Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 288

DOCTOR TELLS GIRLS ATTACK STORY

GOVERNOR’S BROTHER IN ‘AUTO LUCK’ Economy Superintendent of School for Feeble Minded, Jim Jackson, Rides in Cadillac —Yes, State Purchased It for Official Use. COST IS ONLY LITTLE MATTER OF $3,766.50 Trustee Says Old One Could, Have Been Repaired— They Also Bought License for Regal Conveyance, Usually Given Free. Among the recent purchases of equipment for the Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth at Ft. Wayne is an item of $3,766.50 for a Cadillac automobile. It Is shown in March requisitions on file in the State auditor’s office. Payment for the car was made to the E. W. Steinhart Cos.. Ft. Wayne. It is assumed the machine is to be used by the superintendent of the institution, James Jackson, "> Replaces Expert James Jackson, it will be recalled, was boosted to the euperlntenedncy shortly after the election of Ed Jackson as Governor, replacing Dr. Byron Biggs, nationally known psychopathic expert, who had been superintendent since May, 1922. It was announced at the time that a "business man” was needed for the place, a man who would use economy. Forthwith, Superintendent JackSon discharged the institution's social worker, the psychologist and a few more with titles. Board Approves Mrs. E. A. Gould of Peru, a member of the board of trustees of the said the purchase was approved by the hoard at a recent meeting. She said the car assigned to Dr. Biggs was demolished in an accident and that it was necessary to buy anew machine immediately. The oar. although three years old, could have been repaired, she said. State requisition No. 80,121, carrying a total expenditure of $5,821.27 for "equipment,” shows purchase of the car. Requisition No. 80,119 shows the sum of $8.50 spent for a license for the new car. Ordinarily State automobiles receive license plates gratis. NEW TRAIN ANNOUNCED St. Loute-New York IJmited to Go In Service April 26. J. W, Gardner, division passenger agent for New York Central Lines, today announced "The Southwestern Limited.” a de luxe train from St. Louis, Mo., to New York, will go into service April 26. Daily in Indianapolis will be east-bound 2:16 p. m., arriving in New York at 10:50 a. m. the next day, and west-bound 11:15 a. m., arriving in St. Louis at 6 p. m. The west-bound train will depart from New York at 4:45 p. ni. and the eas.bound will leave St. Louis at 9 a. m. Service will be the same as on the "Twentieth Century Limited” from New York to Chicago. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 46 10 a. m 46 7 a. m 44 11 a m 47 8 a. m 45 12 (noon) .... 49 9 a. m 42 1 p. m 61

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Sudden Illness Is Fatal to Sargent Famous Painter Dies at Home on Thames, Near London.

elohn Singer Sargent

Hu United Press I- j ONDON, April 15. —John SingI er Sargent, the famous paintIJr! .1 er, died here today. He suffered a stroke at 3 a. m. at his home in Chelsea, on the Thames, and died a few hours later. A housekeeper, bringing a breakfast tray to Sargent’s bed, found him dead. Sargent was in perfect health yesterday and was painting in his studio most of the day. Sargent, one of the most distinguished of modern portrait painters, was born in Florence. Italy. In 1866. the son of a Boston (Mass.) physician. He was educated In Kngland and France under some of the groat masters. Including Carolue Duran. He exhibited in the Salon in 1879 and thereafter continuously In the Salon and Academy. He became an A. R. A. in 1894. Sargent's first triumph may have come in Paris after his return from Spain in 1879. His exhibitions in America came in 1876, 1887, 1889, 1895 and 1903. John Singer Sargent came to Indianapolis a few years before the death of James Whitcomb Riley, and painted a picture of the Hoosier poe\ now on exhibition at the John Herron Art Institute. Picture is a semi-front view and is considered as one of the best portraits of Riley in existence. There are no other painMngs by Sargent owned by Indianapolis persons, it wa said at the Herron Institute today.

PAINLEVE WILL FORM CABINET Gets Support of Socialists in New Government. ftu I nited Press PARIS. April 15. Paul Painleve. president of the Chamber of Deputies. informed President Doumergue late today that he would accept the task of forming a cabinet to succeed that of Edouard Herriot. Painleve's acceptance of the portfolio of Premier, which has been offered him repeatedly since Herriot's government fell last week, came after the socialists had agreed to support him in office, although they would not consent to joining the ministry. Aristide Rriand, who declined yesterday to form a cabinet after the Socialists would not support him. probably will be foreign minister, which will eliminate Herriot from the new ministry. The cabinet, as constituted th*us far. probably will he: Premier, without forfolio. Paul Painleve: Foreign Affairs. Aristide Rriand: Justice, Rene Renoult; Finance, De Monzle.

is sl6, second $lO, third $5. Judges are O. B. lies, president of the International Machine Too] Company: Elmer V . Stout, president of Fletcher American National Bank, and E. J. Gause pohl of E, J. Gausepohl Cos. A few Anal instructions: Be sure the title, “Why Industries Should Come to Indianapolis," is on your essay. Write in ink or on typewriter, on only one side of the paper. Essays must not lave more than 200 words. Be sure your name and address are somewhere on the essay. Don't fail to deliver your essay to the Indianapolis Times Indus trial Essay Con lest Editor by midnight tonight, or to place it in the niails by that time. Then figure iwhat you’ll do with j your priz i money.

DRIVER DIES WHEN TRAIN HITS WAGON West Bound Big 4 Crashes Into James Groves, 70, at Crossing Near Lawrence, Ind. Three Horses Are Also Killed. VICTIM WAS EMPLOYED IN DRAGGING OF ROADS \ Wreckage Carried 600 to 900 Feet .Down Track, Says Doctor Who Reported Accident Death Due to Fractured Skull. Jamcj Groves. 70, of Lawrence. Ind.. was instantly killed at 7 a. m. today when a west-bound train on the Cleveland division of the Big Four Railroad, struck the wagon on which he was riding while driving four horses over the crossing, one block east of the station at Lawrence, Ind. Groves, who was employed in dragging the roads, had the drag tied to the back of the wagon, and was presumably headed for his day’s work. Three of the horses were killed and part of the wreckage and Groves were carried between 600 and 900 feet down the track to where the train was brought to a stop, according to Dr. R. B. Records, who reported the Occident to Coroner Paul F. Robinson Dr. Records said death came from a fractured skyll. Dr. Robinson went to the scene later and made an investigation. The crew after (prying the body into Dr. Record's office, continued into Indianapolis. Dr. Records Raid Groves was survived by his wife, a son, Everett and a daughter.

HAWKINS COMPANY IS WORTH SIO,OOO Temporary Receiver Presents Final Report on Famous Defunct Mortgage Concern.

Total cash assets of the Hawkins Mortgage Company and its subsidiary organizations, through which thousands of widow’s and farmers are alleged to have been swindled out of about $6,000,000, amount to approximately SIO,OOO. It was shown today in the final report of Lew Wallace, temporary receiver, filed

MURDER CHARGE TO BE PRESSED State’s Attorney Will Not Hold Sanity Test. Bu I'nitrd.Prrtu GARY’rind., April 15. —Charges of murder will he filed today against Mrs. Harry Cunningham, 60, in connection with the death of her two sons Harry and Walter. State’s Attorney Brener announced here today. Brener said he decided to press the murder charge following word from Chicoga chemists that arsenic sufficient to kill had been found in the organs of the exhumed bodies. Mrs. Cunningham, who collapsed today in the Crown Point jail, was still in a semi-comatose state this afternoon. In view of the determination to pi sh the murder charges, the State will not examine her mental condition. Brener said. Walter. Harry, another brother, their sister and father died within a period of six years. Brener charges they were given arsenic. Two Ipoxes of arsenic were found ir the Cunningham home. LINER HS AFIRE Mont Laurier Burning in Liverpool Dry Dock. Bii I nitrd VrrKu LIVERPOOL, April 15.—The 15,-000-ton Canadian Pacific liner Mont Laurier is afire in dry dock here. The steamship’s fore decks have been completely destroyed and the flames, whic|i were fanned by a high wind, are * Spreading below decks. Damage already amounts to more than 60,000 pounds.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1925

$300,000 Cost of Naming Mayor? Yep, Shank Admits Politics Are Not So Very Nice.

<<!' IDLITIOS are rotten. Yep, j-* politics are rotten,” Mayor 2. Shank commented today in discussing an interview he gave an Omaha, Neh.. newspaper during his visit to that city ten days ago. "Why, right here in Indianapolis it will cost certain parties $300,000 to elect the next mayor,” the mayor added. "And at that only a half of the money spent will be reported through the primary and election party committees. Rest of it will come from big fellows who don’t want their names mentioned." Mayor said he told Omaha newspaper men the man who runs for office does not put up the money. In a discussion of the Omaha interview, in which Shank was quoted on many diverse subjects, the mayor said under present conditions violators of the Indianapolis traffic laws "with influence” escaped with a $2 fine while otheres without powerful friends are forced to pay $lO. Shank admitted he told the Omaha reporters that street railways should have higher fares and asserted that the Indianapolis Street Railway should charge an 8-cent fare Instead of 7 cents, as is now in effect. “More young people are drinking liquor today than any time before prohibition," he is quoted as saying. "On the other hand, families which used to suffer because the breadwinner spent his salary over the bar now have comfortable homes." Omaha newspaper men expressed enthusiastic admiration of Mayor Shank’s ability at long-range cuspidor spitting.

HIGHWAY POST FILLED George Hershmann Named to Slate Road Body. Governor Jackson today directed the appointment ot George Hershmann of Crown Point as a member of the State highway commission to succeed Waiter G. Zahrt of Ft. Wayne, whose term expires Friday. Zahrt did not seek reappointment. Kershmann, former Tenth district Democratic chairman, was recommended by Lake County Republicans.

before Harry C. Sheridan, referee in bankruptcy. “The company purported to be a $9,000,000 business," Wallace said. "All I am turning over to my son, Warrack. as trustee. Is about SIO,OOO in cash and a whole lot of litigation." Assets Elusive "The assets of this organization are about the most elusive thing, I know of,” said Sheridan. The receiver’s report shows total cash receipts of $19,694.57. Disbursements were scheduled at $13,175.63. Ten thousand is delivered to Warrack Wallace, trustee in bankruptcy. The temporary receiver is to be discharged. Morton S. Hawkins. formerly president of the defunct Hawkins Mortgage Company, defaulted a $7,500 ,bond Oct. 1, 1924, when he failed to appear for trial on charges of using the mails to defraud, in Federal court. He later surrendered at -Dayton, 0., and is now fighting proceedings to remove him to Indiana for trial. Others Convicted Fourteen other officials of the Hawkins company and its branch organizations were convicted on con spiracy to use the mails to defraud, In Federal Court. All but two appealed. The report reviews attempts of the bankrupt to prevent the receiver from getting control of the assets, following the filing of the involuntary petition in bankruptcy against the firm May 26, 1923. The com pany was adjudged a bankrupt Dec. 30, 1924. ‘WON’T HANG JUNE 25’ Chapman Attorney Rays Court Cannot Rule Before Then. Bv Ttmr* Rpecial HARTFORD, Conn.. April 15. Gerald Chapman, the aristocrat of banditry, will not hang on June 25, according to Nathan O. Freedman, the sentenced man's counsel. Freedman, who late Tuesday filed reasons for his appeal from the jury decision which resulted in the sentencing of Chapman to death for the murder of Patrolman Skelly of New Britain, does not believe that the court will have time to the appeal until ne A t Octooer^Bßbi

Barbara Is True to Lassie in Face of Dogdom *s 4 400 ’

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Hoosier Kennel Club Opens Annual Show at Athenaeum. Out of all the thoroughbred howls an . barks to be heard at the Athenaeum today, the second day of the Hoosier Kennel Club's annual dog show, Barbara Hale, 4, of 612 DeQuincy St., has ears for only one call,' that of her Lassie. Ever since Lassie, whose full name is Plath, was born in Ban Antonio, Tex., three years ago, she and Barbara have been the best of pals. Last November Barbara, Lassie and Barbara's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hale, moved to Indianapolis. More than 400 dogs, from all parts of tlie* country, and three St. Charles spaniels from England, are in the show. Three hundred trophies, besides cash prizes, are offered. A grand prize, a silver tea set. will be given by U. R. Flshel of Hope, Ind., president of the Kennel Club, for the best dog In the show’. Judging, which began Tuesday afternoon, will continue until the show ends, at 11 p. m., Thursday. The judges are C. J. Casselmen, of Chicago; Otto Gross, of Fair Oaks, Pa., and Montgomery Purvience, of Huntington, Ind. TAXI FLIGHT FAILS Youths Held at CinncinnaH on Auto Theft (liarge. Two boys, Edward Perch and Charles Fatthour, are in Cincinnati city jail on charge of vehicle taking, after being trailed from Traders Point, Ind. It is alleged that the boys took a car belonging to Edward Dollrickes, Cincinnati, on March 29, drove to ward Indianapolis and struck a tele phone pole a short distance out of Indianapolis. They hired a taxi and started toward Cincinnati. They were caught by State Motor Policemen Losey and Burgess.

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Bought One Dog; He Gets 11 Puppies, Born En Route, Raise Serious ‘Duty’ Question Here.

A’-“|fra VON ALRSTOLZ, a native of Bremen, Ger- - J many, who Is now making her home with Fred Rubeck, 2645 Madison Ave., was caught by the vigilant United States customs collector. John A. Royse, when she attempted to bring her children surreptitiously into this country. Afra, of “blue blood,” perhaps did not understand the customs of her new’ country. When she arrived in Indianapolis George Hawkins, chief deputy customs collector, raised the question that her ten children were dutiable as well as Afra herself. Rubeck bought Afra for $2lO and had to pay a duty on her of SSO. Hawkins refused to allow Rubeck to take her from the customs warehouse until he had conferred with Royse. Royse decided the offspring were "American born” and not dutiable Afra is a. thoroughbred German police dog and her ten puppies were born at the customs warehouse the night she arrived here.

HOUSE BURNS; TWO ESCAPE Woman Wakes Brother, Who Jumps From Window. When he* home caught early today, Mrs. Walter Anderson, Ravenswood, woke her brothpr, Fred Bonnet, 17, and fled tn her night clothes. Bonnet saved himself by Jumping from a second story window. Damage to the home, owned by Mrs. Anderson’s father. F. C. Bonnet, was about $2,500. It was practically destroyed. Fire Is said to have been started by a coal oil stove. Mrs. Anderson, suffocated by smoke, collapsed after getting out of the building, and was taken to the home of a neighbor. Fire spread to a vacant house next door, owned by Earl AlcLaughlin, mil caused damage of about SSOO. MINE RIOT; MANY HURT I>etails Lacking in .West Virgin’a Strike Uprising. Bv Prt CHARLESTON, West Va., April 15. Many persons have been wounded In anew mine outbreak near Morgantown, according to advices received today by oGvernor Gore. Details are lacking, it was said at ‘he Governor's office. The report indicated that most of he coal field rioters had been Jailed. Open Muffler Charge Charge of driving with an open muffler was placed against Carl Schnarr. 23, of 1918 Roosevelt Ave., in city court today by State police.

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Physician Who Attended Miss-Ober-holtzer, Alleged Victim in Stephenson Case, Bares Events Leading to Death at Coroner’s Inquest. FIRST WITNESS CALLED IN INVESTIGATION BY ROBINSON Describes Condition of Girl When He Took Charge—Grand Jury in Session but Takes No Further Action —Prosecutor Silent. By Blythe Q. Hendricks Madge Oberholtzer is dead. But as her story of the events leading to her death fell from the lips of Dr. John K. Kingsbury at inquest of Dr. Paul F. Robinson, coror.r, today, it seemed as if the girl, who Tuesday lost a desperate four-weeks’ battle against poison self-ad-ministered, were giving the testimony herself. D. C. Stephenson, formerly Grand Dragon on the Ku-Klux Klan in Indiana, a power in lloosier Republican political circles, under indictment for kidnapincr, attacking and committing mayhem upon Miss Oberholtzer, and facing the possibility of an added charge of murder, was the cause of the tragedy, according to the testimony of Dr. Kingsbury.

Lured to Stephenson's home the night of March 15, the telephone torn from her hands when she realized she was trapped and attempted to telephone for aid; forced to <jrin’’ liquor against her will until she became ill; taken on board a train, where she was brutally maltreated and attacked by Stephenson; her determination to kill Stephenson with his own revolver as he lay asleep in a hotel at Hammond, Ind., the following morning, turned to a decision to kill herself as she thought of her family. Dr. Kingsbury said the girl told him as she lay, dli ty, disheveled, begrimed, bruised and battered, on her bed at home two days later. Then followed a recital of the girl's account of how she obtained poison by a ruse and took it. Fight Rack Told Then the doctor repeated her story of the panic into which Stephenson and his aids were thrown by discovery of her act; how she was put into an automobile and rushed to Indianapolis despite her pleading to be taken to a hospital; of her suffering on the long trip home, and of refusal to obtain medical aid at towns through which the automobile sped; of how she was held a prisoner throughout the night in the garage at Stephenson’s home, and finally taken home and placed in bed during the absence of her parents the following day. with word that she had been Injured in an automobile accident. The names of Earl Klenck and Earl Gentry, under indictment with Stephenson on charges of conspiracy to commit a felony, did not appear in Dr. Kingsbury’s testimony. He referred to persons that Miss Oberholtzer told him were in the case as “another man," or “two other men, whose names I do not remem. ber.* First Witness Dr. Kingsbury was the first witness at the coroner's' inquest, and probably will be the only one heard today. He gave his testimony quietly, dispassionately, carefully seeking for exact quotations and details as given him by Miss Oberholtzer. “You attended Miss Madge Oherholtzer?" Coroner Robinson asked Dr. Kingsbury. "I did.” “State when you were first called and your diagnosis and observations.” Bruised and Cut “I called by telephone at about 11:30 a. m. four weeks ago Tuesday,” Dr. Kingsbury said. “I was told on the telephone Madge had been brought in hurt -.in an automobile accident. I went to her room. She lay on the bed dirty, disheveled, her dress open in front, exposing lacerations and bruises on the chest. There also was apparent a bruised area on the right cheek. She was in a state of shock, her body was very cold and her pulse rapid. I asked her how badly she was hurt. She said she did not know. [ made a hasty examination of her body to see if there were any broken bones. I found none. I asked her how it happened. “ ‘When I get better T will tell you the whole story,’ she said. “Because of her state of shock I did not know when this would be and I pressed her for information. Called From Home “She told that two evenings before. Sunday evening, she had been summoned ty the home of D. C. Stephenson On University Ave., by telephone, and that she had been escorted these by some man whose name I do nbt remember; that upoq* entering the hqpse she realized she (Tmm to Page 2)

Forecast Generally fair and coot tonight with probably frost. Thursday fair.

CEREMONYFOR BUS TERMINAL OPENING 6IVEN Entire City Invited to View New Station on Times Square. The entire city of Indianapolis will be given an opportunity to participate in the formal opening of the new bus terminal in Times Square on the afternoon and evening of May 19. it was announced today by J, Edward Morris, president of the Washington Bank and Trust Company, who is general chairman of the. committee in charge. A carnival covering Washington St., from Illinois to Missouri St., Maryland St. from Capitol to Senate Aves., and Senate Ave., from Washington St. to the rear of the bus terminal building wil be held. All will be free. Morros has associated with himself in sponsoring the big cele. bration Meyer Efroymson, Tracy W. Ellis, advertising manager of The Indianapolis Times; Harry W. Israel and Harry A Kahn. All business organizations civic associations, luncheon clubs and persons of all parts of the city will be invited to join in the formal opening. The executive committee today appointed Claude S. Wallin as manage>- of the entire event. Wallin returned last week from Kansas City, where he was manager of the seventh national Mower show for the National Florists’ Association. He managed the first home complete show in this city and both the Indianapolis industrial expositions. Wallin has submitted to the executive committee a tentative program which includes a display of products of industries of Indianapolis and an exposition of the most modern vehicles in use in motor bus transportation.

NO BACTERIA IN STOMACH Doctor Makes Report in Alleged Poison Case. No trace of bacteria that could have caused death was found in the stomach of Alvin Arthur Louden, 3, son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Ben Louden, 624 Coffey St., Dr. Virgil H. Moon of the Indiana University School of Medicine reported to Coroner Paul F. Robinson today. The child and his brother. Kenneth Ray, 5. died after an Illness said to have followed the eating of ice cream gones. Dr. Moon analyzed tfie contVnts of the stomach ofethe child for traces rs poison. Coroner Robinson had held up his investigation of the children's deaths pending the completion of the analysis. Four Get Sentences James Dunlap, 25, and his wife, J Mrs. Mabel Dunlap. 27. and Harrn Vickers, 24. and Frank Delay, 2jfl were each tlned SIOO and costs sentenced to one to fourteen ,ve^| sprlsonment today by Judge JMeIM Collins ir Criminal irges of vehicle taking. A/