Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1928 — Page 3

OCT. 23, 1928.

AL TO STRESS FIGHT ON DRY LAW IN EAST Campaign Will Keep Its Dampness in Finish Drive. .. BY PAUL B. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent ALBANY, Oct. 23.—Driving hard on the wet centers of the east with anti-prohibition speeches to the fore, Governor Alfred E. Smith’s campaign today was on the threshold of a “whirlwind finish.” Eastern Democratic party leaders, apprehensive that the campaign has lost its dampness, have been assured that the Democratic nominee will assail prohibition in the industrial Republican strongholds. Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts and Thomas Spellacy, national committeeman from Connecticut, who visited Smith this week, were urgent in their requests that prohibition be brought out in front. Plans Busy Two Weeks Foreign relations, federal government reorganization, tariff, and labor are yet to be enlarged upon in the territory that remains, but they will be secondary in importance to the stressing of modifications of the Volstead Act. From Wednesday at 10 a. m. when his train pulls out for Boston until the polls are closed two weeks from tonight, the Democratic presidential nominee will be pushing the most intensive campaign of his twenty-year carer, “the battle of the Atlantic seaboard.” The division of the 138 electoral votes in these eight vital states from Maryland to Massachusetts, probably will tell the tale of the election. With those states and even with a substantial majority of them, Smith believes he can win. Without them his cause is lost. That is why he intends to spend every precious moment of the final drive speaking and touring through Springfield, Worcester, Boston, Providence, Hartford, Philadelphia, Newark, Trenton, Baltimore, Wilmington, Brooklyn and New York City. His plans officially have been announced only as far as Boston where he will parade Wednesday afternoon and speak that night, but a definite schedule for the other cities is expected short! '. Hears Hoover’s Speech Concentration of the final drive in the east was Smith’s own strategy. Next week his Republican opponent Hoover will be moving toward the Pacific coast to cast his vote. Senator Curtis, Republican vice-presidential candidate, who is here today, also will be going west. The east will be left for Smith to play with. The Governor indicated he would take no official notice of Curtis’ invasion today of his adopted home town. Curtis has declined to speak at the noonday meeting which is being staged in his honor. “I shall give him the key of the city,” Smith said, indicating the presentation would be theoretical rather than actual. Smith listened in Monday night at the New York speech of Hoover and expects to incorporate his answer to Hoover’s arguments in the speech he is to make at Boston. He has said Hoover failed to answer him on any issues he has proposed, adding: “It’s too difficult to ascertain what interests him.”

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to the police as stolen: Francis L. Miller, 1132 River avenue, Ford touring; from Morris and Division streets, Harlan Malham, 1852 Jones street, Ford coupe; license 698-390; from in front of 1909 West Morris street. Eldo Baker, 521 Arnolda street, Ford truck; license 14-183; from Holmes avenue and Michigan street. Paul Romberg, 1023 Virginia avenue; Chevrolet coupe; license 631-911; from 1000 Virginia avenue. Carl Mcßride, 4923 University avenue; Ford roadster; license 664-238; from Van Camp Packing Company. William Enright, 2151 Ashland avenue; Davis sedan; from 2151 Ashland avenue.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police: Arthur Gaines, Rensselaer, Ind.; Ford roadster; found at 722 North West street. Neff King, Bloomington, Ind.; Chevrolet coupe; found at Liberty and Market streets. Alva Levi, Princeton, Ind., Dodge toupe; found at 19 Kentucky avenue. Ford roadster; license 664-238; found at Keystone and Troy avenues; this car had been in a wreck and w’as stripped of tires. Paul Rombert, 1023 Villa avenue; Chevrolet coupe; found in front of 1041 East Raymond street. Credit Bureau Planned tip United Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 23.—A credit rating bureau is to be established here for the purpose of keeping a record of local citizens. The bureau will record the names of all persons having accounts with local merchants. Only merchants who turn in accounts to the bureau will be permitted to refer to its files.

Wet Wail By United Press MARION, Ind., Oct. 23. Basil Curtis, who according to police bought liquor for $5 a gallon and sold it for sl6 in small lots, said “business was awfully poor.” He was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to sixty days on the penal farm when he told his story. He had but $1 when arrested. CurtK whose home is in Cass City, Mich., said he was tryto get enough money to pay for an automobile.

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Sara Kellaway, charged with murder of Oakley Harris, one of the wealthiest and most noted gamblers in the south, is shown above as she appeared after her arrest in New Orleans. It is claimed she killed Harris because of his attentions paid to a younger woman. She faces the possibility of death if convicted.

UNION VOTES TOAID FUND Charity Support Pledged at Central Labor Meeting. Support of the Community Fund through the medium of newspaper advertising was voted by the Central Labor Union Monday night after heated argument relative to the value of the fund. Charges of buck-passing, red tape, and citation of instances in which assistance to destitute families was alleged to have been withheld were fired at the Community Fund administration in opposition to equally fervent argument on the part of supporters of the fund led by John Smith, president of the Central Labor Union. The motion actively to support the fund was carried by one vote. Delegates from barbers’ local, No. 247, spoke in denial of a report said to have been circulated to the effect that that organization opposed Frank C. Dailey, Democratic candidate for Governor. Adolph Fritz, secretary of the State Federation of Labor, condemned legislative candidates Winfield Miller, Robert Moorehead and Robert Sloan for anti-union tendencies. MUNCIE JUDGE SAFE IN KEEPING REPORT SECRET Attorney General Upholds Action on Grand Jury Findings. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. 23.—Judge Clarence W. Dearth can not be compelled to divulge contents of a grand jury report on liquor and gambling here, submitted to him Thursday, and which he at first threatened to destroy, but later said he would hold. Announcement that the judge’s action was without precedent but apparently within the law, was made by Prosecuting Attorney Joe Davis of Delaware county, after a conference with Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. Prosecutor Davis, who was active in impeachment proceedings against Judge Dearth during the 1925 session of the Indiana general assembly, which resulted in acquittal of the udge, expresses ✓ a belief that the report being withheld clears the prosecutor’s office of any stigma.

FIX CAR VICTIM’S BURIAL Stockman’s Funeral Is Set for His Birthplace. The victim of an automobile accident Saturday near Ft. Benjamin Harrison, McCutcheon Gregory, 66, 526 East Fall Creek boulevard, will be buried in Lafayette, his birthplace, Thursday morning. Funeral services will be at 10:30 Thursday morning, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John J. Kennedy, 4349 Broadway. Mr. Gregory was widely known as a stockman. Foi; many years he bought and sold horses in Indianapolis and supplied many local business firms with horses. SET ROUTE HEARING Motor Club Invited to Attend Meridian Bus Session. Public hearing on the proposed new Peoples Motor Coach Company bus route on North Meridian street, to the new Butler university will be before Commissioner Howell Ellis of the public service commission at 10 a. m. Wednesday. Operation of busses on North Meridian street has been objected to by the Hoosier Motor club. Ellis has invited Todd Stoops, secretary of that organization to appear and state reasons for his objections. The series of evangelistic meetings launched Sunday night in the First Evangelical church will continue -every night this week except Saturday. The Rev. E. W. Petticord, spoke Sunday night on “Stewardship.”

FUND WORKERS SOLICIT EARLY CONTRIBUTIONS Advance Campaign Begun by Main Divisions of Community Army. Two main divisions of the community fund organization have begun advance solicitations, and two more will begin this week, announces Walter C. Marmon, general campaign chairman. The women’s army and the A division are the two that are starting work this week. The B division and the branch house division began work last week. It is customary, explains Marmon, for solicitations to begin in advance of the opening date of the campaign so that workers may report subscriptions at the first public meeting, Nov. 9. Generous Giving Urged “Two things must be accomplished if Indianapolis is to reach the community fund goal in the forthcoming campaign,” Marmon says. ‘First, the city’s more fortunate citizens must measure their giving by the most generous givers am&ng those of comparable incomes. Second, the community fund must have more subscribers than in previous years. “Each year more citizens become acquainted with the work of the welfare agencies for which this annual campaign is conducted, and more citizens realize that the Community Fund plan, now in operation in 315 cities, is the cheapest, most efficient plan yet devised for providing money to carry on social service in a city.” Cards showing names of all contributors to the Community Fund a year ago have been placed in the hands of division leaders for distribution to the solicitors. In addition, all workers will be supplied with Red Cross buttons to be given to all fund subscribers. Red Cross window cards will be carried by members of the womens ’army so that each home and store from which a subscription is received may be placarded. 37 Agencies Share The Indianapolis chapter of the Red Cross, it is pointed out, receives nearly 78 per cent of its support from the Community Fund. In 1928 this allowance was $31,500. Os the thirty-seven agencies sharing in the common fund, fourteen receive more than SIO,OOO a year; thirteen receive amounts between $5,000 and SIO,OOO per year, and the balance receive sums less than $5,000. The largest allowance is made for the Family Welfare Society, which received in 1928 a total of $162,939.

FACES JM TERM Tried for Burglary and on Habitual Criminal Charge. Roy Sherrer, charged with second degree burglary and being an habitual criminal, went on trial in criminal court today. Monday afternoon prospective jurors were examined. If convicted of the burglary charge Sherrer faces life imprisonment because of other sentences served by him on felony charges. He was arrested June 14 after he was alleged to have entered the garage of William T. Milliron, 1504 East Thirtyfourth street. Goods found in his home linked him with other recent robberies in'and near Indianapolis, police said. Piosecutor William H. Remy said Sherrer’s prison record revealed he has been sentenced fifty-two years and served twelve years on five counts. PUSH FIGHT TO BLOCK FERTILIZER PLANT City to File Briefs in Suit for Injunction This Week. Briefs in the city’s injunction suit against the Capitol City Fuel Company to prevent the company from building a fertilizer plant, fuel yard and railroad switch at Forty-sixth street and the Monon railroad will be filed with Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin this week. Preliminary hearing was held Monday afternoon and the court requested briefs on various legal points. Erection of the buildings, according to the city’s contention, is in violation of zoning ordinances that prohibit business buildings within residential territory. FREE IN BOMBINgTcASE Prisoner Seven Months After Hammond Blast Cleared. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Oct. 23.—Dean Melloy is clear today of charges that he was a party to the bombing of the $1,750,000 State theater here. On motion of the State, a charge on which he went on trial in Lake criminal court at Crown Point Monday was dismissed. He had been in jail seven months awaiting trial. Dismissal followed refusal of Marwood Williams and Harry Ames, already convicted in the bombing, to testify further as State witnesses on the ground that they might incriminate themselves to a greater degree. William Kleihege, also convicted, has his appeal before the Indiana supreme court. Hospital Equipped With Gas Bp United Press GREENSBURGH, Ind., 23. Complete equipment for administering gas to patients has been installed at the Decatur County Memorial hospital. Anesthesia by use of gas is rapidly replacing use ol ether and chloroform and that prompted the installation here. The nearest hospitals supplied with the equipment are at Indianapolis.

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