Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1928 — Page 3

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CONGRESS BACK ON JOB TO GRAPPLE WITH PROBLEMS

FLOOD CONTROL AND FARM AID AT FOREFRONT Compromise Measure Will Be Drafted to Solve South’s Trouble. TAX CUT TO GET REST / Numerous Investigations to Be Resumed: Supply Bill Is Up. BY PAUL R. MALLON, United Frees Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Congress comes back tomorrow after its two weeks’ Christmas recess to get at the real business of legislation flood control and farm relief. The House flood control committee will resume hearings Thursday to frame a bill for presentation within two weeks. The differences that have arisen over the report of the Army engineers have complicated the committee's problem, but a compromise measure will be hastened as soon as possible. The HouSe Agriculture Committee will start brief hearings on the old McNary-Haugen price stabilization bill and proposed compromise measures on Jan. 16. The Senate Agriculture Committee also is expected to begin work on the pending measure, in hope that some sort of farm relief bill will be passed before the Easter holidays. The $290,000,000 tax reduction bill passed by the House before the recess may languish in the Senate Finance Committee for the present, while Republicans and Democrats fight over whether to pass it before the March 15 treasury receipts are known. Numerous investigations are to be resumed and some new ones authorized. The Mexican inquiry by the Senate investigating committee will be resumed tomorrow; the Smith (Illinois) election contest will have a hearing Jan. 7; the Walsh resolution for investigatihg the “power trust” will be considered by the j Senate Interstate Commerce Com- j mittee within two weeks, and an investigation of the American consular and diplomatic service will be con • stdered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Resolutions are to be proposed also \ seeking investigation by a House or Senate committee, or both, of the sinking of the submarine S-4. Muscle Shoals, Boulder Dam and railroad consolidation proposals are to be considered by various committees of both Houses. The immediate business before the House is the State and Justice Debill. The 'Senate will debate the Norris resolution for eliminating “lame duck” sessions of Congress. CAPITAL ‘CLEW’ FOUND State Sleuths Think They’re on Way to Solution of Burglaries. Indiana's bureau of criminal identification found a clew to work on today right in the Statehuose where their offices are located. Monday night the third of a series of petty burglaries occurred there. Office of- the historical commission was entered by the transom and $3 in change and $4 in stamps taken from a desk. All desks were lifted, as were also those in the State board of accounts. A finger print was turned over to the criminal bureau, taken from a towel in the historical commission office. Similar burglaries have occurred in other Statehouse offices within the last few weeks. CRIME SURVEYIs BEGUN Columbia Professor Starts Hoosier Work at Statehouse. Professor Raymond Moley of Columbia University, New York, reported at the Statehouse today to begin a survey of crime and criminals In Indiana. He will start by studying records of the new criminal investigation bureau and institution records of the State charities board. From there the study, which is being made under auspices of the National Crime Commission, will extend throughout the State. COURT REPORTER QUITS A. C. Metcalf Resigns Due to Illness; Sen Is Appointed. A. C. Metcalf, 71, shorthand reporter in Indianapolis for fifty years and Criminal Court reporter for fourteen years, today announced his resignation because of illness which has kept him at his home, 1929 N. Pennsylvania St., for several weeks. Judge James A. Collins appointed Metcalf’s son, Norman E., to succeed him. HURT IN BLAST ON BOAT Coast Guardsman Suffers Fracture of Skull Off Block Island. F>H United Press NEW LONDON, Jan. 3.—Lieut. Kenneth Leland of Kalamazoo, Mich., was in a serious condition at a hospital here today with injuries received in an explosion aboard the coast guard patrol boat 148 off Blockk Island late yesterday. Leland was believed suffering frohi a fractured skull. k Two Suffer Frozen Ears Blv rimes Special M, ANDERSON. Ind., Ja. 3.—Jack Htoppess, Big Four railroad employe, from having both ears, iMfn, and Robert Brown. 19. lias car, local casualties ol cold wave.

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Mrs. W’illiam R. Yaw flu United Press PONTIAC Mich., Jan. 3.—Miss Madeline Marie Couzens, daughter of Senator and Mrs. James Couzens, and William R. Yaw of Detroit, were married at Wabeek, estate of the bride's parents, Monday. Only relatives and a few close friends were present at the ceremony.

LONDON’S SUBURBS SWEPT BY FLOODS

Scores Are Marooned in Homes; Lakes Cover Vast Areas. Bjj United Press LONDON, Jan. 3.—Flood water ! reached the suburbs of London today. | Many residents were marooned in houses and traffic was disrupted in many places. Some railorad stations were closed, inconveniencing workers. England rapidly was becoming a series of lakes. Among the sections affected by the flood waters were Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Nottinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Sussex, Monmouthshire, Middlesex, Surrey, , Kent, Hampshire, Lincolnshire Northamptonshire and Devonshire. Willesden, a suburb of London, was the worst hit. More than 200 houses were flooded and many occupants imprisoned on upper floors. Rescuers in’ impi'ovised crafts were doing their best to remove people from second-story windows. Bungalow awellers in the valley of the Thames vacated their homes and took refuge on the mainland. Floods were increasing today in the River Lea, submerging thousands of acres from Clapton down into sections of Middlesex and Hertfordshire. REPORTS LOSS OF GEM | Diamond Set Bar Worth SI,OOO | Taken During Holiday Celebration. j While E. S. Joseph, 4620 Washing- | ton Blvd., was celebrating the ' arrival of the New Year at the Coj lumbia Club Saturday night, he lost, | or had stolen from him. a diainond- | set bar pin containing three stones | valued at SI,OOO. He reported the i loss to police late Monday. Oakland City Church Burns i Bu Times Special OAKLAND CITY, Ind.. Jan. 3. Flames which raged five hours destroyed the United Brethren Church building here Sunday with a loss of S $20,000. Local and Winchester firemen succeeded in preventing spread of the fire to nearby structures only by desperate efforts. Frozen hydrants hindered the firemen. An overheated furnace and defective flue are blamed for the fire.

FIGHTING EX-GOB GOES FROM CELL TO MAYOR CHAIR

I F.'t United Press NEWBURYPORT, Mass., Jan. 3.—His honor the mayor of Newburyport was planning war today. And war with all of Sherman’s garnishing, for Andrew J. “Bosey” Gillis, red-haired ex-gob, who within the past six months spent sixty days in jail for punching the mayor in the jaw, was going to make his city council give his friends “the gravy.’’ How Bosey got to be mayor was a long story, but its short title was “From jail to mayor in ninety days.” It all started when Bosey, the town's bacl boy, wanted to settle down to the respectable business of selling gasoline. The mayor would not grant him a permit because the Ailing station would not beautify the landscape.

PROTEST LAKE FINDINGS Five States File Exceptions to Hughes’ Recommendations. Bn l Hi ted I* ns* WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The States cf Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York today filed forirtal bills of exceptions objecting to the recommendation of Special Master Charles Evans Hughes for dismissal of their suits to stop Chicago's diversion of Great Lakes water through the drainage canal. The bills were filed in United Statps Supreme Court. The Chicago anitary district, codefendant with the State of Illinois, filed a motion askiing for an early argument of Hughes’ report and the exceptions. All complainant States now have excepted, the exceptions of Michigan having been presented last week. STEAL ORIENTAL RUGS Other Valuable Furnishings Taken From Worthington (Ind.) Home. Oriental rugs and other valuable house furnishings were stolen from the home of Capt. David Smith, Worthington, Ind.. Fred Dyer, president of the Exchange State Bank there, telephoned to Indianapolis police today. He asked local police to watch pawnshops for the loot. Smith is in Liverpool, England, he said. NEW SENATOR TO SEAT Cutting of New Mexico Will Present Credentials Wednesday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Sen-ator-Designate Cutting (Rep.), New Mexico, will present his credentials when ‘the Senate reconvenes Wednesday, Senator Bratton (Dem.), his colleague, was notified today. The seat was left vacant by death of Senator A. A. Jones (Dem.). Cutting is en route to Washington from Santa Fe. N. M. Aged Couple Commits Suicide ! TUi United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 3.—After writing “It was not a hapoy new year” on a scrap of paper, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Reichman, an aged couple, committed suicide together in a gasfilled room, it was learned today.

So Bosey, the ex-gob who knew what was what, opened his business without the permit. The mayor and his officials had the respectable Ailing station pwner arrested and tucked away in the cooler for sixty days. Bosey got mad during those nights in the silent spaces of Newburyport’s jail. And when he came out he decided he’d be a politician and “show those girds a thing or tw-o.” He ran for mayor and led in all the wards except one. tt tt BOSEY. Monday, spent his first day in the swivel chair of the mayor office. But he wasn't in much of the time. First he had to be inaugurated. Then he had to tell the newspaper boys about his plans. Finally he had. to figure out

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DISAGREE ON EARLY DEATH FATE OF MAN Scientists’ Doubt of Longer Life Span Draws Fire at Conference. * P,v L iiited Press BATTLE CREEK. Mich., Jan. 3. An alluring picture of men and women past middle age who will have leisure without idleness and plenty without loss of ambition, was drawn today at the Battle Creek Race Betterment Conference. .“Putting the world in the position of a man with a pension, who proverbially never dies.” is the ultimate goal of science. Dr. Louis Faugeras, bishop of Ford bam University, declared. “It can’t be done.” Dr. Alexis Car rel of the Rockefeller Institute, replied. He argued that early death is the price we pay for being such biologically complicated creatures. Merely Increase Burden “The artificial methods which have improved the crops of the fields, made fleeter horses, more industrious hens, more delicious fruits and beautiful flowers, can not be applied to the multi-celled organism of man." Carrel said. “Why do it if we could?” asked Dr. C. C. Liftlc. president of the University of Michigan and president of the conference. His thesis was that if longevity merely would increase the burden on first rate men of taking care of the less favored. Degeneracy would be increased as man passed his defects along to future generations. But. Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, of the Life Extension Institute showed that it could be done—that medical science in the past 4CO years had proved it by adding thirty-seven years to the average life time. “It Can Be Done” “There is no known limit to what man's intelligence may effect in the way of life length,” he contended. Fisk took issue with Little's premise that if it could be done it would have to be through control and development of the heritability factors of longevity. “Man did not inherit the ability to fly, or the ability to see and talk around the earth, but he has acquired it." said Dr. Fisk. “Ke did not inherit a life cycle of 100 years, but he may well acquire it.”

BANDITS TME $l5O IN CITY Negro Forces Gas Station Man to Open Safe. “Brother, you’ve got just what I want,” a Negro bandit told attend- ; ant Philip Schneider, 718 E Ver- j mont St., at the Silver Flash filling j station at North St. and Capitol i Ave., as he was opening up the safe this morning. Without exhibiting a gun, but holding his hand in his overcoat pocket, he took SSO from the safe. Bandits got $lO4 in three holdups Monday night. Two were by the same two men. police believed. At the Standard Oil filling station at Kentucky and Senate Aves., threatening E. B. Shelby with automatic pistols, they got $35 from the safe, leaving behind all the silver money. Thfey held their hands over their faces. A little later they got $59 from the Thomas O. Mullen drug store, 2737 N. Illinois St. Two young men passengers on an Emerson Ave. bus pulled a gun on Wilbur Sirep, driver, when all other passengers had left the car and made him hand over $10.75. When he told them $4 of that was his money, they returned the $4. CARS DERAILED; 5 HURT Four Coaches Leave B. & O. Tracks and Overturn in Ohio. Pji United Press MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, Jan. 3. —Five persons were injured when two coaches and two Pullmans of a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train, en route from Pittsburgh to Charleston. W. Va., were derailed and overturned at Raven Rocks near here today. A deefetive rail caused the wreck, according to advices to i the B. & O. offices here. No one ! was reported injured seriously. — River Yields Two Bodies Bn Times Special SHOALS. Ind.. Jan. 3.—Bodies of Samuel Allbright, 48. and Thurman Jones, 38, drowned Friday in Lost I river while hunting were recovered (Monday. Allbright was the father I of nine children, and Jones of three.

which friends and supporters would get the “gravy.” “I’m going to tell those guys on the council who I want to get the good jobs,” he told reporters. “And if they don’t come through, there’ll be war. And a good one, too.” A list of the officials who today conceded their chairs to others and were filling their waste paper baskets with unofficial papers sounded like a roster of the city government. The line-up read anew fire chief, city solicitor, assessor, superintendent of highways, board of health, city messenger, overseer of the poor, building commissioner, harbor master, tree warden, superintendent of parks, caretaker of the city clocks, superintendent of Gypsy Brown tail moth exterminators, sealer of weights and

FOES ATTACK AL’S SILENCE ON M ISSUES Controversy Is Stirred Up Among New York Chief’s Supporters. Bu 'l imes Special NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—The continued silence of Governor A1 Smith of New York on issues in the forthcoming presidential campaign has stirred up a controversy among his supporters. Some urge him to speak out; others praise his silence. The New York World, in a leading editorial, asserts that Governor Smith is much too important a figure in American life to be wasted on a mere struggle for control between the factions of his party. “There is no use in his running if. as his advisers are now insisting. he must muffle and deaden the impact of the issues with which he is identified,” says the World. Defended by Hapgood “The question before Governor Smith's supporters is not how to obtain the nomination at any price, but how to obtain it under conditions which will permit him to make good use of it. The first tiling to do. in our opinion, is to dispel the impression created by Governor Smith's silence that he will take the nominaUon at any price. The way to dispel that impression is for the Governor to break his silence and speak out clearly on the larger domestic and international questions.'’ The world’s editorial provoked ft letter of opposition from Norman Haogood, the writer Hapgood says Smith speaks when he is ready, and has his own ideas about how long it takes for the public to reach its peak of attention, ideas which in the past have proved sound. Hapgood says “the most devoted wets are satisfied with what came out casually at a dinner recently.” Opponents of financial imperialism, he says, could hardly ask more than what he said recently in connection with Mexico. Smith's position is known on armament reduction, the World Court and water power control. Hapgood points out. The New York Times adopts a similar view, tommonting on the fact that Herbert- Hoover, leading Republican candidate, likewise is silent. And. The Times adds, the campaign of silence appears to be progressing finely in the case of both men. “The more the New York Republican leaders point out Secretary Hoover’s weakness in this State, the greater appears to be his strength,” it says. “As for Governor Smith, he does not need to unbosom himself. His vociferous enemies every day are improving his chances by their violent attacks on him. “All told, it is a great time for the gospel of silence; and it now is being preached among the heathen j of the political world in a way that would have gratified ffarlyle himself.” EIGHTH IN AUTOS Magazine Sets Indiana's Place in Motor World. Although the eleventh State In population, Indiana is the eighth! State in number of motor vehicles I registered, according to the maga- j zine, Motor. Os the 23,226.191 motor vehicles j registered in the United States last | year, 811,072 were in Indiana. Os the national total 20,232,293 I were pleasure cars and 2,943,893 | were trucks. Indiana had 695,165 i pleasure cars and 115,907 trucks. The total Indiana figure was a j gain of 38,746 over 1926. There were no changes In the relative standing of the States which are the biggest users of motor vehicles in 1927. New York increased its lead over California, New York reporting 1,953,280 vehicles to 1,714,986 for California. Ohio was third with 1,592.500.

Sone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Harry Albertsmeier, 1244 E. Washington St., Apt. 17, Stutz, 511-541, from New York and Illinois Sts. Frank Wills, 1110 N. Belmont Ave., Ford, 63-558, from Indiana Ave. and West St. Aged Man Drops Dead Awaiting a street car at TwentyFirst and Illinois Sts.. William Underwood. 75, of 1929 N. Talbott St., dropped dead Monday night. Coroner Charles H. Keever pronounced death due to heart disease. Motor Police Kinder and Renforth sent the body to the city morgue.

measures, library director and registrar of vehicles. tt tt IF there was any one else beside the police, Basey had overlooked him. The police! and thereupon Bosey broke into a lament to the reporters. “They’re under civil service,” he wailed. “Ain’t that a hell of a mess for a fellow like me? I call it a rotten trick. Well, believe me, boys, those birds are going to earn their pay. And I don’t mean maybe.” “Every lathe duck goes out. And every one of them squawking.” And so Newburyport awaited its meeting of the city council much as the ticket holder at the side show waited to see if the ballyhoo of the barker was true or not.

Baby’s Ridin ’High Now

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Here's anew one for the baby—the Totem pole. It just has made its appearance here. The idea is to make it easy to take the baby through downtown crowds. He slides along on the Totem pole at shoulder height. Mrs. Eveline Brown. 850 Ashland Ave., and her baby, Paddy, are shown demonstrating it above. The mother’s sister, Miss Mary Wilconon, is watching.

PLANE SPLASH HEARD ON SHIP Crew Relates Story of New Grayson Clew. r.v United Press PORTLAND, ME., Jan. 3.—A new’ clew to the fate of Mrs. Frances Grayson and her three companions in the “Dawn's” attempted New York-Newfowndland flight has been revealed by the story of the officers and crew of the schooner Rose Anne Belliveau. Captain R. V. Comeau related how the sound of an airplane motor was heard at about 7:30 p. m. Dec. 23 when the Belliveau was eighteen miles northwest of Nauset Beach Light on Cape Cod. The sounds ended suddenly after about ten minutes when a heavy splash was heard. It is believed that the plane had sighted the lights of the ship and tried to land beside it. A heavy northwest gale and raging seas prevented the schooner from making a rescue, though the boat remained in the vicinity for some time. This story was in line with the report of the reception of a wireless message on board the steamer Oakley L. Alexander at the same hour that “the plane was down.” The Alexander was not far from the place where the Beliveau heard the sounds which they believe came from the “Dawn.”

CHAPLAIN BOOST ASKED Higher Rank Sought for Pastors in Army by Davis. Bn Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Higher rank for army chaplains is proposed by Secretary of War Davis in a bill just submitted to Congress. The measure provides that chaplains shall he promoted to the grade of captain after three years’ service as first lieutenant; to the grade of major after twelve years; to the grade of lieutenant-colonel after twenty years and to the grade of colonel after twenty-six years’ service. Further, the chief of chaplains shall hold the rank of brigadier general, being appointed for four years from any grade not below that of major. At present the highest rank a chaplain can attain is colonel. PASADENA PICKS WINNER Beverly Hills Float Is First in Tournament of Roses Parade. Bn United Press PASADE'NA, Cal.. Jan. 3.—The many-hued “Kingdom of Paradise,” Beverly Hills float, won the grand sv/eepstakes in the annual tournament of roses parade here Monday. Freshly picked blooms representing an enchanting courtyard scene earned for the float the most beautiful entry award. San Marino’s offering. “Springtime in New York,” was declared the most expressive of this year’s theme, “States and Nations in Flowers.” It was estimated that more than 750,000 perrons saw the 300 units of the' parr de. STORESIWLL‘TELL ALL’ If Goods Won’t Wear Well the Customers Will Be Informed. £7/ United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 3.—One of Gotham’s biggest department stores has made a 1923 resolution. All goods will be tagged to tell the customer what he may expect in the way of service, such as “this will not wear well” and “this is fashionable, but fragile.” What next?

STAR WITNESS FACES ATTACK Defense Plans to Impeach Jeanetta Taylor. Bu Times Special DELPHI, Ind., Jan. 3.—Counsel for Lloyd Kimble today started its supreme effort to save him from death in the electric chair for the murder of Daniel Sink. Impeachment of Mrs. Jeanetta Taylor, star State witness, is the principal objective of the defense. Kimble will be pictured as a farmer financially ruined by depression in land values, who have gave up two farms he owned to protect creditors and refused to take the benefits of the bankruptcy act. It is probable the case will reach the jury Thursday or Friday. GIFT TO JURY COSTLY ATLANTA. Ga.. Jan. 3.—A carton of fags—sloo. That’s what it cost the defendant in a law suit here when he gave them to the, jury trying his case. At the same time the bailiff who delivered the gift was discharged. The Georgia Court of Appeals held: “Whenever the time comes that, the sacredness of the jury box shall be invaded by any character of influence—justice will flee from this court and no citizen who comes into this court will have any assurance that he is going to have a fair trial.”

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MOORE AGAIN TO HEAD STATE i FARM BOARD Predict Rochester Man’s Re-Election at Annual Parley Wednesday. Levi P. Moore, Rochester, Ind., vice president ol the Indiana board of agriculture, probably will be elected president at the annual conference Wednesday in the House of Representatives, according to pres- ! ent officers. ■ E. D. Logsdon, Indianapolis, probably will be elected vice president, j E. J. Barker, Thorntown. Ind.. will ; be re-named secretary treasurer, it | is indicated. Eight persons will be elected from eight congregation districts to the beard. Re-elect Present Members Since there is no opposition to the eight incumbents, they probably will be re-elected. They are: S. W. Taylor, Boonville. First district: Guy Cantwell, ; Gosport, now president of the board, ' Second district; R. C. Jenkins, Orleans. Third district: Logsdon, '■ Seventh district; W. W. Wilson, | Muncle. Eighth district; Thomas , Grant. Lowell. Tenth district: U. C. Brouse. Kendallville. Twelfth dis- ! trict, and Moore, Thirteenth dis- ; trict. The meeting Wednesday follows i the meeting today of the Indiana : Association of District and County : Fairs at the Severin. Following committee reports this morning J. A. Terry, La Porte, Ind., : spoke on “Club Work Essential to I Fairs.” Boys’, Girls’ Clubs Vital j “Boys’ and girls’ clubs are essen(tial to the life of fairs through the : interest added to fair work. The j children become vitally interested lin the fairs and bring their par- ' ents into closer cooperation,” he isaid. Mayor L. Ert Slack will speak | tonight at the banquet at the Sev- ! erin. Other speakers: Miss Betty , Ann Fort and Benny Barrett Fort of Maxwell; L. A. Pittenger, Muncie, and State Senator Andrew Durham, Greencastle. Association officers are: J. E. Green. Muncie, president: J. H. Classen. Crown Point, vice president; E. W. Fickliardt, Hunting’ourgh, treasurerc, and Barker, secretary. NO CLEW OF MISSING CITY GIRL IS FOUND Young Woman, 16, Gone From Home Since Dec. 26. Her parents have no clew to Miss Loretta Townsend, 16, of 4715 Baltimore St., who has been missing from her home since Dec. 26. Dayton police have been sked to watch for her, in the belief that she might go to the home of relatimes there. She was believed to be with Miss Juanita Hudson, 18, of 1747 E. Forty-Sixth St., also missing since Dec. 26. The girl wore a blue figured dress with a black coat and tan collar and a black hat with a gold band. She also wove dark slippers and bright sport socks. About 5 feet, 4 inches tall and of medium build, she has dark hair and dark blue eyes. Teachers Fail to Strike I:n Times Special ALFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 3. Teachers have resumed their work in the high school here after the holiday vacation despite a threat a few days ago that they would strike unless past due salaries were paid. Efforts are being made to raise money to meet the pay roll.