Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1927 — Page 9

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Suspicion Shadow Follows Jurors in Fall-Doheny Case; Bad Luck Their Lot Since End of Famous Trial.

BY RUTH FINNEY £ ASHINGTON, July 28.—What \V 7 happened to the jury that W acquitted Albert B. Fall and Edward Doheny of conspiracy charges last winter? Those twelve good men and true—did they all get rich afterward? Not by a long shot, say the members individually and collectively, emphatically and somewhat heatedly. On the contrary, bad luck and discomfort have followed them since the day they stepped from the court house and found themselves, for better or for worse, marked men, most of them say. At least three lost their jobs after the trial. A fourth could not be found at the firm for which he said he was working last December. Two others have changed jobs, but say they did so voluntarily. Five still are working for their former employers, though one of thees says “there has been lots of hard feeling,’’ and he doesn’t know how long he will be there. The twelfth could not be be located.

__ J E sure have had to stand a \X/ lot," said one man. “My y friends all keep asking me what I did with the money I got, and I can’t tell, always, whether they’re joking or not.” “Everywhere I go folks ask me what I turned those men loose for,” says another. “I tell them, now, that it was some other guy.” One of the three men who lost their jobs after the trial thinks he can trace this directly to the verdict of acquittal. He says “things never were the same” after he went back to work. Two others think they probably lost out because of the length of time they had to be away from work during the trial. A few of the men haven’t minded the kidding, and say they were glad they had the experience of serving on such an important case. Others are bitter. “I won’t serve on a jury again as long as I live,” one man says. “They can put me in jail instead.” SHERE is nothing in any of the aspects of life at the homes of the jurors to contradict their denial of receiving anything of value from the rich men they saved from jail. Their homes appear modest, some of them painfully so. A few own their homes and offer to prove they owned them long before the trial. “As God is my judge, I never have gotten anything from Fall, Doheny, Hogan or anyone connected with the ’ defense,” one juror says, “but I wouldn’t mind having a good job. “When things looked pretty black for me after I lost the job I had, I wrote Attorney Frank Hogan and told him all the hardships I had as a result of serving on the jury. He answered me, but didn’t say anything definite about a job, and I never followed it up, because I didn’t want to sound like I was asking for a hand-out. “I’ve been kidded by a lot of folks, saying to me I didn’t have to work since I was on that jury, but the only reason I wasn’t working for two months was that I couldn’t get a job.” M' ’”'l OST of the men say they would give the same verdict again if called on to do so. They know now that the transaction they found so innocent has since been found by the United States Suprer.- Court, in an unanimous opinion, . 3 have been tainted with fraud and corruption. “We couldn’t have sent those two old men to jail,” one juror said kindly. “Only a loan between two old friends—that wasn’t any of our business,” another still thinks. “Fall probably was just a tool for somelone. I know a thing or two about politics,” another says, with a wise nod. And another: “No true American could listen to that wonderful little woman, Mrs. Doheny, and then send her husband to jail.” And someone else: “The case didn’t seem very plain until Mr. Denby went on the stand, but he told us all about it.” The Dohenys were the central figures in the trial. Little was seen or heard of Mrs. Fajl. But it was she, the men report; who took the trouble to seek some of them out last New Year’s day, and thank them. WINS GOVERNOR TROPHY Huntley N. Spaulding Victor In Mackinac Golf Tourney Bu United Press MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich.. July 28.—Gov. Huntley N. Spaulding won the silver loving cup presented by Gov. Fred W. Green of Michigan to the winner of the Governors’ conference golf tournament. Gov. Spaulding’s score was 84 for a double round of the trick island nine-hole course. Gov. Green was second with 95 and Gov. Trumball of Connecticut was third with 103. Mrs. Adam McMullen, wife of the Governor of Nebraska, won the women's tournament with a score of 54 for one round of the course. Fall May Prove Fatal By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 28. Thomas Pallatin, 40, may die of injuries suffered while seeking relief from the heat Wednesday night. He slept for a time on the roof of a summer kitchen at his home. In attempting to return to his room, he fell.to a sidewalk, receiving a fracture.

THOUSANDS OF STATE GUARD IN MANEUVER Troop Movement Slated for Week-End to Be One of Biggest Since War. WILL TRAIN TWO WEEKS Indiana Contingent Will Go to Camp Knox, Ky., for Drill Period. Eight hundred officers and 3,970 enlisted men will be moved from all parts of Indiana to Camp Knox, Ky., next Saturday and Sunday, in one of the most important State troop movements since the World War. The Indiana National Guard troops will enter their annual two weeks’ training period Sunday. The guardsmen are part of the Thirtyeighth division, of some 8,000 men of Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and part of Ohio, who will train at Camp Knox under command of Maj Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, Indianapolis, World War comniander of the 150th Field Artillery. Maneuvers on Huge Scale The division is being concentrated for divisional maneuvers of a magnitude seldom attempted in National Guard history. Advance details from practically every Indiana company left today to prepare the camp for the main body. Some of the troops will travel to the camp by motor, but most will go in special trains or special cars. Adjutant General William H. Kershner’s orders for the troop movement call for twelve special trains, leaving from the following points and picking up various units en route: Indianapolis, Vevay, Evansville, Lebanon, Martinsville, Kokomo, Mt. Vernon, Goshen, Angola, Mishawaka Gary and Rensselaer. Several Units Motorised Motorized units will proceed overland from Columbus, Lafayette, Marion, and Indianapolis. The 113th Observation Squadron and 113th Photography section of the air service will train at Camp Perry, Ohio, leaving here for Dayton over the Pennsylvania Sunday. The troops will be in training until Aug. 14. The troops Include the 151st and 152nd Infantry; 150th Field Artillery, 139th Field Artillery, 113th Engineers, with the usual complement of headquarters, medical, motor transport, signal, band, and ambulance detachment^.

WELLS’ LATEST NOVEL ATTACKS MUSSOLINI Fascists Called "Castor Oil Cads” by “Meanwhile” Character. By United Press LONDON, July 28.—H. G. Wells’ new novel, “Meanwhile,” out today, contains violent attacks on Fascism and Mussolini and sharp jabs at Baldwin cabinet members and British labor leaders. The statements, of course, aren’t supposed to be coming from Wells, but from his characters, and the old question arises as to whether a writer is to be held responsible for what his characters say. Mussolini is described as "a charlatan, actor, destroyer, cannibal,” and the Fascists are “castor oil cads loaded with canes who do not dare face really formidable women.” “There are suffragettes in London who would tear them to pieces,” the same character comments. TREMENDOUS FLOODS SWEEP BURMA, BARODA Coffins Washed From Graves by Water! Cotton Crop Damaged. By United Press LONDON, July 28.—Tremendous floods on an almost unprecedented scale roused fears today that colossal damage and considerable loss of life would result in the Gujarat and Broach districts, dispatches from Bombay said. The city of Baroda was reported to be surrounded by water. Burma also reported severe floods. The important town of Sirganj in Bengal, a dispatch to the Daily Express said, was menaced by the Brahmaputra River which already had destroyed a European cemetery. Coffins buried a century ago were floating with the current. The entire cotton district was affected by the flood and it is estimated that the crop will be not more than 50 per cent of normal. INJURED IN AIR BLAST Bu Times Special BERNE, Ind., July 28.—Amos Moser is suffering from a fracture of the right leg received In a terrific air explosion which shook the business section of the town. A compressed air tank in a garage basement let go while a pump was forcing , ‘air into it. The top of the tank was blown through a concrete floor, a part of the basement partitions was wrecked and a concrete pillar was moved a distance of a few inches. YOUNGSTERS SWIM RIVER Bu Times Spatial JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., July 28. —May Yates, 16, swam the Ohio river here and return and her' brother Jack, 10, made a single trip across, after a course of training by their father, Thomas T. Yates.

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(NEA Service. Washington Bureau) The end of another thrilljpg aviation exploit Is pictured here... The tiny Wright Apache biplane shown at top, resting in a cabbage patch near Washington, was landed safely there by Lieut. C. C. Champion, U. S. Navy flier, after flames and an exploding motor had imperiled his life at an altitude of seven miles. At the left is Champion, still encased in the stuffy garb he wore as a protection against extreme cold. The sketch depicts just how the plane came down.

Blind Man Gains Fame as Expert Radio Tester

James E. Daily Spends Dark Hours in Conversation Through Ether. His hearing made keen by lack of sight, James E. Daily, of 2938 Brookslde Ave., serves as reception tester for radio stations. Daily, who became interested in radio shortly after his sight failed about six years ago, operates a powerful navy type receiving and transmitting set. Long hours of total blindness are lightened for him by Morse code conversation with other amateur operators. He frequently tests reception for the Crosley Radio Corporation, Station WLW of Cincinnati, and has tested for many other stations. With his keen hearing, Daily is enabled to give accurate reports to radio stations on the reception of their programs. Tests are asked by stations frequently when changes or experiments are made with broadcasting apparatus. Daily’s receiving set was constructed for him by a friend, E. L. Hutton, of 1226 Hiatt St. Daily did much of the work himself, hooking up the intricate maze of wires with his own deft fingers. By interchanging coils in his three-tube set, he is able to tune In on any wave length from fifteen meters on up. Daily claims to have

FLIES TO WORK IN HIS MOSQUITO PLANE Here’s Flivver Ship That Does 40 Miles to Gallon, Landing Anywhere

Bu NEA Service , , , DETROIT, July 28.—1n what is perhaps the smallest airplane in the world, Harry J. Brooks, test pilot at the Ford airport in Dearborn, near here, has solved the commuting problem and the strap-hanging problem in perfect manner. Brooks lives on a farm out of Birmingham ,20 miles by auto over the nearest roads from the Dearborn airport. He makes the trip in about ten minutes in the flivver plane, using less than half a gallon of gas each day. Cruising, the plane will do 40 miles to the gallon. The farm had a garage to care for three cars. It never had any doors, so when Mr. Brooks began to use the Ford plane to bring him to work and home again, he took two posts out of the garage, and had a hangar, or whatever he wants to call it. He rolls in at night and in the morning starts the motor In the shed, taxles off and In ten minutes is at work at Dearborn. Brooks has flown home, leaving the airport at 9 o’clock at night, flying without lights and landing with-

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Babes' Mouths Bu Times Special NEW ALBANY, Ind., July 28. -i-Out of the mouths of babes —and Claude Hayes, 11, testifying before a United States commissioner In a liquor case put his mother, father and three uncles at odds with the dry law. The accused denied the boy’s story of their traffic in liquor, after branding him as a bad boy, but the five were held to await action of the Federal grand jury.

heard great distances with his home built receiver, having heard Morse code conversation from as far as Japan. He Is fairly accomplished as a telegrapher, being able to take thirty-five words a minute In International Morse code. He has scores of cards from stations in the United States and Canada with which he has worked. Daily learned Morse code through’ the Braill? system several years ago. PERU WANTS AIRPORT Bu Times Special PERU, Ind., July 28.—Peru, like other Indiana cities, wants a place In the aviation sun, and a meeting has been called for Friday night to take up plans for establishing a municipal airport.

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out lights. He comes to work in the rain and has encountered very high winds, but never had to come down. When Brooks wants to play golf at the Dearborn Country Club, he flies over' to the course, lands on the fairway and taxles along the terrace to the clubhouse. He is one of the few pilots at the airport not trained in the army. Like Lindbergh, he tried parachute jumping for a while, receiving flying lessons in return.

FLIER HOPES TO SPLIT AIR AT 5 MILES MINUTE Attempt by Lieut. Alford Williams to Set Speed 1 Mark Planned Friday. Bu United Prcxn WASHINGTON, July 28 —At- j tempts by United States Navy fliers to go higher and faster than I any men before them engrossed the ' attention of the aviation world today. A speed attempt may be made near New York tomorrow by Lieut. Alford J. Williams, in a 1,250 horsepower plane designed* to split the air at a terrifying rate of five miles a minute, 300 miles an hour. Seeks to Set New Record The official altitude record depends on ability of bureau of standards scientists to read a damaged barograph from the plane of Lieut. C. C. Champion. Champion’s craft rose to an altimeter recorded mark 'of 47,000 feet Monday before his engine exploded and dropped him volplaning most of that distance to a safe landing. Unofficial prelimianry readings of the barograph are said to have revealed his height attained as only 39,000 feet; The world record is 40,810 feet. Wliliam's first . flight, with pontoons on his special plane, will be designed to recapture the world record set over American waters near Norfolk. Va„ last year, when Major de Bernardi, a Mussolini legionnaire won the Schneider cup races at 258 miles an hour. Replace Pontoons With Wheels If successful Williams, fullbacksize idol of navy fliers, will replace the pontoons with land plane wheels, offering less wind resistance, and seek the world’s record for that class, now held by Bonnett, a Frenchman, at 278 miles an hour,. The power of Williams’ motor takes him into an almost unexplored realm of aeryodynamics as soon as he “opens her up,” and the slightest miscalculation as to his macihne's strength would result in almost certain death. FACTORY FOR SEYMOUR Brush Company to Start Operations Sept. 15. Bu Times Special SEYMOUR. Ind., July 28 —A 107-year-old concern— the Bromwell Brush Manufacturing Company, ] now located at Cincinnati, Ohio—i will begin operations in Seymour Sept. 15. The company will occupy part of the plant of the Ahlbrand Carriage Company. Beginning with a force of 45 to 60, it is expected 100 will be on the pay roll by the end of the first year. - ESSAY CONTEST CLOSES Real Estate Board Says Manuscripts To Be Judged Friday. Essays of twenty-three entrants in the Indianapolis Real Estate Board contest will be judged Friday afternoon. “Why I want my parents to own a home,” is the topic of the essays. The contest closes at 6 tonight according to Robert MacGregor, board secretary. Prizes of S3OO will be awarded.

The 30 H. P. plane has a wing span of 22 feet, is 16 feet in length, weighs 370 pounds “light,” has a wing area of 07 square feet and carries five gallons of gas. A French “Anzam” engine, used by all old planes is used in this Ford plane. The plane was built by Henry Ford and flown for the first time June 4, of last year. Every visitor to the airport admires the little plane, and almost

STATE CHIEFS UNCERTAIN ON 1928P0LITICS Divided on Party Choices for 4 President, Outstanding Campaign Issues. ONLY 9 FAVOR COOUDGE Other Eight G. 0. P. Executives Uncertain; Democrats Equally Undecided. BY FOSTER EATON United Pro Stair Correspondent (Copyright. 1927. by United Press) MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., July 28.—A cross section of present national thought on the next presidential campaign, its possible candidates and outstanding issues, obtained from Governors and official representatives of twenty-flve States attending the annual conference of Governors, is herewith presented by the United Press. Os seventeen republican Governors, nine indicated strong sentiment for President Coolidge, six said their states appeared undecided and two reported strength for former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, champioh of the farm bloc. Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska advocated the election of Lowden. Democrat Chiefs Divided Eight Democratic Governors indicated a wide divergence of sentiment toward presidential possibilities and left the impression the party today was chiefly concerned in finding a solution of the virtual impasse that developed at the 1924 convention between the rival forces of Goverpor Alfred E. Smith of New York and William G. McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury. Executives of both parties appeared equally divided on the matter of issues between law enforcement, prohibition, farm relief measures and flood control. Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, without commenting upon the Democratic presidential outlook in his State, "The Democratic hope for an issue is to, Join on a platform of decentralization of Federal authority.” Anti-Smith in Alabama ' Other expressions of opinion were: Governor Bibb Graves, Alabama—“At present the Democratic sentiment in Alabama seems to be antiSmith. Law enforcement and farm relief will be outstanding issues.” Governor John E. Martineau, Arkansas—“ There is no crystalization of sentiment for Democratic candidates in our State. Flood control, and farm relief win be important issues.” Governor John H. Trumbull, Connecticut “Coolidge sentiment is dominant in Connecticut. It is too early to say what the chief issue will be.” “Too Early,” Says Jackson Governor Robert P. Robinson, Delaware—“l heard nothing but Coolidge in Delaware. I wouldn't be surprised if prohibition and farm relief are prominent issues in the campaign.” Governor John W. Martin, Florida —“Sentiment in Florida does not appear to have crystalized upon any one issue.” Former Governor Cary A. Hardee, Florida: “I personally feel Ritchie is in a strategic position and would make a better compromise candidate for the Democrats than any other. I have no definite idea what the outstanding issue will be.” Governor Ed. Jackson, Indiana: “It is too early to gauge the sentiment of Indiana either on candidates or issues.” Farm Relief Big Issue Governor Len Small, Illinois: “There is a lot of Coolidge sentiment in Illinois .and some opposition. In the Middle West farm relief will be an important issue.” Governor John Hammill, Iowa: “Sentiment for Republican presidential candidates has not crystalized in lowa, but farm relief will be the big issue unless Congress passes a bill at the next session.” Governor Ben S. Paulen, Kansas: “Sentiment of Kansas probably is for Coolidge, but there is a lot of Lowden strength. Farm relief will be the issue so far as Kansas is concerned.”

every one expresses the wish to buy one. But Ford said recently that he was not interested in small planes, only in large planes of the 100-pas-senger variety. Brooks is popular with the girls, for when he wants to make a call on one far from the port or his home town, he usually takes his plane and lands somewhere In the neighborhood of the girl’s home. Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.

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Two schools—Pomona College in southern California and the National University of Mexico at Mexico City—recently agreed to trade two students each to improve contact with the peoples of the two countries. Shown here are the two students sent by the Mexican school, Miss Guadalupe Jiminez Posados (above) and Miss Guadalupe Zuniga. In exchange Pomona sent Ralph Kuhlman of Pasadena, Ca!.. and Loren Hendrickson of Huntington Beach, Cal.

DISCUSS PLANS TO REFUND TAX County Farm Bureau Directors to Confer Saturday. In an attempt to effect an equitable refunding plan for taxes illegally paid during 1919, 1920 and 1921 without cost to claimants, a conference of Marion County Farm Bureau directors with a representative of the Chamber of Commerce will be held Saturday, A. H. Fink, oureau president, announced. Harry Dunn, county auditor, has started work on totaling the refund. A plan will be worked out to allow refund claims with a minimum of expense and trouble, Dunn announced. Two suits directed at different angles of the tax refund problem appear as possible in the face of difficulties surrounding an equitable distribution. One test case, to be started In local courts and carried to the Indiana Supreme Court, would attempt to have the decision authorizing the refund reversed. The other, to be filed by a nonresident taxpayer in Federal Court, would attack the refund on the grounds of beiryj unconstitutionally confiscatory. It is pointed out that persons who became taxpayers since 1921 will not share in the refund, but will be subject to additional taxes now to finance the refund. . In effect, these taxpayers will be paying part of the cost of government during years when they owned no property.

OIL FRAUD CHARGED Leases in Indiana Worth $9,000 Sold for SIOO,OOO, Witness Says. By United Press DETROIT, Mich., July 28.—0il leases near Geneva, Ind., held by the Security Oil and Refining Company, were worth only $9,000, but E. D. Fitzgerald, Detroit promoter, represented them as being worth $270,000 when he sold out to two Kansas oil men for SIOO,OOO, it was testified today at Fitzgerald’s trial on charges of using the malls to defraud. Leroy Varnes of Independence, Kan., and one of the purchasers, was the witness. He presented an affidavit signed by Fitzgerald in which the promoter swore the holdings were worth $270,000. TRAINS CRASH; 2 HURT B. & O. Limited Strikes Derailed Freight Car. By United Press ALLISON PARK. Pa., July 28. Two passenger cars were derailed and two enginemen seriously injure dtoday when the Capitol Limited of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad plowed into a derailed freight car. The flyer was east-bound from Newcastle to Pittsburgh. A car was derailed from a west-bound freight a few minutes before the limited reached Allison. About twenty passengers In a club car and a Pullman immediately behind /he engine were thrown from their seats, but the cars derailed remained upright. The engine toppled Into the ditch. Train Kills Man By Times Special SOUTH BND, Ind., July 28. —Leo Spiegel, 40, of Princeton, Ind., was killed instantly when struck by a train In the Grand Trwsk Western Railroad yard* here.

DENY USE OF , ‘ARMY CLUB’ ATJ[PAUW President Murlin Employed No Pressure for Drill, Secretary Says. EDUCATOR IS SCORED Magazine Article Attacks Alleged Tactics of University Head. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., July 28. Dr. William Blanchard, faculty secretary, today denied that President Lemuel H. Murlin of De Pauw University used any extraordinary means of obtaining permission of the faculty to continue military training as a required subject another year. j After announcement that the faculty voted In May to have the military tactics study voluntary, Dr. Murlin asked for another vote by the Australian ballot. The second vote, shortly before school closed in June, reversed the former decision. “President Murlin merely asked if the faculty would be willing to let the military work remain compulsory another year on his recommendation, and it was agreed to,” Dr. Blanchard, chemistry professor, declared. No Pressure, He Says “There was no pressure brought to bear on anyone. We believed it would be well for the militury department to remain in its present status for an other year until things could be thrashed out again. “We feel that if the work was optional, the unit might disappear from the campus because of lack of. support. The faculty is not opposed to military training, but soma are objecting to the compulsory feature. “There were about 400 in the department last year and the war department requires that at least 100 take the Instruction,” said Blanchard. “I personally am not opposed to military instruction, but I should like to see the course wholly voluntary,” he said. Wins Student Vote Dr. Blanchard said President Murlin asked the student council for an expression of opinion, but that no pressure was brought on the student governmental body. The students voted for compulsory training another year. President Murlin, who resigned, affective June, IS2B, is in Maine at his summer home. Campus leaders said a faction of students chafed under the compulsory military training. Several religious publications have discussed the DePauw situation. The Christian Century scored “Compulsory Drill in a Church College," in the July 14 issue. Dr. Murlin was flayed In a statement by the Committee on Militarism in Education, of which George A. Coe is chairman, Bible House, New York City.

Goose-Stepping Charged “Must military training in colleges and schools rest not only on compulsory drill for students, but also on presidential attempts to goose-step the faculty?” asks the committee. “After a year or more of discussion, the faculty of DePauw voted last May that military drill should be optional. The vice president, three deans and the committee on educational policy were among those concurring in this decision, officially announced. Then President L. H. Murlin got the action rescinded. "Flrpt, lie called for anew faculty vote by secret ballot by mail. This, however, failed to reverse the faculty’s previous vote against compulsion. "Second, he called a special meeting of the student council and, with almost half the council not present, got an 8 to 6 vote In favor of compulsory training. 81x of the eight affirmative votes were cast by members of the Scabbard and Blade military fraternity and by girl ’sponsors* of military companies. Pressure Is Alleged “Then advanced military student officers, while freshmen and sophomores were lined up In military formation, passed.petitions through the ranks asking that compulsory drill be continued. The freshmen and sophomores signed, while military officers stood around. Then the campus was combed for additional signatures. “Third, the military, having obtained a great many student signatures, asking that drill be mads compulsory upon next year's freshmen a!nd sophomores. President Murlin issued orders to the faculty for anew secret faculty vote. This time he urged continuance of compulsory drill for one more yoAr. at the end of which—another vote. Many self-respecting members of the faculty refused to participate. Hi supporters then voted as desirt'd.

Kindness Hurts Bu Times Special HAMMOND, Ind.. July 28 Louis Teboda. policeman, Is recovering after a narrow escape from cold blood poisoning, because his sportsmanship would not let him knock out a prison'er with his fist. Teboda merely slapped William Janovidz, who bit the officer's hand. Prompt treatment prevented infection. Teboda was called to the Janovidz home where it was said the man was beating his wife.