Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 170, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1927 — Page 3

NOV. 24, 1927.

GOVERNMENT LAWYERS PRESS CASE AGAINST SINCLAIR

OIL KING, BURNS AND FOUR AIDS ON TRIALDEC. 5 New Evidence of Tampering With Jury Will Be . Presented. PROBERS STILL WORK Indictments Not Expected for Several Days; Clark Hearing Changed. Bv United Presi WASHINGTON, Nov, 24.—Government lawyers will begin tomorrow their preparation of the contempt case against Hairy F. Sinclair, oil magnate; William J. Bums International Detective Bureau head, and four of their lieutenants, who will go to trial here Dec. 5. They expect to be busy during the next ten days gathering evidence, summoning! witnesses, and otherwise getting ready to substantiate the charge of Jury tampering which induced the citations for contempt. The trial may last several days. The array of defense legal talent is expected to arrive prepared for a stiff battle. While the burden of proof rests upon it to show why Sinclair, Bums and the others should not be held in contempt, the Government will be called on to produce anew the evidence that United States Attorney Peyton Gordon presented to the grand jury. Center on Contempt Action Gordon and his assistant, Neil Burkinshaw, will devote their whole attention within the next few days to the contempt action. Indictments by the grand jury are not expected within the next few days. The jury will be in session until Jan. 3, and can return indictment on any date before that time. It is considering other matters. Citations for contempt signed by Justice Siddons were in the mail today and will be served in the next five days. Sinclair and one of his lieutenants, A. Mason Day, will be served by a United State marshal in New York, while the oil man’s other lieutenant, Sheldon Clark, will be served in Chicago.

Clark Hearing Dec. 5 Bums, his son Sherman W. Burns, and Charles S. Veitsch, head of Bums’ Baltimore office, will be served here Monday in the office of their lawyer, Charles A. Douglas, by arrangement with the district attorney. Hearing on the complaint against Clark individually, charging attempt to influence the jury, was continued from Friday to Dec. 5, coincident with the opening of the contempt trial here, and also coincident with opening of Congress. CHARGE $990 ROBBERY # Two Women and Man Held by - Police in Case. Two women and a man, held on vagrancy charges since Nov. 14, were re-slated by police Wednesday on grand larceny charges, for the alleged theft of two diamond rings valued at S7OO, and $220 cash from Guy Farrel, 540 Park Ave. Farrel alleges Miss Effie Davis, 26, of 530 W. New York St.; Miss Martha Skaggs, 20, of 1524 W. Washington St., and William Ferguson, 214 Beauty St., who were arrested by Detective Sergeants Roche and Foessati for vagrancy, robbed him while they were his guests at a party. POSTMEN GET HOLIDAY No Mail Deliveries Will Be Made on Thanksgiving. Indianapolis mail carriers will eat turkey at home Thursday. Regular delivery of mail will be abandoned for the day, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson announced. Collections and evening deliveries ' hotels and dispatch of outgoing mails will be made on the regular holiday schedule. Special delivery mail and perishable parcels received will be delivered. The same schedule will be observed by carrier stations.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Grace May, 728 N. East St., Chevrolet, 564-036, from rear of residence. Duward C. Davis, 1237 W. New York St., Ford, 548-789, from rear of residence. Wayne Ray, 1807 Ingram St., Ford, 29-363, from in front residence. Advance Publishing Company, 912 S. Meridian St., Ford, 521-226, from New York St. side of postofllce. Sam Beck, 240 Hudson St., Ford, 539-305, from Alabama and New York Sts. W. D. Grubb, 2940 N. New Jersey St., Nash, 6-955, from Ngw York and Meridian Sts. L. A. Van Kirk, 843 N. Meridian St., Nash, 534-264, from in front of 3 Virginia Ave. Harry Smith, 2341 N. Capitol Ave., Ford, from in front of 328 E. Wabash St. Dr. A. A. Norris, 2358 Broadway, Dodge, from rear of Y. M. C .A.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported recovered by police belong to: Ernest Ray, 1630 Shelby St., Overland, found at S. Rural St. and Pennsylvania Railroad. John Beaty, 2015 N. Pennsylvania St., Chevrolet, 309-163, found at Meridian and Sixteenth Sts. Harry Smith,"326 E. Wabash St., lord, T-2788, found at Meridian and Maryland Sts.

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Married twice within a week, Frank Lawrence Heffelman, 19, of 4441 Washington Blvd., and his bride, formerly Miss Cleo Alberta Conner, 17, but better known as Miss Cleo Myers, today were happy in the knowledge the marital knot has been securely tied. Miss Conner, Arsenal Technical High School student, and Heffelman were married at Jeffersonville, Ind., last Friday, the girl giving the

Parents Plead Return of Two Runaway Boys

INDIANA ASKED Fdß_s2oo.ooo Christmas Seals and Bonds on Sale Soon. Hundreds of Indiana citizens will swing into action within the next few weeks throughout the ninetytwo counties of the State in the annual sale of Christmas seals and

health bonds. Announcement frem the Indiana Tuberculosis Association today set the Indiana goal ,at $200,000. A total of 55,000,000

of the little holiday stickers, which are used on Christmas mail and packages, have been received at State headquarters of the anti-tu-berculosis fight here and are being distributed to county tuberculosis associations rapidly. The national goal is $5,000,000. That enormous sum is drawn together from forty-eight States and hundreds of counties through the sale of the Christmas seals at $1 a hundred. The State association is sending a bulletin to its hundreds of employes in counties in all parts of the State, emphasizing the smallnqss of the purchase price of the seals and the tremendous effect they have had in twenty years on he death rate in America. The tte has been cut in half by the . ampaign of public health societies, the bulletin points out.

TOLERANGEJS URGED Paul Coble Legion Post Hears New Commander. “Teaching of the right kind of civic responsibility and the rights guaranteed others under the constitution is our greatest safeguard in preventing the recurrence of an era of 'intolerance in Indiana,” Frank M. McHale of Logansport, Ind., State commander-elect of the American Legion told the members of Paul Coble Post, 26, at a banquet at the Indianapolis Athletic Club Wednesday night. These officers were elected: Dr. Frank L. Truitt, commander; Dr. Roy L. Smith, vice commander: Dr. Charles J. Cook, second vice commander; Dr. George Woods, finance officer; Dr. James M. Smith, historian; Dr. Kenneth L. Craft, adjutant; Dr. Wynn S. Owen, chaplain. Dr. Laura D. Carter. Dr. Chester A.Stayton and Dr. James H. Stygall are members of the Seventh district executive committee and Dr. William McBride, Dr. Carl Habich and Dr. Earl 8. Gilchrist alternates. Dr. Harry Jones. Dr. J. H. Eberwein and Dr. Paul T. Hurt are members of the post executive committee. FIRE $2 LOOT REVENGE Burglar Burns Clothes, Because "Swag” Is Scant. A chagrined burglar, who entered the home of John Ransdall, 1856 Quill St., through an unlocked window and found only $2 of vegetable;! as loot, set fire to S2OO worth of clothing. Firemen extinguished the blaze before it could gain headway. .

name of Cleo Myers, which she has used since the remarriage of *her mother, eleven years ago. Learning there was some question as to legality of the marriage because of the name, they obtained annulment of their first marriage from Judge George C. Kopp, at Jeffersonville, Tuesday and were immediately remarried by the Rev. E. A. Lassiter, Baptisf minister, under the girl’s legal name.

Thanksgiving Sorrowful Without Them; Have Been Forgiven. “Please come home for Thanksgiving,” was the plea of two Indianapolis mothers to their runaway sons today. “Come home. Everything has been arranged. You will Rot be forced to return to the high school. You can go to work.” Mrs Tolbert Flowers, 2116 Winter Ave., also would add this message to her son, John, 15, if she knew his where abouts. Because the boy had been absent from high school two weeks, a school attendance officer came to investigate Monday. While the officer and mother were talking in the front room the boy ran out the back door. Her husband has been out of work and funds were low, Mrs. Flowers said. Attendance officers have agreed to give the boy an employment certificate so he may go to work. Failure to get a job caused Omer Gandy, 16, to run away from his home at 2436 Spann Ave., his parents believe. “I’m going over to take that position, mother, I’ll be back in a few minutes,” he said, as he left Monday night. His father, Oscar Gandy, kept an all-night vigil and Tuesday asked police aid. ARMY CORPS TO MOVE Reserve Division Seeks New Quarters; Meridian Life Considered. Headquarters of the 84th Division, United States Army Reserve Corps, probably will be moved to the Meridian Life Bldg., within a few weeks, Col. H. R. Richmond, staff chief, said. Colonel Richmoond received authorization from the War Department to find suitable headquarters. The division will vacate its quarters at 24 E. Michigan St. to make way for the War Memorial Plaza.

Mail Early, Tie Securely, Is Postmaster's Warning

Dead Letter Office Claims Many Christmas Gifts, Bryson Says. . While you are mailing that Christmas package early, see that it is packed carefully, if you want it to reach its destination undamaged, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson warned today. Each year many Christmas gifts reach the dead letter office because they are wrapped insecurely or the address becomes lost. Strong paper and heavy twine should be used. Gifts such as umbrellas, canes and golf sticks, should be reinforced their entire length by strong strips of wood wrapped tightly. Articles easily broken or crushed must be coated or wrapped securely, using liberal quantities of excelsior, or like material. Ordinary boxes of cigars wrapped in paper only will not be accepted.

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RAPID ADVANCE MADE BY FLIERS, SAYSPATRICK Annual Report Praises Air Corps of Army for Efficiency. Bv United Prest WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Rapid increase in efficiency of the Army air corps during the last year was described by Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief or the corps, In his annual report’ to be made public today. Patrick, who is retiring on account of age, summarized his report as follows: “The adoption (by Congress) of the five-year program and the gratifying certainty that it will be carried into effect is a noteworthy step in advance. It is believed that by or before the time when this program is completed it will be recognized that a further increase of air strength will be necessary and fully warranted by the part which aircraft will play in warfare. Great Gain in Six Months “Six years ago there were practically none but war-built planes or planes constructed according to war-time designs. During this period there has been a great improvement in aircraft and aircraft engines.” The commissioned officer strength of the corps pas increased during the fiscal year to 960, a gain of for-ty-one, including two brigadier generals and a lieutenant colonel. In addition thirty-three West Point graduates were assigned to the corps. The enlisted pilot strength was reduced to forty-five. Satisfactory progress was reported in development of air bombs and plane guns and their accessories. Reliability Stressed “During the fiscal year suitable service planes have been produced in four types—pursuit, observation, training, cargo—and a large amount of experimentation expended on the bombardment type,” Patrick said. Addition of brakes to all types but primary training planes an>| the possibility of the use of air-cooled motors in all types of planes, were cited as new developments. “Structural characteristics of airplanes remain practically unchanged,” he added. "The general policy in effect at present is to stress reliability.” SAYS CONGRESS RULESJ.AKES Hughes Favors Chicago; Action Up to U. S. Bv United Prtst WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Congressional action to reduce Chicago’a diversion of Great Lakes water through her sanitary canal is expected to be sought this winter, as a result of Charles Evans’ Hughes recommendation to the United States Supreme Court for dismissal of suits to attain the same end. Hughes, as special master, reported to the court that the matter, a question of vital importance to a half dozen Lake States and Canada, was entirely within congressional Jurisdiction. James M. Beck, congressman-elect from Pennsylvania and counsel for Chicago in the case, said he was “gratified” at the decision. Particularly important, he said, was the ruling that the Federal Government, not the Lake States, control the Lake waters. It was on this that Hughes based his conclusion that the War Department’s permit authorizing Chicago to take out 8,700 cubic feet of water a second was legal, inasmuch as Congress has not acted. | BLAZE QUIZ REVIVED T— New Evidence Reported in Fatal Graystone Hotel Fire. New evidence in the investigation of the Graystone Apartment Hotel fire ten days ago in which nine lives were lost is expected to be revealed Friday. Coroner C. H. Keever said the new data does not relate to the fire’s origin. Keever refused to divulge any of the information which has been uncovered. He said several witnesses will be called.

They should be wrapped in corrugated pasteboard or similar material. Boxes of candy should be inclosed in strong containers. Sharp-pointed or sharp-edged instruments or tools must have points and edges fully guarded to prevent injuries to clerks. 'All articles easily broken or damaged must be marked “Fragile.” Care Should be used in giving complete addresses plainly written or typed, with return address. All valuable domestic parcel post packages should be insured. Pottage must be prepaid fully on all mail. Last, but not least, Bryson urged, mail all Christmas packages and greeting cards early. During holiday time the voliime of mail increases enormously and cannot be handled efficiently and promptly if mailed only a few days before Christmas. In order to make certain that gifts and greetings reach friends by Christmas day, they should be mailed at least a week or ten days before Christmas, depending on distance.

He Dresses His Girls Every Morning and Finds It Just an Ordinary Job

“Miss Ethlynda Smith,. 18, of 20 W. Washington St., is perfectly adorable in teddies,” says Thomas L. Wilcox. “Almost every day I dress her in the latest creations from Paris and New York from her combination suit to her dress. She likes to be fussed over and stands perfectly still while I arrange the lace around the bottom of her undies or adjust the straps,” says Wilcox. “Embarrassed? Why, no. You see I have been dressing ‘the girls’ for a number of years and get sort of used to ito They don’t object; they like it. In fact they are just

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like wax in my hands. Just exactly.” It’s a long cry from the old-fash-ioned wax dummies (right) of thir-ty-five years ago resurrected by H. J. Burnett, display manager of L. Strauss & Cos., to the modern models dressed by Wilcox, display manager of Selig’s. Burnett has had the ancient figures stored away in the basement of the store for years and had almost forgotten them. They were “modern” when our fathers rode highwheeled bicycles and Indianapolis had one mayor at a time. Moe was a good lad, but Ethlynda and flappers of her ilk pushed them into storage. But poor Ethlynda must remain perfectly cool even when a stranger pulls hose over her lovely legs—er, pardon—limbs. Should she blush she would melt—literally.

Big Shots! Two Mud Turtles Are Among City’s Most Valued Employes.

Bv J/EA Service HILLSDALE, Mich., Nov. 24.—The really big shots of the muck-raking business have been discovered. And they aren’t Washington politicians! They are ’Legger and Lightnin’, Hillsdale’s municipal mud turtles,

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and they clear up muddled situations faster than a crooked attorney can wade through a rich man’s income tax blank. ’Legger and Lightnin’ are clearersup de luxe. With a heavy piece of twine about their tails, to which a chain is fastened, 'Legger and Lightnin’ go a-gadding through the sewers of Hillsdale, dislodging silt and other accumulation and saving the expense and bother of waterflushing. / The two big muck and silt turtles from Hillsdale lose no time. What

it formerly took two men two days to accomplish, Togger and Lightnin’ perform in an hour. They are simply let down through one manhole and come up from another, proving you can’t keep a good turtle down in a sewer forever. Asked the secret of their success, ’Legger laconically replied: “Oh, I guess it’s because our thoughts run in the same sewer.” FIRM IS INCORPORATED State Automobile Company Presents Organization Papers. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Secretary of State by Owen J. Conrad and Carl R. Lomatch, of Indianapolis, and Owen M. Conrad of Evansville, for the State Automobile Company, 535 N. Capitol Ave. . Capitalization is 1,000 shares of common stock at no par, twenty of which are taken by the three incorporators at $lO and the other 980 by Owen J. Conrad. The compan, which has been operating without being incorporated, will sell automobiles, trucks, parts and accessories. The effective range of the United States army rifle is about 5,000 yards. The extreme range is about 6,000 yards, nearly three and a half miles. _

There IS a Santa Claus; Dogs DO Say Bow wow’

Learned Professor’s Book All Wrong, Says City Canine Expert. Along with the stories about Santa Claus we t may in good conscience continue another fine old family custom in Indianapolis. We may keep on teaching babies that doggies say “bow wow.” For a time it looked as if good Christian parents would have to forego this useful entering wedge in the process of evolving infantile gurgles into the* good English words. For came one Dr. Joseph Edward Harry, professor of classical languages and former lecturer at the Sorbonne University in a book called “Dog and Dogs,” with the declaration: “No English dog or any other dog has ever said ‘bow wow,”’ declared

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Dr. Harry. “It is impossible for the canine tongue to produce the sound ‘b.’ Yet for centuries every child of every nation, even before his prayers and alphabet are mastered, is taught that dogs sajr ‘bow -wow.’ Once having learned this fallacy, children accept it as gospel truth and perpetuate the ‘bow wow” tradition with the next generation. “Bunk” in effect, 1 answered Dr. C. F. Stout, head of a dog and cat hospital at 1430 N. Capitol Ave. “Whether his tongue can or can’t enunciate the ‘b’ sound, dogs certainly do emit barks which sound like nothing else but ‘bow wow,’ ’’ declared Dr. Stout. ( “Dogs make a variety of other sounds in barking, but you can’t listen to them for long years and believe that they don’t sometimes yelp “bow wow.” A block of offices that will constitute the largest building in the British Empire is under construction in Montreal.

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GOVERNOR ACTS TO END STRIKE IN MINE AREA State Troops Exonerated in Investigation of Fatal Colorado Fight. Bv United Preee DENVER, Nov. 24.—Governor William H. Adams today renewed his attempts to end the I. W. W. coal strike in Colorado. After a coroner’s jury in Weld County had exonerated State police of any blame for the deaths of five coal miners in the Columbine mine battle last Monday, Adams announced peace negotiations would be resumed. The Governor revealed that plans to take the strike before the Colorado industrial commission were nearing completion when the clash Monday upset preparations and necessitated calling out the militia. After listening for seven hours to conflicting stories of the Columbine battle, the Weld County Jury decided the miners were invading mine property after they had been warned legally to stay away. State police and miners, some wrapped in bandages, miners’ wives, and State officials who witnessed the battle told the Jury their versions of the incident. State officers declared that no machine gun was used. Miners insisted that the bullets came too fast to be fired from pistols or rifles. Riot Against John D. Bv United Pres NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—The Colorado coal strike disorders moved into Wall Street district yesterday. In the canyon of lower Broadway, in front of the famous No. 26 where the John D. Rockefellers, father and son, have their offices, determined men and women of Communist sympathies engaged in spirited battle with the hated “white collar” workers who rose to defend theft class. Fists flew and banners denouncing the Rockefellers and the “interests” disappeared in the melee. It took the police hour to rescue the invaders from the aroused clerks and stenographers. GUN TAKEN BY BOYS Police Seek Youths Who Entered South Side Hardware Store. Police today searched for two youths, who entered a hardware store owned by J. F. Fawsett, 2128 Morris St., and stole a shotgun Wednesday night. Fawsett told police two boys Wednesday afternoon asked to rent a gun for hunting expedition. When he refused they stormed out of the store, he said. He was awakened by falling glass Wednesday night and saw two persons, who resembled the boys, running from the store.