Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 60

OPENHG OF PIAZA BIDS IS HELD UP State Eoard of Accounts Orders Specifications for War Memorial Project Be Submitted First for Aporovai. lexaminerorr doubts "LEGALITY IN LETTER Particular Kind of Steel Is Cafled for Without Alternative Material Allowed — Delay of Several Days Expected. Opening of bids on construction of the foundation of the main building of the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza, scheduled for today, was postponed several days by memorial trustees after receipt of a letter from Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the State board of accounts, ordering specifications be submitted to the board for approval. Orr's attention had been called to the fact that specifications call for the use of a particular kind of steel for reinforcing- the concrete base of the structure. No provision is made in the specifications for an alternative kind of steel, Orr was inPormed. The law requires, he said, when a particular material Is designated in the specifications that an alternative material must he allowed. Although Orr did not Insist on a delay In opening the bids, he suggested to the trustees the.t the hoard of accounts he permitted to examine the specifications before the contract Is awarded. The board met in Its new office in the American Legion Bldg., Meridian and St. Clair Sts. The main building Is to be erected near the center of the block where the Filst Baptist and the Second Presbyterian Churches stand. Razing of several small buildings on the future site of the memorial building is nearing completion. Apartment houses and some other buildings In the block will be allowed to stand for some time, it is said. Marcus Sonntagg of Evansville, president of the board of trustees, presided at today’s meeting. No definite date had been set for formal opening of bids following decision to postpone. FALLS FROM TADDER Carpenter Sent to Hospital After Eighteen-foot Tumble. When a ladder on which he was working today slipped, Louis Holding, 57, of 814 E. New York St., a carpenter, fell eighteen feet to the fcround. 0 Police took him to the city hospital, after he had gone home. He was injured about the feet and legs. MOTORIST SENTENCED Fine of $1 and costs and a thirtyday jail sentence on a charge of assault and battery were given Forest Rogers, Bridgeport, Ind., in city court today. An improper driving charge was dismissed. It is said that on May 10 Rogers’ automobile struck and injured G. F. Ehle, 29, of 21 N. Lyons Ave.

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Yeggs Get SI,OOO at Indiana Bank

Use Four Charges of Nitroglycerine to Blow Safe at Larwill, Ind. —Rumble of Trains Covers Noise of Blasts. GUARD HOLDS CITIZEN IN HOUSE UNDER GUN Interior of Room Is Wrecked by Explosions Gang Works Unmolested for Hour and a Half Town Without Police.

Bv United Press LARWILL, Ind., July 21. Bank robbers renewed their activities in northern Indiana early today with a successful raid on the Larwill State bank. Blowing the bank safe with four heavy charges of nitroglycerin, the robbers escaped with cash estimated at SI,OOO. The rumble of freight trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad aided the bandits in escaping detection. Few citizens heard the explosions and most of those who did thought the noise was from trains. Witness Is Guarded Ed Rice, hotel owner living across the street from the bank, was aroused by the first explosion. He peeped from behind the curtains of the hotel lobby and watched the bandits at work. A tall, unmasked man armed with a shotgun paced up and down the street in front of the bank, keeping guard while his confederates worked inside, Rice said. Rice said the guard sighted him and warned him he would be shot if he attempted to spread the alarm and kept watch on him until the work was done. Bandits Deliberate The bandits worked deliberately, being in the bank for nearly an hour and a half. The heavy charges of explosives blew out the doors in the front and rear of the building and wrecked the office furniture. Small coins were found scattered over the floor of the bank and several hundred dollars in gold hidden in the vault was overlooked. Three in Gang? Rush said he thought there were three men in the gang. Bank officials believed there were more. The direction of their flight was not known. Police officials of Ft. Wayne, Columbia City. Warsaw, and other northeastern Indiana cities were notified and began search for the men. Larwill, a village of 250 population, is ten miles northwest of Columbia City. It has no police protection. MAYOR URGES USING OF AX Shank Suggests Elimination of City Employes. Mayor Shank today urged city department heads to reduce their staffs to the minimum so that the succeeding mayor will be able to operate the city government under a tax rate about equal to the 1925 levy. He suggested elimination of two employes In the office of the board of safety, and reduction of the personnel in the mayor’s office from, three to one. Mayor Shank’s proposal followed an appeal made at city cabinet meeting by James M. Ogden, corporation counsel, for officials to economize so the administration will be able to leave office with popular approval. Ogden said one department had been able to effect a saying of $84,000. HOG SCARCITY IS FELT HERE Packers Say Production Is Below Normal. Scarcity and high price of hogc reduced the pork production of Indianapolis firms in 1925 about 20 per cent compared with last year's business, packers stated today. "No firms are handling the normal tonage of pork because the supply has decreased, “C. H. Keehn provision manager of Kingpin & Cos., said. Amiour & Cos. officials said the volume of pork packed was about 20 per cent less than normal the past three months. Some packers predicted hog prices will stay up for several months. i .Jt .. .... ... . / .

VICE CHAIRMAN EXPLAINS WHY SHE WAS FIRED Political Friends of Governor Blamed by Mrs. Wheatcraft. REGRET IS EXPRESSED Tribute Paid by Miller in Letter. "Political friends of Governor Jackson have demanded my official scalp,” Mrs. Vivian T. Wheatcraft, deposed head of the intelligence department of the tSate fire marshall's office and vice chairman of the Republican State-committee said today, in explaining her removal by Gov ernor Jackson Friday. "I do not blame the Governor, personally. He had a great deal of pressure brought to bear on him,” she said. Mrs. Wheatcraft submitted her resignation to Newman T. Miller, State firemarshal today.

Regret Expressed “It is with gret regret that I leave my unfinished task in the fire marshal's office,” the letter read. “It is my hope and trust, in behalf of the people of Indiana, that the wor kof your department may continue unimpeded in the future.” The letter was in reply to one from Miller to her, dated July 20. This letter stated that Governor Jackson had requested the resignatio nand had directed that if it was withheld, no official recognition or approval would be given vouchers for salary or expense. .Miller’s letter “In his letter, Miller said.” In the four years or more that you have been connected with the department and associated with me in the fire prevention movement, I attribute a large part of the success to your unfailing energy, intelligence and loyalty, and especially remarkable has been your success in the campaign for the better safe-guarding of women and children in the homes, schools and other places of assembly. “The work of the department has been greatly enlarged and enhanced by your ceaseless efforts, and to you is due the credit of enlisting the women of our State in our cause, and better protetion from fire of the weaker membero of our inhabitants.” -■ Mrs. Wheatcraft issued a statement which said: “I am at a loss to understand Governor Jackson’s sudden reversal of position and his demand for my immediate resignation. I have had numerous conferences with the Governor since his inauguration, and at no time has he conveyed to me any dissatisfaction over my efforts, either in regard to my Statehouse duties or what political at tivlties I may have indulged in my capacity as vice chairman of the Republican State committee, as president of the Indiana Women’s Republican Club and as Fourth District vice chairman.” Work Approved “What political work T did was with the knowledge of Republican leaders, and it was my sincere belief that it met with the full approval of the Governor, especially since it was my understanding that the moves represented his campaign pledges." Mrs. Wheatcraft admitted she had been instrumental in removal of Richard White, Democrat, of Aurora, Ind., as food inspector for the State board of haelth. She said this was in accordance with campaign pledges of Governor Jackson to Fourth district Republicans. In conclusion the statement said. “I hold no bitterness and call on my friends "to hold none over this episode. I will be found henceforth as I have in the past, working for Republican victory and striving for party harmony." Failure of Senator James E. Watsonto arrrive from Washington today undoubtedly was a severe disappointment to Mrs. Wheatcraft. In Republican circles it was said that she had planned for a conference with him regarding her removal. Mrs. Wheatcraft had been an active worker on behalf of Senator Watson’s renomination in 1926. READY FOR BOOZE PARTY Sheriff to Destroy SIB,OOO Worth of Liquor—lnvitations Given. Sheriff Omer Hawkins announced today that guests of his “liquor party* have been invited to be at the county jail Thursday morning when the liquor of Herbert R. Duokwall, 3818 N. Delaware St., valued at SIB,OOO will be destroyed. The “party” which will be held In the Jail basement will be attended by ministers, Anti-Saloon League officials, law enforcement officers and newspaper men, Hawklna said.

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INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1925

Manual High School Biology Same as Text Used at Dayton Tennessee

—jdteiTliiiw—/ \(i creeuetb upon the earth afler'-rtYS \ kind i snd Cod sa\* that it mis guod \ 20 t And Cod said. Let us make H, man In our image, after oui like lr ness. and let them have dominion In over the fish of the sea. and over J the fowl of the air, and over the A, cattle, and over all tlve earth, and IA. over every creeping Hung that creepfed eth upon the earth. . Vjd 27 So Cod created man in his oh-ii \ image, in tire image of God created V lie him ; male and female created he I them. . „ , fe 28 Aud God blessed them, and Cod lo said unto them. Be fruitful, and muP W tlplv. and replenish the earth, and >, subdue it i and have dominion over J the fish of the sea. and over the fowl Y

Tech and Shortridge Books Also Refer to Evolution. mHE biology text-bbok which Brought about the indictment of John T. Scopes of Dayton, Tenn., now on trial on a charge of violating Tennessee's anti-evulu-tion law, is used at Manual Training High School. "Civic Biology,” by George W. Hunter, the book used by Scopes, is not on lists of the State board of education. The book plainly discusses the doctrine of evolution, referring to Charles Darwin as "the great English scientist." Technical and Shortridge High Schools use a zoology text-book entitled “Animal Studies,” by Jordan, Kellogg and Heath. Evolution is taught in this book also. A paragraph from the book Scopes used reads. In part, “The Doctrine of Evolution.” We have now learned that animal forms maybe arranged so as to begin with very simple one-eelled forms and culminate with a group which con tains man himself. This arrangement is called the evolutionary series. Evolution means change, and these groups are believed by scientists to represent stages in complexity of development of life on earth. "Geology teaches that millions of years ago, life upon the earth was very simple, and that gradually more and more complex forms of life appeared, as the rocks formed (Turn to Page 10) SHANK VS. RAY IN VERBAL BOUT Mayor Praises Rest of Council for Economy. Eloquent words came today from Mayor Shank In tribute to the policy of economy adopted by city councilman, whom he described as the “most wonderful council the city ever had.” “That is, with exception of Otto Ray, leader of the councilmanic re volt,” Shank hastily amended .his remark to city officials attending oablnet meeting. “He’s the biggest fool in the world. I pay no more attention to him than I do to a rooster crowing across the street. I know what’B ailing Ray and he Isn’t going to get what he wants.” “Ray wasn’t so economical when he charged me $2,700 for a plumbing Job at my home,” Shank declared. Ray said today the bill was not exorbitant and added: “I never heard that Shank gave money away like Santa Claus. If he did not think the bill was right, I am inclined to believe he paid it to me as a bribe in my official duties as councilman.” BOOKS TO BE PROBED State to AmlTt Accounts of Missing Road Official Field examiners for the State board of accounts this week will make an audit of the books of Ralph H. Moore, assistant road superintendent of Cass township, Clay county, Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner announced. Orr rceived a letted from James L. Tucker, road superintendent, charging Moore had padded pay rolls. Moore’s whereabouts are unknown. STRIKE NOT EXPECTED Coolidge Confident Mine Controversy Will Be Settled. Bv United Press BWAMPSCOTT. Mass., July 21. President Coolidge is confident there will be no anthracite coal strike starting on August 31, when tho wage agreement between operators and miners expires. Secretary of Labor Davis gave Mr. Coolidge this assurance qp a recent visit, It was learned today. BEER ON ICE FOUND Police booze squad today said they found 202 bottles of beer on ice a. tho home of William Hughes, 24, of 625 S. Missouri St., with a quantity in process. Twenty-two quarts were said found on *lce at the home of Mary Cooper, 42, of 509 S- Senate. Both were slated on blind tiger charges.

194 V J fc vo, 'U ,,,|ON The Dovtiiue of Evolution. - We have uuw It-tumal t hat animal forms may be hi i aiigisj io a-, to begin with vei y simple one-cel led forms and culminate with a gioup which contains man himself. This arrangeanvut is calli-d the cisAuttuiuuy ho its. Evolution means i change, and these groups O / \ *'o‘ou aie believed by scientists V _ \ vy Hrplih) to IepICM-Ilt stages in com J \ \ 03500 plexity of development of // \ N. \ [ ■♦*'****■• hie on the csiith (jeology / l m, ‘ J teaches Uihl millions of l 3SOOOO J 4, f J iiuou yeais ago, life ujxm flie ' / /lfeoiiol f t-ui tli was veiy simple, | ' Ss K_ly / S —X and that giadually moie * O.ir..*, 1111,1 •* fui 4°j>v\(?ovo of life appealed, as the I / locks funned latest m time \ ,uoßt ,l<> / FUt tt'ofm, Aood-JSf ) vclopcd f Ol ms of animal t life The gieat English J L/A** booo scientist, Chailes Daiwin, ' llie evolutional* tiee M.xllti. .1 hum t..l fIOIII tills and uthei eviloway Copy thi. dlu*.*... ... you. not. explained the theui y book. Explain It ua well u> you van ... of evolution t his is tint belief that simple forms of life on the eaitli slowly and giadually gave rise to those more complex and that thus ultimately ttie most complex forms came info existence The N umbei of Animal Species Over SUU,OOt) species of animals art- known to exist to-day, as the following table shows _ i>—h,U(Jo Aiaclinids 10,000 Ciustayeans 10,000 Page from chic biolegy and contrasting excerpt from Bible.

APE’ FAME IS NOT FOR LITTLE ORIOLE

High Chieftains of Great Argument Couldn’t Get to Town. This Is the second of a series of articles upon Indiana's own evolution liffht. By Edwin V. O’Neel, Times Staff Correspondent ORIOLE, Ind., July 21.—N0 band of wide-awake modernists or fundamentalists would pick this quaint little village for the seat of a fight over evolution. William Jennings Bryan, defender of fundamentalism, probably would be unable to reach the community In the hills of Perry County, which has a controversy similar to the Bryan-Darrow fuss at Dayton, Tenn. Teacher Exiled Floyd H. Deen, former principal of the Oil Township School here, has been "exiled” from the township schools by August V. Doogs, trustee, because he taught evolution as set out in a State-adopted history text. A topic of heated discussion is whether Oriole has forty-two or forty-three souls. It is reachable (Turn to Page 7) ORDER SPECIAL VENIRE Extra Jury Prospects To Be Ready for McNamara Trial. A special venire of 100 names was ordered drawn today by the sheriff’s office by Special Judg& Fred C. Gause to report Monday morning in Criminal court for the trial of John J. McNamara, head of the Structural Iron Workers’ Union, on charges of blackmail. McNamara was Indlctsd several months ago by the grand Jury, following Investigation of vandalism at the new Elk's Bldg., N. Meridian and St. Clair Sts. Four indictments charging specific acts were returned.

Going Up! Each week the lineage figures for Local Display Advertising in The Times continue on their upward march. During the first sixteen business days of July 92,614 more lines of advertising for local merchants have appeared in The Times than during the corresponding days of 1924. Indianapolis merchants are far too keen business men to continue euch an Increased appropriation for Times space If It had not proved a paying investment. \ “They read YOUR ad in The Timetf* The Indianapolis Times Figure* quoted above from PublUherii’ Service Cos., a dlulntrreated organization

BARBER MURDER JURY STILL OUT No Verdict Reached in Trial of Louis Owens. The Jury in the second trial of Louis Owens, World IVar veteran and barber, on a murder charge, hail failed to reach a verdict today nfter more than twenty-one hours of deliberation. Special Judge Charles S. Wiltsle of Criminal Court, on request of the Jurors, read the instructions again, shortly before Judge Wlltsie said he would allow the jury to remain out at least twenty-four hours. Owens is alleged to have fatally stabbed George Robinson, a fellow barber, Dec. 6, 1924, in the locker room of L. S. Ayres & Cos., where both were employed. The stabbing followed a quarrel. The first Jury In the case failed to reach a verdict. Owens’ plea was self-defense. HIGH FORD SHIP BID IS FAVORED Recommendation Made That It Be Accepted. I Bv United Preen WASHINGTON, July 21.—Leigh H. Pnlmer, president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, today recommended to tho shipping board acceptance of the Henry Ford bid for the government’s fleet of 200 Idle vessels. Palmer’s recommendation was taken undereonslderatton when the hoard met to make award to one of the sixteen bidders, of whom Ford —with an offer of $1.706,000 —was highest.

Entered as S#eood*cla* Mtter M Njjjjjfji Indianapolis. Published Bally Kacept Sunday^

Jury Takes Seven Minutes to Decide Young School Teacher Committed Offense by Teaching Evolution— Supreme Court Appeal Launched. DEFENSE GIVES UP WHEN BRYAN BIBLE EVIDENCE IS THROWN OUT Judge Holds Commoner’s Testimony Irrelevant, and Darrow Requests Conviction Be Ordered Newspaper Posts Bond.

Federal Ban Proposed Bv United Press DAYTON, Tenn., July 21.--Representative W. D. Upshaw, Georgia Democrat, will introduce an anti-evolution bill in the next Congress denying Federal aid to schools in which the theory of evolution is taught, Walter White, superintendent of schools, Rhea County, announced today.

Bv United Press _ , , , , DAYTON, Tenn., July 21.—With startling suddenesa, John T. Scopes, 24, high school teacher of Dayton, today was found guilty of teaching evolution in defiance of Tennesse law. Judge John Raulston imposed a flno of s\oo. The jury received the case at 11120 a. m. and returned its verdict seven minutes later. The great trial, which opened July 10, in this fundamentalist hotbed, amid tho ivy-clad Tennessee mountains, thus drew to a dramatic close.

Scopea when anked If he had anything to nay before the court pasaed sentence, said: Appeal Launched "Your honor, I feel I have been opposing an unjunt law. I will continue to support my ldaala.” Barely before the wheels of Justice had stopped grinding, appeal from the verdict and fine was launched. Bail for Scopes was fixed at S6OO, pending appeal of the case to tho Supremo Court of Tennessee at Knoxville. Dudley Field Malona-. one of Scopes' attorneys In the long legal battle, announced that the Baltimore Evening Sun had offered to go on the bond and the offer had been accepted. Giving the case to the Jury following a series of sensations, one of which was an order of Judge Raulston expunging the testimony given yesterday by William Jennings Bryan, war lord of the prosecution, under questioning by Clarence Darrow, famous criminal lawyer of the defending forces. Ruling Is "Last Straw" The ruling was the "last straw” for the defense, Darrow said, In taking exception to it. He asked the judge to summon the Jury and Instruct It to find his client gillty. "There was nothing left for us to do,” Darrow's associate counsel, Malone, explained. "All our witnesses were barred from testifying, tho depositions of our scientists, which showed conclusively that the antievolution law Is unjust, were held inadmissible, and (here was nothing else left for us to do.” Judge Raulston summoned the Jury, but did not direct It to find the defendant guilty. In his charge to the jury he said in part: “Gentlemen of the Jury, this Is the case of Tennessee versus John T. Scopes, charging violation of the nntDevolution law of Tennessee.’’ He then read the act and the Indictment of Scopes. Regular Instructions “To this charge the defendant has pleaded not guilty and thus made up the issues of this case. “Before there can be a conviction the State must make out Its ease beyond a reasonable doubt. “The court calls the attention of the jury to the wording of the statute. The statute has been before the court and the court lias held It constitutional, making It an offense to teach that man descended from a lower order of animals. “The State does not have to prove that the defendant taught, a theory that denies the story of creation as related In the Bible, but that he taught that man descended from a lower order of animals. "Liable To Fine" “Therefore the court charges you that If the defendant did teach that man descended from a lower order o fanlmnls and the State proved It beyond a reasonable doubt then you should bring In a verdict of guilty. "Under the provisions of the statute, the person may be fined SIOO to SSOO. "Under our constitution the Jury can have no bias nor prejudice, but you should stand for the truth and truth alone.” Darrow then addressed the Jury. "We came down Ivro to offer evidence in the case, but It has been held Inadmissible. All we can do is take exception and take it to a higher court,” he said. “As the case stands my client is guilty, according to your lnstruc(Tom to Pago l^jj

Forecast Generally fair tonight and Wednesday except possibly showers this afternoon and early tonitfht; not much change in temperature.

TWO CENTS

HOP Contest to End Saturday Midnight Closing Date Announoed for Letters on Thrilling Experiences.

1))’ (ton* M. Oarrlgus SHE HOP contMt for the beat lottom on "MY MOST HARROWING EXPERIENCE AH A PEDESTRIAIN," will close Saturday at mldn'ght. All lottera to bo eligible must bo In tbo mulls by that tlmo. Winning lottors will bo announced next week l>y the throe Judges— Coroner I'aul F. Robinson, Lieut. Lewis Johnson, Traffic chief, and Frank Flonner, undertaker. The prises, are fl 5 and a roller skate for the best letter; 110 and a vaulting pole, second; and 16 and a sliding pad for third. Many letters received by Scrumptious Skip are too long and have been ruled out. Letters must not be over 200 words long. Count 'em before you send them In. • • e E. M. Griffith. 2209 Central Ave . came forward with a good suggestion as what to do with the ona-ccnt dues in the HOP society, ''Sturt a flower fund for the poor victims of the auto," Is ths suggestion. An extra cent Is Inclosed with the letter. Hravo. see S. F. Culver, 2808 N. Ixi Sail# St.. Is one HOP whose letter le too long to compete In the prizes. He narrates a the<U'ng experience ns li pedestrian and because he stood his ground as a true HOP went home with "flivver splinter* where my pants should be." s • s Olive Neal. flOl Oraasmere Ave., submits an Ideal letter as for as brevity Is concerned. After the harrowing experience, the letter says: "I ate from the top of the piano, not having a mantel." • • • C. S. W„ 784 De Quincy had an old-fashioned harrowing experience. She narrowly escaped being run down at Circle and Meridian St. by a malt truck drawn by horses. • • • Charles E, MoClalne of Advance, Ind., would pun his way to victory. He writes he didn't want to stand all "Knight" on the corner watching the "Moon," so he took the "Liberty" to "Hup" himself and shoot like an "Arrow" Ovorland." Os course, he had to "Dodge," miss his date with an "Auburn” hatred mama, and almost landed across the "Jordan." Asa final lick, hs eays "Every time I think of that experl ence It makes me "Nash" my teeth. As I read the letter 1 came to "Pnige" and turned over. • • • Remember, the contest closes Sal unlay at midnight. Perhaps the winning ktftar Isn’t In YET. Send one todty mat wan* ttsl I*