Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 48

DUVALL HAT THROWN IN HIGHER RING Friends Start Movement to Back Mayor for Governorship. HAND BILLS PRINTED Position in Political Maneuvers Defended. Friends of Mayor Duvstll have cast his hat into the ring as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, it became known today. The movement apparently has reached an advanced stage, for hand bills are in circulation at factories and other centers, defending the mayor's position in recent city administration political maneuvers. The bills are signed by the “Duvall for Governor Club.’' "Don’t read the insidious propaganda which is being circulated against the city administration under the guise of a weekly newspaper,’’ say the bills. “REMEMBER "The charges against the police department may not be true. Officers of the police department may not be accepting protection money, as has been changed. Park Board Mentioned "There may be a reason for the tearing apart of the park board. "There may be a reason for the change In the routing of Kessler Blvd. "Just because a man is a brother-in-law of a city official does not mean he Is not a capable employe.’’ Duvall's candidacy for Governor would be a disturbing factor in the camp 6t Senator James E. Watson, as a number of the Senator's political generalissimos already are emphatically in the field. Leading Watson Men M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue, and Republican State Chairman Clyde A. Walb are leading Watson men tfrho are sup l posed to be In line for the honor. Thurman was considered the "brains” of the Watson campaign in the primary while Walb violated precedent by espousing the Watson cause and opposing the candidacy of Claris Adams, Watson’s opponent. Whether Duvall's candidacy means a difference between the hefty young ring Senator Arthur R. Robinson and his political backer, George V. Coffin, have formed and the Watson ballbearing machine is being discussed considerably. In the recent primary, Duvall was concerned chiefly with the fortunes of two Robinsons, Senator Arthur R. and Clyde E.. president of the Marion County State bank, of which Duvall formerly was chairman of the board of directors. Clyde E. Robinson was nominated for Marion County treasurer. Should Duvall win the gubernatorial nomination, a Robinson man. not a Watson henchman, would be in the saddle. HEAI RECEDES DURING NIGHT But Temperature la Due to Go Up Again! HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 81 7 a. m 71 11 a. m 83 8 a. m 76 12 (noon) .... 85 • a. m 77 1 p. ni 86 Indianapolis slept a bit more comfortably Tuesday night, and went to work in a better mood today, when the high-flying mercury dropped back toward normal and a high humidity disappeared. However, according to the United States weatheV bureau’s forecast, warmer weather is due tonight and Thursday. Temperature of 71 at 7 a. m. was Just normal and was 5 degrees below the mark for the same hour Tuesday, The mercury went down to 63 at 4 p. m., 12 degrees below the mark for the night before. Humidity, or air moisture, which waa 89 Tuesday, was only 68 today, • The thermometer registered 85 at noon .one degree- below the mark for that hour Tuesday, MAD DOG SCARE Bu United /*r< ns CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 7 Twenty persons have been bitten by a mad dog epidemic this week despite a city muzzling ordinancl. One dog, infected with rabies, bit sixteen persons last week.

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Jap Kills Self to Free White Bride Bu United D reaa EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 7.—William Idl, 22-year-old Jap, killed himself to liberate his white bride, whose parents objected to the marriage. This was revealed today in a note found on the body of the dead man, who locked himself in a gas filled room. Lillian McDaniels. 16. the young bride, said she and Idl -had been married two weeks age In Madisonville, Ky. She said she saw him last twelve days ago. The letter reads: “My dear wife: “I am going to kill myself. I don’t know what I tell you last before I know what you did last night. I never willed to do this way. “Lillian, I don't annul our marry, because I still love you. Do you think I afraid go to jail and death? I am glad to do it for sake my love. “But, Lillian, do not-“yon try to* kill yourself, because you have nice mother and father, don't let them have worry again. “Young lady, I can hear the sound of gas that Is killing me, but I don’t die yet. "Anyway I have not any hope to save my life if I miss you, I think death is best way to go. “I am hard to keep write to you now. Well, goodby. “Your William Idl.’’

STATE LIBRARIAN NAMED Flint (Mich.) Man Appointed Successor to Demarchus C. Brown. Apopintment of Louis J. Bailey of Flint, Mich., a former Hoosier, as State library director, was announced today by the Indiana library and historical board. Bailey Sept. 1 succeeds Demarchus C. Brown, State librarian for the last twenty year*, whose resignation was accepted at the last meeting. Brown was appointed librarian emeritus and book consultant. Bailey served as president Indiana Library Association in 1913 and 1914. He was Gary librarian from 1908 to 1922. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester and of the New York State Library School. Recently he has been engaged in reorganization. of the Flint library.

HERRIN TROUBLE LOOMS Officials Arrest Members of Alleged , Terror Gang. By United Pnta HERRIN, IIL. July 7.—Possibility of further armed violence was seen here today with the arrest of two members of a gang, which, according to city officials, has terrorized Herrin for the past few months. Following a series of attacks on citizens who were afraid to make complaints, Ray Walker and "Blackie” Arms are under arrest and more arrests are promised by the sheriffs office and police of Herrin within the next few hours. Trouble last broke out in Herrin on April 13* when six were killed in rioting. KESSLER BLVD. OPINION ! Attorney Park Board Is Not Bound by .Agreement. The present city park board is not bound legally by agreement of the old board though which the city and Marion Oounty jointly would build Kessler Blvd. from Keystone Ave. to Bellefontaine St., was the legal given by Telford Orbison, park board atorney. today, Orbison said there was no record of a contract between the two parties. Old board members resigned when the new majority members refused to sanction the Kessler Blvd. project. PONZI FATE THURSDAY Texas Governor to Rule Then on Extradition. Bv United Preta HOUSTON, Tex., July 7.—Charles Ponzi, financial wizard, will know Thursday whether he will be removed to Massachusetts to serve from seven to nine years as a “common and notorious thief.” Governor Ferguson today set hearing for tomorrow on the request of the Governor of Massachusetts for Ponzi's extradition. SEEK TO REMOVE COIN Third Operation on Throat of Child, 3—Attempt Unsuccessful. Physicians today made a third attempt to remove a 6-cent piece from the throat of Margaret Rose Walsh, 3, daughter of Herbert Walsh, Bentonville, at St. Vincent's Hospital. Several weeks ago the child swallowed two nickels. ,One was removed Tuesday. Another attempt to remove the second coin Tuesday night was unsuccessful. BUS HEARING JULY 14 Hearing on petition of Joseph Day and others to compel the People's Motor Coach Company to run a bus line from Brookville Rd. and Emerson Ave., south to Day's Casino, will be heard July 14 by George Hutsell, bus examiner fog the public service commision. LOCAL FIRM’S BID LOW A low bid es $19,539.64 was made today by the Hayes Construction Company of Indianapolis when -the State highway commission opened bids on paving four and a half miles of State Road 15 in Carroll County. The stretch, to be treated with bituminous macadam, extends from Deer Creek north to a point five miles south of Logan sport.

SUPPORT OF OTHER UNIONS SOUGHT BY CAR STRIKERS

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PENN STATE QUIZ CLOSES; ILLINOIS PROBEDATE SET Senate Committee to Go to Chicago July 26—Hear Morin at LasL Bu United Preta WASHINGTON. July 7. 'The Senate primary investigating committee today closed its four weeks' inquiry into the $3,000,000 Pennsylvania primary and adjourn' and to meet in Chicago, July 26, to investigate the Illinois senatorial race in which the committee hag heard a similar amount was spent. The committee closed Its sensational investigation with the testimony of Representative John M. Morin, west State campaign manager for William S, Vare, wet, who won the Pennsylvania Republican senatorial nomination. Morin, long sought as a witness, told how he had handled about $46,500 tn cash for paying off Vare workers in seventeen west State counties. He kept ihe money in a Pittsburgh hotel safety deposit box, but new little of the actual politics of the campaign or the total amount of expenses.. The only new' ■ feature of his testimony was that he had conferred with Governor Gifford Pinchot and Charles McGovern, Pinchot manager, in relation to possible punitive steps against Mayor Charles Kline of Pittsburgh for his “bread and butter speec h.” The conference was held tn a Pittsburgh hotel before the primary, but nothing came of it. i Chairman King announced several “leads” on further Pennsylvania primary testimony had been received by the committee and that the committee might later go Into it but that for the present they would not be Investigated. STOCK QUOTED LOWER Street Car Shares Offered at $4 Than Last Week. Traders on the Indianapolis Stock Exchange today offered to sell Indianapqlis Street Railway preferred stock at s4l a share. This was $4 less than they offered to sell for* at the call Friday. Traders offered to buy the stock at $35 a share, which was the offered at the last cal. No trading was done. Street railway bonds were offered at $66 each, which was 50 cents more than offered Friday. Members were willing Jo sell the bonds at the steady price of $64.50 each, ‘FIRE’ CREATES PANIC 900 Bolt From Theater—Three Children Seriously Hurt. Bu United Brene BOSTON, July 7. —Three children were seriously hurt when an audience of 900 persons, mostly women and children, bolted from a theater as a small piece of plaster fell, followed by a cry of fire. Women fainted, children were trampled and fists blew as men tried to batter their way out. GERMANS PROTEST EXECUTION Bu Unit and Praia BOSTON, July 7. —Governor Fuller today received three radiograms from Berlin trade unionists protesting against imposition of the death sentence on Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanvettl, convicted murderers. COMMUNISTS RAP GREEN Bu United Preas CHICAGO, July 7.—The Workers' (Communist) party today issued a statement denouncing William Green, chairman of the American Federation of Labor, charging he attacked the Workers' party for its interest in the striking textile workers at Passaic, N. Jb

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7,1926

WETS TO AID THREE INDIANA NOMINEES

Democratic Candidates for Twelfth Districts to Be He By Koscoe B. Fleming, Time* Staff Correaoondent WASHINGTON, July 7.—Three congressional candidates in Indiana will be supported this fall by the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Capt. W. H. Stayton, national head of the organization, said today. No stand will be taken by the association on the four senatorial can-* didates, Stayton said, as they are all regarded as dry. He testified Tuesday before the Senate Primary Investigating Committee that the association has $300,000 to spend, and intends to go into senatorial and congi esaiojwd election fights whereever it believes a wet victory can be gained. The three Hoosler who

COOLIDGES ARRIVE AT SUMMER CAPITOL

President Happy as Long Train Ride Ends —Drive to White Pines in Motor Cars Through Virgin Woods.

By John Montgomery, United Press Staff Correspondent. PAUL SMITH S, N. Y., July 7. With the arrival of executive car No. 100 bearing President and Mrs. Coolidge, the summer White House was officially opened today at White Pine Camp, the luxurious Adirondack camp of Irwin Kirkwood. Kansas City publisher. An entourage of more than a score of cars threaded ft* way through the virgin woods from Gabriels, N. Y., where the Presidential special tr&in came to a halt after a 16-hour Journey from Washington. The President was in the best of spirits. Arriving at the camp he stepped out with unusual celerity and leading out Rob Roy, one of the#White House collies, began a tour of Inspection of his new home. STRUCK BY CAR; DIES Greenfield Boy Fatally Injured Near Home—Succumbs Here. James Leonard, 7, of near Greenfield, died at Methodist Hospital as result of a skull fracture and body injuries received early today when struck by an auto in front of his home on the National Road. Coroner Paul F. Rolsinßon. who made a preliminary investigation and ordered the body returned to Greenfield for examination by the Hancock Cotmty coroner declared the child was struck when# he crossed the road to get mail from a box. Driver of the car was from Pittsburgh, 'Pa. SENTENCE COMMUTED Governor Arts on Recommendation of Madison Mayor. On recommendation of Mayor Marcus R. Sulzer of Madison, Governor Jackson has commuted to sixty days a six-months State farm sentence dealt Ralph Horton. He was convicted of possession and sale of liquor in the mayor's court May 17. Horton has a wife and baby depending on him for support. Mayor Sulzer wrote. Jackson recently granted John Clark of Indianapolis, serving a tenday county jail sentence for intoxication, a one-day parole to attend his mother's funeral. ELECTIONS SUSPENDED Bv Vnilrd Bren* ROME, July 7.—The government has suspended provincial and municipal elections throughout the country. Municipal councils, virtually abolished by the appointment of mayors by the central government soon will entirely disappear.

Congress From First, Fifth, ped, Stayton Announces. will be supported are: William E. Wilson, former Congressman, Democrat, who will oppose Harry E. Rowbottom, present Republican incumbent in the First (Evansville) district. Henry W. Moore. Democrat, who will oppose Congressman Noble Johnson in the Fifth (Terre Haute) district. William E. Ickhoff, Democrat, who wilj oppose David Hogg, present Republican Congressman in the Twelfth (Ft. Waynei district. Mass meetings probably will be held In the three districts and literature asking voters to support the favored candidates will he sent, Stayton said. In ail the other districts both candidates are regarded as dry, he lidded.

He wa<* followed by Mrs. Coolidge, leading the other collie. Miss Prudence Prim, and the two seemed as excited as school children. The executive couple, after inspecting the immediate grounds, established themselves in the master cabin, the interior of which rivals a Parisian salon. Fifty-three Marines under the command of Lieut. Stack, augment the Secret Service in guarding the estate. They stood resplendent in their red and blue uniforms as the President swept past the gate today and Immediately established their rigid guard. A squadron of State police and county officers met the train and escorted the party to the camp, It waa a galr day for Franklin County and a hundred cars were waiting at Gabriels to greet the President.

ILL LUCK AGAIN OVERTAKES S-51 Salvaged Submarine Goes Aground at New York. Bu United Preta NEW YORK, July 7.—At what seemed the triumphant end of one of the greatest salvage operations ever undertaken in these waters, the submarine S-51, In tow for the Brooklyn Navy Yard, went aground today on Man o’ War Rock, within the confines of Greater New York City. The submarine, which was drawing 32 feet of water in tow, lies at the foot of Borden Ave., Hunter's Point, Queens, and opposite ThirtyNinth St., Manhattan. Capt. Harold C. Wright, in charge of construction work at the Navy yard, said that, according to Information'radioed from the towing vessels, the two rear pontoons supporting the S-51 had broken away. It was reported that the submarine had first scraped the rocks and that when the rock were passed, the weight of water rushing sternward inside the hull had resulted in parting of- the hausers linked to the pontoons. The officer expressed the opinion that It might be several days before the, S-51 can now be dry-docked. The work of reattaching the pontoons will be started at once, however. REPORTS MOO STOLEN John Wilhelm, Lathrop-McFar-land Auto Sales Company secretary, today reported theft of S6OO from the office at 418 N. Capitol Ave.

FIVE-CENT SLASH CAN BE MADE IN STATETAX LEVY Possible, Despite Expected Valuation Decrease, Say. Officials. The State tux levy can he cut to 23 cents for 1927, despite a probable cut In the State s assessed valuation when the State tax board finishes revi w of assessments on tanks, trust companies and utilities, >?cording to certain officials who did not wish to be quoted as being at variance with the heads of the State adminlstration. The trfx board began Its review Tuesday. A cut of 6 cents In the State tax levy would mean a saving to Indiana taxpayers of approximately $2,600,000, and still not require great retrenchment. The levy for 1926 was 28 cents. The State debt, amounting to $2.340,000 on Sept. 80, 1926, has been completely wiped out by using funds intended for the State.highway system in the general fund. The 1926 I-egislatur# merged most of the State funds Into the general fund and arranged the financial affairs of the State In such a manner that automobile and gas taxes helped by Federal aid built the highways of the State. ’ Inheritance tax funds allocated to the highway division have been placed in the general fund and there is much wonder as to what eventually will become of the inheritance tax paid into the general fund under (Turn to Page 10) ME FOLLOWS QUAKE; 41 DROWN Two Villages Smashed In Java Disaster. Bu United Prcea BAMARANG. Java, July 7 Earthquake ( death and damage tolls continued to mount today. Two villages bordering on Lake Hingkara were smashed by a huge wave during Tuesday s quake and forty-one persons including fourteen children were drowned. Reports from the Padang Highlands indicate that the casualties and damages of last week's shocks will exceed the estimate* already made. Man, 82, Arrested for Auto Thefts Bn United Preaa WASHINGTON, July 7.—Adam McLowrey, alias \McLaren. 82. has ben arrested at Demlng, N. M. for the theft of an automobile in Hastings, Neb., Attorney General Sargent announced today. The aged man had eluded authorities for more than a year. AIMEE IS SUBPOENAED Writs, Hailing Her Before Grand Jury, Served. Bu United Preta • LOS ANGELES, July 7—Subpoenas were served on Aimee Semple McPherson and thirteen other persons today, preliminary to the grand jury investigation, starting tomorrow of the evangeiist's famous kidnaping story. ROBBERY 18 CHARGED Albert Johnson, 32. of 612 N. New Jersey St., was reslated today on robbery and grand larceny chargea. Johnson is alleged to have ohtained $44 In a hold-up of the Laughner restaurant, 10 W. Twenty-Second SC, May 12, police said.

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Twenty Arrested During Night as Cars and Busses Are Stoned Double Police Guards* ASK WORKERS NOT TO RIDE Railway Company Officials Report Near Schedule Operation.

The Strike Situation Strikers enlist support of other unions, asking members not to use street cars. Twenty men charged with unlawful strike activity. Company reports operation near normal. s Union head claims 800 men still on strike. Nine street cars, three busses stoned, one street car derailed and attempt made to short-circuit power line. Night police detail augmented.. f United States District Attorney Albert 'Ward prepares contempt of court charges against two organizers.

Striking street car men today enlisted the support of other union labor organizations. Street railway officials in the meantime said'they had heen able to maintain a full schedule of operation today. James Tretton, superintendent, said that 75 per cent of the morning rush hour schedule was in effect., that a full mid-day schedule was maintained and that he hoped to have 300 of the 330 cars needed for the evening rush hour in operation. Edward M. Berndt, business agent International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, announced at a meeting of 4-00 strikers that local electricians tonight will pledge themselves not to patronize the Indianapolis Street Railway Company while the strike is in progress.

Though he said He could not speak officially for them, he saio he tinder I stood “every man who carries a egrd” will take a similar pledge I within the next forty-eight hours. The enlistment of other union men in behalf of their cause was the outstaftding development ,of the strike reported by strikers at a meeting In Plumbers' Hall, Alabama and Washington Bts. Signs on Poles Downtown telephone poles were plastered with signs, ”1 walk; do you?” Picket-checker* reported car service 70 per cent normal this morning and that rush hour service Tuesday was only 59 4 per cent normal in spite of claims of company officials that the service was 75 per cent today and that rush hour service Tuesday was 70 per cent. VV. D. Mshone. Internal tonal-presi-dent, and W. B, Fitzgerald, first in national vice president of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric, Railway Employes, to which the local strikers belong, will arrive In Indianapolis early Thursday to assist them, it was announced. Fifty-four new members, conductors and motor men who worked on Tuesday, came to the meeting, the strikers said. Pickets announced twenty-eight union members had returned to work. Twenty Arrested The enthusiastic meeting of strikers climaxod a night of trouble during which twenty men were arrested charged with unlawful strike activities. Nine street car* and three busses were stoned, one car derailed and one attempt made to short circuit a trolley wire during the night, according to police. Ten of those arrested were released on bond. Efforts were to be made in municipal court by attorney* for the strikers to have the $6,000 bond of the others reduced. All were scheduled to appear in court this afternoon. Officials of the Indianapolis Baseball Club apepaled to the of safety requesting commercial bus line be permitted to operate busses from the Claypool to Washington Park before and after the games for the convenience of baseball fans. The hail eiub suggested busses op erate between 2 and 3 p. m. from the downtown district and then after games a short while to get the fatts back to the center of the city. The request was taken under consideration until late today. United States District Attorney Albert Ward said he will have the bill of information alleging contempt of court on the part of two of the union ready for presentation to Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzeil Thursday. Edward McGuff. Department of Justice agent, reported the results of a twenty four-hour Investigation to Ward. Ward then conferred with Judge Baltzeil, l Ward said the Government wanted additional evidence to combine with that submitted by street car attorneys W. H. Latta and D. E. Watson. To Enforce Injunction “The injunction will be enforced,” Ward said. The Injunction was granted Saturday against Robert B, Armstrong and John M. Parker, official* of the Amalgamated Association Os Street.

Forecast Mostly, fair weather and warmer jyedicted for tonight and Thursday.

TWO CENTS

SUBWAY TIE-UP MAY SPREAD 10 ELEVATED LINES New York’s Millions Again Delayed in Arriving for Work*

Bv United Praia NEW YORK, July 7.—The second day of New York's subway strika opened with strikers announcing that elevated railway employes. Joining theli%anks, would leave their trains today, and the Interhorough, Rapid Transit Company simultaneously proclaiming a “war to a finish.’* The public meanwhile joined In, another unhappy scramble to work, getting downtown ky roundabout ways or on the I. R T.. *ervices, which the company said were func. tloning at 69 per cent normal. Six hundred and twenty men have qualified foo the post* left vacant, by striking motormen and ewltciv men, and the company is training. 176 more non-union men, <126 of whom arrived from western dtiea Tuesday night. Tuesday night, 194 (gJevalod n ployea announced their alignmentwith the asking subway men. Up to an early hour tdday, however, thia threatened strike had not beeoma effective. Edward P. Lavin, strika, leader, declared today that he ex-, parted 200 signalmen would also jola the strike. The fci.milv vehicle ha* saved tha day for many commuter*. The sub? urban world and his wife are rolling into town by automobile, and bat* tared flivvers of a type seldom. here are rattling their way through the traffic.

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