Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 23

BANKERS PREPARE TO FIGHT ROBBERS

38 CONFESS CHARGES IN H. SJURT j Forty-Seven of Eighty-Five Persons Choose to Await Trial on Federal Indictments, Scheduled to Start June 23. FOURTEEN INDIANAPOLIS RESIDENTS ARE ON LIST Druggist and Two Clerks Sentenced to County Jail for Alleged Illegal Sale of Paregoric—Seven Others Deny Guilt. Eighty-five persons, recently indicted by the Federal grand jury, were arraigned in Federal Court today before Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Forty-seven entered not guilty pleas and thirty-eight pleaded guilty. Fourteen Indianapolis persons fcwere arraigned, seveA, pleading not I guilty and seven guilt?*; “A'.fL Trials of those pleading not guilty today will begin June 23, Judge BaitBell said. Druggist Sentenced Oliver P. Withers, drug store proprietor at 1243 Oliver Ave., was sentenced to six months at the Marion county jail and fined *SOO on a guilty plea to charge of illegal sale of paregoric to a drug addict. Earl C. Abbott, 327 N. Colorado Ave., and Henry R Cassell, of 406 N. Wallace St., both clerks in Wither’s store, were each sentenced to ninety days on similar charges. Ora Strawder of Indianapolis was sentenced to a year and a day at Federal prison at Leavenworth. Kan., on a plea of guilty to charge of selling and buying morphine. Ft. W*[.yne Man Guilty Merritt A. Sheely, Ft. Wayne, Ind., waiy sentenced to a year and a day at LeaVfinworth on charge of impersonating a United States deputy marshal. Sheely . said tha t he accepted S2O in cash and a check for $l3O from a Ft. Wayne soft drink stand proprietor for protection. Indianapolis persons pleading not guilty were: Dr. Charles T. Burris, colored, 527 Agnes St ; Roy Bicknell, 616 Exeter St., and Hugh B. Powell, 2202 Va Shelby St., charged with sale of narcotics: Raymond B. Goldsberry, 146 W. Washington St., charged .with counterfeiting; Alpheus Imus, Kjail, violating of national auto theft and Samuel Kurzrok, 1809 Barth Ave., and Mrs. Rebeccah Baker, 1006 S. Meridian St., charged with sale of sacraimental wines. Leslie L. Sanders, 1936 Ruckle St., now an inmate of Central Hosiptal for iiie Insane, was sentenced to twelve years at Leavenworth on a charge of using the mails in a scheme to defraud. He will serve hi ssentence when released from the hospital. Sanders, It was charged, obtained money from convicts, posing as head of the National Prisoners’ Association.

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State Association Asks Government for Weapons and Ammunition as Bandits Get $3,000 in Hold-up at Galveston, Ind. —Cashier Shoots. FOUR MEN IN LOOTING PARTY CHANGE AUTOS Total Theft Losses in Indiana Since March 27 More Than*s46,ooo Vigilantes Determined to Stop Wave of Crime. Bandits for the third time in four days, held up an Indiana bank —the First State Bank of Galveston, near Logansport, and escaped with $3,000 and securities worth several hundred dollars. Simultaneous came a statement from Mies Forba McDaniels, secretary of the Indiana Bankers’ Association thta a request had been sent to the Federal Government for hundreds of guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition to be distributed to banker vigilance committees in an alarm system to cope with banditry. Organization of Indiana banka has been practically completed, Miss McDaniels said. Charle Gephart. cashier of the Galveston Bank had just opened th institution for business when the bandits, evidently foreigners entered Three came In, \vhile a fourth re r mained at the wheel of the auto with the engine runn' %. The trio, with levele.. guns, forced Gephart to stand with his hands up facing the wail at the rear of the room, while they took the money from the safe and the cashier’s cage. While the* robbery was in progress Russell Bubler, 12. and his brother, Raymond, 14. entered to deposit S3O. Russell saw the ban(Tura to Page 2) RIKHOFF MAKES POLICE SHIFTS Chief Refuses to Explain Change in Duties. Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff refused to explain today a police shake-up that resulted In the shifting of two lieutenants, two sergeants and two patrolm?n. The shifts were announced today. Lieut. Fred Winkler, who has be n assigned to the emergency was shifted into the field, west division, and Lieut. Harley .Tones was shifted into the east division. Sergeant Russell, was moved into the east division and Sergeant Ludgin assigned to the emergency pending the arrival of Lieut. Claude Johnson who is on his vacation. Patrolmen Gaither and Lansford, were switched, exchanging districts.. BATHERS WORRY~p6IICE Two Calls Made as Result of Heat Relief Seekers. Hot weather bathers caused police two runs Friday night. The Northwestern Machine Company, 2170 Northwestern Ave , complained boys were stealing lumber from the plant and carrying it to the banks of Fal’, Creek to be used in construction of diving boards. Residents in the neighborhood of Canal and College Ave., called the police and said bathers were making so much noise at 1 a. m. that they were unabie tp sleep. M’CRAY LOAN INTEREST Recent Payment Is Shown on Agriculture Board’s Books. An examiners’ report on the State board of agriculture sent out today from the of Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the State board of accounts, shows recent payment of $688.87 in interest on the $155,000 loan made two yfers ago by the board to former Governor Warren T. McCray. The report does not name the individual making the interest payment. CITY HALL DESTROYED $15,000 Fire Reported at Fountain City, Ind. Bn T'nltetl Prmi) RICHMOND, Ind.. June 6.—The city hall, an Implement store and a general store was destroyed by Are at Fountain City, north of here, in Wayne County, early today. Loss was estimated at $16,0(>0.

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Here’s How to Run Police Force Flivver Driving Reporter Gives Chief Benefit of Wise Counsel.,

By John L. Niblack (Who Drives a Flivver) HILE a bank was being held Yly up the other day numerous TT citizens downtown were cuss’ng their luck because when the> got back to their autos they found little pink tags which will cost them $2 per; that is, unless they know somebody who knows somebody down at the police station. Now,the chief of police is always hollering because he doesn’t have enough police to arrest all the bank bandits, bootleggers and overtime parkers. Apparentdy they are all the classes o/ law violators there are nowadays. As for bigamy and other high crimes and misdemeanors, they are lef, to themselves, I guess. Anyhow, a bigamist is punished by having two mothers-in-law, which ought to hold any man —glutton for punishment though he be. • • mN the papers some time ago were •-counts of the strong men oi tne Indianapolis traffic squ id. They have a guy who can pull a street car with his teeth, and he can juggle a couple of fire engines and a flivver with his feet while lying cn his back reading a newspaper. There are other strong and powerful men on the traffic squad, too. It takes a husky person to blow a whistle all day, eight hours at a stretch, half an hour on duty and half an hour off. Then, too, there is an awful amount of exertion required to subdue flivver drivers who drive half a foot over the white line, or to club down some old won.an who hf.lds up traffic because the motor of her car stalls while she discusses the flappers’ clothes with a seat mate. Still, all this is nothing to the physique necessary for a policeman to go around hunting for cars which have been parked in one Bpot longer than the law allows. A chest expansion of at least five inches is necessary to mark the tires with the little pink chalk, and then come back later and tie a pink tag on the steering wheel. • • • mHEY say the -physical examination required to get on the police force is a stiff one. The applicant has to be at least five feet ten inches tall, and have good teeth. That is so he can chew tobacco, because Chief Rikhoff won’t let cops smoke on duty. They have to be big, so they can defend themselves from bandits, because-even a policeman’s uniform isn't any protection any more in this day and age, even if they let their guns show, which is always done while marking tires of overtime parkers. • * • N r OW of course an ordinary citizen doesn’t have any more ■ idea how to run the police force than the city has money to pay extra policemen, but here are a few suggestions culled from a varied experience with plows and typewriters. Mayor Shank and the chief could take three-fourths of the husky lads now tending switch at the street corners or swinging a heavy chalk pencil on tires, and put them to hunting bandits and bootleggers (although if they caught all the latter ana their customers there wouldn't be enough jails in Indiana for the Marion County product alone) and then he could can the remaining fourth of the traffic squad. With this money thus saved, he could advertise for a lot of onearmed or one'eyed men, or even without any legs, and put them to pink-penciling the overtime cars. All they would need would be ope good arm and one good eye and a dollar watch, and they _no doubt would be glad and proud to wear a cop’s suit and swing a cannon on both hips and work at half or third price. Why, the chief could even get some husky men in wheel chairs who can blow whistles and wave their arms and mark tires. Or he could hire some good etrong boys at $1 a day and they could fill the city courts every day. When this plants adopted, and the bank bandits are all caught, I am going to put In for the various rewards offer#!, because it will be my idea that done it.

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Thirteen Days Ago Indiana Shivered in Frosty Grip. mUST two weeks ago, (whew whew) Indianapolis residents, (gosh but it's hot) spent all day Sunday firing the furnace. (Happy day) Thirteen days ago, all of Indiana was blighted by a heavy frost. And temperature, as fickle as some June brides, flirted with the thirty mark. It was cold — dampish, persistent cold. Too cold to fish, too cold to motor, too cold— Well it was cold. And then another reminder that the torrid grip has not always existed here. Last winter it was as cold as 13 below. Miss Mary Lou Wright and Boyd Holland, Butler students, shivered as they plowed through huge drifts of snow to their classes. The snow was so deep both wore goo-loshee. (Who can spell it on a day like this.) And the temperature was— That would be cruel to recall foi— Gosh, It's hot. BUTLER GIVEN SIO,OOO GIFT Edwin E. Thompson Is Donator. Announcement of a gift of SIO,OOO to Butler University was made this afternoon at a reunion of the class of 1900 at Fairview Park, new site of the school. Edwin E. Thompson, 707 People’s State Bank Bldg., was the donor. Announcement was made by John W. Atherton, financial secretary, who is also a member of the class. The gift is in the nature of interest on a loan of twenty-five years ago, Atherton explained. Thompson and Emsley W. Johnson, local attorney, and trustee of Butler University, in celebration of their graduation from Butler, planned a picnic in Fairview Park with a couple of young women friends. On approach of the occasion, Thompson discovered he was without funds. The Johnson capital consisted of $1.50, and Thompson borrowed 75 cents. The loan was repaid, but no Interest. ‘‘Now comes the donation which wipes out whatever Interest that might be due,’ said Atherton. STATE REAPPOINTMENT Greenberry G. Lowe, for the last two years deputy examiner of the State board of accounts, will be reappointed when his term expires Sunday, Governor Jackson's office has announced.

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And They Want to Hunt for Amundson No Wonder Canadians Are Claiming North Pole Summer Resort!

By Arthur Mometer HI _ TET your conscience be your ! j Iguide” is the rule regarding 1 Ihathlng suits as the city bathing beaches open. Some people are notoriously free from conscience. Just ten days ago you were kicking about the cold.weather. Ice men are prosperous nowadays. Henry Dithmer, of the Polar Ice and Fuel Company, ,'hased a would-be burglar away from his home at 2130 N. Capitol Ave. last night. We just received a copy of a Miami, Fla., newspaper In which It said “Highest temperature yesterday, 81 degrees.’’ Let’s go to Florida—or to Windsor, Ont. Even though that Canadian beer hasn’t any kick, it’s cold. If men wore as few clothes as women do this kind of weather they would be arrested. A 1 ” - “J north side resident solved the problem last night by hooking _ — the garden hose over a clothesline in such a way that the spray fell just outside his bedroom window. Somebody page Frank Jordan of the water company. The chorus at a local theater has a number In which the girlies appear in furs and sing “Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells.’’ There was a .near riot in the audience last night. Someone should invent a preparation for removing asphalt from the shoes of pedestrians. Only fifteen more days until summer. Official start of hot weather comes June 21, the weather bureau announces. It was 13 below zero Dec. 28, 1924. S r “"“1 HADES of cold weather. Vern Hutto, 1920 N. Dela- - J ware St., was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thirty days on the Indiana State Farm, on a blind tiger charge. Police charged they caught him pouring out booze at Liberty Beach on Year’s Eva. ,

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STEPHENSON TO BE BROUGHT IN COURT MONDAY Death Statement of Girl Will Be Point at Issue. While D. C. Stephenson, Earl Klinek and Earl Gentry, charged with murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, sweltered in the narrow cellrooms of the Hamilton Cpunty jail at Noblesville today, defense and State attorneys were busy preparing for the first legal battle before Judge Fred E. Hines of Hamilton Circuit Court Monday. Whether the State will be forced to uncover its most important piece of evidence, the dying statement of the young woman, will be the point at issue. Following refusal of William H. Remy, prosecutor, to turn the statement over to him, Eph Inman, chief defense counsel prepared to file a petition before Judge Hines asking that the prosecutor be compelled to do. The State, through Remy and Charles E. Cox. retained by the Oberholtzer family will resist the motion. DARROW HOPES LOEB WILL DIE Boy Slayer Becomes Violent Alter Illness. Rtl T'nited Frt* . CHICAGO, June ft.—The man who saved Richard Loeb from death on the gallows now hopes Dick will die. Clarence Darrow, who was chief attorney for Loeb and Nathan Leopold when they confessed murdering Bobby Franks, was told by the United Press today of Loeb s critical mental condition In ‘he State pentitentiary at Joliet, induced by a severe case of measles. ‘‘l hope he dies,’’ Darrow said. “He would be better off.” Loeb was strapped to his bed last night In an attempt to quiet him after he had repeatedly struck at his guards. The straps, ‘ however, failed to keep him still and he shreiked almost constantly. MACMILLAN AID NEEDED IN HUNT Aeronautic Society Wants U. S. Explorer to Search. Rv I'nitrd Prr OSLO. June B.—The Aeronautic Society wants the aid of the MacMillan Artie Expedition in the search for the Amundsen-Ellsworth polar fliers. At a meeting with famous experts, including Captain Sverdrup, Arctic explorer, the society decided that the Spitsbergen area must be thoroughly combed by the Norwegian relief hunters, and that seal hunters’ aid must also be enlisted. In addition to this maneuver the society wants the Charcot expedition to keep a lookout for Amundsen and his American colleage. Lincoln Ellsworth, In East Greenland, while the American Cominitte will aid by searching Northwest Greenland. JUNE PARTI' GIVEN Annual 'June party of Orchard School, 5050 N. Meridiar St., was given Friday. Pupils gave a pageant “The Fairy Queen * Court.” Dances and musical numbers also were on the program.

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National Weather Bureau Says Torrid . Spell North of Ohio River to End First of Next Week—Mercury Still Sizzles. FEARS WATER SHORTAGE IF DROUGHT CONTINUES LONG Movie Film Explodes in Operator’s Room, Causing $3,500 Fire Three Prostrations Here Country in Six Days.

Pastors Pray For Rain

ERAYERS for rain to break the unprecedented drought and hot spell were planned for Sunday in three Indianapolis churches. Dr. Lewis Brown, pastor of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, New York and Illinois Sts., will deliver the prayer for rain which is a part of the Episcopalian ritual. The Rev. Edward A. Robertson, pastor of the Barth Place

Thunder, clouds arid a brisk shower at 1:45 this afternoon presaged a break in the prolonged torrid period in Indianapolis. Break in the heat wave, in territory north of the Ohio river by Monday or Tuesday was predicted by 1 lie United States Weather Bureau at Washington, according to a United Press dispatch. Temperature was 91 at 1:30 p. m., a drop of 3 degrees from the mark at noon, and about 4 degrees below the mark for the same hour Friday. “Just a local thundershower." said the bureau of the rain. Two more persons were overcome by heat here, making three (luring the torrid period. A film in the operator’s room of the Annex photoplay theater, 118 8. Illinois St., exploded because of the heat, causing §3,500 ioss and burning three persons. Three Burned G. G. Swain, 2239 Park Ave.. manager of the theater, was burned about the hands and face when he attempted to extinguish the flames at the Annex Theater. C. T. Partner and A. J. Moore, both of 408 N. Delaware St., operaters, were burned about the hands when they escaped from the burning operating room near the ceiling of the theater. The men were winding the films when they caught fire. The films, thrown to the floor, struck Hw-ain, who was sweeping out the theater at the time. The loss was estimated between $3,500 and $4,000. There was no audience in the theater. Girl Collapses Margaret Dunn, 19, of 1701 Commerce Ave., student operator at the Bell Telephone Company, collapsed at work. She was treated by the company doctor and her condition is not thought serious. According to Bell company officials, the girl only came from Scotland two weeks ago, and Is not acclimated to warm weather. She lives with her sister. William Basley, 19. colored, 708 Maxwell St., had just left work and started home when he sank to the street at Eugene and Northwestern Aves., prostrated by heat. He was taken home, where his condition is not regarded serious. The thermometer swung upward to 98.2 degrees Friday for the hottest day since 1921, when 98 was also recorded on 4 u 'y 14. Indianapolis had its first heat prostration of the year, and Indiana (Turn lo Page. 2) HOURLY TEMPERATURES 12 (midnight) 82 1 a. m 81 2 a. m 79 3 a. m 77 4 a. m 79 5 a. 80 ft a. m 8o 7 am; 81 8 a. 88 9 a. 90 10 a. 91 11 a. m 94 12 (noon) 94 1 p. m 93 JOHN DOE IS ARRESTED "I’m John Doe” said a man arrested today by police on the fifth floor of the State Life Bldg. He was Jield at city prison on a charge of drunkenness Officers said the heat may have .had aome effect on him.

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Methodist Episcopal Church. In both his morning and evening services, will intercede for relief. The Rev. L. C. Fackler, pastor of St. Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church, also will likewise ask the drought be broken. “Although all my congregation are city folks," he said, “if the farmers don’t get rain we won’t get anythng to eat next winter, or have any water to take a hath."

Flu Vnitfd Pres* The most intense Juno heat wave in the annals of the weather bureau continues to take its toll of life, with nearly 75 deaths reported in the Fast, and Middle West during the past, 24 hours. United Press reports show that more than 225 persons have lost their lives due to the heat during the past six days. Rain In Ohio Rain and hail storms cooled the fevered brow of eastern Ohio thia afternoon. The mercury fell twelve degrees from 95 at Bellaire in the Ohio valley. The country for miles around was pelted with a downpour of rain and hall. New Philadelphia reported s drenching rainstorm in progress at 1 p. m. New York, with twenty-five ltves lost during the past twenty-four hours, faced the prospect of more casualties with the thermometer at 87 at 10 a. m. today. A survey by the United Press shows the following loss of life in the past twenty-four hours In representative cities: Greater New York, 25; Philadelphia, 11; Pittsburgh, 5; Detroit, 5; Chicago, 4: Baltimore. 4; Wilmington, Del., 2; Washington, D. C„ 2; Cleveland. 2. Business Shuts Down In New- York. Detroit and other cities many concerns closed after two hours of work and others did not open. Nearby resorts were filled early in the day. Firemen engaged In extinguishing a blaze In Brooklyn early today were forced to work In relays, due to the combined heat of the flames and the sun. An unobstructed sun heat down on Boston today and the official thermometer hovered around Bft at D a. m.. or four degrees warmer than yesterday. All persons using water for sprinkling lawns In Baltimore are to be ' arrested to avert danger of a water famine. SPRINGFIELD. Ill—All swimming pools In city parks were thrown open to the public today free of charge as the weather bureau announced the present heat wave would continue until Monday. Although the mercury towered to 95 yesterday no prostrations were reported. MILWAUKEE, Wls.—One person was killed and seven were overcome by the heat of the past twenty-four hours. The mercury reached 94, never before touched so early In the season. ST. LOUTS. Mo.—The heat wave, which on Friday reached a maximum of 93 degrees will continue over Sunday, the weather bureau said today. One death and five prostrations have been reported in the last twen-ty-four hours. CLEVELAND—Ohio heat deaths mounted to thirty-four today. Heat caused the deaths of two in Cleveland yesterday as the temperature mounted to 93. KANSAS qiTY, Mo.— Kansas and western Missouri continued to sizzle under * blazing sun today. Temperatures riinged In the high eighties yesterday. No reliaf la promised over tha week-end.