Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1928 — Page 2

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OBREGQN PARTY FAVORS CALLES FOR PRESIDENCY Trend Indicates Present Chief Will Be Made Provisional Head. By GESFORD F. FINE United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, July 23.—Tile strong party that General Alvaro Obregon headed before he was assassinated—the same party that controls the national Congress—will support either President Plutarco Calles or Governor Aaron Saenz of Nuevo Leon State for provisional President, it became known today. Col. Ricardo Topete, leader of the Obregon group and one of the former President’s closest friends, said: “Calles probably will be appointed November 30 and will serve, provisionally, two additional years,” Congress to Meet Obregon’s assassination last wees by Jose De Leon Toral had ca'used confusion in Mexican political circles. General Obregon was re-elected to the presidency July 1. He was unopposed. Calles was the logical choice, many believed, to succeed to the presidency, but under Mexican law a President may serve only four years. However, he may be appointed provisional President and still be within the letter of the law “An extraordinary session of the Congress is meeting July 29 to discuss the presidential situation, but no action will be taken until the regular session September 1," Topete said. He said the Obregon party was receiving 75 per cent of the support of the people. Topete denied that the Obregon party had asked President Calles to force Luis Morones, minister of labor; Celestina Gasca, ’lead of the Government Department of Fabrics, and Eduardo Moeda, director of the printing department, to resign. Labor Party Assailed "Their resignations were voluntary." Topete said. The three resigned officers are prominent in the labor party, and Morones was said to be the most active of the party workers. Morones also had been one of Obregon’s bitter political enemies. Saturday the labor deputies, Soto y Gama and Aurelio Manrique, addressed a mass meeting and accused the labor party with being the “psychological authors” to the assassination of the one-armed Mexican war hero. They did not elaborate on the charges. This led Morones and his two aids to present their resignations. In their letter they said they believed continuance of their holding government posts would be an obstacle to clearing up Obregon’s assassination, but insisted strongly the labor party had no connection with the attack on the general. Assassin Denies Aids Meanwhile Gama and Manrique will be questioned today by Attorney General Juan Correa Nieto, in charge of prosecution in the Federal district, in connection with the charges they made against the labor party. Toral, the young confessed assassin, continues in jail as police and authorities attempt to wind up the questioning. They sought to learn from Toral who, if any, his accomplices were. He has said repeatedly that he was aided by no one and that he had killed Obregon because of religious motives. The full complete report on the case is expected this week after which Toral and the ten persons arrested with him will be given civil trials. MIDSHIPMEN ON OUTING Camp Gridley Officers, Men, Encamped at Lake Manitou. One hundred one officers and men of Camp Gridley, United States naval camp for boys in Riverside Park, were encamped today on Lake Manitou, Rochester, for a week’s training. Boat races, boat drills, parades, swimming and whippet races will occupy the time of the midshipmen this week. The camp is in charge of Capt. E. F. Burton, with Capt. O. F. Heslar and Lieut. F. F. Knachel assisting. Rochester citizens are providing daily entertainment lor the lads. Deserted Man Kills Self By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 23. Missing since Thursday, the body of Jay Nicholson, 23, was found Sunday hanging in a barn at the home of his parent-in-law. He had committed suicide because of failure to become reconciled to his wife, who left him two weks ago with their 2-year-old son.

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STATE DIVORCE RATE ON RISE One to Every Five Indiana Marriages in 1927. Bi/ Times Special WASHINGTON, July 23.—Divorce is still gaining on marriage in Indiana, the Department of Commerce reported today, and for 1927 there was one divorce to every five marriages. Total marriages for 1927 were 41,112, as against 40,409 for 1926, an increase of 703 or 1.7 per cent. But there were 8,064 divorces granted, compared with 7,685 in 1926, an increase of 379 or 4.9 per cent."’ In 1916 there was one divorce to six marriages, the total of the latter being 33,521 against 5,636 divorces. There were ninety-five marriages annulled in 1927, as compared with eighty-two in 1926. Lake County, probably because it is so near Chicago, led all counties in marriages, with 6,310. This was a decrease from the 1926 figure of 6,422, however. Marion County had 3,819 marriages in 1927, against 3,775 in 1926, but also led all counties in divorce, with 1,567 during 1927 against 1,346 for 1926. Annulments were eighteen against twenty-five in 1926. Vanderberg County had 1,037 marriages in 1927 against 1,044 in 1926. and 384 divorces in 1927 against 364 in 1926. Vigo had 1,065 marriages against 1,188 and 522 divorces against 198. CLASH AT RESORT One Man Shot, 4 Arrested in Summer Camp Battle. A summer colony jamboree resulted in one man being shot, four men being arrested, an Indianapolis policeman being hit on the head, the marshal of the incorporated town of Ravenswood sending out a call for help, and the police emergency squad under Lieut. Fred Drinkut making a fast run to the scene of the battle at 11:30 p. m. Sunday. Police officers say liquor caused the battle. Lieutenant Drinkut and his squad arrested Roy Wise, 38; Earl Wise, 31, and Chester Matson, 37, of Ravenswood, and Chester Wise, 30, of 1749 Olive St., on charges of drunkenness, assault and battery and vagrancy. John Wise, who lives in West Indianapolis, but who had disappeared before the emergency squad arrived in answering a riot call, was shot in the arm, police say. One of the men is said to have struck W. E. Bisinger, of Ravenswood, while he was eating in a lunch room. Robert McGill, marshal of Ravenswood, went after Patrolman Frank Delatore, who has a cottage there. Delatore at one time rated one of the best middleweight boxers, was hit on the head in the big battle that followed. Then someone person sent in a riot call to police headquarters and the emergency squad ended the fight.

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Automobiles reported to the police as stolen: Clifford Long, 1120 N. Pennsylvania St., Ford Roadster, from Capitol Ave. and Washington St. R. F. Denny, 3844 Graceland Ave, Ford coupe, from Pennsylvania and Washington Sts. H. L. Ratcliff, 1142 N. Pennsylvania St., Chrysler, 20-442, from rear of 1142 N. Pennsylvania St. (This car was used in a holdup.)

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Stolen automobiles recovered by the police: Robert Blackwell, 340 Prospect St., Ford, at Market and Alabama Sts. A. P. Loucks, Noblesville, Ind, Rural Route 7, Ford, Albert Miller, 1815 S. Talbott Ave., driving the car, arrested on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under influence of liquor and drunkenness. Automobile held for owner. Hazel McCollum, 4632 Broadway, Chevrolet coach, at Senate Ave. and Pearl St. Howard Brown, Shelbyvllle, Ind., Ford • roadster, at Eleventh and Missouri Sts. John S. Davidson, Knightstown, Ind., Ford, at 2612 W. Walnut St. Cat on Diet Bu United Press BEECHURST, N. Y., July 23. Blackie, a cat that wished itself off on Harry Goodman, is on a diet of 150 crackers and a quart of water a day. Jhe cat will eat nothing else.

Good Bad Boy Lad, 9, Presents Puzzle to Evansville Official.

By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 23. Leonard Coombs, 9, is listed on the records of Probation Officer Adolph Stallman as “a mystery boy and human puzzle.” Stallman cites this from the boy’s record: Attempt at suicide by drowning; rifled cash registers in three stores; stole a toy wagon in which to haul loot consisting of twelve bottles of pop; tried to slash a sister with a butcher knife because she reprimanded him. The boy is too young to be sent to the State reform school, Stallman points out. He is too bright to be sent to the feeble-minded colony. At times, the officer says, the boy is meek and industrious; at others, displays ail the marks of a habitual criminal. EMILY ROBERTS DIES Funeral Services Are Set for Tuesday. Funeral services for Mrs. Emily E. Roberts, 84 a resident of Indianapolis for thirty-five years, will be held at 10:30 Tuesday morning at the residence. She died at her home, 2459 N. New Jersey St. The Rev. Orien W. Fifer, district Methodist superintendent, will officiate. Burial will be in the Crown Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Roberts was the widow of the Rev. Robert Roberts, pioneer Methodist minister in Indiana, and pastor of the Fletcher Place M. E. Church, who died in 1905. Mrs. Roberts came to Indiana from Pennsylvania in 1835. The sister of Mrs. Roberts’ great-great-grandfather was Mary Ball, the mother of George Washington. One of her maternal ancestors was George Walton of Georgia, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Surviving are three daughters: Mrs. C. M. Griffin, Daytona Beach, Fla.; Mrs. B. H. Scranton, Rising Sun, Ind., and Miss Alta M. Roberts, Indianapolis. CLOTHIER IS BURIED Funeral Services Are Held for M. B. Kauffman. Funeral services for Max P. Kauffman, 55, of 1938 Central Ave., who dropped dead Sunday afternoon in front of his store at 407 W. Washington St., were held at 2 this afeernoon at the residence, followed by burial in the Indianapolis Hebrew Cemetery. Haert disease was given as the cause of death by Deputy Coroner Frank Owen. Mr. Kauffman was born in Poland and came to the United States forty years ago. For the last thirty years he operated retail clothing stores in Indianapolis, owning two, one at 2402 Indiana Ave., and the one on Washington St. at the time of his death. He was married in Indianapolis in 1896 to Miss Bessie P. Perry, who survives him. He is survived also by six sons, Nelson, Harold, Clarence, Charles and Sidney Kauffman all of Indianapolis and Norton Kauffman of Dillonville, Ohio, and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Unger and Miss Hortense Kauffman, Indianapolis. He was a past president of the Central Hebrew Congregation. DRY RAIDERS’TAKE SIX Source of Richmond’s Liquor Supply Believed Stopped. Bp Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., July 23.—Arrest of six persons, including four men living here, is believed to have stopped the source of liquor distribution for this city and vicinity. Federal agents, raiding a cottage on the National Rd. just across the line in Ohio, arrested John Dosch and wife, Daisy, living at the cottage. and Frank Braun, 31; Frank Hall, Elliott Smith and Charles Nathen, all of Richmond. Ninety other persons were in the cottage at the time of the raid, and their names and addresses were taken by the officers. Woman, 101, Takes Fourth Hop. Bn United Press SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 23. Mrs. “Grandma” Almatia Bennett, 101, took her fourth airplane flight Sunday and said she was eager to make a trans-continental flight. !

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2,500 NEGROES BATIIEPOLICE Harlem Riot Is Quelled by Machine Gun Squads. Bu Vnited Press NEW YORK. July 23—Special squads patrolled Harlem, the center of New York’s Negro colony today, after an hour’s riot Sunday night in which 2,500 Negroes battled police details. Four patrolmen, center of most of the fighting, were injured though not seriously. The trouble started, police said, when Clarence Donald and two other Negroes attempted to force entrance into the home of Henry Chabis. Mrs. Chabis shouted for police. Traffic Patrolman Charles Kubeil started chase and finally caught Donald, who kicked the patrolman in the abdomen. Kubeil fell and Donald leaped upon him, the police reports said. Patrolmen Irwin Young, Herman De Stella and Samuel McFadden appeared when the Negro crowd surrounded the fallen Donald. A fight started. Fists and clubs were used. Crockery was thrown. Revolver shots rang out. Police say they fired only into the air but that shots were fired from nearby buildings. The crowd of attackers grew to 2,500 and became menacing until special machine gun squads, numbering 150 men arrived and dispersed the mob. One Negro was arrested. EPWORTH TO MEET 2,000 Expected at Institute of Methodists. Two thousand members of the Epworth League in the Indianapolis district of the Methodist Episcopal Church are expected to convene at the annual Indiana conference institute to be held this week at Riverdale. Anew $7,500 lodge recently completed, will be placed at the disposal of the committee in charge. The building has two large dormitories accommodating 100 persons each; a living room with fire place and a basement with kitchen and dining hall. Among those on the institute program are: The C. fe. Bonnell. Aurora; Versa Rae Young, dean of women; Dr. W. E. J. Gratz, editor of the Epworth Herald; Dr. Earl J. Harper, president of Evansville College; the Rev. Charles H. Taylor, Greencastle; the Rev. J. G. Moore, pastor of the Capitol Ave. M. E. Church; the Rev. C. R. Stout, Madison; the Rev. M. C. Robins, Evansville; the Rev. W. B. Farmer, secretary of the board of pensions and ministerial relief; the Rev. M. A. Farr, Broad Ripple; the Rev. J. W. McFall, pastor of the Broadway M. E. Church and Miss Helen Barrett, Indianapolis. CO-EDS TOP HONOR ROLL Two Win Thirty Points Each at Indiana State. By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 23. Miss Myrtle Scott, Lewis, ana Misc Fannie Wolff, Terre Haute, head the summer school of honor for scholarship at Indiana State. The honor roll was issued this week and shows that Miss Scott and Miss Wolff each carried five subjects and received the grade of A in all courses, totaling thirty points. Other students on the scholarship roll and points received are: Helen Louise Porter. Brazil. 29; Audrey Dorsett Pittman. Grccnccstle, 29; Carolyn Grace Townsend. Terre Haute, 27; Annis Lillian Movars. Oxford City. 25; Carl G. Persin&er. Akron. 25; Martha E. Saulman, Farmland. 25; Mary E. Wade, Galesburg. 25; Vesta Vivian Yager. Advance. 25; Loretta A. Arvin. Pimento. 24; Nettie Louise Black Lawrenceburg. 24: Julius Freidman. T rre Haute. 24; Mary Elmira Lindley. Dar.-.ille. 24: Alice M. McCrocklin. Linton. 24: Gra E. Rumple. Petersburg. 24; Sister Friediana Peters. Ft. Wayne. 24; Herbert Frederick Smith. Vincennes. 24. and Beniamin Wibbeler. Terre Haute. 24. Funeral Today for Banker By Times Special NEW ALBANY, Ind., July 23. Funeral services were held today for Henry E. Jewett, 70, banker, who died Saturday after an operation. He was president of the Second National Bank, vice president of the New Albany Trust Company, and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank, Louisville, Ky. Clock Made of Indiana Stone By Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., July 23.—A giant clock made of limestone produced in the Bloomington-Bedford quarry district, is being installed on the new thirty-six story New York Central building in New York. The dial is ten feet in diameter. The clqfk is the work of Edward McCarten, sculptor,

COMPANION OF WOMAN IS HELD IN DEATH CRASH Searching Probe Opened in Miss Vida Lee Noblett Tragedy. A searching Investigation into the death of Miss Vida Lee Noblett, 24> of 1205 Park Ave., also known as Miss Mildred Edwards and Miss Margaret Banks, was indicated this afternoon when Coroner Charles H Keever ordered the arrest of Harry L. Bushman, 39, mechanic, 2624 N. Capitol Ave., on a manslaughter charge. Bushman owned the car in which Miss Noblett was fatally injured south of the city on State Rd. 31 Sunday. He was with her and was injured. She died on the way to city hospital. The car left the road and turned over. Sheriff Omer Hawkins sent deputies to the Bushman residence to arrest the car owner. They were told at the door that Bushman had just been given a hypodermic by a doctor and could not be seen. When this was reported to Hawkins he ordered Deputies Dale Brown and Charles Bell to go to the house and arrest Bushman no matter what the circumstances. The deputies found Bushman in bed, but took him to city prison, where he was released on $2,500 bond signed by Charles Roesener, the Central Transfer and Storage Company, 18 S. Alabama St., for whom he worked. Bushman said again that the girl was driving when the crash occurred. Bushman is married. The first report of the accident was that the girl had been driving. Bushman told officers her name was Margaret Banks. The coroner's office announced that a relative of the girl today declared the girl coqld not drive. It was upon this statement that the arrest was ordered. Meanwhile, the coroner also investigated deaths of Howard Mohr. 23, of Ben Davis, and Christopher Scures, 28, of 344 N. Pine St., in motor crashes Sunday. In these accidents these persons were charged w r ith manslaughter. Mohr and Scures were injured fatally in similar accidents twelve hours apart, but within a few hundred feet of each other just west of 3en Davis. Miss Noblett is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Elliott Rappe and Mrs. Ray Hardin, both of Terre Haute, where the body was taken today. The name Noblett was used on the burial permit. Mohr was riding on the running board of a car driven by Strode, when it collided head-on with an automobile driven by Gorby, just west of Ben Davis on the National Rd. He was hurled to the pavement and his skull was fractured. Strode was injured slightly. A bottle Gorby is alleged to have hurled into the weeds smelled cf liquor, police said. He admitted taking two drinks, the officers aid Funeral services for Mohr will be at 11, Wednesday, at Ben Davis Methodist church, with burial at Shelbyville. Surviving him are the parents Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mohr; a sister, Helen; and four brothers, Lloyd Harold, Lowell and Norman. Cars Meet Head-On The car driven by Scures and the one driven by Hessong met head-on. Miss Mary S. Smith, 25, of R. R. B Box 361; Miss Alma Stuart, Bloomington, Ind., and John Harter, 23, of 519 N. East St., riding with Scures, were shaken up badly. In the car with Hessong were his wife and three children, Charles, Dale and Donald. They were bruised. Police said they understood Hessong started to pass a car when the accident occurred. Scures, who came here from Greece eight years ago, was to be graduated from Butler University next year and take up study of medicine. Commuters Shaken in Collision By United Press CHICAGO, July 23.—Several hundred commuters were shaken up in a rear end collision at the Van Buren station of the Illinois Central Electric here today. The crash occurred at the height of the morning traffic rush.

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CHINA TO ASK POWERS' HELP Plans Pa r !ey of Nations on Problems. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 23.—Chinese problems affecting foreign rights and interests soon may be threashed out at a general conference in a Chinese city to which the United States and perhaps Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan and other powers will send delegates, the United Press was informed today. In such a conference, the powders would deal only with the Nationalist Government as represented by the Kuomintang committee sitting in Nanking, it was declared. Thus, the powers would unite in recognizing the Nanking regime as the de facto government in China, a step the United States already has taken independently through the negotiations for a settlement of the Nanking outrages of March 24, 1927. The American program doubtless would include a demand that the United States retain its right to try its citizens in its own courts in China adopt a judicial code and court system analogous to the codes and courts of western countries. On the other hand, vhe United States would be found ready to agree to an extensive reform of the Chinese tariff to protect Chinese industry as well as to provide sufficient revenues for governmental purposes and for service on foreign debts. More than 467,000 tons of water pass over Niagara Falls every minute.

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PROMOTER HELD AFTER OPERATING IN INDIANA ‘Big Factory and Boom Man’ Faces Swindling Charge. By Times Special PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, July 23. J. O. Moore, “big factory and boom man” from Somewhere, is a prisoner here after operating in three Indiana cities—Seymour, North Vernon and New Albany. Continuing operations in Ohio, Moore would go into a city and announce his intention of establishing a factory, employing a large force and making other promises of a “boom” nature. In a. few days or weeks, depending on circumstances in a given place, Moore would vanish, leaving several unpaid bills. The last stop of Moore was at Blanchester, Ohio, ivhere a warrant was issued for his arrest on a swindling charge. Memorial Fountain Presented Bn Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., July 23.—The Wylie memorial drinking fountain at Camp Bedford of the Indiana Y. M. C. A. was dedicated Sunday, with Mrs. Laura E. Wylie, Elwood, the donor, making the presentation in memory of her husband, Arthur Wylie. Acceptance was by C. A. Tevebaugh, State Y. M. C. A. secretary. What is known as the Old Style Calendar, still used by the Greek Orthodox Church, will be discarded on Oct. 1, when thirteen days will be dropped to bring it into line with the standard calendar.

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ALCOHOL TAKES TOLL EQUAL TO PRE-DRYYEARS Steady Increase in Deaths Since Prohibition Shown in U. S. Survey. BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING WASHINGTON, July 23.—Deaths from alcoholism in the United States health registration area have practically reached the number of their pre-prohibition peak, and are increasing steadily by about 500 a year. The increase has been more than four times since the first post-pro-hibition year of 1920, such deaths numbering 900 in that year and 4,100 in 1926. Deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, attributable to alcohol, show a slow but steady increase since 1920, and the 1926 total was 7,591, which is icomparable with 8,799 for the highest pre-prohibition year, 1916. The lowest total recorded for 1920, was 6,241. Sixteen Years Survey The figures are from the vital statistics division, Department of Commerce. They have not been published before. They cover the years 1910 to 1926 inclusive, for the vital registration area of the treaty, which now includes fortyfive States. In seven and one-half years before prohibition, there were 86,278 deaths from these causes. Comparisons are made of States which have been in the area continually since 1910. Deaths from alcoholism in these States numbered 660 in 1920 and 2,960 in 1926. Near Record of 1914 Deaths from cirrhosis of the liver went from 4,274 in 1920 to 5,005 in 1926, against a high of 6,696 in 1914. Alcoholism totals alone were 19,768 for the entire area in the years since prohibition, and 24,112 for the years before prohibition. Cirrhosis totals alone were 52,679 since prohibition and 62,166 for the same length of time before prohibition. Figures for deaths from alcoholism in Indiana show sixteen in 1920 and fifty-seven in 1926. HELD AS GAS IMS Woman Claims Two Youths Forced Her in Car. Police today continued to probe an alleged “gas hawk” complaint of Mrs. George Davis, Graylynn Apts., Room 2. The woman and Elmer Hutton, 21, of 201 Bakemeyer St., and James Cole, 21, of 3846 E. Washington St., whom she says forced her to ride with them Sunday, are all held at city prison. Mrs. Davis claims that she was made to enter the car at Pennsylvania and Michigan Sts., and was taken int* the country. The men claim she entered voluntarily. Mrs. Ruby Mote, 1218 Edgemont Ave., called police Sunday ana said that she and her 13-year-old daughter, Beatrice Tyron, had been accosted by “gas hawks” at TwentySeventh St. and Riverside Dr.