Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1926 — Page 1

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BALLOTING ■SPIRITED INSTATE Early Vote Reported Heavy in Most Sections of , Indiana. i: - STATEMENTS ISSUED Lack of G. 0. P. Interest Is by Democrats. With clear and cool pre vailing throughout Indiana today, between 1,000,000 and 1,250,000 1100 sier voters were expected to go to the polls in the biennial congressional election. County officials were being elected throughout the State. Interest in the United States Sen ator race was high. Peters Enthusiastic reports from Democratic worker in all sections of the State were announced by R. Earl Peters, Democratic State chairman. He was enthusiastic in his forecast of a complete Democratic victory. Among telegrams received by the State chairman was the following from Herman kewsome, South Bend, Thirteenth district chairmah of the young men’s advisory committee to the State committee: “Outlook good in St. Joseph, Marshall. Fulton, Starke and La Porte counties.” Peters received a report shortly before noon from Clinton Brown of Kokomo, Howard County chairman, to the effect that Republican disinterest in the election was marked. "Democratic voting is lively,” Brown said. This report of Repub lican la*ity at the polls is taken as a favorable indication, Peters said. VValb’s Statement That the general electorate of the State had voted early was the Impression gained by Clyde A. Walb, Republican State chairman, from reports he had received at noon. “Newcastle reports an unusually heavy early morning poll," Walb stated. v “Whether the voting strength was Republican or Democratic, I do not know.” “We confidently await the usual clean-cut Republican victory,” he added. A heavy vote was being cast in Clay County and at noon .more than half the vote was in. Republicans in the Sixth precinct at Brazil objected to Mrs. Frances Miller serving as Democratic clerk wlien her name failed to appear on the registration list. Health officers in compiling a list of voters who had died had included her name by mistake. Precautions were taken in several Indiana cities to guard against clashes at the voting places or attempts to intimidate voters. Evansville officials were watching the balloting places carefully. Warnings were issued against crooked methods. The day dawned (Turn to Page 13)

MELLETTDEATH NEAR SOLUTION? Definite Link Is Seen With Bootlegger. Hu ( nited Press CANTON, Ohio, Nov. 2. —The Don R Mellett murder mystery was nearer solution today thin at any time since the publisher’s assassination, according to C. B, McClintock, Stark County prosecutor. A definite link has been PestablisheU, he believes, between Nadel, Cleveland bootlegger brought here, and Louis Mazer, Ben Rudner and Patrick McDermott, the trio awaiting trial on first degree murder chaPfees. “That is the man I saw following Don Mellett about an hour before the slaying ” a secret witness with whom McClintock conferred is reported to have told him when shown a picture of Nadel, Nadel and Rudner have been associted in liquor running between Cleveland, Canton, and Detroit, Dan Pfaff. an\employe of Nadel, told authorities. The Federal Government is prepared to arrest both Nttdel and Pfaff, now held ns material witnesses, on liquor conspiracy charges.

.TYPHOON LULLS EARTHQUAKE FEAR Manila’s Terrified Residents Calmed When Told Storm Is on Its Way.

Bu United Press MANILA, P. 1,, Nov. 2.—Warning Ifrom the observatory that a typhoon Pwas approaching and the city should prepare for it, served to quiet thousands of persons who were panicstricken when the fifth Earthquake within a week rocked Manila today. Several were Injured when they jumped from the windows of swaying buildings and in the public mar-

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DEMOCRAT VICTOR Y IS POS-I-TIVE!

Hu t nited Press OMAHA, Neb.. Nov. 2.—Edgar Howard, Democratic candidate for Congress from the third Nebraska district, trill be elected. His Republican opponent died of heart failure Saturday night. It was too late for tlie Republiea? s to present another candidate. * • • MACHINE TANGLE SEEN /In United Press NEW YORK,./ Nov. 2. —Voting machines, used for the first time to any extent in New York City, may influence ihe result considerably, ft was believed many voters would be afraid to try toAote anything but a straight ticket and minor candidates would*benefit. * * • GOOD OLD DAYS tin I nited Press NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Thg_good old election days of torch parades and fireworks were revived on the east side Monday night. Tammany Hail trotted out the old red fire, Roman candies and bands and the whole town turned out for the excitement. ♦ * •* GOLDEN RULE NASH Hu I nit“ 4 Press CINCINNATI, Nov. 2.—“ Golden Rule” Nash. manufacturer, has hired 150 private detectives to watch for fraud at the polls. “I do not believe we have any crooks here so low and contemptible as to undertake to steal an election, he said, but added that persistent reports of crookedness mad£ it advisable to keep watch. Thousands of his employes have volunteered to aid the detectives. • * • THEY’LL VOTE WET Hu United Prrxs BROOKLYN, N. Y., Nov. 2. Three octogenarians, all of whom voted for Abraham Lincoln, \yll vote here. Louis Aymar, 85, Wlio is blind, will be taken in a wheel chair. All said they will vote wet on the prohibition geferenduin. * * * TWO VERDICTS FOR HIM Hu United Press MONTPELIER. Vt.. Nov 2. High Sheriff W. L. Fairbanks will aw r ait two verdicts tonight—one from the voters and one from a Criminal Court jury He is running for re-election and is being tried for an alleged offense involving a girl. * * • HURRAY FOR COOLIDGE Hu I'nitrd Prrxs PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2.—Onefifth of the Coolidge Cabinet vote was cast in Pittsburgh. Os the ten Crj'lnet officers, two voted here— Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Secretary-of Labor Davis. • • • SNOW: DEMOCRATS HAPPY Hu I'nitrd Press DETROIT. Nov. 2.—Snowfall which blanketed portions of central Michigan today \was accepted by Democrats as a good omen. Although Michigan is proverbially Republican, it was conceded that a light poll would increase the Democratic chances. • • • CIGARS ARE BETTER Hu I'nitrd Press GREENSBORO. N. C.—Campaign citT-t’s have improved hi the last few years and this has resulted in Robert Leonard, 107 years old, going to the polls for the -second time in his life today. “When I was a young man politicians gave away such had cigars and flew off at the mouth so much, I never bothered about voting, but times have changed and cigars have improved,” Leonard said today. • • * VOTES, THEN HIES Fiit l nited Pmi MILWAUKEE* AVis.. Nov. 2.—< John Glasser’s vote will not count. Before leaving for a hospital to undergo an operation, he voted by absent ballot. The operation proved fatal and the ballot has been destroyed. * * • REFERENDUM ON LEAGUE Hu United Press ALDEN, Mass.. Nov. 2.—This town is voting today on a referendum as to whether United States shall enter the League of Nations. * * • REPUBLICAN CAT More Indianapolis women were busy at polling places in today's election than at any time- since they obtained the vote, veteran campaign workers declared. At many places they malic themselves comfortable by gathering about bonfires. At-riffie polls in the Eleventh pre cinct. Ninth ward, 305 S. T.-a Salle St., seventeen women were at work and during Vhe dull periods ampsed themselves with a cat, described as a Republican, because, as one of the women said. “It purrs when we ask it too.”

ket places"Tfiroughout the city people knelt and prayed'for the tremors to cease. The observator’s message said the typhoon gave much more reasonable ground for alarm and urged the people to be # calm, inasmuch as the earthquake w-as over. The city is now preparing for the typhoon, which it knows how to meet. '

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BATTLE FOR CONTROL OE cm OR I X Twenty Million Voters to Go to Polls Today in FortySeven States. BOTH SIEVES DOUBTFUL Believe Democrats Will Win Six Senate Seats. _ Hu t mteel I reus NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The battle for the control of the next Congress of t'nited Slates is on. Snow and cold winds in the Northwest with a drizzle in the East failed to keep voters from the polls and indications this afternoon were that a record ballot might be rolled up. More than 20.000.000 persons were expected to register their choipe for thirty-six United States Senate seats, 430 chairs in the House of Representatives and numerous State offices, before night. If the average of the first eight hours of balloting is maintained all records for a nonpresidential year will be broken. The weather was generally fair in the Central States. Mid-West, Southwest and Pacific Coast, where, despite ihe apparent distinterestedness of voters during the campaign, a record poll was forecast. The first returns came from Mash pee. Mass., where Senator William A* Butler. (rinil of I*resident Coolidge and chairman of the Republican national committee, led Ills Democratic opponent, David I. Walsh. Butler had forty-seven votes to twelve for Walsh. The little town always records its total of less than sixty votes by noon every election day. More honest (joubt surrounds the most important contests than In any congressional election of Regent years. Democratic Opi>ortunky Not onljy Is control of Congress at stake, but indorsement of the Coolidge administration, prohibition, and economic policies are issues. Democrats have a mathematical opportunity to capture control of both the House and the Senate. There are twenty-nine Republican Senate seats and only seven Democratic involved. There are 246 Republican House seats to be fought over p-nfi only 182 Democratic. Democrats need nine Senate seats and thirty-six house chairs for control. 1 Although Coolidge has taken personal part only In his race, where his friend. Senator William M. Butler, Republican, Massa(Tum to Page 13) ‘Man Who Won the World War* Dies Hu t nited Press PARIS, Nov. 2. —Col. De Port, inventor of the famous French 75 field piece with which German drives dur ing the war repeatedly were stopped, died at Hougato. He frequently had been referred to as “the man who won the war.”

THREE CHILDREN • BiNTO DEATH Three Others Who Disobeyed Mothers Escape. tin United Press BEREA, Ky., Nov. 2. —Three children were burned to rieath in a kerosene oil blast her’e. The dead are Nelllie Harrison, 12; Susan, 17 months, and Ella Lake, grandchild of the Harrison, seven months. Three other children escaped as the result of disobeying the mother of the Harrrison children, who or dered'them indoors, while she was visiting a neighbor. The explosion occurred when Nellie poured oil on a dying fire. Four Kings Will See Astrid Marry Hu I nited Pm s* STOCKHOLM. Nov. 2.—Royalty of Scandnavia, Belgium, Great Britain and Italy were represented here today by four kings and others of princely and queenly rank to attend the wedding Thursday of Princess Astrid, niece of the King of Sweden, to Leopold. Duke of Rrabant. eldest son of the King and Queen of Belgians and heir to the Belgian throne. The Kings are of Sweden, the Belgians, Norway and Denmark. Thursday’s civil ceremony will not be sufficient''to complete the union of Astrid and Leopold to the satis faction of all concerned. A religious ceremony, to be held in Brussels next week, will be necessary since Leopold’s family is Catholic and the proprieties must be observed. After Thursday’s ceremony, Astrid and her mother will go one way and Leopold and his family another to Brussels. REVOLT IN NEW GUIANA 8 1/ United Press _ MELBOURNE, Nov. 2.—Three white persons have been killed in a native in the gold fields of Guiana, advices received here said. A punitive expedition has been organized against the natives.

INDIANAPOLIS, NOV. 2, 1926

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: Above: Albert Stump, Democratic senatorial candidate, and his wife entering the Irvington .Masonic Temple, | Twenty-Sixth precinct, Warren Township, to cast their ballots Mils morning. At extreme left is Mis. P. W. Garrison, 111 S. Bitter Democratic worker, greeting the nominee. Below: Evans Woollen, running against Senator Artbrtr R. Robinson for the other Senate seat, and .Alrs Woollen, ready to vole at 6325 Keystone Ave., Forty-Ninth precinct, Washington Township. Mrs. Clara Ijease (left) W. ('. T. U. worker, and Mrs. Rosena Huff, Democratic poll clerk, are shown at the left of Mr. and Mrs. Woollen.

PROSECUTOR AND STAFF CONTINUE POLITICS PROBE t Grand Jury, in Recess, Will Reconvene on Wednes- • day. , N Although the MartcVn Countygrand jury is not in session today because of the election. Prosecutor William H. Remy announced that he and his staff of prosecutors will work on the probe of charges of Indiana political corruption during the time when D.*C. Stephenson was in power. ftemy said there were several de tails of tiye quiz that can be looked into, alfhough\the probe body is not 1 session. ’ The grand jury will reconvene Wednesday morning. Four Witnesses Four witnesses were before the grand jury Monday. They were. Herbert Males, mayor of Evansville: Joseph Huffington, Evansville Klansman and politician; Charles M. Clark, Representative from Marion County in the 1925 Legislature, and George 3. Elliott, former cyclops of the Marlon County Klan. * The first three men were before the grand jury during the morning, while Eliott was the only one quizzed during the afternoon session. Leslie Subpoenaed Harry G. Leslie, Speaker iof thHouse of Representatives in the 1925 Legislature; Chaj-les York, board of pardons secretary, and Mrs. L. G. Julian, Evansville, wife of a formerbusiness associate of Stephenson, are subpoenaed for Wednesday, it was said. Mrs. Julian was ordered to her home by her attorney, Ira Holmes. Friday and told not to return unless subpoenaed. * She is under SI,OOO bond for her appearance as hostage while her husband ( is missing. SOCIETY WOMAN KILLED By United Presg SYOSSET, N. Y„ Nov. 2.—Mrs. Fairman Dick, prominent society woman, was killed today while hunt ing with the Meadowbrook hounds near here. Her iiorse fell during the chase. MRS. HOUDINI COLLAPSES _ Bu United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The body of Harry Houdlnl, magician, arrived today in its air-tight bronze coffin from Detroit and was taken to a funeral parlor. Mrs. Houdlnl, the magician’s widow, was in a state of collapse, and had to be taken in a wheel chair.

GAMBLERS AFRAID OF CLOSE ELECTION Few Bets Put Up Here—Odd son Wasson Disappear at Eleventh Hour —‘Lay Off’ County Result.

The gambling profession stepped lightly on tlie election today. A feature of the wagering was a last-inin ute loss of faith on the part of the professionals in the chances of Senator Janies E. Watson to be re--elected. Early Monday the professionals would wager two to one that Watson would win. During the afternoon they shifted the odds to 8 to 5, and by Monday evening they had cooled down to where t!ie was some even money available. There was little betting, however, the wise ones figuring the electing was so close there was not a sporting chance either way. Comjiared with previous elections the betting was very light. There was practically none of the wagers running into four figures which al* wiiys*hnve featured elections in Indianapolis. It was next to impossible to place a bt . with a professional upon the outcome of the county ,-lection, the gamblers figuring that there would be so much scratching that there was no way of reliably predicting the result. The gamblers have backed the Republican candidates heavily in all elections since the Progressive split of 1912. Their reluctance to place money on the Republican county ticket in this election was a cheering fact for the Democrats. One brisk passage between bettors was reported. Several prominent Republicans advertised their willingness to wager SIO,OOO that the Republican County ticket would win by 15,000 votes. Another affluent Republican jumped at the chance, but was met with the information that xvhat his friends really wanted to bet was SIO,OOO to 515.000 that AVatson would

Woman Near 100th Birthday Votes Probably the oldest woman voter* in the city today was Mrs Minerva Morris. 338 N. Colorado Ave. Mrs. Morris who will be 100 years old in January lives with her daughter, Mrs. L. B. Me Leod, who announced that nor mother would vote the Repub lican ticket. , “You see, my father was Re publican,” said Mrs. McLeod,’* and Although he has been dead a number of years, I think mother still feels the Influence of his political views and votes accordingly. This is the third time she has cast a vote.”

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! carry Marion County by 15,000 votes. Negotiations ceased at this point. There was practically no Republican money on Senator Arthur R. Robinson, the only candidate the Republicans apparently cared to risk money on being AVatson. HALL-ILLS CASE READY FOR JURY \ Trial Scheduled to Open at Somerville. Hu L nited Press SOMERVILLE. N. J.. Nov. 2. The celebrated Hail-Mills murder case at last was ready for trial today. . Four years and eighteen days af ter the pastor of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Divine In New Brunswick was found slain with his choir singer at the scene of their illicit love meeting, the State was prepared to ask justice for the alleged slayers. The prosecution will attempt to prove that the outraged mdatives of the slips tor murdered the lovers to end the disgrace that their open affair was bringing on the family. The tidal, which opens In the Somerset County courthouse here tomorrow, promise t# be a long and hard struggle. ~T\ Mrs. Francis Hill, the pastor's widow, and Wer brothers, Henry- and AA’illle Stevens, will be charged jointly with the murder.

NEW BELL DIRECTOR | Vice-President of A. T. and T. Chosen by Indiana Company. Charles P. Cooper of New York, vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is anew director of Indiana Bell Telephone Company, having been selected Monday by the board of directors to sucqged Edgar 1?. Bloom. The board accepted the resignation of Bloom. Recently chosen president of the Western Electric Company. A 2 per cent dividend on common stock also war * HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m.... . 29 10 a. m... 37 7 a. m 2911 a. 38 8 a. 81 12 (noon) .... 39 9 a. jo 35 1 p. m 39

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TEN THOUSAND MAIORITY, IN MI) PREDICTED BV lEADERS OF DEMOCRATS Heavy Vote in Residential Districts and Light Balloting Downtown Predicted Favorable. REPUBLICANS ALSO CONFIDENT I G. 0. PrExperts Anticipate 90,000 Total Poll Will Be Cast. ,

Election at a Glance

.Democratic chieftains predict victory for Marion County ticket by 10,000 vote3. Republicans tone down pre-election predictions and claim victory in county by from 9,000 to 10,000 votes. Republican precinct reports indicate total vote of about 90,000 out of 25Q.000 registered. Heavy voting on north side, light voting downtown and abnormally light vote during morning in negro precincts. Balloting is orderly, but considerable confusion results fro merrors in registration. Circuit judge qualifies 250 voters, victims of registration errors, during the morning. Voting in most sections of Indiana is early and heavy. Fair, cool weather prevails throughout State. Heavy voting in the residence sections to the north, light voting downtown and extremely light balloting in the so-called “colored” wards were the outstanding features of the morning results at the polls in Marion County today. • Optimism of Democratic workers was one of the significant facts gleaned from the polling places. In every precinct there were reports of evident scratching of ballots, interpreted as favorable to Prosecutor Remy, Republican candidate # for re-election.

While reports from Republican county headquarters showed a total vote of 16.000 of their registration- ! against 12,000 of Democratic regis i trations, up to 10 a. rfi., the inside In ' formation'-from the Coffin grout) was to the effect that they hoped to carry I the county from 9,000 to 10.600, The Interpretation placed upon the | vote and the statements cleaned 1 from workers ted the Democratic | chieftains to pi ophqsy a victory in I the epunty of 10. moo for their ticket. The total Marion County vote will . be about the same as in 1922, when Albert J. Beveridge, Republican, was dcfeotc*l by the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston for the Senate, Republican experts said. YSRtc experts at Republican county headquarters, after studying reports sent in by messenger by Republican I workers 'at all precincts, estimated [that the total Marion County vote i would be approximately ninety thou | sand. This was about the vote in the 1922 election. W ith 251.728 Marion persons registered, this total would mean only 35 tier cent exercised their franchise. 10 A. M. Report The Republican reports showed £8,428 votes cast at 10 a. m Os this number, the Republicans said, 16,083 were cast by voters registered as Republicans and 12,345 by those registered as i Democrats. They predicted a 10.000 Republican majority in the county, about the majority Beveridge received in the year he was beaten over the* State by the Democrats. , Neutral and l>emocrat observers, however, declared that scratched tickets and switches in party by former Republicans would upset the G. O. P. figures and swing the Marion County majority to the Democrats. With but few exceptions, the balloting was quiet and orderly. Few Klan Workers Comparative absence of Klan workers at the polls dlstiiifj||jished the day from the 192-Eelection. Although a few Klan workers were on hand in spme precincts, there no widespread distribution of Klan slates at the pol's About 250 persons appeared be fore Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin during the morning and were granted writs allowing' them to vote, after they had been challenged. Many were waiting when court opened at 9:30. In most of.these eases, errors had been made In transferring names from registration lists to poll books. Many were the result of the registration system inaugurated by the last Legislature, whereby voters who cast their ballots in the 1924 election be-

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Forecast Increasing cloudiness; warm tonight ; Wednesday \nsettled with probably showers; colder at night.

came automatically registered, ’ounty commissioners made a number of changes in precinct boundarsics and this necessitated transferring of names from one precinct to another. Errors ’resulted In these transfers. A board of registration appeals, originally named, was dismissed and Judge Charnberito heard all 1 cases direot. Voters either Hied affidavits to the effect that they had registered, or brought in someone with whom voted in 1924. Few were denied writs in the court. These writs ordered precinct election boards to allow the voters to cast their ballots. L. J. Keach, Democratic chairman, predicted a Democratic county victory and a margin in the county for Evans AVoollen and Alliert Stump. Democratic senatorial candidates (Turn to Page 2) RECEIVER IS GRANTED Rickenhacker Company to ITeserve Assets. Hu United Press DETROIT, Nov. 2.—The Ricken. backer Mot oh Company began operation today under a “friendly receivership in equity," granted by Federal Judge Charles C. Simons on petition of the Columbia Axle Company, Cleveland, Ohio, a creditor in the amount of $48,000. The assets of the Rlckenbacker Company were listed at more than $7,000,000 compared with liabilities of less than $2,000,000. The action was action, counsel for the Ricken* backer company said, to preserve the assets of the company. YEGGS GET $5,000 Hu United Press MORRISTOWN, N. J., Nov. 2. Four men walked into the Delaware, I-ackn wanna K AVestern Railway Station here today, gagged a watchman, blew open the safe, escaped with $5,000. They esenped In an automobile after exchanging shots with a policeman. CHAUFFEUR KILLED Hu United Press ROCHESTER, N. Y.. Nov. B.—Don. aid W. Love, 24, chauffeur, was killed at East Pembroke today when his car skidded Into a ditch. DOCTOR, 66, WEDS GIRL, 18 Hu l nited Press PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 2.—Dr. Silas Rogers Corwith. 66, and his 18-year-old bride, the former Miss Viola Alter, whom he married after a whirlwind courtship at Brookhaven, L. 1., forty-eight hours ago, left this city today for Washington on the second stage of their honeymoon.