Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 136

CIVIL WAR IN CHINA IS INEVITABLE Manchurian War Lord, Chang Tso Lien, and 'Christian General’ Feng Yu Hsiang Certain to Fight It Out. CHANG SAYS CHINA HAS BEEN TRICKED Head •'f Peking Forces Admits He Has Russian Army Officers Training His Troops, but Denies ‘Red’ AJiance. Note: War in China is inevitable within a year between Marshal Chans' Tso Lien, war lord of Manchuria, and Fens' Yu Hsian#, “Christian General." and leader of the Peking' forces. A few days ago Ron w. Howard of the SerippsHoward newspapers interviewed Chang, who accused President Tuan, at Peking, and General Feng of being friends of Bolshevism. The reds, he said, once they gain a foothold in China, might sweep the world. Today we give you the other side of Howard's interview with Feng. By Ry \Y. Howard (Copyright. , 1925. by Seripps-Howard Ne wspapers) KALGAN, CHINA, Oct. 7.—“lf the great powers will open their Peking conference by announcing tariff autonomy for China and the abolition of the unequal treaties imposed on her, China liberals will believe in their sincerity, otherwise they will regard it as a merey trading expedition, out to grant China only the barest minimum necessary to dam the rising tide of Chinese nationalism.” The Christian general, Feng Yu Hsiang, commander-in-chief of the Peking forces, was talking. We sat in a low-ceilinged room, roughly plastered, at his headquarters here in this border town straddling the great wall separating China from old Mongolia. The house was built for him by his soldiers, just a plain cottage, and the room where ve sat was devoid of all furniture save four iron chairs, and a small table of the soda fountain variety. HhVing jlist left headquarters of the Manchurian war chief, Chang Tso Lin at Mukden, and recalling that all China expects Chang and (Turn to Page 2)

MYERS SCORES DUVALL STAND ON TAX RATES r Democratic Candidate Says Boost Due if Republican Wins. Heavier burdens of taxation for Indianapolis if John L. Duvall, Republican candidate for mayor, is elected, were predicted today by Walter Myers, Democratic rival, in a noon speech at the Kahn Tailoring Company. “The people must pay! That is his theory of taxation,” said Myers. “They must pay for innumerable improvements so Bill Armitage can get into the city hall and gather money, s > that George V. Coffin may build up a political machine.” “The people must pay,” Duvall said in his keynote speech. While Mr. Duvall (justly refuses high taxes and prepares the way for still higher taxes, he adds. “I would rather go down in defeat than mislead the voters.” He serves notice that heavier burden of taxation are to be expected, should he be elected. “A pessimist on taxation, he is an optimist on the indefinite subject of crime. As to this he stops not at the city limits, but insists on curbing crime throughout the whole Nation, and stoutly concluded: ‘That problem must be solved.’ “Mr. Duvall asserts, ‘The police department must know bow to catch criminals.’ Yet, he does not explain why his present supporters did not catch Hickory Slim when his gambling loss of $70,000, in a single night, was published on the front pagvf o fevcry newspaper in the city.” mim watch INDIANA AVENUE Clean-up Order Issued by Chief R'ikhoff. An order to “clean up Indiana Ave.” by Police Chief Herman P. Rikhoff was read at all police roll calls today. The order added that special attention shall be given 522 Indiana Ave., the former Golden West Cabaret. It resulted from a petition for injunction filed Tuesday to restrain Archie Y'oung and Harry Lee, colored politicians, from gambling there. Police officers are to visit places suspicious once every hour, and if gambling is not stopped, others will K ~ -"t in their place.

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Wedding Bells Mellow for Bride, 75, Groom, 81

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel N. Kemper

EDDING hells which pealed for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel mellow tone. The bridegroom was 81, Aug. 20 and the bride is 75. If experience helps smooth the rough path of wedded life, Mr. and Mrs. Kemper are due for a happy time, as Kemper is a widower, having celebrated his golden wedding anniversary with his first wife, and Mrs. Kemper is a widow who lived forty-four years with her first husband. Mutual loneliness, the result of a life time of married life, was the cause of tho marriage, the happy couple said. Kemper is a civil war veteran with five children, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild living. Nearly fifty-eight years ago, on March 18, 1868, he led his first bride to the altor. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1018, a year before his first wife's death. Mrs. Kemper was married in 1879

TRIBUTE TO RILEY PAID BY CHILDREN Lockerbie St. Home of Hoos isr Poet Decorated on Anniversary—Ceremony at Greenfield.

Lockerbie St., where James Whitcomb Riley lived, was decorated in flags today while school children gathered at his old home to pay him tribute on the anniversary of his birth. Riley poems were sung and recited by chi’dren from School No. 9. Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier and William Lowe Bryan, Indiana University president, spoke. Dodged Work “Don’t push a bad boy down,” said President Bryan. “He may be a boy w r ho is not understood. He may be a Mark Twain or a Riley. Riley had a teacher who understood him, although he was or e of those boys who only worked when he had to.” Robert Harter, Margerite Walters, Corliss Carroll and Robert Taylor, pupils at School 9, recited “Oh Glory.” Ceremonies were held outside. Hugh McK. Landon presided. Program at Greenfield Greenfield, Rileys birthplace, honored his memory by dedicating the Riley Memorial Park, a fortyacre tract along the Brandywine, including the “ole swimmin’ hole.” School children marched from Riley’s old home to the park. Prizes were given for best decorated floats in several different classes. William Dudley Foulke, Richmond, Ind., an LEOIONeHEERS MITCHELL FOE Lejeune Arouses Opposition to Separate Corps Plan. Jill United Prefix OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 7.- -Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandant of the United States Marine Corps, took the fight of the opponents to the unified air service plan suggested by Colonel William Mitchell right out in the open today when he told the American Legion national convention that the air service is an essential part of the Army and Navy. Tearing the air service away from the Army and Navy would be like tearing a man’s legs from his body, General Lejeune declared in an address. To the surprise of Colonel Mitchell's followers, a storm of applause greeted the chief of the “devil dogs’ ” statement.

MANY LAUD PRESIDENT’S PLEA FOR TOLERANCE

SHE plea for tolerance expressed Tuesday by President Coolidge before the American Ler. .on national convention in Omaha, Neb., has received approval from many Indianapolis citizens. City officials, business men and public leaders praised the address as an explicit expression of American ideals. “President Coolidge’s speech at Omaha contains much with which I agree, especially insofar is it discusses elements that go tc make up national silidarity and union of in-

to Andrew J. Bolen, another civil war veteran. They had no children. Her husband died in 1923. The aged couple spent a peaceful day at home today at 2251 English Ave., in the cottage where Mrs. Kemper lived for years. Kemper was with General Sherman in Georgia, he said, in the 63d Indiana. “At Burnt Hickory, Ga., sir, I had seventeen holes shot in my uniform and at Rasacka, Ga., the right side of mustache was, clipped off by an ounce minnie ball as clean as if a razor had been used,” he said. “It knocked me unconscious, but didn't break the skin,” he said. He met his wife about a year ago through another widow. Kemper waj born near Virginia and South Sts., an.* has lived in Indianapolis the eighty-one years of his life. Mrs. Kemper, also a native Hoosier, was born in Johnson County near Franklin. He is a retired carpenter.

old friend of Riley, gave the principal address at the afternoon dedicatory services. Dr. Carleton B. McCullough, and Henry Noble Sherwood, State superintendent of public instruction, both from Indianapolis, were among the speakers. Hancock County turned out in force for the ceremonies. GIRL TAKES_ POISON Drought to Hospital by Authorities of School; Condition Critical. Asa result of taking poison tablets, Ruth Collins of Anderson is in a critical condition at the Robert W. Long Hospital today. Robert E. Neff, hospital administrator, said the girl was brought to the hospital by authorities of the Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont. School officials refused to comment. It is understood that the girl was released from the school on parole recently, and feared that she would be returned because of violating parole provisions. She took th 6 poison when two detectives called for her, it is said. MYERS ASSAILS ‘BOSSES’ Democratic Nominee Asserts Duvall Can’t Escape Control. The local Republican faction is so dominated by "bossism” that John L. Duvall, G. O. P. candidate, cannot escape its control, said Walter Myers, Democratic candidate, in a speech Tuesday night at Beecher and Shelby Sts. ‘A vote for Duvall is a vote for Coffin and Armitage, who haro stolen the Republican label,” said Myers. DOG DERBIES ARE HELD 5,000 at Nashville for Fox Hunters’ Meeting. Uu Timm Rvccial NASHVILLE, Ind., Oct. 7.—More than 650 fox hounds took part in derby races held here today in connection with the annual meeting of the Southern Indiana Fox Hunters’ Association. Attendance was estimated at 5,000. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 41 10 a. m 51 7 a. m 42 11 a. m 53 8 a. m 47 12 (noon) .... 56 9 a. m 49 1 p. 58

terests,’’ Walter Myers, Democratic candidate for mayor, declared. “If our civilization is to prosper, we must guard and cherish those principles of justice, fair dealing and charity out of which the fabric of our national union is woven. We must repel the antagonism and passion that make for naught but hatred and ilf feeling. These ideas were expressed.” “I have been so busy with my keynote speech and other matters I have had no time to tonsidcr the address carefully,” said John L. Du-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7, 1925

U. $. MEN AT LAFAYETTE FOR RAIDS Long-Expected Offensive of New Prohibition Regime Launched Believed to Be the First of State-Wide Drive on Booze. WILL VISIT ANOTHER SECTION ON THURSDAY Scope of Activities Is Kept Secret Believed to Be Outgrowth of Meeting of State Agents at Federai Building Tuesday. A general elean-up of liquor law violators in the north and west parts of Indiana was under way today by Federal dry agents. Practically every prohibition agent working out of Indianapolis was in Lafayette, taking part in what was expected to be the first of a series of State wide raids. Action of the Federal prohibition forces, marked the first drive under Ansel It. Harris, deputy administrator for the Thirteenth district, who replaced Prohibition Director Bert C. Morgan. That the looked-for raid in tho vicinity of Lafayette would be one of several was indicated today when Harris said that the men would move Thursday to another part of the State. Extent of the operations in the Lafayette district and that part of the State which would be visited Thursady by the agents were not disclosed by Harris. The district around Lafayette, up to this time, has not been the center of much prohibition activity. Fewer violators have been arrested than in other parts of tho State. Although officials of the prohibition department asserted that a meeting of State agents Tuesday had nothing to do with prohibition activities or changes in the force, the action today was believed to have grown out of the meeting.

WABASH MOTES DOWN STRIKE Compromise Effected Until Grid Season Is Over. Bn Timex Speeiul CRAWFORDS VILLE, Oct. 7 Votes of upperclassmen and a plea < y Don Sherman, captain of the football team, today prevented a strike at Wabash College on the question of banning student autos. By a narrow margin, the student body, in a mass meeting in chapel, voted to accept a compromise wrung reluctantly from the trustees Tuesday night by a committee of three students. • The trustees said they would permit the students to drive the collegiate flivvers on Saturday and Sunday if they kept out of them tlie other five days. The original order was a complete ban. The compromise will last until Dec. 16, when the trustees hold a regular meeting. The majority of freshmen and sophomores voted for an immediate walk out in favor of seven days use of the cars. Sherman said it might spoil the football season. A show-down is expected Dec. 16, as ’he football season will then be over. PLAN HALLOWEEN BALL Junior C. of C. Announces Annual Affair Will Be Given. Plans for the third annual Halloween Mardi Gras Ball to be given at Tomlinson hall under auspices of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, were announced today by C. / ugust Schrader, general arrangements chairman. Two orchestras, The Cotton Pickers and The Dixie Jubileersf, will furnish music while cash prizes for the best masked couple and the best dancers will be awarded.

vall, Republican nominee for mayor. “I Indorse President Coolidge's address most heartily,” said Alvah J. Rucker, chairman of the speakers' bureau of the Republican city organization, who presided at the meeting Tuesday night when Duvall delivered his keynote address. "The message was phrased in beautiful language and was very American.” Charles A. Bookwalter, president of Bookwalter Ball-Greathouse Printing Company, and former mayor, registered hearty indorsement of the Coolidge address.

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Young am! active Bucky Harris, W.xsliington manager, above, picked Walter Johnson Aid "Muddy” Kuel for Itis battery in the initial world series tilt, and Bill .McKeelmieselected Leo Meadows and Earl Smith to shoulder the Pirate load.

GARRY, SANS KEGS, IN BUCCANEER LAIR ‘Why Bring ’Em to Pittsburgh,’ He Asks, Where ‘Prohibition Is a Poetical Figure of Speech.’

By Westbrook l’egler PITTSBURGH, Oct. 7.—With expert strokes of his coal miner’s pick, the official who takes the blame for the weather in this region hacked a peephole in the anthracite atmosphere early today, and decided that a hall game could be celebrated this afternoon between the Senators and the Bucaneers. Only Tuesday night he had cheertd the speakeasy proprietors with an announcement that the boys would not be occupied this afternoon because a world series game* was one of the things that Pittsburgh was likely’ to have least of—on Wednesday. The signs in the skies of Pittsburgh never can be described as light reading,' and at sundown Tuesday they were even more melancholy than usual, sundown being, like prohibition, a poetical figure of speech in this region. Typical of his trade, howe’er, ti.e weather supply sergeant, changed his mind today and the visiting sages and potentates of the baseball business went out to settle s iuatter’B claims at Forbes Field. Johnson Liuue Walter Johnson, a gentle Giant with a suffering expression, flapped his famous arm and reported that all was well with him except some lameness in his right foot. Inasmuch as Johnson does very little booting on the ball-field, he will not he much hampered in his style by a loose foot. “I guess I did too much jogging,” Walter thought. “I’ve been doing some roadwork the last few day’s to keep fit and pull’d a muscle a little bit.” There was a sight disturbance at the Hotel Schenley, the world series headquarters, when Garry Hermann appeared and several hundred loving friends rushed to welcome him, shouting, “Where are the kegs?” “I come among you as one without a keg,” said Mr. Herrmann in a very sad voice. “Ever since that time they took the kegs away from the Cincinnati hoys in Si. Louis, I go without kegs, anyway, why should one bring kegs to Pittsburgh?” One-eyed Connelly, the eminent

“It sounds a note that ought to strike a responsive return from every free, patriotic American,” he declared. “It is something that has been needed for a long time. Good citizens are ashamed to think that our free country is a victim of a movement that runs contrary to the ideas of the American mind. I think President Coolidge, as usual, has understood and grasped the situation. It is a fearless challenge to common sense.” “That message from President Coolidge is something real Americans have been awaiting for a long

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' gate-crasher, disentwineil himself from the brake-rods of a New York pullman down in the yards, shook, the cinders from his coat and, upon the completion of this simple toilet, repaired to the Schenley to be among his fellow celebrities. “Judge Landis, as I live,” Mr. Connelly exclaimed with hearty cordially. “And Gene Tunney, and Jack Hendricks. Welcome, boys, to Pittsburgh. Have a good time. Nothing is too good for the friends of OneEyed Connelly and what gentleman can spare two dollars?” City Hysterical Ban Johnson, who snubbed the last world series because, he said, corruption was rife, has relented now and is present in his usual abundance, performing the slight duties that were left to him after the shearing last winter. The emotional pitch of the city’ is almost up to hysteria. Banners dangle devotedly at the street cornels and group portraits of the Pirate Athle.es gaze at the passerby from a thousand shop windows. The world series, which became a hundrum ’hing during the long isolation of the spectacle in New York has begun to live again and this week will bring a revival of those picturesque old stories of tho lads who sat on soap boxes, huddled in blankets all night long, waiting for the ticket windows to open.

Planes for All Is Ford Idea /It; United Press DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 7. The “Ford of the air,” will be propelled by an air-cooled, eight cylinder motor of 200 horsepower, now nearing completion at the Ford laboratories, Henry Ford declared in-an interview published here today. Eventual development of aviation, Ford feels, will do the world what the automobile has done for America. “We’ll put all the people into the air whenever they want to fly, ’ he is quoted as saying.

time,” said Mayor Shank. “The spirit of religious intolerance, if allowed to grow in this country, would produce nothing but misunderstandings and bad feeling among our citizens. The time has come for all of us to get together. “It seems to me everyone should subscribe to the sentiments expressed by President Coolidge,” said Henry L. Dithmer, president of the Polar Ice and Fuel Company and former Chamber of Commerce president. “The message will be a histoiical document,” commented James M.

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BASEBALL CLASSIC IS UNDERWAY Little White Clouds Dot Sky as Initial World Series Clash Gets Started. MORE OPINIONS THAN BETS First Title Play in Pittsburgh for Sixteen Years. lin United Prr** PITTSBURGH, Oct. 7.—Under a shining blue sky, dotted here and there with little white clouds, the 'Washington Senators and the Pittsburgh Pirates clashed this afternoon at Forbes Field in the first tilt of the world seriesThere were more spectators on hand than there were seats to accommodate them; there were more opinions on the probable outcome than there was money to back them up.

Crowds swarmed around the streets early in the morning looking for ticket speculators who wouldn't get out of bed even to handle the best business in sixteen years. Odds Are 7 lo 5 Hundreds of fans, afoot and in automobiles, hurried to the lines that stretched away from the new pine barriers behind center field. Downtown from their beds, or from the billiard tables and cots that provided them dubious rest during the night, thousands of other fans arose early to breakfast nervously and discuss excitedly the coming fray. Major league managers and players, minor leaguers of importance ami fans from all degrees of the lodge stood in the hotel lobbies, congregated around the street corners and gathered every place to talk baseball. There was plenty of conversation released but money was short and there was very little betting. The odds of 7 to 5, that the Pirates would win, which was established weeks ago in the Now York financial district still held good. Meadows to Pitch Doubts about the physical condition of the Senators no doubt brought caution to those who liked the chances of tho American League champions. Bucky Harris, the young manager of the 1924 champions, insisted that ho was ready to p ay, that Roger Pecldnpaugh was in good shape and that Stanley Coveleskie had recovered from a kink in his back. Bill McKechnie, the Pittsburgh boy who piloted his home town team to its first National League triumph in sixteen years, was early in consultation with the veteran Fred Clarke, who managed the Pirates when they last won a pennant and incidentally a world’s championship. The youngster and veteran confirmed the decision to send Lee Meadows, a light-hander, to the mound for Pittsburgh. Ruel, Smith, Catchers. Harris said that Walter Johnson would pitch and there was no surprise in that. McKechnie also said that Vic Aldridge would pitch the second game and that Emil Yde, the southpaw sensation of 1924, would work in the third game. Although Coveleskie said' he would be ready to work by Thursday, it was understood from a reliable source that the veteran spit-bailer was not in good shape to start a game and that Harris would use in the second game Alex Ferguson, tho New York-Boaton cast-off. Ferguson, in the opinion of many smart baseball men, is destined to become the hero of the series. He is a gyeat pitcher with a lot of stuff and plenty of heart, and he has never staried because he was deprived of a chance. Muddy Ruel, one of the best catchers in the American League, will he behind the bat for Washington today and Earl Smith, tho New YorkBoston cast-off, will work with Meadows for the Pirates. Teams Are Nervous The Senators, housed in tlie Morrowfield Apartments out at Squirrel Hill, were urged by Harris to stay in bed ns late us they could. But the first rays of the warm morning sun, bringing the tiding of fair weather for the opening game, in contrast to the rainy forecasts of yesterday,

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Ogden, corporation counsel. “It was strong, sensible and sound, a real address of a patriot to patriots. I doubt if American ideals of tolerance ever have been better expressed. It is exceedingly timely and bears a message of optimism an dencouragement. A wonderful speech!” “I’m glad Coolidge had the nerve to express himself on this vital subject," said Edward J. Gausepohl, publicity chairman of the Chamber of Commerce. “It was a remarkable speech and will have a great effect.”

Forecast • FAIR and continue cool tonight with possibly light frost; Thursday partly cloudy.

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The Probable Line-Ups Washington— Pittsburgh— Rice, c£ Moore, 2b S. Harris. 2b Carey, cf Goslin, If Cuyler, rs Judge, lb Barnhart, If J. Harris, rs Traynor, 3b Bluege, 3b Wright, ss Peek, as Grantham, lb Ruel, c Smith, c Johnson, p Meadows, p Umpires: Rlgler nt plate. Moriarlty, first base; McCormick, second base; Owens, third base.

found the world's champions aroused and fairly pawing the air for battle. There was little of the sang froid of champions displayed by the visiting team. They seemed more like u Punch of hoys going into their first big game. For their part, the Pirates, one of the youngest teams that ever climbed the pinnacles of baseball fame, were displaying even greater nervousness around their headquarters.

FLORIDA LURE IS UNDERMINED BY U. S. REPORT Principal Argument of Promoters Is Punctured by Treasury Department. Nolo: This is tho ninth of a sorios of artieles telling: the truth of conditions in Florida as found by a representative of The Indianapolis Times. By Harold Keats I'j—t | LOItIDA'S principal argument [n I to lure investors’ money has 1 J been punctured by the United States Treasury Department. To sell tho tens of thousands of high-priced home sites along the State's 1,200 miles of Ocean and Gulf shore line, the salesman tells the speculator that this is to be tho millionaire's winter playground and that its nearness to the center of wealth and population assures a good customer already in the offing to take his investment off his hands at a profit. No ono has computed the number of such “exclusive” home sites in high-priced subdivisions, but those designed for winter residences only number well Into the millions. Sarasota’s Chamber of Commerce secretary told me there were 252,000 lots, ranging in price from $1,500 to $30,000, in his neighborhood alone, and that is only a drop in the bucket. From Miami to West Palm Beach along the coast there are certainly 500,000 more. But the United States Income Tax Bureau’s 1925 report on 1922 re(Turn to Page 13) CAR COMPANY DEFICIT GAINS Total Swelled to $107,459 by September Loss. Total deficit of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company is now $107,459.91, according to the monthly report filed with the public service commission. Receipts for September were $392,161.05, a loss of $4,537.44 over receipts for September, 1923, when receipts were $396,698.49. Receipts are compared with those of 1923 in compliance with an order of tho commission, setting aside a special depreciation fund. September receipts last year were $412,755, an even greater loss than two years ugo. August receipts this year, tho report showed, were $371,379.83 .as compared with $385,458.70, a loss of $14,108.93.