Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1925 — Page 1

~.!s|pne Edition! Radio Broads' casting Programs appear ■very day in The Times.

VOLUME 36—NUMBER 203

mus band Kills Wise —Shoots Himself

ANDERSON AND BALTZELL NAMES SENTTOSENATE President Cooiidge Decides cn Appointments to Judgeships Local Man to Chicago. ON BENCH 22 YEARS S* • - Successor to Federal Bench Here yFrom Princeton, Ind. President Cooiidge today sent nominations to the United States Senate of Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson for the place on the bench of the Circuit Court of Appeals, Chicago, made vacant by death of Judge Francis Baker several months ago, and of Circuit Judge Robert C.

■■■ ■— >iii £%f ‘ ,v > •' \>&mk IH ■> ’•£% • f||BWfl||Mf ; >--*rejas&gßa%g JGgMa&pK % % IMmm .sci H ' fl -^jmHV ' ,' *' ■ A *> ***wn 0 ■ 1m . FBjUDGE A. B. ANDERSON ;.. '-wv, \ Baltseil, Princeton, Ind., to succeed Anderson in the Indiana district court . p£. p Salary of the Chicago judgeship is $12,000 a year. Judge Anderson now receives $7,500. Appointed district judge Dec. 18, 1902, by President Theodore Roosevelt, Judge Anderson quickly became a national figure. His marked individuality, judicial courage, clearness of vision, concise epigrammatic manner of expression, arid determination to get to the bottom of cases, regardless of petty legal technicalities, soon made him famous from coast to coast. Tries Dynamite Oise His reputation was enhanced greatly by the trial of tie famous dynamite conspiracy case in 1912. After twenty-two years on the district court bench he has been regarded as the outstanding district judge of the United States. He disposed of cases expeditiously, and never permitted unnecessary delays, lawyers say. Asa result the m nraHßsH - JhbHKI JUDGE ROBERT C. BALTZELL Federal Court docket always was up to date, and there never w*is cause to complain of the “law’s delay” in his court. Complaint was made at a Congressional hearing on a sepa(Turn to Page 15) REMY S£R!OUSLY ~ ILL Prtwenior Has La Grippe With Temperature of 102.5. Prosecutor William H. Remy was reported seriously 111 at his home,1713 -N'T Meridian St., with la grippe today, He was reported to have had a temperature of 102.6 Thursday with pneumonia threatened. He was at his office Wednesday, but had been feeling Ul>r several days.

COMPLETE WIRE SERVICE OP THE UNITED MESS GREATEST EVENING PRESS ASSOCIATION

Man Kills Woman, Runs Into Alley and Blows Top of Own Head Osf —Domestic Trouble Blamed by Police —Separation Planned. Using a shotgun his son-in-law hac borrowed for a hunting trip, Frank McKinney, 46, 715 N. Elder Ave., today killed his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Baker McKinney, 42, ran 100 yards down an alley and blew the top of his own head off. The shooting was the culmination, according to relatives, of a divorce last April, followed by a remarriage two weeks later and a second separation planned for today. McKinney was in city court Thursday on charges of assault and battery filed by his wife. Both were ordered to be back in court SatOther Man Mentioned Mrs. Margaret Rodenberg. 20, a daughter, living at the home, in a statement to police, blamed her mother’s attentions to another man for the tragedy. C. W. Rodenberg, the husband of the daughter, had borrowed the shotgun used in the killings last week, from Floyd Baker, 24. a son of Mrs. McKinney by a former marriage. McKinney had offered to return it and asked Rodenberg to drive him over to the Bakers’ home on Wayne Ave., near National Rd., ip his auto. Rodenberg went to the garage at 717 N. Elder Ave. with Mrs. McKinney. Rodenberg said he was warming up the motor and Mrs. McKinney started back to tife house. Neighbor Sees Shooting Mrs. Lloyd Frybach, 713 Elder Ave., said she saw Mrs. McKinney leave the garage. McKinney left the house at the same time, approached his wife, raised the shotgun and fired. He then ran down the alley. Mrs. Frybach said she heard two shots. Police found an extra shell and believe McKinney failed An his first attempt. Three children, beside Mis. Rodenberg, survive, including Mrs. Grace McDaniel, 22; Willard McKinney. 17, and Lucille 8. McKinney was an employe of the Prest-O-Lite Company. The bodies were removed to the city morgue. Coroner Paul F. Robinson said preliminary investigation murder and suicide. Police emergency squad, in charge of Lieutenant Winkler and Detectives Peats and Higgs, investigated.

LEGISLATORS ARE CALLEDBY KLAN Edict Reported for Conference Here Jan, 6, Ku-Klux Klan members of the Indiana General Assembly which convenes Jan. 8 will meet at the Indianapolis Athletic Club Jan. 3, according to a call issued by Walter Bossert, grand, ragon, and W. Lee Smith, chief of staff, today. The meeting is to consider the program of legislation to be sponsored by the Klan, It is stated. Hiram W. Evans, imperial ’.vizard, Atlanta, Ga„ will be present, the edict states. Press dispatches report Evans 111 with appendicitis in a Dyersburg, Tenn., hospital. Dispatches said Evans underwent an operation and that his condition is satisfactory. PARKING RULES STUDIED Mayor to Ask Safety Board to Revise Regulations. Complete revision of downtown parking regulations with elimination of the hour and half parking limit in the congested area was urged by Mayor Shank today, who announced he would ask the board of safety to recommend traffic amendments to the council. The plan would also include prohibiting parking on Washington St. between Illinois and Pennsylvania Sts., unless cars were occupied by drivers waiting for persons in downtown stores. “I am convinced a great deal of our congestion is caused by motorists moving around from one parking place to another after the time limit has expired,” said the mgyor. “If a driver finds a place to park off Washington St., I think he ought to be allowed to stay there.” Sentenced for Attack Thomas Ford, 743 W. New York St., was fined $5 and costs and sentenced to thirty days on the Indiana State Farm on an assault and battery charge In city court today. It was alleged he attacked Glenn Mutter, 3206 W. Michigan St.,' i'- a restaurant near 800 W. New YcOt St., and took his overcoat. ,

MOVE STARTED TO END DIRECT Mil Prominent Political Leaders Are Behind Measure to, Restore Old-Time Conventions, MEETING HERE JAN, 6 Bill Being Drafted by Members of State Election Board, A movement to abolish the direct primary system in Indiana and to return to the convention system was started today by prominent leaders of both friajor political parties. A letter was sent to several hundred political leaders in the State asking them to attend a meeting on the subject at the Claypool next Tuesday. A bill abolishing the direct primary is being drafted by Maurice Tennant 'and W. W. Spencer, members of the State election board. The bill will provide that delegates be elected to State, district, county and city conventions, and that these conventions name party candidates i'or office. This would affect virtually all candidates now nominated in primaries. Similar measures have been defeated in previour Legislatures. The latter was signed by: Winfield T. Durbin, Thomas R. Marshall and James P. Goodrich, former Governors Thomas Governor Emmett F. Branch, ' Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank. Mrs. Emma A. White, reporter of the Supreme Court; Fred A. Sims, Indianapolis attorney; Miss Gertrude F. McHugh, secretary of the Democratic State committee; A. H. Beardsley, Elkhart, former State Senator; Mrs. Beardsley, Mrs. Anne St.udebaker Carlisle, South Bend; Charles O. Roemler, Indianapolis attorney; Charles W. Jewett, former mayor; Charles Martindale, Indianapolis attorney; Mrs. John W. Kern, widow of the Senator; John W. Kern, United States commissioner; W. W. Spencer, member of the election board; Charles A. Greathouse, secretary of the Democratic naiionai committee; Joseph B. *Keallng. Republican national committeeman; MrA Kealing, Ralph A. Lemcke, former county treasurer; Maurice E. Tennant, member of the election board; Bernard Korbly, former Democratic State chairman; William H. Thompson, Indianapolis attorney, and- Frederick Van Nuys, former Democratic State chairman and former district attorney.

YOUTH SHOT IN BACK Stumbles While Carrying Shotgun— Will Recover. Marvin White, 18, of 851 E. Buchanan St., is Improving at the city hospital today from gunshot wounds In the back received, it is said, when a shotgun he was carrying while hunting accidentally discharged when he stumbled. White was brought to the hospital in a private ambulance from Jamestown, Ind., where he wa# hunting on the farm of Orville Wills, a friend. PROJECT IN DISFAVOR Councilmen Label Flood Prevention Work “Unnecessary.” Objection to helping the city finance flood prevention work between Kentucky Ave. and Washington St. was voiced today by county councilmen, called into a spec ial session to appropriate $720,000. The county and city each are to pay 45 per cent of the cost of new river bridges at Kentucky and Oliver Aves. Property owners benefited by proposed flood retention walls pay 10 per cent. Councilmen termed the flood prevention work “ridiculous, discriminatory, useless, unnecessary and foolish.” m The ordinance was introduced, but councilmen indicated they favor appropriating only $450,000, enough for the bridges.

Three ‘Black’Fridays Ahead in 1925

I ■ 'IF course you’re not super--101 Btltious - 80 won't spoil 1 your happy new year hopes a bit to learn that Friday the thirteenth bobs up three times on the 1925 calendar. In February, March and November, the gods of bad luck will double their forces. During 1924, there was only one day, Friday, June 13^,when the had an opportunity

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JAN. 2, 1925

LOVE BRINGS MOTHER OF 'BOBBY CINDERS’ TO HIM

.. ••••■•■•■•■•TV"' % jHHpL . ~ ' ' f . T V . r ;illv J; , s v :\ ?> l f 'ii v : CITY OWNERSHIP OF WATER CO. BACKED 9 State Bill Empowering Indianapolis to Buy Plant Expected to Be Introduced,

A bill empowering the city of Indianapolis to purchase the Indianapolis Water Company, including plant and mains and all physical property will be introduced In the General Assembly which convenes 14,000 INK REPORTEDSTOLEN TfHeves Use Auto in Robbery at Store, Oriental rugs, valued at between $4,000 and $5,000, were stolen from the Yonans & Solomon rug store, 2929 Central Ave., New Year’s day, according to report to police today. Twelve 9x12 rugs, two smaller rugs and between fifteen and twenty table mats were taken. Thieves used an automobile, proprietors believe. Tracks were found in the rear of the building, where entrance was gained by breaking a rear door. Proprietors are A. K. Yonans and J. M. Solomon. ‘CATTLEMEN BANKRUPT’ State Auditor Tells of Serious Conditions in Texas. Lewis Bowman, State auditor, was In his office today after spending several days in Texas on personal business. , Bowman reported cattle owners in westerp Texas are going bankrupt as a result of cuts in cattle prices and as a result of the hoof and mouth disease. Grazing lands are now being abandoned by the bankrupt cattlemen and cotton growers are preparing to work them into cotton land, Bowman dhid. HAMMOND DISMISSED Freed in Connection With Fatal Auto Accident. Earl HammOhd, 21, of 125 W. Fourteenth St., was dismissed in city court, today on an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection with the death Dec. 21, of Joshua Grimes, 50, Twenty-Fifth St. and Euclid Ave., from injuries when struck by Hammond’s auto. The accident occurred Dec. 17 at Massachusetts Ave. and Walker St. Grimes and his brother, Ethel, 14, wbre walking at the time.

to enjoy their fears to the fullest. Most of the holidays during the year will fall In or near week-ends. Lincoln’s birthday, Feb. 12, is on Thursday, and Washington's birthday, Feb. 22, on Sunday. Easter falls on April 12 this year. Prospects for crowds at the Indianapolis Speedway race are unusually bright, with Memorial

Jan. 8, according- to information today. It is understood that Senator W. T. Quillen, attorney. 421 Lemcke, building, is interested ;n the bill, although he not say whether he win introduce it. The measure as proposed would authorize city council to purchase the property to be operated as a municipal wateV, works under a non-po-litical commission. Whether the treasure would provide for a bond isslie cr a referendum on the purchase was not stated. Quillen pointed out that Indianapolis is the only city its size in the country which does not have a municipal water works, and that rates here are higher than in cities of similar size. Quillen Civic Leader Representative Charles M. Clark, Joint Representative of Marion and Johnson Counties, said he had been informed that such a measure was contemplated, but that he had given it little thought. • Quillen has been leader in civic movements, and is president of the Englewood Hustling Hundred, a civic organization. C. E. Davis, water company manager, said he had not heard of,the proposed measure and had no comment to make other than that It was an interesting bit of news. City Near Debt Limit Indianapolis is now almost up to its bonded debt limit and the measure would make Issuance of further indebtedness legal. The City of East Chicago, Ind., has just purchased the East Chicago and Indiana Harbor Water Company from C. H. Geist, principal stockholder for approximately * $1,900,000. Geist also is chief stockholder in the Indianapolis company. Statutes provide for a referendum and specific city ordinance. WARRANT BARS EVIDENCE Judge Collins Makes Ruling in Liquor Trial. Liquor seized as evidence against William J. Horning, 3900 Prospect St., was not allowed to be introduced In the trial today before Criminal Judge James A. Collins, because of a faulty search warrant. The warrant described the houss as "the first house west of Sherman Dr. on Prospect St., on the north side of the street.” In making his ruling ’Judge Collins held that a search warrant ig not a warrant for arrest.

day, Mhy 30, coming on Saturday. July 4, on Saturday, will start another gay week-end. The only Monday holiday of the year will be Labor Day, Sept. 7. Thanksgiving will be Nov. 26, and Christmas will come on Friday. The only Muftday holiday of the, celebration, New Year’s eve, 1 925, will occur on Thursday* night.

Baby Left on Ash Pile Finally Claimed by Cleveland Girl. By NEA Serviot Jan. 2.—Baby C “Bobby Cinders Fairview” V has found his mother. Maternal love for her baby finally triumphed .over pride and fear of disgrace, and Bobby’s mother has come back to him. ' Month after month this battle surged in hefr soul. She fought it out alone. She was just a shop girl, only 19, and unmarried, when her baby was bcrn. And “Bobby’s” father, long before the child’s birth, had disclaimed him. Left Him on Cinder Pile Almost insane through fear of neighbors’ scorn and social ostracism, she deserted “Bobby” when he was but a few hours old. It was a bitter cold night last March when a policeman, attracted by a ’ baby’s cry, found him on a cinder pile. Tenderly, but a bit awkwardly, the patrolman bundled the little mite in his overcoat and took him to Fairview Park Hospital. For weeks physicians despaired of the child’s life, keeping him in an incubator. But “Bobby” gradually grew into the healthiest youngster in the babies’ ward. Every day the doctors and nurses became more fond of him. So did a whole city. They named him “Bobby” after his policeman friend, “Cinders” because he was found on the cinder pile; “Fairview” after the hospital, his first and only home. Women Fought for Him Hundreds of women, many of them wealthy, sought to adopt “Bobby.” I But the Rev. Phillip Vollmer, superintendent of the hosnital, was confident “Bobby’s” own mother would come for him. Christmas rolled ’round. The Rev. Volkner, through the papers, renewed his appeals to “Bobby’s” mother. On Christmas eve a little blue sweater came. Bobby’s mother brought It. She was gone before anybody realized who she was. Came then another newspaper appeal. It promised “Bobby’s” mother immunity from arrest for deserting her baby. That night a pretty girl of 20 stood In the Rev. Mr. Voilmer’s office. Tears trickled down her cheeks. / “I’m ‘Bobby Cinders’ * mother,’' she sobbed. "I’ve gone through hell for him. And I’d be willing to do it again, if necessary. Nobody else can have him now ” She took him In her arms and hugged him to her breast. Bobby had found his honest-to-good-ness mother.

PASSENGERS ARE SAVED FROM FIRE 200 Persons Are Put Ashore by Steamer, *• Bu Unite A Brest , NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—The Clyde liner Mohawk, with 290 passengers aboard, bound for Charleston, S. C., and Jacksonville, Fla., has put Into the Delaware breakwaters after being damaged by fire. The Mohawk left New York at noon yesterday with a full list of passengers bound for Southern winter resorts. Fire broke out during the night and the ship immediately headed for Delaware breakwater. She was brought in safely and the passengers were taken ashore to continue to their destinations by rail. SKWpMIBW I Congress Today SENATE Considers unobjected bills. HOUSE Considers calendar bills. Appropriations committee expects to report out army appropriation bill. Two Drivers Sentenced Spurgeon Lucas, 1140 S. West St., and William Dunbar, 1962 Thalman St., drew $1 and costs and sixty days each on the Indiana State Farm in city court today on charges of driving an auto while intoxicated. Lucas was arrested Dec. 24 on Orange St. and Dunbar Dec. 18 at Delaware jtnd Washin^toj^^k^

Entered as Second-class Matter at Hpstofflce, Indianapolis, published Daily Except Sunday.

Dayton (Ohio) Detectives Arrest Fugitive Head of Mortgage Company After Seeing Him Act Suspiciously on Street. i 7 ■ /; FOLLOW DEFENDANT IN MAIL FRAUD SCHEME TO HIS HOTEL Prisoner Says ,He Wandered Over Eastern and Southern Part of Country After Disappearing at Cincinnati Sept. 30. Morton S. Hawkins, 40, of Portland, Ind., fugitive, former president of the Hawkins Mortgage Company, will be* a prisoner in Indianapolis by tonight if plans of Federal agents to remove him from Deyton, Ohio, where he was captured late Thurssday night, are successful. Hawkins disappeared* at Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 30, the night befor/ he was. to have gone on trial in Federal Court here with sixteen other defendants on charges of using the mails in a gigantic scheme to defraud. They were charged with having swindled thousands of stockholders of the Hawkins and affiliated concerns out of millions of dollars.

Hawkins forfeited his $7,600 bond by disappearing. John Welborn, postal inspector, who had charge of the Hawkins investigation, and Edward L. Osborne, special agent in charge of the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice, went to Dayton this afternoon to get Hawkins. The arrest was'made at the Haines Hotel in Dayton, shortly before midnight Thursday by Detectives L. J. Janning and H. Rohles of the Dayton police. Hawkins was registered at the hotel under the name of J. R. Hart of Detroit, Mich. He at first tolcl detectives his name was Morton Hart, and that he was a Detroit attorney. —nr“Later he admitted to us that his real name was Morton Hawkins, and that he was wanted in Indianapolis for jumping a $7,500 bond,” Janning said. / Followed to Hotel “Our attention was attracted to him about - p. m. on the street by his nervous manner. He was sUnking the street looking back over his shoulder frequently as if he feared

JHBHn ...

MORTON S. HAWKINS he were being followed. He constantly kept making efforts to hide his face. So we followed him to the hotel.” He was held on charges of false registration at a hotel. Hawkins’ wanderings have taken him far and wide over the United States, according to the story told detectives. "He told us that since he disappeared he had been In Detroit, Mich.; Orlando, Fla.; BalSmore, Md., and Washington, D. C., not staying long at any one place. He has been In Dayton since Saturday, according to the hotel register, Jannlng said. Indictment in Baggage The detectives a tip upon which to question Hawkins when they found a certified copy of the indictment against him in his baggage. District Attorney Homer L. Elliott said that the capture of Hawkins would J not alter his plan to leave office as soon as Attorney-Gen-eral Stone accepts his resignation. Elliott has been seeking relief from office for months in order to enter private practice. He became a member of the law firm of Weyl, Jewett, Robbins and Elliott Jan. 1. and is di(Turn to Page 15) EX-CONVICT IS SOUGHT Believe George E. Dempsey Is Slayer of Express Clerk. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—George E. Dempsey, an ex-convlct and fugitive from justice, has been named as the killer of Russell Dickey, American Express messenger during the attempted robbery of a crack Chicago & Northwestern train Tuesday night. Dempsey’s photograph, according to Capt. John Steeg of the Detective Bureau, has been positively identified by Max Marquardt, who was locked In a closet 'by the slayer after Dickey had been shot.

Forecast Generally fair tonight and Saturday, but with some cloudiness. Not much change in temperature. Lowest tonight 20 to 25.

TWO CENTS

PRINTING BOARD ’AGAINST PURDUE CONTtoPRICES Lafayette FiVm -Said to Exceed Rates of Local Company, The State printing board has disapproved Purdue University’s Class 1 printing contract with the Haywood Printing Company, Lafayette, j because of wide variance betweenj the prices in the contract and those! obtained by the State under its con-! tract with W. B. Burford here. v Figures show Purdue's contract on booklets and bulletins ranging fr<un 45.1 per cent to 97.9 per cent hlgp| er than the printing could be obtained through the regular channels of the State’s contract with Burford. A four-page pamphlet undM* the Haywood contract costing lV due $40.78 a thousand would coss! only $16.61 a thousand under the] State’s regular contract. It Is said. | Estimates on Purdue’s annual catalog show it would be printed for S9OO less through the Burford contract than under the proposed contract with the Haywood company. Approval of the Class 2 contract, including blank books and forms, was deferred until the work could be compared. The Class 3 contract with the Ft. Wayne Printing Company for office supplies was approved. / NEST EGG FUR GENERAL FUND Controller Carries Over $537,575,11. A balance of $337,575.11 was carried over from the city general fund tg next year by Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, today. Hogue issued more than 100,000 checks upon 169 funds during the year. Total receipts in the general fund were $4,992,833.29, of which $3,690,970.75 was collected in taxes. A balance of $216,566.75 was carried over from 1923, making total revenue of $5,209,400.02 last year. Clti--expenditures were $4,871,824.01 for the year. , -"1 Other items furnishing revenue to the city besides taxation was interest of $30,624.42 resulting from balance carried in local banks at 2 per cent; $45,633.74 from city court fines; $58,091 from vehicle licenses; $37,240.40 from market stand leases, and $12,892 from dog licenses. TREASURERS IN SESSION *3 J. L. Duvall Presides at Association Meeting. / ] John L. Duvall, treasurer Marion County, presided at a meeting of County Treasurers’ Association of Indiana today at Chamber of Com* j rnerce Problems confronting county treasurers were discussed, Duvall said. „ * HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m. 22 10 a. m. 21 7 a. m 23 11 a. m 21 8 a. m...... 21 12 (noon) .... 22 j fta m, .. 20 In. m...... 23 I ! ' P