Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1929 — Page 2

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DEATH THREATS ARE RECEIVED BY 2 WOMEN Dentist Who Pulled Tooth of Killer Disappears From Home. CHECK BURNING AUTO j 'Keep Your Mouth Shut,’. Says Letter to Resident Across Street. CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—An Important witness in the investigation of the St. Valentine day’s gang massacre here has disappeared, police announced today and death threat letters have been received by two others. Dr, Loyal Tacker, dentist, who said he believed he may have pulled a tooth of one of the men seen in the automobile which drove away from the north side garage where the murders occurred, was reported missing from his home by his bride of a few months. Police were told by a witness who saw the car leave the garage that one of the hien had a tooth or two ! missing. Dr. Tacker appeared at police headquarters a few days later and identified pictures of a gangster as those of a man whose teeth he had 1 abstracted a short time before the J murders. Woman Get Threats Police fear that he may have been "taken for a ride” to prevent his giving further identification. The threatening letters were received by Mrs. Alphonnsine Morin end Mrs. Jeanette Landsman. Mrs. Morin lives directly across from where the seven men in the massacre were lined up and shot down. Mrs. Landsman lives next door to the garage. The letters advised the women to “keep your mouth shut.” One letter said ‘t’hat's the best thing that’s happened around here,” apparently referring to the massacre. One letter was signed “The Gang” and the other "Chi. Boys.” Both women had been questioned by police and they were to be questioned again. Husband Fails to Return Mrs. Tacker said her husband left their apartment Friday night and did not return. She became worried and notified police early this morning. One theory advanced was that the dentist feared for his life and went into hiding, but police are inclined, to believe that he had been kidnaped. Nothing further had been developed today in the search for James Morton, who was believed to be the last -purchaser of an autmobile found buwiing in a garage and which was thought to have been either the car in which the murderers drove away from the shooting or else a plant to throw police on a wrong traiL LOCAL CITIZENS RETIIRN FROM WORLD JOURNEY Spent Five Months on Trip; Visited WiH Hays. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Holcomb and Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Strickland returned to Indianapolis today from a trip around the world. While the tour was primarily a vacation. Dr. Strickland visited and inspected leading hospitals in the various nations. The party left Indianapolis Sept. 11 and sailed from San Francisco, Sept. 22. They spent three weeks each In China and Japan, visited the Malay peninsula, India, Egypt and spent six days in London and Paris. On their return to the United States they were the guests of Will H. Hays, head of the motion p ; cture industry, whose home is in Sullivan. Ind.

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Captain Godfrey Rodrigues Praised for Work by Dr, Morgan. “Health is all in the manner in which you hold your body,” says Captain Godfrey Rodrigues of Holland, who is conducting a series of lectures and other personal appearances- in Indianaoplis under auspices of The Indianapolis Times. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the dity health baord, today indorsed the principle of physical fitness advocated by Captain Rodrigues. “Captain Rodrigues comes to Indianapolis with the indorsement of leaders in the public health field, having demonstrated the excellent results of his system in many cities,” Dr. Morgan said. Uses No Medicines “He has no specific medicine or drug or athletic apparatus for sale. The beneficial results he obtains come from correct posture, proper breathing and hygienic living. He is advocating the practice of a principle universally indorsed by hygienists and physicians the world over. “The increase in the group of socalled degenerative diseases, namely those of the heart, arteries and kidneys, are conceded to be largely due to lack of exercise, to improper diet and careless health habits. The principle of body building advocated by Captain Rodrigues unquestionably would reduce the many twentieth century maladies if universally adopted. “I heartily can indorse all he has to say in regard to exercise, athletics, proper posture and breathing. His only difficulty in teaching this principle to the public is that it is so simple many will not follow’ his teachings. Urges Outdoor Exercise It is to be hoped that many persons in Indianapolis will have their first introduction in years to the real outdoors oxygenated air. “Let it be hoped that a pleasing per cent of the city’s population will wander out from their overheated homes and apartments where they have been living in devitalized air and receive their initial baptism of good health, correct posture and proper living.” Dr. Morgan concluded. The captain is “booked solid” to speak in city schools next week.

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the bank is of a contrary opinion, Lindley said. Any discrepancies in construction costs, unearthed by the board of accounts, should be taken up with the attorney-general for legal action, Lindley declared. The report praises highly the personnel of the armory board, trustees (holding companies), the Ostrom company and bank. It does criticise the method and also Architect L. A. Turnock, who was a member of the armory board fostering the plan and whose firm designed all the buildings. Estimated total of the architect’s was given as $24,560: contractor’s (on cost-plus plan), $95,648, anc the difference between the amount received from the Peoples State Bank, which handled all financing, and that expended for costruction, $70,204. McWhirter had the followingcomment to make regarding the report: “It is about what could be expected. The report does not reflect the facts and is incorrect in most of its inferences. Disappointed contractors have had their fun. The senate will, no doubt, give it such consideration as is warranted.”

BUSSES BUTLER Service on Meridian Will Open in 30 Days. Operation of busses to Butler university over the Meridian street route will be begun wi thing thirty days, Ernest H. Pflumm, superintendent of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, said today. Ten new- busses costing about $85,000 will be purchased at once, Pflumm said. The public service commission Friday approved tile petition for the Butler line after the city park board granted permission to run the busses on Meridian from the Circle to Thirty-sixth street. The Riverside line also will use Meridian street to Thirtieth street instead of Delawpre street. UNIFORMS FOR DEPUTIES Road Patrol Will Don ( Garb on March 1. Twenty deputy sheriffs on road patrol duty will don uniforms March 1. Sheriff George L. Winkler announced today. The uniforms will be of blue corduroy, with Sam Browne belts and leather puttees. Caps, similar to those used by Indianapolis motorcycle police, also will be worn. State Clubs in Session By Times Special MARTINSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 23. With the largest attendance in their history-. Circle and Triangle Club members are holding their fifth annual state conference here. Registration Friday, the opening day, was 313. The conference will close Sunday. s.l,

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TRAFFIC BILL SYSTEM MAY BE ABOLISHED Modified Plan Probably Will Be Adopted; Complaints Are Numerous. Abolition of the electric bell pedestrian regulation on Washington street and establishment of a system allowing traffic offio rs to exercise greater discretion ii handling traffic is contemplated by city officials. Scores of complaints against the present system have been received by Mayor L. Ert Slack, the board of safety and city councilmen. Councilmen have sought a substitute for the regulations for some time. Several councilmen openly have expressed hostility to the plan. Expect System to Go Council in recent weeks, however, has been more interested in the “taking care of , stickers” problem. Asked his opinion on the sticker matter, Mayor L. Ert Slack said: “I’m more interested in some other problems. For instance, how | are we going to solve the Washington street problem so there will be greater satisfaction with the system?” It is likely that the system in practice at other downtown corners, allowing pedestrians to “move with the traffic,” will be adopted for the Illinois, Meridian and Pennsylvania intersections on Washington street. Give Pedestrian Break Mayor Slack indicates he favors a plan which will permit officers to use greater discretion in handling downtown traffic, allowing them to use stringent regulations when conditions demand and let up during hours when traffic Is light. He would permit right turns except at busy periods. “I think the pedestrian should have the break in the congested district, the motorist giving the person who walks the right of way. But the motorists should have the right of way in the district outside the downtown area where pedestrian traffic is lighter,” Slack said. POLITICS NEED BEST OF MINDS, SAYS EDUCATOR Declares American Discourages Creative Intellects. Bn United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 23.—Creative minds are being discouraged in- America despite the fact that such intellects are needed vitally in American politics today, Dr. Rollo Walter Brown, Cambridge, Mass., former Harvard professor said at the annual dinner of the Progressive Education Association here. Persons with creative minds “have the highest philosophy that men and women have yet discovered,” Dr. Brown said. DIVORCE SUIT FOLLOWS. KOKOMO BANK FAILURE Former American Trust President Charges Wife Cruel. Bu Times Special KOKOMO. Feb. 23.—Frank 6. Owens, former president of the American Trust Company bank, now defunct, has filed suit in Howard circuit court asking for a divorce from Fannie M. Owens, daughter of W. H. Arnold, first president of the company; Owens charges cruelty. There are two children, Arnold, age 10, and Beverly, age 3. Family relations have been strained, it is said, since a trial at Frankfort when Owens was acquitted of a charge of wrecking the bank. Testimony of Owens revealed his wife had sided with her father, and had spent most of the time since the failure of the bank with him in Florida.

500 AT FELLOWSHIP DINNER OF CHURCHES Congregations Scored for Moving From Downtown. Tendencies of churches to move out of the downtown districts was criticised Friday night by the Rev. Frank L. Bowen, Kansas City evangelist, before the fellowship dinner of Christian churches in Marion county. About five hundred persons attended the second laymen’s dinner at Third Christian church. “The church should be located downtown, where it can be of the greatest service. The residential district should not be neglected, on the other hand,” the Rev. Mr. Bowen said. 'James H. Lowry. Christian Union chairman, presided and Thomas C. Howe, former Butler president, was toastmaster. GAINS 584 MEMBERS Goal Is 1,100, Campaign Will Close Monday. The Brown division is leading In the Y. M. C. A. campaign for new members with a total of 181 to the Hendren division's 164. A total of 584 new members have been obtained in the campaign. The goal is 1,100. The campaign will close Monday. FOREMEN CLUB MEETS Quality Production Urged by Engineer in Talk. Stress quality to workers Inside a factoi” as well as to the purchasers on the outside was the plea of W. a. Black, chief engineer of the Indianapolis plant of the Fairbanks-Morsc & Cos., at a meeting of the Moremen’s Club Friday night in the Fairbanks plant.

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VINCENNES SET TO CELEBRATE GLARKEXPLOIT Prepared for Thousands of Visitors at Program Monday. By Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 23.—With placing of commemorative stamps on sale at the local postoffice Monday at 7 a. m., Vincennes’ celebration of the 150th anniversary of the capture of Ft. Sackville by George Rogers Clark will be under way. At 11:30 a parade will move to the fort site, and the ground will be dedicated for the placing of a memorial. The afternoon program wall begin at 1:30 when open house will be held at Grouseland, home of William Henry Harrison. Open house will also be in vogue at the old legislative hall and library of St. Francis Xavier parish. • A commemoration meeting will be held at 2:30 at the coliseum and a program will be presented by the Purdue university military band. An historical pageant depicting the fort surrender, and events preceding and following, will be presented at the coliseum at 8 p. m. A colonial ball will follow. Vincennes is prepared to greet thousands of visitors for the event. Governor Harry G. Leslie and other state official,;, including members of the legislature, adjourned for the day, will attend. Representatives of the government of Illinois have accepted invitations to be present. Streets of the city’s business district have been decorated, the motif being American, British and French flags, significant of the three governments which have ruled Vincennes. ACTOR’S WIFE POISONS HERSELF, BUT WILL LIVE i ! Mrs. Jean Snowden Mclntosh Takes Overdose of VeronaL Bu United Press NEW YORK, Feb, 23.—Mrs. Jean Snowden Mclntosh, wife of Burr Mclntosh, the actor, was recovering today from an overdose of veronal. Before taking the veronal Mrs. Mclntosh wrote a note asking that her husband be notified at the Hollywood hotel, Hollywood, Cal. Mrs. Mclntosh was found Friday afternoon in her studio. Besides the note asking that her husband be notified, she left one addressed to “Fannie”, saying: “Take care of my dog, Jock.” ATTEMPT STORE ENTRY Prowlers Break Transom of Carlin Firm; No Loss. After breaking a transom above the front door of the Carlin Music Company, 143 East Washington street, prowlers apparently last their nerve early this morning. The broken transom w’as discovered by O. F. McDaniel, a night watchman. A check of the store’s stock revealed nothing had been taken, and police do not believe the prowlers entered the store.

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WORLD COURT APPEAL MADE BY COOLIDGE Diplomats Applaud Address by President, Relating Foreign Relations Record. BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN United Press SUIT Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Diplomats applauded today what generally was interpreted as anew appeal by President Coolidge for American adherence to the world court. The President’s remarks weie in an address at George Washington university last night, giving an account of his stewardship of America’s international relations since taking office in 1923. In what probably was his last presidential utterance, Coolidge urged cultivation of international good feeling and called upon the people and the press of the nation to “be friendly.” Alliances Defined He declared our foreign relations rarely, if ever, have been in a more happy condition, discouraged the attitude of fault finding and hostility to everything that is forign, and admonished his Washington’s birthday radio audience that even the first President’s warning against alliances did not advocate a policy of isolation. “In that day,” said Coolidge, “an alliance meant the banding together of two or more nations for offensive and defensive uprises against certain other nations, either expressed or implied. It was a purely artificial creation. It had no reference to an association of practically all nations in an attempt to recognize their common interests and discharge their common obligations. Respect Rights of Others While we should at all times defend our own independence and maintain our own sovereignty, we should not forget that all nations, as well as individuals, have natural and inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and while we should disgracefully fail in our mission in the world if we did not protect those rights for ourselves, we also shall fail if we do not respect them in others.” In conferring the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon the President, Dr. Clyod H. Martin, president of the university, cited him as the servatn of the state, a man of sincere attitudes, a respected leader of the people, and the proponent of a forward-looking social procedure. £ ' ' ■ SEEKS SHELTER FOR WASHINGTON REPORTERS Ask $5,000 So Newsmen May Wait on Hoover in Comfort. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Newspaper correspondents will no longer stand in the cold to “cover” Presi-dent-Elect Hoover if a resolution introduced by Representative Loring M. Black (Dem., N. Y.) is ever made a law. The bill would provide $5,000 for a temporary shelter. The newsmen, since Hoover’s arrival in Washington, have had to wait outside in discomfort in order to interview callers to the Hoover home. “The American public has been looking anxiously for the new administration to take the chill off the White House,” Black said in a statement. “Instead we find that the journalists attending on Hoover are undergoing rigors of climate that even George Washington did not have to endure at Valley Forge. “It seems only fair that a dry congress should provide a dry igloo for the reporters outside.” LASHROCKEFELLERAN D ; STANDARD PROPAGANDA i Congressman Charges John D. W’orks Against U. S. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Representative George H. Tinkham, Republican, Massachusetts, speaking in reference to his resolution demanding a congressional inquiry into expenditures by international interests to influence American foreign policy, has declared in the house that John D. Rockefeller, Ivy I. Lee, his publicity agent, and the Standard Oil Company, were open propagandists against the itnerests of the United tSates. He took exception to the appointment of J. P. Morgan and Owen D. Young an unofficial American delegates to the reparations conference and declared approval of the Kellogg pact was a first United tSates commitment to intematiolanists. ! Tin Wham’s resolution was first j introduced Jan. 3. He said he would I reintroduce it at the next congres- ; sional session. Purdue Graduate Dies Bu Times fine vial FRANKFORT, Ind., Feb. 23. Francis Gaddis, 36, Purdue university graduate, former resident of Marion, is dead here. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and the Iron Key Club.

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UNEMPLOYED IN LAST STAGE OF LONDONJARCH Five Groups Will Join and Complete Parade Through London Sunday. By United Press LONDON, Feb. 23.—Marchers in the parade of the unemployed converging on London, arrived at the outskirts of the city today in five groups. They were welcomed by a reception committee headed by the extremists, Tom Mann and A. J. Cook. Contingents of London unemployed will join the marches Sunday and complete the journey, which started in Scotland for the most distant gruop. The climax of the parade will be a demonstration in Trafalgar square. After the mass meetnig, it is planned to present to Premier Stanley Baldwin a petition signed by the marchers asking for an interview to .air their grievances. Approximately 800 of the 900 persons originally enrolled in the parade have completed the march. Some, who were incapacitated by the cold weather, were resting for the night at Hendon, Chiswick, Deptford, Tottenham and Finchley.

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HOOVER STILL UNCERTAIN ON CABINET POSTS Agriculture, Attorney-Gen-eral Jobs Chief Concern of Next President. BY THOMAS L. STOKES I'nlttd Press Staff Correaoondrnt WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Several posts in President-Elect Hoover’s cabinet still are very uncertain today, with little more than a week before inauguration. Refusals from men he had picked have disrupted his plans and caused him to check through the list of eligibles again. Hoover’s chief concern is ©ver the agriculture and attorney-general posts. Two names have been brought forward prominently for these posts: Thomas D. Campbell, Montana wheat “industrialist,” for secretary of agriculture. Ira K. Letts, Providence. R. 1., federal judge and former assistant attorney-general, for attorney-gen-eral. Campbell to Visit Hoover Conferences in the next few days will determine whether these men will fill these two posts. Campbell will visit Hoover in the next few days. He has just returned from a trip to Russia, where he was agricultural adviser to the Soviet government, and is expected to give the President-elect a picture of conditions there. Hoover is expected to discuss Campbell’s qualifications today with Senator Brookhart (la.), member of the senate farm bloc, as he was understood to have discussed the Montanan with Senator Nye (Wyo.), another farm bloc member. Letts is a newcomer to the cabinet lists. He Is a “dark liorsc.” his name not having been mentioned previously before. But there are very definite indications there may be one or more “dark horses” in the Hoover cabinet. Four Po*.ts Filled Four posts definitely have been filled—secretary of state, Henry L. Stimson, New York; secretary of treasury, Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh; secretary of interior, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford university, and Charles Francis Adams, Boston, secretary of navy. Besides agriculture and attorneygeneral, this leaves war, commerce, labor and postmaster-general. Bishop Edgar H. Blake, bishop of the Indianapolis area of the Methodist Episcopal church, will address the extension course of the Indiana Council on International Relations. Tuesday night in Hollenbeck hall of the Y. W. C. A. His subject will be “Our Foreign Policy.” The meeting will be open to the public.

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