Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 310, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1927 — Page 2

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MEMORIES OF WILSON DECADE AFTER WAR

CHANGE OR ELECT GOOD MAYOR IS ADVICE OF RAUB Scores Council for Effort to Override Authority of Officials, Boards. “If the citizens are dissatisfied with our form of government let them change it or elect a good mayor next time,” Councilman Edward B. Raub declared Monday night in opposing the action of the city council which showed a tendency to relieve regular city boards of their duties and supervise the entire city. ‘‘l thought the council’s job was to legislate and not run the boards,” Raub asserted. Disregarding this advice and the advice of attorneys that the proceedure was illegal, the council adopted a resolution to receive bids for the repair and construction of a, new College Ave. bridge across Fall Creek. About two weeks ago the mayor placed the bridge matter in the hands of the park board after the council failed to appropriate funds for its repair. The park board adopted specifications for the project and promised to repair the bridge immediately. President Claude E. Negley and Raub were the only councilmen to oppose the resolution. The $1,700,000 bond issue for the city hospital program was held up for investigation. Delay Bond Issue No action will be taken on the bond issue until bids for the work are received by the council, according to a resolution. The old main building of the hospital was condemned as a fire trap and ordered vacated within ninety days by Harry N. Styner, chief deputy fire marshal. This probably will cause the hospital to stop receiving patients until new buildings are added, Dr. F. E. Jackson, health board president, declared. Coußcilrpan O. Ray Albertson proposed the council select an architect to give estimates on the hospital’s needs and suggested Robert Frost Daggett. His move lost as result of a tic vote. Need Head Butcher Councilman Austin H. Todd, supporting the orinance, declared with heat, “If the council is going to run the city, what is the use of having a mayor and boards?” The ordinance for a $150,00 bond issue for the repair of the city market was stricken from the files. Councilman Edward B. Raub declared he did not believe in striking ordinances from the files just because it was recommended by the administration. He ironically declared that since the council was non' trying to run the city, ‘‘it should appoint a head butcher at the city market.” An ordinance introduced by O. Ray Albertson provided for anew bridge at Thirty-Eighth St. and Fall Creek. This proposed bridge would be as wide as Thirty-Eighth St. west of the creek, Albertson said.

HOLD-UP SUSPECT LANDS IN JAIL Identified as the Negro who asked him for a eigaret and robbed him of $55 which he pulled from his pocket at Shelby and Minnesota Sts., Roy Ange, 28, of 1014 Maple St., is in city prison charged with grand larceny on nn affidavit signed by Abraham Cravens, 43, of 1519 E. Minnesota St., the victim. Cravens was charged with public intoxication. Malcom Quillin, 1323 Ewing St., told police he and his wife sat up all Monday night after two Negroes were seen prowling about the ! r house. They had no phone and could not summon help. Returning home after several months’ absence, Mrs. L. I. Hull, 505 S. Senate Ave.. discovered a side widow glass broken and clothing and bed clothing valued at S2OO gone, police were informed.

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to : Aronld Schimdke, 518 N. Illlinois St., Ford, 38-132, from 1300 W. Morris St. . L. L. Cook, 4148 Graceland Ave., Ford, 7-747, from Capitol Ave. and St. Clair St. O. F. Ryan, 127 K. Nineteenth St., Chevrolet, 567-002, from that address. Paul Heffert, 1307 N. Oxford St., Ford. 563-505, form Pennsylvania St. and Union Station elevation. Willie Moore, 450 N. Senate Ave., Word, 646-461, from 832 W. TwentyF.'fth St. Burrel Rosenbaum, 606 S. Meridian St... Chevrolet, 11-621, from Ohio St. and Capitol Ave. Rollie Schad. R. R. B, box 90 N, Ford, from Capitol Ave. and Pearl y st. Alfred Greenway. 1825 Lambert St., Ford, 574-126, from Georgia St. and Senate Ave. George Vernon, 518 E. Morris St., Jdaxwell, from that address. * BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Warren Goul. 1341 Kentucky Ave., Ford, found at Georgia and Illinois Sts. Frank Federman. 25 E. Fifty-Sec-ond St., Chevrolet, Senate Ave. and Ohio St. Jake Martin, 2214 Bellefontalne St., Chevrolet, Capitol Ave. and Market St.

Dr. Grayson, Physician to President, Recalls Spring of 1917. * FIT FOR GREAT BURDEN Mental and Physical Condition Good. i Copyright. 1987. by United Press) WASHINGTON. April s.—Looking back to those busy, dramatic hours just before the declaration of war ten years ago. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, personal physician and close friend of President Woodrow Wilson, recalled today a calm, sure man who had analyzed carefully just what war would mean and had decided to throw the young men of America into the salient. They were trying hours, those, when he was making his decision, sitting alone in his study on the second floor of the - White House, from whose windows he could gaze across the gentle undulations of the back lawn, glimpsing the white shaft of Washington Monument, a wraith of the night, and beyond, the low hills of Virginia across the Potomac. Pondered Alone Dr. Grayson—he bore no other title then—described how Wilson would shut himself up in that room on those spring nights in 1917, often until midnight and after, pondering the momentous problem before him. For he went to that room with a confusion of counsel, and frequently was called out to hear other advice. t "The President was getting all kinds of advice,” Grayson said. "There was a continual stream of advisers. There were some who begged him not to plunge the United States into the European war. Many members of Congress came to see him at night. Wanted Information "He used to say to me that what he wanted more than advice tvas information.” Grayson smiled, grimly. "The President was methodical. He gathered all the information he could. Then he took it all, studied it. and made up his mind. "He was weighing the situation most carefully and seriously, because he realized the responsibility of sending men to war, many of them to their deaths—for that is what It meant, He did not jump into decisions. He weighed all the evidence most carefully. “He was undergoing greater mental anguish then than after war was declared.”

Fit for Struggle During those days, despite the confusion and turmoil, the President was calm mentally and In splendid condition physically, his physician said. While he did not sleep as long as usual, he slept well. “He would get up early every morning, and go out and play golf for an hour.” Grayson explained. “He was in good shape physically When he first became President 71 had started him io playing golf. Gradually, he had givten into good physical condition.” In those trying hours when he was harried by advisers, confronted with opposing counsel, what stands out most prominently in the doctor’s mind? "He had better possession of lflmself than any man I ever knew,” he answered, quickly. Discredits Tale There came the tithe when Wilson sat down to write his message to Congress, delivered at that exciting night session on April 2. followed four days later by the declaration of war that sent 4,000,000 young men to the training camps. Grayson does not credit the story that the President sat down in a lounging robe on a back portico and wrote the message in long hand by the light of the moon. "The President,” he said, "did not do things that way. When he worked, he went into his study fully dressed. He scratched down notes in shorthand on a. piece of paper often, hut he wrote his messages on a typewriter. “He would go into his study and sit before his little typewriter there. And he w'ould sit working until he had finished what he was doing. Before he sat down to write, he had all his facts In hand and knew just what he wanted to say. Usually, it stood just about as he had written it, with very few changes.” Memory is so short a thing, as Dr. Grayson will testify. Time Blurs The quick parade of events in those days—everyone of them portentious and significant—has become a blur to him. as of many khakiclad soldiers passing hour after hour in the rain. The figure of the President stands out, alone there in biff study, gazing toward his native Virginia and beyond that to the country, whose sons he had decided to send into battle. \ The w’orld still puzzles over that step, looking backward and forward from this ten-year milestone. Grayson thinks Wilson was magnificently right. TO HEAR YALE’S PLANS Fros. Norman S. Buck, political science department Yale University, will address Yale alumni of Indiana here April 20. A dinner will be held at the Marott, when alumni will join in a world-wdde radio hook-up to hear Yale’s $20,000,000 endow'ment fund campaign explained. Work of raising money among the graduates in this State will be taken up later in the month. LITTLE GIRL STRUCK Running across the street toward her home from behind her father's auto from which she had just alighted, Betty Lint, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lint, 1405 St., was struck by an auto driven by Brandon Thompson, 3609 E. Vermont St., late Monday. Police the driver. The child was not seriously injured.

Ten years ago, early tomorrow, the Nation was gripped intensely in expectation of war, and the atmosphere was nowhere as tense as in the Nation’s capital. On April 2, 1917, President "Wilson had appeared before a night session of Congress—called that day into extra session—and had asked for a declaration of war against Germany. After three days of debate, the Senate voted the declaration of war, and after a momentous night session, the House had concurred in the early morning of April 6.

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MOIST HALTED BYJ-JACKERS Band Makes Booze Search —3 Suspects Arrested. Tactics of hi-jackers seeking liquor were employed by six men w'ho halted James Balia of Detroit, Mich., and searched his auto at Brush and Washington Sts., Monday night. Early today police arrested three suspects. Balia told a police emergency squad that he was driving to Terre Haute, Ind., when a large car containing six men swerved in front of him and forced him to stop. Three alighted and asked him if he had liquor in his auto. When he answered no, they ransacked the car and sped away. DYNAMITE RIVER LEVEES Take Steps at Vincennes io Drain Flooded Farm Lands. Bu Titnes Special VINCENNES, Tnd., April s.—With thousands of acres flooded, cross levees between the Embarrass and Wabash Rivers are being dynamited to permit the water to drain more rapidly.

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GREAT WAR STILL RAGES FOR DISABLED VETERANS Thousands Shattered in Mind and Body by Disease and Injuries Under Government Care.

Bu Cniteel Press WASHINGTON, April 5. The war is not yet over for some 27,000 former soldiers, sailors and marines They still are confined today in United States Veterans Bureau hospitals, being treated for various diseases and injuries suffered in the great conflict. Oen. Frank T. Hines, director of the bureau, announced that in addition to 27.436 war patients in Government hospitals, thousands of others are being given outside medical aid by Uncle Sam. Insanity, the war’s most terrible aftermath, has left 1‘.‘.948 patients

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A few hours later, ou April 6, President Wilson signed the declaration and the United States had entered the war against Germany, a step hailed by her new European allies as signifying the end of that struggle. oodrow Wilson was the outstanding figure of those days. How he appeared at that time to two of those closest to him, his secretary and close friend. Joseph P. Tumulty, and his physician, Dr, Gary T. Grayson, is herewith given in two interviews with those men.

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in veteVan hospitals. Some of these former service men will be cured, but the majority are permanent neuro-psychiatric patients. In addition to those still in Federal institutions 576,290 veterans applied for free outside medical treatment during the first two months of 1927, and another 565,568 took physical examinations from physicians on the Government pay roll. Veteran Bureau hospitals since September, 1919, have treated 594.894 veterans. General Hines explained the high number was probably due to many discharged patieents returning for additional treatments.

sent any commision to Russia recently Senator LaFolette and others went on their own account to study conditions, hut Senator Borah was not one of them. Who wrote these lines:? "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door. Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span; O give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.” The verse is in "The Beggar,” by Thomas Moss. What is the proportion of policemen to the population in the larger cities of the world? New York City has a policeman for every 556 persons; London, one for every 365 persons; Rome, one for every 129 persons; Berlin, one for every 225 persons and Paris, one for every 276 persons. \\ hat line of work did each President of the United States follow after

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FIGHTING TO SAVE POLICEMAN’S EYE •One Chance in Million,’ Hospital Reports. Doctors at the city hospital today used all science and skill available to save the sight of Patrolman John Field’s left eye, cut by a fragment of glass when a botile of homebrewed beer exploded at police headquarters Monday. “We are trying the one chance in a million to save the eyeball,” Dr. W. A. Doeppers, hospital superintendent, said. Lieut. George Cox, Patrolman James Teague and Traffic Policeman Frank Gallagher were destroying confiscated liquor Monday when the beer exploded. BUSINESS MEN GUESTS Kiwanians at luncheon Wednesday noon at the Clay pool, will hear about Washington as the national capital is known to Merle Thorpe editor of The Nation's Business, the official magazine of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, published in Washington. Boards and staffs of the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade will be guests.

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Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary, Rembers Tears on Eve of Conflict. i SADDENED BY PLAUDITS Commented on Cheers Shortly Before Last Step. (Copyright. 1927. by United Press) WASHINGTON, April 5. Ten years years after the United States entered the world war, one poignant memory of his chief, Woodrow Wilson, stood out today above many others of those vivid days in the mind f Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary, adviser and confidant of the war President. It was the time when the President of the United States bowed his head upon the long table in the cabinet room at the White House—and sobbed as if he had been a child, the pent-up emotion of weary, anxious hours bursting forth at a word of sympathy from a friend. Tears After Cheers Tumulty described the scene today. It was April 2, 1917. The President had delivered his message to Congress asking for war, which was voted four days later. With the plaudits of thousands along Pennsylvania Ave. ringing in his ears, he had returned to the White House. He and Tumulty sat talking of the event in the Cabinet room, which adjoins the President's office. Wilson told his secretary many things, opened his heart, told him why he had decided to lead the United States in to the war, why he had waited until this time. Referred to Burdens “He told me it had not ir-on easy to carry the burdens in these trying times,” Tumulty said today. Then the President showed his secretary a letter from a newspaper editor in Massachusetts. It was in reply to a note from Wilson. The writer expressed appreciation for the note, seeing in it "a very human touch.” “The President said to me, ‘that man understood me and sympathized,’ ” Tumulty continued. "Tears came into his eyes. He took his handkerchief from his pocket and wiped them away. Then he laid his head on the table there and soblied—sobbed as if he had been a child.” Picturing the scene, Tumulty said that when he and the President first entered the cabinet room on that fateful April 2, Wilson sat silently for several minutes, his face pale. Death Message "Then he turned to me. He spoke of the applause along the avenue from the Capitol and said: ‘Think what it was they were applauding. My message today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that.’ "There is the key for an understanding of Woodrow Wilson to my mind. He hated and dreaded war. He dreaded it because he had imagination —and a heart. "Never wil! I forget that scene there in the Cabinet room, just tho two of us there. The President looked like a man who had thrown off old burdens only to take on new ones. Hurt by Criticism "He showed in the conversation that day that the criticism hurled at him for months for not going to war with Germany sooner had hurt him deeply. I saw that he felt very keenly the significance and tragedy of the step lie had just taken in that message to Congress. "He opened his heart to me, traced his course. He said that he had seen the end of it all from the beginning, but that he could not move faster than the people would permit. He explained that he had tried to make every part of the country, all the people, understand that the United States was willing to go to any length rather than go to war with Germany. "It would have been foolish, he said, to go to war over one isolated incident like the sinking of the Lusitanit. But now, he went on, there was only one course left open, and we must prepare for the inevitable —a. fight to the end: "His life, he said, would be full of tragedy and heartache until it was all over. “As he spoke I saw him no longer as Woodrow Wilson, the protagonist of peace, but as Woodrow Wilson, the stern warrior, determined to pursue the great cause of America to the end.” Tumulty paused. "Then he said that while he appeared to be indifferent to the criticism heaped upon him, that a few had understood and had sympathized. It was then he showed me the letter —and afterward broke down and sobbed.” This is what Tumulty recalled today, out of those dramatic hours when the United States was thrust into the World War—a leader with a heart, a lonely man, sobbing at the touch *of sympathy and understanding. CLEANING SHOP LOOTED Burglars, who broke into the Central Ave. Cleaners, 3361 Central Ave., through a rear door Monday night, stole clothing valued at S4OO off the racks, police were told today.

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MELTON’S COAL COMPANY STATU? REMAINS SECRET Treasury Secretary Once Connected With Present 'Union Buster.’ Bu Times Special PITTSBURGH, Pa., April Efforts made today to determine Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's share in the management of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, bituminous coal strike center, were only partially successful. Whether the Mellons—Treasury Secretary Andrew and his brother, R. B. Mellon, national bank head—still dominate the policies of the militant union busting company or whether control has passed to a group headed by William G. Warden, present chairman of the coal company directors, Warden declined to state. Coal Director Prior to becoming treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon was a Pittsburgh Coal Company director, ami his brother, R. B. Mellon, chairman of the directors’ board until Jan. 1, 1:25, and still serves on the board, company officials said. Board Chairman Warden today fused to state whether Andrew lon is still a Pittsburgh Coal pany stockholder, or the amount of the stock owned by the combined Mellon interests, simply stating that the stock is widely held. He said that R. B. Mellon is still a director. The Pittsburgh company In the summer of 1925 abandoned the Jacksonville wage agreement with the miners’ union and started a vigorous anti-union campaign. Mellons Accused This was after Andrew Mellon had retired as a director and his brother had resigned as chairman of the board in favor of Warden, but unioAl workers have frequently charged that the company policy in this regard was dominated by the Mellons. The information advanced by Warden today was inconclusive on this point. Since its abandonment of (he Jacksonville wage agreement and its adoption of an “open shop” policy, the Pittsburgh Coal Company has been the object of bitter attacks by union leaders. And it has been announced that much of the union effort in the present strike will he against the company, where an attempt will he made to effect a shutdown by organizing picket lines and other strike devices. * Whether this strike is directed in substantial degre4 against the present Secretary of the Treasury is nee known.

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T s you're a lover of outdoor sports —and you probably are—“ Now You Ask One 1 ' for today ought not to give you much trouble. If you get stuck anywhere, you'll find the answer on page 14: 1. What famous big league second "baseman is this? 2. What first baseman lost a pennant for the Giants years ago by his failure to touch second base in a game with the Cubs? 3. What Chicago player won fame by detecting tills oversight? 4. What lightweight boxer recently fought a thrilling battle with Sid Terris in Madison Square Garden? 5. Who recently came within a fifth of a sceond of equaling Paavo Nurmi’s record for the mile run? 6. What is the real name of the fighter. Jack Delaney. 7. What pitcher, on what club, led the American League hurlers in the number of victories last year? 8. What club did Dan llowlcy, new manager of the St. Louis Browns, manage last year? 9. Who coached the Harvard football team last year? 10. In what year did the Brooklyn Dodgers last win a National League pennant? . . SCHOOL 44 WINS The William Watson Woollen School 44. Twenty-Third St. aJHk Park Ave, won the aquarium goldfish offered as a prize for enrolling the largest percentage of pupils in the Indianapolis children's museum, Florence 11. Fitch, a' museum director announced. The school reported a membership to; a), irig 35 4-5 per cent of its enrollment .