Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1927 — Page 3

SEPT. 24,1927

NAVY AROUSED OVER ARTICLE BY JDMIRAL Inefficiency Charges Made by Magruder Cause of Controversy. BY HERBERT LITTLE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. A storm blew over the navy today as the result of a rear admiral’s magazine article criticising the service because of too many admirals and other alleged excessive overhead. Possible violation of navy regulations was seen in failure of Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder to submit to Secretary of the Navy Wilbur a copy of an article printed in this week’s Saturday Evening post, which contained the admiral’s trenchant remarks. Secretary Wilbur said today he had taken no action yet. Naval privately said Magruder s article*was unnecessarily severe. Discuss Court-Martial Navy men meanwhile discussed Magruder's charges at length. Opinion was divided as to whether a court-martial could be ordered, as Magruder’s criticisms were mostly of the system rather than his superior officers. One of Magruder’s inefficiency I charges was based on presence of twenty-four officers on .the faculty of the navy medical school here, with only sixteen students in attendance. Officers replied that the faculty men were doing eight hours work daily at the naval hospital here and that Magruder had selected a low point of the year. Too Many Admirals Presence of fifty-five admirals of various ranks in the navy, sixty-two typewriters and the accompanying red tape on a single ship, and seven east coast navy yards, were among the numerous navy features mentioned by Magruder. Navy men in reply blamed Congress, pointing out that the littleused navy yards cannot be abolished •ccept by Congress, where great political pressure so far has prevented any retrenchment.

ROBINSON SILENT ON POLITICS IN INDIANA Senator Refuses Comment During Visit to Evansville. Bit Unl/rd Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 24. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, here for a luncheon address, refused to comment on the Indiana political situation and balked at any discussion of it with newspaper men. At the invitation of the Shrine Booster Club, the Senator spoke to a gathering which included member; of that club and of the Ki.wanis, Rotary, Optimist and other I service organizations. “The Constitution and American Ideals’’ was the Senator’s subject, and he made a plea for war preparedness, declaring "safety and peace lie in preparedness.” ( ASSAILS ‘NORGE’ PILOT AS SELF-SEEKING CHILD Amundson, in New Book, Says Nobile Sought Own Glory. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Umberto Nobile, commander of the dirigible Norge on its north pole flight, is pictured as a "child” in the autobiography of Roald Amundsen, just published by Doubleday, Page & Cos. Amundsen writes that Nobile tried to “appropriate for himself and Italy the last great undertaking of my life.” The north pole, wrote Amundsen, is strewn with Italian flags. Nobile, says the autobiographer, after admonishing both himself and Lincoln Ellsworth, who financed the flight, against bringing excess baggage, “put one over” on the others, he charged. HOLD EX-COP FOR U. S. JURY ON COPE CHARGE Fletcher Returned to Prison After I FaUing to Make SIO,OOO Bond. Raymond E. Fletcher, former Indianapolis policeman arrested at Nashville, Ind., today was bound over to the Federal grand jury on a narcotic violation charge by Fae W. Patrick, United States commissioner. His bond was set at SIO,OOO. Fletcher was returned to the Marion County jail. He told Patrtok he did not care to be released on bond in any sum, saying he felt "safer in jail.” The prisoner was arrested at Nashville on a speeding charge. A quantity of cocaine was found in his car, officers charged. Later he confessed several bank hold-ups, implicating several men. Statement was made at the hearing by narcotic agents that Fletcher’s case had been presented to the grand Jury. mrs7workman "freed No Indictment Returned Against Woman in Suicide Pact. Mrs. Edna Workman, 32, won freedom from a murder charge yesterday when the grand jury failed to return an indictment against her. 1 Mrs. Workman and William Blakowski, a Ft. Benjamin Harrison soldier, took poison in a suicide pact at the Princeton Hotel July 20. Blakowskl died. They entered into the suicide pact because they loved each other and it was Impossible for them to marry, Mrs./Workman said. Japanese Councillor Dies . P Sept. 24.—Prince Yamagata. privy councillor and former governor-general of Korea, died today of apoplexy.

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RAILROAD TAX CASE UPOCT. 5 Biggest Lawsuit in History Faces Federal Court. Bu Times Sprrinl WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—Government efforts to recapture excess railroad earnings, as provided by the Transportation Act of 1920. are faced with another major attack, it was learned at the Interstate Commerce Commission today. This attack will be launched by railroad lawyers in the United States District Court at St. Louis, Oct. 5. when a legal contest will be started for the largest financial stake on record, estimated between ten and thirty billion dollars. This amount represents the difference in the value of the railroads of the United States, as seen by the I. C. C. and the railroads. The case to be started at St. Louis is expected to lead to a United States Supreme Court decision, settling the question of railroad valuation. At the outset of the St. Louis case, it was-.stated at the I. C. C. today, railroacf attorneys will make the contention that the whole question of the facts involved in the valuation dispute, insofar as it applies to Government efforts to recapture excess earnings, are subject to court review. Heretofore the view has been that I. C. C. findings concerning facts are final, and that the courts can only review questions of law.

FOREMANS’ CLUB WILL GIVE DINNER TUESDAY Series of Fall anij, Winter Programs Is Planned. The Foremen’s Club will open its fall and winter series of monthly meetings with an informal dinner Tuesday, 6:30 p. m., at the Arsenal Technical faigh School, 1500 E. Michigan St. “Growth on the Job” will be the topic of an address by Milo- H. Stuart, Arsenal principal, who will be Introduced by Harry E. Wood, director of vocational educationClub President James W. Doeppers will preside. A two reel industrial movie will be shown. Music will be furnished by the Technic ! High School musical organizations under direction of Frederick A. Barker. William Elliott, club secretary, is receiving reservations for the dinner at the G. & J. Tire Cos., 549 E. Georgia St. 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 Indianapolis Water Company, said today. 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.

FLOOD DAMAGE HEAVY From 7,000 to 10,000 Persons Made Homeless in Mexi r Bu United Pres a MEXICO CITY, Sept. 24.—From 7,000 to 10,000 people are homeless, 1,200 houses have been destroyed and property damage is estimated at from two to three million dollars as a result of the overflowing of the Panuco River, reports showed today. The flood struck hardest the towns of Panuco, Acambaro, and Salamanca. The greatest distress was at Acambro, all reports indicated. Thus far there had been no confirmation of reports that twentytwo soldiers lost their lives at Acambaro aiding flood victims.

Flies to Jail —Charles Conn, wanted by Battle Cfteek (Mich.) authorities, Is the first man ever brought to the local jail by airplane. Arrested at the Newton County fair, where he was operating a concession, a plane which is appearing at the fair was used o bring the prisoner here to await arrival of Battle Creek officers.

SMILE, COPS TOLD Courteous Reprimands Are Urged by Traffic Officers. You may be "called” for a minor traffic offense in dr wntown traffic, but it will be by a polite policeman. 'Frederick W. Connell, new safety board president, ha.s 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 perf<mm an unpleasant service, but It can be done in a polite way. PAYS GRUDGE WITH BUGS Blows Bedroom Pests Through Keyhole of Neighbor’s Apartment. Bu United Press ZWICKAU, Saxony, Germany, Sept. 24.—A local citizen, whose name was suppressed by order of the judge, has just been sentenced here to pay 75 marks for an act of revenge against a neighbor with whom he had quarrelled. The venegeful one blew bedbugs through the keyhole of his neighbor’s apartment.

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Charles E. Stutz, 826 E. ThirtyEighth St., Jlulck, from garage in rear. Elmer Robins, 1422 Brookside Ave., Ford, from garage in rear. R. B. Slaven, Bloomington, Ind., Ford, 140-484, from Ohio St. and Capitol Ave. Otis C. Wallace, 19 8. Belle Vieu PI., Ford, 582-902, from Maryland and Illinois Sts. George Anderson. 122 E. FortySeventh St, Ford, 585*044, from Forty-Second St. and College Ave.

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Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Charles Ferrin, Carmel, Ind., Ford found stripped of tires at Kessler Blvd. and Michigan Rd. Hazel Wilson, 721 S. Meridian St., Ford, found at West and Washington Sts. Eight Attend Reunion By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 24. Eight of the 120 surviving members of the 130th Indiana Regiment which served in the Civil War attended the forty-third annual reunion htre Friday. I. S. Wood was reelected president and Josiah Pennington. Lndianapolis, secretarytreasurer.

Rude Wakening Secretary Raid McCain of the Public Service Commission is Scotch by descent, but he did risk a coin on Jack Dempsey. Thursday night he had ills ear glued to the radio at his home. Just as Dempsey slugged Tunney in the seventh round and the referee counted nine, McCain’s radio collapsed. , Thinking there had been a knockout he went to sleep smiling, only to awaken today to learn that the championship remained with the champion.

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WFBM REMAINS ON 250 WATTS Will Hold Same Wave Length as WKBF. WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. broadcasting station, and WKBF, Hoosier Athletic Club, will continue to operate on 250 watts, the Federal Radio Commission Friday having rescinded its recent ruling granting a power increase. Under the recent ruling WFBM was to use 1,000 watts and WKBF 500 watts, while dividing time on I, kilocycles. Protests filed by stations WJBT and WBBM, Chicago, against the transfer of WORD from 1,090 kilocycles to. 770 kilocycles on which the two stations divide time, were responsible for the commission’s edict. WORD was one of two stations transferred from the 1090 band to make way for the Indianapolis stations, which were to start on tnat band Oct. 1. Officials of both local stations will attend a hearing at Chicago, Oct. 11, requested by WORD for an assignment to 720 kilocycles and a division of time with WHT and WIBO, CHICAGO. With its ruling the commission announced it had received a protest from WKBF a'gainst WFBM having broadcast the\ Dempsey-Tunney mbout on 1,090 kilocycles and 1,000 watts, inasmuch as the change was not authorized until Oct. 1. WFBM’s program director and chief announcer, Bailey Fesler, said Radio Commissioner Henry A. Bellows had authorized the change for the fight program. ,

JUDGES TO CONFER VWlliWt l. ••...••• w V* • UI Courts to Meet in Capital. / By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 34. A meeting of the senior Judges of the nine federal circuit courts of appeal, presided over by Chief Justice Taft of the United State Supreme Court, is to meet here next week to discuss judicial problems, including the crowded dockets of federal courts. The conference, provided for by congress in a movement to speed the sometimes leaden heels of federal justice, will seek means to expedite cases to early decisions, eliminating long delays caused by appeals, which sometimes cost civil litigants much money and sometimes delay for years the serving of criminal sentences. One of the obstacles to fast action in the court is the bob-tailed appropriation for the federal courts’ expenses, resulting from the failure of the second deficiency bill in the closing hours of congress last March. PROPHESIES AIR LINERS IN USE IN NEXT DECADE Byrd Declares Mail Planes Will Go 500 Miles an Hour. II u T ultcd /‘n am NEW YORK. Sept. 23. Mail planes traveling 500 miles an hour 35.000 feet above the earth and huge air liners carrying scores of passengers are developments in flying foreseen by Commander Richard E. Byrd, New York to France flyer, in a prophetic article appearing in the World’s Work published today. After declaring that aviation Is "fortunately entering most controversial stage of its brief life,” he says that the great boon for the future of aviation is public pathy“l do not believe that government subsidies will help much,” he says. “What we need is private capital and indivldal enthusiasm. Once these two great forces are available the meteoric rise of the automobile will surely be duplicated in the coming decade by the plane.” DEMANDS BIGGER NAVY Hiram Johnson Asserts U. S. Also Lacks Adequate Merchant Fleet Bu Times Special SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 24.—Assailing America’s unpreparedness on the seas, Senator Hiram Johnson has launched a campaign for an adequate merchant -marine and a navy strong enought to protect American trade routes throughout the seven seas. In an address before the San Francirco Credit Men’s Association, the Californian charged that Great Britain and Japan had violated the spirit of. the 1922 arms agreement, and called on the United States "to repair our mistaken generosity by restoring the navy to the effectiveness which our trade supremacy requires.” Woollen Indorsed By Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 24. —Evans Woollen of Indianapolis stands indorsed today by Democratic leaders of the Sixht district as the party’s candidate for President. The leaders adopted a resolution of indorsement at an organization meeting here Friday attended by* sixty-five persons representing the eight counties of the district. Five Revolvers in Loot Bu Times Special BLUFFTON, Ind., Sept. 24.—Five revolvers found by Noah Franhiger in a hoghouse on his farm near here, have been identified as part of the loot from a recent burglary at the Cole hardware store here. Dried Paint Kills B WINCHESTER, Ind., Sept. 24. Harrison Higginbottom, 66, is dead as the result of inhaling dried paint while scraping It from a bam preparatory to applying new paint. i Moose to Meet at Peru Bu Times Special PERU; Ind., Sept. 24.—Members of Loyal Order of Moose lodges throughout northern Indiana will be here Sunday for an all-day meeting and initiation ceremonies.

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LABOR CHIEFS GO WEST Xficials to Attend Federation Convention in Los Angeles. Eight labor union officials with internatinoal offices in Indianapolis will leave today and Sunday for Los Angeles. Cal., to attend the American Federation of Labor international convention, which opens Oct. 3. They are: William L. Hutcheson, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, president; John T. Cosgrove, first vice president; Frank Duffey, general secretary; Daniel J. Tobin, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs. Stablemen and Helpers of America, president; John Murray Glllepsie, presidents assistant; Thomas Hughes, secretary-treas-urer; James Shanessy, Journeymen Barbers’ International Union of America, president, and Jacob Fisher, secretary-treasurer.' DIES IN WEDdTnG GOWN Romance Renewed After 40 Years Wrecked by Tragedy. Bu 1 nited Press PENN YAN, N. Y., Sept. 24.—Sorrow trailed happiness and joy today at the home of Mrs. Sarah Tompkins for instead of her friends sending her off on a honeymoon, they were attending her funeral. Forty years ago slie and William Emerson were childhood sweethearts, but the romance was interrupted when Emerson left. Later she married Tompkins. Six years ago her husband died. Last spring Mrs. Tompkins and Emerson met again at a church convention and the romance was renewed. As friends were helping her Into her wedding gown, she died of apoplexy, a few minutes before the time scheduled for the marriage.

BANKERS IN CONCLAVE Investment Leaders Arrivipg in Seattle for Meeting. Bu United Press SEATTLE. Sept. 24. Special trains bringing investment bankers from various parts of the United States were arriving here today In preparation for the preliminary session of the sixteenth annual convention of Investment Bankers of the United States. An extensive program has been planned for the delegates who will assemble for their first meeting tomorrow morning and will begin to leave after the final session, Sept. 30. Many will take a post-conven-tion cruise to Canada, leaving here the night of Sept. 30. Visits will be made to Alert Bay, Oceans Falls and Vancouver. Delegations from the c istern seaboard were joined en route to Seattle by western dek-gailons which board the trains cc • hicagc. ASSAIL FILM ROYALTIES Missouri Educator Declares They Are “Curse” of Writers. Hit Pr+n* CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 24. Motion picture royalties are the curse of American fiction writers, according to Jay William Hudson, author and professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri. Hudson, during a visit in Cleveland, depreciated the tendency of modern writers to “sacrifice their talent on catchy plots and dreams of motion picture royalties that may never materialize.” “Many a good story has been ruined because of an author’s hopes for success in the motion picture field,” Hudson said. The most popular Miss in Indianapolis—Miss Classified. Call her at Main 3f,00.

100 Propose By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Sept. 24. Miss Anne Howe of this city, who as “Miss Hammond” in the national beauty contest at Atlantic City, N. J., recently was one of three girls from whom the winner was chosen, has been offered a place in Ziegfeld’s Follies and has received 100 proposals of marriage, she said oh her return here from the East. For the sake of her art studies. Miss Howe said she had turned down all the 100 offers.

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HONOR FIVE MASONS Members of Indiana Lodge Chosen so 33rd Degree!* Five Indian Masons, including three from Indianapolis, Thursday were nominated to receive the thir-ty-third degree, Scottish Rite, at the annual meeting of the Supreme Council next September, Sy the 115th annual meeting of the council at Boston, Mass. Those honored: Frank D. Stalnaker, Obie J. Smith and Frank E. Floyd, of Indianapolis; A. W. Funkhouser, Evansville, and Frank E. Bohn, Ft. Wayne. Smith Is a past master of the Ancient Landmarks Lodge No. 319, F. and A. M., and York Rite. He recently was made grand master of the grand lodge of Indiana, F. and A. M. He is past most wise master of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Rose Croix, Scottish Rite, and a Shriner. Floyd is past master of Oriental lodge No. 500, F And A. M., member of York Rite and Scottish Rite. He is junior warden of the AdomoramGrand Lodge of Perfection. \ Rites for Auto Victim Bu Times Special GREENSBURG, Did., Sept. 24. Funeral services were held here today for James C. Goddard, 25, who died of a broken neck suffered when an automobile In which he was riding crashed against a stone bridge.

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CRAZED RAILMAN SLAIN Policeman Shoots to Save Self and Victim’s Divorced Wife. CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-George H. Kummer, 60, assistant general passenger agent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, was shot and killed by a policeman, called when Kummer attacked his divorced wife with a. butcher knife. According to Mrs. Kummer and the policeman, Miles Brabazon, Kummer had returned from a sanitarium two weeks ago and Mrs. Kummer was caring for him when the attack occurred. Kummer became suddenly insane and the policeman shot to save himself from the madman's knife. WANT” LEGS ON BUST Baltimore Democrats Seek Base for cx-Mayor’s Statue. Bu United Press BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 24.—A strong movement is on foot among city hall Democrats to provide the recently completed bust of former Mayor Howard W. Jackson with legs. Although art experts say they never heard of a bust with legs, a petition is in the making to be presented to Jack Lambert, sculptor, berging him to put legs on this bust. Otherwise, It is pointed out, the Jackson bust will tyave no means of supporting itself, as a pedestal would cost $450 and Mayor Broening, incumbent, objects to putting $450 Into a pedestal.

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NEGRO CAUGHT 1 AFTER STAGING EIGHTHOLD-UPS Youth, 17, Held After Robberies Netting $46 Near j Times Building. A 17-year-old armed Negro youth who staged eight hold-ups, three of them in the rear of The Times Bldg., 214 VT. Maryland St., while several thousands in front were listening to the Dempsey-Tunney fight broadcasting, was captured by police after a chase Thursday night. The youth, Clarence Terry, 17 Prunk St., was slated on a robbery charge when $46.67 of the loot was found in a flour bin at his home. His mother, Mrs. Anna Bowman, was charged with vagrancy. Menacing his victims into silence with his revolver, Terry held up on different occasions Albert Albin, 12, of 6.9 Arbor Ave.; Harld Hyde, 32, of 2325 Morgan St., and Grover McDonald, 102 N. Elder Ave., within a few yards of the crowd of fight fans in front of The Times. He obtained nothing from the first two, but got sl6 from McDonald. Crowd Gives Chase After the third hold-up a crowd gave chase, but he escaped. Later Floyd Harding, 904 N. Warman Ave., Andrew Harding, 514 Miley Ave., and Carl Kehrer, 952 Concord St., phoned police that a Negro was threatening the attendant of the Silver Flash filling station at Washington St. and White River bridge, across the street from the station. Lieut. Leonard Forsythe and squad found that Terry had taken the attendant, E. H. Harrell, 1129 S. Pershing Ave., across the street into the shadow of a house and robbed him of s3l. After robbing Harrell he entered the home of J. H. McCutcheon, 965 W. Washington St., and held McCutcheon, Albert M. Rust, same address, and two other persons at bay while he took 40 cents, a knife and a purse from McCutcheon. Police gave chase and found Terry hiding in the weeds at 1000 W. Pearl St. Hold Negro, 11 Police believe the theft of accessories and suitcases from a number of autos in the vicinity of The Times Bldg, was solved with the arrest at midnight of Charles Ramsay, 11, Negro, who refused to give an address. Herbert Rawles, alias Smith, 22, Negro, 234 W. Empire St., was arrested on vagrancy charges when the boy safd that Rawles had been pawning the loot he and a 14-year-old boy had been stealing from autos in the vicinity. Terry, the bey also said, had taken part in several of the J;hefts. Hogs to be Vaccinate Bu United Press HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 24. All hogs shipped into Pennsylvania in the future, except those which are for immediate slaughtering, must be vaccinated against cholera under an edict of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.