Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 295

500 MILES OF CITY’S PAVING BAD Commissioner Reports That Streets and Alleys Must Be Rebuilt Because Shank Administration Let Repairs Go. BRIDGES SAID TO BE IN DANGEROUS SHAPE Appropriation of SIOO,OOO Received as Share of Gas Tax Is Recommended as Means of Financing Work at Once. From 800 to 800 miles of streets end alleys are completely broken down and will have to be rebuilt from the bottom up because of Insufficient repairs during the Shank administration, according to a report of George Woodward, streets superintendent, to Mayor Duvall, made public today. Many bridges over White River, Fall Creek and Pleasant Run are in dangerous condition, according to the report Appropriation Low Appropriation of the SIOO,OOO the city received as its share of the State gasoline tax to the streets department is recommended as a means of financing repairs at once. The report asserts that the 1926 appropriation to maintain streets is $212,599 below the sum allotted in J 924. "The most effective road work is done during the spring of the year,” according to the report. “The ground at that time contains sufficient moisture to permit scarifying. Grading and shaping is likewise much easier, and, above all, the roadway will pack under ordinary travel. Such work, however. If to be undertaken on a larger scale than our present budget permits, will have to be planned now.” The W. Tenth St. bridge over White River, blocked to traffic since September, 1925, is listed as an “otherwise substantial structure, which will stand for twenty years if repairs lire undertaken to defeat the deterioration.” Waving Floor On the Harding St. bridge the floor waves up and dow'n under loads, but the causeway Is still open to traffic, the report asserts. The floor of the Twenty-First St. bridge across Fall Creek Is bad, and similar conditions exist at the Raymond £ J t. bridge over White River end the W. Michigan St. bridge across Eagle Creek. Nearly every bridge across Pleasant Run requires repairs, according to the report, while a number of passageways across the Canal and Pogue’s Run arc in dangerous condition. Only $2 per block is allowed under the budget to maintain the thoroughfares, according to the report. Schoolboy Struck Earl Welding, 6, of 4260 Rooltwood Ave.. was Injured while on his way to school today. After leaving an auto driven by his mother, Mrs. Nellie Welding, at Fortieth St. and Capitol Ave. the boy was struck by a. truck driven by Luther Lee, 2454 Bellefontalns St.

MATERIAL DEALERS HOME SHO W GUESTS

Record Breaking Crowd Expected to View Fifth Annual Exposition at State Fairground.

Men who supply materials used In the construction of homes were special guests at Indianapolis mil-llon-dollar home show today. Today was dtsignated as “lumber.

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Boots' Bob Latest Thing in Women's Hair Dress

CONSTRUCTION VALUE NEARLY FIVE MILLIONS First Quarter of Year Shows Gain in Apartments, Public Buildings. Nearly $5,000,000 worth of construction is under way In Indtanapolis so far this year. Heavy gains In building of apartments, public buildings, accessory structures and in repairs and alterations over 1925 are recorded In the city building department’s report for the first quarter of 1926. Fewer Dwellings However, decrease in valuation of dwellings, industrial buildings and business structures resulted in a loss of total building costs of $600,000. The permits totaled 55,324,702 In 1925 and $4,726,362 this year. Apartment house construction climbed from $158,800 to $435,000, but the greatest gain was in public buildings, from $13,020 to $856,750. Tjie total included the new Indiana State Armory and a number of churches. Repair Totals Repairs this year total $646, while last year the w r ere $564,860. Losses were: dwellings from $2,578,420 to $1,545,765; business, SBBI,IOO to $406,910 and industrial, $432,000 to $236,900. Bert J. Westover. building commissioner, has ascribed the decrease to the inclement weather. HOURLY VISITS IN BODY HUNT Police Search White River for Boy, 11. Police continued hourly visits to the banks of White River today, hoping to catch sight of the body of Clifford Platt, 11, of 1246 N. Holmes Ave., drowned Saturday when he' jumped from a canoe near the Emrichsville bridge. The Platt boy and Thaddeus Quinn, 11, of 1154 Belle Vleu PI., started a cruise in a canoe with an old paddle, north of the bridge. The current carried the canoe downstream. While the Quinn youth shouted for help, the Platt youth leaped and started to swim. Lewis Springer, 753 N. Pershing Ave., fishing near by, pulled the Quinn boy ashore with a pole. The Platt hoy was last seen two blocks down-st ream.

mlllwork and material men's day,” at the fifth annual Home Complete Exposition, being held this week under the auspices of the Indianapolis Heal Etate Board at the Manufacturers’ Bldg., State fairground. The show was opened at 6 p. m. Saturday night and an attendance of 8,000 brokb all previous opening night records. With the sunshine and spring weather, J. Frank Cantwell, exposition director, expected the attendance to jump above the 12,000 mark today. He has predicted an attendance of 125,000 for the entire show. Open All Week The exposition will be open every day this week front 11 a. m. until 10:30 p. m. Because of the extremely crowded conditions in the evenings, the word has been passed along that the time for persons to attend the show is in the afternoon. The building i, riotous with color an(J the lighting effect haa been pronounced “delightful.” The entire ceiling of the building is covered with a canopy of orange and white cloth and the sides and columns are draped with the same colored* materials. Rows and rows of lights hang below the draperies. Practically every booth placed In the structure by exhibitors from 100 cities In the country represents a typical homelike scene to some de(Tuto to Page IS)

Beauty Expert Predicts. ‘Singe’ Will Be Popular Fad Here. Girls, the latest is something that’ll have every girl in Indianapolis talking. It’s Boots’ bob. Boots, of Times comic page prominence, is in New York for a gay ole time with Edgar Martin, the artist who draws “Boots and Her Buddies." Her haircut is a sensation. Here she is with her face turned from you. But she’ll surprise you tomorrow when she turns around. In fact, her haircut may involve Miss Indianapolis. For Miss Alma Cecilie Stults, manager of the L. S. Ayres & Cos. beauty-barber shop, thinks Its a smart bob. “It’s just the first stop this side of a complete singe,” Miss Stults said, “but it’s nifty and its a big weight off one’s mind. I’ve seen It and it’s cool and easily kept neat. “Hair dressing styles naturally are geting closer to the goal women aimed at when they first started bobbing their hair. The goal was comfort. But they only took the first step. This was relief from the burden of hair they had worn so long and did it up quite nicely for a while. “Then a few brave souls got a shingle-bob. That was more like it. “And now,” Miss Stults said, “Boots has paved the way. I wouldn’t be surprised at anything, for that matter, much less Indianapolis women and girls taking it up quickly. Doubtless it will gain wide popularity.” • FEARS FELJFOR AIRMAN Commander of Madrid-Manila Flight Is Missing. Bu United Pres* BAGDAD, April 12. —Captain Estevz, commander of the Madrid-Ma-nlla-Toklo flight, who failed to arrive here yesterday from Cairo with his comrades, still was missing at 2 p; m. today. No news has been received. Captains Callarza and Lorlga plan to de .rt at dawn Tuesday on the next stage of their flight. BROWNING, BRIDE, LEAVE “Honeymoon House” Deserted for New York. Bu United Press COLD SPRING, N. Y„ April 12. The “honeymoon house” of Edward W. Browning was deserted today—perhaps for good. Browning, the dapper 51-year-old millionaire, left Cold Spring on a train during the morning, apparently bound for New York, and a short time later his bride, the former Frances Heenan, 15, whom he married Saturday, drove away from the fif-teen-room castle with her parents. Tradesmen were advised that there would be no further orders. NAVY AIR BILL PASSED First legislation Since Mitchell Episode Acted On. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April 12.—The Butler bill authorizing a five-year building program for the naval air service was passed today by the House by a vote of 279 to 39. The nioasure Is the first aviation legislation resulting from the con-trovei-sy created by Col. William Mitchell. tender the bill the Navy will have 2.2C0 planes and two dirigibles, each three times the/size of the Shenandoah, at the end of the five-year period. BLOCK FIRM FINED Ten Dollars Penalty For Alleged Advertising Violation.' Criminal Judge James A. Collins today fined the William H. Block Company $lO and costs for violation of the State advertising law*. The comi>any is alleged to have advertised for sale Winnie Winkle shirts, which were alleged to have not been such. The prosecution was brought by Byron T<. Elliott, attorney for the Better Business Bureau. Attorney for the Block company indicated he would appeal to the State Supreme Court. The Block company denied an Intention to falsely advertise any shirts.

Chokes Ostrich to Death Bv Timex Bvecial BOSTON. April 12. Although he admits he was drunk, William C. Mclntyre refuses to confirm the report that he leaped a seven-foot wire fence and choked an ostrich to death. Arrested as the slayer of “Governor,” a big male ostrich at the Franklin Park zoo, McIntyre told the police he had a dltn recollection of having engaged in a terrific battle with someone, but that he could not recall whether the opponent was an ostrich. “My mind was a blank for two days and I don't even know where I was when the bird was killed,” he told authorities. The arrested man, however, admitted that a handkerchief and an overcoat found inside the ostrich pen were his, furthermore, he is wearing an ugly scar on his forehead which might have been iniiictpd by a fighting ostrich.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1926

WIFE, LOVER ADMIT GARY DEAMOT She Asked Husband and Father of Her Five Children to Take Walk to Park—There Sweetheart, Sh6t Him Down. WIFE, HYSTERICAL, BEGS MAN TO CONFESS CRIME Twice Mate Avoided Fatal Ambuscade, Sniper Tells Police Slipped Away From Factory, Fired and Then Went Back to Work. Bu Unit'd Press GARY, Ind., April 12.—While a hysterical woman today pleaded with him to admit that he slew her husband for her love, W. A. Donaldson, 33, admitted to police that he shot and killed Joseph Mullins last Thursday night bo that he and Mrs. Mullins would be free to carry on a “love affair.” Donaldson made his confession while Mrs. Mullins sobbed, admitting her part in thee affair, and begging him to confess that he fired the fatal shots, after the murder had been planned by the two. The Plot “We worked this thing out together,” he said. “Virginia and I planned to kill him list Tuesday night. She was to take him walking and I was to shoot him. But Mullins insisted on going another way. The same thing happened again Wednesday night. But then on Thursday we went to the park and selected the exact spot at which I would stand to kill him. Then we planned on how Virginia would get him to the place. “Thursday night I went to work at 4 o’clock. Then I slipped out of the mill at 7:30 and went to the tree In the park where we had agreed the murder would take place. ‘Virginia and Mullins came along. I fired. Mullins went down. Then I fired some more. Virginia ran away screaming. We had planned for her to do that. Went Back to Work “Then I went back and slipped back to woil£ No one missed me.” In the presence of her five children Mrs. Mullins, a gray-haired woman, admitted an illicit love affair of several years’ duration with Donaldson. Donaldson, a roomer in the Mullins home at the time of the killing. at first denied the woman’s story. “You know every word of It Is true,” Fred Mullins, eldest son of the family, hurled back at Donaldson. The son made a lunge at Donaldson, but was restrained by officers. Mullins was shot as he walked through a downtown park with his wife. Suspicion turned to Donaldson when It was learned he had taken out a $3,000 Insurance policy on Mullins’ life and gossip spread of the Illicit love affair.

TWO HELD FOR NEW BEER SALE Test Case Expected in Gary Arrests. Bv United Prexx GARY, Ind., April 12. —Two men were under arrest here today charged with violating the State prohibition law, because they sold the malt tonic beer sanctioned by the Feedral prohibition department. The men arrested wbre George Piamankos, candy store proprietor, and Paul Remmanos, a clerk. They were to be called for trial In city court today. It was expected that a continuance would be asked to permit their attorneys to prepare fully for the trial, the first test of sale of the tonic in Indiana. Gary druggists have not put the tonic on sale, although large orders have been placed with wholesalers for the malt tonic. Dry leaders raised a violent protest over the proposed sale by drug stores and the proprietors decided to wait until legality of the sale under the Wright bone dry law was determined. BISHOP TO SPEAK HERE Mass Meeting Tuesday to Promote Nerw Evangelical Church, Bishop L. H. Seager of Le Mars, lowa, will speak at a mass meeting of the Evangelical denomination, Tuesday, at 7:45 p. m., at First Evangelical Church, East and New York Sts. The meeting will be in the interest of the new Broadway Evangelical Church, Broadway and FiftySixth St. Evangelical League of’ Christian Endeavor, of the Indiana conference, has pledged SIO,OOO to the project, according to the Rev. J. H. Killing.

City Starts Anti-Dirt Battle

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Miss Velma Duncan (left) and Miss Eleanor Blizzard, "cleaning up.”

BURBANK TO BE LAID TO REST WEDNESDA Y

What Wizard Did for World Here are a few of the “miracles” Luther Burbank performed at his experiment station In Santa Rosa: Developed the “Burbank potato,” now universally grown, more productive and nourishing than the earlier kind. Evolved anew type of wheat that added millions of bushels a year to the world’s crop. Brought forth the. California gladiolus, with 100,000 different shades. Made corn grow to a height of eight feet, * ith ten tq fourteen ears to a stalk. Removed the pines from castus and made the plant bear pears. Removed the seeds from the orange, developed a stoneless plum and a setxlless grape. Originated the beautiful Shasta daisy. Produced the aramanthus, or “molten fire,” his proudest work among the flowers. ‘ Gave perennial growth to a species of rhubarb, increasing the size of the stalk from the thickness of a pencil to that of a man’s wrist. Produced 2,000 new varieties of plum and prune trees. Developed anew species of the torch lily and evolved a new camassia, a beautiful blue flower. Developed fruit trees that stood freezing weather In blossom. Developed seedless apples, and a walnut with a paper-like shell that can be crushed between the fingers. Produced a mulberry tree with leaves ten times as large a.s ordinary mulberry leaves. This increased the output of silk and lowered the price. Caused a walnut tree to reach 100 years’ growth in ten years. Changed the colors of thousands of flowers. Including the California poppy, which he changed from yellow to crimsoft.

GRAHAM HERE ON VISIT To Speak in Sixth and Ninth Districts During Week. Arch G. Graham, candidate for the Republican short-term senatorial domination, today visited his company headquarters, Room 326, the Claypool. He will speak chiefly In the Sixth and Ninth congressional districts during the week. “There will boa great silent vote for "Mr. Graham,” Sandy Young, local manager said today. “He is committed to a constructive program and will win.” Young said Graham will stress Federal aiij, In highway construction and the Great Lakes deep waterways movement this week in his addresses. WESTERN UNION VALUED Property in State Apprasicd at $6,856,294 by Tax Board. Indiana property of the Western Union Telegraph Company was appraised at $6,856,294 today by the State tax board. Last year the company was assessed at $6,786,788. This year’s assessment, on which taxes will be' paid in 1927, is based on a valuation of telephone lines at $lO9 a mile, whereas last year’s was on the basis of $lO7 a mile.

California Town Plans Open Air Tribute to Great Naturalist. Bu Inited Press SANTA ROSA. Cal., April 12. The quietude of death hung over the “Valley of the Moon” today, as Santa Rosa and vicinity prepared to bury Luther Burbank. Its first citizen and a man beloved around the world. Flags were at half mast and there was a spirit of reverence In the air, particularly in the H Burbank home, within which the body of the great Burbank at 12:13 ending a two wee ks’ illnoM, brought on by a nervous disturbOpen Air Funeral Santa Rosa will do him homage Burbank in a great open air funeral service In a local park. There will be no orthodox religious ceremony. Judge Ben B. Lindsey Is hurrying here from Denver to deliver the eulogy In compliance with a request Burbank made some time ago. There vvHl be a reading of the famous tribute Rol>ert Ingersoll delivered for his brother, and the ritual of the Masonic lodge to which Burbank belonged. Dr. Caleb S. Dutton, a Unitarian minister, will assist. That will end 1 the service. His Last Words Burbank’s hist written words were another statement on his beliefs, an effort to clear up the cloud of mis(Tura to Page 13)

BAWES MAY GET REVENGE TOBAY Sec Tie Vote in BrookhartSteck Contest. WASHINGTON, April 12.—After long and tedious debate, the Senate is prepared to vote on the Brookhart Steck election contest at 5 p. m. today. The outcome is in doubt and there is a bare possibility of a tie vote in which case Vice President Dawes would have the opportunity of making the decision. During the 1924 campaign when Senator Brookhart was a candidate for re-election in lowa, he demanded in a public statement that Dawes be removed from the Republican ticket. The result was that thousands of Republicans deserted Brookhart and votod for the Democratic candidate, Daniel F. Steck. Brookhart was given a certificate of election hut Steck protested to the Senate that he was the actual victor. After examining and counting the ballots, a Senate committee declared Steck won by 1,420 votes. Many technicalities relating to the marking of ballots are Involved. The Senate is about to vote on this report. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 30 10 a. m...... 39 7 a. m &0 11 a. m....\. 42 8 a. m...... 33 12 (noon) ..A. 45 9 a. m...... 37

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Annual Clean-up Campaign Sponsored by Junior C. of C. War on dirt, trash and rubbish was started today. Under direction of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, sponsoring the annual clean-up, palnt-up campaign, city departments, civic organizations and other bffdies united In giving Indianapolis a "spring cleaning.” The campaign will end April 24 At noon the campaign officially opened when Mayor Duvall and other city officials pushed a mammoth brush on the south steps of the Monument. Assistant Pushers Other persons assisting In pushing were Horace E. Carey, head of city fire prevention committee; Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board seefetary; William Henry Harrison, campaign executive committee member; C. August Schrader, general chairman, and Hannon E. Snolte, Junior Chamber secretary. The huge brush which sweeps a forty-inch swath was made by the (Turn to Page 12)

BUTLER TELLS HOW POLITICS RUNS POLICE Officers Answer to Ward Bosses Instead of Safety Heads. Editor's Note—This is the fifth installment of General Butler's storv ot his work as head of Philadelphia police and Ins dismissal early this year The articles will appear daily. The Times owns exclusive richts to the articles in this territory By Smedley D. Butler Police and politics. Few realize the significance of that alliance. Few understand the problem that confronts every police of flclal in a. corrupt American city. I soon saw that complete divorcement of police and politics would be a heroic task. For political control of the police was agreeable to those Philadelphians who, because of wealth, social position or other Influence, were virtually immune from successful prosecution. Here Is how it worked: The police department is divided into districts. These districts are exactly the same as the city wards. Each police district is commanded by a police lieutenant: each ward Is controlled politically by a leader, responsible to the city gang. Ward Leaders’ Boons Prior to this administration, police lieutenants had been assigned according to the wishes of the ward leaders —if the ward leaders were friendly with the mayor and the administration. If the ward leader was on the outs with the mayor, an unfriendly police lieutenant was assigned to harass the political lender. Thus, when relations were friendly, the lieutenant was under tlie thumb of the ward leader, taking his orders from the latter rather than the superintendent of police or the director of public safety. Under the lieutenants were police sergeants. Under the ward leaders (Turn to Page 5)

Who Is the City's Most Unique Woman?

Who is the most unique woman in Indianapolis? What woman holds the most unique job or most unique work, for which she receives pay? Perhaps she is a busifPss or professional woman. Perhaps she is a housewife with an unusual sideline which helfia build the family fortune. $ Whoever she is The Times and the Business Women's Department of the Indianapolis Woman’s Department Club desires to find her before the Indianapolis Woman’s Exposition opens at the State fairground, May 17. So The Times, in cooperation with the department club division offers a prize of SIOO to this most unique woman. The contest is an advance feature to call attention to the gTeat variety of work of an unusual sort which Indianapolis women are doing. The contest opens today and ends at midnight. May 8. The Times will announce the winner ar soon thereafter as the judges, to be anonunced later, complete their work. The prize will he awarded at the women’s exposition.

Forecast Fair weather tonight and Tuesday; slowly rising temperature predicted.

TWO CENTS

WOMEN ASK FOR TIGHTER PROHIBITION Sixty-Five Welfare Leaders Besiege Senate Investigating Committee, Opposing All Proposed Amendments to Dry Act. ONLY FEW TESTIFY; ‘GRILLING’ IS BLAMED First Witness Tells Solons of Plans for Feminine Mobilization for Law Observance—W. C. T. U. President Hails Volsteadism. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April 12.—A corps of sixty-five women welfare leaders besieged the Prohibition Senate Investigating Committee today pleading for retention of the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth amendment in its present form. The room had to be cleared of spectators to permit the dry 'witnesses to be present as the drys opened their case. The sixty-five were sworn In a body by Acting Chairman llarreld, Republican, Oklahoma. One-Minute Witnesses Mi's. Henry Peabody, Beverly, Mass., chairman of the national committee for law enforcement, the first witness, read the name of witnesses listed to testify one minute each. I “We have a strong feeling that i the women ought to be represented j by the men who hold our views,” I Mrs. Peabody said. “We represent the home, the church and the schools. “We are oprosed'to all prohibition amendments, instead we stand for strengthening of law enforcement.” A petition signed by 16,306 residents in Jersey, “mostly women,” presented by Mrs. Peabody pleaded for retention of prolilbit.ir>n t . , . . Asks How Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, wet, asked Mrs. Peabody how she (Turn to Page 12)

THIESING CASE GOES TO JURY Closing Arguments Heard in Murder Trial. A jury started deliberations this afternoon to determine the guilt or innocence of Herbert Thleslng, charged with first degree murder. Closing arguments were made by Deputy Prosecutor Judson L. Stark and Defense Counsel Frank Baker In Probate Court before Special Judge John W. Holtzman. Judge James A. Collins asked the trial be concluded in Probate Court because he had several cases to dispose of today In Criminal Court. Thleslng was tried for the fatal shooting Jan. 2 of Orla Vem&rd, alias John Cook, 43, In the poolroom operated by Raymond Hoffbauer at 1609 Ludlow Ave. Thleslng denied he intentionally killed Vernard. He said he stumbled while entering the poolroom and the revolver was discharged. He said he intended to frighten those Inside by making them believe the place was being raided.

Any Indianapolis woman over 18 years of age may enter the contest herself or her name be entered by a friend. An additional prize of slo.will be given to the person who first suggests the name of the woman the judges decide is the most unique. Here is how to enter a woman in the contest: Address your letter to the Unique Woman Contest Editor. Indianapolis Times. Give the entrants full name and address. Tell in detail what the entrant does that you think Is unique!, whore she does it and some of her accomplishments. Remember it must be something for wlileh she is paid in money. Inclose her picture, if you can get one. The judges will he chosen by the executive board of the exposition, composed of Miss Louise A. Ross, general chairman; Miss Gledd IX Anderson, assistant chairman; Mrs. Felix McWhirter, president of the department club; Miss Geraldine Hadley, Mrs. Lillian Stone Harrison, Miss Nell Allemong, Miss Jessie E. Boyce and Miss Lucy E. Osborn. Watch The Times for developments in the contest.