Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 216, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 216

OUSTING OF SARGENT IS CONSIDERED

Attorney General’s Admitted Ignorance of Aluminum Chse Arouses Ire of 6emov > crats —Takes Stand for Second Time. SECRETARY MELLON’S NAME IS MENTIONED 1 Big Vermonter Asked When He First Heard of Secretary’s Connection With So-Called Trust-Witness Flares at Grilling. Bu Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. 0 The name of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon today for the first time was brought into the Walsh investigation of Government delay in prosecuting the Aluminum Company of America. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, conducting the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, questioned Attorney General Sargent on how and when he heard of Melmoves against stand responsible Sargent Democratic authorities were discussing two moves against him,’' as a result of his confessed ignorande concerning the aluminum case. '■ To divest the justice department of its authority over all antl-tnist prosecutions and lodged the authority with special Government counsel. To question Sargent’s fitness for office on ground of l.is lack of knowledge of affairs in his department. Walsh first asked him if it was true that he had so little interest in the aluminum case that it had entirely slipped his mind. "I had just come into office and I did many things about that time,’’ Sargent said. “Did it lometot your nften-< tion that Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was connected with tliis Aluminum Company of America?” Walsh asked. “I believe I learned it from reading the public prints,” Sargent said. “Wasn’t the fact that Secretary of the Treasury Mellon controlled the company brought to your attention until within the last thirty adSq.” “I don’t know. It was never, however,o brught up except througli newspapers.” Sargent challenged Walsh’s (Turn to Page 11)

COURTHOUSE IS DISCUSSED Commissioners Say Proposal 'Sounds Good.’ Two of the county commissioners . today said that the proposal for a new $3,000,000 courthouse recommended by L. V. Harrison, Chamber of Commerce civic affairs committee secretary, sounded “pretty good.” “But will It be practical?” asked Charles O. Sutton, board president. “It sopnds good in words, but making it a reality is another matter.” Cassius L. Hogle said the proposal had Its merit, but he is undecided. It is believed that Harrison will present the matter to the board soon. Harrison’s, plan Is to raze the present Courthouse and erect a modern office building on the Market St. side. The Washington St. side could then be leased for ninety-rrne years, he said. This would result in no costs to the county, according to the plan.

Home, Deserted 11 Years Ago, Haunt, of ‘Petters ’, Vandals

By Clyde Byers EIRE prevention Inspector. W. H. Torbet today found thousands of dollars worth of luxurious household furnishings, expensive clothing, hundreds 'of fine old books, paintings, tapestries, pictures, and a rotted *and ruined house ut 1643 Broadway in the heart

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LOCAL GIRL MARRIED Miss Virginia Duck wall Wedded in New York. Announcement of the marriage of Miss Virginia Dutkwall to Buford A. Lynch has been received by Indianapolis friends. The wedding took place Friday in New York. HIGH TARIFF IS BLAMED Democrat Scores Republican Rubber Investigation. Bv Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Democrats made an other assault on the Administrations’ rubber jnvestiga tion. Representative Hull, Tennessee. Democrat, said the ‘<preaent hold-ups In rubber and coffee are result of the Administration's high tarifT policy.” He presented a bill to repeal the provisions In the tariff measure. SCHOOL GROUND BROKEN Mrs. Della Pres tin Turns First Soil at Webster Site. Mrs. Della Prestin, president oh Parent-Teacher Association of the Webster School, Howard and Reisner Sts., turned the first soil for the jnew Webster school, at Reisner and Miller Sts., Friday afternoon. About 500 persons were present, including four members of the school board. Stephen Fullen, attorney, 901 Meyer-Kiser Bank Bldg., Introduced the board members. COUNTY BANKERS UNITE Protective .Association biles /Articles of Incorporation. Asa!, precaution against yeggs, several Indianapolis banks have organized the Marion County Bankers' Protective Association, which today filed Incorporation papers with the secretary of State. Headquarters are at 307 Odd Fellows’ Bldg. No capital stock is provided. Incorporators are Willard J. Gemmill. William J. Clark, E. W. Hughes and Wallace lyeatherholt. PUBLISHERS TO MOVE Robbs-Merrill Forms Company to Acquire New Site. * Plans for removal of the BobbeMerrill publishing house, now located in University Square on the site of the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza, are being made by the company and selection of anew site will be made soon, It was announced today by Julian Bobbs, a member of the fk in. j Articles of Incorporation were filed today with the Secretary of State by the. Bobbs-Merrill Realty Company, formed to acquire anew site.'

NAME RECEIVER FOR FILM FIRM Cameraman Says Curnpany Failed to Pay Salary. O. Herman Hendren was appointed receiver for the Twentieth Century Motion Picture and Dramatic Club, Inc., today by Superior Court Judge Clinton H. Glvan on petition of Alfred R. Chouinard, motion picture cameraman. Chouinard said the company owes him S3XO, salary. The petition alleges that assets of the company were turned over to the, Twentieth Century Land Company for the purchase of land in Florida and dissipated. Roscoe Carpenter is president of the company which has offices at 1610 N. Meridian St. Edward Y. Clarke, former national Klan leader, was one of the incorporators. A number of business men here had invested money in the Dramatic Club Company.

KORFF SEEZS UNION CONFAB Wants Working Basis for Indiana Mines. Bv United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 9.—lntimation that a conference with union officials to arrive at a working basis for operation of the Buckskin and the Korff nonunion mines is being sought, was made here today by Walter Korff, manager of the mines. It is understood that Korff would be willing to meet the officials, providing they would permit resumption of work at the. mines while negotiations are in progress. Such an arrangement now Is in effect between the Union officials and James Moore, manager of the Crescent and Sunnyside mines here. Meanwhile threats of civil damage suits against the union are being made by operators here. ;

of one of the city’s best residential districts. Neighbors told him and other attaches of Fire Prevention Chief Horace Carey’s office that it was deserted eleven years ago last August, the next day after the owner’s father died. H. S. Humphrey had been living there, they said, and the

NIGH SCHOOL BOOTLEGGING IS REVEALED One Student Arrested in Raids by Federal Officers —Another Found in Place Police Raided —Few Pupils Drink, Observers Say. GIRL FORBIDDEN TO HAVE MORE DATES Youths Reported to Have Been Suspended for Coming to Class With Liquor on Breaths —One Will Be Witness. High school student booze drinking—winter’s substitute for “petting parties”—having retained its holiday favor, is under police scrutiny. A Negro senior student bootlegger who wAs arrested in the Federal rum raids Dec. 29 has been suspend from school. A ...year-old boy who Is n student will be used by prosecutors of Jess Carter, 27, fend Priscilla Coleman, 25, both Negroes, In Judge Dan V. White's municipal court, Jan. 19, as a witness to prove that their place at 319 Muskingum St. was a favorite among students as a liquor source. Two Suspended Two youths are reported to have been suspended from the same high school attended by the boy, 19. for coming to class with liquor on their breaths. The student-bootlegger denied to the assistant principal of the school the charges against him. Questioned by Prosecutor Remy way he lied, he said he did it to protect himself from being “ staked out school. A popular girl student at that school Is reported to have been forbidden by her parents' to have any more dates, following her return from a New Year’s party In an intoxicated condition. School officials said liquor drinking among students had not been noticed, and doubted it was widespread. Students said most of it was done at parties and dances. Student observers unanimously agreed drinking exists among only a very small minority of the student body, hut volunteered the information that what drinking was done, was subject of general student gossip.

Told by Others The boy who will testify in court against the alleged operators of a blind tiger told police when they questioned him at a place being raided, that he had been told by other students at his school that liquor could be obtained there, but had never jiersonally been there before. Police are seeking boys, who gave him the information with a view of using them, also, as witnesses against the accused pair. The student bootlegger was employed in the drug store of Leo Bond, Negro, 648 Indiana Ave., who also was arrested by Federal agents, police and deputy sheriffs. Agents charged that the men were selling liquor to high school students and that the high school student had a substantial trade in the school he attended. Said “Deplorable” Actions of high schools students are characterized as "deplorable” by Federal prohibition agents who, working under the direction of deputy prohibition administrator A. R. Harris, visited scores of Indianapolis’ underworld dives and bought evidence which led to wholesale raids here not long ago. - The agents described Haughville plac s where, they said young girls of high school age, many of theta high school students, and young: men, were found drinking openly. 114 CASES ARE HANDLED Probation Officer Reports Work to Social Council. Failure of children to support aged parents and of husbands to support their families took most of the attention of City Court Probation Officer Laurel C. Thayer in 1925, according to her report today to the Council of Social Agencies. A total of 114 cases were referred to her for supervision. Eight persons were committed to institutions.

place was owned by members of his family. The inspector’s investigation of the place, which was ordered cleaned up forthwith, led him to believe it had been used by boys big and little as a loafing haunt. There were evidences, he said, that “petting parties’’ had been frequent occasions there. v

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 9, 1926

\They Don’t Mind the White Drifts

Above—Charles M. Miller, 3535 K Sixteenth St., and Kenneth Schultz. 1519 N. Gale St., at Brookside Park. Below—Other coasters at Brook- ■‘GB6re|BPi|lp?s tide. Right—Miss Frances Simmons, Interstate Commerce Cotnmission clerk, battling the wintry winds. RUNAWAY GIRL, 15, ! fflfSP APPEALS TO COURT UW wum & * Miss Edith Baker Asks Protection From Father, Who Banned Dates —Placed in Private Home. Edith Baker. 15. who ran away i strap as he has done before.” Pend- I ~ From her home at 1402 Pleasant St., ing an Investigation of her story, the Thursday night, appealed to at- ; girl will be placed In a private home -YejjSr

Above—Charles M. Miller, 3535 E. Sixteenth St., and Kenneth Schultz, 1519 N’. Gale St., at Brookside Park. Below—Other coasters at Brookside. Right—Miss Frances Simmons, Interstate Commerce Commission clerk, battliug the wintry winds.

RUNAWAY GIRL, 15, APPEALS TO COURT \ v■ " W- * Miss Edith Baker Asks Protection From Father, Who Banned Dates —Placed in Private Home.

Edith Baker. 15, who ran away from her home at 1402 Pleasant St., Thursday night, appealed to attaches of juvenile court today, for protection from her father, Claude Baker. “I’m afraid to go home,” the girl asserted. “He will whip me with a HEALTH BOARD PLANS Tu KICK UP MORE DUST ■■ ■' ■ - " r Ex-Secretary’s Reinstatement to Be Tried —Letter Sent Governor. Further disorder In the State board of health was In prospect today when it- developed that the three members seeking to unseat Dr. William F. King, secretary, are working out a plan to reinstate Dr. James G. Royse, former assistant secretary, removed from office last summer by Governor Jackson. During Royse’s employment by the board, he and Dr. King were in frequent trouble. Shortly before the present board was reorganized Dr. King discharged Royse. The new board reinstated him, but Governor Jackson renoved Royse’s name from the pay roll. Want Royse Rack Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, in an opinion, held that joint action of the board and its secretary is necessary to dismiss an employe. The majority faction of the board wants Royse’s position restored. Fred C. Gause, Dr. King's attorney, conferred with Governor Jackson. He said no attempt would be made to forestall a special board meeting Monday when neglect of duty charges will be heard against King. Gause said a formal objection would be made to the proceedings and that an appeal would be taken to Circuit Court If King is ousted. Letter Sent Governor Dr. T. Victor Keene, leader of the board's Insurgent triumvirate, dispatched a letter to Governor Ed Jackson gently “razzing” the State’s executive for his entreaties for harmony in the organization. Dr. Keene declared that Dr. King is only a mebber of the board ex-officio, and that there is no law to prevent his removal as a State health officer. He explained his iwlllingness to join Jackson in an attempt to restore efficiency. “It is apparent that this cannot be slone while Dr. King maintains the position that he will not be governed by the orders of the board,” Dr. Keene said. Referring to Jackson's letter. Dr. Keene said the board does not agree with the Governor that charges against Dr. King are “frivolous.”

The house had been ransacked from top to bottom by vandals. The plastering had crumbled) and showered down over fine old walnut beds, bureaus, dressers, drawer chests, mahogany chairs, tables, china closets, and wonderfully upholstered davenports. The sky was visible through the

strap as he has done before.” Pending an investigation of her story, the girl will be placed In a private home by the court. The girl declared her father will not let her go with young folks. "He won’t even let me have an intimate girl friend.” she said. “And of course, no boy friends.” She said she has been with a woman friend on the south side since Thursday. ■•MUi-m the- father discovered the git I‘had not returned front Edwin Ray M. E. Church where she was said to attend a meeting, he asked police to search for her. “Some folks may call me a crunk,” he said, “but I’m not going to let that girl run around as the other young folks do. They’re too wild nowadays. Bhe’s had no chance to get on Intimate terms with the young folks and Cm going to see that she doesn’t.”

NEW LIQUOR PLANS MADE Hope to Make Arrests When Booze Is Not Found. Plans of the. police and other lawenforcement agencies to' obtain warrants for arrests on maintaining a nuisance charges, as well as for liquor violations when making liquor raids, were laid at a meeting of several police heads and judges at 'the Columbia Club Friday night. The purpose is to arrest persons in nuisance charges, in case no liquor 1b found. Inspector Claude Worley today posted a tentative outline of the new procedure on the police headquarters bulletin board. HOPES MOUNT FOR COAL PEACE Miners and Operators to Meet Again Today. Bu United Preen NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Carefully withholding the public from their confidence the anthracite operators and miners’ representatives prepared to meet this afternoon. \ Rumors were more optimistic. They included a statement by two of the miners’ delegation that some hope of ending the anthracite strike had developed in the sessions of the past two days. Such a statement made yesterday morning was vigorously denied by other members of the miners’ group. It was also reported the conference was held together simply by the hope of the neutraJ chairman, Alvan Markle, that some unforeseen circumstance would arise to make possible an end to the hard coal suspension.

roof. Letters and other personal belongings of the one-time occupants were scattered from one end of the place to the other. The heavy, onetime rugs and carpet# were j frozen to the floor. Mofhs had destroyed a store of blanlfßts, linen, silken pillows and clothing. With other garments a

Congress Today

Senate Expects to vote upon Nye case... Aluminuni trust inquiry resumes. Secretary Hoover testifies bofore Interstate Commerce Committee on needs of radio legislation; -Woodlock confirmation to be taken up. Democratic members of Finance Committee submit proposed revisions in new tax bill. House Considers interior department appropriation bill. Appropriations committee considers war department appropriation bill. v

MEXICO SETS NEW U. S. NOTE Protests Against New Petroleum Laws. Bu United Prees WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The United States sent a note to the Mexican government renewing its protests agaifist the alleged confiscatory features of the new Mexican alien land and petroleum laws. Both laws violate the principles of international law. Article 14 o# the Mexican constitution, Mexican Supreme Court decisions and previous Mexican-American agreements by making Article 27 of the Mexican constitution retroactive, the note maintains. SCHOOL BOARD MEETS TUESDAY No Special Session to Cancel Shortridge Ads. Indianapolis school board members will not meet in special session to consider action pn cancelling advertisements for the new Shortridge High School construction bids and the $1,200,000 bond issue bids, President Theodore F. Vonnegut announced today. The meeting will not be held because of the illness of Charles W. Kern, majority faction member. A regular session of the board will be held Tuesday. The majority faction, composed of the new board members, want to halt all progress and make changes in the heating and ventilating system. Minority members said this will delay the school’s completion at least a year.

full dress suit hung in a closet, the door of which invaders had torji off its hinges. A' silver chafing dish was overturned on a server in the dipingroom.’ It was rusted through. Glass in two large china closets had not been broken, but a silver bread plate was rusted and frozen to the table cloth.

Entered as Second-class Matter at PontofOee, Indianapolis. Published Daily Kacept Sunday.

Crippled Youth Sees Picture of Mother T Don’t Remember Her at All,’ He Says After 13 Years’ Absence.

I -s T almost the same hour FriA I day that Mrs. Margaret Mur--I**l ray Long, 434 W. Raymond St., gazed at the pictured features of her son, Francis Murray, 16, whom she has not seen for thirteen years and who is in a Houston (Texas) hospital, both hands gone as the result of an explosion, that eon was looking at the picture of his mother, according to a Times dispatch from Houston. He held the photograph, sent by The Times, between the stub of his arms. Tears filled his eyes. “It sure will be good to see her,” he whispered. Didn’t Remember Then he looked again. “I don’t remember her at all,” he said, “but it won’t be like meeting somebody new, will it?” When the picture arrived, Francis was reading the "Scarlet Letter,” one of the books given him by Houston folks as part of his Christmas, at the St. Joseph's Infirmary where his hands were amputated. A plastic operation on his abdomen, torn open by the explosion also was necessary, but Francis’ condition Is good. He will be sent home In about three weeks. Through the publicity given Francis’ story through The Times and through the Houston Press, a Sorlpps-Howard newspaper, the Houston Optimist Club Is planning to pay Francis’ expenses home, ac companled by the superintendent of the Bay land (Texas) Home for Boys. Thirteen Years Francis was separated from his mother thirteen years ago. A widow at the time, she had put the boy in the Indianapolis Orphans Home. She was employed and saw him only at intervals. Put in care of a farmer from whom he ran away and joined a circus, Francis was lost to his mother all these years. While working at a fair concession In Houston last week, Francis picked up a “live” torpedo, which exploded, resulting in his injuries. ECHO OF FATAL CRASH Sheridan Man Asks $19,000 for Auto Drowning. Bv Tildes Special NOBLEBVILLE, Ind.. Jan. 9 O. P. Holliday of Sheridan has sued George Palmer here for SIO,OOO damages fbr the death of his son, George Holliday, drowned in the canal near Indianapolis In an auto accident, F'eb. 3, 1924. Holliday charges Palmer’s son, who was driving the auto, was under the Influence of liquor.

MEAT CAUSES BABTSDEATH Child Strangles to Death on Bacon. A piece of bacon caught in his throat today brought death to William Wesley Jones, 21 months old son of Mrs. ottie Jones, 2329 Stuart St. The baby died of strangulation, while in the automobile of Dr Thomas A. O’Dell, en route to city hospital. Mrs. Jones and the baby were eating in the kitchen shortly before ngpn, she said. She gave the baby a piece of bacon. The meat caught in his throat. Dr. O’Dell said he did not know Just when the death occurred, but the child was lifeless when he arrived at the hospital. Motor Police Fisher and Clark, were called to the home. Coroner Paul F. Robinson also investigated. ‘RUNNERS” BONDS MORE Judge Orders Ball of Five liquor Defendants, Increased. Upon order of Criminal Judge James A. Collins, the bonds of five alleged “rum-runners” were increased today from SI,OOO each to SIO,OOO each. The men are held In the county jail. The defendants, charged with transporting liquor in automobiles are: Earl Thompson, Paul Edson, Ed Dean, James Garvey and Ernest Giberson. They were arrested by Sheriff Omer Hawkins and deputies several days before Christmas. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m..*... 22 10 a. rn 24 7 a. m 22 11 a. m 26 8 a, m 22 12 (noon) .... 26 9 a. m 22 1 p. 26

Last fall, neighbors said, the owner visited the place, nailed some pickets from a fence across the doors and posted a sign: "Beware! Stay out! A trap is set!" Vandals took the sign down within a few weeks, neighbors Bald. A* old grandfather’s clock, which had stopped at 5:20 o’clock, stood

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and I Sunday; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 23.

TWO CENTS

CITY’S SHOW IS HEAVIEST IN i p Fall Ceases as Sun Breaks Through Clouds —Whole Eastern Section of Country Included in Storm Area. DOZEN PERSONS DEAD AS BLIZZARD RESULT Temperatures Mild for This Season—Traffic Greatly Slowed—Car Tracks Kept Clear by Persistent Effort of Workmen.

Whew! Bv United Press BUENOS ARIES, Jan. 9.-—Ar-gentina Is suffering from a heat wave. Fifteen heat prostrations have been repotted for the past 21 hours and the thermometer here reached its highest point of the year Friday, when it registered 97t4. At Santa Fe the thermometer stood at 108.

A four-inch snowfall, the heaviest in Indianapolis in three years, seemed practically ended at noon today, when the sun broke through the clouds. There Is a possibility of snow flurries during the afternoon, but no heavy fall Is expected, the United States Weather Bureau said. Not only Indianapolis and Indiana, but the whole eastern portion of the country was included in the storm. In the early morning the fall was heavy, but ceased shortly after 10 a. m. The total fall from 1 a. m. Friday to 7 a. m, today was 8.9 inches, according to the weather bureau. Os this only .4 inch fell during the night, from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. Sunday is expected to be cloudy, but no precipitation is predicted. Friday’s snow was the heaviest in the city since January, 1923, when 4.8 inches fell at one time. Though the precipitation was heavy, temperatures were mild for this season. The low mark this morning was 20 at 3 a. m., while the mercury registered 22 at 7 a. m., 6 degress below nqrmal. Traffic in the city wus greatly slowed up by the heavy snow. Mo torlsts traveled at slower speeds, and had to stop often during the day to clean their windshields. t The Indianapolis Street Railway Company sent out a snow sweeper, with a large number of workmen, who were on duty from noon on clearing the tracks. There were few delays in street car transportation, as a result. One accident came as the result of the storm here. Mrs. Ahnu Six, 70, of 322 Dorman St., Is In Indiana Christian Hospital, suffering from a fractured wrist received Friday, when she slipped on the icy steps at her home while on her way to mall a letter. The heaviest snow of the winter covered Indiana. New Albany reported seven inches. Snow plows were used for the first time since the blizzard of 1917. Several minor accidents were caused by snow at Greencastle. Mrs. (Turn to Page 10) NO FEARS HELD FOR VESUVIUS Danger of Calamity Is Declared Remote. Bu United Pres* ROME, Jan. 9.—Danger of a calamity from the latest eruption of Mt. Vesuvius was reported In Naples messages today to be remote. The outbreak, previously described as a normal recurrence, has now intensified and the west mouth has become a lake of lava from which a stream 300 meters long and 15 meters wide and scores of “fountains” are issuing. However, this action Is confined to the Interior of the big crater. Relief work for the homeless In the region around Abbadla San Salvatore Is proceeding following earth quakes which damaged a number of houses. No lives were lost.

well preserved in the living room apparently undamaged. It’s paint was unscarred —it seemed to challenge the ravages of rot around It. A delicate inluld table lay overturned. one leg broken off in a comer. An old square piano was rotting in aether corner.