Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 278

LABOR UNION BACKS FIRST S. HA SITE Letter Will Be Sent to Board Member Kern Urging School Be Erected at Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts. Immediately. Central Labor Union officials today were preparing a letter to be sent School Board Member Charles W. Kern, appealing to him, as an organized labor representative, to take all possible moves to have the new Shortridge High School erected imat Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts. " A resolution to do this was adopted at the union meeting Monday night, after members declared 80 per cent of the people favor erection of the school on this site. Kern is a member of the union. Majority faction members of the school board are determined to buy property on Forty-Sixth St. between Central Ave. and Washington Blvd. for the school. Kern, as buildings and grounds committee chairman was the motivator of this plan. Restraining Order Gained The Indianapolis Public School Welfare Association has succeeded in gaining a temporary restraining order against the board, in the move for a permanent injunction. Hearing on the injunction petition will be held March 27 before Judge Sidney S. Miller, Superior Court Three. Investigating committee members who reported at the union meeting said it was not their purpose to condemn or criticise any person or or ganization, but that the immediate needs of the majority of people should be satisfied. Members of the investigating committee were: John Smith, union president; Arthur Lyday, secretary; Henry Friedman, W. Jackman and (Turn to Page 2) ORDER COURT-MARTIAL Butler's “Cocktail Party” Charges Against Host Stick. ■V United Press W WASHINGTON, March 23.—Secretary of the Navy Wilbur today ordered a court-martial held to try Col. Alexander Williams for drunkenness as a result of Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler’s charges made following the Williams’ “cocktail party,” where Butler was a guest, at San Diego.

OIL CITY FLOOD STILL CRITICAL Heavy Rains Presage increased Danger. Bn I'nitrd Prefix FRANKLIN, Pa., March 23. Although a drop of the Allegheny River at Franklin was registered overnight, a steady downpour of rain and overcast skies today presaged increased danger from Hood conditions. At Franklin the rover stage today was 19 feet, a drop of a foot overnight. Flood level is 15 feet. At Oil City the river dropped two feet to 24 feet. This city, with 22,000 population, has been the greatest sufferer from the present flood, damage being conservatively estimated at $1,000,000. With electric power cut off, 3,000 men were out of work fcfind newspapers are only able to Phrint handbills run off by foot-power. More than 150 homes are inundated. BATHTUB GIRL CALLED She Tells Grand Jury All About Earl’s Big Party. Bn Times Special NEW YORK, March 23. —Joyce Hawley, who was the “girl in the bathtub of wine” at Earl Caroll’s now famous party, appeared before the grand jury Monday. An investigation is under way to determine whether the bathtub in which she sat ladling out refreshments really did contain wine. What Miss Hawley exposed upon this occasion was kept secret. ASHES TO CABARETS Lawyer Ends Life, Makes Queer Last Wish. Bn Times Special NEW YORK, March 23.—The ashes of Charles Mayberry, a lawyer, who committed suicide will be scattered among the cabarets of the city if his last wish Is carried out. “Gounod’s ‘Ave Maria’ is singing me to sleep. Cremate me and scatter the ashes in the cabarets of the city,” he asked in a last note. “I am aimless, brainless, helpless, wealthless, healthless, hopeless and useless.” Mayberry was 49 years old.

In the Automobile Columns of Today’s Want Ads —Are listed the Red Tag Used Car gale offerings of Indianapolis Auto dealers. Used cars of nearly every make and style among today’s offerings. Turn to the Red Tag sale list now—Read every ad.

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MACREADY FALLS SHORT Official Check of Instruments Shows Plane Only Went 37,579 Feet. [in United Press WASHINGTON, March 23. Lieut. John A. Maeßeady failed to break the world altitude record on his March 13 flight, Army aviation officials announced today. Official calibration of his instruments here showed he reached only 37,579 feet. The record is 39,586. HAT DEALER BANKRUPT Meyer Kilverstein Files Petition in Federal Court. Meyer Silverstein, Sll N. Illinois St., millinery merchant, today filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy today in Federal Court. Debts were listed at $33,415.05 and assets at $11,934.50. Silverstein operated Jean’s Hat Shop, 155 N. Illinois St.; Macey’s, 50 Monument Circle; Ford's 25 W. Washington St., and the hat department in W. H. Bartlett Company. 3 9 N. Illinois St.

STATE TO PLAY PART AT WET, DRY HEARINGS I National Interest Centers in Indiana Liquor Situation. Political observers here today believed that Indiana will be in the | limelight in the hearings on the national prohibition law to begin in Washington April 5. The Senate Judiciary Sub-commit-tee late Monday announced that wets would be heard the week of April 5 and drys the week of April 12. Through magazine articles and stories in newspapers throughout i the country, national interest has ; centered in the Indiana liquor situation for many months. The Wright I bone dry law, the driest State law ! in the Nation, has been the center of comment. According to a dispatch from the Times Washington Bureau the subcommittee will give anyone competent to give information time in the hearings. The committee will call some persons but expects many wtinesses to volunteer. E L. McCulloh, a former Indianapolis man, secretary to Senator Means, chairman of the sub-commit-i tee, said that Hoosiers would be heard. yeggs: efforts fail Try to Open Sale at Auto Sales Company—Leave Without Loot. Efforts of yeggs to open the safe at the Oakley Overland Auto Sales Company. 1665 S. Meridian St., failed Monday night and they left without loot. Police who investigated today said the bandits used an aceteleyne torch in trying to burn off the combination.

INJURIES FATAL TO PEDESTRIAN Man, Struck by Auto Saturday, Dies at Hospital. John Borger, 49, of 1267 Shelby St., died at city hospital today from injuries received late Saturday when he was struck while crossing Shelby St. at Orange St., by an autoist who failed to stop. Raymond Forbes, 1806 E. Raymond St., told Patrolmen Robinson and Wachstetter that the auto was going north in Shelby St. He described it as a "dirty Ford full of people.” Borger refused medical treatment followirig the accident, but later was taken to the hospital. Police are seeking the driver of the death car. MARTIN’S TRIAL IS SET Palmyra Modernist to Face Church Board March 26, PALMYRA, Ind., March 23.—W. Clyde Martin, modernist, whose views brought down the wrath of trustees of the local Church of Christ, will go on trial March 26 before two evangelists of the denomination and one member of the board of trustees. He is accused of conduct unbecoming a member of the church because he kept his community recreation house open on Sunday and permitted chewing gum slot machines to be operated in it. WIFE LEAVES HOUSE Husband Makes Report to Police— Boy, 14, Also Missing. Mrs. Asa Robinson, 36, Is missing from her home, according to a report made to police by her husband, George Robinson, 949 E. McCarty St. Robinson said his wife left home, Sunday. Joe Facone, 14, of 115 S. Davidson St., visited the Y. M. C. A. with his brother and failed to return home. SUICIDE AT PRISON Bn United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March 23. —The body of Louis Massey, 28, of Monroe County, an inmate in the hospital for the criminal Insane at the Indiana State Prison here, was found swinging by a noose made from bed clothing In. hie cell early today.

LIQUOR LAW POLL TOTAL SHOWS WET Indiana Votes 2 to 1 Against Prohibition as Now Constituted Nation - Wide Interest Taken in Effort to Find Real Sentiment. Copyright. 1926. by NEA Service. Reproduction in whole or in part is pro Idtnted unless credit is Riven NEA Service. Bu SKA Kerricr • CLEVELAND, March 23.—With nearly a million and a half votes cast against continuation of the prohibition law in its present form, the greatest newspaper poll in history—the nation-wide prohibition referendum conducted by NEA Service and client newspapers—has come to an end. Final tabulation of the returns from 326 newspapers in all parts of the country which cooperated with NEA Service shows that a grand total of 1,747,630 votes was cast. These votes are divided as follows: For retention of the prohibition law as it now stands, with strict enforcement 330,779 For repeal of the prohibition law 547,866 For modification of the prohibition law so as to allow the sale of wine and beer 868,985 Grand Total 1,747,630 Thus the final wet majority is in excess of five to one. Views Will Differ Indiana voted more than two to one wet, the totals being 23,331 for the existing law and 84,951 for modification or repeal. Wets and drys will differ as to the significance of the straw vote, but here are the outstanding features of the referendum: 1. Almost exactly 50 per cent of the voters in the poll cast their ballots in favor of modification. Those (Turn to Page 7) State Results Results in Indiana cities where the prohibition poll was taken follow: For For Prohibi- For Mortilition. Repeal, cation. Terre Haute .. 741 1,504 2,454 Evansville .... 581 2,308 6,930 Goshen 2,769 168 1,215 Ft. Wayne ... 6,315 28,479 30.005 CrawfordsvUle. 1,456 153 395 Michigan City. 20 158 658 Lebanon ...... 602 20 34 Marion 1,901 171 479 Munde 1,412 699 2,046 La Porto 676 253 1,356 Anderson 3,121 651 3,505 Warsaw 623 48 214 Valparaiso 294 193 211 Rushville 930 115 231 Elkhart 9 25 59 Franklin 1,881 34 172 Total for Ind. .23,331 34,979 49,972

VOTING TANGLE 1$ PREVENTEO Error on Candidate Blanks Found at Warsaw. Bn Times Special WARSAW, Ind., March 23.—Kosciusko County came near losing its representation in the Republican and Democratic State conventions. After candidates for the seventeen places in the Republican delegation had filed notices of candidacy with County Clerk Russell H. Butler and just before eleven Democratic delegate candidates filed an Indianapolis politician discovered the blanks set the date for the primary election as the second Tuesday in March instead of the first Tuesday in May, the correct time. Had the error not bene discovered the votes of the delegates in the State conventions might have been successfully challenged. TRAFFIC MEN MEET Say Prohibition Has Not Stopped Drunken Driving. Bn Times Special % WASHINGTON, March 23.—Prohibition has failed to eliminate the danger of drunken drivers on the streets and highways of the United States. An attempt to curb this menace will hp made by 1,000 traffic experts gathered here this week to attend the conference on street and highway safety called by the Department of Commerce. Passage of drastic laws will be urged. BOY CAUGHT IN STORE Companion Escapes—Captured In<l Turned Over to Police. Louis Kalesnick, 115 S. Meridian St. .owner of a novelty store, captured a 9-year-old boy and turned him over to police Monday night after he caught him arid another youth in the store basement. Recently the store was burglar* Ized and several boxes of candy taken. The boy captured said he and hls companion dropped Into the basement aided by an Improvised rope made of old inner tubes. The second, youth escaped.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1926

Five Expeditions to Fly to Pole in Greatest Race in All History

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All Will Use Planes Except Amundsen —One Trip by World Aviators. Bu SKA .Ven ice WASHINGTON. March 23.—Ihe most romantic, daredevil race m history—a race for the north pole by air—will lie on by the end of March! Five expeditions, three of them American, will sail over the white reaches of the limitless ice fields on new quests for information, undiscovered lands and adventure. A hidden arctic continent that is believed to lie-about the pole,> and that may contain oil and valuable ores, may be claimed for this or some other government as a result of the flight. Important air trade routes may be discovered. New knowledge of arctic regions is sure to result. But, chiefly, there is sport—adventure, competitidn;" a five-sided dash for the glory of being the first to reach the north pole by air. Four of the explorers will go by airplane; the fifth will fly in a dirigible. This latter expedition is headed by the famous Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the south pole and lifelong explorer. He will be accompanied by Lincoln Ellsworth, wealthy young American. A big dirigible has been (Turn to Page 6) ESTATE FIGHT RESUMED Countess to Re on Stand in $30,000,000 Leiter Case. Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 23. —The international battle over Levi Z. Leiter’s $30,000,000 estate was to be resumed in Judge Dennis Sullivan’s court today. Lady Marguerite Hyde, countess of Suffolk and Berks, will be recalled to the stand at the opening of the trial and asked to identify more of the stack of letters and affidavits gathered together. Lady Marguerite is attempting to oust her brother, Joseph Leiter, from control of the estate.

FENG NATIONAL ARMY RETREATS Legation Quarter in Peking Guarded. Bn United Press PEKING, March 23. Machine guns guard the gates to the legation quarter today as Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang troops fell back toward Peking before the sharp attack of Marshal Chang Tso Lin and his allies. Chang’s Manchurian troops occupied Tien Tsin, driving Feng’s nationalist troops out of the city. The nationalist withdrawal is under way on all fronts, and it appears that the retreating army will fall back to Kalgan, 125 miles northwest of Peking, and near the great wall. U. S. APPREHENSIVE Bn United Press WASHINGTON, March 23.—The situation at Wu Chow. China, where American missions and hospitals are the object of labor and anti-foreign demonstrations, was described as threatening by American Consul General Jenkins in a cable to the State Department today. MANY AUTOS MIRED Bn Times Special WARSAW, Ind., Marfeh 23. Thousands of dollars damage has been done to Kosciusko County roads by heavy rains. The bottom has literally fallen out of dirt roads and many graveled highways are impassable. Scopes of automobiles have mired up to the bodies,,

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LLOYD GEORGE HITS LOCARNO SECRECY Seeks to Oust Chamberlain, Blaming Him for League Failure —Reichstag Averts Crisis.

Bu United Press lAJNDON, March 23. David Lloyd George sought today in the House of Commons to censure and if possible to drive Sir Austen Chamberlain fronTThe foreign office for his connection with the secret agreements of Locarno which caused the collapse of the League of Nations’ effort to admit Germany to membership last week. Lloyd George laid the blame for failure at Geneva on Sir Austen, asserting that he could have prevented the situation that developed there, had he acted in time.

GERMANS TURN DOWN PLEA OF VON TIRPITZ

Bv United Press BERLIN, March 23.—A sudden effort of the Nationalists today to rescind Germany’s application for League of Nations membership and to nullify the Locarno treaties failed when the Reichstag voted confidence in the government’s program. The Reichstag also defeated by a rising vote a motion to repudiate' the Dawes plan. The Nationalists attempted their coup after a speech by Adimral Von Tirpitz, the man who ordered the sinking of the Lusitania, and created the situation which finally drew the United States into the World War. Tirpitz spoke for the first time since the war. Von Tirpitz approved the allaged

COOLIDGE FOR REFUSAL OF LEAGUE INVITATION

Bn United Press WASHINGTON, March 23. — President Coolidge thinks it will be unnecessary for the United States Government to accept the invitation to the special League of Nations conWOULD ABANDON SERVICE BY BUS T. H., I. & E. Subsidiary Petitions Commission. Temporary abandonment of motor bus service by the Indiana Motor Transit Company, a subsidiary of the T. H. I. & E. Traction Company, between Indianapolis, Crawfordsville, and Lafayette, was asked today In a petition filed with the public service commission. The traction subsidiary recently bought out the certificates of competing carriers on these routes and obtained rate increases. The petition says the busses are being operated at a loss. If permitted to discontinue, the company I says it will resume bus operations ; whenever directed. PAPER PLANT BURNS I Bn I >iit'•d Press FAIRMONT. Ind.. March 23Firemen are fighting a blaze which early this morning destroyed the Superior Paper Products plant here. Loss is estimated at $25,000, partly covered by insurance. J. W. Williams of Jasonvllle, is owner of the plant. Origin of the fire la undeterpiliiftd.

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I “One point wrecked Geneva,” said j the Welshman, “and it was never I mentioned in the parliamentary explanations’of Locarno. “Did Chamberlain know of the j intention of France to secure simul--1 taneous entry of Poland with Germany at Geneva?” Rumsay MacDonald, former labor I premier and leader of the official | opposition, was to follow Lloyd I George with labor's volley against the foreign secretary. Sir Austen, in reply, bitterly denied responsibility for Germany's failure to enter the league.

statements of Alauson B. Houghton, the United States ambassador tp Great Britain as reported from Washington and told the Reichstag that Germany’ should follow the United States policy in abstaining from membership. Count Von Bernstorff, German ambassador to the United States prior to American entrance into the World War, defended the league against its attackers. Regarding the Houghton report Bernstorff said that the ambassador intended to strengthen great Britain against French imperialism. "Great Britain and the United States are the two powers in the world least likely to go to war against each other." declared Bernstorff.

ference to discuss American World Court reservations. The Senate reservations are plain and apparently require no further elucidation, it was said at the White House today on behalf of the President. It was added that a final decision however would await careful consideration of the official invitation whAn received. Minister Hugh Gibson will return to Switzerland as head of the American delegation to the League’s preliminary arms conference, opening May 18, it was said. Gibson’s probable military associates on the delegation were given as Major Generals Harry A. Smith and Dennis Nolan, and Rear Admirals Hilary P. Jones and A. T. Long. SEEKS TO END LIFE Roosevelt Hicks, Sentenced to Chair, Tries to Strangle Self. Roosevelt Hicks, 22, Negro, sentenced by a jury in Criminal Court last Monday to die in the electric chair, attempted to end his life in his cell in the county jail today, according to John Sands, deputy sheriff. Sands said he frustrated Hicks' attempt to strangle himself. Hicks was found guilty of fatally shooting his wife. Judge James A. Collins will fix the day of electrocution Saturday. THIEVES ABANDON AUTO Bn United Press GOSHEN, Ind., March 23.—A bul-let-riddled automobile was in possession of police here today after a hot pursuit of automobile thieve* on the Hoosler Dixie Highway. The auto-wag abandoned by the thieves,

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INVESTIGATION OF STAIE HIGHWAY BODY AFFAIRS Attorney General’s Office Looks Into Indiana Road Comrfiission’s Disposal of Used War Materials Following Report by Ward. Investigation of (he Indiana highway commission disposal of Federal used war materials, to supplement one by United States Attorney Albert Ward, is being made by assistant attorney generals at Washington, it was learned today.

Ward recently turned over to the | attorney general’s office results of an investigation started last January. Although he refused to disclose what the report contained, no recommendation for or against prosecution of commission members was contained, it is believed. From Washington Ward, when he concluded the investigation, said further action in the matter must come from Washington. Before starting the probe, he said ihe grand jury would act in the case if sufficient evidence was avail- ! able. Earl Crawford, member of the commission whose term expires April 17, and who is being replaced by Robert B. Boren, Fountain City, Is now under indictment by the Marion County grand jury on charges of conspiracy to emliezzle and accessory’ before the fact. George Bartley, former superintendent of the State highway garage, and John Williams present road commission director, also face the same charges. Several Indianapolis junk dealers were charged with grand larceny’. Body Not Exonerated The Washington investigation is being made as result of the fact that Ward’s report, while it did not fix criminal responsibility, traced Irregular disposal of materials and did not exonerate commission members. it was learned from there. After Ward sent his report to the Washington officials he said that he could in no way "exonerate” any one involved In the case. "My duties were limited to investigation of the case,” he said. POLITICS, SAYS CRAWFORD Retiring Highway Commissioner Defends Self in Statement. Bu Knifed Press CONNERSVILLE, Ind., March 23. —Earl Crawford, retiring Democratic member of the State highway commission, today blamed politics for Governor Jackson's failure to reappoint him. "More than good roads has been involved in the highway commission fight,” Crawford declared. "Strong pressure was brought to bear by’ politicians to have the commission create a lot of fat jobs.” Crawford pointed to the fact that the commission overhead expense last year was only 3.08 per cent, one of the lowest of any highway commission in the country.

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FREE EX-MAYOR OF ANDERSON Discharged After Getting Six Continuances. Jess Mellett, 2816 N. Delaware St., former mayor of Anderson, today was discharged on charges of having improper license plates, failure to stop after an accident, assault and battery and reckless driving by Municipal Judge Pro Tern. Henry Winkier. Mellett had obtained six continuances in the case. Detective Harry Smith and Patrolman Jack O'Neal said witnesses were reluctant to appear. USE SIGNS AT BUSY CORNER Traffic Experiment at Meridian and Washington. Whether 'human guidance is necessary for pedestrians or whether they will respect signs was the eperlment being tried today at Meridian and Washington Sts. If pedestrians respond to education In moving with the traffic, patrolmen assigned to the comers during rush hours will yield permanently to four black and white traffic posts, according to Traffic Inspector Harvey W. Bedford. The posts bear the words “no right or left turns” end the warning now applies between 11:30 a m. and 2 p. m. and 4:30 p. m. and 6 p. m. If all works well ha will recommend the no turn rule be effective all day, Bedford said. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m. 40 10 a. m 51 7 a. m....... 41 It a. m 63 8 a. 44 12 (noon) , n , 65 a-fc- rw— ** u n>w, *2

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Sobs in Local Doctor Suit Muffled Girl Who Seeks $50,000 From Dr. Ensminger Ordered to Dry Eyes.

Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 23.—Dry-eyed and determined to remain so. Miss Marie Grischeau resumed the witness stand today in her $50,000 suit against Dr. Leonard A. Ens minger of Indianapolis, chief surgeon for the Big Four Railroad, for alleged breach of promise. Miss Grischeau testified that ft telephone conversation gave her the first news of Dr. Ensminger’s sec ond marriage. It came as a shock, she said, because she had been planning for a June wedding. This was in January, 1928. Short I>’ thereafter, Miss Grischeau testi fled, the surgeon renewed ills alleged pledge to wed her in these words: "If you can wait two or thret s’ears until I get rid of my new wife, we'll get married.” letter* Read Three letters that Miss Orlschean claims were sent her by the surgeon were to bo introduced in evidence this afternoon. They are addressed to "my ilear girl” and signed ”L.” and speak of high regard for her and her qualities. One terms her "unusual in these days." Miss Grischeau's decision to restrain her tears was motivated by the edict Judge Timothy D. Hurley issued yesterday when he ruled that tears are unfair weapons in u breach of promise case. Judge Hurley ordered the jury from the room, turned to Miss Grischeau: "The time has passed when a woman's tears may’ be allowed to in fluonco a Jury. Nothing but the facts in this case are to influence the jurors, if I had thought that sympathy for you induced them to bring in a verdict favorable to you, [ would set the verdict aside. Her Romance The s >bs that angered Judge Hurley came while Miss Grischeau was telling of her romance with the surgeon. She testified Dr. Enetninger, on March 15, 1922, proposed mar. riage, but later informed her he had changed his mind and had another wife. Ol'T OF CITY Accused Physician Lives at 3802 N. Pennsylvania St. At the office of 1 >r. Leonard A. Ensmingcr, 614 ilunic-Mansur Bldg., it was said that lie was out of th* city. He Is chief surgeon of the Big F'our Railroad and lives at 8802 N. Pennsylvania St. LOCAL MAN, WIFE HURT Autos Collide Near Knoxville, TViui. —lhafh May Result. Mrs. la*e Dove, 5600 E. Tenth St., was probably fatally injured and her husband, head of the Dove Realty Company, 715 i/emeke Bldg., seriousl yinjured in an automobile accident near Knoxville, Tenn., this morning according to a dls|Kttch to The Times.

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