Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1927 — Page 1

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PAID CITY FOR LOT4MONTHS ' AFTER DEAL Albertson Introduced Ordifr nance for Rezoriing Site v of Own Property. PREDICT COUNCIL PROBE Official in Affair Is Member of Mayor Duval! Ouster i Committee. The city was hot paid for the lot at Thirty-Eighth St. and Central Ave. it sold to John P. Snyder and Snyder sold the same day to Councilman O. Ray Albertson until four months after it was sold, park board records showed today. Two months after the city received payment on the lot, title to which had already passed to Albertson, Albertson introduced in city council the ordinance rezoning the site for business and igcreasing its value many times. May Demand Investigation Several council members today expressed indignation at the lot deal and investigation may be demanded at Its next meeting/ Albertson is a member of the special committee that Friday will consider impeachment charges brought against Mayor Duvall and City Controller William C. Buser by Councilman Otis E. Bartholomew. The lot, on the southeast corner was sold Nov. 5, 1926, to Snyder, local shoe salesman, by the park board upon approval by Mayor Duvall. Albertson received a deed from Snyder dated the same day, but waited until Aug. 19 to record it. s2,soo,Paid for Lot Snyder said he believed he received $2,800 for the lot. The city received a $2,500 .check from Snyder in payment for the lot on March 16, according to park board records. Re-zoning measure was approved May 16, by the city plan commission and introduced in the council on the same day. It was referred to the welfare committee, of which Albertson is chairman, and was passed July 18. "The records are open,” Albertson said when asked for a statement. “If they don’t want me on the committee, I’ll get off,” he declared when asked if he would sit with the special impeachment resolution committee Friday. “It looks like a funny proposition,” Councilman Bartholomew said, adding that although he voted for the measure he did not know Albertson Owned the property. He said he would want to retire from the special committee if he were a member and “a thing like that-came up.” Procedure Was Regular Councilman Edward B. Raub, Democrat, said he wanted to look one or two things up before commenting. He said he was not certain whether the transaction involved an illegal act or was a question of moral right and wrong. Councilman Robert E. Springsteen, Democrat, also declared he did not know Albertson owned the property. “I can’t make a statement because I might have to act as a Judge in the case,” he said. Councilman Austin H. Todd said he first learned Albertson owned th lot through the press. Asked if he , favored a council investigation, he said he believed the grand jury should act first. “Bad," If True x "It was a bad thing, for a fellow to do, If true,” he said. Corporation Councel Schuyler Haas said that although he had not looked up the law he did not believe there was anything illegal in Albertson’s lot deal. He said' he would not look up the law unless officially requested to do so. ! The point is "whether Albertson used his office to increase the emoluments of his pocketbook,” Haas said. Men connected with the Shank city administration saw in the Al bertson deni a parallel with that in which a member of the park board resigned during that regime. A report that a company in which Fred Cline, then a park board member, had profited in a sale of real estate to the city, led to an opinion from Corporation Counsel Taylor E. Groninger to Mayor Shank that % Cline would resign. Cline, while insisting that he had done nothing irregular, resigned from the board, stating he would rather be off the board than remain and embarrass Shank, who long had been his close personal friend. Groninger’s opinion, it was ' recalled, cited a case in another state wherein a fire chief who had profited by sale of real estate for a fire station site through a relative, was forced out of office and the a amount of his profit recovered for the city. Groninger held that it is illegal for any city .official to profit, directly or Indirectly, from any transaction with the city, and that if he does he becomes liable to removal proceedings and civil action to recover the amount of the profit. HQlfcr Office Supply Cos. Ma. 0612. fountain Pens for School.—Adv.

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City Loses Steel Plant If Duvall Signs Bill

Chapman-Price Company to Move If Shelby St. Prop- • erty Is Annexed. BULLETIN Mayor Duvall announc-d this afternoon that he had vetoed the Shelby SL annexation ordinance and signed the ordinance abolishing the board of zoning appeals. Announcement was made today by Niles Chapman, president of Chapman-Price Steel Company, that the industry will move its Indianapolis plant to Kokomo if Mayor Duvall signs the ordinance passed by the city council annexing its property on S. Shelby St. The plant here is a subsidiary of the Continental Steel Corporation, and is affiliated with the Kokomo Steel and Wire Company,, of Kokomo, and the Superior Sheet Metal Company of Canton, Ohio. Its local pay roll is about $1,000,000 a year, Chapman said. The ordinahee annexing the property /was passed by the council the night impeachment resolutions .were introduced against Mayor Duvall and City Controller W'lliam E. Buser. It escaped notice until Councilman Otis E. Bartholomew referred to its passage in a speech Wednesday night before the Southeastern Civic Improvement Club. Friday is the last day in which Duvall can sign the ordinance. If he fails, the effect is the same as a veto. “The council thinks we are ‘bluffing’ by* threatening to move, but the council* doesn’t know much about economics, and we will have every economic reason to move if our property is annexed,” Chapman said. He estimated the annexation would boost the company’s taxes $15,000 annually and would make it impossible to carry out the steel company's plan to induce several other out-of-town factories to locate on the Chapman-Price site. “Negotiations with one out-of-town concern to move here were virtually completed when this annexation talk spoiled the deal,” Chapman said. “We must have definite assurance that we will not be annexed or we will move.”

PROLONGjUER HUNT 25 Ships to Take Part in Pacific Search. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—The Navy today announced plans for a five to six-day prolongation of its, Pacific-wide search for the seven missing Hawaii aviators. More than twenty-five ships, will participate in the continued search, which will be extended far to the southwest of the island of Hawaii. Admiral R. H. Jackson, battle fleet commander, has ordered the light cruiser Omaha and six destroyers to search straight across the Pacific to Hawaii. The mine sweepers Widgeon and Ortolan will be sent from Honolulu to search southwest of Hawaii for 520 miles. The mine sweeper Pelican and the tug Sunnadin will search near the islands northwest of the island of Kaul of the Hawaiian group, as far as French Frigate Shoal. Eight submarines, now stationed at Pearl Harbor, will cover the area south-southwest from Pearl Harbor for 300 miles.

SCHOOLS OPEN LATER Boys’ and Girls’ Vacations Last fill Sept. 12. Indianapolis public schools will open -Monday, Sept. 12. This date is a week later than usual. Teachers’ meetings are scheduled for Sept. 6-9, and the State Teachers’ Association will meet Oct. 2021, giving the pupils a two-day vacation. The first term ends Jan. 27, 1928, the second extending from Jan. 30 to June 15. On Thanksgiving and the day following schools will be closed. They also will be closed from Dec. 19 to Jan. 2 for the Christmas holidays, and April 2-6 for spring vacation. Other recesses are: Feb. 12, Feb. 22 and May 30.

BANDIT VICTIM DIES Girl Shot by Mexican Robbers Succumbs. By United Prest • WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.—Miss Florence Anderson of Los Angeles, Cal., who was wounded by Mexican train bandits Tuesday, died late yesterday at Mazatlan American Vice Consul Ives reported to the State Department today. The State Department will make urgent direct representations to the Mexican government for "speedy apprehension and punishment of the culprits, if it appears that local Mexican authorities are not able.

Happy Another’s Baby Is Leading Bereaved Mother to Recovery.

By United Press —jHICAGO, Aug 25.—An 18C* year-old-girl mother who | has begged physicians to let ner die since her baby was born dead recently, today was happy and on the way to health with a blue-eyed infant in her arms. Physicians had despaired of the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Weber unless an interest In living could be awakened. Her mother advertised for a baby. A 17-year-old girl who wore no wedding ring carried a child to the Weber home. “It’s father ran away,” she explained.

COURTHOUSE, STORES BURN Loss at Washington, Ind., May Be $400,000. Itif T r nitr*i WASHINGTON. Ind., Aug. 25. The Daviess County courthouse was practically destroyed by fire of undetermined origin early today. The loss was estimated at $200,000. While firemen from Washington, Vincennes, Loogootee and Montgomery were fighting the blaze another fire was discovered in the Temple Court building three blocks away. This structure was destroyed by the flames with a loss believed to be heavier than the court house damage. Both fires had gained good headway before being descivered and the origin of neither is known. The courthouse, a huge two-story affair with a steeple nearly 100 feet high was burned down to the first story. Nearly all records of value were saved. These records, however, are badly damaged by water. Officials are conducting an investigation into the cause of the two fires. They refused to say whether they believed the fires of incendiary origin. The Temple Court building housing a hardware and home furnishing store, grocery, reaiiy-to-wear and dry goods department store, several law offices, insurance, dentists’ and physicians’ offices, was completely ruined.

TRACE BANK BANDITS Arrest May Be Made at Aurora, Ind. Aurora, Ind., authorities today notified city detectives that efforts would be made to arrest four men seen there answering the description of the bandits who obtained $13,514.13 in a daylight hold-up of the Forty-Second Street State Bank in Indianapolis Tuesday. The men were in a car answering the description of the one used in the hold-up here, Aurora authorities said. Detectives are endeavoring to locate a young man known to them who was seen to get into a car similar to the one us’d by the bandits, a few minutes before the robbery. Three men were in the car when he got in, police said. Three bank employes accompanied city detectives Wednesday to Roachdale, Ind., where a suspect was hei;. They failed to identify him as one’of the bandits. RIDE MAY COST HIS LEG Boy Hurt When Ice Truck Hits Bump in Paving. William Slekeleather, 11, of 1432 Everett St, hooked a ride on a Holt Ice and Cold Storage Company wagon at Harding and Market Sts. today. The wagon struck a bump. A 200pound cake of ice slid backward, knocked William off and crushed his left leg. > City hospital attaches reported it may be necessary to amputate the leg. DEMOCRATS ORGANIZING ♦*- State Committee Making Plans at Claypol Meeting. Plans for organizing the Democrats in each congresionai, district in the State the week of Sept. 19 were made today at a meeting of the Democratic State committee at the Claypooi. The following week county organizations will be formed, it was decided. State Chairman R. Earl Peters presided. Corn Borer Area Spreads Tippecanoe Township, Kosciusko County, was added to the corn borer infested list today, State Entomologist Frank Wallace reported.

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COMRADES TO DEAR BODIES OF TWO REDS Sacco and Vanzetti Bier in Dingy Parlor Draws Scores of Friends. ' v ■ - DENIED AUDITORIUM Silent Death March Through Boston Streets Is Planned. BY HENRY MINOTT United Pres. Staff Correspondent BOSTON, Aug. 25.—Under a guard of honor, the bodies of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will lie in state for three days, beginning this afternoon, in a dingy north end undertaking establishment. Just as the State prison was surrounded by police when the famous anarchists were executed early Tuesday, so will armed guards watch over the mortician’s parlors as crowds pass to and from the biers. Without success, the Sacco-Van-zettl defense committee tried to hire a large public hall. But even the scenic auditorium, where many protest meetings were held, is closed to them. Move Bodies Today The bodies are to be removed today to Joe Langone’s parlors on Hanover St., only a few steps from the defense headquarters. Until Sunday, the day of the funeral, the bodies, in plain wooden coffins of mahogany finish, will remain there on view day and night. At the head of each bier will be a giant laurel wreath, spanned by a broad purple ribbon. The wreaths came from a woman sympathizer. The law provides that bodies must be buried or cremated within four days of death, but the defense committee has obtained from health authorities a special permit under which the bodies piay b® preserved until Sunday. No Religious Touch On that day, sympathizers will assemble In the early afternoon- at North End parks, Plans for the funeral services, which will be brief and without a religious touch, remained unsettled today, but arrangements for a mammoth procession were complete. Through the city’s principal streets and past the State house, the caskets will be borne on the shoulders of former comrades. Between sixty and 100 pallbearers, marching at the head of the procession, will work in relays carrying the coffins. There will be no hearse, no band. The “death march” will be a silent tribute. Ashes to Italy Following the procession, the bodies will be taken by, automobile to the creamatory at Forest Hills Cemetery. Vanzetti’s ashes will be taken by his sister, Luigia, to his native Italy, but Sacco’s final resting place will be in the vicinity of Boston, where live his wife and two children. Sacco’s wife and Varzettrt sister have tolirthe defense committee they will not view the bodies, explaining that they preferred to member their relatives as they last saw them in the deaht cells. At New Bedford, funeral services were to be held today for Celestino Madeiros, the young Portuguese, who went to the chair with the two anarchists for another crime.

Fear Plot in Sacco Riot By United Press PARIS, Aug. 25.—Suspicion that recent street riots in the name of Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers may have been part of an extremist plot against the Government perturbed officialdom today. Rioting was resumed in the boulevards last night, with police battling some hundreds of alleged Communists, several of whom were armed. The United States embassy remained under heavy guard. BURNS \12,000 ACRES Thousand Men Are Fighting California Blaze. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25.—Twelve thousand acres of timber have been consumed by a forest fire, sweeping toward the Tweedy Lake Club today. Approximately 1,000 men are fighting the blaze,

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Permits Low; Peril Marriages

Newlyweds experiencing their first day of married life today probably do not know how near they came to remaining single for another twenty-four hourST Here’s an outline of the neartragedy: ' Wednesday morning the applications for marriage licenses filed with the county clerk were few. But about 3 p. jttt. a “run” started. At the outset of the rush, the office only

Playground Athletes Display Prowess

Boy and girl athletes displaying their prowess at the annual playground Held day at Willard Park Wednesday.. Above: Nellie Mac Lucas, Fall Creek, a Maypole vaulter. Lower left: Myrtle Gardner, Brightwood, outstanding girl athlete. Lower right: Hotvard Tout, Spades Park, who took more major honors th*in any other athlete. Inset: Peter La Russa awarded the gold medal for best all-round sportsmanship.

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Nmraooi ' DISTRICTS FIXED Pupils May Attend Building Tfuy Select. No change is being made this year in the policy of optional choice of city high schools, Supt. Charles F. Miller said today. All Negro pupils will attend the new Crispus Attucks High School, but others will be permitted to attend the school they elect. No attempt has been made to assign districts. About 960 have Indicated their intention of enrolling in the new Washington High School. ■* Athletics will not have a prominent role at the west side institution until the opening of the second semester, when those who have transferred from other schools become eligible ilnder the Indiana High School Athletic Association rujjpg.

TIMES SPEED PLANE City Man Officiates in Nava! Flier’s Tests. Odis A. Porter of Indianapolis, official timer of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, tOday was timing test flights at Port Washington, N. Y., of Lieut. Alford J. Williams, U. S. N., who plans to attempt to set anew world’s record for seaplanes. Williams’ highest speed in his first test flight was 240 miles an hour. Porter estimated, according to United Press dispatches. Williams must make an average speed of 262 miles an hour on his four trips over the three-kilometer course to set anew record. If a second test flight was successful Williams was to make his official attempt late today.

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had a few application blanks at hand. Shortly after 4 p. m. an SOS was sent to the printers for more blanks. Just before these arrived there were six couples in the office and seven blanks. The emergency call brought more applications and all went well. Edward Hohl, county statistical reporter, suggested to George Hutsell, clerk, that if the supply gave out to issue cards bearing: “License applied for.” f

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W. C. T. U. PARLEY OP£NS 5,T00 Delegates to Attend Convention at Minneapolis. By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 25. Departments of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union were holding sessions today. The general convention opens tonight with 5,000 delegates expected. Prohibition will be the chief topic of national issues taken up.

SGHAF BEFORE JURY Member of First Political Corruption Quiz Body. Joseph C. Schaf, a member of the first grand jury to investigate alleged political corruption in Indiana today appeared before the present and third grand jury for about a half hour. The first grand jury was said to have vo;ed 4 to 2 for indictment of several public officials and was discharged after reporting to Judge James A. Collins, that no indictments could be returned “under present circumstances.” Schaf refused to discuss his mission in the jury chamber, other than to comment smilingly that “I was a member of the Jury that started all the fun.” William J. Mooney, jury foreman, said Schaf was called ‘to confer with the jury about certain matters.” The first grand jury quit Jan. 1. Its successor was -discharged by Judge Collins after James Armitage, brother of William H. Armitage, political boss, was convicted of attempting to bribe Claude Achey, jury member, to vote against returning indictments against Mayor Duvall.

DENOUNCE CITY BUDGET Chamber of Commerce Directors Rap Expenditure Proposal. Chamber of Commerce directors today attacked as excessive and "harmful to progress of the city” the proposed city budget for 1928. A resolution adopted stated that “the situation calls for the united action of every citizen who is interested in the progress of Indianapolis.” DUVALL BACK ON JOB Mayor Spends Morning Closeted in His Office. Mayor Duvall arrived early at his office today, spent most of the morning alone or in secret conference and remained in the office during the noon hour. It was the mayor’s first day at the office this week. Police Chief Johnson, and City Controller William C. Buser conferred with Duvall. \ . ’ S

SUSPECT HELD AT JQSPITAL Cop Shot Alleged Bootlegger in Leg. Shot in the right leg by police when he struck Jack Maroney, Federal officer, and tried to down an alley, Dolph White, 24, of 606 spring St., was held in city hospital today on a Federal vagrancy charge. White was shot after police under Sergt. Otto Pettit and Federal agents had surrounded his car late Wednesday afternoon while he was delivering alleged liquor to a house in the rear of 915 Ashland Ave. When White drove up an alley, east of Ashland Ave., and took a five-gallon can off his auto, officers surrounded the car. He ducked toward the front of the auto and Maroney went *after him. When he hit Maroney over the head and fled south on the alley police fired three shots at him. Two officers were left in charge of the confiscated auto while police took White to city hospital. A crowd was attracted by the shooting. A. W. Kohler, 42, of 34 -N. East St., was arrested by police and charged l with Federal vagrancy when it is alleged, he drove up the same alley and asked one man in the crowd, “How much do you want?” Police searched the auto and found two half-gallons of alleged liquor. Both men are held without bail.

FORMOSA IS SHAKEN Quake Kills Ten; 100 Persons Are Injuerd. By United Press TOKIO, Aug. 25.—Ten persons were killed, a hundred injured, and 200 homes werq destroyed by a severe earthquake early today in the southern part of the Island of Formosa. The earthquake shocks were most severe at Yensui where nine persons were killed and forty injured. Formosa is an island in the China Sea belonging to Japan. Several ranges of mountains traverse it. Active volcanoes are found in the mountains. THAW WEARING UNIFORM Harry Expects to Attend West \irginiia Firemen’s Convention. Bit United Pr*>*n ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25. Wearing the shirt of a volunteer fireman. Harry K. Thaw is expected here today for the final two dayS of the Virginia State firemen’s convention. Thaw is a member of the Winchester, Va., volunteer fire department.

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REDFERN OFF ON 4,1100-MILE i HOP TOBRAZIL Stinson Monoplane Soars Away From Georgia Field j After Second Take-off. j HURRICANE IS FEARED First Half of Route Over Sea and Last Part Over Jungle. BY E. W. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent BRUNSWICK, Ga., Aug. 25.—Paul Redfern took off for Brazil at 12:46 p. m. (E. S. TANARUS.) today in the monoplane Port of Brunswick. Redfern started from the field on Glyn Isle, hoping to make the 4,600 mile flight to Rio de Janiero without a stop. The first attempt to start jn the heavy Stinson monoplane failed. The 200-horsepower Wright engine failed to develop sufficient lift to get the plane off the ground and it came to a stop on the beach, half a mile from the starting point. The second attempt was successful. Redfern and his young wife arrived at the monoplane’s hangar on Glynn Isle at 10:30 a. m. and preparations were made to start loading the Port of Brunswick. The weather was perfect. Thousands, including many women and children, gathered along the sand dunes to watch the start. Redfern, formerly a commercial flier, plans to make the first nonstop solo flight between the two Americas. He will have to fly his monoplane for 2,500 miles over the southeastern Atlantic and Caribbean with only a sight of an island now and then. Hurricanes brew this time of year along his course, and while weather reports today appeared favorable storms are known to “come up like thunder.” Must Fly Over Jungle The final 2,000 miles of the proposed flight lies over little explored Hinterland of Dutch Guiana, Brazilian jungles of the Amazon basin and southward, then finally the mountain ranges of Brazil, north of Rio De Janeiro. Redfern s monoplane has a wing span of forty-five feet and has a 200-horse power Wright whirlwind motor. Capacity of the gasoline tanks is 550 gallons. The monoplane weighed nearly three tons as it waited to be wheeled down the runway to the beach. Hawaii Heroes Returning By United Press HONOLULU, Aug. 25.—Arthur Goebel and Lieut. W. V. Davis, Winner:, of the first prize in the Dole air race with the plane Woolaroc, sailed on their way back to California today. As their vessel cleared Martin Jensen, second prize winner, flew hjs plane over the ship and escorted it out of the harbor. Start Rome Hop Today By United Press CURTISS FIELD. Aug. 25—The Fokker monoplane Old Glory was removed from its hangar today to be flown to Roosevelt Field. Lloyd W. Bertaud, pilot, said he expected to depart this afternoon for Rome. Byrd Plane Takes Off By United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 25.—Commander Richard E. Byrd, passenger of the Ford tri-motor plane piloted by Harry Brooks, took off from the airport here this morning for Toronto. Uncertain weather condition* forced a landing here last night. The plane carried M. Bokanowski, French minister of commerce and aviation, en route to the Canadian Bar Association in Toronto. Navy Watches Course By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.— I The Navy has six vessels in the Caribbean Sea. They will be advised to watch for sight of Paul Redfern in his plane. Port of Brunswick, on his flgiht from Brunswick, Ga., to Rio de Janeiro.

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