Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1928 — Page 3

MARCH 24, 1928

BORDER GUARDS SEIZE ITALIAN WAR SHIPMENT Thirty Carloads of Munitions, Believed Headed for Hungary, Taken. Bn United Press BELGRADE, March 24.—Thirty car loads of Italian ammunition allegedly destined for Hungary, have been confiscated at the Subotiza station by Jugo-Slavian authorities, it was announced today. The shipment was considered suspiciously, it was reported in informative circles, because unless the bill of lading specified the shipment should go by way of the town of Szegcdin, Hungary, the shipment would not necessarily have been forced to enter Hungary. Recently a shipment of machine guns, said to be from Italy for Hungary, was seized at St. Gothard. It caused a grave international crisis because Hungary’s armaments are limited by the World War treaty. The machine guns were sold, over a League of Nations protest, for a small sum as junk. There was said to be 5,000 machine guns in the shipment. F.tj United Press VIENNA, March 24.—The Subotiza correspondent for the newspapers of the Politika Novosti reported Jugoslavian authorities Wednesday seized twenty-two carloads of munitions being sent to Rumania from Italy. The munitions were sent Feb. 22. the reports said, and the transport was addressed to Rumania via Velika Kikinda via route leading through Hungary. The Jugo-Slavian authorities were said to have confiscated the shipment, suspecting anew St. Gothard affair. The government has appointed a commission to investigate.

THE CITY IN BRIEF

A further investigation of the failure of the J. F. Wild & Cos. State Bank was believed underway in the Marion County grand jury Friday. J. C. Geist, account of the firm of Hendrick and Boggs, who examined the defunct bank's books, was a witness before the grand jury. Damages of 535.000 are asked by Harold A. Hall, 12, former caddy at the Highland Golf and Country Club, in a suit filed late Friday in Superior Court against the club. Hall’s complaint alleges he was struck in the eye last summer by a golf bal ldrivcn by Floyd Funchum an employe of the company. The birthdays of Harry Voni Bruch, evangelist of Chicago, and Martin Keller, church janitor, were observed at evangelistic services Friday night at Garfield Avenue M. E. Church. The evangelist told his life story. Gifts were presented. Protest and appeal from two city ordinances passed at Frankfort providing for a four-mile-an-hour speed limit and regulations pertaining to track repairs has been filed with the Public Service Commission by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis <fc Eastern Traction Company. Approval of a S5!),000 bond issue for the construction of a grade school in Wayne township, Wayne County, has been made by the State tax commission. The original request was for $70,000 issue. Mrs. William I*. Hargon today headed the Indiana Humane Education and Anti-Vivisection Society. She was elected president Thursday night at the home of Mrs. Hattie Blandford, 2364 N. New' Jersey St. Other officers elected: Mrs. Mabel DuHadway and Miss Eloise Palmer, vice presidents; Mrs. Thusnelda Barrett, secretary and treasurer. Appointment of Ross L. Grcenwalt, Goshen, as railroad inspector has been announced by the public service commission. Grccnwalt was representative from Elkhart County jn the last Legislature and will fill a vacancy in the commission that has long been vacant. START MISSION DRIVE Campaign Begun (o Raise Money for West Side Organization. Campaign for funds for additions to the West Side Christian Mission, Ohio and Koehne Sts., is under way, headed by William E. Bell, 3020 Ruckle St., president of the Marion County Christian Sunday School Association. This organization has supported the mission for eighteen years. With the construction of additions, it is planned to enlarge the program of the mission, Bell dcdared Other officers of the association, who will assist in the fund raising, are Mrs. Estal L. Taylor, vice president; Evelyn Honeywell, treasurer; Walter L. Shirley, secretary; C. A. Taylor, financial secretary; Charles E. Hill, financial agent, and E. S. Cummings, statistician. Local Man’s Brother Dies Bn Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., March 24v John Jewell, 60, treasurer of the Reeves Pulley Works, is dead at his home here of heart disease. He had been connected with the pulley works forty years, and had served as a Democratic member of the city council, city school board and Bartholomew County library board. Edward Jewell, Indianapolis, is a brother of deceased. Rides in riane for Visit Bn Times Special MT. VERNON, Ind., March 24. Roland Causey will come here b” plane from Chicago Sunday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seth L. Capsey, i w _ .

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A rare orchid at the New York Horticultural Society’s fifteenth international flower show took the name of “Colonel Lindbergh’’ and also the prize in its class. Here's pretty Thelma van Winkle admiring it.

‘The Mikado ’ Is Coming! Write an Essay and Go

Tell About the Song You Like Best: Winners Get Free Passes. If you wrote a fifty word essay Friday on “The Song I Like Best in Tolanthe’ and Why I Like It,” then you are ready to turn to today's contest in the Winthrcp Ames’ Gilbert and Sullivan opera contest. Today the subject for the fifty word essay is "The Song I Like Best in the ‘Mikado’ and Why I Like It.” The contest is under the direction of the Winthrop Ames’ Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and The Indianapolis Times. Each day for eight days, starting last Friday, The Times will publish a subject for an essay based on one of the three epera which play at the English Theater the week of April 2. Every grade school and high school student in Indiana can enter the contest. The rules are simple and decisions of the judges will be

Greensdurg Mourns Last Jefferson Davis Captor

Henry M. Miller, 85, Dies After Eight Weeks Illness. /*.// T nifcd Errs* GREENSBURG, Ind.. March 24 They’ll be burying Henry M. Miller, perhaps Sunday, and as they lower the casket, the last survivor of that band ol' Union soldiers who captured •Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern Confederacy, will have passed on. Miller died late Friday. He was 85 years cld and had been in perfect health, until eight weeks ago, when stomach trouble developed. Jovial, good-natured. Miller for years has delighted residents of this community with his stories of the Civil War. His favorite talc hinged cn the capture of Davis. It was: on May 8, 1865, that Millei

Aids Air Safety

Government experts soon are to test the airplane safety devices invented by Peter A. Beck, aviator of Ogden, Utah. It consists of a trap door in the fuselage of the plane through which a pilot may drop his passengers when his ship goes out of control. Parachutes worn by the passengers are automatically opened when they have fallen clear of the plane.

based largely on neatness of the essay and the value of your opinion in selecting your favorite song. All Friday’s essays must be mailed by midnight Tuesday, and all Saturday’s essays must be mailed by midnight Wednesday. Prizes in the contest are four pairs of tickets for each subject. In all there will be thirty-two pair of tickets. All seats are the best in the English Theater and retail for $6 the pair. Pick out the song you like best and write a fifty word essay telling why you like it. Mai! the essay to the “Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Essay Editor” at The Indianapolis Times. RILES E'.a-- must b c less than fifv words In length on the subject announced each day. Essays must he in the hand- of Judies before the expiration of tire tune limit announced for eacli contest. Essays must be written on one side of the paper and neatness will be a factor in judging. None will be returned. Winners’ names and the winning essays will be published. Place vour name. age. address and name of school on each sheet of e say. Judges will named bv Tne Times and their word will be final in all matters. Address all queet’ons to Gilbert and Sullivan OBera Essay Editor” at the Indlanepofis Times

;as one of a group of Union soldiers. as detailed to prevent Davis from i scaping to the sea, thence to | suropc. , “Early in the morning we sighted ; a group of Confederates,” Miller ; said, “and surrounded them. They did not offer resistance, but while we . were disarming them, ‘a woman’ ! stepped from their ranks and asked ; to go through our lines and obtain | some water. ‘She’ was granted the permission br.t as ‘she’ passed Corporal John '' nc lie stopped ‘her.’ Ho had not: e l boots below ‘her’ i dress. Taking ’her’ arm, ho stepped to his captain. ‘Here is Jeff Davis,' Malone said.” Miller came to this section in 1875. Recently he was officially notified by the pension bureau that he was the last survivor of the group who captured Davis. CONSIDER BOND ISSUE | School Board in Private Session, Silent on Tax Edict. School board members met this morning in private session “to discuss maters relating to bond issues.” Theodore F. Vonneguff board president. refused to affirm or deny that members would discuss the recent State tax board edict that unless specifications on heating and ventilating are open to competition, no more school building bond issues will be allowed here. The tax board based is warning on objection to one particular type of ventilating system which it held is being accepted regardless of the price. UPHOLDS PROHIBITION W. C. T. U. Speaker Declares Moral Support of People Needed. “When prohibition lias the moral support it should have, it will prohibit,” Charles F. Miller, city school superintendent, said at the Central W. C. T. U. meting Friday at the home of Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson. “Those who say things are worse since prohibition do not know whereof they speak.” Miller deplored cultivation of the smoking habit by women. Arrested for Stealing Parrot NEW YORK. March 24.—Anthony Russo and Louis Roderiguez were held in $2,500 bail each for stealing a parrot from the check room of a hotel. The parrot was said to have been a gift from Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes and Speaks both Spanish and English. Destroy Lindy’s Runway ROOSEVELT FIELD. L. 1.. March 24.—The runway at Roosevelt Field from which Colonel Lindbergh, Clarence Chamberlin and Commander Byrd started their trans-Atlantic flights will be destroyed to make way for polo fields. Collegian Skates Forty Miles MORRISTOWN, N. J., March 24. —Henry F. Taylor, senior at Princeton University, skated forty miles from the University to his home here to win a bit of $65.

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G. 0. P. LEAGUE DRAFTS PLANKS Platform Embraces Groups Opposing Coffin. Election of precinct committeemen who will select a Republican county chairman “of known integrity and sound Republicanism and accessible to the Republican electorate of Marion County at seasonable times,” was cited as the purpose of the Republican Reorganization League in resolutions adopted Friday. Embracing most of the factions opposed to George W. Coffin, county and city Republican chairman, the league announced this four-plank platform: “1. The election of precinct committeemen of integrity who will elect a county chairman free from ! corrupt and sinister influences and from secret alliances and affiliations, and pledged to conduct the affairs of the Republican party in Marion County in an honest, straight-forward and open manner, and by methods recognized as clean and business like. “2. Ncnpolitical administraiton of our educational system. "3. No interference with the operation of the city manager plan. “4. Faithful adherence to the true principles of the Republican party. The league has no affiliation with i the Independent Republican Voters’ ; League, organized by William A. Boyce, city clerk, to work for the j election cf precinct committeemen | and State convention delegates.

SHRINERS TO MIAMI 4CO City Persons Expected * to Make Ttrip. Uniformed organizations of Murat temple of the Shrine will be sent to Miami, Fla., May 1-3, for the Imperial Council of the Shrine for North America, it officially was announced today by William H. Bockstahlcr, Murat potentate. More than 400 Hoosier Shrincrs and their friends are expected to make the trip. Train, pullman and hotel reservations are being made at the headquarters of the Murat transportation committee, 114 Monument Circle. More than 200 Nobles comprise the uniformed bodies. Fred Jewell has charge of the band: Vcmon Sheller, patrol; Harry A. Pell, gun squad; Jesse McClure, drum corps, and Bertrand A. Orr, chanters. The next ceremonial of the Shrine will be held Friday and many neophytes who wish to make the trip to Miami will be initiated. The production “Madame Sherry” will be given the week of April 10 for the purpose of raising money to send the uniformed organizations to Miami.

ADAMS BACKS LEAGUE Editor Indorses Reorganization Movement in State G. O. P. Thomas IT. Adams, candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, indorsed the Republican Reorganization League in a statement declaring it to be “more important than my own or any one’s else candidacy that we have an honest Republican organization. The leaders of this movement must, however, be unselfish in their motives, otherwise the movement will foil in its undertaking.” Art Exhibits to Close Sunday II I 7 inn s Special RICHMOND. Ind, March 24 The R. B. Grucllc and Richard Brown Black art exhibits which have been on display in the public galleries here, will close Sunday. A third exhibit, the Olive Rush, will remain in place until April 1.

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OIL TAINT PUT ON PRESIDENT La Follette Calls Cooiidge Sinclair Beneficiary. /’.(/ I niled Tress BELOIT, Wis., March 24.—President Cooiidge was “a beneficiary of the Sinclair Liberty Bond contributions which helped to remove the 1923 Republican campaign deficit and cleared the deck for his campaign in 1924.” United States Senator Robert M. La Follette charged in a campaign speech here last night. “Mr. Cooiidge has never uttered a word in condemnation of the bribery and collusion and sordid corruption which have shocked and humiliated the country before all the nations of the earth,” La Follette said. La Follette spoke in behalf of the progressive Republican candiates for delegates to the National convention. He also criticized Andrew W. Mellon and Herbert Hoover of the President’s cabinet, who he said, had “uttered no word of disapproval.” “Mr. Hoover is a candidate to succeed President Cooiidge and his only declaration of principles thus far is that he is a candidate on the ‘Cooiidge policies'.” SEEKS PAL FOR TOUR OF EUROPE IN FLIVVER Technical Senior Would Furnish Car, Half Expenses for Trip. WANTED —A younfr man to be a companion in a trans-Atlantic tour in an old Ford; must share half the expense. Some such advertisement will be framed by Everett Beatley, 18-year-

old Technical high school senior, who is busy these days tuning up his flivver for the “grand tour.” The machine has gone 70.000 miles, according to the youth, but he insists that it’s good for that many more. So when school is out he will take off from his home, 1703 Ashland Ave., and drive to New York, where he and the car and his com-

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panion, if any, will embark for the British Isles. Beatley intends to spend three months touring the British Isles and the continent. District Legion Meeting GOODLAND, Ind., March 24. Attendance of 500 is expected here Sunday at the Tenth district American Legion meeting. Howard Savage, New York, past national commander. will speak. John R. Smith, Gary, district commander, will preside.

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GIPMI& STARTING SATURDAY {ptott W[' NEIL HAMILTON Today—Beery & Hatton In “Partners In Crime”

He’d Rather Fly a Kite

BUT I'd rather fly a kite,” says Master, James E. Mann, 8. of 1616 Harlan St., after he almost had spelled down all the students in the St. John’s grade school. James is too young to enter the Indiana Spelling Bee held under the auspices of The Indianapolis Times, but that didn’t keep him from joining in the fun of spelling. He is only in the third grade, and the bee is for the older boys and girls in the fifth through the eighth grades. The Brothers of the school lined the boys up, and James was going strong until he hit ‘enthusiastic.” He looked down the line of tall boys and started the word with an “i.” He was out. But today at The Times office, a reporter told James if he spelled “enthusiastic” right The Times would give him a big new kite. Master Mann this afternoon was jerking on a long kite string down on Harlan St. NAB 3 IN GANG FEUO Cousins Arrested in Probe of Esposito Death. r.ij l ailed Press CHICAGO, March 24.—Arrest of three gangster cousins, a partial identification of their automobile as the sedan from which “Diamond Joe”* Esposito was shot to death Wednesday night, were the outstanding developments today in the latest attempt of police to penetrate the mystery of gangland's “ordered" deaths. Investigation of “Diamond Joe's” assassination centered around Tony, Carlo and Louis Borsellino, cousins, whose conflicting alibis resulted in their detention today. In the living quarters of the three cousins, police Friday found two sawed-off shotguns and an apparatus for loading shotgun shells. The shells carried slugs identical with those which killed Esposito. A few hours later a blue sedan, owned by the cousins, was found It bore marked resemblance to the car from which “Diamond Joe” was shot to death, according to police. Watch tlic pennies—the dollars will care for themselves —want ads save money—use them!

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PHONE RATES RAISED Public Service Commission Grants Two Petitions. Increased telephone rates were granted to three small companies and approval of changes in ownership of two telephone companies was voted by the Public Service Commission. Rate increases were granted: People's Cooperative Telephone Company, Clarkshill; Orange Mutual Telephone Company, Orange, and the Hoadlcy Telephone Company, Gosport. Certificate was granted the Brucevillc Telephone Company to purchase its property from George H. Shouse and to the Oaktown Telephone Company to purchase its property from Otto L. Finch. Both companies were also authorized to issue 1.000 shares of no par value common stock.

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BORAH INYITES VOTE ON FUND Says Donors Can Dispose of Sinclair Money. BY PAUL R. MALLON *• initrd Press SlafT Correspondent (Copyright, 1928, by United Trcssi WASHINGTON, March 24. Senator Borah is willing to let his contributors vote to decide the disposition of the $160,000 fund he is raising to repay Harry F. Sinclair's contribution to the Republican party. In an interview Friday he said: “My personal opinion is that the money should be returned to Sinclair. The Republican party ought never to have received the money and should get rid of its obligation by sending it back to the source from which it came. “However, I am willing to take the judgment of the contributors. “If they want the money to go for hiring detectives to dig up more information about Sinclair, I will abide by their wishes. If they want to have the money given to a leper colony, I am willing. Thus far he has received a little less than $6,000 in cash. RETIRED POLICEMAN IS TAKEN BY DEATH Jeremiah A. Hoflahan, 71, Was Native of City. Funeral services for Jeremiah A. Hollahan, 71, retired policeman who died at his home, 605 N. Rural St., Friday night, will be held at 10 a. m., Monday at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. A native of Indianapolis. Mr. Hollahan had spent his entire life in the city. He was a police sergeant upon his retirement last September, after thirty years on the force. Surviving are the widow, a daughter, Mrs. Mary Carson of Indianapolis: a son. James J. Ilollahan, of Chicago, and a sister, Mrs. ■J. W. Murdock, of Joliet, 111. Besides bring a member of St. Philip Neri's Church, Mr. Hollanhan belonged to the Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Holy Name Society.