Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 29

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SCHOOL BUDGET PROPOSES BUY OF FIVE SITES Tentative Program Provides Relief in Acute Housing Shortage. COST PUT AT $140,000 Erection of Thirty-Two Classrooms Suggested. Appropriation of $140,000 for purchase of five sites for new grade school buildings and provision for erection of about thirty-two new class rooms will be included in the 1925-26 school budget, William H. Book, business director, indicated today. While the program is tentative, the board probably will endeavor to carry out the plan if It can be done in the face of other needed expenditures, Book said. The plan calls for purchase of twc sites on the north side, one on the west side, one east, and one northeast, Book said. Two Plans The new classrooms may be in three new buildings, or in additions to present buildings, it is said. Three new buildings' provided for under the 1924-25 budget will take care of only the normal increase in grade school children, about 1,200. These buildings will not be ready before September, 1926, it is thought. In order to relieve crowded conditions the board must keep on adding buildings. If the proposed new class rooms could be erected speedily, it would mean sixty new grade classrooms within aproximately a year and a half. Conferences Tuesday The special budget committe, composed of Book, Murray Dalman, Michael Madden and George Keiser, will begin conferences Tuesday with department heads relative to reducing preliminary requests, Book said, before turning the budget over to the finance committee, of which Charles L. Barry is chairman. Barry has said the budget may call for $7,479,000, but that figure was considered in February and at present is far excessive, Book believes. Book would not make an estimate on the total, as “there is still much pruning to be done," he said.

SUMNER GIVES APPEAL BOND Will Fight Contempt of Court Penalty. A SI,OOO appeal bond was provided by Poiice Captain Charles (Buck) Sumner when he appeared with William Bosson, his attorney, in Superior Court Four this morning before Judge Clinton H. Givan Sumner was fined $75 and costs Friday afternoon and sentenced to seven days in Marion County jail on a contempt of court charge. Sumner will appeal to the State Supreme Court. CAMP SHANK TO OPEN Formal Ceremony Will be Held at 3 p. m. Sunday. Addresses will be made by Mayor Shank, Emsley W. Johnson, Ben V. Young, exalted ruler of the Elks Lodge; Lieut. O. F. Hesler, commanding officer, 9th Regiment, Naval Reserve Force ,and Lieut. F. F. Knaehel, commanding officer of the camp.

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MINE RIOTING RESUMED Four Stores Looted and One Burned in Cape Breton Trouble. Kv I'nited Press HALIFAX, N. S., June 13.—Rioting was resumed during the night in the Cape Breton colliery districts, where thousands of miners are on strike. Four company stores were looted and one burned to the jTound early today. A report from Caledonia said strikers fired a company store w'hile the police were powerless. Goods valued at many thousands of dollars were stolen. DEATH EVIDENCE TO BE FOUGHT BYSTEPHENSON

Will Be Crux of Bail Fight -—Defense Wins in First Encounter. Around the dying statement of Miss Madge Oberholtzer will rage the legal battle to admit-to bail D. C. Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry, charged with her murder, before Judge Fred E. Hines in the Hamilton Circuit Court at Noblesvtlle, Tuesday. This became certain Friday when Eph Inman, chief defense counsel, filed a motion asking the State be compelled to produce this statement together with a page from the register of the Indiana Hotel of Hammond In court Tuesday. Inman's action followed victory of the defense in the first legal skirmish before Judge Hines. .Argue Four Hours After four hours of argument Judge Hines overruled the State’s motion to strike out petitions of the defense for the right to inspects the dying statement and hotel register page. He did not rule on the petitions, The page of the hotel register is believed to be of date of March 16, and is said to contain signatures of some of the defendants. According tcF the story Mis® Oberholtzer told her parents, she was kidnapped the night of March 15. placed on a sleeping car and attacked by Stephenson. The following morning, <she said she was taken to a hotel at Hammond, and s that after taking poison she was placed in an automobile, rushed back to Indianapolis, and kept prisoner until the following day In Stephenson’s garage in the rear of his home at 5434 University Ave. During this time sht said she was denied medical assistance and refused opportunity to obtain it for herself. Hofei Man Called H. A. Permiss, manager of the Indiana Hotel, will be subpoenaed for the hearing Tuesday by the defense. Others for whom subpoenaes already have been issued are Miss Oberholtzer's parents, her brother, Marshall; Osa Smith, Griffith Dean and Dr. John K. Kingsbury, her physician. All these were witnesses before the grand jury which returned the murder indictment.

‘LOVE COLONY’ INQUIRY OPENS Death of 50-Year-old Lothario Starts Move. Bu United Press HARVARD, 111., June 13.—A boxing match between an aged Lothario and his buxom 15-year-old common law bride, which ended in the death of the former, touay centered the eyes of police officials on “Heaven City,” an alleged “love colony" here. George Schofield, 60, said to have been a wealthy oil operator of Oklahoma City, and married, died of heart disease, according to a coroners jury. Nina Roundtree of Dabneys, W. Va., Schofield's mate, was exonerated. Nina, a spectator, jeered at her alleged lover’s poor showing In a boxing match and remarked she could beat him herself, police say. Nina put on the gloves and chased Schofield all over the place. Schofield suddenly collapsed and died within a few minutes. The affair with Nina started about four months ago, it was said. Nina said she was one of a desperately poor family of mountaineers, and it was decided that 3he advertise for a husband. Schofield answered and they decided to live together at "Heaven City,” Nina said. STONE RITES MONDAY Executive Council to Pick Successor to Union Head. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 13. Warren S. Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, who died yesterday after a brief illness, will be buried here Mon day. , Immediately after the funeral members of the executive council of the organization will meet to elect a temporary successor to their leader of twenty years. Upon the death of their chief, William B. Prenter, first vice president, became acting president of the brotherhood.

LOCAL MAN IS STATE WITNESS IN GERM CASE Jerome Matillo Says Shepherd Expected to Get McClintock Money. MAINTAINED LABORATORY Housemaid Tells About Mysterious Bottles in Home. Bu United Press CHICAGO, June 13.—William Darling Shepherd, formerly of Indianapolis, declared that he intended to “come out of this McClintock business with his pockets full,” Jerome Matillo, Indianapolis, brother-in-law of the defendant, testified in Criminal Court here today in the trial of Shepherd, who is charged with the murder of the millionaire youth, Billy McClintock. Shepherd maintained a complete chemical laboratory in his home for many years, Anna Beckford, a former maid in the Shepherd home, testified. Shepherd is charged with killing McClintock by giving him typhoid germs. Laboratory Was Secret “He kept 75 or 100 bottles of medicine locked up in a closet in his bedroom.” Miss Beckford told the jury. “He told me not to come into that room—it was secret. “Once I went in by mistake and he was holding a bottle over a glass flame and laughing as the medicine bubbled. “Once I caught cold and he gave me some medicine and I got deathly sick. I had to go to the hospital.” Will Is Read Through Miss Beckford’s testimony State's Attorney Crowe attempted to picture Shepherd in the role of an amatuer chemist,’ plotting to prepare a poison with which to murder his millionaire ward. It was another link in his chain of circumstances by which he hopes to proVe Shepherd guilty. Billy's will, giving SB,OOO a year to his fiancee, Miss Isabelle Pope and the balance to Shepherd was then read to the jury as a matter of record. Dr. Mante Rongettin, director of a medical school and hospital was the next witness. He said that Shepherd came to his institution about a year before Bill/ McClintc k’n death and discussed the possibility of taking a' course In bacteriology. Interested in Typhoid "Shepherd mtnifested particular interest in typhoid fever,” Dr. Rongetti testified. “He wanted to known how It was contracted. He also talked about tuberculosis.” Shepherd's attorneys attempted to attack the credibility of the witness by showing that he had been Indicted for obtaining money under false pretenses, but Judge Lynch stopped them and adjourned court until 10 a. m., Monday. REALTY FIRM FORMED Will Take Over Assets of Lafayette Building Company. Articles of incorporation for the Lafayette Realty Company, Indianapolis, were filed today with the secretary of State. The firm will take over assets of the Lafayette Building Company, now held by James W. Hunt as receiver, valued at $300,000. Incorporators and directors are Elmer W. Stout. C. Milton Kelly, Dick Miller, Soli Kiser and George B. Elliott. / COLLINS GIVES TERMS i Four Are Sentenced and Fined In Criminal Court. Convicted of second-degree burglary, Herbert Means, 20, today was sentenced to two to fourteen years in the Indiana State Reformatory by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. George Albert was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to sixty days on the InijAfina State Farm on a charge of deceiving stolen goods. William Featherstone received the same fine and sentence on a petit larceny charge. Roscoe Hash, convicted of automobile stealing, was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to thirty days on the State Farm. PHONE APPRAISER HIRED Service Commission Nances Realtor for Work. At a joint conference today of the public service commission and representatives of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, the commission announced employment of Giorge N. Montgomery, local realtor, to appraise real estate and improvements of the company. The Bell has hired Fred Dixon to cooperate with Montgomery. Montgomery will receive SBOO for his part of the task. Field wor kon the State-wide inventory of Bell property will be com pleted within two weeks and the real estate appraisal will begin at once. The commission expects to begin hearings on valuation of the Bell about July 15, in accordance with a Federal -Court order.

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Rain Aids Indiana Crops

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Trees blown against homes of Joseph Bevel and Oliver Wells, 1454-58 Brookside Ave., in tornado Friday.

Minor Tornado Strikes Parts of City as Forerunner of Relief. 6 a. m 66 10 a. m 68 7 a. m 67 11 a. m 69 8 a. m 68 12 (noon) .... 70 9 a. m 68 1 p. m 74 Indiana's prayers for rain were answered in part early today, when local showers fell over most Os the State. While rather widely scattered and not sufficient to break the drought of the last month and a half, crops were aided materially. Indianapolis' rain started at 3 a. m., and at noon a total of .32inch h fallen. It was the first substantial rain since May 24. Other places reported varied raih, the highest being 1.2 inch at Elliston, near Vincennes, and .98 inch at Evansville. The forecast is for clear weather by tonight. Temperature mounted in Indianapolis Friday afternoon, reaching 92 degrees at 1:50 p. m. With it came high winds, reaching thirty-eight miles an hour .velocity, at 3:30 p. m. Average is about twelve miles an hour. A miniature tornado descended on Brookside Ave., Friday afternoon. Tree on city property was hurled crashing on the homes of Joseph Bevel, 1454 Brookside Ave., and Oliver Wells, 1458 Brookside Ave. About SIOO damage was done. The wind also wrecked a window and damaged a soda fountain at the drugstore of \V. C. Stedfeldt, 4901 N. Pennsylvania St. J jss was S2OO. According to M. M. Justin, agricultural statistician, Indiana needs at least an inch of rain to break" the pronounced drought, and save crops. FOUR IJEAD 7n STORM Wind and Lightning Sweep Middle Western States. Bu United Prtss CHICAGO, June 13.—Terrific wind and electrical storms throughout wide sections of the Middle West were blamed today for four deaths and many injuries and hundreds of thousands of dollars damage to crops and telephone lines. In Wisconsin one person was killed by the storm. J Flood waters in Minnesota, resulting from the wind and rain, w-ere reported below the danger point today. but relief workers in the stricken areas declared damage to farms will total $50,000. Lightning killed one man near Ivanhoe. * Thursday bight’s storm in lowa cost at least two lives, it was reported today. The village of Alexander was half wiped out, fifteen residents being injured. Damage at that place alone was estimated at $150,000. ELECTION ARRESTS UP Judge Upholds Right of Detectives t-o Tote Guns. Members of horse thief detective associations are duly qualified peace officers and can carry guns, Judge Dan V. White ruled in city court today, when cases of fifty men arrested primary day. May 5, while distributing the famous “clothespin slate” were called for trial. The men claimed to be members of the association and were workers for John L. Duvall, successful candidate for the Republican mayoralty nomination. Forty-three cases were dismissed or defendants discharged. Seven cases were continued lentil Wednesday. j PICNICS STARTED The first of a series of picnics planned by the New York Store Welfare Association for members, their families and friends, was held Friday afternoon and evening at Broad Ripple Park.

CHINESE MOB ATTACKSJAPS AND ENGLISH Consulates Are Burned — Nipponese Marines Restore Order-Many Hurt. Bu United Perm SHANGHAI. June 13.—The British concession at Kiu Kiang on the Yangtse River was attacked by a mob today. The British and Japanese consulates were burned and other buildings wrecked. Many Japanese were injured by the mob. Japanese marines landed and restored order. CANTON FREED OF FOES Shells Drop in Native Quarter of Chinese City. HONG KONG. June 13.—Yunnanese troops driven out of Canton by a brilliant coup of the Cantonese forces are in full flight today. At their heels, the Cantonese are giving chase. Meantime, foreigners In the Shameen colony. Canton, are throwing up barricades, fearing possible further, trouble Foreign women and children are being taken to Hong Kong. During the bombardment "of the outer city, shells dropped in the native quarter, causing the local organizations to appeal to the consular body to arrange that there should he no fighting within tep miles of the city. No action was taken. BUfLERCLASS PAY OBSERVED Commencement Will Be Held Monday Morning. Senior Class day opened rfhe three day program for Butler University’s 1925 commencement exercises at 10 a. m. this morning in Butler College chapel. Miss Constance Forsyth read the history of the class of 1925; Irene Seuel, prophecy; Gene Colway, Class will, and George Schumaener gave the class poem. Sunday the Baccalaureate sermon will be preached in the college chapel by the Rev. Frederick Doyle Kershner, dean of the College of Religion. Invocation will be given by the Rev. W. L. Ewing, pastor of the Irvington Methodist Church. Benediction by the Rev. Oswald J. Grainger, of the College of Missions. Seventh annaul commencement exercises of Butler University win be held on the college campus Monday morning at 10 o’clock. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, will give the commencement address. TWO’SUSPECTSAREHELD < * Rrreets Made in Probe of-Galveston Bank Robbery. Bu T'nited Peru LOGANSPORT, Ind., June 13. Two alleged members of the bandit gang which robbed the State bank at Galveston a week ago were under arrest today. Charles Korbeck. 27, identified by Charles Gephart, cashier, as the "tall, good looking member” of the gang, was brought here from Calumet City, 111., and placed in jail. His brother, Joe Korbeck, Is in custody at Calumet City and has also been Identified, according to word received here. / i I

REAL SILK AIDS BUTLER tontribuies $15,000 for Building Fund of University. Officials of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills today authorized a contribution of $15,000 to the Butler University building fund, to be used as part payment for the new school of commerce building in the university site at Fairview Park. Prize of SIOO each year also will be awarded to the commerce student who w-rites the best essay on the subject of “Corporate Distribution.”

SUIT ATTACKS LEGALITY OF NEW BUS LAW Gilliom Says State Never Planned ‘Monopoly’ for Traction Lines. BULLETIN Judges Chamberlain and Miller took the bus case under advisement at 1:45 p. m. Constitutionality of the ninety-day clause of the hew motor bus regulation law was at issue today at a consolidated hearing before Judges Harry O. Chamberlin, of Circuit Court, and Sidney S. Miller of Superior Court Three, in Circuit Court today. Hearing was on a demurrer to injunction suits filed by .the Terre Haute; Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company against the public seryice commission to stop issuance of permits to operate under the clause to Hiner's Red Ball bus lines and the Joseph Gregg lines. Arthur L. Gilliom, attorney general, was the spear head of the State's drive to uphold the law. He based his argument on the broad basis that the traction company was attempting to restrict scientific development and progress In transportation. "The State never intended and could not under the Constitution enter into an agreement that would give a monopoly of transportation,” he declared. He argued that at the time the contract between the State and traction company was entered into the motor bus had not* been developed, and to uphold the company's contention would be to har transportation progress in the future both on land and In the air. FRANKFORTMAN NAMED Dr. C'arl \V. Sibbitt Appointed to Dental Board. Governor Jackson has appointed Dr. Carl W. Sibbitt of Frankfort as a member of the State board of dental examiners to succeed Dr. Scott W. Shields of Seymour, whose term expires June 22. Carl C. Heustis of Greencastle has been reappointed member of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Farm. Both appointments are for four years. , BLACKER IS BANKRUPT Chile Parlor Operator Files Voluntary Petition With Court. Dory O. Blacker, operator of Slacker’s chile parlor at 555 Massachusetts Ave., 46 W. Ohio St., and 134 S. Illinois St., today filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition In Federal Court. Debts are listed at $70,027.91 and assets at $46,669.81. Blacker owes $1,863.73 to his waiters and waitresses and other workmen, numbering sixty-two individuals, the p> tition showß.

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Board of Safety in Special Session Orders New Shift to Make More Men Available to Check Crime Wave. BANDITS TURN FROM BANKS TO ROB FILLING STATIONS Two Seize $275 in Dual Hold-Up, Flee in Attendant’s Auto With Two Girls—Hiring of Additional Patrolmen Regarded Doubtful. Police were put on twelve-hour shifts by the board, of safety today to provide more men for combating banditry. They have been working in three eight-hour shifts. The board met in special session to consider giving special protection to filling stations, such as has been provided for outlying banks. Armed men are guarding twenty-six banks. This followed the shifting of activity by bandits from banks to filling stations.

Friday night two young hold-up men took $275.50 in a daring robbery of two filling stations at Maple Rd. and Fall Creek Blvd. Declaring the city unable to provide special protection for filling stations the boaid announced the twelve hour shift move would make more men available to combat the crime wave in general. Too Many Stations Chief Herman F. Rikhoff cited there are 161 filling stations listed in the telephone directory and he can only use 159 men on patrol duty. The new shift will go in effect, at 7 p. m. tonight, according to orders posted by Chief Rikhoff. directed at men in the detective, traffic and uniform departn.ents. Two rolls are to be held each day. at 7 a. m and i p. m. All officers were ordered to see that their guns are in excellent condition and so carried they will be ready for instant use. The new order will result In mak ing 108 men available'for night patrol duty in addition to twelve men assigned to night riding squads. Six ty-two men were taken from the old shifts of 3 p. m. to 11 p. m. and from 7 p. m. to 3 a. m. Board members estimated the new shift would provide 65 more men on duty at a time. Rand td Quit Ernest L. Kingston, board president, ordered William T. Bailey, assistant city attorney, to cancel all engagements of the Police and Firemen’s Band until the crime wave is checked. Band was to play tonight and Sunday. Recommendation that filling station attendants be instructed by theij: companies to shoot to kill was made by board memhers. In discussion whether special police protection should be provided for filling stations. it was pointed out that oil companies were financially able t.o provide for their own guards and that more resistance to hold ups should be shown by the attendants. Harold Huber 19, of 4007 BroHd way, attendant at the Western Oil Refining Company station and Donald Brown. 27, of 523 E. Eleventh St., of the Standard Oil station were the men held-up at Maple Rd. and Fall Creek. The bandits escaped in Brown's car. Police were told the bandits picked up two girls a short distance away. Store Robbed Homer T. Hackett, 441 N. Oakland Ave., grocer at Forty-Sixth St. and Central Ave., told police he was held up by a lone bandit wearing a handkerchief mask. He said sl2 was taken. / A long distance call from Reynolds. Ind., staled that four men and two women, all resembling Gypsies, pulled across the road and stopped a car In which Iwo youths were riding. They took a small amount (Turn to Page 3)

LEGION STANDS WITH GOVERNOR State Department Not to Observe Defense Day. The State department of the American Legion Is not making preparations for observance of Defense Test Day, July 4, according to Frank H. Henley, State adjutant. The Legion is acting in accord with Governor Jackson's views on the subject, Henley said. “Th'e test day would not get the proper observance if held on July 4,” said Henley. Governor Jackson Friday wrote the war department the State did not have time to prepare for the event. National Legion officials have promised cooperation In oh serving the day. FLOOD C RASH Bu Times Bpecial SEYMOUR. Ind., June 13.—Miss Lillian Mercer of Brownsburg drpve her auto into a fire nlug rather than ■trike a boy Streets were flooded.

Forecast Generally fair tonight and Sunday; little change in temperature.

TWO CENTS

Bank Police on Job, Reporter Finds Feels Rather Nervous Even When Asking Change for Bill.

By .John L. Niblack “l\V7l HILE you ar '* out l!iat W *Y. IVv I -i U!,t 810,1 * n a I | and see if the cops are on duty," quoth the City Editor today. "Say, Ia lot of business in a bank this morning," I replied. "You know The Times doesn't pay off until noon, and I’m sure not going In a hank without a perfectly valid excuse In this day of bandits and sawed-off shotguns." After making the rounds of the office the City Ed armed me with a $5 bill. The first stop was at Sixteenth St. State Bank, which was robbed Thursday. • • • Assuming a care free and innocent look, I ambled into the bank. No cop was In sight. I made a mistake. "Haven’t you got. a policeman stationed here?” I asked. Asa diplomat I’d make a fine ditch-digger. Mitohelf, the cashier who smelled of a blue-steel revolver last Thursday, was the one 1 tackled. "Sure, there's a cop here," he replied, looking as If he was about to seize a revolver and police whistle. "Never mind, never mind, you remember me, don't you? I was out here Thursday and got the grewsome details," I quickly explained. After mollifying Mitchell, I "escaped." "Sure is a heck of an assignment," I thought. ”1 wish the City Editor had to do this himself.” • • * SHE next stop was at FortySecond Street State Bank. Here I got a change for the $5 bill. Looking around I found a 210-pound cop eyeing me suspiciously or so it seemed, from a hidden corner by the front window, even while he tenderly caressed his ugly weapon. it was a. relief to get out of fiat place. • * • At the hank at Thirtieth St. and Central Ave. the patrolman on the beat preceded me In the door. I put my hands in my pockets as I prepared to saunter In after him. I hastily removed them. It wouldn't be seemly to enter with one's hands appearing to grip a brace of hidden automatics. They might be patting a fellow in the face with a epade, because Mayor Shank or some other witty person Issued orders to shoot first and ask questions afterward. The limb of the law here was resting his "dogs" while he smoked a pipe behind the cage. He didn't miss a thing as I entered, hut settled hack to smoking his pipe after he saw get get a dollar’s worth of small change and start out. Whether he had a sawed-off shot gun up his sleeve I don’t know and I didn't ask. I don't crave to he a bandit, especially an unarmed one. •• • 4 Outside of regard for property rights of others, a hank bandit either must he ready to die or doesn’t have ordinary good sense to be fooling around banks, Is my conclusion. No wonder those boys who held up the bank Thursday were so* nervous that their hands shook. ATTORNEY NAMED Bu l nitrd Preen WASHINGTON. June 13.—President Coolldge today appointed Bertice Marvin Parmenter of Lawton, Okla., to be an aseietant attorney general of the-United Statea,