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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
Troublesome Khan Plank
Question Is Apparently
Settled to Satisfaction of
All CoterieS = Hotels Are
Packed.
RALSTON BOOM MOVES
ON WITH HIGH SPEED
Candidates Entertained at
Headquarters = District
CaucuSeS Scheduled for
7i30 p, m,-State Ses-
sion Opens Thursday.

Party harmony and optimism over
Democratic chances at the Novem-
Der election was the spirit that pre-
vailed as the hundreds Of delegates
to the Democratic State convention,
which convenes at 9 a. m. Thursday.
milled about the lobby of the Clay
pool today.
With the troublesome Klan plank
apparently disposed Of to the salts
faction of all factions, party lead
ers were hopeful the convention
would not be marred by injection IF
issues other than State issues.
The lobby Of the Claypool was a
whirlpool of massed humanity, and
on candidates row" on the eighth
floor the crowd packed and damned
down every corridor. Every room
on this floor Is being pressed into
service by candidates and as district
headquarters.
At a meeting Of the State central
committee at 10 this morning final
details of the convention were COM
pleted.
John Shea, ergeant-at-arms. has
completed seating arrangements.
Ovation for Ralston
At meeting Tuesday afternoon
tee was named to aid in drawing
up the platform for presentation to
the resolutions committee after its
formation tonight. The sub-com-
mittee is composed of Dan W. Sims,
Lafayette; W. W. Spencer, Indian
apolis, and Findley Gray, Corners
was one continuous train of hand
shaking.
Others attending the meeting were
William McInerny, South Bend; Guy
Colerick. FIT Wayne; Bernard Kor-
bly,. Indianapolis; John A. NJ. Adair,
Portland; Lew G. Ellingham, FIT.
Wayne, and John S. McFadden,
Rockville.
A revised Ku-KTux Klan slate was
being circulated throughout the.
morning. Almost every candidate
for State Office has been named on
one or more Klan states.
BOssert Returns
1t apparently is the intention of
Khan leaders to attempt to pick a
winning ticket, the Walter G. Bos-
sert faction having backed a loser
in the Republican convention.
Bossert, grand dragon Of the In
diana Khan, who has been in Wash
ington, arrived here Tuesday and
held a meeting of his lieutenants at
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
And Still They Come!

shipped to New York within the
next few days, and then driven
on a cross-country trip to San
Francisco.
According to the company's
announcement, it took seven
years to produce the first million
Ford cars and 1872 working days
for the last million.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04

Nv ILL NJ. CRESSY is going
W to see the Republican
convention for The In
dianapolis Times through a
funny mans eyes. You know
Cressy already-the most laugh
able vaudevillian on the Amer
lean stage, the funniest writer
in the country today. He
doesn't know a thing about
politics. That's one thing that
makes his stuff so rich. He'll
cover" the whole blowout,
from a day or two before it
starts until it adjourns. Don't
miss his series. It's a scream.
George Storm will draw the pic
lures. AS an artist, he draws
as killingly as Cressy writes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
TODAY is BUNDLE DAY
Fire Stations and Churches to Re
ceive Near-East Relief.

Thirty two fire houses and forty
churches received donations Of cloth
ing today for the Near East Relief
Bundle day. The gifts will be sent
to destitute children and refugees of
the Near East.
The Palace Theater lobby, and
the Y. M. C. A. lobby were down
town stations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
State Must Depend on Posi-
tive Evidence of Staying
of Franks Boy to Get
Death Penalty Defense
Attorney Claims,
WITNESSES WILL PROVE
CHARGER PROSECUTOR
Brother Visits Loeb in Cell
and Reads Lists of Those
Executed Since 1910
Youths Adapt Selves to
Jail Routine.
BIZ Tnited Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, June 4.-The State, in
it's attempt to hang Nathan Leopold
and Richard Loeb for the murder
of Robert Franks. must depend upon
positive evidence of the crime, Clar-
ence Darrow, chief attorney for the
defense, said today.
Darrow. who heads the $4,000, 900
legal staff retained by the million
aire parents of Leopold and Loeb,
said he was Interested in a state
ment made by Robert E. Grove,
States attorney, admitting the State
had no signed confession of the muir
der.
Although declaring his belief that
the States attorney might '"spring
some surprise on us yet" Darrow
Indicated that if it were true no
signed confession is in the hands Of
the prosecution, the defense would
be strengthened considerably.
Grove Makes Admission
In admitting that Leopold and
Loeb never signed admissions of the
who took notes on the boys state
ments, would testify for the State.
thus taking the place of signed con-
fession.
"A confession as an instrument IN
itself means nothing anyway"
Grove said 1T might very easily
be ruled out by a trial judge. It is
IN witnesses to discriminating state
ments made by the boys that the
State places its chief reliance"
Grove said he would summon all
possible Witnesses before the grand
jury, disregarding the usual Gus
tom Of holding back surprise wit
nesses" for the actual trial
I'VE are going to get together all
the evidence possible now" he said.
IF any witness refuses to testify at
the trial. We will have the record Of
his testimony before the grand jury
to take its place. If any witness
changes his story in any essential
detail when the trial gets under
way we will prosecute the witness
for perjury"
Leopold and Loeb were adapting
themselves today to the routine of
prison life. They took their pre-
scribed setting up" exercises and
attended the prison school In their
cells they spent most of the time
reading magazines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
FALL DOWN SHAFT FATAL
NobIesviIIe Contractor Dies From
Fractured Skull.
By Times Special

By Times Special
NOBLEVILLE, Ind, June A.
Harry Layton, So, contractor, fell
through an elevator shaft in Is, the
Castor Block, which he was remodel
ing, Tuesday evening, and died a.
short time later from a fractured
skull The widow and one daughter
survive,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
CITY HAS BOY BANDIT
CoIored Youth, Police Say, RObs Lad
Who Was Going After Change.

A boy bandit was in detention
home today.
Walter Bender, 8. Of 223 Geisen-
dorff St., told police he was en- route
to a drug store with SIS to get change
when he met a colored boy who held
him up and took the money.
Police arrested the bandit" near
a school. All the money was re-
covered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
BR0OKHART RENAMED
Iowa Senator Wins Republican Re-
nomination.

By United Press
DES MONIES, Iowa, June A.
United States Senator Smith w.
Brookhart defeated Burton E. Sweet
for the Republican senatorial nomi-
nation in Iowa, nearly complete re-
turns from Mondays primary cleo
ton indicate.
Brookhart early today had a ma
jority Of more than 10000 Returns
from 1922 precincts Of the 2,412 in
the State gave Brookhart S8,341
and Sweet 1891.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
RUNAWAY BOYS CAUGHT

1--WE Were in Bad at School," Say
Bloomington Youths.
BIZ Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, June A.
Smith Wesner and Yudon Spencer,
Bloomington youths, who ran away
from home in the Wesner auto Tues
day night, were apprehended here
today.
1--WE were in bad at school," the
boys said.
They were returned home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04

BU Tnsted Press
CN7ETROIT, Mich, June 4.
The ten millionth "hiv-
yer" was launched today.
The motor was finished this
morning and a few hours later
was assembled into a touring car
at. the plant of the Ford Motor
Company.
Car number 100000 is 10 be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
DRIVING is ERRATIC

Results in IntOxicatiOn Fines for
Two.
City Judge Pro Tenn. Vinson Mani
fold today fined c. V. Spaulding,
955 w. Washington ST., $50 and
costs on a charge of operating
vehicle while intoxicated, and IS and
costs on a drunkenness charge. i'm
posed on Charles Coons, 337 E. Nor
ris St. were suspended during good
behavior.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
Brother Visits Loeb

Allen NJ. Loeb, business man from
Seattle, a brother of Richard Loeb,
arrived from the West today and
called Immediately at the Jail Be
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04

NE of these days a. mer-
chant in Hong-Kong. or
LII Madrid, or Athens is 60
ing to get a letter postms rked
U. S. A. and signed IN. Arm
ington," or something like that.
Perhaps the foreign merchant
will vision the writer as a grave
business man, fat and forty"
What a joke on the Hong
Kong merchant.
m. Arlington if she signs
it that way, right now is just
getting ready to write those let
tiers. She's Miss Mary Aiming
ton, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John H. Arlington. 80 n. Airing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
Home Edition

NTHAT do you want to
w knowY Ask The Times
Washington Bureau, 1922 New
York Avenue, Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
RICHARD LOEB AFFABLE
Pendleton Farmer Says Alleged
Slayer Worked on His Farm.
BV Times Spccidl

BIZ Tunes BpeCEdE
ANDERSON, Ind, June 4.-Rich-
ard Loeb, one OF the two Chicago
youths implicated in the Staying of
Robert Franks. was one of party
OF Chicago boys who worked on
Madison County farms during the
war. u. S. McCarty, living south Of
Pendleton, said Loeb worked on his
farm and remembered him as an
affable, quiet and hkeable boy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-04
FRENCH DEPUTIES ELECT
Former Premier Named President of
Chamber.

BIZ United Press
PARIS, June 4.-Former Premier
Painleve, peacemaker of the parties
of the left, was elected president of
the French Chamber Of Deputies
today.
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Forecast

X ENERALLY fair today and
VI Thursday. Slowly rising
temperature anticipated in this
vicinity.
Evening star., 1924-05-18
Good Hope, City's Eastern Outpost,
Visited by Rambler on New Tour
Ancestral Home
Within Range Be-

HREE miles southeast of the
capitol is Good Hope, and the
oaks and poplars there raise
their branches higher than
Evening star., 1924-05-18

oak standing by the water side and
running southwest the creek for
breadth and length of 200 perches
1,l00 yards) to a bounded pine stand
ing at hollow called Meekes' hollow
bounding on the south with line
southeast into the woods for the
length Of go perches Q,760 yards) to
a bounded oak standing in the woods"
= !: X
THERE is Il great deal more about
bounded oaks and pines, which
means trees marked by the surveyor
but there is no reference to any
landmark which we may recognize
now. 1t is puzzling to know where
was Isidoras Creek. unless that
were the earlier name of Oxon Run
The grant continues:
Containing and now laid out for
400 acres more or less, Together with
all rights. profits and benefits there
unto belonging Royal Mines Ex-
ceptcd) TO have and to hold the
same unto him the said John Meekes,
his heirs and assigns forever. To be
holden = US and our heirs as of our
Mannor OF Zachio in free and comon
soccage by fealty only for all manner
of services. Yielding and paying
therefore> yearly unto US or our
heirs or our agent at st. Maries at
the two most usual feasts Of the
year, Viz: at the feast of the Annun-
citation OF the Blessed Virgin Mary
and at the feast Of ST. Michael the
4 -rb b.n hy arH
OF the rent of Eight ShillingS Sterling
in Gold or Silver and for fine upon
every alienacon of the said land or
any parcell thereof in such comodi-
ties as We or Our heirs or such officer
as appointed by US to to collect and
recover the same shall accept in dis
charge thereof at the choice of US or
our heirs"
The instrument, part of which is
Maries fourth and twentieth day of
May in the 32d year of our dominion
over said Province of Maryland
Annoque Domini 1864
The grant to the Rev. Henry Addi-
son in 1864 for SS7 acres shows that
part of Chichester was under cultiva-
ton and that there were dwelling
house, log courthouse, quarters" and
some old fencing on il, no doubt on
the fiat land near the river. There
is also mention of Cramphen's ferry,
which no doubt was the name of the
man running the ferry from Widow
WheeIers farm in Washington to
Mathew Wigfield's farm on the East
ern branch long before the District
of Columbia was created.
The Rambler will resume the story
of Good Hope next Sunday
Evening star., 1924-05-18

original patents to wild land now a
part of the District of Columbia, few
have read one of those papers. The
grant to John Meekes, after reciting
"Caecilius'' and his several titles. pro-
ceeds:
ITO all persons TO whom these pre-
sents shall come, greeting in our Lord
God Everlasting. Know We that for
and in consideration that John MeekeS,
Chyrugeon hath due unto him 400 acres
of land within this Province for the
transportation of himself, John Holme,
Thomas Huggin. John Chesson, Sarah
Cadd Cor Ladd), RACHEL White and
Mary White into this province in Ammo
1862, here to inhabitt. as appears upon
record and upon such conditions and
terms as are expressed in our condi-
tion of plantation of our Province of
.4rmes bearing date at London the
second day of July in the Year of our
Lord God 1649, with such alterations
as in them is made by our declaration
bearing date the two and twentieth day
September Ammo 1868 and remaining
upon record in our said Province of
Maryland, Do hereby grant unit him
the said John Meekes a parcell of land
called Chichester lying in Charles
County on the east side of the Ana
costine River upon the southeast side
of a creek in the said river called
Isidoras Creek beginning at bounded
Evening star., 1924-05-18
British Bells.

A S one writer has put it. the metal
tongue of the big bell rings out
many changes to our modern ears;
it speaks of disaster and death, or of
rejoicing and devotion" In England
it often tells of old times and quaint
customs. In some parts of that coun-
try the bell that tolls the old year out
is called the "old lads passing bell
In western England the bells peal
merrily on oak Apple day. to cele-
brate the escape of King Charles at
Boscobel. Another bell, rung at the
beginning of Lent, is known as pan
cake bell" because, in old-time
phrase, it Summons people away
from their pancakes to confession and
to fasting"
lively peal of bells is often rung
at the end Of the Sunday morning
service. These bells are called ''pud-
ding BELLS Perhaps their purpose is
to announce to the stay-at-homes
that service is over and that the pud-
ding may come out of the oven.
Every night at five minutes past 9
Great Tom," the big bell of Christ
Church College, at Oxford, booms out
it's ponderous note 101 times. This
particular number was chosen in ac-
cordance with the number Of students
at the foundation of the college.
Evening star., 1924-05-18

the war into the country of his foe.
His plan resulted in the battle Of
Gettysburg. which proved with Vicks
burg. captured the following day.
the turning point in the struggle. j
was . terrific engagement and Lees
valiant men were forced to retreat
He was able TO execute one OF his
orderly and mastery retreats, and go;
his broken army safely back into
Virginia Meade failed 10 crush tn
man he had defeated. so a new ger
eral must be sent against Lee.
The government called Grant u
face Lee in the east, and he accepted
the promotion on provision that he
have full authority of command. This
was granted him. Lee never knew
such power. and he was always ham
pered by his government. He was
not permitted TO appoint even his own
staff officers. and he was in command
of only the army of northern Virginia
Had he controlled all the southern
armies. one wonders what the issue
OF the war might have been.
Gen. Grant finally succeeded in
practically surrounding Lees force
near AppomattoN. and Lee was com
PEELED TO surrender Grants sheer
ability grew by the opposition it fed
upon, and he showed a great genius
for the science of war from the sieg 2
of Petersburg on TO the final conQuest
As he faced his able opponent over
the terms of surrender, was there ever
Z more generous victor? Later, when
some one spoke in bitterness Of Grant
to Lee. Lee replied: Gen. Grant
showed great magnanimity.
After the surrender. war ceased as
completely as though it had never
been, and that shows the power OF
Lees influence in the south. But If Lee
was great strategist. a man of fer
tile resources and surprises. a master
of himself always and a great leader
of loyal men. intrepid, audacious
skillful. with fiawless vision, he
was a man of superb and unbrokeu
calm. with a courtesy that knew no
limits to it's employment
Lee was approached by many bus
ness concerns with offers of high po-
sitions, just for the use of his name.
One company offered him $4,000 a
year. Lee said: DO you not think
that if my name is worth $4,000 a
year, l ought to be very careful about
taking care of it,
He declined all such offers, and ac-
cepted. at salary of $500, the pres
idency of Washington College, where
he spent his time teaching young men
the beauty of true service.
Evening star., 1924-05-18
Horsepower in kilowatts.

COME time ago the bureau of stand
~ ards issued bulletin on the kilo-
watt equivalent of horsepower. The
most frequently quoted equivalent
in watts until then had been TAG
Since. however. the pound weight as
unit of force varies in value as the
acceleration of gravity varies. the
number of foot pounds per second in
a horsepower accordingly varies with
the latitude and altitude. II is equal
to $50 foot pounds per second at so
degrees latitude and sea level, ap-
proximately the location of London.
where the original experiments were
made by James Watt to determine
the magnitude OF TIA horsepower
The continental horsepower, which
is used on the continent of Earopc.
differs from the English and the
American horsepower by more than
per cent. Its usual equivalent in
watts is 1856. This difference is due
to the confusion which exists in the
weights and measures of 100 years
ago. The metric system soon placed
the various values of the horsepower
in terms of IS kilogram meters per
second, although the original Eng
lish equivalent would be 76.041 kilo-
gram meters per second
Since unit of power would represent
the same rate of watts at all places, the
continental horsepower is best definel
as 736 watts, which is equivalent t. a.
kilogram meters per second at latitude
SO degrees 81 seconds. Nowadays 746
watts are used as an exact equivalent
of English and American horsepower
Evening star., 1924-05-18
TOM JENKINS BARN.

thony Addisons home, of Colebrook
Later it was heightened to what is
now Congress Heights and is laid
down on yellow map before the
Rambler as road to DR.. Hamilton S
gate The name is now Alabama
avenue.
i x
WHEN you come to the hamlet Of
w Good Hope, you will see in the
fork of roads an old house with
dusty silver poplars and gas pumps
about it. That was Good Hope Tav-
ern. and the Rambler has taken it as
a datum point for a series of little
stories of the farms that were around
it and of the people who lived on
them.
Good HOPE to our srandfathers
meant not only the tavern at the
junction of the roads, but big
stretch of country without specific
bounds in all directions from the
tavern. There are many men and
women in Washington whose ances-
tors lived at Good Hope and the pur-
pose of the Rambler is to recall them
as these stories go on.
The hamlet of Good Hope is near
the northeast corner of an Original
grant of land which was given the
name Chichester. 1t was a tract on
which Anacostia and several villages
stand and on which a good many
Evening star., 1924-05-18
GOOD HOPES MAIN STREET.

thousand people live. In the land
Office at Annapolis. the Rambler read
the first grant for Chichester. 1t
was made in 1861 to John Meekes, a
surgeon or physician of st. Mary's
County, as recompense for transport
ing six colonists to Maryland. This
grant was for four hundred acres.
The land may have been sold by
Meekes or his heirs, but a some time
within a hundred years after making
of the grant, the land reverted to
the proprietary OF Maryland and was
granted under the name of Chiches-
ter with addition to the Rev. Henry
Addison of Prince Georges County
in 1864 just ii century after the grant
- Meekcs.
The Rev. Henry Addison's grant
called for eight hundred and eighty
seven acres. In the land Office at
Anna polls the Rambler read warrant
given to MI Addison in 1857 to have
Chichester resurveyed TO amend Ger
tain errors. The Rambler copied these
papers and will hand them to you, be-
cause he believes that while many
persons speak OF original grants and
Evening star., 1924-05-18

Half Il mile of this and yoa come
TO Good Hope. y road climbing
from the river near the Naylor ferry
and later the Kentucky avenue toll
bridge joins the Good Hope road.
For more wears than any man has
lived it has been called the Naylor
road, but :, map older than any man
shows il as the old county road"
At the hamlet of Coco Hope a road
. turns left. Once il was tine Marlbor-
ough road Later it was called Ridge
road. Later it was called Bowen
road and now. if the Rambler is
reading the map straight. it is part
OF Alabama avenue.
10 the right is the Walker road,
u continuation of which beyond the
District line is the state road, once
the T. T. road. and that is the auto
mobile highway which ieadS.to Sur
rattsville. Brandywine. Waldorf,
Benedict. Rock Point. La Plata and a
hundred other places in South Mary
land Another road leads west.
once it was Il short road leading
from the Marlborough road to An
Evening star., 1924-05-18

are memories that live in old mems
minds.
= When you have crossed the Ana
costa bridge look to the right and
you may see the site of George Mar
lury's home, which came to him from
his father, William Marbury, close
upon a century ago You will see
he brick house of good old Florian
frederick and you will see where
;amuel F. Shreve kept a drug store
nd John Is. Stephenson a dry goods
store long before most of the people
OF Washington were born.
:; x = !:
V>URN to the left when the traffic
cop says "go" and you pass on
NE right Bob Martins Farmers and
,proyers' Hotel, Alexander Crutchett's
d-ue store and j. Minnix & Sons
vheeIwright and blacksmith shop,
nd. on the left, DR.. Arthur Christie's
i,ause. Jim Goddard's lodge and the
niger home. You are on Harrison
Street in Anacostia and the names
.ust written are of men whom only
Old settlers remember and of whom
the Rambler means to write at
myth if several eminent physicians
VIII let him live to do it.
Harrison street was once Good
lone road and before it was called
hat people knew it as the Marlbor-
.n,eb road. On the left you pass the
junction of Minnesota avenue and
Harrison street Minnesota avenue is
, new name given to an old road
,,irtv or forty years ago. Before it
vas Minnesota avenue it was the
Liver road, and for hundred years
Ifore II was the River road 1T was
!jadensburg road. Before the town
of Anacostia was this BladenSburg
load continued its course southwest
6iagonally across the site or Ana
costia and joined the Piscataway
road. now Nichols avenue, near
tavern last known as Sandersons S
Tavern. which stood on land that
anne TO be owned by Policeman
lanes +. Arnold.
Continue your travels and leave
Minnesota avenue behind. You pass
an the right the site of the home or
Benjamin p. Smith and on the left
,he site of the home of Reuben
Worthington.
Yen are now ascending Good Hope
hll by a smooth and easy street.
like road and your machine bowls
along in high" up a grade once so
Nteep and stony that OK teams labored
snd drivers let their straining,
stumbling horses stop for breath.