Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 57, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1926 — Page 2

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PRIMARY QUIZ HITS STONE WALL Judges and Clerks Refuse to . Testify. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 17.—Cook County’s sweeping investigatqn of vote thieving In the last primary election has literally struck a stone wall because witnesses refuse to testify. Fourteen judges and Clerk'S, subpoenaed to testify, Friday refused to say a word to the grund jury unless they were granted immunity themselves. __ The witnesses stood on the law which prevent!? a man from being 'indicted by a grand jury if he has testified and has not signed animmunity waiver. The witnesses retused to sign this waiver. Judge Charles A. McDonald, who superintending the investigation, said it was apparent that “some one’’ had cither advised or warned the witnesses to take the stand they did.

CANTON PEOPLE FEAR GANGSTERS (Continued From rage 1) to solve the mystery,” Police Chief S. A. Lengel, one of the city officials who felt Mellett's reform cudgel, declared. “Our men have worked constantly and have run down every available clueg. without result,” said Captain of Detective Ed Swope. Tftlay Side-Track Chief Meqnwhilo State and county of'llcdalH .were known to be content'plating removal of the, inquiry from 'the police chief’s hands. Safety Director Earl Hexamer also indicated the city would make other pfetris, unless the police department obtains results within a reasonable time. The council is to meet Monday night to consider the employment of a special investigator. Telegram From Governor A telegram from Governor Vic Donahey to the Mellett family today contained intimations the State will join in the concerted move to bring the assassins to justice. The Governor also intimated the State will take part in cleaning up Canton’s pnder world, where the plot against Mellett’s life was believed hatched. • “You have rtiy since sympathy," the executive’s telegram said in part. “Don died in a battle for right. Others will continue where he left off and his light will not have been in vain.” Little Progress Little or no progress had been made by the force in the thirty-six hours of investigation which has followed the slaying of Mellett, beyond the obtaining of vague descriptions of two men seen in the neighborhood of the Mellett home a few nights prior to the shooting. One of these is described as tall and wearing'a cap. His companion was short and also wore a cap. Both were roughly dressed. A more complete description was expected today when an unidentified man is ’located somewhere in 'Pennsylvania. The unidentified man with his wife was accosted by the two suspects, who apparently had mistaken him for Mellett and then learned their mistake, according to a wflman neighbor. Police have located the apartment building where the Pennsylvania man was visiting, but up to an early hour today had failed to locate his host in the building. The apartment is but a ffew hundred feet from the Mellett home. Police refused to admit today that they had been questioning a score or more of the dominant figures of the underworld with whom Mellett had waged unceasing warfare. Parallel in Funeral The funeral of Mellett was held tj?is forenoon. By a grim prank of fate the services were conducted ip a church wihch was the target several years ago for a bombing. The act was attributed to vice lords who became the enemies of Mellett in his good government campaign. Dynamite wa,s„used and the church building was partly destroyed. The pastor had incurred the enmity of the underworld by his pulpit utterances. ; Brother Aids Quiz Hickman Melleft, a brother, former mayor of Anderson, lifd., and a candidate for the sheriffship there, will return to Canton immediately after, the burial to take part in the investigation. Roland Meliett of Indianapolis declared that the slaying of his brother was a challenge not only to the good citizenship of Canton, but tq the Stale and Nation. * Th& theory that paid gunmen from Smother city killed Mellett was regarded as most tenable by officers. Canton's underworld hud reason to hate the fearless reformer and sufficient conrections with gangsters of neighlipring cities to secure tlie services of killers, they pointed out. Narcotics Figure Although Cantbn’s bad lands are said to run to locally manufactured moonshine liquor, it is considered likely there is or has been some for--1 ?Pgn traffic In narcotics, beer and alcohal which would tend tp establish ,connection in Chicago, Pittsburgh and elsewhere. , Developments of the investigation into reports that a large automobile bearing a Pennsylvania license was often seer on the street near the Mellett home the day before the murder, were not revealed. cal author ities have adopted a policy of keeping their activities secret. Cooperation of State and possibly Federal - officers in the search 'for Mellett'd slayers may carry Into an Investigation of conditions which made such a crime possible. . Three murders were committed in three successive days here, only last week. “We shall welcome efforts of any outside < ngency which will help bring the killers of .Mellett to jus- • ■ '

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Rather than miss the national Phi Delta Kappa fraternity convention here Sunday,' Monday and Tuesday, J. C. Fisher, a member of the Tam-, pa (Fla.) - chapter, drove to Indianapolis this week. Fisher, an ex-Hoosier from Connersville, Ind., is vice president and secretary of the Hoffman-Fisher Properties, Inc. Other delegates who have traveled long distances are Dale Snider, Abilene, Kan. Ray Manning, Atlanta, Ga.; K. A. Burk. Laramie, Wyo.; Dr. W. S. Rowan, Logan, W. Va., and L. B. Price, O. p. Henry, F. G. Furman of Emporia, Kan. More lhan 800 members will attend ihe convention, according to Maxwell C. Lang, convention chairmanHeadquarters will be the Lincoln. tice,” Safety Director Earl Hexamer told the. United Press. Hexamer is an appointee of Mayor S. M. Swarts. Democrat, who succeeded Mayor C. C. Curtis, ousted two years ago" by Governor Vic Donahey. The latest, political disturbance was created by the effort of Swarts to oust Chief of Police S. A. who held office under Curtis’ administration. Lengle was suspended bat reinstated by the civil service commission. Now legal action is pending to oust two members of the commission. Melett supported Swarts for election and again in his light with Lengle whose $50,000 libel suit against the Daily News is pending. Members of Mellett's family openly expressed lack of confidence in Lengle after the murder. CHECK-UP AT PITTSBURGH “Bad Men” Known to Police Are Rounded Up. Bu United Press PITTSBURGH. July 17.—A checkup of Pittsburgh’s gunmen was initiated by detectives today in connection with the slaying of Don R. Mellett, j editor of the Canton Daily News. The survey of Pittsburgh's underworld was placed in the hands of Lieut. Peter Connors and the homicide squad. "Bad men’’ known to police will be rounded up and made to give an alibi for themselves on the day of the shooting. CLUB PLANS BIRTHDAY Service Men Will Observe Sixth Anniversary Monday. The sixth anniversary birthday of the Service Club will be celebrated Monday at the Lincoln. John Paul Ragsdale, first president, is in charge of the Founders' day program. Harlan J. Hadley, president, appointed chairmen of the'club's standing commlttMs for the coming year, as follows; Mark Hamer, executive; Joe Mfnturn, history; Robert Winslow, entertainment; Harry Jordan, membership; Grier Shotwell, attendance; George Mize, bowling; L. V. Sheridan, civic affairs; . Myron Hughel, (extension; Phil Lewis, publicity; Delbert Wilmeth, welfare; William Hensley, resolutions: G. L. Townsend, golf; Steve S. Noland, military affairs, and I. W. Cotton, naval affairs. SIGHTSEEING HAMPERED Party Encounters Smoke From Forest Fires on Trip. Meltlber* of the Indiana Nature Study Club, on a summer vacation tour to Alaska aboard a special car on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, report their *ight-seeing activities hampered by dense, clouds of smoke from forest gres near llanff, Canada. -*■ . The party of about thirty local people left here July 15 for Vancouver, B. C., from where they were to'sail for Aiaskfi. HEAR CAROL -FORGIVEN May Bo Reinstated As Heir to Roumanian Throne. Bu Vnitcd Press LONDON. July" 17. —A Vienna dispatch to the Westminster Gazette said official confirmation has been received of the report that Prince Carol of Roumania and the Roumanian—rulers havd been reconciled, and Aiat Carol will be reinstated In September as heir to the nation’# throne. v v -- DROP IN EXPENDITURES • ‘V Collins Handles 398 More Requisitions—Keparts CK.v Saving. j Although City Purchasing Agent John jCollins attended to 396 more requisitions during the' first six months of 1926 than-during the same period last year, he less for purchases, auedrdlng to a report he submitted today. Collins spent $146,626.76 while the expenditure during 1926 was*sl§o,983.18.

ANOTHER CHICAGO PRISONERDRUNK Two Guards Also Suspended for Boozing. Bu I'nitrd Press CHICAGO. July 17.—Investigation into the Cook County jail liquor scandal continued with added vigor today, following the entrance into court of a prisoner and two guards —all three of whom were termed “dead drunk” by the judge. Frank MeErlane, alleged bootlegger, staggered into MeGoorty’s court Friday, for a hearing on proceedings to extradite him to Indiana to face a charge of murder. He was in the charge of guard Elmer Moore. Moore also staggered. Judge McGoorty, declaring both to be drunk, sent McErlane back to his cell and ordered Moore suspended. About that time another guard, Robert Stratton, wandered into the court room. Judge McGoorty smelled his breath, had his badge taken away from him, and then demanded renewed inquiry into an-alleged supply of liquor in the jail. “This is a serious situation," Judge McGcorty said. "If men in jail can obtain liquor, they can obtain guns.”

COMPANY, UNION LAWYERS MEET (Continued From Page 1) union members, on charges of rout and ritous conspiracy. Four other men have been arrested on the charges. The street railway continued to operate nearly all its cars, but upon a siege footing. Police guarded cars, the workers received $2 a day more than the regular wage scale, and cars were equipped with brushes in front of the front -wheels to sweep explosives off the tracks. Vandals got around this precautionary measure during the night by placing a charge of dynamite on rails at the end of the W. Tenth St. line where the car reverses to turn around. There being no brushes on the rear wheels the dynamite was exploded, damaging the.car. No one was hurt. The conferees meeting this morning were Will 11. Latta, attorney for the street Frank P. Baker, attorney forthe oar men’s union, and Committeemen Frank &. Clark, chairman; Dr. Alva W. Taylor, William P. Hapgood, Arthur Zipkin, State (Senator William T. Qulin and Alex Vonnegut. Latta contended the men broke their contract with the company by striking and that % therefore, the company will not enter ino anew contract with them. Baker argued there was no contract and that if there ever was a contract between the company and its employes, it was nullified many times by the company prior to the strike. Based on Decisions Latta based his contention On a preliminary decision of Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. The company nullified the contract. if it existed as the pompany contends, by altering it without consulting the employes, Baker argued. The alterations, Baker contended, consisted in increasing the minimum wage of 21 cents an hour in 1914, :to 40 cents an hour during - tne \V*orld War and subsequently until a fare Increase- had been secured, and then reducing it to the present figure of 37 cents an hour. The company violated the contract, if it existed, by discharging employes for joining the union, he said, because the alleged contract contains a provision that employment is on the open-shop basis, that there be no discrimination against an employe because he does or does not belong to a union. Baker Makes Offer Baker, in the presence of the committee, offered again to submit all differences between the strikers and the company to an impartial 1 arbitration body, and invited Latta to acept the offer. “You’re just trying to anew contract, and we’ve already got one, and I’m not going to fall in the trap,” Latta replied. “Then you refuse flatly to arbitrate” Baker pressed. “We will arbitrate under the terms of our contract with our employes,” Latta said. “Bu my clients haven’t any contract with you, they've swfcrn to it," Baker said, and laughter broke up the meeting with all parties realizing the attorneys were right back at the startin gpoint, the contract question. Proceedings before the public service commission some time ago, when, under the terms of a contract company officials swore in Federal Court they entered into with every new employe, sixty-four men, discharged for joining the union, petitioned for reinstatement, were reviewed. The case was dismissed when the men refused to admit the execution between the company and themselves of a contract, because the commission lacked jurisdiction. The statute does not give the commission authority to decide whether there is a contract, Attorney General at that time, and the commission’s authority to act is contained in contracts, the existence of which muss be admitted by both parties to arbitration proceedings. Questions Latta Hapgood questioned Latta whether the company would arbitrate a proceeding before the commission now, brought by a worker and not a striker. Latta replied: “We will arbitrate under the terms of the contract.” Clark asked Latta if a present employe brought such a proceeding whether he would be discharged to rob him *f bis standing Rs'a party to trfe contract. Latta replied the empwye would not be discharged. The committee then went into executive session to decide on its next step. At the conclusion of the session it was announced that no decision had been reached, but that I

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Oscar Hudson Tent meetings in progress at Clifton and, Eugene Sts., will continue next week, under leadership of Oscar Hudson, evangelist. Hudson preaches every evening under auspices of North Side Nazarene Church. Morning services will be held Sunday at the church, Barnes and Eugene Sts. Each Tuesday and Friday afternoon Mrs. Nettie Hudson conducts children's meetings. Mrs. C. W. and Miss E. W. Jay, church pastors, Invite the public. another* executive session would be held, possibly tonight. The strike controversy narrowed to the contract question following the conference, of the committee with the executive board of the car men’s union late Friday, at which the.striking men contradicted the company's contention to the committee about its existence.

VETERINARIAN IS NAMED BY BOARD Fortville Doctor to Succeed JuHen, Resigned. Dr. Frank H. Brown of Fortville. was elected State veterinarian today at a meeting of the State livestock sanitary board, succeeding Dr. R. C. Julien of Delphi, who resigned unexpectedly. Brown’s election, attained by the bare margin of one vote, Is for one year. Julien, State veterinarian for the last five years, will become associated Monday with the Royal Serum Company <Jf Kansas City, Mo;, and will be \fn charge of the territory comprising Indiana, Ohio and eastern Illinois. Dr. W. F. Paullsh of Franklin. Brown'* opponent, received two of the five votes cast. SUBPOENAS FOR EIGHT Papers Arrive for Senate Primary Quiz in Illinois. Bu United Press \ CHICAGO, ,July 17. —Subpoenas for sight witnesses to appear before the Senate campaign expendi- : tures committee when session* are reopened here July 26, arrived today. Those called: Col. Frank L. SmYth, Republican senatorial candidate: George E. Brennan, Democratic candidate; Charles V. Barrett, Republican member of the board of review; Rob-, ert E. Orowe, State’s attorney; Samuel Insull, utility magnate; Roy O. West, State Republican committeeman; Edwin H. Wright, former head of the Illinois Federation of Labor, and William Hale Thompson, former Republican mayor of Chicago. COOLIOGE SEES RESCUE President’* Staff Save* Four Boys From Drowning. Hi/, ytiiled Press PAUL SMITH S. N. Y., July 17. Members of President Coolidge’s vacation party today rescued four youths whose boat capsized in Osgood Lake. President Coolidge witnessed the rescue. The youths were attending MoDougall’s camp for boys, adjoining the President’s summer White House. They were sailing on ,the lake wiien a stiff wind turned their boat over. Commander Jael T. Rone. MV. Coolidge's physician, with George Dresher, John Fitzgerald ftnd James Haley, secret service operatives jumped into a motorboat and brought the boys ashore.

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Henry "Williams, 3030 Central Ave.; Ford, from garage in rear of that address. Jones-Whitaker, Sales Company. Vermont St. and Capitol Ave.; Chevrolet, from that address. Wallace F. Winninger. 523 N. Pat : terson St., Chevrolet, 111 020, from Senate Ave. and Washington St. L. O. Martin, 537 E. Drive Woodruff Place, Dodge, 120-423, from Meridian and Eighteenth Sts. Miss Susan Thompson, 1220 N. Illinois St., Apt. 33; Ford. 50-458, from Illinois and Louisiana St*.

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Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Chevrolet, 552-754, found at Chester Ave. and E. Washington St. Three Cincinnati (Ohio) youths arrested. James Watts, Lebanon, Ind.; Ford, at White River and W. Tenth St. 180 rtAYS ON FARM Ralph Locks, found guilty on a charge of issuing a fraudulent check today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins, was fined SIBO. The court ordered that Locks must "lay the fine out" at $1 a day on the Indian* State Farm.

DON MELLETT FOUGHT ISSUES (Continued From Page 1) It is usual to say of a man .that he never had an enemy. 1 believe it literally is true in the case of my brotlfcr Don. The Other Side There was his other side, the side that led him into the newspaper business. He grew up in a family of newspaper workers that never had any other idea than that newspapers should be free agents for public service. Our father caused that to be so. The Elwood (Ind.) Free Press, a weekly, was his paper and he made its name mean just what it read. There was a time, in 1892. when he decided that Grover Cleveland had not been faithful to the people and. though his weekly was the Democratic party's spokesman in our corner of the State, he refused to support Cleveland in that campaign.. The postmastership was offered him to bring him into line.

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This meant money, which he sorely needed. He refused it. That was the tradition in our family and Don remained true to it from the time he undertook to do his first newspaper work. Don, who couldn’t get at another person, who always felt that, even if he didn’t like him today, he was sure to like him tomorrow, had a different feeling about public issues. He took public issues personally. The public’s fight was his fight, always. Os course, that was subject to his judgment of what the public’s interest was. He might be mistaken, but he was honest. Our fears that Don wouldn't fight disappeared a long time ago, just as soon as we were capable of understanding the sor.; of thing Don would fight fyr. Decency Cost Life I think of many Jhings that I'd like to tell about the boy whose efforts for decency have cost him his life. I'd. like to tell how good he always was to his mother, a little better —oh, If I'm honest, I must say it—a lot better than I knew how to be or than any other of his six brothers knew bow to be. He had the gift of thoughtfulness. We otrters often and often found he already had done for her what we

were only talking about doing. But I can’t write all I’d like to. I only can tell here of the one phase of Don’s character that I have attempted, with slight justice to its fineness, to describe. This I do because there will be some to suspect, as would be quite natural, that Don somehow, somewhere, had made a

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personal enemy. Don, boy end man, had made r.one. There was somethin- in his soul which made it Impossible. The trap-door spider constructs a trap door which closes by gravitaJ tion, the edge being specially weighted to shut the door automatically when the spider goes in or out.