Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1926 — Page 1

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SMTRIDGE SITE BATTLE DUE TO END Board Expected to Decide on Smaller School Tonight. HAS MAJORITY SUPPORT Thirty-Fourth St. Location Would Be Used. Four men and a woman, city school board members, will face each pother around a table tonight. In their hands rests the fate of hundreds of Indianapolis school children. Their action, it was expected, will conclude tho nine-year controversy over the location and erection of the new Shortridge High School. Yet it may be the type of action which will only prolong congested conditions at Shortridge. Three board members, President Theodore F. Vonnegut, Mrs. Lillian Sedwick and Charles W. Kern, the majornty faction, have decided on immediate erection of tho new Shortridge at Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts. to houso 1,800 pupils. Cost $900,000 They declare that such a building can be erected for $900,000 and will be ready for occupancy by January, 1928. They will ask consideration of a program for the erection of two junior high schools, when financial conditions permit to support Shortridge. Two other board members, Fred Bates Johnson and Charles R. Yoke, the minority, are expected to take a stand for a building to accommodate 2,800 pupils. If so, the three members will demand anew site be bought. Immediate erection of the building will be abandoned. Procedure Planned Procedure planned by the majority faction is: ► Submission of the 1,800 building plan and supporting junior high program. Authorization for architects to prepare new plans for the building. Formulation of plans for breaking ’ground for the new school this September. g Appointment of a committee of members of the Shortridge teaching staff and the BChool city’s education department to consult with architects. Consider Program The board already has begun to consider the supporting program for the new school. Broad Ripple High and School 10, Thirteenth St. and Ashland Ave., which has several vacant rooms, have been looked over as the starting points of the Junior high development program. location of School 42 will be considered by the board. The school is in: v at Twenty-Fifth and Racier Sts. A resolution adopted by the Indianapolis Typothetae Monday night, asking that the Typothetae’s school at Technical High School be retained, is expected to be received at the Soard meeting. Because of the inadequacy of the quarters at Technical, agitation was started several months ago for its removal to another city.

ROOF COLLAPSES 1 DEAD, 2 HURT P atal Crash at Peru (Ind.) Roundhouses. Si/ l tli'rd I'nss PERU, Ind., April 27.—One man was killed and two were seriously hurt today in the collapse of the roof on a. Chesapeake & Ohio roundhouse here. The three men were working on the roof when it gave way, hurling them forty feet to the bottom of the pit. Frank Fansler, 47, of North Judson, was dead when lifted from the pit. Pliny Wolf, 45, and Carl Raske, 27, both of Peru, were critically injured. WITNESS TAKES COAT Attorney Aids Police in Conducting Search for Thief. Thomas E. Garvin, attorney, 1103 Fletcher Savings and Trust Company Bldg., today aided police in searching for his coat and a witness in a divorce case Monday in Superior Court One. Garvin reported the witness took his coat and left his own. TAXES DUE ON MONDAY Treasurer to Keep Office Open Saturday Until 2 P. M. Edward A. Ramsay, county treasurer, today announced his office will remain open until 2 p. m. Saturday to receive taxes. The office ordinarily closes at noon. Monday is the last day for paying taxes. Ramsay urged all taxpayers to pay their taxes ns early in the day as possible. HOURLY TEMPERATURE I 0 a- m....... 41 10 a. m 53 ' 7 a- m 43 11 a. m 54 ' 8 a. m 45 12 (noon) .... 58 a. 4* 1 p. m 59

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PROHIBITION CAN BE ENFORCED Says General Butler

Editor - * Note—This is the eighteenth installment of General Butter'd story (A his work as head of Philadelphia, polio < and his 'dismissal parly this year, The articles will appear daily. The Times owns exclusive rights to the arp-u-s in territory. * By Smedlcy D. Butler. “What about prohibition? Can it lie enforced? If so, how, and if not, why not?*’

These are questions E was asked Innumerable times during my stay in Philadelphia. I am a prohibitionist, believe in it, practice it, but will not proselyte for the cause. I must repeat that I am not a prohibition propagandist, nor a professional reformer, uplifter nor purist. ,• In my time I have been a drinking man—not a “booze hound,” but a moderate drinker who really could “take it or leave it alone.” My work in Philadelphia, made me a prohibitionist. I came to realize that liquor never did anyone any good anil could and did so nun'll harm. I awakened to the fact that disregard of one law would soon prove a real menace in that it would breed disrespect and disregard for all laws. I quickly saw that the bootleggers, so often patronized by our best people, are a rotten, greedy lot, often foreignborn or of foreign education, and a menace to Americanism. The “wets” are constantly making

FIND BEAR TRACKS, POLISH UP RIFLES

Ferocious Animal Battles With Collie, North Side Residents Report. Somewhere north of the city a ferocious animal, probably a bear, is at large today. And residents on the Millersville Rd. from Allisonville south to the city limits, are polishing up their old rifles, shot guns and revolvers. To date the animal has made one appearance, leaving as proof of its existence: Collie Wounded One alarmed Negro caretaker. Two dead puppies. A severely wounded collie. A quantity of bear tracks. Strange noises were heard outside the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Seaton, Sutherland and Keystone Aves., Sunday night. Xaddig, big collie of the Seatons, was let out of the house. Henry Murphy, Negro caretaker, living in the rear, beard sounds ns if a mighty battle was in progress. Ile peered out. Saw Gleaming Eyes Two gleaming eyes faced him and he dimly saw the form of a large animal in the dark. Monday Laddie returned home, bearing the scars of a terrific light. And Murphy discovered the dead bodies of two of a litter of six pnppies. The other four were missing. Lieut. Fred Winkler and squad investigated late Monday and found bear tracks around the Seaton home. And Laddie, todiiy, is nervous and seems to want out to battle her mysterious enemy, Mrs. Seaton said.

BODY OF YOUTH FOUND Identified as That of Clifford Platt Who lost Life in River. Body of Clifford Platt, 11, of 124*5 N. Holmes Ave , who was drowned in White River, April 10, when he fell from a canoe near the Emrichsville dam, was recovered today near W. Tenth St., It was reported to police. The boy’s father identified the body. John Thompson, 245 N. Richland Ave., who has patrolled the banks since the hoy drowned, saw the body. Clarence Gibson, 1630 W. Michigan St., caught the body on a fishing line and held it temporarily. HiS CLASSES WERE STILL Professor lor Teaching Alcohol Manufacture. /()/ l nit til Press BENTON, 111., April 27.—Professor H. 'R. Hannah today defended his teaching of the manufacture of alcohol to students in his chemistry class at the Sesser High School near here. Ousted by the school board when he refused to resign because he had instructed his class in the making of grain alcohol, Hannah today defended his course and intimated that he might bring action against the Sesser school board. “LOS ANGELES'" ON TRIP Bu United Press NAVAL AIR STATION, Lakehurst, N. J., April 27.—The naval dirigible Eos Angeles left its mooring mast this morning for a test flight over Atlantic City, Cape May and Philadelphia. Capt. George W. Steele expected to keep the ship aloft for eight hours. ATHLETE IS INDICTED By United Press NEW YORK, April 27.—A grand jury indictment charging first degree robbery was handed down today against Alexander R. Hodges, Jr., former University of Kansas athlete. \. W. ( . A VOTES DR! tiu Pnitrd Premh MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 27. With but one dissenting votd, the Young Women’s Christian Association adopted today a resolution placing it on record in favor of prohibition. The resolution urged rigid enforcement.

the statement that prohibition is making public officials dishonest grafters. That is untrue. Such officials were born dishonest and are now simply getting a chance to reap their long-sought golden harvest. It is ridiculous to suggest abandonment of the effort t-o enforce the law Just because of the difficult .v in doing so. It would lie disastrous and before the world to repeal laws because wo could not get honest officials to enforce them. There has been a lot of talk about tho rights of a free people, when the question of the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment comes up for discussion. This talk Is silly. The majority opinion of a republic fixes its code. In the opinion of this majority liquor drinking Is either right or (Turn to Page 5)

SOLID INDIANA WE SEEN FOR ANTI-CAL BILE Settle Interviews Hoosicrs on Farm Aid —Fights Tincher Act. /tu Times Special WASHINGTON. April 27.—The break of the Indiana House delegation with President Coolidge on farm relief legislation appears to be a clean sweep. Indiana members are in open revolt. President W. H. Settle of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, arrived bore today and is interviewing the Indiana members. He declared the whole delegation would be for the Haugen farm relief bill as opposed to the Tincher Administration backed measure, and that any man who was not would bo beaten in the Indiana primaries. Settle also had a long conference with Senator Watson and said the latter’s attitude on the farm legislation was “satisfactory," taken to Indicate Hint Watson will stand for the equalization measure. The latter was in committee, however, and could not he rer -bed by newspapermen. “Any Oongressman from a mid western State who votes agulnst this lJugen measure will be beaten either at the primary or general election, and if President Coolidge wero running in Indiana today ho wouldn't get enough votes to know he was running, in view of his attitude on this legislation,” Settles saiil.

ANOTHER DEBT PACT RATIFIED Senate Approves Arrangement With Latvia. BULLETIN II V t ni'ed Press > WASHINGTON, April 27 Debt agreements with Estlionia and Rouitmnia were ratified by (lie Senate this afternoon. llli United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—The Senate this afternoon ratified the •settlement of the $5,775,000 debt of Latvia to this country. The debt, the smallest of the foreign obligations, is funded over a period of sixty-two years with annual payments of the principal and interest at 3 per cent. Three other debt agreements are yet to be ratified. Meanwhile the American debt funding commission was Informed that France’s answer to suggestions that it better Its offer for funding its $4,377,000,000 debt was not ready. From French sources the United Press learned that France probably would be willing to raise her offer so as to provide $30,000,000 annuities for each of the first five years of the sixty-two-year program.

‘No Work; No Friends, ’ Man Takes Life in Military Park

“The world is crowded with derelicts like myself; so I am simply shuffling off to make a little more room. No work, no money, no home, no friends—l can see no other way out.’’ Signed E. Kaene, April 26. This note, found in the clothing of a man who died in Military Park, West St. and the Canal, Monday night, was the only clew police and Coroner Paul F. Robinson had today tc the identity of the main. The name B, Kaene does not appear in the

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1926

CM LINE IS SOLD TO SM ROAD Interstate Commerce Commission Authorizes Transaction. / TO BE PART OF SYSTEM But Operation Will Not Change, Says Official. Control of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railroad, main offices of which are located here in the renter of Its 361 miles of rails, passed today to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The C., I. & W. crosses central Indiana, running between Springfield, I’ll., and Cincinnati, Ohio. Authority to acquire a majority of tlie C„ I. & W. stock was granted the Baltimore & Ohio by the Interstate commerce commission. The authorization made effective contracts with owners of the stock for its purchase by the B. &. 0., which were entered Into several months ago. Not to Operate The order gives the Baltimore & Ohio the right to own the smaller road, but not the right to operate it. Its immediate effect will lie a loan by the B. & O. to the C., I. & W., which the smaller road will use to discharge indebtedness. Fred C. Goebel has been in charge of the C-, I. & W. since the dea'h last fall of Fred Zimmerman. He will continue to manage the road for the present, he said. At Hearing Goebel attended Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on the R & O. application for authority to the stock, he said, at which it was disclosed the large road has no definite plans at this time for development of the smaller road or for hooking it up with Its main system. This will result ultimately, however, Goebel said he believed. The small road Is equipped exceptionally welt, Goebel 'pointed out, new rolling stock having been acquired about ten years ago. The acquisition of this rolling stock, however, ho said, placed the road under a mountain of debt and it is probable the large road plans to let the smaller one work out its own salvation in financial matters before assuming management.

DENIES UNION IS BACKING WATSON Senator Did Not Draft Bill Bearing Name, Says Gordon. "The Walson-Parker bill, now pending in the Senate to promote industrial i>eaee on the railroads was drafted by a joint committee of the railroad executives and brotherhood chiefs and Senator Watson had no part in its drafting," a statement issued by A. E. Gordon, chairman of the Indiana legislative board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, today declared. Gordon’s statement denied the railroad brotherhoods are holding a meeting at the Severin Thursday to further Watson’s candidacy. “We want it known we are not taking anything but a neutral position in the primary so far as the senatorial fight is concerned. We have friends on both tickets as well as avowed enemies,” he said. BODY IN FLAMING AUTO Suicide Theory Advanced in Death of Farmer. By United Press SEYMOUR, Ind., April 27.—The suicide theory was advanced today in the death of William Bennett, 65, a farmer whoso body was found in a burning automobile at hie home near Tampico, southwest of Seymour. Bennett, according to his neighbors, had been mentally deranged and Monday night threatened to kill his wife when she hid his shotgun. The wife fled to a nearby farmhouse. Bennett, it is believed, found the shotgun and shot himself as he sat in the car. The flame from the powder set fire to his clothing and spread to the machine.

city directory. The man apparently had taken poison. Motorpolieemen Harms and, R. Wilkerson found him near the park shelter house, but he did not speak. Death came a minute later and the body was taken to city morgue. In the clothing was found 20 cents, an English halfpenny, two Canadian pennies, a pearl-handled knife and a pair of glasses. He was neatly dressed in a black pin-stripe suit, gray hat and tan low cuts.

EYE FOR EYE’ IS DEMAND OF SLAIN GROCER'S FAMIL Y

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ADAMS AIMS POLICY OF WALB IN ADDRESS HERE Candidate Charges Violation of Political Courtesy by Watson Aids. A'iolatlon of neutrality In the primary contest on the Republican State committee and of political courtesies by the campaign managers of Senator James E. Watson were charged by Claris Adams, candidate for the Republican longterm senatorial nomination, in an address at the Carr Auto Salesroom, 5436 E. Washington St.. Monday night. “State Chairman Clyde A. Walb has not hesitated to use the Influence of his position to try to line up public officials who are loyally supporting me In this campaign on the ground that being for Watson is the present test of party regularity,”''Adams Bald. A district chairman was called in by Watson supporters and criticised severly for refusing to work for Watson and for saying that Adams had many friends in his district, Adams charged. He said a Federal officeholder had apologized for working for Watson, saying he feared if ho did not carry out orders he would suffer tho political ax that fell on Bert Morgan, former Federal prohibition director for Indiana. Strikes at Jewett Former Mayor Charles W. Jewett ■Vas the violator of political courtesies when he Invaded Indianapolis, Adams' own district, making a Watson speech at the Irvington Republican Club, Adams said. He stated that one political writer on an Indianapolis evening newspaper owned by Warren C. Fairbanks writes for the Fairbanks paper that the State Is overwhelmingly for Watson and for other newspapers that there Is enough anti-Watson sentiment to beat him, if the people go to the polls. Inconsistencies Cited “Although those boys at Mr. Fairbanks’ newspaper are grinding out the editorials anil stories favoring Watson under orders, they’re all, from the top story down to the basement, going to vote for me. I know because they have told me so." Adams announced that, despite the invasion of Jewett into the Seventh district, he would not enter the Sixth district, where Senator Watson maintains a legal residence.

RIOT TOLL PUT AT 400 Terrorists Kill High Ranking Police Officer at Calcutta. By United Press CALCUTTA, Ind., April 27.—Terrorists today raided the general police office in the heart of the city, shooting a high ranking police officer dead. The raid marked resumption of formidable terrorism which has disorganized the city since HinduMoslem riots began again last Friday. Total dead and wounded is estimated at 400. A large portion of the city is Isolated from telegraph or postal communication. Huge accumulations of refuse littered all of the main streets, seriously menacing the health of the city. MOTHER SHOT; HUNT SON Sheriff Seeks Adopted Boy—Woman Is in Serious Condition. By Unite* Press PRINCETON. Ind., At/il 27. Mrs. Thomas Freeman. 40. is in Methodist Hospital here with serious gun shot wounds while Sheriff Hollan and deputies are seeking her adopted son, Albert, 16. Mrs. Freeman. who lives six miles west of Owensvilla, hits not explained the shooting except to say it was acclflantat ~ i

•Not a Cent’ to Defend Lee on Murder Charge, Says Mother-in-Law. “An eye for an eye,” was the demand today of the father, mother, sister, brother, -widow and 9-year-old daughter of Abner Peek, Speedway Ave. grocer, slain July 3, 1924, by a bandit who, a grand Jury charged, was "pint size” Ralph Lee. On th echo of their demand came also an appraisal of the diminutive j;iil breaker and alleged slayer by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Warren E. Yeagley, 1103 N. Concord St. “I wouldn't give two and onehalf cents for his life,” said Mrs. Yeagley. She is holding legal moves to annul his. marriage to her daughter ill abeyance, she said, expecting the electric chair to sever the bonds. Lee's wife, Mrs. Y'eagley’s daughter by a former marriage, Is only 17, her mother declared. Daughter Disgraced "Ralph stole her when she was only 15 and disgraced her,” Mrs. Yeagley said. “She hasn't any Interest in him any more." _Mrs. Yeagley said “not a cent’’ of her money or the money her daughter, Mrs. Dora Carmiehle I/ee, is earning will go to pay lawyers for I,ee. “We've got to look out for ourselves,” she said. “It he was down in Kentucky Where I cume l'rom they’d beat the life out o’ Ills hide and dump him (Turn to Page 10) SOLDIERS GUARD KENTUCKY TRIAL Madisonville Bristles With Machine Guns. Bv I nit >1 Press MADISONVILLE. Ky.. April 27. With machine guns mounted at each entrance of the courthouse here, Bunyan Fleming, Negro, went on trial today on a charge of criminal at.i.;ck on a young white girl. Two hundred National Guardsmen patrolled the streets and manned the guns as Fleming was brought from tho county jail through a gantlet of ominously quiet and liostile-eyed Kentuckians. Following Fleming's trial, Nathan Bard and Columbus Hollis, both Negroes, will be placed on trial on the same charge. Hollis has confessed to attacking Miss Nell Brelthaup, 16, near here, on the night of April 7, authorities say, and his alleged confession implicated the two other Negroes. Death by hanging will be asked for Fleming, according to prosecuting attorneys.

ASKS STANDARD CALIBRE Johnson Recommends Use of .38 for Police Department. , Chief Claude F. Johnson today asked the board of safety to Issue an order making .38-calibre revolvers the standard for the police department. Motorpolieemen and patrolmen now use .44-calibre. Johnson recommended use .38-calibre bulldog type with one-inch barrel.

Girl, 11, Disguised as Boy, Report Police today watched confectionery stands for a boy attendant who should be wearing skirts. For Martjia Burns, 11, of 1617 S. Meridian St., who lias been missing from her home since April 14, is working at & confectionery and fruit stand in the city disguised as a boy. according to a letter received by her mother.

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REMY PROMISES ENFORCEMENT OF LAW AGAINST ALL Prosecutor, Seeking Renomination, Stands on His Record. Making no promises, except to uphold his oath to enforce the law In Marion County against rich and poor, high and low, Jew and Gentile, black and white, Prosecutor William 11. Remy, seeking renomination on the Republican ticket, delivered two campaign speeches Monday night before large crowds. Speaking before a crowded house of Negroes at 1013 N. Missouri 8., Remy said he would stand on his past record as prosecutor and obey the law first himself before enforcing it against others. “I’m not making two speeches this campaign, one for N. Meridian St. and one for N. Missouri St.,’’ asserted Remy. “I'm making the same speech In both places. I appeal to the people who believe In the law in Indiana. I’m appealing to the people, who want their homes protected. I do not watot (he votes of the man who lives by stealing from the man who works hard to make a living.” “I represent all of the people, and I am always on just one side of the case. The State of Indiana Is my client, and no lawyer with selfrespect will ever sell out his client,” Remy said. At the Lincoln Republican Club in Haughville Remy asked that the voters judge him by bis record. “I don't claim to be a world beater. If I haven’t made good, I ought not be renominated. Not on what I say I will do, but upon the things I have done In the past two years, I ask you to judge me. “No man doubts where I stand on law enforcement. When I came into my office I said it would be controlled by no one. I have kept that promise. 1 believe In the enforcement of all the law, all of the time. No man Is too high or too powerful to escape prosecution as long as I am prosecuting attorney of Marion County.”

IMMIGRATION BOBS UP Kalian Delegate Demands (ommission Sludy Problem. By United Press GENEVA. April 27. —Alberto de Stefani, principal Italian delegate to the League of Nations preliminary economic conference In session here, today demanded that a commission be creajed to consider the means of permitting unrestricted movement of people and materials between nations. Italy Is hardest hit by the United States restricted immigration law. 12,952 HOMES VISITED Fire llatard Found in One of Five Premises. Less than one-flfth of the premise® inspected by the fire prevention department during clean-up week required remedial orders, according to the report of Fire Prevention Chief Horace T. Carey, completed today. Inspectors visited 12,952 homes and buildings and ordered changes at 2,411 places. Rubbish and paper accounted for 2,055 fire hazards. MINE INSPECTOR KILLED Another Seriously Hurt by Blast in Kentucky Shaft. Biz United Frets PROVIDENCE, Ky., April 27 Jesse Wilson, 40, mine inspector, was killed and one other man seriously Injured at the Bivens mine here today when a gnm pocket

Forecast Cloudy a nd colder with probably rain tonight followed by fair and colder Wednesday.

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HAKES TWO STATE GAME MEN Wardens Drown in Wabash, Near Terre Haute, as Boat Capsizes. THREE OTHERS ESCAPE Had Been Searching for Seines and Set Nets. Bv United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 27. William Nattkemper, 51, of Terre Haute, and William J. Pear©, 52, of Rockville, State game wardens, were drowned in the Wabash River north of Terre Haute today. Their boat overturned in the rough water of the river while they were searching for seines and set neta and they were swept down stream by the swift current. Wardens Arnold Hill and John Pyle of Indianapolis stayed with the overturned boat and were rescued, while Warden L. B. Watson of Greencastle swam ashore. Bodies of the two victims have not yet been recovered. Nattkemper and Peare had been deputy fish and game wardens for about four years. Both are survived by their widows and Peare had one child. Lad Slips to River Death Bv Unite 1 Press WINSLOW, Ind., April 27.—The Patoka River was dragged today for the body of Liander Roe, 10, son of Thomas Roe, of this town. The boy has been missing since Saturday. Search turned to the river late yesterday when an all-day grilling of Melvin Wayman, 15, terminated in young. Wayman telling of the Roe boy’s death in the river. Wayman is held in Jail. Acording to Wayman's story, the two boys were playing on the river bank Saturday afternoon. Wayman said he was chasing the younger boy when the latter slipped and fell into the river, which is about six feet deep at that point.

POST-MORTEM ON BEER QUIZ SEEN Green Measure, Proposing Changes, Up in House. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—A postmortem of the Senate beer hearing was expected to be held today by the House. Wets and drys were prepared to analyze the testimony of both sides before the Senate committee when the Green bill, creating separate bureaus of prohibition, and customs, was called up under a special rule. Under the rule, debate must be confined to the bill, but both wets and dyrs believe that a fair construction of the rule will permit them to discuss the arguments made before the Senate committee. BALL GAME POSTPONED CoUl, Rain ami Gale at St. Pauli Indians Start Home. Bu Times Bnccial ST. PAUL, April 27.—The third and last game of the IndianapollsSt. Paul series scheduled here today was postponed on account of cold weather, it was announced early this afternoon. The Indiuns depart tonight for Indianapolis, where they open their home season Thursday. Wednesday is an off day in the A. A. schedule. St. Paul got a mixture of wild weather today, cold, showers and a gale. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS WfA Mu' (f: ■ - ■ ~ The trouble with women is that they believe too many met] wtieru-thqy know theyl^hd^^