Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1928 — Page 1

POLICE CLOSE BIG BALL POOL TICKETPLANT Strike at Heart of City Lotteries; Operator of Factory Held. BOASTS OF BUSINESS Denver Ferguson, Negro, Is Accused as 'Banker’ in Gambling Schemes. Police today struck at the heart of the baseball lottery system In Indianapolis when they raided a factory for the manufacturer of pool tickets at 322 N. Senate Ave. Lieut. Ralph Dean, Prosecutor’s Detective Harry McGlenn, Sergt Dan Cummings and squad arrested threp persons, confiscated more than 10,000 pool books, valued at $5,000 and shut up the place, where twenty-eight girls were employed. The officers had to use a truck to haul the confiscated goods to headquarters. Denver D. Ferguson, Negro, operator of the factory denied that he was the “banker” for the several pools for which he was printing and pasting tickets, declaring he was only a “wholesaler” who sold the supplies to about twenty dealers. 28 Girls at V7ork s" If he can prove this the raid will accomplish nothing more than the wrecking of his factory and the loss of $5,000 worth of his supplies. But, Dean and Police Chief Claude M. Worley said they have evidence that Ferguson was the actual operator of some of the pools. A Supreme Court at :ision protects those who merely make the gambling devices, it is contended. Twenty-eight Negro girls were working when the officers arrived. Ferguson was slated on a charge of operating a lottery and William Ferguson, his cousin, 24, Negro Y. M. C. A., and Miss Louise Harrison, 29, Negro, 1138 S. Randolph St., bookkeeper and forewoman, were held on vagrancy charges. Bonds of each are $5,000. Mary Rapia and Abe Greenspatf, professional bondsmen, signed the bonds.. As police were carrying the books to the truck, Lieutenant Dean remarked : “You must have 5,000 books here, tJenver.” Boasts of Business Ferguson replied boastingly: “Five thousand, nothing. I’ve got over 10,000 books. Man, this is s big place.” Ferguson denied he had been paying for “protection.” He declared he sold to the dealers who had from one to twenty salesmen working for them. Police confiscated a list they found in the place. The factory equipment included rows of shelves about ten feet high and twenty-five feet long, four electric printing presses and a linotype machine. Finished books were stacked on the floor. The raid was made bn an affidavit signed by Deputy Prosecutor John L. Niblack charging Ferguson with having aided and abetted Michael Gray, 148 W. Sixteenth St., in the sale of pool tickets. 55 \ Others Arrested Tickets for the “Jumbo Moon,” “Wall Street,” “Lightning,” “Man-in-the-Moon,” “Big Moon” and “Baby Moop” pools were among those confiscated. Fifty-five other persons were arrestfed in the last five days for gaming. visiting gaming houses, pool selling and keeping gaming devices. Os this number Municipal Judges Paul C. Wetter and Clifton R. Cameron have fined four men ranging from $1 to $25. Eleven persons have been discharged or the charges against them dismissed In this time. The remainder have been continued or venued to other municipal courts. P Thirteen of the continued cases were to be tried in the courts today. According to a report made to Chief Worley by Sergt. John Sheehan, dated Sunday night, he and Patrolman Thomas Harris overheard talk indicating a dice game in a west side home. He ordered Harris to get a warrant for the place, the report said, but Wetter refused. Wetter did not specifically state that Harris had come to him, but declared that “if there was any evidence a search warrant would have been issued.” Sheehan’s report said a game had been raided in this place last week.

All Kids Klub So that the thousands of Indianapolis children who have made application for membership in The Indianapois TimesBroad Ripple Park All Kids Klub would have opportunity to get membership buttons before the first meeting, the organization session has been postponed from Thursday to Friday. Instead of three days of fun for members, as originally announced, there will be four days— Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Watch Thursday’s Times for announcement of program.

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UNWRITTEN LAW PLEAJHILLER Wife Who Watched Killing Visits Mate in Cell. “The unwritten law” will be his defense for the slaying of James Fouty, 33, Wayne Herndon, 34, of 3144 W. Morris St., indicated today. Herndon shot and killed Fouty at the Herndon home Tuesday as Mrs. Herndon and her two children looked on. Herndon said he would waive preliminary hearing in municipal court and permit the murder charge against’him to go to the grand jury. “No jury of men will convict me,” he said. Fouty v took his wife and children away from his home Sunday after beating him up, Herndon charged. He shot Fouty when Fouty and Mrs. Herndon went to the house Tuesday for her clothing. Mrs. Herndon declared the quarrel between Fouty and her husband began at a liquor party Sunday. She left after Herndon had tried to strike her with a piano stool and Fouty had protected her, she said. She spent Sunday and Monday nights at the home of friends, she said. She denied any improper relations with Fouty. Mrs. Herndon visited her husband at city prison Tuesday evening and took him a pair of socks. “It’s all too bad,” she told Herndon. BELA KUN SENTENCED Former Hungarian Dictator Given Three Months Term in Austria. By United Press VIENNA, June 27. Bela Kun former Hungarian dictator, was sentenced today to three months imprisonment. He was arrested when he returned here recently despite a promise to remain away.

COUNTY BOARD BOOSTS CROWS NEST TAX RATE

Notices of increases in tax assessments on pretentious estates in Crow’s Nest, exclusive north side incorporated suburb, were in the mails today on order of the county board of review. The increases ranged from about one-fourth to double the original assessments. The wholesale raises came after the board of review personally inspected the property after Township Assessor William Dawson had made his assessments. Recent improvements caused the increases. Some of Indianapolis’* wealthiest citizens are hit hard by the increases. Crow’s Nest was incorporated recently, residents escaping annexation by the city and the resultant tax increases. Increases ordered today: E. B

A June wedding—a glorious honeymoon—then the scheming of a jealous woman which casts this beautiful romance on the rocks. The absorbing story is told by Ruth Dewey Groves in “Love for Two,” which starts in The Indianapolis Times Friday, June 29. T

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FOUNDATIONS for the Demo- * cratic national convention keynote speech of Claude G. Bowers, which bitterly assailed the G. O. P., were laid by an ardeiv Republican school teacher, who has espoused that party’s \ cause for more than half a ceni tury, it was revealed today. Miss Laura Donnan. 232 N. Capitol Ave., is the teacher, who taught Bowers both oratory and civil government when he was a student at Shortridge High School. She was ill today and her comments on Bowers' speech at Houston Tuesday night were delivered in writing through her sister, Miss Emma Donnan, principal of School 18. Both sisters retired from teaching at the close of the year. n n n HERE is what the whitehaired, well-loved, Shortridge teacher writes of her former pupil, with whom she corresponds occasionally and greatly admires: “When he entered Shortridge High School he was a marked pupil in English and civil government. He was entered in political conventions that met in Indianapolis and often was excused from his classes to attend them. “He won the first State high school oratorical contest. He supported himself by carrying newspapers. He was a constant reader of oratory and he probably read more oratory than any person in Indiana at that time. “In the debate between- Manual and Shortridge he was easily the best speaker among excellent speakers. He is the result of natural gifts and his own untiring efforts and best of all he has nobility of character.” He was graduated from Shortridge High School in 1898. A huge bust of Lincoln graces the parlor in the family home of the Donnan sisters. There is no picture of Hamilton, whose principles Bowers assailed, as he praised the Great Emancipator. Opposite the bust, however, is a print of Christ driving the money changers from the temple. Such was the text of Bowers’ theme.

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‘LOVE FOR TWO,’ THRILLING ROMANCE, STARTS FRIDAY IN THE TIMES

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1928.

NEW TRAFFIC LAW TO HELP PEDESTRIANS Walkers to Be Given Brief Chance to Scuttle Over City Crossings. WHISTLE TO REGULATE Change Set for Monday; ‘Jay’ Campaign Will Be Launched. Forty-five second “go” periods for pedestrians only will be inaugurated on three Washington street corners Monday morning, and a vigorous campaign against jay-walking started, Police Chief Claude M. Worley announced today. The chief, Traffic Captain Lester Jones ahd the board of safety held a special meeting at which it was decided to try out the separate periods for pedestrian traffic at Illinois, Meridian and Pennsylvania Sts. intersections with Washington St. The trafficmen will blow one whistle blast for north and south motor and street car traffic, two blasts for east and west traffic and three for pedestrians. Must Scurry Across When the triple blast is blown all traffic must stop and walkers scurry across. After an education period pedestrians will be arrested for walking across Washington St. except at the intersections and for trying to cross at any time except during the forty-five second period. Extra trafficmen will be on duty to help educate pedestrians and motorists next week. The board temporarily put noturns in effect at Pennsylvania and Market Sts. this morning. After a try-out the no-turns here probably will be in effect from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 4 to 6 p. m. Conferees Sift Problem The meeting today followed a conference Tuesday afternoon of the board and police with representatives of civic, business and labor organizations at wtu.ch the whole traffic problem was discussed Flat-to-curb parking on Washington St. instead of the present angle parking and elimination of parking on Monument Circle are under consideration as <result of the conference. Worley and Board Members Robert Miller and Ira Haymaker favored those changes in parking regulations as a step to decreased downtown congestion. Mayor L. Ert Slack suggested widening streets leading to the business section. Slack said he had talked with City Engineer A. H. Moore on the possibility of widening the first block of Massachusetts by cutting five to eight feet from the sidewalks. Suggests Safety Isle Chief Worley also suggested a safety island in the streets for pedestrians. The proposed abolition of right and left turns at all corners on Washington St. between Senate Ave. and Delaware St. will be j abandoned, it was Indicated, j Merchants’ Association representatives objected to the proposal, on the ground that it would hurt business. Representatives of the East Washington Street Merchants’ Association and the West Washington St. Merchants’ Association, however, favored the straight through traffic plan. WILDIANI nr PAY Announces New Dividend for July 15. A dividend of 1714 per cent for depositors in the defunct J. F. Wild & Cos. State Bank will be paid about July 15, Probate Judge Mahlon E.' Bash said today. Arrangements for the payment, totaling approximately $407,000, are being completed by Receivers Richard L. Lowther and Eugene H. Iglehart. This is the second dividend, the first one for 40 per cent. Checks are being made out, but no dates have been inserted pending the date of receipt of the final payments on certain sales.

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Bertie Lou, on the morning of her marriage to Rod, wakes to the realization that she was a “second choice bride.” ♦Lila, Rod’s old sweetheart spurned her opportunity to have Rod, and now Bertie Lou thinks she sees regret and envy iu Lila’s eyes. „

Death Claims Mantell, King of Tragedians Noted Shakespearean Actor Passes at Age of 74; ill Six Weeks.

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Ru United Press ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N. J., June 27.—Robert B. Mantell, worldfamed Shakesperian actor, died at his country home, Brucewood, here today after an illness of several weeks. Mantell was 74 years old. Mantell was taxen ill about six weeks ago at Baltimore while on tour. For a time it was thought he might recover, but during the last few days he sank so rapidly that virtually all hope was abandoned. With the actor when he died were his wife, Mrs. Genevieve HamperMantell, and their son Bruce. A daughter was reported on her way irom the Pacific coast, but she failed to arrive in time. For the last week Dr. John Boyd, attending physician, maintained an almost constant vigil at the aged actor’s bedside. Mantell was one of the greatest tragedians Scotland has produced. He was born at Irvine, Scotland, Feb. 7, 1854. and early in life rebelled against what he considered the tyranny of schools and books. When Mantell was 14 his parentabandoned the idea of a law career and apprenticed him to a wine merchant. For five years he worked at his trade half heartedly, never missing a chance to appear in amateur theatricals. Wanderlust became too strong ir 1874, and after tramping around the British Isles, he sailed for America, landing in Boston. Bitterly disappointed because he could not obtain a theatrical engagement there, Mantell sailed back to England two weeks later. Makes Stage Debut Two years later he made his stage debut in “Arrah-Na-Pogue,” Success came rapidly. He toured England with Dion Boucicault, playing romantic roles. America first saw him at Albany, N. Y., in 1878, when he appeared with Modjeska in “Romeo and Juliet.” The next forty years of Mantell’s life were devoted to educating the American public on appreciation of Shakespeare. Among his outstanding successes were “Othello,” “Richard III',” “King Lear,” “The Merchant of Venice” and “Macbeth.” He was married twice, the first time to Charlotte Behrens, wellknown actress. •Follower of Booth Mantell was a follower of th r . school of Booth, Wallack and McCullouch and was a pioneer in the field of repertoire, having maintained a Shakesperian company for years. Critics have called Mantfl! the last of the great tragedians. Mantell appeared in Indianapolis at English's during the winter season. Though his playing was of the highest order, his feebleness plainly was noticeable. FIGHTS ALIENATIoFSUIT Wealthy Clubman to Contest Million-Doll&r Case. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—Mrs. A. Edgar Freeman, whose former husband, Frank W. Henry, has filed a $1,100,000 alienation suit against her present husband in a New Jersey court, was reported today as willing to testify if the case is tried. Mrs. Freeman has remained at her apartment home here, but her husband, a wealthy Philadelphia club member, said he would fight the suit, although he reported he had not yet received the papers in the case.

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OPTIMISM RADIATED BY DEMOCRATS, PREPARING TO NOMINATE AL SMITH

Happy Throngs Crowd in Hall to Hear Message of Chairman. ROBINSON BOOM GROWS Arkansan in Lead as Running Mate Prospect for New Yorker.BY CARL D. GROAT, United Pres* Staff Correspondent CONVENTION HALL, HOUSTON, Texas, June 27.—The Democrats In national convention opened their third session today, eagerly awaiting the time when Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York shall be named presidential candidate. They swarmed into convention hall under a blanket of humidity to choose Senator Joseph Robinson—the probable rice presidential nominee—as permanent chairman and to hear from him anew message on important issues of the coming campaign. Meantime, the platform committee had convened to hold public hearings on prohibition, farm relief and other planks in the platform. These hearings represented largely a formality, for leaders already were in general agreement on what the platform should contain. Carries Dry Plank They were agreed it should carry a dry law enforcement plank, and expected ratification of such a plank by the convention. They were prepared, too, to offer a farm *tld plank, promising relief measures for the farmers. Further, In keeping with the keynote of anti-corruption sounded last night by Claude G. Bowers, New York editorial writer, they were ready tc present a stiff plank for honesty in government. 3mith’s nomination was a certainty, ft was agreed. As his running mate, Robinson probably will be chosen. Then the 'party will be ready for the battle of the preelection period under the banner of £ h, the “East Sider.” Lvlegates and guests, still thrilled by the spectacle offered here, began arriving at the Coliseum considerably before the appointed opening hour of 11 o’clock. Delegates Swelter The heat was oppressive. A thunderstorm last night which partly drenched the press section and wetted some chairs in the delegate section of the vast hall had failed to bring relief, and the forecaster held out no hope of immediate improvement. ■ N The bands sought to liven affairs with snappy tunes and there again was a strong spirit of holiday making, though some old-time observers felt that the harmonyachieved here had robbed this gathering of some of the fire and zest of previous conventions. The day’s program called for reports of committees other than the platform committee. That body will sit privately tonight and finally shape its platform. First signs of fight were foreseen in the report of the credentials committee. Mrs. Genevieve Clark Thomson, daughter of the late Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri, had been dethroned by the credentials committee, which held her Louisiana delegation was not properly selected. A fight over this decision was in prospect, as the pretty Mrs. Thompson did not propose to accept the SUN WILL REMAIN Fair Weather Is Promised for Thursday. Od fashioned summer sunshine which since June 2 has been a stranger to Indianapolis warmed the city’s streets and residents today. And it will continue fair with rising temperature Thursday, Weatherman J. H. Armington predicted. A Although there have been brief periods of sunshine, June 2 was the last real day of sunshine here Armington said. Twenty-one days of the month it has rained Armington also said. Total rainfall ISis been 8.52 inches, 5.30 inches above normal. Temperatures today still were a few degrees below normal, but Thursday the mercury should rise to a normal high point for the day of about 83 degrees, Armington said. Hourly Temperatures 7 a. m.,., 52 10 a. m.... 65 Ba. m.... 55 ll a. 9 a. m.... 62 12 (noon).. 71

Can this shadow of an old love come between the bride and bridegroom to bligbt their newfoun&diappiness? The answer is in “Love for .Two,” which starts Friday, June 29, in The Indianapolis Times.

Al Sings ‘Night 1 B,u United Press HOUSTON, Texas, June 27.—The telephone • in Mrs. Alfred E. Smith's apartment here rang last night. It was a call from her husband in Albany. She took up the receiver and her husband sang as his greeting to her, the first line of the old song, “My Heart's Tonight in Texas, Down on the Rio Grande.”

decision without objection. She favors Senator Reed of Missouri, who, incidentally, announced last night that he still is in the presidential nominating fight and intends to stay. The hall filled rather slowly this forenoon. Delegates seemed loath to venture too early into the heat and humidity of an oppressive morning. For those in the hall shortly after 10 a. m. there was a treat—Negro spirituals by a Negro orchestra. This was put on the broadcast at 10:30. Joe Sinnott, doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, announced jokingly the singers were his “constituents from old Virginia.” Asa matter of fact, they were singers from Negro churches of Houston. There was some objection at first to letting them on the platform, but this soon was adjusted. Start Shedding Coats Delegates still clung to their coats, despite the earlier invitation of Chairman Clem Shaver of the national committee to make this a coatless convention. Some, however, were setting the pace and “shedding” and the custom bade fair to become more popular if the heat continued. The convention again had its list of distinguished guests, including Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith. John W. Davis, distinguished and white haired, chatted pleasantly with friends. Former Attorney General Gregory of the Wilson Administration was there. Former Senator Stanley of Kentucky roamed down front. Former Assistant Secretary of Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, who will nominate Governor Smith, held an impromptu reception in the New York section. About that time the band struck up “How Dry I Am,” and got a big hand. Shaver on Scene While a band ground out “My Home in Tennessee,” chairman Clem Shaver went to the guest platform. Eleven o'clock found another band trying out “Didn't She Ramble.” Many delegates were jr&mbling through the aisles, and there had been no attempt to call order. The bandmasters were diplomats. After giving Tennessee its break, the Gray Mare Band chimed in with the “Banks of the Wabash.” “Dixie” had been honored at the outset, and the inevitable “rebel yell” greeted it. A soft drink firm made a hit by distributing fans, but it was getting so hot that many prepared to just swelter along without the effort of fanning themselves. Different delegations began singing songs peculiar to their own choice for the presidency. Shouts of “let’s go.” “let's get started” and other manifestations of impatience began over the hall as the time dragged on with no evidence of the convention coming to order. Bowers at Last Arrives It was explained on the platform that Claude Bowers, the keynoter, had been caught in a hotel jam and had been delayed. He reached the convention at 11:35. Former Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois strolled up to the platform wearing white trousers, a gray coat and his inevitable chamois gloves. Half ah hour after the time set for the convention to reconvene, the huges coliseum was comfortably filled, the delegates were milling about in the aisler and two bands vied for supremacy in noise, speed and endurance. FLIERS START TO U. S. Miss Earhart, Pilots Leave London; Sail for N. Y. Thursday. 81l United Press LONDON, June 27.—Miss Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon, of the American transAtlantic airplane Friendship, left by automobile for Southampton today to sail Thursday on the liner President Roosevelt for New York Previously Miss Earhart had. attended the all-England tennis matches at Wimbledon.

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Governor on First Ballot Looks Certain; Scramble for Bandwagon. OPPOSITION FADES FAST Many States Are Eager to Lead Stampede to Victor’s Banner. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent CONVENTION HALL, HOUSTON, Texas, June 27.—The convention fight over the nomination of Governor Alfred E. Smith resolved itself today in a scramble among States desiring to lead the break and receive credit for putting him over. Opposition candidates still are in the field, bu tonly nominally, because practically no one here doubts that Governor Smith will be nominated on the first ballot. This probably will be taken tomorrow night, with a national radio audience listening in. As the convention met for its second day’s session, Smith leaders were receiving overtures from many States desiring to lead the stampede, including Ohio, Indiana and Oklahoma. Refuses to Make Pact “We understand these States want to do this,” said Franklin D. Roosevelt, Smith floor leader, “but we will enter into no prearranged plan of this kind"lf there is & break to Governor Smith, it must come spontaneously and the State that gets the floor first will be the one to lead it. We will make no arrangements of this kind with any State.” Smith’s name first will be mentioned formally in the convention at tonight’s session, when he will be placed in nomination by Roosevelt. This will set off the first big Smith demonstration of the convention, for his managers have been holding down their followers with strong silence orders. They wanted to avoid any premature demonstration which might arouse hostility. Now the draft to Smith has become so strong, and his nomination generally is so anticipated that when Roosevelt makes his nominating speech tonight thS lid is expected to blow off. Others Still in Race Senator Reed of Missouri still is in the race and refuses to release his delegates. Senator George, Georgia: Cordell Hull, Tennessee, and Evans Woollen, Indiana, have mot formally withdrawn, but their candidacies now are regarded as only nominal. The Ohio delegation, In caucus today, voted to cast its vote for Atlee Pomerene on the first ballot, but with the provision that any delegate could change his vote before the end of the roll call. That meant that before the entire list of States was polled Ohio would change to Smith and very likely assure his nomination on the first ballot. The selection of Senator Joseph I. Robinson as vice presidential nominee is regarded as likely at Friday’s session. Farm BlociTStirs Row BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press staff Correspondent HOUSTON, Texas, June 27. The farm bloc started a row in the Democratic platform committee at its opening session here today, protesting against exclusion of a farmer from the drafting subcommittee. minutes’ hot debate, the farm bloc won, and I, E. Cashman of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation, was named a member of the sub-committee which will draw the platform. The farm fight was started by John A. Simpson. Oklahoma, member of the committee, who protested the sub-committee named by Chairman Pittman of Nevada, did not include a farm delegate. Amid applause „ from committee members representing farm States, Simpson moved Cashman be named on the sub-committee. Senator Glass, Virginia, objected that tne motion was out of order. The subcommittee agreed to give the farm organization three hours to present its arguments and awarded two hours to the wets and drys. Women's organizations were given thirty minutes, but all other subjects were limited to five or ten minutes. ‘BLASTHs fireworks Early Celebration of Fourth Leads to Safe Blowing Report. Police hurried to the M. and H. Laundry, 933 E. Market St., Tuesday night on a report the laundry's safe had been blown. They learned a group of young men had been shooting off firecrackers in frent of the place. BEST COFFEE IN TOWN. See* ond cup without charge. FLETCHER CAFETERIA, basement Fletcher Trust Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to 7:30 p. m.—Advertisement.