Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1926 — Page 15

Second Section

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ROB KING IN DYING STATE COUNTRY RESTIVE Ferdinand Faces Operation for Cancer —Civil War Possible. Bu United J’rrss BERLIN, Nov. 26. —King Ferdinand's condition is known to be hopeless despite official denials at Buch arest, the Vossische Zeitung said today. The. present regime, it added, was preparing for a fight to hold power in case His Majesty should die. Th ? strength of the opposition was suf Heient to make civil war possible the paper said. The interruption of telephone com munication between Bucharest and Belgrade was laid by the newspaper to an attempt by Roumanian officials to veil some recent catastrophes in (Bucharest or to suppress news of some impending event. FACES CANCER SURGERY Ferdinand Weakened by Disease and Starvation Diet. Bu Puffed Press BELGRADE, Nov. 26. —Despite severance of telephone communication between Bucharest and Belgrade, it was learned here today that King Ferdinand of Roumania was sinking rapidly. His already serious condition was aggravated by his recent appearance In public to allay the country's excitement. He has also been weakened by his starvation diet. The King, it was reported, nniht submit to an operation for cancer. QUEEN SENDS MESSAGE i Marie, En Route Home, Expresses Regret at Shortened Visit. Bv United Press S. S. BERENGARIA, EN ROUTE TO CHERBOURG, Nov. 26.—Queen Marie had Thanksgiving dinner with “an American Friend,” she said in a Thanksgiving message to Americans. The Queen sent her "love and remembrance’’ and regret over being compelled by circumstances to cut short her visit in the United States. Six-Cylinder Fords? “No,” Officials Say Bn United Press DETROIT, Nov. 26.—Broker wire ■eports from New York, declaring That Henry Ford had notified his dealers he would submit a sixcylinder car on the market Jan. 1, and a medium priced eight-cylinder car next summer, were scoffed at today by high Ford officials. “There Is nothing to it,” the United Press was informed, “so far as we know. We’ve heard this so long we don't even stop to hear it repeated anV more.”

‘KING BEN’ GAINS POINT J FIGHT Voluntary Return of Cult Members a Victory. Bit United Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Nov. 20.—The battle of the State and Berrien County vs. “King” Benjamin Purnell and the House of David today had assumed the aspect of a siege. While virtually a month remains before "King Ben” *is scheduled to he given a hearing on warrants charging criminal assault, counsel for both forces are engaged in an "extra court" campaign featured by charges and counter charges. The State's major offensive, in which axes hewed the way to “King” Jlen’s hiding place ten days ago, was Hiraewhat offset Wednesday when Weven members of the cult voluntarily returned to the House of David for a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. The trans-Michigan pilgrimage, which began at Detroit in what was allegedly a kidnaping, ended in the arrest of the party, grilling of its members, and subsequently enforced announcement that there had been no kidnaping. POLICE GRILL YOUTHS Seek Confessions to Auto Theft Three are Held. \ Police today grilled three Negro youths arrested on vagrancy charges by Patrolmen Richard Fogarty at the elevation and S. Pensylvania St., in an effort to obtain confessions to the theft of an auto. Police said Stanley Parnham, 17, of 1905 Zwingley Ave.,- was sitting in a car, the engine numbers of •which checked with a car stolen from Joe H. Layne, 205 S. State Ave. Parnham had a certificate of title in his pocket. The others held are: Lester Petty, 17, of 1907 Zwingley Ave., and Ernest Haynes, 1908 Zwingley Ave. FIRE TRUCK WRECKED United, Press “ KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. 26.—Two firemen, John Cawthon. assistant chief of the Kokomo fire department, and Ben Swing, driver, were seriously injured here yesterday when the fire truck they were riding crashed into an interurban car. The truck caught fire after the accident. None of the passengers on ♦he interurban was injured.

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MAINE GOVERNOR AiKLAN LINKED Brewster Talked to Dragon, Then Accused Gould. Bu Timex Special AUGUSTA, Me., Nov. 26.—The name of Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine was linked with those of IvU-Klux Klan leaders in testimony here today at the herring on charges against Arthur R. Gould, Republican candidate for United States Senator on campaign expenditures. In his testimony Governor Brewster admitted having conferred with De Forest H. Perkins, grand dragon of the Klan in Maine, prior to the filing of the charges against Gould. Gould is a candidate in the special election next Monday to fill the Maine Senate vacancy. His election or defeat will have an important bearing on party control of the present Senate.

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ROSEDALE,* L. I. —Ashes from his pipe were believed to have started the fire today which caused James C. Mulholland, 77, caretaker of St. Clare’s Church, to be burned to death in bed in a barn back of the church. NEW YORK.—Unable to get Honolulu on his radio, Raymond Bakey became so angry that he smashed the instrument and struck Miss Marie Wekler, a boarder in his home, police charged. He was held under $5,000 ball, NEW YORK—The Nation’s two youngest boy authors, David Binney Putnam, who recently returned from Greenland, and Beric Nusbaum of Colorado, both 13, were in New York together for the first time today. David was planning to trade Deric a narwhal tusk for some prehistoric Indian relics. NEW YORK.—Benjamin Lawdor, driving racing car No. 13, was killed in an automobile race on Staten Island when the gasoline tank became loose and the machine upset. OAK PARK. 111.—“ I’ve taken up burglary as a life work,” James Stevenson, said to be a York burglar, told local police when they locked him up on burglary charges. “And I’ll burgle out of here.” A few hours later police discovered that Stevenson had sawed his way out. COTTON TENANTS HOVE. The cotton regions of Oklahoma are the hardest hit by moving tenants. The wheat belt of the State is a more settled area, where a relatively small proportion of tenants move annually*

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REGULAR CASES ARE lAKEN lIP BV GRAND IORY Corruption Quiz Probably Will Nci Be Renewed Till Monday. Regular routine was on the docket today for ihe Marion County grand jury after the Thanksgiving holiday. Prosecutor William H. Remy indicated the quiz of Indiana political corruption charges that ha-* occupied the jury's time for six weeks will not be renewed untit Monday. The jury has spent most of this week trying to clear the docket of cases of defendants held in jail. Man Sought It is known that the prosecutor is seeking a man in a northern Indiana city who is said to have papers revealing circumstances of certain political deals, not related, however, with the activities ot the KuKlux Klan when D.. C. Stephenson was in power. Remy will not reveal his plans to get before the jury the testimony of Mrs. Martha Dickinson, former confidante of Stephenson, and the testimony of Lawrence Lyons, former Republican State chairman. Mrs. Dickinson, who at one time held power of attorney from Stephenson, has been in conference with Remy and his aids several times. Talked With Reid Lyons admitted to The Indianapolis Times that he had talked with Harry Reid, Interstate Public Service Company president, about contributions to the 1924 Republican campaign fund. In an injunction suit filed by Corporation Counsel Alvah J. Rucker, in an effort to prevent the proposed local electric utility merger, it was charged that Insull utility interests contributed $19,000 to Ed Jackson’s gubernatorial campaign fund til 1924. Insull controls the Interstate company. BATH IN WHITE MULE Np"'n Slips With Can When Raiding Officers Appear. When police raided the home of Mrs. Marguerite Summers, Negro, BHO Blake St.,.Thursday , light, William Hill, Negro, who lives there took a bath in white mule. Officers say he slipped with u five gallon ban and the liquid saturated his clothing. Police secured some of it as evidence. Robert Smith, Negro, 2407 Parker Ave., wan arrested by Sergeant O’Connor, while, operating a still at his home. O’Connor said besides the ten-gallon still, he found a quart of corn whisky, 100 gallons of mash, corn, sugar and Containers.

ILLINOIS BATTLE RENEWS; 2 SHOT Bu United Press HARRISBURG, 111., Nov. 26. Two men were in a local hospital today as the result of a renewal of the southern Illinois gang warfare. They are Virgil Hundsacker and Albert R6binson, who were attacked with machine-gun fire as they drove on a State road a mile west of here last night. Milburn Vinson was with the men at the time of the shooting, but was not wounded. .The machine-gunning last night followed an attempt to “get" Hundsacker early yesterday morning when a bomb destroyed his home. The Hundsacker home is near that of Charles Birger, leader of the gang which is fighting the group ruled by the Shelton brothers. The reason for the attack on Hundsacker is not known. He is said to have remained out of the recent gang strife. SHOT WHILE HUNTING Negro Youth Suffers Hand Injuries —Gun Caught in Fence. Theophilus Trlson, 16, Negro, 717 N. West St., was shot In the hand in a hunting accident, Thursday. Trison and Robert Huddleston, 1014 N. Sheffield Ave., were hunting north of the city on the Lafayette Rd., when a gun one was carrying was caught on a fence and discharged. Trison is at city hospital.

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COAL PRODUCTION GAINS IN STATE, REPORTSOFFICIAL 18,506,149 Tons Mined Last Fiscal Year Says Inspector Albert Dally. Substantial increase in the total number of tons of coal mined in Indiana during the fiscal year which ended Sept. 30, 1926, over the ton nage the preceding fiscal period, was shown today in the annual report of State Mine Inspector Albert C Dally. During the recent fiscal year a total of 18,506,149 tons of coal were mined as against 17,693,409 the year preceding. A somewhat smaller increase in the total wages paid the latter year is shown, employes of major mines receiving $28,644,657.10 during the 1926-26 year as against $28,250,355.05 the ‘.•ear before. During the 1925-26 fiscal year a total of 17,897 men were employed in che major mines of the State, while the preceding year 19,839 miners, worked. Fewer Accidents Only forty-six fatal accidents resulted in the last fiscal year as a result of the operation of the larger mines, while the total of the year before was 101. An average of 402,305 tons of coal were mined last year to each fatality, as against only 175.182 per fatality the .year preceding. Thirty-seven of the larger Indiana mines were idle during the 1925-26 fiscal year while forty were inoperative the year before. Incomplete reports on the distribution of Indiana coal show that 9,884,543 tons were distributed to Indiana points and 5,364,082 went to out-State cities. The'total number of tons distributed does not equal the number of tons mined, due to the Incompleteness of the reports on this phase, It was explained. Mostly Bituminous coal remains the principal product of Indiana mines, a total of 18,474.498 tons being extracted from the earth, as against 17,680,464 the year preceding. Bituminous coal miners collected wages totaling $28,624,783.40 last year as compared with total tyages of $28,213,022.95 during 1924 25. Bituminous mines required the labor

of 17.823 employes last year and 19,785 the year before. Dally predicted a corresponding pick-up in the mining business the coming year, basing his forecast on present economic conditions. U. S. SENDS POLICE SSO Officers Commended for Arresting Deserter From Marines. The police pension fund was enriched SSO today when police received a check from the Government, along with a letter commending Officers Gaughan and Everson for the arrest of Janies E. Craft, alias Malcolm Mclntosh. • The detectives arrested Craft in a downtown hotel, Nov. 19, when he failed to answer questions to their satisfaction. Finger prints sent to Washington ‘ revealed that the name Mclntosh was false, and that Craft had deserted from the Marines at Quantico, Va., May 15, 1924. VEHICLE LAW OF STATE UNDER FIRE Assailed by Transfer Men, in Convention Here. That the Indiana motor vehicle law under which vehicles are licensed, is “unfair in its application, expensive and cumbersome In its method and undemocratic in principle” Is the contention of members of, the Indiana Transfer and Warehousemen's Association, assembled at the Lincoln today for their ninth annual convention. Plans for “constructive legislation" governing both the transfer and warehouse business will be discussed during the two-day session. More than 200 of the 387 members are expected to hear the debates on the license law Saturday afternoon according to Ross Greenawalt, Goshen, Ind„ president of the organization. Greenawalt, member of the Indiana Legislature, expects to foster bills backed b ythe association. Tonight the warehousemen will attend at dinner at the Lincbln, with former Mayor Lew Shank as toastmaster. Secretary of State Frederick S. Sohortetneier and S. H. Hinkle, maintenance superintendent of the highway commission, will speak at the opening session Saturday morning. Officers will be elected In the afternoon. The an nual banquet of the association is scheduled for 6:30 p. m. Saturday.

BANDIT, ACCUSED OF MANY CRIMES, TAKEN TO COURT Friend of Gerald Chapman Denies Part in $160,000 Mail Robbery. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—J. J, “Bum” Rodgers, outlaw pal of many famous criminals, who was captured Thanksgiving day as he slept in a dirty flat after living for months like a hunted rut, faced court today, with half the unsolved crimes of the East charged to him if not in fact then through suspicion. Accused of the recent Elizabeth (N. J.), mail robbery, in which John Enz, mail truck driver was shot to death with a machine gun and two policemi i were crushed to death under the bandit automobile. Rodgers denied complicity and turned his pockets Inside out showing a penny and a button, to prove that he was poor, and falsely accused of the “job” in which $160,000 in currency was stolen. There was a bit of irony in the capture of Rodgers, the bad man, asleep in bed. His revolver wasn’t even under his pillow. It was found In a closet where it would have been of little use to him even If he had been awake when the officers rushed into the room. His companions and associates gangland were hard put to reconcile these facts today. Rodger's capture came after a search of four months. He denied that he had committed any crimes since escaping from a prison guard last December. He said that he had done much reading, a habit he had cultivated under the direction of Gerald Chapman when they were both inmates of Dannemora prison. ASKr^AfATER^INCfTEASE City of Ijinton Makes Plea for Rato Jump. In a petition filed today with the public service commission, by the Linton Municipal Water Company, increases are sought in the ilut rates on several classes of service. Th** petition proposes increasing from $9 to sl2 a year the fiat rate on residences from one to six rooms, barber shops, blacksmith shops, offices and sprinkling. A. M. Beasley, city attorney, filed the request.

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Fifth Person Expected to Die —Local Man Killed in Crash Near Carmel. TRACTION HITS AUTO Jasonville Woman Succumbs . —Children Hurt. Four persons were killed and another is expected to die, following a series of accidents over the State, Thanksgiving day. The dead: James Pfaff, 35, living four miles south ’of Carmel. Robert PfafT, son of James. Luke Parsley, grocei, 1235 W. Washington St., Indianapolis. Mrs. Fannie Hensley, Jasonvillo, Ind. PfafTand his son and Parsley were driving to Pfaff’s home, about four miles south of Carmel, Ind., when their machine was struck by a Union Traction car north of Carmel. Ac cording to Homer Wall, deputy coroner of Hamilton County, the men were driving west on “Smoky Road' which crosses the traction line a block west of State Road 31. The deputy said although there is a signal bell on the State road there Is none at the crossing where the machine was struck. Rain and Mist It was raining and very misty. Bodies of Pfaff and his son were taken to an undertaking establishment In Carmel and the body of Parsley, a cousin of Pfaff, was taken to Carmel by his brother, Charles Parsley, 3469 E. Twenty-Fifth St., who arrived a few minutes after the accident. ( Mrs. Fannie Hensley of Jasonville, Ind., was instantly killed Thursday ufternon and her three children were injured, one of them seriously, when a machine in which they were ‘returning from Terre Haute, Ind.. was struck by a machine driven by Dexter Litherland, Vincennes, Ind., at Farmersburg 14 miles south of Terre Haute. Both cars overturned. John Hensley. 9, and Thomas Pearce, 36, of Terre Haute, his uncle, received fractured skulls and broken shoulders. Phiysielans said today young Hensley probably would die. Litherland and his wife were slightly injured and Robert and Emma Hetasley received cuts and bruises about the head and body. Local Women Hurt Two Indianapolis women were injured when their automobile turned oyer near Evansville, Ind. They are Mrs. Homer McWilliams and Mrs. Samuel Mack;. 11, en route to L.vnnville, Ind., for Thanksgiving, when a machine which failed to stop cut in front of them and caused their car to leave'the road. Aaron Oswald, 84. a Grant County farmer, is in a critical condition at Fairmount. Ind., following an accident Thursday night when a machine driven by G. C. Moore of this city struck his horse and wagon near Fairmount on State Rd. 11. The horse was killed and Moore's machine demolished.

TEN TRAPPED IN FLOODEDTUNNEL Tons of Wafer and Mud Bury Workmen. Bu United Press OAKLAND, Cal., Nov. 26. —Buried beneath tons of water and mud which swept down upon them in torrential force, ten men were believed dead today in a narrow tunnel in the Contra Costa hills, fifteen miles from here.' The men, nine laliorers and a foreman, were Imprisoned last night shortly after they went to work in the tunnel, a portion of the Mokelumne river project which carries water to Oakland. The crew was caught without warning, as the cloudburst outside swelled a creek and turned a deluge of water Into the tunnel. It will be several -days before the men can be reached, officials of the water project said. Pumps were rushed to the scene today to start draining out the flood of water. HOPES TO AVERT STRIKE Bu United Press MONTREAL, Que., Nov. 26 Canada was still hopeful today of a settlement of the railroad wage dispute before the 15,000 workers, who are now on the strike call are ordered by their leaders to walk out on their jobs.

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JURISDICTION IS HEAVY POINT IN UTILITIES MERGER No Appeal From Commission’s Decision, Says Defense Attorney. Wlmt to do If the Indiana public service commission rules that It has no Jurisdiction in the present petition for a merger of the tWo local electric utilities Into the Indianapolis Power and Light Company with a proposed capitalization of $55,000,000 Is the question being faced by Harley L. Clarke, Chicago utilities promoter and attorneys working for the merger. "There is no court of appeals from the commissioners’ decision, if they decide that they are without Jurtsdic tion in the matter,” James W. Fesler, one of the utilities attorneys declared today. The only thing left would be to revamp the merger plea to eliminate the eontention of opponents that th< Indianapolis Power nnd Light Coin pnny Is not a operating utility and therefore does not come within the Indiana law, Fesler said. On the other hand, should the commission decide that it is within its jurisdiction In hearing Ihe petiton, a restraining order might be secured from the courts prohibiting it front doing so, until the court should de cide in the matter. Suit Filed by Rucker Such an Injunction suit already has been filed by City Corporation Counsel Alvah H. Rucker and is -set for hearing in Marion County Circuit Court on Dec. 1. Guessing is rife regarding what action will be taken by the commission In-the question of Jurisdiction. Many believe that the commission will decide that it cannot act on the petition. The matter may be threshed out at a conference of the commissioners scheduled for 2 p. m. today. It has I been a tradition of the body that most important matters have been decided at afternoon conferences, so a decision is expected . to follow shortly. Commissioner Frank Wampler, in charge of the merger petition hear ing. stated that the matter of Juris diction would be decided "within a few days.” Tn the Interim, more briefs ate being filed. Rucker nnd his aids. Charles Mendenhall and John W. Becker, filed an answer to the utilities attorneys’ briefs this morning The utilities’ brief contended that the commission has Jurisdiction, that the new company is a utility, and then said "all utilities must grow by successive stages.” This was termed “an evasion of the merger act” by the city's petition. Matson Files Brief Frederick E. Matson, representing the Chamber of Commerce, likewise filed a brief today attacking the Jurisdiction of the commission. It was Matson who made the motion on the jurisdiction question. A brief attacking the utilities contention and supporting the lack of jurisdiction claims also wan AMI by Attorney E. O. Snethen. TTe nnd At tnrney Samuel Dowden represent the Federation of Community Civic Clubs In fighting the merger. A meeting of all club members at the Chamber of Commerce tonight has been called. Besides attacking the jurisdiction, the Snethen brief asks dismissal of the petition on three counts. It eon tends that there Is shown no necessity for the issuance of stock, a*s re quired by the statute; that the fail ure to file a Joint petition with the Merchants Heat nnd Light Company and the Indianapolis Light, and Meal Company does not comply with com i mission rules and that the peti one has not complied with the law In setting forth a description of the i physical property to be aequlred and has not set an estimated value on the physical property. Besides the points covered In the other briefs, the Matson brief also contends that the petitioners' move "Is a merger In fact and must therefore proceed under the merger statute.” "The proposed transaction Is not a lawful purchase within the public utility act," Matson's brief con tinues and ends by discounting the utilities plea that Samuel Insull, Chi cago magnate, Is “going to leave the Indianapolis field." ELEVEN IN G AMBLING RAID A poker game, alleged to have been operated by John Morgan 'it his home, 333 Fulton PL, was raided by police Thursday night, and ten plnyers charged with gaining. Morgan was charged with keeping a gaming house. Officers reported that poker chips, a deck of cards and $6.60 in money was confiscated.

Asked Police Help Faces Rum Charge Police disappointed Willian. Bowen, 58, of 3029 Dixon St. Bowen said he was shori changed, and believed police should punish those who shori changed him. So Thursday he reported to police that John Bailey, Negro, 427 E. Court St., and Bailey's wife, Hattie, refused to give him change when he gave them a $5 bill in the purchase of an "article” for sl. Police investigated. The “article,” they said, was a half pint of white mule. Today Bowen and the Baileys face liquor law violation charges.