Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 207

STATE LEGISLATURE OPENS

BRANCH ASKS ECONOMY OF LAW MAKERS Governor, in Legislative Message, Urges Tax Measure Be Left Alone, 1923 Auto License-Re-enacted and Teeth for Blue Sky Bill. Urging members of the Legislature to “leave their politics at home while making laws,” Governor Emmett F. Branch in his message to the joint session of the General Assembly today called for a rigid retrenchment wherever possible in State expenditures. Alter recommending that the burden of taxation be kept at the lowest point consistent with good government, Governor Branch told the Legislature the budget system should be extended to include all State departments. The legislative program recommended by the Governor included these planks: Modification of the primary law so that it will be optional as to local primaries and compulsory to select delegates to the State conventions which shall nominate the entire State tickets.

PARIS CONFERENCE OVERSHADOWED BY DEBT DJSCUSSIONS B/jtain Willing to Permit ... jjr- , , Cancellation of French Obligations, Bv United Preen PARIS. Jan. 8. debts overshadowed the Paris financial conference today. Before today’s session of the conference of finance ministers took up partition of Dawes payments. Winston Churchill and M. Clementel resumed discussion of the French debt to England. The British chancellor of the exchequer informed the French finance minister that Britain maintains proposals made by the late Bonar Law providing for almost total cancellation of the debt under certain conditions. These include abandonment by France of a billion gold marks sent to the Bank of England in wartime. Col. James A. Logan, one of the American representatives at the conference, also conferred again today with Churchill, continuing negotiations on the subject on the claims of the United States to a share in the Dawes payments. The United States claims the right to share in Dawes payments to the extent of the costs of the. Rhine Army of Occupation and American war damages. All the allies save Britain agreed in principle with the American claims. The French foreign office hinted vaguely today that proposals for a broad debt settlement may be discussed by representatives of the United States, England, France and Italy during the pesent financial conference. France and Belgium are believed to favor a general debt conference at Brussels. Winston Churchill denied knowledge of such a plan. AGREEMENT REPORTED British Hare Consented to American Claims, Washington Believes. Bv United Preen WASHINGTON. Jan. B.—An agreement between Great Britain and the United States under which the latter will receive payments of war claims out of the reparations fund is in sight, officials said today after reading Ambassador Herrick's cabled report of Wednesday’s session of the Paris financial conference. Winston Churchill. British chancellor of the exchequer, has agreed to the compromise offered by the United States more than a month ago and reaffirmed in the Washington note to London last Monday, it is understood. I Rooms Are Being Quickly Rented Ogden Brooking ran this little want ad in The Times: 65 S. SUMMIT St.: large front room; unfurnished; light housekeeping; private home; very reasonable. And rented the room immediately. There are still hundreds of prospects for vacant rooms who ca, be reached through a little Times want ad.

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Taxation of busses and trucks and their regulation by the public service commission. Reenactment of the 1923 schedule of auto license fees. Strengthening of the blue sky law. Extension of the system of rural police. Taxation of all bonds. Creation of a department of Safety in the public service commission. Stringent laws dealing with reckless auto drivers. Passage of the sounty unit school bille. Authority for the Governor to remove local law enforcement officers for failure to perform their duties. Branch expressed his opposition to centralization of control of State institutions in the hands of a board of three of five members. Favors Separate Control “Under our present system we have a nonpartisan board which gives its attention to the needs of each institution,” the Governor said. “The results have been splendid. We should not ,ower the standard of control or permit the boards to become involved ii. politics.” The best thing the Legislature can do to the State-tax law is to leave It alone. Branch declared. “The present law is the best Indiana has had in my opinion,” he continued. “It should not be marred by legislative efforts and I suggest that you do not tinker with it.” Pointing out that there are hundreds of mental defectives in ti e State for whose care no provision has been made, the Governor told the Legislature to use the pruning knife with discretion in dealing with the appropriation requests of benevolent institutions. “Requests of these institutions have been Carefully checked by the (Turn to Page 6) SPEEDERCOURT SEES 91 EINED Holidays Give Wilmeth His Heaviest Docket, Ninety-one motorists -frere fined and forty-six cases continued in speed sessions of city court today. Seven cases, mostly in which speed of twenty-eight miles an hour was alleged, were discharged. Judgment was withheld in two cases, one bond was forfeited and four re-arrests ordered. One driver was sentenced to the Indiana State Farm. Judge Wilmeth had his heaviest speed docket, many cases being postponed until today because no speed session was held Christmas and New Year’s day. The following alleged speers were arrested Wednesday night; Mrs. Mayme Montgomery, 34, Shelbyville, Ind.; Lemuel Radford, 20, of 2450 Baltimore Ave.; Paul Carter, 24, Danville, Ind.; C. H. Steerafort, 46, of 1724 Cottage Ave.; Otis Waggoner, 21, of 1061 N. Tremont AVe.; Dell Parker, 28, of 1333 Churchman Ave.; Hubert Hardy. 26. of 2134 Wendell Ave. v . BLAST AT CINCINNATI Scores Injured When Natural Gas Explodes. Bv United Prenn CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. B.—More than a score of persons were injured and the lives of hundreds were Imperiled in an explosion of natural gas at a booster station today. Flames made rescue work difficult and several men were pinned down by debris. The explosion occurred when an

Women Members of Indiana House Say They Will Make Speeches and Offer Several Bills

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T r— ”|HE two women members of thk lower house of the Sev-enty-Fourth General Assembly are eager politicians" an# are deeply interested in politics generally. Mrs. Antoinette C. Hagenwald is from Terre Haute and Mrs. Elizabeth H. Daugherty from Treaty. “Like it?. Why, I’m just crazy about it,” said Mrs. Hagenwald. She referred to politics.

DENTIST VICTIM | ON TONGHATRED University Graduate Stabbed With Seaman's Stiletto, Bn Unfed Prenn NEW YORK, Jan. B.—Death, resulting from bloody tong war hatred that already had caused murder of two relatives within a month, Wednesday night claimed Dr. Wah Chang, graduate of the Vanderbilt dental clinic, Columbia University. Chang was found in his office, a Chinese seaman’s stiletto through his neck. Chin Hing and Chin Song, cousins of the victim, recently were slain in similar fashion. A trial resulting from the tong war ended here today when a Jury found Lee Hai, gunman, guilty of second degree murder in the death of Gong Cheng Foon, who was killed in his laundry Thanksgiving. Lee Hai was sentenced from twenty years to life Imprisonment.^

MUNCIE JUDGE DIES Succumbs Suddenly in City Court —Overwork Blamed by Doctors. Bv United Prenn MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. B.—City Judge Lance M. Coons, 55, dropped dead in cour: today. Attending physicians assigned heart trouble and overwork as the cause. He was serving the last year of a four-year term. LIEUTENANT IS GALLANT Speed Cop O. K.’s Check for Fine of Girl He Arrested. Lieut. Earl Halstead proved a real Samaritan to Miss Marie Arens, 20, of 4823 Central Ave., whom he ar-rested-Wednesday on a speed charge. After he took Miss Arens to headquarters he loaned her car fare to get to classes at Butler. Today when she was fined sls and costs in city court the clerk refused to take her check unendorsed, Halstead endorsed it. DRY UNIT PROBE OPENS _ Watson’s Opposition to Publicity Results in Closed Doors. By United Prenn WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—lnvestigation of the prohibition unit by the Couzens Senate committee opened behind closed doors today, the committee deciding ‘'publicity is not compatible with the best interests of the Government.” Closed sessions were agreed bn

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 8, 1925

MRS. ANTOINETTE C. HAGENWALD (RIGHT)

“I just get bo Interested in things, and, Although every ttme I Agaln.-Club/ whan the- next election rolls around I just get right in and do everything I can to help,” the legislator said. “I suppose I will have to make some speeches In the Hbuse, for I am going to have some bills t sent,” Mrs. Hagenwald said.

CHILD LABOR LAW OPPONENTS SCORED 'insidious Lobby' Works to Prevent Enactment of Amendment, Senator Walsh Charges, Bv United Prenn WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—A charge that a “sickening and sorbid” movement has been organized to defeat ratification of the child labor amendment by the State Legislatures was made in the Senate today by Senator Thomas J. Walsh, chief investigator in the Teapot Pome inquiry.

Walsh said that in this movement, which is well organized and "liberally financed,” are some lobbyists who have been previously discredited. He advocated an investigation by the Senate into activities of the "insidious lobby of 1923” and charged that- the National Association of Manufacturers and its counsel, James Emery, at present agitating against child labor amendment, then received “unenviable prominence.” “It was then estimated by correspondents that the unspeakable Mr. Mulhi.ll had operated for a number of, years about Washington as the lobbyist for that organization under the direction of Emery," Walsh said. “The activities of the pair took a wide range, but centered in an effort to defeat all legislation in which labor was Interested. “The disclosures constitute the sensatior of that day, the nature of which can be learned by consulting tjie files of the press for the summer of tha. year. It is sufficient to say that neither the association nor its counsel has been conspicuous about the capital since, and it is a matter of speculation whether the boldness evidenced by their present

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AND MRS. ELIZABETH H. DAUGHERTY.

“You know, we women caji talk when .we want something. And don't think we don’t read the tax receipts and know what we’re pay. lng taxes for,” she said. Mrs. Hagenwald is a Republican and says the remarkable thing about her election (s that she was chosen in Vigo Cbunty. Mrs. Daugherty she would introduce several bills, one of im-

appearance is due to a conviction on their part of -a decadence in the moral tone of public life or whether it arises from the belief that times has molified the general indignation to which their acts gave rise. “The National Association of Manufacturers as such has no special interest in children except to make money out of their labor. It is a credit to say that it exists for the purpose, of protect! ig the financial Interests of its members. Its opposition to the child labor amendment is sordidly and sickeningiy selfish.” CLUB SUES MEMBERS F. W. Ball and W. H. Dlddell Are Named Defendants. Three suits asking judgment totaling $1,153.08 were filed in Superior Court today by the Highland Golf and Country Club, against Frank W. Ball and William H. Diddell, named as members. Two suits were against Ball. One suit alleged Ball subscribed to take five shares of the corporation capital stock for which is due with interest. Other suit was a complaint on account alleging Ball was indebted to .the club for $289.76, membership dues. Suit against Diddell is for payment of five shares of stock totaling SSOO, which suit charges has not been fully paid. KORETZ SLOWLY DYING Arch Swindler Has Not 'foken Food for a Week. . * By United Prenn JOLIET, UL,\ Jan. B.—Without food for a week, -Leo Koretz, blue isky manipulator who is near death at the State penitentiary hospital from diabetes, today begged for morphine to ease his suffering. The Bayano Oil stock swindler, his voice a bare whisper and his skin turned to copper-color, is in 'a critical condition. Prosecutor Remy Recovering Prosecutor William H. Rimy, who has been seriously ill at his home, is expected to resume his work Mdn

portance to farmers. She will speak for them, too. “I am a farmer, you know,” Mrs, Daugfferty said, “and the mortgage exemption laws are most unfair to- them.” Mrs. Daugherty’s bill will pro vide that instead of 31,000 mortgage exemption as now provided, 37 per cent of the assessed valuation will be exempt.

FORD THREATENED WITHJJBEL SUIT Attorney Demands Retraction of Magazine Article, Bv United Preta CHICAGO, Jan.' B.—Suit for SL--000,000 will be filed against Henry Ford within thirty days unless he retracts certain statements made in his weekly magazine, the Dearborn Independent, against Attorney Aaron Sapiro, of Chicago, it was announced today. , Sapiro has mailed Ford the document preliminary to filing suit. Under Michigan laws a formal demand for retraction must be made before suit is filed. Sapiro is attorney for several farmers’ cooperative organizations. “Ford, through his publication, has made an attempt to destroy my participation in the cooperative movement,” Sapiro said. ■ % The articles in question linked his name with Barnard Baruch, Otto Kahn, J;ulius Rosen Wald, Eugene Meyer, Jr., and Albert D. Lasker, all millionaires. In one article the foregoing were charged with a plot to organize the farmers of America in the interests of communism, Sapiro charges. Bv United Prenn WASHINGTON. Jan. B.—A resolution denouncing “false and unwarranted attacks upon the cooperative marketing movement and its leaders by Henry Ford’s magazine, the Dearborn Independent, was adopted by National Council of Farm Cooperative Associations at closing session of its convention today. City Doctor to Speak “Your Health Problems in Indianapolis” will be the subject of an address by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of<the city board of health, at a dinner of the Men’s Club of Carrollton Avenue Reformed Church Friday .night.

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Officers of Both Branches Chosen in Republican Caucuses Are Formally Elected Governor's Message Is Heard in Joint Session. HOUSE ADJOURNS TO 11 A. M. | MONDAY, SENATE TO 10 A. M. - —j - - ■ -mm Usual Ceremony Accompanies Start of Seventy-Fourth General Assembly—Preliminary G. 0. P. Party Fight Is Bitter.

Assembly Leaders Officers of the Seventy-Fourth General Assembly: HOUSE. Harry G. Leslie, Lafayette, Speaker. s Lemuel A. Pittinger, Selma, Republican floor leader. W. T. Lytle, Burlington, principal clerk. Miss Nina Schmidt, Indianapolis, assistant clerk. Everett Newlin, Plainfield, principal doorkeeper. - SENATE. James J. Nejdl, Whiting, President pro tern. Murray S. Barker, Thorn town, caucus chairman. Zell C. Swain, Middletown, secretary. Mrs. R. H. Miller, Indianapolis, assistant secretary. George Graham, Logansport, postmaster. Jerome Brown, Anderson, chief doorkeeper.

The seventy-fourth session of the Indiana General Assembly was definitely under way today with organization of machinery in the House and Senate. Ratification of the officers chosen in bitterly contested Republican caucuses Wednesday night was a formality, and shortly after 11 a. m. both houses adjourned and reconvened in joint session in the House chamber to hear the message of Governor Emmett P. Branch. At 12:15 the Senate _ adjourned until 10 a. m. Monday and the House until 11 a. m. Monday. Senator James J. Nejdl, Lake county, was formally elected president pro tem. of the Senate and Representative Harry Gi Leslie, Lafayette, was sworn in as speaker of the House of Representatives. There was little preliminary work in either house and organization was completed as the Republican administration slate of officers in both branches of the Legislature being completely in control.

Bowman Ptesides Lewis S. Bowman, auditor of State, called the Senate to order at 10:20 a. m. and presided until Senator James J. Nejdl, Republican, of Whiting, was elected president pro tem., the State having no Lieuten-ant-Governor to preside. Prayer was offered by the Rev. J. A. Long, pastor of the North Park Christian Church, Indianapolis. Zell Swain of MiAlletotvn. was appointed temporary secretary of the Senate by Bowman.. Roll call showed Senator Robert B. Shirley, Democrat, of Woodburn, the only Senator absent. The twenty-five Senators elected in 1924 were, then called to the front where the oath of office was administered by Justice Julius Travis of the Indiana Supreme Court. Nejdl was nominated by Senator R*.y M. Southworth, Republican, of Lafayette, and was seconded by Senator Delbert V. Blackburn, Republican, of Evansville. Senator Joseph M. Cravens of Madison, choice of the Democrats for president pro tem., was placed in nomination by Senator Ora C. King, Democrat, of Sweetser, and seconded by Senator John Sweeney of Tell City. Roll call showed Nejdl elected an strict party lines, thirty-two votes being cast for him and seventeen for Cravens. Cravens and Nejdl exchanged compliments, each voting for the other. Escorted to Chair Bowman then appointed Senators Thomas A. Daily and William E. English, Republicans, of Indianapolis, and Senators Cravens to escort to the chair. Nejdl called for nominations for permanent secretary, Swain and Chester McCornhck, Democrat, of North Judson being put in nomination. Again the Republican majority prevailed, and Swain was elected. Vote was 32-17. Mrs. R. H. Miller of Indiahapolis was nominated assistant secretary by Senator Daily. Democratis named Edward Mullen of Bristow. Mrs. Miller was elected by" the solid Republican vote. Jerome Brown, doorkeeper In the 1923 session again succeeded in getting that office as agreed in Republican caucus. He was opposed by (Turn to Page 6) FIRE DAMAGE SERIOUS Double Duplex at Sixteenth St. and College Ave. Burned. First starting in the cupola of a double duplex at Sixteenth St. and College Ave., today caused serious loss from fiamqf and water. No estimate of the damage had been made this afternoon. The building is occupied by James Roy olbornl 5 154.f Coir e Mr* !

N Forecast Generally fair tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature. Lowest tonight about 28.

Branch Advice Highlights of Governor Branch’s message to the General Assembly: When it comes to making the laws, politics should be left at home. The new reformatory at Pendjeton must be finished. The State is confronted with question of providing more and better facilities in our higher educational institutions. Every official who handles public funds should be compelled to give a surety bond. I recommend we neither dp*-' crease nor increase pay of any employe without approval of the Governor. The State tax law, in my Judgement, is the best the State ever had. Courts should revoke driver’s license for second offense of those found guilty of exceeding the automobile limit. It should be mandatory for courts to revoke license of automobile drivers speeding wbile under influence of intoxicating liquors. Operation of busses and trucks should be regulated by the public service commission, gfl Some remedy is needed for the State primary law. Prohibition is here to stay and laws should be clarified.

SCORES ESCAPE IN TRAIN CRASH Engineer Sticks to Post — Prevents Disaster^ Bv United Prenn ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. B.—-Scores of passengers had miraculous escapes when the Georgia Railroad train No. 7 ran into a split rail one mile from fetone Mountain and was wrecked. , Five coaches piled in a heap, but none of the passengers waa seriously injured. R. L. Palmer, veteran engineer, stuck to his post and jammed on the airbrakes when disaster seemed certain. — | . a. in*..... 26 10 a. m......