Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1926 — Page 1

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WATSON AND DAWES FARM BILL BEATEN Only Last Minute Change in Sentiment Can Save Measure. MELLON IGNORES lOWA Brands Mid-West Program Unsound —So Does Lenroot. Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Avenue WASHINGTON, June 12.—The ■ corn belt's farm relief bill is beaten In the Senate. Not more than thir-ty-five or forty votes will be mustered for it, against fifty or more opposed, next week when it comes to a vote, unless there is some sudden and surprising change in sentiment. Friends of the bill are frankly conceding defeat, according to Representative Purnell of Indiana, one of the corn belt leaders in the House, who has been keeping close touch on Senate developments. Thumbs Down The Coolidge Administration has kept its thumbs down attitude on the corn belt’s equalization fee measure, despite the crushing Administration defeat in the lowa primary. This was shown by a recent call upon Secretary Mellon by three corn belt leaders of the House who asked the secretary to indicate whether he believed the corn belt measure sound economically. It had been so pronounced by Vice President Dawes and Senator Watson. Stand Unchanged This was just before the lowa primaries. Friday Mellon notified his questioners that he could not concur in the Dawes conclusion and he didn’t believe the pending bill was soupd econmics. Mellon's verdict was taken to mean the Administration stand was unchanged. Senator Lenroot, Administration Republican, Wisconsin, took a similar stand. He deserted the farm bloc, urging the Senate adopt his substitute bill, modeled to pleas§ Coolidge. Lenroot, branding the Haugen bill as “uneconomic and unconstitutional, said “instead of aiding the farmer it would injure them.” Negotiate With South Negotiations have been going on in the Senate between corn leaders and Senators of the cotton States for support of the latter. The Southerners have indicated however, they won't agree unless the bill is changed so the cotton farmers will receive the benefits of the price fixing provision yet shall not be compelled to pay the equalization tax for at least two years. The corn belt men know this wouldn’t help them and have refused the change. There’!! Bea Bill Pending defeat of the mid-west bill, however, doesn't mean that no farm legislation will pass. It is expected a measure will be fixed up—perhaps the Tincher bill recently before the House, which was said to have ’ Administration support—to which corn belt Republicans can point in their campaign. Poisoned Berries Kill Two Children Bu United Press BREMEN, Ky., June 12. —James Rhoades, 4, and Marjorie Reno, 7, children of farmers, are dead here and two others are seriously ill after eating gooseberries from bushes which had been sprayed with arsenate of lead. MATZKE RITES MONDAY Funeral of Contractor, Builder to Be at Residence. Funeral services will be held at ■2:30 p. m. Monday for Julius Matzke at Apt. 1, 522 N. New Jersey St. He died Friday. Mr. Matzke was a builder and contractor and had • erected several apartment buildings in the city. He was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church. The widow and two sons. Harry of Indianapolis and Albert Matzke, an illustrator of New York City, survive. EX - OFFICIAL CHARGED Case of Newcastle Man Taken Under Advisement by Judge. Case of James Wallace of Newcastle for liqour law violation was taken under advisement today by Federal Judge Robert C. Baitzell. Wallace is charged with posession of a still and fifteen gallons of whisky. He formerly was Newcastle treasurer and also Henry County treasurer.

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FINEST TRAIN PLANNED Special to Bring Cardinals to Chicago Meeting. BU United Press CHICAGO, June 12.—The most elaborate special train ever assembled will bring Cardinal Bonzano, papal legate and a group of other Catholic cardinals to Chicago from New York, arriving here on Thursday June 17, for the' twenty-eighth international eticharistic congress. The entire train will be painted pure cardinal and each coach will bear the name of some “prince of the church.” Stops will be made at Elkhart and South Bend, Ind. rioU/lT LEAGUE HOME Faseisti Attack Memorial Meeting at Geneva —Fifty Hurt. Bu United Press GENEVA, June 12. Forty faseisti, including two Italian members of the secretariat of the League of Nations, today attacked a meeting held In commemoration of the anniversary of the death of Deputy Matteotti of the Italian chamber. Police estimated that fifty persons were injured. The riot started at a signal when an orator attacked the Mussolini regime, held accountable by anti-Fascisti for Matoetti’s murder. AGED MAN . INJURED Joseph B. Spence, 87, Struck by Street Car—Taken to Hospital. Joseph B. Spence, 87, of 838 N. Capitol Ave., was cut about the head today when he was struck by an Illinois street car at Illinois and Pratt Sts. He was waiting for the car .and, according to witnesses, was facing the other way, getting a ticket from his pocket. The aged man was thrown to the ground by the impact. He was taken to city hospital. The crew was not held. CHURCH UNION TO MEET Presbyterians to FJect at Annual Banquet Monday. Presbyterian Union of Indianapolis will have the annual banquet Monday night at the Indianapolis Country Club, on the Crawfordsville Rd. Dr. Fred M. McMillen, Cincinnati, Ohio, will speak on "System and Strategy in Supplying a .City Witft Churches.” Frank A. Symmes, an attorney, president, will preside. Officers will be elected. GETS DIAMONDS BACK $1,500 Gems, Lost in Washroom of \ Store, Found. Mrs. Sabra Lewis, 720 W. Dr., Woodruff Place, was overjoyed today. Two diamond rings, valued at $1,500, that disappeared from the washroom at the L. S. Ayres Company Thursday were found by Mrs. P. H. Johnson, Plainfield, Ind., who returned them to Mrs. Lewis. WORLD FAIR PLANNED Chicago to Celebrate Its Centennial in 1933. Bu United Press CHICAGO, June 12.—Chicago today laurfehed plans for the Chicago centennial, to be held here in 1933, expected to eclipse all other world fairs. Edwin H. Hurley, millionaire manufacturer and former head of the United States Shipping Board, has accepted the permanent chairmanship. , GIVES LIFE FOR FRIEND Lineman Drowns Attempting to Save Fellow Worker. Bu United Press ROCKFORD, Ill., June 12.—Fred J. Killums, 21. lineman, was drowned in the swollen Pecatonica River today when he attempted to aid a friend who had become entangled in a wire while swimming across: The friend was saved. EIGHTY FINES LEVIED Suspended After Drivers Are Given Reprimands. Municipal Judges Paul G. Wetter and Dan V. White levied fines totaling $2,800 against eighty motorists late Friday and today on charges of having improper lights. All the fines were suspended after drivers were reprimanded. TARIFF RIOT AT PRAGUE More Than Hundred Injured in Street Fighting. Bu Unit'd Press PRAGUE. June 12.—Sixty police were injured, four seriously, and sixty rioters were hurt late Friday night in a four-hour battle between communists and socialists. The riot followed demonstrations against tariff increases. ORGANS ARE SENT HERE t Seek Cause of Man's Death. Found Dying in Garage. Bu‘ United Press HUNTINGBURG, Ind.. June 12. Vital organs of Carl Heim, 22, who was found dying in his car parked in the Heim gara.ge, have been sent to Indianapolis in an effort to solve the mystery of his death.

ACTIVITY OF REALTORS IS ON INCREASE High Total of $332,570 in Transactions for Week Reported. BANNER YEAR FORESEEN Sales in All Parts of City and Suburbs. Continuing unusual activity, realtors today reported to the Indianapolis Real Estate Board an unprecedented total of about $332,570 in property transactions within a week. Real estate men said the activity was due partly to the good weather and to the fact that late spring is one of the most ideal building times, but stated that the prime reason lay in th fact that many persons are desirous of obtaining Indianapolis property. It was said that, gauging by sales, a banner year is under way, and many persons from other towns are not only coming to Indianapolis, but are investing in local property. All Parts of City Sales reported included properties in all parts of the city and many suburban residences. Sale of suburban property Is rolling rapidly forward, it is reported. Subdivision controllers are making, arrangements for heavy visiting crowds and are preparing to offer many attractive locations. The Robert C. Byers Company has bought 15314 acres six miles west of Indianapolis, on the Rockville Rd. for development this summer. Members of the Byers organization will hold an annual outdoor affair at the Shades Sunday. Real Estate Board President Frank E. Gates announced six lots have been recently sold in Forest Manor and that Homecroft, one of the Gates Company’s additions, only a year old, is dotted with thirty homes. Some of Deals Some of the deals follow: Four houses southeast corner of St. Clair and N. New Jersey Sts., by Frank Hancock to Katherine Murphy, for $20,000 through B. M. Ralston Company: English type, brick veneer home, 4189 Carollton Ave., sold by Miss Chapman to the Rev. and Mrs. Renn; southwest corner, Forty-Sixth and Carrollton, sold by Dr. Lee Strong to C. C. Bowers; six-room residence, 719 E. Thirty-Fourth St„ sold by D. Z. Billmire to H. C. Helmuth; 3955 Winthrop Sold by Henrietta J. Sharp t" Frances Calvin, and an eight-roor house at 2140 Highland Place, sold by M. Mason to J. Bennerscheidt. These deals, made by Lacey Hearn, total more than $60,000. Other sales oonsisted of properties ranging in price from $1,000 to $10,000. Many transactions reported were trades. Wedding Bells Ring in Municipal Court Wedding bells in police court! They rang this morning for Miss Crystal Leona Yaw, 21, Williams, Ind., and John H. Walker, 26, who have been living, police allege, as husband and wife at 530 N. Meridian St. Patrolman Harry Bridwell and Charles Iconogle arrested the pair early this morning and they were brought into Judge Paul Wetter’s court. Miss Yaw made a touching appeal to the court, saying that she was in love with Walker and he with her and that they had intended to be married. "In that case, it might as well be now,” commented the judge and sent the couple to obtain a marriage license. They were married by Judge Wetter a half hour later. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 72 7 a. m 71 11 a. m 72 8 a. in 74 12 (noon) 76 9 a. m...... 73 1 p. m 77

Parents Told to Halt Death Toll

Coroner Paul F. Robinson today appealed to parents to aid him in stemming the tide of child tragedies which this week took the lives of five Indianapolis children. “Parents, keep track of your children every minute," was Dr. Robinson’s warning. “This grewsome death toll must be stopped," the coroner said. “Only parents can do it, and it must be done through education. “Children under the age of 12 are presumed by the law to be too young to realize danger. The parents are responsible for guarding them from danger. “If necessary in cases where the neglect of parents is to blame for child fatalities the parents can and will be taken into Juvenile Court. Parents must keep their children off the streets.” Without inferring negligences was the cause of any of the deaths this week. Coroner Robinson cited this week’s tragedies to show the wide range of danger against which parents must guard: Monday—An auto crushed the life

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926

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City Pools Opened—Many Seek Relief From Sultry Heat. “The water's fine.” Such was the call that was heard over Indianapolis today as boys and girls, and some older persons, too, slipped, jumped, dived or fell into the water at the city pools and beaches, opened for the season this morning. Public schools were dismissed for the summer Friday, and there was nothing to prevent a good old swim, unless It w-as a mother who thought it “was too early in the season.]’ "Our four pools and two beaches are in fine shape,” said Jesse J. McClure, recreation department director. The beaches are in White River, one'at Twenty-Sixth St., and one at College Ave., while the pools are in Ringgold, Willard, Rhodius and Douglas Parks. The first dip of the sensor at the Rhodius Park pool was taken by (Turn to Page 2)

JIM AND COOL CAL GET PICTURE ‘TOOK’

It Will Bea Great Photograph to Show Indiana Voters That All’s Lovely at Washington.

By Roecoe B. Fleming, Times Staff Corresuondcnt WASHINGTON, June 12.—After Senator Watson of Indiana had spoken open dissent with the Coolidge Administration on the two most important issues—world court and farm relief—lndiana Republicans got scared and came down here Friday to “fix things up” with the President. The Indiana delegation, led by

TEN KILLED IN • AUTO ACCIDENTS

Two of Tragedies Occur in

Indiana. Automobiles took a toll of ten lives in Indiana and the Nation today. Mrs. M. A. Faubion, 60, of Holton, Ind.. is dead as a result of an auto crash at Versailles. Her son, Enoch Faubion, his wife and their daughter, Viola, 13, were injured. Frances Walker, 21, was struck and fatally injured by an auto at Connersville, Ind. George M. Kopple, Galveston, Texas, and William H. Cushing, of Brookline, Mass., Yale students, and Mrs. Edwin Reeser and Miss Dorothy Kiernan, were killed when their speeding auto left the road and crashed into a tree, near Guilford, Conn. Four were victims en route to the Altoona, Pa., Speedway races. Charles Sauers, 24, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was killed near Williamsburg, Pa., and A. F. Green, F. A. Kline and Joseph Mangus, farmers from Towanda, Pa., met their deaths near Bellefonte.

out of a boy before the eyes of his mother. Tuesday—A boy, 2, found tonic tablets prescribed for his mother, ate them and died in Riley Hospital. Wednesday—Head down, a lad, 7, rushed into the path of a street car to recover a shoe which had slipped off as he had dashed across the track. He died beneath a car wheel. Another child obtained his father’s automatic pistol and seriously wounded himself. Thursday—A youth, 16, waded into a hole in White River and was drowned. Friday—Burns suffered when she danced into a small tub of scalding water in her mother’s kitchen cost the life of a girl, 4. He urged parents to religiously follow these suggestions: Constantly drill into children the rule that they must look both ways before crossing a street and that it is best to - walk—not run —at intersections. Motorists naturally are more on the alert at street corners.

Above, left to right, Robert Rice, Recreation Director Jesse J. McClure and Thomas Minet enjoying Hie first splash of the season at Rhodius Park pool. Below, boys and girls i%ady to “hang their clothes on a hickory limb” at the eutlrance to the Rhodius pool. William F. Deakiu. park custodian, in center of group, and Angelous Pappas, in charge of concessions, at right.

State Chairman Clyde Walb, and accompanied by Watson and Senator Robinson, called on the President and asked him to speak in Indiana this fall. The request was taken “under consideration,” White House language for a polite refusal. But Coolidge was enticed out on the lawn for a photograph and had it taken standing between Watson and Robinson. Observers detected a certain little quirk to Coolidge's lips which indicated the humor of the situation did not escape him. Ill feeling will continue on both sides. Watson is as avowed a candidate for the Presidency as if he had formally announced it and the President knows it. But the photograph will do to show around in Indiana to assure the Republican voters that relations are cordial. The visit of the Indiana Republican officials was brought about by House members who feared that Watson's breach with Coolidge might imperil the State ticket. They have been asking the Senator to “lay off.” REFUSES BOND ISSUE City In Worse Financial Trouble After Trust Company’s Action. Faced with deficits in many departments, the city administration found itself in additional financial trouble today when the Union Trust Company refused tn sustain its bid for a $210,000 bond* issue it bought, and with which the city officials planned to defray unpaid bills of the last administration. The bank’s action w.as taken after Charles Remster. tax expert, issued a legal opinion that bond issues to defray current expenditures are illegal. Alvah J. Rucker, corporation counsel, contends the debts are not current and are thereby legal.

Never leave medicine, lye or other drugs or chemicals where children may get them. The safest way is to keep such materials in a locked medicine cabinet so high on a wall that children cannot get to it. Never leave firearms where any person, of whatever age, not thoroughly familiar with the operation and proper uses of surh weapons, can lay hands upon them. Do not swim in White River, the canal or streams In and near the city except at the two municipal river beaches, and then only when lifeguards are on duty. Indianapolis has sufficient capacity at safe private and public pools and beaches to accommodate every boy and girl who wants to swim. Constantly guard against such hazards in the home as open vessels of hot water on the floor, nails, screws or broken glass, sharp knives or scissors, upon which children might fail, and in the case of small children, even such objects as forks, pencils, pins, nail files and sharpened sticks.

UNION ORGANIZERS SUE FOR DAMAGES Eight Street Car Men Ask Total of $260,000. Eight suits demanding a total of $260,000 damages for alleged mall clous prosecutions were filed in Circuit Court today by Robert Armstrong and John M. Parker, representatives of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes and six former local street car Employes against the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, board of saf> ty, Police Chief Claude F. Johnson and Officers Leßoy Pope, Orville Hudson, Orla Chitwood and Griffith Marcy. The, plaintiffs charged they were unlawfully and maliciously arrested and jailed under high vagrancy bonds, while trying to organize a union among street car employes. Some of them later were fined in municipal court, it was said. Plaintiffs, besides Parker and Armstrong, were Curtis Johnson, Jesse Young, Russell .and Joseph Fort, Clifford Pickle and Carl Lucas. Frank P. Baker, association attorney, and Harry Dynes, conciliator for the Department of Labor, conferred with Governor Jackson today. KINDNESS DID NOT PAY Tramp Boy Takes Razor and Other Articles From Trainman. Feeding and clothing a hobo and obtaining a job for him cost Homer Pollard. 419 Ketcham St., Pennsylvania Railroad trainman, a razor, hone and articles valued at $6.50 Friday night. Pollard took a liking to a boy tramp he found on his train and took him home. He found the stranger a job. Pollard said the youth disappeared with his valuables when he and his wife left their home for a few hours Friday night.

Funeral services for Laura May Mobley, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mobley, 2019 Caroline Ave., the fifth child tragedy victim of the week, will be held Monday at 2 p. m. The girl died Friday in Indiana Christian Hospital for burns received when she danced backwards into a tub of water in the kitchen of her home. The mother, only a few feet away, was unable to catch the child in time to prevent the tragedy. Three boys, two 8 and one 13, were injured Friday when they were struck by autos. Gilbert Heck, 13, Apt. 12. of 134 W. Twenty-First St., is in St. Vincent’s Hospital with internal injuries received when his bicycle was struck by an auto driven by Robert Tappen. 3836 Washington Bivd , at Thirtieth St. and Washington Bivd. John McGrow, 414 Concord St., and Robert Williams, 418 Concord St., both 8. were injured when auto of John Weekly, 3902 W. Vermont St., struck them while they were playing on the sidewalk. Weekly lost control of the auto. It was said.

Entered as Second-clasa Matter at Pvstoffloe, Indianapolis. Published Pally Except Sunday.

BREACH BETWEEN POLICE, PROSECUTOR IS WIDENED; REMY’S AIDS WITHDRAWN • . Johnson, Aroused by Prosecutor’s Criticism of Department, Recalls Two Detectives. ISSUES STATEMENT TO PUBLIC County Official Replies Predicts Grand Jury Action.

Aroused by Prosecutor William 11. Remy’s charge in a public address Thursday night that political bosses were able to transfer efficient officers from bootleg districts, Police Chief Claude F. Johnson and the city administration today struck back at the prosecutor.

Developments In the conflict were: Johnson removed Detectives Harry McGlenn and Jessie MeMurtry from Remy’s office and assigned them to active duty on the police detective force. Me.Murtry and McGlenn have been assigned to Remy’s office as special investigators. Mayor Speaks Mayor Duvall challenged Remy to provide him the names of policemen Remy said were shifted because they were pursuing prohibition law violators too zealously. Johnson, in a statement and at a city cabinet meeting, criticised the prosecutor's office for laxity of deputies, none of whom are on duty from noon Saturday until Monday morning. There are no judges on duty during that period either, he said, and police are hindered by being unable to obtain warrants. Remy retaliated by reiterating his charge that politics has played too important a part in the police depart itient. "I reiterate that the police department must be divorced from politics,” he said. Remy Replies In a statement in reply to the broadside of Johnson. Remy declared he had made no sweeping denunciation of the police department, declared he believed Johnson had been doing his best in a difficult position and disavowed any Intentions of breaking friendly relations with Johnson. But he cited Federal raids In which seventy liquor arrests were made, and declared that the Government dry agents in many cases had bought liquor while police were present. He cited the fart that four patrolmen against whom evidence of accepting bribes was prepared by his office, were found guilty by the board of safety, but not dismissed from the force. Wait for Jury And as a parting shot, declared: “Wait until the grand jury reports, then they will not think I am talking through my hat. Facts and information I have received have been referred to the grand jury and in due time will be brought to light.” Chief Johnson at city cabinet meeting defended the record of police in

Chief Slaps Prosecutor Police Chief Claude F. Johnson made this statement in reply to Prosecutor Remy: “Conditions in the „police department are better now thin they have been for twenty-five years. "I have letters from civic organlz a tio n s and

church leaders all over the city to verify the assertion. But instead of getting cooperation from the prosecutor's office in our efforts to enforce law, we are met with such contempt i b 1 e charges. “If Mr. Remy con tl n ues to

Johnson make his unfounded assertions before public gatherings, I will attend the meetings myself and tell the citizens of Indianapolis just, how much cooperation we have had from the prosecutor’s office. “I might ask Mr. Remy why, after calling me In his office and show(Turn to Page 2) CONFERS WITH GILLIOM John W. Kern Strong Candidate for .Municipal Judgeship. John W. Kern, an attorney. United States commissioner, one of the strong candidates for appointment as successor to the late Municipal Judge Edward Felt, today conferred with Attorney General Arthur L. Gllllom regarding his eligibility for the post. Governor Jackson Is expected to name the new Judge sc<jn.

Forecast Unsettled tonight find Sun* dajr; probably shower* and thunderstorms;; cooler Sunday afternoon or night*

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his report on activities of the past month. Police secured twice as many liquor convictions this May than they did In May of Inst year, he said. The police force is in a good condition, he said, over 140 men having been dismissed since the first of the year on charges of conduct unbecoming officers. “Gradually, he said, we intend to fire more and weed out all undesirables.” After calling McMurtry and McGlenn Into his office and holding a brief interview with the men, Johnson accompanied them to the office of Inspector Claude Worley and said, “Here, Claude, are two men who will he of more service to the taxpayers working In this office than where they have been. They are good men and we are short In this department anyway.” Political Conflicts The conflict between Remy and administration officials is Influenced by the fact that Remy was opposed for renomination by the Oeorge V. Coffin branch of the Republican party to which Duvall and most city officers are affiliated. “He's beginning his campaign early,” said Duvall, while Johnson charged the statement was part of an effort to “hoodwink the public with the coming election tn view.” Duvall expressed no hostility to Remy, but said he was convinced his assertions were without basis of truth. “But if Mr. Remy can prove to me that policemen are being threatened by the politicians for performing their duty in cleaning up blind tigers. I'll promise him there will be something doing at the police station,”'said the mayor. A Change, If—''There’ll be a change of a few high officers if they are allowing the politicians to move policemen." Hotver, Duvall said he had “all the faith In the world” In Police Chief Claude F. Johnson. “If there Is anything like that going on I know the mayor doesn't know anything about it and I don't believe Claude Johnson does. We have held conferences nearly every day In which he has reported progress in cleaning up the liquor dens. "I told him Just theother day to watch Rufe Page (Negro Republican politician) when T heard reports that he and Bill Armltage were getting together.”

Remy Firm, Wants Clean-up Prosecutor Remy made this statement today in reply to Police Chief Johnson: , “1 am a little surprised at th# chief's attitude In view of the fact

that up until this time we were thoroughly In accord on all matters pertaining to ♦he police. I have always respected the chief's attitude, and to have believed that he was doing his best. In an exceedingly difficult position. So far as I am concerned, there will be no break between us. “I made no

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sweeping denunciation of the police department. I specifically said that the burden of the enforcement of the law must be borne equally by every law enforcing agency, from the police department to the Governor, and that the blame for the lack of the law’s en(Turn to Page 2) WORLEY GETS OPINION Orders Copies of law Given to Sec-ond-Hand Store Owners. Police Inspector Claude M. Worley today received an opinion from John K. Ruckelshaus, city attorney, that the law requiring second hand store dealers to report description of goods bought and names of persons selling the article, is still In effect. Worley ordered distribution of copies of the law and blanks for making the reports to police. Worley believes the plan will greater cut down the sale at stolen goods.