Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1927 — Page 2

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BROWNE'S COLD SUMMER HASN'T INJURED* Great Grain Region Still Thriving Despite Dire Predictions. This Is the fifth of six articles regarding the long distance weather forecasts of Herbert Janvrin Browne, who predicted this would be a year without a summer. Is it? Nothing is the matter with the weather, says the weather bureau. BY RUTH FINNEY WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.— The much-feared, much-maligned summer of 1927 is now here. Herbert Janvrin Browne offered some intimate details about it on the first of last January. He said: “A cold wave will start in the northwest June 2, sweep across the com belt as far south as the Ohio and Potomac and reach the Atlantic seaboard by June 6. It will be accompanied by freezing temperatures and, over a considerable portion of this area, it will be accompanied by snow. “The period from June 28 to July 2 will see heavy frosts in portions of this same area, while the week from July 7 to July 11 will represent a second very dangerous date. The two periods In conjunction will have carried severe frosts and probably killing frosts through the great northern grain areas.” What Really Happened Note the wording and compare with these Weather Bureau records of what happened. For the period of June 2 to 6: “No marked change in temperature occurred. June 3 and 4 somewhat warmer than previously over the northwest and the eastern com belt. Freezing temperatures were confined to a few local areas in the extreme northern portion of the country and some higher elevations of the west where freezing is not uncommon er rly in June.” June 28 to July 2: “By the morning of June 28 tem - peratures had risen over the central and eastern portions of the country, except in the extreme northeast and the following few days a heat wave prevailed in most sections east of the Rocky Mountains,. Gives Blizzard Evidence July 7 to 11: Temperature variations during the period were unimportant. By the morning of the seventh somewhat warmer weather prevailed in the middle Atlantic area, the Ohio valley and far northwest, with a slight further rise in temperature the following day.” Early in June, Browne issued a page of reproduced newspaper clippinsg in justification of his July cold wave predictions. “Fitchburg has June blizzard,” says one item. From Exeter, N. H., “Frost damages crops in N. H.; Mercury 36.” “Snow falls in Montreal.” “Frigid Fourth in Washington, Mass.” “Frost again in Middlesex.” “Snow in New York State.” “Snow Falls in Colorado as Midwest swelters.” “Floods sweeping Norwegian countries.” “Snow falls on Black Forest Peak, Germany.” “$2,000,000 storm sweeps Rumania.” “Storms and Heat sweep Eastern Europe.” Crops are Flourishing Except for European dispatches and those from Colorado and Canada, all these items concern New England. None of them mentions the corn belt where Browne had indicated the destructive cold wave was to occur. The New England items Browne reproduces were dated July 4, 5 and 6. Weather Bureau records for the Fourth and fifth in New England show the following official temperatures at larger stations: Portland, Me., 58 and 48 degrees: Concord, 54 and 44; Boston, 60 and 52; Ncrthfield, Vt., 48 and 46. New England crops are flourishing, the Department of Agriculture reports. Next: How much danger is there of a crop failure? Thirty-Six Goldfish Stolen By Times Special ATTICA, Ind., Aug. 6.— Three dozen goldfish were stolen from a pond in the garden at the home of Charles W. Ziegler.

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T he PASSING PROCESSION

.By VOLTA TORREY.

NEWS of the WEEK Boiled Down

If Governor Jackson had spoken out this week, the news desks might have been swept clear of political news, but the Indiana Statehouse mess now remains the one matter of national ' interest which still is hanging fire.

The Geneva naval parley adjourned a failur.e President Coolidge ended third-term talk and Governor Fuller soundede the death knell for Sacco and Vanzetti—thus closing three important chapter of political history. But Indiana reaps more publicity by reason of a Klan women’s convention, and nothing has been done by the Governor to clear up the corruption charges which every passing week has shown to be more serious.

NAVIES AND TALK

There were bitter words when President Coolxige's naval disarmament conference at Geneva closed Thursday, and there is talk of a race for sea supremecy, but it is too early to tell just what will happen. American delegates hold the British responsible for the collapse, but stres sthe fact that there is no ill feeling between the two nations in order to counteract “big navy” sentiment. Japan submitted a last minute proposal in the hope of saving the parley, but it was rejected with little discussion, and the Japanese now retire, their marine minister saying: “Japan will hold herself aloof from any naval race.” It is expected that the United States will continue inferior to Great Britain in cruiser strength, but superior in destroyers for several years. Secretary of Navy Wilbur is en route, to Rapid City to confer with President Coolidge on next year’s naval appropriations. Nations which did not participate in the parley are saying, “I told you so.”

PRESIDENTIAL HOPES

Politicians are speculating over Mr. Coolidge’s words: “I do not choose to run for President in 1928.” Many say he just wants to be coaxed, others believe the strain has tired him, and others that he is quitting in disappointment because his naval conference failed and the West still is angered at his stand on farm relief. But the announcement did not bring any new hats flying into the ring. Lowden remains an “inactive possibility” although a healthy boom for his cause is under way. Hughes has announced that he will not run. Secretary of Commerce Hoover is probably the most outstanding man on the list. Others mentioned frequently are Dawes, Longworth, Borah, Watson and Hiram Johnson. All these men are dry, so the Anti-Saloon League is happy. But Smith, Ritchie and Reed, the leading Democratic possibilities, are decidedly wet. The drys- Jifxed up behind the donkey are Senators Glass and Walsh, Governor Donahey of Ohio, and W. G. McAdoo, the old faithful.

WEARISOME PROHIBITION

Whether prohibition will be a presidential campaign issue is an interesting matter for speculation, despite the fact that the dry joke is getting old. Imperial Klan Wizard Evans, in Indianapolis today, says the ‘Klan will support no man for the Republican nomination, but will heartily oppose Al Smith,. Reed, “or any other nullifier.” That doesn’t worry Tammany Hall. E. S. Shumaker, Indiana AntiSaloon League Superintendent, was held in contempt by the Supreme Court late Friday. The case has been pending eighteen months. Turn to Page 1 and read about it. Czar Lowman and Doctor Doran of Uncle Same’s staff have been shifting men about from one job to another in a very unbusiness-like manner as a prelude to their “business” regime. The big coast guard rum fleet is being sent from New England to Florida. The admiral hopes to break up liquor smuggling down South before the tourist demand makes the task impossible. New Yorkers, of course, are cheering the dry fleet goodby.

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Sacco and Vanzetfcj will be executed Thursday morning. Governor Fuller, after a fourmonth inquiry, decided they were convicted justly of the mruder of a paymaster and a guard in South Braintree. He refuses another respite. * Their attorneys and millions of friends cling to the very, very feeble thread of hope for intervention which remains as long as they live. The case is significant and dramatic, " because Sacco and Vanzetti are reds and draft dodgers. Their trial took place in 1921, while Americans were hunting reds with the zeal that witches were sought in the seventeenth century. The judge is alleged to have made patriotic speeches to the jury. They are believed to have been tried and convicted of political heresy rather than murder. Consequently the whole world has been interested. Governor Fuller’s announcement ires radicals everywhere. The Swedish Sacco-Vanzetti committee is urging a boycott on American goods. Italians hope Mussolini will intervene in some way. The Communist section of the General Federation of Labor of France has called a twenty-four-hour protest strike for Monday. Bombers are feared both in of Washington monument in the America and abroad. The stairway Capital is closed, and heavy guards stand around public buildings.

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MINE PEACE SOUGHT

Coal miners and operators will meet Aug. 15 in Toledo and attempt to reach anew wage agreement to end the strike. Governor Donahey of Ohio took the initiative in calling the meeting and was joined by the Governors of Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania. John L. Lewis, president of Unitde Mine Workers of America, has accepted the invitation. The strike situation in Ohio has been especially bad. A. J. Merz, operator of the Lick Run Coal Cos., was killed Thursday by James McManaway, president of the Nelsonville mine union local. McManaway gave himself up and pleads selfdefense. And the dangers of mining were impressed on the public mind again by a tragedy at Clay, Ky. A blast caused by a gas pocket in the shaft, took eight lives.

AVIATION ADVANCES

Clarence Chamberlin made a successful hop from the deck of the Leviathan to shore, and steamship lines now are preparing to offer reglar ship-to-land air service. Commander Richard Byrd has obtained financial backing of Henry and Edsel Ford on his proposed South Pole flight, but will not start until 1928. He will take thirty men with him, all of whom will be experienced Arctic explorers. Col. Charles Lindbergh was in Dayton Friday on his national air tour, and will reach Indianapolis Tuesday. Charles A. Levine has been quarreling with his French pilot, Maurice Drouhin, whom he hired to fly the Bellanca back to New York from Paris, but latest indications are that personal animosity will not prevent the flight. Thre women will ride in planes entered in the Dole race from California to Hawaii. A prize of $35,000 is offered, and the take off is to be Aug. 12. The world’s air endurance record was broken Friday by,,the German aviators, Risticz and Decard. They remained in the air 52 hours and 25 minutes, nearly an hour longer than the record of Chamberlin and Bert Acosta. Henry Ford’s airplane truck is in use. It will make a triu from Hartford to Havana with a cargo of 120 typewriters, and drop them off by parachute at cities along the way.

FOLKS YOU’VE HEARD OF

Aimee McPherson has ousted her mother as business manager of Angelus Temple, and will proceed with plans for “Salvation Navy” while an assistant dispenses “Four Square” gospel to the pacified temple congregation. Lita Grey Chaplin is to file her amended complaint in her divorce suit against the film comedian soon. Hollywood is excited, of course. She is expected to name seven actresses as correspondents. The Prince of Wales, Prince George and Premier Baldwin continue their royal tour of Canada. The presence of the premier seems to have checked the wags, and no good anecdotes have come over press wires. Despite the crowds and cheering, the trip is dull. Arturo Ramos, rich rancher reported engaged to the former Countess Salm, Millicent Rogers, denies it. Seranus A. Lengel, former Canton police chief, began sevring his life sentence Friday so rthe murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton Daily News editor. American Ambassador Mac Murray has been called home from Peking for a conference about China with Secretary of State Kellogg.

SERIOUS BUT MINOR NEWS

Prof. Henry R. Spencer, speaking to the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass., predicted that public indifference to governmental affairs will result in the rise of a Mussolini in America. The Federal Government hasn’t nearly enough money available for repair of levees washed out by the Mississippi flood, and the damaged communities cannot stand the burden alone. Unless Congress does something, some levees will go unfixed. California felt slight earthquake at 4:25 a. m. Wednesday, but no damage wt.s reported. John L. Baird, Scotch inventor of television apparatus, is coming to New York in the hope of making tests of picture transmission across the Atlantic. The Owens Valley water fight has been accentuated by closing of five banks. The failures are blamed on “ruinous” action of Los Angeles water department officials, who, according to the ranchers, rob them of water for growing crops. An administration farm relief plan, supposed to be ' President Coolidge’s answer to the defiant' West, was announced prior to his statement that he does not care to be a candidate. It would create a $300,000,000 Federal revolving fund for loans to cooperative marketing associations. The fund would be used to build warehouses and store crops until a fair price prevailed on

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PLAN SUIT TO BLOCK GENERAL TAXES REFUND Taxpayers’ Association Acts as City Committee Probes Legal Aspects. While plans are being made by Indiana Taxpayers’ Association to institute suit to prevent refund of $8,000,000 taxes in Marion County, Chamber of Commerce officials are awaiting a meeting of the budget comm.otee with a committee of prominent attorneys Monday to determine legal aspects of the refund. William Fortune, civic affairs chairman, is appointing a committee cf prominent attorneys. Tie two committees, budget ard attorneys, will meet in joint session Monday at 12:15 at the Chamber of Commerce. “It will be the duty of this committee of attorneys, none of whom has taken part in any litigation in the matter and is consequently unbiased, to determine whether a general refund of taxes paid in 1919, 1920 and 1921 under the horizontal increase in valuation ordered by the State tax board is required by the recent Indiana Supreme Court ruling,” Fortune said. Harry Miesse, Indiana Taxpayers’ Associaiton secretary, said association attorneys have concluded litigation may be instituted to prevent a general refund. The suit may be filed either in State courts to bring the matter before the Indiana Supreme Court again, or in Federal Court by a non-resident taxpayer. REAL ESTATE BODY MEETS IN SEPTEMBER Indiana Association in Convention at Michigan City. Bit I'nited Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Aug. 6. Five division conferences will feature the program for the annual convention of the Indiana Real Estate Association here Sept. 14. 15 and 16, according to announcements made by H. R. Hofford, executive secretary. The conference will be of especial interest to appraisal experts, brokers, subdivision experts, builders and mortgage and finance experts. Problems peculiar to each group of real estate dealers will be discussed at the divisional conference. The conference will open Wednesday aftrnoon. Sept. 14. with registration at the Spaulding Hotel, in charge of Frank L. Moore, of Indianapolis, treasurer, and will continue with business sessions and amusements taking about an equal share of the delegates’ time. Asks to Abandon Bus Line Union Traction Company today filed petition with the Public Service Commission to abandon its bus line extending from Anderson, Ind., to the Green Lantern amusement park. Total recepts for May, June and July were given as $329 by Arthur W. Brady, receiver for the company. Approve Road Bond Issue Approval of a $15,800 bond issue for the Taylor Cain Rd., Fountain County, was granted today by the State tax board. Issue of $23,000 was originally asked, but reception of bids reduced the figure.

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MARTIN FLAYS * JUDICIAL BAN ON CRITICISM Dissenting Opinion in Shumaker Case Upholds Right of Free Speech. “Constructive criticism of Judicial decision, whether it be professione*. or lay, is to be desired rather than stifled.” This was the keynote of the 27page dissenting decision in the E. S. Shumaker contempt case, prepared by Judge Clarence M. Martin, youngest member of the Indiana Supreme Court. It was concurred in by Judge Willard B. Gemmill. Contrary to the majority opinion the Martin decision completely exonerated the Indiana Anti-Salootr League Superintendent and his a‘torneys, Jesse E. Martin and E. V Miles, of all contempt charges growing out of the 1925 league report. Judges and Kings Err “Supreme Courts neither arc honored or helped by being held up rr above criticism,” the opinion states and continues: “The time when men, kings or judges, could be incap? ble of doing wrong is buried in the historic past. ’ • * “Iv Is unfortunate that in a proceeding of this kind the judges whose decisions arc criticised sit in Judgment of the person who has made the criticism.” In his opening statement, 'Martin points out that he wa3 not a member of the court when the proceeding was instituted and it was only upon urgent request of colleagues on the bench that he took part in the decision. Citing the Shumaker criticism, in the annual report and the American Issue, League publication, Martin defends their privileged character in the light of free speech and free press. Broad Interpretation As to “judicial hair-splitting,” of which Shumaker accused the court, Martin pointed out that such is a common criticism where decisions are based on technicalities, rather than a bread interpretation of the facts involved. Criticism of the court was based on cases already decided and therefore not contemptuous. Martin held. Quoting from the “state of the Nation,” by Albert J. Beveridge, he declares the following Is applicable in the present case. “So the complaints about the judiciary and criticism of the Constitution. which we hear today, are not wicked. Merely to pour vituperation upon the critics only feeds the fl:es of disconlent.”

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