Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1929 — Page 11
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DRY ARMY IS MASSED FOR BORDERDRIVE Hundreds of Agents to Be Used in Campaign From Buffalo Key Point. ‘BIG SHOTS’ TARGETS Rum Runners Operating on Huge Scale Aimed at in New Smash. Bu Scripps-Howard 'Sewtpapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Government officials are preparing today to make the Canadian border near Buffalo the scene of an offensive against rum running that will be as extensive as those delivered at Detroit and along the north Atlantic coast. Success In the latter movements has released several hundred agents for continuing the series of assaults on large-scale operators ordered by President Hoover. Having pinched off the two wings of smuggling from Canada at Detroit and New York, the land and sea forces of the prohibition forces next will attack the center neaj - Buffalo, where rum running is admitted by officials to have increased. Dr. J. M. Moran, prohibition commissioner, said that aditional agents would be assigned to the Lake Erie region, though he would not say how many or when. The coast guard fleet was increased a few months ago. The cutsoms force has been more than doubled. Drive on Large Scale Every indication pointed to an effort on a grand scale to prevent bootleggers frustrated at Detroit and on the coast from trying to break through at the eastern end of the lakes. Meanwhile, Doran declared that the task of enforcement should be much easier as a result of the smashing of the North Atlantic ring and the one that operated along the Red river in Michigan. He attributed efforts to minimize the importance of the New JerseyNew York raids to the desire of commercial liquor interests to make customers optimistic. “The bootleggers." said the commissioner, “don't want their clients to learn that most of New York's ! 'real Scotch* is made in Union Hill, N. J.. just across the Hudson.” The worst spots for rum running, in Doran's opinion, have been cleaned up. These included the Bahama islands and Belize, which supplied liquor through Florida: the Canadian runners, who worked 1 through Detroit and the ships put- | ting out from the Islands of Miquelon and St. Pierre off the coast of Nova Scotia. Raid Delay Explained From these latter places, which are French possessions, came the craft that supplied the New YorkNew Jersey ring, Doran said. In recent years, Doran said, St. Pierre and Miquelon have furnished most of the imported stuff for the north Atlantic states. Explaining the delay in staging the north Atlantic raid, which accounted for the escape of several ring leaders, ships and liquor cargoes, Doran said the dry forces could not move until they had located the bootleggers’ central adio station. Though the code had been deciphered, there was no information as to whence the messages came. Finally, by radio triangulatfon, Forrester F. Redfern, a department of commerce radio engineer, spotted the house at Highlands, N. J., and the zero hour was set DAIRY EXPERT SPEAKS County High School Pupils to Hear “Professor Happy” on Nutrition. Pupils in county and city high schools will hear Clifford Goldsmith of the National Dairy Council, known as “Professor Happy,” speak this week in a tour of schools under the auspices of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. His subject will be "Nutrition and Health Habits.” His appearances during the week includes Southport and Cathedral high schools on Tuesday; Shortridge, Wednesday; Washington and Manual Training high schools, Thursday, and the Arsenal Technical schools on Friday, when he also will speak at Crispus Attucks high school and the Optimists Club luncheon in the Claypool. CONGRESSMAN IS ‘LOST’ Police. Fire Force* Mobilized for Rescue From Building. Bp United Press LYNN, Mass., Oct. 21.—While a janitor tarried over his midnight lunch, police and fire department forces were mobilized to “rescue” Congressman William P. Connery from a downtown office building. Leaving a friend's office early on Sunday. Connnery walked down five flights of stairs only to And the outer door locked. He telephoned police, who sent several officers and three aerial ladder Are trucks to the congressman’s aid. With the scene set for a rescue, however, the janitor returned from a nearby lunch cart. Fire Damages Paris Theater Bu l nited Press PARIS. Oct. 21.—The stage of the theater De La Postrophe-Atelier was damaged by Are which broke out Sunday night during the final act of a production. The audience remained; calf and left the building quickly.
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It must be a capital arrangement for Dorothy McMaster (left) and Selma Norbeck to be students at the same school—Goucher College in Batlimore, Md. For, besides being chums, both are daughters of United States senators from South Dakota—William Henry McMaster and Peter Norbeck. Maybe they’ll enact some class legislation!
LOTTERY RAID HAS NO ‘KICKBACK’ HERE
Salesmen of Race Tickets Reported to Feel 'Safe,’ Despite Threat. Agents of a Canadian lottery—a sweepstakes similar to the one in which Arthur Court, Indianapolis man, won SBO,OO0 —today were reported passing out the word that tickets sold in Indianapolis and vicinity will not be voided by the raid on a house in Cleveland, 0., where $8,500 in lottery money and 10,000 ticket stubs were confiscated. Indianapolis salesmen for the sweepstakes, conducted by the Army and Navy Veterans’ Association Quebec unit No. 33, are said to have dealt directly with Quebec headquarters and not with the group raided in Cleveland. The race—the Cambridgeshire Charity sweepstakes—is to be run in England, Oct. 31. Get “Run for Money” Local representatives of the veterans’ organization were reported to have said that the stubs of tickets sold here have been certified by the Canadian headquarters and that the buyers will get “a run for their money.” It is said that Indianapolis ticket sales have been spread by a distributor to varied agents in this vicinity, but that each individual agent receives an official vise on the tickets he sells from the Quebec office of the lottery. Stubs of tickets sold were due in Quebec for certification today. Wire reports from Cleveland today told of a suit being filed by purchasers of tickets for recovery of money on tickets sold there. Legal Fight Started Attorneys for the men arrested in the Cleveland raid surrendered $8,500 of the alleged lottery money to the chief of police. The money is to be refunded to persons holding stubs corresponding to those confiscated in the raid. Cleveland authorities have not decided whether they wifi prosecute the stub-holders on gaming charges when they appear for their refunds. Two of the men arrested in the Cleveland raid pleaded not guilty to promoting a game of chance and were released on $2,500 bonds. A third man, a printer, pleaded 1 not guilty to' promoting a scheme of chance. He was alleged to have been printing the lottery tickets. SOCIETY Will MEET United Christian Missionaries Convene Wednesday. Dr. Stephen Corey, vice-president of the United Christian Missionary Society, will be team leader at the one-day convention of the society In Downey Avenue Christian church Wednesday. Two hundred twelve such conventions are being held in the United States this week. Churches of the Disciples of Christ in Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Hamilton, Johnson, Boone. Hancock i and Hendricks counties will be repi resented at the convention. The pro- | gram will begin at 10 Wednesday and the final session, a banquet will be held in the Irvington M. E. church at 6:30.
BEAUTY GOES FROM HEIGHTS OF FAME TO POVERTY’S DEPTHS—THEN THE GRAVE
BY H. ALLEN SMITH United Pie** Staff t 'ivreipc. nt NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Twenty years ago Mrs. Rita de Acosta was the toast of fashionable New York—a woman of exquisite beauty and hailed as such in both America and Europe. Today they bury Mrs. Lydig, with only a handful of close relatives following her to the grr.ve. She died Saturday afternoon—died as she slept. And with the announcement of her death. New York recalled her tragic story—the story of'* woman whose life
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Indiana to Get Mix and Tony Bjj Times Special PERU, Ind., Oct. 21.—Tom Mix, who left the motion picture field to travel with a circus, will spend the winter here, headquarters of the American Circus Corporation. Tony, famous horse in Mix’s wild west demonstrations, will also be here for the winter, as will Tom’s ten-gallon hat.
SULLIVAN HITS FOE'S RECORD Democratic Candidate Says He Will Unite Factions. Class antagonism was inveighed again today by Reginald Sullivan, Democratic candidate for mayor, at a meeting in the home of Mrs. H. C. Keener, 3316 Capitol avenue. By inference he took a slap at the anti-union record of Alfred M. Glossbrenner, Republican candidate for mayor.' , “Indianapolis needs an era of good feeling among its citizens,” declared Sullivan. “Group arrayed against group, class against class, and section against section is not conducive to the city’s welfare. “If elected I will be mayor of all the people and will endeavor to administer the city’s affairs in such a manner that all of our people will have confidence in the city’s chief executive.” Sullivan will appear tonight with Henry O. Goett and James E. Deery, former city judge, at a rally at 2755 Martindale avenue. A large east side rally will be held Tuesday night at Liberty hall, 3208 East Michigan street, at which Frank C. Daily, Democratic 1928 candidate for governor; Walter Myers, candidate for mayor in 1926 and Sullivan will be the speakers. Myers and Albert Stump, candidate for United States senator in 1928, will also address the Jefferson Club at the Democratic headquarters in the State Savings and Trust building Tuesday night. Meredith Nicholson, author and member 6f the city council, will speak at the Indiana Democratic Club luncheon Wednesday noon, and Charles Remster and Judge Thomas E. Garvin will speak at Remster’s home, Forty-second street and Boulevard place, Thursday night. SOCIETY T(ThEAR TALKS Marion County Group to Gather at Presbyterian Church. Marian county members of the Christian Endeavor Society will hear Dr. Ira Landrith of Chicago, citizenship superintendent of the International Christian Endeavor SocietjL at 7:45 Tuesday night in First Presbyterian church. Another speaker will be Miss Elizabeth Cooper, field secretary of the society. The Rev. H. T. Graham of Westminster Presbyterian church will have charge of devotions.
ranged from the heights of popularity and renown to the depths of obscurity, poverty and despairRita de Acosta was the daughter of a Cuban landowner and traced her ancestry to the grandees of Spain. From girlhood she was famous for her beauty. She inspired the world's greatest artists to outdo themselves in their efforts to translate her statuesque figure and imperious glance to canvas. Millionaires and geniuses, nobility and aristocratic society genuflected before her.
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, OCT. 21, 1929
BANK ROBBERY DEFENSE WILL PRESENT ALIBI Twenty Witnesses Assert Charles Ross of Good Character. QUESTION OF IDENTITY Assistant Cashier Once Said Another Man Was Bandit. Bv Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Oct. 21.—Testimony in behalf of Charles Ross, charged with robbery of the Pennville bank Sept. 3, is being offered in Jay circuit court here today where a trial has been in progress a week. The defense is relying upon an alibi for acquittal of Ross and has also offered testimony of twenty witnesses as to the accused being of good character. Unusual interest is manifest in the case. Ross has been known as a steady worker. At no time since his arrest has he appeared worried over the possible result of the trial. Numerous friends signed his bond so he could be at liberty pending trial. Rollie Bales of Dunkirk, relied upon by the state as its chief witness, is said to have been disappointing to the prosecution while on the stand. He told of being in a poker game with Ross a few hours after the robbery and said he had a roll of bills about two and a half inches in diameter, but that most of them were of $1 denomination. Bales estimated the total amount was $25 or S3O. James Hurst, a cousin of Rose, testified the accused man repaid a loan to him the evening after the robbery. He quoted Ross as saying he had borrowed the money. In an opening statement, defense counsel said it would give evidence to the effect that Ross often had considerable money on his person, saying that only recently he had received between $250 and S3OO for road work. Among points on which the defense is relying is uncertainty of Miss Blanche Morrical, assistant cashier of the bank, as to identity of the bandit. At one time she identified Walter Jackson of Hartford City as the robber, while he was in custody as a suspect.
URGE ACCEPTANCE OF SITE FOR DOG POND Special Committee Before Council in Interest of Gift. Acceptance of the dog pound site at Phipps street and Pendleton pike, donated by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Patrick, will be recommended to the city council tonight by a special council committee. Herman P. Lieber, Robert E. Springsteen and John F. White compose the committee named to confer wih Patrick, relative to making other disposition of the property because of objections from neighboring property owners. After conference with Patrick, the committee decided to recommend acceptance of the gift ordinance submitted to the council in July, with the understanding that the city could “use its best judgment in using the territory.” The site was bought after a committee—Springsteen, Fred W. Connell, safety board president, and William H. Insley selected the location. JOURNALIST TO WRITE BEVERIDGE BIOGRAPHY Claude. G.. Bowers,. Author, Will Speak Here, Feb. 13. Claude G. Bowers, New York journalist, author of a series of political biographies, will write the life of Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana statesman and writer. The work will be a history of the Progressive movement, with which Mr. Beveridge was linked. Bowers will speak before the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association at the Claypool, Feb. 13. His latest work is “The Tragic Era,” a history of the reconstruction of the south following the Civil war. Bowers is a graduate of Shortridge high school, and was an editorial writer on the Indianapolis Sentinel, the Terre Haute Star and the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette before going to New York six years ago as an editorial writer on the New York World. I. IT. Professor to Speak Professor Stith Thompson of Indinan university will discuss the life and works of Chaucer at the University extension center, 122 East Michigan street, Tuesday evening. The address will be the fourth in the course on life view's of the great men of letters.
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HANGAR OPENING IS POSTPONED Weather Prevents Program at Curtiss Field. Rain Sunday caused postponement until next Sunday of the program in connection with formal opening of the new Curtiss hangar and administration building. Despite the rain, a large number of aviation'fans visited the CurtissMars Hill airpoi*t for the program, but were forced to remain within the hangar. In addition to the parachute jump, balloon bursting and bomb dropping exhibition and other features, several other stunts are being planned for next Sunday by Charles E. Cox Jr., assistant general manager. A number of persons rode in the Curtiss Condor biplane loaned by T. A. T. Saturday afternoon in connection with the opening. The huge eighteen passenger plane remained here until 2 Sunday, but was prevented from making passenger flights Sunday because of the weather. CLUB TOJST SLATE Good Government Group to Pick School Ticket. A school board slate probably will be indorsed this week by Marion County Good Government Club, a Coffin-allied organization, Roy T. Combs, president has announced. “Directors of the club will investigate thoroughly the candidates before approving any,” Combs said. Miss Bertha Klein, 344 North Davidson street has been appointed chairman of the Seventh ward workers of the club; and Mrs. Eldena Beineke, chairman of the Fifth ward. NATIONALISTS MEET Hold Sessions Nightly This Week in Interests of Party. Meetings to support the National party city ticket will be held nightly this week, the campaign committee announced today. Tonight, meeting will be held at 2349 Eellefontaine street; Tuesday at headquarters, Holliday building; Wednesday, West Prospect street and Reid place; Thursday, 331 North Gladstone avenue, and Friday at headquarters. Candidates will speak.
They lived abroad for a while, but returned to New York to plunge into "the gay social whirl. Mrs. Lydig came to dominate that element in New York, as surely and imperiously as a.iyone had done before. In 1919 they, too, were divorced in Paris. Mrs. Lydig then turned her energies to philanthropy and became a member of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant’s parish of the Church of the Ascension. At last she had found her great romance. She and Dr. Grant were seen together frequently. Friends
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5 VIOLENT DEATHS ON WEEK-END LIST
Slaying Suicide and Auto Accidents Cause Fatalities. * Five persons are dead today in Indiana, victims of violence over the week-end. In Indianapolis, a slaying and an automobile crash each claimed a victim. Ulysses Lowe, Negro, believed to be. 100 years old, was found beaten to death in his two-room home. A heavy file was the weapon. Robbery is believed the motive. Orville Johnson, 25, Scottsville, Ky., was killed when his automobile collided with another. John A. Dalton, 43, Elkhart, an Erie railroad brakeman, was killed when run over by a cut of cars. Walter Hendricks, 22, killed himself by shooting at Connersville, while despondent over ill heath. Charles Eastroe, 30, Chicago, was killed in an automobile accident on the Dunes highway neear Gary. WOMAN SEES U. S. AS LEADER IN SCULPTURE -5 Miss Harriett W. Frismuth Talks at Herron Institute. The United States will take a foremost place in sculpture in the next few years, Miss Harriett W. Frismuth of New York noted sculptress, told students at John Herron Art Institute today. Miss Frismuth came to Indianapolis from French Lick Springs, where she is the guest of Miss Lucy Taggart, daughter of the late .Thomas Taggart. Miss Frismuth has been arranging a sculpture exhibit at French Lick, which will be shown Nov. 1 to 10. “The United States is developing a group of young sculptors who have rich talent,” she said. “There also is developing a wider demand for sculpture, which is a fine incentive for harder work. Many European sculptors are coming here because of the large field offered.” TROOPS ORDERED ~OUT Eleventh Infantry Detachment to Be Escort for Hoover. Two companies of the Eleventh Infantry at Ft. Benjamin Harrison have been ordered held in readiness for orders to proceed to Louisville to act as escort, to President Hoover there Wednesday. The President will make a courtesy stop at Madison and receive Governor Hairy G. Leslie aboard the steamer that is taking Hoover down the Ohio from Cincinnati.
remarked that here was the perfect match. They announced their, engagement nan BUT Dr. Grant had been somewhat at odds with the church because of his liberal tendencies. A controversy arose over the proposed marriage and ended with an edict from Bishop William T. Manning, who refused to allow Dr. Grant to marry a divofcee. It was a tremendous blow. Dr. Grant resigned and retired to his country home where, within a few months, he died. Mrs. Lydig dropped into obscurity.
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Speechless. Bv Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 21. —Republicans here have decided to have no public meetings or public speaking during the city campaign. All candidates say they prefer to make a personal canvas for votes. Mrs. Floiwie Sapper, city clerk, who is seeking re-election, is the only candidate on the Democratic ticket making a campaign. She iff the only woman candidate on either ticket.
BOOST CANDIDATES City-Wide Meeting Held for School Ticket. A city-wide meeting was held at the Claypool this afternoon to boost the candidacy of the Citizens’ School committee ticket among women voters. Mrs. Lehman Dunning presided. Mrs. Maud Miller, Merle Signer, Russell Willson, Julian Wetzel and Samuel Garrison are candidates indorsed by the citizens’ movement to “clean-up” the schools. Other meetings today: Y. W. C. A. directors, Mrs. Elsa Huebner Olsen, women’s organizer, speaker; Cornelian Club, at Lumley Tea Room. Mrs. Edna Christian, speaker; Irvington Woman’s Club at home of Mrs. W. T. Young, 5009 East Washington street, Miss Laure Donnan, speaker; Afternoon Reading Club, at the home of Mrs. John S. Broom, 2934 Talbott avenue, Mrs. F. P. Woolery, speaker. Seventeen city organizations have Indorsed the ticket. SUICIDE IS MYSTERY Text Book Editor Leaves Note and Ends Life With Gas. Bu United Press BOSTON, Oct. 21.—Friends of Dix Harwood, 35, text book editor, were mystified today by his suicide. Harwood, a native of Carrollton, UL, was found dead Sunday in the gas-filled kitchen of his back bay apartment. “I want to die. I have nothing to live for,” read a farewell note. Friends said he had a good position as editor for the D. C. Heath Company, text book publishers and seemed in excellent health. Only recently returned from a vacation in Bermuda.
In 1927 she filed a petition in bankruptcy, listing her liabilities at $94,000. She auctioned off her jewels, art treasures, Flemish tapestries and home, and bravely paid creditors 40 cents on the dollar. Her health failed gradually and her famous beauty faded. When she died Saturday, a nurse was the only person at her side. ' New York had forgotten her. ' The funeral services today will be private.
FULL INQUIRY IS ORDERED IN ARMORYDEALS New Board Will Go Into Activities Charged to Old Commission. LESLIE SAYS HE’LL ACT Glossbrenner Is Shown to Have Had Prominent Part in Leases. Full investigation of the activities of the old Indiana national guard armory board and the holding companies with which It contracted to construct twenty-five armories and an airport will be made by the new armory board, Governor Harry G. Leslie announced today. Records of the leases made with the holding companies for the armories reveal that Alfred F. Glossbrenner, Republican candidate for mayor, figured in the deals for twenty-three armories and the Maw Hill airport, costing the state k total of $1,934*083.64. These records have been compiled into a report by the state board o£ accounts under the measure authorized by the 1929 legislature, passed only after Lloyd Claycombs, Marion county representative and known Coffin adherent,*•attempted by constant delay to block its passage. Glossbrenner on 23 The accounts board report, which as yet has not been handed the Governor, is expected to show that although the personnel of the holding companies changed on the various leases, Glossbrenner was a member of holding companies for twenty-three armories. He does not figure In the holding company for the Indianapolis or Lafayette armories. The armory situation, which Btatg Senator Thurman Gottschalk of Berne charged was in the hands of a “closed corporation” was subjected to the bitterest criticism of the session. An immediate investigation was demanded in the senate and after much study and bitter fights on the floor, the measure was passed ■ authorizing the board of accounts to investigate. Shoved on Shelf It reached the lower house for action two weeeks before adjournment of the session and was sent to the committee headed by Clayfiomb, Judiciary B, where it lay for more than a week because, it was charged, the chairman refused to call it for consideration. Finally, under pressure from the senate and members of the .committee, Claycome reported the bill out, but attacked it on the floor. However, it was passed. Since then the accounts board has completed its investigation of the records and is waiting for Leslie to receive the report. Leslie announced Tuesday the appointment of anew board, composed of former Governor Emmett F. Branch of Martinsville, Meade Vestal of Noblesville, Dr. A. C. Arnett of Lafayette and Frank Shellhouse and State Senator Robert Moorhead of Indianapolis. “I shall ask the new armory board to go carefully and thoroughly into the matter,” Leslie said. “Competent architects and engineers may be employed to check the construction against the specifications, to find any possible errors. When the board reports back, I shall determine upon action.” Was Closed Corporation Under the plan introduced by Adjutant General William H. Kershner, who left office the first of September, and with the consent and approval of former Governor Ed Jackson, the armory board entered into leases with holding companies for construction of the armories. Payments for the property were made over a period ranging from fourteen to twenty-five years. Tax exempt bonds for construction of all armories were issued by the People’s State bank of Indianapolis, headed by Felix McWhirter, and the work was done by the Ostrom Realty Company, controlled by Henry Ostrom, a brother-in-law of McWhirter. Jackson was a close adhererenfc of George V. Coffin, Republican city chairman, and the majority of appointments to the various boards were made by him. The same connection is said to have existed with Kershner, who was in charge of negotiations with holding companies.
NEW TRIAL IS REFUSED Judge Denies Petition of City tn Pleasant Run Sewer Case. The Pleasant Run sewer case, involving assessments on 625 taxpayers in Irvington, will not be retried as requested by attorneys for the city of Indianapolis, Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin has ruled. Chamberlin, who tried the case in September, cutting assessments on property holders as much as 60 p?r cent, refused to grant a new trial after petitions had been submitted by attorneys for the city. The petitions also sought to modify | the court’s Judgment as to amount iof assessments. Chamberlin’s first ! ruling saved taxpayers about $175,000. Show Coyote Bites Child flu f nilni /'re** CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—A coyote that escaped from a medicine show and bit a 3-year-old child, was sought by police today. They had orders to shoot the animal, which got away by breaking its chain.