Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1925 — Page 5

THURSDAY, DEC. 31, 1925

WRAY PREDICTS 3 -YEAR DELAY FOR TRACK PLAN Scores Belt's Maneuver to Effect Elevation Between Pratt and Tenth. Eevation of the Belt Railroad tracks, a measure declared necessary for proper expansion of the south side, may he delayed three years, was the opinion today of H. G. Wray, track elevation engineer, who will become city engineer of South Bend, Ind., Jan. 4. “A bluff to take the public’s attention from delay In south side elevation,” was the way Wray characterized the Belt’s maneuver to effect elevation between Pratt and E. Tenth Sts. Sees Law Ignored Wray said he opposed the eleva- ' tlon 7 contract, which he said was drafted by the Belt and approved by the board of works, because it will enable the railroad company to halt elevation for many years. ‘‘Through a clause in the track elevation agreement, the railroad company is forced to begin elevation only thirty days after final consummation of the flood prevention agreement. This agreement, as I predicted, is now tied up in litigation,’’ Wray said. Charges Illegal Buy At a hearing in Circuit Court before Judge Harry O. Chamberlin late Wednesday, County Attorney Russell J. Ryan charged that the city illegally purchased land along White River for use in the flood prevention pro-am. The city is attempting to have the county council and commissioners meet and appropriate approximately $300,000 for acquiring land for the flood project. Ryan probably will file an answer to the city’s request late today. Ryan asserted that land bought by the city from the Crescent Paper Company really was owned by Reede, Hase and Caler and N. ( Schussler, tvvp packing concerns. The county also alleges that too much was paid for the land. Court Halts Bids Litigation, instigated by Louis Brown Jr., as a taxpayer, and alleging irregularities in advertising bids, resulted in an order Friday from Judge James M. Leathers, Superior Court One, restraining the board of works from opening bids.

DORSEY TO GO OR STAND TODAY Defense of Slayer Financed by Army Buddies. Hu Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind., Dec. 31. •John Dorsey, formerly Army clerk, charged with the murder of his wife, Vernie Fay .Dorsey, 2314 Kenwood Ave., Indianapolis, a year ago, wa6 to take the stand in ids own defense today. The case ’is expected to go to the jury sometime today. Temporary insanity is the defense. Dr. Larue D. Carter, of Stern’s Sanitarium at Indianapolis, expert witness for the defense, testified in arswer to a long hypothetical question that Dorsey was tisane as a. result of jealousy, when he shot his wife. A number of officers and soldiers from Ft. Benjamin Harrison and Ft. Thbmas, Kentucky, were character witnesses. According to their testimony, Dorsey's defense is being financed largely through contributions of his former army comrades. Fred McCallister, city judge elect at Indianapolis, is principal defense attorney. Judson Stark, assistant Marion County prosecutor, is State’s attorney.

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Automobiles rej>ortod stolen to police belong to: William Rosnor, R. R. D. Box 308, Ford, from Pennsylvaina and Market Sts. Herbert Meyers, 1024 N. Oakland Ave., Chevrolet, 385-009, from Meridian and New York Sts. Milton Elrod, 5836 AllisonvHle"Rd., Chevrolet, 227-96, from 44 E Washington St. I. R. Whiting. 208 E. Forty-Sixth St., Auburn, 492-792, from garage at Stock Yards. Harriett Owsley, 103 E. Pratt St., Chrysler, 567-490, from same address.

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Elliott Succeeds Gen. Butler

George Elliott George Elliott, assistant director of public safety, has been appointed to succeed General Smedley Butler as head of the Philadelphia police.

CAR FALLS 120 FEET; FOUR HE Escape of Others Considered Miraculous., Bv United Prts*, TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 31.—Crashing through a safety gate on the Eleventh street bridge, a street car during the night plunged through an open draw into the city water way 120 feet below, killing four persons. Eight persons were in the fctreet car when it went over. Witnesses said the street car, already torn from battering its way through the heavy gate, shattered to pieces as it struck the w r ater. The -wreckage sank, leaving dazed and unconscious victims in the water. That there were no more deaths or that others were not injured, is considered almost miraculous.

WATSON AFTER DGSSERT SCALP Politicians Believe Senator May Unseat Klan Boss. The long political arm of United States Senator James E. Watson has reached from Washington in an atternpOto unseat Walter Bossert, Indiana Jfu-Klux Klan grand dragon. Politicians believed this today, fob lowing receipt of reports of conferences in Washington. Failure of Bossert, a former Goodrich lieutenant, to hop nimbly on the Watson band wagon, is said to have stimulated the struggle within the Klan. Joseph Huffington, Evansville, is deemed the likely successor. R. F. McNay, Brazil, and Huffington recently were in conference with Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans and .Watson at Washington. Governor Jackson is in Washington, where he is said to be “feeling out” the situation. L. H. BAILEY HONORED KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Dec. 31Liberty Hyde Bailey, former dean of Cornell University, today was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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SHELBY ST. TOO HOT FOR SHARK Would Drop It for New Administration. Mayor Shank today believed the Shelby St. situation to be a ‘‘hot potato” that should be dropped by the board of works in the general direction of the incoming city administration. South side citizens object to the board’s proposal to route Shelby St. to Washington St., into a widened Cruse St., thence to Washington St. They contend assessments are excessive. Shank advised the board to postpone action. Judge Clinton H. Gitian of Superior Court Four was to receive briefs shosving whether taxpayers have legal rights to seek relief from alleged excessive and unfair taxation for the project today. Hearing on a motion to dissolve a temporary restraining order issued Harry G. Gaylord, 1116 Pleasant St., to enjoin the board from continuing its program in the street opening, was held before Judge Givan Wednesday. I Hundreds of south side citizens were expected to attend a hearing bn the matter by the board at 2 p. m. today.

FARMERS WILL ASK RELIEF (Continued From Page 1) Government will be asked to do is to pass a law authorizing such a move. The farmers themselves will bear whatever losses result from selling their surplus in foreign countries at whatever prices can be got, it was explained. The fund to take care of this deficit would be raised by an excise tax on crops. Each major crop, such as wheat or corn would have its own boerd or corporation to handle the exports. Farmers would be represented on the boards, hut under the Indiana plan financeers and men acquainted with foreign trade would also be members. • REVOLT SPREADS Nebraska, Illinois, North and South Dakota Plan Protest Meetings. By Harold C. Place Times Staff Correspondent DES MOINES, lowa. Dec. 31. Fires of agrarian revolution, ignited in lowa, were spreading to other States in the corn belt today. Plans were made in Omaha, Neb., to issue a call next week for a State wide conference of bankers, fanners and business men, such as was held here Tuesday under lowa Bankers’ Association auspices. Purpose of the conference like the Des Moines meeting will be to make effective protests against the economic and agricultural ills of the Cornhusker State. The Illinois Bankers,-Association was reported to be* "considering a similar meeting in Illinois, following a conference of.its officials with Congressman L. J. Dickinson of lowa, on bis way back to Washington from the Hawkeye gathering. Battle Front Extended Likewise, North Dakota and South Dakota, in messages to the lowa Bankers Association, manifested much interest in procedure, incident to calling meetings in those States. In the meantime lowa was preparing voluntarily te extend the battle front with i call for a great conference, embr acing the best minds in every State in the corn area. The call will be issued by a committee appointed by Governor ilamill of towa, as provided in the resolutions passed at Tuesday’s conference. The ‘Vrrn area” conference Jjrob-

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WOMAN BARES LOVE SLAYING DETAILS Hoosier ex-Convict Arrested in Connection With Killing • of Wealthy Invalid.

Bu United Press CHICAGO, "Dec. 31. —Weird detoils of a murder, such as seldom heard even by police, were drawn out today from three principals of Chicago's latest love murder. Mrs. Eliza Nusbaum, 58-, grandmother of eight children, wept her confession that she had conspired and accomplished the murder of her invalid husband so that she might marry a paroled convict from Crown Point, Ind. , Dreary Hegewiseh prairie—the desolate waste strip which gave up the murdered body of little Bobby Franks a year and a half ago—yielded up the body of the victim. John W. Winn, 47, ex-convict arrested at Crown Point. Ind., was brought here for examination. Winn denied knowledge of the affair. On Winn, police said, they found a letter from Mrs. Nusbaum giving instructions for the murder. Edward Goff, friend of the family, told differing stories of Itlie murder. In one story he charged that Winn crushed the old man's head with an

ably will be held In Chicago within the next thirty days. Governors, congressional deleg? tions, bankers, farmers and business men of Illinois, Indiana. lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota. Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and Misconsin will be invited. Ooolidge Is “Peeved” Indications that the President does not at all relish bayonet warfare with the corn belt States are contained in a telegram received here from the White House following Tuesday’s conference by a prominent leader of the agricultural forces. This message, which was shown to the writer, gives the impression that the President’s position on the farm problem is not final. . With the State-wide conference called by the bankers forty-eight hoars old, It is more than ever apparent that this uprising in lowa is not a sporadic or temporary flare. “NEW PRESIDENT NEEDED” Norris Refuses to Get Excited About Farm Revolt. Bo United Press WASHINGTON, De*. 31.—The American farmers won’t get any relief until there Is anew President in the White House, Senator Norris, Nebraska, Republican, predicted today. Norris is leader of the farm bloc in the Senate and chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee. Taking this view, the Insurgent Senator has refused to become excited or hopeful over the “revolt of the farmers" in the Middle West and the program for farm relief proposed at the Des Moines conference. "There's no use being hopeful because of the coming senatorial elections,” said Norris. “Let’s not forget that the President is not going to be one of the candidates next November, and every one might as well admit that he's the crux of the situation.” ASK TO EXTEND LINE Street Railway Files Petition on Rural Bus' Route. In a petition on file today with the public service commission, the Indianapolis Street Railway Company asks to extend its Rural St. bus line to Thirtieth and Adams Sts. The new line would serve a territory not reached by present transportation facilities, the petition said.

ax. In another story he said he murdered Nusbaum at the command of Winn. Goff is on the verge of insanity, constantly repeating the words "bump, bump, bump; that’s the way it sounded when we dragged the body up stairs.” There were two motives. One, gray-haired Mrs. Nusbaum said, was to obtain for Winn and herself her husband’s estate of thousands of ! dollars. She recently had his holdings transferred from under his jwn name to a joint tenancy, which would enable her to claim the entire estate immediately on his death. “And I wanted to marry Winn,” she said. “I love him ” There is a secondary motive, police point out, with the discovery that fifteen years, ago Nusbaum caught - Winn with his wife and shot Winn i over the right eye. The scar still j shows, the widow says. And, shortly I before he became paralyzed in | March, Nusbaum accused Wtnn of being over-friendly with Mrs. Nusi baum, and beat him Severely, the ' widow declared.

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ENDS Hooeier Athletic Club Suspends Special Fee. Harold Hampton, Hoosier Athletic Club president, today said a drive for new members has successfully closed. Reduced initiation fee was discontinued Thursday night. Applications on file bring the membership to 1,500, the number allowed by the constitution, Hampton said. The club home was remodeled and enlarged this year. In the past two months 160 have joined. MAN FOU N D WOU N PEP Different Stories Told—One Person Arrested by Police. Ernest Ellis, 22, of 3846 Hoyt Ave., is ft} city hospital in a critical condition with knife wounds and Thomas Holtsclaw,’ 20, of 217 N. East St., is in city prison held on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill. Patrolmen McCormick and Springer 6ald they found Ellis lying at Virginia Ave. and New Jersey Sts. First he told them, they said, that he was struck by an auto, then that discouraged because he was not able to succeed after being paroled from the Indiana Reformatory he atttempted to kill , himself, then that he was hurt In an argument with Holtsclaw. He denied, however, that Holtsclaw stabbed him. “sleepless nights Often Censed by Bladder Weakness. It’s Nature's Signal of “Danger Ahead.’’ A. C. Eekhart, 3917 Bt. Clair St., Cleveland. 0., *ay, “After taking Llthlated Buchu tablets one week, I am much Improved. You should get the credit as I had tried many things. I will be glad to write my experience to any one. Llthtated Bucbu cleanses the bladder ss epsom salts do the bowels, driving out deposits, neutralizes excess acids, thereby relieving irritation. The tablets cost 2 cents each at all drug stores. Keller Laboratory. Mechanlcsburg, O. Locally at Hook’s Drug Co.—Advertisement.

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DRIVE AGAINST BARBECUES TO BE LAUNCHED Sheriff Says He Will Dry Up Places in City's Outskirts. A drive against barbecue stands and other suburban places near Indianapolis where alleged liquor violations are beijig carried out will be launched by Sheriff Omer Hawkins, it was announced today. Hawkins said 'there were several places in the outskirts of the* city that were violating his order against liquor selling and drinking. Plans Padlocking “If they continue to carry on these violations I will have them padlocked,” he said. Legal papers were being compiled today by Federal officers, to obtain injunctions padlocking about forty Indianapolis poolrooms, restaurants, drug stores and houses, raided by Federal agents, county sheriff and police Tuesday in the city’s most extensive liquor raids^ Petitions to Be Filed George Winkler, prohioition group chief, today said petitions asking that the places be padlocked for one year will be filed in Federal Court next week. Seventy-five persona were arrested in the raids. Sixteen of these were released after preliminary questioning by Federal agents. Deputy sheriffs are seeking several additional persons. ARMY HOME TO OPEN The Salvation Army Industrial Home, 127-131 W. Georgia St., will be officially opened at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, it was announced by Adjutant Malcolm Salmond, manager of the men’s social department. Commissioner William Pert of Chicago, head of the Salvation Army in the central States, and Governor Jack son have been invited to speak.

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