Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 311, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1928 — Page 9

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WATSON-COOLIDGE CLASH BREWS OVER AID TO HOOVER

AL SMITH IS EASY INNER !N BAY STATE Massachusetts Strong Also for Hoover; New Yorker Carries Pennsy. MRS. PINCHOT TRAILS Oklahoma for Lowden or Curtis; Nevada Is Uninstructed. By United Press BOSTON. Mass., April 25. Massachusetts Democrats overwhelmingly endorsed Governor Alfred E. Smith as their choice for the party’s presidential nomination Jn Tuesday’s primary, and the Republicans expressed their preference for Herbert Hoover, United press tabulations showed today. A general survey showed that Smith captured the entire block of thirty-six Democratic delegates to the Houston convention, and Hoover won at least thirty—and perhaps thirty-five—of the thirty-nine Republican delegates. At least 95 per cent of the Democratic ballots showed the name of Governor Smith written in. In the Republuican primary, Hoover’s name appeared on 75 to £0 per cent of the ballots. Returns for 859 election precincts out of 1,603 in the State give the Presidential preference: Republican—Hoover, 60,201; Coolidge, 4,217; Dawes, 1,144; Fuller, 903; Lowden, 573; Borah, 58. Democratic—Smith, 16,702; T. J. Walsh, 147; Reed, 38; David- I. Walsh, 10; McAdoo, 7; Ritchie, 6. Smith Wins in Pennsy Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, April 25.—Governor Alfred E. Smith today was assured of sixty-six of the seventysix Pennsylvania delegates to the Democratic national convention in Houston, all factions and the returns themselves agreeing that he had scored an imposing victory in yesterday’s primary election. In the Republican primary seven-ty-nine uninstructed and unpledged delegates were chosen to the national party convention at Kansas City, but the voters showed a marked preference for Herbert Hoover, writing his name in as their unofficial preference. The feature contest was the fight between Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the former Governor, and Congressman Louis T. McFadden for the Republican congressional nomination from the Fifteenth District. Returns early today indicated they were running almost neck and neck, With McFadden slightly ahead. Uninstructed in Nevada Bu United T, rcss RENO, Nev., April 25. —Following Etate tradition, Nevada’s delegates to the national Republican convention will be unnistructed. Although several Hoover supporters were present at the State meeting yesterday, the names of no potential candidates were brought up. Oklahoma in Doubt Bn United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 25.— Oklahoma’s twenty votes at the Republican national convention will go either to Frank O. Lowden or Senator Charles Curtis, Kansas’ favorite son. Hoover supporters were defeated at the State convention yesterday in their move to block the instruction of the Oklahoma delegation. Curtis and Lowden were favored because they were the only candidates in sympathy with farm relief, a resolution said. MINISTER BACK FROM HANGING WITH SERMON [Vincennes Pastor Uses Charlie Birger’s Words as Theme. Bit Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., Ajril 25.—’Tt’s a beautiful world,” among the last words of Charlie Birger, southern Illinois gangster who died on the gallows last Thursday, formed the theme for a sermon here by the Rev.. Paul Maurer, pastor of St. John’s Evangelical Church, who witnessed the execution. After seeing the gangster go to his death, the minister visited Shady Rest, meeting place of Birger’s gang, from which he brought back a flower and a brick. To these objects he addressed most of his eermon, which was heard by an audience of several hundred. FLIES Fr6I~wIcHITA Rain storms and high winds did not stop Harold Brooks, one of the proprietors of the new Hoosier Airport, Kessler Blvd. and Lafayette pike, in an 11 hour and 17 minute flight from Wichita, Kan., Monday, in anew Travel Air plane which is the sixth to be stationed at the field. The distance from Wichita to Indianapolis is approximately 750 jniles. Brooks announced that construction on another six-ship hangar will be started this week. Seventeen students are enrolled in the flying school being conducted at the airport. .

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TWO CONTESTS COMETO CLOSE Constitution Winners in Indiana Announced. By Times Special CRAWFORDSVTLLE, Ind., April 25. —Winners of two contests on the United States Constitution sponsored by the Indiana State Bar Association for high school students are announced as follows: Oratorical—Miss Avis Goyer, Kokomo high school, first; Richard D. Bixby, Andrews, second; Harold Lewis, Shortridge high school, Indianapolis, third; Miss Dorothy Kennedy, Columbus, fourth; Robert M. Ludwig, Elkhart, fifth, and Miss Constance Frick, Bosse high school, Evansville, sixth. Miss Goyer won a gold medal and $250. She will represent Indiana in a zone contest at Troy, N. Y. Essay—John Plummer, Bedford, first; Miss Freda M. Moore, Connersville, second; Miss Claudia Wise, Union City, third; Miss Iris Zinn, Kokomo, fourth; Miss Ethel Killian, Lyons, fifth, and Miss Sarah Pfleeger, Fowler, fifth, I. U. CLUB TO OBSERVE FOUNDERS’ DAY MAY 2 Dean of Illinois University Included on Speakers’ Program, Dean Thomas Arkle Clark of the University of Illinois and President William Lowe Bryan of Indiana University will be the speakers at the Indianapolis Indiana University Club’s foundation celebration at the Columbia Club May 2, it was an nounced today. The local Indiana University Club will celebrate the 108th anniversary of the founding of the university with a dinner at 6:30, to which al. alumni and former students are invited, Herman B. Gray club president, announced. Music will be provided by six soloists from this year’s Jordan River Revue. Barrett M. Woodsmail is chairman of a committee arranging for the local foundation day dinner. Other members are J. W. Fesler, Carl Tuttle, Stuart Wilson, Dr. Dudley Pfaff and Dr. J. B. Carr. ASk’dEATH FOR BOY, 15 Youth on Trial With Four Others for Murder. Bu United Press , CHICAGO, April 25. Harry Zdum, 15, goes to trial here today for murder, with the State seeking the death penalty. If convicted, Zdum would bt the youngest person ever to face execution on a murder charge in Cook County. With four other boys, Harry is accused of killing Joseph Szezepanski, grocer, in an attempt to rob his store on Jan. 25. The State also will seek the death penalty for Stanley Lucas, 17, and Roman Balczemiak, 18, when they are tried.

COLOR AND CONSERVATISM MARK WELL-DRESSED MAN’S WARDROBE FOR SPRING

BY BEN STERN WHEN Mr. Average Man gets up in the morning and between yawns tells his valet to lay out combination No. 73 in which he will gladden the eyes of the opposite sex and excite the envy of his own what will that combination look like? Inspection of city merchants’ wares reveals that the following attire is “the thing’’ for spring. Stepping from a gaily patterned pair of pajamas, Mr. Average Man

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Pilot Won Greatest Fame as Member of North Pole Expedition. The greatest achievement of Floyd Bennett, famed flier who died in a Quebec hospital today, was with Commander Richard Byrd in their epochal flight from Spitzbergen, Norway, to the North Pole and return. The flight was made in 15 hours, 51 minutes, on May 6, 1926. For his daring and resourcefulness in undertaking the flight, Bennett received a gold medal from the National Geographical Society. It was presented by President Coolidge. When he and Byrd returned from their conquest of the North Pole, Byrd asserted that Bennett should be given the major share of the credit, and, more recently, when Commander Byrd selected his staff for the South Pole expedition, he said: ‘‘Floyd Benne*t, who flew to the North Pole with rru?, will be my first lieutenant. I ccwldn’t go without him. I’ll always regret that he couldn’t make the trans-Atlantic trip with me, because of injuries received from a crash that spring.” Held in High Regard These expresssions of esteem by Commander Byrd epitomize the high regard in which American aviators held the man who rose from a mechanic in , the Navy to one of the most daring and successful pilots in the world. Bennett first became associated with Commander Byrd in 1925, when the latter was placed in charge of the naval section of Commander Donald B. McMillan’s Arctic expedition. The two men became firm friends, despite the gulf that usually separates a commissioned officer from a noncommmissioned. It was Byrd’s admiration for Bennett’s flying ability that prompted him to choose Bennett as his pilot for the North Pole expedition. In the fall of 1926, with Lieut. Bernt Balchan as his navigator, Bennett made a 8,800-mile lecture tour of the United States under auspices of the Guggenheim Foundation for the promotion of aeronautics. Injured; Misses Sea Hop Commander Byrd selected Bennett as his chief pilot for the transAtlantic trip last spring, but the injuries he had received in an accident on a test flight, on April 16, 1927, forced him to a hospital. He still remained there while the flight was made. One of his friends, in telling of Bennetts exploits, said of the famous flier: “He works steadily when engaged in any not only steadily, but religiously. He seldom talked; he just worked.” Bennett was born in 1890 in the Virgin Hollow section of Lake George, New York. When 7 years of age, he went to Warrensburg to live with an uncle. He remained there until 18, removing to Schenectady, N. Y., to take up motor mechanical work. He later operated a garage at Ticonderoga. He enlisted in the navy in 1917 after this country had entered the war.

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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25,1928

BILL TO CURB FLOODS IS UP TO PRESIDENT Senate and House to Open Parley on Differences at Once. CONCESSIONS EXPECTED Coolidge Firmly Opposed to Many Features in Present Draft. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. April 25.—The Mississippi flood control issue was directly before President Coolidge today. While the $325,000,000 measure the House passed Tuesday containing some features objectionable to the President, will not go to the White House for several days, it probably will go in almost the same form as approved by the House. Senate and House conferees will take the bill over today or Thursday to adjust differences between it and the Jones bill, passed by the Senate. Bills Draw Coolidge Fire Conferees apparently can not make the measure any more acceptable to the President. ' The Jones bill, passed by the Senate, provoked even more criticism from the White House than the combination bill passed by the House. If Senate conferees insist upon their measure, the final form of the bill as it goes to the WTiite House, will be more objectionable to Mr. Coolidge than the House bill. It Is believed, however, the Senate will give way to most of the changes made in the House measure at the President’s insistence. One Section Modified The adjusted bill is expected to receive the signature. In passing the Bill, 254 to 91, the House modified one section the President objected to particularly, that requiring Federal purchase of land for floodways. As the bill stands, the Government must purchase only flowage rights. Hoosiers Vote for Bill Bu Time a Special WASHINGTON, April 25.—Representative Wood of Lafayette and Elliott of Connersville, were the only Indiana House members recorded yesterday against final passage of the flood control bill. Wood was absent, but paired against it, and Elliott voted against it. Representative Rowbottom, who is in Evansville, was paired for the bill, and all others, including Representative Johnson of Terre Haute and Representative Updike of Indianapolis. Previous to the final passage, however, eight of the Hoosiers voted to recommit the bill to committee, as moved by Representative Frear, Wisconsin. They Included Elliott, Hall, Hickey, Hogg, Johnson, Purnell, Updike and Vestal.

MARTINSVILLE PHONE RATES ARE INCREASED Return of 7 Per Cent on Investment Is Provided. An increase in rates which will provide a return of 7 per cent on $166,585 v 65 valuation has been granted the Martinsville Telephone Company, a Indiana Bell subsidiary, by the public service commission. Rates fixed by the order will bring a return of approximately $1,236.22 less than the required return estimated by the company’s attorneys and engineers. Estimated returns by them was $44,578.23, while the commission fixed it at $43,432. 165 SCHOOLS ENTERED Commercial Course Contest at Muneie Saturday By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., April 25.—The annual Indiana high school commercial course contest will be held here Saturday. It is sponsored by Ball Teachers’ College of Muncie. One hundred sixty-five schools are entered. y Subjects to be covered in the contest are shorthand, bookkeeping, writing and typing. A dinner and theater party will be held in connection with the event. Refuses SBOO for Monument By Times Special WABASH, Ind., April 25— r fhe Wabash County council has refused to make an SBOO appropriation to a fund for erecting a monument here commemorating the first electric light used in illuminating a city. The Wabash Chamber of Commerce and service clubs advocated the monument. Economy was the plea of the council in refusing the appropriation.

vorites, although the conservative man sticks to white. Some shirts have stiff collars attached. Points are very long. The most popular shirting is of green, merchants say. Cravats are of contrasting shades with small figures or plain colors selling the best. Suit styles are changing. Although the three-button sack coat is here to stay the demancj has veered again to the two-button.

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QUAKE TOPPLES WALLS OF CITY Thousands Are Homeless in Greek Shock Zone. Bu United Pn ss ATHENS, April 25.—The last walls of New Corinth crumbled last night, when heavy earthquake shocks were felt through the ancient city, reports here sajd today. The shocks were felt even in Athens and there was a heavy tremor at 2:30 a. m. In Corinth the repercussions were accompanied by a driving storm and heavy rainfall. The thousands of homeless refugees, whose residences had collapsed under stress of the great earth disorders, were helpless. Suffering was said to be most acute.

Sleepy Heads Some Are Drowsier Than Others, Scientists Discover.

Bu Science Service WASHINGTON, April 24. Middle aged men who are engaged all, day in absorbing intellectual work are more restless sleepers than tneir wives who keep house and play bridge, the National Academy of Science was told today. Dr. H. M. Johnson, of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, at the University of Pittsburgh, presented a report of his latest experiments in sleep. A sleeper sinks to a state of minimum activity about* thirty to forty-five minutes after retiring, Dr. Johnson has found. For the rest of the night there is a regular wave-like alternation of stirring and quiet. The chart of an individual’s activity pattern during sleep is, to a certain extent, characteristic of him. The curves or restlessness undergoes striking changes in anxiety and in different phases of some mental diseases. “We are now nearing the close of a year’s investigation in two hospitals, designed to show whether the information may prove useful in diagnosis,” Dr. Johnson said. A marked difference has been found in the sleeping charts of people of different vocations. The middle aged brain workers whose sleep was measured were more restless sleepers than seventy-five per cent of college boys, and they were more restless than skilled machinists. Children also moved about more than the average college student. 500 111 With Influenza ELKHART, Ind., April 25.—Five hundred persons are ill here with influenza. Two persons are dead. The present epidemic is said to be the worst since the first serious out-

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Bu yUA Sereice Chicago, April 2. “Paint your cheeks from the inside!” This is the slogan, with its subtle appeal to vanity, of a campaign now under way in Chicago’s high schools to save the flappers from themselves. Some of the most prominent teachers in the city heading the program. Early to bed and early to rise, they say, makes a girl healthy, wealthy—and beautiful. These five rules are being impressed on girl students who dance until the “wee sma’ hours” of the morning and tnen yawn over their books in the classrooms next day with resultant detriment to mental efficiency and beauty: 1. Early to bed and eight hours sleep. 2. No late dances or joy rides. 3. Proper dress. 4. No smoking or drinking. 5. Little or no petting. One of the most active teachers in the campaign is Miss Alma S. Fick, dean of girls at Roosevelt high school. 808 THE first and foremost thing we are demanding of our girls is eight hours sleep at night,” Miss Fick said. “We have found innumerable cases of girls being run down in health and deficient in their studies as the result of five, and some times four, hours of sleep. “The girls themselves admit they can not stand up to dancing every night and school every day —and yet look at the number who do not get enough rest.” To prove it, Miss Fick showed a number of “problem cards,” each reading “lack of proper sleep.” BUB OF course, says Miss Fick, the teachers can’t actually put the girls in bed at night and make them stay there, but the campaign is winning cooperation. In cases where it fails, teachers are calling In the parents. “We don’t want to deny the girls their dancing and their fun —not at all,” said Miss Fick. “But we must do something to stop wild life and late hours or our girls will be old long before their time.” Another item in this physical welfare program is compulsory gymnasium attendance. Every high school girl must attend gym classes unless excused by a physician’s certificate. Faces Liquor Case Sentence James Santucci, 469 S. Pine St., who pleaded guilty to liquor violation Tuesday in Federal Court, will be sentenced May 10. He was arrested March 2, at 707 Bates St., when dry agents declared they confiscated a sixty-gallon still and 133 gallons of whisky.

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WRANGEL, RUSS GENERAL DIES Foe of Bolshevists Passes in Brussels. Bu United Press BRUSSELS, April 25.—General Wrangel, one-time commander-in-chief of the famous Russian White army, died today. Wrangel gained his greatest when he commanded the famous Horse Guards Regiment in the Russian advance on East Prussia in 1914. He gained the coveted Cross of St. George through the fact that his command captured two German guns and two enemy platoons in this advance. At the time of the Russian revolution Wrangel, a baron and member of the old B.oyal Circles, fled to Crimea with his wife. He was captured at Odessa and imprisoned on a destroyer in the Black Sea. Sentence of death was passed. The baroness, however, circulated petitions among the peasants, who interceded with the Bolshevist leaders and Wrangel’s life was spared. Subsequently he escaped to the southern Caucasus and rejoined his wife. They lived among friends there. Wrangel was given command of the Caucasian cavalry division of the volunteer army and liberated the northern part of his country from the Bolshevist rule.

Still Drinking Terre Haute Man, Uses Phone to Defy Brazil Police.

By Times Special BRAZIL, Ind., April 25.—A fine of $41.15, assessed here on an intoxication charge failed to change the habits of Charles Moore, Terre Haute, who telephoned Brazil police a few hours later from Terre Haute, asserting he was drunk again and adding, “but I’m at home and I defy you to come and get me.” Moo-e was arrested here Saturday, police removing him from a bus from which he was unable to alight under his own power. After paying his $41.15 fine, several pounds of butter Moore was carrying at the time of his arrest were returned to him. He said he had no idea where he got the butter. Brazil police were told by Moore when they arrested him that he was from Indianapolis and offered SI,OOO to them if they would call his wife. Later he gave his correct address. His wife called and came here and paid his fine. The Rev. Lawrence Monahan, pastor of St. Marys Church, Lafayette, spoke at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Claypool today.

in vogue, the untaped soft hat pinched at the front flap brim and the high crowned, roll brimmed hat. Top coats are either roll or raglan shouldered and are shorter than the fifty-inch coat sported this winter. Patterns for overcoats will also be plain colors or with a very slight figure. “Every day sees an advance of good taste in men’s clothing,” the merchants concurred in saying.

FIGHT IN OPEN WHEN MELLON GETSWARNING Senator Miffed by Plans of Under Secretary Mills to Speak in State. 'STAY OUf,’ IS DEMAND But Treasury Chief Fails to Obey Ultimatum After Heated Interview. BL RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON, April 25. Threatening political retaliation against the administration, Senator Watson of Indiana has lodged a vigorous protest with Jecretary Mellon I against plans of the Hoover forces to send Under Secretary Ogden L. Mills into Indiana during the present primary. This marks the first open clash between rival candidates and the group of administration members openly working for Hoover. The outcome may have a definite effect on many other members of the official household known to favor Hoover. leaving Monday for Indiana for a whirlwind campaign lasting through May 8,. Watson is said to have told friends his protest was needed. He said he has been assured that Mills’ contemplated speeches would be cancelled at I Mellons order. Recall Other Differences But it is understood Mellon did not even suggest a change of program, even though Watson is reported to have used heated language in the interview. No definite speaking date for Mills has been set because of previous engagements, but if he finds it convenient he will urge Hoosiers to vote for Hoover over Watson. Recently Mills spoke for Hoover in Ohio, Watson’s anger at the proposed invasion by men close to the administration is attributed to the growing convicion that Hoover will be the administration’s favored candidate. The Senator’s several differences with Coolidge and Mellon have been recalled, including his part In the 1924 investigation into the Internal Revenue Department, and this line of attack is hurting him. Has Fiery Interview Recent reports from Indiana say that if the contest develops into a choice between supporting Coolidge as against the Watson candidacy, Watson will lose thousands of votes. The Watson-Mellon inter riew is described as fiery by those who talked with the Senator before he left for Indiana. “Mr. Secretary,” began Watson, according to this report, “are you a straight shooter?” “Yes,” answered Mellon In some surprise, “I am a straight shooter." “Then what’s the idea of letting Ogden Mills speak against me in this primary?” snapped Watson. “Do you call that straight shooting?” When Mellon professed some disagreement with Watson’s definition of “straight shooting,” the latter is said to have declared: Warning Is Hurled “Well, I want to warn you that if you are going to fight me on this basis, I will make my fight along the same line from now until convention time.” Representative Newton of Minnesota, who is arranging speaking dates, said he had ijot been Informed of any change. He said the original program of calling on Mills would be carried out, and that he was only awaiting word when the under secretary could leave Washington before making a definite date. 4 MOROS DIE IN CHAIR Had Asked “Cross” Death In Native Manner. By United Press MANILA, P. 1., April 25.—Four Moros accused of murder were electrocuted at the penitentiary here today. The four had asked that they be permitted to die in the Mohammedan manner, but Governor General Stinson refused their plea. The natives asked that their deaths occur by the “busbus” method, in which the victim is tied to a tree, a cross slashed on his abdomen and he is left to bleed to death. Inspect R. O. T. C. at I. U. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 25. Nine hundred Indiana University students enrolled in the army reserve training corps lined up for inspection today for War Department rating. Inspecting officers are Lieut Col. Richard Wctherill, Tenth Infantry, U. S. A., Ft. Thomas, Ky., and Lieut. Col. E. E. Harris in charge of reserve training in the Fifth corps area. He is stationed at Ft. Hayes, Columbus, Ohio. Coal Miner Fatally Crushed By Times Special PRINCETON, Ind., April 25. Death has removed the last of two generations of coal miners here. Clifford Bailey, 45, died of injuries Tuesday, suffered when crushed beneath a 300-pound rock in the Francisco mine. His son was killed in the same mine as the result of an explosion In December, 1920. *