Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 259, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 259

OUSTING OF ROAD BOARD PREDICTED

SHIFTS ARE SHAKE-UP AFTERMATH Chief and New Inspectors to Straighten Out Tangle Left by Police Reductions and Promotions Made by ' Board of Safety. ‘MISTAKES’ IN MARCH SLATES MAY BE FIXED Alleged Coffin Men Will Be Taken Out of Districts Where Shank Workers Are Needed, According to Rumors. Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff and the new inspector of police, John White, were to •meet late today to make out complete new assignment slates, following the police shake-up Tuesday by the board of safety. Rlkhoff said that no change* of any note were to be made in the elates other than that they were being made because the many reductions and promotions jumbled up the men so that straightening out was almost impossible otherwise. Correct Mistakes , It is thought that the new slates swill correct some of the- “mistakes" made when the March slates were drawn up and alleged “Coffin faction" men were placed in districts where Shank men previously were assigned and where they were needed to keep things running right in the next primary campaign for Ralph A. Lemcke, who is Shank's choice for Republican nomination for mayor. Rlkhoff has always denied that the changes made in the March slate were brought on by Coffin influence, but that they were made because of suggestions made by sergeants and lieutenants. > Zener Excited Capt. John Zener, close to Mayor Shank, has made several visits to the office of Rikhoff, and it is said he is greatly excited over the moving of the Shank patrolmen out of districts, especially the colored section. Capt. Barrett Ball, called the # roll at 7 a. .a. today and said that at Thursday's roll call he will have his definite shift and wtH at that time outline the work he expects from patrolmen. Rikhoff said he would call Michael Morrisey, who was promoted to sergeant in charge of the motorcycle squad, into his office today and discuss the apprehension of speeders. He said he Intends to curb fast driving on Meridian St. f TUT HAS DEFENDERS Scienetista Say New Tomb May Not Be So Old. Bu United Preta IjONDON, Maroh 11.—Old King Tut still holds his position in the arohaelogical spot light in the opinion of British scientists who believe the newly discovered sarcophagus at Giza contains the mummy of an ancient Egyptian princees and not that of Sneferuw, fourth dynast y-monarch or Cheops. Bneferuw’s tomb probably is in the vicinity of Dahshur, while Cheops’ mummy probably is located in a pyramid 15 miles or so to the north, the scientists say.

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Lad Struck by Automobile Learns Two Lessons

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EWO lessons not in his schoolbooks are being learned by William (Billy) Huddleston, 7, of 60 S. Addison Ave. One is a lesson in safety, learned when Billy wag struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. Gertrude Berry, 39, of 2605 W. Washington St... Monday at Belle Vieu PI. and Washington St. | The other is a lesson in patience, which the lad is learning while his injured shoulder and back heal. Billy, on hie way home to lunch from School 50, thought the school-

MRS. STOKES MAKES DENIAL ON STAND Trial on Defamation of Character Charges Nears Close as Woman Answers Allegations.

Bv United Prets * CHICAGO. March 11.—Both State and defense In the Stokes defamation of character trial today rested their cases, leaving: nothing but closing arguments before the case goes to the jury. Scornfully refusing to acknowledge the presence of her husband by even so much as a glance, Mrs. Stokes •took the stand and entered emphatic WYOMING SOLON DESCRIBES MOVE TO HALT LEASES Senator Kendrick Tells of Inquiries Leading to Teapot Exposure, Bv United Prett FEDERAL COURTROOM. CHEYENNE. Wyo., March 11.—John "B. Kendrick, United States Senator from Wyoming, was the first witness, at today’s session of the Government’s suit to break the lease of the Mammoth Oil Company on the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. * Kendrick testified he received a telegram from Leslie Miller, Cheyenne, April 7, 1922, asking Kendrick to inquire of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall if the Department of Interior would consider application for a lease on of Teapot Dome. Denies Knowledge of Lease Kendrick said he brought the mat. ter to the department’s attention, and on April H Miller, wired him again, asking him to repeat the inquiry. Kendrick said he did not know of the Teapot Dome lease at the time of Miller's telegram, and said that a letter from H. Foster Bain, director of the Bureau of Mines, on April 10, stated That no definite contracts had been made in connection with naval oil reserves Nos, 1 and 2 in California and No. 3 in Wyoming. Asked for Information On April IP, Kendrick said he received a telegram from former Governor B. B. Brooks of .Wyoming on behalf of tho Rocky Mountain Oil and Gae Producers’ Association of Casper urging the Wyoming delegation to take action preventing consummation of the Teapot Dome lease. Kendrick said he then introduced a resolution ask’ng toe Interior and Navy Departments for more information on leasing of naval oil reserve* and whether a-j opportunity was given for public bidding for the contracts. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m S3 10 a m 36 7 a. m...... 34 H a. n*. 16 * a. m 34 13 (noon) .... 37

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boy traffic officer gave him the signal to cross the street. Mrs. Berry thought he gave her the signal to come on. They both hurried forward. One wheel of tho car rap over Billy’s shoulder. Mrs. Berry stopped after the accident. She was at Billyhs home to see how he was getting along when an Indianapolis Times reporter visited him. Billy's not sure how the accident happened. But he is sure of one thing—that he'll be very, very careful hereafter in crossing streets.

denial of the charge made by W. E. D. Stoke*, her aged husband, that she w*p? alone in jar bedroom with Hal Blllig,. her cousin, while attired only in corset, stockings and slippers. "I was not alone in my bedroom with Hal Billig at any time.” Mrs. Stoke* asserted emphatically. “The only time Hal was in my j-oom, Mr. Stokes was there also. Dressed in Dinner Gown. "Furthermore,” she said, "I was dressed in my dinner gown and still had my evening wrap over my •boulders. We had Just come in i om a theater party.” Mrs. Stokes made a sweeping denial r# charges that she bad once been an Inmate of the Everleigh Club in Chicago, a notorious vice resort in -he negro colony. W. B. Smith, the state's attorney, thep took her into the subject i>f her trips from Denver to Chicago and return. Two Pullman conductors testified that they knew (Turn to Page 11) ITER COMPANY ■: INCOME LARGE i Net Returns Are Listed at ’ $542,231,62. Net income of the Indianapolis Water Company for 1924 Amounted to $542,231.62, from which $500,000 in common stock dividends were paid, according to annual report filed today with the public service commission. Value of property and plant is reported as $13,938,029.96 and total assets and liabilities of $16,064,170.65. Capital stock ownership of the company by the Indianapolis Waterworks Securities Company! representing interests of Clarence H Geist, represents 99.987 per cent, of the entire capital. Other figures given in the report: Operating revenues, $&;141.952.98; operating expenses, $1,171,916.79; gross income, $937,764.52; surplus as of Dec. 31, 1924, $^02,992.30. OTTO LEE MADE CLERK Local Man Succeeds G. H. Healey on State Printing Board. Otto Lee, Indianapolis. was chosen clerk of the State printing board at a meeting' today in the office of Governor Jackson, Tom Corfer, Indianapolis.' deputy clerk of the board, was reappointed. Lee will succeed George H. Healey, retiring clerk, who is entering private business. Selection of Lee wan a surprise to observers, who thought the place would go to Repre* -ntsji ve Frank *E. Wright,* Lynn* sAnYhtatmtion leader in the lagt legislature.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1925

COME TO SUBMIT NEW NOMINATION White House Stunned When Senate Refuses to Confirm President’s Nomination for Attorney General — Overman Changes Vote, DAWES TOO LATE TO SUPPORT EXECUTIVE Vice President Taking Nap When SOS Comes —Arrives at Upper House Chamber in Time to See Chief's Action Repudiated. Bu United Pma WASHINGTON, March 11.— President Coolidge will submit anew nomination for Attorney General to the Senate before it adjourns, Republican leaders declared today, after a conference with the President at the White House.

Furthermore, in the opinion of Senator Cummins, lowa, it will be approved by the Senate at this extra As for the likelihood of ’.he President resubmitting the name of Charles B. Warren, who was refused confirmation ip a,dramatic session of the Senate late yesterday, Cunrihtns said: "It would be hopeless with the present line-up in the Senate. I don’t know of any who might be expected now to change their vote of yesterday.” Coolidge to Confer The President will reserve his decision on his next step in filling (he post of Attorney Gengral until he has conferred with Warren, it was Indicated at the White House. Warren Is understood to have been asked to confer with the President at the White House tomorrow. The Senators at the White House conference informed the President that Warren’s nomination, if resubmitted, could not be confirmed and they left with the impression that Coolidge is convinced he must seek another man, it was said. Tnere was no hint either at the White House or Senate as to whom he would select. Warren left Detroit today for a conference with President Coolidge at Washington. Warren said his presence was requested by the President. ' Dawes was resting at his hotel apartment when frantic word came to him from the Capitol that the Senate wls tied. 40-4 r, over the confirmation of the Warren nomination and for him to hurry to the Senate (Turn to Page 11) ENFORCEMENT IS ~NEXT “Blue Sky” Law Sponsors to Meet Here Monday. Joint committee which sponsored the present "blue sky” law will mept Monday at the Board of Trade to consider regulation for putting into effect the new law, George Mosser. secretary State Chamber of Commerce, announced today. Frederick E. Schortemeier, Secretary of State, asked W. H. Arnett, Kokomo, chairman, to call the meeting. The law was sponsored by the Indiana Commercial Secretaries Association. THREE~oF4OO ignored Social Register Leaves Out Name 'of Helen El wood Stokes. Bv United Press NEW YORK. March 11.—The name of Leonard Kipp Rhine! vnder and his wife appear in the latest supplement of the ‘‘social register,” but the names of Millicent Rogers. Mrs. James A. Stillma and Helen Etwood Stokes are missing. * The Rhinelanders were married secretly. Ralnelander is demanding annulment of the marrtago charging that his wife’ is declared a mulatto in census records. BELL, OFFICIAL SUICIDE Temporary Insanity Responsible for Plunge From Building. Bv United Prett CHICAGO, March 11.—Temporary insanity today wa sheld responsible for the suicide of Joseph Jones, 61, treasurer of the Montreal Bel! Telephone Company, who plunged from the ninth floor of a hotel here yesterday. Jones recently suffered a nervous breakdown and was under the care of a Chicago specialist. Jones and his brother and sister were waiting for an elevator whan he ran to a window and jumped out

First Cabinet Nominee Rejected in 50 Years

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CHARLES B. WARREN OF MICHIGAN

WHY THEY REJECTED WARREN rpjnCHAKLES BEECHER WARREN, lawyer, Detroit, organized I the Michigan Beet Sugar. Company, a consolidation of the interests of the beet sugar growers. The company demanded" tariff protection against the Sugar Trust. Hearings were held by Congress. The secretary of the company testified that Warren’s company had no connection whatever with the Sugar Trust. Later Warren was compelled to admit that a majority of the stock in the Michigan company, held in his own name, actually was held In trust for Charles O. Havemeyer, head of the Sugar Trust. Subsequently Warren himself escaped ptotyequtlon personally when the Sugar Trust was attacked by the Government, by showing that his stock was only held In trust for Havemsyer. He continued, however, at the head of the Michigan company until last January. The Sugar Trust has been pressing the Department of Justice to consent to a modification of the consent decree issued against it. AtVpmey General Stone refused to agree to the modification. The matter is still before the Department of Justice, of which President Coolidge sought to make Warren the head.

REVELS AT GARDENS DESCRIBED IN COURT Waiter Who Made $125 a Week in Tips Tells Jury of Midnight Parties Held at Jack-o’-Lantern Resort.

Allege dmidnight revels at Jack-o’-Lantern Gardens, dance resort near Millersville, were described to a Criminal Court jury today in' the llqupr trial of Carlos Hammond, proprietor. Star witness for the State was

PLANS FOR NEW BUILDING MADE Will Be Constructed at Capitol and Maryland, Construction of a two story brick building at the northwest corner of Capitol Ave. and Maryland St., to start May 1, was announced today by the Guedelhoeter Realty Company. The building will face Capitol Ave. and extend to the alley. Two storerooms will face Capitol and five on Maryland. Offices will occupy the second floor. Storerooms facing Maryland St. will extend be hind the building now occupied by the Famous Players-Laakey Company on Capitol Ave., Guedelhoefer said. Otto Guedelhoefer said the building would l>e donstructed so that at least four stories could be added later for a local hotel company. Frontage on Capital Ave., is 85 feet and on Maryland 125 feet. INDICTED FOR MURDER Grand .Jury Acts in Fatal Shooting at I-sundry. \William H. Burns, former employe of the Model Laundry Company, alleged to have fatally shot Nathan T. Washburn, president of the company, at the laundry, Feb. 3, was indicted today for murder i by the county grand Jury. Fred Hillman was indicted on mur- j der Charges alao. He is abused of J shooting William H. Sachs*F*b. 24. I

Owen R. Marshall. Chicago, waiter at the time of the arrest. Sopt. 21. "We got $25 a week salary, and I made $125 extra a week he said." The waiters got drunk continually. There were intoxicated people there every night. Each evening we gathered up from a half to a bushel of' empty bottles. Hammond saw it all going on.” The State put in evidence some of the 126 bottles alleged to have been seized by. Sheriff Snider and Prohibition Director Bert Morgan in the raid. Morgan said he recognized many high school and college students. Hammond was indicted jointly with Miss Lenora Haag, but is having a separate trial. Miss Haag is said t 6 have financed his place. SEVERAL DEAD IN WRECK Cincinnati Train Reported in Crash in Kentucky. Bv Untted Prett CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 11.— The engineer, fireman and several passengers were killed when a Cincinnati train was wrecked today at Flat Rock, Ky., according to first reports from the* scene of the accident.

Assessors Watch Roofs for Radios Bv Timet Svnpial SEYMOUR, Ind., March 11.— Ed Newkirk, tbwnshiff assessor here, says Seymour has more radios and more ownerless dogs than ever before. He cannot tell definitely about the ownership of a dog but says he can tell when there is a radio by cocking his eye at the roof for the aerial. One township assessor in Jackson County was talking to a farmer who stated that he had no money in the bank. When the assessor asked him how many dogs he had he said “two” and pulled out his check book and paid his taxes on them- - J-;>

Entered M Second-Class Matter at Poatoffiee, Indianapolis. Published Dally Except Sunday.

Governor Will Ask Director and Members of State Highway Commission to Resign, Report Says—Jackson Calls Conference. ACTION EXPECTED AT MEETING WITH OFFICIALS LATE TODAY One on Body May Retain Post—Public Service Commission Also Declared Hit in Shake-Up Plan at Statehouse —Executive Refuses to Comment. The long expected shake-up in the State House was expected, to materialize this afternoon at a conference called by Governor Jackson witl] members of the State highway commission. Persons close to the Governor said Jackson would ask for the resignation of all members and Director John D. Williams, the possible exception of Alvan V. Burch of Evansville. Jackson admitted the conference was called.

“Yes I have called a conference with the commission to talk over certain matters, but as for asking for ♦heir resignations I don't want to say anything about it," he said. Crawford Expects Move Earl Crawford, Milton, under indictment with Williams on charge of embezzlement and grand larceny in the sale of surplus war materials, said he expected resignations would be asked. When asked whether he would resign he said: “I don’t want to cross that bridge until I get to it.” Williams said he did not expect the Governor to ask for his resignation. It was also reported that Harry Leslie, Lafayette, Speaker of the iJoua% of Representatives, had been offered the directorship of the commission, but refused. It was reported Jacksdn and Clyde A. Walb, Republican State chairman, offered the plum to Leslie in return for handing down the Lindley bill cutting the State boar dos education to four members. Leslie also refused to accept. Employee May Lose Jobs It was said ousting of the highway commission members will put 1,600 employes, said to be loyal to the commission, out of their Jobs. It was stated definitely by friends of the Governor that Ora Davies, former State treasurer, who has been mentioned for the place would not be offered the directorship. It was reported State Senator Ora King, of Sweetser, would succeed Maurice Douglas on the public service commission. John Mo Cardle, and Frank Wampler are expected to be reappointed. Daily McCoy, secretary of the Republican State committee, will succeed Fred Robinson as secretary of the State purchasing board although there has been opposition to his appointment, it is said.

MADDUX FREED IN BLACHE CAGE Found Not Guilty of Attempt to Extort Money, Walter W. Maddux, attorney, was found not guilty of charges of blackmail by a jury which returned a sealed verdict In Criminal Court at 9 a. m. today before Special Judge Fremont Alford. The jury which began deliberation on the case at 5:15 p. m., Tuesday, was out an hour. The trial opened Monday morning. Maddujc was indicted with Oliver B. Jameson on charges of extorting $l5O from Frank Buchanan, proprietor of the Liberty Beach hotel. Jameson, who turned State’s evidence, testified It was agreed to ha ve police raid t“he hotel for alleged liquor law violations, if Buchanan refused to pay demands said to have been made by Maddux and Jameson. Charges against Jameson are still pending. DECISION NEXT TUESDAY Proposed Hotel and Garage for Meridian St. to Be Acted on. Final decision on applications of the International Typographical Union to use the property purchased from the Murdock estate, Meridian and Twenty-Eighth Sts.,\ for headquarters and of George Marott and E. G. Spink to erect a garage on Twenty-Seventh St., between Meridian and Illinois Sts., will be made by the city filan commission next Tuesday, it was announced today. The garage is to be used in connection with anew $8,000,000 hotel

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight followed by fair Thuraday. Lowest temperature tonight 28 to 34. Warmer by Thuraday night.

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CHURCH TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON CITYMANAGER Pastor Announces E, 0, Snethen as Speaker N March 22. The Rev. Jesse Bogus, pastor of North M. E. Church, Illinois St. and Maple Rd., today announced a public meeting on the city manager movement in Indianapolis will be held at the North Church Sunday night, March 22. Edward O. Snether, president Federation of Civic Clubs, will talk on “The golden Rule in Civic Affaire. ** "I believe the city manager form of government is a plain common sehse and business-like method applied to city government,” the Rev. Bogue said. 1 Club Hears Speech Snethen addressed the Mapieton Civic Club Tuesday night at North Church. Joe Rand Beckett, president of the Service Club, today said he had received a number of responses to Invitations to hear Wayne G. Lee, director of finance of Dayton, Ohio, at the Service Qub luncheon on Monday at the Lincoln on “The Economy of the City Manager Form of Government.” Gyro Chib Jobe Gyro Club adopted a resolution favoring the movement for a city manager for Indianapolis following an explanation by H. L. RJc.h ardt, chairman of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board civic affairs committee, at luncheon Tuesday at the Lincoln. Discussion followed an anti-man-ager talk by William Bosson, city attorney, at Mercator Club luncheon Tuesday at the Spink Arms. Walter G. Ulrich, secretary, pointed out that the manger form had many merits. MINE REPORT DEN lED Rumor Headquarters to Be Romo red Declared Untrue. Reports that headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America are to be moved from Indianapolis to Logan County, West Virginia, were declared unfounded at miners’ headquarters today. President John L. Lewis refused to discuss the report. According to a United Press dispatch rumors of the change were circulated today at a sub-district min* meeting at Bellalre. Ohio.

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