Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 168, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1927 — Page 9
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TROOPS RULE MINE FIELDS; 5 DIE IN FRAY New Clash Feared in South Colorado Zone; Guard Ready to Entrain. SNIPERS FIRE SHOTS Governor Expected to Issue Martial Law Order as I. W. W. Threaten. BT JACK BOWLER _ United PreM Staff Correspondent DENVER, Nov. 22.—National Guardsmen on duty at the Columbine mine, scene of an armed clash yesterday, were under snipers’ fire for three hours today. The firing was sporadic and no one was injured, reports to the office of Governor William H. Adams said. As 325 State militia moved into the Columbine mine district with full war equipment and orders from Governor Adams approaching a declaration of martial law, the casualty list of the I. W. W. strike’s first serious outbreak stood at five men dead and more than sixty persons injured. Two of the wounded were women. Two More Die The death toll reached five when two miners died of wounds received in the clash between State police and strikers. Several of the wounedd were reported in serious condition. Cars were on a siding at the State rifle range and a troop train waited in Denver to take men and materials of war to the south field. Maj. A. P. Ardourel, adjutant general of the National Guard, told Governor Adams today he saw no possibility of averting such action. ‘ Southern miners made no attempt to cover their resentment over the warfare in the northern field. They were angered further when State police padlocked I. W. W. headquarters at Aguilar last night. In the Columbine area youthful gaurdsmen—many of them students of the University of Colorado—were on duty among seasoned veterans. Tanks Patrol Field The guardsmen were under .orders to man machine guns set up in various parts of the camp. Two war tanks patrolled the northern field. All troopers carried full regulation packs. They were armed with rifles and bayonets. The Columbine coal camp has been converted into an armed garrison and the camp dining room was a mess hall. The troopers were fed in relays. Two wire fences, one charged with electricity, surrounded the camp. Troopers were taking no chances of another drive on the Columbine mine. All roads leading to the property were patroled. Although the severely wounded of Monday’s battle have been removed from the camp, a few bandages, bricks and clubs remained as evidence of the clash. Leaders Under Arrest Four strike leaders, arrested in connection with the Columbine incident, will be charged with trespassing, invasion, picketing, inciting to picket, intimidation, resisting an officer, disturbance and assault and battery, Louis N. Scherf, head of the law enforcement bureau, announced. Colorado law enforcement bureau officers, sheriff's officers and company men were guarding the Delagua and Berwind mines, near Aguilar, where attacks were feared today. Trouble was predicted by operators after the quietest night in southern Colorado since the strike started six weeks ago. A mass meeting at Walsenburg was called off suddenly. Streets of the coal towns were deserted. They usually are crowded.
COURSE IN CHARLESTON ANGERS SCHOOL PATRON Attendance Officer Has His Troubles in Pike County J. T. Ford, Pike County school attendance officer has his trouble trying to keep pupils In school and the following protest recently voiced by a school patron is among them: “They don’t teach them anything but drawing and how to daince the Charleston, and I don’t believe in them things and won’t stand for it.” Ford has put this case up to the prosecuting attorney in an effort to find a way of making the objector keep his children in school. BOYS TRAP PROFITABLY ALONG SCHOOL ROUTE Lapel Pupils Well Paid for Skins of Animals Bu Times Special LAPEL, Ind., Nov. 22.—Several Lapel school boys are earning spending money by trapping en route to and from school.. Marion Sears, 11, is so successful that he has a bank account. He Is specializing in muskrat skins for which he receives $1.05 or sl.lO each. One night’s catch of muskrats netted Donald Huffman, 914, another trapper, $7.70. Other trappers include: Emile Lawson, who cashes checks for $3 and $4 at a time; Raymond Flannagan, 14, and Raymond Stephenson. A cotton mink tfas a recent catch of Flannagan, while Stephenson bagged an opossum.
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164 AWAITING I. UJEGREES Fall List of Candidates Announced. Bu Time Bneclnl BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 22 The registrar of Indiana University here has announced names of 164 students on the fall list of candidates for degrees. The list Includes th£ following: * Bachelor of Arts—Calvin B. Fausset, anatomy and physiology, Pendleton; Ruby Glass, history, Ossian: Elsie V. Hallowell, Latin, Pendleton; Julia L. Lewis, mathematics. Fairmount; Lester G. Lindley, history. Union City; Ferdte Nessel, economics, Marion; Frances E. Peacock, English. Union City; Charles H. Poorman, English. Muncie; Vern W. Ruble, psychology. Parker; Vernon K. Stonebraker, mathematics. Sulphur Springs; Sarah L. Walters, English, Anderson. Bachelor of Science—George 8. Moore. Muncie. Master of Arts— William J. Leach. Fowlerton; George C. Powers, Cowan. DEMOCRATIC LEADER TO BE BURIED WEDNESDAY Richard M. Coleman Is Dead After Long Illness. Richard M. Coleman, 56, Indianapolis attorney and Democratic leader, died at his home, 2407 N. Meridian St,., Sunday. He had been ill fifteen weeks. Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Flanner &, Buchanan mortuary. Burial at Crown Hill. Coleman was Democratic candidate for Marion County clerk at the last election. He was deputy county clerk under John Rauch. He came to Indianapolis from Greencastle, after graduating from De Pauw University. He was bom in Putnam County. Coleman was a member of Oriental Lodge, F. & A. M., and Odd Fellows. Surviving him are his Widow, two daughters, Misses Lee and Agnes, all of Indianapolis; his mother, Mrs. Mary Coleman; two brothers, Paul and Woodford, and a sister, Mrs. John Dietrich, all of Greencastle. Mexican Rebel Chief Escapes Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22.—Gen. Hector Almada, last of the leaders who figured in the recent revolution who have not been captured or executed by the Calles government, has succeeded in escaping to San Antonio, Texas, according to the paper, Grafico.
QUIET AMERICAN HOMES SEND MANY TO HOSPITALS, INSURANCE FIRMS FIND
BY DENNIS J. O’NEILL THE next time you see Bill Jones hobbling along Washington St. on crutches, with a sterilized gauze helmet hanging Jauntily off one ear, don’t jump to the conclusion that you were left out of last night’s party. The chances are several to one that Bill spent the evening at home with a perfectly natural result. For according to compiled statistics, by the Bureau of Industrial Service, home is where the bones get broken. More accidents happen within sound of the door bell than anywhere else, except in automobiles with wooden bodies. ;
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OBREGON PLOT LAID TOLEAGUE Attempt to Kill Blamed on Catholic Conspirators. Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22.—Police charged today that Roman Catholic plotters were responsible for the attempt on Nov. 13 to assassinate Gen. Alvaro Obregon, sole surviving presidential candidate. The accusation was made in connection with the arrest of Miguel Austin Pro Juarez, a priest; his brother, Humberto, and Luis Segura Chis, charged with complicity in a plan to kill Obregon. Two other men had been arrested at the time of the attempt. One, Lamberto Rutz, died of wounds received at the time of the bomb.'ng of Obregon's automobile. Police said all the arrested men were members of the League for the Defense of Religious Liberty. Documents they seized, the police added, showed an elaborate plan for widespread rebellion by some Roman Catholics. It was alleged that Vilchis drove the automobile from which bombs were thrown at Obregon’s car, and that Vilchis confessed he had shipped arms to Roman Catholic rebels In Jalisco.
CALL PARTY SESSION National Group to Gather in Chicago Jan. 1. A call for a meeting of the National Party at Chicago Jan. 1, was issued by John Zahnd, national chairman, here today. Plans for the 1928 campaign, including nominations for president and vice president will be considered. , Among other business scheduled for the meeting are changing the annual meeting date from the first Tuesday in May to Jan. 1, and revision of* pan:y rules to substitute a national executive committee of two members from each State for the present national advisory board. “Effective organization work must how take place, we want no cowards and slackers, we want no one who Is self-seeking," Zahnd said in the call. CLUB WILL HEAR STUMP “Psychology of Happiness” will be the subject of Albert Stump, candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator from Indiana, at the November meeting of the Carrollton Ave. Men’s Club at the Carrollton Ave. Reformed Church tonight. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p. m. by women of the church. Quartet numbers will be given by Hubert Vitz, Ariel B. Mulford, William Lilly and Will J. Hauck.
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INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOV. 22,1927
CITY FIRETRAP OWNERS WILL BE ARRESTED Score of Offenders Named on List in Prevention Bureau Survey. WARNINGS ARE IGNORED Several of Worst Hazards in Thickly Populated Downtown Areas. A score of Indianapolis building owners who have Ignored repeated Fire Prevention Bureau orders to : rid their premises of fire hazards i will be arrested Wednesday morning, Chief Horace W. Carey announced today. This drastic action was promised by Carey after a survey of city "fire incubators” by his department, cooperating with The Times. The survey followed the tragic Graystone Apartment Hotel fire, Nov. 12, in which nine lost their lives. Twenty building owners, some with large realty holdings in the city, are listed on reports submitted to Carey by fire prevention inspectors marked “final notice.” “Every one of these cases will be prosecuted unless conditions complained of in these reports are remedied by Wednesday morning,” Carey said. One Near City Hall One owner of a building across the street from city hall is on the st scheduled for prosecution. Carey made out the report when he found piles of loose paper accumulated in a narrow areaway at the side of the building, which is of frame construction adjoining a three-story apartment building, vacant at present. Carey scored a tendency on the part of owners and tenants to pass from one to the other the responsibility for accumulated rubbish. “Clean property seldom burns,” Ca.ey said, “but owners and tenants will demur at removing rubbish which amounts to so much kindling and a stray match can fire the building and ruin the tenant’s business.” Fire Inspector George Stapp reported a fire escape light burned out on the fourth floor of an apartment building within the Mile Square, on the fifth day of The Times survey. Ignores Clean-up Order Carey announced a fight on a local garage owner, with active political affiliations, who has ignored repeated fire prevention orders to ‘ clean up.” A large business firm is scheduled to be cited for failure to install screens under its sidewalk gratings. An accumulation of paper has dropped through the iron grates which a cigaret or match easily could ignite. An abandoned church comes under the frown of bureau investigators because tramps use the building as a “hotel” at night and smoke within its rubbish-littered interior. The structure is in the heart of a closely built-up section of the city and could prove a serious “fire incubator,” Carey said. ‘POOR WORKING GIRL’ PLEA BESTS BANDIT Robber Returns Purse to Hammond Store Employe __ Bu Times S-perfi' HAMMOND, Ind., Nov. 22.—Miss Florence Moore, 21, department store salesgirl succeeded in getting a young man bandit to return a purse and money he took from her in a hold-up, but he kept a ring valued at $5. “I’m just a poor working girl,” Miss Moore told the bandit. “I don’t think it is very nice of you to hold me up with Christmas sd near. I want to buy presents for my girl friends.” “Oh, I thought you was one the silk socks out here,” the robber replied. “Gwan home.” STRESS CORRECT DRESS Express Personality, Says Speaker; Add Brains—Success! “The world today Is viewing for pesonallty plus brains, and those who are correctly dressed will come out ahead,” Mrs. Blanche Chenoweth, director of the department and textiles and clothing, Teachers College of Indianapolis, told 200 members of the Social Workers’ Club at a dinner meeting at the Theodore Potter Fresh Air School Monday night. She also urged those who would attain success to “think clearly, straight and all the way through.”
American home than the original serpent in the Garden of Eden. 000 INSURANCE sharks blame man’s tendency to relax after reaching home safely for most of these home-made tragedies. The X in Axminister marks the spot where many an unwary taxpayer has brought grief unto himself and his insurance company. No nook in the home is without its own particular danger—every little room has a hazard all its own. Bathrooms, however, are especially popular accident sites. Bath tubs furnish just about the slickest way there is of sending in an ambulance call. One
THREE WISE MEN EYE REMUS
Gaze of Alienists Fixed on Every Move of Slayer
BY ALLENE SUMNER NEA Service Writer CINCINNATI, Nov. 22.—George Remus, who lumbers into Criminal Court here each morning In the dual role of prisoner at the bar answering to the charge of first degree murder, and counsel for defense, is in one of the queerest predicaments that any criminal ever found himself. For George Remus, “King of the Bootleggers,” must be both sane and Insane If he does the two things which he wishes to do—acts as his own attorney, and at the same time pleads insanity on that autumn day when he shot to death his second wife, Imogene Holmes Remus. A hard role, this, to play: for The Three Wise Men sit tensely alert against the wall, motionless, expressionless. Their eyes never waver from the dumpy, pudgy, trimly garbed figure of George Remus, one of the most picturesque, even if most evil, men of modem times. The Three Wise Men are the three alienists appointed by the court to say whether George Remus, defendant and defense attorney, is and was sane, or is and was Insane, or is sane and was insane, or is insane and was sane. They are Drs. E. A. Baber, Davis I. Wolfstein, and Charles E. Kiely, men who have spent a lifetime with men who chase butterflies or seek the fourth dimension till mind snaps. n * * OTHER murderers have faced alienists in open court, true. But George Remus is the world’s
Remus’s aged mother, who is sticking by him despite the charge of murder against him, visits him in his jail celL
first self-confessed murderer to have to go into action before the waiting, pouncing alienists, knowing that his every expression, his every inflection is being written down in either the debit or credit side of the ledger. For Remus is also his own counsel. If they find that Remus, as he claims, was “temporarily insane” on that day, will they necessarily find that he has recovered? Does Remus as he wheezes and huffs and puffs and swallows and sticks out his tongue and crooks his womanish fingers, know this? 000 NOT a clew in the eyes of the Three Wise Men. Their eyes never shift from “The King’s” face as" he tangles himself into yards and yards of meaningless verbosity, or when he clearly and keenly drives a point home and gets the prosecution’s objections over-ruled. Remus is more aware of The Three than of any others in that crowded, tense, electric courtroom. And the Three Wise Men sit still and listen and look as “The King” does his stuff. What does he want them to believe? (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) PARENTS CLOSE HOME TO JAIL-BREAKING SON And Then Compel Harry Lenta, Cannelburg, to Surrender Bu Times Sveoial WASHINGTON. Ind., Nov. 22. Harry Lentz, Cannelburg, Is back in the Daviess County Jail here today, his parents having refused to shelter him when he appeared at the family home after breaking jail Wednesday night. Not only did Lentz’s parents refuse to take him in, but compelled him to accompany them back to the Jail. “Tired, worn out and sore all over,” is Lentz’s description of his condition. He suffered considerably from exposure after his escape. He is held because of failure to provide SI,OOO bond in a surety of peace proceeding.
company paid $20,000 last year to persons whose Saturday night indulgence ended in flops. Six hundred persons undoubtedly familiar with the old wheeze,
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Remu’s daughter, Romola (left), who will testify for him at his trial, is shown with her mother, Mrs. Lillian Kraus, Remus’s first wife.
FIGHTS FOR LIBERTY Rich Youth, In Attack Case, Asks Freedom. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—Lawyers were to argue before the United States Supreme Court today to save from life imprisonment Arthur Rich, 23, wealthy Battle Creek, Mich., man. Rich, sentenced to life-In a State prison for a criminal offense against a student nurse, Miss Louise King, 19, at the time, brought two appeals from a Michigan Supreme Court decision upholding his conviction by a 4-to-4 vote. One of the appeals was to be argued before the highest tribunal late today, and the court yesterday dismissed the other. Young Rich has no further appeal if this court decides against him, except to the State Governor for clemency. Rich’s defense at the trial was that the girl consented to his advances, and that her Injuries were received in another manner. I!% said she drank. She said she did not. NEW SCHOOL DEDICATED Superintendent Speaks, at Opening of Clemens Vonnegut. "Education is not preparation for life, but for living and giving pleasure to those around us,” Charles F. Miller, superintendent of schools, said at dedication of the new Clemens Vonnegut school, Vermont and Fulton StsL, Monday night. The building replaces an old structure- erected many years ago through assistance of Clemens Vonnegut, S., grandfather of the present school board president, Theodore F. Vonnegut. The new two-story twenty-room building was inspected by nearby 300 persons. Miss Kate Mason, principal, gave the address of welcome.
The “open door” pplicy in American homes accounted for scores of split heads whose owners later split insurance checks-with bonesetters or what ever other type of medicine man ministered to their injury. 9 * m 'T'HE figures also show that baseball led all other sports In number of serious accidents. Golf was the third most dangerous and headed the list in total of insurance claims paid. The so-called brutal sports—boxing, football and wrestling were unable to score more accidents during the year than such
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COOLIDGE CANT SEE AIDCGURSE Mine Difficulty Must Work Itself Out, His View. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—President Coolidge was pictured at the White House today as knowing no direct solution for the problem of obviating hardships involved in industrial readjustments in the coal industry. While he was represented as glad to help in any feasible way in settling the present miner-operator differences, he was said to feel that hardship inevitably attends industrial headjustment—and that the coal business now is passing through such a period. He further was represented as feeling that considerable study will be needed before a settlemeent of the whole situation can be effected. It was announced he had turned over to the Labor Department, as promised, the request of labor leaders that he call a conference of soft coal operators and miners. FLIERS LEAVE HOME Cob hams ♦r Corsica on 20,000-Mile Air Survey. Bu United Press BERRE. France, Nov. 22.—Sir Alan Cobham, accompanied *by Lady Cobham and crew of four, took off at 9:05 a. m. today resuming their 20,000-mile aerial survey of London-South Africa air routes. Next landing will be Ajaccio, Corsica. Cobhams, in the world’s largest allmetal flying boat, started from Rochester, England, Nov. 17. Flight will require three months and be made in forty-three stages. NEW FIRMJTO CITY Removal of St. Paul Bag Company Expected. The Deubener Shopping Bag Company plant of St. Paul Is expected to be brought to Indianapolis as result of city council’s approval of a switch contract Monday nigfci. Council suspended rules on motion of Robert E. Springsteen to pass a contract for a switch at the old Parker Tire and Rubber Company plant, Holiday St. and Stanley Ave. The new plant Is expected to employ 150 persons, according to William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce civic director, who urged the council to act at once. The company had delayed acceptance pending council action. Boyton J. Moore introduced an ordinance to restore the southeast corner of Thirty-Eightn and Central Ave. to apartment district. The comer recently was rezoned for business on recommendation of Councilman O. Ray Albertson, who latter bought a'benefited lot.
mild diversions as fishing, boating, swimming, horseback riding, tennis squash and gymnasium exercising. Dancing will soon have to be classed as a brutal sport—during 1926 It clanged more ambulance bells than boxing. According to the figures, pedestrians were the safest class of the entire social order. At any rate, they collected least for accidents. Os course, Indianapolis pedestrians may have been kept too poor paying doctors for injuries received to pay very much for accident insurance. And those who weren’t, probably were kept so busy dodging traffic that the insurance boys were always just too late.
GANGSTER IS SLAIN IN NEW CHICAGO WAR Shot to Death as He Steps From Home to Go to Grocery Store. ‘KILL/ ORDER TO COPS ‘Scarface Al/ Dictator of Underwork, Fights to Keep Leadership. BY EDW’.N L. HECKLER United Pre 4 Staff Correepondent CHICAGO, Nov. 22.—Th longsmoldering Chicago gang w. r broke into open battle today. The first victim was said b* r po lice to be Frank (Big Ed) Herbert, 35. He was shot to death early this morning us he stepped out of his south sid'.- home to go to a grocery store. He was an adherent of the Joe Saltis gang. Two wars really were raging simultaneously. One was the battle of the gangs, which broke loose in widespread and unexpected quarters. The other was a desperate attempt of the entire police force to end the grip of machine guns and bombs on Chicago’s civic life. “Shoot to Kill,” Is Order “It is God’s mercy that no one has been slain in the last fortnight,” Chief Detective William O’Connor, almost an assassination victim, Monday told an assemblage of heads of 105 police squads, called together before Herbert was slain to receive orders to arrest gunnen on sight, and to shoot to kill any who resisted. War definitely was declared Monday after police had foiled a plot to kill Al Capone, gambling lord of all Chicago, and Tony Lombardo, head of the Unione Sicillano and virtual ruler of the Italian colony. Gunmen assembled around the city Jail and invaded courtrooms, in attempts to shoot down Capone, Lombardo and Joseph Aiello, a rising young gangster with his eye set on Lombardo’s throne. One gunman even drew a weapon in Chief O’Connor’s office. Fast action by police prevented the threatened bloodshed yesterday, but today it will be lnore difficult. Fourteen gangsters, including Capone and Aiello, were scheduled to appear before Judge William Helander to answer charges of vagrancy, disturbing the peace and other minor infractions. They were booked on those charges when they were arrested Monday by police, who desired to keep an eye on them in the hope of forestalling the war. Rival gang leaders will meet In the courtroom, and despite the efforts of police, it will be difficult to keep their followers from clashing, Scores of police were held ready today to guard the court and to attempt to prevent gathering of gunmen outside the building. Fight to Oust Capone But only the most optimistic of the police saw any hope of another bloodless day. The dispute between the gangs started as a row between gambling syndicates, but apparently it has spread to include the entire array of gangsters, gunmen, musclemen, and all the other castes that make up the complicated structure of the Cook County gangs. Basically, It has become a fight to oust Capone as overlord of vice. Other attempts to do that have been made, as many graves in Chicago cemeteries show. Aiello’s position in the fight was somewhat problematical. He la relatively a newcomer to the gangster ranks, although of his three brothers, at least one has long been a minor figure in the machine gun districts. Fqar Bloody Conflict Some said today Aiello had executed a coup and had become virtually a rival of Capone’s, and they likened the four Aiellos to the six - Genna brothers who challenged Capone years ago. The Gennas suffered the fate of defeated rebels. Angelo, their leader, died along with several other members of tha family. The survivors fled. Unless the police are able to work! miracles, Chicago will see Its bloodiest gang conflict in the next few weeks it was agreed. On the othe* hand, the police apparently wer making the most determined effort In yeafs to exterminate the gangs. “It has come to a pass,” O'Connor told his men, “where we must show that society and the police department are running this town, and not a bunch of dirty rats.” PARKED CARS PINCHED Portland Police Use New Method In Traffic Problem Bu United Press PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 22 Arresting the car and making it a prisoner is the answer of Portland’s police force to the traffio problem. After a car has been parked the limit, a police tow car comes and takes it away. When the system was first started the police were buried with stolen car complaints. An investigation, in most instances, revealed that the supposed thieves were policemen going their duty. Fight Fire in British Ship Bu United Press TOKIO, Nov. 22. Dispatches from Yokohama state that harbor police and firemen are aiding in fighting a fire aboard the British freighter, City of Madras, at No. fc. old customs pier.