Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1928 — Page 1

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SMITH OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSEE Attacks ‘Evasiveness’ of Hoover in Speech at Chattanooga. NO CHANCE TO DEBATE Democratic Nominee May Make Talk at Nashville Tonight. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent CHATTANOOGA, Term., Oct. 12. —Governor Alfred E. Smith opened his campaign in the South here today with an attack upon the “evasiveness’' of his presidential opponent, Herbert Hoover. “Political campaigns in years have been in the nature of debates, but I don’t hear anything from my Opponent,” Governor Smith said. “He only speaks every two weeks,” Smith continued. “Even that wouldn’t be so bad but you can’t find anything in his speeches to argue with him about when he does speak.” Governor Smith’s speech was heard by several thousand persons, who gathered in the auditorium. Smith delivered a brief address thanking southern Democracy for its reception. “I don’t know what kind of a time Joe Robinson is having but I’m having the time of my life,” Smith said. “I wouldn’t miss it for anything in the world.” May Speak at Nashville The speech was the climax of a two-hour reception here which included a parade through the main streets. After the address Smith returned to his special train and set out for Nashville, where he is expected to deliver a longer speech tonight. Democratic leaders here have told the Governor he may lose Tennessee unless he makes the Nashville speech. They say his position on the Muscle Shoals and immigration issues have been misrepresented and that the Republicans are hotly contesting the election. Governor Smith was not scheduled to speak in Tennessee. He intended to cover the border States situation in his Louisville (Ky.) Speech Saturday night, but he began working on the new speech last night as his train was leaving North Carolina. He awoke early this morning to conclude it. J . . A Tennessee delegation, headed by Senators McKellar and Tyson, boarded the train at Knoxville before the Governor was out of bed. The group discussed the Tennessee situation with him and urged him to deliver the address. Revise Day’s Schedule Democratic leaders at Nashville advised Smith that Ryman auditorium there had been reserved for him and a radio hookup was being arranged. Large crowds met him at Chattanooga this morning when he stopped to parade for an hour through the city. A delegation from Dayton, Tenn., scene of the famous Scopes trial involving the teaching of evolution in the public schools, brought a band which played, “The Sidewalks of New York,” as well as “Pixie.” The revision of the day’s schedule was announced just before the train reached Chattanooga. It calls for two brief stops in Alabama, home State of Senator Thomas J. Heflin, arch opponent of Smith. FACES DESERT DEATH OR CAPTURE BY POLICE Wounded Fugitive Left to Make Choice— Chase Halted. Bn United Press PRESCOTT. Ariz., Oct. 12.—Joe Saliz, who fled into the desert after shooting a companion, must choose between hunger and thirst under a burning sun, or capture and imprisonment. Sheriff George Ruffner, a law officer of the pioneer days and wise in the ways of the desert, has called in all his deputies except Jim McClain and is letting nature take its course. McClain w'atches at the outskirts of the desert where Saliz was last seen but is under orders not to attempt pursuit. The fugitive was wounded in a gun fight with McClain and needs medical attention. SATURDAY CANDY DAY Retailers Prepare for Big Rush at Windup. “Saturday is the sweetest day in all the year.” Using this slogan for the last day of National Candy week, Indianapolis candy retailers are preparing for the largest sales day of tht year: All over the United States candy retailers have been asking the public to “make someone happy in an unselfish w>ay by giving them candy" during the week. Local merchants have selected varied sweet novelties for the occasion to doubly interest the public in the last day of Candy week. DRESS BETTER ON CREDIT! H. & R. Clothing Cos., 29 E. Ohio. —A “ertisement.

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The Indianapolis Times Increasing cloudiness tonight with showers and local thunder storms by Saturday; cooler late tonight, much cooler Saturday.

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Black Eyes Cared in 24 Hours by Electricity By United Press % CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—Black eyes, the loser’s badge of defeat, may be cured in twenty-four hours by anew electrical treatment, according to Dr. Norman E. Titus, New York City, who is attending the seventh annual convention of the American College of Physical Therapy here. Dr. Titus said he had cured a Chicago polo player of two black eyes in forty-eight hours. “It’s all very simple,” Titus said. “Discolored eyes may easily be cleared up by the application of a certain current oi static electricity. “What really happens is that we drive the discolored blood back into the veins. A black eye may be cleared up within twenty-four hours if the recipient comes to the doctor within a few hours after he gets it.”

STEVE SILENT AS LESLIE ENVOY IN SENATOR STRIKE IN 1925, SAYS PUBLISHER

George Sanders, Bluffton, Blasts Nominee for Trying to Sidestep. D. C. Stephenson, former Klan dragon, carried authority of Harry G. Leslie, Speaker of the House oi Representatives, now Republican nominee for Governor, and Lieu-tenant-Governor F. Harold Van Orman when he asked fifteen "striking” Democratic Senators to return from Dayton, Ohio, during the 1925 legislative session. This was the charge hurled at Leslie today. George L. Saunders, State Senator from Adams, Blackford and Well, Counties in the 1925 session, publisher of the Bluffton (Ind.) Banner, today so answered Leslie’s charge that it was Stephenson who returned the bolting Senators. Promised BiU Killed “The Democratic Senators at Dayton, in communication with Van Orman by telephone, were assured that he and Leslie were in accord that the Penrod gerrymander bill would not become a law,” said Saunders in a statement issued from State Democratic headquarters. The Penrod bill, which provoked the “strike,” would have reshaped the Second congressional district so as to have made it norm’ally Republican. “Calling two Democratic Senators, Van Orman said he was sending Stephenson and two others to talk to the Democratic Senators, and that one of the men he was sending was Omer Hawkins,” Saunders said. Hawkins is Marion County sheriff and Marion County Republican chairman. Saunders said he did not remember who the other messenger was. “Van Orman assured the Senators that the bill eventually would be killed. He said this might be dene in one of several ways that the bill might not come down in the Senate, that it might come down there and not be passed, that if passed there it might not go to the House or if it did it might be pocketed by Speaker Leslie. In the extremity, Van Orman assured them the House wouldn’t pass it, or Governor Jackson would veto it. Leslie Kept Promise And Leslie’s promise, relayed through Van Orman was kept. He stuck it in his pocket after it passed the Senate. “The Democratic Senators didn’t like to deal with Stephenson but accepted him as the representative of Van Orman and Speaker Leslie. “They sent Stephenson and the Democrats had to make terms with him as Leslie’s personal representative.” YOUTH HELD BY POLICE Thirteen-Year-Old Boy Charged With Stealing Auto. A 13-year-old boy automobile thief is held today in the detention home. The youth Thursday attempted to steal the automobile of Jamps Cardella, 307 N. Talbott St., parked in front of his home. He had gotten in the car and started the motor when D. L. Wells, 3809 E. Sixteen St., discovered him. Wells and Cardella chased the boy to University Park and took him to police headquarters. LOSES AUTO PERMIT Boy, 16, Barred From Driving for Six Months. Charles Kaser. Jr., 16, of 922 N. Meridian St., cannot drive an automobile for six months. His minor’s permit was suspended in municipal court Thursday by Judge Pro Tem. Charles Karabell after a sentence on a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated had been suspended. The charge grew out of an accident several weeks ago.

LAUNCH FIRST ‘SUBMARINE LIFEBOAT’ BUILT FOR OCEAN-BOTTOM RESCUES

BY BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent Bridgeport, conn., oct. 12. One of the strangest oceangoing craft in the world—the first “submarine lifeboat”—was launched here today. As the climax of ceremonies participated in by municipal officials, Simon Lake’s reconstructed seven-teen-year-old submarine Defender slid down the ways at the Bridgeport Dredge and Dock Company and into the water. Three persons to whom the

Blind ’Legger Police Break Up Business; Drinks Delivered by Automatic Device.

YTTILLIAM BROSIUS, blind ’ ’ bootlegger, conferred with his attorney today regarding the rescue of his pal from the toils of police and about his own immediate future. For Sergeant John Eisenhut and his squad had swooped down on Brosius’ modest home at 1154 W. Twenty-Seventh St., and ruined the blind man’s business. They left the place with ten gallons of alcohol and whisky and took Lloyd Masters, 35, of 430 Irving Pl„ along with them. Having no warrant for the raid, they left Brosius behind. Masters was arrested outside the house, the police allege. When they entered the place their search proved fruitless until Eisenhut stumbled across a loose board in a rear room floor. Beneath was a chain and a kind of block and tackle system of booze delivery, the officers declare. By pulling the chain a box came to the hole in the floor and when its contents were lifted it automatically slid back by a system of weights. Brosius was in on mood to discuss the method of operatiort today. He fears an affadavit may be issued for his own arrest and he is anxious to get Masters released on bond. He has made his own way in the darkness since the affliction descended on his fourteen years ago. Before that time he had been running a train, he said. His system of delivery was easily operated by touch, the house is familar to him and he has no trouble getting about, he said. PHAYER DENIES GUILT Defer Setting Trial Date in Broadmoor Case. Charles Phayer, 32, St. Louis gambler, pleaded not guilty to auto banditry and robbery charges in Criminal Court today. Phayer is alleged to have been one of the bandits in the daring Broadmoor Country Club holdup May 30. Granted permission by Judge James A. Collins, Phayer talked for several minutes to his wife and an aunt in the courtroom. His attorney, Michael A. Ryan, said the defense had not decided whether they desired a jury trial or not, when asked by Judge Collins. Collins urged that Ryan notify him as soon as possible, so an early trial date may be set.

MOTORIST RISKS LIFE TO SAVE CHILD INJURY; FAILS

An heroic effort of a woman motorist to avert a tragedy at the risk of her own life, probably saved the life of an 8-year-old girl late Thursday, although the attempt was only partially successful and the child suffered serious injuries. The injured girl is Bessie Donohue, 1110 English Ave., and the heroine is Mrs. Blanche Verity, 525 E. Ohio St. Bessie suffered a broken left leg and severe body bruises when she was struck by Mrs. Verity’s automobile and dragged almost twenty

launching had particular significance attended the ceremony. They were Mrs. Frederick O'Shields. Mrs. Frank Snizek and William Goering, all of Bridgeport. The two young women lost their husbands, and Goering his son, when the S-4 sank off Provincetown, Mass., last December, after a collision with the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding. ana THE Defender, one of the smallest practical submarines

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COLD WAVE 1$ SWEEPING ON MIDDLE WEST Snow Falls in North Dakota and Mountain States; Hail in Nebraska. AT FREEZING SUNDAY Utah Apple Growers Suffer Heavy Losses in Sudden Visit of Winter. By United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 12.—The first breath of winter was sweeping into the Midwest today from the slopes of Alaska. Snow, hail and high winds already have enveloped the western plains and Rocky Mountain States. The weather bureau here predicted that by the time the football teams kick off for Saturday’s games the temperatures tn this region will have dropped to from 40 degrees to below freezing. The mercury is due to skid rapidly in Chicago from a record high of 87.2 degrees for Oct. 11. At 1 a. m. today the tempterature was 72 degrees, but by dawn it had begun to fall. Chicagoans took advantage of the abnormally warm weather Thursday for what probably was their last swim of the year in Lake Michigan. Apple growers in Utah reported heavy losses resulting from the sudden cold snap around Logan. Hundreds of orchards where the crop had not been harvested were blanketed under eight inches of snow. Snow also fell in Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota. Hail storms leveled core fields and damaged small buildings in Nebraska. The weather bureau said that the cold wave started down from the Alaskan wastes more than a week ago. Drop Predicted Here Hot weather continued here today with a sharp drop of temperature predicted lust around the corner. The temperature today probably will equal Thursday’s high mark of 86 degrees, a record high mark for Oct. 11, J. H. Armington, United States Weather Bureau head said. By Saturday morning however, the mercury should be 10 or 12 degrees lower and *y Sunday morning it will have dropped about 30 degrees to between 35 and 40. he said. FREED IN *THAW CASE William Beatty Found Not Guilty of Blackmail Charges. By United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 12. William Beatty, 42, was found not guilty of attempting to xetort $5,000 each from Mrs. William Thaw, mother of Harry K. Thaw, and two other persons, by a jury in the Allegheny County Criminal Court on Wednesday before Judge J. Frank Graff. Beatty denied any connection with writing letters threatening Mrs. Thaw, A. Mansmann and H. Goldenson, unless $5,000 was placed by each of them at designated spot in a park. • $25,000 SUIT FILED Man Alleges He Was Inqured by Kibler Company Truck. Suit for $25,000 for injuries received in an auto accident was filed in Superior Court Three today by William King, against the Kibler Trucking Company. The complaint alleged that a truck owned by the Kibler company crashed into another driven by King, July 5, on State road 40, east of Stilesville.

feet after Mrs. Verity had swerved 4er machine over a curb and into a yard to avoid striking the child. Mrs. * Verity herself received bruises and was badly shaken up in the accident. The girl, who was coasting downhill on her roller skates near her home, sped straight for the side of Mrs. Verity’s car. Seeing the impending crash. Mrs. Verity instantly stered her car into the curb, but was too late to avoid striking the child.

in the world, and the only pri-vately-owned submarine in the United States, has been equipped with special devices to permit it to salvage sunken submarines while resting on the ocean floor. Capt. Sloan Danehower, submarine- engineer, has superintended refitting the old craft. The Defender was built by Simon Lake, inventor of the modern double-hull submersible. Next month. Dannenhower. Lake and a crew of six will take the Defender to Cape Charles, Va.,

Not So Extra Newspaper Story on Local Narcotic Sensation’ Had ‘Wrong Dope.’

PRESTO, chango, and “enough opium to supply the entire Indianapolis colony of dope addicts for several months” dwindled today to one ounce of morphine, barely enough to supply one dope addict for three weeks. Narcotic Agent J. J. Keene did the magic work to a wild newspaper story that “with the arrest of an alleged dope salesman, whose identity has not been revealed, police cooperating with Federal narcotic agents Thursday believed that they had struck at one of the biggest narcotic rings uncovered in Indianapolis in recent years.” The story declared that the dope salesman was arrested in a Pratt St. house where the “huge” supply of opium was found. It said Federal warrants had been issued and more arrests were expected at once. Here’s what really happened: Police found one ounce of morphine, not opium, In a vacant house on Pratt St. Instead of watching the house and ■arresting the owner they carried away t'he morphine and have no idea whose it was. There have been no arrests, no warrants have been issued and there is little chance of finding the narcotic law violator, according to Keene.

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Hailed as master of the elements on land and sea, the great German dirigible, the Guaf Zeppelin, started across the Atlantic from Friedrichshafen, Ger many, to New York. Above—Rear view of the great craft as it looked when being taken out cf its hangar. Below—The ground crew is shown taking the dirigible out to begin her flight. Dr. Hugo Eckener, in command, is shown in the gondola, at the point mar ked by an X. v

FEW AT EXECUTION Warden of Prison Limits Hickman Witnesses. By United Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal., Oct. 12.—50 many requests for permission to witness the execution of William Edward Hickman have been received at San Quetnin prison that Warden James Holohan announced today that the most drastic process of selection in the history of the penitentiary must be employed. On next Friday. Oct 19, unless executive clemency interevenes, the kidnaper and slayer of Marion Parker will go to the gallows. Although prison officials have not kept exact count, they estimated that 1.000 or more requests have been received. Approximately 200 witnesses can be present. Warden Holohan will limit witnesses to accredited newspaper men, necessary official witnesses and a comparatively small number of peace officers of California. PICKED UP STARVING Man, 67, Taken to City Hospital; Found in Basement. Starving and semi-conscious, Joe Wood, 67, of 1013 Hasbrook St., was taken from the basement of the south side market Thursday night to city hospital. He told hospital attaches he had not eaten for a week and that' he had been unable to find employment for several months.

where, in the presence of naval officials, they will attempt to demonstrate the vessel’s salvage efficiency in heavy weather. “Our boat is not a ‘belle weather’ craft,” Captain Danen hower told the United Press. “Salvage operations can be carried on from the sea bottom, using the Defender as a base, no matter how stiff the blow at the surface.” tt U tt THE Defender does not submerge by diving as do war-

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STUMP SPEAKS TONIGHT Senatorial Candidate to Be Heard in Broad Ripple. Albert Stump, Democratic nominee for United States Senator, will open his Marion County campaign tonight with an address at a Democratic mass meeting in Odd Fellow Hall, Broad Ripple. Preceding this meeting, Stump will be heard at a neighborhood organization meeting at 550 Minerva St. He addressed the employes of the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company at the company’s plant at noon today. SAFETY NET RIPS; DIES Fireman in Demonstration Dives Three Stories to Street. By United Press TROY, N. Y.. Oct. 12.—Kenneth J. Flinton, 30, fireman, died Thursday night of injuries to his skull received during a fire prevention week program in the afternoon when he plunged three stories through a safety net to the concrete pavement. A crowd of 2,000 persons, witnessing the demonstration, became panic stricken and a dozen women, including Flinton’s wife, fainteed as the safety net ripped apart. Spanish War Minister Dies By United Press MADRID, Oct. 12.—The Duke of Tetuan, Spanish minister of war, died at his home near Madrid today, it was announced officially. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m... 66 10 a. m 77 7a. m.... 66 11 a. m.... 81 8 a. m.... 68 12 (noon). 80 9 a .m..., 74 1 p. m.... 83

type submarines, a two and onehalf ton mushroom anchor is drawn up inside the boat amidships. When the submarine is to submerge, the anchor is lowered to the bottom. Water is taken into the ballast tanks. Then the boat is drawn to the bottom by a windlass. The Defender thus can hover over a sunken boat or rest on hydraulic - cushioned wheels on the ocean floor. Divers may leave and re-enter the boat by means of a trap door

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WAIT WFBM RULING U. S. Official Hints Stationo to Get More Power. Rtl Times Special WASHINGTON. Oct. 12.—The Federal Radio Commission met today to decide upon changes in he Midwest radio allocations. Although the decisions are not expected to be announced formally for several days. Commissioner Pickard of the Midwest zone, said he believed they would be satisfactory to the zone and to Indianapolis. This is taken to mean that they may mean an increase in power and at least a part time place on one of the forty national high power channels for station WFBM now restricted to 1,000 watts and a regional rating. The station’s application for permission to use 10,000 watts power and for a higher place on the broadcast band, made originally last April, will be heard by the commission Tuesday. two in aut(TTolled Cars Crashes Into a Train at Terre Haute. By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Oct. 12. A man and a woman are dead and another man is in a hospital seriously hurt as result of an accident early this morning when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a Chicago and Eastern Illinois freight train. The dead are: Sam Becker, 35, Terre Haute, and Mrs. Martha Bond.

in the bow leading from a special compression chamber. "Post-mortems, of course, are futile” said Danenhower, “but we feel that had a submarine equipped as the Defender been available when the S-4 sank off Province town, many of the crew might have been saved. The Defender would not have been balked by the heavy weather that prevented diving from surface craft until all survivors of the crash had suffocated.”

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People of Island Cheer Big Air Liner on Trip to United States. TAKES SOUTHERN ROUTE Slowed Speed May Not Put Dirigible in New York Before Monday. HH Uiiteil Press The dirigible Graf Zeppelin, flying far out of her course to avoid a storm north of the Azores, made steady progress toward the United States this afternoon across the south Atlantic. The dirigible passed Madeira, 440 miles off the northwestern coast of Africa, during the morning. She was sighted from Funchal, Madeira, at 8:30 a. m. (E. S. TANARUS.), and maneuvered over the city, spending an appreciable time over the island, which is thirty-five miles long. Because of the storm, the dirigible was expected to continue her southern course, probably continuing to the United States by way of Bermuda and up the Atlantic coast to Lakehurst, N. J., her destination. It was uncertain that she would pass over the Azores, not only because of the troubled weather to the north, but also because it would mean a wide northward detour instead of a straight line to Bermuda. The Azores are about 800 to 900 miles due northwest of Madeira. Cheered by Island The Graf Zeppelin was cheered by the people of Madeira and the passengers waved greetings from the cabin windows. When the Graf Zeppelin reached Madeira, she had covered 1,900 miles from Friedrichshafen, Germany, which she left Thursday. It took the dirigible approximately thirty hours to make the journey, or an average speed of about sixtythree miles an hour. The British steamer Gymeric reported at 6 a. m. (E. S. TANARUS.) that she had sighted the Graf Zeppelin at 7 degrees west and 35 north. That is a point about thirty miles off the northwest coast of Africa and about 400 miles from Madeira. Previous to the report from the Gymeric, the Graf Zeppelin was last officially sighted at Castellon, on the east coast of Spain. Even at a slow speed she would have passed beyond Gibraltar by this time, and since she kept reporting all well, there appeared little double that she was over the Atlantic. Arrive Sunday or Monday The Graf Zeppelin apparently avoided passing directly over Gib-. - raltar, but cut across the strait or the tip of Africa to the south of it. At 12:20 a. m. she notified the Gibraltar wireless station that she was passing that vicinity, the wireless station at Lisbon announced. The distance from Funchal to the United States is 3,1893 miles. If the dirigible averages sixty miles an hour across the ocean, she should make the distance in fifty-three hours, putting her in New York Sunday afternoon or Sunday night. Adverse winds might delay her until late Sunday night or early Monday morning. It was said today that thirty-six steamers were on the trans-Atlan-tic routes, but most of them are on the northern course—far north of the route the Graf Zeppelin is expected to take. When the Graf Zeppelin left Frlederichshafen, Dr. Eckener expected to make the flight in about seventy hours. However, the machine was fueled for almost twice that amount and one Spanish aeronautical official said there was sufficient fuel aboard for a trip half way around the world and that thus, there was no reason for fear If the speed was greatly diminished. Plenty of Provisions There are plenty of provisions aboard the Graf Zeppelin for the added hours which the flight will require. Thousands of pounds of food were stored away in the pantries to be prepared in the electric kitchen for serving on this flight. Choice veals, sausages and fresh vegetables and fruits were stored away. The menu arranged was as completes as any offered on the trans-Atlantic steamship lines. Thus there was little chance of any of the passengers—some of whom paid as high as $3,000 for the honor of making this first flightsuffering.

RANGE of choice—whether it’s a hunting trip, a collie pup for brother, or a Chinese chow for sister—The Times “Dogs, Cats, etc.” classification in the Want Ads offers the selection. Dogs that are pedigreed and just plain dogs are daily advertised there.