Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1927 — Page 3

'OCT. 25, 1927

‘BIG BILL’PROMISES TO DELAY BOOK BONFIRE FOR WEEK

ASK INJUNCTION IN BATTLE TO BLOCK MAYOR Judge to Rule Tuesday on Carrying Anti-British War to library. SEE CULTURE THREAT Plan to Burn Anti-Yankee Volumes Like Inquisition, Lawyer Asserts. CHICAGO, Oct. 25.—Chicago’s bocks were saved today for at least a week when representatives of Mayor William Hale Thompson promised Circuit Judge Ira Ryner not to build a bonfire of “pro-Brit-ish histories” in the Public Library until after an injunction hearing next Tuesday. Judge Ryner refused to accept a motion for an injunction to prevent the book burning, but said he would hear arguments on the motion a week from today. Edward J. Bohac, attorney, applied for the injunction “to prevent inquisitorial bonfires,” he told the court. Delay Injunction Hearing “Burning of Books in Chicago’s library would be comparable only to the burning of libraries of'Carthage and Constantinople, which caused irreparable cultural damage,” Bohac said. Mayor Thompson’s attorneys assured the court that no plans for an immediate bonfire had been made despite the mayor’s repeatedly expressed determination to rid Chicago of the taint of British propaganda, and to purge schools and libraries alike of the imprint of King George 111 and the British Lion. Fairy Tales to Remain Following postponement of the injunction hearing, J. Kentner Elliott, who had announced he planned to file application for a similar injunction, ; said he would defer action until next Tuesday. The threatened destruction cf public library books was an outgrowth of the trial of former Superintendent of Schools McAndrew before the school board on charges of insubordination and fostering British propaganda. The McAndrew hearing will be resumed tomorrow. “If Mayor Thompson is permitted to follow his whims and his ego unrestrained, soon there will be nothing left on pur library shelves but fairy tales,” Bohac told the court today in his injunction plea. Hangover of Injunction “This plan to burn books which offend one particular viewpoint is a recurrence of the Spanish Inquisition.” Mayor Thompson’s secretary said so far as he knew the mayor had not yet received a cablegram reported to have been sent him by Sir Edwin Stockton, British cotton trade leader, inviting him to visit England Edwin’s guest. The mayor himself could not be reached. Invited to Lions’ Den P.n > ii it ci/ Piths MANCHESTER. England, Oct. 25. —Mayor (Big Bill) Thompson of Chicago was invited today to walk into the British Lion’s den and see for himself that Leo isn’t so ferocious as he thinks. dr Edward Stockton, cotton trade leader, former member of Parliament and. social worker, cabled asking the flre-breathing mayor to

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ATTEMPTED AX MURDER FAILS VWoman in Jail After Trial at Suicide. Mrs. Mabel Meixner, 38, of 3523 E. Tenth St., a widow, is in city prison on a charge of assault and battery with Intent to kill* today, as the result of an attempted ax murder and suicide which failed. She attempted to kill Mrs. Lola Warren, 35, of 2965 Chester St., because she said Frank Wonder, 42, of 1009 Elm St., had jilted her to pay attentions to Mfs. Warren. With an ax still in the paper wrapping in which she had bought it at a 5 and 10 cent store. She gained entrance to Mrs. Warren’s home pretending to be getting ideas for anew house. As they went down to the cellar she struck Mrs. Warren on the back of the head and again on the forehead as she lay on the floor. Stunned for only a moment, Mrs. Warren turned on her assailant and a fierce battle ensued. “I knew my life depended on it,” she said “or I would have given up. After what seemed five minutes, I managed to get the woman down on the floor and beat her head against the concrete. Then I tore loose and ran to the neighbors. I didn’t see Mrs. Meixner leave the house.” Mrs. Meixner was found at her home with two of her four young sons watching as she held her head over the open gas jets of the kitchen stove, Two half empty whisky bottles were on the table, police said. CHURCH SCHOOL OPENS + 141 Teachers Are Registered for Presbyterian Course. Registration for the south side interdenominational teachers’ training school at the Seventh Presbyterian Church will close Monday. Enrollment Monday night reached 141 students. The Rev. L. P. Cooper, pastor of Calvary U. B. Church, is dean.

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PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE TO OPEN WEEK-ENDS Hours on Saturdays and Sunday to Aid Public. The prosecutor’s office at police headquarters will be open Saturdays and Sundays, beginning this weekend, it was announced' today following a conference between Police Chief Clauude Worley and Prosecutor William H. R: my. A , deputy prosecutor will be on duty from 8 to 11 a. m. and from 2 to 5:30 Saturdays and from 2 to 4 p. m. Sundays. This will facilitate filing of affidavits. CITY LOYALTY URGED E. Tenth, E. Michigan, Irvington Men at Good Will Meeting. United loyalty to the city and to the Chamber of Commerce was urged by President Dick Miller_ at the fourth Chamber of Commerce good will meeting Monday night, attended by nearly one hundred business and professional men of E. Tenth St., E. Michigan St. and Irvington. A report of activities of the industrial commission in bringing new industries to Indianapols was made by Clifford L. Harrod, industrial commiscfoner and general manager. RETURN DANCER’S MATE George Hubbard, Sued. by. Fawn Gray, to Face Trial Here. George Hubbard, city detective, is in Baltimore to bring Hamilton J. Smith of New York to Marion County to face charges of violating the Indiana securities law. The indictment was returned in 1925. Smith is held in Baltimore facing a marriage annulment suit brought by his wife, Fawn Gray, a dancer. The woman claims she was intoxicated when the marriage ceremony was performed. Smith was indicted here with Arthur A. Caldwell" Both forfeited $3,000 bonds. Robert Brokenburr, deputy prosecutor, is making preparations for Smith’s trial.

EARTH SHOCKS FAIL TO START TIOALWAVES No Signs of Predicted Ocean Disturbance Seen; Quake Centers in Alaska. Bn United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.—N0 signs of predicted tidal waves had been reported from any Pacificpoints today, and it seemed that predictions of oceanic disturbances resulting from yesterday’s severe earthquake would remain unfilled. The quake centered near centraleastern AlaslA, within 200 miles of Juneau, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington estimated, ad apparently it did not extend far into the Alaskan peninsula. The thin strip of land and its fringe of volcanic islands which runs south of the main peninsula between British Columbia and the Pacific probably bore the brunt of the shock, seismographic calculations indicated. Many of the islands there are of volcanic origin and earthquakes and volcanic action have caused queer disturbances among the islands in the past. Gable communication among the islands was reported badly disrupted. Hawaii was disturbed yesterday by predictions of Thomas A. Jaggar, Government volcanologist, that a tidal wave resulting from the quake might sweep over the islands, but no sign of such a wave appeared. Jaggar’s calculations were based on the belief that the quake centered in the ocean bed instead of on land. The quake was the most severe since the Santa Barbara (Cal.) shocks of 1925, seismologists said. Loss May Be Small fill United Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 25.—Officials of the United States Coast and Geodetic survey today were awaiting confirmation of their belief that yesterday's severe earthquake in Alaska did little actual i damage. | They were hoping that cable serv- | ice, reported disrupted by the series | of shakes, would be restored enabling them to hear from Alaskan cities direct. The quake was described here as probably the most severe since the Santa Barbara temblor of 1925. By geometric calculations from widely separated seismographs, the survey officials located it in the fairweather mountain range in the central eastern portion of Alaska, within 200 miles of Juneau and Valdez. The disturbance lasted more than two hours. Father Tondorf of Georgetown University, said the quake shook the needle from his seismograph here. Yakutat, a village of several hundred inhabitants, directly the supposed quake area, is the only community likely to have been seriously affected, according to survey chiefs.

Pictures Church Mem ben Playing Poker in Heaven

Evangelist at Richmond Church Also Hits Euchre Players. By Time Special RICHMOND, Hid., Oct. 25. Church members playing poker in Heaven for their crowns was pictured by the Rev. Carl Bassett, evangelist at the First Baptist Church here in the course of a sermon dealing with amusements which he declared “destroy character. Gambling society women were also condemned. “Nine-tenths of all gambling ts done with the euchre deck. From the day the deck of cards was invented to amuse an idiotic king, it has been the chief tool of the gambler. We arrest the newsboys in back alleys for gambling for pennies and we give them a criminal record, but we praise the society women who meet on the boulevard gamble for spoons, dishes and silk hosiery. “The police have a legal right to enter any society home in this city and arrest the members of the select card club and cart the whole crowa off to jail and book them as common gamblers. If they tried that here I expect some pastors in Richmond would have to go down ana bail out a bunch of their church members. “Some church members wouldn’t be in heaven twenty minutes before they would be playing poker for each other’s crowns. If you have a pack of cards and a Bible in your home, burn one of them up. They don’t both belong under the same roof. One is the devil’s bible and the other God’s. “If an angel from heaven were to trot for two weeks with the crowd some of you run with, they’d never let that angel back to heaven till he had been fumigated, disinfected and given a bath in carbolic acid. Whole Town’s “Cuckoo” "Cicero said, ‘No one dances unless he is drunk or crazy.’ If Cicero came into some of these towns he would think the whole town was cuckoo. There are some little skil-let-headed, peanut-brained pastors with their hair parted in the middle to keep their head from tilting to one side, who back up the dance, but such fellows won’t bring more than

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THOMAS PARRY FUNERAL TO BE AT CITY HOME Auto Body Manufacturer Is Dead After Long Business Career. Funeral services for Thomas H. Parry, 70, automobile body manufacturer, will be held at his home, 1618 N. Meridian St., at 2 p. m., Wednesday. Burial will be at Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Parry had been failing in health for a year. His death at 7:30 p. m. Monday followed an attack of heart disease. He was born at Laurel, and after completing his schooling went to Connersville to work. He later moved to Rushville, where he married Miss Kate Mauzy in 1882. Mrs. Parry died about a year ago. Mr. Parry and his brother, D. M. Parry, organized the Parry Manufacturing Company, buggy and wagon builders, fifty years ago, and moved the business to Indianapolis forty-one years ago. Their first plant here was near the present site of the E. C. Atkins & Cos. A second plant was built in West Indianapolis for the manufacture of wheels, and later the entire plant was moved there. S. C. Parry, the youngest brother, entered the business in this city. For about ten years the company met the automobile competition by manufacturing automobile bodies, and two years later sold to an eastern syndicate. The name was changed to the Parry-Martin Corporation. D. M. Parry, who died several years ago, was financial manager. E. R. Parry, another brother, who has been dead several years, entered the business in Indianapolis. Thomas H. Parry acted as general superintendent until the business was sold. Surviving him are a brother, S. C. Parry: a son Abram W. Parry, Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Jennie Griffith, Santo Domingo. Mr. Parry was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Scottish Rite. Murat Temple of the Shrine, Ancient Landmarks Lodge, F. and A. M.. and York Rite.