Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 290

HALLOWED EARTH GETS G. CHAPMAN pement of Mystery Follows Outlaw to Grave as Heavily-Veiled Woman, Identity Shrouded, Sees Body Lowered Into Earth. BURIAL HELD WITHOUT RELIGIOUS SERVICES Wan Who Carried Fight for Liberty to President of United States Goes to Doom Unafraid, Unflinchingly, Silently. By Frank Beaman United Press Staff CorresDnndenf HARTFORD, Conn., April 6.—The fconsecrated ground of Mt, Ha In l: Beneltct's cemetery today received the body of Gerald Chapman, The man who came from where jio one knows to flaunt society and defy the law was buried without religious serviee before noon, At the very grave of Chapman there was anew element of that mystery whleh had surrounded him to the end, A heavily veiled woman, who fumed away from all gaze and nlwme name was not revealed, Mood beside she grave as the plain black casket containing Chap, man's body was lowered into the grave. She rode to the cemetery with Judge Frederick .T, Groehl, Ray AT. Wiley and Joseph M. Freedman. Chapman's lawyers, who carried the fight to save him from the noose to the President of the United States and the Supreme Court. His Sister? Word went) out that this was Chapman’s sister —a survivor of the family from which he .Another rumor was that the woman was tlte mysterious Betty Bates, or “Betty Beeswax,” formerly of Lafayette, Ind., Chapman’s sweetheart, who associated with him in his prosperous days. The burial was without religious serviee of any kind. No priest was there to offer a final prayer. The little group stood, the three men with heads bared, while the undertakers lowered the rasket. It was but the work of a minute to pour fresh earth and thus write finis for the career of the strange Gerald Chapman, He went to his death unflinchingly 'behind the grim walls of Wethersjfleld Prison. At 12:04 a. m. today the law overtook him finally in the long race he Ifcad run with it. A prison warden shuffled his foot, a great weight dropped, a priest implored the mercy cf Heaven, and nine minutes later the prison doctor said: “I pronounce this man dead.” Chapman went to hear the final Judgment still an enigma, imJmowii and with none to weep for him. He spoke his last word before the hoard of pardons Monday afternoon, ■Where In vain he calmly asked for Justice. A fading light shown through the Tarrow barred window of his carefully segregated cell in the prison I (Turn to Page 12) URGES VOTE IN PRIMARY Candidate for Prosecutor Nomination Speaks. The Importance of voting in the primary election was stressed by Raymond F, Murray, candidate for the Democratic nomination for prosecutor, at a Warren Township meeting Monday night at 5436 E. Washington St. "The future looks to the good citizens to maintain unimpaired twoparty responsibility,” Murray said. “Too many good citizens are displaying timidity and fear that their .neighbors will call them politicians if they assume an interest in the primary election." Other ‘Democratic candidates attending the meeting were Albert Losche and Richard Coleman, in the county clerk race; William Gale, seeking the treasurer nomination; Howard Robertson and Howard B. Perkins, candidates for the Legislature, and Dr. Benjamin Potter, candidate for Warren Township trustee. IS MISSING Slayer Falls to Return After Temporary Parole. gu United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., April 6. —-Officials of the Indiana State prison today attempted to trace Nelson Ross, who failed to return from a temporary parole. Ross was sentenced to life imprisonment from Delaware County In 1909 for murder, but was granted a temporary parole last month to visit his aged mother In Indianapolis. His parole expired April 1. e •? j

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A Devil Dog and the Demon Rum Not since that famous fracas between St. George and the Dragon has there been such a battle as the recent two-round go between America's fightin’est Devil Dog and the Demon Rum in Philadelphia. The United States Marines aren’t called Devil Dogs for nothing. And Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler didn’t win more ribbons and medals than any other Marine by sitting in an arm chair. He had been meeting all comers in all corners of the globe for twenty-odd years when lie was matched against the Demon that never bad been licked. The outcome of their engagement is still a matter of argument. Some say one won and some say the other. No bets have been paid. But the agreement is unanimous that it was a real fight. Brotherly Love went out the window early in the fray and gentle Quakers, accustomed to sparring matches, had to hunt their holes. There were a lot of queer features to the tight. In the first place, as Butler explains it, be thought the Mayor would be in his corner, holding the bucket and towel, but found the Mayor had elected himself referee, iustead. Not only that, but that the referee was pulling for the other man. He thought the good burghers bad come to see him win, but he heard them shouting, “Go it Demon! Go it Dog!” with complete impartiality. And, he says, the fight shouldn’t have been called after two years. It was supposed to be to a finish. He’d have licked the Demon, he thinks, if the fight hadn’t been called. Maybe General Butler is right. Nobody can know for sure. But any intelligent reader can form his own opinion. Butler now tolls a lot of things about, that sanguinary battle that have not been told before. “SMASHING CRIME AND VICE” By SMEDLEY D. BUTLER Former Director of Public Safety, Philadelphia, Pa. It is a remarkable narrative of the Marine officer’s furious effort to clean up a town that had been called Corrupt and Contented tor several generations. Jn thirty crisp installments, lie relates what happened to himself—and what happened to the town. The Gang wanted him to put on a tin hat and make a big noise, he says, and to stop when he’d done that. But they found he had just begun. He draws his own conclusions. You can draw yours. Some of his are: “The churches and church people were sincere—but they were pacifists. They said, let’s do it painlessly, without offence to our Ach contributors who sit in the front pews.” “The liquor laws, the vice laws, the gambling laws, are all class legislation.” “I am not, never was and never will be a professional reformer. There is no crature I despise more.” “My work in Philadelphia made me a prohibitionist.” “Face the issue (prohibition) squarely; lay aside all political bunk and either knock it out with a club or let it remain; but by all means stop this shadow-boxing.” “I believe Philadelphia wants to be cleaned up —just enough to appear respectable.” lie went to Philadelphia to “divorce the police from politics”—and what a family -row it turned out to be! You’ll know more about the police in every town when you’ye read what Butler tells of the police in Philadelphia. And more about city politics. “Smashing Crime and Vice” Is Something for Everybody to Read—Starting Tomorrow in The Indianapolis Times

TAX FIGURES WILL BE SET State Board to Meet Utilities’ Representatives. Beginning Wednesday, the State tax board will meet with representatives of various large utilities preparatory to fixing their tax assessments which become payable next year. The Logan sport Home Telephone Company and the Southern Indiana Telephone Company will be heard Wednesday. Thursday the board will consider assessments for the Home Telephone Company of Ft. Wayne, and the various companies controlled by Max Hosea of Indianapolis. Valuation of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company will be determined Friday. Conference with officials of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, which operates in the Calumet district, was changed from next Thursday to April 13. PREDICT CLOUDY SKIES Little Change in Temperature Expected by Weather Bureau. Cloudy and unsettled weather, with occasional rains, is due to continue tonight and Wednesday, the United States Weather Bureau announced today. Little change in temperature is anticipated. While only four hundredths of an inch of rain fell in the city Monday night, southern Indiana had a heavier fall. Rain amounting to more than an inch was reported In Greene County and farther south. Temperature here was 35 or 9 degrees below normal at 7 a. m. It was 10 degrees below the mark for the same hour Monday. MODERNISM AT, STAKE Question of Virgin Birth Features Missouri Election. Bn United Press CLARENCE, Mo., April 6.—Citizens here today went to the polls to decide the question of the virgin birth of Christ and incidentally elect a mayor. J. C. Maupin, former Baptist minister, who admits he is a modernist, is opposed by L. J. Peterman, retired farmer, and strict fundamentalist.

Beer Explodes in City Laboratory Beer testing is not without its hazards. J. R. Dunwoody, city chemist, will testify to that fact. * “Sizz, boom, flop, crash,” the health board workers heard today at the city hall. They found Dunwoody in the laboratory clearing up the debris caused by explosion of a bottle of home brew he was testing for the police department. No Injuries. “Think what that stuff does to your stomach,” saia Dunwoody.

MAN AND GIRL FOUND WOUNDED Mysterious Shooting at Gas City. Bit Times Special MARION, Ind., April 6.—Authorities today awaited expected recovery of Marie Creek, 22, stenographer, and Nelson Fleenor, 38, a married man, both of Gas City, before completing investigation of the shooting of the two early Monday night. The girl and Fleenor were found In a pool of blood on a Gas City street. The girl had been shot three ■ times, once in 'the head, and the man twice, in the head. A blood covered 32-caliber revolver was found by police a short distance from the shooting. The girl charges Fleenor shot her, because she refused to elope with him. Fleenor denies this, saying he never owned a revolver in his life. Both are in a local hospital. AC CI DENTS DECREA SE D 4.3 Per Cent Loss Reported by Pennsylvania Railroad. A 4.3 per cent decrease in accidents was reported today on the Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania Railroad by the Pennsylvania News for February. The Ft. Wayne division decreased accidents 69.4 per cent, winning a trophy, and the Logansport division cut accidents 52.7 per cent under the corresponding period the year before.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 6,1926

NEW PROBE OF BARRETT FUND BEGUN State Board of Accounts Seeks to Determine Deficit City Is Forced to Pay by Court Rulings Giving Interest to Treasurer.

ORR STARTS INQUIRY; COSGROVE IN CHARGE Says Shortage Incurred by Pre-Payment of Improvements Costs Causes Public to Lose Returns While Bond Charges Go On. Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the State board of accounts, today announced an investigation is under way to determine the amount of the deficit incurred in the Indianapolis Barrett law fund by a Federal Court decree defeating the intent of the State law under which It is collected, and met each year by the dty. The fund is in custody of the county treasurer, who is ex-officio city treasurer. The treasurer is not to blame for the deficit. He is complying with a Federal Court decree in 1908, which prevents the city controller from investigating pre-pay-ments under the Barrett law in in-terst-bearing securities to pay interest on bonds issued under the same law. The funds collected under the Barrett law, which Orr said might total from one to four million dollars, are installment payments on streets, alley, sidewalk and sewer Improvements. The fund is to retire bonds issued when improvements are made. Court Decrees The Federal Court decree and a Marion County Superior Court ruling holds the fund is not a public one, but a trust fund with the treasurer as trustee. Treasurers for years have pocketed interest earned by the fund, approximately $45,000 a year, while the city pays the deficit. “If the (Marlon) County treasurer carried the funds around in his vest pocket and lost them or stole them the State couldn't convict him of a criminal charge or collect for it on his bond,” Examiner William Cosgrove, in charge of the investigation, declared. Pre-payments of street assessments are made to escape interest charges by persons who, when the assessments were made, elected to pay in installments. When they pay up in full, the treasurer deposits the money and takes the interest it earns until the bonds are due. But payment of the bond interest must be kept up, creating a defllcit. As a result Orr declared taxes are levied to meet it, on all property owners Instead of Just those benefitted by the improvement. What Law Meant

The law had contemplated meeting these bond interest payments by interest from securities the city controller would buy with such prepayments. But the city controller cannot buy the securities because he cannot draw a warrant on the fund, as the Federal Court decree restrains the treasurer from putting it in a public depository. The Federal Court decree was Is; sued on complaint of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company of West Virginia against former treasurer Ed. J. Robinson, restraining him or his successors from depositing in any public depository money collected through special assessments made by the city for improvement of streets or other public improvements. Under this order treasurers deposit the money in their own names, and by law, according to Examiner Cosgrove, are only morally and legally responsible for having it to pay off bonds and to turn over to their successors. Demurrer Upheld When Edward Sourbier was treasurer the attorney general sued to break up the arrangement' In Marion County Superior Court, but Sourbier’s demurrer that the fund was not public money was upheld. The view the fund is not public money is - shared by the accounts board, bat it is contending the city should be made trustee of the fund, thereby relieving the taxpayers of a burden, with the city receiving the interest. Making the city trustee of the fund would require vacating the Federal Court decree and anew State law. PURDUE APPOINTMENT Bu United Press . LAFAYETTE. Ind., April nouncement was made today of the appointment of W. O. Mills of Mooresville as field agent for the Purdue University School of Agriculture. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 34 10 a. m 37 7 a. m 35 11 a. m 38 8 a. m 36 12 (noon) .... 38 9 a. m 36 1 p. m...... 39

You Can Live on Easy Street in Fact Here; but Finding It Is No Easy Job

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It’s Hidden Behind a Barn —No Pavement and No Sidewalks. By Allen A. White You can live on Easy St. in Indianapolis. It is a little west of Kessler Blvd. and a block north of Speedway Rd. Board a W. Tenth trolley, ride to the end of the line and walk six blocks north on Tibbs Ave. Not so easy to reach. When you come to the fifth hlock you will have to ask someone where Easy St. is. because you won’t see it. If you should accidentally query a stranger he will smile, thinking you are joking. But a resident familiar with that vicinity will point across a large cornfield and say, “See that old barn over there? Well, it’s behind that barn.” Down the Alley Thus Easy St. Is reached by walking down one side of the cornfield to an alley and down the alley past the old barn. There are seven wooden frame houses on Easy St. One happy couple is starting married life on Easy St. They are Mr. and Mrs. Roseoe Swails, 1704 Easy St. The wedding ceremony was performed Saturday night at the home of the bride's parents on N. Tibbs Ave. Mrs. Swails, who was Miss Ida Linson, said she remembered when Easy St. was nothing but a cow path. The cow path is lost in automobile tracks ploughed in the unpaved street. - There are no sidewalks save the wooden walks laid from each house to where the sidewalk might be. Formerly MeadowvilJe Mrs. Swails said Easy St. used to be called Meadowvllle. Mrs. Charles Hlttle, 1702 Easy St., said living on Easy St. doesn’t make her domestic duties any easier. “The person who named this street must have had a strong sense of humor,” laughed Mrs. William P. Parks, 1706 Easy St. Members of the Parks family are among the “old residents” on the street, the family having lived there eight years. Kent Parks, 10, their son, Is a Times’ carrier. “You know when my husband first came home and told me he had bought a home on Easy St., I thought he was Joking,” said Mrs. Parks. “I told him that was where I always had wanted to live, but I found out later It wasn’t the kind of street I had in mind.” Folks on Easy St. have to work just like the rest of us. Other families on the street are those of W. TI. Howard, 1710: Joseph Beckert, 1712: John Schnure, 1714, and Carl Carlson. 1715. Children must go one mile and a quarter to school at Flackville. The nearest bus line is on the Speedway Rd. PLANES REACH TUNIS Madrid-to-Manila Flyers Off for Tripoli, Next Stop. Bu United Press TUNIS, North Africa, April 6. One of the Spanish Madrid-te-Manila planes which left Madrid Monday landed here at 2 p. ni. today. The other two continued on their way to Tripoli. The plane here is commanded by Captain Estevz.

294 FAMILIES, GAIN HERE IN 7 MONTHS Real Estate Board Compiles Figures From City Records —Estimated Increase Since September Is 1,176.

In the last seven months Indianapolis has gained 294 families. This was shown today in figures compiled by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board from city records. Four persons are said to comprise

ACCUSED GIRL’S . MOTHER DIES Held in Jail on Charge of Shooting Man. * Bu United Press HUNTINGTON, Ind., April 6.—A heart-broken girl of 21 years sat in the jail here today unable to be at the home where her mother died a few hours ago. The girl is Goldie Francis, who is held on a charge of shooting and seriously wounding Earl Williams, a farmer. The mother's death is thought to have been hastened by the arrest of her daughter. The girl is said to have shot Williams when he refused to marry her. HORN PREVENTS $3,000 HOLD-UP Wife Lear* on Button — Bandits Scared Away. Accidental sounding of an automobile horn late Monday night saved Robert Marsh, 28 S. Downey Ave., from possible loss of about $3,000 In diamonds, police said today. Marsh, with his wife, was returning home about 1 a. m. in his automobile when two Negroes near his garage started toward the auto. Mrs. Marsh leaned toward her husband and accidentally pressed the auto horn button. The Negroes fled.

GIRL SAVED BY ENGINE PILOT Rides Cowcatcher After Train Strikes Auto. Bu United Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., April 6. Clinging to the pilot of a speeding New York Central locomotive for several thousand feet, Susan Banta, 16, saved her life in a grade crossing accident her today. Her brother, Maurice, 16, was seriously injured when their auto was caught by the train at the unguarded crossing, but will recover. As the locomotive smashed the auto and hurled it to the side of the tracks the girl was throwm to the pilot, whex-e she clung uhtll the train was brought to a stop.

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the average family, which would make the population increase during this period, 1,176. The figures were compiled from September, 1925, through March of this year. It Is estimated that 671 families moved into the city, while 377 left. More Growth Figures for the first five days of April show twenty-five new families, while only three families have changed their i-esidences to other cities. It was pointed out that the figures cover, for the most part winter months when the influx is low. In September, 122 families moved here and 113 away: October, 102 In, and 85 out: November, 69 in. and 60 out; December, 58 in and 35 out; January, 133 in and 36 out; February, 89 in and 24 out, and March, 98 in and 24 out. Robert MacGregor, Real Estate Board executive secretary, declared the report reveals that “Indianapolis is growing steadily.” Homes Retained It was pointed out that many residents of this city who left during the Florida boom, are returning and are not included In this suxwey. Most of these persons retained their homes or rental property In Indianapolis. With such a growth as this, real estate men predict Indianapolis prepared for one of the most prosperous years of its existence. RESURFACING OF STREET STARTS Tracks on Kentucky Ave. to Be Removed. Resurfacing Kentucky Ave., from Illinois St. to Capitol Ave., a measure delayed for some time by bad weather, began today. The work will mean the end of the miniature Alps motorists have cursed so heartily for many years as their cars moved almost as fast vertically as horizontally. The city pays 75 per cent and the property owners 25 per cent of the cost of resurfacing. Tracks of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, unused for many years, will be removed. The project is the last slop In the opening of Kentucky Ave. as a thoroughfare. DEPUTY TO RETURN MAN Husband Held at San Diego, Cal., as Fugitive. Deputy Sheriff John Sands left this afternoon for San Diago, Cal., to take custody of Uolllo Metz, held there as a fugitive. Metz wan indicted by the grand jury on Sept. 2, 1925, on a charge of child desertion. Mrs. Metz and her 5-year-old daughter live at 1119 Oakland Ave. Metz will be brought here for trial before Criminal Judge James A. Collins.

Forecast CLOUDY and unsettled with occasional rain tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature.

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WEI FORCES OEM SIX SUBPOENAS Prosecutor for Beer Faction Says Unless Witnesses Are Summoned Presentation of Case Will Be Materially Hampered. SENATE COMMITTEE TO MAKE DECISION LATER Andrews Resumes Stand to Admit Coast Patrol Captures Less Than 5 Per Cent of Rum Smuggled Into United States. BU United Press WASHINGTON', April —A dmar,d that at least six witnesses bo summoned to Washington hy subpoena to relate their expedience with prohibition was presented at the opening of the second day of hearings before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee. The demand wns presented hy Col. Julien Codman, prosecuting at torney of the wets, who said that unless the witnesses were summoned, the wet case would be materially hampered. Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, moved that the subpoenas be Issued, deplte a previous ruling of the committee. The committee, however, tiete’rmtned that the matter should be considered later, and Chairman Means announced that the motion would be taken under consideration. The wets then called Secretary of the Treasury Andrews back to the stand to resume testimony lie started Monday, Admits Smuggling The dry chief, questioned by Reed, admitted that the barriers he had erected against smuggling prevented very little foreign liquor destined for the United States from entering thiH country. Andrew* testified that the roast 1 patrol captures less than 5 per cent of the smuggled rum. Codman questioned Andrews regarding expulsions from the prohibition unit. More DisiilMng Andrews revealed that the “art of distilling” had recently made enormous progress. He said hl agents had recently discovered “anti-freeze mixture” and ' embalming fluid'* were being used in distillation of liquor. Reed questioned Andrews oloeely (Turn to Page 12)

DOG QUARANTINE RECOMMENDED Letters Sent to Health Officers Over State. Because of the prevalsnoe of rabies, a State-wide quarantine on dogs was recommended today by Dr. William F. King, State board of health secretary, and State Veterinarian R. C. Julian, In letters sent to all county, city and town health officers. The letter recommends! 1. Quarantine of all dogs on owner’s residence and muzllng of all dogs when not on owner’s premise# or In leash. 2. Killing of all dogs by peace officers when found running at large without muzzle or leash. 3. That quarantine be made effective for ninety days beginning April 15. Julian pointed out that an additional precaution may be taken In the inoculation of dogs with the antl-rablc serum at. a nominal cost. Since Sopt. 1. 1925, Dr. King said, 128 cases of rabies have been treated in Indiana. riAPKKK FANNY y , tTBEL~ — ' 1..1— -mt ®k <•* HWff am* Y NCA .CSVICC. INC. *— J A divorce in London is reverse English.