Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36 NUMBER 104

KUR AFIER JOHN DAVIS IN COLORADO Police Protect Democratic Nominee When Demonstration Is Threatened on His Arrival in Denver for Speech, PARTY IS SERIOUSLY SPLIT ON QUESTION Opponents Are Expected to Heckle Candidate During Talk on Western Problems Thursday Told to Be Progressive, Bv FRAZER EDWARDS, l nited Prtu * Staff Corrcpan4fnt DENVER, Col.. Sept. S— John W. Davis, Democratic presidential candidate. collided with the Klan issue again today when he came to Den ver. Only the efforts of local Democratic leaders prevented a Klan d*monstration against Davis, when he stepped off the train. Davis immediately went inn con ference with J. D. Barnett. Democratic national committeeman and other leaders when he first learned of the Klan feeling in Colorado and particularly in Denver. Has Fighting Chance Because of the Klan issue which has split the Democratic into bitter factions, Davis was told he has a fighting chance to carry Colorado. He must, however, demonstrate a real progress!vism to hold the Democratic element that is now leaning toward Senator La Foliette, it was said. The Klan i3 said to be bitterly opposed to Davis because of his Seagirt speech in which he denounced the order and Klan loaders were prepared to demonstrate their disapproval of the utterances of the Democratic candidate. When local leaders learned of the plan, they served notice on Mayor Stapleton, who was elected with Klan support, that adequate police protection must be given to prevent any disorder. Asa result a cordon of mounted and foot police surrounded the station. Hecklers Ready Davis was warned that he Is likely to be heckled by Klansmen when he delivers his speech on reclamation. Irrigation and kindred western problems at the city auditorium on Thursday. The Colorado situation is said ti> be particularly favorable to the Democrats and the chances of electing two United States Senators are good. Senator Alva Adams, Democrat, running against Senator Bhipp. Republican, is said to be popular with ail elements in the State, while Phipps is opposed by factions of his party

WOMAN FOUND AFTER ROBBERY Victim Discovered in Coal Yard Unconscious. Detectives today believed that Mrs. Anna Stoltz, 24, of Bacon St., j south of the city, found unconscious In a coal yard at 803 E. Troy Ave., ' early today by passing motorists, was robbed and dragged to the spot. When the woman regained con sclousness this morning she said all she remembered was getting off of a Shelby street car at Troy 'Ave. be tween 10 and 11 p. m. Sunday after attending church. She had sl3 before she left ihe car. She had 35 cents when found. She had a dislocated shoulder and bad cuts about the head. MENQUTNUMBER WOMEN VOTERS Total September Registration 75,000. With but twelve precincts un reported at noon today. County Auditor Harry Dunn announced a total of 72,736 voters registered Saturday in the 194 precincts heard from. The missing twelve will put the registration above 75.000. it was thought, approaching the record of 1920, when 81,000 registrations were received. Women registering totaled 31,990 and men 40,746. Registration in colored and foreign-born quarters was extremely light, as usual on the first day. The last chance will be Oct. 6. voters in County.

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MA YOR PLEADS FOR SANE DRIVING I < # f School Children Return and Dangers at Crossings Are Stressed

* I CAN’T believe that any citizen of Indianapolis, in his right mind, would deliberately speed past a school building if he reflected that at certain hours of the day thousands of children are crossing the street. School children must cross streets. Police and school

BY MRS. C. H. SMITH, President Indianapolis ParentTeacher Association PARENTS may aid in safeguarding' the lives of their children of school age by supplementing the instruction given in schools with caution in the home. Parents also should set an example for children and other motorists lv driving carefully past school buildings and constantly preaching that everybody follow the rule. .

NEUTRAL ZONE IS ASKED 111 CHINA WAR AREA U. S. and Other Countries Join in Request as Aid to Safety, By RAY G. MARSHALL United Press Staff < 'nrrespondent PEKING. Sept S—The United States, Great Britain. France. Japan and Italy joined today in sending a note to the foreign office, asking proclamation of a neutral zone from Woosun to Shanghai for the protection of lives and property of foreigners. The request was made following j intervention of Chang Tse-Lin. the powerful war lord of Manchuria, into I the civil war. which now involves! half of China. Chang is reported to have in- j formed foreign consuls at Mukden j that he is "preferring counter action I against four divisions of Wu Pei Fu 'Pekin* troops " which, he declared, are moving toward Manchuria. Pekin Interferes Meanwhile Pekin was intervening in the Shanghai war. The president of the north China government issued a mandate Sunday, formally declaring a state of war in the Kiang Su province. The Pekin president declared in favor of Gen. Chi Hsich Yuan, who is attacking Shanghai. and announced that Gen. Lu Yung Hsiang and Gen. Ho Feng Ling, defense commissioner of Shanghai. J\ere to be considered rebels and deprived of their titles and honors. Chi Hsieh Yuan's troops, attacking Shanghai, pushed forward two | miles across the Liuh Ho battlefield j this afternoon. The advance brought i them close to the city of Liu Ho. 1 and as a result orders went out to American war vessels in the vicinity to land marines if the city falls. Gen. Lu Yen Hsiang, who con ' siders himself defender of Shanghai, although he has been repudiated by the Pekin government, claimed gains on other sectors. The war in front of Shanghai is making itself felt In English and j American business circles here. Man agers are worried and many houses face collapse. Chinese merchants are refusing to accept cargoes and the credit situation is strained to the breaking point. Food is scarce and prices at;e snaring. Refugees continue to pour into the foreign quarter, seeking safety in case Chi's troops take Shanghai. WALB IS DUE TUESDAY G. O. P. State Chairman to Arrange Meetings. Republican State Chairman Clyde A. Walb will arrive Tuesday from La Grange to complete plans for G. O. P. meetings Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. It is said the alleged fraud charges against H. X. Sherwood. G. O. P. candidate for superintendent of public instruction will be discussed at the State committee meeting Tuesday. F. Harold Van Orman, Evansville. G. O. P. candidate of Lieutenant Governor, addressed the State KuKlux Klan meeting at Cadle Tabernacle, it was said today. ROBBERS GET MAIL Break Into Railroad Station and Steal Pouches. By l nihd Preee WHITEHALL, 111.. Sept. B.—Authorities are searching for robbers who early today broke into the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railroad station here and made away with two sacks of first-class mail and several pouches of parcel post. Another robbery at Carrolton, a few miles from here, was attributed to the same gang. Robbers entered the Chicago & Alton station there and escaped with. S2O in cash.

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LEFT TO RIGHT—HATTIE ROBERTS. 13. OF 1122 BATES ST.; LAI'KA KYAN, 11, OF 275 LKOTA ST., AND HARRIETT RYAN, 13, OF 275 LKOTA ST.

I _ iOR the protection of children like Hattie, M I Laura and Harriett (who were crossing VirI X 1 ginia Ave , on their way to the opening of school today! the police accident prevention bureau today made plans to open the school safety drive Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Moore, secretary, said Sergts .Tack O'Neal and Harry Smith would speak in every

STATE FACTIONS REMAIN SILENT Accounts Board Making Investigation, All was quiet along the battle front in the war between the State board of accounts and the State highway commission today. Following its usual policy of silence representatives of the board of accounts had nothing to say. John D. Williams, director of the highway commission, conferred with Governor Branch for a short time, but he too was silent. It became known that the board of accounts Is investigating disposal of war surplus equipment received from the Federal Government. A report on this investigation will be submitted to the Governor within a few weeks. The Governor was not ready to give out a statement about the first of the board of accounts which criticised relations of the commission with O. F. Schlensker, dealer in automobile parts. YOUTH CONFESSES UE SNOT GIRL Brother Resisted Advances to Sister Fatally, By United Perue ST. LOUIS. Mo., Sept. B.—Edward Daugherty, 18, a bus boy who recently came here from Kentucky, today confessed to St. Louis county authorities that he shot Ethel Baxter, 14, to death Saturday after an automobile hold-up in which he obtained forty cents. Daugherty got the forty cents from the man in the party, then kissed two girls in the back seat of the car, and shot fatally when a halfbrother of Ethel became angry and resisted his kissing. RALSTON ON PROGRAM Will Speak at Opening of New “Hemingway Rd." Near Boonville. United States Senator Samuel M. Ralston will deliver the principal address at ceremonies at Tennyson, Ind., Tuesday, near Boonville, attending the opening of the new “Hemin|way road." The new ment is named in honor of the latß Senator Hemingway. f

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 1924.

BY MAYOR SHANK

authorities constantly are drilling children to be careful. Therefore, motorists face a sort of trust —those thousands of precious lives are in their hands during the time the children are crossing pavements. I ask motorists of Indianapolis to be worthy of trust.

school, laying ground for reorganization of the school traffic forces and councils. Patrolmen today started guarding"streets around school buildings at hours \*hcn children enter and leave Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff ordered ail officers to arrest motorists who cross street intersections faster than fifteen miles an hour.

SHOTS ROUT THIEF Two Wrist Watches Missing After Man Flees From House. A. C. Gibney, 510 \V. TwentyNinth St., was unable to give police a. description of the burglar at whom he fired early today. He awoke and saw the man In his room he said. Gibney, said he did not know If the shot took effect. Two wrist watches both valued at $35 were taken. SMALL BOY IS KILLEOBYTRUCK Hyman Calderon, 4, Victim in Street Tragedy, Hyman Calderon, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Calderon, 1145 S. Capitol Ave., was Instantly killed this afternoon by a truck at Morris Stand Caiptol Ave. Truck was driven by Oscar Hood. 41, of 1707 N. Ashland Ave. Police said they were told the child ran in front of the truck. $1,500,000 Fire at ItufTaio By United Preen BUFFALO. N. Y„ Sept. B—The Exchange elevator, containing 600,000 bushels of grain, was destroyed by fire this afternoon, with an estimated loss of $1,500,000. Four workmen, trapped In the cupola of the elevator, were rescued by firemen. ONE DEAD, ONE DYING IN BLAST Fatal Explosion at Cement Plant, By Timee Special GREENCASTLE, Ind.. Sept. B. William Price, 58, was fatally burned and Earl Mathews, 32, was at the point of death tbday from burns received in an explosion Sunday at I the Indiana Portland Cement Company plant here. The men were at work In one of the kilns when the blast,. caused by spontaneous combustion, occurred. Frank Arthur, another employe, heard the men’s screams and rushed into the blazing building and rescued them. He was badly burned about the hands. The fire was quickly extinguished. Price died today. Mathews’ death Bs expected hourly.

FALL TRIES TO STOP OIL PROBE Former Secretary of Interior Seeks Injunction, By United Preen WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. —Albert P. Fall, former secretary of the inferior today applied to the District of Columbia Supreme Court for an injunction to restrain Sptclal Government Council Atlee Pomerene and Owen Roberts from continuing tbe new investigation they have just launched here. In his petition, Fall, who is under indictment in connection with the naval oil scandals, charged the new investigation is nto for the purpose of securing any new indictments, but to get more evidence to use in the present indictment pending against him. CAR FARE HEARING Petition for Reduced Rates Before Public Service Commission Today. Hearing on the petition for reduced street car fares for Indianapolis school children was set by the public service commission for 2 p. m. today. The petition which asks that tickets be sold to school chtl- j dren on a flve-cent basis was filed by I E. o. Snethen on behalf of the In- I rlianapolis Federation of Commfin- . lty Clubs last spring. LA FOLLETTE CONFAB Campaign Plans to Ik* Taken I’p By Executive Committee. The executive committee of the La Follette party in Indiana was to 'meet at La Follette State headquarters this afternoon to discuss campaign plans. The Indianapolis branch of the Progressive Political Action League will meet tonight. WARMER WEATHER HERE Thermometer Reaches 70 Mark— Sunday Also Higher. 6 a. m 62 10 a. m 72 7 a. m 63 11 a. m 75 8 a. m 65 12 (noon) .... 75 9 at m 63 1 p. m 72 Warmer weather prevailed today, following showers over the week end. The refrigerator grip of the weather man was broken Sunday. The lowest temperature was 55 early in the morning, the thermometer climbing gradually until it reached its peak at 72 at 4:30 p. m. The lowest early today was 61, shortly before 6. At 9 a. m. the thermometer was close to 70. Cooler weather was forecast for Tuesday.

BY E. U. GRAFF, Superintendent of Indianapolis Schools SAFETY work is organized in the schools. We are carefully instructing children all the time that they must stay out of streets except when they must cross them. Children are obliged to cross streets. Therefore, safety becomes a question of cooperation by the motorists. The schools are going half way and we feel sure that the motorists will do their part.

ARMY AIRMEN ON WAY TO GOTHAM FROM BOSTON Lieuts, Smith, Nelson and Wade Speed Toward New York Overland, BULLETIN By I in ted Preen MITCHELL FIELD, L. I„ Sept. B.—The American round-the-world airmen received a rousing welcome as they landed here at 3:45 p. m. today. Thousands of spectators in a roped enclosure at a. safe distance from where the fliers and their convoy, numbering fifteen planes in all. cheered themselves hoarse as the airmen completed the flight from Boston. The Prince of Wales joined in the demonstration. Bn United Preen BDSTDN. Sept. S.—The United States Army airmen took the air a fen- minutes after noon and, accompanied by an aerial escort, winged their way overland toward Mitchell Field. New York, on one of the last laps of their epoch-making world flight. Lieut. Smith, flight commander. was the first of the roundthe world airmen to ascend, and Lieutenant Nelson and Lieut. Leigh Wade were up practically simultaneously. The three planes, equipped with landing wheels for the journey across the continent, circled over the airdome here for a few minutes. Four planes left earlier in the morning for New York. There they were to take on several news photographers and return as far as Stamford, Conn., together with a number of other planes from Mineola. Over the Connecticut town the> were to meet the world fliers and "ride” with them into New York. Lieut. R. Curtis Moffat, who flew from Boston to New York last Thursday in fifty-eight minutes, flew with the Army fliers in his Curtiss pursuit plane. A brief stop will bo made in New York. There each plane will be equipped with anew motor and made ready for the hop to Washington. According to General Patrick the fliers ought to reach Chicago, first stopping at Dayton, Ohio, about Sept. 12, and to complete the flight to Seattle about four days later, making stops en route at Omaha, St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacrementa, Cal. OEMOCRATSHONOR SAMUEL E. RAUU Members of State Finance Committee Named, Samuel E. Rauh, president of the Belt Railway and the Stockyards, today was named a member of the finance committee of the Democratic State organization from the Seventh District. Other members: First district, Clarence Wolf, New Harmony; Second, D. Frank Culbertson, Vincennes; Third, Perry McCart, Paoli; Fourth, George Hillebrand, Batesville; Fifth, Ralph Noll, Greencastle: Sixth, Harry G. Strickland, Greenfield; Eighth, Dale J. Crittenberger, Anderson; Ninth, Harry E. Reed, Delphi; Tenth, Herman Conter, Gary; Eleventh, E. E. Cox, Hartford City; Twelfth, Lew G. Ellingham, Ft. Wayne; Thirteenth, W. A. Mclnery, South Bend. Thomas Taggart, and Charles A. Greathouse, secretary of the national committee, are In Chicago today for conference with national leaders.

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mm use dhs Am i CHISELS TO OPEN TWOI DOWNTOWN OFFKE SAFE! Combination Attacked at Hollowa* & Son Room, Where Loot g Approximately SBOO Entranc® Gained Through Skylight. BACK OF SOLOMON’S CAFE I STRONG BOX IS CUT OU r | Restaurant Loss Between S6OO ana S7O0 —Detective Head Sees WorlJ of Experts in First Job —Fingerl Prints Only Evidence Left. 1 Safe robberies in two downtown establishments were dis-B covered today. H Expert crooks opened the safe of the Charles E. Hollowayß & Son real estate office. 140 X. Delaware St., during the nightJ They obtained approximately SBOO. 1 The crooks who chiselled out the back of the safe of Solo-1 mon’s restaurant, Maryland and Illinois Sts., were believed tol be another gang, because their work was crude. Loss was be-l tween S6OO and S7OO. |

The yeggmen are thought to have i used a ladder to climb to the roof of the one-story building in which the Holloway office is located. Then they carefully removed a setcion of a skylight and lowered themselves into the office. They drilled holes around the safe combination with extreme 1 precision, opened the outer door and i got into the inner compartment with keys found in a drawer. Every bit of evidence except finger prints was removed by the crooks. Bertillon Expert Bert Perrott took pictures of the prints. Abner Jackson, colored. 832 W. Twenty-Seventh St., janitor, discovered the robbery. C rude Tools Used Samuel Lerman, one of the proprietors of Solomon's restaurant, discovered the safe off the main dining room had been broken into. No accurate check was possible, but Lerman said he helieved between S6OO and S7OO had been taken. The thieves overlooked SIOO worth of silverware. Detectives declared that the robbers must have been spent three or four hours in their attempt to break into the safe. They were equipped with only crude tools, they said. An attempt was made to smash off the combination. This failing, the men laboriously chiselled a hole in the rear of the safe ahotit one foot wide. The safe was practically wrecked. Lansing and McDonald said entrance had been made into the restaurant, which occupies the second floor, from a neighboring roof. Skill shown by the Holloway yeggmen caused Acting Detective Inspector Fred to express fear the city may he prey to further activities. Other Places Entered David Sherman. 1025 Union St., manager of the National Furniture Company, 335 W. Washington St., reported his store had been entered during the week-end and $8 in moneytaken. W. H. Smith, manager of a drug store, 2406 Northwestern Ave.. reported to police cigars and cigarettes stolen from his place. AID FOR COUNTY PUPILS Commissioners Promise Better Road for School Hack. Demands that Sixty-First St. road through Colonial Park addition, northwest of the city, be graveled so children of fifty families can be hauled to Washington Township school No. 7 were heard today by county commissioners. A delegation from the Colonial Park Welfare Association. composed of Frank L. Mar tino, chairman, Mrs. Essie Horst, Spencer W. Dice and Carl Caldwell presented the request. Commissioners at first objected, saying the county cannot take over the hundreds of miles of roads through additions outside the city, but Mrs. Horst said the children missed part of the last school year because of mud. The commissioners promised aid. N. I. P. TO FILE TICKET Independents Meet at Zahnd Home Sept. 9. Completion of plans for filing a State ticket will be discussed at a meeting of the executive committee of the “National Independent Party, Sept. 9. The meeting will be at the home of John Zahnd, chairman, 3330 N. Meridian St. - J War Veteran Dies By United Preen FRANKFORT, Ind., Sept. B. Daniel Bowser, 86, Civil War veteran, a member of the G. A. R. and a pioneer resident of Clinton County, dropped dead at a hospital here today.

Forecast I UNSETTLED tonight, followed by fair Tuesday. Cooler weather anticipated Tuesday.

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KU-KLUX ISSUE IS FOREMOST IN MAINE ELECTION Brewster, G, 0. P, Nominee, Is Charged With Having Klan Support. By United Preee PORTLAND, Maine. Sept. B. With Klan and anti-Klan feeling intense, interest in the outcome unusually keen and perfect weather in prospect, a record vote is predicted in Maine's biennial election today. One United States Senator, a Governor, four Congressmen and the usual State officers are to be select ed.Sole Issue Overshadowing all • else, the KuKlux Klan looms as virtually the sole issue, despite protestations by Republicans that its place In the campaign resulted only from the “political ambition" of the Democratic candidate for Governor, Wil-. liam R. Pattingale. Democrats, under the leadership of Pattingall, who has made a bitter fight against the hooded order, confidently claims the Governorshp "by at least 10,000” for the first time In fifty years. Pattingall has stumped the State, charging his opponent, State Senator Ralph O. Brewster, Portland, with being a Klan candidate and seeking the order’s support. Not an Issue Brewster conducted his campaign along national lines, urging his own election as an endorsement of Calvin Coolidge. He declined to denounce the Klan, asserting it was not an issue. The independent candidacy of Senator Robert M. La Follette does not figure In this election. NO BELL RANG AT THjSSCHOGL Boys Blamed for Fire, Destroying Building. By United Preee BRAZIL, Ind., Sept. B.—Boys who were adverse to starting to school are believed by authorities to have set fire to the Brown schoolhouse near here early today. There had been no fire in the building for weeks. The school was destroyed and opening of the fall term will be delayed for several weeks while a temporary school is erected. Horse Just Balky Police early today found Jesse and George Lewis, 205 Bright St., trying to drive a horse bought in Traders Alley to their home. Police say a report they were intoxicated was false. The horse was only balky. Do You Remember — The old Capitol House at the southeast corner of Washington and Missouri Sts 1