Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 121, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1927 — Page 1

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MOTORS HEAD SCOUTS TALK OF FORD WAR New Cars Will Not Clash, Room for Both, View of Sloan. HEAVY SALE FORESEEN Auto of Greater Luxury to Be Made by His Concern, He Declares. Bu United Press MILFORD, Mich., Sept. 28.—The much-discussed pending “warfare" between Henry Ford and the General Motors Corporation was minimized today in an address delivered by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors. Speaking to a group of automobile editors at the corporation’s proving grounds here, Sloan said “the problem does not look so complicated newspaper people are trying to maxe it out to be.” The Ford and General Motors products will be sold at different prices and hence will have different appeals, he said. Will Appeal to Many “If the past is any indication of the future, the new Ford car will baa car that will appeal to a great mass of people,” he said. “Naturally that car must meet present conditions, but the basic idea is likely to be the same. General Motors is in quite a different position. General Motors’ idea is to make a car of greater luxury than the Ford—a car that properly belongs to the next higher price class. “With every price car there is a definite market. This applies to the Cadillac as well as as to the Ford.” Ford to Have Huge Sale Sloan summed up in the following paragraph: “There ip plenty of opportunity In the world today for Mr. Ford to give the public honest value, whioh of course lie will do, with the result that he will sell an enormous number of cars per year. “There is equal opportunity for General Motors to give the public honest value at a higher price and likewise sell a very large number of cars every year.” Sloan paid tribute to Ford for bis thesis of “the lowest possible price.” “I do not think many of us appreciate the tremendous debt that we owe Mr. Ford not only for his conception of the idea, but his sticking to it,” he said. Owes Ford Personal Debt Sloan also owes Ford a personal debt, he revealed. In the early days of the automotive industry Sloan interested Ford in a roller bearing that he (Sloan) was representing. “Mr. Ford became our best customer,” Sloan went on. “My start in life was helped greatly by the support Mr. Ford gave our little business at that time.”

ASK POLICE TO SEARCH FOR MISSING DRUGGIST Lawrence B. King Last Seen Sunday; Padlock on Store. Police have been asked to search for Lawrence B. King, 'druggist at 369 S. Illinois St., last seen Sunday. ‘ The front door of the drug store was found locked on the outside with a padlock. King turned in his key at the Illinois' Hotel Sunday. RAIN PREVENTS GAMES Cards 1 and Reds Idle; Showers at Toledo Also. The St. Louis Cardinals, runnerup to the Pirates in the close National League race, were held idle at Cincinnati today by rain. The postponed contest will be staged in Cincy Thursday. 0 Opening of the “little world series” at Toledo today also was postponed by heavy showers. NO BEER; SHOOTSTHILD Stranger Cripples Boy, 10, Alone in Farm House. B United Press BISMARCK, N. D., Sept. 28. Because there was no beer in the house, a stranger*fired a 'shotgun at 10-year-old Robert Braun, breaking his left leg and probably crippling him for life. The story was revealed when the boy was brought here from Seap, N. D. The boy, alone in the farm home, ordered the stranger out of the house when he became abusive because the boy had no beer to give him.

The camping fund for the Girl Scout and Camp Fire Girls will be the beneficiary of a lecture to be delivered by Prince William of Sweden, Oct. 12, 'at the Armory. Prince William is coming to Indianapolis under auspices of The Indianapolis Times and will deliver his illustrated talk on “Hnntng Big Game in Pygmy Land.” The second son of King Gustav of Sweden, Prince William not only has seen much of the world unknown to the average

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‘POOR LITTLE RICH’ YOUTH’S PLAY ENDS Heir to Tobacco KingVMillions Just Wanted to Get Away From Gotham’s Parasites. B u United Press ST. LOUIS, Sept. 28.—Richard J. Reynolds, heir to $5,000,000, prepared to go back today to New York and the life of a multi-millionaire, which he has found drab and monotonous. He tried to escape from it for the two weeks’ vacation permitted an£ $25 a week clerk, but all he succeeded in doing was to stir up an international search, which ended last night when private detectives found him. Reynolds posed as a traveling salesman in his attempt to dodge the responsibilities of his normal life; but black cigars, the jovial mien . j “ rummer Action, and the name of J. K. Fleet were not enough to hide his identity. The 200-pound, 21-year-old heir to part of the Reynolds tobacco fortune enjoyed twelve days of his vacation, but today he will start -rack

CALL NOTABLES TO FACEJUDCES Jackson, Duvall Arraignments Set for Monday. More notables than have faced an Indiana bar of justice at one time in many years will appear before four different judges in Criminal Court, Saturday and -Monday. The Criminal Court calendar com-pleted-today by Judge James A. Collins set for Saturday the arraignment of Earl S. Garrett, former city market master, charged with collecting excessive fees, before Special Judge Jackson Carter. Arraignments set Monday include: Governor Ed Jackson. Republican County Chairman George V. Coffin and Attorney Robert I. Marsh on an indictment charging conspiracy to commit a felony, before Judge Collins. Mayor John L. Duvall and his brother-in-law William C. Buser, former city controller, upon an affidavit charging conspiracy to make a false affidavit, before Special Judge Cassius C. Shirley! Mayor Duvall upon an indictment charging violation of the ccrrupt practices law, the same charge upon which he recently was convicted, before Judge Collins. City Purchasing Agent John J. Collins upon an affidavit charging solicitation of a bribe, before Special Judge Lew Wallace.

2 TESTIFY IN BANK FAILURE Grand Jury Considers Wild Bankruptcy Case. Thomas D. Barr, State bank co--and Frank H. Carter, president of the Massachusetts Ave. State Bank, were witnesses before the Marion County grand jury today, which, it is understood, began an investigation of the failure of the J. F. Wild Company State Bank. Barr brought records of the bank. While the jury concentrated on this, Prosecutor William H. Remy continued the probe into alleged irregularities in the operation of the Electric Oil Well Rejuvenator Company, of which Virgil Vandagrift, president of the board of works, is trustee. It was reported indictments were prepared in the case, but officials refused to comment. In connection with this matter, Remy conferred for several hours with Herman Gray of the secretary of State’s office. The well rejuvenator company is said to have been unincorporated and to have been selling stock contrary to the Indiana securities law. W. H. Taylor of Louisville, Ky. and C. D. Wallsmere of Indianapolis, are said to be officials of the company.

FOX HUNTERS TD MEET Attendance of 20,000 Expected at Connersville Gathering. Seventeenth annual meeting of the Southern Indiana and State Fox Hunter’s Association will be held at the Connersville fairgrounds, Oct. 9-15. Hunters and spectators from over the State will attend to witness and take part in .the daily fox hunts. An attendance of 20,000 is exepeted on the Thursday of the meeting. EXPECT 500 DELEGATES American Humane Association Meeting Here Monday. More than 500 delegates are expected to attend the fifty-first annual convention of the American Humane Association, opening Monday at the severin. Sessions will open at 9:30 a. m. with President Sydney H. Coleman presiding.

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to "the grind.” He left New York and the responsibilities which had become irksome to him on Sept. 17. First he attended the Dempsey-Tunney fight at Chicago. Then he came to St. Louis for the dog races here. As Fleet, the salesman, out for a good time, he enjoyed himself, while friends worried, detectives searched, ahd a nation became concerned. “I just got fed up on society and night life along Broadway and decided to take a little trip as a sort of vacation," said Reynolds today, tilting his slouch hat far back on his head and hoisting his feet to the polished desk of the private detective who “captured” him. “You know what I like to do once in awhile is to go away and use another name, so no one will bother me. I pose as a traveling salesman in moderate priced hotels and play around without worrying for fear someone is trying to get his hands on my money or captilaize my friendship. “I met Eddie Crenshaw and he went to, the races with me. I liked Ed very much.” It was Crenshaw who divulged Reynolds’ whereabouts after he had been promised $3,000 for the service in a phone conversation with detectives. Reynolds apparently did not resent the fact that it was Crenshaw who told detectives where to find him. They went home together last night. The reward has been held up.

lOWA MINE GUARDED FLOWING EXPLOSION Power Plant I§ Wrecked: Labor Trouble Blamed. By T nitrd Pr, s CENTERVILLE, lowa, Sept. 28. Guards were doubled today at coal mines near Mystic. lowa, and the number of deputy sheriffs on/ duty was increased following an explosion last night which wrecked the Winifred mine power plant. It was the first appearance of sabotage in the Appanoose County coal fields since union miners went on strike April 1. Violence has been feared in the county for several months and Sheriff Earl Guaghenbaugh appealed to Governor Hammill for troop*

HAAG DEATH SUSPECTS FACE HEARING TODAY Extradition of Pair From Illinois for Trial Here Sought. Deputy Prosecutor Judson L. Stark, William Rugenstein, detective, and Raymond F. Murray, attorney, are in Springfield. HI., today to appear before Governor Len Small at the hearing on extradition of Arthur McClelland and Lawrence Ghere,. alleged murderer of Wilkinson Haag, Indianapolis druggist. They seek to return the two, now facing jewel theft charges in Chicago, here for trial on the murder indictments return’d against them by the Marion County grand jury. Haag was shot and killed May 17, 1926, at the Green Mill barbecue, E. Thirty-Eighth St., m a hold-up. McClelland and Ohere arc said to have confessed the murder to Chicago police.

PARALYSIS IN KENTUCKY Infantile Disease Cases Mount to 150 Since Jul>. Bii United Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 28.—One hundred and fifty caseu of infantile paralysis and twenty deaths have been recorded in Kentucky since the outbreak of the epidemic in mid July, Dr. P. E. Blackerby, assistant State health officer, said here today. The plague started in the eastern part of the State, Dr. Blackerby said, but reached its peak there before the cold spell of two weeks ago and then spread to the west. Daviess County with twenty-two cases and Henderson County witl. five cases and two deaths, axe now he centers of the epidemic.

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man or woman, but he tells graphically of his experiences in far-off lands. He is described as a two-fisted, red-blooded man, beloved of his people, not only because of his royal birth, but because of his high standing in art, literature and exploration. Results of hi : game bunting and explorations in Africa will be related to his audier.ee here. The talk will be illustrated with about 6,000 ieet o/ film.

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LEADERS OF G.O.P. WORRY OVER INDIANA Aid of Chairman Butler in City Several Days and Roy West Is Coming. FEAR SCANDAL EFFECT National Republican Chiefs Aware of Necessity for Action. Republican national leaders are worried over the political situation in Indiana.; This was the conclusion drawn by political observers today, as word went around that one emsisary of Republican National Chairman William If. Butler, was in the city for several days and that another is duetto arrive Friday. Lee Nixon, personal handyman for Chairman Butler, with headquarters at Washington, was in the city several days, leaving this morning, it was learned. He left for a business trip to Mexico. An attempt to cover the purpose of Nixon’s visit was made, it,is understood, he having told friends here that he was in the city merely to visit relatives. Politicians Quizzed Nixon, however, spent considerable time each day he was here in the lobbies of the Claypool and Severin, asking searching questions of politicians he encountered. On Nixon’s heels comes Roy West, secretary of the Republican national committee. Friends of West at the Statehouse said he is due Friday. They were careful to assert that West is coming upon personal business What the personal business is wr.s not disclosed. With a presidential and congressional election only a year away the interest- of national leaders in Indiana. a pivotal State, is natural, it was pointed out. Stirred by Scandals The national publicity which attended the conviction of a Republican mayor of Indianapolis, the indictment of Governor Ed Jackson, a Republican, and the indictment of the Republican county chairman, George V. Coffin, once powerful enough to have aspired to the State chairmanship, are believed to have stirred the national leaders to the point where they desired first-hand Information upon the situation. Recent disclosures of the Shu-maker-Watson-Robinson letters also is believed to have intrigued the curiosity of the national leaders, in view of the fact that two of their “solid” G. o. P. United States Senators were involved. Sees “Nothing Political” Joseph B. Healing. Republican national committeeman for Indiana, said that he felt sure there was “nothing political” in the visit of Nixon or the coming of West. He said Nixon called on him Tuesday, but they “just visited.” Healing said he believed West might be coming here for some business in connection with De Pauw University, of which he is a trustee. The committeeman said he thougth it “a little early” to believe that thi T national committee Is sending out ’feelers.”

CANDIDATE IS INDICTED Ex-Kentucky Official Accused of Forgery, Altering Votes. Bu United Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 27.—Five indictments were returned today against James A. Wallace, former State treasurer and unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for State auditor. Forgery in connection with alleged alteration of official August primary returns In five counties was charged. Specifically the grand Jury found that the Republican candidate for State auditor had increased his votes by almost 1,300 votes. No action w r as taken by the grand Jury on a certificate presented by Wallace purporting to increase his votes in Rock Castle County by 1,000 votes.

DELAY TALMADGE SUIT Film Actress bivorce Plea Will Be Heard Oct. 15. By United Press . EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 28. —Constance Talmadge’s suit for divorce from Capt. Alastair MacKintosh was adjourned today until Oct. 15 after the moving picture actress had testified to her dissatisfaction with her husband. She alleged infidelity.

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Meet the sole owners of the si* hest whisky noses in Indianapolis. Not the kind of whisky noses you are thinking of, perhaps. These men use their noses in their business They are the six Indianapolis policemen assigned to Deputy Federal Prohibition Administrator George L. Winkler in the effort to dry up the city. Note that capable nostril on the left. It is the property of Sergt. William Cox, the Daddy of all the sniffers. For a while during the Shank city administration “Daddy” Cox had the job of detecting liquor breaths among policemen. Left to right the sergeant's fellow hooch hounders are: Charles E. Bauer, N. Reinking, William Purcell, Sergt. John R. Eisenhut and Charles C. Crouch.

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Squirrel Riots Bu United Press COLUMBUS. Ohio, Sept. 28. —Police with riot guns were called out today to quell a pet squirrel which ran amuck. The squirrel was shot and killed after attacking three persons. The first victim of the unusual squirrel was Joseph Dooley, a grocery clerk. The animal jumped on his back and bit him on the arm and lacerated a finger on his left hand, Dooley complained. Dooley was forced to seek safety in his store. Later the squirrel attacked, P. J. Miller, jumping on hia chest and biting him savagely. Previously the finger of a boy had been bitten.

COLD WAVE IS HEADING EAST Chilly Weather, in Modified Form, Due Tomorrow. /Hr United Press CHICAGO. Sept. 28—The cold wave, forecast for the Middle West yesterday, but which failed to appear, will arrive Wednesday in a modified form. Government weather officials predict. Near freezing temperatures were being reported in sections of the Northwest. Government forr asts predicted warmer weather .„r the sections bound in the cold vave, which descended from the Rocky Mountain ranges of Canada and the United States. •Rain Routs Cold Here Thd rain washed away the threatened cold wave. Although it will be slightly cooler tonight and temperatures this morning were several degrees lower than Tuesdaj', showers have averted the cool spell due to strike Indiana from the Northwest, according to J. H. Armington, United States Weather Bureau head. It is raining today over a wide belt extending from Wisconsin and the western lake region to Texas and. the Gulf of Mexico, Armington said. IDENTIFIES ASSAILANTS Editor Points Out Three Men in Car From Which Shots Came. Bu United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 28.—Three of five men under arrest here today were identified by Howard Guilford, editor of a weekly newspaper, as the occupants of an automobile from which four shots were fired at him Monday. Guilford identified the men from nis bed at a hospital, where he still is in a critical condition. The, men identified are “Irish” Gottef, address unknown, and Sam and Harry Jaffe, brothers, of Minneapolis.

Prince William speaks English as fluently as he does half a dozen other languages. His brother, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolph, also a man of letters, recently toured the United States. The lecture has been praised wherever given. In speaking of it the Boston American said: ’ j “The prince’s simple and direct recital, his modesty in discussing adventures in which he and his comrades flirted with death, his dry humor, and his failure, even in the climaxes,

Police Seek Doctor’s Killer Suspect in New Jersey Wasteland Shack. Bu United Preen HAMMONTON, N. J., Sent. 28State police today extenued the search for Willis “Hell-No” Beach to hunters’ shacks in the wasteland, after his attorney, Edison Hedges had assumed full responsibility for Bench’s disappearaice. Beach is charged with “aiding and abetting” the murder of Dr. William Lilliendahl. t The white-haired chicken fancier disappeared yesterday-at a time when he stood a chance of either being cleared or indicted as driver of the blue sedan that whirled away from a patch of woodland at th? time Dr. William Lilliendahl was shot to death. He is under $5,000 bend. Beach’s disappearance has made it embarrassing for Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl. the widow who is held in $25,000 bail as a material witness. She has contended all along that her husband, the * aged narcotics expert, was killed by two Negroes and that Beach knew nothing about it. Widow Evades Issue A United Press correspondent called at the Lilliendahl home and was received by the 42-year-old widow. He found that she doesn’t look her age. She has an aristocratic nose, large brown intelligent eyes and shows exquisite taste in dress. The elderly physician and his middle-aged wife had retired to this modest home from their establishment at Mountain Lakes, N. J. The change was made for his health. The murdered physician was described as “a gentle soul,” who had gunmen among his patients whom he tried to cure of the narcotic habit. He was slender, gentlevoiced and delicate. Beach Not “Matinee Idol” Beach is the opposite of the late Dr. Lilliendahl. He is short and robust and given to bucolic humor. The top of his head is bald and around it is a fringe of white hair. Beach and Mrs. Lilliedahl had corresponded with each other. Beach addressed his letters to her as Peggy Anderson, under which name she received mail at the general delivery window of the postoffice here. SLAYER TO BREAK FAST Convicted Killer, on Hunger Stri? , . Says He May Take Food. Bu United Press HOMASTON, Maine, Sept. 28Benjamin H. Turner, serving a life sentence for murder and now in the fifth day of his hunger strike, indicated today he might break his fast within the next few hours. He declined the regulation prison breakfast that was served in his cell in the east wing of the State prison here with these words: “I don’t feel like eating now, but maybe I will later today.” Turner began his hunger strike eyly Saturday after the Maine law •court had repected his appeal from the life sentence imposed for the murder of his one time friend, James D. Hallen.

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BRIGGS BACK IN JAIL Bondsman Surrenders ‘Dean of Drugless Physicians.’ Otis J. Briggs, 235 E. St. Joseph St., former “dean” of the college for drugless physicians, who is charged with perjury, and held under $2,000 bond in the county jail, will be arraigned in Criminal Court, Monday. He was remanded u> jail late Tuesday when Louis Brown Jr., professional bondsman, surrendered Briggs to the court. Brown said Briggs left Indianapolis twice since being under bond. Maurice de la Tour, charged with arson for the alleged burning of St. Patrick’s Catholic church and an attempt to set fire to the St. Joan of Arc church, also will be arraigned.

LEVINE REACHES ROME Makes Flight From Venice in Two Hops. Bu United Press ROME, Sept. 28.—Charles A. Le-, vine, in the Bellanca monoplane Columbia, arrived at Centocelle airdrome here at 1:55 p. m. He left Venice yesterday and stopped over night at Ratvenna. Lightning Misses Baby Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Ind., Sept. 28. Helen Fox, 10, daughter of Nathan Fox, was made unconscious and speechless and paralyzed late Tuesday when a bolt of lightning struck the home near hear. A baby she was holding in her arms was unhurt. The girl recovered consciousness and

to resort to melodrama or boasting, plus his personality, won his auditors from the start.” “He talked an hour and twenty minutes. The time slipped away on magic wings and the end came altogether too soon.” Tickets for the Prince William lecture will be $1.50 foi; the lower floor and $1 for the balcony. Convenient places for purchase of tickets, which will b limited in number, will be announced in a few days.

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SEEK TO HALT PRISON-MADE GOODS SALE Reed Manufacturers Claim Competition Unfair; Ask Injunction. - j UNDERBID /ON PRICES No Use in Institutions; Making Articles Unlawful, ; Is Claim. i] Three Indiana manufacturers of reed and willow baskets today protested against the State of Indiana competing with them to the extent that they may face extinction, in a conference with trustees of the Indiana State Farm, at the Washington. The manufacturers, through their attorneys, Lem Darrow of La Porte and James E. Rocap of Indianapolis, declared they will seek a permanent injunction to put the State out of the willow basket market. Discussion in the conference, which was arranged largely through efforts of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. William H. Arnett, secretary, disclosed that the penal farm has a salesman on the road taking customers away from the private manufacturers right and left all the way from St. Louis to Detroit and Chicago to Louisville. Underbid Private Operators The State underbids the private operators from 60 to 75 per cent, it was asserted, because the State’s convict labor cost is practically nil. The salesman is Andrew Greenhoist, son of the man in charge of the basket making department at the penal farm. He works direct from the farm, despite the fact that there is such an office as the State Sales Agent, who, by law, is supposed to dispose of the surplus products of .State penal institutions. The la provides that after the Institutions have supplied the needs of all governmental units for such things as mops, i'”ooms and snoes the surplus shall be generally sold. Not Needed by State Darrow charged that the mere manufacture of such an article as a floral basket, which no governmental unit could possibly use, was a law violation. The penal farm grows the willows and has 140 prisoners making baskets, Superintendent Ralph Howard said. Trustee. Charles C. Heustls of Greencastle defended the practice on the ground the State was making baskets in 1&16 and “there was not another manufacturer of willow baskets in Indiana at that time." Manufacturers Protest Whereupon Fred Henoch of the Ove Ghnatt Company, La Porte, Ind., asked if it was the “policy of the State of Indiana and its institutions to shut out manufacturers desiring to locate in the State because the State happened to be on the ground first?” Other protesting manufacturers, led by Arnett, were W. F. Mahoney, president of the Indianapolis Reed Company, 2217 Massachusetts Ave. and J. E. Fulwider of the Reedcraft Novelty Company, Greentown, Ind. Other trustees in the conference were John J. Jones, Plymouth: John 9. Klinger, Brazil, and John T. Boyd, Vincennes.

WIDOW OF M’CORMICK ' MAY RUN FOR HOUSE Daughter of Mark Hanna Ready to Enter Illinois Race. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, widow of Senator Medill McCormick, long a stormy Republican leader, is ready to declare her candidacy for Repre-sentative-at-large from Illinois, it was declared by friends here today. Mrs. McCormick was “born to politics,” being the daughter of Mark Hanna, the famout “president maker.”

HEAR BUS LINE PETITION Plea for Washington High School Is Taken Under Advisement. Numerous students attending Washington High School was given as the primary cause of a petition asking the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to inaugurate a bus route in that vicinity heard by Howell Ellis of the public service commission today. The case was taken under advisement.