Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1928 — Page 2

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SMITH MAPS STUMP TOUR AFTER REPLY TO WHITE

DEFENDS VOTES ON LIQUOR AND VICE MEASURES Denounces Kansas Editor and G. 0. P. Chiefs for Slap at Record. SPEAKS WEDNESDAY Democrat Nominee Will Be Notified Before Huge Crowd at Albany. By THOMAS L. STOKES (United Press Staff Correspondent) ALBANY, N. Y.. Aug. 21.—Gov. Alfred E. Smith turned his attention today to the campaign which will open formally with his notfication address Tuesday r.ight, having closed his controversy with William Allen White, Emporia (Kanp, editor, and others, over his legislative record. A crowd of 100,000 is expected to attend the notfication ceremony Wednesday night. He will confer tonight with John J. Rascob, chairman of the national committee; Senator Robinson, Arkansas, vice presidential candidate, and other party leaders who arrive here today, regarding developments to date in the campaign and the scope of his speaking tour, which has not yet been settled. Previously the Democratic nominee will mount the stand from which he will make his notification address at 11:30 this morning, try out the broadcasting network which has been installed, and leave immediately afterward for an afternoon of golf at the home of Norman H. Davis, assistant secretary of state in the Wilson administration, at Stockbridge (Mass.). Ke will motor there and return late this afternoon to the mansion.

Replies to White The Governor’s answer to White, Jn which he denounced the Kansas editor, former Governor Henry J Allen, Kansas, now publicity director of the Republican campaign, and the Republican national committee, Was also an answer to the Rev. John Roach Straton, Calvary Baptist Church minister of New York, former Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma, and others who have attacked his record in the New York Assembly twenty years ago. One by one the Governor defended his various votes on liquor law legislation, upon race track gambling and prostitution and then added that he would “define in no uncertain terms” his attitutde on the •“public saloon” in his acceptance speech Tuesday. “The appearance of the Republican national committee in the (controversy indicates that it was a political attack, probably inspired by that committee, because the Republican national committee this week Issued '-.n official release to the newspapers in which Mr. White retracts liis retraction. Here we have unmistakable evidence of the Republican national committee openly associating itself with this personal attack. Lacking the courage to stand jby its own complicity in the attack, the Republican director of publicity the next day states that he withdraws his issuance of Mr. White’s Withdrawal of his withdrawal. Out of Whispering Stage “I am glad to have this matter taken out of the whispering stage ©nd put into the open; once and for jail I shall meet it now. My record s an opponent of immorality Is fixed and secure. ... No one in all jot the years of my public life ever has dared to make the Wile suggestion which emanated from Mr. White, with the approval bf Henry J. Allen, publicity director of he Republican national committee. What a cowardly course the Republican national committee pursued. It issued a slanderous statement through its official publicity bureau and then, after its general publication in the press, attempted to evade responsibility by the childSsh claim that it had been given out Jjy accident. That is not fair play.” The Governor divided the liquor law votes into groups. The first was the one to grant a license to the J3otham Hotel of New York to sell iquor; tha second group to correct e. mistake in the language of the (excise law and the third for votes on Jocal option. Os the former he said he voted to •‘end the hypocrisy” by which the hotel—within 200 feet of a church —had no liquor permit but obtained liquor from a house several feet away ©nd carried it into the building.

Vote On Race Tracks In the second instance he said he Jvoted with the majority to uphold the State Supreme Court. In the third he said he voted against many of the local option measures because they were all duplications. He said he voted with Governor Hughes on race track gambling at a regular session of the Legislature, but voted with the opposition at a special session as a protest against calling off the special session. He said he voted against assembly bill 2627 in 1910—a measure seeking to regulate renting of rooms in hotels—he said he voted with the majority because the measure was unquestionably unconstitutional. The assembly at that time was Republican, Smith said, and on a recall the measure was passed, but he did not reconsider his vote. Arrested, Praises Motor Cop By Unitea Press STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 21. Coleman C. Moser was fined $25 for speeding and requested the magistrate publicly to commend the arresting constable for his courtesy and efficiency.

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Five generations gathered at the home of John T. Roberts, 2514 Sherman Dr.. Monday, lor a lamilj reunion. Roberts, a Civil War veteran, was 90 last Christmas day. The five generations (left to right) are: Roberts, Mrs. Ida B. Tankford, R. R. J., a daughter; Mrs. Anna E. Hyde, 2948 Stewart St., a granddaughter; Thdmas H. Shutt, Ridgeville, Ind., a great-grandson, holding his daughter, Tressie Marie Shutt, 5 months.

KEEPS BODY OF BULLET VICTIM Clinton Police Chief Refuses City Men’s Request. Bp Times Special CLINTON, Ind., Aug. 21.—Three Indianapolis men who sought to claim the body of Edward J. Shannon, slain Sunday by machine gun fire from an auto, were refused permisssion to move it by Police Chief Wilmot Conifer. They said they represented Shannon’s parents. He was a former Indianapolis resident. Authorities today were without a clew to identity of the slayers. Despite assertion by Louis Rolando, at whose home the slaying occurred, that he knew none of the men in the auto from which the deadly fire came, and he was not acquainted with Shannon, his daughter is reported to have remarked the slain man was a friend of her father. No trace has been found of a man who came to Rolando's home in an auto with Shannon. He drove away in pursuit of the death car and has not been seen since. His car w'as a coupe with a Kentucky license, w’hile the auto containing the machine gun was a large sedan. Its license plates were not noted.

3 HOLDUPS PROBED Motorists Robbed on Highway by Gunmen. Three houldups and a pocketbook theft were being investigated by detectives today. While Burk Whitker, 5406 Broadway, and Charles Shilling, 2933 N. Delaware St., were changing a tire on their car at 1:30 a. m. on N. Pennsylvania St., two men in a roadster drew alongside, covered them with a gdn and robbed Shilling of $2 and t6ok a purse from one of the two young women who were with Whitker and Shilling. Two Negroes who boarded a DeLuxe taxi driven by Charles Shine, 3028 Jackson St., held up Shine at gun’s point and robbed him of $8 and his taxicab at 3500 Martindale Ave. late Monday night. The car was a Studebaker, license 623-153. Theodore Sparks, 24, of 933 Riley Ave., manager of the Kroger grocery, 2407 E. Michigan St., was held up and robbed of $22.87 at 4:30 p. m. Mc iday by a Negro who escaped on a bicycle. Two boys followed Mrs. John Pastman, 30, of 444 Virginia Ave., from a butcher shop at 321 Virginia Ave. Monday night, seized her purse containing $lO and ran, she told police. ‘THREAD KING’ IS DEAD W. H. Coats, Millionaire, Dies at Home in England. By United Press PAISLEY, England, Aug. 21. W. H. Coats, chairman of J. and P. Coats, Ltd., died today at his Woodside home. He was 62 years old. Coats was a millionaire member of the family that amassed and fortune aggregating nearly $100,000,000 from cotton thread. Their spools are known and used by housewives in every corner of the globe.

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CRACKS WIFE’S SKULL Muncie Man Uses Hammer When Reconciliation Fails. Bp Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 21.—Mrs. Hazel Holman, 36, is expected to live despite three fractures of her skull, suffered when she w r as struck with a hammer in the hands of her husband. Harry Holman, 57. According to Holman, his wife called him “a name that nobody can call me.” The couple had been separated and Holman is said to have become enraged when his wife refused to become reconciled to him. Several weeks ago Holman caused the arrest of Mrs. Holman and Oscar Tharp on charge of vehicle taking, asserting the couple . had left Muncie in an auto belonging to him.

N. Y. PROFITS IN SOBERING GIRLS Sales on Sauerkraut Juice, Black Coffee Heavy. Bp United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 21.—Profit Is to be made In this town by sole ring up persons who object to going home under the burden of too many cocktails. Alice Foote MacDougal, who has coffee shops scattered through New York, is an ardent opponent of prohibition, but she unwittingly -makes it possible for flappers to drink, and sober up before they go home. “Perhaps prohibition is a success,” Mrs. Macdougal said, "but it is hard to believe it is when women come drunk into my coffee shops to steady up on tea and strong coffee before they go home.” “When girls come in, either alone or with escorts, and it is evident they have been drinking, they usually find an obscure spot behind a pillar and order coffee. “The coffee jag offsets the effects of the liquor and they depart with steadier steps.” While coffee is the most popular remedy, because it is the most accessible, sauerkraut juice also is widely used. INDIANA ELKS CONVENE Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting Opens at Gary. Bp United Press GARY, Ind., Aug. 21.—The twentyseventh annual convention of Indiana Elks was in session here today, continuing three days. The initial business session was held this morning. Mayor Floyd E. Williams welcomed the delegates to Gary. The schedule calls for business sessions sandwiched between a series of entertainment features that included a two-day golf tournament, a trip through the Gary steel mills, casting exhibitions, band contests. Dunes motor tour, a stag party and a reception for women guests. Plane Flight Cures Deafness Bp Times Special SUMMITVILLE, Ind., Aug. 21. Miss Clara Barrick hears today after an airplane flight which included a 5,500-foot nose dive. Physicians said sudden changes in air pressure cured her deafness.

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DISPUTE ARISES IN BUYING BOAT Sheriff ' Demands Entire Custody of Craft. Disagreement over custody of the SSOO metal boat to be bought Aug. 27 by the county for use in drownings in Marion County arose today. Sheriff Omer Hawkins said he does not want his name used in buying the boat unless he has full charge of it, while it was openly agseed the present plan is to turn the craft over to the police for joint use by city and county officers. “I need a boat, and want one," said Sheriff Hawkins, “and if it is to be bought for the sheriff, the sheriff should get its care.” Auditor Harry Dunn said no formal request for the craft had been made by Sheriff Hawkins. "The city bought an under-water light for use in drownings, and it is only right the county should buy the boat,” George Snider, corrimissioner said. Bids will be opened Aug. 27, the money having been appropriated by the county council at a special meeting early this month. WATSON ON PROGRAM Senator Will Return for G. O. P. Rally at Frankfort Aug. 28. By another switch in plans, Senator James E. Watson will address the Republican rally at Frankfort, Ind., Tuesday, Aug. 28. Senator Watson's eastern speaking itinerary in behalf of Herbert Hoover has been altered to accommodate the Frankfort date, Elza O. Rogers, State chairman, announced. Asa result the engagement of former Governor W. L. Harding of lowa has been canceled. Fred S. Purnell, candidate for re-election as Ninth District Congressman, and Senator Arthur R. Robinson, seeking re-election, also will speak at the Frankfort rally.

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BARE RELEASE OF PRISONERS THROUGH BRIBE Two Escape Full Sentence by Payment of S2OO, Is Charge. Instances in which two prisoners at the Indiana State Farm, Putnamville, were released before serving their full sentences by paying an individual at the farm S2OO each, were revealed to The Times today. According to Superintendent Ralph Howard releases of five men before expiration of their terms now is being investigated. Howard admitted the releases were obtained through- alteration of institution records by someone in the office. Both men were sentenced from the Circuit Court at Danville for one year each. According to their statements to a friend, who resides in Indianapolis, they were released after four months incarceration. Paid SI,OOO for Freedom The men were Samuel Stanley and Jesse Elmore who were sentensed with Charles Elmore and Lyle Gregg for second-degree burglary. They w’ere sentenced in March and released July 10. It also was reported that another man. who faced another charge, obtained his release thirty days before expiration of his sentence for payment of SI,OOO to the individual at Putnamville. Reports were current that this same party, who is alleged to have altered the records at the farm obtained $1,700 through this procedure during his stay there. It was understood he was a trusty. Check Records Officials of the State Board of Charities and the State farm already‘have begun an investigation to determine how five prisoners in all gained their freedom before expiration of their sentences. One of them already has been returned to the farm, according to Howard. He said he expected the other four to be returned soon. "The board knew of this situation land began an investigation ” John A. Brown, secretary of the State charities board, said. “As yet, all records have not been checked. We can not say whether the totai number of persons who have been released before expiration of theii sentences is five.” FINED FOR DRIVING CAR WITHOUT RIGHT LICENSE Auto Recently Purchased Leads Man to Court. Although he was driving a big sedan, Boyd Bell, 30, of 2351 Sheldon St., told Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today that he was unable to finance a fine of $1 and costs on each of two charges wnen' arraigned today. The charges were failure to have proper license plates and having no certificate of title. Bell was arrested early today by Officers Albert Kelly and Ora Ice. who were looking for a car that had been stolen. On compromise. Bell paid one fine and the other- was dismissed. CHARGE AUTCIST DRUNK Arrested After Crash Wrecking Both Machines. George Grant, 31, of 3102 N. New Jersey St., today faces charges of drunkenness and driving an automobile while intoxicated as the result of an accident Monday night. Grant’s car crashed into side of another machine driven by Hallett Kilbourn, 34, of 909 Greer St., at Alabama and North Sts. Both were wrecked. While the police were investigating, G. W. Duffield, Puritan Hotel, told them that Grant had backed his car into Duffield’s machine, parked at New Jersey and Market Sts. Grant’s car was owned by the Uptown Sales Corporation, FortySecond St. and Broadway.

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TOWN MARSHAL ATTACKED AGAIN Ouster of Preacher-Officer Asked at Edinburg. Bu Timex Sped EDINBUI nd., Aug. 21.—A group of Edinourg citizens termed by W. C. Milburn, the town’s preacher-marshal, as “the roughneck element,” is circulating petitions urging that he be ousted from office. Recently petitions asking that not only the marshal, but two members of the town board held responsible for placing him in office, be ousted, w’ere in circulation, but were withdrawn. It is said few persons would sign. The latest move against Milburn followed fatal wounding of Earl Jackson by James Glass, the marshal’s deputy. Glass is held under $5,000 bond pending trial. For several months, there has been opposition to Milburn. some of the town’s citizens asserting his rigid enforcement of the law is i driving business away. BLAMED IN MINE BLAST Carelessnes sos Owners Cause of Coal Explosion, Is Report. Bti United I’rvss v HARRISSBURG, Pa., Aug. 21. Reports of the four district inspectors who investigated the explosion in the mine of the Irvona Coal and Coke Company, near Coalport, in which thirteen men lost their lives last Wednesday, today blamed the management with “carelessness” in j carrying out the provisions of the: mining laws

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Fish Feeling Bp United Press LONDON, Aug. 21.—Disciples of Izaak Walton in England are perturbed over the statement of a German Judge that fish cannot suffer pain. English fishermen disagree. According to J. R. Norman of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. London, fish have highly organized sensory systems. Therefore they suffer pain when they are hooked.

CURTIS IN CAPITAL Cheered at Washington Station. Bp United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.—Charles Curtis, Republican vice presidential nominee, was greeted by more than 300 enthusiastic friends when he arrived at the Union Station here today from his home in Kansas. After a short visit i nthe capital, Curtis will launch his eastern campaign with a speech at Rocky Point, R. I. Gypsies Forced to Move Bp United Press RUSHVILLE, Ind.. Aug. 21.—The first step in a housecleaning move by the Rush County Fair board, resulted in the dispersal of tw’O bands of gypsies who w’ere operating fortune tents. Election Car Kills Man Bp Times Special FT. WAYNE. Ind., Aug. 21.—Albert E. Perkins, 55, was killed by an interurban car Monday night while walking along the tracks near a country club where he was employed.

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LAST RITES FOR GEORGE HARVEY SET THURSDAY Former Ambassador to England Died Suddenly Monday. Bu United Press DUBLIN. N. H.. Aug. 21.—Funeral services for Col. George W. Harvey, who died at his home suddenly Monday. will be in private at his boyhood home of Peagham, Vt„ Thursday afternoon. Only the closest of friends will attend the last rites for Harvey, whose death removed one of the picturesque characters from American public and semi-public life. Colonel Harvey was an editor, whose facile w’ritings and w'hose discerning study are credited with having selected as least two men who later became > presidents of the United States. One was Woodrow Wilson and the other was Warren Harding. Discovered Wilson Harvey was credited with the “discovery” of Wilson when the latter still was President of Princeton University. Later he broke with Wilson and was a bitter enemy of the war-time Presidnt in the latter years of Wilson’s administration And it was in Colonel Harvey’s room at the Blackstone hotel in Chicago that Republican leaders agreed upon Harding as the presidential candidate in 1920. Harding and Colonel Harvey became close friends and this led to the appointment of the editor as Ambassador to the Court of St James. In London, Colonel Harvey became a prominent figure. 11l Several Weeks After returning from London he edited the Washington Post for about a year, continued his other writings and then dropped from public life. Recently Senator George Moses had urged Harvey to aid the candidacy of Herbert Hoover, but Harvey always had been opposed to the former Commerce Secretary and had been a particularly close friend of Governor Smith. Colonel Harvey had been 111 for several weeks, but his condition was not believed serious. He suffered a heart attack Thursday that caused some worry but he rallied, only to suffer a relapse Monday that resulted in his death. Mrs. Harvey and the family physician were with him when death occurred. Colonel Harvey was 64 years old, SET REZONING HEARING Council to Air Public Protests On Meridian St. Proposal. City council will hold a public hearing Sept. 3 on the city plan commission's ordinance to rezene from business to apartment the northwest corner of Twenty-Seventh and Meridian Sts. The measure was introduced in council June 18 and councilmen have delayed reporting the measure out of the works committee headed by Councilman Albert Meurer because of differences of opinion on the rezoning question. Several of the councilmen are anx ous to rezone the ordinance which others believe business should be permitted to extend to Thirtieth St. BURGLARY ATTEMPTED Jimmy Marks Found on Door of Judge’s House. Police were told by neighbors that a burglar had attempted to enter the home of Solon Enloe. appellate judge, 3726 N. Pennsylvania St. Jimmy marks were found on the door. The Enloe family is spending a vacation at the lakes.

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