Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 260

LATE PRESIDENT HARDING LINKED IN . DAUGHERTY TRIAL Senator Upshaw Declares Getfrge Remus Lives in Luxury at Atlanta, WOMAN REVEALS ‘DEALS’ Secret Conference at White House Recalled by Senate Committee, By FRANK GETTY United Press Staff Correspondent I WASHINGTON. Fareh 13.—A reported White House conference attended by Attorney General Daugherty, E. L. Doheny, Harry Sinclair and the late President Harding was being investigated today by the Senate committee Investigating the department of Justice. According to the story told the committee, Daugherty, Sinclair and Doheny spent the night preceding f' esse Smith’s death at the White louse, Daugherty, it was recalled today, was at the White House eating breakfast when the news of his friend Smith’s suicide was broken to him. Pending the clearing up of this report, the committee prepared today to continue questioning of Mrs. Roxie Stinson. Smith's divorced wife, who Wednesday began her testimony. Would Shield Smith Senator Wheeler said Mrs. Stinson had “not begun to tell her full story.” She desires as far as possible to shield Smith's name. She was prepared to tell, one committee member said. that Smith, when he died, had $65,000 in Liberty bends. The man who gave Smith the bonds was said to be known to the committee and to bo prepared to tes tlfy.

Representative Upshaw. Georgia, today demanded the committe probe alleged favoritism to wealthy prisoners at Atlantg penitentiary, Upshaw Mud he had been informed ::a millionaire bootlegger George Remus, from TThcinnatl,” was being allowed to live in luxury In the prison. If this were true, Upshaw' said, he believed it was being done under orders from Washington. Story Is Sketchy The story as told thus far by Mrs. Smith, who was divorced from Smith but remained an Intimate friend to the time of his suicide, was a sketchy one. Bhe touched lightly upon mysterious “deals” of which she had apparently intimate knowledge,, especial ly regarding the profits, in oil and auteraehile stocks, in which she shared. Bhe alleged, under prompting by Senator Wheeler: That Jesse Smith “adored” Harry Daugherty and gave “his life” for the Attorney General That Smith, coming to Washington after the election of President Harding, became involved in a ma w of intrigue from which in the end he found such self-destruction the only escape. That Smith and Daugherty were Involved in a “deal” concerning exhibition of the Dempsey-Carpent.er Qght pictures which was to net them a profit of slßo,*>oo. That she herself was given 26 shares of White .Motors stock which, her ex-husband told her. “didn’t cost us anything.”

- Gives Her Oil Stock That at another time sjje received l 27 shares of Pure 0.1 stock, likewise obtained “without cost.” That Smith, proprietor of a department store in Washington Court House, Ohio, ammassod a considerable fortune after coming to Washington. That the dead man was constantly harassed by persons seeking "patronage' because of his Intimacy with the attorney genera!. Through all her--lory. broken by solie. Mrs. Smith stressed the close friendship of Smith and Daugherty and Insisted what involved one involved the other. GREATER SAFETY IN NINES URGED McCulloch Advocates More Compensat : on. * Hit Times Special SOUTH BUND. Ind., March 13. Mensures for greater safety for workmen in mines were advocated by Dr. Carleton B, McCulloch (it Indianapolis, candidate for the Democratic nomination tot Governor, in a speech .here this afternoon. | “Neither politics nor statesmanship should be the guiding motive looking toward the greater safety of miners,” he said. “It should come from a motive of common hSpian.ty. Lives are scarcer than dollars.” Dr. McCulloch also advocated an increase in compensation paid miners in case of Injury. * HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 30 10 a. m.. 38 T a. n0 —,.... 31 11 a. m. 34 • ■ m. 32 12 (noon) ...... 35 • a. M 1 y. 34

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REICHSTAG IS DISSOLVED Failure to Agree on Ordinances Responsible for Action. s Bv United Press - BERLIN, March 13.—The Reichstag was dissolved this afternoon. The immediate cause of the dissolution is due to inability to achieve a working arrangement for its ordinances without a state of siege. Anew election May 11 is expeoted to show a reactionary trend with the Nationalists sweeping the countr^. BLAST VICTIMS BURIED i Bodies of 131 Are Recovered From Utah Coal Mine. Bv United Press CASTLE GATE, Utah, March 13. | Burial of victims of the explosion in | mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel Company | started today. Many were buried in the little cemeI tery on a hillside just above the workings where the men lost their lives. Bodies of 131 have been recovered today. TAXPAYERS FILL OFFICES Two Days Left in Which to Make Income Returns. With only two more days in which : to make Income tax returns, offices Os M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue, were crowded today with taxpiyers. To accommodate the rush the ofI flees will be kept open from 7 to 9 p. m. until Saturday, the final day. In case returns are made by‘ mall, those ppstmarked March 15 will be accepted.

LOSER SEEKS NEW TRIAL Mrs. Byfleld Alleges Faulty Charge in $100,060 Suit Against Candler. Bv I nited .\ei es N ATLANTA, Ga., March 13.—Judge Hutcheson Wednesday set April 12 as, the date for the hearing of the motion for anew trial filed by attorneys for Mrs. Sarah Byfleld, recent loser of a SIOO,OOO damage suit against Walter T. Candler. Atlanta capitalist. The motion for anew trial alleges a faulty charge to the Jury was made by Judge Hutcheson, before whom the case was tried. WRONG PERSON WAITING Escaped Prisoner Faced by Detective Instead of Girl. Bv United Press CHICAGO, March 13.—William L. Doyle, 46, who escaped from the Gary. Ind., prison farm two days ago was captured by Detectives Rogers of Gary ae ‘ he waited for Syreena O'Brien to meet him In the La Salle Street Station here. The detective was forced to draw a gun and struggle with Doyle before hundreds of early morning commutora ’ Doyle, who has a wife and two children, had called Miss O'Brien. Instead of talking to Syren a. he talked to her mother who informed police. CREDITS BOLSTER FRANC 1 French Currency Opens Steady With Big Gain. Bv United Press ” PARIS. March 13.—France has overcome, at least temporarily, threat Xo her currency. The franc opened steady today with the dollar quoted at 23 francs, 30 centimes and the pound sterling at 99 francs 80 centimes. The rise followed announcement that Important credits have been establish In foreign banking centers to defend the franc from international speculators.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Addison Howe Wins High Honor at Hhortridge Higli School. Following In the footsteps 6f their father, Thomas C. Howe, 30 Audubon Pi., former pres.dent of Butler University. Addison and Thomas Howe are winning high honors in education. Addison has just received the highest average of any boy in this year's senior class at Shortridge High School, for the four-year course. Two years ago, Addison’s brother, Thomas, received tha same honor. Recently he received the John Harvard scholarship st Harvard University. 24 OF 'CREto MISSING Coast Guard Cutter Searches for Survivors of Lost Liner Santiago. By United Frcss NORFOLK, Va., March 13.—The Coast guard cutter Manning prowled the waters off Cape Hatteraa today searching for survivors ot the Ward liner Santiago, which sank Wednesday. The Manning reported nd success, and It is believed the Norwegian steamer Cissy, which picked up eleven members of the Santiago crew, lias all those saved. Twenty-four members of the crew still are missing. The Cissy is expected to put into Baltimore around noon. ARTHUR BALL TO SPEAK 1 iPglonnaires of Fourth Convene at Greensburg March 22-23. By Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., March 13. American Legion posts in the Fourth Congressional District will gather here for their semi-annual convention March 22-23, it was announced today by Ernest Elder, district committeeman. The conference opens a week’s membership campaign in the district. State Commander Arthur Ball of Muncie, State Adjutant Frank H. Henley. and C. Willard Cooper of Boston, national publicity director of the Le glon, will auoalw.

ILL-FATED AUTO BACK IN CUSTODY OF AUTHORITIES # * Car in Which Evelyn Johnson Was Arrested ‘Bobs Up' Again, / _ * TOWING BOOZE CHARGED * ** Owner, Who Bought Vehicle at Sheriff’s Sale, Sells It to Burnetts, Investigation by the sheriff’s office today of ownership of t.he Marmon automobile seized by police near Clermont, Ind., Wednesday night, showed it to be the same car sold at sheriff's sale Feb. 29. Lawrence Burnett, 26, and hii? brother Joseph, 24. of 2063 Central Ale., were arrested. Police slate shows a charge of transporting liquor. Police said the automobile was towing a truck bearing 280 gallons of alcohol when seized Wednesday night. Seized In January The same car was seized in January when police said Miss Evelyn Johnson. 21, of Clinton, Ind., was found in it with a large quantity of liquor. The car then bore certificates of title in name of Mrs. Loretta Burnett Stammer, sister of Lawrence Burnett. Judge Collins ordered the car sold. Thomas McNulty, deputy towtfship assessor, told the court he held an SBOO mortgage on it. When no other bids were received he bought it at the sheriff's sale to protect his lien. McNulty Explains McNulty explained the fact that the Burnetts had the car Wednesday thus: “I sold that car to the Burnetts the other day They kept after me for a saie and I let them it for SI,OOO. The Burnetts'paid S4OO cash and still owes me S6OO. I couid not give them title as I had not received my certificate from the Statehouse until Wednesday and did not see them all day." McNulty said he had no knowledge of what the Burnetts used the car for. ( -■ Police did not capture a man who ran from the car at the time Miss Johnson was arrested. She is serving a. six months term for, as Judg'e Collins put it, “lending her pretty Lice as camouflage to a bootlegger." Federal officers ordered timer Burnetts and Frank Wolfe. 22. of 1038 Chadwick St., said to have been with them, held without bond.

DOUBLE SAFETYCHECK INTENDED Conductors May Be Required to Remind Motormen, Interurban conductors will be required to remind motormen of orders to meet other cars when within 2.000 1 feet of the meeting piace if provisions of an order drafted by Commissioner > Samuel R. Ar;man are adopted by the public service commission.- The provision will be State wide and is Included in the general order on safety grown g cut of the Fortville wreck on the Union Traction line, Feb. 2. The plan would provide a check to prevent running past meeting points, it was stated. It lias been charged one of the crews in the Foftville tragedy misunderstood and ran past, the meeting point. lOWA JURIST MAY ACCEPT NAVY POST Judge Kenyon Named to Succeed Den by, By United Press WASHINGTON. March 13.—William S. Kenyon, lowa, judge of the Eighth United States Circuit, is believed to have accepted the post of Secretary of the Navy in President Coolidgo's cabinet. After a forty-minute conference with the President today Kenyon, on leaving the White House, said he would issue a statement today. The President, he said, also would have a ment. Senator Borah, Idaho, ff close friend of Kenyon, was called to the ' White House as lAnyon left. The purpose of this summons was not known. “Will your statement be issued about the time nominations are sent to the Senate?” Kenyon was asked. “Probably Just about that,” he replied. Borah was with the President only a few minutes. He cast doubt on acceptance by Kenyon of the Navy post, though he refused to say anything definite about it. t “Kenyon knows more about a law book than a warship,” Borah remarked. Horses Struck by Truck A team of horses driven by Andy Campbell, 62S Oxford St., was struck by a truck at St. Joseph and Alabama Sts., today. Purcy Graves, 18, of 341 N. Drexel Ave., driver, was arrested.

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It may snow again, but— Spring is right around the comer! Every boy a.nd girl In Indianapolis knows that means the marble season is here. The Times conduct another city marble tournament this year. Every boy and girl in Indianapolis under 15 years of age is eligible to enter. Elimination games will be held in each neighborhood as they were last year. ✓ The winners of these games will become sectional winners and will play in the city tournament for the Indianapolis championship. The city champion will be sent to Atlantic City for a week as a guest of The Times —all expenses paid—just as was Rosa Beaver, last year’s champion. The National tournament, In which various Scripps-Howard newspapers will send champions from their respective cities, will be held In Atlantic City in June. The Indianapolia champion will play champions of other cities for the |v T ationhl crpwn. Last year a boy from Columbus, Ohio, won the championship, but The Times believes Indianapolis marble players are Just as good as those In Columbus. Tret’s show them this year. Besides the Atlantic City trip, there will be other prizes to be announced later. Rules will be printed later. Watch The Times every day. All you have to do to eriter—ihe contest is to fill out the coupon published In today's Times and send it or bring it to the Marble Editor at The Times office, 214JT20 W. Maryland St. Let’s go!

PLANS FOR CITY LIGHTING DRAWN Ten-Year Contract to Be Awarded Soon, Preliminary specifications for the qity’s new lighting contract have been drawn in the engineer’s office. The contract is for ten years, starting April 1, 1025. Bids will be asked on single and double unit types of lighting downtown. John L. Elliott, city engineer, said he would favor lamp posts supporting two lights in the downtown district, with single lights on other streets. Elliott recently surveyed lighting in larger cities. The regular specifications are expected to be completed late next week. Law provides that the new contract be let one year in advance of expiration of the old. Street lighting costs the city approximately $301,000 a year. FAMILY ESCAPES MORNING BLAZE Neighbors Arouse Occupants of Fred E, Looney Home, Fir* which partially destroyed a vacant house at 2042 Linden St., early today spread to the home of Fred E. Looney, 2044 Linden St., and damaged it SIOO. The Looney family was awakened by a neighbor soon after the fire was discovered, and made a safe exit. Origin of the fire has not beer, determined. Damages to the vacant bouse was about S7OO. * v

Come Irito Times Contest All you have to do to enter The Times Marble Tournament is to fill out this coupon and bring or mail it to the Marble Editor at The Times office. 214-220 W. Maryland St. The winner of the city tournament will be sent to Atlantic City by The Times. Name /. Address Age School ,

NEW STREET CAR READS FAVORED Brightwood Club for Higher Fare With Reseravtions. Opposition to increased street car fares as long as the Indianapolis Street is under the present management was expressed in a resolution sent to the city council today by the McClainsville Improvement Association. The financial condition of the company is such, the resolution declared, that any fare increase would be opposed until anew management is in charge. The Brightwood Civic League aa proved a “fair increase in fare’’ wltn some reservations. The resolution was adopted at a meeting at the Brightwood Y. M. C. A. Wednesday night following a talk by M. E. Foley, attorney for the Indianapolis, Street Railway Company. At the same time the organizations suggested a supervisory body be appointed. to take care of disposal of funds obtained from a irate increase. BRIGHTWOOD CARS IN READ-ON CRASR Accident Occyrs on Roosevelt Ave,, Near Ingram St, Two cars crashed, head-on, today after an in-bound car in charge of John Palmer, 736 N. Now Jersey St., motorman, passed a switch on Roosevelt Ave.. between Holloway and Langley Sts., street railway officials said. L. O. McDaniels, 3040 N. Sherman Dr., passenger on the out-bound car, suffered a cut finger, the only casualty. Palmer said the outbound car, in charge of Bert Alexander, motorman, was late. The cars were supposed to meet at the switch. Palmer continued on in. Alexander said he saw a light in the signal box, but thought it might be the br.ght sun shining t in, according to William Barrett, supervisor. He continued around a sharp curve where the cars collided. WINKLER IS CANDIDATE Federal Prohibition Group Chief in Race for Sheriff. George Winkler, group chief of Federal prohibition agents, today announced his cinldidacy for the Republican nomination for sheriff. Winkler gathered a large part of the evidence used in the Gary conspiracy case last year, which resulted in conviction of Mayor It. O. Johnson of Gary and more than fifty other residents and officials of Lake County. Before becoming a Federal prohibition officer he was a member of the Indianapolis police foredi for ten years, rising to the rank of lieutenant.

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CITY VACCINATION j ORDER CONSIDERED Fifty-Three Cases of Smallpox Reported in March, Fifty-three cases of smailpox have been reported in March, Dr. -Herman T. Morgan, seerotary of the city health 5 board, said today. He said a general i vaccination order for all school children is considered. The disease is prevalent in all parts of the city. Doctors are vaccinating many school children. Manufacturers have been askld to see that their employes are vaccinated. RIKHOFF PREPARES POLICE NEED LIST Chief intends to Show Why He Wants More Men, A list of the 534 police department employes with their respective duties, calculated to show the need for 100 or more new policemen, will be completed early next wee If, Police Chief Rikhoff safd. Many of the 534 are janitors! carpenters, electricians, policewomen and general utility employes. The safety board contemplates adding twenty-five new men. tflikhoff has asked for a minimum of 100. Some police officers say 200 are needed to meet requirements. Oscar Queisser, Rikhoff s secretary, said the present force is 116 men short iff the 1921 figure and that that force was t6o small. BUFFALO HU NT STAGED Fifty Farmers Help Capture Animate Escaped From Quarters. By United Press MUNCIE, Ind., March 13.—Three buffalo w hich scaped from their quarters at the Frink Motor Speedway, near here, ware captured after a real buffalo hunt in whiph fifty farmers joined.^ The animals floundered around in the deep snow and had to be hauled back to thejr pens by means of ropes. ARTHUR HINES CHOSEN Cambridge City Superintendent Named Head of Wayne County Schools. By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., March 13.—Arthur Hines, superintendent of the Cambridge City schools, was chosen head of Wayne .County public schools at a meeting of the board of education today. Hines succeeds C. O. Williams, superintendent fourteen years, who recently resigned to become permanent secretary of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. Wayne County has had only seven superintendents if! forty-nine years.

Sim MENTIONED IN eOVERNNENT SUE ASKING MSB OF TEAPOT LEASE Federal Attorneys Pomerene and Roberts Make Sensational Charges of Illegal and Fraudulent Dealings in Dome Contract to Sinclair—Declare Harding Transfer Order Was Invalid. PROSECUTORS SAY DENBY EXERCISED NO DISCRETION Conspiracy and Secret Meetings With • Oil Magnates Hurled Against Fall —lnjunction Asked of District Court to Prevent Further Drilling or Taking of Crude From the Wells. Bv United Press CHEYENNE, MTyo., March 13.—Charges of illegal and fraudulent dealing in the leasing of Teapot Dome naval oil reserve to Harry P. Sinclair, were •made in a suit filed today in T nited States District Court, asking that the contract be canceled. , Attorneys At lee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, representing the Government, filed the petition, which included allegation that John C. Shaffer, newspaper publisher, was to receive certain laijds from Sinclair through intercession of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior. The petition made these charges: 1 — That the order of President Harding transferring Teapot Dome naval reserve was invalid, illegal and was known to be so by Fall and Sinclair at the time the lease was made. 2 That the order jvas obtained from the President by Fall on false representations so he could deal with lands not to public benefit. 3 -That Fall and Sinclair conspired to defraud the United States by execution of the lease. 4 That negotiation and conclusion of the lease was a private secret. 5 That in contradiction to the law, the lease of April 7, 1922,'-was awarded without advertisement or competitive bidding and as a result the contract was illegal. 6 That Secretary of the Navy Denby took no part in the negotiations and affixed his signature merely as an attempt to evidence his compliance and exercised no discretion in its making. 7 That other persons and corporations, among which were the Texas Company, Pioneer Company, E. L. Doheny and Leo Stack, wanted to obtain she lease and Fall denied the opportunity and discouraged bidding. 8— That Fall, although question was raised as to legality of the lease, refused to take the opinion of the solicitor of the Interior Department or the Attorney General. 9 That Fall secretly communicated with Sinclair to the effaot he would not make the lease unless and until Sinclair produced a quit-claim deed to all mining claims asserted to be oil lands; that Fall knew these claims were worthless and himself expressed such belief; that by connivance. Fall and Sinclairs arranged for Sinclair to produce the deeds; that Fall fraudulently and with ihtent to stifle competition, said Sinclair was acting under his advice when he obtained the deeds. 10— That Fall agreed with John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Indianapolis Star, Chicago Post, Rocky Mountain News, Denver Times and other newspapers,, that he would see that Sinclair should set apart, certain lands for 11 — That Fall and Sinclair conspired to defraud the United States.

The Government attorneys asked the court to take the following action: 1— To issue an injunction temporarily until final hearing restraining the Mammoth Oil Company from further drilling or performing work under contract or order of any department of the United States pursuant to agreement of Feb. 9, 1923. (Pip® line Ifnd tank agreement.) 2 appoint a receiver to take possession of all property of the defendant of oil and gas produced; to sell the same at his discretion and keep the funds pending final court order. 3To enter decree declaring agreements of April 7 and Feb. 9 to be void. , 4To order the defendant to surrender agreements to proper officers for cancellation. 5 That the court issue a decree asking the defendant to make full account of all oil produced, under the agreement and that judgment be rendered for the amount shown to be due.^ Roosevelt Declares Fall Ordered U. S. Marines to Eject “Squatters” on Dome By United Press WASHINGTON, March 13.—Albert B. Fall, as Secretary of Interior, issued the order on which the Navy Department sent Marines to Teapot Dome in 1922 to eject “squatters,” Theodore Roosevelt, acting Navy Secretary, and Mkjor General John A. Lejune, told oil committee today. They revealed how Fall overrode objections by President Harding and a protest of “a friend” of the President against use of armed force. While Lejune and Roosevelt were being questioned, Senat >: Walsh announced newjfinformation had reached him concerning the charge that the secretaryship of the interior was to be bartered for votes .at the 1920 Republican national convention. Walsh immediately issued a series of subpoenaes for persona, (Continued on Page t) *

Forecast MOSTLY cloudy, with probably snow late tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature. Lowest tonight near freezing.

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