Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 292

STEPHENSON IS JAILED WITHOUT BOND

EUROPE IS SHAKEN BY DISORDERS Eight Separate Disturbances Mark Most Unsettled Period Since War Lisbon Outbreak Put Down— Bulgaria Still Seething. COUNTER-UPRISING IN SOFIA AGAINST REDS Portugese Army Routs Revolt After Twenty-Four Hours of Erratic Firing— Rebellion Directed Against President Manuel Gomez. Bu United PretH LONDON, April 20. —Europe, with adjacent fester ‘.ng in northern Africa and the near east, is finishing April in the midst of the most unsettled period the old world has known since the war. In addition to the blood baths of Bulgaria and Portugal, France and Belgium are in the throes of governmental changes, while Germany has revived the issue of republicanism versus monarchy. Italy is engaged in suppressing the Senussi. while Spain is fight ing the Riffs and Turkey is doing its utmost to mop up the Kurds. “White terror” of reprisal against communists for the cathedral outrage has sprung up in Bulgaria, the Times’ Sofia correspondent cables. Besides rounding up “reds,” one thousand of whom have been arrested, the Bulgarian government has had to combat the activity of male relatives of men, women and children who were blown to pieces or crushed in the cathedral disaster. These ‘‘whites'’ began aft unofficial reign of terrror, killing and lynch ing scores of communists. The governfnept now has- restored order. Portugueoe Revolt Quiet Bii l nitrd Prem LISBON, April 20.—Definitely and with comparatively little bloodshed, the Portuguese army today mo oped up the last vestige of a revolution which sprang to life Saturday morning and lasted through twenty-four hours of musketry, machine gunning and erratic artillery fire. Rebels, recruited from infantry, cavalry and artillery brigades by Col. Filomeno Camara, for the avowed purpose of restoring normal order In the government, capitulated after their stronghold had been sub jected to continuous iKmihardruent by loyal troops and by the battleship Vascada Gama. The Portuguese revolution was aimed against the government of President Manuel Teixeria Gome*. The latter, a former minister to Great Br tain and popular in London became president in 1923 His supporters are known as conservative Republicans. It was the radical Republicans who revolted. FT. WAYNE MAN SHOT Both i/Cgs Broken in Attempt to Flee Officer. Bu United Prett CHICAGO. April 20.—Roland Koontz, 20, Ft. Wayne, lnd., had both legs broken, when he was shot by Detective Fred Tapscott as he was trying to escape from the officer here early today. Tapscott had nabbed Koontz, who with a partner was In the act of holding up a man

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HUNT GIRL IN HOLD-UP AND DEATH Harry Keely, Shot by Young Woman, Dies in City Hospital Says She Asked Him to Buy Her Food, Then Fired at Him. VENGEANCE IS AMONG THEORIES OF POLICE Witnesses See Victim With Hands in Air, Hear Shots and Watch Assailant Run Away Job Similar to jjddy O’Brien. Harry Keely, 43. of 8768 N. Meridian Bt., a painter shot in a hold up at Vermont and Talbott Sts., Sun day night by an unidentified girl, died at the city hospital early today. Police with several tangible clews and theories to follow, searched the underworld for the woman. Dying Statement Keely, in a dying statement told Police Lieutenant Johnson that he was accosted by the woman near New Jersey and Ohio Sts.. and she asked him to hu y her a meal They start- ■- ed walking and *s when they got to Vermont and ■■ Talbott Sts . Kely said the worn , an turned on him ■>d - and said. ‘‘l'll get mine now.” and fired two bullets. M :<>nP struck him Hg|L in the abdomen. I The girl was ' * - described as he ?? dt Ing tall, about 20. Wtim' ii .dL wearing a black dress and hat. KEELY Millard Cain, 604 W. Merrill St., and Pearl Croos, 110 E. Verrnone St., heard the shots and told police they saw Keely with his hands up and then saw the woman run west to Pennsylvania St., and disap pear. Police found sl9 in Keely b clothes. Question Woman Police questioned Mrs. Pearl Shtteffer, 319 Wisconsin St., in an es tort to trace Keely s movements up to the time of the shooting. Mrs. Shaeffer said Keely had been to her home and ate dinner there at noon, leaving about 3 in the afternoon. Police also questioned Miss Jesse Shipman, 1019 E. Market St., but she told them she had not seen Keely for some time. Police said one theory Is that Keely was shot In vengeance. The hold-up also was stag ltd similar to those In which Teddy O’Brien, woman slayer who recently escaped the Ohio Woman’s prison, took part, police &id. HOSPITAL FUND TOTALIS GIVEN Subscriptions for ‘Advance’ Reach $347,752. Total subscriptions of $347,762 for the $1,500,000 Indiana Methodist Hospitals’ "advanced” were announced Sunday from all Methodhn pulpits of Indiana. The fund movement is for buildings, nurses’ homes, new equipment and money reserves for the Methodist Hospitals of Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Gary and Princeton. A total of $.17,702 was reported pledged at Rensselaer, lnd., In a campaign for $25,000 for the Monnett School for Girls, a Methodlat institution. Anew bungalow for use as a dormitory Is planned. REVIEW IS DENIED SIX Supreme Court Refuses Petition of Gary Men. The I'nited States Supreme Court today denied petition by six Gary, lnd., men for a review of their cases, acacord.ng to a Washington, D. C. dispatch. They were among fifty-five convicted in Federal Court before Judge A. B. Anderson on a charge of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law. The six were Roswell C. Johnson, Gary mayor; Lewis E. Barnes, president board of work; Dwight M. Kinder, prosecuting attorney, Lake county: Blaz A. Lucas and Bryan S. Narcovich, attorneys, and Mike Oleska, owner of a soft drink place

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\A'\t to Right—Sheriff Haw kills, Deputy Slit* ril I hofel, hart Klimk, hail (jentry, Deputy Mieriif Carter and D. C. Stephenson, arrivinf at the eounty jail following arrest of Stephenson and his aids.

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Husband Unaware Wife and Children Were Killed. Still unaware that his wile and their three little children are dead, Ralph Cottey, 28, of 2318 N. LaSalle St., lay at the Methodist Hospital today, suffering from severe bruises end a possible fracture of the hip. He had been told that his father, Lincoln Cottey, 63. a barber at East and Washington Sts., was killed when the automobile in which the Cottey family was riding was struck by an Indianapolis-bound Union Traction Company lntsrurban Sunday morning at Ingalls, Ind. Although Ralph Cottey was expected to recover, his Injuries were serious, and hospital attaches allowed him to believe the other members of his family were In a hospital at Pendleton or Andgrson. only slightly Injured. In reality they had been killed Instantly. "I’d like to know how the rest of them are,” Cottey said. The Dead The dead are: Lincoln Cottey. Mrs. Mae Cottey, 24. .lennie Cottey, 8. Dorothy Cottey 7. Ralph Cottey ,lr., 3. Funeral services for the five victims will be held at the Moore and Kirk chapel, 2630 Station St., at 2 p. m.. Tuesday. Ralph Cottey. who is a hardwood floor layer, was the only one in the automobile to escape Instant death. He said he did not see or hear the approaching interurban. He was thrown Into the air as the traction struck the auto. The other mem bers of the family were carried in the wreckage for about a block. Coroner Earl Sells, called from Anderson, made a preliminary in vestr ration at the scene of the trageCy. He questioned. Motorman Harry fpappy and Conductor Albert WilhelnL both of Muncie. who were not heldf The C'teys were on their way to visit Charles Valentine, a cousin, to Pare 71

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 20,1925

WHEELER WINS COURT VICTORY Judge Rules Out Evidence on Count of Indictment. FEDERAL COURTROOM. Great Falls, Mont., April 20. —The defense In the trial of Senator Burton K. Wheeler on a charge of misuse of offloo today won an Important victory when Judge Frank S. Dietrich ruled out all evidence on one count of the Indictment. Judge Dietrich refused to permit the prosecution to introduce matters pertaining to the Lincoln oil permit obtained by Gordon Campbell. Montana oil operator, from the Interior I^dartment. "rJbe evidence was excluded on the (s*>ukdß that at the time Senator WhetlW was retained as counsel for matters concerning the UnooWr permit were pending before the Interior Depqftment. ARGUMENT' .’ DATE SET Hadklns Case to Be Heard In Cincinnati May 4. Oral arguments on a writ oif habeas corpus, sought by Morton S. Hawkins, former president of the defunct Hawkins Mortgage Company, to prevent his Removal here for trial, will be heard In the United States Circuit Appeals nt Cincinnati, Ohio, May 4, it was learned today. Homer Elliott. formerly United States district attorney, as special attorney general In the case, will present arguments for the Government. Hawkins defaulted a $7,500 bond Oct. 1, 1924, when he failed to appear for trial In Federal Court here on charges of conspiracy to use the mails to defraud. He surrendered at Dayton. Ohio. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 45 10 a. m 48 7 a. m...... 46 11 a. m 50 8 a. m 46 12 (noon! 61 9 a. m 47 1 p. 53

APPEALS FAIL TO HALT PLANS FOR MAY VOTE Primary Tickets to Be Printed Without Names for City Judge. respite Supreme Court appeals hy , parsons Who cannot -get their names dn the primary lollota as candidates for nomination ns city Judge, the city election board today went abend with plans for the primary election. The lionrd intended to certify the official lists if eandldates without the candidates for city judge, which office was abolished by the last legislature, and order the printing of ballots started today or tomorrow. No Frye Suit A tnreatened suit against the board certifying the name of W. S. Frye, candidate for Republican nomination for mayor, t.dled to materialize. The board had been informed one would be filed on the grounds FT ye has lived :n the city only since March 1. “The statute clearly says candidates for mayor must have lived in the city one year,” said Frank P. Baker. Democratic election commis sioner. “We were Informed a suit would be filed to keep his name off the ballot, but the other Republican candidates couldn’t figure out which of them would be hurt or benefited by such a move, so they let It go. “If Frve is nominated and elected by the Republicans, however, there will be a real lawsuit filed by the Democratic nominee, contesting such election, on the grounds of Frye's noncitizenship.” Two Voting Places? City council will medßfonight to tlx voting places. It lWkonsldered possible the Shank-Arm Age faction may submit a list of voting places for the councUftElconsiclenUion In opposition t the nffi handed in by George V. ijftpubllcnn city chairman. Coffin Is John L. Duvall and the Shank-Armitage faction la behind Ralph A. Lemcke. Today Is the first on which applications can be made at the city clerk's office for absent voter ballots. If the applicant Is not in the city he can obtain a blank and fill it out be-, fore a notary, mailing It to the city clerk, who will mail the ballot back. PLUNGESTHROUGH GLASS Woman Drives Car Into Fair Store Window. An automobile driven by Mrs. Marie liofferbert, 22. of 204 N. Hamilton Ave., broke the glass In the front window of The Fair Store, 211 W. Washington St., today when she lost control of the machine. TrafTlc Policeman Padgett said the tar was parked and Mrs. Hofferbert stepped on the wrong pedal when she started to back away from the curb. MANAGER MEETINGS SET Five Community Gatherings to Discuss Plan Announced. Edward O. Sr.ethen, secretary executive committee of the city manager movement, today announced five community meetings for discussion of the city manager form of government. They are: At 2 p. m. today at the home of Mrs. Eva Baker. 250 N. Temple Ave.; at Heath Memorial M. E. Church, Windsor St. and Commerce Ave. Tuesday night! at Irvington Presbyterian Church, Johnaon and Julian Aves., at 8 p. m. Thursday; at School jfNo. 50, at 3:15 p. m., Wednesday, an'J at School No. ,82, May 4.

DR. PHILPUTT’S FUNERAL WILL BE WEDNESDAY Veteran Christian Pastor Died Sunday After Illness. Hundreds of citizens, church laj;nen and ministers Wednesday wIH • join in final tribute to the memory ! ,>f Dr. Allan B. Phllputt. for nearly twenty-seven years pastor of the Centra! Chriwtlan Church, who died early Sunday morning at his residence, 1330 N. New Jersey St., following a protracted Ulness, Dr. Phllputt’B body will lie in state at the church from 8:30 a m. until 10 a. m. Wednesday morning, at which time funeral services will be he’d. Immediately following, the body will be taken to Bloomington where short services will be held at the Bloomington Christian Church. Burial will be In the Bloomington cemetery. Bom In Tennessee Dr. Phllputt was born May 6. 1856, in Bedford County, Tennessee. He came with his parents to Indiana in 1867 and at the age of 18 became a schoolmaster in Monroe County. He received bis Master of Arts degree at Indiana University in 1886. In 1880 be married Anna Maxwell of Bloomington. Dr. Phllputt was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1879 and served his first pastorate with the First Christian Church of Bloomington. (Turn to Page 7) BUSINESS MEN’S MEETING Attorney’s Speech Will Be Broadcast By W’FBM Tonight. Speech of James Bingham, attorney, 1005 Fletcher Savings and Trust Bldg., on "Greater Indianapolis," will be broadcast tonight over Merchants Heat and Light Company station, WFBM. Bingham will addressl Pennsylvania St. Business Men's Association at a dinner at Indianapolis Athletic Club. Following dinner the business men W-Ill* be guests of Herb Jennings, manager Palace Theater. POLICE SEEKING BOY Said to Have Stabbed Another Youth With Knife. Police today searched for George Hobbs. 15, of 134 8. West Bt., to charge him with assault and battery with intent to kill. Officers say James Green, 13, of 616 W. Vermont St., Hobbs and several other boys were playing at Chesapeake and West Sts., when an argument aroaq. Hobbs is said to have stabbed Green with a knife. M’GAU-GHEY CASE OPENS Jury Agreed Upon for Tidal in (Viininal Court. Trial of Robert McGaughey charged with involuntary’ manslaughter got under way In Criminal Court this afternoon before a jury and Judge James A. Collins. Jury was agreed upon by Slate and defense just before noon. McGaughey is being tried for the deaths of Miss Georgia Steffe, Louisville. Ky., and Martin Garvey, who were killed In an automobile accl dent Juiy 4, 1924, at Prospect and Laurel Sts. Motion to quash the indictment was overruled by Judge Collins. Prosecutor William H. Remy opened for the State.

Entered ns Second-clnss Matter nt I’ostoffiee, Indiana polls. Published Dally Except Sunday.

Former Klan Head, Gentry and Klinck Arrested on Murder Indictment at Attorney Inman’s Office After Eluding Sheriff Two Days. EFFORT TO OBTAIN HABEAS CORPUS WRIT IS EXPECTED Defendants Placed in Federal Row With Other Important Prisoners — Eat Regular Fare for Lunch, Including Liver and Potatoes. D. C. Stephenson, Earl Gentry and Earl Klinck, sought since 11:50 a. m. Saturday, when indictments charging them with murder of Madge Obcrholtzer were returned by the Marion County grand jury, were behind the bars of the county jail today, held without bond. They were arrested at 9:30 a. m. today by Sheriff Omer Hawkins in the offices of Eph Inman, Stephenson’s attorney, on the eleventh floor of the Consolidated Bldg., Pennsylvania and Market Sts. Habeas corpus proceedings were expected to be filed. An hour after their arrest, Inman ami Attorneys Cowan and Johnson, talked to the accused men through the bars and the three signed papers, believed to be the initial step in an expected legal battle to obtain their release.

Attorney Janies Curtis, who defends the sheriff in habeas corpus proceedings, conferred with Sheriff Hawkins at the jail shortly after noon. Curtis, after the conference, said the conference was only to discuss moves in the case if habeas corpus suit is filed. The deposed Klan leader and his two lieutenants told deputy sheriffs they did not know they had been indicted and spent Sunday fishing. The- first Hew came at 8:30, when Charles E. Cox. attorney for the Oherholtzer family, telephoned county Jail on request of Prosecutor William Remy, that Stephenson and hiß companions had been seen eating in a restaurant at St. Clair and Pennsylvania Sts. A deputy was dispatched, but the three were gone when the officer a.rrived. Mud 'Stained Auto At 9:26 a mud stained automobile drove up In front of (lie Consolidated Bldg., and Stephenson, Gentry and Klinck got out, went in and took the elevator to the eleventh floor, to Inman's offices. J. P. Carter, deputy sheriff stationed there, immediately telephoned Hawkins. Inman, too, phoned him. Five minutes later Sheriff Hawkins ran out of the Jail calling for his chauffeur, Iveonnrd Koffel. The sheriff told newspapermen he was going out to fix his car. He entered his auto and drove at high speed to Inman's office where Stephenson and the two were arrested. The Indicted men were brought hack to jail in the sheriff's large auto and were slated on murder charge by Frank Kemps, chief turnkey. Roland Snider, chief deputy at the Jail, searched Stephenson. He found a $5 bill. The three were also searched for arms. They had none. Shouldering Ills way through news paper men, reiterating he had nothing to say, Stephenson was taken to the north side of the second floor of (he jail, known as Federal row, and placed in the large cell with thirty-nine other prisoners. Eats Dinner Stephenson ate his first Jail fare at noon. The menu: Fried liver and gravy, mashed potatoes, bread and water. Stephenson. Klinck and Gentry ate with hearty appetites and complimented the jail food. The three mingled with the prisoners and all were In a jovial mood. Companions of the former klansmen Included prisoners charged with bigamy, murder, bootlegging and other crimes calling for high bond. Federal prisoners were also held In the same cell room. Sheriff Hawkins said Stephenson would be given no special privileges, but would be treated as any other prisoners. Shortly after lunch Hawkins gave newspaper men permission to talk to Stephenson through the bars. Nattily dreseed, closely shaven, Stephenson shook Ills head at all questions. “Absolutely nothing to say. See Inman,*’ was his only statement. Five lacked Doors Five looked doors are between Stephenson and freedom. Deputy Carter said Stephenson told him he left the Seminole Satur day about 11 a. m. He said Stephenson told him he knew the grand jury did not usually meet on Saturday morning and if he had known they were about to return an indictment aaglnst him, he would not have left the city. Late Saturday afternoon. Sheriff Omer Hawkins began a search for the Indicted men, but they had disappeared. Hawkins said he wasn’t worried He said lie did not,think | Stephenson would skip the Stfite i

• Forecast MOSTLY fair tonight and Tuesday. Rising temperature Tuesday.

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SESSION CLOSED BY METHODISTS Four New District Superintendents. Rv T\mr* Special ANDERSON. Ind., April 20.—Tbe Northern Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference adjourned this afternoon, after ministerial jisslgnments were read by Hlshop Frederick Leete of Indianapolis. Four new district superintendents were named. They were: W. W. Wlant, of Mishawaka., Ft. Wayne district: U. H. A. Rrldge, of Decatur, Wabash district; F. F. Thornburg, Kokomo, Richmond district, and L. C. Bentley of Anderson, Logansport district. The delegates voted unanimously in favor of the merging of the North and South churches, but deferred action on the proposal to admit lay delegates. Conference city was not cnosen. DEMANDS RETRACTION Von llinricnhurc Says Allies Must Take Itarli “Lie." Rv I’niteil }'rm HEREIN, April 20.—Demands that charges that Germany ts solely responsible for the W'orld War be dropped by the allies formed practically the sole positive point of foreign policy made by Fbeld Marshal Hlndenburg in his first campaign speech before German and foreign correspondents Sunday night. Abandonment of this “lie,’* Hindenburg mid. Is the natural prequisite in the achievements of hia aims of “assuring the German nation full sovereignty and freedom among nations.” INTOXICATION CHARGED Patrolman, Said to Have Imbibed, Will Appear Today. Patrolman Frank Allen, 3724 Kenwood Ave., said to have been found in an Intoxicated condition early on Sunday, was to appear in Chief of Police Herman RikhofTs office today. Allen was taken from a Columbia Ave. street car at Delaware and Ohio Sts. early Sunday. His uniform was covered with dirt, and reports state that he had failed to report from his district for several hours. Allen wan suspended by Captain Fred Drinkut. He was appointed to the department May 23. 1924. STAGE DAY AT FAIR Heading I Julies In Chlrago Show* Say “Don't 110 It.” Rv t'nited Pre** CHICAGO. April 20.—Today was "stage day” at the woman's world s fair here. Leading ladles from the shows in the city were the center of attraction and the advice they gave to the girls who aspire to theatrical careers was: "Don’t do it!” The leading ladies included: Dorothy Stone, Katherine Cornell. Madge Kennedy. Olga Cook. Josephine Adair and Myrtle Schaaf TWO WEEKS FOR TAXES Duvall Urges Payment Now— Crowds Handled. Only two more weeks to pay youi taxes. John L. Duvall, county urges taxpayers to pay as soon as possible. Forty men and women are" oVi duty from 8 a. m. to ,4 p. day Including Saturday ti^urfmtU