Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1928 — Page 3

SEPT. 22. 1928.

NEW EVIDENCE IN POWER QUIZ BEFORE BOARD Federal Commission to Air Utility Propaganda Tuesday. BY CECIL OWEN. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept, 22.—New evidence of attempts by power interests to influence the public, the press, and colleges on controversial questions was before the Federal Trade Commission today after three days of open hearings in its renewed utility propaganda inquiry. Through testimony and documentary evidence, ttye commission this week developed a surveillance of the New Jersey Legislature; close relations between lowa colleges and utilities; and distribution to editors of a news service secretly paid for by the Alabama Power Company. Bought Hoover Speech "Widespread distribution of utilities propaganda pamphlets and payments to numerous prominent individuals for speeches, articles and expenses were shown through records of the National Electric Light Association. Matter sent out by this organization included a speech by Herbert Hoover favoring State as against Federal utility regulation. Those shown to have been paid for speeches included William Allen White, Kansas editor, who referred to utility men as “priests of anew order” in a talk before a utility convention in 1925. Link lowa College Turning its spotlight on New Jersey utilities, the investigation disclosed that the New Jersey Utilities Association has lobbied against many bills in the State Legislature at Trenton. Prof. Theodore J. Grayson, University of Pennsylvania, was active in this work, according to the testimony. Letters entered in the record showed that utility conferences were held at lowa State University at the suggestion of Dean C. C. Williams, who promised to cooperate with the power industry. No hearing was held today, and the next session will be Tuesday.

RITES FOR J. W. REED ARRANGED FOR SUNDAY Body Will Be Tawen to Markle, Ind., for Burial. Funeral services of John W. Reed. 61. of 2950 Princeton PL. who died suddenly at the Methodist Hospital Thursday, will be held at the home at 9 a. m. Sunday, and at Markle, . 1 'ld., at 2 p. m. Mr. Reed, who was oorp at Canton. Ohio, lived the greater part of his life at Markle, Huntington, and for the last fifteen years, at Indianapolis. He was a timber buyer and contractor. He was a member of the Elks lodge at Huntington. Besides the widow’. Mr. Reed is survived by a daughter, Miss Jessie Reed, treasurer of the Millis Advertising Company, who resides with her parents; a son, Mark Reed, 2035 N. Meridian St.; three sisters, Mrs. John Lamiell, Mrs. Harry Fife, and Mrs. John Pollock, and two brothers, George and Dudley Reed, all of Canton, Ohio. Burial will be in the Markle cemetery. DEDICATE MEADLAWN CHURCH SUNDAY NIGHT Latest Building of Christian Denomination Completed. Dedication of the Meadlawm Christian Church on Fletcher Ave. east of Sherman Dr., latest addition to the Christian churches of Indianapolis, will take place Sunday night. A series of services will be held in the new church, beginning Tuesday evening and continuing through the week. Each evening these services will be in charge of a local Christian Church pastor. A series of Sunday school and week night services will follow' the introductory ceremonies and continue for two weeks. ROBBED: CAR STOLEN Youth Thrown From Machine by Bandit Pair. “Taken for a ride” in his own automobile by two bandits Friday njght. Edward Druege, 19, of 1512 N. Oxford St., was robbed of a small amount of change and a gold ring and w'as throwm from his machine on a lonely road and forced to w r alk home. \ The bandits accosted Druege while he was waiting for a traffic signal change at Walnut St. and Massachusetts Ave., pointed pistols at hiri and entered his car. He was forced to drive to a point three miles from Beech Grove, where he was robbed and thrown the machine. HELD ON FIVE CHARGES Jail Man for Threatening Crowd With Shotgun. Charged with drunkenness, assault and battery, drawing a deadly weapon and attempt to commit a criminal attack and resisting an officer, Frank Farmer, 32, of 718 E. Market St., was taken to city jail Friday night. He was arrested while threatening persons at Noble and Ohio Sts. w'ith a shotgun. p, - Woman Struck by Auto Mrs. Darby Muryan. 44. of 2833 E. Michigan St., w r as bruised about the body today when she was struck by an automobile driven by John Balker, 22, of 31 S. Oriental St., at Michigan and Rural Sts. Police took Mrs. Muryan home.

Surprised to Hear He’s in Vice President Race

Dr. H. Q. Alexander, country doctor who is running for vice presi dent, is prouder of his twin daughters than of his nomination.

But Physician Allows His Name to Adorn Ticket; He’ll Vote for Al. CHARLOTTE, N. C.. Sept. 22. Out of the 'busy, but quiet life of a country physician—a life he had lived for forty years in the community of Providence, a dozen miles from here—the distinction of nomination for the vice presidency came to Dr. H. Q. Alexander. “I'm very much surprised, but I accept,” was Dr. Alexander’s response. How surprised he was may be judged friMn the fact he previously had not oeen identified in any way with the Farmer-Labor party, which nominated him and does not know r any of the party’s national leaders,' He’ll Vote for AI His friends always had regaded him as a stanch Democrat, and Dr. Alexander said he would vot . for Al Smith for President. “I don’t know yet just how it happened,” Dr. Alexander said, smilingly. “I received a telegx-am from the Farmer-Labor ( party’s executive committee asking whether I would accept the nomination it it were offered me. I replied that I would, thoueh I would not be able to make an active campaign. “I accepted in a spirit of protest against the platforms of our two main political parties.” Dr. Alexander. 65. sat in a large old-fashiongd rocker on the porch of his country home as he talked. His 4-year-old twin daughters perched on his knees. Opposed to Prohibition He mentioned the McNary-Kau-gen bill, the present banking system of the country, and the Volstead act as some of his pet political aversions. "Wall Street bankers, not over production, have caused the present low' prices, for farm products.” he said. Dr. Alexander has run a large farm as well as conducted a medical practice throughout his life in Mecklenburg county. He supported prohibition, but believes "something is radically wrong with the Volstead law as it now' stands or with enforcement of it.” TRIBUTE TO JUDGE Courts to Attend Funeral of Ethan A. Dausman. Members of both the Supreme and Appellate Courts today made plans to attend the funeral of Judge Ethan A. Dausman at Goshen Monday. Judge Dausman died at the home of his son, Guy W. Dausman, Friday, after two years’ illness. He w T as 66 and had served on the Appellate bench for the last eight years, being elected first in 1920 and again in 1924 on the Republican ticket. The Goshen services w'ill be at the son’s home at 2 p. m., Monday. The Rev. William Caughran, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Indianapolis, will officiate. Judge Dausman was a native of Elkhart and practiced law at Goshen from 1892 until his election to the court. He w'as a Democrat until the Bryan free silver campaign, but became a Republican then and later w'as prominent in organization work, being at one time Republican county chairman. Fire Damage Is $750,000 lijl United Press LAHORE. India, Sept. 22.—Fire which raged all day in the bazaar quarter of Srinagar, capital of Kushnir. destroyed 100 buildings contaaining 300 shops. Property damage was estimated at $750,000. More than 1.000 persons areTiOmeless.

24 LOCAL PERSONS PUT IN WHO’S WHO

Brings Total of Names From Indianapolis to 165. Twenty-four new Indianapolis names have won their way through the portals of the 1928-29 Who’s Who in America, just published. The newcomers swell the total of Indianapolis Who’s Who names to 165. Death and removal from the city accounts for the absence of fourteen names from the Indianapolis list of 1927. The new members of Who's Who: Clarence E. Ayres, teacher; L. J. Bailey, librarian; R. H. Bryson.,

CONGRESS SEAT BATTLELOOMS Reapportionment Advocates Plan Drastic Tactics. 1 By Times special WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Advocates of congressional reapportionment will resort to extreme tactics to force passage of a bill redistributing House seat's, now eight years overdue, in violation of the constitutional mandate. Governor Fred W. Green of Michigan, one of the chief losers from the delay, has served notice he will file court action questioning the legality of measures affecting his State. The suit will be brought on the ground that failure to reapportion the House as provided by the Constitution makes all bi\Js unconstitutional. Some experts already have hinted that, should the presidential election be close, the losing side might go into the courts with the claim that the electoral college as now constituted had no legal basis. Electoral votes are based on the number of Representatives and Senators each State has. Representative McLeod, Michigan, is trying to form a filibustering bloc to hold up all legislative business at the December session unless a reapportionment bill is given the right of way. Though his obstructive proposal may not succeed, he has received promises of support from 150 members. The bill w'as defeated last year. CITY CONTRACTS LET Eleven Public Improvements to Cost $176,000. Eleven public improvement contracts totaling $176,000 were awarded today by the board of works on recommendation of A. H. Moore, city engineer. Contracts awarded: Bright St., New York to North St., William Vogle, concrete pavement, $8,401; Hadley St., Agnes to Hiawatha St., A. D. Bow’en, concrete paving, $4,129; Hoyt Ave., Sherman Dr. to Denny St.. Schwert Brothers, cement walks, $1,352; Hoyt Ave., Sherman Dr. to Denny St., grading and curbing, Schwert Brothers, $2,119; Patterson St., Michigan to Walnut Sts., W. D. Vogel, concrete pavement and curb, $6,248. Pleasant Run, south drive and other streets from Farrington Ave. to Wentworth Blvd., Columbia Construction Company, main sewer, $87,000; Greenbriar Lane, Hillside Ave. to Jefferson Ave., J. H. King & Cos., local sewer, $3,313; Primrose Ave., Sixtieth to alley north of Fifty-Ninth St., J. H. King Company, local sewer, $2,173; Primrose Ave., Sixtieth to alley south of Sixty-Third St., American Construction Company, local sewer, $4,781. Keystone Ave., other strews, Pleasant Run to Minnesota and in Minnesota St., from Keystone to Hobart St., Columbia Construction Company, main sewer, $48,739; Eleventh St., over the canal, Wrightsm%n and Gray, bridge, $9,083. College Trustee Elected Bji Times Special NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind., Sept. 22.—Trustees of Manchester College, in session here, elected Charles E. Forror, Brethren, Mich., as a trustee, to succeed the late G. F. Culler.

postmaster; D. L. Chambers, publisher; Robert F. Daggett, architect; C. M. Dinsmore, church official; J. Ambrose Dunkel, clergyman; Wiliam L. Elder, realtor; Ira 11. Ellis, public service; Boyd Gurley, editor of The Indianapolis Times; Emmett F. Harte, writer; John W. Holtzman, lawyer; Arthur Jordan, capitalist; Oscar R. McKay, clergyman; Felix M. McWhirter, banker; Charles F. Miller, superintendent of schools; Dick Miller, banker; Harry O. Pritchard, educator; Virgil E. Rore, cleyman; Gertrude M. Shields, writer; James A. Stuart, editor; Robert H. Tyndall, banker; Edward F. White, editor; Thomas Wynnes mechanical engineer.

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HELP HOOVER, DRY’S APPEAL TO METHODISTS Indiana Conference Hears Anti-Saloon League Official. By Times Special SEYMOUR. Ind.. Sept. 22. here attending the ninetyseventh annual session of the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church today had before them a plea to support Herbert Hoover’s .Candidacy for President. Support of Hoover was recommended by Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, Washington. D. C.. general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America In an address to the conference. He declared Hoover "observes the prohibition law and has a long standing favorable record.” Referring to Governor Alfred E. Smith. Dr. Mcßride asserted ‘he has been in public life for more than twenty years and was started on his way to political advancement by the wet interests. The most that can be said of him is that he has never failed or faltered in his obedience to th#ln.” Bishop Edgar Blake of the Indianapolis area attacked the naval expansion program of the United States in addressing the conterence Referring to use of the nation’s armed forces. Bishop Blake declared “I am willing to send our sons to protect an American life, but I am not willing to send them to protect an American dollar.”

STUMPS FOR HOOVER Californian Coming Here on State Tour. Montaville Flowers, educator and lecturer. Republican nominee for Congressman from California in 1918, will his swung through Indiana next week, campaigning for Herbert C. Hoover. Republican presidential nominee. Flowers' itinerary was announced today by Leland K. Fishback, head of the State speakers’ bureau. It follows: Connersville, Sept. 26; Kokomo. Sept. 27 Terre Haute, Sept. 28; Indianapolis Klwanis Club, Claypool. noon. Sept. 29; Evansville,* Sept. 30. and Bloomington, Oct. 6. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of the late President, and himself former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is scheduled for one address in Indiana, Fishback announced. Roosevelt will address Wayne County and sixth district Republicans at a rally at Cambridge City Oct. 3. Edgar D. Bush, Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor, has the following speaking engagements next week: Sunman, Sept. 24; Muncie. Sept. 25; Bedford, Sept. 26; Terre Haute Kiwanis Club. Sept. 27, and Porter County fair at Valpariso, Sept. 28.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to the police as having been stolen: Charles E. Droege, 1512 N. Oxford St., Velie sedan, 28-122, from Massachusetts Ave. and Walnut St. Louis Hartman, 241 I W. ThirtyFirst St., Ford coupe, 664-844, from Washington Park. J. W. Fugett, 4901 E. TwentyFirst St., Ford truck, T 7-634, from Senate Ave. and Market St. Jacob Goldfarb, 3419 Winthrop Ave.. Auburn sedan, 10-950. from in front of Marott Hotel. This car has been stolen four times and once It was used In a holdup of a theater at College Ave. and Forty-Second St.) Warren Hallock, 1518 W. Twen-ty-Second St., Chevrolet coupe, 618-686, from Senate Ave. and Washington St. Frank Rainondl, 602 Stevefis St.. Ford touring, 702-790, from Delaware and Washington Sts.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen atuomobiles recovered by the police: William Phipps, 913 E. FortyNinth St., Ford sedan at Meridian and Ohio Sts. Overland coupe, painted green over red or maroon, no certificate of title, no license plates, engine numbers filed off, found in a deep ditch east of 300 block on Tibbs Ave. Russell Laish, Plainfield, Ind., Ford roadster, found at Indiana Ave. and California St. Roy Coroles, Flat Rock, Ind., Ford roadster, found in front of 34 E. Georgia St. Harold Hawley, 2225 College Ave., Moon sedan, found at Senate Ave. and Washington St. (This car was used in three holdups Friday morning.)

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Officials of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals weren't favorably impressed by efforts of "Lucky.” prize-winning police dog, to swim down the Hudson River from Albany to New York, in daily stages of ten or twelve miles. They threatened to stop the swim after "Lucky” reached Poughkeepsie. John Schweigart, the dog’s owner, threatened injunction proceedings. "Lucky” let others do the arguing; he kept quiet.

Graphic Florida Storm - Story Is Told in Letter

Scarcely a House Left Whole in Palm Beach, Woman Says. A graphic picture of the storm that swept Florida is given in a letter from Mrs. F.mersop Cook of West Palm Beach. Fla., received today by her mother. Mrs. J. F. Quigley. 618 E. Twenty-First St. The letter: I hope I never live to go through anything like that again. West Palm Beach and Palny Beach are nearly completely destroyed. I simply can't begin to describe the horror of the whole thing. It started Sunday afternoon and by 6 o'clock it didn’t seem than we could possibly escape with our lives. I had a suitcase packed thinking that if we had to get out in a hurry we would at least have a ew dry clothes. We slept all Sunday night with our clothes on. Sunday afternoon the water simply poured in the windows in spite of the fact that we had them all boarded up. That was nothing to what nearly everyone else went through. The roofs blew off of al! the houses and a lot of them simply crumbled. There scarcely is a whole building

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STATE ENDEAVOR RALLY Christian Union Holds Meeting Monday. The quarterly rally of the Marion County Christian Endeavor Union will be held Monday night at the First U. B. Church, Walnut St. and Park Ave. Harold L. Singer of Kansas City, mid-west field secretary of the International Christian Endeavor Union, will speak.

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!STRATON SLAPS BACK AT SMITH j Follows on Al's Trail in •Whisper’ Attack. r OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Sept. 22.—The hall in which Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. Democratic candidate for President, Thursday night bitterly indicted his opponents for an alleged "whispering campaign.” Friday night, echoed to a counter-attack by Dr. John Roach Stratton, Baptist minister of , the New York Calvary Church. “I have come to you tonight for a few more whisperings.’ ’’ the minister told his audience of’several thousand persons. "I am here to whisper slyly to you tonight.” "Governor Smith has run to cover from the assault upon his record,” Straton continued. "He was instructed to ignore me. "But how absurd Is the position into which he has gotten himself, iHe cannot ignore Straton, and | Bishop Cannon, and William Allen White and Superintendent Miller of the New York Civic League, or others of s who really know his record.” The Governor, Dr. Straton said, "completely side-stepped the real issues over his record as a public man, in his adroit speech.”

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