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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-06

to a statement issued by Todd
Stops, secretary-nianager Of the
Hoosier Motor Club.
Stops called attention to the fact
that, as compared with the expert
ence Of members of the local club in
previous years, there have been thus
far in 1926 far fewer complaints
from motorists who were held up
in course of their tours on vicarious
charges by speed trap artists and
roadside courts.
This does not mean, of course,
that justice on the fee system has
made it's final exit" he said. What
it means is that the car owners,
through organization, are in a, bet
ter position to protect themselves.
This, in large measure, is due to
the vigorous campaign fought dur
ing the past number of years by the
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accompany each sketch. AS each
package is received, it will be opened
and the sketch and sealed enve-
lope given corresponding numbers.
All sketches must be in the office
Of the Hoosier Motor Club by p. m.
Aug. 81, and prizes will be awarded
Sept. Is. Judges will be named at
the next monthly meeting of the
board of directors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-06
, MOTOR CLUB TO
GIVE PRIZES FOR
EMBLEM DESIGNS
Best One Will Be Used on
Radiators of Members
Cars.

One hundred dollars in prizes is
being offered by the Hoosier Mo-
tor Club for the best design for a
radiator emblem to be used by mo-
tor club members. 1t is the practice
of the club to change the radiator
emblem every few years in order to
distinguish the active members from
those who no longer belong to the
club and from motorists who have
bought secondhand cars and have
inherited Hoosier Motor Club en-
blems.
The following five features should
be embodied in the new rariator EN-!
blem, according to club directors:
First, H. NJ. c., initials Of the club
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LEGAL HOLD-UP
OF DRIVERS NOT
50 PREVALENT
Motor Club Secretary Says
Fewer Complaints Are
Received.

One of the most promising fea-
lures of motoring in 1925 is the In
creased confidence manifested by
the average car owner in his ability
to protect himself against raids on
his pocket by roadside courts and
operators of speed traps, according
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PAGE 5
PENNIES BY THE MILE

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. GA northside
church here is collecting pennies by
the mile for it's building fund 1t
has been determined that it takes
S4,4S0 pennies laid end to end to
reach a mile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-06
TRIP
PROPOSED
BY CLUB
Offers Route to Resort in
Northeast Part of
Indiana.

Lake James, in the extreme north
east corner of the State, is an at
tractive summer resort. The Hoosier
Motor Club suggests the following
route for motorists who desire to
spend the weekend >there.
From Indianapolis go north on
Meridian st. to the canal. Turn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-06

Nearly 100000 electric lights are
used in the new Metropolitan theater
In Boston.
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A miscellaneous assortment Of
dining chairs In several different
designs and finishes. Regularly
sold for considerably more. There
are chairs here to match almost
any wood and finish.
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A pure white table for the kitchen.
Has the sanitary poreless porce-
lain top that is recommended by
all domestic science experts. A
most unusual value.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-09
CAR STRIKE
COST SET
AT S124, 1877
Report July Revenues Cut
$62, ,303, Expenses
Boosted $61, 1884.

The strike of street car men cost
the Indianapolis Street Railway
Company at least $124,1S7, it ap.
peared today from the company's re-
port for July filed with the public
service commission. The street car
strike started July 5.
Total receipts from fares and
transfers in July this year was
$9O5.69 compared to $367,996 taken
in during July, 1925. This was a
decrease of $62,303.
Operating expenses in July were
$61,SS4 higher than in July Of last
year.
Gross earnings for July were
1871 ,002, a $49,152 decrease from the
July, 1925, figure according to Presi.
dent Robert l. Todd.
First seven months Of 1926 showed
gross earnings Of $3,262,O9 an in.
crease Of $3S,376. or 1.19 per cent
Gein over like period in 1925, Todd's
report showed
Total operating expenses for July
were $984,S39. For seven months
the increase in operating expenses
was $216,S6S, the total being $2,5SS..
422.
According to the report on the spe
cial depreciation fund, total deficit Of
$21S. 994 was carried over to August,
1926.
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Three ESCAPED
MEN RECAPTURED
One Who Fled Richmond
Jail Caught Here.

Three men who escaped from the
Richmond Qnd) Jail Tuesday night
today are behind the bars again. one
Of them Edward Frame, 81, having
been captured in Indianapolis early
, today.
The other two, Leland Phillips, 1S
and Howard Davis, were retaken in
Richmond, according to dispatches
received here, Phillips was asleep
in an old dynamite shack when
found by police.
Lieut.. George Winkler and De,
tectives Russell and Taylor captured
Frame at the home of his half
brother, Oscar Frame. 315 Villa Ave
He was hidden behind a door. Harry
Wilson of the Villa Ave. address
said to have tipped off" Frame that
the officers were outside, was arrest
ed on charges of harboring a crimi.
nal. Frame and Davis had been
sentenced on vehicle theft charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-09
DEMOCRATS HEAR
ABOUT FINANCES
State Wide Rally eliminates
District Meetings.

Democrats from all parts of the
State met today at the Claypool in
a Statewide rally, the elimination
of a number of district meetings held
recently.
State Chairman r. Earl Peters
presented a report on the dollar-a-
Democrat plan of financing the cam
paign to a Joint meeting of the
State central and finance commit.
tees.
All district and county chairmen
and vice chairmen, with State work
ers, will meet at p. m. to hear
addresses by Albert Stump and
Evans Woollen, senatorial nominees
Thomas Taggart, veteran party
leader; State Chairman r. Earl
Peters and Mrs. A. p. Flynn of Lo
gansport, State committee vice
chairman. This meeting will be open
to the public.
The Owen County Democratic
male quartet of Spencer will sing
Members are Lloyd Summer, Herbert
I. Clemmer. Cleo Dean and Car
Abrell.
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BIC GLUNCHEON TO
BOOST CIVIC WEEK
viii Be Sept. 21-S School
Survey Planned.

In preparation for Civic Week,
part of the Indianapolis First move
ment. joint gathering of luncheon
clubs will be held at noon Sept. 21.
in Tomlinson hall, Dick Miller. chair
man Of the campaign committee OF
the boasting drive announced today.
Civic Week begins Sept. 26. 1t is
expected that all clubs will make this
noon luncheon for the week A
nationally-known speaker is being
sought, and a committee to arrange
for the luncheon. headed by Nicholas
H. Noyes, chamber president. has
been appointed.
A committee, with E. U. Graft.
superintendent of schools. as chair
man, has been named to arrange for
school survey to begin Sept. Is.
Ideas of high school pupils on what
is needed to develop young people in
Indianapolisy will be sought.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-09
STEPHENSONMAY
FACE TRIAL HERE
Arson Conspiracy Case Set
for Nov. "a Charged.

Possibility that d. c. Stephenson.
ex.Klan chieftain, now serving a
life sentence in Indiana State Prison
for the murder of Miss Madge Ober.
holtzer, may be brought here to face
trial on a conspiracy to commit ar.
son charge, was indicated today
when Judge James A. Collins an.
nounced the case against him had
been set for trial before a jury on
Nov. 8.
Stephenson Is a co-defendant with
Fred o. Butler. his secretary; and
Earl Gentry and Earl Klinck, his
former aids.
Prosecutor William H. Remy said
he did not think he would request
the presence OF Stephenson in court
at the time Of the trial. but the de.
fense attorney, Ira M. Holmes, may.
The four are alleged to have con-
spired to set fire to Stephenson s
former home in Irvington.
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ADVICE ASKED ON
ENGINEER POSITION
Mayor Requests Recon-.
mendation From Purdue

Mayor Duvall today wrote to Pres.
ident Edward c. Elliott of Purdue
University asking him to recommend
a man qualified to succeed George G.
Schmidt as city engineer.
However, r. Walter Dorsett, mem.
Der Of the city council majority fac
ton. predicted that the Republican
ticket would be slaughtered in the
fall election if an outsider" is
named to the position.
Dorsett is backing remote rela.
tions, M. N. Bebee. present track ele.
walton engineer. and William Lacey,
Marion County deputy surveyor, for
the position.
Duvall said that the resignation of
Leslie Duvall as asphalt plant super
intendent was not sought by the
board Of works and that Duvall re-
signed under misapprehension that
the board no longer wished his
services.
However, the mayor said Duvall
would not be reinstated because the
plant would be closed at the end
of this year.
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GIVAN BACKED FOR
CITYLEGAL POST
G. o. P Coffin Faction Hopes to Take Counsel lob From
Rucker and Give 1t to Judge, Defeated in Primary.

the treasurer was defeated when
Judge James NJ. Leathers refused
to force County Treasurer Edward
A. Ramsay to turn over the funds
to a receiver.
However, Rucker now is threaten
ing to advance again upon the Bar
ret law stronghold through which
Republican county campaigns are
financed and by which some polite
ians, including Mayor Duvall, have
profited.
Rucker is ready to contest an in.
junction which was granted in Fed.
eral Court many years ago to re-
strain paymen of the funds to the
city treasury and also is consider
ing filing another suit in one Of the
Marion County Superior Courts.
Fallen From Grace
Thus has Rucker fallen from
grace.
Judge Givan, on the other hand,
must be taken care of the politicians
say.
1t was through a hasty injunction
granted by Givan that George v.
Coffin was able to remove enough
committeeman to obtain control of
the G. o. p. organization, which had
been held by the Jewett-Lemcke fac
ton.
Although Rucker has contended he
has no intention of forcing past
county treasurers to disgorge the
Barrett law easy money" Duvall
and his close friends are said to be a
trifle uneasy lest a favorable decis-
ion would apply to the past as well
as the future.
Also, Duvall Is backing with all
his political strength the candidacy
Of Clyde E. Robinson, former busi-
ness associate, for county treasurer.
Robinson has as yet made no declara-
ton that he would forego the emolu-
ment from the Barrett law.
Should the system be declared H.
legal, Duvall himself might be forced
to return more than 100000 to the
county treasury.
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George V. Coffin faction Republic.
can politician, eager to place Super
ior Court Judge Clinton H. Givan in
favorable position, are casting
longing eyes at the berth of corpora.
ton counsel, now held by Alvah j.
Rucker, it became known today.
Givan will retire from the bench
at the end Of this year following his
defeat for denomination at the
primary. He was recently men
toned for a position on the State
industrial board, but the movement
was halted when the possibilities OF
the municipal position were re
vealed.
Rucker has fallen from the favor
Of Mayor Duvall and other admins.
tration leaders because of his attack
upon the system whereby the Mar
ion County treasurer draws an emol.
ument greater than that of President
Coolidge.
First Move Lost
The first effort Of Rucker to break
up the system of diversion of inter
est on prepayments under the Bar
rett law to the private account of
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LEGISLATORS
GUESTS A T
STATE FAIR
Governor Jackson and Law
makers Gather at Fair
ground.

Activities at the Indiana State
Fair assumed an atmosphere OF
dignity today, with the formal re.
ception of Governor Jackson and
members of the General Assembly
as guests.
With the skies clearing after the
tremendous downpour of Wednesday
night, monster crowd was expected
by evening. Wednesday attendance
total 37,S00, according to the turn
stile registers, but an even larger
assemblage was expected today by
fair officials.
Most Of the forenoon was given
over to livestock judging. Belgian
horses and Hereford and Jersey
cattle were judged in the Coliseum
The judging of Shropshire, South
down and Oxford sheep was staged
in the Sheep Arena and. hogs,
Spotted Poland China and Hamp.
shire, were graded in the Swine
Arena.
Governor Jackson and members OF
the Legislature were guests of the
girls home economies school at a
noon luncheon in the Woman's Bldg.
r. c. Jenkins, fair board president;
h. j. Barker. secretary treasurer,
and Levi P. Moore. publicity direc.
tor. will be guests of the girls at
dinner this evening.
An especially good program of
Grand Circuit racing. made up of
four events, was scheduled for 2
this afternoon, with the $4,000 Pluto
Water stake for the winner of the
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POLITICIANS
STOP PLANT
EXTENSIONS
Fairbanks Morse Expan-
Sions Delayed by Coun-
ty Commissioners.
DISPUTE ON LAND TITLE
Legal EntangIements Pre-
vent Development.

A manufacturing plant the first
unit OF which would have cost $780,.
! 900, employed 200 men and had an
annual pay roll of approximately
S25O,O0O has been denied Indianapolis
for more than a year and half be-
cause of politics.
There is grave likelihood that Indi-
annapolis eleventh largest industry
employing S57 men, with a million
dollar annual pay roll and working
day and night shifts, may be moved
from indianapolis by reason of ina
bility to expand. caused in great
measure by Marion Countys brand
Of politics.
Fairbanks. Morse & Co., one Of the
largest manufacturers of electric
motors in the world and an Indian.
anolis concern for many years, is the
plant In question.
Plans. Five Years Old.
A. w. Thompson, former manager
of the Fairbanks. Morse & Co. here,
and the man who built a plant
mile square for the General Electric
Company, at Erie, Pa, visualized the
growth OF the electric industry and
laid plans for expansion of the local
plant more than five years ago.
In keeping with this idea early
in 1923, through the intervention of
the indianapolis Chamber of Com.
merce, negotiations were started by
which the Fairbanks Company fin.
ally purchased the site of the old
Marion County workhouse, located
across the street from the present
plant. at Twenty-First st. and North.
western Ave. 1t was the only di-
rection in which expansion could be
made.
Every possible precaution was
taken to make the entire proceeding
legal in every sense. Extreme pre-
caution was taken as there was no
precedent available. In the negotia.
.tions Pickens. Cox & Gender. a local
law firm, represented Fairbanks,
Morse & Co.
Valued at $4,000 by competent
appraisers, the county council in
naming an upset price," as required
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RAINS SEND
RIVERS INTO.
LOWLANDS
Central Part of State Suffers
Heavy Damage From
Storm.
cLoUDBURST IN CITY
Crops Hurt and Transporta.
tion Held Up.

A terrific storm which swooped
down upon central Indiana, Wednes
day night, sent rivers of the State
already swollen by unusual Septem-
ber rainfall, out of their banks in
many places, flooding the lowlands
and causing heavy crop damage.
Indianapolis experienced it's heav
lest cloudburst of the season, and
one of the heaviest in history, the
total rain being 2.S6 inches. Or
Wednesday night Of last week, 1854
inches fell. o
Residents in some places, particu
larly along the west fork of White
River, were expected to be forced
from their homes by the continued
rise of the waters.
Crops generally have been dam
aged by the rain, farm authoritie:
state. Corn and unthrashed wheat
and oats suffered greatly.
1'he rain was general over cen
trail Indiana and western Illinois. !
H. Armington of the United States
Weather Bureau reported.
Iefre HauteS Cl0udDurSC
At Terre Haute, a cloudburst
dumped SIC inches of rain in a
short time. Martinsville, with 3.69
inches, had second rain honors and
Indianapolis was third.
Terre Haute suffered the heaviest
loss in the State, damage there being
estimated at half a million. The Wa
bash river there will go to 20 feet
3h feet above flood stage, it was
predicted, with the stream out OF
banks at many points. This morning
the stage was II feet, or six inches
above flood stage. Families living
along the river were driven from
their homes. White river was sent
out of it's banks above and below
Martinsville and trains and interur,
bans were held up.
Bloomington practically was
isolated, tracks of the Illirois
Central and Monon Railroads being
washed out.
White river here stood at 15.1 feet
this morning and may go over II
feet. Armington said. Flood stage
is 1S feet.
Fair weather is predicted for to-
night and Friday, with much lower
temeratures tonight, according to
Armington. Temperature will drop
IL to IL degrees this evening he
said.
indianapolis streets and sewers
were flooded by the terrific down
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Hoosier Elephant
Caught in Canada

BU CHNcn PRESS
CRANBOOK, B. c., Sept. o.
Myrtle, the elephant which escaped
with four others from the Sells .Floto
circus nearly two months ago. has
been captured near here. The ami.
NAL, which had been held at bay
by Indians on a plountainside 70;
nearly a week, was in a weakened
condition. Charlie. fifth member Of
the escaping herd. is still at large.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-09
Woman, 100, Freed
on Drunk Charge

BU UHfItu PFeSS
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Sept. 9.-Mrs.
Kate Smith was Jailed here for "cut-
tin up" in celebration of her Tooth
birthday.
II never was drunk before in my
life an6 this is the first time I have
ever been in JAIL" the centenarian
said when arraigned on charge of
drunkenness. The case was dis
missed.
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SAYS
HE GOT CAR
CO. MONEY
Head of Street Railway
Union Admits He Double
Crossed Men.
RECEIVED $50 A WEEK
Sentenced 120 Days in Jail
by Judge BaItzeII.

Harry Boggs, president of the 10,
cal street car mems union during it's
strike. told Federal Judge Baltzell
today that he had been in the em
ploy Of the company during the
strike and for two weeks previous TO
its calling.
He said that he had been paid
$50 a week for giving the company
valuable information"
The admissions came in response
to questions by the district attorney
and Judge Baltzell, who thereupon
sentenced Boggs to 12O days in Jail
for violating the injunction obtained
by the street car company against
interference with its service"
Ernest Pfumm, assistant superin.
tendent of the street railway com.
pany, testified also that Boggs had
been paid $50 week by the com
pany while he was acting as presi
dent Of the union and directing its
strike.
Double Crossed the Men
The startling admissions of Boggs
that he had been in the pay of the
company whose injunction he ad
mitted violating brought from the
judge the inquiry as to whether he
had not double-crossed both the com
pany and the union. Boggs said he
never double-crossed the company.
Boggs was elected president of the
union after it had been organized
and a strike called. He was active
in its meetings. He suddenly fled
the city and he was charged with
contempt of the Federal Court in
influencing men and advising vic
lence.
Found in West Virginia
He was found in West Virginia
on the day that the two interna.
tional organizers for the union were
before the court and pleaded guilty
some days ago.
His case is the last Of the many
charges contempt brought by the
district attorney as the result of
violence and the dynamiting of cars
The injunction was obtained by
the company warning all persors
from interfering in any way with
the operation Of cars.
Boggs was charged, in the con
tempt proceedings, with violation of
this order.
His statement to the court was
that he was in the pay of the com
pany during that time.
Denies Blast Order
Boggs was quizzed regarding a ru
NOR that he had been told to order
the men "to go out and blow up
cars" Boggs denied he had been
told to order strikers to dynamite
cars.
Street car officials stated Boggs
had never received such instruc
tions.
Boggs was paid the weekly wage
during his presidency Of the union
to keep the company informed as to
progress of the union organization
according to Pflumm.
Judge Puts Question.
When Boggs told the judge he was
not double crossing the street rail
way Baltzell asked:
What were you doing when you
directed pulling trolleys off wire and
said there were. too many cars run
ning?"
Boggs did not reply.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-09
Spanish Dictator
to Visit America

BU UNifed PrCSs
HADRID, Sept. 9.-With peace
restored following the revolt Of ar.
tillery officers, Primo De Rivera, die
tator Of Spain, plans to sail for the
United States Sept. 27, it was author
itatitvely. reported.
The dictator. against whose poll
cies the revolo was staged. will be in
the United States fifteen days, visit.
New York, Washington, Philadelphia
and Niagara Falls.
Martial law was suspended
throughout Spain by royal decree
yesterday after having been in effect
more than seventy-two hours.
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MAN, SO, HANGS FRIDAY
"I'm Already Dead" Says Slayer,
Spared From Moose Twice.

BU United Prces
SAN QUENTIN, CAL, Sept. O.
Isaac Wolfgang, 50 years old. will
go to the gallows here Friday morn
ing for the Staying three years ago
of oliver Dinsmore. policeman, who
caught Wolfgang stealing a bottle
of milk.
Three times Wolfgany has been
sentenced to death and twice he has
escaped death by court ruling.
"They tell me I've got to die, q"
Wolfgang said today. They've al
ready killed me. I've gone through
all the anguish; I'm already dead"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-09
TWO ARE BOUND OVER
Alleged Auto Thieves Are Up In
Municipal Court.

Two alleged auto thieves were
bound over to the grand jury today
in municipal court. Font Brown.
1888 w. Thirty-Fourth ST., charged
with vehicle taking, burglary and
grand larceny. Is said to have stolen
new $4,000 car from the Armacost
Automobile Company. S32 N. Merid.
ian st.
Fred Dodson, 1869 w. Twenty
Sixth St.. brought back from Ham
ilton, Ohio. is alleged to have made
away with a car belonging to the
Kissel-Skiles Rent-a-Car Company,
IA N. Senate Ave.