Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 309, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1927 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 309

VENGEANCE DRIVE LAID TO CHINESE American, British and Japanese Targets, Admiral Williams Reports. ULTIMATUM DISFAVORED U. S. Replies to Two Other Powers. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Ajpril 4—Chines© are attempting to take revenge on Americans, British and Japanese at Chungking, Admiral C. S. Wllliams, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet, reported to the Navy Department today. The United States Government today sent its delayed instructions to Minister Mac Murray in Pekin regarding joint anese demands to the nationalist Chinese government, the United Press learned today. Guarantees Asked The instructions are understood to modify the joint draft demands MacMurray submitted to the State Department last week after his conferences with the British and Japanese ministers. His new orders permit joint demands for indemnity for the Nanking and other outrages, and request guarantees for future protection of foreign lives and property, but they do not authorize an American or joint ultimatum, according to informed persons here. It is considered probable Mac Murray and the British and Japanese ministers at Pekin will be able to agree on joint action along American lines. The ministers in Pekin are said to be undecided weather to send the prospective demands to Nationalist Foreign Minister Chen or to Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek in view of unofficial reports of a split, within the nationalist regime. MARCH TO PEKIN BEGINS Cantonese Advancing on Three Fronts; Hardly Resisted. gif 1 nited I'ress LONDON, April 4 —The Cantonese drive for Pekin is under way today, dispatches from special correspondents to London newspapers reported. The nationalists already have captured Pengpu. 100 miles north of Nanking, the Daily Express correspondent said. A dispatch to the Daily Mail said the northerners were not offering the slightest resistance to the advancing armies. The southerners were pushing forward on three fronts, one from Chingkiang, one from - Pukow and one from Nanking, it said,'adding that northern troops from the interior were fleeing to the coastal province of Shangtung, while natives of Shantung were leaving for Manchuria. Clash at Hong Kong * An Exchange telegraph dispatch from Hong Kong today said British sailors and Chinese coolies clashed at Shasi after a case of foreign goods had been confiscated and burned by the Chinese. Anti-for-eign feeling was increasing at Shasi, the dispatch said, and conditions were becoming chaotic. Shasi 4 is a. treaty port in the province of Hupeh, on the Yangtze River and 110 miles from Ichang. British Shoot An Exchange telegraph dispatch said guerillas were active in Shanghai and had been fired on by British sailors. The Sunday Observer said communism was rampant in ShangI hal and Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, northern commander, had appealed to foreign ministers for support in his anti-Red campaign. ROBINS DIE OF WORMS Tluvt Is, From Eating Too Many of Them, Says Golf Course Manager. Pigs are not the only gluttons. According to Chick Nelson, Riverside golf course manager, fobins are just as bad. “Many a robin has bob, bob, bobbed along to his death in the last few days,” Nelson said. "The recent high water and the warm days have brought the earth worms to the surface of the ground. During the last two or three days we have picked up several hundred robbins which were killed by eating too many of these worms. All the dead robins’ craws had burst." PROHIBITION ENDS tjn I nilril Press OSLO, Norway, April 4.—Prohibition was formally abolished by the Storthing today when a bill to remove the ban on spirits was adoptedA plebiscite recently showed a majority for the measure.

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COUPLE FACES CHARGE OF CRUELTY TO CHILD Man and Wife Accused After Little Girl Is Taken From Room in Luxurious New York Hotel.

Bit United Press NEW YORK. April 4 —Roberta Jane Pratt, 6, appeared in Children's Court today and was much the most composed and interested person In the courtroom as she heard discussion of her case and listened to the judge order it continued for another week. Roberta Jane, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children alleges, was the victim of a eruel branding with a hot curling iron and of other extreme treatment, at the hands 6f her foster parents, Everett S. Pratt and wife, Des Moines, lowa. The Pratts were not in court. An attorney, who said he came as their friend, asked postponement and the ESCAPES TERM ON PROMISES Elmer Case Given Suspended Sentence When He Says He’ll Be Good. Elmer Case, 3815 Ruckle St., Alleged north side bootlegger de luxe, escaped a one to twef year Indiana State Prison sentence today by paying a SIOO fine and promising to be good. Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins found Case guilty of transportation of liquor and sentenced him to the prison term, but suspended the sentence on good behavior, when Case promised to be good and also not to appeal his conviction to the Supreme Court. If he wanted to appeal Collins said he would send him to prison to begin his sentence at once. Trial in November Collins has had his verdict in the ease under advisement since trial in November. “Remember, though, that the next time you dabble With booze you’re going to take a long trip up north.” Collins warned. “I’m satisfied,” said Case. Case was arrested in October for speeding while driving on E. ThirtyEighth St., and liquor was found in the car. College Boys Witnesses When tried on a liquor sale count, college boys who told the court they “bought girt*’ from Elmer Case, were unable to identify the defendant as seller, when a man said to be his brother, and resembling him, appeared at the defense table. They could not tell which of the two was Case. Case said he ordinarily drives a Ford, but was driving his wife's Stutz when arrested. Remy said be would petition for confiscation of the Stutz.

TWO MISSING ON AIR MAIL LINE Radio and Autos Used by Searchers in California. ll>l i'nited Pres . SAN FRANCISCO, April 4. Search was renewed today for an air mail plane missing since early Sunday morning. The plane, piloted by Eddie Neher and with A. Shaller, an official of the Pacific Air Transport Company aboard, left Fresno at 3:30 a. m. Sunday on its regular trip toward San Francisco. Nothing has been heard from the plane since It passed over Modesto, going north. Officials of the transport company believe the plane either has been forced down in a desolate section of the San Joaquin valley or has fallen into San Francisco Bay. DEARTH RESUMES BENCH I Muncie Judge Returns From WeekEnd Rest in Ohio. Hu 7 iinix Special MUNCIE, Ind,, April 4.—Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth, who escaped conviction in the State Senate on impeachment charges by the margin of two votes, resumed his bench today. He spent the week-end in Ohio visiting relatives and resting from the ordeal of his trial. Stork and Death Overtake Train Bu Vpiled Bren* KENDALLVILLE, Ind.. April 4. —The stork won a race with an eastbound New York Central passenger train near Kendallvllle late today, but death also overtook the limited. Mrs. Marko Pekovich of Orient, 111., who, with her husband, was en route to Serbia, gave birth to a child unattended, In the lavatory of one of the coaches. The mother was rushed to a hospital and is reported doing nicely, but the child died a few hours later. The Pekovich family was bound for their native land, having received word that the father was among heirs of a vast estate In Serbia. EXPLORER DIES llu l uited Press FALL RIVER, Mass., April 4. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Louis P. Noros, believed the last survivor of the disastrous De Long Arctic expedition of 1879, who died Sunday while visiting in Providence, R, I.

court said that in view of information that Des Moines officers now are en route here to get Roberta Jane, he believed it should be granted as the cas may be taken from his juristion with their arrival. Desire Arrest Attorneys for the children's society announced when the postponement was granted, they would go immediately to District Attorney J. B. Banton and ask a warrant for the arrest of Pratt and his wife on charges of cruelty. Roberta was taken from her foster parents on complaint of a maid at a. fashionable New York Hotel, where they were guests. The little girl claimed she wak sparingly fed and was treated most cruelly. Included in the court crowd was one, fashionable dressed woman, who refused to give her name, who said she desired to adopt the little girl. Shows Interest Roberta Jane, dressed in blue, stockings wrinkling over her scrawny legs and her thin hand clutching that of Mrs. .1. C. <k>le of the Childrens’ Aid Society, gave all her attention to what was going on, excepting now and then when she glanced down for a minute to view with pride a fairly pair of Mary Jane slippers she Was wearing. E. K. Cody, representing the Childrens’ Society, announced to the court that they were there “in regard to the case of Roberta Pratt.” Corrects Name “Roberta Jane,” piped up the shrill voice of the black-haired 6-year-old. Mrs. Cole whispered a warning to her that she mustn't talk out of turn, and thereafter her part in conducting her own case was confined to frequent whispered conferences with those around her.

SARIRO’S MOM PLACED IN ISSUE Ford Defense Seeks to Show Profit Ruled. Hm United Press DETROIT, Mich., April 4—A determined effort to prove that Aaron Sapiro was organizing and conducting the farmers’ cooperative associations primarily for money and not for the benefit of the farmer, was made in today's session of the million dollar Ford-Sapiro libel suit. The move came during Senator Reed's sixth day of cross-examining Sapiro, Previously attorneys for Henry Ford had informed the Upited Press that the manufacturer would either appear personally 'when called as a witness or would submit to a physical examination by a court physician. The intimation was that Ford would appear by next Monday. Upholds Sapiro B United Press MADISON, Wis., April 4. —The northern Wisconsin cooperative tobacco pool has come forward to champion Aaron Sapiro. the cooperative organizer, who is suing Henry Ford for $1,000,000, alleging the motor magnate libeled him. According to correspondence produced by the pool here, Sapiro voluntarily out his retainer fee in half because the pool was operating successfully without much help or advice from him in 1923. ILL KING WEAKENS Bn United Press BUCHAREST, April 3.—(Delayed by censor) —King Ferdinand of Roumania was extremely weak this afternoon, (Sunday) reports from the palace said. The King is ill with influenza.

A Message to Parents

This is a messaae to the parents of the boys and girls of j the four higher grades qf the public grammar schools. It is an invitation for fathers and mothers to assume, temporarily at least, the role of teacher. It will bring a permanent reward for the children and it may also bring a cash award and a trip to Washington, the national capital. And, Avhile it will greatly benefit the children of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades, it may also grind away the rust that has accumulated over the years since parents were young and studying the pages of the speller. It is this week that brings into reality the Spelling Bee that you have read about in The Times in recent editions. Four grades in seventy public schools in Indianapolis and vicinity will begin the battle with words. On Thursday the thousands of youngsters enrolled in the upper grades of the common schools will begin their fight toward a goal that is the ambition of every child eligible under the rules of the National Spelling Bee, which is being sponsored in Indiana by The Times. On that day the pupils will compete in the written spelling contest. The spelling book from which the contest words will be" chosen is the very complete McCall Speller, which is being used in the city schools. So it is that the parents are invited to lay aside the paper tonight, take up the McCall Speller, and preside over a little spelling bee in the home. 'lt is a stunt in which all members of the family may engage. It will stimulate the interest of the child and freshen in his mind, or hers, the proper spelling of words which may be considered difficult, or easy. An hour or two each night, until Thursday, may pave the

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1927

BUILDERS’ DAY AT BIG HOME SHOW Those Expecting to Erect New Houses Are Given Special Invitation. 12,200 ATTEND OPENING -■— • / Wednesday Set Aside for Hoosier Visitors. Today Is “Home Builders’ day” at the Home Complete Exposition at the Manufacturers’ building, State fairground. r\A special invitation to Indianapolis families contemplating the building of a homb was extended by Everett J. Holloway, president of the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association, under whose auspices the French chateau centerpriec'e of the show was erected. 12,000 at Opening The show formally opened Saturday with “Realtors’ night.” Attendance was estimated at 12,000 by officials. Sale of a carload of 389 barrels of cement, an automobile and two domestic refrigerating machines was reported by exhibitors within an hour after the opening. ' J. Frank Cantwell, exposition director, said the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, sponsoring the show, will he host to real estate men from Louisville, Detroit and Milwaukee next Saturday, the closing day. Indiana Day Wednesday Forty Anderson (Ind.) realtors will attend Wednesday, which has been designated “Indiana day.” An interesting feature of the display of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board is a huge chart which graphically portrays the growth of Indianapolis the last hundred years. In 1827 the city population was 4.500, according to the chart. In 1889 the population was 78,750 persons: in 1910 was 248.605 persons, and in 1927 was 395,175. Model Brick Home George Anderson of the Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey, is in the charge of the auditorium orthophonic victrola which fills the huge building with vocal and instrumental music. The brick model home, built along French architectural lines, is attractting unusual attention. This is the first time a brick home has been erected lr the auditorium. The home is of the type normally sold at $30,000. CO-EdTTo LEAVE CELL Marian Meyers Completes Term for Attempted Bank Robbery. Bn United Press SIOUX FALLS, S. D., April 4 Freedom beckoned today to Miss Marian Meyers, University of South Dakota co-ed, who attempted bank robbery in order to obtdin an education. She recently was sentenced to thirty days in the State penitentiary after attempting to rob a bank At Vermillion. She pleaded guilty, saying she attempted the robbery to obtain funds to complete her education, but had “lost her nerve.” The girl’s term expired yesterday, but she preferred to remain an additional day In order to have better train connections. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m...... 40 10 a. m 54 7 a. m 41 11 a. m 56 8 a. m 46 12 (noon) .... 59 9 a. m-.... 50 1 p. m 59

POLICE HEADQUARTERS BEER BLAST INJURES THREE; ONE MAY LOSE EYE

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Just a few minutes after this picture was taken in the basement at poiiee headquarters today, a bottle of beer, part of confiscated liquor being destroyed, exploded and Patrojman John Fields, shown above at. the right, was one of the three policemen injured. Trafficman Frank Gallagher, in the gas mask, was opening the bottle which exploded. Although he had removed the gas mask, he was not. hurt.

ONE-THIRD OF STATE’S NEW FIRMS OPEN HERE 183 Businesses Established in City During WarGh— Report Shows 332 in Other Indiana Towns.

More than one-third of the new businesses opened in Indiana during March were located in Indian-' apoiis, the Indiana Clipping Bureau monthly report showed today. The report shows 183 businesses established in the city, while the rest of Indiana is credited with 332, making 1 a State total of 515. The summary lists ninety-two changes of ownership, eighty-one changes of location contemplated or completed, and fifty-one expansions. The report shows twenty new business buildings opened in Indianapolis in March. Twenty automobile agencies were established here last mopth. Grocers and meat dealers opened fifteen new stores. Thirteen real estate, loan and insurance men- established offices here. Twelve new stores, dealing in clothing, millinery or shoes, were opened. The digest lists seven new

way for that son or daughter of yours to emerge victor in the grade contests Thursday. It may pave the way, too. for victory in the Building Spelling Bee on April 27. That is an additional honor. The Times has set May 5 as the date for the Zone Spelling Bee, in which the winners of the various building contests will meet in an oral spelling competition. This will be followed with the State Spelling Bee, in which the winners in the various Indiana counties outside of Marion will come to Indianapolis to fight it out for the trip to Washington, where the National Spelling Bee, with the champions of more than twenty States, will compete in .Tune. What hoy or girl in Indianapolis wouldn't like to be the champion of all spellers? There is a cash award of SI,OOO for the national champion'. That’s something worth thinking about, too. Then, to make it interesting for the winner of the Indiana competition, the champion and the chaperon will be sent on a tour that will take them through all the historical places in and around the national capital. There will be the thrill of shaking hands with President Coolidge—a thrill that every youngster would enjoy. There will be a visit to Mount Vernon, the old home of George Washington. Trips will be arranged through the famous public buildings—through every place of interest. It will be a vacation never to be forgotten. Yes, parents are invited to coach their children In spelling. There is a reward for all,

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factories, six proposed theaters, eight new filling stations, and five new tailor shops for the city'. Four new apartment buildings are ready for occupancy and four new resturanfs were opened. The city also houses four new drug, confection and tobacco stores, four additional coal, building material and feed concerns, four electrical appliance shops, four cooperative associations. Three doctors opened offices here. Also three new oil companies. In the list oi two each appear beauty and barber shops, bakeries, jewelry stores, hardware stores, shoe repair shops, furniture stores, contractors, lawyers and architects. One bank, a hospital, a public utility, an undertaker, a newspaper, a locksmith and a leather dyer complete the list of new Indianapolis businesses.

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Bursting Bottle Showers Booze Destroyers With Glass. Three policemen were cut by flying glass, one possibly seriously, when a bottle of home brew beer exploded at police station this morning while officers were dumping 350 gallons of contraband liquor into the sewer. Patrolman John Fields, wtation property man, was taken to city hospital with a cut on his left eye which penetrated the eyeball. Patrolman James Teague was cut, below the left eye and Lieut. George Cox, custodian, was cut on the left cheek. Hospital attaches said Field's left eye ball was badly lacerated, but had not coUapsed and that signt might be saved if infection does not set in. Opener Not Hurt Trafficman Frank Gallagher, who was wielding the opener when the bottle exploded, showering the room in the basement with glass splinters and beer suds, was not scratched. The beer bottle blast rudely interrupted the obsequies of the evidence in 173 liquor cases. Kegs, cans, bottles and flasks held the stock of confiscated booze that gurgled into tube for final disposition down the yawning mouth of a sewer pipe. The “executioners” were working behind locked doors when the bombbottle burst. Reporters permitted to watch the rites had beer informed by Lieutenant Cox they “must keep their hands in their pockets and whistle.” Stop Dumping When the injured were removed, dumping operations were suspended, while Lieutenant Cox accompanied Fields to the hospital. “That's one bottle we can’t salvage,” one policeman remarked after the explosion, mindful that the police pension fund benefits from the sale of all empty bottles, cans and copper stills confiscated by the po* lice and sold after the liquor is disposed by order of municipal court. More than SIOO has been added to the fund from this source this year. PROBE FRANCISCO BLAST Grand Jury to Start Investigation Tuesday. Bu Timex Special PRINCETON, Ind., April 4.—Formal investigation of the Francisco mine explosion last December, in which thirty-seven miners were killed, was to be opened by the Gibson County grand jury Tuesday. Mine officials have been summoned, it is said. ® CHOSEN ENVOY TO U. S. Hu l nitrd Press LONDON. April 4.—Kiamil Bey, deputy for Constantinople and former undersecretary for foreign affairs, has been appointed Turkish ambassador to the United States, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Constantinople reported.

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YEGGS LOOT STATE BANK, BURN VAULT Robbers Escape With Fifty Deposit Boxes at Browns Valley. UNABLE TO OPEN SAFE Cut Telephone Cables, Isolating Business Section. ’ Bn Times Snccial BROWNS VALLEY, Ind., April 4.—Yeggs early today escaped with ‘ more than fifty deposit boxes from the Browns Vnllley State Bank here after attempting to blow the bank's vault. The bandits, however, were unable to open the fireproof vault, containing the bank’s money. The robbers attempted to burn a hole in the vault door with an acetylene torch,

Bandits Work Nights Now Bnnk bandils are robbing banks by night instead of by day because of vigilante organizations against them, Miss Forba McDaniel, secretary of the Indiana Bankers' Association, said today, in connection with the looting of the Browns Valley State Bank. Miss McDaniel said Montgomery County was organized against daylight hold-ups, but not against night attacks. She f}id the Browns Valley Bank did not have a burglar alarm, and for that reason the robbery was not discovered.

but were unable to penetrate far enough. The time lock was damaged and bank officials were unable to open the vault. Experts had to be summoned. I .ess Not Known Value of the contents of the safety boxes will not be known until a check Is made with the Many farmers are believed to have had Liberty bonds and other valuable paper stored In them. The robbery was discovered when Cashier Edgar Pitts opened the bank this morning. The yeggs had cut the telephone cables, isolating part of the business dietrict. Sheriff Called Sheriff Thomas W. Rice of Crawfordsville was summoned. . There was only one clew. Forest Michels, a local youth, told Klee he saw a Hudson coach parked near j the bank about 2 a. m. He did not I get the license number and did not* see any of the occupants. I Entrance to the bank was gainedfl by cutting a hole through the front! door. Pitts said the loss was completely " covered by insurance. John Foster is president of the bank. CARROLL TO~CELL~SOON Theatrical Producer Ordered to Surrender April 12 for Sentence. Bn United Press NEW YORK, April 4.— Manacled to another Federal prisoner, Earl Carroll will leave April 12 tot Atlanta with some twenty-five or thirty other men to begin his sentence of a year and a day for perjury. Federal Judge A. N. Hand today refused to grant the theatrical/ producer a further extension of time and ordered him to surrender on that date. Carroll was convicted in connection with the famous “bath tub” party in which Joyce Hawley, show girl, was alleged to have bathed in a tub of champagne on the stage of Carroll’s -theater. ANOTHER GOLD RUSH Bn United Press TONOPAH, Nev. April 4.—A new gold rush was on today toward Belle Helen, sixty miles east of here. The stampede started yesterday with the appearance here of Gus Peterson, rancher and miner, bring ing with him about 500 pounds of gold rock. One sample assayed $1,176 a ton.

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