Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1926 — Page 2

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U. S, AND JAPAN MAY SUFFER BY OIL TRIAL TALE War Scare Discussion Likely to Affect Friendship of Nations. B.v William Philip Simms Times Sta's Correspondent l WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The ' I'all-Donheny oil conspiracy trial hero seriously threatens to disturb relations between the United States and Japan. ■ Cables reveal that nothing in years has stirred Tokio like Edward ’ L. Doheny’s testimony that he had been officially informed that Japan had actually mobilized for war' I against the United States and that “an invasion” of the Pacific coast was part of the plan. The charge, if true, means that at , the very time Japanese delegates were busy in Washington negotiating the four-power peace pact of • the Pacific, back in Japan prepara* ‘ lions were in full swing to turn those waters red with war. Doheny claims his information came from Rear Admiral J. K. Robison, then chief of the Naval Bureau of Engineering. This would seem to reflect on the good faith •of Japan. Thus it would be in order were Tokio to make diplomatic representations to Washington to have the matter cleared up. On the other hand, the Japanese press is now charging the United “'States with bad faith on the ground that while working for a reduction of armaments in Washington we -were strengthening our Pacific defenses. Just how near war were the United States and Japan in 1921-22? Ridiculed War Idea 1" I was in the Orient for the ' Scripps-Howard papers almost the whole of 1921. 1 spent a long time In Japan and months in China and tho Philippines studying the situation during that much discussed pe;viod, yet no informed person, whether of Japanese, American, British or other nationality, ever expressed . to me anything but ridicule for the idea that Japan would ever attempt . to invade California, save, perhaps, in the event of a vast coalition against us. During the winter of 1920-21, however, there was a feeling of crisis in the air. I had felt It in Washington before I started for Japan in .December. But the feeling was not one of fear for our own shores', but an uneasiness lest something should happen on the other side of the Pacific—most likely in the region of the Philippines. In Japan I found a similar unrest. This was along in January and ..February, 1921. A few hot heads ' among the Japanese jingoes were saying that sooner or later tho two countries would have to measure -swords, and the sooner the better. But there was no sign of early hostilities. To the contrary, tho vast majority of the Japanese with whom I talked were distinctly of the opinion that war at that time would be suicidal for them unless they could count on British support. * Here, perhaps, wavs the biggest obstacle in the way of a Japanese war against the United States. There was, of course, an Anglo-Japanese -alliance, but it was even then moribund. I found not one Britisher, from Tokio to Poking and from Han kow to Hong-Ko ig, but who was violently opposed to that alliance and in favor of dropping it at the -very first opportunity. Australia’s Status Quite apart from ay question of sentiment, a common tongue or anything of that sort, there was Ausdralia. Australia feared, and still Tears, Japan. C(juld Britain remain nutral while Japan was establishing herself in the Philippines, within striking distance of Australia? The ftlain truth is Japan could not even ■count on British neutrality in such a. war, let alone British support. So when, during the summer of 1921, President Harding invited Japan to come 1o Washington to talk arms reAuction and peace in the Pacific, Japan readily accepted. This marked tho beginning of the end of whatever “war scare” there was at that time. That was definitely ended exactly five years ago today. On Dec. 13, 1921, Japan, Britain, France and the United States signed the Treaty of "Washington “with a view to the preservation of the general peace of the Pacific ocean.” This treaty buried the already dead Anglo-Japanese alliance. It was ratified by the Senate on March 24, 1922. ft made peace in the Pacific quite na pertain as tho good faith and honor of the four nations signing it, and the charge that one of the nations planned to violate it almost before tlie ink on its signature was dry becomes a serious matter. The first of the Fall-Doheny oil contracts, it appears, was entered Into on April 25, 1922, three and a half months after Japan had signed. The second was made on Dec. 11, a Whole year afterward. Thus the whole testimony charging Japan with mobilizing for war against the United States in 1922 ran hardly be expected to please the Japanese. / NEW SCHOOL HEAD William F. Vogel Quits State Job for Shelhyville Post. Bn United Press SHELBYVILLE, Ind„ Dec. 13 William F. Vogel, director of the teachers’ training and licensing division of the State department of public instruction, will assume duties of superintendant of schools hero Jan. l, it was learned today. Vogel will fill the place left vacant E>y the death of A. C. Kibby.

PEANUTS IN LIMELIGHT ONCE AGAIN Threatening Note Found on Vending Machine at City [tall. Peanut politics held sway in literal sense today at the city. hall. Temporarily relegated to the darkness following Lew Shank’s theme of the sack of peanuts Senator James E. Watson said would content the farmers, the noble peanut today once more was back in the political limelight. It appeared that a patron of the penny peanut machine on the second floor was dissatisfied, malcontent and unhappy with his wares. For, pasted on the machine, was the typewritten message: “This machine ie not fair. You had better fix it to deliver 1 cent’s worth or all your business will go to the stand downstairs.” The threat referred to a hot peanut stand on the lunch counter in ’ront of tho bronze memorial tables of dedication of the municipal building on the first floor. The notice did not mention the fact that the downstairs peanuts are hot while the variety tha flourishes a higher altitude are a bit frigid. In some quarters, the ominous warning was construed at veiled criticism at tho studding of the lobbies with vending machines of many types. For instance, a neighbor of the altitudinous peanut machine under the marble and onyx pillars is the celebrated Dime Dinner contrivance, which dispenses cake and candy when it works. Descending the stairs to the first floor, one finds a twin of the dinner machine nestling under marble panels while across the lobby is a truly aristocraitc peanut machine. This de luxe mechanism for a mere pennyy emits candied peanuts of a reddish hue. At its side and in strict equality of position is one of the garden variety of hall chewing gum rrfachines, with all the lure of varicolored bails. For the truly hungry, the regular city hall stand dispenses food to nearly the extent of table d’hote dinner.

PHILOSOPHY ASSAILED AS ‘MOONSHINE’ Philosophy is all “moonshine.” St. Paul was a chump and all. psychology, Including that of the late William James, is mere piffle and the hocks should as well be burned. Behaviorism is the only explanation of conduct, and that’s that. This, in substance, was the content of a two-hour talk at the third of a series of open I‘orurn lectures Sunday night at Kirschbaum Community Center by Dr. George A. Dorsey, scientist, explorer and hot- of a best-seller called “Why V/o Behave Like Human Beings,” which also was the subject of his address here. Dr. Dorsey told his audience he knew nothing whatever of “heredity” and intimated that there was no such thing. He knows much of the action of environment, however, and pointed out that we act as we do simply because of our experience. “If it were possible that wo could have a baby boy, horn of the earliest cave mother, preserved in a state of suspended ‘ animation anil revived today, I could bring that boy up to be a Mohammedon or a Methodist, musician or mathematician, bootlegger, or what you will, just as though that babe were 1 rn of the best parents today,” Dorsey declared. In the open forum discussion that followed he pointed out that it is impossible to provide exactly the same experience for any two mortals, leaving the theory intact, since it cannot be proven.

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BEVERIDGE GIVES PRIMARY SYSTEM VIGOROUS DEFENSE Former Senator Assails Plan of Democrats and Republicans. . Vigorous defense of the primary is expressed in an article by former Senator Albert J. Beveridge in the current number of the Saturday Evening Post. Followers of Beverdge had expected him to champion the primary system following the formation of a bipartisan conspiracy to destroy the efficacy of the procedure. Both Democratic and Republican organizations are behind the movement. Beveridge’s article considers the various objections to the primary, voiced by its opponents and answers each argument. i Combats Statement Combatting the statement that only a rich man can make the race in the primary, Beveridge asserted: “If primary expenses of candidates were small in most States, how conies it that hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars had to be spent in attempts to get nominations for candidates for the very same offices on only two or three States?”' Part of the agitation against the primary may be traced to the rich men and corporations who find it requires more money to control than did the convention system, according to Beveridge. Assails Convention "Nothing is more subject to gusto of passion, anger and emotion of all i orts than the old-time convention,” Beveridge stated. “I have seen such <a body stampeded for a candidate by a big brass band in the gallery suddenly starting up ‘ Marching Through Georgia” and playing the tune as loudly and inspiringly as the band could-play it.” Asserting that in some States the primary laws were written by opponents of the system, Beveridge advocated strengthening of the-*system. : Multiplicity of candidates would be corrected through adoption of the short ballot, he said.

FLAPPER BABBIT CALMIN COURT Texas University Graduate in Bond Appearance. /.'// l nited Press AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 13. Somewhat pale hut maintaining her composure, Rebecca Bradley, Texas University honor graduate, charged with robbing the Farmers National Bank of Buda of $ 1,000 Saturday, appeared In District Court here today at the hearing to make permanent her bond of $5,000. Miss Bradley walked into Judge George Calhoun's courtroom with her mother, Sirs. G. R. Bradley. She was quietly but stylishly dressed and smiled as she “greeted her attorneys. Friends doubt her story of the holdup In a statement to authorities. In it she said she forced the cashier cf the bank into a vault at the point of a gun. Later it was discovered the gun was unloaded, old, rusty and unused. They believe she may have a nervous disorder, brought on by overwork. She was a stenographer in Attorney General Moody’s office while taking advanced courses in the university. Moody is Governor-elect.

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Girls Like Casket Trimming Work

Two prefly misses demonstrating t Jie “lust word’” in upholstered coffin styles. Ethel Howard (left) and Edith Weaver. The casket is termed a “full couch,”

Oh for the life of a casket trimmer! A casket trimmer's life is just the thing, according to Miss Edith Weaver of 1130 N. New Jersey St., and Ethel Howard of 710 N. Illinois Street. “It’s ail In the day's work,” they cheerily said ns they deftly tucked in the ends of a bit of silk lining

Here's How a I Stick -Up ’ Feels

Isy Eugene Powell How does it feel to be held up? With six hold-ups over the weekend and an average of more than one a night for the last three weeks, many people aro wondering just how it feels to he held up. Those who read this may be the next persons in Indianapolis to feel a gun stuck in their ribs and hear the terse and terrifying “Stick 'em up and don’t move or squawk.” I know just how it feels, for I went through that experience Saturday night. Going home Saturday night I Juet at E. Tenth and Hamilton Ave. Fred Stelnberger, who said he had just been relieved of between S3OO and S4OO by some bandits. The thugs had caught him as he was closing iq) his meat shop at 2037 E. Tenth St. Wttce were called and a thorough search of the neighborhood was made, but no suspicious characters were found. Laughing at Fright Secretly laughing t\ the apparent fright of the butcher, 1 continued on my way. I knew just wnat 1 would do (so I thought) if any one would try anything like that o i me. I would be brave, laugh at them and toll them to go to—well, a very hot climate. In fact, bluff them. I was passing the dark alley be hind 'he meat market which had just been held up, when I feltsomething jammed into the small of my back and a voice hiss, “Stick ’em, buddy, and don't make a move or let out a sqauwk if you know what is good for you.” How did T feel? What did I do? I never stopped to feel or think. 1 lust reached for Kingdom Come I expected to pull myself up and 1 sure wished that I could have. I had two $lO bills in the right breast pocket of my shirt and 13 cents in my trousers' pocket. The bandits searched me and found the 15 cents, but not the bills. They con- | forred in whispers for a moment or two. During that time every story of a hold-up I had ever read or heard about came to my mind. Was 1 scared? Simply Paralyzed I was simply paralyzed with fright. My tongue clove to the roof of my mouth and I couldn’t have moved if I had wanted to, which I didn't. I wondered why I had left my home in a small Indiana village to seek fame

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and fortune as a reporter in a big city. I'm positive that my knees played “Homo Sweet Homo” and never missed a note. Finally, after what seemed a century, with that gun playfully nestling In my back all the time, one of the bandits returned the 13 cents to me and told me to run and not look hack. My knees may have lieen weak for a while, hut when I was told to go. they came right to my assistance. The only regret that I have is that

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UNA WED B Y DEA TH IN DESIRE TO AW Hindu Among Sixty-Nine Seeking U. S. Citienship Would Face Gailovvs if Sacrifice Would Help Countrymen.

Times Wnshtnoton Bureau, 1312 Xcw York Avenue WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Sixtynine men without a country appeared before the Senate Immigration Commute recently and asked that they be accepted as citizens of the United States. One is an engineer employed by a big electrical concern at Schenectady; another is a Ph.D of Georgetown University, with additional degrees from the University of Washington. But the engineer Is named Shankar Laxman Gokhale, and the doctor is Taraknath J. Das. They are Hindus. So are the other sitxyseven of their comrades, who have been naturalized by this country, thereby losing ti.eir English status, tut who have never been accepted as citizens of this country. Furthermore Dr. Das was convicted of conspiring against the British government, plotting to kill King George, and of engaging in the making for a revolution In India. lie was confronted with this in the hearing. Dramatically replying. Dr. Das, an intelligent appearing man, immaculately dressed even to spats and a cane, said: . “I have been guilty of no crime against ihe United States. They thought I was. I paid the penalty. I served my time at Leavenworth, receiving four months off for good behavior. “Gentlemen, if it is a crime to believe that India should be an independent republic, I am guilty. “If it is a crime to want to educate and elevate the Hindu people, I am doubly guilty. “If you deny me citizenship and deport me, as the British want you to do, I face the noose. I will be tried by the military, and will be executed for the safety of the empire. Os that I have no doubt. But if my name on this list endangers the passage of the resolution (providing for ratification and confirmation of naturalization of the sixtvnine Hindus), I will gladly have it removed, face deportation, and the wrath of the British government, if

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someone with a stop watch wasn’t there to time me, as I am sure that I would hold a world record for sprinting now. After arriving home, lying on the bed and shaking for about half an hour, it came to me that I should have called the i>ol!ce. But figuring that it was too late to apprehend the highwaymen, I went to bed and tried to sleep. I certainly have my opinion of the. person who says that he was not scared when he was held up.

my fellow countrymen may thereby he saved from such a fate, and can become American citizens.” The consulting magnetic engineer, Shankar Laxman Gokhale, was not so adept with the English language In presenting his case. Senator Dave Reed of Pennsylvania asked him, "Do your five children speak English? You say your wife docs not.” “One boy, he is In college.” Gokhale replied; “one. he is In high school.” “But the other three children?” asked Reed. "One, she is a girl 2 years old,” said Gokhale, “one ho is a twin 3 months old. No, they do not speak English.” Gokhale was employed by the electric company in 1912, first as a common laborer. He quickly rose to the position he occupies today. He had lieen a professor at Calcutta, lart left there when he was accused of inciting sedition ampng the students. He says that he has been asked to come back as head of the University of Calcutta, which ought to be proof enough that the charges were untrue. GROTTO SUPPORTS CAMP Associate Program Will Block Tuberculosis Ravage. Sahara Grotto, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, has been the first public group in Indianapolis to rally to the support of the proposed child nutrition camp, according to an announcement made today by Dr. Alfred Henry, president of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. This camp is to be developed on a tract of ground near Bridgeport. This is the final step being undertaken by the association in its progral of child health in Indiaanpolis and Marion County. Keveral other contributions have come in during the past ten days.

Leave Man UnconsciousSixth Hold-up of WeekEnd. ESCAPE WITH $12.50 Fur Coat Stolen From Store Window —Other Losses. Two young bandits, staging the sixth hold-up here over tho weekend, slugged Otto Zehr, 20, attendant at the Independent Auto and Coal Company, 604 S. Harding St., into unconsciousness this morning when he resisted. The bandits escaped with $12.50, leaving Zehr lying in the coal yard. He was found half an hour later by Thomas Kuchenski, 917 Coffey St., who came to the combination auto supply store, gasoline filling station and coal and ice yard to make a purchase. Bought Gasoline Zehr, who lives at 658 Coffey St., said the two men tji'ove up to the filling station in a roadster, bought gasoline and gave him a S2O hill. They followed him into the station and one drew a revolver and commanded: “Hand over your money. We want all you’ve got.” Zehr gave them the $12.50 and returned the S2O bill. Fought Captors The bandits tried to open the ice house door and then took him into the coal yard seeking a place in which to lock him. As they were walking into the coal yard Zehr pulled a hammer from his pocket and attempted to strike down the bandit nearest him. The other bandit struck him over the head with some instrument and he lapsed into unconsciousness. Burglars broke open a display window at the Fair Store, 311 W. Washington St., over the week-end and carried away a S3OO fur coat and five silk robes valued at S7O, it was reported to police this morning. The other hold-ups over the weekend netted the bandits $564. Burglas obtained about $950 in loot in other robberies. -Ollier Hold-l'ps* Fred Steinberger, 2037 E. Tenth St., and his wife were held up by two well-dressed youths as they were leaving the rear door of his butcher shop Saturday night, the bandits escaping with between S4OO ur.d SSOO. Two bandits, both wearing sheepskin coats and answering the description of two mer. who have held up several filling stations in the past few weeks, held up James Gordon, Negro, 63, of 2447 Baltimore Ave., as he passed an alley on Brookside Ave., near Eleventh St.. Saturday night, carried Gordon down the alley and took $24 in cash and a watch valued at S4O. With the command to "stick-em-up: I'm a gunman from the underworld of Chicago and will shoot if you make a single misstep.” a lone bandit robbed Albert Henderson, Speedway City Standard grocery manager, late Saturday night as he was preparing to close for the night, escaping in a machine with sls. Negro Bandits Two Negro bandits held up Charles Smith, manager of a Kroger grocery at 701 Indiana Ave., early Sunday morning as he was crossing an alley at California and St. Clair Sts. The bandits got SB4. Two Negroes, answering the description of the men who held up Smith, later held up Edward Miller, 420 W. New York St., at the canal and New York St., hut only succeeded In getting his watch. Burglar a Smoker A burglar, evidently a smoker, stole several boxes of cigars and cigarets, $3 in pennies and some soda pop fre-o the pool room of L. G. Boldins, 1283 -Oliver Ave, Two drug stores were heavy losers. At the B. T. Barnhart pharmacy, 39 E. Thirty-Fourth St., $175 was taken while M. S. Loudermilk, druggist at 2102 E. Michigan St., reported the theft of S3OO. Two diamonds, valued at $395, were stolen from the home of Moso Kattor. 1341 Park Ave. AYI ile the family was away, the home of Harry Gornpf, 4430 Guilford Ave., was ransacked, a revolver, box of cigars, and S4O in cash being taken. HUGE ROBBERY IX LOOP Feltinan & (.'urine Chicago Store Ixioi May Reach $300,000. Bit United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—A general round-up of all known burglars was under way here today, following robbery of the Feltman-Curme store in the center of the loop, which netted bandits between SIOO,OOO and $300,000. The exact amount of the loot has not been ascertained, but company officials, pending a check-up, said early today that it would run into the hundreds of thousands. After carting away truckloads of the company's stock the bandits blew open the safe and secured the remainder of the loot, which was in cash and bonds. $40,000 GEM ROBBERY Three Jewelry .Salesmen Held Up By Six Bandits in Auto. tin 1 nited Priss PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13.—Three jewelry salesmen were held up today on Lancaster Ave., on the outskirts of Philadelplhia and robbed of cash and jewelry to a total of nearly $40,000. The three were Isaac Ziegger. who lost $31,000 in jewelry and S2OO in cash; Jacob Cohen, from whom SB,OOO in jewelry and a small amount of cash was taken, and Simon Ziegger. who lost his watch and $23. The three were taking the jewelry to Lancaster. Pa., they told police. Six men crowded their car from the road and after carrying out the robbery, rpsd away in the direction of Lancaster, the victims said.

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MAYOR’S SLAYING EIGHTH IN GANG WAR IF ILLINOIS West City Executive Shot Down as Sequel to Attempt at Bombing Home. Bu United I‘rcss BENTON, 111., Doc. 13.—Climaxed by the slaying of Mayor Joe Adams of West City, southern Illinois’ gang warfare, which has raged totmonths in half a dozen counties of this section, today sent law-abiding citizens into a frenzy of expectancy —awaiting what they l'ear will be the bloodiest fighting yet manifested. Mayor Adams was killed in the doorway of his home yesterday when two men called him out and in plain sIgHC of half a dozen witnesses shot him down. After the killing the two gunmen sped away in an automobile. Witnesses were unable to identify them. The killing was the eighth directly traceable to the Shelton-Birger feud —a fight between two gangs for a monopoly of the southern Illinois liquor traffic. Adams is alleged to have been aligned with the Shelton gang and to have long been marked for death by the Birgers. On Nov. 19, Adams’ home was the scene of an attempted bombing. The missile was thrown into the front yard but exploded doing little damage. It was said by authorities that Adams incurred wrath of the Birgers by harboring the Sheltous at a roadhouse he owned. Law-abiding citizens, in their efforts to halt the fighting, arc at a loss as to what to do. State officials have refused military law. An undercurrent running through this place points to a possible request for Federal aid. It is thought that Adams’ murder is certain t<> bring a hi) ut spirited fighting.

IRS. ROBINSON’S FUNERAL TUESDAY Mother of Senator Dies at Her Home in Ohio. Funeral services for Mrs. Catherine Rolinson. mother of Senator Arthur R. Robinson, will he held Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist Church in Pickerington, Ohio, where she died early Sunday. Burial will'he In tho Pickerington cemetery. Nephews will act as-, pallbearers. Senator Robinson was at tlie bedside of his mother when she died, having been summoned after she had suffered two strokes cf paralysis Thursday. Born in Vandalia, 111., March 31, 1840, she came to Pickerington six-ty-one years ago and has since resided in the house in which she died. The husband, John F. Robinson died in 1900. She leaves two sons; the Senator and John A. Robinson of Union City, Ind. VIEW PROPOSED SITES Board lo Select Irvington School Location by Tuesday. The site for the new grade school to be built in Irvington will he dc-ii-nitly selected today or Tuesday, it was announced this morning by the board of school commissioners. President Theodoro F. Vonnegut, Commissioner Charles W. Kern and Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds Jacob H. Ililkeno looked at several sites offered. “The Irvington grade school situation needs relief more than any other section of tho city right now,” declared Vonnegut. "School 57 is overcrowded and work must be started on anew school almost immediately.” Mellett’s Widow Will Be Witness Bn United Press CANTON. Ohio, Dec. 13.—Mrs. Florence Mellett, widow of the editor whose attacks on vice conditions here cost him his life, will be the State's first witness in the first degree murder trial of Patrick McDermott hero today. Prosecutoor C. B. McClintock announced he would put the wife of Don R. Mellett on the stand Immediately after his opening address to the jury.

Police Hold-Up* Auto Petters Petters. in an auto parked on Cold Springs Rd., west Os Park, mistook two park policemen for hold-up men Sunday night and as a result the police emergency squad made a hurried run to the scene. Two park policemen on the lookout for theives, who have been stealing Christmas trees from the city nursery, halted their machine beside the parked auto, drew revolvers and Inquired of the petters their business in the neighborhood. The petters in the auto speeded to tho homo of William Meyers, nearby, and reported the “hold-up” attempt. Meyers called police. All was explained when the two squads Os police met.