieved that* when a Times reporter placed a call she forgot all the rules and regulations and replied: “All rightee. we’ll get ’em right away.” Office boys had a lot of fun removing the signs on desk phones, prohibiting pse on private business. One of friend husband’s latest alibis for failing to telephone home for orders before leaving the office, was ruined. A printing firm was caught with a freshly made supply of slips upon which business houses could keep record of every call made. Compulsory measured service is no more!

LOUGHRY RE APPOINTED Secretary of Service Commission Continues at Post. t L. C. Lough ry secretary of the Public Service Commission since May 1, 1921, today was reappointed for the current year. Loughry practiced law in Monticejlo, Ind., before his appointment. SHANK EXERCISES VETO .Mayor Says Pawn Shop Ordinance Unfair Restriction. Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank today vetoed an ordinance passed by city council Monday under which all loan and pav|n shops would have to close afi day Sunday and at 7 p. m. every day except Saturday, when they might repain open until 11 p. m. Shanfc'said the ordinance was unfair discrimination and restriction on business. COUNTY COFFER RICHER City Court Turns Over $21,265.99, Three Months’ Fines. Speeders, blind tiger operators, drunks and other law violators fined in city couft in April, May and June contributed $24,265.99 to the public fund of Marion County. County Auditor Harry' Dunn today certified Judge Delbert O. Wiimeth’s check for that amount to John L. Duvall, county treasuprer. JOSIAH WEBB ‘GUILTY’ Ex-Salesman Sentenced on Grand Larceny Charge. Josiah Webb, 32, Edgewood, Ind , today pleaded _ guilty to grand larceny of $1,600 from the Sugar Creek Creamery Company, for which he was a salesman. He was sentenced to one to fourteen years in tm> Indiana State Prison by Special Criminal Judge Freemont Alford. An embezzlement charge was dis missed by the State. SMALLPOX REPORTED Fire New Cases on Record for Friday—No Alarm. of smallpox were reported to the city board of health Friday, anew high record since the epidemic during the spring months. Only twelve cases had been reported during July, but health board officials do not believe there will be another serious outbreak. A total of 904 cases have been reported this year.

SATURDAY A DAY OFF Dr. Morgan Explains He Doesn’t Haul Aslies. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, has giany duties, but he constantly has opportunity for more. He could drive an ash collection wagj on. He has been asked to do it. An irate housekeeper called the ! board of health offices demanding to talk to Dr. Morgan. Finally her call was explained. “I want him to come right down here and haul my ashes away,” replied the telephone voice. ‘‘Tell her I haven’t got the team hitched up today,” was Dr. Morgan's answer in referring the call to the sanitary board. SIX MOTORISTS FREED" 1 Alleged Speeder Show Court Results of Speedometer Teats. Judgment on speeding charges was withheld in city court today on Robert Lentz, 718 N. Sherman Dr.; Jess Fulkerson, 2413 E Tenth St.; Edmond Kossing. 1606 E. Vermont St.: William Mitchell, 413 Terrace Ave.; Ernest Tietz, 1538 S. Alabama St.; Harry Watterman, 1507 English Ave. All presented results of tests showing their speedometers were accurate. Horace Wandell, 208 N. Davidson St., and Kenneth Ray, 2432 N. Illinois St., were fined sls and costs on speeding charges. THRILL FOR PASSERSBY Recruiting Stunt Causes Rank Bandit "Fear.” The staccato explosions of a machine gun caused passersby in the vicinity of the Federal Bldg, today to feel an inclination to take cover” or duck and run. Stenographers and office attaches peered from the windows of business houses expecting to see bank robbers in flight from police. But it was only a Na tional Guard recruiting station. Capt. A. D. Bail, enlisting for the thirteen National Guard units In Indianapolis, says he can use about 100 men in the machine gun companies, field artillery, medical detachment, motor transport corps, regimental headquarters company and battalion headquarters company.

lADOO PLEDGES AID TO J. W. DAVIS IN PALL ELECTION Defeated. Candidate for Democratic Nomination to Support Party’s Choice. By United Press NEW YORK. July 12.—John W Davis will fit needs of the Democratic party and will have the support of William G. McAdoo, the Californian announced before sailing for Europe today. MAdoo pledged himseif to work fo r the Davis-Bryan combination when he returns from his trip abroad early in September. \ Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo, their daughter, his secretary and political secretary, Bruce Claggett, sailed on the Bereagaria. McAdoo’s Statement The statement given out by McAdoo follows: “Mr. Davis and 1 have been friends for the past twelve years and I had the pleasure of discussing the political situation with ®him Friday. The great bpdy of progressive Democrats who supported in the convention have been anxioiuh to know my attitude toward Mr. Davis and my visit was for the purpose of learning from Mr. Davis direct his views on important issues before the country. I am satisfied that he is in full accord with the progressive program outlined in the Democratic platform. “Mr. Davis' professional connections and associations with great banking houses and copoA-ate Interests. although eoncededly ethical in dvery way. have raised doubts in minds of many as to his progressivism and as to his complete sympathy with the great reforms the Democratic party must execute if it is to serve the genuine Interests of the people. . •

Doubts Not Justified "These doubts are not justified because a lawyer's views on economic, political and social questions are no more to be judged by his proses sional associations than is a physician's to be judged by the character of his patients. “Mr. Davis' high character, integrity and service should satisfy any apprehension of this sort. I am confident that, as President, he would faithfully execute the party’s progressive mandate. If I did not believe this, I could not render aid, because I have always believed that the Interests of the people should never be subordinated to a merety slavish partnership. "There is a deep seated determination on the part of the progressive sources within the Democratic: party ind Those outside of it desiring to co-operate to force prompt and decisive action on the part of the next administration for solution of the pressing problems of agriculture, transportation, tariff, taxation and foreign relations which have been so horribly man-handled by the Republican administration.

“Battering Ram” “The influence and power of these Progressive forces must not be dissipated by division in various political movements. They must rather be consolidated and used like an irrestable battering ram on that party which offers the best instrumentality for service to the people. “Clearly there is no promise in the Republican party. Clearly there is a promise In the Democratic party if this progressive Influence Is wisely and vigorously used within that political organization. The hope of genuine reform and progress is more likely to he realized at rhis time through the Democratic party than through any of its opponents. “I shall, therefore, give the DavlsBryan ticket my cordial support and shall take part in the campaign upon my return early in September.” GIRL’S CONDITION SAME Edna Hott, Heroine of Fire, Suffers From Severe Burns. The condition of Miss Edna Lucille Hott, 16, of near Tipton, Ind., in the Methodist Hospital suffering from severe burns was reported unchanged today. Edna Lucille rescued her sister, Alice, 13, and her brother, Louis Meredith, four months, from their burning home Thursday when a can of coal oil fell to the kitchen stove and exploded. The baby died in an ambulance en route to Indianapolis. Alice is in Tipton, buffering from burns. The house was totally destroyed.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924

TELEPHONE VALUATION UNDERWAY - \ / Commission Issues Order as First Step in Move to Cdmply With Agreement in Federal Court —Expect Hearing in September. STATE'TO MAKE OWN INVENTORY THIS TIME Entire Engineering Force of Utility Board Expected to Be Put to Work Gathering Data Upon Which New Schedules Will Be Bfised. Preparations for investigation of telephone rates and service in the entire State, were rushed by the public service commission today. Following its sweeping victory in the rate case in Federal Court before Judge George T. Page of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals Friday. the commission today issued an ordre initiating the investigation and discussed plans for organizing and conducting it. According to the\ wording of the order the investigation is directed “against the Indiana Bell Telephone Company concerning its revenues, operating expenses, rates, services, facilities, regulations acts, practices, measurements and the value of all its used and usefvd property at each and all of its exchange areas in the State, of Indiana. In all quarters the outcome of the Federal Court before Judge George T. Page of the United States Circuit Court of-. Appeals Monday was regarded as a triumph for the Stale and public. The outcome was taken as vindication of the stand of the public service commission that the telephone company had no right to make rates at its own free v, ill regardless of State laws and the commission. Under the agreement in Federal Court rates on file whh the commission Aug. 11, 1923, when the rates wers denied, become affective Business Is Favored Thia has the effect, in Indianapods. of doing away with the compulsory measured service, a source of endless dissatisfaction among business and professional subsidies. Individ ual resident telephone rates will retnain at $4.50 a month, where they have been for about a year, and party line service will remain whero it was placed by the company July 1, an increase of 25 cents a month over the old rate. For Indianapolis the greatest victory was in the abolition ,of meae ured service. According to estimate < of State officials this service would (Turn to Page 11) ATHLETIC THIEF SOUGHT "Pat” Page Reports Equipment Stolen From Butler College. Orville “Pat” Page, athletic director at Butler College, reported to police today tha tthe pump - room at the college had been entered and two heavy sweaters, two pairs of football shoes, a sport coat, four basketballs and three footballs, valued at SB7, taken.

CHANGE IN AIR MAIL Afternoon Delivery Made Possible by Revision in Schedule. An afternoon delivery of airplane mail will be made in Indianapolis, effective Monday, according th an announcement today by Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. Air mail has formerly reached this city at 5:30 p, m. Under anew arrangement to expedite transfer of from flying field to trains It will be possible to get air mail here at 2:30 p. m., Bryson saM. SENTENCE SUSPENDED Edward Phelps Fined SIOO on Blind Tiger Charge. Edward Phelps, 549 W. TwentyNinth St., arrested by Sheriff George Snider, June 27 on a blind tiger charge, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thirty days at Indiana State Farm, in city court today, with -ientqnce suspended cn payment of fine and costs. Officers said they confiscated home brew at Phelps’ camp on Eagle Creek. FIVE KILLED IN CRASH Train Strikes Automobile at New Jersey Crossing. By United Press HACKENSACK, N. J„ July 12. Five persons were killed when an Erie train struck a motor car near Passaic Junction, five miles west of here, today. -> * Driver of tlrS motor was Andrew Bronelski, 21. He was instantly kilted as were the other four occupants: Mi-s. Julia Bronelski, 48; Mary Yovonipski. 10; Anna and Michael Slkarai, 6 and 7 years old.

Far From Home and Barber, Fair Travelers Take Up Shears Ilfr y '" x ■U. n. ' * ~ ' %■ , Vu'Y ' : ipjL jJSKIL. Mm flß|§ MISS URSULA CAVENDER (SEATED), AND MISS RUSSIE HARRAH.

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“Just a Plain Fellow ”, Says Bryan By United Press ( ry WASHINGTON. July 12.*— The tlny'black skull cap which GovsM ernor diaries W. Bryan always wears isn’t a sartorial hobby. ,-I The Democratic vice presidential nominee wears it because he has to, and for no other re.isonson. Today he confided his secret to newspaper men. Twenty years ago the bald pate of the Governor was seriously injured by sunlight streaming into his office. Nerve centers were broken down and he suffered from severe headaches and eye trouble. Doctors advised him ne\*>r to 'cave his head unprotected, even in artificial light, and so since that time he has always worn his hat whenever possible—in his own home, in his office, in the elevators. But when social necessity does force him to remove on goes that black cap that he carrier in his vest pocket. It may not look so said the Governor, “but I'm just a plain fellow, anyway. No style to me.”

FORMER HOOSIERS KILLED IN CRASH : Newcastle Receives of Fatal Accident. By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind.', July 12. Weird was received today of the death of John M. Daus, ID. and Bernard Goetz. 21. brother-in-law, who wore killed Friday night when their motorcycle crashed into a truck near Troy, Ohio. Maus is the son of Frank Maus, former superintendent of the Indiana Rolling Mills, located here. Both families now live in Dayton. Goetz maried Marguerite Maus, three years ago. An uncle, John H. Maus resides here. MEW PLANE RECORD SET Naval Fliers Stay in Air for (Her Fifteen Hours. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 12.—New world's endurance record for naval reaplanes was set today when Lieut. Frank W. Wead and John C. Trice, riloted the giant CS-2 over the Potomac River for a period of fifteen hours and nineteen minutes, covering a distance of 1,050 miles. But for a heavy fog over the river, they would have continued until their gasoline supply was exhausted. Unable, however, to sight landmarks, they descended with a five Louis supply left in their :ar_.ts. EXAMS ARE COMPLETED Graduate Medical Students to Receive Gradies in Fall. Results of the medica. examination given to eighty-six graduate physicians this week will be announced in September according to the State hoard of medical registration. Sixty of the applicants were Indiana University graduates. Others came from University of Michigan, Washington University, Temple University of Toronto, University of Athens, Greece, General Medical College, Chicago University of Kentucky. and the America!* School of Osteopathy. "

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on Miss Ursula Cavender. Both are from Charleston, \V. Va‘. They are camping at Riverside Tourists’ camp, en route to Yellowstone National Park.

SMALL GIRL DIES, IMF AUTO Injuries Fatal to Kentucky Visitor. Catharine Fite, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Q. L. Fite, Owentown, Ky„ who was struck by an auto at Illinois and Washington Sts. Tuesday, died at the Deaconess Hospital today from internal injuries. Coroner Paul F. Robinson ordered Jack Thurston. 24, of 306 N. De Quincy Ave., slated on a manslaughter charge and released on his own recognizance, pending investigation. Witnesses told police the little girl broke loose from her mother’s grasp while browsing the street and ran in front of the auto. Two wheels were said to have passed over her. The Fites were visiting at the home of Mrs. Roger Bourne, 41 Parkview Ave. STEP UP, GENTLEMEN! Government Wants to Sell Lots of “Honest to Gosh” Liquor. By I'nited Press KANSAS CITY, Mo.. July 12.—The Federal Government will sell $250,000 worth of pre-war liquor at auction here Monday. The sale will include 212 barrels of whisky, twenty barrels of brandy, five of gin,'two of rum and two of alcohol. Failure of owners to pay high storage fees in Government bonded warehouses was given as the reason for the sale. Only owners of permits may bid. REBELS ASK ARMISTICE Truce Turned Down. Brazilian Govemment Says. By United Press RIG .DE JANIERO, July 12—(9 a. m.) —The Government has refused a request from the rebels of 'tjao Paule for an armistice, announcing it will consider only unconditional surrender. "The rebels requested an armistice yesterday,” the official Jornal de Commereo, said today. “But the ccmmander of the Federal forces refused it. All dispatches from Sae Paulo today were reassuring, indicating that the Federal troops are gradually gaining ascendancy.

MM WALLED B¥ RAILROADS TO COMPLY WITH ML CODE All Requirements to Be Met by Tonight, Niclcel Plate Office Says— Sutherland Ave., Thirtieth, Seven- • teenth, Twenty-Fifth Sts. on List. CROSSING GATE RULES ALSO ' ARE GIVEN CONSIDERATION Police Captain Sumner Continues Probe to Find Further Violations or Points Where New Orders # fpr Protection Are Needed. Flagman were being stationed at grade crossings in Indianapolis, in municipal code, by the Monon and Nickel Plate railroads today. By tonight, there will he guard service at every point and at every hour required by city law, the office of F. J. DeGrief, general superintendent of the Nickel Plate, announced. Some of the flagmen already were on duty, notably at Sutherland Ave., where the Times discovered there was no guard whatever, despite the fact that municipal code requires one from 6 a. m. to midnight.

Probe Follows Death The Times investigation followed Police, Sergf. Claude Johnson's report that there was no flagman at Thirtieth St., Sunday night when Miss Irene Lewby. 22, of 2331 Martindale. Ave., automobile fiassenger, was fatally injured by a Nickel Plate excursion train. This crossing, which was guarded from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. now will hav* twenty-four-hour service, as required by ordinance, the Nickel Plate has announced. Other points where the ordinance is to be observed are at - TwentyFifth and Seventeenth Sts., where watchmen were stationed from 6 a. m. to 6p. m. Law requires them from 6 a. m. to midnight. Gates Attended To The two railroads also have taken steps to comply with the requirement that safety gates at Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fourth Sts. be in operation from 6 a. m. to midnight and at Twenty-Second and Sixteenth Sts. twenty-four hours a day. Nickel Plate officials said they desired It known that there was no disposition upon their phrt to evade any responsibility which would insure public safety. The violation of the law, it was stated, was due to the fact that there was A change in management about four months ago and that the new officials had no knowledge requirements were not met. It was said that the officials learned that some time prior to the change in administration some kind of an agreement was made with a city official that strict observance of the ordinanoe was not necessary. Steps to straighten oht the matter were started last Tuesday, when Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff, acting upon the information gathered by The Times, notified the road officials that they must put the flagmen on duty at proper hours or face arrest. The intervening time has been occupied in obtaining authorization for the additional expense and hiring of extra flagmen needed, it was stated at DeGrief’s office. Meanwhile Capt. Charles Sumner, left in charge of the crossing situation by Rikhoff, out of the city, continued his survey of all railroads. Sumner is searching for violations of the ordinance and for crossings where flagmen or gates should be newly ordered.

FELONY CHARGE FILED Contractor Reports Tlieft of Paint Gun and Yank. Harold Kennedy. 1117 S. State Ave., was arrested today, charged with entering a house to commit a felony. It is alleged he entered a house at 1629 S. State Ave. Nothing was taken. Lawrence Debow. 19, colored, 2354 Shriver Ave., was held on a vagrancy charge after he had been arrested in a second-hand store, where, police said, he was trying to dispose of carpenter tools. W. C. Terhune, 113 W. TwentyFirst St., a contractor, reported theft of an eight-gallon paint tank and a paint gun, valued at $l4O. PURDUE DEAN .HONORED Chosen Pres >nt of Engineering Society at Colorado Meeting. By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind.,- July 12, Word pas been received here that A. A. Potter, dean of the Schools of Engineering. Purdue University, has been elected president of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education at the recent convention at th* University of Colorado, Bo Ulster. Cate.

Forecast THUNDER showers this afternoon or tonight, followed by generally fair Sunday. Slightly cooler tonight.

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EGYPT’S PREMIER IS SHOE DOWN BY MEDICALSTUDENI Assassination Attempted in Cairo Railroad Station. fly Vnitrd Prets CAIRO, Egypt. July 12.—Zeagult Pasha, premier of Egypt, was shot and dangerously wounded In I crowded railway station here today a. he was about to enter a train for Alexandria. The premier was bidding goodby to friends when an unknown man who had wormed his way througl the crowd, suddenly drew a emai automatic pistol and opened fir*. There was great excitement fbr I tirrn and when police arrived th< premier was lying on the station floor with a bullet in his right lung He was taken to his home, whert physicians made a hasty examlna tion and declared his condition “ii satisfactory.” The man who fired the shot was set upon by the crowd and badly beaten before he was rescued', by police and taken to jai}. ./A Litter police said the assailant is* medical student belonging to th Nationalist party by which the pre mler has been severely criticised for his alleged pro-Bgitish tendencies.

CLEAN-UP ORDER FOLLOWS FIGHT Mayor Shank Orders Action on Poolrooms ,■ Mayor Shank today ordered a gen eral clean-up of poolrooms as the result of this Incident: Everett Comstock, 619 Russell Ave was badly beaten by six men In a poolroom at 26 Kentucky Frl day night, police say. Lieutenant Hudson and squad ar rested Frank Wolfa, 22, of 1046 Chad wick St.; Benny Flagler, 23, of 946 Union St., and Joe Burnett, 24, ol 2063 Central Ave., on vagrancy charges. Comstock is said to have identified them as among his assail nats. Hudson said he was told the mer accused Comstock of “tipping off alleged liquor violations of Emmett Donahue, 27, of 527 E. New York St., and the Indiana Hotel, 128 W Maryland St. Hudson arrested Don ahue on a blind tiger charge. Attend Trade School John B. Reynolds, general secre tary Chamber of Commerce, Earl L Ferguson, secretary wholesale trade division, and Edward Hunter, secre tary Indianapolis Advertising Club, left today for Chicago 'to attend a national school for trade executives It Northwestern Univdeity, Evans ton, Ilia. They will gens twc wealu.