Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1925 — Page 24
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SHANK ASSERTS WILMETH MUST SPEND TO WIN’ Money Runs Works and It’s All Right, Says Mayor. “Why. lie's crazy as a bedbug; if he won't spend money he won’t be elected." Mayor Shank today fired this broadside at Judge Delbert O. Wil meth, candidate for Republican nomination for mayor, in reply to a letter he received from Wilmeth in which the mayor was taken to task for a recent statement that $300,000 would be spent by candidates in the mayoralty race. Hasn't Chance “He hasn't got a chance," said Lew, referring to the latter's assertion that Wilmeth will not psend 1 per cent of the $300,000 total. "Say, money runs the works. It always has and always will, and that does'nt mean it's not right." Wilmeth, in his letter, said: “As one candidate for the Republican nomination for mayor, I ran assure you that not 1 per cent of the sum you mentioned has been spent in my interests and not more than another per cent will be so spent in this primary. If my opponents contemplate any such huge expenditures for the purpose of this campaign, as you have indicated, it is your duty both as a citizen and as mayor to make public the facts you have in support of your charges." Denies Violation Lew denied that question of law violation entered into the situation. He said the law required strict accounting of all funds expended through party committees, but that there is nothing to prevent private citizens from furthering interests of candidates through expenditure of money. Le the money factor prevailed in election of all successful candidates from President Coolldge down to the mayoralty race. “I’ll bet not one-tenth of the money spent to elect Coolidge last fall was reported through the campaign committee," Mayor Shank declared. Referring to the support of George K. Coffin. Republican county chairman for John Duvall, candidate for Republican mayoralty nomination, he said the same system would prevail in Coffin’s activities. Hits Coffin “Do you think Coffin will report all the money he spends for Duvall? Well, I'll say he won’t, lie’ll tell about the money the committee collects officially, but the rest won’t appear.” Turing his batteries directly upon Wilmeth. Lew continued. “Wilmeth never was nominated for an office. He talks a lot about a business administration, but has he given us one as city judge? Why, we worked two years to get the goods on a gambling house and then, what happened? He turned them loose. I'm going to write that bird a letter that will burn him up.”
FLEET NEARING BATTLEZONE IN WAR MANEUVERS Flagship Has Engine Trouble —Leads Rest of Armada. ABOARD U. S. S. SEATTLE (Via Radio From United Press Staff Correspondent). April 17.—The flag-ship Seattle was again speeding at fifteen knots an hour toward Hawaii today, after a slight accident at sea, which delayed the war craft's progress. A gasket in a clyinder head on one engine blew out and the engineers worked for some hours repairing the damage. The Seattle was 800 miles southwest of San Francosco at dark last night and bearing a steady course toward the scbne of the coming “battle,” in which the remainder of the fleet, following behind, will attempt to “capture” the islands. Exact location of the “blue” force which designates the Navy is unknown aboard the flagship, as radio communication between this craft and “the attacking” fleet has been ■llenced to prevent possible communication of “war” secrets to the enemy. Stronger winds were blowing today and the seas were much rougher than any yet encountered. Some of the newspaper publishers and correspondents aboard were beginning to lose their hearty appetites. The weather, however, is clear and there is no sign of rain. Admiral Coontz, chief umpire, and co-ordinating umpires held another conference last night, hut refused to comment on their deliberations. War-time regime prevails aboard the Seattle, with “lights out” at night, fire and all emergency drills held at regular intervals. LANTERN SETTLES CASE Shilling Light Ends Trouble in Criminal Oourt. “Let your light shine,” Judge James A. Colins suggested to Mrs. Maud Martin, 416V6 W. Washington St., and Leonard Lanham, 325 Blake St., as they left the Criminal Court room today, between them the lantern Lanham had bought to settle their difficulties. Lanham was charged with malicious trespass. Mrs. Martin alleged he knocked a lantfi n, valued at $1.50, off the rear of a vagon belonging to her. At the judge s order, T,anham left the court room, bought the new lantern, and presented it to Mrs. Martin. She reecived it with a gracious smile.
Friends Gather at Oberholtzer Home for Funeral
Friends Gathered at Home, 5802 University Ave., During Funeral of Miss Madge Oberholtzer Thursday Afternoon.
BLAZE AT HOME OF STEPHENSON (Continued From Page 1) two other men, arrived at the house in a large Buick sedan. State P<dicemen Losey and Bridges followed closely in a smaller car. Stephenson immediately went into a secret conference with Police Lieut. George Anderson and requested that no one but officers listen. They went from room to room inspecting details of the damage. Stephenson was sulky as he told a. telephone man he did not know that one of the three phones in the house was listed under the name of Jones. Stephenson Angry “If it is take it out," he blustered." Stephenson was clad in a blue serge suit, and dark hat, silk shirt and clean shaven. He was plainly angry. His face was red and his voice rang through the empty rooms as he gave vent to his feelings at various sights in the house. Humes Surprised Robert T. Humes, head of the State motor police, said Losey and Bridges were assigned to several speed and liquor cases in city court today, and expressed surprise when informed the two had accompanied Stephenson on the trip to his Irvington home. “If Losey and Bridges were with Stephenson this morning they were not in line of duty; were doing so unbeknown to this office and will be subjected to reprimand," Humes said. Assignments IHflVr Humes asked an assistant in his office to look up their assignments for today on the office's daily record. The record showed Losey and Bridges had been sent to patrol State Rd. 6, between Indianapolis and Lebanon. Humes' assistant said Losey and Bridges had asked to be sent out on the Kranklin-Indian-apolis road. Humes repeated that the report that the two were acting as a Stephenson body guard Waus “j-idiculous." Stephenson, according to neighbors, moved some of his furniture from the house several weeks ago. Records today showed that the Marion County State Bank holds a $15,000 mortgage on the property. John L. Duvall, candidate for Republican nomination for mayor, is a heavy stockholder in the bank. Duvall formerly was president of the bank. He was not president when the mortgage w-as made. History of the property from the time of its purchase as shown by official records is as folllows: County recorder’s office, miscellaneous record. 147, page 447, shows that Jul> 6, 1923, Stephenson en tered into a trust agreement with Robert I. Marsh by which Marsh was to act as trustee to purchase the property, lot No. 8, Downey and Ohmer’s Woodland Park addition to Irvington, except ten feet off the north end, from Ellen Graham. Marsh is a former law partner of I Governor Jackson. This trust agreement was released by a paper dated Feb. 23, 1924. Both papers were recorded March 27, 1924. Mortgage Record 885, page 106, shows that March 15, 1924, the prop erty was mortgaged by Stephenson to the Marion County State Bank to
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secure fifteen notes of SI,OOO each. The mortgage was notarized by Albert F. Cowan. I nder Guard Lieutenant Anderson made a complete investigation of the house and garage today. The place was under guard of a mun who said he was a special police officer sent there by Imnan with instructions to permit no one to enter without proper authority and to permit no photographs of the premises to be taken. The house has about twenty rooms, Anderson s investigation showed the greater part of the fire had been in the dining room where an overstaffed chair was badly burned. The hardwood flooring had swelled and cracked and the interior of the room badly damaged. Flames leaping through the windows had burned the outside of the house. Glass in doors upstairs was broken and the interior scorched. Considerable damage was done in the basement. On the second floor a large safe was found in the den. Apparently the tliJrd floor had been used as a meeting loom. Tile floor was covered with white linoleum and an oblong table about 4 by 8 feet stood in the renter of the room. A large quantity of poker chips was scattered about. A handsome hlue rola*. trimmed in braid, also was found. Anderson made a thorough examination of the garage. In it he f< und an airplane motor, bearing a shipping tag from Marietta, Ohio. Considerable white duck clothing was found, supposedly for use on Stephenson's yacht which was destroyed by lire at Toledo, Oho, last year. On the second floor Lieutenant Anderson found a bedroom, living room, kitchen- and bathroom. The place showed signs of having been occupied recently. There also was a grip which contained shot gun shells; some decks of cards, poker chips, empty bottles. Easter cards signed "Carrie," "Your Rummy" and "Freida,” were in the room. In another grip w f re found two shot guns. In a dresser drawer was a money tiil. In the dresser were gun shells, a laundry slip ben-'n- the name "Earl Klenck," a finning license to Klencqk issued at Evansville and a quantity of clothing. Framed letter On ihe door was a framed typewritten letter from a N. New Jersey St. fraternity. It was addressed “Dear Mr. Stephenson,” and urged him to come out for dinner some time after dark. In a closet were many boxes of elaborate regalia. The headgears bore red eagles and the initials "K. L.” A large card index system of cards signed for the "Jackson for Governor Club" was found. On a dressing table was a picture of Stephenson in the uniform of a lieutenant of the United States Army. A number of ballots bearing the names “John L. Duvall,” “Cadle.” "Wilmeth," “W. S. Frye," and ■Ralph A. Lemcke" were found. DEATH IS DEPI.ORKD Irvington Tuesday Club Pays Tribute to Miss Oberholtzer The Irvington Tuesday Club was on record today as deplorpig the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer. The resolution, drawn up by a committee headed by Mrs. Francis
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I Hill. 324 layman Ave., read in part: "We have known her from childhood and admired her business qualities, her executive abilty and her high standing in the community. She was of a happy, cheerful disposition, very friendly with whom she came in contact, fearless and independent, and we want to vouch most emphatically for her splendid character. We feel that a very useful life has been termipated. We hope and pray that justice may be done.” FATHER TELLS ATTACK STORY From Page 1) if I could get up and go down town. I had had the flu since Saturday. “You knew nothing up until then?” “My wife was afraid to lell me. She was afraiil I eoiildn’l stand it. Then she mentioned the fact that Madge was in trouble, and wanted me to come down town with her. Wife Breaks View’s "During the trip downtown she told me we. were going to a detective's office; that Madge had been gone since Sunday night; that she Just couldn’t stand it any longer, and had to do something. We went to see the detectives, and then I went to the railroad station to watch all the trains all afternoon. I put the time watching the faces of people for Madge. When I failed to find her I telephoned home and then went home. "The first person I met was Madge, and she told me she w-as "very, very sick.” I was so broken up they wouldn’t allow' ire In the room, except a few minutes at a time. "They’d lead rue out. I couldn't stand to see her. "Later on, about a week after lbat, I was in the room with Madge. She said to me and motioned: Daddy, sit down on the edge of the bed.’ | She wanted me to stroke her hair." “Then she said. ‘Oh! Daddy! That was the longest ride 1 ever had. I just felt like I'd die every minute, i begged them and Mr. Stephenson to get me a doctor every little bit, along the roads at every town. Then 1 begged them to put me out alongside the road. Somebody might pick me Up.’ That’s all I remember her saying at that time, she was so exhausted. “And one other time she said to me, ‘Ho you think they can send him to prison?’ I told her I thought we could.' She replied, ’Oil, I'm so glad. I don't think they con unless the Federal authorities do it, because lie told me his word was law In Indiana. "They ean't do anything with me, because my word is law in Indiana,”’ he said, Oberholtzer testified. "Did she say anything to you about taking mercury tablets?" asked Coroner Robinson. "No, I didn’t talk to her about that,” was the reply. Wife “Nervous Wreck” “My wife isn't going to be able to get down here today, she is such a nervous wreck.” Oberholtzer told the coroner after he finished his story. "She is locked in her own room and won’t let any one in. I couldn’t hardly get my overcoat out of there.” “Has your daughter ever had any
other sickness?” the coroner asked. “She never did. She w’as the healthist girl,” was the answer. Oberholtzer said Madge was 28 on Nov. 10. Miss Spratley, a middle aged English woman, preceded Oberholtzer on the stand. She spoke in a broad English accent hard to follow'. She is a registered nurse In Minnesota, she said, and has been one for twenty-eight or twenty-nine years. ‘On March 17. between 11 and 12, I got a message from Dr. Kingsbury, w'ho told me to go to 5802 University Ave., I guess it is—l am not very long on remembering numbers. Girl Severely Bruised “When I got there I found a girl lying in bed severely bruised, quite conscious. I had expected to find a man. “She told me to call a doctor and he w’ould tell me what was the matter. I called him and he came at once. “He told she had—l can’t remember exactly—she had been out with some men, been badly mistreated. At the time I did not know what he meant. He said she was so badly upset she had taken poise n—six tablets. “Unfortunately she had had no medical aid for forty-eight hours and so in his words, ‘he guessed she was a goner, but we must do our best,’ and he gave me instructions. At once we set to work. Her parents were not there. Before the doctor left the mother came home. He told her the story. Describes Bruises “As soon as she was able to stand It I bathed her In bed and discovered she was badly bruised and lacerated. The left breast was very badly bruised and had two lacerations. The right breast was badly bruised and the right cheek. The tongue was swooien and lacerated The abdomen was badly bruised. Other portions of her body were badly bruised and lacerated, and there were smaller bruises on the legs and ankles. “That is all to the best of my memory. Coroner Robinson attempted to ascertain the nature of the bruises and Ulcerations. “What wan the appearance of the bruises?” he asked. “Black and blue, torn and lacerated,” was the answer. “Did the bruises cover a large area?" “Yes around the breast, top part." “Did these bruised areas have the appearance of being struck by something?” "I could not say. They were large bruises. The whole upper part of her breast was bruised." “Y'ou could not toll if something had struck her causing the bruises?” “Madge Told Me” “I could not tell. A few days later Madge told me." Just what it was Miss Oberholtzer told the nurse never was revealed. Then followed a descirpion of remedies adminisered in aemps o alieviae Miss Oberholzer’s sufferings. The patien was conscious for two weeks, according to the nurse. “Don’t mind all those details,” Robinson said. “Tell me when she got worse. I know about what you want to say but yo uare having difficulty in saying it." In State of Coma “Well she gradually weakened," Miss Spratley said. “On the six teenth day she got out of her-head. Up to then she had been very, very clear. From then on she gradually got weaker. For the last three days of her life she was in a state of complete coma." ‘.’When did she die?" ‘lt was really unexpected. The night before, Monday, she appeared to be better. Tuesday morning at 8 I thought I should call a doctor. He came. He then said she would go and he could do no more. At 10 a. m. I took her temperature. It was 106.2. Five minutes later she was dead." This concluded Miss Spratley’ o : testimony. Whole Family Burned MARSHFIELD. Ore.. April 17. Trapped in their apartments, a family of five was burned to death and five were severely injured here today when flames destroyed a case, grocery store and an apartment house on the floor above.
Girl, Struck by Car, Serious
Ivetta Parnell Ivetta Parnell, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Burch, 345 N. East St., is seriously ill at the Robert Long Hospital today as the result of being struck by a W. Michigan street car late Wednesday. Miss Parnell, in company with Herbert Gorman, a friend, was crossing the tracks in the 1,000 block on W. Michigan St. She thought the car was going to stop and. stepped in front of it, it is thought. An ex ray revealed a fractured hip. Gorman said the girl was thrown sixty feet when struck.
MORGAN ISSUES SCREENS ORDER Food Dispensers Warned by Health Board. Steps to protect the public from impure food at restaurants and groceries during the coming spring and summer were taken by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board of health, today. Health board inspectors were ordered to enforce sanitary regulations at all establishments where food Is served. Screens were ordered placed at once. Inspector will devote special attention to regulations safeguarding the city’s milk supply. They will arrest owners of food establishments who permit bottles of milk to remain on sidewalks exiwsed to the sun. Food must be protected from flies and dirt, according to Dr. Morgan. Sanitary regulations to insure cleansing of ice boxes In grocery stores and proper facilities for washing dishes and glasses in restaurants will i>e enforced rigidly, he said.
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BUTLER FRESHMEN MEET Committee Plan Endowment Fund al Banquet. The Freshman building endowment fund committee, composed of representatives from every fratern ity and sorority on the Butler University campus, met at a banquet Thursday night in the Burier canteen with O. K. McKittrick, presi dent of the class, and with a faculty committee, to formulate plans for raising the Freshman endowment fund. Speeches were given at the banquet by Wood Unger, Prof Corine Welling, Prof. Katherine Grayden, Dean J. W. Putnam, J. W. Atherton, financial secretary ofthe college, and George Schumacher, president of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Arrangements were made for a meeting of the entire Freshman class in the Butler Chapel May 14 Disguised for Ten Years PARIS, April 17.—Deserting from the French army ten years ago, Paul Grappe donned female attire. He nnd his wife have earned their living by needlework, until the closely guarded secret recently was discovered.
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TORNADO AREA REPORT MADE Red Cross Gives Death and Damage Figures. ( Report of American Red Cross tornado relief submitted to William Fortune, chairman Indianapolis Chapter, by Leonard O. Coop, area director, shows an estimate of property loss of $348,000 in and nesr Griffin. Property destroyed in Gris fin was estimated at $263,000. There were forty-eight deaths in Griffin and vicinity. Population before the disaster w’as 692 and only 441 have returned. According to the report., 118 buildings were destroyed; 41 damaged, and 193 persons Injured. Charles W. Carr, in charge of all supplie sand provisions, who was in conference here today, sa.ld about ninety-five buildings will be rebuilt, seventy-three of which are homes. Nine homes have already been rebuilt and eight repaired. Carr said fifty volunteer workers had erected a temporary structure for the Christian Church. Methodist and Baptist churches will be rebuilt.