Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1926 — Page 1

A Story of Dangerous Love

By VIDA HURST

SYNOPSIS At a farewell party given by aristocratic SIDNEY MAINE, to the senior class of Stockton High School. SONIA MARSH. 17 and pretty, is discovered kissing JOE CARTER. MRS. MAINE, the host's mother, criticises Sonia so harshly that she leaves at once. ... Sonia, whose parents are poor, is not trusted by the mothers of her home town, and is considered wild because she smokes. Joe who intends to work in a garage with his father, loves Sonia, but realizes he is not in position to give Sonia the place in the world to which she aHPir sAM MARSH, Sonia’s father, who is tenderly fond of his daughter, broods over the fact that she is old enough to start out in the world and is bewildered when she tells Igim of her intention to go to San Francisco to work, because of her hatred of poverty and the suspicious peopel of Stockton. CHAPTER 11. It was Sonia’s mother who settled the argument. “That’s enough from you, Sonia. Run, change your dress and help with these dishes.” “But, Mother, I want this settled right now. “There will be plenty of time to decide what you are going to do. You ought to be ashamed to talk to your father like that.” Sam Marsh tapped the ashes from his pipe, nervously. His blue eyes looked beaten and washed with tears. A lump rose suddenly in Sonia’s throat. She flung tier strong arms about him. “Daddy! Don’t stand there and look so pathetic!” “But, Sonia, you can’t go to San Francisco. . .. ” “Now there you go. Mother is right. We won’t discuss it any more tonight.’’ She kissed him and ran upstairs. # # # i Late that night when the dishes were finished, Sonia stood before the mirror in her cheap golden oak dresser, practicing her art. A cigaret dangled, loosely, from her lips. In her orange striped pajamas she was more like “Vogue” than the pictures themselves. She cultivated it. It was not for nothing that she studied her mother’s magazines. Her most cherished possessions were a carved ivory cigaret holder, a picture from “Vogue,” which she had been told at 16 resembled her, and a silk night gown she had made herself. The gown was cream white, when all the other girls in town were wearing pink or orchid. Distinctive—that was Sonia! Standing before the mirror, she admitted it, shamelessly. The other girls had beautiful homes, families with wealth and social position. Background! she had nothing, but her charming c lothes, and a haunting, heart-shaped face, with gray green eyes. Long ago she had made up her mind to make the most of them. But there we/e certain things she did not quite understand. “I wonder why Sidney’s mother looked at me like that? she pondered. “As if I were something not quite clean.” The memory of the thrillladen moment before the door opened came to her. “Oh, God!” she whispered, naively. There had been possibilities in that kiss. It was like a flash of fire all through her.

Then why didn’t I want him to kiss me again? In the dark room

38,000 FARMS IN STATE MORTGAGED Federal Figures Also Show That Indiana Has Suffered Huge Deflation Loss-Rural Population Decreases.

Bv Tit tr* Fttrcinl WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. More than 38,000 Indiana farmers are carrying a mortgage debt averaging two-fifths the full value of their farms, according to the national CHINESESEIZE AMERICAN SHIP Plight of Foreigners Declared Desperate. Bn United Press PEKING, Oct. 2.—The plight of foreigners in the besieged city of Sianfu is desperate, according to telegrams to the Untied States legation here today. The legation asked the military chiefs to permit the Americans to depart. The American steamer Iling has been seized' at Kiskiang and compelled to transport Chinese troops. INDiIEM OIL CASE UPHELD Fall, Doheny and Sinclair Must Stand Trial. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Appeals of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B'. Fall, Harry Sinclair, E. L. Doheny and his son, questioning validity of indictments charging them with conspiracy to defraud the Government, were dismisssed in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals here today. The four men, indicted in connection with the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases, now must face trial in District of Columbia Criminal Court. PLANS CAR REROUTING City Council President Occupied by Traffic Study. Rapid turns about the corridors of the city hall have been strangely infrequent for majority faction city couneilmen during the last few weeks. Yet it would appear that councilmen are occupied. Today President Boynton J. Moore announced that he is working on a plan to re-route city street cars to provide for expansion of the downtown business district. Moore a few months ago broached the plan of routing cars on Delaware and Georgia Sts., Capitol Ave. and Ohio St. . , .

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farm census of 1925 issued by the United States Department of Commerce. Earlier tabulations showed the number of farms had decreased from 205,126 in 1920 to 195.786 in 1925, and that Indiana farmers had taken a many-million-dollar loss during the agricultural deflation of the intervening years. Owners Operate One-Third About one-third of the Hoosier farms, operated by their owners, or 08,i34 out of 114,378, are mortgaged, according to the census. The value of these farms was given as $300,319,0/10, with a mortgage debt of $119,620,955, or 39.8 per cent. i his is a startling increase over the 1920 mortgage indebtedness. In that year, 40,416 farms were mortgaged, out of a total of 112,664 reported operated by their owners, but the mortgage debt was reported as (Turn to Page 2) AIMEE KENNETH AT FOURHOTELS Chambermaid Testifies at Hearing! Bu United Press i LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2.—The record in the hearing of the Rev. Aimee S. McPherson, charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, contained testimony today that the evangelist visited four hotels in California in company with Kenneth G. Ormlston, former radio operator at her temple. Agnes Callahan, chambermaid at the fashionable Ambassador Hotel, testified for the prosecution late Friday that she saw Ormlston visit the evangelist In her room at the Ambassador “on at least one occasion” and that she reported to the housekeeper what she saw. One of the evangelist’s own followers, Thomas Scott Neville, who was baptized by Mrs. McPherson, corroborated the testimony of Walter Lambert that he saw the evangelist enter the Clark Hotel five hours before she disappeared from Ocean Beach, May 18, and that Ormlston entered two minutes later. Melville was a door man at the hotel. Forecast Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday; probably showers; continued mild temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURES f 6 a, m 66 10 a. m 70 f 7 a. m 67 11 a. m 70 8 a. m...,,. 68 12 (noon) **.. 74 9 a. 70 i.

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THOUSANDS CHEER SUN AT GOTHAM Threat of Showers, However, Still Hangs Over Series Opener. YANKS 10-7 FAVORITES i One of Greatest Crowds in History Forecast. Probable Line-Ups Bu T r nitcd Press NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—The probable line-up in today’s world series opener at Yankee stadium. New York: YANKEES. CARDINALS. Cos ml ,s, of Douthit. cf Koenitr. sa Southworth. rs Ruth, rs Hornsby. 2b Meusel. If Bottomloy. lb GehriK lb L. Bell, 3b Lazzeri. :5b Hafey. If Dugan. 3b O Farrell. a Severeid. c Thevenow. es Pennock, p Sherdel. p Umpires: Dineen. behind the plate: Klem. third base: Hildebrand, second base; O’Day. first baSs. First world series game, 12:30 p. m. Indianapolis time. By Henry L<. Farrell, United Press Sports Editor, YANKEE STADIUM, New York. Oct. 2. —Thousands of eager fans, filing in this huge stadium and slowly filling the tiers and tiers of seats, cheered just before noon today when the sun broke through heavy clouds and gave promise of good weather for the first game of the world series. Forty minutes before the game was scheduled to start, the skies continued overcast and cloudy and while it was not raining there was a threat of showers at any moment. The batteries were officially announce! as: For St. Louis, Sherdel and O’Farrell; for New York, Pennock and Severeid. One of the greatest crowds In the stadium’s history seemed assured, as countless thousands poured In from every direction. The gates were opened at 10 a. m. and two hours later more than ten thousand were in the park. Yanks Favorites Assuming the burden of the curse and the jinx that has fallen to the lot of champions in one of the greatest seasons of upsets in history, the Yankees went into the series with the wise money making them a 10 to 7 favorite. Miller Huggins, manager of the Yankees, jesting with the writers, who had picked Jack Dempsey to win in a few rounds from Gene Tunney, asked as a favor that they pick the Cardinals to win. Many writers cast their votes for the National League champions, but the bettors in the financial district placed their money behind the Yankees. Yanks Out First The Yankees came on the field at noon for batting and fielding practice. The field was heavy, despite efforts of the groundkeepers. The outer bleachers were jammed and the unreserved sections of the grand stand were filling rapidly. Prolonged cheers greeted Babe Ruth. The Yankee infield was on Its toes and worked out snappily. Ruth made five fans happy by driving as many liners into the stands. The stadium was bedecked with the Stars and Stripes. Camera men were out In full force. Ruth, his wife and daughter posed. Cards Gorgeous / The Cardinals emerged from their dugout at 12:15, and from then on there was ho doubt as to which club would be the feminine favorite. They were more colorfully attired. In comparison with the white uniforms, thinly striped with gray and blue caps worn by the Yanks, the Cards wore fresh gray suits and caps adorned with cherry red visors, and sox stripped with scintillant red. Rogers Hornsby, who is to St. Louis what beer once was, drew hearty acclaim from the ever increasing customers. As fans from all over the country joined with the native species in a furious scramble for tickets that weren’t to be had, there seemed every indication that _ this world series will mark a climax in every (Turn to Page 2) CHANGE OF VENUE SOUGHTBY ALGER Wants Murder Charge Trial in Another County. Motion for change of venue from the county was filed in Criminal Court today In the murder case of Gene Alger, 19, former Butler University student. The attorneys will confer with Prosecutor ’William H. Remy Monday to agree on the county. Undue preventing a fair trial here was charged by the defense. Alger fatally shot Traffic Policeman John Buchanan, Negro, July 9, in a running gun battle following his arrest by another officer, Alger pleaded not guilty. ‘

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Good health Is the best beauty aid, In the opinion of students and instructors at the Normal College of North American Gymnastic Union, 415 E. Michigan St. Miss Pansy Lanning, Dayton, Ohio, and Katherine Kincaid, La Porte, Ind., are advocates of plenty of exercise instead of cosmetics in building beauty. And Dean Emil Rath and Miss Clara Ledig, assist-

WORKERS REPORT TUESDAY NOON Chamber Leaders Make General Canvass. "Indianapolis First’ workers today were enrolling Chamber of Commerce members without regard to boundary lines. Dick Miller, drive chairman, an 'nounced Friday that all restrictions were removed and that the ambitious workers could obtain enrollments in ans part of the city. Report luncheons will not be held today and Monday, but workers were instructed to produce the quota of 3,000 new members at the report luncheon Tuesday, when the campaign will end. “Our jollifications meeting will be the Tuesday luncheon and at that time I hope we are above the 3,000 mark,” Miller said.' “This will place the total membership more than six thousand.” FIVE KNOWN DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE Ruins Are Searched for Other Bodies. Bu United Press SIBLEY, La., Oct. 2.—Five persons are known to have been burned to death when the Sibley Hotel was destroyed by {lre early today. P. W. Mindhew, his wife and two young sons and a nephew. Be O’Gray, of Castor, La., are among the known dead. It Is believed a man and his wife and their small child also lost their lives. Ruins of the hotel are being searched for bodies. A dozen houses In the vicinity of the hotel were burned by the fire, which was discovered shortly before daylight. APPEAL MADE"TOiTATES U. S. Flooded Wtth Salacious Reading Matter, Charge. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—America Is being flooded with salacious reading matter and Indecent pictures, Horace J. Donnelly, postoffice department solicitor, said today following inauguration of the W. T. C. U. campaign to curb the sale of such matter. To rid the country of obscene and scurrilous matter, Donnelly urged rigid enforcement of State laws forbidding display for sale of Indecent publications and pictures. Nearly every State has such laws, he said, but they are seldom enforced.

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ant dean, heartily agree with them. Dean Rath pointed out that many students come to the school underweight and physically imperfect and through the training received bJoom forth into,^robust young men and well-developed young women. More than one thousand graduates of the institution are physical dt rectors, teaching their secret for building health and beauty. About 150 are enrolled this year!

ONE NIGHT OF LIBERTY TO RECALL And It Was Worth It, Say Women Caught After Prison Flight. With one “grand night of freedom” to look back on. Airs. Majella Thornburg. 28. of 915 Oliver Ave., and Mrs. Jeanette Commeans, 24, of Alton, 111., who escaped from the Indiana Woman's Prison, E. Michigan St., were in city prison today. The two woman escaped from a second story, sewing room window with the aid of a rope of blankets V 6 p. m. Friday. were captured in the 900 block on Kentucky Ave., at 2 a. m. by Patrolman Hoy F. Conaway as they prepared to enter an auto they had hired to take them to Greencastle, Ind. “No Regrets’ “We have no regrets and they can keep us in prison for the rest of our lives, because we had one wonderful night of thrills,” both agreed. “Os course, .it’s tough to get caught. In fact, it was a dumb thing to do with a chance to get out in a few months,” said Mrs. Thornburg, serving a two to four-teen-year sentence for shooting Robert Yopp at 619 Russell Ave. several months ago at a liquor party. “I ran away because I was dying to see my baby,” she said. Her baby Gene, age 9, lives at the Oliver Ave. address with her mother, Mrs. Daisy Phillips. Conaway ran onto the trail of the fugitives when he discovered an auto stolen from Mrsr. Lucy Ho loway, 1924 N. Talbott Ave-, abandoned near the Phillips’ hqme. A man loitering near said he had been hired by Mrs. Phillips to drive a party to Greencastle. Aut Followed Instructing the man to carry out orders, Conaway followed the hired car in the stolen machine and arrested the women as they entered the auto. The women denied having anything to do with the stolen car. Ask Worwers to Aid Stricken Florida Miss Agnes Cruse, Red Cross secretary, today received an appeal for additional volunteer relief workers from Indianapolis to aid hurricane hehabilitation work in Florida. Plans are being made to send additional forces. Total of the local relief fui?d to date is $19,222. Need for a larger number of contributors was cited. PLANE CRASH KILLS 7 Bn United Press LONDON. Oct. 2.—The pilot, mechanic and five passengers were killed today in the wreck of a French Union passenger plane at Penshurt, Kent., the air ministry announced. . .

DRY AGENTS TO LAY OFF VIOLATORS? Director Harris Denies Rumor That Arrests Will Cease Till After Election. ATTRIBUTED TO AGENT Raids BeinQ Made Every Day, Says Official. That Federal prohibition department will lay off bootleggers and violators of the Volstead law until after the November election, was a rumor in circulation today. However, A. R. Harris, deputy prohibition director, in charge of Indiana enforcement, immediately denied suc|i a condition. The rumor was started when an Indianapolis business man met a prohibition agent on the street and asked him what was doing in the department. The agent replied orders were to “lay off’’ until “after the election,’’ it was said.. Says Statement Is Untrue v Harris declared such a statement was entirely untrue and that no such order was in effect. He in dieted he did not believe any of his agents would make such a statement and did not question as to who the agent was. Harris declared raids are taking place every day in various parts of the State and pointed to recent activities of the department in Elwood and Anderson, where eleven persons were arrested and immediately sentenced for violations. Raids Near South Rend The prohibition director asserted that his answer to the minor would bo the department’s activities from now until right up to election day. His secretary. Miss Helen Malone, added raids have been staged In South Bend and vicinity, also. Oscar Holman, an agent in the department. said there was nothing to the rumor anrf pointed to the rej rent raids as exemplifying the_work i of the department.

METHODISTS CITE WONDERS DONE BT PROHIBITION Prosperity, Death Rate Cut. Good Government Aided, More Goto College. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Any modification of the prohibition law would destroy 92 per cent of the country’s prosperity, the Methodist board of, temperance, prohibition and public morals said today in making public a list of “wonders accomplished by prohibtiion.” Prohibition has resulted in a remarkable decline in general death rate, the board stated. From the high peak of 18.1 per 1,000 population in 1918 the rate has receded to 11.8. The death rate from alcoholism has also decreased materially. From a high record of 6.8 per 100,000 population this rate has dropped to less than 2.6. The board that while there was a steady increase in alcoholism immediately after prohibition the rate again declined soon after the first outburst. Arrests for intoxication are placed by the board at 147 per 10.000 population as compared with 193 in 1914. The board said that while arrests for all causes had greatly increased since enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment, the rise in traffic arrests account for this increase. Prohibition is not responsible for crime but rather has aided good government. Prison population has decreased from 121.2 per 100,000 population to 99.7 while commitments from crime decreased similarly. Prohibition has resulted In more men and women going to colleges, the board continued. It pointed out that while only $504,123,000 was spent for education in 1910, more than $1,873,000,000 was spent in 1922. College attendance has Increased from 372,000 in 1917 to more than 850,000. Juvenile delinquency is decreasing and reform school population has fallen off from 172 per 100,000 population of youth between the ages of 10 and 17 to less than 161. “Pauperism is steadily decreasing because we have ceased to license the making of paupers,” the review said. “There were 91.5 paupers for every 100,000 persons In 1910—now almhouses have but 71.5 inmates for the same ratio.” “America under prohibition saves more," said the board. "Saving deposits increased from $4,933,885,000 in 1914 to $8,439,855,000 in 1924. Building and loan assets also mounted from $1,357,708,000 in 1914 -to $3,942,940,000 in 1924. The rapid increase in automobile registration would not have been possible had America kept saloons, the board said, pointing out that mo tor cars Increased in number from 7,565,000 In 1919 to about 20,000.000 T° d^ y * .

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MUSSOLINI HOLDS SAY AS TO WHO MAY CAST VOTES Dictator Does Not Believe in Popular Suffrage—Too Many Demagogs. Editor’s Note: This is the third of a series of a-tides on Mussolini, written by William Philip Simms. Times foreign rditor. Simms has just completed a tour of Italy and held a long audience with Mussolini. By William Philip Simms WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Nobody has earned the right to vote, says Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, merely because he has kept on living until ho reached the voting age. This thing of popular suffrage, Italy’s big boss told me during our conversation in Chigi palace, Rome, may be all very fine in theory, but in practice it has been responsible for more incompetence and corruption In office than any other one conception of government. In Italy today, therefore, there is no such thing an popular suffrage, either in national or municipal affairs. Must Work so Vote Under Mussolini the only people in Italy who have any voice in public matters whatever are those who are doing something. Mussolini says if a man or woman wants to vote, he or she mpst work for it, contribute something, however small, to the nation. Thus fascist Italy is not just a mass of 40.000,000 people with the usual percentage of votes, but fs divided Into four main groups of doers or contributors: Agriculture, Industry—including labor—commerce and the intellectual professions. Any others don’t count. In the future, Italian legislatures will not he composed of one representative for every so many thousands of Italy’s forty millions, but of representatives of the above named groups. And, aside from Rome, which has been given a government similar to that of Washington because it is the capital, Italian municipalities will bo directed not by mnyors and boards of aldermen or councils, but by trained • city managers and specialist assistants hired for their knowledge- and named on the advice of these same groups. The Advantages “What is the advantage of your system,’’ I asked the Duce, “over our American system of selecting public officials?” “The masses,” Mussolini replied, “are totally unprepared for the vote. They are the easy prey of every demagogue that comes their way, the facile victims of all the petty vanities and personal ambitions of every self-seeking politician. “Take our cities. Under our old system of -popular elections, almost always ignorant or incompetent men were lifted to lnnver, where they proceeded to spend their time maneuvering. to stay there or trying to clinb higher over one another to gratify a mean, personal ambition. Groups FaVbred “Such administrations, thus constituted, would look after the interests of some particular group of citizens, their own particular crowd, bur mostly to the complete neglect of the welfare of the general public. “And the general public, though It could plainly see the sinful waste, neglect, prodigal spending of tax money and other imbecilities on the part of the authorities, did not see what was to be done about it.” Italy’s unorthodox premier shrugged his shoulders eloquently. The purchasable, maneuverable vote so frequently can be made to outcount the unpurchasable vote! “The democratic, liberal Idea of a sovereign people has led everywhere to deplorable consequences, but not here has this conception of government been more of a blight than in our cities. Abuses Disappear “Today, in Italy, that system is obsolete. And the abuses to which it led have disappeared. “Hereafter local government in Italy will be in the hands of competent persons, experts, men of known reputation and of proved worth along the lines wherein they will function. They will not listen to this or that party or class but to all the classes. And the only way they can make good will be to insure the well being and prosperity of the community as a whole.” To the average American, like myself, this dethroning of the sovereign people sounded vastly like blasphemy. But the picture of some recent American elections flashed across my mind, the picture of long lines of voters marching past the political bosses’ pay windows as they went to the polls. Maybe neither Italy nor America has yet reached perfection. Monday further conversation with Mussolini.) e* • g •••

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RAILROAD HEADS SEE GAII HERE Presidents of Pennsy and N. Y. C. Lines Play Golf in Morning. BASEBALL TEAMS CLASH Other High Officials Also in City. Indianapolis today was general headquarters for two of the largest railroads in the world, roads covering approximately 17,500 miles, and having an annual operating revenue of more than $1,000,000,000. High officials of both the New York Central and Pennsylvania lines, Including the presidents, were here to attend the railroad world championship baseball game between the two road league winners. The game at Washington Park this afternoon was witnessed by 10,000 or more railroad men of all ranks. The Pennsylvania team was from Columbus, Ohio, and the New 'iork Central players from Indiana 'Harbor, Ind. Asa preliminary to the game a golf match between Patrick E. Crowley, New York Central president, and William W, Atterbury, Pennsylvania president, was played at the Indianapolis Country Club this morning. Crowley won the match, the score being 90 to 92. President Crowley and his party of road officials, including Director Jackson E. Reynolds, president cf the First National Bank of New York City, arrived Friday night on a special train. On Special General Atterbury, with his party, arrived this morning on a special train. He emerged before 8 a. m., clothed in golf togs and ready for the match. During the World War he was brigidier general In charge of United States military railroads in France. , A tall, lithe man, with ruddy face and sparce gray, hair, the general (Turn to Page 2)

TO INVESTIGATE DANISHLOTTERY U. S. Reopens Quiz —Letter Received Here. Federal postal officials today reopened an investigation of a Danish lottery, said to be operating in this country, and a letter received from the lottery organization at Copenhagen, Denmark, by an Indianapolis man, was sent into the postmastergeneral's office by local postal officials. Postoffice inspectors declared there was nothing that could be done on the matter in Indianapolis, but asked that letters pertaining to alleged swindle be turned over to them immediately. ' Federal officials said there is a fraud order in this country against the company, but it is impossible to prosecute the operators as long as they stay out of the United States. FLOOD IN ILLINOIS Jacksonville Inundated for Second Time in Month. Bn United Press JACKSONVILLE, 111,, Oct, 2. Jacksonville was flooded today for the second time within a month. Hundreds of home? were inundated and damage was estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. The water is rising rapidly. Heavy rainfall yesterday and last night caused a small stream in the south part of the city to leave Its banks. Railroad traffic is demoralized. A bridge on the Wabash Railroad at Arnold, east of here, has been undermined, and trains are being routed over the Chicago & Alton.

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