Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 129

SUBSEA TOMB GIVES UP LOCAL BOY

COUNTY BALKS AT SUPPORTING PSYCHO WARD Appropriation Withheld on Grounds Hospital Is Discriminating. SCHLOSS MAKES DENIAL I : Council Asserts Only City I Residents Are Admitted. I Aroused because they say Sol "Schloss, president of the city board of health, issued order not to admit anybody except Indianapolis residents to the psychopathic ward at city hospital, county council has cut off the appropriation necessary to maintain it, it was disclosed today. ‘‘Let the city pay the bills if they won’t admit any one from outside the city limits,” said Cassius L. Hogle, president of the county council. 1 The di .overy there will be practically no money to maintain the ward in 1926 was made Monday by The Times, in checking over the county budget, fixed early this month. Schloss said he issued no orders to hospital authorities to admit only patients from the city. “This is a serious matter,” he said. “Someone will have to make an emergency appropriation.’’ City Indignant City officials expressed surprise and indignation on hearing of the action. “The county has broken its agreement,” they said. Unless city and county authorities agree on the matter, and one of the two make an emergency appropriation of $20,000. persons held for investigation of sanity will once again _be lodged in the county jail with "bootleggers, murderers and other criminals, as they were prior to 1925. It was only after a hard fight, led by City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth and backed by The Times and women’s civic organizations, that the ward was established “in the name of humanity.” The county agreed to pay the bills snd teh city furnish the quarters and car© for the patients. Accordingly, the county appropriated $20,000 for (Turn to Page 12)

BOY INJURED BY MACHINE Other Accidents Are Reported to Police. Charles Hayes, 7, of 317 Dorman St., was injured slightly when he ran from behind a truck into the path of an auto driven by Seth Ward, Federal prohibition director, in front of 1159 Marlowe Ave. The boys was not seriously injured and witnesses exonerated Ward, police say. Herbert Ott, 1431 S. Talbott Ave. was cut and bruised when he fell while on roller skates near his home. Police were told he was holding onto an auto driven by Louis Held, 3215 S. Meridian St. Others injured in automobile accidents were: Pert Cox, 4(1, of 117 Shelby St. and Floyd Thompson, 21, of 3027 School St. Drivers arrested as a result of accidents were: Fred .Ranney, 3133 College Ave.; Lloyd (young, 18 N. Greeley St., and R. White, 1322 Cornell Ave. ‘BOB’ CONFIDENT HE IS WINNER Light Vote Expected in Wisconsin. Bu United Press MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 29. Crisp autumn weather with overcast si ics greeted Wisconsin voters today as they went to the polls to elect a successor to the late Senator Robert M. La Follette. Candidates, who have been conducting an active campaign, closed up with a flourish last night. Robert M. La Follette Jr. made his last campaign address at Waukesha, while ( Edward F. Dithmar, Baraboo, independent Republican candidate, and John M. Work, Milwaukee, Socialist nominee, ended with speeches in their home towns. Dithmar, La Follette and Work all expressed confidence of victory. William George Bruce, independent Democrat, and George Bauman, inde pendent Socialist-Labor candidate, had little to say regarding probable results. | THREE ARE SENTENCED A SIOO fine and thirty days in Jail was the piyiishment meted out to each of three men found guilty on a liquor charge today in the city court. John Ryan, 1720 S. Illinois; J. A. Ferguson, 324 N. West, and Bert Heiss, city, were thejnen condieted.

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BANDIT LORD IN CHINA’S SADDLE

Chang Tso Lin Makes Bid for Support of Powers*. . Editor's Note: Here is one of the most a.i lazing- stories that have come out 01 the Orient in a long while. Marshall Chang Tso Lin, once a bandit. new ruler of Manchuria, last year defeated the Chinese government in wai and inslalled his own puppets at Peking Theses have disappointed Chang and he may start another war at any time to oust them. His view. made known through Roy W. Howard of the ScrippsHoward Newspapers are. therefore of international importance, for in stating them he makes an undisguised bid sot the support of foreign powers lhat he may become boss of all China. By Boy W. Howard (Copyright. 1025, by Scripps-Howard Newspapers.) MUKDEN MANCHURIA, Sept. 29. —“While Europeans and America are critising the Chinese drama, the theater is afire, and nobody is aware of the danger. Extra territorial and customs questions are engaging their attention. Meantime bolshevism is stealthily penetrating China. Despite the fact that innumerable sniall blazes of Soviet incendiarism are rising up, foreigners seemingly are not yet awake to the menace of a world-wide conflagration.” The foregoing was the reply today of Chang Tsolin, the Manchurian war lord, to my request for an expression of his views on the coming Peking conference between China and the great powers. Picturesque Sotting The general, extremely picturesque and widely heralded as China’s “man on horseback” received me in the salon of his private palace. The diminutive ex-bandit, now the war chief of Manchuria, was dressed simply, in Chinese fashion, and was seated in a huge American overstuffed chair placed betwen two enormous stuffed tigers. At the outset, his eyes were half closed and his face was inscrutable but, as he talked, an expression of warmth came over his features, flashes of humor, of contempt, of philosophy alternated on a countenance that bore the imprint of a mentality as keen as steel. Plunging into the question of the coming tariff conference and into the subject of earlier student riots in China, the war lord declared: “The failure of the powers to carry out the Washington agreement was a blunder. While I realize that the students’ method of seeking a remedy for the existing situation is (Turn to Page 7)

DEBT FUNDING SCRtPRENEWED Caillaux Stands on Original Payment Terms. Bit United Pres* WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The American and French debt funding commissions today continued bargaining over terms of settlement of the $4,200,000,000 French debt with an agreement hoped for by tomorrow night, but with much gloom evident on both sides. Strenuous efforts are being made to bring the divergent views into harmony following the reiteration of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux of the French offer and the American reply handed him yesterday afternoon which made slight concessions but failed to satisfy the French. NEW SCHOOLS TO GET ACTION Board Expected to Take Definite Steps. With the city school tax levy for 1925-26 to stand at sl.lO it was learned today that action will be taken by the school board to carry out the proposed building program planned in the budget. At the board meeting tonight, it is expected that William H. Book, business director, will be authorized to draw up resolutions for the sale of the present Shortridge High •School and for the new Shortridge High School bond issue. Special meetings will be held Friday and Saturday when bids on the construction work and the bond issue of $1,050,000 for the Jefferson colored and wqgt side high schools will be received. No remonstrances were filed against the levy Monday, the final day for such action. CREDITORS TO APPEAR Rollings Claims to Re Considered by Court. Creditors of the R. L. Dollings Company of Indiana and the International Note and Mortgage Company and Dollings’ subsidiaries will appear in Superior Couht Two Wednesday morning before Judge Linn D. Hay at a hearing on all priority claims. Petitioners from all parts of Indiana and other parts of the country are expected, according to Harold Taylor, attorney for Bert Mcßride, Dollings receiver. Intervening petitions which are said to take up claims totaling more than $33,000 will he heard. The hearing is e:-” ' ’ ’"•••all week.

Less Than Week to Register Only six days left in which to register! If you didnT vote in the primary, or if you have moved since, you aren’t registered nov to vote' in the city election in November, unless you have attended to it as a special matter. There are 30,000 voters in In dianapolis who aren’t regis tered. They can register at the city clerk's office at the police station, at Democratic headquarters, 508 National City Dank Bldg., or at Republican headquarters, second floor K. of P. Bldg. In addition, both parties have notaries over the city taking registrations. Register at once!

NEW PLACE TO REGISTER Democrats Open Offices at Fountain Square. Registration headquarters have been opened at Fountain Square, Democratic city headquarters announced today. The office will be open at night until Monday, the last day for registering. P-T LUNCHEON PLANNED Annual Affair Will Re Held at Noon on Wednesday. Annual President’s Luncheon of the Indianapolis Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations will be held at noon Wednesday at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, E. Thirty-Fourth St. and Central Ave. Mrs. Charles H. Smith is president. The association of School 80, Broad Ripple, will hold a reception in the school for new teachers and members Thursday. GIRL REPORTS HOLD-UP Says Man Dragged Her in Auto and Took Ring. Police today investigated a reported hold up of Frieda Sharkey, 17, of 1603 Bates St. Miss Sharkey said she was going heme from work when a man pulled her into an auto, and drove to a point near Beech Grove. She said he took her purse, and a $25 diamond ring, and brought hei back to Bethel and Keystone Aves., without attempting to harm her in any way. She called police when she reached home. HEADS AUTO FOR CANAL Driver Slated on Charge of Driving While Drunk. Albert Ogden, 3307 Speedway Rd., was arrested today on a charge of driving a machine while drunk. A woman, giving her name as Lena McGillvary, same address, was charged with drunkenness. Ogden drove through a private driveway in the 1400 block on W. Thirty-Third St. and over an • embankment almost into the canal, police said. He was saved when the machine hit a tree.

COOK CHARGED WITH PERJURY Husband of Slain Dry Crusader Arrested. Bu United Press VINTON, lowa, Sept. 29.—Clifford B. Cook, husband of Benton County’s slain temperance crusader, Mrs. Myrtle Cook, secured his freedom by providing SIO,OOO bond today. Cook was arrested last night charged with perjury in connection with testimony given two weeks ago before the coroner's jury investigating the mui der of his wife. Cook is alleged to have said that on Sunday, Sept. 6, the day before his wife was shot, that he was in Sioux City; that he went to church and then spent the remainder of the day in his hotel room. Later he told officials that this testimony was false. He had been with Mrs. Hester Selling, pretty divorcee, part of the day. Mrs. Selling is held for questioning in the Cook murder. The pair occupied quarters in the same rooming house at Sioux City, it was said. They met frequently and were “very friendly."

Two Slices of Bread 50c in Florida

(Editor's Note: This is the second of a series of articles telling the truth of conditions in Florida as found by representative of The Times.) By Harold Keats fUT~I O you remember camp cities || J I in war time? I 1 Add to the picture the heat of a tropic sun. the humidity of swamps, lakes and ocean shores, the aimless milling about of thousands of people, a let-down in social restrictions —atf,i you will have an un-

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1925

LAND BUY MAY CAUSE BRIDGE WORK TO HALT County Councilmen Say City Spent Too Much for Approaches. APPROPRIATION WANTED Oliver and Kentucky Ave. Structures in Muddle. Construction of the new Oliver Ave. and Kentucky Ave. bridges may be halted, because the city has spent the money appropriated for the bridges to buy land, county Auditor Harry Dunn said today. Joseph L. Hogue, cify controller, has visited Dunn with a plea that the county appropriate or borrow another $175,000 to give the city so work can go on. Hogue said the city has. only $32,000 left In the fund to pay what it still owes, more than $150,000. The mix-up Is due to charges of county councilmen that the city wasted approximately $175,000 In buying land for the bridge approaches, far from the bridges at artificial prices. The county refused to appropriate the money, but the board of works bought the land anyhow. Bridge Estimates The two bridges together were estimated to cost $1,122,336. The city and county each were to pay 43 per cent, and property benefited 10 per cent. The bridges are part of the flood prevention scheme. Trouble arose when the county refused to join in purchasing a strip of land along the east bank of the river, which the city claims is necessary to proper approaches for the bridges. The strip extends north towards Kingan & Cos. County courtellmen charged the city is paying three times the value of the land, and that it is not necessary to buy it at all. Used Bridge Money “Here is the pickle the city now finds itrelf in,” said Dunn. “It went ahead and used the bridge money to buy this land, wasting the taxpayers’ money to purchase some dumps, and now there Is no money left to pay for the bridges The city (Tum to Page 13)

STATE OFFICERS ARE SUSPENDED Chief Says Three Dropped Pending Investigation. Temporary suspension of State Motorpolice George Jackson, Ray Dunlap, and William Hamilson, assistant chief, was announced today by Robert T. Humes, State police chief. Humes said the action was made effective Sept. 26, on orders of Secretary of State F. E. Schortemeier. It is said that an investigation of alleged improper conduct of the three near Bluffton, Ind., last week is being made. The three officers made indiscriminate arrests at that time. It is charged. Humes refused to reveal details of the case. The three men were each fined $lO and costs in a justice of the peace court at Bluffton today on Intoxication charges. DIVORCE RULE APPEALED Seek to Force Court to Choose Special Judge. Petition to mandate Judge Pro Tem. Joseph L. Milner of Circuit Court Five to name three attorneys from which to choose a special judge to hear the divorce case of Elizabeth Gentry vs. Zane Gentry, was filed in Supreme Court to day by Attorney T. Ernest Maholn Mahlon charges that after peti tion for a change of judge had been filed, Milner reassigned the case to the general term of court, delaying a hearing, and refused to arrange for choice of a special judge. SHRINERS AID LEGION The Shriners of the Chicago Medinah Temple have donated $5,000 to the American Legion endowment fund. The check was received at Legion headquarters today from the State headquarters of the Legion at Bloomington. 111.

derstanding of living conditions in Florida today. This country, which believes it is destined to feed the eastern half of America, faces a food shortage which has already sky-rocketed prices beyond the worst of the war days. Milk is so scarce, prepared or powdered milk is used almost exclusively in most homes. Poor people cannot afford milk for the

Mitchell Cites Danger of U. S. Unpreparedness

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When Col. William Mitchell, critic of the (internment's air policy, arrived at Washington, where today he testified before President Coolidge’s aircraft investigating hoard, he was given a warm reception. Photo shows him with American men who paraded to the station to meet him.

Colonel Warns British Could Attack in Ten Days’ Time. Hu United press WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The United States Army and Navy are Impotent for national defense purposes, Col. William Mitchell told *he President's aviation inquiry board today. The Nation is at the mercy of an enemy air force, the former assistant chief of the Army Air Service, demoted to a colonelcy at San Antonio after his outburst against the War and Navy Departments last winter, declared. Mitchell told the board in detail how Great Britain or Japan could invade the United States by air by the St. Lawrence River or Alaska. “The American air service is treated like a stepchild; the army is little more than a police force,’’ and the navy is old-fashioned and no good for national defense, he said. Mitchell urged creation at once of a unified air force with flying men in charge, who would not be sub(Tum to Page 13) STEPHENSON’S JURY IS DRAWN First Twelve Men Called for Court Opening. Bit Times Sp tint NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Sept. 29. Twelve men drawn for jury service Monday for the October term of court opening next Monday, will be the first to be examined for the trial of D. C. Stephenson and his aides, charged with the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer of Indianapolis, set for Ogt. 12. The twelve are: Emery Booth, Earl Parker, Lee Clark, Charles Lennen, Robert Tomlinson, J. C. Irwin, Elijah Rushton, Archie > Beaver, Herschel Hunter, Charles Moffitt. Walter Studevant and C. F. Lower. It is expected that a special venire of 100 men will be called for service in this case. The regular panel will be exhausted, however, before any special men are called. ANN IVERSARY PROGRAM Pettis Opera Ensemble to Sing Songs Popular Since 1853. Asa special feature of the Pettis seventy-second anniversary celebration the Pettis Light Opera Ensemble will broadcast a unique twohour program of popular songs from 1853 to the present day. The program will be given from 8:15 to 10.30 tonight. Merle Krug, Mary E. Case and Ruth Otte, will be the soloists.

babies at 18 cents a quart in Jacksonville and 25 and 30 cents in Miami and Sarasota with a sharp rise due again when winter comes. Even indigenous fruits are higher than in the northern markets. Bananas, once called the poor man’s meat, cost from 5 to 10 cents each. Avocado pears, grown in Florida. bring from 20 to 50 cents each for the sort you get in Cleveland for 20 centa. |

CAPTAIN ZENER LEAVES FORCE TO AID MYERS Resignation of Police Officer Accepted by Board of Safety. Police Captain John Zener, assigned to city controller’s office, today resigned from the police force so he would be unhampered in working for the election of Walter Myers. Democratic candidate for mayor. The resignation was accepted. Zener, who collected funds for Ralph A. Lemcke's candidacy for Republican nomination for mayor, started a revolt among city hall workers Friday when he kicked over the traces and refused to follow leadership of William H. Armitage, political general for Mayor Shank and the Armitage organization which is supporting John L. Duvall’s Republican candidatcy for mayor. Announcement of Zener's revolt was followed by conference of city hall leaders. Board of safety members told Zener he was “crazy" to make such a move, but ho assured them he would speak a good word for them with Myers. Zener said he would organize Republican clubs for Myers over the city. He asserted he was instrumental in securing jobs for one-third of the city hall workers, .and felt sure they would support his latest move. Zener also said he thought he could bring 10,000 Democrats who voted for Lemcke in the primary back into the Myers fold. He plans to “take up” Armitage’s offer to wager SI,OOO Duvall would carry the Fifth ward, he stated. Zener wrote to the board: “I am opposed to the election of John L. Duvall to :ucceed Mayor Shank. Because of his lack of the personal qualities necessary to a proper fulfillment of the office of mayor and because of the wellknown fact that he is not and never has been his own master in political affairs, I believe the election of Mr. Duvall would result in turning the city over to a group of undesirables whom neither Mr. Duvall nor any one else could handle. SIO,OOO~Tn cash taken Bank Chauffeur Killed and Guard Wounded ly Bandits. Bu United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mess., Sept. £9.—Three bandits held up a motor tcucl; in the business district here today, shot and killed the bank chauffeur, injured one of the payroll guards and escaped with between ten and eleven thousand dollars in cash.

Vegetables come in cans from the North and fresh fruits mostly from California except in the citrus fruit season. Florida farmers are too busy speculating to farm their lands except in winer when prices are high in the northern markets. The real estate boom has taken land out of cultivation into building lots, thus reducing the native food supply, e-d (Turn to Page !**'

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William Teschemacher, 17, Is One of Two Victims Removed From Sunken Submarine S-51 by Divers —Twin Still Imprisoned. j&j WRECKED CRAFT YIELDS ITS DEAD, SLOWLY, STUBBORNLY Bodies of Pair Are Found in Battery Room by Bayonne (N. J.) Man —Compartment Had Been Damaged by Collision. By Hal Rorke. Unit id Pres* fttntt ('orretnondmr ABOARD U. S. IS. CAMDEN, Flagship of Admiral Chrystie, Sept. 29.—Two bodies, wrapped in blankets, which had been wrested by a diver from the hull of the submarine S-51, were brought aboard the Camden today while the crew stood erect in silence. The ship’s bugler sounded “attention” as sailors lifted the bodies of their dead comrades to the deck.

The bodies were those of William C. Tcschemacher, Indianapolis, Ind., and John L. Gibson, Portland, Ore., the first to be recovered from the sunken submersible. The sunken submarine began to yield up its dead at 7:50 a. m. when diver William Reid, of Bayonne, N J„ squeezed through battery room hatch and stumbled over Gibson’s body. Twin Is Imprisoned. Gibson was an engineman, first class. He maintained a neat home in New London, Conn. Reid had gone down to the watery tomb nearly three hours before, to resume the search which was halted during v the night by heavy seas. Then, shortly afterward, the body of Tcschemacher, first-class seaman, who Is 17, though listed on the Navy’s records as 19, was found and brought up. Teschemacher’s twin brother, Frederick Peter, also a first-class seaman, still is imprisoned. It is believed Frederick perished also. He is believed to have been at the conning tower wheel, Friday night when the submersible was rammed and sunk by the coast wise steamer, City cf Rome. AH Believed Dead Beside Gibson and the Tescliemachers, thirty-one others are in the flooded grave. All are believed dead. Divers have gotten no indication since rescue operations were started early Saturday, that life exists within the steel hulk. The Camden’s flag, with solemn ceremonies, was lowered to halfmast when the first body was brought aboard. Admiral H. H. Chrystie, in charge of salvaging operations sent the divers down at 5 a. m. after the derricks Century and Monarch, unable to weather the rough swells, (Turn to Page 13)

EFFORT TO KILL WITNESS MADE Bullets Whiz Near Man Who Helped Convict Chapman. Bit United Press MERIDEN, Conn., Sept. 29. —Once more the gur.s of the underworld have barked and bullets have whizzed close to a man who helped convict Gerald Chapman, “prince of bandits,” for murder. This time Louis A. Kubeck, who was a leading witness for the State against Chapman, was the mark for the un derworld’s guns. Kubeck, with Jack Quinn, was standing in the door of the former’s barn when a bullet glanced off a tin pan Quinn was holding and wounded Quinn In the leg. Kubeck said he felt sure the bullet was meant for him, as he had been warned that he was “a marked man" since testifying against Chapman. A few weeks ago Ben Hance and his wife, also witnesses against Chapman, were shot to death at Muncie, Ind., nnd their assassin disappeared as completely as did the man who fired the shots last night. TABERNACLE IS STARTED Church Members and Pastors to Build Structure. Seventy members of the Broad Ripplo Christian Church, with their pastor, the Rev. L. P. Buroker, and a former pastor, the Rev. Elvin Daniels, started work on a tempo rary tabernacle at Sixty-Second St. and College Ave., at 7 a. m. today. They expect to have the building, with a seating capacity of 1,000, finished by 6 p. m. This is the first step toward a thirty-day evangelistic campaign, whicn will start Oct. 1. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 59 10 a. 72 7 a. m 60 11 a. m 73 9 e m 65 12 (noon) .... 72 ... 70 1 p. 74

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature.

TWO CENTS

Ocean Tragedy Takes Toll Here Teschemachers Speed East at News of One Son’s Death.

"And the women are weeping and wringing their hands For those who'll never come back to the town.” I'rynl HE age-old tragedy of the sea , £ I flew far today and cast'its ■■■ J grim shadows over an Indianapolis home. The body of William Teschema cher, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Teschemacher, has been taken from tho submerged S-61. And news dispatches from New London, Conn., gave faint hope that Frederick, his twin brother, will be rescued alive from submarine which sank with the two lads and thirty-two others Friday night. Parents on Train The parents possibly do not know. They are speeding to New York from where they intended to go to New London. They will reach New York lute this afternoon. Newspapers there will tell them their sons are dead. Back in the pretty little home at 4071 College Ave., Mrs. Charles G. Frady. 3720 E. Washington St., had the sad task of telling the three little sisters that they would never see their brothers alive again. “I can’t tell them—l Just can’t," she said. Regina 15, and Helen 11, went to school as usual. Katherine 13, remained at home. They, too, shared the faith and hope of their parents that the lads would be saved. The parents loft for New York at 10 p. m. Monday. That was before news came that the hull of the submarine had been penetrated by divers, practically wiping out all hope that any of the crew are alive. “Why I can just see Billy come up laughing and saying: ‘Oh, that’s just another adventure Mom,’ And he'd go down the next day,” said the mother. The father’s faith faltered a little. "I hope ot course,” he said. "But one must look the facts in the face. Things seem to be against ijs —the storm which has delayed the rescue work. The chances seem slimmer. “If—” and his voice shook—“lf they do not reach my boys in time, we shall bury them in' Brooklyn—in Greenwood cemetery. My only consolation is that they died in the performance of their duty. My brave boys.” And the father turned away. The mother, in the long, terrible hours preceding the decision to go east, would take no rest, but wanted to talk —not sadly—about the things the twins had done and said in the past. Loved Each Other “They were always so fond of each other,” she said with a tender little smile. "Arid Frederick, while always the bigger and stronger of the two, never exulted in it. They were inseparable and so thoughtful of me.” A tiny shadow of pain passed over her forehead, the blue of her eyes dimmed for a moment, but she raised her head with quick determination (the mother of brave boys, must she not also be brave?) 'T know they’ll come out alive,” she said flrtnly. A candy box, with two small bows of yellow satin ribbon was a treasure that Mrs. "’eschemacher kept before her until she left for the train. It, was the box of candy that the boys] sent her last Monday for her blrthJ day. i I