Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1927 — Page 9

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TROOPS HALT IMPEACHMENT IN OKLAHOMA 85 Legislature Members Are Dispersed in Effort to Convene. CARRY RIFLES, PISTOLS Johnston Gets Injunction to Bar Probe Committee in Ouster Report. By DON A. HIGGINS united Press Staff Correspondent OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 12. Governor Henry S. Johnson, fighting with troops and Injunctions against an insurgent legislature determined to impeach him, succeeded today in preventing a session of the lawmakers in the State capitol. Troops of three national guard companies, called out of bed at 2 a. m., to guard thte Statehouse, dispersed eighty-five members of the legislature, who attempted to meet in the legislative chambers at 10:30 a. m. Seventy guardsmen were on duty at the capitol, under command of Brigadier General McPherson. They carried rifles and pistols, but no machine guns and been mounted. Obtains Injunction Governor Johnston also obtained in district court today a temporary injunction restraining the lower house’s investigating committee from submitting articles of impeachment to the House. It also prdhibited filing of impeachment charges against any other State official. Nevertheless, insurgent leaders announced the Governor would be impeached by the House tomorrow night. In mid-morning a military order was issued forbidding more than four persons from meeting and conversing in the capitol building. The rotunda was roped off to assist troops iu preventing assemblage of groups. Reporter Is Ejected A newspaper man who asked to see the orders under which assemblage of more than four persons was prohibited was ejected. He was re-admitted later. It was the second time in four years that troops had patrolled the State house. Governor Jack Walton called upon the militia to hold his office when an insurgent Legislature sought to oust him in 1923. He dispersed one session of the Legislature but was forced to call another which impeached him. Thirty troopers guarded the doors of the legislative chambers. Ropes were stretched across corridors leading to the chambers. Months of Unrest Governor Johnston based his use of troops to defend his position on the alleged illegality of the legislative session, which met without call from the chief executive. The Governor’s office was one of the few" unguarded rooms in the capital. The entrance of troops into the dispute followed months of political unrest, directly traced, according to veteran observers, to Governor Johnston’s refusal to dismiss Mrs. O. O. Hammonds as his confidential secretary. Opponents call her the “Governor in Pact” of Oklahome and Johnston’s “Mrs. Colonel House.” The Governor is charged by the Legislature with incompetency and actions contrary to the public good.

HOOSIER WILL ATTEND PREXY’S INAUGURATION Aid to De Pauw President to See Hughes Made Hameline Head. Bu Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 12. W. Henry McLean will represent De Pauw University at the inauguration Tuesday of Alfred P. Hughes as president of Hameline University, St. Paul, Minn. President Hughes vras formerly president of Evansville College. . McLean, who is the assistant to She president of DePauw, will speak fejfedfiesday before the De Pauw Association of St. Paul, H|£knd vicinity. He has also to give a series of talks Hameline on various aspect of' safeial relations. BACK SAFETY Real Estate Board Names Committee to Aid Organization. Organization of a safety council for Indianapolis will have the assistance of a special committee of the Indianapolis Real Estate &oard. L. H. Lewis, president, named as its members, Frarfk P. Woolling, chairman, Joseph J. Argus and Everett M. Schofield. President Lewis has been chosen by the directors to attend the midwinter conference of the National Association of Real Estate Boards at Houston, Tex., Jan- 25-27. Other local realtors who expect to attend are William Low Rice, Frank E. Oates and Thomas F. Carson. ' 11 Girl Sues for 910,000 MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Dec. 12. —Damages of SIO,OOO for alleged loss of her moral and social standing has been filed by Miss Ella Schaeffer, 21, against her former employer, Arthur O. Kring, who, she alleges, attacked her when they were alone in his office,

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It’s ‘The Tie That Binds’ Legislative, Liquor Decisions. “Red tape” is no figure of speech in the Indiana Statehouse. Its always there, but increases four-fold when the Legislature meets. When you say “red tape” to J. Otto Lee, printing board secretary, who has charge of the purchases of the “tie that binds” all Statehouse documents he envisions yards and yards of long narrow, blood-hued twine, one-eighth of an inch wide, reeling into infinity. “If all of that tape was left unsevered the Statehouse has used enough in the last twenty-two months to reach from the Capitol to Broad Ripple and there is enough left over to tie a few bows about the gigantic neck of the lady gracing the Circle monument,” said Lee. Many Uses Possible The same amount of red tape could have been used to pennon the city’s electric light and telephone wires when Marie visited the city a year ago, if someone had thought about it. Only members of the State Board of Accounts are permitted to ascend to higher mathematics, but here goes. Each spool of tape has seventytwo yards, 155 spools has been used in twenty-two months. That totals 11,360 yards, or 34,080 feet. .The Supreme Court Clerk alone has used forty-eight spools, 3,454 yards or 10,368 feet in the last yearLiquor Decisions Bound Slightly more than one yard is used for the collection of briefs and records, in each case, therefore, a conservative estimate says that 3,000 cases have been handled during that time by the clerk. Two-thirds of the cases that come up concern liquor violations! therefore liquor violators were responsible for the use of approximately 2,000 yards of tape. All legislative documents are bound with red tape as are public service commission records. C. OF C. TO HEAR BANKER Chicago Man Will Tell of State Limestone Industry. Lawrence H. Whiting, Chicago investment banker who financed a merger of twenty-four limestone companies in the Bedford-Bloom-ington in 1926, will speak Friday at the Chamber of Commerce open forum luncheon on “Indiana’s Limestone Industry.” Whiting is chairman of the board and finance committees of the Indiana LimdStone Company.

‘MODERN MURDERESS,’ THEY SAY OF FLAPPER WHO SLEW HUSBAND WITH HAMMER

BY ALLENE SUMNER NEA Service Writer PERRY, Ohio, Dec. 12.—A fluffy, blond-headed bride of 21, weighing less than 100 pounds: Smashed her young husband’s skull with a claw hammer and table leg in this little town the other night— Bound his dead body with cords— Nonchalantly pulled anew green hat over her sleek bobbed head— Drove thirty-five miles to a friend’s home and a bridge party, where she won all the prizes and sang jazz songs—

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1 DEAD. 6 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK Suspect Vandals in Detroit Limited Crash. Bu United Frees PITTSBURGH, Dec. 12.—One man was killed and six persons were injured when the Detroit limited train of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was wrecked on a curve Sunday night at Guffey’s Station, twenty-five miles east of here. Reports from officials of the railroad today indicated that the train was wrecked maliciously. Investigation, according to railroad cals, showed that bolts had been removed from the angle bar and spikes removed from the ties on the rail on the outside of the curve. The dead: C. R. WEEDER, McKeesport, Pa., baggageman. The injured: Charles Beltz, 58, engineer, Hazelwood, Pa. John Kelly, 60, conductor, Myersdale. Walter Endler, fireman, Hazelwood. Mrs. Thomas G. Simonton, Pittsburgh. Mrs. C. J. Pari, Aspinwall, Pa. John Burklica, 7, Pittsburgh. E. A. Peck, general superintendent, reported “investigation showed that bolts had been removed from the splice bar and spikes pulled on the outside of the high rail of the track.” WILL MAKE OWN MUSIC Soviet Union Bans Instrument Importations. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Soviet Russia has stopped the improtation of musical Instruments, according to a brief announcement in the Moscow Economic Life, a publication that has Just reached the Department of Commerce. It states: \ “The Commissarial of Trade of the Soviet Union brings to the attention of all interested organizations and persons that importation of musical instruments is forbidden. No licenses for obtaining musical instruments from abroad will be issued.” While no reasons are known here for the ban, the presumption is held that the Soviet regards musical instruments as a luxury and will open a factory to fill such requirement as are found to exist.

Slept all night like a child— Ate a heaify breakfast— Spent a day Christmas shopping, buying some gifts for the murdered husband in the love nest— And only aSked for more cigarets which she calmly puffed when the sheriff came to get her. a t tt THERE, in the person of Mrs. Velma Van Woert West, you have a perfect picture of what officials are calling “the modem woman murderess.” The poise and coolness of modern woman have been much discussed of late. But Velma West, konwn as “A Night Club Girl in a Curfew Towp£ is the first woman

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WETS REPORT INCREASES IN RUMARRESTS Drinking by Youth General, Moderation League Survey Shows. DRY STATES NOW OASES Police Records Since 1916 Are Searched for Data on Intemperance. BY ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Prohibition hasn’t only come in the United States—it has come, and gone. So, in effect, contends the Moderation League, Inc., an anti-prohi-bition organization, in a national survey issued today which declares that drunkenness has increased 136 per cent over 1920, the first year of national prohibition. The calculation is based on police department reports from various cities. U* S. Leaders on Board The league has headquarters in New York. Among its directors and advisory board it lists William N. Dykman, president of the New York State Bar Association; Bishop Charles Fiske, bishop of Central New York; Haley Fiske, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union. Conclusions set forth in its 1927 report are: 1. Drunkenness increased almost as fast in 1926 as it did in 1925, and somewhat faster than in 1924. In the 602 places reporting, arrests for drunkenness increased from 650,961 in 1924 to 687,812 in 1925 and 711,889 in 1926. Peak Was in 1916 2. In 534 cities, arrests for drunkenness in 1926 increased 136 per cent over 1920, the first year of national prohibition. 3. In. the 403 cities reporting from 1914 to 1926, arrests for drunkenness in 1926 were higher than any previous year, save only the war-boom peak of 1916. The 1916 peak was 563,792 arrests for dr,mk.enness and 1926 almost reached it—being 559,074. 4. Conditions in the former socalled “dry” States are very much worse today, compared with 1914, than art conditions in the so-called “wet” States. In the dry States, the number of arrests for drunkenness went up rather sharply in 1926, and exceeded any year heretofore; whereas in the former wet States, 1926 slightly exceeded the 1914 level, but did not quite reach the 1916-17 peak. Charts are offered in support of the argument that there is more drunkenness in specified cities now, under national prohibition, than there was before the Volstead law. Dry South Cited Birmingham, operating under a State-wide restrictive law in 1915 (which permitted the importation of two quarts of spirits, five gallons of beer or two gallons of wine every fifteen days for personal use), had 3,481 arrests. In 1916 arrests fell to 907 and the yearly average from then until 1919 was 924 arrests- With 1919, the year of the Volstead law, Birmingham’s drooping curve turns upward until for 1926 it shows 5,886 arrests for drunkenness.-

Despite New York City’s reputation for “wetness,” the survey discloses that drunkenness was at its peak there in 1903 with 53,396 arrests; that this number declined to 6,855 in 1919, or one-eighth the 1903 level. Since 1919 arrests have risen to about 12,000 a year. Candidly enough, the survey admits that no effort has been made to estimate changes in population in the 602 reporting cities, as such estimates necessarily would be speculative. / The survey paints a dark picture of increased drinking among boys and girls, especially those of high school age, and quotes several police chiefs in this connection. HUSBAND OF FORMER INDIANA WOMAN PAYS Movie Magnate to Permit Divorce—sllo,ooo One Item. Bu Times Bvecial EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 12. Mary Aiken Carewe, former Evansville woman is to be given a divorce from Edwin Carewe, Los Angeles, Cal., movie producer and director, and receive SIIO,OOO in cash, a home in Beverley Hills, Cal., a $22,000 trust fund and S3OO a month 1 for support of her children, the husband announces. The couple was married nearly three years ago. Carewe, in announcing financial details of the separation, said there was no hope of a reconciliation.

known to execute a murder with something of the same tttitude with which other modem young women handle home and job, or do other feats unknown to the more hysterical women of olden days. The murder of young' “Ed” West, 26, has startled the country. . > The murdered man belonged to a nationally known family. His father, T. B. West, is a man whose nurseries are known the country over. * • TjERRY thrilled when It heard A that popular Ed West had brought a city girl home for his

City Boasts Only ‘Cheer’ Class

|p!f They might be called “th: class WMJr PPPP’ sprightly youths in the abbrevl--1 They 1 are furthermore unique in W*', M.W&f ?,IL **&£&s* W that they don’t utter a word L ** * •; wild-eyed basketball rooters at V* l I Warren Central High School, j , Under Instructor O. F. Ingle the - v boys are studying how to control BgaEiaig!MHßßßgßßsiLl '"*"" l 11 ' mmmmmmmm ————4 the vocal c utbursts of a crowd by

Top (left to right), Thonjas Smith, Bob McDonald and Billy Spicklemler. Front, Harold King. Bottom, Raymond Borgman (left), and Chester Danner.

LAKE CREW SAVED IN BLIZZARD FIGHT

Maid Wanted Enter, the girl burglarthrough the kitchen Window. Exit, the same way, bearing $3.50 she had taken from the trouser pocket of Abe Klapper, 1025 S. Senate Ave. Mrs. Klapper, awakened by a noisy move of the girl, ran to the kitchen in time to recognize her as' a young woman, who formerly had worked for the family, she told police. I

PRESS GROUP ELECTS Terre Haute Man to Head Normal School Body. William C. Jardine of Terre Haute State Normal College was elected first president of the Press Association of Indiana Normal Colleges, organized Saturday at the Indianapolis Teachers’ College. Other officers are Miss Easperance E. Hilt, of the local college, vice president; and Donald E. Grise, Indiana Central College, University Heights, secretary-treas-urer. The schools represented were the Indiana State Normal, Terre Haute; Indiana Central College, Indianapolis Teachers’ College, and Indiana State Normal, eastern division, Muncie. Other schools eligible for membership are Danville Normal, Vincennes University, Goshen College, Oakland City College and Valparaiso University. GARDEN GROUP TO MEET Purdue Professor Will Speak on Lawns to Flower Society. Prof. S. D. Conner, of the Purdue University experimental department, will speak on “Lawns” at the Garden Flower Society meeting Wednesday night in the Central Library. Prof. Conner wil tell how to eliminate dandelions \nd other weeds and to produce the oest growing conditions for lawns.

bride. Perry wanted to meet the bride. A reception was given by the young bridegroom’s parents. All Perry was invited to the big West home. All Perry came. Just what happened is not clear. But the family of the murdered man admit that “Ed’s wife” was never “taken up” by Perry. Velma West was "different.” She smoked cigarets, and plenty of them, in public. Maybe other Perry girls smoked, too, but behind locked doors with only a bosom friend or so for beholder. Velma West was indifferent to all the things that Perry held dear —old families, old boobs, old music, old friends,

Twenty-One Men Taken Off Shattered Vessel; One Ship Aground. Bu United Presi \ ANN HARBOR, Mich., Dec. 12. The 21-man crew of the steamer Altrodoc has been rescued by the coast guard cutter Crawford, after fate of the men had been in doubt for days. Fighting one of the most severe lake blizzards in years, the Altrodoc was driven aground on a reef, according to the story of the crew today. A large hole was ripped in her prow and one side smashed in against the reef. The Vessel split near the middle and the lower parts w ire flooded. Four men made their way ashore in an open boat Saturday and brought the Crawford to the rescue After battling the ice-jammed reef for nineteen hours, the Crawford was able to get close enough to rescue the crew. Steamer Still Aground Bu Times Bvecial PORT ARTHUR, Ont., Dec. 12. The steamer Martian, with its crew still aboard, remained fast aground on Hare island today, despite efforts of the freighter Glen Eagle to float it. The ship was not believed to be in immediate danger. Anxiety was felt for the tug Champlain, which went to the rescue of the Martian Friday, and has not been heard from since. Wreckage from the steamer Lambton, 250-ton freighter, was found by coast guardsmen. The vessel had broken in two off Isle Parisienne. The coast guard cutter was unable to approach the wreckage, because of ice and high seas. The tugs Sabin and Illinois circled the disabled vessel, but saw no signs of life. Footprints in the ice leading to shore led to the belief that the crew of twenty-two from the Lambton had sought shelter on the island.

Velma laughed at the old and talked much about the “kicks” and "thrills” of life. She was invited out a little at first by "Ed’s friends." But Velma was bored by the parties. Besides, the Invitations seemed to die a natural death. 1 So the young Wests began finding their good times in Cleveland, about twenty-five miles away. I 0 THREE and four times a week the shiny green roadster took the road to the- big city. The dead man’s relatives say that Ed didn’t always want to go, He worked in

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They might be called “thu class in organized enthusiasm,” these sprightly youths in the abbreviated costumes. They constitute what probably is the only class of Its kind in Indiana—a class in cheer leading. They are furthermore unique in that they don’t utter a word while they direct the yells of their wild-eyed basketball rooters at Warren Central High School. Under Instructor O. F. Ingle the boys are studying how to control the vocal outbursts of a crowd by mere motions of the body. A cheer leader shouts the yell to the crowd and then the tumblers, by rhythmic motions, keep them together. The student cheer leaders get credit in the gymnasium course.

SEIZE CANTON; LOOTANO BNRN Battle Rages as Communists Hold Chinese City. Bu United Press HONG KONG, Dec- 12.—General Li Fu-Klum, “King of Honan Island,” today launched a -strong counter attack against Communist laborers who yesterday seized Canton, looted and burned many business establishments, and killed scores of policemen. General Li’s forces today crossed the Canton or Pearl river and recaptured police headquarters from the Rebels. Fighting was still going on in midafternoon. Twenty thousand Communist laborers, with the assistance of some troops who revolted, captured the city by a coup yesterday while loyal troops were absent on a civil war campaign.^ The laborers disarmed police, and began looting and burning. At one time twenty fires were raging in the city. Before long the city was completely under the Communists’ control. Scores of police were killed in the fighting. All government officials fled to Honan Island, in the river opposite the city. POSTAL DEFICIT IS CUT $9,000,000 UNDER NEW Postmaster General’s Report Shows $23,000,000 Revenue Increase. Bu Times Bvecial WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The United States Postofflce Department, long cited as an example that Government business is unprofitable, is slowly cutting down its annual deficit. Postmaster General New has Just laid before Congress figures showing that in the year just past the annual deficit was nearly $9,000,000 less than In the year before. This left a deficit of $28,000,000. The department’s revenues increased by $23,000,000 last year, though there was no raise in postal rates.

his father’s nursery all day long, and was tired nights. “Let’s stay home tonight, Velma,” he is quoted as often saying. “Let’s just stay here alone and you play and sing while I sit in the big chair with the paper, It’ll be cosy.” But Velma wouldn’t stay. The city was in her blood—part of her. Folks went to bed at 10 o’clock in Perry. And so they quarrelled. The quarrels became more frequent, and then the “Night Club Girl in a Curfew Town,” in a “red rage,” she says, struck down her mate, left him dying, and drove away to be the “life of another party” —and maybe to the electric^chair,

CHARGES OF HEARS! STIR MEXICO’S IRE Protest Made on Subpeona of Consul for Inquiry by Senate. FORGERY IS ALLEGED Scoff at Accusation That * Calles Tried to Bribe Four U. S. Senators. BY CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Congress’ latest investigation outburst tended today to overshadow the real business of the session. While the Senate turned to thtt task of organizing—completing committees do the behind-the-scenes work on important bills—and the House plunged deeply into the tax reduction measure, the HearstMexican investigation and the preliminaries for further Vare-Smith election investigating occupied considerable of Senate members’ time. The investigation into the Washington Herald (a Hearst paper) publication of documents purporting to show a plan of President Calles of Mexico to bribe four United States Senators had taken a sensational turn over the week-end when the State department was called into the matter. Mexico Stands on Law >; Mexican Ambassador Tellez, standing on a generally recognized principle of international law, sought to prevent the Reed (Pennsylvania) committee from enforcing a subpoena served on Consul General Elias of New York. The State Department supported Tellez, and sought to call off the Senat* investigators. Chairman Reed of the committee conferred Sunday with Assistant Secretary of State Castle, presumably on the question of safeguarding Mexico’s rights. The Mexican government is understood to be qute willing that Elias testify, but resents the subpoena. Members of the committee Saturday had said merely that Mexican officials would be “invited” to attend, but subsequent developments indicated a subpoena for Elias actually had been ordered. * Call Documents Forgeries The Mexicans hold the Hearst documents are forgeries, and are represented as feeling that William ’ Randolph Hearst is the man to subpoena rather than Elias. American diplomats frankly admit they would not expect such* treatment of United States consuls in Mexico or anywhere else. Around Capitol Hill there was much speculation as to why this form of procedure was undertaken. Reed insisted that the investigation was intended to clear an Implied blot on the Senate’s integrity. Others suggested that, along with such motives, Reed might perhaps see an opportunity to complicate or obscure the Vare seating fight issue. “Herring on ’Trail” In this connection, it was recalled that at the height of the oil investigations a few years ago, a “red” scare was developed, which some then suggested was a case ot drawing a “herring across the trail.” In any case, the subpoena issue, coming at a time when the Administration is seeking to improve Mexican-American relations, served to cause some embarrassment to State Department authorities. The upshot may be withdrawal of the subpoena or a denial that it was issued. .

DELUDED HUSBAND DIVIDES WITH WIFE Hammond Man Learned of Divorce After Seventeen Years. Bu Times Svecial HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 12.—John Donaldson, who lived with a woman seventeen years under the belief she was his wife to learn recently that she obtained a divorce from him in Chicago, in 1910, has made a friendly division of the $30,000 worth of property they owned in common. A partition suit gave the wife her share. The couple was married in Mich** igan in 1904 and came to Chicago. In 1910 while Donaldson was working here, his wife divorced him in Chicago, but never so informed him. A few weeks ago a friend he encountered on a train informed him. of the divorce and the couple immediately separated, division of the property being the last chapter of the parting.

WOMAN IS CLUB VICTIM Attack on Kokomo Attorney’s Wife Second Case in Few Weeks. Bu Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 12.—Mrs. A. C. Phillips, an attorneys wife, is suffering from a broken finger and scalp lacerations as the result of an attack Saturday night by a clubber, the second case of the kind here in a few weeks. Answering a knock at the front door of her home, Mrs. Phillips was seized by a man, who dragged her into the back yard and beat her with a revolver. Leaving the woman unconscious, the man entered the house and stole $2. After recovering her senses, Mrs. Phillips went to the home of neighbors and told of the attack. She was unable to describe her assaulant, ’