Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1928 — Page 2

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FIRE WORK OR ADMIT OIL BLOT, G. 0. P. IS TOLD Party Must Take Blame for Leases, Charges Daniels in Addresses. Bu Vnited Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C„ Oct. 23. The Republican party either must demand the resignation of Dr. Hubert Work or accept the responsibility of his renewal of the Salt Creek oil lease to the Sinclair interests, Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy, said in an ad - dress here Monday night. Daniels said Herbert Hoover should demand Work’s resignation as chairman of the Republican national committee. v He attacked the renewal of the Salt Creek lease by Work, then secretary of the interior, and criticised Work- successor, Roy O. West. “Tbs latest exposure of secret leasing of .oil lands shows that Albert B. Fall, still is in fact, secretary of the interior, and that the Republican national committee must have anew chairman if that party expects to retain the confidence of even its most loyal standpatters,” Daniels said.

Salt Creek Excursion “That Salt creek transaction Should insure the Republican party an excursion up Salt river on Nov. 6. It is evident that so far as the matter of parting with oil lands belonging to Uncle Sam is concerned, Albert Fall still dictates the policy of the Coolidge administration, minus the little black bag and the Conspiracy of corruption.” Daniels charged that Work became secretary of the interior with “full knowledge” of the oil scandals, and that “any prudent successor would have refused, to continue or sanction any Fall transaction until the courts had given their O. K. West Is Assailed “The excuse that the solicitor approved the extension of the lease is no defense. A lawyer in the navy gave approval to Teapot Dome’s lease, and one temporary admiral was found to approve the scandal of leasing the petroleum oil reserves. This did not save Denby or Fall from the condemnation by the people or the supreme court. It cannot save Work,” Daniels said. Daniels predicted the Senate never would confirm the selection of West as secretary of the interior, and denounced him “as the man associated with Insull to buy the senatorial election in Illinois for the former Senator Smith.” CHARGE MANSLAUGHTER FOR SHOOTING INTRUDER Man, 71, Held Alter Death ol Victim, Wounded Sept. 28. Although he declared he shot in self-defense of his home, Millard Middaugh, 72, of 156 Blackford street, faces a manslaughter charge today, following the death at city hospital Monday of William Ford, 27, of 912 Broadway, shot by Middaugh, Sept. 28. Ford, better known as Willie Ford, was well known to police, having been arrested a number of times on various charges. Middaugh declared that the night of the shooting Thomas Ford, a brother of William, had come to his home drunk and been ordered away. William Ford appeared later, cursed and struck Middaugh and chased him into his home. He fired one shot from his revolver when Ford attempted to force his way in, Middaugh said. Ford was shot in the arm, but Hied of complications. SEEK REPAIRS FOR CENTRAL HOSPITAL Yearly Request Is Received by Superintendent. The old question of new buildings and repairs for Central state hospital will again be brought to the attention of the legislature. Dr. Max A. Bahr, superintendent of the institution has filed with the state budget clerk a request asking an appropriation of $849,300 for new buildings and repairs. New buildings proposed include two new cottages for male patients, a greenhouse, pavilion for women patients and anew building for employes. The budget repair requests includes $60,000 for steam lines; $225,000 for new boilers and $14,000 for a generator. Condition of the boilers was such last winter that the institution could not burn coal purchased under the state purchasing board contract from a Ft. Wayne dealer. Total appropriation asked for the next two years is $2,040,719.

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GIANT TREATER MERGERTALKED Radio May Flash Programs to Chain Houses. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Confirmation of the proposed merger of the Radio Corporation of America and the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation indicated that negotiations were under way to day for the formation of the largest amusement enterprise in the world. The new company probably will be known as the Radio-Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation. David Sarnoff, vice president and general manager of the Radio Corporation, will be chairman of the new company and the Radio Corporation will be substantially represented on the board. Holders of stock of the film booking office productions, inc., are also offered opportunity to participate in the exchange of shares. Talking motion pictures by the Photophone process will be the primary development under the new plan, it was said. Later these probably will be broadcast, television* being the ultimate objective. Representatives of the principal companies said there would be no limit to number of theaters to which such entertainment might be flashed. Through arrangements with foreign radio firms, theaters in Britain and on the continent might share in the programs. The nucleus of 700 Keith-Albee theaters and the production facilities of the F. B. 0., together with the booking connections of the National Broadcasting Company through the latter’s concert bureau, offers unusual program-making resources.

M’FAODEN SPEAKS Rotary Club Hears Health Talk by Publisher. Bernarr McFadden, widely-known publisher and proponent of physical culture, told the Rotary Club “how the busy man keeps fit at 60,” at the club’s luncheon at the Claypool today. HimseTf a near-perfect physical specimen, the publisher outlined his scheme for keepi.ig in “shape.” “Health is a vital necessity in the success of every business operation,” he declared. “Handicapped by lack of vigor, if not by actual illness, the modern man has little chance to meet successfully the competition of present-day commercial activity.” McFadden, with his wife and children, is making a pilgrimage to his birthplace, St. Louis. He will speak in several other mid-west cities. RABBI BOOSTS AL By United Press BOSTON, Oct. 23.—Attacking religious intolerance, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, in a speech here Monday night, said that “if Governor Smith were a Protestant he would be overwhelmingly elected.” More than 3,000 crowded Symphony hall and as many were turned away from the meeting, which was under the auspices of the Canadian Smith-fcr-President Club. Itching Eczema There Is one safe dependable treatment for the Itching torture of Eczema, The first application of Zemo usually stops itching and when used regularly will help rid the skin of Eczema, Pimples, Rashes, Blotches and similar annoying skin irritations. You will be surprised how quickly skin troubles will react to this clean, antiseptic, soothing liquid. Easy to apply at any time. 35c, 60c and .SI.OO. zemo FOR SKIN IRRITATIONS

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—But Before Voters Have Cast Preference at Polls. Responsibility for each one of nearly 2,000,000 official ballots rests on the group in the above photo and others similarly engaged in counting, sealing, wrapping and packing them for the nihety-t\yo county clerks. Each worker in the ballot count is duly sworn in by Secretary J. Otto Lee of the state printing board, who has charge of the distribution. The men in the group wear official police badges and guards are placed about the workers. The job is being done in the north end of the main floor corridor at the Statehouse. Huge melting pots are filled with red wax, used to make the official seal on the package. They are then packed in wooden boxes, especially constructed and nailed shut. Clerks must call for the boxes in person. In seven of the ninety-two counties the clerks are women. Harry Nichol, Jefferson county, was the first to call for ballots. Q HINTS AT MARS CALL SENSATION Radio Attempt May Amaze World, Says Physician. By United Press LONDON, Oct. 23.—Dr. Abraham Wallace, west end physician, who has assumed the role of Dr. Mansfield Robinson's scientific advisor, told the United Press today that the attempt to communicate with Mars by radio might “create the greatest scientific sensation of the ages.” “I am certain that regular communication between Mars and the earth is bound to come,” said Wallace. Robinson will send two messages over the powerful radio station at Rugby Wednesday and then wait half an hour for a reply which he expects to get in eight minutes. The messages, written in code, will say “God Is Love” and “Love to Mars.” Dr. Wallace insisted that the experimnent should be considered reverently. GIRL. 7 87 IS ‘KIDNAPER’ Puts Baby in Doll Carriage; Neighborhood in Turmoil. Bu t'nited Press NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 23.—An 3-year-old girl playing the “mother’ role threw a residential section here into a “kidnaper” scare by borrowing a 7-weeks-old baby to take her doll’s place in a carriage from 1 p. m. until twilight. Police and Mrs. John Chaney, the worried mother of the baby, searched for the child before it was found sleeping peacefully in the doll carriage.

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CITY LETTERS TO GO ON ZEP 300 Pieces to Be Carried From Here to Germany. More than 300 letters sent by Indianapolis citizens will be included in the mail carried from this country to Germany on the Graf Zeppelin on its return ight, according Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. Bryson called attention to the fact these letters and postal cards should be mailed at the local postofflee instead of being sent under separate cover to the Lakehurst (N. J.) or New York city postmasters. Nearly half of the 300 letters already sent from here have been in separate inclosures and these will not bear Indianapolis postmark. Bryson pointed out that by adding domestic air mail postage the letters and postcards will make the entire trip from here to Germany by air. Postage rates on letters by rail mail is $1.05 and on postcards 53 cents. By air mail the cost in each instance is 5 cents additional. No letter weighing more than 1 ounce will be accepted. Among mail dispatched from here for the trip today were five souvenir folders describing Indianapolis. Thursday at 3:15 p. m. is the last possible time to mail matter to be carried on the airship, if it departs Saturday, as planned.

AL'S SOY COES OUT DUMPING Smith’s Son Exhorts Crowd ‘Vote for Dad’; Just 21. liU United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Arthur W. Smith, just turned 21, has become a campaign orator for his father, Governor Alfred E. Smith. He told two gatherings last night that he intended to cast his first vote for his father and that he would do "anything in the world” to make him President. It was a flushed, embarrassed youth that took his place with Henry Mo-gantheau, 72-year-old former ambassador to Turkey, and other seasoned veterans of politics, on the platform at the Heights Club on Riverside drive. Introduced as “a chip off the old block,” young Smith delivered a carefully memorized speech, urging the 1,000 men and women present to vote for “an honest and courageous leader, and the best dad in the world.”

CHICAGO SUNK $12,000,000 BY WATER DEBT Politics Clogs Municipal Operation: $30,000,000 Equipment Needed. Bn United Press CHICAGO, Oct| 23.—The second largest city in the country built upon the shore of the second largest lake in the world has gone in debt $10,000,000 for water. Before the end of the year another $2,000,000 may be added to the amount of indebtedness Chicago has incurred for obtaining what most visitors, looking out over Lake Michigan, seem to think is about the most abundant commodity in town. The visitor who thinks water is cheap has failed to consider politics. Chicago's water plant is municipally owned. It was self-sustaining at one time, but for the last seven years it has been running into debt. $30,000,000 Equipment Needed In 1914. the city water department had a surplus of $4,160,018. Then the politicians hit upon the plan of giving the profits back to the voters by increasing the discount. By 1922. red figures had begun to appear on the account books of the department. The deficit that year was $865,991. Since then it has increased at an alarmiing pace. Today, in addition to facing the prospect of winding up the year $12,000,000 in debt, the department must figure on raising $30,000,000 for new filtration equipment and on going through with an elaborate meter program. Water meters have been required by. the federal government as a check on the amount of water Chicago draws each year from Lake Michigan. Other great lakes states contend that Chicago is so wasteful with its water that the level of the lake is being lowered to the detriment of interlake shipping. Plugged Leaks at $75 a Day Mayor William Hale Thompson undertook to stop the waste by finding all the leaks in the water pipes and plugging them up. He employed Harry O. Biosat at $75 a day to serve as head of a city-wide water waste control division and induced the city council to appropriate $1,000,000 for the work. The mayor’s plan now has been abandoned, a large part of the $1,000,000 being transferred to the pay roll of the commissioner of public works. Before Chicago can begin reducing its water bill it must either raise its water rates or reduce its salaries and pay rolls. Enemies of the Thompson administration contend that 9 per cent of the names on the water works pay roll are temporary political job-holders. NAME WRONG ON SLATE Judge David A. Myers, Greensburg. Ind., candidate for re-election to the supreme court on the Republican ticket, has his name misspelled on the official ballots, it was discovered Monday. It appears as David A. Meyers. Since there are no other similar names the error will remain uncorrected. Judge Myers is one of the three members of the court finding the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, Indiana AntiSaloon League secretary, guilty of contempt. His defeat is being sought by Shumaker and his henchmen. FALLS 50 FEET; UNHURT Bu United Press NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 23.—Rita Arbon, 7, fell three feet from a window to the floor and suffered a fractured skull. Paul Mansfield, 22, tinsmith, fell fifty feet from a roof to the ground and escaped with minor bruises.

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Limit on Oratory Asked by Speaker; Discuss Reciprocity. * Sharp discussion centered about the motion of Mrs. Andrew J. Hopkins of Boonville to withdraw complimentary subscriptions to the Clubwoman, official publication of the federation, from club presidents, at the meeting of the advisory board of the Indiana Federation of Clubs at the Claypool this morning. The motion was offered in "the interest of economy.” Members of the board were in marked disagreement, and after vigorous discussion the motion was withdrawn. Mrs. Frank Donner. Greencastle, then moved appointment of a chairman in each club to take subscriptions and see that the publication reached the presidents. The motion was carried unanimously. Would Limit Oratory Mrs. George W. Jaqua of Winchester Eighth district chairman, spoke on limiting speakers to the time allotted to them on programs. She offered as remedies the limitation of programs in length, and arbitrary curtailment of Introductions In length and number. Mrs Floyd T. Jones of Lafayette, urged desirability of planting highways with flowers and described the plan followed by her district. Mrs. Edwin S. Miller, dean of departments, presented new material for the various departments, put out by the general federation. Discuss Reciprocity “New Phases of Reciprocity for All Departments” was discussed by Mrs. Robert E. Burke. Bloomington, who urged desirability of cooperation of chairman with the state university, the state library and like agencies, and with general federation headquarters. Mrs. Helen Hole spoke on the need of a chairman’s telling as well as knowing her subject, and of acting as well as telling. Officers were to report and convention rules to be outlined at the informal opening of the convention proper at 3 this afternoon. Dinners on Program Four dinners were planned for 5:45 p. m. At the dinner for district and county chairmen, Mrs. John Downing Johnson will preside; at the dinner for department workers. Mrs. Edwin F. Miller; Mrs. E. O. Rumplter will be in charge of the Continuation Club dinner, and Mrs. Leon Stern the dinner for juniors. Principal event of the formal opening of the convention at 7:45 will be an address on "The Achievements of the Indiana Commonwealth," by Mrs. Edwin Franklin White. The session wil lbe followed by an informal reception, honoring state officers. APPEAL TAX APPRAISAL Pythians Allege Failure to Deduct for a Floor, Trustees of the Knights of Pythias buildinig today appealed to the state tax board from new appraisals by Marion county, which* raised the building valuation for taxation purposes $140,000. The old assessment was $740,000. The appeal petition alleges that the local officials failed to deduct for one of the three floors used for fraternal purposes. Lodge rooms and fraternal offices are exempt, it is pointed out.

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NATIONS RUSH WORK ON PACT British Renew Consideration of Arbitration Treaty. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Responding to Secretary of State Kellof;’s request for immediate action on anew arbitration treaty, the British government within a few days will end the long delay in the negotiations by formally placing its views before the state department, it was reported in diplomatic circles today. This action would be the first taken by Great Britain since Kellogg initiated the negotiations last December. A week ago, Kellogg sent a note to London asking that the negotiations be expedited. The British replied they were still waiting to hear from the dominion governments, but today it was intimated London would proceed with the discussions without further delay. It was suggested Great Britain does not want to give the United States cause for any grievance, such as resulted from the secret AngloFrench naval agreement, by making it appear that the proposed arbitration treaty was being purposely delayed. HEADS TITLE' MEN John Morrison Made President at Association Dinner. John E. Morrison, advertising and sales director for the Union Title Men’s Association of Indianapolis, was elected president of the Indiana Title Men’s Association at the annual dinner of the group* in the Claypool Monday night.

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CONGRESS ON MOTOR TRUCKS GUESTS HERE Opening Sessions Are Held at Fairground: City Men Visitors. The Mid-West Motor Truck Transportation congress opened at the manufacturers’ building at the state fairground today with the registration of hundreds of visitors. Opening sessions were held this afternoon. Members of Indianapolis business and industrial clubs joined congress visitors at a luncheon. Frank W. Lovejoy of New York, director of distribution of the Vacuum Oil Company, spoke on “From the OxCar*; to the Motor Truck." Jchn E. Fredrick, Indiana State Chamber of Commerce president, and Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of state, spoke at the afternoon session. Tom Horrocks, secretary of the Minnesota Truck Owners’ Association, and H. C. railing, secretary of the Motor Truck Club of Kentucky, led a discussion on varying laws interfering wifi, interstate commerce. Representatives of the motot trucks association of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, lowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin will meet for a conference at 5 p. m. A dinner at 6:30 p. m. will be presided over by C. A. Brigden, president of the Wisconsin Truck Owners’ Association. Directors and officers of the Motor Truck Association of Indiana, which with the associations of Ohio and Kentucky, is holding its annual convention in connection with the congress, met this morning. The Indiana association will hold a business session Friday afternoon for election of officers. Nominating and resolutions committees were appointed today. WINS BALLOT BATTLE Supreme Court Upholds Primary Verdict on George Smock. Name of George E. Smock remains on the Vigo county ballot as Republican candidate for county commissioner it was decided by the supreme court Monday. Jacob L. Jones, who was defeated by Smock in the primary, contended that Smock’s success was due to fraud and sought to mandate county election officials to put his name in the winner’s place. Defeated in the lower court, Jones came to the supreme court and sought a writ of prohibition, which would forbid the use of Smock's name on the ballot. The case was heard on its merits and the court ruled out Jones’ claim. SIOO Victrola with 49 records can be purchased for only S2O. Just one of the bargains listed in the musical classification in tonight’s Times want ads.

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