Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1928 — Page 3

FEB. 21, 1928

SENATE WILL RULE ON FATE OF MUSCLE SHOALS TODAY

NORRIS TO HEAR VERDICT AFTER 5-YEAR BATTLE Nebraskan Declares He Has Enough Votes to Pass His Measure. HOUSE STAND IN DOUBT Power Interests Wage War on Plan for Operation by Government. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Forces on opposite sides of the power question massed again today when the Norris Muscle Shoals resolution came up for disposal in the Senate. The resolution provides for Government operation of the $100,000,000 plant on the Tennessee River in Alabama and Senator Norris believes he can get it through Congress this time. He has tried for the last five years, but always failed, because of opposition from power companies who believe the plant should be leased for private operation. Norris told the United Press he had sufficient votes to pass the resolution in the Senate, but action in jthe House is doubtful. Power Is Big Issue Power has become a chief issue In Congress. Last week the Senate, after a bitter battle, killed the Walsh resolution seeking a congressional investigation of .the so - called national power combine. Such investigation has been started by the Federal trade commission. The Independents are planning to Introduce a resolution for investigation of the lobby which they charge killed the Walsh resolution. Another move against the lobby is promised by Senator Caraway (Dem.), Arkansas, who wall press for action on his bill requiring lobbyists to register their interests and expenses with the Senate and the House. The bill w'as reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday with but one dissenting vote. Opposition Is Weaker Norris’ resolution has not been opposed this year as it has in the past. Opposition of the power companies appears to have died down considerably and the American Cyanamid Company is the only bidder, actively In the field, against it. The resolution provides that the Government continue its construction work to develop power at the plant and at the same time experiment with processes for extracting nitrogen for fertilizer from the air in commercially suitable quantities. Power developed at the plant would be sold to the private power companies for distribution throughout the South.

U. S. FORESTRY GROUP TO STUDY IN EUROPE Seek Information on Outdoor Life and Parks. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—T0 exchange ideas with the leaders of forestry and outdoor life in Europe and to study the problems of European forests, a group of members of the American Forestry Association. Washington, D. C., and others j vitally interested in forests, parks j and wild life, are planning to sail i from New York on June 30. The tour will include France, Germany, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden. The tour represents a step to bring conservationists of the two continents together in the cause of the forests and outdoor life, as the party will be received by representatives of foreign governments and the tour of the foreign forests made tinder their direction and leaderchip. Among the famous forest areas to be visited is the world-renowned Black Forest of Germany, an outstanding example of forestry as practiced abroad. APPROVE ~BONUS~DELAY STwo-Year Extension for Applications Voted by House. Bn United Pres a WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—More than 750,000 ex-service men who failed to ask for bonus may apply if the Senate approves the Green bill passed by the House Monday, ■which extends the time for application for two years. The measure also validates nearly 30,000 applications, filed too late for the deadline last Dec. 31, as well as those returned for correction to applicant who died before the corrections were made. It is believed President Coolidge will approve the extension. SHOPLIFTER NABBED One Negro shoplifter was felled and captured and two of his companions escaped late Monday when they were detected stealing in the Kresge store, Pennsylvania and Washington Sts., police said. Robert Stark, alias Le Mar, 19, cf Hudson House, w r as treated at the city hospital and then slated at the city prison under high vagrancy bond. A clerk in the store struck him on the head with a blunt instrument. Police said the two men who escaped probably carried five rings, missing from the 6to ;e . [ Stand Collapses; 175 Hurt m* Vn itrd Press BERLIN, Feb. 21.—One hundred seventy-five persons were injured, thirty seriously, when the stand at a municipal celebration in Munich collapsed it was learned here toiay-

Blind, Suffering 20 Years, Woman, 70, Sees Light

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Mrs. Carrie B. Sillery and her grandson, John C. Burdette, 4. Mrs. Carrie B. Sillery, Bainbridge, Ind., Now a SilveryHaired Great-Grandmother, Regains Sight by Prayer When Medical Aid Fails. BY 808 BEARD BAINBRIDGE, Ind., Feb. 21.—Twenty years of inky blackness, and then Light! Sight! Loved ones' faces; scenes once familiar, but lost these interminable years in abysmal darkness. “Oh, dear God! Am Ito see again?” The silvery-haired old lady who voiced that exclamation when light pierced the blind darkness had her prayer answered with sight. She is Mrs. Carrie B. Sillery, 70, a great-grandmother, whose sons till Putnam County's soil while their children play at "Granny's feet, wondering at the strange change that's come in her eyes. Mrs. Sillery and her husband live two miles north of Bainbridge. From their 200 acres they have drawn an independence. There they reared two sons and two daughters, the sons to take up farms of their own beside the old homestead. There it was that Fate interposed partial blindness upon the mother when a son was born. Thirteen years later—twenty years ago—total blindness came to the mother at 50.

Three times in the long intervening years, surgeons tried to restore her sight. When the eyelids grew shut, they opened them, but eyes remained sightless. Suffering and sightlessness were partners. Then came last Wednesday. As Mrs. Sillery related with emotion what transpired that day, her little grandson, 4, romped about her chair, gazing dubiously now and then into those kindly eyes, which until Wednesday, reflected nothing. “A month ago,” she related/ “I a a tt a

“T AST Tuesday night I couldn't sleep. Wednesday morning after JLd breakfast I lay down here on the davenport and dozed off to sleep. “Charley—that s Mr. Sillery there—was sitting over there. I must have slept two hours when I heard him come in from the mail box with the paper. “He always reads tonne. “I opened my eyes a little. Something white seemed to be above me. I thought I must be dreaming. I kept looking. Then I made out it was the white ceiling. “I turned my head. There sat Charley reading. “‘Charley,’ I cried out. ‘Come to me!’ I seemed so excited. It seemed it couldn’t hardly be so. “And then, I don’t kjiow, I just lost control of myself. You don’t know how I felt. But that night when I got quiet—there was Vera and Harry, that's her husband, and little John here, and his brother and the other children and the grandchildren, all so happy and so excited.

“Oh, I can’t tell you how good] it was to see all of them. The I grandchildren, you know, I had never seen—just heard their voices and held them on my lap. “And when I walked around the house it all was such a surprise. I had never seen it, for the old home was remodeled eight years ago. Vera’s piano over there. I was just sure it was lighter than mine. And now I find it’s dark. Oh, I’m so thankful and I hope my eyes won’t go back on me.’’ The Sillery household is watching out for that. Sunlight comes into Grandma’s room, but under lowered blinds. To shade her eyes while they grow accustomed to the light, she wears an old-fashioned black bonnet most of the time. Mrs. Sillery never has seen a “movie,” nor does she care to greatly. Her cup is brimming with contentment as it is. “You haven’t told about that looking glass the other day,” her husband said with a wink. “Yes, you do like to josh me about that, don’t you?” she replied. “I did look in the glass Sunday. I hadn’t seen myself for twenty years.” The face she saw was not the one of twenty years ago. Hair is white now, where it was graying then. But cheeks still have a hint of pink, and eyes—they see again. CITES OLD ARGUMENT Suit Against Big Four Railroad Based on 1895 Subsidy. By Times Special WABASH, Ind., Feb. 21.—The Big Four Railroad is defendant in a suit filed here by W. G. Gardner, Noble Township trustee, for $55,000, paid the railroad thirty-three years ago as a subsidy for keeping its shops in Wabash. In July, 1925, the suit recites, the railroad moved the shops to Anderson, but refused to pay back the $55,000, which Gardner says was raised by taxation. DEMOCRATS WILL MEET Ninth Ward Group to Hear Myers and Deery Tonight. Ninth Ward Democrats will be addressed by Walter Myers, candidate for the Democratic nomination for S> lator, and James E. Deery tonight in Odd Fellow Hall, Washington St. and Hamilton Ave. Organization plans, as submitted by L. J. Reach, county chairman, will be discussed.

told Vera, my daughter, who lives here with us: ‘Vera. I've tried everything on earth for my eyes. I believe I'll go to prayer.’ “And I did. and—” “Your prayer was answered!” was the interruption. “Yes, it was, and I’m thankful to God; but,” and she hesitated, “there’s something else I did. “I tried another prescription my daughter sent me, and. well, I don't mean to be ungrateful, but I don't know which helped the most.” n tt tt u tt

WARN HOME CLEANERS State Group Closes Meet With Annual Election. Danger of amateur cleaning in the home was stressed at the .twentieth annual convention of the Indiana Dyers and Cleaners’ Association at the Lincoln Monday. Talks on the subject were made by Horace Carey, chief of the fire prevention bureau; Rollie Granger, deputy State fire marshal, and Frank Weller, Sharon, Pa., president of the National Dyers and Cleaners’ Association. These officers were elected: Edward Wilson, Richmond, president; Charles Harper, Vincennes, first vice president; Otto Kahn, Vincennes, second vice president, and H. L. Carmony of Marion was reelected secretary and treasurer. David Jones, Ft. Wayne, was elected to another term as sergeant-at-arms. Directors included Charles F. Gregg of Indianaoplis and J. Carl Suverkrup of Columbus. Over one hundred members attended the business sessions and the banquet and dance that closed the convention last night. Section Hand-Lianguist Killed NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 21. William Russell, 71, a college graduate who spoke seven languages, was killed by an interurban car which hurled him from a viaduct a distance of fifty feet. He had been employed by the Indiana Union Traction Company as a section hand. $2 Debt Causes Slaying Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Feb. 21.—Emsire Bradley, 30, Negro, shot and killed Jett Scroggins, 28, Negro, when Scroggins woke him up to demand payment of a $2 debt.

Auto-Butcher By Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Feb. 21. —Will Roberson, farmer, was not angry when one of his hogs was killed by an automobile. Immediately after the hog’s death, Roberson decided it might as well be butchering time, so the auto victim became salt pork and sausage. Roberson says the auto did a neat job, as there was not a bruise on the hog’s body.

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STATE MAY USE DODGE TO HALT REMUS FREEING Former Federal Agent, Named Paramour of Dead Wife, in Lima. r.'/ United Press LIMA, Ohio, Feb. 21.—Habeas corpus proceedings for the release of George Remus, former millionaire Cincinnati bootlegger, from the State hospital for the criminally insane here, were resumed today with the prospect the State would call Franklin T. Dodge, former Federal officer, who figured in Remus’ trial for the murder of his wife. Dodge arrived in Lima presumably to testify for the State. When Remus shot and killed his wife, Imogene, several months ago, he named Dodge as his wife's paramour and charged the two had conspired to send him to the Federal penitentiary and loot his estate. Although Remus was acquitted he was sent to the asylum. State's attorneys denied they called Dodge, when it was intimated Dodge was here to thwart Remus' attempt to regain his liberty. It was understood, however, that Dodge would confer some time today with Walter Sibald of counsel for the State. Dodge intimated he was in Lima in an effort to clear his name. “There had never been a word against my reputation before the Remus trial,” he said. “My record is clean.” C. G. Anthony, supervisor of the asylum, was the first witness called today. Two of five alienists who examined Remus have declared him sane. Loye letters written by Remus to his wife, who it was testified "he trusted implicity” were read late Monday.

Irving Berlin Sends Wife to Health Resort

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NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—Friends of Mrs. Irving Berlin, the former Ellen Mackay, heard today that she had contracted a serious ailment and would be forced to live in Arizona for some time. Mrs. Berlin and her husband are in California with their baby. Doctors have diagnosed the illness as pernicious anemia, reports said. Whether in view of his daughter’s condition Clarence W. Mackay will relent in his attitude toward her marriage to the song writer was discussed widely In stage and society circles. REPAIR ROME’S CHIMES Workmen to Replace St. Peter’s Belfry Bit by Bit. Bp United Press ROME, Feb. 21.—Work that will take two years to complete, has begun on the belfry of St. Peter's, where the shafts and masonry that held the famous deep-toned bells are being repaired. The structure around the big bell of the chime dates back to 1,748, and the iron-work, wood-work and masonry have suffered considerably from the weather. The repairs on the belfry will be made in two months, as the damaged pieces have to be replaced bit by bit, without interrupting the chime. POSTAL MEN TO MEET Letter Carriers of Nation Will Convene at Muncie Tonight. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 21.—A reception at 8 tonight will open the thirtieth annual convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers which will bring delegates from all parts of t?'e United States. Registration will begin at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning and formal sessions of the convention at 9. Music will be provided during the convention by the Indianapolis Letter Carriers’ band. The annual banquet will be held at 6 Wednesday evening.

RULE SOON ON v HOLMES CLAIM TO SLACK POST Decision by Judge Chamberlin Expected in Circuit Court This Week. Ruling on Ira M. Holmes’ quo warranto poceedings in the Indianapolis mayor tangle, affecting directly at least three claimants to the office, is expected late this week from .Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. Judge Chamberlm Monday heard arguments on Joseph L. Hogue's demurer to the complaint. Claims of both Hogue and Holmes we reoutlined to the court by their attorneys. Mayor L. Ert Slack, also a defendant, had attorneys in court, but his case was not argued. Circuit Court room was crowded to capacity for the arguments, the balcony being opened for the first time in many months. Claims Election Void Thomas A. Daily, attorney for | Hogue, set out two points by which ! his client claims the office. Hogue ! was city controller under the late \ Mayor Lew Shank. He claimed Duvall's conviction of | bribery in Criminal Court made his j entire election void, and, therefore, | his appointment of Mrs. Duvall as ; city controller, her succession to the t office of mayor, her appointment of Holmes as city controller and his j succession also was illegal. I His second point was that even j if such a procedure was legal. Duj vail could appoint only an acting i city controller, who would become j only acting mayor without power j to appoint a third city controller who could succeed to the mayor's chair. He claimed the second election rested with the city council. Appear for Slack Louis B. Ewbank, attorney for Holmes, claimed the appeal of Du- ! vail from the conviction stayed the execution and. therefore, not until the final high court decision will Duvall be adjudged guilty and his election be void. City Attorney Edward H. Knight and Albert Raab, appearing for Mayor Slack, said they intend to ask that the quo warranto complaint be made more specific. After this is done, they will file demurrer, Knight said. Slack also has on file ; with the court a motion to strike i out certain parts of the complaint. ; This motion was not argued Monj day.

PRIMARY LAW IS DEFENDED J W. Becker Opens Speaking Drive for Congress. Blaming public disinterest and the political trading of blocs and cliques for defeating the commendable purposes of the primary law, John W. Becker opened his speaking campaign for the Republican nomination for Congressman before the Irving*ton Republican Club in the Irvington Masonic Temple Monday night. “If the people voted, even under our present primary law we could not ask for better, and there hangs the problem; for only blocs, cliques and groups seeking special privilege or the advancement of their own ideas are voting at the primaries. “We are thankful for at least one thing, and that is that they are in the minority; and that when the yoke presses too severely, as it does today, the people can rise up and will rise up and cast it off." Prof. Howard E. Jensen, of Butler University, delivered one of a series of lectures on governmental problems. He voiced a plea for national control of child labor, marriage and divorce laws, education and health. Foreign Ministers Confer MENTONE, France, Feb. 21.—The Rumanian foreign minister, Titulescu, has conferred with Foreign Minister Stresseman of Germany at Stresseman’s hotel at Cap Martin it was learned today.

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Queen of Mardi Gras

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NEA New Orleans Bureau. Carnival Queen of New Orleans and its colorful Mardi Gras is Miss Betty Watson, society beauty of the Southern city. Her selection was not a surprise, for she already has ruled over many a carnival ball. This year she shares her throne with Leon G. Irwin, New Orleans business man, King of the Mardi Gras.

Missing Girl Returns to School After Adventure

Thelma Poynter, 8, Thought Lost, Is Heroine in Eyes of Playmates. When 8-year-old Thelma Poynter returned to her classroom at School 55 today she was the center of attraction of dozens of her little playmates. For Monday Thelma was the heroine of a tragedy that caused school to be dismissed early, brought Police Chief Claude M. Worley and a dozen picked men of the force to Thelma's home and aroused the entire neighborhood. Thelma was lost. She and her brother Elmer, 4, had not been seen, except for a fleeting moment and casually by a neighbor and some neighbor children, since they left the home of their grandmother, one block from their own house. 1725 Arrow Ave., at 4 p. m., Sunday. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Poynter, had gone peaceably to bed Sunday night, thinking the children had remained with their grandmother, but in the morning found they were mistaken. When no trace of the children had been found by noon. Chief Worley took personal charge later in the day. Fearing that her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ware, of 802 Roach St., might learn of the tragedy suddenly and collapse, Mrs. Gregory went to tell her of it. When she opened the door at the Roach St. home, about four miles from the Poynter residence, Thelma and Elmer were playing about, the living room. Almost overcome with delight, she bundled the children into a waiting automobile and hurried them to their home. They told how they had walked the entire distance Sunday, after leaving their grandmother’s house.

PRAISES CITY’S RECORD IN FIRES Don’t Rest on Laurels, Says Prevention Engineer. Indianapolis has a fire prevention record unapproached by any other city, but its citizens should not quit the battle and rest on their laurels. Percy Bugbee National Fire Prevention Association field engineer told the Chamber of Commerce fire prevention committee members, Monday, Bugbee said field engineers came to Indianapolis to get inspiration for work in other cities, rather than to do any' good here. Plans for naming an executive committee to devise means for making Indianapolis a “fire-safe” city were announced by Frank C. Jordan, of the Indianapolis Water Company, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce committee and vice president of the National Fire Prevention Association. A report was read at the meeting showing that of 181 hazardous buildings referred to the city building inspectors last year, sixty-four have been wrecked, eighty-nine made safe and several destroyed by fire. Large Family Advocate Dies ity United Press PARIS, Feb. 21.—Ernest Cognac founder of a fund for prizes to large families, died here today. He was 80. Noted English Dramatist Dead Pi/ United Press LONDON, Feb. 21.—Basil Hastings, well-known dramatist, died today. He was 46 years old.

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DISARMAMENT AFTER SECURITY FRANCE INSISTS ye Arbitration by Treaties Is Favored at Meeting of Commission. BY HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, Feb. 21.—European disarmament must follow, not precede, the establishment of security against attack for European nations, Paul Boncour of France warned the League of Nations security commission today. Boncour said France would favor any general project of arbitration. Creation of the security commission, he argued, marked the league’s recognition of the inseparability of security from disarmament. Security, he said, would continue to be the basis of all league disarmament efforts. Boncour recommended that the commission first try to establish all means of security possible under the League of Nations covenant and then to arrange for arbitration by means of treaties between two nations, treaties among groups of na - tions, or one treaty to be signed by all nations. General De Marinis, Italy, supported the contention previously advanced by Great Britain 'Jiat security best couid hs. obtained through treaties negotiated directly bet’.'.eet. two nations. A series of such treaties, honeycombing a continent, he said, and including a non-aggression provision, would eliminate most causes of war. De Marinis promised Italy would cooperate if the commission decided to recommend a series of regional treaties among groups of several nations, rather than two-nation treaties.

AUSTRALIAN FLOODS' TOLL 12; WATERS RISE Tremendous Property Damage Reported; Town Inundated. Itn United Press MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 21. —Serious floods brought a heavy death toll and tremendous property damage through Australia today. Thus far twelve deaths have been reported, an in one section alone property damage was estimated at 500.000 pounds sterling. Four persons were reported drowned in Queensland, while eight others were dead in Lithgow. Rivers were rising in many sections. The population has been ordered to leave Grafton, where already heavy damage has been done, as the rivers continued rising. The River Macleay overflowed and the town of Kempsey was six feet under water. Eighteen miles of railroad tracks between Dubbo and Nyngan have been washed out. BUYS PLANE FOR RADIO Firm to Perfect Communication Apparatus in Air. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—What is said to be first airplane to be used for the development of radio equipment for plane-to-plane and plane-to-earth communication has been purchased by the Pilot Electric Manufacturing Company of Brooklyn. Under the supervision of M. B. Sleeper, the concern’s chief research engineer, and a former pilot in the British Royal Air Force, experiments will soon begin toward the perfection of airplane radio apparatus. A Stinson-Detroiter Is the crait ordered by the Brooklyn company. The biplane carries a useful load of 1,000 pounds. With a pilot, radio engineer and assistant on board, about 550 pounds of experimental equipment can be taken up, if necessary. Bullet Pierces Head Bv Times Special . . „ ..... HAMMOND. Ind., Feb. 21.—William Berwanger, 23, may live despite having a bullet fired through his head by Theodore Pope, 41, who became enraged because he thought a love affair was being carried on by Berwanger and Mrs. Pope, from whom he is separated.