Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 131

M’NAMARA LODGED IN JAIL

CiiITTEE 11 MAKE BBS STUDY Traffic Conference Orders Boards of Works Head to Name Five, Representing All Concerned, to Go Into Problem, Thirty five representatives* of luncheon clubs, civic organizations and city officials met in the board of works office today to discuss the local bus traffic situation and instructed Charles E. Coffin, president board of works, who presided to appoint a committee of five to make a detailed study. Committee is to be composed of one representative of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, one representative of the bus lines, one city official, two citizens not affiliated with any of the organizations, with Mayor Shank ex-officio chairman. Daniel B. Luten of the Scientech Club suggested the city employ a traffic expert before enacting any regulating ordinance. Coffin said the city should receive just comperv sation for bus traffic. S. C. Haddon of the Allied Motor Commerce of Indiana urged no action be taken until after the State Legislature meets. People Want Busses A. Smith Bowman, president Peoples’ Motor Coach Company, said the people want busses and regulation would be invited. Edward O. Snethen of the Lions Club said the street car company should be given first consideration. George Beaman of the Mapieton Civic League said residents on N. | Capitol Ave. would be satisfied if ■the car company operated busses as feeders. Members of the board of works, board of safety. Inspector Michael Glenn. City Attorney James M. Ogden, C. S. Wagner of the Kiwanis Club, George Wildnack of the Rotary Club and others attended. Engineers Study Problem Regulation of busses was dicussed by the Indianapolis chapter of the American Association of Engineers, at its weekly luncheon at the Board of Trade, following a preliminary report by Fred Kellam, chairman of a committee on bus transportation, appointed five weeks ago. Recommendations will be made later. Kellam. head of the testing department of the Suite highway commission, presented his resignation as chairman of the committee, so investigation of bus conditions outside the city could go forward without embarrassment. Other members of the committee are S. C. Hadden and F. C. Atkins. The committee, in its report, suggested that regulations should he subject to change without much "red tape,” since bus transportation Is in a period of change, and suggested: Regulation of equipment, mechanical condition of busses, drivers' requirements, speed, ventilation, sanitation and seating, places and manner of stopping and use of congested streets. | Provisions for financial responsibility In case of accident or injury to passengers, and for fairly definite schedules. Franchise tax to protect taxpayers in the matter of street surfacing and repairs. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 5a 10 a. m 04 7 a. m 51 H a- m 68 8 a. m 54 12 (noon) 71 0 a. m 59 1 p. m 74

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JOHN J. M’NAMARA John J. McNamara, business agent and secretary of the local bridge and structural iron workers union was arrested today on four indictments charging blackmail. following the grand jury probe of sabotage at the new Elks’ building.

LABOR PREMIER TAKES CASE 10 ENGLISH VOTERS General Election to Be Held Oct. 29, Following Defeat in Commons. ! By T'ritrd Prrsa LONDON. Oct. 9.—Prime Minister MacDonald today took his case to ; the country. Appearing in the House ! of Commons following defeat of his I Labor government, the prime minister announced a general election will be held Oct. 29. "We will take this case to the people and they will sustain us,” MacDonald said, referring to the defeat of the Government when the House adopted the Liberal amendment to a vote of censure Wednesday night. Parliament Meets' Parliament was railed to order at ; 3:30 p. m. Labor leaders cheered loudly as MacDonald entered and took his seat. The prime minister looked tired after the night’s trying session, but his fighting jaw was set as he arose to speak, announcing the date of the i general elections. The king has consented to dissoI lution of Parliament, the prime minI ister announced. The Laltor government will be i kept in power at least five weeks I more, as the House of Commons adjourned at 6 p. m. not to reconvene until after the election. At this time the complexion of the new House will determine the composition of the government. The prime minister made his first campaign speech at 3:30 p. m., speaking to a Labor party confer- ; ence. j "We flatly accuse the Conservai tives and Liberals of reaching an | agreement to turn the people’s government out of office on a trumpedup issue,” he said. Thirteenth Defeat The adverse vote Wednesday night was the thirteenth defeat incurred by the Laborites in their nine months in office. Observers believe Conservatives will make gains in the election, the Laborites holding their own and Liberals losing. The present line-up: Conservatives, 257; ! Laboriie, 193, and Liberals, 158. It is almost certain that the Conj strvatives will remain the strongest party, and it is likely ex-Premier i Baldwin will be returned to the head j of the next cabinet. EUGENICS LAW DRAFTED I)r. William F. King Uses New, “Workable” Principle. Dr. Wiliiam F. King, State health commissioner, Is drafting anew “workable” eugenics law to present to the next Legislature to take the place of the law declared unconstitutional in 1921 by Supreme Court lon the grounds that the rights us j the individual were being enjoined. “We are founding this new law I upon another principle—the correct i principle in such matters—that the rights of persons involved shall not be encroached upon, and that no action, can be taken without due process of law,” Dr. King said. ’ “The mistake in the old law was that it took on the character of being ’punishment.’ ” SIXTY-TWO ARE FINED I .leniency Shown by Judge Pro Tern, in Speed Court. Sixty-two were fined in speed court today by City Judge Pro Tern. Garrett Olds. Leniency was shown, in many cases judgments and costs being suspended. Seven were ordered re-arrested, thirty-one cases continued and two were continued indefinitely. Ther-. were'no dim fa Is. Tv u --iiilty.

WASHINGTON FANS STILL HAVE HOPE But Giants Are Favorites to Win Today’s Game and End Series —McGraw Expected to Start Art Nehf —Peck Back in Play. By HENRY L. FARRELL I nitrd Prr*H staff Cnrrtspondrtit WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. —Pushed clear to the end of the plank where another shove will mean doom, the Washington Senators were back home today for sixth game of the world series with the New York Giants. Down three games to two and with Walter Johnson gone as a possibility in the two games necessary to win the championship, the American League champions had little more than a grime fighting heart to sustain their hopes. When the old master. Sir Walter, went down Wednesday for the second time, he carried with him the last ordinary chance the Senators had to become the first world champions Washington ever had. With the Giants needing only one more victory to cinch the title and with Art Nehf, the star southpaw, ready to work, the Giants became a 2-to-l favorite in betting to win the seriesDespite the gloomy outlook there was no pain on the faces of the home folks to mind the Senators that things had not gone so well. Fans Hopeful Washington believed that with Peckinpaugh back in the game and with big Tom Zachary ready to standi the Giants on their head that the Senators were sure winners, that the series was squared again and that the American League champions would win the rubber game Friday. Idea! weather greeted the mobs that arrived in town this morning on a flock of special trains. Washington thought it was a cool day, hut tjie fans who sat through the chill at the Polo Grounds Wednesday thought that it was real southern weather. The skies were clear an.) sunshine flooded the city. Buck Harris, the young manager of the Senators, said this morning Zachary probably would pitch today. He has Curly Ogden available, but. he leaned toward Zachary because of his experience. Against Johnson and Marberry the Giants looked like fast ball murderers, but they didn't jdo so well against the slow twisters :of Zachary and Mogridge. Roger Peckinpaugh. the star shortstop, who has bee nout of the two games with a bad leg. will also start today, Harris said. Peck was '.he big works of the defense and the most dangerous hitter on the team, and the team was certain to be better with Bluege at third and Peck at short Miller the Goat Miller, who had to be sent to third ; when Bluege was moved over to Peck’s position, has worn a crown of thorns all during the series. He is not a good third baseman and all the tough plays in two vital games went to him, and every time he went to bat he was in a pinch. He is the outstanding goat of any world series. Manager McGraw said at the Giants’ hotel this morning he wanted to start Art Nehf. The Giant manager had figured on using him on Wednesday, but Nehf had a bruised hand and couldn’t work. SYNOD TO MEET NEXT AT IRION Presbyterian Assembly Adjourns Today. Marion was chosen hex! meeting place of Indiana Synod of the Presbterian Church. Conference closed today at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Evans Woollen, Indianapolis, was appointed chairman of ministerial persons’ committee. The Rev. V. D. Reagan, Chalmers, Is new secretary of Evangelism and Church Building Fellowship. Dr. S. Arthur Stuart, Laporte, was re-elected stated clerk, and Rev. T. N. Hunt, Whiteland, permanent clerk. Greetings will be sent Franklin Church, which celebrates 100th anniversary Nov. 23-30. Elder E. W. Gould, Ft. Wayne, was elected member of Synod Council. “Moral idiots —those who lack the fine art of sympathy—are worse than mental idiots,” said Dr. J. M. Vander Meulen of Louisville, Ky., who denounced selfishness. He gave Christ as the highest example of •'•mpathy. ,'w; e Y:r.r--v Carter. India.. apo.M, is a

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OENTLY SUES AND MAKES USE OF WALB’S MOVE La Follette Chairman Hopes to 'Cash in’ on Squabble With Settle. A. F. Bentley. La Follette S:ate chairman, today sent a letter to Clyde A. Walb, Republican State chairman, in which he stated he would use the Walb-Settle controversy as publicity for La Follette and W heeler. At La Follette headquarters, it was stated that Settle had given his approval of the letter, reading as follows: “Dear Mr. Walb: "I wish to thank you for having brought so clearly to public knowledge the personal political attitude of President William H. Settle and other officials of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation and also of the vast majority of Indiana farmers in the present campaign. "While Mr. Settle has long known for whom he would vyt© for President, and why, he has been so scrupulous in maintaining the propreties of his official position that I had been unable to secure any information whatever, concerning his political intentions, until you so kindly cam© to my aid. “ lam glad to let yoti know that Ia tnarranging to print 200,000 copies of the correspondence between you and Mr. Setttle, and of the resolutions of the directors of the Federation, enough to put a copy in every farm house in Indiana. "If you have not yet availed yourself of Mr. Settle's invitation to you to call upon him at his room at the Sevf rin Hotel, I hope you will be able tc find an early opportunity to do so. for the scope and vigor of his remarks may do you a world of good. “Thanking you for the valuable aid you have given me, I remain, “YOLRS FOR LA FOLLETTE AND WHEELER." Chiropractors Meet. Ethel A. Glascock. I). C. Ph. C\. 1718 College Ave., is among Indianapolis chiroprators who attended the State chiropractic convention at Terre Haute.

Have You Thought of A NAME? The Indianapolis Times is offering $25 FOR THE BEST TITLE for Gaylord Nelson’s column on the Editorial Page now called “IIOOSIERISMS.’' The name should be suggestive of the character of the column, which is devoted to comment on Indianapolis and Indiana events. R. H. L.’s column in the Chicago Tribune is called "Line o’ Type or Two.” Arthur Brisbane’s column in the Hearst papers is “Today.” F. P. A.’s column in the New York World is labeled “The Conning Tower.” These names give you an idea of the sort of thing that Is wanted. Mail as many titles as you wish to the Name Editor, Indianapolis Times. They must be mailed before midnight, Oct. 20. $25 Will Be Paid For the Title Accepted

the busiest at the Industrial Exposition at the State fairground this week. Regardless of the curiosity of thousands of passing

We Ask You, Mr. Jackson To Kd Jackson, Republican Nominee for Governor: [q ECEXTLY The Indianapolis Times asked you a number of ITv questions. These questions are not only those of The Times, hut those of the voters of Indiana. We believe they constitute the principal issue in the State campaign. You have not seen fit to touch on that issue except when you have attempted to inject a religious controversy into the campaign. As you well know, no religious question is involved ii this campaign -it is a question of whether tI.V State shall be governed by the people or by a secret organization which represents only a minority of tlie voters. We repeat the questions with some additional ones, and hope you will see tit to give the voters of Indiana the information they seek: 1. Are you 1 or were you ever a member of the Ku-Klux Klan ? 2. If you are a member of the Klan, you took a solemn oath to dedicate your life, property and sacred honor to upholding the rulings, orders, edicts and mandates of the Imperial Wizard, Grand Dragon and any and all other officers of the order. Could you, if elected, under these conditions, conduct the affairs of the State as Governor, free from special privilege, for ALL the people, Klansmen and others alike, and act as an execu five untrammeled by decrees from the Invisible Empire? 3. Do you believe in the policy of the Ku-Klux Klan in endeavoring to obtain a strangle-hold on the people of Indiana? 4. Do you believe in government by the Ku-Klux Klan or by any other organized body, or do you believe in government by the people? * These questions, Mr. Jackson, are the principal ones involved in this campaign, whether you realize the fact or not. They are questions the voters of Indiana want answered.

MRS. DUVALL HONORED Pythian Sisters Elect Richmond Woman at Session. Grand Temple of Pythian Sisters opening their annual convention here today elected Mrs. Daisy Du vail, of Richmond. Ind., grand outer guard. Other officers were advanced automatically. Mrs. Emma Hefner, of Montlcello, became Grand Chief. The Past Grand Chief's Association at a banquet at the Spink-Arms Wednesday night elected Mrs. Iva Kirwin of Ft. Wayne, president: Mrs. M. E. Constable of Goodland, lnd., vice president, and Mrs. Nellie Eshelmann of Elkhart, secretarytreasurer. Mrs. Ida W. Jane Weaver of Spokane, "Mother of Pythian Sisters,” was guest of honor.

spectators bobbing, waving, curling and other mysterious rites are performed upon maidenly heads all day right out in public.

BOULEVARD GOES PAST OFF 001 Police Stand Guard While Workmen Clear Way. With policemen standing guard, workmen of the James E. McNamara Construction Cos. today cut through the property of Louisa Off, Cooper Ave. and Lafayette Rd., in extending the Kessler Blvd. up Cooper Ave. Capt. Roy Pope, personal investigator for Mayor Shank: Sergeant O’Connor and Patrolmen Sheets and Branch encountered no trouble while trees were uprooted and the right-of-way cleared through the front yard. Mrs. Off had been offered SI,BOO damages by the city, but refused to accept this. Park board officials say she did not protest when final hearing was held on damage roll. MILLION DOLLAR ESTATE Late (’. Perry Leaves Fortune of 81,700,000 to Widow. Under the terms of the will left by the late Charles C. Perry, president of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, who died Sept. 23, the estate is left the widow, Mrs. Capitola A. Perry, 3145 N. Meridian St., and the three children, James A. and Norman A. Perry and Mrs. Ruth Perry Griffith. The estate amounted to $1,700,000, according to figures furnished Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash. Mr. Perry was known as one of the richest men in Indiana. He came to Indianapolis as a poor boy years ago. Walter C. Marmon and Elmer E. Scott were appointed co-executors. The Union Trust Company went on I ? executors’ bond of SIOO,OOO.

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Business Agent of Iron Workers’ Union Involved in Four Indictments Charging Blackmail, Growing Out of Sabotage at Elks Club. John J. McNamara, business agent and secretary of the local bridge and structural iron workers’ union, was placed in Marion county .jail today fifteen minutes after he was indicted by the county grand jury on four charges of hlarkmail. McNamara silently obeyed the officer’s command to come with them and refused to talk with reporters. The business atrent served time in California after the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times and other buildings in 1910. The four indictments follow weeks of intensive investigation of the local labor “war” in which the Elks building was the object of vandalism Aug. 17. Chief among the four indictments was one charging the leader of the iron workers with unlawfully, feloniously and verbally threatening Fred W. Jungelaus, secretary of the William P. Jungelaus Company, contractors on the Elks building in an attempt to force the contractor to use iron workers to install window frames, “against his will.”

This is blackmail, under the statutes, according to Prosecutor "William H. Reniy. The threats occurred about five weeks before SIO,OOO damage was done to metal doors, doc 'and window frame at the Elks Club, after be:ng put in by the Carpenters' Union, it is charged. Boilers Involved The second indictment charges MeI Namara threatened Ben Staggenborg, employe of the Niman Transfer Company, employed to install boilers at the Elks building, to compel Staggenborg against his will to j cease his employment. McNamara claimed the work for the ironworkers, appearing at the incompleted building accompanied by about forty men. Staggenborg says. The third indictment charges the defendant with unlawfully threatening W. S. Frye of the W. S. Frye Transfer Company, who ran hi? business on the open shop plan, to coerce Frye into employing union iron I workers. The last indictment charges j McNamara Interfered with erection | of the smokestack of the new American Legion headquarters building by j threatening William Kellermeyer. an i employe of P. W. Kennedy & Son. McNamara claimed that work for his union, it was said. Within a minute after the indictments were returned Claude Worley. Criminal Court ' investigator and Sheriff George Snider left the courthouse with a warrant for McNamara. Found in Office They went to the Delacourt building, 152 E. Court St., directly opposite the Delaware St. entrance to the Courthouse. Just as they en- j tered the building, a messenger boy ! came in with a telegram addressed to McNamara. They followed the bay to the fourth floor and saw him eni°r McNamara's office. McNamara receipted for the telegram and was j reading it when Worley and Snider j entered. They told him they had a warrant for his arrest and told him the bond was $20,000. He answered: “All right.” These were the only words he uttered to the officers from that minute until after he was lodged in Federal row in jail. He lefused to talk with reporters. McNamara, according to Worley, gave his automobile keys to a man in his office, said something to him regarding bond, and immediately was taken to Jail. He refused to discuss the matter with anyone maintaining absolute silence. Prosecutor Remy and Investigator Worley have worked for more than a month interviewing witnesses and assembling evidence to lay before the grand jury. Scores of witnesses have been interviewed, though no* j all of them were introduced to the jurors. More Evidence Sought The indictments are but the start of the investigation, and more witnesses will be summoned, it was said, j Reluctance of witnesses to tell what | they knew concerning alleged threats of labor troubles have hampered j Remy. The trouble centers about claims of the ironworkers’ union to the right to perform labor of installing metal windows, boilers and other ■imillar work on various cons, ruction in Indianapolis .which has led to continual strife between their union and other unions and non-union companies, Rem'- said. Remy has had numerous conferences with State Attorney General U. S. Lesli, and with Federal j authorities during the investigation. I All other work of the grand jury has been held up by the prosecutor in an effort to lay hands on tangible charges in connection with the labor troubles. Witnesses Are “Sealed" “It was like pulling te<:th to get seme of these witnesses- -o talk," said Worley. "Workers and property owners alike ere scared to death, but j we finally got the evidence to make | an air-tight ease.” “It is high time the people of In j dlanapolis awake to the seriousness j of this situation,” said Remy McNamara will face Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court for arraignment. Judge Collins, while serving as police judge, April 22, 1911, turned the ironworker over to William J. Burns, famous detective, for the trip to Los Angeles, Cal., where McNamwara was* wanted in connection with dynamiting of the j Llewellyn Iron Works in a labor dis- j pute. Despite argument he was kid-

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naped on a charge of which Bums was indicted here, McNamara pleaded guilty, and served twelve years of a fifteen-year sentence in the San Quentin penitentiary in Calif jrnia. Brother Still Held His brother, James B. McNamara, pleaded guilty to murder in connection with dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building Oct. 1, 1910, when twenty-one persons were killed, and is serving a life sentence, i Their counsel was Clarence S. Dar- ; row, Chicago, recently famous in | the Loeb-Leopold trial at Chicago. At the time of the arrest of McNamara in his office at the American Central Life Bldg- eighty pounds of dynamite, fuses, caps, wires and clocks were found in a room he had rented in the building. McNamara's friends sought indictment of Judge Collins because they said he was in the conspiracy to kidnap the labor leader on illegal requisition papers from Governor Hiram W. Johnson of California. Thirty minutes after his arrest McNamara was on his way to the State line in an auto, in custody of Burns, on his way to California. The incident occasioned a nationwide stir, following close on widespread labor wars. Samuel Gompers denounced the McNamaras as j “impostors of the worst kind.” Governor Thomas R. Marshall i honored the requisition papers on j which McNamara was taken out of j the State. AUXILIARY FOR EVERY CHURCH IS METHODIST GOAL Missionary Society Confab to Close Tonight After Record Attendance. An auxiliary in every Methodist church was set as the goal for the ! Women's Missionary Society at the conference of the northwestern branch of the society at the Central M. E. Church. The convention, declared to be the largest gathering of Methodist women ever held, will ; close tonight. Eau Claire, Wis., was awarded the 1925 convention. Reports Os activities were made. An effort will be made to better living conditions of missionaries. Mrs. ; Frederick D. Leete, Indianapolis, - conducted the quiet hour. Mrs. Mary Ninde Gamewell, re- ; turned missionary to China, author [ of “Ming Kwong—City of the Morning Light,” official textbook, spoke. Mrs. Geretrude Voighlander Tweedie of Chicago will speak on "India's New Woman at the closing session tonight. Miss Flornce E. Vickery wil Head devotions. Mrs. J. M. Avann will preside at a service for outgoing missionaries. Eleven who will receive commissions: ♦Miss Edla V. Anderson, North China conference; Dr. Hawthorne Darby, Philippine Islands conference; Miss Helma J. Fernstrom, R. N. Northwest India conference: Miss Opal Elsie Hepler. Central China conference: Miss Frances Sweet Meader, Central China conference: Miss Ruth Elizabeth Nort.hcott, Southeast Africa conference; Miss Dorothy Alice Peabody, Bombay (India) conference: Miss Hildegarde M. Schlemmer, Central Provinces (India) conference; *Miss Ruth McKinley Sewall. Central China conference; Miss Ellen Maria Studley. North India or North China; Miss Moneta Jean Troxell, Korea. About five hundred young people will attend the banquet tonight. Mrs. A. E. Craig of Evansville will* preside. Mrs. Mary Gamewell will speak. Walk’s Mission Fruitless Republican State | Chairman Clyde A. Walb returned from Chicago today. where he visited national headj quarters on a finance mission. “Did you* get any money?” Walb was asked. "Not a dollar," h©*said.