Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1928 — Page 11

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CITY MANAGER LAW MENACED IN ASSEMBLY Revision in Legislature Is Seen as Loophole for Repeal. LABOR TO BE ACTIVE Absent Voter Law Again Will Be Source of Contention. BY ROBERT BEARD One hundred fifty legislators looking forward to the seventysixth biennial session of the Indiana general assembly, opening Jan. 10, discern the usual number of disturbing signs. There is, of first importance in Indianapolis, the prospect of revision of the city manager law, under which this city ia to adopt the manager form of government in 1930. The City Manager League faces the necessity of effecting some technical changes in the law as it how stands in order to give certain powers now held by elective officers to the city commission. These efforts at amendment will open the way to repeal attempts, it is feared, although proponents of the manager plan scout any hint that actual repeal might be accomplished. Registration, it is believed, is certain of claiming attention of the coming session. Although repeal of the old regstration law had the support of both parties in 1927, sentiment is growing for some substitute. Women’s organizations are voicing this demand and it finds proponents in both parties. No Bone-Dry Revision Seen Labor, which vigorously opposed repeal of the absent voters’ law in the 1927 session, vigorously will see to it that this matter gets into the legislative grist, again. Prohibition probably will be left out of legislative arguments unless efforts are made to weaken provisions of the existing state dry laws. Dry leaders, including the AntiSaloon League, are not expected to strive for further restrictions, but will oppose stubbornly any effort to meddle with the statutes as written. Utility' regulation, which furpished the bone of contention for th? 1927 session, is regarded as certain to engross assembly attention in the coming session. Farreaching in importance and effort, it is a topic provoking a wider diversity of opinion, perhaps, than any problem likely to be presented. The teacher tenure law enacted in 1927 may become the target from attacks by the very group that indorsed it two years ago. Teachers generally favored the measure which provided: That any teacher serving any school corporation for five or more successive years and who thereafter contracts for further service with such school corporation thereupon becomes a permanent teacher of that school corporation, dismissable only for cause after a hearing. Bankers Are Interested Bankers are interested in proposed legislation to increase the powers of the state bank examiner and his deputies. The question has arisen as to how far the state shall go in granting discretionary authority to these officers. Indictment of examiners in the exercise of discretionary privileges rather than for criminal offenses has brought the matter to a head, it is said. Effort probably will be made to set up new regulations for bank loans, invoking some of the stringent restrictions already applicable to trust companies. Codification of corporation laws, broad enough to invite foreign corporations to operate in Indiana, will be presented the coming legislature. A committee, working under the secretary of state, has been at work on this for two years, under authority from the 1927 legislature. Sentiment is spotty for an increase in auto license fees which would enable Indiana to make more rapid progress in its road paving program. This work has progressed rapidly under the 3-cent gasoline tax plan, but an increase on license fees for Indiana’s 900,000 automobiles would speed the work greatly. It is estimated the present rate of progress could be advanced 200 miles a year with an added income of $5,000,000 annually. 271 Bills Became Laws There is little hope, it is indicated, for legislation which would give the state the full 3 cents collected on each gallon of gasoline. Counties at present get 1 cent and the state 2 cents. Any proposal to deprive counies of this 1 cent would provoke a state-wide protest that would be fatal, aver legislators. They are skeptical of the success of any effort to increase the tax an additional cent. Reapportionment, looms as a certain disturber of legislative peace, in 1929. The 1927 general assembly did not disturb the arrangement under which one hundred members of the lower Indiana house, and the fifty members of the upper house are elected. Two years ago 294 house bills and 310 senate bills were introduced, together with twenty resolutions. Os this number, 271 bills found their way eventually to the statue books. .

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Mrs. Jolson Quits Show; Too Lonely Without Al

By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 12. Ruby Keeler, premier tap dancer, who is one of the stars in Florenz Ziegfeld’s new “Whoopee,’' has walked out on the company because she can’t stay away from her husband, Al Jolson, the New York Daily News said in a copyright dispatch today. “Whoopee” opened in Pittsburgh last week and according to Mark Hellinger, the Daily News critic, Ruby “stopped” the show. But Saturday she feigned sickness. Saturday night she wasn’t in the last scene. Sunday she telephoned Ziegfeld: “I’m on my way to the coast to join Al. I miss him and he misses me. So that’s all there is to it.’’ The tap dancer and the mammy singer were married recently, spent a short honeymoon in Europe, and returned just in time for Miss Keeler to join the Ziegfeld company.

COLLEGE STUDENT ON LARK SHOT BY CHICAGO GANGSTER

Northwestern Grid Player Forced From Car After Fenders Scrape. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 12.—Shot by gangsters because his car scraped theirs, John C. Acher, substitute full back on the Northwestern university football team, is in a serious condition in St. Luke’s hospital. One of the gangster bullets lodged in Acher’s spine, and if he lives he will be paralyzed for life, doctors said. Waiting at the detective bureau to identify any suspects was Acher's younger brother, Chester, 16, a student in the Missouri military academy at Mexico, Mo., who was with his elder brother when the shooting occurred. Borrow Car for Party John, 21, and Chester were celebrating a double victory early Sunday. John had played on the Northwestern team that beat Purdue, and Chester was a member of the academy team that defeated Morgan Park military academy here. The youths are sons of Dr. A. E. Acher of Ft. Dodge, lowa, who is on a trip and has not yet been located. Mrs. Archer was informed of the shooting by telephone. The youths borrowed an automobile from a fraternity brother of the elder Acher in Evanston and started out to make a night of it. They stopped at several night clubs. Then they took their girl companions home and were returning to Evanston when they scraped fenders with a large car at Michigan avenue and Roosevelt road. Forced From Auto John, who was driving, kept on going. His car was forced to the curb by the gangster automobile and the youths ordered to get out. They alighted and one of the gangsters started shooting. Two bullets struck John, one in the back and the other in the leg. The gangster car speeded away and Chester called two motorcycle policemen. The gangster car circled the block and the policemen picked up the trail, following the large automobile through the loop and on north, where they lost it after firing several shots. John was taken to the hospital and Chester to detectives headquarters, where he admitted he and his brotherhad been drinking, ’ but said they were not intoxicated. ARREST FIVE MOTORISTS Driving While Intoxicated Is Charges Against Men. Five men were arrested on charges of driving motor cars while intoxicated over the week-end. Arrests in each case followed minor accidents, but no injuries were reported. Those aresrted were: William Armstrong, 28, Negro, 944 English avenue; George Perkins, 38, Negro, 1420 Cornell avenue; Wayne Mitchell, 33, Wesley hotel; Wilson Wakefield, 37, Negro, Bridgeport, Ind., and Lelious Bastin, 25, of 2402 Bluff road. EDUCATOR’S CAR KILLS President of Missouri University Is Party to Fatal Accident. By United Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Nov. 12. —Miles Blythe, 21, was killed here last night when a truck driven by his father, John Blythe, collided with an automqbilt driven by Dr. Stratton D. Brooks, president of the University of Missouri.

CONTROL OF SEX IN HUMANS WILL BE POSSIBLE SOON SAYS SCIENTIST

BY SAM LOVE, NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—' The hope—or threat—that concontrol of sex in human beings will soon be possible is held out by Dr. Oscar Riddle, A. B„ Ph. D., in the December issue of “Science and invention.” Dr. Riddle is of the research staff of the Carnegie institution station for experimental evolution, and a very eminent man. Sex-control can now definitely be practiced in birds, according to Dr. Riddle, and eventually it is possible that man will be able to

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FIGHTS OFF KIDNAPERS New Albany Newsboy Draws Knife on Two Men. By United Press NEW ALBANY, Ind., Nov. 12. Police today searched for two men who attempted to kidnap Clarence Reas, 14, a newsboy. According to the boy the men dragged him into an alley and were in the act of binding his feet with rope when he drew a knife and started slashing his would-be kidnapers. The men fled. Police said the boy’s parents are separated and that the mother lives in Louisville, Ky., and upon several occasions has endeavored to persuade the boy to live with her. DEATH JOINS IN TEAM WELCOME Notre Dame Student Killed by Train; Three Hurt. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 12. Death attended at the noisy welcome for the victorious university of Notre Dame football team here Sunday night. As students and townspeople gathered at a station cheering for the team that defeated the Army Saturday, a New York Central switch engine struck a baggage truck on which twenty students were standing. John Gleason, 20, Canandaigua, N. Y., was killed when the tongue of the truck, broken by the impact, hit him on the head. The truck sent its human cargo sprauling and bounded down a ten-foot embankment through the crowd. Paul Duncan, 19, freshman, La Salle, 111., sustained a fractured skull; Miss Madeline Van Hoke, 30, South Bend suffered internal injuries; Miss Marjorie Mason, 22, South Bend, a fractured skull and internal injuries, and Robert Hurley, Joliet, 111., internal injuries. Meanwhile across the tracks, the crowd, unaware of the accident, cheered as the football special rolled in. The Notre Dame band struck up the school air. As the players got off the train they were hoisted on the shoulders of students who marched to the courthouse square along the same route taken by ambulances a few minutes before. SHOW U. S. PARK VIEWS Illustrated Lecture Given Y. M. C. A. on Yellowstone. Matthew Small gave an illustrated lecture on Yellowstone park Sunday afternoon at the meeting for young men at the Y. M. C. A. Lantern slides of famous Biblical paintings also were shown. Bertram Day, president of the Crescent Life Insurance Company, will speak next Sunday. Walter Harriman was elected treasurer of the organization in charge of the meeting. Walter Presecan was elected manager of the lobby, Harry Knight head of the attendance committee, and J. Edwin Lee, recording secretary. School Officials to Meet B.y Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 12. The Southern Indiana Superintendents club and Indiana high school principals will hold meetings here beginning Thursday and continuing through Friday.

control the rearing of male or female human beings at will. u a u T'HE family circle of frogs, in particular, already is under the control of scientists, Dr. Riddle says. Without going to any particular trouble experiments have been able to make one papa frog happy by surrounding him with a whole generation of masculine tadpoles. On the other hand, other papa frogs have been caused to resign from their clubs and sulk in the thickest reeds of the pond by

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, NOY. 12, 1928

WHALLON IS I BOOSTED FOR COURTBERTH George Coffin Ally Boomed •to Take Over Bench of Cameron. WOULD SUCCEED WHITE Pressure on Jackson to Meet Boss’ Wishes Is Indicated. i , Thomas C. Whallon, attorney and ally of George V. Cofflnfi Republican district chairman, probably will take over the court of Judge Clifton R. Cameron at police headquarteis if he receives a municipal court appointment from Governor Ed Jackson Jan. 1, it was learned today. Whallon is said to have the support of the county organization, now on the verge of a break in ranks, to succeed Judge Dan V. White in municipal court one, when White’s term expires. However, it was learned Coffin favors a transfer of Cameron to the courthouse court and Whallon, if appointed, to Cameron’s court. The courthouse courts are concerned mostly with civil litigation, while those at headquarters handle criminal cases. White is a candidate for reappointment to the bench and wants to serve a second term. However, Coffin is said to have concentrated all his influence with his former co-defendant, Jackson, in getting the post for Whallon. Whallon last week signed the SI,OOO bond for County Councilman Paul S. Dunn, a Coffin supporter, who was indicted by the grand jury on a perjury charge. Whallon and Dunn slipped into county jail and made bond while Sheriff Omer Hawkins, Republican county chairman under Coffin, told newspaper men Dunn would appear at his office. Whallon has been looked upon for some time as “Coffin’s messenger.” Several months prior to the recent election, Whallon spent much of his time in county headquarters. The attorney was an interested spectator in the conspiracy trial in criminal court several months ago of Ed Jackson, Coffin and Robert I. Marsh, former law partner of Jackson’s, who were released because the statute of limitations had run on their alleged effort to bribe former Governor Warren T. McCray. Whallon, during the summer, sat on the bench in police court and freed Irving Webster, publisher of a weekly Republican folder, on charges of fleeing after an accident. The Indianapolis Bar Association will hold its monthly meeting Wednesday. It is expected the membership will discuss the municipal court situation and go on record for White.

PLAN H SHOW Floor Plan Complete; Space Assigned to Several. The floor plan for the 1929 Indianapolis Real Estate Board home show which will be held at the state fairground April 3-12 has been completed and space assigned to several exhibitors, J. F. Cantwell, director of the show, announced today. Design of the model home, which will be the feature of the 1929 show, has not been selected, Cantwell said. Modernization of the out-of-date house will be one of the better homes features emphasized this year. JACKSON PONDERS ON NEW BUDGET BOARD Appointments by Governor Jackson Are Due Before Nov. 16. Governor Ed Jackson today pondered the appointment of anew budget committee. The names must be announced ten days following the election. Present members eligible for reappointment are Representative Samuel J. Farrell, Hartford City, Republican: Senators Thurman A. Gottschalk, Berne, Democrat, and Luther O. Draper, Spiceland, Republican. The Governor and Lawrence Orr, chief examiner of the board of accounts, are ex-officic members of the committee. A. C. McDaniel is budget clerk. Boy, 15, Missing Since Thursday Henry La Pack, 15, of R. R. 1, box 126, Edgewood, was reported missing today by his father. The boy left home Thursday to attend Southport high school, but never returned there and has not been seen since.

playing the practical joke of giving them nothing but a hundred or two daughters, without one prospective bass “ug-o-rum!” in the lot. u a u THE consternation caused by science in frog households has been repeated with equal callousness in the nests of birds, and while the stork himself has been exempt so far from such surprising indignities, he is a marked bird. “There is at present much reason for maintaining that we are now getting an understanding of

Armistice;°/^teel // I f' Paul McCrea ~ flrm * • By every cross a separate peace was sealed; i A peace that came on shell-swept parapet. By steel that shrieked across a flaming field. Jr 0r savage thrust ot dripping bayonet. -uJal * Their armistice was signed ere news of peace Vin .-W*pr T ■ Brought joyous carnival to every street; j From war and blood and hate they found release v ■ Amid the shells of battle’s sullen heat. /acH Hs __ There, with their broken rifles in their hands, ’ They met as foes to fall and meet once more Jira.S±=a}ftJt V~=-- ' Before a God who all tongues understands | a/ Nor asks what uniforms the fighters wore. nßllriiiil For them war left no heritage of hate; ' tor them today a common banner waves. Should we, who live, by hatred desecrate (j J , . .

VOLCANO’S FURY NEARLY SPENT, SCIENTIST SAYS

‘Jes’ Up and Cotched ’im, So We Had Rabbit Stew Over a tasty dish of rabbit stew Sunday a Negro huntsman, his chest Inflated, told how the stew happened to be on the table. “I didn’t have no gun ’er nothing’,” he declared proudly. “I Jes’ outrun ’im. Jes’ up an’ cotched ’im.’ Out in Ben Davis a different version of the story was being told br Frederick De Boer, 1733 Vlnewood street. “I shot a rabbit west of town, the only one Id seen all day, when out of a car jumped a blankety blank colored fellow, bagged the bunny, and beat it.”

YEGGS CRACKING 2 SAFES ARE SOUGHT

Citizen Surprises Burglar; Beats Him With Fists; He Escapes. Police today sought yeggs who battered open two safes at the Holsum Baking Company, 318 West Vermont street, Saturday night, obtained S6O loot and locked a Negro employe of the bakery in one of the safes. The man, Herbert Cissell, 35, of 1013 North Missouri street, was a prisoner in the safe twelve hours, until he was found Sunday by his brother, who had gone in search of him when he failed to return home. Cissell told police he was closing the bakery garage at 8:30 Saturday night when two men appeared and pointed guns at him. Two other men joined the gang and they tied and blindfolded him. Several of the men guarded him while the others battered open the safes. They then tied him and placed him in one of the safes, barring the door shut with a chair. Guy E. McCoy, 5235 Guilford avenue, reported to police that he surprised a burglar climbing into a bedroom window at his home Saturday night. Beating the burglar with his fists McCoy forced the man to flee. Several other week-end burglaries were reported to police, the largest of which was the theft of $lO cash and $125 worth of jewelry from the apartment of Jack Grant, 911 North Meridian street. A burglar attempting to enter the home of Eugene Schaefer, 1537 Hiatt street, fled when Schaefer fired three shots at him.

the innermost nature of the several methods that have been employed in controlling the sex of various animals,” says Dr. Riddle. “Very divorse and special methods have been used in controlling sex in several animals, though at present these methods largely are or wholly inapplicable to the human and other mammals; but if the ultimate effects of these several methods are reduced to changes in what is known as the metabolic rate, we can later hope to employ In man and mammals other and new agencies which can act directly and specifically on

‘COPPED’ BY BOOZE Alleged Burglar Overcome by Liquor Found in Restaurant. John Barleycorn joined the Indianapolis police force and captured an alleged burglar early this morning. The dethroned monarch’s victim was Clyde Carmen, 30, of 232 Lincoln street. He was found lying on the floor of the Virginia Sweet Grille in a drunken stupor by H. A. Egholt, merchant policeman. His pockets bulged with silverware stolen from the restaurant. FIGHT - OIL WELL BLAZE § Workman Dies from Fire Injuries; Damage $125,000. WHITTIER, Cal., Nov. 12.—Nearly 1,000 men today continued to fight a fire which blazed, uncontrolled, in Bellview oil well No. 1, near here. The blaze which started Friday, already has taken one life and caused more than $125,000 damage. J. H. Taylor, a workman, injured Saturday while fighting the fire, died yesterday. The flames were shooting 200 feet in the air. Seeks Kaiser’s Art for Germany By United Press BERLIN, Nov. 12.—Wilhelm Von Bode, dean of the German museums was said to have written to the ex-kaiser, at Doom, urging that he prevent his heirs and members of the former royal family from the wholesale selling of art treasures to foreign, notably American, dealers and collectors.

metabolic rate in the egg and embryo. * u u “PRACTICAL difficulties,” adds Dr. Riddle, “in the case of the human and many other forms now bar the way to the control of sex there. But the difficulties are practical, not theoretical. It, therefore, is yrithin the province of science to overcome them in the future.” Experiments have shown, Dr. Riddle sets forth, that as in frogs and birds the sex-determining sperms of human beings show dis-

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Damage Caused by Etna’s Eruption Estimated Over $25,000,000. BY THOMAS B. MORGAN United Pres, Staff Correspondent CATANIA, Sicily. Nov. 12.—Mt. Etna, after devastating a large sector of the fertile and populous country on its slopes, gave indications today that its eruption w’as about to abate. Professor Gaetano Ponte, of the Etna observatory, flew in a military airplane today over the entire course of the river of lava which gushed from eruptive mouths near the summit and spread out fanwise towards the plain and sea. Ponte reported to authorities that the eruption seemed to him to have reached a phase which was a forerunner of possible cessation in the next few days. Damage Over $25,000,000 Ponte said the thick, black smoke given off by the craters was increasing, usually an indication of a general abatement. The eruption, in progress now for more than a week, has devastated about 3,000 acres of fields and orchards, destroyed more than seven hundred houses, made thousands homeless and caused damage variously estimated at from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000. The villages of Mascali and Carrabba were destroyed. Hope remained for Nunziata, where the stream halted at the edge of the town. The lava has poured down the slopes of the mountain like melted lead from a spilling crucible, extending in three great streams that have destroyed everything they tuoched. The flow has been to the eastward, toward the sea. Etna towers more than 10,000 feet above the plain in the east of Sicily. Its base is about ninety miles in circumference, dotted with farms and populous villages. Railroad Line Cut At the sea lies the city of Catania, and the large towns of Giarre and Aci Reale. Mascali, also near the coast, was the only lrge place destroyed. Giarre, which for a time was believed in danger, appeared safe today if the eruption did not increase in violence. Communication along the base was interrupted by the breaking of the railroad from Catania to Messina, which lies about forty-five miles to the northeast of Etna, looking across the narrow strait of Messina to the toe of the Italian ‘boot.”

ferences, and “since they are different, it is still open to the experimentalists to kill or to inactivate one kind of sperms at will, and thus remove aall chances of the appearance of individuals of one sex.” In the experiments on frogs, one method of forcing all the eggs and embryos to develop into allmale tadpoles has been to subject them to higher temperatures than normal, and on the other hand male frogs have been changed to females by causing them to develop to very low temperatures, he said.

LAW TO BARE SECRETS OF BETTING KING Arnold Rothstein Estate May Be Millions or Nothing. STRANGE TALES AIRED Gambler Ever Ready to Take a Chance on Any Proposition. BY MAX BUCKINGHAM 1 United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 12. The law which never was able to And out much about Arnold Rothstein may have its chance, now that he is dead, for the law will be asked to settle up the confusion of Rothstein’s estate. Arnold was the enigma of the sporting strata of New York life and he died just as much an enigma, his lips tightly compressed over the secret of who shot him after that stud poker game in the Park Central hotel a week ago Sunday night. While Inspector Coughlin of the homicide department sought two of the gamblers for questioning as to Rothstein’s last big game—when he lost and signed I. O. U.s for more than s3oo,ooo—his mother, Mrs. Essie Rothstein, will ask the district attorney’s office to take complete charge of the gambler’s affairs. There may be millions. There may be nothing. Bet on Anything For Arnold Rothstein mace millions and Arnold Rothstein lost millions, because, as the Broadway saying went: “See Arnold, he'll bet on anything.” There is one hope that some of the confusion about the meticulously dressed, quiet-appearing—yet extremely colorful—gambler may come to light. They say Arnold Rothstein had many strong boxes. The district attorney can enter them if he takes charge of the affairs, and maybe some of these questions will be cleared up: “What happened to $5,000,000 in securities that Nicky Arnstein was convicted of stealing? What happened to other securities that defaulting young men admitted taking, only to be freed when Rothstein intervened? What was the secret behind the famous world series of 1919, when the Chicago White Sox tossed games to Cincinnati? What happened in the last world series the Boston Braves were in, when Rothstein won $300,000? What is the history of many of the big horse races of the last decade when Rothstein plunged and won? Many Strange Stories The tales about Rothstein are many. He was one of the glamorous characters in this city filled with glamorous incidents. Up along Broadway, where those of the sporting fraternity can be found, there was no real mourning that Rothstein had died. “He loved to collect and he hated to pay—so he died,” one man said. And thus they spoke of him. But there is no question but what he was missed, arid here a week alter his death the crowd of tjie uppper town still delighted in spinning yarns about Rothstein. They told, for instance, of the time Ann Nichols was trying to produce “Abie’s Irish Rose.” She couldn’t get backing. She finally went to Rothstein. He asked how much she wanted. He was told. He gave her the cash —for Rothstein didn’t like checks nnd always carried a “roll” that totaled well into the thousands. They say he was offered a cut on the profits, but Rothstein came back: “I’m a gambler. I would rather loan the money.” Helps Produce Show They tell of the late Con Conrad. He had dinner with Rothstein and hummed over a few lyrics he had composed for a show. “Why don’t you get it produced,” the gambler asked. “No money,” was the prompt reply. Rothstein told Conrad to draw on him and he would take a cut in the profits. That’s the way “Keep Shufflin’’ came to be. There was a horse named Sidereal. It had promise. That’s about all that can be said. A friend kept Rothstein advised. Chart after chart was made. Sidereal was started at long odds and Rothstein went down, everything he had, in bets from Tia Juana to Montreal. Sidereal won and Rothstein won the most money any one man ever won on one race—sßoo,ooo. “Your Sidereal wasn’t so very bad, thank you,” Rothstein told the friend who had kept him advised. That was all.

. Another story they like to tell on Broadway concerns return of some of the securities Nicky Arnktein was supposed to have stolen. The story can not be confirmed, but never haj been denied very emphatically. Rothstein said he could return the securities for $2,000,000. Police raided Arnold. They found plenty of securities, but not the stolen ones. Rothstein raised his price for returning the securities just a half million dollars and the story is that the securities were returned and Arnold was paid $2,500,000. His estate is said to be $10,000,000, but the “wise boys” say Arnold wasn’t that smart. His real estate properties were mortgaged and hie outstanding loans and debts were certified only by a nod of the head.