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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
He CANNOT
GET INTO
JAIL!
Hawkins Is Par
ticular About Who He
Locks Up Reporter
Fears He'll Have to
f Turn BootIegger,
Rv ROSS H GARRIGus

BY ROSS H. GARRIGUS
T may be possible to break
out of Marion County Jail.
but you can't break In,
that is if you are a respectable
citizen.
If you're name is Gerald Chap
man, or Hawkins, or you're a
house breaker or drunken auto
driver, it's easy, but if you haven't
broken any laws, or been accused
of breaking any. citizen hasn't
got chance to be the county's
guest.
1 tried three hours Saturday
afternoon to break into Jail"
1 even appealed to pedestrians.
Dunno" said one, glancing
nervously at traffic cop. Another
suggested 1 toss a brick through
a window, or try and cash check.
1 first tried Roland Snider, chief
turnkey.
I'D like to get in ajil,7 | said.
shaking his hand.
Like to accommodate you, but
you'll have to get permit from
Sheriff Hawkins"
Adamant Sheriff
So went over to the million
dollar courthouse.
Sheriff, I says, I'D like to get
in jail
He shook his head.
My city editor wants me to get
locked up in Jail. /"
81 don't care who wants you to.
you can't get i'm
The sheriff feared a false impris-
onment.
1 went into an adjoining of7ce.
Here" said a girl, run OFF with
this money" pointing to an ada
cent cash till, land you'll get in
shook my head
Dream Is Shattered
1 went over to see Bert Morgan,
Federal prol1ibition director.
thought I'd have him Jail me as a
bootlegger. Imagined myself in the
basti1e and ether prisoners coming
up and saying:
Brother, what you in for?'
And I'd say: ''Bootlegging
Smell my breath" nd they'd
sniff and say: Yep. don't smell a
drop. You're a bootlegger all
right
Morgan was nice, but he shook
his head. He couldn't accornmo-
date me.
walked disconsolately down to
the city prison. Maybe I'd have
better luck there.
/ did.
They swung open the door and
/ went in. 1t was still as a church.
I walked down the aisle. Every
cell was empty. 1 tus red the cor
ner and looked in tle runway.
Not a soul there. continued
around and sounds srnote the air.
it was one prisoner sound asleep.
In the last cell was colored
man in for stealing coal.
You call up that friend, YETI"
he says to my guide.
No, sir, job or no job. / don't
like city prison.
First place don't play solitaire
and I do get lonesome.
But then, maybe. the prisoners
were taking an afternoon off.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
ENROLMENT INCREASES
Public Schools Open Second Sc
mester With Big Gains.

Almost 1000 graduates OF Indian
apolis grade schools entered public
high schools today with the opening
Of the second semester. The new
high school students reported ait
1870 p. m.
Manual Training High School,
with 500 new students. put into use
its new addition.
Shortridge, already overcrowded,
had an increase today of about 345,
pressing into service an additional
classroom at the Benjamin Harrison
grade school, Delaware st. and FIT.
Wayne Ave. Technical received
about 1000 new students, and Broad
Ripple thirty-five. Corresponding
growth was reported by grade
schools.
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stores Owes sss. .1s1. "a

A bankruptcy petition was fled in
Federal Court today by the Sandow-
Pushin Company, department
store, of EIwood. Ind. The COM
pany's debts were listed at $8S,1S1.74
and its assets $64,777.7O. OF the as
sets, $55. 900 is in stock in trade
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
OUT OF NORTHWEST
Fall of 80 Degrees Reported in Ne
braska.

OMAHA. Neb.. i Jan. 26.-A near
blizzard, sweeping out of the north
west, sent thermometers in Nebras-
ka down forty or more degrees dur
ing the night At Norfolks the mer-
curry reached twelve degrees below
today, compared to tlirty-three
above Sunday evening. Omaha
weather bureau reported two below
today, fall of thirty-nine degrees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
STATES ATTORNEY BEGINS
PROBE OF DUEL IN HOTEL
Ora Thomas, Chief Opponent of Secret
Body, Among Dead-Oficia In
able to Obtain Details Of Clash
State Troops Rule City.


HERRIN, Ill., JAN 26-sentiment hate and secret ofso;o
investigation ntermnged today as an aftermath Of b
most recent chapter in the history of Bloody Williamson
County nights gun battle in which four men were
killed.
WIN knakl-ciad mltlamen serving forced peaceful
Two OF the victims buried today Body Of
"a FORBES one OF the Kansmen killed. was sent to
Ior burial Homer Warner another Kansman was buried here
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
Death Penalty

r. 1EATH penalty is pro
I'D vided in bill intro
0 duced in the Senate to-
day by Senator Bait, Terre
Haute for persons who commit
a felony and use an automobile.
motorcycle, airplane or other
self-propelIed vehicle for es.
cape.
Senators Sonthworth, 4a4
fayette and Lochsrd, Versailles.
father a bill introduced today
which provides for death or life
Imprisonment for persons con.
victed of bank banditry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
EXPLOSIONS ARE FEARED
Gasoline Sold at Elwood Groceries
for Kerosene.
BU Times Special

ELWOOD. Ind. Jan. rs. -
Groceries here warned all recent
purchasers Of coal oil to destroy it
following discovery that several hun
dreds gallons OF gasoline Were
pumped into Kerosene tanks at local
stores by mistake.
The error was revealed when an
explosion occurred at the home Of
Johil Parker.
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But the main sentiment twines
around funeral OF s. Glenn esTwo-
Gun,') Young. stormy petrol Of the
Klan ranks, announced for Wednes-
day.
Elaborate Funeral
1t will be the most elaborate fu-
neral in the history of Williamson
County with 10000 Klansmen at
tending. Full Klan rites will be OBJ
served with the militia on hand to
prevent further trouble.
Ora Thomas, deputy sheriff and
foe of the Klan. will be buried Tues
day.
While funeral preparations were
being made, the law started moving.
Secret session of the coroners' Jury
was held, today. No report was
made of findings.
Tuesday inquest will be held with
the State. attorney doing the ques.
tioning. He has been busy today
Questioning townspeople in an at
tempt to find a witness to the af-
fray.
Actual details of the trouble pre-
ceding the Saturday night outbreak
still are lacking.
When night court recessed Satur-
day night Ora Thomas, with two
followers, was walking along the
street when a shot rang out. A
bullet whizzed in front of the dep
uty sheriff and imbedded itself in a
drug store front. Thomas and his
followers fed and for an hour or
SO the situation was quiet.
Shooting in Hotel
Just when the night theater crowd
was letting out Glenn Young, with
his two body guards-Forbes and
Waraer-strolled into the cigar room
of the European Hotel. Thomas
entered few minutes later.
Who fired the first shot is not
known. One story is that Thomas
advanced with his gun drawn, that
Young pulled botn of his heavy re-
volvers and started shooting. Forbes
and Warner Joined in.
When the smoke cleared up,
Thomas, Young, and Forbes were ly-
ing on the floor dead and Warner
was mertally wounded. Two others,
said to have been shot, had disap-
peared. They are unknown and have
not reported at the hospital.
Young died as he lived-by the
gun.
Short of stature, slender of frame,
quiet Of manner when the fight
Turn to Page III
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
EFFORT TO RAISE
TAX EXEMP TON ON
MORTGAGES WINS
Senate Passes Measure
Similar to House Bill
After Long Be-
bate,
BODY RECONVENES AT 2.
NejdI One Of Leaders in
Fight Against Increase
to $4,000.
BODY RECONVENES AT 2.

| By a vote OF 35 to s the Senate,
after lively debate, today passed
Senator Lambert's bin raising the
mortgage tax exemption from 1000
to $4,000
Senators Lambert, Lindley and
Hodges, Gary. all Republicans. were
leaders In supporting the bill. Cam,
Frankfort, and O'Rourke, ut Wayne;
Holmes and NejdL Republicans,
spoke against passage 2
Opponents of the measure argued
the increase mortgage exemption
would take sufficient property from
the tax duplicates to force increased
taxation 1evtes- a
Senator Lambert, in closing the
argument, declared the State tax
board had instituted insidious propa-
ganda against the measure and that
only approximately $54,G00.000 would
pe taken from the tax duplicates by
increasing amount of the mortgage
exemption
Two Bills on Record
A similar measure has passed the
House. It is probable one OF the bills
viii be withdrawn.
Chief among fourteen new bills
was one requiring public utilities to
keep Original" records and books in
Indiana, by Senator HsFrisony 4Rdi-
annapolis. It also would require each
director to bet q bona hde owner Of
stock
The bill is aimed in particular at
the Indiana Bell Telephone Com
pany, according to Harrison. The
company, subsidiary of the Amer
pany. faces a suit to annul its char
ter on ground the board Of direc-
tors Is dummy"
New Institution
| Senator English, Indianapolis, in
troGuced a bill to appropriate $25.000
for new institution, the Indiana
Preparatory Home" where colored
girls would be taught duties of car
ing for private homes in ''well-regu-
lated communities-such as baby
tending, gardening, cooking and sew
ing"
Senator Dickerman. Indianapolis,
introduced a bill to allow takers Of
life insurance to name corporations,
private persons or their estates bene-
ficiary. The latter could substitute
another as beneficiary at will.
The Senate .reconvened at 2 D. m.
today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
Shot fired in Spite

Police held Kenneth Ackworth, II,
of 2517 Station ST., after he ad-
mitted he shot himself in the arm
to frighten a girl with whom he had
quarrelled- He at first said he had
been attacked by a bandit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
ALLEGED SLAYER INSANE
Ex-Tammany Chief, Charged With
Wife's Murder, Held Reranged.

Bp Un'ted P-ess
OMAHA. Neb.. Jan. 26.-J. War
rem Hahne, As, former New York
saloon keeper and Tammany Hall
leader, charged with numbering his
wife with hatchet here a month
ago, was declare dinsane in a deci-
sion handed down By the Doguas
County insanity commission today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
AUTO PYRE PLANNED

Junked MacInnes 70 Be Burned
Here as Show Feature.
BIZ Times Special
CHICAGO, Ind, Jan. 26.-WOrn
out automobiles win be assembled
at the Indiana State Playground and
burned in a huge pyre as feature
Of the Indianapolis Automobile
Show next May, according to plans
announced by John 3. Orman,
manager of the Indianapolis Auto
mobile Trade Association, who is
here to attend the national auto
mobile show.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
CINCINNATI
CORRECTS
FAULTS
Ohio City Is Latest Mu-
nicipality to Adopt City
Manager Form of Gov
ernment-,Local Poll
tics Routed.
By FELIX F. BRUNER

EDITOR Inc Indianapolis Times
Cincinnati is the latest big
city to abandon the political
form of city government and to
adopt the business-like city
manager plan.
Last June there was in exist
ance in Cincinnati an organiza-
ton known as the "Birdless
Ballot League. = The purpose of
the league was to bring about
comparison elections-in other
wards, to remove the birds, the
Democratic rooster and the Re-
publican eagle, from the city
ballots. It did not anticipate a
change in the form of govern
ment.
Then a Cincinnati newspaper, The
Post, took up the fight not only for
a ''birdless ballot" but also for a
eity-manager form of government,
the same form that is used by other
big business corporations.
The movement was taken up by
a committee OF five of the leading
citizens of the city, who were joined
shortly by the Birdless Ballot
League. The movement spread
rapidly.
Petitions were printed aid sigma
lures obtained by hundreds of per-
sons. Civic clubs and womens clubs
took it up. The result was that
within an incredibly short time 22,-
900 signatures OF voters who de-
sired a city manager. form OF gov
ernmeait were obtained. Under the
law only $4,000 names were neces-
sary.
Referendum
These names were filed with the
city council, which ordered refer
endum at the general election last
November. But the council, being
political, attempted to confuse tn is
sue by presenting at the same time
two other proposals to amend the city
charter. But despite their efforts
their two proposals were voted down
and the city manager proposal was
successful.
Thus, five months after the move
ment was started Cincinnati had de-
cided to put its city government on
a business basis. officials have not
yet been elected under the new plan.
Cincinnati is a particularly good
example of what can be done to take
a city away from the domination of
political bossess. for Cincinnati was
boss-controlled If any city ever was.
Same Here
Under the Indiana law Indianap-
oils can do the same thing that Gin
cinnati and 232 other cities have
done. All that is necessary to ac-
complish this is activity on the part
of citizens who wish to see busi-
ness and not politics controlling
factor in the affairs of Indianapolis.
The new Cincinnati charter is
more like that which can be adopted
by Indianapolis than are the char
ters of some other cities, in that 1T
provides for a small city council.
Cincinnati would have a council com.
posed Of nine members, as compared
with a council of twenty-five in
Cleveland. Under the Indiana law
indianapolis, when it adopts the
city manager plan, will have coun-
ell OF seven members.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
POLAND is WATCHED

Official Germany Keeps Eye ON Re
ports of Metiiization.
BU United Press
BERLIN. Jan. 2S.-German Off
cial circles are keeping watchful
eye on Poland.
Advices from Warsaw to the Lo-
kal Anzeiger, which lack official con-
firmation, declare Poland is prepar-
ing to mobilize and the government
here is on the lookout.
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r~7UY GRAHAM. %. OF
1121 S. Sheffield Ave.
linenlan fer the Indiana
Bell Telephone Company. today
fell from a pole on which he
was working at Hamilton Ave.
and Michigan ST. twenty feet
to the ground. breaking his nose
and injuring his hip.
Grover Rogers, 912 N. Capi
tol Ave-, foreman, said evident
" a live wire had touched an
iron ring. burning Graharns )
safety belt in two
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Home Edition

TINE only complete hour-by-
4 hour radio program pub
lished in Indianapolis appears
daily in The Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-25
Forecast

N ENERALLY fair and cold
" er tonight and Tuesday.
Cold wave tohight with lowest
temperature about 5 degrees.
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But the main sentiment twines
around funeral Of s. Glenn (''Two-
Gun,l Young. stormy petreI Of the
Klan ranks announced for wednes-
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-01
A. n. LlO TAKES
STAND AGAINST
COLONIAL RULE
Calls for International
Race Congress
Continued from page u


darker-skinned peoples in the colonies
of imperialism everywhere"
Corrine Robinson, delegate from the
Young Workers. League, presented a
resolution on the role of the Negro
youth in America out of which the
following excerpts are taken;
when thousands, of young Negroes
entered the industries of the north
during the migration, the bosses did
their best to stir up racial prejudices
between the young Negro and the
young white workers. They did this
because they wanted to keep the
young Negroes working for even low
er wages than the young white work
ers. These young Negroes who are
Disseminated against in this way are
forced to work for the lowest imagin-
able wages and in certain shops and
Industries young Negroes are employ
ed almost entirely in an effort to keep
the wages down and increase the pro-
Ats.
"These young Negro workers get
as low as $40 to SIS week, the young
Negro girls and women getting near
er the lower scale. On this they are
expected to live. These young Negroes
who are being forced to work in
greater and greater numbers on ac-
count Of the low wages their parents
receive are an important source of
cheap labor for the bosses and are
used by them in cutting down the
wages of the other workers"
Negro Children and Child Labor.
Most Of the Negro child laborers
are found in the south, where records
show that almost 100000 Negro chill
dren Of school age were not enrolled
IN the public schools.
mot only is segregation the com
mon practice In the public schools Of
both the south and the north but es-
pecially In the south, the states dis
criminate against the Negro school
children thru unequal expenditures
for education, etc.
For example, in South Carolina,
there is only SIS invested in school
property for Negroes while there is
$50 invested for the whites. Similarly
there is only So invested in school
property for Negroes to STA for white
in Louisiana, and much the same in
the other states thruout the south.
~. The school term is shortened
so that the Negro children can be
sent to work in tie cotton fields as
early as possible In the
north, the most marked discrimina-
ton consists in segregation, housing
of Negro children in the oldest. most
unsafe and unsanitary school build
ings and inferior educational arrange
ments Of all kinds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-01
Nobel Peace Award Goes
Begging Among Flunkeys
of Worlds Inperialists
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

ToDAYthe Nobel Committee that has the awarding Of the
so-caIed Nobel Peace Prize, that It is
ing its decision until next year. conessing that in all the
world find any organization individual worthy
of this alleged honor This easily understood since the
under the domination Of war-breedng capitalism, and then
only to the profhungry capitalist class that oments
to advance it's ambitions.
This is the sixth time that the committee has missed in
it's selections since world broke in 1914. But its
selections are more interesting than failures to
In 1906 it picked Theodore Roosevelt, the embodiment
the war that marked the real entry Of
the United States the blood despatched stage Of world
adviser Of Wall Street in 1918 i went to Woodrow wilson
who the United States into the European obeden
TO the dictates OF me nancss men m lyzn
premier in Sweden who tried beray the workers into the
BLACK international Of capitalism the League Of Nations
an enemy of the Roshevk revolution in Russia This is
surely fine selection Of stool pigeons of the profit bandits
of International big business It is typical Of all the rest
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who furnished the gold to pro-
vide these peace prizes" was Swedish chemist and
engineer who spent his lifetime inventng and
turing deadly explosives Thru manufacture Of dyna
mite and the exploitation of the Baku oil fields in the Near
East he amassed great fortune that made this possible.
He declared his peace award was ito be given to the person
society that renders the greatest service to the of
of standing armies the establishment fuheance of
peace congresses
this peace committee had looked to the world of rev.
outiOnay labor in 1914 1915 and 1916 would have found
many individuals and organizations fighting for
Switzerland; Karl Lebknecht in German prison, later
martyred and the Zimmerwad Conference that raised it's
appeal to world labor demanding that recognize its
fraternity and quit fighting the battles Of the mperaIst
masters. fs10~
The opportunities for selection even greater today
At time in all the worlds history have there been such
organizations fighting for the brotherhood of mankind
the workers have established themselves in the Communist
International the Red International of Tabor Unions and the
Young Communist International Voices raised every
land against the mperast boodshed Doriot in Frances
SakIatvala, in England Rakos in Hungary Lanzutsk in
Poland with hosts of others.
But those who award the Nobel prizes help lead the
attack these militant fighters for the only world peace
possbe demanding that these soldiers of peace sent
either to prison to the executioners Block.
International brotherhood and world peace will be
furthered because proeer explosives hands prizes
to the intellectual and political unkeys of his class 1t
will when the workers demand new world ECONOMY
based on Communism, that blot the present
war-breeding capitalist social order.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-01
World of Islam
Begins to Stir as
French Attack Grows
CONTINUED from page one)

Continued from page one)
lied" warfare) tore CHASTITY holes in
the bodies of pedestrians, while whole
sections were gassed with the most
poisonous fumes. Thousands upon
thousands of corpses litter the streets,
where they are still laying in heaps,
a putrefying mass. The systematic
slaughter is still going on outside the
city and was only arrested by the
counter offensive of the exiles and the
tribesmen combining their forces and
trying to win back the city laid waste
by the agents of French imperialism.
Islam stirs RestIessly
Despite the activities of the censor
ship and the pen Wallets who have
tried to hush up the atrocities by
modifying their first stories, the news
of the bombardment of Damascus is
spreading like wildfire turnout the
world of Islam, and everywhere the
rule of European and American cap
ital has become the object of new and
deeper hatreds than ever before.
Revolutionists observing develop
ments among the Mohammedans in
Asia, Asia Minor and Africa are elated
over the turn of affairs and see in
the reaction to the Smelling of Da-
mascus and the murders in the streets
the possibilities of an issue that may
unite the colonial and ,semi-colonial
natives in one mass upheaval that will
result in expelling from their bounde
aries all agents of American and Eu-
ropean capital, thus breaking the back
bone of the imperialist power of both
Britain and France and seriously
threatening the power of the United
States in this part Of the world.
Powers Protest
The French general, Serial, in his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-01
international Labor
Defense Shows Up
the House of Morgan
Continued from page u

ian embassy sat up and took notice.
In addition to the cable and tele-
gram bombardment the l. L. d. or
ganized giant nationwide campaign
of mass meetings and demonstrations
The Hungarian embassy in New York
was picketed and the police of the
Hearst protege Mayor Hylan, aided
the Horthy government by arresting
many of the demonstrators.
Change Of Methods.
When news of these American de-
monstrations reached Budapest it is
reported that Horthy decided to make
a concession to world opinion by
granting the prisoners a civil trial.
Whether this is true or not is hard
to determine just now. One thing is
certain, Horthy has not relinquished
his intention to murder Rakosi and
his comrades. The campaign to save
Rakosi and his fellow workers will
continue and the American work
ing class are expected to do their
share in hating Horthy's bloody
hand. II should not be forgotten that
the dollars Of Wall Street are paying
the salaries Of the exeeutioners.