Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1929 — Page 1

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UHL REFUSES G. 0. P. BOARD APPOINTMENT Marion Club bead’s Action Direct Slap at Coffin Organization. HUGG, TAYLOR ASSAILED Greased Election Liability to Republican Party. Is Resolution. BY BEN STERN Peace overtures of the Coffin organization were rebuffed today by the Marion Club when the club directors declared that their president, Albert Uhl, will not become a member of the advisory committee on invitation of County Chairman Martin F. Hugg. A resolution slapping the Republican county organization adopted today, declared the ‘‘so-called reorganization convention” held a week ago, which elected William L. Taylor district chairman and Hugg county chairman, “was held without a roll call of the duly elected precinct committeeman and committeewomen and no effort was made to ascertain if a quorum of duly qualified members was present.” It further charged the call for the meeting was made in a secret and sudden manner, constituting a further liability for the Republican party. Not Rank and File Views The resolution also declared that

"the county organization represents at this time a school of thought in political affairs inconsistent and repugnant with that held by the rank and file of the party. That It is a highly centralized political machine, dominated and controlled by one man, exploited for selfish ends and fundamentally unsound from both a public and party welfare viewpoint.” It also pointed out that by accepting the appointment, Uhl would “embarrass himself as well as Hugg, because he would have to defend the actions and personnel of the organization and would be out of harmony with the organization.” This resolution followed close upon the tenor of the meeting of the club held Thursday night when both Hugg and Taylor were called upon to resign and the county organization was branded as "utility controlled.” “When the utilities have attempted to stifle the people's legislation in the general assembly Taylor always has been there representing the utilities.” declared States Senator Robert Moorhead. “It is the utility group that is controlling the Republican party in this county and in order to regain public confidence the party must stop this guiding by the utilities. “I am ready to propose to this club that we ask the two chairmen to resign and let the people elect their successors,” declared Moorhead. But no action was taken. Not Representative

“The Republican organization in this county does not represent the Republicans,” declared Thomas A. Daily, former state senator. “For years it has had a chairman who, while serving as police chief, was forced to resign for conduct unbecoming an officer. Every one knows the reason for his resignation. This police chief during the primary two years ago used eighteen 01 twenty convicts on his election boards. I have this information from Will Remy, former prosecutor,” declared Daily. Daily pleaded for united support in electing precinct committeemen whc would be courageous in opposing boss domination. Committee Important He joined Emsley Johnson in reminding members that it was more important to elect the proper type of precinct committeemen than United States senator. “The party is sure of defeat if it goes on with the old organization and permits Coffin to name the candidates for the fall election,” Daily said. “And it will be a good thing if it does get defeated if we have to have the type of officeholders selected by Coffin. He begged for the election of antiCoffin precinct committeemen and was joined in this by John Walker. Joseph Hayes, former county commissioner: William R. Ringer, deputy prosecutor, Harry Dunn, county auditor; Cassius L. Hogle, Harrv D. Tutewiler, Joseph L. Hogue, Todd Young, George O. Hutsell, countv clerk: Mike Abrams, William A. Boyce Jr., city clerk, and others. Harry Hendrickson, presided. The club adopted the election committee resolutions condemning Coffinism and appealing to the voters for a reorganization at the polls. These resolutions were framed last Friday. Henry Krug announced the club was inaugurating a membership campaign to terminate Feb. 1 and Louis Fletcher, secretary, declared the rolls show 750 members. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 41 10 a. m 47 7a. m.....'42 11 a. m 48 Ba. m 42 12 (noon).. 49 9 a. m..... 45 1 p, m..... 51

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 179

Fire Laddies \Bricked ’ Into General Alarm

TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 6. —The Tarrytown fire department ran itself into a state of exhaustion today while a bricklayer placidly sounded alarms all over town by tapping a cable over which he was building a wall. The bricklayer carefully placed a brick, smeared it with mortar and tapped it with his trowel. The alarm sounded for Engine 22. Once more the cheerful bricklayer struck his brick for a general alarm. Engines in all parts of the city headed for Box 21. Engine 22 almost collided with the remainder of the

COLD WAVE TO RETURN HERE Mercury to Sink Again Over Week-End, Prediction. Return of thermometers to their standings of last week was forecast today for the week-end by J. H. Armington, meteorologist. Reports reached the weather bureau of a new cold wave sweeping eastward from Canada and the Rockies. Today will continue warm, and tonight’s lowest temperature probably will be 30 or 35 degrees, said Armington. Unsettled conditions Saturday may bring rain, and lower temperatures late Saturday may change the rain to a snow, he predicted. Sunday will be colder, temperatures sinking to 10 or 15 degrees above zero. NEW RECORD SET New York-Miami Auto Speed Mark Lowered. Les Morrison, driving a Marmonbutlt Roosevelt, has established a new speed record between New York City and Miami, Fla., covering a total of 1,477 miles in 29 hours and 21 minutes elapsed time. The previous record, made by Cannonball Baker in January, 1929, was broken by one hour and forty-nine minutes. The car, a straight-eight sedan, was the same car Morrison drove to every state capital in the country in less than thirty days last Slimmer, covering a total of 18,244 miles on this trip. When it left New York the car’s speedometer showed 37,681 miles. , The car is owned by Morrison. The only mishap on the entire trip was one flat tire.

53 Fighting Fatigue as 42nd Hour of Radio Contest Passes

Ninety-one radio listener* on a sleepless spree At J p. ni. today there were only fiftythree. AS the forty-second hour of the Times-Lyric Sylvania radio listeners contest in the Lyric ballrood passed at 2 p. m. today, thir-ty-eight had blinked their way into the Land of Nod.

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As noon-time meals were served, the ballroom floor, with its toilers on chaise lounges, its heavy-eyed card players, truly looked like the song that “whammed” its strains from one of the radios, “Sleepy Valley.” The mattress brigade started its march for the door early Thursday night. “There goes one, there goes another,” became as frequent as a child’s “eeny meeny, miny, mo,” with the contest judges. At 6 a. m. this morning the sandman leveled his heaviest guns and picked up a baker's dozen. Breakfast brought cheer to the mastoid masters and the morning hours

RETURN PORT Fishing Vessels Safe After Week's Storm. Bv Vnited Press NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 6.—After being tossed about the Gulf of Mexico by gales of the past week, five fishing vessels and their crews were safe in port at Biloxi, Miss., today Coast guard cutters from Biloxi searched the gulf all week, as the rising gales brought new calls of distress from the fishing fleet. The two-masted schooner Mystery, with Captain Hugo Loga and a crew of four aboard, was the first towed into port. She had been blown out to sea when the auxiliary engine failed as the vessel was attempting to enter Southwest pass. The Mystery had been missing for six days.

Are department, for by this time No. 22 had reached Box 12 and decided the alarm came from Box 21. Everybody stood still and argued. “It’s from Box 12,” shouted someone. ‘‘No, it’s either 21, 112 or 221,” answered a comrade. ‘‘Gee, there must be a big fire somewhere,” said the bricklayer, setting another brick and relighting his pipe. Twenty minutes later the bricklayer went to lunch and the firemen warned him to stay off the cable.

FORD'S YACHT RONSAGRQUND New Craft Hits Reef; 17 Men Taken Off. Bv United Press NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 6.Edsel Ford’s new $450,000 yacht Sialia, launched only last month at Neponset, was hard aground today on a reef near Hens and Chickens lightship, about four miles off Horseneck beach. Ford was not aboard, but Captain Oscar Anderson and a crew of seventeen men were taken off the stranded craft by the crew of the coast guard patrol boat 287, which had been dispatched to the scene from the base at Woods hole. BLAST IS REPEATED Explosion Rocks Town for Second Time. Bv United Press MUNHALL-, Pa., Dec. 6.—While investigators were digging in the i-uins of the Munhall postoffice today, another explosion next door in the basement of a drug store, rocked the town for the second time within twenty-four hours and injured four persons. CARS JAM IN TUNNEL Four Jump Tracks, Tying Traffic in Both Directions. Bv United Press BALTIMORE. Dec. 6.—Four cars of a ninety-eight-car, southbound freight train jumped the track in the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Baltimore and Potomac tunnel early today and tied up traffic in both directions through the tunnel. No one was injured. Officials said they believed they would have trackage cleared by noon.

found them sticking like leeches. One of the earliest to hit the hay was Arthur G. Hendricks, 3301 East Washington street. Hendricks boasted Thursday, “if you don’t have turkey for me Christmas, I’ll quit cold,” “Sez you,” challenged another contestant and the “sez you” won, for at the twenty-four-hour period Thursday night Hendricks gave up the radio wake to broadcast snores on his own davenport. His wife, Mrs. Irene Hendricks, quit at her husband’s behest. As lids weighed tons at noon today under the drone of the radio programs, “a nonrefillable eye-drop-per” was the prayer of the nurse attending the contestants. Any one who says you can’t learn something staying awake to the wild radio waves is “off his coco,” according to Virgil Bailey, 3708 West Tenth street, No. 56.

Bailey couldn’t play “Chopsticks” on a Chinese piano when he entered the contest, but today he

RUBIO TOURING U. S. Mexico’s President-Elect Sorry to See Morrow Quit Post. Bu United Press HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Dec. 6. President-Elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, continuing a leisurely tour of the United States to rest from the strain of his recent campaign, was due to arrive here some time before noon today. He left Houston at 10 Thursday night aboard a special Missouri-Pa-cific train, after a day of receptions Rubio indicated he would determine his itinerary as his trip progressed, but said he hoped to go to Washington to visit President Hoover. He expressed keen regret at the prospect of American Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow leaving Mexico to become a candidate for the United States senate.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929

DISMISSAL OF HUGE MERGER TO BESOUGHT Mclntosh to Demand Vote on Motion of State Law Violation. CHANCE SEEMS REMOTE Service Commission Scans Appraisals Offered by Insull Group. Effort to obtain dismissal of the $70,000,000 Insull utilities merger petition is expected to be made at the public service commission conference this afternoon. Commissioner Calvin Mclntosh has announced he will ask the commissioners to vote on the motion of opposition attorneys to dismiss the case on the ground that the merger setup is in violation of the state utility law. Appears Remote Possibility of dismissal at this time seemed remote, as Commissioner Howell Ellis, who is presiding in the case, announced that the evidence gathered by commission engineers and accountants will be introduced commencing Monday at 10 a. m. This announcement was made at the close of the Thursday afternoon session, when the utilities side of the case had been completed so far as their introduction of evidence is concerned. Final evidence presented was the appraisal of both the Central Indiana Power Company and T. H. I. & E. properties. It is upon proerty appraisals that rates will be based Should the commission appraisals differ materially from those offered Thursday, the commissioners are likely to turn down the merger plan on the ground that under their appraisals present revenues will not be sufficient to meet obligations, it was said. Talk “Going Value” Having discussed the basis of rate making Thursday morning, “going value” was the subject of crossexamination Thursday afternoon. Charles W. Spooner, president of Spooner & Merrill, Inc., Chicago, engineers in charge of the appraisal, testified that he listed “going value” of electric properties at between 15 and 20 per cent. For interurban properties he placed it at about 10 per cent. This conclusion is based on the bright prospects for increased electrical consumption and the static or retrograde position of the interurban lines, he declared. “Going value” is a phrase coined to take the place of “good will” in monopolies.

shoved dreams out of the eyes of his comrades by banging out a onefingered “Sweet Rosie O’Grady” on a piano. The Rhummy Sextet has completed its thousandth hand of cards. Here’s how some of the contestants stay awake:

Philip Hayden, 54, of 2238 Pierson avenue, and No. 54 in the contest, as well as the oldest entered, twiddles his thumbs. Mrs. H. A. Sw r ain, 1724 Prospect street. No. 10, paces back and forth carrying her extra pair of stockings, powder puff, cold cream, rouge and kerchiefs in a briefcase. Some skip rope, some dance, while the alleged wise ones, who speculate on the hours the contest will last, just sit and suck on lemons, oranges or fags. Guesses on the duration of the contest are being dropped into a box by spectators. The one who comes nearest the exact closing time will receive a Howard radio set donated by the Stegman company.

SENTENCED TO CHAIR ‘Model Husband’ Gets Death for Killing Girl. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—A “model husband,” whose defense against a charge of choking a pretty stenographer to death was the insanity that comes from a whisky flask, must die in the electric chair, by a verdict of a jury. John Preston, 32-year-old interior decorator, was found guilty of strangling Miss Agnes Johnston, 26, to death, after assaulting her on a roadside near West Chicago on Oct. 13. A jury deliberated an hour and L a half before returning its verdict.

YEAH! MIKE AND IKE

But for Smile They Look Alike

Who is who? Is Traffic Officer Moriarty on the left in the photo or is it Traffic Officer Saylor?

BY ARCH STEINEL WHEN Traffic Officer Orman F. Saylor goes off duty at the corner of Delaware and Maryland streets, he goes on duty. When Traffic Officer David Moriarty goes on duty at the same corner, he goes off duty. When Saylor goes home on an East Tenth street tram, it may be Moriarty going home. If Moriarty bawls you out for jumping a stop-sign, it may be Saylor.

And so it goes vice versa, Moriarty is Saylor, Saylor is Moriarty, even unto their own street car conductors, traffic lieutenants and photographers. For Saylor looks like Moriarty and Moriarty looks like Saylor. # # # AND to carry the illusion of the proverbial peas in a pod to its polar extremities, one finds the Saylor-Moriarty combination working the same traffic corner and riding the same street car line to their respective homes. Saylor relieves Moriarty at stopsign duty and Moriarty relieves Saylor. But who is relieving who at what o’clock and when is a matter of police department record, not physiognomies. Each one is a catch-all for black looks or smiles from motorists that are intended for the other one. Doubling for each other has its hardships. Take a day recently when Moriarty was in a hurry to get home. He clambered aboard an East Tenth street car. When he arrived near his home at 950 North Gray street, he attempted to alight from his tram. “Here, we’re going on out to your house,” remonstrated the motorman as he hailed Moriarty, “I know you live down at 1222 Healing avenue.” Moriarty eventually convinced the motorman he was really Moriarty and not Saylor, who lives at the Healing avenue address, and adds in telling of the incident, "That’s one time I got home.” # # # So in taking the above photo of Saylor and Moriarty, and desiring to be sure she had the right Mr. Saylor, the right Mr. Moriarty, The Times photographer said, “When I snap this picture, Saylor, you smile.” And so the traffic officer on the left in the above photo smiles and says he's Saylor and the soberfaced one on the right in the photo says he’s Moriarty. But if Moriarty smiled for Saylor —Gadzooks. Egad! Enuf!

GETS TERM IN PRISON Albert Briscoe Sentenced One to Three Years for Larceny. Albert Briscoe, Indianapolis, was convicted of petit larceny and sentenced to one to three years in Indiana state prison by Criminal Judge James A. Collins today. Briscoe is alleged to have stolen $l7 from Thomas Karis, 529 East Ohio street, Oct. 20. LUMBER - SHIP GROUNDS Tugs Pull Steamer Off Sand Bar Near Governor’s Island. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—The Pacific Cedar, a lumber ship, carrying a crew of thirty-three, went aground off Governor's Island, near Castle Williams, but was pulled clear by tugs shortly after. The ship headed for Hoboken to undergo inspection.

Hey, Watson Cops Find ‘Lad' in Boy; Arrest 'Murderer’; It’s Dummy.

By United Press NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 6.—Detectives James Aldi and Joseph Corrigan halted their automobile beside a man who was carrying a suspicious looking suitcase. “Let's have a look at your bag,” suggested Aldi. The pedestrian protested, but the majesty of the law swept him aside and Corrigan threw open the bag. “My God!” he shouted, peering at the body of a boy, face down and fully clothed, “it’s murder.” Aldi, his brain working like lightning, seized the pedestrian and threw him in the police automobile. Corrigan gingerly placed the suitcase in the front seat and started for headquarters. Just then a voice floated out of the suitcase: "Hey, you dicks, leave my pappy alone. He ain’t done nothing.” “I,” said the prisoner, who by this time, was laughing himself on the verge of apoplexy, “am Phil Schaefer, the ventriloquist, and the young man in the bag is Jerry, my dummy. Jerry, I want you to meet Sherlock Holmes and S. S. Van Dine. Talk to the nice detectives, Jerry.” Carmen Hills Claims Bankruptcy Voluntary bankruptcy petition has been filed in federal court by Carmen P. Hill, 2836 Ruckle street, St. Louis Cardinal pitcher, who listed litbilities of $2,532 and assets of $695. Liabilities mostly are indebtedness accruing from a garage business in which Newton W. Lewis was a partner.

NAB BANK SUSPECTS Four Believed Implicated in Indiana Holdup. By United Press BRIDGEPORT, 0., Dec. 6.—Four men are being held here in connection with the murder of a woman bystander during a holdup and theft of $9,000 from a Columbia City (Ind.) bank. The men arrested gave the names of Joe White, Joe Sarcena and William King. The name of the fourth has not been divulged. They also were wanted for questioning in connection with the disposal of $180,000 in federal securities alleged to have been obtained in a Canadian mail train robbery last year.

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VARE IS DENIED SEAT BY SENATE; PENNSYLVANIA BOSS GLUM AS VOTE IS RECORDED Norris Resolution, Inferring Fraud Was Used to Gain Office, Is Adopted, 58 to 22; Job Declared Vacant Officially. WATSON’S BALLOT FOR KEYSTONER Three-Year Vote for Solon's Chair Ended With Disapproval Registered of 1926 Election; Robinson Is Absent. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—William S. Vare, the Pennsylvania Republican leader, was denied a seat in the United States senate today, because he spent $785,000 to get the Pennsylvania senatorial nomination in 1926. The Norris resolution was adopted by the senate declaring the expenditure of such a large sum of money, together with charges of fraud, corrupted the credentials of the Pennsylvania senator-elect.

PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEY BEQINS Montgomery County Chosen as Subject. A public health survey, under direction of President Hoover’s White House conference on public health and child welfare is under way in Montgomery county, according to announcement today by Dr. William F. King, secretary of the state board of health. The survey was ordered by the Washington conference in each state, with instructions that representative counties (neither too poor nor too wealthy) be chosen. Montgomery was chosen in Indiana. The state board of health, with Dr. Walter W. Lee, assistant to Secretary King, and Raymond Bright, director of visual education for the state board, in direct charge of the state’s service, is co-operating in the survey. Dr. Charles B. Crittenden of Washington is in Montgomery county making the survey.

PITT TO PLAY U. S, C. Panthers to Make Trip West on New Year’s. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6.—The University of Southern California announced today the University of Pittsburgh will send its football team to play Southern California in the annual Tournament of Roses game New Year’s day. “We have no details yet,” the Southern California athletic office said. “We just have received word from Pitt stating it had acted favorably on our invitation.” The news that Pitt was to be the eastern representative in the historical encounter received almost as much acclaim locally as did the selection of Southern California as the western team. SHOOTING BAFFLES COPS Fatal Wounding in Dice Game Probed by Alabama Police. By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 6.—A confused story of how A. M. Searcy, real estate man, was shot in the leg and allowed to bleed to death during a dice game at a hotel here perplexed police today as they sought to solve the shooting. James Davis, whom detectives termed a professional gambler, admitted shooting Searcy and claimed the realtor attempted to holdup participants in the game. Searcy was rental manager for one of the city’s largest real estate firms. SEARCH LAKE FOR SHIP Planes Start for Ontario to Seek Tanker With Crew of 22. By United Press TORONTO, Ontario, Dec. 6.—Airplanes from Toronto today are heading down Lake Ontario in an effort to find the oil tanker John Irwin, latest addition to the McColbFrontenac Company’s fleet, which has been unreported since Monday. Captain John B. Foote of Toronto is on board with a crew of twentyone men. Bound for Kingston, she should have arrived there by Monday night. DE PAUW ALUMNUS DIES Oldest Graduated of Greencastle School Passes at Home. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 6.---John G. Dunbar, 90, oldest graduate of De Pauw university, died this morning at his home. Born in 1839 at Greenfield, Mr. Dunbar was graduated from De Pauw in 1861. He served in the Civil war. He was postmaster here eight years.

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The seat he never has been able to occupy thereby was declared vacant. The vote was 58 to 22. Senator James E. Watson. Indiana, voted for Vare while Senator Arthur Robin on, Indiana, was absent. In Robinson’s behalf it was announced he would have voted against Vare if present. The preamble of the Norris resolution charged there were “numerous and various instances of fraud and corruption” in Vare’s primary campaign. It contended the money expenditure represented a prima facie case “contrary to sound public policy, harmful to the dignity and honor of the senate, dangerous to the perpetuity of a free government.” Charges Inferential The charges of fraud were inferential mostly. Much was made of the fact that no votes were counted for Vare’s opponent in many Philadelphia districts. It was contended also that the Pennsylvania practice under which candidates employ watchers at the polls was only another way of buying votes legally. Many irregularities concerning registration in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh also were developed, but it was not agreed how widespread these irregularities were. The resolve portion of the resolution merely adopted the report of the senate investigating committee and stated “that the said William S. Vare, be, and he is hereby, denied a seat in the United States senate.” Vare sat dejectedly in the first seat on the Republican side of the chamber while the vote was taken. At his side sat his physician, Dr. John Shaw with a worried expression, watching to see the effect of the balloting upon his patient. Shows Disappointment

Vare’s ruddy face paled slightly as the “ayes” were announced one after the other in favor of the resolution which deprived him of his seat. The senate scene was staged in all the official splendor of a great event. The galleries were filled with distinguished officials of government and their wives, beautifully gowned. In the first row of the senators’ gallery was Mrs. Vare, in a brown dress with light tan hat, and beside her were their two daughters, Beatrice and Mrs. William Kipp. Nearby was the family friend, Leopold Glass, municipal court judge, in Philadelphia. In the opposite gallery reserved for “guests” of the senate, was William B. Wilson, Vare’s defeated Democratic opponent and members of his family, along with his attorney. Thus ended the three-year-old fight, which has cost Vare a substantial fortune and his health. ‘Great Injustice' “I feel a great injustice has been done my state and myself,” Vare said, in a statement dictated to his secretary in the office of the military affairs committee, adjoining the senate chamber, after the vote had been taken. “It is to be regretted that the highest body in the land should trample on the Constitution and treat so lightly the rights of a state.” His statement was indorsed by Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, who led the senate fight for Vare. "The senate’s action seems to me to be in flagrant disregard of the Constitution and the rights of the states,” Reed said. “I believe that in years to come, it will be regretted in the same way that we regretted the high-handed action of the senate and the house in reconstruction days after the Civil war,” Vare returned to his hotel after issuing his statement. His physician indicated his paralytic condition had not suffered from the incident. Governor Is Silent By United Press HARRISBURG, Dec., 6.—Governor Fisher does not expect to name an appointee to the United States senate from Pennsylvania to fill the vacancy caused by the rejection of William S. Vare before next week, he announced today. The Governor would not indicate any possibilities he had in mind as Vare’s successor.