Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 247

STATE SENATORS ON ‘STRIKE’ ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® @ ® ® ® Medill McCormick Found Dead in Washington Hotel THIRTEEN CANDIDATES FOR “QUEEN’ AT BUTLER JUNIOR PROM

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SENATOR’S BRILLIANT CAREER Eli 'Gastric Hemorrhage’ Is Ad- i j vanced as Cause of Death —Mar.ried Mark hanna's Daughter— Recertly Defeated for Another Term, Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois died suddenly here today at his hotel of gastric hemorrhage. McCormick, apparently in good health when he arose this morning, was suddenly seized about 9:30 and expired almost Immediately. Mrs. McCormick has been summoned from Chicago and is on her way here. Hemorrhage Cause McCormick had apparently been dead about an hour. The doctor gave gastric hemorrhage as the cause of death. Representative Nicholas lng worth. Republican leader, was one of the first of McCormick s friends to j reach the hotel. No announcement of McCormick's death wag made on the floor of either house for some time in order to allow ample time for Mr. McCormick’s friends to notify Mrs. McCormick, who was in Chicago with Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth. After an investigation at the hotel Detective Bernard Thompson of headquarters announced “there were no suspicious circums.ances,” and {he coroner issued a certificate of death “due to natural causes.” The body will remain at the hotel until Mrs. McCormick arrives to take chargS" of It. McCormick was the senior Senator from Illinois. He was born in Chicago in 1877, the son of Robert 8. McCormick and Katherine Medill McCormick. After graduating from Tale in 1900, he returned to Chicago to become affiliated with the Chicago Tribune, a family property. His political life included the vice chairmanship of the Progressive national committee from 1912 to 1914, two terms in the Illinois General Assembly and one term In the National House of Representatives, 1917-1919. He was elected Senator from Illinois in 1919. McCormick married the daughter of the late Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio In 1903. They have three children. WASHINGTON, Feb| 25.—Following adoption of a resolution expressing its “deep regret and profound sorrow" at the death of Senator Medill McCormick, Illinois. Republican. the Senate adjourned until Thursday. ROAD BODY ATTACKED Kissinger Has Bill to Abolish Highway Commission. With a* divided report predicted on Senator Cravens' bill to abolish the public service commission and ret up a utility commission of three I members. Representative Kissinger said today he would Introduce a bill to abolish the highway commission and create anew department to be named by the Governor. Political gossip was that, notwithstanding results of the probes of the State Reformatory, the highway commission or the public servioe commission, Governor Jackson was only awaiting adjournment of the Legislature to start wielding the Administration ax. qn the coramls

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HUNG JURY SEEN AGAIN FOR HUNT r Ballot Twenty-One Hours Without Verdict. The Criminal Court jury jn the trial of Eld win A. Hunt, real estate dealer, charged with conspiracy to embezzle SIO,OOO of Marion County funds, had been deliberating twentyone hours today without reaching a verdict This is Hunt’s second trial on charges of conspiring with Richard V. Sipe, former county clerk, an'd Will H. Latta. attorney, to embezzle the county money. At that time the Jury deliberated twenty-one hours and was discharged. Judge Collins announced he would not disturb the jury until 4 p. m.. providing it did not reach a verdict sooner ,

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v United Prenn MILLEDGEVILSjffi. Ga.. Feb. / 25.—The case of Mary Claire Berry, pretty 18 year-old school girl being irled for the murder of her two young brother* by feeding them poison, was in the hands of the jury today. Judge Clark delivered a brief

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M’fIHJOCK MW IS CHARGE ‘Millionaire Orphan 1 Was Held Captive While 111 With Typhoid, Employe of Shepherd Testifies at Coroner's Inquest, Bv United Pres * ‘ CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—New alleged suspicious circumstances surrounding death of “Bilty” McClintock were given at the coroner’s inquest today by Louis Kies, man of all work lor Mr. and Mrs. William D. Shepherd, foster-parents of the “millionaire orphan.” Kies emphasised that the Shepherds disliked Miss Isabelle Pope. North Shore society girl, who was engaged to McClintock. "To her face they treated Miss Pope like an angel,” Kies testified. "But to her back they were like poison snakes.” Guarded Doors When the Shepherds learned Miss Pope had secured a license to marry Billy, they kept the sick youth, suffering from typhoid fever, a prisoner, Kies said. “I was told to lock the doors and keep everybody out,” the witness tes'ified. "While I ran all the Irrands for the family, they wouldn’t let me get the' doctor’s presc.iptlons filled. Shepherd did that himself. And he never wefit to the neighborhood drug store. He went somewhere else ” Mrs. Shepherd referred to Miss Pope as a pest, ides testified. When the quarantine placard was placed pn the door Mrs. Shepherd, said, according to Kies: "Now we can keep her out:” Cook Signed Kies also said that Eva Nelson, cook at the Shepherd 'home, where Billy made his residence, told him she signed “some i/apers” at Shep herd’s request.. Then the cook said. Shepherd cautioned her to say that she signed the papers at Billy’s request. The cook’s name appears as witness on the will which bequeathed nearly "all of the McClintock fortune to the Shepherds.. Chief Justice Olson of Municipal Court instigated the investigation of the death. Justice Olson told the coroner and police officials he believed the youth died under suspicious circumstances. EUGENICS BILL KILLED House Votes Indefinite Postponement of Holmes Measure. The Indiana house today killed Senator Holme’s bill for st< rllization of social defectives. The bill was reported out of committee without recommendation and a motion was made and carried for indefinite postponement. The bill, which wi aponsored by Senator Holmes, oi Gary, had passed the Senate.

went out to deliberate. The young girl took the stand in her own defense. Tuesday and in as impassioned address to the jury denied that she had poisoned her brothers, Emery, 6, and Adolphus. 2 “I ant without sin/ she said. The crowded court' room was silent the* slim, auburn-haired

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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25,1925

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SIIESE thirteen Butler co-eds have been nominated for queen of the junior prom. The prom Is an annual ball staged by the junior class. ESch student buying a ticket to the b; il will have a vote in the eelec .ion of the queen. She Will be choapn pns_,iv.eek in advance hf the affair, which will be held some tilne In March. / The ijueen will lead the ‘grand march, accompanied by David Kil-

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Solon Would Remove Loophole Found In Tail- • ure to Stop Law.

HE killer who strikes and sneaks away on rubber Lies may be caught and go scot free under Indiana law. Smart lawyers of the cowardly motorist who "breaks property or oodles and speeds away without stopping may squeeze him through a loophole encompassed by six words. Smart, but public spirited lawyers, have set about to plug up the loophole. Take the case of the driver who knocked Charles Miller, 12, of 123d W. Washington St., off his bicycle in W. Washington St., recently. The driver sped on, Ms cut-out wide open. He might have killed the lad, but he only hurt him. It would have been all the same to the potential killer. Suppose the police finally catch the killer and charge him with failure to stop after an accident and give his name and address. He will hire a smart lawyer and the lawyer wlll v open a book entitled "Acts of 1923” to page 329. There the lawyer will read: The Law “Any person operating a motor vehicle causing an Injury to a person or property, due to culpability of said operator, \kho leaves the place of said Injury or accident without stooping and giving his name, residence. Including street and street number and the operator’s license number to the injured party, or to a police or peace officer • * •” and so on, shall be duly purilshed. Those words, "due to culpability of said operator,” will leap out of the page at the smart lawyer. “Ab,” he will muse. “They’ve got :o prove my client was to blame. Let’s see. The boy waa riding a bicycle-. He was on the right side of he street. It’s true, my c.llen swerved from across the street and (Turn (o Page 11)

girl walked slowly to the stand, .ter mother, who In the past few years has lost her husband and then her two young sons, was weeping softly. “Gentlemen of the jury,” the girl began. ”1 am absolutely Innocent. " •; : V “I have done nothing wrotiy. 1 know' nothing about the deal"'.

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gore, junior class president. The candidates and the organizations sponsoring them are: Sarah Frances Downs. 3310 Central Ave.; Kappa Alpha Theta: Lorene Whit-’ ham. 3868 Ruckle St., Kappa Alpha Theta; Irma Ulrich, 3619 Winthrop Ava , Kfippa Kappa Gamma; Marjorie Chiles,- s<fo3 Lowell Ave., PI Beta Phi; Margaret Waters. 20 Bosart Ave., Delta Yxdta Delta; Dorothy‘Stephenson, 9? &, Fairfield

SULLIVAN’S DIRE NEED PICTURED By WILL H. HAYS mT is only as one has lived in a locality where the community interest is intense, as it is in Sullivan, that one can realize the poignancy of community disaster. There

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doing a splendid service, but much more help is needed. Money donated will he spent economically and officially, where it will do the most good. s It is the quality and type of need that should be responded to from all sections. I know this response will be forthcoming.

KANSAS CITY ADOPTS CITY MANAGER PLAN Bv Uniteand KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 26.—Kansas City Tuesday adopted the council-manager system of government by a vote of approximately 4 to 1, an incomplete vote count indicated today. The vote was light, as resistance to the measure was only passive.

of my brother. Emery, and I can tell you nothing, either, of the death a week before of my biether, Adolphus. “I was put in the Georgia State Sanitarium Oct. and was neld there nearly three months utterly without cause. The*Btate chemist said he found poison in the bodies of Adolphus aiui Em-

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Ave., Delta Delta Delta; Katherine Burgan, . 1145 Churchman Ave., Zeia Tau Alpha; Caroline Godley, 2458 N. Alabama St.. Kappa Kappa Gamma; Margaret Haldy, 2929 N. Talbott, Delta Delta Delta: Virginia Curtis, 1244 N. Illinois St., Alpha Chi Omega; Mary McMeans, 307 S. Audubon Rd., Sigma Delta; Louise Rundell, 1225 Congress Ave., Zsta Tau Alpha, and Margaret Bell. 5815 E. Washington 8t. v Delta Zeta.

is not a family in Sullivan that is not touched; for the death of fifty-one men and the orphaning of 100 children is in proportion exactly as if in New York 6,000 men were killed and 12,000 children were left. There are individual cases of inexpressible sorrow, and whole families are destitute. Father and brothers were killed together, and mothers have died from the shock. There is a real need for help from everyone. The American Red Cross and the local committee are

ery, and 1 was blamed. “How they were poisoned 1 do not knowi nor why; nor by whom. “Wherever there io a crime committed there must be area son or motive and i had no reason or motive. I loved my broth era and mothered them. 1 denied myself pleasures to comfort them 1 loved them and they

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Democrats Refuse to Attend Until Republicans Withdraw Gerrymander Move on Lawrence County— Body Adjourned to 2 P. M. Democrats stopped the wheels of the Indiana General Assembly today when the minority, in a body, stayed away frqru the Senate. * Republicans, unable to transact business because the absence of the eighteen Democrats caused lack of a quorum, waited an hour and a half after the 10 a. m. opening hour and then adjourned until 2 p. m.

Republicans, discussing means of getting the Democrats back, dis cussed calling out the National Guard and forcibly bringing them in if ordinary arrest failed. Senator Joseph Cravens, Democratic floor leader, who with Senator C. Prallle Erni, constituted the only .Democrats present, served notice that the other Democrats would not return until the Republican bill to gerrymander LawrenCe County from the Second to the Third Congressional District is withdrawn. The Democratic move also was designed, it was said, to blast the hope or the Republican State Committee that all business might be rushed through and the Legislature | adjourned by Saturday night. Law permits the Assembly to meet until MarcA 9. Lawrence J. Cartwright, Republican State vice chairman admitted I it was the plan to railroad though the Administration appropriation bill this week adjourn, Saturday and let everything else slide. Republican Floor Leader Jarates ( Nejdl, presiding during the illness of Lieutenant Governor Harold F. Van Orman sent the door keepers to “bring in the absent Senators.” Cravens Tells Why After Chief Doorkeeper Jerome K. Brown reported he had found some of them at Democratic State headquarters in the Claypool and that they had refused to return until the gerrymander measure was withdrawn, Cravens said: “Now I’ll tell you why the minority are not going to meet with this body until this unreasonable, unfair measure is withdrawn. "It Is purely a political measure, Introduced for benefit of one of the members who has a bee to run for Congress. You may arrest us and send us to prison, but the Democrats will not stand to see such legislation passed for purely political reasons and we will stay out until this bill is withdrawn.” Senator Nejdl replied: “Do I glean from the Senator’s remarks that the (Turn to Page 2) judge Approves sale Creditors and Stockholder’s Buy Duesenberg Company. Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash today approved purchase of the Duesenberg Automobile and Motors Company, Inc., from its receiver, William T. Rasmussen, real estate dealer, for $875,000 by creditors and largest preferred stockholders. Judge Bash entered an order for sale of the property on Deo. 31, 1924, and asked $375,000 as the minimum price. The bid was made through the Security Trust Company, it is un derstood the plant will continue operation under the name of Duesen berg Motors Company. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 42 10 a. m 45 7 a, m 43 11 a. m 46 8 a. m...... 44 18 (noon) 4 9 a. m _44 1 p. m 48

loved me and 1 am innocent of any wrong doing toward them." Neighbors said Mary was “queer.” and when both her lit tie brothers died within a week laat fall they called in the po lice. Mary was decivred Ineane. but after three months in the State Sanitarium was found sane and indicted for murder.

Forecast, CLOUDY tonight, followed by generally fair Thursday. Decidedly colder with lowjst temperatures tonight 25 to 30.

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STATE RESPONDS TO RELIEF PLEA OP MINEVICTIMS Contributions Pour Into Sullivan —Probe to Resume Thursday. Bv 1 United Press SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 25.—The State-wide relief fund for relatives of miners killed in the City mine explosion was estimated by Red Cross workers today at between $20,09< and $25,000, including the SIO,OOO appropriation of the State Legislature. \ Every mail brought additional contributions from cities throughout the State and scores of other contributions were sent Jn by telegram. | The International organization of 1 the United Mine Workers wired SI,OOO for the relief fund. Every effort of Red Cross workers headed by Henry Baker, national director of disaster relief work, and the local relief committee was directed toward raising to the SIOO,OOO quota. Hays Arrives Will H. Hays, former Sullivan resident and "czar" of the movies, joined in the relief work today. Hays has-'' tened to Sullivan from Callup, N. M., upon hearing of the disaster. “The enormity of the disaster in a town the size of Sullivan Is appalling,” Hays said. "There is hardly a home that has not been touched directly or indirectly by the tragedy. "Citizens of Sullivan are making heroic efforts to meet the emergency, but help from the outside Is badly needed.” Community memorial services .will be held at t p. rh. today on the (Turn to Page 2)

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