Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1928 — Page 3

iTJNE 21, 1928

SMITH’S STAND ON PROHIBITION WAITED BY DEMOCRATS

At IS 'WET,' ASSERTS AID; .. OPENS ISSUE Will Emphasize Personal Liberty, State Rights, , ) Mack Believes. DEBATE PARTY PLANK governor Is Dry as Hoover, Says Women’s Leader; i Fight Looms. FjS BY CARL D. GROAT U United Press Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, Texas, June 21.—The Statement of Norman Mack, New York national committeeman, that * Gov. Alfred E. Smith is opposed to prohibition, but favors States’ rights, personal liberty and temperance, brought the prohibition issue out into the open in the pre-battle maneuvering today among Democratic invention forces. While MTack is close to Smith and it member of his advance ‘‘board of strategy,” many Smith followers preferred to await a statement direct from the Governor rather than to take Mack’s words as final. His Own Opinion Mack himself, when reached shortly before midnight, emphasized that his statement was merely an expression of his own personal Views, and added that “no one here • is authorized to express Governor Smith’s mind on any subject of such importance.” ' He said Governor Smith believed In letting States determine the alcoholic percentage of their beverages, adding "If a State desires to be dry, then it is the right of that State to be dry.” Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, first vice chairman .of the Democratic na- ‘ tional committee, and as such generally regarded as the leader of Democratic women, told the United . Press she regarded “Smith as dry as Hoover.” She indicated she felt Mack’s statement was inconclusive. Wet-Dry Fight Looms There was a tendency among dry Women, campaigning against Governor Smith, to accept Mack’s (5- tement as proof of their claims that the New York executive is a Wet. Some quarters foresaw that the brewing signs of a row over the •> dry-wet issue might mean an attempt to have the Democrtas go into the election fight as the wets and the Republicans as the drys, but older leaders insisted the Democrats would come out with a law enforcement plank fully as vigorous as the Republicans’ at Kansas City.

Reed Is ‘Lowden’ BY RAY TUCKER United Press Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, Texas, June 21.—The pre-convention alignment against A1 Smith here is almost an exact duplicate of that which confronted Herbert Hoover at Kansas City before the political roof caved in on Such Republican Samsons as Butler. Mellon and Hilles. Jim Reed, Smith’s most formidable opponent, is the Frank O. Lowden of this situation. The Missouri Senator has more delegates than anybody but Smith. He Is holding aloof from the coalition rtf favorite sons and extreme drys fend hopes to pull out of a possible peadlock with the nomination. So fcowden vainly hoped at Kansas ■City. | Reed Stands Aloof Reed has refused to assume command of the desperate group which gtill hopes to beat Smith. He will jiot join a proposed “stop Smith or bust” battle, for should Smith fail to make the grade, Reed expects to inherit most of the New York Governor’s strengthReed’s hopes are based on two rather remote possibilities. The first is that his strength, plus that of such favorite sons as Pomerene of Ohio, George of Georgia, - Hull of [Tennessee, Ayres of Kansas, Hitchcock of .Nebraska and Woollen of Indiana, will be enough to hold Smith for at least five ballots. In that event, Reed believes the New [Yorker cannot be nominated. Counts on Deserters The Missourian expects that piany pro-Smith delegations, if convinced their favorite’s nomination jean be accomplished only through a protracted convention and factional strife, will turn to him. The Reed camp says it has definite word that some of Smith’s allies will desert him if he does not (deliver before the fifth ballot. Everybody seems to fear a fight that will mean disastrous defeat in [November. But Smith leaders, already on hand, insist he will be nominated within four ballots.

.WOLDS MAN FOR POLICE Raptor Says Intruder Was Stealing Tire from Garage. John Breedlove, 805 Warman Ave., field Leon Kisler, 25, of 586 S. WarL gnan Ave., for police Wednesday bight and charged he caught Kisler in his garage trying to steal a spare tire. Breedlove said a quantity of automobile tire tools not owned by him were on the floor of his Jgarage. A toy pistol resembling an automatic was found with the tools, police said. [ Factory Worker Killed A thirty-pound bar from a forging hammer fell more than twenty feet onto the head of Harry Hudson, 46, of 1422 Ringgold St., [Wednesday afternoon killing him ialmost instantly in the shops of the Indianapolis Drop Forge Company, 13po Madison Ave. He is survive- 1 a widow and two sons, one piarried.

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Bn Times Special NEW YORK, June 21.—Wilda Bennett, actress, will pay her former landlady, Mrs. Charlotte King Palmer, S4OO instead of $4,000, a jury decided today. It cost $4,000 to repair the apartment after Miss Bennett had lived in it two years, Mrs. Palmer charged. It had to be redecorated, she said; she had to build anew closet, replace broken dishes and repair the player piano.

CONTRACT LET FOR CITY TRUCK Sanitary Commissioners Also Buy Trailers. City sanitary commissioners today awarded contracts to the Mack Truck Company and the Highway Trailer Company for one five-ton truck and eight garbage collection trailers. The Mack Truck Company, represented locally by George Bailey, bid $5,150 on the truck. The Indiana Truck Company submitted low bid of $4,625. The Highway bid totalled $13,360, $1,670 for each trailer. The Hvoss Company of New'York submitted low bid of $1,125 each without sanitary covers. The board awarded the contracts today following a private conference with Mayor L. Ert Slack. It was said Slack agreed with the board which unanimously favored the equipment which is in use at present. “It was a question of the quality of the product,” City Engineer A. H. Moore said. B. J. T. Jeup, board member, declared the board unanimously favored the Mack and Highway products because the department “knew what they would do.” E. L. Moorman president of the Highway company, Edgerton, Wis., said the trailers known as the “Indianapolis special” were designed particularly for use here. Attorney J. J. Daniels said the specifications for the equipment provided that the board shall accept the “lowest and best bid which will serve the best interests of the sanitary district in the light of service required.” NEGRO GETS $75~L.00T Burglar Ransacks Home; Another Frightened Away. Returning home Wednesday night, Mrs. Ethel English, 1516 Blaine Ave., surprised a burglar. He ran out a back door without loot. Porter Rutlant, Negro, 1044 W. Twenty-Fifth St., called police at 2 a. m. that his daughter had been awakened by a burglar who had ransacked the home and taken loot valued at $75 before he was discovered and fled.

TWELVE DIE iN FLAMES Fire Sweeps 100 Damascus Homes; Many Persons Hurt. Bu United Press PARIS, June 21.—Fire at Damascus killed twelve people, caused injuries to several firemen, destroyed 100 houses and threatened the citadel, a dispatch from Beirut to the Intransigeant said today. Another dispatch reported that an entire quarter of the city was burned. Hoosier Dies of Injuries By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 21. Charles H. Barnes, South Bend Boy Scout executive and one time Chicago fire inspector, died at Cassopolis, Mich., today of shock and injuries suffered in an auto crash at Vandalia, Mich.,’Wednesday. He is the second local Scout executive to meet violent death in the past five years. His predecessor, Chief Joseph Taylor, drowned in Magician Lake, Mich.

‘BIG BILL’ HELD GUILTY OF PLOT TO CHEAT CITY Chicago Tribune Wins Tax ( Suit Which Involves Millions. It a I 'iiitrd Press CHICAGO, June 21. Circuit Judge Hugo Friend’s decision finding Mayor William Hale Thompson guilty of conspiracy to defraud the city of Chicago is "incomprehensible” to the mayor. Thompson, one of ten city officials and real estate experts who were named defendants in the action brought by the Chicago Tribune, made plans today for appealing from the decision. The ruling was returned after seven years of litigation arising from a beautification project developed during a previous Thompson administration. It ordered the defendants to restore to the city treasury $1,732,279.23 in fees paid to real estate experts, engaged to work on the plan. The Tribune, which filed the suit in 1921 as a taxpayer, charged that the defendants intended to use the fees for their private benefit and for Mayor Thompson’s campaign fund. Named with the mayor as defendants weje George F. Harding, city controller in 1921 and county treasurer now; Michael J. Flaherty, president of the board of local improvements then and now; percival B. Coffin, State public administrator, and Edward C. Waller, Jr.; Ernest H. Lyons. Arthur S. Marigold. Crarles M. Nichols, Aronld H -Brautigam and Frank J. Koch, former real estate experts.

BAPTISTS URGE DRYJOMINEE Demand Democrats Declare for Prohibition. Bp I'll it ed Press DETROIT, June 21.—A resolution demanding that the Democratic convention nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates who unfalteringly will support prohibition was passed at the closing session of the Northern Baptist convention otday. Convention authorities estimtaed 1,500,000 Baptists will be influenced by the resolution which was backed by a pledge to vote for “only such men for the presidency and vice presidency and other high office who unequivocally and openly will commit themselfes to an honest and effective enforcement of the prohibition laws.” A "religion and home life” resolution authorized A. M. Harris, president of the convention, to appoint a commission to cooperate with other Christian organiztaions in promoting legislation to “protect the home.” The commission would also work to di .tribute wholesome literature to young people regarding marriage. In an effort to prevent divorces, the commission would make definite suggestions to pastors to help local churches be more of an aid in home relationships.

OPEN BIDS ON STATEPAVING Contracts tor 22* Miles to Be Awarded. State Highway Commission today received bids on approximately twenty-two miles of paving work at a cost of $405,250, as the fourth letting of its 1928 program. Approximately 205 miles of paving will be under contract when after examination the low bids at today’s letting will be accepted. Together with forty-five miles of paving under the 1927 contracts the commission will have under construction 250 miles of paving, John D. Williams, Highway director announced. The fifth letting of this season will be held late in July. Low bidders and projects in today’s letting are: State Rd. 56. 3.05 miles near French Lick. $63,531.50 bid. Sherrlll-Blackwell Construction Company, Bedford; State Rd. 30. Valparaiso to Hamlet, 7.782 miles, $111,402.01, McAfee & Smith, Bluffton; State Rd. 41, 0.782 miles in Fountain County, approaches to a bridge at Sterling, $19,782.08, W. J. Nees Company, Mishawaka, and State Rd. 53. 10.451 miles in Jasper County from Rensselaer to four miles north of Aix, $197,055.67, McAfee & Smith. The commission also received bids' on grading one-third of a mile of State Rd. 27 six miles south of Richmond, for the relocation of a bridge. The low bid was made by John L. Erwin of Logansport, who offered to do the work for $14,478.00. ROSENTHAL RITES SET Forty-Five-Year Resident Will Be Buried Saturday. Funeral services for Harry Rosenthal, 63, of 430 Virginia Ave., will be held at the home at 2 p. m. Saturday, followed by burial at Memorial Park cemetery. Mr. Rosenthal, native of Ft Wayne, had lived here for forty-five years and was one of the pioneer liverymen of the city. For more than thirty years he operated livery stables in various parts of the city. The last six years he owned a garage at 815 E. Market St. Surviving are the widow, Mrs May Rosenthal; a daughter, Mrs. Floyd C. Scarlett, Indianapolis, and six brothers. Refinance your auto payments now on easier terms. Confidential and Quick. Cpaitol Loan Cos., 141 E. Wash. St.—Advertisement.

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Employes Look Forward to Annual Marmon Picnic

li. E. Roberts, 7(1, has been employed by the Marmon Motor Car Company for forty - eight years. Lewis Cheslyn, 16, has been employed there for slightly more than fortyeight hours However, the difference in the ages and lengS: of service of the two has not kept them irom becoming good friends, but rather h a s served to bring them together. Uncle Bob, as the veteran employe is known around the Marmon plant, has taken a liking to Lewis, the youthful apprentice. and is doing his best to smooth the difficult road the young man must travel. “Lewis is a bright boy, all right, and he’s learning fast,” Uncle Bob said. “He’s working to save money to go to school this winter. His father is dead and his mother, Mrs.

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May Cheslyn, works at the Marmon factory to support herself, Lewis and two younger children. “We all want Lewis to go to school, and we hope that he can make the grade.” The oldest and the youngest employes are looking forward to Saturday, when the annual Marmon picnic will be held at Broad Rippie park. Uncle Bob will confine his activities on that day to resting and talking with his friends, but young Lewis is planning a brim-full day of pleasure. The committee in charge has arranged athletic contests on the morning program, which begins at 10 o’clock. After lunch there will be wrestling and boxing bouts, in addition to a special program for the children. Prizes for first, second and third place winners in the contests will be awarded at 3 o'clock. A feature of the morning program will be a fat man’s race, in which entrants must weigh three pounds for each inch of height. The Marmon band will give two concerts. Moving pictures and dancing have been scheduled for the evening entertainment.

SUSPECTS FREE IN DEATH PROSE Speedy Trial to Be Asked for Carl Skeen. Two men friends of Mrs. Pe?,vl Jarboe, 24, waitress, 614 E. North St., who have been held by police since the day after her death, June 13, were released today because the officers believed the case was completely cleared up by the arrest of Carl Skeen, 22, butcher, of 814 S. Foltz Ave. in Denver, Colo., Tuesday night. Mrs. Jarboe died after she leaped or was thrown from Skeen’s car near Sixteenth St. and Colorado Ave. after a liquor party. Witnesses said she was thrown out. Skeen, in a statement to a Scripps-Howard reporter at Denver, said she jumped out because she did not want to go to a beer joint. Meanwhile Prosecutor William H. Remy and Police Chief Claude M. Worley were preparing for a speedy trial. Detective Patrick Finncran will arrive in Denver tonight with papers for Skeen’s return. Skeen is not expected to resist removal. They are to get here probably Sunday. Remy said he hopes the trial can be held in Criminal Court next week. Skeen faces a manslaughter indictment.

PACKED DATES MAY CARRY DISEASE PERIL Sugar Solution Sprayed Over Fruit Is Bacteria Medium. By Science Service LONDON, June 21.—1 t is not considered the thing by housewives of the better classes to purchase certain foods, such as crackers and dried fruits, in bulk. Attractively prepared packages, sealed and paraffin-papered against dirt and other contamination, are now in vogue with discriminating shoppers. However, a severe case of colitis in a young child has been traced to bacteria in dates from a fancy package, report R. F. Hunwicke and G. N. Ginling in the current “Lancet.” Investigation showed that African dates repacked in Eu, ope contained intestinal bacterial while those which were not packed but sold in bulk, though less attractive looking and dirty to the eye, were entirely free from these disease germs. The sticky sugar solution which is sprayed over the dates when they are repacked furnish a splendid medium for the bacteria to live and grow in. C. of C. Change Offices Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce employes today were moving into new office space on the second floor of Chamber of Commerce Bldg. The second floor rear has been remodelled. All offices formerly on the third floor are being moved to the lower floor for greater convenience. Injured Woman, 88, May Die By Times Specinl MARION, Ind., June 21.—Mrs. Sarah A. Perry, 88, is expected to die of injuries suffered when she i was struck by an automobile driven by R. J. McClintock, Anderson, while crossing a street here. The burning of coal in London was a punishable offense in the fourteenth century, one man actually being executed for disobeying the order.

EUGENE O’NEIL SUEDBY WIFE Artistic Experiment With Marriage Is Failure. Pil United Press NEW YORK. June 21.—The New York Daily News said today that Mrs. Eugene O’Neill, wife of the playwright, would leave immediately for Reno, Nev., or Sonora, Mexico, to start divorce proceedings. Mrs. O'Neill will base her suit on a charge of abandonment. The Daily News said, and will retain custody of the two children. O’Neill is in Europe, and is said to have agreed to allow the suit to go uncontested. “I had attempted the experiment of giving an artist-husband the freedom he said was necessary for his dramatic success,” Mrs. O’Neill is quoted as having said. "Perhaps, from the standpoint of dramatic art and the American theater, my decision may be a success; matrimonially it already has proved a failure” Negro Abandons Car, Escapes Abandoning a stolen automobile after crashing into the corner of a garage in an alley near ThirtyEighth St. and Broadway Wednesday night, a Negro escaped from police after a chase through alleys and streets on the north side. The car is the property of E. H. Habig, 2984 N. Talbott St.

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VANGUARD OF HQOSIERS OFF FOR HOUSTON Party to Make Arrangements for Welcoming State Delegates. R. Earl Peters of Ft. Wayne, Democratic State chairman, headed a group of party leaders which departed today for Houston, Texas, to complete arrangements for welcoming the Hoosier delegation in the national convention city Monday. With Peters were: .Lew G. Ellingham, Ft. Wayne publisher, slated as Indiana’s representative on the important resolutions committee charged with framing the party’s national platform; Charles A. Greathouse of Indianapolis, national committeeman; Marshall Williams, secretary of the State central committee; John Heller, Decatur publisher; Jack Shea of Indianapolis, who will help manage headquarters for the Indiana dele* gation, and Virgil Simmons of Bluffton, Eighth district chairman. Special Leaves Friday Delegates, alternates and other prominent Indiana Democrats will depart for Houston on the Evans Woollen special, Friday at 5:45 p. m. Mrs. Etta Griffin of Indiainapolis will be the official Indiana hostess. Among the 125 persons on the special wall be a farm group of ten or twelve, headed by William H. Settle, Indiana Farm Bureau Federation president. Verna L. Hatch, head of the women’s division of the bureau and James R. Moore, Hoosier Farm editor, and district representative will be included. Seek Farm Plank Farm bureau officials announced they would seek selection of a presidential candidate favorable to the bureau’s farm relief legislative program, and would advocate adoption of a farm relief plank in the national platform. Thomas Taggart, veteran Democratic leader, is prevented from attending by precarious health. William H. O’Brien of Lawrencechairman of the Indiana delegation, who is expected to make the nominating speech for Woollen, will leave Saturday. A. C: Sallee, head of the Woollen-for-President organization, already is in Houston

YOUTH SHOOTS SELF; DRIVES CAR FOR HELP Police Believe Girl Cause of Suicide Attempt. Howard P. Morton, 22 of 2011 N. Pennsylvania St., is in a critical condition at city hospital today from a bullet he fired into his body near the heart while sittfng in his automobile at Illinois St. and the canal Wednesday. Morton told police he was “just tired of living,” but officers believed a quarrel with a girl was the cause. T. A. Barry, 2006 N. Pennsylvania St„ heard Morton tooting his horn and calling for help and called police, but when he reached the place where Morton’s machine had been parked Morton had driven away. Morton drove his car to a filling station at Forty-Sixth and Illinois Sts., then collapsed, declaring “I’ve been shot." \ India Bank Cuts Rate Bn United Press CALCUTTA, June 21.—The Imperial Bank of India today reduced its discount rate from 7 per cent to 6 per cent. $lO buys a good' 100-lb. icer refrigerator. See the ad in tonight’s miscellaneous/ for sale want ads.

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Mae Murray Wins $32,295 as Damages

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NEW YORK, June 21.--Mae Murray, film star, today was awarded $32,295 damages from Jack Donovan, cowboy actor and architect. Miss Murray charged Donovan induced her to pay $50,000 for a $25,000 home.

FILE TAX SUITS IN RECEIVERSHIP County Opens Mew Avenue to Collect SIOO,OOO. Collection of approximately SIOO,000 annually in taxes which heretofore have gone uncollected is the aim of anew plan of Deputy County Treasurer Charles M. Clark. Clark is filing claims for county taxes in all receivership oases pending in county and Federal courts. Prior to now, taxes of bankrupt corporations and partnerships, and others in receivership, have not been sougAt. In two weeks Clark has filed more than twenty claims. His preliminary check of the county tax books, against court records showing receiverships, indicates SIOO,OOO is going uncollected annually. Precedent followed thus far is for the court to allow only the amount of the delinquent taxes, deducting fees for collection which are swelling the coffers of Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson. Even in cases where the receivers have been dismissed, they are heid liable under the law for payment of taxes, and they may be sued personally or suit may be instituted against the bondsmen, Clark said. Clark, an attorney, is handling the matter, because the law provides no attorney for the county treasurer. Clark is being paid only his regular salary as deputy treasurer.

SUMMER SILK DRESSES On Special Sale at sff|s SMART PRINTED CREPES—STRIPED TUB SILKS—NEW PASTEL SHADES Avery unusual selection of brand new dresses, exceptionally smart in style and color, in fine washable crepes and tub silks. Dresses that were meant to sell much higher. A choice In all sizes up to 40. See them, you’ll marvel at the value. , —Morrison*, Third Floor.

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NEW HEARING ON TAX REFUND CASEORDERED Baltzell’s Ruling Reversed by U. S. District Court of Appeals. City, county, school and Indiana Taxpayers’ Association officials today considered further steps for settlement of the E. C. Atkins Company suit to determine whether approximately 120,000 Marion County taxpayers shall receive $8,000,000 in tax refunds. The United States District Court of Appeals at Chicago late Wednesday reopened the case when it reversed Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell’s ruling dismissing the case for want of jurisdiction. Judge Baltzell now must set a date for anew hearing of the case. The suit was filed Aug. 25, 1927, under direction of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, and was dismissed by Baltzell Dec. 22, the Atkins company appealing immediately. Called Unconstitutional The refund muddle arose from a horizontal increase in assessment against 120,000 taxpayers in the years 1919, 1920 and 1921. by the State tax board. The increase later was declared unconstitutional by the Indiana Supreme Court. Preparation of Marion County taxing officials to refund the taxes collected on the horizontal increase resulted in filing of the suit by the Atkins company, charging the refund would be unconstitutional and confiscatory to large taxpayers. The complaint charges the Atkins company and 600 other corporations, paying taxes on two-fifths the assessed property in Center Township, were not affected by the horizontal increases and would not participate in refunds, but would be taxed to raise mony for refunds to others. Jurisdiction Attacked These corporations, it is averred, were assessed either originally or on certification by the tax board the horizontal increases being made to bring the other three-fifths of the assessed property in the township up to an equal level. . Jurisdiction of Federal Court was attacked last fall by four taxpayers, William H. Smith, Elizabeth Masters, John W. Staub and George T. HammCl, who were granted right to become intervening defendants. Attorney A. L. Raab said the ruling may be appealed to the United States Supreme Court by the intervening defendants. Final decision will not be made until a copy of the Chicago court order is received, he said. Final decision in the local suit will affect similar refunds proposed in the ninety-one other counties of the State. MAN AND BOY MISSING Mother Says 13-Year-Old Son Left Home Wednesday. Jake Arousti, 13, left his home at 1030 S. Capitol Ave., Wednesday and has not been .seen since, his mother reported to police today. Louis T. Brewer, 44, of 308 N. Randolph St„ left home Wednesday for work, but failed to arrive there, his wife told police. Favors Higher Buildings Bn Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ir.d., June 21. The city council has adopted an amendment to the zoning ordinance permitting an increase in height of downtown bulidings from ten to twelve stories.

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