Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 95, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1931 — Page 14

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BISHOP GANNON CHALLENGED TO ‘EXPLAIN' ACTS Dramatic Session Closes Quiz; Claudius Huston Linked to ‘Scandals/ % BY THOMAS L. STOKES United I‘rrM Staff Coi respondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Bishop James Cannon Jr. was challenged today by Chairman Gerald P. Nye of the senate investigating committee to “explain” a series of committee revelations about his 1928 campaign against Alfred E. Smith. “I think the record as it stands is one that invites a full explanation,” the North Dakota senator and investigator said as he adjourned the committee’s renewed inquiry after four days of testimony. “And any explanation made by Cannon, of course, should be made under oath," Nye added. The record of which Nye spoke charges Cannon with diverting political campaign funds to his private use and with concealing campaign contributions, both violations of the corrupt practices act. It also directly involves Republican party leaders with the southern Methodist bishop’s militant anti-Smith Democratic campaign. Accused of Hiding Cannon is in Europe. Senator Carter Glass (Dem., Va.) author of the resolution that authorized the investigation, accusing him of running away and of hiding “his culpability behind the skirts of a woman secretary.” The bishop has met all previous requests for an “explanation” with a curt refusal to testify. H 6 has not indicated by his statements abroad that he has changed his mind. Whether the evidence will be turned over to Attorney-General Mitchell with a recommendation for prosecution will be decided by the committee after a later study of the facts, Nye said. The committee probably will meet again in October. The closing session Friday was one of the most dramatic of senate investigations since the Teapot Dome inquiry. Meet Flat Refusals The committee was met with flat refusals of testimony from two of Cannon’s co-workers. Miss Ada L. Burroughs, his former secretary and Treasurer of the anti-Smith Democrats, repeated a similar performance of last May. A mild-mannered and portly Methodist minister, the Rev. J. Sidney Peters, Newport News, Va., would not even tell the committee that he was secretary of the Cannon organization. Both laid themselves open to possible contempt proceedings. The most startling revelation concerned a check. It popped up early in the day as a $5,000 contribution leceived by W. H. Wood, Charlotte, N. C., banker, for use in the North Carolina campaign, purportedly having been sent to Wood by Cannon. Later, it wa* disclosed that the contribution really had been paid out of a New York bank account of Claudius Hutson, at that time a busy figure in the background of the Hoover campaign.

M. E. CONFERENCE TO PREPARE FOR SESSION Business of Annual Meeting to Be Outlined at Chapel. Outline of business for the annual conference of Methodist Episcopal churches to be held at Bloomington Sept. 16 will be prepared Thursday at the adjourned session of the Indianapolis district conference. The session will open at 10 a. m. at the Union chapel, one mile northeast of Eightieth street and U. S. Road 31. Dr. Orien W. Fifer, district superintendent, will preside at the district session. The Methodist Ministers Wives Association will meet with the district conference, the business session to open at 1:30 p. m., following a lunch served by members of the Union chapel. CADLE FIXES PROGRAM Spiritual Birthday Clebration Is Planned for Tabernacle. A spiritual birthday program, commemorating the reclaiming of Cadle tabernacle by E. Howard Cadle, founder and builder, will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the tabernacle. Cadle will have as his subject, “Born Again.” Negro spirituals will be presented by a Negro quintet from the University of Alabama. Thirty minutes’ concert will be given by the choir prior to Cadle's address. The services will be broadcast over Station WFBM.

BOARD TO REORGANIZE P. T. A. Federation Move Slated for Fall Meeting. Reorganization of the executive board of the Federation of Indianapolis Parent-Teacher Associations is slated at the first meeting of the new school year of the organization at 10 Wednesday morning. The session will be held in the women’s parlor of the Fletcher American bank, presided over by Mrs. S. M. Myers, president of the federation. Hornets Rout Picnickers WINCHESTER, Kan., Aug. 29. Everything went smoothly at a Sunday school picnic until a swarm of hornets attacked the 200 guests. Whether the picnic would be rescheduled was not announced.

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TWO IN RACE FOR STATE JOB Rail Inspector Post Pays $4,000 Yearly. Fight for the position of chief railroad inspector of the public service commission now lies between J. K. Smith, veteran inspector for the department, and Charles Michaels, Logansport railroad man. The list of aspirants was boiled down to these two at the public service commission conference Friday afternoon, but no definite action was taken, due to absence of Commissioner Frank Singleton. Singleton is on vacation and reported to favor Michals. Governor Harry G. Leslie has announced a “hands off” policy. The place pays $4,000 a year and was made vacant by the death of William P. Holmes. Commissioners authorized inauguration of a part-time bus line to the new Perry stadium, to be operated from the Circle, when games are being played at the park. Fare will be 10 cer^fs. Northern Indiana Public Service Company was authorized to issue $2,000,000 of 6 per cent preferred stock to reimburse the treasury for Surchase of stock in the Chicago listrict Electric Generating Company. All are Insull. SOLICITORS J. RE FRAUDS Central Labor Union Warns Indianapolis of Salesmen-Swindlers. Warning that men representing themselves as solicitors of advertising and contributions for Central Labor Union Labor day programs are frauds was issued Friday by Emil Salsbury, secretary of the union in Indianapolis. “The Central Labor Union is not sponsoring any program,” said Mr. Salsbury, “and we do not recognize any so-called labor paper, except the official organ, the Union. Solicitors for any other labor paper are unauthorized by us.” POWELL HEADS ORDER Rising Sun Man Named Chief of United American Mechanics. Election of officers closed the fortieth annual state convention of the Junior Order, United American Mechanics at Hotel Denison Friday. Stanley Powell of Rising Sun was named state councilor, succeeding L. R. Smock of Terre Haute. In Indiana, the lodge has ninetyfive units and a membership of 8,500. It was founded in 1847. Daughters of America, the auxiliary, elected Mrs. Dillie Bybee state councilor to succeed Mrs. Pearl Taylor of New Albany.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s "Believe It or Not” which appeared in Friday’s Times: The Cursed River—The Saco river in Maine has suffered from a strange curse for the last 256 years, or since King Philip’s war in 1675, when the curse was pronounced by the Indians. The the squaw of Squando, chief of the Sokokis tribe of Indians, was paddling her way across the stream, bearing with her in the craft the first born child of the sagamore. At that period there was prevalent in England the belief that an Indian papoose could swim instinctively from birth, and the sailors from a British vessel at anchor in the river, in attempting to prove or disprove the idea, upset the squaw’s canoe and the Indian child was drowned. The Indian woman then swore upon the river a curse, asking that the gods sacrifice three white persons each year in revenge. Since that time three persons have been drowned each year in the Saco, a large majority of them being killed in the dangerous rapids. The Workman Who Dug in One Spot for seven years —The Pitch Lake of Trinidad, an immense deposit of pure asphalt, is in itself one of the most unique physical phenomena of South America. It is a semi-viscous lake of “readymade pavement,” and though millions of tons of it have been removed a like amount has bubbled up from the earth, keeping the lake full. One workman worked in exactly the same spot for seven years, digging a hole 9 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 2 feet deep each day, and when he came back in the morning the hole always had filled up. MONDAY—“A dead man won a fight.” . BEN-HUR PICNIC SUNDAY 600 to Attend Frolic at Home in Crawfordsville. Six hundred members and friends of Ben-Hur are expected at a picnic to be held under auspices of all central Indiana courts at the BenHur home in Crawfordsville, Sunday. Contests will feature the entertainment. Prizes will be given for the largest Ben-Hur family, the oldest man, the oldest woman and the youngest member. The picnic committee, headed by Louie H. Mills, will furnish food.

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NAB FIVE FOR PETTYTHEFTS Youths Are Caught Twice in One Hour. Career of petty crime, ranging from watermelon thefts to an attempt to steal bread and doughnuts, that was packed in two hectic houns. ended suddenly early today for five west side youths who are held in jail. The youths first were arrested by Deputy Sheriffs Gilbert Thomas and Howard Skaggs in the watermelon patch of Jacob Hahn, 4710 Rockville road. Hahn declined to prosecute, so deputies questioned and later released them. An hour later the youths were seen attempting to pry open a bread box outside a Kroger grocery, Alton and Michigan streets, and were rearrested. The theft suspects, charged with vagrancy, are Michael Sackel, 18, of 424 Sheffield avenue; Dale Smith and James Henn, 18, of 4505 West Washington street; Thomas Lang, 16, of 458 Goodlet avenue, and Paul Eppert, 18, of 428 Amolda street. Sugar Hijacked By Times Special GARY, Ind., Aug. 29. —Ten tons of sugar purchased from the Gary Wholesale Grocery Company was hijacked in Chicago after a man who said he was Frank Romano presented a check for $795, which was a forgery. Robert Bowman, instructed to deliver the sugar by truck, was halted in Chicago by Romano, forced from the driver’s cab and told to wait at a corner. Several hours later the truck was returned to him, the sugar having been unloaded.

ANNOUNCEMENT BY—BUTLER UNIVERSITY Fall Semester Opens Sept. 14-16 Friends of education may do a real service this year by financing worthy students. Address the president, Dr. Walter S. Athearn, in care of the University, or see the financial secretary, John W. Atherton, 908 Majestic Building. All collegiate courses in the School of Liberal Arts, School of Religion and School of Education. Complete facilities in chemistry, zoology, botany, etc., English and all other languages, business administration, journalism, physical education—everything needful in a standard American college. NIGHT CLASSES AVAILABLE Address the new president, Dr. W. D. Athearn, at the University; in relation to business affairs, the financial secretary, J. W. Atherton, at the downtown office, 908 Majestic Building, Indianapolis.

U. S. DRY CHIEF ORDERS PROBE OF WORT MALT Charges Product Is Widely Used in Making of Beer. By Seri pps-Haward Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 29—Disturbed by reports that the country is being flooded with beer made from wort, a malt product manufactured in Detroit, Prohibition Director Amos W. Woodcock has begun a thorough inquiry. Woodcock has ordered William N. Woodruff, administrator for the sixth prohibition district with headquarters at Cincinnati, to investigate possible law violations. Information has reached prohibition headquarters that twenty-two plants are making wort in the Detroit area alone in quantities sufficient to produce more than 5,000 barrels of beer daily if used for that purpose. The problem is to prove that the manufacturers or their agents know their product is to be used in making beer, as wort has a legitimate use in the baking industry. The complaints which caused Director Woodcock to act came from a brewer, apparently disturbed by the inroads of wort on his sales of near beer. “Wort itself is not an illegal product, but by the addition of yeast it is made into beer,” said Woodcock. “In order to obtain a conviction against manufacturers or agents handling wort it will be necessary to show that it was being sold to be used in the manufacture of beer.” “The situation presents a problem that we will have to solve—not as serious a problem as making liquor, but one that can not be overlooked.” he said. Woodcock said that in the past several attempts have been made by the government to obtain convictions against manufacturers of wort. All resulted in failure, he said, because the government was unable to convince juries that the product was sold for an illegal purpose. Syndicates are known to be operating in many large cities not only selling the wort, but even assisting in turning it into beer.

STOCKMAW TO INSTRUCT Indianapolis Dancing Master Leaves for Chicago to Give Lessons. Louis Stockman, director of the Stockman dance studios, Sixteenth and Illinois streets, left today to teach in his fourth consecutive session of the Chicago Association of Masters of Dancing at Hotel Congress in Chicago. Approximately 800 teachers of dancing from the United States and Canada will attend. BAN WHEAT IMPORTING Argentina Issues Decree Forbidding Any Other Transactions. By United Press RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 29.—Importation of wheat was forbidden for eighteen months today simultaneously with the publication of a decree authorizing the exchange of 1,275,00 bags of third and fourth grade Brazilian coffee for 25,000,000 bushels of hard winter No. 2 American wheat.

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LINDY MAY GO TO EUROPE BY WAYOFRUSSIA Considers Flight, His Questions Indicate; to Leave for China Soon. By United Press TOKIO, Aug. 29. —Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, opening their fourth day in Tokio as honor guests of the Japanese nation, indicated today they may extend their “vacation flight" to Europe by way of Russia. Having virtually decided upon a visit to China within the next ten days Colonel Lindbergh’s careful inquiries as to the air route across Siberia gave rise to conjectures that a longer journey was being considered. The young American aviator, refused however, to confirm the reports. saying he and his wife “positively have no plans yet.” The inquiries regarding Siberia were made, during a visit to the Soviet embassy here. “Will you return home on a steamer?” he was asked. “Not unless it is necessary.** Colonel Lindbergh replied. The flight to China seemed assured after a visit today to the Chinese legation, where envoys promised a hearty welcome from the Chinese people. The aviator still was undecided as to a visit to Manila, which was being urged by United States Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes. ILLINOIS STATE FAIR PRAISED BY BARKER Indiana Show Official Say Its State’s Best Display. “It’s the best state fair that Illinois ever has held,” E. J. Barker, secretary-treasurer of the Indiana state fair board, declared on returning to Indianapolis Friday after spending two days at Springfield, 111. “Every barn of livestock is overflowing and many tents have been erected to take care of the large number of entries,” Barker added. Other members of the group visiting the Illinois state fair were E. D. Logsdon, director of the Indiana state fair horse department; E. Reddish, swine department director; Levi P. Moore, director of publicity, and C. Y. Foster, director of the concessions and mechanical department. £ Cold Fails to Rout Park Sleepers WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—The temperature on recent nights has gone well below 60, but 100 persons still are sleeping in capital parks.

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