Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1929 — Page 9

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LEGION URGES FAIRNESS FOR ILL‘BUDDIES’ Compensation and Need of Hospitals Considered by Convention. PAY TRIBUTE TO DEAD Increased Air Corps, but Without Army Cut, Is Asked of Nation. BY JAMES M. KERR. Unitrd Preiii Staff Correspondent LOUISVILLE, Oct. 2.—Buddies who didn't come back from hospital cots were heard from through speakers at the eleventh annual American Legion convention here today. More than 50,000 Legionnaires paused in their hilarious holiday to listen to tributes to brothers in arms w r ho fell in France and to suggestions for improving the lot of disabled veterans. “Present with you in spirit,” said General Cahrles P. Summerall, chief of staff of the army, “is the full strength of the Legion, nearly a million of the flower of American manhood and womanhood. “And mingled with them, too, I am sure, is that ghostly host who gave their lives, heedless that this organization later might come into being.” Urges Need as Basis Brigadier-General Frank T. Hines, director of the United States Veterans Bureau, urged actual need of those to whom benefit awards are made as a basis for veterans’ relief. “In practically all communities,” said General Hines, “you may hear it said that some veterans, financially well off, are in receipt of rewards which they do not actually need, while veterans in actual need are not being cared for. “If actual need were made an important factor in the award, it is thought that it would more nearly meet with the universal approval rs the public and congress.” The general cautioned against any policy which might lead to paternalism or dependency, and stated the government is disbursing more than $16,500,000 monthly to disabled veterans and dependents of deceased veterans. The veterans bureau. since its inception, has paid nut. for all purposes, more than $4,800,000,000. he said. He predicted facilities for hospitalization of veterans would prove inadequate within the next five years and urged consideration of a building program. Legislation Reviewed The legislative committee report mentioned enacting of liberalizing amendments to the adjusted compensation act, measures giving civil service preference to veterans and appropriations for government homes and hospitals as outstanding legislative developments this year, which had been sponsored by the legion. An increase in flying fields in the United States from 1,375 to 6.422 in the last year was reported by the national aeronautics committee. The military affairs committee urged the universal draft, relocation of army garrisons to conform to modern tactical requirements, and an increased air corps, but not at the expense of the remainder of the army. A parade of freaks and tom foolery Tuesday night by the Forty and Eight, fun organization of the legion, was followed by its annual “wreck.” Capers of the night climaxed a gala and riotous day. DEAThT~ REPORT FALSE Man Believed Burned In Ruined Home Is Found Safe. While firemen searched for his body in the debris of his burned home. George Monday. 3311 Carson avenue, was busy Tuesday afternoon selling a load of pears at market. When the blaze started at Monday’s home, neighbors expressed the belief he was in the house. Monday returned later with his family. He estimated the fire loss at $5,000. Origin of the blaze was unknown. PUBLISHER NEAR DEATH Fhvsicians Hold Little Hope for Fred Bush: Paralyzed. Bu I~uitr4 Press ATHENS. 0.. Oct. 2—Fred W. Bush, publisher of the Athens Messenger and one of the most widely known newspapermen east of the Mississippi river, was near death at his home here today from a paralytic stroke. Bush was stricken as he sat at his desk working. A cerebral hemorrhage followed the stroke and it was feared for a time that he would die in a few moments. Physicians hold little hope for recovery. DEATH HELD ACCIDENT Thomas Mitten, Traction Magnate, Drowns While Fishing. Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 2.—Accidental drowning was ascribed today as the cause of death of Thomas E. Mitten, traction and finance genius, who died Tuesday near Milford, Pa. He started life humbly and came to renown as a traction and banking man with interests in Philadelphia. Buffalo and Chicago. Possibly affected by a heart attack or a dlay spell. Mitten fell from a small boat while fishing, and sank, still clutching a fishing rod.

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Pauline to Come Back

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HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Oct. 2.—The talking movies have started more than one established moving picture star on the pathway to oblivion. But as if to make up for It, they have provided several others, who were in semi-retirement, with the opportunity to make a worthwhile come-back. Movie fans everywhere will doubtless be glad to learn that among these latter is Pauline Frederick, one of the most competent actresses who ever appeared before a camera. Out of the game for some little time, Miss Frederick is getting anew opening because of the presence of the microphones in the studios. Warner Brothers are bringing her back, and are about to release two all-talking pictures in which she is starred.

AIMEE’S ‘MA’ HELD ONLY ‘FICKLE VAMP’

Can’t Stop ’Em Stamped ‘Yo-Yo’ Clipping Reaches Destination in Good Shape.

INDIANAPOLIS postmen know their “Yo-Yo’s.” Today The Indianapolis Times received a clipping from a paper with a 2-cent stamp as the only method of carrying it through the mails. The clipping, a subscription blank for one new subscriber in exchange for a Yo-Yo top, was sent in by a boy who signed his name as “Ernest D., 533 Holly street.” Although he failed to insert the subscription blank in an envelope the advertised Yo-Yo top sufficed to bring the subscription to its proper destination —the circulation department of The Times—and “Ernest D” will get his new top. SHUMAKER RESTLESS Condition of 111 Dry Chief Is Changed Little. Although he passed a restless night, the condition of Dr. E. S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, today was little changed from that of Tuesday, a bulletin from league headquarters stated. Decline in health as the result of strenuous work since his return from a Battle Creek sanitarium has necessitated the dry leader’s confinement to bed. His physician ordered a rest to allow him to regain strength.

NEW AGENT BEGINS DUTIES FOR RAILROAD

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D. R. Changnon began his duties Tuesday as commercial agent .for the Illinois Central system in Indianapolis, succeeding B. W. Fredenburg, retired. Changnon. formerly traveling freight agent for northern Indiana, came here from Chicago. Dtiring License Suspended Bjf Times Special _ _ _ , MARION. Ind.. Oct. 2.—Doyle Coon, 18. was fined $lO and costs and nis driving license suspended for six months when hi pleaded guilty in city court to charges of reckless driving.

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Pastor Sobs for His Lost Love at Hearing for $50,000 Balm. Bu United Prong SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 2.—'The Rev. W. H. Clark, composed after delving into the more intimate details of his alleged courtship by Mrs. Minnie (Ma) Kennedy, will resume his testimony at his $50,000 heart balm trial against the widow today. Charging Mrs. Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, the evangelist, was a “fickle vamp” and had refused to marry him after a “violent courtship, Clark yesterday nearly collapsed after telling of his friendship with Mrs. Kennedy. Adjournment of court was taken. Clark sobbingly told of his amorous rendezvous with the mother of Mrs. McPherson. He told of meeting Mrs. Kennedy in a theater in December, 1928, and how their friendship ripened into love. He related to the jury of eight wemen and four men their meetings in a hotel. He described one meeting in detail, during which he said Mrs. Kennedy “made -violent love” to him. He said they had numerous breakfast engagements. . Clark testified that Mrs. Kennedy raised the question of marriage after a meeting in her suite at a hotel. About Christmas time, 1928. Mrs. Kennedy went to Portland and sent him a number of gifts, Clark said. When she returned to Seattle, the minister testified, Mrs. Kennedy told him they were “soul mates,” but that she could not raUrry him, because she was having trouble with Mrs. McPherson. Until Mrs. Kennedy’s refusal to marry him. Clark said, he knew her only as “Mary C. Clark.” PRISON TERM IS GIVEN Embezzlement of Jewelry Brings Sentence for City Man. Reinhold M. Kluger. 916 Cottage avenue, who was tried Tuesday in criminal court on a charge of embezzlement, today was in the county jail awaiting transportation to the Indiana state prison to serve a two to fourteen-year sentence. Kluger is alleged to have stolen ! and pawned S3OO in jewelry while employed at the Charles O. Peek jewelry store at 1064 Virginia avenue. His father. Charles Kluger. present at his trial, told Judge James A. Collins he was “at the end of his rope” in caring for his son. GOVERNOR WILL SPEAK Murat Shriners Will Have Leslie as Gutst Thursday. Governor Harry G. Leslie and other statehouse officials will attend the observance of Governor's day by Murat Shriners at the Caravan Club Thursday. Governor Leslie is a member of the temple, will be the principal speaker. Business Body to Elect Fjk Times Special MARION. Ind.. Oct. 2.*— Officers for the ensuing year will be elected and reports of the various committees received at the annual meeting of the Association of Commerce to be held Oct. 28.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2,1929

SCHOOL BOARD ‘SLAVERY’ TO SHIPPJHOWN ‘No Competition in Buying of Equipment’ Will Be Kept as Rule. EVASION ON BIDS BARED Eurton and Zoercher Clash at Hearing on School Budget. No competition, and the use of C. C. Shipp heating specialties exclusively, will remain the rule in the Indianapolis public schools as long as the present board retains control. * This was the stand taken by school board Representatives at the state tax board hearing on the school budget Tuesday afternoon. Phfl Zoercher, member of the state board, confronted them with a series of order blanks for Shipp specialties. All had been approved by Carl W. Eurton, buildings and grounds superintendent, during July, 1928. In each case they were just under S2OO. The state board of accounts has ruled that this sura can be spent daily without advertising for bids. Keeps Under S2OO So, day after day, Eurton bought the Shipp ventilating radiator units from the Central Supply Company. For three he paid $153 each and for nine others $196.80 each. “It’s legal,” Eurton, who was present, defended. Then he launched into a tirade against oZercher and said that some people thought he had been on the state tax board too long. He also attempted to fasten some of the blame for this method of doing business on Albert H. Walsman, former school business director. Walsman was on hand to aid the Indiana Taxpayers Association in paring down the school budget. Charles York, present business director, and Superintendent Charles F. Miller were there, but remained silent. “Rotten,” Says Zoercher “It may be legal, technically, but it’s pretty rotten from any just standard,” Zoercher declared. “Such procedure is an obvious dodge to buy materials without bidding.” • Eurton later told The Indianapolis Times that this system still prevails; but he is acting under orders from the board snd the slips are approved by the business director. Walsman said that this conduct of affairs has been in vogue in the school city here for years. A report, which reached Zoercher. alleging that Shipp had outlined this system for escaping competitive bidding to the school officials was denied by Eurton. “So far as I know, they figured it out for themselves,” he asserted.

SWORN STATEMENT SLADE UNDER THE POSTAL, LAW Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc., required by the Act of Congress of August 24. 1912, of The Indianapolis Times, puolished daily, except Sunday, at Indianapolis, .ndiana, for October, 1, 1929, State ot Indiana. County of Marion, ss: Before me, a notary public in and for the Mate and county aforesaid, personally appeared Frank G. Morrison, who having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Business Manager of The Indianapolis Times, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement ot the Ownership. Management and Circulation of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in Section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form,-to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor and business manager, are: PUBLISHER The Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. 214-220 West Maryland Street, -Indianapolis, Ind. EDITOR Boyd Gurley 237 E. Fifteenth St., Indianapolis, Ind. MANAGING EDITOR Stanley A. Tullsen 3323 College Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. BUSINESS MANAGER Frank G. Morrison 41 E. Forty-Ninth St., Indianapolis, Ind. 2. That the owners are: The Indianapolis Times Publishing Company, (a corporation) Indianapolis, Indiana: Boyd Gurley, Indianapolis, Indiana: Frank G. Morrison, Indianapolis. Indiana: G. B. Parker, New York; Hazel P. Hostetler, Cleveland, Ohio; Newton D. Baker, Cleveland, Ohio, The Thomas L. Sidlo Company, Wilmington. Delaware (through which no stockholder in said corporation owns or holds one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) The E. W. Scripps Company, Hamilton, Ohio (through which only Robert P. Scripps, Westchester, Ohio, owns or holds indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) The Robert P. Scripps Company, Hamilton, Ohio (through which only Robert P. Scripps, Westchester, Ohio, owns or holds indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) The Managers Finance Company, Cincinnati. Ohio (through which the following own or hold indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) Robert P. Scripps, Westchester, Ohio. The W. W. Hawkins Company, Wilmington, Delaware (through which the following own or hold indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) W. W. Hawkins. New York City: Margaret W. Hawkins. New York City. The Third Investment Company. Cincinnati, Ohio (through which only Robert I. Scripps. Westchester. Ohio, owns or holds indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) The Roy W. Howard Company. Wilmington. Delaware (through which the following own or hold indirectly one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) TLey W. Howard, Pelham, New York; Margaret R. Howard, Pelham, New York. The Fifth Investment Company. Wilmington, Delaware (through which no stockholder in said corporation owns or holds one per cent or more of the stock of Indianapolis Times Publishing Company.) 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders holding one per cent (1%) or more of the total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: Wabash Realty and Loan Company, Terre Haute, Indiana. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders and security holders, if any. contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also. In cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustees or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting. Is given: also thjii the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circnmstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner, and thla affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, ast-ciation. or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies ot each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the malls or otherwise, to paid subscribers during th* six months preceding the date shown above is 72,009 FRANK G MORRISON. Business Manager. Sw6rn to aßd subscribed before me this 30th dav of September, 1929. (SEAL* W. B. NICEWANGER.'Notary Public. My commission expires January 29. 1932.

Children to Get Movie Tryouts Soon

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THEATER MORALITY IS PANTAGES ISSUE

Attorneys Query Talesmen as to Prejudice in Assault Case. BY' GEORGE H. BEALE United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2—The question of whether theatrical folk generally are more wicked than others usurped interest today as attorneys sought the jury which will decide the guilt or innocence of

Alexander Pantages, 54, theater magnate, accused of assaulting 17-year-old Eunice Pringle. Defense counsel inquired repeatedly if prospective talesmen had the idea that “men in the theatrical business are less moral” than their neighbors or If they thought that “girls seeking a theatrical career must yield themselves to some man in authority.” Occasionally a venireman was excused when he decided “he’d i ather have his daughter n t go looking for stage work” or that he believed theatrical folk “aren’t as good as they might me.” Pantages, charged with having attacked Miss Pringle when she asked him to book her dancing act on his vaudeville circuit, was most intere; ted in that line of questioning. The former Alaskan gold miner, now a multi-millionaire and known over the nation for his theatrical and sporting enterprises, paid close attention to answers on morality matters, although he was restless at other times. Seven men and five women occupied seats in the jury box when court opened this morning, but the proportion varied through the day as state or defense challenged for cause or used per-emptory challenges. Opposing attorneys hoped to complete the jury during the session, but that seemed impossible.

mtUCE RECEPTION MacDonald Will Be Given Freedom of Gotham. By United Press ABOARD S. S. BERENGARIA, Oct. 2.—Details of Premier MacDonald’s program on his arrival in New York next Friday were made public aboard ship today. Mayor Walker’s committee will meet the Berengaria at Quarantine and welcome the premier. He will be taken aboard a tug. A procession will leave the battery and drive to the city hall, arriving there at 10 a. m. for ceremonies conferring freedom of the city on the premier. CANDY THEFT CHARGED Youth With Sweet Tooth Caught by Driver of Truck. A sweet tooth caused the arrest today of Robert Witham. 20, of Franklin, Ind., on charges of vagrancy and petty larceny. Witham was caught by Joe Mannix, driver for the Darmody Candy Company, as he attempted to lift four pounds of candy out of Mannix’ truck while it was parked in front of the candy company, 25 West Maryland street. Train Kills Two Youths By United Press CHESTERTON, Ind., Oct. 2. Joseph Beck, 19, and Albert Tofte, 18 farm youths, were killed here Tuesday night when their automobile was struck by a fast west bound New York Central freight train. The accident occurred only ten minutes after the crossing watchman had gone off duty.

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Dostoflfiee. Indianapolis

Upper left, Imogene Hastings, 64 East Raymond street; left center. Patricia Healy. 305 East Twenty-fifth street; lower left, Howard Williams, 501 Arbor avenue; oval, John Sechrist, 636 South Foltz; right center, Leila Frances Sprowl, R. R. 10; lower light, Walter F. Williams, 116 North State avenue. These children and hundreds of others have joined the Golden Rule Safety Club of the Indianapolis Times and will appear in an allchildren’s movie. In Thursday’s Times definite announcement wi 1 ’ be made of the time when the preliminaries will be held for the principal roles of the movie. These preliminaries will be held at the Lyric theater. So many boys and girls want to be in the movie that it will be necessary to hold several of these preliminaries. The way to get Into this great movie is to join the Golden Rule Safety Club, send in your name to the Indianapolis Times. This club is trying to make Indianapolis a safer city for all boys and girls.

HOLDS THREE JOBS _ Everson Is Pastor, Guard and Militia Head. Adjutant-General William G. Everson of Indiana holds three jobs today. He is pastor of First Baptist church, Muncie; adjutant-general of Indiana and chief of the federal militia bureau. Everson received his appointment as head of the militia bureau today by radio from Washington. His appointment was approved Tuesday by the senate. Upon the arrival of his commission by mail. General Everson will take the oath of office in the statehouse. As head of the federal bureau he will carry the rank of ma-jor-general. General Everson will leave the ad-jutant-general’s office Oct. 10 and on Oct. 12 wffl go to Los Angeles to attend the annual convention of national guard officers. SHOOTING GALLERY IS CHOSEN FOR SUICIDE Youth Pays Last Quarter for Gun With Which to End Life. By United Press ST. LOUIS. Mo., Oct. 2.—A slender, neatly-dressed youth of about 22, known only as “The Kid,” walked into a shooting gallery and flung his last quarter on the counter, asking for a pistol that would shoot straight. Fred Clear, the proprietor, handed the youth a 22-caliber target pistol and turned to make change. A moment later the proprietor saw the youth place the gun against his own forehead. Clear leaped, but he was too late. Morgue attaches, searching “The Kid’s” clothing, found a note begging his identity be withheld from his mother and sweetheart. The note said that failure to succeed was responsible for the act. BURGLARS LOOT STORES Merchandise and Small Amounts of Cash Taken by Thieves. Two neighborhood stores in the 4600 block East Michigan street, were robbed of merchandise and small sums of money Tuesday night, police were informed today. Fred Stomps, manager of a Kroger grocery, 4604 East Michigan street, said twenty-five cartons of cigarets and other merchandise were taken. Marion Chastine, proprietor of a butcher shop next door, said the thieves obtained a small amount of money.

MACDONALD'S HOPE HIGH FOR WORLD PEACE Premier's Words Recalled as He Nears U. S. for Visit With Hoover. SEES AMERICA’S SIDE Difficulties Facing This Country Viewed With Clear Eyes. BY WILLIAM riIILIP SIMMS, Scripps-Howard Foreisn Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Failure of the United States and Great. Britain to co-operate, not only as between themselves, but with the rest of the world, to put an end to militarism and set up in its place an organization of law, conciliation, and equity would be nothing short of a calamity. This is the opinion of Premier Ramsay MacDonald, now en route to this country for a series of epochal conferences ;-ith President Hoover. Scorning language which the man in the street can not understand, the British prime minister usually calls a spade a spade. So when I had occasion in London to inquire what his ideas are on the future of Anglo-American relations. I was referred to a statement set down by himself in black and white, clearly and concisely expressing his views on the subject. Today that statement assumes unusual Importance, by virtue of the fact that Premier MacDonald is v aboard the Berengaria bound for Washington, where, to use his own expression, he hopes to realize the great ambition of his life “to assist in giving a practic:! and really effective expression to the world’s desire for lasting peace.”

Wrong View Taken “The relations between Great Britain and America,” he said, in reply to the question suggested above, “form a peculiarly delicate subject for discussion. They are un i fortunately plenty of my country- ! men who. do not see this. “Is not America an Englishspeaking nation? Does it not belong to the community of Anglo-Saxon peoples? Does not that fact and that mistake mean that, of course, America must be our ally In our world projects, and that it and we together have common tasks to perform in the history of mankind? “Asa matter of fact, while nothing may be more desirable than such Campanionship in well doing, it is not to be secured from ‘the mere nature of things,’ but only by a patient process of understanding each other, of removing very serious difficulties and obstacles and of creating a. mutual confidence which does not exist as yet. . “And for this I am not at all sure that both countries will have to be driven together by dire world events I as well as by whatever objects they may have In common. Suspicions Are Respected “A labor government,” he continued, “would regard any aloofness on the part of America as a calamity,” but, he added, “we know j America’s difficulties and respect her suspicions. “The American people are drawn from many diverse sources. They have crossed the Atlantic with many bitter memories in their hearts . . . and they have no intention of allowing the mighty state which they have done their full share in building to become an adjunct to any European power, or to get. mixed up in the diplorcntic confusions and nationalist ambitions of European policy. “Who can blame them? What is there in our records to entitle us to be superior judges or censors of their Isolation?” The British Labor party, however, the premier went on, “comes fresh and free into the field,” and he could not help feeling that Its own world policy of pacification and reconstruction, its own new diplomatic method, and its own ideas of democratic control and democratic aims, should make it easier for Armorica and Britain to understand each other. Scoffs at Alliance “To think of an American alliance,” he nevertheless stated frankly. “is both stupid and dangerous.” though “to d-earn of American good will and help Is natural for any government honestly and disinterestedly pursuing a policy which the best elements In America, east and west, must regard as good.” The main objective of his government, he indicated, is “to disestablish militarism not merely as an organization, but as a trust, and to put an organization of law, of conciliation, snd of equity in Its place.” CALL BANKER IN FRAUD Colorado Employe Will Testify In New Y’ork Case TriaL Bu I nited Pn ss PUEBLO. Colo., Oct. 2.— T Rule, assistant cashier of t'r. •, National bank here, plans to ri New York by Monday to testi. the trial of C. D. Waggoner, T ride (Coio.) banker, who swl* six New Y’ork banks out of SSOO A blanket subpena was se against the bank here Tues Rule will be asked to identif draft for $225 000 mailed to the b here to be deposited to the ci of the Telluride bank.