Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1926 — Page 2

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PUBLISHER WILL GARRY APPEAL TO HIGHEST COURT ■ ■ Muncie /Man to Allege Indiana Tribunal Erred in Denying Revision. Attorneys for George R. Dale, publisher of the Muncie (Ind.) PostDemocrat, who faces a six-months sentence at the Indiana State Farm for contempt of court, will carry an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, it was learned today. On the ground of free speech, Dale’s appeal to the nation's highest tribunal will allege that the Indiana Supreme Court erred when it recently denied his petition to revise his assignment of errors against the Delaware Circuit Court, which pronounced the sentence. • Appeal Denied In his original appeal Dale neglected to include the doctrine # of free speech in his bill of exceptions. This question not being raised, the Indiana Supreme Court was unable to consider that phase of the appeal. For other reasons the appeal was denied. Dale then asked a rehearing and it, also, was denied. He finally asked the court to delay its order of commitment to the Delaware court and permit him to amend the assignment of errors so the question of constitutional privilege could be raised. The court's denial of this petition paved the way for an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Assailed Klan Two years ago, when the Ku-Klux Klan was in its hey-day in Indiana, TDale was drawn into his first brush /With the hooded order. Responding through the medium of his periodical, Dale not only assailed the Klan but generously criticis'd the Delaware County grand jury and the circuit judge, Clarence W. Dearth. He was cited for direct "Contempt of court and fined SSOO and costs, to which was added a six-month sentence at the penal farm. Dale, as author of his legal answer to the indictment, repeated many of the vitriolic statements he had published about the court, and grand jury and forthwith was cited for indirect contempt, receiving a similar penalty for the second offense. Indiana Supreme Court a short time ago reversed the indirect contempt finding but sustained the charge of direct cpntempt. ■

H.T.DI LEADER . DRGESISPECT’ Detectives ‘Laughing Stock,’ Declares Davis. , A plea- that the local courts "show greater respect” for Horse Thief Detective Association members, who, if given a chance will help eliminate the crime situation in Marion County, was made today by Orin E. Davis, association president. Davis was defeated in the primary for the Republican nomination for sheriff. Davis said that his men who take law violators in court are ridiculed and told they have no right to make an arrest or to carry concealed weapons. "Because they have been made the laughing stock of the courts, members of the organization don’t feel like enforcing the law in the future as they have in the past,” said Davis. Davis pointed out that A. C. Fad, whose auto Gene Alger, slayer of Trafficman John Buchanan, Negro, is alleged to have attempted to steal, is a member. Fad took the gunman to a traffic officer. STORE EMPLOYES PICNIC Pettis Dry Goods Company Outing Held at Broad Ripple. Pettis Dry Goods Company employes held at picnic and dance this afternoon and evening at Broad Ripple Park. Various contests and races marked the afternoon program. More than twenty-five prizes were awarded. Harry R. Stout was general chairman of the affair and William Steward, Jr., was program committee chairman. FIRM FILES / PAPERS Indiana Savings and Loan Association Incorporates. Incorporation papers for the Indiana Savings and Loan Association No. 7, of Indianapolis, were filed today at the Statehouse, listing capital stock as $300,000. Incorporators are Samuel* Rubens, Pete Lawrence, H. A. Weber, Samuel Cohen, Max Rutenberg, Jacob Buennagel, Harry Farber, Harry Miller, John P. -Fritz and Wolf Sussman. Notice was filed by the Taylor Carpet Company, also of Indianapothat its preferred stock has been from $150,000 to $250,000. BELL PURCHASE 0. K. Commission Approves Buying of -Finn’s Stock Issue. Public service commission approval was given today to purchase by the Indiana Bell Telephone Cotppany of a $235,000 common stock issue of the Merchants’ Mutual Telephone Company of Michigan City. Approval of the purchase was made less than twenty-four hours following the filing of the petition. The Bell .company owns the controlling interest in the Michigan City company. WOULD ABANDON STATION Abandonment of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad station at the village of Dabney, in Ripley County, is sought In a petition filed with the public commission today.

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A tree in the 1000 block N. Delawar e St., tom down by the storm Frl day night. City workmen are shown. clearing away the branches which nearly block traffic.

‘GOOD BOY’ PARENTS OF BANDIT SA Y Slaying of Officer by Son a ‘Dark Dream,’ Declares Mother. By Eldora Field How can a good boy—studious, obedient, gentle—become in the twinkling of an eye, a bandit, a criminal, attempting daylight robbery, trying a get-away with all the boldness of an experienced desperado, finally ‘‘snuffing out” human life that barred his way to freedom? ‘‘■How can this be possible?” ask the stricken parents of Gene Alger, 18, who fatally shot Pat-olman John Buchanan, Negro, Friday when the officer called for the to come forth from hiding, after an alleged attempt to steal an automobile. City hospital doctors said that Alger had a chance to live, and the State prepared to prosecute him on a murder charge. Officers and citizen witnesses in the murder were questioned, and it is expected that they will be summoned before the grand jury. Expect Fatal News All through the hours of the nighv, the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garl Alger, expected to hear fatal news from the city hospital where the boy, himself shot by officers In his attempted get away, is lying at the point of death. They sat in the simply furnished rooms of their apartment-home, 1710 E. Ohio St., trying to see through the thick veil of mystery that it seems to them has ) closed about their boy's life, his thoughts. The youth was shot after he had murdered Buchanan, who discovered him hiding in a closet at the Beyer House hotel, 225 N. Capitol Ave. Alger had taken refuge there following his escape from two other officers who had arrested him at OHio St. and Capitol Ave. on an auto theft charge. Police said the youth, in a signed statement, admitted that he tried to steal the auto and that he shot Buchanan. ‘‘Why, I told the officers, it was impossible—the boy simply couldn’t have done that thing, that he didn’t even know how to handle a gun,” the father said. “Oh this can’t be true, it’s a hideous' dark dream,” the mother wailed. “Why Gene has always been the best of boys. Not because I’m his mother, I say this. Ask anybody who knew him —his teachers, why they’ll tell you, he was good, good. Why he didn't even smoke and he loved his studieg and his music and he didn’t run around at night—none of those things. Oh, this just can’t he!” Loved Music The father led the way to the boy’s room. “Here's where Gene studied,” he 6aid simply. A pretty little room it Is, with a fond mother’s attempt to brighten her boy’s surroundings, showing in the little ruffled curtains, the small decorated study lamp, the home-made standcover. Above the single bed, with its neat white counterpane, hang banners and pennants of Tech High School, Butler and Camp Knox, Ky., where the boy once Spent a summer. Lying near by, is the boy’s cornet, for he was a student of music at the Metropolitan School of Music and had played In the orchestra at Butler, where he had finished his first'year. “Does this look like a bandit’s room?” the father asked sorrowfully. Son, Mother Pals “The boy and his mother were great pals,” the father said after a moment. “The boy so wanted an education and his mother wanted him to have it, so she insisted upon going to work at a cafeteria to help him. He hasn’t been happy at the arrangement. Since school let out, he’s been trying to find work, and I know he'd have had her stop work if he could found anything to do. ,The fact that she was working has worried him terribly. “This horrible thing has all come from that. Never in, trouble before, the realization that he was under arrest just drove him crazy with fear. He told.me so at the hospital,” the father said. .“Yes, that’s the explanation, he just went mad with fear. Oh, nothing can explain it,” the mother wailed. “Nothing. It’s just a mystery—a terrible nightmare. But why should it come to a good boy?” and the parents settled into puzzled and agonized silence. Funeral services for Buchanan will be held at 1 p. m. Monday at the Simpson A. M. E. Church, 1034 N. Missouri St. Six Negro police officers will be pallbearers. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Carl Schaffer, 36, of 1044 W. Thirty-sixth St„ a citizen who was shot in the hip by Alger^whenhe

One Person Hurt —Weather Over Nation Extremely Varied. caused by a short but severe wind and electrical storm that struck the city Friday night was being cleared away today. Trees were blown over, wires torn down and other damage done. One person was injured. Rain totalling .4 of an inch accompanied the wind and lightning. Hundreds of dollars’ worth of damage was done. The highest wind velocity recorded by the United States weather bureau was forty-two miles an hour, but the wind assumed tor-nado-like proportions In parts of the city. This evening and Sunday the weather should be fair and cooler. Meteorologist J. H. Armington stated. He anticipated temperature 8 A 10 degrees lower, than that of Friday night. Temperatures remain lower than usual during the day. At noon the mercury stood at 60. Cut on Head Ralph Vanstan, 34, of 305 Sanders St., was cut on the head and shoulders when he was thrown through the windshield of an auto at Meridian St. and the Belt Railway. The driver, Francis Agnew, 20, of 1906 Charles St.., said he was blinded by the heavy rain and struck a hole, where the track was being repaired. Live wires were reported down at 318 Bicking St., 4802 Madison Ave., Tenth St. and Ashland Ave., Tenth and West Sts., Madison Ave. and Ray St., Sixteenth St. and College Ave., Tacoma Ave. and Seventeenth St.. 809 N. East St., Broadway and Fifteenth St., 5621 Julian Ave.. Davidson and Pratt Sts. and Illinois St. and Fall Creek Blvd. Wind blew trees into the street at Thirty-Fifth and Meridian Sts.: 1034 N. Delaware St; 1421 Hoyt Ave.: Fourteenth and Beliefontaine Sts., and River Ave. and Ray 1 St. A pole was reported down at 610 Agnes St. On fifteenth, between Central and Park Aves., a young tornado blew down about a dozen trees. Rains General The heavy rains were general over Indiana, with the exception of the extreme southern part. July rain in has been more than twice the amount that feU in June. , At Terre Haute, a storm which began with high winds and an almost continuous flash of lightning lasted until well past midnight, the rain at times approaching cloudburst proportions. Telephone and light service was crippled. Weather over the nation was varied. A heat wave that took the lives of three person Friday continued In New York, with no promise of relief. Pennsylvania faced.the hottest day of the season. In the mid-West, relief from the heat wave was generally reported, following heavy rains. Summer campers In the region east of Redding. Cal., were routed by a snow and sleet storm. An inch of snow remained after the storm HOOSIER GIRL KILLED Tornado Wrecks Summer Cottage, taking Life of Mexico (Ind.) Child. DETROIT, July " 10.—Michigan was recovering today from the wave of sweltering heat and fierce gales which yesterday swept the State, taking a toll of at least five lives. Three of six persons vacationing In a summer cottage near Buchanan were dead following a tornado which swooped down suddenly and demolished the house. One other may die. Mary English, 8, of Mexico, Ind., was one of the victims. Two died in Detroit from heat prostration, while a second gale, reported to have reached sixty miles an hour, swept a path near Port Huron, leveling homes, buildings, business places and severely injuring many.

COAL BENEFITS STATE Indiana Collects $25,570 in UnderRiver fining Royalties. During the last two and one-half years the State has collected $25,570.93 in royalties for coal mined from under the Wabash River, according to Conservation Director Richard Lieber. The State exacts 10 cents on each ton of coal so mined. Conservation officials estimate there are 100,000,000 tons of available coal under the Wabash. \ impeded ’Alger’s flight, was reported improvinglat the Methodist hospital. Frank iJßiitlow, 710 Lord St„ truck drivelfcwho also Impeded Alger’s flight®! B recoveri ng from a scalp wojK The fleeing bandit

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CAL PEEVED OVER THAT FISH STORY President's Staff Too Weary of Issuing Statements About It. Pi/ Unitfi Pre SUMMER WHITE -White Pine Camp, N. Y., July 10.—President Coolidge is considerably annoyed by the wide and not altogether favorable publicity given his fish story, and he is likely to withhold news of results of future fishing. At the first press conference in the Adirondacks the President’s Irritation was most apparent. Answers to questions concerning the fish were blunt and sarcastic. “I cannot see the Importance of such an incident,” the spokesman said sharply. The spokesman went on tc say, in reply to those skeptical about the weight of the fish, that in the President’s opinion it was good taste to believe the other man’s fish stories. Still smarting under the embarrassment of an “about face” In their statements, the attaches were further dumbfounded to learn that according to old guides, a fifteen-inch pickerel could not weigh more than a pound and a quarter. They then announced that the fish was not a pickerel, but a pike, which could weigh three pounds and be only fifteen Inches In length. “It certainly Is a pretty come-off,” one of them remarked, “that the President's staff has to fuss around. Issuing statements and denials about a one-foot fish.” POLICE TOLD OF THEFTS Several Burglaries, Mostly in Homes. Are Reported. Several burglaries were reported to police late Friday apd early today. George Turner, 1528 W. TwentySeventh St., said jewelry and clothing valued at $175 was taken from his home. Nell Marten, 112 E. Ohio St., Apt., 12 reported the theft of $123,50 worth of clothing and Jewelry from her home. Mrs. Mattie Hawkins, 1934 N. Capitol Ave., said burglars took $6 from her home. French Steam Dys Works, 317 W. Maryland St„ said two suits valued at $55 were taken from one of their trucks/ While he was swimming in White river Friday, someone stole a sllO watch from his locker at the Ravenswood bathhouse, Joseph Helms, 1031 Bates St., told police. duty Instructor Takes Up Work With 113th Air Squadron. Capt. H. Weir Cook, formerly of Anderson, Indiana’s leading ace in the World War. reported today for duty as Federal instructor for the 113th Observation Squadron of the Indiana National Gaurd. Cook,’who was transferred from Langley field, will remain with the gaurd four years. Asa member of the famous Hat-in-the-Ring battle squadron, which was led by Capt. Eddie Rlckenbacker, Cook was an outstanding pilot, winning the Distinguished Service Cross for his exploits over the German lines. NEW REPUBLICAN CLUB Washington Township Group Is Formed—To Be Incorporated, The "Washington Township Republican Club has beeiw formed. The club adopted a constitution and by-laws and took steps to incorporate at a meeting last week. Officers elected were: Paul S. Dunn, president: H. A. Osbon, first vice president; Robert A. Glaubke, second vice president; George E. Elter, secretary, and City Controller William C. Buser, treasurer.

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REALTOR HEADS. CAR PEACE BODY (Continued From Page 1) tendent, expected to offer 100 per cent normal service again to the public Monday, he said. With 259 cats In service this morning, ten more than Friday, Tretton declared service to be 89 or 90 per cent normal. Officials made preparations to care for the Saturday crowd between noon and 6 p. m. Sixty-two men were hired Friday. Employment of additional workmen was cut today as only a few more workmen are needed, Tretton declared. There was no let up of police vigilance, nearly one-third of the force being assigned exclusively to strike duty during the twenty-four hours. . A police drive, announced by Chief of Police Claude F. Johnson, against strikers and sympathizers wearing badges "I Will Walk” and displaying cards on their machines which said, “Union Men Ride Free With Me” did not materialize. Johnson threatened Friday to invoke an old ordinance prohibiting banner carrying against the public display of these badges and signs. Addressing the strikers, Baker declared the chief was “bluffing,” that the banner carrying ordinance is not on the books, having been left out In the 1925 recodification of the city code, and that If there were f going to be any arrests, he would pin a badge on his lapel and invite the police to make him the first victim. /Two Busses Shot at

Perry Larrimore, 2935 N. Dearborn St., driver of a Capitol Ave. bus, said that a bullet whizzed by his head as his bus reached Kenwood Ave. and Forty-Sixth St. Four men were seen to drive hurriedly away in a large touring car. A bullet sped past the head of Joe Cook, 5304 Lawrence St., driver of a Central Ave. bus, as he crossed Fiftieth St. A window by the bullet. Virgil Hughes. 19, of 1006 Oliver Ave., and Otto Maddox, 20, of 517 W. Henry St., are held on vagrancy charges under $5,000 bonds. Sergeant Owens and squad arrested them at Nineteenth St. and Central Ave. after a chase from TwentyFirst St. and Talbot Ave. Officers discovered the auto driven by Maddox after call was received at headquarters that two men were in an alley gathering up rocks. Additional charges of having .no certificates of title and no license were placed against Maddox. Both men denied the charges and said they were waiting for a girl. Several police squads failed to find any trace of men who stoned a W. Tenth St. car near the end of the line late Friday. No one was injured. Patrolman Thomas Kegerls arrested Alvin Wonders. 438 E. Terrace Ave., and Arthur McCoy, 1532 S. Alabama St., after a crowd of men cursed street car crews on the S. Meridian St. line. Patrolman Ben Gaither reported that a bus on which he was riding was stoned at Lyons and W. Washington Sts. No trace was found of the alleged stone hurlers. Dynamite caps were found along the Fatrvlew Park line, street car officials said. Crowds of men at Noble and Ohio Sts. dispersed before the arrival of police. Action in Court The legal controversy in the street car strike was carried again to Federal Court Friday afternoon when attorneys for the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, filed an answer to the bill of complaint on which a preliminary injunction was issued fa. week ago by Judge Robert C. Baltzell. The answer charged signatures of employes on alleged company contracts, "In many instances were obtained by fraud and misrepresentation." and that the execution contract has been denied by more than 500 company employes. Robert Armstrong and John M. Parker, vice presidents of the association, are prevented by the injunction from influencing the company employes to strike. The answer asks dismissal of the bill of complaint. Jurisdiction of the Federal Court in the case was challenged... when It was pointed out that the street railway company has a right and should appeal to the State Courts. Threats Charged The answer charged that the street railway, “by threats and intimidation" has secured the of employes on affidavits admitting signing the contracts when such was not the case. Officials *>f the union came to Indianapolis “at the invitation and request” of street car company employes. who asked that a local union be organized and not |o enter into a conspiracy to prevent the men from w’orklng, it was said. Filing of the answer, was expected to pave the way for further investigation of the situation by the Feder al Department of Justice. Several days ago district attorneys indicated two organizers would be -slated for contempt of-court for disobeying the injunction, but no a#tion has been taken. , The Investigation was begun after the street car company presented affidavits to District Attorney Albert Ward. Ward indicated allegations of the answer will be investigated. Ward said he knew nothing of reports a special session of the grand

jury would be called to consider the strike situation. When asked if he would call such a session, Ward said he had nothing, to say. FIRED GUN AS ‘SCARE’ Judge Discharges After Explanation Is Given. Because Goebel Brinson, 1310*4 Oliver Ave., fired his revolver “Just to scare a gang,” he was found not guilty to a charge of assault with felonious intent today, by Special Judge Charles S. Wiltsie in Criminal Court. Brinson affinltted he fired twice at the sidewalk when he feared a gang of men would attack him. , However, George Bane, 931 Chase St., declared Brinson pointed the revolver at a. member of the gang and fired. “You aren’t the only one who has one of these,” Prinson admitted he said before he discharged the weapon. He said he was taking the revolver to a friend. YOUNG DANCER WINS Charleston, Bathing Beauty Contests at Rhodius Fark. Practice early in life won the Charleston Ncontest at Rhodius for Bobby Thdmas, 8-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Thomas, 1842 Lambert St., Fjdday night. Miss June Wiegand, 24 N. Richland Ave., was victor in the bathing beauty competition and Luther Flore won the sixty-yard free style swimming mce. Rhodius defeated McClure beach, 3 to 2, in water polo. Lizards are earthworms. Bats are great eaters of mosquitoes. >■

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Where Is Their Rent Money Now? HERE IS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT Statistics show that out of every fifty-eight men at the age of 65 One is rich, seven are well-to-do and fifty are dependent on friend*, relatives or public institutions for their support. "What will your outlook be at 65! Will you be enjoying your own fireside or will you be a burden to relatives or the community! This Is the Time to Think—Now I* the Time for Action Don’t let old age>creep up and find you helpless and unprepared. It is NOT so hard to pay rent when times are good, hut when they tighten up and the landlord presses, and you are hot working steadily and other thingsjnust be had, how- you must wish that you owned your own home. And to Own YourTTome It Not at All Difficult Thousands are doing it every year. You can be the possessor of a home embracing originality of design and construction which naturally Creates a certain degree of silent pride and satisfaction for you. Thera are many desirable homes in all sections of Indianapolis that can be bought with a sfiall down payment and the money you are now paying for rent will pay the balance on your home. No matter what your age, start today! You can’t retrieve the dollars already gone; but today—right now, you can swear that the file of receipts shall not continue to grow. Think man—do it now! It will make you a better saver, citizen and money maker.

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ATTRACTIONS FOR SWIMMING MEET Diving Contest, Fashion Parade Planned. Several special attractions are being arranged to be given in conjunction with the A. A. U. swimming meet at Broad Ripple Park, Aug. 17, 18 and 19, among them a series of lessons on the rescue and care of drowning persons. These will he given In the pool and upon a platform In front of the grandstand, the first two evenings by the Ajnerican Red Cross Life Saving Corps. The special features for the last evening, to be given between events in the pool, will be thriving beauty contest and the fashion parade In front of the grandstand. Local business firms are asked to enter one or | more of their young lady employ** in these events, which will be under

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the direct supervision of a committee composed of Randolph La Re He Coates, artist and art critic: Myra Richards, noted sculptor; Mrs. John S. jfißhback, president of the League; John B. Reynolds, of the Chamber of Commerce. and Roltare Eggleston, manager of Keith’s Theater. There Is strong likelihood ths* Johnny Weismuller again will donv pete in the swimming events. W AMPLER NAMED DELEGATE Public Service Commissioner Frank Wampler was named today to represent the utilities body at a conference on uniform motor bus legislation called in Chicago by the Inter state Commerce Commlaaion. The meeting will be held the last week of July. INDIANA BOOKLETS POPULAR Owing to the advance demand for copies- of the new descriptive booklet on Indiana, being published Jointly by th? State Chamber of Commerce and the State historical department, 35,000 copies will be ordered, (he printing board decided today. The booklets will cost about 17 cents each.