Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37 —NUMBER 207

TEN GIVEN CITY JOGS BVJAVOR Shank Makes Last Minute Appointments in Street Commissioner’s Office — Edward Rochat Named Department Head. JOHN F. WALKER IS AMONG APPOINTEES List Submitted to Joseph L. Hogue—Adds Strength to Story of Alliance With Klan to Defeat Coffin — Conference Is Reported, By Jepson Cadou With only five days of his term remaining, Mayor Shank today appointed anew street commissioner and nine others in the street commissioner’s department. The new officials will take office. Jan. 1. John I* Duvall will become mayor at noon Jan. 4, and he Is expected to make his own appointments in this department. The appointments followed the action of the retiring: board of safety Tuesday in naming fifty-four new policemen. The latest Shank appointments: Edward Rochat to succeed Martin iX. Hyland 03 street commissioner; ■John P. Walker, now superintendent of street cleaning, to be assistant 1 street commissioner; William Carter, bam foreman: W. E. Williams, ‘chief clerk; W. P. Hargon, tlmei keeper and clerk; Katherine Noonan, ; typist; Ed Smith, Duncan McDonald, +-M. E. Musgrove and W. L. Resoner, ' Inspectors. Armftage and Hogue The appointments came after a conference between the* mayor and William H. Armitage. They were submitted to Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, for approval. The new appointments added strength to the story that Shank has Joined forces with the Klan to unseat George V. Coffin as Republican political boss of the county. Hogue Is said to be greatly Interested In this movement and he has been taking an active part in making new appointments. The Shank-Klan combine was effected at a meeting of seven promlMt politicians, including George S. Jlliott, Marion County exalted - Cyclops, it Is said. Charles W. Jewett and Ralph A. Lemcke, said to have ■been invited, failed to appear. Jewett for Watson Jewett’s support of United States Senator James E. Watson Is said to have been a factor aiding Coffin. Politicians believe Coffin must back Watson to obtain renomlnatlon for Senator Arthur R. Robinson. The fifty-four policemen Shank appointed Tuesday are largely Klansmen. Many of them have had "military’* experience ns horse thief detectives. list was provided by Klan ledgers, although Shank and board of safety members added a number of,personal appointees. w Hogue Responsible ffogue was the guiding spirit In persuading Shank to effect the Klan tie-up, the politicans say. Hogue Is said to be slated for county chairman. Shank included in the appointments two members of the famous corps and quartet that mng “Limber Lunged Lew” at the Duvall keynote meeting. That lullaby nearly lost an election for Duvall, because Shank, nettled, pondered vhether to support Walter Myers, Democratic nominee. The musical Klanamen are Carlos Jones, bass, and Dale Smith, leader of the foursome.

YOUTH, BRIDE FACE UJ. TRIAL Pair Charged With Forgin'* , Orders Stolen Here. It a United Press FREEPORT, 111., Dec. 30. —Phillip Kaler, 23. and his 17-year-old bride, under arerst in Laredo, Tex., charged with passing thirty forged money orders In Illinois which were stolen from the Indianapolis postoffice are to be brought here for Federal trial. Kaler, alias Phillip Van Courtland, was arrested on the eve of his falling heir to one-fourth of a million dollar estate at Portland, Maine. He and his girl-bride were indicted here a. month ago by a Federal grand jury, charged with passing thirty forged money orders rangingl in amounts from $35 to SIOO. Orders for his removal here were issued today by a Federal Judge. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 19 10 a. m 23 7 a. 20 11 a. m 25 8 a. m...... 21 12 (noon) .... 27 8 21 1 jfc, m,27

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Poet Flees “Tragic Life of City” VANSTON, 111., Dec. 30. ► —Much civilization is a farce, modern society is a fraud, and life in a' metropolitan center is a tragedy, Prof. Lew Sarett of Northwestern University, and accounted one of the leading poets of the Nation, declared today in announcing his decision to flee to the forests of northern Wisconsin. Sarett wants the “unspoiled” society and surroundings of the woods. The modern large city, “with its emotional stress, Its social complexity, its hot house coddling, its hectic jazz life, destroy happiness and- manhood,” Sarett declared. He wants to get away from “Ihp shrieking taxicabs, the jazz bands, the Jammed street cars, the mad hurly-burly, the stench and the smoke.”

lOWA STARTS WAR ON 0.0. P. AID PROGRAM Congressional Delegation Takes Declaration of Opposition to Coolidge. By Harold C. Place Timet Staff Corresvondcnt DES MOINES, lowa, Dec. 30. lowa’s entire solid Ropubllcan congressional delegation was on Its way back to Washington today, carrying to President Coolidge the message that “Rock-Ribbed Republican Iowa” is "off the reservation” and is sweeping with it ten other strongly Republican States in the corn belt. Moreover, with their convictions stiffened ao a result of the State-wide conference held here Tuesday, the lowa Senators and congressmen will tell the President that they are prepared to break with the Administration completely and Irrevocably unless the White House changes Its attitude on the farm problem and swings behind the demands of the (Turn to Page 10) CHANG MARCHES SOUTH ON CHINA Feng Troops Resist Advance of Manchurian Lord. Bu United Prett HONOLULU, Dec. 30.—A desperate battle is raging between the forces of Chang Tso Lin and Feng Yu Hsiang, near Shankaikwan, according to Tokio dispatch to Cyhochi. a Japanese newspaper here. The dispatch says that Chang Tso Lin, completely victorious over the rebellious forces in Manchuria, is sending reinforcements southward .nto China proper. LITTLE HSU” SLAIN Shenshi Governor’s Son Kills General in Revenge. Bu United Press PEKING, Dec. 30.—Gen Hsu Shu Cheng—“ Little Hsu”—is dead. His death by assassination at Lanfang Station, en route from Peking to Tien Tsin, expiated “Little Hsu’s” murder of the governor of Shenshi province several years ago. The governor's eon killed him In revenge. U. S. SENTENCES THIEF Man Who Broke Into Postoffice SubStation Given Three- Year Tern*. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today sentenced Robert Blai/ to three years at Federal Prison at Leavenworth, Kan. Blair was returned here from New York charged with breaking in Postoffic Substation 27 and stealing 139 money order blanks.

AUTOS CAUSE 115 DEATHS IN COUNTY Increase of Twenty-One From Last Year, Coroner’s Report Shows—Total Unnatural Fatalities, 383.

Out of the total of 383 persons who died by accident or by violence in Marlon County iri 1925, 115 were killed in auto accidents, according to the report of Coroner Paul F. Robinson, made public today. Last year there were 328 unnatural deaths. The auto accident toll, the is gest from any Individual cause, a an increase of twenty-one over e figure of ninety-four for 1924. Os the 688 deaths investigated by the cornoer, 305 were found tobe by natural causes. In 1924, a total of 662 deaths were investigated. Figures for this year were ->mpiled up to today. The coroner is called only in cases where there Is some doubt or controversy as to the cause of the deaths. Deaths From Falls Deaths from falls this year took the lives of fifty-five, ten of these being in falls from buildings. Last year twenty-eight persons died as a result of falls. Suicides held their own, the total for this year being sixty-four, the same as last year. Murders decreased from fifty-fouA 7° r 1924 to thirty-nine this year. Ct the latter, six were held justifiable.} In the list of suicides* twenty-six were by poison, ninet( An by gun shots, eight by hangifg, five by

ASKS CHI TO RESTRAIN FLOOD WORK Taxpayer Charges Board of Works Failed to Give Notice of Hearings— Would Stop Letting of Contracts. TRACK ELEVATION TO BE STOPPED BY DELAY City Body Had Planned to Make Awards This Afternoon —Secret Meeting Is Prevented by Summons Before Judge. \ A petition for an injunction to enjoin the board of works from receiving bids or letting contracts for the proposed flood prevention program was filed in Superior Court One today by Louis Brown Jr., a taxpayer. Suit said the board was to open bids and award contracts at 2 p. m. today. Judge James M. leather* granted a temporary restraining order to prevent action on the bids. Delay In the flood prevention work, it was said, will delay elevation of the Belt Railroad tracks on the south side. A clause in the traeje elevation agreement provides that the railroad Is not compelled to begin work until thirty days after completion of the flood prevention agreement. Board members had considered a secret session to act on the contracts before served with the restraining order, but were forced to change their plans when ordered to appear in SupeHoP Oburl Four for the hearing on an Injunction to stop Improvement of Ouse St. Cost $1,966,600 The proposed flood prevention program is estimated to cost approximately $1,966,600. A resolution, approved by the board, provided for replacing the old bridge over White River at Morris St. to cost about $445,000; changing the channel of the river for one mile, building levees, embankments and other flood prevention work all to cost about $951,350. Condemnation of land will cost about $570,250, the suit said. For this improvement the city and county each must pay 45 per cent of the costs and those benefited directly by the improvements, 10 per cent. No Hearing Notice The complaint alleged there was not full and proper notloe of hearings given by the board of works for the proposed Improvements. It was charged that opening bids and awarding contracts will be Invalid because of this. The suit asked that the board be instructed to readvertise and hold hearings for the proposed improvements. FIVE BANDITS ROB BANK Kansas City (Mo.) Downtown Institution Is Held Up. Bu Inited Prett KANSAS CITY. Mo., Dec. 30.—The Argyle State Bank, In the downtown district, was robbed of $20,000 by five bandits here today, according to early police reports. The bandits escaped in an automobile.

gas, three "by slashed throats and three by drowning. Guns played the most important part in the murders, being responsible for twenty seven of the deaths. Os the other murders held not Justifiable, four were by stabbing and two by wounds inflicted with a blunt instrument. Burns Fatal Burns, which brought death to nineteen in 1924, resulted in eighteen deaths this year. Railroad accidents were fatal to fifteen persons this year and ten last, traction and street car crashes to five this year and seven in 1924; drowning to fifteen In the last twelve months and to thirteen in the preceding period, and acute alcoholism to eleven this year and seven last. Other causes, and the number of deaths resulting, as shown in the report, were: Gun wounds, 6. severed artery, 1; struck by pole, 2; struck by crane, 1; struck by railroad tie, 1; struck by tree, 1; electrocution, 7. accidental poisoning, 6; strangulation, 1; swallowed hairpin, 1; kick by horse, 1; suffocation, 2. asphyxiation, 5; flying bolt, 1, and blood Poisoning, 10. Those assisting in compiling the report were deputy Coroners W. Doeppera, Elmer Funkhouser and G. A. Tolies. '

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30,1920

U. S. PLANS TO BLOCK CITIZENSHIP OF ALIENS CA UGHT IN BOOZE RAIDS

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FRAUD CHARGED, COURT CALLS IN CITY OFFICIALS Board of Works Members Ordered to Testify in Cruse St. Fight. When fraud in the condemnation and awarding of damages of proper ty for the widening and extension of Cruse St., was charged in a hearing before Judge Clinton H. Glvan in Superior Court Four today, the court ordered members of the board of work? be brought into court to testify this afternoon. A temporary restraining order against the board was issued Tuesday by Judge T. J. Moll of Superior Court Five on petition of Harry G. Gaylord, a taxpayer. Motion to dissolve the order was filed by William Bosson, city attorney. Railroad Benefited John J. Kelly, attorney for Gaylord, declared that the street Improvement was done for the benefit of— tli*. -Pe whose property adjoins the street. Suit charged the railroad was awarded $15,842.50 damages. Bosson attacked the charge as ridiculous and said he would have railroad officials to testify in behalf of the board. F. J. Gftble, attorney for the C. I. & W. Railroad, attended the hearing and said that If the improvement of Cruse St. Is changed it will probably prevent the track elevation program for the South Side. Extension Opposed Kelly contended the course of Cruse St. was being changed and the street, extended to Bates and Shelby Sts. He said it was understood the street would only extend to Bates St.

SWINDLE TRAIL LEADSTO CITY ‘Master Mind’ of Firm Is Sought Here. Bv United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Seeking the “master mind” behind the Consolidated Realty and Theaters Corporation. which is alleged to have mulcted 11,000 residents of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio of $4,000,000, K. P. Aldrich, Chicago postal Inspector, left this afternoon for Indianapolis. The inspectors refuse to reveal the name of the man they suspect, but it is said it is not Frederick H. Gruneberg, head of the company, or any of the officials indicted for using the mails to defraud. Postal authorities were amazed to find that credit reporting agencies had listed the Gruneberg firm at $2,225,000, while it develolps that the concern had little besides what was paid in by investors in bonds, they said. $50,000 BLAZE AT EVANSVILLE Firemen Battle in Snow to Save Jewish Temple. Bv United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 30. Six fire companies battled in a heavy snow fall here today to prevent complete destruction of the Washington Avenue Jewish Temple. The Interior of the building was virtually ruined. Early estimates place the damage at $50,000. A $15,000 pipe organ was ruined. The blaze was believed to have been started by defective electric wiring. BUS PURCHASE ASKED Petitions of Arthur W. Brady, receiver for the Union Traction Company to purchase two motor bus certificates in Anderson for SSOO each were filed today with the public service commission. Present certificate holders are Luther Hamilton and Lawson.

Tuesday Set for Special Arraignment of FiftyNine Victims. The Government today took steps to keep aliens arrested Tuesday In the city’s biggest liquor raid from obtaining United States citizenship. Tw-elve of those arrested are of foreign birth and have taken out their first papers. R. C. Minton, legal adviser of the Thirteenth Prohibition District, said an effort would be made to halt issuance of the final papers. He said Individuals arrested or convicted on liquor charges could not be deported. Sixteen Released A total of seventy-five were arrested in the raids. Sixteen were released. The remairing fifty-nine will face Criminal Judge Jamea A, Collins Tuesday mornipg at 9 In a special arraignment. Eighteen were in jail, unable to provide bond. The raiders, who included Federal agents, deputy sheriffs and local police. visited poolrooms, dry-beer saloons. restaurants and homes. Arrests were made on alleged liquor -eaten made to agents who have been working here secre’.y for several months. / Minton said her would investigate as to how many of the alleged bootleggers had taken out their first papers. “The Government can prevent them from obtaining their final papers and becoming citizens,” he said. Minton said if they have not obtained their papers they could be deported if they violated other laws later. Two aliens were deported at Gary recently when they were found guilty of other offenses after convection cn liquor charges. Recommendations to halt the citizenship papers will be made through the commissioner of Immigration at (Turn to Page 2)

BUDGET BOARD TO HEARTKICKS Fire Marshal to Ask More Pay for Help. Members of the State legislative finance committee will meet Thursday at the Statehouse to discuss the effect of some of the salary adjustments recently placed in effect by their order. Several State officials, including the State fire marshal, and the State pure food commissioner, will meet with the committee and urge increases for some of their subordinates whose salaries were cut last summer. State Fire Marshal Alfred Hogston will ask: That the salary of Cash M. Graham, assistant, which was cut from S2OO to $135 a month, be increased to $175; salary of Rollie Granger dry cleaning inspector, be Increased from $136 a month to $l5O, and that two Investigators and two inspectors, new temporarily employed, be permanently employed. I. L. Miller, State food commissioner, will ask Increases for several oil inspectors. CITY’S AUTO BILL CITED Cars Consumed 260,000 Gallons of Gas in Four Years. Harry Newby, municipal garage superintendent, Tuesday night reported ctiy cars have consumed 269,000 gallons of gasoline and 15,000 gallons of oil during the last four years. Newby repaired and rebuilt 628 cars. He reported 161 cars and trucks are for duty in the Duvall administration. DESPERADOES ESCAPE Jailer Slugged By Alleged Bank Robbers. Bv United Press CHARLFSTON, 111., Dec. 30. Otto Jack and Ray Martin, Terre Haute and St. Louis desperadoes, still eluded capture today after slugging Jailer Art Hallowell into unconsciousness as he was locking in their cells last night. They were arrested for alleged complicity in the Ashmore State Bank robbery last March. Before fleeing uiey took Hallowel’s gun.

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Above; Prisoners arrested in dry raids Tuesday being taken from Federal Bldg., where they were questioned, to county jail. Below: Deputy Sheriffs Roland Snider nnd William Anderson with evidence seized in one of the raids.

FIVE IN RUM PLOT GET 2-YEAR TERMS

$5,000 Fines Also Assessed, 15 Others Sentenced and One Freed. Twenty of twenty-five defendants, convicted of a gigantic Si™ LouisOincinnati liquor ring conspiracy, drew sentencee, totalling twenty-one years, seven months and one day and fines amounting to $33,000 in Federal Court today. Judge Robert C. Baltzell, who passed sentence, discharged Don Robinson of St. Louis, one of the convicted defendants. He said Robinson’s name was not mentioned during the trail and that he appeared without an attorney. % Judge Baltzell ordered anew trial for Michael J. Kinney, former United States Senator and now State Senator, of St.-Louis on plea of his counsel. Judgment was withheld against Tony Foley, St. Louis politician,’ George Landon of St. Louis and William Lucking of Cincinnati, pending arguments on their cases. All to Appeal All of the sentenced men filed notice to appeal. Arguments were heard this afternoon. The men were convicted in Federal Court here, charged with substituting water for whisky in 900 barrels In the Jack Daniel distillery at St. Louis and selling the liquor. Five of the defendants were given two years in prison and $5,000 fines. The maximum under the law was two years and a SIO,OOO fine. The five were: Arnold J. Hellmich, St. Louis, former collector of internal revenue there; Nat Goldstein, wealthy St. Louis broker; Morris Multln of Cincinnati; Harry Levin, of St. Louis. Other sentences were William J. Kinney and Edward Melninger, both of St. Louis, eighteen months and a SI,OOO fine; Robert E. Walker, fifteen months an<fc $1,600 fine; Harry Stratton of Cincinnati and John Connors, fifteen months and SI,OOO fine; Daniel O’Neill, St. Louis, fifteen months and SSOO fine; Edward J. O’Hare, year and a day and $5,000 fine; Sidney Multln, St. Louis, six months. Four-Month Terms Isador Multln, Richard Fttzgibbon and Ben Doncaster, all of St. Louis; and Clifford Sampson, Carlisle Sampson and Bernard Brink, all of Cincinnati, drew four months in the Marion County jail. T. F. McCaffery of St. Louis was sentenced to thirty days in Jail. Judge Baltzell before passing sentence said: "I feel sorry for all you. Os course, you realize the greatness of performing such an act in one of the United States' biggest cities. I hope it will be a lesson to you. You men, will suffer the least. Many of you have little children, wives and mothers. They will suffer the most.” Clifford and Carlisle Sampson and Brink pleaded guilty before trial.

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RATE BOOST SOUGHT Hoosier Stage Lines Attorney Files Petition With Commission. Petition to increase its fares from an average rate of two cents \ mile to a straight three-cent rate was filed t:>day wl’.h the public service commission for the Hoosier Stage Lines by L. Chester Loughry, attorney. 1 The company operates motor busses between Indianapolis as a terminal and Muncie and Marion. The commission has before it a petition of the Indiana Red Ball Company for a similar increase. Itate3 on the Interstate Public Service Company’s busses recently were raised. BURNS TO DEATH AT AUTO WHEEL Driver Dies When Machine Is Fired in Crash. Bv United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 80.—James Sweeney, a piano salesman, drove to a terrible death in his own auto Tuesday night. He was burned to death when a glancing collision with a truck set his auto on fire. While he hung helpless over the steering wheel, the auto careened 300 feet down the street to a headon collision with another truck. NOTICES SENT TO BANKS Come Under Provision of State Securities Law. Approximately 900 banking institutions and 100 securities brokers in the State will come under provisions of the State securities law, according to notices being sent out today by David H. Jennings, State securities commissioner, following receipt of an official opinion from Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. > Many ,of the institutions and brokers will be forced to register with the commission as authorized dealers. The fee is $25 for dealers and $5 for agents. According to Jennings, only about fifteen of the banks have registered. ADMINISTRATOR SUES SIO,OOO Damages Sought From Driver In Fatal Accident. The Fidelity Trust Company, administrator of the estate of the late Charles . Johnson, today filed a suit for SIO,OOO damages In Superior Court Three against Miss Mercedes Hanna. Johnson died as result of an automobile collision several weeks ago at Fifty-Seventh St. and Washington Blvd. Complaint charged that the car Miss Hanna was driving was going at forty miles an hour when KI crashed into the Johnson machine.

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight anJ Thursday; not mucß diunjfe in temperature; tonight about 25.

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STATE UFA 10 BUILD ON' SOIL SITE Company Purchases Present Shortridge Location for $641,000, or $5,000 Above Appraisal Price — One Other Bidder. . •; MAY BE OCCUPIED UNTIL JAN. 1, 19291 Board Has Special Meeting for Opening Offers — Structure to Cost 000 Being Planifed, Sqi Officials. 1 A home office of the StaV Life Insurance Company, co ing about $750,000, will be bufl on the Shortridge high school site, Pennsylvania and North Sts., purchased today from the Indianapolis school board at a special meeting, 11. W, Bennett, State Life president, announced i The Shortridge buildings and site sold for $641,000, which was $6,000 above the uppralsal value, Charles U. Yoke, board president, said. Gavin L.. Payne A Cos., which proposed to purchase the north part for $226,000, was the only other bidder. Accepted Unanimously The board voted unanimously to accept the State Life bid. Payne bid $1,400 a front foot on the north purt and the State Life bid $1,530 a front foot for the entire property. • The school board may occupy the buildings until Jon. 1, 1929, at reqt of 8 per cent a year on the purchase price, William H. Book, business director, said. Cash purchase price will be paid ten days after delivery of an abstract. Ample provision will be made for the State Life Insurance Company expansion In the next fifty years. The building will be for exclusive use of the ,-ompany and located In the center of the site. In Harmony With Piaxa “Our proposed new home will be in harmony with the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza, which in an ornament to the city,” said Charles F. Coffin, general counsel for the company. Anew $1,200,000 Shortridge High School fc.llding will be erected at Thirty-Foujjth and Meridian Sts. within two years. Book said bid* will be asked Jan. 20. To Aid I*rogram Proceeds from sale of the Shortridge site will be used in completing the $858,000 elementary school building program, outlined In the 1925-26 budget. Old Shortridge consists of two buildings, and the property has a full block frontage on Pennsylvania St., and 168 feet on North and Michigan Sts. In spits of opposition of Dr. Marie Haslep and Adolph Em hard t. minority board members, the board has authorized Book to advertise for bids on construction of the new Shortridge. AUTO OWNER ARRESTED Woman Charged With Blind Tiger and Transporting. Police today arrested Ruth Hill, 36, of 1427 N. Capitol Ave., on charges of blind tiger and transporting liquor. It was said that she reported stolen an automobile deserted after it collided with a street car at Morris St. and Sheffield Ave. on Dec. 27. A quart of mule was found in the auto, officers said. Two young men, driving the auto, ran after the aocldent.

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