Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1921 — Page 6

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SHANK TO ASK COUNCIL WHAT ITS POLICY IS Mayor-Elect Invites His Official Family to Dinner Party. WISHES UNDERSTANDING The new city council will be given a chance to show whether it intends to cooperate with Mayor-elect Samuel Lewis Shank Saturday evening. Mr. Shank annonnced today that he has invited the council, his appointees on the board of public safety, the board of public works, the board of public health and the board of park commissioners and for street commissioner, purchasing agent, city controller and corporation counsel to d'ne with him at the Lincoln Hotel at 6.-30 o’clock Saturday evening. ‘Tm going to see if the council intends to back up some of these important projects,” said Mr. Shank. ‘-If they won’t, why we’ll Just have to drop them. I’m not going to try to dictate to the legislative branch.’’ tv or LI) REMODEL CITY MARKET. Mr. Shank also instructed Jesse E. Miller, his appointee for city purchasing agent and a member of the present city council, to see if he can get the council at its last regular meeting next Monday evening to pass an ordinance authorising a bond issue of sli’.ooo with which to remodel the city market. The ordinance has been pending for several months. Mr. Shank said he would lit? to have it passed so that the incoming board of public works could be ready to sell the bonds end award a contract Tor the remod-dlng along lines which the present administration had worked out months ago as soon as the new administration opens. This, he pointed oMt, would throw open employment for men out of work in the dead of winter, it being his hope that actual work would be started early in February. ASKS COOPERATION OX MANY PLANS. The “important projects” on which the mayor-elect Intends to ask the new council’s cooperation are the municipal garage for downtown parking of automobiles, new traffic ordinance providing some onoway streets, prohibiting parking on certain streets and Instituting flat-to-the-curb in others; the east White River flood wall; establishment of muncipal yaids on the county workhouse site and purchase of four high-powered automobiles for the use of police burglar stiuads. When it was suggested that the job of smoke inspector, which pays SI,BOO, has not yet been filled, Mr. Shank said he is not going to have a smoke inspector, and not going to force factories to Install extensive smoke-elimina|ing machinery until some of them /tart making some money. FAVORS rSIFORHS FOR WOMEN POLICE. A plain blue tailored suit was suggested by the mayor-elect as an appropriate uniform for the policewomen after Jan. 2. Uniforms will lend dignity to the women police and do away with the danger of them spending a'J their salaries on clothes in order to “get ahead of the other woman,” he said. The plans for remodeling the market house which the present board of works had prepared call for a public comfort station in the basement, new floors, an Jncinerator, thorough renovation of the walls, new standard supports for stands and new plumbing throughout.

Tiger Charge Gives Way to Lesser Degree Daniel Valentine, 1000 East Ohio street, was fined 55 by Judge Walter Pritchard In city court today on a charge of drunkenness. A charge of operating a blind tigef was dismissed. Peter Simpson, 2223 Brookside avenue, who was with Valentine when he was arrested, was fined $5 for intoxication. Joseph M. Gostodrlch, 807 North Riley avenue, was fined 530 and costs for having a quart of “white mule” in his automobile. He said he purchased the liquor at Fort Wayne. The car was not confiscated. Arguments Dec. 23 in Case Argument of counsel in the case of property owners near the public dump and reduction plant operated on the Sellers’ farm by the city of Indianapolis, who were seeking to restrain the city from continuing to operate the plant at that place, will be heard by Judge Arthur R. Robinson in Superior Court, room 4, on Friday morriinz. Dec. 23. Introduction of evidence has been completed. The court has not granted any restraining order In this case, which began yesterday. Dubois Transferred Announcement that Dr. Edouard J. Dubcis, general inspector, United States Public Health Service, has been transferred from Cincinnati to the IndianSpolis sub-district and assigned as full time examiner for the local public health service office, was made today. Dr. Dubois formerly was bacteriologist for the Indianapolis board of publie health. He served overseas with the 150th Field Artillery His transfer was on order of W. M. Coffin, manager of the Seventh district. United States veterans’ bureau. FLAZA APPRAISERS ADJOURN. City appraisers of Memorial Plaza property met today and after discussing valuations of real estate and improvements in the block bounded by Michigan, North, Meridian and Pennsylvania •treets, which the city intends to acquire. adjourned until Monday. The complete valuation report will be ready to turn over to the board of public works on Monday, it is believed.

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LOBBYISTS ON HAND FOR DUTY *Pussyfoot ’ Johnson Among Early Arrivals. Lobbyists have already laid siege to the legislative halls of the Statehouse preparatory to the convening of the special session tomorrow. Representatives of several railroad companies, as well as representatives of various leagues and civic organizations, have been consulting with members of the assembly. “Pussyfoot” W. E. Johnson, member of a number of civic leagues and advocate of “blue laws," was one of the first to arrive. No lobbyist licenses have been issued by the secretary of State. Every man who intends to lobby for the passage of a measure is required by the State law to procure a license which permits him to lobby about the assembly chambers. MORSE AWAITS FEDERAL PROBE Shipbuilder Faces Inquiry Concerning War Deals. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Charles W. Morse, New York ship builder, under charges by the shipping board for alleged war contract irregularities, was here today ready to undergo grilling as to the legality of his war dealings. The Federal grand jury of the District of Columbia nail the case of Morse under consideration. The grand jury also was considering the cases of others said to be implicated with Morse. Morse, with one of his sons, with whom he spent the night at the son's suburban home, appeared early at the office of his lawyer in a downtown office building for a conference. District Attorney Gordon still held the warrant issued at the time of Morse's detention at Havre. There was an early cruferece at the Department of Justice betv.een Attorney ; General Daugherty and his chief advisers, j There seemed to be a disposition to ! await the action of the grand jury before adopting drastic legal methods j against Morse. WELLING MAY NOT BE BROUGHTBACK Man Who Led Jail Delivery Here Held in West. Arthur Welling, alleged safe blower and jail breaker, will probably never be brought back to Indianapolis to answer the charge of burglary and grand larceny pending against him here, according to Chief of Police Jerry E. Kinney, today. The chief pointed out that the California authorities want Welling at Jackson, Calif., to answer some charge and that it is not likely that they will surrender him to the Indiunapolis police. Welling Is under arrest at San Francisco, but by this time may bare been taken to Jackson. Welllnj and Ed Stevens, convicted “yeggmen ” were arrested in Indianapolis in May, 1919, at the Severin Hotel, when the detectives found a complete set of burglar tools in their possession. Welling led a Jail delivery July 4 of that year, in which twen-ty-four prisoners escaped from the Marlon County jail. Nothing had been heard from Welling until yesterday when the California police letter reached the local department asking for Wetting's record.

AMNESTY BARS PUT IJP BY U. S. Political Prisoners to Spend Christinas in Prison. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—There will be no general amnesty for political prisoners before Christmas, it was indicated officially at the White House today. The Department of Justice is drafting reports on some two hundred cases of political prisoners, but these have not yet been transmitted to the President. The President may act on some of these individual cases before Christmas, it was stated, but there was no indications that the Debs case would be among these. Ft. Wayne Man to Be Deputy Collector The appointment of Charles C. Lucas of Ft Wayne, as zone deputy collector at Ft. Wayne was announced today by M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue. Mr. Lucas will take the place of Henry It. Campbell of Indianapolis who has been named as senior assistant city civil engineer by Mayor-elect Lew Shank. TO OBSERVE LIBRARY WEEK. “Indiana library week” will be observed from April 25 to 29 according to an announcement made at the meeting of the State library commission late yesterday. Mrs. XV. A. Denny, Anderson, was named chairman of committee to make the arrangements for the proper observance of the week. FEW CHANGES MADE. Few assessments made by the county boards of review were changed by tho State board of tax commissioners during the fourth session of the board, which ended Saturday, it was announced today. The valuations of the State’s property, which determines the amount of money which will be turned over to the State for operating expenses, are being made by the tax board and will be announced in the near future. John Brown, chairman of the commission, said.

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EAST CHICAGO POLICE HEADS FOUND GUILTY (Continued From Page One.) the Government had failed to make a case and attacked the credibility of the Government witnesses repeatedly. He laid particular stress on the fact that if these officials were guilty as charged that it was strange that the Government could produce only three witnesses out of the hundred or more alleged blind tiger operators at Indiana Harbor and East Chicago, who were willing to testify that they had paid protection money to the defendants. Frederick Van Nuys, United States district attorney, closed for the Government, and made a strong plea for conviction. He told the jury that of all the cases involving city officials that have been tried by him none was more conclusive of guilt than the present one. After instructing the Jury, Judge Anderson told the jurors they wero to begin their deliberations at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon and that the court would be rejidy to receive a verdict any time after 2 o’clock. The defendants took the stand in their own behalf late yesterday afternoon and made a general denial of all charges against them. These charges were that the two defendants had collected from 550 to SIOO a month for protection money from blind tiger operators in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. Both O'Donell and Downey testified that they had done every thing In tbeif power to enforce the law in their community and denied that they ever had "tippd” off Federal .aids to liquor dealers. Several witnesses also were put on the stand to testify that witnesses for the Government had threatened to “get” O’Donell and Downey because the police officers would not permit the open sale of liquor. G. J. Simons, group chief of prohibition agents at Hammond, took tho stand for the Government and said that if the Federal authorities had the support of the police authorities and sheriff of each community In the State there would be little difficulty in cleaning up Indiana. He told of the wide open conditions existing at Indiana Harbor and East Chicago and said they were “opeu and flagrant.” Mr. Simons said that tetween December, 1020, and April, 1021, while prohibition forces were operating in and about East Chicaoo and Indiana Harbor that th agents had received little or no help from the local authotities, that raids frequently were “tipped” off in advance, and that for these reasons the cases were taken to Hammond for trial. He said that in Hammond the local authorities were cooperating earnestly with the Federal authorities. In addition to O'Donell and Downey, three blind tiger operators, John Stipanovioh, Nick Vujonovicb and Nick Popovich, were indicted. These three entered pleas of guilty and were the principal witnesses for the Government.

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CAR SPPEDING AFTER OUTLAW IS OVERTURNED (Conti mied From Page One.) authorities were to determine today the status of his death sentence. "Terrible Tommy” was to have been hanged Thursi day for the murdor of a police sergeant. It is contended that if he Is not captured by Thursday he cannot legally be hanged after that date. The State's attorney planned to ask tho court to continue the sentence which, it was claimed would make it possible for another date tor his execution to be set If O’Connor is recaptured. COUNTY JAIL MAXAOE3IEN T CRITICIZED. The escape of O'Connor also has brought a storm of criticism of conditions in tho county jail here and several investigations are under way. William Fogarty, formerly a trusty in the jaU, has confessed to the police that he gave O'Connor tho gun which was used in affecting the escape. Fogarty said the gun was brought to tho Jail In a package of lunch for another prisoner who had been taken to the State prison before the package arrived. Fogarty, at work in the kitchen, found tho gun and gave it to O'Connor, he said. Fogarty also told secrets of hordes of drugs cached In the Jail and revealed how easy It is for friends of prisoners to smuggle in weapons, drugs or moonshine. They Asked Money, but Grocer Only Offered Cheese! Special to Tho Times. TERRE lIAUTE, Ind., Dec. 13.—“ Jump Into the ice box, quick!" James IJcmplemnn, grocer, got this order today while looking into the barrels of two revolvers >ln tho hands of a pair of masked hold(tip men. But he argued that ho had to start u fire and that ho didn't have enough money for them to bother with. | He offered them all the cheese they wanted Instead. Tho bandits got tired of arguing and fled. SLAIN BANDIT IDENTIFIED. ST. LOUIS, Dee. 13.—The bandit killed last Saturday in the $24,000 robbery of the Hamilton State Bank at Cincinnati today was identified as Edward “Eggo” Sullivan, 29, St Louis, ex-convlct, gangster and crook. Chief of Detectives Hoagland identified him from photographs and thumb prints. RAILROAD ASKS TO EXTEND LINE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary railroad applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission today for permission to construct an extension on its Hue between Aurora and j Joliet, 111.

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NEW BOND MADE INSURES MOTOR REPAIR PARTS Document to Be Effective for Nine Years From Nov. 9, 1921. FIREMEN ARE PROMOTED Anew bond guaranteeing the supply of repair parts for Stutz Fire Engine Company motor tire equipment bought by the city a year ago, was accepted by the board of public safety today. The new bond does not bear the name of Edward G. Sourbier, appointee of Mayorelect Samuel Lewis Shank for membership on the new board of public safety, as did the old. This removes n bar to Mr. Sourbier’s serving on the board. The board of public safety a year ago bought twenty-five motor combination chemical, engine and hose wagons and ten hook and ladder trucks from the Stutz Fire Engine Company. In order to insure repair parts a bond was furnished ty the company on Nov. 9, 1920, good for ten years from that date. This was signed by the company and Henry F. Campbell, S. T. Murdock, F. W. Wheeler, Edward G. Sourbier and A. C. Mecklenburg as sureties. Since that time Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Murdock have died and the board of safety was legally advised that there was very serious doubt as to whether their estates could be held ou the bond. Tho new hood, which is effective nine years from Nov. 9, 1921, Is signed by the company, Harry C. Stutz, Henry F. Campbell, Henry Cochrane, A. Gordon Murdock and A. C. Mecklenburg. Firemen were promoted to the rank of chauffeur as follows: Ralp Dunica, Truck Company No. 2; William Cook, Truck Company No. 5: Herbert Quack, Truck Company No. 19; Harvey Glazier and Jerry Griffin, supply wagon drivers; Herman Tyner, Gerry Spragg, Walter Miles and William O'Neil, mechanics in the repair department. Teu substitute firemen were confirmed ns regulars. Resignations of Patrolmen William C. Cherry and Charles Postel, charged with drinking on duty, were accepted. Emmett Tolle wns appointed patrolman. Traffic Sergeant 11. D. McClain was reduced to trftfficman on his own request. He wrote the board a letter stating that the police surgeon hnd warned him never to ride a motorcycle again. He has had two severo accidents within a year. Building permits Issued during the week ending Deo. 10 totaled 132 In number and $148,522 In valuation.

Charged With Issuing Fraudulent Check Mile Templeton, 4110 East Tenth street, attempted to pass a fraudulent check for S4O on Julius Cohen, employed at the automobile accessory shop of Sam Zukerman, 3C5 South Meridian street, according to a story told tho police. Templeton entered tho store in which Cohen works and bought a tire for sl2, tendering a check of $46 in payment. Cohen became suspicious and went across the street, ostensibly to cash the check, but in reality to call the bank to see if it was good. Upon finding that the check was worthless, Cohen marched Templeton down to police headquarters. Here a search revealed a .38 caliber revolver In one of Templeton's pockets, lie was charged with Issuing a fraudulent check and carrying concealed weapons. Miss Burnsides Delays Acceptance Clara Bnmsides, captain of the women’s police department, who tendered her resignation when it became known that Mayor-elect Samuel Lewis Shank w-ould abolish the separate department, today was undecided whether she would accept an appointment as a detective under the new administration. Tho mayor elect has asked Miss Burnsides to remain on the force and has promised her a post as detective. Whon asked today whether he would accept, Miss Burnsides declared that she “didn't know.’’ Let Out of Jail After spending a week in Jail, where he was sent by Judge Albert B. Ander- ; son in Federal Court for unwillingness or Inability to remember testimony given j before the Federal grand jury last win- , ter, Alfred Mlsner of South Bend was released on his own recognizance by ! order of tbe court today. Eisner, who was a witness in the South Bend-Gary liquor conspiracy cases last week, wns held to the Federal grand jury to answer to a perjury charge by Judge Anderson after repeated attempts to get him to admit he had given certain testimony before tho grand Jury hud failed. In default of bond of $2,000 he has been in jail. He was represented in court by Miss Jessie Levy.

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EMERSON AY. CHAILLE. Emerson W. Chaile of this city will be the principal speaker at the weekly luncheon of the Advertising Club Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce' building. His subject will be “Real Estate and Advertising.”

JAILBREAKER ASKS PAROLE Petitioner Also Wanted in Scott County. Chester Surface, who escaped from the Marion County jail In a jail delivery and now is serving a term in the Jeffersonville Reformatory, was among the prisoners seeking parole oefore the State pardon board today. Surface is also wanted in Scott County on a charge of forgery. He Is now doing time for passing a worthless check on a station agent In Decatur County. Other cases heard by the board today were those of, Albert Hunter, Indianapolis, who was sentenced to prison to from two to fourteen years for forgery; Ernest Davis, Marion County, who was sentenced to tho penal farm for bootlegging, and Claude Barker, alleged blind tiger operator. KILLS SPOUSE. SHOOTS HIMSELF Terre Haute Man Expected to Die in Toledo. TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 13.—0n his death bed. Raymond Fortner of Terre Haute, Ind., who shot and killed his gypsy wife in a rooming house and then turned tho gun on himself in tho presence of their children, wrote his will and nsked that his sister, Mrs. Ethel Irwin of Terre Haute adopt the children. All his personal effects he directed shall be given to his sister, should ho die. Ho has no chance to recover with a bullet wound near his heart, physeians said. Authorities said that Mrs. Fortner’s gypsy relatives here will have first claim to the children. One is 2 years old, the other 9 months.

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‘FREE JITNEY’ HELD VIOLATION OF ORDINANCE Case Carried Up From City Court, Sustained by Circuit Judge. Holding that the operation of “free Jitneys” In the city of Indianapolis is a violation of a recent ordinance regulating 5 cent motor vehicles. Judge Harry O. Chamberlin of the Circuit Court has sustained the verdict of Judge Walter Pritchard of the city court in finding D. J. 'Myers guilty of operating a “free bus” since the ordinance was declared constitutional by Judge Solon J. Carter of Superior Court, Room 3. Myers appealed his case from the city court as a test case when he was found guilty of violating the city ordinance. After Judge Carter refused to grant an injunction preventing the enforcement of the ordinance, the court dissolved a restraining order which he had issued temporarily on a petition of 700 Jitney drivers. Following this decision of Judge Carter, the jitney drivers stopped asking fares, but placed a “collection box” in their machines in which "contributions" were placed by pafrons. The city legal department held that this was a violation of the ordinance and the police began making arrests. In making his decision, Judge Chamberlin said: “The question In this case is in the acceptance of a fee rather than a preconsidered contract as to how much was to have been paid. "The test is whether or not there is an implied contract that this or that person may ride for this or that sum and whether that fee will finally find its way into the driver’s pocket. "I frequently ride in those busses and I never ask the driver how much it will cost me. When a passenger gets into one of the cars It Is Implied that the driver will be paid something for hauling that passenger. Every one who rides expects to pay something, and the driver lias the same expectation. At least he has such a strong hope that it amounts to expectation. I can’t find so much difference between that and carrying a sign announcing that a fare will be charged of those who ride. "I think that it amounts to an Implied contract. The finding will be the same as below, the defendant is guilty of a violation of the city jitney bus ordinance.” It is thought the decision of Judge Chamberlin will end the legal battle which has existed since the passing of the ordinance, although some contend an appeal may be taken to the Indiana State Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of the ordinance.

Court Says Defaced Number Is No Crime FREEPORT, IIL, Dec. 13.—1n the Circuit Court today, Judge Harry Edwards held Invalid section 35 of the Illinois motor vehicle law which makes it a misdemeanor to have in possession or offer for sale an automobile with engine number defaced or altered. The court held that unless a person knowingly had possession or offered to sell such a car, ho did not violate the law. The court also declared invalid that portion of the law which requires the removal and junking of engines with defaced or altered numbers. FIRE DAMAGES HOME. Fire, starting from an undetermined origin, caused damages estimated at $1,&)0 to the home of H. Brums, 1252 Madison avenue, today. No one was home when the house was found to be on fire.

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