Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 79

BARE CRIMINAL DOPE SYNDICA TE

Department of Justice Report Shows 80 Per Cent Indianapolis Crime Is Committed by Drug Addicts. GANG CONTROLLED BY SIXTY LEADERS Hundreds of Narcotic Fiends Slaves to Heads of Ring Operating Here and at St. Louis, Cincinnati and Minneapolis. Coovriaht, /OSS. bu United Brest CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—Details 'of a mid-west crime monopoly, enslaving hundreds of addicts through its control of the illicit traffic in narcotics, have been mailed to the Department of Justice in Washington by its agents here, the United Press learned today. The reports, compiled after weeks of investigation here and in other big cities—resulting in numerous secret confessions —reveal how the leaders of the trust have gained a strangle hold on “crime for profit” in the Middle West. According to reports to the justice department, 80 per cent of ihe criminals in Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Cincinnati are narcotic addicts. They work for the sixty leaders of the monopoly as hirelings, each “job” being paid for with a stipulated amount of money and “dope.” After the robbers and the leaders have taken their. “profits” the remainder of the spoils goes into a

Addicts Driven Desperate Bv United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—Scores of narcotic addicts, driven to desperation by the Federal cleanup here Which has cut. off their supply of “doper. 1 ’ swarmed the Chicago Internal Revenue office today. C. L. Converse, special agent of the internal revenue department, announced all sick addicts will be given treatment if they applied to his office for aid. They took advantage of the offer in droves. Federal official say this week’s raids have increased the price of dope from $35 to SIOO an ounce.

general treasury. From this fund come the high bonds raised so mysteriously by apparently destitute criminals, bribes and attorneys’ fees. Hundreds in Ranks Hundreds of addicts, slave to any master who will guarantee them a steady supply of "dope” are in the ranks of the "Big Sixty” leaders, the reports declare. Again confirming an old police theory, the present expose was made possible through the trapping of a i woman. A week ago pretty JKitty Gilhooley was arrested in her elaborate apart--1 ment as a "dope queen." Nearly | SIOO,OOO worth of narcotics and an ; equal amount of stolen jewels and ; other valuables were found in her i possession. i Kitty was arrest'ed before dawn. Detectives hastened her to the police station through a rear door, leaving 1 two of their number in the apartto “wait on callers.” Four Are Caught “ What those -who stayed behind learned was that scores of narcotic addicts were employed by the beautiful Kitty as pickpockets, thugs and hold-up men. Practically all brought Kitty the proceeds of their crime. In exchange she gave them “dope." From this * point on detectives raced rapidly from lead to lead. Today Col. Will Gray Beach, head of the government’s anti-narcotic force in Chicago and widely known as a lecturer before women’s clubs on the "dope” evil, and three of his aides are under arrest as leaders in the crime trust. Thousands of dollars worth of stolen property in the Colonel’s suite is being traced back to those from whom it was stolen.

Nine Boys and Girls to Win Cash Prizes ■ _ J OULDN’T you feel lucky with a $lO bill in your pocket at a picnic? . TT Some Indianapolis boy or girl is going to have that $lO given to him or her at Spades Park, Aug. 22, when the Hoosidr Post 624. Veterans of Foreign Wars, hold their lawn fete. Another boy or girl will have $5; another $3: five will each receive $2, and another one will get a special $2 prize for neatness. The way to be among the lucky nine is to write an essay, r.ot more than 200 words long, on “The Future of Indianapolis,” and mail it to The Times Essay Editor before midnight of Aug. 18. There will be nine cash prizes listed above. Two hundred words aren’t very many. There are almost that many words in this announcement. Write on only one side of •the paper. Any boy or girl under 18 years of age may compete. Several essays have been received from children 10 or 11 years of age, and they’re good ones. Let’s see yours. \ ...

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SLASH OF TWO CENTS MADE IN CITY TAX LEVY Mayor and Controller Use Shears Again on 1926 Budget. PRUNE ELEVATION FUND Plan Body Gets Appropriation of One Cent. Taking up the scythes they laid aside several days ago, Mayor Shank and Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, today cut appropriations for four departments in the 1926 budget and succeeded in reducing the levy to $1.0625. Reductions made today totaled 2 cents. The levy for 1925 was $1,055, only three-fourths of a cent lower than the 1926 rate. “Positively the last whack,” said Hogue. The budget now calls for the expenditure of $6,956,250. Elevation Fund Suffers The track elevation fund suffered greatest from the onslaught despite the fact that start oJ the $20,000,000 program of which taxpayers must pay $10,000,000 has just been determined for this year. Ihe levy was cut from 3 to 2 cents. Frank C. Lingenfelter, city engineer, asserted that the future of elevation is endangered by the move. The flood prevention lev;/- was reduced from 2 cents to IYi cents in the face of instructions by the board of works Wednesday to engineers to draft plans for the prevention project from Morris to Raymond Sts. The street resurfacing fund was clipped from 2% to 2 cents and the general fund from 58 to 57% cents. “We found we'd receive $120,000 instead of SBI,OOO we first counted upon from the gasoline tax," Mayor Shank said in explaining the slicing of the general fund. For Plan Commission ShAnk was surrounded by four belligerent members of the city plan conffritesion today and yielded to their demand for a levy of 1 cent to be used in the thoroughfare plan fund. The planners told Shank they needed the money to straighten the jog at Sixteenth and Illinois Sts., a short distance from the Shank Fireproof Storage Company’s warehouse on N. Illinois St. Following increases are shown in the budget for 1926 over 1925: Park, general, from 7 to 8 cents: park district bond fund, from 4% to 5% cents; track elevation, from % to 2 cents; flood prevention, from 1 cent to 1% cents.

COUNTY LOAN MEETS DELAY Commissioners Withhold Action on Bid. County commissioners today withheld action on awarding a bid for a temporary loan of SIOO,OOO which would provide for the five additional courtrooms at the courthouse and repairs at the county infirmary. J. F. Wild & Cos. bank offered the only bid which called for an annual interest of 4 H per cent. Commissioners said they would not act until Charles Remster, their attorney, had advised them. Bond issue provides for $50,000 for the courthouse: $17,000 repairs at the infirmary; $2,500 for Julietta, county insane asylum, repairs; $3,366.75 increase Juvenile Court salaries; $8,830 increased salaries county treasurer’s office; $3,000 for maintenance commissioners’ automobiles. UNITED COUN'Y PICNIC Residents of Jackson, Jennings and Scott to Have Outing. Brookside Park will be the scene Sunday of the annual reunion of residents and former residents of Jackson, Jennnings and Scott Counties. An interesting program and musical numbers have been arranged. John R. Williams is president and Dr. James R. Anthony, secretary and treasurer.

Miss Fletcher Denies Her Engagement Is Broken Halo of Mystery Hangs Over Status of Relations, However.

Coovriaht, 1925, bv United Press ERLIN, Aug. 13.—With her wedding scheduled for today postponed. Miss Louisa Fletcher, daughter of Stoughton Fletcher, former Indianapolis banker, branded as false reports there had been cancellation of her engagement to the youthful Count Von Schmettow. Previously she had announced that the wedding was postponed due to German red tape. She had to file a birth certificate to obtain a ma'xiage license and this had been done tardily, she said. Meantime certain occurrences lent an air of mystery to the situation. Miss Fletcher conferred here with Count Von Schmettow Sr., at length Tuesday, while her fiance was admittedly absent in Sweden. Subsequently the United Press inquired at Pommerzig, where the wedding was to be observed today on the Von Schmetto westate, but was unable to talk with the elder Count though it was established that he was at home. His secretary, who, however, can not be taken as an authority, snapped over the telephone: “There won’t be any wedding.” Subsequently he tried to mitigate this blunt statement. Miss Fletcher is being chaperoned in Germany by Mrs. Jean Judson, widow of a former New York newspaper man and representative of a German shipping line. At the time of her engagement to the German nobleman it was said that the father of the young count would present him with a fine estate which had passed always from father to oldest son for generations. Miss Fletcher had made her plans for the wedding along American lines, but announced that she would have a trousseau “made in Germany.” NOW BOTH ARE WISER Wisdom and Love Collide, But No One Is Hurt. Wisdom, perhaps on a mission of love, and Love, driving with perhaps insufficient wisdom collided Wednesday night in the 500 block on Indiana Ave. An automobile d-ivem by Gurden Wisdom, colored, 1415 Massachusetts Ave., collided with a taxi driven by Raymond Love, colored, 751 W. Walnut St. Both machines were damaged. No arrests were made. TAKE BOY TO CINCINNATI Deserted Child Identified; Police Look for Couple. Jackie Loomis, 3, is back in the Cincinnati Juvenile Home today. He was taken to the home Wednesday by Miss Ethel Rugg, superintendent, who identified him as the lad who had been taken from the home by his mother, Mrs. H. C. Jones, alias Essie Loomis. The lad was desetted Sunday by his mother and stepfather at Capitol Ave. and Washington St. Police are-attempting to locate the couple. DIES OF BULLET WOUND Police Say Woman Shot Herself— Man Charged by Police. Mrs. Louis Moses, 35. died at the city hospital today from a self-in Aided bullet wound, police say. Mrs. Moses was found Tuesday night at the home of John F. Rosenfield, 69, R. R. A, Box 543, where she told police she had been living for several weeks. After reading a note to her daughter, police charged Rosenfleld with contributing to child neglect. Coroner Paul F. Robinson investigated. CLEAR SKIES COMING Weather Bureau Reports Lower Temperature Tonight. Indianapolis is due to have geneially fair weather tonight and Friday, with lower temperature tonight, the United States Weather Bureau predicted today. Rain which fell Wednesday and Wednesday night totalled .73 inch. Temperature at 7 a. m. was 72 or about 3 degrees above normal. Rains were general over the State, Terre Haute reporting 2.22 inches, Bloomington 1.97 inches, and Martinsville 1.72 inches. RADIO TEST SUCCESS Eskimo Quart et Entertains Chicago Audience. Bn United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—An Eskimo quartet singing folk songs within 11 degrees of the north pole entertained a little group of radio en? thusiasts at the Arlington Heights radio experiment station, 9-XN, here last night. Loud and clear, the music came through the air and listeners declared the test a success. The music was broadcast from the deck of the ship- Peary of the MacMillan Arctic expedition. E. F. McDonald, president of the Zenith Radio Company, and second in command, acted as announcer. “I wish to introduce the following Eskimos, who will sing for you: In-You-Geetook, Kaue&h, Nuk-Aping-Wa and Ak-Komo-Ing-Wa.” McDonald said.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUG. 13, 1925

LOUISVILLE BOOSTED BY FOUNDATION Cooperative Corporation Has Brought Fifty-Four Industries to City in Past Nine Years Formed by Sale of Stock. PULLED CITY OUT OF SLUMP IN INDUSTRY Fifteen Business Men on Board of Directors, Together With Secretary, Manage Fund —Aided by Board of Trade. By John L. Niblack Times Staf 4 Correspondent LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 13. —Business men of Louisville, Ky., have an unique system, second to none, of handling the industrial future of their city. Nine years ago they incorporated the Louisville Industrial Foundation, to do in Louisville what Indianapolis civic leaders are now seeking a way to do in Indianapolis—establish a fund to bring new industries Into the city. A revolving fund of $873,306 was secured through stock subscriptions to promote the industrial development of Louisville and vicinity. In its nine years of existence the Foundation has brought fifty-four Industries to Louisville. These plants employ 4,764 men, and have an average annual pay roll of $4,865,000. Loans to Industries Assistance to worthy industries wishing to locate in the city is given by loans, not to exceed SIOO,OOO and for not longer than ten years, secured by first mortgages. Frank B. Ayres, full time secretary and manager, and a board of fifteen directors, composed of the best business ipen in Louisville, manage the fund. Secretary Ayres explained to The Times correspondent the system which brought Louisville out of an industrial slump that prevailed in the city from 1912-1916. “The thing started when C. M. Phillips, secretary of the Louisville Title Company, said his company would give SI,OOO a year for five years toward a fund to help bring factories here," said Ayres. “Phillips sad the company would donate the money to such a cause instead of spending that much annually on calendars, pocketbooks, etc. “The Board of Trade took up the plan and advanced funds to finance a campaign. R. S. Hughes, a wealthy business man. was made general chairman. That was in 1916. Stock Sold “ Jnder tho plan worked out. LI2S sol citers took the field, and in four days obtained 3,118 subscribers to stock in the new corporation, the (Turn to Page 5) TO RETURN PRISONERS Detectives Go to Kentucky; Arrested in Car Thought Stolen. Detectives left today for Paducah. Ky., to return Robert Dean, alias Davis, 35; Harry Dean, 27; Thomas Gaithwright, 35, and Mrs. Leona Gaithwright, alias Bittle, arrested there in an auto bearing the license of Elmer McCormack, 3943 Fairview Ave. The auto was stolen on Aug. 4. A wire from Chicago, 111., said that Nathan James and George Ruhman were under arrest there as fugitives from here. They had an auto owned by Lawrence Young, 1221 E. Market St.

FLAPPER FANNY sqyrce

Three ills in the life of the modern flapper are thrills, frills and stills.

Orphans Have Good Time as Elks’ Guests at Park

Orphan guests of Elks on the caterpillar at Riverside Park

Almost 600 happy orphan children of Indianapolis institutions had a big day Wednesday when the B. P. O. E., Lodge 13. acted as “Daddies” to the kids and gave them a good time.

SENSATIONAL SCOTT DIVORCE DUEL ENDS

Volstead’s Daughter on Trip With Scott, Evidence Discloses. By Clark B. Kelsey United Press Staff Correspondent ALPENA, Mich., Aug. 13.—Presentation of testimony in the Scott divorce trial ended today and a recess was taken to allow counsel for both sides to prepare their final arguments. Mrs. Edna James Scott, wife of Congressman Frank D. Scott, of Michigan, was the last witness. She made a denial of all charges of misbehavior made by her husband, who is seeking a divorce. Mrs. Scott denied indiscetione with Gilbert Benslnger. In a Washington hotel, which were ascribed to her by Fred Sikes, a hotel detective. “Never Got 'Half Shot’.’* “I met Mr. Bensinger and found him to be a perfect gentleman.” she said. “I never eat on Besirger’s knee nor cuddled up to him. Neither of us were ever drunk or ‘half shot’ as Sikes deposed.” Mrs. Scott followed her husband on the stand. Testifying in his own defense on Mrs. Scott’s cross bill, alleging he drank heavily, Scott emphatically denied that there were riotious liquor and gambling parties on the United States transport when members of the 1921 Congress took a Junket into Southern waters at Government expense. Denies He’s Spoi-t “There was no drinking or gambling on the Crystobal,” Scott said in answer put to him by Mrs. Scott’s attorney. Ward Peck. “Also we did not keep a great quantity of liquor in our home as alleged.” Laura. Vole read, daughter of the author of the dry law, was present at parties on the Crystobal, Scott said. “I never saw Miss Volstead take a drink,” he testified. "Neither have I ever seen Representative Volstead take a drink. Miss Voltsead was on the boat on the trip, but her father was not.”

FAMILY NEARLY EXTERMINATED Woman Kills Husband and Wounds Two Children. B v I'nltrd Prrt* BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 13.—Mrs. May Eva Curtiss, 43, shot and killed her husband George, probably mortally wounded their son, George, Jr., and their daughter Marjorie, 17, and then committed suicide early today. A second daughter Dorothy, 18. owes her life to the fact that she delayed in answering a summons from her mother to “come down quick.” Reports of the fatal shots frightened Dorothy into remaining upstairs. John Curtiss, 21, a son member of the marine corps stationed at the naval flying field, Lakehurst, N. J., was not home. Mrs. Curtiss is believed to have become suddenly crazed. She wounded the two children and killed her husband while they slept. A

Fr-se rides, games agid contests at Riverside Park and free lunches at noon followed a Tom Mix show at the Circle Theater Wednesday morning.

WOMAN FOUND DEAD Husband Says Mrs. Viola Cripe Suffered From Heart Trouble. Mr3. Viola Cripe, 3341 E. Michigan St., was found dead today at home by her husband. Artenus Cripe. According to Cripe. his wife was up .when he arrived home this morning and’prepared breakfast. Then he went to bed. . He said he arose two hours later and discovered Mrs. Cripe lying across her bed dead. He said she had been suffering from heart trouble. OFFICER FIRES SHOTS Driver of Truck Called Police—Did Not Know Patrolman. C. F Faust, 143 E. Raymond Stcalled the police late Wednesday and said someone had shot at his Model Laundry truck, at Massachusetts Ave. and East St. He drove to Delaware St. to make the call. Police found Patrolman Harry Hays, who said the truck struck his auto and kept on going, causing him to fire one shot. Faust said he did not know any damage had been done agid did not know Hays was an officer.’

WOUNDED MAN FOUND ON LAWN Taken to Hospital in Serious Condition. Charles Lindemann, 29, of 414 N. State Ave., was taken to St. Vincent's hospital in a serious condition early today after he was found lying On the lawn of a home at 310 N. State Ave.. with a bullet wound in the left side. Lindemann escaped from the psychopathic ward at city hospital Monday night where he had been held for observation. He visited hts home but escaped from there with a 22 calibre rifle. Later police were told he was at the door of a home on E Market St. He ran when a woman in the house shot into the air. No one noticed him today until he moaned out to some neighbors that he was shot. Police found the gun with which it is believed he shot himself in a vacant house at 401 N. State Ave. Lindemann was a candidate for Center Township trustee two years ago. COUNTY FIGURES 0. K. Tax Board Commissioners Approve Assessment Submitted by Dunn. Members of the State tax board today approved figures for the 1925 assessment of Indianapolis and Marion County without change. The figures which raise the assessment $16,745.75 on real estate and improvements, were submitted to the board late Wednesday by Auditor Harry Dunn. Dunn's figures placed a total valuation of $419,999,910 on real estate and improvements this year, as compared with $433,254,160 for 1924. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 70 10 a m 76 7 a. m 72 11 a. m 77 8 a. m 74 12 (noon) .... 78 9 a. 77

Entered as Second-class Matter at I’oatoffice, Indlanapulla. Publlaheil Pally Except hunday.

M’CRAY PLEA IS MAILED TO INDIANAPOLIS Petition and Letters Asking Clemency; for Former Governor Being Sent to Officials Here. RECORD OF CASE IS REQUESTED District Attorney Ward Asked to Make Report Opinions of Judge and Prosecutor Sought. Activity in the movement, to bring about the pardon of former Governor Warren T. McCray, serving a ten-year term at the Federal penitentiary in Atlanta for using the mails to defraud, was being switched from Washington to Indianapolis today. United States District Attorney Albert Ward was awaiting a copy of the pardon application and recommendations in behalf of McCray, which are being forwarded from Was tngton. He will be expected to prepare a report on the McCray case and t oobtajn expressions of opinion from Judge Albert B. Anderson, the trial judge, and Homer Elliott, who prosecuted the case. Neither Anderson nor Elliott has recommended clemency for McCray.

Further Information Is Sought By Justice Department Officers By C. A. Randau Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Opinions of Homer Elliott, former district attorney at. Indianapolis, and Albert B. Anderson, trial judge, on the petition for elempney for former Go\> ernor Warren T. McCray of Indiana were being sought by tha Department of Justice today.

Robert H. Turner, associate pardon atorney for the department, has forwarded to Albert Ward, district attorney at Indianapolis, a file of the pardon petition and letters recommending leniency for McCray. Ward is instructed In a letter accompanying the application to prepare an immediate report of the McCray case, and to obtain expressions of opinion from former District Attorney Homer Elliott, Judge A. B. Anderson and other persons connected with McCray's trial. Turner, who acted on instruction* from Attorney General Sargent, enclosed copies of several hundred letters and telegrams which were filed by the McCray pardon delegation. Neither the applicatlou Itself nor any of the letters a companying It were made public ly the Department of Justice. Strongly Backed It was learned, however, that the Justice Department looks upon the McCray application as the most strongly backed plea for executive clemency that has come before the Department in many years. The list of the Governors, political leaders, members of Congress, business men and others Is said to be one of the most Impressive ever gathered In such a plea. Though the McCray pardon delegation left Washington Wednesday night without any definite assurances that their mission would be a success they professed to believe that Attorney General Sargent would consider their case In a friendly manner. They were pleased at the Interest shown by the Attorney General, and let It be known that they thought they had Impressed upon him the fact that the sentence given the former Governor was too long, and that no harmful purpose would be served by hia immediate liberation. Though the lelegatlon pleaded for a full pardon, they told the Attorney General that in case a pardon was Impossible they would he In part satisfied with a .parole or commutation of sentence, though these latter do not Include full restoration of citizenship. Wants To Pay Debta McCray, they told the Attorney General, wants to pay hack his debts, and it Is their belief that if he is given a chance, he can recoup his losses In ten years. Aa McCray 1$ now said to be penniless, the pardon or parole would alao carry with It a remission of the SIO,OOO fine Imposed by Judge Anderson. Together with Congressman Will Wood, who presented them to the Attorney General, James W. Noel, George Barnard, William P. Evans and William A. Guthrie called on Postmaster General New after the Sargent conference. New told them that he was friendly toward "their case and expressed It as his opinion that the Government might well releaM McCray. New. however, has mate ft plain that he will not Actively interfere and will not take up the McCray matter with President Coolldge when he visits him at Swampscott next week unless the President brings up the subject. According to Department of Justice officials, more details concerning this application for pardon have become public at the time of the filing of the document than in any other recent efforts toward executive clemency.

Forecast Generally fair tonight and Friday; somewhat cooler weather tonight.

TWO CENTS

BELGIANS GET NEW PROPOSAL Americans Refuse Drastic Interest Rate Cut. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. Aug, 18.—After receiving anew proposition from the American debt funding commission the Belgian delegation today secured an adjournment of the debt meeting until tomorrow In order to communicate It to the government for Instructions. The Belgians aeked the American commission to calculate the accrued Interest on the Belgian ohllRation since Its contraction at 8% or 4 per cent Instead of 5 per cent but the American refused. They agreed to reduce It to 4 1-4 per cent as waa done for the British, but. refused to go below that, figure. ARRAIGNMENT TODAY “Outlaw" flothi’ng Union Members to Face Court. Bv United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 13—Slxty-two members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union- were to be arraigned today In connection with anew outbreak In a year’* old war between the Amalgamated, an outlaw” organization, and the United Garment Workers Union, which Is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The arrests were made yesterday after members of the former union had engaged In an orgy of bombing and acid hurling In shops operated on a nonunion basis and those closed to all save members of united organization. BOY GONE FROM HOM* Mrs Marlon Young. 1717 E Ohio St., today Informed police that her son, Leßoy, 11, has been missing from home since Tuesday. She said he had brown eye*, light halrt and wore blue overalls and waist and tan shoes.

NOTHING FOR SOMETHING Ass general rale It Is almost Impossible to get something for nothing, but there are exception* to this rule and here’a one of them. In almost every home there are nuraarous article* of furniture and other household Appliance* that are atored away and out of use for one reason or another The** things come pretty close to representing nothing. They are only ht the way and serving no purpoae In fact they're In a aene utterly worrhleea to the original owner* Put, there are lota of people who could uae almost any of there article* and who would welcome the opportunity of buying them. So. why not get them out, clean them up. advertise them In the WANT ADS—AND SELL THEM Then uae the money you get out o i them tor something you really want or need. It's practically giving nothing for something. Phone your Ad-—MAio MUk