Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1928 — Page 1

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WHITE LASHES ‘RUM HISIERS OF TAMMANY’ New York ‘Toddy Tipplers’ | Write Speeches for Robinsin, Charges Editor, ‘AL OBEYS WHIP CRACK’ ‘No Klansmen Ever More Serf Than Smith to Saloon and Interests.’ By United Press EMPORIA, Kansas, Oct. 2.—William Allen White, Emporia editor, today charged the “cocktail holsters of Tammany Hall’’ with preparing the speeches of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic candidate for vice president. Wihte’s statement was in keeping with his promise to have “something interesting to say.” Senator Robinson was quoted oy White as saying that White had accused Governor Alfred E. Smith of being in sympathy with immorality and vice. “I do not believe.” White said, “that Senator Robinson would issue a deliberate, malicious and obvious lie. He is a square man. But Ido believe that the cocktail hoisters of Tammany Hall, who are preparing his speeches for him, have placed him in a most embarrassing position. I have never said what he charged me with.” Mind Is “Poisoned” White had reference to portions oi Senator Robinson’s speech delivered at Wichita last night. “Let Senator Robinson produce a single anti-Tammany vote of young I A1 Smith on the saloon. ‘Tammany stood for the liquor interests when Smith was in the assembly and so poisoned his mind that honest as he was and is, courageous and smart, he thought those votes were right, and considering his political background and his political salvation they were right. “I have no criticism and never had, of Smith as a man, but as a voice of Tammany, as a Tammany leader in the Legislature and as a Tammany candidate for President his Tammany record stands as an evidence of the Tammany taint in his mind. Joe Robinson knows this.” White thanked Robinson for referring to magazine articles, written by White, in which Governor Smith was praised, and then expressed his admiration for Smith as a man. "I have the highest regard and shall always testify as to his (Smith’s) good qualities. And if for his sins of consorting with Tammany toddy tiplers who have wrecked the Democratic party so many times in the past, Joe Robinson will read a book of mine extolling Governor Smith, Joe Robinsofl will be a better and nobler man. Admires All as Man “I have printed Smith's record on the saloon, page by page, paragraph by paragraph, carefully protecting Governor Smith personally from any taint upon his character, declaring always my faith in him as a man. “What I said was that his record was a Tammany record, that he voted in the legislature invariably with the pug-uglies of Tammany whenever the saloon and its interests or associates were touched.” The Emporia editor, continuing his attack on Tammy, said that organization is “like the Ku-Klux Klan in robbing a man of his individuality and deadening his conscience.” “ ‘The records showing the long string of Tammany votes which young A1 Smith cast in the assembly prove that no Klansmen was ever more subservient to the crack of the kleagle s whip than A1 Smith in the assembly for the saloon and its interests.’ That what I really said.” Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 56 10 a. m 68 7 a. m 58 11 a. m 72 8 a. m. .... 64 12 fnoon) .. 74 9a. 68 Ip. m 77

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 114

No Derbies! City Canvass Fails- to Yield Brown Hats for Democrats.

WHAT, no brown derby? Yea, nary a brown derby in Indianapolis. This was the sad news scouts of the Young Men’s Democratic Club learned when they canvassed Indianapolis hat shops. The Young Men’s Democratic Club wanted to use 300 of them Wednesday night. Frank C. Dailey, Democratic candidate, opens his local campaign for the governorship th%t night with a meeting in the South Side Turners Hall. The club planned to march to the meeting decked in the headgear which Governor A1 Smith has made the Democratic campaign symbol. When the club scouts brought the news that there is nary a brown derby in town to Clarence P. Frenzel, club secretary, hurried conferences were held and relief calls sent to Chicago and New New York. Advisibility of rushing a shipment of the hats here by airplane was discussed. But brown derbies are bulky things and even an airplane load would not cover the heads of many young Democrats. So the Young Men’s Democratic Club will march into the Dailey meeting. Wednesday night wearing felts, fedoras or what have you. GRIEFCAUSES MAN'S SUICIDE Shoots Self as Mother Lies Near Death. Mrs. Mary Golden, 90, lay critically ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William C. Green, 436 Bosart Ave., today unaware that her son, Edward J. Golden, 60, killed himself in an adjoining room this morning. Workmen were repairing the roof of the house and no one heard the shot when Golden fired a bullet into his mouth this morning. His sister, Mrs. Green, found the body an hour and a half later. Four years ago Golden came here from Chicago where he had been a contractor and builder. Fourteen years ago his daughter had died and he had mourned her loss ever since. Then six years ago his’wife died increasing his grief, according to his sister. He had been in ill health since he lived here. GAS IS UP City to Notify Utility Soon of Action, Says Slack. Mayor L. Ert Slack today Indicated he will notify the Citizens Gas Company that the city plans taking an option on the utility in 1930 when a twenty-five year contract expires. Slack said the contract provided that the city notify the gas company of its intentions to force the option six months before the expiration of the agreement. The mayor said the city is considering taking over the utility as provided in the 1905 contract, but had taken no steps in that direction when asked his opinion of the Citizens Gas Company’s employment of counsel to advise them of their “rights and duties.” NO WORD FROM FLIER Von Huenefcld Missing Since Hop From Calcutta for Hanoi. By United Press HANOI, French Indo-China, Oct. 2.—Anxiety was expressed here today over the lack of news from Baron Gunther Von Huenefeld German aviator flying from Berlin to the Far East. Von Huenefeld left Calcutta, India, Monday on an attempted non-stop flight to Hanoi, a distance of approximately 1,200 miles.

UNDERWOOD IS SURRENDERED BY BONDSMAN Defendant Held in Crime Quiz Returned to Custody of Sheriff. DELAY SCHARFFIN MOVE Judge Collins Again Refuses to Permit Him to Act as Own Lawyer. Donald Underwood, professional bondsman, today was surrendered in Criminal Court by his bondsman, Mike Bova, and returned to the custody of the sheriff, Bova withdrawing from the $2,500 bail. Underwood was in court to file a motion to quash his indictment when Bova appeared and withdrew from the bond. Underwood is charged with conspiring with Edward Traugott, merchant; Paul Scharffin. attorney; Fred (Pickles) O’Roark, former policeman, and Homer Wright, alleged habitual criminal, to violate the liquor laws. Underwood was attempting to obtain another bondsman. The indictment was the outgrowth of the general crime investigation following the mysterious explosion which wrecked the Traugott clothing store Aug. 26. Scharffin Plea Refused Criminal Judge James A. Collins took Underwood’s motion to quash, which alleged insufficiency of the indictment, under advisement until Saturday when he will rule on similar motions of the other defendants. Scharffin was having difficulty in getting his motion to quash before Collins. He atempted to file it as his own attorney Monday, but Collins directed him to get other counsel. Later, Monday, Scharffin announced that law permitted him to be his own attorney and he intended to do so. He conferred with Collins again tod&y. The court told him he would have to get another attorney and he could have a day or so to look around for one. Sidestep Entering Pleas Traugott, Wright and O’Roark sidestepped entering pleas when Ira M. Holmes, their attorney, filed separate motions to quash for each of them. Judge Collins will rule on these later. If oerruled the defendants will enter their pleas. The indictment alleged the men conspired to sell, manufacture and transport liquor in Marion County, thereby committing a felony. Mrs. Josephine Fairhead, 713 S. Illinois St„ political worker, was named as the only witness against the men. Traugott also is under $25,000 bond in Federal Court and due to go to trial there Nov. 13 on a charge of violating the national law that prevents interstate transportation of stolen automobiles. When arraigned Monday morning, Traugott and Wright stood side by side. They smiled at each other in a friendly fashion and while notations were being made by the court, whispered to each other. Check Jewelry Records The Marion County grand jury passed the Traugott explosion case for ihe day. The jury returned to routine business and is expected to resume the blast investigation later in the week. The jury has before it a record book of the Windsor Jewelry Company which bears a number contained in a watch that- was found in Traugott’s store following the fire. The watch had one number scratched, but detectives traced the watch through a hidden number. Prosecutors know the man in whose name the watch was left at the shop. They are working on the theory that it might be one of those stolen in the Broadmoor Country Club hold-up May 30. Prosecutors, however, said the watch has not been identified. Traugott says the watch was given to him by a customer on July 4. Police officers and detectives who investigated the Broadmoor robbery were witnesses before the grand jury Monday.

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GROWTH! T Government Circulation Statements 1 for Six-Month Periods April, 19 2 5 -45,496 October, 1 925-52,454 April, 1926-54,676 October, 1926 - 60,003 April, 1927 - 62,845 October, 1927 - 65,608 April, 1928-67,147 Oct. 1928 - 70,083 SWORN STATEMENT MADE CNDEK THE POSTAL LAW Statement of the Ownership. Management. Circulation, etc., required hy the Act of Congress of August 24. 1912, of The lutlianapolis Times, published daily, except Sunday, at Indianapolis, Indiana, for October 1, 1928. State of Indiana, County of Marion, ss: Before me, a notary public in and for the State and eounty aforesaid, personally appeared Frank (. Morrison, who having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and suys that he is the Business Manager of The Indianapolis Times, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the Ownership, Management and Circulation of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24. 1912. embodied in Section 411. Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor and business manager, are: PUBLISHER Indianapolis Times r übllshing Cos. 214-220 West Maryland Street, Indianapolis, Ind. EDITOR Boyd Gurley 237 E. Fifteenth St., Indianapolis, Ind. MANAGING EDITOR Stanley A. Tullsen 282S N. Delaware St., Indianapolis, Ind. BUSINESS MANAGER Frank G. Morrison 41 E. Forty-Ninth St., Indianapolis, Ind. 2. That the owners are: Boyd Gurley, Indianapolis, Indiana; Frank G. Morrison, Indianapolis, Indiana: G. B. Parker, Houston, Texas; Hazel P. Hostetler, Cleveland, Ohio; Newton D. Baker, Cleveland, Ohio. The Thomas L. Sidlo Company, Wilmington, Delaware (through which no stockholder in said corporation owns or holds one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) The E. W. Scripps Company. Hamilton, Ohio (through which only I.obert P. Scripps, Westchester, Ohio, owns or holds indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) The Roy W Howard Company, Wilmington, Delaware (through which only Roy W. Howard, Pelham, New York, owns or holds indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times 'I üblishIng Company.) The Robert P. Scripps Company, Hamilton, Ohio (through which only Robert P. Scripps, Westchester, Ohio, owns or holds indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) The Managers Finance Company, Cincinnati, Ohio (through which the following own or hold indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) Robert P. Scripps, Westchester, Ohio: Roy W. Howard, Pelham, New York. The W. W. Hawkins Company, Wilmington, Delaware (through which the following own or hold indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) W. W. Hawkins, New York City; Margaret W. Hawkins, New York City. The Third Investment Company, Cincinnati, Ohio (through which only Robert I'. Scripps, Westchester, Ohio, owns or holds indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) The Fifth Investment Company. Wilmington, Delaware (through which no stockholder in said corporation owns or holds one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders holding 1 per cent or more of total of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: Wabash Realty and Loan Company, Terre Haute, Indiana, 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holderti, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders, as they appear upon the books of the company but also, In cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustees or In any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each Issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above Is 70,083 FRANK G. MORRISON, Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of September, 1928. (SEAL) W. B. NICEWANGER, Notary Public. My commission -xplres January 29, 1932. *

ORGANIZE AIR TRANSPORT FIRM TO LINK AMERICAS

By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 2.—Developmen tof a single airway linking North and South America and bringing the West Indies and Central America within one or two days’ traveling distance was forecast today with the completion of a $3,000,000 air transport company. The company, the Aviation Corporation of America, is taking over all outstanding stock of the PanAmerican Airways and aims to form th eworid’s largest international air transportation system for carrying both mail and passengers. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney is its

president and Richard Hoyt the chairman of the board. The new corporation will extend the present Pan-American Airways routes between the United States and the West Indies to Central and South America, gradually building up a single system which will reach down the west coast of South America. Mayor Seven Years Dies B]i United Press HAGERSAOWN. Md., Oct. 2. Charles E. Bowman, 52, for seven years mayor of Hagerstown, died today at his home here after a lingering illness.

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Rose Dolly Loses Out in $150,000,000 Will of Tobacco King. By United Press LONDON, Oct. 2.—Rosicka Dolly of the dancing Dolly sisters, who married young Mortimer Davis, son of the late Montreal tobacco magnate, has been cut off from sharing in the vast estate. Terms of the will of Sir Mortimer Davis, who died several months ago, were made public today. The estate was estimated at $150,000,000. The will stipulates that the son’s interest in the estate is to be restricted to him personally and not passed to his wife or any children they may have. The son’s marriagq to Miss Dolly in Paris in March, 1927, was kept secret for a year. It met with the strong disapproval of Sir Mortimer, although he himself had married an actress. BORN LIQUOR HATER Mrs. Willebrandt ‘Natural Dry,’ Says Mother. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Oct. 2. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant United States attorney general, was “born with a hatred of alcohol,” her mother, Mrs. D. W. Walker said here today. “My daughter’s feeling against the evil was in her blood,” Mrs. Walker recounted. “I always was °.n active campaigner for prohibition. I worked for years to help make Kansas dry. “When Mabel was three years old I took her to her first prohibition meeting. She’s been working for it ever since and she was so sincere that she carried the fight into public life.” CHARGE MANSLAUGHTER Harry Pilz Will Plead Guilty in Shooting Case. Manslaughter affidavit was filed against Harry Pilz. held in jail for the fatal shooting of Samuel Fassman last December, in Criminal Court today. Pilz was charged witfi murder but said he would plead guilty to manslaughter. The shooting occurred in a barber shop at 807 S. Meridian St. The prosecutor’s office probably will nolle the murder charge. BANDITS SLUG VICTIM Two Negroes Seriously Injure Junk Dealer; Get sl2. Two Negro bandits early this afternoon slugged and robbed Harry Goldman 330 S. Capitol Ave., a junk dealer, after they had enticed him to a vacant house near Missouri and Walnut Sts. Goldman, who was robbed of sl2, was taken to city hospital suffering from a possible skull fracture.

ASK BUS ROUTE ON MERIDIAN S! Utility Asks Shift for Butler Line. The Peoples Motor Coach Company today petitioned the public service commission for authority to operate a bus line to the new Butler University Fairview site, using Meridian St. in the route. Busses heretofore have been barred from Meridian St. and other boulevards by the city park board. Mayor Slack, however, recently declared himself in favor of the use of Meridian St. for the Butler University line. The outbound route petitioned: From Monument Circle north on Meridian St. to Thirty-Sixth St., west to Kenwood Ave., north to Thirty-Ninth St., west to Capitol Ave., north to Forty-Sixth St., west to Sunset Ave., north to Forty-Ninth St. The inbound route petitioned: East on Forty-Ninth to Capitol; south to Thirty-Ninth; east to Kenwood: south to Thirty-Sixth; east to Meridian, and south to Circle. The motor coach company, which is owned by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, set forth that it will start the line with eight busses, operating on a seven and a half minute schedule and making the round trip in sixty minutes. WARM AUTUMN DAY FOR BASEBALL CLASH Fans to Have Fine Weather for Little World Series. A warm fall day will greet baseball fans for the first local game of the “little world series” Wednesday. Weather Man J. H. Armington predicted today. It will be fair and the sun will shine. The mercury, after a drop tonight, will mount to about the same levels as today. The temperature should in the 60’s, Armington said. Today’s temperature was above normal for the first time since Sept. 16. Today’s 7 a. m. mark of 58 was 1 degree above normal. September averaged 53 degrees, 4.1 below normal. The highest mark was 88 on Sept. 14, and the lowest was 36 on Sept. 24. v The rainfall for the month was 3.4 inches, 2.48 below norma). HOOVER SHIFTS PLANS Changes Speaking Dates at Boston and New York. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Herbert Hoover has rearranged his speaking program to make his Boston address Oct. 15 and the New York City speech Oct. 22, it was announced at his personal headquarters here today.

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BACK DOWN ON FDICT TO HALT LEGIONFIGHT Armory Scrap Will Not Be Molested Tonight: Wait New Ordinance. ‘BUCK PASSED BACK’ Boxing Promoters Say They Will Welcome Test of Issue. City officials who this morning boldly declared they would enforce the city boxing ordinance fee and taxation provisions against the American Legion at the Armory or stop the scheduled bouts tonight sheathed their claws this afternoon. The Legion will not be molested tonight, but after the new boxing ordinance, now pending in council, is passed the city will attempt to collect the $lO license and 5 per cent gate receipt tax just as it does from ordinary • promoters. Councilman Robert E. Springsteen, present boxing commission chairman, said. Earlier in the day the office of City Controller Sterling R. Holt had announced that it would attempt to collect the fee and tax tonight, and that if the Legion did not take out a permit the bout would be stopped. Meanwhile, Holt laid the matter before the board of safety, upon the theory that it was charged with enforcing laws. Buck Passed Back Board President Fred W. Connell pushed the buck right along to the boxing commission, which he said “has complete authority.” Springsteen, who had been led to believe earlier in the week that the other agencies would collect or stop the bouts, said: “They have passed the buck back to me. The legal department advised me some time ago that there are flaws in the present ordinance. There is no use trying to, make a test case under tne present regulations. We are going to test the matter in the courts as soon as the new ordinance is in force.” Welcome Test Case Meanwhile the Legion officials announced they would not take out a permit, on the ground the ordinance is invalid. The Legion will welcome a test case, it was indicated. Proceeds of the bouts which the Legion has sponsored two seasons have wiped out an SII,OOO indebetedness and started a fund for entertainment of a national Legion convention here in a few years. An ordinance creating anew commission to replace the council commtitee was introduced Monday night by Springsteen, The new measure will provide a commission of four, three being citizens and the fourth the president of the safety board. License fee of $lO and 5 per cent tax on gross receipts also is provided in the revised law. The new ordinance provides that the commission members shall not be city officials and shall receive no salary. Mayor Slack suggested an amendment providing that the safety board approve the regulations adopted by the commission. Otis E. Bartholomew, former council president, today informed Mayor Slack that the Convention City Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, is contemplating boxing matches in competition with the Legion. Batholomew said the Veterans are interested in seeing that “an impartial commission” is named. HINDENBURG 81 TODAY German President Spends Occasion Quietly in Country. By United Press BERLIN, Oct. 2. Germany’s president, Paul Von Hindenburg, today celebrated his 81st birthday in the quiet of the country outside Berlin while thousands of messages of congratulations poured into the presidential office.