Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1929 — Page 2

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CITY GREETS FRENCH WORLD WARJHEROES Luncheon, Tea, Banquet Is Arranged to Honor Delegation of 36. France shok hands with Indianapolis today when thirty-six French war heroes, led by Admiral Paul Guepratte, arrived here at 11:15 a. m. American Legion officials and members of the Alliance Fran;aise with flugh McK. Landon, French consul, formed the .reception committee. The visitors were placed in busses and taken to the Spink-Arms where luncheon was served to* be followed by an afternoon tea. “It is like a fairy tale—this state j of yours,” declared Admiral Gue-j prattle as he alighted from the train. “We have had such a nice trip

and • we’ve come to bring you mementoes of Lafayette,” he said. Descendant of Lafayette Count de Pusy Dumortier de la Fayette, one of the members of the ' party, is a direct descendant of Gen. Lafayette. He will present the Lafayette mementoes when the party of heroes visits Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Indiana city named after his ancestor. Two women, Madame Dewever and Mile. Elizabeth. Sancerne, are members of the party. Praise for the Indiana war memorial, its design and structure, was expressed by the heroes as well as the fine character of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument. Captain Charles Beaumont, one bf the heroes, was the first American to joiii the French forces during the World war. His home before the war was in Butte, Mont. He is one of eight Americans who joined the Foreign Legion at the start of the war, still alive. Banquet Tonight General Boulet-Desbarreau. former genera- of the Foreign Legion and attached to the Thirty-second division of the A. E. F. during the war, was in uniform as he stepped off the train. Admiral Guepratte and a standard-bearer were also in uniform. Every occupation from journalist to wine-producer is represented in the unofficial good-will embassy. The party will be guests of the American Legion at a banquet tonight at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. They will leave Friday for Lafayette ‘ and Culver Military academy, returning here Monday. Monday night a banquet will be given by tne Chamber of Commerce to enable merchants and business men of the city to meet the various tradesmen in the party.

FIGHT OF GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS OPENED Addresses at Marion Start of Na-tion-Wide Drive. Bu United Press MARION, Ind., March 14.—Na-tion-wire campaign was under way todrry by the industrial conservation board, Chicago, ? neutral organization composed of business leaders throughout the United States, to bare facts regarding competition between government and privatelyowned industry. The first move in the campaign was made here Wednesday night by Judge V. H. Stone, Leander, Wyo., W. J. Sylvester, managing diIPfctor of the board, addressing the of the Christian church. Sylvester explained that the object of the organization was to carry' out the decision of the Washington economic conference, held in December, 1925. “That conference held that the proper functions of government .were political, not economic,” SylVsster said The advisory board of the industrial conference board includes Felix McWhirter, Indianapolis. DETROIT LEADS U. S. IN MURDERS DURING 1928 Has Highest Percentage: Chicago Is Second; Cleveland Third. 2>..v I'tiitcd Press , „, _ NEW YORK, March 14—Despite accuracy of its machine-gunning gangsters, Chicago has lost its place at the head of the homicide rate list to Detroit. According to statistics made public by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential Insurance Company, there were 16.5 homicidal deaths for every 100,000 persons living in Detroit in 1928, while the rate for Chicago was 15.8. Chicago, however, led the country in the actual number of murders—--498, with New' York second with 401. New York was fifth on the basis of homicidal deaths in relation to population, its rate being 6.7. Cleveland. with 134 homicides, was third with a rate of 13.3., and Philadelphia, with 182 murders, was fourth with 8.8. Los Angeles was sixth, with seventy murders and a rate of 4.7 per 100,000 population. For Cold Drink 'Hot Teayga Don’t let a Jm cold deVelop into flu. At the first chill or feverish feeling, go right to your druggist and get a small package of Hamburg Breast Tea. Put a tablespoonful of this Hamburg Tea into strainer, pour a cup of boiling water over it. and drink it at any time. It •’ls the most effective way to break a cold and relieve grippe, as it heat# the body and opens the bowels. This breaks up congestion and frees the body of poisons. Hamburg Brea Tea is inexpensive and entirely vegetable, therefore hann-

Deputy Sheriffs Don New Uniforms

Marion county deputy sheriffs have blossomed forth in new uniforms of reddish brown corduroy. Previously deputies had not worn uniforms. This shows Sheriff George L. Winkler (extreme right) inspecting (left to right) Deputies Ollie Mays, Dale Brown, Harvey Shipp and Harry Bendel.

LESLIE SIGNS BILLS Moorhead Draft Made Law. The public service commission will be made a party to appeals taken from its orders to circuit or superior courts and consumer groups will be represented by state counsel by provisions of the Moorhead bill signed by Governor Harry G. Leslie today. As signed, the measure contains provisions for the attorney-general to appoint counsel for the commission and public. Effort was defeated in the legislature to confer this authority upon the Governor which would have removed Samuel R. Artman, former state industrial board chairman, from the job given him by Attorney-General James M. Ogden as counsel for the public service commission. Another bill approved by the Governor sets the second Friday of April as Arbor day instead of by proclamation by the Governor. HOSPITAL HEAD QUITS AS BEER RAID SEQUEL Kokomo Woman Resigns: Will Take up Work in Another City June 1. By Times Bpccia.l KOKOMO, Ind., March 14.—Mrs. Hazel B. Presser, Howard county hospital superintendent, has resigned as a result of being a member of a party present in an alleged beer selling place when it was raided by police February 23. Accompanying the resignation was a statement in which Mrs. Presser said she went with friends to a house in a good residential district to obtain some sandwiches and had been there but a few minutes when the raid was made. No charges were made against patrons. Mrs. Presser had served as superintendent of the hospital from its opening in 1926 and was regarded as highly efficient in her work. The resignation will become effective April 15. Mrs. Presser announces she has taken a position in another city and will begin her new work June 1.

4 SOLDIERS DISAPPEAR Left Fort Harrison Tuesday Night; Fear Injury. Police have been asked to search for four soldiers who left Fort Benjamin Harrison Tuesday night and have not been seen since. The four, veteran soldiers, are L. F. Jones, Lester. Hill, H. E. Kennedy and T. F. Jackson. Officers at the fort fear the quartet may have been injured in an automobile accident. DIES IN 14-FLOOR FALL Retired Broker Killed in Drop From Apartment Hotel. Bu United Press NEW YORK, March 14.—Archibald Yule Jameson, 62, retired California broker, who has been in ill health for several years, fell to his death today from his fourteenth floor bedroom wundow in an apartment, house at 100 West Fifty-fifth street to the roof of a one-story extension building. His wife, Mrs. Jameson, said his death must have been accidental.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Gilbert Johnson, Brownsburg, Ind.: Chevrolet coupe, 736-382, from St. Clair and Illinois streets. K. W. Fontaine, 4201 East Eleventh street; Chevrolet landau, 39759, from New York and Meridian streets. Grace Tellas. 28 South Belle Vieu place; Ford roadster, 731-372, from parking space at statehouse. Ciayton Larison, R. R. P., Box 390-B; Ford touring, 42-547, from Williams and Oriental streets. James Heidelberger, R. R. 4. Box 508, Bluff road; Ford roadster 9-496, from Kentucky avenue and Morris street.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Catherine Schneid. 831 East Morris street; Hudson coach, found at 439 Indiana avenue. First Auto Show Opens FRANKLIN. Ind., March 14— Franklin’s first automobile show opened today to continue through Saturday. Eight dealers have cars on disalay. ...

Lying Ends By Times Special DECATUR. Ind.. March 14. —“The biggest liar in town” has become truthful. Adjustments have been completed so that all four faces of the clock on ttye Decatur county courthouse tower show the same time. In recent years the clock, installed sixty years ago, showed a different time on each face.

TRANSFER APPEALS \ Duvall Case Is Sent to Appellate Court. The appeal for former Mayor John Duvall from conviction in Marion criminal court of violation of the corrupt practices act was among the two hundred misdemeanor appeals being transferred today from supreme to appellate court dockets at the statehouse. The transfer was in compliance with the Street-McGriff bill signed by Governor Harry G. Leslie Tuesday. It places exclusive jurisdiction in its midemeanor appeals in the appellate court until Jan. 1, 1931, and transfers to the appellate court such appeals pending in the supreme court. The me isure carried an emergency clause r, aking it immediately effective.

HARVARD BRAIN TEAM ‘CLINCHES PENNANT’ No Response to Challenges After Trouncing Yale. liv United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 14. The Harvard brain team has clinched the pennant. Challenges have been flung to the four horizons; universities in Europe and the United States have been invited to run a cerebral tilt against the crimson. No one has accepted. Trustees of the Putnam fund, which was donated to finance the brain games, w'ould not comment upon the report that Harvard’s rough-shod victory over Yale in English literature last year had frightened all opponents. They contented themselves with announcing that the games would not be held this year. TAKE 40 ON GAME LAW Fine 38 for Illegal Hunting and Fishing. State game W'ardens arrested forty persons during January for alleged violations of fish and game laws, and of this number thirty-eight were convicted and paid fines and costs amounting to $890.40. Leading offenses were for hunting, fishing and trapping without license, hunting on land without owners’ consent, and possession of quail in closed season. The number is considerably less than usual, but this is explained by department of conservation officials as due to the closed season on small wild game and bird life. BOND BUYING URGED Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 14.—Due to the present trend of the bond market, now' is a good time for the prudent investor to buy bonds, Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon said today. He made this statement to newspaper men at a press conference explaining he had just been reading a book which analyzed government and industrial bonds.

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WAR 0£ ‘RACKETS’ Business Men Hear Report of Secret Conference. Details of a national “anti-racket” conference, held in Chicago last February and kept secret since, were made public Wednesday at a meeting of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis. Plans to stamp out “racketeering” in business and prevent its spread to cities now free from it, were discussed at the meeting. The report of the anti-racket conference, attended by more than 100 business men representing all sections of the country, including Indianapolis, was read at Wednesday night’s meeting. The major provision in the general plan to halt racketeering is the establishment of a national clearing house for the exchange of racket information and the identification of migratory racketeers, according to the report. The clearing house would be maintained by employes’ organizations of the nation. FUNERAL IS ARRANGED FOR CORA B. YOUNG Church Secretary to Be Buried Friday. Funeral rites for Mrs. Cora B. Young, 69, of, 2936 Central avenue, who died Wednesday night at her home will be held Friday at 2 p. m. at the First Presbyterian church. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Dr. George Arthur Frantz, pastor of the First Presbyterian church and in whose employ Mrs. Young worked as church secretary, will preach the funeral sermon. Mrs. Young was born in Chicago. She had served as secretary to pastors of the church for the past thirty years. She was the widow of Colonel William E. Young, a Civil war veteran, who died last December. Mrs. John W. Cronk, Veedersburg, an aunt, and three cousins, Mrs. Nancy Ballenger and A. B. Cronk, both of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Bertie Robinson, Los Angeles, Cal., survive.

AIM BILL AT ELOPERS Tennessee Has Law Against Young Marriages. Bji United Press BRISTOL, Tenn., March 14. Young sweethearts in Virginia planning to elope here or Cumberland Gap and get married must do it before July 1, for then the new Tennessee marriage law becomes effective. The law provides that persons under 21 must apply for their license five days before the ceremony and notice of application must be forwarded to all parents. Young couples almost traditionally eloped here to marry to escape the Virginia law prohibiting marriage of persons under 21 without parental consent. BONDS TO~Be’~VIEWED Indiana Banker Will Seek to Identify Loot at Pittsburgh. Bu United. Press ANGOLA, Ind., March 14.—E. F. Croxton, president of the First National Bank, and Theodore Redmond, Kendallville, special prosecutor in the recent investigation of Steuben county’s alleged crime wave, left for Pittsburgh, Pa., today to identify bonds found there Tuesday, some of which were believed to have been stolen from the local bank. The bonds were recovered in Pittsburgh after the arrest of a film salesman. Serial numbers on the bonds correspond with the ones stolen from here, Croxton said.

INDIANA LEGION MEETING PLANS ASSUMING FORM Committees Are Chosen at Richmond for State Convention. By Times Special RICHMOND. Ind., March 14. With convention headquarters already opened and a number of committees appointed, Harry Ray post, of the American Legion is preparing the for what promises to be one of the largest state legion conventions ever held in Indiana. Decision to bring the 1929 meeting hexe r.yt August was made by the state convention committee several weeks after it was found impossible for Vincennes, which had been awarded the session, to entertain the gathering. The Legion Auxiliary convention will be held here during the other session. Ten thousand visitors are expected. Horace Parker, general chairman, announces that all committees have been named. Committee heads were appointed by Will Kelley, commander of the local post. Officers and chairmen of the various convention committees follow: William Kelley, commander; Donald Warfel, adjutant; Paul Showalter, finance officer; Windsor Harris, finance; E. H. Brinker, transportation; Leo Weiss, decoration; Henry Unser, speakers and distinguished guests; Fred Diederick, registration; Benjamin Ball, parade; Charles Dunn, housing; Lavon Harper, athletics; Warren East, year book, and James McCauley, entertainment. The local post also has started a membership campaign in an effort to place Richmond among those cities which have attained quotas. Charles Dunn, chairman of the campaign committee, has divided the organization into military units, with two generals, Roland Nusbaum and Ray Wickemeyer, in charge. The quota of the Harry Ray post is 400, and approximately 250 of these have already been obtained for another year. SLAYER SENTENCED Doomed to Die for Killing Actress. Bdi United Press NEW YORK, March 14.—Frederick W. Edsel, former convict, was sentenced today to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison during the week of April 22 for the murder of Mrs. Emelina Olga Harrington, actress. Mrs. Harrington was killed with a hammer in her apartment here December 23, 1927. Three women of Springfield, Mass., testified Edel visited them and gave them articles stolen from Mrs. Harrington’s apartment. Edel was captured at Hopkins, Minn., after allegedly forging a money order.

POPE NEVER ASKED SEA CORRIDOR, SAYS DUCE Holy See Safe from Aggression, Premier Asserts. Bu United Press ROME, March 14. Premier Benito Mussolini revealed today that the Holy See never had requested sovereignty over “a corridor to the sea” during the negotiations for settlement of the Roman question, ended by the signing of the treaty and concordat between the Vatican and state last month. The premier compiled a report for the new chamber in regard to the Lateran treaty, clarifying the official text of both the concordat and the treaty. “The Vatican city is defended not only by its own smallness, because there is no valor in attacking a small state though there would be much merit in defending it, but also in the fact that it is surrounded by lalian territory,” the premier said. WEDDING OF SPLENDOR More Than 300 Royal Aristocrats to ‘Attend Norway Prince’s Rites. B<u United Press OSLO, Norway, March 14.—The most brilliant assemblage of royalty since the World war will gather here on March 21 to see Norway’s athletic young crown prince, Olaf, united in marriage to the darkhaired Princess Martha of Sweden. More than 350 members of royal families and aristocratic houses are expected for the wedding. INCENSE AND —DEATH Twenty Lives Are Taken in Tribute to Dead Chinese Leader. Bu United Press NANKING, China, March 14. Twenty persons were killed and scores injur’d today when 700 homes were destroyed by a spectacular fire. The flames started at Pagoda bridge from incense being burned as a tribute to Sun Yai Sen, founder of the Chinese republic and known as “the George Washington of China,” on the anniversary of his death. ROBBERY SUSPECT HELD Arrest Made After Bank Holdup at Perryville. Bu United Press NEWPORT. Ind., March 14. Arrested in connection with the robbery of the Perryville State Bank, William Summers, 45, is being questioned today. A bandit who robbed the bank Monday obtained $l,lOO. It was the second time the institution had been held up since Jan. 1. LU-GRIP Check before it starts. Rub on —inhale vapors WICKS n. ■ - ■ -----

SELF-SENTENCED TO PRISON DEATH, QUAN-SING DIES

Comes to Long Adventure Trail’s End; Life of Promise Blasted. Quail Sing is dead. Quan Sing, the 45-year-old Chinese, who knew death was to beckon him, died Wednesday night in the Indiana state prison at Michigan city. On the afternoon of Feb. 26, Sing, so ill with tuberculosis and cancer that he could not stand, begged Criminal Judge James A. Collins to send him to prison so he could get hospital care. The next day he was sent to the prison and lived two weeks. On his way to the prison, he continued to prophesy that he would die soon. How soon he did not know. All he knew 7 was that after a varied career as a lawyer, newspaper man and restaurant owner, he had failed in life and that he never would leave prison alive. There is, perhaps, only one debt Sing left unpaid. He paid his debt of errors and crime with his life. But that unpaid debt is one to a little boy in an orphan’s asylum in Petersburg, Ind., who thinks Quan Sing was his father. A week ago he wrote a letter to Sing, begging for information about his mother and his own identity. Did Quan Sing ever answer the letter? That is the question officials at the orphans’ home and Judge Collins hope to solve in the next few hours. Perhaps, they say, Warden H. Daly will find somewhere in Sing's few personal belongings a note that will relieve the boy of the stigma that may blot the remainder of his life. Twenty-four years ago, life held nothing but brightness for Sing. He then was graduated from Leland Stanford university at Palo Alto, Cal., as a lawyer. Although never gaining success in this profession he spent about twelve years in the restaurant business in which, he used to say, “I did very well.” The last few years, however, he turned to forgery and theft to obtain enough money to exist. In this he failed. And then his plea for a sentence on issuing a fraudulent check and then—death. Police are trying to locate relatives believed living in Chicago. SERVICES TO GO ON AIR St. Patrick’s Day Sendees Will Be Broadcast by W r KBF. St. Patrick’s day services will be broadcast over radio station WKBF from 10 to 11 a. m. Sunda" under the auspices of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The event will follow a special mass at 7:30 a. m. led by Mgr. Francis H. Gavisk at St. John’s church. James E. Deery, a past national commander of the order, will be toa. ‘.master, and Mayor L. Ert Slack will be the principal speaker.- Charlie Davis and his band will play special music. Joseph A. McGowan and the Rev. M. W. Lyons will speak.

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‘The Law’ Loses By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. March 14.—Members of the police department may have some doubts about holding their jobs. Chief of Police C. E. Hinshaw played a game of cribbage with Burton Hazel, fire chief. A condition was made that the winner would be privileged to “fire” the other's force and make it dig ditches. The winner was also to be made chief of both departments. “And I lost,” Chief Hinshaw admits.

CHAPLIN RECOVERS Screen Comedian to Resume Work on Picture. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, March 14. Charles v Chaplin, famous screen comedian, virtually has recovered from his recent attack of ptomaine poisoning, complicated by intestinal influenza, and will resume work on his interrupted picture next week, it was learned today. Chaplin and Harry D'Arrast, sceen director, are spending the week at Coronado Beach. WINS WO SUIT Highest Court Favors Kokoko Man. Bp Times Special KOKOMO, Inc!., March 14.—A five-year legal fight through high courts has ended with a decision of the United States supreme court granting damages and interest amounting to $9,000 to Edward Peele in his suit against the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company. The decision was handed down by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. On June 2, 1924, Peele was injured when caught between two railroad cars in the local yards. In September, 1925, the Howard circuit court awarded him $7,500 damages. The case later went through the state appellate and supreme courts on motions of the defendant. CAPITAL WEALTHY CITY By United Press WASHINGTON, March 14—This community, second only to New York in per capita income, goes to pay its income tax tomoi'row. Numbered among the 40,000 who will pay are 325 millionaires. Individuals and corporations are expected to make payments totaling $14,000,000.

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THOUSAND OUT ; TO WIN TIMES TEN PIN PRIZES Bowlers Have Four More Days to Enter Big Tournament. What! Only a thousand bowlers in Indianapolis! There must be some mistake. And yet there are only an even thousand entered to date in The Indianapolis Times first annual singles bowling tournament. And—only four days remain, for the entry list closes March 18 at 9 a. m. sharp. If you plan to compete for a slice of the big merchandise and cash prize list, you will need to subdue that procrastination complex, clip the coupon on this page, and send it to Webb Wallace at the Indiana alleys or The Times bowling editor. Dollar Entry Fee The entry fee is sl, which includes payment for the three tourney games, but that isn’t payable until you roll. Forty cents of each entry fee goes in the jackpot that will be split into prizes. The prize list also will include an array of merchandise gifts, donated by Indianapolis merchants. The classification feature of the oourney makes it possible for every maple tumbler—good, bad or indifferent—to hope for the breaks that might send him to the top of his class. Starts March 22 The battle opens March on the Indiana alleys, in the Indiana Theater building. Be sure you make arrangements to be among those present, for no entries will be accepted after Monday. Here are the classifications: Men—AA, 185 and up; A. 175-184; B. 165-174; C. 155-164: D. 145-154; E. 135-144: novice, 134 and under. Women—AA. 155 and up; A, 145154; B, 135-144; C. 125-134; D. 115124; E, 105-114; novice, 104 and under. Dentists in Session TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. March 14. —A two-day session of the Western Indiana Dental Society will close here late this afternoon. A banquet was held Wednesday night.

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