Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1929 — Page 9

Second Section

VICE-POLITICAL TIE-UP STILL IN SPOTLIGHT District Attorney’s Denial of Lake County Story Without Effect. PRESS REMAINS ACTIVE South Bend Paper Asserts It Kept Silent to Aid Government. Bn Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Aug. 14. — Reports that a sweeping investigation of an alleged link of vice and politics in Indiana's Calumet district will not down, despite declarations or United States District At*torney Oliver M. Loomis that only Lake county election law cases are being probed by federal agents. The South Bend News-Times, both in its news and editorial columns, continues to give the alleged gigantic plot much space. In a News-Times news story appears the following: “The News-Times for weeks has been in possession of information derived from other than official sources, bearing on the Lake county situation and the connection between organized law violation and politics and the apparent exemption of racketeers in the Lake county region from interference on the part of either local or federal officials. Sought to aid Probe. "Publication of the stories has been withheld solely in order to give governmental agencies an opportunity to sift the sensational charges to the bottom, but there have been several developments which give color to the belief that political pressure of the strongest kind has been brought to bear to prevent the investigation from achieving its ends. Expected action has been delayed until a Chicago newspaper which is understood to have obtained its information from official sources in Chicago published an article Saturday and sent it out over press association wires giving the general outlines of the secret inquiry. “If the inquiry is pushed to its logical conclusion—if it overcomes powerful political obstacles which have been placed in its way—it may be expected to involve a United States senator, some of the highest persons in the councils of the Republican party in Indiana and various law enforcement agencies, both federal and local.” Declares Agreement Kept . Editorially, the News-Times says In part: “A number of Indiana newspapers have known for sometime that federal ‘agents were collecting evidence in East Chicago, Hammond, Gary and other Indiana points in the Chicago district. In order to assist the government in what the newspapers hoped would be a clean cut effort to break the alliance between vice and politics in Lake county, the newspapers made a gentleman’s ' agreement with the district attorney’s office. They agreed not to publish the news of impending arrests: until the warrants were served and the accused men under arrest, nothing was to be said. “The story having broken unexpectedly in Chicago, there was no reason for further silence on the part of the Indiana papers that had been keeping faith with Loomis for the good of the cause. “Loomis can not say that the newspapers have not played square with him. A man who has had small experience in dealing with the press and who has shown little tact or wisdom in his newspaper contracts, he has had full co-opera-tion." SEEK TO DISANNEX NORTHEAST SECTION Civic League Strives to Secure Transportation for Children. Committees of the Northeast Civic League today planned to confer with city officials in an effort to disannex territory bounded by Thirty-eighth, Orchard, Sutherland and Eastern avenues. J. J. Swarm and Clovis English were appointed to confer with the Peoples Motor Coach Company in an effort to obtain extension of bus sendee to the neighborhood. Children of the locality must walk along Keystone avenue to Fortysixth street to a school and are exposed to many traffic hazards in crossing streets. President John C. Wilson declared. If the territory is disannexed the children would have benefit of transportation provided by the township. PAROLED YOUTH IS SLATED FOR SPEEDING Gene .Alger Charged With Reckless Driving bv Police. Gene Alger, 21, of 1129 North Alabama street, on parole from the Indiana state reformatory, where he sen’ed two years of a two-to-twenty-one-year sentence for the fatal shooting of a Negro policeman, today faced charged of reckless driving and speeding. He is at liberty on his own recognizance. The youth formerly was a Butler university student and was released on parole from the reformatory by Governor Harry G. Leslie the day before Mother’s day last May. The parole was regarded as a gift to Alger’s mother. Twenty-six others were arrested on traffic charges Tuesday.

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AWAIT ORDERS TO BOARD ZEP Huge Dirigible Ready to Leave for Tokio. Bit United Press FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Aug. 14.—Passengers and crew were ordered today to stand by and await a possible summons to board the dirigible Graf Zeppelin after midnight tonight for the second part of the journey around the world and for the longest non-stop flight ever attempted—Friedrichshafen to Tokio. The engines tuned up, her fuel tanks filled and everything else readjusted, there was little to be done to the huge ship today. The officers of the Graf spent most of their time perfecting the system of weather reports. According to latest information from Central Europe and portions of Siberia, the weather has improved considerably during the last twenty-four hours. Locally it was much farmer, which caused considerable annoyance to the officials of the line and to the officers of the ship, because the gas loses its lifting power when warm and the Zeppelin, with a record load, might be unable to rise. For a while Tuesday it was believed anew passenger had been added to the list of those going to Tokio—King Gustav of Sweden. A surprise visit of the king to Friedrichshafen momentarily threw the community into excitement and immediately the rumor began going the rounds that the royal visitor was to be among the passengers. The rumors. however, were promptly denied. It developed that the king was merely summering in the neighborhood ,at his wife’s castle on Lake Constance. NAVIES DISCUSSED Forecast New Step After Two-Hour Conference. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—A new step in the Anglo-American naval exchanges was forecast in informed official quarters today following a White House breakfast at which President Hoover discussed the negotiations with Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of Navy Adams and the executive committee of the navy general board. Details of the American “yardstick" for measuring relative naval strength were understood to have been the principal subject of the conference. White House officials made no statement after the two hour conference. Those who took part were reticent.

TWO BOYS KILLED IN INDIANA STORMS

Two boys were killed and heavy damage inflicted on crops and transmission by lightning and hail storms in Indiana within the last twentyfour hours. Edward Lowey, 10, and Jackson Robertson. 14 were instantly killed when. a bolt of lightning jumped from a wild cherry tree fifteen feet away, to a shack at Huntington. Fred Tuxworth. 15, suffered a burned arm as the bolt went through the doorway in which he was stand-

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Fad Is, Branded Dumb by Olive Palmer, Famous Radio Singer. Bj/ Times Special CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—That the passing fad of stockingless legs is not only unfashionable and unalluring, but extremely unintelligent, is the opinion of Olive Palmer, dainty coloratura soprano of the Palmolive hour, whose coast-to-coast radio admirers number millions each time she sings to the microphone. Not only is the Palmolive diva one of the most beautiful of radio stars, but she has the reputation of being the most tastefully dressed. Her gowns, her hosiery and her tiny high-heeled slippers are symphonies of fashion and her ankles are as shapely as those of any Ziegfeld star. “I am not surprised that sensible women in fashionable circles have refused to follow the ridiculous idea of discarding stockings,” she says. “Certainly there is no allure in bare legs and there can be no hint of feminine attraction in deliberate brazenness. “It is only natural for a woman to dress to be admired, and lovely stockings are an essential part of every blended costume. That is why smart sophisticated women the country over, women who know true style, have arched their eyebrows haughtily and frowned on the bare leg folly. Personally, I love silk stockings and it seems to me that they give a woman a certain chic which would be utterly Impossible were she to appear in street dress with bare legs. Under exclusive contract with the Palmolive hour, Olive Palmer is said to be the highest paid soprano on the air. Formerly a grand opera star, her personal wardrobe is one of the most extensive in New York.

SON BARRED FROM HOME BY FATHER

Judge Sends Second Order for Parent to Appear in Court. A second demand that he appear in court was served on Albert Spurgeon of 1524 West Washington street, today by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter, when Spurgeon failed to answer a subpena after his son John, 17, Tuesday told Wetter his father had barred him from his home. Wetter ordered a special delivery letter sent to Spurgeon today, and said if he did not appear Thursday morning that he should be brought into court by police. John Spurgeon was placed on probation after the court heard evidence in a petit larceny caso against him. The youth was charged with stealing a pair of horseshoes from

ing, and Dick Willis, 9, who stood near the death victims, was shocked. At Marion a barn burned after biing struck by lightning, a home was damaged, and crops in the surrounding territory were reported badly tom, especially com. Similar crop damage was reported from Wabash, Goshen and Green town. Muncie and Kokomo reported interruption of light and power service, and the latter was temporarily cut off from telephone communication, due to hail and lightning.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14, 1929

NEW CO-OP 1$ ‘SUSPECTED’ BY FAMREAU Former Federation Chief Heads $2,000,000 Move for Relief. DIRECTOR VOICES DOUBT Brown’s Activity Seen as Attempt to ‘Muddy the Waters/ Indiana Farm Bureau Federation officials today viewed with some suspicion and concern the announcement that John G. Brown of Monon, former federation president and a thorn in the side of the reigning farm bureau regime, is organizing a $2,000,000 farmer-owned cooperative corporation. William H. Settle, present farm bureau president, is chairman of the organizing committee of the $20,000,000 Farmers’ National Grain Corporation, set afoot at Chicago three weeks ago to co-operate with the federal farm board in availing farmers of relief under the new federal farm bill. As director of the agricultural department of the Republican state campaign organization last fall, Brown lent hearty support to Hoover, who had the farm bureau’s disfavor because of its dissatisfaction with the G. O. P. farm relief platform. Clash Frequently Brown and Settle crossed verbal swords repeatedly, Brown declaring he was ot fighting the farm bureau, b . L . preaching Hoover to farmers, regardless of their farm bureau membership. Devoted to the Democratic pledges, the farm bureau resented Brown’s sallies into their ranks. The co-operative being organized by Brown will engage in the marketing, harvesting and handling of farm products. These objects are within the sphere also of the nuge corporation in which Settle is a prominent figure. Settle was in Chicago today, but Lewis Taylor, director of the farm bureau’s tax and legislative department, said: “On the surface, Brown’s move would appear to be an attempt to muddy the waters. He is a member of the bureau and I think he should have conferred with some of us and got our reaction to this plan. I understand some farm bureau members were called on by Brown, but, so far as I know, he didn’t talk with any bureau officers.” No Competition, He Says Brown disclaimed any intent to establish an organization at all competitive with that in which Settle is interested. “We intend to work in harmony with the farm bureau,” he said. “There is no spite in tfcis proposition. Our corporation will promote farm relief and bring all farmers into harmony.” Brown is president of the Indiana Good Roads Association, which came under the fire last spring of legislators opposed to the 4-cent gasoline tax. Brown admitted that newspaper advertisements which appeared in support of the tax increase were paid for by the Portland Cement Company. Heart Disease Causes Death. Bn Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 14. Charles Ehli, 73, was found dead on the porch of his home here, a victim of heart disease. He was an active member of the Red Men’s lodge.

Herron Riddle of 225 South Summit street, but said they were given to him by another boy. Patrolman John O’Brien, who arrested the boy, said he had investigated and found the statement to be true. The boy told Wetter that his father had obtained his wages and directed his discharge from a job, refused to give him money and would not permit him to enter the house. The probation department is attempting to obtain clothes and a job for the youth. WICKERSHAM INVITED Law Enforcement Group May Hear Address. . George W. Wickersham, chairman of President Hoover’s law enforcement commmission, has been asked to speak at the Indiana law enforcement conference to be called by the Governor late in October. The program for the conference is being arranged by a committee named some time ago by Leslie, and authorized by the 1929 legislature. DITCH DIGGER INJURED Matt Hayes. 21, Negro, 551% North California tsreet, probably will recover from a skull fracture inflicted by a fellow ditch-digger in an argument at Seventy-first and Pennsylvania streets Tuesday afternoon, city hospital attendants said today. Ed Scott, 420 Douglass street, his alleged assailant, was arrested on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill.

Tenant on One Farm 45 Years

BENTONVILLE, Ind., Aug. 14.—1n these days of endurance flights and other nonstop records, James Stoten, tenant farmer on a farm near here for fortyfive years, makes his bid for fame. During all those years Stoten had but one landlord, the late James Huston of Connersville. The nonstop tenant was so highly respected by Huston that no contract regarding their relations was ever signed. Although a lifelong Republican, and a supporter of President Hoover, Stoten has little faith in farm relief plans. He asserts that so long as the majority of the nation’s population continues to live at the farmer’s expense there will be no improvement in the way of better prices

for farm products. He recalls eggs at 8 cents a dozen, pensions are being talked of for preachers.”

BEAT VICTIM WITH HAMMER IN S2HOLDUP Andy Schwab, 62, Knocked Near Insensibility by Two Thugs. For $2, two thugs early today beat Andy Schwab, 62, of 931 Park avenue, almost into insensibility with a mechanic’s hammer and escaped as a passing motorist stopped his automobile to aid their victim. Schwab, night doorman at the Elks Club, was attacked at Talbot and St. Clair streets while en route home. One of the men grasped him from the rear, and, as his companion struck the aged man with the hammer, took two $1 bills from his pockets. With blood streaming down his face, Schwab wrenched his arms free and tried to defend himself against hammer blows the thug rained on his head. He was struck six or seven times. When George Whiteside, 28, of 631 North Noble street, who saw the battle while driving by the intersection, halted his car, the two men fled in opposite directions. Schwab was taken to the Elks club where Dr. Charles R. Bird, 301 Hume-Mansur building, treated his wounds, and sent him home. His condition today was serious, physicians said. Seeking clews to his assailants, police found the blood-stained hammer, and Schwab’s knife and glasses near the intersection. A light roadster, bearing Ohio license was found a half block away, and police believe it is a stolen car, planted for a getaway. TUMBLES INTO VAT City Man Scalds Legs in Steaming Pit. Wading in steaming water up to his knees is a form of sport in which Ralph Welch, 24, of 2150 East Thirty-fourth street, chooses not to indulge again, he decided today in city hospital, where he is recovering from bums on both legs from the feet to the knees. Welch, an employe of the Talge Mahogany Company, lost his balance on the brink of a vat of scalding water in their mill at 1101 East Thirteenth street Tuesday afternoon. There was about eighteen inches of water in the large pit in which he was soaking logs when he 1 stumbled in. As he dropped he reached instinctively for the edge of the vat, probably saving his life, for he landed on his feet, and in one bound cleared the five-foot wall to safety.

Chorus Girl Bride of Sea Flier May Ask Divorce

Madame Jean Assolant Is Offered Lead Role In Paris Revue. PARIS, Aug. 14. Madame Jean Assolant, the former New York chorus girl, Pauline Parker, has been offered the lead in a Paris reyue at the Casino De Paris, the United Press learned today. Harry Pilcer, who is at present starring in the revue, offered Mme. Assolant a contract to replace the French star now holding the role. Mme. Assolant, when seen by a United Press correspondent in her modest Latin quarter boarding house, burst into tears and neither would discuss the reports of estrangement from her famous aviator husband, pilot of the French trans-Atlantic plane Yellow Bird, nor the proffered theatrical engagement. However, she said that she was in communication with her husband, having received letters from .him at the various halts in his European tour. The last one she received was from Madrid, she said. Papers far the divorce are now in process! of preparation and

will be filed probably within a month. It is learned on the best authority that Assolant claimed his American wife insisted on living in a style beyond his means. Mme. Assolant countered by saving that all she wanted was to live a modest home life. Her husband, she said, during the early days of her stay in Paris, stayed out each night until early hours *of the morning. She called attention to the fact that she was content to live in a modest boarding house.

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This picture of Clara Bow with her sun-burned initials makes you think what a lucky guy is Harry Richman, the New York night club proprietor, who’s engaged to marry the famous “It” girl. About those initials — well, Clara cut her initials out of heavy court plaster, pasted ’em on her pretty shoulder, went to the beach—and, voila, there they be!

FREED BY A KISS; EVADES LAW AGAIN

Bandit Goes Visiting After Escape From Officer in Florida. Bit Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 14. Henry Davey, former resident of Shelbuin, twenty-one miles south of here, wanted on charges of bank robbery and counterfeiting, once more has given the law the laugh. A few weeks ago, Davey, in custoday of a federal officer who was bringing him from Miami, Fla., to Louisville, Ky., to face a charge of counterfeiting, escaped when the officer left him for a few minutes to kiss his wife good-by just before a train was to depart. Only a few days ago, Davey re-

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Stoten tried to enlist for service in the Civil war, but was rejected because he was too young. Regarding his long tenancy, Huston says: “I never-could get enough ahead to buy a farm of my own, so what else was there for me to do?” Stoten declares the farmer is forgotten when it comes to rewards. He says: “Pensions for all, but none for the farmer. With railroad men, government employes, school teachers and what not being showered with pensions, why is it that no one ever suggests a pension for the farmer. We support the people. Why don’t the people support us after we are too old to produce their food? Why, even

turned to his old haunts here, but officers failed in efforts to capture him. He was reported at the home of a relative in the Salt Creek Hill district. A squad armed with riot and shotguns and rifles surrounded the house, but found no trace of Davey. The elusive man is believed the last of the Billy Evans band of counterfeiters, other members of which are serving terms in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kas. AUTO DEALER KILLED David J. Miller Dies in „ Wreck in Tennessee. Funeral services for David J. Miller. 26, who died Tuesday at Nashville, Tenn., of injuries received in an automobile accident Monday, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 at the home of Mrs. Robert Hall, 129 Downey avenue. The Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks, All Souls Unitarian church, will officiate, and burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. The body was brought to Indianapolis Tuesday night. Mr. Miller was the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Miller, 52 South Irvington avenue. He was a graduate of Arsenal Technical high school and Purdue university. He recently went to Nashville, where he and his father organized the Miller Motor Car Company, Marmon distributors for central Tennessee. BLAST m GUARD Sunrise Gun Explodes at Connecticut Camp. Bv United Press CAMP TRUMBULL, Niantic, Conn., Aug. 14.—One National Guardsman was killed and two others seriously injured today when an explosion occurred when the “sunrise gun” misfired. Peter T. Tinskowich, 20, of Branford, private first class, died shortly after the accident. Chrysler Officials Changed Bv Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Aug. 14. Frank D. Brebner, manager of the local Chrysler automobile plant, has been transferrred to the staff of K. T. Keller, vice-president and general manager of all the Chrysler properties. E. S. Chapman, who has been in the company’s manufacturing division at Detroit, will take the place here.

Second Section

GIANT SAFETY CAMPAIGN FDR 1930 PLANNED 75,000 Children Will Be Organized Into Patrols. TIMES TO ASSIST MOVE Units Will Direct Traffic at Intersections and Supervise Games. Plans for a great public safety campaign, the largest ever conducted during the summer months in this city, are being formulated by the city recreation department, in cooperation with the Accident Prevention Bureau of the police department, the Hoosier Motor Club, and The Indianapolis Times. An experimental patrol is to be organized immediately with the object of launching a safety patrol system on the fifty-five city playgrounds next summer. Sponsors of the movement to be known as the playground safety patrol will effect an organization of the 75,000 children, who attend the playgrounds, with the object of preventing accidents on the grounds and nearby streets, and to assist in policing the grounds, throughout the summer months from the close to the opening of school. Dangerous points in streams near the grounds also will be patrolled in efforts to lessen the yearly drowning toll. Boys and Girls in Patrols Patrols of eight members, including boys and girls over 15 years of age, will be the unit of the organization. The patrols will receive badges significant of the police authority that will be instituted in them. They will patrol the grounds under direction of playground directors, and later prizes, theater parties and medals will be awarded for excellent work accomplished. An experimental patrol is to be organized at Riley playground where other matrons, instructors and intersted patrons can see the first safety patrol in action. The Riley patrol will be chosen from the boys and girls of that ground at 1 a. m. Monday by Jesse P. McClure of the recreation department; Lieutenant Frank Owen of the accident prevention bureau, and a Times representative. In connection with launching the movement Police Chief Claude M. Worley said: “We will co-operate with the organizatins to the fullest extent in this safety campaign on city playgrounds, and are ready to do all in our power to lessen the number of juvenile accidents. Owens Offers Services Owens offered his services in the movement, saying: “It is the policy of the accident prevention bureau to help in every cause for the protection of children’s lives. “We are glad to extend our safety cause on to the playgrounds as we have done in the schools.” The Hoosier Motor Club will offer financial assistance and support the move to the limit, according to Todd Stoops, secretary of the club. “The fact that toll of eighteen children killed in traffic in 1926 has been lessened to only five in 1928. shows the benefit of safety work,” he said. Qualifications for joining the patrols are as follows: 1. All who join must first have the written consent of their parents or guardian to take part. 2. Members must be 15 years of age. 3. They must live in the vicinity of the playground, where they join, and must be in good standing there. First Duties of Patrol Duties of the safety patrol in part will be: (1) Supervision of games on playgrounds and custody of balls, bats and other light equipment. (2) Regulation of lines waiting turns at swings and slides. (3) Care of the younger children. (4) Patrolling of street intersections ond dangerous places to prevent accidents. (5) Settlement of arguments among children on the grounds. Further organization plans will be arranged by the sponsors in the next few days and announced through The Times. Boys and girls at Riley who desire to be in the experimental patrol should fill out blanks which will be furnished by matrons. three Tourists killed Crash Fatal to Michigan Residents. Bn United Press WINDSOR, Ontario, Aug. 14. Three Hamtramck (Mich.) residents returning home from a vacation at Schenectady, N. Y., were killed near Maidstone, Ontario)* early this morning when their automobile collided with one driven by Theodore Maxwell, 40, of Kingsville, Ontario. The dead women are Mrs. Pauline Kluzinsky, 53; Marion Kluzinsky, 25, a clerk in the Hamtramck board of education; Stella UJazdowski, 23. Maxwell was but slightly Injured. TURTLES EASILY TAKEN Heads Under Water While Fighting, Mancie Man Explains. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 14.—Fish stories don’t interest Harry B. Retz, Muncie board of works member. He prefers yams about turtles. Retz dsplayed two large turtles which he claimed he captured while they were fighting in shallow water. With their heads submerged in battle, he had no difficulty in lifting them from the water.