Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 7

SHEPHERD CASE WITNESS MISSING

Bus-Car Conflict Opposed

GAYEYY MARKS DEDICATION OF NEW TERMINAL Parade, Carnival, Speeches Feature Opening at Times Square. DANCING IS ON PROGRAM (bowntowri Streets Decorated for Event. Indianapolis today celebrated the formal opening of the new Motor Bus Terminal in Times Square at Senate Ave. and Maryland St. With fitting ceremonies, including a parade and numerous carnvial features, the latest development in transportation facilities was thrown open to the public. Tom the terminal, motor bus service will radiate to all parts of the State, and the new station is built not only to meet the needs and conveniences of thousands of passengers who will use it daily, but also has been designed to care for the increasing demands of many years to come. In observance of the day, Washington St. and the streets In vicinity of the terminal were decorated with flags, multi-colored bunting, waving pennants and flowers. Merchants’ Displays The first block of Senate Ave., south of Washington St., was given over to displays of merchants and industries of the city, under canvas. A promenade or court of honor •ned with doric columns was dd out on Maryland St. between Capitol and Senate Aves. leading to the terminal. Onrf of the features of the day was the has parade at 1 p. m. through downtown streets. Two miles of busses, representing the most luxurious and latest designs in motor coach travel, were in line, according to W. B. Hiner, president of the Red Ball Bus Terminal Company, owners of the new station. Following the parade Mayor Shank opened a great lock on'the gates to the loading platform with a giant key. Dancing, vaudeville and other forms of entertainment have been provided for the evening. Started in October Ground was broken for the new terminal Oct. 17, 1924. The building, consisting of two stories, contains large waiting rooms, cases, a dance floor and offices of various motor hue enterprises. In the rear are the loading platforms. According to Hiner the entire enterprise represents an investment of •ibout $2,600,000. Hiner aaid today that he has obtained a lease on ground for a flying field near Indianapolis and that he intends to inaugurate air service to New York and Chicago within a year. Hiner said that later he plans to establish a roof garden on the roof of the terminal building. CAR,CENT IS CHARGED Walter Sheperd, 21. of 1654 Col Ave., was arrested by detectives today on a grand larceny charge. Police alleged he took $226 hidden under a mattress at the home of Herman Kurtz, 2616 Brookside Ave., Saturday.

CHATTANOOGA SEEKS ITS OWN APE TRIAL Tennessee Cities Jealous of Publicity Evolution Case Brings Town.

Hu Timet Bvecini KNOXVILLE, May 19.—Dayton, Tenn., a little town of 1,800 souls, is about to become a* famous as Shelby, Mont., and at no cost whatever. • All of which makes larger Tennesse cities so jealous that their eyes gleam like emeralds. Incipient moves have started in loth Knoxville and Chattanooga to take away from little Dayton the trial of John T. Scopes on a charge of vialoting the State law against teaching evolution. The eyes of the world are expected soon to be directed upon the trial, in which it is already understood that such men William Jennings Bryan, Clarance [Barrow and H. G. Wells will function as counsel. A Chattanooga newspaper asks that change of venue take the trial to its new memorial auditorium where thousands can. fit in, and the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce has begun a campaign with the object of bringing the trial here. But Judge John R. Neal, chief counsel for Scopes, insists that the trial, "an honest, effort t.o test t*e Jaw must not be endangered by , making it a

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Mayor, in Letter to Public Service Commission, Says Street Railway Should Have Preference in Routes —Wants Loto/er Fare. ELECTRIC UTILITY ON GROUND FIRST, PLEA Against Permitting Motor Coaches to Go Where Traction Runs or Plans to Extend Lines For Both Services Without Competition, However. Restriction of bus franchises to routes in which there is no street car service and where no car line extensions are contemplated was defined as the city’s attitude in the controversy between the Indianapolis Street Railway Company and the Peoples Motor Coach Company by Mayor Shank today. Opinion was expressed in letter to the public service commission, which, under terms of the Moorhead bus regulatory law, will decide on petitions of the bus and railway companies to establish a number of flew bus lines. Public hearing Is scheduled Friday; “I suggest that in territories adjacent to a street upon which there is a street car line and open territory where extensions are to be made it would be to the best interest of the city to give the street car company the preference,” Mayor Shank wrote. Eliminate Competition Mayor Shank's letter stated that only by elimination of unfair competition between bus and street railroad Interests could fares be reduced. He expressed the opinion that the bus fare should be reduced from ten to seven cents. That the street car company should bo denied permission to ex(Turo to Page 11) S2OO UQUOR FINE GIVEN Sentence on State Farm Also Imposed by Judge. Dennis Jefferson of 5111 N. California St., arrested In the week-end booze clean-up by police, was fined S2OO and costs and sentenced to sixty days at the Indiana State farm today by Judge Pro Tern. George Henry In city court. CONDUCTOR ARRESTED Charged With Blocking Sherman Dr. Crossing. Following reports that the. crossing of the Big Four Railroad at Sherman Dr., was blocked repeatedly by trains police today arrested John Hickey, 43, of R. R. P. Box 135, conductor of a train which is alleged to have blocked the crossing twenty minutes. FARM HOME BURNS Bv 'l'lnir* Sprrfnl NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 19. Farm residence of E. C. Aldred, near heflfe, was destroyed by fire Monday afternoon. Loss was $6,000.

circus stunt,” and that* It will be held in Dayton. The Dayton Amusement Company is making preparations for a crowd when'the trial begins in August and plans are underway to erect a tent city to accommodate the visitors. The case is another teet of the validity of the new anti-evolution law and was initiated by Dr. Lyle B. West, a personal friend of Professor Hunt. It w%s claimed that Hunt used In his class room the text book “a ctvlc biology," the same on which Prof. John T. Scopes recently was bound over to the grand jury In Dayton, Tenn. * A TRIAL OF ITS OWN Chattanooga Jury Seeks Information On “Monkey-Business.” By United Preit CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.,\May 19. —Four students of the Central High School were summoned before the grand jury meeting here today to Investigate charges that Stegbr Hunt, biology instructor. violated the State law by, teaching evolution.

SELECTION OF JURY FOR SHAW IS UNDER WAY State Excuses Three Who Balk at Death Penalty for Accused. EXAMINATION IS SLOW Holiday Air Prevails at Martinsville. By John L. Niblack Times Staff Correspondent MARTINSVILLE, Ind. May 19.—Examination of prospective jurors to try John Thomas Shaw, 23, colored, on charges of murdering Helen Hager Whelcliel, 22, of Indianapolis, Nov. 28, 1923, got under way shortly before 10 a. m. today with little prospect of obtaining a jury before 'Wednesday morning. When court adjourned at noon, twenty-two had been examined, ten of whom were excused. The State used one preemptory challenge to dismiss William H. Duckworth, Martinsville men, who admitted he had formed an opinion from newspaper accounts of the crime. The State excused three who opposed the death penalty. They were: Edward Collier, Martinsville creamery man; Walter Edwards of Mooresvllle, and William H. Lewis of Martinsville. Others were excused for being over 60. and for deafness. Attorney W. C. Kivitt. local attor n*v for the defease, IsA-tn the jury examination. He asked all of the jurors whether they would be influenced by the ftiot that Bhaw was colored and was accused of the murder of a white woman. He also discussed circumatantial evidence. "It Is not the burden of the defendant, when he takes the stand to tell who did this crime,” Kivitt told the prospective jurors. "If the evidence does not show who did it, you will not hold this defendant be(Tum to Page 11)

THREE COONTY ROADS OPPOSED Remonstrances Filed With State Tax Board. Remonstrances against three proposed Marion County roads were filed today with the State tax board by Harry O. Dunn, Marion County auditor. The roads opposed and their respective bond issues: William A. Beaseley road in Wayne and Decatur Townships, $56,500. 137 remonstrators. Charles L. Steinmeler road, Washington Township, $45,000, seventy remonstrators. Claude E. Williamson . oad, Wayne Township, $58,500, forty-two remonstrators.

PLANS FOR BUS DIVISION MADE Jack Parrot Slated for New State Job. Members of the PubUc Service Commission were to hold a special meeting this afternoon to discuss plana for creating anew department to handle the work attending supervision of motor bus and truck traffic under the Moorhead law. It was learned Jack Parrot, auditor of the State automobile license division for the last six years, would head the new department. Parro" is a native of Newport and prior to the war was in banking business in Terre Haute. SHIPS MAY BE SOLD Sub-Committee Favors Sale of 200 for Scrapping. Bv United Prete WASHINGTON, May 19.—A Shipping Board sub-committee today tentatively decided to recommend to the full board that 200 of the 890 idle Government be offered for sale for scrapping. This partially clears the way for Henry Ford to buy some of the ships. FIREMAN RETIRED Retirement of George Diller, fireman with Tower Company No. 1, was approved by the board of safety today. Physical disability was given

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1925

Cross-Country Trip In Wheel Chair FiROM Clovis, New Mexico, to New York In an inU_J valid's wheel chair, hand propelled. That is the aim of James Thompson, 22, invalided ten years ago when a horse fell on him, who arrived in Indianapolis today. With one arm, Thompson works his way over the paved roads. "I often get lifts on trucks and that helps." he said. “1 have made as high as thirtyfive miles a day." He said that he is trying to locate ah' aunt by the name Sarah Jones who lives here.

POPE IS ASKED TO KEEP BISHOP IN INDIANAPOLIS I Gavisk Admits Sending Cablegram *in Behalf of Priests’ Here. • A petition sent to the Vatican by the Right Rev. Mgr. Gavisk of St. John's in "behalf of the 201 priests Os the Indianapolis diocese” respectfully asking that Bishop Joseph Chartrand be not removed to the archbishopric, may result in the reopening of the appointment of Bishop Chartrand to the archbishopric of Cincinnati, cable dispatches from Rome indicate! today. Mgr. Gavisk when asked of the petition stated: "Since the news is coming from Rome that a petition has been sent to the Vatican, I admit that I sent such a cablegram. Behalf of Priests "In behalf of the priests of this diocese, I asked that our bishop be notßemoved fro mlho diocese because of the harmony which exists between Bikhop. priest and people and for the good of religion." Dispatches from Rome indicate that the Pope is willing to re-open the case. It !s also admitted that the Cincinnati archbishopric is as anxious to bring out the promotion of Bishop Chartrand. Priests of the Indianapolis diocese point out that Bishop Chartrand is of the "complexion of the dloceae,” meaning that of the 201 priests of this diocese that 142 were bom in this district sod that 149 were actually educated in this diocese. Family Affair Ae one of tho clergy states. "It is a family affair.” So far Bishop Chartrand, who is receiving no one at his residence, is awaiting whatever summons comes from Rome. It is pointed out by those familiar with the church that It Is an un-heard-of thing to decline a promotion as an archbishop. With a possible reopening of the appointment at Rome, the situation still remains rather confused. LIGHT FROST IN STATE Probably No Damage—North Illinois and Michigan Hurt. Light frost was reported in Indianapolis and parts of Indiana Monday night, as part of a general frost throughout the corn belt. It is not thought that any damage was dons in the State, according to the ■weather bureau. Other cities reporting frost wers Terre Haute, Marlon, Royal Center, Farmland, Vincennes and Paoll. According to reports from Chicag , orchard and truck crops in northern Illinois and Michigan were oimif \ From Ohio to Nebraska fiuK blossoms were dropping while tomatq, bean and other crops were wilting. Permanent warm weather is expected soon.

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Accused’s Mother Sits at Home as Trial Goes On

1 ""JHTLE her son. William DarHig Shepherd, battled for ■ 1 his life today In a Chicago court Mrs. Martha E. Hayden. 76 years old. sat in her little home at 2304 Roosevelt Ave., with her husband, Benjamin Hayden, beside her. Mrs. Hayden has been In ill

CHIEF ORDERS TIGHTENING UP OF POLICEMEN ~ . t nfmi. Rikhoff to Make Talk at Roll Call —Hold-up Men Busy. A general tightening up in police watchfulness was ordered today by Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff. who said he would talk at general roll call this afternoon. Going a step farther than he went last week, when he announced patrolmen would be "called on the green carpet” If successful gambling or liquor raids were made In their districts after they had failed to report the places, Rikhoff said he would not wait to warn the patrolmen, but would prefer charges. Tour of Investigation Rikhoff said a tour of Investigation made following receipt of complaints that gambling “Joints” and "dives” wore running wide open, and liquor was being sold, did not warrant criticism of amy individual policemen. Itikhoff today denied that he had ordered any wholesale shifting of men-. Two men were changed, but not because of any failure in duty on their part, he said. Police will also be ordered to tighten up on bandits as well as Vice offenders. Two. Hold-Ups Hold-up men continued to work Monday night and tolled $35 In loot from a street car conductor, and an auto from another citizen. The trolley came off a Meridian Heights car at the end of the line, Fifty-second and Pennsylvania Sts., Lawrence Meyers. 816 N. Illinois St.•conductor, found himself facing two revolvers. The coin box on the car was battered with a sledge. The loot was swelled by the cash and tickets under the seat belonging to Meyers. Total taken, $35.

STATE WINS ROAD SUIT Land Owners 1.,0ee Fight to Halt Rerouting of State Road 37. Bv Timet Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 19.—Judge W. S. Ellis today found for the State in the suit, of land owners to halt the rerouting State Road 37. He overruled all objections. The ruling practically gives the State highway commission the right to build new roads as It wishes, attorneys said. John W. Bushby, James Anderson and Ferdinand Wilson will be named viewers. BITTNEfT IS SUMMONED Mine Union Organisers Cited for Ailed Contempt. Bu United Preti MORGANTOWN. W. Va.. May 19. —A new move by open-shop coat operators to silence union organisers started today when counsel for a coal company succeeded in having Judge Laszelle In Cirouit Court issue an order requiring Van A. Bittner, international organiser, to appear in court FYiday for alleged contempt. Bittner is alleged to have made inflammatory speeches in violation of an injunction granted the Con-

—Sketched by Manuel Rosenberg, Times Staff Artist

health for several months. She Is firm In her belief in the Innocence of her son, charged with the murder of William McClintock, millionaire orphan. Shepherd formerly lived in Indianapolis. At one time he and his stepfather conducted a small retail coal business.

YACHT DAMAGE CASE DROPPED BY STEPHENSON Proceedings Against Former Klan Leader Are Dismissed. Suit of D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku-Klux Klan in Indiana, against Hiram W. Evans, ex imperial wizard of the Klan, of Atlanta, Ga.. asking $125,000 damages, was di; missed In Federal Court today. Judge Robert C. Baltzel! dismissed the suit when attorneys for Stephenson failed to appear in court. The suit, set for trial Wednesday, May 13, was continued until today by Judge Baltzell, with the understanding that if it dl.l not come to trial today It would be dismissed. Stephenson charged that Evans and Walter Bossert, State Klan official. conspired to destroy Stephenson's yacht, Reomar 11. by "fire and explosions” at the Toledo (Ohio) Yacht Club lagoon In June, 1924. Bossert’s name was dropped from the suit. Stephenson is now in the county jail with Earl Kllnck and Earl Gentry, awaiting trial June 2 in Criminal Court on charge of murdering Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 5802 University Ave. The trio pleaded not guilty to the charge Saturday, after motion to quash the murder Indictment was overruled by Judge James A. Collins.

MAPLE ROAD TO HAVE PARK SOON Five Acres to Be Transferred to City. Transfer of about five acres of land In the vicln'ty of Maple Road Blvd. and Winthrop Ave. to the park board will be completed within a short time. Burt E. Richardson, manager of the real estate department of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, said today. The tract is thickly wooded and will be used a bird preserve and park. Move to complete the sale came following taking over of about 115 lots in the Hasselman addition by the trust company, under a trust agreement with the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Watson J. Hasselman. That part not sold to the park board will be sold for residential purposes. ARM BLEEDS, HE SLEEPS Colored Man Pushes Through Window, but Slumbers on. Rolla Foreward, colored. 824 E. Wabash St., slept through the excitement he had caused, when he pushed his arm through a front window glass cutting his arm in several places. Police found him asleep although the wound was bleeding profusely. The city hospital ambulance doctor treated the arm. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m Mi 10 a. m *3 7 a m...... 64 11 a- m <56 8 a m *9 12 (noon) .... 69 m 1 1 P- m. 71

Entered as Second-rites Matter at Poatofflce. Indianapolis. Published Dally Except Sunday.

State’s Case in Germ Mystery Dealt Severe Blow When Science School Employe Can Not Be Found Only One Who Could Identify Man. i SECOND PERSON TO DISAPPEAR; \ , STORIES WERE IMPORTANT Assistant Attorney Admits Prosecution Is Materially Weakened by Absence of Faiman Aid—Former Shepherd Nurse Can Not Be Located. Bu Vnited Press CHICAGO, May 19.—Attempts to convict William D. Shepherd, former Indianapolis man, of murdering Billy MoClintock, were dealt a severe blow by the disappearance of one of the State’s most important witnesses. Just as court opened today and the tedious selection of jurors started, Assistant State’s Attorney George Gorman announced that Robert White, one of his mainstay witnesses, could not he found. His whereabouts were unknown at his place of business qnd investigaiou disclosed that he had moved his family from their South Side residenoe.

Squads of detectives were ordered out to hunt the missing witness, Gorman announced. White is the second State’s witness to disappear. Several days ago Miss Estelle Gehling. a nurse who was an acquaintance of Shepherd, was reported missing from her apartment and so far has not been located. Weakens Case “If we fail to find Mr. White, our case will be materially weakened,” Gorman said. "We will use every power at our command to find him.” White, who was once nip employe of the National University of Sciences, an alleged quack medical school where Shepherd Is said to have obtained the typhoid germs with which to inoculate young McCllntock, is one of the few persons who was able to Identify Shepherd as a caller at the institution. “Dr.” Charles C. Falrman, head of the school, "confessed” that Shepherd came to him for advice and that he furnished Shepherd with typhoid perms and instructed him how to use them o that Billy would die. He admitted being an accomplice to the alleged murder. .Jury Selection Drags While other witnesses are able to testify that they saw Shepherd and Fairman together, White is the only person able to say that he actually saw Shepherd ac the school. Selection of a jury dragged slowly today. The three prospective jurors temporarily accepted by both sides yesterday, were dismissed today. In their seats were three men temporarily accepted by the State today. Each side has twenty peremptory challenges and they used one each today. So far approximately forty veniremen have been examined. The State is selecting men who not only believe In the dgath penalty, but believe the death penalty should be inflicted on circumstantial evidence concerning the murder. Want Hanging The prosecution, directed by the harsh, insistent State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe, Is trying to find twelve Jurors who have no scruples against sentencing a man to hang. Stubbornly Crowe and his aides question the prospects, rejecting every man that admits hesitanqy to enforce the State's law regarding capital punishment. Every time the question is asked: "Do you have any conscientious scruples against imposing the death penalty?’’—Shepherd shifts uneasily in his chair. There cn be no doubt in his mind that Crowe and his four assistants are trying desperately to send him to the gallows. Then Shepherd has his inning. His own attorney, William Scott Stewart, takes up the questioning. The atmosphere changes. “Do you understand that under (Turn to Page 11)

FOUR CHARGED WITH STATE BANK THEFT Arrest of Two More Men in Illinois Expected Today, Says Head of Detective Agency.

With two men and two women under arrest at Benton. HI., arrest of two more men in Illinois was expected late today in investigation of robbery of the Farmers National Bank at Wadesvilie, Ind., the night of May 11, according to Harry Webster of the Webster Detective Agency, superintendent of the protective department of the Indiana Bankers’ ‘Association. The four now under arrest, charged with highway robbery, were identified by L. P. Cox, cashier of the Wadesvtlle Bank, and his wife, according to Webster. Mr. and Mrs. Cox were forced to

Forecast FAIR tonight and Wednesday ; rising temperature predicted for Wednesday.

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Robert R. White, State witness in Shepherd case*, missing.

28 HURTWHEH SUBWAY TRAIN CATCHES FIRE Two Reported Dying From injuries Received as Crowd Stampedes. 3u CnUrd Pre* NEW YORK, May I.—Twentyeight persons, including eighteen women, were painfully Injured and many others were less seriously hurt or overcome by smoke here today when a subway train carrying hundreds of workers caught fire Just south of the Grand Central terminal. Two of the victims are reported dying in hospitals as result of injuries when they were knocked down and trampled upon by the frantic passengers who smashed doors and windows In their e.YorU to escape. Most of the Injuries were in the form of fractured arms and legs, lacerations and abrasions of the face and body and internal injuries. ■— , i , ■ * BOOZE FIND CHARGED Sergeant Hett, and squad of night riders arrested William Lewis, fli*. colored of 1223 Vandeman Ave., and charged him with transporting liquor. A quart of white mule was found in his auto, it was said.

accompany the bandits from their home to the bank, where about 175 and twp revolvers were taken. Cox convinced Vie robbers he could not open the safe because of a time lock. Those under arrest in Benton are Loren Commeans and his wife. Jeannettet of West Frankfort, IlL; Charles Clayton of Benton And Mary Slslock. said to live In West Frankfort. Extradition papers are being prepared to return them to Indiana, Webster said. The men were arreated after the robbery oof a wholesale grocery in Benton. A