Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1924 — Page 2

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DAVIS TO ASSAIL G. 0. P. POLICIES 1 FIRST:SPEECH Attack on Coolidge Administration Will Be High Point of Address, By PERCY B. SCOTT (Copyright, 1924, by United Press) _ DARK HARBOR. Maine. July 30. —A short sharp arraignment of the Coolidge Administration, said by his friends to be vastly clearer and more concise than the Democratic platform itself, constitutes the high spot in John IV. Davis' formal speech accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency. The speech is complete. Davis stated to New York today, ready for his long campaign. But one step Vas scheduled en route, at Rockland where the county Democratic organization had arranged a reception. Appeal to Voters Davis’ address which will be his interpretation" of the platform and his first direct appeal to the American voter. He stressed: Corruption in Government. International relations. Taxation and tariff. State rights. *’ Agricultural relief. Conservation. Corrupt election practices. The address will make a general indictment of the way the government at Washington has been administered during, ffie past four years. The main attack will be made on President Coolidge’s attempt to halt congressional inquiries and his reluctance to act after charges had been preferred against some of the Cabinet members. Under the general topic of international affairs Davis will bring in the League of Nations. He has frequently expressed himself as opposed to the Harding World Court plan By contending there is no substitute for the League of Nations. Religious freedom is a subject that will be handled very carefully by the nominee, for under that head is classified the K. K. K. issue which caused strch a bitter fight on the floor of the New York contion. It is not believed, however, that Davis will side-step the issue, but will try to express himself in a ■way that will be agreeable to all factibns. Against Socialism The question of'farm relief will comprise a~ large part of the text. Davis is opposed to- anything that smacks of a socialistic idea in governmental affairs and therefore will not suggest any scheme of govern ment aid that might be generally so interpreted. Also, he will allege the Republicans have not carried into effect the ejxpressed purpose of the EschCfiffimins railroad act and that failure to do so is in some measure responsible for the present agricultural depression. Law enforcement will be considered along with State’s rights, but there will be no suggestion that the ’Volstead act should be modified or wiped off the Tiooks.

SEPT. 12 IS HOLIDAY City to Cooperate in Making National Defense Day Success. The city administration today took steps to aid in National Defense day proclaimed by President Coolidge for Sept. 12 by appointing a committee to. draft resolutions expressing approval on national defense measures. Mayor Shank said he would proclaim the day a holiday in the city by closing the city hall, and asking merchants to cooperate. James M. Ogden, corporation counsel elect, Ernest L. Kingston, president of the board of safety, and Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, were appointed on the resolutions committee. STOCK SALE INVOLVED Activities of Mortgage Company to Be Investigated. Operations of the Aetna Bond and Mortgage Corporation are being brought to the notice of County Prosecutor William H. Remy by the Indiana State Securities Commission. It is understood by the commission that the Aetna Bond and Mortgage Company is resflly the Aetna Preferred Realty Company whose license to sell stock was revoked without prejudice May 14, 1924. The mortgage company is unlicensed, it is said. The commission, it is said, holds the recent offer of the Aetna Bond and Mortgage Company to exchange its preferred stock for bonds of the Aetna Mortgage and Investment Company, constitutes sale of securities

Important Notice! Effective August Ist, arrangements have been made for handling freight to all points on the Chicago, Lake Shore & South -Bend Railway from South Bend to Hammond, Indiana, inclusive. And effective Aug. 25th, to points reached by this line in Illinois. This means first day delivery from Indianapolis after sufficient tonnage can be secured for through cars, and second day delivery on present L. C. L. Shipments. Try our service and be convinced. UNlOrtf TRACTION COMPANY OF INDIANA

Mother Love Wins

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The glittering opportunity for a screen career—sought daily by thousands of pilgrims to Hollywood—has been flatly rejected by Mrs. Frances Fay Jacobs (above), 18-year-old mother. Movie life is too much of a. gamble, she told

WO MAYBE. I AUTHORIZED FOR 2 MIDGES County Council Takes Differ-, ent View of Agreement j Made With City, Bond issue of approximately 1750,- i 000 for the county’s share of bridges ! over White River at Kentucky and j Oliver Aves., probably will beau-1 thfcrized by the county council be- j fore it adjourns Thursday. Council members do not take the ; same view of the ’’gentlemen’s agreement” entered into last year by the city and county as to the bridges. | The commissioners insist the county whs to bear all expenses of the bridge over Fall Creek at Delaawre St., while the city was to take full financial responsibility for the j bridges over White River. Cassius C. Hogle, president said:; “Our understanding is that the city was to build the bridge* under j the flood prevention act which makes the county responsible for 45 per cent of the cost The Kentucky Ave. bridge is needed greatly and should be built beyond all \ "doubt.” Estimates prepare,} by Frank Lingenfelter, city engineer, which were to be considered by the council, were: Contract price of Kentucky Ave. birdge, $635,000; Oliver Ave. bridge, $487,336; estimated value of land which must be condemned or purchased, $482,806.75; concrete retaining wall and extension of Pogues Run drain, $707,420; excavation of river channel and levee construction, $700,492. The last two pieces of .work will not be done. Unless legal questions surrounding the paving of Twenty-Fifth St., Yandes to Rural Sts., can be settled satisfactorily, the city council may be asked to disannex the territory. The county council is anxious to pave the strip, which would cost about $31,000. Paving Arlington Ave. from Michigan St. to Brookville Rd., at $60,000 was discussed. ABANDONED CAR FOUND An auto stolen from Edward J. Bennett, 1321 NT Meridian St., was found abandoned on AlHsonville Rd. D. L. Wells, private detective, told police he chased two men in the car at a fifty-mile phee and fired three shots. The men fled.

ths-snanager who offered her a job, and she "wants first to think of securing a proper education for her 3 and 2-year-old boys, shown below, Clifford (left) and Leonard right). Her husband has left her and she is working as an usher In a Srfn Francisco theater.

WILL CHANGE QUARTERS Columbia Club to Move From Claypool to Marion Home. . The Columbia C}ub will occupy the Marlon Club building Saturday, according to Arthur E. Bradshaw, Columbia Gfcib president. Thfc Columbia Club has maintained temporary quarters at the Claypool since ■work on its new home on the Circle began. Formal opening of the new' quarters will be held later. v HIGHWAYBOARD OPENS ITS PROBE Schlensker and Accountants; Confer Before Quiz. Accountants of the State highway commission, accountants of C. A. Gall A Cos. and O. F. Schlensker, auto parts salesman, conferred today preparatory to the commission's investigation of the alleged $50,000 overpayment by the commission to Schlensker. charged in a report of of the State board of accounts. Schlensker's attorney, Charles W. Jewett, it is understood, is proceeding with plans to recover the $59, 000. Schlensker said he felt he had been victimized by officials in a fight against another department He stated that the statement he had signed declaring the $50,000 was paid back with full knowledge of the case was signed by him with the understanding that he was virtually buying immunity from a'newspaper article saying he had bribed the i board. HELD AFTER COLLISION Woman Bruised WHen Two Machines Meet. Roeooe Campbell, 246 Minkner St., was under arrest today on charges of drunkenness, operating a car while intoxicated and assault and battery. Police said his auto collided with one driven by Frank Craig, 1927 Koehne St., at Tenth St. and Indiana Ave. Mrs. Craig was badly bruised and cut. MILITIA IS CURTAILED New Units Would Overrun Appropriation, Smith is Notified. Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith today received notice from the Militia Bureau, War Department, authority for Federal recognition of National Guard units, bas been withdrawn. The notice explained the National Guard is now as large, as the Militia Bureau apppropriatlon can finance and no more could be added without overrunning appropriation. General Smith pointed out no units will be disba/nded, but no new ones will be organized.

BUREAU SESSION ENDS Merger of Chicago Grain Elevators Chief Topic. Directors of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation discussed the merger of Chicago grain elevators today. A committee was appointed to investigate and report to the board. A tentative draft of the , cooperative marketing bill was expected to come up for consideration. The regular quarterly session closes this afternoon. Discharged in Bankruptcy Mrs. T. J. Connfell, owner of tjie Connell Ice and Fuel Company, Cambridge City, Ind., was discharged aa a bankrupt by Harry C. Sheridan, referee in bankruptcy, today. Mrs. Connell said hel' assets were less than S6OO. which she was allowed to keep under the exemption law.

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VEAL'S FORGOTTEN; MARS GIVEN ‘SPOT All Because Great Star Is Becoming Neighborly Only 34,000,000 Miles Away,

Mars, the bright star rising in the southeast in the evening, and shining with an unusual brilliance, is monopolizing all the celestial limelight and attention of astronomers these fine summer nights. All over the world, telescopes are being trained en the great red star nightly, to the utter neglect* of many stellar performers in the heavens which have been accustomed to get the lion's share of attention in' the past. Jupiter, with its trained troupe of nine some of them larger than the earth, which play with each other and put an all sorts of fancy eclipse stunts: Saturn, with its exclusive bauds of multi-colored light encircling it like a rainbowhued speedway, and all the others are relegated to background by astronomens for the time being. Even Venus, that beautiful flapper of the planetary System, is doing her stuff, so early in the morning that few law-abiding citizens get a glimpse of her. The cause of all this Martian enthusiasm is the fact that Mars and the earth are more neighborly than they have been for more than a century past or will be again in the lifetime of any one. now walking, flying or riding about this terrestial globe. i According t<rßussel Sullivan. 1431 N. Meridian St., Mars and earth will be closest on Aufe. 22, when a mere trifle of 34,000,000 miles will separate them. Owing to the fact that Mars has

GAY REQUESTS MOREPOLICEMEN Board Member Defends Clean-up Drive, The movement for additional po licemen. started by Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff. was revived by Elmer Gay, member of the board of safety, at the city cabinet meeting doday. Gay's request was followed by an attack by Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, against departments ask irg more money to operate next year, aiming particularly at the police department where he indicated reorganization might result in some superior officers being put on active duty. “We are policing this city of 350.with only 178 men on duty at any one 'time,” said Gay. “The {administration should ronsidejr move* to protect public safety by addition to more policemen " Gay defended the recent police clean-up campaign. The cabinet,meeting was called h;g Mayor Shank*as a farewell to TayJor E. Groninger, corporation counsel. who retires Aug. 1 to accept a position as attorney fqr the State public service, commission. HEAVY FINES FOR TWO One Also Got 120-day State Farm Sentence, Two men are under heavy fines and sentences today as the result of their conviction in city court Tuesday on assault and battery charges. Walter Turner, living in the rear of 1212 N. West St., was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to serve 120 days on the Indiana State Farm when he was found guilty of attack on Edward Flowers, 722 Darnell St. After it whs alleged a pickax handle was used In an attack on Peter Staub, 1341 Tabor St., Rdward Wright, 2250 /Kenwood Ave., was fined SIOO and costs on an assault and battery charge. It was alleged WrighT, who is a street resurfacing gang foreman, attacked Staub whßn he drove his machine over fresh asphalt. CHARGE IS DENIED Hospital 8u peri rrt*nde-nt Says Fireman Received Prompt Attention. Dr. Cleon Nafe, superintendent of city hospital, today denied Robert Groves, city fireman? accidentally shot in the foot at the Dynes-Pohl-man Lumber Company fire early Friday, did not receive medical attention until nine hours afterward. Dr. Nafe said the wound was dressed at once,'but the bullet was not removed until an X-ray was taken. Fire Chief O’Brien complained to the board of safety Tuesday.

MISSIONARY IS SPEAKER All-Day Rally Is Held at ’Roberts Park Church. Dr. Ida Kahn, a Methodist Episcopal mis*,ionary. spoke to about 600 women at an all-day rally of the auxiliaries of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Socieitiea at Roberts Park Church Tuesday. The missionary declared “China needs Christianity more than anything effee that a civilized world can give.” \ The object of the rally was to plan for the annual meeting of the society Oct. 7 to 9, at Central Ave. M. E. Church. GIRL FRACTURES SKULL Is in City Hospital in Critical Condition Following Fall. Bernice Kinnear, 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kinnear, 817 N. Delaware St., remained in a critical condition today at the city hospital, where she was taken late Tuesday suffering a fractured skull. Mrs. Kinnear said she left her daughter playing on the front verandax alone She said later she heard a scream and found the child lying orv the ground twenty feet below. .

been the most discussed of all members. of our solar system with its canals and snow caps, astronomers are making the best of the opportunity to get as much information as possible before Mars goes rambling off into space until its orbit takes it about 100,000,000 miles away from us. If Mars is causing x all this comiAotion among earthly beings, the stir among Martian scientists must be even greater, for the earth’s diameter is just about twice as great as that of Mars, and the size and brilliance of the earth must be correspondingly greater when viewed through a Martian telescope. FRANCE, BELGIUM NEGOTIATE JOINT EVACUATION PACT Would Speed Up Conference Plan for Carring Out r Dawes Report, B y f nil rd Prr* LONDON, July 30.—France and Belgium are negotiating a separate offer to Germany providing progressive evacuation of the Ruhr, the United Press learned from a reliable source today. The offer is contingent upon agreement by Germany to speed conditions which make possible .application of the Dawes-experts reports on reparations. The offer means..that France and Belgium are Willing to promise withdrawal of Jheir military forces in the Ruhr if Germany shows her good will by putting into effect the Dawes program more rapidly than the I/ondon interallied conference directs. Payments Sooner For example, the Fr&nco-Belgians ask Germany to carry out the Dawes demands, especially loose regarding payments, some months before the dates which the London conference will specify. As fast as this is done, military withdrawals from German territory would carry out in proportion. Formal presentation of the offer would be made after the London conference reaches an agreement. The inter-allied conference today waited with increasing interest the presentation of a “comprehensive formula," devised by the French delegation for the purpose ending the eleven day deadlock. Premier Herriott of France held intensive with members of tne Belgian delegation last night and was expected to complete the French plan today. Default Is Question The conference has been .deadlocked on the subject of “defaults and sanctions." that is. who shall deside whether Germany has failed to fulfill her obligation under 'the experts' plans and what shall be done about it if she is adjudged in default. The French have all along declined to allpw the decision to rest with the reparations commission, for fear of finding themselves in a minority, if an “unofficial” American is added to the commission, as the Anglo-Ameri-can banking group which is to raise a $200,000,000 loan for Germany has suggested. ... . ~ . . ■ BULLET HITS POLICEMAN

Alleged Assailant Escapes After i Shooting Scene. A policeman and a citizen are at city hospital today suffering from gun wounds received in a fight Tuesday night at the home of Walter Logan, 928 N. California St. T*hey o.re Patrolman Preston Heater and Charles Withers, 22, colored, •>3O W. Tenth St. Walter Nunn, 28, ignored, 933 N. California St., who is alleged to have fired the shots, escaped. He 1 is charged with assault and Mattery and shooting with intent to kill. Shooting occured when Nunn wanted to enter Logan’s house in search of a woman. Heater was patroling the district alone. Recently a colored patrolmen was discharged • and since that time men in the colored districts have been forced to run alone and cover wider territory due the shortage. 'The district where the shooting occurred was the scene of a police murder a few years ago. PARENT WIELDS ROD Police Agreeable When Youngster Finds White Mule. Police always -agree on parental punishment and late Tuesday when they were about to take three boya to the detention home, and one of the parents arrived and suggested administering the rod, police said “Go to sit.” t Three boys, 18 and 14 years of age, were swimming at Linwood Ave. and the Brookville Rd., when one found a bottle of, white mule. One of the bo’-s imbibed and aoon was intoxicated. Police say his mother and a rod aid'd iA the sobering process. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong to: Mrs. Deyla H. Snotln, Zloflaville, Ind.; Hupmobile, from Meridian and Michigan Sts. Edwafd J. Bennett, 1321 N. Meridian St.; CTjglmers, from Meridian and Michigan Sts. m Thomas Dick, 1214 S. Dakota St., Ford, from Senate Ave, and Market Sts.

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Nine new busses like this will be put in operation Sunday morning between Indianapolis and Franklin, Ind., by the Interstate Public Service Company, it was announced today. The terminal Will be maintained at the Terminal Traction building. Harry Reid, president, said eleven busses eventually will be run over the route. They are

FOUR ARE SENTENCED Young Men Plead Guilty Before Special Judge Symmes. Stolen automobiles may travel fast and far, but eventually they deposit their passengers inside prison walls This the lesson learned Tuesday in Criminal Court by four Indianapolis young men, Fay Cory, 21; Paul Dodd ,20; Glenn Stamm, 20. and Edwtrd Hennigen, 18. .All entered pleas of guilty to charges. Stamm and Dodd were fined $25 and sentenced to three to five years in the Indiana Reformatory by FrAnk A. Symmes, judge pro tern.. Cory and Hennigen were given fines of SIOO and sentenced one to fourteen years.

DEMOCRATS STUDY CAMPAIGN PLANS State Chairman Chambers and Taggart Confer, State Senator Walter S.f Chambers, Newcastle. Democratic State chairman, %nd Thomas Taggart, veteran Democratic chief, were at State headquarters today going over details of organization for the fall campaign. Chambers declared he would take the field about the middle of August in an intensive drive and would conduct every district meeting, accompanied by Mrs. A. P. Flynn, vice chairman, oT Logansport. Chambers made it clear he was not in sympathy with establishing numerous bureaus at State headquarters, but would depend on thorough local organizations to get out the vote in November. ”1 will of my work over the State." Chambers said. “I am not strong on running a campaign from hotel lobbies.” The Democratic speaking campaign will start about Sept. 1. No intimation has been given as to the national speakers sent to Indiana. “We are not going to run an expensive campaign,” Chamber* declared. Chambers will not be around State headquarters much until Oct. 1, and will leave operation of the headquarters to the State secretary. Miss Gertrude Fanning McHugh. Chambers will stress administration of the State highway commission throughout the campaign, he said.

What’s a little heat between friends? Drop in today reserve your winter overcoat, and then congratulate yourself! The Strauss famous mid-summer sale of winter overcoats is on* $5 Reserves Overcoat _ k and Overcoats ' / charged - * and5 and L.&rmm a Go. 83 to 37 West Washington Street f ii H E h**,. HOME OK THE m QXEBGOA3T

painted yellow and have a seating capacity of twenty-five persons, besides the driver. Os the eleven busses ordered seven will cost SB,OOO and four a little less than SIO,OOO. Operation of busses to Franklin is only an experiment, he said, but if found successful will be inaugurated between other points. An hourly schedule las been aranged. It supplements traction caiyservice.

TWO INJURED AS AUTD CRASHES INTOICEWAGON Man Taken to Hospital— Pedestrian Suffers Leg Fracture in Accident, Dan R. Ketchum, 318 W. Market St., driver of an ice wagon, and Mary Eastes, 10, of I>o6 N. Delaware St., were injured when the ice wagon was struck by an auto driven by Homer Eichacker, 25, of 5866 Julian Xvit The accident toolc place at 600 N. j3t. Keteham said he was getting some ice out of the wagoji and the Eastes girl was standing on the step beside him. Eichacker, driver for the Yonnegut Hardware Company rounded the corner, witnesses .told police, and was looking the other way. Ketchum was taken to the city hospital and the girl to her home. Driver Runs Away A colored man ran after his auto collided wiU, another driven by A. E. Klingensmffh, 3640 Tacoma Ave., at Court St. and Senate Ave., Tuesday. Both cars were damaged. Seneca Beales, 315 E. South St., received a fracture of the left leg when he was struck by an auto driven by John R. Buck, 17094 E. Micblgan\ St., at 355 Virginia Ave., Tuesday. Buck and other witnesses told police Beales stepped from the curb into the path of the auto. Intoxication Is Charge 'Jamies A. Johnson, 217 W. FortyFourth St., was slated at the city prison on a charge of driving while intoxicated. Police say his __ auto struck a silent policeman at Sixteenth and Meridian St., early today. Danile Peek, 69, of 1304 Sheldon St., was slated at city prison on a charge of and battery, the result of an accident at Senate Ave. and Washington St., Tuesday. Police say his auto struck Christine Archer, 13, of 3428 E. Tenth St., who was riding a bicycle. Drowns at Gary By.rniird Pre*R GARY, Ind.. July 30<— Stephen Moldovan, 9, son of Frank Moldovan, drowned in the Calumet River at Buffington, a Gary suburb. While wading. Stephen stepped into a deep hole, and three companions were powerless to aid him. Police found the body.

WEDNESDAY JULY 80,1924

SHANK MOVES TO; OPPOSEINCREASE IN SCHOOLTAXES Orders Bosson to Protest Before State Tax Board, Asserting that there are too many flub-dubs in modern education Mayor Shank today ordered William Bosson, city attorney appointed to protest any increase in the 1925 school city levy before the State tax board as a /further step in his campaign to reduce taxes. A prospective increase of 36 cents in the levy of the school board has been asked, making a rate of approximately SIJS, The 1924 levy was 82.25 cents. Too Many Flub-dubs "There’s no use reducing our city levy from SI.OB to $1,05 and. let the school board run away with the people’s money,” said the mayor, ‘‘They can do away with a lot of flub-dubs that none of us had when we went to school. There’s too many of these extra courses without the fundamentals.” Bosson replied that he would like nothirtg better than to assail a higher school tax before the State tax board. Richard O. Johnson, school business director stated he would cut several items on the tentative school budget. Too Much Last Year “Last June,” Johnson said, "we transferred from about thirty-nino funds so other funds appproximately $196,000. Many funds appropriated last year were unnecessarily high. This year we should not make the same mistakes. In places where I know the appropriation to be higher than necessary I will cut it. I have a penknife of my own.” Johnson said the budget is only in a preliminary form at present and wilL be subject to revision and it may be much lower than It is at present, he said. WEEKLY SPEEDER SLATEIS HEAVY More Cases Than Last Week Expected in Court. Police warnings, patrol rides, heavy city court fines and deaths from fast driving apparently had little effect upon some motorists this week. Indications were today that about eighty drivers would face Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth in the city court speed session Thursday. Slates today showed a total of seventy-two cases. From eight to ten more arrests are expected before the -speed session opens. Last week there were sixty-nine before Judge Wilmeth. Fifty were fined. These motorists were arrested today on speeding charges: Robert Hargraves, 29, of 2414 Roosevelt Ave.; Edward Skiver, 25, of 509 E. New York St.; Thomas Holman, 27, of 401 Harman St.; Eugene Weesner, 26, 41 Whittier PI., and Charles Harris, 46, P&za Hotel.