Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1927 — Page 1

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PROSECUTOR OFFERS QUIZ OF SCHOOLS Remy Ready to Investigate Alleged Irregularities If Requested. Prosecutor William H. Remy today offered to investigate alleged irregularities in school board affairs and the ousting of School Superintendent E. U. Graff. Remy also disclosed that several weeks ago. when reports that Graff was t® be forced out were heard, Ire conducted a preliminary investigation. If any group of citizens ask an investigation of school board affairs he will go into the matter thoroughly, he said, and present evidence to the grand jury and ask indictments if the facts warrant such action. To Consider Matter EniSley W. Johnson, attorney for a group of citizens organized recently with a view of impeaching the majority faction of the school board, indicated the group would probably consider the matter at a meeting today. “Remy is a busy man and we have hesitated to place the situation before him in the face of the heap of investigations he already is conducting,” Johnson said. “I have thought considerably of that angle, however.” Henry L. Dithmer, temporary chairman of the organization, was reluctant to discuss the feasibility of presenting the “tangle” for Remy’s probing. “We have a hard bunch to fight in this situation,” Dithmer declared. ! “They are smart and are keeping j their moves closely guarded with the ! utmost secrecy. If we ‘tip our hand’ to them constantly with what we are going to do and are doing, it offers than an untold advantage.” Permanent Organization “One important thing to be accomplished at the meeting today is to permanently organize our group. Then we are in a better position to fight.” Letters sent out to several hun- i dred citizens resulted in the original body of about thirty-five being augmented to nearly 200, according to Joseph J. Schmid, temporary treasurer. Grier M. Shotwell is temporary secretary. That the civic affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce might enter the breach also was indicated. William H. Book, committee director, who resigned as business manager of the school board when he refused to accede to the demands of the Incoming majority faction a year ago, stated he was in sympathy with Graff, and the committee would consider the situation. Graff Explains Graff was summarily ousted, with no reasons given, by the majority faction of the school board Tuesday night. The group Is comprised of Theodore F. Vonnegut, president; Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, vice president, and Commissioner Charles W. Kern. “When I asked the faction why they wished my resignation when they called on me Feb. 9, they told m© they were dissatisfied with some of my appointments,” Graff declared. “I asked to whom they referrred, and they named an assistant school superintendent, declaring he was arbitrary and would not listen to reason. “Then the faction said they had made a campaign pledge to discharge me.”

CHINESE STRIKE GROUP DISPERSED Seventy-Eight Members of Union Arrested. SHANGHAI, March 10.—A mass meeting of trades unionists was dispersed by police here today and seventy-eight union postal workers were arrested. Officials continued to minimize possibility of a general strike Saturday when a memorial demonstration for the late Sun YatSen, Cantonese leader, will be held. From Chinese sources, however, it was learned the situation was conjsidered grave because of intensified propaganda by the Kuomintang, radical element of the Cantonese. Disputes Communists and Moderates among the Cantonese approached a crisis today. Mme. Michael Borodin, wife of the Russian adviser to the Cantonese Nationalist government, today was a captive of the North China .allies, according to foreign consular | dispatches received here. Mme. Borodin and three Russian diplomatic couriers arrived today at Tsinanfu, dispatches said, as captives, and there was no confirmation of a report that the couriers had been executed by 'Chinese troops, following (heir arrest with Mmi ‘ Borodia aboard a Russian steamer at .‘Nam king.

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$2,137,446 Year’s Revenue Reported by Indiana Bell Concern. PATENT FEES LISTED $1,374,997 Increase Over Figure in 1925.

Net income of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company for 1926 was more than double the 1925 figure, according to the company’s annual report filed today with the Indiana public service commission. Net income for 1926 was $2,137,446, which is a $1,374,997 increase over 1925. I'aid Out $1,080,000 The company, majority stock of which is owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which is a holding company beyond control of the commission, paid out diivdends of $1,080,000 during 1926. Two per cent dividends were paid on the $27,000,000 par value common stock. Added to this dividend the A. T. & T. Company paid a license fee of $437,688 for use of their phone and other patents. Operation Cost Gains While operating revenues increased $918,011 over the 1925 fig ures, expenses decreased $12,934, according to the report'. Net operating revenue amounted to $2,492,570. Gross income, including operating and nonoperating revenues from rents and .other sources, amounted to $2,709,883. Mother Sees Child Left 9 Years Ago Bu Times Special - SEYMOUR, Ind., March 10—A yearning to see the baby she left sitting on the floor with ' her toys nine years ago, brought Ws. Fannie Wright from her Kentucky home in search of her daughter, Helen. She found Helen a girl of 11 years. Mrs. Wright left her daughter with her husband's parents when her husband refused to move back to Kentucky. She had not seen the child since. Helen, until her mother appeared knew her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Morris, as her only parents. After a brief visit with Helen, Mis. Wright returned to Kentucky. SENSELESS iFBALLOON Army Officer Up 27,000 Feet Loses Consciousness—Lands Safely. Bv United Press ST. LOUIS. March 10.— Lapsing into unconsciousness at 27,000 feet because of Improperly adjusted oxygen apparatus, Capt. H. C. Gray, engineering officer at Scott field, Belleville, 111., failed in his attempt to set anew altitude record in a free balloon. Gray went Into the air late yesterday afternoon and crashed to the ground at .Ashley. 111., forty miles south of Scott field, after he had regained consciousness at 17,000 feet and had thrown out all ballast in a partially successful attempt to halt the rapid descent of the bag. He sustained only a sprained ankle. BIGGEST GREEK "STRIKE Dealers in Food Close Shops—Military Forces Mobilized. Bu United Press ATHENS, March 10.—Greek troops were" mobilized today to deal with eventualities as dealers In food struck against government alterations of the rent and tax laws. Bakers, grocers, restauranteurs and other tradesmen closed their shops. Public officials and private employes of railways were considering joining the strike movement. There was no precedent for the situation which existed today. It was Greece’s biggest strike. The government announced that all strikers would be mobilized In an effort to break the strike. From Salonica it was reported that troops suppressed disturbances. STUDENT, 15, ENDS LIFE High School Boy Believed in Trouble with Authorities. Bv United Press MARIETTA, Ohio, March 10.— Difficulties with school authorities was blamed today for the suicide of Clyde Seevers, 15, junior high school student, who hanged himself in a shed near his home here. The boy used his belt as a noose. He failed to attend classes yesterday, and a search by his father and a truant officer resulted in finding the body.

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Directors of Women’s Department Club Voice De - mand in Resolution. CRITICISE BUCHANAN Insist Money Budgeted for Smoke Fight Be Used. Critising City Combustion Engineer Joseph Buchanan for failure to attend to his duties, the directors of the Woman's Department Club asked Mayor Duvall to do something to rid the "smoke evil” of Indianapolis in a resolution today. “We demand of the present city administration that the money budgeted from taxation for smoke inspection be used for smoke abatement in accordance with the city ordinance,” the resolution says. STATE REPORT IS AWAITED ON DETENTION HOME County Officials Delay Move Until Charities Body Acts. County officials today awaited the letter of the board of State charities, in connection with the investigation of the new Detention Home alte, 225 E. Michigan St. The letter will set out whether the State board, which has full jurisdiction in the matter, approves or disapproves of the location selected by County Commissioners Charles Sutton and Cassius L. Hogle. John A. Brown, board secretary, said the letter has been mailed. The commissioners leased the site several months ago from James M. Davis, through James F. Edwards, county councilman and real estate man, for $350 a month. The site bei g abandoned, at 1101 N, Capitol Avt , was leased for $325 a month from Linton A. Cox. Juvenile Court Judge Frank J. Lahr said he would not send children to the new home until the State charities group had approved it. If approval is not given, children will be returned to their home, or bound over to courts, until another home is built or selected, Judge Lahr said. Moving of fixtures from the Capitol Ave. location was to take place today. Screens and doors were put up in the Michigan St. building on Wednesday. All children have been transferred from the old building. Following a conference between Prosecutor William H. Remy and County Attorney Clinton H. Givan, Judge Lahr said he recommended peaceful and immediate settlement of the situation. attackM TOCJLALDAG Founder, President of Paint Company Dies. Charles M. Aldag, 64, of 4551 College Ave., died suddenly at his home this morning following & heart attack. Mr. Aldag was founder and president of the Aldag Paint and Varnish Company, 426 E. Washington St. He attended to his business duties Wednesday and was preparing to go to the office when stricken. He was well-known in business circles. The widow and one son, C. August Aldag, survive. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. ZINC MINING PLANNED Bu United Press DENVER. Cclo., March 10.— Extensive zinc mining development in Colorado by the United States Steel Company is in prospect in the near future, it was learned in Denver mining circles today.

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NEA Service Photot. Transmitted by A. T. ft T. Wires How Albert Frick has been kept alive and conscious at St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, 111., ever since last Sunday, despite his inability to draw a single breath, is shown above. Frick, pictured at the right, Is a victim of complete paralysis of the respiratory organs. In one of the most amazing feats of medical history, doctors and other resuscitation experts have kept air flowing to his lungs by rhythmic compression of his chest. With Frick lying helpless in a wheel chair two men at a time alternately compress his chest and then release the pressure, in the manner illustrated by the group photo. This photo was posed especially for The Times and NEA Service by members of the resuscitation squad, to demonstrate just how the young man’s life was being prolonged. At the left of the group is the patient’s employer, .lohn S. Reesman, and next is his father, H. C. Frick. The others, reading on to the right, are C. I’. Bahneki, J. B. Pangbiim in the chair, John Steppen and L. C. Thayer. Telephoto wires were used by NEA Service in rushing both pictures from Evanston to The Times.

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SINCLAIR LEWIS MAKES MINISTRY HIS TARGET ‘Elmer Gantry,’ New Book, Pictures Preacher Interested in Two Things—Pretty Women and Publicity.

Itii United Free* NEW YORK, March 10.—Sinclair Lewis, who defied the God of the fundamentalists to strike him dead in a Kansas City (Mo.) pulpit aeveral months ago, has Issued much the same sort of a defl to the ministry in his new novel, “Elmer Gantry,” published today. He had previously challenged the residents of Gopher Prairie, the dealers in real estate of all cities and the medical profession in “Main Street," “Babbitt" and “Arrowsmith,” respectively. He has survived. Confidence of Harcourt, Brace & Cos., publishers of the new novel, in the ministry’s drawing power is indicated by a first printing of 140,000 copies—a figure which would make most authors happy if it represented total sales. “Elmer Gantry” is an evaugelieal attack on the methods and manners of a minister, done after much the same manner as his earlier novels, but with a leading character who lacks the occasional sympathetic traits discoverable by patient research in Carol Kennicott, George F. Babbitt and at times almost likable Martin Arrowsmith. Gantry, the minister, who is followed by Lewis from early seminary days through small town pastorates and a career with a woman evangelist to success as a high-powered, gogetting successful preacher, is picsiiicr BALK ONEXAMS Fifteen policewomen who have worked without pay since January, today were mystified by an order of Police Chief Claude F. Johnson that they should appear for phsyical examinatios, "making them eligible to reappointment in event of vacancies.” The women, whose salaries was voted by city council over Mayor Duvall s veto, appeared at the board of safety office and participated in a heated > discussion to to whether they should submit to the examinations. Councilmen charged the move was an effort to oust the women by declaring them unfit. Meanwhile, Attorney Ira M. Holmes, prepared a petition to Circuit Court asking that City Controller William C. Buser be mandated to recognize the $25,000 pay ordinance to provide the women’s salaries. Buser refused to recognize the ordinance, declaring it was illegal. Holmes advised the women to take the examination or they would be guilty of insubordination. He told them not to sign application' blanks which were presented because they already we#e members of the force.

tured as a beefy, lying, alcoholic libertine, who loves two things, a pretty woman and publicity. Perhaps the most interesting incident from the standpoint of current appeal depicts Gantry’s association with one Sharon Falconer, a famous woman evangelist, whose assistant and lover he becomes. She apparently Is sincere, but is caught Inextricably in the web of sex. In the end, her tabernacle burns, and she, refusing to flee, dies in her pulpit exhorting the multitude and thus preventing a disastrous panic. Gantry escapes, knocking over a woman on his way. In the end, Gantry is seen in his powerful pulpit, preaching the Holy Word and gazing at a pretty ankle. SLAYS WIFE, 3 CHILDREN, SELF Maniac Runs Amuck at Home in Tacoma. Bv United Free* TACOMA, Wash., March 10.— Gripped by insane frenzy, Harold Jensen, a carpenter, early today killed his wife and three children with a hatchet and then committed suicide by swallowing poison. The madman attacked his family as they slept, wielding a sharp hatchet with one hand and a hammer with the other to cleave and crush their skulls. Jensen then telephoned police and reported what he had done. While officers sjJted to the house he swallowed poison and was dead when they arrived. Friends said Jensen formerly was an inmate of an insane asylum. BELL BOY TO PREACH Hotel Employe for Fourteen Years Will Enter Pulpit. Bv United Pres* HOUSTON, Texas, March 10.—Ira A. Baldridge, 30, bell boy at the Rice hotel for fourteen years, will lay aside his neat blue suit with the brass buttons for the modest raiment of a minister of the gospel. He has heard the call to preach and will assume duties as pastor of a little church In Magnolia. Baldridge was appointed a licensed minister more than a year ago by the subdistrict council at Goose Creek, and each Sunday since he has preached in some little country church. Now his appointment has been confirmed by the district council at Austin and he is ready for ordination. Baldridge says, there is more money in hopping bells, but the urge to preach is too strong to resist. / ; 4

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Representative Carlson to Start His Work—Two Suits Threatened. Tiiiir* Staff Corretoondent MUNCIE, Ind., March 10.—State Representative Lawrence E. Carlson will arrive here Friday to begin gathering evidence to be presented to the Indiana State Senate in the impeachment trial of Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth March 21. Carlson sent word to Muncle today that he will be here Friday. He is expected to confer with Prosecutor Joe H. Davis, who presented considerable data to the House of Representatives before the impeachment oof Dearth by the 93 to 1 vote. Carlson will encounter numerous cases of wives of persons on the inside of the Dearth political organization being selected for jury service, according to Davis. Still on Bench Meanwhile Dearth continued to occupy the bench. Two moves to unseat Dearth were discussed. Thomas V. Miller, an attorney whom Dearth bitterly opposes, talked of filing suit in Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition to set Dearth off the bench. The Muncie Bar Association may file suit in Circuit Court at Indianapolis to mandate Governor Ed Jackson to name a successor to Dearth. Jackson has refused to name a successor on the ground ths lm(Turn to Page 13) MIDLAND EARNS LOUR MILLIONS Insull Utilities Combine Issues Annual Report. Earnings totaling $4, 096,498.98 are shown in a report issued today by the Midland Utilities Company for 1926. The company, a Samuel Insull interest, is the parent organization of utility corporations furnishing gas, electricity, electric and bus transportation to 204 communities in Indiana, Ohio and western Michigan. Indiana corporations belonging to the Midland combine include Northern Indiana Public Service Company, furnishing gas; Indiana Service Corporation, which takes in the Ft. Wayne, Bluffton A Marion Traction Company; Chicago, South Shore A South Bend Traction Company, and the Peru Gas, Kokomo Gas and Fuel and East Chicago Gas Companies and several smaller utilities. Total Income for 1926 exceeded by more than a million dollars the mark for the previous year of $2,985,781.60, although surplus earnings are but $250,068.37 greater for 1926 than for the preceding year. The company paid dividends for 1926 totaling $2,391,905.72 to 34.648 stockholders. This exceeded by more than $500,000 dividends paid during 1835.

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MOTHER IN HUNT FOR MURDERER Walks Streets With Card Seeking Man Whose Car Killed Boy. Bv United Preet NEW YORK. March 10.—Mrs. Anna Spetko intends to find the man whose automobile killed her boy. All other means having failed, she was out on streets today with a placard, patrolling up and down like a sandwich man, while those who saw her read an appeal for information which might lead to the placing of responsibility. “If any mother or father of children know anything about this accident,” read the card, “will they kindly step forward and give me what Information they know about it, which would help save their own flesh and blood from suffering the same fate as my boy did. I thank you.” Hundreds have read the card, Mrs. Spetko sfhnding silent and turning perhaps a little now and then to make reading easy—but no one thus far has come forward with anything that would help. The boy was killed on Jan. 8. He was playing in front of his home when struck by the car. The driver stopped, took the lad Into his automobile and drove away, promising to leave him at a hospital. But as soon as he was out of the neighborhood where the Spetkos were known, he threw the lad from the car and sped away. The boy died. WOULD REMOVE STATE STIGMA Attorney Tells Ad Club Indiana May Yet ‘Clean House.’ “If Indiana has suffered lately by the intrusion of ‘political or business forces of an evil charactei, {here Is plenty of honest spirit left to clean house,” declared Walter Myers, local attorney, before the Indianapolis Advertising Club luncheon today at noon in explaining the “Boost Indianapolis” essay contest being sponsored by the J. F. Wild A Cos., State bank. The contest aims to combat unfavorable publicity Indiana and Indianapolis have received nationally chiefly because of political scandals. The contest extends until June 1 and provides fifty-seven cash prizes totaling S6OO for letters setting forth Indianapolis’ attractions designed to win friends for the city, 17. S- BUY;! 130 PLANES By United Prett WASHINGTOI. March 10.—The United State* N ky today bought ISO airplanes. Cot pacts to four companies called fol aggregate payment of *1,708,967. J jC t ! —if-*-, -

Forecast Fair and somewhat warmer tonight; Friday increasing cloudiness, becoming unsettled by night.

Alfred Frick Takes Nourishment, Then Goes to Sleep —57 Force Lungs to Function. DOCTORS MERELY WAIT Predict Definite Trend Likely Within Halt a Day. Bu United Press EVANSTON, 111., March 10. —Man’B fight to heat the death that threatens Alfred Frick, who is suffering from paralysis, was gaining slightly as the ninety-fifth hour of the scientific battle was passed. “The paralyse of the palate in slightly receding, giving a faint raj of hope," Dr. Charles F. Read, nerve specialist, announced. There lias been no recession of the paralysis which grips th muscles of Frick's diaphragm making breathing Impossible and necessitating artificial respiration by fiftyseven of Frlck’a comrades—but doctors are hopeful there will be relief within the next twelve hours. “We hope that the recoding of the paralysis of the palate will continue to the diaphragm," Dr. Read said Frick went Into a natural Bleep today—the first since paralysis set fn Sunday—and this was considered a “good sign” by his doctors. Early this morning doctors gave the patient a quantity of milk. It seemed to revive him somewhat. As the morning progressed his pulse became more natural, and his temperature—which during the first crisis had mounted—began to wane somewhat. Doctors Puzzled "There is no way In which we can predict what will happen," doc tors announced. “It may be twentj - four hours and it may he two O' three days yet before there will be & change.” When Frick became paralyzed even his vocal chords were affected, but he has since regained partial use of them and can speak In a low half-gasping and throaty voice, lie rarely speaks, however, owing to (he waste of the precious air that is being pumped into his si’stem. Doctors say the case has no precedent In medical annals. A relapse occurred during the night, causing worry to the doctors and attendants, but there was no change In the rhythm of the attempts at artificial respiration. The steady rhythm was continued and the first of the many crises through which Frick must pass ended in a victory over the death that threatens. In an ante-room Just off the hare little room 108, where the patient sits strapped up at a 45-degree angle, the volunteers await their turns. They laugh, they smoke, play cards, chat pf work —but always watch a clock. Then one speaks: “Three minutes now. You, Terry and Ed. this Is your shift.” The two men rise, feel the bandages around their right arms, then walk Into the room where Frick Is making his fight against death. Without touching the bed on which the patient reste, the two men slide Into the pieces of the men they are relieving, and without lost motion start their fifteen minutes of work. Patient Indifferent Now and then Frick eyes the newcomers with some algn of recoognltlon, hut for the most part he lies with eyes half closed, paying lit tie attention to the work going on about him. Occasionally the workers use both hands In a web-chaln over FVlck’s chest In order to provide him with a little longer intake of air. Occasionally the patient muet cough. “Now, harder, fellows," he will murmur. The two workers give three or four fairly heavy shoves, thus enabling the patient to cough slightly. Since Sunday, when an Infection caused him to become 111 and subsequently to lose control of his body and hts diaphragm, this same program has heen going on. Once last night It appeared the battle had been lost. Shortly before 11 p. m. the patient's flesh turned blue, a cyanotic condition. Indicating poor circulation. Doctors administered morphine, which brought on sleep.

Despite the tenseness of the moment there was no change In the steady pumping on his chest. Within an hour a rally set in and doctors said the worst of that crisis had been passed. 27 KILLED IN FLAMES Forty Others Injured When Russian School Burns. Bv United Preit MOSCOW. March 10 —Twentyseven persons, many of them children, were burned to + death and forty were missing today after a lira in a school In the village of Karavalkovo In the northern part of Dvina province. Bodies of twentyseven were recovered. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m.S3 10 a. m...... 46 T a. rn...... 34 11 a. 62 8 a. m...,,,. 39 12 (noon) .... 16 * a. swiU 48 , **- ~ _ - ...JBL -