Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1928 — Page 1

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SENATE VOH ON FARM AID SPLITS G. 0. P. Failure to Override Veto Throws Battle Into Convention. FEAR PA~‘ EY OUTCOME Hoover Chances in Danger, Though Administration Holds Whip Hand. BY PAUL R. MALLON F Cnited Press Staff Correspondent ' WASHINGTON, May 26.—The McNary-Haugen bill was thrown into the President campaign today by action of the Senate upholding I President Coolidge’s veto. The measure failed 50 to 31 to get the two-thirds majority necessary for adoption without the President’s (Signature. The vote was forced by the farm bloc to make a record upon which it will go into the Kansas City convention seeking a McNary-Haugen bill plank in the platform. The party equally almost is divided upon the issue as far as its senatorial representation is concerned. Twenty r v epublicans stood by the President and nineteen stood for the bill. Os the eight Republican absentees four were paired with the President and four against. Dawes for Bill Os the Republican presidential candidates voting, two were with the President and two with the farm bloc. Senator Curtis, Republican floor leader, who voted for the bill originally, turned and voted against it because, he said, “felt it my duty to stand by the President.” He and Senator Borah of Idaho were the two candidates who voted with President Coolidge. Senator Goff of West Virginia, a third candidate, was absent but was paired with the President. The two candidates who remained against the President despite the veto were Senators Watson of Indiana and Norris of Nebraska. The voting was conducted under the supervision of Vice President Dawes, who helped frame the bill and who is as arden a supporter for it as his position will permit. Parley Fight Looms While the senatorial alignment i shows an equal division on the issue, the President’s friends are expected to be in the saddle at the convention. An analysis of the vote shows no Republican from a State Eeast of Indiana voted for the bill, i The Eastern States will have a . domintaing influence at the conven- , tion with the help of the administration delegates from the South. But even with a majority in the convention, many administration friends are worried about the possible effect of a bitter convention fight over the sisue. They are particularly apprehensive because the two leading candidates of the party. Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Former Governor Lowden of Illinois, represent the party’s division on the issue. Hoover is credited with representing the .President’s views. Indeed some quarters accept the unverified stories that he helped !Mr. Coolidge write the veto message. Lowden, on the other hand, is a champion of the bill and is supported by the farm bloc. Many of the bloc leaders make no secret of their bitterness aganist the President. They expected him to veto the measure, but they did not expect his vehement denunciation and ridicule of their economic theories. Farmers Organize The close vote, the equal division bf senatorial Republicans, the desire bf many farm bloc members to beat Hoover at all costs, the resentment of the Lowden-Dawes-Watson group at the tone of the President's message, all indicate that a merry convention fight is in prospect at Kansas City, June 12. Midwestern farmers, incensed by the presidential veto, planned various forms of action today. Several thousand farmers planned to meet at Springfield, 111. Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska said he had been offered a field near Kansas City for the army of 100,000 farmers he had urged to march upon the Kansas City Republican convention, seeking recognition of farm relief. He had no definite plans for mobilizing such a force, but said it could be done, easily. The lowa Farm Bureau Federation decided to call a protest meeting of all its local organizations egainst the presidential veto.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 13

Times to Move Up Clock

Wisely or unwisely the city council has established daylight saving time in Indianapolis. This newspaper always has stood for the law—even the laws it does not like. Accordingly, The Indianapolis Times will go on the new time Monday. If the people, after a trial, do not like it. The Times can be depended upon to wage a vigorous crusade for the ordinance’s repeal. If it works, we all will be happy.

GIANT DIRIGIBLE IN GRAVE PERIL ON POLAR DASH

Markets Close By Times Special The New York Stock Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange and New York curb market will be closed for the half-day session today. The New York exchange will resume the old closing time of 3 o’clock, eastern daylight saving time, beginning Monday.

TAX BILL READY FOR PRESIDENT Senate Approves Draft as Fixed in Conference. BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING WASHINGTON, May 26.—The House was expected to send to the White House today a tax ‘bill carrying total reductions of $222,495,000. The Senate yesterday approved the bill, as worked ou tin conference between the two bodies. Although the limit set as safe by Secretary Mellon, was $200,000,000, President Coolidge’s approval is expected. Senator Norris’ amendment for income tax publicity and Senator Howell’s amendment providing that all income tax settlements of more than SIO,OOO should be passed upon by Comptroller General McCarl were voted out. The Norris amendment lost, 57 to 23, despite a hard fight in its favor by Senator Couzens, Howell and others. More than half the entire tax reduction, $123,000,000. goes to corporations in a reduction in the corporation income tax from 13 v to 12 per cent.

WHEAT OPENS LOWER Northwestern Showers Are Factor in Grain Pits. By United rress CHICAGO, May 26. Showers over parts of the American Northwest and forecasts of rain for the Canadian belt sent wheat prices down at the opening on the Board of Trade today. Com broke with wheat and oats changed fractionally. At th eopening wheat was off '* to % cents; corn was down Vs to Vi cent, and oats ranged from Vi cent off to Vs cent higher. Provisions were sharply lower. Although there was no change in weather conditions over the Canadian northwest Friday, thunderstorms are forecast for today. Showers were reported at Minneapolis, but there was no other precipitation in the American belt. Liverpool is closed today and will be closed Monday. A better run of corn to primary markets is expected, now that planting has beer, completed, but it is expected that the break in prices Friday will stop selling by farmers. The market is technically sound. Excellent new oats crop prospects Friday overweighed the short supply of the old crop. There was no news of significance.

FATHER WILL ASK BOY’S DEATH PROBE

A grief-stricken father today prepared to ask for an independent investigation of the fatal shooting by a policeman of his 18-year-old son, accused of no crime other than running when the officer called to him to stop. The father is James Connor, 549 Goodlet Ave.; the boy, his son Paul, and the policeman. Patrolman Carl Wilson. A bullet from Wilson’s revolver, fired Thursday night, resulted in Connpr’s death in city hospital Friday afternoon. The youth and a group of companions were m the 300 block of Toledo St., known as a “black and tan” district, when the shooting occurred. Out on a “Lark” Statements of the companions and Patrolman Wilson and his partner. Patrolman Timothy Shanahan, indicated that the young men merely were out on a lark. Some members of the party had gone into a house in Toledo St. and Connor and another youth, tired of waiting in Connor’s parked car for

No Word From Nobile for 24 Hours: Fuel Near Exhaustion. BY LARS HANSEN I'nilcd Press Staff Correspondent KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, May 26.—Improved weather in the southern regions of the Arctic Sea today brought hope that the polar dirigible Italia might fight its way out of the stormy northern skies, although no direct word had been heard from the craft here for twenty-four hours. At 1 p. m. today—9 a. m. Eastern daylight time—the dirigible had been in the air about 78 1 2 hours and was almost 39 hours overdue at its hangar here. The supply ship, Citta di Milano, was fueling, preparatory to leaving early this afternoon for North Spitzbergen on a relief expedition in search of the Italia. One hundred fifty tons of coal were taken aboard. No Word Since Friday Since noon yesterday, there had been no direct word and the last reports were depressing. At that time the Italian explorer, who twice has looked down on the North Pole from a dirigible’s cabin, said progress was slow. One motor, he reported, was disabled. The course had been changed to the northward and Nobile hoped to reach the Mossum Islands. Wireless receivers believe the Mossum Islands may mean Mossel Bay, about 400 kilometers from King’s Bay, near 86 degrees latitude. Then came silence, after Nobile had kept in regular contact with his supply ship,. through the entire northern expedition. Fueal Near Exhaustion The dirigible has fuel to last until sometime today. Then it might be able to drift for some hours. Provisions have been stocked aboard the craft for many days, it was said here; . It was feared the Citta di Milandc* cruise would be of little avail. Ice packs clog the waters around Kings Bay and it was considered unlikely the vessel would be able to make much headway. There also was a possibility that Nobile, in shifting the course of his craft, may have headed toward Vadsoe, Norway, where he might make a landing.

BERTERMANN CHOSEN IRVINGTON BANK HEAD \ C. E. Kelley Is Cashier; Wright Is His Assistant. Irwin Bertermann, secretary and treasurer of Bertermann Bros., florists, was elected president of the Irvington State Bank at a directors’ meeting Thursday. The bank recently was purchased by the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company and is operated as part of that bank’s system. Clement E. Kelley, president of the Irvington State Bank under the former administration, was named cashier. Ralph C. Wright will continue as assistant cashier. T. D. Moffett, former cashier, resigned to accept managership of the Rural St. branch of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company. Present directors of the Irvington bank are Irwin Bertermann, Thomas Howe, Clement E. Kelley, Leland Crawford and William T. Johnson. Two more will be added in June.

them, had gone to look for them. The patrolmen, under orders to stop petty thievery and robbery reported in the district, came into the block and saw the youths loitering in front of a house. They called to them and all but Connor obeyed the order to halt. Fled in Fear Connor apparently was frightened at the prospect of being caught by policemen in the neighborhood. His friends and relatives say that he never had been in trouble and never was known as a boy who Connor fled. Wilson, according to his own statement, called to the boy to stop. The patrolman fired in the air. Wilson stopped a moment and made a motion toward his hip and then ran on. Tire patrolman called: “Stop or I’ll shoot.” The lad did not stop. The officer says he fired at the pavement and did not know the youth was struck until, abter a half block distant, he dropped.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928

CITY’S FIRST AVIATION FAIR OPENS GATES Exhibits Worth Huge £um Are on Display at Airport. CONTINUES FOUR DAYS Noted Fliers Will Attend; Special Sky Stunts on Program. New type airplanes, accessories and military air equipment valued at $2,000,000 greeted the rush cf early visitors, as the first annual aeronautical exposition opened at the Indianapolis airport at noon today. It is being conducted under auspices of the 113th Observation Squadron and the Chamber f Commerce aviation committee. Sunday was expected to be the banner day of the four-day exposition. Final arrangements for handling the crowds were made today. Six city police officers and six State motor police, as well as Boy Scouts in uniform, were on hand to regulate traffic. Free parking space was provided in a large field south of the airport. Exhibits Under Guard Special military and police guards were present, on watch over the valuable exhibits. The exposition will open at noon and close at 9 p. m. daily. The route recommended for motorists is west on Dashington St. and National Rd. to Holt Rd., south about one mile to the airport. Special street car facilities have been provided on the Mars Hill route. Included in the exhibit are eight or nine new type commercial planes, a military display from Weight Field at Dayton, Ohio, including military planes, models of military plane types, aerial torpedoes ranging from 100 to 2,000 pounds, machine guns, searchlights, aerial cameras and various types of motors. Motors on Display Motors inclu '.e an obsolete Gnome rotary engine, the type used in French Nieuport pursuit planes in' the World War; a Lawrence threecylinder radial air-cooled engine, forerunner of the Wright Whirlwind; a nine-cylinder air-cooled 225 horse power J-5 Wright Whirlwind; Pratt & Whiteney Wasp, nine-cyl-inder, 400 horse power, air-cooled motor; Liberty motor, and others. Cutaway models of the Liberty and Lawrence motors are operated by electric motors, permitting exposition visitors to see mechanical operations. An inverted Liberty motor, built for the Italian government, which operates more effectively upside down than right side up, is in the Allison Engineering Company exhibit. Also in the exhibit are two new type Root superchargers, used for high altitude flying. Exhibits of Great Variety The B. F. Goodrich Company has on exhibition various airplane tires and wheels, ranging from the smallest to the largest in the world. A complete line of aviation carburetors is exhibted by the Stromberg company. Various other accessories are displayed. The 113th Observation Squadron will present tactical problems and formation flying Sunday, using eleven planes. A parachute jump from a speeding plane will be made at 3 p. m., over the field by Sergeant Burchell, Schoen field. Monday will be business men’s day. Tuesday, final day of the exposition, will be “Famous Fliers’” day. Noted Fliers to Be Here Among noted aviators expected to be present are George Haldeman, "whose trans-Atlantic flight with Ruth Elder ended with a forced landing near the Azore Islands; Lieut. Lester Maitland and Lieut. A. F. Hegenberger, Frisco-to-Hono-lulu fliers; Eddie Stinson, hoß’ of the world endurance recor , ar.d Clarence Chamberlin, who flew so Germany with Charles A. Levine. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has been invited by Eddie Rickenbacker to be his guest at the Speedway race and also at the exposition, but has not yet announced acceptance. A double parachute drop from one plane wiil be made at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday by Lieutenant Genaro and Sergeant Goldbergh, Schoen Field. Demonstration and passenger flights will be made during the exposition with several of the commercial planes exhibited.

Last in Mine Bn United Press HARLAN, Ky., May 26.—The tragic daeth of Floyd Collins may find a sequel in the experience of another Kentuckian.. Fred Romines, 45, was believed alive and entombed today in the inner workings of the Black Mountain Corporation’s coal mine, where an explosion killed seven miners Tuesday night. Fellow workers who escaped saw him running from the scene of the explosion, but a preliminary search of the mine failed to reveal him.

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FAST TIME TO BE GENERAL RULE IN CITY BY MONDAY

Stores, Banks and Public Buildings Will Move Clocks Ahead. Majority of Indianapolis institutions. are expected to begin operation on daylight saving time Monday morning. Banks generally planned to follow the lead of the Indianapolis Clearing House Association’s adoption of fast time. George C. Calvert, association manager, said the adoption of the new time is voluntary. but practically all banks will conform. Downtown stores affiliated with the Merchants’ Association took the lead in adoption of the new time and many smaller business houses are falling in line with the movement. West Washington Street Merchants’ Association and the Furniture Association firms adopted the plan. Many t Fall In Line The list of business firms and institutions desiring to move the clock forward is growing rapiaiy, according to Manager A. A. Brown of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Brown estimated 80 per cent of the clocks would be moved ip Monday. H The Federal building offices, except the postoffice section and municipal courts will open an hour earlier Monday. Courts will be moved forward in conformity with the new police schedule. All city departments, excep city council, have operated on the new time since Monday. “It seems rather peculiar that the city council, which passed the daylight saving ordinance, can not follow its own law. Because of State law fixing the time of Its meetings, it will be necessary for the council session to be held at 7:30, the regular time,” said Councilman Herman P, Lieber. Use Own Judgment Charles R. Metzger, Associated Theater Owners president, announced theaters will act individually on the question. Larger downtonw theaters indicated they will continue on Standard time. Indianapolis Typothetae directors urged printers and supply houses to conform to the council ordinance to avoid confusion, President Arthur D. Pratt announced. Meteoroligist J. H. Armington announced the local United States Weather Bureau would not move its clock forward because of the extent of the bureau’s observations in other cities not using daylight saving. Col. Oran Perry said the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument would continue on Standard time to allow visitors an extra hour to visit the Monument in the afternoon. The Monument is closed at 5 p . m. Standard time. The Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade and State Chamber of Commerce adopted daylight time.

BOY KILLED UNDER BOX Mishawaka Tot’s Neck Broken While Playing nlone. Bp Times Special MISHAWAKA, Ind., May 26. Raymond Vance, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Vance of near here, was crushed to death Friday while playing i na store box at the Oscar Sellens home here. His body was found some time after the accident. His neck had been broken.

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Posic Poser New York Slicker Tricks Swains Into Buying Sweeties Roses.

THE young, unmarried man out on a “date” is the most gullible prey of New York’s latest business scheme for peddlers as was evidenced in Indianapolis this week. Philip Lambert, 25. New York, introduced the new sales methods, and is in the city jail today as a result, charged with peddling without a license. “Embarrass them, and they’ll buy,” was Philip's motto. And it worked to perfection until Friday night, when he was embarrassed for a few moments. Arms filled with roses. Lambert stood near a theater entrance. He would present one of them to the young lady, who would take it thinking the flower a gift of the theater management. “I beg your pardon, but those roses are twenty-five cents each,” Lamber would announce to the boy-friend, tapping him on the shoulder. Nine times out of ten Lambert received his two-bits. On complaint of a couple Friday night. Lambert was arrested. He took his flowers to jail. He presented one of the buds to each policemen he met and to all nis fellow-prisoners. Fire at Bamboo Inn Grease chutes in the rear of the Bamboo Inn caught fire at midnight Friday and brought all the downtown fire apparatus to the Circle, causing a crowd to assemble. Damage was slight.

ORDERS RECOUNT OF HALL-UPDIKE VOTE

Recount of votes cast in the primary election of May 8 for the Republican nomination for Congress was to be ordered today by Circuit Judge Harry C. Chamberlin on petition of Archibald M. Hall, losing candidate. Attorneys for Hall and for Congressman Ralph E. Updike, nomination winner, were to submit names fro mwhich lists Judge Chamberlin was to pick two of the three commissioners to supervise the recount. Chamberlin was to name the third commissioner without suggestion. The law provides two of the commissioners shall be of opposite political parties. Attorneys estimate about four weeks will be required to recount the 55.000 ballots cast in the Republican primary.

Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 50 9 a. m.... 51 7a. m.... 51 10 a. m.... 55 8 a. m.... 50 Y. M. C. A. Swim Starts June 1 Second annual twenty-one-mile “channel swim” of the Y. M. C. A. will start in the association pool, June 1. The contest closes Sept. 15, and each swimmer must complete a certain distance each time he enters the pool. Last year twenty-one swimmers entered, with seventeen finishing.

BANK ROBBERS SLAY FOUR; AIR AND AUTO SQUADS HUNT KILLERS OVER FIVE STATES Machine Gun Posses and Voluntter Riflemen by Hundreds Join Greatest Man Chase in Years in West. $44,000 IN LOOT IS TAKEN.BY GANG Cashier and Father Killed, Assistant Abducted and Believed Slain; Doctor Murdered in Lonely Ravine. r.y l mini Press DENVER. May 26.—Airplanes, machine sun posses and hundreds of heavily armed volunteers were joined today in one. of the most extensive man hunts in the history of the West. The search for four bandits who killed two bank officials Wednesday in a $44,000 hold-up at Lamar, Colo., spread to five States. While 400 men in motor ears, assisted by observers in airplanes. were reported to be closing in on the robbers near Oakley, Kan., organized searches were in progress also in Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska and New Mexico. The bandits, who killed A. N. Parrish, president of the First National Bank of Lamar, and his son John, cashier of the bank, during the robbery, were believed to have killed two other men in their flight.

3 OVERCOME BY STOVE FUMES Two Women, Girl to Recover of Gas Effects. Two women and a 7-year-old girl were overcome by fumes from a gas heater at 3325 E. New York St. this morning. Rushed to city hospital in the police ambulance, all are expected to recover. The women are; Mrs. Ella Pressnail; her housekeeper, Mrs. Mary Baker, and a daughter, Elizabeth Pressnall, 7. Early this morning Mrs. Baker came to the home of Mrs. Minnie Embry, 3321 E. New York St., a neighbor, and told Mrs. Embry that the little girl was dying ar.d asked her to send for a doctor. Later, Mrs. Embry went to the Pressnall home and found the little girl, her mother and Mrs. Baker all lying unconscious on the bed. JAPAN AGAINST WAR Accepts American Draft of Pact; to Attend Parley. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 26.—Japan replied today to the American antiwar treaty proposals, agreeing to participate in negotiations among six powers for such a treaty. The reply was an acceptance of the American draft. The Japanese pointed out that their rights of selfdefense and their commitments under existing international agreements must be protected in any pact they sign, but suggested‘that these provisions need not be written into the treaty. Workman Overcome by Ga j Bji United Press VALPARAISO, Ind.. Ma y 26. Artigcial respiration was used to save the life of William Bilaski, who was overcome by gas while working to remove a gas pipe from the path of a sewer digger.

Judge Chamberlin overruled a motion Friday to transfer the case to Federal Court. M. L. Clawson, attorney for Updike, said he will make no further effort to get the

POPPIES ARE SOLD FOR WAR VETERANS

Poppies blossomed on coat lapels as the wives, sister, mothers and daughters of American Legionnaires, with baskets of the bright red paper flowers on their arms, besieged passersby on downtown streets and in public buildings today. Before night, 35,000 of the flowers will have been sold within Marion County for the benefit of disabled World War veterans and their families or survivors, if the goal of the thirteen American Legion auxiliaries in the county is achieved. Two hundred girls and women found theird task easy. Few there were who did not pause to have the poppy pinned on and to drop a contribution in the basket. All were volunteer workers. The poppies have been made by disabled veterans in Government

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One is Dr. W. W. Wineinger of Lighton, Ivan., whoso body was found twenty-five miles, south of Oakley, Kan., yesterday with shotgun wounds in the head. The other is E. A. Kessigner, cashier, whom the bandits abducted when they robbed the bank. No word of him has been received since the hold-up, and he is believed to have been slain. The bandits, to all appearances, lured Dr. Wineinger away from his home to dress wounds received by the bandits in a gun fight at the bank. Called to Dress Wounds The physician received a call say* ing that a man had been hurt severely in an accident. Nothing more was heard from him until his body was found in a ravine between Oakley and Scott City. Kansas authorities believed they had forced the bandits into hiding in the brakes along the Smoky Hill river, somewhere between Oakley and Scott City. The pursuers were prepared for a battle, since the bandits were reported to be armed with a machine gun. All bridges from Dodge City to the Colorado State line were guarded closely. Reported in Colorado Meanwhile, a report from La Junta, said that several men believed to be the Lamar bandits, had succeeeded in fleecing Kansas and, doubling back into Colorado, had staged a running gun battle with authorities between Coolidge, near the State line, and Hadley, 12 miles east of here. Denver police were sent Into northern Colorado and Nebraska to aid in the search there, while hundrdes of other men scoured territory as far south as New Mexico and Oklahoma. The fugitives were believed to be carrying SIO,OOO in cashand a large amount of securities, principally Liberty bonds. Evidence of Torture Kansas authorities believed Dr. Wineinger may have been tortured before he was killed. His body bore evidences of a severe beating, and it was thought that, discovering tho men with whom he was dealing, the physician may have refused to help them. A note left in his car near where the body was found referred to “revenge on doctors,” and It was held that the wounded bandit may have died and the others taken vengeance on the physician. Dr. Wineinger s bandages, medicine case and coat were strewn at intervals along a highway leading toward Colby, Kan., and It was thought the bandits may have fled In that direction.

hospitals, the ex-service men having received 1 cent for each flower made. It is hoped to realize SBOO,OOO nationally from today's sales. In Marion County, the sale was in the hands of a committee having Mrs. C. O. Taylor as its chairman, and as members, Mrs. Everett Saxton. Mrs. R. R. Thomas, Mrs. W. H. Long and Mrs. E, W. Hildebrant. Mrs. Ethele L. Tierney is in charge of the service department of the Indiana. American Legion, partially maintained by poppy sales. Mrs. Paul Akin is national poppy sale director at Legion national headquarters here and Mrs. W. W. Ward is president of the Seventh District Council of the American Legion Auxiliary. All have a hand ip directing efforts to put a poyyp on every coat lapel today..