Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1926 — Page 2

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NAVY REGARDED MUNITIONS DEPOT LIGHTNING PROOF Survey Underway to Determine What Extent ‘Act of God’ Was Responsible. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 12.—A Navy “survey” was under way today at Dover, N. J., to determine to what extent an “act of God” was responsible for the tragedy of the munitions depot explosion there, and to what degree human fallibility entered into the catastrophe. The great depot, spread over 460 acres, within striking distance of the naval base of New York, was theoretically proof against such a calamity as befell it in the lightning storm of Saturday night. It was “lightningproofed” like other great storage reservoirs of TNT, deadly "ash cans" and “war heads” for torpedoes. Its storage house and subterranean chambers were designed to hvoid explosion and to prevent their spread if one unit went up. But in spite of all human precautions a large part of the $3,000,000 plant, with its $90,000,000 worth of explosives exploded, detonating one shell house after another like a mighty string of firecrackers. Rear Admiral C. C. Bloch, chief of the bureau of ordnance, is charged with making the survey or investigation. From his investigation, the Navy will probably profit in its other ammunition storage points, perhaps gaining pointers which will truly make such' storage houses proof against such devastating havoc as j Saturday's. Today, the Navy here confined its work chiefly to checking on lists of wounded and missing, seeping in slowly the past twenty-four hours. There had been little time for speculation as to causes of the disaster, but the most common explanation was that the first explosion had been so unexpectedly heavy that flying fragments of fire detonated a neighboring storage house which In

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turn ignited others. Fire spreading through the woods, too, helped to set off the stores. The storehouses, most of them war time developments were to blow upward-—flower pot like, Navy men explained the roof would give rather than the walls. Special ventilation was installed to guard against spontaneous explosion: special floors to prevent sparks were laid, and the whole building was lightning “proofed.” Some of the more susceptible explosives were stored underground, and, according to last word early today to the Navy, none of these subterranean magazines was affected. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur left Newport, R. I„ by destroyer last night and was scheduled to arrive in New York this afternoon and planned to motor to Dover later in the day, the Navy Department was informed. Proceeding with its plans for investigating the disaster, the Navy today recalled Rear Admiral C. C. Block, chief of ordnance, who was on leave, and ordered hifn to the disaster scene to take charge of the investigation. Rear Admiral E. A. Campbell, judge advocate of the Navy, al3o was ordered to Dover for the inquiry.

U. S. IS NOTIFIED' I ABOUT NEW FIH Postal Authorities Warned of Activities. Attention of Federal postal aui thorities has been directed by State Insurance Commissioner Thomas S. McMurray, Jr., to circulars received recently by several Indianapolis persons advertising the Continental Mutual Life Insurance Association of Texas. The company is being organized by F. H. Crist of Ft. Worth, who promises charter members of the association a certain per cent of the profits from the subsequent sale of policies, it is said. McMurray sent one of the circulars td R. L. Daniel, Texas insurance commissioner, wno replied that “no permit ha*- been granted to organize such an asso- j ciation and this proposition is purely a simple unadulterated fake.” The circulars contained fictitious recommendations of Texas and Florida banks, Daniels wrote McMurray. Indianapolis persons receiving the circulars were asked to forward them to McMurray, together with the envelopes in which they were received. JACKSON SPEAKER AT GAfi. HOME To Dedicate Addition tv Hall Wednesday. Governor Ed Jackson will speak Wednesday afternoon at the dedication of the new auditorium in Ft. Friendly, the G. A. R. home at 512 N. Illinois St. The new hall, built at the rear of the building, will seat approximately 400 pet sons. * The Governor and Mrs. Jackson will be guests at an entertainment at the home that evening. William D. Wilson is chairman of'the terrangements committee and Frank C. Huston will be in charge of the musical program, which will con-, sist of war-time songs. The interior of the home is being remodeled and a ne wporch is being constructed at the front and north. FASTS IN ORCHID GOWN Mrs. Sco4t Ball.vhowed Like |Sid*> Show Attraction. Bv United Press ~~ DETROIT, Mich., July 12.—Ballyhooed like a side-show attracti'on, with huge banners proclaiming that she is “starving for her family,” flapping in the wind before the theater, Mrs. Catherine Scott today entered the second day of her fast to raise funds to save her husband from the gallows. She is the wife of Russell T. Scott, convicted in Chicago of killing a drug clerk and sentenced to hang in October. Mrs. Scott, wearing an orchid dressing gown, sits comfortable in an arm chair or doses languidly on an army cot, within a glass cage on the theater’s stage. A nurse Is in attendance and she is to be examined daily by a. physician.

U. S. GRAND JURY MAY BE CALLED , IN HIGHWAY QUIZ f Department of Justice to Report to Ward on Investigation. Possibility of the Federal grand jury being called In special session to investigate the State highway commission's handling of used war materials seemed strong today when it was learned that the Department of Justice will make a formal report of Its several months’ investigation to United States District Attorney Albert Ward the latter part of this week. One department official remarked that the situation ''might” be in the hands of the grand jury “before the last of August. ’ t is understood the report wilt not recommend any act. on by the district attorney, but will be a compilation of facts gathered from records in the case and through questioning of employes and former employes of the commission. Department officials wrote to several commission employes about a week ago and asked them to come to the Federal building on a “matter of importance to you and your Government." Persons Questioned Among persons known to have been questioned are John G. W fills, former commission employe and now an investigator in the State fire marshal's office; William A. Gremelspacher and Stanley Stokes, empolyed in the highway commission garage. For the last three months a Department of Justice agent has been examining the commission's books. This is the second Federal investigation of the office since the first of the year. Ward conducted an inquiry and made a report to Attorney General John G. Sargent. Although the report never was made public, some dispatches claimed it "exonerated” commission members. Ward, however, declared the report did not make any recommendations, being composed only of facts collected. The district attorney admitted that an Investigation is being conducted, but asserted the “case was never closed." It Is believed that Sargent ordered the second probe. J Indictments Returned More than a year ago the Marion County grand jury, after an extensive investigation, returned indictments charging John D. Williams, commission director; Earl Crawford, former commission member; George Bartley, former highway garage superintendent, and Victor and Moses Goldberg. Indianapolis junk dealers, with conspiracy to embezzle. C. William Whaley, employe of the Goldbergs, and the Goldbergs, also were charged with grand larceny. Whaley’s trial recently was postponed until September to permit Prosecutor Remy to obtain aid in prosecution. Alonzo Blair, Shelbyvile attorney, tentatively agreed to assist. The county council appropriated $5,000 for the employment of prosecution aid. Cases against the others have been postponed until after Whaley’s trial. WANT “WHOLE SKY” Washington Says Quiz Will Continue for Some Time. liu Times Special WASHINGTON, July 12.—Investigation of activities of the Indiana highway commission in the resale of surplus War Department materials after the World War will continue until “the whole story is told the Department of Justice,” Oscar W. Luhring, in charge of the criminal division of the department und§m Attorney General Sargent said today. Luhring 3aid the investigation started some months ago by a department operative under Walter Hoover, chief of the investigation bureau, has never stopped. He has been receiving regular reports from the investigator until a few weeks ago, he saicl, and expects to receive more. - JAIL FOR STARVING DOG HAMMOND, Ind George Hennard was sent to Jail for leaving his dog without food tor several days.

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THIRD PARTY IS TALKED Movement oil Foot Among Pennsyl- * vania G. O. I*., Report. Bu United Pee** HARRISBURG, Pa., July 12. The responsibility of an independent third party in Pennsylvania for the senatorial elections this fall was seen today following? the publication of the Pennsylvania Bulletin, official organ of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters. The Bulletin declares there is a move on foot among the “real Republicans” to call a conference in Harrisburg and select ‘an outstanding Republican as the real Republican candidate for the United States Senate.” REPORT KILLER TO BEJf ROVED Negro Officers Attend Rites for Victim. The condition of Gene Alger, 18, of 1710 E. Ohio St., was reported slightly improved today by attaches of the city hospital, where he is held in the detention ward charged with the murder of Traffic Policeman John F. Buchanan, Negro, last Friday. was shot three times in the battle with police, file has been near death. Ts he rallies Inspector Claude Worley plans to have officers get a more detailed statement. Negro police were ordered to attend the Buchanan funeral today by Police Chief Claude Johnson. After short services at the home, 815 N. West St., services were held at 2 i). m. at the Simpson A. M. E. Church, 1034 N. Missouri St. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. Traffic officers, Decteetivcs George Sneed and Plez Jones and Patrolmen Claude White and Thomas Hopson, all Negroes, were pallbearers. angloTrench PACTjS SIGNED Caillaux Goes to England by Airplane. Bu United Press LONDON, July 12.—1 t was officially announced today that the Anglo-French agreement for funding the French war debt had been signed. Joseph Caillaux arrived from Paris by airplane this morning to sign the agreement, the principal portions of which had oeen the subject of intermittent negotiations for more than a year, and upon which the French ambassador and Winston Churchill, chancellor the exchequer, had beep engaged actively for almost a forfnight. Caillaux announced in the Chamber of Deputies before coming here that he was holding the MellonBerenger debt-funding agreement until it could be presented to the Freflch parliament simultaneously with that of the Anglo-French agreement. With the French signature on the agreement with Great Britain, the problem of war debts is in the way of preliminary solution. There still are the principal difficulties to be met, such as obtaining ratification of the French parliament for the funding agreements with the United States and Great Britain, and then the hardest problem of all—how to find the money to pay the debts on the terms stated in the agreements.

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Notifies Coolidge Geneva Conference Worthless to * U. S: and Britain. By JOHN MONTGOMERY SUMMER WHITE HOUSE, White Pine Camp. N. Y. r July 12. — President Coolidge has received a memorandum from Secretary of State Kellogg advising him that the Geneva preparatory arms conference, as far as the United States and Great Britain are concerned, has collapsed, it was learned today. The memorandum was contained in one of the first parcels of papers to reach the President fi ->m the State Department. Hopeless Situation It declared that Kellogg had been informed by the American delegates that further negotiations were hopeless. While American and British delegates seemed to be of the same accord, the French delegates were so far apart in sentiment that no amount of diplomatic treatment could heal the breach, the memorandum stated. The President hesitates to form any decision until he has been advised of all the facts in the matter by Minister Gibson, bead of the American delegation, it was said in Mr'. Coolidge’s behalf. Nrtvs Expected The memorandum does not come wholly unexpectedly. For several months the Administration has been somewhat suspicious of the conference. Coolidge himself, through his spokesman, has indicated that he feels that the hope of any arms conference depends upon the good faith of the European Nations, particularly France. * JULIETTA COWS NOHTRIKING’ Double Daily Milk Output at County Hospital. There is no strike among cows Which are kept by the patients at Julietta/ county hospital for the insane. Dr. Benjamin Morgan, superintendent, declares that the thirtyeight milk caws kept at the institution now provide 105 gallons of milk daily. Theii former output was only fifty-two gallons a day, Dr. Morgan said. Because of this Increased amount the institution is able to provide the Children's Guardian Home and Negro Orphans’ Home with milk dally, he said. Dr. Morgan said that his knowledge of feeding cows when a boy on the farm is largely responsible for the increase in quantity of milk. SO MEN RETURN TO SUBWAY JOBS Company Extends Time Limit to Noon Tuesday. Bu United Press NEW YORK. July 12.—The Interborough Rapid Transit Company today announced that ninety striking motormen and switchmen had returned to work since last night, fob lowing the companies ultimatum that men must be back on their jobs by noon or forfeit seniority by replacement by the nonunion men who have taken their posts. Police Inspector Thomas Cummings, after an investigation of an announcement by the transit company that shots had been fired at trains today, said that the report that there had been shooting at a subway station in the Bronx resulted from explosion of signal torpedoes on the tracks. He found that a train dispatcher in Long Island city had reported to police that he heard four shots at an early hour, but that he believed them to be blank cartridges, fired to intimidate men. This afternoon the company announced it would extend until noon tomorrow the time limit for the men to return to work. This extension, it was stated, came after a request for more time had been made through the Brotherhood of I. R. T. employees. PLAN PARK DEDICATION 4 . I Conservation Department Arranges Ceremonies at Janies. Officials of the State conservation department today were arranging details of the dedication next Saturday of Lake James State Park, in Steuben County near Angola. Governor Jackson has been asked to take part in the formal transfer of the park from Steuben County to the State. Anew road connects the park with State Rd. 13.

EQUIPMENT OF JULIETTA WING IS AUTHORIZED Lower Floor of West Arm to Be Opened to Accommodate 40 Patients. In accordance with the recent recommendation of the last Marion County grand jury in its final report. the lower floor of the west wing of Julietta, county insane hospital for insane, will be opened and equipped for the use of men patients. it became known today. The county commissioners have authorized Dr. Benjamin Morgan, superintendent, to equip the addition. The west wing has been closed for about two years, after it was charged the building was omproperly constructed and not safe for patients. The commissioners charged that George A. Weaver. & Son, contractors, did not erect the addition according to plans and specifl- ( cations and used improper and poor materials. Son Acquitted Weaver and his soA were indicted by the grand jury following an investigation of the construction of the new hiulding. They were jointly charged with making false claims against the county. The son, given a separate trial,, was acquitted of the charge by a jury in Criminal Court several months ago. The father has not been tried. Dr. Morgan said at present no attempt will be made to occupy thug second floor of the west wing. He said the occupancy of the lower floor will relieve crowded conditions. The men will be put in the sick room, next to the new kitchen. All From County There are 221 patients in the institution, said Dr. Morgan. Os that number. 109 are men and 12 women, all from Marion County. Last year when Governor Jackson refused to sign the bill which would virtually give Julietta to the State to be operated as a State institution, the commissioners declared they would remove all of the patients by hte first of the year and convert the institution into an infirmary. This was found to be impractical, but the commissioners decreed that no more patients would be accepted and that steps would be taken to gradually empty the institution by sending patients home or removing them to State institutions. 900 Need Caro While this policy has been carried out. Dr. Morgan said two patients have been accepted since Jan. 1. Whenever possible, patients have been removed to other institutions. Dr. Morgan said there are about 200 persons of unsound mind in Im dianapolis homes who ought to be ih a. hospital. With the opening of the new ambition about forty new patients can be cared for, Dr. Morgan said. COLLEGE INCORPORATED Papers for Chiropractic School Are Filed at Statehnuse. Incorporation papers for the Lincoln Chiropractic College were filed today at the Statehouse, listing capital stock at $60,000. Os the total capitalization, $40,000 will be preferred, which will be offered for sale soon. Directors are Harry E. Vedder, S. J. Burich and Arthur G. Hinrichs of Indianapolis and Janies N. Firth of Chicago. The college will maintain a faculty and offer training in chiropractic through personal instruction and correspondence, according to the papers. Diplomas will be awarded successful applicants, the papers say.

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SHUMAKER LAUDS DRYS Declares Prosperity Is Due to Prohibition. Bu United Press PETERSBURG. Ind., July 12. Methods of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League were defended by E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the State dry organization, in an address here last night. He declared the present prosperity throughout the country is due to the abolition of the liquor traffic.

WORKS BOARD TO ALLOWCONCRETE USE ON STREETS Asphalt Paving Contractors Dealt Blow by City Specifications. Contractors specializing in asphalt paving materials, who have had the "inside track” for many years in obtaining asphalt specifications, today faced proof that the present bourd of works intends to provide an equal chance for concrete. For the first time in many years, concrete today was advertised in specifications for the paving of Koehne St., between Market and New York Sts., ha well as for a number of alleys. Several days ago board members ordered George G. Schmidt, city engineer. to include concrete as a fifth material on which to receive bids for all paving contracts. In the past concrete could be obtained only througli filing of a special petition. However, the board ordered asphaltic concrete paving for Drexel Ave., between Tenth and Sixteenth Sts., on the “opinion of John K. Ruckelahaus, city attorney. Ruckelshaus ruled that Mildred M. Braun, '4611 E. Twelfth St., the sole resident property owner, does not constitute “a majority of the freeholders residing on said street,” as the law provides. Mrs. Braun had first petitioned for asphaltic concrete in accord with the views of the other property owners, who were nonresident. Then she changed to favor concerete. The hoard awarded the contract to the Mend Construction Company.

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TACNA-ARICA TO BOLIVIA, SCHEME TO ENO DISPUTE Chile and Peru Negotiate for Safe and Sane Settlement. Bu United Press w SANTIAGO, Chile. July 12.—Negotiations for settlement of the Tae-na-Arlra dispute between Chile And Peru by ceding the two provineee to Bolivia are under way today between Lima and this capital. Bolivia is a landlocked state, and ’would find tremendous value in the shore line provinces. Economically the provinces virtually are worthless. The negotiations now In prog ress are characterized by discard of sentimentality, and in the consideration of economic factors and the oth er facts of the situation which caused the United States to terminate its efforts to settle the dispute by plebiscite when Gen. William Lassiter, the American chairman of the plebiscitary commission, heram* convinced that a fair vote could not be guaranteed Peru. t Bolivia's compensation to and Chile would not he entirely money, but would Include cominer* cial concessions to both countries and reciprocal economic adjust ments between Bolivia and Peru, If complete agreement could inreached between Chile, Peru nnd Bnllvia, the matter would be referred to President Coolidge. arbiter of the TacnH-Arica controversy, for hit sanction. CORN BELT INVADED Women Take IMea for “Equal Rights in Industry. WASHINGTON. July 12.—A faithful band of national woman's party advocates today carried t-he .battle for “equal rights for women In industry" into the heart of the "Corn belt” West. A delegation of woman's party members was en route to Des Moines, la., today for the convention of National Business and Professional Women's Clubs there tills week. The delegation will present an “equal rights in-lndustry" resolution. to the convention.