Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1927 — Page 2

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Wild Wabash Takes Homes of 200 Near Vincennes

BUSER STARTS WORK TO ‘CUT’ CITY JAX RATE \sks Department Heads to Present Estimates for 1928. The annual fight on city depart* ~ ment budgets for the coming year loomed today with the call of City Controller William C. Buser for departmental requests for appropriations. Buser called for estimates not later ‘ than Thursday. Buser said he will check each item eliminating many in an effort to keep down the tax levy. Mayor Duvall will look it over with Buser and pass it to the city council. The council must act before September. “We will stand for economy, but not to the point of inefficiency,” Buser said. Buser would not predict the 1928 levy. “Last year the levy was fixed at .$1.04, but would have been $1.28 if I had allowed all requests," Buser said. Boynton J. Moore, majority faction councilman, declared himself favorable to a sl.Ol levy. “I’m for economy at any cost ’’ he • said. Councilman Walter R. Dor9tt indicated he would favor an emergency fund in the budget to care for such things as the recent storm. Councilman Otis Bartholomew believed budget requests will be larger than last year because of the new law prohibiting fund transfers without considerable red tape. “All of the departments will want to be sure they have enough funds," said Bartholomew.

THREE POT BACK ON m FORCE Safety Board Reinstates Hudson, Sumner, M’Mahon. Reinstatement of three former officers recently by the board of safety at a secret meeting was revealed today by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson. Orville “Jigger” Hudson, veteran officer and known as a terror to underworld characters, was back In uniform after several days of special "plain clothes” work. The safety board rescinded action on resignations of Hudson, former Captain Charles (Buck) Sumner and former Motorcyeleman Patrick Mediation. The officers had good records, according to Chief Johnson and "thorough investigation of charges” merited action of the hoard. Sumner, special investigator for former Chief Herman F. Rikhoff, who resigned on his pwn volition at the beginning of the'Duvall administration, was named a detective department patrolman. Hudson, moral squad head under Rikhoff, and McMahon were made patrolmen. Hudson resigned after a lunch stand owner charged misconduct and McMahon resigned several months ago when misconduct was charged at a convention at a downtown hotel. State Office Moving Near The rehabilitated building, west of the Statehouse, will be ready for occupancy by Aug. 1, it was announced at a meeting of the State buildings and grounds committee today. Several State department offices will occupy the structure. It was formerly the Indiana Medical School. Proposes $500,000 Issue Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company today filed supplemental petition with Indiana public service commission to issue $500,000 in stock to pay debts and take care of extensions. THISWIfIN FOUND RELIEF After Long Suffering by Taking, Lyc iia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound In a little town of the Middle West, vas a discouraged woman. For four tbeen in such poor health that her own shoes. Unable to do her seemed dark indeed to Mrs. Daugherty. Then one day, a booklet was left it her front door. Idly sho turned ;he pages. Soon she was reading vith quickened interest. The little jooklet was filled with letters from ffomen in conditions similar to hers vho had found better health by tak* ng Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. * “I began taking the Vegetable Compound,” Mrs. Daugherty writes, ‘and after I took the third bottle, I lound relief. lamon my eleventh >ottle and I don’t have that trouble iny more, and feel like a different voman. I recommend the Vegeable Compound to everyone I see vho has trouble like mine. I am viUlng to answer any letters from vomen asking about' the Vegetable Compound.”—Mas. Ed. Datjghebty. .3ps Orchard Ave,. Muscatine, lowa.

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Representative Edward E. Eikenbary, whose life was saved by whisky prescribed by his physician while efforts were being made to introduce a bill in the last legislature to legalize use of whisky for medicinal purposes in Indiana.

SCRIPPS-HOWARD PACIFIC FLIGHT DRAWSBPILOTS SIOO,OOO Purse Seen — Race Starts July 4, Weather Permitting. Bu Times Bocclnl SAN FRANCISCO, May 31— Plans for a trans-Paciflc air flight, started by Uie San Francisco Daily News, a Scrlpps-Howard newspaper, are taking shape rapidly. Eight aviators already have entered their names for the great aerial derby scheduled to start July 4, weather permitting. The original SI,OOO offered by the Daily News is being added to so rapidly that a purse of SIOO,OOO appears to be in sight. Sauetion Sought The citizens committee, in charge of plans, is now conferring with the Federal authorities. Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, in charge of aeronautics, and Porter Adams, president of the National Aeronautics Association, arrived from Los Angeles by plane yesterday. Their sanction is being asked. They will lunch with those interested in the undertaking tomorrow as guests- cf the Chamber of Commerce and the local chapter of the Aeronautics Association. William H. Crocker, millionaire Californian, has been named chairman of the SIOO,OOO prize committee. Goal 6,000 Miles Away The plan calls for hopping off from San Francisco’s new airport, San Bruno. The goal will be Manila, 6,000 miles away. The first stop will be Honolulu, where the first flier to arrive will be handed $25,000 by James G. Doyle, pineapple king. The next will be Guam or Japan, 3,000 miles more. The last will be Manila, another 1,000. Thus far no successful flight has been made from California to Honolulu. Two years ago navy fliers made the attempt in three hydroplanes. Commander John Rodgers, who outdistanced the others, came down in the water just short of the goal.

BANKERS PLAN SHOOT Vigilantes Will Practice at Ft. Harrison. Vigilantes of the Indiana Bankers’ Association will assemble at Ft. Harrison June 13 for the second annual State shoot. Both rifle and pistol ranges will be used. Several hundred will attend, according to Miss Forha McDaniels, State bankers’ secretary. PAIR LEFT: DRESS, TOO Woman Tells Police Race Visitors Took Garments. Mrs. W. B. Lightsinger, 2024 E. Washington St., told police a Detroit (Mich.) couple, Speedway visitors, to whom she rented rooms, took a tan dress valued at $45. Police telephoned to nearby towns, but were unable to head them off.

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CHARITIES BOARD TO ACT SOON ON STEVE’SPETITION Meeting Date Expected To-day-Prison Trustees Action Will Follow. What course the State charities hoard will take in investigating 'lisoncr D. C. Stephenson's charges •f ill treatment and plotting inspired y Hiram Evans, Atlanta Klan w Izard, will be decided at a special meeting to he held Date of the meeting may be set late today or Wednesday, according to Board Secretary John A. Brown. Resolutions and recommendation for investigation of the charges set forth in a petition for parole were received at Brown s office today from the trustees of Indiana State Prison. The petition, presented to Governor Ed Jackson by Lloyd Hill, a Stephenson attorney, sets forth that the former Indiana Klan dragon, serving life sentence for murder, has been treated cruelly and that an attempt was made to take his life by pushing him down a stairs. It attributes this to a plot fostered by Evans at a conference with Warden Walter Daly and Prison Trustee John H. Morman. * The petition is to be acted or by the trustees at their July meeting after a report on the charities board investigation. The meeting will be open to newspaper men, but Brown refused to state whether they would be allowed to attend the Investigation sessions.

FOUR DISAPPEAR; THRE[CHIIDREN Two Boys, Girl and Man Sought by Police. Police today were searching for four persons reported missing. Ralph Garland, 9, of 940 Elm St., left home wearing gray trousers, blue shirt, and without a hat. Edward Taylor. 9, was wearing blue overalls when he left his home at 559 N. Belmont Ave. Mary Stamm, 13, of Seymour, Ind., who recently came here to live wit 4 her sister, Mrs. James Harmison, 1122 Sterling St., disappeared Saturday. When last seen she wore a light gray dress, black slippers and light hose. Mrs. Charles Danforth, 1354 W. Ray St., reported her husband Charles, 33, missing. She said he is proprietor of a bakery at 803 Division St., but has not been seen at either place.

REMY GETS READY FOR DUVALL CASE Prosecutor Prepares for Arraignment of Mayor. Preparation for arraignment of Mayor Duvall and City Controller William C. Buser in Criminal Court next Monday on charges of fraud in making out election statements, occupied Prosecutor William H. Remy and his aids today. Special Deputy John W. Holtzman indicated that interviewing of witnesses in the continued probe into political corruption will go on also. Duvall and Buser were charged in affidavits filed three weeks ago. Duvall is also alleged to have violated the corrupt practice act. The officials will be represented by Attorneys John C. Ruckelshaus, Michael Ryan and Eph Inman. Witnesses were called for today, but Remy refused to reveal their names. He said majority of persons Interviewed will nto be called to the courthouse. AUTO DRIVER INJURED Car Struck by Another F'ivc Miles South of City. John M. Marney, 902 Lexington Ave., was in a critical condition at the city hospital today from injuries received Sunday night when his auto towing another car on the Bluff Rd., five miles south of the city, was struck by an auto driven by Walter Jann, 1402 Union St. Marney is married and the father of three children. He received three broken ribs and a punctured lung. Physicians believe that the carbon dioxide of poorly ventilated rooms, and the carbon monoxide from automobile exhauts have a bad effect on the teeth.

Pact Interests Coolidge Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 31— President Coolidge has directed the State Department to study the “model” treaty outlawing war prepared by two Columbia University professors, New York City. The President told friends today that he Is much interested in the general subject of outlawing war and would be exceedingly pleased to find such aspirations . put in practical form.

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George Souders, Speedway winner, tuning up the Duesenberg car which carried him to victory. Souders went to the Speedway at 6:30 a. m. today to look the car over.

Personality, Beauty, T alent —Success The First Three Bring the Latter in Times Opportunity Contest —Perhaps You Are the Wining Girl.

BEAUTY! PERSONALITY! Ability to sing, dance or play some musical instrument! These are the requirements needed for some girl to become Miss Indianapolis in the “Young America,'’ personality revue, to be produced in New York July 9, which inaugurates a twen-ty-one week tour of the country at $75 a week and expenses. The Times, in conjunction with Publix Theaters, of which the new Indiana is one, has been selected to find Miss Indianapolis. Beginning June 6, auditions and try outs will lie held at the Circle Theater for girls who submit their photographs with the information required in the coupon. From the nightly winners chosen during the week of June 6, the judges, whose names will he announced in these columns Wednesday, will choose Miss Indianapolis on June 14. June 24 has been set as the date when Miss Indianapolis must report at the Paramount Theater in New York for rehearsals. Entertainment will break the monotony of practicing from that date until July 9. Theatrical stars, movie magnates and prominent figures in the world of sports will vie with each other to show the girls chosen a wonderful two weeks. Trips to nearby nummer resorts will be made without expense to the contestants. A real opportunity for a stage career is given, too. because stage and screen directors in search of new faces, new talent and new personalities, will be present. The time is growing short—June 4 is the last day for submitting your application. If you do not have a picture Dcxheimer will furnish one free for the purpose of this contest. Think of reveling in New York’s luxurious shops where the world sends its most gorgeous creations to enchant and allure feminine fancy! All these things together with a contract calling for $75 a week and railroad fares for twenty-one weeks can he yours. In many cities hotel accommodations will he provided without cost. News of this contest will appear exclusively in The Times. Send your photograph in at onec to the Contest Manager, care of The Times. The age limits are from 18 to 26 with married women barred. Professional contestants will not be considered. This contest is only for amateurs. ARE YOU THIS GTRL? Enter now, for a like opportunity will not come again soon.

National Opportunity Contest Contest Manager, Indianapolis Times: Please enter my name in the National Opportunity Contest. lam years of age. Height Weight Complexion Attached is a recent photograph. If selected as the girl to be Miss Indianapolis I will sign the contract to be presented by Publix Theater Corporation for a nineteen or more weeks’ tour of the Publix Circuit. Name Address Telephone NOTE: The Publix National Opportunity Contests of 1927 are being conducted simultaneously throughout the united States as a legitimate search for new stage personalities. The Indianapolis Times is cooperating with the Circle Theater to discover the non-profeistonai Indianapolis girl who la to be "Miss Indianapolis” in the nation-wide tour of “Young America’’ the new personality revue, which will be presented at the Indiana Theater.

Policeman, Wife Sit on Captured Bandit Bu United Press BROOKLYN, N. Y„ May 31.—A patrolman’s wife today aided her husband in the capture of two or three bandits after a running pistol figst here. Thomas Duke, his wife, and their son, Thomas Jr., 3 were returning in auto from a vacation when they heard "hold-up" cries. “Take the wheel, Gert,” Duke said, and stepped on the running board. Jonior was asleep on the rear seat. The family reached a lunch wagon proprietor, who said he had just been robbed. The Dukes gave chase. A bullet whizzed through the windshield, fired. After seven blocks he leaped from the running board and knocked a revolver from the hand of one of the youthful bandits. Duke and his wife sat on him until another _ policeman arrived. Then Duke ran after yie others and captured one.

SIX LIQUOR ARRESTS Charges result Out of Automobile Accidents. Six men were being held today on liquor charges growing out of automobile accidents Monday. Those held and the charges: Jerome Cooper, Greenfield, assault and battery, blind tiger, and driving while intoxicated: Arnold Larsen, 43, of 21y0 Sugar Grove Ave., driving while intoxicated; Jlesse Hiatt, Noblesville; William A. Wilson, 53, of 734 Russell Ave.; George Sharp, Negro, 838 W. Tenth St.; and William McClain, Negro, 507 E. TwentyFourth St. SORE f* ThqoaT „ Relief guaranteed 860 with one swallow of 600 THOXINE

TWO AMERICANS DRAW NEW PACT OUTLAWING WAR Columbia Professors Would Bar Conflict by and With United States. Bu I nitrd Press NEW VORK. May 31.—An “American Locarno.” providing for tlie outlawing of war as between the United States on the one hand and France, Great Britain. Germany, Italy and Japan on the other, is proposed in a model treaty drawn up by two Columbia historians and approved by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia and of the Columbia eg/nvmont for international peace. The treaty draft is the historians’ response to the proposal of Aristide Briand. French foreign minister, that the United States and France willingly subscribe to the outlawing of war between the two nations. Peace Settlement Dr. .lames T. Shotwell. co-author with Prof. J. P. Chamberlain of the treaty draft, is director of the division of economics and history of the Carnegie Foundation. The pledge against resort to arms tn the settlement of international disputes is contained in Article 1 Part 1 of the proposed treaty, which says: "The Un ted States of America and mut tally undertake that they will in no case attack or invade each other or resort to war agirinst each other.” The pledge against war will cease to exist when one of the subscribing nations attack another, but even then the invaded nation must he willing to submit the dispute to peaceful settlement. In Two Parts The proposed treaty is in two parts. The first part which renounces war, is drawn from the Locarno treaty against war in Europe being in some parts an exact duplicate of it. Part 11, dealing with arbitration anil conciliation, embodies existing United States treaties with other powers, especially the Frano-Amef-ican arbitration treaty of 1908 which expires next February, and the Bryan treaty “for the advancement of general peace." The Monroe doctrine and purely domestic problems are not interfered with, it Is believed.

EIGHT SHOT IN 13 ABOUT JAIL Crowd Seeks to 'Get’ Slayer of Four Persons. Bu United Press TAMPA, Fla., May 31.—Eight men were wounded, awo seriously, when a mob of 600 stormed the Hillsborough County jail early today seeking B. F. Levins, self-confessed slayer of a father and three children. At dawn the mob was reported to have dwindled away after a succession of volleys from the barricaded force of'the sheriff. Ambulances removed the wounded shortly before daybreak. A detachment of State guards stationed at the Tampa Armory was ordered out today by John M. Martin to patrol the vicinity of the jail. Governor Martin's order followed a request for aid from prison officials who said they feared further mob demonstrations.

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Chicago Flood Relief Interest High—2o,ooo Expected.

DWIGHT DAVIS COMING Congressmen to Attend — Legislation Hinted. Bu United Press CHICAGO, May 31. —Conference of industrial, political and agricultural interests of the central States on flood control to be held here the last three days of this week, today assumed an official status with announcement that Representatives, and Senators front all of the floodravished sections would confer on proposed legislation at that time. As registrations continued it was predicted attendance would reach 20,000. Further official prestige will be given the conference by presence of Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis and Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of Arnly engineers. The House of Representatives Flood Control Committee, and the Senate Commerce Committee will confer befpre Congress convenes in December to draft flood control legislation, Senator Robinson, Arkansas, Democratic floor lender, asserted today after a call at the White House, a Washington dispatih advises. Some members of the two committees now are in the Mississippi valley inspecting the flood area, Robinson said. NEAR LOUISIANA PARISHES Flood Danger Spurs Work—Rise at Morgan City. Bu United Press NEW ORLEANS. La., May 31Efforts were rushed today to prevent inundation of Terre Bonne and La Kourche parishes, which fie in the southern Louisiana flood path. Water at Morgan City, between the two parishes and the flood, is rising. Draw spans over the main line of the Southern Pacific railroad over Bayou Boeuf and the Atchafalaya will be closed within a few days. Parish residents obtained permission to place a dam in Bayou Black in order to keep out the water. The dam, under construction, would divert the water into low prairie lands. The body of Earl Kilpatrick, assistant Red Cross disaster relief director, killed in an airplane crash near Donaldsonville, La., will be shipped to Portland, Ore., his home, for burial. It was announced today.

PRISON WARNING GIVEN TO ZENER Former Politician Told to Take Care of Children. “Make arrangements by next Saturday to care for your children or your address may be changed to Indiana’s lake resort in La Porte County." Criminal Court Judge James A. Collius told “Cap." John Zener, former local politician, this today when he came into court to face an indictment charging child desertion. Indiana State Prison is in La Porte County. Zener, after being divorced from his first wife, Bertha Zener, 130 Oelsendorff St., remarried and went to Florida, leaving the children, Frank Charles, 9, and Mary Josephine, 6, as ordered by the Hamilton Circuit Court, ill the mother's care. He did not pay $lO a week for their support, as ordered, she charged. She took the children to him, but he' returned . them leaving them within a block of her father's home, she told the court. Not being aide to care for them his former wife placed them In the Children’s Guardian Horne, she testified. $260 Jewelry Theft Bonnie Brown, 3207 E. Tentli St., today reported to police the theft of $260 worth of jewelry front his residence. Two rings and a watch chain were included.

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River Waters Expected to Rise —Sandbaggers - Stand Ready. LABOR MEMORIAL DAY Other Parts of State Suffer Losses. Bu L'nitcd Press VINCENNES, Ind., May 31.—Two hundred persons endured the discomforts of life in Army tents today as the rSsult of flood waters of the Wabash River overspreading the north section of Vincennes. A break in the levee at Emison, nine miles north of Vincennes, loosed the waters over 10,000 acres of land in that vicinity, hut did no damage and caused a temporary recession in the river stage here. The river today stood at 24.1 feet, a drop of .3 of a foot, but still above the flood stage of 21 feet. Anticipated Rise Precautions to combat an anticipated rise were to he taken today by Mayor Claude E. Gregg, in charge of relief work. Food and clothing were supplied to those driven out of their homes and shelter was provided by army tents. Two hundred men who worked Memorial day succeeded in throwing a temporary barricade of sandhags around the Oklahoma district) in the north part of Vincennes, where the waters first entered. Ten city blocks of this seteion were protected by their efforts. In Readiness They were held in readiness toi day, and additional volunteers were I prepared to lend assistance, if the I river again rises, as has been prd# dieted. No levees protect Vincennes and the only emergency measure that can he taken i3 the, erection of sandbags at the lowest points to s'emm the waters. WABASH RIVER FALLING Terre Haute Relief Seen, Despite Rain .Monday. But nitrd Per i I TERRE HAUTE. Ind., May 31. j After reaching a stage of 26.9 feet i Monday, the Wabash River here | started a rapid fall and stood at 19.4 early today. Weather bureau ' predictions were that the fall would I continue, despite heavy rains on j Monday. Flood stage Is 16 feet. More than a score of houses in | the northwest part of the city are ! flooded almost to the window level, j Almost a dozen families are shut ! out of their homes. GOES TO FLOODED AREA Dr. William F. King Has Sanitation Task in South. Dr. William F. King, State Health board secretary, left today for the Mississippi River flood district, where he will supervise the sanitation work of the Indiana department staff in the work of sanitation. The advent of King will put two doctors and five others from Indiana in the field. The work is being carried on by all State staffs under the direction of the United States public health service. A pet chimpanzee in Berlin amused itself by turning in fire alarms from corner boxes and then sitting by and watching the fire engines come.

Coolidge Asks Funds, Credit Bu United Press WASHINGTON. May 31 President Coolidge today issued and appeal for raising funds to supply credit to stricken Misissippi valley floor regions for rehabilitation work. He sent a letter to President Pierson, United States Chamber of Commerce, urging that a subscription fund he raised equal to the $1,750,000 raised by the interested States:.