Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 165, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1927 — Page 17

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FIRE HAZARDS NUMEROUSON TieSURVEY Prevention Chief Warns of Gasoline Use, Careless Paper Handling. ASHES PUT IN BASKETS Apartments and Hotels in Downtown Area Show Little Caution. BY DENNIS J. O’NEILL "The vapor from one gallon of gasoline Is equal In explosive power to eighty-three pounds of dynamite.” Fire Prevention Chief Horace W. Carey so informed 150 employes of factories located in the Jackson Bldg., 534-48 S. Meridian St., on the third day of the fire hazard survey being conducted by the Indianapc/lis Fire Prevention Bureau in cooperation with the Times. Carey urged against cleaning In the home with gasoline, benzine, benzol, naphtha and a commercial explosive cleaner. "For 25 cents you can buy an equal amount of carbon-tetra-chloride, an equally good cleaner, and instead of being inflammable it is an of fire,” Carey said. Gas Cleaning Causes Fires He cited several local cases in recent years in which home cleaning with gasoline had been followed with disastrous fires, sometimes with loss of life. Fire Inspectors Wirt H. Torbet, Charles* Seekamp, and Charles Brooks assisted Carey in organizing the workers, with a captain on each of the building’s seven floors, to practice fire drills. This is the 157th drill established since Feb. 1. An organization plan has been developed by the bureau and is being put into effect in factories, department stores, and office buildings, whereby building occupants are trained to leave in an orderly manner in case of fire. Carey urged the workers to read this series of disclosures of Indianapolis firq traps. Credit Given Times “The Times is the only paper in the city with nerve enough to print the truth about Indianapolis fire hazards,” Carey said. Following the meeting, I accompanied Brooks on an inspection of Illinois St. hotel and apartment buildings, between St. Clair and north Sts. We found ten gallons of gasoline in five-gallon cans in the rear of a store room. A hotel is located on the second and third floors of the same building. The hotel has stairs at each end of the building and a fire escape at the back. This complies with State law, even though the halls are long and there are no avenues of escape at either side of the building. Two fire extinguishers in the hotel—one on each floor—were tested on Nov. 7, 1926.

Fire Hazards Numerous In the basement of the same building, crates were piled under the stairway, oil rags were on thefloor, and a large box of excelsior; stood at the bottom of the stairs. A three-story apartment buildiry nearby has paper tacked to its boiler room ceiling beams. Originally, the paper covered the entire ceiling, but now it hangs in strips —some almost touching the top of the furnace, "That paper has been there eleven years and we never had ft fire,” the custodian told us. Rome lasted 814 years before its serious conflagration. One well-meaning, but mistaken, rooming house keeper just had purchased twelve bushel baskets in which he intended to store his winter’s ashes as they came glowing from the furnace. He was ordered to substitute metal containers. Other Perils Found One apartment building had a pile of loose paper stored in the furnace room, under the stairway, which Brooks conservatively estimated at "a wagon load.” The same building had open wiring to a basement switch and rubbish stored in a closet off the entrance corridor on the first floor. The closet door stood open just enough to permit Brooks to insert his flashlight. A heavy piece of antique furniture that we could not budge kept the door from opening further. Brooks pointed out that a clgaret could be tossed into the closet and a resulting fire made difficult to fight because of the obstacle in the way of the door. Brooks issued orders against all these unlawful conditions. "The trouble is,” he said, "people obey the orders for a day and then lapse back into their old careless habits.” a FATHER REFUSED CHILD Grandparents Win Fight for Custody of 4-Year-Old Jennie Schell. Four-year-old Jennie E. Schell will remain in the custody of her grandparents in Madison County. Such was the ruling of the Supreme Court Thursday in the case of John Schell, who, after being refused the custody of the child by the Madison County Court, took the matter to the higher tribunal. The grandparents took the child upon the death of her mother. Later the father married again and sought to recover his baby.

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WASHINGTON IN TORNADO’S PATH

One Killed, Property Loss Near Million in Brief, Violent Storm. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Southeastern and northeastern Washington, Alexandria, and outlying towns, wracked by a brief tornado out of the Potomac, began today emerging from their ruins. The death list miraculously stood at only one. Two hundred or more persons, most of them in Alexandria, Va., five miles distant, were injured, but the majority needed only firrt aid treatment. Property damage of $1,000,000 or more was done as the tornado swept up the Potomac through the naval air station region, into homes of southeast Washington, and then roared on to damage northeast Washington, Hyattsville and smaller towns.

One Death by Lightning The only death record, that of Jane Carter, colored, was due to lightning rather than the tornado. The woman was crossing a bridge when a bolt struck her—just before the tornado broke—and she was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. The injured mainly were hurt by flying debris. Two were reported more or less seriously injured at Alexandria, but for the most part the casualty lists read “cuts” or “bruises” or "abrasions.” There were aboutsixty hospital cases here and in Alexandria and 100 or more emergency treatments in Alexandria alone. The tornado came about midaftemoon. It swept in from the Potomac after hitting Alexandria and damaging fifty to 100 houses, garages and factories. Striking inland here near the naval air station on the Potomac, near the famous Bolling airfield, It tore down part of the naval station, damaged nine planes, Including a huge $41,000 Ford machine, injured about ten navy men, and caused the station damage estimated at between $200,000 and $500,000. Mechanic Hangs on Girder A mechanic putting a big door on one hangar hoticed the clouds rolling up like “masses of black cotton.” He scrambled to a girder and hung on. The tornado struck, ripping off the sides of the hangar as though they were sheer tissue. But the framework held, and the mechanic was safe. A colleague was struck down by debris as he ran for safety across the field. In a comparatively small area in the southeast, it swept away roofs and some fronts of houses. From northeast Washington, the tornado bore off into Prince Georges County, Md., doing $50,000 or more damage in the towns of Colmar Manor and Lenox.

MOROCCO FACES MECCA, MOURNS FOR SULTAN WHOSE VISION ENRICHED NATION

r _Z,"I EZ, Morocco, Nov. 18.— I p I Mouley Youzef, the Sul- | 1 1 tan who enriched his nation by the introduction of modem methods of industry and transport, was mourned throughout Morocco today in accordance with the ancient rites of the Moslems. On the deserts thousands of the Sultan’s subjects kneeled in the sands; in the towns they prayed in mosques—all facing Mecca. Mouley Youssef, who came to the Moroccan throne on Aug. 18, 1912, the day after the massacres

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JAIL BREAK FOILtu Duffy Attempts to Saw Out of Muncie Prison. Eddie Duffy, whom Federal agents have questioned for information as to any connection between Muncie liquor violations and officials, attempted to saw his way out of jail at Muncie, Thursday nigftt, George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator, was Informed today. Sheriff Harry McAuley asked to have Duffy removed to the Marion County jail after he found Duffy had sawed through the hasp of a padlock with a roughened wire. Custody of Duffy Is sought by Flint (Mich.) officials on jail breaking and burglary charges. In event Duffy Is released under bond here, he may be returned to Muncie to face a warrant charging assault and battery. He is alleged to have made threats against Muncie policemen. Several other prisoners were taken on liquor charges by Federal agents Thursday, at Muncie, including Ernest (Red) Barlow of Albany; Thomas Briggs of near De Soto, and Victor (Peanut) Templin. SALVATION IN LEGIOI\T Author and Soldier Describes Life in Noted Regiment. The Foreign Legion of the French army has become an institution for the regeneration of men by subjection to discipline, said Maj. Zinovu Pechkoff, author and soldier, addressing the Contemporary Club at John Herron Art Institute Thursday night. From a fighting unit, the legion has broadened its purposes to provide an organization in which men of all nationalities, dissasitsfied with conditions in'their native countries or banished, may make anew start. Germans and Russians predominate in the legion’s ranks of 18,000 men, Major Pechkoff said. Only twelve are Americans.

of Europeans in Morocco, died of uremic poisoning, from which he had suffered for a year. He! fought a long victorious campaign against the rebels and Morocco will remember him as the "grand pacifier.” Although a sincere traditionalist, Youssef sometimes strangely mixed tradition with the ultramodern. n * r7T| TEPPING from under a I jj I massive red umbrella, the L_—l most outstanding insignia of Cherifian power, the Sultan

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TIMES PARTY GETSPHOTOS OFOUISANTA Second Radiogram Tells of Great Success of Expedition to Frozen North. CONTEST FOR CHILDREN Cash Prizes to Be Given for Best Letters on ‘Why I Like Santa/ Braving all sorts of dangers and the extreme cold of the Far North, The Indianapolis Times’ expedition has succeeded in obtaining pictures of Santa Claus in his own home. This announcement, which will bring joy to the hearts of all Indianapolis children, came to The Times Friday in the second radiogram from Holly Berry, its correspondent with the Captain F. E. Kleinschmidt expedition. The radiogram follows: North Polevile, Eskimoland, November 18, 1927. Editor, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Ind.: Reached Santa Claus castle after many hardships got pictures, more details tomorrow. (Signed) HOLLY BERRY. “That,” said the editor with a happy smile, “means that our expedition has been a success and that we yet may be able to show Indianapolis children a real motion picture of Santa Claus, his home, his reindeer and his Eskimo helpers.” Reasons for Santa Hunt Interviewed as to the real reasons for sending Arctic Explorer Kleinschmidt and party to seek Santa Claus, the editor said: “The Times, which sends correspondents to learn about uprisings in China, warn in Spain, and excavations of a Pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt, conferred with Arctic Explorer Kleinschmidt to learn if he would undertake to lead an expedition to find and photograph Santa Claus. "In the last few years,” he told the captain, “men have discovered many things. Explorers have gone far away in ships, in airplanes and on foot and have brought back strange tales. “I think that if you would outfit an expedition and search out the home of Santa Claus, it would be the greatest discovery of all, because it would be the first time a newspaper has sent an expedition particularly to interest its child readers.”

Knows the Northland Now Captain Kleinschmidt knows a great deal about the North. He has spent a great deal of time among the Eskimos, taking pictures of them and their igloos and photographing the little brown men hunting Polar bear. So last summer, the captain and his wife arrived in far-off Alaska on his search for Santa Claus’ home. And yesterday’s radiogram announcing “Santa has been found,” was the first word received from Holly Berry since he packed up and accompanied the explorer’s party on the trip. Meantime, The Times is going to give Indianapolis and Indiana children an opportunity to write direct to Sacta Claus and prizes will be given for the best letters. Here is the plan: Here Are the Rules l „L S ‘,L riKht ., down and wrlte not more CLAUS 00 W ° rdS ° n WHY 1 LIKE BANTA 2. Include In your idea what you think Santa does that helps the world. 3. Mall your letter to The Santa Claus Editor ol The Times, Indianapolis. Ind. 4. It will be forwarded Immediately to Santa Claus at North Polevllle. Eskimoland and Holly Berry. The Times correspondent has made arrangements for Santa to judge the letters and radiogram the winners’ names right back. 8. The prizes will be: First. $25: second, *10; and third $5 for the best letters. 6. All letters must be In The Times olice for mailing up North by noon. Saturday. Nov. 26. Now hurry and write your letter, kiddles and watch tomorrow’s Times for further word from Holly Berry. 9 LAWMAKERS ON TOUR Indiana Representatives to See Stone District and Football Game. Bu Times Bvecial BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 18.— Among visitors in Bloomington Saturday for the Indiana-Purdue football game will be nine Indiana representatives in Congress—Ribhard N. Elliott, Connersville; Harry E. Rowbottom, Evansville; Fred S. Purnell, Attica; Ralph E. Updike, Indianapolis; Albert R. Hall, Marion; Noble J. Johnson, Terre Haute; Arthur H. Greenwood, Washington; Harry Canfield, Batesville, and Frank Gardner, Scottsburg. Fred E. Bryan, vice president of the Indiana Limestone Company, will take the lawmakers on a tour of the stone district surrounding Bloomington.

would mount a bicycle imported from France, gather his flowing robes under the seat and ride for an hour or more in the palace gasdens. Americans succeeded in inducing him to accept a player piano. After that the* cool halls of the Fez palace resounded with jazz, while the Charleston programs broadcast from Eifel tower amused 0 the Sultan’s harem; a wireless had been installed. Youssef had, four wives and

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RUCKER ADMITS CHARGEWRONG Libel Suit Dropped When He Clears Chicago Man. Dismissal of a $250,000 libel suit against Alvah J. Rucker, former corporation counsel, in Federal Court Thursday, followed filing of a statement of retraction by Rucker, exonerating Harley L. Clarke, of Chicago, of contributing to an alleged $19,000 campaign fund for Governor Fd Jackson in 1924. Clarke was promoter of the merger of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and the Merchants Heat and Light Company into the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. The charges against Clarke and others were made by Rucker while he was corporation counsel. He declared utility operators had joined in a “pot” of $19,000 to be contributed to the Jackson campaign fund, to bring about appointment of members of the public service commission favorable to utility Interests. This charge was made in his petition for an injunction against the merger. Rucker declared investigation had revealed Clarke was not one of the contributors. With the exception of Clarke and “perhaps another of such contributors so charged on information and belief,” the charges against others named by Rucker still stand, he said. Rucker was dismissed as corporation counsel by John L. Duvall, then holding the office of mayor, Schuyler A. Haas succeeding him. AUTO HITS WOMAN, 70 Motorist Speeds Away After Accident, Evades Police. Mrs. Phoebe Hinkle, 70, of Chicago, was run down by an unidentified hit-and-run motorist Thursday at Meridian and Morris Sts. She was bruised about the hips and was taken to the home of her son, William Hinkle, 1346 S. Meridian St., where she is visiting. Motor Policemen Amsden and Hyland searched the vicnity, but failed to locate the motorist. Munsey Books Anctioned Bu United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—From the library of the late Frank A. Munsey, newspaper publisher, were auctioned for $11,300. The highest single price, $650, was paid for a subscription set of “The Great Operas."

countless concubines, ranging from black Africans to pallid Berbers, Circassians and Georgians. There was not a blonde in the harem. When the Sultan visited Paris in 1926, he raved about the beauty of the blondes on the boulevard, but he didn’t take any of them back with him. # * u S a quiet youth, Mouley Youssef lived in the shadt___J ows of the court of his brother, Sultan Mouley Abd-El-Aziz s to whom be was bound by

Shake! Bu Times Svecial MUNCIE, Ind- Nov. 18.— Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Delaware Circuit Court shook hands here with George Dale, publisher of a weekly newspaper. Thei rclashes over alleged libelous matter published in the paper against the judge have attracted nation-wide attention. The editor appeared to arrange for new bond in an appealed libel case now before the Supreme Court of Indiana. The new bond was required because Dr. Rollin H. Bunch, the surety, is engaged in a deal involving estate he owns.

ATTACK LAUNCHED ON PREMIER OF RUMANIA Bitter Onslaught in Parliament Opens Offensive. Bu United Presa BUCHAREST, Nov. 18.—A new offensive has been launched against Premier Bratianu and his supporters by the Rumanian peasant party which yesterday in parliament bitterly attacked the Roumanian Government. M. Junian, a deputy of the Peasant party, presented a long list of alleged illegalities committed by the government, beginning with the arrest of M. Manoilescu, when carrying letters from Prince Carol to prominent Rumanians, and ending with Manoilescu’s acquittal of charges of conspiracy against the government. The attack marked the launching of the campaign against Bratianu, which Professor Nicolae lorga, leader of the Peasant party, and M. Naniu. the National party’s leader in parliament, organized with a view of overthrowing the government. ASK NEAR EASfTuNDS 250 Reservations Made for Tonights Golden Rule Dinner. More than 250 reservations have been made for the Young People’s Golden Rule Dinner, In the interest of the Near East Relief, at 6:30 tonight, in the First Baptist Church. The Young People’s Council of Marion County will be host. Soliciting committees will be organized at the dinner to make house-to-house solicitations Sunday for Near East Relief funds. Cattle Men in Session Bu Timet Snerinl LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 18.—Indiana cattle producers and feeders are holding their annual convention at Purdue University here today with 450 in attendance. Cattle on the university farm were inspected. Speakers included J. H. Skinner, dean of the Purdue School of Agricultiure; Prof. E.G. King, Director G. I. Christie, and James E. Poole, a Chicago livestock marketing expert.

close maternal relations, their' mothers having entered the imperial harem together. Both sons were born within a few days of each other at Marakech. Youssef accompanied the Sultan when the latter was defeated and forced to abdicate. He later returned to Fez and joined the new Sultan Mouley Hafid. Youssef saw the massacres of Europeans which followed Hafid’s abdication.

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Here is the second radiogram from Holly Berry, special staff correspondent of The Indianapolis Times, from North Poleville, Eskimoland, where he is interviewing Santa Claus. Below at the left is a sketch of Holly Berry himself, made by The Times staff artist just before he started on the expedition. In the center is a sketch of his camera man and there’s old Santa himself on the right.

BOMB WRECKS MOVIE THEATER Blast Perils Seven Asleep in Apartments. Bu United Press DETROIT, Nov. 18.—Another mysterious theater bombing, the second here in recent weeks, today wrecked the Lansing theater, a neighborhood movie house. The bomb exploded shortly before 5 a. m., ripping up through the floor of an apartment above the theater, Imperilling the lives of teven sleeping persons and driving them into the street, scantily clad. Windows in store fronts along the block were shattered and splinters of glass were driven Into the fronts of buildings across the street from the theater. Two patrolmen were two blocks away at the moment of the blast and they ran to the scene immediately, but were unable to find the bomber. They devoted their efforts, after calling the fire department, to rescuing two men occupying a room above* the theater entrance. The blast had trapped them by driving the floor upward, blocking the door. Meanwhile, the fire department responded, but there was no fire, such as followed the explosion recently at the Tivoli Theater, combination movie-vaudeville house. In that fire damage amounting to more than SIOO,OOO was suffered.

PREVENTS HOLD-UP Filling Station Attendant Brings Reihforcement. Alertness of Attendant Jack Kimmick, 504 W. Dr., Woodruff Place, prevented a hold-up at the Standard Oil Company filling station at East and North Sts., Thursday night. m As he was locking the door for the night, Kimmlck saw two men in an auto parked watching him. When he saw one of them pull a mask over his face, Kimmlck unlocked the door, ran through the station, jumped out the back window and ran toward three men he saw approaching on North St. The two bandits were chasing him in their automobile, but abandoned the car and fled when they saw the reinforcements. Sues After Wounding TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Nov. 18.— Alex Koscso has filed a $5,000 damage suit here against ames H. Persons of the Persons Hardware and Furniture Cos., alleging • the store sold cartridges to Steve Miller, 14, who, while target shooting Sunday, wounded Andrew, young son of Koscso.

A-'l T Hafid’s suggestion, the council of Oulemas elected t—J Mouley Youssef as Sultan. He demobilized the tribesmen and made them till the Soil. Knowing little of foreign politics, the Sultan spurned untold riches by refusing to revolt against the French during the European war. successor, probably the 19-year-old son Idriss, will be named at a council of nobles in Fez, Friday. It is understood, however, that the question of succession was settled at a secret meeting some time ago.

WEALTH PERIL TO U. $., FEAR OF (MIDGE Nation Faces Its Greatest Test in Prosperity, Says President. AGAINST CUT IN TARIFF Insists Slash in Taxes Must Be Slow Talks at Philadelphia. Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 18.— The United States Is facing the most severe test in its history—the test of prosperity—President Coolidge warned the Union League of Philadelphia In an address here last night. “We have demonstrated that we are able to meet adversity and overcome it,” he said. “The test which now confronts the country is prosperity. History is littered with stories of nations destroyed by their own wealth.” Mr. Coolidge traced in terms of praise the history of the United States from the time of the Civil War to the present, attributing its spectacular success to the Government’s policy of protecting, but not interfering unduly with industry.

Moderate Tax Slash The President said any material reduction in the tariff would result inevitably in a deflation of agricultural and industrial values and in reduction of wages. He then launched upon a discussion of current governmental policies. “Because of the past insistence on economy in national expenditures, we are In a position to have further moderate tax reduction,” the President said. “But let it be remembered that tax reduction is possible solely on account of economy." Listing items of national expense which will make gradual tax reduction necessary, Mr. Coolidge mentioned flood control, national highway construction, waterway projects in the Mississippi Valley, St. Lawrence River, Columbia Basin and Colorado River, and more equipment for the navy and the air force. Bigger Navy; More Planed “On the sea we shall round out our navy with more submarines and more cruisers and private ownership should provide it with an auxiliary merchant marine of fast cruiser boats,” he said. “On land we shall be building up our air forces, especially by encouraging commercial aviation. The President branded as “a menace to our credit” the $18,000,000,000 national debt. He called it the “greatest weakness in our line of national defense,” but reminded his listeners that one-third of the financial obligations resulting from the World War have been settled since. Mr. Coolidge praised the character of American people as demonstrated during the World War and the years of financial recuperation.

Wish to Promote Peace Mr. Coolidge’s address was the principal feature of ceremonies commemorating the anniversary of the Union League’s organization shortly before the Civil War. Philadelphia was the seat of the Union, which later enlisted membership in other cities. . Turning to foreign aspects of American relations, the President said: "We wish to promote peace. We hold a great treasure. It must be protected. "Our relationship with the vast territory between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn in a commercial way will become more intimate. “Much of that country could be greatly benefited by lines of aviation, which we should hasten to assist them to open. ■ A*** l of highway* should Join the principal points in North and South America. While their own governments must necessarily build these, we can assist lq their financing. Refrain From Meddling "As Inventions have closed up the Intervals between different countries they have been brought nearer together, not only physically, but econmically and morally. We are more concerned than ever with our foreign affairs. The wealth of our people is gome out in a constant stream of record dimensions for restoration and development in all parts of the world. We want our moral influence to be on the side of liberty, of education, of fair elections, and of honest constitutional government. Where our obligations to our own have required it we have extended citizens under international law our help to those who were attempting to secure these results. "But we have refrained from meddlesome interference, because wo recognize not only the right, but the necessity for each people to work out their own destiny." ban poor robbing poor Plea Fails to Save Thief Who Looted Church Boxes. Bu United Presa DECATUR, 111., Nov. 18—Charlea Perkins, arrested here for stealirig money out of poor boxes In the local churches, pleaded that he was poor and needed the money and therefor* should be exempt from punishment. A jury held, .however, that even a poor man has no right reserved by which he could steal money intended for the poor.