Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1927 — Page 3

OCT. 31, 1927.

22 ARE HURT IN WEEK-END AUTOCRASHES Four Injured When Cars Collide, Smashing One Into Telephone Pole. Four persons were Injured when the autos of Chester A. Gates, 36, of 6401 Broadway, and Joseph Boyer, 45, of 1308 W. Thirtieth St., collided at Thirtieth St., near Kessler Blvd. Sunday night. Twenty-two persons were injured here during the week-end. Gates, his wife, Mrs. Edith M. Gates, 34, and their two children, Joseph, 6, and Gene, 2, suffered severe cuts and bruses. The Gates auto smashed into a telephone pole, ran over an embankment and overturned, pinning the occupants beneath it. Boyer was arrested on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor and assault and battery. Grotto Victim’s Father Hurt Samuel Wolford, 57, of 119 S. Pine St., father of Harold J. Wolford, who was killed in the Sahara Grotto crash Oct. 14, is in a serious condition in city hospital as a result of an accident at Dewey and English Aves. Wolford, who was riding with Walter Ray, 803 E. Maryland St., was thrown through the windshield when the car crashed into the rear of an Indianapolis Street Railway Company bus as it stopped to pick up a passenger. Ray, who suffered minor cuts, told police he could not stop in time and was held on an assault and battery charge.

Others ’Are Injured Others injured: Barrett Woodsmall, 26, of 2913 N. Talbott Ave.; Arnold Ewing, 22, of Paris 111.; Ophelia Braden, 50, of 2411 Northwestern Ave.; David Johnson, 7, Mabel Johnson, 15, both of Cyclone, Ind.; Mrs. Ethel Pero, 22, -of 27 Rialto St.; Mrs. Laura Oday, 44, of 2901 Washington Blvd.; Sarah E. Stevens, 7, of 511 Euclid Ave.; Mrs. Edward Deuser, 2623 Floyd Ave.; Mrs. Rena Nichols, 39, Negro, and her daughter, Virginia, 4, both of 328 N. West St. Clarence Cooney, R. R. 4, Box 450, reported to police that a large car overturned at Senate Ave. and New York St., early Monday morning. When he and several others righted the car, three men and a woman crawled out and left hurriedly, apparently uninjured.

REALTY LEADER HERE IN AIRPLANE TUESDAY Harry Culver to Speak at Real Estate Board Luncheon. Harry Culver, realtor, banker and founder of Culver City, Cal., who will address th? Indianapolis Real Estate Board at a special luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday noon on ‘Hopping Off to Greater Achievements,” will arrive at the Mars Hill airport Tuesday morning by plane from Toledo. Traveling by air, Culver is making two speeches a day on a tour of twelve cities for the National Association of Real Estate Boards.' He will be met at the airport by Henley T. Hottel, in charge of the reception, and W. *L. Bridges, C. B. Durham. R. H. Hartman, H. G. Templeton, B. C. Cartmell, J. F. Cantwell, Frank L. Moore, Lacey Hearn, F. M. Knight, H. G. Knight, Paul L. McCord, Fred H. Sillery and H. L. Richardt. YOUTH CHARGED WITH PAL’S MURDER .JAILED 17-Year-Old Lad Slips Home to See Mother; Is Arrested. Bit United Press RED BANK, N. J., Oct. 31. Joseph Billings was happy today in spite of being in jail. Last night he crept home to see his mother after two months of wandering and an hour later 'he was arrested on a charge of manslaughter. The 17-year-old boy is charged with causing the death of Raymond Reardon, 5, while the older boy was playing “cowboy.” Billings is said to have lassoed Reardon. A few days later the younger boy died in the hospital and an aittopsy showed his death was due to strangulation caused by swelling of the windpipe. BISHOP HITS DRY LAW Episcopalian Says United States Made Laughing Stock of World. Bv United Press SPRINGFIELD, Mo„ Oct. 31. Prohibition has made America the laughing stock of the world, Bishop Sidney C. Partridge of Kansas City, head of the Episcopal Church in western Missouri, said here. “The era of pocket flasks and drinking among the younger generation is the direct result of prohibition,” said Bishop Partridge. “Fermented wine is a God-given gife—a divine symbol of joy—and to bar it by human legislation is a violation of the Christian principles of citizenship. If a man w 7 ants a glass of beer there is no reason in the world why he should not have it.”

Last Chance Next Monday is the last day to pay taxes without being delinquet, O. R. Harris, chief deputy county treasurer, announced today. Many taxpayers crowded the treasurer’s office at the courthouse today in the belief that was the last day. Money orders or checks may be mailed to the treasurer’s office, Harris said. Payments received in the first mail Tuesday will be accepted as on time, he said.

Murder of Rich Bootleg Czar Frees Girl Prisoner He Brought From Italy

Bu NEA Service CLEVELAND, Oct. 31.—When a pistol shot rang out in the darkness the other night and ended the career of ‘Big Joe” Lonardo, rum runner and bootlegger de luxe, it brought to an end the strange, melodramatic captivity of Constantina Bulone, 24-year-old daughter of Italy. Constantina today is preparing to return to her home in Italy. After spending a year in this country she is to be deported. She left Italy a prisoner, came to America a prisoner and remained a prisoner all the time she was here—until Lonardo her captor, was murdered in a rum feud. The girl told her story to J. Arthur Fluckey, United States immigration commissioner here, through an interpreter. Despite her long stay here she had never learned a word of English. Lonardo, who kept her a prisoner in a luxurious house, had seen to that. She had seen virtually no one but him. It was a little more than a year ago that Constantina met Lopardo. Met Him in Italy She was living in Licata, Italy. She had been married a short time

PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT OF' GREECE FAILS 'Nation’s Chief Executive Is Shot, Slightly Hurt; Hold Gunman. BY ANTHONY KEDRAS United Press Staff Correspondent ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 31. Troops are patrolling the city and guarding telegraph and telephone offices to prevent possible communistic disturbances following yesterday’s unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Paul Koundouriots of Greece. Officials charge that the president’s alleged assassin, Zafiri Goussios, a waiter, is a communist, and the cabinet council has decided to enforce most rigorous anti-com-munist measures. Following an overnight investigation, police declared today that royalists were implicated in what they said was a plot to kill the president. Assassin Sound in Mind Goussios, they said, was of completely sound mind. He is only slightly deaf, it was added—not totally deaf, as he had claimed. The Government is contemplating legislation to speed up trials of communist offenders, and is prepared either to restrict communist newspapers and activities generally- or even to supress all communistic organizations. The Government is preparing ,its case against Goussios, who is accused of shooting the president in the right temple as the latter was leaving a meeting of mayors and heads of municipalities at city hall. As President Koundouriotis was stepping into his motor car, a man lurking near the staircase ran out. When only a few paces from the president, he fired point blank. The bullet shattered the window of the car and struck Koundouriotis in the temple. . Because the force of the bullet partially was spent, it did not pierce the skull. Taken to Clinic The president was taken to the municipal clinic, where he will remain until Wednesday, when he will be removed to the presidential palace. Goussios was arrested immediately. He said he was a native of Larissa, The attempted assassination created a sensation in Athens. Police claim that when they searched Goussios they found Communist and Anarchist literature on his person. Physicians announced that the president’s condition was not serious, as the bullet merely had grazed the bone of his skull. He passed a quiet, feverless night. This morning he received visitors, including several diplomats.

TWO ANNOUNCE SI2M GIFTS Foundation and Kingan Show Fund Increases. Two gifts to the Community Fund totaling $24,500 were announced today by Walter C. Marmoii, campaign chairman. The Indianapolis Foundation subscribed $12,500, and Kingan & Cos. $12,000. In both instances, says Marmon, the gifts represent substantial increases over the sums given last year by the same donors. In making the gift for the Indianapolis Foundation, Eugene C. Foster, director, wrote: “Our Subscription is made in the name of Alphonso Pettis, James E. Roberts and Delavan Smith, whose farsighted philanthropy made this gift possible.” There were 'several meetings in the employes division held Monday. These included group meetings at the Real Silk Hosiery Mills with Fred Hoke, Judge James A. Collins, the Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks and the Rev. Ernest M. Evans as speakers; a meeting of employes of the Marietta Glass Company with Charles La Follette as speaker; employes of the Climax Machinery Company with Murray Dalman as speaker, and Federal employes attached to the Fountain Square postofflce with A. B. Cornelius as speaker. Society Hikes and Rides FRENCH LICK, Ind., Oct. 31. Because there aren’t enough horses to go around and the golf links are so crowded, French Lick society has resorted to hiking and motor car for pastime.

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Constantina Bulone before, and her husband nad gone to America. They had arranged that she would follow him as soon as he had found a good job. Then Lonardo appeared on the scene. A native of Italy, he had been living in America for years and was an American citizen. Also, he was a very wealthy man. He was one of the biggest rum runners in northern Ohio; and'when he wanted something he got it, regardless of money or expense. Lonardo, seeing Constantina, wanted her. Constantina, in turn, was dazzled by the flashily dressed man from across the sea. Lonardo wore striped silk shirts, natty American suits, had great diamonds on his fingers and in his tie. In his pockets were great rolls of American bills. He shdwered gifts and attentions on Constantina. She wavered, then accepted them. Finally Lonardo asked her to go to American with him. She was afraid to, fearing her husband. < Then a little later came word that Constantina’s husband had been shot to death in New York. So Constantina yielded. So Lonardo brought the girl to

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Arthur Nash Bu United Press „ CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 31.—Arthur Nash, who preached and practiced the “golden rule” in business, because of his faith in humanity, and found that it paid dividends, (jied here last night, was 59 years old. His was frhe belief that to do right was its own reward—both spiritually and financially. On the principle of the golden rule Nash built a tailoring business, employing 2,500 workers, with branches over the country. LOSE STRIKE FIGHT Supreme Court Orders Two Union Officials to Jail. Formal notification that John M. Parker and Robert B. Armstrong, national officers of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway Employes of America, have been denied appeal to the United States Supreme Court and should begin serving their contempt of court sentences was received today by federal authorities here from the Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. Armstrong, Parker and Edgar Day, local street car worker, were found guilty of contempt of court by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, July 31, 1926, for alleged violation of his order prohibiting violence or interference in the Indianapolis Street Railway strike. Parker and Armstrong were sentenced to ninety days in jail and Day to thirty days in jail. They must now serve their sentences. Marshall A. O. Meloy will notify their bondsmen to -bring them in.

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Cleveland. But when they got here she found that his glowing tales of the “promised land” were not being substantiated. Lonardo had a wife and six children; so Constantina could not share his home and become his wife. Instead, Lonardo installed her in an apartment. It was a luxurious place; the monthly rent would have been a good year’s pay for a worker back in Licata, and the furniture was better than any furniture Constantina had ever seen before. There were many news and costly gowns; many Jewels; everything that a girl’s heart could wish—except freedom. Police Find Her For Constantina was a prisoner. Lonardo allowed her to see no one but himself. She could not venture out alone; for even had Lonardo relaxed his vigilance, she knew not a word of English, and he saw to it that she learned none. But now it is ended. Lonardo was shot to death by some rival in the liquor racket. And his death left Constantina helpless. The police found her and turned her over to immigration authorities. And a request has gone to Washington for a deportation order.

BRING BURTON TO SPEAK HERE ARMISTICE DAY Ohio Congressman to Appear at Meeting Sponsored by Eight Groups. Congressman Theodore Burton, who has just returned from Europe, where he attended the Economic and Disarmament conferences, will give a memorial address Armistice day, Nov. 11, at Caleb Mills hall. Burton will appear under the auspices of eight local civic and religious organizations. Burton, who is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the conference of the international traffic in arms, is in close touch with international problems of disarmament. Eight Groups Sponsor Event He also is a member of the American peace organization and will preside at the centennial celebration of the body in Cleveland in May, 1928. Groups sponsoring the event are: Indiana Council on International Relations, Indianapolis Federation of Churches, Marion County ParentTeachers’ Association, Indianapolis Parent-Teachers’ Association, Council of Jewish Women, Temple Sisterhood, Service Star Mothers, and International Relations Committee of University women. The local committee includes Dr. James A. Woodburn, Ray S. Trent, Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht, Father Francis Gavisk, Dr. Ernest H. Evans, Earl R. Conder, Dr. Charles H. Winders, Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, Mrs. Isaac Born, Mrs. Edna Christian, Mrs. Francis Doan Streightoff, Miss Marcia Furnas, Mrs. Pearl Forsyth, Mrs. David Ross, Mrs. A. T. Coate, Dr. Howard Jensen, Elden H. Mills, William P. Hapgood, Dr. Frederick Kershner, Charles T. Paul, Robert Lee Brokenburr, Dr. Frank Scott Corey Wicks, Louis Howland, Frank Hatch Streightoff, W. E. Osborne, Dr. W.L. Herod, Mrs. Sue H. Yeaton, Mrsr Logan Hughes, William Hadrick, Mrs. Lee Buchanan, Mrs. M. Robinson, Mrs. Samuel Hahn, Mrs. Bruce Maxwell, Mrs. Samuel Komminers, Mrs. Cora Young Wiles, Luther E. Trueblood, Charles A. Reeve, Mrs. W. S. Lockhart and Miss Florence Kerlin.

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11 LIVES ENDED VIOLENTLY, LIST FOR WEEK-END Two of Fatalities in State Were Residents Here. Eleven persons are dead today in Indiana, the toll of violence over the week-end. Three of the dead are Indianapolis residents. Dyer McGee, thirty-nine, Evansville, and Zarren Calvin Small, four, Sturgis, Ky., died in 'Evansville hospitals of injuries suffered in accidents. The man was crushed when a 500-pound steel tank .fell while aiding his brother-in-law, Raymond Nalley, in preparing to barbecue a goat for a Halloween celebration at McGee’s home. Killed on Way to Father _ The small boy was run down by an auto as he dashed across a street to meet his father. Mrs. Edith W. Holscher,* twentyfive, married only a few months ago, is dead, a victim of accidental asphyxiation. She lay down to rest after lighting a gas stove to get a meal, and in some manner the flame went out, allowing gas to escape into a room. Mrs. Anna Mahoney, 73, Calumet City, 111., died in a Hammond hospital after being struck by an auto driven by Edward Shinko, 19, Calumet City. He is in custody, pending an inquest. Everett Snyder, 15, Gary, died of injuries suffered when he was struck by a truck. Pastor’s Father Dies Michael Grusza, 72, South Bend, was killed when struck by a car of a “hit and run” motorist. The victim was the father of the Rev. Stanislaus Grusza, pastor of St. Hedwidge Church. Mrs. W. E. Gray, Sullivan, wife of the pastor cf the Presbyterian Church, is dead of burns. She had been ill for son e time. It is believed that her clovhing became ignited when she walked past a grate, although there was no witness to the accident.

IGNORES STRIKES State School Head Not to Interefere With Board. Principle of “home-rule” will prevail in school government as long as Roy P. Wisefiart is State superintendenet of public instruction, he indicated today in countermanding an order of a department subordinate which would have intsituted an investigation into the various school strikes in Indiana. Strikes have been declared recently by pupils in New Albany, Gary and Lafayette. “We feel that local boards are capable of handling strike situations,” Wisehart asserted. “Any interference on our part would be unjustifiable and not in keeping with the spirit of this department. “Should we look into the matter at all it will be purely to gain information and insight that will be available, upon request, to other schools in the State facing similar problems.” MISSION TO CELEBRATE Thirty-fourth anniversary of the Wheeler City Mission will be observed tonight at the First Baptist church. J. Arthur Schlichter, of Philadelphia, field secretary of the International Union of Gospel Missions, will speak. The Rev* P. B. Turner, Church of God pastor, will speak Tuesday night.

Mayors ’ Office Hears Farms, Not City, Talked

FIRM FORMED TO PAY FALL, U. S. CONTENDS Continental Trading Cos. Was ‘Mere Shell,’ Claim of Prosecutor. BY HERBERT LITTLE, (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. —The Continental Trading Company was a mere “shell,” an illusory corporation created by Harry F. Sinclair and others for a single transaction now alleged to be linked with the Teapot Dome conspiracy, Owen J. Roberts, Government prosecutor, declared in the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trial today. The Continental Company was the corporation from which Former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall received $203,500 Liberty Bonds shortly after signing the Teapot Naval oil reserve over to Sinclair. A huge oil deal, the Government claims, enabled it to provide this block for Fall. New Snag Is Struck The Government today ran into a further judicial snag in its efforts to .prove that Fall was in conspiracy with Sinclair when he granted the latter the famous Teapot Dome naval oil reserve lease ip 1922. Justice Siddons former Senator Charles Thomas of Colorado need not answer one of the questions by which the Government lawyers hoped to show the Continental Trading Company, from whom Fall got $230,500 in Liberty bonds, was formed for the purpose, among others, of rewarding Fall for the Teapot Dome leave. Plans Altered Suddenly

The company purchased millions of barrels of oil from A. E. Humphreys in November, 1921, and sold them the same day, half to Sinclair and half to Standard Oil Companies at 25 cents a barrel profit. The Government holds Sinclair was more intimately connected with the company then as a mere purchaser of oil To make this point in court, Prosecutor Owen Roberts tried unsuccessfully to show that Sinclair originally was expected to be one of the buyers of Humphreys Oil, but that the plans were altered suddenly and the purchaser was changed to read the Continental Company. Call Standard Oil Chief Robert W. Stewart, head of the. Standard Oil Company of Indiana, was to be called to the stand in a Government effort to link Harry F. Sinclair more closely with the Continental Trading Company. ' Stewart was the only Government witness whose testimony was not known in advance. Veterinary Course at Purdue Bu Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Oct. 31.—A three-day special veterinary short course will open at Purdue University here Tuesday. - The course is of the combination lecture-demonstra-tion type.

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Dogs Bother Holmes’ Sheep, He Tells Executive Desk-Mate. The city’s two "mayors,” “Farmer” Ira Holmes and “Farmer” Claude E. Negley, met in the mayor’s office for a few minutes this morning, discussed their farms and cows and exchanged the usual pleasantries. Holmes came to the mayor’s offieg about 9:20. Negley had been there since 8 a. m. As Holmes advanced through the enclosure in the outer office, Negley’s guard, Sergt. Ed Helm, advanced intending to follow orders and prevent Holmes from entering. “Sorry Ira, I’ll have to do my duty,” Helm said. “Why what’s your duty, Ed?” countered Holmes and edged on inside the enclosure. How Are the Cows? Negley, who had been standing in the middle office, advanced and the two parleyed in the outer office. “Something I can do for you, Mr. Holmes?” said Negley. “Well, just go ahead and treat me cordially as you have been doing. Tomorrow morning come around and 111 treat you cordially,” said “Mayor” Holmes. “How are the cows?” asked Negley. “The cows are fine,” said Holmes. “But the dogs ate five of my sheep last night.” Discuss Dogs, Sheep They discussed sheep and dogs and Negley offered his sympathy, and then suggested: “Say, suppose we both go back to our farms and let Joe Hogue (city controller under Former Mayor Shank, who is claiming the office) be mayor.” “Sure, I’m willing,” said Holmes, and held out his hand to bind the bargain. Negley back off, however, and ignored the hand. “That was a good story you had in the morning paper,” said Negley, referring to Holmes’ statement that he would ask that Negley be punished for contempt of court. Confers With Haas “Yes, that was good stuff, and not only good stuff, it was right stuff,” said Holmes. “Well, I guess I must go down to the sheriff’s office,” said Holmes, and left. He went to the city legal department and conferred with City Corporation Counsel Schuyler Haas and Attorneys Henry Seyfried and Thomas Whalen. PLAN HALLOWEEN FETE Irvington will have its own Hoilow’een celebration tonight, when residents gather on Washington St. from Lyman Ave. to Irvington Ave. in a roped-off area to dance and frolic. The street will be decorated in autumn style and will be illuminated. Irvington business men through the Irvington Commercial and Welfare association and sponsoring the affair. Ernest O. Johnson, chairman, assisted by L. V. Mikesell and Theodore B. Brydon.

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DEATH CLAIMS ! HARDEN, FAMED FOE OFKAISER German Editor, Champion of Pacifism, Prophet of World War, Called. By ERIC KEYSER United Press Staff Correspondent Bu United Press .. _ BERLIN. Oct. 31.—Maximilian Harden, enemy of the former Kaiser, first important publicist to predict the World War, and the man who warned that the United States would not be an ally of Germany in that conflict, died yesterday at his home in Montanavermala, Switzerland. He was sixty-six years old. As founder and publisher of tha weekly newspaper, “Die Zukunft” (“The Future”), he became one of the Kaiser’s earliest and most fearless foes. As early as 1892, in one of tha first issues of his paper, he pointed out the danger from the wilful and inconsiderate policy of the Kaiser’s personal regime. Six months in prison was the answer of the Kaiser’s government. This was tha beginning of Harden’s fame. Predicts Great War In December, 1911, Harden told the Berlin correspondent of tha United Press, in a copyrighted interview, that unless there was a complete “right about face” in tha methods and policies of the men in control of Germany’s foreign affairs, was between Germany and England would be inevitable. And he doubted that there would be a “right about face.” The editor was a close friend of Bismarck in the “iron chancellor’s” latter days. After winning additional fame in 1906 through his articles which were responsible for breaking up the notorious “round table” clique of secret and irresponsible advisers to the kaiser, his pen was feared and respected as that of no other publicist in the Fatherland. Changes to Pacifist The issue of the Marne battle achieved the miracle of turning the wild “Saulus” into a mild pacifist “Paulus.” Harden remained faithful to pacifism ever afterward. His paper was suppressed repeatedly by military authorities during the war, and he was threatened with imprisonment. He enthusiastically greeted Wilson’s ideas, and there was no warmer champion for the League of Nations in Germany than he. The nationalists, naturally, attacked him bitterly for his paciflstic views. Maximilian Harden—a pen name, for his real name was Isldor Witkowski—was born in 1861 in Berlin. In 1892 he founded his famous review, after having for some years tried his luck as an actor. After an assult by rowdies in 1922, from which he never recovered, he gave up “Zukunft” and restricted himself to occasional lectures abroad and to articles in foreign newspapers. TERKcT HAUTE. Ind., Oct. 31. Mrs. Opal Cook, wife of Clyde Cook, recorder-elect of Vigo county who will take office Jan. 1, next, has been granted a divorce here, charging cruelty. They were married seven years ago.