Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1926 — Page 1

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TWO PLANES WILL RESUME BROKEN TRIP Navy’s PN-10s Forced Down —Members of Crews Escape Injury. CRUISER TOWING NO. 1 Other Machine Ran Short of Oil. ltd United Press a WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—With "their 2,060-mile nonstop seaplane attempt ended disastrously in the Car ribbean Sea, the Navy’s two PN-10 flying boats and their crews today were preparing to continue thenjourney from Hampton Roads to Colon, Panama, and thence to San Diego,- Cal. The PN-10 No. 1, after completing 1,448 miles of her journey, was forced down in the sea 213 miles south of the Isle of Pines by a broken connecting rod in one of its two 600-horse power engines. The U. S. S. Cincinnati found the plane, and under orders of Admir 1 E. W. Eberle, Navy operations chief, today was to tow it to shelter and help in repairing the machine. The No. 2, commanded by Flight Commander Harold Bartlett, forced down at Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, 1,230 miles from the starting point, by exhaustion of its oil supply, today was to resume its flight to Panama. Silent Sixteen Hours After all the seagoing vessels in the Caribbean had been ordered out to search for the No. I,'the Cincinnati, a cruiser, located it at 0:35 p. m yesterday, and a radio announcement indicating safety of Lieut. Byron J. Connell and his three associates reached the Navy Department at 10:30 p. m., nearly sixteen hours after they had last been heard from, triumphantly passing the Isle of Pines. Although Eberle's authorization for contiuance of the flight was sent jat mdinight, naval authorities said ! refueling of the plane would not be j completed until well along in "ITie I morning, and the new start could not ; be made until the southern guard- j ships returned to their posts along the route. The No. 2 landed in shallow water ! at Nueva Gerona, where it obtained a small supply of oil and proceed*#! to Siguena Ray, where it was to be met by the U. S. S. Raleigh. The water in the Nueva Gerona harbor was too shallow for the Raleigh and would have prevented a quick transfer of the oil needed.

Beaten by Rodgers The distance covered by the No. 3 was estimated at 392 land miles less than the over-water flight record iiet by Commander John Rodgers. U. S. N., in his unsuccessful attempt to ily from San Francisco to Hawaii in September, 1925. It probably will take several days to tow the No. 2 to a port where repairs can be made to its engine. Navy officials here believed the broken connecting rod was due to some trouble with the oil supply, which caused the engine to become overheated. After the planes reach Colon, Panama, Navy air station, it is possible that anew attempt may be made to establish a nonstop record on their way to San Diego, where they are to be stationed for operations with the Pacific fleet. SEEK $148,000 SWINDLERS Bti United Press ' NEW YORK, Nov. 25. —Two swin|dlers, who secured $148,000 from the Equitable Trust Company through an alleged bad check scheme, were soughtb y New York police "today The method used in the fraul was similar to that employed by a gang in tricking Detroit banks but of large sums. FORMER SENATOR WEDS Hu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Capital society was surprised today to learn that former Senator David Elkins, West Virginia, well-known clubman of this city, had been married secretly six months ago in New York to Miss Mary Reagan of this city. '

3HOPPIN6 days Till Jr ChristmaS We>B eat of luscious turkey, and We’ll give up Thanks today. Then turn our thoughts to Chnstmas, which Is just one month away.

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Technical H. S. Students Aid With Family Dinners

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I him puddings am! pumpkin pies weVe contributed to the family Thanksgiving menu by domestic science students at Arsenal Technical High School. Miss Jeanne Chambers (right) and Miss Gertrude Hutton are shown displaying their products.

Quiet Holiday at \yhite House

llli United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. President and Mrs. Coolidge led the Nation' today 'in observing Thanksgiving day. The White House program called for a quiet observance of the annual day of thanks, with President Coolidge giving over nem ljp-he entire afternoon to preparation of his annual message . Congress. TpijJglit, a twenty-pound tur-key,-The gift of Governor Samuel Balf<?r, Missouri, will be placed on the White House table for the executive couple and Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns,

ATTEMPT MADE ON DALE’S LIFE Bullet Fired Through Editor’s Home. fill ' ll l*fit Press MIT NCI E, lad., Nov. 25.—Muncie police today investigated the attempt made last night on the life of George A. Dale, Muncie editor, whose Weekly newspaper has carried on an attack against alleged corruption in Muncie and Delaware County. A bullet was fired through the front window of the Dale home The editor was downtown at the time, but a daughter had just left the room as the shot crashed through the glass. The him been stoned three times In the last ten the last attack being made Monday night, when a stone was thrown through the window, narrowly missing Dale’s head. Dale has an appeal pending in the United States Supreme. Court from the decision of the Delaware County Circuit Court on a contempt charge. Dale was held guilty of contempt by Judge Clarence Dearth here after the editor's newspaper had charged that the Ku-Klux IClan was controlling the court. TRACTION CAR BURNS Trolley Fails on I. & C. Interurban Near Morristown. Holiday travelers on three Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company interurbans were held up for about three hours Wednesday nignt near Morristown when one of the cars, south.bound, caught fire. The blaze, in the baggage compartment, started when a trolley wire fell on the roof of the car. Nn one was injured, members of the car crew soon extinguishing the blaze. GLOOMY TURKEY DAY Rain and Colder Weather by Friday Night, Says Bureau^ Turkey day in Indianapolis dawned in semi-darkness and clouds hung heavy over the'dlty, bringing intermittent showers. Temperature rose and the prediction of the weather bureau here was warmer 4nd unsettled tonight, with rain to be followed by colder weathqr by Friday night. State predictions were for warmer weather, with rain, tonight, colder on Friday, with rain changing to snow in the northern part of the State.

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close triends, who are house guests. The dinner will have all the trimmings and courses. There will be raw and creamed oysters, cranberry sauce, green peas, sweet potatoes and mashed' potatoes, celery, olives, pumpkin pie. ice cream and coffee. This morning the President and Mrs; Coolidge, accompeJhied by Mr. and Mrs. Stearns, attended Methodist services at the Metropolitan Memorial Church, where Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and other dignitaries in lays gone by attended. . After lunch, Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Stearns attended a theater.

Murder and Suicide Climax of Romance I!II Unit'd Press CLEVELAND, Nov. 25.—Because she was fleeing from the man she once loved and later tiled of his affections, according to 'police, Miss Apfnean Hunter, 24, was dead here today. According to the girl's room-mates-Miss Adeline Snyder, the girl was shot dead in her rooming house by R. E. “Red” Jones, Detroit, who took his own life with the same gun a few minutes later late last night. It was a story, police say, of a small town girl, married and divorced, who lived for a short time with another man, tired of him, fled and was murdered. FACE GLOOMY~HOLIDAY Association Members liCarn Official . Missing Witli $200,000. tin Uniteil Press CHICAGO, Nov. 25.—A gloomy Thanksgiving faced several hundred members of the Friendship Building and Loan Association today when it was announced that Albert J. Gallisted. until recently secretary of the association iis short more than $200,000 in his accounts. Police are searching for Gallistel on charges of embezzlement. Gallistel, before his disappearance is reported to have arranged to make good about half the loss through assignment of his real and personal property. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 37 9 a. m 40 7 a. m 38 10 a. m....... 42 8 a. m 39

A Happy Day for Frank Hooper ; the ‘Lifer’

By Eidora Meld “An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.” Prison doors clanged one January day fourteen years ago on a man, who, befuddled with drink, had shot and killed two men, one a bystander struck by a stray bullet. That he had no malicious Intent — had indeed no memory of seizing a bystander’s gun and shooting wildly at John Gaither, a Bicknell policeman, counted only slightly in the subsequent trial, and Frank Hooper, the man who had done the killing, took up his despairing round as a “lifer” in Indiana State Prison. His wife, who had been married to him for almost thirty years, began weaving equally strands of life outside the prison walls. “I’ll always love and believe in you. I know it was drink—not you, that did that awful thing,” she had assured him from her shame-crushed heart,

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OIL DEFENSE PLANS HEAVY TRIALJLOW Moves to Throttle Doheny’s / Story of SIOO,OOO Loan to Fall. BASED ON TECHNICALITY Probe Testimony Statute Cited. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—YV ith the youthful Fall-Doheny conspiracy trial jury locked away from their families on Thanksgiving, defense counsel in the holiday recess planned today to knock out the prosecution’s principal piece of evidence tomorrow on a technicality. A transcript of E. L. Doheny’s Senate Oil Committee testimony telling how he, a multi-millionaire and “improvident, generous old prospector,” loaned Secretary of Interior Fall SIOO,OOO on a personal, unsecured note, is the evidence at tacked, under a statute providing that congressional testimony cannot be offered as evidence in a Criminal trial of the person giving the testimony. * If the stoiV is knocked out, th-i defense will'be able to give the jure its own carefully developed story of the ti-ansaction, toid by Doheny him self, and perhaps by Fall, on the stand. Faces Serious Blow Loss of the damaging evidence given by Doheny at the two memorable committee sessions Jan. 24 and Feb. 1, 1924, will leave a mortifying gap in the government’s case supporting indictments charging Doheny and Fall with conspiracy to dofraud the Government. Owen T. Roberts, sharp-tongued floor leader of the prosecution, asserted that the testimony would be admitted after argument on the point before Justic Adolph Hoehling tomorrow. The jury will not be allowed to hear the argument or the evidence under consideration until and after it has been ruled admissible. Frank J. Hogan, peppery defense leader, assertei that the only exception to the statute was in case of perjury. Center Developed More and more the entire case is centering on Doheny’s own story of the transaction. The defense is counting on the bluff, good-natured oil millionaire of 71 years to convince the jury that his loan was not made in the hope or promise that Fall would lease him the rich Elk Hills (Cal.) Navy oil reserves. Roberts and Atlee Porherene for the Government hope to show from the oil hearing and testimony that the transaction was shot with intrigue, and attempts at secrecy, which were foiled by Senator Thomas J Walsh at the Senate committee hearing. The ’’groundwork” evidence, documentary proof that the leases and contracts were made, is all in. and the Government has made fast prog ress in tracing the SIOO,OOO loan, $9.1,500 of which Fall used to purchase a ranch adjoining his own western land holdings and home at Three Rivers, New Mexico.

Mother Is Victim of Unthankful Son Police today watched out-going trains for a 13-year-old youth, who was not a bit thankful for the kindness of his mother, who hoped to give him a nice dinner today, instead he was slated to eat at the Marion County detention home. Police were told that a week ago the youth took $5 from his mother’s purse and ran away. He was found and taken to the detention home. Wednesday the mother took him home from the institution thinking ho had learned a lesson. In less than an hour he was gone again. This time he took S2O from a dresser drawer. C. G. McCreary asked police to find his father, Milo McCreary, 703 N. Sherman Dr., who has been missing since 7 a. m. Wednesday. The son said his father was driving a Oakkr and sedan, lipense 543-546, and fears he had an accident.

Today—Thanksgiving day—that woman bows her gray-streaked head In thankfulness. Wednesday the State pardon board recommended a parole for the "lifer.” following temporary paroles in whiclf Hooper has “thoroughly made good.” Governor Jackson, however, must still give approval of the recommendation. Hooper, approaching his three score years and ten, Is an attendant at a filling station at Michigan Rd. and Forty-Ninth St. He heard the news with emotion. “It’s wonderful for a man to have another chance when he’s made a terrible mistake in his past life,” he said. “I’ll certainly have no trouble thinking up what to be thankful for this Thanksgiving time. “This means so much to my wife,” he went on. “She's been so faithful, so true. If I can only make up to her a little for all the

‘Man Without Name’ Longs for Mother on Thanksgiving Day

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Jerry Tarboc, ills face made over by a plastic surgeon, roams the land seeking light on his identity and his past. Three photos of the shell-shocked war veteran are shown here, with a note from Jerry pleading for aid in his quest. By Allene Suinner Hli United Press AKRON, Ohio., Nov. 25.—1f your memory, all your Old friends, all your past life had been blotted out by a fog you had fought vainly to pierce, would you be thankful on Thanksgiving Day? Jerry Tarbot is—though his hands grind into his knees and his eyes reflect pain the while. “Holidays are the hardest," he says. Jerry knows that somewhere his mother is waiting for him today. He wishes more than anything else in the world he could go to her. You may have heard of Jerry also as ’’The Sliding Ghost,” war victim of shell shock and gas w ho for nearly four years has trod this country over, asking for just one thing—a name. He cameto Akron recently, hoping to “find himself” here, but the hope proved vain. It was one of dozens of hopes that have 1 loomed, then faded for Tarbot since NEA Service “discovered” him in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, months ago and told the world his story. The slim, white-faced, solitary figure wrote his suffering human epic upon the platform of the Phlladel(Tum to Page 9) PRIZE FOR MaoDONALD Bii United Press COPENHAGEN, Nov. 25.—There were reports in the Scandinavian press today that Ramsay MacDonald, former Socialist premier of Great Britain, would receive the Nobel peace prize for 1926.

Condemned Youth Eats Last Meal Hu United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 25. A Thanksgiving dinner today was Emanuel Ross' last meal. Ross, 19-year-old Cleveland Negro, is under sentence to be executed in the Ohio State penitent jury after midnight tonight. He was convicted of the murder of a/ Cleveland merchant. Ross will be one of the youngest persons ever to be electrocuted in the penitentiary here. Mrs. P. E. Thomas, wife of the warden, personally superintended preparation of Ross’ last meal —a real dinner of Thanksgiving delicacies. She arranged roast turkey, dressing, vegetables, mince pie, ice cream and cake and coffee. Ross twice has escaped the electric chair by last-minute reprieves, but practically his last hope failed a few days ago when the State Supreme Court refused to review his case.

suffering—it means so much to us—this chance—” Here a shrill "Grandpa” broke in, and 9-year-old Anna May Myers came bursting around the corner. “That’s my grandchild, my daughter’s baby,” Hooper explained. “They live here In the neighborhood.” “Yes, and Anna May Is crazy about her grandpa,” commented Fred Myers, father of the little girl. There is another grandchild. Fred Junior, 3 montns oldl Anna May snuggled into the older man’s arms. “We’ll have Thanksgiving dinner at my house,” the son-in-law observed. “This is a happy holiday tiThe for us. I want to say of my father-in-law that he’s one of the finest men I’ve ever known, in spite of this cloud. He deserves the recommendation. He’s tried hard. He was ,a ‘trusty’ at the prison, you know. On these tem-

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Roaster , Bird and All Gone

R. H. Du Bois, '232S Capitol Ave., hunted another turkey today, and Mrs. Du Bois sought to devise means of cooking the foul without a roaster. For a burglar Wednesday night robbed the Du Bois’ larder of the bird prepared for the family Turkey day feast. Mrs. Du Bois spent an hour Wednesday doing those things to a turkey which makes it a proper dsh for holiday enjoyment. Then she put the bird in a roaster and placed it on the enclosed back porch. When she sought the fowl to add the finishing touches this

FIVE RESCUED MEN GIVE REAL THANKS Miners Entombed Nov. 16 Today in Homes Recount Harrowing Experiences of Hunger and Darkness.

Bn United Press HAZLETON, Fa., Nov. 25.—This Thanksgiving day In the little mining town of Tomhicken, near here, was One that will long live in the memery of its residents —for today five men who had been given up as dead sat in their homes and recounted the hardships they had suffered while entombed in a flooded mine for 201 hours and ten minutes. The miners who at 2:30 p. m. on Ihe afternoon of Nov. 16 were caught when the Tomhicken colliery was flooded were rescued at 7:40 p. m. yesterday after practically all hope for them had been abandoned. Six men were entombed in the workings and five have been saved. The rescued men, while gaunt and nearly starved after their long imprisonment, apparently,wero in good physical condition today after a night’s rest In their own beds. Those rescued were: Henry Kirchdorfer, married, father of six children; August Yensick, married, father of six children; Michael Lawrence, single; John Lornstz, single, and John Gondera, single. All hope for Carl Smith, who was to have celebrated his first wedding anniversary today, has been abandoned. The rescued men praised the work of Kirchdorfer for their safety. It was Kirchdorfer, who when he heard the water rushing into .the mine hurried back along No. 16 gangway where the men were at work and called them to follow him. Evidently misunderstanding the men remained at work and Kirchdorfer was forced to return for them a second time. Leading them along the slippery gangway into No. 8 slope and thence Into the No. 4 slope, Kirchdorfer found the water rising rapidly. , By the time he and the four miners i had reached some abandoned breasts

porary paroles he worked first at the Highland Golf Club near here, later coming to this filling station, which I own, as an attendant. He’s true blue, with his whole heart in the ambition to make good and partly wipe out the tragic past.” But there’s another side to the story. The man that Hooper shot, left a widow. She has strenuously opposed the parole, aided by Mrs. J. M. Ruble, sister of Andrew Dant,\the man. who at the time of the tragedy years ago, was struck by a stray bullet and also killed. These two women last week appeared before the pardon board to protest the parole. “But this man has been out fourteen months and" has made good,” observed C. C. York, pardon board secretary “Why not give him a chance? Why send him back?” The widow and Mrs.

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morning she found a thief had reached in a broken window andremoved turkey and roaster. John Garrett,, Negro, 406 Bright St., saved half of his Thanksgiving dinner by staying up half the night. He penned two geese in a box in the yard, and got up at intervals to see if all was well. At 2 a. m. one foul wag missing. Later he heard someone seeking the remaining Wne. He yelled and the thief fled. Garrett found the head and foot of the stolen goose in the yard and told police he knows “who kills fowls that way.”

in No. 4 footing was so slippery they could hardly walk and the rushin,.* water had mounted to their chests. 0 Once in the abandoned breasts the men were safe from flood, but hud little or no food. Their mine lamps had fuel enough to burn for two days and after that the men were without light. The only water was the dirty, foul water which had swept into the workings. At the home of Michael Lawrence that young man found his aged mother awaiting him. Tuesday, shortly before the flood, Lawrence’s mother had prepared a bowl of soup for him. Thjs soup she kept hot during the nine ensuing days, firm In her belief that Michael would be rescued. He ate the soup, which aside from being considerably thicker than when made, had suffered none from its long warming. Enforcing Dry Law to Cost $33,000,000 Blf 1 United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Prohibition enforcement during the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, 4927, will cost more than $33,000,000, it was learned at the Treasury today. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews has asked the House Jfppropriations Committee fpr $13,000,000 for the Federal prohibition unit and the Coast Guard wants about $20,000,000 for its anti-smug-gling activities. TWENTY BODIES FOUND NICE. NOv. 25.—Twenty bodies had been recovered today from the debris of the landslide which invaded the pillage of Rouquebilliers. No foreigners were among the dead. Falling boulders and uneasy mud were causing further landslides today.

Ruble were obdurate. To a conciliatory remark made at the time by the Rev. George S. Henninger, hoard president, Mrs. Gaither insisted strenuously that Hooper should be kept behind prison bars “forever.” Hooper, asked If he resented the attempt of these bitterly opposed persons to his freedom, said, “No it’s natural. “But if their opposition comes in any way from fear of mo or any evil I might do in the future, God knows they ne£d have no further thought of such a thing. It’s not In my heart to ever harm a human being. Nothing on earth could Induce me to touch liquor again either. All I ask—all I and my wife pray for, is just that I’ll have a chance," and the man’s clear gray eyes looked very earnest.”

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CITY GIVES THANKS FOR PASTYEAR Quiet Holiday Observances in Churches and Homes. WORK CEASES FOR DAY Thousands Indulge in Annual Turkey Feast. Amid prayers and thankfulness* and hymns of praise Indianapolis citizens today observed the annual feast of Thanksgiving. Tables ladened with traditional turkeys, pumpkin pies, plum puddings and other seasonable delicacies awaited the return of the church-goers, who went forth' by the hundreds this morning to join in union church services to thank a bountiful provP dence. Tonight other special services have been arranged by various churches throughout the city. The holiday spirit is also to be expressed at parties and dances. Business was suspended throughout the day, while employers and employes observed the everit In the traditional manner. Even In Institutions County institutions, hospitals, orphanages, all had their own Thanksgiving menus and many had programs of entertainment, planned to' follow the dinner. Needy families were provided with baskets by the thoughtful, so that til shared in the general thankfulness for peace and prosperity. Congregations fropi eight of the downtown churches filled the Boberts Park M E. Church, Delaware and Vermont Sts., to capacity at union services this morning. Similar gatherings were held in eight other churches throughout the city and many churches had their own separate service. Special music was arranged at each of these: Dr. W. A. Shullenberger preached the Thanksgiving sermon at the Jowntown service, pointing out tho many things that America has to be thankful for. The President’s proclamation was read hy Dr. Jean S. Milner and prayers offered by Dr. Virgil E. Rorer, Rev. J. E. Real, Dr. Frederick E. Taylor and Rev. A. L. Williams. Dr. Edwin W. Dunlavy presided. Bishop Preacho* Bishop Joseph M Francis preached the sermon at inter-paroehinl services at Christ Church, Monument (Turn to Pago 9) BANDIT PAL OF CHAPMAN CAUGHT ‘Bum’ Rodgers Credited With Vengeance Oath. J United Pmss NEW YORK, Nov. 25—John ,T. Rodgers, leader of a gang 1 of bank and mall robbers, whom the police of half a dozen eastern cities charge with numerous big robberies und crimes of violence, was captured today in the Bronx, New York City, police here announced. Rodgers is an escaped convict from tho Auburn, N. Y., penitentiary, having made Ills last escape while being returned to that prison. Ho was a friend of Gerald Chapman in the days when that famous bandit was operating throughout the East. Stories have been told that Rodgers had determined to gain vengeance on society for its execution of Chapman by running a caiwer which would make that of Chapman seem tame.

Holds Queen*s Trip Was Satisfactory tin United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 16.—Queen Marie of Roumania had a satisfactory trip, according to John H. Carroll, who managed the transport*tion on the transcontinental American journey. Carroll, said upon his return here today, that he would write a complete report on the trip, to all the railroads which carried Mario about at reduced rates. Carroll said numerous reports of persons being ejected from the Queen’s train were probably due mostly to his action In refusing the great number of requests for a ride with Marie.

Bare Knees Get Used to Cold 81l United Press l WASHINGTON. Nov. 25. Winter winds, blowing on legs exposed from the knees down by fashion degree, do not chill American woman. The legs become accustomed to the cold. This Is the view of Dr. Hugh /S. Gumming, surgeon general of the United States. He believes as a general rule women are dressed warmer this winter than ever before, despite abbreviated skirts.