Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 217

MILLIONS REFUNDED HOOSIERS Huge Sums Received by Local Persons Who Overpaid to Government. BIG RECIPIENTS NAMED Includes Income, Corporation and Inheritance Levies. By Roscoe B. Fleming Times Btatf Corresvondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.— Thousands of Indiana citizens and corporations received refunds in taxes amounting to Pnillions of dollars from the treasury during the year 1925, it was shown here by examination of the treasury’s refund files. Samuel Fox and Sons, La Porte, were the largest recipients, receiving .$175,669 from the treasury. The Acme-Evans Company of Indianapolis received $100,316, the Hercules Gas Engine Company of Evansville, $47,603; Klngan & Cos., Indianapolis, $28,339; Haskell & Barker Car Company of Michigan City, $55,890; Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company of Indianapolis, $72,347, and the R. H. Hassler Company of Indianapolis, $61,667 in two different sums; Ross Gear and Tool Company, Lafayette, $51,957. Refunds of income taxes, corporation taxes and inheritance taxes are included, but there is no listing of these individually In the eleven huge volumes, containing a total of 6,600 pages, in which the treasury made them public. Indianapolis List Following are the -largest refunds of interets to. Indianapolis, the address being in that city unless otherwise ldicated: East Chicago and Indiana Harbor Water Company, 113 Monument Circle, $3,578; Indiana Refrigerating Company, 232 S. Pennsylvania St., $1,884; Marion Paper Company, Marion, $10,834. Allison Company, successor of phllison Eingine Company, $29,868; Hubbard Steel Foundry Company, East Chicago, $17,118; L. S. Ayres & Cos., $3,261; Bingham Hewitt School Company, $13,474; Indianapolis Street Railway Company, $659; Indiana Panel and Veneer Company, New Albany, $10,693; Indiana National Life Insurance Company, $2,953; Indianapolis Castings Company, $5,583; A. V. Brown, 1407 N. New Jersey St., $974; E. H. Evans, 3445 N. Pennsylvania St., $1,248; H. (Turn to Page 2)

COP, QUICK ON GUN, KILLS TWO Shoots When Suspected Bandits Resist Him. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, Jan. 11.—Two unidentified men, believed to haye been bandits, were shot to death by Patrolman Daniel Candow In a restaurant here early today after they attempted to attack the officer. . Candow was questioning the men as to why they were’in the neighbor* hood when one drew a revolver. The patrolman floored the man with a left hook. As the man struck the floor, he (leveled his weapon. Candow fired. Fhe second man attempted to draw a gun. The officer shot again, wounding him fatally. Police said they believed the two men intended to rob the restaurant and also linked them with numerous taxicab hold-ups here recently.

ILLINOIS CALLS CORN SESSION % " Farmers to Me&t With Governor Friday. Bv United Preen KANKAKEE, 111., Jan. 11.—Govcrnor Small today called a conference of Illinois farmers to meet In Chicago this Friday for a discussion of the surplus corn problem. The Governor said Illinois will be represented at the general corn conference in Des Moines late this month. LANGLEY LOSES FIGHT Supreme Court Denies Review of Congressman’s Case. Bv United Preen WASHINGTON. Jan. 11.—Representative John W. Langley, Kentucky, Republican, today was denied P>y the United States Supreme Court, review of his conviction and twoyear prison sentence at Atlanta for .alleged conspiracy to violate the Volstead act. Langley was convicted after having been elected to* serve his tenth conbecutive term as representative 'of the tenth conAgressiona: district and will have to fcerve his term.

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THIRD MINE BURNS; QUIZ DISCUSSED 1,000 Thrown Out of Work as World’s Largest Shaft Is Damaged. ORIGIN NOT DETERMINED Unions to Ask State Department to Investigate. Bu United Press BICKNELL, Ind., .lan. 11.—Fire today destroyed the surface buildings of American Mine No. 1, near here, said to be the largest coal mine In the world. Origin is not know. More than T,00(1 men were thrown out of work. The blaze, which was discovered as the day shift reported for work comes on the heels of two other mysterious fires in nonunion mines at Boonville and Yankeetown. Investigation by the State Fire Marshal's office is to be asked by District 11, United Mine Workers. A washhouse at the Suwanee mine, Yankeetown, burned Sunday. Saturday night the home of Grover Hogan, top foreman at the Korff mine near Boonville, was burned. The operators see an effort of the union men to intimidate mine owners, while the union believes the property was burned to reflect upon the union. Today conferences between union officials and mine operators were resumed here. All mines in Gibson County have resumed operations, following a week of idleness. Striking miners were assured relief Sunday when an assessment of $1 per union member was levied at a mass meeting at Princeton. A committee was named to plan unionization of all mines in this section. BLAZES NOT REPORTED Milton Wareing, arson division of the State fire marshal’s office, said that investigations would be made when they were called to his department’s attention but said no fixe yet had been reported. He pointed out that all of the fires which occurred in the mine trouble area might have been accidental. but that conclusions of Incendiarism had been drawn because trouble is in the air. HAS MYSTERIOUS TRIP Louisville Man Says Cigaret Made Him Unconscious. Detectives questioned Charles Blanchard, Louisville, Ky., today concerning his mysterious trip here from Louisville. Blanchard said he was walking on the street In Louisville and asked a Negro for a cigaret. After he began smoking it ne lost consciousness and when he awakened early today he discovered he wa-s in a box ,car in a local railroad yard. He had been robbed of 'lls watch and S3O, he said. Police are requesting funds from his relatives in Louisville for transportation back. TWENTY TOWNS GONE New Reports Say 700 Die In Mexican Floods. Bu United Press MAZATIA.N, Mexico, Jan. 11.— Latest reports reaching here indicate that a total of twenty villages have been swept away by recent floods In the state of Nayarit, caused by overflowing of the Santiago and San Pedro Rivers. Some reports now place the dead as high as 700, while 1,000 are estimated to be homeless. Suffering Is reported Intense and the need for aid urgent. IRISH ‘FAIR’ FOR CAREER Political and Economic Events of Ireland Is Reason. Bn Y3A Bert ice DUBLIN. Jan. 11.—“ Dublin’s fair city where the girls are so pretty” is taking on anew spirit of enterprise. The change is being wrought i by the Irish girl. A few years ago the Irish girl of the middle classes was almost early Victorian in her devotion to home. Now she is seeking a career. Political and economic events in Ireland during the past decade are given as the cause of the colleen’s exolution.

SCHOOL FOR INSPECTORS Fire Prevention Chief laments Bad Spelling of Men. Horace Carey, fire prevention bureau chief, today considered a BChool of spelling and English for department inspectors. Carey, an Earlham College graduate, said inspectors do not use correct spelling in reports. Considerable difficulty was experienced with the word incendiary. MEXICAN STAND CITED Maintains Right It Can Pass Its Own laws. Bv United press MEXICO CITY, Jan. 11.—Mexico’s first reaction to the American State Department's note of objection to the new Mexican alien land and petroleum laws is that Mexico, as a sovereign State, can pass its own laws. If these laws offend foreigners with property rights in Mexico the Mexican courts are open to do justice to their complaints. Foreign Secretary Aaron Saenz has made that clear in statements bearing on the American note.

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Thousands of Dollars Worth Furnishings Ruined by Intruders. P’ lOLICE are blamed by Hervey S. Humphrey for the v___J ruination of his home at 1643 Broadway. “Petters” and var.dals broke into the luxuriously furnished home, deserted for a number of years, and wrecked and looted It. Fire Prevention Inspector W. H. Torbet, under direction of his chief, Horace F. Carey, found ohousands of dollars worth of rotted and ruined furnishings in the home and ordered it, cleaned up because of the Are hazard. Humphrey said he would clean it up in the spring. When he left it, and ssveral times subsequently, Humphrey locked the doors and barred the windows. Police on the beat, although they knew it was deserted, made no effort to protect It from Invasions, he said.

HOUSE HEARS FARM AID PLEA Jardine Asks Marketing Bill Be Expedited. Bti United Preen WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Early enactment of the Administration cooperative marketing bill as permanent aid to the farmers of the country was urged today before the House Agriculture Committee by Secretaory of Agriculture Jardine, who appeared as the first witness on farm relief legislation. • The bill would create a bureau of cooperative marketing in the Department of Agriculture to assist cooperative marketing associations. “This bill," Jardine saysL "isn’t an emergency measure. It contemplates a long time program. It is not a substitute for anything else, and I believe we can accomplish a great deal if Congress will expedite its consideration." LEADING SHARES TOPPLE Sharp Break In Market Sends Stocks Tumbling. Bv United Preen NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—A sharp break in the market this afternoon sent stocks tumbling, which included U. S. Steel!, American Can, General Electric and Hudson Motors. It was purely a technical reaction, as there was nothing in the out'side news to account for the break.

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INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JAN. 11, 1926

CHOICY YEGGS GET $2,500 AT KOKOMO

Take Silk Shirts and Fur Coats, but Overlook $1,600. Bu United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 11.—Police admitted today they were without a clew in their search for the robbers who trucked away $2,500 worth of merchandise from the Boston department store here early Sunday. The loot Included silk BhlTts, ties, fur coats and overcoats. Only choice articles were taken. The two safes were blown, but only $lO was taken. The yeggs overlooked $1,600. RESTAURANT HELD UP Bandits Lock Proprietors Up in Phone Booth. Bu United Press PENDLETON, Ind., Jan. 11.— Locking the two proprietors in a telepphone booth, two youthful bandits early today looted the Smith & Kulp restaurant. The youths took a small sum of money from the cash register and a large supply of clgarets and candy. GET SIOO,OOO IN GEMS Bandits Stage Hold-Up Ner Fifth Ave., New York. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Two diamond brokers were robbed of unset diamonds valued at SIOO,OOO In a hallway lees than 150 feet from Fifth Ave. here today. Two men forced Albert L. Goudvos and Emanuel Veerman of Amsterdam. Holland, an International gem dealer, into a darkened passage and beat them with the butt ends of their revolvers.

BUS PETITION HEARD Residents Ask Establishment of North Side line. Public Service Commissioner Clyde Jones today heard petition- of residents of Keystone Ave., ThirtyFourth and Thirty-Eighth Sts., to require the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to establish feeder bus lines on those streets. Corporation Counsel Alvah J. I Rucker, appearing for the city, said the city’s only interest in the hearing was to safeguard the street car company from being forced into bankruptcy by requirements on the commission. The Peoples’ Motor Coach Company protested establishment of the lines. EXPECT FEWER ARRESTS Only Drivers in Accidents Violating Law to Bo Charged. Fewer persons will be brought into court as' a result of automobile accidents, police officials said today, following an order by Chief Claude F. Johnson. Only drivers in minor accidents who violate a law are to be charged. Court attaches will be relieved of much useless work through this order, arcording to officers. Johnson alsf 1 old police to make closer investigations of accidents, searching for law violations.

Bananas Bu United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 11.— "It’s bananas," said John’ Stroube, 109 years old today. ‘Eat ’em and lots of ’em and you’ll live long enough to grow old. Have a bananA?” “To what do you attribute your father's longevity,” a daughter was asked. ’Bananai," interrupted Stroupe. “Eat one.” "Father hears and eats as good as anyone," said the daughter. "Better eat e. banana." Big birthday party today—all the folks and a bunch of bananas.

FEAR AMERICAN BANDIT VICTIM Mexicans Loot and Burn Train —Six Bodies Found. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The State department has asked Dudley G. Dwyer, consul at Guadalajara, Mexico, for information on the reported killing of Robert C. Russell, an American citizen by rebels in the hold-up of a railroad train. According to news dispatches from Mexico City, six bodies, burned beyond recognition, have been taken from the ruins of a Pullman, which was set fire after the passengers were robbed. More bodies are believed in the ruins. All but seven of a military escort were killed. The bandits, it is believed, attacked the train, thinking Gen. Jesus Ferreira, military head of the State of Jalisco, .was aboard.

SCHOOL BOARD TO GET BIDS Confirmation of Frazer’s Appointment Up Tuesday Night Selection of Ure M. Frazer, State budget clerk, as business director of Indlanayfolis schools, will be confirmed at the first regular meeting of new board Tuesday night. Frazer succeeds Williams H. Book, who resigned Dec. 31. The board will receive construction bids on School 78, Vermont St. and Sherman Dr., which has an estimated cost of $145,000. A resolution asking that a temporary loan of $600,000 be taken from the school board bond fund and placed In the special fund will be presented. The money will be used to pay current expenses. George Keiser, acting business director, will ask the board to author ize certain street improvement near the new Washington High School.

COLD WAVE FOR STATE PREDICTED 10 Above Here —Zero in North Part, Tonight’s Forecast. OUT OF NORTHWEST Snow Flurries Also Are Expected by Bureau. Sweeping down ,from the northwest, a frigid wave is due to strike Indianapolis and Indiana late today or tonight, the United States weather bureau predicted. A low temperature of about 10 above is forecast for the city, while the thermometers in northern Indiana are expected to register around zero. Snow flurries through the day and night are to accompany the temperature drop, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist. Strong northwesterly winds should blow during the night, but are expected to vbate Tuesday morning. Tuesday will be fair and cold, according to the predicUon. Snow Jams Streets The cold wave will follow a rec-ord-breaking snow which covered Indianapolis last week. It was the heaviest fall in three years. Some of the white covering melted over the wek-end when the sun came from behind the clouds. Streets were worn slick by heavy t/afllc and many motorists found It necessary to use chains. , Despite slippery thoroughfares, however, few accidents were reportde to the dollcc. Albert O. Meloy, street commissioner, said the entire force of about 100 concentrated on downtown streets this afternoon. Crews worked all day Sunday. Low temperature Sunday night was 25 at 7 p. m. at 7 a. m. today the mercury stood at 30, or 3 above the normal. Snow flurries were noticed in morning. Northwest Cold

In the Northwest, heavy temperature drops have been reported, ocordlng to Armlngton. In the Red River Valley the mercury has fallen 38 degrees in twenty-four hours, and northern Minnesota had a temperature of 10 below zero. Indiana Is expected to be about the southern edge of the frigid wave. Temperature probably will drop some south of here, but the fail will not be marked. It was said. Old times were recalled Sunday when a number of horse-drawn sleighs were seen on streets. Hundreds of children dragged out sleds and coasted in parks and In the streets. The park department supervised coasting places in six parks and two golf courses. Additional coasting facilities were announced by R. Walter Jarvis, park superintendent. Cqastlng will be supervised from 3 to 9 p. m., on River Ave., between Drover and McCarty Sts.; on Watson Road, west of College, and in a small park at Thir-ty-Fourth and Dearborn Sts.

HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a- m...... 30 10 a. m 33 7 a m...\.. 30 11 a. m 33 Dam 31 12 (noon) .... 34 9 a. m 32 1 p. m 34 CONFERENCE TO OPEN Dr. Martin Anderson to Give Inspirational Talks. Training and inspiratioal conference In evangelism for workers of all denominations will open at 7:45 p. m. at Roberts Park Methodist Church. Dr. Martin E. Anderson. Immanuel Presbyterian Church pastor of Detroit, will speak. The series will lead up to the noonday meetings March 11-16 to be conducted by Dr. Frederick F. Shannon, Chicago, at Keith’s Theater. Theater. The meetings are sponsored by the Church Federation. Dr. Ernest N. Evans, secretary, is in charge.

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On Trial Before Health Board

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Dr. William F. King, State board of health secretary, on trial today before the board on charges of malfeasance.

SENATORS CAST OUT TAX CUTS OF DEMOCRATS Complete G. 0. P. Schedule Written Into Bill by Finance Committee. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The Senate Finance Committee, by a strictly party vote of 10 to 7 today, threw out the $500,000,000 tax cut proposals of the Democratic minority and wrote into the bill the complete Republican schedule of normal and surtax rates, as passed by the House. Senator Smoot, Utah, Republican, committee chairman, announced the committee approved the 20 per cent maximum surtax rate, the normal tax rates, the personal exemption increases of $1,500 for single men and $3,500 for heads of families, the 12 % per cent corporation tax and approved the publicity repeal feature of the income tax, all provided In the new revenue measure by the House. The committee rejected the Democratic plan to pare to about $130,01 0,010 more than the majority measure provided In further cuts of surtaxes between $20,000 and SIOO,OOO Incomes, repeal of the corporation tax and admission levies.

ROBINSON WILL FACE CHALLENGE Senator Norris Makes Threat in Fight on Nye. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 11.—Senator George Norris, Nebraska, Republican, announced in the Senate today that he would challenge the votes of Senators Butler, Massachusetts, Republican; Robinson, Indiana, Republican, and Williams. Missouri, Republican, If they atemptetf to vote In the case of Gerald P. Nye, whoso right to a seat in the Senate from North Dakota, is under contest. Norris said the three Senators were designated by Governors of their States just as Nye was and that therefore they had not right to vote upon the question of legality of appointment until the Senate decided whether Nye’s appointment was legal.

INDIANA LAW CITED Situation Different. Than In North Dakota. Republican friends of Senator Arthur R. Robinson here were not concerned over Senator Norris’ threat to contest Robinson's vote. They pointed out that the Indiana law specifically directs the Governor to appoint the successor to a United States Senator in case of death. Robinson was named by Governor Jackson to succeed the late Samuel M. Ralston. In North Dakota there Is a question whether the Governor should name a succeeding Senator or whether he should be elected by popular vote. TIRE MEN PLAN RELIEF May Pool Resources to Break Down BHt&ih Monopoly. Bu United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 11.—Breaking down of the British rubber monopoly is the hope and plan of the nation's leading tire manufacturers whose representatives gathered here today. Pooling resources to establish and maintain rubber plantations in Sumatra and the Philippines is one of Jhe projects. * DRIVER DRAWS FINES $25 Assessed on Each of Three Charges—l a-ft His Automobile. Harvey Wainscott. 517 S. Tibbs Ave., charged by ’deputy sheriffs with driving fifty-two miles an hour, today* was fined $25 each on speeding, failure to have license and certificate 6f title charges. Charge of reckless driving was continued and that of resisting an officer discharged. Deputies said Wainscott left his cqr when they gave chase He was arrested when he claimed the auto.

Forecast SNOW tonight; fair Tuesday- cold wave; lowest temperature tonight about 10; strong northwesterly winds.

HEARING ON DR. KING IS UNDER WAY Health Board Secretary Ordered Not to Change Minutes. DR. KEENE LAMBASTS Governor and Others Come in for Denunciation. A resolution directing Dr. William F. King, board secretary to make no erasures, alterations or notations on the board’s minutes, adopted unanimously, was the only action taken at the State board of health trial of Dr. King Ibis morning on charges of neglect of duty. Dr. King termed the resolution a “back handed slap” declaring he never had done such a thing. The hearing continued this afternoon. May Chang© Minds Two other resolutions adopted also indicated the board may be reconsidering its determination to oust King. One directed King to compile a list of every hoard employe and date their employment was confirmed by the board. The other ordered that the iecretary be required to obtain the board a approval before hiring or firing any employe. It did not mention King by name, but Dr. T. Victor Keene speaking to ; King said, “It’s directed at you, to ! prevent you from hiring or firing ai. will.’’ • Jackson Lambasted For nearly an hour Keene, leader of the anti-King faction, lambasted Governor Jackson and his methods; George V. Coffin, Marion County Republican chairman; D. C. Stephenson, now serving a life sentence In prisop for murder, and Dr. King, whom he charged With various actions not contained In the formal neglect allegations. Meeting Delayed The meeting, scheduled for 10 a. m.. was delayed a half hour because Dr. James A. Turner of Nashville, board member, ditched his automobile near Southport and arrived late. Fred C. Gause, King’s attorney, formally protested the proceedings, questioning the board's jurisdiction to try one of its number. He declared Kiflg “courts a tribunal pre- | scribed by law, but not by this board.” He denied all allegations of neglect against Dr. King. Dr. Keene then presented a resolution “Informing ths public that recent diagnoses of tuberculosis bacilli made In the State laboratory are incorrect,” and explained that Norman Beatty, Governor Jackson's son-in-law, made them. Gause protested that the resolution was beside the issue, but he was overruled. Jackson forced King to employ Beatty. Keene said. Keene said Beatty was hired when a freshman In medical school and that his employment never was confirmed by the board. King showed minutes confirming an Increase in Beatty’s salary. “Political Issue" “It’s a political ispue,” Keene declared, "whether Governor Ed Jackson and his political friend. George V. Coffin, shall control the destinies of this board.” Keene said Daily E. McCoy, State purchasing agent, has heseeched him to help make changes in hoard per(Tum to Page II)

MAY ABANDON CRUSE PROJECT Board to Hear Protests of South Side. Board of works members are considering abandonment of the Cruse St. project, involving opening of Shelby SL through to Washington St., it became known today. The board was to hear protests of south side property owners at its regular meeting this afternoon. Roy C. Shaneberger, board preeldwent ,said he had Investigated, and talked to residents affected, most of whom were opposed to the project because of the expense. Property owners affected formed the South Side Real Estate and Taxpayers’ Association, at a meeting at Fountain Square Sunday. WALLACE’S SON DIES High Tribute To Be Paid By Crawfordsville. Bv Times Special CR AW FOR DS VILLE, Ind., Jan. 11.—Crawfords ville planned high tribute today to be paid to Henry Lane Wallace, 7". only son of the late Gen. Lew Wallace, author, who died Saturday in New York City. The body will be brought here and will be buried beside that of the father. Mr. Wallace died suddenly at the home of his son, Lewis Wallace at. New York. He had gone there to witness the presentation of a motion picture. 4 Ben-Hur." adapted from hie father's famous book.