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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
COUNCIL HEAD FOR
CHANGE IN TRACKS
Boynton Moore Plans Proposal to Clear Washington ST.
Downtown and Have Car Loop Established

Expansion of the downtown busi-
ness district by removal Of all street
car tracks from Washington st. be-
tween Delaware and Capitol and
routing Of the cars in loop over
Delaware and Georgia Sts., Capitol
Ave. and Ohio st. will be proposed
In city council soon. Boynton J.
Moore. council president, said today.
Moore said he also favors elimina-
ton Of canvas awnings and con-
struction Of uniform covering Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
WET ISSUE
CONFRONTS
DEMOCRATS
Rauch or Curry Urged for
Senate Honor if Dead
lock Develops.
CONVENTION THURSDAY
First Efforts for Plank on
Prohibition Fail.

The wet and dry issue forged to
the front today in Democratic State
convention activities.
With a deadlock foreseen on four
Of the six primary election candl-
dates for the party's long term sena-
torial nomination, interest began to
crystallize on the candidates. OF. For;
mer Congressman George Rauch of
Marion and l.. William Curry of In
dianapo1is.
Delegates gathering for the con-
vention which opens at Tomlinson
Hall at 9 a. m. Thursday, were i'm
portuned by blocs Of delegates from
the Fifth and Thirteenth districts to
swing to Rauch or Curry, If 1t be-
comes apparent none Of the four
other candidates can win.
Curry said he believed wet can
didate with wet plank would at
tract 1000 Republican voters to
the Democratic ticket.
It will take a new issue, one of
wide appeal, for the minority party
to win this fall. all delegates agreed
but doubt was expressed that a ma
jority will favor this issue, despite
the strong current of support for 1t.
Plank Is Sought
Aside from urging the nomination
of friend of measures to modify
the Volstead act and Eighteenth
amendment, an attempt will be made
by the blocs to secure inclusion of a
plank in the party platform embrac-
ing their views and calling for ref
erendum on prohibition, it was re-
ported.
The platform advisory committee.
composed of fifteen leaders chosen
by State Chairman r. Earle Peters
of Ft. Wayne to advise the resolu-
tions committee, refused the demand
of the blocs this morning, 1t was
learned. 1t was then that 1t was de-
cided to carry the fight directly to
the resolutions group.
The convention rules, however, it
was forecast, will preclude the
possibility of the question reaching
the convention floor The rules, 1t
was reported, will provide that all
declarations of principles submitted
from the convention floor be re-
ferred to the resolutions committee
without reading or debate.
Active Campaigning
Active campaigning was being car
rfed on by the four candidates who
led In the primary and leaders de-
clared the situation was so involved
that 1t was wholly impossible to say
who holds an advantage.
Observers were agreed the first
few ballots will show an almost even
division of choice among John Fred
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
CHICAGO YOUTHS HELD
Three Boys Who Ran Away at De-
tenti0n Home.

Three Chicago youths are held in
the detention home here today,
awaiting arrival of their parents.
Mrs. Ella L. Kroft, of the Travellers
Aid Bureau. Union Station, learned
they had run away from home.
Ralph Henry, IT, of 1887 Kenwood
Ave, is reported missing. His father
told police, he has dark eyes, auburn
hair, fair complexion and is blind in
one eye.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
JEWISH CAMP PA|GN
TOTAL S15,7OD
SO, 700 in Contributions Re-
ported at Meeting.

Contributions totaling $500 were
reported at the initial meeting of
solicitors in the drive in Indiana for
relief Of suffering Jews Of eastern
Europe, held today at the Claypool.
This brought the total Of the drive,
opened Tuesday, up to $135,700. A
total of 100000 is sought in the
State. Louis ]. Borinstein, State
chairman. presided at the meeting.
The fund scared to $12S,000 Tues.
day, when contributions were re-
ported at "a meeting Of Jewish
women at noon and at mass meet
ing at the Murat at night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
FAIR, COOLER FORECAST
June Starts Out With Temperature
just Above Normal.

Fair and somewhat cooler weather
will be dished out to Indianapolis
tonight and Thursday, Government
Weather Bureau officials said today.
The day began with a mark Of "a,
or degrees above normal.
June started auspiciously Tuesday,
temperature averaging 50, 1 degree
above normal. Figures for May show
that the month has an average tenn
perature of 64.3 degrees, IA above
normal and 3.59 inches of rainfall,
slightly below normal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
NO HOPE FOR MINERS
Three Men Are Buried in Fan aN
StOrrA
Bv United Press

BIZ United Preee
BUTTE, Mont. June 2>-No hopa
that the three miners buried un-
der fall OF rock which engulfed
them in the West Colusa Mine here
last night might sdll be alive was
held out her today. II will take
until late this afternoon TO dig the
men out. II was said.
The West Colusa is the property OF
the Anaconda Copper Company.
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desirable material over the fronts Of
Washington st. stores. The plan
would be to extend the covering
from the second story.
'The town-pump days of Indian
apolis are over" Moore said. 1.-The
time has come to expand the busi-
ness district"
A similar proposal came from City
Plan Commission President Gustave
@. Schmidt when he was In city
council eight years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
SHOW ME- STATE, TOO
But Missouri Woman Objects to One
Piece Bathing Suits.
BV Times Snecidl

ATLANTIC. CITY. N. j., June 2.
Mrs. p. G.. Harvey, a member of
the Missouri delegation TO the gen.
eral Federation of Women's Clubs
is opposed to one-piece bathing suits
on Atlantic City Beaches.
I'll never come here again" said
the indignant Missouri woman. who
had been shown.
what is needed is to make n bon.
fire and burn up all these one-piece
costumes"
Mrs. Harvey did not suggest what
the girls would wear then.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
HOT AFTER KIWANIANS
indianapolis Men VIII Seek to Bring
1927 Convention Here.

- Determined effort to secure the
1927 meeting Of KiwaEis interna-
tional viii be made next week in
Montreal by Henry T. Davis. man.
ager of the Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce convention bureau. and
Harry E. Yockey, lieutenant gov
ernor of iwanis, who left for the
Canadian city today TO establish
Indianapolis convention headquar-
ters.
Memhpis. Tenn. Is the only other
city making a bid for the 1927 con
vention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02

The Series Of Articles on
Child Training by the Mother
Of a Prodigy Starts Today on
Page Nine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
SIX FLEE LEAVENW0 W0RTH
No Trace of Army Deserters Who
Tied Up Guard.

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LEAVENWORTH, Kan, June Q.
Posses in eastern Kansas and
western Missouri were still search
ing early today for six military pris-
oners, all deserters, who Tuesday eff
fected a break from the disciplinary
barracks of FIT. Leavenworth. Five
of the prisoners attacked and over
powered a guard and escaped, while
the sixth, who did not take part in
the attack on the guard, walked out
a few minutes later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
SCOPES HEARING ENDS
High Tribunal to Decide Famous
Evolution Case.
BV United Press

BT UHtteG PTeSS
NASHVILLE. Tenn, June a.
Evolution and John Thomas Scopes,
the young school teacher who vio-
lated the law to test 1t. gave way
to other things in Tennessee today,
and the evolution disputants left
their case to the decision Of the
State Supreme Court
After two days of heated argu-
ments. dealing largely in PERSONAL
ties, both sides rested late Tuesday
afternoon and closed the second and
perhaps final step in the much adj
vertised Scopes case. Clarence Oar
row, noted attorney, gave the clos
ing argument for the defense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
TAX SLASH DEMANDED
Senator Copeland Cites Huge Sur
plus i'm u. s. Treasury.
Bp United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, June "A plea
for an income tax reduction based on
reports of a huge surplus accumulat-
ing in the treasury was made in the
Senate today by Senator Copeland,
Democrat, New York.
"If reports are true. there will
soon be a large surplus in the treas
ury. Why shouldn't we have a re.
duction in the income taxi" Cope
land demanded. He served notice
he would ask the Finance Commit
tee to report en- the matter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
BORAH BOOMS SELF
AS DRY CANDIDATE
A Wee Bit Too
Much Scotch
RI Tinted Press

BIZ Tinted Press
NORFOLK, Va; June q
1t was wee bit too much
Scotch in two ways that bother
ed Capt. Charles Moore De
Valin, commander of the Nor
folk Naval Hospital, according
to testimony today at his court
martial here, for drunkenness.
Witnesses said he imbibed to
much at a masquerade dance,
and that he insisted on show
ing women guests how he wore
Scotch kits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
WOMAN DRIVER HURT
Motorfst Receives Bruised Shoulder
In Auto Crash.

Mrs. Dora ZimemEmanI so, of
2707 Bellefontaine St., suffered pain
full shoulder bruises and was taken
to Indiana Christian Hospital today
when her car collided with one
driven by Phil Goldman Of st. Aug
gustine, Fla. at Capitol Ave. and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
S1,5OO HOME FIRE

A $1,000 fire Of unknown origin
damaged the two-story frame rest.
dence of Mrs. Annie Smith. 1859 f.
Washington St., shortly after a.
m. today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
STREET CAR
STRIKE HERE
THREATENED.
Organizer Says Walkout
Will Be Ordered if De-
mandS Are Refused.
SCHEDULED FOR z A. M
Company Attempts to Head
Off Action.

Street car company officials today
attempted to head Off a strike OF
employees threatened for a. m
Thursday.
Robert Armstrong. vice president
of the Amalgamated Association oil
Street and Electric Railway Em-
ployes OF America. said that tho
strike was to be called at a. m. II
the company refused demands OF
employees for wage increases 10 be
presented late today.
An effort to obtain temporary In
junction I'm Federal Court restraining
Armstrong and James Parker, as
ISOLATION organizers. from calling the
strike was expected TO be made this
afternoon.
Number In Dispute
Armstrong said about I 900 men.
two.thirds Of the car company en-
ployes. would go on strike II the
walk.out Is ordered Company Off
cials. however. said they believed
They said they believed the strik.
ers would be the younger and more
recent employees OF the company who
are looking for excitement" and not
the trusted employees.
Railway company officers Saturday
said they expected the strike mo-
mentarily after Memorial day.
Police Chief Claude +. Johnson
said police are prepared TO prevent
a tie.up of traffic.
lie will aid in an effort TO keep the
cars running he said, assigning po-
licemen and fremen TO ride with the
motormen and conductors.
Parker and Armstrong have been
in indianapolis six weeks attempting
to unionize the street car workers.
Iindered by Police
Armstrong and Parker and their
associates have been arrested by POI
lice more than forty times since.
attorneys for the two charged in
Federal Court in a plea TO Federal
Judge Robert c. Baltzell for an In
junction restraining police from him
dering them.
Most of, tho arrests were on
vagrancy charges.
Judge Baltzell dismissed their plea
for an injunction.
Judge Baltzel abruptly ended a
hearing on their petition for a tenn
porary restraining order when he
noticed street railway company at
torneys representing the city in the
case.
He reprimanded the attorneys and
scored the street railway company's
and Armstrong; counsel for do
grading the Federal Court by bring
Ing petty disputes between the COM
pany and organized labor, into It."
Mayor Asked to Act
Mayor Duvall today refused TO ao-
cept the suggestion OF Frank Pa
Baker, attorney for the union men.
that he attend a conference Of ems
ploeys and company officials. He
said he believed Baker wished himl
to act as n mediator.
IT know nothing OF the dificulty
other than reported in the news
papers and refused" Duvall sais.
Duvall said that he had heard tho
strike would be called. He declared
the city administration proposes to
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
MANS HAND MANGLED

Morris Love, 944 Miley Ave. is in
Indiana Christian, Hospital today
suffering with a badly mangled hand.
received Tuesday while working at
the Indianapolis Bleaching Company.
900 W. wabash st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
DRY TO BOSS SWEDEN
Prohibitionist Expected 10 Succeed
to Premiership.
BN Nnited Preaa

BH UHued~Press
STOCKHOLM. June An. c. j.
Ekman. leader OF the Swedish pro-
hibition party. is expected TO succeed
to the premiership vacated today by
Premier Richard J. Sander. He
would form a liberal cabinet.
Sander resigned after an adverse
vote In Parliament on the Govern
ment's unemploymonk pjncz.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
SCORE SEE DROWNING
Lad Loses Life in Lagoon at Evans
Vile Park.
BIZ United Preaa

BIZ UnHed Prees
EVANSVILLE, Ind. June 2.-The
waters of the lagoon in Garvin Park
here had claimed their third victim
of the season today.
While a score Of persons stood
helpless on the bank watching his
struggles, Edward Edwards, IL. was
drowned last night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
But Dawes, LoWden, Watson
Also Have Eyes on
Presidency.

" WASHINGTON. June 2.-Hats are
falling fast into the ring for Presi-
dent Coolidge's job so fast that poll
ticians here are amazed.
Senator William E. Borah, anti
world court dry; Vice President
ernor Frank o. Lowden Of Illinois
have made recent gestures indicating
they would not refuse the 1928 Re-
publican presidential nomination.
With the next Republican conven7
tion about two years off. and no
word from the White House as to
whether Coolidge will seek another
term, unusual significance is being
attached to recent developments.
Besides the four mentioned, a
dozen others are in the background,
led by Speaker Nick Longworth of
Ohio, Secretary of Commerce Hoover
Of California, and Senator Wads-
worth, the New York wet.
While anything may happen in
two years to boost or kill the
chances of the leading quartet, here
is the situation as interpreted by pol
iticians here:
\BORAH
After Congress adjourns," he has
announced, there are several ques-
tions which will bear discussion
among the people,"
Foremost of these questions is
that Of prohibition, and Borah has
come to the front within the past
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IS
WINNER IN
FIRST TILT.
Court 0verruIes Shumaker'S
Motion in Contempt
Case.
TRIAL DATE SET JUNE 8
Anti Saloon Trio Must Ans
Wer Amended Charges.

An important victory was scored
TO-DAY by Attorney General Arthur L..
Gilliom in his prosecution of DR.. Ed.
ward S. Shumaker, superintendent
of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League,
and the latter's associates, on
charges Of contempt when State Su-
preme Court overruled Shumaker's s
motions to strike out vital parts
Of the charges against them.
Overruling Shumaker's motions to
make the original information
against him more specific and to de-
lete important parts OF Gilliom's
amended information, the court set
June for the group to answer the
amended charges of contempt, all
of which received the cognizance of
the court.
Centers on Report
Shumsker and his associates.
Ethan A. Miles and Jess f. Martin.
the latter league attorneys. are
charged with Incorporating false and
cont emptuous statements about the
Supreme Cour- In the leagues 1925
annual report. The report, dis
tributed in pamphlet form. brands
the court as liberal in it's
sentiments toward the prohibition
law" as well as wet"
Gilliom's office force is denounced
in the report as inefficient" Nu-
merous decisions of the court are re-
viewed by Shumaker, criticised gen
erously and Gilliom contends report
ed falsely" In the latter's amend
ed information the official reports on
the decisions are compared with the
leagues versions to show the dis
crep6ncies.
Expected to Appear
Unless Shumaker and his co,de-
PENDANTS present other dilatory mo-
tions in the meantime, 1t is expected
that they will appear before the
court on the date fixed today and an
swer the charges. James Bingham
is attorney for the trio. Gilliom viii
be assisted In the prosecution by
Solon ]. Carter and Will II. Thomp-
son, Indianapolis attorneys.
Bingham said he would confer i'm
mediately with Shumaker. Miles and
Martin. He said he would not know
at once what his next step would be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
POND CLAIMS VICTIM

Youth Seized With Cramps While
z Swimming; browns.
Br United Press
DELPHI, Ind. June 2.-Seized
with cramps while swimming in a
pond near Delphi. Ernest Blicken-
staff, IS. drowned late Tuesday. The
body was recovered within a quarter
Of an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
Expected to Appear
ELW00D MAN KILLED

Auto Overturns Near Warsaw-Dies
In Hospital.
BIZ United Press
= WARSAW. Ind. June 2.-The
body of DR.. w: 2. King. Elwood
dentist. was to be taken to his home
In Elwood today for burial.
DR.. King died in the hospital here
from a fractured skull received
when his auto overturned south of
Warsaw, Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
HOW HO0SIERS VOTED
Watson and Robinson Said "Yes" on
ClOture.
Bv Times SpecinI

Bu Times Special
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Senators
for cloture on the migratory bird bill.
which would have permitted quick
disposition of that bill to take up
farm relief.
On the viva voce vote later to take
up the farm relief bill, they voted
for the motion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
Forecast

Mostly fair weather and
somewhat cooler tonight and
Thursday.
The daily worker., 1926-01-16
Mckinley, SmoOt and Cumnins Seat Nve

The senatorial says Nye the agricultural
state OF North Dakota who classified nurgnt
after bitter fight the senate floor by Al
support Borah against the world will oppose
saons tax program Because he will line with
and democrats against the Coolidge program the
wheming majority of democrats supported him. They
one vote against the world which
Gratis support they have safe majority that likely
dangerously reduced.
Had the Coolidge sody against he woud
have met defeat but Senators William b. Mckinley Illinois,
Albert Cummns of Iowa and Utah. absented
themselves from the chamber thereby seating Nye method
IN their madness All of them reelection this
and they all dependent agricultural
not want face the accusation that they kept
insurgent from the wheat belt.
Nye harm senate and defeat by the votes
of the from the more obstacle
itself.
republican gang that tried odoeous Newberv
Of Michigan who tried corrupt the state in order
to obtain seat in the against seating Nye
Among those coming for reelection against seating
of Ne two tombstone George Wharton Pepper of
Pennsylvania and VIM H. Butler Massachusetts, both of whom
succeeded senator's who died while in Office with
Nye
AS for Nye himself like all milkand-water progress
sve his influence is not feared otherwise not have been
seated.
Thus the corrupt game capitalist politics goes merrilv on
while the workers and farmers in
standards of living the have their way with
their very lives
We Communists reerate that nothing than class party
OF labor that win the support impoverished farmers will
aid the exploited masses of the United States.
The daily worker., 1926-01-16
A Labor Member" of the School Board

AS means of creating the illusion that all city
OF Chicago represented board labor official of
some sort is usually selected At present this p
Joh hngsh organizer of Typographical Union No 16 goes
without saying that this is political job goes
regarded as ward heers in reactonay political clique
The role Of this labor member during the dis
euson over superintendent McAndrew attitude pictures
IN the class rooms When certain patriotic organizations questioned
Mcndews patriotism the capitalist press various
members OF he school board among them John English In his
ment English said 81 don't believe there patriotic man in
Ccago than Mr. McAndrew That the only reply this
member made to the interviewer.
McAndrew is admittedly milarist military
training in the public schools and boasts in the
Illinois national guard skereaking agency English really
represented labor instead of playing the party politics.
he would in uncertain have this mperast
superintendent OF schools the employers poung
the minds OF the children of the working class who
as to be under the influence Of the Chicago system
One supposed to represent labor certainly poor service
the working class when he rerans denouncng such pain
able enemy of the working class this militia him
self military pacfsta pacifst the service of Imperialism
The daily worker., 1926-01-16

time he comes against the doctors
orders to address the Fourth Con-
gress of the Communist international.
He is plainly i'll. His old fire is gone
but the brain is still functioning.
The next time Lenin appears on the
screen, he is dead. In the little place
called Cork, he passed away. A
special train takes the body to Pet.
rograd and at every village and ham,
let' worker, peasant, soldier, sailor
all gather to pay the great teacher a
last mournful farewell. "Was there
anybody ever loved like Lenin?p asks
one OF the titles. And the answer is
given by the countless thousands and
hundreds of thousands who march,
march, march in an apparently end
less procession behind the funeral.
The "Old Guard" is there. They
The daily worker., 1926-01-16

that a revolutionary proletarian mass
movement will arise there. No re-
pressions will arrest the growth of
this movement.
E'INALLY, the third track: the ap-
plication of the old methods of
the Comintern, the development of
our nuclei under the most difIlcult cir
cumstances imaginable. Our enemies
are endeavoring to shatter our nuclei.
We however, like ants, reconstruct
them laboriously and teach the Com
munists of other countries how to
construct them.
These were the conditions with us
before the fall Of czarism. An enor-
nous amount of time and energy has
been used by our best people in order
to form small workers nuclei; the
heavy tread Of the police destroyed in
half a minute everything at which the
best representatives of the working
class had been working for years. To