Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1929 — Page 1

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TIMES LAUNCHES DRIVE TO REDUCE SHOCKING TOLL OF LIVES IN MOTOR ACCIDENTS Golden Rule Safety Club Will Help to Protect Children of County From Death Under Auto Wheels. FILM WILL BE SHOWN AT PALACE Theater Co-operates in Mercy Campaign; 554 Killed Here in Last Five Years by Machines. "The funeral will be bekl at, 10 o'clock.” I re hundred fifty-four times during the last five years, reporters of The Indianapolis Times have written that line. •Sometimes the liour has been different but never the sense of the sentence. Five hundred fifty-four lives snuffed out in Indianapolis in . Marion count; during the last Mxty months as a result of it ' 1 and highway motor accident:—men. women and little children paying the penalty. And every time the reporters write that line the mind's cy. pictures the hurried grinding of brakes, the dull thud, and another life claimed.

/mother life claimed. Five hundred fifty-four lives. •<f which 103 were mioors, children ra Hiring in ag<* from those just beginning to ■walk to those about to begin upon the path of life's work. The other 451 were fathers and mothers. Thousands Are Hurt More than 15,000 persons weia mmred in automobile accidents in Marion county during the last sixty months—forced to lie on beds of pain, to lose time from work, to see their children go without food, and hear the plaintive cries for nour- j ishment at and to be forced to appeal j to aid societies for relief. HOW LONG MUST THIS CONTINUE? Is there not something that we j can do to prevent these tragedies,; or at least reduce the number? i The Indianapolis Times believes that such a high rate of mortalities and injuries can be halted. At considerable expense The Indianapolis Times with the co-opera-tion of Loeu’s Palace theater, has devised a special campaign—NOT for a year. NOT for a day. but for .ALL. TIME —which we believe will save many lives in Marion county tins vear—perhaps YOUR OWN life or the life of SOMEONE DEAR TO YOU. Join the Golden Rule Club Wc propose a Golden Rule Safety Club- a club without dues, expenses, officers or rules, whose members will, as motorists, take the wholesome pledge to ‘ drive as you would have others drive,” and as pedestrians to “cross streets as you would want others to cross if you were driving.” We have no hope that every motorist in Marion county will sign up—there are and always will be human beings behind the wheels of motor cars to whom this noble precept of human conduct—the Golden Rule, means little. They are the ruthless, reckless. “What-do-I-care minority element among motor car drivers that, only stem judges and stiff court penalties will curb. But there are 105,678 motor cars and trucks registered in Marion county and the inexorable law" of averages sets aside a ghastly quota each wear of drivers and pedestrians and children who through their own negligence, or mi the other hand, no"negligence of theirs at all, will fall victims to traffic. l ives Can Be Saved This grim “harvest” of human life gees on from year to year. Many of the motorists involved will be worthy, law-abiding citizens. There is. however, a wav to lessen this “quota" of lives that annually is sacrificed, not by added laws and regulation, but by providing motorists and pedestrians with a relatively “new" viewpoint of the problems: namely, the mental angle of viewing it in the light of the Golden Rule. Even if but 15 or 20 per cent of the motorists registered in Marion county ' sign up" as members of the Golden Rule Safety Club, we can icel reasonably certain that these Golden Rule drivers will exert a powerful influence upon the others by ‘he simple but direct means of teaching others safety by their example!

Locw's Palace Helps The Indianapolis Times Is arranging. with the co-operation of the LoeWs Palace theater management. a way to present the traffic accident problem to the individual—to you and to your neighbor. A feature of this crusade to make the streets safer for all will be a film visualization of the whole problem of traffic accident responsibility. m what may be termed a ■•visual editoria'.’’ The Indianapolis Tunes and the Palace theater have had made a pecial motion picture, a t'vo-reel feature movie. It is not a grew--ome picturizatlon of accident horror*, but a picture full of heart interest, tense situations and ideas that cannot fail to enlist your sympathy in this great movement to clear the blot that stands against

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Indianapolis’ traffic accident record. It is literally an “editorial-in-film ' —the projection machine and the silver screen taking the place of the linotype and whirling press in the telling of it. This undertaking is based upon wholly unselfish motives. Duty to Public This newspaper feels that it owes a responsibility to its readers and the public. It desires to fulfill that responsibility in every way. And w r e have selected as one of the major projects of community advance this year, the project of assisting to make our streets and highways safer for the motorists, the pedestrians, and school children. The idea back of it is not complicated, It is simply this: In the interest of humanity will you not pledge yourself as a driver or pedestrian to drive a bit more carefully than you ever have driven before, or to use more caution and care in crossing the streets, during the next twelve months? Will YOU not “do unto the other motorist and pedestrian as you would have him do unto you?” (Copyright. 1929. The Indianapolis Times) And will you clip out the pledge card to this effect, printed in this edition on Page 5 and send it to The Indianapolis Times, give it to a policeman, or a Boy Scout or a Girl Scout. I To make It easier for you to sign and deliver this pledge, the Boy Scout will be in uniform. If you are unable to give it to a policeman, give it to one,of the thousand boys and girls of the city who are pledged to safety.

FEAR 112 DIE IN SEA Japanese Ship Carrying 209 Sinks in Arctic. Bv United Press TOKTO, April 23.—1 t was feared today that 112 persons had been lost when the steamer Toyokuni Maru. carrying 209 persons foundered in the Arctic sea off Kamchatka on Monday. HOOSIER RESIGNS POST Frank Thiel Quits as Assistant Treasurer of United States. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. April 23.—Prank J. Thiel, assistant treasurer of the United States, announced today he had submitted his resignation to Secretary Andrew Mellon to take effect April 30. Thiel said he would become resident partner In Washington of the New' York Stock Exchange firm of M. J. Meehan Cos. His home is in Ft. Wayne. Ind.

U. S. ARMS PLEA FOUGHT BY HOUSE NAVAL CHIEF

Bv Pui/ccf Pr^si WASHINGTON. April 23.—Chairman Fred Albert Britten of the house naval affairs committee, in a statement issued today, characterized Ambassador Gibson's restatement of the American naval position at Geneva as "a complete surrender of the basic principles of agreement proposed by our delegates to the last Geneva conference and at the same time another naval victory for British diplomacy.'’ Congress never again will give its approval to a treaty which is manifestly unfair to the United Spates or which places the American navy in a secondary position. Britten said. British statesmen have persistently refused to agree to any plans whereby we might build the type of cruisers best adapted to American usage.’’ the statement said. "When we propose limitation by categories we are preparing the way for another disastrous conference

Officials Help Times Safety Drive

SENATE HEARS KLAN PRAISED Heflin Tells Colleagues He Loves Organization, Bv United Press WASHINGTON. April 23.—The Ku-Klux Klan was praised and some of its literature read in the senate for the first time today by Senator Heflin of Alabama, resuming his attacks upon the Catholics. “I have always loved the memory of the name Ku-Klux Klan.” said Heflin. “My father was the leader of the klan in Alabama and in reconstruction days when it saved the wives and widow sos Confederate veterans." The Alabama senator said lie had often admonished the klan to “cut out the rough stuff.” “I told them to wqed out the lawless element,” he added. “I told them they had a big work to do.” He read a declaration of kian principles and asked senators if they could find any objection. Heflin was demanding action on his resolution to have the senate condemn the alleged assault made upon him in Brockton. Mass., when a policeman guarding him was said to have been hit in the head with a bottle intended for Heflin.

JERITZA ACTS TOO HARD Injures Ann in Dramatic Moment in “Cavalleria Rusticana.” Bv United Press VIENNA, April 23.—Madame Maria Jeritza. famous soprano, overdid one of her dramatic moments while singing “Cavalleria Rusticana" Monday night and bruised her left arm, but was able to continue the performance without interruption. No one in the audience noticed the incident cr was aware she had hurt herself. KILLS WIFE AND SELF Crazed Butcher Slashes Daughter Who Tries to Ltefend Mother. Bv UniUd Press CHICAGO. April 23.—A 60-year-old butcher, believed to have been temporarily deranged, killed his wife with a butcher knif. stabbed his daughter and then committed suicide by slashing his throat today. The butcher. William Shannon, attacked his wife and daughter while they selpt. Mrs. Shannon was stabbed five times. Elmore, 18, was stabbed twice when she sought to defend her mother.

| which may easily be more serious to our national defense than the Washington agreement has turned out to be." “Any proposal which fails to give serious military value to the many British naval bases scattered around the world is unfair to other leading powers who do not enjoy these valuable facilities. "If Ambassador Gibson is proposing to establish the navy's value only of fighting ships and is ignoring the great military value of big. fast merchant ships capable of manning six-inch guns, he is overlooking an American opportunity and playing into the hands of shrewd old-world diplomats to the tremendous disadvantage of his own ■ country.” “If our navy can not at least be the equal of any other by written ! agreement, then we must become the first naval power on earth by right of our world position in commerce, industry, wealth and man power,” Written said.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 23. 1929

Officials of state ana city today signed membership cards in The Indianapolis Times Golden Rule Safety Club and voiced emphatic approval of the "all time” safety campaign. Smiling happily at the opportunity to aid in sarin? !i"es. Governor Harry G. Leslie. Secretary of State Otto .’’’ifield and Mayor L. Ert Slack are shown, left to right, as they signed the pledges. Below, Police Chief Claude E. Worley is giving instructions to Captain Lester Jones, traffic chief, that all police are to eo-opefate in the safety campaign.

WAR CHIEF VOICES WORLD PEACE PLEA

U. S. Is Prepared to Defend National Honor. Hurley Tells Reserve Men. “There is nothing in our, preparation for defense that is in conflict with our efforts for world peace, “declared Colonel Patrick J. Hurley, assistant secretary of war, addressing the national convention of reserve officers here this morning. "We hope that the golden rule eventually will be accepted as the fundamental principle of arbitration between nations.” Colonel Hurley stressed the necessity of interesting the young men of the nation in the reserve officer movement. He pointed out that young men now ? are being trained in 225 universities. “The United States in preparedness merely is taking precaution to defend national honor. There are no imperialistic designs. The people of this country desire to live on terms of peace and amity with all the world,” Colonel Hurley continued. Prepared for Defense “it is evident that that situation does not exist today. The United States remains prepared to defend itself until war is outlawed, “The purpose of all government is to eliminate poverty, to promote education, prosperity, and happiness among the citizens. Measured by these standards, the United States is the most successful government in the world. “Our system of national defense is designed to insure the continued happiness and progress of our people. and is not intended to transgress in any manner the rights of others.” Erie. Pa., has been selected tentatively for the 1930 meeting. Definite* announcement will be made this afternoon. Other addresses this morning were given by Major-General Dennis E. Nolan, commanding-general Fifth Corps area; Colonel David L. Stone, executive officer. Reserve Officers W. D.; and Colonel Charles , B. Robbins, assistant secretary" of war under President Coolidge. Army Leaders to Speak Speakers this afternoon were to be Major-General Frank Parker, commanding general Sixth Corps Area: Brigadier-General George H. Jamerson. ana Colonel A. J. Dougherty. chief of staff. Eighty-fourth division. Officers were to be elected this afternoon. Outstanding in the race for presidency is Colonel Walter C. Cole. Detroit, to succeed BrigadierGeneral Roy Hoffman, Oklahoma City. Featuring tonight’s session is the annual ball at 8:30 at the Elks Club.

‘Light' Liquor Bn United Pres CHICAGO April 23.—Two detectives, after searching a flat five hours for liquor, turned on a gas jet for more light to continue their hunt. Instead of light, the jet spouted alcohol. The pipe ran to a fifty-gallon barrel of alcohol in the attic.

‘LONELY' GIRL DIES Body Unclaimed, Doomed to ’Potter's Field,’ The unclaimed body of Miss Basil Wolfe. 19. lay in city morgue today while police searched for relatives to spare its burial in the "potter’s field.” 111, out of work and friendless the girl swallowed poison April 10 and died Monday in city hospital. While physicians fought to save her life, she gave no encouragement and expressed no regret for lYer suicide attempt. Coming as a stranger, the girl, took rooms early this month at 322 East North street for five days. She was employed three days at a drug store, but left because of ill health. Appearing ill at the store April 10, she told a girl employe she had taken poison and was taken to the hospital. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 47 10 a. m.... 60 7 a. m.... 49 11 a. m.... 61 Ba. m.... 54 12 (noon).. 62 9 a. m.... 57 1 p. m.... 64

STATE ATTACKS MIND EXPERT WHO TESTIFIED FOR HILL GIRL

Attacking the intelligence of a psychologist who testified that Daisy Sullivan, 16. of Bloomfield, had the mentality of a 12-year-old child, state attorneys today sought to tear down this testimony in order to keep Daisy behind the bars of the Indiana woman's prison n a charge of forging a $2.80 check. Questioning Dr. ~ Herman H. Young, head of psychological clinic at Indiana university, the state sought to take the sting from Young's testimony for the defense in the Greene county circuit court hearing on a plea for anew trial. But Dr. Young replied to many of the questions with sarcasm. Asked L' the World war,was over, he said, “I heard it was."

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WORK-WORN MOTHER FACES JAZZ-GIN TRIAL Jury of Twelve Prominent Women Surprised on Seeing Defendant. YOUTH PROBLEM ISSUE Whole Question of Wildness Up in Truancy Case: Delay Won.

BY JAMES K. MARTINDALE United Press Staff Correspondent. CHICAGO. April 23.—Aided by a jury of twelve prominent women whose presence attracted a court room full of flappers, scrub women, gold coast society matrons and a few curious fathers, Municipal .Judge Alfred O. Erickson today undertook to solve the “gin. jazz and girl" problems of modern youth. Who is 'to blame for the institution of the "school kids’ gin .party?” Whose fault is it that boys and girls of grammar and.high school age are careening down the road to ruin in a sport model with one lax hand on the steering wheel and the other grasping a silver flask? Tho.sc were the questions that the square-jawed jurist with the blackribboned nose glasses hoped to find answers to as he summoned an unofficial jury composed of society women and prominent Chicago social workers to pass upon the guilt or innocense of Mrs. Jane Liston, who was charged with contributing to the truancy of her 15-year-old daughter. Coletta. Educators Are Vroused Coletta attended the grammar school gilt party two weeks ago in Which George Lux was killed. It was her story of the mad goings on of the young people that aroused educators. authorities and parents of Chicago to begin an intensive study of the so-called "youth problem.” After the handsomely dressed jury had assembled in the jury box. Mrs. Liston was brought in to defend herself against the charges that she had aided her daughter in escaping attendance at school. A long way from the “jazz mother" was Mrs. Liston. Her knuckles bore the evidence of hard work, wisps of her hair orotrued from beneath her plain blue

felt hat. The jury seemed surprised. They had been looking for one of those parents who are so involved in their own gin parties that they have no time to keep their children in the narrow path of obedience. “Indifferent, parents" were to be made an example of by Judge Erickson. who agreed with the educators who sat upon the Lux inquest jury that here lay the real seat of the trouble. Mrs. Liston looked frightened. Her husband, a laboring man. stood in the rear of the room crowded with social workers and curious parents who had turned out for the widely hearalded “test case.” He took no part in the proceedings. Continuance Is Granted Girl Young Coletta did not. appear. Her mother, however, was accompanied by an attorney who spoke to Judge Erickson. After surveying the notables in the unofficial jury. “Your honor.” said the attorney. There are several phases of this case that I would like more time to investigate. I would like to have a continuance of one week.” Judge Erickson frowned but granted the continuance. Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCullough. prominent attorney, appealed to the judge against the photographers who were edging closer to the jury box. ShOjwas allowed to leave before the booming of flashlights began. Thus ended the first round in the city's attempt to soh'e the “gin. jazz and girl" problem. Attaches of the court, which hears scores of truancy cases every month, were Inclined to see nothing unusual in the case of Mrs. Liston and her girl, Coletta. Suit Asks SIO,OOO Damages B’t Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. April 23. Damages of SIO,OOO are asked of Elmer Blue, Putnam county road superintendent, and others in a suit brought for Mildred Hoffmeister, 14, R-oachdate, for injuries received when an auto in which she was riding collided with a state road truck north of here.

Dr. Young testified that he asked Daisy, "When he gave her an intelligence test, what Is “justice" and that she replied “to do good to somebody.” •Well, what is justice, doctor?" asked William Vosloh, special state counsel. “Justice is fairness to an individual." the doctor retorted. Judge Thomas Van Buskirk interrupted by quoting a few lines from Shakespeare and asked: "What play is that from?” “I don't remember. I’ve read Shakespeare but I can’t recall those lines,” Dr. Young answered. He asserted when asked what his legal rights as a citizen were. “I would know enough to ask some

Girl Flier in Effort to Set New Air Mark

Elinor Smith Former Holder of Record Seeks to Surpass 22 Hours in Air. Bv 1 nitfi Pn ..■ ROOSEVELT FIELD. N. V.. April 23.—Miss Elinor Smith started in her Bellanca monoplane at 11:40:44 a. m. today in anew attempt to break the endurance flight record for women. The present record. 22 hours, 3 minutes. 12 seconds, was set by Mrs. Louise McPhetridge of Los Angles, Cal. Miss Smith’s last endurance flight, which her the so-called "woman’s endurance record" for a brief period, was made last January and was 13:16:45.

QUIZZES BISHOP ON WET LINER ‘Why Not Try Dry Vessel?’ Asks La Guardia. Bit United Pn ss WASHINGTON. April 23.—Representative F. H. Laguardia (Rep. N. Y.). a wet leader in the house, today sent a radiogram to bishop James Cannon, one of America's foremost dry exponents, inquiry why he was traveling on the British steamer Olympic, which sells liquor. The message follows: “Desire information for my files why 3'cu took passage. British rumscaked ship instead of American ship. “Several first class American bone-dry ships were available to you. If it is wrong for other Americans to patronize rum selling ships how do you justify your action? “Do you really practice what you preach? I crave information.” Laguardia characterized Bishop Cannon's sailing from abrod on the Olympic as “a beautiful example of the hypocrisy of prohibition." “Bishop Cannon has been talking himself blue in the face on prohibition and urging Americans to give no support directly or indirectly to the rum industry.” he said. “He is now on board one of the greatest rum selling floating hostelries in the world."

JAIL WIFE IN KILLING Murder of Husband Probed: Roomer Held. Bn 7 aHed pr< ss BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. April 23. Mrs. Beverly Wharton was held here today in connection with the murder of her husband April 15. According to her story, a Negro invaded their home, beat her husband to death while he slept and attacked her. Police refused to divulge the nature of their evidence, if any, against her. A. R. Hall, a roomer at the Wharton home, who gave the alarm after the alleged murderer had escaped, was still held in jail, under the coroner's orders. WHITE JOINS COMBINE Producer of “Scandals” Will Be in Big “Talkie" Trust. By United Press NEW YORK. April 23.—A $20,000,000 sound picture combine made up of Arthur Hammerstein, the Radio Corporation of America, and a group of legitimate producers also will include George White, producer of the “Scandals,” it was announced here today.

lawyer as to my rights, and that's more than Daisy knew.” Questioned as to what he would do with the hill child if she v:ere free, he said: “I'd put her in a good home and re-educate her morally, as well as in an academic way.” Judge Van Buskirk. the jurist who sentenced Daisy, admitted the testimony over the state's objectin. Asked if Daisy could tell the difference between right and wrong. Dr. Young said, “She could as far as she had been instructed in right and wTong, but I don’t believe she has been instructed about right and wrong.” ~The state Insisted that Dr. Young explain in detail the intelligence tests given the girl.

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HOOVERGETS SENATE SLAPS | ON 2 ISSUES Disputes on Farm Aid and Immigration Launched on Floor. AIDS ARE CONFIDENT Administration Leaders Are Certain Debenture Plan to Be Killed. BY PAUL R. MALL ON United Prrs Staff Correspondent, WASHINGTON. April 23.—Strong disputes between President Hoover ! and his new senate officially were ; inaugurated today over farm relief and immigration—the first tw6 problems to come up in the special | session. Chairman Charles McNary of tlj* senate agriculture committee todayj introduced the 8-to-6 majority repprt. of his committee recommencing adoption of the debenture plan of farm relief which Hoover opposed. Earlier in the day the senate Immigration committee had voted 4 to 2 to postpone indefinitely the repeal or suspension of the national origins provision of the immigration act which was recommended by Hoover. Administration leaders are confident they can kill the debenture plan by a vote of the senate and they hope to repudiate the immigration committee by bringing | a demand for a full vote on the immigration issue to the floor of the senate. House Less Hasty The house, being less hasty to cross the chief executive, plodded along with general debate on the administration plan which does not include the debenture provision. General debate was to close tonight so voting on amendment could begin Wednesday. Hoover's light against the debenture plan will be led in the senate by one of the initial framers of the discarded equalization fee plan and a strong opponent of the Republican presidential nomination. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, new Republican floor leader.

Watson announced today he would move at the first, available opportunity the debenture clause be stricken from the administration farm relief bill. Ordinarily such a motion would be made by Chairman McNary, but Watson decided to make it so as to promote the idea of letting bygones be bygones in the new Hoover harmony program. Says Air Is Cleared “President Hoover has cleared the air around the farm bill.” Watson said in a formal statement prior to his announcement. “Under his able leadership, congress quickly will enact a farm relief bill, based upon the principles expounded in the Re* publican platform. “Personally T feel the time hag come when friends of the farmer must abandon losing battles, or the farmer never will receive any legislative relief.” Democrats have started digging up Watson’s speeches last spring in favor of the equalization fee anti against Hoover for use in debate. TWO DIE IN POISON PACT! Couple, Missing In Rented AnWj End Own Lives. Du United Press COLORADO SPRINGS. Cola* April 23. —Allan Carey, 28. of Grand Rapids, Mich., a resident of tho Union Printers’ Home here, drove into an automobile rental agency to* day with the body of 'Ruth Davisl* 17. of Colorado Springs. He died in a few minutes, after telling attendants he and the girl had taken poison. Carey rented the car Sunday night and the pair had been missing since then. SOUSA WILL BROADCAST Signs Contract for Nine Band Concerts Over National Chain. Bu United Press NEW YORK, April 23.—John Philip Sousa and his band have contracted to give a series of nine concerts over the network of the National Broadcasting Company beginning May 6. The concert will be sponsored by General Motors. Sousa is to receive “more than $50,000’ for the nine concerts. DIRIGIBLE STARTS TRIP Graf Zeppelin Begins Second To ay of Mediterranean. 6ii United Press FRIEDERICHSHAFEN, Germany, April 23.—The dirigible Graf Zeppelin started on her second, tour of the Mediterranean at 1:32 p. m. today. Lineman Fatally Hurt Du United Pea , ELKHART. Ind.. April 23,-Com-ing in contact with a power line earning 2.300 volts while atop a telephone pole. Chester Richwine, employe of the Home Telephone Compaany, was hurled thirty feet to his death today. Besides being burned badly, Richwine received a fractured skulL He died cn route to af hospital.