Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1928 — Page 2

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NEW YORK VICE IS LAID TO RISE OF NIGHTCLUBS Scarlet Brand Placed on ‘Hostesses’; Condition Is Held Deplorable. By United Press NEW YORK, July 9. New York City’s relaxation from the taut strain of Puritanism is due largely to the influence of night clubs and speakeasies, according to a report of the Committee of Fourteen, the reform organization which just has completed a survey of those relatively new institutions. The committee’s report concludes that vice conditions here are worse than at any time in the last twenty years and classes the night club and speakeasy hostess with the professional prostitute of an earlier day. “The hostess is the American counterpart of the Japanese geisha girl,” the committee’s report said. “Her sex appeal largely accounts for her success. She is the successor of the old-time hustler who worked in bars on a commission basis many years ago. Hostess Is Attraction “The night clubs and speakeasies are too numerous to succeed from the sale of liquor without the added attraction of the hostess.” Closed dance halls, where women dancing instructors give men private lessons behind closed doors, also are blamed for a part of the city’s moral decline. From the closed dance halls many of the night club hostesses were found to have been recruited. The committee’s report said its investigators learned that the girls were employed through advertisements in one tablofd newspaper which pointed out that no experience was necessary. Many Identified With Vic* Although the report does not name any of New York’s more famous hostesses, it is said 157 night clubs and speakeasies were investigated and that of these 132 were found to be identified with commercial vice. The report points out that the survey was necessarily incomplete because of the prohibitive cost of repeated visits to the night clubs by its investigators. The Committee of Fourteen was organized in 1905 to combat the old Raines law hotels, which operated houses of vice in conjunction with saloons Since winning that fight, it has continued to report to police from time to time on evidence of commercialized vice. GOUDY FUNERAL HELD Former Member of City Health Department Buried at Crown Hill. Funeral services for Hugh Goudy, 78, of 5509 Guilford Ave„ former members of the city health department, who died at his residence, early Saturday morning, were held at the Flanner and Buchanan mortuary at 10:30 a. m., today. The Rev. William F. Rothenberger of the Third Christian Church officiated and burial was in the Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Goudy, who was born in Brownsburg, Feb. 16, 1850, was for many years connected with the circulation department of the Indianapolis Journal. He was in the city health department during the administration of Charles W. Jewett and later served three years on the board of review of Marion County. He had been ill three years. 303 at Summer School By Times Special WINONA LAKE, Ind., July 9. Enrollment of 303 has been reached at the Indiana University new summer extension school here. Fiftyfour Indiana counties are represented in classes, in addition to students from seven other States. Charlotte S. Schaefer is an Indianapolis student. Wage Earners Own Stock By United Press CHICAGO, July 9.—Working men and women of Illinois own 18 per cent of all stock in Illinois corporations, it has been announced byJames D. Cunningham, president o! the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association.

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YOUTH DIES IN BALLOON JUMP Body Buried Two Feet by Force of Fall. Struggling to pull the release cord on his parachute during a 300-foot drop, Everett Via, 22, of 1222 Sheffield Ave., was killed Sunday afternoon at Shields Park, Seymour, Ind. The parachute failed to open. Via, a balloon jumper since he was 16, had contracted for a week's work at the park for Oscar E. Ruth, balloonist, with whom Via lived here. The tragedy occurred when Via attempted a triple parachute jump. Two parachutes worked properly. The third failed. The body was buried two feet in the ground from the force of the fall. An inquest was scheduled for today by Coroner William A. Dickmeyer. Via had trouble with opening the third parachute both Friday and Saturday, it was said. Friday he landed on the root of the Seymour First Methodist Church. Via, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Via, 448 N. State Ave., was a graduate of the Bradford (Ohio) high school. His parents, three brothers, Milford Via, Troy, Ohio, and Fred and Alfred Via of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Lela Reed, Bent Mountain, Va., and a step-sister. Miss Helen Miller, Indianapolis, survive. Veteran Minister Buried By Times Special PERU, Ind., July 9.—Funeral services were held here today for the Rev. James N. Martin, 79, oldest minister in the St. Joseph conference of United Brethren churches. He died after a nine months illness.' He had been in the ministry fiftytwo years.

Tainted SSOO Bribe Money Waits Months for Owner

Gathers Dust in Strong Box at Police Station; None Want’lt. Five hundred dollars In yellowbacked bills is looking for an owner. Just prove you have a title to it and it is yours. But that may be difficult, as well as embarassing, because the money is tainted. The stain of being used by one city councilman to bribe another clings to it, three months after it was waved before a Criminal Court jury. It is doubtful whether anyone has a legal right to it, in the ppinion of Prosecutor William H. Remy. Ex-Councilman O. Ray Albertson identified it from the witness stand as the SSOO paid him by ex-Coun-cilman Boynton J. Moore to influence his vote on council matters. Who Is Custodian That was back in March, while Moore was on trial on a bribery charge. Albert has no claim to it, because he admits he received it in an unlawful manner. Certainly it isn’t Moore’s, because Moore denied ever paying it *to Albertson. And so, for three long months, the SSOO has rested in the police station safe, without the care of a kind-hearted owner. There’s even some doubt as to who is the custodian of it. Court Reporter Norman Metcalf says he isn’t, because the money were merely exhibited, and identified, not entered as exhibit so-and-so for the State. Formal Claims bf None Prosecutor Remy says he isn’t. At the close of the trial the money was turned over to Remy, who in turn turned it over to his investigator.

Brothers Aid By Times Special ROCHESTER, Ind., July 9. . Clinton Weller, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, has been ill for eight weeks. The com on his farm needed cultivating. Hot weather was burning it up. Asa Fourth of July celebration his lodge brothers at Fulton gathered at Weller’s farm and cultivated thirty acres of corn. Hugh Miller was the captain of the team of workers who used ten teams for plowing while others used hoes.

Leeds and Adele Astaire Enveloped in Flames After Blast. By United Press NEW YORK, July 9.—Adele Astaire, co-star with her brother, Fred, in “Funny Face,” was burned on the legs and body yesterday when William B. Leeds’ speed boat, Fantail, caught fire in the boathouse on the millionaire tinplate manufacturer’s Long Island estate. The Astaires were guests at the Leeds home over the week-end. During the late afternoon they were discussing the famous speed boat and Leeds said he would take the actress for a ride. He helped her into the boat while his wife, the former Princess Xenia of Russia, and IVed Astaire waited on the landing stage until Leeds started the motors. A sudden backfire touched off a coating of gasoline which had formed over bilge water near the rudder. Leeds and Miss Astaire were enveloped by the sheet of flame. The young millionaire lifted the actress to the landing stage and then pushed the boat out into the water clear of the boathouse, where it burned to the water’s edge with a loss of $75,000. Leeds was bured on the hands and was bandaged and put to bed. Miss Astaire was brought to a New York hospital. She had planned to sail for Europe soon, where she and her brother were to open in an English version of “Funny Face.” After the closing of the London season she planned to marry William Gaunt, Jr., son of a millionaire English woolen manufacturer. tammanTheld PRINCIPAL ISSUE Manager Good Forecasts Big Effect in West. By United Press CHICAGO, July 9.—James W. Good, western manager of the national Republican presidential campaign, believes that the question, “Shall Tammany rule?” will arouse the most interest in the Mid-West during the coming presidential campaign. Good has returned from Washington to open western headquarters for the campaign. He was to start organizing his forces today. The western campaign, he sail, probably will be conducted by volunteer assistants. Good declined to comment or. the part that prohibition will play in the campaign. The paramount issues will be outlined by Herbert Hoover, he indicated. Personally, howe /er, he believes that the question of Tammany rule will be the chief topic of discussion in the West.

Harry McGlenn, with orders to keep it safe, pending appeal of Moore’s case. McGlenn put It in the police station safe) Now, Moore’s sentence to prison has been commuted, and he will not appeal. Anyway, Metcalf said the money was not needed for the appeal, because it was not an exhibit. No one has put in a formal claim for it, Remy and McGlenn say. They have doubts that they have authority to release it without word from Metcalf, who is just as strongly convinced that he has no authority to let any one have it. So, again, the money has no owner, and no one has authority to give to an owner if he should turn up. EX-GOVERNOR IS DEAD George Earle Chamberlain of Oregon, 111 for Two Years. By United Press / WASHINGTON, July 9.—George Earle Chamberlain, former Governor of Oregon, died at a hotel here today after a two-year illness. Chamberlain served two terms in the Senate before retiring to private life because of ill health. He was 74 years old.

More Prizes Bring Influx > of Scooter Derby Entries

Awards of Merchandise . Are Added to Cash Purse of SSOO. Additional prizes for contestants in the scooter derby have been given, and the SSOO in cash for the event being sponsored by The Times and Capitol Dairies, Inc., will be augmented by a large amount of valuable merchandise prizes by the time the races are run. Three wagons for boys and four doll perambulators for girls will be given by the Colonial Furniture Company. These will be offered as additional prizes, along with many other merchandise items to be announced later. A complete prize list, in addition to the SSOO in cash, will be published before the running of the first race. The recreation board is now preparing a schedule, and a general

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BIG FOUR PICNIC TO DRAW,3OOO Fairbanks Morse Also Will Sponsor Outing. More than 3,000 members of the Big Four Athletic Association will attend the fifth annual picnic at Broad Ripple Park, Saturday. A thousand reservations have beer, made for the picnic of FairbanksMorse & Cos. employes at Riverside August Jacobs is general chairman in charge of the Big Four picnic. Prizes are to be given for the newest married couple, largest family, and employe with longest service. The program will start at 2 p. m. There will be races, tug-oi-war, broom throwing and beauty contests. Fairbanks Morse Athletic Association has charge of the Riverside picnic program. It will include a skeeball tournament and races. Features also include guessing of the weight of I. E. Berger, W. A. Black, H. A. French and A. H. Scott, heavyweight quartet of the company, and a cigar-smoking contest. Committee in charge is Chairman N. D. Brigham, Vice Chairman G R. Anderson, Paul Pfaff, A. H Scott, C. 11. Ogic, W. C. Whipple, E, Grey, H. A. French, Miss Benda, N. E. Hitt and L. Metzger. Special prizes will be awarctoi to the youngest baby boy and Wabj girl in attendance. Former residents of Dubois County will picnic Sunday at Garfield Park. The committee on arrangements is Mrs. Earl Baron, Mrs George Ruehrschneck and Mrs. Lee Angerer. Officers of the association arc President George E. Gill, Vice President Frank W. Katterjohn. Secretary William Mann and Treasurer William Kleinhelter. DROWNED GIRL BURIED Body of Miss Myrtle Lostutter Found Sunday by Canoeists. Funeral services for Miss Myrtle Lostutter, 16, of 2192 N. Oxford St., who was drowned Wednesday in White River at Ravenswood, were held this morning at the Moore & Kirk funeral parlors, 2530 Station, St. The Rev. Ray R. Kelley, pastor of the Fountain Street M. E. Church, officiated. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. The body of Miss Lostutter, for which police and deputy sheriffs have been dragging since the drowning, was found Sunday by two canoeists a mile below where she was drowned. Theron Kilander, 18, of 1915 E. Maryland St., and John Bennett, 19, of 222 S. State Ave., sighted the body lodged against a tree in shallow water on the west bank. GET AIR MAIL SERVICE South Bend and La Porte Placed on Route to Chicago. South Bend and La Porte will be the Indiana points on the new air mail service route to be inaugurated July 17 between Bay City, Mich., and Chicago, postoffice officials here were informed today. Flying from Bay City to Chicago the plane will touch the Indiana cities each evening at 6:25 and 6:30 o’clock. Returning they will reach La Porte at 8:05 a. m. and’ South Bend at 8:10 a. m.

announcement of preliminary race dates will be made in The Times as soon as the schedule is completed. All entries must be in The Times office, or at the playground the day before first race is scheduled. Remember, the place to practice for thd race is on the playground, or on the sidewalk. Don’t run your scooter in the street—to do so is dangerous. Safe play pays. Clip the entry blank from today’s paper, and make sure of getting into this race. The prizes are worth working for, and the boys and the girls who work hardest are the ones who will win. But the first thing is to get your entry in—do it today! Either mail or bring the blank, properly filled out, to The Times office pr to the recreation center where you play. Then start training for the big day, and gdt a share of the SSOO in cash, and one of the valuable merchandise prizes.

25 ARE INJURED, ONE FATALLY, BY MOTOR CARS Two Victims Reported in Serious Condition; Drivers Arrested. Twenty-five persons were injured in automoblie accidents in and near the city over the week-end. Three were reported in serious condition today. Ten persons were hurt when two automobiles collided at Troy Ave. and Meridian Sts., Sunday. Jack Schoonover of Martinsville, Ind., and William G. Woods, 304 S. Capitol Ave, were the drivers. The injured in the Woods car were: Miss Agnes Woods, 29, and Mrs. Josephine Spragg, 27, both of 1823 Montcalm St.; Charles Spragg, 10, and John Spragg, 3; and Joseph Kirsch, 8, of 550 Goodlet Ave. Those injured in the Schoonover care were: Mrs. Lillian Schoonover, 32; Walton, 8, and Jane, 10, her children, and Mrs. Etta William, 62, all of Martinsville, Ind. Schoonover also was injured. Small Boy Is Injured Stanley Wade, 2, of 4622 E. Twen-ty-First St., was struck by an automobile driven by Robert Heiman, 2608 E. Seventeenth St., in front of the Wade home Sunday. He was seriously injured. Dr. E. C. Latta, 4317 W. Washington St., was charged with speeding, assault and battery and driving an automobile while intoxicated, Saturday night, after his automobile struck and seriously injured Emil Soufflot, 64, of 58 N. Pershing Ave., at Miley Ave. and Washington St. Soufflot is in city hospital with a serious head wound and a fractured right arm. Roy Chapman, 34. of 626 N. Alabama St., sustained a fractured right arm and a serious head injury Saturday night when he drove his motorcycle into the side of an automobile driven by Jasper Maroni, St. Louis. Mo., at Capitol Ave. and Fall Creek Blvd. Hit-Run Accident Charged Everett Carnes, 1917 Arrow Ave., fled from the scene, police charge, after his automobile struck a car driven by George Miller. 434 W. New York St., at West and New York Sts., Saturday night. He was charged with failing to stop after an accident. Other persons injured in weekend accidents were: Dr. E. T. Davis, 402 N. East St., and Mrs. Belle Dobbs. 1402 Linden St.; Wayne Webb, 1221 Bates St.; Lester Marvin, 23. of 2151 Ashland Ave., and Hazel Campbell, 22, of 730 Fultonl St.; Robert Lewis, 7, of 5701 W. Eleventh St.; William Altes, R. R. 9. Box 427; Miss Mabel Edgell, 23, of 1310 W. New York St.; Mrs. U. B. Sausaman, 64. of 3466 Carrollton Ave.; James Sutton, Apt. 8, of 1530 N. Illinois St.; Joseph Hodges, Ft. Harrison; Miss Betty Yost, 25, of South Bend, Ind. SELL RAILWAY PASSES Three Negroes Are Fined for Illegal Use of Free Tickets. Trafficking in railroad passes proved costly for three Negroes in Federal Court today. Sandy Pointer, 27, Negro, 2045 Colunibia Ave., laborer at the Big Four freighthouse, obtained passes from Indianapolis to Montezuma, Ga.. ostensibly for his wife and mother. But Clarence Wilson and his wife Haidee, Negroes, 1658 Columbia Ave., were caught making use of the passes and hauled from a train between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Sandy told Judge Robert C. Baltzell he was to receive $25 for the passes, but never got the money. Sandy was fined S2OO and Willson and his wife SIOO each for violating the interstate commerce act forbidding the sale of passes.

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BANDITS GET $l2B Prey on Tourists, Lunch Wagon, Gas Station. Paul Brown, 1347 Silver Ave., believed speed saved him from a holdup early today. He was driving across the Kentucky Ave. bridge, he said, when a man and woman riding in a big sedan, tried to force his car to the curb. He sped out of the trap. Two bandits held up Harold ‘Williams, attendant at the Great Western Oil Company filling station, 3200 Massachusetts Ave., at 10 p. m., Sunday. They took $lO. Two bandits, who held up a party of tourists at Lynnhurst Dr. and Crawfordsville Rd., early Sunday, attacked E. L. Houck, Aurora, 111., when they found no money. They took a ring and sl3 from Mrs. Houck and $75 from Herman Williamson of Denver, Va. A Negro bandit took S3O from a lunch wagon at 132 W. Eleventh St. After ordering two sandwiches, the Negro grabbed Hubert Wilson, counter man, and forced him to the floor. Orville Smith. 42 W. Eleventh St., and his wife entered'as the Negro was leaving. Smith knocked the bandit down, but was unable to prevent his escape. ASK COOPERATION IN CITY AIMTI-WEED DRIVE Civic Groups and Other Organizations Needed to Aid Campaign. Street Commissioner Charles A. Grossart today asked civic organizations to co-operate in the weed eradication campaign begun by city officials. Grosart pointed out that the growth of weeds on vacant lots is a menace to the city’s health and hazardous to motorists. “Police and health authorities, churches and schools could help. Realtors should aid and other civic associations should lend their support in this campaign, which means so much to our city and its citizens," Mayor L. Ert Slack said.

BY DAN THOMAS Hollywood, cai„ July Did everything in the world except the animals and birds on Noah’s ark actually perish when the earth became flooded as is told in the Bible? Perhaps we will get a little more enlightening information on that subject when Warner Bros, complete their $2,000,000 production, "Noah’s Ark.” Nobody in all Hollywood, with the exception of those working on the film, knows just what happens in the eight or ten reels that this film will run. I spent one entire Sunday under a broiling hot sun watching nearly 5,000 extras march hither and yon around all enormous open air set, with about ten cameras grinding on them from all angles. It really was quite an inspiring sight to see all those people decked out in garments that some research man assured Director Michael Curtiz were worn in Noah’s day. The set itself covered several acres and was supposed to have cost SIOO,OOO. What is was all about is just one of those unsolved mysteries. Perhaps the purpose is to plant the idea of the greatness of the disaster when the flood swept things away. However, we may know after the film is shown. Dolores Costello’s name heads the cast that includes some good actors. In the Biblical sequence, which really is the important part of the film, Dolores is seen as a street waif of a rather uncertain origin. It will be her first movie appearance with a dirty face. But her blende beauty attracts George O’Brien, one of Noah’s three sons. Around their romance the story revolves. Oh, yes, and we mustn’t forget old man Noah himself. He’s the guy responsible for the ark. Paul McAllister, who was a matinee idol on Broadway back in 1906 and 1907, is portraying him. Posts Freak Smith Bet By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., July 9. Ed Henry, local Republican, offers to' bet that A1 Smith will carry every State in the presidential election this fall, but is asking odds of 1 to 1,000.

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‘COWARD’ LABEL IS BLAMED IN FATAL SHOOTING Italian Is Killed as He Sits in Fruit Truck; Hunt Men He Insulted. Joseph Cento, 40, of 816 Elm St., fatally was shot Sunday night while he sat in his fruit truck in front of that address, because a man he called a coward accepted his challenge to “fight it out,” police believed today. Asa result they are seeking John Moio, 3916 English Ave., as the slayer of Cento. Cento whispered the name of the man he said shot him to police, city hospital, where he died a fefl hours later. M Four Persons See Killing Four persons who either witnessed the shooting or its prelude are held on vagrancy charges and made statements. They are Mrs. Camellia Moio, 34, wife of the alleged slayer; Antonio Ferraro, 34, of 819 Elm St„ who was sitting in the truck with Cento when Cento was shot; Roscoe Giardiano, 27, of 914 Lexington Ave., and Dominic Palamara, 46, of 816 Elm St., with whom Cento roomed. According to the statements those under arrest, with the exception of Ferraro, and others, were dining at the Palamara home when Cento came in intoxicated. He was invited to eat with them. During the meal he and Moio got into an argument. Friends verified that Cento was usually quarrelsome when drunk. Called Moio a Coward During the argument Cento, according to the statements called Moio a coward, branded his ancestors cowardly and challenged him: “If you’ll fight it out, I’ll battle you with gun, knife or afty way.” Moio left the house in his automobile and Cento went to his room to come down a few minutes later with a loaded revolver sticking from his belt. He sat out in his truck where Ferraro joined him. A short time later an automobile drove up and stopped beside the car. Came From Italy The man in the machine, who according to police, was Moio, jumped out, fired five or six shots point! blank at Cento. I Four of the shots struck vital organs and the slayer speeded away. Cento, a fruit vender, had lived with the Palamaras two years. He was very secretive, it was said. He is believed to have come from the province of Calabria, Italy, and to have a wife and child there. NAMED CLUB DIRECTORS Mrs. A. VV. Early and Alex Corbett on Beard of Boys* Association. Mrs. A. W. Early and Alex Corbett were elected directors of the Boys Club Association Saturday night at annual meeting at the summer camp northwest of Noblesville. The association maintains the English Ave. Boys Club and the Lauter Club. Boys and girls are given weekly outings at the Noblesville camp. Councilman Robert E. Springsteen reported Mayor L. Ert Slack proposed the park board purchase a track for a playground near the club.

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