Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 244

ASKS SENATE TO SOBER UP IN TAX ‘JAG’ Chairman Smoot Seeks to Rescind Action, Abolishing Auto and Amusement Levies —New $100,000,000 Slash 'Dangerous.’ WARNING ALSO ISSUED BY SECRETARY MELLON Declares Annual Government Deficit Will Result—Predicts Reduction Will Be ‘Modified’ When Measure Is Sent to Conference. Bv Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.— Chairman Smoot of the finance committee today asked the Senate to “sober up” from its tax reduction spree. All levies upon autos and amusements were struck out Wednesday night. Democrats deserted their coalition with Republicans to join the Democrats. Smoot was joined by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, who warned that such a slash would cause an annual Government deficit In the future. Exceeds Margin “The proposed cut exceeds the margin we consider available," he said. He predicted the $452,000,000 reduction would be "modified’’ when the bill went to conference to arrange the differences between the two houses on provisions’. Smoot said he would seek to rescind part of the slash which adds $100,000,000 to the $350,000,000 reduction already planned. Because many of the Senators were absent at the time the vote was taken, it Beemed Smoot might be successful. Smqot believes the new reduction would leave the treasury in a precarious position. What It Did Here's what the Senate did: By a vote of 49 to 26 it approved repeal of estate or inheritance taxes and a retroactive reduction of estate and gift tax rates for the period between enactment of the June, 1924, act, and the effective date of the (Turn to Page 13)

ORBISON TO BE REAPPOINTED Park Board Will Name Attorney at Meeting. Telford Orbison, removed as park board attorneys last week, after temporary appointment, was to be renamed at a meeting of the board this afternoon. Mayor Duvall said final choice of Orbison was slated. The appointment is regarded as a victory for the Klan. William Hall was to be named Garfield Park custodian to succeed Max Bloomberg. Orbison Is son of "Judgie" Charles J. Orbison, ffirmer Democrat, now national Klan attorney. Board members expected to reduce expenses $3,000 a year by abolishing the assessment bureau division. ORCHESTRA ARRIVES Minneapolis Symphony Organization at Murat Tonight. At noon today, Henri Verbrugghen, conductor, and members of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra arrived in Indianapolis ready for the concert at the Murat tonight. This orchestra while in St. Louis and several southern cities were given great ovations for the playing of Beethoven’s “Eroica.”

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DEFICIENCY BILL NEXT Measure Cany in g 541,893,142 Increase Reported to Senate. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The Senate Appropriations Committee today reported the first deficiency appropriation bill carrying $423,577,162. an Increase of $41,893,142 over the measure as passed by the House. Among the payments authorized were $38,250,000 for military and naval insurance and compensation through the Veterans Bureau; $2,500. for forest fire weather warning service; $50,000 for sending the American delegation to the preliminary League of Nations disarmament commission.

MINE LEADERS GATHER; PEACE HOPESMOUNT Rumors Fly—Hear Coolidge May Have Taken Action Quietly. Bv U sited Press * PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 11.— Leaders of the striking anthracite coal miners and the coal mine owners, gathered quietly and suddenly in Philadelphia today, while the hope flew through the anthracite mining district that a settlement of the strike might be at hand. First Major W. W. inglis, head,of the mine owners’ negotiating committee, arrived and went into secret conference with other owners. Then miners’ representatives began arriving, including Ellis Searles of Indianapolis, who acts as spokesman, and others. They went into secret conference. Word came from Wllkesbarre that John L. Lewis was on his way here. Next, Alvin Markle, chairman of the negotiating conference, arrived. One report had tt that Secretary' of Labor Davis or his representative had asked the parties to the strike to meet him in Pr.iladelphia; another was that President Coolidge had taken action quietly. COAL COMMITTEE NAMED Senator Borah to Head Review' of Bills. Bv United Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—A subcommittee favorable to coal legislation was appointed by Chairman Phipps of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor today to consider the coal bills now before the Senate and others that may be later introduced. Senator Borah, Idaho Republican, was named chairman of the sub-com-mittee. Senators Copeland, New York, Democrat, and Metcalf, Rhode Island, Republican, are other members. u. s7~bars”countess Divorce Record Shuts Door for English Noble W'oman. BV Unitel Press NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Vera, Countess Cathcart, was today excluded from America after a special Inquiry had been held at Ellis Island immigration station. She was held at the island awaiting deportation while her friend, Mrs. Gordon Carr, of Lady Carnarvan, proceeded to Washington to intervene with Secretary of Labor Davis on her behalf. The English titled woman who had been divorced and consequently was subject to exclusion, announced that she would appeal the case.

BUS COMPANIES RESUME FIGHT City Competitors Before State Commission. After a morning ..recesa, attorneys for the Indianapolis Street Railway and the People’s Motor Coach Company resumed their legal battle this afternoon before the ptlbllc service commission over the quea tlon of which agency will be permitted to offer additional transpor- | tation service in north Indianapolis. Plans of the coach company to create cross-town service on Thirtieth St., by connecting its Riverside route with anew one known as the Thlrtieth-Sherman Dr. route were opposed by railway .counsel on ground the proposed free crosstown transfer would be discriminatory. The railway was to offer rebuttal evidence to this route and to the coach company’s Thirty-Eighth-Key-stone line. The coach company at a later date will present evidence supporting Its proposed Sixty-Second St. and Ravenswood Rd. line. Petition for the Thirty Fourth and School St. line has been withdrawn. Evidence on the coach company’s Thirty-Eighth-Keystone route will |e heard later. DOPE PEDDLER IS HELD \ Terre Haute “Underworld King” Held to Federal Jury. Leßoy Gresham, 31, known as the “king of the underworld” of Terre Haute, an ex-pugilist and convicted narcotic dealer, was arrested Wednesday by D. A. Nagley, Federal narcotic agent, and Tom Barry and Mike Casey, Terre Haute detectives. JHe defaulted a SI,OOO bond and is being held- in the Vigo County jail. He was bound over to the grand jury by United States Commissioner Clyde R. Randall. The "king” was apprehended at Terre Haute and more than SI,OOO worth of narcotlcia found in his possession, officers said.

SAYS PUBLIC MUST CLEAR SMOKY SKY Abatement League Formed, at Luncheon Following Address by Authority on Fuel Combustion and Power Efficiency. DECLARES COOPERATION IS NECESSARY FACTOR Support of Civic Workers Urged by Speaker— Asserts Common-Sense Firing Results in Saving and Reduction of Evil. Elimination of smoke is no longer an engineering problem, but a matter of education of the public, declared Osborn Mon- • nett of the United States Bureau of Mines, at luncheon of the women’s smoke abatement committee today at the Columbia Club. Organization of the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League was perfected and nomination of directors ! announced. Mrs. J. W. Moore, chair- , man, presided. Miss Mayme Larsh headed a committee which nominated twenty directors to draft constitution and bylaws and elect officers. Directors: Mayor John L. Duvall, Frederick E. Matson, William Fortune. E. O. Snethen, Thomas 8. Carson, Sol Schloss, Homer McKee, Joseph A.. McGowan, Daniel B. Luten, Herbert Foltz, Dr. C. R. Strickland. W. S. Hanley, Charles Meyer Jr., Harry O. Garman, William V. Landers. Michael Foley and Mesdames Felix T. MoWhlrter, J. D. Ross, Curtis Hodges, Christian Olsen, John W. Kern, J. W. Moore, Wolf Sussmann, M. F. Murphy, diaries H. Smith, Bert S. Gadd, David Rosa, J. W. Vestal, W. A. Eshbach, John M. Judah, Isaac Bora and Miss Elizabeth Rainey. No Added Cost Common sense firing results in fuel saving as well as reduction of the smoke evil, Monnett said. Monnett is considered an authority on fuel combustion and power plant efficiency. “Smoke from all soft coal plants can be cut down. Even smoke from heating and residence furnaces can be reduced from 60 to 90 per cent without any additional costs,” he said. Cooperation Necessary “Cooperation is the necessary factor in ridding a city of tile smoke nuisance. The problem' is to get steam users to cooperate with civic workers. People can get rid of smoke when ever they decide to do it. “When business men realize they can save money by reduction of smoke they will wake the smoke inspector up every morning." Monnett told of success of campaigns in other cities. He said fighting the nuisance in courts was not satisfactory as appeals cause delay and provide immunity to for some time. N Railroads Pleased Railroads were pleased over saving of coal bills after a Campaign at Grafton, W. V., he said. Monnett was four years chief smoke Inspector of Chicago, and conducted atmospheric surveys for the bureau of mines at Salt Lake City, Utah, and Grafton. W. Va. He Is now conducting a smoke survey at Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Felix M. McWhirter is chairman of the progrdm committee.

RADIO BIG AID TO ADVERTISING Method Will Supplement Old Mediums. Significance of radio advertising in promoting other media of advertising was pointed out by Corley W. Kirby, Detroit, assistant manager of Station WJR, today at Advertising Club luncheon at the Claypool today. Kirby, who spoke on “Invisible Advertising," insisted radio advertising was not competitive with newspaper advertising. “Radio advertising supplements advertising appeals made through the printed page in making a direct appeal through the ear,” said Kirby. Kirby said the radio will not put phonographs out of business, but will help to make the best records more popular. He radio to. the popular singers on tour and phonograph, records as a library book of music or speaking. Maxwell Drake, new president, nresided.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 1926

NOW COME ON, ‘BREAD TRUST’

MEXICANS HOLD S- s HOOSIER IN JAIL ... lavy Orders Quiz of Trumped Up Charge’ Against Os- I- - Following ‘Shame Suicide’ Revelations. J / DIEGO, Cal., / risonment of a Hoosler petty of- ’>' the , Navy. ,<,j&r leer In the U. S. Navy. Elmo K Go retail has been held Tor seven A I iordan of Crawfordaville, Ind. in a m " nths ln a cell devoid of sunlight i \ lexican Jail on a reported “trumped aß<l hIM I,ealth Is Impaired liy the 1 * Poor Jull-rations. SI i pija ja ■ Ho wah aenteneed by a Mexican m <@L t if" I* If* &M\ Fl W|| '.T 1 to two years three months and rvfejS *|t - wi ■ iVbSiu nnu hmu Ski, j Tia Juana cabaret entertainer, who, HMD rS fl J& 1 claimed, later partly retracted MBBi

MEXICANS HOLD , HOOSIER IN JAIL I Navy Orders Quiz of Trumped Up Charge’ Against Officer Following ‘Shame Suicide’ Revelations.

Btt United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 11.—Im - prisonment of a Hoosler petty officer in the U. S. Navy, Elmo K. Gordan of Crawfordsville, Ind., in a Mexican jail on a reported “trumped OFFICERS FIND MISSING MAN’S BODY IN CANAL Abrasion, Which Might Be Bullet Hole, on Right Side of Head. • The body of Ernest A. Kottlowskl, 56, living near Cumberland, Ind., missing since lalo Tuesday, wus found today in the canal, 400 feet south of the Sunset Ave. bridge, by three teams of motor-police. The canal had bee dragged since Wednesday morning, when Kottlowski's auto was found on the bridge. Officers who found th® body said there was an abrasion on the right side oftho head, which might have been a bullet hole. A hat. thought !to have been worn by Kottlowskl. with a bullet hole in the right side, was *aken from the canal Wednesday. Tracks from the auto to the side of the bridge had led police to believe that Kottloskl had leaped Into the water. ' Coroner Paul F. Robinson will Investigate. Those who found the body were Motorpollce Anderson, Jones, Weddle, Johnson, Kinder and Cauldwell. • Mrs. Louise Windhorst, housekeeper for Kottlowskl. said that he left home Tuesday evening to attend a Red Men's lodge meeting in Indianapolis. In the meantime park board employes maintained a hopefull vigil along the freezing edges of W’hite River south and west of the College Ave., brdlge believing that ten days of blasting and dragging operations might send the body of H. H. Tall, 50, of 43 W. Thirtieth St., missing city park official, to the surface. Dynamiting and dragging were discontinued.

PAROLE PROMISES SCORED BY BOARD State Body Attacks Practices of Prosecutors Who Seek Guilty Pleas—Less Lenient Policy May Be Adopted.

Promises of prompt parole or pardon made by prosecuting attorneys to obtain pleas of guilty are responsible for a large number of clemREALTY CASE NEAR JURY Local Consolidated Company Men to Know Fate Soon. Bv United Prete , CHICAGO. Feb. 11.—Case of the six officers of the Consolidated Realty and. Theaters Corporation, charged with using the mails to defraud, was expected to go to the’ jury at 3 p. m. today. Those on trial: 8- H. Gruneberg, Sr., president of the now defunct organization, Indianapolis; his son, S. H. Gruneberg, Jr.; A. F. Brentllnger, Terre Tlaute, Ind.; Oscar Olson, Chicago; James Rohr, Leesburg, Ind.; C. M. Ortner, Lorraine, Ohio. Thousands of Illinois and Indiana investors are alleged to have lost more than $4,000,000 through investments with the bankrupt concern. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a .m 10 a. m 21 7 a. m......iJ6 11 a. m 25 8 a. m 17 12 (noon) ..., 26 9 a- m...... 17 1 p. 27

up” charge, was investigated today by the Navy. Gordan has been held for seven months ln a cell devoid of sunlight and his health Is impaired by the poor Jail -rations. He was sentenced by a Mexican court to two years three months and fifteen days an a charge made by a Tia Juana cabaret entertainer, who, it is claimed, later partly retracted her accusations. Investigation was started when American and Mexican authorities began an inquiry into vice conditions, brought to light by the "shame suicide" of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Peteet of Missouri and their two daughters. Naval officials hold that if the stories that Tia Juana officials are 'uripg American women to their dens, where they are drugged and attacked, are true, Oordon’s imprisonment may be without foundation of Justice. Police Chief Llanes of Tia Juana m under arrest, charged with being head of the vice ring. The Peteet family went to Tia Juana on a sight-seeing trip. The daughters, Clytle and Audrey, are alleged to have been drugged in a case, dragged through the streets to a hotel and attacked. The parents, after frantic search, found their daughters. Cater, the family was found ln their home here, dead from gas. “We cannot stand the dishonor and disgrace of what has happened, and have decided upon the only course to follow," said the note left by the father. Gordon’s mother lives in Crawfordsvtlle. 0. K. MELLON INQUIRY Committee Acts; Fight to Go to Senate Floor. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 11.—The Judiciary committee today voted a favorable report on the Walsh recommendations tor Investigation of the Aluminum Company of America, controlled by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother. The report would have the committee ascertain if the company has violated anti-trust s in manufacture of aluminum kitchen utensils. The report now goes to the Senate where administration Republicans are expected to put up a bitter fight against authorizing the Inquiry.

ency appeals to the pardon board, board members said today in a report to Governor Jackson. A less lenient policy in granting clemency will be adopted, it was indicated. The board recommended eleven paroles, two with remissions of fines, and reductions of twenty sentences, out of 180 cases .held. “The board of pardons does not feel justified ln giving force and effect to oral arguments made by and between attorneys representing criminals on trial ir. court and the judge on the bench and prosecuting attorney in the trial of a case, wherein and whereby it is sought to modify the force and effect of the Judgment (Turn to Page 13) . ACCOUNTABLE FOR BOND Gilliom Give* Opinion on Surety Companies to Ban. Surety companies can be held accountable for their bond on a bank cashier who makes bad loans, even though the bank may have set a limit on the amount the cashier may lend on bis own authority. Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom held today in an eplnion submitted to Thomas D. Barr, State bank commissioner.

—Photos by J. M. Moore. Times Staff Photographer. Above: Manual Training High School girls, (left to right) Misses Flora Nugent, Ina Cornell, Bernice Thompson. Loretta Walden and Dorotha Vaughn, and bread they made in cooking class. They’ll be ready to fight high prices with their own ovens if the two billion dollar Ward Food Products Corporation, which Government officials are fighting bo comes a “bread trust." Below: Mrs. M. G. Erbrich, 1565 Park Ave., who also believes in preparedness, taking home-made bread from her oven. !Vfrs. Erbrlch’a bread won honors during the World War when the local branch of tho Housewives’ League fought the bread trust.

DUTY CALLS FLIER FROM SICK BROTHER Aviator Starts Back to Post in Texas, Though Relative Is Seriously lll—Times Aids Him in Findirtg Kin.

Though his younger brother, a victim of tuberculosis, hovered between life and death in his little home ct 1727 Asbury St., Capt. R. Beam. Army Air Service, with his leave expiring, was to start flying alone back to his post of duty at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, this afternoon. Beam said he would leave shortly after lunch, flying flrst to RIVALS ATTEND SAME SCHOOL Students Are Separated as Precaution. Bv Times Sviolal FORTVILLE, Feb. 11.—Seventythree McCordsville junior and senior high school students swallowed a bitter pill here today, attending classes under the same roof with their ancient enemies, the students of Fortvllle’s school. L. N. Luce, principal of the Fortville session, said “all of them" came to school. They were kept apart from Fortvllle students to prevent fighting, feared as a result of longstanding, high-strung sport rivalry, which resulted ln suspension of athletic relations this year. Nile Blue is principal of the McCordsville section. Attendance here was necessitated by destruction of the McCordsville school Suntiay by fire.

DISCORD MARKS MOVIE SESSION Indiana Delegates Charge Censorship ‘Plot.’ Bv United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—Discord today shook the Federal Motion Picture Council in America convention here, called io find ways and means of taking sex and sensationalism out of the movie Industry. Cannon W. S. Chase of New York, ene of the leaders of the convention, favors passage of the Upshaw bill for Federal regulation. Mrs. David Ross of Indianapolis, one of the delegates, and Frank Rembusch, Indianapolis, president of the Motion Picture Theaters of Indiana, charged the convention was packed with delegates to Indorse the Upshaw bill. “Nobody wants censorship but. a few of you." Rembusch told the delegates. “And you can’t tell me that you know more about how this country should run than the 99 por cent who are opposed to your idea.”

Entered ns Second-clase Matter at Poatoffice, Indianapolis Published Dally Except Sunday.

: Rantoul, 111., to refuel his plane and remain over night. Beam Monday received a mystery telegram signed “Fielding,” informing him his brother was in a serious condition. The brother's address was garbled. Beams immediately hopped off for Indianapolis. Arriving Wednesday, he was unable to locate the brother. He told The Times. A reader, who knew the brother, Lovell Beam, going home on a street car, read of Captain Beam’s efforts to locate the dying man, phoned Lieut. Walter Peck, commandant at Schoen field. Ft. Benjamin Harrison, where Beam landed, and supplied the address. JUDGE DENIES OFFICER’S PLEA Board Expected to Oust 104 Police at Meeting. BULLETIN TMrty-nine of the 104 officers were dismissed by the board this afternoon after a hearing. Emmett McCormick, appointed a patrolman during the last days of the Shank administration, today lost the flrst skirmish ln his battle to stay on the force when Judge T. J. Moll of Superior Court Five sustained a demurrer to his petition to prevent tho board of safety from ousting him. The demurrer was filed by Don Roberts, assistant city attorney. This afternoon McCormick and 103 other policemen appointed Just before the Shank administration made Its exit, were to be before the boaAl, of safety to answer technical charges. They were expected to be dismissed. McCormick contended. In his petition, that he was required to buy a uniform and other articles, and would be humiliated If ousted from the force. Judge Moll held that the petition should not have been filed until after the bo - , rd took some action. He also stated that the county courts should not Interfere with the board’s work. aF CHURCH Papers Will Bo Removed to Corner • Stone of New Edifice. Papers and other articles will be removed from the corner stone of the old St. Matthew's Church and placed in the cornerstone of the first section of the new church, Oxfort and New York Sts., at a ceremony Thursday night. Thg’Rev. John Sealing of St. James Church, Holland, Ind, will sjieak on "Woman, What A Power Thou Art." The new unit wus dedicated Sunday.

Forecast FAIR tonight; Friday, Increasing cloudiness: probably rain or snow by night; rising temperature.

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FEStER HIT n CASE lire Former County Auditor Criticised by Wlltsie Because Julietta Specification Not Filed —Copies to Be Presented. PROSECUTOR TO OFFER DUPLICATE OF PLANS Asylum in Deplorable Condition, Report of Examiners Shows —Trial Abruptly Halted Wednesday Afternoon. Further testimony revealing the alleged inadequate manner in which Julietta, county hospital for insane, was constructed by George A. Weaver & Son, contractors, was presented today to the jury in Criminal Court at the trial of Windsor J. Weaver, the son, charged with presenting a false claim to the county, by William P. Cosgrove, State board of accounts examiner. Cosgrove assisted Ure M. Frazer, school board business director and former State examiner, in inspecting Julietta and preparation of a report detailing deplorable conditions there. Prosecutor William 11. Ilemy resumed examination of Cosgrove when court convened at 2 p. m. He was then cross-examined by Merle N. A. Walker co-defense counsel with Ira M. Holms*. Feeler OiticLsed Special Judge Charles 8. Wlltsie criticised Leo K. Fesler, former auditor, when Remy informed the court ihat he was unable to find the original specifications for tIM two new wings at Julietta. Tho trial abruptly adjourned Wednesday afternoon when defense attorneys objected to Remy entering a copy of the original specifications Into , evidence. The court instructed Remy to make diligent search for the papers. Remy said he • was informed by Harry Dunn, county auditor, that specifications were missing when he succeeded Fesler as auditor. Dunn informed Remy he had Elmer Dunlap, architect, prepare anew set. Remy said he will prove this set is ! a verified copy. Asks About Filing “I can't understand why original specifications were not filed In the auditor's office and placed with the original blue prints in a sealed package, as provided by the statute," said Judge Wlltsie. Remy has the original blueprints. Remy i-ald he i was informed for some time during Feeler’s term both original blue prints und specifications were permitted to remain on a table ln the county commissioners’ office. Dunlap has been summoned by Remy to testify the specifications prepared by him at Dunn's request are similar to tho originals. Judge Wlltsie barred Remy from entering specifications into evidence, but intimated they may be Introduced later. Concrete Soft Ure M./FVazer, former State accountant, testified he chipped holes in the concrete celling of the west wing with a twenty penny nail. He blamed negligence of the contractor for the Inferior condition. Frazer declared the construction work was faulty. He said there was disregard for the specifications. Frazer asserted the floors sagged, and the floor was not wired to the concrete. lie said poor bricks wara used and that many of them wera chipped. Floors actually shook when persons walked across them, he said. In many places the raorta* and concrete crumbled, and the walls in some places wore several inches out of line, Frazer declared. DRY LAW WILL BE TIGHTENED Congress to Get New Program This Week. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The administration’s dry legislative program has been approved by Secro tary of the Treasury Mellon and will be submitted to' Congress this week. Mellon said Congress will be asked to strengthen the Volstead act, revise the custom laws for stricter control of vessels entering and clearing ports and to change portions of the revised statutes dealing with penalties for liquor law violating.