Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1928 — Page 3

mih 3, 1928.

SPECIAL SESSION IS CALLED TO CHOOSE TWO COUNCILMEN

■LECTION OF * PAIR SS SET j FOR THURSDAY / Resignations of Moore and Dorsett Are Accepted at Meeting. CIVIC LIST IS PREPARED Names of Candidates for Berths Kept Secret, So They Cannot Refuse. Successors to Boynton J. Moore and Walter R. Dorset!. Republicans, whose resignations were accepted by city council Monday night, will be elected at a special council meeting Thursday noon. The council may fill the vacancies from the list submitted by the civic group headed by Frank Fowler. Austin H. Todd's resignation, which is effective April 25, was not read to council Monday night. Moore was convicted of bribery and will be sentenced Saturday, while Dorsett is facing trial in May on a like charge. Neither attended the meeting on Monday night. Council President Otis E. Bartholomew announced Thursday is the earlist date for selection of new councilmen possible under the law. Keep Candidates Secret Secrecy has surrounded the naming of the candidates for council by Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade and City Manager League representatives. The committee of the organization met at neon again today to work on the list. The ilst may not be made public until an hour or so before the special council session. The committee feels that the citizenship should draft the new councilmen and give them no opportunity to refuse, before their election, according to Councilman Edward B. Raub. Raub and Robert E. Springsteen, Democrats, the only ccuncilmen not involved in the bribery charges, met with the committee to discuss candidates. Council President Bartholomew and Millard W. Ferguson, who arc said to have written out resignations. gave no indication as to when they will leave the council. Claude E. Negley, former president, is not expected to resign under a proposed agreement whereby councilmen will escape penitentiary terms if they rcsikn and plead guilty to malfeasancl. Os Ray Albertson, who turned stale's evidence, also may resign.; He ms not attended council meetsince he testified at Moore's trial and admitted accepting bribes. Few Attend Session Councilman Raub, after a thirty minute caucus of the six councilmen behind closed doors, moved that the resignations of Moore and Dorsett be accepted. E. E. Heller, coal dealer 1924 Fletcher Ave., is mentioned as I successor to Moore from the Sixth ! councilmamc district. Friends of Albert F. Meurer, 4426 13. Tenth St., j are boosting him to succeed Dor- j sett in the First district. J. A. Birsficld, Republican, who opposed Austin H. Todd. Republican, from the Fourth district in last election, attended the council session. A squad of police was assigned, to the council chamber in antu-ipa- j tion of a large crowd. Only twenty- | five citizens attended. Doctor Dies in Office Bn THues Special DECATUR, Ind., April 3.—Dr. Benjamin F. Beavers. 37, died suddenly of heart disease in his office here shortly after returning Monday forenoon from the Adams County hospital, where he had performed an operation. Baby Eats Talcum Towder i’ii/ United Press WABASH, Ind., April 3.—'The condition of Patricia Carrico, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Carrico, who in some manner, while playing with a box of talcum powder, got the lid off and ate some of it, is reported by doctors to be better.

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REPORT MACKAY TO FORGIVE BERLINS

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Mr. and Mrs. Irving Berlin V.y l ailed Press NEW YORK. April 3.—Without citing any authority for its statements, the Evening Graphic, New York tabloid newspaper, says that ’Clarpncc Mackay, head of the Postal Telegraph Company, has forgiven his daughter Ellin for marrying Irving Berlin, the Jewish composer. The Graphic says it has learned that the reconciliation came about in Arizona, where Mrs. Berlin had gone for her health and that Mackay, Ellin, Irving and the Berlin baby are returning together from the West. Mackay, a devout Catholic and New York society leader, was reported to have disinherited his daughter in 1926 when she went against his wishes and eloped with the composer. In explanation of the unlooked-for reconciliation the Graphic says an attempt has been made to keep it secret because of the fear of arousing the displeasure of Mackay’s mother, Mrs. John W. Mackay, widow of the founder of the Mackay fortune. At Mackay’s headquarters in the Postal Telegraph offices here it was said that Mackay was out of town and that no statements were to be made concerning his whereabouts or published reports of reconciliation with the Berlins.

CONTRACT FOR SEWER FOUGHT Protest Awarding of Work to Mead Firm. Awarding of the Forty-Second St. main sewer contract to the Mead Construction Company was protested today by the Eugene Sheehan Construction Company, sewer contractors. After visiting Mayor L. Ert Slack, William A. Pickens, Democrat, attorney for Sheehan, filed a protest with the board of works, charging the Mead firm is not equipped to build sewers. The Mead Company, which has been doing street paving, was low bidder. The Sheehan protest declared that the bid was irregular. Mead's bid was approximately $250,000 against the Sheehan bid of $253,000. Both bids were under the estimate of City Engineer A. H. Moore who figures approximately $262,000. Oren S. Hack, works board president, referred the question to the city legal department. Emsley W. Johnson, Mead’s attorney and special prosecutor in the political graft investigation, will file a brief on the protest. RITES WEDNESDAY FOR LIGONIER’S EX^MAYOR Simon .T. Straus, Chicago Business Leader, to Rest in Home Town. By Times Special LIGONIER, Ind., April 3.—Simon J. Straus, who served several terms as mayor here, will be buried here Wednesday, according to word from Chicago, where of late Straus had been living. Ligonier is his native town. Straus was president at his death of a chain of large Chicago clothing stores. His son, Stanley J., succeeds him to the presidency. Other survivors are his wife, and a daughter, Gwendolyn. As had his father, Straus spent summers in Ligonier, where he obtained his grade school education.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: William L. Landreth, 222 Blue Ridge Rd., Jordan, 192, from Market and Alabama Sts. Leo Gootee, 1068 Hosbrook St., Ford, 652-818, from East and Michigan Sts. Paul B. Scott, 1616 Montcalm St., Chevrolet, 636-954, from Massachusetts and College Aves. Frank Murrello, 664 E. East St., Nash, 616-243, from East and Michigan Sts. James Green, 109 W. St. Clair St., Cadillac, 449-831, from in front of that address.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Victor T. Calvin, 2917 N. Chester Ave., Ford, found at Thirtieth and Adams Sts. A. M. Galligan, 1160 Kentucky Ave., Essex, found at Prospect St. and Madison Ave. Clarence Doughitt, 18 S. Capitol Ave., Auburn, found at Madison Ave. and Orange St. Adolph Schemekan, 2821 Bellefontaine St., Ford, found at 212 Leeds Ave. Ada J. Westerfield, Brill and Sumner Sts., Ford truck, found at Illinois and Maryland Sts. Robert R. Ragan, 436 E. Fall Creek Blvd., Buick, found at East and Market Sts. Harry Graham, 1919 N. Delaware St., Chevrolet, found at Fifty-Second St. and College Ave, _

Boy Lashed By 'Times Special LINTON, 'lnd., Aprli 3. Joseph Goshen, 16. was given ten lashes with a strap by his father, Stephen Goshen, a sentence imposed by Mayor Bull in city court, where the youth was charged with stealing seven chickens and selling them at a grocery. Young Goshen grasped an iron post at police headquarters while the lashing was administered.

CANDIDATES QUIZZED Governor Aspirants Asked Policy Views. Gubernatorial candidates are asked to state their views on a number of public questions in an open letter addressed to them C. Oliver Holmes of Gary, State Senator and Indiana Bankers’ Association president. Questions which Holmes believes candidates should ‘'answer cr discuss” include: Attitude on banking reform laws; an insurance policy for State property; solving of traffic control by establishing a department independent of the office of the Secretary of State, which will give greater rural protection and reduce fatalities: providing of ade(JUate housing for historical and museum material: study and remedy of overcrowded conditions in State penal, benevolent and education institutions, and a plan for lessening the property tax. Holmes said bank failures of the past two years indicated a need for revision of the laws'respecting control and operation of banks. Holmes made a veiled attack on the administration of James Jackson, brother of Governor Ed Jackson, as superintendent of the State School for Feeble Minded Youth at Ft. Wayne when he said “retrogression that has taken place at Ft. Wayne has caused widespread dismay and has thrown away twentyfive years of progressive effort.” Dr. Byron E. Biggs, nationally eminent psychopath, was removed by Governor Jackson Jan. 1, 1925. over State-wide protest, to make way for Jackson's brother and a “business administration.”

Church Will Expand

By Times Special _ ANDERSON. Ind., April 3—The congregation of the Church of the Brethren will decide within the next few days whether to spend $35,000 for erection of anew church building or to remodel the old one at a cost of $12,000 to $20,000.

Rock-a-Bye Bit Science Service MESA VERDE, Col.. April 3. —The finest specimen of a rattle belonging to the ancient cliff dwellers ever found in Mesa Verde National Park has just been discovered by Deric Nusbaum, 15 year old son of the park superintendent. The rattle and other prehistoric relics found with it have been presented to the park museum by their finder. The rattle was found, in all probability, exactly as it was left by some cliff dweller eight to twelve centuries ago. It is considered remarkable that so fragile a specimen, composed of thin guard rind, could have survived so long a time. The rattle consists of two discs of guard, about three and a half inches in diameter, cut and rubbed down to fit together perfectly. Yucca fiber was used to fasten the two halves of the rattle and the noise was produced by small sandstone pebbles in the hollow case. The handle of the rattle wi\s a stick of mountain mahogany.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THREE BANDIT GANGS BROKEN UP BY POLICE Many City Robberies and Safe Lootings Confessed by Youths. Detective Chief Jerry Kinney to- j day announced confessions by four youths held in city prison to a number of burglaries and safe robberies here and in neighboring towns. The four, he said, were members of a gang which detectives believed have committed twenty to fifty robberies here in the past few months. With the confessions from these youths, police have uncovered three bar.dit gangs within four days, Kinney pointed out. The youths held arc: Paul H. Sheldon, 26, of 75 N. Brookville Rd., charged with burglary; John Alberts, 24, of 953 Elm St., burglary; Herbert Skaggs, 24, of 2220 W. McCarty St., and Robert Prater, 26, ot 304 Ave.. charged with being a convict in possession of firearms, j Planned to Rob Bank First arrests in the ciean-up of the gang were made March 23 when several of the youths were found in Sheldon's car at Meridian and Maryland Sts. with several guns, two acetylene tanks and a large crowbar in the machine. They planned to attempt to rob the safe of the Jonesville State Bank or the Alert State Bank that night, detectives said the youths admitted. In February, according to detectives, they admitted breaking into safes at the People's Coal Company. Bates and Shelby Sts., and the Paul H. Krauss Laundry Company here and at an oil company office in Lebanon. Prater, according to detectives, is under parole from the Illinois State Prison at Joliet. He was a mcmberof the Mamie Isley gang, and served a prison term with other members of the group for robbing the Alert State Bank in 1922. Admits Sixty Robberies Detectives Rugenstein, Fields Schultz, Peets. Irik and Fletcher worked on the case. Detectives today checked the statement of Everett Perry, 20, of 1611 Harlan St., bandit leader whose signed confession admits from sixty to seventy-five burglaries and robberies. Perry was arrested early Saturday when Lieut. Patrick O'Connor and squad chased the bandits twenty-five miles and engaged in a gun battle with the bandits. PatrolmaJi Bartlett fatally wounded Wilbur Allen. 22. of 1705 Naomi St.. when Allen fled from the car snooting at the policemen. Mrs. Belle Dobb, 33, of 2210 W. McCarthy St,, in the car with them also is being held as is Leonard Wilson. 20. of Ben Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burd. 3400 Carson St., parents of Leonard’s wife. SHOW HOUSE MODEL Ideal Frame Construction at Realtors’ Exhibit. Best construction methods for frame houses are demonstrated in the “mystery model home,” which will form the centerpiece of the Realtors’ Home Show to be opened at the State fairground Saturday under auspices of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. The home put up by the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association in co-operation with the Southern Pine Association and local lumber dealers, is being built entirely of Southern pine. Construction is being carried out in accordance with “fifteen cardinal points of safe and permanent frame construction,” developed after years of research and study by the Southern Pine Association. These points of bracing and fire-stopping will be shown in one room of the home, which will be left unfinished. Walls, floors and ceilings will be only partially finished, permitting a view of studding, rafters and joists. RULES ON TREASURER Gilliom Says Widow May Hold Mate’s Office Until Election. Mrs. Joseph V. Milncs, named Brown County treasurer by county commissioners to succeed her husband on his death, should hold office only until a successor to her husband is regularly elected at the November election, Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom has ruled in an opinion to Assistant Secretary of State H. B. Gray. Milnes was elected to serve as county treasurer until Jan. 1, 1930, but Mrs. Milnes can not be appointed to fill out the entire term, Gilliom said. Dog Reveals Man’s Suicide By Times Special EHRMANNDALE, Ind., April 3. Relatives of Silas Jones, 62, a suicide, found his body through strange actions of his dog. Jones left home to hunt, accompanied by the dog. It returned later and its actions caused relatives to follow it into a woods where Jones, with his head shattered by a shotgun blast, was found. No motive for the suicide was given by the family. Laymen Refused Equality Bjj Times Special FT. WAYNE. Ind., April 3. Methodist laymen of the North Indiana conference will retain a status inferior to that of ministers in conference sessions. Refusal to admit laymen on an equality with ministers was voted at the closing session of the conference here Monday. The equality rule is in effect in the general conference.

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LAUDS HOOVER FOR FARM AID Ohioan Credits Secretary With Saving Agriculture. /*./ 7 in i * special XENIA. Ohio, April 3.—Herbert Hoover's fight as wartime food administrator to prevent the forcing of lower prices “prevented the whole collapse of American agriculture,” Oscar E. Bradfute. former president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, declared here today in an open letter to farmers. Hoover, he wrote, served with “fairness and equality to every class of people” as food administrator. Referring to charges that Hoover fixed the maximum price of wheat at $2.20 a bushel. Eratfute said that “since publication of the Garfield correspondence only the ignorant or the prejudiced can believe he had a part in the conference” which fixed prices. One of the first things Hoover did in the Department of Commerce was to establish a foodstuffs division, the principal function of which has been to find increased outlets for American farm products. POLICE CHIEF SPELLED ‘LIAR' IN BIG LETTERS Head of Princeton Department in 1896 Used Plain Speaking. Bn Tim< s special PRINCETON. Ind.. April 3.—Plain speaking was in vogue here in 1896 when William S. Spillman was police chief. Gambling was rife in the city and police were being criticized by church going citizens, who declared officers tipped off gamblers before making raids. Finally Spillman caused the following notice to be inserted in newspapers: “I wish to say in this public way that any man, white or black, who declares or intimates that I have ever given a tip to gamblers of this city who were about to be raided, is a LIAR. Speak out and give names, or shut up.” Divorces Former Athlete B;i Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 3.—Alleging cruelty, Mrs. Dora Wendland has been granted a divorce here from John Wendland. former University'of Notre Dame distance runner and track coach.

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Members of the Indianapolis Traffic Club will enter the “Casey Jones,” a locomotive body placed on a Ford chasis m the baseball opening parade April 10. The machine will be piloted by W. J. Sellers, of Los Angeles, one of the trio of ex-service men who are making their way from Los Angeles to New York in it; and L. E. Banta, president of the club, will be seated on the tender wearing a hign hat. Members of the committee in charge of the arrangements are: on the locomotive left to right, Fred Ackerman, chairman of the arrangements committee, Walt Harris, Sam Farrington, M. D. Collins, Kirby Scott and B. C. Lipp. Standing in front, H. B. West and L. E. Banta. Sellers is ill the cab of the “Chsey Jones.” LOWDEN IS PRAISED Settle Also Lauds Watson at Conference. William H. Settle, Indiana Farm Bureau Federation president, who at Lafayette is quoted as saying:* "a vote for Watson is a vote for Lowden or Dawes,” lauded Senator James E. Watson and Frank C. Lowden of Illinois at a meeting of the Indiana farm-labor legislative conference Monday night. He denounced the candidacy of Herbert Hoover. “If Herbert Hoover is elected president, I believe the American farmer has lost his cause,” was Settle’s assertion. “Senator Watson's record is 100 per cent so far as agriculture is concerned,” he added. Settle Indicated that Norris and Curtis also would be acceptable to farmers. Other speakers included: T. N. Taylor, Indiana State Federation of Labor president; Wilbur Mitch, secretary of District No. 11, United Mine Workers of America, and H. R. Nevans, Farm Bureau Auto Insurance division director. DRY AGENT INDICTED Local Negro Named in Conspiracy Charges at Chicago. Horace Lyle, Negro, prohibition agent indicted with several others at Chicago on conspiracy charges, lives in Indianapolis and is attached to the Indiana prohibition department, his point of duty being South Bend. He was appointed to the service June 6. 1925, was dismissed at Chicago and reinstated June 21, 1927. He was reassigned to Indiana in February.

MAIL RANGER COURSES FLOP Few Get in Forest Service by Correspondence. Young men who would be forest rangers were warned today to beware of some widely advertised correspondence courses in preparation for examinations by Henry M. Trimpe, local civil service secretary. These courses, for the most part, are practically worthless, Trimpe said. Survey of examination papers ol 1.081 competitors in the forest ranger examination last October revealed: Os 675 competitors who had no correspondence training, 189, or 28 per cent passed. Os 337 competitors who had taken a preparatory correspodence course, exactly eighteen passed, or less than 6 per cent. Trimpe issued the following statement: “Many of the statements in these advertisements are misleading and in some cases absolutely false. “The position of forest ranger is one of considerable responsibility, requiring arduous work, often under difficult conditions, and with definite requirements as to experience and ability.” Easter Clothing on 20 payments. H.&-R. Clothing Cos., 29 E. Ohio St. —Advertisement.

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CITY MANAGER LEAGUE TO BE NON-PARTISAN Will Indorse Candidates in Primary Tickets of Both Parties. The non-partisan policy of the Indianapolis City Manager League will be followed in the May primary campaign, according to Chairman Fred Hoke. Directors have adopted a resolution setting this policy. The league will investigate candidates and indorse tickets in both Republican and Democratic primaries, but will only seek to inform the citizenship of the candidates who are tor the city manager form of municipal government. The action taken was to end claims of .certain politicians that they are the “city manager candidates.” Candidates presented by political parties will bo investigated after next Saturday when all announcements must have been filed with county clerk. “From the beginning this organization has assumed a frankness with the public and it therefore becomes necessary to call attention to the fact, that the league has not now assumed and does not intend to assume the functions of a political Party. It has no candidate for any office,” said Executive Chairman John W. Esterline. The resolution: The Board of Directors wishes to go on record now by saying that it lias urged and will continue to urge the leaders of both political parties to put before the people reliable and trustworthy candidates for each office. Many of the advocates of good government, in both parties, have, as individuals, been making tremendous efforts to induce their respective parties to see the wisdom of putting high grade candidates before the people this year. These things the City Manager League now promises the people it will do: 1. As soon as the date for filing is past, the league will take the necessary steps to- obtain the information and to inform the people of Indianapolis what candidates may be expected tc best support the cause of good government. 2. The league will do its utmost to urge the thousands of citizens who have registered in favor of good government to support those candidates, in their respective parties, who stand for good government. 3. The league will do its utmost to insure an honest primary election and an honest count of the votes. Bible Reading Marathon WABASH, Ind., April 3.—Sixtyeight persons this morning started a New Testament reading marathon, expecting to complete the task in seventeen hours.

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