Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1923 — Page 1

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TWO ADMIT BANK RAID OF SIB,OOO Bandits Are Seized in City After Oil Station Robbery, CAPTURED AFTER CHASE Wife of One Held After Detectives Search Room in Hotel, Detectives today said they signed confessions from two bandits captured by police Tuesday night at a filling station at Tuxedo and E. New York Sts., in which the men admit being members of the gang which held np the Belvedere State Bank. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 21, and took SIO,OOO in securities and $6,000 cash. Police say the pair had robbed another filling station here earlier in the evening. Thomas Dranginis, 22, of Los Angeles, and Jack Donovan, alias Holloway, 29, Los Angeles, are the men under arrest. Mrs. Martinella Dranginls, 23. wife of Thomas, is held under J 2,000 vagrancy bond pending investigation. She was found at the Claypool Hotel. Dranginls and Donovan were held to county grand-fury under SIO,OOO bonds on auto banditry charges. The two drove into the Standard Oil station at Gale and Washington Sts., in Mayor Shank’s front yard, Tuesday night. Their front license plate was from California, and the rear, from Indiana. Police say it was stolen from an automobile at 1212 E. Washington St., Monday night. When Edgar \.. Poe. 25 S. Brookville road, started to fill their tank, of the bandits covered him wfth Bi revolver later admitted taking from* the cash drawer, police •ay. —. O'Connor Covers Them Sergt. Pat O’Connor and Patrolmen Golder and Deb&rr, night riders, saw the bandits start to turn into a filling station at Tuxedo and New York Sts. O’Connor swerved in front of them (Continued on Page 11)

Pictures of the two confessed bandits will be found on Page 2 today.

KLAN’S ATTORNEY ASKSDISMISSAL Lack of Jurisdiction Alleged by Defendants, Dismissal of the injunction suit filed against the Ku-Klux Klan by six residents of South Bend w§s asked In a motion filed In Federal Court by L Ert Slack, attorney for the defendants, today. Lack of jurisdiction of the court, fciiejoinder of parties and Insufficiency P*f the complaint were given as reasons for dismissal. Judge Albert B. Anderson probably will set a date fqy argument later. The original complaint asked that the names of the plaintiffs be ordered removed from th*- klan membership lists and that a receive*- be named to take charge of all Indiana lists. STATE TESTIFIES IN MURDER CASE Attorneys Prepare Defense of Shepherd Brothers, By United Prett SULLIVAN. Ind., Oct. 24.—With fewer than a dozen witnesses remaining to be heard, the State will rest Its case late today in relation to Floyd and Clarence Shepherd, Terre Haute, oh trial here for the murder of Otto Sleferman, former watchman at a Terre Haute garage. William Goings, the third member of ths trio, whose case was also renued to Sullivan County, will be tried separately Immediately after ths trial of the Shepherds. Since the Jury was sworn In to try ths case late Tuesday Prosecutor ohnson of Vigo County was able to use six of the Stage’s witnesses before adjournment. Although the defense attorneys refuse to state how many witnesses they have, it Is believed that they have subpoenaed eleven. It is prol* able too, that the defendants rill take the stand In their own behalf hourly Tempera tui*e • a. m 42 10 a. m ... 49 7 a. m........ 44 11 a. m. 63 • a. m. 4612 (noon) 64 • A. 10. 47 Ip.m. 8®

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Faithful WIFE OF CONFESSED BANK BANDIT, CAUGHT HERE, STANDS BY HER MATE -'c Thoughts Are Only of Son and Husband as Woman languishes in Jail Following Arrests Here

MRS. MARTINELLA DRANGINIS Her two boys—her husband, Thomas Dranginls, 22, in prison here, and her 7-year-old son. in a convent In Tacoma, Wash. were constantly in the thoughts of Mrs. Martinella Dranginls. 23, as she told her story from between bars in the city prison today. The husband is one of two bandits captured here Tuesday night and said by detectives to have confessed to participation in a SIB,OOO bank robbery in Los Angeles, CaL "I know that if I had married Tom when he first asked me. after I met him in Los Angeles two months ago, he never would, have got Into this trouble," the tali, well-dressed girl said. ’’But I was not sure about getting married, so I told him to wait. Thor, when I wire from him from Racins, Wls , I wept to hint. We stayed at his sister’s over night and then went to Waukegan, 111., where w<s were married by a Justice of the peace the next day, Oct. 9. ’iom promised me we would be married by a priest later. ‘‘Our life since we married has been wondeiful. I believe Tom would have told me about all this before, but he was afraid of losing my confidence.” The girl burst into tears. "This is his first time in trouble." she sobbed. "I know he wouldn’t be her£ except for the influence of Jack" (Jack Donovan, arrested with Dranglnis). Mrs. Dranginis asked several times why she was detained. When it was explained that she was held during investigation, she said: "Well, they have nothing on me. When I get out. I’ll go back to Los Angeles. I have no one to go to but my son.” Her eyes filled with tears again as she told how “Tom” had been eager to get Into a home, and had said he wanted her son. "I’ll drive the car back to Los Angeles and wait for Tom,” Mrs. Dranginis continued, her voice breaking. “How long do you think he’ll get? It’s his first offense, you know. I do hope he’ll hot get much.” When told that if her husband were convicted of auto banditry in Indiana, he would be subject to a sentence of ten to twenty years, with possibly an equally long sentence in Los Angeles on a charge of bank robbery, she asked, anxiously: “That would be In St. Quentin, in California, wouldn’t it?” . After hearing the affirmative answer. she sobbed again: “Well, I love him and I’ll stick to him.” Mrs. Dranginis seemed well educated. She was born In Spain and came to America when 4 years old. She said her first husband died of Influenza four years ago. She told of the struggle she had to support her Bon, until she was able to put him In the convent a year ago. She worked as an elevator operator and movie "extra” for a time. ‘SAY, WHO’S GOT MY DOG?’ Youngster Startles Cops With Demands for His Pet. Anew version of “Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone” was sung by 6-year-old Clyde Richard Cooperrider, 1421 Central Ave., to police today. • “Say, I’ve waited Just as long as 11 can for my dog to come back,” Clyde l told Sergeant Dean angrily. “How valuable is your pet?” Dean asked. “Say, mister, that dog's so valuable I couldn’t put a value on him,” the lad replied. ‘‘Blit, I’ll tell you, he was half bird an® half beagle.” And the dog has been missing all morning! Suspect Attempts Suicide By United Prett NEW YORK. Oct. 24.—William Ford, 39, held in connection with the I so called “arson murders.” attempted J suicide today by slashing his arm with a safety razor blade. Tobacco Is Stolon .Timothy O'Keefe, owner of a res- I tabrant at 1879 S. East St:., told police 921 iTCrth of cigars ihd cigarettes was siton Tuesday njgbt.

BERLIN FOOD RIOTS PERIL GOVERNMENT # Separatists in Rhineland and ~ Communists in Bavaria Cause Disorders, PRICE OF BREAD IS RAISED Shops Plundered Palanate Declares It’s Autonomy— Secession Is Feared, By UNITED PRESS "While engaged in fighting separatists in the Rhineland and communists in Hamburg and Bremen, the German government today was (Confronted with anew peril—food riots in Berlin. Food shops were plundered by mobs following an announcement the price of bread had been increased. German ministers, receiving dispatches telling of disorders and rebellion in distant cities, heard almost beneath their windows the cries of hungry crowds rioting In the streets of the capital. To add to the troubles of the central government, the Palanate a former Bavarian province south of the new "Rhineland republic,” declared its autonomy. It was not clear, however, whether it Intended to secede from Germany. Meantime while the "Rhineland republic" rebeis were still Btruggllng to establish a separate state and make good their secession front Germany. A report France had formally recognized the rebel government was flatly denied in Paris. In Alx-La-Chapelle, the original apital of the new state, infuriated loyal Germans lynched a number a t rebels. Scores of persons were wounded In street fighting between loyalists and separatists.

FRANCO BREAK THREATENS Germany Prepares to Disrupt Relations If Reparation Note Is Repulsed. By CARL D. GROAT. United Prett Bteft Corretpondent. BERLIN. Oct. 24.—The German government Is preparing to break with France if lta note sent to the reparations commission pleading inability to pay under present' conditions is abruptly repulsed. It was announced today. The note pointed out Germany's inability to deliver coal supplies and ether reparations In kind. Tho French attitude was blamed for failure to arrive at an agreement that would have led to resumption of deliveries. The note asserted Germany was willing to pay reparations under; “proper conditions,” Government of-; ftclals said. _______ ANOTHER BTATE SECEDE* The Palatinate, Bavarian Provinca, Declares Its Autonomy. By United Prett HAMBURG. Oct. 24—Twenty-two were dead and about 200 wounded in the fighting yesterday, according to the latest check early today. Pojjce had recaptured all important police stations, seized by communists in their uprising yesterday. Berlin dispatches say the harbor at Bremen is tied up Because communist workers quit their posts. The executive committee of the Separatists party has elected Herr Mat—thles and Dr. Dorten to form a directorate government for the new Rhineland republic, a dispatch froth Coblenz said. The directorate would be vested with full powers. Matthies would act for the north Rhineland areas and Dorten for the south. REBELS FACING STRUGGLE Leader at Aix Declares Success Will Be FThal in Week. By United Prett PARIS, Oct. 24.—The separatists officially claim control of the following towns in the Rhineland, dispatches from Alx-La-Chapelle said today: Bochum, Mannheim, Crefeld, Ludwlghaffen, Rudelshelm, Benn, Duren, Dietz. Mayen, Prum, Saarburg, Welsbaden, Groasgerau, Bade ms and Mayence. Leo Deckers, separatist leader at Aix, is quoted by the Matin as declaring "the struggle is extremely hard. It is impossible to make a revolution in a day. “I believe our success will be final within a week.” AGREEMENT IMPERATIVE Administration Official Says Reparation Problem Must Be Settled. By United Prett, WASHINGTON. Oct. 24.—The present situation In Europe between Germany and the allies makes Imperative an agreement for settlement of the reparations problem, It was declared b ya high administration authority today. This statement indicates both President Coolldge and Secretary of State Hughes are following the European crisis closely. TR A FFICC A L’ Features for Ladles Will Be Provided at Luncheon. The regular luncheon of the Indianapolis Traffic Club Thursday at the Severln Mill Include special features for tho ladies. A Halloween donee and buffet luijpheon will b ehetd at the Severin roof garden In the evening.

INDIANAPOLIS. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24,1923

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EARLY ARRIVALS AT THE BTA'i’E CONVENTION OF AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS, AT THE BPINKARMK TODAY AND WEDNESDAY. LEFT TQ RIGHT ABOVE: MRS JOHN HUNTINGTON OF BLOOMINGTON, STATE WAR MOTHER; MRS. HEATH OF MONTICELLO. HISTORIAN AND RECORD KEEPER, AND MRS W. B. PHELPS OF MUNCIE, RECORDING SECRETARY. BELOW: MRS. WALLACE MOORE OF MONTICELLO: MRS. C. B. O’DONNEL JR., OF VINCENNES: AND MRS. L. C. BOYD OF NEWCASTLE, NATIONAL TREASURER AND STATE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

RUMOR OF RESIGNATION 'V, '■* i* ' ■■J"* V Brown Unavailable for Statement Upon Report. I. Newt Brown, secretary of the State board of agriculture, wan out of the city today and could not be reached for <0 statement upon a rel>ort. current at the Statehouee, that he may resign soon. Brown and Governor McCray have differed in statements upon how the Governor borrowed $106,000 of agriculture board funds. ST. LOUIS THUGS GET LOOT Mound City Swept by Crime , Wave Over Night. siy United Prett ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Oct. 24.—An epidemic of robberies that netted thugs $22,000 In four crimes swept St. Louis during the night. Mrs. Fred Anderson, 28, wife of a Chicago manufacturer, was bound anu gagged and robbed of $5,220 in Jewelry and $l5O in cash by three bandits in her downtown hotel room. Six bandits in an automobile held up the paymaster of the Avery mine of the Southern Coal, Coke and Mining Company, and escaped with a pay roll of $12,500 In cash. Five masked bandits held up sixteen members of a loan association meeting at the B'Khai Zion Congregational Church, and took $505 in cash and $2,100 In -securities. Dr. Emanuel L. Haller, dentist, was robbed at the point of a gun in cash as he approached his home. BANDIT HOLDS UP WOMAN Masquerading ns Health Officer He Gets $6,000 In Jewels. By United Prett ST. LOUIS, Oct. 24.—A bandit masquerading as a city health officer with a white coat with a red cross on the sleeve held up Mrs. R. E. Swift, wealthy manufacturer’s wife, and escaped with $6,000 in jewelry today. LAKE RUMRUNNERS SEIZED BY OFFICERS 500 Cases of Beer and Ale Confiscated, and FouiJMen Arrested. By United Prett MILWAUKEE, Wls., Oct. 24. Members of the coast guard and Federal prohibition agents today seized two inter-lake rum runners and arrested four men as operators. Five hundred cases of beer and age, of more than the legalized alcoholic content, were seized. PAT USES HEADLOCK Wanted Hondo to IJe Down and Sleep—Fined $5. By United Prett DUBUQUE, la., Oct. 24.—Patrick Kane wanted to hake his . horse lie down to sleep! Unable to get results by arguing, Kane applied a headloek. Police broke up the wrestling match and today Kane paid a $5 fine for disturbing the peoce.

NEWCASTLE JUDGE NAMED BY M’CRAY FOR STATE COURT Fred £, Gause Is Appointed to Fill Vacancy on • Bench, * Governor McCray today announced appointment of Judge Fred C. Gause, 44, Newcastle, Judge of Henry Circuit Court nine years, to succeed Judge R. L. Townsend of Ft. Wayne on the Supreme Court bench Nov. 1. Judge Townsend h&s submitted his resignation to re-enter private law practice. The governor also named J. Rufus Hinshaw\ 40, Newcastle attorney, to succeed Judge Gause in Circuit Court. Judge Gause several months ago attracted national-wide attention by his decision in the “can of gold” case. A workman excavating on a building site found a cunful of gold coin and claimed ownership. The gold was claimed by the owner of the land on which it was found and by persons who said ail ancestor deposited it. Judge Gause decided the gold belonged to the finder. DETENTION HOME MISUSE DENIED Judge Declares Two-Year Confinement Report False, Reports that children have been confined In the Marlon. County juvenile detention home, a non-penal Institution, for two years at a time without benefit of schooling were denied today byr Juvenile Judge Frank j. Lahr. 1 "The longest we have ever had a child there is seven months,” he said. “Those were two colored boys. Inmates of the colored orphans’ home, who proved too Incorrigible for the matron to handle. They attended school No. 1 while at the Detention Home.” ■ It is my aim to see that children are kept at ths home as short a time as possible." Efforts to have city school authorities place a teacher in the home soon will be successful, the judge stated. As soon as the county council provides funds a teacher will be installed. Judge Lahr said, and when the new detention home is buiß a schoolroom wlll.be included. Police Hunt Money Orders Detectives searched the city today for the bearer of two money orders reported stolen from Bertha Bailey. Martinsville, Ind., totalling $35. Sheriff Peterson, who called the department, gave the name of a suspect.

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I FITCH ESTATE IS OPENED Real and Personal Property Amount to $87,000. > The estate of the late Asa M. Fitch, chewing gum manufacturer, who dletl Oct. 20, was opened today by Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash. No will was filed. Real estate valued at $7,000 and personal property of SBO,OOO wl*l be distributed among the widow, Mrs. Ida J. Fitch, 843 N. New Jersey St., and three sons. Dr. F. M., Charles G. and Robert R. Fitch. LINER LEVIATHAN REPORTEDDISABLED U, S. Offices Have No Confirmation —Pershing Aboard, By United Prett LONDON. Oct. 24—The Evening News today declared the American liner Levlathian had broken down in bad weather 500 miles w r est of the Scllly Isles, t The newspaper gave as Us authority a wireless, picked up at Southampton.

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William Darroch of Kentland Says Not One Cent of State Funds Ever Reached institution Formerly * Directed by Governor, APPOINTMENT OF PERMANENT RECEIVER IS DELAYED Efforts to Get Payment From Executive Upon Cattle Notes Described—Hearing to Be Continued Thursday, . By FELIX F. BRUNER Times Staff Corretpondent KENTLAND, Ind., Oct. 24.—Not one cent of funds of the State Jioard'of Agriculture ever reached the Discount and Deposit State Bank of this town, William Darroch, receiver of the bank, declared today. Darroch succeeded Governor McCray as president of the bank and acted in that capacity until it closed its doors recently. Records of the Board of Agriculture show $155,000 was deposited in the bank. Governor McCray contends he borrowed the money personally from the board. “We had only one intimation that money ever was supposed to be deposited here,” Darroch said. “That was when I. Newt Brown, secretary of the board, last summer called Cashier Ames D. Morris and told him the board was sending a check for $30,000 to the bank. Brown was told the check would not be honored. It never arrived.”

Agriculture board books show these d< posits in the bank here: June 2, $25,000: June 8 $25,000; June IJ, $50,000; June 27. $26,000; July 13. $30,000. “I have been told,” Darroch said, “that McCray gave the board two notes signed Discount and Deposit State Bank and a check on the bank. If he, as president of the bank, was the -bank, he must have been carry - ing Its assets around In his pockets.” Money Was Returned The $155,000 was returned to board of agriculture through the ~ pool,” Darroch said, and the local bank had no connection with this transaction. The local bank, Darrach said, repeatedly complained to McCray E.bout the large amount of cattle notes It was holding and asked payment. He said that one Saturday durihg tha summer he went to McCray’s office and asked about the r.otea. He said McCray told him he would have $600,000 the following Monday and he would pay them on Monday. Daroch said McCray told him the money had been delayed a few days. A day or two later he said instead of receiving the money the bank was asked to honor a check for nearly $15,0f10. signed by McCray. , "We tried to get the Governor on the telephone,” darroch said, “and we were told he was reviewing troops at Camp Knox.” Appointment Postponed Appointment of a permanent receiver for the bank scheduled for today was postponed until Thursday. Darroch is expected to be appointed. Two direct charges ofYraud in connection with McCray notes have been filed in Circuit Court here. One is contained in an answer to a suit for $8,300, filed by the Bankers Trust Company, Indianapolis. Henry A. Reinhart, partner of McCray, and one ■bf the defendants, charged the note sued on was not signed by him or by any one authorized to sign the firm name. The other is anew suit for $6,000 brought on a renewal note by the First National Bank of It, Wayne. This suit charges the name of William (Continued on Page 11)

CLARE thought not. Terry was faithless. a drunkard. He had reviled and struck her. In her despair she turned to' Daniel Gilchrist. The Fool who had wooed and lost her—becau ,e she wonld not wed a man whose motto, literally as he interpreted it, was the Golden Kule. “I've been blind stupid cruel,” she said. ”Tuke me and we’ll forget.” “Go back to your husbanl," Daniel replied. ‘You love me,” insisted Clare. “Deny it if you can.” “Yes," agreed Daniel “but love Isn't all. DUTY ! Qo back .“ And Clare went. Duty, as the New Testament reveals it, vas the whole motif In Gilchrist's life story told In Charming' Pollock’s Great Play “THE FOOL” the theatrical sensation of a generation. More than .10,1 clergymen have made it the text of sermons. Pollock has been asked to discn is it before more than .100 universities, schools, elubs and churches Seven companies have presented it simultaneously to packed houses. In book form it ran through six ••ditlous in three months. Novelized by Russel ’M Crouse, the story begins serially In

Forecast GENERALLY fair tonight and. Thursday. Colder tonight with frost.

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WALTON PREPARES TO FIGHT OUSTING BY STATESENAJE Oklahoma Upper House Resolves Into Impeachment Body, Headed by Jurist, By United Prett OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 24. —The upper house of the Oklahoma Legislature today resolved itself into a court of impeachment to sit in trial on Governor J. C. Walton. The Governor was suspended by tha Senate last night after the lower house bad adopted impeachment articles charging him with paying his private chauffeur from the State health board's funds and with preventing a grand jury from meeting by a declaration of martial law. Lieut. Governor M. E. Trapp arrived in the city during the night to Lake up the duties of acting Governor, although Walton was understood to be ready to fight the suspension, declaring he could not be removed until the impeachment charges were finally acted upon by the Senate. T. J. Johnson, chief justice of the Supreme Court was called in by the Senate to organize It as ah impeach ment body. Vote Was 36 to 1 The twenty other accusations against the Governor which still remain before the house will be acted cn in the meantime. The vote to cuspend the Governor was 36 to 1. The house adopted the one article of impeachment, 85 to 13. and the second. 75 to 23. Some delay was caused between the House impeachment action and the suspension of the chief executive by the Senate, when the initial House report was declared not In correct form and was ordered back to the House for revision. Walton arrived at the Capitol early and went straight to hi* office. He was there when the impeachment vote was taken. Newspaper men were refused admittance. The Governor sent out word he had no comment to make on the action of the legislators. Walton Refuses Statement He would not be interviewed-at his mansion Tuesday night. Mrs. Waltoir also was reported “Indisposed” and would make no statement of her husband’s apparent defeat. In his fight on the Ku-Klux Klan which brought about his Impeachment. Trapp has been an %ctive figure In Oklahoma’s political life cince Statehood. He was first State auditor and has served three terms as Governor. He was a court clerk In Logan County in 1907 and was then the only Democrat holding office in the county which was and is yet a Republican stronghold. Trapp Is Anti-Klan He Is considered a conservative and also antl-Ku-Klux Klan In bis policies, which it was said will not be as conspicuous as were the Walton edicts. Trapp was reared an orphan. He has been a bond broker for many years and w*as indicted In several counties since he has been Lieutenant Governor on charges of using his office to further sales. Several of the charges asa still bending in the courts. Eighteen months ago the House, then Republican, took up the charges and Trapp was Impeached. When his case came up before the Senate for trial it was thrown out on a demurrer. The Senate at that time was controlled by Democrats. Trapp is understood to favor rap ifal punishment, which Walton so fig-o'-ously opposed.