Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1923 — Page 2

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N ATION-WIDE STORM BREAKS IN CRAIG FREE SPEECH CASE

OIL FRAUD VICTIMS TELL PITIFUL STORY OF STOCK SWINDLES Investor Never Had Chance for His Money—Fake Promoters, Not Satisfied With Suckers, DoubleCross Each Other in Deals,

EDITOR'S XOTE— To protect our readers from losses through fraudulent stock sales. The Indianapolis Times and SEA Service sent Roy J. Gibbons to the scene of the Texas oil fraud investigations. He .s recounting in this series of articles the amazing swindles of fake oil stuck promo era to save you from being victimized. BY ROY J. GIBBONS tv SEA Service “ITT. T. WORTH. Texas, Nov. 26. L | Dog eat dog! .... .1.1 That was the traditional maxim, policy and by-word In the game of the piratical promoter. From start to finish the Investor of small savings never had a chance for his money. The fake oil stock promoter was out to cheat on a gigantic 6cale. In a measure his conduct was tolerated —perhaps helplessly—by a law which could not reach him, since he “technically evaded it.” When fake promoters were not flooding the country with propaganda in search of fresh suckers, they were at each other’s throats. Seek More Victims Uvlng off the fat of the land, they filled skyscrapers with their offices and hundreds of employes. For anew list of“suckers’’ In possession of some other pirate, a promoter would go the limit in payment. Janitors In promoter-tenanted buildings were continually bribed to retrieve waste-basket gleanings and bring discarded envelopes containing return addresses—sucker addresses — at prices ranging from 10 cents to $5 an envelope. One promoter In the course of little more than sixteen months paid a known J 55.480.76 for such lists. Scores of cases are Incorporated in the government’s evidence, where crooked brokers "sold short” to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars on their promoter clients. It was worked this way: Most oil stock was purchased on time. At 8100 a share, if the Investor had paid S9O and a notice was sent him that the company with whom he had placed his monev had struck dry wells, he laughed up his sleeve, thinking he had gotten the better of the promoter. Broker Gets His In reality it was the broker who snickered. He had sold the stock. And since the company was out of existenee, the broker proceeded to pocket the entire S9O This operation gives some idea of the double-crossing methods worked within the ring. It is also another reason why Federal officials are having difficulty checking the total losses, since in the case of a “short stock sel’lng deal’’ no actual exchange or record of sale of the stock was ever made. To recite all the instances of broken faith and slender savings of lifetimes of labor wiped away in a single moment would fill volumes. But I do particularly remember the tragic story of Mrs. Mary A. Phillips, 66, widow of a Civil War veteran, living at Coshocton, Ohio. Bent and gray, her face seamed

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with wrinkles and tottering with rheumatic step, on the witness stand Mrs. Phillips told how she had torn up the carpets of her home to obtain money to buy oil stock. Then too, there is the case of Guthrie P. Hastings, a feeble excobbler of Boston, who had settled | down from his 56 years of back- | bending effort, to a life of expected i mediocre comfort. Hastings was on the train with me coming into Ft. Worth, to testify as a witness as to the manner in which he had been duped of his savings and placed In jeopardy of the poor -farm. Cobbler Is Duped "They promised so much. And I trusted them,” the old man cried. “But now everything I owned is gone. I will be glad to die.” For stakes like this promoters fought with each other. Sued each other for such misery. They promised rivers of oil. But they gave rivers of tears and teacups of oil. A mountain of evidence substantiates all of this. A hundred indictments already returned confirm It. And 1.000 more yet to be voted upon place It beyond the question of a doubt. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) The amazing story of “Hog Creek” Carruth’s operations is told In Gibbons’ next article.

Democratic Leader Is Taken by Death

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CHARLES B. FAWKNER The Democratic party lost one of its most faithful workers in the death Saturday of Charles B. Fawkner. 58, at 5142 College Ave. He was chairman of the State speakers’ bureau. He had been superintendent of mails at the Indianapolis postoffice until a year ago.

BOARD COMMENDED BY RILEYHOSPITAL Park Commissioners Laudea for Land Purchase Move, The Indianapolis park board was commended today by the State executive committee £f the Riley Memorial Association, following agreement of the board to acquire two blocks of land east of Riley Hospital. The committee’s statement: “The decision of the park board to acquire land" and buildings lying Immediately east of the Riley Hospital site definitely assures the proper surroundings for the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for children, and is another long step toward assuring to Indianapolis and to the State the creation of one of the finest hospital units In the country. The ground which the park board decided to acquire is the connecting link in the program which will throw together in one big convalescent park the Robert W. Long, Riley and city hospitals. The Indiana University School of Medicine also Is Included in the site.”

‘PROGRAM ESSENTIAL IN MODERN CHURCH’ Methodist Pastor Replies to Critics Who Accuse Him of ‘Running a Vaudeville Show,’

By United Press DETROIT. Mich., Nov. 26.—A good program that will compete with the theater is essential to the modern church. Rev. William Stldger, Methodist pastor, told his congregation last night. Rev. Stldger replied to Horatio "rebel” Methodist," who had term*?. him a “Barnum running a vaudeville show" and who withdrew

MOTHER SUES FOR RETURN OF BABE TAKENBY COURT Husband Seeks SIO,OOO in Alienation-Slander Actions, Mrs. Mildred Fleming, school teacher from Paoli, Ind.. will attempt to re cover her seven-months-old son from the board of children’s guardians in habeas corpus proceedings before Superior Judge Linn D. Hay, Dec. 4. Mrs. Fleming will see her baby then for the first time since her husband of a few weeks, Clifford Fleming, a farmer living near Paoli, turned their son over to Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lahr. Fleming said he wanted to find It a good home, declaring that he was a resident of Marlon County and that the baby’s mother was dead, his wife charges. He gave the name of Clifford Kennedy, she alleges, and thebaby was placed in a home “somewhere in Marion County,” under name of Kennedy. SIO,OOO Damages Are Asked In the petition, filed Saturday, Mrs. j Fleming alleged the board has refused to return her child or to say where It is. At the same time Fleming filed luit with Superior Judge T. J. Moll for SIO,OOO damages from his mother-in-law, Mrs. Evalou Mavity, Orange County, 'and from Mae Rupert and Sarah Rogers, policewomen, alleging alienation of his wife’s affections and slander. He admits placing the child with the board, stating the mother-in-law was seeking to have it otherwise disposed of. The policewomen arrested him on charges of perjury and child neglect. Mrs. Mavity, his mother-in-law, persuaded his wife to go to Bedford, Ir.d., when the child was about to be born, in order to conceal its Identity, he charges. Mrs. Mavley also told his wife, Fleming alleges, that he was "uneducated and not her social ! equal.” Former University Student A petition for return of the child j to Mrs. Fleming was denied in September by Judge Lahr. At the trial Mrs. Fleming testified she came to Indianapolis and sat outside the courthouse In a closed automobile while her husband took the baby away. She did not know he was taking It to a court, she said. Fleming testified he gave their . baby away with her agreement. Fleming, a former student at Indiana University, was teaching at a country' school in Orange County, he testified, when they were married.

POSTAL OFFICIAL HIES LETTERS QN M’CRAY DEALS District Attorney Refuses to Comment on Possibility of Probe, Possibility of Federal grand jury Investigation of the affairs of Governor McCray was forecast by news dispatches from Ft. Wayne saying that banks of that city had received letters from J. W. Welborn, postofflce inspector, inquiring about financial transactions with the Governor. For some time stories have been current that the next Federal grand Jury, which probably will convene in January or February, would take up McCmy'a affairs. Welborn’s letters to various Indiana banks would indicate that this investigation will be along the lines of the possibility of the mail- having been used In a scheme to defraud. One of the questions asked by Welborn in his lettei-s was: "Did you receive either from the Governor or from any other source, any financial statements of the- Governor or his partnerships? If so. indicate the source, the method by which they were submitted, and inclose any and all statements." This question was regarded as particularly significant. Ilomer Elliott, United States district attorney, refused to make any statement in the matter, although he admitted he know of the Welborn letters. Welborn Is out of the' city and will be gone for at least a week. Creditors Asks Receiver Receivership for the Tri-State Specialty Company, 21 N Alabama St., was asked today in Superior Court by the Ertel Machine Company, 226 N. Adelaide St., which alleges is a creditor in the amount of $440.43.

| from his own church because there was too much politics in the sermon. “Because I try to put on a unique and interesting program,” the pastor said, “they call these services a show. W))l, maybe they are. And maybe I am a Barnum, but if I am, I am a : Barnum for God.” Rev. Stidger declared that last year he spent $3,000 in advertising, but took In SIO,OOO in “just the loose 1 collections.” i

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Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen belong to: Walter J. Buhrman, 1855 N. Pennsylvania St., from Capitol Ave. and Market St. s James E. Deveny. Elwood, Ind., from Pennsylvania and Market Sts. Charles W. Johnson, Market and Alabama Sts., from Delaware and Maryland Sts. John D. Heaton, Colorado Apt., Meridian and Piatt Sts., from Meridian and ,St. Joseph St*. Dr. Hller, Dunkirk, Ind., from there. H. B. Farrerll, Frankfort, Ind., from there. BACK HOME AGAIN Jacob Goodman, 2001 W. Michigan St., found at 1300 W. Washington St. Burton Morgan, 412 Bicklng St., wrecked Raymond and East Sts. Fred M. Shoup, 541 E. Minnesota St., found near home. MRS. WILLIAM E. NEFF BU&IAL AT PASADENA Fortner Resident Is Called by Death in California. Funeral services for Mrs. William E. Neff, 48, formerly of ImLanapolis, Will be held at Pasadena, Cal., where she died Sunday, according to a message to a sister, Mrs. Nevdle Crowder, 2626 N. New Jersey St. Mrs. Neff, born In Sullivan, Ind., moved to Indianapolis when she was about 22 years old. A soloist then in the First Presbyterian Church choir, she became widely known by her ex ceptionally fine soprano voice. She moved to Pasadena with her husband twenty years ago. She was a daughter of the late Capt. W. Crawford, Civil War veteran. Surv.ving: The husband: a daughter Barbara, a son Richard; two brothers, W. W. Crawford of R vers de, Cal., and R. P. Crawford of Kokomo, Ind.; and two sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Holway of Los Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. Neville Crowder of Indianapolis. SERVICES SET FRIDAY FOR MRS. WALTER RONK Farmer Resident D'es in Los Angeles Sunday. Funeral services for Mre. Walter Ronk, formerly of Indianapolis, whose death at Los Angeies, Cal., was reported Sunday in a message to Mary Foley, 26 E. Eleventh St., a sister. will be held at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Friday at 10 a. m. Burial In St. Joseph’s cemetery. Mrs. Ronk was born in| Fayette County and moved to Indianapol s from Newcastle about twenty years ago. Five years later she moved to Los Angeles, where she has since lived. The body will arrive here Thursday. Surviving: Tne husband of Los Angeles; a brother, M. J. Foley, and two sisters, Mary Folej and Catherine Foley, all of Indianapolis.

UNDERWOOD SEEN AS FIRST CHOICE OF ‘TRjUMVIRATE’ Murphy - Brennan - Taggart Wing Hold Ralston to Break Convention Deadlock, By LAWRENCE MARTIN (Copyright, 1923. by United Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Plans of tne Murphy-BrennamTaggart wing of the Democratic party for milling of William G. McAdoo as a presidential candidate are unfolding. Oscar Underwood of Alabama Is their first choice. If Underwood fails, the “big three” hope to deadlock the Democratic convention and In the end force the nomination of the man they will put forth as a compromise can didate. Samuel Ralston of Indiana is likely to be this compromise candidate. The strategy mapped out at the recent war council of Murphy of New York, Taggart of Indiana and Brennan of Illino s held at French L;ck, Is bused on these conditions: McAdoo will probably go into the convention with a clear majority of the delegates, but considerably short of the two-thirds required to nominate. Underwood Has Delegates, Underwood will have a large block of delegates, putt.ng him next to McAdoo on the first few ballots. There will be another large block of delegates div.ded among other candidates, Including Henry Ford. The McAdoo delegates will not all stick by him If It is apparent he cannot win early. This situation is made to order for producing a deadlock, unless McAdoo can prevent this by showing greater strength than the “big three” credit him with. Underwood is to be given all the delegates the triumvirate can throw to him on a series of ballots intended to show wheather he can beat McAdoo. They will agree td give Underwood the maximum chance if he, in return, will agree to do what they want If he cannot win. Want Alabaman’s Support What they want of Underwood Is hls support, when they say the word for their ompromising andidate. The success of this plan, or any plan In fact may depend, the three antlMcAdoo leaders realize, on the wet and dry issue. In the background lurks the figure of Bryan. He may no longer be presidential timber himself. but he still wields a hefty ax against all wet candidates. And as he upset Champ Clark’s hopes at Baltimore, he may next year destroy the hopes of some wet or slightly damp Democrats of getting the nomination Silverware Sets Are Stolen Mrs. Alice Zlers, 2765 Baltimore Ave., reports two sets of silverware, valued at S6O, taken from her home.

Senator Copeland Seeks Pardon of President Coolidge for New York Controller Held in Contempt After Criticising Federal Judge. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Senator Copeland, New York, will see President Coolidge today to urge a pardon for Controller Craig of New York, sentenced to serve sixty days for contempt of court. “I’m hoping for the best,” said Copeland today. He said he would not carry with him appeals from any other of Craig’s friends, either in writing or orally. By ALEXANDER HERMAN SKA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 26. —Out of a quarrel of two strongwilled men has broken a storm that is casting a heavy shadow over next year’s presidential outcome. Yet the men involved are neither mentioned as possibilities, nor as directors of the boom of any candidates.

They who started the controversy are: Charles L. Craig, city controller of Nfew York, and Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer. They who are worried about its result are the politicians who are trying to direct the destinies of the major political parties. But the persons most concerned are you and the other millions of citizens of the nation, for legal authorities believe the issue of freedom of speech and criticism is involved. Criticised Jurist Craig, as the financial guardian of 6,000,000 New Yorkers, cricised the Federal judge during a heated controversy about a receivership of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. In a letter to Public Service Commissioner Lewis Nixon he wrote: “It seems to me a monstrous thing that an order of a Federal judge in a court of equity should stand between the public and the truth under such circumstances.” Federal Judge Mayer construed this as a reflection on the court. He had Craig haled before him. After a long hearing he adjudged him guilty of contempt. Battle in Courts Then began a battle in the courts that lasted for four years. Craig appealed. He secured a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Martin T. Manton. But the United States attorney appealed to the Circuit Court which sustained Judge Mayer, holding that a lower court had no right to grant writs of habeas corpus in such ensea. Finally the case came up before the Supreme Court, and there, in the court of final resort. Craig lost out. Enemies Defend Craig Then the storm broke. Former enemler of Craig came out to defend him; newspapers that had rarely ever sided with him took up his cause; jurists and lawyers of note rallied to his support. Some of them advocate the passage of an act by Congress to prevent Craig’s commitment. Some want Judge Mayer to relent. Others look for a way out by presidential pardon. But Craig himself isn’t very hopoful. He Is ready to spend his Chrismas In the Essex County (N. J.) jail, where Federal prisoners from these parts are held for short terms. His wife Is arranging to rent an apartment near the jail, so that she will be able to be with him every day. Politicians Worried Meanwhije political leaders are worried. Ts Coolidge pardons Craig It may be Interpreted by some as a slap at the Federal courts. If Coolidge doesn’t pardon him. some fear that New York will be lost to the Republicans during the next campaign. Representative F. H. La Guardla, who Is normally a political foe of Craig, has announced that he wijl Introduce a bill into Congress on Doc. 3 to prevent Craig’s going to Jail. “If under the present law It becomes Impossible for a municipal official in the course of h!s official duties to communicate frankly and fully on matters pertaining to the city, to another official, it is time that we have legislation protecting public officials," he says. Power Is Abused Hope that Judge Mayer himself might reconsider is gone. And Craig won’t recant. “A Federal judge’s power, to hall before himself and to jail any municipal officer wfio incurs his 111-will,” says Craig, "offers entirely too much opportunity for abuse of power to be tolerated by the American people. “The possession of such power is tantamount to the suppression of proper criticism and a free press. “It is calculated to intimidate and put in jeopardy of jail public-spirited ctizens, reporters, editorial writers and all others whose duty it is to fairly present and freely comment upon matters of public concern." CROSSING CLAIMS VICTIM Car Is Struck by Train; Walter Utroskey Is Killed. By v/tves Special LAPORTE, Ind., Nov. 26.—After his automobile was struck by a New York Central train here, Walter Utros ey, 85, died while being taken to a hospital. A widow and three children survive.

FROM FAR AND NEAR

The Paris Matin states the reparation commission may cease to function shortly, due to lack of funds. Resolution calling for investigation of Anti-Saloon League’s lobbying activities will be offered to House by Representative Tinkham, Massachusetts, next week. The German school system is collapsing as the classrooms go unheated with winter approaching. Edward Drier, Milwaukee, stretching himself after a nap, stretched too far and declocated hls shoulder. Bone was snapped back in place at a hospital. ’ Capt. Donald B. McMillan, frozen in for the winter with his party 11 degrees below the north pole, will dedicate the Chicago Yacht Qub floating clubhouse Wednesday with an

Prisoner and Judge Who Sentenced Him

CHARLES L. CRAIG

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LAVISH SPENDER HELD AS PAY ROLL BAIT-SLAYER Cleveland Suspect Believed Implicated in $43,000 Brooklyn Hold-up, By United Pr< ts CLEVELAND, 0., Nov. 26. —Lavish spending on a Philadelphia chorus girl was said by police today to have heen the clew which led to the arrest Sunday night of Barlow A. Diamond of Brooklyn, wanted for a $43,000 pay roll robbery there on Nov. 14, in which two bank messengers were killed. . \ Police declare he squandered money on the girl and boasted to her he was a “stick-up man” and had just made a “big haul.” Cleveland police are confident the man is the same Diamond who participated in the Brooklyn murder and robbery. Within two hours after the arrival of New York detectives, Diamond was under arrest, and in two more hours >vas en route to New York. Officers, denied the prisoner was being kidnaped. When questioned at police station, Diamond seemed uncertain as to dates, but declared he was In New York Nov. 21, when detectives say he was n Balitmore. He explained $2,000 In his possession saying he had come to Cleveland to purchase lumber for a Brooklyn concern which he said he represented.

address by radio frohi the powerful station aboard his ship. University of Illinois officials Sunday refused permission to the KuKlux Klan to hod a mass meeting in the university armory. Two deaths belevod caused by liquor poison are being Investigated In Millaukee today. “I beat him to the draw,” explained Mrs. Vona Williams, Kansas City, in telling how she routed a robber from her drug store. Three treaties will be asked of Canidar, government by United States to prevent liquor smuggling, at ■ — ference at Ottawa Tuesday. Several continental airplanes are believed lost over the week-end, as all England was fog-bound and planes were unable to And landings.

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WEST INDIAN RUM RUNNING IS DEAL! BLOW BY OFFICERS Capture British Schooner Outside Three-Mile Limit With ‘Runner King’ Aboard, By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—Federal agents today believe they have struck a vital blow at the West Indian rum running traffic. Nine men were to be brought before Assistant Solicitor of the Port of New York, Edward H. Barnes, during the day for questioning before being arraigned in New Jersey before a United States commissioner on a charge of transporting liquor to the United States. The men include William McCoy, said to be the “king” of West Indian rum runners. McCoy and his companions were captuied early yesterday outside tho three-mile limit, when boats of the coast guard service overhauled the British schooner Tomaka and seized 200 cases of whisky which they said was the remainder of 4,200 cases the ship had brought from Nassau, Bahama Islands. Officers Had Tip The rum runner was seized on direct orders from the Department bf Justice, officials of the Coast Guard said today. Government boats were crusing off Seabright, N. J., on a tip that the Ton,ana was lying n that vicinity when they picked up the rum runner well outside the three-mile limit.' A signal to halt brought no response and the Government cutters cut loose with three pound shots across the ship’s bow. A scuffle on deck followed before the capture was complete. Check up of the capture showed that the remaining cases of whisky bore marks secretly put on them by a Government agent in Narsau before the rum runner set out on her voyage. Besides McCoy, who was said already to be under Indictment in New Jersey, the Federal agents captured George Downey, master of the Tomaka, and his crew of seven, and confiscated SIOO,OOO they found on the men. Machine Guns Ready A machine gun was ready for action on the ships, and agents said another quick firer was dismantled and thrown overboard before they reached the rum p rate. McCoy was found hidden under bunk w th $60,000 in American money, presumably the result of whisky sales, in h s pockets. Thirty thousand dollars was found in the schooner’s safe and SIO,OOO taken from seamen. The Tomaka. valued at $60,000, was towed into New York, where she is held. The seizure was considered of special importance because Federal agents apparently decided to put in force the principle of search and se zure outside the three-mile zone before the new twelve-mile treaty with Great Britain Is s gned.

INFORMATION ASKED Treasury Department Officials Want Details of Capture. ! By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Imme- | diate detailed reports on pursuit and j capture of the British rum runner j Tomaka were called for today by the coast guards, customs and prohibition sendees here following news the vessel was seized beyond the three-mile limit at sea. Until detailed reports are available, Treasury Department officials said, there would be no comment on the 1 exploit of the coast guard cutters. POSSES HUNT FOR BANfSLAYERS Aged Man Is Victim of Four Posing at Prohi Officers, 81/ United Press VINCENNES, Ind., Nov. 26.—Local officials and a posse of citizens searched all Sunday night without success for bandits who shot and killed Ursmar Abrassart, 72, proprietor of a soft drink parlor, when he refused to tell them where he kept his money. Posing as Federal prohibition officers, the four men informed Abrassart they were going to search- his soft drink parlor for Jiquor. When one of the men removed the money from the cash drawer, Abrassart got a shotgun. Before he was able to use the weapon the bandits opened fire, eight shots taking effect, and escaped. Abrassart died instantly. SHOOTING DIES Affair Said to Have Ocoured During Souffle Over Gun. Bp United Pt i ss MUNCIE. Ind.. Nov. 26.—Fred MeNeal, 28, colored, died Sunday night at a hospital from a bullet wound in the abdomen, and James Stanley, 18, colored, is in jail pending investigation. The shooting occurred In front of a restaurant the two are said to have been scuffling jOver a gun held by Stanley who ran and was later arrested at the home ok* his sweetheart. Atlanta ” ' ...ers Bv Jin^~ " - -oVILLE, Ind., Nov. 26. Atlanta High School basketball team won from Fishers Saturday night by the score of 33 to 22. Honnold, of Atlanta, was the star of the game and high point man, scoring SO of the 83 joints made by hls team.