Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 174, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1927 — Page 9

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LEAGUE PARLEY WILL DISCUSS DISARMAMENT Russia and U. S. to Attend Meeting, Although Not Members. PEACE IN THE BALANCE Council Will Try to Reach Accord on Polish Threat to Lithuania. BY HENRY WOOD United Pres* Staff Correspondent GENEVA, Nov. 29.—The League of Nations, with the United States and Russia represented partially, will begin tomorrow a vital two weeks’ discussion of disarmament and high politics, on which peace of Europe may depend. The league’s preparatory disarmament commission meets tomorrow, with Minister Hugh Wilson, at Berne, representing the United States and a big delegation representing Russia. Its business is to discuss the nexf negotiatory step—and the first real one—toward bringing Europe’s armaments down from war level. The league council, or governing body, will meet next week, while the disarmament commission is sitting. Seek Agreement The council’s business will be primarily to take up appeal of Lithuania against aggression by Poland, which she fears. Effort will be made to effect an agreement between Poland and Lithuania, ending grave threat of trouble, ever present since Poland’s seizure of the Vilna district several years ago. It seemed so near a few days ago to precipitating a war in which Russia, Prance and perhaps most of the world would have been involved. Russia is deeply and openly interested, on Lithuania’s side. Prance is Poland’s ally, pledged to support her if attacked. Russia was present, like the United States, to attend the disarmament conference, but was expected to be busy on the side. As in previous league conferences, it was expected Russia would try to play a leading role. It was reported her delegates planned to demand that the league effect a nonaggression agreement binding till ►•wepe and that every one agree to jettison half of present armaments. Prospect Not Bought Prospect for disarmament is not bright. League experts say it will takey ears, perhaps fifty, really to disarm Europe. They will be content if they can remove the threat of war and thereby calm Europe’s fears and hats to a point where gradual disarmament can be begun some years hence. Immediate work of the commission is expected to be creation of a special body to work out a security plan by which nations can be guaranteed against attack. That will involve almost certainly an agreement by which nations would pledge themselves Jointly to make war on any nation that attacked another. Great Britain is no more friendly to the idea, than was the United States when it refused, for fear of being involved in such wars, to Join the League.

TRY TO BUY PARK SITE Kentucky Seeking $2,500,000 for Mammoth Cave Bu Timet Special LOUISVILLE, Nov. 29.—Organization for the drive which is to bring a national park to Kentucky is taking shape rapidly. It is believed the project will be completed before the middle of December. The Intensive effort to raise $2,500,000 to purchase the Mammoth Cave area and present it to the Government for perpetual maintenance and development as a park, will open Monday. By that time, it is expected, a volunteer army of 8,000 workers will have been completed. The State has been divided into ten regions, in which fund?raising efforts will be carried on simultaneously. Each region will have a separate organization. WANTS BRIDGE PERMIT New Harmony Club Will Ask Congress for Wabash Span Sanction. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 29.—A congressional franchise to build a toll bridge across the Wabash River at New Harmony will be sought through Representative Harry E. Rowbottom by the New Harmony Commercial Club, according to an announcement Monday by A. C. Thomas of that city. The firm of E. M. Elliot, Chicago, already has received a franchise for the bridge from commissioners of Posey County, Indiana, and White County, Illinois, and need only a congressional franchise before starting construction. River Yields $365 Tree Bu United Press COLUMBUS, Ind., Nov. 29.—A tree floating down White river near Walesboro, salvaged by Charles Havron, a fisherman, proved to be a walnut of the curly fibre variety, and was sold for $365. Sued; Kills Self Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 29. Leon Siegel, local insurance man, Is dead today a suicide by gas. He took his life Monday shortly after his •’ wife filet} lor divorce.

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She’s Cheated

Rosalind Hightower, who as Lady Godiva was to have led the Arts ball in Chicago, didn’t do her 100 per cent Godiva-ing after all. At the last minute it was decided to have a nice wax model do the heavy work.

IMMUNITY’ FLOP IN MUNCIE CASE Dry Raider Believes Story of Death Plot. . Muncie liquor defendants, arrested in Federal raids two weeks ago, were promised “Washington officials would intervene and prevent their conviction if they kept their mouths shut," Sanford Starks; prohibition agent assigned to continue investigation at Muncie, declared todaySince finding that Washington was not coming to their aid, a number of the defendants have admitted violations to Starks and expressed intention of pleading guilty, he said. Starks said several of the defendants told him Walter “Pete” Barlew, kjjown as the “Mayor of Muncie,” had promised them immunity if they “kept their mouths shut.” “We may have some startling disclosures to make in regard to liquor violations and official corruption in Muncie.” Starks said. Starks was in Indianapolis to report progress to George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator. He was accompanied by Joe Davis, Muncie prosecuting attomey.| “I believe Eddie Duffy told us the truth about conditions at Muncie,” Starks said. Duffy, held in the Marion County jail, is said to have made a statement in which he charged an attempt was made to hire him to kill George Dale. Muncie Post-Democrat editor; John Cox, a reporter for Dale, and several others. Starks said he was beginning to obtain corroboration of Duffy’s charges.

HACK IN OFFICE DEC. 15 Against City Delays New Works Board Head. Oren S. Hack, named board of works president, by Mayor L. Ert Slack Monday, will assume his duties about Dec. 15, it was believed today. Hack is attorney in a condemnation suit against the city, set for hearing Dec. 15. He will not accept a city appointment until after the litigation is settled. Slack did not indicate who other members of the board will be. It was believed Oscar F. Smith, president, will remain temporarily. The other member is John W. Friday, Democrat. Resignation of Charles L. Riddle, Republican, effective when a successor is named, was asked by Slack several days ago. RAY NAMED INSPECTOR Former Councilman Gets New City License Position Former Councilman Otto Ray, 1626 S. Randolph St., today was appointed license inspector by City Countroller Sterling R. Holt. He will succeed Louis Carniflx, patrolman, assigned to the city controller’s office. Ray will file application with the board of safety today. Ray was a Democrat council member under the Shank administration. Until Jan. 1, Ray will be rated as patrolman, after which time he will be license inspector. The new city budget makes provision for such office.

NEW YORK VISITORS SEEK WICKEDNESS, MISS BEST SIGHTS, WRITER SAYS

Bu United Press , NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—America’s so-called wickedest capital attracts thousands of visitors each year only to hide its true soul away from them when they arrive, in the opinion of Miss Helen Worden, well-known New York newspaper woman. Visitors To New York are divided into three classes by this young woman who has' seen them in night clubs at the theaters and along Broadway. , Sbe sees them ap first a serious

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CHICAGO BOMB WAR RAGES AS KING VANISHES ‘Scarface Al' Leaves on ‘Hunting Trip;’ Police on Giant Roundup. BLAST RIVAL’S ‘JOINTS’ Night Clubs, Cases, Prize Fights Visited by Squadron to Nab Gangsters. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—While police pondered over the sudden and mysterious departure of “Scarf&ce Al” Capone, gangster leader, on a "hunting trip,” bomb warfare for control of the city’s vice continued unabated. The two newest explosions were in a restaurant and a soft drink parlor, both said to be owned by Jack Zuta, one of Capone’s minor enemies and rivals. The bombs did little damage and police were inclined to regard them as a warning. Ed Foster, a lieutenant of Zuta, was arrested in the restaurant shortly after the explosion there. Capone Goes “Hunting” Meanwhile, the sudden departure of Capone, also known as Al Brown, overlord of Chicago gambling, had police perplexed. Friends of Capone said his life had been threatened recently and that, fearing for his safety, he had left for the north woods cm a deer and bear hunt.’ Police were inclined to believe the unprecedented absence of Capone during war-time presaged anew outburst. The police roundup of gunmen continued. Squads toured the city, visiting night clubs, cabarets, prize fights and restaurants in their efforts to round up all known gangsters. Machine 'Gun Squads Out Six new machine gun squads were organized, to pursue gangsters, Detective Chief William O’Connor announced. Four gangsters were arrested when police searched through a crowd of 3,000 persons attending a prize fight. Three speakers before the first meeting of the Cook County citizens’ commission today charged State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe with responsibility for the freedom w’th which gangsters operate. State Representative Howard P Castle, Judge Edgar A. Jones and the Rev. Simon Peter Long assailed Crowe and said lawlessness was ‘“closely connected” with the prosecutor, who, with Mayor William Hale Thompson, virtually controls Chicago political affairs. The commission was organinzed to “bring before the people the conditions of local governmental affairs.”

3 BISHOPS TO CITY Methodist Heads to Preach in Local Pulpits. Three Methodist bishops will address local M. E. congregations Dec. 11, Dr. Orlen W. Fifer, district superintendent, announced today. Bishop H. L. Smith, Helena. Mont., will preach at the Roberts Park M. E. Church at the reopening of the church Sunday morning after remodeling which cost about SIOO,000. Bishop Frederick D. Leete will preach in the evening. Bishop Joseph F. Berry of Philadelphia Pa., will preach morning and evening at East Tenth Street church. Dr. Fifer will fill the pulpit Sunday morning. Fletcher Place M. E. church, which has been remodeled. GUN BRAGGART IN JAIL “Revolver Could Tell Some Tales,” Negro Boasts; Given Chanel I “If this revolver could talk, what a mysterious tale it would have to tell,” boasted Samuel Frances, 36, Negro, of 2450 Ralston Ave., to police. Investigation started. Sergt. Patrick O’Connor and squad, searching for a man wanted by Federal prohibition agents, at the Ralston Ave. address, came across 125 gallons of liquor, three high-powered rifles, three revolvers and a large quantity of ai.'.munition. Frances and Elizabeth Matthews, 23, who were in the house, were arrested. • When O’Connor picked up a revolver, which Frances claimed was his, he started boasting, police said. See Coolidge on Flood Control. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Governor Paulen of Kansas and the State delegation here in the interest of flood control were presented to President Coolidge today by Senators Curtis and Capper of Kansas.

group looking for something more than Broadway nights, as a group of daring butter and egg men and finally as a group of timid butter and egg men. “But few of the visitors from out of town really see the real New' York,” she told the United Press. “Thefr territory is, with the exception of $ possible trip to Greenwich Vi’lage or Harlem, a narrow strip between the Pennsylvania station and the tip end

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOY. 29, 1927

Christmas Candies Grow Better , If Not Bigger ; Indianapolis Dealers Declare

teu*** - | \ way Harold Purcifleld, 1431 W. Twenty-Third St., is doing it in t * Uli u PP er picture. The malleable candy is drawn to the size of a mai |i. yis?-' jlb* ?•>. ■< xiplt -- iJrai finger from a mass the size of a ten-gallon keg. 1„ "f' Mrs. Therasa Bunce, 134 W. Maryland St., is putting choioh jt- A '< & Mmmm overcoats on cream centers by the wholesale. Below, Walter Bla k 1628 Spruce St., presides over a mammoth kettle of boiling fluid whi ist I ,?•/ e IjfjloimPii will be marshmallows before the day is over, and Miss Ruth Waite ■T 384 Stanton St., is coating luscious cherries to tempt Christmas can I kimmß HHKfIj buyers. ■lk Silk Stocking Tendency Re- niBDI 11 DfiDCO hfr-tr ” , I fleeted in Sweets, Stick DUIIIAL hUDCd BY DENNIS J. O’NEILL CARDING

NORRIS WILL ASK OIL PROBE REOPEN

Nebraska Senator Prepares Resolution to Present to Congress. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Senator Norris, (Rep.) Nebraska, will ask Congress early to authorize the Senate public lands committee to resume its 1924 oil lease investigation and trace the Continental Trading Company’s $3,000,000 Liberty Bonds, he said today. Part of these bonds allegedly found their way to former Secretary of Interior Fall, shortly after he leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserve to Harry F. Sinclair in 1922. What happened to the remainder of the profit of the company, which merely bought oil for resale, has never been ascertained. Norris suggested he wanted to learn whether it went to the Republican party as campaign fund contributions. If Norris’ resolution passes, Senator Walsh, (bem.) Montana, will be in position to investigate phases of the oil lease situation untouched in earlier inquiry. It is understood, Walsh intends to subpoena officials and directors of- the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Midwest Refining Company and Prairie Oil and Gas Company, as well as Sinclair’s subordinates. This would include H. M. Blackmer, head of the Midwest, and James O’Neil, head of the Prairie, who have refused to return from Europe to testify in the Fall-Sin-clair case. COOLIDGE WILL SPEAK President* to Address National Committee Reception. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—President Coolidge will deliver an informal address to the Republican national committee at a reception at the White House during the committee’s meeting here Dec. 6, it was learned today. y The President let it be known that he had no choice for a convention city, but felt that any one of several adequately could entertain Republican delegates.

of the bright light district on the north. “And the supreme triumph for some of them is the ability to get back stage in a Broadway theater.” st m HERE are some of the things that Miss Worden says many of the thousands of out-of-town visitors do in New York: They raise the prices of food, drink and amusements for New Yorkers: many behave like American tourists in France, feeling

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SEASICKNESS MASKED Device of Ship’s Surgeons Relieves 80 Per Cent of Cases NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Gas masks now are provided for seasick passengers on the North German Lloyd liner Stuttg&t and she came into harbor with the report than eighty per cent of the usual sickness was relieved on this trip by a device perfected by the ship’s surgeons. It hi nothing but a mask that supplies good, fresh oxygen with the tang of solid earth in it. TRIBUTE PAID I. U. HEAD Bryan Is Honored Guest of City Alumni Cli|b. Indiana University Alumni Club members paid tribute to Dr. William Lowe Bryan, university president, Monday at the Lincoln. Dr. Bryan, guest of honor, expressed appreciation for alumni cooperation. J. W. Fessler, attorney, outlined university growth in twenty-five years under Dr. Bryan. Dr. Charles P. Emerson, Indiana University School of Medicine dean, also spoke.

that only by spending huge sums of money can they really have a triumphal visit. They never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. the Aquarium or dozens of other places where many of the city’s most interesting things may be viewed. In many cases they see New York only from noon until 1 or 2 a. m., the morning hours being reserved for sleeeping. And in almost every case they spread the gospel of New York’s alleged wickedness

It takes skill and strength to “put the stripes in stick candy the way Harold Purcifleld, 1431 W. Twenty-Third St., is doing it in the upper picture. The malleable candy is drawn to the size of a man's finger from a mass the size of a ten-gallon keg. Mrs. Therasa Bunce, 134 W. Maryland St., Is putting chocolate overcoats on cream centers by the w'holesale. Below, Walter Blase, 1628 Spruce St., presides over a mammoth kettle of boiling fluid which will be marshmallows before the day is over, and Miss Ruth Walters, 364 Stanton St., is coating luscious cherries to tempt Christmas candy buyers.

Silk Stocking Tendency Reflected in Sweets, Stick Candy. BY DENNIS J. O’NEILL American tendency that has put Johnnie’s mother in silk stockings and father in a gear shift automobile Is affecting Johnnie's Christmas candy demands. He craves quality instead of quantity, Indianapolis candy manufacturers say. The day when it was necessary only to have enough bright-colored sweets to look pretty on the Christmas tree and to give Johnnie a stomach ache is gone, they say. Hard candy, long favorite with Christmas buyers, continues to hold the lead, but there is a trend toward higher-priced “filled” hard candy. “One Deciiliar fact about Christmas candy is that in so-called ’hard times’ more candy is sold than during ‘boom times.’ The theory probably being that when people can’t afford sn elaborate Christmas, they more or less fake one by having plenty of candy for the children,” John J. Darmody of the J. F. Darmody Candy Company, 25-27 W. Maryland St., said. Millions of pounds of Christmas candy are sold each year in Indianapolis. Huge factories, with candy making machines that-do almost everything but sing “How Good I Am” as they turn out a candy snow-storm, are kept running day and night for months. A big candy factory is more like Sahta Claus’ workshop than anything south of the North Pole. Machines do not do all the work. They are assisted by nimble, skilled fingers. The candy-maker’s hook, used In pulling taffies, have not been entirely dethroned. Any large factory, making higher priced candies, has a battery of these hooks constantly being lasooed by skilled workmen.’ The phase of candy making is good training for pugilists. An experienced taffy-puller usually has biceps which enable him to pick up a 100-pound sack of sugar In each hand and walk away. Stripes in stick candy result frqm skilled handiwork. Upon chunks of malleable candy, about the size and shape of a ten-gallon keg, strips of bright colored candy are, laid. After a highly-skilled process, in which the candy is drawn out and rolled into sticks by hand, stick candy with uniform stripes is evolved. By placing in strips of various widths before it is rolled, stripes of varying width result. It takes men built like blacksmiths to pull this candy into sticks and roll it properly. Perhaps that is where the blacksmiths went.

HT KNOW a real New York•M. er,” said Miss Worden, "who slept all night in the hand of the Goddess of Liberty that he . might see a sunrise on the bay. "The out-of-town visitor wouldn’t think of that, and if he did most of them would think it foolish. How many of them ever saw Mnhattan in a mist, looking from Queensboro Bridge, and how many of them ever were thrilled at sight of the city's great bridges?.

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BURIAL ROBES ONJARDINAL Bonzano’s Body Is Sealed in Casket for Funeral. Bu United Press ROME, Nov. 29.—The body of Cardinal Bonzano, dressed in full robes and covered with a mantle of rich red and gold silk, was sealed in a casket today ready for ceremonial burial Wednesday. On the head of the late apostolic delegate to Washington and papal legate at the Chicago Eucharistic Congress was placed his cardinal’s mitre. The body was placed in a heavy lead coffin Which was sealed with the cardinal’s arms. In the coffin was a biography and a eulogy. The coffin was placed in a walnut casket, adorned with the cardinal’s coat of arms. Until Wednesday the body will remain at the cardinal’s home. Daily, since his death, lines of prelates, monks, nuns and members of the American colony have viewed the body, and there have been masses daily in the cardinal’s private chapel for the repose of his soul. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon. FACES SLAYING CHARGE Auto Driven by Local Youths Kill. , Boys Near Straughn. Bu United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind., Nov. 29.—Albert Troy, 19, 559 West Dr., Woodruff Place, Indianapolis, was released on bond here, today to face charges of Involuntary manslaughter and passing a school hack discharging passengers as the result of the death of Harold Adam, 9, son of Mrs. Ellen Hassman, Richmond, who was struck when he stepped in front of the car driven by Troy Monday. Troy and William A. Shoemaker, Indianapolis, were returning from Richmond when the accident occurred. The Adams boy got off the school hack near Straughn, on the National Rd. to go to the home of his grandparents, and as he stepped from behind the hack was struck by the automobile. ONE LEGGED MAN LOSES ARM Bu Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Nov. 29. Isaac Frencher, 45, one lagged man, today is also one armed as the result of a hunting accident Monday. Both barrels of a shotgun he was carrying were accidentally discharged, the load striking his right arm between elbow ( and shoulder. Amputation was necessary.

“They come seeking wickedness, they see what they call wickedness, spend the savings of many months on it and then go away to tell about it.” In addition to the serious type ‘visitor and the daring butter-and-egg man Miss Worden says she has seen the timid butter and egg man, the type who treads lightly New York’s streets for fear he wm be arrested with evil com-

DRY LAW LEAK FOR MEDICINE j MAYJBEFQUNB Comma in Statute Possiß Hidden Spigot, State Lawyers Think. CITE EARLY DECISIONS Gilliom Indictment Would Be First Chance for Court Test. Does the Wright Bone Dry Ad really prohibit the use of liquor for medicinal purposes in Indiana? If the Adams County grand Jury indicts Attorney General Arthur I*. Gilliom for procuring whisky for his sister when she was near death In a Decatur hospital, this quesltion, never passed on by the Indiana Supreme Court, may be decided. For although most of Indiana has and still does believe that the State’s statute provides jail for anyone who uses whisky to save the life of a wife, or son or sister, some Hoosier lawyers have discovered a clause in the statute and old Supreme Court decisions which suggest to them the possibility that everyone has been wrong. But the Anti-Saloon League attorneys disagree. Cite Clause in Statute The attorneys who believe use of whisky may not be prohibited by the statute cite Section 2 of the act: "The words ‘liquor’ and ‘intoxicating liquor’ wherever used in this act shall be construed to mean all malt, vinous or spirituous liquors, containing as much as one-half of one per cent of alcohol by volume, and every other drink, mixture or preparation of like alcoholic content. whether patented or not, reasonably likely or Intended to be used as a beverage; and all other intoxicating beverages, drinks or preparations whether alcoholic or not, intended for beverage purposes.” The words “reasonably likely or intended to be used as a beverage” are the basis for their contention.

Claim Medicine Is Exempt These words mean, they say, that if it can be proved any liquor in question was for medicinal use Its possession, procurement or transportation is not outlawed by the statute. When the act makes “to purchase, receive, manufacture, transport, ship, possess, sell, barter, exchange, give away, furnish or dispose of any intoxicating liquor” a law violation, the words “reasonably likely or Intended to be used as a beverage” exempts medicinal liquor, they assert. Whether or not they are right depends on a comma and an “and.” For Anti-Saloon League attorneys separate that part of the sentenoe into two parts at the comma just preceding the phrase, “and every other drink, mixture or preparation of like alcoholic content.” The phrase which the medical liquor attorneys point to hopefully refers only to this latter section of the sentence, say the dry league lawyers. Examples in Old Laws The Supreme Court rulings to which attorneys who see hopes for legal use of whisky as medicine point all hold that liquor for medicinal purposes was exempt from old statutes regulating liquor sales. In one case *decided in 1850* a druggist who sold a pint of liquor for use as medicine to a minor for 10 cents was held not guilty although statutes prohibited sales of booze to minors. In an 1875 case a person without a permit to sell whisky, who sold for medicinal purposes, was held not a law violator. League Not Certain In 1881 on a case where a half pint of whisky was sold for 25 cents the court declared: “It is true that the statute, under which the appellant was indicted, contains no exceptions authorizing the sales of intoxicating liquors* without license for medicinal, chemical or sacramental purposes. But it has always been held by this court, in construing similar statutes, that the courts will except, from the prohibitory or penal provisions of the statute, all bona fide rales of such liqoors for such purposes." Anti-Saloon League attorneys are not deflinite in their answer to this citation, but hold In general that the specific provisions of the Wright Act outlawing all “intoxicating liquor" should not be Interpreted as in the old decisions. BOOSTS AIRPORT DRIVE Flier Lands at Marion for Inspection of Sites. Bu United Press MARION, Ind., Nov. 29.—Plans for establishing a municipal airport here for passengers and private planes, fostered by the Junior Association of Commerce, gathered new impetus when Lieut. Paul Payne, a reserve officer in the United States Army aviation division, at present connected with the Indiana Airways Association, flew to Marion from Indianapolis and inspected possible landing fields at the edge of the city. The Indiana Airways Association, with headquarters at Bedford, eventually hopes to establish regular passenger service between Indiana’s principal cities. Representatives are examining possible places near cities on the proposed routes. Many of tbs fields have been viewed,*