Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 151, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1928 — Page 3

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HOOVER WILL REMAIN IN SOUTH UNTIL INAUGURATION

ATTENTION TO BE GIVEN TO DIXIE VOTERS Next President Is Seeking Cabinet Member Below Mason-Dixon Line. AVOID OFFICE-SEEKERS \ Several Cities Suggested for Winter Home After Long Tour. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent ' PALO ALTO, Cal., Nov. 13. President-Elect Hoover has about decided to prolong his visit in the south on his return from his South American tour until just before his inauguration. Previously he had considered proposals that he return home by way of. Florida, stopping for a few days there and proceeding by easy stages back to Washington. After lurtlier consideration of the matter, he has come to see the advantage in setting up winter headquarters in the south and planning his administration at some restful place. Since the advantages of a prolonged stay have been brought forcibly before him, the possible places where he might establish himself have been increased. Florida first was suggested. Recently the list has been enlarged, including Pass Christian, Miss., where Woodrow Wilson spent some time, and San Antonio, Tex. •He might reach the latter city from New Orleans, leaving the battleship there, or he might take the 24-hour train ride from Mexico City, where he plans to visit. Dodge Office Seekers In addition to avoiding the slush and snow of a Washington winter, the. President-elect would be farther from office-seekers who haunt Washington, particularly on the eve of anew administration. Not the least of the advantages of a southern stay would be the opportunity of mixing with the southerners and making contacts of future political benefit in that section which gave him four of its states and a tremendous vote generally. Hoover is giving serious attention to the break in the solid south, a break which belied the prediction of most political prophets, major as well as minor.| He and his political lieutenants are thinking of ways to capitalize it, realizing its immense importance in the future of the Republican party. Seeks Southern Aid ■The President-elect, it is known, is combing the field of southern talent in making his cabinet slate. One or more places will go, it is believed, to men from below the Mason and Dixort line, which his victory helped make still less diistfnct. Conferences there during his stay will include consideration of cabinet timber. Hoover today was completing final plans for his departure Monday for South America. 'flatters while out of the country he will leave largely in the hands of William J. Donovan, assistant attorney general, who arrived here Tuesday and will be a guest in the Hoover home until the Presidentelect leaves here Sunday night for San Pedro, where he and his party will board the battleship Maryland. Donovan’s importance among Hoover’s confidants was emphasized by the summons here by the Presi-dent-elect. He is the only one of the administration group of Hoover lieutenants who has been singled out. Asa result, his stock has risen considerably among those making cabinet slates at this early date and who already are making him attorney general. Meets Mrs. Willebrandt Donovan, himself, only smiled when asked if he would bfe head of the justice department in the Hoover administration. He said he and the President-elect had not discussed the matter. He laughed broadly, when told he had been picked, likewise, as prohibition commissioner. Another of Hoover’s campaign lieutenants, and one whose activities provoked considerable criticism, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, also an assistant attorney general, called upon the Presidentelect Tuesday. Hoover will return from Buenos Atfes to the United States on the battleship Utah, which now is being -biade ready for the journey. TOUR~ ILLINOIS LINES Railroad Officials End 17,000-Mile Survey of System Officers of the Illinois Central Railroad system ended a 17,000-mile inspection tour in Indianapolis Tuesday. The journey was begun at Chicago Friday and covered Kentucky, Illinois, Mississipppi, Tennessee and Indiana. Since the first inspection in 1856 the railroad had expanded from 705% miles to more than 9,000 miles in fourteen states, said L. A. lsswns, president. f-F. W. Stephenson, district passenger agent, was a member of the party. Livestock Breeders to Meet. By United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 14.—One thousand members of the Eastern Indiana Livestock Breeders’ Associ tion are expected here Thursday for their sixth annual banquet. The principal after-dinner address, ‘The Business of Living,” will be delivered by Dr. Preston Bradley, Chicago.

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Chrysanthemums almost as big and woolly and fair as Betty Lu Ferris in her furry pink suit decorate t third annual flower show at Garfield municipal green house. The show is open the entire week. Betty 1 is the year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Ferris, 209 East Thirty-first street.

‘HATRACK- ON SHELF

Village Now Revels in Death Case

FARMINGTON, Mo., Nov. 14.—First in the limelight when it was made the locale of “Hatrack,” the American Mercury story that caused such comment, Farmington again is in the date lines. This time it is the scene of the trial of Ada Lee Biggs, 19-year-old slayer of her stepfather, William Simpson. The county prosecutor has demanded the death penalty for the girl if evidence warrants. Herbert Asbury, New York newspaper man, who wrote “Hatrack,” was born and reared in Farmington. He laid the scene of his story of the village fallen womln in the town of his youth. Farmington resented the publicity resulting when the magazine was barred from Boston news stands and every newspaper in the country published the story.

Qo-La! La! By Times Special PARIS, Nov. 14.—Thursday being the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Captain Cap, reputed inventor of the cocktail, Paris is to have a “Grand Prix du Cocktail.” Although some of the occupants of the Quartier Latin and Montmartre affirm that the inventive captain never lived and that the original cocktail came from America, there are others who assert the contrary. Prizes will total 100,000 francs and the Grand Prix will be given to the mixer of the best cocktail. The competitors will include notable actors and actresses, painters and writers. Among those advertised to take part are Mile. Yolande Lafon, “Miss France,” who won the second prize at the international beauty contest at Galveston, Tex.; Van Dongen, the artist, and the actors, Mistinguett, Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps.

TWO PERSONS HURT IN 3 AUTO CRASHES Condition of Earls Is Reported Improved by Hospital. John Earls, Jr., 30, of 428 West Thirty-first street, injured seriously when his automobile crashed headon into a truck at the Natione' and High School roads Tuesday, was reported improved at St. Vincents Hospital today. Earls suffered a fractured skull, broken shoulder and cuts on the body. Herman Maher, 1157 West Thirtythird street, who was riding with Earls was uninjured. Mildred Scott, 12, of 4313 Royal avenue, was bruised, but not seriously hurt when she ran into the path of a car driven by Rolan M. Van Ausdell, 1313 North Wallace street, near School 70 Tuesday. She was taken home. Harvey Hobson, Negro, 50 of 2202 North Arsenal avenue, was charged with reckless driving after his automobile struck and demolished a motorcycle on which Motorcycle Officer Russell Dager, 5336 East Washington street, was riding at St. Clair street and Massachusetts avenue late Tuesday. Woman Doctor Dies at 92 By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Nov. 14.—Dr. Sarah Morrow, 92, believed to be Indiana’s first woman physician, is dead here*

Now the town is engrossed in the trial of Miss Biggs. Simpson was shot to death as he sat in an improvised country Turkish bath. The gun that ended his life was discharged a few inches from his head, the only part of his body outside the crude bathhouse. When Miss Biggs was arrested she signed a confession saying she was asked to kill Simpson by her mother, Bertie Simpson, and her uncle, Richard Greenwal. “They promised me an automobile and anything I wanted if I would kill him. Uncle Richard loaded the shotgun and mother handed it to me,” the girl said. Later she repudiated the statement, absolving her mother and uncle. She said she killed her stepfather “because he insulted me and wouldn’t let me go to dances and have boy friends.” Simpson’s mother, 80, and nearly blind, and the uncle, however, also* face trial on murder charges. WARNS OF IMPOSTER Woman Collects Money for G. A. R. But They Don’t Get It. Captain Albert J. Ball, adjutant in charge of the Grand Army of the Republic office at the statehouse, has again issued warning against imposters soliciting funds for the G. A. R. or the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans home at Knightstown. According to Captain Ball a woman has been going about Indianapolis collecting money she says is to be spent for candy for the orphans and using the G. A. R. for references. Such collections are without warrant, he said, since the G. A. R. members ax-e provided for by pension and the orphans by the state and organized relief associations, HOPE IN COAL FIELD Prosperity Believed Near for Linton Area After Two Years’ Depression. By United Press LINTON, Ind., Nov. 14.—A hope for prosperity that has not prevailed for two years exists in the local coal field. Nearly every Workable mine is either in operation or being prepared for resumption of work. Despite the current rumors that mines which have been idle for many months are about to resume work, the only word from operators is, “nothing definite to give out just yet.” The Little Betty, the Twin and the two Boy Ayr mines are being operated steadily. Approves $20,000 Sewer Work '*■ By United Press GARY, Ind., Nov. 14.—The laying of sewers to serve six residential blocks at a cost of $20,000, has been approved by the city council.

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HOSPITAL FLANS UP Health Board Confers With Architects. Preliminary plans for the city hospital building program were discussed at a conference between the health board members and architects Tuesday, at the city hospital. Dr. C. W. Parnell, Rochester general hospital director, who is consultant, for the local program attended the dinner. A $60,000 bond issue for preliminary expenses has been sold and the board plans to sign contracts with architects and consultants in a few days. Dr. William A. Doeppers, city hospital superintendent; Robert Frost Daggett and Vonnegut, Bohn and Mueller, architectural firms, and C. R. Ammerman, engineering consultant, attended the conference. BROWN COUNTY NATIVES PROFIT Fi.OM POULTRY Some Crops Also Thrive on “Them Thar Hills.” By United Press NASHVILLE, Ind., Nov. 14.—Persons, mostly tourists, who have visited the beautiful country in this vicinity and wondered how the Brown county na lives made a liv-, ing from the scanty soil of the hillsides have obtained an answer. “Chickens,” replies R. E. Grubbs, Brown county farm agent, who has heard the question for the last seven years. For instance, the poultry of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Clark during the past year had an egg production of 162.1. The Clarks have 392 White Leghorn hens* and were recently awarded a bronze medal by the Indiana State Poultry Association. Potatoes, tomatoes and tobacco also are raised in Brown county, Grubbs said. The crops in the county average between SIOO and S3OO per acre in value. One farmer obtained SSOO an acre for a tobacco crop, according to Grubbs. BIBLE SCHOOL OPENS 200 Enroll for Five-Week Session at Roberts Park Church. " More than 200 persons were enrolled in the Central Community School of Religious Education, which opened a five-week session at Roberts Park church Tuesday night. Classes will meet each Tuesday night for a two-hour period. In addition to the study routine, Indianapolis pastors will lead devotional services. The Marion county council of religious education is sponsoring the school. Otto Roesener is chairman of the commitee in charge. WATER MAIN DEMANDED Newcastle Residents Impatient at Delay. Public service commissioners today were petitioned to order James Garvey, a contractor, to lay the watermains in P Q and R avenues at Newcastle. Thirty-three residents of the city signed the call for help. The petition declares that Garvey received the contract from the city waterworks and laid the pipe in the street ready for installing, but councilmen have assured them that the trenches will not be dug until next year. They want it done now.

PHILLY’S MOST HONEST’ COP IS HELDGRAFTER Assistant Superintendent Is Unable to Explain How He Saved $31,435. By United Press / PHILADELHIA, Nov. 14.—Mayor Harry Mackey will receive today a certified copy of the grand jury presentment calling Assistant Superintendent of Police Caleb J. Brinton “unfit to hold any position under the municipal government.” The report was made by the investigators of Philadelphia’s underworld and its collusion with the police department before Judge Edwin B. Lewis late yesterday. The grand jury said Brinton had not given satisfactory explanations for $31,435 he had acquired. The report told how Brinton had secreted nearly $15,000 in “a Mason jar in the rafters of the cellar,” “under the carpet,” and “in his shoes.” Highest Yet Hit Brinton is the highest ranking official thus far named by the grand jury as "unfit.” Three inspectors and a number of police captains have been found “unfit” and have been suspended and some dismissed from the police force by the civil service commission. The involving of Brinton was somewhat of a surprise to those who have been following the grand jury investigation, because until yesterday’s report he had not been mentioned prominently in connection with the grand jury investigation. The report said that the investigators believed “money received and handled” by the assistant superintendent of police was “either all, or substantially all, dishonestly acquired.” Long With Department Brinton had been with the police department a number of years, part of the time under the regime of Brigadier General Smedly D. Butler, who came to Philadelphia to clean up the city. Butler called him the “most honest policeman in Philadelphia” and put him in charge of the detective bureau. He w’as made assistant superintendent of police several years ago and was retained by the Mackey administration. District Attorney John Monaghan was in court when the grand jury reported. The junors said other police officers would be reported on later, adding that their investigation was not finished with the police department. TERMS MUSSOLINI LESSON TO AMERICA Poet Avers He Is a Challenge to All World Democracies. Mussolini is a challenge to American democracy. Unless citizens are interested in their own government a dictatorship is sure to result. This was the interpretation placed on the present Italian regime by Tom Skeyhill, Australian poet, student, soldier and traveler, in a lecture Tuesday night at the Masonic temple. The event was sponsored by the Woman’s Department Club and more than one thousand attended. “Less genius, but more common sense than Caesar,” was the way the speaker sized up Mussolini. He said 95 per cent of the Italians are behind his solidly and facisti leadership would not perish even if Mussolini should die. “The Italian people are to blame for the dictatorship,” he declared. “They were to lazy and indifferent for self-government. This should be a lesson to America and all democracies of the world.” AGED~SCOTIST - DIES Professor of Geology Succumbs Suddenly at Son’s Home. DELAWARE, 0., Nov. 14.—Dr. William Worth Rice, professor emeritus of geoolgy at Connecticut Wesleyan university, is dead at the home of his son here. He was 82 years old. Dr. Rice died, suddenly, yesterday after he had dined with his son and the latter’s family. He had been visiting here for several weeks. The aged scientist was the author of outstanding scientific and religious works and held the degrees of doctor of philosophy from Yale and honorary degrees from Weselyan and Syracuse. • During his career, he was three times acting president of Connecticut Wesleyan. LEG BROKEN BY AUTO Steps Into Path of Car; Taken to City Hospital. Maxie Epstein, 28, poolroom operator, suffered a broken leg Tuesday night when he stepped into the path of a motor car in front of 726 Russell stfeet. The car was driven by C. B. Lawson, 2226 Kenwood avenue. Epstein was taken to city hospital.

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WELL!_ NOT SO HOT! Lion One Day , Lamb Chops Next

The lion of the Indiana theater, none other than Charles Freeman Davis, sometimes known as Charlie, appeared in a brand-new role this morning. His stage was the municipal courtroom, his audience was a handful of prisoners, and his critic was Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Without his orchestra to aid him, Charles Freeman, sometimes known as Charlie, cast aside his lion’s clothing and was transformed in a trice to a lamb. Charles Freeman had been parking his car in an alley—just twenty-two times too often. And he hadn’t bothered about traffic stickers. Still a lion, he had nonchalantly ignored them. Twenty-two affidavits were sworn out against him, and Tuesday the “Black Maria” stopped in front of Charles Freeman’s house and he was given a ride.

In court this morning he hung his head, shuffled his feet, and fidgeted mightily. “Don’t you know,” said Judge Cameron, “that you’re no better than any one else? You must obey traffic ordinances the same as any pne.” “I know It, judge,” mumbled Charles Freeman, sometimes known as Charlie. “A dollar and costs on ten of the counts, the rest suspended,” said Judge Cameron. “Thank you, Judge,” said Charles Freeman. The ten counts totaled sllO.

TWISTER KILLS 40; HITSGROPS Death and Damage Follow Argentine Cyclone. By United Press BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 14.—Forty persons were reported killed and a large acreage of new crops were destroyed in a cyclone that swept parts of Argentina Monday night, advices disclosed today. Communications are so badly disrupted that full details could hot be obtained. It was known, however the cyclone was one of the worst that has touched this area in years. The cyclone centered its force on Villa Maria between 8 and 9 p. m., Monday and did extensive damage to the neighboring towns of Dalmacia. Velez, Rio Cuarto and Villa Nueva. Eighty houses were reported destroyed in Villa Maria. Reports from Santa Fe in the southern sections of the province of Cordoba, of which this city is the capital, said that the cyclone had followed heavy rain and hail storms and that considerable damage had been done. The provincial government dispatched, immediate aid to the stormswept area. BABY FALLS; BURNED When he fell from his sister’s grasp against a hot stove, William Edleman, 9-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Edleman, 2417 East Washington street, was burned severely Tuesday night. The mother had gone to the grocery, leaving William in charge of his sister Norma. Thr baby was burned on the hands and stomach. He was taken to city hospital, where he was reported improved today.

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ARKANSAS MAN SEES ‘ELEPHANT’ IN MONKEY LAW School Head Says Act Will Bar Dictionary to ' Pupils. By United Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 14. The Arkansas “monkey law” may evolute into a white elephant, J. P. Womack, state superintendent of public instruction, intimated today. If the law is enforced strictly, Webster’s dictionary and the Encyclopedia Brittanica are “bootleg” books and must be barred from schools supported in whole or part by public funds, Womack said, in handing down a ruling to that effect. "I am in favor of the strictest enforcement of the anti-evolution law,” Womack said. "That is the only way we can hope to get it repealed. Lax enforcement would result in the law remaining on the books to be used only when some person desired to evoke it against certain teachers.” Womack quoted Webster’s dictionary to show that the volume is unfit for students from the Arkansas educational point of view. “ ‘The (evolution) theory which involves also the descent of man from the lower animals, is based on facts abundantly disclosed by every branch of biological study,” Womack quoted from the dictionary. The new Arkansas law adopted by a referendum last week, specifically forbids a school text that teaches man "descended or ascended from a lower form of animal.” CIVIC LEAGUE MEETS Ask Section of East Tenth Street Be Made Preferential. Establishment of East Tenth street as a preferential street from the Belt railroad to Emerson avenue was asked of city officials today by the Sherman-Emerson Civic League. Walter Jarvis, city park superintendent, spoke at a league meeting Tuesday night at School 62, Tenth and Wallace streets. The league went on record favoring elimination of the jog in Emerson avenue at East Tenth street and widening the street five feet on each side.

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POLITICAL ECHO IS WAKENED BY ROTHSTEIN CASE Walker Scored for Police Lassitude; Shakes Up Commissioner. By United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 13.—The mysterious shot that two weeks ago killed Arnold Rothstein, to the casual observer perhaps “only a gambler,” today echoed through the political chambers of this city. Developments were: Former Mayor Hylan claims the Walker administration fears to get at the bottom of the Rothstein killing. Mayor Walker summoned Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren and is reported to have demanded Warren’s job unless there was a solution to the Rothstein murder. Will Fight Looms District Attorney Joab Banton said he had known for several days where Willie McCabe, a gambler the police claim to want, could be located. In fact, there are more involvements in Rothstein’s affairs right now than there were in the halcyon days when he would anything up to a million dollars on any kind of a proposal. In addition to all the bother that Rothstein’s death is causing city officials, his affairs are somewhat bothersome to the courts. A suit has been started to foreclose a SIOO,OOO mortgage on a hotel Rothstein owned. Attorneys threaten to file anew will, made March I, which would take the place of the death-bed will which Rothstein signed just before he died. The latter will left one sixth of the Rothstein fortune to Inez Norton, a former Follies girl who had become Rothstein’s great love. That is, Inez Nopton claimed she had and the will fight is going to center on that. Premonition of Death Asa matter of fact, Broadway gossip is that Mrs. Caroline Rothstein, the widow, had planned to divorce her gambler husband in order to marry a young foreigner, joth “Arv” and the widow were friendly and had several conferences based on terms.' At one of the last conferences, the gossip says, Rothstein told his wife: “I wouldn’t be worried about that divorce. Perhaps we’ll be spared all the trouble.” She asked his meaning and Rothstein replied; “Nothing much, except that I’ve been shot at four times in the last month. Each shot has missed me. Maybe the next one won’t.” The next shot killed Rothstein. , HONOR CITY AT SHOW Indianapolis day was observed today at the municipal flower show at Garfield park greenhouses. Attendance records of the annual show, sponsored by the park board and local florists, is expected to be broken this year. George Eli Morgan, assistant park superintendent, declared. About 25,000 persons had seen the show,by Tuesday night. More than twenty-five local florists have exhibits.