Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 146, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1927 — Page 9

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STUMP OPENS CAMPAIGN FOR SENATE SEAT Democratic Nomination for Post Held by Robinson Is Sought. FIRST SPEECH TONIGHT Bases Hope for Success on Showing Against Watson Last Year. Basing his hope for success on the showing made last year in the Senate race against Senator James E. Watson, Albert Stump, Indianapolis attorney, today announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat now held by Senator Arthur R. Robinson. His first speech announcing his candidacy will be made tonight at Posey County Courthouse, Mt. Vernon. Friday noon he will address the Evansville Shrine Booster Club. “I am a candidate' for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1928,” Stump declared in making his decision public today. Work for Common Good “While my experience as a candidate" in the last campaign has revealed to me something of what one must be willing to sacrifice for the achievement of an ambition to I serve in a position of public trust, it has also revealed to me how rich j may be the reward of esteem and affection one may receive from the charitable hearts of people everywhere, if he strives to achieve that ambition through efforts unselfishly calculated to result in the common good of all. “I feel how deeply obligated I am already for the encouragement I Mve received from friendly efforts in my behalf. “To merit a continuance of that esteem and affection on the part of those who, gave me such generous proof of it in the last campaign, and to deserve the bestowal of it from other, be an end I mean to keep constantly in mind not only in -connection with every act during the campaign, but in connection with every official act if nominated and elected." Native of Noble County In a record breaking number of speeches,. all couched in phrases similar to this announcement, Stump succeeded in leading the Democratic ticket in his race against the veteran Senator Watson. In the midst of investigation of Republican corruption, he talked only of Jefferson ideals and the like. Yet he carried the majority of the congressional districts and was defeated by only about 11,000 votes, these being piled up largely in Lake County. He is the second Democrat to declare for office on the 1928 ticket. Attorney Frank C. Dailey anounced that he will seek the governorship. Evans Woolen, who opposed Robinson for the short term last year, is being groomed as the Hoosier entry in the presidential race. \ Stump is a native of Noble County and a graduate of Indiana and Chicago Universities. He practiced law at Marion, entered the army during the World War and emerged with the rank of captain. He now is practicing law here, is married and has three children. TWO-DAY HOMECOMING Evansville College Plans Program Friday and Saturday. Bu Times Svecial EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 27. Evansville College will observe its annual homecoming Friday and Saturday, to which students have invited their parents. Induction of freshmen into the Student Government Association will open the program at 10 Friday morning. At 8 Friday night the Thespian Dramatic Society will present two plays. Saturday’s program includes the annual stunt chapel at 9 a. m., Evansville-Hanover College football game at 2 p. m., alumni association diner at 6 p. m. and an all-college Halloween party at 8 o’clock.

SPRINTER NABS BANDIT Pursuit of More Than Mile Result in Burglar’s Capture. I'll United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—When Richard Krogh, 24, Purdue University track star, heard a noise in his home the other night, he grabbed a revolver and started to investigate. A burglar fled through the door and Krogh followed, sprinting hrough streets, alleys, and fields for more than a mile. The athlete finally shot his man as he sought cover in a field. BURY~MRS. BOYD HERE Body of City Woman Being Brought \from Arizona. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary 25 W. Fall Creek Blvd., for Mrs. Gertrude Boyd who died Tuesday in Tucson, Ariz. Mrs. Boyd, who was the wife of William Merlin Boyd, treasurer and general manager of the John A. Boyd Motor Car Company of Indianapolis, had gone to Arizona for her health. The body will arrive here Friday, 2 p. m. Interment will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Boyd is survived by her husband, a son, Jack Boyd, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hyatt of Indianapolis.

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■iROWN and white—and no abbreviations. That’s the fashion edict B governing Indiana’s 1928 auto license plates. Fastidious folk who insist on color harmony in their motors may find cause for concern in the new color scheme, but with two-thirds of a million of them already in the hands of license agencies for issuance Dec. 15, it’s a case of repainting the car if the shades won’t blend. Contrary to the “age of abbreviation,” the new plates no longer will carry the brief inscription: “Ind. ’27,” but under the number will spell out “Indiana— 1928.” Numerals and lettering will be white. The background is brown. C.

Whatever the criticism of its beauty, the new plate cannot be called common. The color combination is not found on any other 1928 plates in the United States. Texas approaches it with white letters on a dark brown background. New Colors in 42 States Forty-two States have a .op\ id new color combinations for 19 ‘8 plates to go on America’s 25,000,0Cj motor vehicles. Twenty-three combinations are to be found in the lot, the American Automobile Association finds. No single color motif can be said to prevail, but it happens two binations tied for first place in popularity, six States selecting a dark blue background with white letter numerals and six selecting green background with white letter numerals. Five States selected white background with black letters, the reverse of Indiana’s present combination, and four chose orange and black. - . Ohio Has White and Blue Indiana’s neighbors will be decked fore and aft in this fashion: Ohio, white on dark blue; Illinois, white on maroon; Michigan and Kentucky, white on green. Alaska flivvers will be gay with new plates in red on canary yellow, and such motor vehicles as are “garaged” in Porto Rico will carry their identification in violet on gray.

BAN CITY GOAL BIDS Duvall Hears of Public’s De- < mand to Quit. L. H. Lewis, Indianapolis Real Estate Board president, today reported to the board at luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce the results of a visit to John L. Duvall, who says he is mayor. Lewis presented the views of the business men on Duvall’s clinging to the Mayor’s chair, it was said. A letter from a large coal industry declaring it did not choose to bid on a city coal contract because of the “good politics” being played in Indiana was said to have prompted the realtors to act. Lewis read the letters to the board. Duvall told it is understood, that he believes himeslf legally mayor and that he intends to stick. Weds Fifth Husband at 75 Bu United Press BROCKTON. Mass., Oct. 26. Having survived four husbands* Mrs. Isabelle Alden Kennedy Farrar Cushing, 75, will wed for the fifth time. James W. Magari, 76, will be husband No. 5.

‘BIG BILL’ THOMPSON’S FEUD WITH BRITISH DATES BACK TO COLONIAL DAYS

BY EARL SPARLING iHICAGO, Oct. 27.—“ Big Bill C Thompson’s war with England began about 1750. “An ancestor of mine was a S ember of the New Hampshire gislative assembly,” the mayor explained today. “His name was Ebenezer Thompson. I’ve always been glad they named me Bill.” “The king used to appoint the Governor in New Hampshire, you see, and Ebenezer and some of the others had the independence to stand up for the colonies. They seized some of the king’s ammunition, deciding it was better for the

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EXTRADITION OF SLAYERSURGED Chicago Assed to Help Send Haag Killers Here. Aid from Robert E. Crowe, State’s attorney at Chicago, was sought today by Chief Deputy Prosecutor Judson L. Stark, in an effort to bring Lawrence Ghere and Arthur McClelland, confessed murderers of Wilkinson Haag, local druggist, killed last May, to trial in Marion County. / Stark wrote Crowe a letter in which he set out that this county was “making diligent efforts” to have the men brought here. “Marion County wants them as soon as possible,” Stark’s letter said. “We have heard rumors that we never would be able to bring the men to trial under present conditions. We don’t believe they should be permitted freedom on bond any longer than necessary.” They now are at liberty under SIO,OOO bond pending their trial in Chicago for complicity in an alleged jewelry robbery. On Sept. 28 Stark sought the aid of Governor Len Small of Illinois for the extradition of the men. This was held in s.beythem by Governor Small’s orders, ance until Crowe was through with

HEAR EXPERT ON WASTE Ex-Vice Chairman of Hoover Committee to Speak to Foremen. The Foremen’s Club of Indianapolis will observe “Management Week” with a dinner and meeting tonight at Arsenal Technical High School. Executive Secretary Lawrence W. Wallace, of the American Engineering Council, Washington, D. C., will speak. He was former vice chairman of the Hoover committee on waste. BEATS WIFE WIIIT LEG Discovers It’s Wooden, and Sues for Divorce. Bn United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—Ifc was not until after several months of married life that Mrs. Clarence Johnson discovered that her spouse had a wooden leg. The discovery came rather abruptly, she testified in divorce proceedings, when he became ungry and removed the leg to give her a beating.

colonist to have it. In those days they had to pay the king $250 in gold for the right to get married, which was very irritating.” “Josiah Bartlett, who signed the Declaration of Independence, was a sort of second cousin of mine,” continued “Big Bill.” “A direct member of the Thompson family would have signed, if he hadn’t been delirious, or something like that. Three generations of the Thompson family sailed clipper ships out of Portsmouth and my father was a lieutenant commander in the North Atlantic squadron during t*e Civil War.”

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COOUDGE TO REFUSE PLEA OF MAGRUDER Wilbur Says ‘Nothing Will Be Done at Present’ on Seaman’s Appeal. SECRETARY IS WRATHY Takes Admiral’s Outburst on Waste of Money as Personal Matter. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—Rear Admiral Magruder appeared today to have lost his appeal to continue as head of the Philadelphia Navyyard. His letter, asking President Coolidge to retain him in the post after Secretry of War Wilbur had ordered him detached from it, was delivered to the chief executive this forenoon by Wilbur in person. Wilbur, emerging from his visit to the President, announced nothing would be done about the letter "for ’he present.” y Magruder Within Rights The appeal, though it startled by its unexpectedness, need not influence Wilbur’s attitude toward the fiery admiral, for ‘ the latter was fully within his rights in making it. Naval officials, however speculated afresh on what maw happen to Magruder, interpreting Wilbur’s Wednesday statement as forecasting something still "coming” to the latest dissenter in the Government’s military establishment. The general tenor of Wilbur’s remarks and his veiled statement that he would say nothing at this time about the subsequent stages of the controversy led naval officers to predict the conference between the two later might result significantly. Charges Waste of Money Apparently the aftermath in the case has become most important. This consists of Magruder’s answers to Wilbur’s questionnaire as to alleged errors in the magazine article and interviews the admiral gave to the press. The correspondence made public by the Navy Department reveals that Magruder was blunt in some of Ins replies and that he stands upon the spirit of his interview, charging that far too much money was spent by the Navy Department for results achieved. The Navy secretary was caustic in his statement, and some read sarcasm in his comment that he “now is more interested in ascertaining whether the Navy can benefit by Admiral Magruder’s knowledge or experience in regard to naval organiation and naval economy.” Wilbur appeared to take Magruder’s attacks personally, saying that he had attempted in his three years to effect economies in the Navy Department. Mitchell Raps Coolidge Bu United Press MILWAUKEE, Oct. 27.—William C. Mitchell, who was deposed from his office in the army because he ’talked out of turn” about condition of army aviation, has broken loose with another fusillade, this time against the President. “President Coolidge is the worst public official in office,” Mitchell said, in a speech here. “He has made an industry of office holding and is trying to rule the country—not govern it.” Mitchell was strong in support of Admiral Thomas C. Magruder, relieved of his command in Philadelphia Tuesday. Mitchell, like Magruder, believes that “the Navy is over-officered.”

250 HOOSIERS WILL MAKE HARVARD TRIP Special Train to Leave Bloomington at 12:30 Today. More than 250 persons will start to Cambridge, Mass., today for the Indiana-Harvard football game Saturday, according to T. B. Sampson, traveling passenger agent for the Big Four, who will accompany the delegation. - The special train of ten cars will leave Bloomington at 12:30 p. m. with the ninety-piece university band, the football team and students. Frank Elliott, university publicity director; George Heighway, alumni secretary, and Fred E. Bryan; Chicago, will make the trip from Bloomington. The train will leave Indiana. iolis at 2:05 p. m. and will arrive .-* Boston at 1 p. m. Friday. On threturn trip it will leave Boston at 8 p. m. Saturday and will reach Indianapolis early Monday.

aP all of that doesn’t give an ex-cowhand a right to speak his mind concerning the bally British what does, the mayor would like to know. Os course, this attack on alleged pro-British text-books is old stuff. "Big Bill” admits that. Trie racket wa§ started by William Randolph Hearst, the newspaperman, as far back as 1920. “But,” as {he mayor explained, “the newspapers in general didn’t start paying attention until William Hale Thompson got busy on the matter.” And the mayor added, chewing his cigar, “I’m a

Sculptor of Many Roosevelt Pieces Bows With Nation on His Birthday

. , Vernon, New York, to be placed BY HAMPTON SMITH, JR. §|K&.. the City Hall Plaza. The sculptu sea service Writer jlijpag shows Roosevelt in a moment NEW YORK, Oct. 27— Today’s jiffs’ & ; thought just before delivering i e anniversary of Theodore Roose- ~ extemporaneous speech. It’s birth and to no one in the > The other model is for an here ,tion does it mean more than to f. figure to be erected, in Chicago, ncenzo Miserendino. 1,1*38 *__ .. , 7_ .

Some of Vincenzo Miserendino’s images of Theodore Roosevelt are pictured here. At the right is a new figure to be cast in heroic size for Chicago. Miserendino is shown in the extreme upper left corner with one cf his Roosevelt busts.

Italian Spent Life Learning Characteristics of President. BY HAMPTON SMITH, JR. NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Today’s the anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s birth and to no one in the nation does it mean more than to Vincenzo Miserendino. Young and impressionable but resolved to chisel hirnself a niche in America’s Hall of Fame was Miserendino, immigrant Italian sculptor, when he arrived in New York from the land of his birth. He cast a critical eye over possible subject matter for his artistry, and decided at once to hitch his wagon to a star. The star w r as Theodore Roosevelt, then in command of the Rough Riders. Back From Cuba When “Teddy” returned in triiumph from Cuba the young sculptor was one of the huzzahing thousands who acclaimed him. Miserendino felt an artist’s exaltation. “I knew,” he related, “I had found a subject that would ever challenge my skill. I knew, too, that for this man my admiration and my love never would wane.” He has been doing sculptures of Roosevelt ever since. 7 One image after another of the man who captured his imagination has been fashioned by the artist. Every time he completes anew one, he feels he has come a little closer to his final goal. That goal is to create a statue of Roosevelt that will be as perfect in sculptural attainment as the Venus de Milo or the Winged Victory —one that protrays to the fullest all the Roosevelt fineness of character, personality, courage, and vital force. And Only Then! If it ever is achieved, Miserendino will consider his work finished. Through the years his love for Roosevelt has been as a whip and spur, ever urging his to loftier heights. “For Roosevelt,” said Miserendino, “I have now and have always had a spiritual love —a passion that is all-consuming. They call him dead, but for me he lives on and on.” , It is a strange circumstance of this indealistic friendship that Miserendino never sought to shake Roosevelt’s hand or talk to him. Never Asked a Pose “To see him from afar and to hear him was sufficient,” explained the sculptor, simply. “I never felt I could ask him to pose for me. I did not want to monopolize his time even for an instant. It was too valuable.” During Roosevelt’s life, Miserendino lost no opportunity to see him in action. He studied his facial expressions under divers circumstances. On one occasion when the Colonel delivered an address in Madison square Garden, the sculptor, who was within a few feet of the orator, studied him so intently that he was questioned by secret service officers. N Models for two new Roosevelt figures have just been completed by Miserendino as the country pre-

guy that’ll squeak right out. I’ve been attacked, lied about and ridiculed. may not be smart, tft I’m srnirt enough to follow in the steps of the guys that made success. I take my Americanism right from Washington and the other twenty-five Presidents.” “Big Bill” Thompson has a trick of answering a question in such a roundabout way that the question is forgotten before the answer is finished. He admits it. But you can’t help liking this big blusterer, who wears his shirts chopped off at the elbow so he “never .

pares to pay homage to the former president today, the date of his birth. One is for the City of Mount

DECISION HITS MYERS’JOPES Democrat May Be Barred in Mayor Effort. Walter Myers, defeated Democratic candidate for mayor in 1925, has no legal right to claim the ,pffice which Jdhn L. Duvall is holding, despite his conviction in Criminal Court for violation of the corrupt practices act, according to Indianapolis attorneys. Myers is considering filing an interviewing petition to the quo warfanto suit in Criminal Court brought by Former City Controller Joseph L. Hogue,*who also seeks the office. Some attorneys declare that a 1926 decision of the Indiana Supreme Court lessens the chance of Myers taking over the office. The ruling was that "if thfe candidate was ineligible and his ineligibility was not known to the public at the time of the election, this alone would not make the candidate with the next nearest number of votes eligible to the office.” When the mandamus suit seeking to force City Treasurer Edward A. Ramsay pay the city expenses and pay roll is brought, the court will be given an opportunity to clear up two angles of the muddle. The Hogue suit will name the successor while the mandate litigation will decide whether-or not Duvall and his wife, city controller, are legally in office. Both cases, however, probably will be appealed to higher courts.

VOIDS REALTY LICENSES State May Appeal Decision of Porter Judge. State’s action regarding the ruling of Judge Harry Crumpacker of Porter Superior Court, abolishing non-resident real estate licensing, will be decided at a conference of State Auditor L. S. Bowman with Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom soon. In a suit for real estate commission, brought by a Chicago firm, Judge Crumpacker ruled that a nonresident, license is not necessary. They are issued by Bowman at a ‘slo fee. The case may be appealed by the State.

have to roll up his sleeves,” who takes off his ten-gallon hat to Count Von Luckner, German sea raider during the World War, because the latter can “crush a dime between his fingers,” and who buddies with Sir Thomas Lipton, Decause Sir Thomas “is a real heman and a sport.” • • • f ITI TG BILL may be a bit mixed IK I in his private war with L=U King George 111 or V. He, for example, invited Henry L. Mencken to testify in the Chicago text-ftook trial, just because Mencken had published in his

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Vernon, New York, to be placed in the City Hall Plaza. The sculpture shows Roosevelt in a moment of thought just before delivering an extemporaneous speech. The other model is for an heroic figure to be erected, in Chicago.' It shows the former President in the midst of a heated debate, expounding his theories. The sculpture is especially .nteresting for \he vitality and action it portrays.

Do You Know — the Meaning of True Love? DIANA Has the'Answer

STICKER TO VISITORS Lions’ Plan Would Provide Courtesy to Motorists. North Side Lions Club is considering a courtesy sticker for visiting motorists, according to Claude C. McCoy, president. Club members propose to print a sticker to be distributed to visiting tourists, subject to the approval of the safety board. It is planned that the sticker bear a picture of the Statehouse, Monument and names of leading industries. Distribution through the Chamber of Commerce is considered.

MOURNER PAYS FINE Brother of Slain Indianapolis Woman Arrested at Cemetery. By Times Special THORNTOWN, Ind., Oct. 07. —M. T. Parker, St. Loui3, Mo., paid a fine here just after the funeral o. his sister, Mrs. Lisle Jenkins, slain at Indianapolis last Friday by her husband, Claude E. Jenkins, who killed himself. Officers arrested Parker as he left an Indianapolis cemetery following burial of his and he was brought here'and paid $29.75, which was assessed against him some time ago on a game law violation. Parker gave a check for the fine when it was imposed, but before it was cashed went to St. Louis, where he stopped payment.

American Mercury an article attacking Pro-British influence in America, overlooking entirely that Mencken, in the same issue, had printed an article stating that America’s alleged victory over England in the War of 1812 was all a myth. “I’m taking fifty delegates to the next Republican convention a;jd if the Republican party does adopt an American First platform, it’s because Bill Thompson has lost his punch, which ain’t happened yet,’ ’he concludes.

BAR SINCLAIR SENATE STORY AS EVIDENCE Judge Holds Testimony to Committee Can’t Be Used in Trial. TRACE TRAIL OF BONDS Fall’s Son-in-Law Waits to Go on Stand to Give Light on Oil Deal. Bu United Prcsn WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Harry Sinclair’s Senate Oil Committee testimony that “I went to Three Rivers to see Fall < then secretary of the interior), about leasing Teapot Dome,” Jan. 1, 1922, was barred as testimony against him in the Fall-Sinclair oil conspiracy trial here today. Justice Siddons made the decision, which is expected to govern a dozen other quotations from statements made by the oil magnate and former Secretary Albert B. Fall to tha Senate Committee, which the Government prosecutors have planned to introduce. • Defense lawyers asserted Sinclair was given immunity from having his Senate testimony used against him, by a special statute app’ying to witnesses who later were tried on criminal charges. Testified Under Summons Prosecutor Owen Roberts held th law was not a “blanket immunity” and that Sinclair, in order to ba protected, must have asserts bis claim to immunity at the time he testifier. The Government won in the FallDoheny conspiracy trial a year ago on a similar point, but E. L. Doha's statement to the Senate committee was a voluntary one, not made under committee summons as Sinclair’s was. The decision came after a week and half of the trial of Fall and Sinclair on charges of conspiring to defraud the Government through Fall s lease of the Teapot naval reserve to Sinclair April 7, 1922. Everhart to Be Quizzed While <he justice read h.s decision, M. W. Everhart Fall’s ranch foreman and son-in-law, appeared in court r- ady to be summoned by the Government as a witness. The Government hoped—if he dicT not claim immunity—to gather from him important details of the $230,500 in Liberty bonds which it claims were indirectly given Fall from an oil deal to influence him in leasing Teapot Dome to Sinclair. Justice Siddons said Sinclair, in his appearance before the Senate Teapot Dome committee, was sworn as a witness. He emphasized the constitutional and statutory immunities of congressional witnesses in his forty-flve-minute decision. The justice recalled that oil committee evidence of E. L. Doheny, admitted against that oil magnate in the Fall-Doheny trial a year ago, was given voluntarily, and not under the committee. This placed his testimony on a different footing from Sinclair's. Blow to Prosecutor Siddons held it was not necessary for a cojjgjessional witness to make his immunity claim at the time he testified, to protect himself against any prosecution as a result of the testimony. The judge’s ruling generally was considered a blow for the prosecution, though Government attorneys previously had suggested they could establish their desired points without aid of the Senate committee testimony. Siddons did, however, admit one piece of Sinclair Senate testimony, given voluntarily and not under oath on Oct. 29. The facts attested ‘to by Sinclair on that occasion wer t relatively unimportant and mer£lj led up to the more important bub barred testimony of the Dec. 4 session of the Teapot Dome committee. The Oct. 29 testimony above referred to was concerned largely with the question of claims to Teapot Dome area, for which Sinclair then testified he had agreed to pay $1,000,000. Incidentally that day’s testimony revealed him as campaign contributor to both the Republican and Democratic parties. Sinclair was also quoted as estimating around $100,000,000 as the value of Teapot Dome. '

FIGHT VINEGAR ’KICK Cider Product Violates Law, Government Takes it Up. ' YAKIMA, Wash., Oct. 27.—Last year, according to government test, th eapple cider vinegar made around here contained 7 per cent alcohol instead of the one-half of 1 per cent allowed by law. This year government chemists have been invited to help solve the problem of de-kicking the cider. They think it sen be distilled and are working on a method. KNOCKED OUT IN FIGHT Neighbor Arrested After Blow Results in Concussion. Following a neighborhood quarrel Wednesday night in which police said Michael Brennan, 1034 S. Pershing Ave., was seriously injured when knocked to the pavement by Hiram Avery, 1140 3. Pershing Ave., Avery was charged with assault and battery with Intent to kill. Ejtfman was knocked uncor scious concussion of thejratn.