Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 239

THREATEN NEW FACTS ON MULES Works Board to Consider Street Cleaning Report at Meeting. MOTORIZATION PLANNED Animals Rented to City by James E. Armitage. BULLETIN The mule contract with James E. Armitage will be ignored, Roy C. Shaneberger, works board presffi dent, said as the board met this afternoon. Shank administration political leaders today indicated important disclosures will be made if the present board of works cancels the contract whereby James E. Armitage, brother of William H. Armitage, former Mayor Shank’s political director, rents mules to the city’s street cleaning department. Through three years’ rental Armitage rolled up a profit of at least $17,547.50 on an original investment of $2,500, according to a report of Alvah J. Rucker, corporation counsel; John K. Ruckelshaus, city attorney, and Donald Roberts, assistant, which the board was to consider at its regular meeting today. Rental of the mules has been considered a political prerogative by many city administrations. Present board members have indicated they plan complete motorization of the department. The board is expected to cancel the contract drawn Nov. 30, 1925, effective in April, 1926, binding the new administration for six months, with the option of renewal. Shank leaders had expected the Duvall administration to allow the contract to remain unchallenged, it was said.

SENATE REFUSES STRIKE ACTION l Declines to Set Tax Bill Aside by 48-28 Vote. Bu United Preaa WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—The Senate refused by a Vote of 48 to 28 today to lay aside the tax bill for consideration of the Copeland resolution calling upon President Coolidge to summon the striking anthracite miners and coal operators to the White House for a mediation conference. "Mr. Coolidge could settle this strike in two hours if he set himself to the task," Senator Copeland, New York Democrat, author of the resolution, said in demanding] a vote. Copeland and Senator Edwards, New Jersey, declared fuel conditions along the Atlantic seaboard have been accentuated within the last few days by snowstorms which have parayzed traffic and prevented deliveries of substitute coal and coke. Edwards said schools were clos ing in his State and that coal could not be bought.

WHAT ONE GIRL FOUND OUT uj FOUND out that night that man never looks upon woman impersonally. She is never just a human being like himself. She is either his mother, his wife, his sister, a prospective romance or flirtation or the woman who does

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the way they handled their love affairs. For that reason the author prefers to hide her identity under the signature “A Girl of Today.” Most girl readers will say, “That girl who is writing this story knows our crowd, It is so sincere and honest in its truth and type.” - ✓ Times confidently expects “Her Own Way” will cause an immense amount of interest and will be the subject of endless controversy before it clears up the story of the Girl of Today. It Starts Monday in The Times. Don’t Miss It.

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AIR HEARINGS BEGUN ______ / Maj. Gen. Patrick Opposes Wadsworth Bill. Bu United Preaa , WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The Wadsworth aircraft bill, drawn along the lines advocated by the Morrow board, was opposed by Major General Mason Patrick, chief of the Army air service, as hearings on the bill began before the Senate military affairs committee today. Patrick favored a unified air service. WALLACE WILL FILED Leaves Famous Study of Author to Crawfords viUe. Bu United Preaa CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 5. —The famous Lew Wallace study, together with a $125,000 mainten ance fund, was bequeathed the city of Crawfordsville In the will of Henry Lane Wallace, son of Gen. Lew Wallace, author of "Ben-Hur” and other books. Most of the estate, valued at more than $1,000,000, was bequeathed to Lew Wallace, Jr., of Rye, N. Y.. son of Henry Lane Wallace, at whoso home the latter died.

FARM CRUELTY CHARGES DENIED Youths,.Escaped From Institution, Captured Here, Tell of Beatings and Meager Diet.

Charges that they were chained together six days, beaten and given nothing to eat but bread and water, were made today by two Indianapolis boys who escaped from the Indiana State farm, Putnamville, Thursday night. They were arrested at Shelby St. and the Belt railroad by MotorANDERSON MEN BEFORE BOARD To Confer With Orr on State Investigation. A delegation of Anderson, residents was to meet this afternoon with Lawrence F. Orr, chief ex aminer of the State board of accounts, to protest against fulfillment of a contract between the city and two Anderson newspapers for the publication of publicity. A total of $15,000 was appropriated recently by city council from the electric light fund to pay for tho advertising matter. Charges have fceen made that the agreement is illegal. MOVES TO BOOST FEES Councilman Hays Pawn Shop, Junk Yard Profits Are “Enormous.” Declaring the profit of pawn shops and wholesale Junk yards "is enormous,” City Councilman Boynton J. Moore today asked the legal department to draw up an ordinance increasing city license fees on pawn shops from slOl a year to SSOO and on junk yards from $l5O to SI,OOO. TAKEN AFTER COMPLAINTS Ernest Jones, 33, of 2815 McPherson St., today faced charges of vagrancy and offending persons on the street. Sergeant O’Connor paid several complaints of a white man accosting Negro women were received.

not count.” That is what Julia Dean learned when she first set out to make her own way in the world. Hers is the story of the newly emancipated worn an the girj who chooses to tread her own path unaided. It is the story of thousands of others in that ever-increasing artny of girls who earn their bread and butter. “Her Own Way** is written by a woman who was fortunate enough to hear the frank confessions of a large number of girls in

Lack of Religion, Mismating and ‘Spoiling* Blamed by Three.

By Eloise Walton 0 Lack of religion, spoiled women and nftsmating. These were the reasons given by three Indianapolis women today for the fact that 3.006 * wives were granted divorces in eighty-four Indiana counties in 1925, while only 804 husbands were granted separations. “It is the lack of religion that is responsible,” said Mrs. Felix T. MeWhirter, president of the Woman’s Department Club. "In no other country is there less religion than in America today. And we have more divorces. We cannot keep a home together without religion.' Longs for One Man “I < believe that every normal woman longs for the love of one man. Every norma! woman wants a home; and since there can be nc real home without reverence for God, when she finds this lacking, she Is ready to break up the home. (Turn to Page 27)

1 cycleman William Miller, for speeding, and intuition caused him to take them to headquarters. They -proved to be Holland Gardner, ,19, of 1526 Lawton St., and William Maley, 17, of 1242 Bridge St. .They charged cruelty by the guards followed a “stooj-pigeon’s” telling of their plot to escape with four others. Gardner was "sent up” 180 days, he said, from juvenile court, Dec. 23, for contributing to the delinquency of a 16-year-old girl, a charge of which he said he was innocent... Maley said he was convicted and sentenced to serve two years at the farm, with Bill Thompson, who helped him hold up four Negroes. Gardner told of the beating of a convict by the name of Earl Bennett. “I wish you could go down there and see that fellow, now,” he said. "It’s terrible. I could sit here all afternoon and tell you about how bad it is. A fellow can't stand R.” Superintendent E. L. Arment of the farm said over long distance telephone that it was true that the boys had been chained together. (Turn to Page 27) HUMAN ELEMENT TOPIC Bcth-El Congregation Will Hold Sundown Services Tonight. Beth-El congregation will hold sundown services tonight. At religious forum at 8:15 p. m. Rabbi Isadore Goodman will speak on "The-, Human Element.’’ Discussion wilJ follow. \ Saturday morning services will be at 8 o’clock with children's service at 9:30 a. m. Rabbi Goodman will preach on "The Ten Commandments,’’ at 9:15. A religious school will be held Sunday morning at 10 a. m. and Monday Bible Class Will be held at 8:15 p. m. HEAVY FINE IMPOSED William L. Smith, Negro, 721% Ogden St., was fined SSOO and 'costs and sentenced six months on the Indiana State Farm today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins on an assault and battery charge Smith was charged with molesting a 10-year-old colored girl.

HUSBAND’S FATE UP TO HIS WIFE Collins Gives Woman Time to Change Mind. Recognizing a woman’s right to change her mind, Criminal Judge James A. Collins today gave Mrs. Velma L. Spurling, 23, of 1238 Prospect St., twenty-four hours in which to make up her mind whether or not she will live with her husband, William David Spurling, 22, charged with child desertion. Spurling was returned here from Louisville, Ky. When Spurling "promised to live with and provide a home for her and their six-months-old baby, Judge Collins'indicated he would give him a chance to makS good. “But I’m not willing to give him another chance," said Mrs. Spurling. “I gave him his chance before ho left for Kentucky and I’ll not do it again.” “You mean you are willing that I go to the pen?” inquired Spurling. “That!s what I mean,” she replied. Judge Collins said he would pass Judgment Saturday. OFFICIAL AT HOSPITAL Homer A. Klimberlln, secretary of State board of accounts, underwent an operation tpday at St. Vincent Hospital for removal of the tonsils. He was reported resting easily. MBS. HARRY LOSHBROOE 1950 VALLEY *Ave., oold A RUG the first (Jay FROM a “For Sale” Want Ad • • • IN The Times. • • • HOUSEHOLD eoods Bell QUICKLY .with a Times ■tvant’ad. '

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REPORT ON SCHOOLS IS SCHEDULED \ C. of C. Subcommittee Looks v Into Ventilating and ■ Heating Plans. FOR TWO BUILDINGS Board May Take Action'at Tuesday Night Meeting. The subcommittee of the Chamber of Commerce education committee, appointed to investigate revisions in .the school board’s heating and ventilating plans on School 78 and Shortridge High School, is expected to report on its findings the first of next week before action is taken on the plans by the school board. The subcommittee will meet at the call of Leonard V. Harrison, secretary of the civic affairs committee of the Chamber. It is understood that a full report of the conditions fount and a recommendation to the school board will be made at that time. Call for Shipp System *

Revised plans on School 78, which call for the installation of the D-I heating and ventilating system manufactured by Clarence C. Shipp of this city, will be turned over to the school board buildings and grounds committee, Saturday. Majority faction member Charles W. Kern, who opposed the original plans foe the heating and ventilating and tnade the motion to change them for the Shipp system, is committee chairmap. The board ia^.expected to act on the completed plans and specifications for the heating and ventilating Tuesday night. Contracts may be let at this. time. At a special board meeting Tuesday it was shown that the system to be used was that manufactured by Shipp. Shipp offered Louis C. Ward superintendent of Ft. Wayne schools, tho superintendency here, provided that he would pay Shipp SI,OOO a year for obtaining the place; dismiss all Catholic teachers an4_ reinstate Mis# Ctebrgia Alexander, former school 'principal, as assistant superlntt-nffenl. Ward admitted. He was to receive a salary of SIO,OOO a year. Committee Sends Letter A latter was sent by the education committe of the Chamber of Commerce to board members Wednesday in which it was pointed out that the committee was investigating tho plans and specifications and the reasons for the change to the Shipp system. "The education committtee has an active inter-rating In keeping education facilities in Indianapolis ?,t their present high standard, and t desires to ser’e in bettering the education of Indianapolis children,’’ the letter read. "This committed is desirous of your being- informed regarding its function to promote best interests of education In Indianapolis.” ,

LINCOLN STATUE DRIVE STARTED Plan Stadium at Grave of President’s Mother. A drive for donations to a fund to ! build a statue and stadium at the grave of Abraham Lincoln’s mother, at Lincoln City, Ind., was begun today by an Indiana committee composed of members of the G. A. R-, W. R. C., D. A. R., Sons of Union Veterans and Daughters of Union Veterans, Frank M. Hay, attorney, committee chairman announced. Between $100,009 and $150,000 will be needed, Hay estimated. The committee will solicit in all parts of the S)ate. Hay asked that all volunteer contributions te sent the Assistant Quartermaster General of Grand Army of the Republic,_ Statehouse. REP. MADDEN COLLAPSES Congressman Faints in House; High Temperature, Physicians Find. Bu Vtilt’d Preaa WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—Representative Martin Madden, Illinois, Republican, chairman of the House appropriations committee, collapsed in the House today and was carried from the building. Physicians who examined him said that he was running a temperature of 103. ADMITS STARTING FIRE " " 'J” South Bend Man Given Suspended Sentence on Arson Charge. On the strength of a confession obtained by State fire marshal operatives from Lester M. Swank, South Bend, that he had set fire to the home of his father-in-law In Cass County, ’ Swank received a one tc eight-year prison sentence for second degree arson when tried today at Logansport. Sentence was suspended am) Swank received a thirty-day jail sentence.

Swing a Cane and Carry Your Seat to the Races

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Here’s something you’ll probably see at the Speedway Memorial day. It’s a walking stick seat. Mrs. Mary Lankford, 2449 N. Illinois St., is sitting on one and holding another. The top of the cane folds out into a seat.

TWO INDICTED IN LOVE-DEATH PLOT Grand Jury Charges Young Wife and Aged Man With Conspiracy and Intent to Kill Husband.

Marion County grand Jury today Indicted Mra. Ruth Gipprlch 26. of 3134 N. Illinois St., and Grafton Andrew Clary. 70, merchant policeman, 20 N. Drexel Ave., for conspiracy to commit a felony and assault and bat ery with intent to kill The indictment was in two counts. Bond was fixed at $5,000 each. Clary, in- city hospital with a fractured skull. Saturday confessed

CLOUDS, SMOKE BRING DARKNESS downtown Section Murky in Early Morning. Heavy clouds and a light wind which was not sufficient to blow away murky smoke, this morning gave Indianapolis an almost nlg’Jtlike appearance sor 1 some time after the sun had risen. Until nearly 0 a. m. the downtown section was darkened. With an increase in the velocity of the wind, the smoke, for the most part, blown away. The gray clouds remained, however, and are due to stay over tonight, according to the United States Weather Bureau. ’ . There was little fog present this morning, J. H. Armingtoif, meteoroligist, said. The relative humidity was 80, or about normal for this time of year. Rising temperature is predicted for tonight and Saturday by the bureau, the forecast being for a low mark of above freezing during the evening. The mercury was 29, or about 3 degrees above normal, at 7 a. m. FIRE MYSTERY IS DEEPENED I Skull of Father Found in Crock. v DOWAGIAC, Mich., Feb. 6.—Mystery surrounding the burning to death of five members of the Xvilliam Wilkinson famil.r Thursday, deepened today. Authorities found the severed head of William, the father, in a crock in the charred ruins of the farm house. Police originally believed Wilkinson killed his blind wife, his daughter Geneth, her illegitimate child, and a son Floyd before committing suicide and setting fire to the house. Skulls <!>f Geneth and Floyd were found to have been crushed and officers regard it as certain they were dead before the fire. Albert Alexis, an Indian whom the girl named as father of the child, was qufltteasd by police hut not .held.

to a love pact with Mrs. Gipprlch and an agreement to kill her husband, Leo J. Gipprlch, for $3,200 insurance. police said. Mrs. Gipprich, held under high bond, the plot. . She denied writing an “until death” note found on Clary. Assailant Identified Gipprich, who identified Clary as the man who attacked him in the basement of hi', home, Jan. 27, expressed faith ip'pis wife. The indictment charges Clary struck Gipprich with an iron bar. Gipprich told police he took the bar away from his assailant and struck him. Police traced blood prints to the Illinois St. car line. When CJary (Turn to Page 27) MAN, 73, HELD IN FURNACEDEATH Woman’s Body Bears Evidence of Struggle. Bu Unitcl Preaa SIOUX CITY, lowa. Feb. B Belief that Mrs. George Solomon, 47, mother of nine chlldron, was thrust head-first into the furnace of her home, was expressed by police today with the coroner’s report that the body bears evidence of a fierce struggle. > Coroner J. H., Robbins said he found the woman’s right Wrist had been fractured. < The head bore evidence of blows and other wounds. Police believe the woman was pushed into the furnace while still breathing, but perhaps unconscious. George, the 73-year old husband, Is in custody. He claims the death was accidental, glolomon has not explained why he failed to notify his children or neighbors of the death or why he dragged the body to a corner of the basement and covered it with ashes. CHURCHES BAR SHAW Baptist Pastors Refused to Let Him Talk. I Negro Baptist pastors were asked lo permit John Thomas Shaw, Negro, I Saturday acquitted of the murder of Mrs. Helen Hager to speak in their churches, but refused, according to announcement ‘today of F. A. Hayward, executive of the Federated Baptist Churches of Indianapolis. Shaw did hot appear at Mt. Paran Baptist Church. Twelfth and Missouri Sts., Thursday night, where Prosecutor Remy received a report Shaw was to appear and thank those who contributed to his defense fund. W. S. Henry, Negro attorney, said Shaw will speak tonight in a hall at Vermont St. and Indiana Ave. Police Chief Johnson said he would have police there when Criminal Judge James A. Collins said he understood Shaw would attack the courts. ’ v

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CRIME SUITS CLOG STATE COURT WORK Liquor Actions, Cases Arising From Many Laws, Throw Dockets lr i ( Year or More Behind. 34 REPORTS SENT TO BUREAU • / Collins Says Equally Poor Condition Exists in Marion County. By Clyde Byers Jammed with prohibition cases and suits resulting from the ever-increasing number of laws, legal machinery in Marion County and Indiana is hopelessly behind in the prosecution of criminal cases.

Thousands of minor and some major criminal offense charges drag along for a year or longer before the accused is freed or convicted. Dockets clogged in 1925 are growing worse, and still more evil conditions are forecast. Choked to the limit, eighty-four courts, reported on by seventy-five clerks to Director Charles Kettleborough of the State Legislative Bureau, disposed of only 7,931 crlmi nal cases out of 13,161 before them in 1925. Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court said an equally poor condition exists in Marion County, figures on which are not included in Kettleborough’s total. "We’ve got a thousand cases right here ready for trial,” Collins declared, "which means we'd be busy every hour, very calendar day from now until the end of the term in June, if we cleaned up and didn’t touch a case that is filed between now and then.” ' More to Como said at least 1,000 cases will come before his court either by appeal from lower courts, or by the filing -of affidavits or indictments before the end of the term. I Appeals, Collins disclosed, are responsible for a major part of the burden. "They appeal all kinds of cases up here,” he said, “simply because they want time before having to serve sentences. They think, and it has been tho case here recently, that we can't get around to them for a year or more. When we do, they dismiss the appeal and abide by the lower court’s order.” Collins has taken steps to remedy matters. Under the direction of Deputy Prosecutor John L. Niblack, fifteen cases are being set for trial dally before Municipal Judges Felt and McAllister, acting as special Criminal Court Judges. Same Rank of Judge Under tills arrangement an appeal from municipal court convictions, in some cases, is being heard, in effect, by a Judge of no higher status than the Judge who pronounced sentence, though legally, the jurist hearing the appeal is a special officer of Criminal Court. Niblack's effort to dispose of fifteen cases a day, started Monday, has been successful in three cases out of every four. Os the sixty cases set for trial, forty five were disposed of either by conviction, ac qulttal, dismissal or forfeiture of the accused person's bond. Many Left Pending Out of 18,241 criminal cases before all the State courts in 1924, 7,635 were left pending in 1925, according to reports to Kettieborough. The number of cases left pending in 1925 for action this year Is larger, It Is Indicated by reports on the eighty-four courts. - In only one county which has reported were more cases disposed of than were left pending. Fifty-cine cases were disposed of in the Rush Circuit Court, Rushville, presided over by Judge Will M. Sparks, and forty-two were pending Jan. 1, for future action. Included in fifty-seven cases disposed of in the Hamilton Circut Court, Nobleaville, out of 122, was the murder charge against D. C. Stephenson, serving life in Michigan City penitentiary for killing Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis. Sparks presided at this trial besides keeping ahead of his own docket. In Madison County, 397 cases were disposed of out of 816. Lake County's three courts disposed of 1,155 out of 1,783 cases. Many of these dispositions were by dismissal. REPORT FIRE NATURAL J State Official’s Office Says Origin Not Believed to Be Incendiary. After a summary investigation of | the recent $*,000,000 fire in the South Bend business district, in which one fireman was killed and two seriously injured, indications are the conflagration was from natural causes and not incendiary, State Fire Marshal Alfred Hogston said today. Assistance o£ the State investigating force was offefed South Bend officials the day of the fire in case arson was suspected. A routine investigation is being made. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 28 10 a. m 30 7 a. m 29 11 a. rn 30 8 a. m 29 12 (noon) .... 29 I 9a. m 30 Ip. m...... SI

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and Saturday with rising temperature lowest tonight above freezing.

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SELECTION OF TEACHERS BY BOARDFLAYED Indiana School Superintendents Hear Terre Haute Man Speak. * Interference of school boards with administrative policies of school superintendents was flayed by Terre Haute School Superintendent J. O. Englemln In an address today before the annual meeting of the Indiana Town and City Superintendents’ Association at the Lincoln. The meeting ends this evening with election of officers. Englemon said the selection, or even recommendations, of persons for teachers was a matter entirely out of the province bt the bcljooJ boards. Superintendents, he said, are better qualified to select teachers and shape school policies. He defined board members as legislative officials and superintendents as administrative officials. Engleman said he did not want his remarks to be construed as persona) attacks on any persons no v or heretofore connected with the Terre Haute board. An address by Supt. W. W. Borden of South Bend on “Essentials of an Efficient School System,” was on the program for the afternoon session.

TRAIN ROBBERS TAKE ALCOHOL Bandits Uncouple Freight Cars—Get SIO,OOO Worth. Hu I'nitrti I'rcßu PEORIA, 111~ bandits uncoupled three rear merchandise cars f-om a Rock Island freight train two miles west of Putnam, 111., shortly before midnight last night, forced Charles Summers, conductor, to disarip J. Fitzpatrick, train rider, and escaped with approximately SIO,OOO worth of -alcohol, which they hauled away in three trucks. PROGRAM TO BE FULL Egg and Poultry Association Convention, March 3-4. . Dances, banquets, luncheons, and entertainments intersperse business sessions and lectures, according to the twelftii convention program of the Indiana Egg and Poultry Association, William Locks, 129 N. New Jersey St., secretary, said the meeting will be March 34, at the Severin.

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