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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
All Will Use Planes Except
AmundSen-0ne Trip by
World AViatOrS.

BU NEA SCfrtcG -,
WASHINGTON. March 23.-The
most romantic, daredevil race in his
tory-a race for the north pole by
air--will be on by the end Of March.
Five expeditions, three of them
American, will sail over the white
reaches of the linlitless ice fields on
new quests for information, undis-
covered lands and adventure.
A hidden arctic continent that is
believed to lie" about the pole, and
that may contain oil and valuable
ores, may be claimed for this or
some other government as result
of the flight. Important air trade
routes may be discovered. New
knowledge of arctic regions is sure
TO result.
But, chiefly, there is sport-adven-
ture, competition< five-sided dash
for the glory of being the first to
reach the north pole by air.
Four of the explorers will go by
airplane; the fifth will fly in a dirig
ible
This latter expedition is headed by
the famous Roald Amundsen, discOv-
erer of the south pole and lifelong
explorer. He will be accompanied
by Lincoln Ellsworth, wealthy young
American. A big dirigible has been
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
COOLIDGE FOR REFUSAL
OF LEAGUE INVITATION

ference to discuss American World
Court reservations.
The Senate reservations are plain
and apparently require no further
elucidation, it was said at the White
House today on behalf of the Presi-
dent.
1t was added that a final decision
however would await careful con.
sideration of the official invitation
when received.
Minister Hugh Gibson will return
to Switzerland as head OF the Amer.
ican delegation to the Leagues pre-.
iiminary arms conference, opening
May IS, it was said.
Gibson's probable military asso-
ciates on the delegation were given
as Major Generals Harry A. Smith
and Dennis Nolan. and Rear Ad
mirals Hilary p. Jones and A. T.
Long
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
VOTING TANGLE
is Prevented \
Error on Candidate Blanks
Found at Warsaw.

Bv Times Special
WARSAW, Ind, March 23.-kos-
ciusko County came near losing its
representation in the Republican and
Democratic State conventions.
After candidates for the seventeen
places in the Republican delegation
had filed notices of candidacy with
County Clerk Russell H. Butler and
just before eleven Democratic dele
gate candidates filed an indianapolis
politician discovered the blanks set
the date for the primary election as
the second Tuesday in March in
stead of the first Tuesday in May,
the correct time. Had the error not
bene discovered the votes of the dele
gates in the State conventions might
have been successfully challenged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
STATET0 Play
PART AT wet,
DRY HEARINGS
National Interest CenterS in
Indiana Liquor Situa-
ton.

Political observers here today be-
lieved that Indiana will be in the
limelight in the hearings on the
national prohibition law to begin in
Washington April s.
The Senate judiciary Sub-commit-
tee late Monday announced that
vets would be heard the week of
April and drys the week of April
Il.
Through magazine articles and
stories in newspapers throughout
the country. national interest has
centered in the Indiana liquor situ-
alton for many months. The Wright
bone dry law, the driest State law
in the Nation, has been the center
of comment.
According to a dispatch from the
Times Washington Bureau the sub
committee will give anyone COM
petent to give information time in
the hearings. The committee will
call some persons but expects many
witnesses to volunteer.
E L. McCulloh, a former Indian
apolis man, secretary to Senator
Means, chairman Of the sub-commit
tee, said that IIoosiers would be
heard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
USE SIGNS AT
BUSY CORNER
Traffic Experiment at Merid-
ian and Washington.

Whether human guidance is neces.
sary for pedestrians or whether they
will respect signs was the eperi-
ment being tried today at Meridian
and Washington SITS.
II pedestrians respond to educa-
tion in moving with the tra1flc, pa
trolmen assigned to the corners dur
ing rush hours will yield permanent
ly to four black and white traffic
posts, according to Traffic Inspector
Harvey w. Bedford.
The posts bear the words mo
right or left turns" and the warn.
ing now applies between 1890 a. m.
and 2 p. m. and 4:30 p. m. and 6
p. m.
II all works well he will recon.
mend the no turn rule be effective
all day, Bedford said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
OIL CITY FLOOD
STILL CRITICAL
Heavy Rains Presage In
creased Danger.

81 UnitCd Press
FRANKLIN, Pa, March %. - AL
though a drop of the Allegheny
River at Franklin was registered
overnight, a steady downpour of rain
and overcast skies today presaSed
increased danger from flood condi-
tions.
AT Franklin the river stage today
was 19 feet, a drop Of a foot over
night. Flood level is Is feet.
At Oil City the river dropped two
feet to "a feet. This city, with $4,000
population, has been the greatest
sufferer from the present flood, dam
age being conservatively estimated
at $1,000,OOO. With electric power
cut off, 5000 men were out of work
Aand newspapers are only able to
$print handbills run off by foot-power.
More than $50 homes are inundated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
GERMANS TURN DOWN
PLEA OF Won 7TRPT7Z

statements Of Alanson b. Houghton.
the United States ambassador to
Great Britain as reported from
Washington and told the Reichstag
that Germany should follow the
United States policy in abstaining
from League membership.
Count Won Bernstorff, German
ambassador to the United States
prior TO American entrance into the
World War, defended the League
against it's attackers. Regarding the
Houghton report Bernstorff said that
the ambassador intended to strength
en- great Britain against French i'm
perialism.
Great Britain and the United
States are the two powers in the
world least likely to go to war
against each other" declared Bern
storff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
Home Edition

d FAD Eddie Ash, Times
In Sport Editor. He's with
the Indians at Hot Springs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
Forecast

AIR tonight and probably
i Wednesday; m o d era te
temperature predicted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
BIZ United Press

By United Press
BERLIN, March pa sudden
effort Of the Nationalists today to
rescind Germany's application for
League of Nations membership and
to nullify the Locarno treaties failed
when the Reichstag voted confidence
in the governments program.
The Reichstag also defeated by a
rising vote a motion to repudiate
the Dawes plan.
The Nationalists attempted their
coup after speech by Admiral Won
Tirpitz, the man who ordered the
sinking of the Lusitania, and created
the situation which finally drew
the United States into the World
War. Tirpitz spoke for the first
time since the war.
Won Tirpitz approved the alleged
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
LLOYD GEORGE HITS
LOCARNO SECRECY
Seeks to Gust Chamberlain, Blaming Him for League
Faure-ReiChSa ag Averts Crisis.

"One point wrecked Geneva" said
the Welshman, "and 1t was never
mentioned in the parliamentary ex-
plantations OF Locarno.
Did Chamberlain know of the
intention Of France to secure stimuli
taneous entry Of Poland with Ger
many at Geneva?"
Ramsay Macdonald. former labor
premier and leader of the official
opposition. was to follow Lloyd
George with labOr's volley against
the foreign secretary.
Sir Austen. in reply, bitterly de-
MED responsibility for Germany's
failure to enter the league.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
INJURIES FATAL
TO PEDESTRIAN
Man, Struck by Auto Satur-
day, Dies at Hospital.

John Berger, 40, of 1867 Shelby
ST., died at city hospital today from
injuries received late Saturday when
he was struck while crossing Shelby
st. at Orange ST., by an autoist who
failed to stop.
Raymond Forbes, 1906 E. Ray
mond ST., told Patrolmen Robinson
and Wachstetter that the auto was
going north in Shelby st. He
described it as a dirty Ford full
of people"
Berger refused medical treat
ment following the accident, but
later was taken to the hospital.
Police are seeking the driver of the
death car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
WOULD ABANDON
SERVICE BY BUS
T. H., |. & E. Subsidiary Pc.
titionS Commission.

Temporary abandonment of motor
bus service by the Indiana Motor
Transit Company, a subsidiary of
the T. H. I. & E. Traction Company,
between Indianapolis, Crawfords-
vile, and Lafayette. was asked to-
day in a petition filed with the pub
lie service commission.
The traction subsidiary recently
bought out the certificates of COM
peting carriers on these routes and
obtained rate increases.
The petition says the busses are
being operated at a loss. If per-
mitted to discontinue, the company
says it will resume bus operations
whenever directed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
LABOR union
BACKS FIRST
S. H. s. SITE {
Letter Will Be Sent to Board
Member Kern Urging
School Be Erected at
Thirty-Fourth and Merid-
ian SITS. Immediately.

Central Labor Union officials to-
day We're preparing a letter to be
sent School Board Member Charles
w. Kern, appealing to him, as an or
ganized labor representative, to take
all possible moves to have the new
Shortridge High School erected i'm
mnediately at Thirty-Fourth and Me-
Nfdian SITS.
~ A resolution to do this was adopt
night, after members declared 80 per
cent of the people favor erection of
the school on this site.
Kern is a member of the union.
Majority faction members of the
school board are determined to buy
property on Forty-Sixth st. between
Central Ave. and Washington Blvd.
for the school. Kern. as buildings
and grounds committee chairman
was the m0tivator of this plan.
Restraining Order Gained
The Indianapolis Public School
Welfare Association has succeeded
in gaining a temporary restraining
order against the board, in the move
for a permanent injunction. Hearing
on the injunction petition will be
held March 27 before Judge Sidney
S. Miller, Superior Court Three.
Investigating committee members
who reported at the union meeting
said it was not their purpose to con
denim or criticise any person or or
ganization, but that the immediate
needs of the majority of people
should be satisfied.
Members of the investigating com
mittee were: John Smith, union
president; Arthur Lyday, secretary
Henry Friedman, w. Jack1nan and
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23

Ward recently turned over to the
attorney generals office results of
an investigation started last jan
uary.
Although he refused TO disclose
what the report contained, no recon-
mendation for or against prosecution
Of commission members was con-
tanned, it is believed.
From Washington
Ward, when he concluded the in
vestigation, said further action in
the matter must come from Wash
ington.
Before starting the probe, he said
the grand jury would act in the
case if sufficient evidence was avail
able.
Earl Crawford. member Of the
commission whose term expires
April II. and who is being replaced
by Robert B. Boren, Fountain City,
is now under indictment by the
Marion County grand jury on
charges Of conspiracy to embezzle
and accessory before the fact.
George BARLEY, former superin-
tendent Of the State highway garage,
and John Williams present road
commission director, also face the
same charges. Several indianapolis
junk dealers were charged with
grand larceny.
Body Not ExOnerated
The Washington investigation is
being made as result Of the fact
that Wards report, while it did not
fix criminal responsibility, traced
irregular disposal Of materials and
did not exonerate commission mem
bers, 1t was learned from there.
After ward sent his report to the
Washington officials he said that he
could in no way "exonerate" any
one involved in the case.
MY duties We're limited to inves-
tigation Of the case" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
FREE Ex-MAY0R
OF ANDERSON
Discharged After Getting Six
ContinuanceS.

Jess Mellett, 2S16 n. Delaware St.,
former mayor Of Anderson, today
was discharged on charges of hav-
ing improper license plates, failure
to stop after an accident, assault
and battery and reckless driving by
Municipal Judge Pro Tenn. Henry
Winkier.
Mellett had obtained six continu-
ances in the case. Detective Harry
Smith and Patrolman Jack O'Neal
said witnesses were reluctant to APP
pear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
SEEKS TO END LIFE


Roosevelt Hicks. %, Negro, SEN
fenced by a jury in Criminal Court
last Monday to die in the electric
chair, attempted to end his life in
his cell in the county Jail today, ac-
cording to John Sands, deputy
sheriff Sands said he frustrated
Hicks attempt to strangle himself
Hicks was found guilty of fatally
shooting his wife. Judge James A.
Collins will fix the day of electrocu-
tion Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23

BU JHlteH PfeSS
LONDON, March %. David
Lloyd George sought today in the
House Of Commons to censure and
if possible to drive Sir Austen
Chamberlain from the foreign office
for his connection with the secret
agreements OF LoCarno which
caused the collapse Of the League
Of Nations effort to admit Germany
to membership last week.
Lloyd George laid the blame for
failure at Geneva on Sir Austen, as
serting that he could have prevented
the situation that developed there,
had he acted in time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
boy CAUGHT IN STORE
Companion Escapes-Captured Lad
Turned Over to Police.

Louis Kalesnick, 115 S. Meridian
ST owner of a novelty store, cap
tured a 9-year-old boy and turned
him over to police Monday night
after he caught him and another
youth in the store basement.
Recently the store was burglar,
lied and several boxes of candy
taken. The boy captured said he
and his companion dropped into the
basement aided py an improvised
rope made of old inner tubes. The
second youth escaped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
U. S. APPREHENSIvE

BIZ IWlIeU TTFSN
WASHINGTON, March 23.-The
situation at WI Chow, China, where
American missions and hospitals are
the object of labor and anti-foreign
demonstrations, was described as
threatening by American Consul
General Jenkins in a cable to the
State Department today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
FENG NATIONAL
ARMY Retreats
Legation Quarter in Peking
Guarded.
Bu United Press

BIZ Unitcd Press
PEKING, March %. - Machine
guns guard the gates to the legation
quarter today as Marshal Feng Yu
Hsiang troops fell back toward
Peking before the sharp attack of
Marshal Chang Tso Lin and his al
lies.
Chang's Manchurian troops Occu-
pied Tien Tsln, driving Feng's ma
tionalist troops out of the city.
The nationalist withdrawal is un-
der way on all fronts, and it ap-
pears that the retreating army will
fall back to Kalgan, 125 miles north
west of Peking, and near the great
wall
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
LOCAL MAN, WIFE HURT
Autos Collide Near Knoxville, Tenn.
Death May Result.

Mrs. Lee Dove, $500 E. Tenth St.
was probably fatally injured and her
husband head Of the Dove Realty
Company, 7l5 Lemcke Bldg, seri-
ousl yinjured in an automobile accl-
dent near Knoxville, Tenn. this
morning according TO a dispatch 70
The Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
POLITICS, SAYS CRAWFORD
Retiring Highway Commissioner
Defends Self i'm Statement.

Retiring Highway Commissioner
Defends Self in Statement.
BD United Press
CONNERSVILLE, Ind, March 20.
Earl Crawford. retiring Demo
cratic member of the State highway
commission, today blamed politics
for Governor Jackson's failure to
reappoint him.
More than good roads has been
involved in the highway commission
fight" Crawford declared. Strong
pressure was brought to bear by
politicians to have the commission
create a lot of fat jobs"
Crawford pointed to the fact that
the commission overhead expense
last year was only sos per cent, one
of the lowest Of any highway com.
mission in the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
MARTINS TRIAL is SET
Palmyra Modernist to Face Church
Board March 26.

PALMYRA, Ind, March 23.-W.
Clyde Martin, modernist, whose
views brought down the wrath of
trustees of the local Church of
Christ, will go on trial March 26
before two evangelists of the denom-
ination and one member Of the
board Of trustees.
He is accused of conduct unbecom-
ing a member of the church because
he kept his community recreation
house open on Sunday and permitted
chewing gum slot machines to be
operated in it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
MANY AUTOS MIRED

BU lWbS SDeCluF
WARSAW, IND, March ga
Thousands of dollars damage has
been done to Kosciusko County
roads by heavy rains. The bottom
has literally fallen out of dirt roads
and many graveled highways are
impossible. Scores of automobiles
have nired up to the bodies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
PAPER PLANT BURNS
BU United Press

% Y INIfFU IFtNo
FAIRMONT, Ind, March %
Firemen are fighting a blaze which
early this morning destroyed the
Superior Paper Products plant here.
Loss is estimated at $4,000, partly
covered by insurance. j. w. Will
liams Of Jasonville, is owner of the
plant. Origin of the fire is unde-
termtneds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
HAT DEALER BANKRUPT
Meyer Silverstein Files Petition in
Federal Court.

Meyer Silverstein, GIL n. Illinois
ST., millinery merchant, today filed
a voluntary petition in bankruptcy
today in Federal Court.
Debts were listed at $S3, ,415.05 and
assets at $11 ,934.50.
Silverstein operated Jeans Hat
Shop, 155 n Illinois St; Macy s,
so Monument Circle; Ford's 25 w.
Washington St., and the hat depart
ment in w. H. Bartlett Company. 10
N. Illinois St.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
WIFE LEAVES HOUSE
Husband Makes Report to Police
Boy, Ia, Also Missing.

Mrs. Asa Robinson, 36, is missing
from her home, according to a report
made to police by her husband,
George Robinson, 949 E. McCarty
st. Robinson said his wife left
home, Sunday.
Joe Facone, IA. of lis S. David
son ST., visited the Y. M. c. A. with
his brother and failed to return
home
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
BATHTUB GIRL CALLED
She Tells Grand Jury All About
Earrs Big Party.
Rn Times Special

BU Times Special
NEW YORK, March 23.-Joyce
Haw1ey, who was the "girl in the
bathtub of wine" at Earl Caroll's
now famous party, appeared before
the grand jury Monday.
An investigation is under way to
determine whether the bathtub in
which she sat ladling out refresh
ments really did contain wine.
What Miss Hawley exposed upon
this occasion was kept secret.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
SUICIDE AT PRISON
Bg United Press

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, March 23.
The body of Louis Massey, 2S, Of
Monroe County, an inmate in the
hospital for the criminal insane at
the Indiana State Prison here. was
found swinging by moose made
from bed clothing In his cell early
today,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
THIEVES ABANDON AUTO
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
GOSHEN, Ind, March ga bull
let-riddled automobile was in pos
session of police here today after a
hot pursuit of automobile thieves on
the Hoosier Dixie Highway. The
auto was abandoned by the thieves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
ESTATE FIGHT RESUMED
Countess to BE on Stand in $3.50, 900,
600 Letter Case.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, March 23.-The inter
national battle over Levi u. Letters s
$4,000, 900 estate was to be resumed
in Judge Dennis Sullivan's court
today.
Lady Marguerite Hyde, countess
of Suffolk and Berks, will be recalled
to the stand at the opening Of the
trial and asked to identify more of
the stack of letters and affidavits
gathered together. Lady Marguerite
is attempting to GUST her brother,
Joseph Letter, from control of the
estate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
SObs in Local
Doctor Suit
Muffled
Girl Who Seeks $4,000
From Dr.. EnSminger
Ordered to Dry Eyes.

BB United Press
CHICAGO, March 23.-Dry-eyed
and determined to remain so, Miss
Marie Grischeau resumed the wit
ness stand today in her $4,000
suit against DR.. Leonard A. Ems
minger of Indianapolis, chief
surgeon for the Big -Four Railroad,
for alleged breach Of promise.
Miss Grischeau testified that a
telephone conversation gave her tho
first news of DR.. Ensminger's sec.
ond marriage. 1t came as a shock,
she said, because she had been plan
ming for a June wedding.
This was in January, 1928. Short
ly thereafter, Miss Grischeau testi.
fed. the surgeon renewed his alleged
pledge to wed her in these words
IF you can wait two or three
years until l get rid Of my new
wife, Wen get married"
Letters Read
Three letters that Miss Grischeau
claims were sent her by the sur.
geon were to be introduced in eW.
dence this afternoon. They are ad-
dressed TO my dear girl" and
signed a." and speak Of high re-
gard for her and her qualities, One
terms her unusual in these days"
Miss Grischeau's decision TO re-
strain her tears was motivated by
the edict Judge Timothy d. Hurley
issued yesterday when he ruled that
tears are unfair weapons in a breach
OF promise case.
Judge Hurley ordered the jury
from the room, turned TO Miss
Grischeau:
1.-The time has passed when a
woman's tears may be allowed 20 in
flucnce n jury. Nothing but the
facts in this case are TO influence
the Jurors. If l had thought that
sympathy FOR you induced them 70
bring i'm a verdict favorable to you,
I would set the verdict aside.
Her Romance
The sObs that angered Judge Hur.
ley came while Miss Grischeau was
telling OF her romance with tho
surgeon. She testified Or. Ensming.
err on March 10. 1922, proposed mar
riage, but later informed her he had
changed his mind and had another
wife.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
ORDER COURT MARTIAL
Buffers Cocktail Party" Charges
Against Host Stick.
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~ JHlT6d PT6SS
, WASHINGTON, March 23.-Sec-
retary of the Navy Wilbur today
ordered a court-martial held to try
Col. Alexander Williams for drunk
enness as a result Of Brig. Gen.
Smedley Buffers charges made fol-
lowing the Williams cocktail
party" where Butler was a guest,
at San Diego.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
BIZ Tnited PreSS

WASHINGTON, March 23.-Presi-
dent Coolidge thinks it will be un-
necessary for the United States Gov
ernment to accept the invitation to
the special League of Nations con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-23
MACREADY FALLS SHORT
Official Check of Instruments Shows
Plane Only Went 1888 Feet.

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WASHINGTON, March 23.-
Lieut.. John A. MacReady failed to
break the world altitude record on his
March 13 fight, Army aviation Off
cials announced today. Official cal
ibration Of his instruments here
showed he reached only 37,579 feet.
The record is 1856.