Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1928 — Page 2

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NEOROES FRAME REVOLT TO PICK OWN CANDIDATE Elks Sponsor Move to Break From Both Parties Over Grievances. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14.—1n reprisal against both Republicans and Democrats, Negro leaders have framed plans to nominate one of their own race as a candidate for the presidency. With the sole idea of forcing greater recognition from the major parties, 3,200 delegates of the Independent Order of Elks, second largest Negro fraternal organization in America, will meet at Chicago on Aug. 24 to name a candidate, probably Alderman Louis Anderson of Chicago. The revolt is sponsored by the Elks, which has a membership of 400,000 and some of the country’s most influential Negro politicians at its head. Confer With Hoover The reasons behind the revolt were outlined to Herbert Hoover, Republican nominee, by Robert R. Church, Negro leader of Memphis, and Roscoe Simmons, who controls the black belt of Chicago. Church and Simmons were members of the notification committee, and stayed over a few days to confer with Hoover. Both will go to Chicago to speak against a separate Negro ticket, and fight for Hoover. Negro leaders, weeklies and dailies recently have charged that the Republican party seeks to shake the colored rule of the organization in the South. They are particularly incensed at the indictment of Perry Howard, colored national Republican committeeman from Mississippi and grand attorney of the Elks order. His indictment is blamed on friends of Hoover, particularly Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attorney general. Meanwhile, Democratic courting of the Negro voters seems destined to failure. Governor Smith’s record with regard to the Negro is unsatisfactory, according to colored leaders. Though Tammany has included them in distribution of patronage, they charge that Smith never has shown friendliness. Moreover, they do not like Senator Robinson, Democratic vice-presidential nominee. Vote Is Important The number of actual Negro voters in States where the result might be affected by nomination of a colored man for President follows: New York, 65,000; Tennessee, 80,000; Kentucky, 60,000; Missouri, 60,000; Indiana, 69,000; Ohio, 113,000; Illinois, 260,000. The Republicans never have carried Tennessee or Kentucky by a margin as great as the Negro vote. In the other states loss of Negro support might cause trouble for the G. O. P. MEXICAN CONSUL MAY BE NAMED TO CABINET Envoy at New York Will Return Home Wednesday. Bn United Press MEXICO CITY, Aug. 14.—Arturo M. Elias, Mexican consul in New York City, may become a member of the cabinet, it was rumored here today. According to El Grafic, Elias is leaving New York for the Mexican capital Wednesday. It also is reported that Gilberto Valenzuela is a cabinet prospect elso. Luis L. Leon today assumed the post of secretary of agriculture Which has been vacant for several months. The ministries of the interior, foreign relations and labor still are unfilled. NIBLACK IS NOTIFIED “Learns” of Nomination at Irvington G. O. P. Club Meeting. John L. Niblack, deputy prosecutor, was notified of his nomination for State Senator at a meeting of the Irvington Republican Club Monday night. Edward J. Hecker and James L. Kingsburyformed the notification committee. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, principal speaker, lauded Herbert Hoover, presidential nominee, describing him as “the man who knows more about anything than any one else.” Judge Dan V. White and Judge Mahlon E. Bash provided watermelons for a feast at Johnson’s cafeteria after the meeting. Harry Hartsock, local attorney, Jwill speak on “What It Means to !Be a Republican” at the meeting next Monday night. Candidates will address future meetings. FEAR BALKAN TROUBLE British and French Ministers Write to Governments on Killings. Bn United Press LONDON. Aug. 14.—A Sofia dispatch to the Morning Post today said the British and French minis* ters have sent a note to their government regarding the recent Macedonian murders. It is feared big repercussions are likely in Jugoslavia. Greece and Bulgaria as a result of the killings. The notes suggested. measure for the Bulgarian government to adopt, including dissolution of terrorist organizations. NAMED ELECTION CLERK Governor Approves Position for Ed I). Donnell. Upon recommendation of R. Earl Peters, Fort . Wayne, Democratic State chairman, Ed D. Donnell of Indianapolis has been approved by Gov. Ed Jackson for assistant clerk to the State board of election commissioners. Donnell often has served in the same capacity and formerly was Supreme court clerk.

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BY FRANK TKONE lin Science Service ITHACA, N. Y., Aug. 14.—Warfare against insects Whose bites or stings plant deadly germs in the human tem, occupied much of the attention of the members of the fourth international Congress of Entomology in their sessions here Monday. Dr. R. R. Parker of the United States Public Health Service, outlined the results of researches on Rocky Mountain spotted fever which he and his Colleague, Dr. R. R. Spencer, have been carrying on in Montana. This dangerous disease is curiously uneven in its behavior, Dr. Parker said. In parts of Mon-

PLAN TO NON ON BEAD RADICALS Memorial Arranged for Sacco, Vanzetti. Bp Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—0n the twenty-second of this month occurs the first anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti in Charleston Prison, Boston. On the evening of this day a memorial meeting is to be held in Steinert Hall, Boston, sponsored by a group of professors and others interested in the social significance of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. While the incident over which feeling ran so high a year ago has to a great passed out of the public mind, a small group of people has continued to study it and attempt to obtain final proof of the innocence of the two Italian radicals. Announcement of the meeting says it will be held not only to remember what happened a year ago but “to contribute to that study of the case by which alone its deep significance in the life of American society can be made manifest and its value to oncoming generations realized.” The meeting is being sponsored by Prof. Eliot Morison of Harvard, Dr. Alice Hamilton of Harvard Medical School, Mrs. Gertrude L. Winslow, Miss Catherine Huntington, Creighton Hill, and Gardner Jackson. The speakers will be Edna St. Vincent Millay, Arthur Davison Ficke, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn; Robert Morse Lovett and Rev. Harold L. Stratton of the Pilgrim Congregational Church of Worcester, Mass. NEWSPAPER MEN TO BE REID BEARERS Funeral Services for Reporter Are Set for Wednesday. Newspaper men and his boyhood! friends will be pallbearers at funeral services Wednesday, 2 p. m., at the McNeely & Sons chapel, 1928 N. Meridian St., for Eugene M. Reid, 22, Indianapolis News reporter, who died suddenly Sunday at Indiana Christian hospital after a tonsil operation. Dr. Frank C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Pallbearers will be George Loucks, David Burton, Charles Brockman and Robert Ewell, close personal friends of the late newspaper man. William H. Toms, H. Gene Haynes and Dudley A. Smith, his associates on the Indianapolis News, and Lowell B. Nussbaum, of the Indianapolis Times, where Mr. Reid was reporter a year and a half after his graduation from Shortridge high school in 1923. DIES SPRAYING TREE Man, 70, Collapses at Work From Heart Attack. While working at Carrollton Ave. and Fifty-Second St., Monday afternoon Harvey Fisher, 70, of 2130 Ringold St., died suddenly of a heart attack. Fisher was on a ladder spraying trees when he called to James E. Cook, 2335 Garfield Dr., to shut off the spray. Fisher dined down from the ladder and collapsed in Cook’s arms. Fished was dead before a physician could reach the scene. Sappington, deputy coroner, ordered the body removed to the funeral parlors of J. C. Wilson, 1303 Prospect St.

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Boy Stops Train; Saves Lives CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. J., Aug. 14.—John Anhalt, Jr., 12, waved a red handkerchief to stop a commuters’ train, on which were 300 passengers, after his father had discovered a 14-inch break in the track. The passengers collected a $125 fund f<?r John.

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Gilda Gray Contracts to Play in British Film

LONDON, Aug. 14.—Gilda Gray, American dancer, famous as the original exponent of the shimmy, has signed a twelve weeks’ contract with British International Pictures to play the leading role in a forthcoming film, “Piccadilly.” The salary was not disclosed, but it was said to be the largest ever paid a film player in Great Britain.

START STRIKE VOTE Trainmen Turn Down Pay Tilt Offer. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 14—Declining proposals to arbitrate anew wage dispute, 300,00 trainmen and conductors of western railroads convened sectional meetings in various cities today to vote on a strike. Members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors have been seekking a TVs per cent increase in wages. A committee of the brotherhoods met a committee appointed by the railroads here last week to negotiate the proposal. The managers’ conference committee, representing the railroads, offered the employes the desired increase if they would agree to the abolishing of rules restricting the use of two locomotives to a train and limiting the number of cars which may be hauled by two locomotives. If this were not acceptable, the managers offered as an alternative a 6 x /i per cent increase. HURT IN CAR CRASH Motorist Held for Reckless Driving After Cars Collide. Serious injuries were suffered by Ed Steinburg, 1914 Bellefontaine St., when two automobiles collided at Sheffield Ave. and White River Blvd., Monday night. Steinburg’s Chrysler coach, and a Ford touring car driven by Edward Fahy, Brownsburg, Ind., crashed. Police charged Steinburg, who was taken to city hospital with reckless driving and Sam Marcus and Carl Greiner, other passengers in the car, with drunkenness.

Brace Beemer, Veteran of Rainbow Division, Joined Here in 1917. A man at fourteen! And fighting in the World War! That is the record of Brace Beemer, 25, of 2807 N. Illinois St., a soldier in Battery E of the 150th Field Artillery of the famous Rainbow Division during the last war. Beemer is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Reported today for duty during the twen-ty-ninth annual national encampment in Indianapolis Aug. 26 to Sept. J.. v Beemer enlisted in this city April 17, 1917) when he was fourteen years old. He weighed 109 pounds and was five feet seven and a half inches tall. He was mustered out of service May 9, 1919, and weighed 195 and was six feet one inch tall. The lad fought beside men in battles at Champagne, Chateau Tierry, Verdun, Sedan, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Arrogone and Lorraine. His memories of the war include gas wounds, shrapnel cuts and the accolade signed by President Woodrow Wilson.

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Costly Saving Bu United Press DENVER, Aug. 14. A. Charles Betz, 63, laborer, died last week because he said he couldn’t afford to pay for hospital treatment after he had been stung on the lip by a wasp. It was revealed today that Betz had more than $20,000 in gold pieces in a bank deposit vault.

AD MEN NAME NAGLEY Again Chosen for Secretary Post by Organization. Lester C. Nagley was renamed secretary-manager of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis by the board of directors at the annual iuncheon-meeting at the SpinkArms Hotel Monday. Nagley was elected to the position in 1925 to fill the unexpired term of Ed W. Hunter. Prior to his selection Nagley was connected with the reportorial staffs of Indianapolis newspapers.

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erately warm than in very warm weather. Professor W. J. Baerg of the University of Arkansas, noted among entomologists as the man who has the nerve to let tarantulas, scorpions and centipedes bite and sting him, detailed the results of his first hand experiences. A centipede bite is about as painful as a bee sting, but no more harmful. The same is true of most tarantulas—and it is usually hard to get a tarantula to bite at all. The much smaller black widow spider of the South is equally reluctant to bite, but its venon is much more wicked in its effects.

HOME BORNEO; NO HYDRANTS Another Blaze Is Believed of Incendiary Origin. Because there were no hydrants in the vicinity firemen were unable to save the home of Mrs. Nettie Morrow, 2312 Thornberry St., this morning. It jvas destroyed, with loss estimated at SI,OOO. No one was at home when the fire broke out about 7 a. m. The Morrow house is in a sparsely settled section of West Indianapolis and it was necessary to carry water from a well to the pumper, firemen said. They are investigating the possible incendiary origin of a $350 fire at the home of V. H. Gehlbach, 1427 Bellefontaine St., early today. Neighbors aroused the family about 2:30 a. m., after a passing bakery wagon driver had seen the flames and turned in the alarm. Gehlbach, his wife and son, Marvin, were able to leave the upstairs bedrooms by the front stairway, which was smoke filled. The rear stairway was the seat of the fire. Late Monday the home of William O'Neil, 701 Fuller Dr., was damaged by fire by a gasoline stove explosion. Mrs. Jessie O'Neil, wife of William and mother of three small children, was next door at the time and tried to enter the burning building, thinking her baby, Mary, 3, was in the house. However, the child had accompanied her 8-year-old sister, Patricia. to the store and returned to wonder at the fire and relieve her frantic mother. OFFICERS ELECTED BY CENTRAL LABOR UNION John Smith Again Named Head of Organization. John Smith, Central Labor Union president for the last eight years, was re-elected at the annual election meeting Monday night at Plumbers Hall. He is a member of the stage hands local union and served as president in 1917-19. Other officers are William Holmes, iron workers’ local, vice president; Emil Salsbury, stonecutters, recording secretary; James Kinney, plumbers, financial secretary-treasurer; Frank Ankenbrock, cereal beverage and soft drink makers, statistician; Charles Lutz, electrical workers, organizer, and Bert Persell, postoffice employes, sergeant-at-arms. Frank Hockett, Thomas Dunn and Harry Peats were named trustees, and Arthur Lyday, John Smith. Charles Lutz. William Holmes and George Neville, delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention. President T. N. Taylor of the Indiana Federation of Labor installed the officers. Get Funds to Restore Zoo By United Press PARIS, Aug. 14.—The Echo D’Paris announces that the International Educational Board and the Rockefeller Foundation have agreed to furnish $200,000 toward restoring the Jardin Des Plantes where is located the Paris zoo.

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FASTEST BOATS TO CHASE LAKE RUM RUNNERS Flying Speed Vessels to Cut Waters at 60 Miles an Hour. By United PYcss BUFFALO, N. Y„ Aug. 14.—Once again rum runners who ply their trade along the border waters of the Niagara frontier have been dealt a smashing blow by the United States Coast Guard. The latest move by the Coast Guard in its attempt to wipe out the many bands of smugglers in these waters has been to order a number of flying speed boats, capable of cutting the water at a speed of sixty miles an hour, and which, it is said, will outspeed the fastest boats used by rum runners. Runners Use Fast Boats The new boats, some of which will be fifty-two feet in length, and the remainder thirty-four feet, will be placed into service sometime this month. They will see sendee on the Niagara River and Lakes Erie and Ontario. The boats owned by rum runners and which have been confiscated in the past by the Coast Guard rarely have been capable of a speed greater than thirty or thirty-five miles per hour. However, since the customs officials have concentrated more this year on wiping out contraband smugglers, the latter have purchased faster boats in which they hoped to outspeed the revenue cutters. That they succeeded to some extent is evidenced by the fact that new and speedier boats have been ordered for coast guard duty. It was pointed out by officials that it will be next to an impossibility for rum runners to purchase boats that will exceed the speed of the new rum chasers, due to the fact that boats capable of such a speed as sixty miles an hour or better are not being built with any view to large storage space. Without room to store cases of liquor the boats are of no use to rum runners. Tow Booze Behind Boat A number of men have been arrested lately in rowboats, disguised as fishermen, for attempting to smuggle liquor over the border. They had two or three cases attached to their boat by means of a rope and rowed them across. Several escaped penalty by cutting the repe and letting the cases of liquor oink to the bottom upon seeing a revenue cutter approach. It is estimated that more than 1,000 cases of pre-war liquor and 9 1 - per cent Canadian ale are resting on the bottom of the Niagara River alone. All these cases were dumped over by rum runners to avoid arrest THIEVES ENTER HOUSES; GET WATCHES, CASH Numerous Thefts During Night Reported. An open door at the home of Mrs. John Bogus, 1948 W. New York St., invited a burglar into the house Monday night. Mrs. Bogus told the police she missed a watch valued at sl2, a pen valued at SB, and $2.05. Peter Johnson, 843 N. Meridian St., custodian, said a thief entered his apartment and carried away a S2O watch, a bill fold, and 40 cents. Roscoe Hutton, 2530 Burford St., left his trousers hanging in the office of the Wachtel Reduction Company, Southern Ave. Later he discovered $lB was missing. Mrs. W. C. Woerner, 107 W. Southern Ave., told the police a thief took a watch valued at $65 from her home. While Miss Mary L. McMorris, 613 Spruce St., was away a thief took a $45 fur coat from her room. John Radez, 741 Haugh St., reported a trumpet stolen from his house. Mrs. A. C. Stoltz, 1940 Caroline Ave., reported fishing poles valued at $lO stolen.

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Theft Trail Police who investigated a burglary at N. Missouri Stfound a perfect trail had been left by the thieves carrying away a sack of flour with a hole in it. The white line led to a vacant house at 421 W. Fifteenth St. There police found the broken sack under the porch. They also found that a truck had been driven there to haul the other loot away. This includes hams, bacon, twenty-two sacks of flour, cigarets and thirty pairs of men's silk hose. Total value was SB7. Morris Talesnich, proprietor of the place, declared.

WIDENING FAVORED Sixteenth St. Project to Be Pushed. When the city plan commission meets Monday it will be presented a report by a special committee approving the project to widen Sixteenth St. from Delaware St. to the canal. This was the decision of the committee Monday afternoon. The project will include elimination of the jog at Sixteenth and Illinois Sts. This will cost about $352,000, of which approximately $264,000 will be paid by the city and the remainder by owners of abutting property. At present about $200,000 is available from the commission and the remainder will come from next year’s levy, it was said. The plan also includes erection of anew double-width bridge over the canal. Members of the committee and the commission believe widening and the new bridge wijl open a west line of traffic from the north section of the city to the south with West St. being used. This, it is said, will relieve other main thoroughfares. JACKSON TO VISIT KNOX Governor Will Review National Guard in Camp. Governor Ed Jackson will leave Thursday for Camp Knox, Ky., to review Indiana National Guard troops in camp there Friday. The Governor Jackson. On the return trip from Camp Knox. Governor Jackson will stop at Oden Ind., where he wfill address an annual old settlers’ gathering £n Saturday. He will attend’to official business in his office Monday and will then return to the Dunes, where he and his family will vacation until Sept. 1. The Governor returned to his office late Monday. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported to the police as stolen: A. L. Burns, 631 Division St., Ford coupe, 14-034, from Liberty and North Sts. James Whealtley, rural route 1, Box 29, Indianapolis, Ford roadster, from Barth Ave. and Sanders St. Raymond Carmichael, 330 S. Temple Ave., Ford touring. 662-516, from Georgia and Illinois St.

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COOLIDGE GOES TO WAUSAU FOR LEGION SPEECH First Lady, Son Accompany President to Wisconsin Convention. BY ROBERT MOORFIELD. United Press Staff Correspondent CEDAR ISLAND LODGE, Wis., Aug. 14.—President Coolidge will leave here today for Wausau, Wis.. where he will make his second speech of the summer before the State convention of the American Legion. The President will remain in Wausau only a few hours. His address is scheduled for the morning session of the convention Wednesday and he will return to Cedar Island Lodge immediately, arriving here early that night. Accompanied by Family Accompanying the President will be Mrs. Coolidge, their son, John, and members of the official staff. The presidential party will motor from the summer White House to Hawthorne, where they will board the train. Kawthorne also will be the point of detrainment of the return trip. The President spent several hours Monday wdth Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief Army engineer, who arrived here Sunday. The Army engineer came to discuss the report made by the special board created by the flood control act to investigate the engineering plans for proposed control of Mississippi River floods. Studying Flood Report Mr. Coolidge is known to be studying a detailed report on which he is expected to base his recommendations to Congress in December for flood control measures. Jadwin, with Mrs. Jadwin, left Superior for the Pacific coast, where the chief Army engineer will inspect Army engineering projects. Find Barberry Bushes Bn United Pness FT. WAYNE, Ind., Aug. 14. United States Department of Agriculture agents working in Allen County to wipe out the barberry bush which spreads destructive blade rust on the stems of wheat, reported finding thirty-five new bushes in the past week. This makes a total of about 500 found to date. Youth Dies of Injuries Bu Times Special LEBANON, Ind., Aug. 14.—Clyde Pool, 18, son of Mr and Mrs. Fred Pool, near Sheridan, died in a hospital here of injuries suffered when the auto he was driving turned over. Miss Betty McQueery. Tipton, also in the car, was only slightly hurt.