Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 119

COMMITTEE MUST DIG 111 INDIANA \ _ Senate Candidates’ Expense Accounts Show No Startling Facts. NO BIG CONTRIBUTORS Many Women Paid as Workers for Watson. r ßeed of Missouri and his senatorial sub committee should decide to come into Indiana to investigate the campaign expenditures and activities of the Republican candidates An the recent primary, as requested by the Democratic State committee, they will have to go beyond the reports filed by thp inunagets and treasurers of the contenders. Reports filed in behalf of Senator Watson show that the senior Senator spent *21.969 17, and that Senator Arthur Robinson, successful aspirant in the short term race, spent $lO,496.62. Tt has been held that the provisions of the Senate resolution authorizing the inquiry are sweeping enough to permit Reed and Ills committee to function in Indiana. What facts Chairman R. Karl Peters and his committee have to lay before Senator Reed is a matter of conjecture. Nothing on Face The figures submitted by the candidates in compliance with the State corrupt practices act do not, on their face, show any glaring irregularity. It Is what the reports do not show that Is causing the interest in Reed’s contemplated visit. Senator Robinson’s report is a very innocent-appearing {document of some seven or eight pages, fUed by Ora Davies in Kokonio, Davies' home. Davies had been Robinson's campaign manager in the primary, and shortly thereafter was appointed receiver for a defunct national bank |at Noblesville and was later selected serve as secretary of the Indiana Manufacturers Association. According to the report Senator Robinson spent $6,385.77 in his own behalf. His law partner, Frank A. Symrnes, appears on the record as having donated $2,625, while Garth B. Melson is shown to have contributed the sum of $1 800. In addition to these sums, Carl Mote, attorney for the Insull interests in Indianapolis, is shown to have spent SIOO to the cause. J. W. McCardle. chairman of the State public service commission, from which Robinson secured certificates of convenience to (Turn to Page 2)

SAKS CHLOROFORM USED BY PROWLER Police Seeking Negro on Woman’s Story. Mrs. TV. H. Foltz, 224 X. Pennsylvania St., reported to police today that a Negro prowler has been visiting their house and she believes he attempted to chloroform herself and husband. % He passed the house this morning, she said. Police could find no traces of the man. Hast Wednesday night Mrs. Foltz tand her husband were aroused from Psleep about 11 o'clock. Their bedroom was filled with an odor of choloroform or ether, she declared. It carpe from the open window, but they were unable to see any one. Dr. O. W. Lutz lives next door, but Mrs. Foltz is sure that the odor was caused by someone attempting to chloroform them. Monday night the colored man peered into their bedroom window, and footmarks were found in the flower bed beneath. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: E L IWVICt-WC. Every permanent wave is to give some man a permanent rave.

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Miraculous Escape In Bus-Car Crash

Scene of bus-auto collision, where woman miraculously escaped death.

Woman Pulled From Wreckage, Recovers From Shock, Cuts. Miraculously escaping death. Mrs. Bernice Wilcox, 12.26 E. Washington St„ was pulled from this heap of wreckage with only slight injuries, after her automobile and an Indianapolis Street Railway Company bus collided at Sherman Dr. and English Ave. on Monday afternoon. The t\oman today was recovered from shock and slight cuts on the face and arms. Crashing at the Intersection, the bus pushed the sedan about thirty feet, pinning it In a ditch between the huge vehicle and an electric light pole. The front part of the coach was o'* top of the overturned auto it stopped. Police charged Charles Allen, Stubbing Hotel, the bus driver, with assault and battery, although witnesses said the bus was not speeding. HAVE YOU DOG LICENSE? City Threatens to Make Arrests to Collett Fees. City authorities, weary of awaiting the payment of the dog license fee of $2, are on the verge of ordering wholesale arrests of dog owners, R. P. Rhodes, license clerk in the city controller's office, said today. The fees were due July 1. * ASKS STATE ROAD AID Seek Highway Past Feeble Minded Institution. Headed by James Jackson, brother of the Governor, and Eph Dailey, member of the State industrial hoard, a group of Allen County citizens conferred Monday with the State high way commission in the interest of a proposed State highway from Ft. Wayne, past the State Hospital for Feeble Minded. Jackson Is head of the Institution. It was indicated the commission might assume control of the road in the near future. MAN. 50. DIES IN DENTAL OFFICES Unidentified Man Believed From Gosport. Under the influence of nitrous oxide gas, while teeth were being extracted. an unidentified man, about 50, died today in the Eiteijorg & Moore dental offices, Monument PI. and Market St. It was believed his heart was weak. Lieut. George Winkler believed the man's name might be McGregor, living with his daughter near Gosport. Checks on a Gosport bank were on his person. Coroner Paul F. Robinson ordered the body taken to city morgue. The man wore dark clothes, a Masonic pin, shell rim glasses, a mustache, and weighed about 150 pounds.

Ask Aid in Hunt for Hit and Run Driver If you see am auto without headlights that looks as if it might have been in a crash, notify police. This was the appeal of Sergt. Frank Owen of the accident prevention bureau today. Owen is hunting the hit and run driver whose auto crashed into ,a machine driven by rarl Frederickson, 5418 Broadway, Sunday night at Fifty-Fourth St. and Pennsylvania St. Mrs. Fredrickson is in a serious condition at city hospital. Thrown from their machine, she and her husband were left unconscious on the sidewalk by the driver of the other car. The only clew to the auto is two large drum headlig'its found at the scene of the accide.H.

Me GLASSON FREED OF BIGAMY CHARGE

Love Letters Figure in Trial —‘Dearest Man’ Missive Said to Have Been Written by Woman.

Following a trial in which love letters took a prominent part, a bigamy charge a | ilnst Thomas Clyde McGlasson, 40, of 5243 Park Ave., was dismissed 'in municipal court this morning, by Judge Paul G. Wetter. But the letters introduced in the case meant npthtng, Judge Wetter ruled. The bigamy charge was brought aaginst McGlasson by Mis<* Laura Enlow, nee Min. Charles Bridgewater, of Ne\ Albany, Ind., who said she became Mrs, McGlasson when McGlasson married her in Cincinnati, Ohio, in April of this year, deserting her a few weeks after the marriage. She was the principal witness. Details Vogue But Miss Knlow was unable to remember details of their marriage There was “some Bort of a ceremony, "but my mind is not clear," she said. But she did remember "Clyde kissing me” just after the ceremony and 0. MARSHAL MAY BE SKIPPER Meredith Has Forebodings About Job. United States Marshal Linus P. Meredith has grim forebodings that he will have to go to Michigan City, Ind., and become skipper of the good ship Frank Woods. Papers received here today, if filed and approved by the court, may bring about confiscation of the boat by she Government and its sale at auction to pay back wages of the crew. Eugene Hibberdine, first mate; Christian Smith, chief engineer; Maurice Parmalee and William McGraw, wheelsmen, and Peter Green, watchman, have prepared the papers for suit against the Calumet Steam ship Company and the freighter Frank Woods. They contend they -were discharged without pay at noon Monday aflii told that there was no money. NEIGHBORS KICK. SO POLICE RAID

Find No Liquor in Places Complained Os. Police raided two houses Monday, where neighbors complained liquor was sold and wild parties staged. Sergt. Roy Pope reported no liquor found in either of the houses. One was in the 400 block E. New York St., and the other in the 900 block N. New Jersey St. ' Police found fifteen gallons of beer brewing, they said, at the home of Maurice W. Mullery, 2414 N. Sherman Dr. He was charged with operating a blind tiger. Harvey Hoffman, of 1916 E. Thirty-fourth St., was charged wtlh the same offense. Police said they found 109 quarts of home brew bottled and twenty-four gallons fermenting at his home. Leonard Mainus, 134 N. New Jersey set., and Pearl Brandenburg, 47, of 1224 Park Ave., were also arrested on blind tiger charges. STI MP TO BE SPEAKER Albert Stump, Democratic senatorial candidate for the long term, will address the Kiwanis Club at the Claypool Hotel, Wednesday noon. The subject .of the address will be "The Psychology of Disposition-.” The annual Kiwajnis picnic is to be held at Walnpt Gardens Thursday.

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someone saying “I pronounce you man and wife,” she told the judge. One of the letters in the case was introduced by her attorney. It was a letter to her father, Joseph T. Enlow, 2540 W. Washington St., and affixed to it was a card signed by "Clyde and Laura” which told that they were happily married and living in Cincinnati. McGlasson wrote the card, his attorneys admitted. But Judge Wetter ruled that a common law marriage does not ap ply in a bigamy case, letter and C ard The defense introduced a letter and a post card as evidence. The card, dated Dec. 22, 1924, read: “Do you remember Laura Enlow? If you are still single I would like to hear from you.” A letter which Miss Eniow admitted writing to McGlasson more recently was addressed “Dearest Man.” In It she ptated she loved him "better than nil else.” “If you do not want me, just say so/’ it also declared. “I am so sick and blue I cannot write much.” The task of choosing between MeGlasson and another man named Charley caused the “sick and blue” feeling. Miss Enlow said. “I could not make up my mind,” she declared, “and I wanted to be sure he would marry me before I gave up the other man.” Mrs. Elsie McGlasson, who married McGlasson in 1920, and their 2-year-old child sat on a bench usually occupied by prisoner sthroughout the trial, A fraudulent check charge, preferred by Miss Knlow, was taken under advisement by the judge. TWO DIE IN BANK BLAST, IS REPORT Defective Pipes Said to Have Caused Explosion. Bil United Pres * PITTSBURGH, Ta.. Aug. 24.—A terrific blast ripped through the in- I terior of the Farmers Bank Bldg. I here this afternoon. First reports by police said two persons were killed and eight injured. The explosion to believed to have been caused by defective ammonia pipes. MELLETT FAMILY HERE Wife of Murdered Publisher Ruys Orette Home. Mrs. Don R. Mellette, wife of the murdered Canton (Ohio) publisher, will live here with her children, Lacey Hearn, president of the Hearn Realty Company, announced Mrs. Mellett purchased a home at 136 E. Fiftieth St., from Abraham Orette, for $10,500. When the family returned to Canton. after the funeral of the slain publisher here, an effort tfas made to bomb their Canton home.

Oh, Mary , Going to the Picnic? Is your name Mary? If it is you are invited to a picnic Thursday, when Marys from over the State will take their lunch to Garfield Park and get acquainted. There are more than 300 members of the Mary Club, which was founded in ville fourteen years ago and established in Indianapolis two years ago. Mrs. Mary Aldrich, 1226 W. Thirty-Fourth St., is president. "Come early and bring your lunch,” is her invitation to all the Marys In Indianapolis. The duh is a national organization with 500 members.

THUGS FIRE WHEN AUTO SPEEDS ON Bandits Shoot at Motorist Who Refused to Obey Order to Stop. WOMAN ROUTS BURGLAR Robber BeJieved Wounded by Female Resident. A motorist who refused to obey orders of hold-up men to stop on the Pendleton Pike Mondy night narrowly escaped death when the bandits shot at him as he speeded away. In the city a woman is believed to have wounded a burglar who appeared at her bedroom window. Tlie attempted hold-up occurred near Lawrence. The motorist, George Sulgrove, 621 E. Twenty-Third St., reported to police that two men drove up from the rear and ordered him to stop. Speeded Away Instead, he speeded up, Sulgrove said. As he drew away from them, the bandits opened fire. Two bullets pierced the hack of the auto and went through the windshield only a few inches from his head. Three men. acting strangely In Oaklandon, Ind., a short distance from where Sulgrove was fired on, were arrested by Deputy Sheriffs Bell and Brown for questioning. Police are searching for a burglar who was probably wounded by Mrs. Claude White. Negro, 127 Puryear St. Mrs. White was awakened at 10:15 p. m. by the removal of the screen from her bedroom window. She is the wife of a patrolman, and was alone. The burglar was crawling througn the window when Mrs. White'pulled a revolver from beneath her pillow and fired twice. The man fell from the window with a howl of pain. Mrs. White described the burglar as being a tail, white man and wearing a raincoat. It was dark and she was unable to identify him closely. • OHter Robberies Mrs. J. W. Kisk, room 315, Spencer House, reported S4O taken from her room. Edward Scudder. 1744 Dawson St., said he left a purse and S6O in a restaurant near Noble and Michigan Sts. Lieutenant Shalline, provost marshal at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, reported an automatic pistol stolen ftam the reservation. Two windows were smashed in the east section of the city Monday night. Clarence Bange, grocer at 5R36 E. Washington St., said the thieves took five cartons of cigarets valued at $5, and Paul J. Miller, druggist at 6135 E. Washington St., found the door glass broken and fifty pennies, a gum machine and alarm clock taken.

QUARTER’S WORTH OF CANDY, GENERAL Deposed President of Greece Can Have Half Interest in American Confectionery, Says Cousin.

Bu United Prrm MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 24. —General Theodore Pangalos, deposed president of Greece, may have a half interest in a confectionery in Minneapolis if he wishes. The offer is made in all sincerity hv Thomas K. Pangalos. owner of TILE MEN MEET ” HERE WEDNESDAY Two Hundred Contractors to Attend. Two hundred contractors are expected at the Hotel Severin Wednesday for the two-day convention of the Central District Tile and Mantel Contractors Association. Jack C. Thurston is local convention chairman. Chief of Police Claude F. Johnson will give the address of welcome Wednesday morning. The U. S. Encaustic Tile Company will give a luncheon for the wives of members at the Woodstock Country Club at noon. A smoker and business session will be held Wednesday afternoon, with a theater party for the ladies. Thursday morning the visitors will Inspect the U. S. Tile Company's plant. A sight-seeing tour banquet will conclude the program. Several officers of the national association are expected. RAPER CHOIR TO SING George Kadcl .Will Direct Masonic Body at Brazil. George Kadel will conduct the Raper Commandery. Knights Templar. choir in a musical program at Brazil Sunday afternoon and' evening. The choir will take part in the entertainment of the Clay County Chautuaqua. Clarence Carson is the accompanist.

POLA SEEKS SOLACE IN NEW HOME Goes to House Valentino Was Building for Her in Beverly Hills. Bn I nitrtt Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Aug. 24. Poia Negri plans to leave here Saturday for New York where she will meet Rudolph Valentinos brother, Alberto Guglielmo, due there Wednesday from Paris on the steamer Homeric. Funeral services for Valentino, have been postponed until Wednesday, the actress said she • was informed. Bil United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Aug. 24.Pola Negri remained under physicians care today, grief stricken over the passing of Rudolph Valentino. The Polish star sought solace in Valentino’s home high up in Beverly Hills, the house that Rudy was building for her and which has not yet been completed. Friends of the couple said that Pola and Rudy had planned to he married shortly after Jan. 1, al though a wedding date had never been publicly announced. "I have lost not only my dearest friend, but the one real love of my life.” Miss Negri was quoted as saying. She received many messages of sympathy and condolence from friends of Valentino and her own. Hollywood Mourns Meanwhile. Hollywood bowed its head in mourning over the passing of a friend. While Valentino was mourned by millions as a screen idok in the movie c-apitol he was remembered more as a friend. Valentino, ,it was learned, died comparatively poor, although the profits from his latest pictures, upon which he receives a percentage and which are to continue showing, may run into a fortune for his heirs. The star had been idle for three years before he became a part of the United Artists Organization, and had recently negotiated a loan of $150.0n0 from Joseih Schenck. John W. Considine, Jr., head of the producing unit which made the Valentino pictures, said lie had taken out a $260,000 life insurance policy on the actor recently. “There is no other insurance that I know about,’ Considine said. Gets 50 Per Cent Valentino's interest in "The Son of the Sheik,” his last picture, was 50 per cent of the profits. Tliis film, according to Considine. will continue its run, “That was Rudy's own wish,” said the producer. “He said just before leaving Hollywood for New York that if anything happened to him he wanted, the film to go on. the earnings to be* given to his family in Italy. “f don't really know about Valentino’s will, but I presume that after his estate is settled, what is left will go to his family in Italy. No funeral arrangements have been made yet, as we are waiting to hear from his relatives.” VON'NKGI’T RECOVERING School Board President Theodore F. Vonnegut is in Methodist Hospital iecovering from a miqor operation. He is expected to leave the hospital soon.

the confectionery', a cousin of the former president and the only representative of the family in America, in anticipation that the revolutionists, who overthrew General Pangalos’ reign may send him into exile. For in the fifteen months marking the ascendency and decline of General Pangalos’ power, his cousin has been enacting a drama of American opportunity and earning the reward of industry and thrift. Now while General pangalos is a military prisoner, Thomas is a minor merchant prince, who does not envy his distinguished cousin. “I would not want to he /he president of Greece,” he said, "Give me my choice and I would rather be what I am. It is not as qxclting, but It is a whole lot safer. “I do not worry for General Pangalos. Hp is a great man. Tomorrow —next week, may be he’ll be the president again. “But me—l would tell him not to he president. I \4*ould say to him to come to America..”

TROPICAL STORM READS FOR COAST Center Said to Be of Hurricane Intensity. Bu United Prree WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—The tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico will strike the coast somewhere be-> tween Burrwood, La., and Galveston, Tex., loat tonight or early Wednesday and is almost to cause considerable damage In a limited area at least, weather bureau r Ticials said today. —- The storm's center is of hurricane Intensity, it is said. Hurricane warnings are being sent to all coast stations along the section of the coast threatened. 1

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VALENTINO’S BODY TO BE ON VIEW FOR THREE DAYS WITH FUNERAL MONDAY Noted Screen Star to Lie in State in Famous Gold Room—Burial Place Is Undetermined—May Be Hollywood. THOUSANDS PAY HIM TRIBUTE Persons From All Walks of Life Clamor for Admission. Bu Times Rneriat NEW YORK. Aug. 24.—Thousands packed around the undertaking parlors where the body of Rudolph Valentino rests, got beyond control of police this afternoon and crashed through a plate glass windw of the establishment. Women screamed, children cried and men fought for safety. Two women and one man were se-o -

verely injured, three other women collapsed and a policeman was cut by the shattered glass. Meanwhile, funrel plans for the great screen favorite wers announced by S. George Ullman, his personal manager. The body will lie in state today from 4 p. m. to midnight, and from ! 9 a. m. to midnight Wednesday and Thursday. Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 a. m. at “The Actors' Church,” the Church of St. Malachi. May Be Buried In Italy The place of his final burial re mains undetermined. His body may be sent back to the little town of Castellanta, Italy, where he was born Rudolpho Guglielmi, and grew up with the village boys; or It may be sent out to Hollywood, the place where as Rudolph Valentino he grew to world fame, and there remain through the years in a splendid tomb beside some of the other great I of filmdom. "I hope to have the body taken to Hollywood for burial,” said Uliman. “I think he belongs there and hope to so persuade his brother.” Rudolph’s brother, Alberto, is in Paris. No word has been received trom him. Expects l’ola Ullman said he expected Pola Negri to arrive from California in time for the services. The tentative list of honorary pall bearers was named by Ullman as follows; Mayor James J. Walker, Joseph M. Schenck, Hiram Abrams, Will Hays, Adolph Zukor, and Marcus Loew. Thousands are expected to file past the casket of silver bronze, topped with glass, for a last look at the actor's body, which will be dtessed in evening attire. Ullman, who was at the bedside of Valentino for four days and knights, was visibly shaken after his collapse Monday. He said Valentino had premonition of impending death and once or twice had referred to the possibility that “The Son of the Sheik,” how playing, would be his last picture. Pay Tribute While the funeral plans were being made, men and women came in a steadily increasing stream lo the funeral establishment on Broadway, where Valentino’s body lay. A busy world stopped long enough in its daily routine to pay him tribute. A leaden sky an'd an almost imperceptible drizzle the day gloomy. A\ a side door of the establishment the favored ones who knew the actor or had other claims to admittance were let in. Here, too, came flowers in profusion from the great theatrical world down to offerings from those who had never seen the actor, but had been moved by his shadow-appearance on the screen. Magnificent Casket Inside the gold room of the undertaking company was prepared. On a raised dais in a magnificent bronze casket the body was placed, hanked solidly with flowers. There (Turn to Tage 2)

SENSATIONAL RUMORS Bu United Pree* NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—New York woke up today to read in some of the morning papers a series of sensa- . tional rumors about the death of Rudolph Valentino. They were: That he had been shot in a quarrel. That he had been struck in a fist fight and fatally injured. That he had been poisoned by a jealous woman during a party. However, the signed statements of the attending physicians, the application for a burial permit, and the statements of the attending physicians in the presence of witnesses, all were such as to disprove the theories and set down the actual cause of death as infection following gastric ulcers and appendicitis. The district attorney’s office said its attention had not been called to any of the rumors.

Forecast Fain weather tonight and Wednesday; warmer Wednesday.

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Candles Watch O y er His Body B'i United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Before the gold yoom, in which lies the body of Rudolph Valentino, movie idol, was thrown open to the public this afternoon, a representative of the United Press was permitted to view the remains. The gold room is on the third floor of the undertaking parlor and visitors must ascend in an elevator which creeps slowly upward. A few short steps through a hallway, blocked in Imitation stone of mellow cream, and the visitor enters the room where so many of the stage's famous personalities have been viewed in death. Two windows, with northern exposure, let in the mid-Manhattan daylight, through tawny curtains. The blocked floor is covered by a rose-covered carpet. The ceiling is low. | On the east and west walls are tapestries in the Gobelin manner. Scattered about are Louis Quinze chairs, stiff and uncomfortable, so ornate as to defy any who might wish to sit. To the left is a grand piano in dull gold such as might once have stood in the halls of a King’s pal. ace. Light Subdued Four flor lamps, in cloth of gold and olive, are placed about the room to shed a subdued light with the advent of nightfall. The silver bronze casket In which lies the body of Rudolph Valentino is placed in a corner at angles to the east and north walls. Behind it are towering palms intertwined with fern. A garland of roses and a bouquet of lilies overhand the casket, draped with cream-colored chiffon. fringed with gold. Two candles, keeping a flickering watch over the dead, stand at both the head and foot. A bronze crucifix rises from behind the casket and near by is the blood taper with its rosy beams. A bust of the Virgin, in Italian marble, also stands within the palms and candle light. Kneel on Rail In the foreground is a felted rail on which those who come to pay last tribute to the man whose image was kqown to the world may kneel in prayer. The body is attired in full evening dress. An embalmer has tried to repair the ravages which pain made in the features of Valentino. But the effort was in vain. Powder and rouge could not take the tautness out of compressed lips or change the distended nostrils, and could remove the traces disease left. The eyes are closed unnaturally, as if simulating sleep. The hair has lost its sleekness that the movie fans knew. But irf the still figure over which the palm fronds wave ever so slightly, there is yet the ineffable grandeur and beauty that made Rudolph Valentino loved by the millions. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 67 10 a. m 73 7 a- m 67 li a. m. 74 8 a. m 68 12 (noon) .... 75 9 a. m 70 1 p. m...... 7*