Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1927 — Page 3

OCT. 28, 1927

PARENTS CABLE RUTH ELDER, VET PARIS CONTRACTS

FLORIDA PEACH WELCOMED BY CHEERIN6CROWD Told by Backers That She May Stay for Week in French Capital. ‘MAKE-UP’ !S PERFECT Beauty Lands at Air Field i With Lips Red and Her Eyes Shining. ANNISTON, Ala., Oct. 28.—Parents of Ruth Elder, American aviatrix. now in Paris, cabled their daughter today to “accept all Paris > contracts.” J. O. Elder, the girl flier’s father, sent the cable after he learned, he said, that T. H. McArdle, Lakeland, Fla., a backer of the trans-Atlantic flight, had ordered her home. ' “Disregard McArdle,” Elder’s cable read. “It has been advised to your interest to accept all Paris i contracts.” The cablegram was signed “Daddy.” Miss Elder’s parents expressed the hope their daughter would remain in Europe “long enough to see the country.” Fliers Reach Paris PAMS, Oct. 28.—Miss Ruth Elder and (jeorge Haldeman, her co-pilot in their trans-Atlantic flight attempt, landed at Le Bourget airdrome at 4:46 p. m. Miss Elder and Haldeman left their express train from Madrid, at Hendaye, on the French-Spanish frontier. American Consul MacWilat Biarritz, met them and took them by automobile to Parme airdrome, in ’the village of Anglet, where they boarded an airplane for Paris. Adrienne Bolland, celebrated" French airwoman, in another plane, escorted them a few miles toward Paris. As Miss Elder stepped out of the plane at Le Bourget, she was handed a telegram from her backers telling her she could remain a week in Paris. “Oh, boy! That means Mcr*martre,” she said, and threw her j arms around Haldeman. “I hope the receptions can be cut short,” she added. “I need sleep.” Because of the rapidity of their flight before a strong following wind, , only a small crowd was present to greet the fliers. They cheered wildly, and French aviators at the field stormed the arriving airplane and took Miss Elder on their shoulders to the headquarters building. Miss Elder’s lips were red, and her ' lashes were black, as if she had had j time before her landing to indulge j in/lipstick and eyebrow pencil prac- j rice. She was wearing the same clothes as when she started from New York, plus fours, red and green mixture pullover sweater—even the same stockings, also the skipper’s cap she borrowed at sea. Honored by Spain Bu United Press MADRID, Oct. 28.—General Primo de Rivera, head of the Spanish government, today ordered the ministry of war to prepare a decree awarding Miss Ruth Elder and George Haldeman the ai£ medal created to honor those who make extraordinary flights.

MINE BRIDGE BLASTED Pennsylvania Structure Damaged; Follows Labor Trouble. Bu United Press PARASSUS, Pa., Oct. 28.—Traffic into the Valley Camp Coal Company near here was suspended today when a dynamite bomb explosion damaged a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge leading to the mines. Only the crude manner in which the bomb was set prevented the destruction of the bridge, railroad engineers said. The blast jarred* houses in the community. Considerable mine trouble has occurred in the Valley Camp section since the soft coal suspension began April 1. Non-union men are employed by the Valley Camp Company. x REFORMER IS MISSING Search Started for Pittsburgh Man and Wife. Bu United Press PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28.—The whereabouts of William L. King, reformer, and his wife, Rachel Carr King, remained a mystery today as the search for them proceeded. No trace has been found of King since he checked out of a hotel in San Francisco Tuesday and his wife left no train after checking out of a Reno (Nev.) hotel Saturday. Directors of the Citizens’ League, of which King was the head, expressed confidence today that King would reappear soon. PASTOR’S WIFE IS LOST Home Town Delegation Seeking Woman in Washington. r.V United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—With every clew so far fruitless, Canandigua, N. Y., citizens still continued today their hunt here for Mrs. Dascomb Forbush, wife of their home town pastor, who has been missing nin edays. A woman who boarded a train here eight days ago, bound toward Akron, wa established as not Mrs. Forbush. 'A ring she sold to the' conductor proved different from that worn by the minister’s wife.

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Open House Held by ‘Twin Mayors’

REED of the tension which Fhas marked the last few fc ___ weeks of John L. Duvall’s administration as mayor, city hall folks “let go” today and had a refusing good time with their “twin mayors,” Ira M. Holmes and Claude E. Negley. The two for some time this morning sat side by side in the mayor’s office receiving congratulations and j exchanging friendly banter. The double open house continued] with much laughter and good spirits. Negley made a statement to the [ crowd, which included a number of ] city employes, urging all to forget] factionalism, forget the past and work to return the city to a busi-ness-like basis. Holmes walked out to the outer office and Negley called after him: “Are you going, Ira?” “No, I just thought I’d let you be mayor for a little bit,” said Holmes, j He greeted some city employes in the outer office and returned. The phone rang and Negley answered. It was a call for Holmes. “Paging Mr. Holmes,” Negley called out. “It’s not everybody can have a mayor for a page,” said the other "mayor.” Official business was nearly at a standstill. All corridors —-were crowded. City employes paraded about, wondering whether or not they would have jobs tomorrow. The crowd thinned out somewhat when Holmes announced he would not try to hold on to the mayorship by force. Many evidently had hoped to witness an actual battle royal, with the two “mayors” of the city of Indianapolis as the physical contenders. Many contractors loafed about, wondering from which of the two administrations they should look for city patronage. * * * Someone asked the “twin mayors as they sat side beside in the mayor’s office: ( “Which one of you is going to ride in the mayor’s Stutz?” “What?” ejaculated Negley. “I didn’t know a Stutz went with this job.” “If I continue as mayor,” said Holmes, “that Stutz will go back to the police department as an emergency car, where it belongs. I don’t want anything spectacular. The busses are good enough for me. The head of.no other corporation is furnished with a fine automobile.” Arthur Reeves,” who was chauffeur for John L. Duvall, reported the car locked up and declared he had an opinion from an attorney not to turn the car over to Holmes, Negley or Duvall. * * • Claude M. Worley, police chief, who sits pretty with “Mayor” Negley but apparently is not so sure of how the land lays with “Mayor” Holmes, joined the throng offering congratulation to the duo. He walked in, shook hands with both and smilingly remarked: “Hi, mayors.” * * * Virgil Vandagrifft, former board

cf works president, shook hands jvith Holmes and Negley and remarked : “I’ve heard of the Gold Dust twins and the Twin Cities, but this is the first time I’ve met twin mayoors.” ** • . , So cordial was the relations of the “mayors” that Holmes remarked to a group which came to congratulate them: “Say, there’s more harmony around here this morning than there has been in the last six administrations.” * • The*Negley board of works met this morning at the regular board meeting time, blit adjourned until Monday, to avoid legal entanglements. Oscar Smith, named board president by Mayor Pro Tem. Claude E. Negley, presided. John Friday and Charles L. Riddle, holdover board members from Mayor Duvall, attended. The rival board of works members named by “Mayor” Ira Holmes did not attend and made no effort to assume their posts. ★ * * Negley and Holmes showed each other the utmost courtesy. The fact that they are brothers, lodge brothers, may have been one reason. Both are Masons. Both are Odd Fellows. •But Holmes neglected to tell reporters he was an I. O. O. F. member when he was listing his various lodge and club affiliations. So Negley failed to list the I. O. O. F. as one of the organizations to which he belongs. Questioned if he was not a member he explained why he had failed to mention the fact previously, and asked • ttiat Holmes also be listed as an Oda Fellow. * * * For a time this morning Negley sat quietly in the mayor’s chair with the keys to the city hall displayed prominently on a large wire ring. He said in a quiet voice, “Yes, I’m the mayor.” Holmes, on the other hand, was rushing hither and yon about the city hall shaking hands and slapping backs with old friends while shouting, “Sure. I’m the mayor.” Over the phone Holmes said, “You bet I’m the mayor. Salary? I don’t know who’ll get it, but. if any one does I will because I’m the mayor.” • • * Negley refused Holmes’ invitation to lunch today. Holmes gave the invitation early in the morning, but Negley rpther dodged an answer. Negley was just coming back into the building from a trip to answer a personal telegram when he met Holmes leaving for lunch. 0 “It would have been nice if you had lunched with me,” said Holmes. “Yes, it would have been kind of nice, some other time, not today,” said Negley. The two most popular songs at city hall today were: “Side by Side,” and “Just Another Day Wasted Away.”

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Above: Mrs. John L. Duvall, out as city controller, and her two children, John Leslie and Margaret Roberta. Below: Ex-Mayor Duvall.

REIDS DEATH PLOnWED Depositions Taken by Lawyers in St. Louis. Bu United Press ST. LOUIS, Oct. 28—Attorneys for George Remus, under indictment for'slaying his wife, Imogene ,at Cincinnati, Oct. 6, arrived here today to take depositions in preparation for the former millionaire bootlegger’s trial for murder. According to Charles R. Elston, attorney for Remus, depositions will be sought here regarding an alleged plot to hire gunmen here to go to Indianapolis and kill Remus while he was a Government witness in the Jack Daniel liquor conspiracy trial. Witnesses to be called included Vance Higgs, St. Louis attorney; John T. Rogers, staff member of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the manager of the Statler and Mayfair Hotels. Fred Essen, St. Louis politician, agreed to appear fit the trial in Ohio and was not asked to make a deposition. Higgs and Rogers were asked to testify to the alleged plot to murder Remus. CHARGES WIFE LOSES AT BRIDGE, STEALS GEMS Banker Has Wife Arrested on Way to Visit Relatives. Bjt United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—Bridge losses we re blamed today by Joseph Stein, realtor dealer and banker, for a marital mixup which led his wife, Mrs. Annette Stein, 30 to jail. Mrs. Stein was arrested last night aboard a train about to leave for the East. She said she was going to visit relatives in Buffalo, her former home. Stein, accompanied by a policeman an attorney, found her on the train. Stein signed a warrant charging his wife with stealing $2,500 in diamonds from him tQjpay bridge losses. He said $25,000 in securities also were missing.

NEGLEY RUSHES TO TAKE OATH AS CITY CHIEF Council Goes .Through Hot Session Before Ousting John L. Duvall. Claaude E. Negley wasted no time qualifying himself to act as mayor after his unanimous election pro tern, by city council late Thursday. He went immediately to the city clerk’s office and received the oath from Miss Margaret Inman. After being sworn, he left the clerk’s office for the Marion County Court house to confer with several political advisors on further steps in the city’s pv ‘itical upheaval. All council members except Austin H. Todd, who left following a twohour caucus, and Edward B. Raub, Democrat, out of the city on business voted for Negley to serve the ten-day period. Will Elect Nov. 8 A council resolution introduced by Boynton J. Moore, naming Negley to the city’s highest post, also set Nov. 8 as the date when the council will elect a permanent mayor to succeed Duvall. The permanent mayor may be either a council member or a citizen. After quibbling for more than two j hours on who they should name to • succeed Duvall, the council finally decided on Negley. Negley had favj ored Duvall on two occasions when | impeachment proceedings were be- ! gun. Robert E. Springsteen, Democrat, was reported as the majority choice in caucus, but he declined because of his health. * Otis E. Bartholomew, south side councilman, and Boynton J. Moore, majority leader, also were suggested, it was said. “In fact nearly everyone was suggested by someone,” said one j councilman. j County Attorney Clinton H. Givj an, friendly to the Otis Dodson i Republican faction, was called into I frequent conference by councilmen in caucus. Givan had advised councilmen who engineered the ouster move and had been in conference during the day with Dodson leaders. George S. Elliott, former Klan Cyclops, was reported to have entered the private council chami bers during the conference, j Majority of spectators in the | council chamber grew tired and left i before the council convened. A number of administration members and i politicians remained to learn the i outcome. Duvall closeted himself in his private office after a short conference with close friends at noon and awaited developments. He said he expected “to continu running city business as if nothing had happened.” Thinks He’s Still Mayor “My attorneys advise me that there can be only one mayor at a time and, that I am it,” he said. Duvall remained in his office until late afternoon and went to his home. When he learned that a dejail of seven police, headed by Sergt. Curtis Barge, was on duty in the council chamber he called Barge to his office and ordered the officers away. After short conference with Duvall, Ira M. Holmes, attorney, who it was reported was to succeed Duvall via appointment as city controller, went to the council chamber. He denied the report that he was to become controller and later mayor. “I am here as a citizen and as attorney for Duvall. Duvall will siot turn over the office, no matter what the council does. We expect to continu issuing pay warrants as fast as we can and the responsibility for collecting the money will fall on city employes,” Holmes said. Call Is Read After seven councilmen filed from the private room, Negley ordered Miss Inman to rfead the call for the special meeting. O. Ray Albertson, recently before the county grand jury in the council quiz and considered friendly to Duvall, questioned the legality of the call. Negley read a statement declaring that since competent attorneys believed Duvall removed automatically from office after he was convicted Sept. 22 by a Criminal Court jury on charges of . violating the corrupt practices act, it was the duty of the council to name his successor. Negley cifed section 1,276 of Burns statute 1926, which empowers the council to name a mayoc in event the office is vacant. Mrs. Maude E. Duval!, the mayor’s wife, was declared ineligible to hold office, since she was appointed by her husband after he was out of office. Negley cited the chaos of city affairs and declared he believed it the council’s duty to\ the citizens to straighten out the muddle. Albertson sought legal advice on whether the contemplated move was according to statute and argued

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While two “mayors” were on the job at city hall today, two * city controllers” sat side by side. Here they are: Wayne Emmelman (left) and Frank Cones.

Monument to First Man Shows Today Is Birthday Bn United Press BALTIMORE, Oct. 28.—Adam had another birthday today. If he were living he would be 5,831 years old. For he was bom, according to the late John P. Brady, Oct. 28, 4004 D. C., in the Garden of Eden. Mr. Brady made the computation in connection with the erection of a monument to the first man’s memory. The monument, believed to be the first and only shaft in America dedicated to the Eden gardener, stands on the Brady estate at Bowley’s Lane and Philadelphia Rd. It was unveiled in 1909, on Adam’s five thousand .nine hundred and thirteenth birthday. Chisled in a square niche of the monument are the words: “To the memory of Adam, the first man.” Brady always maintained that Adam hadn’t been given a square deal that he was always represented as being driven from the Garden of Eden by an angel with a flaming sword or in some other unfavorable light. He emphasized that his monument was erected as a memorial to the first man and not to the first sinner.

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with Givan over the similarity of a United States supreme Court ruling in a New York case. Givan told Albertson the ouster move was entirely in accordance with the Indiana statutes. The Albertson-Givan, tilt was ended by Springsteen, who called for reading of the resolution. “I’m getting tired. That question has nothing to do with this case,” said Springsteen. “Well, this is no kids’ play. There is more than one thing to consider. I want tp be right before I vote, because Duvall has an appeal from the council’s action," Albertson said. Thinks It’s Time to Act When Bartholomew moved for suspension of rules, R. Walter Dorsett pointed out suspension of rules was not necessary to pass a resolution and then only five votes were needed. “With all due respect to Mr. Duvall, and I am 'not the author of this resolution. I think the time is at hand when we should act on this tangle. All our city funds are tied up. What are we going to do?” asked Bartholomew. "Peisonally, I think this is the time to act in good faith and do something for the people of Indianapolis," he said. Albertson again delayed the vote by asking additional legal advice on whether Duvall was ousted automatically when convicted. Out When Verdict Was Read Givan told him attorneys generally agreed he was removed after the judgment was pronounced and that some attorneys held he was ousted when the jury read the verdict in open court. “Duvall was disqualified when the sentence was pronounced and will remain so until a higher court reverses the decision,” Givan said, citing a Supreme court opinion that a public official is disqualified when the verdict is read. All seven councilmen voted “Aye” on the resolution. Deputy Prosecutor John L. Niblack and Grand Jury Deputy William H. ShaefTer attended. Announcement that Negley had called the special meeting and planned to adopt the resolution declaring the controller’s and mayor’s posts vacant threw the city hall in turmoil. Duvall had not been at his office in the morning. Duvall seemed the least disturbed of city officials when he heard the announcement. Bond Offerings Set New Record NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Offerings of new bonds in October have already established anew monthly record for peace time financing. More than $740,000,000 of new inter-est-bearing securities have been offered this month and the figure will be raised by Friday’s offering. The previous record month was last April with a total of $697,972,500 in new offerings.

White County Grand Jury to Act at Monticello. Bu Times Svccial MONTICELLO, Ind., Oct. 28. Investigation by the White .county grand pury of the death of Ray Howard, eleven-months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Howard, Burnettsville, is promised by Prosecutor John A. Rothrock, following reports that death followed a treatment lor “down growth.” The treatment said to have been the child follows: Measure from the base of the brain to the heel with a string. Uusing the same srting, measure the bottom of the foot and fold the string seven times. If the string comes out uneven, the child is suffering from “down growth.” A physician called to the Howard home diagonsed the child’s illness as whoopin gcough and mucus colitis and ordered that the patient be kept indoors. Despite this order, officials assert, the child was taken to the home of a woman in a nearby town and given the “down growth” treatment. The doctor was not present at the time of death and refused to sign a death certificate. Data given by Coroner L. E. Miller to Prosecutor Rothrock caused the latter to take steps for grand jury action. Inn Padlocked Bu United Press CANNELTON, Ind., Oct. 28.--Wonderland Inn, near Cannelton, was under padlock today and twenty-nine alleged prohibition law violators were free under $2,500 bond each, following the end of liquor raids in Perry County by Federal prohibition agents.

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SET NOV. 8 TO SELECT MAYOR TO END TERM Council's Resolution Says Duvall Disqualified by Verdict. City council resolution which declared the mayor’s office vacant and named Claude Negley, council president, as mayor prot tern, to serve until the council shall elect a successor Nov. 8, to serve Duvall’s unexpired term, took this form as adopted Thursday afternoon: “Whereas, John L. Duvall on the 22d day of September, 1927, who was at that time the acting de facto mayor of Indianapolis, was found guilty by a jury of accepting money and making promises prior to his election, and of appointments and acts which he would perform after his election; that he was found guilty of making such promises and receiving such money in return for support of William H. Armitage and other persons, to assist him in being elected mayor of the city of Indianapolis; and Duvall Disqualified “Whereas, Upon the finding of such Jury, John L. Duvall was ipso facto disqualified to hold the offlea of mayor of the city of Indianapolis, whereby a vacancy was thereby created in the office of mayor; and “Whereas. Claude Johnson, who had been the duly appointed and acting de facto controller of tile city of Indianapolis, resigned his office on the 23d day of September, 1927; and “Whereas, Said Claude Johnson had never qualified as the mayor of the city of Indianapolis before he resigned; and “Whereas, Said John L. Duvall was wholly incompetent to appoint any controller or other city officer after the return of the verdict of the Jury into open court; now, therefore, be it Election on Nov. 8 “Resolved, That Claude Negley Is hereby duly elected, chosen and appointed by the common council of the city of Indianapolis to act as mayor pro tempore (he being a member of the comAion council of the city of Indianapolis), to act and perform the duties of mayor until such a time as the common council of the city of Indianapolis can choose a permanent mayor to fill the vacancy now existing; and it is hereby “Resolved, That said city council shall meet on the Bth day of November, 1927, at 2 o’clock p. m., at which time the common council of the city of Indianapolis shall select, elect, appoint and choose a citizen of the city of Indianapolis to serve the unexpired term of John L. Du- t vail.”

ABANDON CELEBRATION G. O. P. Mardi Gras Called Off Because of Death. First Ward Republican Club Mardi Gras celebration at Compton Hall. 2001 Winter Ave., Saturday night, has been canceled because of a death. The business meeting will be held tonight as scheduled at the hall. Johnson Trial Deferred Bu United Press COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Oct. 28. —The prohibition law case against Jack Johnson, former world's heavyweight boxing champion, has been continued until the November term of court, it was announced today. Johnson will continue his barnstorming tour, which was interrupted by his arrest on a four-year-old charge.