Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 124, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1928 — Page 1

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AL PUSHES ON TO LOUISVILLE; TALKSTONIGHT Smith Gets Rousing Hand in Tennessee; Makes Speech at Nashville, MAULS G. 0. P„ HOOVER Answers Questions Raised by Southern Foes in Typical Fashion, BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD SMITH SPECIAL TRAIN, NEARING LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 13.—Startled by the briskness of his enthusiastic reception in Tennessee, Governor Alfred E. Smith moved on to Louisville today to make a second speech to the border States there tonight. A day of parades and conferences faced him in Republican Louisville, where his Democratic friends have wired him they are putting up a stiff fight hoping to swing the State which went for President Coolidge in 1924. Tariff will be the subject of the speech but detailed plans of the Governor were his own deep secrets. He has declined to talk about such matters in advance since he started out on this, his second campaign tour. Speaks in Nashville Smith broke his campaign itenerary to answer the questions which have been raised against him by his opponents in the Solid South. He affirmed his stand for modification and repeal of prohibition, but he promised his Dry Southern friends to ‘'wipe out the corruption and bribery that have been so widespread in connection with prohibition enforcement during the past seven and half years of Republican Administration.” With Smithian irony that delighted the crowd he tried to show a variation between Herbert Hoover and the Republican vice presidential candidate. Senator Curtis, over the power of the tariff as a method of farm relief. He told how Curtis had voted for the McNaryHaugen bill one day and voted against it on the veto message of President Coolidge the next, but he did not mention the bill by name. Takes Up Immigration

He came out four-square for Government ownership, operation and control of Muscle Shoals, charging that Hoover had failed to mention the issue throughout the campaign And, finally, he took notice of the charges that he would open the flood gates of immigration. He said every one knew there was no issue between the Republican and Democratic parties on that question and asked rhetorically why Hoover had chosen to mention the subject. In fact, he did about everything his Democratic supporters in Tennessee had asked him to do and hoped he would do. Senator McKellar (Dem.), Tennessee, who ardently is supporting Smith, declared the speech would make his task here easier. “I think he has wiped out all the objections his opponents here have or possibly could raise,” McKellar told the United Press. "It makes certain a Democratic victory in Tennessee.” Al Swings Club Throughout the, speech Smith manifested more of a tendency to criticise and attack Hoover and Curtis than in his previous speeches. Earlier in the day he had expressed surprise that he was unable to pick a debate with members of the Republican ticket. The Governor nearly was crushed by the good natured enthusiasm of his welcome at Nashville. Crowds swarmed so closely about him at the station that police had to force a way through to his car for him. Several times the paarde was stopped when the crowds rushed his car. One of the largest crowds he has seen greeted him there and followed him about until he left on his special train at 10 p. m. for Louisville. The train loafed along to give him time to rest. LOW RECEIPTS BRING HOG MARKET UP Cattle Steady With Vealers 50 Cents Down. Lower receipts brought the hog market up 10 cents at the city yards today. Underweights were 15 cents higher and the bulk, 180 pounds up, soid at $10.35. Top, $1035. Cattle was steady. One load of light steers bringing $16.50. Vealers were 50 cents lower, selling at $16.50 down. Sheep and lambs steady with good to choice grades selling at sl3# 13.50. Top $13.50. Fat ewes sold at $5 @6.50. Chicago hog receipts weye 3,000 including, 1,200 directs. Most bids and a few early sales steady with Friday’s average. Several sales 280 to 320 pounds averaged at $10.25. Asking up to $10.50 for strictly choice 230 pound kinds.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 124

TELLS PROBERS TO ‘GO TO If Judge Dearth Instructs Vice Quiz at Muncie. E;t Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. Oct. 13.—"G0 to it” are the instructions of Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth to a Delaware County grand jury called in special session to probe liquor dealing and gambling here. The body convened Friday and may complete its work today. At adjournment Friday afternoon Thomas Miller, attorney, who instigated the investigation, declared himself "satisfied.” Friends of Joe Davis, Delaware County prosecuting attorney, profess to see in the probe an effort to injure his political career. Ralph Young, branded by Miller as being ‘‘commonly known around Muncie as a collector of protection money from liquor dealers and gamblers, was among witnesses before the jury Friday. In instructing the jury Judge Dearth quoted Charges by Miller, and in concusion said: "These are strong statements. I am frank to say to you that I don't know what le has up his sleeve, but go to it!”

SEEK MISSING TWINS Girls, 16, Run Away After Quarrel With Mother. Police and juvenile court authorities today were searching for a pair of runaway 16-year-old twins. The girls, Helen and Lucille Dale, have been missing since Wednesday morning, their mother, Mrs. M. Webb, reported to police. Mrs. Webb said she quarreled with Helen Wednesday morning because she refused to obey her. In the course of,the quarrel Helen hit her in the eye, she said. Lucille sided with her sister and the two left supposedly for business college. She learned they were missing when the principal telephoned that they had not appeared. The twins were dressed alike, wearing blue hats, black dresses with red sleeves and red coats, the mother said. They may have gone to the homes Os relatives at Carlisle or Terre Haute, Ind. SLIGHT HOPE HELD ' FOR 42 SUB VICTIMS Divers Have Been Unable to Locate Exact Scene of Disaster. Bi/ United Press PARIS, Oct. 13.—Little hope was held today for the lives of three officers and thirty-nine men of the French submarine Ondine, which is believed to have been sunk off Oporto, Portugal, by the Greek steamer Exaterina Coulanderis. Divers have been sent down in the position where the submarine was reported sunk in an effort to find the submersible and to learn whether any of the men within the craft still live. Thus far no trace of the submersible has been found and no tapping signals have been heard on the surface. The Ondine has been missing since Oct. 1. Hourly Temperatures ' 6 a. m.... 68 9 a. m.... 74 7a. m.... 68 io a. m.... 76 8 a. m.... 71

The nation's feature gridiron conflict will be staged at Soldiers’ Field, Chicago, this afternoon with the "Fighting Irish" of Notre Dame facing a determined Navy eleven in the big intersectional battle of the day. Both teams already defeated this season are anxious to crash through to triumph this aftrnoon. The six young men of Notre Dame shown in the reproduction all were slated to see action this afternoon. Capt. Fred Miller was to start at tackle with George Leppig at guard. Johnny Neimic and Jack Cheviguy were listed as starters at the halfback post. Dinny Shay is expected to function at the fullback post while Jack Elder also will see action in the backfleld.

NOTRE DAME-NAVY GRID CLASH HOLDS CENTER OF STAGE

Ail Big Elevens Go Into Action Today: Butler Opens Stadium. Tte big football act stole the sport show' today. The baggy-trousered followers of collegiate football were at the height of their glory and the Nation was due to line up with the rah-rah boys, as every important colelge and university eleven swing into action on the gridiron this afternoon. Headlining the Nation s pigskin program was the Notre Dame-Navy encounter at Soldiers’ field, Chicago. Despite the fact that both the Irish and the Midides have suffered setbacks this season and that the outcome will have no bearing on the mythical national championship, a tremendous throng, nearly i20,000 fans, was to jam into the huge Chicago stadium for the clash. Butler Opens Stadium Indianapolis fans were to be entertained by the opening home game of the Butler University team at the massive new stadium at Fairview. Franklin College, an old-time State rival of the Bulldogs, will provide the competition this afternoon. A downtown parade was to precede the local contest and a large number of fans was expected to journey to the north side to witness the opening tilt in the stadium. Four Big Ten Conference conflicts also featured the mld-West program. Indiana meeting Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ohio State facing Northwestern at Evanston, Purdue tackling Minnesota at Minneapolis and low'a taking on Chicago at the Windy City. Yale Plays Georgia In the East the Georgia-Yale encounter headlined the bill. N. Y. U. and Fordham were billed to meet at New 7 York. Virginia at Princeton, North Carolina at Harvard and West Virginia at Pittsburgh. In the South. Georgia Tech w'ill be at Tulane, Washington and Lee at Kentucky and Alabama Poly at Florida. Vanderbilt and Texas were to meet in the Southwestern feature and the Southern California-St. Mary's clash was regarded as the best on the Pacific coast. START ON HOTEL SOON Six-Story Building to Be Erected On Pennsylvania St. Construction of a new' six-story hotel at 947 N. Pennsylvania St. will begin i nthe near future, according to an anoungement made Friday by the 947 N. Pennsylvania Real Estate Company, recently incorporated to buld the hotel. The new structure w'ill cost approximately SIBO,OOO and will be of Spanish design. Announcement also w ; as made that the Barton Hotel, a three-story building at 505 N. Delaware St., has been leased to the 501 N. Delaware Realty Company, also a recently organized firm.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, OCT. 13, 1928

GIVES UP ‘FOR HONOR' Wanted for Embezzlement, Insurance Company Official Surrenders. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Oct, 13.—Dr. E. F. Morgenstiern, vice president of the defunct International Life Insurance Company, surrendered Friday on a grand larceny warrant saying he wanted to “save his honor.” He was indicted with Roy C. Toombs, president of the company, in connection with embezzlement charges totaling approximately $3,500,000.

FIRE IS FOUGHT BY SHIPAT SEA One Man Killed and Several Are Injured. Bu United rrrss PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 13.—Fire which broke out in the hold of the British steamer Trojanstar off the California coast Friday night was under control today, the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company reported here today. Reports said one man had been killed and several others injured. The Admiral Lines, agents for the Trojanstar, had no confirmation however of the casualties. Four ships went to the aid of the Trojanstar w'hen the Federal Radio reported receiving distress signals from the British vessel. The Trojanstar was believed to be off the southern coast of Oregon today. FUND _ WORKERS NAMED Appoints East Division Chairmen of Women's Army. chairmen in the east division of'the Community Fund's women’s army, as announced by Mrs. Joseph Ostrander, division chairman, are: Mrs. A. E. Smith, 3802 Emerson Ave., district 16: Mrs. Julia Reed, 1938 Beliefontaine St., district 17; Mrs. David H. Cohen. 2709 Station St., district 18; Mrs. Frank Monahan, 1022 N. Oakland St., district 19; Mrs. John B. Meek, 655 Parker Ave., and Mrs. J. W. Vestal, 431 Gray St., district 20; Mrs. Lawrence Carter, 1241 N. Oakland St., and Mrs. Henry L. Stenger, 414 N, Arlington Ave., district 21; Mrs. Chester Albright, 344 N. Bolton Ave., district 22; Mrs. Lola Conner, 5318 Julian Ave., district 23. Mrs. Walter Montgomery, 129 Downey Ave., is serving as co-chair-man of the east division. Man Found Dead in Bed John Dicks, 60. was found dead in bed this morning at his home, 215 S. Oriental St. Death was caused by heart trouble, according to Deputy Coroner Claude Hadden.

RAILROAD YARD ACCIDENT FATAL Man Killed When Engine Backs Into Him. A 13-year-old girl was injured critically, nearly a score of others were hurt in traffic accidents Friday night, and a man is dead as the result of injuries received in a railroad mishap. The rail accident occurred Monday in the west side yards when Frank McNulty. 49, of 1837 Dexter Ave., was injured fatally when an engine backed into him. He died this morning in St. Vincent Hospital. The injured girl, who may die, is Dorothy Tucker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lohrman, 922 W. Washington St. She was struck by a street car in front of her home Friday night and suffered a skull fracture and possible internal injuries. She was taken to city hospital. Two internes and three student nurses, were hurt when the machine in which they were returning from a social event, hit a parked truck on the Pendleton Pike near ThirtyEighth St. Those injured are: Dr. Don Colglazier, *vere cuts; Dr. Hanley Held, broken left arm and cuts; Janice Shields, cuts on face and arms; Ethel Baker, broken nose, and Kathleen Sterche, fractured right arm. Police arrested Thessie Bryan, 712 W. Jackson St., who was in charge of the truck, for failure to display a tail light and trailer license and assault and battery. When his motor car crashed into a parked machine at 447 Agnes St., Jack Lewis, 425 W. Washington St., was injured when he was pinned beneath his overturned car. A man sitting in the parked car disappeared.

JOYFEST AT BUTLER Opening of Stadium Is Set for Afternoon. Butler University was on parade in the downtown district this morning as a prelude to the grand opening of the new T university stadium and fieldhouse. The Butler-Franklin game this afternoon will be the first to be played in the new' bowl. Today, which marks another milestone in new Butler annals, has been termed Arthur V. Brown day. The parade and ceermonies at the bowl were designed to honor Brown, president of the school board, and William C. Smith, builder of the bowl and fieldhouse. The latter is a Butler graduate of the class of 1884. As president of the Marion County Construction Company he built the new stadium and fieldhouse without profit and contributed $25,000 to the building fund. City and school authorities joined with the student organizations in the morning parade. Bank Entertains l-H Clubs Boys and girls of the Marion County 4-H Cluhs were guests of the Washington Bank and Trust Company at a dinner Friday night at the Chamber of Commerce. Professor T. A. Coleman, assistant director of agriculture at Purdue, spoke.

ZEP IS 700 MILES WEST OF AZORES, RUNNING FINE ON FLIGHT TO NEW YORK

Ray Comer Is Killed in Race Crash Jimmy Gleason Also Taken to Hospital. Critically Hurt in Spill. Bit United Press ROCKINGHAM SPEEDWAY, SALEM, N. H., Oct. 13.—One driver was killed, another perhaps fatally injured and four others less seriously hurt at the annual 200mlle Columbus day sweepstakes here, Friday. Ray Comer, of Los Angeles, one of the best-known drivers in the country, was injured fatally when a tire on his car blew, hurtling the machine off the huge wooden bowl. After turning over several times, the car burst into flames. Comer died at a hospital without regaining consciousness. His wife, who had come to witness the race, was at the hospital when he died. Comer's crash, on the twenty-fifth lap. was followed by two other accidents on the thirty-sixth and thirty-eighth laps, in almost the same place—the curve just before the home stretch. Officials postponed the race until Oct. 27. calling off the race at the end of the fiftieth lap over the one and one-fourth-mile bowl. O nthe thirty-sixth lap Jimmy Gleason of Boston skidded, hit the guard rail and was thrown out of the machine into the path of the car driven by Raj' Kech. holder of the world's speed record. Keech was unable to prevent his car from passing over Gleason's body. Lou Moore and Bob McDonough: close behind Keech. piled up. Gleason was taken to the hospital in a critical condition. The other drivers escaped with minor injuries. Leon Duray had la narrow escape when Gleason's machine skidded, passing under the car while it was in the air. , On the thirty-sixth lap Dave Evans skidded at the same place in the track and started' to spin. He was thrown otu of the car onto the track, receiving injuries which necessitated hospital treatment.

How the Market Opened

—Oct. 13— Am Can 109’s Am Sugar 73’ Anaconda 83 Armour A 19* a Beth Steel 70 V. Chrysler 132% Cont Motors 16% Erie 56% Famous Players 50 % Graham Paige 55 v. Gen Electric 165 Gen Motors 217% Hudson Motor 91% Inspiration 27 \ Kenn Cop 104% Mid Conti Pete 35% Missouri Kans & Tex 41% Mo Pac 70% Mo Pac pfd 120 Mont Ward 295 Otis Steel 34 Radio 215% Rep Iron & Steel 84% 8o Ry 144% S O N J 45% Stew Warner 107% Studebaker 83% U S Alcohol 128 U S Rubber 43% U S Steel 164 Willys Over . 29% Gold Dust 102 l . Natl C R 94% New York Curb Opening —Oct. 13— Assd Gii 50 Bancltaiy 126% Cities Svc 71 Cont OH 17% Durant 17% Ohio Oil 60% Humble Oil 80V Fnt Pete 38% Marraon 63% N E Power 28% Pantepec 12% Prairie O & Gas 184% Servel Inc 11% Stutz 23% Stand OH Ky 135% United L & P A 23% Vacuum Oil 80% Trans Cont A T 22 % United Gas Imp .....145% Sparks Ac W 159 Fox 30%

In the Stock Market

(By Thomson & McKinnon) Another increase in brokers’ loans to anew high peak. Yet the stock market has reversed its trend and no whas a more favorable outlook. Evidently the public is not worrying about the credit situation but prefers to regard as more important the fact that stocks are moving upward and that, when everything is said and done, is the one factor to give most consideration. So far that theory has proven successful and profitable. How long it can remain so is, of course, another question. To our mind there is one danger and that is the possibility of becoming over-enthusiastic. To go to excess in either expectation of profit from some individual issues or to lean toward over-load-ing is the danger point. Under conditions existing at the present moment, we can see the desirability of following the trend if done in a conservative manner.

Kntered r.s Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

ARREST YOUTH IN FT. WAYNE KILLING PROBE Caught at Ft, Harrison Trying tgp Enlist; Faces Durbin Death Quiz. Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne detectives today had under arrest here a 21-year-old Ft. Wayne youth' for questioning in connection with the hunt for the slayer of Marion Durbin. former Indianapolis woman, found battered to death in her apartment at Ft. Wayne Sunday. The youth, Merle Schult. wass arrested at Ft. Benjamin Harrison Friday by Detectives oDnald Tooley and John Marren and the two Ft. Wayne detectives. He was attempting to enlist in the Army. He was slated on a vagrancy charge, for questioning by the Ft. Wayne officers. Work on Other Angles Here Police Chief Walter Cavanaugh, Ft. Wayne, refused to disclose why authorities sought Shult in connection with the murder. His men are here working on several Indianapolis angles of the case, he said. The detectives here also have failed to confide to Indianapolis officers the possible connection of Schult with the slaying. It was not believed, however, that the youth is thought to be the direct cause of the woman's death. Auto Ring Link Hunted The murdered woman, whose real name was Ruth Freland, was found in her elaborately furnished apartment with her head crushed, probably with the butt of a revolver. Her valuable rings were not stolen, but bloody fingerprints were found on pocketbooks, indicating they had been searched. State police and Ft. Wayne authorities have been working on the theory that her murderer had been involved in the interstate automobile theft ring. Marion Durbin was known to have been a friend of many police characters and gangsters while she lived here and later at Ft. Wayne.

DANCE ORDER LIFTED Marathon Contestants Get Clear Health Bill. The surveillance order on attendance and participants in the Marathon dance hi progress at Tomlinson Hall was lifted today by Board of Health authorities, after culture tests showed none was infected with diphtheria germs. The tests were made following the disclosure that Irene Hughey, 18. one of the contestants hi the dance grind, was taken to City hospital with diphtheria a day after the dance started. Dr. John Leach, board of health contagious disease inspector, made the tests. Ten couples remain in the dance, which at noon today went into its 228th hour. EX-AIR CHIEF FOR AL Gen. William Mitchell to Stage Campaign in Wisconsin. IS 11 United Press SAN ANTONIO. Texas. Oct. 13. Gen. William Mitchell, former assistant chief of the air corps, announced Friday that he will conduct an active campaign for Governor Alfred E. Smith. The campaign will be start .and in Wisconsin. Mitchell’s home State. The aviation leader has been here attending the American Legion convention. MEN’S CLUB TO MEET Mayor L. Erl Slack Will Address Meeting. The first meeting of the Men’s Club qf the Carrollton Avenue Reformed Church will be held Tuesday night with Mayor L. Ert Slack as the principal speaker. William Lilly, president, will preside at the dinner at 6:30. The Rev. ,G. H. Genhardt, pastor, will give the invocation. Music and other entertainment has been arranged. Election and installation of officers will be held following the dinner,

In the Air

West wind, 12 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.22 at sea level; temperature, 74; ceiling, 5,000 feet; visibility, 3 miles; broken overcast.

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Vessel, at Present Speed, May Not Reach Goal Until Late Sunday. HEADING FOR BERMUDA Many Ships Are in Touch With Air Liner in Trip Over Atlantic, By United Press The great, German dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, carrying sixty, persons on an epochal trip between Germany and the United States, approached Bermuda today on a circuitous course made necessary by storms beloav the 45th parallel. At the present rates of speed—between 65 and 75 miles an hour—the vessel probably will not reach its terminus at Lakehurst, N. J., until late Sunday night, although Dr. Hugo Eckener announced he expected to be over the United States late Sunday morning. At 8 o'clock today the Graf Zeppelin -was reported 700 miles west of Fayal, Azores, and running well. Earlier the Radio Marine Corporation station at East. Moriches, N. Y., intercepted a message today from the steamer New York to the dirigible Graf Zeppelin in which the position “32 degrees north and 36 degrees west” was mentioned. The ship was sending to the dirigible and messaged the position. The Graf Zeppelin's signals could be heard but could not be read. It was not known whether the position mentioned was that of the Graf Zeppelin. The New York was assumed to be far north of that position. Head for Bermuda The position of 32 degrees north and 36 degrees west is about 640 miles southwest of the westernmost tip of the Azores Islands. , It is on a direct line from Madeira where the Graf Zeppelin last was sighted. It is almost in a direct line with Bermuda. Should the position be that of the Graf Zeppelin the dirigible would have been making steady progress through the night, but at a speed much less than the seventy-five miles an hour computed previously. The message, intercepted by the Radio Marine Corporation, came shortly after 5 a. m. Last direct advices from the Craf Zeppelin concerning her position were contained in a dispatch, intercepted by the Radio Marine Corporation, at Chatham from the S. S. Republic, shortly after 11 p. m. f Friday. It read: “Zeppelin reported making sixtyfive miles an hour. Position 32.25 north, 29.00 west.” That position would be about 480 miles south and west of the Azores Islands, indicating the Graf Zeppelin veered far south from that island group in order to avoid storms/ forecast for that area.

Many Ships Hear Messages No time was given in the dispatch, but it was presumed to be several hours before 10 o’clock, as transmission from that remote part of the Atlantic is considerably delayed. But. that the Graf Zeppelin slowly is approaching the end of its long journey to the United States—a journey that will be In excess of 5,000 miles—was indicated by the great number of messages intercepted by the Radio Marine Corporation. At 3 a. m. several steamers were in constant communication with the Graf Zeppelin. Early Friday night the'Chatham, Mass., radio station, intercepted a message from the Graf Zeppelin which said the dirigible was proceeding at a rate of about eightyfive miles an hour, and added; “If weather continues good we expect to arrive at Lakehurst, N. J., Sunday noon.” Several of the passengers aboard the Graf Zeppelin are airsick, Funchal dispatches to the London Daily Express said. SALES HEADS HEARD General Electric Company Dealers Hold Conference. Refrigeration, electricity and manufacturing methods were discussed at the fall and winter sales conference of General Electric company refrigerator dealers of Indiana, Friday at the Hotel Severin. Speakers on the day’s program which was attended by more than one hundred were; A. F. Head of the Hoosier Electric Refrigeration Corporation; H. B. McCarty of South Bend. H. W. Rich of St. Liouis, and Leo S. Hay of the Indianapolis Pawer and Light Company.