Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 47

‘SPIT-DEVIL’ TAKES LIFE OF CHILD, 2 Baby Dies of Poison —Holiday Death Toll in Indiana Eleven. LOCAL MAN DROWNS t Auto Accidents Fatal to Six Persons. With the death early today of Earl Donovan Smith, 2, of SixtyEighth and Ferguson Sts., from poison, as the result of having eaten a “spit devil" piece of fireworks, Monday's holiday death toll in Indiana was increased to eleven. Five persons, one an Indianapolis resident, were drowned and the others were killed in auto crashes and an auto-train accident. The Smith baby ate the “spitdevil” while at Ft. Wayne, became sick and was brought back to Im dianapolis Monday evening Ipy his father, Harley Smith He was taken to city hospital, where he died at 1:10 a. m. Drowned in River Ronald M. Fisher, 32, of 629 E. Fifty-Second St., was drowned Sunday afternoon while swimming in White River near Noblesville, Ind., where he was spending the week-end with friends. The body was recovered and a pulmotor was used for nearly an hour. The body was under the water about thirty-eight minutes. Fisher was a salesman for the Kelly Springfield Tire Company. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, secretary of the Southern Club and served overseas in the World War. Funeral services will be held at (Turn to Page 10,

CITY PROSECUTOR MAKESPROTEST Says He Is Tired of Doing Special Deputies’ Work. City Prosecutor Arthur B. DinsViore today announced he would refuse. to prepare affidavits for liquor law violations. “I’m tired doing the work of the special deputies of the State wjjo are not in,” he said. Dinsmore and the three deputy attorneys generals, who received compensation in fees from liquor cases under the Wright bone dry law. share an office at police headquarters. He receives no extra fee for liquor case work. The men, named by Prosecutor William H. Remy. will receive more than $30,000 in fees this year at their present rate of compensation. FOR~CITY OWNERSHIP Council Head Favors Taking Over One of Light Companies. Municipal ownership of one of the Indianapolis electric light companies is favored by Boynton J. Moore, city council president, he said today. Moore and majority councilmen now are in the midst of a movement to obtain ownershin of the Indianapolis Wc. ter t Company. Moore returned from an inspection of the municipal water plant in Anderson, Ihd.. Monday pleased with results there. , - “They’re ready to reduce water rates and the plant has tripled in value since it has been owned by the city,” he said. FALLS FROM VEHICLE Woman Raid to Have Been .lumping Off and On Auto. Miss Henrietta IJall, ne B TO - l” 6 ® Boulevard PL, was injured when she fell from an auto at Eighteenth St. and Boulevard Pi' Monday night. Nathan * Bentley, Negro, 421 W. Fourteenth St,, and another young woman, in the auto, said that Miss Hall was demonstrating how she could jump on and off the moving vehicle. HE GOT ALL READY Mose Brookins, 47, Negro, in serious condition at city hospital after taking poison Monday evening, made all preparations to die, police said today. He visited his wife, from Whom he is estranged, presented her with his insurance policy and a note and their child with some fireworks, and then drank the poison.

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Cat in Court Lands in “The Jug” Sheriff Omer Hawking today took not only the cat’s pajamas, but the whole cat itself. When Criminal Court was opened, a stray, "friendly black kitten was found roaming about the room. Nobody knew from whence it came or whether it was an omen of bad luck for someone. Sheriff Hawkins, observing the kitten, placed it under arrest and held it in the office of Prosecutor William H. Remy until he was ready to take it to the jail. "He’s sentenced there for life,” said. Hawkins as he carried the kitten away in a paper sack.

1-HOUR PARKING PROPOSED IN NEW TRAFFIC MEASURE Ordinance Would Make Four Avenues Preferential Thoroughfares. Universal one-hour parking limit for the entire business district and designation of Kentucky, Virginia, Massachusetts and Indiana Aves., as preferential thoroughfares are additional items in the proposed traffic ordinance city council will receive tonight. A limit of one and one-half hours prevails in most of the business section, except on Market, Meridian and Delaware Sts., a car may be parked only fifteen minutes. Merchants to Protest The ordinance also stipulates flat-to-curb parking, and would prohibit parking on Monument Circle. Circle merchants are to present a protest. v The object of the one-hnur parking limit is to discourage the use of downtown streets as garages and to authorize persons to leave cars for short business calls, according to Tod Stoops, manager of the Hoosier Motor Club, who assisted in drafting the measure. Expert Barrett Talk Discussion of the -long-delayed Barrett law ordinance, drafted to end the diversion of more than $50,000 annually In Barrett law interest funds to the Marion County treasurer, was expected. Councilman Edward B. Raub, Democrat, said he will demand the reason why Councilman O. Ray Albertson has pocketed the ordinance In a committee of which he is chairman.

GOOLIDGE STARTS VACATION ray President to Leave Late This Afternoon. Bv United Prenn WASHINGTON, July 6.—President and Mrs. Coolidge will leave Washington late this, afternoon for the Adirondacks. where this year’s summer White House is situated. Their train will skirt New York, passing through New Jersey and then go northward through New York State. The presidential party foes to Lake Osgood, New York, and the luxuiious summer camp lent the President by Irwin •R. Kirkwood, editor of the Kansas City Star. COUNCIL.MEN TO WADE * Say Children Should Be to Use Casting Pool. To demonstrate the amiability of the municipal casting pool as a wading place for children, city councilmen Wednesday morning will rolf up trousers and lave their feet in the premises reserved for casters of the fishing line. Councilman Otis E. Bartholomew, who will ask the park board to let the children share the pool at College Ave. and Fall Creek, will lead the waders. ,_J LIGHTNING KILLS BATHER Flees to Bathhouse During Thunder Storm, Struck. Bu United Pres* SULLIVAN, Ind.. July 6—Driven by a thundershower into the Riverview beach house southwest of Fairbanks. one of a party of bathers was instantly killed Monday evening when lightning Struck the building. Garland Shroyer of Sullivan, was the victim. Prompt use of a pulmotor Is believed to have saved the lives of his two companions. HORSE, WAGON ‘RENTED’ Says Wife Strangers Have Property—Not Returned. William Bray. 1 1 1 n Deloss St., today told nolice his wife rented his horse and wagon, to two strange men. They did not return the borrowed property, he 'declared. Bray valued his horse and wagon at SSO. DOTY’S TRIAL POSTPONED Bn T_'nttrd Preen LONDON, July 6.—Trial of Bennett J. Doty of Memptis. Tenn., for desertion from the foreign legation in Syria, has been Indefinitely postponed, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Beirut.

FEDERAL OFFICIALS START CAR STRIKE INVESTIGATION

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AWAKES, PURSE MISSING Reports pocketbook and SI 15 Stolen, After Ride With Friend. His pocketbook containing slls was missing after a ride with a friend. Robert O. Dorman, grocer, 1833 S. East St., told police today. Dorman said a ‘friend” asked him to take a ride in his car and he fell asleep. When he awoke the purse was gone, and so was the driver of the car. TRANSMiTOPINION IN LEAGUE CASE Lawyers Draft Report on Contempt Charge. An opinion as to the guilt or innocence of Edward S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana AntiSaloon League, charged with making contemptuous statements about State Supreme Court, was to be transmitted to the court this afternoon by the special advisory committee. The committee, known as “friends of the Court,” was to determine whether Shumaker was assisted in the preparation of his 1925 league report by either Ethan A. Miles or Jess E. Martin, dry body attorneys, who are co-defendants. The advisoiy body also was to determine whether the defendants have purged themselves of the contempt charges instituted by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. The punishment, should there he any, rests with the court, it was said. Members of the committee are Dan W. Simms, Fred C. Gause, C. C. Shirley, Evan B. Stotsenburf, Moses B. Lairy and George O. Dix. HUMIDITYCAUSE OE DISCOMFORT Drop in Temperature Tonight, Is Forecast. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 75 10 a. m 64 7 a. m 76 11 a. rrj 85 8 a. m 81 12 (noon) 86 9 a. m 85 “It’s not the heat so much. It’s the humidity,” said Meteorologist J. H. Armington of the United States Weather Bureau today, commenting on the weather conditions that made Indianapolis extremely uncomfortable. Humidity is just another name for moisture in the air. A humidity of 89 per cent, coupled with temperature of 76 at 7 a. m., made the weather sultry. However, there should not be so much moisture in the air by Wednesday morning and temperature may be a bit lower this evening, Armington stated. There is a possibility of thundershowers this afternoon or early this evening, according to the forecast. At 1 p. m. the temperature was 82. Frank Reilly, 72. 1160 N. Randolph St., was overcome by the heat at noon at Pennsylvania and Market Sts. He was taken to city hospital.

Farmer Hangs Crepe on Door of Home; Kills Wife and Self

Bu Times Seecial CULVER, Ind., July 6.—After hanging crepe on the door of his home and leaving a note to the undertaker stating that' his funeral should not cost more than SB3, William Joseph, 60, a farmer living seven miles west of here, early today killed his

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1926

SUBWAY TIE-UP SLOWS NEW YORK GOING 10 WORK Complete Paralysis Fails, However —Congestion Is Enormous. I Bn f wff'vf n rfSi NEW YORK, July 6.—The strike motormen and switchmen on the Inlerborough Rapid Transit Company's subway lines which started at midnight, delayed hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers today but at noon it seemed certain that transportation was far from paralyzed. Curtailed service , operated by emergency men on the 1. R. T. lines, plus the overflow which the B 7 M. T. subway and (he elevated lines could handle, carried several hundred thousand to work. Many Ride Busses More hundreds of thousands came on the elevated, lines, on several hu r dred emergency busses, and on surfade lines which ran all available cars on a partial express schedule. Congestion of automobiles, taxicabs and busses in The streets was tremendous. New York’s Workers, approximately 2,000.000 persons, were getting back to the job at the fag end of a holiday. The holiday itself had seen the most terrific congestion of motor roads, railroad lines and terminals ever witnessed In the city. The transit systems of the city, at best overburdened by their job of handling of population of 7,000.000, were taxed to the fullest in today's jam as, under drizzling rain, the trek to offices began. Claims Vary The 704 men who staged a rump strike demanding wage increases predicted that but 5 per cent effectiveness of I. R. T. lines could be maintained by strike breakers. The company said service was maintained at 50 per cent normal. Five hundred new men were imported from western cities to fill the places of the strikers. Other subway lines, elevated and surface cars, and bus services operated all possible trains to handle the traffic. The city put 500 extra busses into service. Ferries Used Plans were laid to run ferry boats up and down the Hudson River to handle passengers between the uptown and downtown New York. One policeman will ride each I. R. T. train during the strike. Slxtyflve hundred police are bn strike duty. Automobile traffic by 10 a, m. became badly congested in the center of New York. Cars pouring in from the ferries, busses and taxicabs, all running in incensed numbers, so congested Broadway from City Hall park to the battery that traffic came practically to a standstill. For ten minutes at a time it would not move. Mounted police and emergency traffic officers at 10:30 had been unable to break the Jam. Other parts of the city reported congestion increasing. SLAYER SUSPECT HELD Bu Unitrri Press CINCINNATI. Ohio, July 6. Charged with the murder of Richard Ellis, sheriff of Oneida, Lawrence Hill, 23, was arrested here today.

wife, age 45. with a shotgun, and then took his life in the same way. Neighbors believed that overwork and the excessive heat had made Joseph temporarily insane. He had been in poor health recently. Joseph was well known In this vicinity.

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Though no semblance of violence appeared, police today reinforced their shotgun and riot club equipment with machine .guns and tear .gas bombs, borrowed from the Indiana National Guard, as the street car men’s strike entered its second day. Board of Safety President 0. D. Haskett (left), and Chief of Police 4 laude F. Johnson (next to him), are shown inspecting the added equipment. Trafficman Archie Ball, standing next to Johnson. Is holding a machine gun. Below: Union President Harry Boggs and Vice President Joseph Fort, optimistic they will win their battle.

DURKIN TELLS WHY HE SHOT SHANAHAN f ‘This Dude Reached for My Pocket Where I Had 2,000 Bucks, So I Let Him Have It,’ He Testifies.

Bu I nitrd Prr** CHICAGO, July 6. —Martin Durkin told from the witness stand today his version of the shooting of Federal Agent Edwin C. Shanahan—a shooting for which he faces death on the gallows if convicted. Durkin almost broke down as he told how he was "surprised” in a south side garage b.v a man "sticking a gun in-my back and telling me to 'stick ’em up.’ He insisted that he shot at the man without knowing who he Was and in the be lief that he was about to be robbed. Stooping Qver Motor "I bad Just driven my car into the garage,” Durkin testified, "and was stooping over the running board looking into the motor to see where the trouble was. "All of a sudden I was surprised by a man sticking a gun in my back and telling me to ‘stick em up'. I thought it was a stickup guy and so I asked him what it was all about. NEW QUAKE |N SUMATRA Heavy Property Damage Reported to Amsterdam. Bv United Preen THE HAGUE, July 6.—Severe earthquake shocks caused great damage in Sumatra today, according to dispatches received here. Dwellings in the Chinese quarter of Solok were destroyed and the Solok railway station is a heap of ruins. The postoffices at Fort De Kook and Siloengang were partially destroyed and the governor's headquarters at Sawasloento was damaged. BIG FIRE AT BRAZIL Bv United Prctt BRAZIL, Ind., July B.—The tipple, engine house and clay crushing plant of the Climax Coal and Clay Company at Saline, twelve miles south of Brazil, was destroyed by fire during the night. The loss was placed at $150,000. It is covered by Insurance. BOY. 11, BITTEN BY DOG Mns.,Ruth Werns, 2428 E. Eleventh St., today told'police that she and her'son Alfred, 11. were visiting at 1529 Comar # Ave., when a dog owned by Marshall Hall, Negro. 1507 Southern Ave.. attacked the boy. He was bitten on the leg but after treatment was taken home. Police ordered the dpg penned up. THREE shot to death Bv United Prctn MEXICO CITY, July 6.—Dispatches from Abucatlan, State of Nayarit, said that Col. Ismael Gallardo, candidate for the Senate, and three of his friends were shot to death Sunday in the village of Jala.

"A minute later I felt this dude reaching for my hip pocket where I had two thousand bucks and so I jumped. Just then two bullets ripped through my overcoat. Ijri Him Have It "I didn't lose any time getting to my guns then. I whipped them out and let him have it. "Then I ran to the front of the garage calling for help. There was nobody around and so I ran back to the car. jumped in and drove away like hell." The courtroom was crowded to its utmost by a throng of curious who had come to hear this notorious gunman in his effort to save himself by the alibi that he shot in selfdefense. The crowd could not restrain an occasional chuckle as Durkin allowed his story to drop into the vernacular of the underworld with such expressions as "let him have It," —meaning he fired directly into Shanahan’s body. POSTPONE PROSECUTION Delay Case Against Street Car Company Because of Strike. City Prosecutor Arthur B. Dinsmore today received permission from Alvah J. Rucker, corporation counsel, to delay prosecution of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company on an anti-smoke law violation charge until the strike sitiAition clears. , “I want to see the cars move," Rucker explained. The charge arose from alleged violation Os the law at the W. Washington St. power plant. MODIFICATION FORESEEN Cal!am Sees Better Deal on .American Debt. Bu United Prrst PARIS, July 6. —Joseph Caillaux told the Chamber of Deputies today that he had received assurances of modification of the Berenger agreement for funding the French debt to the Ifhited States. The Mellon-Berenger agreement will be submitted to parliament with the Anglo-French agreement which still is to be negotiated, Caillaux said, and told the deputies that ratification of the agreements ta pay debts v.as indispensable to the feat of rehabilitating French fiance. A b\ck stage tragedy Things sometimes happen back stage! Frank Jones. Apt. 1, of 227 N. Delaware St.. Lyric Theater stage hand, today reported to police that his pocketbook containing $44 was stolen while he was asleep on the stage.

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Contempt of Court Charges Against Two Organizers Prepared—Affidavits Filed by Company. - - - ■■■ - HOPE 80 PER CENT OPERATION Resolution Asking Mayor to Act to Be Before Council. The United States Department of Justice today began a search for evidence of contempt of court in connection with the Indianapolis street car men's strike. The search began after attorneys for the Indianapolis Street Railway Company turned over to Assistant United States District Attorney Alexander C’avins a nnmber of affidavits alleging contempt on the part of two organizers of the local strikers.

James P. Tretton, superintendent of the street railway company, early today estimated 60 per cent of the scheduled cars were operating in spite of the strike. At noon he said the percentage had increased. He hoped to have 80 per cent of regularly scheduled cars running by 4 p. m., he said. "I may be too optimistic, though." he said. Strikers claimed only 55 per cent of the regularly scheduled cars were running. Await Decision Efforts for strike peace through arbitration were practically abandoned pending the decision of Federal Judge Rober C. Baltzell on the contempt question A decision on this was expected to be precipitated Wednesday morning. Upon the* return of United States District Attorney Albert Ward from Hammond tonight, the evidence collected by the Department of Justice and the affidavits in Cavins’ possession are expected to be used as the basis of a bill of information alleging contempt to be filed before Judge Baltzell. the bill of information', it is understood, will charge two union organizers with violation of a preliminary injunction issued Saturday of the Street Railway Company. The injunction prevented “all persons knowing of this order" from being involved in any moves to interfere with street car operation. Deny Violations Robert D. Armstrong and John M. Parker, international vice presidents and organizers of the local branch of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway and Electric Employes, which voted the strike, construed the injunction as preventing them from advising the local men to strike, and declared they have not violated the order if this Is its meaning. Efforts of Harry B. Dynes, Department of Labor conciliator, to induce Robert I. Todd, Indianapolis Street Railway president, to arbitrate with the strikers were halted temporarily following hie unsuccessful appeal Monday to induce Mayor Duvall to take action. Dynes appeared at union head quarters where he received word that labor officials will agree to hold open their ofTer. of arbitration in the controversy. Council so Ask Mayor City council will take a hand in the dispute tonight when Councilman Walter R. Dorsett introduces a resolution requesting Mayor Duvall “to take steps to obtain arbitration” between the company and its striking employes. ( Dorsett said the resolution would mention the fact that the company received an increase in fare from 5 to 7 cents with a 2-cent transfer and had not increased wages of its employes accordingly. Although maintaining a “hands off” attitude, Governor Jackson was watching developments closely. *T am only interested seeing the laws obeyed and In the prevention of any damage to life or property, - the Governor said. Some time ago when the trouble between the railway and employes appeared acute. It was suggested to Jackson that he appoint s board of arbitration, as provided in a 1915 act. Recently, however, the matter has not come to the Governor’s official attention, he said. Jackson commended the public service commission’s recent decision that it lacks authority to arbitrate the dispute. Strikers, who received from 37 to 42 cents an hour, and worked on an average of ten hours, a day, are demanding recognition of their union, higher wages and reinstatement of sixty-four men discharged for joining the union. Though there was no violence or disorder of any kind in connection with the strike. Chief of Police Claude F. Johnson kept the entire police force on twelve-hour shifts, and assigned 124 men to strike duty exclusively. Strikers Meet. Jamming Plumbers’ Hall. Alabama and Washington Sts., this morning more than 500 -strikers rekindled their hope of success and heard th'e reports of picket-checkers that 65 per cent of the cars are operating. A dozen street car men who worked Monday, first day of thf strike, appeared at the meeting and made speeches pledging their active support of the workmen’s cause “until w win.” These speeches and the fact that more than 100 more men attended (Turn to Page 11)

Forecast Mostly fair tonight and Wednesday; probably preceded by thunder showers; not quite so warm tonight.

TWO CENTS

CANOE UPSETS; MAN DROWNED On Swimming Trip—Three Escape From Water. Raymond Decker. 24. of 1238 Deloss St., was drowned this afternoon in Whiter River near Sixty-Ninth 8t„ when he attempted to change seats with a companion and overturned a canoe. Two other men in the canoe escaped. Bruce Oaulden, 23, of 1236 De Loss St., one of the two companions, however, had to fight himself loose when Decker seized him as he was sinking. Carl Ruddick, 21, of 621 Laurel St., the third man, called 'or help and attracted three men. who recovered the body after it had been in the water about forty-five minutes. From the appearance of the body. Decker also might have suffered a heart attack It was said. The three men had gone to Ravenswood beach to swim, had rented the canoe and paddled down to Sixty-Ninth St., when Decker, sitting in tried to change places with Gauiden, who was in the rear. None of the men were good swimmers. Decker was the fifth person to be drowned here this season.

WIFE UNWILLING WITNESS IN CASE Husband Alleged to Have Beaten Her. Mrs. Fern Grose. 4022 S. Capitol Ave., was an unwilling witness in Criminal Court today during a preliminary hearing on an assault and battery charge against her husband, William F. Grose. The grand Jury Indicted Grose after it waa charged he struck and heat hla wife. At the request of Prosecutor William H. Remy, Judge James A. Collins required Mra. Grose to provide a SSOO bond to Insure her appearance in court this afternoon when neighbors were to testify. Remy said Mra. Grose refused to appear before the grand Jury. Judge Collins ordered that Ray O." Woods and wife, Mrs. Pearl Woods. 4028 N. Capitol Ave., into whose home Mrs. Grose is said to have fled the night cf the alleged quarrel, be brought into court. ROAl) RIDS TO BE OPENED Bids will he opened Wednesday by the State highway commission on bituminous macadam surface treatment of 4 '-4 in ilea of State Rd. IS In Carroll County. The new paving will extend from Deer Creek north to a point about five miles south of Logansport. Work muat be completed by Nov, t.

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