Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1927 — Page 3

JUNE 18,1927

SUPPORTERS OF MANAGER PLAN GIVEN WARNING Men’s Organizer Advises Workers Against OverConfidence. City managers workers were warned against over-confidence at a meeting at Woodman’s Hall, Six-ty-Fourth and Bellefontaine Sts., by Roy Lewis, men’s organizer. “Victory is a foregone conclusion if we will get to the polls and vote and refuse to be stampeded by wild last-minute tales of supposed fictitious woes which will result, according to rumors, from city management government,” he said. Strive to Steal Victory Politicians, seeing certain derat at the hands of an aroused, in.elligent public, are striving to steal the victory by a desperate ruse of insidious propaganda, he said. “Here are a few samples of these stories, all without foundation. You will be told that the whole city manager \ movement is the work of certain factions, certain elements. Any name is used just to put the story across. “You are told that police and firemen’s pension funds will be abolished, when as a matter of fact these funds operate uhder laws of their own and have nothing to do \with the form of government under which Indianapolis operates. Exercise Common Sense “Just exercise your common sense and when you hear any wild tale, take the trouble to investigate before voting.” * “The entire city of Cincinnati has improved since the adoption of city manager plan of government,” James H. Robinson, president of the National Negro Welfare Association, declared at a mass meeting at the Indiana Theater, 410 Indiana Ave. Frank R. Beckwith, editor of the Indianapolis Tribune, presided. Dwight S. Ritter, former city purchasing agent, also spoke. RE-ELECT DR. BRYAN To Head Religious Education Group Fifth Time. Bu Times Sneclal MARTINSVILLE, Ind., June 18.— Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana University, was for the fifth time elected president of the Indiana Council of Religious Educat;op at its closing session here Friday evening. Others re-elected were George E. JBeugnot, Auburn; Harry Eller, fcrawfordsville, and A. D. Gray, Rdooresville, vice presidents; the Rey. G. H. Bebbart, recording secretary and F. M. Dickerman, Indianapolis, treasurer. The 1928 convention will be held at Loga isport In June. Ihe convention in closing session adopted resolution scoring State officials for violating the prohibition laws, and opposing compulsory military training. The council also opposes Sunday opening of the Indiana State Fair. U.S. INVESTMENT IN MEXICO OVER BILLION Authority Says Americans Jlold One Fifth of Foreign Debt. MEXICO CITY, June 18.—Robert W. Dunn, nationally recognized authority on investments, announces that American investment in Mexico is over $1,280,000,000. . American citizens hold one-fifth of the total foreign debt of Mexico, and represent over 57 percent of the Mexican oil industry. Moises Saenz, Mexican sub-Secre-tary of Education, has estimated that more than two-thirds of the national wealth of Mexico belongs to foreigners, many of them ’’absentee owners,” and that foreign investments in Mexico are increasing. CHURCH FUNDS SOUGHT ration County Union Flans to Raise $50,000. Plans for raising $50,000 within five years as a church extension fund Were outlined at the quarterly meeting of the Marion County Christian Church Union at E. Sixteenth St. Christian Church Friday night. The Rev. Homer Dale, pastor of Hillside Church, is chairman of the committee. The money will be loaned at low interest rate to foster building of new churches. The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, general work committee chairman, announced that the week’s assembly held at Fairview Park will not be held because of construction work for Butler University there. The union will conduct evangelistic services at a number of churches instead. LAD STEALS LINDY’S ‘WE’ 4-Year-Old Youngster With Push Cart, Puzzle Cop. Bn United Press BROOKLYN, N. Y„ June 18.—A tiny boy of four years, accompanied by a push cart much larger than himself, was stopped by a patrolman who asked who the child might be. “I am Robert Hines and we are just playing,” returned the youngster. “We” were taken to the police station until “their” address could be determined. LEAGUE WILL REPORT I •Bu United Press GENEVA, June 18.—The second part of the League of Nations white slavery report which contains reflections upon several governments, will be published eventually, the League Council decided. Interested Bvernments may reply to charges ptained in the report before Sepnber.

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Bn United Press NEW YORK, June 18.—First National Pictures, Inc., Friday took court action in an attempt to compel Colleen Moore, motion picture star, to arbitrate a $1,000,000 contract which it was alleged she was trying to break. The company, in a petition filed by Nathan Burkhan, attorney, asked Supreme Court Judge George Mul-

INDIANS ASK OUSTER Demand Commissioner Burke Be Removed. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 18.—Removal of Indian Commissioner Charles H. Burke and his assistant, E. B. Meritt, was demanded today by A. A. Grorud, attorney for the Flathead Indians of Montana, in letters written to various Senators, including Borah of Idaho, Curtis of Kansas and Frazier of North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Grorud charges these men, together with other government officials, are attempting to negotiate a contract with the Rocky Mountain Power Company which will deprive the Indians of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The money involved represents leasing of a power site on the Flathead River which Grorud says will develop twice as much electricity as Muscle Shoals. FOUR MILLIONS FOR ADS Laundry Owners Will Conduct FourYear Campaign. Plans for start of a $4,000,000 national advertising campaign were approved by the national advertising committee of the Laundry Owners’ National Association here today at the office of the Millls Advertising Company’s office, People’s Bank Bldg. The campaign will open this fall and continue for four years, the committee decided. RHINELANDER AT RENO? Man Resembling New Yorker Living in Divorce Capital. Bn United Press RENO, Nev., June 18.—Reports that Leonard Kip Rhinelander, wealthy New Yorker, has established residence here for the purpose of seeking legal separation from Alice Jones Rhinelander were unverified Friday. A Japanese servant at a cottage here, supposedly that of Rhinelander, said that he did not know the name of the man who employed him, but the servant’s description of his master tallies with that of Rhinelander. STRAW HAT SAVES LIFE New Lid Prevents Falling Brick From Killing Owner. By United Press CHICAGO, June 18—The new stiff straw hat Herman Hutchinson, 23, had just bought saved his life Friday. A brick which fell from the thirty-sixth story of a building under construction, landed on Hutchinson’s hat and knocked him down. Several lacerations of the scalp was the only injury, physicians said. Sleep Costs $675 in Diamonds William C. Kollinger, 956 High St., told police he went to sleep while on a party with four men Thursday night and awakened to find $675 worth of diamonds in a ring and tie pin gone.

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lan to take necessary steps to force the Arbitration. The application was taken under advisement. First National charged Miss Moore was under contract to make twelve pictures and that she had made only seven. She nas left California and come to New York, and now is about to sail for Europe “for an extended visit,” the company charged.

FIVE WITNESSES HEARD BY CORRUPTION QUIZ No Names Made Public by Questioning Officials. Deputy Prosecutor William H. Sheaffer and Special Deputy John W. Holtzman Friday heard five witnesses in the probe into political corruption. Names of the persons were not made public. Saturday the State is to set out verbally or by motion which case against Mayor Duvall will be tried before Special Judge C. C. Shirley. It is said the one charging Duvall and City Controller William C. Buser with conspiracy to commit a felony will be chosen. Duvall is also charged with violation of the corrupt practices act, perjury and making a false voluntary affidavit. CALIFORNIA RESIDENT PASSES AT AGE OF 103 Woman, Said to Be First White Child of Region, Dies. Bn United Press SAN RAFAEL, Cal., June 18.—Old residents of Marion County Friday were mourning the death of Mrs. Louisa McGovern, 103, said to be th first white child born in northern California. For the last 100 years Mrs. McGovern has lived in this region, north of San Francisco Bay. Her father, Gregorio Brienies was one of the early Spanish governors of California. POLL SUPPLIES , READY Inspectors Must Report to City Clerk Boyce. Inspectors for the city manager election Tuesday, who fail to appear at his office today or Sunday to be sworn in and receive supplies forfeit their pay for election services, City Clerk William A. Boycve Jr., declared. All clerks, judges and inspectors will meet in Municipal Court Four, second floor police headquarters, at 2:30 p. m. Sunday to receive final instructions, he said. .

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Orville Isom, 618 Arch St., Ford, from Pearl and Blackford Sts. Leonard Cougill, 757 Graham St., Chevrolet, 535-323, from Market and Alabama Sts. L. F. Sweeney, 1142 Spruce St., Essex, 532-219, from Pleasant and Shelby Sts. L. T. Allen Sales Company, 917 Virginia Ave., Nash, 589-323, from Ohio and West Sts. Walter Ruschaupt, 702 N. Garfield Ave., Ford, 510-500, from Capitol Ave. and Market St. Edward Anderson, 302 Caven St., Ford, 531-898, from that address. William Waltz, 1215 Wade St., Ford, from rear of that address.

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Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Thomas Ford, city, Ford, found at White River and Tenth Sts. Ford, license 841-416 Michigan, found at Tenth and Limestone Sts.

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A. E. F. OF 1927 IS WAITING ITS ‘FALUN’ CALL 20,000 Legionnaires Prepare for Trip to Paris and Great Convention. BY C. J. LILLEY WASHINGTON. June 18.—This fall, when the spring and summer pastime of flying across the Atlantic has become so common as no longer to cause a thrill, 20,000 impatient ex-service men will descend upon France in one of the largest peace time armies to assemble there. This trek back to the battlefields where they fought so valiantly during the World War will be the first visit many of them made since the guns ceased firing, in November, 1918. Going across then they were herded on transports and conveyed through the dangerous waters of the Atlantic with Tie possibility every minute that a submarine would send their ship to the bottom. Twenty Ships to Carry Legion i This time they go as members of the American Legion, riding across the ocean they made safe by their victory. Twenty ships will take them from seven Atlantic and Gulf ports. Official sailing date Is September 9 and the return depends upon when their money runs out. The occasion is the annual convention of the American Legion, being held in France that the boys I once again may fraternize at the scene of the conflict from which they so fortunately emerged alive. Special rates on railroads; special rates on steamers; special housing rates in France; all these have been arranged to make the trip attractive. Lowest Fare Is $147 Minimum steamship fare, including meals for the round trip, is $147. Rooms in Paris will range from $lO to $49 a week. Every available room already has been reserved by the Legion arrangements committee. In addition to the trip across, there will be fifteen side tours to | battlefields and cemeteries. John J. | Wicker of Indianapolis is the execuI tive secretary of the committee in I charge. Officials of the legion who plan to go are: Howard P. Savage of Chicago, national commander; Maj. J. J. Sims of Tennessee, vice commander; John G. Towne of Maine, vice commander: Thomas Busha of Montana, vice commander; John F. Barton, national adjutant, and others. Several Speakers Named Speakers already arranged for the convention include Gen. John J. Pershing, Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, Marshal Foch, Marshal Petain, Senator Lawrence Tyson, Tennessee; Marshal Haig and officials of the Belgian and Italian armies. The Leviathan has been selected as the flagship of the peace-time fleet and the national commander and the official guests will go across on this former transport. KILLED IN ATTEMPT TO SAVE GIRL’S LIFE Bn United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., June 18.— Homer Van Atta, 42, who was shot through the abdomen Wednesdaynight when he intervened to save Miss Ethel Rouch, 16, from an attempt by Carl Osborne to kill her, was dead of his wound Friday. Van Atta tried to wrest a gun away from Osborne and was shot during the scuffle. Osborne wounded another man, then shot and killed himself. The affair occurred In Van Atta’s home after Miss Rouch told Osborne she was “through” with him. DROP BAD CHECK CASE Defendant’s Son Dead, Drank Poisoned Lemonade. Bn United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 18.— The case against Edgar Cox, Tipton, charged with passing a worthless check, was dismissed in Circuit Court here Friday, when the prosecution refused to press charges. Cox’s 12-year-old son Clifford, died four weeks ago after drinking poisoned lemonade alleged to have been administered by his cousin, Mrs. Arthur Walser, and her husband of Fairmont, Ind. The Walsers now are facing trial for first degree murder. CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES Confederate Soldier, 86, Passes at Daughter’s Gary Home| Bn United Press GARY, Ind., June 18.—One of the few remaining confederate veterans of the Civil War in Indiana, John W. White, 86, was dead at the home of his daughter here Friday. White became ill just as the State G. A. R. encampment opened Monday and could not join in the ceremonies as he had intended. White fought in the Confederate cavalry while his brother and father donned blue uniforms of the northern army. White came to Indiana from Kentucky in 1890 and had lived in Gary since 1925. FUND BUREAU CONFERS Community Campaign Group in Season’s Last Session. Final meeting of the season of the Community Fund speakers’ bureau was held Friday noon at the Lincoln. Dr. Orien W. Fifer, chairman, presided. Mrs. David Ross tola how the S4OO provided the Indianapolis Indorsers of Photoplays by the Community Fund is used to show educational and entertainment films to school children and hospital shut-ins.

Radio Amateur to Broadcast Storm Signs From Dreary Greenland Site

Will Help Save Lives of Men Crossing Ocean by Ship, Air. BY ISRAEL KLEIN Radio Editor, NEA Service Destined for a two-years* stay at the coldest, dreaiest and most treacherous spot on the northern 1 hemisphere, a young radio amateur is on his way to help save the lives of those crossing the Atlantic by sea ' and air. This is the great adventure undertaken by Paul C. Oscanyan, Jr., of New York, well known in amateur radio circles. He is bound for Greenland, at a point where the winds come from the south, congregate in a whirling cold complexity of storms and return southward to do their worst. North Pole of Winds It is because of this feature that the spot for which Oscanyan is bound is called by scientists the “North Pole of Winds.” Romantic and adventurous as this title is, it is none the less an actual scientific designation. It is to warn shipping and aviation in the northeast Atlantic and over Europe that Oscanyan is going to set up his radio station and broadcast the storm warnings two days in advance of their arrival. Such a warning, coming so far in advance, might have saved the lives of Nungesser and Coll, the daring French aviators who attempted the flight from Paris to New York with disastrous results. Set Up Permanent Station This is the contention of Prof. William Herbert Hobbs, noted geologist of the University of Michigan, who visited the Greenland ice cap last year and is returning with Oscanyan and others to set up a more permanent radio signal station at ' the very center of the wind pole. | Hobbs will stay on flashing no- ! tices that will tell aviators and sea- ! men what weather to expect from the north for two days following each report. This is far greater advance warning than we have ever before received. And it will be accurate, says Hobbs. llow Winds Travel “The ice cap of Greenland,” explains Prof. Hobbs, “is the northern wind pole of our atmospheric circulation. “Along the equator is a great furnace where the heated air rises and flows off at high level northward and southward to be drawn down again over the two refrigerators of Greenland and the Antarctic and returned along the surface to the equator. “It is because of the spasmodic : operation of both refrigerators that the Greenland ice cap is the breeding place of northern storms. “The ice cap of Greenland has the shape of the back of a watch and is nearly two miles high. The cold air slides outward with hurricane velocity.” Station on Ice Dr. Hobbs has therefore put up radio and weather stations directly on this treacherous ice cap and at the edges of it, so that the returning cold winds could be detected, j their direction and velocity noted : and the warnings sent out by radio at least 48 hours before they are due. A few modern conveniences will be provided to relieve Oscanyan of the long dreary nights he will spend in this cold and stormy area. He will have his radio equipment with which he will listen in on American programs. His hut will be equipped with electric lights from his own small power plant and with other | electrical conveniences. Oscanyan is only 27 years old, but he has had considerable radio exI perience. He was in the Greenland j expedition last year. PERIL IN PUSHMOBILE It isn’t safe to ride even in a pushmobile any more. Ollie Cox, 6, Negro, 626 Hiawatha St., suffered a three-inch cut in his backk when his pushmobile turned over near his home Friday. His 1 wound was dressed at city hospital.

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Map shows the “North Pole of the Winds” over Greenland, with Holstenborg the place where Paul Oscanyan, Jr., radio amateur shown at right, will stay and flash storm signals to aviators and seamen. Insert at left shows Prof. W. H. Hobbs, leader of the expedition.

SUSPECT HELD AS STRANGLER Several Murders Charged to Winnipeg Prisoner. Ru T’nitrd Press WINNIPEG, Man., June 18.—A man, giving the name of Earl Nelson, charged with being the j “strangler murderer” who killed a j woman and girl in Winnipeg about a week ago, has been identified. Police announced Friday, as Adrian Harris, the man sought in conneci tion with a number of murders In the United States. , He wil be formally charged with the murders of 14-year-old Lola Cowan and Mrs. Emily Patterson. Nelson was captured in a remote part of Manitoba near the little town of Killarney Thursday. Almost 1,000 farmers searched through the underbrush for twelve hours after Nelson had escaped from Killarney jail. He finally was cornered and surrendered without great opposition. He was accused of being the “strangler,” but denided the charges. ‘BEN’ FAILS AT HULA Corpulent ‘King’s’ Antics Are Described in Court. Ru United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich., June 18.— Corpulent “King” Benjamin Purnell on one occasion essayed a “hula hula dance” for the amusement of young women of the House of David colony who were his companions in Shiloh, Ruth Bamford Reed, Detroit, testified Friday in the State suit to disband the cult. “I was born in the House of David and grew up ’in the faith,’” the girl told the court. “I was large for my age and when I was 10 years old Benjamin took me to Shiloh and explained his purification rites to me. I was one of his favorites. “Benjamin would become playful at times and attempt to entertain the girls that surrounded him. He tried to play the piano, but did it very badly.”

NEW‘DRY CZAR’ TAKESGHARGE Lowman Assumes Control of Prohibition Forces. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, June 18.— Seymour Lowman, Elmira, N. Y., Friday took charge of the Government's vast prohibition Army and Navy, succeeding Gen. L. C. Andrews as America’s “dry czar.” While Lowman does not officially assume office as assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition, customs and coast guard until Aug. 1, he unofficially relieved Assistant Secretary Andrews to break in on his new job. Lowman has a force of more than 15,000 persons to use in dry law enforcement work. There are 4,000 employes of the prohibition bureau, 10,000 officers and men in the coast guard. Lowman says he will operate his forces on a business basis, enforcing the law strictly, but as inoffensively as possible. The work is entirely new to Lowman. who has been a small town contractor. He was elected lieutenant governor of New York ur.der Nathan Miller. Although an ultra-dry, he never has been actively in the government battle against liquor rings. Lowman plans to leave the major responsibility for carrying out the Volstead act to Dr. J. M. Doran, prohibition commissioner, but he will be held directly responsible by the administration for results. Boy Fatally Hurt Bu Times Svrrial SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 18.— Rudolph Pozsgi, 15. died in St. Joseph Hospital of injuries suffered when a street car on which he was a passenger, crashed into a truck in a business section accident.

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BRITONS LEAVE < FOR GOOLIDGE NAVALPARLEY London Delegation Prepares to Continue Its Fight Against Submarine. Bu United Press LONDON, June 18.—Principals of Great Britain’s delegation to President Coolidge’s naval limitations conference at Geneva, departed Friday, headed by W. C. Bridgeman, first lord of the admiralty. Bridgeman was accompanied by Vice Admiral F. L. Field, and each had a retinue of secretaries As head of what would be the navy department in the United States, Bridgeman can speak for the British cabinet and the British navy with authority. Well-founded information indicated today that the British delegation would be prepared at Geneva to make almost any concession regarding reduction of battleship and submarine strength to aid the discussions towards useful results. But, Britain was believed to be ready to resist strenuously any effort to disturb the 5-5-3 ratio or to bring about a reallotment of naval strength except on a basis of tonnage by classification. That scheme of rating naval power differs from the one desired by France, whereby each country would be allotted a fixed tonnage with permission to employ it at will, using all for submarines or for any other type of craft. Britain also was expected to be ready Monday to submit to further reduction In the size and armaments of cruisers, but she would resist any reduction in the npa; ical strength of her beyond the ni'inirally'.s e;-!i£BH| the number of cruisers ei >SUtHs " keep open British KmpiiflSPSi routes and to combat the threat of neighboring continental nations. I was presumed that the Unitea States delegation, led by Hugh S. Gibson, ambassador to Belgium, would understand British insistence that there be no reduction In her numerical cruiser strength, so long as there was a concerted effort by France and Italy, partly supported by Japan, to scrap limitation of naval strength by classification and to substitute the total tonnage basis of limitation. That would make possible large, scale submarine construction, and Britain fears submarines, which are judged to be the greatest menace to her trade routes. STAYS HALL EXECUTION Murderer of South Bend Druggist Wins Court Decision. Stay of execution until Nov. 4 was granted John Hall, convicted of the murder of Louis Kreidler, South Bend druggist, by the Supreme Court. He was to have been executed next Friday. Hall and Tommy O’Brien were vried for the killing at Elkhart, the case being taken there on a change of venue. O’Brien was sentenced to life imprisonment. FAMOUS BULLDOG DEAD Bn United Press CALGARY, Alta, Canada, June 18.—Charlie, a thoroughbred English bulldog, which was born in a shell hole at Vimy Ridge at the height of the now famous battle, is dead here. The dog was owned by Private E. J. O’Hara and was a white brindle whose sire had been chosen at Ypres and whose mother was killed at the front a few days after Charlie was born.