Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 57, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1925 — Page 13

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UNIFORM CITY TRAFFIC REGULATIONS URGED

LULL FOLLOWS LATEST MOTION OF STEPHENSON State and Defense Engage in Watchful Waiting Game. 4 Watchful waiting. This was the policy of both State and defense today in the case of D. C. Stephenson, Earl Gentry and Earl Klinck, in jail at Noblesville, on charges of murdering Miss Madge Oberholtzer of Indianapolis. Following the launching of anew drive by the defense Thursday when a motion for a retrial of the petition to admit the defendants to bail was filed in Hamilton Circuit Court by defense attorneys, inactivity again reigned. Interest on Wednesday Interest in the case centered in action of Judge Fred E. Hines when he holds n adjourned session of court Wednesday, Judge Hines formally adjourned court July 6, until the October term, just thirty seconds before Eph Inman, chief defense counsel, presented a motion for a change of judge. This motion Judge Hii.es refused to receive at that time. Later he ordered O. P. Mann, county clerk, to close the criminal docket until October. He then ordered an adjourned session of court for July 22 to consider certain specified matters. The case against Stephenson. Klinck and Gentry was not on the list. In view of this fact Judge Hines may refuse to rule on the motion filed or to hear argument at this time. Inman today said that at this time the defense coi.ld not make any statement as to any future steps in the case. Bail Denied After a four-day hearing during which time a number of the State’s most important witnesses were examined and the dying declaration of Miss Oberholtzer placed in evidence, Judge Hines denied the defendants bail, June 23. The-i followed a long series of legal jockeying, the defense attempting to bring Gentry or Klinck to trial ahead of Stephenson, and the State attempting to force the former grand dragon of the Indiana IClan to trial ahead of his co-de-fendants. The climax came July 6.’ when Judge Hines adjourned court.

POLICE CHIEFS BACK OH BEATS Four-Day Convention Ends With Banquet. Declaring Indianapolis treated them to “the best convention yet," police chiefs from Canada and the United State ended their four-day convention here Thursday night with a banquet at the Claypool. It was the thirty-second annual convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Mayor Shank was chief speaker. Chief Constable S. J. Dickson, Toronto, Canada, now president, also spoae. <"”'nief Herman Rikhoff, head of the entertainment committee, was presented with a diamond stick pin by Chief Dan O'Brien, San Francisco on behalf of the convention. Among the high lights of the convention was a resolution adopted declaring police should impartially enforce the liquor laws whether they personally like it or not. They laid the blame for most auto accidents and deaths on the speeder. muncTe doctor cited Physician Must Show Why License Should Not Be Revoked. Dr. Harry R. Spickerman of Muncie has been cited by the State medical board to appear at the next meeting, Aug. 28, to give reason why his license should not be revoked. Dr. Spickerman was recently convicted in Federal Court for violation of the narcotics act. The board Thursday deferred action against Dr. Charles E. Stone of Vincennes, charged with violating the medical practice act. CHILD’S BODY SOUGHT Bv United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., July 17. —Coast guards today renewed their efforts to recover the body of Harry Atwood, 5. who fell into the harbor in Lake Michigan and was drowned. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Atwood.

One-Horse Town , Tipton Told

BV Timet Special TIPTON, Ind., July 17.—City council has admitted Tipton was a “one-horso town.” It all came out when Police Chief Jesse Coleman said: “The water works has been digging up our streets.” “The water works hasn’t dug up a street in four years,” countered John Landan, manager of the water works, “because we haven’t a thing to push the pipes through.” • "Well, someone has been digging chuck boles, then,” said the chief.

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Heap Big Chief at Convention

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C. H. Newton

The largest police chief, attending the convention of International Association of Police Chiefs which closed Thursday was believed to be Chief C. H. Newton, of Winnipeg, Canada. Chief Newton has been with the Winnipeg department for twentysix years. He weighs 280 pounds.

Dairy Show Head in City

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Headquarters of the National Dairy Exposition, have been established in the Test Bldg., by W. E. Skinner, secretary and general manager of the exhibit. He will be in active charge of arrangements for the nineteenth annual dairy exposition at the Indiana State fairground, Oct. 10 to 17. seeksTife THIRD TIME Woman in Serious Condition at City Hospital. Mrs. Gertrude Johnson, 18, of 624 N. Capitol Ave., is in the city hospital today in a serious condition from the effects of poison police say was self-administered. Her husband told police it was the third time she had attempted to take her life. She said she did it because she was nervous, according to police. PUBLICITY FOR HOSPITAL Health Board Head Addresses Advertising 'Club Luncheon. Proper publicity and advertising to boost city hospital building program is needed to insure the backing of all citizens, said Sol Schloss, president of health, before the Advertising Club of Indianapolis at its Friday luncheon at the hospital. “Fully 90 perj cent of the complaints against city hospital are without foundation,’/ said Schloss.

“We’ve don 6 some digging, but we haven’t had any gravel to fill up the holes,” said Langan. Then a city councilman proposed that street and alley committee be authorized to buy a carload of gravel to fill up the holes. "You’ll have to hire someone to haul it, then,” said Coleman. “We’ve only got one horse, and one horse can’t haul much gravel.” ( City council was so shocked fidjournment immediately.

WOMAN CHAINED FOR TWO YEARS FREED BY RAID Paris Manufacturer and "Secretary’ Arrested for Torture Crime. Bit United Press PARIS, July 17. —Accused of keeping his wealthy wife chained up for two years in her chateau near Chatenay, Charles Soler; head of a Paris manufacturing company and a close friend of a former president of the republic, is under arrest together with his ‘■‘secretary,” Mile. Berthe De La Planque. The affair, which came to light as a result of citizens of Chatenay hearing faint cries coming from the tower room of the chateau, has given Paris society, in which both Soler and his wife were prominent, a scandal second to none. Emaciated • until she resembled a "living skeleton,” Mme. Soler surmived the imprisonment and still had strength enough to make heard her cry: "Help me! Help!—they are killing me—little by little.” Advised by an anonymous letter, Paris police went from Versailles in a surprise sally against the ancient chateau, burst in doors, sawed their way through bars and bolts and chains and freed Mme. Soler. The woman told them that her husband had forced her to sign a will in his favor and then had imprisoned her, to die. She had been fed occasionally upon a skimpy diet of milk and eggs. Mile. De La Planque had been brought from Paris ontensibly to act as Soler’s secretary, but actually, the police charge, as a guard for the prisoner. SEEK TO REMOVE SUIT Plaintiffs Want Auto Sales Damage Case in Federal Court. Petition for the removal of a $250,000 damage suit against the PaigeDetroit Motor Car Company of Detroit, Mich., and the Flint Motor Company, Flint, Mich., from Circuit Court to Federal Court was filed in Federal Court Thursday by the defendants. The plaintiffs, Lloyd W. and Joseph W. Newcomer, former sales agents, at 1108-12 N. Meridian St., claim the companions canceled their contracts. MRS. CULP IS "THROUGH’ Will Not Forgive “Pulpit Sheik” This Time. Bu United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 17. The Rev. Wilson Culp. South Bend’s eloping parson, has run away from his wife and nine children for the last time. Mrs. Culp, who forgave two previous elopements, said today there would be no reconciliation this time if the “pulpit sheik” came back with his missing sister-in-law. It is believed they have started for Mexico. Last spring Culp and the sister-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Culp, ran away together to dhicago, but returned and were forgiven by their spouses. Culp’s first elopement was with a choir singer in the congregation of his church at Spring Valley, Ohio.

THEY KEPT THE MELON Three Boys Escape But Traffic Officer Catches Fourth. Tony Caruso, 17, of 518 E. East St., is held today on charges of petit larceny, resisting an officer and vagrancy, after it was necessary for Trafficman Wray to fire several shots to halt Caruso Tuesday. Wray said he was at the home of his mother, 1502 Woodlawn Ave., when he saw Caruso and three other youths carrying a watermelon. The trio escaped with the melon. BUILDING BIDS OPENED Engineer’s Department Considers Cost of Community Structure. The city engineer’s department is considering bids on the construction of the new Anna Seegar memorial community building at Rhodius Park, received and opened at a meeting of the park board Thursday. Bids range between $41,000 and $35,981. Board voted to buy twelve airplane pictures of Indianapolis parks at a cost of $240 for park department and publicity purposes. * MEET~TO INDICT KNAPP Grand Jury Summoned for Action On ‘"Thrill Murder.” Bn United Press MINEOLA, N. Y., July 17.—With Philip Knox Knapp, army deserter and alleged “thrill murderer” variously reported as having been seen in North Carolina, Washington, D. C. t Indiana, Ohio, and crossing the Canadian border within the past tw’enty-four hours, a Nassau county grand jury was summond here today to indict him for the killing of Louis Panella. AUTO WRECKED, UNHURT Bv Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., July 17.—L. 11. Harman, contractor, was today he had a guardian angel. His auto by a freight train. The crew found him sitting on the seat of the auto unhutt.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1925

HERE ARE THREE H. O. P. JUDGES

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Left to Right—Lieut. Lewis Johnson, Coroner Paul F. Robinson and Frank Flanner.

Famous Trio Will Pick Winning Pedestrian Letters. By Ross H. Garrigus mOHN Q., E. Sixteenth St., would be the highest price writer in the world. He would compete for the sls prize offered by HOP for the best letter on “MY MOST HARROWING EXPERIENCE AS A PEDESTRIAN,” with this story: “AUTO—BIFF—OUCH." If he should win he would get—let’s see, three Into fifteen—why, he’d get $5 a word. • * • “Too easy; I work for my money. The winner of the HOP prize must wrte at least ten words,” said Lieut. Lewis Johnson, traffic chief, and one of the judges who will make the awa rd. “Nothing doing on three words. Auto —bisf—ouch packs a lot of meaning, but I want more adjectives,” said Frank Flanper, undertaker, another judge. Coroner Paul F. Robinson, the other judge, who investigates AFTERWARD, also frdwned on such terrible brevity. Meanwhile letters are pouring in to the Scrumptious Skip, secretary of the Harassed Order of Pedestrians. Asa reminder, three cash prizes

MARION BUS LINE BOUGHT Means Through Service to Ft. Wayne. Purchase of the equipment, franchise rights and station privileges of the Marion Motor Bus Corporation operating between Marion and Ft. Wayne by the Hoosier Stage Lines, Inc., waa announced today. Consideration was not given. Through parlor car service from Indianapolis to Ft. Wayne will be established via Anderson and Marion, Glenn Daelhousen, secretary, said. Formerly passengers were forced to change busses at Marion. Five daily trips each way will be made. Daelhousen said 51 per cent of the stock in the Ft. Wayne Bus Terminal Association had been purchased. Plans are under way to expand the terminal.

Victinh of Wife’s Revolver

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Allen Davis

Allen Davis, actor in “White On-go ” one of the best known current plays, was shot and seriously injured by his wife, known to Broadway as Edith Parker.

will be given to the three best letters, telling of exciting experiences In Indianapolis streets as a pedestrian. They are sls for the first prize, $lO for the second and $5 for the third. In addition, a roller skate accompanies the first award, a vaulting pole the second, and a sliding pad the third. THINK OF THE VALUE OF THESE PRIZES: FIFTEEN DOLLARS will buy baby a pair of shoes. TEN DOLLARS will buy a square meal in any cafeteria or will buy at least two tomatoes at city market. FIVE DOLLARS will buy a shampoo for a boyish bob. Letters must not be more than 200 words —the shorter the better. They must be addressed to the Indianapolis Times, care HOP. • • • m. D. CLIPPINGER, 809 Hume Mansur Bldg., believes in evolution. “Should I remain here long enough and cross Washington and Penn sylVanla Sts., I will be able to HOP farther than the happiest grass hopper that ever hopped.” But Clippinger is disqualified There’s too much evolution talk anyhow. Scrumptious Skip believes in Tennessee. Clippinger to win the prize will have to send in an experience. • • • But here’s an experience that happened to Mrs. Clara Arnello, 333 S. East St.

Gone But Not Forgotten

If you ife any automobiles bearing these license numbers, call the police or The Indianapolis Times. Main 3000. The owner may be able to do the same for you some time. Automobiles reported stolen by police belong to: Clarence G. Burford, 850 Sumner St., Ford, from Capitol Ave. and Ohio St. George Carter, 224 E. New York St., Ford, 13-230 from Vermont and Meridian Sts. Frank Ries, 3722 Central Ave., Nash, 465-184, from Ohio and Pennsylvania Sts. Phil Plunkett, 736 N. East StOverland, 539-999 from Virginia Ave., and Pennsylvania Sts. % Roy W. Morrison, 5648 Winthrop Ave.. Ford-, 569-917, from Liberty and Walnut Sts.

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reported found by police belong to: Fred C. White, 242 E. Minnesota St., Chevrolet, at Market and East Sts. Forrest B. Strothers, 215 W. Twenty-Eighth St., Ford, at 1220 Park Ave. Robert Buis. R. R. 2, Fillmore, In<b, Ford, at Troy Ave. and Shelby St. OIL PETITION COMPLETE State C. of C. Seeks Lower Freight Rates From Oklahoma. Petition to the interstate commerce commission for the application in Indiana of Chicago freight rates on petroleum products from the Tulsa (Okla.) field, has been completed, according to R. B. Coapstick, manager of the traffic department of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. Chicago, under the old rate, had a rate about 13% cents lower than the rate to Indianapolis. There is at present a difference of 5 cents to Indianapolis and 6 cents to Terre Haute, Ind. TWO WOMEN ARRESTED Operatives Say Both Were Engaged in Shoplifting. Mrs. Anna Rosenbalm, 21, of 1043 S. Harding St., is under arrest on a petit larceny charge, and her companion, 17, is held in the detention home on a similar charge- Operatives of Quigley-Hyland agency said they found the two women stealing hose and baby’s clothing from a downtown store. Both fought with the officers, It was said. ENDS LIFE WITH GAS Bv Times Special MARTINSVILLE. Ind., July 17. —Despondency over ill health was blamed today for the suicide of Julius. M. Rood. While Mrs. Rood was downtown, he put a tube in his mouth and turned on the gaa.

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“Some few days ago, while taking home some laundry, I wanted to stop to peek into a show window to look at the cheap sale in ladies' clothing. So in a hurry I started to beat it across the street when a Ford car went by me so fast I thought u gale of wind struck me and got cold all over. From now on, I sure will stand pat till I hear the signal blow,, even If I stand still on the spot till grass grows under my feet. Safety for me.” • * • Then there’s L F., 610 W. Twenty-First St. She writes. “After being asked to a dance I bought a gray crepe drees to wear. After arriving at the hall, It began to rain. When the dance was over, I surely thought HE would hire a taxi, but I had another thought coming. He walked me a block to the car line. My dress got all spotted. 1 got angry at him. When he asks me for a date, I tell him I have an engagement.” But listen, Lois, Sctump Skip is no MARTHA LEE. We’re running a pedestrian’s column. We’re for preventing legs instead of hearts. • • • Shoot your letters In. "I crave a workout,” said Lieutenant Johnson, one of the judges. “I’ve just got through with the policemen's convention. I’m all set to read the letters.”

SHUMAKER TO WATSON’S AID Anti-Saloon Head Defends Senator’s Statement. Although "considerably perturbed” at first glance at a dispatch from Washington, D. C., which more than hinted Senator James E. Watson, Indiana, might be making a bid for the wet vote in his 1926 campaign for re-election, the Rev. E. S. Shumaker today said he “doesn't believe it.” “To be fair to Senator Watson, his record in Congress on the prohibition question is in his favor,” said the Rev. Shumaker, author of the bone-dry law introduced in the 1925 Legislature by Representative Wright. "After ignoring the head lines and what the correspondent himself put in, I found the gist of Watson’s statement to be that the wets could win If they would imitate the methods employed by the AntiSaloon League, recognizing the superior political tactics of the league.”

Indianapolis Girls at Camp

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Left to Right—Miss Viola Ferre* and Miss Ludie Patterson

Miss Viola Ferree, 18 Bloomington St., and Miss Lucile Patterson, 1310 W. Market St., are among the forty Indianapolis girls enjoying an outing at the Indianapolis Boys Club, three miles northeast of Noblesville. They are the only girls who will be there during the two months* the camp will be open. But according to Will Wertz in charge of the camp, between 300 and 400

Park All Cars Curb-to-Curb, Fix Limit at Forty Minutes, Suggestion Reader Makes to Solve Problem —Other Ideas Given. Many letters have been sent to Scrumptious Skip of the Indianapolis Times’ Harassed Order of Pedestrians, sujfßestirp ways whereby downtown stress may be made safer for pedestrians.

Verne H. Earle, urges the pro hibiting of all right or left turns of any vehicle of street car on the three Important Washington St. corners, Pennsylvania, Meridlun and Illihois Sts. Common Needed “In reference to the pedestrian In Indianapolis, for safety sake, it is very important that they use a little common sense In crossing the street, which at the present time I can’t give them that credit,” his letter says. “Now for instance we will take Washington St. and reach Meridian. You have the signal to proceed and people are standing out in the middle of the street on both sides of you and you barely have a narrow lane to proceed. Then when you reach the west side of the intersection you encounter the same experience and as you drive a few feet farther west you are held up by the many cars that a i mparked in front of a well-known apartment store that take up almost to the car track, along with shoppers and pedestrians that cross the street continually to the department store across the street. Like a Picnic “Traffic control at Washington St., reminds me of a picnic with no one In a hurry, just stopping to look around. How far would these Hooisiers get with this on Fifth Ave., in New York or Michigan Ave., at Chicago? , “Going back to the tower system we had here on Washington St., which they declared a failure. Why was it a failure? Simply because It had a signal for the street cars and tied up traffic between the blocks. It's the same old story. The street car company had to have Its say. The tower would have been a success if street cars had been prohibited from left or right turns. Angle Parking "Then there is another important step to take, parking of cars on Washington St. Angle parking makes congestion and the time limit is too long. Where In a large city can you park an automobile for ninety minutes In the heart of the city? “My suggestions would be: “Prohibiting of right or left hand turns of all vehicles and street cars on Washington St. at Pennsylvania, | Meridian and Illinois Sts. Place slg- | nal light system back in operation [(green, amber and red), on new light standards at intersections on both sides of the street. Signals placed In the street are dangerous. Uniform Laws “Make our parking laws uniform. Instead of hour and a half here and a half-hour there and flat to the curb this place and angle here and head-in on the Circle, muke the parking limit forty minutes everywhere in the congested district and flat to the curb anywhere in the city. And by all means a clause that will read In parking there must be three feet space between all automobiles parked flat to the curb. “Washington St. with flat to the curb parking should have at least two lines of traffic and possjbly three lines moving at all times, and this would discourage the pedestrian from standing out In the street when they belong on the curb until the sign has changed. Indianapolis should have four mounted police in its congested district through the day and they should kepp check On the parked automobile and enforce the forty minutes and allow no car to stand in the street that is not properly parked. “My contention is that with a

boys will .be at the camp during the season. Many improvements have been made since last year, including a new bridge over Hinkle Creek which flows, through the grounds, a /radio house, a fennis court and a baseball diamond. The camp is supported by Invide vacations for boys and girls who otherwise would have none.

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’orty-mlnute parking limit there will he plenty of parking space for the motorist who now has to i>nrk from one to four blocks from the place he Is trying to reach to transart a few minutes of business. Too many people working downtown are taking the privilege of making the downtown streets a day time garage, and they In turn move thetr cars every hour and a half (sometimes) In order to keep the car so they may drive hack and forth from thetr home to their work. Let’s give Indianapolis a change that Is needed and one that will give It the appearance of a city and learn our automobile drivers to drive to the right and not. In the middle of the street, when there Is plenty of room to the right. And by all means let's get out of the single-file line, that haa the appearance of a funeral procession on Washington St. Bar All Street Cara J. P. Lucas, 806 Fairfield Ave., would keep all street cars off the streets in the main downtown section. “That Is the cause of all the congestion absolutely and It la simply unnecessary. Keep them off Washington St., between Delaware and Capitol and off Illinois between Maryland and Ohio Sts. Thia would speed up the street car service 25 to 35 per cent with less expense and It would do just what we want dene —eliminate the danger and congestion. Indianapolis Is getting to be the finest city in the wide world and we should forget about the 1 den that the street car has to pass right by the door. Yes and It would Immediately begin to spread the business district. The traffic problem Is only a small one If you take the slew moving street cars off the right downtown streets and 95 per cent of the people would like to see It. Other than this, I think It Is just a case of juu'plng from one traffic rule to another and getting nowhere to Improve It.” No Parking Maurice M. Kelfer, 1821 Nowland Ave., advocates no parking In the downtown district, unless someone stays in the auto. Frank McLaughlin is unalterably opposed to tunnels which ha* been proposed for downtown streets. “That would never do," his letter says. "Criminals would come to the city and operate In them. A bridge over the streets would he a great undertaking but everlastingly satisfactory and In time would develop Into upper sidewalks and the opening of doors Into business houses on the second floor. Moving Stairs ' Mrs. J. E. Isenhouer, of Zlonsvllle, Ind., proposes a bridge across the main corners with a running platform that will carry the people to the top. , "My plan would be to have a permanent bridge built over the trolley wires. Leading to this would be u rubber sheet, driven by power. Persons could step on this und be carried to the bridge. They could then walk over to the other side and go down." Ben Goldman is another who would prohibit autos and street care from turning on Washington Bt., between Illinois and Pennsylvania Sts.

DELAY CAUSED IN DRY SHIFT Morgan Fails to Learn Job Status. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON. July 17—Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews stated today that chances in prohibition enforcement personnel will not be made until after Aug. 1. the date originally set. Difficulties encountered In selecting the twenty-two divisional directors is cause for the delay, he said, for even if the men are picked by Aug. 1. they will not be ready to take over their Jobs on that date. Andrews has given no consideration to changing the present arrangement which makes on district of Indiana and Michigan with headquarters at Detroit. Andrews did not assure Bert Morgan, present Indiana director, who called on him yesterday that he would be retained, but neither did he tell him he would be dropped from the service. According to Andrews, Sensjtort Watson has not attempted to bring any pressure on him in the selection of Indiana's director. MANUFACTURER KILLED Seytnoui* Man Dies Under EngineCrew From Indianapolis. Bu Times Special SEYMOUR. Ind., July 17.—Deputy Coroner Walter Voss today investigated the death of Charles A. Hemmer, 40, secretary treasurer of the Seymour Woolen Mills, who was instantly killed late Thursday when struck by a Pennsylvania freight engine. Henimer walked In front of one freight locomotive and Into the path of another which was switching a string of cars. Michael Monahan and M. L. Reed, both of Indianapolis, were engineer and 11 re man. i