Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1926 — Page 16

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ASK THAT TWO BE INDICTED ON MURDER CHARGE Hnr- ________ detectives Say They Have Confession From One > £ Negro. tqday planned to ask tke-Marion County grand jury today for first degree murder Indictments against two Negroes, John Andrew smlth, 17, of 3113- E. Minnesota St., and Wallace MeClutcheon, 17, of 1433 Menocqua St., who they accuse of allying John Ward, 42, of 1226 (Cottage Are., Sunday night In, a hold-up near 2700 Prospect St. vt Smith, it is said, was accused in •ft statement made by MeClutcheon as having been, the person who fired the fatal shot at Ward. Smith, how.over, maintains his innocence, police 'ftay. MeClutcheon said he was hiding *ln the ambush near by and saw the gun flash. He and Smith fled, he said, and separated and did not see one anothep until Tuesday night. Detectives Commended Detectives Moore, Fossatti and Peats were commended by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson, for their work in clearing up the mystery. The arrests camo when a poolroom proprietor who had been asked to •loan some money on a .45 automatic pisiol told Inspector Claude Worley who had the gun. A younger brother of McCutcheon was arrested and said he had returned the gun to Iris brother, Wallace, late Sunday. Wallace, arrested, for five hours with-’ stood the questioning of detectives and then broke down and admitted that ho had hen given the gun by JJmijLh to pawn. Gun Milder House . Mrs, Emma Smith, mother of the alleged slayer, told police her two lions had the gun. The trio was taken to headquarters and it learned that the gun was hidden under a house near the MeCutbheon home, nfter John Smith had- returned to that house with it night. It was found with five cartridges in it, and the sixtli missing. The bullets are similar to .those taken from Ward's body by Coroner Paul F. Robinson. Wallace McCutcheon said he was home Sunday night when Smith garde there and asked for the gun. lie said: ‘“Come on,-boy. Tret's go have some fun.” McCutcheon said he accompanied him to the murder scene and they saw Ward approaching witji his bicycle.\ Smith ac--eosted him and was given 35 cents, after which the shot was fired. Ward •described his assailant as a young Negro arter summoning aid.

CONDITION NOT SO GOOD Moolidge’s Father Shows no Improvement, Says Doctor. m PLYMOUTH, Yt., Jan. 22.—C01. John C. Coolidge’s condition is not so good as two weeks ago, according to Dr. Albert M. Crain of Bridgewater, his physician. A telephone has been Installed In the home of the President’s father to make possible direct communication with the White House. There had been no telephone in the CoolitJge home since shortly after the oolonel administered the oath of office to his son following Harding's •death. , CONFECTIONERS ELECT If. J. Williamson, Indianapolis, Named Vice President. Z Sale of bulk candy will be pushed hy .the Indiana Confectioers’ Association, the annual convention decided at the Severin Thursday. New .bffifchrs are: Ross Lewis. New Albany, president; Hoiper J. Williamson, Indianapolis, first vice president: ibdwas'd Bromrn, Evansville, second 'vice l president; E. E. Nichols, Indiam apolis, secretary-treasurer; ’executive 'committee, Omar C. Mewhinney, i’erre Haute; W. C. Dickmeyer, Ft. Wayne, and Oscar Heider, Indianapolis.

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SHERIFF TO BE BUSY Will Serve 800 Defendants ill $15,000 Damage Suit. Hu l nitrd Press SOUTH BEND, lnd., Jan. 22Sheriff Thomas Goodrich of St. /Joseph County and his deputies today prepared to give practically all of their to serving 800 defendants in ai suit field in Circuit Court here with notices of the action. Every member of the South Bend local of the Carpenters and Joiners Union automatically became defendants when William Hanley, who was expelled from the order filed suit against the union for $15,000 damages. BOY BLACKMAILERS HELD Threaten to "Expose” Woman Unless She Put $lO in Box. Hu ['hilid Press SOUTH BEND,MiId., Jan. 22. Two youthful l-'ackmailers, whose names are withheld by police, tock.y faced the possibility of serving a 1 term in Federal , rison, following their arrest here. The lads, both of whom are 15 years of age, are said to have threatened to “expose’' a neighbor woman unless she left $lO in a shoe box in the alley. Detectives arrested the boys when they went to obtain the money. EXPERT JURY REPORT About Forty Ca/>es Investigated by U. S. District Attorney. The Federal grand jury which has been in session two weeks probably will report Saturday, United States District Attorney Albert Ward said today. About forty cases have been presented. * Among them is a case involving prominent persons expected to be indicted. Twenty of the cases are liquor law violations.

COORDINATION IS URGED Spea.V'ar Makes Plea for Closer Union of Schools and Business. A pleat for coordination of schools and business was made by Dr. Wil-' liam M. Lewis, president of George Washington University. Washington, D. C., in an address Thursday njght before the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men at the Severin. Dr. Lewis proposed that an advisory board of representative business men and bankers be named to advise every school superintendent of opportunities in the city. TWO YOUTHS MISSING / j. v Relatives Make Reports on Iritis to Police Department. _ Two youths were reported missing to police Thursday night. > Denton White, 9, of 411 Hanson St., went to school and failed to return, his mother said. Paul McDaniel, 14, is missing from his home at 2127 Prospect St. His brother, Wallace, told police the boy has a paper /oute and was supposed to pay his bill Thursduy, but disappeared. Building Permits K. O. Hartley, reroof. 110:1 Reid PI., *2lO. William Witliam. ranyra. (127 Udell, $l2O. R, ,A. Hendrickson, reptirs. 322 Virginia. SI.4JWI. Frank Venezia, addition. COS S. East, S3CUI. W. F. Seyfried, dwclllnr. 1320 Boaart, $3,000. O. A. Miller, repairs, 1505 Martindale, S3OO. .1. A. Pyle. Karaite, 1320 N. LaSalle, S2OO. O. D. I’tnkbiner, ffaarpe. 3429 E. Twen- <•> nnn take Sklok-lax for Jtriliotume*?*?

SIOO,OOO FIRE AT EVANSVILLE Fifteen Families Flee in Night Clothing. Bii United Press EVANSVILLE, lnd., Jan, 22.—Fifteen persons early today had a narrow escape froln death when fire destroyed a three story building on the river front with a ’ loss of SIOO,OOO. The building was one of the oldest in the city. .The blaxe started in a restaurant. Mrs. William Drake, who with her husband and two small children were forced to take refuge (fn the roof of a. nearby shed, suffered frozen limbs and the children- from exposure. The remainder of the fifteen persons, >all of whom were forced to flee in their night clotheß and barefooted. suffered from exposure. ’ Nearzero weather hindered firemen.

MISSISSIPPI HAS OROPjNCREASE 1925 Products Valued at $287,000,000. GULFPORT. Miss., Jan. 22. Farm crops of Mississippi In 1925 had a cash value of $287,000,000, an increase of $72,000,000 over 1924, according to D. A. McCandliss, Gulfport, statistician for the United States Department of Agriculture. Cotton led crops with a production of 1,930,000 liales, valued at $207,000,000, an increase of 40 per cent, over the year previous. The growth in agricultural value is said by Mississippi agricultural experts to be due to the cotton Increase, bettter farming methods and the diversity of crops now being introduced. Mississippip is swinging away from its traditional “patch farming” because of increasing land values brought about by better railroad transportation facilities, giving fanners a greater outlet for products to the North, and introduction ot fruit falsing on Ihe Mississippi coast. The 1925 Mississippi corn crop is estimated at $35,586,000, or 32 per cent larger than 1924. Hay production wiis estimated at 417,000 tons, worth ' $7,290,000, or 16 per cent more than last year. Other crops and valuations; Sweet potatoes. 5,592,000 valued at $5,592,000, an increase of 35 per cent; sugar cane syrup. 2,002.000 gallons, valued at $2,102,000,’ four times as much as last year; sorghum syrup, valued at $1,936,000; Irish potatoes, $1,340,000; oats, $1,260,000: peaches, $1,104,000.

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