Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 71

HOG PRICES TAKE GIVE DOWNWARD Local Livestock Market Makes Largest Single Drop Since Pre-War Days —Decrease Is No Surprise to Traders, NO INCREASE IN PORK FIGURES ARE REPORTED Market Centers Announce Simular Changes in Value of Live Hogs— Big Packers Refused to Buy at Top Quotation, Hog prices at the local livestock market made the largest single drop since war days when prices slumped $1 to sl.lO today. All weights of hogs sold at $9.75 compared with $10.85 and $10.90 Wednesday. Prices are just 15 cents above the level of a week ago. The drop was no surprise to traders who have declared the rise, which has been in progress nearly four weeks, would not be substantial. Many factors contributed to the decline. Among those are the unsettled conditions of foreign markets; the increase of receipts; slackening of demand, and the general feeling among traders that the rise was unhealthy. Ho marked Increase in dressed pork prices has been recorded, and as long as the advance in live hogs has been broken, no radical advance Is anticipated.

51.15 Lower B* United Press CHICAGO, July 31.—Hog prices dropped 50 to 75 cents at the local yards today. Today’s cut together with a smaller dip yesterday, brought the top price to $lO or $1.15 lower than Tuesday's record high. Top Price $9.60 By United Press KANSAS CITT, Mo., July 31. Hog prices dropped 50 cents to $1 on the Kansas City livestock exchange today. The top price was $9.60. Receipts were 6.000. Drop 50 Cents By Un'ted Frees CLEVELAND, July 31.—Hog prices dropped 50 cents to a dollar here today. Top price was $10.75. Refuse to Buy By United Press OMAHA. Neb., July 31. -Refusal of the big packers to buy hogs is causing the break in hog prices of the last two days, according to commission houses here. Big packers bought very few hogs during the recent high prices, the Commission men say. L.ttle paaking houses and speculators are said to have lost heavily. Prices here broke 25 to 50 cents today, making the top price $9.25, compared with Tuesday’s high of $lO.lO.

TRUCK SMASHED BYiNTERURBAN Car Leaves Track After Crash —Two Are Hurt, A north-bound work train on the Lafayette interurban line struck a truck at Stop 4. five miles northwest of the business district, today. Clarence Gedig, 23. of 1009 N. New Jersey St., truck driver, suffered severe body cuts and bruises. He was taken to city hospital. Joseph Dorris, 18, of 714 N. Illinois St., truck passenger, received minor bruises. Police took him home. Motorman Lester B. Crider. Lebanon, was slated on -an assault and battery charge by Sergeant Sheehan and squad. The traction car knocked the truck against a waiting station, demolishing it and the truck. The front trucks of the car left the track and the car traveled 300 feet on the ties, police said. STORMS AND COOLER Real Relief Predicted by Local Weather Bureau. Thunderstorms and cooler weather were forecast for Indianapolis today. Temperatures kept within the seventy mark during the early morning. It was 80 at 11 a. m. and 79 at noon. Extreme heat Wednesday was followed by a small tornado on the southeastern section of the county. Mrs. Roy Pfendler, living near Acton was hurt when the buggy she was in was struck by a telephone pole blown down by the storm. Her daughter, Virginia. 6, was also hurt when thrown from the buggy when the horse ran away. One man was taken to his hotel rooms suffering from the heat, but ho quickly recovered.

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Fixit’s Fixings Citizens’ Requests for Aid in Municipal Affairs Show Wide Variety— Commissioner Spreads Oil.

F IXIT is receiving an increasing variety of complaints. -i More citizens are taking advantage of the service offered Times readers wno have business at the city hall. It is impossible, however, for Fixit to override policies of utility companies as to extensions unless service requirements are met. Even the city cannot act in thinjy settled districts where the number of coneymers is small. Street Commissioner Hyland reports that oil is being applied to streets as rapidly as it arrives. Heavier traveled streets are being taken care of first. Write your complaints about city service to Fixit, care of The Indianapolis Times. Here are late complaints: MR. FIXIT—The garbage is not collected on Monday, the regular day, in the 3600 block s on N. Pennsylvania St., and generally in that vicinity. Grace B. Davis, 3649 N. Pennslyvania St. Truley *Nolen, superintendent of garbage and ash collection, promised to investigate and order regular service. DEAR MR. FIXIT—I wish you would please have my garbage removed. They collect twice a week around here and don't have to walk any distance to collect this garbage. Mrs. F„ 953 Locke St. • Your complaint has been referred to Truly Nolen, superintendent of garbage and ash collection. MR. FIXIT—We are located on the northwest comer of. Sherman Dr. and North St. There is a swag in North Pt. of eighteen inches between Sherman Dr. and the alley west. The’ city refuses to allow me to fill this up with dirt. The water stands in our basement after every rain. O. D. Kendrick. Street Commissioner Hyland promised to investigate. The law prohibits you to throw dirt in the (Turn to Page 13)

BUSSES FOR CAR CO. May Supplement Traction Service. Todd Says. Motor busses to supplement street car service is being considered by the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company,, a/id surveys are now in progress to determine possible motor bus routes. Robert I. Todd, president, has announced. Operation of nine motor busses between Indianapolis and Franklin will be instituted Sunday by the Interstate Public Service Company. PAVING BIDS OPENED Seventy-Ftrst St. Road to ( net $37,300, Proposal Shows. Contract for an eighteen-foot concrete roadway in Seventy-First St... from College Ave. to Illinois St. was to be awarded to Salvatore S. Palma by the board of county commissioners on a bid of $37,300 today. He submitted the lowest of four bids. Owing to lack of a quorum the contract was not let at the morning session. The law requires awarding of a contract the same day bids are opened.

STOKERS COMPULSORY Amendments to Building Code In- , elude Boiler Specifications. Amendments to the building code soon to be offered to the city council will include new specifications for putting boilers in place, H. F. Templeton. assistant chief smoke inspector, said today. They will include compulsory installation of mechanical stokers on boilers of 160 or more horse power and increasing the height of stacks to afford better drafts. Both of these changes will tend to eliminate the smoke evil, Templeton said. RECEIVER IS SHOCKED Lightning Transfer Company Loses S3OO to Thieves. C. F. Green, receiver for the Lightning Transfer Cos., 318 E. St. Joseph St., was shocked today, he told police, when he discovered that thieves had entered the place and had taken S3OO worth of equipment, including a skirt chassis for a ton and a half truck, a crank case, wrenches, wheel barrow, cross-cut saw, eight jacks, a block and tackle and a quantity of rope and cable.

PARDON IS REFUSED Governor Branch Declines to Release Alleged Forger. Harrison Nicholson, a school teacher, sentenced on a charge of forgery from Dubois County In 1906 from two to fourteen years in the State reformatory, was refused a pardon by Governor Emmett F. Branch in the pardon board report made public today. Nicholson was paroled in 1909 and discharged in 1910, but sought a pardon to combat opposition to his election in 192 as a township trustee. Policy Holders to Be Guests Boosters' Club of the Public Savings Insurance Company will have a basket picnic Saturday for thetpolicy holders. Popcorn, peanuts, lemonade and crackerjack will be distributed free. Games and contests for young and old will be held.

FOG DELAYS FLIGHT OF U. S. AIRMEN Round-ttie-World Fliers Partake of Real American Breakfast of Bacon and Eggs Rest Aboard the U, S, S, Richmond, VISIT HULK OF OLD GERMAN BATTLESHIP Birdmen Plan to Start Perilous Voyage to Iceland Friday Morning Will Wend Way Over Old Viking Course, By United Press ABOARD THE U. S. RICHMOND, SCAPPA FLOW. ORKNEY ISLAND. July 31. —Fog delayed resumption of the American world flight today. At noon, it was announced that departure for Iceland was definitely postponed until Friday. The airmen, who spent the night aboard the cruiser Richmond, flagship of the United States naval flotilla which is to convoy them across the Atlantic, had left a call for 6 a. m. They turned over in their bunks for another snooze when told the morning was foggy. By 6:45 a. m., however, a bright sun burnt away the morning mists that hung over Scappa Flow and patches of gorgeous blue sky appeared here and there through the gray. Fog still clung to the tips of the hill of Hoy, across the waters of the Flow.

Machines Ready Squalling sea-gulls circled low about the three world flight planes riding at their anchors alongside; the machines were ready for the long flight to Homafjord on the southeastern coast of Iceland. But although the weather here cleared until flying was possible, and our men—and even the spic and span planes had an appearance of brisk readiness—were eager to be off, the wireless told of heavy fog in Iceland. So the fliers settled down to a real American breakfast of hacon and eggs and breakfast food, the first time they have enjoyed the latter since they breakfasted aboard an American destroyer "somewhere In the Orient.” Every now and then one of the airmen would get up from the breakfast table and take a look out of a port-hole, to see how the weather was coming on. Scappa Flow, where the German fleet surrendered, lay calm in the morning sunlight, but the constantly chattering wireless told of heavy Iceland fogs since dawn. The course of the airmen on this 500-mile "hop” lies due north from the Richmond over Signal Hill, which once served the British navy as Admiral Jellieoe’s lookout station, and on over Kirkwell and out to sea Three Warships Once over the high seas, only the trackless way of the old Vikings and discoverers marks their course. Down below three American war vessels will be on the watch —the Billingsly at the Faroes, the Reid on the sea between Faroes and Iceland and the Raleigh at Hornafjord. Our aviators are conscious of the difficulties that lie just ahead, but doubt if they will prove as severe as the Alaskan and Aleutian fltghts. When finally the decision not to fly was reached, the disappointed airmen arranged a visit to the sunken German war craft Von Hindenburg and Sedeliz in Scappa Flow and for a ten-mile drive over the hills to visit the quaint and ancient town of Kirkwall, whose houses, streets and people remind one of illustrations to Hans Anderson’s fairy tales. The fliers will step once more aboard the Richmond, hopeful that daybreak will find clear weather ahead. Fogs and mists are prevalent at this time of year. RICHMOND IS THRILLED First Pay Roll Robbery Happens —Masked Man Gets SI,OOO. By United Press RICHMOND, Ind., July 31.—Richmond, one of the oldest cities in Indiana was still thrilled today after experiencing its first pay roll robbery. An unmasked bandit Wednesday held up Virginia Clemens, bookkeeper for an overall factory, and escaped with the weekly roll of SI,OOO. Richmond had never had a pay roll'robbery before.

Loser! By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., July 31. —Suit to recover S7OO lost in three alleged craps games was filed here today by Leopold Goddard of Muncie. against Walker Kirkpatrick of this city^.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1924

Proudest Mothers in America

MOTHERS OF THE AMERICAN 'ROUND-THE WORLD FLIERS. UPPER LEFT—MRS ROBERT HARDING. LOS ANGELES. CENTER—MRS. JASPER G. SMITH, LOS ANGELES. UPPER RIGHT—MRS. CORA ARNOLD, SPOKANE. I/IWER LEFT—MRS. WILLIAM M. WADE, CASSOFOLIS. MICH. LOWER RIGHT—MRS. CHRISTINA NELSON, SWEDEN.

By \EA Set rice mHEY are the proudest mothers in America! Their boys are circling the glob-*, through the air, for Uncle Sam. And now they are coming home. “I wouldn’t have stopped Lowell from flying around the world for anything,” says Mrs. Jasper G. Smith of Los Angeles, mother of Lieut. Lowell Smith, who received command of the flight after Maj. Frederick Martin crashed into an Alaskan mountain. In Ix>s Angeles is Mrs. Robert Harding, whose son John is the ranking second lieutenant and

POSIAL CLERK KILLS BANDIT;' SAVES $50,000 Battles Men Who Attempt to Stage Hold-up at Station. By United Press EAST ORANGE, N. J„ July 31. Quick tlunking and steady aim by a postofficc employe prevented a $50,000 mall robbery here today. One of two bandits who attempted the robbery In the Lackawanna Railway station, was shot and killed by Eugene Stack, a postal clerk, during a battle on the station platform. Stack himself was struck twice by bullets. The second bandit escaped. Five pouches, containing about $60,000 in registered mall and money orders were on the platform as the gunmen approached. A sixth bag. filled with Federal reserve Currency from New York, which ordinarily is with the other five, did not arrive today. Stack approached the upper postoffice platform to await arrival of a n ail train from New York at 4:58 a m. He was reading a newspaper a a the bandits came up from the other end of the station. Without warning one of the men drew an automatic pistol and opened fire on the postal man and a negro helper. The negro fled, but Stack, although hit in the leg. drew his service pistol and fired six shots at the bandits. One of the men was shot through the chest and killed. The other escaped.

SPEED AGE IS 22 YEARS Bfc-ivers, 24, Not So Slow Either, Court Reveals. Twenty-two is the speed age, according to a study of affidavits filed against motorists In city court today. Os the drivers arraigned, seven were 22, three were 17, two were 18, four were 19, two were 20, four were 21, two were 23, six were 24, one was 25, four were 27, two were 28. one was 29, two were 33 and others were 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 44, 45, 46 and 59, respectively. DAIRYMEN ARE HELD Charges With Selling Watered Milk to Customer. William Wright, 51, and Edward Eickhoff, 36, R. R. P, dairymen, “gathered at the river,” according to affidavits filed against them by J. R. Dunwoody, resulting in their arrest today by Fred Howe, city board of health officer. The men were charged with selling adulterated milk. The affidavits alleged they soid watered milk to W. C. Quack, 1135 Churchman St. Charges were denied on behalf of the dairymen.

mechanician on the New Orleans, ship No. 4 of the flight. "Flying has changed my hoy. Before the war. when he was preparing for an engineering course at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn., he had the smoothest, softest skin, the reddest cheeks. Now his face is tanned, and as he wrote me the other day, ‘We're husky like lumberjacks.’ ” In Spokane, Mrs. Cora L. Arnold is waiting for her son, Lieut. Leslie P. Arnold, another one of the pilots. "I'm rot at all worried about leslie," she says. "In all the time he has beer, flying he has had only

Germany Enters War Ten years ago Kaiser Wilhelm dec la red a state of war existed In Germany and ordered the mobilization of 6,200,000 men. Meanwhile the Russian army was continuing to mobilize. Serbian troops repulsed the invading Austrian army. The Czar of Russia warned Austria that he would not countenance a conquest of Serbia. Americans In Europe were making a desperate effort to get home.

RAILROADS OBEY SMOKE ORDINANCE H. E, Templeton Reports Better Cooperation, Violation of the city smoke ordinance decreased from 65 to 31 per cent among the seven railroads of the city in the first three weeks' campaign, H. F. Templeton, assistant chief smok elnspector, said today. A total of 129 Inspections was made. The Big Four led all the roads with the smallest per cent of violation with an average of 27.5 per cent. Templeton reported that 9!) per cent of the locomotives of this road are equippepd with smoke consumers. Railroad officials promised Templeton they would continue cooperation with the city.

MORE DOPE, SAYS CHIEF Kikhoff Tells Officers to Get Information. Hereafter police officials will make determined efforts to find out where “dope” and liquor users obtain their supplies. Police Chief Herman Rikhoff instructed inspectors, supervisors and captains to see that police obtained this information when making arrests. Attention was called to the fact that there -was a previous order to this effect. The order was the result of criticism of police for failing to obtain these facts, made by William H. Remy, prosecutor, recently in Criminal Court. MAN’S~PLEA~WINS~ - CASE Tells Judge He Was Speeding to Buy Bread for His Family. A plea that he was driving to a bakery to buy bread with his last 25 cents to feed his six children, won freedom today for Henry .Studder, 35, of 1125 ,Troy Ave„ arrested Wednesday on a charge of driving thirty miles an hour. Studder told Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth that he had been out of work for four weeks and was “broke.” He said he was driving only twenty miles an hour. Judge Wilmeth withheld judgment and discharged him. (

one accident. And that wasn't serious.” Near CassopolJs, Mich., lives Mrs, William M. Wade, mother of Lieut. Leigh Wade. Lieutenant Wade has been home only for visits of a few hours at a time since entering the Army, his mother says. A couple of times, when he was stationed at Dalton, he flew back for brief visits. Mrs. Wade receives almost dally letters from him. Mrs. Christina Nelson, mother of Lieut. Eric Nelson, liaison officer and chief engineer on the flight, lives in Sweden.

BASEBALL POOL PLANT UNCOVERED BV INVESTIGATOR Grand Jury Probe Will Follow Soon, Prosecutor Remy Says. Police today, with the cooperation of Claude M. Worley. Criminal Court investigator, disclosed an establishment where baseball pools are collected from men and women over the city who make them and are paid by piece work. A grand jury investigation will follow Immediately, William H. Remy, prosecutor, announced. Made In Residence Police were tipped off to the establishment when they went to a residence on W. Michigan St., where they were told a woman was making the baseball pool books. She was taken to headquarters where she was questioned by Worley. She told him she was paid $6 a thousand for the books and that she was making them for the United Novelty Sales Company, 323 Baldwin Block. Worley accompanied her to the address, where they found Mrs. Nellie Wright and Mrs. Marguerite Rodebaugh, alleged to be owners of the company, and Frank Koethe, said to be the manager. Admit Selling Pools According to police, the three admitted selling the pools. While police wore there two men came in with books and told the same story as the first woman, police say. No arrests were made, but all were ordered to appear before the grand jury. Worley seized a quantity of the baseball pools. Remy declared he was going to stop baseball pool selling. Six witnesses appeared before the grand jury today in the baseball pool investigation. More were scheduled to appear before night. The grand jury had expected to report today, but Daniel White, deputy prosecutor, asked permission to withhold the report until Friday. This was taken as an indication that the grand jury expects to complete its investigation today. An enormous amount of tickets and other paraphernalia were found in the offices in the Baldwin block, Worley said. HUNT SQUIRRELS FRIDAY Season on Fuzzy Fellows From Aug. 1 to Nov. 30. George Mannfeld, chief of fish and game, department of conservation, officially uncorks the trees Friday for squirrel hunters. Open season on the fuzzy fiellows is from Aug. 1 to Nov. 30. So with the squirrels henceforth until fall in a constant state of agitation. the common or garden variety of nut, known also by society as a “boob” or “stone head” or."flat tire,” can rest easy while the enemy's attention is being diverted.

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SLAYERS ESCAPE FROM DEATH ON GALLOWS IS MCAST Os EMMS Leopold and Loeb Will Be Given Life Imprisonment, in Opinion of Observers Tentative Ruling by; Justice Caverly Is Cause. to ' ARGUMENTS OF STATE FAIL TO SHAKE COURT’S DECISION Medical Witnesses Can Testify ‘to Show Mental Condition of Youths, Judge Holds—Cites Supreme Court Opinion. By EDWARD C. DERR United Press Staff Corespondent CRIMINAL COURTROOM, CHICAGO, July 31.—Legal authorities today forecast the escape of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb from the noose for the slaying of Robert Franks. This forecast was based on the tentative ruling of Chief Justice John R. Caverly which favors the defense contention that its medical testimony is admissible. At the end of two more hours of argument by the State today, Justice Caverly still held to his ruling which permits the defense to introduce medical testimony to show “mitigating circumstances.”

Assistant State's Attorney Marshall consumed the entire morning session, except for a few moments spent wrangling between attorneys and a few remarks by the court. Repeatedly the court made it plain that the scores of rulings presented by the State had not caused him to change his mind. Wednesday be overruled the State's objections to admitting defense alienists’ testimony, but left the final decision open, pending presentation of argument by the State. Today Judge Caverly indicated several times he will permit the defense to pul its medical witnesses on the stand and made that stand very clear when he cited a ruling of the Illinois Supreme Court. This ruling holds that "depravity and abandoned habits do not in themselves constitute insanity.” This, the court pointed out, makes it the duty of the cour to hear evidence in mUgatlon of punishment. Defense Encouraged The defense took much courage from the statement of Justice Caverly that a few moftths ago he had a somewhat similar case and sentenced the slayer to life in prison. The case was that of Sam Rcsen, Rosen killed his wife. “The court could and did appoint an alienist to examine him, and when the court was told the man was not Insane and was responsible for his act, I permitted the plea of guilty to stand and sentenced him to life imprisonment,” Justice Caverly pointed out. Rosen had pleaded guilty and begged for hanging. Justice Caverly appointed an alienist to examine him. The report showed Rosen technically sane, but in a bad physical condition. The court gave him life in prison. Holds Right Justice Caverly holds he not only has the right, but it is his duty, to hear any evidence dealing with the mental condition of the prisoners. “We admit the boys committed murder. We admit they are legally sane. But we contend that the court should know the state of mind of the defendants in order to give them a fair sentence.” This is the statement of attorneys for the defense in reply to each fresh attack by the State. ‘‘No evidence tending to show the boys are Insane can be introduced without throwing the question into the hands of a jury,” State's Attorney Crowe holds. “If the boys are insane or partially Insane, they cannot plead guilty.” The courts reply Is that he will not listen to any evidence tending to show insanity, but only such testimony that deals with a diseased functioning of the mind.

No Appeal for State Crowe holds that the defense can appeal any sentence imposed by the court not to Its liking, while the prosecution cannot appeal. Meanwhile, as this legal battle is being waged. Dr. William A. White, who came all the way from Washington. D. C., to testify for the defense, sits quietly in the witness chair. If the court holds to its original ruling, which favors the defense, Dr. White can testify—if it changes its ruling, he will be barred from the stand. Leopold and Loeb, both students of law, watch the proceedings with keen interest. They listen attentively to each word that is spoken in the battle of contending attorneys—a battle which may decide whether they are to be hanged or sent to prison. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m. 73 10 a. m..... 75 7 a. m 74 11 a. m....... 80 8 a. m...... 74 12 (n00n)... 79 9 - 94 Ift SO

Forecast PARTLY cloudy and slightly cooler weather anticipated tonight. Fair forecast for Friday. 1

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Mercy! By United Press CRIMINAL COURT ROOM, CHICAGO. July 3L Chief Justice John R. Caverly, sitting as judge and Jury at the judicial hearing of Nathan F. Leopold and Richard Loeb for murder of Robert Franks, today received fifteen letters on the case, showing a pronounced change in the letterwriting public’s attitude toward the slayers. Justice Caverly said fourteen of the writers urged life imprisonment for the boys, the other one demanded the gallows. Heretofore, preponderance of letters urged the extreme penalty.

$22,158.23 ROAD DISAPPROVED County Council Also Authorizes Bond Issue. With passage of an appropriation ordinance for $22,158.23 and authorization of two bond issues for road improvements, the county council completed its two-day session today and adjourned. Originally the ordinance called for about $56,000. An item of $31,000 for paving Twenty-Fifth St.. Yandes to Rural Sts., temporarily was cut out. It will be taken up later. Bond Issues for concreting Arlington Ave., from Michigan St. to Brookville Rd., a distance of 1.6 miles, and the Three Notch Rd.. an extension of S. Meridian St. from the city limits to the county line, a distance of 6.3 miles were authorized. Estimates prepared by J. J. Griffith, county surveyor, placed cost of the Arlington Ave. work at $60,000 and the Three Notch Rd. at $210,520. The issue for the latter road will not be made until after Jan. 1, 1925. AND FORDS LEAD AGAIN Thirty-Two Flivver Motorists in Court on Speeding Charges. Fords are the fast cars, according to an analysis of affidavits in speed court today. Os the drivers who faced Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth, thirty-two drove Fords, three Buicks. one an Overland, one a Reo, one a Packard, one a Cadillac, one a Cole, o na Chevrolet, three Hupmobiles, two taxis, two Dodges, one a Studebaker and one a Mitchell. RECORDS ARE BROKEN Attendance at Municipal Theaters Exeeds Previous Years. Attendance at municipal theaters so far this year has exceeded all previous years, Ed Mcßride,* director of recreation reported today. Hundreds are unable to gain admission at shows given nightly in Garfield and Brookside parks. Seats for approximately 3.000 are provided at Garfield park and 2,000 at Brookside. Mcßride today praised the puflio attitude in cooperating with city authorities in keeping varies parkland playgrounds clean. r