Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1925 — Page 1

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muni’s IISMM ipulsion From Army of •Egotistical, Flamboyant, Untruthful and Destructive’ Flying Colonel Asked by Prosecutor. CCUSED MAN DEFENDS SELF BEFORE GENERALS rial Judge Advocate in Impassioned Oration Says Evidence Proves Defendant Guilty of Misconduct as Charged. til United Press WASHINGTON, Dee. 17. lismissal cf - Col. William iitchell from the Army “in the >anie of the American people” as asked today by the War department prosecution in losing arguments of the flying jlonel’s court-martial. Mitchell was characterized as egotistical, flamboyant, iin•iithful and destructive.” Summing up all the evidence pro >uced in the eight weeks trial, Col. then Gullion, assistant judge advocate, in an impassioned oration, leclared the evidence had proven Mitchell guilty of conduct prejudicial o good order and discipline as ■barged, which is punishable under he Ninety-Sixth Article of War. Mitchell made a brief plea in his '\vn defense. He declared the case vas “the culmination of the effort f the general staff to depreciate the due of air power,” said he saw no tee in proceeding further and asked " hat ’ a r^menT“he* dispensed ’wlTh “he prosecution refused. In the Name of Truth Gullion demanded he be dismissed for the sake of the Army, whose iiscipline he has endangered and • hose fair name he has attempted i discredit. “We ask his dismissal for the sake f those young officers of the Army Vir Service whose ideals he has shat■red and whose loyalty he has coripted. "We ask his dismissal in the name f truth, under whose aegis he has mght protection but whose face he cs not know. ■‘Finally, we ask it in the name • the American people, whose fears o has played upon, whose hysteria o has fomented, whose confidence 3 has beguiled and whose faith he s betrayed.” Sints Denounced "What punishment would, under iie custom of our service, be meted ’Ut to a soldier with only a sixth rade education who committed the • (Tenses of which the accused has isen proved guilty?” Gullion asked, nd then answered his own queson: "Confinement at hard labor, most •rtainly.” . “How, then, can this unrepentant ccused, with all his advantages of 'ducation and position, be let off with less than dismissal?" Gullion denounced Mitchell’s witnesses and labeled Admiral William .S. Sims as "opinionated, narrowminded, hobby-ridder and egomania cal.” “bfy trial,” the deposed brigadier general said in his statement, “is the culmination of the efforts of the general staff of the Army and the eneral board of the Navy to deireciate the value of air power and eep it in auxiliary position which •bsolutely compromises oqr whole stem of national defense. “Coolidge Misinformed” “To proceed further with the case mid serve no useful purpose.” “Secretary Weeks and indirectly e President were wrongly and unuthfully informed as to the condign of our aviation and our national sense by the persons furnishing e data on which Week’s letter (to esident Coolidge, explaining itchell’s demotion as assistant chief the army air service) was basecT" “The efforts to keep down our r power,” said Mitchell, "were bean as soon as the sound of the in non had ceased on the western ront in 1918. When we sunk the battleships off the Virginia Capes in 1921 and again in 1923 and proved to the world that air power had revolutionized all schemes of national defenses, these efforts were redoubled and have continued to this day. •‘My Charges Proved” ’ “I wish to invite the particular attention to the letter of former Secretary Weeks to the President asking that I be not reappointed as assistant chief of the air service on account of evidence given by me to a congressional committee. “I testified that the air service had only nineteen modern airplanes fit for war and that ail others were obsolete and many dangerous. The evidence before this court bears out facts in their entirety.”

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“Something Ought to Be Done” Bn United Pros PAUL, Minn., Dec. 17. | I—“ There's too much 1 I disrespect for law,” moralized Morris Goldberg at police station today after hijackers robbed him of 250 gallons if alcohol valued at 53,500. "Something ought to be dene about it." Goldberg’s truck was forced to the curb and three armed men forced the bootlegger to stand by until they transferred his liquor to their car. He pledged himself to aid in bringing the culprits to justice.

0. OF 0. WILL BACK SCHWAB, SAYS LEADER President-Elect Pledges Aid in Helping to Bring Industries. Bn Timex Sverinl WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—Anything that Charles Schwab, steel king, wishes to do toward locating anew industry in Indianapolis will receive aid from the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Nicholas Noyes, newly eieeted president of the Chamber said here today. Noyes, treasurer of Eli Lilly & Cos., is in Washington working against the cut in alcohol taxes in the proposed tax bill. “I was not in Indianapolis Monday when Schwab was there, but he certainly is welcome to bring rrlore plants to our city,” Noyes sa‘d. He declared the Chamber’s Indus trial progress would be developed carefully to do everything possible to improve Indianapolis’ industrial development. “We shall not bring industries to the city, regardless of what kind they are or what backing they have,” he said. “We investigate carefully. “And none will be encouraged to come without showing evidence that they are stable and well-backed.” TRAFFIC CODE VIOLATORS PAY LESS TO CITY $18,229 Last Year—s 4,622 This Season Glenn Gives Reason. A great decrease this year in the amount paid into the city through the police traffic office by traffic luw violators, speeders excepted, is shown in a report filed with Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff by Inspector Michael J. Glenn and Lieut. Lewis Johnson of that division. While traffic violators paid $18,22!) last year, only $4,G29 has poured into the coffers so far this year. Glenn said that the fact that motorists are learning to obey traffic laws is responsible for much of the difference in the figures. Last year 9,089 persons pleaded guilty to the traffic department, while only 2,311 did so this year. In addition the report states that 1,791 persons chosi to take their cases to city court, In preference to pleading guilty and paying an assessment at the city clerk’s office. These were fined, in most cases, $2 and costs with the costs suspended. Johnson said the total paid in fines probably would be more than $3,000. Last year 57b went to court. According to the report, 4,263 persons who received “stickers” from traffic officers, appeared in the traffic office and were excused, either because they were out-of-town visitors or had some other good excuse. Those excused last year numbered 2,365. The distribution of the law viola'tions show that 596 persons were found guilty In court on the charge of failing to have license plates, and eighty-two pleaded guilty in the traffice office and paid the assessment. The next highest violation was overtime parking, 257 being found guilty and 357 pleading guilty. Os those driving with open mufflers, 173 were found guilty and nine pleaded guilty. Improper parking was charged against 259 found guilty in court and 389 who pleaded guilty. Not a single motorist went into court on the charge of leaving a parked auto with the motor running, although twenty-seven pleaded guilty to the charge. TURKEY DROPS THREAT OF WAR Mosul Award Rests With Angora Assembly. Bu Timet Svccial GENEVA, Dec. 17. —“Turkey’s relations with Great Britain will remain as heretofore, but the Mosul population, I am convinced, will never accept the League council's Mosul decision,” declared Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfix Bey today before departing for Paris. This deelaartion (perhaps significant for the absence of any real "war” threat) supplemented statements of Tewflk’s colleague, Rouschdi Bey, yesterday to the effect that the whole question of the Mosul award to Great Britain now rests with the Angora assembly.

CM ms our IN SENATE Initial Barrage Fired by Senator Swanson, Author of Resolution Providing U. S. Adherence to Tribunal at The Hague. DEBATE EXPECTED TO BE LONG Alto BITTER Project Heralded as Greatest Existing Agency in World for Settlement of international Disputes— League Lauded. By Paul R. Mallon f’nltu‘l Prv** Staff WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. The permanent court of international justice at The Hague was heralded today as the greatest existing agency for ajudication of world disputes by Senator Claude Swanson, Virginia, Democrat, in opening debate in the Senate on the Harding - Coolidge plan for United States adherence to that tribunal. The Senate took up Swanson’s resolution embodying this plan as a special order of business made last spring. More than the necessary two thirds majority is reported sympathetic. Prospects are that debate will be long and perhaps as bitter as the famous League of Nations debate, with Senators Borah. Republican; Idaho and Reed, Democrat; Missouri, leading the opposition. “Court of Wisdom” PnrTTCfpn this court by the United States, Swanson declared, will not embroil this Government in European affaire, because “no important question” would be submitted until such action had been approved by the President and two thirds of the United States Senate. The court has demonstrated that it is able, independent, pains-staking and Is governed by wisdom and conscientiousness, he said. Any contention that the court is under domination of the League of Nations is false, Swanson said, because it operates as a separate body, under its own statutes, completely out of the jurisdiction of the league. "It Is this court for us, or none,” he warned. "The nations which enjoy its benefits are pleased with it beyond measure and contemplate making no amendments, no modifications.” Swanson's speech required nearly four hours to deliver. “Are We Afraid” Opening his remarks, SAvanson pointed ,to the universal desire for peace. He warned that wars in the future would be more numerous and frightful unless ways are devised to settle international differences by peaceful means instead of by force, and asked: "Who among us would have America retire, surrender her pre-emi'-nence and fail to discharge fully the duty and responsibility which comes from her pre-eminent position? Are we to be timid vacillating and frightened by our own prodigious shadow it projects itself athwart the world?” Swanson praised the League of Nations as “the most potential factor in the world working for world peace and betterment,” but added: "The United States has determined not to unite with the League and 'there is no proposition pending before the Senate for this purpose, hence, any discussion of that matter would be ill-timed.” MRS. RUDY ASKS PARIS DIVORCE Action Reveals Marriage at Crown Point, Ind. Bu United Prctt PARIS, Dec. 17. —Natacha Rambova, otherwise Mrs. Rudolph Valentino, toda ybegan a divorce action against Rudolph Valentino, film sheik. Valentino is registered here under his natal name of Guglielmi, and the divorce action became known when “Mrs. De Wolf Guglielmi” asked for a divorce from "Rodolfo Guglielmi” otherwise Rudolph Valentino, American film star. A “Marital vacation,” which had been deemed by many as perhaps a “press agent” affair thus developed into an actual freedom attempt. The divorce papers showed the couple had been married in Crown Point, Ind., in 1923. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 20 10 a. m 23 7 a. m 20 11 a. m 26 8 a. m 20 12 (noon) .... 27 9 a. 21 1 p. m 27

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DEC. 17,1925

SOCIALISTS BALK KOCH Former Interior Minister Falls to Get German Cabinet. Bu United Press BERLIN. Dec. 17.—The attempt of Eric Koch, Democrat and former in terior minister to form anew cabinet to succeed the resigned Luther regime has failed. Koch today reported to President Von Hindenburg he was unable to get together a cabinet on the ’lines cf “the big coalition" which Hindenburg had advocated. Socialist opposition to Koch’s program led to his failure. MEW PATIENTS ORDERED KEPT FROM JULIETTA Commissioners Hope to Abandon County Asylum by Degrees. Marlon County commissioners today announced that no more patients will be admitted to Julietta, county insane asylum. With the refusal to receive any more inmates, commissioners said they hope eventually to close the institution. The county council will probalily meet immediately after Jan. 1 to ap propriate $70,000 to operate the Institution during 1926, said Harry Dunn, county auditor. The council at its last meeting refused to approve and appropriation or tax levy for the maintainence of Julietta. County officials contended it was the State's place to care for the insane. Rescind Order Commisioners have rescinded their order to close Julietta by Jan. 1 and have ordered Dr. Benjamin S. Potter to remove only epileptic patients, who will be taken to Newcastle, Ind. Dr. Potter said there are forty-one such Inmates under his supervision. Cassius L. Hogle, president of county council, declared Julietta will be closed "just as soon as it can be humanely done." He said that by deferring the closing the|e will be no hardship on inmates Or their families. For Children’s Home The proposal to establish a home for delinquent children at Julietta will be pushed as soon as possible, said Ilogle. Hogle said that a homf for correcting children was needed in Marion County. He denied that it would be used as an orphans' home. The possibility of the grand Jury investigating the removal of patients appeared unlikely following the action of the commissioners. Judge James A. Collins took occasion to suggest a grand jury probe Wednesday when he overruled a motion for change of venue from county for George A. Weaver, builders of Julietta. MOVETOONST SMALL LIKELY Quo Warranto Proceedings Are Probable. llu United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 17. Quo warranto proceedings to oust Governor Len Small are likely to follow the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision at the February term or. his petition for a rehearing on the suit in which it yesterday required him to make an accounting of more than $1 000,000 interest alleged to have v cen pocketed by Jiitn while he was State Treasurer. A Chicago civic organization will sponser the proceedings, it is said here. There is a question, however, whether this will be attempted until the Sangamon Circuit Court, to which the case was remanded by the decision yesterday, passes on the amount of his liability to the State. Und-r the State Constitution debtors to the State are Ineligible to hold office. STEVE’S TRIAL COSTS $3,299 Marion County to Get Big Bill in Few Days. Bu Times Soeciai NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 17. Marion County will get a total bill of $3,299.55 from Hamilton County for the cost growing out of the recent trial of D. C. Stephenson, Earl Gentry and Earl Klinck. O. R. Mann, county clerk, who has completed an itemized statement, said he would send the bill in the next few days. It is said to be one of the largest ever accrued in a criminal case in Indiana. POLICEMAN IMPROVES Motorcyeleinan Knocked From Mount by Machine. Motorcycleman Ralph Kelch Is improving at the city hospital today from injuries received Wednesday night when he was knocked from his cycle at Illinois and Wabash Sts Kelch was riding south, following an auto which Hiram Smith, 328 W. South St., was driving, police who investigated say. Smith attempted to turn in the middle of the block, they allelge, and struck Kelch’s cycle. Smith was charged with assault and battery and improper driving.

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Out-of-Towners Will Spend $2,000,000 Here, Manager Estimates. Indianapolis Christmas business this year will exceed $5,000,000. Joseph A. Kebler, local manager of R. G. Dun & Cos., mercantile agency, estimated today. “An accurate estimate Is Impossible. Bank deposits increase mn terially at Christmas time,’’ he said. “Indianapolis has good transportation facilities, and for a month be fore Christmas shoppers Hood the town. Merchants report increased activity the past few days.” Kebler believes about $2,000 000 of the tetid business wfftt- be from out of town. Clearings Total George C. Calvert, Indianapolis Clearing House Association secretary, said clearings thus far in December are $48,780,000. Ten banks In the association do about four-fifths of the city's business, it is sa:d. Clearings, which include the normal business of the city, do not show the movement of cash or currency unless In exchange for checks. “Merchants I have talked with ex press satisfaction over this year’s business. Heavy buying is expected to continue until the day before Christmas,” said John B. Reynolds, Chamber of Commerce secretary. William E. Balch, Merchants Association manager, said Indianapolis has a shopping population of 2,000,000,. It draws from a fifty mile radius. “Weather condtlions have been favorable for splendid holiday trade. The buying public has learned the ’shop early’ idea is not a myth and have followed advice of merchants. Holiday buying started shoitly after Thanksgiving,” Balch said. Increased Traffic Railroads, trolley and bus lines report increased traffic from central Indiana. Charles L. Hartman, Merchants’ Association president, said a check showed an increase of 10 to 15 per cent business ever last year. He estimated two-thirds of Christmas buying has been done. About threefourths of shoppers are Indianapolis people, he said. Merchants reported large amount of cash business. “We are having a big out-of-town trade. Business is heavier than last year,” said M. S. Block. William H. Block Company vice president. A. L. Block, L. Strauss & Cos. president, said: “Holiday business has been very satisfactory. It ia hard to tell when it will r >ach the peak.” BLAST BREAKS WINDOWS Four Injured When Aeetylene Gas Tank Explodes. Bu United Press BLUE ISLAND. 111., Dec. 17.—Alfred Nyehart was blown 100 feet and is near death at a hospital and three other persons were injured today when a tank of ecetylene gas exploded at the Commercial Acetylene Supply Company's plant. Although the plant is two miles away, windows here were shattered by the force of the blast.

Just “Pain Killer” on His Breath Bu United Press C-’—'IDLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 17. —William Perry, 35, on w_J trial in Circuit Court here for driving an auto while intoxicated, today stoutly maintained the two State motor policemen who arrested him made a big .mistake. “The officers smelled a pain killer I had taken for a sore throat and thought it was liquor,” he said. Perry told the court his wobbly gait was caused by one leg being shorter than the other.

IT’S FAMILY AFFAIR, THIS HORSEWHIPPING That’s What Judge Decides in Case of Woman Who Flogged Husband in Street —Charges Dismissed.

Horsewhipping your husband is chiefly a “family affair,” and as such should not receive court Interference, Judge Pro Tern. Samuel Trimble decided in city court today in the ease of Mrs. Nettle Taylor. 418 N. Alabama St., the whipper, and Iter husband Alex Taylor, same address. the whippee. Charges of assault and battery against both, and of horsewhipping against Mrs. Taylor, were dismissed. The whipping is said to have taken place Dec. 8, Mrs. Taylor becoming enraged because her husband was "running around with another woman.” The “other woman,” who

LITTLE STOCKINGS WAIT FOR A SANTA But St. Nicholas Won’t Come to Five Boys in One Family Unless Some One Helps.

| j—, | IVG pairs of little boy stockI I logs will dandle hopefully l I from some vantage point in one humble home Christmas eve. Five little fellows from 3 to 9 will FIRE BUG GOST PUT AT $28,045 Chief Says 71 Out of 3,838 Blazes Incendiary. Seventy-one of the 3.838 fires during the year were caused by a fire bug, Fire Chief John J. O’Brien said in a report compiled today. Loss in the seventy-one fires was put at $28,043. The twelfth incendiary fire in the last two weeks occured Wednesday night when SSO damage was done at a vacant house at 412 Bright St. Police and firemen in civilian clothes are watching for the fire-bug, O’Brien said. Most of the fires have occurred in vacant houses on the north side. Heaviest Joss was done when three houses burned near 1237 Naomi St., with a total loss of $6,450. Ten of the fires did more than SI,OOO damage. 1 DEAD, 8 HURT, GARY AUTO TOLL Three Injured in Train Crash May Die. Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Dec. 17.—One is dead, three are believed near death, and five others are in Gary hospitals today as result of auto accidents. Tony Kankowski died after being struck by a skidding auto, Harry Anderson, his wife and 3-year-old daughter were injured probably fatally when their auto was struck by a train. Robjart Fuller and Genevieve Carr were hurt seriously when their auto was struck by another train. R. M. McCann and Joe Landerdale were injured when their auto skidded into the side of a train. Henrietta Sanders, colored, was run down by an auto.

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was in the courtroom, left before the trial ended. Taylor was in court. Motorpolioeman Oakley said that he had marks on his body as a result of the lashing. "Yes, I still love him, but I am not going to live with him,” Mrs. Taylor said after the trial ended. “1 don’t know whether or not I will get a divorce.” She admitted she was contemplating swearing out a warrant against Taylor on a “lazy husband” charge. Mrs. Taylor said she had entertained her husband’s friend at their heme many times, once for three days. Taylor has denied any wrongdoing.

close their eyes after a weary vigil and hope that Santa Claus will not forget them. Five pairs of little boy stockings will still be hanging limply from their vantage point Christmas morning, unless you want to be this needy family’s Santa, and through the Times and the Christmas Clearing House, provide them (Turn to Page 5) PASTOR DENIES HE STOLE LOVE Ft. Wayne Minister Named in Second Suit. BthJjiUrd Press FT. WAYNE. Tnd., Dec. 17. Denying charges ho is a "love thief” Rev. Edgar L. Mullins, pastor of the select Immanuel Baptist Church today prepared to fight the $25,000 alienation of affections suit brought against him by Howard F. Smith of Lnwrenceburg, Ind. The alienation suit is the second blow against Mullins by Smith within a month. A short time ago, the Lawrenceburg, Ind., man named the minister as co-respondent in his divorce suit. Smith charges that while Mullins was pastor of the Lnwrenceburg church, in which Mrs. Smith taught a Sunday school class, the pastor made many visits to Smith’s home during which he was guilty of misconduct, Mullln's wife said the charges "could not be true." Mullins has been conducting a series of campaigns against Sunday moving picture shows, "petting parties’’ and drinking. CHILDREN TERRORIZED Police Seek Two Men Against Whom Complaints Are Made. Two men, one white and one colored, who have been terrorizing children at School No. 58, Linwood Ave. and New York St., are being sought by police. Officers were told today that the colored man grabbed history papers from Roberta Wllmeth, 12, of 3520 E. Washington St., and destroyed them.

Forecast MOSTLY fair tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature; lowest tempefi|ure tonight about 20.

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WHISKY JOG FOR GUARDS, COURT TOLD Liquor, Liquor Everywhere, Not a Drop to Drink, Did I Not Apply to Watchman, Says ‘Ring Defendant/ OFFERED DRINK WHEN HE TOOK SPECIAL JOB Character Witnesses Take Stand for Men Accused of Stealing Booze Jury to Get Case Late Today, Belief. “Liquor, liquor, everywhere, but not a drop to drink,” does not apply to watchmen at Government bonded whisky warehouses, according to testimony in Federal Court today. “If you want a drink of liquor, take it from a jug on the side of the warehouse room on the second floor.’’ That's what William J. Kinney. 54, of St. Louis, former deputy revenue collector, said he was told when he specially assigned ns watch man at the Jack Daniel distillery at Bt. Louis two years ago last August. “But I never took a drink In all my life,” said Kinney. Kinney Is one of twenty-seven de fendants, charged with operating a gigantic liquor conspiracy and th>iheft of 890 barrels rs whisky from the distillery by substituting water. He took the stand this morning i:i his own behalf. Denies Knowledge He denied that he knew, liquor was being taken from the Warehouse although he admitted he saw trucks, both open and covered, leave the distillery all day long every dav he was there. All of the twenty-seven defendants, except John Gehrum, Cincinnati, rested their cases before noon. He was expected to testify this afternoon. The jury may get the case late todaj* as some of the defense attorneys Indicated they would waive argument. Nathan Goldstein, testifying In his . own behalf, denied Remus’ that he was paid money to for protection with the internal revenue buheau. Mrs. John Gehrum and August Walter, defendants, denied any part In the liquor theft. On cross-examination by Albert S. Ward, United State attorney, he said that Jack Kra z, Bt. Louis politician, now dead, never paid him any mor ey and that he never saw Kratz at the distillery. He said he was Intimately acquainted with him. Wednesday, George Remus, millionaire bootlegger, charged that mon<& was paid to Kratz, who then fixed the protection. Police on Guard Martin O'Brien, former St. Louis police captain, followed Kinney on the stand. O'Brien testified that Arnold J. Hellmlch, former revenue collector at St. Louis and a defendant, had asked him in September, 1922, to have a detail of police stationed at the distillery, as there had been n robbery the December before, and he feared another. O’Brien said several arrests were made, but none was convicted and they included none of the defendants. O’Brien said he was sure uniformed police were on duty at the distillery all the time. Character witnesses were on the stand during the morning session. Governor Jackson has approved a renuUltton for return to Toledo. Ohio, of John Marcus, one of the defendants, to face charge of first degree murder there. He was to be taken there today.

FANNY says 1925 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. Many men who never had an idea they were going to many were wed because the girls had the idea.