Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1928 — Page 2

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DRY LAW CRISIS FORCED BY SMITH’S STAND FOR CHANGE

ISSUE TO GET FIRST TEST IN |. FALL ELECTION i 4 Looms as the Most Critical j. Question Since Days ; of Slavery. ♦ ■NOW IS UP TO HOOVER *• }r .Republicans Are Expected ; to Accept Democrats’ : > Challenge. ‘ BY RAYMOND CLAPPER ! United Press Staff Correspondent ’ HOUSTON, June 30.—Dry forces •Which brought about Federal, prohibition now are facing their real 1 crisis. After a test of more than eight ! years, the Volstead act drafted by the late Wayne B. Wheeler, head of ;the Anti-Saloon League, is about Ito be placed in judgment. ■ That is what the candidacy of * Governor Alfred E. Smith means in 'view of his declaration to the Democratic national convention that he feels it his duty as the leader of the party to point the way Ho a different solution of the liquor problem. Issue Is Fundamental *■ The issue is sharply drawn and ;may perhaps become the most criti’cal political question since slavery, •for it goes down to the most fundamental beliefs of the average ’man. ! The conflict is between those who believe it is every man’s right to decide whether he shall drink intoxicating liquor or not and those who believe liquor is bad and the Federal Government should undertake to deny it to all. It is between those who believe In permitting the individual to discipline himself and those who believe the Government should do it because some are too weak to be trusted on their own responsibilty. The Democrats have adopted a platform pledging strict law enforcement and avoiding all reference to the modification issue. The Republicans have done the same thing. Both of these planks are platitudes because every officeholder takes a pledge to enforce the laws. A President or any other official who refused to enforce the laws would be subject to impeachment. Forces Hoover’s Hand The issue is whether the law should stand or be changed. Smith has declared it should be changed. Hoover, the Republican candidate, has not declared himself but the agressive fight which Smith apparently intends to make on the modification issue probably will force Hoover to take a definite stand. Most politicians believe the Republican party will take the dry side. Regardless of the stand Hoover takes, Smith has forced the issue, either way Hoover goes on modification or if he never defines his position, the drys will be facing their first real test since prohibition. Until now no presidential candidate has come out frankly for modification. Smith has put the question up to the country and there will be no escaping it in the election. The backbone of the fight necessarily will fall to the Anti-Saloon League, the organization which wrote the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act into the law of the land. I'he league goes into it deprived of the expert services of the 'late Wayne B. Wheeler, who bore •the burden of the original battle. Many affiliated dry organizations and church societies will pool their forces. All Depends on Smith Technically nothing can be done toward modification unless a Congress favorable to modification is elected. Congress has been threequarters dry for several years. A President only can recommend laws. He also can veto them, but with a two-thirds majority in Congress such bills can be passed over his head. As Congress stands today a wet President vetoing enforcement legislation easily could be overridden. However, most real causes are bound up in personalities and Smith is such a dramatic figure now and he so definitely is identified as the champion of the modificationists, that his victory or defeat will have a tremendous psychological effect—and psychological effects have real consciences in politics. A victory for Smith would encourage modification sentiment and his defeat would make the cause of the wets seem hopeless.

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Here are some of the famous old buildings of Williamsburg, Va„ which soon are to figure in the greatest historical restoration ever attempted in America. The entire town, rich in colorful memories, is to be rebuilt just as it was 150 years ago. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., will finance the project at a cost of more than $4,000,000. Upper left is the already restored George Wythe home, where Washington and Lafayette planned the victorious Yorktown campaign. Center is Bassett Hall, built by a nephew of George Washington. The old prison, where Blackbeard and his men were executed in 1718, is pictured at the right. Below is a drawing of the old Raleigh Tavern, destroyed by fire in 1859, which will be restored. Here it is said, more colonial history was made than In the capitol itself.

HOPE FOR THIRD PfIRTYGjVEN UP Norris Says Move Would Be ‘lmpossible.’ By United. Press WASHINGTON, June 30.—Possibility of a third party ticket in the forthcoming presidential election faded today following a pronouncement by Senator Norris of Nebraska, regarded as the logical leader for such a movement, that it would be “practically impossible.” Since he has denounced unequivocally the action of both Republican and Democratic conventions, Norris is left virtually a man without a party. He is nominally a Republican, but has always pursued an independent political course. “Anxious to fight and no one to fight for,” is the way Norris describes his present predicament. “I don’t even know how I shall cast my own vote.” As leader of the middle western farm bloc in the Senate and a dry Protestant, Norris has been considered the most likely candidate of a third party appealing to disgruntled western Republicans and Southern Democrats. “Any third party could be no more than a protest movement under our present election system!” Norrfe explained.

MILLER WILL ATTEND EDUCATORS’ PARLEY City School Superintendent Leaves for Minneapolis. Charles F. Miller, Indianapolis school superintendent, left Friday for Minneapolis to attend the National Educational Association convention next wee£. Miller is State director for Indiana and will attend conferences of the directors Sunday. Among other Indianapolis educators, who will leave Saturday for the convention are: Fred Gladden, new transfer clerk for the city schools; State Superintendent Roy P. Wisehart, Miss Cecelia Galvin, School 3 principal; O. H. Griest, teachers retirement fund secretary; C. O. Williams, Indiana State Teachers retirement fund secretary; C. O. Williams, Indiana State Teachers’ Association secretary, and others. Clarence C. Underwood, Crawfordsville superintendent, who will become Indian ipolis director of elementary education Aug. 1, also will attend. Gladden, former assistant to the State superintendent, will assume his new duties, Monday. DELAY CAMP DEDICATION Exercises at Child Nutrition Camp Postponed Week. Because of inability to complete a new gravel road to the first unit of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association child nutrition camp near Bridgeport, dedication exercises at the camp scheduled for Sunday have been postponed a week. The camp will open July 2 when twenty-five underprivileged girls from various parts of the county will begin a month’s stay under supervision of a special staff of nutrition workers organized by the tuberculosis association. During July the girls will be nursed back to normal physical condition, and during August twenty-five boys will be at the camp. Farmer Kills Self BU Times Special •MONTPELIER, Ind., June 30. Frederick H. Wohlfarth, 68, farmer near here, committed suicide by shootmg, due to despondency over illness.

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By Times Special GARY, Ind., June 30.—A marriage which its youthful principals described as a “form” union has been annulled in Gary Superior Court, by Judge Charles Greenwald. The couple, Ruth Rosenfeld, 16, * and Harold Rosenfeld, 18, were students in Hyde Park High School, Chicago, when they were wed at Crown Point, Indiana Gretna Green by a justice of the peace. The husband and wife had agreed that if at the end of two years the union was satisfactory, they would be married by a rabbi. Assertions that the young bride was misled were offered at the hearing, in that she believed she could not be legally married by a justice of the peace. On the husband’s behalf, counsel declared service in the case had been obtained by trickery, Mrs. Rosenfeld having induced her husband to cross the State line .nto Indiana under pretext of taking him on an auto ride.

SOLDIERS GET REST C. M. T. C. Cadets at Liberty for Week-End. Having stood Inspection this morning the summer month soldiers at the C. M. T. C. at Ft. Benjamin Harrison were free this afternoon and tonight. Sunday the second church parade is to be held at 8:30 a. m. Attending services is optional with the cadets, but last Sunday more than 50 per cent took advantage of the opportunity. There arei Protestant, Catholic and Jewish services. Chaplain Samuel J. Miller Jias charge of the general service for Protestants at the Service Club. The Rev. A. Gussenegger of St. Francis de Sales Church will say mass in the post auditorium and Adolph Biccard, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, will conduct the Jewish service in the recreation tent. Sundey night a general community service is to be held in the outdoor arena at 7 p. m. The Rev. Mgr. Francis H. Gavisk, chancellor of the Indianapolis diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, will make the address. Song service will be under direction of Will Stegg, Indianapolis. Miss Dorothy Stegg will sing a solo and Earl H. Jones, faculty member of the Metropolitan School of Music, will preside at the piano. OFFER DAD FIR EWORKS Police Chief Rules Adults Only May Buy ‘Crackers’ Now. Dad can buy fireworks today, but his 12-year-old son must wait until Monday. This was the new ruling on the safety board’s ‘‘safe and sane Fourth” ordinance, given by Police Chief Claude M. Worley today. Neither day nor the boy may shoot fireworks until Wednesday and then for one day only. The fireworks rules, as now laid down by the chief, are that adults may purchase them today, children over 12 years, Monday and thereafter, until the Fourth. Shooting permitted on the Fourth only and without permit, except for large displays. Farm Term for Speeder By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., June 30. Thomas Muncie is under one of the heaviest sentences ever imposed in Henry County on a speeding charge. He was given a fine of $25 and sentenced to the State penal farm for thirty days by Circuit Judge Hinshaw after witnesses testified he drove his. auto sixty miles an hour.

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WORK TO QUIT CABINET POST Will Hand Resignation to Coolidge at Brule. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 30.—Dr. Hubert Work will leave for Wisconsin today to present his resignation as Secretary of Interior to President Coolidge. Work will arrive at the summer White House at Brule, Wis., Monday and resign immediately. He will spend at least two days with the President, however, and probably do a little fishing with Mr. Coolidge. Work plans to devote his entire time to managing the Hoover-Cur - tis presidential campaign and will return to Washington about July 9 to take up actively his new duties as chairman of the Republican na f ional committee. Before leaving for Brule. Work announced the appointment of James G. Good of Chicago as western campaign manager and Representative Walter A. Newton of Minnesota as director of the western speakers' bureau. Good was Hoover's pre-convention campaign manager. NINTH SAFETY ESSAY CONTEST IS ANNOUNCED Indiana School Children Given Chance to Win Capital Trip. Announcement of the ninth annual school safety essay contest was made today by President Macauley of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Indiana school children will be given one first prize of a gold medal and sls, one second of a silver medal and $lO and eleven third prizes of bronze medals and $5. Winner of the national contest gets a gold watch and a trip to Washington, D. C., and the teacher winner the same trip and SSOO. These competitions were inaugurated in 1920 under presidency of the late Col. Charles Clifton. More than 2,000,000 children have written safety essays and approximately a quarter of a million teachers have prepareed accident prevention lessons in competition for these awards. Dates for the 1928 contest have not yet been announced, but will be set before school opens in the fall. BACKS VALPARAISO U. Central Distrirt Body of Lutheran Church Votes Support. By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., June 30. Support of Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, was voted by the Central district, Missouri Synod of the Lutheran church at the closing session of its annual convention here Friday. The conference appointed the Rev. William Nordsieck, Indianapolis, to the district board of education. It was voted to support translation of the entire writings of Martin Luther and financial aid for the work approved.

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CONTRACT FOR $40,000 WORTH OF CITY WORK Eleven Sewer, Alley and Street Projects Awarded in Last Week. Eleven sewer, alley and street improvement contracts totaling about $40,000 were awarded this week by the board of works. They include: Alley south of Findley Ave., from Shelby St. to Boyd Ave., Abel Brothers, concrete, $3,925. Alley south of Schiller St., from alley east of Meridian to Pennsylvania St., Abel Brothers, concrete, $1,468. Alley south of Washington St., from Rural to Grace Sts., Schwert Brothers, concrete, $1,012. Alley east of Rural St., from alley south of Washington to Moore Ave., Abel Brothers, concrete, $1,351. N. Meridian St., from Westfield Blvd. to Fifty-Sixth St., W. D. Vogel, local sewer, $5,453. Meridian St., west side, from Fifty-Sixth St. to Fifty-Fourth St., J. H. King & Cos., local sewer, $2,719. Order Improvement Plans New Jersey St. from Fifty-Eighth St. to a point 453 feet south, J. H. King Company, local sewer, $1,849. Alley east of Illinois St., Ray to Wilkins, Abel Brothers, concrete, $1,006. Alley north of Michigan. Eastern Ave. to Rural St., Schwert Brothers, concrete, $951. Koehne St.. Washington St. to Market St., Abel Brothers, cement walks, $694. Forty-Sixth St„ Boulevard Place to Sunset Ave.. Indiana Asphalt Paving Company, asphalt, $21,700. Works Board Members John C. McCloskey and Charles L. Riddle ordered City Engineer A. H. Moore to prepare plans for the permanent improvement of Thirty-Fifth St., between Meridian St. and Boulevard PI. and Harding St. from Thirtieth to Thirty-Second St. Resolutions Confirmed Albert J. Zins, 28 E. lowa St., a Democrat, was appointed an inspector in the engineering department. The following improvement resolutions were confirmed: Keystone Ave., Bloyd Ave. to Temple Ave., grading and roadway; Windsor St., Twelfth to Commerce Ave., grading and paving: Finley Ave., Keystone to 950 feet east, grading and walks; Pleasant Run Pky., Linwood Ave. and Jenne Lane., from Pleasant Run to alley south of Washington St., local sewer; Christian St., from English Ave, to Clayton Ave.. local sewer; Traub Ave., Washington to Ohio, grading and paving; Warman Ave., Walnut to Tenth Sts., grading and pavinng; Warman Ave. Walnut to Tenth Sts., curbing; E. Twelfth St. Arsenal Ave. to point 267 feet east, sewer; English Ave. Randolph to Keystone Ave., grading and paving: Thirtieth St. Boulevard PI. to Northwestern Ave., resurfacing; E. Washington St., Wallace to Audubon Rd., widening to fifty feet and resurfacing. Orders Rescinded Kenwood Ave., Fifty-Second St to Westfield Rd., grading and curbing; State St. (west side), Cottage lo Minnesota St., walks and grade lawns; Dorman St„ New York to Vermont, permanent improvement. Resolutions rescinded are: Temple Ave., New York St. to Michigan., paving; Robson St., Kealing to Sherman Dr., permanent improvement; Twenty-Sixth St., Burton Ave. to alley east, vacation. Resolutions adopted: Temple Ave., New York to Michigan Sts., paving; Haverford Ave., Fifty-Ninth to Sixty-First St., paving; Cottage Ave., Shelby St. to Olive St., paving; Bright St.. Wabash St. to New York St., walks; Eastern Ave.. Twenty-Fifth to Twenty-Seventh St., grading; West St., Washington to Kentucky Ave., resurfacing with asphalt. GRANT FIRM RECEIVER Enquirer Printing Company Fears Insolvency. Russell G. Sumner, president of the Central Public Warehouse Company, is receiver for the Enquirer Printing and Publishing Company. 311 E. Ohio St., having been appointed by Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash on petition of the Enquirer president, Clarence C. Crippin. Crippin alleged the firm is in danger of insolvency and the receiver was asked to preserve the assets, for an equal distribution among creditors. Famine Perils Turkish District CONSTANTINOPLE. June 30. Famine has commenced to ravage the Konia district after a serious drouth. Peasants are abandoning their lands. The minister of the interior has left for Konia to take charge of relief work.

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MEXICO WILL NAME OBREGON AS PRESIDENT General Sure of Victory at Polls, Running With No Opposition. BY GESFORD F. FINE United Pre Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, June 30. General Alvaro Obregon will be elected president of Mexico tomorrow to take office Dec. 1 of this year. As the ony candidate, General Obregon's election is assured no matter what the vote. Itis generally expected that the total announced vote for Obregon will be somewhat in excess of the 1,308,947 majority which President Plutarco Calles obtained over General Angel Flores in 1924. In Office Six Years Obregon will hold office for six years, the term of president having been changed by constitutional amendment from four years, and is expected to have full support in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The Obregon-Calles bloc has ruled the country without opposition except from part of the labor element, which in general has not a too-open fight against Obregon because of its friendship for Calles In all respects it is believed that Obregon will continue to follow the Calles policies. Doubt Over Attitude Since, however, he does not take office for five months, it is regarded as unsafe to make predictions as to what may happen to the religious and other problems that the outside world is most interested in by the time Obregon is inaugurated. If the Catholic church question is not settled by Dec. 1, one may expect that the hopes of a solution will rise appreciably once Obregon assumes the reins of government. Obregon is regarded as likely to pursue a more conciliatory course than Calles and presumably, the Catholics believe him more likely to listen to their proposals. Veteran Beekeeper Retires MILTON, Ind., June 30.—George W. Baker, a beekeeper here for sixty years, has retired because of 111 health. During his career Baker took first honors in Indiana for money earned in beekeeping.

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