Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1926 — Page 1

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BRIAND OUT; ROPE’S END FOR FRANCE Government Falls as Chamber Defeats Sales Tax Proposal. LEAGUE TANGLE SEEN Premier Will Not Go to Council Meeting. By A. L. Bradford United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, March 6.—The Briand government fell today. Premier Briand resigned following an all-night session of chamber of deputies which culminated in defeat of the sales tax clause of the government’s financial project by a vote of 274 to 221. The adverse vote ignored Briand's angry warning that catastrophe threatened France if the money bill were delayed. To Avoid Geneva Within an hour the cabinet's resignation had been received and accepted by President Doumergue and Briand, the "man of Locarno” had announced he would not go to Geneva to help elect Germany to the League of Nations in pursuance to the agreements reached last autumn on Lake Maggiore. Beseeched by President Doumergue, Briand said he might leave for Geneva tonight, but merely to participate in the preliminary "Locarnolike” conferences scheduled for Sunday, the day before the League formally meets. Taunted toward dawn by the socialists, because he did not make each clause of the financial project a question of confidence as it came to a vote, Briand angrily warned the chamber of the catastrophic potentialities of the situation and then conferred with the finance commission, where it was decided to make the sales tax a question of confidence and thus put full responsibility on the chamber. When the vote was announced I shortly after 6 a. m„ the premier ' rose and leading his ministers marched from the chamber to write his resignation. End of Rope France has now about reached the end of her rope. Briand, who' was considered to represent the last French hope for solvency without a major political operation, was defeated when everyone expected him to win. Joseph Caillaux, or the socialist senator, Rene Renoult are believed to be the most likely choices for Premier if President Doumergue proceeds with an effort to form a new government instead of proposing dissolution of parliament and new elections as he may do. Caillaux, who failed to fund the French debt to the United States last September, has been expecting rthe present situation and is already to resume power. The immediate political prospect Is uncertain. Domergue left for L,yons to attend the fair today and probably will not be able to begin conferences looking toward the formation of a cabinet until Monday. LONDON IS SHOCKED I/eague of Nations Council Question Confused. Bn United Press LONDON, March 6.—Political and financial circles reacted to the French Government resignation today as though it had been a bomb charged with T. N. T. The franc stood at 134% to the pound sterling, compared with yesterday’s close at 130. The League of Nations council situation appears to be most confused. Politicians suspetft the resigned French premier, Briand, to he endeavoring to compel Sir Austin Chamberlain, the British foreign secretary. to seek definite instructions to support the French demand for a permanent League of Nations council seat for Poland. In exchange for this concession, it is suggested that Briand might consent to attend the League meeting at Geneva and thus support Britain’s effort to maintain the Locarno agreements.

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NINE BURN TO DEATH IN 4 FIRES * Mother and Two Children Perish in Pennsylvania Home. TWO TRAPPED IN WRECK Four Others Die in Rooming House and Hotel Blazes. Bv United Press P U N X S U T AVTNEY, Pa., March 6. —A mother and her two children burned to death today when fire destroyed the home of Vincenzo Santini, 25, dt Warsaw, near here. Mrs. Santini, mother of five children, with her 11-year-old daughter, went into the flames to get her 4-year-old baby. Suffocated by smoke, the mother and daughter perished before they reached the child, who also lost its j life. The three other children were I saved. BROTHERS ARE VICTIMS Two Perish in Hotel Fire at Omaha, Neb. Bv United Press OMAHA, Neb., March 6.—Two men were burned to death and several other guests were injured in a fire which damaged the Commercial hotel in South Omaha early today. The dead: John and Bill Daley, brothers, employes of the Omaha 1 stockyards. Bill Daley lost his life in an effort to save his brother, firemen said. Bill tried to carry John from his room, but was overcome just as he reached the door. ROOMING HOUSE BURNS i Two Perish, Four Rescued; Seventeen Made Homeless. Bv United Press TOLEDO Ohio, March 6.—Two aged men were burned to death, four persons were rescued and seventeen were made homeless when fire swept a rooming house in the downtown section today. The dead are: Shanks, 72; Rieney, 75. Both men perished while trying to fight their way out to the street. An aged couple and two children were carried to safety. FLAMES FOLLOW WRECK Two Members of Train Crew Perish in Freight Fire. Bv United Press LORATNE Ohio, March 6. —Two men were burned to death and four freight cars were destroyed when a Lake Shore Electric Railway freight train jumped the track on a curve two miles west of Loraine today and burst into flames. The dead are: Edward Crump, Loraine. motorman. and Herbert Courtney, Avon, Ohio, conductor. FRATERNITY HOUSE FIRED Damage Estimated at $20,000 Done to Purdue Home. Bv Times Special LAFAYETTE, Jnd., March 6. Damage done by fire at the Delta Upsllon fraternity house late Friday was estimated today at $20,000. Students assisted firemen. SHAKESPEARE. TOO Memorial Theater at Stratford-on-Avon, Burns. Bv United Press STRATFORD-ON-AVON, England, March 6. —Fire today practically destroyed the Shakespere memor il theater here. ‘WETS’ WILFBE TOPIC Governor Will Preside at Law Enforcement Conference. Governor Jackson will preside at a law enforcement meeting at Roberts Park M. E. Church, Vermont and Delaware Sts., March 14, at 3 p. m. "Constitutional government is at stake. Shall it be maintained, or shall the wets rule?” is the theme for discussion, under the auspices of the Flying Squadron Foundation. Oliver Wayne Stewart, editor of the National Enquirer, will speak. RAIN. COLD ON BILL But Weather Bureau Says It Should Be Warmer Tonight. After several clear days, rain Is I due to descend upon Indianapolis this evening, and continue through Sunday morning, the United States Weather Bureau announced today. Then Sunday afternoon a temperature drop will set in, taking the mercury down to between 20 and 25, J. H. Armington, meteorologist, said. Warmer weather is Included In the forecast for tonight. The temperature at 7 a. m. was 27, or about 4 degrees below normal. STORE IS ROBBED Police were asked to watch for clothing taken in a $2,000 robbery of the Thurman Finneli clothing store j of Montpelier, Ind., Friday night. POLICE HUNT BANDIT Police were searching today for the one-armed Negro bandit, who escaped with $42.70 after holding up Stanton Wilks, 2463 N. Pennsylvania St., clerk in L. C. Hinchman’s drug store at Fourteenth and Illinois Sts., Friday night.

School Site Delegation Which Called on Board Head

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Part of the delegation of north side residents objecting to erection of the new Shortridge High School on the recently acquired site on For ty-Sixth St., who stormed the Vonnegut Hardware Company, E. Washington St., this morning to present a petition to Theodore F. Yonne gut, board president.

SHORTRIDGE BEATS MANUAL FIVE

Upset Features Play in Local High School Sectional Meet. By Dick Miller Shortridge provided the feature of the Indianapolis section high school basketball tournament at the State fairground today, when it eliminated the strongly touted Manual five, 21 to 19, in a thrilling game. West Newton, with a 24 to 23 victory over Lawrence, won its way this morning into the semi-final game with Shortridge this afternoon. In the other bracket Valley Mills was defeated by Beech Grove, 23 to 21, the Grovers winning in a whirlwind finish, and Technical, true to predictions, swamped New Augusta, 40 to 13. Tech and Beech Grove were to meet in the other semi-final game this afternoon. Christopher and Worthington led the attack for Shortridge while Rhoades’ brilliant work kept Manual always in a threatening position. Manual's inaccyracy on long shots was disastrous. Shortridge followers believed the team rose to its best play of the season. The Shortridge victory was the more unexpected, because Manual had beaten the Blue and won the city championship earlier in the season. Four thousand fans swarmed into the big cattle barn to watch Manual and Shortridge. They met (Turn to Page 9)

TARKINGTONS DONATE $5,000 Author and Wife Contribute to Riley Hospital. Booth Tarklngton, Hoosier author, and Mi's. Tarkington have given $5,000 to the building fund of Riley Hospital, It was announced today by Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch. The gift is in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Tarkington’s daughter. Laurel, who died about three years ago at the age of 17. The gift of the Tarkingtons is one of the first in the campaign to raise $1,000,000 in Indiana to match the $500,000 gift of the Ball brothers of Muncie. Tarkington. a member of the Riley Memorial Association, attended the first meeting. He was a close personal friend of Riley. Mrs. Tarkington is an active worker In the movement. MEXICAN QUIZ ORDERED Senate Tells Kellogg to Turn Over All Data. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 6.—The Senate today called upon Secretary of State Kellogg to make public all official correspondence between this Government and Mexico in reference to American oil interests in Mexico. A resolutiop by Senator Norris, Republican, calling for publication of the correspondence was adopted without objection. FIRE DESTROYS MILL Cumberland Plant, Twelve Miles East of City, Bums. Plant of the Cumberland Grain and Milling Company, twelve miles east of Indianapolis on the National Rd., was destroyed by. fire, Friday night. A freight car of wheat was destroyed. Company officials said the loss would run into thousands of dollars. FIRE AT EVANSVILLE Bit United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., March 6. Fire last night caused damage estimated at $50,000 to a downtown grocery. 17 MOTORISTS NABBED Seventeen alleged speedres were nabbed by officers early todav and late Frida#.

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Ruse Sends Boy Home

ETECTIVES used straI1 J 1 tegy to persuade Manuel Girdley, Jr.. 15, Oglesby, 111., to return home with his father today. Arrested on vagrancy charges by Patrolman Pfaffemberger near the Union Station with Frank Davis, 32, Gary, the youth first refused to go home to his mother, who is prostrate with grief. ■‘l'd rather die than go

‘Goat’ Policy for Autos Next Agent Parks Car Near ‘Billy’ and ‘Billy’ Was Hungry.

PARTANBURO. S. C„ — D. M. Stone, insurance agent, u—. parked his car too near a goat. The animal consumed the celluloid windows and then made rapid headway on the car's top before it was caught. BROOKLYN—Mrs. Madge Bell has come to the conclusion that her husband’s "few minutes” are up and he is never coming back. He left their home one evening In 1914, she testified in court, and although he said he would return in a few minutes. He has not yet come back. CHICAGO —Mrs. Gertrude Innery was fond of bananas and when she found her star boader, Stanley Tulacz, had eaten all she had In the house, six of them, she swallowed linament in a fit of anger. She probably will recover. CHICAGO—In support of his plea for divorce, William Fisch read two letters to Judge Sabath. One was in German and the other in Polish and according to his translation, his wife refused to live with him. But Judge Sabath is considerable of a linguist and so he asked to read them himself. He found one of them was a plea for reconciliation and the other was not from Fisch’s wife. No divorce. OSSINING, N. Y.—Sheriff Taylor is a cautious man. When he wanted to send a condemned prisoner to the Sing Sing death house, he wired ahead for a reservation. COLLEGE CHARTER ASKED 81l T'nitrd Prra* JEFFERSON C{TY, Mo., March 6. —Recommendations that the charter of the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Kansas City College of Medicine, exposed in the diploma mill scandal, be forfeited is contaßied in a report made to the' Suprerrß Court by Medical Commissioner Biward J. Bean

home." he told his father, who came to the city seeking him. "Oh. this is the fellow we want for that hold-up,” detectives said when the boy was lined up with other prisoners at roll call. "I’ll go home. I’ll go home,” the youth replied. A letter from the boy stating "Vm getting along fine in Indianapolis,” brought the father' here. The youth ran away several weeks ago.

RUMOR KELLOGG TO QUIT HEARD Houghton, on Way Home, May Succeed Him. Bu t'nited Pms WASHINGTON, March fl.—Announcement of the immediate return from London of American Ambassador Houghton revived reports here today that he is being groomed to succeed Frank B. Kellogg as Secretary of State. The primary object of Houghton's visit is to confer with President Coolidge on Important recent European developments, including postponement of the League of Nations preliminary arms conference. Kellogg is 111 now and his doctor has urged his retirement. It was said at the time of his appointment last year that his tenure would be temporary. SLACK TO TOUR STATE Campaign of Senatorial Aspirant Not to Be Strenuous. L. Ert Slack, Democratic candidate for the long term Senate race, will speak over the State, but will make no general campaign, he announced today. Slack said his legal affairs will prevent a strenuous campaign. "The party organization is not for individuals but for the party as a whole,” Slack told the Jefferson Club at the Dennison Friday night. E VIDENCE CONCLUD ED Commissioner to Set Bus Line Case for Ora! .Argument. Submission of evidence was concluded today in the public service commission hearing on the application of the People's Motor Coach Company for a bus line from the Circle to Keystone Ave. and ThirtyEighth St. Frank T. Singleton will setPthe case for oral argument j next week. WEATHER FOR WEEK Bu Vnited Prrat WASHINGTON, March Weather outlook for period March 8 to 13, Ohio valley and Tennessee: A period of rains about -the middle of the week and again , toward the end. Temperatures will average near normal.

JEOPARDY PLEA WILL BE FOUGHT Prosecutor to Oppose Efforts to Free Klinck and Gentry. Prosecutor William H. Remy today said he will oppose a plea of special jeopardy by which Earl Gentry and Earl Klinck are seeking to be discharged on indictments charging conspiracy to commit a felony. The piea was tiled by Ira M. Holmes, attorney for she two, before Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Klinck and Gentry were freed of murder charges growing out of the abduction and death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis, for whose murder D. C. Stephenson, former Republican politician and Klan leader, is serving a life term in Indiana State Prison. Klinck and Gentry, Stephenson's aids, were .jointly indicted with him. Holmes set out In the plea that Gentry and Klinck established their Innocence when freed on the murder charge and they would be put In Jeopardy if tried on lesser charges. All evidence was presented in the murder trial at Noblesvllle, Holmes pointed out. Judge Collins took the plea under advisement. Klinck and Gentry are out on bond.

MILKMAN GIVES ALARM OF FIRE j Parents Rescue 3 Children— Damage to Homes, $3,500. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Anderson were carried to safety by’their parents when sparks fired the roof of the Anderson home, 1739 Hall PI., early today. A passing milkman gave the alarm and Mr. and Mrs. Anderson dressed and carried out the children. High winds carried the flames to the roof of the home of W. P. Mitchell. 1743 Hall PI. Damage to both homes was $3,600. Mrs. Clara Schoemake, 731 E. Maryland St., and her three children, Rowena 4, Dewey 3 and Virginia Mae 1, are suffering with bums received Friday when a coal stove exploded in her home. Mrs. Schoemake succeeded in rescuing Dewey, while an unidentified Negro and Emory Teaman, 719 E. Maryland St., saved the other two children. THREE VETERANS DIE Bu Time * Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. March 6. Hiram Ackles, 83; Joseph Cropper, 81, and Hiram Emery, 79, all three civil war veterans, are dead in Hamilton County. < ASK PHONE RAISE The Tocsin Telephone Company. In Wells County, today petitioned the public service commission for a rate increase, asking schedules be doubled. BIRTHDAY GIFT SENT Miss Jane Martin, assistant superintendent of Juvenile Detention Home. 1102 N. Capitol Ave., had eighteen pink roses today, the gift of juvenile court attaches. Friday j Miss Martin observed the eighteenth J anniversary of her affiliation with the home. TWO PADLOCKS ASKED Two abatement suits to close a poolroom and a residence as public nuisances were filed in Superior Courts today by Judson L. Stark and John L. Niblack, deputy prosecutors. Defendants were Ada and Rufus Hicks, 637 Bright St., and Lee Werner, Joint operators pf a soft drink parlor at 2869 Shelby SC

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PROTEST ON SHORTRIDGE UNAVAILING North Side Residents Plead With Board Not to Change Site—Majority Faction’s Stand Unshaken. CARRY RESOLUTION TO HEAD Injunction Petition Again Talked, After Special Session. , In spite of pleas by about 200 north side residents and school patrons, Indianapolis school board majority faction members at a stormy special meeting today stood firm in their determination to build the new Shortridge High Sclrool at the recently acquired location on Forty-Sixth St., between Washington Blvd. and Central Ave.

When the protesters had presented resolutions opposing the sale of the original new school site at Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts., the majority members seemed just as determined as ever to sell the site, to get motjey for the recent Forty-Sixth St. purchase. Motion Defeated i A motion presented by Fred Bates i Johnson, minority faction member, I providing that the hoard rescind all I action taken toward selling the oid j site and buying the new one, was defeated. Board President Theodore Vonnegut opposed the motion, which Johnson said would give citizens a j chance to collect data on the sltua tlon and present It to the board again. When the protesters left the meeting, about 11:30, they held an impromptu meeting on the stairway outside, at which Emsley W. Johnson, leader and spokesman, said a committee will start assembling legal talent to prepare petitions for : an injunction to prevent the sale land purchase as planned at present i if the hoard does not drop its atti--1 tilde of indifference to citizens' protests. But board members had a busy morning. About 10 a. m. the north side delegation marched into the Vonnegut Hardware Company on E. Washington St. with a resolution opposing the hoard’s actions, as adopted at a protest meeting Fri day night at Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Vonnegut and Charles W. Kern, majority faction members, wc o in the store. Intimidation Charged "You're frying to intimidate me. Give me the papers and I’ll read them,” Vonnegut said. "Don't try to put words in Vonnegut,’s mouth,” Kern said. Th* crowd filled the store with noise. “You were elected by a majority of the people. Why don’t you rep resent them?’’ someone asked Vonnegut. "Let's get an injunction," another person shouted. Richard I* JEw >ank, attorney, told Kern: "I'll bet you if we would get our crowd and you yours in Cadle Tabernacle, we could beat you to death on anything.” "You had everything settled before you made any announcements of this new purchase and sale,” Emsley W. Johnson said to Vonnegut. "You all had a chance to say something and you kept silent,” the board president retorted. Go to eMeting .. I Vonnegut then suggested going to the school board offices. The special meeting, due to start at 11, to , (Turn to Page 2)

HUNDREDS DIE IN INDIA One Week's Toll liy Plague Is 1,143 IJves. ALLAHABAD. British India. March 6.—Plague has broken out In the united provinces. It was announced officially that 1,143 persons died In a week In Agra and Oudh. There were 419 deaths in the town of Azamgorh. Plague Is seasonal here. It occurs coincident with the approach of hot weather. BOW TO COOLIDGE War Department WiU Not Insist on Airplane Demand. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, March 6.—The War Department let it be known today that it will not insist on its plans to triple the number of Army airplanes In the face of President Coolidge's economy objections. UNDERTAKES IN RACE George Kincaid Seeks Republican Nomination for Coroner. George S. C. Kincaid, funeral director. 3918 N. Illinois St., today announced he is a Republican candidate for Marion County coroner in the May primary. Kincaid was a candidate in 1924. He served four years on the city board of health. Kincaid is a graduate of Ohio Northern University and has been associated with the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Forecast RAIN tonight and Sunday morning; warmer tonight. Much colder Sunday afternoon and night.

TWO CENTS

TARIFF ATTACK ON IN SENATE Been as Democratic Move to Create Issue. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. March An attack on the Administration’s tariff program, as part of the Democratic plan to make Ihe tariff dominant issue in the coming campaign, was launched today by Senator Robinson, Democratic floor leader. He introduced a bill to reduce thg personnel of the tariff commission to two members to obstruct President Coolidge's policy of appointment of men who favor his policies. Robinson also proposed a resolution to authorize the Senate Finance Commission to mako a complete Investigation of the commission’s activities Jn bolstering up high tariff rates.

LIGHT COMPANY OFFICER TALKS No Change In Policy Seen, Says Norman Perry. Regardless of what rumors may be afloat as to the meaning of the announcement Friday that the In* sull Interests have purchased 28% per cent of the stock of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, management and policies of the utility will not he changed, declared Norman A. Perry, secretary of the Indianapolis company today. Insull controlls the Merchant! Heat and Light Company, competitor of the Indianapolis company, "The majority stock ownership and the consequent control remain with the Mar mon-Perry Interests and are not affected by changes in the ownership of the minority stock,” said Perry.

JUDGESPARKS SEEKS OFFICE Stephenson Trial Judge Asks Ronomination. Circuit Judge Will M. Sparks of Rushvllle, special Judge at the Noblesvllle trial of D. C. Stephenson, serving a life sentence for murdering Madge Oberholtzer, today formally asked his pjtrty for renomlna tlon. Ills declaration of candidacy to succeed himself was received by the secretary of State. Congressman Andrew Hickey of the Thirteenth district filed to euc ceed himself. David Ferguson of Covington tiled for the Democratic congressional nomination in the Ninth district. Others filing: D. Lee Andrews Irvington, former mlnlater, for Re publican nomination for State Senator from Marion County; Frank Borns, Republican for renomlnatlon as State representative from Marlon County; Glenn Hillls, Clarence R Davis and Forest A. Harness, all of Kokomo, for the RepubUoan prosecuting attorney nomination In Howard County a.nd Woodson Btude baker Carlisle. South Bend, a Republican, for State Senator from St Joseph County. EVANSVILLE _ FAIF H/SiP Commission Grants an Increase In Street Car Rate, The public service commission to day authorized the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, operat ing Evansville street enrs, to In crease the fare from 6 to 7 cent!. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 28 10 a. m 36 7 a. m 27 11 a. m 40 8 a- m...... 31 12 (noon) .... 40 9 a. 34 1 p. m...... |fi )