Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1925 — Page 1
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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 80
IKES BARS STEM EXTRA TERM Sparks Assumes Role ot New Judge in Cass of Former Klan Head and Aids, Waiting Trial on Murder Charge. INMAN AND REMY FAIL TO MAKE APPEARANCE J Indianapolis Boy May Be Given Precedence in Date •of Trial More Motions Expected Despite Definite Announcement. By Tim rs Speeiol NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 14.—N0 special term of court will be called for the trial of D. C. Stephenson, former Dragon of the Indiana Klan; Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry, held in jail here' charged with die murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis, Judge Fred E. Hines, Hamilton Circuit Court, announced today. With this definite statement, Judge Hines handed the case to Circuit Judge Will M. Sparks of Noblesville, the new trial judge and the third jurist to be in charge of the trio. Expected Attorneys Judge Sparks had expected to confer with Eph Inman, chief defense counsel, and Prosecutor William H. Remy regarding a trial date for the case. Inman announced he would stay in Indianapolis, but did not give his reasons. Remy said he also would stay in the city, as “there .would be no use” for him to be Hfesent. the judgeship, Sparks looked grand jury ftidictment against Stephenson and his aids, and also scanned the lengthy record of the various motions which the defense and State have made to date. He then left for Rushville, saying he would not be back in Noblesville soon. * Want Boy First The chill winds of November or December may sweep through the corridors of the Hamilton County jail, where the defendants are held, before thjy actually face a jury, it was indicated by Judge Hines. He told Judge Sparks that he would like to have Edward Prather, 15, Indianapolis boy charged with the murder of Forest Van Devere, a street car conductor in a hold-up in Indianapolis, tried before Stephenson and his aids are arraigned. Though Judge Hines’ statement means that the lid has been clamped down tightly, defense attorneys are not expected to abandon their tactics of motion-making. Habeus corpus, petition to be released on bail and other motions may be rehashed with Judge Sparks, just as they were with Criminal Judge James A. Collins of Indianapolis and with Judge Hines. Then, too, an appeal to the Stat 4 Supreme Court would not be unexpected. State attorneys will be ready to combat any move which the defense may make. jfc Dead Four Months Miss Oberh6lt2er has been dead four months. The three defendants are accused of refusing her medical aid after a .trip with her to Hammond. The State alleges she was kidnaped. Miss Oberholtzer took bichloride of mercury tablets in a Hammond hotel after an alleged attack. Her dying statement alleges Stephenson brought her back to Indianapolis in his auto, while she screamed" to be allowed to see a doctor. WALES AT MONTEVIDEO British Prince Arrives in South America for Visit. 8 11 United Press , MONTEVIDEO, Aug. 14.—The Prince of Wales, fresh from his triumphal visit to South Africa, reached South America today. The Repulse entered the outer harbor of Montevideo this forenoon and the prince was to land soon thereafter.
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mHE foibles of modern education, Including evolution, were criticized by Mayor Shank Thursday at a conference with William H. Boyk, business director of the Indianpolis schools. The celebrated “three R’s.” ing, writing and arithmetic, • •lua geography and history afford the Ideal curinculum, according to Shank. “Sure I’m against evolution,”
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Girl Ousted From Pigsty Shed Bears Baby in Open
Evicted from a pigsty home, which officials say was not fit for animals to live in, Mrs. Anne Cooper, 19, of . Phoenix Park near Chicago, gave birth to a baby under a tree. The baby died. Mi's. Cooper, whose husband fled three months ago to evade robbery charges, has never paid rent due to the dilapidated state of the building.
LOUISA IS SHY OF LONDON REPORTERS Indianapolis Girl Shops and Plans Voyage Home While Reports Indicate Romance Is Shattered.
By Keith Jones United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 14. —Her romance with the German Count Von Schmettow postponed—and rumored broken —Miss Louisa Fletcher, pretty Indianapolis girl, today evaded reporters previous to boarding the Berengaria for home. She went shopping, while Berlin advices continued to indicate that the wedding scheduled for yesterday had encountered something more than mere German official red tape, CITY SECURES $500,000 LOAN Sum Borrowed to Pay Present Debts. Miss Indianapolis made a “raise” today. Broke and in debt for many weeks, she borrowed $500,000, for which she will have to pay 4 per cent interest to the Union Trust Company The bank pays sll premium. Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, said the city had only $4,425.67 in the treasury and owes $160,000. The temporary loan, authorized by city council, was delayed for some time because of the councilmanic rebel’ion. Other bidders were the Fletcb • Savings and Trust Company, per cent, Indiana Trust Company, 4*4 per cent; Merchants National Bank, 4*4 per cent. DAYTON BANDIT IS SOUGHT HERE Loots Bank and Flees With $20,000. Local detectives were asked by the Davron (Ohio) police department today to watch for an elderly man, about 55, who held up the North Dayton Bank early today and escaped with $20,00. He fled in a Studebaker touring car. According to the report received here he was a lone bandit and car tied two revolvers. He is believed to have headed toward Indianapolis. ONE BANDIT KILLED Police Surprise Trio Looting a Florists’ Shop. Bit United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—One bandit was killed and another captured here today when two policemen surprised three robbers In the act of looting a florists’ shop. A hall of bullets followed the bandits as they ran, one man falling dead and another surrendering. The latter gave the idenity of the third robber. I HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 67 10 a. m 78 7 a. m 68 ll a. h 78 8 a, m 7 5 12 (noon) 79 9 a. m 76 1 p. ro 79
said Shank. “I’m for the Bible, right or wrong. Why, our Constitution and everything worth while is based on the Bible. If It were not for our churches, everything would go to wreck and ruin." Snanlc expressed particular opposition to the teachirg of domestic science in the schools. "Teach cooking! Why, the place to learn that Is at home,” he sputtered.
as Miss Fletcher had claimed In Berlin. The Von Schmettow family, living on their rich estates at Pommerzig. are keeping their own counsel on the case. But United' Press investigation at Berlin indicated that the old count had interposed objections to the match at the eleventh hour. Miss Fletcher told the United Press in Berlin that tardiness in filing her birth certificate in connection with the marriage license application has caused a postponement of the wedding. Then yesterday she departed suddenly by airplane for London, leaving behind the address of the American Express Company, London, engaging passage suddenly on the Berengaria. Accoinpylng her to London was Mrs. Jeanne Justice of New York, who had been termed her chaperon in Germany, and who had introduced her to nobility at an estate joining the holdings of the noble Von Schmettow family. On this estate, Miss Fletcher met young Count Von Schmettow and they became engaged, with the wedding set for yesterday. Announcement early this week of a postponement while the Junior count was In Scandinavia was made by the elder count while he held a conference with his prospective daughter in-law. NEWS TO DAD Father Says He Knows Nothing Os Postponment. Bu United Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 14. Stoughton A. Fletcher, former Indianapolis banker, today told the United Press he had received no direct word from hi* daughter that her marriage had been postponed indefinitely. "I have not been advised of that,” he said. “All I know about it is what I read in the papers. If the marriage has been called off as reported, then you better ask Miss Fletched about it because I was not advised of the details.” Fletcher gave his concent to the marriage when she cabled him several weeks ago. Since then, he said, he has heard nothing nor is he aware that she is returning to America. TRIED TO START AUTO Police Called—Man From Ohio Held Under Vagrancy Bond After watching a man make two attempts to start his auto, W. B. Long, 124 E. Ohio St., called police to Meridian and Washington Sts., Thursday night. The man giving the name of John Gramer, 42, Toledo Ohio, is held under $2,000 vagrancy bond. INSPECTORS MUST QUIT Health Officer (o Drop Twenty Men on Sept. 1. Twenty city board of health inspectors were given notice by Dr. Morgan, city health officer, today that they will be without jobs on Sept. 1. The men are to be replaced by six motorcycle health officers. Two or three of the present force may be rehired for the motorized force. TRICKED OUT OF MEALS Woman Says Man Posed as Foreman of Electric Line Gang. Mrs. Elizabeth Newby, 111 E. Twenty-Eighth St., told police she was one of several persons in the neighborhood who had been “worked” for meals by a man who posed as the foreman of a gang of high tension electric line workers. Stating they were to work in that neighborhood, he asked she serve their meals and also inquired about rooms. Mrs. Newby said he ate three meals at her home and then disappeared.*
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BID ON LOAN TO COUNTY IS REJECTED Commissioners Turn Down Only Figure Submitted on Advice ,of Attorney— Period of Bond Issue Too Long. JUVENILE COURT SALARY INCREASE IS INCLUDED Action Will Hold Up Work of Changing Courtrooms — Plans, Submitted by Architect, to Be Considered at Next Meeting. Revamping of the Courthouse and the building of five new municipal courtrooms met setback today, when county commissioners on advice of Charles Remster, attorney, rejected the sole bid for the SIOO,000 temporary loan to be used for that purpose. The bid was rejected because it was found commission members in approving the bond issue had made it for a period of one year instead of six months. Salary Increase However, the time element of the loan would have met with legal approval had not an item of $3,866.75, to care of increases in salaries for attaches of the juvenile court, been included. | Commission members, upon rejecting the bid, fixed Aug. 24, as a date when the full commission would meet and reapprove the loan upon a six months’ basis. This action will cause the increase item to be stricken from the loan. This will be taken care of in the next tax levy. Submitted Specifications on the building of the hew courtrooms, their equipment, heat and ventilation were submitted to the commission by Donald Graham, architect, and will be voted upon at the next regular meeting. The lone bid was by J. F. Wild & Cos. DEATH OF GIRL STARTS INQUIRY Booze Traffic Investigation Is Under Way. Bit United Press DANVILLE, 111., Aug. 14.—The arrest of Ralph C. Tincher of Terre Haute, Ind., here in connection wtih the death of Ruth Brooks of Danville, killed when a car failed to negotiate “D&id Man’s Curve” on the Dixie Bee Rd. near Hoopeston, 111., will result in Federal investigation of the booze-running traffic between Terro Haute, Danvlllel and Chicago, Assistant State’s Attorney Louis Berner of Vermillion County stated today. The appearance of William (Moot) Mushett of Terre Haute at Danville police headquarters with a demand for the S3OO found on Tincher after his arrest, which Mushett claimed he gave Tincher, and the f '*h;it the r•• t Osrruln-j In the accident was Mushett’s, leads Sheriff . nmn ana tne Danville police to believe that they have finally scored on the rum-runnners between the three cities. Mushett has been arrested here in :he past on liquor charges.
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Boys Who Thwarted Lee Escape From Prison
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Tommy Ford (left) and Virgil Matthews,
These are the boys who prevented Ralph Lee, 26, of Indianapolis, alleged murderer and filling station bandit, from making his escape from the Knoxville (Tenn.) jail, Aug. 2, a success. While playing in the street near the jail Tommy Ford, 12 (left), and Virgil Matthews, 15, son of policemen, saw five men slug the jailer and escape. The boys raced with the convicts, two of whom were murderers, and stood guard over
BRADFUTE SEES NEW ERA OF PROSPERITY Income for New Crop Year to Exceed Ten and One-Half Billion Dollars, Federation Head Says.
Note: With the break of the summer nd agTi* uitura'ists turning their attention to the harvest season. 0. E, Bra Jute. president of the rnerican Firm Bureau Federation, sees an era of prosperity. tn the following article he discusses the crop outiook in various States. By O. E. Bradfute President of American Farm Bureau Federation CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—Farm prospects continue bright. August, the critical month In the corn belt, is one-third gone and from no extensive area has a great lack of moisture been reported. Farm products are now coming onto the market in
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After all, a bachelor has nobody to scold him for being lonely. SCHOOL FOR OFFICERS Eighty-Six Men Are Quartered Ft. Harrison. Two weeks of active duty will be meted out to eighty-six officers of the 400 infantry, 100 reserve division, under command of Col. E. B. Bassett, Hopkinville, Ky., who are now at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Col. W. H. Waldron, chief of staff of the division, and Maj. C. S. Richell, executive officer of the regiment from Louisville. Is also on duty. Officers have been assigned to units of the 11th Infantry and quartered in the Officers Club, which will also be used as lecture rooms. Program Includes duty with the troops, conferences and demonstrations. BAN DITS GET $87,000 Five Robbers Seize tPay Roll arid Escape in Automobile. Bu United Press WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug. 14. Five robbers today robbed Richard Shaw, assistant cashier of the Winjiipeg Electric Company of the company pay roll of $87,000. The holdup occurred at the door of the company offices. Scores of pedestrians witnessed the robbery and the escape of the bandits in an automobile
a house where the men took refuge until officers arrrived. A reward is being collected for the boys. Lee is alleged to have killed Abner Peek, local grocer, over a year ago. He was captured in Knoxville on a highway robbery charge, after he escaped from Johnson County jail at Franklin, Ind., where he was held on the murder charge. Lee is now serving a thirty-year term for robbery in Tennessee.
large quantities and for the most part at a higher price than last year. Farm bureau figures indicate that the farmers’ inoome for the crop year, which will end June 30, 1926, will exceed $10,500,000,000. Records are now completed on tne year, which ended June 30, 1925. During that period the American farmers received in cash for their products, $10,335,000,000. Estimates for the next crop year point to a slight increase over this amount, bringing the total to $10,500,000,000. Livestock producers are in good shape. Hog prices have been, so high that, although there have been fewer number on the market within the last few months, the price received has brought the farmer more money than he received -last year. Cattle have been advancing In price, which is helping out the western range States considerably. Government figures on this last year's wheat crop, released within the last few days, set the crop at 679,000,000 bushels, with domestic consumption annually running over 30,000,000 bushels an! with a fairly strong export demand, it is quite evident that farmers will receive a pood price for their wheat this year. However, some of the large wheat States, Kansas particularly, are hard hit by a short crop. Evorv day brings stronger belief that this year's corn crop will be a bumper crop, at least 30 per cent larger than last year. Some dry weather in the corn belt during the last week has aroused some uneasiness. The spring pig crop turned 'Ut larger than was anticipated. This will increase the demand for corn. Oats have improved steadily since July I. watched~wrongT~ man Woman Misses $22 After Front Lawn Is Cut. After Mrs. Fred Holland, 1131 Broadway, sat on her porch Thursday afternoon and watched a man she had hired, cut her lawn, she discovered $22 had been taken from her purse In the meantime, police learned today. Mrs. Holland said she the man motion to someone in rear of the house, but paid no attention to it at the time. Cigars valued at $25 were reported stolen from the Tampa Havana Cigar Company, 912 Peoples Rank Bldg. Clothing valued at SIOO was reported taken from the automobile of J. Kessler, Chicago, 111., near the courthouse.
Schools Will Help Boost City Indianapolis schools will do their part to boost greate Indianapolis. William N. Book, business director, said today. The schools will be represented in the Greater Indianapolis Week parade. Aug. 19, by two or three floats. High school student? w'Q provide a band. "One of the ways to boost the city Is to give Indianapolis her deserved place in the front rank In regard to educational facilities," Book said. “To do this the school city must go forward wilh its school building program.” he concluded.
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TWO FIRMS WILL LOCATE PLANTS HERE Inland Box Corporation and Parker Rust Roof Company Come to Indianapolis. - - C. OF C. DRIVE GETS RESULTS Business Leaders Fayor New Organi- ' zation to Raise Booster Fund. Location of two new’ industries in Indianapolis was announced today by Chamber of Commerce officials. At the same time several busines leaders of the city expressed themselves in favor of anew organization, “free from jalousies,” to raise and handle a fund for the promotion of a Greater Indianapolis.
The two new industries to locate here are the Inland Box Corporation and the Parker Rust Proof Company of Indiana, according to "Activities,” official Chamber of Commerce publication. The Inland Box Corporation, which will employ 200 men when maxiurn production la reached, will be located In a one-story modem daylight factory building at W. Morris St. and the Belt Railroad. Win Serve Need The Parker Company, although It employs less people, will serve a distinct need in the industrial chain of the city, the magazine states. It will be located at 820 N. New Jersey St. Both companies, it Is stated, are to be located here as a result of the I Chamber of Commerce drive to obtain Industries for the city. The box company, founded In Anderson, Is headed by H. C. Krannert, former manager of the Seftnn Company of Anderson. Other officers are George E. Bomberger, vice president; C. A. Barringer, secretary; rt. M. Pettit, district sales manager; M. B. Johnson, assistant sales manager; E. L. Shafer, comptroller, and W. A. Quebman, superintendent. Philip G. Decker, with Bomberget and Brannert, will serve as directors of the newly established company. To Make Boxes Corrugated fibre board packing boxes will be manufactured by the Inland corporation. "We are well acquainted with the needs of Indianapolis manufacturers and merchants and are well equipped to assist consumers of packing boxes In working out their unusual problems,” said Krannert. The Parker Rust Proof Company, of which Elmer W. Davis, formerly of Chicago, Is president, secretary and treasurer, will Introduce Into Indianapolis anew means for combating rust on steel and Iron products. The system Is widely used among leading manufacturers of the country, It Is said, G. E. Luke, Detroit, Mich., Is vice president of tho company. There are fourteen licensed Parker Jobbing plants in the principal manufacturing centers which supply Parkerlzlng to concerns which do not have their own rustproof plant, it is said. Parkerlzlng, according to Davis, is a chemical process which changes the surface of Iron and steel to a basic iron phosphate which is permanent In the air and impervious to rust under all ordinary condition*. This conversion, is affected without any material change of the treated material. Favor I'hange Among the business loaders of the city who expressed themselves as favoring anew organization for promoting Indianapolis were Elmer E. Stout, presllent of the Fletcher American National Bank, and Frank E. Gates, president of Indianapolis Real "Estate Board. “It is what we need, because the present civic organizations are, not big enough and do not have time enough to handle the mntter,” said Stout. “We need this new central organization, free from Jealousies, with everybody pulling for a greater Indianapolis, which means more prosperity for all.” “Make Haste Slowly" Gates atlvised it is a time to “make haste slowly," and to get everybody in the fold, with the advice of wise counsel. ' "The subscribers to the fund | should control its destiny, I think," he said, "If they want to form a | corporation, a trusteeship composed I of bankers of the city, or turn to over to any existing organization, that will be well and good. The main idea Is to get behind the community In a broad-minded movement for our mutual benefit." Gates said he thinks the mass of the money will have to come from the mass of the people, and as various plans of how other cities are doing are spread before the public Ideas will begin to crystallize as to how the fund should be raised end handled. Plan Good Both Stout and Gates said the system adopted at Louisville, Ky,, where contributors incorporated hemselves. and which has brought
• Forecast FAIR tonight and Saturday; warmer weather on Saturday predicted.
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fifty-four industries to the city in nine years, is a good system—one of several good systema—which will bear investigation. John B. Reynolds, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, said the Chamber is pursuing Its own plan to develop Indianapolis, one outlined several months ago. DECORATIONS TO GRACE CITY FOR BOOSTING WEEK Workers Busy Preparing for Greater Indianapolis Celebration. Indianapolis will be a mass of waving flags and decorated buildings during Greater Indlanapolia Week, Aug. 16 to 22. it Is indicated from promises of merchants and home owners received at committee headquarters, 27 N. Pennsylvania St, “We believe there will be no empty flag staffs In the city," said George B. Rubens, chairman of the decorations committee, today. There is a hum of activity at the headquarters office aa the committee members report progress In assembling the parade arrangements and the progranm for the various everting events In different parts of the city, Work for Candidate* The committee members are elbowed aside by supporters of the five candidates for the honor of being Mias Greater Indlanapolia. Ballot boxes have been placed at the office for each candidate and their supporters were pouring in the votes before 6 p m., the hour the balloting ceases. Judges are to tabulate the vote tonight and announce the winner Saturday. R. Wnlter Jarvis, park director, has arranged programs at a number of city parks during the week and has placed facilities of the pork and recreation departments at the disposal of John F. Walker, who la directing the dlty’s part of the celebrating. ** May Get Planes Walker says the chances for obtaining four airplanes from Dayton, Ohio, are excellent. The planea will be used to advertise the week's program. A number of signs hearing data regarding the ad vat n ages of Indianapolis over other cities have been placed In the committee headquarters. “John Walker Is going to give us the most remarkable celebration In the city’s history,’ Mayor Shank declared. "It will be a revival of that fire and civic spirit that brought our city from a struggling prairie town to a metropolitan center of 400,000 people." SLATED FOR BLIND TIGER Police today arrested Gapa Wltkovlch, 32, ot 4100 Speedway Rd., on charges of blind tiger and keeping a gaming device. A small quantity of liquor wna confiscated.
Mrs. Huck Flays Jail System Sob letters and sanctimonious sermons from chickenhearted ladles on the outslds never helped any "Jail bird," Wlnnlfreu Mason Huck. former congress* t man and the first woman ever to preside over the House of Representatives says today In answering the question, "What Is wrong with our Jails?" Guiltless of crime, she got herself sentenced to prison, came out and fought the world as a former convict must. She gives her conclusions of tho experiment and flays the Jail system on page 8.