Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1928 — Page 2

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JACKSON AND STEVE BACKED LESLIE, CRA YENS CHARGES

MADE SPEAKER THROUGH THEIR AID,JK SAYS G. 0. P, Nominee Violated His Oath of Office, Asserts State Senator. UPHOLDS FRANK DAILEY ‘Lost Amendments’ Cited to Show Misuse of Power in Legislature. Bit Times Special FIVE POINTS, Ind.. Oct. 17.—D. C. Stephenson, former Klan grand dragon, and Governor Ed Jackson, elected with Klan support, aided the election of Harry G. Leslie, now Republican nominee for Governor, to the speakership of the House of Representatives in 1925, State Senator Joseph M. Cravens charged in an address before Switzerland county voters here Tuesday night. That Leslie violated his oath of office in connection with the famous “lost amendments” in the 1927 general assembly was another charge hurled at the G. O. P. nominee by the veteran legislator from Clark, Jefferson, Ohio and Switzerland. counties, who has served a quarter of century in both branches of the assembly. He took issue with Leslie’s campaign utterances, and charged the nominee, as Speaker of the house, had “misused the gavel of power to serve Governor Jackson.” Backs Judge Anderson Senator Cravens seconded Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson of Chicago, in discrediting Leslie’s assertion in a Ft. Wayne address that Frank C. Dailey, Leslie’s opponent, did not push election prosecutions, as United States district attorney until “kicked” into it by Judge Anderson. Leslie’s allegation, Senator Cravens said, “falls as far short of the truth and of fairness and decency as does his ability and fitness to fill the exalted office of Governor of Indiana.” Referring to Leslie’s claim that the Governor, Republican state chairman and “formidable forces” opposed his election as speaker in 1925 and 1927, Cravens said: “It is a notorious fact that there was in Indiana in 1925, when Leslie was elected speaker, a man who sr.id he was ‘the law in Indiana.’ He was more powerful than the Governor. He elected the Governor. This man boasted he controlled seventy-six votes in the house which elected Leslie Speaker. That ?nfin was D. C. Stephenson, now in : the state prison.” % Jackson and Stephenson worked hand-in-hand as the “dominant influences” in the 1925 legislature, Cravens said, adding: “This fact was so open, so notorious, that it was accepted as fact and not disputeo seriously by anyone connected with the legislature.” Jackson Forced Into Open “Mr. Leslie was elected Speaker through the influence of either Governor Jackson or Stephenson,” he declared. In 1927 when Stephenson was in prison, “the house still was tainted with Stephemonism, however, and the Governor had to come out in the open to the aid of Leslie to get sufficient votes to name him Speaker,” Cravens added. Leslie’s nomination in the Re-

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Tribute Paid to Indiana s Soldier Dead by Peeress

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“From the president of the Women of the British Legion in remembrance of glorious American dead.” With a floral tribute bearing this inscription, Lady Edward Spencer Churchill, a British visitor, en route east from the recent American Legion auxiliary convention in San Antonio, Texas., visited the Soldiers and Sailors monument here Wednesday. Left to right in the above photo are: Mrs. W. H. Schofield, chairman of the distinguished guest committee; William Elder, trustee of the War Memorial; Lady Churchill, William Fortune, president of the Indianapolis Red Cross; Mrs. Robert Walbridge, retiring president of the national legion auxiliary, and Colonel Oran Perry, monument superintendent. A visit to the Memorial Shrine, the speedway, residential sections of the city, Butler stadium and a luncheon at the Athletic Clup comprised the entertainment provided for the distinguished guests.

publican state convention was resorted to to eliminate Frederick K. Landis, outspoken advocate of clean government, the speaker declared. Contradicting Leslie’s claim that he never used the gavel for an ulterior purpose, Cravens recounted the fate of the two “lost amendments” to the appropriation bill passed by both houses in 1927. They never, however, were enrolled in the completed bill and never became law, because Leslie admittedly ordered them held out. One called for transferring $40,000 from the appropriation of the School for Feeble-Minded Youth at Ft. Wayne to the Feeble-Minded colony at Butlerville and was designed to prevent James Jackson, brother of the Governor, and superintendent of the Ft. Wayne institution, from obtainnig control of both, said Cravens. Passed by both houses, the amendment was lost. When discovered, it bore the penciled remark “Do not insert; by order of Mr. Leslie.” At a hearing before the senate, Leslie admitted he had ordered the notation made. “In doing this, Mr. Leslie violated his oath of office, violated a criminal statute of his state, and violated the constitution of Indiana, which he has sworn to support, and misused the gavel of power to serve the Governor,” Cravens declared. “If that was not an ulterior purpose, what was it?” Taking issue with Leslie’s claim that he opposed the “Road Ripper bill,” Senator Cravens insisted, “There is nothing in the house files or records to show that Mr. Leslie left the Speaker’s chair, as he said, to help kill the measure/*

WFBM TO STEP POWERJNOV.1 1 New Ruling Grants Boost;! Appeal Planned. The Indianapolis Power and Light Company radio station WFBM. will begin part time operation on 25,000 watts Nov. 11, unless anew ruling of the federal radio commission is altered. The power will be increased from 1,000 watts. The commission ruled that WFBM can use the high power for a limited period during each evening, dropping down to 500 watts for the remainder of the night. M. K. Foxworthy, radio director of the power company, announced the station will operate on 1,230 kilocycles after Nov. 11, instead of 920 as originally planned. Foxworthy said the 25,00-watt ruling is satisfactory but the 500-watt decision will be appealed. COULTER HEADS DRIVE Dr. Stanley Coulter, member of the Indiana conservation commission, today was appointed State chairman of the annual Christmas seal sale drive by the Indiana tuberculosis commission. This makes the third successive year Dr. Coulter has headed the annual fund drive. A goal of $200,000 has been set by the association.

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AL POUNDS AT G. 0. P. CLAIM OF ECONOMY ‘Trick Bookkeeping’ of Administration Is Attacked. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD SMITH SPECIAL TRAIN. LEAVING SEDALIA, Mo.. Oct. 17—Governor Alfred E. Smith turned the western pivot of his border states campaign today to beat back over his own trail to Chicago, there to make his final personal appeal to the west. The Democratic nominee began work immediately this morning on the Chicago address, to be delivered Friday night before he starts concentrated efforts in the east, the last two weeks before election. Smith left behind him here for use by the other Democratic campaign orators, copies of the speech he delivered Tuesday night to 15,000 Missourians, critically questioning the economy record of the Republican administration and the fiscal intentions of the present Republican ticket.

The Democratic presidential nominee used facts and figures never before mentioned by Democrats in their wars against the Republicans, and he took off his gloves to do it. The plan for making states pay part of the Mississippi flood control, “parsimonious” appropriations for army housing and Indian aid, idling in construction of public buildings and what he called “the trick bookkeeping of the administration,” all were brought under fire. Government expenses, he said, really have increased $200,000,000 since 1924 instead of having decreased as the Republicans claim. Expenditures for the White House have jumped 100 per cent in that period, he said. Appropriations for former Secretary Hoover’s commerce department mounted from $25,000,000 to $31,000,000, Smith pointed out. In charging a conspiracy to promote “an economy myth,” Smith mentioned Hoover as “Candidate Hoover,” President Coolidge as “the great apostle of economy,” former Secretary of Interior Work, Secretary of Treasury Mellon and Budget Director Lord. He personally challenged Hoover to “make good his statement that Republican economy made a difference of two billion dollars in the cost of government.”

SERVICE COMMISSION 1938 RECEIPTS SLUMP Business Falls Off $82,957 Secretary’s Report Reveals. Business of the last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, fell off $82,957.31, with the public service commission, the report prepared by Secretary Reid McCain Tuesday shows. Total receipts for the year were $136,555.56, while in 1927 they were $219,512.87. At the same time there was a slight increase in expenditures. The total expenditures this year were $144,492.80. and last year sl4-1,183.84. Legislative appropriations for the year were $154,000. Items were budgeted as follows: Personal service, $135,000; other operating expense, SIB,OO, and equipment. SI,OOO.

15 MORE PHILLY COPS ARRESTED; TOTALNEARSO Action Follows Talk With Bootlegging Kings oy District Attorney. Bp United Press PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17.—The number of city policemen under arrest in the Philadelphia crime and corruption probe was nearly at the half hundred mark today after arrest of fifteen more of the force. The arrests came as the result of * a conversation between District Attorney Monaghan and "Al” and Ferguson Hendrie, whom the district attorney said were “the biggest beer runners in Philadelphia.” The Hendrie brothers had been arrested in connection with the special grand jury’s investigation of bootlegging, police corruption and gang murders. William Frantz, police captain; ten city hall detectives, three district patrolmen and a special policeman all were charged with bribery and extortion.. Five of the detectives had been arrested before on bribery charges. Judge Edwin O. Lewis said that Harry C. Davis, director of public safety and in charge of police administration, should resign. AL TO SPEAK FROMENGLISH Plans Shifted for Visit Here Saturday. Unless the weather forbids Indianapolis will get a glimpse of Governor Alfred E. Smith in Mounment Circle Saturday afternoon. Governor Smith will appear on the balcony of the Hotel English, a switch in plans provided today. In the event of inclement weather the meeting will be held in Cadle tabernacle. Amplifiers will be placed around the Circle, Virgil Simmons, Democratic state speakers’ bureau chairman, announced. Governor Smith's special train will arrive at Union station at 3 p. m. Saturday. The nominee will be accompanied by a committee of Hoosier Democrats from Chicago. Among those selected to accompany Smith are: Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic nominee for Governor in 1920 and 1924; William H. O’Brien of Lawrenceburg, Evans Woollen of Indianapolis, candidate for the Democratic nomination for President this year; L. G. Ellingham, publisher of the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette; Mrs. James I*. Riggs of Sullivan, national committee woman from Indiana; Mrs. John W. Kern, widow of the late senator, and Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, widow of the late Governor and senator. A parade will form at the station to escort the Governor to the Circle. It will move east to Meridian street, north to Washington street, east to Pennsylvania street, north to Vermont street, west to Illinois street, south to Market street, and thence east to the Monument circle. Charles A. Garrard will be marshal of the parade. Milk kept in a roomy, shallow basin will remain sweet longer than if put in a jug.

German Motorist Party Given Near-Beer Dinner

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Left to Right—L. Proesch of the North German Lloyd steamship line; Ewald Kroth, president of the Allegemeiner Deutsche Automobil Club, and Seigfried Doerfchlag, press representative for three German newspapers. All are members of the German motor club party that Tuesday incluuded Indianapolis in a tour of leading American cities.

140 Tourists Entertained by Hoosier Club at Banquet. In a near German-American atmosphere provided by typical American dishes and three barrels of near beer, 140 members of the Allegemeiner Deutche Automobil Club, now engaged io a motor tour of leading American cities, banqueted at the Athenaeum Tuesday night as guests of Hoosier Motor Club and the Athenaeum. An address of welcome by Theodore Stemphel, vice-president of the Fletcher American bank, W’as answered by Wilholm Luhrig, treasurer of the German motor club. Louis Schwitzer of the Schwitzer-Cum-mings Auto Manufacturing Company, also spoke. All three brief

WAIT AIR SITE DECISiONTODAY Committee Report Expected at Luncheon. Long-awaited decision of the municipal airport site committee on a definite site recommendation to city officials was expected at a committee luncheon today. C. L. Harrod, committee secretary, who returned Tuesday from conference with Pennsylvania railroad and Transcontinental Air Transport offiicials conveyed information he gained. Col. C. E. Fauntleroy, New York, special T. A. T. representative, who Tuesday inspected Sites 7,8, 15 and 30, was to disclose the company’s preference. The air-rail officials were strongly in favor of Site 7. an expansion of Indianapolis airport, Mars Hill, whe.i the site problem first was taken up. but city officials repeatedly have objected to dual management of a field by city and state authorities. The Mars Hill field is under control of the Indiana Rational Guard, which proposes to purchase the present field. Reduced price for Site 30. north of Ben Davis, offered last at $515 an acre, was expected to be submitted at the meeting.

addresses were delivered in German. Native German and American airs played by a string trio were met with shouts of “bravo” and “o. k.,” the only American expression familiar to most of the visitors. The party carries seven interpreters. On the tenth leg of a land goodwill tour the German delegates arrived in Indianapolis shortly after noon Tuesday. Lunch at the Claypool was followed by a trip to the Speedway and an inspection tour of several local motor car factories Traveling in special parlor car busses, the party left for Danville, 111., en route to Chicago this morning. The German motorists arrived in New York a week ago. In a three-way interview through an interpreter, Ewald Kroth, president of the German club, emphasized the impression which American obedience to traffic signals had made on the visitors. “American drivers also seem to show a great deal of consideration for their fellow-autoists,” declared Kroth. There is practically no speed limit in Germany and everybody drives at a break-neck speed, according to Kroth.

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THREATEN LAW l TO GET REPLIES IN UTILITY QUIZ Company Officials Refuse to Answer Questions at ■ U. S. Inquiry. Bn Uni led Pres* WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—An action at law to compel officers of the Electric Bond and Share Company to answer questions put to them by the federal trade commission in its utility investigation v/ill be instituted unless they comply by next Commissioner Edgar A. McCullough said today. The two witnesses who declined to answer questions were A. E. Smith, controller and assistant secretary and Ralph B. Feagin, vicepresident of the Electric Bond and Share Company. Both refused to produce vouchers showing expeditures by the company allegedly to “influence public opinion or to control senatorial or presidential elections,” in iavor of utilities. After the repeated refusal of the witness to answer on advice of counsel, Commissioner McCullough adjourned the hearing until next Tuesday with the demand that the papers requested be produced at) that time. From the attitude of the officials of the company, McCullough said “I can draw only the conclusion that they have something which they do . not want to the senate and the people to know about.” BEGS TO AID FAMILY! Police Find Girl, 16, Trying to Earn Food for Nine. Attempting to obtain money to buy food for her destitute family of nine, a 16-year-old girl Tuesday was picked up by police for obtaining money under false pretenses. The girl was collecting money ostensibly to buy flowers for a friend who had died penniless. Police checked up on her confession and released her. Her mother, three brothers and three sisters and her father, unable to obtain employment. were in dire need, police said.

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