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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-05
new STATEHOUSE INQUIRY
WILL FOLLOW INDICTMENT
OFFOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS
Grand Jury Will Reconvene Next Week, Sift
Affairs at Capitol; Nature of Inves-
tigation Is Kept Secret.
DEC. 5 SET AS ARRANGEMENT DATE
Bond of $1,000 Each Posted by Accused
Quartet and Realty Dealer, Also
Named in One of True Bills.

With four city councilmen indicted late Friday bribery
charges Prosecutor William H. Remy today announced that
the grand jury will turn it's investigation political corruption
from city hall back to the State House Monday.
Nature Of the investigation into State affairs which al
ready has resulted in Indictment of Governor Ed Jackson
not disclosed.
Remy made the after conference with Spe
cal Prosecutors Emsey W. johnson and John W. Hoffman,
who said the end Of the councmanc inquiry did mark
the end of their services for the State.
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BALLOON|ST IS
KILLED IN TRY
FOR ALTITUDE
Filler Found Dead as Winds
Drop Bag in Hills of
Tennessee.
Rn limited Preaa

BIZ United Press
SPARTA, Tenn, Nov. 5.-Evi-
IDENTIFY the victim Of high altitude
suffocation, Capt. Hawthorne G.
Gray, Scott field Army balloonist,
was found dead in his balloon, the
S-80-24l. In ~ treetop at Stiles,
Tenn, seven miles from here. early
today. =
He left Belleville, Ill, yesterday
at 2:22 p. m, in an attempt to
break the worlds record for bal
looms, using an Army bag of 10000
cubic feet, inflated with hydrogen.
The last notation in his log read;
Threw out last sandbag at 10000
feet" The record is 34,424 feet.
The S-80-241 was sighted drift
ing at a low altitude by farmers
late last night in the wooded valley
near here. It was coursing lazily
over the mountains.
When found by farmer boys early
today, the bag of the balloon was
collapsed. Gray's body YVES identi-
fed by note sewed to his clothing.
Physicians who examined the
body said indications were he had
been dead for hours. They ex~
pressed the belief Gray had died
either from suffocation or heart
failure.
Left Log Entry
Another entry in the pilots log
which was found lightly clasped in
his hand read:
"a blue sky, sun very bright, sand
all gone, 10000 feet. Music gone,
antenna out"
Authorities who examined the
basket of the balloon expressed the
belief Gray may have pushed his
aircraft doggedly on beyond the
safety point of his emergency oxy-
gen supply.
instruments Guarded
Gray's altimeter was taken from
the basket and placed under guard
by authorities pending arrival of air
service officials from Belleville and
Nashville.
He wore a full Army uniform, a
knitted sweater, wooden under cloth
ing and several pairs of thick, WOOL
en- socks. His eyes were protected
by oil-glaZed goggles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-05
BILL WONDERS, TOO
Armitage Says He Don't
Know Who'll Be Mayor.

William H. Armitage, political
general of the former Shank adj
ministration, today declined to
predict who will be next mayor"
of Indianapolis.
Armitage continued to maintain
his office" in Castle Hall Bldg,
next to City Hall, although he did
not play large role in the Duvall
regime.
81 haven't talked to anyone" he
said.
Bill" had a few callers this
morning, including former Police
Chief Herman F. Rikhoff. Armitage
usually keeps his door open, but to-
day it was locked and Bill" came
into the corridor to talk to news
paper men.
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PLAN BRAZIL FLIGHT
Brock, SchIee to Attempt
Hop in Spring.

SU United Press
ST. JOSEPH, Mich, Nov. 5.-A
nonstop flight to South America
over the route followed by Paul
Redfern, lost Georgian aviator, will
be attempted next spring by william
S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee,
round-the-world f1iers.
Schlee outlined plans for the Rio
de Janeiro fight in an interview
here today.
The Pride of Detroit, monoplane
in which the pair Travelled more
than two-thirds way around the
globe, probably will be used in the
flight. he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-05
BOY CAPTURES SOLDIER
Pursues Fugitive 20 Miles for Failure
to Pay for Gasoline.

Joseph Heigl, reported having
gone absent without leave from
the Quartermaster Corps at FIT
Benjamin Harrison Thursday, is in
Jail at Plymouth, Ind, today be-
cause he tried to defraud Charles
Parker, Is, out of gasoline for an
auto he was driving.
Parker, son of Plymouth auto
dealer. CHASED Heigl twenty miles
and held the fugitive fifteen min
utes until Sheriff Falconbury OF
Marshall County and three deputies
arrived.
Heigl is said to have told Falcon
bury he had stolen the auto in In
dianapolis Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-05
RUSH TO PAY TAXES
Monday Is Last Day for Fall
InstaIIment.

County tax officials faced a day
and night job today with Monday
the last day for paying the fall in
stallment of taxes. The office will
be open regular hours Monday, but
any checks placed in the mail before
midnight will be considered as last
day payments.
For the first time in several years
county taxpayers showed inclination
to pay early. The lines OF persons
waiting has been kept to minimum
by extra help.
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FIND STRANGER GUILTY

Gorilla Man" to Die for Murder
on Friday, Jan. IL.
BIZ United Press
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov. s.
Earle Nelson, stranger killer" to-
day was found guilty of the muir
der of Mrs. Emily Patterson.
He was sentenced to hang Fri
day, Jan. 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-05
AMUNDSEN IN NORWAY

Explorer Refuses to Explain Sudden
New York Departure.
BIZ United Press
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 5.-Roald
Anundsen,. famous Polar explorer,
refused on his arrival today to ex-
plain his sudden, unexpected de-
parture from New York-reported
at the time to be due to anything
from romance to dissatisfaction
with terms offered him for lecture
tour.
Amundsen told the United Press
he would sail for South America
after Christmas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-05
Is She
Harding:S
Daughter?

Read the story told by
Nan Britton and the
statements of the Presi-
dents family and friends,
on Page 8 Of this issue.
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One Way Ont

Blu Times Special
SEYMOUR, Ind, Nov. S.
Harry F. Walton, Charleston,
arrested here on a charge OF
driving while drunk, sold his
automobile to raise money to
pay the fine and costs, a total
Of S120.
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RUTH ELDER ON
VOYAGE TO U. S.
Envelope Full of Dresses
Among Her Baggage.

BIZ United Press
CHERBOURG, France, Nov. s.
Miss Ruth Elder and George Halde-
man arrived here at 4:45 p. m. to-
day (11s45 g. m. e. S. TT to em-
bark on the liner Aquitania for
New York.
They were rendered an official re-
ception by town authorities and
Miss Elder said to them:
Il have sworn to be the first
woman to follow the path of Lind
bergh. shall try again at the first
opportunity"
BIZ United Press
PARIS, Nov. 5.-Just an Ameri-
can girl again, with IAN envelope
full of dresses and a trunk full of
souvenirs" Miss Ruth Elder en-
trained at 10:46 a. m. today for
Cherbourgh. to board a train for
New York.
Tired out after the heroine-wor-
Shipping that followed her rescue
from the sea at the end of her
transatlantic fight attempt, Miss
Elder went to the railway station
in care Of a doctor.
George Haldeman, Miss Elders
co-pilot, showed a diffidence that
contrasted with the American girls
eagerneSs to start home.
"It's the uniform" Haldeman ex-
planned. II had to stop wearing my
flying uniform. And here I am"
He was wearing a F'rench-tail-
ored "cute-cut" suit. built on pinch
back lines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-05
FIRST SNOW OF
SEASON IN CITY
Temperature to Drop Below
Freezing Tonight.

First snow of the season was re-
ported at noon today by ]. H. Arm
ington, United States Weather
Bureau head, in the vicinity OF
Fifteenth and Illinois SITS. The light
flakes continued falling for some
time.
A killing frost, with temperatures
dropping to Is to % degrees, to
10 degrees lower than last night, is
predicted for tonight.
Cloudy skies prevented a frost
here last night, although low tenn
perature of IS was reached, equal
ing the low mark of the season OF
Thursday night.
Temperatures today will be 6 or
Z degrees lower than Fridays, &C
cording to Arlington. 1t Will be
somewhat warmer, however, Sun
day afternoon. Fridays tempera-
ture average was A, 3 degrees below
normal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-05
FORM BASEBALL FIRM

Incorporation Papers Of Evansville
Club Are Filed.
Robert Coleman, Granite City, ILL.,,
new owner of the Evansville Three-I
League franchise, today filed incor-
poration papers Of the Evansville
Baseball Company with Secretary
of State Frederick e. Schortemeier.
The company will take over the
Evansville club. 1t is capitalized at
$4,000.
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BD United Press
WARSAW, Ind, Nov. 5.-Ground
in this section was white with snow
early today for the first time this
season. Water in outdoor recep-
tacles in the open froze Friday
night, when the temperature went
to 80.
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BIZ United Press
KENDALLVILLE, Ind, Nov. g.
The first cold snap of the season
here sent the mercury down to %
this morning. A light snowfall oc-
Cured during the night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12

pay them from fund appropriated by themselves
and approved by the governor
Those mistakes would be avoided, at least.
1t is true that in the condition the meas
ure which seeks to egislate Mayor Duvall into two
years of Office in the event the people decide as
they certain to decide, that they want the city
manager form of government is which raises
the salaries of the supreme court judges To declare
the Duva act unconstitutional would also knock out
the raise in pay for the judges who made the
decision.
That should be an added reason for an even
careful scrutiny of the constitutional provi-
sion which seems to say that the Legislature not
present any bill to the governor il the last two days
of the session Of the assembly.
If that provision is to be disregarded and nulli-
fed, perhaps the people may be inclined to regard
other provisions of the constitution with the
lightness.
The time, apparently has arrived to discover
whether the constitution means anything at all is
merely tumble of jokes perpetrated half century
ago by group of blunderers who did not know how
to say what they meant
Still there are those who can not yet see the
joke in that rather CHASTITY comment of a some
what renowned statesman who declared whats
the constitution between friends?"
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By Walter ID. Hickman

is a woman, who hasn't much to do.
She is what 1 call atmosphere. A
marvellous act. Easily the best of its
class.
Morton Harvey and Betty Harvey
have a routine which is blessed with
fine personality as well as ability.
Harvey first explains the act which
preceded him, introduces his act,
goes into a song, then panics us with
some stories, then has the aid of
Miss Harvey, then a song, then the
piano is ordered away and Harvey
introduces tho -Four Karryes. The
Harveys have an offering of real
class and merit.
Cleo Miller is assisted by a large
company of musicians. Miss Miller
plays many musical instruments.
The Elaine Serenaders go in for
more music. Harry Gribbon used
to be in movie comedies. / always
fear to see a film comedian on the
stage. This man failed to interest me
one second that he was on the stage.
OF course, be your own judge.
May and Helen Kilduff have one
of those eccentric comedy offerings
Of small town people. Miss Helen
Kilduff is cast as a small town Cos
sip. Comedy rather strained.
The trained monkeys of Morris
will prove n delight to every child
in this city. Morris puts his little
friends through PAGES as movie
actors. Splendid act. Different from
all the others of it's class. At the
Lyric all week.
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When Our Statesmen Die
BY Flora G. Orr

1t costs the United States Government about 81 nm
10 bury Congressman. This is Just an average esti
mate OF the expense. 1t is often more though some
times it is less.
mus one concludes from article in the current
American Mercury.
In addition there is cost of $4,000 for nrintne
me euloges; and the Congressional Insurance." of
$lVVoo Tor years salary of the dead member &c oil
ways paid over to his widow " -
"A senator funeral is costly to the country
man that OF representative, general rule Some.
ees as nigh as $1,000 is paid for senatorial "a se+
mo matter how large bill the undertaken submits
lor Representatives. casket however he never ets
more than $780, ~ ee'S
"A congressional committee which accon,nanias +ba
uy nome Tor burial has expenses for railroad faro
eAtra expenses for the private car in which tbey
uaVe' expenses for meals cigars, tips taxis news
p'PVrs' Apolnnarls water, and mourning gloves
some times the committee is small sometimes a. .,
large. When certain Oregon Senator died four+oan
,ienioeIs OF the Senate went to Portland with +ho
pody Their railroad expenses were almost 81 ooo 90
their meals cost $685. F''V0V' anu
Even a Congressman of California had bis ha
accompanied by nine colleagues clear to the vest
coast, at a cost of $4,592 eiH
Burial and committee expenses for four SOL.
VINO died In office in 1926, cost s11317OS
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Finding the Foundations

Whatever else happens to the suit brought to
test the validity Of the city manager. amendment,
under which Mayor Duval hoped to prevent the
people from relieving him Of sacrifice their behalf
until the close Of his term it may help to settle the
question of whether the constitution means what
it says
But no bill shall be presented to the governor
within two days next previous to the final adjourn
ment of the general assembly" reads the provision
of the constitution.
In spite of this language which to the ordinary
citizen and not lawyer a legislator seems very
plain and mandatory, nearly two hundred bills
presented to the governor within those two days by
the Legislature which has just adjourned.
1t is probable that in the course of years other
Legislatures have presented and the governor signed
some thousands of bills and thus turned them into
laws.
AS a matter of history, the most important laws
passed by the Legislature handed to the gov
ernor within those two days. He had many of
them that he employed, out of that very convenient
contingent fund at his disposal, two former justices
of the supreme court to tell him whether the bills
were constitutional
That has its humorous aspect, even if the joke
is rather costly 1t is not by accident that the bills
held up to the last minute especially such bills
as the appropriation measure and the law which
gives the institutions of higher education two-cent
tax levy.
The lobby and the shrewd machine politicians
understand the value of holding waverng law max
into line until the very last minute and especially
law makers who interested in bills which affect
their own communities
1t is method of keeping down rebellion and
securing legislation by barterng and trading and
threatening.
There is every why the provision written
into the constitution should be regarded and fol-
lowed and why it should be, almost by con-
sent ignored as it has been.
Presumably the Legislature should have chance
to pass over the veto any measure which it sends
to the governor and which may meet with his dis
approval.
Presumably there should be time for him to in
form himself to the desires of the people any
bill and give them consideration at time
when the Legislature is in session and has a fair
chance to act after he has given judgment.
There can be no dispute that if this provision
were followed there would be none of the present
condition when the appropriation bill which was
signed by the governor is not the bill passed by
the Senate and House, and when a threat on the
part of the Senate to force a special session was
avoided only when the governor gave the Senators
their salaries for acting judges in the Dearth case
after the attorney general rad ruled that their gather
ing was illegal and the state auditor had refused to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12
Failed to Work

The Cantonese having found a big
brother in Russia, Chang Tso-Lin
hoped to find several by antagoniz.
ing Russia.
The landing of the soldiers and
marines at Shanghai, the presence of
foreign warships in the Yangstze
and the calling out of all the aliens
worked to his advantage.
He is, above all else, a man of ac-
ton, and he dreamed of more aid
than would come to him through the
mere determination of England,
France, Japan, Italy and the United
States to protect their nationals. He
dreamed of them as allies, and he
dreamed he could make them such
by nagging Russia into war.
1t was beautiful idea and it may
have touched a responsive chord in
certain diplomatic quarters, but it
failed to work.
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Sacco and Vanzetti

When there is hostile demonstration perhaps
even bomb explosion outside of an American en-
bassy or consulate in Madrid, Buenos Aires, London
Marseies as many fear there may be during COM
ms weeks
And when through the angry tumult there
comes the cry, "Sacco and Vanzetti!"-
Some will wonder why the trial and conviction
of two previously obscure Italian immigrants shoe
maker and fish peddler-for murder in connection
with Massachusetts robbery should infame people
in all parts of the world.
The answer, given not only abroad, but by some
of the most eminent citizens ofMassachusetts where
the trial was conducted, is that Sacco and Vanzett
now sentenced to die in the electric chair July TO-
have been condemned not for a murder of which
they may be innocent but for their political views
. 1t is the opinion Of leading members of the Mas
sachusetts Bar and members of the Harvard Law
School faculty, that Sacco and Vanzetti have been
"raroaded"-denied fair trial and the protection
of the law which is the right of every under the
protection Of American laws, whether radical or
conservative, rich poor.
The Sacco and Vanzetti case they say Is really
two cases. One S the case of Sacco and Vanzetti
arrested May g. 1920, and charged with the murder
of shoe company paymaser and his guard and the
and Vanzett notorious reds" associates of radicals
throughout this country and abroad and suspects on
the list of the Department Of Justice which under
A Mitchell Palmer in 1920, conducting its widely
advertised "red round-ups"
Instead Of keeping these two cases separate
and giving Sacco and Vanzetti a fair trial as sus
pected murderers it is the charge of such eminent
legal scholars Felix Frankfurter professor of law
at Harvard, that Judge Webster Thayer tried them
simply as radicals
Inc result, 1t is declared, a trial tainted
from the start with judicial prejudice in which Saccos
and Vanzetti's admitted radicalism warped the con-
servative judges ruling, and was allowed to be used
as the basis for vehement patriotic appeals to the
jury for conviction.
Ot Thayers opinion, denying Sacco and Vanzetti
new trial after important evidence pointing to their
innocence had been unearhed Professor Frankfurter
says, L assert with deep regret, but without the
Shghtest fear or disproof that certainly in modern
times Judge Thayers opinion stands unmatched for
discrepancies between the record dscoses and what
the opinion conveys. 1t not be described other
wise than a farrago Of Interpretations misrepresenta
uons' suppressions and mutations. The opinion is
literally honeycombed with demonstrabe errors. and
spirit alien to judicial utterance permeates the
whole"
whether Sacco and Vanzetti will escape death In
the electric chair July 10 depends on a possible an
peal 10 the Federal courts executive clemency
by Governor Fuller of Massachusetts,
All OF the appeals possible in the Massa chusetts
courts have been exhausted
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business in the first act, which is
splendidly put over. Bernice
Marsolais as Jane Brown, a good
telephone operator who lost her job,
puts that touch of realism and
several dramatic touches, which
gives the first act a legitimate APP
pearance. On the whole the first act
is a real laugh getting performance.
Eddie Ellison and Larry Scott,
played Robert st. Clair are reformed
crooks, because they love two
women, who are good women. Larry
nearly slips, but love and the clever
brain of Eddie pulls them through
to complete vindication and even
happiness.
Larry Sullivan as Mike Ross, the
killer, is the villain of the play and
Sullivan is in character this time.
You know that this man should have
chance at serious character parts
than just light comedy ones. He is
splendid this week.
Mildred Hastings as Bridget again
proves that she is a splendid char
acter woman. She is completely in
character every second she is on
the stage. So great was the i'm
preston she made when 1 saw the
show that her exits were the sig
nails for applause.
]. F.. NARROW as the detective who
would get his man, although he had
to frame him, proves that good act
ing can make an unpopular charac-
ter even interesting. Again, Mar
low is giving a good characterize
ton.
The cast includes Herbert Dob
bins as a police sergeant; Idabelle
Arnold in a very short role; William
V. Hull and Tom Pawley.
The combined splendid work of
Miss Oliver. Milton Byron, splendid
ly assisted by Miss Marsolais, and
Miss Hastings, makes Square
Crooks" mighty interesting theater.
On view at English's all lweek.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-12
Asia Rebels

The Cantonese will accede to the
five.power note, insofar as they will
have to.
Europe, America and Japan have
modified too strong a force on the
coast of China for them to do
otherwise.
For the time being the situation
Will appear to tiatten out, as we
can probably get through the 1928
campaign, If not that of 1882, with.
out having to worry about 1t.
Let no one suppose that anything
has been settled, however. Asia is
in revolt, bolshevism or no bolshev.
ism. And there will be a lot of
changes before it gets through.