Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1927 — Page 1

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COOLIDGE IRE AROUSED BY DRAFT TALK Fess of Ohio Emphatically Told to Soft Pedal His Continual Boom. MEANT WHAT HE SAID Senator Still Thinks Final Choice May Be Made by Deadlock. Bin United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Senator Fess (Rep.) Ohio, said today, after a White House call, that President Coolidge is displeased with the reelection boom being conducted in his behalf by some Republican leaders, and in r. talk today gave the Senator the impression that he would not consent to be drafted by the Republican national convention next year. Fess intimated that the President vigorously and at some length had protested against the Senator’s frequent public remarks to the effect that Mr. Coolidge would be the Republican nominee in 1928 by virtue of a draft. “The President meant what he said,” referring to his “choose” statement, said Fess. “It was with a good deal of regret that I learned the President would rather not have the situation discussed in connection with renomination.” Asked whether he was under the impression after his conversation with the President that Mr. Coolidge would refuse a draft, Fess said: “He has a lot of feeling on the subject. If you had heard what he said that would have been your interpretation. If the President has his own way, there will be nothing doing with him in 1928.” Still Pulling for Cal Fess explained he had answered every argument of Mr. Collidge with an argument in favor of his renomination and re-election, and insisted that he would continue because he was urging Coolidge again for the presidency as a duty to the people of the United States and not in an effort to do the President a favor. The Senator said he was especially eager that the reporters understand Mr. Coolidge had taken a decided stand with him with respect to reelection talk. He indicated that, despite a request from the executive that he abandon talk of another term, he still felt it proper to suggest Mr. Collidge as the best choice. “If I talk with him,” said Fess, “and then talk in favor of his reelection, the public might think I was talking ‘by the book.’ lam not trying to strengthen myself at home, at either. Not at all. You could not erect an airtight Cooldige delegation in Ohio. Deadlock Is Seen “But if there were a deadlock in the convention the nomination would go to Coolidge in the storm, and I don’t see how any man could reject it. In my opinion there will be a deadlock in the convention and the President will be drafted for another term. “There is the strongest possible undercurrent for the President. I never saw a man stronger with the people. It would take another statement from the White House by the President to stop the Coolidge boom.” In the past, Fess was often referred to as the President’s “spokesman” in Senate matters, but the White House some time ago made it clear that Mr. Coolidge felt it unnecessary to have a middleman in Congress. Fess for a long time in advance of the famous “choose” statement was openly predicting Coolidge’s re-election, and many here viewed his remarks as inspired by knowledge of the President’s attitude. Not One-Man Country “The President was displeased,” Fess said in referring to his previous statements urging Mr. Coolidge’s reelection. “I never ‘got it’ as I did today. That’s why I was in there so long. He thinks it is unwise, and that this is not a one-man country;” In the Senator’s opinion, speaker Longworth will not make any great effort to obtain the Ohio delegation at the Republican national convention, and Fess thought his colleague, Senator Willis, probably would have the initial support of that State at the convention. JAPAN PRACTICES WAR Emperor to Watch Fleet Attack Northern Naval Base. Bu United Press TOKIO, Oct. 20. Emperor Hirohito left Tokio today to witness the most important naval manoeuvers ever held by Japan. All types of aircraft and warships will participate, beginning next week. An attacking fleet will try to take the northern Japanese naval base, protected by a defending fleet and airplanes. WAR ON POOR LIGHTS Police Arrest Sixteen, Three Women, in Campaign. Thirteen men and three women motorists were arrested by police Wednesday night in a drive on improper lights, ordered by Police Chief Claude M. Worley.

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Be Merciful! GREENSBURG, Ind., Oct. 20. —“Visit those in prison” was one of the admonitions of Gov. Ed Jackson in a sermon before the Baptist Church Brotherhood. Those who fail to take concern in the welfare of others reasonably cannot expect mercy in the last judgment, said the Governor. He urged his hearers to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and visit those in prison.

RESIGNS FROM KLAN TO LEAD WARJN LASH Alabama Attorney General Doffs Regalia and Flays Hooded Order. By United Press MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 20. The man who has set out to cleaji up the Alabama flogging situation —Attorney General Charles C. McCall—was revealed as a member of the Ku-Klux Klan last night, when he submitted his resignation as a Klansman to the exalted cyclops. On the eve of an extensive investigation of lawlessness in Alabama, in which he had implicated numerous Klan members, McCall issued in his letter a bitter denunciation of the hooded order as opposing the regularly constituted authorities of the State. McCall said he stood for the principles which the Klan publicly advocated and he had seen no public withdrawal on the part of the Klan of a belief in those principles, but that he was convinced, through his investigations during recent months, that the Klan had fallen into the control of a “lawless leadership.” Oath of Office First “I regard my oath as an officer of the law superior to any private or fraternal obligation I can take,” McCall said in his letter, “and I do not feel that I should follow longer behind the banner and under the leadership of those leaders in religious, political and criminal connivancings, placing themselves at war with constituted authorities. “I will not be a follower under the leadership of men who denounce officers of the law for doing their duty.” Menace to Authority "As presently dominated, governed and led,” McCall said, “I am of the opinion—which opinion is based on a thorough investigation of crimes and activities of leaders —that the Klan in Alabama is the greatest menace to constituted authority. "I therefore submit to you my unconditional resignation therefrom.” McCall last week obtained 102 Indictments against persons in Crenshaw County charged with participating ip floggings. Among them was Capt. Ira B. Thompson, cyclops of the liuverne Klan. PLEADS SELF-DEFENSE Fred Stone, Alleged Ball Bat Killer, on Trial at Princeton. Bn United Press PRINCETON, Ind., Oct. 20.—Fred Stone, on trial in Gibson Circuit Court here for the murder of Walter Warren, Evansville, last July, pleads self-defense. The State completed Its case late Wednesday after several eye witnesses testified Stone made an unprovoked attack on Warren at a baseball game at Ft. Branch. It was testified that Stone struck Warren over the head with abaseball bat while Warren’s back was turned. The defense is expected to take all of today and part of tomorrow. LOST PLAYING HOOKEY Boy Settles Down in Stairway for Night; Found by Cops. After playing ‘hooky” Wednesday and wandering about the down town district taking in all the sights, Jack Hinsley, 10, of 347 S. Walcott St., settled down in a doorway at Illinois and Market Sts., for the night. At 12:30 a. m. police Sergeants Sheehan and Deeter found him and listened to his story of being lost. They took him home. Miss Leona Foppiano of the missing person bureau said that Jack ran away under similar circumstances once before.

EARL CARROLL LEAVES FEDERAL PRISON OWING LIFE TO WARREN T. M’CRAY

By Times Special ( STLANTA, Ga., Oct.* 20. When Earl Carroll, famous Broadway producer, leaves the Federal prison here today, he will owe his life to Warren T. McCray, of Indiana. This fact and the first revelation of the nature of the “mysterious malady” form which Carroll was suffering when he entered prison is revealed. Carroll was starving himself to death. He refused to eat. He wanted to die. The world had ended for him. When that prison sentence was given him, he- had decided that he would prefer death rather

14,000 IN CITY FOR CONCLAVE OF TEACHERS 23 Auditoriums Put in Use for Opening Series of Sectional Meetings. GLENN FRANK TO SPEAK Noted Wisconsin U. Head Is Headliner on Program for Tonight. Pictures and other itoriea on First Fare of Second Section and Face S. T ' Indianapolis assumed its annual role as host to Indiana State teachers today, as 14,000 members of the State association filled twenty-three local auditoriums In sectional meetings to start the seventy-fourth annual convention. Majority of the thousands arrived within a few hours this morning and hotel lobbies were crowded with long lines of teachers waiting to claim reservations made, in some cases, a year ago. A two-hour wait in line was the rule for those who arrived at downtown hotels during the rush hours. An estimated 5,000 obtained hotel rooms, while the remaining thousands are being housed in private homes whose owners volunteered their extra rooms until the convention closes Saturday noon. Glenn Frank to Speak The convention is claimed* to have the largest attendance of any educational organization in the world. It is divided into thirty-four sectional meetings, besides which there will be seven general sessions. These will be held in Cadle Tabernacle and I. O. O. F. hall. The first will be held tonight at 7:30 at Cadle Tabernacle, at which Glenn Frank, Wisconsin University president, noted writer and lecturer, will speak on the “Disease of Institutionalism.” Superintendent C. W. Boucner of Valparaiso, State association president, will deliver his inaugural address, preceded by Miss Martha A. Whitacre of Richmond, retiring president. Teachers’ committees will be announced at this first general meeting. Seek to Split Convention Politics and factionalism are expected to enliven the academic sessions. South Bend, while withholding its teachers from the State meet in favor of a sectional meeting held in the northern Indiana city, has sent anew constitution which seeks to split the annual State-wide meet into smallelr district conferences. Evansville and Ft. Wayne are said to support the move, but both have scheduled district meetings for the same days as the State convention and the new constitution is believed to lack sufficient voting strength to carry. ' Friends of Roy P. Wisehart, State superintendent of public instruction, are somewhat resentful because no mention of his appointment, Sept. 1, to the State post has been made in either the September or October issue of “The Indiana Teacher,” official association journal. They attribute the alleged slight to the editorship of Donald Du Shane, Columbus, who was a contender for the State superintendency. Gauntlet Down on Regime C. O. Williams, association secretary, attributed the omission to the appointment not having been made when material for the publications was prepared. An effort to incorporate the association and change the official system also is being discussed. Administration foes assert that the Teachers Federation plays toe large a part in the present association. District meetings, alleged to be Federation controlled, now elect association executive committee members. In any event the administration proposes to fling the gauntlet down on this score and back Mrs. Anna Sherwood, Terre Haute, retiring Federation president, for president of the association. Coal Miners Strike for Heat By United Press SHENANDOAH, Pa., Oct. 20. Surrounded by enough coal to heat a city, seven hundred miners struck near here because the temperature in the Breaker house was too low for comfort.

than the humiliation and disgrace. Carroll arrived at the prison in an emaciated condition after having spent two months in a Greensboro (S. C.) hospital. Examination by the physicians showed no organic disorders. But he was dying from lack of food and refused to eat. The problem which faced Warden Snook was how to preserve the life of a man who wanted to die. Faced with the problem of choosing between forcible feeding, or persuasion, he chose the humane method and turned to a man who had in many other cases

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Upper left, $350,000 William H. Coleman hospital, just west of Robert Long hospital on W. Michigan Stdedicated today. Upper right, main operating room on third floor with Miss Ruth Ringer, supervisor of Ward D adjusting table. Lower left, delivery room on third floor. I. U. student nurse preparing room for public inspection today. Below, center, William H. Coleman. Below, right, Mrs. Coleman. Story on First Page Section Two.

MEDICAL HEAD HITS AT DRYS Alcohol Called Necessary by Dr. Reed. Bu United Press CINCINNATI, Oct. 20.—The Constitution is being made “a fetish by the Volsteadiars,’ r Dr. Charles A. L. Reed, presldentt of the American Medical Association, told the American Public Health Association forum here in an attack on prohibition. “In a republic it is dangerous to talk about the fetish of the Constitution,” Dr. Reed said after hearing Dr. Loujs I. Durbin, New York, and Dr. Haven Emerson tell the benefits of the dry law. “But it is being made a fetish by the Volsteadians. “No constitutional provision nor any laws > enacted thereunder that violate the fundamental law of human well-being ever have and never ought to be observed by an independent people,” he declared. “Alcohol is a normal constituent of brain tissue. It is therefore like the gas of your motor, an energizer. When it is exhausted it must be replaced. Os course, we (take in alcohol, incidentally, with all the food we consume. There is therefore warrant in the natural law for alcoholic beverages.” WAR HERO ON TRIAL Russian Jew Charged With Killing to Avenge Race. B,u United Press PARIS, Oct. 20. —Samuel Schwartzbard’s status in the annals of assassination was discussed in bitter debate today between rival lawyers in the Russian Jewish war hero’s trial for the murder of Gen. Simon Petlura, anti-Bolshevik leader. . A cowardly assassin; a patriot; a Bolshevik agent—those terms and others were applied to the blond watchmaker, who said he killed Petlura “to avenge the Jewish race” for massacres that occurred in the Ukraine while Petlura was campaigning there against the Soviet army. Moose at Evansville Bn United Presn EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 20.—The vanguard of an army of 2,000 Indiana members of the Loyal Order of Moose arrived here today for their three-day State convention. Today was to be occupied principally with registration and a ball at the local Moose home tonight. Business sessions will open Saturday morning.

proved an inspiration and an aid to despondent men who had been in his custody. * * * ■ .IS appeal went to Warren HT. McCray, former Gov__J ernor of Indiana, whose influence upon other men at Atlanta had been as beneficial as It was great. He too, had gone through the Gethesemane and discovered a truth and a philosophy of hope. It was he who talked to Carroll and drove back the dark clouds of despondency which had taken from him a desire to live and had produced a physical condition where, even had he eaten of food,

Early Walker By Times Special CALUMET CITY, Ind., Oct. 20. Ethel Ruth Cullom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Cullom, is only two months old but she’s walking. Since the baby was three weeks old, the mother has becu giving her walking lessons. Now doctors are startled at her prowess as a pedestrian, pointing out that one year is the usual walking age.'

COUNCILMAN QUIZZED Bartholomew Appears Before Grand Jurors. Councilman Otis E. Bartholomew was called before the Marion County grand jury as the prosecutors hastened the jury probe of city council activities this morning. Eight other witnesses were called, indicating efforts were being made to bring the investigation to a quick close. There will be no report or indictments today, however, prosecutors said. Bartholomew was before the jury half an hour. Councilman O. Ray Albertson has appeared before the Jury five times. Other witnesses today were: Charles B. Spaan, real estate dealer; Helen D. Garrett, Hoosier Motor Club employe; Todd Stoops, Hoosier Motor Club secretary; Arthur Aungst, American La France Company agent; James A. Tuck, ex-policeman and real estate dealer; James Shepard, Anne Blackwell and Lasky Farb, fight promoter. FAIR FOR TEACHERS Weather Smiles for State Association Session. Old Man Nature smiled on the thousands of Indiana school teachers here today and promised perfect fall weather for sessions of the State association. For the first time this week, temperatures this morning were a degree or two above normal and there was no frost early today.. It will begin to get slightly cooler Friday and drop to above 10 degrees lower than today by Friday night, United States Weather Bureau officials predicted. Saturday, from present indications, also will be fair, they said.

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it could not have proved of any benefit. One other person contributed to the conversion of Carroll to anew doctrine of love of life. This was Dorothy Knapp, leading woman in one of his revues, one of the Broadway beauties for which Carroll shows had been famous. She came to the prison. There was a business contract to be signed. But there was the great business at hand of persuading a famous prisoner that life had not ended for him and that liberty, a few months hence, would be sweet. She had her conference with Carroll in the company of the warden and she added the ln-

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MRS. GRAYSON HOLDS TO PLAN Confident of Starting Dash Despite Bad Weather. B,u United Press OLD ORCHARD, Maine, Oct. 20. —Hoping that weather conditions will clear by the end of the week, Mrs. Francis W. Grayson and her pilot and navigator, still were earthbound today as • they patiently awaited an opportunity to begin their proposed flight to Copenhagen. With adverse weather forecast for the next fortj-eight hours in this region, any bCpe of a start before Saturday has been abandoned. Despite predictions by those most familiar with Maine coast weather that propitious flying weather is unlikely again this fall. The former schoolmarm was still confident today that they would not have to give up the flight. A trip to Boston was planned today by Mrs. Grayson Pilot Stutz plans to weight the plane if the rain of the last twenty-four hours lets up during the day. Additional gasoline has been ordered from New York to replace that in the plane which has become infiltered with rain. It is expected to arrive late today. USES STRAP ON GIRLS Daughter Whipper to Hear Sentence Today. Bn United Press SAN JOSE, Cal., Oct. 20— Police Judge Percy O’Connor was to pass sentence—on which he deliberated twenty-four hours in order to find one severe enough—today on Leo F. Armstrong, convicted of beating his two daughters because they would not peel potatoes. Judge O’Connor expressed “profound regret” that there were no whipping posts in this State, and announced he would need twentyfour hours to find a fitting punishment for Armstrong. Armstrong beat the two girls, Lily, 15, and Iliff, 13, with a piece of harness, they testified. WIFE WONT PROVIDE She Quit Supporting Him, Man Tells Magistrate. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Before Magistrate Daly today came an elderly man of Russian accent. “I want a summons for my wife,” he said, “she won’t support me any longer.” The court explained that the man must support the woman in this country and refused to issue the summons.

fluence of her protests of faith and friendship to the doctrine which already had found a lodgment in the mind of Carroll. * • * mHE hunger strike ended. Carroll once more took an interest in life. His strength had been sapped by starvation to the point where it required some weeks of rather careful treatment to bring him back to health. , There were handball games in which Carroll and the former Governor participated, and in these games it was McCray who spoke of hope and anew life and the fundamental philisophy In

FIGHT PICTURE SHOWSGET 0. K. Exhibitor Can’t Be Punished, Judge Rules.

Hu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Motion picture exhibitors who have been showing pictures of the DempseyTunney fight in States outside Illinois can not be punished under the Interstate commerce act forbidding transportation of the films, Federal Judge Henry W. Goddard advised a grand j jry today. Judge Goddard’s opinion was given when the jury, investigating transportation of fight pictures into New York State, asked that the statute be explained. In instructing the jury, Judge Goddard said the law was constructed loosely and tliat, as he conceived it, only the person or persons transporting the films or instigating their shipment were liable to penalty. Hence distributors of the films in New York would not bt* punishable, he explained, unless *they received the pictures after shipment in a common carrier. If the films were brought by an agent, who personally handed them to a distributor, the latter would hot be liable to penalty, the opinion continued. QUIZ FIRE JIN CRASH Crossing Tragedy Report May Be Out Today. Coroner Charles H. Keever today interviewed five persons in the inquest of the truck-interurban crash on N. Emerson Ave. Friday night which resulted in the death of twenty persons. Witnesses were Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Bryson, 810 N. Bancroft St.; A. R. Carney, 337 N. Webster Ave., secretary of the Sahara Grotto, and Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Greese, 5738 E. Washington St. The interurban car crashed iiito a trailer attached to a truck carrying members of the Grotto and their families to a barn dance at Ft. Harrison. Report of the investigation of the public service commission into the crash will be ready this Friday, Commissioner Calvin Mclntosh, who was placed in charge, announced today. WOMAN GETS STAY Judge Gives Murderess Seven More Days. Pji United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 20.—Mrs. Catherine Cassler, sentenced to be hanged tomorrow, today was granted a week’s stay of execution. Chief Justice William V. Brothers granted the stay pending return to Chicago of Judge Phillip Sullivan, who tried the case. Attorneys for Mrs. Cassler will file application before Judge Sullivan for further delay. Mrs. Cassler was convicted of participation in the murder of William Lindstrom.

which sunshine and shadow are blended and always ahead there is new hope. The part played by McCray was known to few. It was one of many incidents which won for him an admiration and friendships which were different, but as sincere as any which he had found before. And Carroll, leaving behind the prison scenes, thirty pounds heavier in weight, goes out today owing his life to the advice, counsel and sympathy which came to him in an hour when life was not worth while and when he was trying to glide gently into the black shadow of oblivion.

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SLAYS WIFE AND HIMSELF OVER DIVORCE Dual Tragedy Takes Place on Downtown Corner, in View of Scores. BYSTANDER IS WOUNDED Plea Scorned, Husband Pulls Gun in Crowd and Fires Six Shots. Mrs. Lyle Jenkins, 33. of 854 N. Oakland Ave., was shot fatally at l o’clock this afternoon at Meridian and Ohio Sts., by her husband, Claude Jenkins, 40, of 1047 E. Ver mont St., who then killed himself. A passerby also was wounded by a stray bullet. The shooting, explained by relatives of Mrs. Jenkins as due to the rage of Jenkins over his wife having sued him for a divorce two weeks ago, took place with hundreds of persons returning to offices from luncheon within range of the six bullets fired from a .45calibre revolver. Mrs. Jenkins was taken to city hospital in serious condition, and died a few minutes later. Jenkins died almost instantly after sending a bullet into his heart. Passerby Is Wounded Mrs. Ralph Hilton, 28, of 1220 Park Ave., walking nearby with Miss Gorde Hatfield, 77 N. Brookville Rd., was struck on the ankle by a glancing bullet. ! She was taken to city hospital. Her wound was’not serious. Mrs. Jenkins was employed in (he Allied Coal and Material Company offices, 14 W. Ohio St. She just had left the office and was walking east in Ohio St. toward Meridian, when Jenkins caught up with her, according to Robert Hastady, Crawfordsville, ,Ind., clerk in the Coons drug store at Ohio and Meridian Sts. Jerks Loose From Man Hastady said the woman jerked loose from the man, who'was pleading with her and holding her arm, and said: “I don't want anything to do with you.” Jenkins drew back, paused, pulled his revolver and fired five times at Mrs. Jenkins, Hastady said. Then he stepped about three paces toward the inside of the sidew'alk and turned the gun upon his own breast, firing once. A pedestrian, whose name police did not get, leaped toward Jenkins, just as he shot himself, and jerked | the gun away from him. Quarrelled Repeatedly James A. Parker, 854 N. Oakland Ave., a brother of Mrs. Jenkins, said that the couple had quarreled repeatedly and had separated four times. The last separation occurred three weeks ago Saturday. Mrs. Jenkins Ailed the divorce suit two weeks ago. While the police emergency squad was at the scene of the shooting, a call was received at police headquarters Jrom George Loveless, a brother-in-law of the dead woman, who lived at the same address. Loveless asked if there had been any report of a man shooting his wife. He said that Jenkins had threatened to kill Mrs. Jenkins. Then tha captain told him of the tragedy. PLAN ToIjUARDTNVOY Morrow Will Have Military Escort to Mexico City. Bit United Press LAREDO, Texas, Oct. 20 —Unusual military precautions will be taken by Mexican Federal forces Saturday when Dwight Morrow, new ambassador from the United States, is expected to cross the border here. Military headquarters at Neuvo Laredo, across the border, today made plans for a heavy military escort to accompany Morrow’s train to Mexico City as a result of the dynamiting Tuesday of the Mexico CityLaredo train. EGYPT’S KING TO PARIS Formal Entry to Be Through Station Reserved for State Visitors. Bit United Press PARIS. Oct. 20.—King Faud of Egypt was preparing today for his formal entry to Paris from Versailles. The King and his retinue were to enter through the Bois de Boulogne station, which is opened only for the use of State visitors. This official entrance was used by President Wilson when he arrived for peace negotiations. 2 DIE IN TRAIN WRECK Enginemen Are Victims in 30-Foot Plunge by Locomotive. Bu United Press HALLSTEAD, Pa., Oct. 20.—The engineer and Areman were killed and two persons slightly Injured last night when Lackawanna passenger train No. 28 was wrecked at a washout three miles east of here. When their engine turned a complete somersault in a 30-foot plunge. Engineer Esterbook, and the Areman were killed instantly. An express messenger, John Grady, and a mail clerk. John Cruser, .were slightly injured.

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