Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1929 — Page 1

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Former Vice-President Has Been Serving Nation Last Seven Years. B" I nit ft I’s s*\ WASHINGTON. April in.— Uncle Sam has yet another little job for one of his prize handy men, Charles Q. Dawes. As soon as he can finish up his present financial mission to Santo Domingo, he will be sent to London as President Herbert Hoover's ambassador to the Court of St. James. Formal announcement of Dawes’ appoinment was made today at the White House. Dawes has been Uncle Sam's oddjob man for seven years. President Harding seleeted him early in his administration to be director of the budget. Late in 1923 he was selected by the reparations commission to work out the war indemnities tangle for financially prostrated Europe. Submitting the celebrated 40.000word Dawes plan report on April 8. 1924. he was nominated by the Republican national convention two months later for the Vice-Presi-dency with Calvin Coolidge. Immediately upon completing this term last month, he was asked by the government of Santo Domingo to assist in reorganizing national finances. The job. just getting under way. will require about five weeks. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton at London plans to sail for the United States April 27.

AUTO MAY GIVE CLEW IN DIERDORF SLAYING Car Held at Sullivan Seen Near Where Body was Found. H i I Pn xs SULLIVAN. Ind.. April 10.—A large touring type automobile, held by local authorities, may be a clew to the slayer of 10-year-ola Edith Mae Dierdorf. West Terre Haute news girl, whose body was found In Busseron creek after being missing since Jan. 27. it was said here today. The automobile was identified as one seen in the vicinity of the bridge the day Edith Mae disappeared. Police said every effort would be made to trace the owner of the machine. Funeral services attended by approximately 1.000 persons were held for the little girl Tuesday. Nimrod Slavens. Pleasantville school principal, who discovered the body, will be awarded a SI,OOO reward Thursday night.

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WITNESSES ASK NEW BUS LINE Call East Tenth Feeder Service Terrible. Five witnesses testified that they would be greatly benefitted by through bus service on East Tenth street at the hearing on petition f:>r such service before the public service commission today. The entire morning was devoted to witnesses favoring the abolition of the East Tenth street feeder bus and establishment of the through service to the Circle. Protesting witnesses, backed by the Sherman-Emerson Civic League, were scheduled to testify later. Their contention is that through bus service will increase the fare. They now ride the feeder and East Tenth street street car for a car check. Through bus service would be 10 cents. The petition is being backed by the Indianapolis Street Car Company. which contends the feeder bus service cost $27,000 last year and brought in little more than $12,000. The witnesses testified that the feeder bus service was terrible.

PICK CHARITIES HEAD David C. Liggett to Succeed Borst May 1. David C. Liggett, eight years director of the Louisville, Ky„ Community Chest, will succeed Homser W. Borst as executive secretary of the Indianapolis Community Fund May. 1. Liggett accepted the post at a meeting of community fund directors late Monday. Borst has been secretary of the fund since February. 1922. ile has resigned to become associate director of the Association of Community Chests and Councils in New York.

EAST IN SNOW GRIP Shipping on Hudson Halted: Mercury Drops. Bn 1 Hill'd Pro* NEW YORK. April 10.—Snowstorms and below freezing temperatures came to the east today, just forty-eight hours after near 90 temperatures were recorded and heat prostrations had been reported. Shipping on the Hudson river was halted in central New York state by a blinding snow storm and a heavy mist. The temperatures there had dropped from 58 degrees to below 30 degrees in a few hours. New York City had slight snowflurries. Clubs in Contest Bn Timr* Svecinl MARION. Ind., April 10.—Twenty Grant county home economics clubs will compete in a garden contest in which owners of the five best gardens in the county will be awarded premiums. Ministers Meet Bn Timr * Bin-cinl MARION. Ind.. April 10.—The Indiana District Ministerial Confer- | ence is meeting at the Marion Pil- ■ grim Tabernacle church. Session: will close Thursday.

KLAN-COFFIN CLIQUE GRIPS SCHOOL REINS Walsman, Business Head of System, Is Ousted at Board Meeting. POST GIVEN C. C. YORK Taxpayers Shooed Out of Room: Secret Session Is Held. Albert F. Walsman, business director, was removed at a secret session of the school board Tuesday night, and the framework of the organization with which George W T Coffin, Republican city boss, may rule the city schol system today was set up. Charles C. York, Coffin sympathizer. was elected business director to replace Walsman, last high school official opposing the new majority faction of the board. Tire majority faction is reported to have had several meeting with Coffin and other evidences point to a reported deal whereby in return for patronage Coffin will aid the majority board members to reelection this fall or to name their own successors continuing in their dynasty. The majority faction, Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, Fred Kepner and Lewis Whiteman, rode over Charles W. Kern, board pi-esident, and Theodore Vonnegut, comprising the minority faction, in every move Tuesday night. It was the protest of the minority that the majority shooed newspaper men and fifty taxpayers from the room while they held the annual elections. Victory for Klanwoman Ouster of Walsman did not come as a surprise, because Walsman had been allied with Kern and Vonnegut and has opposed the ardent KuKlux Klan partisanship of Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, majority leader. The selection of York, however, was a distinct surprise, because the latter has not figured prominently in political affairs. York was secretary of the state board of pardons when the board was abolished by the 1027 legislature. He acted as an unofficial messenger for Ed Jackson during the latter part of Jackson’s term as Governor. For many years York was associated with the Indianapolis CandyCompany. He sprang into political prominence when he became a paid lecturer for the Ku-Klux Klan. Steam Roller Works The minority protested against paying an inexperienced man the $6, b00 a year that Walsman was receiving, but the majority ruled. In retaliation, the minority opposed the re-election of Charles F. Miller as superintendent of schools. They nominated Donald Du Shane, superintendent of Columbus, Ind., schools, editor of the Hoosier Teacher and former president of the State Teachers’ Association. The majority rode high again and increased Miller’s salary from $9,000 to SIO,OOO a year. “In the first place.” Kern said, “I do not believe the position warrants the increase and in the second place the man holding the position warrants no increase.” The minority fought the retention of Carl W. Eurton as superintendent of building and grounds and proposed in his stead C. C. Pierson, Indianapolis contractor. But Eurton retained the $5,000 job. Dickerson Keeps Job The minority did not oppose retention of Luther L. Dickerson as city librarian nor the increase in his annual salary from $6,500 to $7,000; nor retention of Frank L. Reissner as secretary of the board. Walsman, who vacated his office today, said only: “I stood in the light of the klan.” Mrs. Sedwick would not tell on whose recommendation the selection of York was made. “We do not need any petition recommending a candidate,” she said. For more than two hours the board stalled along on routine business. discussed in a monotone, while fifty spectators were gathered in the board room. During this discussion the board adopted a resolution ordering that plans and specifications for the new Irvington high school be prepared, so that they provided for the D-I system of ventilation sold by C. C. Shipp. Mrs. Sedwick then proposed that the board go into executive session. Kepner seconded the motion, but Kern protested. “The doings of the board of school commissioners are public matters and only under urgent necessity need it get behind closed doors,” he said. Mrs. Sedwick then appealed to Reissner as secretary of the board and Reissner said that: “The board may go into executive session whenever it deems proper.” Walsman is staying on the job ! until Monday to help familiarize York with the work. I 1 Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 42 10 a. m.... 46 7 a. m.... 42 11 a. m.... 47 8 a. m.... 44 12 (neon).. 48 9a. m...< 44 Ip. m.... 48

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1929

Badly Beaten

Miss Janice Moore, 15, who was brutally beaten this morning by a roughly dressed man at the state fairground.

FIND HEIRESS, DONE MONTHS Runaway Boston Girl Located in Florida. Bu United Press BOSTON, April 10.—Miss Rosamond Morse, 17, missing since Jan. 4, has been located in Miami, Fla., according to an announcement today by her father, Edward W. Morse, Boston banker. A picturfe of Miss Morse, published in a Miami newspaper, resulted in the finding of the girl. Miss Morse, accompanied by z, detective, was reported to have left Miami this morning for Boston. Morse told newspaper men today that he talked with his daughter over long distance telephone and that she assured him she was anxious to come home. Miss Morse told her father that she had gone to Miami by easy stage!. Her parents had feared she had gone abroad.

The Air Show Lowell Nussbaum, Times aviation editor, who flew to Detroit for the air show this week, writes entertainingly c the latest in aviation, on Page one, Section two, today. More than 100 planes are being shown and some of the greatest figures in the sky realm are attending. Watch for his story tomo tow, giving more details of this great exposition.

COOLIDGE IN FIRM Nominated as Director of New York Life: Accepts. Bp United Press NEW YORK, April 10.—Calvin Coolidge today accepted nomination as a member of the board of directors of the New York Life Insurance Company to succeed the late Ambassador Myron T. Herrick. It is the first official connection outside of writing, that the former President has made since his retirement from office March 4. He is the second former President to be on the board, Grover Cleveland having served from 1905 until his death in 1908. Mr. Coolidge will be elected at the May meeting of the board.

DRUNKS WOULD ‘RA’R UP’ AND TEXAS QUIETED ’EM, TESTIFIES DRY SLEUTH

One of ‘Little Girls' in Court to Give Miss Guinan ‘Big Hand.’ Bjt United Press NEW YORK, April 10.—Texas Guinan, refreshed after a workless' night during which she did not once hail a “sucker” or plead with her public to “give the little girl a great big hand” today attended the second day of her trial in federal court here on the government's charge of conducting a public nuisance. Kitty O’Reilly, one of the Guinan “little girls.” ran Tex’s show for her Tuesday night and entered court today to return the favor and “give | the boss a great big hand,” as a witness when the time comes. James L. White, dry agent, had denied Tuesday under cross examination that he tried to “make a date” with Kitty one night when his wife was not accompanying him in his sleuthing. Jewels Dazzles Jurors Tex vied with her own jewels in the business of dazzling the jury of twelve elderly business men who had never before been treated to a sight of Broadway’s queen. She had supplanted the tight little black hat of Tuesday with a broad velvet one and the tan dress of Tuesday had been discarded for one of black iace and chiffon elaborately flowered in yellow. S. David Beazell of Kansas Cityf i who was one of Mabel Walker Willebrandt's “four horsemen” along with

SLUGS GIRL ON WAY TO HIGH SCHOOL Shortridge Student Beaten Brutally While Waiting for Street Car. PULLED INTO AUTO Blow of Roughly-Dressed Man Knocks Down Child at Fairground. A 15-year-old Shortridge high school girl was brutally beaten by a roughly dressed man while she waited for a street ear at 8:15 this morning in the most outrageous of the long series of attacks on north side children. The child, Janice Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Moore, who live in the state fairground, was at home under the care of a physician, with one eye swelled shut and cuts and bruises on her body. She also suffered from the nervous strain of the brutal treatment she received. Miss Moore was waiting in the fairground shed for a car to take her to school. Her father is one of the fairground caretakers. Knocked Down; Struck Again The roughly dressed man, about 35 years old, stopped his blue Chevrolet coupe in one of the fairground side roads near the car shed, jumped out and walked rapidly over to the girl. Without a word the man seized her by the throat with both hands. The girl attempted to strike him with her umbrella. He struck her a stinging blow with his fist, knocking her to the ground. “I thought I would act like I was dead so he wouldn’t hit me again,” the girl said. But the man doubled up his fist, stopped over and struck the girl another blqw on the head. She told police the' man kicked her several times. She screamed, but she was toe far away from men working in the fairground to hear her. The man picked her up off the ground and dragged her as she ineffectually kicked and struck at him, to the car, about twenty feet away. The only words he spoke throughout the attack, were “get into the car,” barked hoarsely at this time. Girl Badly Bruised The girl continued to resist and the man pushed her into the car. As the inan was climbing in the girl leaped out the other side of the car and started running toward her home. The man fled in the car. The tracks show that he narrowly missed a tree in his speed and cut across the law to reach the main fairground boulevard. The girl’s parents summoned police as soon as she reached home, almost exhausted, and gasped out her story. The terrible bruises on her face and body were proof of the attack. Police squads cruised about the north side for some time without getting a trace of the man. The girl described him as being about five feet, six inches in height, and dressed in blue trousers, dark cap and-'a brown sweater. Fairground attaches - n v they believe the man is one who has hung about the barns and race track for several days watching the horses work out.

White, was cross examined by Maxwell E. Lopin, Tex’s attorney. He proved more of a help than harm to Texas, inasmuch as he said that he knew of no liquor being seized in the raid on Tex’s Salon Royale. aside from that taken from guests’ tables. Quieted Down Guests A third dry agent, John J. Mitchell, who spoke with a decided Texas drawl and referred to the defendant as “Missus Guinan,” said his only visit to the Salon Royale, was the night of the raid, when he was there with White and White’s wife. Prosecutor Morrison asked Mitchell what Tex was doing at the Salon Royale the night he was there. “She was runnin’ around quietin’ drunks most o’ the time,” Mitchell replied. “Every once in a while one would r’ar up and she’d quiet ’im down.” MANSION TO BE RAZED Jordan House Will Give Way to Auto Salesroom. Razing of the Arthur Jordan house, Fourteenth and Meridian streets, will begin this week to permit the erection of a building for automobile sales and display rooms. The house was built in 1880 by Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Pierce. The house had one of the first telephones installed in the city. Its last owner was Arthur Jordan. He gave it to Butler college.

MRS. GANN WINS; DIPLOMATS AGREE ON SOCIAL RATING

MjHBK 4 " Bjjfflpi;.., 111 l BY KENNETH G. CRAWFORD, K tM&jjjl I nitrd Press Stall Correspondent uw fey wW WASHINGTON, April 10.—The if, diplomatic corps agreed today to / jp üBHI give Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, Y / M ' sister of Vice-President Curtis, the ‘/i > ~ r rank of the Vice-President’s wife in ** seating guests at diplomatic func- - ..v tions, according to one of those participating in an extraordinary meetmg of the corps at the British embassy today.

Mrs. Edward Everett Gann and her half-brother, Vice-President Charles Curtis, who has won his fight for full social recognition of his sister, his official hostess.

lOWA GOVERNOR FACES CHARGES Accused of Irregularities in Election. B.ii United Press DES MOINES, la., April 10.— Specific charges that Governor John Hammil violated election laws during his 1928 campaign were made on the floor of the house of representatives today by Representative Byron G. Allen. Allen was seeking support for a resolution which would enable the house election committee to investigate Hammil’s alleged irregularities. Among the charges Allen made were: That Governor Hammill did not report newspaper advertising and other expenditures; that he did not report all contributions to his expenditures; that he did no report all contributions to his campaign funds; that he used a state owned automobile for campaign tours; that state employes were assessed for campaign funds; that he coerced state employes and that he made threats against legislators. Allen named men who are said to have aided the Governor and said he had affidavits from state employes to back up his charges. The house went into executive session to discuss the allegations.

GOSSIP LEADS TO SUITS Woman Brings Slander Action for SB.OOO Against Two. Mrs. Cilia Mandael, 808 South Illinois street, charged in two slander suits filed in superior courts today that Mrs. Jennie Cohen, 3145 Central avenue, and Mrs. Sarah Warschosky, 818 South Illinois street, whispered arouhd that Mrs. Mandael’s grocery was “no good and the groceries not fit to eat.” Mrs. Mandael asks SB,OOO damages. HOLD EX-GOVERNOR Indict Former Florida Executive in Counterfeit Plot. Bn United Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 10.— Sidney J. Catts, former Governor of Florida and a Baptist minister, was under indictment today, charged with having aided in an alleged plot of counterfeiters. The war-time Governor, who also was a candidate in the last primary for the Democratic nomination, was alleged to have had an understanding with Julian Diaz, Tampa lawyer, now under arrest in connection with the alleged plot, by. which he w-ould receive $25,000 in counterfeit money in return for a $5,000 investment. Fire Damages Marmon Plant A fire in the enamel oven at the Nordyke-Marmon automobile factory, Nordyke avenue and Stock street, at noon today caused $250 damage. Over heating started the blaze, police said. A Jm

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Representatives of Foreign Powers Will Seat Her in Rank of Curtis’ Wife. BY KENNETH G. CRAWFORD, United Pross Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 10.—The diplomatic corps agreed today to give Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister of Vice-President Curtis, the rank of the Vice-President’s wife in seating guests at diplomatic functions, according to one of those participating in an extraordinary meeting of the corps at the British embassy today. The decision reached at today’s meeting was to be communicated to Henry L. Stimson, secretary of State, in a letter from the British ambassador, Sir Esme Howard, which expressed the pleasure which the diplomats feel on being able to accord Mrs. Gann, as the VicePresident’s hostess, the social precedence due to a wife of a VicePresident of the United States. Letter From Sir Esme Following the meeting, Sir Esme said all members of the corps wished to settle the matter in accord with the views of the state department. A letter addressed to Sir Esme by Secretary Stimson Tuesday was taken by the ambassador to mean that the decision today would be in all respects satisfactory to the secretary of state. Stimson refused to rule in the matter, leaving it up to the diplomatic corps. As to the effect of the diplomats’ ruling upon private social functions, the ambassador emphasized that the diplomatic corps does not intend to become the social arbiter for the rest of Washington. The decision reached today will stand, the British ambassador said, until some definite ruling on the matter can be obtained from a constituted American authority. Such a ruling would have to come from the state department, he added. Stimson Deplores Dispute Meantime Stimson today deplored the predicament in which the state department found itself as the accepted social secretary to Washington society hostesses in need of advice on questions of precedence. On investigation, Stimson said, he found the department gradually drawn in to what he described as a very undignified position. Vice-President Curtis beamed with pleasure, upon hearing of the diplomats’ stand, but refused to comment for publication. “Let the action speak for itself,” he said.

SET DUVALL CASE Arguments April 19 Before Appellate Court. State appellate court today set April 19, as the date for oral arguments upon the appeal of former Mayor John L. Duvall from his conviction in criminal court on a charge of violating the corrupt practices act. The appeal was transferred to appellate court from supreme court under the act of the 1929 legislature to relieve congestion in the highest state court. Duvall w'as sentenced to thirty days in jail and fined SI,OOO Sept. 23, 1927. and the case has been hanging in the higher court since a few weeks thereafter. BOY DIES IN CHICAGO Son of Dr. Morris Fishbein, Former Resident Here, Succumbs. Morris Fishbein Jr., 13, son of Dr. and Mrs. Morris Fishbein, formerly of Indianapolis, died at the family heme in Chicago Tuesday of Influenza and acute endocarditis, friends here were informed. The Fishbein’s moved to Chicago fifteen years ago. Dr. Fishbein is editor of the American Medical Journal. Beside the parents, two sisters, Barbara, 14, and Marjorie, 9, and one brother, Justin, 2, survive, funeral services will be held in Sago Thursday morning.

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LINDY LANDS IN U. S.; TAKES TO AIR AGAIN Reaches Brownsville After Being Unheard of for 18 Hours. SOME CONCERN FELT Left Mexico City at Noon Tuesday: Destination Still Secret. B.ii United Press BROWNSVILLE. Texas., April 10.—Unheard of for more than eighteen hours. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh landed hi? Curtis Falcon biplane at the municipal airport here at 9:35 a. m. today. Then declining to reveal where he had spent the night, Lindbergh left at 10:55 a. m. on a continuation of his flight from Mexico City to the east. He did not divulge his immediate destination. The flying colonel had left Mexico City Tuesday non, after spending a week with his fiancee. Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, daughter of the American ambassador. Some Worried From the time of his departure until he appeared at the airport here no word had been received of him and some concern was felt for his safety. Lindbergh left Mexico City without announcing his destination or route. Nevertheless, it was assumed he was flying to New York to greet the body of Ambassador Myron T. Herrick when it arrives from France next Friday or Saturday. Friends Confident When Lindbergh failed to arrive here Tuesday evening, as expected, inquiry was made all along the border without result. Friends of Lindbergh here, however, expressed no concern for his safety. They pointed out that he had often been similarly “missing” before, when he had not announced his plans. JURORS OBTAINED FOR JENKINS MURDER CASE Death Penalty Asked by State for Bedford Man. Bit United Press BLOOMFIELD. Ind., April 10.— After exhausting two venires of twenty men, a jury was obtained here today to try James W. Jenkins, 21, Bedford, for the murder of Zach Burton, 50, Mitchell grocer, during a robbery attempt in the latter’s store. Edward Massman, Lawrence county prosecuting attorney, in his opening statement asked the death penalty for Jenkfns. Harry Chess, Mitchell police chief, state’s witness, was to be placed on the stand first. A. J. Lee, Bedford police chief, and James Abel were also to testify. The state charges Jenkins and Lawrence Turpin, 19, who will be tried later, with shooting Burton to death. Tire trial was brought here on a change of venue from Bedford.

REPAIR OF STREETS REQUESTED BY MAYOR Resurfacing of For - Drives to Cost $150,000. Resurfacing of four additional streets by the board of works was requested today by Mayor L. Ert Slack. They are: East Riverside Drive from Eighteenth to Twenty-Eighth: Kentucky avenue from Harding to Belmont; Eleventh street from Capitol to Pennsylvania, and Roosevelt avenue from Lewis to Eighteenth. The cost will be about $150,000, the city bearing three-fourths and property owners the balance. The board of works adopted a resolution to widen Massachusetts avenue between Delaware and East streets from fifty to sixty-six feet. The cost will be about $26,000. Plans are under way to widen from Pennsylvania to Tenth. POLICE POST TO ELECT New American Legion Group Has Fifty Members. The newly organized police post of the American Legion will meet Monday to elect officers, it was announced today by B. W. Breedlove, seventh district commander. The first session was held last Monday with representatives of the difflerent shifts of the department and Legion officials. About fifty of the 175 eligible policemen have joined the post, Breedlove said.

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Weather conditions at 9:30 a. m. at Ipdianapolis airport: East wind, fourteen miles an hour: temperature, 45: barometric pressure 29.92 at sea level. Ceiling 1,000 feet; visibility three miles; field muddy, _ j

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