Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 276

EVAS UPSET DOPE BEAT FRANKFORT Capacity Crowd at State High School Basketball Meet Sees Favorites Put Out in Hard-Fought Game With Evansville. MARTINSVILLE DOWNS PLUCKY LOGANSPORT Marion Wins Way to SemiFinals With Victory Over Ft. Wayne—Bedford Defeats North Vernon in Other Morning Game. By Dick Miller Martinsville, Bedford, Central of Evansville and Marion went to the semin-final round in the State high school final basketball tourney in progress at the Exposition Bldg., fairground, by victories in second round morning games today. Semi-final contests: Martinsville vs. Bedford, at 2:30; Central of Evansville vs. Marion, at 3:30. The two afternoon winners meet tonight for the State championship. The first real upset of the tournament came this morning when Evansville defeated the champs of last season, Frankfort. The score was 32 to 25. The southern Indiana boys got the jump and never were headed. Martisville was given an exciting battle by Logansport, but came out on top, 24 to 20. The Logans were ahead at the half, 12 to 11. Bedford pulled away from North Vernon to win, 36 to 22, after a rather slow start. Marion opened up in the second half to win decisively from Central of Ft. Wayne, to 26. V All of the S. R. O. tickets had been exhausted before Marion lined up against Ft. Wayne Central High School for the last game of the morning round and the officials refused to sell more tickets. Marion started out strong against Ft. Wayne Central in the fourth morning game. E. Chapman and Kilgore tossed field goals and R. Chapman and Murphy foul goals that sent the Marion total to 8. Baker broke the ice with a foul goal for Ft. Wayne, making the score, (Turn to Page 8) FLIGHT TO GO ON Disasters Will Not Halt Detroit— Arctic Expedition. Bu United Press DETROIT, Mich., March 20.Damaging of the two planes of the Detroit Arctic expedition at Fairbanks, Alaska, will not cause an abandonment of the projected flight across the Polar ice cap this spring, PL G. McCarroll, assistant manager of the expedition, told the United Press today.

EX-COUNCILMAN IS CANDIDATE |John E. King Seeks Nomination for Assessor. John E. King, 1120 Pleasant St., former city councilman and Federal prohibition agent, at. present in the contract department of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for assessor of Center Township. King, a Manual Training High School graduate, was track team captain and held the state record for the mile run for three years. He is a member of the Scottish Rite, Shrine, the Odd Fellows. He also is president of the deacons of the Seventh Presbyterian Church, and heads the South Side Taxpayers League. He is married and has five children.

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Basketball Cause of Dispute. Police squads were dispatched to Illinois and Washington Sts., early today upon the report of a free-for-all fight. Several out-of-town high school students had been fighting over the merits of their respective basketball teams. Police could find no trace of the would-be pugilists and received no report of anyone being injured.

ESCAPES FROM FARM Police Asked to Hunt for Delmar James, Lafayette. Local police were informed today that Delmar James, 24, Lafayette, had escaped from the Indiana State Farm. James was serving a six months’ sentence for having obtained money on false pretenses. SNIPER CASE NEAR JURY Closing Arguments Are Heard in Omaha Trial. By United Press OMAHA, Neb., March 20.—The task of deciding whether Frank Carter, alias Louis Clark, shall die in the electric chair or be sent to an insane asylum for life will be. undertaken by a jury some time before night. Closing arguments were to be finished before noon. MRS. JACKSON FREED Judge Quashes Perjury' Charge at Noblesville. Btl Times Sue rial NOBLESVILLE, Ind„ March 20. Circuit Judge Hines Friday quashed the affidavit against Mrs. Nannie Jackson of Indianapolis, whom he had arrested in the courtroom on the charge of perjury. Mrs. Jackson’s petition for a divorce from Henry Jackson was denied. She was arrested when she said she had. never applied for a divorce before. MURDER CASE TO JURY Attorney Makes Insanity Plea for Defendant. The case of Roosevelt Hicks, 22, Negro, on trial in Criminal Court for the murder of his wife,'rested with the jury at noon today'. PMII owing closing arguments by Ira M. Holmes, defense attorney, and Prosecutor William H. Remy, the instructions were read to the jury by Jftdge James A. Collins. Prosecutor Remy demanded the death penalty. Holmes, who filed an insanity plea, asked the jurors find the defendant was of unsound mind at the time of the alleged offense.

MAN KILLED IN 150-FOOT FALL Body Crushed in Drop From Smoke Stack. Lee Kiser, 45, Negro, 511 Indiana Ave., employed relining a smoke stack at the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company Mill St. plant, Nineteenth St. and Northwestern Ave., was killed today when he fell about 150 feet. Kiser was being hauled up on an improvised elevator and is believed to have become dizzy, Sergt. Tom Harris said. He fell on a scaffold and most of the bones in his body were broken. lie started to work this morning for the Heine Chimney Construction Company, Chicago. CITY MAY GET TROPHIES House Committee Recommends Passage of Legiov Bill. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 20.—The House Committee on Military Affairs today recommended passage of a bill providing a collection of World War trophies for the new American Legion building museum at Indianapolis. The trophies would be taken from those in possession of the War Department. HOLD-UP MEN~~~SHOOT Mike Mascari, 26, of 529 E. Merrill St., wholesale fruit dealer, reported three Negroes -attempted to hold him up today at Keystone Ave. and Fifty-Sixth St. Mascari, who wag driving a light truck, was fired at three times when he refused to stop.

TEN KILLED IN BLAST AT IRONPLANT Workmen Trapped by Tons of Molten Metal Hurled by Explosion ai Birmingham (Ala.) Plant Sixteen Others Seriously Hurt. ADDITIONAL FATALITIES AMONG INJURED FEARED Five of Dead Are White — Men Caught in Flaming Mass Have No Chance to Escape—Cause of Accident Not Known. Bu United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 20. Ten persons were killed and sixteen injured early today in an explosion at blast furnace No. 2 of the Woodward Iron Company, located about seven miles from here. Five of the dead were whites. Many of those injured are believed critically hurt and may die. Cause of the explosion is unknown. The blast ripped off the top of the furnace, hurling tons of molteti metal over an area of several hundred feet. The workmen, caught in the flaming mass, had no chance to escape. S. G. Masey, superintendent, was among the victims. Three of the dead are unidentified, being terribly burned. EIGHT SPEED CHARGES Motorists Arrested by Police Said To Have Gone Too v -~t. Despite a misty rain and slippery streets early today and late Friday, eight alleged speeders were nabbed by police- , Those arrested gave their names and addresses as: Walter Roberts, 17, of R. R. .T., Box 75; Raymond Williams, 29, of 64712 Virginia Ave.; Dewey Elkin, 22, of 1524 Comar Ave.; Martin Evans, 35, of 534 W. Thirty-First St.; Alvin Caldwell, 21, of 5024 College Ave.. Tom Lincks, 23, of 710 N Belle Vieu PI.; P. H. .tppling, 35, of 819 IV. Thirty-First Sv„ and Robert Brandes, 24, of 922 W. Twenty-Second St.

HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 38 10 a, m 38 7 a. m 38 11 a. m 38 8 a. m 3* 12 (noon) 39 9 a. m 38 1 p. m 40 WHOLE STATE HEARSGAMES Thousands Listen in on Times Broadcasting. Hundreds of telegrams were received today and Friday from persons listening In on the accounts of the State tournament basketball games, broadcast by The Indianapolis Times over WFBM, Merchants Heat and Light Company station. Play-by-play descriptions of the games, put on the air by Blythe Q. Hendricks, assisted by basketball coaches and officials attending the tournament, were received In all parts of the State the messages Indicated. Many radio dealers and business houses in Indianapolis and other cities tuned in and held open house. Several high schools received the results in their auditoriums. Coaches who aided in putting the games on the air Friday were Everett Dean, Indiana University; E. J. Mather, University of Michigan, and Ward Lambert, Purdue. Thomas A. Hendricks, secretary of the Indiana State Medical Association, also assisted. Simon Roache, chairman of the committee of local coaches arranging tournament details, talked.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1926

President’s Arrival at Scene of Sorrow

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POLICE SEEK ATTACKERAND HOLD-UP MEN Intended Victims Repulse Bandits —17-Year-Old Girl Molested. Bandits who made two unsuccessfu' hold-up attempts and a man who atti. ked a seventeen-year-old girl Frida, night, were the objects of police Searches today. Intended victims of the bandits showed unexpected resistance and as a result the would-be hold-up men fled, according to reports to officers. Jim Wilson, Danville, Ind., employed at H. and 11. garage, 2225 College Ave., said he struck one of two Negro bandits over the head with a gasoline can In the garage. In the scuffle Wilson obtained the hold-up man’s revolver. Another bandit fled when struck in the face by Arthur Miller, 1214 E. Vermont St., at Highland Ave. and New York St. The reported attacker eluded eight police, squads, after molesting a girl going home from Manual Training High School, where she had attended night school. Acordlng to LRutenant Forsyth and squad, the gi T was ..seized by the man at the first alley west of Talbott St. while she was walking in lowa St. After attacking her, the man threatened her life and forced her to accompany him to the Belt railway and Madison Ave. After attaching her again, the man told her to/go home and not to look back or he would kill her. Police searched the vicinity for several hours. Several minor thefts also were reported to police. Sam Hughes, Y. M. C. A., said late Thursday six young men took a sweater and $5 from him as he was walking through the Statehouse yard. Mrs. C. W. Wade, 4822 Central Ave., asked police to help her find a $450 platinum bar pin containing eleven diamonds, she lost downtown.

KELLOGG DENIES LEAGUE REPORT Says U. S. Has Been Consulted Unofficially. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. March 20.—Secretary of State Kellogg today denied Geneva reports that this Government had been consulted unofficially before the League council called the September Conference to discuss American reservations to the World Court. At the same time the State Department issued a statement interpreted as a defense of the council's action, which had aroused Senate objection. Officials declined on the ground of not having received an invitation, to say whether this Government will be represented at the League conference, but they emphasize that no American representative would have power to amend or Interpret the Senate reservations. CHINESE COMMANDER QUITS PEKING, March 20.—Marshal Feng Y'u Hsiang, the Christian commander of a Chinese army, is reported to be withdrawing from personal participation in the civil war.

successful, but dramatic race with death. The picture rushed out of the snow-locked Vermont hills after 11 a. m. Friday by sleigh and automobile was put on the wires to

Final Tourney Progress i FRIDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY La Porte (20) ....I <!> a. m.) ILoganenort (20) ...I Loeansoort (39) ...I | (8:30 am) {Martinsville I Martinsville (50)...1 (10 a. m.) JMartinsvillo (24) ..I Summitville (24)...1 „ . • (2:30 and m.) ( Syracuse (22) ....I . (11 a. m.) ißccllortl (36) I I Bediord (33) , „,, . (0:30 am.) ißedford I Fortify™/3U.i s^,,Vernon r 2 ;., f, HOleboro (23) ....I (S p. m ) Aurora (f)) I , , , „„ v , (3 p. m.) iFrankfort (25) ..-..1 Frankfort (48) ....I . _ , , , . (10:30 a ra.) Central (Evans.) ...I Newcastle (20) ....! . „ . ... , i (4 p. m l Central (Evans.) (32) I Central (Ev e.) (35)1 _ . > I 1.3:30 p m.) I Central (F. W.)(33)l (7:30 t> m.) Central (Ft. W.) (20)1 I Franklin (26) I . . ... ; (11:3) am.) .Marion f Nappanee (261 ....I i 8:30 nm.) Marion (.01 1 Marion (40) ......I

U. S. MAY ASK STATE TO PA Y 1836 DEB T Government Advance Indiana $850,000 Ninety Years Ago—Congrsesman Proposes Settlement.

Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, March 20.—Uncle Sani may knock at Indiana’s door one of these days with a bill for $860,000. The money was advanced to the leadof¥toi ASSURED WETS Majority of Newspaper Polls End Today. Capurioht. 1926. bu United Press NEW YORK, March 20.—As the majority of newspaper polls In prohibition closed today those who have expressed a desire for the legalized sale of light wine3 and beer or for the repeal of prohibition laws seem assured of a 5 to 1 lead over those 1 who have voted their satisfaction | with the existing condition. Some of the more than 425 newspapers which have participated In the largest unofficial referendum In a public question ever held In this country, will continue their polls and it may be weeks before all of the returns are in. Figures from forty-two newspapers today shows 79,496 for prohibition and 799,494 for changes. TAX PAYMENTS STAND UP WELL Decrease Not as Much as Was Expected. Smaller decreases than expected in the amount of income taxes paid this year under the new law as compared to the taxes paid last year, were announced today by Deputy Internal Revenue Collector George Foote. Taxes on 1925 . incomes collected so far this year total $5,478,424.44, as compared to $5,699,646 last year, a decrease of $221,222.10. Olficiaki expected a decrease of mor and said the ' n| a wrts fiuo better bush Sjßißpß^Miulustrial conditions thruu^Hinik tate - c

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State from the Federa’ Treasury in 1836, as a result of a resolution by Daniel Webster. The States were suffering for want of money to complete Internal Improvements. About twenty-six States shares, tho total advanced being $28,000,000. None of it has been paid back. Representative Simmons of Nebraska demanded payment to the Government In a resolution recently introduced In the House. Ills action was in reprisal for the action of various eastern Congressi men In calling attention to the fact that many western States obtain more money in Federal aid than they pay to the Government in Federal taxes. The twenty-six States, being those in existence in 1836, are all east of the Mississippi. The ninety-year debt was entirely overlooked until 1910, when Congress directed the Secretary of the Treasury to charge the States with it. But its collection depends on anew act of Congress. New York got the most money, $4,014,000. Ohio secured over $2.000.000; Illinois, $477,000, an Kentucky, $1,433,000. FIRE MENACES HUGE GAS TANK Brooklyn Given Scare by Boiler Blast. Bu United Press _ , BROOKLYN, N. Y., March 20. Firemen by daring work extinguished flames today that menaced a large gas storage tank of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company here today. A boiler in a two-story frame house exploded with a terrific force, hurling oft the building’s roof. The building burst into flames. Men and women ran from their homes with their children and hastily gathered belongings. Firemen poured great streams of water over the gas tank and prevented it from exploding. They entered the wrecked building and* announced there was no trace of any victims. It was the belief that no one was killed or injured. Such was the force of the boiler explosion that a section of a fly wheel was blown two blocks, narrowly missing a passing auto.

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going into Hie house where Col. Coolidge died. The President and his son arc the figures moving through the deep path in the snow at the left of the picture.

GRAVE ROBBERY ! THEORY HELD IN SKELETON CASE Detectives Doubt Woman Murdered and Body Buried. With recollections of a grave rob- | bing scandnl over a score of years 1 ago, in which several doctors were j arrested and convicted, detectives in; | restigated the discovery of a woman’s skeleton underneath a 1 ullding ! j. t Thirteenth St. and Senate Ave. Tuesday by workmen who were ex- ! eavating, were Inclined to doubt the theory that the women was murdered and buried underneath the building. According to several veteran po- | lice, a syndicate of grave robbers was discovered over twenty years j ago when bodies of several people were found buried In vacant lots and along creek banks. Investigation of the operations of the ghouls resulted In the arrest of severul physicians who were convicted. Ring In Street Detectives Sneed and Trabue who with Detectives Marren and Smith discovered Friday, after an invest!- ; gatton. that a diamond ring, which furnished the only clew, had been , found In the street near the building | and not where the skeleton was buried. | Detectives said the skeleton might | have been dumped there by medical i students who used the body or skeleton In research work as the vicinity in former days was a dumping yard. Captain of Detectives Jerry Kinney said severni former occupants of the building were Interviewed but none eould throw any light on the skeleton. Teeth Show Wealth After Inspecting the teeth of the skeleton Dr. 11. H. Kayser, Indiana University Dental School superintendent, and Dr. J. L. Wilson, superintendent of the school’s clinic, > agreed that the woman had spent j considerable money for dental work. ! “She had taken good care of her teeth. Fillings were put In as soon jas they were needed,” Dr. Wilson 1 said. ’’Evidently the woman was not very old ns her efeeth were worn down but little. She probably was in her thirties,” Dr. Kayser stated. Police, from the dentists’ report, are Inclined to think that the woman had plenty of money. The value of the dental work was placed at several hundred dollars, DE PAUW DEBATERS WIN I Greencastle Squads Have Clean Record This Season. Bu Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., March 19. —De Pauw University debating I teams today had four victories and 1 no defeats this season after defeat- j 1 mg Wabash and Franklin Colleges j Friday night. De Pauw’s negative team won over j Wabash here and defeated Franklin i at Franklin. Should Indiana ratify ’ the child labor amendment was the | topic. De Pauw defeated Notre, Dame’s negative and afllrmatlvo teams two weeks ago. De Pauw negtatlve team: James O'Bear, Bernard Kilgore and Allen Campbell. Affirmative: Margaret Jenkins, De Loss O’Brien and William Smith. MI KLIN TO SPEAK Bu Times Special ELWOOD, Ind.. March 20.—President Lemuel H. Murlin of De Pauw University will delicate the First M. E. Church here Sunday.,

Forecast FAIR weather tonight and Sunday; moderate temperature predicted.

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FATHER OF PRESIDENT 15 AT REST Simplicity Marks Last Rites —Brief Communal Service, a Prayer and Coffin Is Taken by Sled to Ancestral Cemetery. BODY IS CARRIED TO GRAVE BY SOLDIERS Coolidge Battles Raging Snow Storm in Open Sleigh on Trip to Plymouth From Woodstock Headquarters. 81l United Press PLYMOUTH, Vt.. March 20. John Calvin Coolidge was burled here today in the frozen aide of orie lof the hills of his native Vermont. Hlx son, Calvin, chief magistral,! of the Nation, performed a son's duty, following the body to tho grave and watching as tlie Vermont Patriarch's soul \vus consigned "unto Almighty God” at. tln* culmination of the solemn Episcopal order for the burial of the dead. The ceremonies were carried out just as the colonel had directed, a fitting climax to tho eighty years of his life. No tears were shed from the lime the Rev. John White Intoned "1 am the resurrection and the life," to when, after scattering flower petals on the gray casket, he committed the body to the earth. The President, Mrs. Coolidge and their son John arrived from Woodstock at 11:40 a. m., after a trying Journey, tho last half la open sleighs, with tho wind-blown snow lashing their faces. They went immediately Into the little white house of their father, deeded to tho President by tho B<t-year-olu Vermonter u few days be fore ho died, last Thursday night, to view the old man's face for the last time. Tho body lay In a simple gray coffin, dressed in black and the weather-lined face wniM-alni. The coffin was loaded with flowers from the white house greeneries. It lay in tho parlor of the home, adjoining tho sitting room in which the man swore his son in ns President of the United States, nearly three years ago. There were no pallbearers at the funeral. .Six members of tho Vermont National Guard ucompanled tho casket to the cemetery. Drizzle Stalls After a night of Intermittent snow and rain a cold drizzle started again at 8 a. tn., which added further to the transportation difficulties. The. few score inhabitants of this secluded mountain pass were alxnit early today, their grief at the passing of their rnc.'t popular cjtizen written In the gravity of their lined fares. It was a silent population and there were no early callers at the littlo frame house where Colonel John died.

MAN STABBED j IN ARGUMENT Victim Says He Called Assailant Informer. Henry Anderson, 2024 YV. New York St., stabbed Harry Folaxkl, 21, of 952 Elm St., near tho heart nnd in the back In an argument today, police said, l’aloskl Is in city liomi'l(al. 11l J Police said Polaskl told, this story: Anderson met Polaskl In front of the Polaskl borne. Polaskl nccused j Anderson of having told |x>lloe Poj laskl was hauling liquor. Polaskl struck Anderson. Anderson ratal- | iated with his knife. Anna May Polaskl, sistpr of the I victim, came up during the argu- { mont and was chused by Anderson, police said, TO RECEIVE TREATMENT Montezuma Residents Bitten by Ra-hies-lufacted Dog. Four Montezuma, Ind., residents who recently were bitten by a ru-bles-infected dog are to receive hydrophobia treatment from the State board of health Monday, It whs announced today by Dr. William P. King, secretary. Seventeen persons now are receiving treutment for rabies. LEGION HEAD TO TALK State Commander Will Address Big Four Railroad Kiiiploye. American Legion State Commander Clarence E. Jackson, will speak at a meeting of Big Four Railroad shops employes at Beech Grove, Monday noon, sponsored by the Hilton U. Brown post. There Is no Legion post at Beech Grove and the Brown post members are preparing to anllat timbers lu