Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1925 — Page 1

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TAX BOARD FLAB FOR ROADS* .City Park Body Member Tells State Commissioners They Turn Down Highways of Real Value and Approve Worthless Ones. CHARGES ARE MADE AT KESSLER BLVD. HEARING Indebtedness of Washington Township Cited in Retaliation to Scathing Attack Made by Emsley Johnson —Explain Rejections. State tax commissioners were severely condemned today by Emsley "W. Johnson, member of the city board of park commissioners, for their “arbitrary method of passing on Marion County roads.” Johnson’s declaration came during a hearing on remonstrance against a $57,500 bond issue for paving a stretch of Kessler Blvd., known as the Elmer Dawson Rd., between Keystone Ave. and Bellefontaine St. Johnson declared the board should meet with public spirited citizens of the county and come to “some definite agreement as to what roads should be built and what ones should not.” Price Only “All you people consider with reference to proposed roads is the matter of contract, price. You pay no attention whatsoever to the question of a road's utility. With a view of the local road situation no more comprehensive than your board can boast, you are not capable of passing judgment on Marion County roads. The board should have a definite program for the development of our roads. What do the people know about your attitude on local roads?” Johnson declared. ‘‘We have no Jurisdiction over road* programs,” John J. Brown, chairman of the tax board, retaliated. “In the last few months you have turned down one road that should have been improved and allowed two roads that should not. There has been no utility value whatsoever to some of the roads you have approved recently,” Johnson said. Cite Indebtedness William A. Hough, member of the tax board, pointed out to Johnson the fact that Washington Township, where the road lies, has a present indebtedness of more than $700,000 and a tax rate which is “increasing by leaps and bounds.” “This road is nothing more than a luxury,” Hough said. W. C. Husbaum secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, seconded Hough’s remarks, declaring the tax rate in Washington Township is bound to exceed $3 on the hundred. Others spoke in favor of the road were ‘James J. Cruse and William L. Elder, realtors; Evans Woollen, banker, and William W. Spencer, Democratic members of the £ tate board of election commissioners. Members of the board said they would inspect the road this afternoon. ; Blame Boys for Theft Boys are thought by police to have been responsible for the theft of I $2.26 and several packages of cigarets from the grocery of Charles Yarbrough, 642 E. Market St., over the week-end.

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POLAR SHIP TRAPPED THREE YEARS, BACK

Survivors of Arctic Trip Tell Colorful Tales of Hardships. Bv United Press NOME, Alaska, Aug. 24. —Returned from more than three years’ imprisonment in the ice packs of the north, the Amundsen schooner Maude was in port here today, with the six men of its crew detailing strange stories of their adventures. The Maude ventured unsuccessfully into the Arctic regions, hoping to reach the north pole by drifting with the ice. Cross currents carried the vessel northwest instead of north, thwarting the aim of the expedition. But although the pole was reached Captain O. Westing and his men have none the less an interesting story of their adventures which they related to the United Press for the first time. Engineer Dies With Captain Westing on the Maude were Chief Officer Carl Hansen, Chief Engineer and Radio Operator M. Olonkit, Assistant. Engineer- A. Malnmert, Assistant Engineer S. Syvestern, Aviator O. Dahl and Dr. Harold Sverdruq, scientist of the party. Assistant Engineer Syvestern died July 28, 1923, from a complication of diseases, brought pn by Polar hardships. The body was wrapped in a Norwegian flag, •>. "ered with canvas and after funera, services were read by Captain Westing, the remains were lowered into the water through a four foot hole in the ice. “It was a severe strain on all the Maude’s crew to see ou - shipments go into Davy Jones’ locker, especially with our only means of transportation locked In the ice and the probability we would never get out,” Captain Westing said. Eskimo Deserts “The only Eskimo aboard the vessel deserted in the winter of 1923, taking with him a gun and shovel. Land was 400 miles distant and the native headed in the wrong direction. Days later he wandered back to the Maude, nearly frozen. The Eskimo was warned not to leave again under penalty of being placed in irons, but hardy needed admonition. He was later landed at his home, at Ei st Cape, Siberia.” The Maude, in its northwest drift, passed south of the Jeanette Islands, 300 miles from the Herald Islands, thence towar" ‘he Bannett Islands, where Captain Westing received orders to return to the United States. POLICE 6U ARD GANGSTER RITES Threatened Interference Is Cause of Precautions. B v United Ureas WORCESTER. Mass., Aug. 24. While State police stood guard funeral services for Walter De Rosier, slain gangster, were held today at his late home. Asa result of threatened interference by John Troy, head of the notoVious ‘‘Troy gang” o' which De Rosier was a member, almost unprecedented precautions were *aken by the authorities. Though detectives carefully scanned hundreds of persons who had gathered outside the house, no trace of the bandit'leader was found and De Rosier’s funeral was conducted without untie <al incident. PASTOR DENIES CONFLICT Minister Says Evolution and Bible Are Not Incompatible. There is no conflict between the Bible and evolution, declared the Rev. CharleS 11. Gunsrius Sunday night at the Spiritualise Church of the Soul. “The story of -creation is no more denied by evolution than it is by the law of cause and effect, law of polarity of the law of attraction,” he said.

PARDON PLEA FOR M’CRAY RETURNED District Attorney Ward Refuses to Comment Recommendation Understood Withheld.

The application for a pardon for former Governor Warren T. McCary, with letters and messages in his behalf, was returned to Washington today by United States District Attorney Albert Ward. Although Ward refused to make any statement, it is understood there was no recommendation that the pardon be granted. Ward received the application about a week ago aijd submitted it to Homer Elliott, former United States District Attorney, who prosecuted the McCray case, and to Federal Judge A. B. Anderson, who sentenced McCray to ten years at Atlanta. McCray was convicted of using the mails to defraud. Elliott refused to disclose his recommendation in the matter, but it is known that his attitude has been unfavorable to pardoning the former State executive. Judge Anderson also is said to be opposed to the pardon. * ’ * •' ' v - Action of President Coolidge on ( the pardon can not be anticipated. | Friends of the former Governor are i bringing political pressure to bear

ANNEXATION IS TALKED Council Members Said to Be Discussing Beech Grove Project. Annexation of Beech Grove Is a topic of conversation among city council members it was learned today. The proposal is to extend the city's boundaries out Troy Ave., only onehalf mile and include Beech Grove in the city limits, similar to the procedure on Shelby St., when University Heights was added to the city. STORY A ‘PIPeHdREAM’ Slayer Has Not Been Found Sane, Official Declares. Bu Inited Press CHESTER, 111., Aug. 24. —A published story that Russell T. Scott, Chicago slayer, had been found sane by hospital attendants and two visiting alienists was branded as a “pipe dream” today by Dr. Frank A. Stubblefield, superintendent of the 'Chester Asylum. CURFEW rOR BARBECUES Sheriff Says Sandwich Stands Must Close at Midnight. Two of Marion County’s leading pastimes, jazz dancing and consumption of barbecue sandwiches, have received a severe setback. Sheriff Omer Hawkins has notified all barbecue sandwich stands to close at midnight. Many of them, he said, have been keeping open until daylight. CHARGED AFTER FIGHT Women Alleged to Have Mixed On Street Car. Mrs. Willie Lee Carney, 26, colored, 2414 Caroline St., is charged with assault and batery with intent to kill and Mary Brown, 34, colored, 2438 N. Arsenal Ave., with assault and battery as the result of a fight on a Columbia Ave. street car Sunday night, police say. It is alleged Mrs. Carney cut Miss Brown with a raozr. Mrs. Carney’s husband is said to have been the cause of the fight. PROCEEDINGS ARE BARED City Engineer Says “Interests” Have B-en Unscrupulous. Acute competition between cement and asphalt interests has resulted in unscrupulous proceedings In connection with- street improvements, according to Frank C. Lingenfelter, city engineer. "In a number of instances the same name appears on petitions for both concrete and asphalt,” Lingenfelter said. “In one case the time of signature was affixed despite the fact that the person in question was out of the city at the stated time.” MAN HURT IN 3-STORY FALL Scaffold Breaks, Contractor Lands on Head. H. E. Strong, 35, of 627 N. Pennsylvania St., a window washing contractor, was seriously injured today when a scaffold on which he was working the Kahn Tailoring Company, St. Clair St. and Capitol; Ave., fell three stories. Strong, who lit on his head, after a j;ope broke was injured about the head and shoulders and taken to city hospital. It was said concussion of the bjai n might result. Frank Woodward, 211 W. Pratt St., on the scaffold with Strong, held on the rope, and was uninjured. The scaffold, rented from John Armand, 745 Olney St., was the one which broke on the Circle Motor Inn some time ago, when two men were killed, it was said.

on the situation. The . commendation of Attorney G* ra, Sargent may be submitted to I resident Coolidge soon. If the pardon is granted it is expected to be announced within a week or two, but if it is not granted there probably will be considerable delay before the action Is made public, it is thought.

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SHAIK TO BE QUIZZED BY CMINCjLMEN Will Be Asked to Explain Statement That Armitage Is Interested in Asphalt Instead of Concrete, Ray Announces. DEFINITE PLANS FOR PROBE ARE MAPPED OUT " * * Investigation May Be Financed by Popular Subscriptions, Leaders Say in Event Mayor Refuses to Approve Appropriation. Mayor Shank will be asked to explain his assertion that William H. Armitage, political director of his administration, is interested in asphalt instead of concrete, Otto Ray, member of the councilmanic committee, appointed to examine transactions of the board of works, declared at a committee meeting Sunday. Shank today said he did not know why Armitage -was for asphalt. “I've never asked him about it,’ he said. “Personally, I’m for asphalt and so are members of the board of works. It’s easy to cut and to replace and concrete is not.” Definite plans for the Investigation were discussed at the home of John E. King, chairman. Theodore J. Bernd, the other committee member, attended. The committee members will seek the advice of other councilmen before procedure, it was decided, and a definite understanding will be reached as to the committee’s legal powers to examine records of the board, contracts with corporations and papers in the archives of those companies transacting business with the city. Ben H. Thampson, council president, at the. request of the committee members, has announced a special meeting of the council Tuesday night. Armitage Silent Armitage refused to make any statement. “I’ll fight it out in the courts," was all he would say. “If Mayor Shank refuses to approve an appropriation for the in(Turn to Pago 10)

MAGEE FACES BIGGEST FIGHT Editor to Be Arraigned Wednesday. Bv United Press ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Aug. 24. —Carl G. Magee, editor of the New Mexico State Tribune,,nursing bruises he received at the hands of Judge David J. Leahy, today awaited one of the biggest fights of a stormy career. Wednesday in East Las Vegas the editor will be given a preliminary hearing on a charge of murdering John B. Lassiter. Lassiter was shot Friday night after Magee had been knocked to the floor in a hotel by Judge D. J. Leahy. Lassiter was trying to intercede at the time. Judge Leahy was wounded in the arm. Following the filing of charges Magee was released on SIO,OOO bond. June Wheate, who was with Lassiter and Judge Leahy, testified at the coroner’s inquest that after the shooting Leahy had asked him for a gun to go back and finish Magee. The fight between the editor and the Judge was the outcome of a long period of animosity. TRUCK LINES MERGE Centralization of Motor Freight Service Announced. Centralization of motor transport routes operating out of Indianapolis for a radius of seventy-five miles was announced today by Charles J. Elliott, president of the Truck Terminal Association of Indiana, Inc. Seventeen ccftnpanies are included in the agreement. ENVOY IS FOUND DEAD American Ambassador to Haiti Succumbs in Montreal Hotel. Bv United J’ress MONTREAL, Aug, 24.—Arthur Bailly Blanchard, United States ambassador to Haiti was found dead in his room at a hotel here today. Bailly-Blanohard registered from Rochester, N. Y., but his baggage was labelled Washington, D. C.

AUTO-INTERURBAN COLLISION AT CROSSING FATAL TO BOY #

Speedster automobile and Union Traction interorban in coliision at Eighty-Sixth St. and College Ave., in which one boy was killed and another seriously injured.

FIVE IN RACE FOR HEAD OF STATE LEGION Local Delegation Seeks Election of Evans and 1926 Convention. Bv United Press FT. WAYNE. Ind.. Aug. 24. Five candidate’s were in the running today for election as commander of the Indiana Department of the American Legion at the annual State convention here. The large Indianapolis delegation threw its support behind William Evans, former prosecutor of Marion County. Newcastle Legionnaires boomed Clarence Jackson and the Rushville post put up the name of John XipBnger, judge advocate of the Indiana department. Ft. Wayne sought the honor for Robert Gaskell and W. P. Simmonds of Gas City, was the fifth candidate. Seek Convention Indianapolis and Marion were seeking the 1926 convention. New officers and the. convention city will be selected at the closing business session tomorrow. Convention festivities began Sunday with i stag picnic for Legion members at the Elks’ Country Club. An aerial circus of forty planes furnished thrills for the picnickers. James A. Drain, national commander, reviewed *he achievements of the national organization during the past year and urged the Hoosler members “to continue in peace the service they gave in war.” The first business session of the convention opened this morning. Mayor Hos< y of Ft. Wayne and Albert Schaaf, president of the Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the visitors. G. A. R. Greetings Tom McConnell, State commander, responded for the Legion. David Strouse, State commander of the G. A. R., extended greetings to the Legion from the boys of ’65. The annual parade of the Legion was to be held this afternoon. Nearly- 5,000 visitors are here for the Legion convention and the meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary and the “Forty and Eight” society.

PRESIDENT MAY ACT OH STRIKE Coolidge Might Suggest Mine Parley Be Resumed. Bv United Pr<s.< SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., Aug. 24. President Coolidge may return to Washington next week" to take a hand in the coal strike situation. The President has carried out for a month his policy of non-intervention in the anthracite, quarrel between miners and operators. He,hoped an agreement would be reached. A strike, starting Sept. 1, now seems certain and Coolidge’s own New England section will be the first section seriously affected. 1 The only weapon the President has is public opinion and this will be most powerful a.tf.er the strike starts. -A suggestion from him is probably the only thing that would bring a quick reconvening of the miners and operators’ leaders with any chance of a compromise agreement. MANY ‘TIGER’ CHARGES Prohibition Squads Busy Over WeekEnd, Reports Show. Raids by prohibition squads during the week-end resulted in the arrest of thirty-five persons on blind tiger charges. Forty-two persons were slated on charges of intoxication and nine alleged drunken auto drivers were nabbed. Only thirty women were arrested by police who found 167 male violators. Speeders accounted for eighteen arrests and gamesters for nine. Eight persons were held on statutory chafiges. i

Speedster Crashes Into Traction Car North of City. William Bowman, 12, of 7341 N. Pennsylvania St. was killed and Raymond Tieman, 16, Sev-enty-Fifth and Pennsylvania Sts., seriously injured today when a small speedster automobile in which they were riding collided with a Union Traction interurban at Eighty-Sixth St. and College Ave. Tieman, driver of the automobile, sustained serious head injuries, and may be injured internally. He also was hurt about the legs. The third occupant of the car, John Bowman, 8, the dead boy’s brother was sitting on the rear of the machine. Seeing the interurban, he said he called for the other two, and then rolled off only slightly bruised. He was holding two bushels of corn and a bushel of oats thaft the three had purchased at Nora. The boy said the car's brakes were not working well. Ix>gansport Car The Interurban. in-bound from Logansport. was in charge of Harry Riley, Tipton, motorman. He said he was not running fast. Riley was ordered slated on a charge of involuntary manslaughter by Coroner Paul F. Robinson. He said he stopped the car within 500 feet after the crash. Authorities are at a loss to explain the accident, as there, is nothing to obstruct the view for some distance. When she heard of the crash, Miss Garnett Sink, chief operator of the Washington telephone exchange, put in a call to Dr. H. A. Adams, FiftyThird St. and Keystone Ave., who rendered first aid. The automobile was being driven west on Eighty-Sixth St. When it reached College Ave. the driver Tieman, evidently did not see the interurban as the auto crashed into the front steps of the traction car, and was knocked back into the street. It then struck the rear steps of the interurban, tearing them off, and crashed into two telephone poles. The car in which the boys were riding was described as a fight fourcylinder speedster, having a makeshift body mounted on an old chassis. Lieut. Ralph Dean and emergency squad investigated. The dead boy is survived by his father W. W. Bowman, employed at the Chrysler automobile factory here, his mother and a sister Ruth, 19. The Tieman boy was taken to the Indiana Christian hospital. Deaths in State Charles Baifey, 78, was dead at Muncie. His auto, laden with garden stuff, was struck by a train. Two were dead in accidents at South Bend. Albert Kocher, 27, of Niles, Mich., was killed on a roller coaster. Theofll Nowalkowski, 30, was killed by a train. Crushed between two cement trucks at the Bluffington plant of the Universal Portland Cement Company. George Copeland, 37, was killed at Gary. I Thomas Brown, 78, of Connersville, was in a serious condition in a Ft. Wayne hospital with a fractured skull received in an auto accident Sunday. An auto driven by Ernie Hopkins, son-in-law of Brown, overturned and pinned the aged man beneath. The party was on its way to the Legion convention. PLANE KILLS TWO Army Golf Champion Is Victim of Crash on Links. Bv United Press WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS*. Va., Aug. 24. —Capt. Otto G. Trunk, adjutant of the Bolling field air station at Washington, D. C., arrived here today to take charge of the bodies of Capt. Frazer Hale, army golf champion, and Private, Earl Norris. They were burned to death when their plane crashed on the golf links here Sunday in view of hundreds of vacationers. Doctors found the bodies of the men burned beyond recognition.

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DEALERS RAISE PRICE OF MILK CENT A QUART Fall Shortage Said to Blame for Boost Put in Effect Here Today. An increase of 1 cent a quart was announced by a number of milk dealers here today. The new price is 12 cents a quart. The regular fall shortage and the necessity for paying higher prices to farmers is responsible, dealrs said. No change was made in the price of milk in pints, which has stood at 7 cents, nor in the price of cream. Officials of the Weber Milk Company announced that a one-eent increase in milk by quarts would become effective Tuesday. Among the companies effecting increases today were the Folk Sanitary Milk Company, Schaefer Brothers, the Weber Milk Company, W. H. Roberts & Sons, and the East End Milk Company. Last spring prices were cut from 12 cents to 11 cents a quart, due to the summer surplus, dairymen said. Milk distributors denied that the price cut was made by agreement. Most dealers, however, will conform to the new prices, it is said.

WAR COUNTRIES DICKER ON DEBT Caillaux, Churchill Hold Widely Diverging Views. Bv I Tilted Press LONDON, Aug. 24.—With their views as to terms of France's debt payment to England widely diverging, French Finance Minister Caillaux and "Winston Churchill, chancellor of the Exchequer met today for the first of their conversations. Reports first pictured England asking an annual payment of 20,000,000 pounds sterling (about $100,000,000), with Caillaux ready to offer about half that amount in clearing up France’s debt of 623,279,000 pounds sterling (about $3,116,395,000). Caillaux came prepared to make a gentleman's offer. This kind of offer, he explained, before leaving France yesterday, would be “one which would be assured of fullfilment.” MAN AND WOMAN HELD Hotel Bellboy Tells Police Story of Shooting. Police are holding Bill Davy, 1145 S. West St., and Ruth Hill, 427 N. Capitol Ave., following a story told by Carlton Priplett, colored, 113 E. Prospect St., bellboy at the Royal Hotel. The boy said he saw a man get out of a taxi and fire two shots at a girl in an automobile. Davy Is thought by police to have fired at Miss Hill. He is charged with intoxication and interfering with and resisting an officer, while she is slated on charges of vagrancy, drunkenness, operating an automobile while drunk and resisting an officer. OFFICERS CHARGE TWO Girl and Man Held After Alleged Week-End Cutting Scrapes. Anna Bell Bush, 19, colored, 456 W. Eighteenth St., is held today charged with assault and battery with intent to kill after police say she cut Theodore Barnett, 20, colored, of the W. Eighteenth St. address. Theodore Bailey, colored, 947 Lynn St., charged with assault and battery with intent to kill today, is alleged to have cut Louisa Gray, 15 colored, 721 Charlotte St. An argument started at the colored K. of P. dance hall at Senate Av,v and Walnut <St., It was said.

. Forecast Y> FAIR-toifiglit and Tuesday* not much change in temperature. ;

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ism gih - EMM KI LLS SIX Trench Mortar Blows Up at Camp Grant, 111., During Firing Practice Fifteen Are Injured, Some Perhaps Fatally. CAMP COMMANDER OPENS INQUIRY Victims All From Chicago— Wounded Are Taken to Rockford for Treatment in Hospitals—Dead Were. Members of Howitzer Unit Bv United Press CAMP GRANT, 111, Aug. 24. —Six men were instantly killed and fifteen were injured, some perhaps fatally, when a trench, mortar exploded here today during firing practice. The victims are from Chicago. The dead: Capt. A. O. Browning, COrp. Henry Williams, Privates Ben Anderson. Delmass Campbell, Herbert Durant and one unidentified man. The injured were taken to a hospital at Rockford, 111., near here. Brig. General Foreman, in command of the camp, has started an investigation. All the victims were members of the Howitzer Company of the Eighth Infantry. Captain Browning, in charge of the firing squad, was directing his men the fatal bomb was placed in the mortar, according to the story brought to headquarters. FIRM HOLDS PICNIC Engraving Company Employes Go to Northern Beach. Approximately 100 persons attended the annual picnic at Northern Beach Saturday of the Patterson Engraving Company of 23 W. Maryland St- The all-day program included horseshoe pitching contests, indoor baseball, tug-of-war, foot races and stunts for women, a feature of which was a cracker-eating contest. Gwynn Patterson, president, made a short talk at the bon fire supper. George Patton and Jack Rhodes, company photographers, made numerous pictures of the activities. Joe Lutes was chairman of the committee on arrangements. STORM SWEEPS VALLEY Houses and Wires Ripped Down by Severe Wind Storm. Bv United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 24. —Severe damage was done Sunday by a windstorm in the Red River valley, according to word here today. The storm swept northward, ripping down farm houses, telephone and telegraph -wires. Grand Forks, N. D., and Winnipeg, Man., were hardest hit. Lines of communication to both points are severed and the extent of the damage is undetermined.

TO INCREASE COUNTY LOAN Extra $50,000 Needed for Court Equipment. The Marion County Council today voted to increase from SIOO,OOO to $150,000 its proposed temporary loan to be used to add five new courtrooms to the county court house, and making county infirmary and miscellaneous repairs. The $50,000 increase was considered necessary to include an appropriation for courtroom equipment. Reconsideration of the loan was brought about because attorneys for prospectives bidders objected to the SIOO,OOO loan including salaries for juveniles court employes, Cassius L. Hogel Council president said. The five new courtrooms will house the four new municipal courts and the Juvenile Court to replace present city courts Jan. 1. MISS WILLS LOSING Drops First Set of Match for National Title. Bv United Pres* ' FOREST HILLS, N. Y„ Aug. 24. Miss Kathlyn McKane grabbed the first set from Miss Helen Wills, present champion, here this afternoon i their match for the national woman's tennis championship. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 62 10 a. m 82 7 a. m...... 66 11 a. m 83 8 a. m 72 12 (ndfen) .... 84 9 a, m 77