Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1927 — Page 1

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WORLEY QUITS RATHER THAN BE DEMOTED Resignation Given Johnson, Who’ll Turn It Over to Safety Board. SILENT ‘AT THIS TIME’ ‘They Can’t Step on Me for £ Long,’ Declares Former Detective Chief.

Claude M. Worley, reduced from detective chief to' lieutenant Tuesday by the board of safety, presented his resignation from the police department to Chief Claude F. Johnson today. Johnson said he would turn the resignation, addressed to the board of safety, over to the board at its meeting next Tuesday. The resignation read: "Gentlemen: Kindly accept my resignatibn, to take effect immediately.” ' * Worley did not report for duty today. He went to police headquarters about 10 a. m., gathered up his personal belongings and left after giving Johnson the resignation. "Can’t Step on Me” He refused to comment on the board’s action except to say his record speaks for itself and he had no statement to make "at this time,” and declaring “They cannot step on me for long.” Political observers saw the demoting of Worley as a climax to a long personal fight between Johnson and Worley. It was understood Johnson told the board he “would assume all responsibility.” Although Board President O. D. Haskett ordered the newspapermen barred from the session, grapevine information was that John A. George balked on the plan to remove Worley. It was said he concurred with the board’s “wishes” ■'hen threatened with a demand for nis own resignation. Lieut. Fred Simon, who headed the ! detective bureau in Jewett administration, was made acting detective chief with the $3,600 salary of the chief, on recommendation of Johnson. * George Not Asked George appeared fretful when asked if he had resigned. “I have not been asked to,” he replied. Following the secret session George walked over to Johnson and, pointing his finger, said, "I have something to say to you.” What he said was not heard. Safety board members had conferred privately with Mayor Duvall before the regular meeting. Duvall said he had no hand in Worley’s removal. “It was a matter with the board of safety,” the mayor said. Other shifts made: Sergt. Roy Pope named Lieutenant; Patrolman Lee Hensley, promoted to sergeant, and Noble P. Welch made patrolman, man. Councilmen Aroused Councilmen Otis Bartholomew, Boynton Moore and Walter Dorsett, majority leaders, were aroused over the board’s action. Worley formerly tyas a special Investigator for Criminal Court. He is a close friend of Criminal Judge James A. Collins and Republican City Boss George V. Coffin and his was linked with D. C. SteHbhenson. Worley apparently also *was close to Duvall. Since the start of the administration when Worley was slated for the police chief’s post, there have been several splits between him and Johnson. Worley was appointed police chief a few weeks ago after Duvall and Johnson made a trip to Chicago. Johnson agreed to leave the chief’s chair to accept appointment to the board of works. A few hours after Duvall made the announcement Johnson changed his mind and persuaded the mayor to let him remain chief. DRAWS HIS ROYAL PAY Five-Year-Old King of Rumania “Earning” $110,700 a Year. By United Press VIENNA, Aug. 3.—Five-year-old King Michael of Rumania today was drawing his royal salary at the rate of $110,700 a year. The reapportionment of royal household expenses allotted $123,000 annually to Queen Marie and $43,000 each to Michael’s mother, Princess Helen, and to his uncle, Prince Nicholas.

2 DIE IN BLAZING BARGES Oil Fleet Destroyed on Mississippi; Two Others May Die. By United Pres MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 3.—Two men perished, two were injured, fatally, and a fleet of ten "oil barges, valued at $750,000, was destroyed by fire below Memphis on the Mississippi River Tuesday. Fire broke out on one of the barges near Salem Bend. Explosion of oil casks spread the flames to the other vessels and soon the entire fleet was ablaze.

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 72

New Chief

Fred Simon, who became detective chief today following the demotion of Claude M. Worley.

YOUTH KILLED BY JELEVATOR Messenger Boy Crushed in Craig Candy Store.

Merrill Bassett, 18, of 1248 W. Thirty-Third St., a messenger for the Merchants Delivery Service, 1365 W. Thirty-Third St., was killed instantly today in an elevator accident in the rear of C. W. Craig Candy Company’s store 6. E. Washington St. Bassett apparently was crushed when he attempted to walk across the freight elevator floor to an exit to the alley after making a delivery. Manager F. G. Gandell, 633 E. Thirty-Third St., found the youth’s body on the first floor and called police. He was crushed about the chest and head, according to Coroner Charles H. Keever. Sergeant Fields found no witnesses to the accident. Tlie youth apparently had stepped on the automatic elevator just as someone started it up from an upper floor, and was caught between the elevator floor and the safety gate. BEQUEST IS UP TO STORK If It’s a Boy lie Gets $5,000; Girl Gets SIO,OOO. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug 3.—Frederick K. Seggerman, in his will, made a SIO,OOO bequest to a possible grandchild, depending upon the whim of the stork. If the stork presents Mr. and Mrs. Frederick T. Seggerman of Glen Cove with a girl she will receive SIO,OOO when of age. If it’s a son he gets $5,000 at birth, and a cousin gets a like amount. REPORT KING WILL WED Boris, Bulgarian Monarch, May Take Swedish Bride. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 3—Balkan newspapers yesterday reported that King Boris of Bulgaria would marry a Swedish princess, said a dispatch to the Daily Express, and that he would meet his future bride in Lausanne this month. SHIPPING LEADER DIES Admiral Bowles Was Former Manager of United States Board. By United Press BARNSTAPLE, Mass., Aug. 3. Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles, 68, former general manager of the United States Shipping board and former president of the Fore Rivjr Shipbuilding Corporation, died at his home here today. WAYNE CITIZENS IRED Property Owners Form League to Fight Drain Proposal. Remonstrating against the proposed drain to be built in Wayne Township by county commissioners, property owners held a mass meeting Tuesday night. The Wayne Township Community League was formed and Charles Bordenkecker, 3815 W. Washington St., was chosen president. John A. Royse, deputy prosecutor, was retained as attorney to fight iftie proposed drain which property owners claim will cost S2OO a lot.

Boy and girl airplane builders, here is the opportunity of your young lives! In the same way that airplanes are displacing trains and ships, model airplanes are displacing kites and other amusement devices. Young America, everywhere, has been bitten by the aviation bee. This summer the National Playground and Recreation Association of America is sponsoring the first

KLAN WOMEN OF U. S. WILL PARADE HERE Procession Will Be Climax of National Jubilee in City Saturday. POLICE GRANT PERMIT Classes Will Be Initiated, Battle Launched for New Laws. Women of the Ku-Klux Klan from all sections of the United States will hold a National jubilee Friday and Saturday at Tomlinson Hall celebrating the fourth anniversary of the order. Delegates are expected from every State and arrangements are being made to accommodate several thousand. Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans, Klan imperial wizard, and his staff, and Imperial Commander Robie Gill Comer, of Little Rock, Ark., will be on the program. Local Klan leaders aided in planning for the meeting. The jubilee will be climaxed Saturday night with a huge parade. Will Wear Regalia Paraders will be in full Klan segalia. but it has not been decided whether visors will be worn. Police Chief Claude F. Johnson, who issued a parade permit, requested that hoods be lifted. Johnson said Real Commander Laura M. Foote obtained the permit. There is no law to prevent wearing of the mask. The parade will form at Thirteenth and Delaware Sts. and will move to Massachusetts Ave., Pennsylvania St. to Washington and north on Meridian- to Twelfth St. A platoon of police will head the parade and the entire line of march will be policed. Several national Klan leaders will participate in the two-day gathering. A feature will be the initiation of candidates Friday night, when the seonod degree will be presented for the first time, it was said. Many to Get Degree The degree, of which Mrs. Comer is author, is a dramatization in seven acts which requires fifty-two women to present. Women from several States will come here to receive the degree and re-enact tne ceremony in their respective States. Mrs. Lucien Trigg Davis of Shreveport, La., and Mrs. Comer were among founders of the order, June 2, 1923, at Washington, D. C. A legislative program in the various States will be one of the main topics considered. Mrs. Comer said the Klan leaders will seek to bring about legislation preventing any clergyman from suggesting, requesting, or demanding that offspring of any marriage shall be raised up in any particular religious faith. Want Intermarriage Laws National laws preventing intermarriage of whites and Negroes and creating more stringent immigration requirements also will be urged. “We will seek to put teeth in the present immigration law and provide for deporting foreigners who have failed to assimilate Americanism,” Mrs. Comer said. NO WITNESSES CALLED Grand Jury Holds Second Session Without Prosecutors. Marion County grand Jury continued its investigation into alleged political corruption in Indiana and ended its second session at which no prosecutors were present at noon today. The jury was said to be continuing its study of 7,000 pages of evidence presented to two previous grand juries. No witnesses are expected to be called, William J. Mooney, foreman, said. The jury is meeting on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, during the month while prosecutors are on vacation. BETS EVEN MONEY ON Al Smith Can Be Elected if Nominated, Thinks Backer. Bii United Press NE WYORK, Aug. 3.—ln view of President Coolidge’s announcement, a wager of SI,OOO at even money was made in the Broad Street Commission house of Kemp & Cos. today that Governor Alfred E. Smith would be elected the next president should he receive the Democratic nomination.

Young Airplane Builders! Here Is Your Opportunity for Reward

annual national playground miniature aircraft tournament, and Indianapolis boys and girls are to be given opportunity, though The Times and city playground supervisors, to participate. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, here Aug. 9, is associate chairman of the national committee in charge of this tournament. Orville Wright, whose with models when he was a boy resumed in the invention

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Above: The sign in front of 3640 N. Meridian St., proclaiming Duvall’s Gulch. Center: The Gulch. Below: . The Canyon.

Two new Indianapolis geographical features, Duvall’s Gulch and Buser Canyon, are being advertised today by a sign in front of 3640 N. Meridian St.

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of the airplane, is directing chairman. The National committee has arranged for a series of articles to be written telling how to make model airplanes, and The Times is publishing the first of these articles today. By following directions, Indianapolis boys and girls may make planes to be submitted in a city contest sponsored by The Times, and later in the National contest,

Real chuckhole thrillers they are said to be. Enough to cause visitors to gasp with astonishment and for breath. I Duvall’s Gulch is in front of the

you ought to receive back all the money overpaid in 1919, 1920 and 1921, avail yourself of The Times offer. The Times will bike care cf you. COUNCILMEN WAVER ‘Pooh’ at Impeachment Talk Was for Grandstand. Majority faction city councilmen who at Monday night’s council session hied from charges that they were planning to impeach Mayor Duvall, today declared there would be something doing in a few days. Boynton J. Moore and Walter Dorsett, faction leaders, agreed in the statement “lots of changes can be made for the better in conditions and that "something will be doing soon.” Council President Claude Negley declared he had never “made any statement about pardoning the mayor” and said he had not attended secret sessions last week as which councilmen were said to have discussed the matter.

in which the five highest entrants will receive free trips to Memphis, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 8. The city contest will be held in connection with final events of the city playground season, and the record of the winner sent to the National committee to determine if he is eligible for the Memphis trip. There will be two divisions. First will be for boys who have not yet attained their sixteenth birthday on ,Sept. 30, 1927; and the raond for

Rensselaer Apts., 3640 N. Meridian St., and Buser Canyon is one block south. A sign proclaiming “Duvall’s Gulch” and "Buser Cpnyon, one block south,” greeted the dawn Tuesday morning. It remains today to the amusement of residents and passersby. Residents of the neighborhood disclaim knowledge as to who erected the sign. They wonder how long city officials will let it and the chuckholes remain. BRITISH CABLE NAVAL VIEWS Lengthy Instructions Sent After Cabinet Session. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 3.—After a meeting of the British cabinet today it was understood lengthy instructions had been cabled to Geneva to guide the British delegates tomorrow at the plenary meeting of President Coolidge’s naval limitations conference. Intimating that Japan had been requested to act as arbitrator at Geneva, Admiral Kada, minister of marine, it was reported in a dispatch from Tokio to the Daily Mail, announced that Baron Saito had been Instructed to continue his efforts toward Anglo-American compromise at Geneva. He said Saito would seek a compromise “up to the last five minutes of the conference.” May Agree on Holiday Bu United Press GENEVA, Aug. 3.—Final word from Washington before adjournment of President Coolidge’s naval limitations conference was awaited today with the possibility that the conference might agree on a naval holiday for several years. The British and Japanese delegations said today that the situation had not changed, which meant the stalemate continued.

boys past their sixteenth birthday, but who have not yet attained their twenty-first birthday, on Sept. 30, 1927. It is fascinating sport to build model airplanes. You’ll be thrilled by results. The record today for the longest flight is more than a mile and the record for time in the air is more than ten minutes. So, yoij see, building model airplanes is a reed sport.

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COOLIDGE SILENT AS WIRES v HUM WITH PRAISE OF STAND AND PLEAS TO CHANGE MIND Opinions of Nation Divided on His Statement of Renunciation; Showmanship Stunt, Many Observers Believe. t * •’ STRAIN IS TELLING ON PRESIDENT Indications That Executive Is Wearying of His Burden Noted Recently; Geneva Parley Is Added Grief. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Free* Staff Correspondent RAPID CITY, S. D., Aug. 3.—The political thunderbolt which Coolidge hurled against the world when he spontaneously announced he did not choose to be a candidate for the Presidency in 1928 stirred the telephone and telegraph from far reaches of the country to the summer White House today. There were messages of congratulation that he does not intend to seek another term and telegrams of despair that iie is giving up the job before it is finished. With characteristic silence, Mr. Coolidge let the telegraphic storm rage around him without a murmur and went about his business just as if he suddenly had not renounced the throne of the Republican party. The! telegrams and telephone dispatches seemed to indicate that opinion was divided as to whether his terse tenword announcement, “I do not choose to run for President in 1928,” was really a renunciation or merely a notice that he was not a candidate.

Those who interpret the presidential opinion usually follow his words so closely lhat they lose the true meaning of them. They attempt to see motives hidden in them which do not exist. They know President Coolidge has a keen sense of publicity and a more than ordinary intuition of its results. Some of the newspapermen who have been with him for years have even called him the “greatest, showman on ear-h,” because of his ability to sense public feeling. They argue that the President merely put out the statement as a ca/efully worded document to quiet the talk about a "third term,” and to stop the line* of political opposition which theoretically has chased him into a corner. There are others whe say these arguments are fallacious —and shrewd politicians here agree with them—because a man who says he is not a candidate for office loses 90 per cent of his political momentum. He opens, they say, the way to other candidates who otherwise would stick under cover. The truth of the matter is, according to reliable information furnished the United Press, that Mr. Coolidge is getting Just a little tired of the Job which ' has disabled physically or hindered the last two Presidents. Lines Graven in Face Since he came out here lines can be discerned in his face which never were seen there before. His health is good, according to his personal physician, Dr. James F. Coupal, but the doctor doesn’t attempt to state his worries and tribulations. If President Coolidge was not serious when he handed out those slips cf paper, he is a better actor than yet has appeared on the movie screen. The solemnity with which he lined up the correspondents, the realization of the importance of this statement so gauged that he made it after the close of the stock market, and his trembling fingers as he handed it out told more to those who received it than it did to those who read it. There are politicians who suspect President Coolidge is dissatisfied with the outcome of the Geneva disarmament conference. It is true that he, piqued by troubles which every president of the United States cannot avoid, was sorry to see the conference which he riad thought would develop his program of prosperity, near a deadlock. Can Be Drafted There are many who think that his announcement should result in reaction favorable to his candidacy and that the next national convention could acclaim him and convince him that he is the man for the job. Despite insinuations of politicians, impartial observers here think that: 1. He can be drafted, despite his statement. 2. He made his statement in good faith, desiring to retire from the presidential chair. 3. He does not care if his closest friend is slighted by the statement. 4. He will take the consequences, no matter what they may be.

Furthermore, building and flying model airplanes has played a very important part in the development of aviation. Models used are at the great aeronautical laboratories such as Langley Field, Va., to solve problems of flying, and you will learn a great deal about airplanes by building models scientifically in accord with the directions to be given in The Times. Turn to page 2 and read the article on "How to Start." >

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BY UNITED PRESS Political figures throughout the country have been more reticent to comment on President CoolldgC’S statement than the editorial writers in newspapers. Among those who commented were: Vice-President Dawes: ‘President Coolidge has the respect and confidence of the American people and announcement of his decision will be received with regret by millions of his countrymen.” Frank O. Lowden; “I have no statement to make beyond the one I already have made to different delegations that I know of no man in all our history who has run away from the presidency.” Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican, California: “No living soul now can tell what will be done by“ the Republican party at the next convention. The presidential race will be a free-for-all.” , William M. Butler, Coolidge’s campaign manager: “I deeply regret the announcement, but am not fully convinced that Mr. Coolidge will not run if nominated.” Governor Alvan T. Fuller, Massachusetts: “I think President Coolidge is sincere in his statement that he does not choose to run, but my opinion is that the people of the country will do 'the choosing for him.” , Charles D. Hilles, vice chairman Republican national committee: "President Coolidge is a man of candor and sincerity and I think he made the statement without reservation.” “I do not think President Coolidge is playing with the subject in his statement,” Senator Dale, Republican, from Coolidge’s home State, said. By United Press PLYMOUTH, Vt.. Aug. 3.—President Coolidge’s home folks are surprised and sorry that their favorite son does not choose to seek re-elec-tion. The executive’s action today had replaced the weather as the principal subject of village gasslp at Miss Florence Cilley’s general store. Bjf Vnitcd Pres* PALO ALTO, Cal.. Aug. 3 —Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover today issued the following statement: “I regret the suggestion in the President’s statement. However, I still believe that President Coolidge should be renominated and reelected.” By United Press BERLIN. Aug. 3.—Berlin newspapers today pointed to the expected collapse of the naval limitations conference as the cause of the Coolidge announceemnt. “Coolidge bowed before three facts.” said the Vossische Zeitung. “First, popular feeling against a third term: second, opposition of the farmers; third, the Geneva fiasco.” NEW YORK. Aug. 3—President Coolidge will be renominated and re-elected in 1928 by an overwhelming majority. Prof. Gustave Meyer, Hoboken astrologer, who predicted Coolidge’s election in 1924, said today. (Indians Vlfwa nn Fare t) Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 56 ” s. r* 6$ 7 a. m 58 12 (nooff) ... eg 8 a. m 60 u a. m C3 9 a. m. 61 .