Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1928 — Page 1

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U. $. REFUSES REQUEST FOR 500 DEPUTIES Sargent Denies Help to Chicago in Primary Elections. STATE, JUDGE CLASH Federal Justice Balks Move to Try Dry Agent in Lower Court. P.n United Press WASHINGTON. April 4.—Attorney General Sargent refused today to grant the request of the United States Marshal at Chicago to swear in 500 deputies to maintain order at the primary election, April 10. In a telegram to Marshal Anderson, Sargent said: “In response to your request for authority to appoint special deputy marshals in the coming primary election I find no ground for altering the decision made two years ago upon a similar request from you and that there is no warrant of law for such authority and therefore I cannot grant your request.” Instructions to the April Federal grand jury by Judge James H. Wilkerson Tuesday at first had been construed as indicating the .Government's intention of extending its jurisdiction into the primaries to insure order at the polls. Outlined Federal Powers Judge Wilkerson explained to the grand jury his reason for the lengthy instructions. “The United States Attorney George E. O. Johnson, has informed me there are certain measures which are to be brought to your attention,” he said, “and in light of that information. I wish to charge you specially with references to certain matters.” The court cited statutes by which /he grand jury is empowered to indict persons who attack or threaten the person or property of a United States officer; those who interfere with or threaten persons exercising their rights to vote, or those who corrupt witnesses in any legal proceeding. * The court’s reference to the Constitution in citing the supremacy of national laws over State laws was linked to the dispute between Chicago city officials and Federal authorities over the right to prosecute a Federal prohibition agent charged with shooting a municipal court bailiff. State Seeks to Try Cassey Earlier in the day Corporation Counsel Samuel Ettelson, supported by three assistant State’s attorneys, argued before Judge Wilkerson that State courts should have the privilege of trying Myron Cassey, dry agent, who shot William Beatty, municipal court bailiff, in a dry raid last week. Federal officials, contending Federal Courts should try Cassey, had obtained from Wilkerson a writ of habeas corpus cum causa which in effect forbids any court, but his own from healing charges against Cassey. The city and State attorneys sought to have the writ set aside. Judge Wilkerson took the case under consideration. Local attorneys and administration politicians charged the United States District Attorney’s office was trying to shield Cassey, whom they characterized as a “‘quick trigger raider.” Charge Cleanup Political The Beatty shooting climaxed weeks of intensive activity by a squad of special prohibition agents detailed from Washington to “cleanup” Chicago. Mayor William Hale Thompson and State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe charged that Senator Deneen, their rival for political control of the Republican party in Chicago and Cook County, had used his influence to direct the cleanup as a political move against them in the primary campaign. Despite these charges, attaches of the office of United States District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson echoed assurances of Washington prohibition chiefs that the cleanup had nothing to do with the political situation and that the activity of the special agents would continue.

VERDICT IN TRIAL OF JEANNE EAGELS FRIDAY Equity Holds Hearing on Failure to Keep Contract. By United Press NEW YORK, April 4.—Jeanne Eagcls, actress, who is on trial before the council of the Actors’ Equity Association, will not know her fate until Friday. Miss Eagels is charged with failure to appear for performances of “Her Cardboard Lover,” her latest starring vehicle, in Milwaukee and St. Louis. Gilbert Miller and A. H. Wocids, producers of the show, charged Miss Eagels with forcing them to cancel the tour of the play. (■‘ant Mitchell, actor and vice prjident of the Equity, presided TiMsday when the trial started. Ses--,iofc are private. your next evening dinner at ■KTCHER CAFETERIA, Basement Trust Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to Hfi p. m.—Advertisement.

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‘ Substitutes’ in Demand as Easter Costs Mount F,y United Press NEW YORK, April 4.—Easter costs are higher this year. Genuine lilies are selling for $6 a dozen, but there are substitutes which cost much less. Florists report that wax flowers rapidly are taking the place of real ones. Dealers point out that “while a real lily makes a girl feel good, a wax flower lasts forever.” Orchids are expensive—$15 each—because gloomy days have made them rarer than usual. American Beauty roses sell from S4O to SSO a dozen, but violets are only fb a hundred. For $1 an Easter greeting may be cabled to Europe. The following sentiment is recommended by telegraph companies: “Were every one blessed with friends like you how happy this world would be. Not only at Easter but all the year through your friendship is dear to me.” The egg business, of course, is brisk.

LINDY RESTING; GUARD ARMED Visitors Halted at Gate of California Retreat. Bey United Press SANTA BARBARA, Cal., April 4. —Col. Charles A. Lindbergh shut off from visitors by an armed guard, probably will remain in Santa Barbara for a week or more of rest, Harry F. Guggenheim, head of the Guggenheim Foundation, said today. Guggenheim, the flier's former employer, went to see Lindbergh at the estate of Mrs. Harry Knight, but guards refused to let him pass the entrance. He was forced to make an engagement by telephone before he could get past the sentinels. HOGUE PUSHES FIGHT Files Citations to Support Claim to Mayor's Office. Attorneys for Joseph L. Hogue today filed with the Supreme Court additional citations to support Hogue’s contention that he is the lawful mayor of Indianapolis. Appeal of Hogue’s quo warranto suit against Mayor L. Ert Slack and Ira M. Holmes is pending before the court.

DAPPER CONVICT’S CAREER NEARS END

By United Press NEW YORK, April 4.—Dapper Don Collins, international celebrity, who has laughed at the police of two continents for twenty years, at last has run against something that may put him behind the bars lor life—the Baumes law. The middle-aged man, no longer a fashion plate and inclined to be stout, who was paraded in the line-

FIND DAM DEFECTIVE Probers Blame Poor Material for Disaster. ' By United Press LOS ANGELES. Cal.. April 4. The St. Francis dam failed because of “defective foundation material,’ a special investigating board, appointed by District Attorney Asa Keyes to inquire into the dam disaster, reported today. The report was made to the jury called by Coroner Frank Nance of Los Angeles to fix responsibility for the break which cost 300 lives. PLAN GALLIVAN TRIBUTE Committee of 22 Congressmen to Attend Funeral. £’,// United Press WASHINGTON, April 4.—Republican Floor Leader Tilson appointed a committee of twenty-two House members today to attend the funeral of Representative James A. Gallivan (Dem.), Massachusetts, who died Tuesday at Cambridge. Mass. In addition to the fifteen members of the Masachusetts delegation, he named Representatives Madden, Illinois: Wason, New Hampshire; Byrnes, Tenn.; Buchanan, Texas; Edwards, Georgia; Boyland, N. Y„ and Reed, Arkansas. Hoosier Buys Newspaper By Times Special LEBANON, Ind., April 4.—Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of the Daily Reporter here and the News-Jour-nal, Daytona Beach, Fla., with associates, has bought the Daily News at Washington, N. C. It is the only daily paper in five adjourning counties.

WILLIAMS READY TO HOP ACROSS POLE

Fy United Press SEWARD, Alaska, April 4.—Capt. George Wilkins hastened preparations at Point Barrow today for his flight across the north pole to Spitzbergen, Norway. Wilkins advised the Army radio station here last night that the weather was moderating at Point Barrow, on the shofe of the Arctic,

SENATE VOTES FOR TAX DROP Corporation Levy Slash Is Given Approval. (Other Tax C'ut Details Taje Onr. Sec. 2) By United Press WASHINGTON, April 4.—Reduction of the corporation tax from 13 to 12 per cent was voted today by the Senate Finance Committee, which is considering the $289,000,000 House tax reduction bill. A motion by Senator Barkley, Democrat, for reduction to 11 per cent was defeated, 11 to 9, by a strictly party vote. Another by Senator Simmons, Democrat, North Carolina, proposing reduction to 11 1 2 per cent, also was defeated. Senator Edge (Rep.), New Jersey, made the motion for reduction to 12 per cent, which was adopted by a vote of 12 to 6. Chairman Smoot said the committee was unanimously in favor of tax reduction at this session of Congress, but it refused to go on record favoring any particular total. He said, however, that he favored $200,000,000 and Simmons, ranking minority member of the committee, advocated at least $290,000,000. The committee will resume consideration of the bill tomorrow'.

up at police headquarters today, bore little resemblance to the flashy co' fidence man, who broke women's hearts and was in and out of the police net so many times that a complete record of his careei is impossible. He is charged this time with extortion—a case involving the extraction of S7OO from the possesor of two bottles of gin by a supposed “federal agent.” Police said they will have no difficulty establishing the record of three previous convictions. Under the newly-operative Baumes law, terror of criminals, a fourth conviction means a life sentence. Dapper Don may beat the case, but the authorities will push it, having found the new legal weapon enables them to trip up many noted criminals who sooner or later get careless and return to New York to expose themselves to the Baumes law.

FARMING GROUPS WARN G. 0. P. AGAINST HOOVER Threaten Erasure of Party Lines to Defeat Secretary. DES MOINES, lowa, April 4. The Corn Belt Committee, representing farm organizations of twelve States, served notice upon leaders of the Republican party here last inght that if Herbert Hoover is nominated for President, the farmers of the corn belt States “will ignore party lines in their determination to consign him to private life.” Speaking for more than a million organized farmers reaching from Indiana to Montana, the resolution read, “the corn belt committee hereby serves notice upon Republican leaders that if by any chance Herbert Hoover should be nominated for President, the corn belt States will be found solidly against him." Award State Paving Contract State highway commissioners today awarded a $152,217 contract to McClintic, Colwell & Gordy, Syracuse, Ind., for 6.3 miles of paving on State Rd. 2, starting at the Illinois line in Lake County and terminating at Lowell, Ind.

Ocean, and that he expected to take off at 6 a. m. Thursday. Reports from far northern Alaska indicated the barometer was falling, however, and bad weather may force Wilkins to delay his departure. Captain Wilkins will be accompanied by Lieut. Ben Eelson. They will fly a Lockhard Vega monoplane. If conditions are favorable. Wilkins expects to make stops on the great, ice sheet of the polar region.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1928

SINCLAIR WINS NEW STAY UN FRAUU CHARGE Granted Until Monday to Adjust Case to Fall Evidence. OIL QUIZ AWAITS HAYS Will Give Movie Czar Chance to Reply to Charge by Lenroot. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 4—Trial of Harry F. Sinclair on a charge of conspiring to defraud the Government in the Teapot Dome oil field lease was put over to Monday by Justice Jennings Bailey in District of Columbia Supreme Court today. Sinclair's attorneys told the court they had not had time to prepare their case for trial in view of the deposition taken at El Paso from former Secretary of Interior Fall, former co-defendant in this case. This deposition was taken by Daniel Thew Wright, Sinclair lawyer, who returned today just as court convened. The full deposition will not be transcribed for a week or ten days, however, attorneys said. Justice Bailey announced the court probably would convene daily at 9 a.m., instead of 10, as is customary in district courts here, and would sit until 3. Next Monday, however, it will not meet until 10. Monday's session is expected to start selection of a jury. Invite Hays’ Answer By United Press WASHINGTON, April 4.—The Senate Teapot Dome Committee will invite Will Hays, former chairman of the Republican national committee, to testify again, when he returns from Europe, in answer to evidence which has accumulated in his absence. Senator Walsh of Montana announced today. Hays will be invited to tell the purpose of his visit to Irvine Lenroot, chairman of the Teapot Committee in 1924 when the committee was attempting to ascertain where former Secretary of Interior Fall obtained sudden wealth, Walsh said Lenroot has testified that Hays came to see him here and asked him what the committee desired to learn from Fall. Lenroot added both he and Hays agreed Fall should be required to testify. Will Not Call Hoover Hays also will be invited to comment, if he desires, on statements of former Senator Alva Adams of Colorado that Hays invited a subsequent chairman of the committee, the late Senator Ladd, to take an automobile ride around Washington to discuss the case. Walsh said no effort would be made to summon Secretary of Commerce Hoover because of testimony of Birch Helms, Texas oil man, that Hoover and others in President Harding's cabinet were informed in* 1922 that Fall was keeping secret the Teapot Dome lease. Helms said Hoover was the only member of the cabinet who gave his protests any consideration. He expressed opinion that Hoover did all he could in the matter. Harry M. Blair and Claudius Huston, New York Republicans, will be called next week. They helped raise Republican funds to pay off the 1920 campaign defiicit. Blackmer Evades Testifyin Far 1 nit rd Frr/tn WASHINGTON, April 4.—H. M. Blackmer and James E. .O’Neil, wealthy oil men, who have evaded all efforts to obtain their testimony in oil cases, have defeated new Government attempts to bring them before the Sinclair trial starting Monday. Blackmer wa sserved with a subpoena in Paris. His lawyers saiu ne would not return, and the Government will start another suit to confiscate SIOO,OOO of his money. One suit of this kind is now pending in appeals court as the result of his failure to respond to a subpoena to testify in the Fall-Sinclair trial last October. O’Neil, rumored to be in a monastary in Italy, is sought by Government agents, who have been unable in three years to serve him with a subjoena. The Government cannot bring a similar SIOO,OOO confiscation suit unless O'Neil is subpoenaed before the Sinclair trial is ended.

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Good Friday This is one of several statements about Good Friday observance by heads of Indianapolis business institutions: It seems but little to ask that business cease on G®od Friday for a period of a few hours in reverent commemoration of the death of Christ, when we have paused in commemoration of the deaths of some humans. C. L. OSTERMAN. Mger. C. D. Kenny Cos. Store.

Girl Reserves ‘Hike for Health ’

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Fifteen hundred Indianapolis Girl Reserves are "hiking to health” this week of spring vacation along the city byways. Here are four hikers w’ith knap-sacks and knickers off for the towpath at Fairview. The hikes are a part of the Girl Reserve health campaign under the leadership of Miss Annie M. Daughtry, Y. W. C. A. secretary. Left to right. Lola Klave. 271 lowa St.: Frances Bernhardt, 213 Orange St.; Patricia Mason, 614 Parkwav, and Louise Rudebeck, 364 E. Morris St.

Style —Doomed Shoplifter Given 180 Days, Fined S2OO as Parole Breaker.

MISS INEZ WHITE, 27. Frankfort. must pay a S2OO fine and serve 180 days in the Woman's Prison because of her love for stylish clothing. Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter decreed today. A week ago Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron moved by Miss White’s plea that “the shock will kill mother.” gave her another chance to “go straight” and placed her on probation on a shoplifting charge. She was arrested Tuesday in a downtown department store when found with an expensive stolen spring coat and an ensemble suit in the chic satchel she carried. She pleaded guilty today to charges of breaking parole and petit larceny and Judge Wetter fined her SIOO and sentenced to 180 days in prison on each charge. The prison sentences will be served concurrently. n n n MISS WHITE first was arrested during the State basketball tournament. She refused to give her name for several days, declaring she was in Indianapolis to attend the basketball games and must protect the good name of her family. Detectives at that time, however, testified they found a trunk containing S4OO worth of finery, checked in her name at a baggage station here. Miss Ruth Walker. 19, of 2493 N. Rural St., was fined $5 and sentenced to 180 days in prison by Judge Wetter on a charge she stole a coat from a downtown store. The prison sentence was suspended and sho was placed on probation. STATE BANKS MERGED First National of Morgantown to Take Over Farmers Trust. The State banking department today announced that the Farmers Trust Company of Morgantown, Morgan County, will be taken over by the First National Bank of Morgan town. The merger was arranged by State Bank. Examiner K. V. Brownell. The Farmers Trust Bank, of which G. W. Wisbey is president, has $25,000 capitalization and $15,000 deposits. The First National Bank has $50,000 capital. $15,000 surplus and $275,000 deposits. J. E. Carter is president. SAFE FOURTH IS AIM City Boards Join to Cut Accidents and Fires. Efforts to cut the accident toll and fire loss resulting annually from Fourth of July fireworks were begun today by the board of safety and Indianapolis Safety Council. A conference has been called for April 17 to discuss means of preventing accidents and fires. Harry M. Franklin and Dixson H. Bynum, representing the safety council, presented the board with statistics of fires in previous years. * Fred Connell, safety board president, announced Fire Chief Harry Vcshell and Police Chief Claude Worley and representatives of mergaasuiMmUiUUlSmk

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HUNT CAR WITH MURDERED BOY Gas Station Attendant Saw Head of Child in Bundle. By United Press LOS ANGELES. April 4 —Police today sought a large sedan which ; was believed to have carried the body of 9-year-old Walter Collins when it sped into a Glendale serv- | ice station. The body has been missing since March 9. Police believed he was killed and his body hidden. Richard Strother, attendant at the Glendale filling station, told authorities that he saw the head of J a boy protruding front a newspaper bundle in the rear of a large sedan ! which drove up to his station Sun- | day night. He said he was sure the boy was dead. Gilliom Speaks Thursday Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, candidate for the Republican nomination for United States | Senator, will address Ninth District j Republicans at Frankfort Thursday night. Gilliom will speak at Wil- ■ liamsport Wednesday, April 11; Kentland, April 12, and Evansville, April 17.

FIGHT FIRE IN FACE OF BLAST MENACE

Fire originating in the laboratory of the William Lilly Paint Company. 2044 N. Rural St., caused $25,000 destruction in twenty-five minutes shortly before 10 a. m. today. Firemen were aided by police in

BANS PRIVATE SIRENS Board of Safety Limits Use to Official Cars, Ambulances. Use of sirens and red lights on private automobiles and ambulances has been barred by the board of safety. Fred Connell, board president, announced only police, fire department, sheriff and coroner cars and city hospital ambulances will be permitted to use sirens and red lights. Connell said use of sirens on private ambulances caused the public to have less respect for police and fire vehicles. BORAH’S FUND'SLUMPS Donations Cease After Total of *7,000 Is Received. 17,'/ United Press WASHINGTON, April 4.—No ad. ditional funds for Senator Borah’s I fund to repay $160,000 Republican j campaign contribution of Harry F. j Sinclair have been received in the j last few days, Borah made known today. Only $7,000 of the amount has thus far been collected. The Senator had not yet decided whether he will accept invitations to speak outside Washington in an effort to raise the fund. Wales Finishes Third TAMWORTH, Staffordshire, England, April 4.—The Prince of Wales rode in two races in the Atherstone hunt at Thorpe Constantine today, finishing third in one and last in fhp * p ™ nri

Movies Move by Phone Wire B.y United Press CHICAGO. April 4.—Motion pictures were transmitted over telephone wires for the first time today. Ten feet of film was sent

from Chicago to New York on the telep h o tograph apparatus of the American Tele phone and T eleg rr aph Company. Exactly one hour elapsed from the time Vilma Banky, motion picture star, step ped in front of a

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camera here to pose for the picture, until the time it was developed and put on the wire to New York. The film- was sent three strips at a time, each strip containing twenty-four exposures. The strips were to be assembled and printed in New York and shown in a theater there tonight.

holding crowds back from the flames, as there was constant danger of explosion of several barrels of gun cotton, housed in the burning building. Only two minor explosions occured. Given a late start, the department responded to two alarms and brought the blaze under control, despite the highly imflammable materials in the onestory frame building. One of the six employes of the plant was mixing stain in the laboratory, when it took fire, according to President William Lilly. Attemps were made to extinguish the blaze witli fire extinguishers, before the department was called. When the blaze got beyond control, Lilly started to escape from the building. A series of hot paint cans on a shelf exploded as he passed them, drenching him with sticky, black paint. The loss is covered by insurance.

No Closing A bulletin issued by the office of the Merchants Association states that from a poll taken, the entire membership of the Merchants Association will remain open on Good Friday between 12 and 3 p. m. In every instance, however, instructions have been issued by the heads of the stores to the employes to the effect that any employe desiring to attend divine service on Good Friday between the hours of 12 and 3 o’clock are privileged to do so upon notifying the proper official of the store. In this manner, all employes who so desire are privileged to attend their church service or any church service they may elect to attend on Good Friday between 12 and 3 o’clock.

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SIX NAMED TO FILL VACANT COUNCIL JOBS Civic Groups Select Men They Think Fitted to Take Berths. CHOICE ON THURSDAY; Special Meeting Called to Name Dorsett, Moore Successors. Names of six outstanding citizens as candidates for the two vacancies in city council caused by resignations of two councilmen indicted for bribery were submitted today by three cooperative sub-committees to the general commtitee of civic groups acting for municipal betterment at the Chamber of Commerce. The seven remaining councilmen are to select the two new members in a special meeting Thursday noon. Two candidates are Democrats and four Republicans. Candidates recommended to succed Boynton J. Moore as councilman from the Sixth District are: John F. White, 1545 Lexington Ave„ Democrat, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Civic Clubs. Ellsworth E. Heller, 1423 Pleasant St., Republican, manager of the E. E. Heller Company, coal and coke concern. Candidates recommended to succeed Walter R. Dorsett as councilman from the First District: George D. Thornton, 75 N. Audubon Rd.. Republican, president of the Indianapolis Cushion Spring Company and Puritan Bed Spring Company. Ernest C. Ropkey, 22 N. Audubon Rd., Democrat, president Indianapolis Engraving Company. Edward Dirks, 50 N. Kenmore Rd„ Republican, proprietor of grocery at 5524 E. Washington St. Albert F. Meurer, 4846 E. Tenth St„ Republican, manager East Side Company. The names were to be made public as soon as the list was approved by the general commtitee. The sub-committees were from the Chamber of Commerce, City Manager League and the Board of Trade. Explains Slccetion Committeeman Linton A. Cox in reporting the selected list made this explanation: “The proprieties of the case excluded from consideration the officers of the Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade and the City Manager League; also all citizens and members of firms having contracts or business relations with the civil city; officers of public utilities, or persons regularly employed by them, and officers or employes of financial institutions who do business with the city or public utilities. “The limitations imposed by the foregoing, as well as the decision to nominate by districts, eliminated many citizens from consideration. “In all districts from which members of both parties are eligible, members of both parties are nominated. inasmuch as the committee does not wish to determine by what party any district shall be represented. Would Keep Majority “It is the unanimous opinion of the committe, including the two unchalleneged representatives of the present council, that the political majority no wexisting by decision of the voters, should be maintained. “We confidently believe, however, that all the men we suggest for these vacancies are men who will decide governmental matters purely on their merit, and without any regard to their political affiliations, “Your committee has not interviewed these citizens to obtain their acceptance, if elected. It believes that no one of these citizens, if elected, will evade the responsibility thus imposed.” Committeeman Frank B. Fowler read a statement to the general committee emphasizing reasons for representative civic bodies recommending candidates. Much Is at Slake Pointing to the compromise plan whereby prosecut ors would agree to let the indicted councilmen plead guilty to malfeasance in office instead of brioery. thereby escaping prison terms, if the councilmen immediately resigned, Fowler said: “If it simply.were a question of the effect on business, employment andother material well-being, we could perhaps continue to pay for two more years the price of having a discredited majority in our legislative bodies, but more important matters than these may be at stake, - “The course proposed, the immediate selection of new members to the council, is safe and the results seem assured; the other is fraught with uncertainty and perhaps with new difficulties for the people. “Because the future of our city so largely depends upon the manner in which these problems are met by our officials, and especially our council, we believe it is of the greatest advantage to our city to accept this opportunity for obtaining a competent and honest city council.’^ Easter Clothing on 20 payments, H.&R. Clothing Cos., 29 E. Ohio St. AHvord^mcnl