Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1925 — Page 1

Home Edition BARRY writes to Chickie, telling her he must leave the city. Read “Chickie” on the back page every day.

VOLUME 37—NUMBER 13

ARGUMENTS NEXT STEP IN BUS WAR Evidence Is Expected to Be Completed Today in Hearing Before Public Service Commission —Drivers Are Heard. i DISCRIMINATION DENIED Also Testifies She Saw Colored Passengers . in Motor Coaches —Morning Session Cut Short fc r Bridge Bid Opening. With completion of evidence expected today in application of the Peoples Motor Coach Company asking the public service commission to authorize transportation lines over Indianapolis streets, attorneys for the petitioning tirm announced readiness to turn immediately to arguments on merits of the ease. Attorneys for the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, opposing the bus petitions, were expected to center attack on lawfulness of the motor coach company’s operations on certain routes and to emphasis* testimony of more than thitly colored witnesses that they had been refused permission to travel in busses. Three of the Peoples Motor Coach Company drivers were called today to the stand, testifying they were A instructed to accommodate all perHhns, regardles of color. Mrs. ElizaWorley, 6029 E. Michigan St., said she had observed the busses accommodating colored persons from time to time. Cross-questioned as to how she happened to appear as a witness, Mrs. Woyley Insisted she came voluntarily. The morning hearing was cut short to permit the State highway commission to use the House of Rep(Tum to Page 15) t MANY HCQSIERS SUFFER LOSSES Chicago Brokers Thrown Into Bankruptcy. \ Bn I'nited Prem CHICAGO, May 26.—Approximately 600 persons In Illinois and Indiana were caught in the crash of the Jack H. Davis and Company, brokerage house here late Monday. Loss will total $250,000, Federal agents declared Arthur S. Gerson, Identified with the company, fs In custody. The brokerage house closed its doors when Arthur G. Davis, head of the Advertisers and Investors’ Protectitve League, filed a petition to throw the company into bankruptcy. RP According to Davijy, the concern offered legitimate stocks to customers, and then exchanged them for unlisted securities of little value. Hunt is on for Jack H. Davis, 21. listed as president of the company. Davis said that many victims of the crash are located in Ft. Wayne, Michigan City and East Chicago, Ind. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 42 10 a. m....... 52 7 a. m 46 11 a. m 64 S a. m 49 12 (noon) 57 9 a. m 51 1 p. m 59

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Wife of Race Driver Wins Renown With Spaghetti

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Mr. and Mrs. Bordino Only Ones to Keep House Here. Rivaling in popularity-the bright red car of Pietro Bordino, Italian driver, arour.l the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, is the spaghetti of his wife. Mrs. Bordina, who came to America six months ago, from her home in Turin, Italy, speaks only a little English. But the folk around the Speedway have no difficulty understanding Invitations to dinner at the Bordino duplex In Speedway City. Wives of several other race drivers are here, but Mrs. Bordino Is the only one who is keeping house for her husband. They came here several weeks ago from California, where Bordino raced for six months. In June they will return to Italy. Louis Fornaca, Bordino’s interpreter, and Frank Rosso, his mechanician, are staying at the Bordino home. Mrs. Bordino likes Americans. She thinks we are “so kind,” especially in Indianapolis. SCHOOL BOY MISSING" Absence Reported to Police By Stepfat her. Gerald Cox, 9, left his home at 1229 N .irdyke Ave., police were told today by his stepfather, Joe Hyer. The boy was wearing a gray suit, and light cap. A1 Brown, of 1407 Nordyke Ave., Is missing, according to his son-in-law, Cecil Hill. He was dressed in overalls. LET FIREWORKS SHOOT Fourth of July Permits Only for I.&rge Celebrations. Skinnay and his gang are happy today. They wijl not be forced to take the red tape route to obtain permission to shoot the fireworks on the Fourth of July. Board of safety today voted to require permits for discharge of fireworks only in cases of large celebra tions. BUILDING PERMIT TOTALS Value for Week Is $671,164 Shown by Commissioner's Report. Report of Francis F. Hamilton, city building commissioner, for the week ending May 23, made to the board of safety today, showed 369 permits for buildings valued at $671,164. - Seventy-two smoke inspections were made during the week, according to report of H. F. Templeton, city smoke inspector. NEW QUAKE REPORTED Report Second Shock in Western Japan District. Bv United Press LONDON, May 26.—A Tokio dispatch to the Evening News today reported anew vertical earthquake had visited the western Japan district, afflicted by a serious quake and first last Saturday. Remains of burned houses and temporary shacks were reported to have fallen, though no deaths were noted. ANNIVERSARY OF LODGE Dinner Tonight Will Celebrate Fiftieth Birthday. History of Oriental Lodge of F. and A. M. will be recalled tonight at a dinner at the temple. Fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Oriental Lodge will be observed. John Paul Ragsdale, worshipful master, will welcbme visitors. Past masters will speak. Program will continue Wednesday.

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SPEEDWAY BUG BUSY AS TIME TRIALS BEGIN Race Fever Grips City as Battle for Best Positions Open. By Blythe Q. Hendricks Ones again the annual battle for front row positions at the start of the 50C-xnile race Saturday la on. Time trials, which will determine positions of cars when the starting bomb leaps into the air were to begin at 1 p. m. today. Positions at the start are awarded on the basis of speed in today's trials, the cars being lined up in rows of three. No. 1 position going to the speediest, and so back down tbe line. With cool weather and lack of high wind every one about the track predicted the old qualifying record set by Jimmy Murphy last year, 198.04 miles per hour, would be shot full of holes. Last year the leading 'light cars qualified at better than 100 miles an hour. Record Expected Advance in motor engineering resulting in a constantly increasing speed rate, is shown by the fact that five years ago when Ralph De Palma qualified bis Ballot at slightly above the IOJ-mile mark, there was a gasp of as onisbment from the entire motor world. This year many persons believe that under favorable weather conditions the entire 500 miles will be run at better than a 100-mlie an hour a’'<rage. All Sped way activity, however, is not confined to the track. Hotels with practically every room , taken, many reservations dating back a year, are preparing for the big rush. Advance guards of the main body of race fans will begin to arrive Thursday, but the big crush will come Friday. At the Speedway of(Tum to Page 15) FIREMAN BADLY HURT Knocked From Roof By Water Pressure. Clark Hermsdorfer, of Fire Company 11, was seriously injured today when he was knocked from a roof by back pressure of a hoae, while fighting a fire at the home of George Duffey, 135 S. Hawthorne Lane. He was taken to the city hospital. Sparks from the furnace caused the fire which did damage estimated between $1,500 and $2,000. Butler students helped save interior furnishings of the home.

Harry K. Thaw Back on Broadway

By Frank Getty United Press Staff Correspondent NEW TURK, May 26.—01d timers at Tex Guinans’ peered unbelieving through the haae of cigarette smoke, scarcely crediting their eyes at the sight of a bulky, grey-maned man who swayed A ponderously thorugh the Intricacies of the dance at this m£mt modem of Broadway’s night clubs. In u’e man’s arms nestled a diminutive brunette. It was Harry F_ Thaw—comeback to Broadway's night, life after nineteen years. There was a rush to shake his hand; Joe Rothschild, Bill Boyd and the habitues of the clubs who have been on the gay white way during the iv,ri years that Thaw has spent In prison and asylum, all remembered the slender, high

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1925

TWO FOUCE TO BE KEPT ON WATCHES Proper id Abolishment of Double Patrol System at Night Rejected by Board of Works as Means to Afford More Patrolmen. COUNCIL GIVEN PROBLEM Let Duvall or Myers Worry With It, Shank Says in Stand. Against Rikhoff’s Appeal for More Men to Battle Crime Wave. Proposed abolishment of the double patrol system at night was rejected by the board of safety today as means to solve the need for more police. Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff mated more patrolmen are necessary to cope with activities of criminals. Although Mayor Shank spoke against Rikhoff’s appeal for more men board members decided to submit the question to the city council, provided Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, agrees that funds are available. Funds July 1 Hogue said today he believed there would be money to pay from thirty to forty additional policemen on July 1. Mayor Shank took a definite stand against Rikhftff’s request and advised the board “not to worry about it." “Let Duvall or Myers tackle the problem," Shank counselled. "Why. the crime wave is under control here better than other cities. When there are a lot of men out of work, there is sure to be eome stealing." Time fer Rank Kobtwy "You can’t prevent crimes.” Mayor Shank continued. “We tried to station police in the filling stations, hut the robbers came before or after they went on duty. When the time comes ’round for a bank robbery there’l be one. And it’s about that time now. If we had a thousand cops we couldn't prevent it." Shank attacked the one-man patrol system on ground that a single patrolman could not handle a robbery and that some districts require double patrol for protection. “I wouldn't give a dime for a man alone on some of these beats after 11 o’clock.” he said. Rikhoff Hoard Rikhoff. who Informed the board at meeting last week, that only three patrolmen were on duty in residential districts because of number of requests for special duty, today reiterated hie assertion that additional policemen are a necessity. "They expect us to run this city on less men than we had twelveyears ago," Riktao.T said. “Os the thirty-one double shifts, twelve districts must be handled in that man ner because they are large or dangerous. The double-shift is a misnomer most of the time, for I am forced to break it up two-thirds of the time for special details requested." Rikhoff said details included traffic. substations and additional city court and celebrations. Vacations, he said, reduce the twee twelve men each week. He said there had been no Increase In the number of policemen since the special details came into existence. EARTHQUAKE REPORTED Shake Is Believed to Have Occurred Near Panama. Bn I'nited Press NEW ORLEANS. La.. May 26. An Intense earthquake shock lasting thirty-seven minutes and probably occurring in the vicinity of Panama, was recorded on the seismograph at Loyola University here early today, acrording to Father O. L. Abell. *

strung youth who * came from Pittsburgh nearly a quarter of a century ago and startled even blase New York with his lavish expenditures. The years between have taken a heavy toll; Harry in repose is an elderly man,.heavy features, high forehead and pendeluous upper lip lined with tne worries of almost constant Imprisonment and a succession of trials of his life and sanity since the evening back in 1906, when he shot Stanford White to death in Madison Square Garden. , , But Harry, in the bun and clamor of gayety at Tex Gutnan’s, was once more the free spending, open-handed bonvivant of old. Somewhere along the line, he Admitted he had imbibed some champagne. It had made him gay v **.h memories of hie

Court Makes Boy’s Wish to Be With Mother Com* True

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Mrs. Mercedes Derr and Paul Theodore Derr, Jr.

Father Returns Son, Ending Separation of Over Year. After one and a half years of separation. Mrs. Mercedes 1202 N. Capitol Ave., today had her son, Paul Theodore Derr, Jr., 6*6, with her once more. The boy’s father hrough him back Sunday from Milton, Pa., In accordance with an order given by Special Judge Lawrence Shaw Jc Superior Court Two May 14. The boy, who remembered his mother and declared he "wanted to stay with her always," Is to live with Mrs. Derr’s mother, Mrs. Emma Taggart, 835 Broadway, a police matron. Mrs. Derr is a stenographer for a furniture company. Next autumn he will start to school. Although he never has attended school, he can read. Mrs. Derr had not seen her son since he was taken to Milton, where his father had relatives, shortly after Mrs. Derr was granted a divorce by Judge James A. Leathers in Superior Court One, Nov. 20. 1923. In her motion to have the divorce decree altered, Mrs. Derr alleged her former ’husband had violated the decree, which she said gave Derr custody of the child, but said he should remain in Indianapolis so his mother could see him occasionally. Although Judge Shaw ordered Derr to return the boy, by last Thursday. Don F. Roberts, attorney for Mrs. Derr, said no contempt of court proceedings were contemplated.

Stephenson Eats Hot Corn Bread Bn Times Sprriol NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 26.—D. C. Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry held here for trial, had a treat Monday night—their first nigbt in Noblesville jail. Mrs. Charles Gooding, wife of the sheriff, baked hot corn bread for the prisoners. 1 The trio seemed to enjoy it.

SMOKE MAKERS MAY BE JAILED Provision to Be in New Building Code. Sight of violators of the smoke ordinance riding in patrol wagons to the police station is not unlikely under the new building code city council. will consider Monday, according to Francis F. Hamilton, city building commissioner. Hamilton said those who are responsible for the city's cloud ot smog will be arrested without notice .if code is adopted. Hamilton said the system of three notices to offenders had proved to be impractical. Herbert F. Templeton, smoke inspector, said period of cooperation has passed and compulsion is now necessary.

youthful flings and like a homing pigeon, the man had made straight for the nearest and liveliest of night clubs. This past week-end Thaw, accompanied by his secretary. came to New York and Broadway s night lights lured him from seclusion. Thaw telephoned to Tex Guin&n. an old' time actress, whom he knew in his gay youth. At first Tex, now proprietress of a night club, •rouldn’t believe it. Then she welcomed Harry with a litle Up of joy. Thaw's presence meant increased patronage fro mth rill-seeking New Yorkers. Yellow backed bills, twenties, fifties and “venturies.'' began to circulate t othe obsequious employes. It is estimated the party cost Thaw $2,600. *

“Beads” Explode, Child Maimed Bu Inited Press ind., May 1 27.—The thumb and three fingers were torn from the right hand of Thelma Logan, 10, daughter of Edward Logan, nine miles east of here, when a dynamite cap exploded with which she and an 18 months old brother were playing. The brother was knocked down, but not severely injured. The father found the caps in an abandoned house near his home and believing them harmless gave them to the children vto play with. The girl was string ing the caps on a cord for beads, when the explosion occured.

COOUD6E FOR VSE OF AIRSHIP OR RELIEF TRIP U. S. Dirigibles May Go in Search of Capt. Amundsen. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. May 26.—Sentiment for the ultimate dispatch of the United States naval dirigible Shenandoah or the Los Angeles to the Arctic to search for the Amundsen expedition grew swiftly In official quarters here today. Developments included: A statement by the White House spokesman that Fresident Coolidge favored the use of all’practical and possible means of carrying relief to the missing exploring party If it finally becomes necessary. . A declaration by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur that w’hlle no official consideration was being given yet to plans for such use of the giant airship, he personally was giving much thought to the project. The President was represented by the White House spokesman as entirely favorable to the use of either or both of the great airships In the venture If expert opinion of naval aeronautics regards the project as feasible. The President, however, was said to believe that it is not yet certain that dispatch of a rescue crew party is needed and until the need is manifest plans should be held in abeyance. ACCIDENT IS FEARED Norwegian Capital Anxious, as No News Comes. Bv United Preas OSLO. May 26.—That some misfortune had befallen Captain Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and their crews was the fear besetting the Norwegian capital today as no news of the Uolar flier* arrived up to early forenoon. With zero weather reported from Spitzbergen and a storm brewing above the Arctic circle there was fear that the expedition trying to conquer the North Pole from the air had been forced down and was unable to get into the air again. In this case, it meant that they would be compelled to set out on skis for the nearest Creeland po.nt, severlal hundred miles from the Pole. DIRIGIBLE TO RESCUE Bv United Press LIVERPOOL. May 26.—Grettir Algarsson, Vancouver, B. C., who is now fitting out a polar dirigible expedition, theorized today that both Amundsen’s airplanes had crashed and proposed to fly his dirigible in search of the Amundsen group. “I fear,’ he said, "that one airplane had difficulties and was compelled to land, and that the second in going to the rescue crashed % in to the first. "If there is no news soon we will try to fly our dirigible In search of Amundsen.’’ I

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SHAW IS PUT ON STAND AS STATE RESTS “No, Sir,” He Says to i Question of His Attorney, “Did You Kill Helen Hager Whelchel?” KNEES SHAKE AS HE TALKS Defense Expects to Conclude Case Late Today or Wednesday. By John L. Niblack Times Staff Correspondent MARTINSVILLE, 1 ml., May 25.—Taking the stand in his own defense, John Thomas Shaw, 23, colored, Indianapolis, on trial in Circuit Court here on charges of murdering Mrs. Helen Hager Whelchel, 22, Indianapolis beauty shop operator, today denied all knowledge of or connection with the crime, except having Mrs. Whelchel’s watch and ring.

The State rested Its case this morning shortly after opening of the sixth day of the trial, the Becond Shaw has had on the charges. A death sentence given him In Marlon County Criminal Court was reversed on appeal because change of venue was denied. Mrs. Whelchel’s bruised body was found early Nov. 28. 1923, on Big Four Railroad tricks west of In dianapolis. She had been robbed and beaten to death, and her body thrown from an overhead bridge. Case Near Jury The defense expects to conclude its testimony this evening or Wednesday morning, after which the case will go to the jury. "John Shaw, did you kill Helen Hager W’helchel?" asked Shaw’s attorney. Silas C. Kivett, of Martinsville. “No, sir,” Shaw answered. "I i never saw her or heard of such a person until after I was arrested. 1 never touched her, dead or alive.’’ Shaw's testimony was mainly In the form of a routine catechism of questions by his attorney, covering each point of the State's evidence, and the reply "No, sir,” by the defendant. Re my Objects The form of the examination led to a clash; between Kivett and William H. Remy, Marlon County prosecutor. "I object to this form of testimony,” said Remy. ”1 think the witness should testify, and not Mr. Kivett. All the defendant has done is answer ‘Yes’ or ’No.’ ’’ “It’s not. true!” shouted Kivett. leaping to Us feet. Judge Joseph H. Williams restored order with his gavel, and instructed Kivett not to ask leading questions. Shaw was nervous. His legs quivered, and he spoke in a low, mumbling voice, rarely looking at the jury'. He was subjected to a severe cross-examination. Explains Ring The defendant testified that Hunky John, 403 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis. an Albanian, gave him Mrs. Whelchel’s watch and ring the day of the murder. He took it, not knowing Its history, Shaw said. He said blood on his car got there when Joe Harris, a colored man, cut his finger while working on the lights. Shaw said he wore the same clothes the night of the murder and the next night that he wears in the courtroom. Testimony In the first trial showed there was no blood on his suit, Kivett brought out. Kivett attempted to show Shaw had been subjected to the "third degree’’ by detectives In an attempt to wring a confession from him. In Dungeon “I was kept in a cold dungeon one and one-half days at Michigan City prison,” Shaw said. “All I had to eat was a piece of bread and a glass of water. I got sick from cold and they took me out and attempted to make me confess." On cross-examination. Shaw admitted he had been drinking the evening of Nov. 27. He said he went to Hunky John's house for more whisky, and got a halfpint, He lay down and slept an hour or so while Hunky John used his automobile. Shaw testified. "I could not swear he used my automobile, but Hunky said he had been riding, and the radiator of my car was warm,” Shaw said. Women Gaze at Hint A large crowd, the majority of whom was women, craned their necks to see the defendant on the stand. Shaw said that he was born In Tennessee; that he worked at Kingan & Cos., earning S2O a week; that he sent half his wages home to his parents and paid $5 a week for board and room. Prosecutor Remy asked Shaw whether hs had not bought a car, operated It, "gone around,” and bought white mule occasionally. Shaw said "Yes." “I nsver had no trouble with white people,” said Shaw. "My parents always taught me to associate with our own people and stay in my place. “

Forecast FAIR tonight and Wednesday, with slowly rising temperature, but frost probable in low places tonight.

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AUTO DRIVER IS KILLED IN TRAIN CROSSING CRASH Witnesses Say Watchman pave Warning of Passenger’s Approach. Failing to heed the warning of a crossing watchman, according to witnesses, a man identified by the certificate of title of his auto and a hunting license as Oliver Perry Thomasson, 46, of Williams, lnd„ drove his auto Into the path of a fast passenger train on the Pennsylvania tracks at Harding St. at 7 a. m. today and was killed instantly. The train, a double header train, No. 6, was east bound and, according to witnesses, whistled for the crossing. F. C. Aitken. 1344 N. Olney St., conductor, and Edward Carter, Terre Haute, Ind., engineer on the first locomotive, stopped the train In a length, and the crew rushed back to the scene, but the man had evidently died instantly, they told Police Lieutenant Joseph Klaiber. Car Demolished The car, a roadster, was demolished and hurled to the side narrowly missing the flagman's stanty. Thomasson's body was hurled fifty feet on down -the track. Witnesses and Francis M. Randall, 717 Lexington Ave., the flagman, said Thomasson was driving north at a fair fate of speed and seemed in a daze. Money Found He Is said to be a farmer at Williams, Lawrence County, Indiana. Coroner Paul F. Roblnsop found $575 and two watches in his pockets. The machine had several chickens In sacks in the rear. Most of them were killed. Police, although believing the dead man Is Thomasson. are investigating the possibility the car might have been stolen from Thomasson. The body was taken to the city morgue. BULLETSFLY IN BIG GEM HOLD-UP Bandits Get $150,000 in Jewels in Chicago. Bv United Press CHICAGO, May 26—Under a volley of shots fired Into a denes crowd in a downtown district, three bandits escaped wKh $150,000 worth of diamonds and other jewelry, which they took from Adolph Gaatman’s jewelry store. The robbery was one of the largest and most daring in recent police history. Oast man's store had not yet opened for business when the bandits appeared, knocked at the door, threatened one of the employes, forced their way In and looted the safes, which had just been unlocked preparatory to filling the show cases. Clubbing the three employes wl! were on the job with their revolver butts, the bandits bound their victims and then looted the huge safotf and fled into Dearborn street and were swallowed up In the crowded thoroughfare as thousands were going to work. One of the employes managed to break his bonds, seize a revolver and get to the door. He fired four shots at the men. but all went astray The bandits gota away with $3,889 In caah, in addition to the jewels. They missed a number of unset diamonds. ‘SPEEDWAY’ AT ROTARY Theodore E. Myers, secretary Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Steve Hannagan, publcity director. a addressed Rotary Club at luncheon \ at tjh e Clay pool. ‘