Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1925 — Page 1

Homd Edition CHICKIE tries to find out where Barry Dunne is going. Read “Chickie” on the back page every day.

VOLUME 37—NUMBER 14

BANDITS TERRORIZE HOOSIER TOWN

CITY HIRES MILLIONS 111 BIG W But Engineers in Charge Say They Face Years of Work to Put Sanitary System in Shape for Rapid Popu- ' lation Growth. VAST DISPOSAL PLANT TO BE GREAT BENEFIT Nearly 14,000 Property Owners Assessed for Bean Creek Project Make Plans for District West of White River This Year. By Eugene Cadou Millions of dollars were spent in the underworld of Indianapolis during the past year. Yet Indianapolis citizens would not forego benefits they have derived from this subterranean activity. Ranging from $3,000,000 spent for a sewage disposal plant to repairs for small sewers, the city has been literally budying Its money. Yet the engineering department of the city is years behind in supplying fcdequate sewage for the city. f "We're five years behind,” C. P. veteran engineer, in charge of sewagffplans, said today. "Indian-' apollf) has spread its boundaries so fast that there are vast suburban areas In which ther# are no sewage facilities.” With limited force, of engineers available under appropriation granted, progress will continue to lag, Oulley said. Disposal Plant Opened Entire city was benefited by recent opening of the vast disposal plant on the Sellers farm. Through Its operations, "prevention of pollution of White River will be accomplished. The project Includes a million dollar eewer under White River. The so-called Broad Ripple sewer, draining territory north of Flftyfiixth St. from the Monon Railroad to Sunset Aw., involves expenditure of $447,646. It is two-thirds finished. Property owners In the east part of the city and for miles beyond the city limits, nearly 14,000 In number, were assessed for the $330,000 Bean Creek and Pleasant Run Interceptor > ewer, from State St. to White River. "•’Ms Is connected to the sewage disl plant. An extension will care southeast section of Irvington. mg the coming year construcuf a system to cost approxli mtely $500,000, will begin. Start(Turn to Page 7) Aboard to ask bidson SHIPS Way to Be Opened for Henry ford Purchase. Hu United Press May 27.—The Shipping Board today voted to advertise 200 of Its ships for Immediate sale for scrap? The ships chosen for sale have a total of 817,130 dead weight tons. The action finally clears the way for Henry Ford to bid for the vessels If he still desires to. fOBD TO ENTER BIT) DETROIT, Mich., May 21.—1 t was indicated at the Ford offices today that a definite bid would be mode by Henry Ford for the 200 steel boats which the shipping board has offered for Immediate sale. No Intimation of the price or details in the offer was given.

Rooms for Speedway Visitors This week there will Jje thousands of visitors coming to Indianapolis to attend the annual Speedway race. Hundreds of these visitors will have to depend upon getting a room in some private home. Call Main 3500 and list your room for rent on the Want Ad page, where it will be read by hundreds of visitors. A three line ad for three days cost 99c. The Indianapolis Times Want Ad Department.

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Marble Champ Ong Goes Saturday Local Player Ready for Tilt at Atlantic City for U. S. Title.

jENNARD ONG, city marble champion, will leave Satur(__J day for Atlantic City, N. J., where he will fight for the national marble title. Crack shooters from other cities will take part. By defeating Carl Kitchen In the finals two weeks ago Ong won the right to represent Indianapolis in the national contest conducted annually by ScrippsHoward newspapers. Ong the highest ranking player to make the aational games again, took middlewestern honors last year. Ong will leavd at 2:33 p. m., Saturday, and will join the other city champs In Philadelphia, Pa., Sunday when the party will go to Valley Forge. Special Train A special train will carry the delegation from Philadelphia to Atlantic City, where games start Monday. Marie Lawley, 13, marble champ of Harrisburg, Pa., will be first girl to compete. Charles Bruson of Evansville, and Lester Oakley, of Terre Haute, are other Hoosiers entered.

NORWAY READY TO START HUNT FOR AMUNDSEN 1 Ships and Airplanes Are Prepared to Depart at Moment’s Notice. Bu i nited Press OSLO, May 27.—The Norwegian government is now prepared, If necessary, to send, a relief expedition after the Amundsen-Ellsworth polar fliers. This represents a change of front during the- past twenty-four hours, for the government earlier declared through its foreign minister that the project for a relief expedition had not been considered. The government has both ships and naval airplanes which are ready to depart at a moment's notice. Up to this evening—six days since the jump off—there was no news of the explorers. Captain Gustav Amundsen, brother of Roald, remains confident. He told the United Press he would be disappointed if his brother returned too soon, since that might indicate lack of careful scientific observation at the pole. Otto Sverdrup, Arctic explorer, declared there had been already too much fuss about Amundsen, declaring that one must not expect of him the impossible. In other words he anticipated that some time had to be taken for observations. Other men acquainted with the polar regions joined in holding there still was time for Amundsen to return safely to King’s Bay, Spltzbergen with his heroic crew. SIO,OOO LOSS IN FIRE Large Barns on Farms Near Noblesville Burn. Bu Times Special NOBLBSVILLE. Ind.. May 27. Large barns on the farms of Dr. Samuel Harrell and Rome Findllng were destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Total loss *s SIO,OOO. HEALTHCRUSADE BADGES Children at Beech Grove Get Awards in i ereniony. One hundred thirty-three proud children at Beech Grove school today displayed badges showing they had completed eighteen weeks of the Modern Health Crusade conducted by tho Marion County Tuberculosis Association. The badges were distributed at ceremonies Tuesday afternoon. More than 5,320 children in twelve county schools have been enrolled in the crusade according to officials.

SHRINER TRAIN LEAVES TODAY Four Hundred Depart for Convention. Special train of fifteen Pullmans carrying about 40b Murat Shriners and their families left Indianapolis at 1 p. m. today for Los Angeles, Cal., on the annual pilgrimage of Murat Temple. Delegation will attend the fiftyfirst annual session of the Imperial Council, to open June 1 at Los Angles. Drum corps, bund, patrol, gun squad, and chanters, 'and sev eral hundred friepds paraded from the Templte to the Union Station. Shriners were escorted to the depot by Murat brass band, led by Noble toward; Arab patrol, cap tained by Edgar Hart: gatling gun club headed by Harry A. Pell; drum and bugle corps und chanters directed by Bertrand A. Orr.

HAWKINS, IN JAIL DENIES NEWEFFORT Defendant in Stock Scheme Case Says He Did Not Have Connection With At tempt to Reorganize Bankrupt Company. REFUSES TO COMMENT ON ATTEMPT AT BOND Former ‘Capitalist’ Gives Self Up at Cincinnati and Is Brought Here by Deputy Marshal—lndicated Bond Will Be High. Morton S. Hawkins, in Marion county jail today awaiting trial in Federal Court on a ! charge of using the mails to defraud in a $6,000,000 stock swindling scheme, denied having any connection with plans to re-organize the bankrupt Hawkins Mortgage Company, of which he was president. “It was the committee doing the work,” he said. “Os course I am ready to help if I can. Under present circumstances, however, I don’t feel like worrying about any plans at* all.” Hawftlhs has lost tn a long fight in an attempt to prevent his trial. He defaulted bond -f $7,500 Oct. 1, 1924, when his trial was set in Federal Court here and became a fugitive. Captured at Dayton Three months later he was captured at Dayton, Ohio, where he began habeas corpus proceedings to prevent removal to Indiana. He carried t!he case to the Supreme Court, where he was denied a review. Monday he surrendered to the United States marshal at Cincinnati, and was brought to Indianapolis about 8:30 p. m. Tuesday by Deputy Marshal Elsie M. Henshaw. The former "capitalist” said he was sick this morning and refused to eat breakfast. He was given medicine by Dr. S. M. Tllson. He appears to be In robust health. Hawkins refused to say whether he would atterfipt to give bond and be admitted to freedom, but referred Inquirers to his attorneys, J. M, LaFoilette of Indianapolis and G. T. Whittaker. Portland, Ind. Bail to Be Higli Hawkins will not be admitted to bail for less than a $50,000 bond. It was indicated today by United States District Attorney Albert Ward. "After a man has exhausted every possibility to prevent com'ng here for trial I can see no reason why the Government should take much, interest in getting him out on bond,” said Ward. Ward Indicated that Hawkins might he tried about the middle of July. The trial date would have to meet the convinence of Homer Elliott, former United States District Attorney, special assistant attorney general In the case.

DENTON GOES TO HIGH COURT Appeals From Ruling of Special Judge Shirley. George K. Denton of EvAnsville, Ind„ defeated candidate for State supreme Judge, today appealed to the Supreme Court when Special Judge C. C. Shirley of Superior Court Five sustained the separate demurrers of Benjnmii\ M. Willoughby and Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of State, in the contest election suit filed Nov. 19, 1924, by Denton. Willoughby was declared elected supreme judge by a majority of one vote. Appeal bond of S2OO was provided. Denton dismissed action against Governor Jackson, then secretary of State, and members of the Howard and Sullivan County board of election commissioners and canvassers. 50 BELIEVED TRAPPED Mine Explosion in North Carolina— Body Reported Recovered Bn I'nitcd I’ren* SANFORD. N. C.. May 27.—Fifty imen were believed trapped in the Inline of the Carolina Coal Company near here following an explosion today. One body was reported recovered. % (

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1925

Record Smashing Pace Set in Qualifying Trials Points to Greatest Race in History

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Duray Wins Pole After Outspeeding De Paolo and . Hartz in Thrillers. By Blythe Q. Hendricks With all lap records for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway shattered beyond the wildest dreams of fans, drivers and track experts in elimination trials Tuesday, indications were today that the winner of the annual 500-mile race Saturday must do better than 100 miles an hour to win. Leon Duray in his Miller Special won the pole position with four laps at 113.196 miles an hour, closely followed by Peter De Paolo, who despite a broken water pump put his Duesenberg around the track at average speed of 113.083 miles an hour. Fifteen others of the eighteen cars to qualify bettered the 100 mile mark. De Paolo Holds Record Harry Hartz, who qualified at 112.48 miles an hour will be the other driver in the front with Duray snd De Paolo at the start of the race. Six drivers smashed the old track record of 108.17 miles an hour for one lap, set by Tommy Milton two years ago, and Peter De Paolo now holds that honor with a lap at the dazzling speed of 114.285 miles an hour, a speed ..hich had been pronounced Impossible on the low banked turns of the Indianapolis track by racing expert*. Drivers who were fortunate enough toqualify Tuesday were busy today tearing down their cars for official measurements by the technical commltttee preparatory to final tuning up for the race. Drivers who were not fortunate enough to have their cars ready on (Turn to Page 7)

$200,000 FIRE AT BRAZIL, IND. Pipe Plant Destroyed— Incendiary Origin Seen. Bu United Preaa BRAZIL,, Ind., May 27.—Plant of the Chicago Sewer Pipe Company here was destroyed with a loss of $200,000 early today by fire, said by officials of the company to be -of Incendiary origin. The fire was the second suffered by the company within a week. Ixjss of $65,000 was inflicted by flames of mysterious origin Saturday night. The flames were discovered at 12.30 a. m. today and by 3 a. m., despite efforts of the Brazil Are department, the plant was reduced to smoldering ruins. The factory was closed several weeks ago because of labor trouble. Pending settlement a force of workmen was employed to renovate the plant with the aim of making :t one of the most complete in the middle West. ‘‘The fire broke out in several places at the same time," Mason Chilcote, superintendent declared. ‘‘l am convinced that it was of incendiary origin.” MAYOR ENTERS GAMINGCHARGE — \ — * Colored Men Say Card Game Was ‘Sociable/ ‘‘Women’s clubs play every day for prizes, but when colored fellows get together for a sociable game the police kick In the door and arrest them,” Mayor Shank said today. Investigation of arrest of Owsley Bishop, colored, and fifteen other colored men on charges of keeping gambling house and gaming, w-as ordered by Mayor Shank, when Owsley told him the game at his house, 19 W. Pratt St., raided by Patrolmen, Beals, Fogarty, Harrlsr and Carter Tuesday night, was ”5061” Mayor Shank asked Bishop to file charges against the policemen before the board of safety. He said Bishop told him $1.40 officers said they found on a table was set aside to buy cards.

Harry- Hart/, qualifying at rate of 112.43 miles an hour.

SHA W’S DEFENSE

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Murder Trial Jury Expected to Begin Deliberations Thursday. By John L. Niblack Times Staff Correspondent MARTINSVILLE, Ind., May 27.—After introduction of additional evidence to holster the alibi of John Thomas Shaw, 23, colored, Indianapolis, defense attorneys rested his case at noon today. Shaw Is on trial in Circuit Court here fighting charges of murdering Mrs. Helen Hager Whelehel 22, Indianapolis beauty shop operator, whose body was found on Big Four Railroad tracks under an overhead bridge west of Indianapolis Nov. 28, 1923. The case Is expected to reach the jury Thursday morning. Among the more important witnesses rOr .Shaw- was Joe Harris, colored, Indianapolis, who testified he cut his thumb while working on Shaw’s car the day before Shaw was eu*rested, and got considerable blood on the car. Mother on Stand Shaw’s mother. Mrs. Mattie Shaw, Tullahoma, Tenn., testified that Shaw, one of ten children, always had been a dutiful son, never had been in trouble before and had sent her part of his earnings regularly to pay on their home. Shaw displayed little more than passing interest In his mother while she was on the stand. As Mrs. Jemima Gill, Indianapolis, Shaw’s sister, at whose home he lived, was ill and unable to be present, her testimony at Shaw’s first trial, in Marion County Criminal Court, which resulted In a death sentence for Shaw in Decem(Tum to Pago 2)

WEAVER TO FACE SIOO,OOO SUIT County Attorney Says Julietta Is ‘Terrible/ Condition of the east wing of Julietta, county insane asylum, brought about through alleged improper construction is “terrible.” Russell J. Ryan, county attorney, said today following an inspection Tuesday. He was accompanied by Robert. F. Dagget and I/eslie Colvan, members of the board of arbitration, and Tom Ellis, road superintendent. Ryan said he will file a damage suit asking approximately SIOO,OOO judgment against George A. Weaver & Son, contractors, following the arbitrators' report to the county commissioners. Their report is expected in a few days. Ryan said. According to commissioners, west wing of Julietta is closed because of bad construction and inmates are crowded. Weaver and his son already are under indictment by the Marlon County grand Jury. RICKENBACKER SPEAKS Famous Aviator Appears at Lions Club Luncheon. Capt. Eddie Rlekenbecker. world war aviator and automobile manufacturer. addressed Lions Club luncheon today at the Lincoln. A. W. Buschmann, president, invited members of other luncheon clubs to attend. Several race drivers and Automobile Trade Association members were also guests. JUST ONE HOLD-UP Police Records for Tuesday Night Almost Clear. One lone hold-up was marked up on police records Tuesday night. Fred Vandiver, 2540 N. Alabama St., told police he left a street walked west on Twenty-Fifth St., at 12:45 c. m., and when he reached the first alley two whtie men, both armed, tock $lO, leaving hlft watch,

CITY BUS LINE HEARING ENDS; START SECOND Commbjiion to Consider New Petitions at Same • Time. Hearing on the petition of the Peoples Motor Coach Company for certificates of necessity and convenience for four bus lines now in operation on Indianapolis streets ended before the public service commission today. Immediately the commission took qp consideration of petitions of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company for certificates to operate lines substantially on routes now covered by the Peoples Company, and of the latter company to operate five new lines. The two cases were consolidated by the commission and will be taken up together. To Submit Briefs The case ended today, except for briefs to be submitted by attorneys, was for certificates under the ninety day clause of the new motor bus regulation law. The new cases are for beginner’s certificates. New routes asked by the conch company are on Park and Carrollton Aves.; N. Meridian St. and Westfield Rd. to Broad Ripple: N. Capitol Ave., and Kenwood Ave.; Churchman Ave., and Madison Ave., with an alternate line In case the Meridian and Capitol Ave. lines are rejected because of using boulevards. Closing session of the case today was given over to attempts of attorneys of the Street Railway Company to prove the coach company was not a common carrier and had refused passage to colored persons. Several former bus drivers were put on the stand. James E. Noel, attorney for the coach company, drew from witnesses the admission that they had talked (Turn lo Pago 2)

SANDSMOTHERS MAN TO DEATH Gary Citizen Trapped While Digging Cellar. Bu Ttmea Bfteeial GARY, Ind., May 27. —Gary a city built on sand, the bed of the great inland sea which once covered the Mississippi valley. Dig a cellar and you dig in golden, trickling sand. Johannes Kreiter dug in the sand behind his home, laying a sewer connection. He died slowly in the bottom of his twenty-flve-foot pit, trapped helpless. Kreiter had run a ladder down into the pit. But when he sent his helper for timber to bolster up the sides of the sand hole the helper pulled the ladder up after him. A soft ‘slide of sand started downward; a sand wall gave, and Kreiter’s feet were trapped. The helper, confused, ran for aid. More sand poured down on the trapped man. It gripped his knees, surrounded his waist as he struggled. He screamed as it reached his neck. Sand choked him, swept over his struggling head, spread out. The body was recovered three hours later. UTILITY BUY APPROVED Calumet Company to Purchase Indiana Electric Properties, ■ Public service commission today authorized the Calumet Gas and Electric Company to buy all properties of the Indiana Electric Utilities Company, except those at Ray and Clear Lake. Consideration Is to he $310,141, besides an indebtedness of $186,400 which the purchaser is to assume. The commission also authorized the Interstate Public Service Company to sell $23,7)00 in stock and $520,200 in bonds for refunding.

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State Officials and Bank Heads Aroused as Gang Holds Brook at Bay, Blows Open Vault and Escapes With $2,500 in Cash. TELEPHONE, LIGHT WIRES SLASHED; VILLAGE ISOLATED Schortemeier Announces Motor Police # Will Aid War on Crime Outrage Spurs Organization of Vigilance Committees —Local Clew Given.

Toll of Banditry Wave Bourbon and Brook, Ind., seized by bank bandits within five days. Gang of yeggs gets $2,500 in raid on State Bank of Brook early today. Total loot in seven bank robberies in Indiana since March 27 is $36,230. State Bankers’ Association renews effort to form vigilante organizations in every county. Secretary of State Schortemeier pledges such aid as small police force can render. *

Bank bandit* for the second time within a week terrorized a northern Indiana town, holding Brook, ten miles northeast of Kentland, Ind., at bay early today, while they looted the State Bank of Brook of approximately $2,500. As at Bourbon, Ind., Saturday, where $15,000 was obtained, and at Spencer, Ind., a little more than a year ago, the bandit gang entered the town, seized the nightwatchman, cut the telephone wires and then leisurely dynamited the vault and escaped in autos.

George Ade, noted humorist, is a director of the Bfook bArik. Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier took cognizance of the robbery wave by announcing that State motor police would be instructed to act against bandits so far as was possible. "This daring hold-up reveals the need of an emergency force composed of men who can shoot and shoot to kill," Arte F. Singleton, chairman of Group Four, Indiana Bankers’ Association, here, said, expressing belief that the outrage will result in a faster organization of the vigilance committee, proposed by the bankers. Town Isolated Brook was completely isolated from wire communication after the bandits cut the cables In the telephone office. Details of the robbery were brought to Kentland by a telephone man who came to get supplies with which to repair the damage. Light wiresswere also cut and the town thrown in darkness. Between eight and twelve men were in the gang that carried out the robbery, according to a United Prews dispatch. Entering Brook about 3 a. m. in three autos the band split, one going to the telephone exchange and the other seeking the night watchman. The bandits drove up to Frank Lomax, the watchman, and told him they were out of gasoline and looking for a filling station. He took them to a station to which he had keys and went inside to ifret VAGRANTS HANG SOFIA BOMBERS Gypsies Pressed Into Service as Bulgar ‘Hangmen/ Bu United Preaa SOFIA, May 27.—Fifty thousand spectators, many ol them occupying grand stand seats today watched three gypsies pressed into service as 'executioners to hang Koleff, Zadgorskl and Friedmann, dynamiters of the Sofia cathedral. Bulgaria has no public hangman v Out on the athletic field, close to a cemetery, the scaffold, a primitive affair, was erected without the ufuial platform. In place of it a wooden table was put beneath the condemned's men feet and dragged out after the noose had been hitched around the neck. Soon, unless the king interferes, another trio will follow today's group, for last night a court martial sentenced three alleged bomb conspirators for sheltering the principals. WAITS Given Four Month*' Term on State Farm by Judge Collins. , When Charles WLfte finishes four months’ term on the Indiana State Farm, .following convction today In Criminal Court on charge of unlawful manufacture of liquor, he mtuit face charge of grand larceny and vehicle taking. White is now awaiting action of the Marion County grand jury. * Judge James A. Collins fined White SIOO and coats on the liquor charge.

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and Thursday, probably becoming unsettled; rising temperature.

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thfe* gasoline. As h© returned he found himself .covered with a revolver. Placed in Garage His hands were tied together with heavy wire and he was placed in the garage under guard during the robbery. Irvin Clinton, operator at the telephone exhange heard the bandits break down the front door and ran to aoun dthe siren, but found the fuses pulled. He fled out the back door and aroused a number of residents, who came to the bank only (Turjt to Page 2) TEAPOT TRIO IS REINDICTED BY FEDERALJURY Fall, Sinclair and Doheny Sr. Named in New Bills in Washington. Bu United Preaa WASHINGTON. May 27 Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior; Harry F. Sinclair and E. L. Doheny, Sr., today were re-indicted ' by thi Federal grand Jury here which has been taking new evidence on the oil cases. Edwftrd L. Doheny Jr., son of the oil magnate, who was indicted with the three last year, was not Indicted today. The Indictments obtained by Atleo Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, special government counsel, in July, 1924, were dismissed on April 8, last. Pomerene and Roberts obtained anew grand jury on May 11, and commenced the submission of new evidence on that date resulting in the indictments today. Two indictments were’ returned, one charging Fall nnd Sinclair with conspiring to lease the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve without competitive bidding and the other charging Fall and Doheny with the same offense with respect to the California oil reserve. The government apparently has dropped its accusation of bribery against Fall and the Doheny as neither Indictment charged bribery as charged in one of the indictments against Fall and Doheny last year. MOTORIST IS SOUGHT Auto Strikes Iloy, Fail* to Give Name r Address. An automobile driver who failed to leave his name after striking Alvin Bryant, 14, of 8307 Broadway, riding a bicycle, at Sutherland Ave. and College, Tuesday, was sought by police today. The youth who was bruised about the left hand and cut on the left leg. said the driver stopped. asked Bryant whether he was injured and then drove off. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 48 1C a. m...... 60 7 a. m 64 41 a. m 62 8 a. rn 67 18 (noon) .... 65 • % m . i p. m 66