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FAST TIME TO FACE HEATED FIGHTTONIGHT Nicholson’s Vote Forecast as Deciding One on Daylight Saving. SLACK VETO EXPECTED Raub Absent From City, Losing One Ballot for Proponents. Whether city council adopts daylight saving time for Indianapolis at the regular meeting tonight apparently depends on the vote of Councilman Meredith Nocholson, a poll of councilmen showed today. The poll showed four councilmen favoring the measure, three against, and Nicholson doubtful. The Hoosier author who favored the measure last Monday declined to state his views. “I don’t care to express myself until tonight. I thought the majority wanted the fast time when I voted before,” Nicholson said. Raub Is Absent Advocates of the summer time will lose a vote with the absence from the city of Council President Edward JR. Raub, Sr. Paul Rather, absent from last meeting, announced he is against the measure, on his return from Miami, Fla. Welfare Chairman Earl Buchanan, Albert Meurer, Edward W. Harris and Robert E. Springsteen said they have not switched from their stand in favor of the measure. Herman P. Lieber. formerly associated with the Circle Theater Company, and John F. White, south side councilman, fought the legislation. Springsteen, council president pro tem., will preside tonight in absence of Raub. Heated Fight Seen A heated discussion on moving the clocks forward an hour May 13 is expected in council caucus tonight. Delegations for and against will attend the session. Springsteen indicated the public will not be permitted the floor tonight, since the public hearing was last week.

“We are attempting to guide our votes by the sentiment prevailing before the agitation on the question. I have received many letters and phone calls from persons favoring the measure. Os course there are many opposed.” Mayor L. Ert Slack is expected to veto the ordinance in event council Anally passes it tonight. Six votes would be required to pass the measure over Slack’s veto. Slack personally is opposed to daylight saving, but has not stated what his official stand will be. Bitter opposition to the measure was expressed last week by the State and city school board, Marion County officials, labor leaders, Indianapolis stock yards, State Supreme Court clerk, county courts and theater owners. Governor Jackson announced the State House will follow Central standard time. *T am inclined to think that I will stand pat,” said Buchanan, chairman of the committee considering the proposal. Rathert said “he could not see any reason for moving the clock forward. It will make many persons go to work at an early hour.” Sees “Hick Town” Stand

“I thought the issue through before I voted before. It is all right to kill the measure if they want to keep Indianapolis a hick town. We will be out of step with other large cities,” said Meurer. “I’m sold on the idea and will stick to it. It would no more confusing here than elsewhere.” Springsteen said he believed a majority of citizens desire the fast time. A delegation from the Statehouse will attend the meeting asking its passage, he said. Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Indiana Lumbermen’s Mutual Insurance Company, Central Rubber and Supply Company and Marion County Bankers’ Association have urged Springsteen to vote for the issue. Visit City Hospital “Indianapolis, Bennett’s Switch, and Seymour do not have daylight saving.” said Arthur C. Moore of Central Rubber and Supply Company in a letter to council urging the passage. Finance and health committees visited city hospital Sunday to study needs for the $1,750,000 building program, but the ordinance ior a bond issue was not expected to be acted on tonight. LAUD CHARLES JEWETT Baxter. Atkins Company Officer, Indorse G. O. P. Candidate. Arthur R. Baxter, president of the Baxter Company, and W. A. Atkins, vice president of E. C. Atkins & Cos., today indorsed the candidacy of Charles W. Jewett, seeking the Republican nomination for Governor. In a statement issued from Jewett headquarters they praised Jewett's administration as mayor and char- • acterized him as the type of Republican nominee, who can keep Indiana in Republican ranks in November. WHERE HUNDREDS EAT DAILY. FLETCHER CAFETERIA, basement Fletcher Trust Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to 7:30 p. m.—Advertisement.

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 321

THOUSANDS READY TO FLEE HOMES IF. GIANT DAM BREAKS

Editorial.

Stub Pencils Are the Keys to Pen Cells

The yotes in tomorrow’s primaries will be counted. If they are not, there will be a lot of the boys who are expert with stub pencils on vacation at Leavenworth and xitlanta and Michigan City. The Times has decided that it is time to end the political predictions that are always finished with, “If they count the votes.” The politicians and the people have come to expect fraud at the polls. They have every reason to expect it. The election boards in many of the precincts have been filled by Boss Coffin with the boys who might be expected to perpetrate frauds. On no other theory than that fraud is desired could many of these appointments be explained. The Times, just as a friendly hint to these boys who are so brazen, and who may not yet know that anew day has arrived, suggests that those who have orders to steal look over the records of the last year. They will discover that Thi Times has batted about 100 per cent in getting crooks. The Times, of course, needs help. It has some forces at work. It wants the aid of all konesfr voters. If you notice any signs of fraud, any repeating, any effort to steal votes, call Main 3500 and ask for the editor. An honest election is more important than victory. The old anarchy of fraud must be ended. Boys with stub pencils will find that they really are carrying keys to prison cells.

Fire Causes S2OO Damage Fire thought to have been caused by spontaneous combustion, caused S2OO damage in a vacant storeroom at 373 S. Illinois St. Sunday night. The upper stories of the building are occupied by the Saxson Hotel. Smoke caused several guests to leave their rooms.

PLANES USED FOR STATE CAMPAIGNS

Airplanes today replaced the oldfashioned torchlight parade as the spectacular feature of the windup of a red-hot political campaign in Indiana. Planes were criss-crossing the State in behalf of Solon J. Carter, candidate for Republican nomination for United States Senator, and Frederick Landis, candidate for Republican nomination for Governor. Gil Inman, Howard Maxwell and Bradshaw Secrest, three Indianapolis aviators who served under Carter in the World War. arranged the series of flights in Carter’s behalf. The plane is equipped with an enormous siren which “wakes up ’ Hoosier towns as it approaches. The Landis plane is carrying Kenesaw M. Landis, 17-year-old son of the candidate, about the State to various radio stations, where the youth speaks for his father. The

BANK CASE BELAYED Indicted Wild Officials File Abatement. J. F. Wild, president of the defunct J. F. Wild & Cos. State Bank, and three other officials of the bank today filed pleas of abatement to bank embezzlement indictments against them in Criminal Court. They were scheduled to be arraigned, but the abatement pleas postpone the arraignment. The State filed demurrers to the abatement pleas. Judge James A. Collins set arguments on the demurrers for June 4. The abatement pleas were based cn the technicality that there were no women included in the panel from which the grand jury, which returned the indictment, was chosen. ...**&

Families Wait in Fear for Signal That Structure Has Collapsed. Bu United Press GREENVILLE. S. C., May 7.—A careful watch was maintained at the Greenville City waterworks dam at Table Rock Cove today, with fears expressed that the big structure would give way soon and release millions of gallons of water on the countryside. Engineers said three cracks had developed in the dam, although as yet no water runs through them. Although efforts are under way to relieve the pressure on the dam, it was feared one entire portion might give way. The thousands of people living below the dam are prepared to flee immediately, should the dam burst. An elaborate signal system has been worked out to advise residents in case the collopse should occur. A steady rain beat down on the dam Sunday, but engineers said it did not materially change the situation. though it added discomfort to the thousands who already have deserted their homes. They have been cautioned of the dam’s danger and many have been living in the open since Friday night, rather than risk remaining in houses that would be in the flood path. The Red Cross has made plans to give relief, while scores of deputy sheriffs are patrolling the district to prevent violence and also to keep the curious out of the area. Rivers feeding into the reservoir were said today to be rising after recent rainfall. The South Saluda River rose two feet in two hours Sunday. FLOOD BILL SETTLED Coolidge Agrees to Sign on Compromise Draft. 111 l United Press WASHINGTON. May 7.—A compromise on the chief controversy between President Coolidge and Congress on the Jortes-Reid Mississippi River aprt .control bilk- lunging on floodway rights—was reached at a White House conference today between the President and the Senate and House conferees, Chairman Reid of the House flood cont -ol committee announced. President Coolidge informed the conferees, Reid said, that he would sign the bill with the compromise and a few minor revisions that were considered. The conferees will meet at 2 o’clock this afternoon to make the changes, he said.

K. OF C. CHAPLAIN ILL Little Hope Held for Recovery of P. J. McGivney. Bn United Pr< sn PARIS, May 7.—Physicians announced today that all hope had been abandoned for the recovery of Monsignor Patrick J. McGivney, of Bridgeport, Conn., national chaplain of the Knights of Columbus.

Left to right, Gil Inman, Howard Maxwell and Bradshaw Secrest. elder Landis was compelled to stop speaking last week by influenza.

DRINKS POISON; DIES Father Sends Son, 8. for Acid; Drinks It Before Wife. Norman Ray, 51, of 842 Olive St., sent his 8-year-old son, Eugene, to the drug store this morning for carbolic acid. When the boy returned with the poison the father drank it in the presence of both his wife and son. Mrs. Fay attempted to knock the bottle to the floor, but failed. He died before medical aid arrived. Mrs. Ray was unable to explain the suicide. She said that he had been working steadily, but remained at heme today to help move. Stump to Speak Over WFBM Candidate Albert Stump will give a closing campaign speech over WFBM at 6:30 tonight. He seeks the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 7,1928.

INDIANA IS IN SPOTLIGHT ON ELECTION EVE Nation Awaits Verdict of 1,200,000 Voters on Corruption Issue. POLLS TO BE WATCHED Guard Against ‘Repeaters’; Police Ordered Ready for Disorder. Indiana marches to the polls Tuesday to express its Reference between Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, and Senator James E. Watson for the Republican presidential nomination and to name Congressional, State and county nominees who will be party standard bearers In the fall election. From 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. Tuesday, ballot boxes in 3,611 precincts in the State will be open to record the will of approximately 1,200,000 qualified voters of Indiana. Os this number, probably only 700,000 will go to the polls although strenuous efforts have been made by candidates and civic organizations to get out the vote. Eyes of Nation on State National interest centers on Indiana as it goes to the polls, culminating one of the hottest political campaigns in many years. With the neighboring Statss of Ohio and Illinois having bolted from machine control, Indiana is watched for evidence of a popular revolt against a record of corruption that has been broadcast to the Nation. In Marion County, where the campaign has been featured by a vehement arraignment of corruption, an unusually large vote is anticipated. The American Legion and joint civic organizations of the city, through the Chamber of Commerce, have made vigorous efforts to get out a heavy vote. Working in opposition are machine candidates who see the greatest chance of success in a small vote. Guard Against Disorder Indiana’s registration law having .beau, repealed, voUwmeed not register to vote Tuesday. The primary law requires that the voter shall have resided in the State six months and on election day shall be a bonaflde resident of the precinct in which he votes. Voters challenged at the polls may make affidavit that their residence is within the precinct and so be permitted to vote

To prevent abuse of this privilege by “repeaters,” watchers will be on the alert for persons who attempt to do "double duty” at the polls, as well as for truck loads of “traveling voters” who might be carted from one precinct to another. Police Chief Claude M. Worley has ordered police on twelve-hour duty Tuesday. Officers will be stationed at all voting places in the city to preserve order while two emergency squads will be held at the police station. Motor policemen and teams in eight substations will be ready to respond to reports of disorder. Officials Sworn

Inspectors, judges and clerks who will serve as election officials in the 269 precincts of Marion County met at the court house Sunday: were sworn in and received voting supplies and instructions from the board of election commissioners. Approximately fifty changes were made in voting places. Persons desiring to know the voting place in their respective precincts, will be given the Information by calling The Times, Main 3500. Ira M. Holmes, election commissioner, warned officials “the Federal Government is interested in this election and there should be no cases Os crooked work at the polls.” Election commissioner James E. Deery pointed out to the officials that the voter who wishes instructions concerning the marking of his ballot must be accompanied to the booth by the clerk of each party. Predicts Women With Hoofs MINNEAPOLIS, May 7.—Women eventually will have hoofs, instead of feet, if they continue to wear high-heeled shoes, Dr. Clifford Gross told the Minnesota Osteopathic convention.

AIM AT POLL FRAUD Jury Will Hear Violations, Says Remy. Election law violators In Tuesday’s primary will be placed before the Marion County grand jury as soon , as evidence can be gathered, Prosecutor William H. Remy said today. In a statement as to what this office promises to do election day, Remy said rumors have reached him of efforts to tamper with the ballots in certain precincts, and that he has organized to nip this before it starts, and to prosecute the offenders. “There are a number of names appearing on the election boards, which, due to their past records, will not inspire much confidence,” Remy said.

Open Bids on Ayres’ Addition

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L. S. Ayres & Cos. opened bids today for the general contract for the eleven-story addition to their store, to be erected directly south of the present building. The new project will double the store’s floor space. The new building will conform to the present store in architecure and finish, except that a two-tory penthouse, together with an extension of anew full story to cover half the roof of the present building, will add a touch of the “set-back" type of architecture so familiar to students of New York skyline of recent years. The new section will have a full basement space and sub-basement for service activities. There will be a connection on every floor between the new and present building. Entrance will be on the corner of Pearl and Meridian Sts. The newbuilding w-ill have seven high-speed elevators and three freight elevators. There will be a complete sprinkler system, full concrete floors, except for the travertine elevator landings: a full travertine street floor and terrazo floor in the basement will make the place fireproof. “We are not ready at this time to announce in detail our plans for merchandise occupancy of the new space,” Frederic M. Ayres stated today. “Expansion of existing departments will be the guiding rule. Our business demands 'more space for proper service and w r e try to keep pace with our city.”

BALLOT BOXES TAKEN Two Men Removed Them From Her Home, Woman Complains. Marie Mroz. 2532 Union St., protested to police today when ballot boxes for her precinct, which were in safe-keeping at her home, were removed by Clarence Molinox, 2433 S. Meridian St., and Leo Carney, 2431 S. Meridian St. She told Capt. Forsythe that the two men demanded the boxes and said they were ordered to take them by the election commissioners. Scretary Albert Snyder, secretary of election board, said that 2532 Union St., is the voting place for the Fifteenth precinct of the Thirteenth ward and so far as he knew there had been no change in locution. Re-Elected to Durg Office Nicholas H. Noyes, 1328 N. Delaware St., treasurer of Eli Lilly and Company, has entered his second year as vice president of the American Drug Manufacturers Association, having been re-elected at the convention last week in New. York. Tells of Shootlivg Affair After questioning Ernest Shocmake, 29, and his wife, 436 S. Alabama St., Sunday police gained an admission that Shoemake knew who fired five shots at him in front of his home Sunday night. Shoemake was held on a vagrancy charge.

ENGINEERS TO MEET Automotive Society Changes Date • of Gathering. Date of the meeting of the Indiana section ox the Society of Automotive Engineers, set for last Saturday at Lafayette, has been changed to May 19, is was announced today. Inspection of the engineering buildings at Purdue University will be made in the early morning. An informal afternoon of interest to engineers is planned, and at night the business meeting will be held. A. E. Hersey of the University of Illinois, William M. S. Jackson, and Paul Hackethal. • consulting engineers of Detroit, will speak. All Indiana automotive engineers arc invited. Hourly Temperatures Ba. m 39 10 a. m— 51 7a. m.... 41 11 a. m.... 52 8 a. m 46 12 (noon).. 55 9 a. m... 48 1 p. m.... 58

43 VOTING PLACE CHANGES ON ELECTION EVE LAUNCH NEW COFFIN-DODSON WAR

Ayres new annex (left) and present building.

CITY SEARCHED FOR KIDNAPER AND GIRL

Child Dragged Into Auto, Parents Told: Missing Since Thursday. Armed with the description of a middle-aged man whom relatives believe kidnaped 12-year-old Minnie England, police today are searching the city in an effort to track him down. The girl lias been missing from the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary England, 1128 W. New York St., since Thursday night. Her mother believed that she had gone to her father at Richland, Ind., but a visit >there Sunday revealed that he had neither seen nor heard from her. First clew of the kidnaping was given by a man named Lloyd, who called at the England home and talked to Clarence Thornton, a roomer thfere, who in turn reported to police. According to Thornton. Lloyd identified a picture of Minnie as the girl whom he had met on W. Washington St., near School 5, about 11 p. m., Thursday*- She asked him if she were on W. Washington St„ and after being told she was she said she was all right and could get home. She then went into the school.vard and came back as an automobile approached the curb. Running to the machine, she fell on the fenders and was hauled into the car by the driver, who was alone, according to Lloyd’s story. They then drove away. The car was a Chevrolet coupe and the driver was a middle-aged man, weighing about 200 pounds, dark, and dressed in a gray suit with gray hat. The girl, when last seen, wore a gray and blue-checked coat, pink hat and black oxfords. She is about 4 feet 8 inches tall, weights 100 pounds and has blue eyes and blonde hair.

You Can’t Boat a ‘Swap A(l’ in The Times 3LACK POMERANIAN—MaIe, for other peta, or what have you? Ir. 1283 Said Mrs. John White, 5130 Ellenberger. “One little two-line ad in your paper to trade a Pomeranian brought several responses and a buyer with ready cash. Put me down as a booster for your want ads.” You, too, can get results like this if you use Times Want Ads. Call MA 3500 You can charge your ad.

SINCLAIR APPEAL UP Will Give Verdict in Fall on Contempt Case. By I nih il Brins WASHINGTON. May 7.—Harry F. Sinclair’s jail sentence for contempt of the Senate came before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals today for judgment. The oil multimillionaire was convicted a year ago on an indictment voted more than four years ago. Sinclair appealed the conviction and three months’s sentence in a "common jail,” and he is expected to appeal the case again i,o the United States Supreme Court if he loses here. The case will be taken under advisement after a two-hour argument today, and the decision of the three justices will be handed down early next fall after its summer vacation.

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Last Shot Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher and candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, will close his campaign tonight with a radio speech over WKBF, beginning at 9. The talk will climax the series of radio appeals he has been making to the voters of the State, in which he has attacked political corruption and demanded a clean-up in the Republican party.

BANDITS GET SIOO Rob Gas Station Employe on Way to Bank. H. M. Stiles. 29, Os 3155 Northwestern Ave., Standard Oil filling station attendant, was en route to the Forty-Second St. Bank at noon today with about SIOO cash from the station, Thirty-Fifth St. and Colleeg Ave.. when he was held up and robbed. He was ordered into a Paige touring car of three welldressed gunmen, who rode him about a bit, demanding more money after theey took the SIOO. They refused $lO of his own. saying that they only wanted the station's money. At last-they discharged him with threats at Winthrop Ave. and Fall Creek He called police. MRS. SHUMAKER DENIES FAMILY USED WHISKY Charges by South Bend Paper Are Branded False. Mrs. E. S. Shumaker, wife of the superintendent of the Indiana AntiSaloon League, today denied a charge said to have been published by a South Bend newspa er that members of the Shumaker family had used whisky as a medicine “No doctor ever has insulted us by prescribing liquor. If any doctor had, he would have been summarily discharged,” said Mrs. Shumaker. “No member of our family ever had or ever will use one drop of whisky as a medicine or for any other purpose. Any person or any paper who slanders women and children in the hope of gaining a political point is beneath the consideration of Christian people.” DENIES NAMING SLATE Reach Says Ills Only Concern Is for Large Democratic Vote. Chairman Leßoy Reach of the Democratic County Central Committee today isued a statement denouncing use of his name or that of District Chairman Charles B. Welliver as indorsing any particular “slate,” several of which have been circulated, he says. He urges all precinct workers to get out a large Democratic vote and not to bother about slates. Both Reach and Welliver agree that the candidacy of Frank C. Dailey for Governor and Louis Ludlow for Congress will “strengthen the ticket,” Reach said. Cow Pays for Self PORTERTOWN. Ind., May 7. Five months ago John Wright paid $lO for a cow which since then has paid for herself in money from sales of butter fat.

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Move Made to Confuse Voters and Cut Down 1 Ballot, Is Charge. AUTHORITIES IN CLASH County Commissioners Deny Right of Board to Act. Arrangements for Tuesday ' primary election were thrown into chaos in forty-three Marion County precincts today, as two different lists of addresses for voting places appeared from two sets of officials. County commissioners several days ago fixed the voting places, in accordance with law. The county election board, controlled by George V. Coffin, Republican county chairman, through his sponsorship of Ira M. Holmes, Republican election commissioner, and George O. Hutsell. county clerk, Sunday changed these places in forty-three precincts. Deny Right to Change The county commissioners, however, contending that the election board has no right to make thff change, continued today to send booths and other supplies to the original voting places in these precincts. ''Whether the voters would ballot in the new or the old places in these precincts was a question which, it appeared at a late hour, might require court action to settle. Attorney Harvey Grabill announced that he would file a petition this afternoon for an immediate temporary restraining order to prevent the election board from making the changes. The suit was to be filed in one of the Superior Courts. The two major factions of the Republican party—the Coffin and the Dodson groups—blamed each other for the tangle. Ordinarily the county commissioners fix the voting places at points suggested by precinct committeemen of their party, in this instance Republican. Controlled by Coffin But Coffin controls the committeemen this election, or most of them, and Dodson controls the commissioners. So, the Coffin forces say, the commissioners ignored the advice of the committeemen and selected points regarded as in the midst of Dodson strongholds. It is important to the Dodson people to control the election as nearly as possible because they hope—together with a number of “clean-up” elements—to wreck COlfin's machine and name anew county chairman with the votes of the precinct committeemen elected Tuesday. The Coffin people promptly proceeded to publish, through the Cof-fin-controlled election board, the list of different voting places. Corruption Move Alleged The Dodson forces at ones charged the Coffin faction with attempting to corrupt the election on the ground that Coffin's candidates stand more chance of winning if there is a light vote—and last-min-ute shifting of the voting places will cause confusion which will cut down the vote. The Coffin men on the election board were attempting to sidestep responsibility for the voting place changes, saying that they had merely put into one list changes which had been made by forty-three precinct election board inspectors. The Dodson faction charged that the specific reason behind the Coffin move was this: Many of the Dodson candidates for precinct committeman had candidate cards printed, bearing the address of the voting place as that fixed by the commissioners. The Coffin people made the change so these cards would be worthless, they say. Confusion Is Foreseen In many precincts the voting place is shifted by the Coffin move from central locations to obscure locations in outlying corners of the precincts. The uninformed voter W'ould go to the place he always has voted, find it unoccupied and have great difficulty in locating the new place, the Dodson forces charge. Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin characterized the changes, in a conversation with a Times reporter, as a “direct violation of the law. There is absolutely no authority for such wholesale changes,” he said. County Commissioner Cassius L. Hogle, who accompanied members of the election board on their tour of the complained-of voting places, denies any authority for the change! Hogle is a member of the Dodson faction, opposing the Coffin group.

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