Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1924 — Page 5

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20,1924

THIRD HER OF BANDIT TRIO ADMITS THEFTS Signs Confession to Hold-Up’! of Filling Stations — Girls Released, With the arrest of Kenneth Reeves, 21, of 1532 Broadway, detectives say they hare in custody the third member of the trio who robbed three filling stations in the past week. Reeves was arrested'at a summer resort north of Martinsville, Ind., Tuesday. Miss Margaret Wolf, 20, 'of 1318 X. Kealing Ave.. and Miss Opal Lambert, 18. of 729 X. Alabama St., are also held by police on vagrancy charges when found there. Two Brothers Arrested Arrest of Reeves followed the arrest of Howard and Robert Hostetler. both of 1027 Tark Ave., Monday. Police found the young men in a machine answering the description of a car used when a filling station j was held up and robbed of S7O by three youthful bandits. Confess Robberies In a signed confession Reeves said on Aug. 11 the two brothers and himself decided to earn “easy money” by holding up filling stations. Reeves admitted the Hostetlers and himself J held up- and robbed the attendant at! the filling station, Sheridan Ave. and j Washington St., of $25 on Aug. 15;! filling station, Sixteenth St. and Central Ave., of $67 on Aug. 16, and the falling station at Thirtieth and Belle fontaine Sts. of S7O on Aug. 18. The two girls said the youths told them nothing of their actions. ECONOMY IS STRESSED Dr. McCulloch Talks Before Fifth District Democratic Leaders. Xecessity of economical, efficient and honest administration of State and national governments was emphasized by Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana, in a talk before Fifth District Democratic leaders at Terre Haute Tuesday. Walter S. Chambers, State chairman: J. R. Shannon. Fifth District Democratic congressional candidate, and a number of members of the State committee and candidates for State offices attended the meeting. CHICAGO MAN SPEAKER Rotarians Head Address on Health and Personality. A business man's “personal stock” of health, energy and personality must be kept up just as his stock in trade, Thotnas F. L. Henderson of the speakers' bureau of La Sale*! Extension University, Chicago, toM Rotarians at their luncheon on Tues day at the Claypool. He said a man must select his goal, decide whether he is willing to pay the price, in work, energy or whatever else it may require, and then go after it. WOMAN DRIVER HELD Police Say Her Auto Struck and Injured Pedestrian. Mrs. John Lang, 2115 Broadway, is held today on an assault and battery charge after* the machine she was driving struck and injured Mrs. Julia Xordholt, 946 X. Keystone Ave., at Kyest<--re Ave. and Tenth St.. Tuesday. Mrs Xordholt was crossing the street when the accident occurred. Police are searching for the driver of & machine that struck and injured Candido Andino, 1009 Lafayette St., who was riding a bicycle at Parkview Ave. and Xew York St. Tuesday. COURTESY WEEK PLANS A'tent will house the free information bureau to be maintained by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the Advertising Club at the State Fair, according to announcement from the Chamber. As part of its Courtesy Week campaign in connection with the fair, the Chamber will issue Courtesy Week badges to street car conductors, police, and store clerks. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong to: A. A. Lyle, 838 S. Holmes Ave., stolen from Monument Place: L. F. Murphy, 2410 Park Ave., stolen from Hume-Mansur Bldg; Arthur Friend, 109 E. Pratt St., stolen from Washington St. and Capitol Ave.

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Automobile reported found belongs to: Cecil Powell. 920 X. Gray St., founft at 220 W, Thirty-Third St.

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ACTIVE CHURCH WOWS DEAD Mrs, Hannah Dillon to Be Buried Saturday, Hannah Dillon, 46. of 742 S. Cap..,,, Ave., wife of Thomas B. Dillon, died Tuesday night at St. Vincent's Hospital, where she had been for four weeks. She had been in ill health a year. Her condition had been serious since last December. Funeral services will be held at 9 a. m. Saturday at St. John’s Church. Burial in Holy Cross cemetery. Mrs. Dilion was born in Indianapolis and had lived here all her life. She was active in church work and was a member of the Altar Society, and the Living Rosary of St. John’s Church. Surviving are the husband, two sisters, Mrs. Edward Brosnan and Mrs. Nellie Moran, and three brothers. Michael, Thomas and Eugene McCarty. FORMER RESIDENT DEAD Local Relatives Learn of Burial of Timothy Sexton in San Francisco. Word has been received of the death and burial with military hon ors of Timothy Sexton, formerly of Indianapolis, in San Francisco, Cal. Mr. Sexton was a brother of Peter Sexton and an uncle of Timothy. Lawrence J. and Edward J. Sexton. ! all of Indianapolis. He lived in In--5 dianapolis from 1860 until 1890. when he joined the Army. He served for ten years. Hts last visit to Indiani apolis was in 1914. Mrs. Thomas P. O’Xeill of East I St. Louis, 111., formerly of Indianapolis. a niece, attended the funeral. •GAS’ ROBBERY FOILED Resident Surprises Men in Act of Robbing Filling Station. Obe Heller, 3212 E. Xew York St., I told police today that as he was i walking near his home late Tuesday j night with a flashlight, he saw two men run from a filling station, I operated by Arnold Edgar, 3212 E. Xew York St. Police found the gasoline pump lock had been broken and five gallons of gas had been drawn into a bucket, which the men left behind them in their getaway. RICHARD LIEBER TALKS ! Director of Conservation Addresses Real Estate Board Luncheon. Richard Lieber, State director of conservation, addressed the real estate board luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce today. His subject was “Interesting Facts About Conserving Indiana’s Resources.” Joseph J. Argus and Fred C. Tucker have been nominated to the directorship to fill the unexpired term of the late Herbert E. Fieber. Election will be held Sept. 8. COUNTER CHARgFfILED Man Accuses Woman of Theft; She Alleges Blind Tiger. Mrs. Viola Kress, 152 X. Blackford St., is held on a grand larceny charge, and J. H. Price, 337 X. California St., is charged with operat ing a blird tiger, after, police, say, Mrs. Kress accused Price of selling liquor to her after he told police she had taken jewelry and money valued at $95 from his room. Both denied the charges. SENATOR HARRISON WINS Renominated by Mississippi Democrats at Primary. JACKSON. Mich., Aug. 20. Senator Pat Harrison was renominated by Mississippi’s Democratic primary Tuesday by an overwhelming majority, returns showed today. Senator Harrison's victory over former Governor Ear! Brewer, his only opponent, was aproximately 5 to 1.

MY OWN STORY MACHINE BOSSES OFFER TO COMPROMISE ON LEGISLATION —— By ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE

“MY OWN STORY” is ar. exclusive newspaper version of one of the great autobiographies of modern times: La Follette’s own story of adventures in polities as written by himself in 11112. together with an authorized narrative of his experiences in the years since then. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS La Follette is defeated for a fourth term in Congress in 18110 whets Wisconsin goes heavily Democratic. Retiring to private law practitce, he begins an unending fight against the political machine that dominates his State. He is twice defeated as Progressive candidate for (rovertior when the bosses “buy off” his delegates at the State conventions. It appears that he will be nominated and elected <n his third race for Governor in 1900, however. By pushing railroad regulation and securing a taxation law. La Pollen* begins to fear that the railroads will pass on their increased taxes simply by raising their rai-s If hi centered on railroad taxation alone, of course we should have with us, quietly if not openly, a.ll the big shippers and manufacturers who knew perfectly well that railroad taxes should be increased and that such increases would tend to reduce the proportion which they had to pay. I therefore took time from the campaign and arranged a meeting with Hall at Haugen’s home in River Falls. I presented the case strongly to him, urging him not to offer his resolution calling for railroad regulation at the convention. I did not want the convention to go on record against a thing we were all in favor of. We were the best of friends. He was a constant visitor in our borne and every member of the family loved him. Finally, he promised to withhold j his resolution, and I believe we made better progress in the long run by building our structure of reform step by step. I have always felt that the political reformer, like the engineer or the architect, must know that his foundations are right. To build the superstructure in advance of that is likely to be disastrous to the whole thing. He must not put the roof on before he gets the underpinning in. And the underpinning is education of the people. Elected Governor In the convention I was unanimously nominated, and in November the State gave me the largest majority ever given up to that time to a gubernatorial candidate. <>n Jan. 7, 1901. I took the oath of office. Up to the time the Legislature met on Jan. 9, I felt we should be able to go forward steadily with the reforms for which the people of the State had declared. I even felt the machine politicians who came to me offering their support were really convinced that the reforms we demanded were inevitable and that they would no longer oppose them. I was yet to learn the length to which the corporations and the machine politicians who represented them would go in their fefforts to defeat our measures. They now carried out openly their plana for stealing the Legislature. When the Legislature met there was a general gathering of the machine leaders at the capital. They attended my inauguration and there was no manifestation of hostile purposes. But forty-eight hours afterward the mask was off. The newspapers on the morning of Jan. 9 contained the startling announcement that the “Stalwart Republicans (as the machine element of the party now for the first time called themselves) were in control of the Senate and that they proposed to fight legislation pledged In the platform. It was a great shock to us. I found It hard to believe men elected upon issues so clearly presented would have the hardil ood to turn about so quickly. Our friends were in undisputed control of the lower House of the Legislature, the Assembly, and after a hasty conference we decided to pay no attention to the sinister reports regarding the Senate, hoping that they might not be true. Reads Message All the Governors before me, so far as I know, had sent in their messages to the Legislature to be mumbled over by a reading clerk. I knew that I could make a very much stronger impression with my recommendations if I oould present my message in person to_ the Legislature In Joint session. This I did; and in consequence awakened a wide interest throughout the State The predominant notes in the message were direct primaries and railroad taxation —one political and one economic reform. The railroads at that time paid taxes in the form of a license fee upon their gross earnings. The report of the tax commission showed that while real property in Wisconsin paid 1.19 per cent of its market value in taxes, the railroads pa'd only .53 per cent of their market value (based on the average value of stocks and bonds) or less than one-half the rate paid by farmers, manufacturers, home owners and others. Upon this showing we contended that the railroads were not. hearing their fair share of the burdens of the State. The tax commission suggested two measures of reform. One of their bills provided for a simple in crease in the license tax, the other provided for a physical valuation of the railroads and a wholly new system of taxation upon an ad valorem basis, measures which X had earnestly advocated in my campaign speeches, and recommended in my message. Xo sooner had the taxation and direct primary bills been introduced than the lobby gathered in Madison in full force. Lobbyists had been there before, but never in such numbers, or with such an organization. I never saw anything like it. The rail*- ads, threatened with the taxation b.lls, and the bosses, threatened by the direct primary, evidently regarded it as the death struggle. Not only were the regular lobbyists in attendance, but they made a practice during the entire winter of bringing in delegations of more or less influential men from all parts of the State, some of whom often remained two or three weeks, and brought every sort of pressure to hear on the members or the Legislature. Center of Fight The whole fight was centered upon me personally. They thought that

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MRS. LA FOLLETTE TODAY if they could crush me, that would stop the movement. How little they

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understood! Even if they had succeeded in eliminating me, the movement, which is fundamental, woujd still have swept on. ~-They sought to build up in the mindsof the people the fear that the executive was controlling the Legislative branch of the Government. They deliberately organized a campaign of abuse and misrepresentation. Their stories were minutely detailed and spread about among the hotels and on railroad trains. They said that I had completely lost my head. They endeavored to give me a reputation for discourtesy and browbeating; stories were told of my shameless treatment of members, of my backing them up against the wall of the executive office, shaking my fist in their faces and warning them if they did not pass our bills I would use all my power to,crush them. In so far as anything was said in disparagement of the Administration members of the Legislature it was that they took their orders every morning f||hm the executive office. The newspapers began to print these statements. At first we took no notice of their campaign of misrepresentation, but it v grew and grew until it got on the nerves of all of us. It tame to be a common thing to have friends drop in and say: “Governor, is it true you have had a row with out of the executive office?” It seems incredible, as I look back upon it now. We felt that we were fighting something in the dark ail the while: there was nothing we could get hold of. In spie of it all, however, we drove straight ahead. After the bills pre-

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pared by the tax commission were in, the primary election bill v. as drafted and redrafted and introduced by E. Ray Stevens of Madison, one of the ablest men ever in public life in Wisconsin. Meetings Held The committee having It in cnarge at once began a series of open meetings and the lobby brought to Madison people from every part of the State to attend the hearings and to protest. Extended speeches were made against it, and these were promptly printed and sent broadcast. The most preposterous arguments were advanced. They argued that the proposed law was unconstitutional because it interfered with the “right of the people to assemble!” They tried to rouse the country people by arguing that if favored the cities; they said that city people could get out more readily to primaries than country people. It did not seem to occur to them that practically every argument they made against the direct primary applied far more strongly to the old caucus and convention system. But presently it began to appear that we might get some of our rneasjies through. It evidently made an impression on the lobby. One night, after the Legislature had been in session about two months. Emanuel Phillipp came to my office. He moved his chair up close to mine. “Now, look here,” he said, “you want to pass the primary election bill, don’t you? I will help you put It through.” "Phillipp.” I said, “there is no use in you and me trying to mislead each other. I understand and you understand that the Senate is organized against both the direct primary and taxation bills. You know that better than I do.” (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) (Continued in Our Next Issue)

OIL AND FUNDS REACHING 'LIT 1. FIXIT FINDS * Transfer of Money May Make More Weed Cutting Possible, The city is reaching the “end of the limit” In cutting weeds and giving citizens road oil. Oil will be exhausted this week, and the twelve remaining men on the weed cutting force will exhaust funds in this department within a. few days. Officials of the street commissioner’s office say transfer of funds may be possible to continue weed cutting. More than 100 complaints of weeds are on file at city hall. Orders have been sent out restricting cutting to city property and weeds along the thoroughfare. With this situation, little can be done for citizens complaining of weeds and dust unless they chance to be in the favored list at city hail which contains names of those who will get oil or have weeds cut. Selection was as complaints came in. Here is Mr. Fixit’s mail today: MR. FlXlT—Birch Ave., south of Oliver Ave., needs oiling. The street is very dusty. Freeman Hughes, 63') Birch Ave. Records show your street is not billed for oil and officials say they won't be able to relieve you. TO C. F. BROWN, 321 Graham Ave., on complaint of weeds. The city will take care of th's complaint if possible.

TO RESIDENT complaining oi filthy drug store. The board of health has ordered a clean-up of this place. DEAR MR. FIXIT—Why is It that the 1700 block on Blaine Ave. has never been oiled? Taxpayer. City officials Skid they thought there had been no grade established on this street, buT will Investigate. Your street is not billed for oil in the few remaining streets. MR. FIXIT—I have asked for oil on S. Wamian Ave., between Oliver Ave. and Ray ’ St. Resident and property owner. It appears nothing can be done for you, as oil supply this year Is exhausted. a To PROPERTY OWNER—The hoard of health will order a clean-up of these places between Central Ave. and New Jersey St. A KICK FOR A KICK This Horse Carries Out Well Known Law of Moses. Bu Time* Special SEYMOUR, Ind., Aug. 20.—A kick for a kick, in accordance with the law of Moses, resulted in a broken leg for James Nicholson, 62. Nicholson was riding a gravel wagon and kicked one of his horses to hasten its movements. The horse kicked hack, striking Nicholson's left leg and breaking the bone below the knee. He was taken to the Schneek Memorial Hospital. ROOF DAMAGED BY STORM Family of J. E. Owen Unhurt When Lightning Strikes Home. J. E.'Dwen, 527 Cottage Ave., admits today he was born under a lucky star. He was sitting on his front porch Tuesday night when lightning struck his house, tearing a big hole in the roof and damaging the flue. Damage was estimated at SSO.

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