Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 328, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1927 — Page 1

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0. PI PAID TRIBUTE BY COOLIDGE P&P One Thousand Hear Presi- | dent on Press Association Anniversary. CONSIDERED IMPORTANT foreign Policies Explained, gjfe,y Defended. $V By C. C. Nlcolet ” United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 2b. —President Coolidge’s speech at the twentieth anniversary dinner of the United Press Associations here last night, in which he defended his adkninistration's policy abroad and presented his view of conditions in Mexico, Nicaragua and China, was regarded by political observers today as one of his most important and far-reaching pronouncements of recent months. The President, addressing an audience of 1,000, made up in large part of newspaper executives from coast to coast, pleaded for a fair, American press and crticised newspapers which he said attempt to inflame opinion against foreign nations and also those which unjustly criticise the administration for defending American lives and property in foreign lands. World Listens The chief executive addressed an international gathering, as his speech, was broadcast over two hook-ups in this country and by short wave length abroad, where simultaneous united press banquets were being held In many countries. Other anniversary dinners w'ere held in London, Honolulu and in South America. Coolidge paid tribute to the United Pres*i Association, whose growth, he said, was typical of the tremendous expansion in the gathering and distribution of new's in recent years. President Coolidge’s statement of the foreig nsituation drew immediate response today from the press, both in America and abroad. Many news-

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|rpapers In widely separated parts of the world also took occasion to congratulate the United Press Associations on the anniversary. Bickel Presides Karl A. Bickel, president of the United Press Associations, presided at the banquet. In a brief speech introducing the President, Bickel traced the remarkable history of the United Press, describing its growth from the time it was founded by the late E. tV. Scripps until the present. It was founded, he said, “on the principle of nonexclusive distribution to make the press of this Nation forever free from any future threat of monopoly in news. The United Press has never deviated from this principle.” The United Press operates in thir-ty-seven foreign countries, using 104,000 miles of telegraph wires in the United States and Canada alone. Bickel introduced Roy W. Howard, chairman of the board of the Seripps-Howard newspapers and ■William W. Hawkins, general business director of the same organization, both of whom are former presidents of the United Press. Twenty Years Old “Twenty years ago this month the Initial steps were taken in the organization of the United Press Associations, and you have been good enough to gather with us here this evening to give some passing recognition to that event,” said Bickel. “Twenty years are but a moment the world's history* but no two deBcadcs of modern times have witnessed so many events of vital consequence and far-reaching effect as the momentous years between 1907 and 1927. Indeed looking back through the intervening years, from the convulsion of the world war in the west to the dawn of anew civilization in the Far East, 1907 seems to belong to another era than our own. Enumerates Principles “So the development of the United Iress has come in a time of unprecedented when to be young, and therefore to have less to forget, has not been a disadvantage. Surviving the stress and strain and the attendant growing pains of business childhood, the United Press is able to greet you this evening because it has sought always to learn from events, to gain wisdom from its errors, to welcome constructive criticism and to be keenly alive to the fact that to live is to be fallible—to become infallible is to die. Unprecedented Progress “The story of American journalism during the past twenty years has been a story of development and progress unrivaled by the press of any other nation. We take a frank and, I trust, a pardonable pride in the part the United Press has played In this. “The vision of the fpunder is attesttd by the unprecedented expan- . sion of its service throughout the world. Established as a business inW slitution and operated upon the same underlying principles that have been the foundation of all of America's greatest business structures, the United Press has grown from the handful of clients it served in the spring Vi 1907 until it is today's America's greatest syorld-yida die* WflbjjJOK fiS BBSS'

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While Harold Shumate (above), 16, of 436 N. Warman Ave., called police to Holmes Ave. and Michigan St. to arrest Janies T. Ogden, 45, R. R. C, Box 611, whose auto knocked him from his bicycle, Ogden fled. But Shumate roniman* deered the car of L. B. Calvelage, 2610 W. Michigan St., and caught Ogden after long chase. Police charge Ogden with driving while drunk and failing to stop after accident. OBTAIN $9,578 FOR SUFFERERS Local Red Cross Fund for Flood Refugees Grows. Sympathetic Indianapolis had given more than $9,578 today to the Red Cross fund for relief of Mississippi River flood zone refugees. More than $4,000 was received at local Red Cross Headquarters in the War Memorial Building, 777 N. Meridian St., in the twenty-four-hour period ending at noon. The larger contributions today were: Kingan & Cos.. $500; William H. Block Company, $300: Hibben, Hollweg &’ Cos., $250; Meyer-Kiser Bank, $200; Henry Holt, J. F. Wild & Cos. and Main St. Christian Church, Rushville, Ind., each $100; Peoples State Bank, William T. McHugh, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Williams, Clarence R. Rhodes, Goldstein Bros., Inc., and G. A. Schnull, each SSO. The citizens of Waldron, Ind., sent $51.50. Those who pledged a total of approximately $675 in response to radio appeal from Station WFBM Monday night are asked to send their contributions immediately to Red Cross headquarters. This amount has not been added to the fund total, as only cash received is counted. Daylight Saving Loses Bu Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind. April 26. South Bend clocks will not be pushed back. City council here Monday night refused to pass an ordinance providing daylight saving. The vote stood at 5 and 5.

TOWNSHIP QUEENS SPELL TODAY FOR ZONE TITLE

More Than 600 Grade Champions Compete Wednesday in Eighty-One City Building Spelling Bees.

The spelling bees are buzzing!

This afternoon, out in the auditorium of Warren Central High School, township champions of Marion County schools are in friendly competition in a battle of words. The winner will be crowned

ANDERSON FLAT BURNS; 100 FLEE Families Forced From Homes by Flames, Smoke. Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., April 26.—Fire, breaking out in the three-story Brooks Apt. building here early today, forced more than 100 residents te leave in their night clothes. Scores were carried by firemen down ladders. Loss was estimated at SIO,OOO. L. B. Johnson, a fireman, received a broken leg when he fell Into the basement. The Spurgeon-Baum furniture store and tho Cosmopolitan Book Store on the ground floor were damaged. Elwood Man Dies After Lung Battle Bu Times Special ELWOOD, Ind., April 26.—Newton Fred, 29, a carpenter, died at 7 a. m. today after being kept alive nearly twenty hours by artificial respiration. ■*’ Fred was hurled to the ground, alighting on his head, when a scaffolding on which he was working at the Baptist church .parsonage collapsed early yesterday afternoon. Unconscious and unable to breathe, seven doctors working in relays kept Fred alive all night by forcing air into his lungs by massaging. Thomas Eastburn and John Roth, who were on the scaffold with Fred at the time, escaped with minor teilffiefj .....

FATAL FALL ENDS PARIS FLIGHUEST Davis and Wooster Killed in Plane Crash Near Langley Field. PLUNGE IN MARSH MUD _ Accident Followed Turn to Avoid Trees. Bu United Press NORFOLK, Va„ April 26.—An air argosy Intended to span the 3,600 miles from New York to Paris In a single flight dropped in a Virginia marsh today, killing its two navigators, Lieutenant Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster of the Navy. The two wex-e making their final test flight with a transatlantic test load of 13,000 pounds, leaving Langley field across Hampton Roads from here. Turned Dodging Trees The great thres-motored biplane, “The American Legion,’’ In which they hoped to leave New York for Paris before or soon after May 1, took the air after a long run, according to an army aviator who witnessed the accident. When it was unable to get more than a few feet Into the air, the officer said, its operators had to turn across a marsh to avoid trees. The plane dropped into the marsh’s five Inches of water and the lower part of the machine, including the engine, buried itself in the mud. Davis and Wooster were probably instantly killed and the plane was greatly damaged. Aviators said the great machine must have been traveling sixty to seventy-five miles an hour in an effort to lift the heavy load, j Davis .and Wooster's deaths I brought the toll to four for those ; who have given their lives in the | New York-Paris flight attempt. Othj ers have been Injured and several ! planes have been wrecked, giving the effort a “jinx” aspect. Probe Board Named Disposal of the two aviators’ bodies has not been arranged. The Hampton Roads naval air station named an official board of inquest to investigate. Mrs. Davis, young widow of the intrepid airman who came to grief today, had been with him at Langley field. She advised relatives in Washington she would return there tonight, but did not comment on the accident. Friends said she “bore up bravely.” Wooster was unmarried. Davis, 36, was a native of Salt Lake City. Utah, and a resident of Washington. He held medals for distinguished war-time service. Wooster, 32, a native of Connecticut, was to have accompanied hint as mechanician and alternate pilot on the Paris flight.

county zone spelling champion. The reward is entrance into the State spelling be, to be held in Indianapolis in May under direction of The Times, sponsor of the Indiana spelling bee. The county zone champion will be selected from among the following township spelling queens Helen Stumps, Center. Mildred Riddle, Decatur. Mary Vaughn, Perry. Pauline Hines, Pike. Irma Cartwell, Warren. Betty Noland, Washington. Margaret Roberts, Beech Grove schools. Words being used this afternoon were chosen from the McCall Speller by C. E. Eash, chairman; Paul Anderson and Mrs. Mae De Long, appointed by Lee Swails, county super(Turn to Page 2) AMERICANS HURT AS CHINESE FIRE Several on Two Naval Craft Wounded. Bu Vnited Press WASHINGTON, April 26. Wounding of several sailors, one seriously, aboard the American destroyer Penguin in an attack yesterday on that> vessel and the mine sweeper Paul Jones in the Yangtze River, was confirmed today In a dispatch to the Navy Department from Admiral C. S. Williams. Williams said the Paul Jones was fired on at 4 p. m. and the Penguin two hours later. Both vessels replied |at first with machine gun fire. Fire .from the Penguin drew a volley from five field pieces. The battle took place eight miles below Kiangyfn. Another fight was reported between Cantoriese gunboats and Northern field artillery near Nanking .

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1927

Thief Steals Cop*s New Uniform At least one policeman had his heart very much in his work today. It was Traffic Officer Ernest Whltsett seeking the thief who stole his new uniform from the porch of his home at 35 S. Holmes Ave. Whltsett laid the suit on the porch swing while he unlocked the door. Then he entered the house without It. The trousers and cap were found on an ash pile In the alley.

GRAY COMPOSED AS SASH WEIGHT EKTERSEVIDENCE Co-Defendant With Snyder’s Widow Bears Brunt at Murder Trial. B i/ United Press LONG ISLAND CITY', N. Y„ April 26.—A five-pound window weight, made of iron, with which Henry Judd Gray is alleged to have crushed the skull of Albert Snyder tvhile Ruth Brown Snyder looked on, was drawn out of its wrappings and waved before the eyes of Gray In court here today. Gray, following closely each move that was made as the State directed its attack against him, whispered to attorneys, but never lost his composure, as a hardware clerk and a Negro porter told of selling Gray the ugly, gray iron bar. Mrs. Snyder, with the attack directed almost exclusively against Gray, listened attentively, but apparently much at ease. Fights to Hold Calm Mrs. Snyder, badly shaken, but fighting to keep her composure, heard George V. McLaughlin, former police commissioner of New York, quote her own words to accuse her of the murder. The dignified "super-detective,” now an executive of the Postal Telegraph Company, at $75,000 a year, calmly and in recited how Mrs. Snyder and Gray told him of their illicit love, their plan to get rid of Snyder how the art editor was murdered in his bed at night. Both have since repudiated their confession, saying they were obtained under duress. Witnesses were called who testified that at a party the night before Snyder was killed Mrs. Snyder had directed that drinks poured for her be given her husband. Repeats Woman’s Story Then McLaughlin, at the time police commissioner of New York, told how v he had personally gone to the Snyder home the day of the murder, to Investigate. He found Mrs. Snyder In bed. She told him a story of coming home from the party of the night before, and being attacked by a ’rough” man, she encountered in the house. “She cried" a few tears.” McLaughlin said, when he told her her husband was dead. POSTOFFICE IS ROBBED Yeggmen Aslo Enter Three Stores at Cloverdale. Bu Times Special CLOVERDALE, Ind., April 26. Yeggmen blew the safe in the postoffice here Monday night and escaped with $l5O. York’s drug store, the Ford agency, and Runyon's grocery were also entered and a small amount of money taken.

Milton C. Work, Auction Bridge Authority, Will Personally Demonstrate Game

Milton C. Work is coming to Indianapolis next week to teach his admirers and followers the finer points of the game. Recognized everywhere this popular game ia played as the outstanding authority, he will bring to Indianapolis the opportunity of not only listening to his explanations, but to actually see how lie bids the hands, how he takes those extra tricks that make the difference between the expert and the dub. He comes to this city under |he auspices of the Indlanapo-

REVOLT IS RECOGNIZED j BY JEWETT Former Mayor Admits City Is Displeased With Rule by Duvall. OPPOSED TO ‘MANAGER’ Ex-Chief Executive Talks to Rotary Club. "We are ail agreed on where we want to go, but we have some honest difference of opinion as to how we may get there," was the admission of former Mayor Charles Jewett that the people are in revolt against the present city administration, in his attack upon the city manager form of government before the Rotary Club luncheon at the Claypool today. His defense of the present form of government did not include any defenso of Mayqr Duvall and the present administration. Why He Objects Condensing his reasons for opposition to the proposed change Jewett said: ' “I am opposed to the city manager plan for the following reasons: It is a radical departure from the American conception of free government; It establishes an autocratic dictatorship depriving the people of the right to choose their chief executive; the law under which the manager plan would operate, is insufficient, inaccurate, indefinite and uncertain as a basis or constitution upon which to establish anew form of government; the powers conferred upon the seven commissioners is absolute, unbounded and wholly without checks or restraints; the manager plan is an experiment and not a seasoned well established form of government for large cities; the manager form Insures no greater efficiency than can bo secured under the present charter.” * In support of his attack, Jewett said that the city manager form would change a democratic dorm of government to one of autocracy without safeguard for the citizen. Says "Safety Lacking" He denied that the experience of other cities justified the change and declared that the Indiana laws providing for this change did not provide the same degree of safety as in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Kansas City. “No system of government runs automatically. We should not take j advantage of the unrest,, Impatience j and critical state of the public mind j at this time. Those who have not the opportunity to study the principles involved in a radical change are led to believe that anything is better than what we now have. We should in all fairness to the best Interests of our city realize that this campaign Is net directed against one administration, but is directed against the basic law under which we can have good government at the price of effort," was his final appeal. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 53 10 a. m 61 7 a. m 54 11 a. m 63 8 a. m 58 12 (noon) .... 65 9 a. m 60 1 p. 67

lis Times, which prints his daily lessons on bridge. Next Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons he will be at the L. S. Ayres & Cos. tearoom, which will be set aside for bridge players. Reservations should be made at once, as the capacity is limited and definite and can not be increased. On these afternoons be will not only explain the game, but will walk among the tables w here the guests will be furnished with decks of cards and explain., the proper method of bidding *find

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HER ‘MITE’ TO HELP HOMELESS CHILDREN

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Betty Hudson, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hudson. 17 W. North St., wanted to do her bit to aid the homeless children of the Mississippi Kiver flood area. She took fifteen cents she had saved to Miss Agnes Cruse, secretary of the Indianapolis Chapter, American Red Cross, at Red Cross headquarters in the World War Memorial Bldg., 777 N. Meridian St.

RUTH, MARBLE WOMAN, CALM AMID SHUDDERS

Snyder's Widow Unmoved as State Outlines Ghastly Mur-

der Case, but Audience Is Shocked.

By Maurine Watkins. Author of "Chicago.”

NEW YORK. April 26.—The curtain is up. the drama is on and the audience thrills with pleasure. For days they have waited patiently, dumbly, stupidly outside the court-

FOUR MEN DIE AT INDIANA CROSSING Train Hits Auto at Gary— Three Killed Outright. Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., April 26.—Death of Richard Reese of Elkhart, at a hospital here today, brought the toll of a train-auto crash here Monday night to four lives. Joseph O’Connell of Crown Point, Joseph Rekowski of Chicago and Joe Wvlass of Melrose Park, 111., were killed outright when a Grand Trunk passenger train struck their auto. The four had been visiting O'Connell’s home. O’Connel, who was driving, is believed to have been blinded by heavy rain and failed to see the train.

playing hands. He will answer any and all questions which may be asked. The Ayres store will serve an elaborate tea and a nominal charge of $1.50 will be made, which will include the cost of service. Clubs which intend to attend in a body, or those who make up parties of four should telephone their reservations as soon as possible. Work will be here but two days. Tuesday and Wednesday, May S find *

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house, but now at last they are admitted —at last they can see the slayers. A quiet, well-mannered crowd, In instinctive reaction to the hushed and disciplined atmosphere of Judge Scudder’s court, and a crowd far above tho usual gum-chewing trailers of sensation. Mostly women—some with white hair, plump, befurred matrons, and highly rouged flappers; but also a sprinkling of’ middle-aged men. Largely a crowd that could look at Henry Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder and say: “There but for tho grace cf God go I” dwellers in Suburbia They came for gore and got gore; enthralled, spell-bound they listened as District Attorney /Newcombe in solemn bell-like tones, briefly and dramatically pictured the hideous case the State would prove. Older men cupped hands to their ears and white-haired women leaned forward to hear every word of the medical testimony; the nauseating details of the lacerating blows on Snyder’s (Turn (o Pago 2) LOW MEN IN MEETING BE Discuss Farm Problems and Presidential Campaign. Twenty-five Republican leaders from over Indiana, including a number of State Senators and Representatives, attended a “Lowden for President Club" meeting at the Columbia Club today. The meeting was called by State Senator Alonzo H. Lind ley of Kingman, farmer, and head of the Senate’s “farm bloc” in the recent legislature for a frank discussion of present day farm problems and thenrelation to the 1928 presidential campaign. Among those attending were: Frank E. Evans, Orawfordsville; former Lieutenant Govenor Ed Bush, Salem: Senator Howard A. Cann, Frankfort; John N. Dyer, Vincennes; E. J. Barker, the State fire board secretary; Guy Campwell, State fair board president; Senator Bruce Cooper, Stewartsville; A. A. Kist, Portland publisher; Representative Charles M. Trowbridge, Rushville, House of Representatives farm leader; Everett McClure, Aurora; Frank Goodwlne, Warren County, and P. I. Ferris, Pleasant Lake. Evans, Dyer and Kist were named to draft resolutions. Pioneer Mason Dies Bu Vnited. Press ANDERSON, Ind., April 26. Funeral arrangements were being completed for Harvey J. Blacklldge, a charter member of the .Masonic lodge here for seventy years. _He was a manufacturer for years and Was prominent in the Methodist Church. Fire Truck on Fire Bu Tunes Special BEDFORD lAd.. April 26.—A city fire truck, speeding to a blaze at the Fayette High School, three miles south of here, caught fire itself when a gasoline intake pipe jarred loose, spraying gasoline over the hot motor. A bucket brigade saved the School building# .

Forecast Fair tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy with possibly showers. Not much change in temperature.

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WARNING OF RECORD HIGH WATERMARK Weather Bureau Announces Mississippi May Go to Fifty-Eight Feet, TROOPS COMPEL FLIGHT l Stubborn Residents Forced to Quit Danger Zone. BULLETIN Bu Vnitcd Press MURPHYSBORO, 111., April 26. —Break of a 150-foot section in the Mississippi levee at Cottonwood Point today will iinuidate (wo towns and 35,000 acres of land within thirty-six hours, according lo engineers’ estimates. Gorham, eighteen miles of south of the break, and Cora City, two miles north, will both be Land in the big and little lake drainage districts is also doomed, Bu United Press VICKSBURG, Miss., April 26.—A warning that th# Mississippi River may reach the fißy-eight foot mark here, highest in its history, was issued today by the Weather Bureau. This warning caused relief organizations to redoublo their efforts to remove inhabitants from threatened areas in the delta districts. A plea to all inhabitants of the Mississippi towns of Greenville, Leland, Areola, Hollandale, Rolling Fork and intermediate points to leave their homes immediately was made by Gen. Curtis Green of the Mississippi National Guard. He urged quick movement on the basis of reports of flood conditions and the health sliuation. Two hu. dred gasoline boats and several chartered steamers, under the direction of National Guardsmen, were cruising through the area today bringing away refugees. Nearly 10,000 refugees are in Vicksburg or have passed through the city to other points.With death toll mounting, troops began today to evacuate areas which\ are certain to be flooded by the Mississippi. Failure of the inhabitants to cooperate with relief authorities has constituted one of the greatest problems of the organization which has undertaken the work. Lack of enforced evacuation is said by many workers to be the in(Turn to Page 2) FINODYINGMAN ON m BANK Self-Inflicted Knife Wound in Stomach Fatal, Harry Milburn, 57, laborer, *l9 Hanson Ave., was found a block south Tenth St., on the east White River embankment early today, with a fatal self-inflicted knife wound in his stomach. Milburn was reported missing by his wife this morning. Suffering from a nervous breakdown, he got out of bed and left the house during the night, she said. James Nicholson, 6005 W. Washington St. hunting mushrooms, saw the body but believed it was a man asleep or drunk. A half-hour later William Wells, 514 N. Mlley Ave., found a black felt hat beside several blood spots, a block soutli. He called Nicholson’s attention to the blood and they called police^. Milburn was lying on his stomach, a closed knife with which he is believed to have slashed himself, under his body. He was still alive, but died half an hour later at city hospital. Milburn Is survived only by the widow. He was employed at the Indianapolis Bleaching Company twenty-five years, quitting two years ago when he suffered a breakdown. Probe W hipping of 40 School Children Bv United Press PLYMOUTH, Ind., April 26.—The Plymouth school hoard met this afternoon to consider evidence obtained in an investigation of charges that forty fifth grade pupils had been whipped by Clef us Kirk, teacher. Kirk admitted using a three-foot piece of rubber hose to administer punishment when the children failed to commit “The Village Blacksmith” to memory. Indignant parents threatened mob violence for a time. Kirk was brought before Justice of the Peace M. Steiner and fined $5 and costs for assault and battery on one of seven charges. Kirk appealed. Six other cases on Identical charges will be tried at Argos, Ind.* in two weeks. Mothers are attending school with; their children today. \Plan Hospital Day The Methodist Hospital is making extensive plans to observe Nation Hospital Day, May 12. The hospital will lbe open to visitors and the Methodist Hospita Guild will servo refreshments. The student pmaei* chorus v#U sing,