Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 279

STEPHENSON ATTACKS INDICTMENTS

Highway Officials Plead Not Guilty

CANVASS ON IN MANAGER DRIVE HERE House-to-House Campaign to Obtain 20,000 Names for Cali of Special Election on Plan Begun by Committee of 1,000. NOON MEETING IS HELD Labor, Churches, Business Men and Civic Clubs Are United in Move for Change in Government Hundreds Already on Petitions House to house campaign to ob tain 20,000 signatures to the petition to the city council for a special election on the question of changing Indianapolis city government to a city manager system was begun to day. Many business men, members of the committee of 1.000, have de tailed employes to circulate petitions Leaders of the Citizens Committe< of 1,000 met at the Indianapolis Athletic Cluub at noon to discuss further steps in promoting the cam paign. Hoard Chosen An executive board to centralize effort and direct the drive was chosen. Several thousand new petition blanks have been printed foi circulation, as the supply was exhausted. Petitions will be circulated at the Home Complete Exposition at the Manufacturers Bldg., at the State fairground, tonight. Hundreds of signatures are already on file in headquarters of the campaign, 407 Meyer-Kiser Bank Bldg., having been obtained personally by members of the committee. All United Labor, churches, business men and civic leagues are united in the campaign. In case the petition is filed with city council the city primary for mayor and other city offices will be postponed until after the election on changing the form of government. Dr. F. S. C. Wicks, pastor of the All Souls Unitarian Church, in his Sunday morning sermon, indorsed the city manager campaign, and urged members of the congregation to join in the movement. Dr. Wicks obtained blank petitions from campaign headquarters for circulation by church leaders. Appeal to Churches “It is the duty of churches and members to line up with the move to secure for Indianapolis the high est form of municipal government,” declared Edward O. Hnethen, attorney, speaking before Indian ipolis ministers at Roberts Park M. E. Church today. Snethen pointed out that the move is civic and not political. Civic affairs < ‘ee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce will consider the city manage • plan at a meeting at noon Tuesday. The meeting was called by William' Fortune, chabmnn. GRAND FLEET IN ’FRISCO Entertainment to Feature Ten Dajs Before Cruise. Hii United Prrn* SAN FRANCISCO. April 6.—The United States navy was on show here today following impressive entrance o' (he grand fleet of 145 vessels irto the Golden Gate. Entertainment tr will be •■cattered over the ten days of the fleet’s visit before it leaves for the Hawaiian maneuvers and cruise. FIVE HOMES BURNED Damage Amounting to $5,900 Caused By Fires Today. Fire caused damage aggregating $3,400 to three homes in the 80ft block in S. Noble St., today. Loss at the home of N. Natale, 827 S. Noble St., where the entire roof and upper story were burned, was estimated at about $3,000. Caina Williams. 829 S. Noble St., suffered S3OO loss, and John Burner, 821 S. Noble St., SIOO. Sparks caused a $2,000 fire at the home of T. F. Martin, 2831 Bellefontaine St Flames spread to home of Charles Patts, next door, causing SSOO loss

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Principals in War Materials Case

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CITY TO BE IN LARGE MERGER \ Consolidation of Warehouses Is Disclosed. Consolidation of warehouse interests at Indianapolis, Chicago, Cleveland and other large mid-west centers into a holding corporation of properties valued at nearly $5,000,000 was disclosed today in an order of the Indiana Securities Commission authorizing the Interstate Terminal Warehouses, Incorporated, to sell $250,000 in first mortgage bonds in Indiana. The corporation, formed under Ohio laws, is headed by William J. Hogan of Indianapolis. Other officers are Cleveland, Ohio, men. Management of the various properties is to he vested in the National Terminals Corporation, according to a proscectus. A total of $2,250,000 in first mortgage gold bonds, yielding 6V2 per cent, is to be sold. Proper! ies coming under the consolidation, directly or otherwise, follow: Indiana Terminal Warehouse Company'and the Indiana Refrigerating Company, Indianapolis; North River Terminal Company, Chicago; Ninth St. Terminal Warehouse, Cleveland, Ohio; Cincinnati Terminal Warehouse Company. C'-icinnati; Michigan Terminal Warehouse Company, Detroit, and the Union Storage Compayn, Eric, Pa. INSPECT SCHOOL SITES Tract at Mars Hill Viewed By Blind Institution Board Governor Jackson today accompanied members of the Indiana Blind School removal commission on an inspection of proposed sites near Indianapolis for the school, including a tract at Mars Hill which had been offered free tothe State. One of the sites on which it is said the commissioners might agree is one on the National Road about a half mile cast of the oily limits. CANDIDATE’S RECORD 'rew .1. Bit r Seeks I' mocratic Nomination in Primary. Andrew J. Bru 1!* Capitol Ave., who ha* a: ounced his candidacy for Democratic nomination foi city clerk has served as precinct c- ' ward coin"!I*' 1 *' and former sec> - - ey 0 f tl' count committed. He was with the St te Board of Accounts three years and is a former deputy county clerk.

State Director Williams and Four Others Arraigned in Criminal Court on Charges in Connection With War Materials Scandal. TRIAL WILL NOT BE TILL AFTER MAY 30 Earl Crawford, Moses and Victor Goldberg and William Whaley Included in Action Before Judge Collins—Bartley Arraigned. “Not guilty" was the plea of John D. Williams, director of the State highway commission and four other me- before Criminal Judge James A. Collins today In answer to charges growing out of alleged irregularities in sale of surplus tvar materials. Williams and five o 4 ’ -s were indh * 1 by the Marion rand jury on March 4. Trial Not Set Judge James A. Collins said he could not set trial until after .May 30, because of a crowded calendar. Williams pleaded not guilty to indictments charging conspiracy to embezzle and conspiracy before the fact. Earl Crawford of Milton, Ind., member of the highway commission; Moses Goldberg, 1302 W. Washington St., and his son. Victor, both dealers in used war materials, who were indicted with Williams on charge of conspiracy to embezzle pleaded not guilty. Crawford entered a s'milar plea to charge of accessory be' the fact. C. William Whaley, formerly In the Goldbergs’ employ, and the two Goldbergs pleaded not guilty to four grand larceny indictments against each Ten Indictments Geoige Bartley, formerly In charge of the highway commission’s garage and storehouse, entered pleas of not guilty to charges of conspiracy to embezzle and accessory before the fact when arraigned March 11. Alleged Irregularities in disposal by the commission of surplus war materials turned over to the commission nearly thiee years ago by the Federal Roads Bureau were detailed in the ten indictments. The materials originally carne from the War Department. The materials were sold to the Goldbergs, it is charged. Materials mentioned In the indictments total $19,C72 with 300 pounds of miscellaneous articles of unknown value. NEWCRISISEN FRENCH TANGLE De Monzie Threatens to Resign if Plan Is Refused. Bn United Prett* PARIS, April 6. —Another cabinet crisis faced France today. According to information reaching the chamber of. deputies. Finance Minister De Monzie. who today presented a plan by which he hoped to save the troubled financial situation, threatened to resign if his proposals were not accepted by the cabinet. His plan provided for voluntary contributions from those receiving income from vested interests and for authorization of the bank of France to issue four billions of francs in new notes. In voluntary loans would not he forthcoming, force would be employed to exact loans. SIX HURT IN CRASH Senator Halts Among Rescuers in Wreck Near Salem Bu Tim.it Special SEYMOUR, Ind., April 6.—Six persons were injured late Sunday afternoon near Salem when,-an auto driven by John Baker, 18. of Smedley, Ind.. plunged off the road, overturned and pinned them underneath. They were rescued by passengers on an auto bus. including State Senator Oscar Ratts, and brought to the hospital here. Injured were: Miss Avenell Gaiter. 14. of Brownstown. jaw and leg broken. Condition Is serious. Miss Jewell Cornett. 15. Miss Minnie Cornet. 18. both step sisters of the Gaiter girl. Miss Mabel Hat ton and Ralph Meyers. Baker was also seriously hurt. Burned by Furnace Gordon O’Brien. 35, of 242 Minkner St., was seriously burned Sunday night when a back draft caused an in his furnace.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL G, 1925

Now for the Easter Parade —Clothes Will Cost Milady $52-SSOO This Year

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Left to Right: Misses Edith UcAlp in, Violet Ilerlitze and Margaret Barrett.

TIMES MARBLE TOURNEY WILL OPEN APRIL 13 First of Neighborhood Tilts Now Only One Week Away. April 13. The date for tne first of the neighborhood marble tournaments, winners of which will play in a final match to determine the city championship. Is just a week away. If you have not already entered the third annual marble tournament to be conducted by The Indianapolis Times fill out tl e entry blank printed on Page 2 of today’s papei. Every boy and girl in Indianapolis under 15 can compete. Send the blank in right away. What Kind Next stock up with a supply of marbles. When you buy them be sure playing marbles are one half inch in diameter and shooters are not more than five-eights of an inch. A free trip to Atlantic Civy, bicycle, and gold medal will be awarded the winner of the final match which will be about May 15. Runner-up will receive a radio set, and a silver award, and bronze medals will be presented district champs. Willa Mae Davis, 953 Hosbrook St., was the second girl to enter. Here's Entries Here are a few of the boys who will try for the title of Indianapolis marble king: Charles McGinness, 606 S. West St.; Clifton Long, 1140 S. Keystone Ave.; William Whitaker, 317 N. Forest St.; Donald Bright, 2921 Richland St.; Louis and Arno Weatherford, 29 Richland St.: George Bushong, 123 XV. Twenty-Ninth St.; Daniel Zimmerman, 2215 S. Delaware St.; Lawrence Feeney. 510 N. Bancroft St., and Theophilus Shir ley, 1725 Linden St. Join the crowd today. MURDER TRIAL TO BE OPENED Blackburn Case Scheduled for Tuesday Morning. Trial of William R. Blackburn. 56, of 609 Congress .Ave., charged with the murder of John P. Martin, 24, of 2524 Central Ave., is scheduled to open at 9 a. m. Tuesday in Criminal Court before Judge James A. Collins. The trial was to open last Monday, but was postponed on mo tlon of Prosecutor William H. Remy. Blackburn was arrested Oct. 29, 1924, after It was alleged he shot Martin at the Athenaeum. Martin died later at the city hospital. According to police, Martin tried to force himself into the building with out a ticket. The defense will endeavor to prove Blackburn shot Martin accidentally Forger Is Sentenced ftii ( nittil Press WARSAW. Ind. April 6—Boyd Jones, 30, of Clifton Forge, Va., to day was sentenced to two to fourteen years' imprisonment on.his plea to guilty on a forgery chai ge. He was charged with passing fraudulent checks on business men In a number of Ohio and Indiana tewns.

Can Look Nifty for a Month’s Rent or Price of a Flivver. By Ruby Weil Easter morning! Eager-eyed shop girl and blase society woman will brush against each other in the annual dress parade. How will they dress? Which will enjoy her new outfit more? A Times reporter took a trip through a department store, to find out what the shop girl could buy, to be smartly, and yet inexpensively outfitted; what the woman of moderate Income might wear, and how the woman of fashion would be costumed. The shop girl, the reporter ascertained, could dress In good style, from dainty batiste underthings to stylish ensemble suits, for $52.39. That figure could be lower, of course, but gives opportunity for discrimination in selecting the clothes. Sky’s the Limit For the woman of moderate income, all needs could be filled for $lB3. The woman of unlimited means could start at about SSOO, and the sky would be the limit. Miss Edith McAlpin. 5147 College Ate , of L. S. Ayres and Company, donned the clothes which the girl whose first thought Is for (Turn to Page 10) AHA. DRAMATIC THIEF Stage Dresses and Swards Are Reported Stolen. Police were on the lookout today for a newly organized dramatic club. A1 Rossoff, 829 S. Capitol Ave., told the officers his place was burglarized and some stage dresses and two swords were taken. In addition four pillows, three dozen white waitress aprons and an electric massage machine. all valued at $55, were taken.' Mrs. Mertie Pritchard. 558 N. Dearborn St., told police a man sitting next to her In a theater seized her purse, containing sls. and ran out with it.

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SHEPHERD BAIL FIGHT IS TAKEN TO HIGH COURT Chemist Reports Poison Traces in Two Exhumed Bodies. Bn United Prn i* CHICAGO. April 6.—William D. Shepherd's last fight for freedom on bail—an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court—was started today. Attorneys for Shepherd, former Indianapolis man, who Is accused of murdering his millionaire foster son, Billy McClintock, today filed appeal at Springfield. Shepherd, due to be arraigned on the murder charge Thursday, has been denied bail twice by Chief Justice Jacob Hopkins. Examination Continued Medical experts, meanwhile, continued their examination of the vital organs of Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock, Billy’s mother, and Dr. Oscar Olson, friend of the McClintock family. Coroner’s chemist, William D. McNally, stated he had found traces of mercury in the bodies, but was not sure yet whether the mercury had been in sufficient quantities to cause death, or whether it simply had been a constituent of regularly prescribed medicine. Judge Harry Olso, brother of the doctor. charges Shepherd with murdering Mrs. McClintock, Dr. Olson and Billy, in order to clear the path for him to obtain the $1,000,000 McClintock estate. Prescriptions Found The inquest into Billy’s death, scheduled to • be continued on Wednesday, was indefinitely postponed today on order of Coroner Oscar Wolff. A search made by Lieut. William Blauek, from the offices of the chief of police revealed prescrif tions given to Mrs. McClintock, it was announced today. None of these prescriptions contained mercury. Dr. Charles Krusenmark, Mrs. MeClintock’s physician, corroborated the statement that no mercury was prescribed. He said, however, that he had believed death was brought about by natural causes. GIRL FACES CHARGES Took Auto and Gave It to Man, Police Allege. Mrs. May Boyer, alias Miss Marietta Baker, 20. of 620 N. East St., is under arrest today charged with vehicle taking. Police say she stole an auto owned by A. H. Belt, 5014 K. Washington St., parked at New Jersey and Michigan Sts., several days ago and drove it to Logansport, Ind. She drove it back, police say, and turned It over to Clarence Ballard, 21, of 6523 Ashland Ave. He was In possession of the car when Sergeant Woollen found It: He was slated on a similar charge. Duvall Worker Named Parker B. Likely, 3145 Washington Blvd., is in charge of organization of a Young People's Duvall for Mayor Club, it was announced today by John C. Ruckelshaus, cam paign manager for John L. Duvall. Republican aspirant. Likely is a son of Fred A. Likely of Breed. Elliott & Harrison. He is a graduate of De Pauw University and was aci tive in last campaign as a worker for Governor Jackson.

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Attorney for Ex-Klan Leader Files Plea in Abatement Charging Evidence Presented to Grand Jury in Attack Case Was Incompetent. DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURT AS ACCUSED MAN APPEARS Charge That Testimony Is Hearsay Made by Defense Long Legal Battle Is Anticipated—Girl Still at Point of Death. 1 D. C. Stephenson, tormer Grand Dragon of the Indiana Kir Klux Ivlan and generally regarded as a power in Slate and local Republican politics, began his battle for freedom on charges of attacking Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 28, of 5802 University Ave., in Criminal Court today. Stephen’s first move in defense was the filing of a plea in abatement attacking live indictments, filed by Eph Inman, his attorney. At the same hour Stephenson faced Judge James A. Collins, Miss Oberholtzer was making a tight for life, suffering from the results of a slow poison, self-administered, following the alleged attack on a train en route to Hammond 1 , Ind., and in Hammond, March 16. She was near death after seven days of unconsciousness.

Dramatic Scene Stephenson's arraignment marked the dramatic climax of one of the largest arraignment days in Criminal Court history. State officials, and alleged bootleggers, murderers, automobile thieves and robbers, colored and white, men and women, youths and gray-haired men, the usual list of the Criminal Court day, had stood before Judge Collins to enter their pleas. Then came Stephenson. It become apparent instantly that he probably will resort to every possible legal defense to escape trial. Inman, filed a plea in abatement, attacking the grand jury action in Indicting Stephenson from eight angles. The Indictments returned Friday charge assault and battery with intent to commit a criminal attack and kill, kidnaping, malicious mayhem and conspiracy to commit a felony. Earl Klincke, a former deputy sheriff, and Earl Gentry, who were indicted with Stephenson on the conspiracy charges, have not been arrested. Reports were current about the courtroom that they would surrender today. Hearing Saturday Judge Collins indicated that argument on the pleas in abatement probably will be heard Saturday. Should he overrule the pleas it is understood Stephenson will file motions to quash the indictment, and, if this fails, will file demurrers. Only after every legal avenue has been closed will he enter a plea of guilty or not guilty to the indictment, it is understood. After rending -'leas in abatement. tlie comr •• of testimony before the grand jury, Prosecutor William H. Itemy said, laughing: “I just wonder how Mr. gtov.titv*on comes to know all the things he says happened in the grand jury room.” Remy said h fight the picas. Eight Grounds The pleas in ababtement, filed to each of the indictments on Stephenson’s behalf, were based upon these eight grounds: 1. The grand jury was not legally and properly drawn. 2. Members of the grand jury did not possess all of the requisite qualifications as members of a grand jury. 3. The members were prejudiced and biased against the defendant. 4. The grand jury had no witnesses before it who had or could give any testimony concerning the charges of the Indictment which was or could be based lon any personal knowledge; bpt only had presented to It mre unreliable and incompetent hearsay and rumor evidence 5. No competent or legal evidence touching the alleged offense, fact or charges presented to the grand jury, was a legal basis for the indictment.

6. The indictment was returned solely upon illegal, incompetent, biased and malicious hearsay, gossip and rumor and is not admissable, under the law. against the defendant. 7. The indictment was returned upon a combination of illegal and incompetent hearsay gossip and rumor, with a prevailing partiality, biased and prejudiced, in the grand jury against the defendant. 8. The grand jury did not have direct testimony of Madge Oberholtzcr. but only hearsay testimony of other persons wtyo claimed to have heai-d alleged statements made by her. They heard her make state(Turn to Page II) Hot’ Iti;V TK M l*E RATE HE 6 a. m 30 Ift a. m 54 7 a. m 34 It a. m 57 8 a- m A0 12 (noon) .... 60 9 a. ni 48 1 p. m 63

Forecast FAIR tonight and probably Tuesday with rising temperature.

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STAGE SET FOR OPENING NIGHT OFHOMESHOW Thousands Expected to Attend Annual Exposition at Fairground. Indiana’s ’’Million Dollar Home Complete Show” will be opened to the public tonight at 6 at the Manufacteurers Bldg., at State fairground. Thousands of Indianapolis residents are expected to attend the opening of the fourth annual Exposition staged by the Real Estate Board. Realtors say nothing has been left undone to make this year’s show appeal alike to exhibitors and visitors. Elaborate decorations adorn the huge building. Beginning Tuesday, doors will open each day this week at 11 a. m„ and remain ope- •—1 10:30 p. m. The opening night will be observed ns realtors night. A recep tlon committee headed by Forest M. Knight, has been named. J. F. Cantwelt. director, will present the exhibition to Frank E. Gates, lent, who in turn will present it to Governor Jackson, at the opening ceremony. Various forms of entertainment, including music, have been arranged throughout the week. CANDIDATES TO FIGHT DECISION Seekers for City Judgeship Plan to Force Board. Candidates, Democratic and Republican, who filed for nomination for city judge will meet at the office of Sol Raub, 902 Meyer-Klser Bank Bldg'., Tuesday night, to formulate plans for forcing the election board place their names on the primary ballots. May 5. The city election board has de dared no city judge would be elected beat use of a. recent law whereby the city judge will he appointed hy the Governor, beginning Jan. 1, 1926. Minister Hear Woollen “Modern Use of the Bible,” was the topic of a paper read by Evans Woollen, president Fletcher Savings and Trust oCmpany before Indianapolis Ministerial Association today at Roberts Park M. E. Church.

Coolidge Remains a Lawyer to Son Bu United Prrt* NEW YORK. April 6—Cal vin Coolidge may be President of the United States, but to his son John he Is still a Northampton (Mass.) lawyer and nothing more. When filling out an application form for membership In s fraternity, young Coolidge referred to his father as follows; “Father’s nnme Calvin Coolidge. “Father’s occupation and address—Lawyer, No. 2 Masonic Bldg.. Northampton. Mass.”