Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1925 — Page 1

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SHOWS COUNSEL IN HEW MOVE Attorney Charges State Forced Faiman to Tell Germ Story to Prevent Prosecution on Illegal Operation Charge. JUDGE IS ASKED FOR REHEARING ON BAIL Crowe Investigates Report That Witness Was Offered $5,000 Bri'je to Leave Town Examination of Bodies Continues. Bu United Prets CHICAGO, March 28.—Threats of prosecution forced Dr. Charles C. Faiman to charge that William D. Shepherd plotted to kill Billy MeClintock, William S. Stewart, defense attorney for Shepherd charged today in anew demand for bail. Attaches of the office of State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe, told Dr. Faiman if he did not tell his story, they would prosecute him on a charge of performing an illegal operation, Stewart declared, producing affidavits as to the alleged operation which resulted fatally. Stewart made his argument before Judge Jacob Hopkins who rejected petition for bail several days Judge Hopkins adjourned action until Monday without Making a ruling. ' Reports of attempts to bribe Earl P. Clark, who gave Important testimony against Shepherd, were in vestigated by Crowe today. Clark was taken into custody. It was reported a detective agency offered Clark $5,000 to leave town. Crowe ordered the head of the agency brought in. Coroner’s cltemists were at work on the bodies of Dr. Olson, brother of Chief Justice Olson and Mrs. Emma McClintock, mother of Billy. On the demand of Justice Olson the bodies were exhumed to determine whether death was causd by poison. The preliminary examination shows the presence of endocarditis in the body of Mrs. McClintock and pericarditis in tlse body of Dr. Olson. These are forms of he\rt affection. Dr. William D. McNall/, eorone. s chemist said, but said le hac* not yet established wheths.' death was due to these ailments. Bodies Well Preserved Both bodies are in an excellent state of preservation, despit* the fact that Mrs. McClintock died sixteen years ago and Dr. Olso.i three years ago. Mrs. Luella Rhuebell. former manager of the Science College, now headed by Dr. C. C. Faiman. chief witness against Shepherdd, told attaches of the State Attorney’s office that she had evidence that Dr. never had any germs in his Hnedical school, and therefore could have given typhoid germs to Shepherd. The woman said she possessd documents whiqh would show Dr. Faiman was a drug addict and would destroy value of his testimony. WHOOPEE! SCHOOL’S OUT Jnrtianapolis Kids Begin Week of Spring Vacation. About 50,000 Indianapolis school kids happily began their spring vacation today. All grade and high schools closed Friday for a week, according to Superintendent E. U. Graff. Classes will be resumed Monday, April 6.

Bernard Treacy First Boy to Enter Marble Tourney

"If I don't win the trip to Atlantic City It won’t Dc ucv.i.use I didn’t practice,” said Be m'rd Treacy, 10, of 118 N. Drexel Ave., the first boy to 'formally enter the third annual Times marble tournament, today. “1 would rather be city marble champ than most anything I know of now. It is going to take a lot of practice, but I am willing to put in the time. Every day before and after school I am going to shoot," he said. Bernard, who is a student at Our Lady of Lourdes School, haa been a marble player for four years. This is the first year he has entered The Times city tourney Every Indianapolis boy and girl under 16 can enter the city tournament. Winners of neighborhood g/waes will play to de-

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‘Bow Wow’ Brings Luck in Court A white and brown dog brought some luck to Miss Hattie Meadows, colored, 614 Fulton St., arraigned in Criminal Court today on charge of grand larceny and false pretenses In giving spiritualistic readings to Mrs. Pearl Lane, 2230 Central Ave. She escape da fine and sentence, but was ordered to give back $65 said to have been paid her by Mrs. Lane on a promise to return her husband, who had left her. The husband ignored the ‘’spiritualistic” appeal. Miss Meadows had the dog In court for luck, she told Judge James A. Collins.

FUNERAL MONDAY POk DR. KURTY ID BEATRESIDENCE Scottish Rite Will Conduct Private Rites at Crown .. Hill. - Dr. Matthew F. Smith, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, will conduct funeral services for Dr. John N. Hurty, 73, former secretary of State board of health, at 10 a. m., Monday, at the residece, 31 E. Eleventh St. Sco f tish Rite will conduct private burial rites at Crown Hill Cemetery. Dr. Hurty nationally known as a public health crusader, died early Friday after a week's illness. Slight attack of influenza resulted in lung congestion, Thursday night. Indianapolis Medical Society, of which Dr. Hurty was a member, will hold a memorial service for him T'i K day night, at the Athenaeum. St.' Medical Association will cooperate in the meeting. Active pallbearers include Ernest Knefler, Hathaway Simmons, Harvey Elam, William Sullivan, Lawrence Chambers and William H. Thompson. Dr. John H. Oliver, Albert J. Beveridge, Dr. Charles P. Emerson, Dr. William N. Wishard, Charles Martlndale. Dr. Charles Ferguson, Dr. Frederick R. Henshaw. George C. Hitt, Dr. William F. King, General William McKee and Dr. Harry E. Barnard of Chicago, will be honorary pallbearers. Telegrams of regret over the death of Dr. Hurty have been received from all over the United States by Dr. William F. King, secretary Slate board of health. allies™ TO GERMAN NOTE Safety Pact Proposal Is Favored by Four Nations. Bv United Prett PARIS, March 28 —The allies have decided to replj to Germany regarding the German proposals for a European safety pact. It was learned seml-officially today. France has received favorable replies from London, Rome and Brussels to the note containing France’s observations on the German proposals. The conference of ambassadors has finally agreed to the terms of the questionnaire designed with the idea of obtaining additional information from the Foch committee on German armaments on which to base a not to Germany regarding Cologna. The allies have suddenly become more attentive to the question of German armaments because of hints that Germany might withdraw her security proposals.

tide the city champ. The Times will send the winner of the city tournament to Atlantic City to participate in the national tourney sponsored by Scripps-Howard newspapers. Only Indianapolis boys and girls are eligible. All you have to do to enter the contest is fill out the entry blank on page 3, bring or mail to Marble Editor of The Times, 214-220 W. Maryland Here are a few of the early entrants: John Workman, 518 S. Drover St.; Fred Carroll, 415 W. Twenty-Seventh St.; Eddie Laurlnce, 46 Madison Ave.; Kennard Ong, 2361 Park Ave.; Eldward Fienek, 1011 N. Rural St.; Dick Lowther, Jr., 705 Bungalow Ct.; Abraham .Vatkins, 946 Maple St., and Charles Barnett, 1323 N. Jefferson Ave. Watch The Times every day.

CITY LINES WILL DELAY EXTENSIONS Street Car Officials Are Not Certain How Much Extra Increase in Fare Will Bring —Track Is Replaced and Paving Planned. TWO-CENT BOOST HAS BROUGHT IN $143,619 \ Company Tells of Purchasing Ten New Type Cars, Now in Operation Have Already Spent More Than Gain From Larger Fare. Extension of street car lines and rebuilding of car tracks will not be undertaken by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company for the present at least. Officials of the company say that uncertainty as to amount of revenue available under the fare increase from 5 to 7 cents precludes possibility of accurate estimate. However, the company has r®. placed a large amount of track in the past year and an agreement has been reached with the board of works for paving between car tracks on streets where the paving is needed greatly. Citizens of Indianaoplis have paid $143,619.15 increase In fares to the company since May 20, 1924, when the 7-cent rate went into effect, but this amount and several thousand dollars in addition have been spent by the company in equipment and rebuilding tracks, according to Joseph A. McGowan, secretary. This was the understanding with the public service commission and Indianapolis board of public works when the raise was granted. Cars Purchased

Purchase of ten cars of the Peter Witt type, now operating on the Alabama and Prospect street lines, extension of city service to Broad Ripple and replacement of tracks and paving in many parts of the city since May 20 have cost more than the gain' in revenue obtained by raising the fare from 5 to 7 cents, according to BlcGowan. Tracks have been replace*, as follows: Central Ave., to Twenty-Fourth Sts. Indiana Ave., Captol to Illinois Streets. 1 College Ave., Fifteenth to TwentyFirst Sts, Virginia Ave., Norwood to McCarty and Wyoming to Buchanan and Prospect Sts. Roosevelt Ave., Hillside to Hazel Streets. Pennsylvania St., Washington to Ohio Sts. Long-dolayed paving between car tracks in various parts of the city will be< completed this year. Agreement has been reached between the company and the board of works, and work will be started immediately, according to William H. Freeman, board member. Streets to Be Paved Streets covered by the agreement arc N. Illinois St., for one apd onehalf blocks north of Thirty-Eighth St.; Tenth St., to Tibbs Ave.; Ce ai Ave., Twenty-First St. to F. Creek; Pennsylvania St., Forty- £ h St. to Fifty-Second St; College Ave., Fifty-Second St. to Broad Ripple, and Si'-.ty-Third St., College Ave. to Monon Railroad. FUND TOTAL $66,869 Red Cross Meets Emergency Needs In Tornado Area. Contributions to the southern Indiana relief fund of Indianapolis chapter, American Red Cross, today amounted to $66,862.75. This amount will be increased materially when donations already made, but not yet turned in, are tabulated. Emergency needs \n the district have been met and the Red Cross forces now are concentrating their efforts to get rehabilitation work under way as rapidly as possibly. EMHARDT FRIENDS MEET Democratic Candidates Expects Strong Organization. Campaign plans of Adolph O. Emhardt, candidate for the Democratic nomination for mavor, progressed today, following a meeting of about sixty workers at head quarters late Friday. The candidate expects to have a strong organization in each precinct. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 36 10 a. m 44 7 a< m 37 11 a. m 46 3 a.' m..., v 40 12 (noon) .... 43 9 a. m.... 1 .. 43 1 p. m 50

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1925

Boy Leaps From Boat to Death in Water

\( m u * ' *.■ A jf./ jj. ffMyftf ffWF r 7 ,!'•> Ml* m £ JeKx j > ! ,/ . P iJohn Beard, 11, and the place in White River where, he wa drowned tixla.v. Mialu> Island at left. The boat from which he jiunpe is also shown. MRS. LEMCKE funeral n nr n DflflV Tfl Mother of Republican Candidate to y t DUD I Re Buried Sunday * I >r. Lewis Brown will conduct AAHAinm 1 linUl A fiifUMMl fur \!i’d I’n In i; ()’l.pi 11 I■IIBI m"I 111 II 111 111 BI I

THREE MEN GIVEN TERMS FOR POSE AS FEDERAL MEN Notice They Would Appeal Proves Costly to Zolezzi and Kinsley, Norman A. Zolezzi, 1314 Keystone Ave., a former Republican ward worker, Charles (Chance) Kinsley, and Fred Thomas, both of 425 N. Meridian St„ and Lawrence Kinder, former deputy sheriff of Greenfield, Ind., found guilty in Federal Court of conspiracy to impersonate Federal prohibition officers in an attempt to blackmail a Greenfield farmer,- J. N. Bridges, were sentenced by Judge Robert C. Baltzell today. . Sentences were; Zolezzi, Kinsley and Kinder, each, - fifteen months and a fine of S3OO, and Thomas, who had pleaded guilty, four months and a fine of $2,00. . Zolezzi and Kinsley first wore given a year and a day. .They told the court they would appeal. Judge Baltzell then added three months to each sentence, stating their- only motive in appealing was to delay justice. Others sentenced today were Olin Balsley, 24, of St. Louis. Mo., charged with transporting a stolen automobile. eighteen months; E. H. Alklre and James McDermott of South Bend, Ind., making false statements to obtain credit from a bank, each a year and a day and $600; Sherman Williams, New Albany, Ind., sale of Intoxicating liquor, four months and S2OO, and Harry Overholser of Ft. Wayne, sale of intoxicating liquor, SI,OOO fine. Overholser claimed to be physically unable to undergo a jail sentence so Judge Baltzell gave him the maximum fine. Charles McNeese, formerly of Indianapolis. a fugitive since he was indicted last fall for Impersonating a prohibition agent, was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. He will probably be tried Monday. He was apprehended at Galesburg, 111. and removed to Indianapolis, Wednesday. HAS AN IRON CHEST’ Little Thing like Auto Doesn’t Hurt Man. Louis L. Hoffman. 76, Straughn, Henry County, qualified as the man with the iron chest today. He was struck by an automobile driven by James B. Hold, 3718 W. Tenth St., In the 200 block on W. Maryland St. The front wheel passed over his ches*. Despite this, he arose, dusted himseif off and Insisted he was uninjured. Police Insisted on calling the city ambulance. Hold was slated on an assault and battery charge.

Junior Assembly Dies Mottoless “They shall not pass.” • The famous war cry was proposed as an appropriate motto for the House of the Junior General Assembly, shortly before final adjournment today. Don Menke of Jefferson County, Republican floor leader, presented It. However, the House, after several vain attempts to And a motto suit&hle to be carried on, abandoned the effort and adjourned mottolcsa.

John Board, 11, and the place in White River where he was drowned today. Snake Island at left. The boat from which he jumped is also shown.

MRS. LEMCKE FUNERAL Mother of Republican Candidate to Be Buried Sunday Dr. Lewis Brown will conduct funeral rites for Mrs. Emma O'Reilly Lem eke, 76, mother of Ralph A. Lemcke, candidate for Republican nomination for mayor, at 3 p. m., Sunday at residence of her son, 1044 N. Delaware St. Burial will be at Evansville, her former home. Mrs. Lemcke died Friday following illness of several weeks. MEYERS OUT AS WO DEMOCRAT IN MAYOR’S RACE Attorney’ Announces His Candidacy With Economy as Program, Walter Meyers, attorney, 836 State Life Bldg., today announced his candidacy for Democratic nomination for mayor. Meyers is the third Democratic candidate, the others being Adolph G. Emhardt and Willett Judson. Meyers said he hoped to disprove the often quoted statement from Bryce’s Commonwealth: “There is no denying that government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.” Curtailment of further indebtedness and reduction of taxes through prudent management and Impartial law enforcement were included in his platform. * A!y first endeavor will be to give an honest administration, with efficient, competent and faithful governing boards and officers,” he said. "No outsider will sit as an extraordinary member of any board, whispering the orders of a politician into the ears of public servants: nor will the personnel nr activities of the pblice, or any other branch of the department of public safety, be determined by persons whom the voters never chose. "City officials are servants and not masters of those who' elected them, and no one by self-appoint-ment can assume to speak with the •people’s voice.”

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C. OF C. BODY TO CONSIDER HIRING INDUSMEXPERT Report of Committee Will Be Brought Up at Meeting Monday. Chamber of Commerce executive committee will consider the proposal to boost Indianapolis industries submitted by the industries commute at a special meeting Monday, Nicholas Noyes, vice president, announced. Plan provides for hiring of an industrial expert to serve as a point of contact between prospective industries and the city; raising of a SIOO,OOO fund to be used in promoting the movement, and selection of an advisory committee. Budget covers a four-year program. The advisory committee is to be composed of a trained industrial expert, a market expert and technical engineer. The committee would be qualified to give technical knowledge of the city’s resources. Plan was recommended after a survey and a number of conferences with business and professional men, G. M. Williams, chairman, said. Joseph Kibbler of R. G. Dunn & Cos. said Indianapolis financial and business conditions compare favorably with 150 cities with which he Is in contact. . Carl A. Taylor suggested that a modest advertising campaign be conducted to familiarize other cities with the advantages of Indianapolis. O. B. lies pointed out the need for making Indianapolis a super attractive city to prospective industries. , * ♦

CONVICTED GARY MAYORRESIGNS Wife May Succeed Husband in Office Later, Bv United Prei GARY, Ind., March 28.—Mayor R. O. Johnson, sentenced to a year and a day in Federal prison with seventyfour other Gary men on a charge of conspiring to violate the Federal dry law, today announced his resignation as mayor, effective Monday. Mayor Johnson has appealed from the sentence and is awaiting action by the United States Supreme Court. William J. Fulton, comptroller, will take Johnson’s place. Fulton said he woid appoint Mrs. R. O. Johnson comptroller. Fulton also said he may later resign the mayor’s office, In which case Mrs. Johnson would take the place, as first woman mayor In Indiana. MAYOR IS PUZZLED No On* Offers Site for City Coliseum, He Says. "I can’t understand why real estate dealers or property owners do not come forward with a definite offer to sell the city a coliseum site,” Mayor Shank said today. “Here for almost three months I have been working hard on this plan and no one has even offered a desirable site.” Shank's idea is to vote a bond issue of about $2,500,(M)0 for the project.

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IN RIVER

Snake Hunt Ends Fatally as Boy, 11, Leaps From Boat Into Water When Frightened by Drift Downstream —Body Recovered by Men. SAD PARENTS WATCH VAIN EFFORTS TO REVIVE SON “Fear of Reptile-Infested Island” Causes Companion to Ferry John Beard Toward Shore, Only for 'Him to Jump to Death. John Louis Beard, 11, of 526 W. Wilkins St., drowned in White River off of Dakota St. this morning when he jumped from a boat bringing him back from Sand Island, a strip of land forty feet from the shore. The lad and 3 party of others were on a snake hunt. The body was recovered by Richard Milburn, 824 S. Fremont Ave., and his brother. .John, who live3 in a houseboat nearby. They were attracted by the screams of the boys.

Nelson Salm, 12, of 535 Jones St„ told police he had taken John over to the island In a flat boat and was starting back to ferry the other boys across when John, frightened at being left alone on what he thought was snake Infested land, called him and asked to be taken back. The two boys started back to the shore. Water Seven Feet Deep Meanwhile the boat began to drift downstream and John, scared, jumped out. The water was about seven feet deep and he went down immediately. Salm told police he was frightened, too, and was unable to get the boy back In the boat. He paddled back to the shore. Donald Owens, 11, of 542 Jones St., tried to wade out to rescue John, but the water was too cold. The boys said John came to the surface four times, screaming fqr help: i Other la-’s in the party w-ero: Arnold Chelf, 12, of 1138 S. West 5,..; Earl Turney, 12, and his brother Glenn, 15, of 1148 S. West St., and Robert Johnson, 13, of 550 Jones St. Sergeant O’Neal of the accident prevention bureau and Motorpoliceman Weddell and Johnson worked on the body of the boy for several minutes in an effort to resuscitate him. Mother Called Later the city ambulance doctor ard driver arrh ed with a pulmotor. While they worked on the body Mrs. Pearl Beard, the mother, stood at the top of the river bank. As neighbors consoled her, Alonzo, another son, ran up and down the hill carrying news to his mother concerning efforts to revive John. “I believe his lips are turning white, they ain't purple like they was,” he said. A beam of hope sparkled in the mother’s face. The father, Harry Beard, came from his work at the Butler Mfg. Company, where just a week ago he started. The new job had given him new hopes, r.ow to be offset with tragedy. Then the doctor gave up, the pulmotor was abandoned and the efforts to revive the boy were stopped. The father broke down and helped to bear his grief-stricken wife to the auto to go home. The body was taken to the city morgue, where it will be taken to Sheridan, Ind., the former home, for burial. Warned Him "I warned him, oh so many times, not to go near the river,” cried tfye mother. "I just wish we had never moved here. This would never have been.” The mother clutched two of the little ones to her and sobbed out to them: “We haven’t got little Johnny any more.” John Milburn told police he did not attempt to revive the boy when he pulled him from the river as he was “afraid of thi law.” He said he had been told “he would get in bad even If he pulled the body out.” It was the second drowning in 1925. Other children in the family are: Alonzo, 10; Harold, 8; Edwin, 2; Clara, 4, and Mrs. Lena Wright of Lebanon. Snake hunting is one of the favorite spring pastimes of the boys living in the neighborhood, police were told. The boat which they used to

Chamber of Commerce Will Aid Essay Writers

The Bureau of Industry of the Chamber of Commerce will help high school boys and girls competing in The Indianapolis Times ind astrial essay contest. The bureau, which is housed in Room 609, Chamber of Commerce Bldg., has many books and pamphlets giving sac-is about Indianapolis, which will be given essay writers upon application. Eldon N. Trusler is director of the bureau. 'The title of the essay is: “Why Industries Should Come to Indianapolis.”

Forecast INCREASING cloudiness and warmer tonight, followed by showers Sunday.

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ferry across the island, was an old flat scow, about three feet wide. “John would have been all right If he hadn’t Jumped out,” Salm said. Feb. 14, Charles Hissong, 85, of 1017 Goodlet St., a carpenter, was drowned in White River, when he fell off the new Oliver Ave. bridge while working. Ills body Was not recovered until four days later. CLOSING SESSION OF‘LEGISLATURE’ LIKE HEM. THING Speeches, Bills Mark Last Meeting of Junior Assembly Today, By Ruby Weil After speeches, gifts and bills had been mingled in a full morning session, the first Junior General Assembly adjourned sine die at 11:45 a. m. today. Boys and girls, sent; from high schools all over the State, left for home, after a week of mock legislative work. The Junior General Assembly has 'been a far greater success thun we had ever anticipated.” said Dr. Henry N. Sherwood, State superintendent of education in a statement. “That it is here to stay seems a certainty.” In both houses, part of the morning was spent in a "lesson" on the week’s sessions, with Zell C. Swain, secretary of the senior Senate, In charge in the Senate and Bert S. Lytle, chief clerk of the senior house, In the junior house. “Love feasts” were held In both houses, with rising votes of thanks for all assisting in the sessions. In the closing session, the House killed the Memorial day bill and a "blue Sunday" bill, and passed a bill requiring certificates of physical examination to obtain a marriage license. The Senate passed a bill requiring teaching of the Constitution In all schools. WIFE STARTS HUNT Thinks Missing Husband May Bit Tornado Victim. An aftermath of the recent tornado in southern Illinois and Indiana came to the attention of Indianapolis police today. Mre. Dora Winters, 3324 W. Pratt St., has asked officers to help her find her husband, Burton. Winters, whom she thinks might have been killed by the tornado. According to Mrs. Winters her husband left Indianapolis some time ago to hunt work. He was last hoard from March 10 at Hume, 111.

The prizes are: first, sls; seo* ond, $10; third, $5. The object is: to interest the future leaders of Indianaploie in the present Chamber of Commerce movement to arouse appreciation of the city. The contest la open to any regular student of any Indianapolis high • or preparatory school. The limit on the essays is 200 words. They must be delivered or mailed to The Indian-, npolis 'rimes Industrial Essajd Contest Editor by midnight Apr!} 15.