Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 238

BIS IBIS PROTECTED. SAYSSOLOH King Tells La Follette He Needn’t Look for Any Federal Investigation of Ward and National Food Products Mergers. FEDERAL TRADE BOARD PASSIVE, IS CHARGE % Young Bob Asserts Combine Will Mean Price Control of Everything Farmer Sells and Everything Conv sumer Eats. Bv Unit ’d Press ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. The Federal trade commission is protecting big trust mergers and the justice department has ceased to prosecute them. Senator King, Utah, Democrat, told the Senate today in a speech denouncing the $2,200,000 Ward and National Food Products combines. King warned Senator La FOllette, Republican, Wisconsin and author Os a resolution for a Senate investigation of the combines that he need "expect no action from the legislative department of the government.” Apathy Apparent “The apathy of the justice department in prosecuting anti-trust cases is apparent," King said. "The Federal trade commission, under its present personnel, has ceased to function and ought to be abolished." In a statement explaining his resolution introduced Wednesday in the Senate to provide for an immediate investigation of the consolidations y the Senate manufactures comRnittee, La Follette said: "On .Jan. 31, the Ward Food Production Corporation was formed in Baltimore, with a potential capitalization of $2.00u,000.000 for the purpose of dealing in all food and by-products. Sees Price Control “This huge combine which will buy the farmers products on the farm and sell them to the consumers at market is obviously intended to control the price of every table article from milk to bread. It will go Into the milling business to buy wheat and Mill sell bread. It’s obvious result will be to control prices, not only the farmers prices but the consumers prices. "It is a very dangerous thing to let such a monopoly be erected."

SIX IN SAFETY ZONE ARE HURT Auto Strikes Women— Driver Faces Charges. Six women are recovering today at their homes from injuries received Wednesday night when they were struck by an auto while standing in a safety zone at Liberty St. Rand Massachusetts Ave. waiting for a street car. Police say the auto driver was Ben Stewart, charged with driving through a safety zone, assault and battery and reckless driving. He said he skidded when he attempted to turn from the car tracks. Those Injured were: Misses Mary Lees, 18, of 1125 Polk St.; Gladys Muelin, 29, of 4001 E. Thirty-First St.; Effie Bryant, 18, of 3360 N. Sherman Dr.; Clara Bright, 1.6, of 3318 Station St.; Nellie Golden, 28, of 1830 Tallman Ave., and Ruth Glass camp, 17, of 2252 Langley Ave. COUNTY RECORD BOOK IS FOUND Missing Document Seen in Prosecutor’s Office. The 1924 record book, No. 55, containing minutes of Marion County commissioners which County Auditor Harry Dunn has sought for'several weeks whs discovered today in the office of Prosecutor William H. Remy. The book contained records of the county’s negotiations with George A Weaver & Son, contractors who erected Julietta, county Insane . asylum. I Remy used the book in making his case against Windsor J. Weaver, a son, jointly charged with his father in filing false claims in regard to construction of Julietta. The son asked a separate jury trial, scheduled to open Monday in Criminal Court before Special Judge Charles S. Wiltsie. Dunn had offered a *2OO reward for the book’s return.

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More Divorces Given Women Than Men —i - | Wives Beat Husbands in Fight for Separation, Records Show.

I the w * v * B wilder, or men I A meaner than in the old crino--1/H line days? Or has the great American home lost its lure for the modern girl, because of her recently gained economic and political independence? Indiana divorce figures reveal that more wives than husbands obtain divorces. Three thousand and six wives divorced as many husbands in eighty-four Indiana courts in 1925. Contrasted to this, 804 husbands divorced their wives, according to unofficial tabulations of cou^clerks' reports to Charles Kettleborough, i director of the State legislative reference bureau. The totals include only the statistics on seventy-five out of ninety-three counties. Same Condition In 1924 . The same condition prevailed in 1924. In all the courts in the State, 5,049 wives defeated their mates in divorce mills, and 2,086 husbands chalked up legal separation victories. During that year, 36,308 marriage licenses were issued. Men in 1925 outdid the wives In gaining legal separations In only two counties of those which have reported. In another, the score was tied. This was in Ohio County, southeastern Indiana, of which Rising Sun Is the county seat. The score was three all. Twenty-one Blackford County wives suffered divorce defeats and nineteen won separation victories. Out of seven divorces at Decatur, Adams County, four were granted men against three to wives. Entries on Records The eighty-four clerks made 3,810 entries on their records, like this: “And the court, having heard the evidence and being duly advised In the premises, considers, adjudges and decrees that the bonds of matrimony heretofore existing between the parties herein, be, and the same hereby are dissolved, and rendered null and void and held for naught.” These entries, some clerks believe, can be laid to such things as apart-ment-house life, the cooling of physical love, the fading cf the sanctimonious view of marriage contracts, and even the "Charleston.” The total includes the three Lake County' courts, grsuind out 332 decrees for wives and 15V divorces for husbands. The Marion County totals are not yet available.

SNOW CRUSHES IN ROOF; 50 BURIED Two Bodies Taken Out—Six Injured Rescued in Eastern Factory District.

Bu I nited t'resn NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Feb. 4. Weight of snow which for almost twenty-four hours had been falling here, caused the roof of the foundry of the North and Judd Manufacturing Company to collapse today. Fifty workmen were reported burled. Two bodies were taken out and six -persons, seriously injured FIVE PERISH IN FARM BLAZE Father, Mother and Three Children Die. Bu United Press DOWAGIAC. Mlch v Feb. 4.—Five members of a family of seven, Including a 3-day-old Infant daughter, were burned to death by fire of undetermined origin which totally destroyed the farm house of William Wilkinson, six miles north of here today. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson; a, son Floyd; a daughter Glnet and thfe infant daughter. Two other sons, Harold and Arnold, were working on a neighboring farm and escaped. Neighbors were unable to cope with the flapies, which swiftly roared through the frame structure and caved *it In upon trapped members of the family who were sleeping. The dead mother was blind. Coroner S. E. Bryant ordered an inquest to investigate a possible quadruple murder and suicide. The dead baby was reported to have been the illegitimate child of the dead daughter by a Pottawatomie Indian of the neighborhood. The coroner believed Wilkinson may have brooded over the child. FINDS HUSBAND NEGRO Tragic Death of Child Bare* Race of Groom. •Bu United Preen DAVENPORT, la.. Feb. 4. Tragedy stepped on the heels of tragedy today when Mrs. Edna Healy Bogie, 39, wealthy widow, discovered her handsome new “white” husband was a negro. Mr. and Mrs. Bogie were taken into custody when their foster child, Harold, was scalded to death. While in jail, Bogle broke down and admitted that he was a negro and was the father of a girl in Columbus, Ohio, by a former marriage to a ne grass.

Alleged “Midget” Bandit Held

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Andrew J. Carter, 19, of Detroit, Mich., and 656 Coffey St., “midget” bandit, who has confessed three drug store hold up*. HOLD-UP WORK LOOKED EASY TO YOUTH, 19 ‘Midget’ Bandit Tells How He Started —Three ‘Jobs’ Confessed. Apparent ease with which a hold-up could be staged with a new automobile in which to escape, led Andrew J. Carr, 19, of Detroit, Mich., and 656 Coffey St., to embark upon his career as a bandit, the youth said at city prison today. Carr, known an the "midget tr>ndlt,” charged with auto banditry and robbery, had confessed to three hold ups In the last month. Though he Is five feet six -inches tall, he received his name of “mid get” when a clerk in one of the stores he robbed described him as being “about as high as the show case.” A hold-up Wednesday night at the Fritz drug store, 741 Virginia Ave., Wednesday night, proved Carr's undoing. He only secured $5 here, while the other two robberies only netted him $125. “I just got about half enough to (Turn to Page 2)

were carried away soon after the I accident. Fire companies and police /reserves were called out and rescue work in the belief that forty or more men probably remain trapped beneath the wreckage of the roof and the mounds of snow. About 700 men are employed at the plant. The roof gave way suddenly with a crash like an earthquake. None of the men employed in the building had a chance to escape. The twq known dead were found (Turn to Page 2) HOUSE IS GIVEN NEW ARMY BILL Carries $339,581,924 Provides 137,000 Men. Bn United Pren WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The Army appropriation bill, carrying $339,581,924, an Increase of $1,087,699 above budget estimates and $695,293 above appropriations for the current year, was reported to the House today by the Appropriations Committee. Os the total recommended $261,081,169 will be used for military activities while the remainder, $78,500,755, is for nonmilitary activities, such as maintenance and improvement of rivers and harbor propects. The measure provides for 12,000 commissioned officers and 125,000 enlisted men. There are now actually II.'OOO officers and 118,000 men. The bill carried the annual appropriation of $10,000,000 for flood control of the Mississippi River. The appropriation is the third on a sixyear program. MAY RETAIN POLICEMEN Councilmen Confer With Chief Johnson on Fate of 115. Following a conference of three Republican councilmen today with Police Chief Claude F. Johnson, it was rumored, the retention of a large number f the 115 policemen appointed during the dying days of the Shank administration, was agreed upop Councilmen were President Boynton J. Moore. Walter Do-rsett and Dr. Austin H. Todd.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 1926

19 DEAD IN PITTSBURGH MINEBLAST Men, Sent Below to Battle Blaze, Trapped When Gas Lets Go Only Three Bodies Recovered, Sixteen Still Remain in Shaft. WATCHERS FRIGHTENED BY SECOND EXPLOSION Boom Follows Half Hour After Superintendent Announced Underground Blaze Was Under Control —Two Escape With Lives Bv United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 4. Nineteen were known dead today as a result of an explosion that wrecked the right butt No. 15 of the Pittsburgh Terminal Company’s mine No. 4 at Horning, near here, late Wednesday. Trapped In a passageway' 4.000 feet from the mine entrance only two of twenty-one men sent below to fight a blaae escaped alive. They were Edward Travis, a foreman, and Louis Powell. Sixteen bodies still remain In the mine. Only three have been recovered. Second Blast Anxious watchers at the mouth of the mine were frightened at 1 a. m. today when a second explosion occurred. William Ivlll, superintendent of Mine No. 8. and-Matthew Blair, superintendent of Mine No. 8. were overcome. As they were car-

Doleful Month One hundred and thirty four miners have bsen klUed In explosions and fires In American pita In ftfur major disasters within a month. Besides yesterday’s tragedy these outstanding blasts have occured: Jan. 15—Wilburton, Okla., ninety-one dead. Jan. 16—Farmington, W. Va , ten dead. Jan. 20—West Frankfort. 111., five dead.

rled out on stretchers, excitement followed, it being thought the disaster had claimed additional Uvea. The first explosion occurred at 4 p. m. Wednesday. It was the aftermath of a fire caused when a cutting machine broke into a gas pocket. The twenty-one men went into the pit to fight the blaze at 10 a. m. At 3:30 p. in. Georg© Osier, vice president of the company, came cut, announcing the fire was under control. Half an hour later the explosion followed. Between four and six hundred other men emerged from other sections of the mine safely. Bodies Charred Three charred bodies were brought out of the mine Wednesday night and 100 rescue workers continued their efforts to sava the remaining sixteen. When they were reached early today, all were dead. About 1,000 persons, many of them relatives of the trapped men, stood at the mine entrance In the wet snow, waiting for ,new* of what had occurred. It was only at an early hour today that the scope of the disaster became apparent. TAX PUBLICITY BEFORE SENATE Problem to Be Tackled Today, Belief. Bn United Prr.it , WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.—The Senate today will tackle the highly controversial question of Income tax publicity, repaal of which was voted by the House and concurred In by (He Senate Finance Committee. Chairman Smoot of the committee in charge of the tax bill suid he would take up the publicity question ns soon as the Senate has disposed of several minor provisions. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 28 10 a. m 30 7 a_ m 29 11 a. m 30 8 a. 29 12 (noon) .... 29 9 ft. m 29 1 p. m 30

Jazz Babies Feared

Bn United Pren CINCINNATI, Ohio. Feb. 4. Because it would inspire jazz emotions iiv unborn babies, the Salvation Army is sueing to prevent a theater being errected next to Its maternity home here. The suit the music from the theater would have an unfavorable effect on expectant

Mother Holds to Faith in Girl Charged With Pact

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Daughter Had No Motive to Wish Husband Dead, v She Declares. Ut , F all the world foi-sakes you. I I your mother loves you I I still!”—Just the words of a popular song, but they tell what mothers have whispered from the beginning of time. They are what Mrs. F. D. Feasel, 517 N. Delaware St., enatcljing a few minutes now and then from her work In a hotel kitchen, tries to convey _to her daughter, Mrs. Ruth Glpprich, 26. who Is accused of conspiring with Grafton A. Clary. 70. to murder Mrs. Gipprlch’s huafcaml. Leo Glpprich. [ Clary said Mrs. Glpprich asked him to kill her husband so she could obtain his life Insurance. They were arrested on vagrancy changes after an attack on Gipprich In his home. Clary’s confession to the love murder pact has been placed before the grand jury. “My little girl couldn't have done this hideous thing.” the mother declared with tear-filled eyes. “There are two sides to every question. People who are saying Ruth was a gold-digger and a would-be murderess, are saying cruel things that are terribly untrue. WJiy Ruth loved her husband —they got along wonderfully, I would have known if she'd wanted to get rid of hiin! "Just reason this out. There would have to be a strong motive for such a terrible crime. These was >none here. Ruth’s husband made a good salary, and gave it all to her. I would also have given her my last cent. "Then she didn’t hate her husband as people must, who plan to get rid of a person. I’d have helped her get a divorce If she’d disliked him, but never, I swear has she expressed anything, but love for Leo. Is It reasonable then that she’d want him killed?” For years the mother said she worked at a washtub to support her daughter. Two other daughters died. Mrs. Glpprich has been In poor health since she was struck by a motorcycle when 14 and has undergone many operations, her mother said. M’WHIRTER IS STATE WAR AID Bank President Heads C. M. T. C. Work. Felix M. McWhirter, Peoples State Bank president today was named Indiana civilian aid to Secretary of War Dwight Davis. McWlilrter’s duties will include the chairmanship of the campaign to enroll 1,600 Hoosier boys In the Citizens’ Military Training Camps at Ft. Harrison, July 15 to Aug. 13 and Camp Knox. Ky., July 7 to Aug. i>. McWhirter is a lieutenant commander In the United States Naval Reserve Corps. “We plan to form a State-wide organization to present advantages of the camps to families In which there are boys Rble to qualify,” McWhirter said. “It is an excellent opportunity for a thirty-day vacation at Government expense.”

mothers and influence the characters of their babies. "We recognize,” the petition says, “that we are living In a jazz age but we object to Imperiling the happiness of future generations by inculcating in them before they are even bom the madness that now rules the country.”

Mrs. Ruth Gipprich.

WIDER MELLON QUIZ ORDERED Committee to Offer New Resolution to Senate. Bii United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.—The Sen ate Judiciary Committee voted today to go further into the trust activities of the Aluminum Company of America, controlled by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother R. B. Mellon. The committee decided to report to the Senate a resolution demanding that the trade commission hand over to the committee all evidence in its possession relating to the Aluminum Company. This evidence is that upon which the commission recently based a decision that the company was vio latlng the anti trust l^w.

INVESTIGATION OF SCHOOLS STARTED

Chamber of Commerce Committee Orders Inquiry Into Changes on School Ventilating Systems.

A suboommittee of the Indianapor lie Chamber of Commerce educational committee today launched an investigation of school board changes in heating and ventilating specifications on two school conSTOP PEBMITS FOR HOLLYWOOD Police Chief Gives Order on Dance Licenses. Police Chief Claud F. Johnson, after a conference with— Mayor Duvall, today ordered no more dance permits be Issued Goorge Abrams and Harry “Goosle” Lee, Negroes, operators of the Hollywood Case, "blafck and tan" cabaret at 532ty Indiana Ave Abrams Is manager of the case. Monday The Times disclosed that white persons and Negroes danced together Saturday night at the case. Johnson ordered white persons be kept out of the restaurant when he took office. Johnson said he believed the public generally is prejudiced against the place and felt it would be better not to issue other permits. “He’s boss,” said Abrams when told of Johnson’s order. He Indicated he might go to court, by saying "my money is tied up there.” HAS iMEMOmZED - BIBLE Chicago Pastor Gives -Sermons and Religious Recitations. The Rev. H. H. Halley, Chicago. 111., one of the few persons known to have memorized the entire Bible, is giving a series of sermons and religious recitations each evening at the Seventh Christian Church, Udell and Annette Sts. • ARMS PARLEY MAY 6 Bu United Pres t WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—lnformal assurances have been given American Minister Gibson at Berne, Switzerland, by the League of Nations that the postponed preparatory arms commission will meet at Geneva on May 6, Gibson advised the State Departmen today.

Kntered as Second-class Matter at Postofflce, Indianapolis. Published Dally gxeept Sunday.

MTACE HUE CONTRACT MADE *17547 PROFIT ON Kim, REPORT CHARGES Brother of Shank Political Boss One Who Received Huge Sum From City for Part Time Use of Animals for Three Years. v i | ATTORNEYS SAY AGREEMENT LET BY OLD BOARD INVALID Score Last Administration for Attempt to Bind Present Officials to Carry Out Compact Against Public ■ Welfare. ' / On an original investment of from $2,000 to $2,500, James E. Armitage, brother of William H., Armitage, political director of the Shank administration, rented ovules to the city, receiving $17,547.50 net profit for three years rental of six or seven months a year. This statement was made today in a report Alvah J. Rucker, corporation counsel, submitted to the board of works which seeks to destroy a contract for the future Armitage holds with the city.

“This would appear to be an unconscionable contract,” Rocker's opinion declares. Agreement Void "So great Is the disparity between the benefits received by the city and the compensation to the other party to the contract (the city) that we feel the agreement is void on the ground of constructive fraud. By this we do not mean to say that any of those connected with the execution of the contract were guilty of actual fraud or of any intent to wrong doing.” The opinion also is signed by John K. Ruckelshaue Jr., city attorney, and Donald F. Roberts, assistant city, attorney. The new contract, signed Nov. 30, 1925, by members /of the board of works of the last administration. Includes rental of “five or more teams of mules or horses for six months

struetjon projects, which changes it has been charged, favor C. C. Shipp, ventilator manufacturer, to the exclusion of other bidders. The Investigation, ordered by unanimous vote of the educational committee at its noon meeting Wednesday, was placed under the directorship of Leonard V. Harrison, secretary of the Chamber’s civic affairs committee as an emergency proposition, before being presented to the chamber directors for approval. The directors’ next meeting Is Feb. 18, and, the educational committee is anxious to inquire into the changes before contracts are let, under revised specifications, according to G. A. Mlllett, chairman of the committee. Dr. Ada Schweitzer, State board of health child hygiene director, Daniel B. Luten and Edward Morse. (Turn to- Page 2) GIRL TO GET LENIENCY Grand Jury Has Dropped Bahy Case at Newcastle, Belief. Bu United Press NEWCASTLE, Tnd.. Feb. 4.—Justice was to be tempered with mercy in the case of Marjorie Duffy, 19, the unwed mother, who has been accused of causing the death of her newly-born daughter, it was indicated today. The grand jury has apparently dropped the case. FIRE AT TERR E~~HA LITE $30,0?/ Damage Done to Anchor Printing Company. Bu United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 4 Damage estimated at $30,000 was the stock and equipment of the Anchor Printing Company by fire of unknown origin which broke out about midnight Wednesday. Half the loss damage is covered by insurance. Cash for Stoves, Table and Chair THAT'S what MR. E. T. FRENCH. Fair Store, • • • RECEIVED for the household goods „ HE advertised in • • THE Time* "Want Ada.”

Forecast MOSTLY cloudy tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 25.

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beginning April 1, 1926, said teams to be cared for and fed at the city barns at the expense of the party of the first part (the city).” Under the contract Armitage was given "the right and option to renew this contract during the four years following the date of this agreement by giving to the party of the first part a written notice of his Intention so to do and by paying to the proper office of the party of the first nart the sum of five dollars for ealh renewal.” Never Approved y\. Rucker sets forth the contract Invalid, because it never by city council, was not let after bid had been submitted and because of evidence of other peculiarities. “This sum Was for use of an average of ten teams of mules hy the city for not more than six or seven months in each of the respective years,” the opinion rea^s. Rucker scored the practice of allowing eleventh hour contracts. “This contract was executed in the closing ddys of the last administration and for no public purpose that Is evident,” the report said. “Nothing appears to show that the personnel of the contract or the manner of the execution of the work was so pressing or Important to tho city that the lx>ard should so attempt to tie the hands of this and a future administration,” is also said. Not Public Welfare "The contract, to say the least of It. Is a remarkable one, entered Into under unusual circumstances, and which would seem to Indicate that the motive which prompted the execution was not the welfare of the public.” The roprt points out that under similar contract, "in the years 1923, 1924 am] 1925, Mr. Armitage therefore drew from the city treasury’ the sum of $17,547.50; hail his mules stabled, fed, shod and cared for in every way, including vetterinary services free of cliarge by tire city, and still owns the mules.” Attacking the attemppt of the old board of works to tie hands of the new administration, the statement continues: "If the city may contract with Mr. Armitage for five year* in &d----(Tum to Page 2)

NAME 25 NEW PARK EMPLOYES Will Select Successor to Missing Official. Appointment of twenty-five parka department employes will be announced at park board meeting today, Emsley W. Johnson, board president, said. Names of employes were decided at a series of recent conferences with Mayor Duvall. Some of the appointees will be old workers, while others will be named for the first time,. It was said. Several present employes probably will be dismissed to make way for the new men. Edward E. Mcßride, recreation director, is to be the goat to allow retention of other workers. He will lose hia job. It Is said Jesse McClure will .succeed him. Appointment of an acting assistant parks superintendent in place of H. Houston Tall, who disappeared, is to be made. If Talt returns, it is understood th'e appointment will be only temporary. Transfer of Elmer Wilson from Inspector in the city engineer’s office to junior field aid in the parks engineering department was announced Wednesday.