Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 106

iBIGOTRY ON RISE, WARNS C. E. HUGHES Intolerance, Armed With Sincere Conviction, Is Most Ominous Sign of Our Time, President of Bar Association Declares. • N SAYS CHURCH, SCHOOL MUST BE KEPT SEPARATE Endear * to Regulate Educational Subjects, Like Tennessee Evolution Law, Is Roundly Denounced as Menace to Freedom. Bu United Press DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 2. Taking liberty and law as keynotes for his address upon the Declaration of Independence Charles E. Hughes, president of the American Bar Association, opened the fortieth convention of that body today. “Themost ominous sign of our time, Hughes declared, “is the indication of the growth of an intolerant spirit which is most dangerous when armed with sincere conviction. “It Is a spirit whose wrath must be turned away by the soft answers of sweet reasonableness. It can be exerted only by invoking the genius which watched over our infancy—a good genius still potent, let us believe—the American spirit of civil and religious liberty.” Separate Church and Schools Hughes' address was delivered before 4,000 persons, including some 12,500 of some of the country’s ablest lawyers and broadcast to the On every side, he pointed out, the growing multiplitcy of laws and the ■tli creasing disposition of people to Attempt to regulate their fellows ■iade the security of the individual's liberty more precarious. Above all else Hughes emphasized his fear for the freedom of education and his insistence that this freedom he protected. He said the question had nothing to do with the soundness of the theory of evolution. But he unhesitatingly denounced any endeavor to regulate what shall be taught In the schools by religious standards. “What could be a nobler exercise of governmental power than to destroy religious error and save the souls of men from perdition?” he asked and then gave his own answer: to Religious Wars “That plausible pretext has given us the saddest pages of hsitory. That is the road that leads back to the perversion of authority and the abk horrent practices of the dark days of ■political disqualifications on grounds of religion, of persecution, of religious wars, of tortures, of martyrdom. t Hughes sounded the warning that law had reached such a stage of complexity that it in many Instances was more likely to threaten liberty than to protect it. “We have problems enough without introducing religious strife into our politics,” he said. “Extreme Unwisdom” “democracy has its own . apacity for tyranny,” he declared and nted out that the principle of jority rule, upon which democracy is founded, of itself may frequently destroy the freedom of action of minorities. For this reason lie said it behooved the majority to impose its will on the minority only where absolutely essential to the public good. Hughes said he did not wish to comment on the Dayton trial or upon the constitutional power of the State of Tennnessee to pass a statute prohibiting the teaching of evolution. What he did wish to make emphatic, he said, was the extreme unwisdom, in his view, of every such attempt to apply a religious measurement to what shall be taught in the public schools. "If we have any assurance for the future,’’ he declared, “it lies in education. But reliance upon education will be in vain if we do not maintain the freedom of learning.” U. S. SHIP ON •GUARD Chinese Steamer Rims Aground During Typhoon. Hu United Press SHANGHAI, Sept. 2.— The American destroyer, Noah Is standing by to prevent pirates infesting the Chusan Island district from looting SBO,OOO worth of gold bullion from , ihe wreck of the Chinese steamer Fetching, aground after being lashed by a typhoon. Three hundred passengers have taken from the steamer and to Ning Po to the south of here.

An additional list of Marion County Income tax payers is printed on Page 4.

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Citizens Tear Up Bad Rails Bu United Frees Sept. 2.—Angered by the seeond s„ ■ street car wreck In three days a crowd of nearly 1,000 citizens of Berwyn, a suburban town, early today tore up several sections of the trolley track. Armed with axes, crow-bars and shovels, the vigilantes gathered along the right-of-way shortly after midnight and hacked away the rails. They insisted the wrecks had been caused by defective rails which the company refused to repair. Fifteen passengers were injured in the first accident, but the car that leaped the track last night carried no passengers. The crowd went about its work orderly and broke up when the work was done.

‘BUILD OUR OWN ROADS OR QUIT,’ ASSERTS KITLEY Commissioner Confers With Surveyor Concerning State Attitude. Unless Marion County can build her paved roads according to county plans, which call for roads at least 20 feet wide and eight inches thick, there will be no more paving in the county. County Commissioner John Kitley, said today in a conference with County Surveyor George Schmidt. Kitley and Schmidt consulted on the matter of the State highway commission refusing to allow the county to build a road south from Mars Hill to the county lin< unless State specifications, whicn call for an 18 foot road and seven inch slab of concrete, are adopted. “If we want to build better roads than the State, and future traffic requires them, I guess it is our affair,” said Kitley. Suit Favored “I am In afvor of filing a suit for mandate to obtain the approval of the State commission. We can prove our specifications are superior to those of the State, and the law says a county must have specifications equal to the States.” “Anyhow, we could thrash the matter out before a court and find out why the commission has adopted this arbitrary attitude.” As Commissic ners John McCloskey and 'Charles Sutton were absent, no official action was taken. The papers in the case were given Russell Ryan, county attorney, for an opinion. Schmidt has charged that John D. Williams, commission director, and Earl Crawford, a member of the highway body, are fighting the Marion County road specifications, “in behalf of Indianapolis gravel interests.” "Williams, end Crawford, too, are good friends of Sam Hadden, secretary of the State Gravel Association, and have undertaken to fight the gravel interests’ battle,” declared Schmidt. Calls Gravel Dirty “The commission Intends to force Marion County to use inferior gravel from local gravel plants, and I for one am not going to build roads full of dirty gravel that has chunks of dirt as big as your fist in it. and which is part sand. My specifications call for either clean washed gravel, not sand or dirt, or stone. As the local gravel firms will not meet the specifications, although they can, the county has used stone. "I have certain knowledge the Marion County gravel firms sell their good gravel outside the county, and expect to force us to buy their left-over, containing much sand and dirt, at a large profit to themselves. Schmidt said the city is paving three streets, Eugene, E. Tenth and Martlndale, using local gravel, under specifications practically the same as the State’s, and all three are tied up by injunction suits on the part of taxpayers because of alleged inferior concrete. WANT SHARE IN HIGHWAY FUNDS Committee to Take Appeal to Jackson. Bn United Press SOUTH BEND. Ind„ Sept. 2. South Bend’s good roads committee today prepared to appeal to Governor Jackson for a more liberal share of State highway funds for construction work in northwestern Indiana. The Governor was to come here tonight from his vacation cottage near Gary for a conference with State highway members and local good roads committee. Road improvement including the Lincoln highway, Dixie highway and State Rd. 1 will be discussed. Improvement of State Rt. 1 between Plymouth , and Peru would give Indiana a paved road from Indianapolis to the Michigan border. Local business men feel this section has been slighted In the highway construction program. GREENWOOD HAS FIRE Spontaneous Combustion Believed Cause of SIO,OOO Blaze. Bu United Press GREENWOOD. Ind., Sept. 2. Spontaneous combustion in a pile of cotton was believed the cause of a fire which did SIO,OOO damage In the Frank Peek general store here today.

PROTECTION CHARGED IN RUM RAIDS City Attorney Says ‘Higher Ups’ Still Drink Liquor Regularly Without Fear of Prosecution While Others Are Arrested. VIOLATION OF HOMES ALLEGED BY BOSSON Cites Instance Where Nine Dry Agents * ‘Visited’ Farmer at Early Hour on Sunday and Ransacked Place-Nothing Found. Scoring the activities of prohibition officers in raiding private homes as illegal and a menace to the rights of citizens, William Bosson. city attorney, today denounced present methods of enforcement of the liquor laws. “Innocent citizens and their families are being embarrassed and humiliated by these sleuths, while the so-callled ’big men’ are unmolested," he said. Shielding Seen “There t.re a certain number of leading reridents of the city who, every one knows, drink liquor consistently. They are shielded by some one or else the dry officers are too busy terrorizing homes of citizens to raid their places of residence. “Why, every porter in Indianapolis hotels can tell you three or four bootleggers offhand.” Bosson's wrath was aroused by a raid of nine men who said they were prohibition agents at the home of Andrew Gill, who is an employe on Bosson’s farm, ten miles north of tho city rm the Andrew Smith road. "They came in the early hours Sunday morning,’’ said Bosson, “while Gill and his wife and children were asleep. First they pounded on the door and one of them peered into the window. Found Nothing “Despite Gill's assertions that ha had no liquor, they searched tha house high and low, but found nothing." Bosson said Gill Is a man of splendid character, and that he is sure he has never manufactured liquor and doubts whether the employe ever takes a drink. “It’s time wo put a stop to these high-handed actions,” said Bosson. “Judge Collins has attacked illegal searches in private homes, but he apparently has not been able to halt the proceedings.”

CITY HEALTHY DURING AUGUST Whooping Cough Leads Contagious Diseases. Whooping cough leads all other contagious diseases that visited Indianapolis during August, according to the monthly report of Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer. During the month the department discovered 164 cases of contagious diseases, of which 101 were whooping cough. Typhoid fever waa more prevalent in August than during any other month, thirteen cases being reported, There have been only twentythree cases during the year. Other totals are: Tuberculosis, 11; smallpox, 10; chicken pox, 9; measles, 7: scarlet fever, 6; mumps, 4, and diphtheria, 3. “August is perhaps the healthiest month of the year,” Dr. Morgan declared. LAW‘TRAVESTY’ IS BEFORE ORR State Examiner to Check Up ‘Ticket Fine.’ Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the State board of accounts, was the recipient today of a ticket to the boxing match which was held in Tomlinson Hall in July during the International Police Chief’s Convention. Accompanying the ticket was a letter from H. Donaldson, 4221 Boulevard PI. Donaldson said he was arrested July 9. In front of the Washington Hotel for improper parking. He said an offiver became abusive and declared it would cost him a dollar. Paying the dollar, Donaldson said he was handed one of the tickets as a receipt. Orr replied that he would have field examiners check up such "travesties of the law.”

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1925

SHIPS, PLANES, SUBMARINES, HUNT LOST PACIFIC FLIERS

Prisoners Clean Courthouse Yard

Upper—Deputy Sheriff Frank Kenipf with shears in hand, and a squad of Marion County prisoners worthing on the Courthouse lawn. Ixmer—One of the prisoners removing a big thistle from a flower bed.

Deputy Sheriff Landscapes County Lawn —Fresh Air for Jail Inmates. Weeds, tall grass and debris which has accumulated on the courthouse lawn for the past few months was doomed today when Sheriff Omer Hawkins instructed Deputy Sheriff Frank Kempf to take a squad of county prisoners and start improving the lawn. The men will be employed several days In landscaping the grounds. Kempf said. Kempf claimed it would cost the county approximately SSOO to hire a landscape architect to improve the place. Ths men used are all serving time after convicted on drunkenness charges. SHENANDOAH AWAITS START OF TRIP HERE Sharp Breezes Blowing Not Considered Sufficient to Delay Jaunt. Bu United Press LAKEHURST, N. J.. Sept. 2. The naval dirigible Shenandoah swung at her mast today awaiting favorable conditions for a start on her trip to the mtddlewestern States. Sharp breezes were blowing but were not considered sufficient to delay the start greatly unless it should become stronger. Start of the flight was to be made about the middel of the afternoon. The first leg of the journey will carry the ship to St. Louis by the way of Philadelphia, Columbus, Wheeling, Indianapolis and Lafayette. From St. Louis, after a short stop, the ship will swing over Kansas City; St. Joseph, Mo.; Des Moines, la.; Eau Claire, Fond Du Lac, and Milwaukee, Wis., and then over Minneapolis and St. Paul to Detroit, Mich. The return trip will be made from Detroit, by the way of Toledo, Sandusky and Cleveland. BANK BANDITRY WILLBE TOPIC Protection to Be Discussed at State Meeting. Discussion of the State-wide protective organization will occupy attention of the Indiana Bankers’ Association at the twenty-ninth annual conventlo Sept. 15-17 at West Baden. A. C. Brown, Greencastle, chairman of the protective committee, will preside on aftemono of Sept. 16, when H. V. Yacke, State agent lowa crimnal bureau, will speak. Miss Forbe McDaniels, secretary, said about 800 are expected to attend. A special train will leave here Sept. 16. J. V. Carpenter, Brazil, president, will make the annual president’s address Sept. 16. MINT RAISERS BALK Bn Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 2. Mint raisers of South Bend and St. Josep.K County today refused to sell their pr'Nuct at present prices, with the hopes -’’hat it will rise to S2O a pound. Witi.' the price of peppermint oil continuing to rise, they believe they can command a greater price. \

Income Assessment Lists Dominate News Columns

Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Newspapers throughout the country during the last twenty-four hours have published the Income tax figures. In isolated cases some papers have refused to print the returns, but in most cases Income taxes have dominated news columns the country over. All afternoon papers in New York yesterday with the exception of the Evening Post, carried tho figures in as great a volume as possible. Morning papers today followed not only with the figures covering nationally known persons, but also those of the smaller tax payers. The New York Times printed eight pages of what might be

INDIANA AWAKENED BY SLIGHT TREMOR Earthquake Felt in Indianapolis and Over State at Early Hour—No Damage Done.

Several persons In Indianapolis and over Indiana were awakened early today by slight earthquake tremors, according to reports. No damage was done, though buildings were shaken and windows rattled. N. Pennsylvania St. families were .aroused and hastened to their porches, according to Mrs. Anna B. Robinson, 1801 N. Pennsylvania St. Persons living on N. Delaware St. also reported the quake, and a memSPECIAL SPACES HELD UNLAWFUL Remy Cites Exceptions to *No Parking’ Rights. Special "No Parking’’ priveleges allowed garages, theaters, business houses and others In the downtown district, are against the law said William H. Remy, county prosecutor. today. "Under the State law, I have known the ordinances granting special privileges to special classes would not stand a- minute if any citizen carried the matter to Circuit Court on appeal from City Court.” he said. "The only exceptions are the taxi and hack stands, possibly hotels and a place like in front of the Hume Mansur Building, kept clear, in the interest of the entire public for unloading of ambulances,” declared Remy. Business houses would be allowed to have space kept clear in which to load or unload goods, however, Remy thought. EQUITABLE USTsTsTOCK Auto Finance Company to Have 5150,000 Common on Mart. Equitable Securities Company, 127 N. Delaware St., auto financiers, will list $150,000 common stock on the Indianapolis Stock Exchange. Friday, according to an announcement by Donald Jameson, president, and John Jameson, vice president. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 68 10 a. m §2 7 a. m 69 11 a. m 83 8 a. m 73 12 (noon) .... 85 9 a- 78 1 p. m 87

called "neighborhood returns’’ listing thousands of names, in addition to all the figures on well known persons. The Herald-Tribune not only prined six solid pages of local figures, but an addltiona’ page of special dispatches from the country's leading cities listing scores of residents of those places. The World printed a page and a half of returns from New York in addtion to all nationally important figures. The Chicago Tribune published the payments of principal citizens in its circulating territory, and editorially announced it would continue to unless the Government made it unlawful. The Cincinnati Enquirer published the lists.

ber of the street cleaning depart ment said he felt the tremor downtown. Thomas Hendricks, 2060 N. Delaware St., said he felt the tremors shortly before 6 a. m. Mrs. R. C. Crosswhite, 513 E. Twentieth St., also reported a slight quake. A distinct quake was felt at Evansville at 6:65 a. m., the shock being felt over a radius of fifty miles. It was not violent. A more severe shock, which did some damage, struck Evansville, April 24. FELT AT EVANSVILLE Distinct Tremor leasts Several Sec- • onds; No Damage. Hii United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 2.—A distinct earth tremor was felt here at 5:55 a. m. today. The tremor lasted several seconds. No damage was reported. The shock was felt over a radius of about fifty miles, and though distinct, was not violent. Most residents here still were In bed. The shock was accompanied by a low rumbling sound. A more severe shock in which some danger was done struck here April 24. REMUS, LEAVING CELL, IS TAKEN News of Divorce Action Shocks Him. Hu United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 2.—After serving twenty months in Atlanta Federal Penietntiary-for violation of liquor laws, George Remus of Cincinnati was released today only to be re-arreted on charges facing him In Dayton, Ohio, and St. Louis. He was take nintp custody by a United States marshall and two deputies and was to be taken to Dayton. Remus was shocked at the news that his wife had filed suit against him for divorce. "Why. do you know,” he said, "she has made twenty two trips down here to see me. There is absolutely no grounds whatever for this action and I feel confident we shall be able td patch things up.”

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Air and Undersea Craft Join Destroyers in Search for Ocean Airmen Missing 18 Hours. NAVAL OFFICIALS NOT ALARMED Defeated Aviators, Towed Back, Anxious to Make New Attempt. By Harold E. Swisher. United Press Staff Correspondent NAVAL HEADQUARTERS, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2 Missing now so-r almost 18 hours, the flag plane I’N-9-1 of the United Stat.es-Ilawaiian flight- was sought over a wide area of tropical waters by every available craft of sea and air out of Honolulu, according to radio reports here.

A half dozen F-5-L seaplanes from Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, have joined a dozen submarines and a small ocean craft In search of the waters where the PN-9-1 and Commander John S. Rodgers and his crew last were heard from at 4:12 p. m. yesterday. With his motors dead and out of gasoline, Commander Rodgers had no choice but to let the big aircraft drift. He was north and west of the Aroostok when last heard from, less than 300 miles from Honolulu and about 260 miles from Kahului, Island of Maul. Hope Maintained Reports here said aside from rain squalls the • weather was favorable and there was no great cause of anxiety, although It was realized hours might pass before one of the searching planes or ships discovered the PN-9-1. Naval officials flatly refused to give up hope that the fliers would be rescued from their perilous ocean landing place. “I think they will pick up the fliers,” Captain Frank J. Moses, flight project commander, told newspaper men. “We haven't given up hope,” said Moses. “We dare not even consider that the men may be lost. Experienced as they are In Hawaiian waters, with the plane they have, it l!s inconceivable that disaster should overtake them.” Situation Foreseen "This exact situation was forseen a month ago. At that time we realized in undertaking this flight that the chief danger lay in the planes running out of gasoline. We mapped our plans for such an emergency.” The PB-1, the huge Boling machine which was delayed in starting due to the installing of new engines, will take ofT for Hawaii at 2 p. m. tomorrow, Moses announced. PB-1 tarries More Gas The PB-1 is 4,000 pounds heavier than the two PN-9 planes, which met defeat; it carries 600 more gallons of gasoline, and has a speed of at least twenty miles an hour greater. Lieutenant Commander James H. Strong, callled the Navy’s “Iron man,” will bo In charge of the PB-1. Although the fate of their comrades of the PN-9 is still unkonwn, Strong and his four-man crew are eager for their getaway. Collision Is Undoing "We have no fears for ourselves, but we are worried about Commander Rodgers and his men,” Commander Strong said. “Do you think you will make It?” he was asked. “I know and well we will make it.” was the reply. In final tests the PB-1 was pronounced in perfect condition for the adventure. A collision with the destroyer William Jones, and not mechanical trouble, prevented the plane PN-9-3 from completing its flight after being 300 miles of sea. With its five men of the crew still aboard the plane, weary, unshaven and sleepy, but eager to start again, the big craft was towed into San Francisco bay at 7:30 and dragged onto the ways at Crissy field. Determined to make another effort If higher authorities will permit, the men, under the direction of Lieut. Arthur P. Snody, plane commander, immediately started repairing the damage to* their craft. I UNCLE IN RICHMOND Milton Bowling Is Nephew of K. E. Orr. Bv Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Sept. 2.—Milton Bowlin, machinist's mate on the PN-9 No. 1, missing seaplane, is a nephew of E. E. Orr of Richmond, Ind. He enlisted in the Navy in 1918. WIFE AWAITS NEWS Mrs. Teresa Stantz With Parents, Pending Word From Husband. Bv Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind,, Sept. 2. Mrs. Teresa Stantz, wife of O. G. Stantz, radio operator of the missing naval seaplane PN-9-1, is with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Weber of this city, awaiting word of her husband. Stantz has spent twelve years in the United Btates Navy and during the World W*h' was radio operator aboard the first American ship to sink ya Germgn submarine.

Forecast FAIR and somowhat warmer tonight; Thursday fair but with some cloudiness.

TWO CENTS

Five Men Aboard Missing Plane Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2. There were five men aboard the PN-9 when it wna forced down. They were: Commander John Rodgers, pilot and flight unit commander, 44, who has a record of 1,000 hours in the air. His home was Havre De Grace, Md. Lieut. Byron J. Connell, 31, navigation officer, Pittsburgh, Pa. S. R. Pope, aviation pilot, 31, Jackson, Tenn. Otis G. Stantz, radio operator, 26, Terre Haute, Ind. W. M. Bowlin, machinist, Richmond, Ind.

BUMPER CORN CROP FORECAST; SEE PROSPERITY Business Boom Expected Here With Large Gain for Farmers Predicted, Stimulation of Indianapolis bush ness will be the natural result of the bumper corn crop in Indiana this year, according to William H. How. ard, secretary of the Indianapolis Board of Trade. Everything indicates there will be a gain in business in the coming months, he said. Crop statisticians predict the Hoosier corn crop will total 210,000,. 000 bushels this year. Normal production in Indiana Is about 184,000,000 bushels. Last year's crop was about 117,000,000 bushels. Leads Other States "From the best sources of information, Indiana has the best outlook of any Middle western State for a good corn crop. In proportion to its size the Indiana prospect is better than Illinois and lowa, leading corn States," Howard said. “The probability is the crop will be about 90,000,000 bushels larger than last year. At a price of only 60 cents a bushel. Hoosier farmers would have $54,000,000 more in their pockets than in 1924. This sum distributed over an area the size of Indiana will make material difference in business.” Start Nov. 15. With reasonable weather conditions movement of corn will start about Nov. 15, Frank A. Witt, commission man, predicted- Many dealers over Indiuna have already contracted for grain. "It is impossible to predict what corn will sell for, but it is probably the price will be from 60 to 70 cents a bushel. Reports show the crop is poor elsewhere,” Witt said. . Farmers havt) begun buying in anticipation of the good crops. Rural banks are loaning money more freely, according to reports.

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