Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 132

FOUR HELD IN SUM THEFT QUIZ ,y Indiana Bankers’ Detectives Arrest Couples in Connection With Investigation of St. Bernice Pay Roll Hold-up Last June. TWO HELD AT CLINTON; I TWO AT TERRE HAUTE Officers Refuse to Divulge Evidence Against Suspects—Five Took Money From Armed Messenger on Highway. Two men and two women are under arrest today in Terre Haute and Clinton, Ind., held in connection with the investigation of the hold-up of Floyd Reed, tank messenger, and his two guards, on a road between St. Bernice and Clinton, Ind., Aug. 25, when SII,OOO was taken. H. C. Webster, head of protective department of Indiana Bankers’ Association, said his operatives arrested Mr. and Mrs. Lon Striker of Clinton, Ind., in Terre Haute, Ind., Thursday night, and took John Dougherty and Miss Lena Smith in custody at Clinton, Ind. The hold-up was a spectaculrr one. Three men, armed with sawed-off shotguns, fired on the car driven by Reed as they leaped from a cornfield and ordered him to stop. Cover-' ing the victims, they took their guns and the money and disabled the auto. Two confederates drove up in an auto and the five drove away. Reed said one of the men wore a false beard, and he was positive he could identify all of them. The money was being transferred from the First National Bank at Clinton to the American State Bank at St. Bernice. Webster refused to divulge the evidence he had against the four.

STATE JOB AWARDED Colored Political Worker Made Assistant to Roberts. Robert D. Parker, colored, First Ward Republican worker, was appointed assistant superintendent of the Statehouse buildings and grounds today by the committee in charge and Henry A. Roberts, superintendent. Parker succeeds Eli Burnett, colored, of Indianapolis, who resigned. ' HELD UP IN DAYLIGHT Collector for Real Estate Finn Reports $846 Robbery. An - unusual daylight robbery was reported to police today by Harry Bergman, 303 N. East St., collector for tne Spann Company, real estate agents. Bergman said when he entered a vacant) house at 226 Smith St., cared for by! the company, he was confronted by two colored men, one of whom pointed a gun at him. He jsaid he was struck over the head hnd relieved of $251 in cash and $595 in checks, all belonging to the Spann Company.

Trio KILLED, IS HURT IN WRECK Passenger Train Crashes | Into Handcars. Bu i fitted Pram ADRIAN. Mich., Oct. 2.—Two railrlad workers were killed instantly, two were injured probably fatally and seventeen others were hurt ilsar heer today when a Chicago to Detroit passenger train crashed into J handcar with several trailers attached. Thot crash was attributed to a heavy/fog. Joseph Cutello, 35, foreman fcf the work crew, and W. J. Jonesl 32, a negro, were killed.

Three Days Left to Register With only three days left to register—the city clerk's office at the police station is making preparations for a rush by elev-enth-hour voters. Chief Deputy John Ambuhl predicts there will be fewer registrations this year than there were in the city election of 1921, when 143,000 persons were eligible to vote, although only 101,000 did so. Ambuhl pointed out that if anyone who is not registered wishes to do so, he had better attend to it himself now, as party workers will not be able to handle all the work, due to the shortness of time.

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FORD RELIABILITY PLANES DELAYED BY FOG

Some of the airplanes entered in the reliability tour for the Edsei B. Ford trophy which were due at Ft. Benjamin Harrison today. (1) Travel Air three-passenger. (2) Silhouette of Junkers air liner! .(3) Fokkor six-passenger monoplane. ((4) Ford air transport and trurk. (5) Interior of Ford air transport illustrating bins for carrying freight. (6) Nose of Junkers air liner showing pilot seat and entrance to passenger cabin. (7) Waco tlirec-passenger. (8) Interior of Fokker six-passenger monoplane.

ALL SIGNS LEAD TO FLORIDA COLLAPSE Break Will Swing to Selling Market and Gamblers Will Be Left to Wail.

Editors Note: This ia the fifth of a series of articles telling: the truth of conditions in Florida as found by a rep resentative of The Indianapolis Times. By Harold Keats EHE signs point to a break in Florida’s land boom, especially in the more active cities. This break will not take the form of a sudden drop in prices, but will swing the market from a buying to

SEVEN RESIGN fr6nl state FIRE OFFICES General Shake-up Comes With New Marshal — Four Appointed. Seven attaches in the office of State Fire Marshal Alfred Hogston. who succeeded Newman T. Miller Thursday, tendered their resignations today, some effective at once and others Nov. 1, following which Hogston named four successors and declared that other appointments would be made within a short time. Those resigning were: George H. Felthaus, Evansville, for the last eight years with the department and in recent years head of the dry cleaning department. He will leave Nov. 1, to accept a position with a firm manufacturing building ventilators. To South Bend Mrs. Bertha Bowen, Indianapolis, assistant in the educational department, who will move to South Bend. Her resignation was made effective today. Mrs. Blanche Spellman, Indianapolis, office assistant, resignation effective today. S. D. Rowls, Tipton, inspector, resignation effective today. Thomas Greenlee, Indianapolis, investigator, resignation effective today. . Louis Struck, New Albany, investigator, resignation effective today. Miss Lillian Kling, stenoghapher, resignation effective Nov. 1. Appointments Made After conferring with Governor Jackson, Hogston announced the following appointments: Rollie Granger, Logansport, to succeed Felthaus Nov. 1. Ben Pierce, Indianapolis, former custodian of the Marion County courthouse, named Inspector. Charles Thompson, Elwood, was named investigator. Miss Electa Walker, Greenfield, stenographer. Hogston said an attorney for the department probably would be employed temporarily until a decision could be reached on a man for the permanent job. Chester Davis resigned from this post when Miller quit. BLAST CAUS E S FIRE U. S. S. Si was h 7 Motor Yacht, Damaged by Flames. Bu Unitrti Press PLYMOUTH, Mass., Oct. 2.—The U. S. S. Sivvash, a sixty-foot motor yacht, was damaged seriously by fire which followed an explosion as she lay at anchor in the Plymouth harbor early today. Lives of the captain and ten mem bers of the crew were imperiled by the flames and the eleven nin probably escaped death only through the prompt action of a passing ship.

a selling one, kill further chances of profit and drive out .both brokers and realty gamblers. Real estate is always the last thing to go down when a chill comes. Those who can afford to, keep their holidngs, hoping against hope to get their money back. Those who can not meet their payments are closed out in foreclosure proceedings, but voluntary selling at sacrifice is always put off as long as the owner can stand, the strain. There will be some hastening of the process In Florida, however, because thousands of speculators have purchased on time, knowing they will be unable to meet the first payment when due, but gambling on selling out at a profit before the dread date arrives. Their wailing will be heard when the auctioneer's hammer begins to bang. Unmistakable stop signs ahead aro: 1. The opinion of Florida's best business is that prices are ridiculously inflated in all classes of property in all boom sections (Turn to Page 18)

TRAIN BANDIT FATALLY SHOT Father of Four, 53, Confesses Before He Dies. Hu Cult fit Press OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 2.—A bandit who held up and robbed the passengers on two trains in two nights was fatally wounded last night while escaping with the loot of his second robbery. He was Robert Henry Porter, 53, of Council Bluffs, lowa, the father of four children. He was shot by Audrey S. Kenworth, special agent for the Union Pacific railroad. Porter confessed the two robberies and died an hour later. Shortly before he was wounded, Porter lined up twenty persons oil the Portland limited of the Union Pacific and robbed them of SSOO. Wednesday night, Porter terrorized forty passengers of a Missouri Pacific train from Kansas City and robbed twenty-five of them, escaping after a brush with a special agent, who fired at him.

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 2.1925—28 PAPES

Delegation Waits at Schoen Field to Welcome Fliers. BULLETIN The planes arrived at Schoen Field at 1:40 p. m. While sixteen pilots in the first commercial airplane reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford trophy opened their throttles wider in mi effort to make up for a late start from St. Louis today, a large delegation from Indianapolis waited patiently at Schoen field, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, for their arrival. Captain Ray Collins, official touring referee, arrived at .Schoen Field at 1:11 a. m., having left St. Louis at 10:10 a. m. According to a United Press dispatch tfie plaiies. left St. Louis at 11:03 a. m., tt three hour delay on account of fog. They were to reach Shoen field this afternoon. One plane was forty-f!%e minutes behind the others. The planes passed over Terre Haute at 12:52 p. bi. according to a dispatch. Lnneheon Held The luneneon at the Ft. Harrison Officers Club was held without the honor guests. Lieut. James Parker, Schoen field commandant, is at Mitchell field. Long Island, as a relief pilot for the Internationa air races being held there. Police Lieut. Earl Halstead, a member of the aviation reserve, was in the air to greet the pilots and escort them to the landing field. Frank S. Fishback, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and Frank E. Gates, president of the real estate board, were in charge of the reception committee of business men, which left the city hall at 10 a. m. A detail of police, commanded by Lieut. Louis Johnson and Sergt. Eugene Shine, escorted the party. Lincoln, Rickenbacker and Studebaker automobiles were donated for the trip. Otis Porter, chief inter, was assisted by Bert Coffin, Burt Westover, Thomas Murray and Myron Tatlock. Columbus Next Stop Fred Duesenberg, Arthur Chevrolet and J. S. Bray were the Judges. Technical arrangements at the fort were in charge of Capt. A. C.- Fitzhugh. The planes were scheduled to leave here two hours after their arrival for Columbus, Ohio, where they will remain overnight, and leave Saturday on the last leg of their 1,900-mile tour, arriving at Detroit, the starting point, in the afternoon.

DIRIGIBLE TRIP RULED LAWFUL Mitchell Charge Is Refuted by Opinion. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct., 2.—Rear Admiral B. H. Campbell, Judge Advocate General of the Navy, in response to a request from Secretary Wilbur, today ruled that the Navy was acting within its rights under the law in sending the Shenandoah on its disastrous western trip. Colonel William Mitchell charged that the law specifically provides that the Navy must confine its air operations to actual sea duty with the fleet. BICYCLE RIDER IS HURT Motorist Faces Charge After Early Morning Accident. Anthony Whipped, 63, of 818 Weghorst St., riding a bicycle, was injured about 6 a. m. today when he was struck by an automobile at Alabama and Merrill Sts. He was taken to city hospital, injured about the head, hip and back. The driver, George Crider. 1029 High St., was charged with assault and battery.

M’NAMARA DENIED NEW TRIAL PLEA Judge Overrules Motion and Gives Leader Sixty Days to File Bill of Exceptions. Special Judge Fred C. Cause to- ‘ ready filed an appeal to the Stateday denied a motion for anew j Supreme Court. trial for John J. McNamara, In his motion for anew trial. Cox business agent for the lo- j cited 12 reasons. He alleged court cal iron workers, recently convicted j erred in admitting evidence of other, of blackmail in connection with I alleged acts of McNamara; alleged building of the new Elks home. I court erred in its instructions to Judge Cause gave McNamara j the Jury, and maintained the verdict sixty days to tile a bill of exception. | of guilty was not sustained by eviHe said decision in the case was up denee and was contrary to law. to the Supreme Court. Ape pal bond McNamara was convicted Sept. 22, was set at fG.OOO. after an eight-day trial. Sentence Attorney Charles E. Cox hus al- has not been pronounced.

Times Radio Season to Start at 9 Tonight

ip—lHE Indianapolis Tim*'s I I will open its radio broad- ' * I casting season at 9 tonight when an artists’ program will be sent over the air from the Severin through WFBM, Merchants' Heat and Light Company. Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church, will act as announcer for the program, which will last an hour and a half. Following numbers are scheduled: The Victor Herbert Ensemble; Tom Broadstreet, soloist, with Mrs. James Wynn, acocmpanist;

FLIGHT CHIEF OPPOSES PLAN Commander Rodgers Is Witness Before Air Board. Bii Unitfd Pram WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Opposition to a separate air corps in the Navy was voiced today before the President’s aircraft board by Commander John Rodgers of the unsuccessful Hawaiian flight of the PN 9-1. Rodgers was given a tremendous ovation by the crowd when he entered the committee room. Rodgers also opposed the Mitchell unified air service plan. "The unified proposal,” he said, “would defeat the chief advantage that it purports to gain, namely, control of airplanes by air officers.” SKIES TO STAY CLOUDY Expected Cold Wave Sidetracked Before Reaching City. Overcast skies and intermittent showers greeted Indianapolis when it crawled from bed today. The cloudy and unsettled condition is due to continue today and Saturday, according to the United States weather bureau. Rain during the night totalled .73 inch. Temperature at 7 a. m. was 65, or 13 degrees above normal. An expected cold wave was sidetracked before it reached Indianapolis, acceding to J. H. Armington, meteorologist, and the mercury was 2 degrees higher than at the same hour Thursday. NEW CANDY FIRM Articles of incorporation for the Hoosier Maid Chocolate Company, 32 E. Georgia St., manufacturers of confections, were filed today witli the Secretary of State. Capital stock was given as $5,000. Incorporators are Claude L. Heffelman, Willard D. Hough and Ora B. Keller.

Mrs. Ona B. Talbot in an orchestral talk on "Wagner.” with assistance of Walter Flandorf, pianist,‘and Edwin Jones, violinist of the Metropolitan School of Music. A Baldwin piano will be used. C. Roltare Eggleston has consented to be guest announcer for the second radio pregram, Friday night, Oct. 9. One of the features Oct. 9 will be a violoncello solo by Constantin Bakaleinikoff and there will be music from a string quartet composed of members of the Victor Herbert Ensemble.

CQOLIDGE WILL VISIT INDIANA President Probably Will Stop at Vincennes. Bu United Pram WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—President and Mrs. Coolidge will travel to Omaha, Neb., where the President is to address the American Legion convention Oct. 6, by way of Cincinnati and St. Louis. The party will leave here late Sunday. It is due to arrive in St. Louis late Monday after passing through Chillicothe, Ohio, and Vincennes, Ind., en route. The party will arrive in Omaha early Tuesday. Halts at cities along the line will be brief. BANDITS SECURE SSO,OOOJEWELS Pair Handles Gem Salesman Brutally. Bii United Prat* CHICAGO. Oct. 2.—Two bandits robbed Frank Rifias. salesman, of between $50,000 and $75,000 worth of jewels on the ninth floor of a Michigan Blvd. skyscraper today. The bandits smashed him over the head, bound him with picture wire, emptied his jewel case into their pockets and threw him into a vacant elevator cage. They had been gone twenty minutes before Rifias regained consciousness and called for help. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 65 10 a. m 66 7 a. 65 11 a. m 67 8 a. m 6612 (noon) .... 69 9 a. m. 65 1 p. m...... 73

BBttnd as Hecond-class Matter at Poatofflce, 'I'UTO CENTS Indianapolis Published Dally Except Sunday. LYVV/ .L

OCEAN TOMB GIVES UP TWO MORE BODIES Victims Found in Engine Room of Sunken Submarine—Single Chance in a Million That Others Live. ONE PLACE YET TO BE TESTED A Indications Are That Last Compartment Also Is Flooded. Bu T'nltrri Prm> _ _ NEW LONDON, Conn., Oct. 2.—The bodies of Raymond D. Lindsey and Walter D. Lawton were recovered from the engine room of the iil-fated submarine S-51 today. Lawton was an electricians’ mate, first class, of Weymouth, Mass-, and Lindsey was an engine man, second class, of Pensacola, Fla.

With finding of the two bodies the divers reported thut the water-tight compartment door leading into the motor room, the last room astern, was open. This means definitely that the whole ship with the possible exception of the torpedo room, the first compartment forward, is flooded and that nobody is alive in this part. The torpedo room was to be tested this afternoon for the presence of water. The submarine base during the morning received a report that a body, believed to be that of an officer or petty chief officer from the S-51 was cast ashore at Stonlngton, Conn An ambulance dispatched from here established that the man was not a Navy man. The “rescue fleet’’ workers, still operating on the one chance In a million of finding men alive in the torpedo room, were merely following orders of Secretary •of the Navy Wilbur to "carry on” until they have proved beyond doubt that the hull hold only corpses. Divers were to open the torpedo room by means of under w-ater torches. Out of this recess tfrey hoped to bring more bodies to join those recovered todax and those of John L. Gibson, Portland, Ore., and William Toschemacher, Indianapolis, Ind., which have been recovered.

WOMAN MAKES FORMAL CHARGE States Man Is Bandit Who Attacked Her. Mrs. Mona Clark, 17, of 2209 N. Gale St., today fornutlly charged William Risk, 24, colored, 2069 Valley Ave., with being the bandit who attacked her in her home June 25. Risk was arrested last week by Patrolman Bankert, when Mrs. Clark partially identified him. He has been held on a vagPancy charge with bond fixed at $5,000. Mrs. Clark said Risk had the same sort of scar on his hand as the man who pried open the window of her home, pointed a gun at her and then attacked her after robbing the home. Mrs. Clark was then living at 6500 E. Twenty-First St. Her husband was at work. Mrs. Clark signed warranty charging Risk with burglary and criminal attack. Detectives said other victims of the bandit who has terrorized northside homes, had failed to identify Risk. JUDGE COLLINS IS ILL Suffering With Slight Attack of Pneumonia, Report. Criminal Judge James A. Collins stayed at home today on account of illness. He named Frank A. Symmes as judge pro tern, lie expects to return Monday. Judge Collins was forced to go home Thursday noon. He is said to be suffering with a slight attack of pneumonia.

JUDGE TO ACT ON BIG BOND Suspect in SBO,OOO Theft Waives Examination. Held by Federal authorities in connection with the SBO,OOO mail robbery committed last week in Toledo, Ohio, James English, colored, 342 N. West St., waived examination at a commissioner's hearing Thursday. His bond for appearance at Toledo fixed at $30,000, was to be submitted to Judge Robert C. Baltzell today for approval. English was arrrested Wednesday by Federal and Indlunapolis officers on information from Louisville. It is alleged he attempted to mail a package there containing jeyelry and bonds said to have been stolen in I Toledo. English asserts he is innocent.

Forecast MOSTLY cloudy and unsettled tonight and Saturday; probably showers; not much change in temperature.

Mayor Orders Honor Paid to Twins Flowers to Be Sent for Teschemacher Boys, Who Died at Sea.

mNDIANAPOT.IS will pay tribue to William and Frederick Teschemacher, twin sons of Frederick E. Teschemacher, 4071 College Ave., who lost their lives a week ago today when the Submarine S-51 sank off the coast of New Ixindon, Conn. Mayor Shank and Charles A. Bookwalter, park board president, today instructed R. Walter Jarvis, park superintendent, to send flowers to the homo of Charles Littlefield, Newark, N. J., where Mrs. Teschemacher is staying. Arrange Funeral Mr. and Mrs. Teschemacher went East this week to arranqgf for the funeral of the boys. Burial will be in the Greenwood cemetery at Brooklyn. Arrangements have not been completed pending the recovery of the body of Frederick. William's body was recovered from the submarine several days ago, but the father said: "They were inseparable in life: I W’ant then to be Inseparable ini death." The two lads had no premonition of their fate, according to Richard Hollywood. 1543 Broadway, a cousin of Mrs. Teschemacher, who. with his wife, returned from the East late Thursday. Hollywood said be was with the boys four days before the disaster and inspected the boat with them. "They begged me to stay over one day so I could submerge with them. I could not do so.” No Hope Hollywood said he had no hope for the boys since he heard of the disaster. "For the boat to be safe under the water, the hatches would have had to been closed as well as a little steel door. The little door would had to have been closed instantly by a man standing right by It. I don’t believe there was time to close it after the collision with that steamer. "The boys were certainly happy and were proud to be on the submarine. 1 said to Frederick: “ 'Well Buster, you still have two more years to go. What thenf* To Rc-Enltat "I'm going to re-enlist,” he said. “ 'And how about you Billy?’ I asked William. " 'Well I'll do anything Buster will.’ ” Hollywood said the twins explained the process of submerging and rising and pointed to the compressed air tanks. ' "We’re safe for seventy-two hours,’ they told me.”

Hawkins’ Liberty Spells Ouch T"7| ORTON S. HAWKINS yl was out from behind noon. In the custody of a baliff, he went to a dentist to have his teeth attended to. Hawkins, president of the defunct Hawkins Mortgage Company of Portland, was sentenced to serve fifteen years in the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and was fined SIO,OOO, In Federal Court recently. Hawkins, has remained in the Marion County Jail pending action on his appeal. He has made several attempts to meet his $30,000 bond, but has failed.