Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1924 — Page 12

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NEW AND WATSON STRUGGLE SEEN BEHIND CAMPAIGN Some Observers Believe Cabinet Post Is at Stake in Indiana Vote. (This is the first of two articles. The second will appear Saturday.) Back of the silence of certain influential Republicans m the campaign of Ed Jackson for Governor, political observers today professed to see continuation of the years old struggle between Postmaster General Hairy S. New and United States Senator James E. Watson for strangle-hold control of the Republican State organization. Some politicians believe outcome of the State election may determine ■whother New retains his cabinet seat, in the event Ccolidge is reelected. Coming closer to home, these observers analyze actions of some Marlon County politicians as moves in the combination eross-word-puzzie contest and checker game for the inside track in the Indianapolis mayoralty primary next spring. At any rate, nine Hoosier Republicans' out of the ten have their eyes on something farther ahead than the gubernatorial race and its Klan and anti-Klan aspect. Here's the way some analyze the tangle: Watson wants to be re-elected United States Senator two years hence. Watson has too many enemies among big and little Republican key men in Indiana to feel secure. Watson has to eliminate New or at least subdue him. Same Old Fight The senior Senator has been at this some time. New men- charge. Two years ago, they insist, Watson covertly aided Albert J. Beveridee to defeat New for the senatorial nomination. Then, with Beveridge rising as anew power. New men say Watson did not do much'io prevent Samuel M. Ralston from decisively beating Beveridge in the election. The late President Harding put New in his Cabinet when New’s senatorial term expired, and Watson still was plagued. He has - to get New kicked out to demonstrate conclusively that James Eli Is the j big Republican boss. So, observers are wondering if reported activity of Watson men for Ed Jackson and reported lethargy of New men is not studied. New men generally are working for Coolldge and ignoring the head of the State ticket. If Ed Jackson is elected and Coolidge carries the State, some observers believe the Watson group will carry the word to Coolidge that Watson was the power who put Jackson across and that Watson’s the man to whom Coolidge has to listen. The next step would be to demand removal of New from the Cabinet, so CIVIL WAR VETERAN, EIGHTY-FOUR, FEELS 25 YEARS YOUNGER Mr. John G. Johnson, Who Fought In Civil War, Gets Wonderful Results From Todd's Tonic, Which Has the Strength-Building Qualities of Rare Old Wine. “I am 84 years old and fought in the Civil War. Naturally, a man of my years needs something to tone up the system. My stomach did not digest my food at all. I was all run down and almost ready to despair of ever getting auy relief and then I was advised to get Todd’s Tonic. I got three bottles some weeks ago and it made me feel so much "better that I got some more since that time aud I want to S3y that I can now eat anything I want to and it does not bother me at all. Todd's Tonic has taken away those racking pains in my hack and limbs and has made .me feel better than I have felt for twenty-five years. I cannot praise Todd's Tonic too highly It is pleasant to take and certainly has the strength building properties of rare old wine. I recommend Todd's Tonic because it is che best medicine I ever heard of. It is a true tonic In every sense of the word.” JOHN G. JOHNSON, 2844 Rader St, Indianapolis. Ind. Todd's Tonic, made from pure California wine, is most pleasant to take. Sold at the Haag Drug Co.’s eight stores and other good drug stores in Indianapolis and throughout this section. HAAG’S 8 Cut Price Drug 114 X. Penn. St. 53 S. Illinois St. 55 Virginia Aye. 27 S. Illinois St. 802 Mass. Aye. 103 IV. Wash. St. 816 N. Ala. St. 156 X. Illinois St. TODD'S JONIC LAXATIVE TABLETS—"A Dose at Night Makes Everything Right.”—Advertisement.

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Farmers Control Forest Fire After Two-Day Battle

JACKSON COUNTY FOREST FIRE

By Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., Qct. 24—The fire which hi* been raging for more than a week over approximately 10,000 acres of timber in Salt Creek Township, in the extreme northwest corner of Jackson County was brought under control today after two days of desperate fighting bv a company of tnen organized by the township trustee. Bruce Ficetwood. Cause of the fire is unknown, but it is thought may have started from a still hidden away in the hills. Starting in the woods just a short distance north of Kurtz, a Station on the Chicago, Milwaukee &. St. Paul Railroad, on Thursday of last week, the fire ate its way north and east until it reached the vicinity of the village of Houston.

Watson can control all Federal patronage in Indiana. Maintain "Regularity” Eut if New men can maintain their Republican regularity by whooping it up for Coolidge and Coolidge wins and Jackson loses, they are said to figure they may say to Coolidge that Watson "isn’t so much. He couldn’t put across his man for Governor.” Viewing Jackson as a Watson man, many workers in the Beveridge primary organization of two years ago are sail to be inactive as the bitter New partisans. Some persons see some points of similarity between the Republican and Democratic State situations. The chief difference lies in the fact that practically all Democrats are set upon electing Dr. Carieton B. McCulloch, Governor and letting the future take care of itself. The similarity lies in the reported lethargy toward John W. Davis, presidential nominee. They sense the Democratic strategy to be: “Cease cussing Coolidge and get all the Republican votes possible Cor McCulloch.” LAST DIVISION DINNER Community to Dine Public Employes Tonight at Claypool. Robert 11. Bryson, chairman of the public employe's division of the Community Fund, will preside tonight at a dinner in the Claypool to be attended by representatives of his division. This will be the sixth and final dinner meeting of the employe divisions of the organization that will stage the annual Community Fund campaign beginning Nov. 7. Commercial employes division No. 1, were dinner guests Thursday evening. Samuel Mueller presided and the commercial campaign workers were addressed by William P. Evans, Homer W. Borst and Charles O. Lee. SAHARA GROTTO FROLIC Monarch O. R. Wald Presides Over Varied Program. This was a day of feasting and revelry for Sahara Grotto, Mystic j Order Veiled Prophets of the En- : chanted Realm at the Athenaeum. Monarch Oliver R. Wald presided over these ceremonies: 3 P. M. —Reception of candidates I and visitors; Charles C. Kuhn, chairman. 4 P. M. —Business meeting. 5 P. M.—Candidates' aud workers' dinner. 6 P. M.—General banquet; Charles Apostol, chairman of committee. 7 P. M. —Parade, with Capt. M. F. Scully as marshal. | 8 P. M. —Ceremonial; James W. Lamkin, master of cast and Frank i Kirkpatrick master of revels Three Are Short-Changed Jacob Streger, owner of a grocery at 762 N. Warman Ave., told police an elderly man entered his store and short-changed him out of $lO today. He was well dressed. Police learned a man of similar description was successful In stores at 770 N. Ilolmc-s Ave. and Walnut and Haugh Sts.

The flames here shifted their course toward the west, running along the south bank of Salt Creek toward the village of Maumee, five miles distant. ’ When the fire was at Its height, Fleetwood organized his fire fight- ! ers, including Joseph Lutes, Clyde j Noe. Winfrey Lutes, Calvin AlexI ander. While the fire has not been entirely extinguished, it is I now burning among the dry leaves I and low underbrush of the woods I near the banks of the creek, where no further damage is anticipated, unless the wind should carry the flames across some narrow point in the stream and into new territory. The ground which lias been burned is all, hill country. The burned tract is estimated at about

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President Coolidge has delivered his last big campaign speech an.l left his case with the people. The speech was radiocast by twentythree stations linked together from coast to coast. The President promised further tax reduction and said: "The estimated income and expenses of the Government for the coming fiscal year Indicate we can have further reductions in taxes. But we can only secure this result by c6ntinuing our policy of drastic reduction." Coolidge today was to confer with his Cabinet and General Lord to dls cuss matters pertaining to the Government budget. The Senate campaign fund investigating committee has summoned twenty-eight prominent men who will be questioned in next three days on sources of the Republican party's fund which now has reached $2,187,027. John \\ . Davis will arrive in New York City today, where he will* wind up his campaign. In his speech Thursday night at Cleveland the Democratic candidate again denounced the Ku-Klux Klan. Senator La Follette was en route to Syracuse, N. Y., where he will speak tonight in the first of a aerie*

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three miles wide and five miles long. Loss will run into thousands of dollars. Hundreds of rabbits, squirrels and coveys of quail, as well as occasional foxes, have been driven from their haunts by the flames. Among those whose timber land has been in the path of the flames are: .1. (1. L. Lutes, 120 acres; George Mitehener, 80 acres; J. D. Derringer, 80 acres; Winfrey Lutes, 80 acres; Lutes, SO acres; William Cummings, 80 acres; Dunham Pruitt. 40 acres; Jack Goble, 40 acres; Elsie Cornett, 80 acres; A. C. Davis, 160 acies; D. L. Beck, 45 acres; these make up only a part of the list of lands which have been burned over during the more than a week which the fire has been burning.

of addressee in New Tork State. Speaking at Grand Rapids, Mich., last night, the Independent nominee upheld his party’s platform as the only constructive plan offered the public. COUNTY JAIL IS BADLYCROWGED More Than Forty Boys Under 21 Inmates, The Marion County jail houses forty or fifty boys, nuder 21, who are waiting trial, the Marlon County board of charities and corrections reported to county commissioners following an inspection of the institution Oct. 21. As there were 240 prisoners, the proportion of boys between the ages of 16 and 21 to older inmates was one in five, the committee found. Boy 8 under 16 are kept in the detention home. Seventeen women were in the jail One is insane, and has been there three weeks, awaiting commitment to an asylum. The Jail is badly crowded, the committee reported, as it has reported for years. "We urge that stops be taken to have the insane woman, now in the Jail, committed to some institution at once,” recommended the report “Our Information is that it is no longer necessary to keep insane pa tients in the county jail this length of time.”

CITIZEN WANTS ALLEY PUT IN GOOD CONDITION Thoroughfare of No Use Without Improvements, He Says, | 1 CITIZEN who complains he I A I might as well nail up his alI H ley as try to use it under present conditions, has been promised relief by the city. A load of gravel or cinders appears to he what citizens want most of Mr. Fixit. It would be the best Christmas present they could get, but they want it long before Christmas. Officials are trying to meet complaints as fust as they are filed at the street commissioner's office. Frank Reid, foreman, says. Here are today’s letters to Mr. Fixit: MR. FIXIT—If nothing else, can you get us two or three loads of | cinders so we can use our allley? j Otherwise, we might as well nail it jup this winter. It is in the 400 j block between Rural and Gray Sts. j Edward Glove, 429 S. Rural St. W, B. Schoenrogg of the street commissioner's office has promised to investigate and have your alley put in good condition. • • • MR. FIXIT—Is there some way to help traffic at Blake add New York Sts.? Automobiles are allowed to park on both sides of the street, making it necessary for cars to wait on each other to get through. Your letter has been referred to : the police traffic department and ; officers will make an investigation. • • • TO DR. GEORGE E. WEIR. 184 s N. Rural St—Officials of tlie street commissioner’s office have your complaint and will make an Investigation immediately. MR. FIXIT—When they paved Twenty-Fifth St. they left such a hole at the end of the paving at first all*-y west of Northwestern Ave. that it is nearly impossible to get through. A load of cinders would help. F. B. G. Frank Reid, foreman in the street commissioner's office, will investigate and have the hole in the street properly repaired. CABBAGE IMPORTANCE Now Ranks Third In Country's Vegetable Group. Cabbage has become the third Host Important vegetable in the United States, reports the United States Department of Agriculture. Potatoes and tomatoes are the only vegetables that out-rank it. More than 30,000 carloads of cabhuge are marketed annually. Threefifths conies mostly from the North and West, and the rest from the South. New York, Philadelphia, Pitt* burgh and Chicago nro the largest consuming centers. Kraut manufacturers take about one seventh of the commercial crop. Kain measuring four and a half Inches fell during a thunderstorm which broke over Kensington. Igmlon, in 1917, while other parts of the English metropolis were not affected

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THE REV. W. L. ZIMMERMAN. Funeral services for the Rev. William Li. Zimmerman, 1138 W. Twenty-Ninth St., who was killed Thursday when his automobile was struck by an east-bound Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company car near Greencastle. Ind., will be held at the Church of God, 1240 Roach St., Saturday at 2:30 p. rn. Burial will be at Crown Hill. He is survived by the widow, and a daughter, Iva May Zimmerman, LEBANON MAN ARRESTED Testimony in City Court Leads to Apprehension Second Time. Charles Rider, Lebanon, Ind.. was rearrested today on charges of assault and battery and failure to stop after an accident, following testimony given in city court when he appeared to answer to charges of driving while under influence of lltjuor Oct. 1. It was charged Rider collided with a machine driven by William Harold. 1562 W. New York St., near Traders Point, Ind., in which several persons were injured. Trial has been postponed until several witnesses can appear. THREE BODIES REMOVED Rescuers Brave After Damp to Enter Kentucky Mine, /ft/ I nifed I-rrnn MADISuNVILI.E. Ky.. Oct. 24. Wearing oxygen helmets as a safeguard against after-damp, rescuers have removed bodies of three men killed in dust explosion at Hart Coal Corporation mine. Gilland Joyre, 25; Thomas Chinn 30, and Paul Wheeler, 19, were buried under five feet of slate. Fourteen others. Imprisoned by the explosion, managed to climb out to safety. PLAN TO REMOVE JOG Works Board to Inspect Sixteenth and Illinois St. Project. Plans for removing the jog at Sixteenth and Illinois Sts. will he sub mitted to the board of works Wednesday bv Frank C. Llngenfel ter, city engineer. According to plans, the business bI.K-k at the southeast comer wil' be removed and the street, curved, similar to Sixteenth and Delaware Sts. A similar step was attempted in the Jewett administration, but controversy over assessment costs stopped the project.

MANY COLORED G. 0. P. VOTERS FAVOR M’CULLOCH Some Are Emphatic in Changing to Democratic Party. Indianapolis colored voters, who have been stanch Republican workers all their life, will cast their first Democratic vote this year, a poll of fifty persons on Indiana Ave., between Senate Ave. and AVest St., showed. Forty-four were Republicans last election, four are first voters, and two Democrats. Forty-seven emphatically said they were for McCulloch, while three insisted they w r ere loyal to the G. O. P. Thirtysix said they will vote for Davis, nine for Coolidge, one for La Follette, and four undecided. The one w'ho will vote for La Follette is a first voter and is a McCulloch man. The poll: Coolidge 9 La Follette 1 Davis 36 Undecided 4 Total 50 For Governor McCulloch 47 Jackson 3 Total 50 Total in Times poll to date; Coolidge . .459 Davis 277 La Follette 108 McCulloch ..........480 Jackson 346 Total 1,670 Many refused to tell their sentiments. replying “that’s nobody’s business but mine.” They were suspicious of party workers who have been “checking-up” the avenue, it was said. “Straight Democratic,” was the reply of one man who had been a Republican worker for thirty years. “Yes, sir, as long as the Heavens is high, I am going to be Democratic. And that ain't all either, my wife and family of ten is going to pull the Rooster," he said. He said If he were more experienced he would scratch and vote for Coolidge. but was afraid some one would Instruct him incorrectly. ! Gone, but Not Forgotten i An automobile reported stolen belongs to; R. B. Christian, 635 N. West St., Auburn, from Missouri and Tenth Sts. Hats “trimmed” with landscapes painted around the crowr. is anew Parisian fashion.

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BODY SHIPPED TO ITALY Widow Negotiates With Government for Two .Months. By Times Special CLINTON, Ind., Oct. 24.—The body of Pete Linzi, former business man here, who died last February, has been shipped to Italy. The body was exhumed from a local cemetery this week under direction of the widow, who had no relatives in this country and wished to return to her native iand. Proceedings for exhuming che body started two months ago and required much negotiations with the Italian government, State board of health and railroad companies. A special permit also had to be obtained from the town of Pavono, Italy, where burial will be made. DAVIS BACK IN HEART OF EAST Begins Campaign in New York Saturday. By V nit erf Press EN ROUTE WITH JOHN W. DAVIS, Oct. 24.—Back to the heart of the East John W. Davis came to concentrate his campaign until election day. Tonight he will sleep at home in Locust Valley and Saturday begin a whirl around New York City. Democratic leaders acclaim his fif-teen-day tour of the Middle West a success. They believe his trip has accomplished: 1. A strong feeling in border States of Missouri, and Kentucky, which will injure him a safe majority in each of these. 2. Union of discordant forces within the party in Illinois, which will carry several new districts for him. 3. Bolstering of Democratic ranks in Indiana and Ohio, which will be felt election day. A parrot owned by Mrs. C. H. Williams of San Antonio, Tex., sings the complete choruses of both “Tipperary ' and “Silver Threads Among the Gold.” EXCURSION SUNDAY, OCT. 26 CINCINNATI $2.75 Shelbyville 65 Greensburg 1.10 Batesville 1.50 Round Trip Special Train Leave* Indianapolis 7:00 a. in. Returning Leaves Cincinnati 7:15 p. m.. Central Standard Time. City Ticket Office, 34 W. Ohio St. end Union Station SagßmrHogtel