Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1925 — Page 1

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CLEVELAND HAS SOLVED CITY TROUBLES Party Organizations Have Been Eliminated and the City Manager Plan Substituted —No More Election Squabbles and Petty Political Fights—New Government Based on Common Sense,

* By FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor The Indianapolis Times CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 12.—Cleveland has solved the city government problem with which Indianapolis still is struggling. It has done away with party organization in the operation of the affairs of the city and has put them on the com-mon-sense basis used by other large business institutions. While'the plan is admittedly not perfect—as no governmental plan ever was—citizens of this city are sure that it is far superior to the old party system under which Cleveland suffered as mueh as Indianapolis now is suffering. 9 The plan has done away with the party elections—which never had any place in city government —and has made efficiency and ability the characteristics of city management. It has done away with party conventions, such as the spectacle Indianapolis will witness Friday; and it has done away with continuous fights for party leadership, such as the one that now is being waged in the Marion county courts and such as the ones that will inevitably follow. City Manager Plan The Cleveland plan is THE CITY MANAGER PLAN OF GOVERNMENT. This plan is simple and is based on COMMON SENSE and not political expediency. The plan is that under which large business corporations operate and it was adopted by large business corporations because it is the BEST plan. Briefly, Cleveland is governed by a manager and a board of directors. The manager is employed by the board of directors. The board is elected by the people of Cleveland in a nonpartisan election. It is known as the city council. So far as the administrative and legislative branches of the government are concerned, the city councilmen are the only elective officials.

A City Council In Cleveland, the council consists of twenty-five members, each of whom receives SI,BOO a year. This council elects a city manager, who is executive head of the institution. He selects department heads. There are no boards in Cleveland, such as the board of safety, board of works, park board and board of health in Indianapolis. These departments, and others are looked after by department heads, just as they would be looked after in any other business institution. Cleveland pays its city manager $25,000 a year. The job is a big job for a big man and necessarily must carry a comparatively big salary, just as the head of any other corporation the size of Cleveland or of Indianapolis would receive a big salary. The Cleveland manager—at the present time he is W. R. Hopkins, a native of Cleveland and a man of wide experience—names these department heads : x LAW DIRECTOR, corresponding to the Indianapolis corporation counsel. PUBLIC SERVICE DIRECTOR, corresponding to the Indianapolis board of wbrks. Safety Director PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR, corresponding to the' Indianapolis board of public safety. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC UTILITIES, who is the head of municipally owned utilities, of which Indianapolis at this time has none. * ' • FINANCE DIRECTOR, corresponding to the Indianapolis city comptroller. WELFARE DIRECTOR, corresponding to the Indianapolis board of health. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROPERTY AND PARKS, who has duties similar to those of the Indianapolis park board and who, in addition, is the custodian of all public buildings and grounds, a duty divided in Indianapolis among several departments. TRACTION COMMISSIONER, who represents the City in its relationship with transportation‘systems. The Ohio public service commission has no control over local transportation systems as has the Indiana commission. Under the Cleveland plan, the city council initiates public policies, just as a board of directors initiates the policies of a corporation, and the city manager, with his department heads and their subordinates, carry them out. In addition, Cleveland has a mayor, who is a member of the council. He has very few powers, his principal job being that of custodian of the “gates of the city.” He is referred to here as the city’s glad-hand expert, the city manager confining his time and energies to the city government,

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ALBERT H. JOHNSON DIES Funeral For Broad Ripple Resident Wednesday, 10 A. M. Funeral services for _ Albert H. Johnson, 50, of 6037 College Ave., for fifteen years superintendent of Broad Ripple Lumber Cos., 1001 Sixty-third St., who died Sunday night will be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday at tfa? residence. Burial to be in Crown Hill. Mr. Johnson, who was born in Missouri, had lived here twenty years. He formerly was treasurer of Broad Ripple town board and Chamber of Commerce. He was a Mason. Mrs. Johnson survives. HOURLY TEMPERATURE * a. m 25 10 a. m 27 7 a. m 28 11 a. m...... 25 * *- m 26 12 •••• 30 9 a. m m. 35

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GIRL SERIOUSLY INJURED Wheels of Truck Pass Over Body of Miss Mildred Carson. Miss Mildred Carson, 18, of 838 Broadway, was injured seriously today when she was struck by a truck, the front wheel of which passed over her chest, at Massachusetts and College Aves. She was taken to the city hospital with injuries to her body and legs. Police charged William McNeeley, 22, of 2122 Bosart Ave., driver of the truck, with assault and battery. He said Miss Carson was crossing the street and failed to see his truck. She was en route to work at tjje Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Noble and Michigan Sts. NO NICKEL; LIFE SAVED Detective Narrowly Escapee Death in Bomb Explosion. Bn United' Preta SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12. —A detective narrowly escaped death early Sunday when a bomb exploded in the Hall of Justice Bldg. here. The bomb, police say, was placed in an attempt on the life of Chief D. J. O’Brien of the San Francisco police department. O’Brien left his office near by a few minutes before. The bomb demolished a telephone booth. Detective Sergeant Robert Malburg owes his life to the fact he did ‘nt have a nickel in his pockets. Malburg-approached the booth, felt In his pockets for a 6-cent piece, and, finding none, turned away just before the explosion. BRANCHPLANSTO * >v ; . .. • Retiring Governor Will Live in Martinsville. Back borne in Martinsville and out of politics. That is the life Emmett F. Branch plans after turning ever the governorship of Indiana to Ed Jackson, today. _ . Governor Branch took office following sentencing of Warren T. McCray to the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., on conviction of using the mails to defraud, last May. Branch was elected Lieutenant Governor four years ago. Before that he was an attorney at Martinsville, He also served as a colonel In the Army during the World War. His law partner at Martinsville has many cases awaiting his assistance. Branch said he wishes to keep entirely out of politics. His friends, however, doubt whether he can do this because he has been in politics much of his life. One of the principal things accomplished by the retiring Governor during hte short administration was the calling of a State conference on the reduction of accidents at grade crossings. WATCHMAN ' ORDERED • . / Traction Company Agrees to Tibbs / - Ave. Protection. Capt. Charles Sumner, investigator for Police Chief Herman F. Rlkhoff, today said Guy K. Jeffries, general superintendent of the *T. H., I. & E. Traction Company, had informed him a watchman would be placed at the company’s crossing at Tibbs Ave. and that motormen wculd be ordered to stop there on both out and in runs. Jeffries said, according to Sumner, ho would try to effect an agreement whereby the watchman for the Peoria & Eastern division of the Big Four Railroad also would guard the traction crossing at this point. Sum-

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GOVERNOR PLACED UNDER ARREST ON BRIBERYCHARGES ■ ■ -V :r nr Warrants Served on Kansas Chief Executive and Son as Result of Expose. Bu United Preaa TOPEKA, Kans., Jan. 12.—For the first time In the history of the State, a Governor of Kansas was placed under arrest today. Warrants charging soliciting and accepting a bribe were served upon Governor Jonathan M. Davts and his son, Russell Davis, In connection with acceptance by the latter of $1,26r from Fred Pollman, paroled convl st, for a pardon for Pollman. Signs Bonds The Governor and his son, an hour before the former was to relinquish his office to Ben S. Paulen, appeared at. the courthouse to sign bonds of |I,OOO each. After signing the bonds. Governor Davis went back to the State house to prepare for the inaugural ceremony at noon. Russell Davis accompanied his father. Charge. against the Governor which resulted in his arrest today grew out of the expose here Friday when. Russel Davis met Pollman in a hotel and negotiated with Pollman to secure the latter’s pardon provided $1,250 was forthcoming. Meeting Watched . In an adjoining room were newspapermen and a shorthand reporter. The latter took down the conversation between young Davis and Pollman, who was a party to the plot to catch the Governor’s son. Young Davis was confronted by the newspaper mm and forced to hand over to them the marked money with which Pollman purchased his pardon. The y.oung man denied allegations that l\is father .knew of the deal. The former Governor, in a statement issued Saturday, declared he had no knowledge of his son's transaction and added that he had already granted Pollman’s pardon. JUDGE ANDERSON LEAVES Receives New Commission—To Be Sworn in Tuesday. Judge Albert B. Anderson, for twenty-one years yjudge ,of the Indiana United States District Court, will become judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh district Tuesday. He received his commission, signed by President Coolidge, today and left immediately for Chicago, 111., where he will be sforn in. Nomination of Robert C. Baltzell of Princeton, Ind., to succeed Judge Anderson was approved today by the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to Washington dispatches. The action practically assures confirmation by the Senate. FESLER ATTACKS CHARGE Motion to Quash Indictment to Be Filed in Criminal Court. Emsley Johnson, attorney, today was given time In which to file a motion to quash the indictment against Leo K. Fesler, former county auditor, In Criminal Court. Fesler is charged with altering the public record of the sale by the county of the old workhouses property to Fairbanks, Morse & Cos., so that more land was given than the county coun cil intended-. Fessler denies he

BEDFORD NOT AT MEET Former Patrolman Did Not Make Klan Motion, It Is Learned. In an article In The Indianapolis Times Saturday it was said that Harvey Bedford, former Indianapolis patrolman, was an employe of Walter Bossert, grand dragon of the Ku-Klux Klan la Indiana, and that Bedford was said to have made a motion in a Klan meeting at Buschman Hall Friday evening to reinstate Grover Smith as local exalted cyolops. It was learned today that Bedford •was not at the meeting and that he is not an employe of Bossert. MODERN WOMENSCORED Methodist Bishop Says New Freer dom Is Wrecking Home. The Rev. W. W. Bollinger, pastor Edwin Ray M. E. Church, Is new president of Methodist Ministers Association of Indianapolis. “The new freedom of women is helping to break down the family. Homes are threatened, and the church Is In danger of being filled up with all types of criminals,’’ said Bishop Frederick D. Leeto, before the Association today at Robert Park M. E. Church. “Unless the Christian ministry persists in highest possible ideals, and proves unwilling to surrender to surrender to forces seeking to overthrow righteousness, the world will go to the bad.” PLANS COMPLETE FOR CONFERENCE Z. ' I*, , % Week-Day Religion to Be Subject Tuesday, Arrangements have been completed for the State-wide conference on week-day religious education at the Lincoln Tuesday in charge of Dr.'H. N. Sherwood, superintendent of public / instruction. Sherwood said any discussion “must rest fundamentally upon these principles by the committee in charge: Maintenance of the principle of separation of church and State; inalienable right of every one to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience and the freedom of religious instruction; mutual responsibility of home and church for the moral training of our youth with recognition of the obligation of church and State to each other in the development of a righteous citizenship.” ■%<Su<-ators and clergymen of the State are on the program, which tiegins at 10 a. m. POSTAL FIGHT GOES ON 1 . 1 -i District Chairmen Plan Further Drive for Pay Increase.! Indiana postal, employes will' continue their battle fqr Increased pay. Chairmen of -districts throughout the State at , the. Denison Sunday laid plans to continue the campaign. Copies of resolutions regretting Senator James E. Watson’s opposition to the salary increase bill and approving the stand 'of' Senator Samuel M. Ralston, who supported it, were sent to the Senators. Branch Receives Gift State officials today gave retiring Governor and Mrs. Emmett F. Branch a large silver service in token of their appreciation of the Governor’s administration. The gift was labeled "from friends who wish you to remember them. Rmy Returns to Office Prosecutor William H. Remy was at his desk today after tan illness

ED JACKSON IS SWORN IN AS GOVERNOR

Lieutenant Governor F. Harold Van -r t * t Orman and Mrs. Emma Eaton White Also Take Oaths in Simple Ceremony in Statehouse Rotunda. v v ; 1 NEW CHfEF PROMISES TO SERVE ALL OF CITIZENS < -,-X ■: , ], -1- t ; , Crowd Estimated at 10,000 Persons —Special Trains Bring Visitors Who Parade Through Streets to Inauguration. With the stirring strains of the national anthem played by the Purdue band still echoing in the Statehouse rotunda, Ed Jackson at high noon today took the oath from Chief Justice Julius C. Travis which made him Governor of Indiana. With his face working with emotion and his right hand raised Jackson swore to uphold the constitution of the United States and of the State of Indiana and to discharge faithfully his duties as Governor. Lieutenant Governor F. Harold Van Orman, Evansville, took the oath immediately following the Governor and a mighty cheer went up from the corridors, packed to the walls with spectators. Mrs. Emma Eaton White, reporter of the Supreme and Appellate Courts, was next sworn in. She is the first woman to hold an elective State office.

As Ja&son rose to take the oath a cheer that rocked the building went up from the crowd estimated at more than 10,000 persons. Bishop H. H. Fouf, delivered the invocation after State Chairman Clyde A. Wtilb introduced Governor Emmett F. BrAch as permanent chairman of the inaugural ceremonies. The crowd cheered as the officials filed in between a human wall of citizenry led by Willis Dye, chairman of the Inaugural committee. Servant of All Jackson, in his inaugural address, promised be would be the servant of all the people. “There will be those who will offer counsel from a class viewpoint; also those whose counsel will be prompted by selfish motives; there will be others who will attempt to dictate and, failing in that, wil ltry to harm by criticism,” he said. “Against all of these one must be fortified by manly courage sufficient to do right uninfluenced and undeterred.” Lieutenant Governor F. Harold Van Orman was also given a night cheer, most of it coming from the second floor where the Evansville delegation was seated. After he was given the oath he gave his address. Looks to Higher Source Van Orman, in his inaugural address, declared he is opposed to "excessive legislation” and urged that careful deliberation be given to all bills in the State Legislature. “We must look to a higher source for our inspiration," said Van Orman, “for it is upon ttie unchanging law of God that the principles of American justice are founded.” Because of the monster crowd many of the members of the Senate were unable to get to their seats. Several times. while Branch was speaking some member cried out. “Cannot the members of the Senate take part in these proceedings? Branch finally said:' “If the member of the Senate doesn’t keep quiet he can leave the building. Just because he is a member of the Senate hells no better than any other private citizen.” Branch declared the presence of the monster crowd showed they welcomed the incoming Governor and wished success to his administration. “Personally, I hope the administration of Governor Jackson Is the greatest In the history of this great State, and right here, Mr. Jackson. I want to offer my humble services in any way I can be of use.” Glee Chib Sings Members of the Republican Woman’s Glee Club sang two selections. The Ninth Naval Reserve band In their blue and white uniforms added a touch of color to the scene, relieving the olive drab uniforms of the Purdue band. Seated on the stand were: Governor and Mrs, Jackson; former Governor and Mrs. Branch; LieutenantGovernor and Mrs. Van Orman; Mm. Emma Eaton White, reporter of the Supreme and Appellate courts, the twelve judges of the Supreme and Appellate courts, the Rev, A. J. Lookabille, Kokomo, Bishop H. H. Fout of the United Bretheren Church, eleven members of the Inaugural committee headed by Chairman Willis B. Dye, Kokomo, and the Republican State central committee headed by

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HICKEY BILL PASSED Indiana Court Measure Now Goes to President for Signature. By United Preaa WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The Senate today adopted the Hickey coure bill as reported by the House and Senate conferees. As the House passed on the measure late Saturday, the bill now goes to the President for signature. v It provides for two Federal judges for Indiana, but does not divide the State into two districts, as was first proposed. Permanent court seats will be maintained in seven cities, Indianapolis, Evansville, Terre Haute, New Albany, Ft. Wayne, South Bend and Hammond. The court will open In Indianapolis the first Monday of each May and November in Terre Haute the first Monday of April and October, in Evansville the second Monday of April and October. 1 OF 14 FILE APPEAL BONDS Includes Jones and Carter — Both Set at SIO,OOO, Appeal bonds for six of sentenced fourteen defendants in the Hawkins Mortgage Company of Poritand, Ind., mail fraud conspiracy case were filed today. Other defendants are expected to file before ten days. Sentences and bonds included: William H. Jones, formerly secretary treasurer of the Indiana board of agriculture, and Mord Carter of Indianapolis, five years, $2,000 fine SIO,OOO, Aetna Casualty and Surety Cos.; Frank J. Haight, Indianapolis, two years, and SI,OOO fine, $8,000; signed by John A. George; Frank Willis, Indianapolis, two years and SI,OOO fine; $3,000, Royal Indemnity Company. THIEVES AT INAUGURAL —— - * Operate as New Executives Take ‘ Office at Statehouse. During Inauguration of Governor Ed Jackson and Lieutenant Governor' F. Harold Van Orman today at the Statehouse, sneak thieves operated in Statehouse offices, It was discovered. Miss Nellie Waskom, stenographer in the Public Service Commission office, reported loss of $5. Mlsb Ethel Crawford, in the same office, lost $2. SPEED COPS ARREST 26 Six Are Charged With Driving While Intoxicated. Twenty-six men were charged with speeding Saturday and Sunday, police records show today. Morris Wadley, 19, of 3047 N. Pennsylvania St., is charged with making fortytwo miles on hour. Five men and one woman are charged with driving while intoxicated, and one man with passing a ] street car loading and unloading

■ ‘Forecast CLOUDY path snow tonight and lowest temperature about 20. Tuesday fair and colder.

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ASSEMBLY VOTES SUP) TO PAY COST OBSESSIONS Both Houses Hold Brief Meetings Before Inauguration, The Indiana Senate and House, met' this morning following adjournment after a brief session Thursday. The House passed a SIOO,OOO appropriation bill, to defray expenses of the Legislature session, under suspension of rules. The Senate will vote on the bill Tuesday. .Following separate sessions, the two bodies met in joint session at 11:30 for a formal canvass of the vote for Governor and Lieutenantpovernor. Eld Jackson was declared duly elected Governor and F. Harold Van Orman, Lieutenant-Governor. Van Orman Welcomed The House then adjourned until 3 p. m., to attend inauguration of Jackson and Van Orman. Previous to the joint session, the Senate recessed while a committee named by President Pr oTem, James J. Nejdl escorted Van Orman from the Union Station, where he arrived on a special train from Evansville at 11 a. m. The committee included Nejdl, Senators Walter S. Chamber*, Democrat, and Rowland H. Hill, Republican. New Gavel Committees from the Senate and Horse escorted Jackson and Van Orman to the inaugural ceremonies. Following the inauguration, the Senate met again to allow citizens of Evansville, Van Orman’s home, to witness the new Lieutenaat-Gov-ernor take the gavel as president of the Senate. Senator Delbert V. Blackburh of Evansville presented him with anew gavel. The Senate adjourned until 10 a. m., Tuesday. FIRST OFFICIAL ACTION Jackson Formerly Appoints Wolford / as SecretaryGovernor Ed Jackson’s first official act today was the formal appointment of Pliny H. Wolford, lifetime friend, as his secretary. He also was expected later to sign the commission whereby W. H. Kershner of Indianapolis was to be made Adjutant General of the State succeeding Harry B. Bmith. STATE TO ESCAPE COLD Zero Wave Will Not Get Down 1W Far, Says Armington. Indiana will escape the zero wave now in the Northwast, according to predictions of J. H. Armington, Government meteorologist. Tuesday will be fair and somewhat colder, ‘‘frith, lowest temperatures tonight about 20. Moderate snow fall was forecast. I Six persons have been 1 I injured in traffic accidents in Q II Indianapolis. I I I \ B 'Bill