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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
Down to 19 Here

The cold wave brought a 36-degree
temperature drop here from 3 p. m.
Thursday, to 6 a. m. today, but failed
by a few degrees to reach the 10
degree low-mark- predicted.
The lowest temperature was 19 at
6 a. m. today.
Temperatures will be slightly
warmer today, but will drop to Is to
20 degrees tonight, j. H. Armington,
United States weather bureau head
said.
Saturday temperatures will be
somewhat higher, however, rising to
several degrees above freezing.
The Wabash and lower forks Of
White River continued above flood
stage today. They have about
reached the peak Armington said.
The Wabash. he said, is more than
seven feet above flood stage from
Lafayette south, and the White
River forks from the flood mark
from Green and Martin counties
south. Damage likely will be slight,
he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
HOLIDAY SHOPPERS
SEE MURDER TRIAL
Right Number

Man has enough trouble re-
membering his wife's birthday
and the like, so whenever
possible memory work should
be simplif1ed.
Such is the philosophy Of
r. j. Dearborn, 4100 Otterbein
Ave-, University Heights real
estate dealer. To make things
easy for himself he has his
telephone, house number and
automobile license all the
same.
Today he secured his license
plates for 1923, which he
ordered in October. They are
4100-Indiana, 1923. His house,
which is on a corner and
should have been 41O2, was
changed three years ago to
410O by special permission. His
phone number is DIR excl 400.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
POINT LOST BY
BURNS. SINCLAIR
Cross sS-Examination Curbed
in Contempt Trial.

RU United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. - The
Government won a victory in the
Sinclair Burns contempt trial today,
when Justice F. L. Siddons refused
to allow Frank O'Reilly, Burns de-
tective, to testify on cross-examina-
ton as to the nature of his con-
versation with relatives of Edward
j. Kidwell, juror in the Sinclair
trial.
Siddons ruled that the defense
must call O'Reilly as its own wit
ness if it wants to get this part of
his story in the record. Government
and defense battled over the legal
point all day Thursday and. for an
hour today.
O'Reilly expected to testify that
his conversation was innocent of any
sinister or illegal action. He probably
will be recalled by the defense next
week.
O'Reilly said under cross-exanl-
ination that the defendants w. J..
Burns. founder of the detective
agency, and G.. L. Veitsch, Balti-
more, Burns manager, had nothing
to do" with the Fall-Sinclair jury
shadowing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
SANG SAD SING SONG
Here's Chinese Blues
Music for Your Piano.

The past tense Of "sing" is
"sang" Chinaman found that
out.
Quan Sing, formerly employed at
a Chinese tea shop, 11s w. Ohio
St., now held in Chicago for play
ing a "con" game and issuing
fraudulent checks will be faced by
Indianapolis detectives today who
extradition papers for his return to
Indianapolis on charge of forgery.
He is alleged to have signed the
name Of his. boy friend, Law Sang,
also of 118 w. Ohio ST., to checks
for $455.
Sing took the check to ]. p.
Mutually, jeweler, and obtained two
diamond rings.
Police Chief Claude Worley said
he had information from Chicago
that pawn shop checks for two
diamonds were found on Sing when
arrested there. ..s...........,,.s.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
SPEED UP TAG SALES
Opening Day DispOses Of 1900 Sets
of Auto Plates.

Auto license sales were gaining
momentum today as the machinery
Of selling them, slightly rough on the
opening day, became smoother.
About 1900 plates were sold Thurs
day.
The first ten numbers went in the
order named to: Governor Ed Jack
son, Fred c. Gardner, John G.
Ruckelshaus, Ralph A. Lemcke, Cal
vim Rieman of Ft. Wayne, kin Hub
bard, Charles w. Jewett, Blanche D.
Lilly, Ed G. Sourbier, and Mrs. Jack
son. Bert A. Boyd got Nos. 13 and
1913.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
CHIEF CLERK REPLACED
Law Student Gets $1,S5O Job with
City Purchasing Agent.

Charles Steg, Indiana University
Law School student, was appointed
chief clerk in the Office of Purchas-
ing Agent Joel A. Baker today.
Steg succeeds Miss Katherine
Collins, daughter Of former Pur-
chasing Agent John J. Collins. The
Job pays $3.50 a year. ......,n.l.iis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
USE CHARITY FUND
DuvaIl to Provide Christmas
Cheer for Poor.

Former Mayor John L. DuvalI
plans to use at least some of the
mayors charity fund he retained
when he left Office to make Christ
mas happy for some indianapolis
children and families.
City Fireman E. L. Tatlock today
gave Miss Winifred Brown of the
Christmas clearing house the names
Of fourteen families he said would
be provided Christmas cheer by
Duvall.
He understands the mayor plans
to provide for some 200 families,
Tatlock said. A number of chill
dren will be given shoes, coal will
be given some families and about
200 baskets are to be bought from
the Standard Grocery Company, he
said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
z GO TO DEATH IN CHAIR
Youth, 20, Protests His Innocence
Until End.
BA United Press

FfTttW 700
OSsINING, N. Y, Dec. 49,
Protesting his innocence to the end,
Peter Seller, 20, was executed in
the electric chair at Sing Sing
prison early today.
George Ricci, 81, who shot and
killed his employer, who discharged
him, also went to his DEATH ,.L..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
SEEK PAIR IN SLAYING
Two Believed in City Wanted IN
Kentucky Hatchet Death.

City police are watching for Law
renee Hendron, "a, and Mrs. Emma
Taylor, 10, both of Lebanon, KY.
They are wanted there in connec-
ton with the murder Of James
Sprinkles, 81, father-in-law of Hen
dron, found dead last Sunday, his
head beaten with a hatchet.
Hendrcn is alleged to have gone
to JefferSonville, Ind, with Mrs.
Taylor. The sheriff at the latter
place told local police he had word
they came here and Hendron is en-
ployed at local packing plant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
PREDICT DRY HOLIDAY

U. S. Agents Called to Chicago to
Dam Booze Tide.
RN United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.-The usual
predictions of a dry Christmas for
Chicago came from prohibition
headquarters today.
Dry agents from all over this en-
forcement district were summoned
to Chicago by E. G. Yellowley, pro-
hibition administration, to aid in
stopping the inflow of liquor
Rural illinois, Wisconsin and IN
diana were left with only skeleton
force of agents.
Bootleggers reported no increase
in prices was in prospect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
U. S. IN SANTA ROLE

Extra Holiday Granted Government
Workers at Capital
BA United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Presi-
dent Coolidge assumed all the
beneficence of Santa Claus in the
minds of Government employees in
the District of Columbia today fol-
lowing announcement of an executive
order setting aside Saturday. Dec.
"a, as a holiday.
Heretofore, Government employees
have been allowed half a day before
Christmas, but rarely has the period
been extended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16

will be made public until the trial.
Second degree murder or man
slaughter are other choices open to
the grand jury and in the light OF
Mrs. Vests allegation that her hus-
band struck her the night of the
murder, general opinion is that the
charge will be reduced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
PRANK PROVES DRY RAID
SIeuth Poses as College Freshman to
Catch Campus BOOtIeggers.
3n United Press

BIZ United Press
UNIVERSITY, Ala, Dec. 49,
What many students of University
of Alabama believed was a college
prank" developed today into a
wholesale celanup Of campus boot
leggers.
Twenty-seven men and one wom-
an were charged with violations of
the liquor law on evidence obtained
by prohibition agents who posed for
three weeks as freshmen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
Sad forAI
'SCarfaCe' Capone Deeply
HumiIiated; Held for
'Toting' Guns.

RN United Press
TOILET, Ill, Dec. 16-"Scarface
y Al" Capone, unwelcome wan
derer turned back from the hos
pitable far West when he sought
to rest from his arduous duties as
a gangster king, was arrested here
today on a charge of carrying
concealed weapons.
Capone was arrested as he
stepped from a train bound to
Chicago from Los Angeles.
With Capone were arrested his
brother, Ralph, who left the train
with him, and five Chicagoans,
who met the two at the station.
Capone, police said, carried two
revolvers. The others arrested had
one each.
Capone faced further grief in
Chicago, where he will be much
in the position Of a little boy,
who ran from home, after telling
his parents exactly what he thinks
of then-and then came home
at meal time.
The Stoutish and well-Set-up
gangster chief and overload of
vice, who has taken the tax of a
king from rum runners, gamblers
and the other business men of
Chicago's underworld for many
years, will find the usually indif-
ferent police suddenly interested
in his con1ings and goings, to say
nothing of his disbursements.
q Il
NAPONE left Chicago about ten
~ days ago, after successfully
overcoming revolt in the under
world. His gambling houses had
been closed by police order; he
was being denounced in the press;
and he was resentful.
Look what I've done for Chi
caeo," he said before he left. "I've
provided it with liquor and gam
bling facilities and everything
necessary for a good time. And
does it appreciate me? 1t does
not. I'm going to Florida for q
long vacation"
So he went to Los Angeles.
There was widespread gossip,
however, that Capone's real rea-
son for deserting Chicago and the
suburb of Cicero, his center OF
operations, was to save about
100000 in Christmas presents
which he usually distributes
among his lieuteants and to poll
ticianS and police.
Los Angeles turned a cold and
inhospitable eye on Capone. His
feelings hurt again, he announced
he was going to Tia Juana to play
the races.
So he boarded a train for Chi
cago.
INEFFECTIVE CHIEF O'CON-
~ NOR today issued orders to
all his aids to extend the hos
pitality Of the detective bureau
to Capone If he appeared in Chi
cago. 1t was thought likely, how
ever that the gangster would leave
the train outside the city limits
and go directly to the safety of
Cicero.
If Capone returned from Cali
fornia, because he was homesick,
it was believed likely his home
sickness would be the most ex-
pensive on record. The price was
estimated at approximately $780,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16

Sinks, whose charred body was
found in the ruins of his home the
morning of Aug. "a, Mrs. Taylor
told authorities she was with KIM
bic on drinking party at the home
of Sinks and that Kimble killed him
and set the house afire, robbery be-
ing the motive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
CHECK ON AMBULANcES
Officers Must Keep Time on Drivers
in Emergency Calls.

On orders of the board Of safety,
Police Chief Claude M. Worley to-
day instructed officers, who call a
city hospital ambulance to the scene
of an accident to list the time at
which they called the ambulance
and the time the ambulance arrived
on their accident report. This will
permit check on the time it takes
city ambulance to answer emergency
calls,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
COED TRIAL NEAR JURY
Open Closing Arguments in Bank
/. ....... Robbery Case.

RN United Press
LA GRANGE, Texas, Dec. 16. -
The case of Mrs. Rebecca Bradley
Rogers, former University of Texas
coed, on trial for robbing the Buda
Farmers National bank, was ex-
pected to reach the jury today.
The defense closed its case Thurs
day after introducing three alienistS
in rebuttal DR.. Joe Wooten, alienist,
had testified for the State that the
former honor student was sane
when she robbed the bank Of 81 900
a year ago. All three defense alien
lists declared her to be insane.
Closing arguments started this
morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
PLAN NEW GOLF LINKS

City to Build Course in Dearborn
Park If Finances Permit.
The city will build a golf course
in Dearborn Park at Twenty Fourth
and Dearborn SITS. next year if park
board finances permit, r. Walter
Jarvis, city park superintendent, an
nounced today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
Pone Annoints baltimore Rishnn

ROME, Dec. 16.-The Rev. John
Mcnamara, Roman Catholic rector
of st. Gabriels Church, Washing
ton, was appointed today auxiliary
bishop of Baltimore, with the title
of bishop of eumeni, the Vatican
announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16
Thanks Be, That's OUer

morning night ct the income tax
Office at the Federal Bldg Midnight the final hour for making
the 1926 Miss Roberta Wales 2O
going through part the mountain Of correspond
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-16

CHANGES CITY LEGAL AID

DON Roberts, Assistant Attorney,
Succeeded by Smiley Chambers.
City Corporation Counsel John w.
Hoffman today named Smiley
Chambers, Democrat, as assistant
city attorney to succeed Don T..
Roberts, Republican.
The appointment is effective Jan.
l. Chambers has been associated
with the firm Of Pickens, Davidson,
Cause q Pickens in the Fletcher
Savings and Trust building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25
HIGH FINANCING
FEATURES PROBE
OF |. R. 7. Lines

Financial juggling at the expense
of the traction workers and the pub
lie was further revealed yesterday
in hearings before the traction COM
mission when Samuel Untermyer, spe-
cial consul for the commission exam
ined Albert H. Wiggin, chairman of
the finance committee Of the Brook
Manhattan Transit Company.
Wiggin and the Chase National Bank
crowd are being pilloried by Inter
myer who is trying to turn the con-
troll of the traction systems of New
York over the Morgan's banking COM
bine and the Rockefeller National
City outfit. Meanwhile the public
continues to learn startling facts
about the shady practices of all the
plunderers in both camps.
Millions Involved in Deals.
Financial Juggling in which fig
ures reached millions and, it was adj
mitted, dollars were not earmarked,"
when going into the BIN. T. from
the Chase National Bank, was dis
closed today at the reimbursement
hearing before the transit commits
sion.
Albert II. Wiggin, chairman Of the
financial committee Of the BIN. T.
and chairman Of the boards board,
admitted on the witness stand that
$1,500,000 was borrowed for pur-
poses Of the New York Rapid Tran
sit Corporation. This money, he ad-
mitted was paid by the New York
Rapid Transit Corporation into the
BIN. T. Golfers, thus enabling the
latter to declare its dividend.
Leon G. Cooley, member of the
commission, asked if Wiggin knew
whether the borrowed money was
actually used to pay dividends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25
RIGHT TERROR AS
CANTON WORKERS
BOYCOTT BRITISH
Rush More us. Marines
To Picking Area
BULLETIN

CANTON, June 24.-The right
wing administration has ordered
strong military patrols to guard
the city and has mounted machine
guns in the railway station in ex-
pectation of a rebellion by work
ers.
An effective anti-British boycott
has also aggravated the situation
for the right wing, which is cater
ing to the imperialist powers.
SHANGHAI, June 24.-Prepara-
lions are being made to rush 1,15O
marines to Tientsin on the United
States transport Chaumont, it was
learned today.
That other marines will be dis
patched north in the near future in
preparation for the Nationalist drive
against Picking was announced by
Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler,
commanding the American marines in
China. "The transport Henderson is
here from Manila" he said, '1oaded to
the gunwales with supplies and the
Chaumont's 1,150 marines are all
aboard and ready for orders"
Butler expects that the National
lists will reach the Picking Tienstin
area between July / and Is. Foreign
troops are erecting barricades in pre-
paration for the advance of the Ma
tionalists.
Rumors are being circulated that
a temporary military alliance has
been formed between the Hankow
and Chang Kai-shek.
Borodin is reported to have resigned.
The alliance is said to have been
made by General Feng Yu-hsiang and
General Chang Kai-shek at their con-
ference at Soochow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25

During the strike period, the COM
mittee is arranging a vast demonstra-
ton with a parade and meetings at
which speakers will tell of the abso-
lutely sure proofs Of the innocence
of the two workers, of their false
trial, and conviction by frame-up sew
en- years ago, of their martyrdom
since as they awaited constantly an
execution date that was always just
postponed in time to save them for
the moment, but never countermand-
ed altogether.
The committees resolution, adopt
ed unanimously, is as follows:
CALL OF THE SACCO-VANZET-
I'll EMERGENCY COMMITTEE to
all organized labor and sympathizers
for a DEMONSTRATIONS and ONE
HOUR STRIKE on JULY 18th, 1927.
The Sacco Vanzetti Emergency
Committee was established for the
purpose Of securing the freedom Of
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van
zetti, and to arouse the workers of
New York and vicinity to save these
two labor men who are the victims
of capitalist justice.
The innocence Of Sacco and Van
zetti is so well established as to leave
no doubt as to the CHASTITY nature Of
the frame-up against them.
The Sacco Vanzetti Emergency
Committee has no other interest than
to unite all workers and sympathizers
Of the labor movement in a common
endeavor to secure the freedom Of our
two brothers and to expose the at
tempt TO railroad them to the electric
chair.
The whole labor movement, ire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25
SEVEN THUGS CAUGHT IN THE ACT
OF CUTTING UP MILITANT PICKETS
When Questioned by Police, State That They
Were Sent by the international
Had First Told Cops Not to Arrest Them as The!
Supported Right Wing

gangers who admitted that they had been hired by
the international Fur Workers Union right wing oadom
arrested yesterday morning in the fur district after they had
brutaly beaten and cut up four pckets.
Stepping of large Packard Sixth avenue between
oath and 25h street. the gueras attacked the four fur
who standing there They hit James Meexas the
back with iron bar and stabbed him behind the
Weiss stabbed in the while Stephen Sergadan and Har
ry Stenhardt cut various parts of their bodies
Two of the gangster Moses Schwartz and James Eagan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25
Geneva MAY Be
FOLLOWED BY AN
ARMAMENT RACE
Washington Furious at
Stand of Britain

GENEVA, June 24.-United States
representatives to the conference for
limitation of naval ornaments are
alarmed because of their conviction
that Britain and Japan are working
together against the Washington pro-
posals. They are fearful of the poll
teal results in the United States of
flat rejection of the proposals by
both Britain and Japan, as they want
to save the face of the Coolidge ad-
ministration that called the confer
ence.
Are Still Deadlocked.
On the question of discussing naval
disarmaments with regard to capital
ships, representatives of Great Brit
ain and the United States to the tri-
partite naval limitation conference,
remain at loggerheads.
Shortly after a meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the conference
today, both w. C. Bridgeman, British
first lord of the Admiralty, and Hugh
Gibson, chairman of the American
delegation to the conference, issued
statements to the press outlining
their stands on the question of ex-
tending the disarmament proposals
reached at the Washington confer
ence of 1922, to auxiliary vessels.
Sharp Disagreement.
Claiming that Great Britain's pres
ence at the conference is to guaran-
tee her own defense, Bridgeman
stated emphatically that he felt the
British delegates to the conference
could not leave without having dis
cussed, and reached definite con-
clusion, on the subject of limiting the
ornaments of auxiliary ships.
Chairman Gibson, in a brief state
ment, said that such a discussion at
this time is Impractical"
at is impractical to discuss capital
ships here" Gibson said. "Such a dis
cussion would reopen the Washing
ton treaty and prejudice the rights
of France and Italy. All the propos-
ais submitted at Washington were
drawn up by the State and Navy De-
partments and no political conditions
were allowed to enter"
Admiral Jones, another member Of
the american delegation, told the
press the United States was not will.
ing to limit guns on cruisers to SIX
inches, but probably would be willing
to limit guns on destroyers to five
inches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25

holdup men with prison records.
Call to Cops.
Seeing the approach of several
hundred other pickets who had heard
the turmoil, the right wing gangsters
jumped into the car and started to
ride north. When several policemen
and detectives joined in the chase a
couple of thugs yelled from the car:
Don't chase US, we are with the
right wing!" Apparently the police
did not hear them due to the noise
made by the angry furriers who were
also pursuing them.
After riding for another block and
seeing that ultimately they would
be captured, they started to shoot at
those that were giving them chase.
When caught at Sixth avenue and
Twenty-seventh street they told the
detectives that they were hired
to do their bloody deeds by the lead
ers of the International Fur Workers
Union.
In the car were found iron bars
similar to those used to beat Sam
Winick last Monday and Samuel Barr
a week previously.
The iron bars, eight in number,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25
EMERGENCY COMMITTEE CALLS ONE
HOUR STRIKE FOR SACCO-VANzETTI
Representatives of Half Million Workers Set
Date for Four P NJ, July

With delegates from eghtyve organizations representing
five hundred thousand members present the Sacco and Van
ze Emergency Committee meeting in the Labor Temple 14h
ST. and Second Ave. yesterday issued stirring call for hours
strike Thursday, July at by all workers in order to
impress upon the rulers of this nation the desire of labor that
the two workers. Nicola and Baroemeo Vanze be not
done to death in the electric chair
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25
Jewish Internes Brand
AS False Accusations
Of Nurses at Hospital

Denial Of alleged charges that they
had been intimate with nurses at the
Kings County Hospital was made
yesterday by the three Jewish in
ternes of the institution whose claims
that they were hazed by gentle coll
leagues precipitated an investigation
by Mayor Walker.
At the same time DR.. Mortimer B.
Jones, superintendent of the hospital,
denied that he had admitted the ex-
istence Of anti-Jewish feeling at the
institution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25
Continue Nungesser Search.

QUEBEC, June 24.-The forestry
service today started on a new in
quiry into a possible clue to the fate
that befell Nungesser and Coli, the
French Transatlantic filters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25
Brooklyn Painters Get
Alteration Union Help

The international Alteration Paint
ers' Union has gone on record in
favor of the striking painters Of
Brooklyn. They have instructed their
members not TO work on jobs in
Brooklyn where the strike is con-
cerned.