Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 133, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1927 — Page 1

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ROYAL GUEST HERE TODAY FORLECTURE Indianapolis Committee on Way From South Bend With Prince William. SPEAKS ON * PYGMIES "Thrilling Experiences on His ; African Hunting Tour to Be Related. THE PRINCE’S DAY P. M. I:3o—Arrived Columbia Club. 2:oo—Met executive committee. 6:oo—Banquet at Columbia Club (Meredith Nicholson presiding). B:ls—Lecture at Armory. His Royal Highness Prince William of Sweden, second son of King Gustav V, Indianapolis’ royal guest for a day, accompanied by a committee of Indianapolis citizens arrived here this afternoon. Travelling in Marmon cars placed at their disposal by the Marmon Motor Car Company, the prince and his party came from South Bend. He leaves tonight for Chicago. Immediately upon arival, the royal retinue was taken to the Columbia Club, where the Prince occupies the royal suite. No plans were made for the afternoon, Qther than meeting the official committee, giving his highness an opportunity to rest before the banquet at 15 p. m. Will Talk on Hunting This most democratic member of royalty came to Indianapolis to talk on a subject of which he is "Hunting Big Game in .Pygmy Land,” being his experiences in the heart of Africa, will be illustrated with 6,000 feet of the most interesting film ever shown. His address will be delivered at the Armory at 8:15 tonight, after the banquet at the Columbia Club, j for which reservations still can be ! made. Tickets for the banquet include a reserved seat at the lecture. Proceeds of the lecture will go to the camping fund of the Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. The committee named by Wallace O. Lee, general chairman of the executive committee in charge of the lecture, banquet and reception to accompany his Highness to this sity included Judge Charles N. Thompson, J. I. Holcomb, Eric Leth, for the Swedish Society of Indianapolis, Ed Binghahm and Boyd Gurley. Pleases South Bend Reports from South Bend, where the Prince addressed the Knife and Fork Club, an exclusive organization, Tuesday night, indicate that his lecture was an amazing revelation to those who heard him. Speaking perfect English, without a trace of accent, he held his listeners spellbound while he told of the many species of wild animals he jagged in the heart of Africa for the Royal Museum of Sweden. His study of the pygmies is one Df the outstanding contributions to science on this little known people. Meredith Nicholson, Indiana author and man of letters, will preside at the banquet. There will be no long speeches and the entire party will go to the Armory to hear the lecture. Seating arrangements at the ArmDry are under supervision of Mrs. Ralph A. Colby, assisted by ushers chosen from ranks of the Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. Tickets on Sale * Mrs. Hall Marmon has acted as secretary of the executive committee in charge of the affair, and Arthur V. Brown of the Union Trust Company is treasurer. Tickets are on sale at the following places: W. K. Stewart Book store, Clark & Cade drug store, blaypool Hotel; Em-Roe sporting goods store, 209 W. Washington; Indianapolis Power and Light Company, Monument Circle; box office at Armory after 7 p. m. . s Reservations for banquet and .tickets for lecture may be made at Jthe Columbia Club. QUAKE ROCKS BUILDINGS

Severest Tremor in Recent Years Reported in South Africa. Bu United Press CAPETOWN, Oct. 12.—High buildings shivered, ceilings of houses cracked, and crockery crashed during a 20-second earth tremor at Johannesburg last night •—the severest in recent years. It was reported today that several natives have been killed in terriflee storms in the Transvaal district this week. Bn United Press ROME, Oct. 12. Tens of thousands of people camped in the ) countryside last night, fearing re{turn of the earth tremors felt here | during the afternoon. 1 Found After 27 Years U BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 12.—Robert fMitchell, former resident of Moscow, Rush County, was taken back l to his old home by a nephew, TuesLday, still suffering from the attack ■of amnesia which caused him to ■wander away twenty-seven years Ipso-

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Prince Comes by Auto for Visit Here

I*" traffic in other cities were studied maker started the move to establish rules for pedestrians as well as vehicles in the downtown district, beA system of traffic regulation out by the committee and submitted Wash.; Los Angeles and San Fran* more officers would De re-

Top picture shows Marmon car sent to South Bend by Marmon Company to convey Prince William of Sweden here for his lecture tonight, under auspices of The Times. Picture below shows the prince saying farwell to South Bend, shaking hands with A. O. Wilson, president of the Knife and Fork Club, before which he gave his lecture Tuesday night.

REMOVE FIRE PERILS Prevention Week Brings Many Hazard Inspections. Firemen under Fire Prevention Cl ->race Carey made 2,168 inspections Tuesday, the second day of Fire Prevention week, and ordered 360 fire hazards removed. There were no alarms Tuesday. More than 200 employes of the Vonnegut Hardware Company filed out of the building today in two and one-half minutes in a fire drill, when timed by Mrs. Mary Gipe, Carey and Captain Gould. Drills also were held today at the Dilling Candy Company, Fame Laundry, Indiana Christian Hospital and Crown Laundry. Educational talks were given at Engine House 27 by Carey and Captain Pflueger. Inspector Wirt Torbert showed a film. Carey addressed Noblesville Kiwanians at luncheon. He will speak tonight over WFBM. HOLMES HEADS DEFENSE Lawyer Chosen to Represent Vandagrifft in Trial. Employment of Attorney Ira P. Holmes to represent Virgil Vandagrifft, former board of works member, in Vandagrifft’s defense against an indictment charging violation of the blue sky stock law was announced today. Holmes has figured In many big criminal cases, including the D. C. Stephenson murder trial.

RAT ARMY SWOOPS ON U. S. TREASURY

Guns and Poison Used to Repel Night Raids by Menacing Hordes. R WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Rats and cockroaches are threatening the United States Treasury. Droves of rats, driven from buildings being remodeled, have invaded the Treasury basement, where the money vaults are located. Some of the rats are as large as kittens. They scoot through the corridors at night, searching for crumbs of lunches or glue from the back of some choice Federal document. Cockroaches, equally bold, have invaded desks, ruined valuable papers and damaged books.

Wet Shopper Bu Times Snecial GARY, Ind., Oct. 12.—Steve Eloff, carrying a shopping bag and walking hurriedly along a downtown street here, attracted the attention of a policeman who found the bag concealed a gallon jug of moonshine whisky. He arrested Eloff, who offered a S2O bribe, which was r - fused.

REMUS TOJET HELP First Wife Will Raise Fund for Defense. Bu United Press , __ _ CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—Mrs. Lillian Kraus, first wife of George Remus, bootleg king of Cincinnati, who shot and killed his second wife last week, will begin today to raise $5,000 for Remus’ defense, she announced here. Mrs. Kraus said her daughter Romola will aid her in this effort. Romola is confident that the outcome of her father’s trial will be “successful,” she said. Spark Causes Mine Blast By United Press LYKENS. Pa., Oct. 12.—Ignited by a spark from a motor used to haul mine cars to the surface, a pocket of gas in a mine of the Susquehanna Collieries Company exploded today, injuring five men.

F. A. Birgfeld, chief clerk of the treasury, has started a war against the vermin. ‘‘Sweet air,” a special gas, is checking the advance of the roaches and smaller bugs. The rats, however, appear educated. They avoid most traps. A special trap, with a piece of tissue paper hiding the spring, is being used in an effort to entice them. Only the bait, ranging from cheese and meat to fruits, is visible. A sharpshooter, armed with a rifle, has been detailed at night to pick off the rats as they run from coal and trash vaults outside the building to the Treasury structure proper. Birgfeld has ordered all Treasury employes to refrain from leaving particles of lunch in their desks. A number of traps have been placed in the silver vaults.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12,1927

PEDESTRIAN TO GET SAFEGUARD New Traffic Rules Studied by Safety Board. Regulations governing pedestrian traffic in other cities were studied today by a committee named by the board of safety. Safety Board Members Fred W. Connell, Robert Miller and Ira Haymaker started the move to establish rules for pedestrians as well as vehicles in the downtown district, because Indianapolis is said to be behind other cities in that particular. A system of traffic regulation which takes in consideration the pedestrian probably will be worked out by the committee and submitted to the board Oct. 25. The plan in use in Portland, Ore.; Seattle, Wash.; Los Angeles and San Francisco, Cincinnati, Detroit and Milwaukee is being studied. Police Chief Claude M. Worley said he “favored a system which gave the pedestrian a better chance in the down town area. Worley indicated more officers would be required at first to educate the walking public. Todd Stoops, Hoosler Motor Club manager; Robert Scrogln, Hoosier Motorist editor, and newspaper representatives were named on the committee to confer with Worley and Traffic Captain Lester E. Jones on the matter. GIVES UP IN BOOZE PLOT “Uncle Tom” Payne’s Ball Set at $2,500 on United States Charge. Thomas “Uncle Tom” Payne, 33, Negro, indicted jn the federal grand jury’s cleanup of the Ferracane liquor conspiracy case, surrendered to officers here today. His bond was set at $2,500. Payne is regarded by authorities as one of the biggest liquor haulers in the State. He explained his de- ; lay in surrendering was occasioned ; by his being held at Franklin, Ky., ion a charge of shooting a man. I When he obtained his release there under $1,500 bond he came to In- | dianapolis, he said.

JURY SIFTS AUTO DEATH Municipal Judge’s Power to Dismiss Driver Challenged. Contending that a municipal judge has no authority to dismiss a manslaughter charge, Marion County prosecutors today took the case of Leonard Gimmer, 31, of 1143 Lexington Ave., before the Marion County grand jury. Judge Fred McCallister dismissed the charge against Gimmer late Tuesday despite the recommendation of Coroner C. H. Keever that Gimmer be held responsible for the death Sept. 10 of Charles Grubb, 1541 S. State Ave., a passenger in the Gimmer automobile. HELD ON CHECK CHARGE Woman Accused by Government of Forgery. Mrs. Lillian Holsteine of 530 W. New York St., arrested today by secret service operatives on a charge of forgery, was bound over to the Federal grand jury by John W. Kern, United States commissioner, under $2,000 bond. She was charged with forging signature of Thomas S. Hussell of 337 State Ave., to a Government compensation check. Mrs. Holsteine admitted signing Russell’s name and her own, saying Russell authorized her to sign. FIVE KILLED BY TORNADO Ten Others Seriously Hurt When Storm Strikes Arkansas Town. Bn United Press BLYTHEVILLE, Ark., Oct. 12.—A tornado struck the farming community of Bell, near here, at midnight last night. Four persons were killed and 10 were seriously injured, survivors who came here today reported. Ten homes were unroofed and heavy damage to crops was reported. The dead: O. P. Winn, 80; justice of the peace; Mrs. O. P. Winn, 78, his wife; Austin Hardin, farmer, and Mrs. John Hardin, his sister-in-law.

CRISIS FACES MAYOR; TRIAL RULING HEAR Denial of Motion for New Hearing to Loose Attack on Duvall. PROSECUTORS TO ACT Judge to Be Asked to Make Debarment From Office Effective at Once. The new trial motion of Mayor John L. Duvall will be up for hearing in court this afternoon. If Special Judge Cassius L. Shirley overrules Duvall’s motion for a new trial upon his conviction of violating the corrupt practices act, Duvall will meet a bombardment of efforts to oust him from office. If Shirley overrules the motion for new trial he is expected immediately to impose the sentence passed upon Duvall by the jury which convicted him Sept. 22. The jury assessed SI,OOO fine, thirty days in jail, and debarment from office for four years from Nov. 2, 1925. Fights Office Bar ~ Duvall has contended that the debarment from office is not effective while an appeal to Supreme Court, which he intends to take, Is pending. Marion County prosecutors, however, hope to make this clause of the sentence Duvall’s undoing. It was indicated that effort to get Judge Shirley, in passing sentence, to declare that the debarment Is effective at once will be made. Thus if Duvall should continue to attempt to hold office .he might, some attorneys say, be considered in contempt of court and be subject to a stay in jail while he made up his mind to comply with the court’s order. Other Trumps Held The prosecutors .and leading citizens who have demanded that Quvall and his wife, who is city controller, get out at once, have a number of other legal moves available. Foremost among the plans of the prosecutors was the intention to bring Duvall to trial upon a felony charge as quickly as possible. Six affidavits and an indictment besides the affidavit upon which he was convicted are pending in Criminal Court. One of these charges the felony of conspiracy to commit a felony—making of false affidavits in connection with campaign receipts and expenditures. Duvall’s brother-in-law William C. Buser, former city controller, Is a defendant with the mayor In this affidavit. Further Steps Possible The affidavit upon which Dm 11 was convicted charged a misdemeanor. If Duvall were convicted of a felony, the Indiana law which automatically removes a mayor so found guilty would be operative. Immediate action which could be taken includes impeachment proceedings by the grand jury, an ouster suit by any reputable citizen in a county court or an ouster suit by prosecutors.

FROST IS PREDICTED Temperature Will Drop to Near 40 Degrees. With a drop of temperature to about 40 degrees, Indianapolis and vicinity probably will get a light frost tonight, J.' H. Arntington, United States Weather Bureau head predicted. Skies will be fair, however, Armington predicted. Although today’s 7 a. m. temperature was 55, 3 degrees above normal, the mercury had dropped at 1 p. m. to 56 degrees, 16 degrees below Tuesday’s a. m. mark, and the drop was expected to continue until tonight. REFUSE TO OUST KRAUSE Work of Coliseum Board Chief Satisfactory, Says Mayor. Mayor Duvall today indicated he would not appoint a successor to J. Edward Krause, Coliseum board of managers president, whose removal was asked by Attorney George W. Young, 604 Lemcke Bldg. Young wrote Duvall a letter asking that Krause be ousted on the grounds he is not a legal resident of Indianapolis. Young refused to reveal the identity of his client. Krause said his legal residence was at the Washington Hotel and has been for years, although he has a home on Cold Spring Rd. Krause’s work as board president has been considered satisfactory by leaders in the Coliseum movement. HOLD WOMEN BREWERS Federal Officers Claim They Bought Two Quarts of Beer. Federal officers "saying they purchased two quarts of home brew for 85 cents, arrested Mrs. Elizabeth DeMoss, 46, of 3026 Jackson St., and Mrs. Edith Cox, 36, of 3028 Jackson SW

Back of the Russian Veil What is happening in Communist Russia .today? Is Bolshevism staggering to a fall, or is it preparing to menace the world afresh? What of the ordinary Russian citizen? Is he better off, or worse, than in the days when the czar ruled? Jerome Davis, a member of the faculty of the Yale University Divinity School, and a social investigator and writer of national fame, has spent the summer in Russia as a special representative of The Times and NEA Service. The first of his stories Is printed in The Times today, on the first page of the second section. Watch for them. The second will be printed tomorrow. You cannot afford to miss them.

JURY QUIZZES A WITNESSES Council Rezoning Activities Again Sifted. The Marion County grand Jury heard four witnesses in its probe of city council activities today, continuing, it was believed, its inquiry into moves in connection with rezoning of several districts for business purposes. Those heard were: Fred Bates Johnson, attorney and school board member; Gustav G. Schmidt, city plan commission president; Fred P. Carter, real estate dealer, and Sidney Frankfort, brother of Martin Frankfort, who is the real estate partner of Councilman Boynton J. Moore. Martin Frankfort was called as a witness, but did not appear before the jury concluded its session. W. H. Boyd, either ot the National Refining Company, Oliver Ave. and Harding St., also was called, but did not appear. Deputy Prosecutor Paul Hhoadarmer and Chief Deputy Prosecutor Judson L. Stark were in conference with the jury for a short time. BRIDGE AGAIN Is ~OPEN Harding Span Over White River Is Repaired at Last. Harding St. bridge over the White River has been opened ot traffic, after being closed two years for repairs, City Engineer Paul Brown announced today. The National Concrete Company constructed a new pier, put in anew concrete floor and made other repairs. DENIES SLEUTH ~STORY Beech Grove Man Claims He Didn’t Say Klan Named Ticket. Frank Miller, Beech Grove bus driver, today denied that he is a Horse Thief Detective Association head and that he stated that the independent ticket in the field for the Beech Grove election Nov. 8 is Klan supported. The Independent ticket is composed of H. E. Hearell, for trustee; Harry Frener, for clerk, and Robert F. Shepard, for treasurer.

CHAMPION HEN LAYS EGG FOR BABE RUTH Baseball Hero Gets 167th Produced in 167 Days by Title Holder. Bu United Press OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 12.—The pet hen of the nursery rhyme who “laid eggs for gentlemen” was a mere bourgeoise beside Lady Norfolk, better known as Babe Ruth, official champion egg layer of the world. The Babe laid her 167th egg in 167 days at 8:30 p ; m. today—an hour earlier than usual —and it was immediately packed, to be mailed too George Herman Ruth of the New York Yankees, after whom the hen was named. Yesterday’s egg, which broke the world’s record, was sent to President Coolidge. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 58 10 a. m 52 7 a. m 55 11 a. m 52 8 a. m 51 12 (noon) ... 53 9 a. m 51 1 p. m 56

ISLE RISES OUT OF SEA, AS FORECAST

Scientist Predicts by Sun Spot Study That Land Will Reappear. Bu United Prc&s . „ _ . SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 12.—A few days after a New Zealand scientist had predicted its reappearance, through the effect of sun spots on the world, a volcanic island in the Tongan group was reported today to have risen from the sea into which is sank years ago. Professor F. R. Field, the scientist, is specializing in seismological investigations. On Sept. 29, in making his prediction, he outlined the theory that spots on the sun were discharging enormous electric flames

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PLANE PILOTED BY BEAUTY OUT OF TOUCH WITH WORLD, SPEEDING ACROSS ATLANTIC Paris-Bound Fliers Sighted by Merchant Vessel; Ruth Elder’s American Girl Kept on Steamer Lane. REPORT WEATHER CONDITIONS IDEAL Craft Apparently Making 100 Miles an Hour; Emergency Radio Expected to Bring Help in Hurry if Disaster Befalls. Bu United Press „ , , _ . NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—Alone, to all intents, in a world of their own, Ruth Elder and George Haldeman were nearly; twenty-four hours out of New York this afternoon, either flying victoriously above the Atlantic or tossed helplessly in it. Nothing had been seen of the aviator for more than fifteen hours. Along the main steamer lane they planned to traverse on their way to Paris, a hundred ships were looking for them. It was assumed that at 2 o’clock the aviators were in the ocean. Their planned speed, taking into account favorable winds, was 100 miles an hour, and at that time they should have been 2,100 miles from New York, heading east-northeastward for the French coast. Each additional hour should add 100 miles toward the total of 4,000 —the “first 3,600 over water —in the most dangerous Atlantic flight ever attempted.

US. GRAYSDN READY TD HUP _________ • Second Sea Dash by Woman May Start Today. Bu United Press OLD ORCHARD, Maine, Oct 12. —Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson announced this morning that if weather conditions were favorable she might take off In her monoplane, The Dawn, late today for Copenhagen, Denmark. If the weather were adverse or. if the work on the plane required more time than was expected, she said, the start would be postponed until tomorrow. Locally, the weather was cool and clear—ldeal for the take-off, Mrs. Grayson thought. Mechanics went to work on the big yellow-winged Sikorsky amphibian, which rested on the golden sands of the crescent-shaped beach from which Old Glory hopped off on its ill-starred flight. They planned to give the motors a last thorough overhauling. In preparation for the 3.500-mile grind, and hoped to complete their task in about eight horns.

HOLD BANK SUSPECTS Pair Believed in 42nd St. Holdup Captured. Detective Chief Claude F. Johnson announced today that two suspects In the Forty-Second St. State Bank hold-up of August are under arrest here. The arrests were made upon information gained from Frank Badgley, bandit captured at Amboy, Ind., last Saturday, identified as one of the men who robbed the Forty-Second St. Bank of $13,000. Three men entered the bank while one remained In an automobile outside. Identity of the suspects and the circumstances of their capture was kept secret while they are questioned.

that were affecting the earth directly. The Australian war sloop Laburnam wirelessed that the IslandFalcon Island, in the South Pacific east of Australia, had risen after years under water. The island, the ship reported, was one mile long and 1,400 yards wide, its sides sloping down gradually from a volcanic crater 300 feet high, which was erupting for one minute every twenty minutes. Railway Chairman Is Dead PITTSBURGH, Oct. 12.—C01. James M. Schoonmaker, 85, chairman of directors of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, died last night in the Allegheny General Hospital, following an operation Saturday for appendicitis.

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The other aviators flew farther north, to take advantage of the points of Newfoundland and Ireland bulging far into the sea. The plane American Girl, In which Miss Elder and Pilot George Haldeman started from Roosevelt Feld, New York, at 5:04 p. m. yesterday, had not been seen since last night, when the steamer American Banker reported her 560 miles east of New York. Ihe plane was flying at 80 degrees from true north—rouglily eastnortheast. The plane was In the middle of the main steamer lane, to which It had stuck between the time It passed Ambrose light, off the New York coast, and the time the American Banker reported seeing it 350 miles east of the light and about 560 miles from Roosevelt field, the starting point. Follow Steamer Lane The fliers announced before the flight that they would follow the steamer lanes across the ocean. This would carry them over or near more than a hundred steamers stretched out across the Atlantic irom New York to the coast of France. With their emergency radio sending set, they hoped to be able to signal one or more of the steamers in case of a forced landing at sea. The sending limit of the set was seventy-five miles. The southern route, while almost doubling the distance of open-sea flying and adding 400 miles to the total distance of the flight, was chosen because of its greater safety so late in the year. There would be less danger of encountering ice, snow, sleet or high winds than along the more northerly Lindbergh trail. Weather Grows Bad The weather at the time and place of the takeoff was perfect, but a report compiled by James H. Kimball of the local weather bureau showed weather conditions across the Atlantic the most unfavorable of any flight undertaken from the American side of the Atlantic this summer. In spite of the adverse weather conditions and the fact that he had advised against the flight, Kimball was confident Haldeman and his fair companion and co-pilot would make It. “If any man can work his way through the bad weather ahead, he can," the weather expert said. “But he will have rough going.” The American Girl carried 520 gallons of gasoline and twenty gallons of oil. Its cruising radius was estimated at from 4,400 to 4,800 miles. The monoplane weighed 5,680 pounds at the start. Use Three Compasses It was equipped with three compasses—earth inductor, aperiodic and magnetic. Haldeman expected to rely almost entirely on the earth inductor. . Emergency equipment did not Include, as most of the trans-Atlantic planes, a rubber beat. Instead, each of the fliers carried a rubber suit, in which, It was said, they would be able to remain afloat for seventytwo hours. Each suit has apparatus in the hood by which breath could be condensed into water. The plane itself, like other land planes, probably would not remain afloat long. Dump valves on the gas tanks might enable the pilot to bring the plane down on the water upright, in which event the empty tanks would keep the plane afloat. That would give them time to send out distress calls with their small radio outfit. The plane also carried Very pistols and flare#.