Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 145

SHENANDOAH BREAKS OLD AIR PROS Nears End of 10,000-Mile Cruise Tv/ice Across Continent Only Rigid Ship to Navigate Skies Over Mountain Peaks. LONGEST FLIGHT EVER MADE BY DIRIGIBLq | Southern Indiana Crossed ? Early Today as Crew, 4 Worn by Sleepless Nights, Speeds to Reach Lakehurst, N. J., by Nightfall. By I nitf4 Press ABOARD U. S. N. SHENANDOAH Oct. 25.—New records in air navigation will have been made by ' the Navy dirigible Shenandoah when it completes its spectacular 10,000mile cruise and is led into its hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., late today. The cruise is the longest, both in time and distance ever made by any airship of any type. No other rigid airship has ever ' navigated over mountain peaks and j through passes as the Shenandoah did in its crossing of the Rockies. j As the big tube neared its destina- I tion today, officers j ointed out that it is the first ship of its type ever to cruise west of the Rockies and the first Zeppelin tc sail o\er the : Pacific Coast. What it lacks in speed is com pensated for in strength, officers ; said, as no other ship could have j withstood the storms and strain ■ without breaking up. The cruise also has demonstrated . practicability of the mooring mast ; for breaking long voyages for re fueling and making minor repairs. It was a tired crew that faced j toward Lakehurst today. The test j has been almost as great for the ( crew as for the ship. Many of the nights have been fraught with peril, j avoided only by hours of sleepless duty. But despite uncertain hours i and rapid changes in temperature j as the big ship changed altitudes j there has been no sickness aboard. As the Shenandoah crossed the ’ Ohio River into Illinois from Pa ; ducah, Ky.. at 3:30 a. m. today she was making better than fifty miles an hour. Flying low and smoothly, the giant Zeppelin sped over southern [ Indiana as dawn was breaking, j Evansville was sighted at 5:30 a. m. j Connersville. Ind., tvas passed at j 9:20 At 11:46 the ship flew over Dayton, Ohio. Cheered by a large crowd gathered at Ohio State University Stadium for the Chicago-Ohio football game, Columbus, Ohio. The ship flew over Columbus, Ohio, at 1:09 p. m. Weather conditions will determine whether the goal of the flight. Lakehurst, N. J., is reached by nightfall, officers aboard said. HOD ELLER TO BE COP Shook Directs Safety Board to Give Pitcher a Job. Hod Eller, pitcher on the Indianapolis baseball club last season, will soon don the uniform of an Indianapolis policeman. Just what .assistance Hod’s twirling ability will be in swinging a “billy” is a matter of much speculation. Anyway, Mayor Shank instructed the board of safety to give him a position at the first opening. His appointment may be confirmed next Tuesday. Elier expects to keep in trim on the police force until the baseball season opens next spring HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 45 10 a. m 63 7 a. m 47 11 a. m 65 8 a. m 51 12 (noon) .... 68 9 a. m s>7 1 p. m 69

More Taxes Bn l nited Press j:\Y YORK. Oct. 25. Further disclosures of U__l income tax payments for 1923 added fuel to the tires of discussion here today. Following are some of the more interesting: Harry F. Sinclair, lessor of Teapot Dome oil reserve and international oil magnate. $213. Peggy Hopkins Joyce. $1,069. Governor A1 Smith, s3l. Fannie Brice, wife of Nickey Arnstein, $1,340. Attorney General Harlan Stone. $6,722. Charles F. Murphy (estate of the former Tammany leader), $9,948. Frank L. Bacon (estate of the author and star of "Lightnin'), $7,195. Avery Hopwood, playwright, $2,702. Ethel Barrymore, $1,298. Irving Berlin. $4,134. George M Cohan, $876. DeWolfe Hopper. $1,374. Harry Houdini, $4lO. Neysa McMein, $719. Ann Nichols, author of Abie’s Irish Rose, $52,673. Marjorie Rambau, acrtess $298.

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FALL'S HERE AND SO ARE HIKING, HOCKEY AND FOOTBALL

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FA THER POLL 0 1 IS CHILD INTO DEA TH As Phonograph Plays, He Ends Life in Order to Be With Daughter Who Killed Self,

Bu l nited Pm* SAN MATEO, Cal., Oct. 25. Frank Chambers, Jr., has given up his wife to join his daughter. The daughter, Mariouise. 17, shot herself to death three weeks ago. Behind her she left a note which

Love's Test IT_ _ HEN Dan Cupid goes |\a/| out for target practice t'' 1 nowadays he will have to supply his feminine victim with the statement of the income tax paid by the mere man in the case, is the opinion expressed by M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue today. When Congress enacted the law opening up income tax lists to public inspection it unwittingly put an end to a lot of pre-matrimonial prevarication. Within the past twenty four hours several telephone calls have been received by the internal revenue department from young women asking if they will be allowed to see income tax .returns of prospective lesser-halfs Any young man who attempts to pad out a sl,200 salary into a? 10,000 income to the winsome maid of his choice is likely to find himself trying to explain the contradiction between his boasts to Sweetie and the cold facts under oath, contained in his income tax return.

HOADSIH COUNTY 10 BE RENAMED County Commissioners Order Up-to-Date Map, County commissioners today ordered County Engineer John J. Griffith to make an up-to-date map of ail roads in the county. The gravel and hard-surface roads will be renamed, under the plan. The north and south roads will be given nairies of trees, or perhaps former county commissioners, while the east and west roads will be numbered. Such long recognized names as National Rd., Michigan Rd,. and Three Notch Rd., will not he changed. Reorganization is due to the fact that many roads have different names in different parts of the county. E. Fifty-Second St. road, for instance, has six different names as it crosses the county. All roads will be marked with name signs. RESUME PROBE TUESDAY Coroner .Marks Time as Mrs. ILui.se and Children are Buried. While funeral services of the three [victims were held this afternoon ! Coroner Paul F. Robinson marked time in his probe of a manslaughter ’charge against John Strothenk, 47, of 605 E. Market St., automobile driver, alleged to have caused the death of Mrs. Edith Haase and her children, Paul, thirteen months, and Doris, 7. Services were held at the residence, 1141 Blaine Ave., at 2 p. m. ; Burial at West Newton, Ind. Robinson will hear testimony [Tuesday of Mr. and Mrs. Jairies i Dobbs and their son Harry, who had ; stopped to aid Chester Haase, hus- ! band of Mrs. Edith Haase in fixing brakes on the Haase automobile one | mile west of Maywood when the Strothenk car crashed into the [ Haase car. Indianapolis Chosen By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 25.—Indiana Credit Men’s Association will meet at Indianapolis next year, according to action taken at the final session of the annual convention here Friday. Officers will be selected by a committee later. Filling Station Robbed H. L. Circle, proprietor of a filling station at Thirty-Sixth St. and Sher man Dr., today told police the place had been entered and a pay phone and a stolen.

told, in its brief lines and between a story of jealousy between her arid her 19-vear-old stepmother over the attentions of Chambers. Last night Chambers came home from Cypress Lawn Cemetery, where he spent three hours beside the urn which holds the ashes of Mariloulse. He started writing a note on his typewriter, but destroyed It. Then he put “Honeymoon Chimes’* on his phonograph and killed himself. Papers in the house, statements of friends and details learned in invest! gation of the death of Mariloulse revealed a pitiful tale of how Cham bers, son of a New York millionaire, and his daughter, were both addicts of drugs. They had indulged their habit together and then had fought together to escape it. Finally the element of jealousy between Mgrilouise and the 19-vear-old step mother appeared and Mariloulse called a taxicab, drove to the Han Fran cisco waterfront and there killed herself. “Stop taking things and he yourself.” she wrote in a farewell letter to her father. Mrs. Chambers is now In Los Angeles. The first Mrs. Chambers, mother of Mariloulse, lives in Washington, D. O. DIPHTHERIA TAKES LEAD Heads last of Diseases Reported to State Health oßard. Diphtheria leads the list of diseases prevalent over the State for the week ending Oct. 18, according to the morbidity report filed today by Dr. H. W. McKane of the State board of health. Scarlet fever, chickenpox and smallpox, are next in order. ! Number of cases: Diphtheria, 87: : scarlet fever, 79: chickenpox, 47, and | smallpox. 38. In Marlon County there were eleven diphtheria cases, four scarlet fever and four smallpox. FUGITIVE NOT WANTED State Farm Officials No I xing.-r Want Escaped Inmate. Police were told by officials of the Indiana State Farm that they no longer wanted Wesley Chaney, 29, of 321 S. East St., on a charge of being a fugitive. Statute of limitations has expired, they said. Chaney was sentenced to serve a term of seven months. Friday night Detectives Dugan and Taylor arrested him. He will be released, officers • .id. Vote! A LIST OF VOTING PLACES FOR THE ELECTION NOV. 4 APPEARS ON PAGE 10 TODAY.

ALIBIS ARE DEVOID They Will Not Ito t'sed as Accident Excuses, Judge Wilmoth Says. Alibis supplad by motorists who have partici|>o..ed in seemingly unavoidable acc’ its will not be accepted as an excuse for the accident in city court following decision made by Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth Friday when he fined Miss Ivy Heathcote, 24, of 337 Holmes Ave., SSO and costs on an assault and battery charge. Miss Heathcote was arrested Oct. 1 when the machine she was driving struck Margaret Kelly. 5, of 33 N. Belmont Ave. and Washington St. Miss Heathcote said a park truck obstructed her view.

Brothers Testify Against Brother in Murder Case

Bn Times Sperial "j OBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 25. Brother stood L___- against brother in Circuit Court today when Edward Kincade, testifying in the murder case of M. L. Kincade, charged with killing his father, James J. Kincade, wealthy farmer, declared he saw his brother smear chicken blood over the barn doors presumably to cover up spots of human blood where

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, OCT. 25, 1924

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ABOVE (RIGHT*. CHILDREN AT INDIANAPOLIS ORPHAN'S HOME IMITATING BUTLER BULL DOGS. (LEFT). MISS LAURA ELDER AND MISS WINIFRED MCAUTHv, HOCKEY STARS. (BELOW) MISSES SALLY WiIITTEMuKK AND DI’LCE WEBER, HIKERS.

FtlJ, sports are In vogue in Indianapolis. Thousands of i__J > ernons voting and 01/l are tuning advantage of the beautiful autumn weather. ' Hiking and hockey are the principal outdoor sports at Normal College of North America Gymrasium I'nlen." said Mbs Clara l.edig, assistant instructor in chargo of women's sports Hockev t*-ams play Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at Riverside. Miss Laura Elder, of Philadelphia Pa., and Miss Winifred Mcidarthy, ts Oklahoma STATE 10 HONOR NAVYONMONDAY Addresses Will Mark Observance, Addresses upon the history and purpose of the United States’ first line of defense will mark celebration of Nay day throughout Indiana Monday, Malcom Moore, chairman of the Indiana committee, announced today. Principal events in Indianapolis will he addresses by Congressman Merrill Moores at Technical High School at 10:30 a. rn.; Meredith k’icholson, author, at Manual High viiool at 11 a. in ; by Julian Wetzel, printer, at Shortridge High School at 10:15 a. m., and by Felix M. MeWhirter at Shortridge at 10:55 a. m. The Reserve hand will play, motion pictures will he shown and a Navy speaker will talk at Naval Reserve Armory, 17 E. North St., in the evening. Marine Corps airplanes will fly over Indianapolis < n route from Omaha, Neb., to Dayton Ohio. TRAFFIC PLAN STUDIED Public Hearing on Bus Transportation Considered. Study of the thoroughfare plan will be made by the special committee on motor bus transportation before any motion is taken, A. M. Olossbrenner, chairman, announced following a meeting with the city plan committee Friday. Glossbrenner is planning to hold a public hearing on traffic problems before the committee makes any recommendations.

the aged man was found dead. Otis and Curtis, also brothers of the defendant, were witneses for the prosecution. Archer Thompson of Indianapolis, in whose possession the watch of the dead man is alleged to have been found, declared the defendant gave it te him. Thompson alo told the jury he washed Kincade’s auto on the date of the alleged crime.

City. Okkt., both seniors and hookey stars aia shown in the picture. Hiking Is a favorite pastime with many students. Miss Sally Whittemore of East Aurora, N. Y., I and Miss Dulce Webr, of New Holstein W's., are shown for a trip lo the country. Since children at Indianapolis Orphan’s Home, E. Washington St., saw Butler Bull Doggs in action at a recent game they have been imitating them. A bunch of the youngsters are shown In scrimmage. WALLACE NEAR DEATH Secretary' of Agriculture “Just Barely Alive," Doctor Says. By l 'piled Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—At 12:50 p. m. today. Dr. Joel T. Boone notified the White House that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was "just barely alive." Wallace is in the naval hospital suffering from toxemia resulting from a post operational Infection. MISSING BOY LOCATED Lad Away From Home Since Sept. 21 Found—Nation-Wide Search. By ! nited Press NEW YORK, Oct. 25. —Franklin .J. Rosseck, 14-year old school boy missing from his home since Sept. 21, has been located, police say. All information as to his whereabouts was withheld, save that he had not been in the city. Police said the boy had not been kidnaped. A nation-wide search was made for the boy because of the similarity between his disappearance and that | of Bobby Franks. LESH OPPOSES PETITION Supreme Court Asked to Dismiss Plea of Harry Diamond. Attorney General U. S. Txh today asked State Supreme Court to dismiss the petition of Harry Diamond, convicted wife-murderer of Gary, filed as a last effort to escape the electric chair. Diamond’s attorneys asking Supreme Court to order the Circuit Court to receive a petition for an inquiry into Diamond's sanity, and also for a stay of execution. Leih alleges the court has no jurisdiction to order such a petition, nor authority to grant a stay of execution. Defense alleges Diamond has become insane while awaiting death at the Indiana State Prison.

County Coroner Charles Coaltrin testified the hair found on. a gas pipe on the Kincade farm dorresponded to the hair on the head of the slain man. Coaltrin also said there was blood on the pipe. Mrs. Jennie Yarynn of Indianapolis, another relative, said the defendant had accused her of furnishing the prosecution with evidence against him.

STORY NO. 4 SHOWS HAPPINESS FRAIL He Owned His Home, Had Family of Five Then Boy Went Wrong, Wife Left a id He Goes to Poorhouse,

By JOHN L. NIBEACK. This Is the fourth of a series of stories heard from inmates of the county, poor farm, the place of last refuge for strong men broken on the wheel of life. As I have said in

Poll Progress M m '"TCULLOCH led Jackson by eight votes in a poll taken on Massachusetts Ave. between Pennsylvania Sts. Nine Republicans said they would vote for McCulloch and five for La F'ollette. Two Democrats will vote for La F’ollette. (me Democrat will vote for Jackson and Cooltdge. Five La Follette voters said they would vote for Jackson and two for McCulloch. The poll: F'or President Coolidge 26 Davis 17 Ija F'ollette 7 Total 50 For Governor McCulloch 29 Jackson 21 Total 50 Total In Times Poll to Dale Coolidge 485 Davis 294 La F'ollette 115 McCulloch 509 Jackson 367

DOCTOR KILLS 5; TAKES OWN LIFE Marital Trouble Blamed for Alabama Tragedy. By I'nited Press GUNTERVILLE, Ala., Oct. 25. Messages received here this afternoon said I>r. Curtis Johnson, brother of State Senator Frank Johnson of Marshall County, had shot and killed five persons and then committed suicide. The physician shot his father-in-law. A. B. Gaston: his sister-in-law, Jessie Gaston; his wife, and two children and then himself, messages said. Marital troubles were blamed, dispatches said. W. C.RUTHERFORD IS FOUND GUILTY ons to Five-Year Sentence Appealed. Declaring that evidence showed a clear case of fraudulent operations by the Indiana Bond and Mortgage Company, Criminal Judge James A. Collins today sentenced Its president, William C. Rutherford, 52, of 3477 Blrchwood Ave., to one to five years in the Indiana State Prison on conviction of issuing a fraudulent check. Rutherford immediately announced an appeal to the Supreme Court. His bond was fixed at $2,000. Testimony showed the company has sold between $60,000 and SBO,OOO worth of its gold bonds, which were to pay 8 per cent interest until redeemed. Very little interest was paid, and the bond holders are "holding the sack," aecordingt o Russell B. Harrison, local attorney who obtained the evidence. The check in question was one given the Farmers and Traders State Bank, Needham, Ind., to cover interest on a note of the company held by the hank. It was drawn on the Marion County State Bank. Two Drivers Arrested Ward Roberts, 30, R. R. J, Box 208, was arrested today on charges of assault and battery and speeding. He is alleged to have struck Leslie Cordell, 2050 Catherine St., in a quarrel that followed a collision between their two cars. Walter Raymond, 50, R.. R P, Box 402, was arretsed on a speeding char"“

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previous articles, many of the aged men are helpless as a result of their folly, but a few have seen their homes taken from them, their families dissolved and the ambitions and hopes of a life-time of honest toil snatched from them in a moment. It was from a man who will never walk again because of paralysis in i the legs I heard this story. He was | a tinner in Indianapolis in his work j ing days, and had a home and a family. Now he sits In ,a wheelj chair, and reads. STORY NO. 4: I was a lifelong resident of Indi- ! anapolis. and proud of the fact. I j was a tinner, and worked hard —too | hard for my own good, as it turned | out. Had Family of Five Married when I was a youth, I ; had a home and family of five chilj dren. two of them girls. Every day : I was at my job. because the chil- ; dren had to be fed and clothed and ’ sent to school, and tinners did not i get as much in those days as they j do since the World War. ; In addition, as the yea's wore on. i 1 achieved a lifelong ambition, and i my wife and I contracted to buy our j own home. It was a nice place, not i so large as some, hut it was home. ! We had good carets on the floor, J good furniture, and a player piano. ) which I bought for the entertainj ment of the young folks and their friends, when the daughters began to grow up. I guess I was sort of old-fashioned, and wanted my daughters married to decent young workmen. I thought they should entertain their friends in our home, so that was the reason X bought the piano and fixed our home up a little better than it would have had to be Just to live in. Happiness and Then— But a man never knows what the future has in store for him. Just when everything looks rosy he may get sick, or his wife become dissatisfied, a dozen things could happen to him. Seems like all of them happened to me. As time pased we needed more money to meet the obligations I had incurred in buying the lome and (Turn to Page 2) SHENANDOAH? NO, ONLY DIRTY SMOG

Anyway, Smoke Too Dense to Enjoy Dirigible. Early morning smog gazers alinost saw the Slenandoah, Uncle Sam's sky-roving dirigible, float over Indianapolis early today. Only two things kept them from seeing it, first it was not there, and second they could not have seen it through the impenetrable screen of fog and smoke if it had been. But some of the early birds got all the thrills of a real glimpse of it; in fact, they really thought they had dimly glimpsed the outlines of the big airship. Just what it was they saw never will be known, perhaps it was some big bird battling his way through the smog, his dim form magnified by the smokeladen atmosphere, or perhaps it was just a particularly dense sootladen bunch .>s• fog moving slowiy along looking for some nice clean curtains, collars, shirt waists or coat bands to ruin. At all events, it looked a lot like the Shenandoah to many observers. Their conviction was not shaken until telegraph dispatches announced that the Shenandoah had passed over Evansville, and was well on its way to Dayton. MASONS TO CELEBRATE Will Observe Anniversary of Temple Association. Indianapolis Masons will celebrate the twentieth birthday of the Indianapolis Masonic Temple Association Dec. 13 with a reception and entertainment at the temple. North and Illinois Sts. All floors will be opened and music will be provided on each floor. Preliminary arrangements were made at a meeting of lodge officers and officers of the Order of the Eastern Star Friday night. Committee in charge: Martin T. Ohr, Miles V. Moore and Albert

Forecast FAIR tonght and Sunday. Not much change in temperature anticipated.

TWO CENTS

ONE KILLED TWO INJURED AT LEBANON Indianapolis Motorman Is Killed When Auto Collides With Motor Bus Wife and Niece Feared Fatally Hurt. ONE IS PARALYZED, OTHER UNCONSCIOUS Party of Three Returning From Visit at Crawfordsville —Pinned Underneath Car, Hurled From Road, Against Fence. By Times Special LEBANON. Ind., Oct. 25.—Georgs Thayer, 54. of 1012 E. St. Clair St., Indianapolis, a street car motorman, died at the Williams Hospital today, frrm injuries received when the automobile he was driving collidod with a Lobancn-Indiana polls bus Friday night and was hurled against a fence, near here. Mrs. Anna Thayer, 50, his wife, and Mrs. Nettle Shockley, 38, of 321 N. Davidson St., their niece, who were in the car, are In a serious condition. Mrs. Thayer Is unconsciousness and physicians hold little hope for her recovery*. Mrs Shockley is paralyzed from the waist down and was crushed about the chest. The touring car in which the Thayers were riding was knocked from the road and upset, pinning all three occupants underneath. The bus, \yhich was owned by J. W. Chenoweth, and driven by P. C. Deal of Akron_ Ohio, did not leave the road. Passengers on the bus gave first aid to the injured. The bus has just been in service for a day, the accident occuring on Its third round trip. Thayer and his wife and Mrs. Shockley w*ere returning from a visit with relatives in Crawfordsville. Prosecutor Cain is investigating.

LA FOLLETTEUP IN FARMER POLL Slight Gain Puts Bob at Heels of Cooildge. Slight gain for La Follette and corresponding loss for Coolidge is shown in the Farm Journal's nationwide rural poll. The poll gives Coolidge 12 935: La Follette, 11,775, and Davis. 6.498. New York, Indiana, Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma each maintain a Coolidge plurality, the total for the five States being: Coolidge. 4,091; La Follette, 1.947, and Davis, 2.093. The Northwest tier, including Wyoming and States from Wisconsin to Washington give La Follette, 5,683; Coolidge, 1,762, and Davis, 590. LOCAL WOMAN TESTIFIES Taxi Driver Convicted on Charges of Attacking Miss Murrin Baker. By Times Special CINCINNATI, Ohio. Oct 25. Albert Ripperger, Newport, Ky., taxi driver, was convicted or an attack charge by a jury here which heard testimony of Miss Murrin Baker, Indianapolis. She charged he mistreated her when she was a passenger in his cab between stations while going through here on her way to Indianapolis. Rippberger denied using force. Six women juror were for conviction on the first ballot. DRIVE ON FOR P/EMBERS Railroad Department of Y. M. C. A. to Start Campaign Monday. The annual membership campaign of the railroad department of the Y. M. C. A. will he inaugurated Monday night with a dinner at the Brightwood Y. M C. A. Two teams, the Railroad team, headed by C. S. Rhoads, assistant State secretary of the Y. M. C., and the Brightwood Civic League team, captained by gar F. Brown, postal cashier at the Indianapolis postoffice, will compete in the campaign.

Adieu By Vnited Press NEW YORK. Oct. 25.—The Prince of Wales passed out of the picture today practically unnoticed. He slippied through New York Friday, boarded the Olympic, and sailed for home today while every one was talking about income tax returns. One New York paper comments editorially on the Prince’s departure, saying his visit "strengthened the amity between the English speaking