Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1928 — Page 2

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PARTIES DELAY MERGER; MANY FAVORJIOOVER Joint Farmer-Labor and Prohibition Committee to Make Report. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 11.—Action on a proposed combining of forces of the Prohibition party and the FarmerLabor party was postponed today until after the platforms of the two parties are decided upon. A joint committee presented a resolution to the respective conventions of the parties by which a committee composed of six members of each would be appointed to decide upon a joint campaign. It was evident that the coalition movement faced serious difficulties in selection of a presidential candidate and in adoption of a platform. The Prohibition party would insist upon a dry candidate, if a third party candidate is to be named. Many of the prohibition deleates, it was said, however, favor indorsement of Herbert Hoover. Norris Is Mentioned The Farmer-Labor party, on the other hand, is opposed to Hoover, the farm element objecting to his agricultural policies. Labor members of the FarmerLabor party, it was evident, are opposed to a dry candidate, fearing that a dry could not poll many votes among the labor members of the party. Three possible coalition candidates ■were mentioned by delegates to the two conventions. Foremost among these was Senator George W. Norris, Nebraska, regarded as dry enough for the prohibitionists, and agriculturally suitable to the farmers. Governor Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania, and former Governor Sweet, Colorado, also were mentioned. The joint committee was composed of H. R. Garver, Pittsburgh; Phillip Bennett, Oklahoma City, and Lucius C. Dale, Los Angeles, representing the Prohibition party; James Edwin Sparr, El Reno, Okla.; Bert Martin, Denver, and William V. Mahoney, Washington, D. C., representing the Farmer-Labor party. Propose Heflin for President Speaking before the FarmerLabor convention, Dale Plagman, Mason Ciiy, la., said “we will have to be careful, for if we accept a bqne dry as our candidate we will lose the support of a lot of laboring men who agree with the policy of the American Federation of Labor.” The Federation recently voted to favor repeal of the Volstead act. Clinton W. Howard, president of the national united committee, condemned Smith and praised Hoover in a speech before the prohibition party convention. Senator Thomas J. Heflin (Dem.), Ala., was presented as a candidate for the nomination of the Prohibition party with the statement that Smith must be defeated “even if there must be bloodshed and the cost be our lives.” D t . B. E. Prugh, Harrisburg, Pa., was chosen permanent chairman of the Prohibition party convention. SCHLENSKER CARRIES BATTLE TO HIGH COURT Seeks to Force Return of $50,000 Held by State. Otto Schlensker, Indianapolis automobile parts dealer, today appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court today in a further effort to recover $50,000 he gave the State board of accounts several years ago in connection with the accounts board State highway commission report. The accounts board declared he overcharged the highway commission that amount and that he gave the check to repay are overcharge. Schlensker denied any overcharge and said he deposited the $50,000 to idemnify the State against loss if any overcharge should' be proven. He has lost his fight to regain tpe $50,000 before the court of claims and the Appellate Court. ASKS TWO INSPECTORS Building Commissioner ■ Requests 9,700 Increase in Budget.

Building Commissioner William P. Hurd today asked the board of safety for salaries for an additional $2,400 building inspector and a $2,500 a year reinforced concrete inspector in his 1929 budget. Hurd requested appropriation of $56,960 for 1929 operation, an increase of $9,700. Aihount for personal service,was listed at $5,300. “The increased amount of building of recent years has made it necessary to have more than five inspectors,” Hurd told the board.

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People Just Think They Have So-Called Premonitions, Says Expert. Persons may relate so-called premonitions in all good faith and yet not really have them, in the opinion of Dr. Max Bahr, psychiatrist and superintendent of Central State Hospital. Dr. Bahr was asked by The Times to give his opinion of the case of Mrs. Cal Jordan, 1346 Deloss St., who declared Monday that she had a vision of her 15-year-old daughter, Clara, being kidnaped, about to be attacked and then saved, just as it occurred Sunday night. Mrs. Jordan declared the girls were returned home safely, in answer to her prayers. The girl returned and related the circumstances as her mother had seen them some hours previously, it was said. Had Vision of Peril Mrs. Jordan, who is suffering from cancer and bed-ridden, rose on her pillow and related what she saw to Mrs. Fred Carden, 964 English Ave., whose daughter, Trula, 15, was with the Jordan girl. Mr. Bahr asserted that the idea that the bond of affection between the mother and the girl caused a mental telepathic vision is unfounded. “Such things result from an emotional shock and the rationalization of fear,” Dr. Bahr declared. “A sick and worried mother might well imagine things happening to her daughter and cry out about them. Her revelation that the girls were saved is a reaction of assurance that causes a wish fulfillment and alleviates the distress. * Telepathy Beautiful Dream “Persons undergoing such an emotional crisis are more or less victims of amnesia. Later when the scene is actually described they fail to recall exact details of their own previous impression, but identify them with those that ax*e related. “Their will is powerless in such cases and they are positive that the so-called vision and reality were exactly the same. “It is obvious that there is no way to foretell events and the idea of mental telephathic visions is a beautiful layman’s dream.” BOY TO TAKE POLE TRIP Btl United Press NEW YORK, July 11.—A Boy Scout probably will become one of the youngest polar explorers in the history of the world. Speaking at the Boy Scout camp at Bear Mountain Park, Commander Richard E. Byrd announced he had requested the organization to select one of its members to accompany him on his flying exploration trip to the Antarctic. Two Brothers Die Same Day MARION, Ind., July 11.—Mrs John W. Pittinger, advised of the death of her brother, B. M. Reed Hopesdale, Ohio, was preparing to inform another brother, C. W. Reed, Upland, of the death when she was notified that he, too, had died the same day. '

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ROBBERS USE ‘SICK MAN 1 RUSE Motorist Stops to Aid and Gives Up Money. Bandits on the outskirts of the city Tuesday night used the ruse of a supposedly Injured man lying at the side of the road to stop and rob a motorist; begged a ride from another motorist and took his money and automobile; and held up employes of a barbecue stand, according to reports to police today. J. W. Wilkinson. 424 N. Bosart Ave., was the motorist robbed by the “injured man” ruse. When he saw one man lying by the road while another signaled him to stop on the Noblesville Rd., six miles north, of the city, he slowed down, Wilkinson told police. As he stopped the signaler drew a revolver and both men scrambled on the running board. They took S2B. Two bandits robbed William Terry, 925 N. West St., and Arthur White, 3105 E. Thirty-Eighth St., both Negroes, of sls at the Green Mill Barbecue, 3103 E. ThirtyEighth St., at 3 a. m. Returning from a barbecue stand south of the city, where he had sold a steam table, J. C. Holland, 1927 N. Meridian St., stopped at a gasoline filling station, he told police. As he drove off a man stepped on the running board and asked for a ride to the city, and another man pushed him away from the wheel Holland said. They drove a short distance, drew revolvers, took S4O and drove off in his machine, leaving him on the Bluff Rd., Holland said.

STREET WIDENING IS URGED BY FALL

Improvement Is Sought by Property Owners Near Fifty-Second St. City Engineer A. H. Moore today planned to call a joint conference of the city plan commission and the works board on the proposed widening of Fifty-Second St., between Meridian St. and Boulevard PI. A delegation of real estate dealers, property owners and John H. Atherton, Butler University executive secretary, appealed to the board to proceed with the widening before fall to accommodate the 2,000 students expected at Butler. The street will lead to the Butler athletic field at Fairview. Works Board Members John C. McCoskey and Charles Riddle and Board Secretary Ernest F. Frick, advised the delegation that ttie board favored the widening and paving of the street, but lacked funds with which to pay for the project. William Lowe Rice, who has an addition west of Capitol Ave.; LafayStte Perkins of the American Town Lot Company, who has a Rocky Ripple plat; Dr. H. H. Wheere, Manford Livengood, Street Commissioner Charles A. Grossart, and Attorney Alex Chambers, who represents the A. B. Carter Company, real estate, asked the improvement. Macklin Mack, city plan commission engineer, advised the works board that the thoroughfare fund was depleted. The plan and works board will meet this week to discuss advisability of starting the FiftySecond St. project before other contemplated work. Atherton told the plan commission that the city is “doing less for Butler than any other city which has a similar institution,” and called the situation “disgraceful.” ROBERTSON HEADS BAND Howard E. Robertson, safety board secretary, today was named manager of the Police and Firemen’s Band. Robertson will take over the business management of the city musical organization which recently has been in the hands of the director. Several radio programs are beipg csnsidgreg fez Bs&grteQft

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BERLIN RACES PARIS TO SIGN ANTI-WAR PACT Both Cabinets Approve Early Sanction of Treaty. BY MAURITZ A. HALGREN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 11.—France and Germany, *who a decade ago were facing each other across No Man’s Land, now apparently are in a race to notify Washington they will sign Secretary of State Kellogg’s war renunciation agreement. Cabinets of both countries have approved replies to Kellogg’s recent request that the proposed treaty be signed without further change, according to information reaching officials here today. These answers are expected to reach Washington within the next two or three days. It is understood that the German note will be a complete and unqualified indorsement of the American draft and will signify Berlin’s willingness to sign the treaty as soon as practicable. Signatures in August France will take the same position, dispatches from Paris said, although the French note will include an “explanation” of France’s interpretation of the terms of the treaty. State Department officials said they saw no need for such a statement, adding, however, that they would not object to this "explanation” if made in the form of a unilateral declaration. The United States will respect declarations of this sort, it was said, but will not consider itself-legally bound by them. Original plans to have the pact signed here about the second or third week of August probably will be carried out, the United Press was informed. With the German and French replies at hand, twelve other governments still have to be heard from. Other answers, including particularly those of Great Britain, Poland, Belgium, Czcko-Slovakia and some of the British dominions, are expected within the coming week. May Sign in Paris Published reports that the treaty may be signed in Paris and that Kellogg may go to France for the ceremony have found no substantiation in official quarters here. It was said the. State Department is keeping an open mind on this point, although the secretary has given no thought to the suggested Paris trip. Among State Department officials, it generally is anticipated that the great powers will suggest Washington as the scene of the signing ceremony. EXECUTE FIVE RUSSIANS Firing Squad Kills Engineers for Mine Company. Bu United Press MOSCOW, July 11.—Five Russian engineers, found guilty and sentenced to death for conspiracy in the Donetz Basin mines, were executed Tuesday morning by a firing squad, it became known today. The five men were said to be leaders in the conspiracy movement that resulted in fifty odd men being tried. Several German engineers Were arrested in connection with the movement and for a time international relations were affected by the arrests. None of the Germans, however, received long sentences and one was acquitted.

SEIZE HOME BREW Federal Agents Fight Mosquitoes in Raid. Three deputy sheriffs scratched mosquito-bitten necks while waiting today for a Federal warrant to be issued against George Batts, 35, whose cottage at Seventy-Fifth St. and White River yielded them sixtynine quarts of home brew and nine guests at 3 a. m. today. “Everybody was drunk but the mosquitos, and I wish they’d been,” observed Deputy Ollie Mays, massaging the welts in unison with his mates, Foster Ragan and Harvey Shipp. Outside Batts’ Ravenswood cottage, the trio slapped mosquitos and swore softly as the mer —naking increased in the hoyse. At 3, when they raided, the found five women and four men tippling from nine “cans” of home brew. One woman fainted. Batts was to be arraigned before a United States commissioner, charged with manufacturing and possession of liquor and operating a nuisance. His guests were not arrested.

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Cold Tooth Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 11.—Ice cream eating has become one of America’s greatest habits. Statistics made public today by the agricultural department showed the per capita consumption of ice cream last year was 2.85 gallflns. The total ice cream production in 1927 was 334,703,610 gallons or 11,038,610 gallons more than in 1926.

GERMAN SPIES' GUILT CHARGED IN BLASTPROBE American Firms Seek to Collect Balm for Big War- / Time Disaster. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 11.—American corporations which lost property in the $33,000,000 Black Tom island munitions explosions in New York harbor during the World war are collecting evidence in an effort to prove that German secret agents set off the blasts, the United Press learned today. The two explosions which occurred almost simultaneously on Black Tom island on the Jersey side of the harbor took several lives and damaged property on Manhattan island and in nearby communities Under the terms of the treaty of Berlin between the United States and Germany, the latter undertook to compensate American citizens for losses in connection with the war during the entire period of hostilities, from 1914 to 1918. Claims Are Filed Acting on the theory that German agents caused the Black Tom explosion, interested American corporations have filed claims with the German-American mixed claims commission and will present evidence to support their theory. The United Press was informed the claims probably will be passed on next fall. The claimants probably must identify the persons in the United States who allegedly financed the sabotage and perhaps disclose the names of the person or persons who allegedly set off the explosion. Black Tom Island blew up before America 'entered the war. Barges at the piers of the National Storage Company were laden with explosives destined for the British, French and Russian armies. Little Is Accomplished Several investigations were begun by municipal. State and Federal authorities, and there were a few arrests, but beyond the findings of the coroner’s jury that the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the National Storage Company were technically responsible for the blast, no progress was made toward solution of one of the greatest war time mysteries. There were suggestions in the press that plotters or a firebug had caused the disaster, but nothing came of investigations along those lines. The mixed claims commission. however, must decide one way or the other if the interested corporations press their claims. GRAPE JUICE SALESMEN BALKED BY DRY CHIEF Winkler Confiscates Literature, Forbids Further Distribution. Despite the acquittal of defendants in the “grape juice trial” in Federal court last December, George L. Winkler, deputy prohibition administrator for Indiana, has halted the efforts of two men to reopen the sale of unfermented grape juice in Indianapolis, he said today. L. G. Condon of Chicago, and James M. Howell of Indianapolis, were distributing grape juice literature from headquarters in the downtown hotel, Winkler said, but were ordered to cease after their literature was confiscated. Four officials and salesmen of the United Vineyards Association and the California Vineyards Company, were indicted by the Federal grand jury here last fall, charged with conspiracy, because of sales of unfermented grape juice, which, when exposed to normal temperatures, would ferment and become decidedly alcoholic. They were acquitted, despite the fact the Government contended the men knew the juice would become wine. Chick With Two Bodies Bi/ Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 11.—A Rhode Island Red chick hatched at the home of Jesse Perkins, has two bodies, four legs and one head. It chirps and eats like any other chick, but uses only two of its four legs for transporftition.

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INVITE HOOVER, AL SMITH, TO SPEAKJN CITY Foreign War Veterans .Want Nominees to Appear on Same Platform. Invitations to speak from the same platform in an Indianapolis park the afternoon of Aug. 30 were telegraphed today to Alfred E. Smith, Democrat, and Herbert Hoover, Republican, nominees for President, by Frank T. Strayer, commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Strayer would make the open-air, non-partisan mass meeting the chief feature of the V. F. W. national encampment to be held here Aug. 26-31. Strayer was named general chairman of the convention executive committee by V. F. W. leaders here Tuesday. He will name committeemen chairmen soon. Fred K. Wyles, Ft. Wayne, department commander of Indiana, was elected vice chairman, and D. Burr Jones, Rockville, was named chairman of the finance committee. Barney Yanofsky, Kansas City, Mo., editor of Foreign Service, the official veterans’ publication, will announce the completed list. A campaign for a $15,000 fund for convention expenses will be staged by Jones. About 25.000 veterans will attend the encampment, says Henry 1 Davis, of the Indianapolis convention bureau, who is co-operating with the V. F. W. WOMAN ADMITS BURNINGJNFANT Held With Chicago Doctor in Malpractice Quiz. Bu Times Special CHICAGO, July 11.—Dr. Justin L. Mitchell, chief surgeon of the Michigan Boulevard Sanitarium, and Mrs. Marie Fenton, owner and manager, formally were charged with murder today when they were arraigned in connection with the country's investigation into alleged illegal practices at the sanitarium. Th/e murder charges were based on the confession of Mrs. Fenton that she had drowned a baby and burned its body at the sanitarium. Mrs. Fenton, police said, admitted that illegal operations had been performed in the hospital. The investigation, being conducted under Coroner Oscar Wolfe, followed charges of two former nurses at the institution that illegal operations were being performed by Dr. Mitchell. Miss Gertrude Underwood, former assistant superintendent, told authorities she had been offered SI,OOO to “keep quiet,” before she left the sanitarium. PROPOSES STATE BOARD COMPILE SCHOOL DATA Albert Walsman Asserts Basis of Taxation Not Uniform. Plans whereby the State board of accounts would compile school statistics in cities of classes one, two and three for the purpose of offering a fair comparative record in questions of school city tax levies have been presented to the State Tax Board by Albert Walsmar. business manager of the Indianapolis school board. "School city reports today are net uniform,” Walsman declared. “Some cities compute theirs or. the basis of enrollment, others on the basis of enumeration and still others on the per day attendance. “The latter system is practiced in Indianapolis and should, for accuracy, be used over the State." The tax board did not comment. BOARD ASKS MORE TIME Seeks Ten Additional Days to Hear Revaluation Petitions. Unusual number of revaluation petitions filed with the county board of review has caused the day to petition Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin to allow it to remain in session ten days after July 18, date set for adjournment. The petition has has not been acted on.

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EPIDEMIC IS WANING Throat Disease Takes Toll of Sixteen. Bu United Press LEE, Mass., July 11.—The epidemic of septic throat Infection which took sixteen lives here in one week and spread to more than 600 victims was dying out today. The disease was traced to the town’s milk supply. Virtually no new cases have been reported during the past twentyfour hours, as compared with twenty-five Tuesday and fifty Monday, and State and district health forces felt that they had the situation well in hand. The latest death removed one of the town’s most prominent citizens, William C. Benton, 65, president of the Lee Savings Bank. Three other fatalities were reported Tuesday. Practically all deaths have been among persons well past middle age. JOURNALISTS TO VIE State High School Newspaper Contest for State Fair Announced. Announcement was made today by E. J. Barker, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture that an Indiana high school newspaper contest will be held at the Stater Fair this year under the direction of Indiana University’s journalism department. Emblems, ribbons and certificates will be awarded the winning papers.

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