Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 55

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BOY SLAYER OF WRONGED GIRL IS GIVEN LIFE Youth, Unnerved by Girl’s Plea for Death, Kills Her With Tire Iron. HIDDEN FROM JAIL MOB Sentenced to Hard Labor for Rest of Life. By United Press WATERTOWN, S. D., July 15.--Imprisonment at hard labor for the remainder of his natural life was the sentence meted out in the circuit court here today to Winfred Meeks, 20, of Garden City, S. D., after he pleaded guilty tothe charge of murdering Byrle Healy, 17-year-old Garden City girl Sunday night. The youth was taken to the State Penitentiary at Sioux Falls, immediately. Fearing violence authorities rushed Meeks here for arraignment from the jail at Garden City, where a mob of 200 had gathered, after Meeks confessed his crime. A coroners jury viewed the charred body of the girl, while the county physician told of her unborn babe. “I killed her because she wanted me to,” Meeks wrote in a signed confession, according to Prosecuting Attorney Hanson. It was his second signed confession, in which he repudiated implication of Robert Depeel, a Crocker boy. Grilling Brings Confession Hours of grilling broke down the boy, not quite 21, and he sobbed out a story of love, folly, fear and tragedy. Pretty little Byrle Healy, 17, captivated him. She was one of four pretty daughters of a, highly respected Garden City family. They fell in love. Their love led them beyond the bonds of wisdom, and not long ago Byrle and William faced the first tragedy of their lives. Resolved not to bring disgrace upon her family, Byrle decided that death was sweeter than the life she faced. She pleaded with William to end it all. Last Sunday night William drove her into the country five miles north of here. They drove into a pasture near a straw stack that had been the scene of some of their folly. Uses Tire Iron ’aFther will kill you if you do not kill me,” Byrle told William, according to his story to the county attorney. Weeks said he was reluctant. Her pleading unnerved him, he said. In the confession Weeks signed, he said he finally struck her over the head with a tire iron. As she crumpled to the ground he wound her scarf tightly around her neck. Then he hid her body in the straw stack. Driving to Bradley, William took another girl to a picture show. After he had taken her home he drove back to the straw stack and touched a match to it, his alleged confession said.

WOMEN URGING WIDOW TO RUN Mrs. La Follette Asked to Make Race. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 15.—Women throughout the country are petitioning Mrs. Robert M. La Follette, widow of the late independent leader to herald anew era In women’s politics by taking her husband’s seat In the United States Senate and beginning a (irive for women’s legislation. So strong and widespread is the movement that Mra. La Flolette now is considering abandoning her decision to remain in seclusion for completion of her husband's memoirs. If she consents to run her chance for election is excellent. Her advent to the Senate would mark the first time that a woman has come to the Senate by authority of an election to take a hand in legislation. The National Woman’s Party, an organization of all women’s political groups, let leading the appeal. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m \ 70 10 a. m 82 7 a-, m, 73 11 a. m 82 8 a. m 78 12 (noon) .... 83 9 a, m...... 81 1 p. m

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By Ross H. Garrigus WHEN you run half a block to catch that College Ave., car home and are just about to make it and the traffic signal blows and eighteen autos nearly hit you— DON’T swear. Write down that

TEACHERS FILE INJUNCTION TO HALT MERGER Sue State and City Retirement Fund Trustees. Three Indianapolis school teachers today filed an injunction suit in Circuit Court to halt the merger of the Indianapolis teachers’ pension fund with the State pension fund, ordered Tuesday night by the city fund trustees. The suit, brought by Grace Duzan, Jane Draydon and Laura E. Hanna, makes the Indianapolis School Board, trustees of the Indianapolis Teachers’ Pension Fund and the Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement fund and John L. Duvall, county treasurer defendants. The suit would halt the transfer of assets of approximately $380,000, I together with books and records of the city fund to the State fund on the grounds that it is violation of contractural rights of those teachers not'requesting the transfer. Such transfer, the suit charges, will confiscate their property without due process of law. The suit was filed by Elias D. Salsbury of the Miller, Dailey & Thompson law firm. STATE ROADS INSPECTED Governor and Party Visit Nancy Hanks Memorial. Bii United. Frets FRENCH LICK, Ind„ July 15. State roads of the southwestern part of Indiana were under inspection today by Governor Jackson, members of the State highway commission and specially invited newspapermen. The party left here this morning, going to Jasper and Huntingburg wit hlunch at Ferdinand. Later the Governor and commission members inspected State Rds. 18 and 18 and went to the Nancy Hanks Memorial Park at Lincoln City, where they were met by a delegation of Evansville citizens. The night will be spent at Tell City. F ,x SCOTT FATE TODAY Pardon to Act on Stay of Execution Appeal. Bv United Press SPRINGFIELD. 111., July 15. Russell Scott. 32, once a millionaire and now under sentence of death for murder, may know before night whether he is to hang on July 17, or receive another stay of execution. While Scott paced his cell in Chicago, his aged father, Thomas W. Scott, and the condemned man’s wife, kept the vigil here. Petitions and testimony for clemency were placed before the board of pardons by the elder Scott, his daughter-in-law and others. The hearing ended late last night, with the board Indicating a decision would be made some time today. PUMP OWNERS WARNED Will Bo Arrested for Failure to Take Out Licenses. Garage and filling station owners who have failed to obtain licenses for gasoline pumps will be arrested, Joseph L. Hogue, city controllelr, announced today. Many delinquents are reported. Fee is $1 for registration and sls for each pump. MAYOR BRAVES CRAMP I Signs 385 Bonds to Pay for New Surgery Unit. Mayor Shank today braved writer’s cramps by signing 385 bonds of SI,OOO each, to pay for the new surgery unit to be constructed at city hospital. Sol Schloss, board of health president. hopes construction will be under way early this fall. CONFESSION IS ALLEGED Detectives Say Youths Admit Attempted Hold-Up. Detectives today said they had obtained confessions from William Dullen, 18. and Forst Helms, 19, both colored, of 2525 Sangster Ave., to an attempted hold-up of William Mohler, grocer. 1623 E. Thirtieth St., la:;t January. Mohler at the time resisted and the men fled.

experience and send it to the HOPS, care The Indianapolis Tiroes and maybe you'll get sls. And when you're crossing the street, a horse mistakes your new straw derby for a free lunch— DON'T swat the critter on the nose. Tell the HOPS .about it and get $lO in GOLD. And girls—the contest is open to the girls, too—when your sweetie makes you walk to a street car on a rainy night after a show or a dance and the taxis honk and almost run you down DON'T get mad at Sweetie, for you've had a harrowing experience for which the HOPS might pay $5. Yes, sir, or yes, mam, Scrumptious Skip—the same guy wno got pinched for jaywalking—announces that the Harassed Order of Pedestrians will give three cash prizes for the best letter on : “MY MOST HARROWING EXPERIENCE A A PEDESTRIAN " THE PRIZES ARE—FIRST, sls; SECOND, $lO, AND THIRD, $5. Hop also will award the three winners with prizes announced previously. In addition to the sls, the first winner will get a roller skate. The second winner will get a vaulting pole along with the $lO (Turn to Page 2)

JURY TO TRY MURDER CASE NOT SELECTED Soldier-Barber on Trial for Second Time in Criminal Court. Selection of a jury to try Louis Owens, formerly a barber at L. S. Ayres & Cos., charged with murder of George Robinson, fellow employe, Dec. 8, 1924, promised to take the entire day in Criminal Court. When court adjourned at noon more than twenty-five prospective jurymen had been examined by the defense, and twelve men had not been accepted. After this is done the State will take a hand in the examination. More Persons Ordered Special Judge Charles S. Wiltsie, appointed by Judge James A. Collins to hear the case, ordered Sheriff Omer Hawkins to summon twentyfive more persons for jury service, to report at the aftemon session. This is the second trial of the case. The first trial resulted in a deadlocked jury. Owens, a World War veteran with a splendid war record, has been in jail since his arrest, Dec. 8. Stabbed With Shears Owens otabbed Robinson with a pair of W&rber shears in the locker room of the Ayres’ store. Evidence at the first trial showed there had been ill feeling between the men for some time. The State attempted to prove Owens was quarrelsome and killed Robinson without provocation. Self-defense was the plea of the defense and Owens, testifying in his own behalf, said he used his shears only after Robinson, a larger man attacked him. motoristlFsentenced Given 15-I)ay Jail Term and Pine on Reckless Driving Charge, Roy Fleener, 22, of 1202 S. Harding St., was fined $25 and given a fifteen-day jail sentence by City Judge Dan V. White today, on a reckless driving charge. A $lO fine and ten-day jail term were suspended. On May 3, Fleener is said to have struck Mrs. Elizabeth Grant, 37, of R. R. P. Box 70 B, and her two daughters, age 8 and 4. Mrs. Grant died June 13 of heart trouble. FEDERAL COURT BUSIER Number of Criminal Cases Started in Year Increased. Total of 326 criminal cases were begun in Federal Court during the year ending July 1, compared to 215 begun in the previous year, according to report today of United States District Attorney Albert Ward. A larger number of liquor cases was said to be the cause of the increase. There were seventy-six pleas of guilty in liquor cases. Os forty-two jury trials there were thirty-seven convictions. During the previous year there were eighteen convictions. There were 264 criminal cases disposed of. Eighty-three civil cases were begun and of the total of 409 new civil and criminal cases 317 were disposed of.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1925

REMOVE JUDGES FROM POLITICS, CHIEFS DEMAND Life Appointment for All Urged by Speakers at Police Convention. CANADIAN WAY IS CITED Chicago Judiciary Flayed for Freeing Speeders. Following a warm discussion on politics justice, the thirtysecond annual convention of the International Association of- Police Chiefs today went on record as advocating all judges be appointed for life or during good behavior, at adequate salary. Judges in the United States, espe cially those of Chicago, were roundly scored by the chiefs in impromptu talks. Canadian Heard Chief Constable S. J. Dickson of Toronto, jCanada, first vice president of the body, said that in his country the police, have absolute charge of traffic, and judges are free from politics, being appointed for life. “It is my observation that the root of your trouble in the United Stales is politics interfering with the police force and judiciary,” he said. “In Canada, if anyone tried to approach the judge or policeman to ‘fix’ a case, his friend would only get double the ordinary penalty.’’ Friends at Court “Friends at court” who succeeded in having cases continued time after time until dismissed and fear of the (Turn to Page 9)

“Sheik” Haircuts Barred at Camp li a, HEIKS” haircuts have JS been banned at the tVt7 .1 Citizens Military Training Camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Lieut. Col. E. J. Nowland, commandant, today ordered youths with long locks to have them sheared In the military style—hair not longer than one and a half Inches from the head. At inspection Saturday the company with the fewest long haired members will be awarded a banner bearing the inscription. “Soldiers, Not Sheiks.”

LIFT TRAGEDY INQUIRY BEGUN Coroner Hears Testimony on Child’s Death. Inquiry into the death of Doris Parker, 3, daughter of Lieut, and Mrs. James E. Parker, 2049 N. Meridian St., killed in an elevator accident Monday in Fletcher Savings and Trust Company Bldg., was begun today by Coroner Paul F. Robinson. Alvin Summers, 909 Parker Ave., elevator operator, said he shut the outside door and started the elevator slowly. He said that the safety device was not closed because he had never received such orders. Simms Redwine, 3720 N. Pennsylvania St., the only other passenger on the elevator besides the girl and her mother, said the child ran to the elevator door and her head was caught between the elevator and the outside wall. Funeral services will be held at 5 p. m. today at the home of a friend, Mrs. Herbert A. Payne, 221 E. Fifteenth St. M’NAMARA TRIAL SET Blackmail Case to Be Heard July 27, Special Judge Announces. Trial of John J. McNamara, business agent for the Structural Iron Workers of America, indicted on a blackmail charge, following investigation of alleged vandalism at the new Elks Club, while it was under construction, was set today for July 27, by Special Judge Fred C. Gause, who will hear the case. Gause notified Prosecutor William H. Remy.

Boys Bow to Girls ’Rights

Bil Times Special KvTl ALDRON - Ind - Jul x 15 - — |\X/ Grim shadows of the law I | cast gloom today over Waldron's swimming hole —once shaded only by the sycamores. All-because women had asserted their rights. Boys, who for generations have frolicked in the pool in garb, wore bathing suits. They feared another descent of the town constable might land “Adam bathers” in the justice of peace court for public indeceny. Meanwhile all Waldron is

German Aristocracy Will Attend Fletcher Wedding

Kaiser’s Grandson to Be Guest at Nuptial Ceremonies. Bv Ur'ted Press ~~“1ERLIN, July 15. —German, D Swedish and English aristocraey will attend one of the most brilliant post-war weddings in Germany Aug. 15, when Miss Louisa Fletcher, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, Indianapolis, weds Count Bernard Gottfried Von SchmettowOne of the sons of the former crown prince, the Prince Royal of Sweden, and 500 guests, many'of them from the old nobility, will he Invited. The wedding, occurring on the count’s twenty-fourth birthday, will be In a small vine-cov-ered chapel on the -Sohmettow estate at Pommerzeig. • Miss Fletcher intends that the wedding shall be in American style, but her trousseau will be “made in Germany.” The count’s father, following a family tradition, will present the count and countess the estate of A’aleska Hos, which has passed always to the eldest son of the family when he married. After a honeymoon in Sweden, the count and countess will spend six months In America. MET COUNT AS NEIGHBOR Miss Fletcher \Yemt to New York to Study Art. Miss Fletcher had been studying art in New York for several months. She was chaperoned to Germany by Mrs. Jean Justice of New York and Berlin. While the guest of the Princess gchaumberg-Lippe, Miss Fletcher met the young nobleman, whose estates adjoin those of the princess. Miss Fletcher came into prominence in newspapers over the country a few years ago when she ran away from her summer home in Maine and was found working as a boy farmhand shortly after. Stoughton A. Fletcher announced here several days ago that he had given his consent to the wedding. Fletcher today said he would not attend the wedding. POISON PROVES FATAL Former Terre Haute Girl Dies After Taking Poison. Miss Jlary Carstensen, 17, of 98 Layman Ave., formerly of Terre Haute, Ind., who took poiaon July 8, according to police, died at city hospital today. The girl had lived in Indianapolis but a short time. It was said that she was to have been married June 29.

agog over the question of whether all boys shall wear bathing suits so the girls rnay go to the pool. Popular sentiment is with the boys. It will be settled Monday when Earl Aldridge and Norman Kanouse wdl be tried in justice of peace court for public indecency. The youths were arrested on orders of Miss Eunice McKay, Miss Irene Thurlow and Miss Klene Bailey, who went to the pool and found the boys had hung their clothes on a hickory limb.

Photo by Moorefleld, Inc. Miss Louisa Fletcher

Shank Boosted for Sawdust Trail fT"YIIP pockets of Herrin, Jr- 1 I 111., warriors, that forI* *1 merly carried “gats” now contain prayer books, Doc Waddell, who was associated with Evangelist Howard S. Williams, responsible for the town's conversion, according to press dispatchers, said today during a visit to Mayor Shank, an old friend. “Speaking of evangelists, Maj/r -Shank would make a wonder," Waddell declared. Shank opined that four years of service as mayor would scarcely serve as evangelistic training.

FORTUNE MOVED TO FT. WAYNE Truck Takes $33,000,000 Securities. Guarded by a contingent of heavily-armed State motor police, a consignment of negotiable securities valued at $33,000,000, was transferred today from the State Insurance department at the Statehouse to the First National Bank at Ft. Wayne, for deposit. The cargo was loaded into a large motor truck at 8 a. m. under the 'direction of Tnomas S. McMurrey, Jr., State insurance commissioner, and left immediately. The securities practically filled the truck. The transfer was kept secret until after the valuables arrived in Ft. Wayne. The securities represent dei>osits made by insurance companies as guaranties on unmatufed policies. A law passed by the 1925 legislature provided for depositing the securities in designated banks in various parts of the State. Those sent to Ft. Wayne represent policies in that portion of the State. FAMILY TRIES SUICIDE Mother Is Dead, Man and Two Children in Critical Condition. Bu United Press GORDON, Neb., July 15.—Mrs. Ed Newcomb, 44, is dead, her husband is in Rushvillel jail in a- straitjacket and their son. Edwin, 10. and daughter, Vera, 5, are in a serious condition, though expected to recover after the whol efamily hail taken strychnine in an effort to blot otu their troubles. • Two notes left by the mother explained a suicide pact. ELEVATOR IS DESTROYED Early Morning Fire Causes *20,000 Loss at l nion City. Bn Times Special UNION CITY, Ind.. July 15.—Fire early today destroyed the Union City Elevator with an estimated loss of $20,00(i. The building was empty. Origin is not known. TWO YOUTHS SOUGHT Two youths, about 20. who jumped from *a stolen car in front of 351 Ogden St., early today are being sought by police. The car, property of John Clayton, 631 Sanders St., o u taken from Debt ware and Markt. Sts., Tuesday night.

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Anti-Evolution Law Is Upheld and Teacher Required to-Stand Trial by Decision on Petition to Quash Indictment. RULING BIG VICTORY FOR STATE’S FORCES Statute Violates Neither Federal or Tennessee Constitutions, Judge Declares in Exhaustive Opinion on Charge. By William J. Losh United Press Staff Correspondent DAYTON. Term., July 15. Tennessee's anti-evolution law today was upheld and John T. Scopes, Davtou teacher under indictment for violating it, was required to stand trial by Judge John 11. Kaulston in Rhea county court by a 5,000-word decision overruling Scopes’ motion to quash his indictment. After the decision was read court was recessed until afternoon. “Ti e court ri pleased to over-rule the whole mot'on and require the defendant to plead further," said ihe Judge. 1 The decision was a big victory for the prosecution, localise in upholding the indictment the judge ruled that the Tennessee anti-evolution law was thoroughly constitutional, violating neither Tennesse nor Federal Constitutions. Defense Loses Each Point The judge then successively overruled contentions of the defense that the law was unconstitutional because the Legislature was required to cherish education, that It violates the right of free worship, freedom of speech, constitutional rules of legislative proeeedure, guarantees against seizure of property without I due process of law, and all the other charges by which the defense assailed the on the basis of the Tennessee constitution. "I fail to see how this act In any wise Interferes or the least restrains any person from worshipping God In the manner that best pleases him," said the Judge,’ "It gives no preference to any particular religion or mode of worship. Our public schools are not maintained as places to worship, hut, on the contrary.'were designed, instituted and maintained for the pbrpose of mental and moral development and discipline. Fanned by Policeman "I cannot conceive how the teachers' rights under this provision of the constitution would be violated by the act in Issue. There is no law in the State of Tennessee that undertakes to compel this defendant. or any other citizen, to accept employment In the public schools. I The relation between the teacher and his employer are purely contractual and if his conscience constrains him to tench the evolution theory he can find opportunities elsewhere.” AVhile liauston read his decision in the steaming court room, a police- I man stood \ over him fanning his j head. Raulston himself mopped his face steadily. Os the validity o\ the act under j the Federal Constitution, Raulston. I after citing the Oregon school law and Nebraska teacher law decisions by the United States Supreme Court, said: “Pleased io Overrule" ■ “The rule prevailing In Tennessee by which the courts are governed in passing upon the constitutionality of the statute and Is that every doubt must be solved so as to sustain It: and. whereas, it is subject to the two constructions, that which will sustain its constitutionality, must be adopted. "Under the holdings in the Oregon case and In the Nebraska case and in the Leeper Tennessee case, the court is satisfied that the act involved In the case at bar does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and is therefore pleased to overrule this ground." Judge Indignant Judge Raulston would have handed down his decision on the motion to qunsh yesterday except for the fact that one news agency sent a news dispatch representing that It had learned the judge had held the law and valid. When informed that certain newspapers were on streets with this dispatch. Judge KauHtnn indignantly deferred his decision until today, threatening the representative of the agency with proceedings for contempt of court and ap|>ointeri a com mittee to ascertain for him whether the dispatch was based on informa tlon properly or improperly obtained or whether It was Just a guess. Judge Raulston freely conceded that the agency had "the right to guess." but he said "it was a very serin uimtter” if tboV improperly obtained their alleg'd information with which (Turn to Page, 9)

Forecast FAIR tonight; Thursday partly cloudy and somewhat cooler by afternoon or night.

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SHANK AGREES TO ASK SALE OF CITY BARNS Plan to Remove Part of Mules and Equipment From South Side. VICTORY FOR COUNCIL Residents Are Divided Over Question. Councilmen in rebellion agalnat city administration registered a ivu" tial victory in their demands for Improvements on the south side today when Mayor Shank announced he would ask the Imard of works ho sell the city Ixunes at Shelby St. and Fountain Square. The board of works this afternoon authorized the resurfacing of State Ave., from Washington lo I’rospect Sts., another of the demands of councilmen. Shank’s decision ram# as a result of u conference with John F, Walk er, street cleaning superintendent, who recommended motor equipment and ten of (lie twenty-four mulen now at the barns lie distributed at other brunch Units un<l the new municliml garage. Fourteen mules and a small amount of equipment will lie placed in a rewl.v constructed garage that adjoins the Shelby Si. burns. Nc New Nile Shank, however, said that he %void(l never agree to Ihe purehas# of another site for the )tarns, as dr manded by a number of south side councilmen. "I'm going to ask tne hoard ti sell the barns to the highest bidder," Mayor Shunk said. ”1 hope the south side people won't have n nelghlxn more offensive than the barns'.’ A numzer of them have told me that Walker has kepi them thoroughly sanitary. As for the fourteen mule, left, they will never know they ate there. Hesldents near Fountain Square are divided on the proposal to move the barns to the La voile Foundry Bldg., on Palmer SI., east of Mad Ison Ave., but the majority favor removal, n checkup showed. Mrs. Elizabeth Atkinson, matron, 962 Lexington Ave., said she would like to see th barns removed for the (Turn to Pnge 2) ■CLEANERS'OVERWORKED City Department Snowed I mjer After Hi -rent Storm. “Have a heart!" This was the appeal of John F. Walker, street cleaning superintendent, today to the public. Walker said lie had received more complaints during the last twentyI four hours as a result of storm damage than during Ihe three vein t I and six months he has served. Street cleaners are working night and day to repair damages anil have hauled away more than Ktw loads of debris, he said Walker hopes to finish his task Saturday. CITY LEVY FACES 28-CENT BOOS? Budgets, However, Face Pruning Spree. If recommendations of city administration department heads at# realized, /in the city tax levy f-v 1926, will lie increased 28 cents, Mayor Shank announced today following a conference with Joseph L. Hogue, city controller. Hogue produced the estimate based on budgets submitted by departments to date. A number have not been tendered. Mayor Shank Indicated a voguo of pruning, for the budget will he scanned by Hogue. Shank, John L. Duvall. Republican nominee for mayor, again by Shank, and finally by city council.

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It is easier to keep a wedding quiet, than a bride.