Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 102

ATTACKERS ARE SEAS SHANGHAI United States Destroyers Stand by Near. Woo Sung Forts Ready to Land Marines for Protection of American Colony. BATTLE ON OCEAN IS BELIEVED IMMINENT Foreign Warships Extend Along Ten-Mile Water Front —Wounded Men Are Taken to City as Panic Reigns/Among Natives. By United Pret* SHANGHAI. Sept. 5. General Chang Hsich Yuan's forces bent on storming Shanghai, drove forward late today In anew advance that brought them close to the Woo Sung forts, ten miles from the city. Heavy firing along the front where General Lu'a defending troops were falling back, was neard throughout the day. The native city was panic stricken by the advance of the enemy. Business was suspended and Chinese flocked to the foreign settlements, which were undisturbed save by the presence of the terrified refugees. Three of the American destroyers at Shanghai were dispatched to Woo Sung, where they took up positions near the forts and were prepared to land marines to guard the border of the American settlemnet if the de fending army retreated farther. So far no landing parties have gone ashore from the United States ..-hips By 10:30 tonight heavy fighting had spread along the entire battle front. Chi’s advancing troops burned Quinsan, where many of the defense troops and some civilians were killed and wounded. Planes Bomb City About 200 wounded, several civilians, arrived here today. Airplanes belonging to the attacking forces bombed Nansiang. "Word reached Shanghai that part of fleet which sailed from here yesterday probably would meet a rival fleet which put out from Nanking and that an engagement might be expected at Li Ho. Foreign wars|;ps now are extend ed aJong the ten-mile water front at Shanghai. Accurate news regarding the fighting was difficult to obtain because the bolligerent generals refused to allow correspondents near the lines. The infantry engaged yesterday was equipped with old rifles and was not composed of fighting men of high caliber. The battle went first in favor of the attacking troops of General. Chi and then the forces of General Lu, aided by reinforcements, alonsr the line from the ShanghaiNanking Railroad to the sea. Mrs. Kyne Escapes Death Mrs. Peter B. Kyne, w./e of the American novelist, had a narrow escape while observing this battle from the top of one of the Chinese temples at Liu Ho. The temple was struck by a shell and partly demolished. Mrs. Kyne escaped, however, and returned to Shanghai In safety. At daybreak this morning all was quiet aloqg the battle front with the activity behind the Chi Hsich Yuan lines apparently indicating preparations for a second offensive.

SIUBENI FIE MEETINGMONOAY Commission to Talk With. Todd and Snethen, Public service commission today set 2 p. m. Monday as hour for a conference with Robert I. Todd, Indianapolis Street Railway Company president, and E. O. Snethen, president Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs, upon The Indianapolis Times plan for 5-cent car fare for school children. The Times urged that reduced rate tickets be sold to pupils for use going to and from schools. Civic clubs backed the move and Snethen the petixfcm for the special rate on behalf of the federation. Revolver Wound Accidental Arthur Barr, T 7, colored, 1455 Shepard St., was taken to the city hospital Thursday suffering from a wound in the abdomen when he accidently, shot himself while removing a revolver from a dresser drawer. Merrill Barr, same address was charged with unlawful possession of finana*.

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RAYMOND MORRIS By Time* Special HARTFORD CITY. Ind.. Sept. 5. —Mrs. Margaret Duff was at the Blackford County jail early this morning pacing the floor and pleading with Sherlc George Goodrich to release her son William. 17. local high school student, whose blow during a fist fight with Raymond Morris, 18, sent the latter to his death. Duff was taken to jail following the death of Morris Tuesday night. Sheriff Goodrich granted the mother's plea and released the youth, since no charges had been filed against him. Prosecutor Hugh Maddox announced that he would file no charges pending the sitting ofl the grand jury in the case next Monday. He said he expected an indictment of manslaughter to be returned at that time. The Morris boy was hurled today in the, I. O. O. F. cemetery here. The fatal fight followed an attempted h.lzing of Morris’ young brother Benjamin last Tuesday evening. Morris and Duff engaged in a flstie duel and Morris died from a “Mow on the jaw,” according to Coroner C. A. Sellars.

ASHBY IS NAMED FGRCHARIERJOB . ! Pickins Expected to Be Other Attorney, Samuel Ashby, corporation counsel under Mayor Je-wett. will be one of the attorneys named to rewrite the city's charter, Mayqr Shank announced today. Ashby is believed to favor William Pickens, corporation counsel under Mayor Bell, as the other attorney to redraft the charter. Ashby approved the mayor's plan as one of the most progressive steps the city could take, and said it probably would require ninety days of constant work. Services of two stenographers and the two attorneys will require close to SIO,OOO, Mayor Shank said, but he. Indicated that this sum might he ! saved in one provision of the new i charter, where duplication in city j departments results. PLANNED JAIL BREAK Warden Thwarts Attempt at Chicago Jail. By United Pregg j CHICAGO, Sept. s.—Russell Scott. | 22, Detroit and Cleveland, awaiting i trial so rmurder, was charged today with plotting his own escape and : the freeing of others from the county j jail where Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb are waiting sentence for I killing Bobby Franks. Warden Westbrook said he was ; confident that neither Leopold nor | Loeb was involved. Bicyclist’s Arm Broken Wallace Gaddfe, 57, colored, 2742 1 Columbia Ave., received a broken arm when he was struck and i knocked off his bicycle by an auto | driven by B. F. Bower, R. R. J, Box j-237-K, police said today. Bower j was slated. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m <65 10 a. m 61 7 a. m 56 11 a. m 62 8 a. m 57' 12 (noon) .... 63 9 a. m 69 1 p. m. ..... 63

NEW CRB ARISES ON COUNTY TAX County Attorney Says 1925 Appropriation Ordinance Is Illegal and Can tyot Be Remedied —Commissioners Refuse to Sign BiH. BOARD SAYS COUNCIL OVERLOOKED MATTER 1924 Levy Will Remain in Effect if New Measure Is Stricken Out —Salary Increases Would Go by Boards, Action of county commissioners today in refusing to approve and sign the 1925 budget of $2,070,000 precipitated a ciffids in courthouse finance. Commissioners say the budget is illegal. The county council, in annual session since Tuesday, are to meet tomorrow to take final action on the budget ordinance, and incidentally increase the tax levy seven or eight cents from the twenty-one cents of thia year. Commissioners John Kitley and John McCloskey raised th point the law makes it imperative the com missioners sign the budget ordi nance before it is submitted to council. Was Not Presented “We never approved or signed this budget.” they said. “It was never presented to us for such action.” County Attorney Russeil J. Ryan advised the commissioners the budget is illegal. and that the time for their approving it is past. If the 1925 budget goes out. lie said, the result will be the county must get along in 1925 on the same levy as this year. The September meeting of the council Is the only time the budget can be fixed, he said. County officials who have asked for increases in salaries of deputies and for additional help will be denied them if the 1925 budget is illegal. Dunn Sees "Technical! ties** County Auditor Harry Dunn, whose duty It is to prepare the budget and present it to the commissioners and then to the council, insisted the af fair is a “legal technicality,’’ and the commissioners could sign yet. He will present copies for approval and signature Saturday morning. Commissioners said it will be no nse. Kitley, president, said the commis sinners have been a "rubber starry)’’ long enough, an/i the auditor and council intended to fix taxes and make appropriations without consulting the commissioners. Dunn denied this. The council is Republican, as is Dunn, and the commis sinners are Democratic. The commissioners formally ap proved the township road bond tax levy, increasing taxes in several townships. They said they never had done it before, and asked who fNed it in former years.

SWISS GETS POST M. Huber Fleeted President of International Court of Justice. Bu United Pr**t< Ln\Df)X, Sept. 5.—M. Huber of Switzerland was elected president of the court of international justice at the court's meeting in The Hague today, according to a Central News dispatch. _ M. Weiss of France was re-elected vice president. Huber will hold office for three years. 121,000 BLAZE AT GLASS PLANT Cause of Morning Fire Is Unknown. Fire of unknown origin caused damage estimated at $20,000 by company officials >it the Marietta Manufacturing Company glass plant storage building, Sixteenth St. end Sherman Dr, this morning. Loss on the building was $5,000 and the remainder in chemicals stored in vats, it was stated. Insurance covers the loss. Flames were discovered under the asbeatos roof at 7 a. m., when the mixing room force went to work. The company volunteer fire department of seventy-five men was at work on the flames when city apparatus arrived. Fire Chief John J. O'Brien directed that hose be used so as to keep water away from the chemical vats. The chemical is useless afte_r water strikes it. O’Brien said one corner of the storage room looked as if there had been an explosion, but employes said heard no blast. \ '

INDIANAPOLIS, FPIDAY-, SEPT. 5, 1921.

County Chairman Urge Registration as a, Patriotic Duty—Women Aid in Movement

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lOING their bi toward getting out a full registration for the November election several leaders of the League of Women Voters operated registration booths in downtown department stores today. Mrs. W. C. DeMiller. is shown registering Miss Mary Kelley, 28 N. Riley Ave. % “It is the patriotic duty of every citizen! to register so he may east his ballot at tire Nov. 4 election." This was the statement of Russel J. Ryan, Democratic chairman of Marion County At a meeting of registration officials tonight the law will lie ex plained in full and complete ar rangements made and supplies

NEW RECORDS FOR FAIR LOOM; KLAN . VISIT EXPECTED No Special Program Ar'ranged. However, for KuKlux Delegation. Although no special program had been arranged members of the KuKlux Klan were expected to swell the crowds at the Indiana State fair iate today. the closing day. William M. Jones. secretary-t reaaurer of the State board of agriculture, said he had received a letter saying that many Kla tinmen would attend. No evidence of Klan delegations was seen early in the day. "There is no special program for t’.ie Klansmen, bus we shall he giad t welcome them, as citizens," Jones said. Board of agriculture members were invited to be guests of the boys’ camp conducted by the extension de partment of Purdue University at 5:30 p. m. C. H. Smith of Boston, Mass., horseman with the C. H. Traiser stables of Boston, was taken to the Methodist Hospital today from the fairground. He became ill Thursday and was treated in the Red Cross tent. Doctors were to make a diagnosis this afternoon. Many fair visitors have seen the safety film," The Man at the Throttle," being shown as part of a safety exhibit put on in the Manufacturers’ building by Indiana railroads. The movie screen is placed in a railroad cab taken from the Big Four shops at Beech Grove, and the audience is seated in railroad seats. Today was designed “Everybody’s Day ’ ind the fair officials expected “everybody" to come to the extent of 40, This would not break the • 'ire _ day attendance of 52,362, set la fww. Thru day. Governor’s day, broke all fair attendance records, setting a new mark of 60,099. The previous single day record, 57,244, was established on Thursday In 1917. Closes Tonight The fair will close at 10 tonight. All exhibits will be open until that time. At 7 there will be the usual horse show and vaudeville program in the Coliseum, and at 7:30 the nightly musical revue, aerial ballot, airplane exhibition and fireworks in front of the grand stand. ** A proposal has been made to use the Indiana School for the Deaf, Just north of the fairground, as extension headquarters for the farm boys’ club camp, conducted at the fair for the first time this year, by the agricultural extension depart ment of Purdue University. MRS. DONNELLY RETURNS Mother of Popular I*ocal Swimmer Back From Europe. Mrs. Maurice Donnelly, mother of Miss Euphrasia Donnelly Indianapolis girl who took swimming honors at the Olympic meet in Paris, is expected to return to Indianapolis rhis week-end. Miss Donnelly will spend a month in Holyoke, Mass., visiting relatives, before returning.

gtven the boards in city and county precincts. Boards will be open from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m., Saturday. George V Coffin. Republican county chairman, called on all voters to qualify themselves by reg Istering. “Citzens must remember they

Register A list of registration places for the first registration Saturday appears on Page 9. Y'ou must register in order to vote in November.

SERIOUS CHARGE FACED Police Say Motorist Didn't Stop After Striking Child. Quick wit of JyOhu Grovers, 1310 S. Talbott Ave., today brought about the arrest of Burnside Smith, 3219 Ruckle St., on charges of assault and battery and failure to stop after an accident. Grovers told police Smith’s oar struck Shirley Grimm. 5, apartment 41, Dolly’ Madison apartments, Thirteenth and Alabama Sts., bruising her shoulder and back. He picked up the child and carried her into home, at the same time noting the license number of the car. He notified police and the arrest followed. SHOWER BATH COSTS HIM Ninety-day Sentence and S3OO Fine Assessed on Blind Tiger Charge. A shower hath of white mule which he gave Sheriff George Snider Aug. 29 cost Walter Gross, 1254 W. Twenty Sixth St., a S3OO fine and a sentence of ninety’ days on the Indiana State Farm today in city court. Sheriff Snider preferred blind tiger charges, following to a hbusc at Seventy Fifth St. and Keystone Ave. He testified Gross threw mule out of the hack door, drenching him. Police records showed it was a second conviction for Gross on a blind tiger charge. Gross appealed WANT STREET SURFACED tlvle Club Confers With City Engineer Urging Improvement. A commfftee composed of John F. White, Edward J. Sexton and Charles G. Duvall, has been named by the Southeastern % Civlc Improvement CJub to confer with City Engineer Frank C. Lingenfelter, urging the resurfaeinig of State Ave. between Washington and Prospect Sts. thin year. I An appropriation was originally Included in the budget and later eliminated. ‘TIGHT’ LIKE CLAMS Deep Silence Surrounds Governor’s v Conference. Silence and mystery surrounded the conference today of Governor Emmett F. Branch; the State highway commission and the State board of accounts. The conference lasted two hours. At Its conclusion no one would Issue a statement. Branch would not indicate when he would make one. The controversy arose over a report of the baord of accounts criticising transactions of the commission with O. F. Schlensker. automobile dealer.

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Even the birds have taken up the barbecue fad. A sparrow, with a keen taste for barbecued bugs, afforded a lot of amusement for car drivers and waiting passengers at the Kentucky Ave. interurban bus station several days ago. The Sparrow would perch on of an automobile parked in the center of the street and when a bus would arrive he would fly down and give the, menu of

cannot vote unless they register either Saturday or the second registration day Oct. 6.” Coffin saM. “Every one who expects to. vote must register, whether they have done so before Tr not,.',' Coffin said. Although law peimits voters to fill out their registration blanks ui.d send them to the, registration board, officials urge citizens to go to the registration places and rrg-i.-t r to save confusion and possible error* Officials expect the largest registration in the history of tlie county and hundreds-of notaries will be thrown into the colored precincts to aid in making a complete registration of the colored voters.

FRANCE DEBATES LEAGUE TOPIC WIDIENGLAND Herriot Approves Force as Guarantee of Peace — Briton Opposes It, By I r.’t-ni Pr%n GENEVA, Sept. s.—France favors force as a guarantee of peace, Britain opposes it. Spokesmen for the two nations voice diametrically opposite views in debate on security and disarmament before the League of Nations assembly today. Premier Herriot of France declared his nation’s conviction that justice required force to back it up, that might wag the proper weapon •of right. I*ord Parmoor, speaking for Britain, declared it is imperative to abolish force from the league. The dapger of the mutual guarantee pact which is the subject of the debate ig that it is based ufffin force, he declared. The speakers were in agreement otherwise as to the desirability of world peace and solidarity. “Arbitration, security and disarmament. all are inseparable.” the French minister insisted. Demandinf fulfillment of the articles of the league covenant, he pledged his country's support to “help make peace for all,” provided the power of force over injustice was not JJklinquished. Herriot's speech contrasted with MacDonald’s, the Britisher's having been based more on idealism and international good will. "France is most happy to see that England supports the ideas of arbitral ton which France proposed at London, in conformity with her traditional policy,” Herriot said. I*eft to Commission "Article £ll of the League covenant provides for arbitration, and France wants the principle to continue, but the project of applying the same and for creating arbitration must be left to a commission of experts. "The French delegates will work to create the necessary organization for the project.” The French premier refuted criticisms of the league pact of mutual guarantee and said his nation would continue to support the plan. “My friend Premier MacDonald was right, however, when he declared that optional arbitration as provided for by the Hague court should be referred for definition to a commission of experts,” Herriot continued.

baked bugs, grasshoppers, butterflies, beetles and miscellaneous insects sticking in the radiator the once over. Selecting such morsels as suited his palate he would fiy back to his lookout and wait for the irext car. It was noticeable that he scorned cold bugs on cars which had been standing a long time, centering all his interests in the steam table service offered by hot radiators on arriving cars.

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U. $. WORLD FLIERS ON WAY TO BOSTON-END OE LONG TRIP IS NEAR Lieuts. Nelson, Smith and Wade Leave Pietou Harbor on Jump to United States Bean City Ready With Welcome. THIRD PLANE HAS TROUBLE IN GETTING OFF AT START Unlucky Airman, Who Rejoined Comrades for Finish of Flight, Finally Gets Airplane to Leave Water and Soars Away. By In ilcil Pregg PICTOU, N. S., Sept.'s.—America's around the world aviators were winging their way toward the homeland this afternoon. The flight from Pi (ft on Harbor to Boston got under wav j officially at 11 :44 a. m., when the hig Douglas air cruisers Chi|cago,~'piloted hy Lieut. Lowell Smith, and the New Orleans, with Lieut. Eric Nelson at the stick, drove out to open sea, headed for home.

Tfce Boston 11, piloted by Lieut Leigh \V;,de, had considerable dim culty getting off the water because of the calm, and finally taxied out to the entrance of the harbor, taking the air. as he reached the open sea. opposite Pietou lighthouse. The uestroyer at tarry, which had ; been standing by, immediately picked ||.P th piano’s anchor buoys and ! raced out to sea after them. The weather was very haze* Rain wan reported from St. John. N. 8.. in a radio from the destroyer Lawrence. It was believed possible the airmen might stop there if weather conditions were too bad. Despite the thick weather Navy officers believed the airmen would make the trip without stopping and estimated the 520-mile flight would (turn lo Page 15) BLAST WRECKS TOWN Small Village in Turkey Destroyed hy Explosion. By l nitrd Pregg LONDON. Sept. s.—The countryside around Constantinople was shaken for miles, many workmen were killed and the town of Makrikeny was practically wiped out when powder factories about twenty miles from the former Turkish capital blew up, according to a Central News dispatch today. t Communists were IJamed at first, but later the disaster was attributed to carelessness on the part of employes. MEMORIAL FOR GEERS Collection Taken at Fair to Honor Reinsman. A, memorial to Edward F. “Pop" Geers, veteran reinsman fatally inijured in a race at Wheeling, W. Va., Wednesday, is planned by Indiana horsemen and friends.' A collection of slOl was taken up at the Indiana State fair Thursday toward a memorial fund. Flowers were sent for the funeral at Memphis. Tenn., with $25 also collected at the fair. THIS IS COOLEST DAY Temperature of 63 at 1 p. m. Sets Record for This Summer. Today was the coolest day this summer, according to weather bureau records. At 1 p. m. it was 63. Restaurants this morning reported a boom in w’heat cakes and other ■winter “chow,” with temperatures resembling those of October. A chilly week-end also loomed, with no change in temperature predicted by the W’eatherman. Even cooler W’eather was slated for south portions of Indiana. The lowest temperature during the last twenty-four hours was reached at 6:30 a. m., with 55. At 9 a. m. the thermometer climbed 4 degrees. UPD IKE RUMOR IS DEN lED Will Not Quit Congress Race, Secretary* McCoy Says. Daily McCoy, secretary of the Republican State committee branded today a rumor that Ralph JJpdike, G. O. P. candidate for Congress from the Seventh District, would resign from the ticket as “false and unbelievable. According to statements, there is a well-defined move underway among certain ex-service men to seek Updike’s removal. At Updike’s office it was stated he did not intend to resign and would make the race. Remster Bingham, local attorney, it was said, was being talked as Updike’s successor. Bingham stated he knew nothing of the move.

Forecast FAIR tonighfr-and Saturday. Little change in temperature is anticipated.

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BARGAIN IN WEATEfER Board Collects Nothing on 53,000 Rain Insurance. “You certainly have had perfect weather for the State fair,” a fair visitor remarked to E. D. Logsdon, member of the board of agriculture In charge of concessions. “Well, we should have had—we paid $3,000 for it," Logsdon replied. “It was worth it," he hastened to add. Th§ board did not collect a cent on rain .insurance this year. Last year, when it had none, it rained al- ; most every day. CITY WINS CONVENTION Union of ' Roumanian Society Will Meet Here Next Year. The Union of Roumanian Society | of America will hold its 1925 convention in Indianapolis, according to a telegram received by the Chamber of Commerce today from Alex J. Lupear, Roumanian vice consul, 222 State Savings anh Trust Bldg. The union is composed of approximately 160 societies throughout the United States, with a membership of approximately 10.060. About 150 representatives probably will attend. ' OFFIEERSSIi BUS CONjEM Kentucky Ave. Parking Is Traffic Problem. An investigation of traffic congestion on Kentucky Ave., 'due to the parking of motor busses in the cen- | ter of the street, was conducted today by Lieutenant Johnson and Sergeant Shine, following several complaints made to police. “It is gettlng“pretty bad when Are apparatus cannot use the city streets," Lieutenant Johnson said. Fire engine house No. 13, at Kentucky Ave. and Maryland St., lias a number of downtown calls and a fewipiinutes’ delay make a great difference. “Some solution of the problem will be worked out and presented to the city council for an ordinance,’’ Lieutenant Johnson said. POLICE HUNT TWO BOYS Newsboy Missing From Home Since Wednesday, Says Father. Police searched the city today for Roy Petit, IS, of Edgewood, Ind., who is missing from home. Frank Petit, the father, told Sergeant Tooley the boy sells papers eyery night and rides the 11 p. m. bus home}-but did not do so Wednesday night. He was wearing a blue cap and overalls. Robert Baker, 18, of 5507 Greenfield Ave., has been missing from his home since Aug. 9, his parents told police today. \"biting Motorist Slated Mrs. Mae McTagertt of Mt. Comfort. Ind., was arrested today on assault and battery and Improper driving charges. Police said her auto struck Charles Lamb, R. R. E, B6x at Pennsylvania ana Ohio StsJ severely bruising him. ”