Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1928 — Page 9

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30,000 SEATS ARE SOLD FOR AUTOCLASSIC Advance Sales Greatest on Record for 500-Mile Speedway Race. PREPARE FOR 160,000 Tickets Are Sent to Every State in Union; Work Soon on Track. With sixty days yet to go, more than 30,000 reserved seat tickets for the 500-mile Memorial day race at thfl Indianapolis Motor Speedway already are sold, according to Miss Eloise Dallenback, who has charge of advance sales at the Speedway office, 444 N. Capitol Ave. From all indications, the largest crowd ever to see the auto classics, which draws speed fans from all parts of the world, will throng the city this Memorial Day, Miss Dallenback believes. And Miss Dallenback should know, for she has been in charge of the advance sales for the majority of the fifteen 500-mile races to date. Prepare for 160,000 Last year Speedway officials estimated the race throng at about 150,000 and the crowd was cut down somewhat by bad weather the preceding day. This year the Speedway officials are preparing for a 160,000 crowd. Nearly all the $lO seats and all $3.50 reserved seats are gone, according to Miss Dallenback. Plenty of sl, $2 and $2.50 reserved seats at the south end of the track and the north end of the straightaway remain. “We’ve sent tickets to every State in the country, and that’s the first time I ever truthfully sould say that,” said Miss Dallenback. “There has been unusual interest rrom foreign newspapers, for entry blanks, requests for tickets, and information, tqo. We've had requests from Germany, France, England, Australia, Japan and China. Start Work on Track Speedway officials, under direction of General Manager Theodore E. (Pop) Myers, are making final preparations to put the track in shape next month. A-ground force of 50 to 100, under Superintendent Lawrence Welch, maintains the Speejlway grounds and keeps up work on the track the year round. Because there arc no big races scheduled on the Pacific coast this spring, the speed car drivers will begin their tuning up work earlier this year, according to Miss Dallenback. Tommy Milton already is at the track, working on a car for Cliff Durant, millionaire Detroit racer. Other drivers in town ready for the preliminary work are Earl De Vore, Tony Gullota. Earl Cooper, Peter Kries and Frank Lockhart. Most of the drivers are expected to begin intensive race preparations April 15. The big race this year is on Wednesday. RICKES WILL FIGHT SCHOOL POST OUSTER Assistant Business Director Asks Hearing by Board. ;Forced resignation of Clayde C. Rickes, assistant school business director, will be fought, Rickes indicated Tuesday night when he filed a written request for a hearing. School officials announced that Rickes would resign and that no one would be named to the vacancy, in order to reduce the number of employes. The board indicated Rickes might be heard at a special meeting Friday. Funds for a three-room addition and auditorium at School 49 in the budget was asked by a delegation. The board approved appointment of Nellie Myres, Edith Berry, Pauline Banks, Mabel Evard and Leona Smith as elementary teachers, WOULD BAR SIGNATURES School Board Head Would Have Diplomas Printed. High school diplomas awarded Indianapolis graduates will no longqp bear the genuine signature of the school board president, superintendent and secretary, if a proposal made Tuesday night by President Theodore F, Vonnegut is adopted. Vonnegut said signing of diplomas requires too much time and effort and suggested that a facsimile ,of the signatures be obtained and printed on the diplomas. The matter was referred to a committee. NAMED FOR BOY WEEK Legion Appoints Two Member’s to National Committee Edward E. Spafford, Howard P. Savage and James A. Drain have been nanted to represent the American Legion on the National Boys’ Week committee, which is sponsoring the nation-wide oobservance of Boys’ Week, April 28 to May 5. Purposes of the week is to focus national attention on the boys of the nations and their needs. Bank Failure Causes Suicide By Times Special MARION, Ind., March 28.—Failure of a bank at Huntington in which 1M had money and decrease in valun of farm land he owned, caused fche suicide here of Joseph P. Searles, 76, retired farmer. He slashed his throat with a pocket knife, . Tl, . .

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Grewsome Cabin Death Report Proves ‘Joke’ Bn United Press • MELLON, Wis., Marqh 27.—Friends of Tom Black, a bachelor, were informed over the telephone that his body had been found in an isolated cabin twelve miles north of here. He had been dead for two weeks, they were told. / To add a bit of grewsome detail, it was reported that a starving dog, which had been locked in the room during that time, had gnawed the body of its 'master. Two of Black’s friends made their way on snowshoes across the drifted wastes to bring his body here for a “decent burial.” They arrived at the lonely cabin late at night, and when they broke in the door a white shape rose before them from a bunk in a corner of the room, “What’s"*Ml the racket about, boys?” queried the “corpse.” “Why didn’t you knock before breaking my door open?” The friends are looking for the person who manufactured the grewsome rumor.

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Lieut. Col. M. Robert Guggenheim, ! scion of the family whose fortune founded the aviation fund which took Col. Charles A. Lindbergh fiying throughout the forty-eight states, and internationally noted sportsman, posed in front of Tomlinson Hall where he is exhibiting his famous dogs. He has Americas leading kennel of Bedlington Terriers. Guggenßeim shipped fourteen dogs to the local show, but two were smothered and died in transit. Tuesday he visited the Butler field house with Arthur V. Brown, George iPotsy) Clark and Wallace O. Let: and praised it highly. Today Lee will take him for a tour of the aviation fields here. He has received a letter from Lindbergh accepting an invitation to come to visit and rest and fish for trout on i one of the Guggenheim farms. Brown and Lee are on the funa-i-aising committee of Butler and Clark is athletic director. INCREASE FAY ROLLS Find Business, Employment on Upgrade. I r.'i United Press WASHINGTON. March 28. Further increases in production and I distribution occurred in February | while wholesale commodity prices ; remained practically unchanged, the | Federal Reserve Board said today in its review of business conditions for February and early March. Manufactures increased 3 per cent over January and 2 per cent over a year ago, while minerals production declined slightly, it was said. Factory employment and pay rolls showed seasonal increases, but continued below last year's level. Output of iron and steel, automobiles and agricultural machinery continued the increase begun at the first of the year. Sales of wholesale firms in leading lines increased in February and were slightly larger than a year ago. while department store sales remained about the same as January and less than a year ago.

NORRIS BOOMED AS THIRD PARTY CHIEF

Bn United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., March 28. Farmer-Laborite leaders of twelve Northwestern States met here today in a conference which, it was believed, might result in the formation of a third party, with United States Senator George W. Norris, Nebraska Republican, as its presidential candidate. The third party movement gained considerable impetus at the Minnesota State convention of the Farmer-Laborite party were Tuesday.

BISHOP OF CHINATOWN HAS DIOCESE OF TWISTED STREETS AND SOULS

[tu XEA Service NEW YORK, March 28. Thomas J. Noonan, ex-con-vict “bishop of Chinatown,” has a diocese of twisted streets and twisted souls. His “see,” the Rescue Society at the old Chinese Theater, 5 Doyers street, is in the heart of the Bowery, near a barber shop which flaunts the legend “Black eyes made natural.” In his tragic flock of down-and-outs he recognizes the Tom Noonan of long ago. “I understand them because I am one of them,” he said. “In mg boyhood the street was my

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'Wet, or Dry’ Questionnaires Draw Scathing Replies From Candidates. “Wet or dry?" questionnaires sent candidates by Anti-Saloon League Superintendent E. S. Shumaßer ■ drew fire again today, this time from Joseph A. Wickfir. local attorney, who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for State Representative. “My impression of your organization,” Wicker wrote Shumaker, “is that you believe that the only criterion of a man's fitness for public office is his opinion dn prohibition and the Wright Bone Dry law. “The results of this reasoning have been clearly evident in our State and city in Ed Jackson and John L. Duvall as well as others, j They, if I recall rightly were in- j dorsed highly by your organization and recommended to the voters of this community. “I cannot believe that anyone but a paid hireling of a group of deceived and misled church people could lend himself to such conclusions. “If any respectable citizen or any i earnest church member will solicit my opinion on any matter of public interest likely to be presented to |me in event of election, I will gladly ; answer them. But toward your organization I feel no such obligation to respond.” Shumaker received a second affront from the Democratic ranks when Samuel B. Wells, Scottsburg publisher, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, re- ; plied to Shumaker’s statement that I the questionnaires were not sent j Wells and Attorney General Arj thur L. Gilliom because of their j “widely known views on prohibij tion.” “Had I been a bootlegger and a known violator of every law on the statutes,” Wells wrote, “but through fear of you and your Anti-Saloon League had said I was in favor of the eighteenth amendment, the Volstead law and the Wright bonedry law. I would have received a clean bill from you. “But knowing I feared neither you or the Anti-Saloon League, you follow your widely known tactics to cast aspersions.” Wells concluded his letter by saying: “If to favor whisky as a medij cine makes me a criminal in the ! eyes of you and your cohorts, then j I welcome the appellation of ‘crim- ! inal’.” j ENDURANCE FLIER DOWN Law Students’ Third Try for Record Fails. ST. PAUL, Minn.. March 28. After twelve hours and six minutes in air, Gene Shank, St. Paul law student attempting a record endurance flight, was forced down at 7:21 a. m. today. It was his third attempt in less than two weeks to break the sustained flight record. Engine trouble caused the descent. Draws 13 Hearts in Bridge Hand Bn United Press NEW YORK, March 28.—Mrs. W. W. Webb drew thirteen hearts in an auction bridge game. After she was doubled on a four-heart bid, she redoubled and made 824 points.

Magnus Johnson, former Senator, urged convention delegates to “get solidly behind a third party movement and back Senator Norris for President.” The movement was based on the hope that Norris would leave the Republican ranks as did the late Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin in 1924. The convention withheld indorsement of United States Senator Henrik Shipstead, Winnesota FarmerLaborite, for re-election.

school and the back door my restaurant. “I was born down here 50 years ago and my parents died before I was old enough to know them. I grew up into one of those terrible little arabs who know more at ten years old than the average man of forty. Being a bright boy I graduated into Sing Sing at the early age of 17.” n n NOONAN'S "hair is graying now. His glance is clean and direct. While he was in Sing Sing he heard a man Breach and it get

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28,1928

FLOOD BILL IS UP IN SENATE AFTERBATTLE Near-Filibuster Puts Bird Bill on Shelf, Brings Up Big Measure. FAST ACTION ASSURED Speed Records Expected to Be Shattered in Passing Draft. Bulletin WASHINGTON, March 28— The Senate today passed the Jones flood control bill after discussion lasting only ninety minutes. Bn United Press * WASHINGTON, March 23.—The Senate set aside the migratory bird bill today and took up the $325,000,000 Jones flood control measure. In the face of an apparent filibuster against the bird bill, Senator Norbeck yielded to the appeals of Chairman Jones of the Senate Commerce Committee and consented to abandon his bill for the present. “I do not want to stand in the Say of an emergency measure like xe flood control or the farm relief bill,” Norbeck said. “I will bring my bill up again after the emergency measures are out of the way.” This was the first step in a prearranged plan to break legislative speed records in rushing the flood control bill through the Senate. Unanimous Vote Expected Senator Curtis. Republican floor leader, has entered an arrangement with Senator Robinson, Democratic floor leader, which'is scheduled to braek all speed records in the upper house of Congress, the United Press learned. The only dispute which could not be settled off-stage concerns several amendments being prepared by Senator Hawes (Dem.>, Missouri. These amendments would provide faster action for work upon tributaries. However, many Senators from tributary States have been lined up for the bill as It stands, and the plan calls for defeat of the Hawes amendments so as to assure fast action on the measure. Hawes has declared himself virtually satisfied with the Jones bill. Unless there is some hitch in arrangements the bili is expected to be adopted without a single objecting vote. Speeches Arc Limited Senators interested in the measure have agreed to hold their speches to fifteen minutes or half an hour each, so the bill can be acted upon as speedily as possible. As soon as the flood control bill Is passed and sent to the House, the Senate will take up the McNaryHauger bill and then the Johnson Boulder Canyon dam bill. By the time these measures and some minor appropriation bills are passed, the Finance Committee is expected to report a tax reduction bill. This program will carry the session to the time for adjournment around June 1. Bomb Case Bonds Doubled I Bn Times Special j HAMMOND, Ind., March 23. Bonds of Harry Ames, Marwood ! Williams and Dean Malloy arrested jin connection with bombing ' the j State theater here have been doubled. Ames’ bond is now SBO,OOO and those of Williams and Malloy $40,000. Authorities announce that a fingerprint investigation shows Malloy is wanted in Chicago on a safeblowing charge.

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R. J. Wensley, inventor of the televox or “mechanical man,” formerly connected with the Merchants Heat and Light Company, now the Indianapolis Light and Power Company, was honored today at luncheon at the Spink-Ai’ms by his former colleagues. Wensley, who is now connected with the Westinghouse Electric Cos., Pittsburgh, spoke Tuesday before the Indianapolis and Lafayette sections of the American Institute of Electric Engineers at the Lincoln. Wensley is shown here with the committee in charge of the luncheon. Seated left to right: Blythe Q. Hendricks, Milton K. Foxworthy, Mr. Wensley, Henry Brunnell. Standing: Wallace O. Lee, E. H. Bingham and C. A. Fay, chairman of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

him thinking. Otherwise Sing Sing, did not help him much, he commented. When his twenty months of “correction” were finished he dropped in with some other bums at anew mission formed by a group of social workers. , Partly through interest, partly through the desire ,for comfort and warmth, they got the habit of coming regularly. Soon Noonan was helping with the service. Those were the days of' China, town Gertie and her pals; when “Red Moike wit’ a bunch o' violets” meant an order of corn-beef and cabbage _ _

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MRS. GOODHUE IS IMPROVING Greatly Cheered by Visits of Mrs. Coolidge. Bn United Press NORTHAMPTON. Mass., March 28.—Although still in a critical condition Mrs. Lemira Goodhue wits believed slightly improved today and greatly cheered by visits from her daughter. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. The “First Lady” visited her mother three times Tuf ‘day. Physicians reported after the visits that Mrs. Goodhue seemed sightly improved. Last night doctors reported in an official statement that Mrs. Goodhue seemed slightly improved. Last night doctors reported in an official statement that Mrs. Goodhue was resting comfortably. Although Mrs. Goodhue had been delirious she calmed when advised that her daughter would soon visit her. She recognized Mrs. Coolidge and was able to talk some. Doctors said her mind seemed more alert. After her last visit at the hospital Tuesday, Mrs. Coolidge returned to her home on Massoit St. and remained there during the evening with Mrs. R. B. Hills of Northampton. who accompanied her from Washington. Church Refuses Organ Given Town GIBBSTOWN. N. J.. March 28. Walter Mullen presented a $6,000 organ to the town when the Methodist church refused it because of the cost of installation.

The old theater nestled in a sinister neighborhood. Human dregs reeled in and out swinging doors. Some slipped stealthily into dens where smoky dreams were sold. Night-times the street resounded to fights and revels. S nun “'T'HE regeneration of this neighborhood was never brought about through laws, but through moral influence,” said Noonan. “The wicked simply folded their tents and crept away. “However, we still have enough ‘raw material’ to work with. There are about 400 men a night in pur

BY JULIA BLANSHARD NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, March 28.—Fifteen years ago a pink-frocked little girl with a cheery smile and big. wide-open blue eyes, came out and spoke a long piece at a Sunday School Easter service. A few’ minutes later a pink-frocked little girl with the same big, wide-open blue eyes, but without a smile, came out and, not quite so confidently, recited some poetry. “They’re the McAllister twins,” an old lady explained to a visitor. "But I just can't tell you whether it was Margaret or Frances who was a little bit shy, they’re so much alike.” Asa matter of fact, both of them were Frances. <Or maybe they were Margaret.) At least both were the same twin. For at the last minute of them succumbed to stage fright and, since they always learned .each other's pieces in addition to their own, the twin who had spoken once returned to pinch hit for her sister. Now, after twenty-four years of inseparable comradeship, it looks as if Margaret and Frances McAllister mean to pinch hit for each other for life. _

For they are taking law together. They are to graduate from the Fordham University law school this June and as soon as possible they mean to hang out twin shingles. Always N’ip and Tuck Side by side the girls went through grade and high schools; boih won scholarships at Cornell: both finished their last two years of under-graduate work at Barnard and they were always nip and tuck with each other in grades, ever liking the same subjects. “When they were little they were so devoted they used to take punishment for each other, their mother testified. “Often we have recited for each other.” they confessed. “And once.” said Margaret, with a rougish twinkle in her Irish eyes, “Fran went to a dance with a man who asked me and he didn't know the difference.” They arc a remarkable case of identical twins. They arc the same size and weigh exactly the same. Both bare squarish faces that end unexpectedly in ovals: both have the same lively, Irish blue eyes, set identically under heavy eyebrows and lashes. Both wear their light chestnut hair bobbed the same way. Their rather straight mouths show the same even white teeth when they laugh—which is often. But it is their identical characters that is startling. Identify them and then study them. Try to draw conclusions. Suggest that Frances looks as if she might be the more studious. Margaret the fun-maker. They laugii and say it the other way round, if anything. Ask Margaret if she is the even-tempered one and Frances likely to get heated in argument and Frances says. “You should hear Marg out stumping for Tammany. She's a fire-brand!” Tastes Identical, Too Their tastes are identical in sports. They like tennis and golf, adore swimming and think touring England and Scotland the best fun in the world. Until recently they dressed alike. Now if they shop separately they are likely to bring home practically the same hat or dfess. Both are inveterate readers, and like much the same thing though Frances does lean towards liking detective stories more than Margaret. It seemed inevitable that they pursue the same profession. In this, parental influence exerted itself, for their father is a member of one of New York’s foremost law firms.

bread line. Almost all have fallen either through drink or drugs.” Some of the congregation shuffle in furtively and a little ashamed, some suspiciously. All bear the marks of life at its worst. But no questions are asked and they join lustily in the hymn “God Will Take Care of You.” There is a little preaching, then what the pastor calls “machine gun testimonials” from the crowd. an u NOONAN got his nickname of “bishop” some years ago when a real bishop came to visit the mission, ,

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Tom Taggart is felling lint this winter, thank you. This shows the veteran Indiana Democradc leader on his return to French Lick a few days ago after a winter's rest at Palm Beach. His delicate health caused his friends concern last year. Tom's next, long trip will bo to Houston, Texas, to support Evans Woollen’s candidacy for ' the presidency at the Democratic national convention. Indorse Dailey at Huntington By Times special HUNTINGTON. Ind., March 28. —Frank C. Dailey's candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor received unanimous indorsement of the Huntington County Democratic Club by xesolution adopted Tuesday night.

I-Ie was introduced with many flourishes as the great leader of a great church. Ip his reply he said modestly that there was a much greater bishop—the bishop of Chinatown. The name stuck. Noonan’s work extends beyond Chinatown. Services at the mission are broadcast and a great many people listen in. Many of these oiler help. Many ask it. Letters come from I little children asking for bunnies and bicycles, help for sick parents. All the pleas are investigated and aid gives when eoasifelft __

PASTOR FLAYS DEMAGOGUE IN STATE POWER Philadelphia Editor Slaps Hypocrites for Hiding Under Mask. SCORES SUPER-PATRIOTS Says They Belong in Stripes (Not Stars and Stripes) in Sermon. “Who docs not now that in Indiana, as in my own State of Pennsylvania. dishonest demagogues, professing to be not patriots, but super-patriots and 100 per cent Americans, have been dressing themselves up in the Stars and Stripes, when they should be clothed in stripes only?” This was the challenge laid down to the moral courage of Hoosierdom by Dr. Paul S. Lienbach of Philadelphia, Pa.; editor of The Reformed Church Messenger, in tho Lenten sermons at Keith's Theater at noon today. The pre-Easter meetings are under auspices of the Indianapolis Church Federation. Dr. Leinbach will preach throughout the week. His sermon today was on "Hypocrites.” Mask Well Concealed “Hypocrites are those who hide under a mask and they constitute another great class of those who make Jesus weep,” said Dr. Lcinbach. “They form the most difficult class to discover because their masks are so cleverly constructed that only God can see through into tlijbir hearts. “The greatest are of living is brotherhood. (To be Christ-like is to be brotherly. This is the real test of our worthwhileness in human society. The deep tragedy of our human experience is that after all these centuries so many remain unbrotherly. In a true sense, every unbrotherly heart c*ui be called hypocrtical for it occupies a false relationship to society. “Think of the vast army of leeches and coties, not helping and blessing their fellowmen, but fattening upon the life blood of their brethren, a motely crew of bandits, blackmailers, extortioners, bootleggers, white slavers, political grafters and other thieves. Don’t Pray While Preying “We have -the record of over $3,500.000.000 worth of property stolen last year in America, and God only knows how much was stolen that is not recorded by man. But some, at least, of these enemies preying upon society do not. pray while they prey—they do not travel under false pretenses and profess to be philanthropies. “In ihe State, we have flattery, false promises and too fcflen llic bald dishonesty of demagogues, professing themselves to be not patriots, but super-patriots and 100 per cent Americans. “If you were to remove from the political arena all who play to the galleries and fail to ring true, what a decimination of the population of politicians there would be, oh my countrymen. Who docs not know in Indiana, as in my cv.n Slate, Pennsylvania, that many have been dressing themselves up in the Stars and Stripes who should have been clothed in stripes only?” SCOTTISH RITE CONFER DEGREES AT REUNION Twenty-First to Thirtieth Given Keystone Class. The twenty-first through the thirtieth degrees were conferred .today on candidates of the Keystone class of the Scottish Rite in the sixtythird annual convocation and reunion / The final degrees will be given Thursday, and both the first and second section class will unite for the convocation banquet. The conferring of the seventeenth through the twentieth degrees and the reunion of the “Hub” and the “Ten Thousand” classes were the high points of Tuesday's activities. The “Ten Thousand” class met at the Columbia Club with James W, Putnam presiding. The “Hub” class also met at, the Columbia Club with Hilton U. Brown presiding.

OPPOSE SLACK'S OUSTER Business League Lauds M'Clure; Asks His Retention. Work of Recreation Director Jesse P. McClure was commended by i the Better Business League cf Nor<ii 1 Indianapolis at Clifton and Udell I Sis,, Tuesday night. President Harmon A. Campbell named a committee to urge Mc- ! Clure’s retention at the park board ! meeting Thursday. The Slack administration is seeking to oust McClure to create a place for Henry Goett, Thirteenth Ward Democratic worker. KLAN ASKS NEW VENUE J Alleges Judge Chamberlin Prejudiced in Suit for Change. j -Ku-Klux Klan has filed a motion for change of venue in the suit in Circuit Court brought by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom to oust it> from Indiana. A deposition of Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans of Atlanta alleges a fair trial cannot be obtained before Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin because of prejudice. Gilliom |is seeking to revoke the Klan s i charter on the grounds that it has | not lived up to its purposes of being ft patriotic organization,