Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1924 — Page 12

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MANY LETTERS STILL GOING TO CONGRESSMEN > Senator's Office Work Increased Tenfold in Recent Years, By Times Special WASHINGTON*. Aug. 9—An astonishing quantity of mail is received daily at the offices of the Congressmen at the Capitol, despite the fact that the members themselves are all away, either campaigning* or holidaying. One Bay State Congressman’s Washington mail has averaged thirty-five letters a day ever since Congress adjourned, according to his secretary, and there is no sign of any "let up.” His is a typical case. Here is what the postman brought to his office today: Three letters enlisting his aid in pending casts before the veterans' bureau; one about a pension claim; two relating to hurrying up passports; one/ "accounting office” case: two seeking special information about bonus cla.ms; four letters relating to postoffice appointments and postoffice promotions; one letter about a Department of Justice matter; one letter seeking a Federal pardon; seven letters requesting public documents; two letters relating to immigration cases; five from personal acquaintances among his constituents, discussing politics and offering suggestions, three letters seeking charitable donations, and one letter just plain "crank.” Total. 33. Most of them required three answers—one of acknowledgment, one referring the request to the proper department, and the third forwarding to the writer the department's response. "We find that those who write m always like to have a department letter as well as one from the Congressman,” said the secretary. A dozen years ago the mail was mostly about free pamphlets and free seeds, but the veterans' bureau, with its millions or more cases, and the difficulties arising out of the stringent immigration law have increased tenfold the Congressman's office work.

MARION MAN APPOINTED Purdue University to Conduct Boys’ Camp at State Fair. Fred L. Kem. Marion, Ind., has been named assistant director or the boy's agricultural club camp to be conducted at the State fair under direction of M. L. Hall, Purdue University agricultural extension department. Other instructors announced by Hall; Miss Ruby Clark, Lafayette. camp dietitian; W. W. Mendenhall. Indiana Y. M. C. A., health, nature study and citizenship; T. E. Helnton. Purdue, farm mechanics'. F. G. King, Purdue, animal husbandry: C .L. Burkholder. Purdue, horticulture; G. A. Williams. Purdue, dairying, and E. L. Austin, Purdue, crop and grain judging. FARMERS TOUR STATE Southern Indiana Visitors Inspect Stockyards. Forty-three automobile loads of farmers from southern Indiana counties. 132 men and twenty-nine women, today inspected the Indianapolis stockyards and the Kingan & Cos. plant. The party, which inspected the State fairground Friday, started from Harrison, Scott. Floyd, Clark. Crawford and Jackscn Counties Tuesday under leadership of six county agents and toured the State, inspecting experimental farms and farm projects of special interest, including Purdue University enterprises. The party returns home today.

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Ponzi, of Get-Rich-Quick Fame, Leaves Prison With One Idea —to Accumulate Another Fortune

By HAROLD MATSON . "SEA Service Writer B‘ ' IOSTON, Aug. 9. —Expect new things of Charles Ponzi. The little Italian, at present enjoying a breathing spell between one prison term and possibility of another, has no intention of retiring into obscurity—nor does he expect to go behind the bars again. "I have to make money,” he told me when I talked with him in Plymouth county jail just prior to his release. "I have to make a lot of money. A man with debts and a family can’t get along on a clerk’s salary. And I certainly cannot afford to spend any more time in prison cells.” / A plea something of this sort will be made in Ponzi's behalf before the courts that will hear ten indictments against the man, indictments that could not be satisfied until the Federal Government had done with him. Has Secret "Let me out and I'll pay my debts,” Is. Ponzi's idea. However, he didn’t make it ejear that he meant to pay back all the money lost through his get-rich-quick scheme. He does, nevertheless, expect tb accomplish some degree of restitution to his victims, those countless small investors, most of whom were fellow Italians, for he asks the question: "How can I get square with the world if I am kept in jail?” How he expects to accumulate another fortune is his own secret, but he smiles that he hasn’t been in jail four years without thinking about somethingl No doubt the scheme will be within the law. Ponzi has had enough of prison life.

His short littlfe body has taken on some thirty or forty pounds during his confinement, and his brown skin, freshened by the sun (for Ponzi. who has been made a trusty, was allowed to walk the field within the walls), gives him the appearance of a hardy, wellfed man. He went into prison a sick man. "It’s been a sort of sanitarium in effect,” Ponzi joshed. "I’ve been the librarian here,” he volunteered. "I have had a great chance to do some reading. Mostly I have been planning for my future —you know, I have to work pretty fast when I get out, for I’m no spring chicken. “And I have been studying m 7 case a lot —watching politics, too, for a change in politics might have an effect on my case. You know, if politics had been a little different in "Washington during my trial, there might have been a different story. Daugherty wasn t any too popular then. Somebody had to go to jail.” Interested in Oil "I was particularly interested in the oil scandal,” he continued. “I read it all—but I haven't read yet about anybody going to jail. Strange, how some people go to jail and some people stay out of jail.” The man’s eyes lit up at mention of his wife. "Hasn’t she been a thoroughbred? Waiting for me, working for my freedom all this time?” Ponzi laughed at the suggestion that a tidy bit of hi3 ill-got money is wailing ror him, ached these five years. He seemed unworried at the possibility that some unforgiving investor might seek a personal brand of revenge when he is finally freed. "No. My troubles are all In how to make new money—not with the old.”

Their Noses Knew By Times Speeinl LAFAYETTE. Ind., Aug. 9.—Officers called at the Coble farm here w’hile hunting check forgers, and smelled liquor. They arrested James Mitchell and William Combs as owners of a still found on the farm. Filling Station Robbed Hunter Brothers, who operate a filling station at 812 Shelby St., reported place entered and tires and supplies worth SIOO stolen.

OLD NEIGHBORS OUT TO WELCOME ‘JA WN’ Main Street Dons Gala Attir e and Silk Hats When Democratic Nominee Comes Home,

Bu United Pr?rs CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Aug. 9. —“Hallo-o-Jawn.” A mighty chorus, mingling the harsh twang of the mountaineer with the soft slur of the old South, went up as John W. Davis came back to his native Main St. today, the Democratic candidate for President. There were silver-haired men in the crowd about the depot who had gone swimmin’ in the creek with “Jawn” and picked blackberries with him when he was a barefooted boy. And there were grandmothers who had admired “Jawn” at spelling bees and pie socials. Proud of Him They were proud of him, but he was just “Jawn” to them. They forgot that he had ever been to Congress, been solicitor general and ambassador to England. They -welcomed him back with that hearty acclaim that goes to a popular neighbor boy. That was the Main Street side of the greeting. A reception committee and two bands blared out another side of the welcome. The commercial clubs had seen to it that a presidential candidate should be met in the approved fashion. The local committee was there in all its glory, Including silk hats. But if Davis had a silk hat he could not have worn it, for he was uncovered from the time he stepped from the train to the moment he arrived at his old homestead. In Goff Plaza, originally known as Goff Place, in the eastern end of the residential section of the city at the

CHARLES PONZI OF "GET-R ICH QUICK” FAME IS SHOWN FREE AGAIN AFTER THREE AN D A HALF YEARS SPENT IN FEDERAL PRISON. WITH HIM ARE MRS. PONZI (LEFT), WHO GREETED HIM UPON IS RELEASE, AND MRS. CHARLES MALA-G-UTI. WHO PUT UP THE $14,000 BAIL UNDER WHICH PONZI WAS RELEASED PENDING TRIAL ON OTHER INDICTMENTS.

Indianapolis Grows as Convention Center

mF one person had been delegated to attend all the conventions held in Indianapolis during 1924 and been required to serve in the place of each of his follow convention visitors, he would have been required to remain in the city 1,831 years, according to the convention bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. This computation is based on the report that a total of 668,475 transient days will be represented in convention attendance here this year. * According to figures to July 1, with estimates based on convention assignments for coming months, May is the favorite convention month of the year. September is second choice and October is third Earl L. Ferguson, manager of the bureau, says the weather Is more favorable in those months. City Logical Center Indianapolis long lias been known as la logical convention center. Seventeen of the major railway lines, supplemented by extensive interurban and motor bus systems, contribute to this. A glance at the map of North America instantly identifies the city as a favorite meeting place, as more cities of 30,000 population, can De reached from Indianapolis In an overnight ride than any other city In the United States. The bureau renders valuable assistance to convention bodies. It arranges dates so that a number of conventions will not be held at conflicting times, arranges hotel and home accommodations for visitors, qieeting and exhibit halls, assists in planning programs, supervises, when desired, all entertainment features, arranges special itineraries for automobile tours of the city, takes complete charge of registration and In general, assists In entire activities. Good Year Ahead According to a prospectus prepared by the bureau, the year 1925

end of Main Street, which runs through the city. Davis felt that he should say somehing. But before he coaid start h? was saying “Hello Billy” and "Howdy Jane” to the boys and girls of his youth. And beside him was Mrs. Davis, bowing and smiling, evidently enjoying the warm welcome accorded her delighted husband by hose w T ho knew him somewhat bet. ter because they had known him longer than had she. , It made no difference that Davis was the candidate of a political party. He was just “Jawn” to the home folks and he was to remain so until Monday when the Democratic national committee comes flocking in, bringing partisanship with it. All Decked Out Resentful of the references to their beloved Clarksburg In the metropolitan press as the "sleepy little village,” the Commercial clubs had festooned Main St. with flags and banners and made arrangements that befitted a thriving maufacturing city welcoming a favorite son. Davis was greeted by a reception committee headed by J. Horner Davis, former postmaster, and Democratic county chairman. Conspicuous on this committee was Virgil L. Highland, Republican national committeeman. While Davis proceeded down Main St., -with Mrs. Drfvis sitting proudly at his side, the committee followed afoot. Sam- Benton, president of the Chamber of Commerce, delivered a formal address of weloome, to which Davis responded in his happiest vein. A reception followed.

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should prove an active one from a convention standpoint. Many Large national and district conventions are steadily being added to the 1925 list while prospective ones are being followed with a view to bringing the meetings here. In January of this year, twentynine convention swere held here; February, twenty, March, twentysix: April, twenty; May, thirty-six; , * ne, twenty-seven, and July, eight. Arrangements call for five in August, fifteen in September, twelve in October, five in November and six in December. Others probably will be added. Indianapolis has acted as host to

From Far and Near Sparks from powder of a revolver with which he killed himself. Ignited clothing in a closet and started a fire which led to discovery of the body of Frederick Patsch in his home at Chicago. Friends said Patsch, a baker,( had been despondent since the death of his mother several months ago. Boxes marked "German leaping toys” proved to be leaking joys” when handled by express company employes in New York. Prohibition agerts opened the boxes and found the ’’toys" were bottles of Scotch whisky. A man, who said he was from Detroit, Mich., was sent to a Buffalo hospital for observation after he ordered an expensive automobile, S9O worth of golf club3 and attempted to pay for them with a SIO,OOO check which he admitted was forged. Officials of the Ohio State department of agriculture have announced a war on “bootleggers” of eggs. A group of commission merchants, they say, violating the law by selling storage eggs as fresh.

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EUROPEAN FIELD SOUGHT Frank Hambly to Represent Mammon Company Abroad. Frank L. Hambly will sail from New York on the Berengarla Wednesday for Europe, where he will represent the Nordyke & Marmon Cos. of Indlaanpolis in establishing foreign dealer connections. The tour will take about three months. Most of the traveling will be done in a Marmon four-passenger sport sedan, in which Hambly drove from Indianapolis to New York. Hambly has been with the Nordyke & Marmon Cos. in the sales end of the business for several years, both at the factory and at the New York office. YES, FIGURE IT OUT Child Claims Record With Ten Grandparents. By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Aug. 9. Little Elizabeth Fay Pitcher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Pitcher, claims the record with six grandmothers and four grandfathers. They are: Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Pitcher, parents of the child's father; Mr. and Mrs. Nail, parents of the child’s mother; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Scott, grandparents of Mrs. Ernest Pitcher; Mrs. Anna Scott, mother of Mr. Scott; Mr. and Mrs. William Shaw, parents of Mrs. Joe Scott; Mrs. Easter Shaw, mother of Mrs. William Shaw. GUN DECISION AUG. 16 Constable’s Stray Shot Brings Reprimand From Sergeant. Decision will be given Aug. 16 In the case of Arthur Bowman, 824 Park Ave., a constable, arrested Thursday when he shot at an escaping prisoner and struck a house occupied by Mrs. Mary Boyce, colored, 833 Economy St. Evidence was presented In city court Friday. Bowman, charged with shooting in the city limits, was severely reprimanded by Sergeant John Sheehan at the time of his arrest for promiscuous use of his weapon. >

some of the most noteworthy conventions of record. The National Shrine Convention was held here In 1920, the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World met here in 1921 and the International Grotto Convention in 1924. AIDING ESCAPE CHARGED Woman Who Made Break From Prison Found With Husband. Wade Langford, colored, rear of 1112 N. Senate Ave.. Is under arrest, charged with aiding his wife, Lucille, to escape from a penal institution. Detective Harry Irick saw Langford leaving bis home and followed him to Tenth St. and Tremont Ave., where Langford went into an alley. I rick called aid from headquarters. Police found latngford and his wife hiding in a house, they said. Mrs. Langford escaped from the Indiana Woman's Prison early this week. She was serving a sentence for operation of a blind tiger. POSTMASTERS COMING Plans for Annual Meeting Here Are Being Completed. Plans for the convention of the National Association of Postmasters in Indianapqlis Sept. 23-26, have reached the stage where complete success of the meeting is assured, Robert H. Bryson, Indianapolis postmaster and rice president of the association, said today. On the program committee are E. M. Morgan, postmaster of New York City; W. M. Mooney, postmaster at Washington, D. C.. and C. L. Wright, postmaster at Norfolk, Va. War Veteran Dies By Tim?* Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 9. Harman Fosnight, 82, Civil war veteran, is dead. Among the eight children who survive is Mrs. Thomas Trader of Indianapolis.

WOODFILL GIVEN PLACE ON STAFF OF VJJ. HEAD ‘Foremost Soldier’ and Second Hero to Be Honored at Atlantic City. By Times Special LEXINGTON, Ky„ Aug. 9. Sorgts. Samuel Woodflll and Willie Sandlin, both outstanding heroes of the World "War and the only veterans from this State wearing the medal of honor, have been placed on the staff of Gen. Lloyd M. Brett, commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. They will accompany Capt. R. E. L. Murphy,-flying ace of Lexington, to the national convention of the V. F. W. at Atlantic City, N. J„ Sept. 8-12. General Brett, adjutant general of the District of Columbia, a veterdn of forty-four years’ standing in the Regular United States Army, received the congressional medal ttir valor in the Indian campaigns. Woodflll and Sandlin were honored “for bravery above and beyond the call of duty” on the battlefields of Franc?. Woodflll was designated by Gen. John J. Pershing as the foremost hero of the World War. All three i veterans bear, in addition to the medal of honor, the highest decorations the allied nations can bestow. On the reviewing stand at Atlantic City they will be given a place on the staff of General Pershing, who will review the parade of active war service veterans, representing every American campaign from 1846 to 1918. Samuel Woodflll was retired from the Regular United States Army at Ft. Benjamin Harrison (Indianapolis) several months ago as a regimental sergeant-major, the highest non-com-missioned rank in the Army. Thicket Hides Sixteen Stills By Times Special GARY, Ind., Aug. 9.—Police exploring an innocent appearing thicket uncovered what is believed to be one of the Jargest liquor plants ever seized in the Middle West. A battery of sixteen, all with a capacity of forty' gallons, was found.

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A Puzzle a Day IF ANY BOY WHISPERS, I AM GOING TO PUNISH HIM! These were the words the geography teacher wrote on the blackboard; and immediately two of her bright scholars pointed out the fact that she had, without knowing it, written the name of a country in Asia which the class was studying. Can you do as well as the bright scholars? Look at the sentence and see! Yesterday’s answer: WV The sign on the tree read, “Don’t Fish Here,” the three words being formed from the letters which composed the words: “Feet, Horn, Dish.” Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong to: Walter C. Hemphill, Ben Davis, Ford, from Market and Alabama Sts. Walter Russell, 70 the Richlieu Apts., North and East Sts., Ford, from Meridian and Washington Sts. C. H. Martin, 1127 N. Capitol Ave., Ford, from same address. H. J. Holsclaw, St. Clair and Meridian Sts., Ford, from in front of same address. Zr* C. Jarm, Muncie, Ind., Ford, from 37 E. Washington St. BACK home again Automobiles reported found belong to: Oscar Bright, 35 N. Hamilton Ave., Ford, at 819 E. Georgia St. D. L. Harold. 447 S. Ritter Ave., Nash, at East and Vermont Sts. Poisoned Cattle, Charge By United Press BEDFORD. Ind., Aug. 9.—A sixmonths’ sentence on the Indiana State Farm and a fine of $25 was faced by Elmer Beavers today. He was convicted of a charge of poisoning his neighbor’s cattle.

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WELLS RESIGNS w CHURCHOFFICe Baptist Young People's Head Leaves Position, Resignation of Ray J. Wells, president of Baptist Young People’s Societies of the Indianapolis area, was announced today by the Rev. F. A. Hayward, city executive of Federated Baptist Churches. Pressure of business matters would not permit Wells to give sufficient time to the work. A successor to Wells will be considered at the next meeting of the Federation. "Mr. Well3 has been head of the Young People’s Work in this area for three years and it has made unusual advances under his leadership. He was instrumental In landing the 1925 convention for Indianapolis,” Hayward said. Baptist Young People's Convention at Franklin this week end will be attended by many Indianapolis young people. Plans for the 1925 convention In Indianapolis will be made. MOVE TO CONTROL SEEN Ball Brothers After Union Traction Company, Report. Negotiations leading to control aM the Union Traction Company are reported under way by Ball Brothers, Muncie, who seek a six months’ option to purchase $2,000,000 worth of the stock, to be held as collateral for their loan made to the company with which to purchase new equipment. The loan was authorized by the public service commission and was executed through trust notes. HARDWARE MEN MEET Members of Local Association to Go to Louisville Thursday. Members of the local Retail and Hardware Dealers’ Association will leave in a special car Thursday for Louisville, Ky., to be guests of the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing- Company, one of the world's largest single unit hardware houses. Those in charge of the trip: Louis Seele, George M. Scherrer, J. R. Chalk, Harry Barrett, Harry B. Gage and William Emrich, Jr.