Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1927 — Page 9

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•HAZING LEADS TO RACE ROW AT HOSPITAL Jews Allege Mistreatment by Gentiles in New York Institutions. WALKER IS AROUSED Patients Neglected, Say Leaders in Bitter Controversy in Gotham. Bv United Press NEW YORK, June 23.— Jew and Gentile were opposed today in the Jewish city in the world, the Jews alleging that discrimination against them in city welfare institutions _had brought shame, humiliation and ■feglect to their race. Asa result of the charges, six Gentile internes of Kings County Hospital had been peremptorily ordered from the premises and their places taken over by four Jewish internes from other city institutions. The six suspended men were charged by three Jewish internes With having hazed them. The hazing charge was a minor tnatter until investigation developed further charges of discrimination against Jews, allegedly extending over a period of twenty-five years and involving patients as well as internes.

Walker Begins Probe Mayor James J. Walker expected his investigations in Kings County Hospital to begin this week and in addition there will be a hearing in court, since the Gentile internes have been charged with assault by the Jews who were hazed. An offer to withdraw the charges if the six internes resigned from the hospital was rejected by Jeter B. Smith, their counsel. After visiting the hospital, Mayor Walker intimated that the entire public welfare department, headed by Bid P. Coler, would be subjected to investigation. Nathan Sweedlar, counsel for the internes, said his clients were “heckled, examined and crossexamined and evidence was taken away from them, including the with which they were bound, Me sheets with which they were and their torn pajamas.” This took place, Sweedler said, when the hospital internes committee summoned the hazed men to investigate their story. Sweedler said he would be able to regain the evidence. Claims Patients Neglected “We will show that Jewish patients were neglected,” he said, “and that on one occasion a patient was left for four hours unattended, the interne leaving with a disparaging remark. “Internes with Jewish names were not allowed to sit at the same table in the dining room with Gentile doctors. “Foul smelling smoke-capsules were thrown in their rooms. If they locked their doors, the transoms were pried open. Nurses were encouraged to be discourteous to them and to disobey their orders.” M’FADDEN IS SPEAKER Parke County People Plan Reunion and Picnic Sunday. John S. McFadden, Rockville, Ind., will speak at the all-day Parke County reunion picnic at Garfield Park Sunday. Music will be provided by John Moorman, Maurice Murphy, Raymond Jones and Mrs D. C. Sefton. Readings will be given by MAry Ward, Edna Larimore and John Holtman of the Beriault Mfichool of Expression.

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POLICE BELIEVE DEATH THREAT NOTE IS HOAX Indianapolis detectives today were inclined to regard as a hoax a letter with the printed signature of “Tommy O’Connor,” threatening to kill a few policemen. A Tommy O’Connor, under sentence of death, shot his way to freedom in Chicago several years ago. The letter addressed to The Times and the chief of police: “Well, I am loose & free as a bird in your HOOSIER metropolis so tell these big dump Indianapolis cops to not cross me or they will be big dead Indianapolis cops. “Lovingly, “TOMMY O’CONNOR (Himself). Hit by Auto; May Die Bv United Pres* TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 23. Samuel Spencer, 20, is in a local hospital suffering from a fractured skull received when he was knocked from his bicycle by an automobile driven by Miss Mildred Valentine. Little hope is held for his recovery.

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Racine Youths Must ‘Let Conscience Be Their Guide/ Bu United Press RACINE, Wis., June 23.—“ It’s a great old town,” Racine’s younger generation declares in loud and joyous tones. Restrictions on “petting parties” were removed recently when the chief of police announced that as long as couples kept within the bounds of propriety their “petting parties” would not be molested. > Now to further increase the pleasure of the young folks, I. B. Farmer, superintendent of parks, has declared the bathing beach censor on bathing suits will be an unknown quantity in Racine this summer. Bathers are advised to “let their conscience be their guide,” but of course if they go too much to extreme, the officials will do some suggesting, it was intimated.

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“I am no believer in rigid restrictions in bathing attire,” Farmer said. “Where the restrictions are the severest, the most trouble is found. “No one can tell me that our boys and girls will not be modest. In fact, they are less apt to be immodest with no restrictions to bother them. They do not like a lot of “don’t do this or don’t do that.” “I am positive our girls won’t wear bathing costumes that will shock any one,” Farmer continued in explaining his reasons for letting down the bars restricting the shortness, tightness, weight and general design of bathing suits. Sex Novel Always Sells Bv United Press • LONDON, June 23.—“ The sex novel will sell in any country at any time. I do net think the taste for it increases any faster than the taste for potatoes, because they are both staples,” Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher, said before sailing for home.

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AUTO BANDIT KILLS POLICE AND ISM Furious Gun Battle Ends in Triple Killing on Chicago Street. GIRL PAL FLEES SCENE Stealer of Two Cars Tries to Shoot Way to Freedom When Nabbed. Bn United Pri ss CHICAGO, June 23.—Two patrolmen and a motor car bandit were killed in a running gun battle early today in one of the northwestern residential sections. More than a score of shots were fired in the short shooting aflray. The two patrolmen accosted the bandit, and a girl accompanying him as they drove along the street in a motor car which had been stolen earlier in the night. The robber opened fire and it was returned by the two officers. All three men were killed, but the girl companion escaped. The patrolmen killed were: Sergt. Thomas Kehoe, Detective James Farley. Bandit Known. The bandit was identified today by police as Daniel Leather, 23, a police character. Early last night, according to police reports, the bandit forced Emil Svednian to surrender his Cadillac car. A few hours laetr Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Cooper reported the bandit approached in the stolen Cadillac and forced them to surrender their new motor car, abandoning the Cadillac. Police were sent into the residential sections to search for the motor thief. Kehoe and Farley came upon the robber and the woman. The officers leaped from their motor car shouting "halt.” All Three Drop The bandit drove his car to the curb, then started firing. Kehoe dropped to the pavement at the first shot and Farley fell a few seconds later. Although both officers were wounded fatally, they continue firing. The two patrolmen were taken to a hospital, but were dead when they arrived. Other officers had arrived at the scene of the shooting and they stumbled across the bandit's body several hundred feet from where the stolen motor car had been hastily parked. The girl was nowhere to be seen and residents in the district said they had seen her leap from the car and run away from the shooting. REQUEST $525,000 FUND Sum to Be Used for County Debts, Current Expenses. Large appropriations for meeting current county expenses and payment of debts long due will be requested of the county council Friday. One ordinance asks for a temporary loan of $350,000 for current expanses the visit five months in anticipation of the November tax collection. Another asks $50,000 to aid in disposing of the SIOO,OOO free gravel road fund debt, admitted some time ago by county officials. The third seeks $125,000 for payment of the county’s share in the White River flood prevention program. TRAIN SHATTERS FAITH Engine Breaks Leg of Believing Jersey Bee Farmer. Bv United Press _ „„ ORANGE, N. J., June 23.—Louis Pruden proprietor of a bee farm, was so firm in his belief “the Lord will protect me,” that he stood on the tracks before a speeding express train Wednesday. The result of the test broke his left leg and as he admitted at the hospital later, shook his faith.

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STRIDES MADE IN SAVING EYES Vision Clinics for Children Below 6 Established. Bn Times Sneeial NEW YORK. June 23.—Tremendous strides made toward elimination of principal causes of blindness in the eighteen years since the orogin of the movement for conservation of vision are revealed in the annual report of the National Committee for Prevention of Blindness which is today being sent to its 20,000 members. The report entitled “A Year in Review” shows the percentage of children in the schools for the blind who lost their sight because of babies’ sore eyes—for centuries the principal cause of blindness—has been reduced more than fifty-one per cent during the committee’s life It announces establishment of the country’s first pre-school eye clinics for examination of eyes of children too young to read, and describes how in these clinics it has become possible to test the sight of children as young as two to six years. The report shows that in 1913 there were thoughout the United States only two sight-saving classes for education of children with seriously defective vision; that in 1926 there were 265 such classes; but that this is only five per cent of the number of such classes needed to provide education for children with serious eye defects without further endangering theirsight. In chart is based on experience of several of the largest industries of the country, the committee reports that well organized sight conservation work has made it possible for these companies to save ninety-nine per cent of the expense previously incurred through eye accidents and to save ninety-two per cent of the time previously lost as the result of eye accidents.

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Reform Group and Prey Both Use Spies in Washington Fight. Hn United Press WASHINGTON. June 23.—Church, dry and reform forces here were on the war-path today in an organized fight against bootleggers and purveyors of obscene magazines and periodicals in the national capital. The widespread activities of the New Citizens’ Service Association against bootleggers were enlivened when it became known that local bootleggers are employing their own spies to protect their interests against the spies informing the association of bootlegger maneuvers. The association, claiming a membership of 4,000 citizens, is operating against bootleggers in the fashion of a military campaign. Its headquarters. a block off fashionable Sixteenth St., and not far from the Dupont Circle temporary White House, swarms all day w r ith unofficial lieutenants, officers and secret agents. Military Manner Its citizen field marshal, Harry N. Douthitt, directs the campaign from a map showing location of bootleg haunts by little pins such as generals used during the World War to designate army unit locations Here he receives reports from citizen informants, sets his pins and informs dry agents and police of the location of suspects. In line with the bootleggers’ coun-ter-offensive, which they call “snooping on the snoopers,” It was revealed seven of their secret agents attended the dry organization mass meeting here Sunday. Douthitt said today his system is “spy-proof,” as the name of the informant is kept secret and he does not act upon anonymous information. 200 Complaints to Police There is considerable speculation as to whether the citiaen spies would unearth bootleggers who, It has been charged repeatedly, frequent the Capitol corridors to serve legislators. Douthitt said more than 200 complaints have been made to the police from association information. The companion drive against obscene magazines and periodicals, which it is planned to extend nationally, will be carried on by the International Reform Federation.

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KINS BEN'S PET TO TAKE STAND Former Favorite to Tell of Night Revels. By United Press ST. JOSEPH. Mich., June 23. Details of the life of "King Ben Purnell’’ while he was in hiding at the House of David religious colony, probably will be related today at the State’s suit to dissolve the religious sect. Mrs. Bessie May Woodworth, former favorite of the bearded leader, who led State troopers to Purnell’s hiding place last fall, will resume testimony. She told yesterday how Purnell went into hiding in 1923 after a capias warrant had been issued for him. She said she and many other girls were called to the hiding place —Diamond House—repeatedly to entertain Purnell. She also told of a group marriage ordered by Purnell when she married Woodworth, a man she had known only a few hours. Mrs. Woodworth said she went to the colony in 1815 and left last July. “I quit because I became disgusted with the way Benjamin was carrying on,” she testified. RAPS LIQUOR MEDICINE Secretary Shumaker of Anti-Saloon League Heard at Newcastle. Bn United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind.. June 23.—Socalled medicinal whisky ‘is a poison instead of a healthful remedy,” the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, secretary of the Anti-Saloon League,* told the Newcastle Rotary Club, arguing that old-fashioned ideas about the “heelthfulness” of alcoholic drinks had been disproved and the Eighteenth amendment was the result of this discovery. ‘Short’ Causes Burglar Alarm Police emergency squads rushed to the Inland Bank and Trust, Market and Delaware Sts., this morning when the police alarm at the bank sounded. A short circuit caused the alarm.

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WEATHER OF CITY IS IDEAL FOR AVIATION Strong Points Advanced in Campaign to Establish Good Airport Here. BUREAU TO GIVE HELP Congress Aid May Be Asked to Get Information for > Plane Pilots. Indianapolis is a good “weather city” for aviation. The city has an average of 250 ideal flying days a year, according to J. H. Armington, government meteorologist. This is one of the important factors in the plans to put Indianapolis on the “air map” of the nation. Aside from the 250 ideal days, flights could be safely made most of the rest of the year, Armington said. Weather Bureau to Aid The weather bureau already has : plans to shoulder its important responsibility in the extension of aviation here. If the proposed commercial lines are established by the Central Airways, Inc., which plans to operate routes to other cities, the Weather Bureau will co-operate to the extent of its means in supplying pilots with desired weather reports, Armington declared. Should demands make it necessary, an additional appropriation might be asked from Congress. In the last three years the United State Department has set up special observation stations to record information valuable to fliers. The local station is not equipped to make “upper air” observations, ! usually made with balloons and | kits, bearing instruments. _ Several Facts Important The direction, elevation and velocity of wind, visibility and | height of the “roof” are facts imI portant in aeronautics. Each year Armington supplies special information to pilots on the ■ Ford Reliability Tour, scheduled I for July. The bureau cooperates I with Army pilots at Schoen Field, ! Fv. Benjamin Harrison. ‘From a meteorological standpoint there are no reasons why ' Indianapolis should not have com- | mercial lines. We have an abund- , ance cf sunshine and the winds in Indiana are no more boisterous ana j turbulent than in any other locality in this section,” Armington said. Incorporation papers for the Central Airways, Inc., are to be filed with the Secretary of State to Norman A. Perry, Indianapolis Power and Light Company, president of the new concern. Plan Passenger Lines Air passenger lines to Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland and Cincinnati and other cities are contemplated by the group of business men backing the development of commercial aviation here. A fleet of modern planes will be stationed at the Indianapolis Airport, at Mars Hill, subleased to the 113th Observation Squadron of the Indiana National Guard. Commercial planes will be on duty at ♦he flying field for any commercial use, said Adjutant General William H. Kershner. The business leaders are eager to make Indianapolis an important center in air transportation. Other officers are: G. M. Williams. Marmon Motor Car Company president, vice-president; -W. A. aM kins of E. C. Atkins ComparJ treasurer; Nicholas H. Noyes of Lilly Company, O. B. lies of li|P temational Machine Tool Company, and Henry L. Dithmer, Polar Ice and Fuel Company president, directors. < > FRANKLIN CLUB WINS Rotary Attendance Prize Awarded at Group Meeting. Rtt Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., June 23. The attendance prize cup, offered nine Rotary clubs in this section of Indiana, was won by Franklin Rotarians, at a group meeting here Wednesday. More than five hundred attended the joint gathering. Rotary fundamentals were discussed by Will Barr, Bluffton, district governor, and Charles Grafton, Muncie, Indiana district governorelect. Dan S. Perry, Greensburg club president and group deputy, presided. CALENDAR CLOCK GONE S4O Worth of Flags Also Reported Stolen to Police. A timepiece which recorded the date, hour, minute and second, valued at SSOO was stolen last night from the horn eof Grover C. Martin, 2326 Kenwood Ave. The antique clock was stolen while the family was moving to 1338 Hiatt St., and moving vans were backed up to the front porch. Flags valued at S4O were stolen from a barn at the home of William E Foster, 2050 N. Capitol Ave. The flags had been the property of Foster’s father. Captain Foster, who died recently.