Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1927 — Page 3

DEC. 10, 1927

SMITH STANDS ON HIS RECORD AS GOVERNOR A Political Realist, ‘AP Works at His Job; Lets Friends Boost. By RAY TUCKER NEW YORK, Dec. If the Democrats nominate A1 Smith for the presidency, they will have to take him on faith—and the promise held out in his record as Governor of New York State. Governor Smith will make his fight along the lines of the old hymn. “Just as I am, without one plea.” He will not seize any of the hundred opportunities offered him by admirers to expound his views on prohibition. State rights, international problems or any of the great questions around. which the next national election will revolve. Declines Invitations He repeatedly has declined invitations to speak or to visit sections of the country where there is a definite desire to see and hear him in action. It is probable he will decline the invitation to attend the so-called Democratic harmony dinner to 15e held in Washington early in January. Smith feels that he has made his record as Governor of New York, and that it is a claim which cannot be altered by anything he says or does between now and nominating time. His accomplishments as an executive and administrator, he believes. must be judged by the party. If deemed worthy of entitling him to a chance at the presidency, well and good. If not,'that will be his hard luck. Smith is a political realist of the old school. It is predicted, however, that his January message to the New work Legislature will serve as his personal Battle-cry and platform. His friends expect him to set forth therein the political creed and philosophy which have animated him during his twenty-four years in public life. Much Free Publicity The Smith people say they have not spent more than a few 2-cent stamps to stimulate the movements for him, which have sprung up in the far West and the South. Whole files of letters, newspaper clippings and magazine articles received at Smith headquarters from every State in the union seem to mean an extraordinary popular interest in the man, his personality and his record. Smith’s maintenance of his position as pace-maker is regarded by politicians as an extraordinary achievement. For months he has been walking the political tightrope, full in the spotlight, without suffering the loss which usually comes to any man enjoying such a lonely eminence. His backers attribute it to his insistence on tending to his job as Governor of New York. r

Congress —AND— Politics

Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. Theoretically, the Democrats control the United States Senate today for the first time in eleven years. With Senators-Elect Vare (Rep.), Pennsylvania, and Smith (Rep.), Illinois, deprived of their seats because of large campaign expenditures, the line-up of the upper house is: Democrats, 47; Republicans, 46; Farmer-Labor, 1The first big “break” for any Republican prospect for PfSsident came yesterday, when R. B. Creager, Republican national committeeman from Texas, announced that his State’s twenty-six votes would be cast for Herbert Hoover at the national convention. Coincident with the Creager statement, Galen Tait, Republican State chairman of Maryland, issued a letter asking Republicans of that State to consider Hoover as flieir candidate. These two delegations are first to break from the Coolidge ranks. Representative Wurzbach (Rep.) of Texas, doesiYt believe the army gets enough recreation, amusement, comfort, entertainment and health. He has introduced a bill providing* $400,000 to buy these necessities, to be spent at the discretion of the secretary of war. The five men mentioned most often as possible Republican presidential candidates are to be in Wasnington over the Vice President Dawes, Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Senators Curtis and Willis are here. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois ,\still arrive here today. Charles F. Hughes who this week eliminated himself is also here. Although Senator James A. Reed (Dem.) of Missouri, may file for re-election to the Senate, he is not to retire from the Democratic presidential race and the campaign instituted by his friends is ' to be prosecuted with renewed vigor, Senator Hawes (Dem.) of Missouri, in a formal statement here today. WOOLLEN GIVEN BOOST Banker for President Leaders in City Conference. Candidacy of Evans Woollen, president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, for the Democratic nomination for president was discussed hefe Friday at a conference of Woollen, A. C. Sallee, vice-chairman of the Woollen-For-President organization and William H. O'Brien, of Lawrenceburg. Woollen State chairman. After an all morning conference, O’Brien said the meeting had nothing to do with his rumored intention# to oppose Frank C. Dailey for the Democratic nomination for Gov-, ernor.

Kealing G. 0. P. Post Is Given to Woman

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Miss Dorothy Cunningham Js Named Now on Na* tional Committee. Miss Dorothy Cunningham, Republican national committeewoman, will assupie the duties of the late Joseph B. Kealing, national committeeman, who died this week, according to advices from Washington, D. C. William M. Butler, national chairman, pointed out that the national committee does not meet again until

Moon Bright, Head Light; Here Is Romance, Girlies

Luna Has Strong Powers Over Ships and Hearts, Scientists Find. Bn Times Snreinl WASHINGTON, Dec. .'.—Romances bud by mooniignt, Some explanation of just why they do may be found in a National Geographic Society bulletin made public today. The moon has the effect of making objects upon which -it shines much lighter, the bulletin says. The great steamship JLeviathan, for instance, weighs ten or twelve pounds less when the moon is directly over it than when Luna is nearer the horizon. This lifting power of the moon, which decreases the downward pull of gravity and thus lightens the object in its relation to the earth, must be the explanation yf the queer antics of human beings when exposed to its rays. / When young men and young women stroll in the moonlight and agree to continue their lives in the holy bonds of matrimony, they can blame it on the moon lifting up their hearts, or making them lighter in the head or some such thing. The effect \f the moon’s rays upon small objects is not great, lightening them only the' smallest

RICHMOND TO TAKE BUSSES FROM CITY

Indianapolis will lose some busses when lines of the Peoples’ Motor Coach Company and the Indianapolis Street Railway Company are unified, it became known today, through a letter from G. K. Jeffries, general superintendent of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company, to City Clerk Baltz A. Bescher of Richmond, Ind. Richmond will get the busses taken from Indianapolis. Robert I. Todd, street railway president, and Jeffries differed as to the number of busses Indianapolis will lose. Jeffries wrote the Richmond offical that that city will get bus service as soon as the Indianapolis lines

Silk Stockings Biggest Cost in Women s GaYb > • . Bu United Press ' . i CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—With one exception, that of outer wear, hosiery involves a larger cash outlay than any other item in woman’s dress, according to, the Federal census of Chicago wholesaling for last year, being made public by the Association of Commerce. , ' fudged by jobbers’ sales, women spend more for hosiery than for tneir underwear. Women spend more for than men spend for furnishings and haberdashery, more for hosiery than for furs. Women spend more than two and a half times as much for ' their hats as do men and boys for theirs, but women spend 50 per cent more for stockings than for millinery. More cash is spent with wholesalers for stockings by a fifth than bread, pies and other bakery goods, and four times as much as for all of the coal, gas, oil and electric stoves sold at wholesale in the Chicago area. * All the cement for concrete roads and the plaster and lime for the vast building operations in the Chicago area represent an outlay one-fifth short of that spent for women’s stockings. All the wholesale cash spept for ice, icemaking machines, typewriters, calculating machines, art good? and antiques is only a little moie than 40 per cent of what females spens for hosiery. „ ■■■ - ■ mi———

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the Kansas City convention June 12, and that therefore no emergency exists fdr naming a committeeman to fill out Mr- Kealing’s unexpired term. It also was pointed out that if anew committeeman were named by the State committee the appointment could not be approved by the National committee, since it does not convene until after anew committee is elected. Butler designated Miss Cunningham a member of the committee to settle content among delegates before the convention. Miss Cunningham was returning to Indianapolis today, after having attended the national committee meeting at Washington.

fraction of a pound. But they do have an effect, nevertheless. This pull of the moon, according to tjie geographic bulletin, explains the rise and fall 'of the tides. Because the moon is so far away its attraction is much less than that of the earth's and for that reason during moonlight objects on this earth are not catapulted through space to keep an unexpected date with the man in the moonTHIRD ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE SUCCESSFUL Bn United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 10—After three previous attempts at suicide, Henry Carducci, 42, finally succeeded Friday. A year ago C: rducci was tripped by his wife as he tried a running leap from the window of their thirdfloor apartment in Long Island City. Early today she found him seated over the kitchen range with all gas jets open, and persuaded him te return to bed. An hour '.ater, he got up, took a pen-knife from his pocket and slashed his throat. It was not a bad wound, and .e probably would have recovered. But a little later he put ’ s Hand to his throat and tore the wound open, dying soon afterward from loss of blood.

are unified and equipment is available. v Todd declared that the street railway company now is using several fusses belonging to the T. H., I. & E. and that these will be turned back to the traction company as soon as lines here are merged. Unification petitions are pending before the public service commission. Jeffries said the railway company has only one T. H., I. & E. bus, -and that he expects to get this and two other cars now in in Indianapolis for Richmond as a result of the merger. , Street railway officials have Insisted they would give better bus service when the lines were unified.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

COOLIDGE CITES CONTROVERSIES TO BACK POLICY Government in Business Disappoints; Affirms ‘Hands Off/ Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Citing recent controversies involving the Government with irrigation and shipping projects, President Coolidge has reasserted his determination to get the Government out of business, as soon as possible, and keep it out. Certain irrigation projects, sponsored by the Interior Department, have met decided opposition from private interests. Management of the Mississippi barge line has been attacked recently. Coolidge is reppresented as being “quite discouraged” that efforts to' help people have wound up in controversy. The Federal government cannot reasonably refuse to make improvements for on grounds its action might'eause disagreement, he believes. On the other hand, he thinks controversies should be eliminated, and that, so far as private interests are concerned, the best way to do it is to make the Government policy one of “hands off.”

Gone, but Not Forgotten

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BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Mrs. W. C. Newkom, 5608 Birchwood Ave., Studebaker, at Alabama and Washington Sts. Virgil Gurst, 806 N. Delaware St., Essex, at Meridian and Georgia Sts. AMUNDSEN WITHDRAWS Old ‘lnsult’ Brings Bela tec Resignation From British Society. Bn United Press LONDON, Dec. .10. —Because the late Marquess Curzon, in a speech years ago, called for three cheers for the dogs that accompanied ' Capt. Roald Amundsen to the South Pole, Amundsen today designed hisjjonorary corresponding membersTTip in the Royal Geographical Society. Amundsen never forgot what he declared was a gross insult to him. The ’’insult” blazed in his mind, and after refusing so withdraw his statement, he submitted his resignation SHIFT AIR MAIL PLANS Celebration to Be at C. of C. In- ' stead of Flying Field. The program celebrating arrival of the first air mail plane from Cincinnati to Chicago. Dec. 17, will be held at the Chamber of Commerce instead of Indianapolis Airport, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson, announced today. The change was made because of cold weather. Governor Ed Jackson and Mayor L. Ert Slack will speak. Married Scot; Would Deport Her Bit United Press BROOKLYN. N. Y.. Dec. 10—Mrs. Ella Benson Mackenzie, born in this country forty-four years ago. faces deportation, because she was the wife of a Scot. Renewals of her visa have been refused. Author Says Drys Criticise Christ Bn United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 10.—Prohibitionists, 1 said John .Erskine, author, today are telling the world that if Christ had been better informed, he would have turned the water into grape juice instead of wine. John D„ Jr., Has “Mean” Baritone Bn United Press TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 10.— John D. Rockefeller, Jr., exhibited a “mean” baritone last night when he joined a male'quartet and sang old-time favorites at an anniversary dinner of the Y. M. C. A. here.

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Famous String Quartet Will Play Here Sunday #

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The Flonzaley Quartet, composed of Adolfo Betti, Alfred Pochno, Iwan D’Archambeau and Nicholas Moldavan, will appear in recital at the Academy of Music Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.

Sorry Youth Galls to Youth in Terre Haute Burglary Case._

Bn Times Sneeini \ TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 10.— Youth calls to youth in a case before a local court. James Horsley, 19, is held under SIO,OOO bond on a charge of burglary, it being alleged he entered the home of E. H. Shelby and stole a suitcase filled with clothing belonging to Shelby’s young son, ''Robert. Young Shelby came to police

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headquarters and identified his property. But he has little ill feeling toward the prisoner. “I really feel sorry for the kid,” Shelby remarked, “and almost wish they wouldn’t send him up. There were other things in the room more valuable than what he took and he didn’t touch them. I hated to see them take the suit off of the kid in the detectives’ room. They gave him a pair of overalls instead because they wanted the suit for evidence.”

FIGHT CONVICT LABOR i- - Passes Bill for SIOO,OOO Brick Factory. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The Government will use convict labor to manufacture the briew to be used in construction of its proposed in-

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ADDED NAMES ONSMAUST Holly Berry En Route Home; Movies Shown Here. BY THE SANTA CLAUS EDITOR Holly Berry, The Times special correspondent, who accompanied the Times Polar expedition, which found the home of fj&nta Claus and succeeded in taking movfes of him in his home which are now being shown in Indianapolis neighborhood theaters, is “somewhere in ESkimoland.” He told his Indianapolis children readers yesterday, in his last story by radio, that he and The Times expedition, under Arctic Explorer Captain F. E. Kleinschmidt, werer starting home. The trip will take several months and much of the time they will not even be within radio comunciation of Indianapolis. He supplied The Times with a number of names of Indianapolis childrens' names, found in Santass boks. Some of these names will be printed in The Times each day. Watch for yours! Rosemary Sequarts, Florence Sequarts, Robert True, Robert Croach, Ivan Hied, Walter Helm,Jr., Kenneth Beplay, Donald Beplay, Beatrice Archer, Dorothy Arnold, Helen Mae Day, Alberta Allen, Dorothy Douglas, Mildred Anderson, Milared Ashley, Martha Davis, Juanita Jordan, Margerite Johnson, Eileen Meyer, Evelyn and Bobby Bauer. “Santa Claus,” the movie taken by the expedition is to be shown tonight at the Uptown Theater, 4213 College Ave., and the Rivoli, 3500 E. Tenth St.

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