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Evening star., 1925-04-29
Es-SaiIOr's Brush
Wins Scholarship
To Study abroad
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 29.-Andrew
Winter. a former sailor. who used
his spare time aboard ship to draw
and paint vessels and harbors on
the seven seas. was last night
awarded one of two travelling
scholarships of the free art schools
of the National Academy of De-
sign. Winter won the Mooney prize,
a cash award of 81 400, allowing
him to study abroad for a year.
The Pulitzer scholarship of 81 500
was awarded by Edwin II. Blash-
field, president of the academy, to
w. Renwick Taylor of Brooklyn.
Twenty other students were award
ed lesser cash prizes and medals.
Winters first opportunity to
study art came in 1921. He at once
showed great promise and in sue
Ceeding years won a number of
prizes and medals. His marine
study in oil. pilot Aboard" re-
ceived a place at the recent Tooth
annual exhibit of the academy.
Evening star., 1925-04-29
HANNA WEDS BARONESS.
First Secretary U. S. Embassy in
Berlin Takes Bride.

POTSDAM. April 29.-The marriage
of Matthew e. Hanna of New York,
first secretary of the American en-
bassy in Berlin, and Baroness Gustava
Won der Tam cook place last night
at the home of the brides mother,
Baroness Rheinbaden. only the i'm
mediate relatives and members of the
American embassy staff being pres
ent. Baroness Won der Tam was the
guest of honor at a luncheon yes
terday given by Warren y. Robbins,
counselor of the American embassy
in Berlin. and Mrs. Robbins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
HOUSE PRESENTED
PUNISHMENT BILL
Move Made 10 Govern
School Discipline.

School teachers before Furnishing
pupils would be required to notify
parents as to time and place of the
eastigation, through bill introduced
in the Indiana House today by Rep
resentatiSe Smith of Lafayette.
Punishment would be forbidden in
the presence of other pupils and
could not cause bodily injury.
Representative Johnson, Atlanta,
introduced a bill extending the pc
riod OF use of school books, except
history and geography texts, from
five to ten years.
Use Of oleonsargarine would be
forbidden in all State institutions,
excepting penal institutions, and
restaurants using butter limitations
would be required to display signs
apprising patrons Of it's use,
through a bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Carney, Morristown.
Representative Sherwood. Mitchell,
offered bin making Arrnistice day
d bank holiday Representative Id.
sius, Crown Point. offered d bill d.
viding the State into road districts
Of 10000 population each. and re-
cuiring redistribution cf read funds
to the districts ID proportion to their
contributions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
Jury GWEN CASE
OF DRIVER WHOSE
CARk|LLED THREE
Picture Of Penitent Motorist
Painted in Final Effort to
Save. .Strothenk.

The case OF John Strothenk, AZ, OF
6S5 e. Market ST., charged with in
voluntary manslaughter, went TO a
jury in Criminal Court this after
noon.
Painting a picture Of penitent
auto driver, Clyde Miller, Strothenk's
counsel, made a final attempt to
convince the jury his client was
guiltless. Strothenk sat motion
less, his head dropped, staring at
the floor.
Prosecutor William III. Remy re-
called the night of Oct. %, 1924.
when Mrs. Maude Haase, her baby
son and 7-year-old daughter were
fatally injured on State Rd. IL near
haywood. Strothenk's car crashed
into another, upsetting it on the vic
Tins, the State charges.
Chester Haase, 1141 Blaine Ave,
the husband and father, cried.
I'VE can't excuse man by calling
this accident unavoidable and let it
go at that" declared Ren1y. I'VE
can't let a man drive fecklessly
along a public highway while under
the influence of Intoxicating liquor
and let him take away this mans
family, all that is dear to him.
Strothenl took the stand for
cross.examination. He denied part
of the written statement given po-
lice when brought to headquarters
the night of the accident. At times
his voice quivered and he said the
whole event seemed like dream"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
HUNTS
DEATH DRIVER
Timer Struck and Fatally
Injured by Auto.

Sheriff Omer Hawkins today fol-
lowed up every clew in an effort to
find the driver of the automobile
which struck and fatally injured
Roy W. Oliver. 81 timer, 7sS Pros
pect st. Saturday night at Gerard
Dr.. and National Rd.
Some time after the accident
divers body was found on the road
side. His skull was fractured. When
struck he was walking toward a
restaurant to wait for a bus. No
witnesses to the accident have been
found.
Funeral services will be held at 2
p. m. Tuesday at the residence.
Burial in Grown Hill cemetery.
Besides the widow and two chill
dren, the parents, two brothers and
two sisters, survive.
Oliver served four years in the
Navy during the war period.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
CHILD LABOR LAW
WINS FIRST FIGHT
Motion to Reject Amend
nlent Withdrawn.

Opponents of ratification of the
proposed child labor amendment to
the Federal Constitution lost their
FIRST skirmish in the Indiana Sen
ate today Immediately after its in
PRODUCTION to the body by Secre-
tary Of State Schortemeier.
Led by Senator Lindley, King
man, Republican, opponents Of the
amendment had to withdraw motion
by Lindley to reject the amendment,
and then were voted down vive voce
to have the congressional resolution
considered Tuesday
The bill viii take its regular
course in the Federal Relations
Committee. announced Lieutenant
Governor Van Orman.
A warm fight on the ratification
was predicted. Senator .Lindley an
npunced last week he is unalterabIy
opposed to Federal interference with
States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
CREW HOLDS POSTS IN FIRE
Passengers Storm Moan and Conductorn Burning
Wire Falls on -Mooman Stops Carrier Just Before
Crash With Train,

II told them" Connect said,
there was no danger and that
just as soon the car stopped I'd let
them or. Then they saw the
freight train.
A colored man jerked my hands
from the door handle, another beat
me on the back and third one
kicked the doors open just as the
car ground to a stop. within two
feet of the freight. =
Dain, who was slightly burned
about the head, prevented rassen-
gers from jumping from the front
exit by holding the handle with his
shoulder as he twisted the hand
brakes.
Service was tied up on the line
for three quarters Of an hour and
wires were not com pIakely reraired
until $50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
Crash With Train.

controller and air brake con-
nections. While Conductor Con
nett held the doors and attempted to
calm the passengers, Motorman
Dain worked frantically with the
hand brakes to bring the speeding
car to stop, before it crashed
into a freight train on the Belt
Railroad. The car was halted
near che train
Connett said after the first show
er of sparks the car was filled
with smoke and the passengers
jumped from their seats.
Open the door; the cars on
fire." Connect said. man roared
at him as he tried to wrench the
doors open BY that time three or
four others tried to overpower
the conduetor and leap from the
speeding car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
ADMINISTRATION
LEADERS HOLDUP
PLANS ON STONE
Nomination of Attorney Gen.
eraI to Supreme Bench
Goes Back to Com
mittee.
IS COOLIDGE MOVE
Action viii Prevent Con-
sideration in Open
Session,
Bu United Press

BIZ United Press -,
Senate today tied up President
CooHdge's nominations Of Attorney
General Harlan F. Stone to be
Supreme Court justice and Charles
3. Warren of Michigan, to be At
torney General.
After a prolonged secret session,
stones nomination was referred
back to the Judiciary Committee for
further consideration. This move
golocked action on the Warren nomi-
nation, which the committee prev
ious1y decided to, hold up until
Stones nomination was disposed OF.
Coolidge Move
Reference Of States nomination
back to the committee was effected
with Administration support to per-
NIT the challenged action of Stone
in instituting new criminal proceed
ings against Senator Burton Il.
Wheeler of Montana to be aired.
Decision to send the nomination
back was reached at conference
Sunday in which Stone, Senators
Curtis, Kansas, Watson and Reed,
Pennsylvania, participated.
The hearing OF the committee
probably win be executive to permit
the wheeler case to be thoroughly
thrashed out.
Warren Held Up
The nomination of Charles B.
Warren Of Michigan to be attorney
general as Stones successor was
held UP by the judiciary committee,
following receipt Of a report from a
subcommittee which considered the
nomination.
The subcommittee report on the
Warren nomination was neither fav-
orable nor unfavorable, the custo-
mary recommendations one way or
the other being passed up in favor
Of a non-commital report.
Chairman Cummins OF the com
mittee said that the nomination
probably win be considered next
Monday if the Stone nomination is
out Of the way by then
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
SERVICES FOR EDITOR
Democratic Convention Courier tt
Be Buried in Virginia.

Funeral services for Alexander
Manning, 65, colored, courier Of the
Democratic national committee, who
had attended nine national conven-
tions, were held at 2 p. m. today at
Simpson M. E. Church. Burial win
be in Welcome, Va, his birthplace.
Mr.. Manning, for thirty-two years
editor of Indianapolis World, col
ored weekly, had travelled through
out the United States in service of
the party.
He had lived in indianapolis for
ty-three years. He served eight
years as clerk in the county audi
tors Office.
Mrs. Manning survives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
SPENCER BOOM STARTED
Doctor Proposed as Democratic
NIayoraIty Candidate,

Boom for DR.. Mavity j. Spencer
for the Democratic mayoralty nomi-
nation win be launched Tuesday at
8 p. m. at I. Q. o. F. Hall, E. Wash
ington st. and Hamilton Ave.
Notices sent out state: The meeting
will be to try to induce DR.. Spencer,
to- become a candidate for Mayor.
Committee is composed OF w. T.
Young, DR.. John F. McCool. Joseph
Collier, George Rice. Edward ATc-
Govern, Thomas Haefing and p. W.
Egan. DR.. Spencer is a member Of
the board of works.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26

lrr~ 3HRILLS comparable with
those OF a movie serial
@ kept crew and passengers
of an outbound Stock Yards street
car on the jump for a few seconds
at a. m. today.
Motorman Edward Dain, 217 E..
Morris ST., and Conductor Dan
Connett, 1921 N. keystone Ave-.
were the heroes.
Dam had just shut the power off
preparatory to stopping at Stock
St., when nearly half a square OF
trolley wire crashed across the
roof Of the car. The front
vestibuIe was enveloped in, a
shower Of flames, and twenty-five
passeng krs made q Wild rush for
exits
Tho shhrt circuit burned out the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
CITY PREPARES
FOR COLD SNAP
Icy Roads Feared With
Freeze Following Thaw.

Vigilance over radiators and fur
naces, grown lax for past several
days, was renewed today with cold
wave forecast by ]. H. Armington<
Government meteorologist.
Arlington stated the cold spell Ia
coming from Canada, where tenn
peratures of 20 to 80 degrees below
zero are prevailing.
The cold wave, he said, was not
expected to be of long duration, con-
tinuing over Tuesday. with possible
relief the following day.
The forecast was generally fair
weather, but some snow may come
with the sudden drop this afternoon.
clearing up by night. Armington
stated.
State highways are expected 10 be
in dangerous condition as The re
suit of the cold SPELL Warm
weather Saturday and Sunday
thawed ice and snow. flooding roads.
The sudden freeze will coat them
with ice, it is feared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
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, 1925-01-26
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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26
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, 1925-01-26
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, 1925-01-26
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, 1925-01-26
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, 1925-01-26
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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-26

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, 1925-01-26
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, 1925-01-26
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, 1925-01-26
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, 1925-01-26
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.