Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1928 — Page 1

HUE. WINGS REST BP FOR gACTION HERE Series’ Rivals Reach W City With Indian Team Holding Edge, ■CLASH ON WEDNESDAY fewetonic Hurls Hoosiers to r Second AA Classic I Victory Sunday, 5-1. I BY EDDIE ASH i Times Sports Editor ■ With the “little world’s series'* ■showing two victories for Indianlapolis, one for Rochester and one a lie, the pastimers engaged in the Klass AA diamond classic reached today to rest up before reaction at Washington 4Hc% ednesday ’ waCS Betzel’s Indians gained a 2n33l edge in Rochester Sunday than 12 200 fans, Steph fcj6iS3|ic hurling a five-hit game, Hoosiers won, 5 ot 1. It second victory of the EajLdgthe former Pittsburgh UniffSfSfiF twirler having captured the ig tilt last Wednesday, 3 to 2, jjHSeven innings. ICS?; only one stanza Sunday were fj/Q Red Wings able to solve Swerajic for /more than one safety, and jig.. was the sixth when they scored lone run. In four of the nine M.ids only three man faced him to inning. Series Schedule Changed commisisoners changed the series” schedule Saturday at a meeting in Rochester. lySion at the Indianapolis end origWlily was carded to start Tuesday, bosses reached the con-(JSraft-n Wednesday would be a bettime for Indianapolis’ first of the < lassie. It is preSffiHLcl, of cours;, the commissionjfgmde the alteration hoping the mn would be extended long RgEiih to assure a Saturday tilt in tfigSacitv and possibly a Sunday program at this end calls for Qua . Wednesday, Thursday, Satand Sunday, and more, if JgLie. Friday is left open to care KBSMi ossible postponement or tie. SK&SLribe Needs Three More SSHgTlndians must win three more FojKotatake the series honors, and RS*3teJlay game here, therefore, is ’jSKS-I Rochester must win four OpgMfi cop the honors. Many of MBjjiVfMhester players left there I frEtfijQ Incftans Simday night, Sfw3? thers are motoring here. jSßrlyffirst game here Wednesday LjyjH||the last the players will share it will be a grand epportugjlSSy f Tribe fans to turn cut and jjpiHMwell the profit for the pasEsgSp. In the player spoils the K&wfiing team takes 60 per cent of BifjH-r cent of the gross receipts and club 40. Rochester Waives Right UnjHring to the tie Saturday, BKgJfcr.ter could have demanded rlSpher game there today, but this SlSjw. was waived with the consent fifgKr-he commission to give the IgSwirs a better chance for more in Indianapolis. Manager ESB-iworth said his city is a poor town. jTßHSt'hester fans saw much base•uJSgjWluring their end of the series. jjwMliapolis won last Wednesday, eleven innings. Thursday it ffigjPr ° n Friday Rochestei won, yPiS), in nine innings. On Saturteams finished in a dead--2 and 12, twelve innings, and rjjCLjjj iday the Hoosiers won, 5 to 1, e innings. jgjraß i clubs were placed at a dis*s age by the poor condition of jlEOj playing field, which ;en used by a football team JWMfcthe “little series” started. sa£jrjncy fielding plays doubtless gjjyggflelop at this end with WashaiFark in superb shape. Mihffl erman Bel * D efea t e< l laney put the Indians on to victory Sunday when the fourth with a single was staged that got the j&jgZffles three runs. Herman Bell. Wing right-hander, with six 'jQSSrept, was given a bating by B>e. Warstler drove in one the fourth and Holke ISfcMjrlwo home. In the fifth. Rusanother run across and |?o®Miron socked in one with a sacHUy. the Hoosier hero, will be back at the International in one of the Washington probably Saturday. If p rgency arises, the young may get his third as§Prgig|t Thursday. Carl Boone will be sent at the enemy '^Sr?r ocal °P ener Wednesday. And s oone. ifc will be Leverett. Marks of Battle fra y s in Rochester were affairs, with the exception ay ’ when the Red Win g s > 'X^£bl rlayed by Swetonic's decepIn the other clashes the athletes were bruised bad hoppers and believe they will Red wings 111 short order 4^tf^lCyP astlington Park diamond was able to make onlv play in the four titlts

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Engine Takes Long Dive Over Bank Fireman Russell Winkler, 24, of 136 N. Belmont Ave„ and Engineer ‘I.;

Engine Takes Long Dive Over Bank

Fireman Russell Winkler, 24, of 136 N. Belmont Ave„ and Engineer Charles Ensminger, 46. of 27 Hendricks PL, took a wild tumble in their B. & O. engine after it backed into the caboose of a Big Four train on the Belt Rrilroad near White River bridge at 3 this morning. Ensminger incurred c few bruises and Winkler a wrenched back which sent him to Methodist Hospital, but, oh, the engine, tender and caboose! It cost the railroads a young fortune in damaged equipment. The photograph shows the wrecking crew cleaning up the mess after engine, tender and caboose had rolled down a twenty-foot embankment.

LINDY FLASHES JRE Angry Yell at Ardent Admirer

Bit United Press HAZLETON, Pa., Oct. I.—Hazleton is recovering today from a wave of hero worship over the week-end in which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was its idol.. However, the hero was not appreciative of the mob’s adoration and turned a harried, bristling front to the tribute. Forced down Saturday en route from the Middle West to New York by fog, Lindy was greeted by crowds at the airport near here. In boarding a waiting automobile a man in the crowd rushed forward and grasped the “Lone Eagle’s shoulder. Lindbergh whirled about, enraged. “Keep your hands to yourself,” he shouted. The man cowered back expecting a blow to follow the outburst. Later, a girl cheerily hailed him and Lindbergh flashed a smile in response to this. A crowd gathered at Lindbergh’s hotel. The crowd, mostly women, attempted to storm the hotel, using every possible ruse to gain admittance to his suite.

LAW WILL PART BABUIQTHER Immigration Law to Send Woman From Country. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. I.—A young Irish mother and her 3-year-old baby are to be separated under the Immigration law, it was revealed here today. Mrs. Anna F. Smith was admitted to the United States in 1922. Three years later a warrant for her deportation was issued after she was found to be subject to psychopathic tendencies. The young mother dodged service on the warrant until early this year when she was found living near Miami, Fla., and was removed to in institution in Atlanta, Ga., so rtreatment. After three months she was given thirty days in which to arrange to leave the country. Again she vanished and was found recently in Yorktown, Va. Immigration authorities say they are compelled to deport Mrs. Smith because of her psychopathic tendencies. Her baby will remain with its father, an American. BULLET HITS KITCHEN Mystery Shot Goes Through Door. A mystery bullet went through the kitchen door of the home of Mrs. Albert L. Davis, 2240 Brookside Ave., Sunday night.

Baseball Over WFBM When play in the “little world’s series” is resumed on the home grounds of the Indians Wednesday, baseball fans unable to get into the park will have the thrills of the game brought to them over WFBM by Blythe Hendricks and his assistants, who will broadcast the play-by-play progress of the home games direct from the press box at Washington Park, starting at 2:00. Thousands of phone calls, wires and letters have been received at The Times office since start of the series last Wednesday, congratulating The Times and WFBM on the excellence of the broadcast. Hendricks has been given especially high praise for his wbrk by all the fans, who are “for” him as never before. The Times scoreboard will be in operation again Wednesday, giving complete play by play of the Indians-Rochester game. On Thursday, the scoreboard will start carrying play by play of the world series games between the Cardinals and Yankees. Don’t miss these big Times parties.

CABIN PLANE OFFERED FOR CITY’S FIRST SKY WEDDING

An opportunity for some young couple of Indianapolis to be literally, as well as figuratively “up in the clouds,” as the minister makes them man and wife, was offered today by Bob Shank and Harold C. Brooks, owners of Hoosier airport, Kessler Blvd. and Lafayette pike. The airport officials have agreed to donate the use of their hew Travel Air monoplane, seating six persons including the pilot, for the first aerial wedding a mile above the earth in Indianapolis. Aside from the pilot, there will be room for the bride and bridegroom, two attendants, and, of course, the “sky pilot,” or minister.

Radio Meals WASHINGTON. Oct. I. The Great American housewife soon can get out her pencil and take daily dictation from Uncle Sam as to what she’ll serve the family for dinner. Broadcasting of menus and recipes by “Aunt Sammy” a radio institution of the Department of Agriculture, was to begin today over most of the large radio stations from coast to coast.

BIG LEASE CLOSED Pennsylvania and Tenth Site T£ken for 99 Years. Closing of a 99-year lease on the old Perkins property, southwest corner Pennsylvania and Tenth Sts., for a rental of approximately $175,000 for the ninety-nine years, was announced today by Robert MacGregor, local relator. The land was leased to MacGregor by Mrs. Susan E. H. Perkins. He will construct a commercial building on the site, MacGregor said. Within the next ten years Pennsylvania St., south of Sixteenth St., will be lined almost exclusively with high-grade apartment buildings and hotels and the necessary commercial buildings, MacGregor predicted. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m— 49 10 a. m.. 62 7 a. m.... 50 ll a. m 64 Ba. m.... 54 12 (noon). 66 9 a. m.... 60

Comfortable individual seats for each of the persons participating in the ceremony are afforded by the monoplane, one of the latest developments in aerial travel. The marriage, as far as the use of the airplane is Concerned, will be entirely without cost, the only expense being the pcipe of the license and the ministers** fee. The offer of the airport officials provides for only one couple, and the first prospective bride and bridegroom wishing a “mile-high” wedding '-within the present week to notify The Times Aviation Editor of their desire will be accorded the privilege.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, OCT. 1, 1928

STORM PARLEY TO AID SETTLE 150 Farmers Attend State Bureau Meeting to Defend Chief. One hundred and sixty farmers saying they represent all farm districts of the State, stormed a meeting of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation directors today to de- | fend William H. Settle, federation ■ president, against criticism for his indorsement of the Democratic agricultural relief program. The federation claims a membership of 100,000. The farmers met at the Denison Hotel where the adopted a resolution warmly congratulating Settle and then marcher en masse to farm bureau headquarters in the Lemcke Bldg, where the resolution was read to the directors by L. K. Wyckoff, Valparaiso. The resolution expressed adherence to principles of farm relief as embodied in the McNary-Haugen bill and championed by Settle. “We believe,” the resolution said, “the McNary-Haugen bill embodied the only practical method yet proposed to extend equality to agriculture and to divert disastrous fluctuations through surplus control, without Government subsidy, Government price-fixing or Government buying or selling.” Indorse Settle Stand The resolution declared that there had been no d.ssession in ranks of the membership over the McNaryHaugen bill and said that Settle and directors would be “traitors to the farmers of Indiana and personal cowards,” if they departed from these principles. The resolution blamed upon “a few paid political emissaries” the storm of criticism which centered over Settle and Farm Bureau directors since they gave indorsement to the Democratic national platform. Indorsement of Settle and the directors was contained in the resolution which condemned politicians “in our own ranks who are seeking now to discredit our leadership and to embarrass our great organization for purely selfish and political reasons.” Settle Issues Challenge Introducing the delegation to Settle and the directors Perry Rule, Boone County, said: "We’re with you now, first last and all the time. Thank God, we’ve got a Bill Settle, who has the audacity, nerve and ability to go but and fight our battles. We glory in his spunk.” Settle responded, admitting that his course had been made difficult by antagonism bom in political opposition. He labeled as a lie attacks which have been made against him in a poltical amphlet, “Farmer Dick’s Pitchfork,” generally understood to be sponsored by Alfred Hogston, State fire marshal, and his friend, Harry G. Leslie, Republican nominee for Governor. “There are a bunch of Republicans in Indiana who have undertaken to ruin my character. I challenge them to have a committee of Democrats and Republicans appointed to see if I haven’t kept within the bounds prescribed by the Farm Federation Bureau,” he said. FRAT INITIATION FATAL University of Texas Youth Killed by Shock of Electric Stunt. Bv United Press AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. I.—Nolte McElroy, 19, of Houston, student in the University of Texas, accidentally was killed by an electric shock here Sunday night during a fraternity initiation. McElroy fainted when he started to crawl between two springs connected through a reostate to the city’s power. He died fifteen minutes later. Inaugurate Juries in Japan Bn United Press TOKIO, Oct. I.—The jury system for trials was inaugurated today, considered an important advancement for the modernization of the administration of justice. The emporor inspected the proceedings and new methods in the Supreme Covxt.

U. S. Sleuths to Snoop for Frat Houses' Booze Bp Un'tcd Press ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. I.—Federal “snoopers” visiting fraternity houses, smelling breaths and tapping hip pockets, to determine whether students are drinkers, are possibilities today by opponents of President Clarence Cook Little’s plan to “dry up the University of Michigan campus.” The University authorities, meanwhile, sided with President Little's proposal to invite Federal prohibition agents to investigate alleged drinking on the campus. The action is aimed directly at parties which are staged at fraternity houses—many of which are of the most exclusive sort. The majority of these parties occur during the football season, and Dr. Little’s next step calls for cooperation of the fraternities and their alumni.

LAWYERS HIRED BY GAS COMPANY TO ACT IN CITY MOVE TO WIN OWNERSHIP

Will Protest Interests of Stockholders, Trustees Announce. Trustees of the Citizens Gas Company today moved to protect interests of stockholders In the movement of the city administration to take over the gas plant as a municipal utility in 1929. The trustees took public cognizance of the movement in a statement to stockholders, announcing that lawyers have been employed to advise the board as to its “powers rights and duties.” John W. Holtzman, corporation counsel, has announced the city will seek to close the option to buy the gas plant, contained in the contract entered into between the city and company in 1905, wfen the contract expires early in 1930. The trustees did not indicate whether they would oppose or agree to municipal ownership, merely stating: "When advised, the trustees expect to take such action as their duty may require.” The statement to stockholders: "The franchise contract between the Citizens Gas Company and the city of Indianapolis, entered into in 1905, provides that at the expiration of the period of twenty-five years, the city may acquire the plant and property of the gas company upon certain specified terms. “The trustees of the Citizens Gas Company are aware of the increasing discussion and interest in the question of the right of the city of Indianapolis to acquire the plant and property of the Citizens Gas Company upon the terms speefied in the 1905 franchise. They are fully conscious of the importance of that question to the stockholders of the company, to the consumers of gas, and to the public generally. The trustees are desirious of employing and have employed independent counsel to advise them of their powers, rights and duties. When advised, the trustees expect to take such action as their duty may require. “This action by the trustees, while taken independently, is with the full knowledge and consent of the board of directors.” The statement was signed by Henry Kahn, Robert Lieber, G. A. Schnull, Thomas L. Sullivan and Lucius B. Swift.

Tuesday’s the Last Day Are the morals of the present generation in danger? In the ultra-modern story, “Our Dancing Daughters,” now at Loew’s Palace, the question is brought forward, “which type of girls do men marry?” Do they choose the modem dance-mad flapper who seems to crave only thrills and sensations, or do they wed some innocent and inexperienced maid?” What has flaming youth to say for itself? You modem girls and boys, what is your opinion f Which kind of girls make the best wives, the dance and cigaret-smoking one, ready for her share of petting, or the demure and sweet stay-at-home girl? ■ : y;For the best answer to the question sent to the “Dancing Daughters Contest Editor” of The Times by Tuesday noon there is a cash award of sls; for the second best answer $lO. The twenty-five who send in the next best answers will be sent pairs of tickets to “Our Dancing Daughters,” which stays all week at Loew’s Palace. You need not send a long answer. Twenty-five words may tell your opinion and reasons or it may take a hundred.

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Four Flusliers Two ‘Live’ Guys Wash Out and Mamie and Flossie Walk Home.

WHAT PRICE ROMANCE! A play in three acts based on a Sunday night police report. ACT I. An Indianapolis street comer. Mamie and FUvisey are chatting merrily, each watching the approach of every motor car. A machine draws up to the curb and a horn toots. Two youths beckon. Mamie—'Whatcha think. Flossy, they look like live ones to me. Shall we go? Flossy—Believe me they better be live ones. I’m starved. They look like they had plenty jack at that. Boy, they’ll need it, I could eat a cow. Mamie—Well let’s make a break. We can say something about not eatin’. ACT n The girls get in the machine and a bottle is produced. The youths drink freely, the girls sparingly. First Youth—Well, where’ll we go? Mamie—l know a peach of a restaurant up on— Second Youth—Aw you don’t wanna eat yet. Take a drink. Flossy—Boy friend, we want food. ACT HI A restaurant. A bonteous meal has been finished as has the bottle. The foursome prepares to depart. First Youth—Hie’, let’s beat it outa here. I’m not holdin’ any dough. Second Youth—Yeah, let’s go. I ain’t got a dime. An argument with the proprietor follows. The boys vanish and police enter. The girls, their faces glum, pay the check. ACT IV. Mamie and Flossy are en route home, on foot. Flossy—You're some picker, ain’t you. Live ones, bah. Mamie—Well, how yuh going to always pick ’em? Exit.

ARRAIGN TRAUGOTT, PHAYER AND OTHERS HELD IN CITY CRIME RING INVESTIGATION

$25,000 Bond Is Made for Michael Glenn, Who Gives Up. REACHED CITY SUNDAY Former Officer Drove From Long Island, Where he Is Employed. Michaet J. Glenn, former Indianapolis traffic inspector, submitted to arrest at the United States marshal’s office today upon a Federal grand jury indictment, returned last week, charging him with participating in disposal of a stolen automobile. This was one of the incidents in the group growing out of the investigation of .the interstate automobile theft ring. Glenn was accompanied by William J. Mooney, wholesale druggist, and John F. Darmody, candy manufacturer, who signed his $25,000 bond. He was immediately released. He will be arraigned Saturday. Reached City Sunday Glenn said he reached the city Sunday. It was understood he drove from Long Island, N. Y., where he is employed. He refused to comment upon the case. Several days ago he was in the city and explained that the “hot” car which passed through his hands to Frank Wolf, vice president of H. P. Wasson & Cos., also indicted, came to him from a man he had been led to believe was merely a bootlegger desiring to liquidate his assets. Glenn’s arrest brought the total of those under bond or still in custody in the automobile theft inquiry to seventeen. Two men indicted are being sought. W. Lee Smith, former grand dragon of the Ku-Klux Klan. charged with being in the general theft conspiracy, obtained liberty under $25,000 surety bond late Saturday after having been in Marion County jail two days. Robert F. McNay, former Klan titan; Dr. Fred V. Binzer of Terre Haute; Bertram Libowitz and William Laffey were defendants who remained in jail unable to provide $25,000 bonds. Jury Resumes Probe Marion County grand jury today resumed itj investigation of the blast-wreckirg of the Traugott clothing store, 215-17 W. Washington St., Aug. 26. This and the theft ring inquiry have dovetailed because some of the same persons have been questioned in each. The grand jury was expected to consider facts surrounding the finding of a watch, with one number scratched out, in the Traugott store safe soon after the explosion and the tracing of this watch through a remaining number to a jewelry store for repair a few days before the explosion. Prosecutor’s agents are tracing ownership of the watch. Worried About Ring Edward Traugott, one of the clothing store owners declared the watch was given to him July 4 by a friend who bought merchandise valued at $13.40. He said he remembered the incident because it was a holiday and the store vt’as closed, but he let the customer in. The man did not have any money iio he took the watch as security, he said. He filed the watch in the safe, but the customer never redeemed it. The store owner said he was beginning to be worried about a $1,400 diamond ring he had left in the safe before it was opened by the investigators after the fire. “I have had that ring for fifteen years. The stone weighs 2.38 karats,” said Traugott. “I have not been able to trace it or find out whether the officials found it in the safe.” Attaches of the arson division of the State fire marshal’s office, who supervised openin gos the safe, said no such ring was found in it. HERO LEGION GUEST Lord Allenby Arrives in U. S. Tuesday for Convention. Bit United Press NEW YORK, Oct. I.—Lord Allenby. leader of “the last crusade,” who captured Jerusalem from the Turks will arrive in New York Tues day aboard the Majestic to the guest of the American Legion at its convention in San Antonio, Texas, this monthv. He w.' ’ be the guest of honor of the Pilgrims of the United States at a banquet Thursday evening. Car Runs Into River; 2 Hurt When the car in which they were riding hurdled into Pleasant Run at E. Tenth St., Sunday, Frieda Harris, 35, 138 N. Tuxedo St., and Herbert Todd, 39, 3608 . Tenth St., were cut, bruised and shocked. They were taken from the water by Edgar Silver, R. R. H, and taken home.

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Owner of Blast-Razed Store. O’Roark, Wright in Criminal Court. FILE MOTIONS TO QUASH Judge Collins Refuses to Let Scharffin Act as Own Attorney. Nearly eighty persons, among them the dozen who figure in the general Indianapolis crime investigation, faced arraignment in Criminal Court today. The chief figures in the probe, Edward Traugott, Fred (Pickles), O’Roark, Homer Wright, alleged Louis gangster; Charles Phayer, suspect in the Broadmoor Country Club holdup; Clarence Douthitt, Claude Poland, Ray (Railroad) Smith, Solly Epstein, Bertram Libowitz, whose brother, Harold, was burned to death in the mystery fire and explosion of the Traugott store, and Paul Scharffin, attorney, all were among those present. File Motion to Quash Traugott, O’Roark and Wright, indicted for conspiracy in transporting liquor in Marion County, filed motions to quash the indictments through their attorney, Ira Holmes. Judge James A. Collins took the motion under advisement. Scharffin, an attorney, indicted on a similar charge, attempted to file a motion to quash as his own lawyer but Judge Collins refused to accept it and gave Scharffin until 9 a. m. Tuesday to obtain counsel.. Scharffin, after leaving the court, investigated the law on the matter, and announced he had a right to act as his own attorney and intends to do so. The liquor conspiracy grew out of the general inquiry into explosion and the alleged automobile theft ring being made by county, State and Federal authorities. Underwood Is Absent Four men arrested in a raid on a pool room at 18 S. Capitol Ave., and indicted for possession and sale of liquor, pleaded not guilty at their arraignment today. They are Clarence Douthitt, Claude Poland, Claude O’Roark and Thomas Reilly. Arraigned on charges of conspiracy to defeat justice, Ray Smith, Joie Jacobs, Harry Burton and Solly Epstein filed motions to quash which will be ruled on Saturday. The specific charges against them are presenting a false witness in a gambling case. Max Goldsmith and Hymie Nahomit, indicted for impersonation in the case, pleaded not guilty. Donald Underwood, indicted with Traugott, O’Roark, Scharffin and Wright, failed to appear for arraignment and Scharffin, who told the court he received a telegram from Underwood from an Ohio town, promised to have him appear this afternoon. STATE NEARS CLOSE IIT TRIAL OF ARSON CASE Expected to Rest Today in Armstrong Prosecution. The State this afternoon was expected to rest its case against Clarence Armstrong, 811 N. Dearborn St., charged with firing his warehouse, 1329 Deloss St., last July for $6,500 worth of Insurance. John G. Willis, former attache of the State fire marshal’s office, who conducted an investigation of the fire, testified this morning. The defense plans to call several witnesses to show that the fire originated from defective wiring that caused a gasoline tank to catch fire. CHAPLAIN TO SPEAt* Addresses Father and Son Meeting Tuesday. The Rev. Lyman C. Murr, chaplain of the State Reformatory at Pendleton, will be the speaker at a community “Father and Son” meeting to be held by the Men’s Bible Class of the North Baptist Church in the church, Fifty-Second and Sangster Sts., Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. Mr. Murr has been reformatory chaplain since 1909. CITY WORKMAN INJURED Sanitation Plant Employe Catches Hand In Machine. James W. McGuire, 59, 2230 Martha St., a workman at the Indianapolis sanitation plant at Eaglewood, suffered a mangled right hand early this morning when he lost his balance and fell into a carrier machine he was feeding. SPRINGS FOR PULLMANS Hair Mattresses Banned on Pennsylvania De Luxe Sleepers. Bn United Pri ss l WASHINGTON, Oct. I.—Pullman I travelers on Pennsylvania system I de luxe trains will sleep on spring I mattresses hereafter, it was an- I nounced today.’tThe road is doingl away with old hair curler)J mattresses. > J