Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1925 — Page 1

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HATE MUST com LIRPLEA Orator to Address Good Will Meeting Says America Will Not Achieve Dreams of Its Founders if Prejudice Is Not Overcome. NATION SHOULD JOIN j WORLD COURT, HE SAYS Dr. Cadman Welcomed by Committee at Union Station —Will Make Address at Cadle Tabernacle Under Auspices of Church and Civic Leaders. America will not be the great country its founders dreamed of until the various classes overcome prejudices, according to Dr. S. Parkes , Cadman, noted New York writer and preacher, who will address the city-wide Good Will mass meeting at 8:15 p. m. at Cadle Tabernacle. “Understanding and good will are promoted by getting people together. Most hatred is the result of ignorance. Prejudice and harsh feeling are broken down by cooperative services,” he said. “Folks paying the same taxes and defending the same State should cooperate in other things. Progress comes only by pulling together.”

Favors World Court I The famous churchman said the least America can do is enter the World Court. He said only about half of the people are ready for the League of Nations. Confidence in American youtty wals expressed. “I think experience is aboat the best teacher for young people. jfThey usually come around all right in time,” he said. “The day when woman was considered as man’s property is gone. Their styles are much better, and their individualism is a credit to their sex.” Met by Committee A delegation headed by Dr. Ernest N. Evans, secretary of the Church Federation, which sponsored Pr. Cadman’s trip, headed a committee which met him at the Union Station before noon. He spoke briefly at a luncheon of ministers of all faiths at the Claypool. "Better Undertsanding Between All Americans” will be his topic tonight. Earl R. Conder, Federation president, will preside. SHANK WANTS NAME CHANGES Taggart Park and Bookwaiter Blvd. Proposed. Change in the names of Riverside Park to Taggart Park and of Kessler Blvd. to Bookwalter Blvd. will be recommended by Mayor Shank and a committee at the next park board meeting, Shank announced today. Shank said the committee he appointed to erect a monument to Former Senator Thomas Taggart had learned from the Democratic leader he does not desire a monument, Taggart as mayor, bought for the city the Riverside Park land. Shank said he also desired to honor Charles A. Bookwalter, retiring park board president. J FLAPPER FANNY sayy- ’ a i25 ay mca wwvict, me Kissproof lipstick is going to rob love-making of a lot of its colors i

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No, this is not a barroom picture. It shows, left to right, Mrs. Roma Duncan, A. R. Harris, deputy Federal prohibition administrator, and Miss Helen Malone, surveying the seventy bottles of whisky and other liquors bought by Federal agents in Evansville before the recent wholesale raids there. Miss Duncan and Miss Malone are clerks in Harris’ office.

‘BATTLING SIKI’ SLAIN; STREET BRAWL BLAMED Victim of Assassin Once Was Champion Boxer of His Class.

Bu United Pres* NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—“ Battling Sikl,” Senegalese heavyweight prize fighter, Was shot to death by an unknown assassin on Ninth Ave., today, three blocks from Times Square, where his pugilistic exploits in and out of the ring were Rialto gossip. His body was found bjptji .poHfce-' ■ man whom he had told foiib hours before: “Goodnight. I’m going home now.” A revolver was found near by. No Clew Found Pcflice confessed themselves without a clew. They w r ere unable to find any eyewitnesses or any one who had heard the fatal shot. The theory was advanced that the shooting came out of a street brawl and was not premeditated. “Ninth Avenue, gateway to ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ is no place for a- man to push another off the sidewalk,” commented an inspector, “and that was a favorite trick of Siki’s.” It was suggested that Siki had been drinking before his death. Was a Champion Siki, whose real name was Louis Phal, won his chief pugiilstic fame when he conquered Georges Carpentler and became the light-heavy-weight champion of the world. Patrolman John J. Meehan, to whom Siki had talked a little after midnight, stumbled upon the fighter’s body toward dawn. He had been shot in the back and the bullet passed through his breast. Siki was married to a white woman, Lillian Werner. He gave his age as 23 when the marriage took place at the municipal building here in July 1924. Often in Police News Dispatches from Paris at the time said that the Senegalese had made a tour of Holland three years before with a Dutch girl whom he introduced as his wife. He was said to have had a child by this girl. After his defeat of Carpentler, Siki lost his title to Mike McTigue, and since has gone steadily lower on the pugilistic ladder. Within the last year or two his name has seldom appeared in the press in ahy connection other than that of some escapade. July he was stabbed. Police news since often has carried the fighter’s exploits. Within the last month he had been in court for failure to pay n taxi bill. Because of the numerous brawls attention of immigration authorities was focused upon him and deporta tion proceedings had been pending for several months.’ i GOOD BUILDING WEEK Announce 346 Permits With Value of $925,085 Issued. Indianapolis had a good building week according to the report of Building Commissioner Francis F. Hamilton to the board of safety today. For the week ending Dec. 12, a total of 346 permits, with value of $925,085 were issued. Smoke inspection for the week totaled seventy-six. SUNDAY AT DE PAUW Bv Time* Svecial GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 15. William A. “Billy” Sunday, famous evangelist, addressed the De Pauw university student body today. Sunday’s son, Paul, is a student here. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 28 10 a. m 31 7 a. m 29 11 a. m 33 8 a. m 19 12 (noon) .... 3.4 9 a. m 30 1 p. m...... 83

JUVENILE CRIME IS PUT AT SANTA DOOR Children Who Were Good Because Christmas Is Coming Reverse, Court Attaches Say.

Once upon a time, and girls were good about this time of the year, for fear tney would get a bundle of switches In their stockings Christmas eve. Modern youth is more blase. Instead the lure of Santa causes a big per cent of juvenile crime, according to Juvenile Court authorities. More than 150 cases of boys and girls under 16 are pending now in t-he court. Os this number apRUSH ACTION ON TAX MEASURE Exemptions Are Targets of Bill’s Foes. Bv United Press . WASHINGTON, Dec. la.—Exemption provisions the new $325,000,000 tax reduction bill were the target for amendment in 'the House today as action was rushed on the measure. Leaders anticipated a score of changes to be offered, but were confident the provisions recommended by the Ways and Means Committee would stand. At the rate the House proceeded with the measure yesterday leaders were positive a final vote would be reached before Saturday. The first amendment to be acted on was one presented late yesterday by Mrs. Norton, Democrat, New Jersey. The feminist member proposed to Increase the exemptions for single persons from $1,500 to $2,500, and for married persons from $3,500 to $5,000. Mrs. Norton’s amendment was, received with applause from both sides of the House, but it is unlikely that it will be accepted. * SENATE ASKER FOR $7,900,000 Bill Would Complete 11/'s. Buildings in Indiana!/ Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Chairman Warren of the Senate Appro prlations Committee today . introduced a bill which would make' available $7,900,000 for oSU , rylng*’dtt public building project* tpr whifebjpo Contracts have been made and $18,400,000 for buildings already started. Under the bill, unless the secretary of the treasury should take adverse action, the following Indiana cities would be included for about the amounts specified: Bluffton, $98,500; Clinton, $78,200; Decatur, $125,000; Greensburg, $140,000; Lebanon. $115,000 Linnton, $95,000; Mt. Vern9n, $100,000; Noblesville, $110,000; Plymouth, $80,000; Warsaw, SIOO,OOO. FIRST 1926 LICENSE Newcastle Woman Gets Her Auto Plates Early. Miss Minnie Hayes. 326 S. Seventh St., Newcastle, was the first person to obtain a 1926 Indiana automobile license plate when the numbers went on sale this morning in the basement of the Statehouse. She was on hand at 7:30 a. m. She wfa given license, 6062. According $o Mark Rlmdes, automobile department mgrager, early sales wearbrisk, 876 having beep distributes by noon.

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proximately twenty face theft charges. Authorities say the children steal fearing empty stockings on Christmas. Many of the cases, too, are truancies. Children skip school to mingle among the holiday shoppers, to feast their eyes cm store windows and in toy shops. It’s just the usual pre-Christmas wave of juvenile crime, court attaches said. Last Christmas eight boys and one girl were charged with thefts. Most of the cases are those of boys, but two girls have., bedh caught this year for shop lifting Downey said. One was a high school student charged with stealing a compact. Two colored boys, ages 10 and 11, related how they went shopping for watches in a department store and were caught after they took a string of beads. rominger 7s GIVEN ‘GATE’ Recently Reappointed Patrolman Dismissed. Patrolman Forrest Rominger, reappointed to the police force by Mayor Shank and the board of safety two weeks ago after being dismissed a year ago on charge of unbecoming conduct, today again was dismissed from the force by the board when he was found guilty of drunkenness. Rominger was not present. Fellow officers said Rominger used peppermint and smoked a corncob pipe to “kill” his breath. He also would telephone In thht ,he had a wagonload of prisoners,” it was testified. Robert Butler, colored, whose telephone Rominger used, said the patrolman was “pretty talkafied.” •Patrolman Everett Rollinson, who pleaded guHty to drunkenness and conduct unbecoming an officer charges, also was dismissed. * BRITAIN GIVEN MOSUL CONTROL League Awards District to Iraq, Ruled by English. Bv United Press GENEVA, De. 15.—The League of Nations Council today decided to award the rich Mosul oil district in northern Mesopotamia to Iraq provided Great Britain renews her manJate over Iraq for twenty-five years and negotiates an economic treaty with Turkey granting the Turks economic privileges in Mosul. The league secretariat published the league’s Mosul commission re port charging the Turks In the Mosul region with outraging women I and slaughtering men to still their protests against the orgies. The scrap between the Turks and Britain for control of the district has been one of the most bitter the League has dealt with In its existence and trouble may yet result. The fight has been marked repeatedly with threats of war. Only yesterday the official newspaper in Constantinople, DJoumhouriet, said that Turkey would be obliged “to take Mosul, not by meditation. but by bay nets.’ The British fleet is stationed near the Dardanelles for action In case of an emergency. i

M’GEE AND BEDFORD IN NEW ROLES Men Ousted From Police Force, Accompanied by Cyclops, Ask Mayor for Reinstatement—Promises His Aid. POLITICIANS WONDER WHAT MOVE MEANS Can Not Understand Why Two Did Not Wait Until Duvall, Whom They Supported in Campaign, Takes Office. Arthur B. McGee, former lieutenant, and Harvey \V. Bedford ,former policeman, now a Ku-Klux Klan leader, today asked Mayor Shank to use his influence to get them re-instat-ed on the police force. Shank, despite the fact that he was bitter against them when the men were dismissed from the force about two years ago, promised his aid. The visit of McGee, Bedford and .George S. Elliott, Marion county exalted cyclops of the Klan, to Shank gave rise to questions in political quarters as to why McGee and Bedford did not wait until Mayor-elect John L. Duvall takes office. They worked for Duvall and Duvall was expected to “take care of them.” Politicians Wonder Politicians were wondering whether there has been a definite break between Duvall and the Klan. Duvall, soon after his election, announced that McGee would be an inspector of police. Then he shifted Claude Worley, Criminal Court Investigator. to the post McGee had been given and left McGee’s fate up in the air. Duvall has announced Bedford would be assistant superintendent of parks. Why Bedford is seeking a place on the police force in the face of this fas not made clear. Board Is Dubius “The board of safety believes Duvall just doesn’t want to put them bock and is making us hts catspaw,’ said Shank. Nevertheless Shank said he gave his promise he would speak to the board for McGee and Bedford. McGee and Bedford would be reinstated as ordinary patrolmen, if the board of safety grants their plea. They were dismissed on the ground they had violated a police rule by going out of the city to investigate a murder case without permission from superior officers. There followed meeting behind locked doors In the city controller's office of William H. Armitage, Joseph L. Hogue, city controller; Shank, Capt. Roy A. Pope, Shank’s aid, and other administration captain.s

FISHBACK FIRM PLANS BUILDING Will Be Erected at Delaware and McCarty. Contract for anew five-story factory building at McCarty and Delaware Sts. will be let in a short time, the Fishback Company announced today. The building is to be built of reinforced concrete, will be equipped with machinery for roasting and packing coffee and other products of the company. , The company also announced the sale of stock in Fishback Realty* Company to the Rauh Realty Company, representing a lot 200x185 feet on S. Delaware St., just below the tracks. CABINET IS FALLING? Resignation of French Finance Minister Expected. Bv United Press PARIS. Dec. 15.—Resignation of Finance Minister Loueheur, which likely would result In the resignation of the entire cabinet that Premier Briand might form another government to check the fall of the frame without Loueheur was expected momentarily tonight. The finance commission again unanimously voted to return Loucheur’s eight billion franc tajr projects to him, disapproved.

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PEP PLOT TURNS TO G. O. P. GRIEF

Irvington .Club Feared Dull Election Loses Control of Inspired Mavericks. When old time members of the Irvington Republican Club announced that there would be a con test in the annual election so inter est would be stirred up the indepen dents took them seriously. So seriously that the old liners to day resembled the victims of a cyclone picking themselves out from under the debris. For the Inde pendents all but annihilated the “regular” control of Irvington Re publican politics. “Wild Maverick*” The independents. Invited by the "regulars” to enter a ticket to be known as the “Mavericks” in the election at the Masonic Club Mon day evening, quietly campaigned for new members ana packed the hail with perfectly good independent votes. The results: Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash I only beat Samuel W. Huls, the ! “Maverick.” for president after Huls withdrew in the interest of “har mony.” Dissension over the “Mav erlek” coup had reached almost the proportion of a crosstown crack before Huls withdrew. Regular “Accused” Samuel H. Du Shane, "regular,” withdrew as candidate for secre lary in an argument over whether he had failed to record the name of one of the new members who vowed he had duly paid his 50 cents fee. Leßoy‘Lewis, “Maverick,” was elected secretary. Edward J. Hecker, Warren township trustee, beat Dr. Samuel McGaughey, “Maverick” for first vice president 43 to 41. “Mavericks” nominated Lieut. Governor Harold F. Van Orman, who temporarily took up residence in Irvington to be in on the fun, for second vice president and Arthur G. Denick, “regular” only defeated him 45 to 38. Charles S. Owens, “Maverick” beat George W. Russell, “regular” for treasurer. 44 to 40. BEER DRIVE IN SENATE OPENED ‘Present Law Can Not Be Enforced,’ Edge Says. Bv T nlteii Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—1n six years, prohibitipn has brought national corruption in government and society demands immediate legislative changes. Senator Walter Edge, New Jersey, Republican, leader of the new Senate wet bloc, declared in a speech on the floor today. The first remedy which should be applied, he said, is legalization of 2.75 pec cent beer. The address heralded the official opening of the wets' new campaign to spur this Congress to some modification of the Volstead act, and was directed to prove the advisability of adopting Edge's beer bill. "It is generally admitted that the present act cannot be enforced,” he said.

CHIEF ORDERS FIREBUG WAR Incendiary Orgin Blamed in Recent Blazes. Fire Chief John J. O’Brient today planned anew campaign to catch the fire bug he has blamed for incendiary fires here in the last few months. O'Brien said police and firemen ip civilian clothes had watched for the "bug” in vain. He warned property owners to lock vacant houses. The chief said he believed the “bug” fired the new vacant house at 5605 Pleasant Run Blvd., which burned today with a $1,500 loss, and the vacant house at 22 W. Michigan St., which was damaged SSO Monday. Sparks on the roof Monday caused a $175 fire at the home of Mrs. A. Cummings. 1315 Brookside Ave. and a $2,500 blaze at the home of E. W. Huey, 406 E. Fifty-First St. Home of James Mullin, 1047 S. West St., was damaged $250 when defective wiring caused a roof fire. CITY REPORTED BOMBED French Said to Have Attacked Damascus Again. Bu United Press LONDON, Dec. 15. —News agency reports from Jerusalem today said the French had bombed Damascus, employing airplanes, artillelry and machine guns in an effort to eject Druse tribesmen. The French recently bombarded Damascus, causing considerable damage. Reports at that time on loss of life varied, the French claiming only a few were killed, while native reports placed the deaths in hundreds.

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Are You Happy as Christmas Draws Near? Here Are Chances to Get the True Holiday Spirit.

trrrrj HERE does Christmas time Yj U find you Mr. Man? Standing ' in front of some toy shop window watching the trains perform 'and the other mechanical toys coveting a set of red tin soldiers like all the other grown-up little boys? Look here, Mr. Man, wouldn’t you get a lot of fun showing some bright eyed youngster on Christmas morning how to set up a track and train, how to operate a steam engine, how to play with those attractive mechanical toys? Then look over The Times descriptions of needy families being printed every day, and after you’ve picked out one that you'd like to provide for and bring (Turn to Page 3) OPERATIONS AT DISTILLERY ARE TOLD IN COURT Men Describe Being Sent Away—Sale of Plan Narrated. One Government gauger was sent on a vacation and one transferred to' another place, while water was being substituted for whisky in more than 890 barrels in the Jack Daniel distillery at St. Louis, it was brought out today in testimony in the St. Louis liquor conspiracy ease in Federal Court. Trial of twenty-eight persona, including Mrs. Itnogene Remus, wife of George Remus, millionaire bootleg king: Andrew J. Hellmich, former collector of internal revenue at St. Louis and business men of Cincinnati, who pleaded not guilty to conspiring to violate the prohibition act, started Monday. Three defendants pleaded guilty. Federal employes, business men and politicians of St. Louis are alleged to have given operations protc>ction. Leonard Garver, Cincinnati attorney, told of the sale of the Daniel distillery 7 to Remus and a syndicate of Cincinnati, St. Louis and Tennessee men, indicted in the case. He told of raising about $50,000 for Remus and turning it over to him on June 27, 1923. Walter L. Rehfeld, who preceded Garver, was cashier in the National Bank of Commerce at St. Louis, and (Trim to Page 11) WATERWAY FUNDS ASKED Rrookhart Introui.. River Development Measure. Bii United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.—Appropriation of $82,000,000 for five-year development of inland waterways is contained in a bill introduced today by Senator Brookhart, Republican of lowa, and referred today to the Senate commerce committee. Developments specified included ninefoot channels in the Ohio river from Pittsburgh to Cairo. LEWIS’ NAME TO SENATE Approval Sought b.v President on Loral Man’s Appointment. Bv Times Svecial WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Among 1,000 nominations sent the Senate by President Coolidgo today for confirmation, most of which were postmastership appointments, was the name of E. I. former Indiana public service commissioner for reappointment ns an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. 13 SHIPS ARE SEIZED Treasury Department Announces “Clean-Up” in South. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The Coast Guard has seized thirteen liquor ships in southern waters in less than a week, the Treasury Department announced today. Ten American registry ships equipped with high speed engines were seized j off Miami and three schooners with 1 cargoes totaling 8,000 cases of whisky were seized off Mobile, Ala. STUTZ POLICIES TALKED Dealers at Convention Hero Make Tour of Plant. Policies and sales organization were discussed by speakers before 250 Stutz Motor Car Company dealers in convention at the plant at Tenth St. and Capitol Ave. today. F. E. Moscovics, president, preaided. The factory was toured under directorship of W. R Campbell, chief Inspector, this afternoon. E. S. jGorrell, vice-president, will preside at a dinner tonight at the Lincoln. M. C. Meigs will speak.

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ABANDONING OF JULIETTA IS OPPOSED County Board of Charities Committee, in Report to Court, Calls Removal of Patients ‘Most ColdBlooded Proceeding.’ RESULT OF VISIT TO HOSPITAL ON DEC. 11 Turning Loose of Persons Termed Menace to Society— Converting Place Into Children's Home Is Not Favored. Condemnation of the {ibandonment of Julietta, Marion County hospital for the insane, is contained in a report of a county hoard of charities and correction committee, filed today in Circuit Court, as the result of a visit of the committee to the institution Dec. 11. County Commissioners ordered abandonment of Julietta ly Jan. 1, 1926, saying it is the duty of the State to care for insane persons. “This is the most cold-blooded, unreasonable proceeding that we have ever come in contact with. We cannot understand wlmt the county council means, and cannot help wondering If they know what they are doing.” the report states. On Deo. 11 there were 235 patients at the institution, it was ’said. Superintendent Benjamin PoHer stated that he planned to send eighty-seven of these to the counly Infirmary, thirty-three to the Village for Epileptics at Newcastle, and the remaining 150 to the Central Hospital for the Insane, to private sanitariums or to their homes. “Turning loose of some of these persons really is a menace to society,” the committee says in its report “With the recent erection of new buildings it would be folly to abandon it.” j The proposal of county commissioners to convert Julietta into a children’s home also ts opposed by the committee. The report states (Turn to Page 11)

DRUM TESTIFIES FOR MITCHELL Called by Army, Local Man Helps Colonel. Hit United Per** WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Absolute denial that he ever said "twelve anti-cruft guns could defend Washington and New York” in time of attack was made today by Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, formerly of Indianapolis, deputy chief of staff at the court-martial of Col. William Mitchell. "Such a statement is absurd and foolish,” he said. Drum had been called by prosecutors of Mitchell to refute Mitchell'* charge that anti aircraft guns virtually are useless against a fleet of attack planes and that therefore the War Departments administration of the national defenses was “almost treasonable” by its failure to provide planes instead of guns to defend the country. Prosecutors in cross examining Maj. Gen. Frank W. Coe of the Coast Artillery failed to make him change his testimony thnt “ten thousand anti-aircraft guns could not defend Washington." AUTO INJURIES FATAL .Man Hurt in Fortvilie Accident Monday Dies at Hospital. Benjamin O lander, 63, 1337 a. Sheffield Ave., died at Ht. Vincent’* Hospital today as result of injurlea received in an automobile accident at Fortvllle Monday, according to On-oner Paul F. Robinson, who la investigating. f Shopping