Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 146, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1926 — Page 1

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PESTILENCE IS FOUGHT IN FLORIDA Serum Rushed to Area to Prevent Outbreak of Disease. EVACUATE EVERGLADES Only 500 of Injured in Serious Condition. Bv United Press While Miami and purrounding towns in the area devastated by the West Indian hurricane entered upon their seventh day of rehabilitation, physicians and surgeons concern trated their efforts today to prevent an outbreak of pestilence.' Typhoid and tetanus serum is h ing rushed to the storm stricken area by boat, airplane and train. So far only a few isolated cases of disease have been reported, but the badly disrupted sanitation system presents an ominous threat, physicians declare. Wholesale evacuations of towns in the Everglades is under way. State troopers ordered those who had sur vied the hurricane at Moorhaven t© depart immediately, as badly decom posed bodies of victims increased the dangers of an epidemic. Figures Given As soldiers on flatboats picked their way through the treacherous and flooded glades to ascertain the fate of isolated towns, officials after tv survey of the storm arear issued the following figures;Known dead, 364. Injured, 2,000. Property loss, $200,000,000. Homeless, 25,000. Losses covered by insurance, $15,000.000. Needed for rehabilitation work, $4,000,000. An indication that the death list might go e\un higher was contained In reports that more than 100 bodies had been recovered at Moorhaven and flooded conditions of the town was halting parties searching the debris for more victims. Moorhaven was crushed beneath a wall of water when the dam holding Lake Okeechobee collapsed during the heights of the 120 mile an hour gale. Os the number of injured, only 500 are reported to be in a serious condl tion. The hurts of others being con(Tiim to Page 27) STATE SUFFERS TYPHOID WAVE Health Board to Investigate Epidemic. Rapid increase in the number of typhoid fever cases n Indiana is disclosed today in the weekly morbidity report of the State board of health, prepared by Dr. H. W. MeKai.e During the week ending Sept. 18 sixty-nine cases werereported, distributed over twenty-seven counties During the preceding week only forty-nine case swere reporter], as against forty-five for the corresponding week last year. Asa result of local outbreaks Dr. Walter Lee, epidemiologist, is making a thorough inv- sri ation to ’etermine cause? \Other diseases also showed substantial gains, diphtheria increasing 1 from thirteen cases to forty-four anrl scarlet fever from forty-two to tittynine. Os the 321 cases of cont. gious diseases reported for the lat- ss week, ninety-three are in cities and 228 are in rural sections.

IGNORING OF CIVIL SERVICE CRITICISED Commission Will Investigate Appointment of Park Police, Chairman Says—Named Before Taking Exams.

Ignoring of the competitive examination stipulation of the civil service rules in the appointment of three park policemen by the park board Thursday will be investigated by the civil service commission, John F. White, president, said today. " “A rather awkward procedure,” was White's delineation of the park board's proposal to name the three men and then force them to pass the civil service examination before assignment to duty. However, White said he must first determine whether park policemen are included in the civil service Jurisdiction. They are paid by the parks department and assigned to duty in boulevard and parks, but are placed under command of Police Chief LClaude F. Johnson and are uniformed other policemen and have the same powers of arrest. John F. Milnor, park board president, indicated there would be no competition for the positions and eald that only the three men named

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‘LA Y OFF, ’ RUFE’S CRY TO COFFIN Police Try to Whip Negro Leader in Line by Frequent Calls. The fear of George V. Coffin county chairman, that all is not easy sailing for the Republican county ticket until the November election was reflected today in the plaintive lay of Rufe I’age, Negro boss of seventeen precincts In the Third. Fourth, Fifth and Sixth wards “They re laying on me,” lamented Rufe, long a picturesque and power ful figure In Republican politics. Ordinarily, Rufe is lined right up with the Republican powers that be. But this time Rufe's ’clear out of line. He's not working for the Demo crats. He just isn't doing snytmng. i That's enough to worry any county chairman’ The Republicans don't | know where Rufe will leap. And, where Rufe leaps there Will be action. So Coffln Is trying to whip Rufe into line. Rufe tells the story him self: “Last Friday afternoon three po lfremen drove', up in front of my place in a Dodge touring car and parked." Now he it known that Rufe runs the Senate Smoker, Thirteenth St and Senate Ave. You can get the baseball scores, your shoes shined, cigars and other things at Rufe's place. “The policemen came in and talked and stayed until about 11 o'clock,” continued Rufe. “Saturday and Sunday night they did the sarre thing. “I think they are trying to get me for selling baseball pools, but why lay on me? Everybody in town with a place like this does that. “I wasn't selling any tickets while the police were here, that’s sure," and the injured note in Rufe’s voice increased. "You have to sell fifteen of sixteen books a day to make any money. There can't be any gambling around here or anything else that isn't within the law, there's not enough room. “It’s just this way, I said I wasn't going to vote for any and crooks, and 1 guess the word got around. I don't know just who gave the word for the lay-on to start.” ’’Laying-on” by police is an old political weapon In Indianapolis. Re publican administrations for years have used it. For months they per mit pool rooms, barbecues and pop stands to “get by” with petty law violations, such as liquor selling kelly pool, crap games and baseball pool selling. Then as election time rolls around and. the violators don't jump through the political hoop po lice haunt the places. Customers are afraid of being caught In raids. Bust ness slumps off and nine times out of ten the balky one becomes a vociferous supporter of the administration. But Rufe Page isn't an ordinary politician. The mighty come down to his place on Senate Ave. Sometimes Rufe goes to the swivel seats of the mighty at city hall and police neadquartersr Rufe's going to stay right on Senate Ave., this time, he says. And he sticks to his vow he'll not vote for any "and crooks.” EPIDEMIC IS” CHECKED Typhoid Fever in Elkhart Started in V.'eil. Bn United Pm* GOSHEN, Ind., Sept. 24.—The threat ©need epidemic of typheid fever in Elkhart County was believed checked today. Inspectors of the State board of health traced the source cf ini ction to a well at the Zion Church at Rris': 1. HANOVER WORK STARTS Regular Classes in Session—Enrollment to Total 300. Bn Uni'id Preen HANOVER, Ind., Sept. 24.—Regular class work of the fall semester started today at Hanover College. Members of the freshman <jlass were welcomed to the college at special chapel services Thursday. Registration was still in progress, with a total enrollment of about 300 expected.

would take the civil service examination. The appointees are Thomas J. Ralston, Roy C. Bess and Frank G. Pfeister. Bess has been a recreation department employe for some time. The park board, which now is under direct control of Mayor Duvall, continued its policy of rewarding, administration supporters ( with positions. They voted to discharge six- 4 teen laborers and two watchman and a few minutes later authorized hiring fifteen men on the nursery staff to plant trees along Fall Creek, between Talbott St. and College Ave., and in Brookside Park and to remove unsightly debris. The board assured a delegation of Enterprise Civic League members that no action would be taken on a proposal to sell Riley Park to the Indianapolis baseball club until full consideration had been afforded to the views of West Indianapolis citizens. and took under advisement a proposal to restore the old name of Vfi’°nberger Woods to Jameson Park.

lIIPUUI 'SENSIBLE' SAKS MAM Duvall to Investigate Proposal to Combine County, City Office Buildings. WOULD BOOST BUSINESS Market Site Considered for Location. Declaring the proposal of the Indianapolis Engineering Society for construction ©fc a city-county building on the present chy market site “seems sensible,” Mayor Duvall today said he would thoroughly investigate the subject. “If the site of the present courthouse were soid for business locations they could ask most any price and get it,” Duvall said. "Large stores,, as important as our biggest department stores, would locate In that block and the city would profit Ample Finance “In fact, I believe that enough mortey could be raised from that source alone to finance construction of a modern office building for county and, city use that would be ample to house all courts and administrative departments.” Duvall said he believed it would be necessary for State, county and city officials to confer liefore any definite plan may be formulated. Expansion Blocked “With the StatehoYise on the west and the courthouse on the east, the business expansion of Indianapolis has been curtailed for a long time," Duvall said. “If the courthouse lot were opened for business it would remove the eyesore of the courthouna and substitute modern, substantial business buildings. ' MANY HURT IN CRASH Two Believed Rail ylnjured When Railroad Car Hits Truck. Bn United press BRIDGEPORT. Conn.. Sept. 24. Two men weer believed fatally injured and thirty two passengers were cut by flying glass when a gasoline car on the New Haven Railroad struck a motor true knear here today. Ernest De Palma. 23, driver of the motor truck, received serious internal injuries and Lewis Williams, 36. of Rphtle, operator of the train, also was critically Injured.

ORDERS DELAY IN CONCRETE WORK !_ No Contracts Until After Change, Shaneberger. No more contracts for concrete paving be let by the board of works until present specifications are changed, Roy C. Shaneberger, president of the board of works announced today. ‘‘Present specifications have been so unfair to the concrete advocates that the yhave been compelled to bid a much higher price than dealers in other materials,” Shaneberger said. The specifications which were prepared by former City Engineer George G. Schmidt, were considered partly responsible for his dismissal. Shaneberger said the order will not delay street paving in as much as future contracts cannot be started before winter weather prevents their undertaking. worleylbets TO COURT MOVE Says He Will Take Cases Direct to Remy. After Municipal Judge,Paul Wetter refused to hold to the grand jury five men, charged by police with receiving stolen goods, Inspector of Detectives Worley announced today that he will taken no more similar cases before Wettei/. He will take the. cases directly to Prosecutor William H. Remy for a grand jury hearing, he said. The five that were dismissed were Karl Huston, 29, of 814 N. Colorado St., Harry Weghorst, 44. of 4401 E. Washington St.: Ralph and Raymond Myers, 28, 1116 N. Capitol Ave., and James Jacobs, 35, 425 N. State St. They were arrested by detectives after George Nelson, 19, of 51 N. Chester Ave., said he sold them stolen auto tires and accessories. Nelson confessed stealing hundreds of tires. He was bound over to the grand jury on grand larceny and vehicle taking charges. Albert Finkle, .35, 2235 N. Talbot St., whose car Nelson was driving when arrested, was also freed of a charge of receiving stolen property. Judge Wetter, informed of Worley’s statement, said he was ready to hold persons whenever sufficient evidence was brought into court.

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GENE TAKES THE CROWN

if- -.-V ‘ ‘ ' .. . ':*k / ’* - <<#ll 1 ' * v i Spectacle gansport District Gathering In Bedraggled Scene • , , %J|k % 1927 at Mentone. xT'Jp *• 1027 meeting ,-f th- I-ogansport , ** , rra< v , t nitrd Puss .'•mtt ( orrrsnoiu'rv t ■£. >' -T drici Baptist Association wifi be PHILADELPHIA. S pt. 21 The j, ? Id at Mentone. It was announced , ta g end of the crowd of 132.000 peo- MMW % '|Hi< lay at the annual gathering here. 1 pi e w ho Thursday night saw the 4iliii n Mentone also was winner- for the , tflss j nk . ~f rs, eh- i\> weight l-.x.iig •end consecutive year of the at- I crown from Jack Dempsey to Gene trophy. Six hundred Tunnev, still wet. some hungry, and '- gates from nineteen chaurchee ; aU agr ,., ( | that on the merits of the ;; .... the district were In attendance. fight Tunnev was the rightful || * ■ ban pi'-ti -iiig„'--i - it ARAQIOL/ Tn|A| With Clothes still wet as i result jpj a JIHI fl 111 |\ { njnj -of the tWD-mile walk, many MlvllllUl l I liiflL forced to get downtewn from the sta- i * ! iMAimiiA , . , | dium in a steady rain; it was a be- | - ADJOURNS AGAIN 3-“ # _ By 6a. m. restaurants had run s . M | out of|bread and at 10 a. m. some had | * 0. ase Expected to End no i I r* n ! e t i , e<, I th ‘ i ,nd |*‘ o, v r All night long the city had been . „

BAPTISTS HAVE MEETING Istgansport District Gathering In 1927 at Mentone. Bn United Press LOGANSPORT. Ind., Sept. 24 The 1927 meeting of the Logansport District Raptist Association will be held at Mentone. It was announced today at the annual gathering here. Mentone also was winner for the second consecutive year of the attendance trophy. Six hundred delegates Yrom nineteen chaurches in the district were in attendance. HAMRICK TRIAL ADJOURNS AGAIN Case Expected to End Wednesday. Trial of Jesse D. Hamrick, attorney. and wife, charged with conspiracy to commit arson, was to adjourn late today in Criminal Court and re-convene Monday morning, before Special Judge James M. Leathers. The case Is expected to last until Wednesday when it is expected to rest with the Jury. The two Hamricks were indicted with James Ecton, 19, their former Negro houseboy, who has turned State's chief witness. Ecton' flas confessed to burning the Hamrick home on the Michigan Rd. near Stop 5. Emsley W. Jolyison and Michael A. Ryan, defense attorneys, are attempting to prove to the jurors iat the last Hamrick house was built\>f materials and to stand for many years. Mrs. Hamrick testified Thursday she assisted her husband and carpenters in erecting the place. She denied any plot. Other witnesses war© C. B. Hinkle, F. W. Woods and M. C. Parkhurst, all of whom supplied materials In construction of the house. ‘STEPPED’ TOO HARD Speeding Auto Strikes Pole—One Student Dead—Two Injured. Bn United Pre OLEAN, N. Y., Sept. 24.—Reported lb be running sixty miles an hour, an automobile containing three high school students from Bradford, Pr., hit a telegraph pole near Tuna last night. Simon Y'ampolski, one of the students, was killed. Sidney Yasgur, and James Tibbetts were in a hospital today severely Injured. TAFT VACATION ENDS Chief Justice Starts Back to Washington in Splendid Health. Bn United Pres* MURRAY BAY, Quebec. Sept. 24. —Chief Justice William Howard Taft left here for Washington today on a special train after several months’ vacation. , Justice Taft appeared In splendid health. police seek7ng~child Father Asks Ail In Finding Little Edith Wincel. Police were#-asked by the father of Edith Wincel, 7, 409 N. Haugh St., to locate her and restore her to him. He said that he and his wife are estranged. The child has blue eyes and light hair and wore an orange colored dress and blue jacket. \ REDS LOSE TO PHILLIES Cannot Finish Higher Than Tie With St. Louis in Race. Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 24.—T osing the first game of their doubleheader here today with the Phillies by a 9 to 2 score, the Cincinnati Reds likewise lost any chance of finishing higher than a tie with St. Louis for first place in the National League race. If St. Louis wins one of its three remaining games the pennant will go to the Missouri city, regardless of what the Reds do. Lucas started the first game for the Reds and Willoughby for the Phillies.

Great Spectacle at Fight— Bedraggled Scene Today. By M. D. Tracy v United Press titatf Common dent PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.—The tag end of the crowd of 132,000 people who Thursday night saw the passing of th eheavywelght boxing crown from Jack Dempsey to Gene Tunney, still wet. some hungry, and all agreed that on the merits of the fight Tunney was the rightful champion, straggled out of town today. With clothes still wet as a result of the two-mile walk, many were forced to get downtown from the stadium in a steady rain; it was a bedraggled crowd. Many had been up throughout the night. By 5 a. m. restaurants had run out of| bread and at 10 a. m. some had not remedied this condition. All night long the city had been alive with people. Many gay parties were given. Many remained up all night in their wet clothes, because of inability to find i>cds. or to reach rooms In the outlying sections. Reception By Tunney Gene Tunney went to a small hotel where sportsmen make their headquarters and there held an Impromptu reception to a group of close friends. Dempsey went Into seclusion. Those who saw him as he slumped sway with his trainer comforting him, agreed that for the time at least he was a broken man. It was understood that Dempsey, when he greeted Tunney as his successor to (Turn to Page 15) SIM BY OHIO TORNADO One Life Taken —Trail of Debris Left. Bn (T’o<*-v* Press SANDUSKY. Ohio, Sept. 24.-4 tornado blowing out of the west in nearly the same path as that followed by the great 1924 wind storm left a ti all of debris and shattered houses in south Erie County today. Some estimates placed the damage as high as SIOO,OOO. The storm, which followed heavy rains that flooded lowlands and damaged crops to the extent of thousands of dollars, claimed one life at Huron, Ohio, late Thursday and sent three persons to hospitals, two of whom were Injured seriously. Houses were demolished, trees biotin over and wires torn down. Twenty children were saved from possible serious injury by Mrs. Mae Bradford, a school teacher at Hubbell's corners, who marched them Into a cellar near the school with the approach of the storm. The frame schoolhouse was splintered. FIVE KILLED IN SHIP EXPLOSION Petty Officers Scalded to Death by Steam. Bu United Press BALBOA, Canal Zone, Sept. 24. Five petty officers of the steamer Finland were killed In an explosion of a steampipe in the ship’s forcastle today. The victims were George Bourgettfc. New York 1 ; James Young. New York City; Harold Banks, Southampton, England; J. Harwood, ad dress unknown, and George Median, New York. The victims were sleeping when, the explosion occurred and scalded them to death before escape was possible., HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 73 10 a. m 78 7 a. m 73 11 a. 79 i 8 a. m 76 12 (noon) 80 9 a. m 76

Here are first pictures of (he heavy weight championship spectacle staged Thursday night in Philadelphia, in which Gene Tunney wrested the crown from Jack IH-mpsey. (Above) Gene, the "Fighting Marine (left), socks Dempsey with h's left in the third round. Below, Tunney (left) opens things in the first by jabbing at Jack.

Newspapers the country over encountered unusual difficulty' In getting pictures of the fight. Because of the rainy weabher the photographers had a hard time securing good photographs at the ringside. The weather hampered airplanes In getting away from Philadelphia and many papers which depended upon this means of delivery were disappointed. The Times ‘got its pictures through the usual rapid coopera-

SA YS OPPORTUNITY OF CITY BOUNDLESS

Hoosier Capitol May Become Outstanding Center of Western Hemisphere, Believes Chamber Speaker.

Indianapolis has possibilities of becoming one of 'the outstanding cities of the Western Hemisphere. So believes Percy H. Johnson, Chemical National Bank president SMARTLY-ATTIRED YOUTHSJ COURT Face Judge in Evening Clothes, After Crash. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Two smartly-attired youths from Chattanooga, Tenn., supplied a little diversion to the routine of traffic court today. The truck drivers, taxi chauffeurs and other customary defendants started as John L. Hutchinson, Jr., and O. B. Andrews. Jr., arrived to answer a charge against the former of reckless driving. Both wore top hats, white gloves, tailored evening dress, and slightly frayed boutonnieres. / It seemed that Wilberton Jay Willingham, Jr., also of Chattanooga had forsaken haehelordom last hight and married Mary McClure of Oklahoma City at the Ambassador Hotel. A party followed and afterwards Hutchinson and Andrews, In the former’s sport roadster, collided with a taxi. Hutchinson was fined SSO.

First—As Usual The Times gave Indianapolis the news of the defeat of Jack Dempsey by Gene Tunney fifteen minutes ahead of Its competitor, Thursday evening. Times extras were first on the street by a quarter of an hour. Then The Times came right back this morning and gave Indianapolis its first pictures of the actual battle. The pictures were In Indianapolis Just nine hours after the fight ended.

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of New York, who will speak at the new Chamber of Commerce Bldg, dedication dinner tonight. • \-i > city ne< ds business leadership of high character and moral standing, an 1 I believe you have that in Indianapolis. If the people generally support this leadership there is no reason why the Hoosier capital can not be one of the outstanding cities in the Western Hemisphere,” declared Johnson. “General business In the United States is prosperous and indications are It will continue so. Labor is fully employed and at a high wage,” he said. Four hundred civic leaders will attend the dinner and dedicate their efforts to the "Indianapolis First” (Turn to Page 27)

EXPECT HOOSIERS ON FLORIDA TRAIN Women, Children Given Free Transportation. Royal Palm train from Florida will arrive in Indianapolis at 12:25 a. m. Saturday. It left Miami at 8:15 a. m. Wednesday, on the Florida East Coast Railroad, transportation to any part of the'tTnited States was given women and Children. A number of Indianapolis persons are abord. J. F. Hansen of Tampa, Fla., passed through today, en route to Chicago. He said damage in Tampa and on the' west coast in general was negligible, although there was scarcely a bill board or sign not twisted or blown away in the business district of Tampa. Mrs. C. S. Vanmark of Sterling, HI., wa son the train from St. Petersburg. Fla. “I went there Wednesday before the storm." she remarked. “The wind blew something trrible on Saturday. Aside from hundreds of twisted and blown down trees, the damage was comparatively v little. But you can bet, I hurried ba<jk North as soon as I could.”

Forecast Probably showers this afternoon or early tonight; Saturday partly cloudy, much cooler.

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raEFM TOM lISES TO 511.06S Fortune Pledges City Will Raise. $35,000 Red f Cross Quota, jgg SMALL GIFTS WELCOMED Anxiously Await Word From Aviator With Serum. While Captain Harvey W. Cook, local aviator, wings his way over swamps of the Everglades bearing iiidianapolis serum to typhoids./icken Florida. Red Cross officials ■vere tabulating relief contributions which today amounted to $11,066.42. i Receipts of $3,000 during the morning brought the ‘workers a step nearer the quota of $35,000 set by national Red Cross headquarters for Indianapolis. Forced to land near Marietta,' Ga., with a wrecked plane, Thursday night. Cook was expected to proceed in another airplane to Pensacola early today. At Pensacola the hazardous journey over the Everglades to the east coast of Florida was to begin. Contributions today were chiefly from persons of moderate circumstances, according to William Fortune, local Red Cross president, who emphasized the importance of all donations, legardless of their amount. However, the committee received SSOO from an anonymous contributor, slls from city firemen and SIOO each from Charles E. Henderson, Charles Mayer Company, Allen A Wilkinson, H. P. Wasson & Cos., William H. Thompson, W. H. Block Company, Mr. and Mrs. Frank D Stalnaker and A. B. Caldwell. “Hundreds and thousands —many of them our own relatives and friends —are in dire circumstances.” 1 Fortune said. “Those who are suf sering most and need most help In I the disaster are persons who have been caught in Florida without flI nancial resources, and now are left iln a most straitened condition. The Indianapolis Red Cross chapter urges the entire citizenship to contribute generously for the relief of these people.” Pledge Quota Following an executive committee meeting Thursday Fortune wired na- , tional Red Cross headquarters, “We t believe you can depend on Indian- j apolis for the quota suggested. We , hope to do better.” Eli Lilly & Cos. laboratories sup- i plied mail shipment of 35,000 doses > of typhoid serum sent to Miami late i Thursday to supplement the 5,000 i doses sent by plane. Contributions for the local Red i Cross relief fund should he sent to j Red Cross headquarters, 777 N. Me- | rldian St. Checks should be made \ payable to Frank D. Stalnaker.

ARMISTICE SIGNED BT NICARAGUANS Word Received From Head of U. S. Naval Forces. Bu United Press \ WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—Confirmation of reports of a fifteen-day armistice in revolt-torn Nicaragua was received by the State Department today from Rear Admiral Julian Latimer, commanding the United States Naval forces there. The agreement was arranged aboard the U. S. S. Rochester in Bluefleld Harbor, Thursday. Latimer or "officers designated by him” will arbitrate the dispute between President Chamorro, whose government th© United StaJ.es has not recognized, and the liberal revolutionists.

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