Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1928 — Page 13

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FRIENDLY G. O. P. SENATE IS TO ASSIST HOOVER

President-Elect to Get Sympathetic Help From Both Houses. BY LEO R. SACK Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. —Presi-dent-elect Hoover not only will have a friendly senate, but he will have a sympathetic one in his efforts to make good his campaign promises. Included in the new senate will be Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio temporary chairman of the Kansas City convention, who secretly favored Hoover when his deceased colleague, the late Senator Willis, was a candidate for the nomination. Fess, who led the fight against the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill in behalf of the administration forces, is expected to champion Hoover’s proposals to restore agricultural prosperity. Burton Returns Another Ohio senator will be the veteran Theodore E. Burton, successor to the late Senator Willis, who returns to the forum of his former triumphs. Burton was one of the Ohioans chiefly responsible for inducing Hoover to enter the Ohio primaries against Willis and thereby begins the long trail which led him to the White House. No Senator’s election, it is known, pleased Hoover more than that of Burton. Senator George W. Moses, New Hampshire, permanent chairman of the Kansas City convention which nominated Hoover, continues as president pro tern, of the Senate Moses was Hoover’s eastern campaign managger and one of the first Senators to openly espouse his candidacy. Borah Will Go Back Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, who bore the brunt of Hoover’s campaigning and was by long odds the most popular Republican speaker, outside of Hoover himself, continues in the senate unless invited by Hoover to his cabinet. Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, another early Hoover supporter, who was influential in bringing Secretary Mellon aboard the Hoover bandwagon when Mellon’s presence was influential, was overwhelmingly re-elected. The incoming President got a lucky break in the voluntary retirement of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, who did not seek re-elec-tion. Reed long was the most outspoken of Hoover’s critics and literally hated him. Hoover will not be bothered by Reed’s sarcasm when he goes to the White House. Norris Still Is on Job Hoover will not have the entire senate jumping through his hoop, however, as the veteran Norris of Nebraska, who supported Smith, continues as does La Follette of Wisconsin who did not declare fcv Hoover, and also Blaine of Wisconsin, who campaigned for Smith. The new President is assured, however, of enough senate leadership to insure execution of hL recommendations. A source of tre menduos help will be Vice-Presi dent Charles Curtis, the retiring Republican leader of the senate. In the house of representative.; Hoover will have no trouble either It will be safely Republican and under the guidance of Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who was returned by Cincinnati voters. Four Sisters for Hoover Bn Times ftnecinl _ _ ROCHESTER, Ind„ Nov. 7.—Four sisters, the youngest 64, are among those rejoicing here today over election of Herbert Hoover as President. They went to the polls together Tuesday, all voting for the Republican candidate. The sisters are Mrs. Sarah Noftzger, 84; Mrs. Rachel Thompson, 77; Mrs. Ed Kime, 67, and Mrs. Hattie Minter, 64.

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FOLEY TO BE SPEAKER Street Railway Attorney to Address Traffic Club. M. E. Foley, attorney for the Indianapolis Street Railway Company and for twenty-one years a member of the Indiana state pardon and parole board, will speak before the regular Traffic club luncheon Thursday in the Lincoln on "The Crime Situation.” BIG BILL AGAIN ROUTEDIN VOTE Deneen’s Candidate Wins Chicago Prosecutor Job. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 7—The Republic an group headed by United States Senator Charles S. Deneen, which won national notice by defeating the Crowe-Thompson faction in the April primary, heightened its political prestige in Chicago today with a victory for its candidate for state’s attorney. That important Chicago post was won by Judge John A. Swanson, who eliminated State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe in the gang ridden primary last spring. Crowe and Mayor William Hale Thompson were said to have thrown their support to the Democratic candidate, Judge William J. Lindsay, who lost by a narrow margin The contest was in doubt until long after midnight. THREE ACCUSED OF EXTORTION Seymour Justice of Peace Among Defendants. BJ/ Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., Nov. 7.—C. L. Wilson, justice of the peace, and James M. Corbin and Otto Kain, deputy game wardens, face charges of extortion as the result of alleged illegal practices in arresting and fining residents of Jennings county here on charges of violating fish and game laws. It is charged that the justice of peace, sitting in Jackson county, had no authority to act on cases of Jennings county residents and further that the prosecuting attorney of the former county was not notified of such arrests as the law provides he shall be. Five persons fined by Wilson have had the money paid refunded. There are indications that the case will be probed by the Jackson county grand jury now in session at Brownstown. DEBTS BAN DIVORCE Mortgage Is Advised by Judge for Marital Happiness. By NEA Service CLEVELAND, Nov. 9.—The mortgage on a home keeps a family nose to the grindstone and prevents the restlessness which causes divorce. That’s the opinion of Common Pleas Judge Frederick P. Walther. “In 90 per cent of divorce cases,” he says, “we find the parties do not own their homes. Any man or woman who does not hope to own a home and does not work toward ‘ that end is not a substantial citizen.”

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BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Nobody back in the tiny hamlet of West Branch, la., fifty years ago ever dreamed that Bert Hoover, the barefoot little orphan whose father had been the village blacksmith, would ever be President of the United States. And likewise nobody back in Topeka, Kan., fifty years ago ever dreamed that 18-year-old Charlie Curtis, another orphan, who had a good job as a hack driver and was studying law in his spare time, would ever be Vice-President of the United States. Yet, today these two orphans who fought their way upward in the world, stand elected to the highest offices within the gift of the American people. Their goal was the same—but their routes thereto were vastly different. The orphaned Hoover came up by a route that brought him a college education, a world-wide reputation as a mining engineer and wealth almost beyond the dreams of avarice. The orphaned Curtis struggled his way from an Indian reservation through a career as a jockey, a hack driver, a self-educated lawyer, a county prosecutor, a congressman and a senator of slender means. Curtis has spent almost a lifetime in politics; the first and only office that Hoover ever ran for was that of President. tt u a 'T'HE curtain rose on the life of Herbert Clark Hoover in a clapboard cabin on a scrawny farm in rural lowa on Aug. 10, 1874. His father—a powerful bear of a man—was Jesse Hoover, a farmer, who also ran a blacksmith shop at the village of West Branch. Both of his parents were devout Quakers, sober of mien and stern of speech. Before young Hoover was 10 years old both his father and his mother had died. For a time he lived with relatives on a nearby farm and then, when he was 10, an uncle took him to Oregon. There, young Hoover worked in his uncle’s real estate office, for the Oregon land boom was on. Lured by the tales of a roving mining prospector, Hoover decided to become a mining engineer. Leland Sanford university was just opening in California so he went there and worked his way through. He waited on tables, collected laundry for fellow students, managed a college lyceum bureau and did almost anything else that would turn an honest penny. After graduation Hoover worked as a day laborer in California mines to gain experience and then went to work in the office of Louis Janin, a famous mining engineer. Janin recommended him to a London firm of mining engineers and, in 1897, the latter sent him to Australia to take charge of its gold mines there. n tt A COUPLE of year later, on one of his brief trips to the United States, he married Miss Lou Henry, who had been a classmate at Leland Stanford. They were the first and only sweethearts each ever had. Entering business for himself, Hoover began developing mining properties in China, India, Burma and other far- away lands. Fortune smiled on his enterprises and he became a man of tremendous wealth. The outbreak of the World war found Hoover at his office In London. The story of his career from that day is too well known to need repetition. Briefly, it is the story of a genius who organized the Belgian Relief commission that fed eight million homeless souls through weary years of war, that spent $17,000,000 a month, employed 50,000 workers, operated its own ships, flew its own flag and issued its own passports. Briefly, it is the story of the man whom President Wilson called home In 1917 to become food administrator of the United States—who imposed “Meatless Tuesday,” “Wheatless Wednesdays” on a free people and, what is more, made them like it. It is the story of a man who, in

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GREAT OVATIONS FOR CURTIS ON HIS WAY EAST

Hooray, Hoover By United Press WEST BRANCH. la.,’Nov. 7. —Herbert Hoover's birthplace gave him an overwhelming victory Tuesday. The Republican presidential candidate received a total of 528 votes to 46 for Governor Alfred E. Smith. The vote was heavier by 100 votes than that cast in any previous election.

the trying days just after the war, conquered faminine in devastated Europe by feeding whole nations and spent more than $600,000,000 for supplies at an overhead cost of less than one-half of one per cent. It is the story of a man whom President Coolidge called to take charge of relief operations in the Mississippi Valley in the spring of 1927, when 600,000 were made homeless by floods. It is the story of a man who, as secretary of commerce, has saved American industry many millions by standardization of manufacture and other economies. tt tt u OF less magnitude, but even more colorful, has been the career of Senator Curtis, newly elected VicePresident. Os Indian ancestry on his mother’s side, he was born on an Indian reservation in Kansas in 1860. Before he was 3 his mother died, and his father—Captain Orren A. Curtis, a trader who had come west from Indiana—died soon after. For a time young Curti# lived with his father’s parents in Topeka, but at the age of 5 he went back to the Kaw reservation, sixty miles away to live with his Indian grandmother in her tepee. He might have been an Indian yet if, one day in 1868, a band of marauding Cheyennes had not attacked the reservation of the friendly Kaws. Young Curtis, then 8, was a fast rider and could speak both English and Indian, so the beleaguered Kaws chose him to gallop to the cavalry post at Topeka for help. He slipped through the Cheyennes’ lines and summoned the soldiers, who chased the raiders away. Curtis didn’t go back to the Indians. Instead, he made his home with his father’s people for a time and then became a jockey, riding at Kansas race tracks before he was 10. When increasing weight finally ended his days as a jockey, he sold candy and peanuts around the railroad station at Topeka' and later worked in a livery stable. Next, he got a job driving a hack. It was while he was a hack driver that Curtis studied law, often reading his lawbooks by the light of the oil lamps on his cab as he waited for fares. A sympathetic lawyer finally took the youth into his office. a a tt AT 21, Curtis was admitted to the bar and at 25 (In 1885) he got his first political job when he was elected as a county prosecutor. In 1892 he was elected to congress and served seven terms. In 1907 he was elected to the senate, in 1912 he was beaten, but In 1914 he was re-elected and has since served there. He was named Republican floor leader upon the death of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. Fireman 38 Years Retires By United Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 7. John D. (Doc) Griffin, member of the local fire department has retired after serving thirty-eight consecutive years. Griffin joined the department when he was 26 years of age. He drove a wagon drawn by two horses up until 1914 when the city purchased two trucks which still are in use. He learned to drive one of the trucks.

Vice President-Elect Goes to Bed Before He Knows Result. BY STANLEY WHITAKER, United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Nov. 7.—“1 am gratified with the returns,” Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas said today, in the first public statement he has made since his election to the Vice-Presidency. Curtis arrived in Chicago from Topeka, where he voted yesterday and left at 10:10 a. m. on the Baltimore & Ohio for Washington “Mr. Hoover made s wonderful candidate,” Curtis said. “Personally, I am grateful to the American people for the splendid endorsement given to the Republican ticket.” Curtis ate breakfast in the dining car. He shook hands with everyone, including the steward. He said he would meet Harry K. Curtis, his son, between trains, but that he would have to hurry on to Wash - ington, “to clean up my correspondence.’! The train was only a short way out of Kansas City last night when Curtis said, “well, win or lose, I'm going to get a full night's sleep.” Curtis Goes to Bed Up to that hour he had been supplied with United Press returns mainly from eastern and southern states and the presidential contest was by no means settled. During the remainder of the night the Santa Fe railroad submitted election returns to members of the senator’s party, but Curtis had left orders not to be disturbed and he was obeyed. The first word of his victory reached the Vice-President-elect today from the lips of Sanford Jarrell of San Francisco, Republican national committee representative, who is accompanying Curtis back to Washington. Jarrell extended his congratulations soon after “George” reported that Curtis was awake. Senator Is Weary The senator is weary after his strenuous campaign in thirty-one states. Had Curtis remained awake until 1:40 a. m., as most of the people in this country do on election night, he could have participated in two enthusiastic demonstrations which were staged for his benefit while he slept. At Marceline, Mo., the train crew had a difficult time keeping the crowd of Curtis admirers from boarding the train and routing him out of bed. They surrounded the car in which he was sleeping and shouted their throats raw and then watched the train pull away from the station without getting a glimpse of the senator. At Ft. Madison the ceremony was repeated. Curtis appeared to be refreshed today, but said that his chief aim now was to get more rest. He said that after catching up on his correspondence in Washington he hoped to take a vacation. “If I can’t take it in Washington,” he said, “I’ll go somewhere else where I can.” MARRIES ’EM FREE Squire Tells Young Couples to Use Fee for Homes. WAYNESBURG, Pa., Nov. 9.—lt doesn’t cost so much to get married, after all, not if you let Squire George Zimmerman, of Morrisville, do it. “Instead of paying me,” he recently said, "those whom I marry can take the fee and use it for their homes or other essentials. It will be a day and night service, for I will answer telephone calls or perform the ceremony any hour of the twenty-four.”

New Governors

By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—State Governors chosen in Tuesday's national election included: Arkansas—H. Parnell (Dem.). Connecticut—J. H. Trumbull (Rep.). Georgia—L. G. Hardman (Dem.). lowa—John Hammil (Rep.). Kansas—C. M. Reed (Rep.). Michigan—P. W. Green (Rep.). New Hampshire—C. W. Tobey (Rep.). North Carolina N. Gardner (Dem.). Ohio—M. Y. Cooper (Rep.).' Tennessee—H. H. Horton (Dem.). Texas—Dan Moody (Dem.). Vermont—J. E. Weeks (Rep.). Wisconsin—W. J. Kohler (Rep.). Arizona—J. C. Phillips (Rep.). Colorado—W. H. Adams (Dem.). Delaware—C. D. Buck (Rep.). Florida—Doubtful. Idaho—H. C. Baldridge (Rep.). Illinois—L. E. Emerson (Rep.) Indiana—H. G. Leslie (Rep.). Massachusetts—F. G. Allen (Rep.). Minnesota—T. Christiansen (Rep.). Missouri—Doubtful. Montana—Doubtful. Nebraska—A. J. Weaver (Rep.). New' Jersey—M. F. Larson (Rep.). New Mexico—Doubtful. New York—Franklin D. Roosevelt (Deui.). North Dakota—G. F. Shaffer (Rep.) Rhode Island —N. S. Case (Rep.). South Dakota—Doubtful. Utah—Doubtful. Washington—R. H. Hartley (Rep.). West Virginia—W. G. Conley (Rep.). Maine—W. T. Gardner (Rep.). SEMTENCED FOR BRIBE Pennsylvania Brewer Goes to Prison for Two Years. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Daniel J. Shields, Johnstown (Pa.) brewer, has surrendered himself to the United States marshal here and started serving a two-year sentence for bribery of a woman employe of the prohibition unit. He is serving his sentence in the District of Columbia jail. TWO KILLED IN LIMITED CRASH Crack Illinois Central Train Is Wrecked. By United Press CENTRALIA, 111., Nov. 7.—The Panama Limited, crack train of the Illinois Central Railroad, was derailed today. The engineer and fireman were killed and several persons were Injured. The dead are Engineer Fred Erskine and Fireman George Lang, both of Centralia. The severely injured, Charles Kusang of Chicago and Henry Peterson of Kewanee, 111., were taken to a hospital here. Erskine and Lang were crushed when their engine turned over. CALL IT A HICKORY HERE England Shocks Youths Into Learning Lessons. LONDON, Nov. 9.—A schoolboy at Cambridge has been shocked into learning how to write. Try as he would the youth simply could not get the idea until a specially constructed electrical device was attached to his desk. He was given a steel pen and instructed to write between lines on a cardboard. When he touched the lines there was a buzzing noise; if he went outside the lines a bell rang; when he gripped his pen too tight he received an electric shock in the back of the neck. After six months the experiment proved successful.

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FARM AID FIRST PROBLEM WHICH FACES HOOVER

Aged in Music Bn Times Spcciul ELWOOD, Ind., Nov. 7. Home brew which officers found in a piano at his home has resulted in arrest of Orley Massey, who will be tried in city court Nov. 14, charged with violating the prohibition law. Masuey’s wife provided police with information about the liquor after she caused his arrest on an assault and battery charge.

DRY TRIUMPH, M’BRIDE SAYS Vote Boosts Prohibition, Says Arid Chief. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—F. Scott Mcßride, general secretary of the Anti-Saloon League, today issued the following statement on the election of Herbert Hooveij: “Hoover’s overwhelming victory is conclusive proof that the great majority of the American people wish prohibition to succeed. Final returns will show Smith to have sustained the worst defeat of any presidential candidate in the undivided field. “This result is an impressive and decisive repudiation by the people of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and their modification and government sale plan adopted and advocated by Mr Raskob and Governor Smith. “The result is also a thorough vindication of the Anti-Saloon League, which was attacked bitterly throughout the campaign. The triumph of Hoover, who supported prohibition over Smith, will be accepted by the world as convincing evidence that the American people consider prohibition the best method of dealing with the liquor problem and that they are determined to maintain the Eighteenth amendment.” BOY,~6,~READS WIDELY Muncle Lad in School a Month Shows Surprising Progress. By United Press NEWPOINT, Ind., Nov. 7.—James Rubie, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ruble, this city, who has never had any private or home teaching, can read from first, second, third, fourth and fifth readers. He has been going to school just one month. In addition to his school work which "comes easy for him,” James reads paragraphs out of the daily papers. His parents say he “reads everything he get his hands on," and attribute much of his general knowledge to this fact. I. U. Instructor Writes Book By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Nov. 7. “The Fundamentals of Military Strategy’ is the title of anew book by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver P. Robinson, commandant of the Indiana University Reserve Officers Training Corps. The book is the result of fifteen years of study of military tactics and science by Robinson. He is also the author of “Musketry”, “Preparedness,” “The Best Guarantee of Peace” and “Lee as a Leader.” Pays $139,924.54 Taxes B.y Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 7.—The Northern Indiana Public Service Company is this city’s largest taxpayer. Its tax bill this year was $139,924.54.

President-Elect to Rest, Then Tackle Cabinet and Other Tasks. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent PALO ALTO, C&l., Nov. 7 Pres.dent-Elect Hoover faced the future today, ready to start within a few days laying plans for his administration. Looking down the vista of the days ahead, he saw vast problems pressing for solution—problems as great as any confronting the country since close of the war. He probably will remain here a month, resting and considering his course as President. Then he probably will return to Washington about Dec. 15, taking a trip somewhere before he leaves for the east. Cabinet First Problem Selection of the cabinet Is the first problem before him. He has given some thought to that, and will give more within the next few weeks. As yet, it appears that only secreary of the treasury is a certainty. Andrew W. Mellon, it generally is understood, will be asked to retain the post he has held for nearly eight years. Dwight W. Morrow, ambassador to Mexico, and Senator Borah of Idaho, are mentioned as possibility for the highest cabinet post, secretary of state, with prospects lavoring the former. New faces, likewise, are expected In the other cabinet positions. Paramount among all problem* which Hoover will face when he enters the White House is farm relief. He has promised to call ah extra session of congress to deal with that after March 4, if adequate legislation is not adopted at the coming short session, which doe;' not seem likely. Farm Relief Firs* Hoover will give considerable attention to farm relief within the next few weeks. He Intends to go into the whole situation carefully and to have a definite formula worked out to present to congress. He will stur’.y the matter with the thoroughness with which he usually tackles problems, and perhaps will call upon some of the agricultural leaders for advice and suggestions. When the new congress faces him in extra session, Hoover is expected to lay before it a general legislative program beyond his farm relief proposals. Some matters In which he has been particularly Interested, such as coal and railroad legislation and reorganization of the government departments, still ar awaiting action, after laying for years on the doorstep of congress. Will Politicians Rule? Hoover must select in the next few weeks not only his cabinet, but various minor officials. Pressure will begin soon, as it does upon every President-elect. He will reveal then the answer to the question which many have been asking: “Will he throw the politicians overboard?” His actions will be watched closely. WAIT FOR THEIR ESTATE Will Tics Money Up 25 Years Over 111 Treatment. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 9.—The children of Eli Wasserman have $4,500 coming to them, but they’ll have to wait twenty-five years before they get it. Upon Wasserman’s death, a clause was found in his will providing for the division of his estate between his ten children. The division was prolonged for the twenty-five years because “of 111 treatment received from them.”