Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1928 — Page 3

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ILABAMA PUTS END TO CONVICT ISLAVESYSTEM Halt Called to Reign of | Brutality; Lease Plan . Is Abolished. BV JACK BETHEA BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 2. \The State of Alabama today stood at the end of the long, long trial that has led through suffering and blood to the abolition of the convict lease system. Alabama today ceased to sell her convicts to private employers and ceased to work them herself in coal mines and thus ended a battle that has lasted more than a decade. Eight hundred fifty Negro convicts were taken from two Stateoperated coal mines yesterday arid distributed to prison farms and road camps of the convict department. Simultaneously, 200 convicts leased to a lumber company were taken over by the State and will be used to build roads for the highway commission. Lease System Ends These men were the last of those to pass under protection of the act of the 1927 Legislature, fixing June 30, 1928, as the final day on which convicts in Alabama should be leased. White convicts in the coal mines were removed nearly- a year ago. County convicts leased to private coal corporations were taken over by the State and removed from the mines nine months ago. Today’s hegira therefore complete the abolition of the last vestige of the convict lease system and clfmaxes a spectacular fight against the system, lasting over thirteen' years. Long, Brutal Story The history of convict leasing in Alabama is a lurid one, a story of horror, of brutality and of exploitation of helpless men, both by the State and by private industrial in • terests which bought their labor from the state. The convict lease system literally was legalized slavery. The State sold the convicts to the .private coal corporations of the district, who worked them in the mines with only nominal supervision from the State. The lease system was as old as the coal mining industry in this state. Alabama had sold its prisoners for nearly half a century, when the first organized effort was made to abolish the practice. SUBMIT PLANS ON CITY THOROUGHFARE SYSTEM Civic Affairs to Hear Proposals at C. of C. Luncheon Thursday. City officials’ views on development of a thoroughfare 1 plan for will be laid before the civic affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce at luncheon Thursday noon, preliminary to the bureau’s consideration of the 1929 civic city budget. Mayor L. Ert Slack, City Engineer Albert H. Moore and City Plan Commission President George T. O’Connor will attend the meeting, called by William Fortune, Civic affairs committee chairman. The city, officials have indicated, probably will ask a 3-cent ta:. levy for development of the thoroughfare plan. This is the maximum amount allowed for this purpose. The levy has been 4 cent since the law was enacted in 1923. 3y the close of 1928 approximately $230,000 will have accumulated in the fund available for this work. A 3-cent levy would add another $190,000.

SCHOOL BUDGET WILL GO TO BOARD TODAY Covers Expenditures for Last Six Months of 1928. A budget covering expenditures of Indianapolis public schools for the last six months of 1928 was to go before the school board for approval this afternoon. The budget provides $4,128,986.70 for the period. Os this amount $2,115,359.71 is for the special fund; $209,421,00 for the library fund; sl,763,205.99 for tuition, including teachers’ salaries, and $21,000 for free kindergartens. The budget for six months of the calendar year marks a departure from the usual procedure. The school year is from July 1 to June 30 and under the old arrangement, the school expenditures were made as late in the school year as October before the State tax board approved the budget. Albert Walsman, business director, worked out the new plan to bring conformity with the calendar year and give the school definite budget approval before the period for the expenditures begins. HOOVER AVOfDS~CROWD BY CHANGING CHURCHES

Worship With Orthodox Friends as furious Throngs Wait in Vain. WASHINGTON, July 2.—Secretary of Commerce Hoover changed churches Sunday, apparently to escape a crowd gathered to see him at the Friends meeting house, which he customarily attends. Accompanied by Mrs. Hoover and others of his family, the presidential nominee went to the Friends Orthodox Church instead. The church the Hoovers usually attend belongs to the Hicksite or Reformed branch of the Quaker Church, which separated from the Orthodox Church more than 100 years ago. Fix Date of Fall Buyers’ Week The wholesale trade committee of the Chamber of Commerce today was to fix the date of the annual fall buyers’ week. This week each year climaxes the trade committee’s work. Buyers in the Indianapolis wholesale trade territory are brought in for a series of conferences and entertainment.

Mascot Frolics With Kids Fun Klub

“BEilly Whiskers,” official mascot of The Indianapo.is Times-Broad Ripple Park All Kids Klub, held by Sidney Jerome, movie director, and master of ceremocies for the club, while an excited and happy group of youngsters look on admiringly. The goat formally was inducted into the lodge, and received his button at the firs - , meeting, Friday, at the North Side fun-grounds.

REVEAL GIANT ALIEN‘RING’ Thousands Smuggled Into U. S. Through Detroit. By United Press DETROIT, July 2.—More than a million aliens now illegally are residing in this country and the number is constantly increasing through operations of gigantic human smuggling syndicates, the Detroit News stated today in the first of a series of articles detailing machinations of the smuggling ring. Detroit is the greatest port of entry for this constant stream of aliens, according to the News, and many of the trusting aliens meet death on the hazardous voyage across the Detroit River from Windsor ir and other Canadian cities to Detroit. From Detroit the aliens, many of them undesirables of moronic and criminal classes, are sent to Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and other industrial centers by runners. Large numbers of the aliens lose their lives in the river crossing through carelessness or intent by the smugglers. The article stated that common practice of the runners is to throw the aliens overboard to drown in event border patrol boats approach them during the river crossing. PROGRAM IS ARRANGED FOR G. 0. P. EDITORS Politicians Will Be On Speaking Program for Meeting. Senator Arthur R. Robinson and Henry Marshall, publisher of the Lafayette Journal-Courier, wiil addresss the banquet of the fifty-first annual midsummer gathering of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association at West Baden, Thursday, July 19, it was announced after a meeting of the convention committee at the Columbia Club Sunday. A ball for editors and their families will follow the banquet. Friday second day of the outing, will be spent at Corydon and Wyandotte. Harry Leslie, Republican nominee for Governor, will address the convention Friday morning in the old State Capitol building at Cordon. In ~ the afternoon at Wyandotte, where a tour of the cave will be made, Senator James E. Watson will make an address.

OHIOAN WILL ENTERTAIN Cleveland Song Leader in Charge of Rotary Luncheon Here. Harper Garcia Smyth, personnel director of the Domestic Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio, and a professional song leader, will be master of ceremonies and principal entertainer at the Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday at the Claypool. Rotarians of Group 5, and their families will have their annual midsummer outing at Greencastle, Thursday, July 26. HALTS CAP GUN SALES Police Chief Claude M. Worley today ordered sales of converted cap pistols that shoot 22-caliber blanks halted. He had learned that they were being sold by pawnshops in the city. Most dealers agreed to abide by the order, but one threatened an injunction suit, although admitting that the guns were unsafe and his own son had been wounded with a similar weapon last year.

Crippled Boy’s ‘Biggest Fourth’Dream Ended by Explosion; Six in Hospitals

NEW YORK, July 2.—Six persons are in hospitals today after a Fourth of July arsenal, manufactured by a 17-year-old crippled boy, exploded and spread smoke and flame through the tenement In which he lived. Philip Rosenblatt, who never recovered from a case oj septic poisoning three years ago, began tinkering with chemicals when he realized his Injury would keep him from playing with other children. His experiments were to reach a climax Wednesday, when he was to have staged “the biggest Fourth of July the neighborhood ever had seen.” The Rosenblatt family was asleep when the seventy torpedoes got tangled up with radio wires and more than half of them exploded. Philip was hurled from his cot and suffered a

No Bunions st tt it But Marathoner Has Husky Voice After 481 Hours of Dancing.

By United Press NEW YORK July 2.—How does a person feel after dancing an hour and resting fifteen minutes alternately for forty-eight hours? A survey of the eighteen survivors of the international dance marathon which was ended by the police in Madison Square Garden Saturday night, reveals that a successful dance derby entrant suffers no immediate ill effects. “I feel fine,” Hannah Karpman . said today. ‘‘Of course I didn’t try to get a lot of sleep right after the contest closed. That wouldn’t have been healthful. We must start out slowly on the sleeping and get a little more each night until re get back to normal. “The diet I was on helped me last through the marathon. I ate nothing but raw food and vegetables. “Today I think I’ll take a long walk and tonight, well, I might go somewhere and dance a bit.” n u tt TOMMY NOLAN of Pittsburgh, said he also felt well, but attributed it different reasons. “The first thing I did after the marathon ended was to get eight hours sleep.” he said. “Then I went to church. I’m going right on and get eight hours sleep a night, even if doctors do say I should not have too much of it right away. “I can’t give any formula for my success. Os course my partner, Anna King, and I were in training before we ever entered “After Anna and I rest up, we’re going back to Pittsburgh and get married.” Most of the dancers went cabareting after the contest ended. Each team will receive $477 of the $5,000 prize which was offered. In addition they made an average of S6QD each in special prizes. Tonight they enter the cast of the Greenwich Village Follies, the eighteen receiving a total of $2,500 for six minutes work a night for a week.

WIN POSH CAR RAGE Victors Capture $lO Prize; Enter Other Events. The winners of the five-mile pushmobile race at Forty-Fifth and Delaware Sts., Saturday, will enter three other races in the city, including the July 4 race in Irvington Wednesday, and the Salem St. and Riverside races later In the season. Jack Catalin piloted the winning bus, and Joe Krutzcho captained the team of four which pushed the winning car on the fifty-lap grind. Merchants of the neighborhood donated the prizes, which Included $10.50 in cash to the winning team, and $6 in cash for Jean Kennedy and Gus Jackson’s squad of pshers, who finished second. The pilots of the cars were youngsters from 4 to 7 years old, while the age of the pushers was limited to 16. The race average was slightly better than ten miles an hour.

fracture of the skull. Mary Margaret Snee, 3 months old, also was thrown out of bed in an adjoining apartment and has internal Injuries. Five hours later Inspector Robert Withers of the fire department was completinug his Investigation. He wrapped seven of the torpedoes In a piece of paper. Just as he was thrusting them into his pocket, they exploded. Withers’ hands were mangled and may have to be amputated. Esther Rosenblatt, 16, sister of Philip, was burned, and Louis, 11, another of the Rosenblatt children suffered bruises. The sixth person injured was Patrolman William Seubert, who was struck in the right eye by debris.

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WORK TO VISIT COOLIDBE TODAY Confers With Good, Sanders in Superior. SUPERIOR, Wis., July 2.—Secretary of the Interior Work, recently selected chairman of the Republican national committee, arrived here today en route to Cedar Island lodge, the summer White House, to tender his resignation from the cabinet to President Coolidge. Asked specifically about his resignation, Secretary Work said, “I have it in my pocket.” He was met at the station by Everett Sanders, the President’s personal secretary, and James W. Good, preconvention manager for Secretary Hoover, now slated for the Western managership for the Republican campaign. Good returned to Superior Sunday night. He conferred with Sanders last week, and returned Sunday for a three-cornered conference with Secretary Work and Sanders. He will call on President Coolidge some time this week. Secretary Work said he would remain with the President only a short time. He was expected to leave here late today. BANK REOPENS WITH SHORTAGE PARTLY PAID Xoblesville Institution Aided by Friends of Employe Who Killed Self By Times (Special NOBLES VILLE, Ind.. July 2. With $47,000 of the $147,000 shortage of Omar Patterson, its bookkeeper who committed suicide restored, the Citizens State bank opened here today after having been closed since Patterson ended his life. Life insurance policies, real and personal property and gifts Patterson made to friends, have been turned over to the bank reducing the shortage. Os the gifts, a minister received $lO for each of two speeches delivered at as many banquets given by Patterson ave back the money and a SSOO diamond ring Patterson gave a young woman will also be returned. A man who was given a fine Masonic emblem ring announces he will turn it over to the bank.

CITY HOSPITAL PLANS UP AT CONFEfIENCE Employment of Architect Is Expected by Slack Soon. City hospital plans were discussed at a conference between Mayor L. Ert Slack, health board members, Dr. William A. Doeppers, hospital superintendent, and ’ Dr. Herman G. Morgan, board secretary, today at the Mayor’s office. Final decision on the selection of architects for the hospital building program was expected so the board can act formally tonight. Robert Frost Daggett, Vonnegut, Bohn and Miller, D. A. Bohlen & Sons., and Herbert Foltz, architects, were said to have built more hospitals thap the other architects interviewed"/ Slack planned to get councilmen’s approval of the architect before announcing the decision. The board probably will select Miss Eva Jansen, of St. Luke’s Hospital, Cleveland, as director of city hospital training school for nurses tonight.

FOUR HOLDUPS YIELD CAR. $33 OVERWEEK-END Bandit Forces Couple to Give Up Auto, Fails to Get Money. Four holdups and a series of bur - glaries marked the week-end in Indianapolis. Otto Geiss, 21, of Vincennes, Ind., stopped his automobile at Thirtieth St. and Martindale Ave. Sunday night to ask a pedestrian the route to Andersop, where he is employed The man said he was going that way and climbed in the rear seat.

After traveling a short distance he covered Geiss and his companion. Miss Margaret Showalter, 17, of Middletown, Ind., with a gun, ordered the machine to halt at ThirtyEighth St. and Arlington Ave. Driving away with the stolen machine, the bandit said he would leave it at Elkhart, Ind. Geiss and Miss Showalter saved their money and valuables by secreting them in their clothes. Bandit Trio Gets S6 Three youthful bandits held up Burchard Carr, 120 E. Fiftieth St., a mile north of the canal on Kessler Blvd., late Saturday night. They took $6 and a watch after driving alongside Carr’s auto and forcing it to the curb. A Negro bandit had Thomas Winkle, 1510 N. Illinois St., taxi driver, take him to 714 W. Vermont St., from the dow’ntown district Saturday night, drew a gun and took $25 and a watch from the driver. Shortly after midnight a young bandit forced Clarence Tompkins, 626 E. Market St., to walk from East and Washington Sts., to a nearby railway elevation where he robbed him of $2 and a package of cigarets. Routs Burglar From Home August Bentlage, 903 lowa St., re- , ported that a youth stuck what he I supposed to be a gun to his back ! Saturday night as he walked near Ringgold St. and Pleasant Run Blvd. Turning around he asked the youth what he wanted and the would-be bandit fled. J. W. Melfrich, 1615 Woodlawn Ave., routed a burglar who had stolen a S7O watch, purse containing sll and a railroad pass at 4 a. m. today. Helfrich told police. Finding the combination in a desk ; drawer, btftglars opened the safe I at the Standard Oil Company office, I Capitol Ave. and Eleventh St., Sunday night and took $175. Girl Loses $295 Coats Ruth Adams, 4212 Graceland Ave.. reported two coats, valued at $295. and other clothing stolen from 1703 Park Ave., where she is moving. Midway Garage, 1520 N. Alabama St., reported $23 taken from the cash register. Secretary W. L. Hutsell of the Church of God, said burglars stole j $45 of the church’s money from his home Sunday night.

PRACTICE Jl RANGE Citizen Soldiers Do First Shooting at Camp. Pistol practice was on today’s program of the C. M. T. C. at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Rifle practice is scheduled for later in the week. This is the first shooting to be done by the citizen soldiers at the camp. Last week instruction in tne handling of weapons was given so that when the range is reached the theory of shooting will be mastered. Many parents, particularly from Ohio, visited the camp Sunday. Col. Horace P. Hobbs, camp commander, announced that he expects a record crowd to witness drills at the camp July 4. Eighteen reserve officers from the 61st Infantry, Fifth division, reported for two weeks’ duty at the camp Sunday. Boxing bouts are to be staged tonight in the open-air arena under supervision of Capt. J. J. Albright, camp athletic officer. LAUNDRY WAGON YIELDS LOOT VALUED AT sllß Ring Worth $65 Reported Stolen From Room in Y. M. C. A. Frank Suddith, 1320 Sturm Ave., driver for the Fame Laundry, 27 N. Capitol Ave., told police laundry valued at SIOO and an $lB tire were stolen from his truck parked in the rear of his home. Clarence L. Shore, Y. M. C. A., valued a watch and ring stolen from his room at $65. While R. Neal and family were away from their home at 5120 Winthrop Ave., burglars took a serger machine valued at $225, fifty yards of serge cloth valued at $46 and a sewing machine valued at $45. A gang of youths are believed to have robbed the J. W. Roader poolroom, 448 N. Davidson St., of cigarets and candy valued at $25.

DELAY GRAVEL SUIT Contest Case to Open Pit Set for July 14 Arguments on the petition of the State Sand and Gravel Company for an injunction restraining the park board from prohibiting a gravel pit between Eleventh and Fourteenth Sts. on White River Prkwy., West Dr., will be heard by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell Saturday, July 14. The hearing,, scheduled for Saturday, was delayed when attorneys agreed to amending the complaint. Constitutionality of the zoning law is involved since the tract is zoned for residences. Property owners protested the proposed pit in the vicinity of a school.

‘Duck’ls Woman Pilot’s Mascot in Plane Tour

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Mrs. Phoebe Omlie, Her “Mascot” and Tiny Plane. Flies Without Parachutes in One of Smallest Machines Built. When Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie says “We”, she means “me and the Duck.” Because in addition to being the only woman in the 1928 National Air Tour which stopped in Indianapolis Saturday, she flies alone without a parachute in one of the smallest monoplanes built. The plane has less than twenty-five feet wing spread. “I’m not exactly alone.” says Mrs Omlie, “Because I have my duck with me. “My husband, Captain V. C. Omlie, and I have an airport In Memphis, Term. Once I was flying with a student and he ‘froze’ on the controls. “We cracked up, and everyone thought I would ne%er fly again. The student gave me this little leather duck, and my recovery was almost instantaneous. “I’m not superstitious, but I very seldom fly without the ducx. He hasn't a name yet. but I’ll Christian him one of these days.” INITIATE LARGE CLASS City Sons of Veterans Confer Work at Connersville. Degree team of the Benjamin Harrison camp of the Sons of Union Veterans of Indianapolis will confer the degrees on a large class of candidates Saturday night at Connersville. Ind., under the direction of Will H. Ballcaptain. Many camps in Indiana have asked that the local team be sent to confer the degree work. Their popularity in the organization is caused by the excellence of their work.

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LEADER STORE IS YE6OTARSET Cracksman Make Escape With SI,SSQ. Police have no trace of expert yeggs who worked the combination of the safe at the Leader Store, Delaware and Washington Sts., Saturday night and obtained $973.86 cash and $5Bl in checks. Aaron Unger, store manager, discovered the burlary Sunday noon. A panel had been broken from the side door to enter the store. Although they were able to work the combination by listening to the click of the tumblers as the dial was turned, the yeggs had to batter open inner doors. The loss was entirely covered by insurance, Unger said. The majority of Saturday's receipts had been taken to the bank earlier, he said. He urged all persons who gave the store checks Saturday, to stop payment on them. In the case of pay roll checks, employes should ask the employers to stop payment. He also asked all those who gave checks Saturday to communicate with store officials. County Resident 93 Years Dies By Times special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 2. Funeral services were held Sunday for William A. Robertson, who lived all of his ninety-three years in Monroe County. He left three sons, three daughters, fifty-two grandchildren, forty-eiglft great-grand-children and two great-great-grand-children.

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PUZZLING TASK! FACES CHINA IN 1 WINNING PEACE Christian General Again May Hold Destiny of Nation in Hands. BY H. C. BUURMAN United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, July 2.—China’s Nationalist government, victorious in the civil war, was faced today with the equally great, if not greater, task of winning peace. Four major problems faced it, determination of the attitude of Feng Yu-Hsiang, its secretive ally; the attitude of the Manchurian troops, backbone of the defeated Northern armies; relations with foreign powers and interests throughout China, and the ever-present question of finance. Feng Y-Hsiang, “Christian general,” is believed generally to be influenced still by Russia. Now he is playing successfully his old and familiar role of dark horse. Nobody knows just what he is going to do. Must Learn Attitude This fact has necessitated a rush to Peking by Chiang Kaishek, the Nationalist commander-in-chief, because no settlement is possible anywhere until Feng’s attitude is known Feng’s attitude may decide, within the next few days, whether the Nationalist invade Manchuria —and risk a direct, serious clash with Japanese troops, ordered to permit no fighting in the province—or seek a peaceful agreement with the northerners. It was reported today that young Chang Hsueh-Liang, known also as Han Ching, had succeeded to the dictatorship of his father, the late Chang Tso-Lin. Experts here believed that young Chang would follow closely in the dead war lord’s footsteps. He had represented Chang Tso-Lin both on the battlefields and at political conferences many times. Opposed to Communism Like his father, young Chang has strong anti-Communist tendencies. But he is strongly in favor of a united Chiha, provided at the same time he could protect his own Interests if the Nationalists asked him to join with them in unifying the entire country. The Nationalists may remember in dealing with him, that he has spent the greater part of his life on the battlefield.