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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
WE TRIED DRY LAW 1T
FAILED, SAY CANADIANS
Modification Has Brought
Temperance, Senate
Is Told.

BB United Press
WASHINGTON, April 10.-Prohi
bition was tried in Canada and
failed because it did not prohibit
but instead provoked crime and de.
nloralization of Young people Sir
Wifiam stavert, formerly of the
Quebec liquor commission, and r.
w. Russell OF the Manitoba Temper
ance Society told the Senate prohibit
ton committee today.
Restricted Government sale OF
liquor has eliminated the evils OF
prohibition. they said.
Their testimony. coming after
John Sullivan of the New York Fed
GRAFTON OF Labor had Actured
young girls carrying TASKS of gin
on their hips in New York" had a
visible effect upon both wet and dry
members OF the investigating com
mittee.
Sir William and Russell were
closely questioned regarding the
Quebec and Manitoba systems OF
government distribution. which they
said eliminated bootleggers, raised
revenues for road building and re-
suited in temperance.
With only nine hours of their
day In court remaining, Senator Wal.
ter +. Edge, Republican. New Jer.
sey, wet bloc leader. made a declara-
ton that the vets had made A case
and challenged the drys to answer
revelations OF bootlegging, corrup-
ton. disease and crime
I'VE have used Government Of
flcials and produced facts and rec
ords-not simply opinions" Edge
told the United Press. I'VE have
records and men to prove that con-
ditions are relatively the same in
every corner of the United States.
"If the opposition gets anywhere,
it must refute these facts and not,
as in the past. defend the law by
exhortation and evasion"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
SHUMAKER SAYS
VETS May GET
HOUSE CONTROL
Appeals to M. E. Conference
Delegates to Aid Anti
Saloon Body.
BV Times special

BB Times special
NEWCASTLE, Ind, April TO-
Appealing to the delegates to the
Northern Indiana Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church to sup
port the Anti-Salcon League with
prayers, sympathy, ballots and
money" Edward S. Shumaker, In
diana League superintendent. today
declared vets are likely to gain col-
troll of the House of Representatives
at the coming congressional election.
Anti-dry forces need only elect
their men in forty-one of the 435
congressional districts in the coun-
try TO control that body. he said.
Senate Would Follow
And if the House of Representa-.
tives goes wet. the Senate will fol-
low and prohibition enforcement
laws be annulled, he said.
''Wets are staging an intensive
drive TO overthrow prohibition and
their main effort is being directed to
discredit work and officials OF the
Anti-Saloon League. he said.
He defended his annual report. At
torney General Arthur L. Gilliom
has asked the Supreme Court to cite
Shumaker for his alleged attacks in
this report upon the attorney gen.
erals office and on court action on
liquor cases.
81 was careful. | believed then
and still believe every statement in
that report Shumaker said.
Shumaker was to cite figures on
what use has been made OF saloon
property since prohibition, in
another speech tonight before the
conference.
Saloons Changed
He will state that Of 2,7S5 saloons
in 100 Indiana towns, 799 are now
grocery stores, 800 clothing stores,
323 home equipment stores, III
house auto dealers. 36 banks, 81
book stores, churches and museums,
and 679 businesses Of miscellaneous
classifications. Only 3S6 are used as
soft drink places, he will say.
Ministerial assignments for the
district are to be announced Sun
day night or Monday morning.
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virtually pollceless at night. In,
coming and outgoing shifts, instead
of relieving each other at their
designated posts. were meeting in
the station houses, blocks, sometimes
miles, from the posts they were
supposed to patrol. That was halted
Immediately.
Within the first ten days it was
necessary to rid the department of
eight or ten lieutenants and scores
OF policemen for inefficiency, lack of
cooperation and drunkenness. They
apparently couldn't understand that
an order meant just what it said.
They had been used to other condi
tions. 1 didn't have power to dis.
miss these officials, but they were
suspended or denoted.
Hundreds of Raids
In the first six days some 4S4
raids were staged. The underworld
began to take notice, and soon there
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
MARTIN WANTS
JUDGES BENCH
Local Attorney Candidate
for Supreme Court.

Clarence r. Martin, Indianapolis
attorney, today announced he is a
candidate for nomination for judge
Of the Indiana Supreme Court, at the
Republican State convention.
Martin has been engaged in law
practice for nineteen years. He
graduated from the Michigan Uni
versity and Indiana Law School.
After graduation he served as Ap-
pelate Court clerk
IF l am elected l shall work in
complete harmony with the able
judges, who are already members OF
the court Martin said.
He was manager Of the primary
campaign Of Senator Albert Bever-
idge in 1922, and in that year was
on the Republican State committee
as chairman Of the speakers bureau.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
Dry Administrator An
nounCeS Plans to Have
Government Take Per-
SonaI and Real Property
of VoIStead Act VioIatorS.
WOULD RESURRECT
OLD 1857 STATUTE
Harris Says He Will Make
Use of Law as Soon as
Possible - Heavy Fines
and Sentences Also Are
Provided in Act.

Indiana booze makers faced the
prospect of losing all their property,
personal and real, today.
E. C. Yellowley. prohibition ad-
ministrator of the Thirteeth District,
which includes Indiana, announced
plans to impose this penalty on
those who violate the Volstead act
by resurrecting an 1857 law designed
to check moorshining.
The old law-used successfully in
the reconstruction period following
the Civil War-provides for the for
feiture to the Government Of both
real and personal property involved
in booze manufacturing and even
provides for the s6rrender of land
over which bootleggers pass to and
from a wildcat still, according to Yel-
lowley.
Harris TO Act -.
Ansel r. Harris. deputy admin
istrator in charge Of Indiana law en-
forcement, said he would make use
of the statute as soon as possible.
Yellowley and Harris both pointed
out that in many cases where prop
erty has been padlocked for a year
and a day under the Federal law it
wlu now be confscated as Govern
ment property.
The law also povides fines Of
from $1,000 to $4,000 and prison SEN
tences of six months to two years.
Harris said that since he has been
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
CURE FOR PARESLS
VICTIMS IS TESTED
Five Patients With Maady Treated Successfully at Gen.
trail Hospital for Insane.

Science, at last may have found
cure for paresis, syphilitic insan-
ity. Time will tell whether a new
Central Hospital for the Insane is a
cure or Just a step forward in treat
ing the scourge, doctors said. The
treatment involves literally burning
out the paresis with fever.
Five patients have returned TO
their former occupations and ldbora-
tory tests have failed to show a trace
of the detection. Thirty-five others
are being treated.
Marion County physicians are
eagerly awaiting announcement of
results by DR.. Max Bahr, head Of
the institution, who first put the
treatment to test in this State He
outlined the tests Of he treatment,
it is understood, to Indianapolis Medi-
cal Society members at meeting
this week.
Patients are given malaria fever
by injection Of germs. In about eight
days they became seriously i'll, hav-
ing fever and chills on alternate
days. They are left in this condi-
tion from sixteen to twenty-four
days. The theory is that the high
fever destroys the paretic organisms
which caused the patients brain to
disintegrate.
Curing the malaria then requires
from one to three weeks. A series
Of laboratory tests are made later
Paresis, which. roughly, is syphilis
of the brain, has defied medical sci
ence Of ages 1t appears in patients
from ten to twenty years after
syphilis has been contracted First
symptoms are grandiose and fan
tastic ideas Of wealth and power
The treatments at the hospital, it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
THADDEUS QUINN, II, CHUM OF
VICTIM, SAVED BY FISHERMAN
Man Extends Pole to Lad in Boat and
Pulls Him to Shore Just as He Is
About to Dash Into Dangerous
Rapids.

Two boys dared the raging Of rain swollen White
River in a rickety today.
AS a result
Clifford Platt II, of Mr. Mrs Edward Pla 1916
Holmes Ave. dead his body still in the somewhere
south of Emrichsvle bridge.
Thaddeus QUINN II, Of 1154 n Belle Vieu P is alive by
the slender chance that fishing pole in the hands of man
was long enough to reach the just about plunge
the dam south of Emrchsvile bridge
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10

ThaddeUs went to Chfford's home
this morning.
What you going to do this morn
ing?" asked Clifford.
Guess III go riding on my Wheel"
replied Thaddeus.
Fateful Decision
mo, let's so over to see how the
river is" suggested Clifford. i've
got a boat over there. 1t belongs
to Jude Poynter and me-
Jude Poynter, 13, lives at 1866
N. Haugh st.
Thaddeus agreed and they went
to one Of the boat houses in Camp
Shank, naval reserve summer school
in Riverside Park. They dragged
out the dilapidated canoe and
launched it. With a board for a
paddle they embarked into the swift
stream. 1t is from eight to ten feet
deep at this point, due to the dam
a short distance downstream.
AS they reached the center of the
stream the boys began to lose their
nerve.
Gee, it's pretty swift out here, -
said Thaddeus with a shiver.
Danger Nears
One hundred yards downstream the
canoe bumped into one of the abut-
ments of the Emrichsvine bridge.
The swift eddies tossed them about
and the canoe shipped some water.
The roar Of the water over the dam
only two blocks downstream in their
ears, the boys became panic stricken.
Jack the dog of Thaddeus, who
had followed them along the bank,
realized his master was in danger.
Jack" plunged into the stream and
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
MACREADY TO
RESIGN ARMY
To Make One More Effort
for World Record.
BIZ United Press

BIZ DHfted Press
McCOOK FIELD, Dayton, Ohio,
April 10.-Upon completion Of his
flight in an effort to recapture the
worlds altitude record this afternoon
Lieut.. John A. MacReady, nationally
known Army aviator who has led
many daring exploits into the untram-
meled paths of the air, will telegraph
his resignation to Washington, the
United Press learned this afternoon.
The resignation is to become eff
fective tonight and the airrnan will
join the sales force Of the Delco-
Light Company, a subsidiary Of the
General Motors Company, it was
announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
Hoosier Repents:
Asks Spud Bill
BH United Press

BU UHtt3d Press
CIiADRON, Neb, April To-
Ed Wilkinson, potato grower,
believes all men are honest.
He has received a letter from
a man signing himself James
Williamson, Muncie, Ind, say
ing he took a sack of potatoes
from Willlinson's field while
touring last fall.
The writer said he was "con-
verted" and asked Wilkinson to
submit bill so he could pay
for the potatoes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
BY Smedley ID. Butler

Those first days were hectic ones.
1t was drive, drive, drive and raid,
raid, raid. Speakeasies, saloons, dis.
orderly houses gambling dens, all
were raided. Prisoners were taken
by the hundreds. Gambling para
phernalia was smashed. Liquor was
seized.
There was purpose behind this
forced activity-to show the under
world that the police meant busi-
ness.
To the police themselves my or
Ger was: Clean up the city in forty.
eight hours or get out.
| knew the Philadelphia cesspool
couldn't be cleaned UP in that Pc
riod. Nevertheless the order was
issued. SO that might establish
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
REPORT GREECE
In civil WAR
Conflicting Dispatches Are
Received.
BIZ Lnitcd reSR

BH United TreSs
BERLIN, April 10.-Dispatches re-
ceived today from Belgrade describe
Greece as plunged in civil war fol-
lowing the mutiny yesterday in Sa-
lonika. Other dispatches report the
attempt to overthrow Dictator Pan.
galos to have been suppressed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
PRESIDENT IS CAPTURED
Chinese Nationalists Disarm Body,
guard.


PEKJNG, April 10--President
Tuan Of China was seized and made
prisoner today by the Nationalist
troops, which control the Peking
area, Nationalist leaders announced.
The presidential bodyguard was dis.
armed
The capital is normal today except
that troops and machine guns are
distributed through the streets.
Other than Nationalist sources
deny that Tuan has been captured
or that the bodyguard has been dis
armed. The palace gates have been
opened. and telephones reconnected
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
GRAND JURY TO MEET
Federal Indictments Expected in
Vincennes Dry Raid.

Federal grand jury will meet May
.. the opening of the spring term,
it was announced today by United
States District Attorney Albert
Ward.
Evidence probably will be pre-
sented on an alleged conspiracy to
violate the prohibition law barred by
Federal raids at Vincennes several
weeks ago in which forty.three
persons were arrested. A. r. Harris,
deputy Federal prohibition admins
traitor, said the evidence is being
collected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
MOT Her JOINS
CONDEMNED son
Sees Young Rhoades, Sen
fenced to Electric Chair.
BU United Press

BIZ United Press
TERFlE HAUTJ1. Ind. April TO-
The mother Of Dreyfus Rhoades,
confessed slayer Of Detective Carrie
of Vincennes, joined him today. She
came from her home in Henryetta,
Okla, bringing with her two sisters
and one brother Of Rhoades.
II came as soon as I got word he
had been sentenced to the electric
chair" she' sobbed.
MY son. My SOM she cried as she
greeted Rhoades in his cell. She held
him close in her arms.
Rhoades remained calm with diff
Guilty.
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wanted at Indian.
apolis on murder
charges, but sen
fenced from here
to the State prison
at Nashville for
highway robbery
escaped the peni.
tentiary f r id a y
night with six
teen fellow con-
victs, and today
held up a bank at
BEL B II G X | e,
Tenn, obtaining
$4,000.
Lee, who has a
remarkable record
of escapes from
prisons, and Lee
Allen noted Okla
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
ST. LOUIS MAN SOUGHT

indianapolis police today we're
asked to search local hotels for
August II, Goett. ST. Louis, Mo-,
who failed to arrive at his home in
ST. Louis Friday night, as sched-
uled. He was supposed to have left
here Friday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
POLICEMAN MURDERED
Robber Trio Shoots Down Sergeant
Flee.

BIZ LHtfed Press
FRANKLIN. Pa, April TO-
George McPhee, police sergeant,
was shot to death here early today
as he tried to arrest three men for
breaking into a confectionery store.
The trio escaped, telling passersby
they were chasing a Negro who did
the shooting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
SURGEONS SELECTED
Two Chosen by Updike to Complete
Pension Examining Boards.
BH Times Special

BH IfHleb NDecf0E
WASHINGTON, April 10.-Repre-
sentative Ralph e. Updyke has Sc.
lected DR.. Thomas j. Beasley and
Dr. Roy Egbert to complete the two
Indianapolis boards of surgeons to
examine war pensioners applying for
increases in pensions, he announced
today. Five new members were an.
nounced several days ago.
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is understood. have been undertaken
during the late winter and spring as
a precautionary measure against
spread Of the malaria, which can be
carried by mosquitoes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
HIS REFUSAL TO
CHANGE FIGURES
COSTS POSITION
Highway Body Clerk Says
He Was Dismissed for Not
Juggling Statistics.

His refusal to iuggle figures was
disclosed today by Howard ID. Nc
Clelland as reason for his summary
dismissal Friday as State highway
commission chief clerk. Highway
commission members had said Nc
Clelland's dismissal was due to lack
of cooperation.
Some time ago McClelland was or
dered to ascertain the commission's s
overhead expense. His figures
showed nearly 5 per cent overhead.
Director John D. Williams ordered
McClelland to reduce the figure. Nc
Clelland refused and the matter was
taken out of his hands. The COM
mission, by deleting salaries Of dis
trict superintendent. testing labora-
tory expenses and miscellaneous ex-
penses Of the thirty-three district ga
RACES. was able to pare its overhead
to 3.0S per cent, McClelland ex-
planned.
Crawford Slated
Mrs. Mary Olive Mcconnell,
daughter of State Auditor L. S. Bow
man, will relieve McClelland tempo
rarily, 1t was announced. Earl Craw
ford, commission member, is slated
to succeed McClelland when the for
mer's term expires next Saturday.
Explaining his stand, McClelland
said: IF cooperation means chang
ing figures in the annual report to
suit Mr.. Williams I cannot CO.
operate. ! have sought only to pre-
sent facts and figures showing the
truth in highway department affairs,
TO which the citizens are entitled"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
Butler Arouses Politicians

Editors Note-Ths is the fourth in.
stallment OF General Buffers story of
his work as head of Philadelphia police
and his dismissal early this year. The
articles will appear daily. The Times
owns exclusive rights to the articles ID
this fprritOfV
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
'SHEIK' SENT, TO CHAIR
New York Youth Hears Sentence
In Tuxedo.
Bp United Press

BD United Press
NEW YORK. April 10.-Dressed
in tuxedo. because he expected to
be freed, and had a dinner engage
ment, Herbert Koerber. an 1S-year-
old sheik, heard instead a jury pro-
nounce him guilty of murder and
sentence him to the electric chair.
Herbert was convicted OF killing
a lunchroom keeper in a hold-up
after an all-night orgy Of red wine
and synthetic gin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
|. REAL HAUL HERE
Port Wine and Canadian Whisky
Taken by Police Raiders.

One quart of Concord port wine,
one quart Of Canadian whisky, seven
quarts of Old Dominion whisky,
eleven pints Of red whisky and two
pints of beer.
That is what Sergt. Ed Deeter and
squad said they found when they WIS.,,
tied the home Of Walter w. Mueller,
SO, of 2604 Madison Ave, today.
Mueller was charged with blind
tiger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
GET $4,000 IN LOOT
ON WAY TO MOUNTAINS
Demands Promises of Cash
From Fellow ConviCtS Be-
fore Releasing Them From
CeIIS-IS Seventh Dash
for Desperate.
BB United Press


KNOXVILLE, Tenn, April 10
Ralph Lee, alias Howard Barr,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
Home Edition

DOOTS in New York with
- brother Bill paying the
billsl Enjoy life with her on
The Times Comic Page.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-10
Forecast

INCREASING cloudiness, be-
Il coming unsettled late to-
night and Sunday; probably
rain; cooler Sunday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-12
LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN
PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY
CARTON-CONTINU

You see, sgd. | have found out
there is such thing as to be suffo-
Gated with great comfort and luxury,
that always to be sure Of perfect
case is not always conducive to the
greatest happiness.
This is not treason to Leslie, Sgd.
It's just a yearning for the old rest
lessness and uncertainty--for the old
feeling that all of my life is not
settled for the old expectation that
just around the corner Pm going to
. find something new and thrilling
| something that have never known
about before. A
Al last, Sgd. as ] see il now. my
road is perfectly straight and it
! stretches out such a long way ahead
! that it makes me tired and I'm
/ weary just trying to find the end.
It's a straight. shady, beautiful road
| Sgd. ! know that. One over which
| shall roll along until am old and
gray and. can go no further. t@sa
| | hear you say that no one such q
fool as !. You've told me that good
many times, old friend, and you were
always right, but You must rcnlen-
Der that perhaps no one has been sc
fOolishly confidential with you as
Consequently you have never known
what the others have had in their
hearts. You have never known wha,
the others have done and kept from
the world. am the only man you
have known as he has known him
self. ! am the only man who has
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-12
Editorial Comment
Turning Towards Religion
(RostOn Globe


Americans are much more religious than Euro
peans!
This is Katharine Newin Burts observation, after
two years in Europe with her husband, Maxwell
Struthers Burt. The literary couple landed in Bos-
ton recently the way TO New Canaan, Conn.,,
where they will live this winter.
Yes, there is no doubt but that the present gen
Grafton here in America is turning toward religion
Now, the French either completely agnostic or
else definitely orthodox" Mrs. Burt said. while
we were in France, met Hindu teacher Swami
who told me that to him nothing was amazing
as the hold which his religion had taken in America
The fcrvor OF Europeans ia nothing like that o.
you Americans. he expressed it."
rs it the liberal attitude of parents the variety
Of religious minds in America that is turning this
generation into religious one? Or simply
reacting to the jazz mania?" Mrs. Burt was asked
~ should say the young people reactionaries
They are going to be obaessef with the discovery OF
their religion, partly because Of perversity (fol
the reason that they haven't been forced to attend
church) and partly he result of tremendous
cynicism and consequent vacuum created by thu
lack, hitherto, of a religious atmosphere"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-12
Great Railroad Consolidation
VALLEY City Times-Record)

(VdIley C1ty llmeS-necOru)
The merging of the Great Northern. Northern Pa
cific and Burlington systems, which may include
some smaller lines, It has recently been stated BY
an official high up in the Northern Pacific service
will go through later unless there Is some
unforeseen obstacle presented.
Already in anticipation OF that, the short stretches
where the double track east of here has not been laid
the grading has been done and next summer the
double track will be finished to Little Falls. When
the takes place most if not all the coast
senger business will be routed over the Northern
Pacific on account of the double track. A tremen-
doua increase passenger trains and traffic OF all
kinds is anticipated, more particularly from Fargo
east
Then, according to opinions expressed by men who
are in position to know something OF what is in
prospect, this line will be the first electrified prot
ect undertaken after the merger for the reason
above stated. It will be the main passengercarry.
ing track. .
Just what eiectrifying the lines may do in the
divisions along the line is not definitely known but
dorbt the entire division service schedules will
be changed to meet a new condition which in any
event cannot in any way but work out to the advan
tage OF Valley City and those non-divs:on towns OF
the Northern Pacific.