Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 106

LEOPOLD AND LOEB GET LIFE

SENATORCOUZENS TAKES LEAD IN PRIMARY BATTLE After Trailing Chief Opponent, Independent Republican Forges Ahead in Important Race, COUNTY VITAL Plurality of 18,000 Shown With Friendly Precincts to Be Heard From. By United Press DETROIT. Sept. 10. Senator .lames Couzens candidate for reelection slid Into the lead today on the strength of an overwhelming majority for him in Detroit and Wayne County. With two thirds of the State's precincts in Couzer.s had a plurality of nearly 20.000 over his principal opponent. Judge Arthur J. Tutle in the Republican primaries. Out of 2,765 precincts in the State. 1,871 gave Couzens 222.104: Tutle, 208.117: Smith. 24.624; Tussing, 22,918. Couzens’ plurality. 18.967. Tutle has a lead of 24,000 outside Detroit, with 7 per cent of the upstate precincts reporting, Couzer.s’ plurality in Wayne County Is nearly 48,000, with 65 per cent of the county precincts heard from. BANDIT USES NEW IDEA Tries to Jimmy Cash Register While I Attendant Changes Oil In Auto. Police today failed to And any trace of a bandit who attempted to Jimmy the cash register at the National Refining Company filling station at Chester Ave. and E. Washington Bt.. while Charles Jacobs, 1407 Under. Bt., attendant, was changing the oil In th? man’s car. Utter Jacobs saw the bandit's car and notified police. Sergeant Reilly found the car. reported stolen from Albert Fanagan, 520 X. Meridian Bt., on Riley Ave., near Washington St.

NO COAL; PUPILS ARE SENT 001 Four-Room Portable at I School 46 Is Closed, Seventy-seven children were sent home from School 46, at 1358 Reisner St., today because their was no coal with which to heat the fourroom portable building. About 500 children In the main building of the school were kept lit rlfianes. The custodian made a fire of scrap wood and kindling and took the chill off of the structure. However, the portable Is heated fcy steam pipes running underground from the main building and It was Impossible to generate steam. At the school board office It was admitted the general coal contract j was not signed until Aug. 21, due to prolonged consideration by Commissioners Charles E. Barry and Fred Bates Johnson, the coal committee. This gave the contracting companies only about two weeks before school ! opened In which to make deliveries. It was said It was Impossible to serve all schools In such short time. • ■> _ MAYOR PASSES BUCK Market Congestion Referred'tt> Board of Safety. Relieving congestion of stands on the city market will be before the hoard of safety Tuesday, it was indicated today, after Mayor Shank admitted to delegation of stand owners that “the problem was beyond him” The mayor expressed his opposition to the proposed market house improvements costing 5190.000, but said he had not decided on a veto, should the council authorize the bond issue. Carlin Shank Is Cleared Charges of assault and battery against Carlin Shank. R. R. H., Box 241. brother of Mayor Shank, filed following an accident in which his auto struck Fred Everitt, R. R. J., Box 459. were dismisse din city court today. Shank said he was blinded by glaring haedlights and did not see Everitt. The accident happened eapt of Sherman Dr., on TwentyFirst St., Sept. 1. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m..-... 42 10 a. m 51 7 a. m..£'.. 45 11 a. n, 54 8 a. m 47 1? (oon) .... 1,6 i c

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Glad —But Silent

By I'nited Press CHARLEVOIX. Mich., Sept. 10. —Glad their son had escaped the gallows, but mourning him as dead, the parents of Richard Loeb remained in confinement today when news of their son s sentence to life imprisonment for the murder of Robert reached them. Charlevoix rallied to protect Albert H. Loeb, vice president of Sears-Roebuck & Cos., from an inquisitive world.

GUY WIRE SAVES LIFE Motorist Arrested When Car Drives Over Enbanknient. A guy wire, used in the construction of the new Delaware St. bridge, probably was the only reason Russell Mansfield, 2314 X. Delaware St., was alive today. Mansfield drove his car through the red light warning on Fall Rlvd. Tuesday night, his machine stopping with two front wheels nanging over the bank. The guy wire held the car. He was slated on charges of drunkenness and driving a car while intoxicated. EIGHT DRIVERS SLATED Motorists Face Speeding Charges in City Court Eight men were slated on speeding charges Tuesday night. They gave names as: Luther McGee. 28. of 815 Euclid Ave.; Edward Handlon, 23. of 2615 Bellefontaine St.: Cecil Arthur, 31, of 17 W. Brook St.; Marion Swails, 20. of Clermont. Ind.: John Barbee. 33. colored, of 2855 X. Xew Jersey St.; Frank Madden. 35. of 2855 X. Xew Jersey St., and William Gehrlein, 32, of 950 E. Fiftieth St., also charged with failure to stop after an accident. FLIERS’ HOP DELAYED Will I .eave Washington for Dayton Saturday. By fnited Pn ss WASHINGTON’, Sept. 10—The 'round-the-world fliers' hop to Dayton. scheduled for tomorrow, was today ordered deferred un’il Saturday by Secretary of War Weeks in order to enable the airmen to participate in the Defense day ceremonies here. Nelson's ship, forced down in a Maryland field within sight of the capitol dome Tuesday afternoon by stripped timing gears, was to be brought to Bolling Field today. Anew engine was sent over to Lieut. John Harding. Jr.. Nelson's mechanic, and it will be installed in time to bring the ship here for an early hop off Thursday. MYSTERY GEM THEFT !. of $250,000 Necklace Reported to Police. By United Press PARIS. Sn . 10.—“-The mystery of the liigges Paris robbery in years was somewhat cleared up today when Sheldon Whitehouse of the American embassy issued a statement on behalf of the victim, Mrs. M P. Saveli of Xew York, who lost a necklace of pearls valued at $250,000. The necklace was insured for J 200.000 and represented a life-long collection and inheritance. Whitehouse issued his statement at the request of Mrs. Saveli.

PRINCE HAS ‘SHINER’ \Vaies Wears Smoky Glasses But Rivals the Milkman Again. Hu Lnitrd Press SYOSSET, L. 1.. Sept. 10.—The Prince of Wales although suffering from a badly inflamed eye, had* another night out last night. He attended a dinner given by Harrison Williams at his estate at Glencoe and danced until an early hour. The Prince will attend a dinner and dance in his honor at Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt estate near Jericho tonight. The Prince had to wear smoked glasses today and it was feared he may have a black eye. DEFENSE DAY CLOSING Half-Holiday Ordered at Courthouse by Commissions. No marriage licenses will be issued or law' suits filed, courts will not be open and taxes can't be paid Friday afternoon, because county commissioners today ordered the courthouse closed at noon for Defense day. Judge Janies A. Collins said Criminal Court will be closed all day. Although other courts may close the entire day, offices of county clerk, treasurer, auditor and recc rder will not close until noon. Ayres Returns From P'rance Better day- are in store for Europe Frederick M. Ayres, president of L. S. Ayres & Cos., predicted following a vacation accompanied i by Mrs. Ayres and their two children. They visited England, France and Norway since July. “.Match” Bandit Suspect Held Jackson Wiggins, colored,- of 630 W. Vermont St., has been identified as the “burne-1 match” burglar who has been operating in the west side, polio ■ y. Wi ins was arrested on Aug. “r he war shot by John Re • - \Y North St., who fired th’- : i re: r door when he heard ft ; . v ..

Loeb and his wife have been at their summer home here since early in the season and will not return to Chicago for several weeks, according to friends of the family. Newspaper correspondents were the only persons to venture near the castle-like Loeb summer home when news of Justice John R. Caverly’s i“judge and jury ’ verdict reached Charlevoix. They were told Mr. and Mrs. Loeb would see no one.

RAIN SOAKED BATTLE FIELDS BALI FIGHTING Chinese Troops Await Better Weather for Hostilities —Marines on Guard. By United Press SHANGHAI. Sept. 10. —The thousand international troops stood guard tod'iy along the boundary of the foreign settlement while the armies of the rival Chinese war lords rested on their arms in the rainsoaked battlefields, awaiting better weather before resuming hostilities. Despite the nearness of the fighting, the Americans and other foreigners in Shanghai are confident that Gen. Chi Heieh Yuan will not permit their quarter to be attacked even if In captures the city. Xo one is greatly worried, except over the possibility of leaderless and defeated troops of General Lu's army pouring pell-mell into the settlement in case of rout. The Marines have taken every possible precaution at the barricades and strengthened th.e boundary’s defenses at weak points. Mobilizes Troops By United Press LONDON Sept. 10.—Gen. Chang Tso Liu, Manchurian dictator, has started molihization of his military forces, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Mukden. BANDIT SAVED BV OWN BUDDIES Tie Marshal to Tree With His Handcuffs, Bu I nited Press CHICAGO. Sept. 10.—Seizing W. Lee Rapps, deputy I'nited States marshal and binding him to a tree with his own handcuffs, gangsters today freed John, alias Harry" Moran, wanted for a $35,000 postal robbery South St. Paul, on the road bdjween Sycamore, 111., and Chicago. The gangsters forced Papps’ machine to the roadside and pulled botlt out at the point of a gun. Passing motorists released Papps.

GILLETTE HAS EDGE Veteran Represent ative Out in Front for Senate. Hus niter! Press BOSTON. Sept. 10.—Frederick H. Gillette, speaker of, the House- of Representatives and a member of Congress for more than twenty years, was given the Republican nomination as United States Senator by- the voters of Massachusetts at the primaries held yesterday, according to incomplete returns today. Returns from 191 cities and towns out of 355, Boston included, gave Gillette 38.803 against 23,362 for Eouis A. Coolidge. his nearest competitor, and 18.676 for Frederick W. Dallinger. SCHOOL TO BE VISITED Third Floor of No. 2 Ordered Inspected hy Hilkene. An inspection of the condition of the third floor of Benjamin Harrison School. Walnut and Delaware Sts., was promised for Thursday by Jacob Hilkene. construction inspector for the Indianapolis school board, today. Owing to the crowded conditions at Short ridge High School, pupils have been using th eupper floor of the grade school building. The condition. which prevailed last year, is aggravated by the increase in enrollment expected at Shortridge this year. NEED GT'ilE TEACHERS E. 1. Graft Says H :;h School Instructors Vie Abundant. Indiana Normal schools do not produce enough good grade teachers to supply the State demand, E. IT. Graff, school superintendent, told the Real Estate Board it the Chamber of Commerce today. High school teachers are too abundant, be said. “While k is customary t> consider modern bui and ’c o 1 efficiency of adntinist a tier ■" h cation as most imporu'ib ' -• sential thing is education,” he

INDIAN APOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1924.

They Hear Sentence Pronounced

—f NATHAN LEOPOLD RICHARD LOEB

FIRST FEIOST OF SEASON FORMS | Light Here, Heavy in Northern Indiana. First frost of the season visited Indianapolis Tuesday night. And with it came the coldest day of the summer thus far. Frost was light in this vicinity, according to the weather bureau, it wtas general all over the State, anil in the extreme northern section frost was heavy. Royal Center, In I Cass County, reported a heavy frost i with a temperature of 32. Damage to crops by the frn-r could not be estimate : today. Tomatoes and corn were believed 10 | have suffered, although J. H. Ar mington, local meteorologist, said the effects would not be determined for several days. Temperature reached its low ebb at 6 a. m., with 42 degrees. It was not a record for chilliness for September. The thermometer was gradually climbing. Relief from the cold wave was pro ; dieted by Arming: on. Showers were j forecast late tonight or Thursday. ! with rising temperatures. The • her J rnometer will average Id* degrees ! higher Thursday, he stated. COSDEN REPORTS JEWEL ROBBERY $ 10Oj000 Theft in Wealthy Home on L, I, By t luted Press XEW Yf'RK. Sept. 10.— Detectives I investigating’ 'he SIOO,OOO jewel mbi bery in the home of J. S. Cosden, j oil millionaire, near Port Washington. L. 1., are today convinced the j theft was an mV'do affair. I Jewels were st Men Monday night j about the time met liters of ihe household were attending’ a party for 'l lo Prince of Wales. The ease was culled to the attention of poiVe today. Among the jewels stolen were valuable ones belonging' so Lady Louis Mountbatten, a me.vibor of the Prince's party. Part of ihe famous I Cosden jewel collection als't is missing. j BRR! ICE IN THE CLO'JDS Weather Bureau Explains II 'Jo Around Sun. Times readers Inday called attention to a “rainbow” around the sun. The weather bureau cal’ed it a halo. The sun's rays were shining through ice particles in the clouds, it was explained. Sun halos ire not unusual, the bureau stated. They occur about once a month. f Talking Machine Stolen Mrs. Bailie Hobbs, colored. 919 Colton Bt., reported a ?2(i'i talking machine and thirty records taken from her house. A colored man ,was seen taking the machine, police learned. Scout Court Tonight Boy Scout merit hang sand special honors will he awarded a .he Court so Honor at the library at 8 ! tonight. Welcome Home Pt A welcome for Donald k : ns is j being planned by IndianapiT Bov Scouts. Hawkins returns Sato da.> from International Scout Jamboree 4' Copenhagen. Denmark

Stores Open Tin Merchants Associate >J .oday announced that menibe stores will not close Friday, Defense day. The stores have been requested by the association to decorate in observance of the day.

'DIVINE DIVORCE’ IS INEFFECTIVE /Evangelist’ Is Fined as Lazy Husband. Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth in city court vOduy 'don’t take . Frank Bugl > of St. Loui: , youthful “wandering evangelist." that "God | had freed him from his wife,” and fined Buglo SSO and costs on a lazy husband charge. Mrs. Alda Buglo. IS, his wife, testified that her husband told her that ! it was wrong to live with her In view of "divorce’’ Jenovah had granted him. and for that reason refused to give her any money. He also told her. she said, of other girls who were |"crazy about him." Buglo testified that his wife was j mean to him and kicked him out of j bed amKthat he would rather stay in jail than go back to her. Winfrey SmeUinges, brother of Mrs. Buglo, corroborated her testimony. j Mrs. Buglo has been living at 404 | X. Pine St., and her husband at 318 | Congress Ave. DISTRICT MEN NAMED I Progressives Name Men in Charge of Congressional Organizations. A. F. Bentley, La Follette State chairman, today announced the following men in charge of congressional district organizations: First and Second, A. E. Gordon, Terre Haute; Third and Fourth, J. j V Lechler. Ft. Wayne; Fifth. Percy | Head. Terre Haute: Sixth and | Eleventh. T. X. Taylor, Terre Haute: I Eighth, W. M. Davis, Muncie; Ninth and Twelfth, IT. W. Brown, Indianapolis; Tenth and Thirteenth. E. C. Kidd, Hammond. The Seventh District chairmanship will be supplied later. I These men will appoint their own | district chairmen. RESUME SAFETY TALKS

I Officers Show Acoldem Prevention Pictures at School 9. Visits to public schools to reor jgknize safety work among pupils were resumed today when Sergts. I T prry Smith and Jack O'Neal went to Schohl 9, Vermont and Delaware Sts., to give a safety talk and exhibit, Yi motion pictures on accident prevention. The visit also was to congratulate the school for winning the cup last vear for having the least acch.Vnts. Anew •''safety” movie is being made. Auto i'nhiries Fatal Hi/ / Prc** SHEERYVIEL Ac Ind . Sept. 10 Briton Garrison. 7A, of Smithland, is dead today from injuries received Tuesday when he wa'lied in front of an automobile. Boy. 3, Crushed by Auto Herbert McKim, 3, o;’ 840 W. Twenty-Ninth St., rap in fn'ot of an | automobile driven by Adolph Frey, to. of Ed’vardsvllle. 111., in fr vnt of •he McK'm home this afternoon. Gne wheel passed over the child. H.t is ; n city hospital in serious conditk'U. Frey was driving a wedding part>v

GOVERNOR FAVORS WHEELER ESTATE [ .r.ver Price Than $190,000 Is Desired, <4pl Pl ViOn of the Frank L. Wheeler estate, .west of Riverside Park on the Cold Bpring road as the site for the India Va. School for the Blind seemed ast '‘ rp d today, if a satisfactory- price ■ * n obtained. Following visit h >’ a committee of the Indiana polls Chamber of Commerce, 'headed by Henry L. Dithrner. president - * chamber. Governor Branch sa. be would make a lublic statement "" the situation .vithin n few days. Ho indicated that while the >iie was .satisfactory the price at which the pi ypert.i* has been offered to the State. V 190,000, is 1,0 high. The committee called on the Governor to protest again V the purchase. Following the conference Dithmer said that after u iderstanding the situation it wo; Md take strong arguments to eonvii tee him that the Wheeler estate of ,Uvcntyseven acres was not the proj ter location. GRAND JURY PROBES DEATH School Youths Called in Hazing Tragedy. By I nitrd Press HARTFORD CITY. Ind.. Bept. TO. —The Blackford County grand jury today began a probe of the killing of Raymond Morris, 18, by William Duff, 17, during a fight growing out of hazing of local high school freshmen. Eight high school hoys appeared before the grand jury. Morris intervened in the hazing when schoolboys seized his younger brother and challenged Duff to a fight. Duff knocked Morris down during the struggle and Morris suffered concussion of the brain, resulting in his death. I? is generally believed no indictment will be returned against Duff. BOBBERS AND BARBERS

Union Head Favors Admission of Women in Report. Recommendation that women barbers he admitted to the Journeyman Barbers International Union of America was made by James C. Shatiessy. president, at the international convention in session at the Athenaeum today. It was indicated the convention would approve their admittance. He favored higher membership dues, elimination of Sunday labor in nine States, eight hour day and child labor laws. Policy of the barbers’ union toward lad''- hair dressers was urged by officers at the convention today. The problem in many 'ities is becoming serious, union members said. Barber’s Wife Anxious Mrs. George W. Arnold of Lewisville. Ky., has written Indianapolis police to look for her husband, a barber, whom she has sought for three itror.);.; She said ftp Wa? 21 years oV wore a light gray suit, ha . ill and blue eyes. Po- •• '• he might be attending Ih convention.

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Youthful Slayers of Robert c ranks Will Be Rushed by Auto to Joliet, State Prison, Under Heavy Guard. JUDGE G'AVERLY RUSHES FROM COURTROOM AFTER SENTENCE Young Millionaires Show Gladness at Fate by Laughing and Shaking Hands—Order Hearty Meal Before Leaving. BY EDWARD C. X>ERR, United Press Staff Correspondent CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING, CHICAGO, Sept. 10.— The Leopold-Loeb murder drama was eon eluded with startling suddenness today, when within the space of fifteen minutes Justice John R. Caverlv sentenced the millionaire youths to life imprisonment for murdering Bobby Franks <t.L>d to ninety-nine years each for kidnaping their little victim. The State lias no appeal from the court's decision. The sentences constituted a complete victory for the defense, whose side fear was a sentene of death by hanging, as the offenses of murder and kidnapping are capital crimes in Illinois.

| Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard i Loeb, the youthful slayers, walked | into court today with faint smiles on J their faces, apparently confident of I life and walked out with smiles that were patently strained. Tears of joy trickled down the • grief-lined face of Nathan Leopold, I Sr. For several moments he sat ; slumped in his chair, unable to move. Foreman Leopold, brother of Naj than, and Allen Loeb, brother of | Richard, rushed forward to shake the hands of the youths, but the guards rushed their charges from the courtroom a half minute after sentence was pronounced. Rapid Work Justice Caverly made rapid work of the opinion and sentences. He pointed out in his opinion that he believe! it was within his province to decline to impose the death penalty on persons not of mature years. ! He said he believed if the boys had j been in their normal minds, they would not have committed the crime. Waving the formality of calling the youths before him. Justice Caverly plunged hurriedly into the sentence. Looking directly at Nathan, the Judge said: "it is the sentence of this court that you. Nathan Leopold, be confined to the penitentiary at Joliet for the period of your natural life for the murder of Robert Franks." Both prisoners were balanced on the .edge of their chairs. Nathan’s j face was almost expressionless as he | heard the words that saved him from I death. ' Justice Caverly then swung his ; vze to Loeb. Talking rapidly, the justice said: •“It is the sentence of this court tha $ you, Richard Loeb. be confined to tl w penitentiary at Joliet for the perio t 7 of your natural life for the murde.t of Robert Franks.” Both boys relaxed at this, but their eyi" were still fixed intensely on the ju Mice. Then Jt vstice Caverly. with only a change o.* words to fit his kidnaping sentence, sentenced each of them to the penitentiary for ninety-nine years on the charge of kidnaping for ransom. This was the signal for the youths to settle back with' wan smiles. No motions wer ' made by either side and Nathan ai Vi Richard were whisked from the roAm. Sheriff Hoffman ordered police cars prepared to take t Ne youths on their forty-mile drive to Joliet. Rifle squads were ordered to act as a convoy. Hoffman said the youths vvould not be taken tq Joliet prison until late today due to delay in securing the committment papers. Justice Caverly left the court so hurriedly that delay was occasioned because his signature was necessary to the committment papers. The justice was found and the signatures seen red. Members of the two families hurried from the court and drove home. Leopold. Sr., Glad *’l am glad it is all over,” Leopold, Sr., said. AhVn Loeb said: “It was a just sentence. There was nothing else for the court to do.” Jacob Loeb. uncle of Richard, said: "There 43 nothing to say. We are thankful.” Before lea'ving the court building Allen called his parents at Charlevoix. Mich., arid imparted the joyful news. Clarence Harrow, the veteran criminal lawyer who fought against hanging the boys, refused to he congratulated. Smiling only faintly when friends (Turn to Pajte 11)

A HISTORY OF THE FRANKS CASE AfVD THE TEXT OF JUSTICE vV A VERITY'S OPIND N T WILL BE FOUND ( ' V. I! 11.

Forecast MOS TLY cloudy with showers ' Thursday and possibly late Tonight. Rising temperature.

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Tickled By I'nited Press CRIMINAL COURT ROOM. CHICAGO, Sept. 10.—“ Order us up two thick steaks smothered with onions and all the side dishes you can get and chocolate eclairs, as it may he our last good meal," Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb cried to Sheriff Hoffman when the latter visited them in their cell a few moments after sentence was imposed. The youths were happy and made no effort to hide their feelings. “We feel fine.” they cried. They laughed and chatted and shook hands with each other.

BANKERS OPEN ANNUM Twenty-Eighth Session Begins at Claypooi. Several hundred delegates were In the city today to attend the twentyeighth annual convention of Indiana Bankers' Association, which opens with a conucil of administration meeting at 4:30 p. m. at the Claypool. Robert Willis. New York humorist, will speak at the Athenaeum tonight. American Institute of Banking breakfast Thursday opens the day’s program. Thursday night the bankers will atteqd the Murat. Following welcome by Eben H. Wolcott. State bank commissioner, C. S. Kitterman, Cambridge City, will deliver the annual president's t.ddress. Thomas R. Marshall, former Vies PPresident, and Dr. Wiliam A. Canfield, president of Carroll College. Waukeska, AYis.. will speak Thursday. HAVfTToiI A LICENSE? Police (o Canvass Homes and Slate Violators. Persons who have dogs, rooming houses and other property that conies under city license had better get their tags, or face Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth in city court for failure to do so. Police Invesligator Walter White ordered all district patrolmen to canvass all homes, and where no licenses for 1924 are ehibsted, to slate the violator. Defendnnts will be asked to appear at the rjext court session. One woman and live men are first to he- slated on charges of not having licensees for their dog'a. They will appear in city court Thursday morning. Jury Convicts McKee I By Times Special J COLUMBUS, Ind.. Sept. 70.—Mei vin McKee, 61. of Indianapolis, 1* day was to be taken to City where he will start a lifc#E tence in the Indiana State ,\ V He was convicted Tuesday oj degree murder in the death of Willard -Ysy# last May. The jury at life imprisonment. f Photographer^/ Frank M. UnljJ , Phn-n Art Sh<’l Will .-peak oil ■i ’ ii*' A An-' ThV. ’• 1 1/ m