Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1927 — Page 2

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66 BILLS PASS SENATE IN LONG NIGHT SESSION Halt Clock at Midnight to Make Actions Legal— Barrett Plan Lost. Halting the clock at midnight, which made everything legal, until tjie streak of dawn, Indiana Senators did their bit Monday night by rolling up a total of sixty-six bills during the twenty-four hours, killing four. Barrett law interest funds remain in the hands of the Marion County treasurer. The bill, which would have taken this revenue from him, failed passage by a single vote. County Treasurer-elect Clyde RobinSon was a visitor, r Other bills killed included the measure providing that ten years Alight render ai decision in efvil •Jases and the salary raise for Arthur Dinsmore, Indianapolis city prosecutor, from $1,500 to $2,000 annually. r Important measures passed during the night were the Wright bill to make the statutes conform on penalties for drunken drivers, and hills defining the crime of bank banditry and permitting life imprisonment snd minimum penalty of ten years; requiring tail lights for horse drawn vehicles; permitting suits against the fetate highway commission for injuries: reducing penalty for involuntary manslaughter from two to Ewenty-one, to one to ten years; powering entrance age to Indiana State Prison from 30 to 25 years, i During the day the forestry levy was increased from one-half to one fnill: the local budget law was opproved; Marion County commissioners were allowed to pay judges $lO,&00; the State pardon board was hbolished; voter registration law was Repealed; a special ten-year 2-cent levy, to start in 1928, was passed, to furnish funds for the State institutions of higher learning; cities Were authorized to license contractors, and barbers’ license bill was passed. - All the measures passed go to the governor for his signature before becoming laws. If the Governor does not sign the measures by Saturday they are dead.

COUNCIL FAVORS CLOSING BRIDGE But College Ave. Structure Remains Open Today. , The College Ave., bridge across Fall Creek is closed today as far as the council is concerned. However, City Engineer C. Oberieas is making no move to close the bridge. I A resolution that the council go on record as favoring the immediate Closing of the bridge was introduced by Otis E. Bartholomew and passed unanimously by council Monday night. 1 Oberieas merely laughed when told of the council’s action. He refused to close the bridge some time ago when several of the councilmen after making an inspection, recommended that he close it at once. “It is safe,” he declared. "I will close it during Wgh water, but it would be foolish* to close it any other time.” ' “They told me that the Titantic could not sink#*’ Bartholomew said In explaining his action. “The engineer told us that the bridge could not fall, hut when I was out there ■Sunday several shovelsful of material l'e’l. I believe in being safe instead of sorry.” , A ljcsolution asking that the board Ibf works be instructed to receive bids for the repair of the bridge and also for anew bridge was introduced by p. Ray Albertson. ACCUSED OF FLOGGING Georgia Sheriff and Two Oilier Men Held in Attack on Editor. 'jßu United Press r SOPHERTON, C,a.. March B. bharged with participating in flogging H. M. Holders, editor of the popherton News, Sheriff W. L. Thigpen, Treutlen County, Georgia, Joe Lee, and Henry McLendon are unrler arrest here today under $3,000 bond. M Landers was beaten into insensibility by a band of hooded men on Feb. 25, because of alleged activities Ln a newspaper campaign against a bootlegging ripg. Arresting officers refused to disclose evidence against the sheriff and the two other men. • Landers is still confined to bed be bause of injuries received in the flogging and would make no statement with regafd to the arrests.

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12 Men Denied F~?d Tvied to Kilt Girl Bu United Press REDDING, Cal., March .B—Bound to a chair and placed in front of an open gas jet, 14-year-old Elizabeth Ames was left to die by two men, who had been refused food when they called at the house. The girl was alone when the intruders, apparently bent on revenge, stuffed papers in cracks about the room so that the gas wr.uld take effect. A brother, returning from school late yesterday, discovered the girl’s plight. She had been unconscious for two hours, but revived when carried outside the house. Search was started for the men by Sheriff Sublett. LAUNCHESATTACK ON CIVIL SERVICE PLAN HULL Majority Council Leaders Demand Sweeping Inquiry. Another one of Mayor Duvall’s pet plans has been attacked. The old majority faction of the city council came out of obscurity Monday night and demanded an investigation of the civil service commission. The commission, to examine the candidates for the police and fire departments and for the promotion of policemen and firemen, was established by Mayor Duvall. Cox Promoted The promotion of Sergt. George E. Cox to lieutenant without an examination occasioned the attack. A resolution introduced by Walter R. Dorsett asked that the investigation of the commission be made. Otis E. Bartholomew declared that not only were there irregularities in promotion, but that there had been no provision in the board of safety’s budget to take care of the commission expense. The resolution was referred to the public safety committee by Claude E. Negiev, president. * Denies Irregularity John F. White, chairman of the commission, declared that there had been no irregularities in appointing any member of the police department.. “We have always adhered to the spirit of the law, if not to the letter,” he declared. “Sergeant Cox was promoted because the board of safety thought that he needed more pay and not because of any existing vacancy in the police force.” 2.000 EXPECTED AT COMMUNION Hibernians Plan Service in St. John’s Church. * More than 2,000 persons are expected to attend the holy communion service Sunday at 9 a. m., of members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the women’s auxiliary 'and boys’ auxiliary in St. John’s Church, it was announced today by Dr. Michael J. McGinty, organization chairman. Plans for the service and celebration of St. Patrick's Day were completed at the Hibernian's meeting Monday night in their hall at 39% S. Delaware St. An elaborate musical program and entertainment will be given the evening of St. Patrick’s day, March 17, at Tomlinson Hall. P. .1. Kelleher, attorney and member of the order, discussed the Irish Free State at the meeting. Thomas O’Connell, president of division 2, A. O. H., presided. $500,000 PLOT ' BARED Former Chicago Judge Practiced Forgery in Realty Frauds. Bu United Press CHICAGO, March B.—A scheme whereby John J. Stelk, a former Chicago judge, was to come into illegal possession of $500,000 worth of real estate in Chicago, and suburbs was exposed today. Stelk, a recognized authority on real estate law, was taken into custody on a charge of forgery and was said by authorities to have admitted the plot. The scheme, the State’s attorney’s office explained, was to force deeds to tax-delinquent property and then file judgment suits in behalf of the fictitious persons whose names he had forged to the deeds. Judgments were “confessed” by an Imaginary firm, the property turned over to the sheriff for sale and Stelk would buy it.

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IS APPROVED BV INDIANA HOUSE 30 Measures Passed, Six Lost —Representatives Busy Until 3 A. M. i Thirty bills passed and six killed constituted the grist from the Indiana Hcmse of Representatives mill during its final sessions Monday. At the night Session, which extended until 2:30 a. m., concurrence in Senate amendments to the $49,000,000 biennial budget bill and action on last minute bills were sandwiched between parlimentary vaudeville skits. Items approximating $350,000 added to the budget by the Senate were approved by the Lower House. Provisions added to the hill permitting $G a day salaries to be paid legislators engage’d in trying the Dearth impeachment case also were allowed by voice vote. Passage o' he Holmes Senate bill providing for the sterilization of mental defectives by court order was the last action taken by the House before adjourning. Profound Silence Amid silence almost as profound as greeted the Scott resolution impeaching Judge Dearth in the House recently, Speaker Harry G. Leslie announced his desire to vote for the Holmes measure. After a brief explanation Leslie voted and the roll was announced, 78 to 8 in favor of the bill. Torrential oratory ■ flooded the chamber for two hours during the night session, following presentation by Lemuel A. Pittenger, majority floor leader, of the Representatives’ gift to Leslie. The gift was a gold watch hearing a unique Masonic emblem worked in onyx. Leslie responded to the presentation speech briefly. Presents Given Both party floor leaders were given rings by their colleagues. Following presentation of the regular gifts, mock presents were passed around and called for additional bursts of oratory. Representative Frank Wright, author of Indiana’s! “bone dry” law, was presented with a pint of milk by Representative Charles M. LaFollette, Evansville. Wright returned with a bundle of petitions from Evansville in support of the prohibition law. The House quartet, composed of Representatives Chafles M. Trowbridge, Henry and Rush; Floyd Freemyer, Jay; Frank D. Nolan, Montgomery, and Harry V. Brown, Floyd, furnished music during the evening. Permission was granted the Indianapolis city council to raise the salaries of city corporation counsel, city attorney and his assistants late Monday afternoon. The bill permits for raises to $7,500 in case of corpporation counsel and $6,000 for the city attorney. Crime Defined Possession of a machine gun was defined as a crime by the House in passing the Harrison bill to the Governor. The bill is designed to prevent hijacking wars. Horsethief detectives were successful on the final day in preventing repeal of the law permitting county clerks to issue licenses to carry guns; Misunderstanding concerning the bill was apparent and many Klan representatives voted for the repealing act before they learned what it was about. Following completion of the roll so many requested to change their vote that anew roil call was asked. The hill failed to pass, 37 to 44.

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A spare stocking—that's the latest for women. Milady can now buy her stockings in threes instead of pairs. If a reckless motorist splashes mud on flesh colored hose, the spare can be dug out of the pockctbook and a quick change made. Miss Ida Walker, 20, of 19 N. Belmont Ave., is demonstrating.

Girl Ends Life in Fear of Low Grades Bu United Press MUSKOGEE, Okla., March B. Fear that her grades, which were to be issued today, might cause unpleasantness at her home caused a 13-year-old high school girl to commit suicide here, it was believed by her classmates. The body of Lillian Collins was found by her foster parents in their home here late last night. A bullet had penetrated the girl’s head. Lillian had exposed apprehens r on over her grades, classmates said, and had expressed a fear that her adopted parents would send her back to the orphanage, whence she came several years ago. COUNCIL PROBES HOSPITAL NEEDS Four Doctors Selected to Make Investigation. An investigation of the needs of the city hospital will be made by a committee of four doctors, appointed by city council Monday night, before any action will be taken on the measure to borrow $1,700,000, introduced by the city controller, for the building of anew unit at the city hospital. The old main hospital building has been condemned as a fire trap. The loan measure was not openly attacked, but several of the majority faction declared they wished to know “just where the money was going to be spent and why.” The physicians named to make the survey: Dr. F. E. Jackson, president of the board of health; Dr. J W, Sluss, Dr. T. Victor Keene and Dr. Edmund D. Clark. The ordinance was referred to, a special committee composed of Boynton <J. Moore, Walter R. Dorsett, Millard W. Ferguson, Austin 11. Todd and Otis E. Bartholomew. 300 HOMES ISOLATED High Waters Surrounded Houses Abandoned at South Dallas, Tex. Bu United Press ADLLAS, Texas, March B.—Three hundred homes near the banks of the Trinity River still were isolated by high wafer early today after having been abandoned yesterday. Torrential rains caused the river to spread to a width of more than a mile, and residential streets in South Dallas were made impassable by the deep water. First floors of homes and small business buildings were flooded. Property damage has been heavy. Police and firemen were pressed into service to rescue families who were threatened by the flood. No loss of life has been reported. SCIENCE TO TAKE STAND Alienists Will Testily to Mental Condition of Croarkin. Bu United Press CHICAGO, March B.—The scientific diagnosis of the mental activities of Harold J. Croarkin, on trial for the murder of 6-year-old Walter Schmith Jr., probably will start today. Bo:h State and defense in the trial of the 26-year-old son of a wealthy manufacturer are expected to intro- ! duce several alienists as the final testimony of the case. State alienists have declared from the start that Croarkin was mentally soun£. The defense contends Groarkin was of unsound' mind has been since a youth.

COUNCIt FACTION ‘SLAPS’ DUVALL Mayor’s Views Disregarded on Pay Ordinance. The old majority faction of the city council under the leadership of Boynton J. Moore growled and showed its teeth Monday night apparently bent on doing everything Mayor Duvall did not want them to do. The ordinance whereby $28,000 was transferred from the board of works funds to the police department for paying the salaries of the fifteen policewomen, who have served without pay since Jan. 1, was passed over the mayor's veto unanimously. City Controller W. C. Buser refused to recognize the ordinance. The mayor declared since the last meeting of the council that he would have introduced a plan which would take care of the phlicewomen without the ordinance.. The mayor vetoed the measure because it did not have the approval of the city controller, making it illegal, he said. “The ordinanqe probably will be tested in court,” Otis E. Bartholomew declared. “That is what we want. We want to know just how much red tape is tied to the council.” Girl y 8, 111 Since Mother Left Myrtle Marie Woolbright. 8, of 1224 Udell St., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Woolbright, has been seri-

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send his daughter to a lipspltal within a few days. “If my wife wants to see her baby she’ll have to come soon,’’ he said. RANSOM PARLEY OPENS Negotiations Under Way for Release • of Four Aviators. Bn United rrets CASA BLANCA, Morocco, B.—Hansom negotiations for release of the four Uruguayan aviators held captive by Moorish tribesmen, were under way today, advices from Cape Juby, Morocco, said. Release of the four, captured after the plane in which they were attempting a trans-Atlantic flight was wrecked seventy-five miles from Cape Juby, had been promised as soon as the money was available, it was understood. Safety of the aviators was definitely established by a letter from Maj. Laare Borges, commander of the Uruguayans, which was delivered by a Moor late yesterday to the Spanish high commissioner at Cape Juby. HEADACHES FROM SLIGHT COLDS Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablet* relieve the Headache by working off the Cold. A Safe and Proven Remedy. I The box bcar.r 'the Rign:iture of | I . XV, tlrove. 30c.—Advertisement.

FIRES AI WOMAN IN GAS BANDITS’ SPEEDING AUTO Filling Station Attendant Gives Hot Pursuit to Hold-up Gang. Police today hed ho trace of the hold-up man who, with accomplices, including a woman, held up two filling stations Monday night and fled in an auto under revolver (ire leveled at them by a station attendant. Witnesses said the woman was at the wheel of the auto. With a drawn revolver, the bandit stalked Into the Western Oil station, Fletcher Ave. and Shelby St., to interrupt Theodore Baldwin, 35, 271 Leeds Ave., as he was checking the day’s receipts. Money in Sack Baldwin told police he was commanded to scoop up the money, amounting to S3O, place it in a sack and hand it to the bandit, who ran across Fletcher Ave. to a car and sped away. Baldwin’s shots at the disappearing auto attracted the attention of Leo Fisher, 614 E. Pratt St., who was passing in ills car. Picking up Baldwin, the two gave pursuit in a meandering course through alleys. The woman, Baldwin said, was seen to get out of the coupe and jump into another car which followed. Patrolman Metevier saw the transfer near McCarty and East Sts. Descriptions given of a bandit who held up Paul Shipley, 29, 1110 Laurel St., attendant at the Western oil station! Rural and New York Sts., earlier in the evening, led police to suspect the same bandit. Took S4O Shipley said that when lie went to serve two men in a coupe, one of them sprang out with a and ordered him into the station. The bandit took S4O from the safe, ran out to the waiting car and made his getaway. Fred Dyer, 508 E. Tenth St., employed at the Stutz Motor Car Company, told police he was walking east on Tenth St., toward his home Monday night when he was stopped by two masked bandits who stood in the darkness of the alley, west of Alabama St. Commanding him into the alley, the pair .kept a gun at his back while relieving him of $26. He said they handed back a $27 check. DOWNTOWN CLUB ROOMS RAIDED Electric Signals Used to Warn Occupants, Report. The Market Masters Social Club, on the second floor of 216 E. Maryland St., in the center of “Commission Row,” was raided Monday night. Tipped off that an alleged gambling game was on a police squad composed of Lieut. Fred Winkler and Sergts. Pettit and Small and squads made the raid. But no gambling was in evidence. Pettit reported that at the head of the stairway there is a small room with a peep-hole and an electric button that controls a lock on the door, allowing only friends to enter. A switch controls all the lights in the rooms. When the door downstairs opens a bright light is lighted in the outer room, Pettit reported. All the wiring was dismantled, police said. Three men found'in the club. Ray Partlow, 303 E. South St.; Lee Hall, 324 Spring St., and Harry Ishenbaugh, 1103 N. Alabama St., were held on vagrancy charges. SEAL OF WASHINGTON Bu United Press LONDON, March B.—Horace Lee Washington, American consul general here, and descendant of George Washington, recently presented the Sulgrave Manor Board with an impression of Washington’s seal. The Impression will be displayed at the Sulgrave Manor House —the home of the Washingtons here before they emigrated to America. The house is open to visitors and many American tourists annually visit it.

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Felicitations and Gifts Feature Death of 75th Legislature. With pretty speeches of felicitation arid good will, gi/ts for those who had served in sundry capacities and a modicum of accomplishment the seventy-fifth biennial session of the Indiana Legislature passed into history at 2:30 tills morning. Marking time while the Senate cleaned its calendar the members of the House visited to and fro, concurred in an amendment now and then and waited for the appropriation measure. Held as a club to compel passage and signature by Governor Jackson of other legislation the $49,000,000 hill was finally brought out and concurred in by a voice vote at the last minute. The measure contained many items not included in the original amount—notably SBO,OOO for State armories which members of the American JyCgion in the House had battled for in vain, before sending it to the Senate. Pardon Board Abolished One board was abolished during the session. At the suggestion of the Governor the pardon board passes into history. No provision has been made for the disposition of its valuable records. Its work will be done by the trustees of the penal institutions of the State. Two new boards arc created. Barbers and beauty parlor operators will come under supervision of new bodies established. License fees are provided and preliminary training demanded. Farm relief was extended in the shape of a revision of the valuation and assessments on farm properties. It is estimated that approximately $750,000,000 will be cut off the tax duplicate and effect a saving to the farmer of about $1,500,000 in taxation. In the hope that a change would be made in the licensing of automobiles to provide more funds the highway commission helped in the passage of the Evansville bridge bill. All efforts to increase the cost of motoring failed although many measures were introduced to bring it about. Paved Roads Lost State maintenance of detours will take about $750,000 front the highway department. Adding the cost of the Evansville bridge, if built, will result in a loss of about eighty miles of paved roads this year. Little on Utilities Utility legislation was squelched, although bills giving the right of appeals to the Circuit Courts and the commission the power to investigate operating expenses of utilities are now up to the Governor for signature. Efforts to compel producers of motion pictures to sell their product In less than blocks, as is now the custom, failed to get to the Senate. The House, however, went on record as favoring abolition of the practice. Compulsory arbitration between picture producers and the motion picture theater owners would.also have been abolished if the bill had been enacted. Increase in workingmen's liability compensation was secured through a determined lobby by labor organizations. Old age pensions on a county option plan were killed in the House after the bill had passed the Senate. The bill establishing a State Boxing Commission met a similar fate, in reverse order. A building program at the State universities and normal schools is made possible by passage of a bill providing 2-cent tax levy for eacli of ten years. It is believed the levy will raise $10,000,00®. The George Rogers Clark Memorial Exposition to be held at Vincennes in 1929 calls for a 4-mill levy, estimated to realize about $500,000. The exposition will commemorate the capture of Fort Sackville. , Salary Increases galo-e were allowed. Lake and Marlon County judges go into the SIO,OOO a year class. Supreme and Appellate Court judges also were remembered to the same extent. Legislators will be paid $lO a day in 1929. instead of .the $6 rate now in effect. Expenses incidental to the impeachment of Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie, were guaranteed in the appropriation measure. POSING MAY BE SHORTER Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 8. —The possibility of carrying on sculpturing without the usual long hours of posing, is seen through the invention by two Chicagoans of a stereoscopic motion picture camera. After five years of work C. L. Parish and William Englemann have completed a camera, which revolves around the subject’s head and In thirty seconds takes 460 pictures. This gives a picture from every angle desired. From the pictures sculptors are able to work and complete their tasks without forcing the subject to sit long hours In posing.

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RULING ON TEXAS LAW INVOKED IN SMITH* CASE Decision Against Banning Negroes Held to Extend Federal Rule. Bn Ignited Press WASHINGTON. March B.— A movement to use the United States Supreme Court's decision in validating the Texas Negro primury law in the battle to keep Frank Smith of Illinois, and William S. Yare of Pennsylvania, from Senate seats was under way today. Senatbr Borah (Rep.), Idaho, said Hie decision upheld his contention that the primary was a direct part of the election machinery, and therefore under congressional control. This would justify the Senate attempt to oust Vure and Smith. The large expenditures of their primary campaigns are held by Smith and Vare partisans and others to be entir iy State matters, as the primaly is not a constitutional activity. Meanwhile, southern observers here today salt! the decision vs ill have no Immediate important effect in their States. Word from Texas was that an attempt might be made to redraft the invalidated law. passed in 1923, which specifically forbade Negroes from .voting in the Democratic primary. The < Democratic nomination Is tantamount to election in Texas. No other southern State carries any such prohibition on its books. Negroes are not named in any of their laws. Rome have qualifications which prevent the Negro from voting, and any redraft of the Texas law Is expected to follow this line. The principle involved in the VareSmith controversy which touches on the Texas decision, is that stated in the famous Newberry decision of the Supreme Court, holding unconstitutional a corrupt practices law which attempted to limit primary expenditures. The court divided four to four, however, on whether the primary was a part of the election. The decision against the law was on other grounds. TEMPLE ORANGES COME ON MARKET Fancy Citrus Fruit Commands High Price in Debut. Temple oranges were received ai the city market today for tho first time this season. This Is an exceptionally fancy variety of citrus fruit being a cross between tangerines and King oranges. These were offered at 75 cents to $1 a dozen and at some stands at 5 to 10 cents each. Another new commodity was stringless beans, selling at 35 cants a pound. The only change in prices was a 5-cent increase on strawberries, which sold at 60 cents a quart. Egg plants were 30 to 40 cents each, mushrooms 70 cents a pound, and hothouse cucumbers, 25 cents each. Asparagus sold both in 25 cent and $1 bunches and parsley at 5 to 10 cents a bunch. A slightly higher tendency placed egg prices near 30 cents a dozen, although some ranged between 25 and 30 cents. Creamery butter was 60 rents and country butter 61 cents a pound. Other prices were the same as Saturday. WAR ON RUM RUNNING Dry Navy Plans New and Smashing Offensive for This Spring. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March B—A new and smashing attack against rumrunning—tho greatest peace-time "war” ever attempted by the United States —will be started by the coast guard this spring. Reinforced by thirty-three new speed cutters, America's dry navy is to make one supreme effort to purge the seas of liquor smugglers. The new boats, armed with threeinch cannon and machine guns, will be in active service within six weeks, Lieutenant Commander Stephen Yeandle, aid of Admiral Blllard, guard commandant, said today. In addition, twenty-six destroyers, six airplanes, sixteen first-class revenue cutters, 350 small patrol boats, twelve second-class revenue cutters and a force of approximately 10,000 men will be at the front for the dry navy.