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AIR SCHOOL WHIPPING IN CITY COURT Judge Must Decide Action on Boy Spanked by Principal. FOUGHT TOO OFTEN Jibed by Playmates Over His Clothing, Lad Struck Them. What to do -w ith a bright Tittle boy ■who fights—who fights at the drop of a hat or anything else ready to tumble and sometimes picks on younger boys What to do—h-rnmm—what to do? And also what to do about the school principal, who after nine kindly efforts to show the lad the error of his ways gives him a sound whacking with a with the lad's consent—only to get arrested for assault and battery, on affidavit of the child’s mother. This was tht problem facing Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today. Judge Cameron took his decision under advisement until Saturday after waving aside attempts of the prosecution to interpose legal formalities and hearing full evidence cn the case. Praise for Principal The principal is Homer G. Knight, 2538 North Delaware street, principal of School 24, Wade and Boyd streets. Witnesses told of his two years of capable work as head of School 55 before we went to School 34 this year, and as a teacher at the truant school for nine years. He is a good disciplinarian, but not a severe one. a teacher who maintains order because he must for the good of the children under his care, all af reed. The boy is-Jesse Canter, 12, of 2307 Reformer avenue. He is a bright boy. exceptionally so, his teachers said. They never had trouble w ith him In the classroom, but in the hallways he would push and shove and be boisterous. Often Out of School— Os the ninety-three days last semester he Was absent thirty-three. Since Jan. 28 he has only been in school five days. Notes from his mother said lack of shoes and illness, bad colds, kept him away. And the mother. Mrs. Ida Canter, who filed the affidavit charging Knight with assault and battery, charging that Knight raised welts on her son’s legs when he whipped him last Thursday. "You're all right, madam. God j bless the mttfhers,” said Judge Cameron as she finished her story. She is the mother of six children. Her husband works for a florist. So far this year she has not had to ask clothes from the school fund to send Jesse’s sister Edna to school. No Shoes Provided But four times she has asked school officials to provide shoes f<?r Jesse so he might go to school. And the school board ignored her requests. she said. Lack of shoes was the reason Jesse has been missing school, she said. * Once a truant officer came, found Jesse at home wearing a pair of men’s shoes much too big for him and forced the boy to go to school in the men’s shoes. Recently Jesse had to go to school one day wearing overalls, because she was cleaning his one suit. His schoolmates twitted him, poked fun at him. That, she was sure, was one of the reasons for some of the recent fights of her son. But Jesse had been called into the principal’s office ten times since fall for fighting, Knight tola the judge. Warntd Not to Fight The eighth, three weeks ago, he gave Jesse five or six whacks on the hand with a ruler. Mrs. Canter came to him then. He showed her there were no marks on the boy's hand., Then came the ninth time and Jesse again promised to stop fighting. Last Thursday the principal called the boy in for the tenth time. Jesse and several 8-year-old boys had been involved in “a snow fight. Before it ended Bert Stephens, one of the younger boys, had been knocked down in a fist fight. One of the school traffic officers had taken the Stephens boy homeland had been punched in the mouth by Jesse. Asked for Whipping *T wanted to make a man out of the boy.” said Knight, "Jesse is not a vieious boy, but the other two boys were only 8. Jesse’s worst trouble was he always picked on younger boys and little girls. “Jesse told me, T guess I deserve a whipping.’ I s:nt him for the custodian, and in the presence of the custodian gave him a whipping 1 with a paddle which was in the school office when I came thereby "I directed the blows where they would do no damage. I gave him { mx or seven licks. X think seven.”

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Now Indiana Has One — A Nice Poet Laureate!

Hoosier ‘Horace’ Named by Legislature for Some Reason. At last all that Indian?, lacked in order that she could take her rightful place among the rest of the world—a poet laureate—has been supplied. The vacancy was filled today at a joint meeting of the house of representatives and the senate for a Lincoln program. Following the reading of a poem. "Lincoln, the Hoosier.’’ by E. A. Richardson of Evansville, the joint session passed a motion naming Richardson as the poet laureate Richardson is known as "Big Rich.” Dogs Burn in Fire A fire in a shed near the home of A. Cooley, on Forty-sixth street in Lawrence, Ind., early today cost the life of two valuable bull-dogs owned by Cooley and resulted in f2OO damage to the shed.

WHOLE WORLD IS BLESSED BY POPE

Thousands Kneel in Rain at Gesture Crowning Triumph of Church. BY THOMAS B. MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Feb. 12.—While a great multitude that filled the vast square in front of St. Peter’s paid him homage, Pope Pius XI appeared on a balcony today gnd gave his blessing to the whole world. It was the crowning act of the pope's day of triumph, in which he celebrated the seventh anniversary of his coronation and the consummation of peace between the Vatican and Italy after fifty-eight years of estrangement. The blessing “urbis et orbis” (of the city and the world) came at the conclusion of a pontifical high mass iu the cathedral, at which a crowd, that filled every available inch of space pLid tribute to the pope and the Roman settlement. When the pope went out on the balcony to bless the crowd, thousands knelt in the open, despite the drizzling rain. The pope wore a white cassock with red mantle above it, and the papal red hat with gold embroidery. Cheered by Crowd The pope lifted his hand and pronounced the blessing. He repeated the formula a second and a third time. When he had finished the crowd broke into vociferous cheering. The blessing was significant of the pope’s changed status and the restoration of his temporal sovereignty. It was a custom abandoned by the popes in 1870, when they retired into seclusion in the Vatican. It was estimated that the blessing was bestowed in the presence of 100,000 persons. The pontiff appeared on the balcony accompanied by a cross-bearer, the cardinals in their scarlet robes, and the members of the papal court. It was a pageant of medieval splendor. Celebrate High Mass The crowd was one of the greatest ever gathered in the square. Inside, the pontifical high mass, was celebrated at the papal altar in front of the tomb of St. Peter, the apostle. Borne aloft on the apostolic chair, the pontiff was carried in solemn procession through the aisles of the vast St. Peter s cathedral and borne to the high altar to officiate at the high mass of thanksgiving. The pope entered, preceded by the college of cardinals in their full robes and surrounded by the papal court. Silver trumpets sounded the papal fanfarq. As the colorful procession passed through the aisles the pope bestowed a benediction to right and left The crowd broke into applause and then cheering while the Basilica rang with cries, “Long live the pope.” Plant at Marion Sold Bu Times Special MARION. Ind.. Feb. 12.—Sale of the Macßeth-Evans Glass Company property here to Maxwell N. Andalman, Chicago, was reported to officials of the Marion Association of Commerce today. Consideration was not revealed.

BY HARRY R. ZANDER United Frew Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1939, by United Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Five young New Jersey women, who were expected to die within a year because of supposed radium poisoning, have been given new hopes of prolonged life by a new scientific opinion, the United Press learned today. The five young women who ••pointed" tiny brushes with their lips to paint luminous dials upon watches which American soldiers were to wear into the trenches of France in 1917 and 1918 were doomed by science to die. Science said the infinitessimal

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O —O Sha(y) Me Dobbin Dumps Lovers From Sleigh Into Snowdrift and Runs Away.

TF George Cornwell, 5023 Guil- -*■ ford avenue, was to find a fuselage of a plane on his front porch today he wouldn’t be surprised, but to find a runaway horse dragging the shafts of a sleigh in his back yard—well—! Monday night, Cornwell heard a strange whinny in his back yard. He investigated and found a chilled horse with his nose nuzzled against the back porch. Sleigh bells jingled from the horse’s- harness and attached to it was the remains of a relic of days when young love slid up and down lanes for their winter "petting.” instead of skidding on rubber tires on paved streets. a a tt WITH the help of police Cornwell discovered the sleigh was rented by a young couple from a riding academy at the state fairground. From this clew police pieced this tale. He and She -were skimming along icy pavements in the 5500 block on Guilford avenue. He was holding Her hand. They cuddled close. The reins slipped from his grasp. They kissed—twice— The horse tired of modernity attempting to “pet” in a medieval vehicle, made the second kiss possible when he shied at a motor car and overturned the sleigh. Dobbin left them in each other’s arms in a snow-pile.

COAL SURVEY SOUGHT $50,000 for Boosting State Mines Urged. Plea for a $25,000 annual appropriation for the next two years for a survey of Indiana coal lands by Purdue university engineers was made today by Senator Carl M. Gray, Petersburg, speaking for the bill he has introduced. According to Gray the state has slumped unnecessarily in coal production during the last few years, while Kentucky and West Virginia have made constant progress. He attributed the decreased production to the propoganda that Indiana coal is inferior. With the survey this would be disproved, Gray declared. TWO MEN MISSING Guardian and Wife Report on Disappearance to Police. Two men were reported missing to police today. They are: Henry A. Southrich, 69, of 2010 Mabel street, and James E. Ratliffe, 47, of l?3i Kimber street. Southrich’s disappearance was reported by his gqardian. H. N. Meyer, attorney, and Ratliffe’a'by his wife.

LIFE HOPE GIVEN BY SCIENCE TO FIVE WOMEN DOOMED TO RADIUM DEATH

portions of radium which they had absorbed had attached themselves to their bones and were breaking clown the red and white corpuscles of the blood through a terrific bombardment of alpha rays. It was described as a condition which could not be cured. tt a tt BUT. now. science has made a second guess. It may not have been radium after all; it may have been mesothorium. which although twenty times more radio-active than radium, is soluble while radium salts arr. not. And the raesothorium, dissolved

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INDIANAPOLIS. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1929

WAR DECLARED ON COFFIN BY G. 0. P. HEADS ! : Leslie and Rogers Launch Fight to Shear Boss of Power. RULES TO BE CHANGED Charge County Chairman Uses High-Minded Methods to Hold Control. Governor Harry G. Leslie and Elza O. Rogers, Republican state chairman, have declared war on George V. Coffin, Seventh district (Marion county) Republican boss. Poltical circles drew this interpretation today from announcement of a meeting of the G. O. P. state committee Wednesday noon, when, by an alteration of organization rules, Coffin will be shorn of a power he has invoked to keep an iron grip on Marion county Republican politics. Neither the Governor nor Rogers was willing to comment. This move. Republican leaders believed, will be but the forerunner of a determined effort backed by Governor Leslie. Chairman Rogers and state committeemen to oust Coffin from the state committee, a, post he holds as Seventh district cliairman. Improved Machinery From sources close to the Governor, it was learned Leslie’s determination to put an end to Coffin control in Marion county is more than a retaliatory move for failure of the Coffin organization to carry Marion county for Leslie. It reflects, according to authoritative sources, the Governor’s intent, seconded by the state chairman, to put the operation of party machinery in Marion county on “the up and up,” By high-handed tactics, it is charged, Coffin has kept between 85 and 100 precinct committeemen, regularly elected, from taking any part in party organization affairs in the county. His latest move was creation by county commisisoners Monday of fifty-four new precincts, for which Coffin now can name committeemen. Forces representing the Governor and the state committee null insist, it is said, that regularly elected precinct committeemen and no others, vote in the city committee organization meeting Saturday afternoon. Rule to Be Changed It was the prospect of "Coffin tactics” in the Saturday meeting that precipitated Rogers’ call for the state meeting Wed? °sday and brought the first flash of lightning from storm clouds that have been hovering over the Coffin machine since Leslie’s election The organization rule to be changed by the state committee now provides that the county chairman or a person designated by him shall 1 preside at the city committee organization meeting. Under this rule Omer Hawkins, county chairman by grace of Coffin, would preside or name a man approved by Coffin, to preside. Such a situation, it was feared, might eermit repetition of an incident in offin’s election to the district chairmanship, when there were more •votes cast than there are precincts in the county. This was explained away at the time by permitting vice-committee men to vote, even though committeemen were present and voting. The rule to be changed Wednesday was forced upon the Republican state committee four years ago for Coffin’s express benefit by Clyde A. Walb, then state chairman, now in Leavenworth penitentiary. Speculate on Changes Prior to the change, the city chairman presided at the city organization meeting. Restoration of the old rule, therefore, will not help, for Coffin is city as well as district chairman. Politicians are speculating on what means the state committee Mill devise around this obstacle. They anticipate l warning also will be sounded against voting by hand-picked proxies. County political forces tod.c drew their lines tight after count,, commissioners, the court house puppets of Coffin, added the fifty-four precincts.

in time through the process which science knows, may be eliminated from the bodies. The afflicted women are slightly worse, attending doctors say, than they were last June when the United States Radium Corporation, for whom they haY worked when they contracted ti eir ailments, settled upon each >f them SIO,OOO and a pension oi SSO a month so long as they should live, in lieu of claims of $250,000 damages each.'for which they had started suits. a a m DR. ROBERT E. HUMPHRIES of the Orthopedic hospital at Newark, N. J., who has treated

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The highest social honor that any debutante in the entire south may obtain—queen of the New Orleans Mardi Gras—has been conferred on Miss Beecye Casanas, daughter of a wealthy New Orleans banker and coffee importer. Miss Casanas has been the most feted debutante of the season, having been queen of several of the big courts prceeding the Mardi Gras proper. She is a graduate of Newcomb college and later attended finishing school in New England.

POLICE TO REGAIN ‘STICKER’ CONTROL

Agree on Amendment to Traffic Ordinance: Some to Be Exempt. The city council has changed its mind about regulation of stickers for traffic violations and agreed to amendment of the traffic ordinance to restore the right to exercise discretion on the violation notices to the board of safety, it was learned today. The new ordinance, effective Jan. 1, required the city clerk to report to council the disposition of every sticker. Police promptly stopped exempting tagged motorists with good excuses. Several hundred motorists were arrested for failure to obey the sticker notice to report to the city clerk and pay the $2 first penalty, but Municipal Judge C. R. Cameron threw the cases aside as fast as they came to him on the ground citizens had not had time to became familiar with the new ordinance. Councflmen protested they were being "goats” and declared police still had the right to exercise discretion, but the board of safety and Chief Claude M. Worley replied that they were not gonig to be made “goats” in any investigation and continued to enforce the new sticker provisions to the letter. Several councilmen bitterly assailed The Indianapolis Times,because it disclosed that Councilman Edward Harris went to Chit f Worley With a business friend se king exemption from stickers, a few days after the new ordinance went into effect. The climax of several informal conferences came Monday afternoon in a friendly meeting between Councilmen Robert E. Springsteen, Paul E. Rathert, Albert F. Meurer, Meredith Nicholson, Harris, Herman P. Lieber and John F. White, the safety board. Chief Worley and Smiley Chambers, assistant city attorney. The seven councilmen joined in a request of Chambers that he prepare an amendment, specifically restoring to the safety board power to exempt motorists with sound excuses for minor violations. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 6 10 a. m 14 7 a. m 7 11 a. m 17 Ba. m 8 12 tnooiL)—2o 9a. m 10 la. m 2\

them continuously since their symptoms first began to manifest themselves, told the United. Press he has hopes that their meager expectancy of life last summer may be indefinitely prolonged. He bases these hopes on the theory that mesothorium and not radium is causing their continuous torture. The five women are Miss Grace Fryer, Mrs. Albina Larice and Mrs. Quinta McDonald, Orange, N. J.; Miss Katherine Sehaub, Newark, and Mrs. Edna Hussman, Hillside, N. J. In addition, three other women, Mrs. Mae C. Canfield, Mrs. Kthqlwynne Meta and Mrs. Helen Pijpk

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RAP MANAGER FOES South Side Boosters Score Marion Representative. Condemnation of the efforts of politicians to vitiate the city manager law' was included in resolutions aodpted Monday night by the South Side Boosters Club, Inc. “This organization looks with disfavor on the actions of certain members of the Marion county delegation in the state house of representatives who claim they are not opposed to the law, yet who keep jumping to the floor with amendments and speeches which work against it,” declared Otho Burkhart, secretary. Lloyd D. Claycombe is the. Marion county representative who is attempting to hamstring the manager movement.

‘MY BOOTS STAY ON NEXT TIME,’ SAYS GIRL FLIER

Bill United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 12. When Miss Bobby Trout starts out next time to break air records she will keep her hoots on. And from the way Miss Trout talks there is going to be a next time. The girl who Monday established two records for women in efidurance flying by keeping her plane aloft for seventeen, hours, said her only trouble was with her feet. She took off her boots and put on moccasins, to keep her feet warm, and it was hard work manipulating the rudder pedals. What seemed to please Miss Trout most was the fact that she "gave those eastern women something to shoot at.”

of Newark, have started suits similar to those of the five who obtained settlements. Mrs. Canfield asks SIOO,OOO, while the others ask a quarter of a million dollars. a a a THREE of the five who received SIO,OOO each last June purchased comfortable automobiles. These were Miss Schaub, Mrs. Larice and Mi's. Russman. The “wealth'’ brought martial tragedy to Mrs. McDonald: her husband quit his job. Quarrels followed and the couple separated. Mrs. McDonald has invested part of her money in a trust fund to educate her two children. Miss Fryer invested all of her

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SHUMAKER IS PUT TO WORK IN STATE FARM DAIRY BARN; STARTS TERM FOR CONTEMPT Clad in Blue Denim Overall Suit, Dry Crusader Begins Duties He Must Perform for Next 60 Days. DECIDES SUDDENLY TO GO TO PRISON Arrangements for Trip to Putnamville Are Kept Deep Secret Until Sheriff Winkler Arrives There With Him. BY EDWIN V. O’NEEL Times Staff Correspondent PUTNAMVILLE, Ind., Feb. 12.—Clad in a blue denim overall suit and a duck coat the Rev. ~Eu S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League today joined “the line” at the Indiana state farm here and went to work in the dairy barns to pay the penalty for contempt of Indiana supreme court. For sixty days from Monday Dr. Shumaker will help milk cows and clean the dairy barns because in his 1925 annual report he termed some justices of supreme court “wet, unless the medical examiner decide the Work is too detrimental to his health. The superintendent made up his mind to end further efforts to win freedom Sunday. He notified Sheriff William T. Resoner of supreme court Sunday that he would be ready to surrender and go to the farm Tuesday. Sheriff Resoner was ill. He got out of bed to make necessary legal arrangements Monday morning and returned to his home.

Some time Monday Dr. Shumaker decided he wanted to go to the farm at once. Plans Kept Secret Arrangements for the trip were kept a deep secret, in contrast to the fanfare of publicity which accompanied Dr. Shumaker’s elaborate scene of marytrdom at his home when he first reported to the farm last October, to be met at the door with the news that Governor Ed Jackson had pardoned him.' Late Monday afternoon it was stated at Sheriff Resoner’s Indianapolis home that plans for Dr. Shumaker’s transportation were indefinite. At that very moment Marion County Sheriff George L. Winkler, to whom Resoner had delegated his authority, was preparing to start for the farm with Dr. Shumaker by automobile. They left at 4 p. m. It was not generally known until 7 p. m. in Indianapolis that the superintendent had started paying the penalty. Bunks Wtth 150 Others Routine necessary to formal admission of Dr. Shumaker was accomplished Monday evening and he* was assigned to a cot in a dormitory with 150 other men, some of them bootleggers. Farm life began in earnest for him when he was routed out with the others at 5:45 this morning. The temperature was near zero. The dormitories are not quite so warm as Dr. Shumaker’s north side home. The dry leader donned a blue and white striped shirt, described as of “old hickory” material; blue denim overalls, heavy shoes, a corduroy cap and a duck coat. He had fifteen minutes to dsess. Then breakfast in the general mess hall cn oatmeal, milk, white bread and coffee. He was hustled to the farm barber, who cut off his fringe of

She received‘a telegram from one of her eastern rivals. Miss Elinor Smith of New York, whose record Bobby broke, wired: “Warmest congratulations. I knew you’d do it.” "I suffered very little discomfort in the air,” Bobby told interviewers. "It wasn’t nearly so cold as I expected, still it was cold. "My feet were more tired than anything else. I put moccasins on to keep them warm and It wasn’t so nice working the rudder pedals that way. I had to use by heels, then my instep and then my toes. Next time I’ll keep my boots on. "I certainly got hungry up there. Mother fixed up some sandwiches and tea before I started, but they didn’t seem to be enough. I could have stood a good square meal.”

SIO,OOO and obtained a job at a Newark trust company. . m MISS SCHAUB, who is the youngest of the five women, enjoys the opportunity which her automobile gives her to reach the solitude of the countryside. She has been able to satisfy her yearning for acquaintance with the works of the masters of literature and to dabble a bit In literary work. Mrs. Hussman supplemented her automobile with a fine player piano and a cabinet radio. Mrs. Larice took her husband in her new car for a vacation tour into Canada, , v

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gray hair to a regulation prison crop. At 7 a. m. Dr. Shumaker was assigned to “his line.” Hereafter most of his movements about the farm will be with this "line,” consisting mostly of twentyeight new prisoners who came in Monday. He must stand roll call with these men. Checkers as Amusement Wednesday Dr. Shumaker must get up earlier for the schedule of the thirteen men assigned to the barn squad calls for a start at 5 a. m. Breakfast is worked in after the cows are milched. With about an hour off for lunch at 12 noon, Dr. Shumaker wilt work steadily until 5 p. m., completing his eleven hours of labor. Then he will have supper and about two hours of leisure. He must be in bed at 8 when the lights in dormitories go out. This afternoon Dr. Shumaker and twenty-nine other prisoners were lined up before Dr. J. F. Gillespie for a medical examination. This was to isolate those with communicable diseases and determine who should be vaccinated against small-* pox. The menu for the noon meal today was roast beef, potatoes, sauer kraut, corn, bread and water. The men may play checkers in their dormitories or read in the farm library' evenings. The library has 4,000 volumes, including the Bible, and numerous daily newspapers and current periodicals. Two Letters a Month Attendance at religious services on Sunday is optional. A Baptist minister from Greencastle is conducting services each Sunday this. month. The Nazarene church conducts Sunday school. Once a month Catholic and Christian Science cervices are provided. Dr. Shumaker is permitted to write one letter the first Sunday and one the third Sunday of each month. His only visitors may be immediate members of his family. He can receive visitors once each two week, on any day except Sundays or holidays, between 8 a. m. and 4 p. m. for a thirty-minute period. His relatives may bring him fruit, and candy in quantities that he can consume during the visit. They may bring him small quantities of tobacco or chewing gum, which he can take U his dormitory. Dr. Shumaker does not smoke. Reporters have seen him chew gum. One special privilege is given dairy barn workers. They get two shaves a week for sanitary reasons. Other prisoners get one. The dairybem assignment, although in a warm place, is not the best job on the farm. Hospital porters have the coveted posts. They have separate bedrooms. * : Fitted for Work Dr. Shumaker was assigned to the dairy bam because that was the work for which his early training appeared to best fit him, E. L. Arment, assistant superintendent, explained. The prisoner’s personal cleanliness also figured in the selection, Arment said. Dr. Shumaker spent his early days on the farm. The vyork is hard, but not dangerous to the health of a man who has done “white collar” work for mapy years, he pointed out. A temperature of from 68 to 72 is maintained in the dairy bam, where Dr. Shumaker will be most of the time. When he has to do outside work he will be provided with heavy gloves and a sweater to wear under hie duck coat. “New prisoners soon melt into the old gang and of necessity, adjust themselves very readily,” said Arment. Dr. Shumaker is listed as prisoner No. 39,424, but he goes by his name. Deputy Sheriff Ollie Mays accompanied Sheriff Winkler and Dr. Shumaker on the trip here Monday evening, They arrived at 5:15 p, ,***