Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1927 — Page 2

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MIDGE HOLDING ! NEW ARMS PLAN AGAINSTREFUSAL Prepares to Meet Rejection by France or Other Nations. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—President Coolidge has a second disarmament plan ready if France or other nations defeat his present proposal. He will not insist on the fivepower pact limiting' auxiliary naval craft, suggested in his memorandum to Great Britain, France, Japan, and Italy, though he will support it so long as there is hope. The reserve proposal calls for a three-power treaty with Great Britain and Japan limiting cruisers, destroyers and submarines, to the present 5-5-3 ratio on capital ships, the United Press leraned today, Coolidge has good reason tp believe the second plan would succeed —at least with certain British reservations providing periodic tonnage revision, because of French nonadherence to the pact. OLD* TELL OF ‘ABEM.INCOLN (Continued From Page 1) he laughed. He is commander of the George Thomas Post 17, G. A. R., and is not only a Civil War vet, but also the son of one. His father, Wesley M. Gainey, fought in some of the same battles with him. Gainey first saw Lincoln December, 1862. First Glimpse "That was when Lincoln reviewed the Army of the Potomac at Falmouth, Va„ across the river from Fredericksburg,” said Gainey. "I had been in the army only a few months, having joined shortly after my fifteenth birthday anniversary. At the time the rebels were occupying Fredericksburg, and my boyish brain was full of patriotic excitement. One morning they lined us up for review and word traveled down the line that Gen. A. E. Burnside, his staff of perhaps 100 officers and President Abraham Lincoln would appear. "Presently they came into view, traveling slowly down the lines, all on horseback. Lincoln rode a bay, and somehow looked big and awkward on his mount, and I remember I was unimpressed. "Three years later the man had loomed so large in my thought that being in Washington in March, 1865, about three weeks before his assassination, I made a number of attempts to see Lincoln, and succeeded in doing so twice. "My father was lying in a Washington hospital, recovering from bullet wounds received in the Battle of the Wilderness, and I, waiting to take him home, visited many places in the capital city. I remember of attending a play in Ford’s Theater, where, as you know, Lincoln received his mortal wound. Heard Sad News "The play I saw was the one just preceding ‘My Cousin,’ which Lincoln was attending when shot. Afterward, when news of his assassination came to me, I had a particularly vivid mental picture of the tragedy.” "Upon both occasions when I saw Lincoln in Washington he was standing, informally chatting with visitors in the White House. I was then 18, but still possessed of a boy’s self consciousness, and I did not approach him or try to shake his hand. I was satisfied to just look at him, and it seamed to me he had gained enormously in impressive dignity since the first time I saw him. A fortnight later, when I had returned to my home town and word came of his death, I simply couldn’t reconcile the news with that strong, vivid face I had so recently seen.” At Same Table W. p. Wilson, 1054 Congress Ave., also an octogenarian, a Statehouse policeman, was but 10 years old when Lincoln took supper at the home of Wilson’s father, Dr. William H. Wilson, at Winmester, 111. “Lincoln was in town to engage in a debate with Stephen A. Douglas, in their campaign for the Senate,” said Wilson. "I sat at the same table with them and listened to their conversation relative to this, but, like so many others, I was not impressed with Lincoln's long, lanky appearance. ‘Why, Mother, that man looked just like a farmer,’ I remember of telling my mother. He meant more to me later, when I enlisted, March, ’62." Col. Oran Perry, superintendent of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, living at 1220 Central Ave., is one of the few local men who shook hands with Lincoln, and had conversation with him. This was when Perry was a soldier near Darnestown, Md., Perry was under the command of Colonel Hackleman, of the 16th Ind., and Lincoln, who was a personal friend of Hackleman and designated him as "my best friend in Indiana,” seemed especially interested in diseussing' the colonel with Perry. Emotions Boil This was in October, ’6l. "I hurried back to camp to tell the Colonel all about it,” remarked Perry "My emotions were at the boiling point. I had heard adverse pa tisan press criticisms qf Lincoln’s appearance and I was anxious to report. ‘Why, Colonel, that ape story is all a lie, for Lincoln has the best face I have ever seen on a man.’ ” If a wagon hadn’t broken down on a muddy road, Mrs. Mariah Romaine, 82, living at 414 St. Clair ass, might have seen Lincoln. "I was but a young girl and the

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Interest in the speech of Sepator James A. Reed of Missouri before the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association Tuesday evening is shown by the large number of reservations already made. “It is unfortunate that we have had to limit the number to 600, as there is every prospect that more than twice this number will apply,” said Marshall Williams, secretary of the Democratic committee, who is in chai’ge of the ticket sales. The dinner will be held in the Riley room at the Claypool at 6 p. m. Thomas McCullough of the Anderson Bulletin, president of the editorial association, will deliver the address of welcome. Brief talks will ,be made by Mrs. A. P. Flynn, Logansport, vice chairman of the Democratic State committee; Charles E. Greathouse, national executive committeeman from Indiana; Mrs. James R. Riggs, Sullivan, Indiana’s woman member of the national executive committee,, and State Chairman It. Earl Peters. occasion was a Lincoln rally,” remarked Mrs. Romaine. “There was a whole wagon load of us girls and although we were disappointed when one side of the wagon broke down and we couldn't get to the rally, I certainly didn't realize then how important an occasion I was missing.” Maj. D. I. McCormick, superintendent of the flags at the Statehouse, is another octogenarian, who has memories of, but did not see Lincoln. “I can remember how important it seemed that my father was to be awarded a picture of Lincoln,” remarked McCormick. “A number were given out to those contributing money for sanitary supplies during the war. My brother in Oklahoma still has the picture.”

LEAGUE DISAVOWS ACTION IN CHINA Declares Pekin Regime Still Recognized. Bu United Press GENEVA, Feb. 12. —League of Nations officials today denied reports published in London that the league was seeking to establish liaision with the Cantonese Nationalist government in China. The League Assembly, it was explained, recognized the “shadow government” at Pekin that elected its representative to league membership. Until a majority of the assembly officially recognized the Cantonese, the United Press was informed that it would be impossible for the league officially to recognize the existence of the South China government. BRITISH TROOPS ARRIVE Three Hundred American Marines Already at Shanghai. Bn United Preen SHANGHAI. Feb. 12.—The first contingent of British troops dispatched because of fear of the British government that lives and property in the international settlement were menaced, arrived at dawn today. A force of 300 American marines already was here when the British arrived. Reports from the south today said the Cantonese Nationalists, who hope to capture Shanghai, had suffered a reversal in battle with Sun Chuan-Fang, Chinese defender of Shanghai. Practically all varieties of medicinal plants and herbs grow in Jugoslavia, which country exports them extensively.

While Senators and Representatives furnish the Ide/is this group turns them into laws. Charles Kettleborough (above), director of the legislative reference bureau, is shown with the pipe and is the expert that knows how to take a hazy suggestion and turn in into bills that, when passed, make lawyers work overtime seeking a defect therein. His assistants (left to right), are Helen Heath,’Genevieve Brown, Betty Utterbacu, Bertha Bishop and Nellie King.

SIX NEW SLEUTHS ASSIGNED TO AID VICE UEAN-UP’ Sergeants in ‘Civies’ to Watch for Gambling, Liquor Violations. Police Chief Claude F. Johnson today assigned six new sergeants to plain clothes duty in the downtown section between noon and midnight and warned gamblers and bootleggers they might as well pack up and leave town. Johnson declared war on gamblers and rum sellers Monday and police raiding parties have been busy each night this week. "Every possible move to thwart the police in the clean-up will be met,” Johnson said. “If the gamblers take out a charter for a club we have plenty of men who will join the club. They might just as well close the doors and move out, for the city is going to be ‘lily white,’ clean of gambling and illicit liquor. “Booze handlers will be given so much attention that even if they bar the door3 and dump the evidence before our men get in so much profit will go into the sewer that business will be unprofitable.” Police squads will carry tools to open catch basins under sinks and save for evidence any liquor dumped into sinks, he said. Lieutenant Claffey, Sergeant Barge and Patrolman Curran raided the home of Vencil Batie, 1017 N. Warman Ave., Friday night and found a still and three gallons of whisky, they said. Batic was charged. A set of dominoes and $1.25 was seized in a raid of the cigar itore of James Clones, 29 Kentucky Ave., who was charged with keeping a gambling house. Ten men the place were charged with gambling.

ASK BOXiNG BOARD IN MEASURE Commission Law Would Aid Indiana Colleges. Anticipated revenues of at least SIOO,OOO annually would be added to the coffers of institutions of higher learning in Indiana if a boxing bill to be introduced soon in the House of Representatives is favored. The bill provides for the creation of a State boxing commission of three members. They will receive $lO per day, when functioning. A full time secretary will be employed, whose salary will be set by the budget committee. Total annua! expenses of the commission are not to exceed SIO,OOO. All matches will be under their supervision and they will collect 10 per cent of the gross receipts. Surplus over expenses will go to State universities and normal schools. Reciprocal relations with other boxing commissions will be established and where a fighter is barred, disqualified or suspended in ether States he will not be allowed to enter the ring in Indiana. American Legion rorta th ut the State are indorsing the measure. In Peru a private company operates the postal system under contract wtih the government.

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Above: The bank of ihe St. Joseph River below South Bend, where the headless torso was found. Below: Left to right, William Rupert, Frank Dolde and Earl Rupe, South Bend city firemen who discovered the body.

EYE - WITNESS RECALLS SHOOTING OF LINCOLN Woman, 98, Inmate of Charitable Institution, Was at Theater When Fatal Bullet Was Fired.

Bn United Prcee DENVER, Colo., Feb. 12.—An eyewitness to the shooting of Abraham Lincoln in the Ford Theater in Washington on the night of April 14, 1865 t toid the United Vresg today, on the 118th birthday of the Civil War President, of how she watched John Wilkes Booth sneak up to the President’s box and fire the fatal shot. “I went to the thee,ter that night with a Mr. Coombs, a bank inspector,” related Mrs. Luther E. L. Deothe, 98, who is in a charitable institution here. “Ofir seats were in the parquet, right below the box in which Mr. Lincoln sat. The house was packed. “I couldnt keep my eyes on the stage. I was a worshiper of the President, and I 4tas looking at him '.lien I saw Booth enter the box. I recognized him, as I had often seen him hang around in front of the Kirkwood Hotel with some other worthless, third-rate actors. "The house was rather dark and I doubt if anybody else saw Booth approach the President, or recog-

nized him if they did. But it was all too quick for any one to warn Mr. Lincoln. There was a streak of fire and the noise of the report, and then the leap to the stage, “I helped sew the fringe on the flag which tripped Booth. He broke his ankle. It has always made me happy to think that I had at least a Email part in making Booth’s flight difficult, for he might have gotten away if it hadn't been for the broken ankle. At any rate, it caused him some pain.” Mrs* Deothe is the widow of a former official in the French diplomatic service. Before that, she was engaged in newspaper work. She lost her fortune, she said, in Wall Street, and that's why she is now dependent. The old woman said it was her opinion that Lincoln married in an effort to overcome his grief over the death of his first sweetheart.

Moon Defense by Lincoln Related Bii Lnitcd Prena SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 12.—An interesting letter in connection with Abraham Lincoln’s defense of "Uff” Armstrong, in the now famous Armstrong murder trial, was unearthed today—the 118th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth—by th--> archives division of the Secretary of State's cthce. The letter wa* written by William H. Norris, convicted of the muider of which Lincoln's client was acquitted. Lincoln suoceeeded in discrediting testimony of Charles Allen, chief prosecution witness. Allen testified he saw Armstrong strike the blow that killed Preston Metzger. He said the moon was shining brightly immediately overhead. Lincoln produced an almanac to show the moon was on the western horizon. This resulted in Armstrong's acquittal. DEATH TO COMPETITORS Butcher Slays Two Rivals in Businessr—Neighbors Terrorized. Bn I nited Press ROCHESTER, N. Y.. Feb. 12. Harry Gordon. 34, a rivalry-crazed butcher, killed two of his competitors, seriously wounded another and Injured a fourth and so frightened the community that i many people darkened their homes last night and others asked at the police station to be locked up for the night so they would be safe. Bitter competition between Gordon and other butchers in the north side of Rochester had so embittered him against his rivals that he ran wild, and when he was done Harry Katz, 32, and Samuel Tolz, 40, were dead and Morris Klass, 33, and Jack Cohen, 40, injured. Klass was expected to die. Lights in many houses were kept out until assurance had been given that the man had been taken into custody on a charge of first degree murder. RELEASED ON BOND Frank McDaniel. 33, of Richmond is at liberty today under SSOO bond placed here late Friday afternoon by United States Commissioner Fae W. Patrick. McDaniel was arrested by. Federal prohibition agents in a raid on his home in Richmond. The man is charged with the sale of liquor. His case will be presented before the Federal grand jury which -onvenes Feb. 23.

Man Disappeared With Woman Who May Be Victim in Mysterious Death. Bn United Press SOUTH BEND, lnd., Feb. 12. —A caretaker at St. Mary’s Academy, who disappeared just before Christmas. was sought today to tell what he knows about the finding of a headless body of a woman in the St. Joseph River near here. Ernest Rogers, the caretaker, dropped frim sight Dec. 21. the same day that Mrs. Alice Van Dusen, his landlady, was last seen. Mrs. Van Dusen. the mother of three children, told them that she was going with Rogers to buy them some Christmas Presents. Neither has been seen since. Rogers is not accused of any crime, but police figure he may be able to throw some light on the torso murder. Chemists at Epworth Hospital here are performing an autopsy on the torso of the woman found in the river to see if any traces of poison can be found In the body. The theory that she was the victim of an illegal operation has been abandoned. Police were also working on the theory that the body might be that of Mrs. Florence Holloway, 34, who disappeared Jan. 20. Search has been renewed for other women listed as missing in the hope that the identity of the dead person may be established. Search for the head, arms and shoulders of the torso was renewed today with further dragging of the river and searching of the banks. Theodore Laskowskl, 13, a school boy, told police lie had seen a head floating in the river near the bridge of the Illinois, Indiana & Indianapolis Railroad. A theory that the body had been dug from a recent grave and then thrown into the river was discarded when measurements of a peculiar hole In the ground near St. Marys showed it too small to hold the body. EXPECT RATE DECISION Unjust Charges on Shipments From Indiana Town Claimed. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. *2.—A decision is expected shortly on the complaint of the Florence (Ala.) Chamber of Commerce against the Illinois Central and Louisville & Nashville Railroads, charging unjust, unreasonable and preferential rates on grain and grain products shipped from Ohio and Mississippi Rlvrr crossings and on Tour from Mt. Vernon, Ind.. to Florence, Ala. , A rate of 29.5 cents a hundred pounds on shipments from Mt. Vernon, Ind-, to Florence, Ala., is attacked as unreasonable and preferential to Memphis, Term., which has a rate of 20 cents.

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Two of the most interesting spectators of the work of the Legislature are Mrs. M. A. wife of Representative Holloway of Farmland, (left) and Mrs. William Bosson Jr., wife of one of Marion County’s representatives.

Last Rock Cleared From Longest Boring in North America. WORKMEN SHOW GLEE Back Slapping and Hand Shaking Reign. Bu United Press WEST PORTAL, Colo., Feb. 12. The backbone of the North Ameri--1 can continental divide was broken I today. ! The “grave-yard” shift of hard | rock miners, augmented by tireless : day workers who had refused to ; leave their posts, early today pierced j the remaining thirty-one feet of I rock, formally marking the opening j of Moffatt .Tunnel, the largest hole i in America. Penetration of the Rocky Moun- | tain range followed long months of j hard work and danger and involved ,the expenditure of more than . $10,000,000. All precautions to prevent eagerness of miners from bringing disaster to the mammoth project was taken in the early hours of the morning, when guards were posted to prevent dynamiting of the last rock wall. Officials joined the men in joyous cheering as the end of their goal neared. Muckers removed debris as if inspired by magic and the workers at the drill looked straight ahead with faces set in eager and straiii'id determination. At 6:25 a. m. an iron bar was thrust into the 30-foot hole drilled by the machine and ten minutes later the last foot of stone had been penetrated. The dream of Moffatt became a reality. Men who had been at their posts since early yesterday opened wide eyes heavy from lack of sleep and embraced shouting companions. “Jimmy” Choig, resident engineer, youthful graduate of the University of Colorado, went about slapping the weary laborers on the back and gripped blackened, hard hands. At the east heading of the tunnel, several blasts remain to be fired before ajl is in readiness for the final blast on Feb. 18, when President Coolidge touches the golden key in the White House setting off the charge.

DIETZ SEES FARMING ON THE WANE Scientific Manufacture of Food May Be Necessary, Declares Writer. With the population of the world tending to double each seventy years, we will soon stop producing food on the farm and go into the factory to manufacture it, declared David Dietz, science editor of the Cleveland Press, before the Men’s Club of the First Presbyterian Church, Delaware and Sixteenth Sts., Friday night. The Times frequently has published articles by Dietz, who is scientific writer for the Scripps-Howard newspapers and a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Science Frontier Taking as his subject “The Last Frontier,” Dietz pointed out that in the old meaning of the word there are no frontiers, but that today the scientists are the only pioneers. Dietz illustrated his lecture with pictures, taken mostly at the Mt. Wilson Observatory, California, and the Desert Laboratory in Arizona, where he spent a year studying and doing research work for ScrippsHoward papers. Referring to some of the photographs Dietz said: “The lesson of astronomy is that the mind of man can reach out to that farthest nebula. Thus there is no height to which we can not carry our civilization.” Because a thing has never happened, in science you can not say that it never will happen, he said. Controls Train An interesting feature of the program was his electrical demonstration. He stopped a toy electric train by use of the photo-electric cell, stating that this same principle can be applied to the operation of our railways. Another experiment demonstrated remote control by radio. His equipment for this was a small radio sending station and another receiving siatlon, where an electric bell was rung. To show how this principle can be applied more practically a charge of photographic flashlight powder was exploded. It is reasonable to-assume, Dietz asserted, that these same methods can be used on a larger scale, making possible radio control of airplanes, ships, the firing of bombs and other implements of warfare. “Science is the desire to find the truth- It is this spirit that the world needs infinitely more of today,” he said.

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MLS HOARDER DOING IK IN INDIAiPRISON Negro Convicted at Crown Point for Removing Body From Grave. Bu United Press DETROIT, Mich., Feb, 12.—James W. Coyner, declared by police to be a Negro ghoul, now serving time at the Michigan City (Ind.) prison for robbing graves of their bodies, was wanted here for questioning in connection with the discovery of four skulls, believed to be of white women, found in his former cottage home near the suburb of Ferndale. The grewsome discovery was made yesterday by boy members of a Negro family named Wilson, who had moved into the house formerly occupied by Coyner. The suspect had lived alone during the three years he worked quietly at the Ford Motor Company. The skulls were in a trunk in the attic of the cottage. Physicians who inspected the bones declared they possibly were of the Caucasian race, because several strands of long red hair were found. The hair was matted with substance believed to be blood, and if so there might have been a murder connected with the find, police said. Names of several prominent Detroit and Pittsburgh women were found in a notebook, but no connection with the case had been discovered by police. "Mrs. Esseyltyn, Chicago Boulevard” and "Mrs. Harold F. Wardwell, Grosse Pointe,” were two of the names contained in the book. The addresses are in Detroit and husbands of the two women could not understand why the names would be in the Negro’s book. The wives are not missing. The skulls were wrapped separately in newspapers and hidden beneath an army uniform in a trunk. Because they were not bleached or otherwise chemically treated, physicians declared they were not a part of a medical collection. Mrs. James Scribner, Mrs. Arthur Little, Mrs. A. B. Frampon, Mrs. Frank Barrington and Mrs. William Porter Witherow were other names found in the notebook which was wrapped in a society page of a Pittsburgh paper. SENT FROM CROWN POINT Coyner Convicted of Removing Body From Grave. Bu United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Feb. 12. —Warden W, H. Daly of the Indiana State Prison here, said today that Detroit authorities would be permitted to question James W. Coyner, colored convict, in connection with the discovery of four skulls found In his former home near Detroit. Coyner, Daly said, was convicted at Crown Point, Ind., Nov. 29, 1926. on a charge of having removed a body from a grave and sentenced to imprisonment of from three to ten years.

Says Jerry Talbot Resembles Cousin Bu United Press lONIA, Mich., Feb. 12.—Jerry Talbot, World War veteran, whose identity has been a mystery for eight years, may be her missing cousin. Floyd Aungst, according to Mrs. A. E. Rogers of this city. Mrs. Rogers saw picture for the first time yesterday. She declared the resemblance to her cousin, who enlisted under an assumed name during the war and since has been missing, was “very striking.” RUDNER DEFENSE READY Evidence in Behalf of Mellett's Alleged Slayer to Start Monday. Bi/ United Press CANTON, Ohio, Feb. 12. The end of the first week of the trial of Ben Rudner, millionaire bootlegger, charged with the reprisal murder of Don R. Mellett, crusading editor, today found the structure of the prosecution’s case complete. The defense will open Monday. Evidence by which the State hopes to take Rudner’s life in the electric chair was virtually the same as that which convicted Pat McDermott last December. Steve Kascholk, main witness of the prosecution, linked Rudner with McDermott when he charged that the millionaire had hired him to kill the editor. RATE SLASH UPHELD Logansport Takes Lighting Suit to Supreme Court. Right of the Indiana public service commission to reduce rates of municipal lighting plants was upheld by Judge Jere West, Crawfordsville, in a decision announced in the case of the city of Logansport. The municipal plant refused to reduce rates at Logansport upon order of the commission and took the suit into court. Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom represented the commission and won the case. The city still refuses to reduce rates and has appealed the case to the Supreme Court. HOLD INITIATION The Tau Delta Sigma sorority will have formal initiation Monday evening in the Italian room at the Lincoln. Misses Alice Caveney, Gladys McCarty and Thelma Snyder will be initiated. Canada has one golf course for every 13,393 inhabitants. In the United States there is one for every 25,793 persons.