Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1926 — Page 9

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BURGLARS SMASH JEWELRY STORE WINDOW

AMERICANS PLAN TO OBEY MEXICO’S NEW LAW ON OIL I Companies Prepare Despite Protest by U. S. State Department. Bu United Prex MEXICO CITY, Dec. 14—The majority of American oil companies operating in Moxico, the United Press was Informed today, have taken definite steps toward compliance with the new oil law against which the United States State Department has protested to the Mexican government. Despite this action of the companies it was believed the department would maintain its objections against the allegedly confiscatory of the law. The com"panics which were believed to have moved toward compliance included the Texas and Trans-Continental, and it was believed Sinclair interests were preparing for a similar move, if it already had not been made. Most of the British companies already had indicated their intention of complying with the law. The nub of the new regulations deals with tenure. The companies possess titles and leases to vast concessions in Mexico. The Mexican government demands that the companies agree to conversion of these leases and titles into concessions which would be good for fifty years. It was unconfirmedly reported that there was a possibility that these concessions might be extended for another thirty years, making eighty years in all in which the foreign companies would be able to exploit the mineral wealth beneath the surface. COLD WAVE TO STAYJS WORD (Continued From Page 1) 8 above, while the mercury dropped only to 14 above at Evansville. Slight snow fell during the night. JTair weather will prevail tonight Bind Wednesday, Armlngton said, xhe frigid temperatures still are holding on to the northwest, he stated. This is the reason for the prediction of continuation of the cold.

WARNING TO SHIFTERS Weather Bureau Predicts Low Temperatures Throughout Middle West. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 14.—Emergency measures to combat the first severe weather of the winter were taken today throughout the Middle West as the thermometer hovered near zero and freezing winds continued. The weather bureau promised no relief. The north west winds, according to the forecast, will continue today and the skies will be clear. In its warning to shippers the bureau- was emphatic in its statements that all merchandise destined to pass through the Middle West must be protected from temperatures ranging from zero to twenty degrees above. The cold wave swept in yesterday on a northwest wind from the region of Alaska. Temperatures dropped as much as 45 degrees in many places, and one place, Yankton, S. D., reported a 66-degree drop in eighteen hours. The cold wave brought to the Central West the first below zero weather of the present winter. In Minnesota some railroads have been forced to send relief trains to allow passengers to continue Journeys through places where snowI drifts have reached a depth of ten Duluth (Minn.) schools were closed yesterday because of the Intense cold. Police stations In several cities opened, their doors today to unfortunates, permitting them shelter. In Chicago special police details patroled the alleys of the city last night awakening sleeping men In danger of freezing. By tonight most of the United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantio coast, exceping central and southern Florida, was expected by the weather bureau to be experiencing its severest weather of an already unusually cold early winter. COLD IN TWO STATES Kansas and Missouri Have First Zero Weather of Season. Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 14. Zero weather, the first of the winter, gripped Kansas and Missouri today. The temperature dropped to 3 below here early today. This afternoon it should rise to at least 15 above, according.to the weather bureau. Low temperatures were reported from all sections of Kansas. FIVE BELIEVED DEAD Felt for Prospectors in Western Canadian Blizzard. Bu United Press WINNIPEG, Man., Dec. 14.—Five persons are believed to have perished in the blizzard which swept over western Canada Sunday and Monday. A party of prospectors have been reported lost In the Red Lake minarea, 100 miles east, of Winnipeg, and provincial police are searching * the district for tho missing men.

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Ur. Frank Reid, police surgeon, is shown liere giving a physical examination to one of the young men who have applied to tile eivll service commission for Jobs on the pofice force. Seventy-nine of the applicants were to face six physicians today and Wednesday.

TAKE FIVE HURT INCH NOME Were in Auto Struck by Pennsylvania Engine. Five Bloomington, Ind., persons, injured in an automobile and train crash late Monday when their machine was driven In front of a Pennsylvania Railroad engine at Bluff Rd. and the Belt Railway, were taken to their homes today, after receiving treatment at city hospital. Mrs. Freda Albright Spicer, 24, the driver, said she had waited at the crossing fitteen minutes for a train to pass and that she did not see the engine following the first train. In the car with Mrs. Spicer was Daniel Albright, 60, who received a broken collar bone, his wife and their 5-year-old son, Dan, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Cal Stevens. Police are seeking the driver of an automobile said to have a United States Army license, that failed to stop after striking and slightly injuring Athel Witt, 30, of 2854 N. Delaware St., as he was crossing the street In the 2200 block on Massachusetts Ave. Cloyd Bills, 20, of 337 N. Holmes Ave., suffered severe body bruises when he was hit by a machine driven by Jordan Jarrett, R. R. B, box 203. Witnesses said Jarrett was not to blame. PROBE AIMED AT FORD House Member Seeks Inquiry on Jewish Ranking Control. Bu United Prrxx WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Congressional investigation of a statement attributed to Henry Ford that the "international Jew” controls the Governmept’s financial system Is proposed in a resolution to be Introduced In the House today by Representative Bloom, Democrat, New York. The resolution calls for appointment of a committee of seven to determine truth or falsity of the statement. Bloom said Ford's statement cast unjust aspersions on the Federal Reserve System and the Hebrew race. Bloom pointed out that Ford had vetoed a suggestion of Nathan Strauss, New York, that a Jury of citizens determine whether a "Jewish question” exists. LODGE NAMES TICKETS l B’nai B’rith Picks Candidates for Election Dec. 27. B’nai B’rith lodge Monday night at the Kirshhaum Community Center, 2314 N. Meridian St., selected tickets for the election Dec. 27. On the tickets are: President, Morris Strauss, Incumbent, and Ruby Glick; vice president, Sol Glick; secretary, Abe Blatt and Max M. Plesser; treasurer, Adolph Blccard; warden, Joseph Blieden; guardian, Dr. Elliott Hirsch; assistant monitor, Daniel Flrsch and Samuel HofTman; trustees, Henry Blatt, Max Katz and Rufus Isaacs; delegates to the district grand lodge convention, Isidore Felbleman, Morris Strauss, Eph Levin, Saul Munter, Leo Kaminsky, A. H. Goldstein, Adolph Blccard and Henry Blatt.

Will Some Tenor Rob a Bank? Bu Times Pneeial KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 14. ‘‘Sweet Adeline” is not so sweet now. A quartet organized in the Howard County jail is now a trio all because Ralph Cum* mins, the tenor, has left for the State Reformatory on charges of grand larceny. The three remaining prisoners, John Freeman, John Carr and William Ferguson, colored, are now asking every incoming prisoner: ‘‘Hey, Buddy, can you sing?” Before Cummins left, the quartet put out some real harmony, according to Sheriff Lindley.

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Lives to Describe Own Suicide

Bu United Pre BOSTON, Dec. 14.—William Spooner, 62, will live to tell how he committed suicide and actually was pronounced dead. The physician who was called when Spooner was found In a gas;fllled room declared life extinct. But Policeman Frank Donovan decided to try the prone method of resuscitation. Forty-five minutes later he had revived the “dead” man.

Steps on Board, Finger Is Broken Bu Timex Special FRANKFORT, Ind., Dec. 14. Alonzo Moore, boiler “maker, stepped on a board. Fearing he would be struck in the face, he threw out both hands In front of him. The board struck a hammer In his hand and broke the bone in one of his fingers. AUTO THEFT FRUSTRATED Owner Discovers Attempt in Time to Save Car. L. J. Rost, 216 E. Pratt St., looked from his home Monday night at the right time to see three men trying to tart his auto parked In front. | I Rost told police he rushed to the porch and the trio leaped from the car and ran. All were about 25 years old. SMALL THEATER FIRE Fire which started early this momlng at the Apolllo Theater on Illinois St., near Washington, was brought under control before any damage done. All downtown apparatus answered a rush call to the theater when it was reported the Insulation on the wires in the back of the building were burning. The wires were torn loose and the fire soon extinguished. An overheated stove in an apartment house at 657 Muskingum St. started a fire that caused SI,OOO loss and drove out occupants in their night clothing. The fire was discovered by Cliff Artis, a resident of the upartment. Street car traffic on Illinois St. was tied up for more than a half hour. L

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SELLING OF SNIPS BY GOVERNMENT ADMITTED LIKELY Board Member Is Heard by Senate Committee —Low Price Set. Hu United I're WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Possibility of the sale of five Governmentowned ships of the American merchant line, built at a cost of $17,500,000, for $200,000 each, was admitted today by W. J. Teller, member of the shipping board, at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on proposad sale or charter of tiie United States and American merchant lines. Muscle Shoals legislation encountered another delay today when its consideration was postjwned until after holiday recess, because a previous agreement had been reached to consider the Rivers and Harbors bill. Following the recess. Senator Deneen (Rep), Illinois, chairman of the Muscle Shoals joint comimttee, will formally introduce his bill authorizing lease to the Associated Powers Company and Senator MeNary (Rep.), Oregon, will move for the bill’s recommitment to the Senate Agriculture Committee, according to present arrangements. If MoNary’s motion is carried the Muscle Shoals Issue will be buried for the rest of the session. Senate leaders predict. The Rivers and Harbors bill, which contemplates important changes in development of midwestern waterways, comes up if) the Senate today for continuous consideration until final disposition. Under agreement, it probably will be adopted before Congress adjourns next week for the Christmas holidays. HUMAN PART IN INDUSTRY TOLD Schwab, Steel Magnate, Talks at Stutz Dinner. “When you court your girl, you don't make much progress unless you put sentiment In It,” Charles M. Schwab, industrial leader and a director of the Stutz Motor Car Company, told Stutz representatives at a banquet at the Claypool Monday night. “Whatever you make of your job, put sentiment in It," he added. In a short talk, rich In reminiscences and filled with amusing Incidents, Mr. Schwab emphasized the necessity of "human engineering” in getting the most out of men In industry. Dr. Walter Scott Dill, president of Northwestern University, talked on "Man Power.” Dr. Dill outlined the development of American Industry since the Civil War and the resasons therefor. The Stutz convention will continue throughout today and Wednesday. Cancer, Malady of King, Is Spreading Bu United Prrxs BUCHAREST, Dec. 14.—’The cancerous growth which affects King Ferdinand of Roumanla is spreading steadily. It was learned today, and some of Ills Majesty’s physicians have concluded that he will be Incapacitated for work of any kind within a fortnight. Several surgeons have declined to perform another operation on the King because of their belief that its results would be fatal. ,

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NEGLEY FUNERAL ON WEDNESDAY Prominent Attorney Dies After Long Illness. Funeral services for Harry E. Negley, 60, will be conducted at Hockensmith Funeral Parlors, 2 p. m., Wednesday, after which burial will be In Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Negley died at Long Hospital Monday after a long Illness as the result of a nervous breakdown. He was an attorney and active In political and civic affairs. Born in Marlon County, Mr. Negley passed his nature years in Indianapolis. He was twice a member of the State Senate and president pro tern, of the. Senate in 1921. He was at one time candidate for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor. Mr. Negley was a member of the Masonic lodge, Sons of Veterans, the State Chamber of Commerce, and president of the Indianapolis Humane Society and Indiana IJberty League at the time of his death. Surviving are the widow, a daughter. Margaret; two brothers, Homer, of Indianapolis, and George, of Wisconsin, and three sisters, Mrs. George Wright, Mrs. Charles Tyre and Mrs. Harriet Fred of Indianapolis. ELEPHANT ON RAMPAGE Circus Performer I .caves Kansas Rarn—Wide Searcli Made. /?/ !*rt'SS GARNETT, Kan., Doc. 14.-—Bi* game hunters in Anderson County today turned their attention from Jack rabbits to elephants as efforts to capture Diamond, escaped circus elephant, continued. Diamond and Old Tex; his partner, tired of their ton of hay a day and a place to sleep at "Honest Bill” Newton's place near here. Last Saturday, Diamond and Old Tex stampeded with part of the barn around their necks. Old Tex soon tired of zero weather and uncertain forage and was rcaptured.

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Far and Near

CHICAGO —“I want my rights,” asserted Ralph Feldstein, 23, arraigned in court for failure to pay alimony to his wife, Rose. Judge Joseph Burke surveyed the prisoner. “Granted,” he said. ‘Sixty days in the House of Correction.” NEW YORK Because 110 smoktsl a cigar in the lobby of <lie Christian Alliance Society, where smoking is forbidden, James Dexter was recognized as a fugitive from Justice and captured. NEW YORK—Temple Emanuel, j with the wealthiest and most influI ential Jewish congregation in the | United States, has been sold to Joseph Durst, vice president of the Capitol National Bank for $7,000,000, or a record price of SB7O n square foot for Fifth Ave. property. LONDON England Imported 6,522,322 tons of German coal, valued at more than $60,000,000, during the recent stoppage due to strike in the British Isles. VIENNA—Two hundred and forty fanners have been nrrested at Ostrau, In Czeeho-Slovakia, charged with faisifleation of health and identity cards for their cattle. CinOAOO—Two girls who had a nico sedan of their own are held here on charges of flirting. Seven young men made complaint that the two had parked near a theater and tried to “vamp” them. SPRINGFIELD, 111. For the first time since the beginning of the flivver era, the secretary of State’s office here has been requested to issue extradition papers for ft horse thief. The application was made by Waterloo (Iowa) officers, who want to bring back Oscar Fields from Missouri to face charges of stealing a mule. LONDON—StiII believing that the body of Mrs. Agatha Christie, missing novelist, Is lying in the Surrey wilderness within twenty miles of central London, the police have decided to summon deep sea divers to explore the bottom of Silent Pool, In which Mrs. Christie may have been drowned. BALBOA, C. 7a. —Copies of two newspapers containing the alleged text of anew treaty between Panama and the United States were confiscated by police of Panama City.

BERLIN—Two 46,000-ton liners to travel between New York and-Bre-merhaven in six days will be ordered soon by the North German Lloyd lino. ASBIRT PARK, N. J.—John Marks, 88, who, with his wife, 82, celebrated their sixty-third wedding anniversary, remarked, “Folks live too fast tliese days. And they don’t live long.” BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Panama mall liner Ecuador arrived with 3,000 pa? Tots, 350 parakeets, many macaws and seventy monkeys for the Christmas grist trade. BALTIMORE, Md.—A Negro team from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, will debate with a team from Oxford University, England, here on prohibition. NEW YORK.—James Barry, 42, begging with a pair of crutches, was refused aims by a girt and hit her over the head with a crutch. When a policeman started for him he forgot all about being “crippled,*' discarded the crutches and led the policeman a merry chase. He got six months.

NEW YORK.—Ralph Guilbes was arrested coming from a 6-nnd-10-cent store. Search revealed 1,629 diamond rings distributed about his person, some strung on a clothesline about his waist. EDITOR WEDS ACTRESS Btf Ignited Pr•'** NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Philip A. Payne, managing editor of the New York Daily Mirror, and Dorothy Hughes, motion picture actress, were married yesterday. Miss Hughes appeared in several D. W. Griffith pictures and was the original "Miss New York.”

Second Section

Loot Valued at SB6B Taken From Downtown Place —Another Early; Morning Daylight Hold-Up. Crashing the heavy platcglass window of the Hamilton Jewelry Company at 3 N. Meridian St., sometime between midnight and 7 a. m., burglars stole SB6B worth of diamonds and watches. A lone bandit this morning also staged another early daylight hold-up and took S4O from the Standard Grocery at 739 E. Eleventh St.

The one-foot triangular hole in the corner of the jewelry store wlndov was first notlceed by L. Beckly clerk in the A. Schulte cigar store when he opened the adjoining store at 6:80 a. m. Ueckly notified po | ttoe, who In turn phoned Herman f Belka of 1441 Fairfield Ave., the proprietor of the Jewelry store. No Clew No clew to the robbers has been ! found ns yet, pollco say, and no one heard the noise of tho smash. The ! loss is Insured. The robbers evidently committed | the act hurriedly, as they took only a few high priced rings and watches, easily reached through the break, j leaving much of the Jewelry untouched. Police believed they used a padded brick to smash tho window. William Berkemoier, manager of the Standard grocery, had just hidden the S4O the lone bandit took In a box under the counter. The bandit walked in with a drawn gun and ordered him into a back room. Ends Hidden Cash Berkemeler said the bandit opened l the register and sneered at the small [ change, and began tossing boxes about, saying: "I know you have more money than that and I am going to find it.” Several other burglaries and thefts were reported to police. Officers searched the city for a safe, stolen from the Greenwood filling station at Greenwood, Ind., Monday night. William A. Schakel of the Adams Detectives Agency told police the burglars who entered the station carried the strong box, containing $lO4, away with them. A SIOO reward Is offered by Henry Van Cleave, Ladoga, Ind., for the finding of an Oldsmoblle auto, license 534-196, said to have been used by the men who blew the safe at the M. E. Lelvlll store, Ladoga, Sunday night and escaped with S3OO. J. M. Young, 831 Tuxedo St., said that he left his home for twenty mlni utes about 5:30 p. m. and burglars | pried open a bedroom window and ransacked the house. Two kodaks and a watch, valued at $62, were taken. Patrolman Patrick Moriarity found the front door glass at the A. Hoffman drug store, 2960 College Ave., broken early today. Hoffman said all he missed was sls from the cash register. Miss Grace Morlor, 1229 S. Meridian St., told police her $75 fur epat was taken from a dance hall at Thirtieth and Illinois Sts. Schwab in Train Wreck at Muncie Bu United Press ML'NCIE, Ind., Dec. 14.—Charles C. Schwab, steel king, wasn't even awakened when the locomotive pulling his special car crashed into a frut of freight cars here this morning. Schwab's car was attached to the Big Four passenger train and he was en route to New York. E. C. Williams’, Nickel Plate switchman, who was riding on the freight train, was badly injured. Three freight cars were smashed and overturned. Slippery tracks and frozen brakes on the locomotive are blamed. Schwab spoke before Stutz automobile company dealers at Indianapolis Monday evening.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Carl Casey, 2439 Songster Ave., Ford, 505-322, from that address. Ralph Parsons, Danville, Ind., Ford, 414-617, from New York and Meridian Sts. Hazel M. Pounds, 829 N. Pennsylvania St., Oakland, 6318, from that address. Earl Bolden, 321 W. Twenty-First St., Essex, 556-520, from that address. William Pasho, 1902 N. Talbott Ave., Hudson, 514-952, from 300 N. Meridian St. Thomas Macy, Arlington, Ind., Ford, from Capitol Ave. and Washington St. W. L. Herder, 507 West Drive Woodruff PI., Peerless, from 1527 Bellefontaine St. Earl Record, 5 S. Rural St., Chevrolet, from Prospect St. and Madison Ave. Benjamin E. Graham, 36 N. Oxford St., Ford, from Maryland and Blackford Sts. Hoosler Coal and Brick Yards, Thirtieth St. and L. E. & W. Railroad, G. M. C. truck, from garage. Roy Johnson, Sixteenth and De i Quincy Sts., Ford, from Thirteenth I and Missouri Sts.

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Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Cleveland coach, license 589-983, found at 24 S. Alabama St. Ford roadster, no title, found at Bates and McKim Sts. Robert Tatman, 2546 Station St., Ford, found at East and Washington Sts.

3 HURT WHEN IRAINSCOLLIOE Indianapolis Man Among Injured Passengers. Hu United Preen NEW YORK, Den. 14.—Thirtythree persons were Injured, none seriously, in two train wrecks in New Jersey last night. In one wreck, an Atlantic City express on the Pennsylvania railroad was struck in the rear by the socond section of the Pennsylvania's Commercial Express from St. Louis to New York, near New Brunswick. Twenty-one passengers wore bruised or cut. No cars left the rails. The other accident was on the Baltimore & Ohio at Hopewell, near Grenton, when a Washington to New York train ran past a signal light, derailing seevral cars. Twelve passengers were slightly hurt. Among those injured in the first wreck was W. Maurer, Delmar St., Indianapolis, leg cut. ARE W£ MARRIED? ASKS NEWLYWEDS (Continued From Fage I) prepared for a rush to his office of persons seeking to find out whether or not they must have the marriage knot retied. He will advise that remarrirago is not necessary, he said. Prosecutor William H. Remy also said that in his opinion persons mar ried by the illegal Justices still are legally hitched, and the Justice)) maintained the same thing. Wulfson and Keller were arrested late Monday on warrants Issued by \ the prosecutor’s office, on affidavits : signed by Municipal Judges Dan V. i White and Paul Wetter, taken to ! police headquarters and released on their own recognizance. Marriage license returns at the county clerk’s office show that Wulfj son has married at least forty-two ! couples since Nov. 14, when he was supposed to go out of office; Keller, eight; Mosely, two, and Glass, eleven. Remy said that he would act on suggestion of Attorney L. Russell Newgent, representing the Justices in their fight to declare unconstitutional the law which abolished their offices and created the four municipal courts, and file In Circuit Court asking quo warranto writ prohibiting the justices from acting as such. Justice Mosley has filed In Superior Court Five a suit attacking constitutionality of the law. Going to Stick “I'm going to stay In office until the Supreme Court makes me get out,” declared SVulfson. "Lawyers with more sense than I have, told me that I was In the right and I mean to show them that I am not afraid to go ahead. "Dietz” (Edward J. Diets, the lone qualified Justice In Center Township) "Is sore because somebody besides him makes a dollar. Why, that man sent mo a card from St. Louis when Queen Marie was there, and addressed it ’Dear Friend.’ “They can’t chase me out of Indianapolis and right here I stay until : I’m put out. I don’t see why they j can’t leave us alone until the Supreme Court renders a decision." Deputy Prosecutor John L. Niblack, said ho woul<l Investigate activities at Henry Splher, former Justice of the peace In Wayne Township, M. A. Howard, former Warren Township constable, and Harry Haynes, former Justice at Ravenswood. According to Nlblack, Splher Issued a writ in replevin in an action that took place in Washington Township and had Howard serve it. Nlblack pointed out that none of the men were holding office and If they had seen the action was out of their jurisdiction. Haynes may be arrested for levying fines against motorists in Ravenswood. It is said that Haynes had a constable place stickers on autos parked along country roads in the vicinity of Ravenswood.

Dermistry Is High Hat for Barbering Bu United Press KANSAS CTTY, Mo., Deo. 14. —“Hair tonic, dandruff, dor-mistre-e-e —we’re the boys from Lincoln-Lee.” This may be the college yell of future students in the proposed college of dermistry at Lincoln and Lee University, Kansas City’s newest educational institution, if plans for a ‘‘chair of dermistry” are carried out. The proposal that barbering should be placed on the same plane as engineering, law arid Journalism was marie here at the meeting of the Associated Master Barbers of Missouri. P. S. Harris, head' of a hair tonic concern, offered 25,000 as a contribution toward a chair of dermistry.