Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1927 — Page 13
Second Section
CRISIS IN CHINA MAY BE MATTER OF BUT 48 HOURS Shanghai Defenders Defeated— 1,300 U. S. Marines Sail for East. r." t. tilled Press • Future relations between foreigners and Chinese in China today seemed to depend upon the happenings of the next forty-eight hours. Britain was reported to be ready with a conciliatory proposal which would divert an army and a . fleet from Shanghai in compliance with the demands of the Cantonese nationalists. < The United States proceeded with the reinforcement of American naval land forces ac Shanghai. PF The Cantonese were reported to have forced Marshal Sun Chuan Fang, defender of Shanghai, to fall back seventy-five miles to Tunglu, 130 miles from Shanghai. Foreigners in Shanghai feared that the Cantonese might reach the treaty port within a week. ASKS FOR INFORMATION' Resolution Requests Quiz of Kellogg on Chinese Situation, Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—A resolution requesting the House Foreign Affairs Committee to summon Secretary of State Kellogg for questioning on the existence of “any secret understanding between officials purporting to represent the United States and officials of other powers as to joint use of military and naval forces in China,’’ was introduced in the House today by Representative Black (Dem.), New York. Black said he presented the resolution as a result of a dispatch from Shanghai Jan. 23, stating that the United States would act in concert with Great Briain, Japan and France over the use of troops in China. The State Department has denied the existence of any such agreement, Black said, but he believes dispatch of troops and naval vessels to China warrants summoning Kellogg. SCENE LIKE WORLD WAR Memories Revived at San Diego, Cal., as .Marines I^eavc. u T!nltcd Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 4.—Under full steam, the Navy runs port Chaumont, with 1,300 marines aboard, was bound aerbss the Pacific today for Shanghai. To the cheers of hundreds clus-te-cd on the wharves and waving handltercheifs, the Chaumont moved out of the harbor here yesterday and pointed East. It carried San Diego's own 4th Marine Regiment, under command of Col. Charles Hill. The Chaumont, one of the fastest naval transports in service, has a cruising speed of fourteen knots an hour. Ship’s officers, commanded by Capt. J. 11. Blackburn, estimated the trip to Shanghai will require approximately twenty-one days. One stop will be made at Honolulu, it was announced, where more provisions and war supplies will be loaded. Included among the latter will be the famous “tin hats’’ worn by the A. E. FV in the World War. San Diego revived its memories of the World War when the troopship moved out yesterday. Wives and sweethearts burst Into tears while hundreds cheered the departing troops. “Good-by, Charlie, and good luck to you,” were the parting words of Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, as he shook hands with Colonel Hill. “Tell my boys to do their best,” said MaJ. Gen. Joseph D. Pendleton, retired, who took this same regiment to Santa Domingo in 1916 to quell the uprising there, and was at the dock to see the sailing. BRITISH CABINET MEETS Chinese Situation Is Topic—Milder Course Indicated. Bu United Press LONDON, Feb. 4.—-Premier Baldwin met with his cabinet today to consider new and reportedly conciliatory instructions which may be sent to the British representative at Hankow today. Owen O’Malley in Hankow was waiting for the instructions before ■mtinuing his negotiations with the 'intonese Nationalists for a prelinfltry settlement of the more urgent •oblems resulting from the rise of dnese Nationalism. * Washington, the dominions and > other powers were being reguly informed of every important velopment in Britain’s policy. Withdrawal of the two battalions Indian troops stationed at Shangi, in addition to deflection to Honglong of the Shanghai defense force •low on the high seas, was suggested today by members of the Liberal party, as a further step to ease the Chinese situation.
FARM BILL IN SIX DAYS Goal Set After 'Two Blocs Complete Legislative Coup. Bn T uitrd Press WASHINGTON. Feb. I .—By a bold legislative coup the farm blocs of both liousea are fanning to put MoXary-Haugen bill through ®r>ngress in six days and lay It on TM-esident Coolidge’s desk for signature. Although there are many "ifs” in the program, it has a reasonable chance of adoption. It would accomplish in six days what its supporters have been working unsuccessfully to accomplish for three years.
‘PROOF’ THAT SPRING’S HERE
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Spring is here! Roller skates, bicycles, kiddie cars, doll buggies and what not are now in vogue with the kiddies as they play outside in the “taste of spring" experienced in In dianapolis the past three days. The child on the kiddie car is Lucille Mueller of 1501 N. Gale St. (Left to right) Lucille’s sister. Mary Elizabeth, 5; Charles Miller, 10, of 3525 E. Sixteenth St.; Donald Jean lath chn. 5, of 1425 X. Gale St.; Robert Caliiil, 11, 1419 N. Gale St., and Kenneth Schultz, 12, 1519 X. Gale St.
INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS ARRIVE New Models Have Several Mechanical Improvements. Within the past several days new International Harvester trucks have been received by the local branch of the company, located at 421 Kentucky Ave. The new types are considered “safe and low," built for transportation as well as general use. They are called the SL-34 and SL-36 Each has a maximum capacity of 3,000 pounds. Some of the specification!!! are: Wheelbase, 160 * inches; frame, pressed steely engine, four-cylinder, with detachable L-hecd, mounted with three-point suspension; ignition, high tension battery with distributor I and coil; water cooling system with centrifugal pump; sliding gear transmission with bell housing; heat treated steel drop forged axles; springs, half eliptic; wheels, all metal with demountable rims. Each of the new models is supplied with special equipment and features not found in other International Harvester trucks.
Far and Near
NEW YORK—New York's “millionaire cop” has retired to enjoy his fortune. Nine years ago Detective Edward C. School! inherited SIO,OOO. He invested his money in real estate and now is said to be worth $500,000. WINNIPEG, Man.—Sowing rice by airplane has been inaugurated by the Manitoba Department of Agriculture. Sacks of wild rice were forwarded to Connoraiil Lake station for distribution by airplane over suitable mashes in the northland. It is expected that tlie rice will increase the food supply and attract wild ducks an<^ muskrats. i- - Eethonia— Scenting lucrative business, a firm chiefly consisting of bootleggers has planned a floating restaurant on the Baltic. A passenger steamer will be purchased and anchored off the coast, outside the Jurisdiction of countries where prohibition is enforced. Fast motor launches Mill transport the patrons. GUERNSEY'S CHANNEL ISLANDS—WhiIe reading a book be had just received as a prize for proficiency in history, Wilfred Taylor, 9, fell into the harbor and was drowned. When his body was rescued lie was still grasping the book, his forefinger inserted between the pages at a chapter headed "Rescued From Drowning.” NEW YORK—Arrested for peddling flowers in a restricted district. Gus Palanls was at first given a jail sentence, hut Magistrate Weil a moment later suspended the sentence and bought some of Palanis’ violets. ATLATIC ClTY’—New Jersey ponds have been stocked with 10,000 Gambushia Patruelis, a fish that loves mosquitoes, especially the larvae. *
MOST SUICIDES HANG No Other Method Used us Often in Year’s Course. Bu United Press BATTLE CREEK. Mich.. Feb. 4. Battle Creek almost established a record for suicides in 1926 when twenty-two persons ended their fives, a check with tlio county coroner showed. Eight of those who took their lives were out-of-town residents. Four of the suicides were by hanging, three by shooting, three by drinking poison, three by jumping from high places, two by drowAing, twer by acid and the rest by gas. /
The Indianapolis Times
HORSE THIEF SLEUTHS HOLD HUSH MEETING Presence of Reporters Disturbs Secretive Doingsiat Session to Discuss Damaging Legislation.
Shhh! To he a successful detective you must he quiet and secretive. This would seem to be rule one of the Horsethlef Detectives' Association, judging from the meeting of Capitol City Patrol 370, held Thursday night at the Denison. Word had gone abroad that the meeting was to organize against bills now pending in the Legislature aimed at the official dignity of amateur sleuths. It had .even horn said that certain members of the Legislature might attend. Secretive Gathering No such thing happened. The twelve or fifteen members w ho Former Hoosier to Return for Speech As president of the National Conference of Social Work, Dr. John A.
Lapp, a former Hoosier, Is coming hack to Indiana Feb. 8 to give the rlnrlpal address ..t the seventh an nual meeting of ‘lie Indianapolis Community Fund, which will be a dinner meeting in the Riley room of the Clay pool Hotel. Dr. Lapp's sub ject will be “A Passion for Under-
Dr. Lapp
standing ” For nearly ten years Dr. Lapp was director of the Legislative Reference Bureau of Indiana, and in that capacity framed many of the important statutes of the State. Dr. Lapp left Indiana in 1918 to direct a special study of health and old ago insuranco for the State of Ohio. Since that time he has been connected in various research nnd educational capacities, making special studies and surveys of social problems in different parts of the country.
Gone; but Not Forgotten
Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to; J. R. Webb, 2514 Shriver Ave.; Ford, from Pratt and Meridian Sts. William L. Wheeler, 1421 W. Ohio St.; Ford, 520-816, from Maryland and Illinois Sts. Charles E. Socks. 2117 Brookside Ave.: Chevrolet, 516-603, rom Massachusetts Ave, and College Ave. Reginald Sweetman, 2314 Bellefontaine St.. Maxwell, from 800 N. Pennsylvania St. Marvin Pike, 6GO S. Illinois St.; Ford, 568-498, from 1238 Union St. Theodore Arnold, 2151 S. Pcnnsyl vania St.; Ford, 27-494, from Dele, ware anil McCarty Sts. W. D. Doodnoe, 2171 S. East St Ford, 547-133, from 1817 Orleans St. Lawrence L. Henderson. GOB Fidel ity Trust building: Ford. 631-121 from Market and Delaware Sts. William T. Hill, 319 S. East St.; Ford, from 508 S. Enst St.
BACK HOME AGAIN
Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Edward Cones, New Palestine, Ind.; Chevrolet, found at Fulton and Michigan Sts. . Willie Lee Jackson, 734 Indiana Ave.; Ford, found at Indiana Ave. and California. St. Ford coupe, 8695, found at 928 N. Pennsylvania St. „ A hamadryad, or king cobra, from New Guinea, has been added to the Zoological Garden in London. It can strike to a height of six or seven feet and inject twenty drops of venom, two of which cause death.
[attended the meeting gathered quiet j ly on their rubber heels. Each one admitted to the room, after the meet ing got under way, was required to advance and give the puss word, fla-h his badge or whatever else a hOrse thief detective does when he meets a brother. Everything was serene and oratory filled the air. Then a belated detective discovered two reporters in the hallway. Horrors! Reinforcements were sent for. Two members of the or gar.lzation in emerged and glanced , furtively up and down the hall. After consultation they glared at the reporters. "What’s doing?" a reported asked. No reply. The two detectives slipped hack into the meeting room. An ominous hush pervaded the meeting place. Then un fflcial emerged. I “ 'This a regular mee’ing.” he Baid. "Nothing for the press.” Official Secretive “Our national officers were here ! Wednesday and we conferred with ■ some members of the Legislature, but didn’t get anywhere.” he later explained, refusing to tell who the legislators were, wlterc the conference was held or even to give the , name of tire national officers. lie admitted that plans were being formulated by the twelve or so men iit the “regular metelng,” but would not say what plans. Later the detectives emerged in pairs or trios and slipped away Into the darknes. The Nolan bill, defining and curbing the powers of the horse thief detectives, and the Clancy bill to make officers arresting motorists appear in uniform and requiring a prosecutor at justice of peace trials are the chief worries of the horsethlef de- ; tectivcs. They declare that the Clancy bill will bo "well amended" ' before par sage.
Out Our Way
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THOMAS ADAMS PASSES ‘LIE’ TO J. GLENN[HARRIS Probe Chairman Declares Representative Made ‘False’ Statement. Thomas H. Adams, Republican editor of Vincennes, Ind., who began the crusade which resulted in the movement for an Investigation of “Stephensonism” in Indiana politics, today “passed the lie” direct to Representative J. Glenn Harris (Rep.), Lake County. Harris, chairman of Judiciary A Committee of the House of Representatives, in a speech during the debate before the House killed the resolution for a legislative inquiry! into the reported corruption, declared that Adams had sent someone to him asking that he not call Adams before the committee considering the resolution. Adams in a telegram to Harris, flatly termed this "false.” The Adams telegram: “Have Just read your speech made on the floor of the House and you are quoted as saying that I sent a man to you asking you not to summon me. I never sent any ma!f to you with such a message and your statement is false. I met you a moment last Thursday in the Stateliouse lobby. I told you then I was ready any time. You did not stop a moment. but rushed on in great haste. I have urged your committee to act and begged that' the entire grand jury evidence l>e coznmandereil wherein lies the stupendous exposure. You cannot fool the people by any such misstatements. I have always been anxious to meet the Legislature in any capacity.” ‘INSURGENTS’ INVITED Wisconsin Members of Congress and Others Recognized by G. O. I*. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 4—Wisconsin insurgents were restored to Republican party councils in the House today by Republican leaders. I Reinstatement was effected by the dispatch of Invitations to the outcasts to attend a party caucus Feb. 21 at which a speaker and majority leader for the next Congress will be selected. The entire Wisconsin delegation of ! eleven and representatives I.a Guardia, New York. Slneln r, North Dakota, and Keller. Minneapolis were banished from the party twi i years ago for opposing the CoolldgeDawes Republican presidential j ticket. CONFESSES DEATH BLOW Man Sought in Slaying Strolls Into PoHce Station. Sought by police in connection with the alleged murder of William ; H. Schooler, Tuesday, at the Shelby ' St. roundhouse of the Big Four Rnil- ! road, Harry Prather, 34, of 1448 i Fletcher Ave., calmly walked into police headquarters Thursday au^ I surrendered. j Prather freely admitted to Claude M. Worley, chief of detectives, that I he struck the blow which resulted In the death of his fellow worker. I "1 hit him to defend myself,” Prai ther explained. He stated that he did not know that he had fatally injured Schooler I and drove to Louisville, Ky. "I started hack as soon ns I learned that he had died," he stated.
Noted Canadian to Speak Here
Sir Herbert Antes “Reminiscences of an International Treasurer" will be the topic of Sir Antes when he speaks here, Feb. 15, as a guest of the Indiana Council on International Relations. The speaker will be heard at 12 noon at the Lincoln Hotel. Sir Ames will tell some of his experiences while financial secretariat at Geneva. Three hundred invitations have been issued. The speaker is known as probably one of the best informed on the finanaces of the world. He Is makins a series of addresses at a number of universities. both in the United States and Canada. REOPEN SOLDIER OEAJJiRY KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 4.—Homer Smith, prosecuting attorney of Howard County, today planned to reopen the investigation of the murder of Guy Orville Pritchard, a soldier whose hotly was found on State Rd. 31. near Carmel, last October. .Miller said a blood-stained auto In which Pritchard was believed to have met his death had been found near Normandy. Charges pending against David Orr, Tipton County farmer, will not lie dropped until the new investigation Is completed. Miller said. Orr and Jacob Ratcliff, a neighbor, were Indicted on a murder charge (or Pritchard's death. Ratcliff was acquitted by a vjury in county court here. i . CITY PLANNING BENEFITS Riverside V l)rive .Suggested by Commission President. J. Raymond Monaghan, city plan commission engineer, spoke before the Indianapolis Real Estate Board Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce'l and outlined the benefits of city planning. Q istav G. Schmidt, commission president, suggested a riverside drive for Indianapolis, beginning at Riverside Park and skirting the river to College Age. Dr. Austin Todd, city council member of the commission; H. R. Campbell, county surveyor; C. C. Oberleas, city engineer, and Mrs. Lelia E. Taylor of the commission, were visitors. Thomas L. Dillon presided. Red is the coolest color for summer wear since It absorbs less of the rays of the sun than other shades. White is next nnd black the worst. For winter clothing dark colors are preferable. *
-By Williams
Second Section
Mother, Two Daughters Trapped on Second Floor of Home—One Faints Twice. Two sisters. 20 and 19, and their mother were trapped in a second-story bedroom early today by fire in the stairway of their home at 231 N. Randolph St. They were rescued by firemen after their screams from an upstairs window aroused neighbors.
Awakened at a little before 5 a. m. j by stifling smoke which poured Into I her bedroom, Mildred J. Hurley, 20, I screamed for her sister, Reba L., 19, • and her mother, Mrs. Bermah j Hurley, who slept in an adjoning | room on the second floor of the j frame dwelling. I The three attempted to reach the | first floor, but were unable to fight I their way through the flames and j smoke in the stairway. Defective j wiring in the stairway waU had caused the fire, it was said. Girl Faints Stumbling back upstairs, Mildred made her way to a front bedroom window which faces the intersection of E.’New York and N. Randolph I Sts. Raising the window, she i scremaed for help. Smoke which j was carried out the window by the 1 draft choked the girl, causing her to faint. The window slammed down, pinning Mildred. The mother and sister pulled the girl from under the window and rei vived her. The three took turns j screaming for help. “It seemed as if no one would ever ! answer or notice us,’’ Mildred said. “Finally three neighbors heard us and turned in the fire alarm. Then I fainted again. The smoke was terrible. It got heavier and blacker every minute.’' 1 Taken Down Ladder Engine Company 11, headed by Capt. Robert Sims, answered the alarm turned in by Mrs. Margaret Metzger of 228 N. Randolph St. Arriving at the scene, a ladder was thrown up to the front porch roof and Captain Sims carried the ! two girls, clad only in their night- ! clothes, to safety. Fireman Law- | rence Curry brought the mother ] down the ladder. I The mother and her daughters ! were taken td the home of a neigh- ! bor, Mrs. A. Flick of 233 N. Randolph St., and given first aid for nearsuffocaticn. Firemen extinguished the fire with chemicals. About SSOO damage was caused. The women live alone at the home, which is half of a double house, the adjoining half to theirs being untenanted. Miss Reba Hurley is a stenographer for the American Legion here. A similar fire was experienced last spring at tl e same place, Mrs. Hurley said. The fire occurred in the afternoon, however, the mother being downstairs and her daughter out of the house.
TWO HURT Isl INDIANAWRECK Three Pullmans Derailed Near Wyatt. Bu United Press WYATT, Ind.. Feb. 4.—Two trainmen were injured and passengers in three Pullman cars were, thrown from their berths when Wabash train No. 5, Detroit to Chicago, struck a defective rail near here early today. . The train carried seven cars, including four Pub nans. The engine and first four cars cleared the defective rail but the last three were derailed. Pullmans Dragged The two cars..each carrying fifteen passengers, turned over on their sides and after being dragged for several hundred feet wero broken from the the train. The third car, after bumping along the ties for several feet, jumped back on the track. William W r ahm, brakeman, suffered a leg fracture, and C. H. Stephenson, porter, was cut about the face and bruised. U. S. MAY DEPORT REMUS Secret Testimony Taken Against Millionaire Bootlegger. Bu United Press CINCINNATI. Feb. 4.—Secret testimony taken hefe in the hearing to decide whether George Remus, millionaire bootlegger, should be deported, was forwarded today to immigration officials in Washington. The hearing here to determine whether Remus, now serving a sentence in the jail at Troy, Ohio, is an alien was concluded behind closed doors late yesterday. The case against Remus depends on the question of whether he was a minor at the time his father, George Remus, became naturalized in Chicago. , DIVERSION FOR CONVICTS Bu United Press GREEN BAY. Wis., Feb, 4.—The Wisconsin State Reformatory is not a place of punishment, but a place where youths are "corrected and morally remodeled,” and they are welcome to all the fun they can get out of life there, according to officials of the institution. So they have flooded the baseball diamond to provide an acre and a half skating rink, which the boys enjoy for a ninety-minute- period each day. Skates have been purchased out of the school athletio fund, raised by candy sales. .
BLACK BELT WELL LIKED BY VISITORS TO MONTMARTRE Dusky Nude Dancers Entertain Midst French .iqW ‘Liqueur/ jgi Bn United Press PARIS, Feb. 4.—The “Black Belt” jis spreading in Montmartre. Josej phlne Baker, the dusky nude dancer jof the Folies-Bergere, who came I from Virginia to conquer Paris, has I taken over the Imperial-Soupers in the rue Pigalle and nightly receives the adulrftion of an American Argen-tine-Britannic-Iberian throng who willingly pay 20 francs a bottle for | champagne. 1 About a block away, Lillian Mason, from Tennessee, better known as “Bricktop,” Sings “Blues” songs to the spenders. Water Twenty Francs _ Across the street from “Bricktop’s” little Mr. Hall from Alabama i shows an admiring audience whlat j the Charleston and Black Bottom j really are—and that, too, costs his j clientele a couple of hundred francs ; a bottle. At the bar a drink of water I costs twenty francs. You may have’ a glass of beer, or even whisky, at i the same figure. I Marshall, who ran a famous place I under the “L” In Fifty-third St., ! just off Broadway, New York, In the I days before prohibition, in another of those attracted by the favor shown to the colored element in Paris of today. Exotic Cabarets The French customers in these places are few. They cannot offord it. That is to say, French men cannot. But the Frej* h women can always find a gallant oversea’s visitor delighted to take her to one of the exotic cabarets. Just at present there is little of the racial trouble which was preva- . lent a couple of seasons ago when fights between American tourists and dingy hued visitors from France's colonial possessions who insisted on their rights as French citizens were of daily occurrence.
HOLDS GASOLINE SCARCITYREMOTE Scientist Enumerates Ways to Increase Supply. Bu United Press CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Feb. 4. Motorists need not be alarmed by the diminishing supply of gasoline, according to Prof. Warren K. Lewis, of the chemical engineering department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chemical engineers and chemists, he said in an interview here, would find substitutes for gasoline as future motor fuels. Prof. Lewis declared the gasoline supply could be conserved by: Obtaining more gasoline from the crude by development of present methods. More efficiency in using gasoline by the addition of tetraethyl lead to make the supply last longer. Using fractions of kerosene in motor fuel. Using Diesel engines to replace those in service today. The professor said the amount of' gasoline obtained from the crude at present was three times as great as 50 years ago, and could be doubled if necessary. "It is practicable to obtain from many cracking stocks gasoline yields of 40 to 70 per cent," he said, “and there is no question but what gasoline yield from the crude can be increased to a point far above its present value the moment it is economically advisable to do so.”
Flowers or Bricks ? Ask the Ladies State Senator William T. Quillin of Indianapolis, speaking before the legislative forum of Indianapolis women Thursday, asked the ladies: "Do you remember when opponents of woman suffrage said that if women had the ballot they would use it as a bouquet to toss at the candidate with the cutest mustache! I never believed this argument, but it was generally believed that if woman suffrage went into street the handsomest candidate .would invariably win." "Well,” spoke up a soft voice in the rear of the hall, "haven’t you noticed how much better looking the legislators are now?" And Senator Quillin blushed.