Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1925 — Page 1

FORECAST FOR INDIANAPOLIS —Fair and Continued Cold Tonight With Lowest Temperature Zero to 51 Above; Tuesday, Probably Fair With Slowly Rising Temperature , 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 205

'NATION IS CHILDISH OVER RUM’ So Says Prohibition Czar Andrews, Flaying Public Demand for Liquor. COURTS ARE DENOUNCED America Will Be Dry When People Want It Dry/ By William J. Losh United Prc/>* Staff Correspondent ST. CATHERINE ISLAND, Dec. 28.—“1f the people continue to demand liquor, it will be almost impossible for the Government to prevent it from reaching the market,” Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews said here today during his inspection trip of rum row along the south Atlantic coast. “The law will'be enforced when the people want it enforced, and not until then,” he said. The work of the people who want prohibition is cut out for them, Andrews said. They must create a sentiment against drinking, hence cutting down the demand, and also create a sentiment for adequate punishment of violators by the courts. "America Childish” The bootleg industry, he continued, can only operate through bribely and corruption of public officials, and so long as revenues continue to pour into their coffers it will be powerful. “America’s reaction to the prohibition law has been the most childish thing I ever heard of,” Andrews said, “in that many people took to drinking because they were forbidden to drink,” but added “thank goodness that’s dying out.” The dry czar blamed the Nation’s judiciary for part of prohibition’s troubles, and urged voters, particularly, women, to apply the remedy. “The law is enforced only when the courts enforce it. In many sections the legal machinery is inadequate. More .fudges "•There is a lesson for Congress in this. We have got to have more judges—appropriations,” he said. “Women, he added, should attend courts, vie with the legal machinery in operation and note the kind of sentences the judges give. "I can’t conceive of a case where ths law( would not be properly enforced if it was put up to the women.” he said. The dry czar continued his trip with a cruise on the maze of inlets and sloughs of the south Georgia coast and gained a close-up view of the difficulties of preventing smuggling. He was to rejoin the cutter Modoc at Brunswick, Ga., tonight to proceed to Key West and 1 Javan a.

DISPUTE MAY BE SETTLED Compromise Is Expected in Street Opening Muddle. Compromise in the dispute between the board of works and south side residents over opening of Shelby St. to Washington St. will be pro]>osed at board of works meeting today, it was believed. South side residents plan to remonstrate against assessments for opening Cruse St. south of Washington St., in the event the board refuses to reconsider its determination to sand by original plans. More than 100 citizens attended a mass meeting at Fountain Square, Sunday night. M’CRAY IS IN HOSPITAL But Former Governor Is Not Seriously 111, Ditpatch Says. litl United Press ATLANTA, Ga„ Dec. 28.—Ex-Gov-ernor McCray of Indiana, who is serving a twelve-year term for using the mails to defraud, has been removed to the Federal Prison hospital here following a breakdown caused by high blood pressure. McCray is not seriously ill, it was said, and as soon as he recovers he will be given lighter duties. He has resigned as editor of the prison magazine, Good Words, and supervisor of the print shop.

Who Will Pay? The House recently passed * tax reduction bill. It covers principally the income tax in which*' every one is more or less inter ested. Roscoe B. Fleming, a Times Washington correspondent, his written six articles explaining the bill in detail. The first article appears on the Editorial Page today.

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Scooters Scoot Too Far From Home; Boys Get Lost

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Left to right: Theodore Helping and Marvin Hess.

‘They Went Too Fast,’ Say Lads, Rescued by Samaritan Passerby. “Our scooters just went so fast, we could hardly keep up with them, so we kept right on goin’ and goin’—And what more than that, could boys with new Christmas scooters be expected to know? Anyway, Marvin Hess, 8, and Theodoro Helping, 7, both of 187 £l. Twenty-becond St., kept an “goin’ and goin’ ’’ Saturday, until they arrived at New York and Hast Sts., where they realized that It was "turr’ble cold.” Then they realized something else—that they didn’t know where those swift Christmas scooters had brought them. “We’re loet,” they told a passerby, so the kind Samaritan called the police, who escorted the boys to their home. “I’m goin’ to watch my scooter after this, so It won’t make me go too far,” commented Theodore gravely today.

MURDER TRIAL DUE TO START Deputy Prosecutor Will Go to Greenfield. Deputy Prosecutor Judson L. Stark Tuesday will go to Greenfield, Ind., where John Dorsey, 39, who shot and killed his ( wife, Mrs. Fernie Fae Dorsey, hefe over a year ago, will go on trial on a charge of first degree murder. Stark said he will demand the death penalty. It is understood Dorsey will plead temporary Insanity at the time of the shooting. Mrs Dorsey was shot at the home of her mother, 2314 Kenwood Ave., after Dorsey followed her from downtown. It is alleged he was jealous of her. The two were separated. Dorsey, is an ex-service man. He was granted a change of venue from Marion County several months ago. DRIVER GETS PENALTY Fined SIOO, Given Suspended Sent tence for Crash. Frank Graves, 30, colored, 901 N. Senate Ave., was fined SIOO and costs and given a suspended sixty-day Indiana State Farm sentence in city court today on a driving while intoxicated charge. He was freed on a drunkenness charge. Sunday, Graves is said to have driven his automobile into a parked auto belonging to Charles Arelgest, 2510 N. Delaware St., at 2838 Central Ave. Then, it is alleged, he struck an in-bound Central Ave. street car.

GAMBLER SLAIN; TWO MEN HELD Police Say Pair Tried to Rob Poker Players. Bii United Press LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 28.—R. C. Davis, alias Roy Davenport of Rochester, N. Y., and Thomas Brown, Cincinnati, were in jail here today, charged with murder in connection with the shooting to death of Nelson Font* Flemlngsburg, Ky., sn a club room poker game late Saturday. The two suspects were captured by police after a short chase through the business district. Police say Davenport talked of the tragedy. It is charged the two men held up the gamblers, including Fant, who later attacked Davis, and Brown came to the aid of his companion. In the melee several shots were fired, one of which killed Font.

COL. COOLIDGE IS ATTACKED BY PARALYSIS President’s Father Also Suffers Frequent ‘Heart Block’ Recurrences. Bu United Press PLYMOUTH, Vt., Dec. 28. Colonel John C. Cooiidge, father of the President, has been stricken with paralysis, affecting his right leg and has been ordered to bed by his physician. Dr. Albert M. Cram. While Dr. Cram does not considet the Colonel’s condition as immediately serious, he has notified President Cooiidge of this latest development by means of a long distance telephone conversation with Major James F. Coupal. the President's personal physician, in Washington. Besides the paralysis, Col. Cooiidge Is suffering more frequent recurrences of the heart block which caused his recent serious illness, according to Dr. Cram and the condition of the 80-year-old patient is causing some concern. The paralysis has affected Colonel Coolidge's right leg orly and has not yet influenced other parts of his body, according to Dr. Cram. The Colonel’s brain was clear, he said, and the patient, as usual, was optimistic regarding his condition. COOLIDGE NOT ALARMED President Hears About Father’s Illness at White House. Bu United Brest WASHINGTON. Dec. 28.—Reports to President Cooiidge today concerning the illness of his father. Col. John Cooiidge, gave him no cause for alarm, it was said at the White House today.

INCREASED BUS FARES SOUGHT Red Ball Company Receiver Files Petition. Another Indiana motor bus company sought higher fares today when Fred I. Jones, receiver for the Indiana Red Ball Company, formally asked the public service commission to fix anew tariff schedule. Present rates are inadequate and do not even produce operating expenses, the petition sttaed. The Interstate Public Service Company recently was authorized by the commission to charge a basic rate of 3 cents a mile on its bus routes. The Red x Ball Company operates between Indianapolis and the following cities: Greensburg, Crawfordsville, Clinton, South Bend, Sheridan, Noblesville, Elwood, Richmond, Martinsville and West Lafayette. Branch lines run between Ladoga and Crawfordsville and Rochester and Logansport. MEANDER LAND SOLD State Gets Much More Than Appraised Value of Tracts. A total of $12,905 was realized by the State today on seventy-six acres oof meandered land in Lake County which had been appraised at only $4,065.70. The marsh land, which consisted of several tracts, was sold by State Auditor L. S. Bowman. ENTOMOLOGIST ON TRIP Frank N. Wallace, State entomologist, left today for Kansas City Mo., he will attend the annual convention of the Association of Economic Entomologists of the United Suites.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DEC. 28, 1925

'NEW TRIAL’ IN SCHOOL WAR ASKED Motion for Reinstatement of Restraining Order on File in Court. BEARS DATE OF DEC. 24 Would Halt Negotiations With Architects Again. Anew move to bait the present school board from carrying out the school building program was disclosed today when it wps learned a motion to reinstate the restraining order to prevent the board from continuing negotiations with architects for construction of six new schools, was on file in Superior Court Four. The motion was dated Dec. 24. and contained a second paragraph to the injunction. Besides members of the school board the architect’s were named co-defendants. According to Thomas E. Garvin, attorney for Kay K. Wark, the plaintiff, the motion to re instate the restraining order Is similar to a motion for anew trial. The motion set forth three reasons for reinstatement. They are: First, the court ruling was not supported by sufficient evidence; second, court ruling was contrary to law, and third, the answer filed by defendants doss not state facts sufficient to constitute a defense of action. May Appeal It is understood that if the court overrules the motion, an appeal msy be taken to the Supreme Court. Garvin said that he could not appeal from Judge Clinton H. Giv&n’s ruling of Thursday when he dissolved the restraining order against the board. An appeal can be made on the motion for re instatement, however. The added paragraph seeks to enjoin the board from entering into contracts with architects for Schools 42, 37, 9. 33, 72 and 14. The architects named as defendants with the school board members are: Bass-Knowlton and Company, 312 N. Meridian St.; McGuire & Shook, (Turn to Page 2)

TUT’S COFFIH PUT IN MUSEUM ** Arrangements for Transfer Suddenly Completed. Bu United press LONDON, Dec. 28.—The Daily Mall's Cairo correspondent reported today that arrangements had been completed suddenly for the transfer Thursday for the goldefi coffin of King Tut-Ankhamen from the Valley of the Kings to a museum in Cairo. Recent reports on progress of the Tut-Ankhamen excavations by the Howard , Carter expedition indicated that it would be impossible tomove fully the wrappings of the body, and that the attempt was being abandoned. DRIVER IS ARRESTED Said to Hate Injured Two Persons on Thursday Night. Domonic Grosclo. 131 N. Noble St., was arrested today by Sergeants O’Neal and Smith, of the accident prevention bureau, and charged with assault and battery and failure to stop after an accident. Thursday night police say Grosclo's auto was driven through a safety zone and struck Steve Jackson, 54, of 622 Ogden St. and Mrs. C. A. Wright, 707 E. Fourty-Ninth St. Jackson was taken to the city hospital and Mrs. Wright to her home. Groscio went to a near-by drug store, but left without giving his name, police say. STOCK INCREASED Officials of the Lilly Varnish Company of Indianapolis filed notice today with the secretary of State that the company has increased its capital stock from $250,000 to $500,000. C. F. Brigham- is president.

Fire Routs Mothers, New Babes

Bn United Press mERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. 28.—Fire In the Salvation Army Maternity Hospital today drove eighteen mothers with their newiybom babies from the hospital into the cold. Sixteen mothers had to be taken out through third-floor windows to a narrow ledge, where firemen, police and hos-

Fanny Brice Says Love Overcomes Prison Bars

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Do Not Overheat House, Warning 44r— —-iON'T overheat your lIJ apartment or house Ii and don’t overload your stomach.” These are health hints suggested today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, for the cold weather period. "Zero weather should not mean an epidemic of sickness,” Morgan said. “It's not the bracing cold air that causes disease but the fact that people live In stuffs* apartments and houses and make no provision for proper ventilation. "If you have eaten a lot of Christmas candy it would be profitable to give your stomach a rest and take a long walk outdoors for exercise.

FIRE TRUCK HITS AUTO Hurls Machine Against House— Tliree Occupants Unhurt. Bu Unfed Preen MT. VERNON, Ind., Dec. 28.—The Rev. Walter Schaeffer and his wife, Ft. Branch, and C. Reeder, Evansville, miraculously escaped death today when a fire truck struck their auto at a street intersection here. The truck, racing in answer to a fire alarm, hurled the auto forty feet | against the side of a house. The auto was demolished byt the three occupants were unhurt. KLAN-SHANK DEAL TALKED / Members of Order Confer With Mayor. Rumors that the Shank faction of j the Republican party is about to make a deal wtih the Klan were strengthened today when doors were locked to Mayor Shank’s office while he conferred with Harvey W. Bedford, Klan leader and former policeman. ‘Later Arthur B. McC-ee, another Klan political general said to be slated for police captain assigned as aid to Mayor-Elect John L. Duvall, appeared in Shank's office. Mayor Shank was reticent about the meetings. j “Just talking with the boys,” he said.

pital attnedants carried them down ladders to the ground. The mothers standing in the cold on the ledge, which was but eighteeen inches wide, screamed and cried for their babies, refusing to accept assurances that they had been saved first. When firemen arrived with ladder equipment one by one they carried the nearly hysterical women from their precarious i

Stage Star and Husband, Who F ; gured in Headlines, Here. Do prison bars shut out a woman’s love? Two persons who had lived a drama of prison bars and love were in Indianapolis today. Ono Is Nicky Arnsteln, released last week from Leavenworth Federal prison, where he served eighteen months for an alleged $3,000,000 bond theft. The other is Fanny Brice, his wife, famous comedienne and star of the | Music Box Revue at English's this* | week. Tell It to World “Prison bars or a prison record i mean nothing to a woman if she really loves a man. Tell that to the world in screaming headlines.” That Is the way Fanny Brice answers the old question of love and 1 prison bars. Arnsteln and his wife arrived here late Sunday from Milwaukee, Wis., (Turn to Page 7)

CITY MANAGER BODY TO GROW More Committee Members Will Be Announced. . Additional members of the city manager executive committee will be announced soon after the holl days, Fred Hoke, chairman of a committee *to select twenty-five more members, said today. The citizen’s committee executive body recently voted to enlarge the executive group from twenty-five to fifty as the first step in resuming activities for a campaign on the new form of city government. Leaders of a movement for adoption of a city manager form, with business-like administration of public affairs, plan an extensive educational campaign before bringing the question to a vote. MAYOR IS ‘HOLD-OUT’ Refuses to Sign Contract With Vaudeville Interests. Mayor Shank today assumed the role of a hold-out. He refused to sign a contract with Keith-Albee vaudeville interests for SSOO a week, writing them a letter • stating he would not appear for less than s6ob a. week. Shank after he leaves office Intends to attend the National Warehouse Men’s Association convention at Memphis, Tenn., and then go to Hot Springs, Ark., for two weeks vacation. If vaudeville interests do ont accept his higher quotation, Shank expects to devote all his time to warehouse and storage businesses.

positions to safety without injury to any. The fire was caused by a defctlve flue and, although • it filled the building with suffocating smoke, did only nominal damage. The mothers and their babies were taken to nearby homes, warmed and quieted and transported in ambulances to the city hospital.

Entered a* Seeond-elasa Matter at Poatofflce, Indianapolis Published Dally Except Sunday.

35 DEAD IN SIX STATES, COLD’S TOLI

Sub - Zero Temperatures Tighten Grip East of Rocky Mountains. MERCURY GOING DOWN South Suffers With Rest of the Country. Bu United Press Sub-zero terape-ratures east of the Rocky Mountains tight enod their grip today. Six States reported a total of thirty-five deaths resulting directly and indirectly from the freezing weather. Thirteen died in Chicago, five in Indiana, ten in Ohio, two in Pennsylvaoia, four in New England and one in Georgia. The north Atlantic and middle western States will get relief tomorrow, hut the South will continue to suffer recordbreaking low temperatures, the Washington United States weather bureau announced. The Washington bureau said the mercury will drop five or six degrees **■’ost places before starting upward. cn.cago thermometers ranged from five below zero to twenty three below. Constant Fall Predicted Miles City. Mont., reported twerat-ty-eight below. The south suffered with the rest of the nation. The mercury dropped as low as four above zero In Ashe ville, N. C., and Roanoke, Va. No snow fell but freezing weather gripped Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, the Carolines, Georgia and Kentucky. Richard Clark, 65, froze to death on a hunting trip in Cohutta Mountains, Georgia. Thirty-Seven Fires Thirty-seven fires indirectly caused by the Icy weather caused $30,000 damage in Kansas City. Firemen were hampered greatly with the thermometer standi*®* ♦ zero. Relief was promised tonight. Four persons died trom exposure in New England. One death wai reported at each of these clUes Waterbury, Hartford, Providence and Worcester. Twenty-seven below zero was recorded at Stewarts town, N. H. Detroit hospitals were crowded with patients suffering frozen limbp (Turn to Page 2) DRIVER SERIOUSLY HURT Truck and Street Car (.Viilide— Taken to Hospital. When the Marion County Construction Company truck he was driving collided with a street car at Beecher and South Sts. today, Murray Hain, 1604 S. West St., was seriously injured. He was taken to city hospital. Fred Carter, 2!), of 1735 Madison Ave., motorman on the. street car, was charged with assault and battery.

BUTLER GETS HIS OLD JOB ‘Smed’ to Command San Diego Marines. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, former police dictator of Philadelphia, today personally withdrew his resignation from the Marine Corps and accepted the post of commandant at the Marine base at San Diego, Cal. Dressed in civilian clothes, Butler called upon Major General Lejune and after a handshake and a slap on the back dictated a letter rescinding his resignation. Butler returned to the Marine corps after being deposed as public safety director of Philadelphia where he served for nearly two years. His dismissal from the cabinet of Mayor Kendrick came after he had submitted his resignation as a Marine, in an effort, to hold his post. "Your resignation is in my desk drawer, Smed,” Lejune, who is commandant of the Marine corps said. “You are welcome to it back.” Lejune announced that Butler was reporting for duty and his name would be restored to the Marine pay roll immediately.

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Temperature Reaches 1 Be low at 3 a. m. —Low Mark Sunday. RISE FORECAST TUESDAY Five Persons Succumb ir Indiana. Indianapolis entered into th r bird day of its after-Christmai rigid wave with prospects ol air and continued cold weathei lonight, according to th< United States Weather Bureai forecast. The thermometer, which droppe< to 1 below zero at 3 a. m. for th< lowest mark of the night, is expects to register between zero and 5 de -trees above tonight. Tuesday should be fair, with slowly rlsinf r emperature. But Sunday was a day to make th teeth of the most hardened Eakim< ohatter. The mercury in the weathei bureau, curling up In an attempt tc keep warm, registered 7 below at < a. m., for the low mark of the sea son. One near fatality from the colt was reported here. James Phillips, 8, colored, 684 W Wilkins St., almoßt freezing to deatl Sunday Sent out by his father, who dl< not know it was so cold, to buy flsh the lad fell to the street and wai carried In Police substation three West and Morris Sts. He wa thawed out and taken home. Wind Blows A flfteen-mllesan-hour wind fron the north kept the temperatun down and the citizens indoors, th highest mark of the day being fM above at 2 p. m. Today the wind was eleven mile* an hour in the morning, but picked up some momentum during the day. The thermometer rose to 8 above at 1 p. m., after registering zero from 4 to 8 a. m. At 1 p. m. Sunday the temperature was 4 above. The mark this morning was 28 below normal. But those persons who can re. member this time last year are thankful. On Dec. 28, 1924, the (Turn to Page J)

HOURLY TEMPERATURES Sunday 1 a. m 4 below 2 a. 6 " 3a. m 6 “ 4 a. m 6 “ K a. m 6 “ 6 a. m 7 " 7a. m 8 " 8 a. m 6 •• 9 a. m 6 ** 10 a. m 8 “ 11 a. 1 " 12 (noon) 8 above 1 p. m 4 “ 2 p. m 6 “ 3 p. m 4 “ 4 p. 4 *' 5 p. m 4 " 6 p. m 4 " 7 p. 4 “ 8 p. 8 " 9 p. 8 " 10 p. 1 “ 11 p. m 1 “ 12 (midnight) 0 Monday 1 a. 0 2 a. m 0 3 a. m ;. 1 below 4 a. 0 6 a. m 0 6 a. m 0 7 a. m 0 8 a. 0 9 a. 8 above 10 a. m 8 *' 11 a- m 4 12 (noon) 6 1 p. m t " FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: MTII MB aa

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