Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1925 — Page 2

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SECRECY GRIPS NEXTSTRATEGY FOR STEPHENSON Defense Council Confers All Day—Decision Is Not Announced. Shrouded in an atmosphere of deep mystery the next move of the defense in the case of D. C. Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry, in jail at Noblesville on charges of murdering Miss Madge remained a secret of defense attorneys today. After an all-day conference Tuesday, Eph Inman, chief defense counsel, said that he had nothing to give out, and that in all probability no action would be taken today. Still in Jail Meantime the former dragon of the Indiana Ku-Klux Klan and his two aids remained in jail, with every . prospect of containuing their sojourn there until October at the earliest. Wiliam H. Remy, Marion County prosecutor, secure in his position following his decisive victory Monday when Judge Fred E. Hines of Hamilton Circuit Court ruled that the State had the right to name the order of trial of the defendants and then adjourned court until October, although not planning any movements of his own, was prepared at any time U> defend his advantageous position won in the past, two weeks. v Habeas Corpus? Inman refused to comment on the possible courses of action open to the defense. Among Indianapolis lawyers, it was considered probable that* habeas corpus proceedings might be resorted to in an effort to get the defendants out of jail pending re-opening of court. SEVEN SPEED CHARGES Two Motorists Alleged io Have Driven Recklessly. Seven drivers were charged with speeding and two with reckless driving by State and city police Tuesday night. Cliff Hart, 21, of 623 N. Capitol Ave.; George Kuhn. 20, of 2520 X. Sherman Dr.; Henry Dee. 30, colored, 1131 Boone St.; John Hornbright, 39, colored, 316 W. Michigan St.; Owen Fanhcer, 19. of 1401 King Ave., Were charged with speeding. Paul Moore, 19, of 2136 Station St.,- and William New Borrldt, 17, of 922 Division St., were charged With speeding and driving with open mufflers. .Raymond E. Phillips, 23, of Southport, Ind., and Joshua Middleton, 21, colored, 1143 Roache St., were charged with reckless driving. SANITARY BUDGET CUT Budget total for the board of sanitary commissioners will be $20,000 less for 192 G than the estimate for 1925, Russell TANARUS., Mac Fall, president of_ that body announced today.

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TWENTY-FOUR LESSONS IN PIANO PLAYING—TWELFTH LESSON: G SHARP MINOR

SECOND SERIES Copyright, 1920, by IV. Scott. Grove, Scranton, Fa. Lesson No. 12. The key of G Sharp Minor is the relative of the key of n Major and is somewhat, more difficult than hte lesson previously presented but can be mastered

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LIQUOR FORTUNE TO BE IN COURT judge Baltzell Sets Date for Libel Trial. About 1,500 cases, or $200,000 worth of genuine bottled in bond whisky, formerly belonging to George .Remus, “bootleg king." sto#ed in the basement of Federal Bldg., will be the object of a libel suit for its destruction at a hearing in Federal Court, July 22. Judge Robert C. Baltzell today set the trial date. The liquor was seized at the M. P. Squibbs bonded warehouse at Dawrenceburg, Ind., Jan. 11, 1923. Remus is now in the Atlanta, Ga., penitentiary, where he was sentenced after conviction in Federal Court at Cincinnti. Ohio, in 1922, Called to testify before a. Senate investigating committee, Remus said he paid Jesse Smith, former confidant of Harry M. Daugherty, $30.000 while at the Claypool, for Fed-, eral protection. TWO SUICIDES PROBED jin Time* Sfieial LOGANSPORT, Ind.. ( July B. Coroner was probing two suicides today. Silas Lowman, 78, took poison, after learning his wife was suing for divorce. W. E. Hagenbuck, 60, shot himself because he was out of work.

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with patience and practice. From this chord you may form accompaniments to melodies ill the key of G Sharp Minor. INSTItI CTION-rPlace chart upon the keyboard of piano or organ so that the small white letter I) with a dash above it, at the bottom of the chart, is directly over Hie key I> on the keyboard. The white nnd black spares will then correspond to the white and black keys. Each of the three horizontal series of letters represents a chord. Beginning witli the

ARREST FOLLOWS RAID Man Slated After Is Found at Home. Raymond Scott, 31, of 00l Wisconsin St., was under arrest today on a blind tiger charge. Police said they four fourteen quarts of beer and three gallons of wine in a raid op his home late Tuesday. Ray Davis, 28, of 1049 Oliver Ave., was charged with operating a blind tiger when police said, a small quantity of liquor was found in his possession. JUDGE COLLINS SENTENCES NINE Man Given Term for Shooting at Rival. Nine were sentenced today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins in Criminal Court. Chmarges and those sentenced were: Shooting with intent to kill, two to fourteen years in prison, Lopard Hamilton, 38, colored, 545 Bright St.; theft of S3O, one to fourteen yeans, Harry Northern, 22, burglary, one year, Harry McGee, colored, 703 Cincinnat St. Driving an automobile bought on payment plan out of State. SIOO and costs. John Simmons, colored, sent to the Indiana State Fam; entering a, house to commit a felony, two to 'fourteen years, Dan McGee ,49, colored. Auto theft, one to fourteen years, Cecil Hammond, 30, of 221614 Brookside Ave. Auto theft, one to fourteen years for Eugene Letheridge, 20, colored, and $25 and costs and six months on the Indiana State Farm for his accomplices, Alfred Brown and G. G. Stocks, both colored. CROWDED FROM ROAD Woman Seriously Cut When Auto Turns Over. Till Timm Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind., July S Mrs. Reed McCoy of Curtisville. Ind., is in the local hospital today suffering with many cuts about the face, some of which are serinfts. The automobile in which she and her husband were riding were crowded off the road near here Tuesday afternoon and their car turned over. She was cut by broken glass from the windshield. ENACT DOUBLE TRAGEDY Man Kills Wife and Self—Blames Her. llu United Prcun OMAHA, Neb., Julj r -S.—Lee Porter, produce merchant, shot and killed his wife early today and then committed suicide. He left a note saying; "My death be upon her head. The quarreling and fighting is too much. Goodby. No regrets.” Neighbors said the couple quarreled over their son’s sweetheart, who Is an amateur dancer.

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COUNTY SEEKS ROAD JAFETY May Try to Make Inter- '■ urban Cars Stop. Possibility of asking the public service commission for a ruling as to whether interurban cars can he require to stop at all main public roads was considered today at a safety conference of county officials. The meeting was caused by the increasing number of accidents at interurban crossings. "It s not the fault of the interurbans," said John Kitley, county commissioner. "The fault it with careless drivers.” "People don't believe in signs any more." said Tom Ellis, county road superintendent. ' Ellis said he favors building sharp elevations about fifty yards from crossings which will shake up the driver considerably. Officials said they would confer again soon. BONO SKIPPER BACK Alleged Check Forger Pleads Gui'ly, Then Changes. Edgar Surface. 35, of 14 Kansas St., who "skipped" SI,OOO bond in Criminal Court a year ago, was delivered to Criminal Court today by his bondsman, Meyer Caplan. Judge Collins set aside the bond forfeiture. Surface entered a plea of guilty to the old charge of check forging. Then Caplan related ho whis client hass forged his name to a $22.50 check since he got him out on bond. The judge reached for pencil and court stamp, and surface, noting his hostile countenance, hastily changed his plea to not guilty. He will be tried later. BARONESS IS KILLED' Falls From Seventh Floor of New York Hotel. Bu United Pres* NEW YORK, July B. —Seekng relief from oppressive heat early today, Baroness Helen Zuer Muehlen of Java fell from a seventh-story window of Ihe Rltz-Carltop Hotel and was instantly killed. The Baroness was formerly Helen Carruth-, ers of San Antonio, Texas. TWO YOUTHS DROWN SI. l/ouis in Grin of Singeing Heat Wave. Bil United Pres* RT. LOUIS, July 8. —Two youths, swimming to escape the heat, were drowned here Tuesday. The temperature remained about 90 throughout the day, and there was little relief through the night. Continued hot today was the forecast. SEWER GAS EXPLODES Police Investigate When Calls Arc Received Downtown. Persons in the vicinity of Market dnd Pennsylvania Sts., thought they were in the midst .of an attack by aerial bombs or sopie other modern warfare, Tuesday night*. Police investigating calls discovered that burning underground cables of the Merchants Heat and Light Company, had ignited sewer gas and the explosion had blown the tops off manhole % basin*. BURGLARS COME AGAIN Lunch Room Filtered Second Time N in Three Days. For the second time in three days, burglars entered the soft drink parlor and lunch room of Andy Zinkard. 2347 W. Tenth St., Tuesday night, according to report to police today. ■ A locksmith was called to determine whether the safe, which was tambpered with, was A dollar in cash, money from the pay telephone and $1.50 worth of cigarets were taken. Four dollars was stolen from the place Sunday night. ASK COMFORT STATIONS Nine for Parks and Boulevards Proposed in 1826 Budget. Building of nine comfort stations along boulevards and in city parks will be recommended by the board of park commissioners in its 1926 budget, R. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks, said today. Two would he located along Fall Creek Blvd. and others in Garfield, Military, Spades, Brookside, Jameson and F&th Parks, with one at Thirty-

(GROVE'S Ml SIC SIMPLIFIER)

upper row pla.v the white letter with the left hand and play the three black' letters with the right hand, making the first chord. Then, in the same way, play the note indicated in the second horizontal series, then those in the third and hack to the first, forming a complement of chords in the key of G Sharp Minor. Sf you will pla.v this chord over and over until you know It perfectly, remembering the letters as well as the keys, you should have no difficulty in

WANT ROAD TO SHARE Highway Body YVould Have Moaion Aid in Grade Improvement. Hearing on move of the State highway commission to compel the Monon Railroad to share equally the cost of anew grade separation at Putnamville was heard today before Clyde H. Jones, member of the public service commission. Briefs will be submitted and decision made by the service commission. HOOSIER BANKER DIES Kendallxille Man Once Headed State Association. Bis l nit id Pienx KEXDALLVILLE. Ind., July 8 A'braham Jacobs. 61. hanker, philanthropist nnd president of the Indiana Bankers Association a year ago, died here early today from an attack of acute indigestion. He was president of the Noble county hank and the Kendallville Trust and Savings Company. FISHING TACKLE LOOT The season's sport was ruined for T. R. YValdpn, 4120 College Ave., when thieves broke into his garage and stole fishing tackle and supplies valued at $154.50, according to police. *

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playlnc simpir accompaniment* to *ong* sung In the' key of G Sharp Minor. Patience anti practice combined will bring wonderful results In any endeavor and these two tiualltie* are the firm foundation in the mastery of a musical education. The avenue to the eaey understanding of modulation from one key to another Is opened, and the difficulties more easily surmounted by the knowledge obtained through the aid of Grove’s easy home lessons.

WESTERN JAPAN QUAKE-SHAKEN Terrified Natives Flee From Homes. Bu Unilei p-et* LONDON, July B. —All of western Japan was shaken by an earthquake which rumbled through Nagoya and centered In the Hlda Mountains, according to a Times Toklo dispatch today. Terrified inhabitants rushed from their houses and spent the night in the open. Many fissures in the earth were notfd, but no casualties were reported. Nagoya, is a city lying between Tokio and Osaka. SOUTHF7RN ITALY HIT Two Distinct Shocks F?H; No Damage Reported. Bu, United Prma ROME, July B. —Two earthquakes shook the Catania district today, but did no damage. The shock was mild in the vicinity of Mt. Etna, hut strong in the city of Catania and even stronger in Acl Reale, on the coast of the

livery teacher und advanced achalur In tntisln know*, or should know, that modulation cannot b understood without a thorough knowledge of chords thrlr Inversion* and triad*, with thrli* position*. Every triad in black letter is marked 1. 3, A. Al way s read it so, no matter in wh it vertical order the note* may he written. Note that the small letter I> with a dash above M ratal not hr played. NEXT l.FjsSON—Key of F Sharp Major, nig sharps, or six Hats.

province, while at Via Grande and Zefferana the tremors caused panic. Catania is in southern Italy and Mt. Etna, a volcano, is in the province. Two mild earthquakes were felt during the night at Civiadale, in the | Udine region, but no damage was 1 reported. Taranto reported that a six-sec-onds earthquake was felt and that its center was probably in the lonian Islands. In the Torotorlcl region, a violent rainstorm did damage estimated at 4.000,000 lire. YOUTH HELD TO JURY Charged With Stealing letter F'rom Box and Forging Name. Harold O. Jarvirt, 19, of 3738 Hawthorne Technical high school student, was held to the Federal grand jury today under a $2,500 bond, on a charge of stealing a letter, from a mail box at 3805 N. Delaware St. , He waived examination before United State Commissioner Howard S. Y’oting. Post Office inspector \V, C; Ela charged Jarvis .stole a check amounting to $149 from the letter and forped a name on it. Jarvis denied other thefts.

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DISCRIMINATION GHARGE DENIEII Gravel Men Won’t Meet Specifications, Said. In reply to charge of Marlon, County gravel pit owners that tht* county is discriminating against them in favor of crushed stone interests in specification* for roads to, he paved, Gounty Surveyor Georg* Schmidt today stated that all specifications allow either gravel or stone to be used. "Tlje trouble witli local gravol, men fsthnt they won't nv-et the specifications," he said. "They can if. they will, hut they won’t. 'They are shippinr gravel such as we demand to Illinois, but say they can’t get that grtiae out for homo use.’7 "The claim of the local gravelproducers as sot out in the rerenU hearings before the State tax boardthat Marlon Gounty* specifications for concrete result in much higher cost of pavement than is Justified, 1> an error,’’ Schmidt said. "The cost of gravel in pavement is 36 cents a square yard, while crushed stone Is .37.5 cents.