Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 123

JOHN J. M’NAMARA IS FOUND GUILTY

sec. wn DENIES BAD HAW STATE Chief in Testimony Before Coolirlge Air Board Refutes Maladministration Charges Made by Col. Mitchell. By William J. McEvoy United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. A flat denial of Col. William Mitchell’s charges of .maladministration of the navy air service was made today by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur before the President’s special aircraft board. ‘The United States Navy,” Wilbur declared, ‘‘is at present organized to handle its air arm. The system is working smoothly, efficiently and economically.” Wilbur did not mention Mitchell’s name, but reiterated his objection to the establishment of an independent air force, contending hat the Navy air corps was an integral part of the fleet. Critic Is Summoned When Wilbur concluded, Dwight Morrow, chairman of the investigating commission requested him to summon Commander John Rodgers of the Pacific flight expedition, to testify before Sept. 3U. Rodgers is due in San Francisco from Hawaii, Sept. 24. AVilbur said that by an air dash across the continent, Uodfiflrs could make it. Colonel Mitchell was ordered by Maj. Gen. Ernest Hinds, Eighth Vrmy Corps Area commander to pro-' ceed to Washington by automobile, ‘o be a witness before the board. Mitchell was relieved of duty yesterlay to permit his appearance. Mitchell will go from San Anonio, where he is stationed, to St. Louis, where he will be joined "y his wife and baby daughter and proceed to- Washington, passing hrough Indianapolis and Dayton. He started the journey this aftermen. At the White House President ‘oolidge let it be known that he (Turn to Page 10)

NEIGHBORS ASK EXTRA POLICE Delays Board of bafety Meeting. Eight embattled women and a lone man, protesting lack of police protection In their neighborhood, swamped today's session of the board of safety, delaying business thirty minutes. The grievance was there Is only one policeman on duty in a large area between Seventeenth and Thirty-Fourth Sts., and Martlndale Ave. and Rural St. The women reported many robberies, including the theft of a Victrola and twenty books from a sehoolhouse, and said bootlegging and speeding is prevalent. Ernest L. Kingston, board president, said the board had sought 100 additional officers, but that city council had refused money. Promise was obtained that if council authorized two more policemen they will be sent to the neighborhood. PRESS CLUB eTeCTS Butler Organization Chooses Officers at Opening Meeting. James Carvin is president of the ‘Sutler University Press Club, having >een elected at the first meeting of r he semester, Monday night, other officers chosen were Betty ileffernan, vice president; Marianna Kennedy, secretary, and Valorous .VlcLeay, treasurer. The club, which is conducted along he lines ot a class, meets every Monday night. Newspaper men of the city address the members on various phases of jou nalism.

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Today’s Radio Show Program Doors open at 10 a. m. 2 to 4 I*. M. Hitch’s Happy Humorists Orchestra. Gennett Record Artists. 8 to 10 P. M. Dickerson’s Voodstock Country Club Orchestra. Billy Watson, Musical Saw Man. Broadcasting 10 to 11 P. M. Leo Fitzpatrick “Merry Old Chief” of the Kansas City Night Hawk. Guest announcer. Dickerson's AA r oodstock Club Orchestra. Dickerson’s AVoodstock Club Orchestra. Billy AVatson, Musical Saw 'Solos. Urbana Male Quartet.

MANY ATTEND om\m NIGHT OF EXPOSITION City’s First Wireless Exhibit Launched at Cadle Tabernacle. More than 3,000 radio fans crowded the auditorium of the Cadle Tabernacle at Indianapolis’ first Radio Exposition opening Monday night. Enthusiasts from all over Indiana were present wandering through the aisles and examining the fascinating knobs, bolts, screws, and batteries, and calling every nut (inanimate) by its first name. Representatives of the 38th Signal Company, Indiana National Guard, were kept busy explaining ail the intricacies and delicacies of tho combined sending and receiving sets which they were displaying. The sets were hypnotic, and one man almost crawled in among the little glass tubes and fine wires in his rush of enthusiasm. Gold Fish and Battery At the Van Camp Hardware Company, display, a half dozen or so little flapper gold fish flirted lazily about an immersed battery, thereby proving that the battery did not leak—otherwise they’d be tum-my-side up! In the big glass enclosed cage on the stage the voices of the speakers for the evening were amplified throughout the large auditorium as though they v ere speaking directly into everyone’s ear. Robert L. Moorhead, chairman of tho opening ceremonies committee introduced Herbert A. Luckey, president of the broadcast Listeners Association, which is conducting the exposition. Luckey said tho association was started by thirty-three radio enthusiasts. “Today the association numbers hundreds of members and it is hor-ed we will have a membership of 20,000 eventually.” A message of welcome from Governor Jackson was read by Pliny H. AVolfard. Mayor Lew Shank gave a rollicking welcome Vto the crowd. Other speakers were Lieut. Frank H. Curtis, who spoke in place of Brig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman, and George Dewey Hay of WLS, Chicago, guest announcer. Luckey Given Dog Hay, who was voted the most popular radio announcer last year, presented Luckey with a black leather case that apparently contained a radio receiving set, but when the box was opened an 8-weeks-old German police puppy, Madame Kerda, stuck out her head. Luckey had tried without success to buy her from the Shuffleton ken riels, and the surprise was a pleasant one. AVhilo the crowd milled up one aisle and down the other, a program was broadcast from Chicago, Including dance and orchestra numbers songs and whistling. Tlie Indianapolis Times’s booth was conspicuously placed near the platform with the loving cup to be presented to the most popular anno ancer by vote, in full evidence. Carl Fohl, of The Times, chairman of t.ie entertainment and special night3 committee, spoke to the crowd a: and ga\e a welcoming talk. After a la3t lingering look at the yellow and white decorations and the mammoth speaker suspended from the ceiling, the crowds finally wuuJed homeward, everybody's receiving set working perfectly, and all favorably attuned to the Indianapolis Radio Exposition.

TERRE HAUTE PLANT BURNS Damage From Early Morning Blaz j $30,000. Bn TJnUrd Prrsn TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 22. Fire whi< h oroke out early this morning in the aldehyde plant of the Commercial Solvents Company, and which gave firemen stubborn resistance for four hours, was under control after doing damage estimated at $30,000. The firy, which brought out practically all the city’s fire fighting apparatus, burned the roof off. the aldehjjfie plant building. Tanks and pipes were badly damaged. The waili also started to cave in.

DRY LEADER TO RESPECT HOMEJGHT Harris, New Deputy U. S. Administrator, Says That Agents Must Have Proper Warrants Before Making Search for Liquor. Federal prohibition agents will not invade Indiana homes without proper search warrants, Ansel R. Harris, netvly named deputy district administrator of prohibition declared today. \ Outlining tho policy which he will pursue, Harris said search warrants will be obtained upon proper affidavits, and there will be no midnight parading of authority through the homes of innocent persons, such as har been indulged in by officers in several instances brought to light recently. Harris made it plain that his men will not hestitate to legally search homes where there is good reason to believe there is law violation, however. His job is to dry up Hoosier wet spots and that’s what he intends to do, he indicated. “Home Is Castle” “A man’s home is his castle," said Harris. “If he forgets it should be a castle and makes a brewing plant of it or a storage house he loses the right to be unmolested. “In other words, if the people, by violating the law, force us to enter their homes to enforce the law, we will meet their conditions. We will not stand for anyone waving It under nr nose.” Fo.lowing the direction sos Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews, national head of the prohibition forces, and E. C. Yellowley, district administrator at Chicago, Harris will direct his first blows at the big sources of supply. The Government is interested in making it so hard to obtain liquor that there will be no excuse to go into homes, the idea being there would be no liquor in residences if all illicit manufacturers ’and bootleggers were checked. Relieve United Slates Court Under the new regime it is believed fewer liquor cases will be handled in Federal Court, and that most of the smaller cases of law (Turn to Page 10) JUDGE LIST SELECTED Special Presiding Officer to Be Named for Hearing. Judge Clinton H. Givan of Superior Court Four today named Sol Esarey, Oren Hack and 11. B. Pike, attorneys from whom a special judge k to be selected to try the injunction suit filed by Dr. William F. King, secretary State board of health, against board members. Dr. King obtained a temporary restraining order prohibiting members from interfering with his duties as secretary after they charged him with malfeasance.

HOMES ARE ROCKED BY BLAST IN SHOP Proprietor Burned When He Falls in Flaming Oil While Trying to Get Fire Extinguisher.

E. C. Haupt, proprietor of a machine shop.at 1300 Brookside Ave., was seriously burned about the face, hands and ankles today, when he tripped and fell into blazing oil while running to get a tire extinguisher to put out a blaze caused by a cigar he was smoking. Haupt, burned, rush and from the flaming shop. An explosion that rocked the neighborhood followed. Loss to his shop was estimated at between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO. Itadio Plant Damaged Damage, placed at $5,000, was done to tho Continental Corporation, a radio company, which occupies the other half of the building. Haupt had been moving his machine to Canal and Tenth St. A large part of his machinery had already been moved. He’ went to the shop early today and, driving his auto into the shop, filled it with gasoline. Haupt said he either dropped his cigar or sparks from it ignited oily waste on the floor. The explosion was caused when the flames reached oil and cleaning fluids. The auto was destroyed. Haupt was taken to his home. 1314 Edgemont Ave. It was the second time he had suffered a heavy loss by fire. His plant was wiped out by the Industrial Bldg, fire in 1920. Mrs. Blanche 'Willard. 1238 Brookside Ave., said she was in bed at the time and that the blast made the •whole house shake.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1925

CLEVELAND AND INDIANAPOLIS MA Y HA VE BATTLE OVER SOUTHERN AIR MAIL ROUTING

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Air mail routes under consideration by Ihe Postoffice Department, including the one from Chicago to Birmingham, (hrough Indianapolis.

Ohio City Seeks to Switch Start of Line to Birmingham. Prospects of a fight between Indianapolis and Cleveland, Ohio, over the proposed air mail route from Chicago to Birmingham, Ala., were seen today. Civic organizations of Indian apolis are expected to oppose a movement started in Cleveland to change the route and start the planes from Cleveland instead of Chicago. This change would isolate Indianapolis as far as air mail service is concerned. The postal affairs committee of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce plans to recommend the change to postal authorities at Washington, according to a Cleveland dispatch. The air port committte of the Indianapolis Real Eesaate Board will act on the proposition at a meeting soon. “We are going to put the Chi-cago-Birmingham route through, with Indianapolis on the route,’’ declared Daniel W. Legore, chairman of the committee. “Indian is logically located in respect to its geographical position and air traffic. It is near the center of population. Tho air routes are being established to serve cities, not to arouse jealousy between them.” The Indianapolis Board of Trade will heartily support the fight to keep Indianapolis on the route. Bids on the proposed route have been received and opened at Washington. The plans call for a Chi-cago-Birmingham course. "We will do all we can to put the proposed route through,” said William H. Howard, secretary of the board. “The Board of Trade has already given the matter its approval."

Mrs. Carrie Miller, 1302 Brookside Ave., said she was about to scramble some eggs. She dropped the skillet. "I didn’t have to scramble them,” she said. Saw Flames E. L. Flanagan, grocer at 1425 Brookside Ave., said he thought the blast was an earthquake until he saw the flames leap from the machine shop. Mrs. George Swan, 1250 Brookside Ave., was in bed wtih her four children, Ilene 11, Jennet 10, Mary 3 and Roberta 4. ‘‘After the blast we were all jumbled up together," she said. Mrs. Eula Schooler, 1254 Brookside Ave., said she thought it was an earthquake. Loss estimated at $5,000 was done by fire early today on the farm of H. Brown, R. R. R, one mile west of Flackvllle, on the Salt Lick Rd. Brown was awakened to see his big barn in flames. He summoned aid by a dinner bell and neighbors formed a bucket brigade and saved the residence. The barn was de stroyed. Lieutenant Ragsdale and members of Squad One from fire headquarters responded. YEP! WINTER’S TIERE Wintry? You bet. Fire Chief John J. O'Brien today asked the board of safety to order a gross of single bed blankets for the fire fighters, __

POSSE SEEKS SLA YERS

Indianapolis Youths, Sought for Killing Officer, Head for City. Dll Times Special SEITMOUR. Ind., Sept. 22. Two carloads of patrolmen and deputies left here today, armed with sawedoff shotguns, following a report that the two youths who falutly wounded Ed Fowler, North Vernon patrolman, iiad commandeered an auto and were headed toward Indianapolis on State Rd. 1. The fugitives, who have been identified as Walter and Harry AVright, brothers, formerly of Nebraska, lnd., but who have lived in Indianapolis for the past three years, were seen passing through Uniontown, five miles east of here. Fowler was shot when he accosted the youths, who were In an auto belonging to Everett AV. Troock, Columbia Club, Indianapolis, stolon several days ago. A posse of 300 men is searching for the men. Two bloodhounds failed to locate the men Monday night, losing the trail in a circle in the Ross thicket, one mile north of Commiskey, in Jennings County. Sheriff Ray Hearn of North Vernon and M. M. AVells, postmaster of Commiskey, are leaders of the posse. Leon Perry, a son-in-law of the slain man of North A’ernon, is a member of the posse. Funeral services for Fowler will he held AVednesday afternoon at Dupont, Ind. SUSPECTS KNOWN HERE Both Brothers Have Been Arrested oil Vehicle Taking Charges. Harry and AValter AVright, sought in connection with the fatal shooting of a North Vernon (Ind.) patrolman Sunday night, have been arrested here three times on vehicle taking charges, detectives said today. Police said Harry Wright was known here as Freeman AVright. He is about 20. His brother is 22. AValter Wright was sentenced to the Indiana State Prison and was paroled recently, police said.

MILLION DOLLAR FIRE AT RESORT Tia Juana Swept by Disastrous Blaze. Bv United Press TIA JUANA. Mexico, Sept. 22. Fire starting in the kitchen of the Vernon Club, a local resort, today swept an entire block and caused damage estimated at $1,000,000. The blaze, one of the most disastrous in Tia Juana’s history, destroyed the San Francisco Cantina, the Tivoli bar, the Log Cabin case, San Diego bar, Gonzales bar, Alhambra case, the Lower California Company's curio store and the Turf bar. 370 BUILDING PERMITS Valuation $320,000 During Week, Inpec tor Reports. Building permits for the week ended Sept. 18 numbered 3 70,with valuation of $320,826, according to a report to the board of safety today by Francis F. Hamilton, building commissioner. During the same period 11. F. Templeton, smoke inspector, made ninetytwo inspections.

WOMAN BURNED ALIVE BY HER SECRET WOOER

Police Say Roumanian Has Into Blazing Furnace Bn United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Beaten upon the head with wine bottles, gagged and almost unconscious, Mrs. Sophie Poleskie was dragged Into the Kiln room of a lumber yard, and, still alive, thrust into a blazing furnace here today. George Symuk, special fireman, and secret wooer of Mrs. Poleskie, is alleged to have confessed to tho CITY BUS LINE PLEAS HEARD Artman Receives Petitions of Competitors. Beginning petitions of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to operate busses on the Emerson Ave. and Twenty-First St. route and from Monument Circle 4o Speedway City were heard today by Samuel R. Artman of the public service commission. Peoples Motor Coach Company asked extension of its New York St. line to Tenth St. and Arlington Ave., and another to Speedway City. Through service Is proposed. Extension of its Central Ave. route from Fifty-Fourth to Fifty-Ninth Sts., was also asked.

LAST SUMMER DAY IS CHILLY Temperature Goes Down to Below Normal. 6 a. m 56 10 a. m 60 7 a. m 56 11 a. m 60 8 a. m 58 12 (noon) .... 60 9 a. 59 1 p. m 61 Shivering, and with chattering teeth, summer today crept out of Indianapolis, after a three months’ regime of warm weather. Autumn will be officially inaugurated at 7:44 a. mfl Wednesday, the United States Weather Bureau announced. While temperature of 56 at 7 a. m. was much below the marks for the last two weeks, it was only 1 degree below normal. A high mark of 92 was recorded Saturday. Temperature was 60 at 7 a. m. Monday. Other stations in Indiana had higher temperatures. Ft. Wayne reporting 68 and Evansville 62. Temperature was 60 at noon. While no frost has yet been reported, corn is for the most part beyond danger. The outlook is for showers tonight and Wednesday, with not much change in tempera ture. SAFETY ZONES FIXED Asa measure to insure safety of school children, members ofthe board of safety today authorized safety zones for School 62. onthe south side of Tenth St. between Sherman Dr. and Emerson Ave., and for School 38 at [Winter apdi glayd Aves, .

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Confessed Thrusting Body After Beating Victim. murder. He was captured by a policeman after a chase and a desperate hand-to-hand battle. “She was going to poison me,” the fireman is alleged to have told police. After a recent quarrel, Mr a. Poleskie threatened to kill him and last night when she brought him two bottles of wine, he suspected tho bottles contained poison. Symuk is a Roumanian, 44, Land tends two furnaces, in one of which he is alleged to have placed the woman. Police found the body In a mass ol’ flames. Her features were still recogntzable, but the lower half of her body was horribly burned. ) Symuk is said to have confessed he struck Mrs. Poleskie on the side of the head with one of the bottles, and that when she screamed ho lost his temper, struck her again and then pushed her in the furnace. Mrs. Poleskio was 28 years old. She lived with her husband, John, a waiter, and her son, Ladik. It was said she and Symuk had been together frequently.

SLAYER OF TWO FIGHTSCAPTURE Armed Miner Stands Ground in Cornfield. Bu United Press TOLUCA. 111., Sept. 22.—Authorities decided to use tear bombs this afternoon to drive Joseph Stimas, 60, a. coal miner, from his hiding place In a cornfield near his home. Simas killed Orville Litchfield, Marshall County sheriff, and John Leonard, Toluca police chief, last night, when they attempted to arrest him on charges preferred by neighbors that he was threatening to kill them. He shot the officers as they approached, and from an upstairs window of his home fought off capture by other officers. When the officers retreated, deciding to wait until dawn before further attempting the capture, Stimas fled, unseen, to his present refuge. He is heavily armed. ACTS IN PAVING CASE Judge Gives Property Owners Until Friday to File Brief. Attorneys for Albert Neuerburg and others who filed suit in Superior Court to restrain the board of works from accepting paving of E. Tenth St. from Sherman Dr. to Hawthorne Lane, were given until Friday to tile a brief to their case by Judge Clinton H. Givan today. William Bosson, city attorney, was given until Wednesday to file an answer if the brief is filed. Judge Clinton and attorneys for both parties inspected the pavement Monday afternoon. Outside of a few minor defects, they reported the work In good condition. Property owners alleged the specifications were not followed In laying the itriset. r *((~v ~ <• > *

Forecast SHOWERS forecast, for today. Not much change in temperature is anticipated.

TWO CENTS

Special Judge Gause Gives Final Instructions After Concluding Arguments by Attorneys in Trial for Labor Leader. Bulletin John J. McNamara, business agent for the local iron workers’ union, was found guilty on a blackmail charge by a jury in Criminal Court at 2 p. m. today. The jury was out two hours, but deliberated only forty-five minutes. Preceded by a Avarning by Special Prosecutor Eph Inman that responsibility for the present crime wave lies in Avcakknecd juries, the blackmail case against John J. [McNamara, business agent of the local iron Avorkers’ union, Avent to the jury at noon today in Criminal Court. McNamara has been on trial eight days of charges of terrorozing workmen, some of them members of other unions, who were installing boilers in the new Elks Bldg, in November, 1923, in an attempt to get the work for his own union. It is the first time in Indiana legal history tho State has attempted to apply the statute against blackmail to a labor war. Inman, veteran criminal lawyer, hired to assist Prosecutor AVillipm 11. Remy, closed the argument with an eloquent plea for conviction of the defendant. Much at Stake “There Is much at stake here in this case. You gentlemen are the final judge of tho law and the facts. It Is your duty to protect the altars of society and if you do not convict this man the blame will not rest with tho judge or Prosecutor Remy.” Inman’s address was preceded by closing arguments for the defense by Attorney Charles E. Cox, who insisted that the State had not proved McNamara guilty “beyond all reasonable doubt.” Special Judge Fred C. Cause turned tho case over to the jury with his instructions, chief of which was that the defendant should not be convicted upon his record elsewhere. McNamara recently completed a twelve years’ term in the California Stato prison on his plea of guilty to a charge arising from the famous dynamiting cases in that State in 1910 during a labor war. McNamara went to his office, lie was calm and unconcerned. “The defense has referred to me as a lawyer retained by interests who want to discredit organized labor,” said Inman, I was appointed by tho court at the request of Ritny to assist him. I have nothing personal against this defendant, who wouldn't stop short of overturning tho government if need bo to nttain his end. My client is the State of Indiana.

Refers to Crime Wave "If the juries of this country would stand straight up and do their duty, they would stop the crime wave which is inundating the United States. "If you should bo derelict enough in your duty to send this man back to the community unpunished for this outrage, you will ruin the community. You will embolden him to do things he does not dare do now. Do you want your properties made safe, your very lives? It is a terrible situation." Attorney Cox, during his closing argument, made a plea for justice for McNamara. "Wo do not ask mercy for the defendant. lie doesn’t need it. I am asking for justice under the law." Cox denounced Claude M. Worley, l special investigator for the prosecutor’s office, as that "marvelous sleuth, who could dig up something on anybody except that arch criminal of Marion County,” Inman said. All through his argument Cox intimated that his client is a victim of persecution by the State or somebody with an "ulterior motive." Cox vs. Inman Cox ridiculed the idea of applying the blackmail law to a labor dispute. Uo said the indictment had not been sustained by State’s evidence. Cox, launched Into a denunciation of the prosecution questioning the motive behind the case. "This case is but an illustration of the tendency of our time, to correct and regulate everything by law. But for that tendency or Borne ulterior motive back of this affair this case would never have happened. "Never before has a prosecuting agency applied the blackmail law to a labor dispute. Hundreds of times, workmen have settled far worse controversy and the law nover interfered, because It is one of those things the law doesn’t bother. THREE MAKE ESCAPE Indiana State Reformatory officials reported to Indianapolis police today that Dan Morgan, 24, sentenced at Delphi, Ind.; George Brown, alias James J. Ogden, sentenced in Putnam County, and James Jennings, alias Henry Schieasler, 24. of Vigo County, all escaped from the lnatltu|ion late,Monday*. .