Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1924 — Page 2

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HUM INSTATE' BOARDS’ QUARREL UP TO GOVERNOR Road Commission Severely I Criticises Schlensker 3 Report, ■ Action in the controversy between ■he State board of accounts and the ■State highway commission now is Hip to Governor Emmett F. Branch. I The commission issued a state■nent Friday accusing the board of ■accounts of “gross carelessness or ■villful misrepresentation" in making its Meantime the board ■f accounts stands on its report. I The report, criticising the commission for transactions with O. F. ■Schlensker, automobile parts dealer. K-esulted in the return of $50,000 to ■he State by Schlensker. 1 Conferences Held statement was given out late after the commission had in session all afternoon. In the ■norning the commission, representatives of the accounts board and- - Branch held a two-hour i ■conference. It is understood the j ■statement was given out by permission of Governor Branch. ■ In regard to the $50,000 refund, ■he commission’s statement said: l "As to the $50,000 collected by the ■State board of accounts from Mr. ■Schlensker. this cannot be reconciled ■with the special audit.”

Overcharges Found ■ The commission hired private accountants to audit its books follow ■ng the board of accounts report. ■The statement admitted the private fcccountants found overcharges of ■58,039.64 in the Schlensker account bs the result of errors in prices, extensions, computations of war tax ■end one duplicate payment. It was Cointed out this was about $42,000 ■ess than the figures of board of acIcounts.

KONSTANT VIGIL IS KEPT OVER LEOPOLD, LOEB Slayers Continue Cheerful as Day of . Sentencing Draws Near, By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 6. —Extraordinary watch is being kept on Nat hap Leopold and Richard Loeb as the time hears for Justice John R. Caverly to impose sentence for their murder pf Bobby Franks. Never at any time r>f the day or night are the youth3 Bt.ee from surveillance. ■ Prisoners in cells adjoining ’ the Breys of Nathan and Richard are assisting guards in the sleepless vigil. ■ Leopold and Loeb are in cells on :ie sixth tier. Because they are at Bhe end of the tier, guards on the D>‘ venth and fifth tiers can look into Blheir cells. fl Constant Watch B Taking advantage of that fact, ■Warden Westbrook has ordered that Bthe guard on the sixth tier keep ■within watching distance of the ■youths’ cells until the guard on tier ■seven comes up. The seventh tier ■guard then remains where he can ■watch until the fifth tier guard Iconics to the end of the row on his wounds. This fifth tier guard is instructed to remain until the sixth ■tier guard returns once more. 1 Trusty prisoners also have been ■rkv-ed in cell 602, between 600, ■Loeb’s cell, and 604, in which LeoBpold is confined. P Girls See Slayers 2 Westbrook said the youths do not dT- ’sow they are being watched so ■closely. Even if they are cognizant Pof the fact, neither Nathan nor RiehHhrcl show the slightest sign of an■noyance. They continue cheerful. ■They receive visits from friends ■twice daily. Os late the number of ■girl visitors has been increasing. p Justice Caverly has left Chicago Ifor the home of a friend about a ■hundred miles north, where he will Bput his sentence in writing. He will ■return on the night of Sept. 9 and impose sentence next morning. Bike iders Warned Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff today ordered police to bring to the Icfy detention home or the city prison all hoys and men who violate the city ordinance regarding"control of bicyclists. This includes riding on pidewalks and failure to display Bights at night. Action followed the ■injury of Eugene Chum'ey. 4, of 2836 Ave., who was struck ■by a bicycle and his leg broken.

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PRISONER’S PLEA CONVINCES lODISE OP HIS INNOCENCE James Baldwin Freed on Charge of Picking Pockets, Masterful pier of James Baldwin. 42. Roosevek Hotel, on hi own behalf today in city court, resulted in Judge Delbert O. WHraeth ordering his discharge. Baldwin had been In jail since Thursday, when he was arrested by Detectives Hopson and White o# a vagrancy charge at the Indiana State fair. They allege he was picking pockets while attempting to board street cars. Baldwin said he is suffering from diabetes and claimed he weighs only ninety-five pounds. Physically Weak Ho asserted because of his physical condition he was unable to board the car after five attempts. Each time the crowds swept him back, he said. He said wher* he did get aboard he was forced to cling on by his left hand. Because he was left-handed*, it would have been Impossible to pick a pocket, he declared. He sd the detectives saw him push into the crowds five times. He said, he was nearly blind in his left eye and could not have seen sufficiently to rob any one. Evidence lacking He also asserted that the detectives who were watching him could not see hi* hand in any one's pocket because their view was blocked by other persons. Detectives failed to show any one whose pockets were rifled, Baldwin said. He claimed he had no motive to steal because he had sufficient funds from the publication of “The Last Word,” a book he said he. ■wrote. He said his wildest vice was the movies.

RED MEN PITCH TEPEES MONDAY \ Several thousand delegates and visitors to the Red Men’s four-day pow wow which opens here Monday at Tomlinson Hall were expected to arrive this week-end. Registration begins at the Severin Sunday. The entertainment committee, of which Arch H. Hobbs is general chairman, has worked on arrangements for several months. “The stage is set and we are planning to show our guests that Indianapolis is a hospitable city,” Hobbs said. An official souvenir program, containing the history and purpose of the order, as well as other booklets descriptive of Indianapolis, will be distributed. John E. Sedwiek of Martinsville, great incohonee, will preside, at the business sessions.

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Today’s Best Radio Features (Copyright, 1924, by United Press.) WEAF, New York (492 M). 9 P. M„ EST —Vincent and his orchestra. W.T.f.X, Cleveland (390 M), Midnight EdT—Montly cruiser of the nightcaps. KGO, Oakland (317 M>. 8 P. M. POST —Presentation of Bizet opera (Carmen” in concert form. KSD, St. Louts (546 M). 8 P. M. CST —Weekly program from the Missouri theater. OFCA. Toronto (400 Ml. 7:15 P. M. EST —Pageant chorus of 2,50(1 voices diiect from the Coliseum. Sunday WEAF. New York (492 Mt; WCAP. Washington (469 M), and WJAR, Providence <36OM> 6:20 p. m., EST — Musical program from the Capitol Theater, New York, with Roxy. WM\F South Dartmouth (363 M) 6:15 p. m.. EST—Musical program from the Strand Theater, New York. KGO, Oakland (392 M) 3:30 p. m., PCyV—Concert by the Little Symphony Orchestra. KHD, St. Louis (545M1 9 p. m., CST—Program from the Granl Central Theater.

SEPT. 12 NAMED ■ GENERAL HOLIDAY f Citizens Asked to Observe Day by Mayor, Mayor Shank today called on Indianapolis citizens to display the flag and cooperate in the program arranged for National Defense Test Day, Sept. 12. in a proclamation calling for suspension of business during the afternoon. “The day will be a demonstration that will keep us out of war,” said the mayor. “Citizens of Indianapolis have never failed on any patriotic occasion to flo their full duty.” The proclamation in part: “The test will inform the American people of the plan an an annual defense test will serve to keep our people informed of what may be expected and required of them. “What we do in Indianapolis will be heralded throughout the nation as we shall lay the corner stone of the World Witr Memorial. So I ask that air business be suspended in our city in the afternoon of Sept. 12, and invite all of qur citizens to partienpate in the program. “I direct that the flag shall be displayed on the city hall and from all public buildings, and that the police and fire departments shall participate in the patriotic demonstration. And I request that our flag be displayed from our homes." Col. Carleton B. McCulloch stated today the skeleton unit of Evacuation Hospital No. 18 which served in France would” be in the parade in full uniform.

GERMAN PATENT GRAFT IS CHARGED Government Asks Sale Be Set Aside, By United Press PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Sept. 6. Charges that Francis P. Garvin, former alien property custodian, and other Government officials participated in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States in the sale of over six thousand German dye patents to the Cherical Foundation, Inc., for $260,000, was made in a brief filed here today in the United States Court of Appeals. The Government asked the court t oset aside the sale on the grounds it was fraudulent. The case was on appeal from the United States District Court of Delaware, which dismissed the Government's suit. The brief also charges that Garvin and his associated sold the patents to a corporation in whjch they knew they would be interested later.

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KLAN ACTIVITIES AGAIN DISCONCERT - G. 01 LEADERS Comment Upon Frequent Visits at State Headquarters, Ku-Klux Klan activities are again proving disconcerting to "regular” Republican leaders, according to indications. D. C. Stephenson, self-styled “old man” of the Klan, conferred with Daley McCoy, secretary of the State committee Friday. Stephenson also saw Clyde A. Walb, State chairman. Then he visited L. V. Schneider, head of the publicity bureau, and made some suggestions as to publicity on Congressman WilJ R. Wood of the Tenth district. Jim Jackson, brother of Ed Jackson, G. O. P. gubernatorial candidate, is a frequent visitor at Mccoy’s office. Jackson is said to be a great titan of the Klan, connected with the Walter Bossert faction, and has his rooms on tlm fourth floor of the Severin, just above G. O. P. headquarters. * Mrs. Harry Foote, woman organizer for the Klan, said to maintain offices in the Meridian Life Bldg., is also seen about G. O. P. headquarters. Leaders today expressed disappointment at the small turnout at the Martinsville "rally” Friday night. Statements were made that it was either a “Klan managed” or a “poorly managed affair.” According to statements Fred and Janies Cunningham, brothers of Miss Dorothy Cunningham, one of the honor guests, were not invited to the dinner. Both are known to be untiKlan. Mrs. J. E. P. Holland, Bloomington, second district vice-chairman, also anti-Klan, was not invited, and was not present at the dinner. M>-s. Vivian Wheatcraft, State vice chairman, and known anti-Klan, was called at the last minute with the statement her invitation had been mislaid. She did not attend the dinner. John E. Sedwiek, candidate for Congress from the Second district, was not present.

G. 0. P. LEADERS MEET NEXT WEEK Republican Chairman Plans Three Rallies, Republican State Chairman Clyde A. Walb, La Grange, is planning to make next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, red letter days in the 1924 campaign. Tuesday, at the Severin. State and Federal appointees and officials are to meet with the State committee and candidates. Wednesday night the State committee and State candidates will hav, a big get-together meeting. Thursday night the State committee, including county and district chairmen, wil' hear adresses by United States Senator James K. Watson, and Postmaster General Harry S. New. Frank E. Rozelle, Ft. Wayne, chairman of speakers’ bureau, received word the Dawes-Coolidge tour would reach Indiana, Sept. 23. The party will stop at Ft. Wayne the night of Sept. 24. going north through South Bend to Chicago. Neither Dawes nor Coolidge will be with the boosters.

PENNSY FROLIC WELL ATTENDED * ■■ ■ About 2,000 Empoyes at Regional Contests Here, About 2,000 employes of the southwestern region of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company attended the regional athletic, elimination and Indianapolis division outing today at Pennsylvania Park. Paul E. Kriese was chairman. Delegations from Columbus, Cincinnati, Ohio, Louisville, Ky., Terre Haute, Madison, Columbus, Richmond, Logansport, Crawfordsville, and St. I juis, Mo., competed., Various forms of athletic contests featured the program. Open air dancing, and a boxing show are scheduled for tonight. Lloyd Williams, Montgomery County horseshoe pitching champion, defeated participants from Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, in singles matches this morning. After defeating Louisville thi® morning the Terre Haute tennis team wag scheduled to meet Misses Margaret Fitzgerald and Gertrude Bruder of Indianapolis this afternoon. The Pennsy baseball team was scheduled to meet the De Molays. DRIVER IS EXONERATED Freed of Charges hi Fatal Auto Accident. Harold Markes, 107 N. Blackford St., was dismissed In city court today on Involuntary manslaughter charges, resulting from the death of William Fox, 66, of 1114 Eugene St., Aug. 24. Coroner Paul F. Robinson said that Fox was struck by Markes’ car when he raised an umbrella as he got off a street car and walked in front of the oncoming machine. He completely exonerated Marks. The accident oqpurred July 27.

Woman Taxidermist Finds Plenty of Work Among Farmer Neighbors and Visiting Wisconsin Hunters

MRS. GUY HADLEY AND SOME OF HER MOUNTED SPECIMENS.

FAIR PROFIT AT LEAST 115,1, SECRETARY SAYS Attendance Record Broken by 36,000 Paid Admissions, • The 1924 Indiana State fair was ‘all over but the shouting” today. And the State board of agriculture was doing the shouting. In attendance, exhibits and public interest, the fair, which closed at 10 p rn. Friday, was pronounced “the best ever” by William M. Jones, sec retary-t reasurer. Attendance for the week, with 205.007 paid admissions, exceeded by 36,000 the previous record, 168,825. made In 1920. Friday’s attendance, 23,543. was far below the Friday recced. 52.362. set last year, but *nt above the average Friday attendance of less than 12 090 , Financially Successful Financially, this year's fair was veiy successful, Jones said. He estimated that profits would be between $15,000 and $25,000. Plans were being made today for anew building program for next year. Tentative plans include anew State administration building and a new grand stand and race track, probably in the same pjace as the present track. About $160,000 would be required for such a program, Jones said. The board spent $1,000,000 on new buildings in 1924. The Red Cross probably would be housed in the new administration building, and Indiana University may have new headquarters. (lay County Wins Cup The silver cup offered by the board of agriculture to the county, outkide of Marion County, having the largest attendance at the fair was won by Clay County, with a registration of 425. Owen was second, with 343, and Rush third, with 250. Altogether, 3,552 persons, representing eighty counties, registered during the week wit lithe Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. Farmers who got up about 5 a. m. today to prepare for their journeys home reported a heavy frost on the infield of the race track. They were much worried about crops which they said would be hurt by even a light frost. Indianapolis took one first and one third in the final horse show Friday night in the Coliseum. Mrs. George M. Bailey, riding Miss Bob Black, took first honors in the three-gaited mare classs. E. Cooper Zaring of Indianapolis was third in this event. Stablo3 of Mrs. A. C. Thompson of Chicago and of E. A. Stuart of Seattle, Wash., each took two firsts in the other four events.

ACTON. EVIDENCE TO BE PRESENTED Detective Inspector Jerry Kinney today said he would lay the case of Virgil Kaehl, 22, of 1632 Shelby St., who denies implication in the Acton (Ind.) bank robbery, July 7, before the grand jury soon. Kaehl with two men in jail in Milwaukee, Wis., were held dn the investigation of the robbery. Kaehl was released on $2,000 bond after reduction from $5,000 in city court. A detective rearrested him on a charge of shooting with intent to kill and he was released on new bond of $3,000. The second charge was filed in probe of a running gun battle between Patrolman Barge and two men in the vicinity of Ohio and Illinois Sts., Aug. 16, Kinney said.

Aids U. S. r - t tm " Jr . J* P* RALPH K. LOW PER Ralph K. Lowder, Martinsville, Ind., will assist Homer Elliott, United States district attorney, in prosecuting the Hawkins mail i fraud case. Lowder, who Is an i Indiana University graduate, was . j sworn in office Friday. Alexander I G. Cavens and John Rabb Emison ! were promoted to special assistant and first assistant, respect- | ively. TEACHERS MAY GIVE EVIDENCE Officials Talk of’Seeing U, S, on Sherwood. Indication that evidence of transactions of H. N. Sherwood, Franklin, Ind., Republican nominee for State superintendent of public instruction, and William H. Blackburn, his partner in “Educational Issues,” teachers’ magazine, might be laid before the Federal grand jury next month, wns contained today in statements of officials of the Indiana Teachers Federation. Federation officials have been fighting Sherwood on the ground that subscription money was accepted from teachers, through the mails, after the magazine suspended publication. The federation officials made public a list of teachers said to have paid their money and to have received no eppies of the magazine. Efforts to obtain refunds have been futile, it wasC said. Sherwood has refused to comment upon the charges. Blackburn has stated that the affair is not closed a.nd that restitution is intended. INSURANCE HEARING SET State Commissioner to Try Three Men at Evansville. Hearing on charges against three representatives of the Home Insurance Company, New York fire insurance concern, will be held by Thomas S. McMurray, State insurance commissioner, at Evansville, Sept. 10. The three men, Nathan D. Smith and Horace M. Lukens of Evansville and H. F. Fehling of New York City, are charged with writing a fire insurance policy on property of the Evansville Band Mill Company at greatly reduced rates by preparing an appraisal of/ the plant far different from the true value. Apoplexy Attack Fatal Mrs. Rhoda Gaul. 61, of 631 N. New Jersey St., who suffered a stroke of apoplexy Friday afternoon in front of her home died today at the city hospital. Coroner Robinson said death waa due to cerebral hemorrhage.

Industrious Wife of Agriculturist Has ‘Something to Do' in ‘Spare Time.' By NEA Service COUDERAY, Wis., Sept. 6.—“1 had too much spare time on my hands.” That, explains Mrs. Guy Hadley, north woods farm woman, is why she learned taxidermy. And although she has never been inside a taxidermist’s shop in her life and has never seen a mounter at work, Mrs. Radley mounts every kind of north woods animal for the most fastidious of buyers. Not many farm women are both ered about what to do with their spare time, for they haven’t any. But Mrs. Hadley, one of a family of fourteen children, came of industrious stock. When she married f he left Council Bluffs, lowa, for her husband’s newly purchased farm near Couderay. There she organized her work so well that time dragged heavily on her hands. Out of Ordinary Her brother, a photographer in Omaha, Neb., suggested that she take a correspondence course in some business that would be out of the ordinary.” In the woods country, with deer everywhere, she found that farmer sand loggers could not afford to save their antlers and deer heads because of the high price of sending them away for mounting. A few months studying and Mrs. Hadley was mounting deer head for the community and then for visiting hunters in deer season. “They can't pay much up here, so I do every deer for $lO, regardless of size,” she says. ProcHguous Worker A most industrious woman. Her home is carefully kept. She milks eight coys twice daily, tends chickens and this season picked enough blueberries on her canning 118 quarts, to buy herself a carpet loom, at which she proposes to occupy herself during the season of no hunting. Anew stairway has been added to her home from odd jobs revenue. A white topaz pendaat which she wears was made from a stone found on the farm and cut and set with money she earned. An agate ring is of like origin. Her summer fur she made herself from a red fox. Her mounted Wisconsin badger, pheasant, horned owl, porcupine and hirds of all kinds —even a mounting of a house cat—would credit a long experienced taxidermist.

CHURCH NOTICES

Churclhi of Clirssit, Scientist Lesson-Sermon “MAN” SECOND CHURCH Delaware at Twelfth 9t. THIRD CHURCH—33SO Washington Bird. Sunday Services In All Churches, 11 a. m. Testimonial Meetings Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock Free Reading Rooms X 258 Consolidated Bldg.. 115 N. Penn. St.. 205 E. Thirty-Fourth St. The Public Is cordially invited to attend these services and to use the reading ,rooms. SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN UNDER 20 YEARS. Second Church at 9:30 and 11 A. M. Third Church at 9:15 A. M. SPIRITUALIST MISSION Will hold services- Sunday afternoon at 2 p m. at 1026 E. Washington and Thursday evening at 7:45 p. m. Messages by the leader, Mrs. Rose Allison, and mediums present. Cornel Everybody welcome. SELL YOUR OLD FURNITURETIMES WANT ADS WILL DO IT

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 6, 1924.

’EDDIE’ LEARNING FAST; H. R. H. TAKES TO GUM CHEWING Prince Expresses Disappointment Over Postponement of Polo Games, By United Press SYOSSETT, L. I„ Sept. ’6.—The Prince of Wales has adopted the habit of chewing gum. Those attending the impromptu polo matches in which “H. R. H.” has taken part, thought they had observed the royal jaws working vigorously, but they weren’t sure. Finally the prince was observed to throw away a small wad. There was a rush for the spot and a search in the grass. Someone found it. It was gum. The prince was disappointed over postponement of the international polo games, which he came to this country to see. “H. R. II.” was expected to attend the race meeting at Belmont Park and possibly have a mild'"'flutter” on the ponies as a substitute entertainment. Postponement of the international match until Tuesday may lengthen Wales visit, for those about him say that if three games are required to determine possession of the chal lenge cup, the prince certainly will remain until they are over. His Highness has been* challenged to a boxing match by one of the chauffeurs who is driving an automobile for newspapermen covering the prince's American activities. The chauffeur’s father, an expugilist named Tommy Donovan. I>oxed with the Prince's grandfather when the latter was Prince of Wales and O'Donovan, who claims to be handy with his mitts, craves the same honor. Wales spent last night at a party at the home of Rodman Wanamaker Jr., and tonight will be a guest of honor at a formal dinner. Patient Vanishes Police were hunting a taxicab driver who stopped a passerby at Georgia and Illinois Sts. and told him to call a city ambulance as he had a sick woman in his car. Police were unable to find the cab when they arrived. Iloosier Girls Enrolled Miss-. Elizabeth Neely, 3S N. Do Quincy St., and Miss Annabel Nation of Muncie, are two Indiana girls who will attend the Randolph-Macon Woman’s College at Lynchburg, Ya., this year, according to enrollment records there.

PROGRESSIVE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Park Ave. at St. Clair St. Sunday Service 7:45 p. m. Lecture by DR. J. F. IRELAND Spirit Messages bv REV. ANNA D. THRONDSEN Music by Mrs. Audra Hodson Tuesday Afternoon and Evening 2 and 7:45 • The Ladies’ Aid Service Afternoon Lecture by Dr. Ireland Messages by Rev. Throndsen The evening service will be devoted to spirit messages. Dinner served at 5:30 Friday evening. 8 o’clock, the Men's Club will hold the regular trumpet service. Come, bring a friend. WELCOME " THE SECOND SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Services 7:45 RM- Men's Hall, corner Lee and W. Morris St. Spiritual lecture. J. E. Everett “Triump in Light," Mrs Effie Recp. Ladies’ Aid meets Wednesday. Sept. 10. 2 to 4. Mrs, Kampe. 1856 W. Minnesotta St. Messages by mediums present at both services. Everybody welcome Spiritualist Church of Truth Corner NortlT St. and Capitol Ave. Red Men s Hall Win be open Sunday. Sept. 7, lf>24 with election of new board. All .numbers of church are requested and urged to be present. HIRST SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 608 North Liberty Street between Massachusetts Ave. and Liberty St Lecture by Rev. Lydia Crane. Message will be given by the pastor, Rev. Ruth Van Beuken. Message services every Wednesday at 2:30 and 7: *5 p. m . conducted by the Ladies’ Aid, part of the time devoted to healing. You are cordially invited to attend these services. All are welcome. All board members meet Sent. 30. at 8 p. m.