Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—-NUMBER 140

BOYS ADMIT MURDERING CARD SHARK Three Detroit Youths Tell of Killing Manager of Gambling House Shot to Wound, Leader of Trio Declares. AIM POOR BECAUSE OF DRINK, HE SAYS > Fled to Chicago and Planned Hold-up to Obtain Funds for Escape, They Confess to Detectives Who Arrested Them. By United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 20.—Three Detroit youths were arrested by Chicago police today and confessed the murder of Clifford Greaves, manager of a gambling house in Detroit, on Oct. 12. The youths, ail 2i years of age, are Russell Burnham, Howard Young and Michael Feitem. Lieut. Michael McFadden, Chicago detective, was assigned to take them back to Detroit. Burnham admitted that he fired th° shot that killed Greaves. He said he and his companions were “peeved because Greaves had passed phoney cards on us, and because he wouldn't let Young play cards.” “Greaves said Young was drunk,” Burnham said. “All three of us were drunk. I am a good shot and I drew my gun, intending merely to wound Greaves. But, being drunk, I aimed poorly and Hit him In the abdomen and killed him.” Young and Feitem admitted they also drew their revolvers. Burnham said that after the shooting, when “forty folks In the gambling house were running for cover,” he and the two others escaped in an automobile and drove to Kalamazoo. Then they drove to Chicago, he said, hoping to "stage a holdup that would give them money to clear out.” Burnham and Young were arrested at the home of the former's brother on the southside here, and Feitem was arrested in another southside home.

CITY LAW ASKED to mils Ordinance Against Noise to Be Presented. An ordinance prohibiting unnecessary locomotive noises, such as ■whistling and bell ringing within the city limits, will be introduced in the city council meeting tonight by Councilman Otto Ray. Delegation of property owners from the northeast part of the city was to appear before the council protesting against the constant locomotive whistling during the night which they said constituted a nuisance. Ray will investigate other ordinances regarding operation of trains in the city, including one restricting maximum speed to twenty nples an hour, before drafting his ordinance today. Preliminary report of the council’s market committee, headed by Otto Miller, architect, will be piade. The committee made surveys during the week-end expected to assist the council In determining what market repairs should be made. MILLIONS OF BALLOTS Statehouse Active as Carpenters Box Materials. The north corridor of the Statehouse today resembled a cabinet shop. Ballots for the general election were being boxed to be shipped to county clerks over the State. Eleven carpenters were working. Up to noon 500,000 had been distributed with fourteen county clerks here to receive them. Approximately 2.000.000 ballots will be shipped by Friday. LEASE SUIT POSTPONED Hearing on Fall Oil Grant Scheduled for Tuesday. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Cal., Oct. 20. After a suspension of twenty-four hours, Government suit against Edward L. Doheny, seeking to break Elk Hill naval reserve lease given the Pan-American Oil Company by former Secretary of the Interior Fall will get under way Tuesday. The suit was scheduled to open today. lIOI'KLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 54 10 a. m ti'i 7 a. " 1 11 a. m S3 8 a. m 56 12 (noon) 05 a a. m i p. m...... 66

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Annual Brake Tests to Be Held This Week RAFFIC INSPECTOR MICHAEL GLENN today completed arrangements with Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff for the third annual brake test for privately owned automobiles late this week. \ Certain streets will be marked off and drivers will be required to test their brakes. Those passing will receive a sticker. Others will be ordered to garages to have their brakes repaired and submit to another test.

FATHER OF 15 IS HELD Sheriff Snider Uncovers Still on Largo Family’s Farm. JStjhard Bowers, colored, father of fifteen children, is under arrest today. Sheriff George Snider said he found a thirty-five gallorKstill in a eornshock on the farm Bowers rents at Thirty-Eighth St. and Arlington Ave. Jefferson Shepard, colored, 804 W. Twenty-Fourth Su, said by friends to have admitted he was the operator, also was arrested. Three hundreds and fifteen gallons of mash were found in the hog pen. Bowers said it was hog feed.

ROAD CONTRACT IS GIVEN OVER STRONG PROTEST Paving Material Salesmen, Taxpayers and Officials in Hot Argument. While a roomful of interested taxpayers looked on, county commissioners today awarded contract to pave E. Fifty-Second St. from the Monon Railroad to the Noblesville Rd. to the McConn Constructing Company on a bid of $53,476. Award followed a heated wrangle among taxpayers, commissioners and gravel and stone company representatives as to whether Marion County gravel or Putnam County crushed stone should be used. Howard Maxwell of the Maxwell Gravel Company presented a petition signed by 100 Washington Township taxpayers asking the specifications be changed to call for Marion County gravel. Local gravel producers are discriminated against, he said, in favor of- out-county concerns, and taxpayers have paid out $120,000 in two years because the higher priced stone Is used. Maxwell Withdrew The original backers of the road protested against the petition, and Maxwell withdrew it when nine of his signers told commissioners Maxwell, who circulated the petition, had misrepresented the difference in cost of gravel and stone. Maxwell said th ecrushed stone used in paving the N. Pennsylvania St. road cost $3.42 a cubic yard laid down on the grade, while good gravel would have cost but $1.76. Stone “Worth It” Commissioners said the stone costs $2,000 more a mile, but Is “worth it” because it contains no dirt, and a yard of stone “makes more concrete than gravel.” County has gotten bad concrete in the past from dirt in the local gravel, they said, and for that reason they will not use it. Roy L. Brown, representative of ♦he Portland cement association, said stone or gravel is equally good for concrete and the cost is about the same.

5,100 Names! A total of 5,100 names have been suggested by Indianapolis Times readers as substitutes for “Hoosierisms,” the present title of Gaylord Nelson’s column of comment on the Editorial Page. Suggestions may be mailed up to midnight. The reader who submits the winning name will be paid $25. The winner will be announced as soon as possible.

GERM CRISIS NEAR SOLUTION President Ebert Acts to End Parliament. Bu United Press BERLIN, Oct. 20.—Chancellor Marx and his cabinet have given up as hopeless their attempts to solve the governmental crisis without dissolution of the Reichstag, and today decided to ask President Ebert to dissolve Parliament. The President approved the cabinet’s course when the request was made, and it was announced dissolution will take place immediately.

HOOSIER STATE CHAIRMEN MAKE PRE-ELECTION-CLAIMS

Republican ■ZT-| EPUBLICAN STATE CHAIRMAN CLYDE A. WALB—I feel T\. certain the State and national ticket is over by a big majority. But we must not rest on our oars. We must go out into the districts, the counties and the precincts and see to it that every Republican vote is voted on Nov. 4. We must and do our rejoicing on the night of Nov. 4.

Here Is What Ed Jackson, Employed to Protect Investors, Had to Say About Bollings Company 4 THE DIGEST

THE DOLLINGS CHARTERS By Ed Jackson There are charters of various kinds that may be issued, or, rather, there may be permission granted corporations or associations to transact business in thf State of Indiana, without any special restriction or provision for the manner in which their business may be conducted in behalf of those interested afterwards in the securities that may be sold by the company in question. The R. L. Dollings Company is an exception to the associations or corporations that come into the State of Indiana and ask permission to do business with our people. And what holds good here holds good in other states, for the requirements are the same in regard to the issuing of charters Let me digress long enough here to say that there has been much said in Indiana about “blue sky.” When we speak of what is known as “blue-sky laws” we understand that those are laws that should be enacted in Indiana by which men may be governed who associate themselves together for the purpose of Soliciting charters and proposing to sell securities that are unreliable, these securities being represented as valuable and bringing great returns, and then .turn out to be absolutely worthless and the purchasers receive ho dividends. *lf all associations and all corporations that ask permission to do business in Indiana were as Careful about the charter provisions as The Dollings Company we would have no necessity in Indiana or in any State for bluesky laws. In the Dollings charters there are inserted all the safeguards possible so that customers are secured in their investments. In other words, provisions are placed in the charter in order that there may not be any question of the management afterwards.

Above is a photographic reproduction of a page of The Digest, house organ of the late R. L. Dolling? Company In which thousands of investors lost their savings. The page contains a stenographic copy of a speech made by

FAST TRAIN WRECKED Pennsylvania Express Derailed Many Passengers Hurt. Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, Oct 20.—The Commercial Express, passengr train No. 26 on the Pennsylvania Railroad between St. Louis and New York, was derailed at Longfellow, Pa., today. All cars of the train left the track, ■.he dinner completely overturned and three Pu'lmai. sleepers ploughed over the edge of ?,n embankment. A number of persons were Injured and relief trains nave been sent to the scene. OPTIMISTS DINNER OFF Sherman Rogers, Speaker, 111 Event Is Postponed. Sherman Rogers, "lumber jack orator" who was scheduled to make an address at a dinner to be given by the Indianapolis Optimist Club at the Claypool Friday evening, is ill at St. Paul, Minn., according to inform mation received here today by Lew W. Cooper, president of the local Optimist Club. The dinner scheduled for FYiday evening has been postponed and will be ne’.d within the next two or three week3, if possible, Cooper says. Rogers is international president of the Optimist clubs and is association editor of Success magazine. He is lecturing on economic subjects under the title: "Your side, my side and the right side.” Plans had been made to have 800 guests at the Rogers dinner, it was stated.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, OCT. 20, 1924

Mr. Jackson is our Secretary of State. In which capacity he has served faithfully and efficiently. The Dollings organization was highly honored In having him as a speaker at the dinner June 17, and below is printed a portion of the address lie delivered. The Dollings Company prides Itself in putting out a strong charter for all the Industries we finance, and It was a distinctive privilege to hear the Secretary of State comment favorably on the efforts of Mr. Harrison, our general counsel, who frames all our charters, and endorse the things vo are doing In In- > dlnna.— editors Ti e Digest

The Dollings charter is really the constitution upon which those who have the direction of the business undertake to finance. The charter is ironclad and cannot be changed in directors’ meetings or by any official. In the Dollings charter it is specifically stated that all dividends on preferred stock mupt be paid before one cent of dividends can be declared or received by the common stockholders of the institutions the Dollings Company finances. If there has been a dividend passed, or dividends accumulated, all dividends then due or accumulated shall be paid before one cent of dividends shall be declared on the common stock. The men managing the business do not receive anylhing for themselves until the Dollings customers, men and women who have furnished the money to finance the institutions, have received the dividends they are entitled to. If all companies or associations provided for the things that the Dolling.. Company features. then it would be a pleasure to transact business with those who come to our homes or to our business houses in the sale of stock I think, however, that in every State there should be a “blue-sky law,” not alone for the protection of those men and women who have money to invest, but for the protection of such good com-

Ed Jackson, now Republican nominee for Governor, in which he strongly Indorsed the concern, in which Indiana citizens lost thousands of dollars. As secretary of State Ed Jackson was then and Is now head of

MINOR PARTY IN COUNTER MOVE Socialist - Labor Nominee Asks Ballot Mandate, The Socialist-Labor Party today attempted to regain its place on the State election ballot, lost last week when Superior Judge Leathers enjoined State election board from including tickets of six minor parties on grounds their petitions were insufficient. Alexander Burkhardt, SocialistLabor nominee for Governor, petitioned Circuit Court to mandate the borad to put the ticket back on the ballot on grounds Judge granted the injunction without notice to the minor parties. Burkhardt alleges the SocialistLabor petition uore 613 authentic namea, whereas oily 600 are required FORTY HOURS DEVOTION Sspecial Services Being Held at Catholic Cathedral. Observanc eof the “forty hours' devotion” is being conducted at the SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral by Rev. Bernard Mulloys, O. S. 0., of Notre Dame, a missionary of the Holy Cross order. Services began Sunday at 10:30 a. m. and will end with a solemn procession Tuesday evening

Democratic EMOCRATIC STATE CHAIRMAN WALTER S. CHAMBERS— Davis and McCulloch will carry Indiana by whaling big majorities. The McCulloch vote is growing by lerfps and bounds and there is a district swing to Davis as that sterling Democratic standard bearer becomes better known in our State. The Coolidge pe;(k was reached in August and has been steadily declining since.

Lad Giggles—Teaclien Spanks—Justice Acts By Times Special OSFORT, Ind., Oct. 20. —A small boy's t|islike for music had its inning in the court of Justice of Peace Black here. Soth Fox, 10, giggled during the lesson given by Phylis Pershing of Paragon, music instructor in Gosport schools. She punished him. Fox's parents preferred assault and battery charges. The teacher pleaded guilty and was fined. $

panies as The R. L. Dollings Company. Every financial house that desires to transact business fairly and honestly and stands back of the securities they sell has the right to the protection of the laws of the State in which it transacts business. I know there is much worthless stock offered for sale, and the sooner it is stopped the better we shall be for it. I saw where someone said the other day that the greatest thing after all in this country of ours is manhood. I believe there is evidence that the men of the Dollings organization, from executive to representative, possess real manhood. The reason why this company has succeeded, the reason why there never has bpen a dividend passed by any of the industries it controls as yet, is because of the fact that there is real manhood in the management of the organization. I have not met a man in the Dollings Company, including my old friend, Mont Leakey, of the Lafayette district, who has not impressed me with integrity of purpose This company is surely entitled to the splendid results it is getting from all districts by reason of the activity, the energy and the honesty of those employed. When you can thus testily about the Dollings men I say that it shows the wonderful value of this great organization to tfle State. The men who are at the head of this company have gone through their period of struggle and deserve great credit for what they have accomplished. I wish this institution all the success that can possibly be hoped for it. > The Pollings company has over 40,000 satisfied customers in six states.

the State securities commission which was created for the purpose of piotecting investors. It was his business ;o investigate concerns selling securities in Indiana and to act for the protection of the stockholders. Yet he publieally indorsed a

Cal and Mac r— | OUSE WIVES and otheis lI—II of the mixed crowds at I * * I the city curb market. Saturday afternoon first the following straw votes: Coolidge 18 Davis 7 La Follette 7 Jackson 11 McCulloch NS Seven persons who said they will vote for Coolidge said they will also vote for McCulloch, Democratic candidate for Governor Os these seven voters, three were Democrats. The seven Davis supporters all intend to vote for McCul loch. Three of the seven La Follette supporters will vote for McCulloch, and the other four didn’t know who they would support for Governor. Two lai Follette supporters classified themselves as Independents, one as Socialist, one Republican, two Democrats and one was too young to vote in 1920. Totals in The Times poll to date: Coolidge 366 Davis ./. 208 La Follette 74 McCulloch 351 Jackson 283

SUPREME COURT RESTS Announces Recess Will Be Taken From Oct. 27 to Nov. 17. By United Press WASHING CON, Oct. 30. —Supreme Court today announced it would recess Oct. ’27 to Nov. 17.

concern the securities of which were proved to be just so much blue sky and in which thousands In Indiana lost their money. Indiana has just had one Governor who displayed poor business Judgment. Does it want another?

STOCKHOLDERS SUE DIRECTORS ,$150,000 Asked From Weidley Motors Officers, Seventy-six holders of preferred stock in the defunct Weidley Motors Company, recently sold at receivership sale for $213,000, today filed suit in Superior Court for $150,000 damages against three former directors, alleging a schemer to defraud the stockholders. Defendants are Edward P. Showers, Bloomington, Ind., of the Showers Furniture Company; William Umphrey and William 11. Fletcher. The latter was receiver for Circuit Court for the company. Plaintiffs allege the three persuaded the stockholders to consent to issuance of $700,000 bonds , which should be first lien on the company's assets of and then bought up large numbers of the bonds themselves. The company was then secretly placed In receivership by the defendants, they charge. The directors had conspired to hurt the cornpan credit by cancelling contracts, according to the plaintiff. The defendants bought the assets in at receiver’s sale, they charge, using $130,000 of the bonds they held to pay for that much of the bid. The law firm of Kane & Blain represent the stockholders.

La Follette 1 A FOLLETTE State Chairman A. F. Bentley—Both Republican | , and Democnyfic parties claim they are going to carry Indiana —— for their State and National tickets. One of them is certainly wrong. I am going to make a statement that is absolutely right. The La Follette strength in Indiana is increasing so rapidly every day that if it continues at its present rate, it will put both old parties where they belong on Nov. 4.

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DIRIGIBLE ON WAY BACK Shenandoah Starts-oil Return Transcontinental Trip. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 20. The United States naval dirigible Shenandoah Is expected to pass over San Francisco today on her return trip to Lakehurst, N. J., according to a message received here by the Radio Corporation from the Shenandoah. The dirigible left her mooring mast at Camp Lewis, the western objective of her cross-country trip, at 12:10 p. m. Sunday.

TURKS IMPRISON 3,1 GREERS IN CONSTANTINOPLE Seize Alien'S Without Warning and Thrust Them Into Ancient Fortress, By United Press CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 20.—At the point of the bayonet, routing their victims from bed, Turkish police have taken matters of exchange of populations with Greece into their own hands and marched some three thousand Greeks to imprisonment in the historic fortress of the Seven Towers. The Greeks, who were hustled off without being permitted to bring along belongings, included many who were not to be exchanged. A child suffering from smallpox was dragged off to the fortress, old men and women were prodded along the road by armed convoys and in one Instance a baker's boy, his hands and apron stiil white with flour, was hurried off to prison. The Greek population of Constantinople is terror-stricken as a result of the action of the police. The latter claim the Greeks seized belong to a category slated for exchange and that they have delayed too long after obtaining passports. Many of the prisoners h; 1 no passports, however. Strong protests have been made to the mixed inter-allied commission which has charge of transfer of Greeks to Greece in return of Turks to Turkey, but the commission has been unable to check the o rrests.

Precedent George Metzler, 32, of 1741 S. Meridian St., and Maude Kent, 29, Mooresville Ind., today were found guilty of transporting liuqar into Ft. Benjamin Harrison. They were each fined SIOO and sentenced to one to two years' imprisonment by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. It is the first time Judge Collons has found a woman guilty of a felony on liquor charges.

YOUNG PEOPLE ELECT Clrawfordsville Youth Chosen at Columbus Conference. By Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind.. Oct. 20.—Amos Surface of Crawfordsville, Ind., was elected president for the third time of the Indiana State Young People's conference, which ended here Sunday afternoon. Other officers named were: Vice president, Charles Rhoads, president of the Marion County Young People's Council, Indianapolis, and secretary. Miss Louise Wilden. Goshen, Ind. South Bend, Ind., was selected as the conference city for 1925. Conference was the largest young people’s meeting conducted by the young people’s division of the Indiana Council of Religious Education in the State. Official registration was 880. HENRY FLEMING INDICTED Former City Hall Custodian Charged With Embezzlement. Henry Fleming, colored politician, formerly custodian of the city hall and now head of the Independent Voters’ League working out of Democratic State headquarters, today was indicted by the grand jury on charge of embezzlement. It is alleged he appropriated S7OO from the of Mrs. Maggie Carter, colored, 609 Dorman St., while acting as her agent in paying off a mortgage. Fleming is proprietor of a restaurant on Indiana Ave. Fleming denied intent to defraud.

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature.

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EARTHM SUCKS ROCK S. CAROLINA I Tremors Cause Thousands to Flee From Their Homes and Seek Safety in Streets —Strange Rumblings Are Heard. - DISTURBANCES FELT IN HUNDRED-MILE RADIUS Terrified Residents of Dis- \ trict Fear Explosion as Houses Shake Small Dwellings Are Twisted From Foundations, By Unit'd Press SPARTANBURG, S. C„ Oct. 20. The Piedmont district of South Carolina was severely shaken today by an earthquake. The tremors were felt in towns and cities in Spartanburg and Greenville counties. Thousands were aroused by the disturbances, which occurred shortly after 3:30 a. m., and continued several minutes. Window' pane3 rattled and pictures dropped from the walls. The center of the quake was reported between Greenville and Pickens w'here the disturbancs were most violnt and strange rumblings were heard. Residents at Pickens thought a terrific explosion had occurred and ran from their houses terrified. Towns which reported disturbances included Anderson, Greer, Easley, Liberty and Union. The quake was general within a radius of 100 miles of Spartanburg. The rumblings which awoke Spartanburg caused a general stampede to the streets. Hundreds of citizens, gathered in groups on downtown streets today, described the distitirbances. T Many admitted they became frantic when the first shocks were Pillowed by additional tremors aud rumblings. Houses rocked as if struck by terrific winds, window' panes and crockery rattled, they said. lichens, where the shocks were most violent, was a terror stricken village during the early morning hours, according to reports received here. Many dwellings were rocked back and forth as the rumbling noises increased, following an initial terrifir blast which aroused the entire village. Thj quake lasted two minutes. Several small dwellings were twisted from their foundations. SHOCKS RECORDED Seismograph at University of Georgia Shows Tremors. By United Press ATHENS, Ga„ Oct. 20.—An earthquake was recorded on the seismograph at the University of Georgia at 3:50 today, the first shock registered here since IS9O.

STILLMAN CASE DISCUSSED AGAIN Rumor Daughter's Marriage to Bring Reconciliation, By United Press MT. VERNON. N. Y.. Oct. 20. Will mutual desire for happiness of their newly wed daughter unravel the tangled lives of James A. Stillman and his wife? Rumors and counter rumors flew thick and fast today that reconciliation between the former president of the National City Bank of New York and Anne Stillman was imminent following marriage of their daughter to Henry P. Davison Saturday. In New York the “other woman” also considered the -report. She is Flo Leeds, whose only son, Jay Ward Stillman, will return from school in Europe next week. Isaac N. Mills, counsel for Mrs. Stillman, was skeptical the banker would drop his efforts for a divorce in order to shild his daughter. Stillman's attorneys have appealed to the court of appeals from the decision of the appellalte division upholding the Supreme Court’s refusal to grant the banker a divorce. BRYAN TOURS ILLINOIS Democratic Candidate Denies “Radicalism" Charge. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 20—Governor Charles W. Bryan, Democratic vice presidential candidate, after a Sunday here embarked on a pilgrimage to southern Illinois today denying chaFges of "radicalism” and outlining his views of wages and agriculture. Bryan speaks at Waterloo, Sparta and Murphysboro, today and at Benton, Fairfield and Bobinson, Tuesday, after which he nto Ohio for a two-days program of speeches.