Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 186

STATE TO ASK SHAW’S LIFE

OFFICERS CONNECT DETROIT PAIR WITH TUXEDO BANK JOB

Woman Living Near Scene of Robbery Describes Movements of Couple Rooming With Her —Arrest in Michigan Follows, A woman and a man held by police in Detroit, Mich;, are implicated in the hold-up of the Tuxedo State Bank, 4304 E. New York St., in which $8,774.19 was stolen Nov. 23, Harry C. Webster of the Webster Detective Agency declared today.

He said the ■woman, going under names of Marjorie Young and Callahan, had confessed she received SBOO of the loot and told that Leroy C. Young and a man known as “Italian Joe” were in the roboery. Young denies any knowledge of the robbery. Webster said. Persons held up at the bank declared there were three bandits. Webster said the arrest of "Italian Joe” and the third man is expected soon. Extradition Papers Sought Webster is asking for extradition papers to return the trio to Indianapolis. They were arrested late Monday evening. The arrests follow receipt of Information by Webster several days ago from a woman living near Wallace and Michigan Sts., a few blocks from the bank, that Young and Miss Callahan lived with her as man and wife since April and left the city the njght of the robbery. From this woman’s home Webster said he obtained a brief case and raincoat belonging to Young. These articles were Identified, he said, by Mrs. Jennie Parmer, employe of a grocery across the street from the bank, as those carried and worn by a man who came to the store a short time before the hold-up to buy some cigarettes. Descriptions of this man and one of the bandits, given by the five persons held up in the bank, tallied, detectives said. Clotntng Is Described r Webster said his Informant told him that the clothing worn by Young and Italian Joe the day of the holdup tallied with descriptions of the tandits given by bank employes. Young had worked as an automobile salesman and was "hard up,” the informant said, according to Webster. The woman informant said she and Mrs. Young went to the Palace Theater at 12:30 p. m. the day of the hold-up, Webster stated. Mrs. Young ROBBERY GUILT DENIED BY FIVE Trio and Pair Enter Pleas in Criminal Court. Thelma Louise Clark. Paducah, Ky., and Rudolph Fleenor and James Harrington, Louisville, indicted on charges of auto banditry, burglary and grand larceny, today pleaded not guilty ir. Criminal Court. They were charged with luring Alfred H. Voight, 4811 College Ave.. from the Clay pool Hotel to a road near Riverside Park, Nov. 28, and robbing hijn. Jack Holliday and Thomas Drankginis. Indicted on charges of robbing *an E. Washington s*. filling station •< $35. Oct. 25, pleaded not guilty to charges of auto banditry, robbery and grand larceny. GIRL AND CLOTHES GONE Mother Asks Police to Find Her Missing Daughter, 15. Sparkle Milan. 15, of 429 E. Pratt St., has been missing from her home since last Saturday. Her mother, Mrs. Ethel Milan, told officers that Monday while she was at work the girl or some other person visited the home and took all the girl's clothing. Mrs. Susan Talbott, 38, Holton, Ind., and Rose Dunlap, Marion County, 43, have escaped from the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane.

5 more SUOPPING DAYvS SEPOPL JGngsi^i MERCHANTS’ Association Stores will remain open until 6 p. m. up to and including Christinas eve.

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Tips to Young Mothers H r ~~~ ERE'S some advice for young mothers on care of their children. It was given by Mrs. Helen T. Wooley of the Merrill Palmer School, Detroit, Mich., at the Indiana conference on Mental Health at the Claypool today. 1. Develop Independence in the child by having him take care of his own toys, wash his own face, Jiave his own tooothbrush rack. 2. Develop helpfulness by having the child dry dishes, help set the table and do similar little tasks. 3. Develop natural sense of dramatic by acting out stories of childhood, and playing grocery and similar games. 4. Never discuss children before them.

was nervous throughout the performance and on the way home stopped at Pennsylvania and Wash iagton Sts., and peered over the shoulder of a newsboy shouting the bank hold-up headline, the detective said. The Informant, the detective said, related that the afternoon before the robbery she met Young and Italian Joe on the street and Young asked: “Ain’t there any banks in this locality?” She directed them to the Tuxedo Bank, Webster said. Young Hurries Out When the two women returned from the theater, Webster said he was informed Young, who was sitting in the front room, hurried out. Later, the woman said, according to Webster, she saw Young in his room and noticing his hands and face were dirty asked what he had been doing. He replied, according to Webster, that he had been working on his friend's Ford automobile. Detectives were told by persons in the vicinity of the bank that the robbers left in a Ford coupe. The Informant's husband that evening found the coal bin in the basement disarranged and evidence in the furnace that a quantity of paper had been burned, Webster stated. Later in the evening the couple packed their belongings, Young pulled a huge roll of bills from his pocket, paid his bill, offered to loan the informant SIOO, and said they were going to drive to Detroit, Webster said he was told. Young said he had obtained a lot of money in a whisky transaction, the informant said, according to Webster.

M’CRAY APPOINTS FOURTRUSTEES Charles A, Greathouse of Indianapolis on List, Governor McCray today announced these appointments: Re-appointment of Charles A. Greathouse, Democrat, Inaianapolls, and Miss Helen C. Benbrldge, Republican, Terre Haute, four-year terms as trustees of State Normal School at Terre Haute. Jess C. Andrew, Republican, West Point, four years as trustee of State prison. Henry E. Drier, Republican. Evansville. one year of unexpired term of Joseph L. Bayard, Vincennes, resigned, as trustee of Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, Madison. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a, m. • 34 10 a. m 43 7 a. m. 34 11 a. m 46 8 a. m 36 12 (noon) 50 9 a. m 40 1 p. m 62

Appropriation Rider Permits $2,000 Pay Boost for Lieber

By FELIX F. BRUNER The salary of Richard Lieber, director of the State department of c< nservatlon. has been Increased from $4,000 to $6,000 a year, it was learned today. The increase was granted on authority of a short section near the end of the 1923 appropriation bill, which does not refer directly to the conservation department, but which makes the increuse possible. The original conservation department law fixed the salary of the

MEXICAN REBEL TROOPS CLOSE IN ON CAPITAL CITY Federal Forces, However, Deny Claims of La HuertaIsts Successes. By United Press VERA CRUZ, Dec. 18.—Adolfo De La Huerta's press bureau claimed today his rebel troops are completing a circle around Mexico City. Headquarters of General Guadaloupe Sanchez reported capture of Cuanila, less than afty miles south of the capltol. Rebels have occupied Tlazcala, slxjty miles east of Mexico City, they claim. As for the west, the De La Huertaists say they have taken Iguala, eighty miles from the capltol. They also claim capture of Santa Lucrecla. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 16—{Delayed) —The only semblance of success achieved by rebels on the east front was when they marched into Puebla, wliich was voluntarily evacuated by the federals as part if a pre-urranged plan, according to official advices. Obregonists are predicting a speedy end to the rebels, once a general attack, under the personal direction of the president, is launched.

VETS OF CIVIL WAR IN CHRISTMAS FETE Women of Major Robert Anderson Post, W. R, C., Entertain Twenty Members of G, A. R. at Dinner.

While memory- carried them back to Civil War days, twenty members of TWO CHILDREN BOON TO DEATH Kerosene Fire Fatal to Girl and Boy, By United Press MOBERLY. Mo., Dec. 18.—Alice Piteford, 10, and Hilbert Lee Smith, 4. are dead as the result of the 10-year-old girl’s attempt to rebuild a fire with kerosene in the farm kitchen while her parents were attending a religious service In the parlor of the he me. The girl spilled the oil on herself and companion. The blaze Inflicted tfial burns on both. The house was destroyed. Mrs. Estal Harris wan fatally burned at Huntsville, near here, last week, after pouring gasoline on a fire. $261,417 IN BUILDING Total of 208 Permits Issued for the Week. A total of 208 building permits was Issued by the city building inspector for the week ending Dec. 15, it was reported today. Construction was valued at $261,417 for the week, and the city received $572.35 in fees. SEWAGE VOTE BLOCKED 8560,000 Project is Checked by Technicalities. Technicalities blocked consideration of a resolution to construct Interceptors along Fall Creek and Pleasant Runt for the sewage system of the city at the sanitary board meeting today. Expenditure of $560,000 for the construction of these interceptors lias been proposed by Charles Hurd, con suiting engineer for the sanitaryboard.

director at not more than $4,000 and the law required the approval of the Governor. Under the new provision, the Governor’s approval lr not required. Among other provisions in the appropriation bill is the clause: “The sftlfcry of the head of any department which is in charge of a board or commission shall be fixed by the board or commission.” Conflicts Removed The following paragraph says; “All laute or parts of laws in con-

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DEC. 18, 1923

Careless Driving Writes Toll in Blood * as 60 Die in 1923 From Auto Injuries

13 Were Boys and Girls, Slain in Childhood by Motorists.

THE record of the carelessly driven automobile is written ..—.I tn the blood of sixty persons who have been killed in Marlon County since Jan. 1, 1923. Records show that out of every eighty-five persons who died In the county during the year, one was the victim of an automobile. There have been 5,042 deaths thus far this year. Thirteen little children were among the fifty-nine victims. For years city and county officials and automobile associations have been fighting the speeder, the careless motorist and the careless pedestrian. Campaign after campaign has been launched to stop the speeder and the auto-klller. One Auto Toll a Week Children have been warned in the home and In school. Posters have emblazoned warnings.*’ And yet, during the past year, when hardly a week has passed without proposal of some new scheme to lessen the number of accidents, the average of deaths as the result of the automobile has been more than one a week. Adding other deaths from traffic, accidents to those caused by automobiles, the total reaches ninetytwo. Why any man should consider himself_immune from the dangers thus poTnted out every day Is hard to understand. Mother's Heart Is Fearful Yet, motorists continue to speed on wet streets, to cut corners, rfnd to try to beat trains. Pedestrians continue to “Jay-walk.” And mothers send their children to school every morning with fear In their hearts.

j Maj. Robert Anderson Post, G.’a. R., gathered around a table in the G. A. R. Hall, 222 E. Maryland St., today at a Christmas dinner given by the Maj. Robert Anderson Post of the Woman’s Relief Corps. Perhaps to the onlooker, their hands seemed to shake a little and their eyes to have lost some of their brightness. I But to the men themselves, they were j the “comrades” of more than half a century ago, reliving, in talks, stirring war days. The invocation was given by James M. Hoover, 810 E. Sixteenth St. Hip wife, whom he met and married a year ago, was with him. She recalled the war as she saw It In Virginia. Talks were made by Albert J. Ball, Indiana comander of the G. A. R.; Former Senator Harry E. Negley, commander of the Sons of VeteransJohn S. Morford. 87, one of the oldest members, and Mrs. Elizabeth South, 79, of 328 Bright St., one of the old est women present. Mrs. Edith Blume Is president of the W. R. C. Post. Every veteran received a Christmas gift. A FILM COMEDY CHASE ‘Chock Writer’ Flees from Shop and Then It Starts. Two detectives, a patrolman and a crowd of “extras” staged an oldfashioned moving picture comedy chase at Illinois and Ohio Sts. today. Francis Haislip, 26, Columbus, Ind , paid for the pressing of a pair of trousers at the Gabriel Calver Shop, 202 Indiana Ave., with a S2O check, police said. Calver questioned the check. Haislip, fled with Calver in pursuit. At Illinois and Ohio Sts. detectives joined the chase. In half a block, a dozen vain flying tackles were made by the extras.” In front of the Palms Theater two husky tackles dove for Haislip’s ankles. Coming up for air they found their victim in the hands of Patrolman Pat Fhey. The fade-out saw Haislip headed for city prison. Carolers to Sing at Capital Sixty-four Manual Training High schol carolers have accepted an Invitation of Governor McCray to give a Christmas son? service in the rotunda of the Statehouse next Friday. H. E. Winslow Is director of the organization.

filet with the provisions of this section, including all laws providing for the approval of salaries by any officer or officers other than as herelYi provided, are hereby r epealed.” Thus, all power of the Governor over the salary of tne director of the conservation department is removed. It is understood this provision was written into the law on the Instigation of friends of Lieber to provide some way to take care of him. The conservation department and the high- ! way department are the only State

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ARKY KIMBALL, 11, of 515 S. Harding St., is one of the “fortunates” among children struck by automobiles. He will spend Christmas .n St. Vincent's Hospital, his leg propped up to lessen pain to a broken thigh bone. Thirteen other boys and girls will not be here this Christmas. They were the less fortunate—those whose lives were crushed out by automobile wheels.

WHEAT CONTROLLED BY BOARDS^— SAPIRO 200 Indiana Grain Growers Are Urged to Form Cooperative Marketing as Remedy.

Bitterly denouncing Board of Trade "manipulation” of the wheat mar- j ket In Chicago. Liverpool and Win-1 nipeg, Aaron Sapiro, Qhieago attorney | and cooperative marketing expert, l CHILDREN TO GET CANOY AND FRUIT AT FIRE STATIONS Twenty Thousand Expected to Receive Gifts Labeled 'From Me and Sarah,’ Twenty thousand Indianapolis children will be treated to candy and fruit at the thirty-two fire houses of the city Saturday evening, W. T. Bailey, assistant city attorney, announced today. The annual Christmas parties started in the administration of Mayor Jewett and were continued by Shank. Eighteen thousand took part in festivities last year, A total of 2,500 pounds of candy will be put in half pound bags In the City Hall Friday afternoon by City hall employes and visiting school nurses, firemen w-ill add to this amount. Decorations and trees will be placed at the stations. Mayor Shank, according to custom will visit as many fire stations as he can during the evening. Each sack will bear a card with the Inscription “Merry Christmas, Me and Sarah.” Plans are near completion for presentation of "The Bird’s Christmas Carol,” a community offering for “everybody’s Christmas,” at Caleb Mills hall Thursday and Friday nights. The play is being directed by the city park board under supervision of G. Carleton Guy, head of city dramatic activities. Rehearsals ame being held every night. A carload of scenepy has arrived for the production. No admission will be charged for the play, and no tickets for reserved seats will be Issued. The doors will be open at 7:30 on both evenings, |and the show will start at 8 p. m. BANDIT SHOT FATAL TO RUSHVILLE COUNCILMAN Dies of Wound Inflicted in Attempted Hold-up Dec. 8. By Times Kpcrial RUSHVILLE, Ind., Dec. 18.—As a result of a bullet wound inflicted by a bandit who attempted a hold-up at his meat market, Luther C. Sharp, city councilman, died today. , The attempted hold-up and shooting occurred Dec. 8 as Mr. Sharp was counting the day’s receipts. Sharp refused to obey the bandits’ commands when he was ordered to put up his hands. Mr. Sharp is a native of Rush County. He is survived by the widow, two daughters and one son.

departments to which this particular I provision could apply. The salary Increase was granted at a meeting of the commission last Saturday and will become effective Jan. 1. A proposal that the salary be made retroactive as of October, failed. Hoitzman Is Sponsor The increase was sponsored by John W. Hoitzman, a Democratic member of the commission, and also had the support of Dean Stanley Coulter of Purdue University, another member

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urged about 200 Indiana wheat grow- j ers at the Severin today to organize { for cooperative marketing as a means | of stabilizing wheat prices. • “The wheat manipulators deal in wheat as a world commodity,” Sapiro said. "They study the flow of the market, buy when conditions are best and sell on paper without ever seeing a grain of wheat. “Their news sources keep them informed at ail times what is going on and they are able to create imaginary surpluses that are disastrous to the growers. “How can you as individuals witn 1,000 bushels or so of wheat In your backyard hope to compete with this great organization? But, by organizing you can regulate the market and In time put your farms on a business foundation. Contracts to be ussd in the marketing association were distributed and growers were urged to begin a campaign of education to bring enough farmers into the organization to obtain control of forty per cent of the wheat produced In Indiana. NEW REPUBLIC IN GREECEPROBABLE King George Faces Banishment by Military. By United Press PARIS, Dec. 18.—An Athens dispatch to the Fournier Agency today said King George of Greece had departed. which was taken to mean he had started on his Journey out of the country. By United Press ATHENS, Dec. 18. —Greece may become a republic this week. King George has been asked to leave the country' by a committee representing the army and navy. From the summer palace at Tatotou, twenty miles away, the king defied them. "I won’t leave,” he stated. “Whoever dares, let him come here and -try to remove me.” But later it was learned Col. Plastlras, virtual head of the military government had accepted an arrangement whereby Ging George leaves Wednesday at the latest and goes to Constantza aboard the yacht Narcissus. POLICEWOMAN'S TRIAL Case of Mrs. Hettie Brower Is Taken Under Advisement The case of Mrs. Hettie Brewer, colored policewoman, charged with absence without leave, and neglect of duty, w r as taken under advisement by the board of safety today after hearing evidence In her trial. Carl Kloepper, chauffeur In the repair department of the fire force, was reduced to fireman at his own request. Mrs. Brewer’s defense sought to show Mrs. Brewer was doing special work for Traffic Captain Michael Glenn and had reported regularly as required by the police rules.

of the board. The record shows the Increase was granted on unanimous vote of the commission. Other members are W. A. Guthrie, Indianapolis, and E. M. Wilson, of Anderson. Lieber was appointed director of the department under the administration of Governor James P. Goodrich. It is understood Goodrich urged at least one member of the commission to Increase Lieber’s salary. The annual report of the conservation department will show that during the four and a half years of

Prosecutor William H. Remy Says He Will Request Extreme Penalty in Trial Which Begins in Criminal Court Wednesday. CONTINUANCE MOTION IS OVERRULED BY COLLINS i Attorneys for Whelchel Murder Suspect Say They Desire l Delay Because They Believe Prisoner Can Not Have Fair-Hearing Now. The death penalty will be asked by the State from the Criminal Court jury which will try John Thomas Shaw, 24, colored, 1418 E. Maryland St., Wednesday on a murder charge, Prosecutor William H. Remy said today. A motion to continue Shaw’s trial was overruled by Criminal Judge James A. Collins today. W. H. Henry and Joseph K- Brown, colored attorneys retained by Shaw’s sister, Mrs. Roy Gill, 1418 E. Maryland St., presented the motion. They said public sentiment at this time mad,e a fair and impartial trial impossible. Shaw is accused of murdering Mrs. Hel'en Hager Whelchel, 22, of 1858 Applegate St., whose body was found beneath the High School Rd. bridge over the Big Four railroad, one mile north of Ben Davis, Nov. 28.

Shaw has maintained a remarkable atUtude of indifference, according to deputy sheriffs. Detectives have ceased questioning him. Occasionally the four attorneys who will handle the defense visit him. He passes the time smoking cigarettes and reading, or just looking. Prosecution Is Active In marked contrast to the prisoner’s idle indifference Is the activity at the office of Remy. As the prosecutor has -appointed no Criminal Court deputy as yet he will handle the case personally. Remy is carefully organizing the cficumstantial evidence upon which he intends to ask a conviction Under Indiana statutes conviction of murder in the first degree carries a penalty of electrocution or life imprisonment, either of which may be fixed by the jury. Other verdicts which it Is possible to bring In against Shaw are second degree murder, manslaughter, and not guilty. The former carries life imprisonment and manslaughter two to twenty-one years. Os fourteen mur- | derei-s convicted here In 1923 the mai jority have been given two to twentyone years. 130 Names for Jury With the drawing of fifty names of j talesmen approximately 130 potential ; jurors will be available. A special < venire of seventy-five names drawn : for another trial originally- set for i Wednesday and five regular jurors ; .are included. It is expected the .first day will be taken by efforts to get a jury. The State ■will attempt to prove Shaw guilty on evidence that Mrs. Whelchel's watch was traced by- detectives from an Indiana pawnship through two hands to Shaw; that her j diamond ring was found on Cora Lee | Smith, colored, who said Shaw gave it | to her; that four men who were out j hunting say- they saw Shaw with the body of a woman in his auto west of where the body was found. It is expected that Shaw will attempt to prove an alibi and rest on the theory provided by law that a prisoner must be considered innocent until the State has proved "beyond all reasonable doubt” that he is guilty. THREE PERISHIN Ilf BLAZE Several Injured in Houston (Tex.) Fire. By United Press HOUSTON, Texas. Dec. 18.—Three bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the Capitol Hotel, destroyed by fire early today. Seven other buildings were burned with a total damage of $300,000. Several persons were injured when they jumped from upper story windows Into life nets. Daring rescue of guests was made by Policeman O. C. Friday and James Davis, aged night clerk. They carried several women and children to safety. Davis was severely burned. Mrs. A. F. Anderson, Lakewood, N. Y., scrambled down a safety ladder, carrying her baby In her arms. Burglaries May Be Solved Detectives Brickley and Finneran today said detailed confessions expected from three boys from 15 to 17 years old, might clear up fifteen burglaries occurring In the east section of the city during the last six months. The boys are held under $5,000 vagrancy bonds.

its existence It has cost the people of the State $1,071,860.43. Os this amount, $452,113.13 was obtained from direct taxation and the remainder from various fees and other types of indirect taxation. The report of the auditor of State shows that during the last fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, the department cost the State $351,864.73. Outside of benevolent and penal Institutions, the only department which cost more money last year is ths highway department, the report shows. I

Forecast INCREASING cloudiness and warmer weather tonight, becoming unsettled with possibly rain Wednesday.

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SENATE LEADERS ADIT DEMOCRAT WILL BE NAMED Senator Watson Informs Coolidge Smith Will Get Chairmanship. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 18.—President Coolidge was notified today- by Senate Administration leaders, that Senator Smith, South Carolina, Democrat, would be elected chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Senator Watson, Indiana, told Mr. Ccolidge in a conference at the White House he expected Smith would be elected today. Predicts Deadlock Broken Watson predicted the votes of Senators Norris and Howell, Nebraska, would break the deadlock. Neither has yet voted for Smith, though both have voted with the progressives for Senator Couzens, Michigan. Watson’s message to Mr. Coolidge was taken as an indication Administration forces, after canvassing the situation, were convinced there was no way to prevent election of Smith. While Watson was reporting to the President on behalf of Administration leaders, it was reported Hiram Johnson, Mr. Coolidge’s rival for the Republican presidential nomination, was about to break away- from the Administration group wheq voting was resumed today. Johnson Is Responsible Johnson, it was understood, w-as responsible for Senator Norbeck’s switch to Couzens on the last ballot taken yesterday. Senator Moses, New Hampshire, w-’no called at the White House Immediately after Watson disagreed with the latter’s prediction of the election of Smith. He said he was certain Howell. who Is a Republican national committeeman, would not throw his vote to Smith. NO RESPONSIBILITY FIXED IN WRECK OF LIMITED Coroner Recommends Viaduct Over “Death” Crossing. By United Press FREDONIA, N. Y„ Dec. 18.—Cor. oner Blood of Chautauqua County has returned a verdict in :he wreck of tho Twentieth Century Limited at Forsythe crossing in which he holds no one criminally responsible for the killing of nine persons and injury to a score of others. Recommendations were appended that a viaduct or subway be built at once. JUST GIVE HIM A MARK! The S. P. U. G. Has Something New to Oppose. Here is one for the Society- for the Prevention of Useless Giving. German marks are the latest In Christmas presents. When in doubt, give him a few million. At least, that is the hunch of the mark salesman. One store in which the nicely printed piaper is sold displays the sign: “Give him marks for Christmas.” REINSTATEMENT DELAYED Safety Board Postponed Action on Order to Restore Bedford’s Job. Although mandated by Circuit Judge H. O. Chamberlain to reinstate Patrolman Harvey W. Bedford the board of safety today postponed action until Dec. 26. The city legal department has been instructed to prepare a petition for rehearing of the evidence. Judge Chamberlin is said to have consented to the week’s delay. Bedford and Lieut. McGee, who was dismissed with Bedford, were at the meeting today. McGee’s dismissal was upheld. 'I