Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1925 — Page 1

Home Edition CHICKIE leaves home to hide her disgrace. Read “Chickie” on the back page every day.

VOLUME 37—NUMBER 25

BANKERS STIRRED BY BANDIT WAVE

Mayor Orders Large Slash in City Pay Roll

DAK 10 CROPS SET MMjLLIOHS M. M. Justin, Agricultural Statistician Says Farmers in Indiana Are Losing sl,000,000 Every Day From Lack of Rainfall. FROST DESTRUCTION IS t ESTIMATED AT SIO,OOO Wheat, Oats and Hay in Critical Condition Fruit Potatoes and Tomatoes Also Hard Hit by Unfavorable Weather Conditions. By William A. Evans Indiana farmers are losing approximately $1,000,000 daily by the continued drought in damage to wheat, oats and hay crops alone, it was stated today by M. M. Justin, agricultural statistician. This condition has existed since June 1, Justin said, and is the, result of the long period of dry weather. He pointed out that Indiana has had only about 40 per cent of the usual amount of precipitation since the first of the year. The damage by the drought and the extreme heat of the first week of June far exceeds the damage caused by the frost about two weeks ago. Justine believes. Purdue University experiment station fixed the frost damage at $10,000,000. “Wheat, oats and hay _ are In a critical condition," he said. “Hay is practically beyond the point where it can be saved. Wheat is filling out and will be ready for cutting soon. The dry weather and extreme heat cause the heads to fill out poorly and the kernels themselves to shrivel up.” In addition. Justin pointed out that the wheat will be short and much of it will be lost In harvesting (Turn to Page 7) ,

THREE VICTIMS REMAIN IN MINE Rescuers Bring Up Bodies of Fourteen Men. Bu United Press STURGIS, Ky., June 9.—Fourteen bodies were brought to the surface early today of the seventeen miners—seven white men and ten negroes—trapped ard killed in an explosion at mine No. 9, of the West Kentucky Coal Mine Company here Monday. , Rescuers announced they had been unable as yet to reach the remaining three bodies. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 68 10 a. m 81 7 a. m 71 11 a. m 83 8 a. m 78 12 (noon) .... 84 9 a. m 78 1 p. m 85

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Glenn Almost ‘Pinched’ State Cop Didn’t Know His Who-Who —Bawls Out Traffic Boss.

Peace reigned again between State and city police today. Traific Inspector Michael Glenn Saturday night was driving alo'ng Canal Rd.. near College Ave., in slow traffic. He passed two cars and State Policeman Clarke. “What's the matter, the heat botnering you?” challenged Clarke, not, knowing his who's who. Glenn said he retaliated and Clarke ordered him into court. “You were going thirty miles an hour,” said Clarke. “Sure I’ll be in court. Am there every day,” Glenn answered. Glenn said matters were adjusted with the State office. He was not driving over twenty miles an hour, he said.

D’Annunzio 111 at Italian Villa Bu United. Press ' ROME, June 9.—The famous poet, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Is 111 at his villa, at Lake Gardone.

RECOVERY IS RAPID Secretary of War Weeks on Way to Health Again. Bil United Prrs.s BOSTON, Mass., June 9.—Secretary of War John W. Weeks is recovering rapidly, said a physician's bulletin issued this noon. PROMOTION DEMOTION Board of Safety Takes Action on Two Firemen. Robert Snyder of Pumper Company 14 today was promoted from fireman to chauffeur by the board of safety. William Swan was reduced from chauffeur to fireman. Ralph Aldrich, former chauffer for Mayor Shank was appointed a substitute firemai'. LIQUOR SENTENCE GIVEN J. Jordan Convicted of Selling Booze; Gets 30 Days. J. Jordan, 2348 N. Sherman Dr., was fined S2OO and costs and sentenced to thirty days In the Indiana State Farm today on a liquor charage by Special Judge FVank A. Symmes in Criminal Court. Jordan is alleged to have sold liquor to Chester Toliver. 3736 E. TwentyEighth St. NEBRASKA GETS~QUOTA State Exceeds Goal tn Legion Endowment Drive. Nebraska has exceeded' its quota in the American Legion national $5,000,000 Endowment Fund for World War orphans and disabled veterans, James A. Drain, Legion commander, announced here today. Nebraska is the eleventh State to reach Its goal In the Legion soldier and orphan relief movement. clerk’s _ n[ece~killed Zac ha ri ah T. Dun gar Receives Word of Death in Chicago. Zachariah T. Dungan, clerk of the State Supreme and Appellate Courts, today received word of the death of a niece, Mrs. Estelle Welchman. at Chicago after being crushed by a rfiotor truck. It was the third violent death in Dungan’s family In the last two years. RULE ON BUS CHARG^ Board of Safety Bacps up Police Force in Action. Charges that police discriminated against the Peoples Motor Coach Company in arresting unlicensed bus drivers going to the Speedway on May 30 were declared untrue by the board of safety today. A. Smith Bowman, president of the motor coach company, had made a written protest to the board. Police Chief Herman Rikhoff said he had ordered that all drtvers not having a permit to operate to the Speedway be arrested. BARRICADED IN ROOM Man Guards Money But la Taken By Police. Barricaded in a room, with a rifle, two revolvers, knives and poison, James Kent. 2015 E. East St., who police say is suffering from mental disorders, was determined no one would come near him or his money. Finally his daughter persuaded him to come out. Four police lodged him in the city prison pending his removal to the city hospital psychopathic ward. When searched at city prison re reluctantly gave up SSBO in cash and a SSOO check.

DEMOCRATS NEEDED FOR FIjORCE Chief O’Brien Tells Shank Department Should Be More Evenly DividedObjects to Use of Pull to Influence Choice of Men. MAYOR GIVES WORD TO CHANGE ROSTER John Zener and John King Are Named Among Leading Offenders —More Policemen May Be Added Soon, Says Controller. By Eugene Cadou Fire Chief John J. O’Brien today seeks to reconcile the fact that Republican members of the fire department outnumber Democrats by 160 members from a total of 610 city firemen despite the legal stipulation that “such forces shall be, as nearly as possible, equally divided politipally. ’ O’Brien announced bo. Mayor Shank Monday that he will In the future appoint* Democrats, all other factors being equal, to jobs in the department, to equalize the balance and comply with the law. Following O’Brien’® charges that politicians have been responsible for the appointment of a disproportionate number of Republicans, he was given permission by Mayor Shank to reorganize his roster of department eligible* to corresond to O’Brien's ideas of an efficient fire-fighting force. j O’Brien Complaint The fact that John Whoosis pulled a wicked oar for Joe Dingus in his unsuccessful race for city dog catcher doesn’t qualify Whoosis for the job of a city fireman, according to O’Brien. This opinion he delivered to Mayor Shank Monday. The application roll for city firemen is the list from which O'Brien would select new firemen, he told Mayor Shank, because many men on this roll have waited two and three years for appointment, during which time, through recommendations, of in many cases, ultimatums from administration leaders, outsiders have been installed as regular firemen. Names Zener, King Chief O’Brien named John Zener, police captain who took a prominent part In financing the Lemcke mayoralty campaign and John King, city councilman, as among the portions who had approached him requesting appoir tments and promotions.' In attempting to name a fireman Monday, Zener is said to have offered to pay his salary until July 1. Thirty or thirty-five additional policemen may be added about July I, because funds will be available from payment by the county of the first txa Installment, Joseph L. ’logue, city controller, announced itu-aday. FIRE AT HELMSBURG Business District Burns With Loss of $27,000. Bu Times Special HELMSBURG, Ind., June 9. Total loss of $27,000 was caused today when fire destroyed the business district here. Naßhville, Bloomington and Morgantown sent aid. Buildings burned: Baughman Brothers general store. $8,000; William Hughes general stbre, $6,000; J. Stout general store, $8,000; Red Men’s hall. $3,000 Oak Grove Cream station, $2,000. Origin is not known. GRADE INVESTIGATION Camden Residents Make Petition to Commission. More than 100 residents of Camden, Carroll Gounty, In a pettitlon to the public service commission today have asked for an Investigation of a grade crossing in their town where the Monon Railroad crosses the Camden-Delphi Road. The crossing Is obscured, they allege, and is used daily by school busses. A grade separation is requested.

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Shank, at Cabinet Meeting, Tells Department Heads That Wholesale Reduction of Employes Must Be Made Oct* 1. WILL AID BOLSTERING FINANCIAL CONDITION Says Everyone Will Be ‘Running After’ Candi--9 dates for Mayor; Charges School Board With Extravagance in Plans. Wholesale reduction of number of city hall employes ,effective Oct. 1 was ordered by Mayor Shank today at a city cabinet meeting. “There’ll be very little work done her© after election anyway because they’ll all be running to Duvall or Myers for appointments, 90 you might Ss well cut your staffs to the bone,” Shank told department heads. \ Mayor Shank said elimination of employes would enable the administration to bolster Its financial standing and that decrease in amount of work undertaken from Oct. 1 to Jan. 1, would allow a smaller number of employes to operate efficiently. Gives Example Mayor Shank cited as an example of pruning, the office of the board of safety, which he said could be run with one employe Instead of three, as at present. \ Consolidation of the departments of unimproved and improved streets, proposed by John F. Walker, superintendent of street cleaning, was opposed by JCsfcpir L. 'Hogue, city controller, who said grouping of departments is .impractical. “We won't buy a thing after Oct. 1.” Mayor Shank declared. “If we hid stock up. a lot of these fellows would steal the stuff. Why, when this administration came into office we didn’t have a bar of soap.” Attacks Schools Charging members of the school board with extravagance in drafting plans for new high school buildings, the mayor also directed a verbal barrage'on general conduct of school affairs. He first attacked allowance of 5 per cent of total costs to architects, which he said should be reduced to 2 per cent. Then he turned his attention to alleged Inclusion of private offices for school teachers in building plans. Next came a general broadside at the entire project, which, he asserted, should cost $1,500,000 instead of $3,000,000 he said the board planned to expend. School Manager Replies Shank’s attack met with stubborn defense from William H. Book, business manager of the school board, today. Book said the present board was not responsible for allowance i to architects, but asserted the fee was reasonable for architects of a high type. He denied private offices for teachers were included in plans and asserted entire costs would amount to approximately $2,000,000. Following a conference between Shank and Book a few minutes after the charges were voiced. Book said the mayor had agreed to modify his instructions to the city legal department, which had been charged to draft c resolution criticising the board. WAVES HIS FLAP-JACK Presient Presents Unusual Spectacle Passing Through Town. Bu United Press HARVARD. 111., June 9.—Early rising citizens of Evansville, Wis., today witnessed the unusual spectacle of the President of the United States waving a flap jack as his train stopped for water. The president was in the diner eating breakfast. A small -child In his mother’s arms raised his hand; noldlng a small piece of cracker, to show Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge what he was eating. With a smile the president picked up a wheat cake from his plate and waved it back .and forth to show the child what he was eating. SEES COLISEUM DOOMED Shank Expects 1,000 to Remonstrate* Bond Issue. Belief that the project for municipal coliseum at Washington. Devidson. Pine and Market Sts., is doomed was expressed by Mayor Shank today. He said he thought there would be one thousand remonstrators to the proposed bond issue of $465,000. Question of legality of bonds authorized by ciiy council is now before Charles Remater, bond expert. It was submitted by Mayor Shank Saturday.

Woman Leader in Fight Against Bank Looters

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• Miss For ha McDaniel, secretary Indiana Bankers' Association.

WILL RESUME BUS HEARINGS Motor Coach and Street Car • Petitions Up Again. Hearings on beginners’ petitions of the Peoples' Motor Coach Company and the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to operate motor bus lines in the city will be resumed Wednesday before Clyde H. Jones, member of the public service com” mission. The motor coach company is asking to operate the Park-Carrollton. Capitol Ave., Meridian-Broad Ripple, Meridian-Kenwood, Churchman Ave. and Madison Ave routes. The railway company Is asking for the Riverside, E. New York and Central routes, all of which parallel established routes of thfe bus company. POLITICIAN IS SHOT 'ltalian leader Killed by Youths in Automobile. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, 0., June 9.—Gus Rinl, 40. head of the Rini Realty Company and Italian political leader; was shot to death today in front of his offices here. Three youths appeired suddenly before him as he stepped from his car, fired six shots into his body, and fled. The shooting is believed to have been a result of a political plot. TESTIFIES ON SPEED Witness at Inquest Says Car Was Making 60 Per. The automobile driven by 'Mike Bernardo, 19, of 443 S.> Alabama St., was traveling sixty miles, an hour, half a mile from the spot where another of the occupants. Miss Bertha Wright, 21, of Mars Hill, was killed in an accident, according to Harrv T. Boyer. 431 Tibbs Ave. Boyer testified in the coroner’s inquest today. Miss Wriglu was killed the night of June 5, at Stop 1, on the Danville Rd. A companion, Miss Bertie Campbell, 18, of Danville, Ind., was injured, when Bernardo’s car struck that of Jacob Tillman, Stop 1, Danvlllle Rd. Bernardo Is In jail on manslaughter charges.

Blame Jazz on Kitchenette

Bu United Press June 9.—Blame I f6r jazz music found a new resting place today. "It’s the kitchenette apartresponsible,” Matt J. Kennedy, secretary of the National Association of Music Merchants, told delegates to the convention of the Music* Trades of America, in session, here. /‘You can’t down jazz,’’ Kennedy said. “It’s our national

$40,000 Estate Is Left by Marshall Former Vice Presdient’s Will, Filed Here, Gives All to Widow.

Will of the late Thomas R. Marshall, former Vice President of the United States and Governor of Indiana, was filed In Probate Court today. Personal estate was valued at $35,000 and real. $4,000. William L. Elder was named administrator. The will, dated Jan. 23, 1924, leaves all property, real, personal and miscellaneous, to the widow and directs that his personal friends may have such souvenirs as they wish. In case Mrs. Marshall had not survived him, the will directed that all volumes of cartoons of his political life be given to Mark Thistlewalte, Washington newspaperman and former secretary. Thistlewalte, E. L. McLalle.i, H. D. McLallen, Willi.un L. Elder and Bowman Elder were to receive any article of his personal property they wished In remembrance. An oil painting, books and library were to go to Wabash College. Morton and Clante Kinsey, Scottsdale, Ariz., were to receive SIO,OOO for purchase of a farm; William C. Kinsey, their son, $2,000; Thomas Marshal Sutherland, son of Rev. Alex D. Sutherland, chaplain In the U. S. Army, $2,000; Wallace D. Kinsey, $1,000; trustees of First Presbyterian Church, Columbia CSty, Ind., $5,000 for a pipe organ In memory of his mother; trustees of the Odd Fellows cemetery at Marion, Ind., SSOO for upkeep of the family vault. Balance of the estate was to go to Wabash College to he Invested and the earnings therefrom used for instruction of students by lectures or otherwise In evidences of Christainity and to preserve normal life in the republic. Harold Taylor and George L. Mackintosh were witnesses.

style of music. Modern Ilfs helps make it so. Kitchenette apartments because they are so tiny, have upshed along the sale of small jazz Instruments like wailing saxophones. “We are traveling along to anew music school—the jazz schol—our own school." Other speakers at the convention contradicted Kennedy, however, declaring that jazz music already Is on the down grade and the classics are returning.

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State Association Discusses Plans to Place “Sharpshooters” in All Institutions to Prevent Additional Hold-Ups. CASHIER’S GRIT FOILS NEW ROBBERY NEAR LOGANSPORT Twelve-Mile Official Draws Gun When Lone Yegg Enters Man Flees Without Loot Posses Hot on Trail. - ,

Robbery Wave Highlights Bank cashier at Twelve-Mile, near Logunsport, routs bandit. State Bankers’ Association discusses to place armed guard in every bank in Indiana. Hold-up of Bank of Carbon, where bandits obtained $3,000, increases loot in little over month to approximately $50,000. Increased vigilance of local police officers urged by Governor Jackson.

Grit and nerve of a hank cashier today halted Indiana's record of nearly a bank robbery a day. "With State and city officials alarmed at the increasing spread of banditry which has taken toll practically every day, and bankeers discussing placing of an armed guard in every bank in Indiana, O. R. Pickering, cashier of the Twelve-Mile State Bank near Logansport, single handed drove away a bandit who attempted to hold-up his bank. No money was stolen, but keys to lock boxes and cash drawers were missing.

Entering the bank at 8:30 a. m., before the employes had gone to work, the bandit found Pickering in a rear room With drkwn revolver he stoood In the doorway and ordered Pickering to leave the bank. Grabs Revolver Pickering reached Into a drawer and grabbed a revolver. Covering each other he and the bandit stood there for a moment and the bandit’s nerve broke. He ran from a rear door and was seen on the edge of Twelve-Mile later. No auto was seen and it Is believed the bandit tried to escape through the fields. A posse is scouring the woods and fields. Meanwhile plans for armed auards In all banks were being talked of by the Indiana Bankers' Assosiatlon, stirred lnt<v action by the hold-up at Carbon, Ind.. Monday, In which $3,000 was obtained and three other bank robberies within a week, raising total of loot for thirty days to $50,000. “Meanwhile, Harry C. Webster, superintendent of our protective association, has Increased the number of his operatives and Is Investigating the recent crimes,” Miss F'orba McDaniel said. The move would be a temporary expedient until the “lowa plan” is adopted throughout the State, Miss McDaniel said. This system provides for organization of “vigilance commltt<s” In every community, equipped with rifle? and ready at all times to assemble and repel bank raiders. She said early shipment by Federal authorities of rifles re quested by the Association Is expected by officials. Following Indorsement of the proposal to organize vigilantes from Group Four of the Association, which Includes Indianapolis banks, bankers of many counties have scheduled organization meetings, Miss McDaniel stated. The bankers of Cass County will meet at Logansport, Ind., on Wednesday night and there will be a joint meeting with representatives from Jasper, Newton and Benton counties at Brook, where a recent hold-up occurred, later in the week. Arte Singleton, chairman of Group 4, said today further action by that body would await Instructions from State headquarters.

Up to Police Increased activity and vigilance on the part of local police officer* was seen by Governor Jackson today as the only means by which the present wave of bank banditry can be suppressed. "Uooal peace officers, although facing a difficult proposition, seemingly have been a little lax," the Governor said. A committee from the State Bankers Association recently discussed with the Governor the plans for forming a body of vigilantes, whose duty It would be to suppress bank banditry. The Governor said this plan might work out well if suffl dent cooperation could be established between local peace officers and the vigilantes. Governor Jackson said the cause of the present wave Is problematical. Fear of short-barreled shotguns (Turn to Page 11)

Forecast PARTLY cloudy and somewhat cooler tonight and Wednesday.

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SENDS WITNESS EXPENSE MONEY i . Shepherd Case Prosecutor Pushes Trial Preparation. Bv TTtnted Pre CHICAGO. 111., June 9.—Expense money today was ordered sent to Jerome Mattillo, Indianapolis, subpoenaed to testify In the trial of William D. Shepherd, former Indlanapolis man. on charges that he killed his millionaire ward, Billy McClintock, with typhoid germs. Mattillo Is an old acquaintance of Shepherd. Although the Jury Is not yet completed. State's Attorney Crowe’s action In ordering expense money sent witnessed Indicates he expects a full panel late today or tomorrow. Crowe today also Issued subpoenas on three banks for the accounts of Shapheprt In 1928. He will attempt to prove Shepherd and his wife wera “broke” before Billy's death and that they had lived on the bounty of the McClintocks. INQUEST BEGUN IN BOY’S OEATH Mother Tells of Finding Son Shot. A coroner’s Inquest was begun today into the death of William Holler Jr.. 9. son of William Roller, 85 W. Twenty-Ninth St. The boy, was found by his mother lying on the basement floor of the home recently, with a bullet wound in his head. He had been playing with his brother, Lawrence. 6, “Mother, Willie Is lying on the floor and he won’t talk to me.” the younger boy reported to the mother, she testified. Rushing to the basement she fojjnd her son dying. He was lying directly under the spot where the father had hung a .22caliber target pistol, which also was on the floor, with an empty shell in It. ' I-awrencn told Coroner Paul F. he did not touch the gun, and had never played with It. It is thought the gun fell from the holater and was discharged, perhaps when one of the boys reached for It. BALTZELL GOESOITviSIT Will be at Princeton, Ind., During G. A. R. Encampment. Federal Judge Robert C. Balt sell left Indianapolis today to visit Princeton, Ind., his former .home, while the forty-fifth annual encampment of the Q. A. R. Is In session. Judge Baltzell will return to the Federal bench Friday morning. BLIND TIGER ARRESTS Two alleged liquor merchants were slated today by police on charges of operating blind tigers. They were Herbert Basketrtlle, 27, of 1511 W. Washington St., and William Malone, 51, of 522 E. Miami Sk