Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 259, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 259

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MOL HOT MID ACTION ON CAD FARE Resolution to Refer Matter Back to Administration Is Expected, JURISDICTION IS LACKING Four Members Favor Rate Boost, but Do Not Care to Take Formal Action. The city council, it was indicated today, will take no action on the pica of the Indianapolis Street Railway for increased fares. A resolution referring the company's case back to Mayor Shank end Taylor Groninger, corporation counsel, may be introduced next Monday night. Mayor Shank has remained silent. Groninger has favored immediate "relief” for the company. Four of the nine councilmen today said the street railway company' should have more revenue. They said increased was the only' solution, but deplored some phases of present service. Two councilmen were a fare boost and two still wertrvpr,decided. Outside Jurisdiction Every coonrilman pointed out the lack of jurisdiction of the council and charger, "buck passing" and that they were being made the "goat" of the city administration. Some Republican merpbers said they would not even Nvote for a resolution referring it to the mayor declaring that ,a fare increase was cledrly up to the public service commission. Here's what councilmen esid: WALTER W. WIRE. Republican, president of the council —From all appearances It seems the car company needs relief. Whatever fare increase Is granted should be temporary’ and transfers should be giver, free. Talk of some civic clubs to force the company into the hands of a receiver is absurd. Any one knows that would bring fares up to 7 or 8 cents and not maintain efficient management.

Pay Boost Favored THEODORE J. BERND. Republican—Personally, I believe the oar company should have an Increase, but I don’t believe the council should be the “goat.” If an increase Is granted I would like to see the car company employes paid more. I believe that four tickets for 25 cer.ts, eighteen tickets for $1 and a 1 cent transfer might effect needed relief. However, the entire question is above our Jurisdiction. IRA L. BRAMBLETT, Republican —lt looks like a case of high salaries and over-capitalisation, but neverthelesa the fact remains that the car company needs relief. The city must have a street car system. WILLIAM E. CLAUER. Democrat —ls the council should take a vote on it, I would favor an increased fare. But since we have no more Jurisdiction than an ordinary citizen, I can see no benefit of council taking any (action. After hearing both sides, I am convinced the company needs relief. Thompson In Opposition BEN H. THOMPSON. Republican— I don’t believe the company should have an increase but it is out of our .in its diction, T wouldn’t even vote for a resolution referring It back to the mayor. The public servitae commission is the only body that can act on any far© increase, and the company should have gone there with their HEYDON W. BUCHANAN, Demo crat —If the company would start giving us sendee, crv-?s town lines, and a real downtown transfer loop, I rmght be in favor of a fare increase. I realise the company can go to the public sendee com miss! on, and probably get a fare increase anyway The tompany should take out a city franchise, A utility is only a utility as long as it serves. They talk about a 5-cent far© as one <if the lowest in the country, yet when Ohio cities were charging only 3-ccnt fare several yars ago, we wero paying five. Motor busses for cross town lines which could be operated by the company might be tried. JOHN E, KINO. Republican—l don’t want to express myself either way. It's purely a matter for the public aenlce commission and abovo the Jurisdiction of the council. LLOYD D. CLAYCOMBE, Republican, and Chairman of the Council Committee Investigating the Car (Company's Finances—l am still undecided as to what action should be taken. The council has no more authority than any bxly cf citizens. Its members are not. street car experts. and our committee heard no testimony. We merely examined books of the company. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 32 10 a. m....--.. 33 7 a m........ 33 11 a tn........ 35 8 a. m 82 12 (noon) 36 8 a xa...... 83 1 p. m. v .— 88

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CHARGES AGAINST DILLON DISMISSED Technicality Wins Freedom for Politician, City Judge Pro Tem. George Rimer today sustained a motion to dismiss blind tiger charges against Thomas Dillon, Twelfth Ward politician, when the defense declared the search warrants had been made out for Mike Dillon, his brother. The arrest was made Jan. 9 in a raid in which police said they found liquor at Dillon’s place, 744 S. Capitol Ave. Elmer Johnson, barkeeper arrested in the raid, was fined 8200 and costs and sentenced to sixty days on the Indiana State Farm.

COURTHOUSE IS TO BESURVEYED Offer of Architects Accepted by County Officials, An offer of Indianapolis architects to make a survey of the Courthouse ■with a view to determining what can be done toward remodeling the present building or erecting anew one was accepted by county commissioners and county council today. Officials said that the principal need is for more room. A committee of arch itects will be appointed to make the survey and facts will be presented to the commissioners without recommendations. The survey is to be made without cost to the county. The Indianapolis Architects Association will discuss the matter tonight. BOMB INJURES THIRTY Dynamite Explodes in Entrance of Detroit Coffee House. By United Press DETROIT. Mich.. March 12.—A dynamite bomb, which exploded at the entrance of a Greek coffee house today, injured thirty persons and wrrecked the building as well as another coffee house. Cuts from flying glass comprised most of the injuries. Scores of persons sleeping in nearby buildings were endangered by the blast. v K. OF P. RANK GIVEN 1.000 Ceremony Held in Reverence to Justus N. Ratlibone Bible. A class of 1,000 candidates of Knights of Pythias received rank of page today at the Athenaeum. The meeting, one of a series held in Indiana this week in reverence to the Justus N. Rathbone Bible, relic of the order, was attended by high lodge officials. * /

submitted by sororities to student vote. Miss Virginia Rose, 1403 Union St., daughter of Mrs. Lillian S. Rose, is winner in the Freshman class. She is a pledge to the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Miss Rose Is a graduate of Manual Training High School. iStss Eleanor Waller. Washington.

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FIVE PERISH IN EASTERN STORM Atlantic Seaboard Is Swept by Severe Blizzard, By Unit'd Press NEW YpRK. March 12.—New York slopped to work through slush covered streets today, buffetad by a strong gale, as the city was held In the grip of one of the most disagreeable storms of the winter. Five persons were killed in the city and vicinity from accidents attributed lo the storm, many wires were down and dispatches showed a general gale along the Atlantic seaboard, with shipping in trouble and rail com murdcation hampered. The storm came on the anniversary of the great blizzard of 1888, the worst storm ever recorded and war; general along the coast from Florida to Maine. CITY DEBTS UNDER LIU OF POWER Controller Says $6,100,000 More Permitted, The civil city is $6,100,000 below the limit of its borrowing power, Josepn L. Hogue, city controller, announced today. The park department he said is $536,000 below its limit and the sanitary district is $2,000,00 below the limit. The civil city is limited in borrow ing to 2 per cent of the assessed valuation of the property in the - city. The sanitary district limit is one-half of one per cent and the park department limit is eight-tenths of one per cent The amounts it is possible for the various units to borrow are based on valuation of approximately $620,05,fi00. Relatives Are Sought Police today are seeking kin of Charles Click, Atlanta, Ga., said to have been killed in an accident there. Police were) advised Click had Indianapolis relatives.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH* 12, 1924

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‘SCOFFLAW’ KING NABBEDBY POLICE ‘Gray Wolf’ of Bootlegdom Fools Rich Clients, By United Press CHICAGO, March U.—The "Gray Wolf’’ bootlegging ghost of Chicago’s Gold Coast Is under arrest today after a three-year battle of wits with polioe and Federal agents. The mysterious figure In the gray speedster proved., to be a squat little German chemist, Otto Von Bachelle. He has fooled half the millionaire colony with liquor he manufactured himself In his laboratory and which was supposed to be “the real thing.” He was caught today as he was unloading a cargo of gin and whisky before a fashionable apartment, building. In his car agents found 21,000 revenue stamps he used to disguise his manufactured liquors.

DEPOSITS SLIPS FREE, FERRY SAYS Former Cashier Tells of Hope Bank Transactions, By Times Special COLUMBUS, Tnd., March 12.—That he issued / ten certificates of deposit for $3,000 each, to James M. Sims of Indianapolis, on trial in Circuit Court here, for which no money was received, was the testimony by R. K. Ferry af Hope, former cashier of the Hope Slate Bank. Ferry, principal State witness, tes titled the certificates to cover a shortage caused by checks kited by Sims as an individual and as president of the defunci Republic Oil Company of Indianapolis, without the banks’ knowledge. Sims and Ferry are charged jointly with conspiracy to defraud, steal and embezzs.l© in connection with the transaction of the Hope bank. TWO MEN FOUND GUILTY Wesley McGinnis and Harley Waggoner Sent to Reformatory. Wesley McGinnis, 1535 Bellefontairfe St., and Harley Waggoner, 1429 E. Vermont St., were fined SIOO and sentenced to from one to two years in the Indiana Reformatory, in Criminal Court today on liquor transportation charges. H. F. I‘avey Credit Speaker H. F. Pavey, credit manager, Hib-ben-Holhveg & Cos., 5 wholesale dry goods house, will spelpk at the Indianapolis Association of fcredit Men luncheon at the Claypool SThursday.

REST ORDER FOR INIERURBAN MEN FORECAST FRIDAY Commisafion to Make Provisions in Union Traction Case General. An order to all traction companies in Indiana stipulating that train crews must be given one hour of rest for every four hours of work, will be issued by the public -service commission Friday, it was forecast today. The order, written by Samuel R. Artman, commissioner in charge of the Fortville Union Traction interurban collision inquiry, makes specific mention of the time required for crew schedules. Other contents of the order. It was learned, follow': 1. That no train order used in registering crews be transmitted through a third party. The motolman or conductor must register his train personally. 2. That companies must notify the public service commission of any failure in the block signal system within forty-eight hours of its occurrence. 3. That the duties of motorruen be restricted to those of operating the train. These provisions are practically identical with ‘hose recommended to the Union Traction Company, In the commission's report concerning the Fortville collision. Since the Union Traction Company was the only one in Indiana, it is understood, using a thirteen-hour schedule for train crews, no mention was made specifically of this particular part in the previous report. The commission Is said to be unfied in opposition to long hours for traction crows. In the report on the Fortville wreck, a great part of the responsibility for the tragedy was placed upon the long working hours required of crews by' the company.

Weddings By Tines Sphiial OREENCASTLE. Ind . March 12 Thlrtv-foiV years ago. Squire Walter J. Ashton of this city performed a double wedding ceremony. Miss Margaret Carl and Ernest Parts, children of these two couples were united in man-logo by squire. Tuesday night.

HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE, THEN SELF Elkhart Man Lay in Wait for Estranged Mate, By United Press • ELKHART, Tnd., March 12.—Waiting for Anna Carroll, his estranged wife, as she went to work at a local factory today, Frank Carroll, 40, shot and instantly killed her and then turned the revolver on himself. He died a few moments later. His wife had brought suit for divorce a week ago and taken a position in a factory to support herself. Carroll had been arrested several times recently for Intoxication. Officials said hr had been drinking heavily last night and early today. FORIY FIREMEN INJURED AT BLAZE Philadelphia Fire Drives Hundreds From Homes, By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 12. Forty firemen were slightly hurt and hundreds of families were driven from their homes here by a spectacular fire early today which destroyed the elevators of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. Estimates of the loss vary from a quarter of a million to a million and a quarter -dollars. THEFT CASF. BEFORE JURY No Verrdict After Nineteen Hours of Deliberation in Sprague Trial. Bu United Press FT. WAYNE. Ind., March 12. After nineteen hours of deliberating in the case of F. Guy Sprague, charged with the theft of SS,OOO worth of stock belonging to Dr. J. W. Bowers, the jury failed To reach a verdict at 10 a. m. today. Sprague ;s charged with grand larceny. Fifteen other indictments are pending against Sprague, who Is charged with having converted to his own use stock he had tfbught for clients.

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Millionaire Publisher Grilled Before Senate Oil Committee but Denies Any Connection With Naval Lease Scandal —Evades SIOO,OOO Loan

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FIRST SESSION OF DAUGHERTY TRIAL SCHEDULED TODAY Telegoanls of Late Jesse Smith, Suicide, Subpoenaed in Inquiry. By lnited Press WASHINGTON. March 12—The Daugherty investigating committee will hold Its first open session at 4 p. m. today. Senator Ilrookhart, Republican, lowa, announced. By l nitrd Press WASHINGTON. March 12.—The Daugherty ' investigating committee today ordered telegraph companies to produce all telgj-ams received and sent by Jesse 14mlth. friend of the attorney general, who committed suicide in Daughfcty's apartment. In making this Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, who has 'charge of the Investigation, said the committee had taken up anew line and indicated the relations of Daugherty and Smith might prove pertinent to the probe.

Investigate Bootleggihg Investigation of bootlegging activities in the Capitol and'elsewhere, efforts to secure pardons and paroles for bootleggers and,the doling out of Federal patronage will be gone into first by the committee. Wheeler indicated. lie refused to go into any detail regarding his purpose in calling for the Smith telegrams. Showing up at' his office after a mysterious twenty-four-hour absence, Wheeler today was accompanied by three persons' identified to Inquirers simply as Mr. Fink. Mr. Sterner and Mr. Stinson. They went Into his office with him. Asa result of the change in plans, the open hearing may not start until Friday. Wheeler wants more time to get new facts In shape for presentation. Closeted With Brookbart Immediately upon arriving at his office.. Wheeler was closeted wlfh Senator Brookhart, lowa, chairman of the committee and A. B. Melzer of Butte Mont., who will assist .Wheeler at the open hearings. After the conference, Wheeler said he “doubted very rrhjch” if the committee now would proceed first with investigation of the Department of .Justice’s alleged interference in the Cantu revolution of 1921.” JUDGE CONVICTS MAN OF BIGAMY Herbert Bush Found Guilty of Double Marriage, Herbert Bush, 29, w-as found guilty of bigamy in Crminal Court today. Evidence showed ftts first and second wives were, respectively, Emma McCoy, 1414' Lee St., and Catherine W. Doyle. 708 N. Elder Ave. Bush will be sentenced following annulment of the second marriage and granting of a divorce in the first, according to Judge James A. Collins. License Drive Resumed Police resumed a drive today on persons falling to have city licenses for various businesses and trucking wagons. Nineteen wera_slated at city prison. Failure to have State auto certificates was charged against four.

Oil Trail Grows Hot E. B. McLean, publisher, denies acquaintance of Dolieny and Sinclair and says lie never had any official dealings with A. B. Fall. Senator Lenroot resigns as chairman of the Senate oil committee. Senator Ladd, North Dakota, progressive, succeeds him. McLean admits Fall urged him to tell Senate committee false "torv of SIOO,WO loan to former Secretary of Interior. Coolidge withholds anqouncement of successor to Secretary o£ Navy Denby. Appointee is in "Washington, however. Senator Brookhart, chairman of Daugherty investigating committee, asks broader powers for committee. Bootlegging activities in "Washington will be aired in connection with Daughefty probe. / Robert W\ Stewart, chairman of board of director of Standard Oil Company of Indiana, denies conference with all, Sinclair* and others at Fall’s New Mexico ranch. I By PAUL R. MALLON, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 12.—Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, asked E. B. McLean to tell the Senate oil committee the false story he recited concerning his SIOO,OOO loan, McLean revealed today under cross-examination when he took the stand. Fall called McLean to Atlantic City and asked him to say the SIOO,OOO loan was made in cash, McLean said. “He told me it had nothing to do with Teapot Dome,” McLean added. It was in acceding to this request from an old friend who was plainly ill that he got himself involved in the oil scandal, McLean said. He denied, with all the emphasis he could command, he was involved in any other wav. Showing signs of deep nervousness, the millionaire publisher of the Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer, appealed to the committee not to question him about irrelevant matters, as he sought to explain the flood of code messages that recently have featured the committee hearings. He expressed regret he had not the foresight to steer clear of the matter, saying if he had been wise he would be away from it than Falls ranch is.” In March, 1923, he said he bought 2.000 shares of Bethlehem Steel and sold in the following December loss of approximately $30,000.

Loss in Steel Stock “This loss was entirely mine,” McLean said. “I have never been interested in the purchase of any Sinclair or Doheny stock directly or indirectly, by which I mean I have never made any such purchase nor have I had any interest in any such purchases made by any one at any time.” McLean indicated he told his first story about lending SIOO,000 to Fall merely because Fall was a personal friend. McLean declared the many telegrams which passed between him and his agents were purely personal and had no connection with the investigation. McLean’s statement in part follows: “I have absolutely no knowledges of leases upon naval reserves made at any time to any person or any company except such knowledge as I, in common with all the rest of the American public, have received from newspaper reports. Ignorant of Sinclair Leases. “As to the so-called Sinclair leases and companies: “I have never known anything about any lease of any oil lands to the Sinclair company and know nothing about this except what I have read in the newspapers, “In a word, I had no knowledge of or connection with Mr. Sinclair’s oil leases or his companies or his business transactions. “1 do not know Edward L. Doheny and so far as I am aware, I have never seen him in my life. I did not know he had any connections with any leases upon naval oil reserves until I read them in the newspapers. “Former Secretary Albert B. fall has for several years been a personal friend of mine. My relations with him have, however, been personal and never official. I have never at any time had any official transaction with the Interior Department of the United States Government. Knowledge of Denby Slight “As regards the Ntcy Department and Secretary Denby, I can say the same as I have said already about the Interior Department. i\lv personal acquaintance with Secretary Denby has been a very slight one. The newspapers which I am connected with may have carried some Government advertising, but, of course, it would be recognized this is a matter not handled by me personally. ’ ’ Walsh began examination of McLean after the statement was finished. “Do you care to make any statement in connection with your alleged loan of SIOO,OOO to Fall?” “No, sir.” “Have you made search for stub checks for the $100,000?” “Yes, sir, but I have not found them.” “There never were any checks, were there?” “No, sir—what? Os course there were just as 1 told you.” Saw Fall at Seaside “Where and when did you see Secretary Fall before going to Palm Beach?” “In Atlantic City.” “How did you come to"go there?” “At request of Mrs. Fall over the phone. First I think I got a telegram from Secretary Fall from Chicago or Cleveland. Then there was a lapse. I know Mrs. Fall called, saying Mr. Fall wanted to see me very much, that .he was very run down. I told hsr ( (Continued on Page Uj

Forecast CLOUDY tonight and Thursday, probably snow by Thursday night. Not much change in temperature. Lowest tonight near freezing.

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