Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1925 — Page 1

Home Edition NEXT week is Greater Indianapolis Week. Every citizen of the city should cooperate in the movement.

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MOVING PICTURE STARS MAY AID BOOSTER WEEK Ministers Will Urge Loyalty to City—Radio Sets for Parade. OPEN AT RHODIUS PARK Legion Committee Named to Plan Participation. Beautiful motion picture stars may appear next week at celebration centers during: Greater Indianapolis according to John F. Walker, cleaning superintendent. • Walker has obtained Mayor Shank’s promise to make a personal appeal to Will Hays, booster czar of the motion picture industry, tosend screen actresses in Indianapolis and to request that Hays himself attend the festivities. Many ministers will preach sermons on “Greater Indianapolis,” I emphasizing the virtue of loyalty to the city and furtherance of its Interests, according to Walker. Sunday la the first official day of observance. Monday’s Program Monday’s program will take place at 7:30 p. m. at Rhodlus Park. Business and civic club members will drive to the park. There -will be a band concert by the Police and Firemen’s Band, addresses and amusement features. An unusual parade feature was added today with the announcement that broadcasting programs from other cities, greeting Indianapolis and congratulating her upon the demonstation, will be received by powerful sets on parade floats and amplified for spectators. Arrangements are in charge of the Broadcast Listeneres’ Association, which will enter a huge float. • Following will be fifty floats entered by radio jobbers and retailers. Capt. Claude Johnson today had received information that more than 1 700 floats will be entered in the parade by local business firms and organizations. Legion to Cooperate Cooperation of the American Legion was added to the Greater Indianapolis movement today with ap- , polntment by John A. Boyce, Seventh district executive tommltteeman of a committee of legionnaires to arrange participation of the veterans’ organization. Members are: James S. Dale, Judge Sidney S. Miller, William P. Evans, Clarence R. Martin, Harlan Hadley and Earl Furgason. City firemen are tolling night and day for the success of the week. Led by Fire Chief John J. O’Brien and Captain Philip Kile, the fire fighters are lending valuable aid to the committee. Firemen Carl Malcolm and Jack Ray are numbered among the assistants. Mayor Shank has urged that all stores and retail establishments be closed the afternoon of Aug. 19, when the parade will be held. INDIANA GUARD UNITS DEPART Complete Two Weeks at . Camp Knox. * Bv United Prest CAMP KNOX, Ky„ Aug. 15.—Indiana National Guardsmen who have completed the two weeks of their annual encampment weer breaking camp today. The units will arrive at their home armories Sunday. Companies which went into training a week ago will remain for another week. Governor Jackson, a visitor at the camp, reviewed a parade of 7,000 guardsmen of Indiana and Kentucky Friday.

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‘I STILL LOVE HIM,’ MISS FLETCHER SAYS Local Girl Persists That She Is to Become Countess in America, but Not in Home Town, Indianapolis.

By Keith .Jonee United Press Staff Cnrresnondcnt Convrlnht. 193.i. bv ('nitrd Press SOUTHAMTON, England, Aug. 15. —“Nobody seems to understand, but I love Count Von Schmettow still.” Pretty Miss Louisa Fletcher, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher of Indianapolis, a former banker, gazed wistfully out over the chanr?l waters today just before the Berei • garia put off for her homeland and spoke thus of the youthful German nobleman, whom she had planned to wed last Thursday. She insisted that she would still wed the count, and clung to her original story that the wedding was postponed, not cancelled. But cumulative evidence points to the possibility that the girl may err in her predictions that the count will follow her to the States and wed her there. At least, the indications are that the proud Junker family of Pommerzig, Germany, is pained at American publicity methods which AGED MAN IS INJURED Auto Driver Slated For Assault and Battery Henry Chepper, 87, of 623 N. Pine St. was seriously injured today when he was struck by an automobile at College and Massachusetts Aves. He was taken home and Mrs. T. L. Bedgood, 44, of 2601 S, Drive Brookside Pkwy., the auto driver, was charged with assult and battery. ‘SPIDER’ COST HIM $25 Loser Thinks Bill Was Taken From Packet By Colored Man. “Hey, mister, there’s a spider on your hat,” said a colored man to J. I. Howe, 2624 N. Capitol Ave., p.s he was walking to the grocery today. When Howe felt in his pockets after he reached the store he discovered a $25 in bills was missing. Howe told police he thinks the colored man took it.

Dying Wife Shoots Husband

Bu United Press GLASGOW. Ky., Aug. 15. Mrs. G. T. Pemberton, dying at the age of 40, summoned her estranged husband, George Pemberton. from a coma just long enough to shoot him as he brought* her a glass of water. Neighbors found Mrs. Pemberton dead and the husband on the floor seriously wounded. 1

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ager of the Real Silk / Hosiery Mills, was backed by- the 2,500 employes of that concern and postoffice employes, gaining the official indorsement of the postoffice workers. Workers brought in 13,237 votes for Mia; Burton, 9,117 more than her nearest competitor.

attended the brief romance of Miss Fletcher and the young count. Miss Fletcher appeared sad as the boat pushed its prow toward America. No less downcast was her companion, Mrs. Jean Justice, pretty J (Turn to Page 2) MOB ATTEMPTS TO HANG NEGRO Police Thwart Lynching by Barricading Station. Bu (nitrd Press INDIANA HARBOR, Ind.. Aug. 15. —A mob of 500 citizens today attempted to lynch John Allen, 47, a negro, after 4-year-old Waunell Crockett had identified him as the man who attecked her in the basement of her home. Police barricaded the police station and spirited him out a back door, presumably for Crown Point. Wrapped in bands ges, the little girl was brought Into the station after Allen’s arrest and point-blankly accused him. GETS DRINK AND SHOT Colored Men Tell Different Stories— Both Face Charges. Buster McClaren, colored, 407 W. Ohio St., rear, was struck in the face and shoulders with a charge from a shotgun held by Joe Hines, colored, 513 Chesapeake St., police say today. McClaren said he purchased a drink of whisky from Hines. He discovered $25 missing and asked Hines for it. He said Hines shot him. Hines said McClaren fired at him first.. Both are charged with shooting with intent to kill, and Hines with operating a blind tiger. ROOF PROVES LEAKY Board Decides to Sue on Bond for City Hall Covering. Board of works members invested SIO,OOO unwisely on a copper roof for the ’city hall, they decided at a meeting Friday and ordered William Boson, city attorney, to bring suit on the bond of the contractors. The rbof leaks in rainy weather, board members say. Frank B. Hunter, architect, was scored by the board for recommending lead which had to be imported from New York and whiclualso proved defective.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 15, 1925

City’s Future Is Important Nine Boys and Girls to Win Prizes for Essays on Indianapolis

'2j HAT do you think of “the \/u old home town?” *' Will Indianapolis become a greater industrial center in the years to come? What is the future of the capital of Indiana? These are important questions. But they”l be more important, seemingly, on the night of Aug. 22 at Spades Park when nine Indianapolis boys and girls receive cash prizes totaling 130. The girl or boy under 18 who writes the best essay on “Th 6 Future of Indianapolis” will be awarded $1 by the Hoosier Post, 624, Veterans qf Foreign Wars, and The Indianaoplis Times. Prizes will be presented at Spades Park when the veterans give their lawn fete. Eseays must be mailed to The Times Essay' Editor not later than midnight of Aug. 18, and should be written on one side only of the paper. They must not be more than 200 words long. By the time you are a grown-up what changes will be made In the city, and why? Write out your answer to this question and send it in. <t won’t be hard to do. Remember the prizes. PETITIONS FOR M’CRAY PARDON ARRIVE IN CITY Letters of Such Bulk They Are Sent Here by Express. The pardon application for former Governor Warren T. McCray, with the petition and letters recently presented the Department of Justice, were received at the office of United States District Attorney Albert Ward today. "The application will be given the usual consideration in due course.” declared Alexander G. Cavins, assistant district attorney. No Statement Made In the absence of Attorney Ward, Cavins refused to make the petition and letters public. There were so many they were sent by express instead of by mall. Ward is spending a vacation at Lake Manitou, near Rochester, InJ., and is not expected to be in his office before Monday. Formere United States District Attorney Homer Elliott, who prosecuted the McCray case, called at Ward’s office today and talked with Cavins, briefly. Elliott Silent Elliott refused to state what his attitude would be toward making a recommendation that McCray be pardoned. It is understood, however, that both Elliott and Judge A. B. Anderson, who sentenced McCray to ten years at Atlanta on a charge of using the mails to defraud, are rather strongly opposed to the pardon. It is customary for the attorney general to consider carefully the opinions of the trial Judge and prosecutor. Government officials here are said to be of the opinion that McCray does not deserve any mo consideration than any other P' oner sentenced on a siimlar- char EXTRA ROOMS MAY BE BUILT Children’s Guardian Home Is Considered. Following a conference with William H. Book, business director of city school board, and Maurice Tenant, board attorney, county commissioners today directed Donald Graham, architect, to figure the cost of building three additional rooms to the Children’s Guardian Home. 571 University Ave. The home, according to school board representatives, is overcrowded. Commissioners first considered the borrowing of three portable buildings from the school board, but their erection would cost $5,000, it was found.

Coolidge Gets a Toothache

Bu United Press PLYMOUTH, Vt.. Aug. 15. President Coolidge developed a toothache. He motored with Mrs. Coolidge fifteen miles to Woodstock, where a dentist provided relief. The dentist, Dr. R. F. Jewett, who has attended Coolidge for many years, told him to return late this afternoon for another treatment. A crown on one of the President’s teeth worked loose and caused him trouble, Dr. Jewett said.

COMMISSIONERS REFUSE $92,000 FOR JULIETTA County Budget for 1926 Not to Include Asylum’s Maintenance. $79,000 IS EXPENDED Harry Dunn Ordered to Write Governor Jackson. At a special meeting of the Marion County commissioners called today at instigation of County Auditor Harry Dunn to take action in detailing the county budget for 1926, the commissioners struck out a request of $92,000 of the superintendent of JuliettA, county insane asylum, for its next year’s n aintenance. The commissioners instructed Dunn to dispatch a letter to Governor Jackson and the hospital’s board of governor, setting forth their attitude and their refusal to approve the $92,000 appropriation. So far $79,000 has been spent on Julietta this year, they claimed. $78,960 Last Year In 1924 a total of $78,960 was spent on the Institution, it was said. Those who attended the meeting were Cassius Hogle, president county council: Frank E. Brown and Otis C. Dodson. Maintenance for Julietta will cease Jan. 1, 1926. After that time the only money to be appropriated for the institution will be $1,600 for fire insurance for three years, it was said. Recently Hogle announced council would flatly refuse to appropriate any more money for the building’s maintenance. He declared that the burden of caring for the county’s insane rested with the State, who should bear all expenses. Others Overcrowded Efforts had been made to have the inmates removed to State insane asylums. John Brown of the State board of charities, declared that all State institutions were overcrowded now. It was Intimated by Brown, however, that the State may assume management of Julietta and operate it as a State institution. JOIN TWO CITY DEPARTMENTS Consolidation Started Under Street Commissioner.

Consolidation of the street cleaning and street commissioners’ departments. proposed by Mayor Shank as an economy measure was started today under direction of Martin J. Hyland, street commissioner. who will be in charge of the two departments for one month. John F. Walker, street cleaning superintendent, will be occupied directing Greater Indianapolis Week activities and later will go on his vacation. Hyland’s first official act was to write to the board of sanitary commissioners protesting against the throwing of garbage into sewers by employes of that department. Orders were issued to remove all dirt from in front of sewer inlets. OFFICERS RAID FARM Tltret Meld Alter While Mule la Confiscated. Bu Times Snreial NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. Aug. 16. A fifty-gallon copper still and a gallon of white mule were found on the farm of Maurice Donley, nee r -he line between Marion and Hamilton Counties, by Federal and local officers Friday afternoon. Mrs. Thomas Parker. Howard Taylor and Elem Clark were arrested, brought to this city and placed In jail. Donley, who owns the place, Is a resident of Indianapolis. TRIES SUICIDE AGAIN Woman Cuts Wrist—Condition Not Thought Serious. Mrs. Louise Heck, 25. of 521 E. Miami St., made a second attempt to take her own life within the past sixty days Friday night. Police say she cut her wrist with a safety razor blade. Her condition at city hospital Is not serious. Some time ago she drank poison, according to police, saying she was worried about her husband, who deserted her. HEARING DATE IS SET State tax comm f ssioners today set Monday, Aug. 24. as date for hearing remonstrances against a $51,500 bond issue for improving the Elmer Dawson road in Washington township, Marlon County. A similar bond issue on the same road was denied by the tax board Jan. 17, 1925. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 67 10 a. m 78 7 a. m 69 11 a. m 80 8 a. 77 12 (noon) .... 81 9 a. m...... 78 1 p. vs 84

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Indianapolis police are searching for George (Dutch) Anderson, said to have murdered Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hance of near Muncie, Friday. ( Revenge for Hance’s betrayal of Gerald Chapman, “millio’i-dollar mail bandit” and alleged murderer, was said to be the motive. Chapman was captured in Muncie at Hance’s farm in January. He was held in the Marion County Jail several days. Betty Bates, alleged to be Chapman’s sweetheart, was said to be in Indianapolis with Anderson, in the hope of rescuing Chapman, as Federal officers took him from the jail to return him to Atlanta Federal prison.

TRANSCRIPT FOR HAWKINS FREE Judge Orders Complete Record for Appeal. Morton S. Hawkins will be given every opportunity to present his case in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago, with full records of his trial here. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today ordered William P. Kappes. clerk of Federal Court, to prepare a complete transcript of the records of the trial without requiring Hawkins to pay for the work. Homer Elliott, special assistant attorney general in the case, appeared against granting of the order. FIND MAN IN HOUSE But He lives There; Neighbors Had Turned hi Alarm. Good neighbors are the best burglar protection, police said today. The emergency squad made a run to the home of William J. King. 402 E. Thirty-Second St., expecting to find a man In the house. They did, but it was King himself, who had Just returned from a week's visit at South Bend. Neighbors had turned in the alarm.

Entered as Second-class Matter at Poiteffles, Indianapolis. Published Dally Eiccpi Sunday.

Accomplice of Chapman, George (Dutch) Anderson, Said tp Have Headed Gang in Two Indiana Bank Robberies During Last Year. POLICE KEEP CLOSE WATCH HERE AFTER MUNCIE MURDER Detective Who Watched Robbers, Thought to Have Been Murdered in Detroit —Webster Gives Details of Raid on Meeting Place.

Two Indiana bank robberies and one robbery attempt during the past year were planned and executed by George (Dutch) Anderson. being sought for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hance of Muncie, Harry C. Webster, superintendent of the Indiana Bankers’ Protective Association, announced today. Anderson, said to have headed a gang of eight men, was the accomplice.of Gerald Chapman, arch bandit, now under death sentence at Hartford, Conn., for the alleged murder of a policeman. Police today searched the city for Anderson. Detectives believed he left the immediate scene of the shooting near Muncie and may have come to Indianapolis. One of his operatives who disappeared recently probably was killed by Anderson or members of his gang, Webster also said.

The man. who hsffl secretly Joined the gang headed by Anderson and was watching their work and reporting to officials, was last seen just before a raid in Detroit, July 9. when Webster made an attempt to capture the alleged bandits. Room Raided The operative had notified Webster of a meeting place. Fourteen Detroit detectives were called and the house surrounded. The doors to the room were kicked in. Smoke and liquor bottles remained, but the gang was gone. No secret door could be found. Webster presumed that the detective was tfiurdered. since ail attempts to find him since that time have proved futile. Webster says that Anderson was thwarted in an attempt to rob a bank in northern Indiana on July 4. He, with other detectives, laid in wait for the bandits, who had obtained plans of the bank, and arranged a raid for that night. A few miles from the scene the bandit auto overturned in the ditch, and the gang was followed to Detroit, It was there that the unsuccessful raid was made. After two bank robberies, Webster says he was positive that Anderson was leader of the gang. Several times other members could have been taken, but the officers waited in an attempt to capture the leader. When the operative in the gang obtained plans for the third bank raid, Webster and three of his men, with shotguns, arrived on the scene July 4, and waited .developments. A heavy rain storm sent the robbers in the ditch, and they are thought to have learned that Webster was watching them. Police are keeping a close watch on

Identify Muncie Prisoner as Anderson s Companion

Bu United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 15.—Charles (One Arm) Wolfe, held for the revenge slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hance, betrayers of Gerald Chapman, was in Yorktown Friday with a man answering the description of George (Dutch) Anderson, It was established here today, Four Yorktown men, Including Mark Broadwater, assistant cashier of the Yorktown State Bank, who knew Wolfe, identified him in the Muncie police station Friday night, it was admitted. According to Marshal Booher of Middletown, the first police offioer to reach the dying man, Hance named Wolfe and Anderson as his slayers. Other persons who reached him before he died, declared that Hance did not mention Wolfe's name, holding Anddrson responsible. Chapman's Revenge It was Gerald Chapman’s revenge, carried out by the members of his gang. It was Hance, who for "blood money" turned in Chapman to the Muncie police after the bandit prince had made his home with the Eaton farmer, paying him liberally for the privilege and giving him the small change from the numerous robberies committed In this vicinity. After Chapman’s arrest here last January, the members of his disorganized gang, made sworn oat ha that his betrayer would pay the penalty. 'Blood Money’ Betrayal The super-bandit. Chapman, while being question at Indianapolis after his arrest here early this year, waa bitter against the farmer and muttered about “people who turned me up for blood money.” Later, at Hartford. Conn., when Chapman on trial last March for

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all hotels and underworld haunts in hopes of capturing Anderson here. Postal Inspectors, according to Inspector W. C. Ela, are aleo aiding. Muncie police asked local officers to locate a man and two boys believed to have seen the fatal shooting. They were riding in a PierceArrow automobile. The man is thought to be an Indianapolis attorney. Inspectors on Cut Ela and A. 8. Kelley have both worked on the case since the capture bt Chapman at Muncie In January, 1925, Ela advanced the theory that Anderson killed Hance, not because Hance “turned up” Chapman to the authorities, but because “Dutch" feared Hance would “turn him up" also. It is thought by Webster that Anderson killed Hance, because the Muncie man knew about the bandit. He says Anderson feared he would be turned over to Muncie police if he did not take immediate steps to get the man out of the way. Investigators of the State fire marshal's office said Charles (One Arm> Wolfe, who is being held in the Muncie Jail in connection with the Hance murder, has been under observation of operatives of the fire marshal's office since the Inman Tile Factory was burned et Hartford City. Aurll 1 with $30,000 loei. State police, it was learned, have been on the heels of Anderson various times within the last few weeks. They were also working on the theory he was the leader of the principal gang of bank bandit* aatlve in the state.

the murder of Policeman Skelly of New nritlan, It waa Hance who waa one of the chief witnesses for the State. The big, awkward Hooeler took the stand and told how Chapman and his pais plotted various crimes at his farm. He also identified a weapon found on the aeene of the Skelly killing as having belonged to Chapman. Shot In Fight Anderson waa reported to have gone to Hartford and to be In communication with Chapman. They had been associated in crime for many years. Their moet sensational exploit together waa the robbery of a United Statee mall truck on Oct. 24, 1921, In which they got $200,000 in cash, securities and jewels. They were eonvioted and sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment. Chapman escaped in March, 1128, was shot three times in a gun fight the following day and returned to a prison hospital. A month later he effected another aenaatlonal escape and a few months latsr assisted his lieutenant to dig out of Atlanta, t Anderson and Chapman Joined force* in crime again and with Wolfe and others made the Hance farm in Muncie a rendezvous. Tbs farmer was aware of their identity and was himself wanted on e charge of larceny for receiving gooda stolen by the gang. Wolfe, alleged to have been the companion of Anderson in the staying of Hance, has entered a denial that he had anything to do with the double shoootlng. Hance and hia wife were en their way to Indianapoli. Friday afjet noon when the Ford coup* bearing