Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1927 — Page 17

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POLITICAL JAM BROKEN UP BY DRAFTREBUKE Coolidge’s Sharp Ultimatum to Fess of Ohio Is G. 0. P. Foot Race Gun. BURNS ALL HIS BRIDGES Contestants for Delegates Expected to Swing Into Fight at Once. BY RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—1n his rebuke of those who have insisted that he be renominated, President Coolidge was declared today to have burned his political bridges behind him. Until today many prominent Republicans, including such eminent spokesmen as Senator Fess of Ohio, Senator Butler of Massachusetts and Charles Evans Hughes, have taken the position there was a chance the President might again lead his party in a presidential contest. This attitude has tended to smother actual promotion of other candidacies. All Barriers Believed Down Now, however, all the barriers are believed to be down. Though such candidates as Hoover, Lowden, Dawes and Longworth have maintained silence regarding their plans, it is almost certain their friends and backers will not. Promoters of Hughes’ candidacy will now go to him with the ultimatum that he must let his name be used or else announce his unwillingness to enter the race under any conditions. The Coolidge pronouncement, which took the form of a stinging rebuke to Senator Fess of Ohio, may transform the Republican situation from a rather aimless and halfhearted symposium into an actual contest for delegates and political backing. The Coolidge statement, in the opinion of veteran observers, will have the same effect as the starters’ gun in a foot race. Embarrassing to Hoover The situation may prove embarrassing to some of the candidates. Secretary Hoover’s friends are known to feel he is too far out in front now. They say they have had to use strong-arm methods to suppress over enthusiastic Hoover men in various sections of the country. Some of the Dawes supporters have also been more zealous than the Vice President likes, especially as he suffers the added handicap of permitting his old friend Lowden to have his chance at the nomination. Perhaps the most far-reaching effect will follow when some of the President’s close friends and cabinet members begin to make new alignments. s Where Will Cal’s Friends Turn? Many are waiting to see where such Coolidge stalwarts as Butler and Secretary Mellon will go. Will they join the Hughes-for-President movement, as many anticipate, or will the flock to the Hoover camp? Will the Eastern interests, which are supposed to dislike Hoover, turif to Hughes? And if he absolutely refuses to allow his name to be mentioned, will they go to the man said to be their second choice—Dawes? And what effect will the Coolidge announcement, discounted though it has been by his “do not choose” statement, have on the plans of the Borah-Norris group? Will they persist in promoting the candidacy of one of their own group? The Coolidge renunciation, final and emphatic, has given voice to these questions. They reveal that the political jam which has blocked any definite movement toward preparing for 1928 seems to have been broken up.

CALLS SCHOOL BOARDS EDUCATION OBSTACLES Chicago Superintendent Addresses Teachers Meeting at Ft. Wayne. By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 21. Twenty-five hundred teachers attending the Northeastern Indiana Teachers Association convention which opened a two-day session here Thursday, were told: “The greatest obstacle of education today in America is boards of education.” William McAndrew, superintendent of Chicago schools, made the charge, in the course of an address which included a declaration that “The work you teachers do is now so scientific and complex that the ordinary layman cannot understand it.” PRAISES PLAZA BEAUTY Architect Urges Care in Buildings Near Memorial. Importance of discretion in the architecture of new .buildings near Memorial Plaza was stressed by Lawrence V. Sheridan, architect, in a talk before the Indianapolis Real Estate Board Thursday. “The plaza is one of the outstanding architectural features of the country,” Sheridan said, “and no building of the wrong type should be constructed adjaeent to it. “If the new coliseum is located on one of the sites facing the plaza it should be an architectural gem. The plaza is an ideal and could well become the center of the city’s ideals. One of our difficulties is the lack of positive ideals to follow.”

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Dorothy Knapp, famous bathing beauty and show girl, is given credit, with Warden Snook of Atlanta prison and former Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana, for saving the life of Earl Carroll, New York theatrical producer, just released from prison. Miss Knapp added her pleas to those of McCray and Snook, that Carroll cease starving himself and take anew view of life, with the result that he left prison in far better physical condition than when he entered.

CMYSON OCEAN IOfSTU. 'ON' Weather May Permit Start Late Today. By United Press OLD ORCHARD, Maine, Oct. 21. —With clearing weather, Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson believed she might be able to take off this afternoon on her delayed flight to Copenhagen. While no definite decision will be made until weather bulletins arrive today from ships in the Atlantic, indications were that flying conditions may be more favorable today than for several days. Tide conditions would permit a start between 1 and 4 p. m. Mrs. Grayson’s amphibian plane, The Dawn, weighed and tested, was ready for the projected 3,500-mile flight except for the loading of an additional 100 gallons of gasoline. The Dawn took off for Denmark Monday, but proved nose heavy and returned fifteen minutes later. It was found that the plane’s landing gear needed readjusting, and this work was completed in four hours yesterday, under direction of Igor Sikorsky, designer of The Dawn.

START OCEAN FLIGHT German Plane Takes Off for Azores and U. S. Bn United Press LISBON, Portugal, Oct. 21.—The German Heinkel plane, D-1220, with a crew of three, took off at 6:40 a. m. today for the Azores Islands, en route to North America. Horts Merz, the pilot, said the plane would take off for America from the Azores as soon as the weather permitted. The Heinkel plane, with an 800horsepower motor, left Warnemende, Germany, on Oct. 12 for a destination known only to its pilot and backers. Forced to land at Brunsbuettel, Germany, it continued on to Amsterdam two days later. If left Amsterdam Sunday morning for Vico, Spain, where it arrived Sunday night. It took off Tuesday for the Azores, but was forced to land at Lisbon because of a broken feed pipe. New Head for College Bn Times Svccial FRANKLIN, Ind., Oct. 21.—Dr. Homer P. Rainey will be installed as president of Franklin College at 10 o’clock Saturday morning in ceremonies which will be held at the First Baptist Church.

DEATH THWARTS SOLDIER WHO WAITS 64 YEARS TO TELL HERO’S STORY

By PAUL FREDRIX United Press Staff Correspondent r~3ASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—A Vy common soldier waited YT sixty-four years to tell the true story of his hero to the world. He finally got his chance, but death cut off his words. H. H. Spayd was the soldier. Blue uniformed he stood, gun in hand, a young sentry on a ridge at Gettysburg, Pa., the night before General Meade turned back the onslaught of the South in the famous battle of 1863.

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Love ‘Bargain By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 21.—Barney Latonis, World War veteran, who sued Samuel Norvainis, grocer for $25,000, alleging alienation of Mrs. Latonis’ affections, has settled out of court for $250. The wife recently obtained a divorce, testifying Barney said to her: “I don’t know where my eyes were when I married you—you’re so ugly I can’t bear to look at you.”

6 HURT AS TRACTION CAR LEAVES TRACK Failure of Brakes to Hold Blamed for Crash at Marion. By Times Special MARION, Ind., Oct. 31.—Six persons are suffering from minor injuries *today which they received Thursday night when a Union Traction interurban Car jumped the track here. Seven other passengers were severely shaken up. Failure of brakes to hold is blamed for the accident. Those injured, ail Marion residents, are Dora Isenhart, Lizzie Murphy, Mrs. Hazel White, Lulu McCormick, Mrs. Anna Coon and Mrs. Dora Kimbell.

Silhouetted in the dark was a red barn from which Confederate shots came whizzing toward him. The next day he saw”' Meade courageous under fire. The war was over, Spayd succeeded moderately in his State of Pennsylvania. He was made commander of the G. A. R. and loved to tell his cronies of his hero, Meade. It was his intention, he said, to have all the/ world know. /

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 21, 1927

CHICAGO DEAN TAKES RAP AT HISTORY FOES Investigation of Textbooks Disproves Propaganda Charge, He Says. SLAPS AT ‘BIG BILL?’ Boucher Assails ‘Dangerous Citizens’ Who Further ‘Unworthy Ends.’ Did Dean C. S. Boucher of the University of Chicago mean Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson of Chicago, when he discussed “dangerous citizens, willing to prostitute patriotism to serve unselfish and unworthy ends?” This was what his audience wondered when Dean Boucher, speaking at the ward and village principals’ section of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association convention Thursday afternoon, declared: “In most instances the persons making the public demonstrations in the form of flag-waving and pretense of being Simon-pure 100 per cent Americans have had motives which they endeavored to keep in the background. They really are dangerous citizens, willing to prostitute patriotism to serve selfish and unworthy ends.” Refuses to Discuss War Boucher, however, refused to discuss Mayor Thompson’s crusade against alleged pro-British textbooks in Chicago schools, and the mayor’s effort to oust School Superintendent William McAndrew. “I will say what I have to say about that in Chicago,” he said. However, he defended D. S. Muzzey’s American history text, one of those objected to by Thompson, in his speech. The Muzzey text and that of A. B. Hart was investigated in Boston in 1922, and the investigation disproved the charge that Hart and Muzzey were promoting British propaganda, he said. Charges Prove Unfounded Other reports which verify the above were made by the American Historical Society, - Dec., 1923, and the American Federation of Labor, in June, 1922, he said. Dean Boucher declared that in all cases where textbooks had been investigated by trained scholars, that the charges that they were being used for propaganda were utterly unfounded. Seventeen authors wi h established reputations as scholars were investigated in June, 1922, by a committee of five, which Examined the textbooks on American history now in use in the California high schools. They reported that “None of these texts treat any part of American history in a disloyal or unpatriotic manner,” he said. He also cited a similar investigation, that of the American Legion, in Dec., 1925, which reported: “Much of the agitation and complaint regarding school textbooks in history apparently has come from prejudiced sources—from men and institutions who are themselves propagandists, and who use this method of checking their own unAmerican sentiments.” Mute Killed by Train Bii Times finer ini WASHINGTON, Ind., Oct. 21. Cleveland Johnson, 43, a mute, Elnora, is dead today, having, been crushed beneath the wheels of a Southern passenger train.

STEALS AT FUNERAL Burglar Robs Home as Man Is Being Buried. Providence must be arranging some special form of punishment to fit the case of Indianapolis’ latest and lowest, “meanest thief,” in the opinion of police today. As the undertaker was locking the home of Mrs. Emma Bennett, 121 S. Brookville Rd., after the funeral of her husband, George Bennett, preparatory to taking the body to the cemetery Thursday, a suave young man stepped up. He sympathetically said he was a friend of the dead mai. and would straighten up the house >vhile the funeral party went to the cemetery. The undertaker thanked him and left the door unlocked. When Mrs. Bennett returned from the cemetery she found three purses opened and a total of $7 missing. Two Die in Train Wreck B.u United Press DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 21.—Fireman L. E. Patton and an unidentified baggageman were killed shortly before midnight when the engine of the Sunshine Special, Texas and Pacific Railroad passenger train, left the track in the yards at Waskom, Texas.

r—-I3DNESDAY a statue to IVY/1 Meade built by PennsylI I vania was unveiled here. President Coolidge spoke. So did Pennsylvania’s Governor. Many notables were there. As one time G. A. R. commander Spayd received his great opportunity. He was asked to tell reminiscences of the famous general. Spayd, 82, wearing a blue Civil War cap trimmed on one side with squirrel skin, stepped proudly on the platform. With shoulders straight and head erect he spoke

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1 STflood Hundreds Made Homeless jjSHkfL by Pennsylvania Disaster. HEADLIGHT IS HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 24. / vUlp 1 ICQIICIRI PRfIRF

10,000 IDLE, 3 DEADjmOQD Hundreds Made Homeless by Pennsylvania Disaster. By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 24. Pennsylvania today was recovering from one of the most disastrous fall floods in the history of the State. It was estimated that the floods caused by the overflowing of creeks and small rivers in the State yesterday has cost at least three lives, made thousands homeless, and caused more than 10,000 men to be idle. Following a rain of seventy-eight hours, hundreds of highways in the sections near Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Wilkesbarre and Shamokin were turned into raging canals, creeks overflowed their banks and torrents poured into towns, flooding cellars and tying up traffic. Two railroad employes were killed near Hallstead when an engine went into a washout, and another unidentified man was drowned near Sayre when a bridge collapsed under the weight of his car. Coal mines, already suffering from a recent slump, were flooded and miners faced a suspension of work. Relief organizations are caring for hundreds of homeless. AVERAGE MAN CONTEST WINNER LURED TO CITY Public Career Not Typical Life Attracts lowan, Bn United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—The average man, having been chosen as such, today, ceased to be one. Roy L. Gray of Ft. Madison, lowa, selected as the all-around average citizen, has been interviewed and lionized, and in general has become in a day a public figure. \ After answering a list of questions for the United Press at his home, he left for Chicago as the guest of a newspaper. He was to meet Mayor William Hale Thompson, to make a radio speech, and in general to go through the routine of the noted visitor. AUTO IS FOUND ~BURIED Believe Machine Interred by Owner to Collect Insurance. Bii United Press BATAVIA, N. Y., Oct. 21.—A touring car, which State troopers believe was interred five years ago so that the owner might collect insurance, was unearthed here after two boys had found the radiator cap protruding abovs the surface of the ground. The tenant on the farm when the car was 1 elitved to have been buried, was Frank Lombardo, who since has disappeared. HITS SCHOOL LINOTYPES Typo Official Protests SBO,OOO Expenditure at Arsenal High. Protest against proposed expenditure of SBO,OOO for linotype equipment at Arsenal Technical High School was voiced before the State tax board Thursday by Secretary Guy S. McCoy of the Indianapolis Typographical Union, No. 1. Besides being an excessive expenditure of taxpayers’ money, it might lead parents to believe linotype operation could be learned at school without union apprenticeship, McCoy asserted.

into a microphone so his words could carry to the crowd. In a firm voice he told of the “night before the battle” when he was a sentry. The smoke from saluting guns drifted across the platform and into his nostrils—the first warlike smoke he had smelled in sixty-four years. “There was a red barn across from me,” Spayd said. “There were shots coming from it. Funny, but I can see that bam plainly now. It’s right over there,” and he raised a wrinkled hand to point.

Claude E. Jenkins (sketched from a photograph by Lee Williams, Times staff artists), who killed his wife, Mrs. Lisle Jenkins (center), and then himself, in front of the Coons drug store, Ohio and Meridian Sts., Thursday. Mrs. Mollie Jenkins, mother of the dead man (below), and Jenkins' dog, “Heck,” which wandered about the home, 1047 E. Ohio St., appearing to sense something was wrong. Bullet pierced plate glass window of the drug store (above).

’LI! ARTHA’ IN HOOSIER JAIL Jack Johnson Held at Columbia City. 81l United Press COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Oct. 21. Jack Johnson, one time world’s heavyweight boxing champion, is in jail again—and this time he can’t get out. Trouble doubled back on “Lil Artha” at North Manchester Thursday night when, wrapped in his bathrobe, he was leaving the ring after an exhibition bout. The trouble dates back four years to July 15, 1923, when he was arrested here for transporting liquor in an automobile during one of his barnstorming tours. He laid in the Whitley County jail for a long time before Frank Nott finally put up $1,500 bond. Nott permitted the Negro to leave on his promise that he would return for trial. But Jack didn’t come back, and Nott’s $1,500 was forfeited. Four years couldn’t dim Nott’s memory and when he learned Johnson was to box at North Manchester he swore out anew warrant and had it served. Jack's bouts with the law have more or less inured him to such passing inconvenience as being a prisoner in a small time jail, and he took his incarceration philosophically, although It is probable that he will be held for some time. This Is due to the fact that a prisoner who has jumped bond can not be bailed second time. And Jack's trial is in the uncertain future. Even the date of arraignment has not been fixed.

RED PROBE IN MINE FIRES NOT RECORDED Investigation by Indiana national guard officers in the southern part of the State of alleged radical activities in connection with turning of tipples at coal mines in Warrick and Gibson Counties is not a matter of record in the office of Adjt. Gen. William H. Kershner, attaches said today. Kershner is out of the city on a hunting trip. George Ccogan, deputy fire marshal, is making an inquiry into the fires under the direction of the arson division of the State fire marshal’s office. He has not submitted a report, yet, it was said at the office today. The fires were at the General Fuel Company mine, Somerville, Gibson County, and at a smaller mine near Newburg, Warrick County.

r "1 S turned from the micro- |£-]| phone and his words be- * 1 came mere mumbles. His knees trembled. Col. U. S. Grant 111, descendant of the great Civil \Var commander, leaped to his side. The veteran slumped back in his chair, feebly protesting “I want to see this through.” Four colonels carried Spayd, chair and all, to an ambulance. Major James Coupal, President Coolidge’s personal phyisic’-m, accompanied him to a hospital.

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HEADLIGHT IS ISSDEINPROBE Witnesses Deny Car Beacon Burning in Grotto Crash. Whether the headlight of the Union Traction interurban which crashed into the Grotto truck-trailer last Friday night, at Emerson Ave. near Twenty-Third St., was burning brightly became the big point in the investigation conducted by the public service commission under Commissioner Calvin Mclntosh today. Twenty persons died in the tragedy. Mclntosh said that new evidence which requires further investigation made it necessary to delay filing of the report with the commission today, as planned. Os the dozers of witnesses, the only one who lias insisted that the interurban headlight was burning brightly enough to warn the truck driver that a car was coming, was the motorman, W. W. Merrill, 6285 College Ave., Mclntosh said. Merrill admitted that he had turned the headlight off twenty miles before he reached the death crossing while on a siding waiting for another train to pass, but insisted that he turned it back on, Mclnto ih said. Commission investigators tonight will make vests of visibility of a car from the fatal crossing with and without lights, simulating circumstances of the accident. “We expect to make this investigation a genuine unearthing of facts. Recommendations on these facts will be up to the commission as a whole,” Mclntosh said. Coroner Keever continued examinations in the inquest today. J COUNTRY CLUB ELECTS Ira Minnick Named President at Meridian Hills. Ira Minnick was elected president of the Meridian Hills Country Club and the Meridian Hills Country Club Realty Company at the annual election of officers Thursday night at the clubhouse. Other country club officers named were: Ben Stevenson, vice president; Fred A. Likely, secretary; C. Willis Adams, treasurer, and M. 3. Knox, assistant secretary and treasurer. The realty company named Stevenson vice president; James L. Murray, secretary; George Olive, treasurer, and M. G. Knox, assistant secretary and treasurer. LOCAL MAN SENTENCED Ray Gest Admits Bank Robbery Attempt in Noblesville Court. Bn United Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 21. Ray Gest, 19, Indianapolis, alias Ray Edwards, was taken to the Indiana reformatory today after pleading guilty to burglary and being sentenced from one to ten years. GesfS parents are said to be wealthy, John Wagner, William H. Stafford and Roscoe Parrish, who are charged with Gest of having attempted to rob the First National Bank at Arcadia and who have confessed, will be sentenced Saturday.

Yesterday Spayd became unconscious, still murmuring weakly about General Meade. Last night he died, with a niece, Mrs. Rebecca Warren of Pennsylvania at his bedside. Today his body was sent to Pennsylvania. There was a suggestion to bury him with other warriors in Arlington National cemetery, near here, but friends thought he would prefer a grave in his own State, not too far from Gettysburg and its red bam.

LUNCHEON TO SPUR CREWS IN FUND DRIVE Army of 3,000 to Engage in November Campaign for Community Chest. $722,800 TO BE GOAL Committees Begin Lining Up Captains and Teams for City-Wide Plea. Following the luncheon meeting of the entire Community Fund Woman's Army next Tuesday noon at the Claypool Hotel, the organization of 3,000 men and women actively participating in the eighth annual campaign will be ready to swing into action early in November, Walter C. Marmon, general campaign chairman announced today. Goal for this year's campaign ha* been set at $722,800. This amount actually is required, says Marmon, to meet the vital needs of the city’* thirty-eight social service and charitable organizations which share in the fund. According to statistics gathered for fourteen cities with comparativ® populations, the total fund for Indianapolis ranks well below the average. This condition, fund officials say, is caused largely by efficient management of the agencies sharing in the fund and by the extremely low cost of collection and disbursement through the central office. 93 Cents for Aid "Ninety-three cents of every dollar contributed to the Community Fund reaches the agencies maintained in Indianapolis for social service and relief work," says Marmon. "This fact alone reveals the efficiency of organized charity in our city and makes the Community Fund worthy of very generous support. Waste and duplication are eliminated.” Public solicitation for the fund bebegins Nov. 4 and continues through Nov. 14. Already, however, special committees and teams are at work among downtown business men and among the larger business Arms. Special gifts “A” division, the branch house committee, and special gifts "B" committee began solicitations this week and will hold report meetings next week. Dick Miller is again serving as chairman of the special “A" committee and is being assisted by an executive committee, Leo M. Raopaport, Herman P. Lieber and William J. Mooney. Team leaders in the "A” division are Arthur Baxter, Arthur V. Brown, G. A. Efroymson, Edgar Evans W. H. Insley, Herman Lieber, A. Kiefer Mayer, N. H. Noyes, Robert Lieber, C. H. Rottger, H. C. Atkins, John R. Welch, Fred Hoke, A. H. Goldstein, F. H. Holliday, and F. M. Ayres. Special gifts. "B” division is led by Theodore H Myers. Among leaders and team captains in this division are H. M. Glossbrenner, William H. Harrison, William Henkel, Perry Lesh, John L. Fuller, Harry Orlopp, Joseph Waite, James M. Swan, M. L. McManus, Frank Sparks, Frank Holke, H. E. Rasmussen and Norman V. Schaff. Finns to Be Solicited Branch house division will solicit among business firms which Mate home offices in other cities. Its leader for the November campaign is George Bockstahler. Twenty men actively are assisting in the work, and many others are members of teams. Among team captains are Walter Gledhill, who last year served as chairman of the branch house group, J. A. Brookbank, Lew Cooper, Roy Downs and George Weaver. Another part of the fund organization which has been extensively organized this year, according to Chairman Marmon, is that embracing the employes’ divisions. This group is divided into industrial employes, with G. M. Williams as director; mercantile employes with Dwight Ritter as director; commercial employes, with Edwin J. Wuensch as director; public employes, with Robert Bryson as director; utilities employes, with Frank Montrose as director; and the sveam railway employes, with Zeo Leach and George P. Torrence as co-dl-rectors. praises corporations Northwestern Professor Calls Them Popular for Investments. "The corporation is the most important invenMon that ever snrang from the mind of man,” Prof. Ralph E. Heilman, school of commc-ce dean of Northwestern University, said at the dinner of the Indiana Association of Credit Men, Thursday night, at the Chamber of Commerce. “Today men of every class invest, and it can be said ownership of corporate wealth is popular, not in the hands of a few,” he said. WOMEN PICK OFFICERS Head of Auxiliary to Hibernians I* Re-Elected Mrs. James Donne l ! was re-elected president of the Marion County Ladies' Auxiliary to the Ancient Order of Hibernians Thursday night at 39 S. Delaware St. Other new officers are Mrs. I. L. LaPorte, vicepresident; Mrs. Anna R. Mahoney, secretary; Mrs. Mary Hayes, tresaurer; Mrs. Anna McHale, chlarman of Irish history, and Miss Marie Dugan, sentinel. More than 200 members of the twelve divisions were present.