Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1928 — Page 2

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THRONE VACANT, NO HEIR AFTER IRENNANDEATH Passing of Veteran Political Strategist Is Severe Blow to Party. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—The political throne of the Illinois Democratic party, left vacant by the death of George E. Brennan, remained unfilled today and there was every indication it might remain so for some time. The passing of the veteran political strategist was a severe blow to the Democratic party in Illinois. The effect probably will be felt by the national organization as well, t>ut from a national scope there perhaps are several who can and will succeed him in his place. In Chicago and the State of Illinois, however, there is no one individual who in any degree approaches the power and influence which was attained by Brennan in his two decades of work for the party. Work That of Counselor George Brennan was not a “boss”! his power was one of organization, of strategy, his work that of a counselor. In all of his years of work he only once sought an elective office, that of Senator. He was defeated two years ago by Frank Smith. •A group of Democratic leaders ; Were expected to meet sometime today to discuss the carrying on of Brennan’s State work. His place on the national committee also remains to be filled. Several of his followers have been mentioned as probable successors, but it appeared more likely that the followers would agree upon a Certain intra-organization group to take over his work. , Martin W. O’Brien, former city was mentioned as one Who might fill Brennan’s shoes. ,O'Brien was one of Brennan’s chief lieutenants and confidantes. Looking for Leader Two others, William I. O’Connell, former judge, and Anthony Cermak, president of the Cook County board of commissioners, were proposed by some as capable leaders, butr in each instance their power appeared to be limited to Chicago. Michael Igoe, State Representative; Dorsey Crown, alderman; Edward J. kelly, Patrick (Paddy) Hash and Robert M. Sweitzer, county clerk, all were supported prominently in*the discussions. But even if the organization succeeds in finding a leader to take Brennan’s place, it is certain that many months will pass before a Chicagoan or Illinoisan will take Brennan’s place in the inner circle of workers with Governor A1 Smith of New York. BORER AGENT ON JOB Jay County Employe and Purdue Man Submit to Search. By Times Special t PORTLAND, Ind., Aug. 9.—Federal agents enforcing the corn borer quarantine in this section of Indiana are taking nobody’s word but search every auto to see that it carries no corn out of the closed area. One of the agents stopped C. V. Kimmell, Jay County agricultural agent, and R B. Cooley, Purdue University animal husbandry assistant, and despite their offers of identification proof, searched the auto in which they were riding and ■did a thoruogh job - WATER REPORT FILED #,000,000 Feet of Mains in City, Survey Shows. /There now are more than 3,000,000 fijeet of water mains in Indianapolis, 'according to the July report of the Indianapolis Water Company. The report was filed with the public service commission today by W. C. Mabee, chief engineer of the com- ' pany. During July, 10,227 feet 1 were addfed to the city water system. Pipes range in size from six to forty inches. The exact total is 3,000,613 feet. Eighteen hydrants also were added in July, the report states. Accused Official Missing Bn Times Special PLYMOUTH, Ind., Aug. 9.—Justice of the Peace Walter A. Zeroll is missing, following filing of a charge that he accepted bribes from Bertha Bozarth operator of the Pine Tree Inn, to permit her to violate the dry law. She was given a sixtyday sentence for selling liquor after a raid at the inn. She made an affidavit that she had paid metaey to Beroll. Klansmen to Celebrate 81l Times Special \ KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 9.—Klansmen here are preparing for a threeday celebration to be held at Melfalfa park to which Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan members of the organization will be invited. Burning of a large cross and a dynamite bombardment are on the program.

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The Girl Tunney Won

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—Copyright, 1928. NEA Service, Inc., Transmitted by Telephoto. Here is the first picture of Miss Mary Josephine Lauder, the real reason Gene Tunney, heavyweight champion, retired from the prize fighting game. Announcement just has been made of Tunney’s engagement to Miss Lauder, a wealthy heiress, Miss Lauder and Tunney are now at the Lauder summer home in Maine. COMPLETE STORY OF ROMANCE ON PAGE ONE.

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Faiths Differ By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Gene Tunney, wlfb is to marrj* Mary Josephine Lauder, is a devout Catholic. Miss Lauder is a is a member of the Episcopalian Church. •* Friends of Tunney and of the Lauder family said today that they knew of no reason why it would be necessary for either to accept the religious faith of the other when they are married.

TRAIN WRECKS BRIDGE * Freight Jumps Track, Crashes Into Overhead. A freight train Wednesday night jumped the tracks and wrecked an overhead bridge on State Rd. 67 at the junction of the Pennsylvania and Monon Railroads, a mile and a half northeast of Gosport, State highway department officials learned tfiday. The bridge today was resting on the top of the freight cars. W. E. Sayer of Bloomington, State road superintendent, worked all night laying out a twelve-mile detour around the wrecked bridge. Traffic will be forced to detour until the wreck is cleared away and anew temporary or permanent bridge is built. Escapes Liquor Raid Frank Golitko, 346 Limestone St., has been away from home two weeks so he saved himself from arrest when police raided the place Wednesday night and found a 10gallon still, two-gallons of white mule and many bottles.

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When officials of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company complained about cards being passed to carmen to attend a union meeting tonight at 312% E. Washington St., police discovered an ordinance whereby the men could be arrested. They did arrest Barnett Miller, 52, of 818 Wright St., and Frank Denham, 50, of 115 N. Liberty St., and they now are under bonds. Motorpolice caught them in the act of passing out the cards announcing their meeting at Massachusetts Ave. and Alabama St., Wednesday night. Released On Bond After their release on bonds of SIOO each, provided by Louis Brown, professional bondsman, Miller was rearrested sos the same offense at Vermont St. and Massachusetts Ave. The cards stated that Robert Armstrong, St. Louis, international vice president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Car and Railway Employes, will address a union meeting for carman, bus men and shop men at the Washington St. address, at 8 p. m. tonight and 2 a. m., Friday morning. The latter meeting is for the night shift. Attacks Ordinance Frank B. Baker, union attorney, secured bonds for the men and pointed out that should the socalled anti-banner ordinance be enforced generally it would drive all handbill and card advertising from the streets, including those of politicians. Armstrong was one of the men held in contempt of Federal Court here during the dynamiting of cars in the car strike of 1926. Later certain leaders confessed to being in the employ of the street car company to “double-cross” the union men. ' Never place a sponge in the sun to dry, as this will cause it to rot.

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CLEWS CLASH IN TEACHER’S DEATH HUNT Two Suspects Detained in Search for Killer in Evanston, 111. By United Press EVANSTON, 111., Aug. 9.—Search for the slayer of Miss Jennie ConI stance, Bradley College English instructor, was hindered today by conflicting clews. Two suspects were held for questioning, but so far had been able to account for their activities Tuesday night?; when Miss Constance was attacked with a heavy iron pipe and beaten to death as she walked near Northwestern University library. The two suspects are John Burke, 45, known to police as a degenerate, and.Willis Wolfe, 37, who escaped from the asylum at Chippewa Falls, Wis. Wolfe told police: “I might have killed her; I killed Elsie Siegel in New York in 1910.” Clews in Conflict Residents of the wealthy North Shore suburb, who live near the George Peak home, where Miss Constance's body was found, variously reported hearing screams and seeing strange appearing men about the time the murder was presumed to have been committed. In nearly every instance, however, police questioning revealed differences in time and description. One story, that given by two girl students of Northwestern, led police to believe Miss Constance was slain and then attacked by a Negro. The students said they had seen a Negro carrying a heavy iron pipe along Foster St. shortly after 10 p. m. Seek Bloody Clothing Police believed solution of the murder would come through the finding of the blood-stained clothing of the slayer. Miss Constance was found lying in a pool of blood behind a hedge. A heavy iron pipe was found near by, and it was believed the slayer could not have escaped without staining his clothes. Miss Constance, English department head at the Polytechnic Institute at Peoria. 111., was doing summer work toward a Ph. D. degree at Northwestern University. CLAMP LID ON GAMING AT SARATOGA SPRINGS % - Monte Carlo of America Quiet After Al's Order. Bn United Press 'SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y., Aug. 9.—Saratoga Springs, the Monte Carlo of America, today was ! merely the seat of a first-class horse racing meet. * Deserted gambling houses bore ! mute testimony that the “lid is on/’ State police in civilian clothes patrolled the streets and watched the known gaming houses to see that they did not reopen. The order to "clean up Saratoga” came when Governor Smith summoned three officials of this nesort. The aftermath of the conference was reflected in two developments. One the closing of gambling resorts, the other the shooting of County* Attorney Edward Eddy. Eddy was shot in the thigh by a masked man Wednesday on a local golf course. While no clew jvas left as to the motive, some persons were inclined to believe it was connected with recent law enforcement developments. THINK PEEPER IS SHOT Fire At Man Seen Looking in At Windows. Ben Aldridge and his wife, Mary, of 134 W. Twentieth St., told police today that they thought they shot a man Wednesday night. He had been peeking in their windows, so Mrs. Aldridge went to the rear door and her husband to the front. Both were armed. When the man ran after Mrs. Aldridge commanded him to halt she fired four shots at him. He screamed and continued to run. The husband then fired four times.

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At least eight persons were killed and more than sixty injured when a fast Chicago-to-New Orleans passenger train jumped the rails and sideswlped another Illinois Central passenger train that was standing on a parallel track near Mounds, 111. A large iron pipe that fell from a freight car is blamed for the wreck. These pictures were taken shorty after the crash while dead and injured were being removed from the overturned coaches.

ITALY WILL BURY 29 SUB VICTIMS FRIDAY Whole Nation to Mourn While Funeral Services Are Held. Bn United Press ROME, Aug. 9.—Funeral services for the twenty-seven men and two officers who went to a tragic death when the submarine F-14 sank in the Adriatic sea, will be held Friday with the government and the entire Italian nation participating. Mourning for these twenty-nine men who succumbed, either to drowning or to the noxious chlorine gas fumes, has been nation-wide and was the climatic event of a series of three recent disasters. The firlt was the crash of the Polar dirigible tlalia and the second was the smashup of the airplane in which Majors Carlos Del Prete and Arturo Ferrarin were riding at Rio de Janeiro. RIVER FLOODS CITY Salina, Kas., Damaged by Rising Water. Bn United Press SALINA, Kan., Aug. 9.—Torrential rains which sent Smoky Hill River over its banks flooded the eptire east side residential district of Salina today and forced scores of persons to vacate their homes. Smoky Hill started on its rampage Sunday and has been growing j steadily more dangerous. A tribu- j tary, the Salina River, also went out j of its banks. Highways in the vicin- | ity of the rivers have been closed 1 because of the high water. It was feared that unless Smoky Hill begins to recede soon the rising waters will reach a section of the business district. MELON FESTIVAL OPENS Senator Joe Robinson to Speak and Crown Queen. Bn United Press HOPE, Ark., Aug. 9. Thousands of visitors from Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma w r ere arriving here today for the annual watermelon festival. At least 20,000 persons are expected to hear Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic vice presidential candidate, deliver the principal address of the day. He also will crown the queen of the watermelon festival, to be selected during the day. AllcTcd Slayer Held Bn Times Special BROWNSTOWN, Ind., Aug. 9. Ollie Shingleton, wanted at Stanford, Ky., on a charge of slaying Ollie Brock six weeks ago during a quarrel over liquor, is held here pending arrival of Kentucky officers. He was arrested near Wednesday by Sheriff J. Otis Hays and squad.

CHIROPODISTS HOLDJUTINO Foot Contest Finals Are Feature. Members of the National Association of Chiropodists-Podiatrists, hire for the seventeenth annual convention at the Lincoln, held their annual outing and chicken dinner at Broad Ripple Park this afternoon and evening. Finals in the foot contest, under the direction of Dr. Joseph Lelyveld, educational director, featured the program of the outing. Table clinics and a lecture, “The Making of Chiropodist,” illustrated by motion pictures were on this morning's program. The convention will close Friday. Members were entertained at an old-fashioned dance last night, at the Lincoln. Dr. M. S. Harmolin, Columbus (Ohio), was elected president for the coming year at Wednesday afternoon’s session. Dr. Joseph Lelyveld, Rockland, Mass.; Dr. George Scherer Jr., Los Angeles, Cal.; Dr. Owen W. Fowler. Detroit, Mich.; Dr. Herman Sonderling, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Dr. Frank Rurch, Chicago, 111., and Dr. Hal P. Smith, Indianapolis, were named vice presidents. Dr. E. K. Burnett, New York, was re-elected secretary-treasurer. New' York State, the city to be named by the State association, was selected as the next convention point. ENGINEER STICKS TO HIS POST DESPITE INJURY Blow on Head by Low Bridge May Prove Fatal. Btl United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Edward R. Gosnell. 45, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad engineer, stayed at the throttle of his train despite an accident that may prove fatal. Gosnell’s head struck a low bridge near Laurel, Md., while examining the water gauge on his locomotive. The blow knocked him back into the cab and left a severe gash in his head. He refused, however, to leave his post until the train reached Hyattsville, ten miles distant. There he was taken to a hospital where physicians pronounced his condition critical.

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CONTRACTOR INDICTED AS ‘SHAME’ KILLER Accused of Killing Dairyman for Refusing to Sign “Confession.” By United Press ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 9.—Montgomery County’s famous “shame murder” approached the trial stage today with the indictment of Samuel T. Robertson, 38, contractor, for the murder of Edward L. Mills, prominent dairyman. Mills w'as shot down on his farm a year ago. An unsigned typewritten “confession” that he had been intimate with a married woman was found pinned to his clothing. Evidence indicated the slayer wrote the note and killed Mills after the latter refused to sign it. PAY ELECTION CLAIMS Dcery and Holmes to Get 81,000 Balance Due Immediately. Judge James E. Deery, Democrat, and Ira Holmes, Republican, members of the county election board, will be paid a balance of SI,OOO on their $1,500 claims for primary election services immediately, Harry Dunn, county auditor, said today. Payment is possible, following approval Wednesday of a $2,000 additional appropriation for primary expense by the county council. When County Commissioners cut Deery’s and Holmes’ claims from $3,000 each to $1,500 each they retaliated by refusing to represent themselves as attorneys further, after doing so in severa"! pieces of litigation during and shortly after the primary.

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SMITH TO TAKE CRITIC’S PULPIT TO MAKE REPLY Averse to Suggestion by Straton That Debate Be Madison Garden. Bit United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Governor Smith's reply to Dr. John Roach Straton’s attack on his fitness to serve in public office will be made from the same pulpit where Dr. Straton called the Governor “the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom.” This was indicated today by close friends of the State's chief executive, who said S*nith was averse to the Baptist pastor’s suggestion that the debate be held in Madison Square Garden. The Governor prefers to answer Dr. Straton in the Calvary Baptist Church, whefe the allegations were voiced by the clergyman. Political observers see in the debate the Governor’s last defensive move before taking up the offensive on the issues of the national battle. Meanwhile the Greenwood Lake, N. J., Dr. Straton was praying for divine guidance and delving into research to back his charges. He said he had expected the Governor to challenge his allegations. “I thought the Governor would acti just as he did,” Dr. Straton said, “because I know that he is a straight-forward, out-spoken man. I did not think that he would permit my attack to pass unchallenged.” The pastor w’as still insistent that Madison Square Garden would be the ideal meeting place for the verbal duel. He said the church would be inadequate to accommodate the crowds which undoubtedly would be attreated. WORKMAN BREAKS ARM WHEN DITCH CAVES IN Police Car Hits Truck on Way to Accident. Julius Wood, 62, of 2940 N. Chester Ave., is in city hospital today with a broken arm and bruises as the result of the cave-in of a ditch in which he was working Wednesday afternoon. Grover Flannigan, 3228 N. Lancaster St., foreman on the vork at 3365 Colorado Ave., also was caught in the cavein, but escaped. The men are employed by F. C. Tucker Real Estate Company, 214 Peoples Bank Bldg., which is erecting houses near the scene of the accident. They were digging in an eight-foot trench. En route to the accident the police car, with Sergeant Dan F. Cummings and Patrolman Thomas McCormack and George Strieker, collided with a car driven by Archie Wilson, 32, of 2204 E. Forty-Sixth St. Wilson was arrested for reckless driving and failure to give the police car the right-of-way.