Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1927 — Page 1

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FLOOD PERIL HANDS OVER OHIO AREAS Lowland' Residents Flee — Marietta, East Liverpool in Danger. ROWBOATS ON SJREETS High Water in Parts of Pittsburgh. Bu United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 22.—High water today menaced many sections of Ohio. Rivers were rising again •I a result of warm weather meltg recent snows and a resumption of rainfall which earlier in the week caused State-wide flood-like conditions. Hundreds of residents of lowlands have scurried to safety as the rising rivers and streams have splashed over channel sides. Merchants in Marietta and several other smalller towns were moving stocks so goods from lower levels. Highways at many points were under water and in place impassable. Feears were felt throughout the Ohio valley as flood warnings were flashed along the river Pittsburgh where two rivers, which feed the Ohio River, were at flood stage. The Ohio River was reported rising at the rate of three to eight inches an hour, and if the rate continues throughout the day a qcore or more villages will be inundateed. Police at Marietta said two feet *of water would be standing in the streets in the business section this afternoon unless the crest in the river was reached soon. East Liverpool viewed the situation with gretaest alarm. A landslide was threatened there which would sweep over the river front properties and tracks of the Pensylvania-Railroad. A landslide near Bellaire blocked traffic on the Pensylvania Railroad for and time yesterday. z 4 % ABOVE FLOOD STAGE Ohio River Waters Cover Railroad Tracks. •United Press ITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 22.—“ For the first time in nearly three year?, flood condition prevailed in Pittsburgh’s lowlands today. The gauge at the point where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers form the Ohio river rose to 27.7 feet today—2.7 feet above flood level. The Weather Bureau predicted the waters would begin falling after they reached twenty-eight feet. Rowboats were in use in several streets along the Allegheny River and the tracks of the Pennsylvania and Baltimore* Ohio railroads in that neighborhood were under water for several blocks. Five feet of water stood in the ground floor of the Baltimore & Ohio freight station. Work /on several big building projects was suspended. Back water from sewers had flooded excavations. The end of the rainy spell and a drop in temperature to 20 degrees tonight was expected to stop the flood, the weather bureau said. EXPECTS FLOOD STAGE Wheeling Looks Mark I .ate Today. Bu United Press WHEELING, W. Va„ Jan. 32. With a stage of thirty-four feet early today and rising steadily, the Ohio River was expected to reach the flood stage of thirty-six feet here late today. Interurban transportation was inin outlying sections of ■Pfcst. Wheeling, Ohio, and Benwood, W. Va., and water began invading lowlands and cellars in those districts. -i More than a thousand miners are idle along the river front in Belmont County as a result of a rock slide near Weeges, Ohio.

FILES INJUNCTION WRIT Seeks to Prevent County Officials Collecting Alleged Back Taxes. Petition for injunction to prevent Harry Dunn, County auditor, arm Edward A. Ramsay, treasurer, from collecting $16,266.23 back taxes assessed since February, 1919, was filed in Federal Court late Friday by Alfred Kauffman of Chicago. He denies the ownership of $98,000 in shares of stock of the Link Belt Company, which was assessed to him, asserting that the stock was held uniter a trust agreement by Charles Piez, company president. Kauffman is a former Indianapolis resident and is connected with the Link Belt Company at Chicago.

Horrors! Harvard Makes Change Bu United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 22. —Harvard, lover of traditions, is about to break one. In the new library to be •CPenod by the graduate school business administration next week students will be permitted to puff while they peruse. Though tobacco is barred from most of the nation's libraries, this one will be devoid of “no smoking” signs.

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BOY HERO AMONG PALS MAY BE LAKE’S VICTIM Tony Manos, the Daring, Only One of Seven Missing Youths Not Found by Cleveland Police.

Du United Press CLEVELAND, Jan. 22. —(somewhere in the countless floes of Lake Erie may be the body of 17-year-old Tony Manos, police officials believed today. The youtli was the last of seven to be yet located in an epidemic of missing Cleveland youngsters since last Wednesday afternoon, when an ynidentified boy was carried out into the lake on a cake of floating ice. When coast guards, aided by lire tugs and an airplane, finally abandoned the search for the unfortunate youth, police learned that seven boys had left their homes shortly before the lake victim had been observed signalling for help as he drifted out in the current. After more than twenty-four hours of search, six of the missing lads bad been accounted for. One was located in Chicago, another in Detroit and the rest in Cleveland. Fond of thrills, Tony Manos* repeated feats of boyhood daring may have led him to be the principal in ITU'S COUNSEL FIGHTS EVIDENCE OF REEDJNQUIRY Senate Elections Committee Grants Week to Prepare Arguments. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Five attorneys representing the State of Illinois and its .Republican SenalorDesignate Frank L. Smith, began their fight before the Senate Privileges and Election Committee today to prevent the Senate from finally ousting Smith. The first action was admission of the evidence of Smith’s $287,000 campaign expenditure divulged in Chicago last summer by the Reed election investigating committee. The Illinois and Smith attorneys immediately protested this and the committee granted them a week in which to present arguments. Meeting in executive session, the committee called Chairman James A. Reed of the election investigating committee expecting him to conduct the case against Smith. But Reed said he had nothing to do with the matter, and if the body wanted his committee record, it would have to get it. With this unexpected turn, Senator George (Dem.), Georgia, moved the committee obtain the Reed record and make It a part W the present investigation against Smith. This was done, but James M. Beck, representing Smith, protested. He demanded to know the charges against Smith, and it was discovered the Reed record made none. A general argument over this legal point was precipitated bjr Bec)c, James G. Condon and C. J. Doyle representing Smith and Attorney General Carlstrom and Cyrus J. Dietz, representing the State of Illinois. The committee decide dto adjourn until 10 a. m. next Saturday when further arguments of tjie "defense” will be heard. *

MINE DISASTERS SUBJECT OF BILL Compulsory Safety Measure Urged by Livingston. The prevention of coal mine disasters such as recently befell the Francisco mine is sought in a bill to be introduced in the Indiana. House Monday by Representative Edgar Livingston of Bruceville. The plan proposed by Livingston has been tried in numerous States and has proven its efficacy. The plan Livingston would make compulsory in Indiana calls for the placing of pulverized rock or shale on shelves along the passageways and walls of a mine.. This rock is protected by flimsy pieces of cloth. In case of explosion, the air currents sweeping down the passageway would brush aside the cloth and blow the dust into the air, creating a curtain of rock dust that effectively halts the spread of fire and explosion. Livingston, fs a practical coal miner himself and he is confident his plan will life a success. PLAN ARTIFICIAL LAKE Conservation Department May Locate Water in Western Indiana. An artificial lake one and one-half miles long anff three-quarters of a mile wide, to be located In a State park in western Indiana, Is the latest project to be undertaken by the State conservation department, according to Director Richard Lleber. If present plans are completed, the lake will be located in a railroad fill on the Clay-Sullivan-Greer.e County line. Lleber notified of the lake and park project that he expected them to obtaiq all the land for the basin of the lake before the State would take It over. The movement has the backing of the Izaak Walton Leagues In Clay, Green, Vigo and Sullivan Counties. \

the lake tragedy, it is believed. His parents told police he left home to go skating on Wednesday afternoon, promising to return in time for supper. No alarm was felt when he failed to come home Wednesday night. % • "Tony sometimes stayed at the home of his chum. Paul Geltos,’’ Tony’s mother told the authorities. Paul, however) told the police he had not'seen his chum since last Monday. Friends Tsf the missing youth told of his love for adventure. He was always first to attempt anything that savored of danger and he ranked as a hero in the eyes of his pals. Once, they recounted, he swam out into the lake and was missing for almost a day. Just as coast guards were about to drag for his body Tony turned up to explain that he had been picked up nearly a mile from shore by a fisherman and had spent several hours in the latter’s launch "just to scare them all." BITUMINQUSCOAL INDUSTRY FACING STIFF WAGE FIGHT Mine Workers Union to Take Up Scale at Session • Next Week^ The bituminous coal industry today faced another stubborn wage battle between operators and miners. Although both, sides carefully avoided any talk of a strike, there was an air of belligerency in both camps—the United Mine Workers of America on one side and the bituminous operators on the other. The impending wage battle is to be centered on the new wage contract to replace the Jacksonville agreement which expires March 31. Already operators of the central competitive field, embracing the bituminous mines of western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, have announced their determination of fighting for a lower wage scale. Operators Meet At Toledo this week the operators adopted a resolution declaring that the scale between the miners and operators of this territory must continuously be in competition with the wages paid in the nonunion fields of West Virginia and Kentucky. Adoption of this policy would amount to a cut of penhaps as much as 20 per cent from the scale of the Jacksonville agreement, which set $7.60 per day as the basic pay of the union bituminous miners. The wage demands of the miners will be drawn up at the international convention of the United Mine Workers which opens here next Tuesday. Negotiations beftween the operators’ representatives and the /union scales committee for a jjew wage contract will start at Miami, Fla., on Feb. 14. Union officials refused to predict the possible wage demands which will be made at the Miami conference. It is regarded as certain, however, that the union miners will under no conditions consent to an agreement which they claim would virtually make their pay dependent on the wages of the nounion fields of West Virginia and Kentucky. Draft Scale As soon as the preliminaries of the miners’ convention are out of the way* the scales committee, including members from all the districts in the bituminous region, will begin the draft of wage demands for approval by the conversion. If anew contract results from the Miami negotiations it will be the working agreement for 200,000 union miners in the central competitive field. It will also form t|ie basis for separate contracts for 160,000 other union bituminous miners in the districts lying outside the central competitive fields. For-each of the outlying districts a separate agreement later will be negotiated. Wages of anthracite miners will not be an issue in the workers’ convention or the Miamia negotiations. The hard coal workers negotiate terms direct with the anthracite owners in this, field an agreement until 1932 is in effect. From 40 to 50 per cent of all bituminous coal used in the United States is mined in the central competitive field, it is estimated. In taking their stand fog a reduction of wages for the union bituminous fields, the operators contend that the present scale is so high they cannot successfully compete on the market with coal mined by cheaper labor in West Virginia, Kentucky and other non-union fields. Central Unionized Mines of the central competitive field are almost 100 per cent unionized, but in West Virginia and Kern tucky the exercise of court injunctions and other obstacles have hindered union willTstart semester j Technical High Students to Report First Half of Week. ; students at Technical High School wilrreport Monday for the beginning lof the new semester, It was announced today by Milo H. Stuart, | principal. Group classification arid assignment to rooms will be disposed '■ of prior •to the beginning of regui lar full-tim# work Tuesday. All pupils in school last semester will report between 8 and 8:30 a. m., Monday, new .pupils to report between I and 1:30 p. m.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 22, 1927

ANTI-DRYS LEARN FATE ON TUESDAY Fight on Wright Law Depends on Outcome of Committee Hearing. MEDICINAL LIQUOR ISSUE One Bill Prepared for Repeal of Arid Statute. The course of the IndiaAi LibertyLeague, “damp’’ opponent of the Wright “bone-dry” law, will be shaped by the decision of the public morals committee of the Indiana House of Representatives in its hearing on two bills to be considered Tuesday afternoon. Medicinal liquor, whisky issued on prescription by registered physicians, is the methdd of attack to be used by the Liberty League. A bill has been prepared along these fines to be introduced as soon as the legislative calendar presents a favorable opportunity. Many to Enter Fight Captain Harry M. Franklin, secretary of the League, states that physicians and social leaders throughout the State are preparing to make a real fight in this session of the Legislature. It was learned that a Representative has a bill prepared for the outright repeal of the dry law in Indiana. He has not presented it, ho said, pending the sutcome bills now introduced. Snoopers to Get Publicity Amendment of the search and seizure clause and repeal of the prosecutor fee section of the act are provided in the bills before committee. Under the bill introduced by John W. Scott (Rep.), Lake County, persons giving information regarding the possession of liquor would bo compelled to make affidavit and have 'their names used. It is Scottls contention that this will prevent “snoopin’’ and the use of law enforcement agencies for personal vengeance. Representative Charles M. La Follette (Rep.). Vanderburg County, will seek to have his bill regarding fees, the use of past, record and tip; smelling of empty bottles as evidence, reported favorably. La Follette will present figures to the committee showing’ enormous fees collected by the prosecuting attorneys of many counties in the State. Some of these fees exceed $50,000 annsally.

SEES EARLY GOAL IN CHURCH DRIVE Presbyterian Pension Plan Workers Instructed. Indianapolis Presbyterian lay workers today started pre-campaign ministerial pension fund drive, after receiving final instructions at the Indianapolis Athletic/- Club Friday night. The Indianapolis presbytery’s quota is $102,000. John R. Klnghan, executive committee president. Is confident that at least half of the amount will be pledged by Feb. 11, when the campaign officially opens. A. C. Marts and A. D. McKqf, New York, -personal representatives of Will H. Hays, national chairman, instructed the lay workers how to proceed. The plan provides that each min ister contribute 2.5 per cent of his salary and each church an amount equal to 7 M per cent Os the minister’s salary to make this fund selfperpetuating. Each minister upon reaching 65 will be pensioned. ‘Nartf a Jazz Tune at Henry Ford*s Party Bu United Press SUDBURY, Mass., Jan. 22.—Stage coach days came back last night to historic Wayside Inn as Mr. and MrMs. Henry Ford played host to half a hundred old-tiale residents of Sudbury. Not one jazz note was struck by the private orchestra that Ford brought here from Detroit. Schottisches, waltzes, Virginia reels and Portland fancies filled the program. Mr. and Mrs. Ford, they only ones who wore evening clothes, danced almost every number and joined fading voices of their guests in singing such ditties as “Mary Had a Little Lamb.’* Among the 'guests were William Bills. 84-year-old Civil War Veteran; George Hunt, known for forty years as “the toastmaster of Sudbury,” and Francis Bent, popular in local society despite the fact that he has been Sudbury’s tax colector thirty years! GALLERY TALK PLANNED Mrs. H. B- Burnet Will Deliver Address Here Sunday. Mrs. H. B. Burnet will give a free gallery talk at the John Herron Art Institute Sunday afternoon, Jan. 23, at 3:30 o’clock. Mrs. Burnet is president of the Indiana Federation of Art Clubs, s

BULLET-PIERCED DOOR EVIDENCE IN MURDER TRIAL OF GENE ALGER

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Above: The gun with which Gene Alger, Butle’ University student, shot Tinffloman John Buchanan. CenterAlger’s room in his home, 1710 E. Ohio SI., which Mrs. Alger declares she has left just as he left it on the day of the shooting. Alger’s dog “Mutt,” which was his companion In the Danville, Ind., jail, is at the desk. Below, right: The door of ti e Beyer Hotel closet through which Alger shot. Arrows point to the two bullet holes; left, Mrs. Carl Alger, the boy’s mother.

Resume Case Against Butler University Student Monday Morning. By Eldora Field Times Staff Correspondent DANVILLE, Ind., Jan. 22.—Who fired the first shot? This question is the chief contention between the State and the defense in the trial of Gene Alger, 18, Butler University student, Indianapolis, charged with murdering Traffleman John J. Buchanan, Negro. The closet door through which shots were fired July 9, when Buchanan lost his life, was introduced as evidence by the State, Friday, in Hendricks Circuit Court here. This mute evidence of tragedy was carried into court during the testimony of Edmund A. Beyer, proprietor of the Beyer House, Indianapolis, where the gun battle took place. Described Scene “And when that hook there on the door rattled, from the touch of someone on the outside, Alger fired,” declared Beyer. The defense contested this statement, and tried to establish by ques(Turn to ‘HUMAN CHAIN’ RESCUE Elderly Man and Woman Saved in New York Fire. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—A thrilling “human Chain” rescue of an elderly man and woman featured the destruction by fire today of a five-story building, which cost the life of one woman, serious bums to two and injuries to many others. The body of an unidentified woman was found on the top floor. Tt was believed to be that of Mrs. John Farrell. 38, who Is missing. Joseph Kingsley, 60, and Mrs. Anna Budd, trapped by flames, poised on a third story window ledge and were about to jump to the street when twp policemen scaled an adjoining building and passed the couple to safety. f ARTISTS’ CLUB ELECTS Dr. Leonidas F. Smith Is Renamed President of Organization. Dr. Leonidas T. Smith was reelected president, and Mrs. Alix B. Colby, treasurer, at the annual business meeting of the Indiana Artists’ Club Friday evening at%e Chamber of Commerce. New officers: Mrs. Maud Kauffman Eggemeyer .of Richmond, first vice president: Paul Randall, second vice Trobaugh of 'Delphla, third vice president: Mrs. Earle Wayne Bott, secretary. Directors: Lee Burns, George Mess, Fermor 6. Cannon, Bimon P. Bans. Miss Caroline Ashbrook. Wallace Stover and Dale Bessire of Nashville.

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BABE RUTH TO PORTRAY HERO’S ROLE IN MOVIES Signs Up for Films Along With Strenuous Exercise and Warrant for Violating Child Labor Law.

Bu United Press HOLLYWOOD. Cal., Jan. 22. Babe Ruth has entered the movies. Chris.y Walsh, tho Yankee slugger's ISOOGIF SPURS MEMORIAL PLAN Kiwanians Start Fund for Bradley Tribute. Nucleus for a Barton Bradley scholarship fund has been started with 1500 contributed by the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club, it was announced today by Walter B. Harding, president, following a conference with Milo H. Stuart,.Technical School principal. Bradley, 18, ’who lost his i life Sunday in a futile attempt to save Hadley Hull, B^from drowning In Fall Creek, was a graduate of Technical. Tentative plans are to make a youth_ at Technical the beneficiary each year, assuring him of at least one yegr in colllege. A public appeal will be made. The Order of De Molay, of ,which Bradley was a member, asked to cooperate, will meet Monday night to discuss the matter, along with other suggestions for a memorial. It was announced by Joseph A. Reagan, adviser. EIGHT MINERS INJURED Two May Die as Result of Explosion Shaft Damaged. Bu United Press WILKESBARRE, Pa,, Jan. 22. Eight miners were severely burned in an explosion of gas at the Peach Orchard mine of the Glen Alden Coal Company today. Company officials declared the injured list would not be Increased. Two of the miners suffered severe bums about heads, face and hands, and doubt of recovery was expressed by physicians. The explosion is believed to have been caused by a spark setting off a pocket of gas as an electric switch was turned on in one of the mine veins. Props and brattices ward blown down -toy the explosion, causing considerable damage. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 23 9 a. m. 22 7 a. m 24 10 a. 22 8 a. m 22 11 a. 24 . s — lJ (noon) 7TT. 25

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business representative announced today that Babe had signed*with First National Pictures, Inc., to appear in a film play by Gerald Beaumont, entitled "Babe Comes Home." Anna Q. Nilsson will co-star with the Babe. In an effort to keep his poundage near the mark necessary for baseball, Ruth has been taking strenuous exercise while on the Pacific coast fulfilling a vaudeville engagement. His mornings have been devoted to such sports as hunting, fishing, swimming and horesback riding. Yesterday the Babe played a set of tennis with "Big Bill” Tilden, former national champion, and was roundly trounced. WARRANT FOR ARREST Babe Ruth Accused of Child Labor Law Violation. Bu United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 22.—Babe Ruth today faced charges of violating California's child labor law. A complaint, charging that several children appeared in Ruth’s vaudeville act at a theater here last week and charging Ruth with violation of the labor law, was sworn out last night by Stanley M. Gue, deputy State labor commissioner. On the pretext of giving them autographed baseballs Ruth Invited children on the stage and asked them to sing, dance and recite* it is alleged. CHAPLIN CASE AT HALT Government Tax Claims Cheek Alimony Collection. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES. Cal., Jan. 22. Principals In the Charles Chaplin divorce action marked time today, the next move in the legal tangle which has involved the United States Government being obviously to Chaplin. Counsel for Mrs. Chaplin indicated today that they were confident -of obtaining the SB,OOO due her under a Superior Court order. Refusal of the Government to aid Mrs. Chaplin to obtain the alimony left her counsel with no other moves, wait until Chaplin posts bond when his bank accounts again will come under receivership. In this manner attorneys hope to collect $14,000 In alimony, attorneys’ fees, and incidental expenses. The Superior Gpurt order Issued against Chaplin's money was made ineffective when the Government automatically tied up the accounts with income tax liens.

Forecast Partly cloudy and colder, tonight and Sunday; lowest temperature tonight about 10.

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U. S. FLEET PREPARES AS CHINESE RIOT Twenty-Six Craft Ready— Americans Flee Trouble Zones. ALARM AT WASHINGTON Worry Over Anti-Foreign y Outbreaks. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Americans were fleeing today from dozens of isolated mission posts to Chinese coast cities, where United States battleships wait to protect them or carry therp to the Philippines and safety, if necessary. Officials here are alarmed over the anti-foreign riots and are taking all precautionary measures to evacuate the 12,000 Americans in an emergency. American battleships and marines are preparing to use force to cover an evacuation, but it is realized that foreign guns, unless discreetly used, may enrage rather than frighten the mobs. In no case will American forces take sides ia the internal military and political conflict. Twenty-six American war vessels are in Chinese waters or on the way there. Near by, at Manila, in the Philippines, seventeen more are under steam, ready to move northward on an hour’s notice. Most of the American women and children have already been evacuated from such cities as Hankow, Foochow, Amoy and Kiukiang. Fear is now expressed for the safety of Americans in Shanghai. Even in the foreign quarters of that port, there are only 30,000 foreigners against 900,000 natives. STRIKERS STAGE RIOT Sixty-Twn Persons Hurt During Disorder in Shanghai. Bu United Press SHANGHAI. Jan. 22.—Heavy po lice guards patrolled the entire business section of Shanghai today following a violent outbreak of rioting which had its inception in the celebration by strikirg Chinese tram workers of a union victory. More than 5.000 workers were involved in the rioting which resulted in severe injuries to fifty strikers and twelve policemen. So serious did the situation become, after the repulse of a constabulary attack upon the mob on the Nanking road, that a general call for volunteers was issued in the city. END CHARACTER EDUCATION MEET Several Authorities on Education Give Talks. Final session of the conference oni character education was held at thJ Lincoln Friday with dent L. H. Murlin, Do Pauw Urfl versity, presiding. Speakers wertr Dean Walter S. Athearn, school of religious education of Boston University, and Prof. W. Carl Trow, Michigan University school of education. “Movement in Character Education as Seen by the Publisher” was the theme of O. P. Keller of the McMillan Publishing- Company, while Dr. John M. Cooper of Catholic University, Washington. D. C., discussed "Teacher Traimng for Character Education.” Prof. W. W- Charters, school of education of Chicago University, discussed “Developing Traits of Character. in Life's Situations.” PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS HIT Klan Bill Requires Teachers to Be Public School Graduates. Prohibiting graduates of parochial or private schools from teaching in the elementary and high schools of the State, a Klan bill submitted by Representative Truman G. Murden, Twelve Mile, by amending the present law requires that teachers’ licenses be issued only to public school graduates. The measure goes further and provides that the :*equlred training period of the teachers shall be reduced one-half.

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