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FIGHT THRONG STARTS TREK FROM CHICAGO Fans Drift Home, Arguing ; Over Low Blows, Long P Count Given Tunney. JAM SPECIAL TRAINS Soldiers’ Field Is Desolate Waste, Littered With ) Broken Seats. Full page of Fight Pictures on Page 21. BY C. C. NICOLET, United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Bedraggled thousands, many nursing headaches and others sniffling with colds, fought today for a chance to ride on trains leaving Chicago, just as they fought for hotel rooms earlier in the week and fought for their seats in Soldiers’ Field last night. They fought hard and well, and th.y didn’t get a million out of it, but most of them seemed satisfied to have seen Jack Dempsey sent back to his Hollywood real estate, and Gene Tunney crowned as a genuine champion after a year on trial. There was acrimonious discussion among some hardy souls today over whether the count on Tunney really was too long, and whether Dempsey fouled his rival in the early rounds. Recover From Hysteria For the most part, however, the fans seemed to have recovered from the touch of hysteria of recent days. Several hundred visitors had spent the night in hotel lobbies,, in railroad stations, or wherever they could find a warm place. They were the careless ones who neglected to obtain hotel rooms in advance. Special and scheduled trains, most of the latter running in several sections, reported every seat taken and every section filled, and departing * automobiles crowded the highways Baround Chicago. More than fifty "thousand persons came here from other cities for the fight. Soldiers’ Field Is Waste Soldiers’ field was a desolate waste of broken seats and miscellaneous debris. A few guards and workmen took the place of the 145,000 flght-erazed fans of last night. It wasn’t a sold-out house, and Tex Rickard’s $3,000,000 dream proved too optimistic. But, with the aid of cut rates on late ticket sales, the crowd was swelled to a record for a prize fight. It was, in some ways, an unusual crowd that saw the battle. It had what many fighters lack—a change of pace. Never was there a more reserved and distant assemblage of persons than those 145,000 during the early part of the evening. The preliminary fights failed to draw comment from.any but the most hardened fans. Wildly Howling Mob But when Dempsey and Tunney appeared, it suddenly was changed Into a wildly howling mob which kept on howling until she ten furious rounds were over. It cheered for Jack and it cheered for Gene; it booed Jack when he hit low and booed Gene when he turned to dancing and backward racing after he was knocked down in the seventh round. It cheered again for the champion when he hammered his opponent in the last two rounds, and went wild when the referee raised Tunney’s handThen the crowd did one of the . most remarkable things in the hisI tory of big-time bouts. More than * half the throng stayed for the two •‘preliminary” bouts which had been saved until after the big show. Many Women Present It was a crowd of celebrities and nobodies mixed—except in the first dozen rows—with cheerful disregard for everything except ability to buy tickets. Men were in a great majority, of' course, but there were enough women to make up a good sized city. Borne wore colorful early autumn Clothes and some were wrapped in dull-colored winter overcoats. The latter were happier as the chilly breezes blew across the stadium. Probably never before were so many hip flasks concentrated in one place. In cheerful disregard of the 3,000 policemen and fifty-two Federal agents, the fight fans lifted up their flasks and drank whenever they were so moved. It was a great show—as great a show as it was expected to be. But it was a relief to Chicago to have it over. COLGATE FIGHTS BASIN Broker Goes to Court to Balk Huge Propect PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 23. Plans of the Philadelphia Electric Power Company to build a reservoir basin for its $52,000,00 Conowingo electric power project on land owned by James C. Colgate, New York stock broker, and resident of Bennington, Vt, met with further opposition from Colgate today. . Through counsel, Colgate took I simultaneous appeals to the United r States Supreme Court and to the United States Circuit Court.

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Record Speed Seventeen minutes after the decision had been made proclaiming Gene Tunney winner Thursday night, a picture of the event was handed the representative of The Indianapolis Times. Elaborate preparations had been made to see that readers of The Times and other Scripps - Howard newspapers got pictures first. Several “shots” were taken of each of the principal events. At 4 o’clock this morning prints of several rounds were given The Times engraver. Photographs of the events pictured in today’s Times were shown Indianapolis business men who were passengers on the “fight special,” which left Chicago at 11 p. m. The final curtain of the premiere spectacle of 1927 was not rung down until 10:10.

RADIO ON FIGHT GIRDLESGLOBE Scripps-Howard Broadcast Heard Round World. Bit United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The story of Gene Tunney’s.victory over Jack Dempsey at Soldiers’ field, Chicago, went around the world last night on waves of ether. Blow by blow, the fight as breadcast from the ringside under auspices of the twenty-six ScnppsHoward newspapers, spread out over the United States and Canada, passed through the low wave station of KDKA at Pittsburgh and WGY at Schenectady and was relayed to the world. It was received in foreign countries either through the medium of rebroadcasting or by listeners able to pick up the story from the United States on their own sets. Australia, Chile, Germany, Argentina, England and Peru reported today that reception had been good. France had trouble and missed much of the description as well as the announcement of the winner. No estimate could be made of the number of persons who heard the broadcast story of the fight. The number in the United States and Canada must have reached far into the millions. Listeners in Europe, where the time is six or more hours ahead of Chicago time, were compelled to revise their sleeping schedules to enjoy the broadcast. PARLEY TO DRAW 200 Gi.liom’s Law Enforcement Conference Saturday. Verbal fireworks that may illuminate certain phases of law enforcement in Indiana are expected to be touched off at the prosecutors’ conference here Saturday. The meeting was called by Attornew tJeneral Arthur L. Gilliom. It is expected that each county prosecutor will be present or send a representative. Chiefs of police and sheriffs also have been asked to attend. Attendance will be more than 200, Gilliom said. Speakers Include Gilliom and members of his office staff, George Winkler, Federal district dry chief; Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier, who will tell of the new crime bureau, and Marlon County Prosecutor William H. Remy, who will lead an open discussion of various problems. DEFIES SUMMONS; FINED $lO Assessed Against Man Ignoring Court Subpoena. C. J. Wagner, 1202 Bradbury St., was fined $lO Thursday by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter for failure to obey subpoena summons. "This failure to obey subpoenas ’s becoming entirely to frequent,” Judge Wetter said. “Police officers are also among the offenders. This will have to stop, and from now on offenders will be given a fine, a sentence or both.” Two Negroes, Mrs. Fanny Hanna, 22, and Emma Roach, 23> both of 821 Superior Ave., were fined $lO and sentenced to ten days in Jail Wednesday after they failed to appear when served with subpoenas.

ROBINSON-JACKSON EMANCIPATION DAY ‘BILL’ AT SHELBYVILLE DRAWS $lO AT GATE

BY DAN M. KIDNEY Times Staff Correspondent —-jHELBYVILLE, Ind., Sept. 23.—One-eighth of the cn- —— tire Negro population of about 400 turned out en masse at the fairgrounds here Thursday to hear Senator Arthur R. Robinson, •Governor Jackson and Congressman Richard H. Elliott speak in observance of Emancipation day. With a 10-cent admission charge, covering the cost of all the oratory, sufficient white folks

I ASK INCREASE OF FUNDS TO PROBEBANKS State Financiers to Seek Frequent Examination of Institutions. LEGISLATION IS URGED Tighter Requirements for Issuance of Charters Recommended. Increased revenues for the State banking department to facilitate more frequent and thorough examination of Indiana banks was asked in resolutions prepared for introduction at the closing session of the thirty-first convention of the Indiana Bankers’ Association at the Claypool Hotel this morning. The resolution urging remedial legislation and the half dozen others ready for presentation, responded to the tone of the convention. It instructs the legislative committee of the association to sponsor legislation to strengthen the State banking department by enabling it to employ additional examiners and increase salaries throughout the department. Commend Banking Depa-tment Other resolutions commended the State banking department for its work under existing handicaps of finances and personnel; suggested legislation tightening up the requirements for the issuance of bank charters in the State; increasing the capital requirement, and encouraging the organization and scope of clearing-house examinations and credit bureaus for the interchange of information on borrowers. „C. O. Holmes, Gary, association vice president, was the author of a resolution commending TTesident Coolidge on the appointment of Roy Young, Minneapolis, as successor of D. R. Crissinger as governor of the Federal Reserve Board. All the resolutions were regard’d certain cf adoption. Gary Man to Be Chosen By action of the nominating committee, C. O. Holmes, Gary, was certain of election as president, succeeding H. C. Rothert, Huntingburg. Amos Richey, assistant cashier of the Old National Bank, Ft. Wayne, was the nominee for the vice presidency and if preedent if followed will become president in 1928. Forba McDaniel, Indianapolis and Jos W. Springer. Elizabethtown, were again the selections for secretary and treasurer respectively. Franklyn Hobbs, director of research, Central Trust Cos., Chicago, in the principal address of the afternoon emphasized the importance of watching business cycles as an infallible forecast of future conditions. The merits of banking lnstiutions as trustees in estates were discussed by Judge Thos. C. Hennings, St. Louis, banker, at the morning session. Lyon Karr, Evnona, (111.) banker, discussed County Credit Bureaus and advocated their establishment. The convention closes late today. FIVE ARMORED MAIL ' TRUCKS IN SERVICE Replace Dilapidated Vehicles Used by City Postoffice. Five new armored cab mail trucks, designed to be bandit-proof, were placed in service today by the Indianapolis postoflice. Five more of the new trucks will be received here in a few weeks. . _ The new trucks are termed “light aviation” trunks, and are rebuilt army trucks with one and one-lalf tons capacity. They will displace an equal number of delapidated tricks in service here many years. The local postoffice operates seventj-six STREET~TO BE WIDENED Park Board Releases Meridian From North to Tenth. The park board released Meridian St., between North and Tenth Sts., Thursday to the board of works, which will widen the thoroughfare from 36 to 50 feet. The widening will be In conformity with the plan to widen Meridian north of Sixteenth St. Last week the boajd released the boulevard from Fall Creek to ThirtyEighth St. so the works board can rush widening and resurfacing work before winter.

arrived to swell the gate receipt* to approximately $lO. A parade, consisting of the Shelbyville Concert Band, preceded the fairgrounds performance. The band also formed the largest part of the Towd when Robinson and Jackson arrived for their scheduled appearance at 2 p. m. The Negro audience at that hour consisted of a handful of concessionaires, presiding over baseballracks, lunch stands and a flagbedecked “corn-game”. Twelve

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RITTER ASSAILS SALARYBOOST Tells C. of C. $160,000 Raise Will B’ Appealed. Criticism of $160,000 salary increase provided for in the $1,085 civil city budget was expressed by Dwight S. Ritter, former city purchasing agent, at the Chamber of Commerce Open Forum meeting today noon. “We believe the increase in salaries was not justified, that they were made for political reasons instead of economic reasons and we shall recommend (to the State tax board) that the levy be reduced below $1,085 in order to eliminate additions made by the council which we believe to be unsound,” Ritter said. Ritter review taxing problems In Indianapolis and Marion County. "We shall recommend reductions of 43 cents In the school rate, Stt cents In the civil city rate and 2 cents in the county free gravel road rate,” he said, speaking as a member of the Chamber of Commerce Civic Affairs department. “If the injunction suit filed In Federal Court rhould fail, there is yet possibility of legislative relief, although there Is some doubt as to whether the Legislature has authority tc give substantial relief.” VOICE BELIEF IN MAYOR Duvall Cabinet Members Adopt Re;olution of Confidence. Duvall administration cabinet membors and city hall department heads today signed a resolution expressing confidence In Mayor John L. Duvall and pledging “continued support and loyalty during his administration.” The :esolution was drafted by Corporation Counsel Schuyler Haas at the request of several department heads who decided on the plan. City controller Claude F. Johnson, who would succeed Duvall If he resigned was one of the early signers. CROP SURVEY IS MADE Rural Mail Carries Out of City Compiling Figures. Crop survey figures are being compiled by rural mail letter carriers on routes out of Indianapolis for the Department of Agricutlre, Postmaster Robert E. Bryson said today. The acreage survey, which is being taken over the entire State, will be used to provide accurate reports on the probable yield of the more important crops.

automobiles were on hand, from six of which passengers refused to alight until the program appeared more promising. The weather added a chill to the reception, so to keep warm the Governor and junior United States Senator tossed a few balls at the nigger-babies for which privilege the latter paid fifty cents. They were the concessionaire’s two customers of the day. On the sixth ball thrown, Jackson knocked off two of the rag dolls and received applause

Cal for Cop Bu United Press - WAYNESBURG, Pa., Sept. 23.—Calvin Coolidge may not choose to run for President again, but he received one vote for constable in Jackson TownShip, Greene County, in Tuesday’s primary election. The Coolidge vote for the high office of constable was the only Republican ballot cast in the township, a Democratic stronghold.

SMILE, COPS TOLD Courteous Reprimands Are Urged by Traffic Officers. You may be “called" for a minor traffic offense in downtown traffic, but it will be by a polite policeman. Frederick W. Connell, new safety board president, has issued an order insisting on courtesy from police officers. “A motorist may need to be reprimanded by an officer, but he can call attention to a mistake or make an arrest with a smile,” Connell said. “It is a plain business proposition. Anyone connected with a corporation may have to perform an unpleasant service, but it can be done In a polite way. INSTALL WATER METERS Replace Flat Rate System at Speed of 150 a Week. Water meters, replacing the flat rate system, are going into Indianapolis homes at the rate 150 a week, Secretary Frank Jordan of the Intoday. dlanapolis Water Company, said Twenty-eight thousand, four hundred meters were in operation. Sept. 1, he said. Installations are being made at present with four classes of patrons; in new homes; in homes where extensive repairs or changes in the water system are being made; in homes being transferred from single residences into small apartments and light housekeeping rooms, and where flagrant wastage is discovered. Y. W. C. A. Elects U. S. Delegate NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Mrs. Harrie R. Chamberlin, Toledo, has been elected American member of the world’s committee of the Y. W. C. A. The headquarters of the body are in London.

for his feat from two white gentlemen in straw hats. These hats were prominent among the hundred'or x so in the grandstand when the speaking commenced some time later in the massive grandstand. The crowd resembled the Mayflower passengers aboard the Leviathan. No Negro reception committee sat on the platform or took part in the speaking program. Those present were the three scheduled speakers and Mayor James Emmert of this place, forming a sort

FOUR INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Woman Painfully Hurt by Hit-and-Run Car. Four persons were injured Thursday night in a collision of autos driven by William Roark, 22, of 813 River Ave., and Edgar Coffman, 27, of 1035 River Ave., at Grover Ave. and White Rover Blvd. Mrs. Coffman, 19, riding with her husband, suffered a broken leg and was bruised. Mrs. Florence Roark, 18; Miss Inez Douthit, 18, of 1013 River Ave., and Miss Bessie York, 22, of 813 River Ave., all passengers in Roark’s auto, were cut and bruiser. Mrs. Ruth McGee, 31, of 24 S. LaSalle St., was painfully in jural when she was struck by a hit-mid-run motorist at La Salle and Washington Sts. Paul Yegley, 13, of RyR, B, Box 92-D, struck by an auto//hile riding on his bicycle at Wa/ .lngton and Morris Sts., suffered a /roken leg. Floyd Hamilton, I/, of Bloomingberg, N Y., driver of the car is being held. Mrs. Marie Johnson, 47, of 457 N. Tibbs Ave., was struck by an auto at Capitol Ave- and Washington St. Police said Claude Patterson, 1828 Montcalm St., was driver of the auto. x ALLEGE COP TOOK BRIBE H. E. Mushgrove Suspended From Force Pending Trial. Charging that a speeding motorist he arrested and failed to slate "palmed” him a $5 bill, Traffic Captain Lester Jones and Police Chief Worley today suspended Motorcycle Officer H. E. Mushgrove, 1650 Rowland Ave. The motorist has made a signed statement, Worley said. Mushgrove denied he had accepted any m saying he had not slated the i an because he was a friend of us cousin’s, Worley said. Worley said he would prefer charges against Mushgrove at the board of safety meeting .Tuesday. SEEK HIGH SCHOOL BOY Vincent Bryant, 14, Missing From Home Since Tuesday. Police are searching for Vincent Bryant, 14, of 660 E. Fifteenth St., missing from home since Tuesday, when he left home to att?nJ classes at Shortridge High school, whore he is a freshman. His father, a baker, has also missed his Ford coupe, license 590-121. School authorities say he has always been a good student and seldom missed school.

of Republican quartet. The mayor blamed the weather for the small attendance of Negro citizens and exonerated and introduced the speakers. Robinson talked after the manner of a whispering tenor. He told those present about American history, the Emancipation Proclamation and the rise of the Negro race since abolition of slavery. “All American citizens have equal rights, whether they are white or black and this privilege

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DUVALL’S NEW TRIAL PLEA TO GO BEFORE JUDGE OCT. 8; MAYOR NOT TO QUIT POST City Executive Sentenced to 30 Days in Jai! . and Fined SI,OOO for Violating Corrupt Practices Act. ,/ > INELIGIBLE TO OFFICE FOR 4 YEARS Any Effort to Unseat Him Will Be Fought; Delay of Two Years May Be Faced While Cjise Is Being Appealed. Staring moodily into space Mayor John L. Duvall sat in Criminal Court today while Special Judge Cassius C. Shirley set Oct. 8 as the day for filing of a motion for new trial for him. The mayor was found guilty of violating the corrupt practices act by the jury which reported Thursday night. The jury sentenced Duvall to thirty days in Marion County jail, fined him SI,OOO and declared him ineligible to hold any public office of profit or trust for four years from Nov. 2, 1925.

Judge Shirley will formally pronounce this sentence on the day the motion for anew trial is filed, it is expected. Defense attorneys asked for the r Iditional time in which to prepare new trial motion today, pointing out that they need two weeks in which to go over the .evidence of the trial just closed and write the proper papers. Mayor Wil* Not Resign Meanwhile the mayor announced that he would not resign and would resist to the end any effort to unseat him. Most attorneys agreed that until the case has been fought through Indiana Supreme Court the section of the verdict debarring Duvall from office will not be effective. It sometimes takes as long as two years to get appeals finally settled in Supreme Court, due to the number of legal delays which defense attorneys can cause. Judge Shirley today originally set the date for receiving the new trial motion for Friday, Oct. 7. He switched to Oct. 8. after Attorney Michael A. Ryan of the defense, to whom Attorney Martin Hugg had whispered, remarked, laughing: “Mr. Hugg, here, is superstitious of Friday. Cannot some other date be set?” Deliberate Hour and 40 Minutes The jury returned the verdictThursday night after an hour and forty minutes of actual deliberation. The jury at first returned a verdict reading that he would be ineligible for office for four years "from Sept. 22.” Judge Shirley, after the verdict had been submitted to him by George B. Gannon, foreman, called a conference of attorneys because of the date given by the jury. Sent Back to Deliberate "Your verdict, gentlemen of the jury, is defective as to the time in which the defendant is found tq be ineligible to hold public office and public employment,” the court said. “You will have to return to the jury room and deliberate further on the matter.” The jury returned with the altered date in a few minutes. The Jury was thanked by Judge Shirley for their services and immediately excused. According to attorneys for Duvall, he will not be subject to enforcement of the four-year clause, until the Supreme Court has finally settled the case. Sentenced to Thirty Days They agreed, that if steps to carry the case to the higher court were not taken, the mayor probably would have had to resign his office to City Controller Claude F. Johnson. The jury’s verdict, which quoted verbatim the penalty for violation of the corrupt practice act, follows: “We, the Jury, find the defendant, John L. Duvall, guilty as charged in the affidavit, that he shall be fined SI,OOO and sentenced to a term of thirty days in the Marion County jail and be ineligible to hold any public office or public employment for a period of four years from Nov. 2, 1922.” Duvall was at liberty Thursday night under the SI,OOO bond he supplied May 17, when the prosecutors filed six affidavits against him and another naming Duvall and his brother-in-law William C. Buser. jointly. Disposition of an indictment charging exactly the same offense as that upon which Duvall was

shall never be abridged,” he said. Jackson talked on his favorite text about “righteousness exalteth a nation” and wound up with a tribute to the American flag. The Governor and Senator departed and left the Congressman with a free field. The Congressman spoke briefly, shook the few hands present and also left. “By George, the Negroes didn’t show up very well, did they?” he confided to a Times reporter. “Just think, they also had invited President Coolidge.”

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WILL BAR FIGHT FILMSJN N. Y, U. S. Attorney Threatens Exhibitors Who Defy Ban. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Federal authorities here prepared today to prevent showing here of moving pictures of the Dempsey-Tunney fight. Assistant United States Attorney George J. Mintzer received word from the West that Department of Justice agents were keeping close watch on all Chicago flying fields, following repo-ts that the films would be smuggled by air to points east, ' At the same time he ivestigated a report in a local weekly theatrical magazine quoting an executive of the Goodart Picture Company as promising exhibition of the pictures here within forty-eight hours after the fight. Mintzer promised trouble for any exhibitor who, showed the pictures. tried, and of six other affidavits filed against Duvall. at the time that upon which he was tried fas returned, had not been determined by the prosecuting staff. A conference uopn this will be held soon. The mayor is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 3 upon the indictment. Remy plans no suit to oust Duvall. The mayor returned to his office at city hall after court this morning and spent most of the day catching up with routine duties and correspondence, neglected during the ten days of the trial. Few Hear Verdict Read Less than a dozen spectators were in the courtroom when the verdict was read. This was in contrast with the hundreds which packed the room to the galleries during the afternoon session when arguments before the jury were closed. Duvall arrived shortly before 8 and went direct to the courtroom with John Collins, city purchasing liciting a bribe; Arthur Reeves, Duvalls’ chauffeur, and Claude McCoy, safety board secretary. His attorneys were already grouped around the defense table awaiting the verdict. At exactly 8 o’clock the courtroom buzzer connected with the jury chamber announced that the jury was ready to report. A moment later the bailiff announced to Judge Shirley that a verdict had been reached. Shows No Emotion Duvall sat motionless during the reading of the formal legal phrases which stamped him "guilty as charged.” His eyes remained fixed on the floor at his feet and except that his mouth drew into a firm, straight line when the word “guilty” was pronounced, he displayed no emotion. After a whispered consultation with defense attorneys, Michael A. Ryan, Eph Inman and John C. Ruckelshaus, Duvall uttered his first words after the verdict that could be heard beyond the defense table. They were: “I’m going home.” Defense attorneys seemed to doubt the wisdom of this simple wish, however, and before the lights were turned out in the court room to mark finis to the case, Duvall and his attorneys were in conference in the offices of Ryan and Ruckelshaus, 400 Indiana Trust Bldg., planning additional litigation to free Duvall. During the conference the mayor’s city car was parked snugly in a **no parking” space at the safety zone at Washington and Delaware Ste, Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 45 10 a. in 64 7 a. m 48 11 a. m 67 8 a. m 54 12 (noon) ... 70 9 a. m 59 1 p. m 70