Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1928 — Page 2

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fWALTER MYERS CANDIDATE FOR U. SJENATE Announces He Will Take Field for Nomination Sought by Stump. Walter Myers, attorney, today announced he is a candidate for the Democratic ncminaticn for the United States Senate. Myers is the second in the field. Albert Stump, who ran on the Democratic ticket for the seat of Republican Senator James E. Watson, announced his candidaacy several weeks ago. Since coming to this city in 1907, Myers has been active in legal, civic •And political affairs. He is 45, married and has three children. Rap at Stephensonism In a statement accompanying his announcement, Myers says he will appeal for support to “all the people of the State, Republican and Democratic alike, who believe in the Constitution of the United States and free government, because thousands ha'/e been deceived and misled by false politicians, faithless officials or sinister groups of the selfish to whom a party label has been a cloak of corruption.” An indirect rap is taken at Stephensonism, the Klan and AntiSaloon League, although the latter two are not mentioned by name. The statement says: ‘Our Constitution guarantees government as a thing apart and separate from church, creed, class and color. It sets out some Inherent rights respecting which even Congress is denied the making of a law. “Our country is big enough for all who live in it, but it is too big for any man to be the law in Indiana or the nation, or for self-seekers to bow before some sinister or selfish group to win a primary or an election, as the wicked Israel bowed before Baal. The candidate who stands by and sees the Constitution violated or threatened without protest is either a coward or a scoundrel.” Assails Vare, Smith Road Asserting that he does not intend to win by purchased publicity or influence, he assails the “road taken by Smith of Illinois and Vare of (^Pennsylvania.” HI “The purchase of governmental Hjrivilege is the first milestone on the Hoad to ruin,” the statement conHtinues. “You can not ssrve your Hjkmtry and Sinclair, your county D. C. Stephenson, or any other ' Ik&c. resident or absentee, anymore you can serve God and Mam- ■ mon. | “For corrupt leaders to make cor- ■ rupt engagements with corrupt cabI inet heads, corrupt Congressmen, i corrup State officials or corrupt \ mayors is to defy the integrity of free institutions, to impair the func- | tions of free government and to in- * feet public virtue with diseased confidence, all of which shatters respect for law.” It continues by condemning the epidemic of law passing that “stifles liberty and enterprise;” urges upholding of the American standard of living, and relief for the farmer, by lowering tariffs. Native of Pennsylvania "It is my purpose to make a campaign with candor toward all and ill . feeling toward none. Principles must make the program. Policies must put them into practice without evfeion or pussyfooting,” the statenuiit closes. |fyers is a native of Pennsylvania, but graduated at Indiana University | law school and came here to practice in 1907. In 1915 he was assistI ant city park board and health board attorney. He resigned in 1918 to go to war as a lieutenant in the Army. In 1920 he was a delegate to the )f national Democratic convention and made the nominating speech for Franklin D. Roosevelt for vice president. In 1924, he was secretary of the delegation to the New York convention. He ran for mayor of Indianapolis in 1925. One of the organizers of the American Legion he aided in bringing national headquarters here. He Is a member of the Marion County and State bar associations; Indiana Democratic Club, Athenaeum, the Players, Forty and Eight, Phi Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. CHAIRMAN DISCUSSED Democrats Move for Selection of County Chief. Democrats, who have taken on "new life” with the election of a Democratic mayor of Indianapolis, arc discussing possibilities for Democratic county chairman. Those mentioned as possible candidates in the May race are: Joel A. Baker, city purchasing agent and active in both State and local politics; Millard \V. Ferguson, city councilman, Arthur W. Lyday, active Democrat and labor union leader. I Leroy J. Keach, commission merchant, is present chairman. He has not indicated whether he will be a kandlaate for re-election. CUSTODIAN WILL GO piark. Foreman of Jury Which Re- ' fused to Oust Duvall to Get Gate. I Dismissal of Charles Clark, city halhcustodian, by the board of works is expected this week. Clark, foreman of the Marion County grand jury which failed to indict former Mavor John L. Duvall, was named to the city post shortly after dismissal of the jury. James Kervan and Carl “Louie” Lorsh, both Democrats, have been considered for appointment by Oren S. Hack, works board president, it is said. Cat Helps Hunters Bu Tim'* Fnrrial OGILVILLE, Ind., Jan. 2.—A is owned here by R. E. So zealous . aid its Hfcrces

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Upper left—Lewis E. Whiteman; right, Fred Kepner. Lower left—Fred Bates Johnson; right, Charles R. Yoke.

Lewis E. Whiteman and Fred Kepner today succeeded Fred Bates Johnson and Charles R. Yoke as members of the Indianapolis school beard. In addition to Whiteman and

Kentucky Sheriff Grins — He Got His Hoosier Man

Made Moonshine Across River and Brought It Home to Indiana to Sell. Down in the hills of Boone County, Kentucky, the Democratic sheriff and his deputies are chuckling today for like the famous Northwest mounted they “got their man.” To add to the glory of the capture, the man is a Hoosier Republican and is alleged to have made moonshine on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river and brought it home to sell. /- The sheriff failed to get an O. K. on extradition papers from Governor Ed Jackson, but with the aid of Federal authorities he caught the alleged moonshiner off guard at Covington, Ky. Known as “Old Hickory” "The man’’ Is Hubert Gillum, Lawrenceburg, Ind., and Is known to fame along the Ohio river as “Old Hickory.” Word came to the Boone County authorities that he was admrial of a rum fleet operating along the Kentucky shore and they were warned not to attack cause “Old Hickory” was a “bad man.” The thought of a Hoosier Republican making “moon” with Kentucky water and taking it home for the Indiana natives to consume rankled the sheriff and his men. Early in November they raided the rum fleet and found whisky, stills and a crew of six, but—the capital prize—“Old Hickory” was gone. Nevertheless, they took the boats to the Kentucky shore and held them, only to awake one morning to find they had been taken back by their owner. Extradition Sought So the Governor of Kentucky said to the Governor of Indiana that it would be O. K. with him if he shipped “Old Hickory” back to Boone County for trial. The sheriff, the defendant and his lawyer appeared before Jackson to discuss extradition papers. Rising in his own defense, upon suggestion of his lawyer, “Old Hickory” told the Indiana Governor that the reason they wanted him in Kentucky for trial was because he had “fought the Democrats .so hard in the last election.” Thte lawyer who advised this speech was former Judge Charles Lowe, Lawrenceburg, whose name was one of three selected to sit as special judge in the Governor's bribery case in Marion County Criminal Court. On Nov. 9, his name was struck off the list by the State. Federal Warrants Sworn The matter was taken under advisement and some days later the Boone County authorities were notified that extradition was denied on

Here’s Why Bu Times Sveeinl MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Jan. 2.—No money, the rent due, no job. These three gained liberty for Oliver Russell, 47, arraigned in city court here on a charge of stealing coal. He is the father of six small children. About the coal, Russell said: “The house was pretty cold thisjnorniiu'and I wanted to

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the grounds that the matter could be tried in Indiana courts. Thwarted, the Boone County men swore out Federal warrants and "Old Hickory" was called to the Federal court at Covington. Ky. While there arranging his bail, in walked the Boone County boys and captured their prize. He must now forfeit bond or go to trial in Boone County courts.

BETTY JEAN IS AHEAD OF MARY FOR NAMES Familiar Cognomens Give Way to New-Old, Birth Records Show. “I wonder what's become of Mary,” should be the lament of all those Interested in having that name per- i petuated. “Mary” as a name has fallen off ! greatly in the past few years, H. M Wright, chief of the State vital statistics bureau, said in looking over his 1927 birth report file. “For the past two years there seems to have been a veritable mania for Betty Jean. It seems as if at least forty per cent of the babygirls are given a name with either Betty or Jean or both. “This name rivals Robert James for boys in popularity. “ ‘John’ has gone into oblivion although we still learn of quite a few Williams. ORGANIZE 3 COMPANIES * Incorporation Papers Are Filed by City Firms. Incorporation papers were filed by three Indianaoolis concerns Saturday. Two of the concerns are closely allied in the advertising and sign painting business. They are the E. Davidson and Son Company, capitalized at 500 shares of no par value stock. Incorporators are: Ellsworth L. Davidson, Oscar L. Hayes and Julian Barker. The second concern is the A. H Davidson Cos., Incoroorated. Capitalization is at 500 shares of no par value; and incorporators are: Austin H. Davidson, Ellsworth L. Davidson and Oscar L. Hayes. Physicians and surgeons furniture and supplies will be manufactured and sold by the W. D. Allison Company capitalized at 1,000 shares of no par value. Incorporators are: William T. Allison, Mary M. Allison and William R. Enochs. 0. K. PHONE STOCkTsSUE 53,000,000 to Be Used for Extensions and Improvements. Indiana Public Service Commission Saturday approved a $3,000,000 common stock issue of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company to be bought by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, holding company. The money, according to the Bell company petition, is to finance extensions and improvements made since 1923. New Semester at Normal TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 2. Enrollment for the second semester of the 1927-1928 term at Indiana State Normal here opened today. Class work will begin Tuesday. There will be only one ulty for the new Sfo&r Park. Sullivai Prof. mem <'• ha.s be . JR;

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SCIENCE POOLS KNOWLEDGE TO INCREASE LIFE 100 Years Possible Is View of Experts; Hazards Are Cut Down. BY CLYDE G. BYERS United Press Staff Correspondent BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Jan. 2. Men of Science met here today to clear up and make plain to the average man the thing to do and the way to do it to attain better health and a happier, longer life. * Just as science made possible telegraphy, swift transit on land and sea, flying, radio and a thousand theretofore impossible things, so the men meeting here this week hope to help people live 100 years or more. Plan Practical Program The meeting is the third national conference on Race Betterment. It ! will be attended by educators, sociologists, economists scientific practitioners of all kinds, j They do not believe that the fuj ture will take care of itself. So they | are meeting, not to preach, but to I boil down their acquired knowledge, j eliminate that which is useless, and I map out a practical program for the ! betterment of the race. Participating in this stupendous undertaking will be the world prominent directors of the Rockefeller, Carnegie and Sheffield centers of learning as well as reoresentatives of the Universities of Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Harvard, Michigan, Cornell Wisconsin, and others. 100 Years Is Goal They will debate the problems of eugenics, workshop conditions, hygiene, care of babies and a hundred other things of direct interest to a vast malority of the people. The discussion to evolve a plan for 100 years of life for everybody will be led by Dr. Harvey Kellogg. He told the United Press about it. “Man was endowed by nature for a vigorous, healthy life of 100 years,” said Dr. Kellogg, who ivited the conference here. "But only three in 100 at the present time reach 100 Diseases and degenraUve influences that man himself cultivates reduce the span. “In the last forty years the average life in this country has been raised from forty-two to fifty-seven years, due to the suppression of acute diseases. Glenn Frank U> Talk “Longevity should be increased 100 per cent. There really Is no definite limit to the duration of life.” Dr. Clarence Cook Little, president of the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, will preside. Speakers include Dr. Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin. Madison, Wis., and Dr. Max Mason, of the University of Chicago. DRYS WILL CONVENE Noted Leaders to Address State Conference. Noted dry leaders will address the State Conference on liquor law enforcement Jan. 26-27 at the Roberts Park M. E. Church. Superintendent Edward S. Shumaker announced nationally known dry workers will attend the meeting. Speakers will be: F. Scott Mcßride, national superintendent Anti-Saloon League of America; Ernest H. Clarrington, superintendent of World League Against Alcoholism: Col. P. H. Callahan. Louisville, Catholic Total Abstinence Society leader; E. Y. Mullins, Baptist Federation of the World secretary; Clarence True Wilson, Washington, secretary board of prohibition and temperance of the Methodist Church; the Rev. Alvah W. Taylor, Indianapolis, of Christ temperance and morals secretary. Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, State Woman's Christian Temperance Union president; Bishop Frederick D. Leete. Indianapolis, of the Methoddist Church, and Lawrence Handley. mayor of Richmond. Bishop H. H. Fout, league president, will be en route to the Holy Land on an extended trip, and will be unable to attend. PLAN TOKIO U. sTcLUB Americans in Orient to Have Home; Admit Other Foreigners. Bji United Prres TOKIO, Jan. 2.—Plans are under way for opening an American Club in Toklo. The work of organization already has been started, it is learned, and quarters soon probably will be leased in an office building near the Imperial Hotel. The club will include a library, card rooms and a bar where thirsty Americans may order anything from draft beer to cocktails and highballs. Membership in the club will be open to Americans and Japanese and probably other nationals as well. Tokio at present has only one city club for foreigners, the Tokio Club, a rather staid institution operated on British lines.

Sore Throat Is Dangerous Thoxine Relieves Quickly Don’t neglect sore throat—it often leads to tonsilitis, scarlet fever or diphtheria. Take Thoxine, a famous physician’s prescription, which is remarkably successful because it works on anew principle—goes direct to the cause not reached by gargles and patent medicines and brings re|MHMMMtaJsminutes, or money WV does the work. E&teChloroform or and sure better

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Center—John Pierpont Morgan, the Harvard student, In the ’eighties; left and right, Morgan, the financier, with his mustache grown mature.

Startled Harvard Circles by Managing Class Play in Senior Year. Bu SF.A Brrviee CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 2. The newly elected chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corporation passed up a most promising chance for success as a theatrical manager when John Pierpont Morgan, the Morgan diploma, and the Morgan mustache departed ! from Harvard University in 1889. Morgan was manager of the class play in his graduating year at Harvard. At that time the famous “Hasty Pudding Club” was staging dramatic productions with such skill as to attract country-wide attention of professionals. The play chosen for 1889 was Sheridan's comedy. “The Duenna.” With Morgan in charge, it was a big success. The experience well might have inspired the financier-to-be with a desire for further theatrical honors—but Morgan had his eye on the banking business. Morgan was 18 when he became a Harvard freshman. He roomed at Beck Hall, just outside the college yard. Here lived many other wealthy and famous sons of Harvard during their school days, among them Theodore Roosevelt. Though Morgan shared his room with no fellow student, being sufficiently well off to aflord such a college luxury. Harvard “old-timers” recall that he was the most democratic of scholars. He didn’t go in l'or athletics, but was popular on the campus. He graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1923 his Alma Mater bestowed on him the honorary ‘degree of Doctor of Laws. At Harvard, Morgan met a fellow student, Edward W. Grew. He married Grew’s sister, Jane, soon after receiving his Harvard diploma. His bride was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sturgis Grew, prominent in Boston society. Morgan belonged to a number of Harvard's exclusive clubs, including the Cricket Club, the Institute, the Conference Francaise, the O. K. Club and the D. K. E., better known among the undergraduates as the "Dickey,” Membership in the "Dickey” was very limited and invitations to join the fold were highly prized. Harvard has received many gifts from her famous alumnus, especially rare old books. Morgan is a frequent attendant at reunions of his class. “The chief change in my condition since my last report to the

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class of ’B9 is my promotion to the i position of grandfather,” he told ! his classmates in 1918. He thanked \ the Harvard authorities for his appointment as an overseer of the ! university—“of all my jobs the one I like best.” He was referred to as “Mr. Mor- j gan” when asked to make a speech cn the subject “Os What Earthly j Use Are Overseers?” “Oh, hell, call me Jack” he responded. The class poet read some lines on the overseers on this occasion, beginning: “First comes the Great Lord Morgan—hark how the trumpets j crash! “Striding along with a heavy air, cutting an awful dash.” SEEK DE PAUW HEAD Frank Crane’s Nephew May Be Chosen. The Rev. Henry Hitt Crane, I nephew of Frank Crane, noted j writer, is discussed favorably as the possible choice of trustees for De Pauw University president. Trustees of the Methodist institution at Greencastle probably will name a successor to President Lemuel H. Murlin, who resigned a year ago, effective in June, at the June meeting. Crane, Malden (Mass.) minister, is said to have the support of a majority of the younger alumni, who desire a younger man to head the school. Crane has a magnetic personality. which fits him to lead young people, and is somewhat the type educator of Glenn Frank, the youthful Wisconsin University president, it is said. . He first visited the De Pauw campus in 1923, when he delivered a series of lectures which proved popular with students. He has visited the school several times since and holds honorary degrees from the institution. The Rev. Ralph Sockman, noted New York minister, and the Rev. Ernest F. Tittle, Evanston, 111., also are mentioned for the post, it is said. Church Celebration Closes Bu Timex Burr ini MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 2. A New Year's program Sunday morning closed a series of special services marking the one hundredth anniversary of the First Methodist Church here. The Rev. Guy V. Hartman, present pastor, is the sixty-third to serve the church.

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PUZZLE PRIZH TO MRS. M Three Days to Mixed Heads fl BY PUZZLE-HEAD Mrs. Mary A. Turk, 2445 S Ave., is the winner of today sH Head prize of $5 in cash foi H list ol' Puzzle-Heads made hH Monday's Times headlines. H Mrs. Turk illustrated Puzzle-Heads—"Making zle-Heads”—with a clever tijgp of herself doing that very thirH list was the best submitted Second prize ot $3 in cash H James A. Campbell of NeH Ind., for a carefully vorked-H sortment of real Puzzle-Heacß":./" The third daily prize of H won by Lester P. Drive, Woodruff I’laee. Remember, puzzln time to win soi ol I< jH if you get Saturday's Times office by 5 p. uißw... Friday's list is due b'H “ morrow. ''' ' Prize winners are aiwl actly one week alter th. issue in which the origiHH Heads were published. mailed to prize winners. Missing Bridegroom Foumf Bii Time * Ritceinl COLUMBUS. Ind.. Jan. 2.—'Wafl D. Everroad, who disappeared several weeks ago leaving a briH of a few hours has been located Florida. He has written his wife ffl join him, but so far she has 11H done so. Everroad offered no planation for his sudden departwH from Columbus.