Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 59

■BLOBS DAYS DAI IN FRANCE Franc Falls to 2 Cents — Distrust of 'Herriott Reign Spreads. RUNS MADE ON BANKS .People Convert Wealth Into Property. Bu United Press PARIS, July 20.—Although Edouard Herriott has selected a cabinet he feels capable of rehabilitating the franc, predictions were made throughout France that his government will be short lived tonight following a hectic day, during; which the franc dropped to the record low value of 2 cents. The Bourse reacted noticeably to the general distrust of Herriott's government, and when it closed $1 would buy 49.22 francs. Par value of the franc is about 20 cents, or approximately five for 11. Troublous Days Sure Although Americans were hurried purchasers in stores today, many French men and women Were even more eager to exchange francs for something stable. French women Good Time for $1 Bu Times Special _ PARIS, July 20.—Americans and other travelers in France today took full advantage of the exchange rates, which brough luxuries within the reach of even the most humble summer tourists. For $1 an American in Paris today could, and in many cases did, buy: Four gallons of beer, or, Two gallons of Bordeaux wine, ) or, ’ One quart of brandy, or. One quart of champagne, or, The best seat in the Comedie Francaise, or, A good dinner for two persons, including wine, or, A twenty-mile ride in a taxicab, or, The finest straw hat in Paris. Other things $1 bought today were two pounds of rump steak, or 35 pounds of bread or 60 pounds of potatoes. For $1 it was possible to ride 80 miles in a first-class railway carriage. rushed to stores to order stocks of all sorts; food, clothing, dress goods, furniture, jewelry or anything that promised to maintain its value during the troublous days which seem inevitable. Many persons hurried back to Paris to withdraw deposits from banks in order to convert as much of their wealth as possible into tangible property. The more wealthy classes bought farms and estates sometimes without knowing exactly where their new properties were. Several shops refused to sell goods in large quantities, fearing that they might lose all their profits and more by an increase of wholesale prices when they sought replacements. “Dawes Plan for France’’ Fall of the currency and consequent rising prices have alarmed the nation, and the talk of a “Dawes 4 (Turn to Page 11)

'second corn belt MEET UNDER WAY Lowden Presidential Boom Is Expected. Bv United Presi DES MOINES, la., July 20.—While the nation's politicians looked on anxiously, the second large corn belt conference of the year got under way here today. Delegates from eleven middlewestern states attended. The agricultural committee of twenty-two, under the leadership of George N. Peek, of Moline 111., went into session. Out of this session will come the farmers’ Washington program for next year. Leaders predicted that the formal placing of former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois in the race for the presidency also will come out of the conference. Feeling against the Coolidge administration seems to be running high.

GOING CAMPING? Camping, vacations, summer, mean stoves, trunks, ice boxes, phonographs, canoes. Many people who are In need of camping supplies are daily paying cash for such articles that are used but still useful. If you have camping supplies that you no longer use. you can easily sell them. A Want Ad in The Times will bring the buyers to you. Call Main 3500. W will help you write your ad. It costs hut little and you can charge it.

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Alibi of Greek Suspect Is Believed to Be- - Bu United Press CANTON, Ohio, July 20. —The net thrown out by Ora Slater, noted Cincinnati detective in charge of the investigation, was believed closing today on the slayers of Don R. Mellett, formerly of Indianapolis, publisher of the Canton Dally News. Detective Peter Conner, Pittsburgh, after a hurried trip to Warren, Ohio, where George (The Greek) Psialias, arrested Monday, told authorities he had been at the time of the murder, attempted to block habeas corpus proceedings. He sqcceeeded in having a hearing ppstponed until Wednesday. Meantime, he will grill Psialias further. Psialias’ alibi wag believed broken by Conner’s findings. Conner discovered Psialias did not park his car in a garage at Warren until 1 a. m. Friday. Mellett was shot down about 12:15 a. m. Psialias told police he parked the car in a Warren garage at 10 p. m. Conner further found that the Greek did not visit some of the places where he said he had been in Warren on the night of the slaying. U. 8. STEPS IN Narcotic Agents Ordered to Canton For Investigation. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jul y2o.—Federal narcotic agents have been ordered to Canton, Ohio, to investigate dope peddling, as an aftermath of\ the assassination of Don R. Mellett. James E. Jones, commissioner of prohibition and narcotic supervisor, said the best detectives of the narcotic division of the treasury have been assigned to the Canton district to bring up dope running. “The Federal agents cannot and will not investigate the murder,” Jones said. “They will, however, turn over to State officials any evidence or information they obtain in the narcotic investigation that would tend to lead to solution of the murder. Jones said that Prohibition Administrator Porterfield had beep instructed to send dry agents into Canton to check up on the liquor situation there. JOHN CLEARY SUMMONED Governor Donahey Asks Him to Investigate Slaying. Bu United Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. July 20. —John D. Cleary, head of a Columbus ( Ohio) detective agency, was summoned today by Governor Vic Donahey of Ohio to join the investigation of the Mellett murder in Canton. Cleary was attending the convention of the International Secret Service Association here. Governor Donahey wired Cleary to meet him in Philadelphia. *

5 SHOT, 4 CLUBBED IN 3 MD RAIDS Officers Said to Have Been Drunk. Bu United Press MUSKOGEE. Okla., July 20.—Five persons were shot and four others clubbed Into unconsciousness early today when two officers, said to be drunk, terrorized intnates of three rooming houses while making raids. The twp officers, Paul Davis, a deputy sheriff, and Ves Carmack, a city detective, were overpowered after they had fired more than thirty shots and had resorted to clubbings and other violence. Four of those shot are in serious condition and physicians say that Davis, who was wounded before being captured, will not live. One woman was shot but her injuries are not serious. BUILDING Is”DISCUSSED Governor and John A. Brown Consider Insane Hospital Needs. Governor Jackson and John A. Brown, secretary of the board of State charities, today conferred with trustees of the Southern Hospital for the Insane, Evansville, on the matter of erecting anew unit at the institution.

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TWO FLIERS MISSING Plane of Italy's Greatest Aviator’ and Companion Capsizes. Bu United Press * MARINS DE PISA. Italy. July 20. —Commander De Pinedo was slightly injured and his companion, Maj. Luigi Conti, is missing as a result of the capsizing of their hydroplane in heavy seas here. De Pinedo is Italy’s % greatest aviator. He has flown from Italy to Tokio and was preparing for a flight around the world when the accident occurred. SCORE HURT IN CRASH Suburban Train Runs Into Switch Engine at Chicago. Bu United Press CHICAGO. July 20.—A speeding Illinois Central train from Chicago's ‘southern suburbs bringing hundreds of workers to the downtown district today plunged into a switch engine at Twenty-Sixth St. and left the rails. A score of passengers and the fireman of the switch engine were injured and taken to nearby hospitals. None of the injuries are believed to be fatal. HINDUS, MOSLEMS RIOT Disorders Resumed, Necessitating Charge of Armed Police. Bu United Press CALCUTTA, British India, July 20. —Rioting between Hindus and Moslems was resumed In Palkpara today, necessitating a charge of armed police to disperse disorderly crowds. I Seven persons were killed by police gun fire yesterday during a fight between Hindus and Moslems. A GENE ALGER RECOVERING Condition of Policeman’s Slayer Reported Better. Condition of Gene Alger, 18, Butler University student, who shot and killed John J. Buchanan, Negro traffic policeman, July 12, after a thrilling gun battle, on N. Capitol Ave., is improved, it was said today at city hospital, where he is held in the detention ward on a murder charge. Alger is able to sit up bed it was said, but it could not be determined how long he will be in the hospital. * Alger was shot several times before he was captured. ‘LAST - MIEN’ TO MEET Three Tottering Veterans Gather Tomorrow Around Wine. Bu United Press STILLWATER, Minn., July 20. Three tottering veterans of the Civil War, last surviving members of the gallant Company B, Minnesota, will gather tomorrow around a bottle of rare old Burgundy—a bottle of wine that Is to be consumed when only two of the veterans are left. It will be the meeting of Minnesota’s famous “Last Man’s Club.” organized forty years ago by thirtyfour surviving members of Company B. THINK DEFENDANT DEAD Man Sued for Divorce on Desertion Allegation. Bu United Press RICHMOND, Va., July 20.—Suit for divorce from a man believed dead was filed here today. Mrs. Katherine Scales Moon, society girl, sesks a decree from Edward Harris Mooli, who disappeared from aboard a steamer from New York to Norfolk in 1922. She charges desertion. The suit follows Mrs. Moon’s loss of a suit for insurance in which the court held Mopn’s death has not been established. RECEIVER IS ASKED Claiming continual disagreement among officers of the firm, Robert Sloan, senior member of the Sloan Realty today filed suit in Circuit Court for the appointment of a receiver. Sloun is said tc hold $24,000 of the $30,000 capital stock

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY JULY 20, 1926

MDJBILY TO 0012 BAB VANDALISM Four Union Men Also Brought in by Federal Officer. JACKSON STILL SILENT And Mayor Says He Can Do Nothing for Mediation.

Afraid to Ride Cars Declaring that thousands of persons now attending the Christian Church assembly at Fairview Park are not disposed to ride street cars to the park during the strike, of unionized employes, because of recent explosions on the track, the Rev. L. B. Buroker, secretary of the Indianapolis Christian Church Union, which sponsors the assembly, asked Governor Jackson today to assist in the niovement to provide temporary bus service. A. Smith Bowman, president of the Peoples’ Motor Coach Company, said he would provide the bus service If permitted by the public service commission. Commissioners failed to agree on the matter. So the Rev. Buroker went to Governor Jacksoq, one of the sponsors of the assembly. The Governor indicated there was nothing he could do.

The strike of unionized Indianapolis Street Railway employes, now in its sixteenth day, rolled along today, with numerous, but indefinite developments alohg the various "fronts." Chief among them were: 1. A Department of Justice agent and city detectives, acting on word of United States District Attorney Albert Ward that strikers were getting "too bold," brought in four union men and questioned them. There may be some citations for violation of a temporary restraining order granted the street fallway about a month ago, it was said. 2. Acts of vandalism accompanying the strike will be Investigated by the Marlon County grand Jury, Prosecutor William H. Remy announced. 3. Mayor Duvall, learning of resolution adopted by city council Monday night binding him legally to take the initiative in bringing about a settlement of the strike, said that he would do anything to bring about peaceful settlement but felt that he had no power to do so. Calls on Governor • 4. Andrew J. Allen, secretary, manager of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis, called on Governor Jackson and Bought to convince him that he had no authority to appoint a board of mediation, as he waa requested to do Monday by the citizens committee, which is seeking to end the strike. Jackson, given the committee request by Chairman Frank Clark, made no comment. 6. Police investigated one act of vandalism Monday night. Though no one was injured. Bert Wainscott, 34, of 2851 Shelby St., found running from the scene, was arrested on charges of vagrancy, intoxication and resisting’ arrest. His wife also was arrested. The Shelby street car blasted, was backing up on the “Y” spur at the end of the line. The floor and windows were blown away. Union men who are to appear In municipal court Friday to answer charges of riotous conspiracy may (Turn to Page 11) BOND ISSUE APPROVED Allen County $267,000 Road Project State tax commissioners today approved a $267,000 bond issue for con-strusa-uctlon of the Woodburn Rd., a county unit project, in Alton County. The bonds are to bear 4% per cent interest. County commissioners had sought a $323,000 issue. The tax board directed school officials of Washington Township, La Porte County, to receive bids on remodeling Kingsbury High School, for which job a $44,000 bond issue is asked. . WORKING UPON ANNEX Crew Getting Old Structure Ready for State Departments. With a crew of laborers removing the Woodwork in tne old I. U. .Medical school building opposite the Statehouse, active preparations have been begun for remodeling the structure for use as an annex to the Canitol Bldg. In a few days the crew will begin removing the old walls. The State highway department, the board of health and some divisions of the conservation department will be housed in the old medical building. The remodeling is made possible through a $76,000 legislative appropriation, all of which becomes available Oct. 1. RUM TREATY SIGNED Bu United Press t MADRID. July 20.—-King/ Alphon x) today signed the treaty jheguUtmgtlw^huJmrtri^cbetweej^the

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ACCUSED PASTOR CHEERED AS TRIAL BY CHURCH OPENS “I Am Innocent,” Says Preacher Suspended Because of Arrest. Bu United Press STATESVILLE. N. C.. July 20 Cheered by a crowd of several hundred men, women and children, who gathered on the spacious lawn of the fashionable Broad Street Methodist Church. Dr. Ashley Chappell, of Asheville, N. C.. went on trial h-*re today on charges of gross immorality. The crowd began gathering on the chu/’ch lawn an hour before the ecclesastical trial was due to begin. Dr. Chappell laughed and talked with friends until the thirteen brother clergymen who are to try him had entered the men’s Bible class building, where the hearing is being held. "Well I’m the man of the hour,” he exclaimed. "I am innocent of any wrongdoing," he added, "and one who is innocent has nothing to fear. “I am confident I will be exonerated.” Dr. Chappell was suspended from his pastorate in Asheville, after his arrest in a house of ill-repute during the Southern Methodist Conference at Memphis. He declared today his suspension was “ill advised.’’ "The whole episode was so unimportant that it should never have come to the public’s attention," he said. TWO HURT IN RUNAWAY Woman and Daughter Injured—Man Stops Horse. Mrs. Martha Sawyer, Belt Railroad and -White River, iand her daughter, Bessie O’Neal, 8, were slightly injured today when their horse ran away at Drover and Morris Sts. Mrs. Sawyer attempted to stop the animal and the daughter jumped from the wagon at Missouri and South Sts. The horse finally was stopped, by James Spear, 429 S. West St. ~ 7 ' """ LIQUOR CASES HEARD Two New Albany Men Faoe Charges in Federal Court. Fred Sanders and Louis Hoard, both of New Albany, faced charges of violating the prohibition law in Federal Court this afternoon. Sanders was arraigned before United States Commissioner Fae W. Patrick. Hoard, who has pleaded guilty, was to be sentenced by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. SAVED BY A ‘BRUSH’ Motorist Escapes Death When Train Sideswipes Auto. H4nry Van Cleave, 2615 Ashland Ave., escaped possible death today when the automobile he was driving was struck by an inbound passenger train at Twenty-Fifth St. and the Monon Railroad. The train which merely “brushed"' the automobile, did not cause serious damage. HOT WEATHER THIEF Woman Tells Police Her Bathing Suit was Stolen. < Somebody wanted to c|jpl off so they took from a clothes line the swimming suit belonging to MrsMarie Randford, 957 E. McCarty St.,

the 1927 budget before him he peeled off his coat, made sure there was a good supply of ice water in the office and went to work, delaying just long enough to advise: “Don’t let hot weather worry you. Just go about your affairs as calmly as usual and forget the heat.”

PINK PUFF STOR Y IRES VALENTINO Challenges Chicafo Editorial Writer to a Duel or Something. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 20'. Rudolph Valentino, film “Sheik,” has challenged a Chicago editorial writer to a duel or at least to a boxing match. The editorial writer charged in a Chicago newspaper that Rudy’s influence was thec*se of degeneration of Chicago’s manhood as exemplified by the Installation of "pink powder puff machines for men in a new dance hall. And Rudolph, who spent Sunday in Chicago unsuccessfully hunting the editorial writer, left the following challenge before he started for New York: “They can say I’m a terrible actor, but Its cowardly and low to hold me up as laughing stock and make fun of me as a spaghetti gargling gardener’s helper. This is not a challenge to a duel in the accepted sense—that would be illegal here. So I challenge you to meet meVin the boxing or wrestling arena to prove which of us is more the man. I will return to Chicagb in ten days. “RUDOLPH VALENTINO.’* CAL nWORS NEW BOARD Would Create Body for Coal Industry Like Railway Group. Bu United Press PAUL SMITHS, N. Y„ July 20. President Coolidge believes a coal board similar to the newly created Railroad Labor Board might solve the problems of the former industry, his spokesman said today. He has been advised by coal experts that the mechanical form of the railway board could be adapted to the coal industry and would be the most favorable coal legislation thal could be passed. AIMEE’S STORY GETS JURY TEST Final Evidence Is Presented by District Attorney. Bu Unitei Press LOS ANGELES. July 20.—After weeks of investigation, District attorney Asa Keyes presented his final evidence to a grand jury today in the case of Aimee Serqple McPherson’s self described kidnaping. After reading a sheaf of affidavits and hearing one last witness, the jurors were to vote <jn whether the evidence warrants indictment of the kidnapers, known or unknown, of Mrs. McPherson. Failure an indictment may be construed as an indication the 3ury has failed to gather enough evidence to substantiate the evangelist’s story, it is said. WITNESS THREATENED Man Said to Have Identified .Aimee Gel* Letters. Bu United Press SALINAS, Cal., July 20.—Dennis Collins, garage employe, who was reported to have! identified a man and woman who visited his garage the night of May 27, as Kenneth C. Ormiston and Aimee Semple McPherson, has received two letters conveying threats, against his life, he revealed today. Both warned fateful consequences should he go to Los Angeles to give any testimony In the McPherson investigation, Collins said that he intends to turn the letters over to poetal ait+hnrtt.tM. ! A .. T

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HEAT WAVE TAKES FIRST LIFE OF SEASON HERE; MERCURY TO STAV HIGH Fred Wehrel Dies at Bixby FactoryRelief Not Due Before Wednes- • day Evening, Says Bureau. VICTIM COLLAPSES AT LATHE Monday Second Hottest Day of Year, With Mark of 95. Indianapolis’ first death from heat prostration this season occurred today, as the blazing sun beat down the mercury climbed into the nineties and the third day of the torrid wave, which held the whole midwest, wound on with practically no prospects of relief before Wednesday evening. Fred Wehrel, 39, of 3639 E. Washington St., died this morning shortly after he collapsed while working on a lathe at the Bixby Shoe Polish Company plant, Morris and Harding Sts. Fellow employes rushed to his assistance, but he lived only a few mimites. '

The body was removed to the city city hospital morgue. Officers Carter and Giles, who were called to the plant, learned that Wehrel had been off duty several days last week because of heart trduble. It was believed that the heat aggravated his heart trouble, resulting In his death. Coroner Paul F. Robinson started an investigation.. The widow and a grown daughter survive. W. Lentz, 2249 Ashland Ave.; W. Linn, 2246 Ashland Ave., and R. T. Paradice, 2860 S. Illinois St., fellow employes of Wehrel, went to his assistance when he collapsed. Wehrel died before they could administer medical aid. Second Hottest Monday was the second hottest day of the season here, United States weather bureau records showed, and all the city was ready to agree with the forecasters. The mercary climbed to 95. degrees at 3:10 p. m. July 3, with a mark of 97. ~stniHfioT3s hie record. The record may be tied today. Meteorologist J. H. Armington said. At 1 p. m. the temperature had risen to 93, the same as tho mark hung up at that hour Monday. However, the heat wave is expected to wane late Wednesday afternoon, when local thunderstorms are predicted. The temperature Is about 6 degrees above normal, according to weather bureau reports. Hottest In 1901 The hottest day recorded for Indiarfhpolis was on July 22, 1901, when the mercury climbed to 106 degrees. At 6 this morning the mercury stood at 74 degrees, and by 9 a. m. had climbed to 86 degrees. The bureau predicted thunder showers Wednesday in northern portions of Indiana and possibly late tonight in the northwest portions. It is not expected to be so warm in the northern portions Wednesday. YUMA, ARIZ., HOTTEST Twenty Dead in Nation Toll of Torrid Temperature®. •Bu United Press An unrelent: ng sun beat down upon the middle west again today, continuing the record breaking heat wave of Monday when a score of deaths attributed to the abnormally high temperatures were reported. The hottest place in the United States yesterday was Yuma, Ariz., where the thermometer registered 112 degrees. Lisbon, N. D., with 108 JTum to Page 2) BAN DITS GET $16,000 Negro Bank Messenger Shot Down —Scored Menaced. Bu United Press ST. LOUIS,' Mo., July 20.—Bandits shot down the Negro messenger of the City Trust Company shortly before noon today and escaped with $16,000. The robbery was staged in the heart of the business district in the presence of scores of pedestrians, The lives of hundreds of employes in an office twenty-five feet away were endangered by .flying and shattered plate glass. . FOR EST FIRES SPR EA D 2,000 Men Work Without Success to Extinguish Blazes. Bu Times Special SAN FRANCISCO. July 20.—Half exhausted fire crews, estimated to total more than 2,000 men, today continued without success their efforts to stem the spread of forest flames. Raging through a dozen northern California counties, ravaging timber lands in or* near five national forests and leaving a smoking wake through hundreds of acres- of private lands, forest and brush fires which were fanned into activity by the hot, dry winds of ’■'st week end had up to todqy exacted a staggering toll. ROAD INCREASES STOCK Notice was filed today at the Statehouse by the New Jersey. Indiana and Illinois Railroad of a $450,000 capital stock increase. The increase was voted at a stockholders’ meet--4n nfi Wavn nn Mv 17.

Forecast Generally fair and continued ivarm tonight. Wednesday probably local thundershowers and somewhat cooler.

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HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 74 10 a., m 90 7 a. in 76 11 a. m. 91 8 a. ;m 81 12 (noon) .... 92 9 a. in...'... 86 1 p. m 93 U. S. OPENS DRIVE ON SALE OF WORTS Real Beer Ingredient Comes Under Federal Ban. Bu United PreM WASHINGTON, July 20.—A campaign to prevent the sale of worts, a malt preparation easily convertit',? into real beer, was started by the Federal prohibition unit today. Prohibition • administra rs were notified to refuse breweries manufacturing the connection —non-alcoholic when first made, but developing into high-power besr by addition of yeast. Some courts have ruled previously that manufacturer of worts is legal, but the Government is pressing a case in the Chicago Federal Court, as it contends that worts is used only as a medium for brewing real beer. VICTOR LOCKWOOD GETS HEAVY FINE Also Ninety Days on Farm for Blind Tiger. Victor Lockwood, 37, of 653 River Ave., who is raid to have bribed Wilbur J. Keeney, investigator for William H. Remy, was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to ninety days on the Indiana State Farm to day by Speojel Judge Earl Cor in municipal court. on blind tiger charge. Lockwood is alleged to Have testified in Federal Court that he gave Keeney some money in or der to escape prosecution. Keeney denied the charge. On May 17, officers raided Lock wood’s home and * confiscated 118 empty one-half pint bottles, two bags of corks, bottle caper, one stew pan and six whisky glasses. Ralph Cothran and Ray Totten, who live with Lockwood and who were ar rested at the time of the raid were discharged. When evidence was disclosed that Lockwood had been convicted twice before for blind tiger, Lockwood declared the court was finding him guilty on his past record. "No. I realty believe you have be op malting liquor.” (the oourt said. Jfidgto Cox fixed appeal bond at $2,500 and In slated the bond must meat with .travel hefee. bale,