Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 167

INMAN ASSAILS 'BLOOD CRY OF MOB’

KU-KLUX KLAN HUNTS FOR DUVALL IN PEKIN

NAVY IS SILENT ON ‘GAG’ CHARGE OF AIR WIDOW Capt. Foley, Accused by Mrs. Lansdowne, Asks Leave to Testify. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—Prosecution leaders in the Col. William MitchOll court-martial today took up the question of answering charges of Mrs. Zachary Lansdowne, widow of the Shenandoah commander, who accused Captain Paul Foley, judge advocate of the Naval Court investigating the dirigible disaster, with attempting to influence her testimony. Colonel Sherman Moreland, prosecutor of the Texas colonel on charges of insubordination, said he would decide later whether to call Foley and Mrs. George W. Steele, wife of the Lakehurst (N. J.) air station commandant, who Mrs. Lansdowne said, delivered a memorandum from Foley. The memorandum suggested Mrs. Lansdowne testify that her husband was willing to take his ship, the Shenandoah, “anywhere, any time, under any weather conditions.” Foley asked to appear. Mrs. Lansdowne’s charge came as a bombshell in the Navy Department. Officials refused to comment in any way on expected developments or a possible counter-offen-sive. Mrs. Lansdowne also told of a visit to her by Foley two days before the Shenandoah court convened, in which she said Foley tried to get her to rehearse the story she intended to tell the inquiry. She refused, she said, advising him merely that it was her purpose to show that the Shenandoah was sent westward to her doom and the resultant deaths of her husband and thirteen members of the crew "on a political flight.” When court convened a motion- to strike out the testimony of Mrs. Lansdowne was made by Colonel Moreland. The court of generals over-ruled the motion.

ARTISTS TO BE UPON PROGRAM Times Weekly Radio Feature on Air Tonight. Three groups of artists will broadcast the Indianapolis T).-ti?s radio program tonight over WFBM, Merchants Heat and Light Company, from the Severin. The orchestra on this program will be the Universal Syncopators, with Mrs. Gertrude Buttz as pianist. These players have arranged a program of popular melodies. Miss May Warren and Miss Lois Lloyd of the vaudeville team of Lloyd and Warren have arranged a program of novelty songs. Bud Harris, Hvell-known as a singer of popular songs, will be on the program. Miss Dot Haltgreen will be his pianist. The program begins promptly at 9 p. m. TWO‘LAW DAYS’ ARE DESIGNATED Wets to Be Given Fight on Jan. 16 and 17. Bn United Press DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 13.—Dedicated to a vigorous national campaign of law enforcement, more than 2,000 members of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union met here today for their 51st annual convention. As an indication of the drive to be made by the union, the executive committee designated Jan. 16 and 17 as "national law enforcement days” to combat the "wet” campaign expected to be launched in Washingto during the same month. By vote of the executive committee Los Angeles will entertain the 1926 convention. MORTGAGE TO BE PAID Widow Made Happy by Arrangements Through Relief Fund. Mrs. Ida Kaler, a widow, of R. R. B, Box 342 D, who owns twenty acres of land near Flackville, was happy today when she left the offlefe of City Controller Joseph L. Hogue after completing arrangements whereby Mayor Shank will pay off a $1,500 mortgage on her farm out of a relief fund. James M. Ogden, city corporation counsel, wrote the agreement, providing trustees to look after the term. Mrs. Kaler, who has four children, has done a man's work since her husband died four months •90.

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Mayor-Elect Has Spent Most of Time Since Election in Birthplace—Expected Back Here Monday to Face Storm Over Appointments. While Mayor-Elect John L. Duvall was hunting rabbits, Indianapolis Klansmen were hunting Duvall in Pekin, HI., today. And here in Indianapolis a storm was which threatened to cause the next chief executive of the city consiulqrable worry when he returns from Pekin and Mackinaw, 111., his birthplace, where he has been since a week ago Thursday.

The group of Indianapolig Klansmen arrived in Pekin Thursday night, “nearly fifty of tlilm,” according to a hotel proprietor. They began to search for Duvall at once, and for Indianapolis newspapermen believed to know where the mayor elect was. Out a Hunting But Duvall was not in Pekin, Thursday night. Early Thursday he left the home of his sister, Mrs. F. C. Smith, 1116 S. Fourth St., Pekin, for a hunting trip. Thursday and early today he was in the vicinity of Springffbld, 111., but was expected back in Pekin late today. Monday he is scheduled to return here—to battle with belligerent politicians and disappointed office seekers riled by the appointments he has already announced from his hiding place. Since Thursday Duvall has spent most of his time at Mackinaw, a little town of 600, eighteen miles east of Pekin, living in the Duvall homestead. Occasionally he has visited his sister in Pekin, where his mail is being forwarded, but always alone. Duvall left Indianapolis before all the returns vfrere in a week ago Tuesday night.Duvall couldn’t elude the men who say they elected him. And the longer Duvall stays away from Indianapolis and the more unexplained appointments (political speaking) he sends home, the louder will be the political bomb# exploded when John comes marching home, leaders here say. Klan Meets Tonight One of the first explosions may come tonight when the Ku-Klux Klan meets at Tomlinson Hall. When Duvall released his fli*st appointment some politicians said; “ ‘Boy, Howdy,’ but that guy sure is taking care of the Klan.” There was Arthur McGee, the deposed cop, roosting in the police inspector’s chair. There was Harvey W. Bedford, McGee’s ousted running mate, with a fat job in the recreation department. There was Claude Johnson as police chief. There were a lot of appointments which the politicians thought would make George V. Coffin, Republican city chairman, who is cross-ways with the Klan, weep. Coffin didn’t weep. He went hunting—for Duvall. When observers dug deeper they discovered that the Klan wasn’t so satisfied. Arthur McGe was to have been police chief, not mere inspector. That was befoii William H. Armitage, who swung a few thousand (Turn to Page 22) TRAIN KILLS WOMAN Fatal Accident Occurs in • Muncie Downtown Section. Bu United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Nov, 13.—Mrs. John Osborne was Instantly killed today when, In attempting to cross a railroad track in the downtown section here, she was struck by the Southwestern Limited of the Big Four.

11 COUNTRIES’ DEBTS FUNDED Nine Nations Still Owe United States. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—With Italy’s war debt to the United States funded, tho American debt commission today took up negotiations with Rumania’s debt commission for settlement of that nation’s $46,500,000 obligation. Funding agreements with eleven out of the twenty-nations who borrowed from this country during and after the war have now been effected. The Italian payments start upon signature of the contract tomorrow, at $5,000,000 annually for five years. Interest payments of one eighth of one per cent start after this fiveyear moratorium and graduate upward every ten years to a maximum of two p_er cent in the last years of the sixty-two-year payment period. HOURLY TEMPERATURfe a. m 46 10 a. m 47 7 a. m 46 11 a. m 48 8 *. m 46 12 (noon) .... 50 9 a. m...... 46 lp.m. S3

Luckily It Wasn’t a Collar <‘j p IRE, fire!” and the pasH sengers on aN. Delware St., bus stampeded towards the door Thursday night. Suffocating smoke poured forth from somewhere under the seats. The last passenger out, Miss Dessie Cortelyou, 1434 W. Thifrty-First St., carried the “fire” with her. The celluloid stick of her umbrella, resting against the heater in the bus, had gone up in smoke!

FUND CAMPAIGN ROLLING ALONG BN GOOD STYLE Community Drive for Money Passes $500,000 WJark. Community Fund leaders today were optimistic that the drive quota of $650,662 would be reached early next week, after donations of $94,192.70 were announced at a noon luncheon of drive workers at the Claypool This brings the total for the drive to $502,504.70. < Alfred Kauffmann, general chairman, announced that there would be no luncheon meeting Saturday, but urged the workers to keep on the job over the week-end -and come in with a big report at noon Monday in the Riley room of Claypool. Dick Miller led the field again today in volume of money reported, when his special gifts committee addid $64,000 to the fund total. Miller promised that his committee will accumulate its full quota of $370,000 before the end of the campaign. SUB FOUND TOO DEEP TO RAISE Navy Men Fear 68 on M-1 Have Perished. Bil United Press LONDON, Nov. 13—The, missing British submarine M-1, with sixtyeight aboard, was reported in a Portland wirelesd message today to have been locate*! twelve miles south of Start Point, near the Isle of Wight, in water too deep to permit the diving and raising operations. The M-1 is equipped to supply air to the four officers and sixty-four men on board for four days, but Navy men feared that the hull of the sub-sea craft was split open in the dive to the ocean’s bottom. BURGLARS GET $253 Electric Fan Also Reported Taken From Filling Station. Walter Ketcham, 923 Woodlawn Ave., reported t/o police that burglars took jc-welery valued at $253 from his home. C. E. Young, said an electric fan, candy and cigarettes valued at $25 were taken from his filling station at 6602 E. Washington St.

$50,000 FIRE WHILE BANDITS ROB STAND Trio Who Held Up Cumberland Barbecue Sought—Printing Plant Destroyed by Night Blaze.

Local authorities are searching for the bandit trio who held up and robbed the Cumberland barbecue stand of S2O late Thursday while the citizens were fighting a fire that destroyed the Merchants Printing Company’s plant. Fire which caused a damage estimated at from $50,000 to $60,000 is believed to have been started by the robbers who used the blaze to cover their activities. The building, a one-story frame structure, of about 60,000 square

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NEW MAYOR IS IN FOR BATTLE ON PARK BOARD Shank Reappoints E. W. Johnson to Test Strength of Law. A fight for control of the park board wa3 assured today with the announcement of Mayor Shank of the reappointment of Emsley W. Johnson, effective Jan. 1, when Johnson’s present term expires. Johnson has agreed to remain on the boara to determine strength of the law that provides the board shall be out of politics. Minister Urges Dr. M. J. Spencer, works board member and John Zener, former police captain, had urged him to appoint the Rev. Charles Sumner Williams. colored, pastor of the Bethel A. M. E. Church, to succeed Johnson. Shank said. The law provides that park board members may be dismissed prior to expiration of their terms only for legitimate cause, and that they shall name the park superintendent. Should the present board be retained the reappointment of R. Walter Jarvis as park superintendent seems assured. Duvall has named George S. Elliott park superintendent. Duvall Thursday named Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing, John T. Saulter and Charles G. Duvall, all known Repubsucceed the present board, Johnson, licans, as three of the members to Charles A. Bookwalter, Albert M. Maguire and Frank P. Manley. May Be Illegal It was pointed out Duvall’s appointments may be Illegal, as law provides for two Republican and two Democrat members. However, members may change their politics, a* did tire late Mrs. Sarah Shank, named a Democratic member on the board by Mayor Shank, elected on a Republican ticket. Local Council of the Women’s Civic Committee adopted a resolution urging the non-partisanship law be observed. ,

‘RUDY’AND WIFE DENY DIVORCE Screen Sheik Says Report Is ‘Absurd/ Bu United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—Published reports from Paris that Mrs. Rudolph Valentino is to be given a divorce from the “screen sheik” next month were termed “absurd”’ by Valentino today. "I feel sure that If M|rs. Valentino had asked a divorce sh 4 would have informed me. I have not been so informed.” Valentino admitted, however, that he had not heard from his wife since she arrived from Europe on Wednesday. MRS. ALSO DENIES Attorney Says No Paris Divorce Is Sought. "• Bu United Press PARIS, Nov. 13.—The attorney for Mrs. Rudolph Valentino denied today published reports that she is about to get a divorce from her husband. JUDGES TO BE NAMED Governor Probably Will Appoint City Justices Monday. Governor Jackson said today he probably would announce appointments of the four Indianapolis municipal court judges Monday. The Governor has a long list of aspirants from which to choose, including Judge Dan White of city court No. 2; Fred McAllister, attorney, and Janies B. McDonald and Tom Garvin, who have served as special judges protem. in the county criminal court. Earl Cox, attorney and Don Foberts, former clerk of Marlon County Superior Court No. 2, also have been mentioned.

feet, was ablaze before the citizens could form a bucket brigade and man the pumper wagon. Fire also destroyed a garage and auto owned by J. Parsons. D. M. Mullholland, secretary and treasurer of the company, who have offices at 220 E. Ohio St., said machinery, paper, and type were destroyed. Mullholland said the company would rebuild at once and operations would be carried on today through other printing companies. Loss is fully covered by Insurance.

Beware Black Cats Today; It’s Friday the Thirteenth

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Harold Joseph Corbett and “Black Bob."

Better Rub a Rabbit’s Foot if You Would Avoid Trouble. Friday, the thirteenth! Unlucky combination, and what if in addition, a black cat should cross your path today? If you’re superstitious like Napoleon, you’d call for help as he did when a black cat got behind a curtain in his room. Patrolman Graht Felton, 4106 E. Washington St., who has a Brightwood beat, feels the same way. I’m not afraid of burglars or bandits,” he declared, “but I’ll swear that if a black cat started to cross my path, nothing but an emergency call would keep me from getting out of the way.” Proof of 111 Luck Ernest Hesser, director of music In the city schools, is also sure the black cat is unlucky. “I have positive proof,” he laughed. “Not long ago my wife and I were driving near Greenfield. A black cat crossed our path. ‘Bad luck,’ said the wife, and right away a tire blew out.” "Let me see,” ruminated B'laine McGrath, president of the Advertising Club, “Guess I'm neutral. Where’d this black cat superstition originate, anyway?” Somewhere In the Middle Ages, they said at the library. The Egyptians worshiped cats and 1,600 years before Christ ebony tabbies appeared on their monuments, but during the Middle Ages somebody give black cats a black eye, and their reputation for carrying ill luck has clung to them ever since. Good Luck to Some But some folks reverse the popular superstition “They’re lucky, sure.” declared James H. Horn of 2194 Avondale Ave., "I took In a stray black cat that had crossed my path not long ago. Two hours later, I found a $5 bill!” Dr. Elizabeth Conger thinks a lot of black cats. “I’ve three,” she commented “Black Jack, Black Jill and Black Betty. Yes, I’m sure I’ve been more fortunate than ever, since these tabbies adopted me.” M. H. O'Hair, druggist at Pennsylvania and St. Glair Sts., also appreciates black cats. “A black cat came here Monday and I had wonderful trade all week. Thursday the cat was missing. It rained all day and business was fierce. “Black catfs ain’t unlucky, even on Friday the thirteenth,” remarked little Harold Joseph Corbett of 2602 Lancaster St., “They’re nice,” and he hugged Black Bob, his ebony pet. Four Brave Jinx Only two couples braved the terrors of Friday, the thirteenth, and out marraige licenses this morning. Usually from six to a dozen couples are issue*l licenses, according to Miss Margaret Mahoney, county license clerk. One couple who took licenses today were: Heinrich J. K. Wolff, 27, of 219 E. Missouri St., and Miss Johanna M. Kohlmann, 20, of 213 EJMissouri St. The other couple was William King, colored, Chicago, and Miss Connie Washington, 19, colored. 2232 Cushing St. HAVIT EARS CUT OFF Slovakian Peasants Mutilate Socialist Political Agitators. Bu United Pr.ss VIENNA, Nov. 13. Slovakian peasants of the village of Detva were reported today to have seized thirteen Socialist political agitators and to have cut off their ears.

TRUCK FIGHT IN NEW TURN Red Ball Said to Have Threatened Boycott. Bu United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio. Nov. 13.—The Indlana-Ohio fight over truck regulation took anew turn today. A letter from an Ohio firm enclosing a 1 circular from the Red Ball Transit Company, Indianapolis, threatening to boycott Ohio firms unless the Ohio public utilities commission ceases arresting Indiana truck operators in this State was received by the commission. The Red Ball in the circular threatened to extend its boycott to all Ohio firms and declared it had allies iu the proposal. It was announced the commission will take no notice of the threat.

WINE TRAFFIC IS GIVEN BLOW Only 1,000,000 Gallons Annually to Be Issued. Bu T'ntted Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Regulations restricting the Issuance of sacramental wines to less than 1,000,000 gallons annually have been drafted by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews, prohibition czar and will be sent out to enforcement officers this month. Detection of a dozen different schemes of obtaining “sacramental wine” fraudulently led to the drafting, of the new regulations. Some bootleggers grew heavy beards and posed as orthodox rabbis to obtain withdrawal permits and others established ficticious Jewish congregations. Others did not even take this much trouble. N. D. FOOTBALL FLAYER DIES Injuries Prove Fatal to Grid Performer. Bu United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 13. Death today cast mourning over the Noire Dame campus on the eve of homecoming when James Powers, 19, freshman, died from a broken neck received in football scrimmage ten days ago. Powers, cheerful to the last, and fighting a valiant battle for life, has been paralyzed since the accident. Daily prayers for the recovery of the youth have been offered at college masses. Players and students will wear mourning bands at homecoming Saturday in tribute to the youth. HOOSIER CLUB DINES Senator Robinson Principal Speaker At Annual Banquet. Senator Arthur Robinson discussing “The Constitution” was the principal speaker at the Hoosier Athletic Club annual banquet and smoker. Thursday night. Harold Hampton, club president, reported Increasing interest of business men in athletics and George W. Lipps, physical director said attendance at the club was larger and more enthusiastic this year than ever before.

Entered as Second-clus Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Published Daily Kxccpf Sunday.

Unfairness of Charges in Sane View of Law Held Up Before Jury in Powerful Plea for Acquittal of Stephenson and Aids. CHRISTIAN HOLDS COURTROOM SPELLBOUND WITH ELOQUENCE Calls Oberholtzer Attorneys the Vulture and Gosling Who Wrote Dying Statement of Girl Defendants Are Accused of Murdering. By John Niblack and William L. Toms Times Staff Correspondents CIRCUIT COURTROOM, NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 13. Declaring that the transient spirit of the mob, the forces of hatred and prejudice were unreasonably demanding the lives of three men for purely the suicide of a girl, Eph Inman pleaded today for sane enforcement of the law and the acquittal of D. C. Stephenson, Earl Gentry and Earl Klinck, .charged with the murder of Madge Oberholtzer. '“The law has been man's safeguard down the ages,” shouted the dean of Indiana criminal lawyers. “Shall it be brushed aside to meet the cry of revenge. Cnn suicide he murder? Can suicide he homicide? No man has ever said so or ever will say so unless he says it in contradiction of the law.”

Inman branded the dying declaration of Miss Oberholtber as the poisonous propaganda inspired by a crafty lawyer, originally drafted to blackmail Stephenson. He pictured the trio—as men of fine sensibilities languishing in jail seven months on a charge all men knew could not he justfied. Inman followed Floyd Christian, defense lawyer, who had unleashed a powerful argument for the acquittal of the trio. Inman, who followed Christian, spoke as follows: “Gentlemen of the Jury, In all my connection with this remarkable ease. I have ben conscious of the weight of responsibility which rested upon us all. It has not been the responsibility of law or of fact. But It has been the responsibility which an implacable element of public sentiment without knowing and without being concerned with the facts, has cast upon us. I have never for a single Instant feared for the safety of our clients under the law. I have not feared for their safety upon the facts. Indictment a Shame "That these men should ever have been indicted for mruder is a shame to the jurisprudence of Indiana, and to the law of this land, and I sincerely believe that such an Indictment would never have been returned except- that the State’s attorney and those privately employed to reap the vengeance of hate, determined to respond to the wishes of the unreasoning element of hostility, which wished to hurry Mr. Stephenson to destruction, “There is not a lawyer in Indiana, not a lawyer In the nation freed from prejudice and interest, who wouldn’t' say that this prosecution for murder is entirely without justification for murder is entirely without precedence in the jurisprudence of the country. Not only that, but every cool-headed, every fair-minded reasoning man you may meet upon the street feels and will say they might be guilty of something, even assuming the theory of the State and the story of its witnesses to be true, —we don’t know—but they are not guilty, and could not be guilty, of murder, or guilty of homicide in any degree. "A jury of intelligent men, of sensible thinking men, have accepted to pass upon the question. A jury which we have a right to feel will not he stampeded into doing violence to common sense and law. “This case lias brought us all to the point where we are to settle the question whether the law which has been the safeguard of human liberty in the new world for 150 years, shall continue to prevail or whether orderly procedure in court shall break completely down, and we shall be compelled to try our cases before a portion of ah intolerant populace, depending for the outcome upon who can present In advance of a trial the longest petitions and resolutions irrespective of the facta. “The sole question presented here is: Can suicide he murder? Can suicide he homicide? No man ltas ever said so or ever will say so unless lie says it in contradiction of the law. “In this so-called dying declaration —this lawyer made declaration, designed as poisonous propaganda to be used in the effort to get money —ls It declares anything, It Is a dying declaration of suicide and not homicide. Why, she only told of how she committed suicide. "If she fancied she had been wronged, she took long, ample time to think it over, and deliberately and without compulsion made up her mind to commit suicide, and In order that her deliberate premeditated plan to take her own life should not be thwarted or lnterferred with, she resorted to use and deception, to he sure her plans should not be discovered, and then when by decep(Tura to Paco 14)

Forecast FAIR and slightly cooler-to-night; Saturday partly cloudy predicted.

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FEDERALJUDGE RULES ALIENS MUST BE FREED Penalty Clause of Immigration Act Has Been Nullified. Bit United Press FERGUS FALLS. Minn., Nov. 13. —Hundreds of aliens imprisoned throughput the United States for entering this country without consent of immigration officials must be freed, according to a decision by Federal Judge W. A. Cant today. Cant freed eleven Immigrants convicted in this district. His order held the penalty clnuse of the immigration act a war measure and nullified by subsequent legislation. Heretofore immigrants convicted' of illegal entry were sentenced to Federal penitentiaries. Eightythree are said to be serving terms now In Leavenworth. Following Cant’s decision all such prisoners are expected to be released. The ruling takes such cases entirely out of the jurisdiction of the justice department and places them In the hands of the Immigration department. Immigration officials have the power to hold Illegal entrants in jail until such time ns they can be deported, but have no punitive powers. TRIAL IS CONTINUED Judge Asks Better Investigation in Attack Case. Trial of William Rick, colored, held under high bond for the alleged criminal attack upon Mrs. Mona Clark, 2209 N. Gale St., on June 22, was continued until Nov. 18, today by Criminal Judge James A, Col lins after hearing the evidence in part. Judge Collins asked that a better Investigation of the case be made In the meantime. NARCOTIC QUIZ GIVEN I. L. Earhart, Cincinnati, Ohio, civil service district secretary, and J. B. Greeson, narcotic agent of Cleveland, today gave oral examinations to applicants for Federal narcotic positions at the Federal Bldg,

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