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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
SENA TORS FIGHT TO PRINT DEARTH FACTS
Governors Refusal to Pay
Printing Bill Brings
Rebuke.

Governor Ed Jackson's refusal to
pay for printing the transcript in the
Judge Dearth impeachment trial so
that the public might have all the
testimony brought letter from SEN
ator Denver c. Harlan Rep) of
Richmond today asking the execu-
tive to change his stand.
Senators voted unanimously the
transcript should be printed and
Harlan is chairman of a special COM
mittee which has the printing in
charge.
Promise Brought Peace
Jackson has refused TO pay for
printing the transcript or the fees
and expenses of State witnesses, al
though he made peace with Senators
by promising to bear trial expense
from his contingent fund.
The offer was made in letter ad-
dressed to the Governors secretary
and delivered to the Senate by SEN
ator Luther Draper tRep). Spice
land. budget committee member.
Jackson now contends the letter
meant only the payment of Senators
and trial employees, although SEN
ators understood that it meant all
legitimate expense of the trial.
Committee Informed
Senator Harlan points this out in
his letter to the Governor. He has
written to all members of the COM
mittee telling of the chiefs execu.
tive's action in thwarting Senate
plans and urging them also to write
to the Governor. Other committee
members are Senators William p.
Evans Rep), Indianapolis. Claude S.
Steele Rep.l. La Porte; Curtis d.
Shake Dem). Vincennes, and Carl
NJ. Gray Dem). Petersburg.
1T is only fair that wishes Of
the Senate in this matter should be
carried out" Senator Harlan de-
clared. Il am waiting for a reply
from the Governor and the commit
tee members before calling a meet.
ing to discuss ways and means of
having the transcript printed.
Expect Consent
I'VE trust, of course, that the
Governor will change his mind and
pay for it. If not it may be neces-
sary to make special appropria-
ton at the next legislative session.
This, however, would delay the mat
ter two years and its printing then
would lose its value. 1t should be
done now while the matter is fresh
in the minds of interested persons,
who may obtain copies for study"
Senator Shake Friday expressed
the opinion that State witnesses also
should be paid, contending that the
trial was not criminal procedure
and that they are entitled to just
compensation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
CLAFFEY DRANK
POISON, VERDICT

Detectives and Coroner Paul F.
Robinson today joined in a verdict
that Armon E. Claffey, S3, of 1911
Harlan St., whose body was found
in q shed in the rear Of OF Laurel
st. late Friday, took his life by
drinking poison. Dependency over
the arrest of his wife, Mrs. Florence
Claffey, 33, Wednesday as a member
of the auto theft ring, which has
been selling cars stolen here in Gin
cinnati, Ohio, was blamed for the
suicide.
The body was found by. Mrs,
Hanna Dickson, $40 Spruce ST.. who
had gone to the Laurel st. address
with the idea of renting the prop
erty, which is vacant. Authorities
believe the man had been dead thir-
ty-six hours.
A bottle found near the body had
the odor of poison and post.mor-
tenn revealed enough poison in the
stomach to bring death, the coroner
declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
HO0Sie1- Briefs

William Weber. Huntington
garage man. found pair of hand
cuffs while cleaning Sheriff
Rudicels auto. Some one told him
they wouldn't lock. He put them
on to see and they did lock.
Walter Wilkinson is the new
exalted ruler of the Elks at Decatur.
Donald Dill of Selma won district
oratorical honors at Winchester.
A canary bird in Muncie
barbershop sleeps with his back to
a boulevard light outside. Traffic
noises or pecking OH the window
do not arouse him.
Linton is conducting a contest for
town slogan to be used on road
signs near the city.
More than 200 delegates attended
the twentieth annual district con-
vention of Pythian Sisters at Union
City.
Plans have been drawn by the
Big Four engineers for a tunnel
under the South Anderson yards. 1t
will be wide enough for two side.
walks.
Homer j. Miller of TT. Wayne
thought he had set a record when
he stuck fifty.one sticks of chew
ing gum in his mouth at ore time.
Glenn Mckinney of Remington
claims the record now. He put
sixty-seven sticks in his mouth.
County commissioners at Kokomo
have asked the county council to
appropriate 100000 for poor relief.
The White House will have
nothing on Hartford City. An
Easter egg hunt will be staged
there also Sunday, sponsored by
the American Legion.
Because he was deprived of his
liberty for thirty minutes following
an auto wreck, Paul Bowls Of Indi-
ana Harbor has sued Adam Adam
chek, a constable. for $4,000 dam
ages. Adamcheck has figured BOWS
is asking S33333 a minute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
MATT|CE REVIEWS
FIGHT TO BRING
STEPHENSON HERE
Khan Leaders Trial on Sup
port Money Plea to Be
Held Soon.

Date for trial of the suit against
D. c. Stephenson, former Khan
leader, in which his former wife Mrs.
Nettie Stephenson Brehm, Okla
homa, is asking S10,60O for support
of Stephenson's 11.year.old daughter,
Florence Catherine Stephenson, will
be set soon, it was said today by
Floyd Mattice. plaintiffs attorney.
Trial will be held before Judge
James M. feathers, Superior Court
One. Mrs. Brehm. and possibly the
child. will come to Indianapolis for
the trial, Mattice said.
Mattice will again attempt to get
Stephenson into court. He plans to
petition for a writ of habeas corpus
to be served on Warden Walter H.
DAILY of the Michigan City prison,
ordering him to bring Stephenson
into court
Gilliom Objects
Stephenson is serving a life SEN
tence for the murder of Madge Ober-
holtzer, Indianapolis girl. Stephen
son was not permitted to respond to
personal subpoena issued by
feathers recently
When Mattice takes this action he
will be opposed by Attorney General
Arthur L. Gilliom. who will file a
motion to set aside the petition.
Mattice wishes to bring Stephen
son here to question him as TO
whether he owns property in Marion
County.
Questions Holmes
Mattice questioned Ira Holmes,
Stephenson's former attorney. and
Fred Butler, the Klan heads pri-
vate secretary. Friday. Holmes tes-
tilted he signed Stepheson's indem-
nifty bond for $4,000 but received
no collateral. On April Z, 1925, Ste
phenson's former home in Irvington
was decided to him in payment OF
attorneys fees. Holmes testified.
The house at the time was mort
gagged for $4,000, Holmes told the
court.
High point in the days question
ing was Buffers statement that
Governor Jackson received a new
Lexington automobile in January,
1925, on which Stephenson's Stude-
baker was given in trade.
Tells of Car Deal
Butler declared after Stephenson's
car was received at the Lexington
factory a new sedan was brought to
Stephenson's office. Stephenson sent
the car to Jackson and Butler ac-
companied the Governor TO the bank
where he paid the remaining few
hundred dollars" Butler stated.
Jackson denied any connection
with Stephenson in the purchase OF
his Lexington.
II traded an Oldsmobile in on the
Lexington" the Governor said. ste
phenson had nothing to do with it as
far as 4 KNOW
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
TOT TELLS OF CRUELTY
Girl, 6, Charges Foster Mother
Burned Her With Curling Iron.

En- United Press
NEW YORK. April "a 6-year-
old girk calm and self-possessed as
mature woman. sat on the witness
stand in Magistrate James Flood S
court here today and testified that
her foster mother, Mrs. Everett 5.
Pratt of Des Moines, Iowa, burned
her with an electric curling iron and
beat her with a shoe tree.
The punishment was administered
in a $16-a-day, suite at the Plaza
Hotel because the girl, left alone.
wandered into the lobby, according
to the testimony.
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Continued From Page y
committee has been organized has
crystallized their belief that the ma
jority of citizens desire to change
from the present form of govern
ment, and that if an election with
an honest count of votes is secured,
the manager form will win They
believe they can insure an honest
count.
William A. Boyce Jr., city clerk.
is preparing for receipt of the petit
ton Monday and to start checking
the names Immediately.
Unruly city councilmen killed an
ordinance providing for extra cleri-
cal help for the checking Friday
morning, but Boyce is prepared to
complete the work despite this effort
to block the manager movement.
Five Days
Boyce has five days in which to
check the petition. If he finds it
sufficient within that period, he GER
titles the fact to council and under
the law the council must consider
it at It's next regular meeting. This
would be April Is. The council
must call de election if the clerk
certifies that the petition is suffi-
cient. The election must be held
not less than thirty nor more than
sixty days after May j.
The president of the council ap-
points two election commissioners,
one for and one against the man.
ager form. These two, with the city
clerk, constitute the board which
controls the cleo on.
The election will be solely upon the
question of whether the manager
plan shall be adopted.
If the plan gets the majority of
the. voteA cast another election will
be held in November, 1929, to select
seven commissioners, who will choose
the city manager.
Nominal Mayor
The city manager picks depart
ment heads. He may be recalled at
any time by the commissioners. The
commissioners elect one of their
number, to whom is given the nomi-
nal title of mayor. His only special
duty is to act as chairman of the
commission.
The commission, in general, with
a salary of only $500 a year each,
acts as the body directly represent
ing the people and serve as safe
guard should the city manager 'go
wrong"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
HEALTH WEEK MAY II
Committee Is Commended for Child
Welfare Plans.

Preparations for the observance of
Child Health week here May / to
are being commended by health of
ficers and social workers in letters
received by Paul L. Kirby, commit
tee chairman and director of the di-
vision of child hygiene Of the city
health board.
Plans for the week include the CO
operation of all organizations inter
ested in child welfare. Special ex-
hibits, window displays and demon
strations will be features. An
nouncement of the weeks program
will be made in the churches Sun
day, MAY I.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
RETAINS PRISON HEADS
Governor jackson Reappoints Four
Members of Boards.

Following his announced policy of
making most appointments, reap
pointments, Governor Jackson Fri
day renamed four trustees of the
Indiana Woman's Prison, Indian
apolis, for four years. They are;
Mrs. Louise s. Swain, Pendleton,
and Miss Margaret Nicely, Martins
vile, Republicans; Mrs. Charlotte J.
Dunn, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Alice
Poynster, Sullivan, Democrats.
The place takes added importance
with the abolition OF the Indiana
pardon board, as all pleas for elem
ency will be handled by the trustees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Prepare Police Exam

The police civil service commission
today prepared for the third examin-
alton of applicants for the force
May ID.
The class is expected to be the
largest ever examined. Applicants
must be less than s5, years of age
and more than five feet ten inches
tall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09

council action to be carried out
through the board of works." said
Duvall.
THE money really should be APP
propriated by the council" said the
mayor.
Duvall manifested sudden inter
est in repairing streets by attending
the special session. -Four Horse
men" of the council had visited the
mayor via the rear stairs Thursday,
and it is believed planned the session
to pass a number of minor transfer
ordinances sought by Duvall. The
works board had ordered City Engi-
neer Frank c.. Lingenfelter to repair
streets Immediately.
The councilmen, who admitted
"dilly-dallying, plunged into the
city's business, baking only twice.
The baking horsemen were
brought to the special session at s
a. m. by policemen after they re-
fused to attend the meeting Thurs
day night.
Get Down to Business
Boynton j. Moore's ordinance pro-
hibiting an amusement place within
five hundred feet of church, direct
ed at the proposed theater at Thirty
Eighth ST., was passed.
A measure voting 100000 for re-
pairing Harding st. bridge was
killed.
There was no mention of the meas
ure appropriation $500 to the city
clerk to check names on che city
manager petition If filed Monday.
The measure was killed at the morn
| ing meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Print Fair Premiums

Premium list for the Indiana
State Fair went to the printer to-
day, a month earlier than usual. ac-
cording to Secretary E. j. Barker.
Fair dates are Sept. $40. Excellent
harness races are being planned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09

The third stood at the door a minute,
warning the victims. Then he left,
Jumped into the bandit car and the
trio fled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
CARMEN ON STAND
BARE WAGES AND
LIVING EXPENSES
Commission as Arbitration
Board Digs Into Street
Car Controversy.

Opening the pages of their per-
sonal affairs to public gaze, four
men Thursday told the public serv-
ice commission, sitting as board of
arbitration in the case of James
Green against the Indianapolis
Street Railway Company how much
it cost to maintain their families
The hearing was then adjourned un-
til Wednesday of next week.
Interest of the commissioners was
shown by the questions they asked
the witnesses.
In announcing his ruling on the
line of evidence to be heard, Chair
man Howell Ellis stated the commits
sion wanted to hear the stories of
the men themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Daylight Saving!
Do You Want 1t?

City council has before it ordinance providing for
daylight saving in Indianapolis.
The plan is in operation in number of large cities
and was tried in Indianapolis during the period
The clock would be advanced hour May l
and restored to normal on Oct. 81
In order that counclmen may be guided by the actual
sentiment of citizens in passing upon the ordinance The
Times is giving everybody opportunity to vote
Fill out the ballot and mail or bring it to The Day
light Saving Editor Indianapolis Times The result will
b. presented to city council.
Do you favor daylight saving? Yes No
Occupation
Address Observation-Disclosures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Reinstatement Out

The question of reinstating former
employees of the company who
struck July 5, 1926, will not be con-
sidered by the board.
Verbal clashes between Frank P.
Baker, attorney for Green, and David
E. Watson and Will II. Latta, street
car company counsel, were frequent.
Baker also clashed with Clyde Jones,
commissioner, several times.
John Sexton, a mild hammered in
dividual, told the commission that he
is now making 60 cents an hour as a
carpenter and that he could not
make both ends of his family ex-
penses meet on the wages he former
ly got from the street car company.
I'VE were able to buy one quart of
milk day and seldom had butter"
said Sexton. Our rent was $18 a
month and the best l could do was
allow $40 or $12 a week for the
grocery and meat bill for the five of
us out of my pay"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Gets S22.25 Weekly

Rudolph Geisel now operates a
he said He walked out in July of
last year and now has an extra run.
He gets up at 1870 each morning in
order to take his car out at 5:36
a. M, and with some hours off in
between, he completes his days run
at 1923 p. M, having worked Z
hours and 81 minutes, he told the
commission. Working seven days a
week his pay amounts to $22.25.
Geisel told the board he gets $40 a
month as pension from the Govern
ment for war service and 81 a month
from a garage he rents. His grown
daughter helps send his son to
Butler University.
Finds S29.26 Enough
Henry Thomas of the committee
elected by car employees to meet
with company officials last Novem-
Der on new wage scale and which
is "still considering" the matter,
said: IT am living comfortably on
$29.26 a week and have seven chill
dren."
The children range from 4 months
to Is years in age. He has no gas
in his house. The home is heated
with one coal stove and he pays SIS
rent, he said.
His 16.year-old boy, who did not
go to high school, drives a milk
truck. None of the attorneys asked
how much the boy made, or If any
Of his pay went to the family up
keep.
L. D. Sheffield said his wife had
to work in a department store while
he "street CARED" They have three
children and couldn't meet their ex-
penses, he declared
Other employees will be heard
when the case is reopened.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
SIGN MANAGER
PETITION TODAY

Continued From Page u
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SUPPLY FUNDS
FOR NEW BRIDGE

Continued From Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-01
Rv HUGO OEHLER.

DENVER, (Air MaiD Sept. 20
In less than two weeks the strike of
the Colorado miners has passed
through various stages until it has
arrived at the brink Of armed inter-
vention by State troops. In that
short period 1. w. w. leaders
have carried on the campaign, avoid
ing violence and continuing mass
picketing.
In these two weeks the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Co., have used every
method possible without success. To-
day the fields are closed 100 per cent
and the solidarity Of the rank and
file growing stronger everyday from
the United Mine Workers Of America
to the l. w. w. miners and the great
numbers of unorganized that have re-
sponded to this struggle against the
Rockefeller interests. On the Goth
the operators were forced to close all
the mines in the southern field and
now the 10000 Colorado miners are
preparing for new struggles.
Support of Strikers Growing.
Regardless of political opinions and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-01
By WILLIAM W. wE1NsToNE.

The capitalist parties have gone on
record in favor of 4-year term for
governor. In conformity with the
whole plan of concentrating greater
power in the hands of the capitalist
class and removing still farther the
already remote influence of the work
ers upon the elected officials, they
have carried through the short ballot
system and they now propose that the
governor shall be elected every
years, the assemblymen every years
and the state senators every years.
In discussing this subject Norman
Thomas in the current issue Of the
New Leader has the following to say:
"My own personal conviction
(regarding this proposaD, which l
do not want to urge unduly, is that
frequent elections cost extra money
and prevent public officials, espe-
cially the governor, from having the
time to learn their jobs and carry
through their programs. Ideally
the protection for democracy would
| be not such short terms as we have
in New York but under proper re-
strictions the right to recall. fear
that frequent elections promote not
democracy but inefficiency."
Essence of Reaction.
Here we have the essence of all the
reactionary ARGUMENTS in favor of the
long term periods for capitalist Of
fice-holders and the reactionary ideo-
logical background for the present
concentration of government power in
the, hands of the capitalists, which is
taking place on an ever larger scale,
The trash about recall in the face of
the power of the capitalist press does
not detract from this reactionary ar
gument. Thomas in his position on
the question Of four years for COVER
nor is following up the support which
he gave to the concentration of state
power through the short ballot adopt
ed during the last elections.
Thomas discusses the question of
government power without any ref
erence whatsoever to the class strug-
gle. Living in the fog of abstract
democracy he fails completely to see
what has been going on in the coun-
try and in the state since the advent
of Imperialism in America and par
ticularly since the World War.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-01
Rockefeller Company and State Plan to
Crush the Miners Strike

trade union affiliations the strikers
are united to win their just demands
The small merchants of the camps
are for the miners and many have
lined themselves with the workers In
their struggle against the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Co. and the state.
Mass meetings in other cities are
being arranged for the strikers and
the international Labor Defense is
mobiizing its forces for defense of
the hundreds who are in jail for
picketing.
New Mexico Wyoming Situation.
District %, of the United Mine
Workers, the Wyoming miners, are
tied to inactivity by the officialdom
and it's agreement with the companiea
The officials have initiated company
unions in most of the camps through
out the state that are property of the
U. p, and few mines owned by the
Anaconda Copper Mines of Montana.
The sentiment of many of the rank
and file workers in the state is for
the Colorado miners, and contribu-
tions are being collected. The official.
Continued on Page Sir)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-01
Paper
Box Factories Are
Exposed in Report
By ART SHIELDS.
Federated Press.)

The paper box makers charges of
bad physical working conditions,
crowded buildings, low non-union
wages and high accident rate in the
industry, made in connection with
last winters dramatic strike, are now
confirmed by the New York state de-
partment Of labor. The departments
findings have Just been made public.
At union headquarters the states
observations were received with great
interest. The union, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor,
has been showing renewed activity in
the last two months. Shattered after
the strike by the employers black
list and the WEAKNESS of it's members,
it now has opened a second office End
is planning to open a third to handle
new organizing activities.
Women who buy their hats in pa
per boxes and men who get their ci-
gars in the new-fashioned cardboard
containers that are displacing wood
boxes will also be interested in the
governments report on this sweated
industry. Two-thirds of the 5000
New York paper box workers are
women and this is what the state de-
partment says of their factories:
Below General Standard.
"This industry is, generally speak
ing, located in old buildings. Cheap
rentals are Of prime Importance
where large space is necessary to ac-
commodate small value. For this
reason physical working conditions in
this industry are below the standard
of many other industries.
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