Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 101, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 101

BRIBER? IS • HELD WORST DRV HE ♦ New Prohibition Boss Discloses , Government Is Spending $11,000,000 a Year to Enforce Liquor Law. ADMITS HE USED TO DRINK SOME HIMSELF But Now He Gets ‘Kidded’ a Lot, He Says, Because of His Partiality to Lemonade —Voices Confidence in Success. By Frank Getty T'nitcd Prees Stall Correspondent WASHINGTON. Aug. 27. “I am trying to put prohibition enforcement upon a dignified business basis.” General Lincoln C. Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury, in an exclusive interview with the United Press today summed up in these words the work he has done since his appointment live months ago to the task of drying up the Na--1 ion. * \Y must set away from senti- • ntulity and restore respect for law "• -cement.” '■l heroics in the attitude of this ■ ng, soft-spoken, ruddy-faced, ■> ' cd Army officer toward his job. : quiet confidence. -'perding $11,000,000 ,nk I can put it over,” said h 1 Andrews. ' ; at. example of how the new datum Secretary of the Treasury employing business methods in is work, he has appoitned Walton A. Green, a retired Army officer, a ■wyer and a Harvard graduate, to ( heck up on the results. "The country is spending sll,000,000 a year on prohibition enforcement,” explained Andrews. “It is entitled to know what it is getting for the money." It was in the old-fashioned parlor of a rambling Georgetown Colonial house that the General, who has been putting in twenty hours a day at his new task, leaned back in his chair, sipped meditatively at some lemonade, told for the first time (Turn to Page 13)-

FOUR DROWN IN LAKE MICHIGAN Mother of One Victim Attempts Suicide^ Bit United Pres* CHICAGO, Auk- 27.—Hour lives have been claimed by Hake'Michigan in the last 16 hours. Xrja Karpala IS. drawn beyond her depth by a strong undertow, sank before the eyes of scores of bathers. Mamie Klewola, 18. a chum, died of heart failure trying to save Irja. k Irja's jiiother, attempted to throw F'herself into the lake when she learned that her daughter had drowned but was saved by life guards. Near Gary, Ind., Dr. Charles K. Cherry r , 35, a dentist, disregarded a warning of life guards and was drowned before they could t*et*rh him. Across the. lake at Ludington, Ralph G. Burdick, 7, of Chicago, was unable to save himself when he tumbled from a pier while fishing. Flapper Fanny Says:

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President Done in Butter Bu United Press v DES MOINES, lowa, Aug. 27. —President Coolidge has been done in butter. One of the features of the lowa State Fair Is a three quarter size butter statue of the President. The feat was accomplished by H. I. Wallace of Lincoln, Neb., the world'spnly butter sculptor The likeness is kept frozen by a mechanical refrigerating plant alongside of which is the inscription "Keep Cool With Coolidge." About'l3s pounds of butter went into the President’s statue. At prevailing prices the statue is worth approximately $67.50.

THREE m RACE TO HEAD STATE REALTY SOCIETY License for All Dealers to Be Discussed at Anderson Meeting. Bv Time* Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 27.—-H. M. Dickman of Evansville, John C. Shafer of Anderson and Willian Funkey Jr., of Gary were the three candidates in the open today for the presidency of the Indiana Rea! Estate Association in convention here. Officers will lie elected Friday. Indianapolis Ft Wayne, Michigo City and Elkhart are seeking nex year’s convention. Discussion of the proposed real estate dealer license law was to feature today’s program. O B. Durham of Indianapolis was to lead the op position to the plan in a speech, answering that of Joseph Rrattain of Chicago, who was to talk on "The License Law and Why." Other problems to l>e discussed: Classification of property for taxation: 100 per cent assessment; taxation on a 100 per cent valuation of all religious and fraternal organiza tion property not actually used to further moral benefits of these in stitutions: taxation of real estate only for county, city, school and other local purposes: that estate by demise be subjected only to Federal tax; suspension oi Federal income tax publioty; change in landlord and tenant law, making leases in excess of thirty .days in writing. A grand ball and a four-minute speakers’ contest will Tie held at the Green Lantern Pavilion tonight. SLAYER KILLS SELF M CELL ‘Scientific’ Murderer of Wife Escapes Punishment. Bu l nitrd Pn LOS ANGELES. Aug. 27.—Dr. Thomas W. Young, confessed "scion tific murderer,” committed suicide by strangling himself with a wire in his cell in the county jail here today. Young killed his wife, the widow of the late ‘‘Ripe Olive” Grogan, and buried her body in an abandoned cistern beneath his pretentious Beverly Hills home to gain possession of* the million-dollar Grogan estate. He killed her by using anew kind of gas which he developed. Young who has been fighting a desperate battle* to escape capital punishment, determined on suicide last night, he told cell mates, after his dead wife's son testified yesterday he would like to see him hanged for the murder.

FRENCH PLEASED BY DEBT TERMS British Extend 62-Year Payment Period. Itn United Preft* LONDON, Aug. 27. French Finance Minister Caillaux went back to Paris, apparently jubilant at the terms of the debt settlement he had achieved with British Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill. That France will accept the terms, which in effect, put up to America the question of giving France lenient treatment on her American debt, is deemed certain. 1 Any dissatisfaction in France over the arrangement to pay for si*ty-two years an annuity of about $62,500,000, probably will be allayed by the fapt that Caillaux received assurance in London's Wall Street that he could obtain credits to tide the Bank of France over its financial troubles. U. S. REVEALS STAND High Government Official Discloses American Attitude. Bn United Pres* WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—France will receive no such debt settlement terms from the United States as she received from Great Britain, a high government official associated with the American debt funding commission predicted today. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 61 10 a. m 72 7 a. m 61 11 a. m 73 8 a. 64 12 (noon) .... 74 9 a. m...... 68 1 p. m...... 76

CITY SEEN AS AIRPORT IN FUTURE C. of C. Secretary Says Indianapolis Will Be Center in Years to Come —Points Out Advantages Many Inquiries Received. EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO ALL OF MIDDLE WEST Committees to Receive Fliers of First Reliability Tour Will Be Named to Arouse Interest in Commercial Work. That Indianapolis will be one of the principal airports of the United States within a few years is well within the range of probability, according to John B. Reynolds, secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Flooded with letters of inquiry from commercial air transportation concerns and individuals the Chamber is making a survey t .determine so far as possible tiie air possibilities of Indianapolis. Although this will not be completed for some time enough has been learned even at this early date to Justify the highest hopes for the future. Chamber representatives said. Ideal Site "Geographically Indianapolis is splendidly located '’for an imporiunt airport," lienolds said. "Just take a look at the map and notice that we are on the natural air routes between many important cities of the country. "In addition there Is our central location in the middle west. Asa matter of fact Indianapolis easily could he made a distributing apd concentration point fj4- air mall and merchandise from the north and sesith for eastern and western points, and vice versa. lyevel Country "Our country is comparatively level, which would make for eusy flying with no high mountain peaks or deep valleys to affect flying conditions. The matter of selecting a landing field would not be difficult. Within a few minutes of the heart of the downtown district plenty of land is available, to say nothing of Schoen field at Ft. Benjamin Harrison of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. "Just take a look at the distance from Indanapolis to lmpiytant midwest cities,. Chicago, 183 miles. Cincinnati, 111; St. Louis. 240; Pittsburg, 381; Louisyille, 110; Milwaukee, 268. Here within relatively short radius is an enormous population that in the future undoubtedly will be served more and more every year by air service. “There is ever yreason to believe that in the future Indianapolis will play increasingly important part in the development of air transportation plans of the United States.” Welcome Flyers Committees to receive the flyers of the first commercial airplane reliability tour, who will arrive here Oct. 2, Will be named by Chamber within a short time. The tour is intended to arouse Interest in-the commercial' possibilities -of air transportation. It will be Ktaged by the Detroit Aviation Society and will include twelve Middle Western cities between Detroit and Omaha. Neb. -

UNIONS TO HEAR EUGENE V. DEBS Address to Be High Spot of Convention. Bn United Pre** TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 27. Address of Eugene V. Debs, one of the first the famous socialist has made in his home town since he came out of the Atlanta prison four years ago, w;is to fee the high spot of the convention of the‘lndiana Federation of Labor today. Debs will speak tonight, following a giganitic parade which is to Include not only the delegates and visitors to the convention, but all local labor union bodies. Today's session promised hea’ed debates on various resolutions. President T. N. Tayloris speech late on Wednesday was a/i exhortation to labor to give more attention to the election of legislators sympathetic with- the ideals and purposes of unionism. Taylor assailed Indiana’s new garnishee law; deplored the State’s neglect to Indorse the child labor amendment, and rapped what he termed the unscrupulous physician who hurts the plaintiff’s cause in compensation cases by "selling out” as a professional witness. Ft. Wayne and Vincennes delegates prepared to fight for the 1926 convention. Vote will be taken at the final session Friday.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUG. 27, 1925

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Above; White River from Illinois St. bridge. Below (left to right): Orville A. Davis, James A. Linson, George Walker and Ernest Massy burning weeds cut from river bed.

Caretakers Reported to Have Been Making Hay. White River in so low Jhe fish have to swim on their sides to navigate, but Orville A. Davis. James A. Dawson. George Walker and Ernest Massy, caretakers of the grounds surrounding the proposed home of J. A. Goodman, president Real Silk Hosiery Mills, near Illinois St. and White River, are taking advantage of the dry banks and parched stream bed. They are cutting down weeds and clearing a\\ay driftwood from the an>7 s*deg rtf White River. N The debris is gathered in huge stacks and burned. For several weeks the men have been clearing away underbrush from the hillside. Immediately in front of the proposed Goodmaj home, and in the last few days “Old Sol" got In some good rays and allowed them to work right In the bed of the river. Several persons reported farmers were cutting grass on the Islands of White River and making hay. However, the workmen say the work Is a lot harder than mowing, for axes have to be used to clear away large logs brought down the river by the spring floods.

SHANK S RECORD MAY FACE QUIZ Ray Opposed to Confining Inquiry to Board. Mayor Shank's official record during his four years In office will be Included in city council's investigaton of the board of works, If the views of Otto Ray, committee member, are accepted by John E. King, chairman, and Theodore J. Rrend. the other members of the committee of Inquiry, It became known today. "There's plenty of reason to investigate Shank,” Ray said. "I'm opposed ±o confining this inquiry to the board of works." The committee was to meet today. Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, denied published rumors that he would refuse to submit an ordinance to city council appropriating funds for that body's Investigation of the board of works. "I said I would oppose granting an excessive amount as has been done In former inquiries,” Hogue said. OFFICERS SEEK MISSING GEMS Three Diamond Thefts Reported to Police. Detectives today were Investigating report of Mrs. Marie Hunter, 3915 Central Ave., that her purse containing two diamond rings valudd at $325 had been stolen while in a downtown restaurant Wednesday. Mrs. Daisy Nesbit, 3041 N. Delaware St., told' officers she had a large diamond ring valued at SSOO stolen from' her home 'recently. W. O. Mitchell, 421 N. Capitol Ave., asked police to aid him in the search for a $250 diamond ring which was either stolen or lost when he was in an accident Aug. 17. Slothing valued at $65 was stolen from auft) of Forest Kirk, Newcastle, Ind., and a grip and contents, total value $25, was taken from auto of E. W. Dunklin, Goodland, Inc., according to police reports.

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Hu nnii* Special ““IHAKRSVILLE, Ind.. Aug. 27. —A school mll__J crophone svstom whereby the principal In his office Is constantly connected with every room in the building has been Invented by Fred K. Leap of Sharpsville. Patents are pending on the invention and many schools will open with the new equipment this year. A microphone is installed in

COAL STRIKE ORDER EXPECTED TONIGHT Mine Suspension Call Reported to Be Sent Out Regardless of Negotiation Developments.

Bv United I’rruit PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 27.—Ca1l for a strike of 158.000 anthracite coal miners Sept. 1. will be issued tonight regardless of the possibilities of further negotiations between the WOMAN TORN TO PIECES Police Sa-rgeajit's Wife Dies, Tragically, Lti Sub-Arctic. Bn United Pre** THE PAS, Manitoba. Aug. 27. Mrs. F. G. Clay, wife of a mounted police sargeant at Chesterfield Inlet was tron to pieces by huskies more than a month ago, according to word brought to The Pas in northern Manitoba by a canoe party today. Terribly * torn, Mrs. Clay was rescued from the band of fifteen dogs. Heroic efforts ware made in the subarctic to effect surgical aid, but the woman succumbed. WILLARD TAKES ‘KITTEN’ TITLE Overwhelms Military in F|inql Game. Willard o\erwhelmed. Military playground team today and captured city champiqnship of the Boys’ Kitten Ball League at Willard Park. The score was 16 to 3. Pitching of Healy for Willard was the high light of the contest. Gernstein, diminutive second baseman of the Military organization, starrred for the defeated team. Military will play School 24, champions of the colored league, at 2 p. m. Friday at Willard Park. The Indianapolis Times this afternoon presented medals to twelve players on the winning team and to a nequal number on the Willard Girls' Kitten Ball team, which won the girls' championship. A track and field meet for playground boys and girls was also in prograess. . * de palmaT is injured Race Driver’s Hurts Sustained in Auto Crash Not Serious. Bm United Pret, DETROIT, Aug. 27.—Ralph De Palma, veteran auto racer, and J. N. McCaully, an engineer of the Chrysler Motor Corporation, suffered slight injuries late Wednesday when De Palma crashed hie machine Into a tree to avoid colliding with an lnterurban freight train. Neither suffered serious injuries The accident occurred at Flat Rock, about forty miles southwest of here.

each room and wires connect It with the principal’s office. By use of switches the school executive can hear conversation In any room. "The teachers and the pupils always put on their Sunday? manners when the principal visits their offices,” s.iid "Too, the visit disrupted the class. Now the principal can listen In, with nobody the wiser.”

miners and the mine owners, according to reports as the miners' scale committee went into session here this afternoon. The committee was considering its program for keeping maintenance men In the mines in the event of a strike. The meeting was attended by Piesident John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers. It followed this morning’s exchange of statements between the miners, officials and the mine operators which carried a ray of hope that the strike might yet he averted. The strike order could be recalled after issuance, should <a settlement be reached. HIGHWAY BODY HOLDSCONFAB Engineering Staff Readjustment Chief Topic. Readjustment of the crippled engineering staff of the State highway commission was the principal topic at a lengthy meeting of the body today. All board members attended. Since the recent wrangle over county road specifications, which resulted in the discharge of Cheslelgh Gray, chief engineer, six other engineers have resigned. Presence of John H. Henry, former office engineer, who resigned because he “could not stand to take orders” from William J. Titus, successor to Gray, gave rise to the report that he Is seeking reinstatement. While a few details of the 1926 road building program were being discussed today, no announcement will be made now bn next year’s program, John D. Williams, director, declared.

Alas, Consider Poor, Poor Bootlegger Btl United Pre*„ FT. WAYNE, Ind., Aug. 27Police today charged Jack Nation of Detroit, Mich., and H. F. Coons of Ft. Wayne, with fleecing bootleggers. They alleged Nation wrote bad checks, gave them to Coons who passed them to bootleggers for gallon lots of liquor, obtaining change as well. An Angola man Is also Implicated, police said.

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MAN KILLED IN FALL OF TEN STORIES Max Leckner, Assistant Sales Manager of Real Silk Mills, Dies Instantly in Drop From Kahn Bldg. SECOND DEATH AT SAME SPOT Believe Official Became 111 and Lost / I Balance While on Fire Escape. Max Leckner, 32, of 4488 Washington Blvd., assistant general sales manager of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, was instantly killed today when he fell from the tenth floor of the Kahn Bldg, into Court St., between the Kahn and Continental National Bank Bldgs. Though no one saw Leckner fall, it is believe<Vhe was on the fire escape of the tenth floor. lie had entered a washroom adjoining the fire escape on the tenth floor, according to a boy, George MeAvin, 525 Concord St. The fire escape has a three-foot railing.

This is .the second time in the last ten days that a tragic death by falling has occurred at this spot.

John Sulteen, 702(4 E. New York St., a window washer, died in a fall from the Continental .Bank Lldg., Tuesday, Aug. 18. Officials of the Homer McKee Advertising Company. 1006 Kahn Bldg., believed Leckner suffered an attack of vertigo and fell from the fire esenpe lunding. According to H. R. Hyman, vice president of the advertising concern, Leckner suf-

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sered an attack of vertigo while In the McKee office several months ago and was taken onto the landing to recuperate. The body, badly mangled, was identified by Paul Ferrel, 2803 N. New Jersey St., also an assistant sales manager for the Real Silk Company. Portfolio Found A portfolio containing advertising copy for the Real Silk Hosiery Mills was found In the wash room. The McKee company handles the Real Silk advertising, and Lecktier evidently had brought his advertisements to the McKee office, which was not yet open. Miss Lena Parson, 75 Whittier PI., telephone operator In the office, said she saw Leckner get off the elevator and go to the wash room. Robert Young, 939 N. Pennsylvania St., employed at the Brenner shoe store, said he was putting his bicycle In the alley when he heard a yell. Looking up he saw the body, then about four feet from the ground. Mrs. Daisy Negley, 318 Continental Bank Bldg., also was in the alley and narrowly escaped being struck by the falling body. . Same Spot Leckner’s body lit about forty feet from Meridian St., and only a few feet from the spot where Sulteen met death when he fell from the Continental Bank Bldg. Dr. A. Cannally, 404 Continental Bank Bldg., said he was in his office when he heard a yell, and, look ing out, saw Leckner falling. Ben Hardy, colored, 319 W. Sixteenth St., had parked his garbage wagon in the alley between the two buildings. He said he was struck by Leckner’s hat, and turned to see the body between the wheels of his wagon. The. body struck one wheel. Lieut. Ralph Dean and squad investigated. A1 Sutton, superintendent of the Kahn Bldg., and C. C. Marsh, custodian of the Continental Bnpk Bldg., were at the spot in a short time, and assisted in the investigation. The body was taken to the Hisey & Titus morgue. 11l at Breakfast Relatives believed the fall was the result of illness. Mrs. Leckner said Wednesday night he told her he felt faint and asked her to open a window. This morning at breakfast she said he became nausuated, hut Insisted on going to the McKee offices. Mr. Leckner had been with the Real Silk Mills for eight months. Previous to that he was Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky manager for the Curtis Publishing Company. He was also formerly employed by a Chicago advertising agency. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Fay Leckner, two children, Walter, 2, and Betty, 5; his mother, Mrs. Carrie Leckner, 709 N. Pennsylvania St.; a sister, Mrs. Herman O. Morgan. 4182 Carrollton Ave., and a brother, Myron, of New' York City. His mother is visiting Myron. Funeral arrangements were delayed pending word from her. Mr. Leckner was horn in Indianapolis and attended Indiana University. His father was the late Max Leckner, well-known music teacher.

Forecast FAIR tonight, and Friday; warmer 'weather Friday predicted.

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HIGHWAY BOARD IS SCORED IN LEAGUE TALKS City Experts Hear Politics Blamed for ‘Deplorable’ Roads in North. Bit T'nlted Pre** GARY, Ind., Aug. 27.—Delegates to the Indiana Municipal league convention today faced a crowded program. Mayor Handley of Richmond led a round table discussion of traffic problems and John Elliott of Alexandria discussed modern street lighting systems. 'Read construction policies of the Rtnte highway commission were flayed by Mayor Fulton of Gary, who described conditions In the northwestenr part of Indiana as "deplorable.” Polities Rlnined Taylor Groninger, head of the India na,polis delegation to the convention, blamed politics for the situation as outlined by Mayor Fulton. "Northern Indiana and Lake County would get better roads if high politicians would quit tampering with affairs of the commission,” Groninger said. Delegates visited the Industrial section of Gary this afternoon. Governor Jackson will speak at a banquet tonight. Codification of all State laws will he urged in a resolution to he presented Frldny hy James M. Ogden, Indianapolis corporation counsel. Muncie and Richmond were leaders in the race for the 1926 meeting. Choice will he made and elected Friday. ‘ Mayor D. D. Davis, Terre Haute, may be re-elected league president. REMUS’ LIBERTY ON BAIL SOUGHT Wife Starts Drive to Raise Bond Money. Bit United Pre** CINCINNATI, Aug. 27.—Mrs. Tmogene Remus, wife of George Remus, the Cincinnati bootleg king, began a campaign here today to raise $50,000 to obtain her husband’s Überiy on bail, when he Is released from Atlanta penitentiary and arraigned In St. Louis, Mo„ on a conspiracy charge next week. Remus will be arrested on a fugitive warrant when he walks from Atlanta, and returned to St. Louis to answer an indictment charging him, with his wife, a former distiller and a former revenue officer, with conspiracy to withdraw 893 harrels of whisky from the Jack Daniel 'distillery, St. Louis.

All in One Day Yesterday a lady phoned into the office to tell us she sold the davenport In one day after she advertised It In The TUues. A ruan stopped in on his way to work to say he had seven calls the first . vetting after he ran his ad for a housekeeper. An automobile dealer called to cancel two ads. He sold both cars the same evening the ropy appeared. A real estate man changed his ad. • He had sold the house the second day he advertised it In The Times, Another lady requested that her ad be killed as she rented her room from The Times ad the first evening the ad appeared. These are Just a few instances taken at random from any day but they show very clearly that TIMES WANT ADS GEt RESULTS FOR EVERYBODY. Phons la year ad, Main 3500.