Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 149

THE TIMES IS ANTI-KLAN

A government of the people, by the people and for the people— Or — A government of the people by the Klan and for the Klan. That’s the issue in next Tuesday’s Indiana election. It overshadows all other issues. Party lines are fading. No longer is it —are you a Democrat or a Republican or an Independent—but instead, are you Klan or anti-Klan? ' The Times wants no misunderstanding as to its attitude.

31 CRAZED BY DEADLY GAS FUMES Five Workers in Standard Oil Laboratory Die After Becoming Violently In- • sane —Mysterious Vapor! Studied by Government, By I'nitrd Prat NEW YORK. Oct. 30.—Eleven ! more victims of “looney gas” in I Reconstruction Hospital today brought the total of men crazed from the deadly fumes of lead inhaled :n the laboratory of the Standard Oil Company at Bayway, N. J., to thirty-one. Herbert Fuson of Elizabeth. N. J., died today in Reconstruction Hospital, bringing the list of victims who died after becoming violently insane to five. Six in hfis pitals are reported in a serious condition. Only ten of the forty-five men employed at the laboratory, which haa been closed, remain unaffected. The Federal Government has taken a hand In the investigation, and is sending experts from Washington laboratories of the Bureau of Mines to make researches into the nature of the gas malady and strive to find an antidote. endls predicted FOR LONGDROUGHT Showers Forecast for Friday by Weather Man, _ Showers were predicted for Friday to break the drought that has existed for the past three weeks. The last rain occurred Oct. 7. The long dry period has not been unusual, however, according to the weather bureau. A similar drought occurred In 1920, although it came in the early part of the month. Heavy rains fell the first week in October. Strong southerly winds with probably gales are expected to accompany the showers Friday, followed by cooler weather. HOl RI,Y TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 57 10 a. m 65 7 a. m 66 11 a. m 68 8 a. m 58 12 (noonl .... 72 9 a. m. 60 1 p. m 74

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‘Cal ’ Wins By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 30— Final total of the Literary Digest poll of 2.386.052 voters publlsed today shows President Coolidge leading with 1.348,003 votes. Senator La Follette second with 508.516 and John W. Davis immediately at La Follette s heels with 605.410. La Follette, however. Is given only Wisconsin. Davis is given Texas. Arkansas. Tennessee and Kentucky and all the old South. Coolidge is given everything else except California. Nevada, Oklahoma. North and South Dakota. West Virginia and Maryland, which are listed as “doubtful."

SCRIPPS-HOWARD ANNOUNCES STAND ON INCOME LISTS Believing It a Duty, Twenty-' i Five Newspapers Will Continue Publication, Robert P. Scripps, editorial direc- 1 tor, and G. B. Parker, general ed itorial executive, of the twenty-five Scrlpps-Howard newspapers, which include The Indianapolis Times, fol lowing receipt of an opinion on the income tax publicity subject from the law firm of Baker, Hostetler & Sidlo, announce the following policy in regard to income tax lists. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War in the Wilson Cabinet, is senior member erf the lone firm referred to. The announcement: “The Scripps-Howard newspapers intend to continue publications of Income tax payments. “The Scripps-Howard newspapers take this position, not because of any tendency or desire on their part to defy a law, but, on the contrary, because c.f a desire to serve the law.” “They believe publicity of income tax payments is a thing specifically called for by Congress in its latest legislation on the subject. “And they therefore believe they would not be performing the service they should perform if they withheld from their readers the information Congress Intended to be made public. “They conceive as a basic mission of a newspaper the quick and convenient transmission of public records —that it is manifestly im(Turn to Page 7) City Auto Tax Favored Legislation establishing a city automobile tax was approved by the legislative committee of the Indiana Municipal League meeting at the Statehouse. Other legislative measures recommended, included provision to return interest on Barret law funds to general funds. Another meeting will be held Nov. 22.

KLAN RIOT AT NILES, 0., IS FEARED Meeting Between Ku-Klux Leaders and Heads of Opposing Faction Arranged to Avert Trouble at Parade Saturday, Bu Times Special NILES, 0., <Jct. 30.—Efforts were being made here Today to avert a clash between members of the Ku i Klux Klan and opponents of the Klan In which bloodshed and violence is threatened. Feeling between the ! two factions in the community is ] intense and it is declared that mob I violence is inevitable unless a truce can be arranged. The trouble between the Klan and the anti-Klan elements has been of i long standing. The opponents of i the Klan have formed an organ,- j zation known as tho Knights of the Flaming Circle and tho two sac- j tions are in open warfare. No Klan parade ever has geen held I in Niles. The immediate cause of the present situation is the proposal \ oif th Klan to parade here. Saturday afternoon. * First Called Off About six months ago the Klan | obtained a permit for a parade, it was warned by the Knights of the ' Flaming Circle that no parade would ' be permitted. The parade, after con- j siderable discussion, was railed off. However, crowds gathered at the time the parade was to be held and a number of lights ensued. Women as well as men were injured. After this incident, the Knights of the Fl;m.ing Circle paraded several times. VVhenever the Klan burned a fiery cross a darning circle was burned by the opposition "“orgi • tion. Permit. Is Refused The Klan obtained a permit for the parade scheduled for Saturday afternoon from Mayor Kistler. Immediately afterward tho Knights of the Flaming Circle asked for a permit to parade at the same time. This permit was refused. Tuesday night a bomb exploded under the homo of Mayor Kistler, causing considerable damage to the property, but no one was Injured. Klansmen have been told they will be forcibly prevented from parading, ing. A meeting between leaders of the Klan and leaders of the Knights of j the Flaming Circle was scheduled for this afternoon in an effort to bring about an agreement against violence. The Identity of the persons calling the meeting was kept secret, but it is said they are business men who are not affiliated with either faction and who wish to prevent violence. It was said that if the effqrt to bring about a truce fails. Governor Donahey may be asked to send troops here. MORE MONEyTn BANKS Indiana Deposits Increase 9.6 Per Cent, Federal Reserve Says. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—Savings deposits in the thirty-eight Federal banks in Indiana totalled $53,783,625 ion Sept. 1. the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago announced today. This is an increase over 1920 deposits of 9.6 per cent. Savings deposits in the fifty-six Federal reserve banks in Illinois totalled $405,940,110, an increase of 20.1 per cent. Do You Remember — When Ward Brothers had a drug store on the North side of St. three i doors west of Pennsylvania

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCT. 30, 1924

Accordingly it Is herewith printing in type that you can read while you run — THE TIMES IS ANTI-KLAN The Times did not make the issue. The Klan made it. But The Times accepts it. The Times believes in government by majority—not in government by minority. The Ku-Klux Klan stands for government by minority—and self-chosen minority at that. The Times does not believe any secret society should be permitted to become Indiana’s super-government.

‘ Rouge, A J ot Rough Stuff \ ’ Is Girl Bandit's Creed \ Service C l--- IIICAGO, Oct. 30. —“ Rouge has rough stuff brat a mile. There's no such animal a.s a sheik. Any man will hoof It plenty to see a yard of silk if the wind 1h blowing.” Such are the samples of the "wise cracki: g” philosophy of If,, year-old Evelyn Krueger, under arrest bote as the country's youngest bandit queen. Sophisticated beyond her years, Evelyn tells a tale of lawlessness that reads more like a chapter from out of a Jesse James Wild West novel. — What she wanted from life s * lf ' un. She left tho “rough stuff to “Rougs got me by.” Rays Helen. “I used to give the dumb teds a beautiful smile. And they’d alwnv: fall, because I had my lips ail red“l’d steer them out where th boys were waiting. They'd do the rest. It was lots of fun." Four of Helen's male companions —youths of 20 —are In custody with She was their leader. They say j. and*a number of safe cranking J•! < HL v %, * ■slj . A few months ago Helen was EVELYN kid r-LLR clerking In a 5-and-10 cent store. “Whatta life that was,” she reflects. “When I gut through 1 had to come home and fold my hands to look sweet for tho folks. "The argel child stuff was driving me cuckoo. I stood It 'on;: enough nnd then one night I ups and calls my man. I was going to be married to him before long. “ ‘Louis,’ says, 'let’s go.’ And that’s what we did. “But take it from me, there’s nothing In this rough Btuff.”

POISON GAS USED BY CHINESE ARMY Chi Li Forces Try Modern Methods of Warfare, Ity United Press SHANGHAI. Oct. 3b.—Poison gas Jias been used by armies battling In the north, according to a Mukden wireless communique today. Clouds of gas w n re loosed by Chi LI forces Wednesday, the communique says. It was the first time gas ever has been used in Chinese warfare. Gen. Lu Yung Hsiang, defeated south China, leader who fled to Japan after being chased from Shanghai, has arrived at Mukden and is conferring with Marshal Chang Tso Lin, the Manchu leader, regarding a possible return to this > it} , the communique said. Lu, it is supposed, asks for the Job of Tuchum of Shanghai in event Chang wins in the north and Is able to extend his control to this city. Foreigners and Chinese here will unite in an appeal to prevent this, believing it would mean renewal of warfare. HUSBAND HANGS SELF Jailed in Quiz of Wife’s Death, lie Ends Own Life. By United Press BELVIDERE, N. J., Oct. 30. Frank Thomas, held as a material witness in connection with the murder of his wife, Grace, committed suicide during the night by hanging himself to a bar of his cell door in the county jail here. During the questioning by police Wednesday Thomas stoutly maintained his innocence of the murder of his wife, whose body was found Tuesday on a ledge near an abandoned mine shaft. She had been shot.

‘Cal’s’Dad Bu United Free* BURLINGTON, Vt., Oct. 30. —Col. John C. Coolidge, father of President Coolidge, paid an income tax of $3.41, according to the tax lists here.

TAGGART RETURNS TO ENTER FIGHT Democratic Chieftain Shows Effects of Illness, Smiling, gracious, shaking hands | with both hands to scores of friends ! who crowded about him. This was Torn Taggart, veteran i Democratic chieftain, as he stepped from the train at Union Station today to take part in the closing days of the 1924 campaign. A little weak and pale front his long illness In a Boston hospital, I but displaying some of his old-time vigor, Taggart greeted his friends. More than a score of colored Democratic politicians, Including Henry Fleming, greeted the leader. Taggart declared Indiana is safe for the Democrats. “New York Is looking fine, and there is little question that we ll carry Rhode Island,” Taggart said. Mrs. Taggart and his daughter, Miss Du cy Taggart, accompanied I him from Boston. He will spend his ! time here at his homo on N. Delaware St. 3* TRAIN EXPLOSION PROBED Death Toll Mounts to Eight: Com- / munist. Leader Among Victims. T)U United Press Vancouver, b. c„ oet. so.— Exact cause of the train explosion which kil'ed Peter Veregin, head of the Doulthobor Colony, Nelson, B. C., and seven other persons, may never be known, Investigators said today. Two of twelve injured died during the night, bringing the total dead to eight. Another is reported dying. The Doukhobor Colony, one of the largest communist colonies in the world, is left leaderless as result of Veregin’s death. Man Dies in Store Albert Robinson, 87, of 208 N. East St., was at the Barrett Hardware Store, 534 E. Washington St., Wednesday when he fell over dead. Coroner Robinson ordered the body taken to the Royster & Askin funeral parlors pending location of a son and daughter said to reside in the city.

It believes that a Kleagle or a Kludd or a Konclave, sitting behind a screen, should not be allowed to steer the ship of State. That’s why The Times is against the Klan. A vote for Jackson is a vote for the Klan. A vote for McCulloch is a vote against the Klan. That’s the alignment for Tuesday next — ajnd all else is incidental. The Times tomorrow will go into some detail to tell why it thinks this Klan issue is so vital—why, in its opinion, the State election of Nov. 4,1924, is the most important in fifty years.

HAYS SILENT AS A MOVIE “Not One Word About Politics,” j Says Rig Boss of Films. “Not one word about politics,” said Will IT. Hays, once Republican : national chairman and once PostI master General in the Warren G. i Harding Administration, now dlrec- | tor general of the movies, today. “This motion picture business Is i momentous thing and is worth giving all my time to.” Hays arrived today nnd addressed 'he clubwomen of IndHna under the .inspires of the Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays. SENATE PROBERS HEAR TESTIMONY ON STATE FUNDS Connecticut Collections Investigated Balance Admitted, liy United Press WASHINGTON. Oct. SO.—Moneyraising methods of the Connecticut G. O. P. were explored today by the Senate coinmmittee investigating ! campaign funds. J. Henry Rorabach, Connecticut G. O. P. chairman, testified his committee raised $55,557. Os this amount he said $7,600 still was on | hand to be used “to get out tho | vote’ ’on election day. Changes Story Under cross-examination he adj mitted between $25,000 and $30,000 i was still in the hands of Morgan B. 1 Brainarrl, head of the Connecticut ! Republican ways and means committee. “A part of that money will be used in the special senatorial election to be held on Dec. 16,” said the witness. Henry Rogers Winthrop of New York, Republican senatorial committee treasurer, testified bis committee | received a total of $113,640 .of which j $106,000 was furnished by the Re- | publican national committee. William Skinner, New York, chairman of the “dry goods" sub- ; committee of the Republican “contributions committee," said his committee has collected $54,000. Senator Bayard, Delaware, read several letters sent out by Skinner soliciting funds. In one Skinner said "the election of President Coolidge Is of vital Interest to the silk industry.” Admits Advertisements Frank P. Walsh, counsel for Senator La, Follette, declared “protected industries," were making campaign contributions through newspaper advertisements and Skinner admitted advertisements were inserted for political purposes. “Then these advertisements are clearly an evasion of the Federal law prohibiting corporations from making campaign contributions," Walsh declared. Skinner replied that he did not know tthe law. When Skinner left the stand. Caraway announced that George K. Morris, chairman of the Republican State committee of New York, had sent a telegram refusing to respond to the committee’s subpoena. “If he refuses to come we may assume he had something he does not wish to disclose,” Caraway said.

No Stealing Bu Times Special MARION, Ind., Oct. 30.—Marion police are thinking of putting “no stealing” on “no parking” signs. Leslie Andrews, Claude Cotton. George Wycoff and James Welch were arrested, charged w r ith trying to steal one of the signs. Police report several stolen, and threaten heavy fines to break up the practice.

Entered as Second-class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis Published Daily Except Sunday.

BRITISH CONSERVATIVE PARIY IS SWEPT INTO PBWERBYHEAVYVBTE 9 Liberal Group Is Crushed in Overwhelming Election—Premier MacDonald, David Lloyd George and Baldwin Are Returned to House. By United Press LONDON, Oct. HO.—A tremendous Conservative landslide in the general elections has assured the party of Stanley Baldwin a clear majority in the next Parliament. Piling up tremendous gains in all parts of the country, the Conservative party had obtained a clear majority of seats in the next Parliament by mid-afternoon and returns were increasing the scope of their “kndslide” victory every half hour. By 6 p. m. the Conservatives had obtianed 364 of the 651 seats in the House of Commons. They will have a majority of approximately eighty-five votes when final returns are in, it is believed. I

The largest vote in years was cast and the largest women’s vote in history. Labor received Its largest popular vote, but in all parts of the British Isles the Conservatives made heavy inroads Into Labor and Liberal ranks. Prime Minister MacDonald was elected. So was David Lloyd George. H. H. Asquith was defeated. Winston Churchill was suceessfu. Stanley Baldwin was returned unopposed. Women candidates met unexpected defeat in many constituencies. Lady Astor won at Plymouth, but Margaret Bonfield, Lady Terrington and Mrs. Wintrlngham. all members of the last Parliament, were beaten. At 4 p. m. the status of the general election results was: Seats Net Net Won. Gain Loss. Conservatives .... 359 137 Labor 142 .. 33 Liberals 37 .. 99 Independents .... 4 .. 2 Constitutionalists.. 2 2 .. Communists 1 1 The swing to the right, which carried the Conservatives in, nearly crushed the Liberal party out of existence. The Liberals lost more than 100 seats and will have the smallest parliamentary representation in their history. The Conservative press hailed the overwhelming victory as the electors’ response to the sound business and imperial policy offered by Baldwin and his colleagues, but the Liberal and Labor press are convinced the voters were stampeded at the eleventh hour by the affair of the “Zinoviev letter." Baldwin in Line If the forecast of a majority for the conservatives Is fulfilled ex-Pre-mier Baldwin will be able to form a ministry and carry on in Commons without the necessity of effecting a coalition with the Liberals. Several million more women went to the polls throughout England, northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales than ever turned out for a general election before and to their vote much of the Conservative success is attributed. The voting everywhere was extremely heavy, probably constituting a record, more than 80 per cent of the electorate turning out. The Daily News, Liberal, conceding defeat, said this morning: “It looks now as though the To.-y majority In the new Parliament would not only be absolute but strong Enough to ride roughshod over united opposition.” The Westminister Gazette, Liberal, said today: ‘Tteis clear that a worked up ‘red’ |*\-il in the Tory press sent the balaiW'V elector Into the Tory ThluSv-iil pxcas s&DeraUy a&teas

Forecast Mostly cloudy touight and Friday with showers Friday. Warmer tonight, cooler FViday. Strong winds.

TWO CENTS

Party Aims Copyright, 1924, United Press ONDON, Oct. 30.—Former Premier Stanley Baldwin, just before the elections, set forth in an exclusive signed statement for the United Press the platform of his party, which he probably will now be called upon to put into effect. The leader pledged the party to: 1. Safeguard employment and standard of living of the people by applying the principle of protection In any efficient Industry imperilled by unfair foreign competition. 2. Encourage mutual trade In the Empire by imperial preference. 3. Promote Empire development and settlement through national financial aid. 4. Support and strengthen the League of Nations. 5. Appoint a commission to study the food situation, particularly Increased food prices. 6. Refrain from opposition to trade with Russia or from Interference with the domestic system of government in Russia, but oppose a loan to Russia. 7. Produce a remedy for the unemployment situation.

that the results showed a “panic vote.” Among those places where the overwhelming Conservative victory was received with enthusiasm wa* the stock market, which opened firm in response to overnight reports that. Baldwin's party was sweeping the country. FIRE AT COLUMBUS Lumber Yard and Garage Burn— Loss $75,000. jm By V FA Service COLUMBUS, Ind.. Oct. 30.—Fi’CJ starting from spontaneous co- J tlon in a sawdust pile at the luyard of J. R. Dunlap & Cos. tod stroyed the lumber yard, the C'f* 'efvp Swain garage and the C. J. E&. bottling works. The fire was still raging afternoon and much other property was threatened. The loss is estimated at $75,000. More Meat Eaten The increased consumption of. meat in this country Is shown by the greater number of animaJs slaughtered. Nearly 80 §OO,OOO in speited animalswwere kiwd in the year ending 34*e 30, 1934. Threefifth* of ihc rf ?.V'.T*r hog*.