Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1927 — Page 1

Home Edition ►Some Times reader will get her Easter Hat free. See the Woman’s Page.

VOLUME 37—NUMBER 312

‘DEVIL DOGS’ LEAVE PORT FOR CHINA 'Fightihg Sixth’ Sails From San Diego, Cal., for WarTorn Shanghai. CHEERS BY THOUSANDS Latest Unit Ordered East Has 1,500 Men. BULLETIN Bn I nited Press PEKIN, April 7—Foreign Minister Wellington Koo today charged in a note to Moscow At hat soviet Russia was irnplicated in a Chinese communist plot to create disturbances in Pekin and to overthrow the existing government. Koo based his charges upon examination of documents seized during yesterday's police raid on the Russian embassy compound, during which apartments were destroyed, Chinese and Russians arrested and documents seized. Bn United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 7.—With the regimental band playing'"Stars and Stripes Forever,” and 1,500 Marines hanging over every rail and peering through every porthole, the IT. S. S. Henderson sailed for Shanghai today. Several thousand persons crowded the docks to witness the departure of the transport which is being the "Fighting Sixth” regiment of Marines. Hundreds arriving late ran several blocks to the dock when they saw the transport pulling out earlier than was generally expected. Streets along the water front were crowded with automobiles. DISORDER IN HANKOW Preparations Under Way for Evacuation by Foreigners. tin United Press SHANGHAI, April 7.—Lawlessness prevailed unchecked in Hankow today and American and other governments were ‘making Jesty efforts to evacuate their nationals before more anti-foreign riots broke out. Foreign authorities apparently feared an outbreak siimlar to that of last week, in which natives clashed with Japanese. Admiral Hough, commander of the (Turn to Page 15)

TIPTON MAN IS SLAIN IN 0010 Coroner Believes Man Committed Suicide. By (Jutted Pres* /TOLEDO, Ohio, April 7. —The body •fa man, believed to be Henry Clausa, 57, cutlery manufacturer of Fremont, Ohio, and Tipton, Tnd., was found in the rear of a building here today with a bullet through the heart. A second bullet lodged in a post in a porch a few feet away, indicating the man may been shot as he stood at the foot of a flight of steps. Coroner Charles J. Henzler said he believed the man committed suicide, as the revolver Was found near his body. Clauss was registered at a downtown hotel. He sold an autohere Wednesday. CAME THERE IN 1913 Clauss Formed Company—Formerly Lived in Ohio. By Timet Svccia i TIPTON, Ind., April 7. —Henry Clauss. 57, whose body was found today in Toledo, Ohio, with a bullet through the heart, came here fourteen years ago, establishing the Tipton Cutlery Company. Several years ago Clauss lost control of the company and it was taken over by local business men. Since that time Clauss has been operating a cutlery jobbing business here. He divided his time between here and Fremont, Ohio, where his brother was a wealthy cutlery manufacturer. His family lived in Fremont. Prisoner Arrested Hu Timet Special RICHMOND, Ind., April 7. Charles Norris, Fremont, Ohio, paroled prisoner of the Federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth, was arrested here when he attempted to cash a fraudulent check for $lO in a bank. Other signed checks on Indianapolis banks were found in his elothing and in two suitcases, police •aid.

Greensburg Bored by Billboards By Times Speeial GREENSBURG, Ind., April ■7. —Although the sea shore is "far, far away, Greensburg police have been appointed bathing suit inspectors here. City council has ordered jhat pictures of bathing beaities and chorus girls dressed" in tights shall not appear on bill boards and that such pictures must be removed.

The Indianapolis Times

Entered as Second-Class Matter at I’ostoftice, Indianapolis

First Spelling Tests Held Twenty Thousand Indianapolis School Children Write in Contest to Determine Room Champions.

Tears and heart throbs. Yet youth smiled through the tears of disappointment. And congratulated those classmates who smiled the smile of victory. Twenty thousand Indianapolis school children fought words today in the preliminary round of the Indianapolis Spelling Bee, sponsored in Indiana by The Times. They battled for grade championships In 81 grammar schools. The words, chosen for each school by the teachers and principal of that particular building, spelled disappointment for perhaps 19,000 of the 20,000 contestants. An oral competition on Monday in those class rooms where ties resulted in the written contests will bring the number of grade winners In the city down to 648. Those who were confident today that they had won in the preliminary bee based that belief on the check of doubtful words when they referred to the McCall Speller, from which the fifty test words had been picked. Those who stumbled over certain read their fate from the same spelling book. But there may be more smiles and more tears when the contest papers have been graded by the teachers. The confidence of some of those youngsters may change color; some who believe they won may have lost and some who believe they have met defeat may find their names in the winning columns. Oral contests will be held Monday in those grade rooms where more than two were victor. When the spell-off is completed, the list of winners will be reported to Miss Flora E. Drake, assistant superintendent of city schools, who is cooperating with The Times in the management of the Spelling Bee in Indianapolis. Names will not be available for publication until next week. With the selection of the eight

WAR VETERAN DIES IN TRYING TO SAVE DOG Western Electric Company Official, Father of Two, Crushed Under Wheels of Train.

By United Press MAPLEWOOD, N. J„ April 7. Stuart I. Weill, general sales engineer of the Western Electric Company, gave his life today to save a frightened dog from under the wheels of a freight train. Weill was at the station with other commuters of the Maplewood colony

Mother and Baby Burned to Death By X : niled Press ELKHART, Ind., April 7.—Mrs. Anna Holler, 32, and her 2-year-old son were burned to death when Mrs. Holler poured kerosene into a kitchen stove to kindle a fire. A second son, Donald, 8, was injured by a fragment from the bursting oil can. A third son, Stephen, 10, ran for aid. Three other children and the father, Clarence Holler, railroad man, survive. RIGHT BLOOD WANTED One Hundred Applicants Fail to Aid Transfusion Patient. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., April 7—Although physicians believe a blood transfusion is necessary to save the life of T. A. Kcndley, examination of 100 voluntary donors today had failed to reveal one whose blood had satisfactory characteristics. Transfusion of "unmatched” blood, physicians said, would be fatal to the patient. Kendley is suffering from poisoning resulting from a kidney disorder. Two Bandits Sentenced Bn Times Special LA PORTE. Ind., April 7.—Frank Felton and Harold Barnhart, both 20, who held up a filling station at Michigan City and got $65, were taken to prison today to start ten to twenty-year sentences. Tablet Kills Baby By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., April 7 Theron, 2, son of T. J. Kitchen, found a poison tablet in his mother's pocketbook and. swallowed It, dying several hours alter. _ Fail to Find Intruder Police, who were called to the. home of Mrs. Emma Bainbrldge, 3425 E. Tenth St., at 2:30 a m. today could find no trace of the intruder, who Mrs. Bainbridge said was attempting to enter a basement door.

grade winners in each of eightyone city schools, teachers have been asked to devote considerable time to coaching their pupils for the Building Spelling Bee, which is to be held in each school on April 27. The fifty words for this written contest will be selected from the McCall Speller by the principal of the building, and will be given to the pronouncer when the contest begins. In event of ties in the building contest, oral bees will be conducted by the principal until a winner is chosen. This will reduce the number of champions to eighty-one. Words for the Zone Spelling Bee, to be held in each of the city’s eight zones, will be selected from the McCall Speller by the Spelling Bee Committee. This contest will be oral and will determine the eight city champions, who later in May will represent the city in the State Spelling Bee. Information reaching The Times from the counties cooperating in the Spelling Bee in Indiana voices an abundance of enthusiasm among contestants. Preliminary and township contests are being held and especially is the work being rushed in the rural schools, which soon will close for vacation. Building champions will be chosen in those cities and the county champion will be selected from the building champions and the township winners. These winners will come to Indianapolis in May for the State Spelling Bee, at which a State champion will be selected in an oral contest. The winner of the State contest will represent Indiana in the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D. C„ in June and will be accompanied by a chaperon, all expenses being paid by The Times. The Indiana champion will compete for the national spelling title and a first prize of SI,OOO in cash. v

waiting for a New York express. As it speeded into the station those on the platform cried out in alarm as they saw a little airedale directly in its path, unaware of the danger. - Weill, executive of a big corporation, war hero and man of action, wasted no time. He sprang to the tracks. The dog became aware of the excitement and sensed his peril, but was too frightened to move. The train was on top of the dog. Weill could have sprung aside, but he bent down to scoop up the frightened animal in his arms and then, several observers said, stumbled. Weill was killed instantly. The ‘dog he had tried to save was still alive, but was so badly hurt that police had to shoot it. Weill would have been 37 next week, on Good Friday. lie lived here with his wife and two children, commuting to the offices of the Western Electric Company in New York. His wife was overcome by the tragedy and his friends here were deeply affected. Those who knew him best said they were certain he must have slipped just as the train bore down, as he was wiry, active and unlikely to mistime his action even in an emerj^ncy. Weill came fnflh San Francisco, where his mother lives. WIFE OF WARDEN~DIES Mrs. Daly to Btf Buried Saturday— Beautiful Prison Grounds. P.y I nitid Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., April 7. —Mrs. Elizabeth Louise Daly, wife of Warden Walter 11. Daly of the Indiana State prison, died here early today. She had been in failing health since Clarence, 7, an only son was fatally injured in a ttreet car accident three years ago. Mrs. Daly was chiefly responsible for the beautification of the prison grounds, being interested in flowers and landscape gardening. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon. Wrong Garage Named No receiver has been named for the Del-Mar garage, as was erroneously reported. The garage for which George N. Montgomery was named receiver by Superior Judge James M. Leathers was the AlabamaMarket Garage Company, 325 E. Market St.

Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 35 10 a. ni 44 7 a. ra 36 11 a. m 45 8 a. m 39 12 (noon) ..... 46 9 a. m 42

INDIANAPOLIS, THUKSDAY, APRIL 7,1927

JUDGE BALKS A1 FEDERAL DRY CASES Collins Flays Grand Jury for 24 Indictments on U. S. Liquor ‘Buys.’ SI,OOO BONDS FIXED Says Police Courts Should Prosecute Defendants. Taking a slap at Federal dry agents, Criminal Judge James A. Collins today reprimanded the Marion County grand jpry for returning twenty-four indictments against per- ■ sons from whom Federal prohibition officers said they had made liquor "buys.” "I think this is a damn outrage.” Collins declared looking over the indictments and fixing bond at SI,OOO each. "It might be all right in an emergency situation to return indictments with Federal ‘buys’ as evidence. But the Federal men are no better in this court than others and the point is I don’t think our grand jury should be used in these matters when they can be properly tried in police court,” said Collins. Calls In Jury Collins expressed indignation to Deputy Prosecutor William Sheaffer and Jury Foreman Charles L. Clark, later calling in the entire jury. "This court has enough to keep it busy every day without more indictments. They're all police court cases,” Collins told the jury, looking at the true bills. “The grand jury should be ex tremely careful in returning indictments on misdemeanor charges of this kind. This court should be relieved of such matters except in important situations and I’d like for the jury to bear this in mind,” he concluded. The indictments were then filed and capiases issued for defendants unapprehended. Arraignment will be the first Monday in May. Sale, possession of liquor and -maintain* ance of a nuisance was charged in all indictments. ‘To (Stop Small Flow* Federal Deputy Dry Administrator George L. Winkler, who staged raids netting sixteen arrests Wednesday, declared the clean-up was “not half over.” Six of those Indicted were arrested by Federal agents who were assisted by city and county authorities. Some of the cases were tried in municipal courts. New Agent Here "This is an important situation and it represents a great deal of work on the part of the prosecutor’s office and federcl agents.” declared John L. Niblack, who prepared affidavits and aided in gathering evidence. Several “imported” agents were in the cit - for the drive, it was said.

COUNCIL MEETING CALLED TONIGHT Four Horsemen Indicate They May Be Absent. City council will hold a special meeting tonight if enough members <ian be gathered in to make a quorum. President Claude E. Negley issued the call Wedndfcday evening, but it was indicated today that the minority "four horsemen” councilmen might fail to respond because the call did not include a pet measure prohibiting theater construction within 500 feet of churches. If the quartet stays away the meeting will fail, since it is called for the purpose'of passing upon an ordinance providing S4OO with which City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr. would employ additional help to check the city manager election petion, and a resolution providing city approval for county paving in E. Forty-Sixth St. ARMS BUDGETS 0. K. American View Presented to League x of Nations Body. By Uni led Press GENEVA, April 7. —Limitation of armaments budgets would not be acceptable to the United States, Hugh S. Gibson, United States minister to Switzerland, told the League of Nations preparatory disarmament commissiontoday. AVhile the United States could not accept such limitation, Gibson said Washington was disposed to give it full publicity. He urged the power of publicity, suggesting a clause be inserted in the forthcoming diarmament convention which would require all nations to make public expenditures for creation and maintenance of armaments. Theatrical Singer Dies Bn United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 7. Harry Strawbridge, 38, widely known theatrical singer, died at his home here early today. He spent eleven years on the stage and was remembered from coast to coast for his roles in “The Pink Lady,” "BenHur” and many other productions.

GIRL, 5, SERIOUSLY BURNED BY WASTE BONFIRE ON VACANT LOT

i'- nuiiu.ger workers i u 1 ,1 .i ajg ■ •iToi'ts l-- <I -v to sen: re 19.1N5 peti- X iH ' tloll s.lnfer,- the vio.se Os UiV * v;l": (..I; -o i Saturday nitht. -* to -,i> election in June, committee members

SPEED DP CITY MANAGER DRIVE Workers to Aid in Getting Names Asked. City manager workers redoubled efforts today to secure 19,185 petition signers before the close of the campaign Saturday night. The petitions must be filed with City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr., by Monday in order to authorize an election in June, committee members said. Although names are being secured easily and no accurate count has been made, it is believed that the total is a few thousand short of the goal. The campaign has been under way less than two weeks and lack of time has hampered the committee. Blanks will be distributed Friday in neighborhood stores, in order to assist in gathering as many names as possible by Saturday night. A request has been sent out by the campaign committee for volunteer workers to report at headquarters, 520 Illinois Bldg. Notaries will be especially needed at headquarters Saturday to certify petitions, committee members stated. Petitions may be signed at headquarters at 48 N. Pennsylvania St., and 105 N. Illinois St. Scores of volunteer workers are distributing the petitions in factories, offices and neighborhoods.

Stimson to Conduct Probe in Nicaragua By United Prist WASHINGTON. April 7.—Henry Stimson, New York, former secretary of war. has been appointed a special representative of President Coolidgc to investigate the Nicaraguan situation, Secretary of State Kellogg announced today after a conference at the White House. "The strife and bloodshed going on in that country is a matter of great regret and the necessity for protecting the interests of our citizens there and the large interests of the United States Government is very great,” the Kellogg statement announcing Stimson's appointment said. Stimson is expected to sail Saturday from New York for Nicaragua via Panama, It is believed Stimson's mission has some connection with working out a possible formula for future Nicaraguan-United States relations, in which the special rights of the United States Government in that country, including the inter-oceanic canal hts, would be recognized. ‘BIG BILL’ ON JOB SOON New Chicago Mayor May Be Inaugurated April 18. By United Press CHICAGO, April 7. —A Democratic stronghold for four years, the city hall today was being prepared for the incoming of William Hale Thompson. Republican, elected mayor for a third term Tuesday. Thompson probably will be inaugurated April 18 as Mayor. William E. Dever, Democrat, defeated in Tuesday’s election, has indicated he desires to turn over the reins of city government immediately. Chaplin Trial Deferred By l tiited Press NEW YORK, April 7.—Trial of the Plagiarism suit against Charles Chaplin, brought in 1923 by Leo Loeb, scenario writer, was postponed today until Monday to permit another case to be tried ahead of it. Screen Actress Weds Bn United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal.. April 7. Irene Rich, screen actress, and D. F. Blaekenhorn, wealthy Pasadena real estate operator, were married at Pebble Beach late Wednesday, according to word sent to friends here.

Outside of Marion County 11! Cents Per Week. Single Copies

Gertrude Staah (right) and her sister, Mary Patricia

By Kldora Field Tn a vacant lot on Washington Blvd., near Ruskin PL, a woman emptied a basket with some paper and trash. Then she lighted the pile, and seeing it was bum'ng brightly, walked away. The flames spread to a large pile of trash, then leaped high. "Pitty light,” remarked Mary Patricia Staab, 3. who was taking a walk with her sister, Gertrude, 5. They are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John Staab, 408 Ruskin Pi. "Let’s go see.” suggested the latter, so with fat little hands, tightly clasped, they ran across the street. "Awful pitty fire.” Mary Patricia w’ill tell you that today, but she is confused about how Gertrude got caught in tfie flames. But she knows that sister screamed and ran toward home, her skirts afire. The children's grandfather, William McHugh, 75, whq adores the girls, happened to step on the porch at the children's home.

FACE LIFTING PRATICED TO KEEP CONVICTS GOOD ‘Handsome Is as Handsome Does’ Has Something to Do With Innovation at San Quentin Prison.

Bn United Press SAN QUENTIN. Cal.. April 7. Beauty operations have been instituted in San Quentin penitentiary as a means of rehabilitating criminals. The practice was started when They Forgot All About Prisoner By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., April 7.—When Circuit Court here recessed Wednesday noop court attaches, deputy sheriffs, spectators left, leaving Melvin McKee, 64, on trial for the murder of • Willard Mingous of East Columbus. alone in the courtroom. Getting hungry, McKee finally began to search for a deputy to take him back to jail. Finding none he went alone. BAD NEWS FOR CARROLL Theatrical Producer Must Serve ai Least Part of Term. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. April 7.—Earl Carroll, New York theatrical producer and host of the now famous "bathtub party,” cannot escape serving his one year term for perjury at Atlanta penitentiary by any pardon or commutation in advance. This word has been given friends who inquired at the Justice Department apparently with a view to moving for executive clemency in advance of his serving. The department has informed them that at least one-third of a sentence must be served before any clemency is granted. Flyers at Grei ado Bn United Press SAN JUAN, PORTO RICO, April 7. —The United States Army’s PanAmerican Jlight squadron arrived at Grenada, British West Indies, today from Port of Spain, Trinidad.

THREE

He heard frantic screams, then saw the running figure. He fairly leaped off the porch, catching Gertrude, he tore her burning clothes from her quivering body, with his bare hands. Although burned himself. he counts it nothing, because the beloved grandchild possibly was saved from death. Gertrude is at St. Vincent’s Hospital, heavy burns from her neck to her waist line and both arms badly burned. “It’s a wonder Mary Patricia didn’t get in the flame too.” said indignant neighbors, who feel that the bonfire should not have been left unprotected in an open lot. “Isn't there a law which makes it an offense to fight a fire in the city limits, and leave it?” - asked Miss Gertrude McHugh, the children's aunt. "We feel that for the sake of all little children, people should be careful of how they burn trash in an open place. It is said Gertrude will five, although her burns are serious.

James Ryan, about to be liberated from his second term for robbery, complained that his lace made it impossible for him to go straight. Dr. L. L. Stanley, prison physician, performed a face lifting operation. The change in Ryan's appearance was startling. Cartilage removed from an ear was used to reshape a battered nose. A "cauliflower” ear was molded back into some degree of symmetry. Convict friends, marveling at Ryan's sudden change, spread the story. Asa result convicts are having their faces altered as fast as they can be accommodated. Ryan Was followed by Janies Hal* liday of Lis Angeles and Manuel Gonzales, sentenced from San Diego for robbery. For each of them a pleasing countenance was substituted for the criminal look which they feared would keep them behind the bars. "There are twenty-two more convicts on the waiting list for face lifting operations,” Dr. Stanley said today, adding they would be taken care of as rapidly as possible. “I believe that operations of this sort will became a real influence in correcting criminal traits,” said the physician. "These men have felt that their looks were against them. With new faces they probably will go straight.” April Showers Due to Visit City Again probably is due to receive more April showers tonight or Friday, according to the United States Weather Bureau prediction. Cloudy weather with rising temperature Friday was expected. Local thunderstorms were predicted in the south portion tonight and by Friday in north portion. Slowly rising temperature Friday over the State and north and central portions tonight was forecast.

Forecast Mostly cloudy with probable thunder showers tonight and Friday; rising temperature.

TWO

MAP.ION COUNTY

CENTS

EXPRESS CAR YIELDS LOOT OF $20,000 Two Bandits Escape After Robbing Fast Train Near Chicago. t PASSENGERS UNAWARE None Molested and Did Not Know of Hold-up. Bn United Press . „ CHICAGO, April 7.—Two bandits who robbed the express car of a fast train of $20,001) had eluded police searching for them in the Chicago underworld today. Boarding the Chicago & Alton Lincoln Limited, en route to Chicago from St. Louis, at Joliet, 111., last night, the bandits proceeded leisurely to the express car, bound and gaggecLfour men, rifled the safe and left the train when it slowed down inside the city limits. Passengers were not molested and -were unaware of the robbery. James Connery, conductor, Oak Park, and A. A. Gotthoff, express messenger, Chicago, were in the express car when the men entered. Connery was bound and gagged and Gotthoff forced to open the safe. George Mitchell, colored, porter, entered the car and was seized, as was Frank Wenglass, a cook. The robbers divided theih' spoils equally between them. Non-negoti-able paper was burned. KILLER SUSPECT HELD Prisoner at New York Believed t'uniffe Gangster, Bn United Press NEW YORK, April 7.—Thomas ; Murphy, 32, was arrested today on I suspicion of being a member of the ! "Killer” Cuniffe gang that held up a mail truck in Elizabeth, N. J., i last Oct. 14, killed the driver and j a motorcycle guard and escaped with $165,000.

JURY SUMMONS ELLIOTT AGAIN Former Klan Cyclops Back in Political Probe. George S. Elliott, former Klan Cyclops, was before the Marion County grand jury as a witness in its political corruption Investigation again today. Elliott and Harvey Bedford, former police traffic inspector, were active politically before and In the early part of Mayor Duvall’s regime. Both appeared before the last grand jury which spent eleven weeks investigating the corruption charges, but failed to return indictments.

Nicaraguan Rebel Leader May Flee Jin United Press WASHINGTON, April 7.—Juan B, Sacasa, Nicaraguan rebel leader, is reported by the Nicaraguan legation hero as about to flee to Mexico. Sacasa’s revolution is destined to end in “complete failure,” according to the legation, and unless he flees Sacasa has no alternative bijt to surrender and throw himself on the mercy of President Diaz. - The legation statement said Sacasa has only a "beaten, retreating and deserting force between him and the oncoming victorious government forces” and that Sacasa’s exchequer is "totally depleted’.’

Street Repair Up Proposed resurfacing of Meridian St. from Fall Creek to Thirty-Eighth St., was considered by the park board this afternoon.

FLAPPER FANNY SAYS:

KS eras, a pat. err. . CIM7 ST MCA IAWyiCK. —C. ,

Some women are married before they’re thirty; no woman is thirty before she’s married.

CENTS