Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 101, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1927 — Page 1

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HORSE AND DOG SHOWS TO TOP BILL JT FAIR Perfect Weather Helps to Attract Record Crowd to Exposition. STAKE RACES TODAY Stock Judging on Program; Fireworks Feature of Night Celebration. " Indiana State Fair visitors were given an additional attraction today at the diamond jubilee celebration, •with the opening of the annual dog show at 10 a. m. in the remodeled building Just west of the new poultry building. Guests will be preecnted with another new feature tonight when the horse show in the coliseum opens at 7 o’clock. All other exhibits and contests which opened Saturday continued today, including judging of horses, cattle, poultry ana swine. Spectators will be offered a diversion from routine horse show judging tonight Jn the Coliseum, with the presentation of special vaudeville acts and Tthe running off of the semi-finals of the second district in the old fld'dlers’ contest. Weather of Best Perfect weather conditions which prevailed during the opening of the fair and on the second day, continued and all predictions pointed to establishment of a record for attendance on Labor day. Satu. lay’s attendance reached 14,423, with a paid admission of 7,269 persons. Sunday’s crowd was estimated at well over 8,000. Marion County headed the list with 9,858 representatives, while Madison County ran second with 276; Boone County had 254; Hendricks County 259; and Hamilton County 195. The dog show drew 300 entries of more than 50 breeds from every State. The main attraction to vis_J tori’ was the tiny Mexican ChichaBjhau dogs which averaged less than “a pound and a half in weight. The smallest weighed about one pound. The largest dogs were the St. Bernards, which weighed up to 220 pounds. The entry list closed at 10 a. m. and judging on the various classes was started at 2 p. m. with ten champions and three international champions in the list. Prize Horses Here The night horse show will bring the best material in the country in saddle horses, according to Roy E. Graham, department director. Ten head were entered by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Woods, manager of the O. B. Brown stables, Berlin, N. H. The Hobble farms, Montgomery, Ala., entered six horses various classes, and Mrs. W. P. Roth, Los Angeles, has brought a string of ten horses headed by the Chief of Longview, a popular candidate for the SIO,OOO stake this year. Mrs. A. C. Thompson, Chicago, has a string of ten head with two undefeated champions, Dream Girl, and Queen Elizabeth. Broadview farms. La Porte, have entered their favorite, Trellos Nightlight’s daughter, in her first show of the year. The Grand Circuit races were inaugurated Saturday, with the running of three events for horses which had never "been raced on a mile track before Aug. 15. Sunday was a quiet day in the racing stables, with no events scheduled, and horsemen spent the greater part of the day grooming their _ mounts for the races today. I Big Purse for Futurity w The Horseman Futurity, 3-vear-old trot, this afternoon, carried the /largest purse ever paid in Indiana for this event, $7,465.43, and the Horseman Futurity pace for 3-year-olds was $4,027. Between the Grand Circuit events, the old fiddlers tuned up and entertained the crowd in the contest to decide the winners from the second district. Vaudeville acts also were on the program of entertainment. Horseshoe pitching continued all day. A dozen lean and willowy whippets kept the audience In an uproar in their races. Tonight the Gordon Fireworks Company will stage a mammoth fireworks display and entertainment In front of the grand stand. A special display Thursday night by the flrewqrks company has been dedicated to the three Indianapolis newspapers in appreciation of their work in handling publicity for the fair.

HOLIDAY WEATHER FINE Skies Are Clear, Temperature Right for Outings. A Labor day to delight the hearts of State Fair management, picnickers and motorists was the assurance of the weather bureau today. The bureau predicted the temperature would not mount above the high mark of Sunday, 85, and that the fair weather would continue Tuesday. The mercury soared to 91 Saturday, but failed to sizzle in like fashion Sunday. ' Temperatures have been above normal each day since Aug. 30, following a month in which the thermometer was sub-normal on all but one day.

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 101

HILL DECLARES HE DIDN’T KILL MOTHER

Youth Captured in Seattle; Admits Forgery, but Denies Slaying. By United, Press SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. s.—Repeated questioning of Harry Hill, 21-year-old Streator, 111., youth, captured here Saturday night, and charged with killing his mother, today had failed to shake his assertion that he knew nothing of the crime and had fled from Streator only because he might be implicated. He asserted that he had intended to go back to Streator with the intention of facing the charges, but had stayed away from home to hide and “wait until things cooled of! a little.” “I was visiting with my friend, William Brydges, in Chicago when my mother’s body was found,” Hill told authorities. “My first impulse was to go back to streator, and I did. But I thought the circumstances looked bad for me, and I got cold feet.” Denies Charge Hill said he learned before he fled that Peter Busch, odd job man, had testified the youth told him to replace the brick paving over the grave in the basement of the Hill home in which the woman was juried. This he specifically denied. He confessed forging his mother’s name to checks for more than SI,OOO and asserted he did so to pay gambling debts, the motive for the crime held against Hill by Streator police. “I went from Streator to Beloit, Wis., and from there to Minneapolis,” Hill said. “I stole some Minnesota license plates and made my way to the coast.” Evades Searchers In spite of the police broadcast asking his arrest, Hill was not questioned until he was taken in custody here. Charles Tennant, detective chief, said the first trace of the youth in Seattle was obtained when it was learned he had sold an automobile for SBS, much less than its value. The engine number of the machine was Just one figure from that of a car listed as stolen. Police visited Hill’s room In a hotel where he had registered as “H. Jackson.” There they found the old Illinois license plate, which had been removed, and papers in connection with ownership of toe car, which identified the youth. “I guess I’m in for it,” was his only comment. He admitted his Identity readily. Trial Will Be Rushed By United Press STREATOR, 111., Sept. s.—Trial of Harry Hill for the murder of his wealthy, eccentric mother will be hurried as much as possible, State’s Attorney Russell C. Hanson said today. “We believe we have sufficient evidence to obtain conviction and we will push the case with all possible vigor,” Hanson said. An assistant from Hanson’s office was sent to Seattle with Sheriff Clark to handle possible extradition protest. Mrs. Hill’s body was found buried in the basement of her home on Aug. 21. Indications were that she had been dead at least, a week. SPIES HIS STOLEN AUTO Car Recovered by Owner After Chase; Suspect Held. W. H. Johnson, 538 Marion Ave., recognized his stolen automobile in traffic Sunday night while driving with friends. They chased the car to Twenty-First and Harding Sts., where a man giving the name of Kenneth Weaver, 24,,0f 1435 Herschel Ave., stopped and hopped out. Johnson and his companions captured Weaver and held him until police arrived. Weaver said the car had been given him by another man that morning. / Labor Expels Communists By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. s.—Ten alleged communists were expelled today from the Chicago Federation of Labor as “traitors to the cause of labor.”

Day of Thanksgiving, Says Secretary Davis

(Written lor the United Press) BY JAMES J. DAVIS WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—1 often have said that Labor Day in America should be a day of thanksgiving, for nowhere else has the man who works attained the social position he possesses in America. His wages here are the highest, and are a large part of the economic energy of the Nation. There never has been before so much call for rejoicing in respect to material enjoyments, a,nd of these labor enjoys its share. Today, however, the commemoration of Labor Day means more to us than ever before. It marks anew day of understanding between workers and employers. It holds today as much gratification for the employer as it does for the worker, because the two now realize, as never before, that they, together, are striving for the same goals in efficient production, peace in industry and contentment, progress and prosperity both for employer end employe." And thus we celebrate this Labor Day with anew feeling of confidence, knowing that the reciprocal respect between all units of industry is to be permanent. We know that out of the far-seeing efforts of those who insisted from the beginning that in industry and labor American standards should be placed within the reach of all there have come benefits that are accruing wealth, peaoe, profitable employment, and anew and brighter future than the American man and woman ever before have faced.

‘Looks’ Suit BV Tim's Special WABASH, Ind., Sept. s.—Albert D. Clouser charges a blow in the face delivered by Charles Lutz disfigured him to such an extent it impairs his ability to get a position. He has suec for $4,000 damages.

GUILT IS DENIED BY HOSTETTERS Alleged Southport Bank Robbers Arraigned. Robert and Howard Hostetter pleaded not guilty today to robbing the Citizens State Bank at Southport, Feb. 8, 1926, of $1,695, before Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins. The alleged hold-up men, sought by Indianapolis police over the nation, will be tried Friday, Collins announced. The youths were brought into the courtroom, chained to a string of other prisoners, in custody of Sheriff Omer Hawkins. One hundred two defendants were arraigned, seventy-two being brought from the county jail. Their recent capture in Buffalo was effected when they sent money to two women companions in Philadelphia. Deputy Sheriff Charles Bell was shot in the escape of the Hostetters and another suspect from a house where they had been trapped in 1926. They will be tried on banditry, robbery and grand larceny charges. Collins told attorneys all cases would be rushed, to make way for the trial of Mayor Duvall sept. 12. Tilford Roberts, charged with murdering Patrolman Charles Carter May 8, also pleaded not guilty. Eight Negroes charged with murder denied the charge. Attorneys for Roberts will file a change of venue plea Tuesday. Roberts was returned here from a Kentucky institution.’ LABOR TAKES REST Dance Only Affair on City Holiday Program. A dance at Tomlinson Hall tonight is the only organized observance of Labor day planned in Indianapolis. Labor leaders were out so the city most of last week at the State Federation convention at Bloomington and could not make the usual arrangements for a parade and mass meeting, so it was decided at permit union members to enjoy one Labor day "s their individual tastes dictated. DEFER O’DONNELL RITES Services for Noted Chicago Lawyer Set for Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Tuesday in Chicago for Patrick H. O’:Donnell of Logansport, prominent Indiana attorney, who died Friday at his summer home near Camden. Services will be held at St. Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church. Funeral was to have been held today, but was postponed because officials of the Georgetown University at Washington, from which Mr. O’Donnell was graduated, would have been unable to reach Chicago. 1 Many Indiana persons will attend the funeral. CONGRESSMAN TO SPEAK ► Kelly of Pennsylvania to Address K'wanls Club. Congressman Clyde Kelly of Pittsburg, Pa., will address the Kiwanls Club Wednesday < luncheon at the Claypool. “Price Maintenance” will be his topic. He will discuss legislation as it affects business. A delegation from the local club is expected to attend the Lafayette district Kiwanis conference Sept. 28-29.

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PARLEY WILL SEEKTOEASE TAX BURDEN County Council Will Meet Tuesday Night; Consider 1928 Budget. SEE RATE NEAR $4.50 Increase Asked in Proposed Levies for State, Municipal County Levies.

An effort to lessen the burden on Center Township taxpayers will be made by county council members when they meet Tuesday to consider Marion County’s 1928 budget. The prospective budget calls for a 40-cent tax rate, an increase of 11 cent* over this year’s. County commissioners. Auditor Harry Dunn and Treasurer Edward Ramsay have inspected the proposed budget but no changes have been made. Appropriations for various departments are expected to be slashed. Representatives of county divisions and institutions will attend. Suit is Pending With the school board seeking a levy of from $1.30 to $1.45, the city rate nearing sl.lO, the proposed county rate, a possibility of the State rate Jumping from 23 to 28 cents and the horizontal tax refund the tax rate for Center Township may hover around $4.50. A suit to prevent the horizontal rebate awarded by the State Supreme Court is pendlnc in Federal Court. If the refund is halted the township rate will be about $3.30. The present rate is $2.62. City council finance committee held the public hearing on the 1928 civil city budget this afternoon in the council chamber. City officials took a holiday and spectators were few. Several items crew considerable debate from committee members and those effected. Report to Council Tonight Following the public hearing the finance commfittee headed by O. Ray Albertson- went into conference to draft the report on next year’s levy which will be presented to the council tonight* The fltlance committee expected to recommend a seven-cent levy for the park department and a ninecent rate for the health board, according to Robert E. Springsteen, Democratic member. The health board request was cut from 12 cents and the park request from 9 cents. It was understood the committee decided to slash the sanitary board request from 8 to 7.35 cents. A 1925 bill was to be cared for under the 1928 sanitary budget. The ordinance setting $1.19%, the figure recommended by the former City Controller William C. Buser. will be amended In accordance with the finance body’s report. Chairman Albertson indicated the rate will be about $1.09 or sl.lO, the figure recommended by the Chamber of Commerce civic staff. The Chamber civic staff head and by William H. Book, has worked in co-operation with the finance committee in pruning the budget to the lowest possible figure. Members sa'd it was "practically Impossible” to slash the requests to enable retention of the $1.04 rate of last year. Schools Want Increase Word of the possible Increase In the State rate came today when tax board official declared the reduction of $300,000,000 In value of Indiana farmlands, huge appropriations by the last Legislature and the tax refund, would necessitate an increased rate. It was expected the rate would be 25 cents, as compared to 23 cents this year. The school city sprung Its 45-cent prc. osed increase Saturday when Business Director Ure M. Frazer stated this amount would be needed to raise the $10,800,348.72 for operation of schools next year. He pointed out there was a possibility of a decrease before the public hearing Sept. 14. Committee to Protest This year’s school rate is sl. It 'was sliced from $1.03 by the State tax board last year on a protest by the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association. The rate proposed has heretofore been unheard of, the board’s fondest dreams generally being about sl.lO. The Taxpayers’ Association and the Chamber of Commerce are prearing to protest all governmental budgets. These organizations are attem. :ing, after examination of the contemplated expenditures, to show where they can be reduced. CLEMENCEAU ILL AGAIN Former Premier, of France Victrfn of Heart Attack. Bu United Press ST. VINCENT SUR JARD France, Sept. s.—Georges Clemenceau, 86-year-old war-time premier of France, suffered a heart attack last night and was being attended by physicians today. He recently recovered from bronchial trouble. Millions Leave New York By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. s.—More than one million vacationists left New York Saturday and Sundry in the annual Labor day exodus . Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 60 9 a. m 74 7 a ,m 64 10 a. m 79 8 a m 69

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Three prize Hoosier products at the Indiana State Fair this week (top picture) are Miss Wilma Jane Hadley 3 of Mooresville; the largest pie (eighteen inches in diameter), and some Indiana apples. Centered are two of the largest and the smallest locomotives in the world, shown this week at the Fair In the foreground is the “Mississippi,” the first engine built by the Illinois Central railway in 1834 at a cost of $2,000. It weighs only 14,000 pounds. The giant Illinois Central locomotive in the rear weights 674,0000 pounds and cost $97,500. A yearling prize winner (right, below) is the calf being brushed by its owner, Herbert Bowman, 13, Cicero, Ind. It won a championship and second prize in Hamilton County and a fifth prize in Sheridan, Ind. Left Is Edwin Bowman, brother of the owner. .... With two splotches of “rebel” gunshot powder In his lower lip and the weight of 93 years on his shoulders, Henry J. Hale, 3367 W. Tenth St. (left, below), still wears one of the broadest smiles of anybody at the Fair Grounds.

‘OLD GLORY’ READY FOR FLIGHT FROM MAINE COAST TO ROME

By United Pren Carrying the greatest live load under a single motor that ever has attempted a trans-Atlantic flight, the Fokker monoplane Old Glory was ready to start from Old Orchard, Maine, for Rome between noon and 2 o’clock today, weather permitting. Lloyd Bertaud and James D. Hill are pilots of the plane. There is possibility that the Old Glory will have a companion for the greater portion of its expedition. After a telephone conversation with Phil Wood, who, with C. A. (Duke) Schiller, hopes to pilot the monoplane Royal Windsor to Windsor, England. Bertaud announced PRAISE FOR WORLEY Judge Gives Reasons for Appointing Him. Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins today said he expected to receive the resignation of Police Chief Claude M. Worley as special Criminal Court investigator, today or Tuesday. Collins created the post after Worley was ousted as detective chief several weeks ago. Worley then resigned from the police department and last week was named chief, replacing Claude F. Johnson, now city controller. “There is only one Worley. I made the appointment to preserve his services for the community. I will consult Prosecutor Remy before selecting a successor,” Collins said.

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‘.hat Wood would bring the Canadian plane here today. The Royal Windsor was stuck In the mud at the new Portland (Me.) airport. Wood’s plan Is to come here to refuel and take off immediately after the Old Glory. Bertaud said he thought the Roy* al Windsor might follow his plane most of the way to the other side of the ocean, as the Royal Windsor has no radio and might have difficulty keeping to Its course. If the fliers get away by 1 p. m. today they will have daylight for about the first six hours of the flight. Bertaud revealed that if the flight to Rome was successful a return trip would be made in October by the southern route. Miami, Fla., he said, probably would be the landing place on the return to this country. With rather favorable weather, indications were that the London, Ontario, to London, England, monoplane Sir John Carling, might take

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off today from Carbou, Maine, for Harbor Grave, Newfoundland. .•Capt. Terrance Tully and Lieut. James Medcalf, who made a forced landing at Washburn, six miles from here, last Thursday, have been waiting since for good flying conditions. Given favorable weather conditions, Capt. R. H. Mclntosh expected to take off today in his Fokker monoplane Xenia on an attempted non-stop flight to Philadelphia. The plane is similar to the illfated Saint Raphael, in which Princess Ane of Lowenstein-wertheim, Captain Leslie Hamilton and Colonel F- F. Minchin probably lost their lives last week. William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee, globe fliers, arrived at 3:30 p. m., Indian time, today at Allahabad, India, in the monoplane Pride of Detroit. The fliers said they would leave for Calcutta tomorrow. The trip from Karachi was unevenful. MARCUS LOEW DEAD Biggest Movie World Figure Passes in Sleep. By United Prctt GLEN COVE, L. 1., Sept. s.—Marcus Loew, the biggest figure in t the moving picture and vaudeville world, died today in his sleep shortly before 7 a. m. Loew, born on the east side of New York, died at Pembroke, the magnificent horn! he purchased some time ago here. He had been ill of heart trouble for some time and two weeks ago visited Saratoga Springs in an effort to benefit his health.

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FIGHT CERTAIN IN COUNCIL ON DUVAU. CASE Springsteen to Battle for Impeaching Mayor, at Tonight’s Session. MOORE READY FOR WAR City Executive Spends Part of Holiday, Preparing for Trial. Heated debate is expected tonight on the minority report of Councilman Robert E. Springsteen, Democrat, who will seek to keep alive the resolution to impeach Mayor Duvall. The special council committee headed by Council President Claude E. Negley, of which Springsteen is the only Insurgent member, will report that the committee favors killing the resolution, since similar charges are pending In Criminal Court. Springsteen agreed to delay the Investigation, pending outcome of the trial, but refused to sign the majority committee report. Negley, M. W. Ferguson, O. Ray Albertson, and Austin H. Todd voted to kill the measure. Filed Weeks Ago The affidavit charging that Duvall made a false campaign expense report was filed by Prosecutor William H. Remy several weeks before Councilman Otis Bartholomew introduced the Impeachment measure. Bartholomew withdrew his name, leaving that of Councilman Edward B. Raub, a Democrat, on the bill. Springsteen’s report will ask that the council continue investigation of the charges set forth In the resolution to impeach. He charged the committee was “manipulated.” If Raub, Bartholomew, Walter R. Dorsett and Boynton J. Moore voted for the Springsteen report. It will defeat the majority committee report. Bartholomew explained removal of his name on the ground that it would be a “farce to hold a trial and spend the taxpayers’ money needlessly.” In Doubt on Action < “I still am sincere in my actions and am considering whether it would be wise to go ahead with the trial and spend a big sum for attorneys to prosecute the charges,” Bartholomew said. t Moore and Dorsett, who left on a vacation after the secret impeachment committee meeting two weeks ago, were irate because they were not permitted in the committee room. “Why didn’t they do It In the open?” asked Moore. “Wait and see what happens tonight.” Meanwhile, Mayor Duvall spent a part of Labor day in preparation for his trial in Criminal Court Sept. 12. Duvall to Fight “I’m sure trying to beat it,” Duvall said. He has had several recent conferences with Ryan, Ruckelshaus and Ryan, and Eph Inman, his at-* tomeys. Duvall returned late Sunday with his family from Lake Manltou and attended the funeral of the mother-in-law of Orville Scott, Barrett law and assessment bureau chief clerk, this morning. Duvall and Scott have been close friends. Duvall verified a rumor that his nephew, Deputy Controller Claude Wilson, and A. B. Good, safety board clerk and civil service commission secretary, would be Interchanged. The change will result from appointment of former Police Chief Claude F. Johnson as city controller, replacing William C- Buser. Johnson spent most of Labor day at his office. Budget Hearing Held Everything was quiet at city hall, except that a few city officials came down to their offices. A public hearing on the 1926 budget was held this afternoon. The new safety board, composed of Fred W. Connell, Ira P. Haymaker, and Robert F. Miller, will hold Its first regular meeting Tuesday. Police Chief Claude M. Worley said: “I have In mind no changes for Tuesday."

Hardware Sold for Cash by T. W. A. HARDWARE; 170S E. ißthj Invoice $2,500; exceptionally good place; need help to run store; sell V* Interest or all. Hum. 3888, evenings Hum. 3456. Mr. A. P. Shalley, 3869 Central Ave., ran the above “Business Opportunity” want ad In The Times only three days and sold the hardware for cash to Charles Young of Champaign, 111. “Had several other interested prospects too,” Mr. Shalley told us when cancelling his ad. Not a day goes by but that it brings enthusiastic stories recounting the results obtained through Times want ads and at a lower cost too. Want ads cost less In The Times. Call Main 3500. Ycy can charge your want ads.