Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1923 — Page 2

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MAYFIELD CASE WILL BE USED 10 f! AIR KEAN STRIFE ' Coolidge Refuses to Be Drawn • Into Factional Controversy in Hooded Order, Bn United Prist WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Investi- . oration of the Mayfield case In the Senate is to he made the vehicle for _ airing the “inside story” of the KuKiux Klan. adherents of Edward Y. Clarke, former imperial wizard, said today. If President Coolidge does not respond to Clarke's appeal, filed Thursday at the White House, that the President take the lead in a movement to clean up the Klan or stamp it out. the order will be “put on trial -before the court of public opinion,” p’E ’tar Fuller, Clarke's representative, ‘said. n The Mayfield case, in which George £ E B. Peddy and others are contesting S’the right of Earle B. Mayfield to a ,soat in the Senate fronh Texas, hinges C:n part on allegations that Mayfield Its or was a Klan member. Coolidge Refuses Action Coolidge will decline to be drawn inIE to factional controversy between Klan pleaders. He and other administration <■ Headers resent intentions to embarrass ' the Government by attempting to mix Ik them in a private squabble. £ Among documents Clarke intends ttp show if he gets a chance, are many 'etters from Klansmen and Klan ► ffieers. One of these is a request to pClarke to grant a special dispensation : allowing a chief of police in a large “western city to become a Klan mem ► her ana stating the chief promised to ► -appoint sixty Klansmen to the police “force at once, or to permit the Klan "-itself to name the sixty. Elrod Answers Statement £ Clarke's attack on the Klan was ! met by a statement issued by Milton "JElrbd, director of the department if i’education and publication of the Klan. Elrod said after seven years of 'Clarke control the Klan had only ► Attained membership of 100.000 but ;„that since Clarke had retired, the • Klan had grown so fast in November .Ist war. increasing at the rate of ; 70,000 a week. * OFFICERS OF DOLLINGS y COMPANY ARE ARRESTED Randolph County Officials Give Themselves I'p. ‘ till United Press \ . WINCHESTER, Ind . Dec. 28.—Arrest of several officials of the It. L. Company, fiscal brokers, “was expected here today on charges •-contained in indictments returned by &he Randolph County grand Jury. Two officers of the company, when •-they learned they had been indicted, teurrendered to Sheriff Fisher. Thomas P. Best. Randolph County representative of the company, was indicted in *four counts, charging obtaining money >under false pretense and conspiracy to commit a felony. Best was unable *io raise the $2,000 bond on each count ‘ John R. Brown. Indianapolis, vice president of the Bollings Company, surrendered and gave bond Monday. 'He is charged with conspiracy to comniit a feolny. *' _________________ DOLLING’S SUBSIDIARY SOLD - Marion Interests Purchase Plant for $500,000. United Press MARION. Ind., Dec. 28.—Sale of • the factory of the Western Drop Forge Company. Dollings subsidiary, .has been effected for the consideration of $500,000. A group of Marlon business men purchased the • plant. The plant will open In a month, it was announced, and will be known ►as the Marion Forge Products Company. FIRM IS CONGRATULATED .Gibson Company Continues Auto Accessory Show. Letters and telegrams of congratu lation continued to pour Into the office of the Gibson Company. Capitol Ave. and Michigan Sts., today as the second day of a three-day automobile accessory show- ou the company’s second floor. It is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the company. Eighty accessory manufacturers are exhibiting.

Koretz Letter to Son Points Out Own Fate Bu I'nlted Seict CHICAGO, Dec. 28. —A ‘Hotter from a self-made swindler to hia son,” that of Leo Koretz addressed to his 15-year-old offspring, was introduced at the bankruptcy hearing for Chicago's missing Ponzi Thursday. Koretz wrote: “My dear son: “This is probably the last communication you will ever hear from me. "I am a fugitive from Justice, without family or friends. “I am a yictim of idleness, selfishness And indulgence. “You have a wonderful sister. Be good to her. Be good and strong and earnest. “If at any time you feel yourself slipping, think of the fate that awaits me. “YOUF. LOVING FATHER.” The letter was mailed from New York on Dec. 10, while the radio was broadcasting Koretz's description to all parts of the world under belief that he had fled the country. Koretz’s son did not receive the letter, however. It was mailed to Dr. Milton Mandel, the boker's closest friend, with the instruction, "If you my son should have this, please give it to him.” Dr. Mandel took the letter to Mrs. Koretz, who tore ■ it up.

NERVOUS VETERAN CONFESSES SLAYING Declares He Shot Chicago Underworld King ‘Because He Beat Me and Threw Me Out/

By United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 28.—Jamas Mulcrone, 27, World War veteran? arrested in the Union Station Christmas day because he “looked nervous” today gave police a statement confessing he was the murderer of “Big Jim” Colosimo, king of the Chicago underworld. Colosimo was mysteriously slain in his restaurant in Chicago May 11, 1920. Patrolman Murphy questioned Mulcrone in the station, and he finally btoke down and said: “Well, if you want to make a big pinch, here’s your chance. I’m the man who killed ‘Big Jim’ Colosimo up in Chicago.” “I shot Big Jim because he beat me up and threw me out of his place,”

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THRECKLA THEODORIDES (CENTER AND NIECES, JOAN (LEFT) AND MARIANNA (RIGHT). PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BEFORE THE FAMILY WAS EXPELLED FROM ASIA MINOR.

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Can Hypnotizer of Slayer Be Held Guilty? By United Xrics -* jT~r lENXA. Dec. 28.—Can a IV | man stand trial for a l__ I murder he committed under hypnotic spell? Is the mesmerist who hypnotized the slaj’er also a murderer? The questions are raised by the situation created In the Jugoslav city of Sebenico, where a policeman, hypnotized by a stage mesmerist, shot three perrons. Prof. Maximilian Langsner, a mesmerist, was exhibiting his arts In a theater. A policeman responded to his call for volunteers from the audience. The audience was soon roaring with laughter as the officer was put through a series of funny tricks. Finally Langsner handed the policeman a block of wood, and said: "This Is a revolver, shoot.” Moving as if in a daze, the officer took the block. Then dropped It. Hauling out his own revolver, policeman shot Into the audience. Three persons were killed and a number wounded.. At the station house Langsner awakened his victim. Both the policeman and the mesmerist were then placed under arrest, charged with murder. .

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i Mulcrone said. “About a week before I went to his place with a girl- We ordered some stuff to eat. Maybe I had a little too much to drink. I got noisy and Jim beat me up and threw me out. "I brooded at home for several days, and finally decided to kill Jiim. “I went into a little room in the back of the restaurant tvhere Colosimo had an office. He was sitting in a chair and I said to him: ‘l’ve como to bump you, you dirty wop.’ “He got up from his chair and I fired. He fell at the first shot and I ran. “After that I went back to my rooming house and waited to see what the newspapers would say. They said police thought It was a gang affair, ami I knew I was safe.”

of State Hughes in. behalf of his refugee countrymen made homeless by the Turkish victory at Smyrna a year ago. Sava, who is employed at the Claypool, Is concerned over the plight of a sister-in-law, Theckla Theodorldes. and two nieces, now In abject distress at Salonika, Greece * At the time of the Smyrna disaster, the family was among the wealthiest in Asia Minor. According to Sava, his relations now are in poverty and rags. Letters say that refugees at Salonika are living like cattle, in many Instances twenty to twenty-five persons crowded into one small room. Tne Department of State some time ago Informed Sava that this Government Is admitting as many Immigrants as possible at the present lime. Sava has a plan for colonizing Christian refugees ex* polled from Asia Minor, In this country. “The Near East Relief has done much for my people.” he said, “but the Job Is too big—the Government must assist by allowing the right kind of refugees to come to America. If we see a ship burning and sinking we go to the rescue of the victims, of course, so why cannot America go to the rescue of these Fire Damages Street Cars Three street cars in the McLean PI barns of the Indianapolis Railway Company were damaged to the extent of $3,000 by fire late Thursday, according to the estimate by fire officials today. The blaze started from an overheated stove in one of the crus it was said.

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CHILDREN SEE FATHER SHOOT WIFE AND SELF Tragedy Results From Family Quar-rel-Mother Will Recover. By l ulled Press COUNCIL BLUFFS, lowa, Dec. 28. —While their five children looked on, John Mlehaeltree, 46, shot and serf eusly wounded his wife, Celia, 35, last night and then fatally shot himself. Micheltree died shortly after be-

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SOUTH IE BANK RE-ELECTS HEADS Regular 6 Per Cent Dividend Authorized. Officers and directors of the South Side State Bank, 1125 S. Meridian St., today had full knowledge of the complete confidence vested in them by stockholders, who met Thursday night and unanimously re-elected them for the coming year. Three hundred eighty-eight snares of stock were voted out of the 500 shares outstanding. About thirty stockholders were present. In addition to the election the regular 6 per cent dividend was authorized, payable Jan. 1. Directors re-elected were Philip P. Efroymson, William H. Doenges. Ixjuis C. Engelking. George M. Fritz, John B. Vollrath, John Lauek. William Hart, Leopold C. Buenting and Her man Lohss. Officers: John Lauck, president: William Hart, vice pre-.-’ent: L. A. Wiles, cashier, and J. M. Davis, assistant cashier. SHANK TO ‘FREE LANCE’ OVER STATE IN JANUARY Mayor to Accept All Speaking Imitations Prior to ( ampaJgn Opening. Major Shank, candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, will continue delivering “free lance” speeches during January, Senator W ill K. Penrod, his? campaign manager, said today. By this, Penrod explained, he means'Shank will have no formal program, hut will endeavor to accep. all Breaking invitations in the State. Shank spoke at Michigan City on Thursday night. After the primary campaign opens it is the Intention of Mayor Shank to go into every county in the State and give not less than one day to a cam palgn of that county and to make speeches in every village and ham!et," Penro dsaid in a statement. He said the mayor will he accompanied by Archibald M. Hall, who will head his speaker's bureau. BABY CHOKES TO DEATH Operation to Remove Nut Kernel From Fluid's Throat Futile. Arrangements for the bur.al of Wendal Hodge.' 18 months, who died at the Robert Long Hosp.Lal Thursday following an operation to extruc t a walnut kernel that lodged in his throat Chr.stmas, were being made to- . ty. He was the son of Mrs. Dorothy c.odge of Brownsburg. Ind. The child was rushed from h.s home in Brownsburg to Ind.anapolis after he had swallowed the nut. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong to: A. E. Weddell. Colfax. Ind., from Meridian and Merrill Sts. Edgar Fish, Bloomington, Ind., from 434 W. Merrill St. Floyd Ward, Pendleton, Ind., from there.

Sergeant Shine to Shine If Buddies Get Him Today Victims at Yrafficmen's Soiree Thursday Night Swea/ Vengeance Upon Betrayer,

Ninety-five traffic officers are looking for Sergeant Shine today, each swinging a mean shillalah behind his hack ready to wrap it about the offender's sconce. , It happened Thursday night at the Trafficn,en’s ball at the Severin, an extravaganza as replete with thrills and confusion as those law and order hounds, Paul and Owens, could stir up. Shine’s stock answer, when each o f his comrades with his wife on arm, would say, “Sergeant Shine, meet my wife,” was: “Good* heavens, I thought it was your wife you were introducing to me this afternoon; and only last week :i wa sanother you were introducing How many. . er. pardon me, I understand!” And the ninety-five all got in on it. Gerald “Red” Haugh, premier danseuse. won the corrugated head of cabbage for the best dance. His part net got a of chocolates. Tony Sweeney was runner-up. Jack Kohr, haberdasher, flitted on the scene with a New Year's present -or each officer—a necktie. Peggy Brooks of the Palace darmel heart:, with her ‘Copper Songs. ' Other hits were Remus and Ross, an Indianapolis team, and Walter Kelly from Keith's. Food, entertainment and even the Rainbow room Were donated. Traffic Captain Michael Gienn gave i short talk describing a picnic to b j held next summer. About the time r.e got to the pickles, Connie’s Orchestra was agitated by Paul and Owens into another jazz debacle an 1

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the evening wound up like an explosion in a tomato can factory. BRETHREN MINISTER DIES Funeral Services Saturday for the Rev. J. T. Hobson. By Times Special ODON, Ind., Dec. 28. —Funeral services for the Rev. J. T. Hobson, 73, widely known United Brethren minister, who died here Thursday, will be held at the home here Saturday. The Rev. Mr. Hobson had devoted thirty-one years to the ministry. He was the author of a number of books, his “Footprints of Abraham Lincoln,” being the most widely read. He was a native of Jackson County. The wddow and one child survive. Contractor Given Hearing Hearing on a charge by the State board of accounts that more than f 10,000 overpayments were made and faulty construction work done by Peder Frandsen. contractor of Oshkosh, Wis., was held Thursday by the board. The charges followed work on a sewer system Frandsen completed at New Haven, Ind. Investigation by the State was made at request of citi-, zens. Fritz Schulc Reported Missing Police today were asked to search for Fritz Schule, 56, of 29 Kansas St., who is reported missing from his home since Sunday. He was wearing dark shoes, suit and overcoat, and gray hat.

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