Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 279

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SHORTRIDGE SUBJECT OF LABOR NOTE ‘Build School on ThirtyFourth St. Site at Once,’ Says Letter Sent Majority Faction Board Member Kern by C. L. U. RELOCATION TO BE DISCUSSED TONIGHT North Indianapolis Residents Will Have Mass Meeting —Permanent Injunction Will Be Asked of Judge at Hearing Saturday. Appealing in behalf of the school children of the city, Central Labor Union officials today sent a letter to School Board Majority Faction Member Charles W. Kern, in which immediate construction of the new Shortridge High School at ThirtyFourth and Meridian Sts. was urged. The letter was sent after the union went on record Monday night as favoring the school at the ThirtyFourth St site rather than on the location which the board wants to buy on Forty-Sixth St. between Central Ave. and Washington Blvd. The letter stated that the union had investigated the two sites and is of he belief that the Thirty-Fourth St. tract is the “most favorable,” but also in order that the School will be ready “by the time the old school must be vacated it will, have to be built at Thirty-Fourth St., and construction started at once.” In Name of Children “We are appealing to you in the name of the school children of this city to start construction at once,” the letter read. ‘Three months have already past and we are as far, if not farther froirf anew school than we were at the beginning of this year. “Organized labor as a whole is appealing to you as a representative member to take the lead at once on the immediate construction of the (Turn to Page 13)

ANTI-COOLIDGE MAN WINS INS. DAKOTA First Primary Election of the Year Sees Administration Slapped With Senator Norbeck Renomination Assured.

FIERRE, S. D., March 24.—The Coolidge administration has lost the first primary of the year—South Dakota. Returns today assured Senator

WOULD LICENSE COAL DEALERS Smoke Inspector Sponsors Proposed Ordinance. Coal dealers of Indianapolis will be checked on whether they supply to customers the grade of coal they say they are selling, by terms of an ordinance sponsored by Joseph Buchanan, city smoke inspector, and the Better Business Bureau. The ordinance would license coal dealers, compel them to supply consumers duplicate tickets showing the name, grade and heat units of the coal and other information. Each dealer would pay SSO license fee, plus sls for each yard. Violation of the ordinance would authorize revocation of license with fines. Buchanan said he proposes to insert additional teeth in the measure when it is introduced by Dr. Austin H. Todd, Monday night. He would authorize tests of coal by the city chemist and grading of the fuel according to United States specifications. > EX-GOVERNOR TRIED Davis ond Son Fate Cl mrges of Pardon Bribe. Bu Unit'd Press TOPEICA, Kan.. March 24.—Trial of former Governor Jonathan M. Davis and his son, Russell Daws, charged with accepting a bribe from a convicted Kansas banker, began here today in Shawnee County District Court. The State charges that Fred Pollman, Lacygne, Kan., banker, paid Russell Davis $1,250 for a pardon signed by the Governor and delivered by the son at the knowledge of his father, y

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School Days Back for Police School days are to revived for Indianapolis police. Chief Claude F. Johnson has decided to use the blackboard method to make his men better crime warriors. Police problems and their solutions are to be outlined on the blackboard In the roll call room at headquarters. Officers and men are instructed to examine the board frequently and profit thereby.

FIREMEN GO 36 MILES TO SAVE HOOSIER TOWN Business District at Grand View Suffers $30,000 Loss. Bu Timex Sveetal GRANDVIEW, Ind., March 24. — Timely arrival of fire companies from Evansville and Rockport saved the business district of this village •of 700 population from destruction this morning. Grandview, without means of fighting a big fire, was awakened at an early hour by flames roaring out of a general store on the east side of Main St. The flames spread rapidly and help was summoned by telephone. The Evansville company came thirty-six miles and the Rockport company twelve. Grandview is east of the two cities on the Ohio River. The firemen stopped the flames after they had destroyed a half block of buildings, about one-fourth of the town's business district. Loss was estimated at from $30,000 to $40,000. The general store, hardware store, barber shop, poolroom and a residence are in ruins. The Evansville company brought a pumper, which forced water from the Ohio River, 2,000 feet away, to the flames. An Evansville fireman was cut hy falling glass. The flre was first seen by the crew of an Evansville and Ohio Traction Company. Aid was summoned by tinging a church bell. FIREMEN RESCUE CAT Lieutenant Gibson Receives Gift of $5 for Pension Fund. Firemen today assumed the role of humane officers when they rescued a cat belonging to Thomas Perrine, 4540 N Capitol Ave., from a tree. Lieutenant Tom Gibson of Company 14, which responded to the alarm, received $5 for the Police and Firemen’s pension fund from Perrine.

Peter ,T. Norbeck, insurgent, the Republican renomination for Senator. He was leading George J. Danforth, regular Republican, by more than 25,000 with only the suburban districts to be heard from. The insurgent senator has -been on the defensive throughtout his campaign, but it was a defensive of purely local nature—none of the really big national issues being involved. Danfort.h had attacked Norbeck’s stand on the rural credits board in hi3 drive towards the Republican nomination. Governor Carl Gunderson defeated C. E. Coyne for the Republican nomination for Governor by 12,000 votes. In the Demoratic gubernatorial race, W. J. Bulow defeated R. C. Richards.

CAFE OPERATOR OPPOSES CART Butler Students Hurt Business, Says Woman. Miss Corinne H. Hamaker of 5317 University Ave. has asked police to enforce the peddlers’ license law, which, she says, requires push cart venders to keep moving, in an at, tempt to force Herman Phillips ana David Kilgore away from the Butler University campus. Miss Hamaker operates the Butler University cate and Phillips and Kilgore have a push cart stand on the edge of the campus. She said the student's are hurting her business, which is supposed to have a monopoly on student patronage. banker IS sentenced. CLEVELAND, 0., March 24Sentence of seven and a half years in Atlanta penitentiary and a fine of $7,000 were imposed on Josiah Kirby, head of the defunct Cleveland Discount Company, after conviction In Federal Court on charges of using the mails to defraud.

LOVE NOTES FIGURE IN BALMCASE Many of 246 Letters Chicago Girl Says Indianapolis Doctor Wrote to Her During Year of Courtship Are Read to Jury. . BOTH PARTIES BLUSH AT ARDENT PASSAGES Wife of Physician, Described by Plaintiff as ‘the Other Woman,’ Sits Behind Her in Courtroom Asks $50,000 in Suit. Bu Times SDedal CHICAGO, March 24. —The Superior Court jury hearing Miss Marie Grischeau’s $50,000 breach-of-prom-ise suit against Dr. Leonard A. Ensminger, Indianapolis, chief surgeon of the Big Four Railroad, ought to know how to write love letters today. Dr. Ensminger lives at 3908 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. A great part of 264 letters, which Miss Grischeau said the doctor wrote to her during a year of courtship, were read to the jury by plaintiff's attorneys.

Blushes Abound The court had ruled earlier that the plaintiff was not to shed tears. Tears influence juries. But the Judge said nothing about blushing and both the doctor and the girl reddened now and then as particularly warm passages were read. On the other hand, Mrs. Cora Ensminger, whom the doctor married instead of Miss Grischeau. showed signs of amusement as the letters were read. She sat a few feet Gack of Miss Grischeau. In testifying, Miss Grischeau had referred to Mrs. Ensminger as “the other woman.” Excerpts from some of the letters - The Introduction “Ever since I met you the other night, I have been thinking of you. It seems incredible that we never knew each other before. I can hardly wait until we see each other again.” Flattery “You are the queen of women. You would inspire any man to great deeds. “Don’t you realize your charm — your inimitable appeal? If you only knew your power, you would be a dangerous woman instead of a modest, adorable one?” * * * Despair “1 can’t believe you love me. It is inconceivable that a young girl like you should love an old man like me. “I feel blue today. It is only the thought of your love for me that keeps me going on.” “I want to creep into your heart, dear, and rest there. “When I think of you, I seem to exist in a world of my own. I am warmed by the sunlight of love. You say you think of me often. It is sweet to realize that our thoughts of each other are being flung back and forth in space.” Other chapters on “Passion,” "Philosophy” and “Humility” will follow today. Mailed From Here Miss Grischeau's attorneys introduced 246 letters, twenty-eight telegrams and fifty postcards to support her story that the surgeon proposed marriage to her in 1922. Dr. Ensminger was alleged to have mailed the letters from Indianapolis, Cleveland and Erie. Typical of the ardent phraseology was the following: “I wanted to be with you, but the best thing I could do tonight was to stand in front of your picture. It talks to me—yes, it does talk to me —and I keep it where it is the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night.”

REVENUE GAINS MILLIONS Federal Receipts First Eight Months Soar; Income Tax Jumps. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 24—Internal revenue receipts for the first eight months of the current fiscal year were $1,540,667,254.80, an increase of $110,636,718 over the same period last year, the Treasury Department announced today. Income tax collections for the eight months’ period, amounting to $915,894,961, showed an increase of $54,776,998. YOUTH BOUND OVER Kenneth K. Kerchavel, Indianapolis youth, was bound over to the Federal grand jury today on charges it" auto theft, after a hearing before United States Commissioner John W. ’C“rn. He was held under SI,OOO bond. He is alleged to have stolen a car here and driven to Detroit and back.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1926

Society Women Play Models

Left to right, standing, Miss Catherine Greer, Miss Anna Louise Griffith, Mrs. Edward Norvell, and Mrs, Samuel Sutphin. Seated, Mrs. William R. Sinclair.

Latest Spring Gowns Shown to Aid Hospital Work.

Young society women of Indianapolis turned models Monday and Tuesday afternoons to display more than 200 stunning spring gowns at the annual Junior League Exchange opening at the Propylaeum. The Junior League, composed of Indianapolis’ society women chose this as one of many means to increase its funds for work in the therapy room of the Riley Hospital, which it maintains. The dislay and sale of gowns and accessories will continue today. A percentage on the sale of each gown will be added to the working funds of the league. Miss Catherine Greer, 27 W. St. Joseph St., displayed a smart sport frock in light blue silk. Miss Anna Louise Griffith, 1434 N. Delaware St., appeared first in an afternoon frock of cinnamon brown satin. Mrs. William R. Sinclair, 4520 Broadway, w r ore a sport frock of red and white, panelled with fine pleats. Mrs. Edward Norvell, 1312 N. Alabama St., showed to advantage sport frocks, and Mrs. Samuel Sutphin, 1000 N. Delaware St., displayed a charming evening gown of blAck lace over gold cloth. The Junior League Exchange, 37 E. Pratt St., also displayed its articles, proeceds from the sale of which go into the league work. Art goods, children’s and babys’ clothes and accessories and a variety of party favors and appointments, cakes, cookies and other goodies, made by a real country cook, were on display. , The annual benefit post-Easter dance of the league will be an Advertising Ball April 5 at the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

NIGHT SESSIONS FOR FARM AID Democrats Charge G. 0. P. With Pussyfooting. BU United Press WASHINGTON, March 24.—After a heated exchange between Democrats and Republicans, the House Agriculture Committee voted this afternoon to hold night sessions, beginning tonight, to expediate consideration of farm relief legislation. The Democrats charged the Republicans were “pussy footing” and did not intend to grant the farmers any aid. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m '44 10 a. m ) 63 7 a . m 47 11 a. m 66 8 a. m 52 12 (nbon) 69 9 a. m 58 1 p. m.,..,. 71

4 PERSONS BITTEN IN LAST 24 HOURS

Police Ordered to Clear Streets of Stray Dogs—Head of One Examined for Rabies.

Police were ordered to pick up stray dogs today after four persons were bitten in the last twenty-four hours. Lloyd Buddenbaum, 11. 1931 Ruckle St., reported a dog chewed his legs while he was skating on the sidewalk near his home. Earl Moller, 15. of 611 E. 20th St., said the same dog bit him while riding a bicycle on Ruckle St. Police shot the dog when unable to find the owner. The dog was taken

SEEK BRAZIL BRIDE IN SKELETON CASE

Disappeared After Hurried: Courtship by Former Local Salesman. Mystery of the disappearance of a Brazil (Ind.) bride, wedded after a ] three weeks’ courtship, was re- ! vived today as police sought Albert j L. O. Wright, former Indianapolis , auto salesman. In their investigation of the skeleton found under a storeroom at Thirteenth St. and N. Senate Ave. Police Chief Claude F. Johnson today received a poster from Chief Amos Fulk. Brazil, describing Wright and his wife, and declaring he believed Mrs. Wright was the woman whose skeleton was found here. A letter to Detective Captain Jerry Kinney from the woman’s aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Leonhard t, Harmony, Ind., said they believed the skeleton was that of their daughter because she answered the ! general description of the woman as j medical experts have pictured her. ! The parents told of the tragedy of ! her disappearance in November, I 1923. The daughter, 29, was a reporter I on a Brazil newspaper when she met I Wright, described as being of dashing appearance with an “expansive smile.” Three weeks after the meet(Tum to Page 13)

CHILD WHIPPER GETS SENTENCE Baby in Orphans’ Home — Mother Also Given Term. The 2-year-old son of Mrs. Viola Isenthowl, 909 S. West St., was in the Indianapolis Orphans’ Home today bearing the marks of a whipping administered Saturday by Walter McNernery, 1180 Kentucky Ave., fined SSOO and costs and sentenced six months on the Indiana State Farm Tuesday by Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lahr on charge of contributing to neglect of the chil ’ Mrs. Isenthowl, found guilty of child neglect, was fined $1 and sentenced six months at the Indiana Woman's Prison for child neglect. Mrs. Opal Spoon, 909 S. West St., also charged with contributing to child neglect was given a similar fine and sentence. Testimony revealed Mrs. Isenthowl and McNernery were living together. During a fit of anger, Saturday, McNernery whipped the child and attempted to end his life by drinking poison.

to the State Pasteur laboratories, Market St. and Capitol Ave., to be tested for hydrophobia. William Dickey, 9, of 1918 S. Talbott St., was taken to city hospital when bitten by a dog owned by William Fries, 1718 S. Talbott St., police said. The dog was ordered penned. A stitch was taken in the cheek of Margaret Sutton, 4, 2344 Datoey St., when bitten by a dog owned by James Rusher, 2401 S. California St. The dog was ordered penned.

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SIXTEEN SLATED IN SPEED DRIVE One 16-Year-old Driver Held by Police. Sixteen alleged speeders were slated at city prison Tuesday night and early today. Herman Exner, 16, of 1845 E. Forty-Sixth St., was held on charges of speeding and driving under age Others charged with speeding were: Steve I/endavi, 24, of 2446 N. Gale St.; Ray Mote, 20, of 3445 Guilford Ave.; Ray C. Jeffries, 24. Carmel, Ind.; John E. Rasmus, 55. of 820 E. Raymond St.; Robert Goetscieus, 17, of 2452 Broadway; William R. McGinn, 32. of 3330 N. Meridian St.; Frank Buck, 38, of 4422 Central Ave.; Charles Goodlow, 19, of 3047 N. Illinois St., and Clarence Woodall 21, of 1818 Park Ave. Woodall also was charged with failing to stop at a preferential street. Eugene Frosh, 19, of E. New York St., C. H. Thomas, 24, of 834 Olney St.; Oscar Hasse, 29, of 5120 Norway Dr.; F. L. Johnson, 24, of 3925 Fletcher Ave.; T. A. Love, 23, of 136 W. North St., and Edward Gust, 24, Shelbyville, Ind. CORNER SITE IS SOLD Property at Capitol Ave. and Sixteenth St. Brings $25,000. Sale of the property at the northeast corner of N. Capitol Ave. and Sixteenth St., with frsntage of 110 feet on Captol Ave., to Thomas A. Moyahan was announced today by L. H. Lewis, realtor. The price was in the neighborhood of $25,000, Lewis said. Moyahan will erect anew building with storerooms on the corner, Lewis said. The Wesley Hotel, to be opened soon, and the Methodist Hospital are also located at Ctupitol Ave. and Sixteenth St. BIG TIM FREE FRIDAY Bu Unit3 l Press LEAVENWORTH. Kan., March 24. —“Big Tim” Murphy, Chicago labor leader, serving a four-year term in the Federal penitentiary for complicity in 7 the Dearborn Station mail robbery at Chicago, will finish his sentence Friday.

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Representative La Guardia Declares in House That 350 Cases of Confiscated Liquor Has Disappeared From Indianapolis Federal Bldg. STATES GOODS HAS FOUND WAY INTO BOOTLEG MARKET Congressman Asks That Inventory Be Taken and Investigation Made Before Whisky Is Ordered Destroyed—Ward in Chicago. By Roscoe B. Fleming Times Rtaft Corresnondent WASHINGTON, March 24.—A charge that 350 case* of liquor stored in the Federal Bldg, m Indianapolis under supervision of Federal authorities has “mysteriously disappeared,” was made in the House today by Representative LaGuardia, New York. LaGuardia said the liquor was part of 1,500 eases seized by the Government from the Squibb distillery, Lawrcnceburg, Ind., shortly after the conviction of George Remus, Cincinnati boot-

legger. “An appeal waa taken against the seizure, and the liquor was held pending the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals,” said La Guardia. “I believe the appeal is about to be or has Just been argued. In the meantime 350 cases of the liquor has disappeared. Charges No Report “An far as I could ascertain no report was ever made In the matter, and it is whispered that many of the remaining cases do not contain their original content. I called attention to this fact in a letter to Secretary Mellon on March 16, but have received no reply.” “I have heard that since my letter the Federal officials are extremely anxious to have this case disposed of and the liquor destroyed as by the original order. I believe that It is destroyed and an Inventory should be taken and the officials responsible for its custody should be held to account. “Whisky does not walk off by itself. These 850 cases of liquor, while In possession of the prohibition enforcement department, found their way into the bootleg market through unlawful channels. Start in Department “It seems to me now that the country is alive to the subject of prohibition and the advocates of the law are urging strict enforcement, a good place to start enforcement Is in the prohlbtlon department and the Department of Justice.” Le Guardia also charged that John Dodge, Department of Justice special agent who "worked up” the Jack Daniel liquor case, tried In Indianapolis, had surreptiously secured possession of much of Remus property Including $200,000 wortn of whisky certificates and has sold them to a man named Hlnkel of Cleveland. The liquor covered by the certificates Is at the Pogue distillery In Maysville, Ky., he said. WARD OPPOSES MOVE District. Attorney in Chicago Arguing Against Hrtaining liquor. United States District Attorney Albert Ward was In Chicago today before the United States Circuit Court of Appenls n.rguing against a motion of operators of the W. P. SqulW) Company Distillery to have the liquor retained until the entire case against George Remus, Cincinnati bootleg king, who held the controlling Interest in the distillery a few years ago, and his associates is disposed of. Federal Court here ordered the liquor destroyed early last year, but an appeal was taken hy attorneys for Remus to the Circuit Court. Associates Convicted Since that twenty-three of Remus' associates In the Jack Daniel liquor conspiracy case hnve been convicted. Other persons still are under indictment on the same charge. It was understood that Ward was to ask the Immediate destruction of the liquor before the Chicago court. The liquor was brought to Indianapolis and stored In the Federal Bldg., shortly after December, 1923, when the Lawrenceburg distillery and other distilleries operated hy Remus were padlocked after the Death Valley cache was exposed by former Prohibition Director Bert Morgan. Best in Country Some of the liquor, which Is said to be 110-proof whisky, reputed as being the best in the country, Is stored In the basempnt of the Federal Bldg, and the remainder Is behind locked doors on the second floor of the building. The second floor room adjoins that used by the Federal grand Jury and keys are held personally by Federal officials. According to bootleg liquor prices prevailing today >:ueh whisky Is worth S2O a quart. Three hundred

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and fifty cases of this liquor, figuring twelve quarts to the case, would be worth about $85,000. Heard Report Deputy Prohibition Administrator Ansel R. Harris said that before the holidays he had heard that the storerooms had been broken Into about three times during 1925. He said, however, he did not have any report of any of the liquor being taken and understood that nothing of this nature had occurred. The liquor is under the direct charge of United States Marshal Linus P. Meredith. Meredith entirely dls<*redlted statements mado In Washington that part of the liquor is goue. Asked if thero was anything to such a report, he said, “Nd.” He saicj that in order to steal a large amount of the liquor It would he necessary to use trucks and this could not be done without tho knowledge of Federal officials. H. C. STUTZ SUED FOR ALIENATION OF AFFECTIONS Former Auto Manufacturer Defendant in $50,000 Case. Harry C. Stutz, former Indianapolis automobile manufacturer, Is named defendant in a $50,000 allention of affections suit filed today In Superior Court Two by Herbert J. Miller, insurance agent, living at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Miller alleges that Stutz, said to be In Orlando, Fla., alienated the affections of Mrs. Miller. The Millers were married July 81. 1919, and Mrs. Miller secured a divorce March 25. 1924. Her maiden name of Blanche Clark was restored. IManist in Case Mrs. Miller was pianist in the Hotel English case orchestra when Miller managed the case. Mrs. Miller also played In the English Theater orchestra for a time. Mrs. Stutz secured a divorce In September. 1925, and, according to the complaint, Stutz married Miss Clark, the former Mrs. Miller, Dec. 28, 1925. She Is said to be with Stutz in Florida, No Specific Charges Miller charges that he and hls wife lived together, that he supported her and shared her companionship, but that Stutz's actions deprived him of her. No specific charges are made. The charges were denied on behalf of Stutz.

JUDGE DELAYS DECISION Case of Alleged ”lIIt and Run” Driver Under Adlvsement. Criminal Judge James A. Collins today took under mlvlsement a charge of failure to stop after an accident against Daniel Mills, Negro. The automobile Mills was driving on Oct. 23, 1925, is alleged to have struck and injured Albert Hauser, 920 N. Pershing St. Judge Collins said nrrangemsnts are being made whereby the defendant can repay Ilauser for damages. FIDDLER IS HONORED Bean Supper Given for MriHe-Dnn-j ham at Keith*. An Old-fashioned Maine bean *um per was served on the etaji <>■ Keith's theater following the nlgw show Tuesday In tumor ot Idetlfl Dunham, old-time ot >lslu I JR