Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 310, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1925 — Page 1
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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 310
HAWKINS ORDERED HERE FOR TRIAL
SAYS BELT SEEKS TO PASSBOOK •ames M. Ogden, City Corporation Counsel, Declares Road Is Trying to Saddle Cost of New Bridge Upon I Public. QUESTION CENTERS ON FLOOD PREVENTION LAW Attorney Charges Railroads Have Sought to Prevent Track Elevation for Long Time —Board of Works to Have Say. Declaring’ that proposal of Indianapolis Union Railway Company to bring construction of the $1,600,000 bridge of the belt railroad across White River under terms of the flood prevention law is an unlair attempt by the railroad to saddl'- the cost upon the public, James M. Ogdon, city corporation counsel, Today indicated opposition to the project. Under terms of the flood prevention law the city pays 46 per cent of the cost ,the county 45 and the benefited property owners the remaining 10 per cent. Ix>ng Time Fight “The railroads sought to prevent track elevation projects for ai long time,’’ Ogden said. f Ogden said he believed if the Union Railway Company succeeded in their attempt the effort would be followed by other railroads. According to plans compiled by the flood prevention engineers total costs of bridges and extensions necessitated for flood prevention would be $2,533,000. The Big Four Railroad is scheduled to construct two extensions of bridges each costing $160,000, near the Kingan plant. 'Hie Pennsylvania, railroad must build anew bridge for its Vincennes Division at estimated cost of $330,000 between Oliver and Kentucky Aves., and another bridge valued at $240,000 for its own main lines near the Big Four bridges. An extension must take car of the new mai: double track of the Pennsylvania. estimated to cost $16,000, adjacent to the old line. Opposed Bill Ogden said railroads had successfully opposed an attempt he made, through a bill presented In the recent Legislature, to specify that the railroads were finally responsible for bridge construction. The board of works will determine the issue when the plan submitted by the Union Railway Company has been fully considered by the city's legal department. HOURLY TEMPERATURE R a. m 46 10 a. m 60 k " a. m 46 u a . m 52 f R a. m 46 12 (noon) .... 64 9 a. 47 1 p. 60
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Bn United Prcsf t , Mo., May 11.—Her bert Quick, 64, author and editor of Berkley Spring, W. Va., died of heart trouble in a hospital here Sunday. Quick was stricken while attending the annual Journalism week program of the school of journalism of the University of Missouri. Quick was born in lowa and faugh school in his early manhood. Liter he was admitted to the bar in Mason City, lowa. He abandoned the legal profession to take up writing, and in 1902 became associate editor of La Follette’s magazine. Under the Administration of Wilson, Quick was a member of Federal farm loan board. He was author of “Vandemarks Folly’’ and ‘The Hawkeye.”
Quick w-as a regular contributor to The Indianapolis Times. WILL ATTEMPT TO CRUSH CABIN Divers Fail in Efforts to Release Bodies. Bn r'njtrd Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 11.— Search continued today for traop of twenty bodies still unrecovered from the wreck of the Government Steamer Norman, which went down in fifty feet of water in the Mississippi River Friday with loss of twenty-three lives. Divers made several attempts to roach the wreck, but failed. A huge anchor was brought Into play this morning to wreck the cabins of the Norman. Most of the dead were believed trapped inside the cabins. Meanwhile a fleet of Government boats are watching river banks in belief the bodies may have drifted down stream. One generally accepted theory for the disaster was that the oil could have sloshed about in the Norman’s almost empty tanks in such a way as to cause it to capsize. TAX LAW IS UPHELD Supreme Court Holds Insurance Benefits Lewies Constitutional. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, May 11. The clause of 1918 Federal tax estate law levying against tax Insurance benefits was declared constitutional by the United States Supreme Court today.
RIKHOFF TO AID REMY’S LIQUOR 10 Chief, in Conference With Prosecutor, Promises Board of Safety Action Against ‘Policemen Who Wink at Law/ _ PROMPT INVESTIGATION WILL BE MADE IN CITY County Official Asserts That Enforcement of Dqy Acts Is Work of All Patrolmen —Cites Sections Noted for Violations. Board of safety action against patrolmen and other police officers who wink at liquor law violation was promised" Prosecutor William H Reniy today by Chief of Police Herman Rlkhoff in a conference In the prosecutor's office. Chieff Rikhoff made a special trip to the courthouse to promise Remy “fullest co-operation" In his attempt to enforce the new “bone-dry'" liquor law. The prosecutor announced Saturday that district policemen who allow liquor violations to go on will be removed by Clrcutl Court. “This winking at liquor law viola.tions must stop,” Remy told Rikhoff. He read ihe chief the section of *he new liquor statute providing for removal of police for non-perform-ance of duty. RtkhofT promised an lmm<rtbrt*investigation, and said if any evidence is found against any patrolmen he would save the prosecutor the trouble of taking them to Circuit Court by having the board of safety dis> harge them. The prosecutor told Rikhoff he did not think the whole police force neglected to enforce liquor laws, but that it “could stand a considerable weeding out.’’ EIGHT RUNNERS START ASHORE Government Picket Boats Warned of Movement. B< United Press CLIFTON. N. Y., May 11.—The bileagured rum fleet off New York had its first chance to break the blockade of "dry navy" boats last night. Mist and fog hovered low inshore, making invisibility poor—the first dark night since the blockade was established last Tuesday. Taking advantage of the opportunity, eight of the thirty liquorladen ships reported as comprising the rum-running fleet moved Inshore during the afternoon and reports were awaited at coast guard headquarters as to what transpired during the night. One picket boat returned to the base here reporting that on Saturday a rum ship hailed it and offered to trade 100 cases of liquor for 100 gallons of water. Four Motorists Fined Four alleged speeders fined In City Court today were: Angelo Raia, 609 Harmon St„ S2O and costs; Frank Trost, 3622 Grayson St., sl2 and costs; George Stephenson, 2716 W. Washington St., $lO and costs, and Leonard Meisberger, 1146 S. West St.. sl3 and costs.
BUS FIGHT HEARING IS SET FOR MAY 22 Public Service Commissioner Fixes Date for Clash Between City Traction and Motor Interests.
Clyde Jones, public service commissioner, to whom was referred the Indianapolis bus-street car controversy, announced today that May 22 has been set for hearings on the matter. On that date he will consider petitions of the People'.! Motor Coach Company for certificates of necessity anJ convenience to operate Its four old liner and six new ones, and one of the Indianapolis Street Railway for like permission to start bus lines covering part of the same territory, Also, a protest of the street rallwoay company against Issuing the bus company permission to operate will be heard. Xhe protect, alleges, Uw-hUfl .llftCft
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1925
Flags to Fly for Templar Parade The committee on decorations of the Merchants Association today asked members of the as soclation whose business houses are on the line of march of the Knlglit Templar parade tomorrow to decorate with American flags and wherever possible with black and white, the Knight Templar colors.
BOND BOOSTER TO SIOO FOR DRUNiC CHARGE Judge Wilmeth Announces Increase to Halt Fine Dodging. Bond for release on drunkenness charges was raised from $25 to SIOO by City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth to halt bond skipping. Similar action was taken by Criminal Judge James A. Collins, who announced persons held for grand jury’ investigation of liquor law felony charges or neld in Criminal Court on charges of the same will not be allowed freedom on bail byprofessional bondsmen. Under the new Wright bone dry : law. minimum fine for drunkenness is increased to $lO and costs. Costs usually total S3O. Wilmeth acted when forty of the eighty-nine persons slated over the week-end for liquor law violations were bonded out and five released on their own recognizance. Judge Wilmeth gave the first sentence on a liquor charge in city court since the Wright bone-dry law became effective. Edward White, 61, W. Pruitt St., was fined S2O and costs and sentenced to thirty days at Indiana State Farm on an Intoxication charge. Arrest totals over week-end were 209. the largest in weeks. Evidence seized in arrests Included door bolts to empty bottles. Twenty-six men and seven women were charged with operating blind tigers. Seven men were slated on charges of driving while intoxicated. “Forti'-sli men and three women were charged with drunkonnesp. FLIERS TELL OF THRILLS Noted \ viators Talk at Service (M Luncheon. Airplan® thrills were recounted to Dhe Service Club In its luncheon today at the Lincoln by IdeuL John Macready, hero of the first transeontlnental flight, an.l holder of altitude reern-ds: Lieut C. E. C'rumrlne and Lieut. E. H. Barksdale, all of Dayton, Ohio. Crumrlno told of his .adventures in Greenland a lid Iceland, where he made arrangements for the around the-world fliers. The airman flew here from Dayton today. VENUE CHANGE GRANTED Bo.v, 17, Charged with Murder, to Be Tried in Hamilton County. Edward Prater, 17, of 1637 Deloss St., charged with rpurder, watt granted a change of venue from Marion County today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. The case was sent to Hamilton County for trial. Prater is changed with fatally shooting Forrest Van Devere, 42, of 807 Elm St., a street car conductor, in a hold-up last January. Lawrence Cottle, 16, of 1627 Deloss St., his companion, is Rlso held on a murder charge. Each will be tried separately. MAY FROST TONIGHT Will Probably Be Harmless, Howover, Says Bureau. Frost may visit Indianapolis, and northern and central Indiana, tonight, it was announced today by the United States Weather Bureau. Fair weather should be accompanied by a slight drop in temperature. It it not thought that the frost will he heavy, or particularly dangerous. Rain for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. today was .18 inches, and will be a great help to farmers over the State, it is said.
had no legal right to use the highways for private gain or to charge 10 cents fare and that the lines have not been in operation long enough to warrant Issuance of certificates. Jones said he will require submission of briefs on the law points Involved in the protest and hear oral arguments, Samuel R, Artinan, member of the commission and former chairman, today begun preparation of a digest of all Indiana utility laws, attorney general’s opinions and court opinions on State utility laws. Assignment to the work, which is said to be the first attempt at a legal compilation of this sort, was made last Friday at the commission’s weekly
Telephone Workers Given Medals for Saving Lives
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Indianapolis Employes Receive Vail Award From Company. Prompt action to which Is attributed saving of two lives resulted In award of Theodore X. Vail bronze medals to two Indianapolis employes of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, according to announcement today. They are Miss Marguerite Weaver. 3241 Graceland Ave., evening chief operator, and John M. Satter. 649 Berkley Rd., cable foreman. Miss Marguerlfe Welch. Muncie, Ind., and C. L. Quinn, Peru. Ind., also were awarded the medals, which are given "for acts which display a high spirit of service and which render exceptionally noteworthy public service." Miss Weaver won her medal the night ot Dec. 18, 1924, when a subscriber on the Webster exchange, after being informed the number she was calling could not be reached, said she was too ill to remain at the telephone any longer. Miss Weaver asked a druggist living beneath the woman’s apartment to Investigate. The druggist arrived Just in time to give an antidote for poison. Satter revived a workman who was knocked unconscious by an electrical circuit carrying 220 volts, when the current was turned on while he xvas splicing a wire in the new cattle bam at the State Fairground, Aug. 21, 1924. Satter applied artificial respiration. learned in first aid work from the telephone company, for fifteen minutes. LUCKY DAY FOR HIM Takes Gtui From "Bad Man”— Cartridges Fail to Fir®. "Oh. boy. It sure was my lucky day.” Alex Clark, colored, who works at a restaurant at 617 N. Illinois St., told police today when he swore out a warrant for arrest, of a mfin he U*iew as "Castle,” on charge of drawing deadly weapons. Clark said "Castle” came Into the restaurant Saturday night and demanded he take a drink of liquor. Clkrk said when he refused the man pulled out a gun and threatened to kill him saying "I’ve killed two men already and It only cost me |25." "There were two notches cut on the handle and I decided there would not be any more, so I took It away from him. Two cartridges failed to discharge when he pulled the trigger,” Clark said.
STEPHENSON TO BE KEPT BUSY WITH HEARINGS Former Leader of Indiana Klan Faces Active Week in Courts. D. C. -Stephenson, former Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan. charged with murder of Miss Madge Oberlioltzer, 5802 University Ave , is in Jail, but he is scheduled for a strenuous week if he personally attends all the legal hearings in which he is involved set down on various court calendars. Hearing on attachment proceedings against the Fidelity Deposit Company and teal estate at .">432 University Ave.. Stephenson's home, is set for Tuesday before Judge James A. Leathers in Superior Court One. Brought By Woman These proceedings, brought by Mrs. Nettie Stephenson Brehm, Porteau, Okla., who says she is Stephenson's divorced wife, seek to atttach assets of the former Klan head, pending outcome of a suit for $17,000 support money. Trial of his damage suit for $125.000 against Hiram Wesley Evans, ex-imperial wizard of the Klan, is set for Wednesday before Judge Robert C. Baltzell in Federal Court. The complaint charges that Evans was responsible for tho burning of StephePson's yacht at Toledo. Ohio, last year. Inmiedlae Trial Desired Immediate trial of the case will be insisted upon, Charles J. Orblson. attorney for Evans, declared today. He said that Evans will be here for the trial. Daniel L. Bock, 302 Kresge Bldg., appears on Federal Court records as attorney for Stephenson. He could not be reached today. Friday Judge Collins will hear argument on the motion to q lash the Indictment charging Stephenson, Earl Kllnck and Earl Gentry with murder. A resolution testifying to "personal knowledge of the integrity of Madge Oberholtzer" and expressing a "hope that justice may be done,” was passed by the Indianapolis Alumnae Club of Kappa Alpha Theta,
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Mortgage Fraud Scheme Defendant Expected to Take Further Step to U. S. Supreme Court—Circuit Appeals Body at Cincinnati Acts. MANDATE FOR REMOVAL IS HELD UP UNTIL NEXT WEEK Indianapolis Federal Officers Keep Close Watch as Defendant Who Eluded Them Once Is Brought Nearer Their Jurisdiction. Morton S, Hawkins, former president of the defunct Hawkins Mortgage Company, of Portland, lnd.. who defaulted bond of $7,-300 when he failed to appear for trial iu Federal Court here Oct. 1, 1924, on charges of conspiracy to use Ihe mails to defraud in an alleged $6,000,000 stock swindling scheme, was ordered removed to Indianapolis today by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hawkins is expected to petition for a writ of certiorari to carry the case to the Supreme Court. The mandate ordering his removal was stayed by the court until next Monday. Wide Search A nation-wide search was Instituted for Hawkins when he jumped bond here and rumors of his appearance in various parts of the country were prevalent. After being a fugitive about three months, Hawkins was captured by police at .Dayton, Ohio, and began a fight against removal proceedings before United States Commissioner Andrew S. hidings at Dayton. At a hearing Jan, 22 Hawkins’ case was remanded to Federal Judge Smith Hlckenlooper at Cincinnati. Failing to obtain a. writ of habeas corpus before Judge Hickenlooper at a hearing Jan. 24. Hawkins appealed his case to the Circuit Court of Appeals under a $30,000 bond. Hawkins and sixteen co defendants, officials of the Hawkins Mortgage Company and subsidiary and affiliated mortgage and loan companies operating in about thirty-five States, were indicted by the Federal grand jury tn March. 1924. Sixteen Tried Sixteen stood trial and fourteen ■were found guilty Xov. 25, 1924. Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger, who heard the case after Judge A. B. Anderson disqualified himself, sentenced those convicted Jan. 10, 1925. Among those coniveted were Mord Carter and William Jones of Indianapolis, former officers of the Indiana Rural Credits Association, and Frank J. Haight and Frank Willis, Indianapolis certified public accountants. All found guilty, except two. appealed their cases to ti e United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago, where they are now pend Ing. John W. Welborn. Indianapolis postal inspector, was at Cincinnati today, and with other Government men, is keeping close surveillance over Hawkins’ activities. Neither Hawkins or his attorneys were In court for the hearing today, according to dispatches from Cincinnati. The Cincinnati attorney who has been representing him died last week, it was said. WAIT COW BARN REPORT Dr. King Sends Recommendations to Indiana Reformatory. Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 11.—Trustees of the Indiana Reformatory at Pentleton tbday awaited official report from Dr. William F. King, secretary of the State board of health, on the feasibility of erecting a cow barn within the prison' enclosure. Dr, King was railed to the Institution Sunday to pass on the sanitary question involved. Dr. King said today he was mail. Ing the report but declined to make known his recommendations. Coolldgo Relative Dies Bp l nilr<i !'rr* MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. May 11. • —Marshal H. Coolidge, 64, relfttlve of President Coolidge and prominent lumber manufacturer, died at his home late yesterday after eight months Illness.
Is Barry 9 s Love Real? Chickie lias given her love to Barry. Swept away by an overwhelming devotion, she has forgotten Janina’s cynieal remarks about the men who always tire of the beautiful flower that once is their’s. AVill she have cause to repent? ’NVill Barry marry her? Or will ho begin to make excuses to himself and to her? The answer to Chickie *s sacrifice is told in ensuing installments on the last page of The Times every day. It contains u lesson for all girls, and for their fathers and mothers, too.
Forecast FAIR Tonight and Probably Frost; Tuesday Increasing Cloudiness With Rising Temperature.
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VON HINDENBURG ENTERS BERLIN TO TAKE OFFICE Tremendous Throng Greets War Lord, Who Arrives in Triumph. Bu Vnited rrtss BERLIN, May 11.—Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg, presidin’, elect of Germany arrived in Berlin today, greeted by a tremendous throng which lined the six-mile route from Neerstrasse station in the suburbs to the Wilhemstrasse palace. Two Rlechbanner men were shot to death and five others and a hotel proprietor seriously wounded In the first, outbreak of serious trouble. The trouble occurred at Odcvburg, near the capital when Fascist!, celebrating Hindenburg's arrival, opened fire after the Republicans had attempted to expel them from an Inn. The red, white, and black of the old empire was flaunted everywhere, Imperial banners gveatly outnumbering thoee of the republic. A rare spectacle of numerous officers wearing uniforms of the Kaiser's army, with spiked helmets, strolling through the streets of the capital, with much heel clicking and saluting, was presented. Ten thousand police and detectives, afoot, mounted on horses, bicycles, motorcycles, in automobiles, airplanes and river boats, covered the city like a blanket, to attempt to prevent trouble between opposing factions. PROBEDEATH AT CROSSING Man Killed When Traction Hits Auto. Investigation of death of Ivan Carrington. 28, of Clermont, who was fatally injured when hts automobile was struck Sunday by a T. H., I. A E. traction car near Clermont, was being made today by Coroner Paul F. Robinson. Carrington died shortly after the accident from a fractured skull. Ross S. Gross. 1449 Hiatt St., mo torman, and James R. Peterson, 1050 N. Freemont Ave., conductor, testified today at coroner’s Inquest. Gross said the man’s, wife end daughter, age 6, got out of the car when the front wheels stopped, on the track. He said the car was backed off and then driven on the track again and stopped. The machine was knocked clear of the track and Carrington thrown from the car. No More Slide® Bu Timm Sprrial ANDERSON, Ind.. May ior Anderson, 6, won’t slide down the banister for a while. He lost his balance and fell twenty feet at his home, lie escaped with bruises