Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 294, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 294

Lee Flees Tennessee Prison; Robs Bank

MAKERS OF BOOZE MAY LOSE ALL Dry Administrator Announces Plans to Have Government Take Personal and Real Property of Volstead Act Violators. WOULD RESURRECT OLD 1857 STATUTE Harris Says He Will Make Use of Law as Soon as Possible Heavy Fines and Sentences Also Are Provided in Act. Indiana booze makers faced the prospect of losing' all their property, personal and real, today. E. C. Yellowley, prohibition administrator of the Thirteeth District, which includes Indiana, announced plans to impose this penalty on those who violate the Volstead act by resurrecting an 1857 law designed to cl eck moor.shining. The old law—used successfully in the reconstruction period following the Civil War—provides for the forfeiture to the Government of both real and personal property involved in booze manufacturing and even provides for the stfrrender of land over which bootleggers pass to and from a wildcat still, according to Yellowley. Harris <o Act Ansel R. Harris, deputy administrator in charge of Indiana law enforcement, said he would make use of the statute as soon as possible. Yellowley and Harris both pointed out that in many cases where property has been padlocked for a year and a day under the Federal law It wi I now be confiscated as Government property. The law also povides fines of from SI,OOO to $5,000 and prison sentences of six months to two years. Harris said that since lie has been (Turn to Page 10)

MARTIN WANTS JUDGE’S BENCH Local Attorney Candidate for Supreme Court. Clarence ft. Martin, Indianapolis attorney, today announced he is a candidate for nomination for judge of the Indiana Supreme Court, at the Republican State convention. Martin has been engaged in law practice for nineteen years. He graduated from the, Michigan University and Indiana Law School. After graduation he served ns Appelate Court clerk. “If I am elected l shall work in complete harmony with the able judges, who are already members of the court," Martin said. He was manager of the primary campaign of Senator Albert Beveridge jn 1922, and in that year was on the Republican State committee as chairman of the speakers bureau. MOTHER JOINS CONDEMNED SON Sees Young Rhoades. Sentenced to Electric Chair. Hu United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. April 10.— The mother of Dreyfus Rhoades, confessed slayer of Detective Carie of Vincennes, joined him today. She came from her home in Ilenryetta, Okla., bringing with her two sisters and one brother of Rhoades. “I came as soon as t got word he had been sentenced to the electric chair,’’ she* sobbed. “My son: Aly son!” she cried as she greeted Rhoades in his cell. She held him close in her arms. Rhoades remained calm with difficulty. ST. I/OUTS MAN SOUGHT Indianapolis police today were asked to search local hotels for August H. Goett, St. Louis, Mo., who failed to arrive at his home in St. Louis Friday night, as scheduled. He was supposed to have left here Friday.

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Local Man, Who Escaped Trial for Alleged Murder of Grocer, Leads Sixteen Prisoners in Getaway at Nashville. GET $15,000 IN LOOT ON WAY TO MOUNTAINS Demands Promises of Cash From Fellow Convicts Before Releasing Them From Cells —Is Seventh Dash for Desperado. 11 u United Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 10. — Ralph Lee. alias Howard Karr,

wanted at Indianapolis on murder charges, but sentenced from here to the State prison at Nashville for highway robbery, escaped the penitentiary Friday night with sixteen fellow convicts, and today held up a bank at Bell Buckle, Tenn., obtaining $15,000. Lee, who has a remarkable record of escapes from prisons, and Lee Allen, noted Okla-

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homa bandit, executed the getaway from prison. Obtaining a gun. Allen held W. IJL Dodson, r guard, and aided by Lee, forced him into an empty cell after removing his gun and keys. Several “trusties” were drafted to free other prisoners. Demand Money Walking along the lines of prison cells, Lee and Allen, demanded promises of cash money before they opened cell doors. Fifteen were added to the original party. Walking out the main entrance, the men seized a street car and automobile and escaped. En route to the mountains, the convicts stopped at Bell Buckle, where they robbed the bank and then continued on to the hills. Planes Join Hunt Governor Austin Peary has ordered airplanes to aid in the hunt for the men. Armed men are also beating the bills. The fugitives eluded armed posses (Turn to Page 10)

CURE FOR PARESIS VICTIMS IS TESTED Five Patients With Malady Treated Successfully at Central Hospital for Insane.

Science, at last, may have found a, cure for paresis, syphilitic insanity. Time will tel) -whether anew method of treatment, used at the Central Hospital for the Insane is a cure or just a step forward in t-e.it-ing the scourge, doctors said. The treatment involves literally burning out the paresis with fever. Five patients have returned to their former occupations and laboratory tests have failed to show a trace of the defection. Thirty-five others are being treated. Marion County physicians are eagerly awaiting announcement of results by Dr. Max Bahr, head of the institution, who first put the treatment to test In this State. He outlined the tests of he treatment, it is undersood, to Indianapolis Medical Society members at a meeting this week. Patients are given malaria fever by injection of germs. In about eight days they became seriously ill, having fever and chills on alternate days. They are left In this condition from sixteen to twenty-four days. The theory is that the high fever destroys the paretic organisms which caused the patient's brain to disintegrate. Curing the malaria then requires from one to three weeks. A series of laboratory tests are made later Paresis, which, roughly, is syphilis of the brain, has defied medical science of ages It appears in patients from ten to twenty years after syphilis has been contracted First symptoms are grandiose and' fantastic ideas of wealth and power The treatments at the hospital, it POLICEMAN MURDERED Robber Trio .Shoots Down Sergeant —Flee. Bu United Press FRANKLIN. Pa., April 10.— George McPhee, police sergeant, was shot to death here early today as he tried to arrest three men for breaking into a confectionery store. The trio escaped, telling passersby they were chasing a Negro who did the shooting.

HOME SHOW DOORS WILL SWING OPEN Million Population Idea to Be Stressed at Start of Exposition Tonight—lßs Exhibitors Have Displays in Booths. ELABORATE DECORATING SCHEME WORKED OUT Centerpiece Five - Room Bungalow of Mediterranean Type, Finished With Stucco Homer McKee Will Make Speech. Clicking turnstiles will herald the opening of the fifth annual Indianapolis home complete show, under the auspices of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, at the manufacturers’ building at the State fairground tonight. At C p. m. 55. B. Hunt, exposition committee chairman, will formally open the million dollar home show, dedicated to Indianapolis’ ambitions for a million population. He with J. Frank Cantwell, exposition director, will turn the show over to Mayor Duvall, who will, in turn, present the keys of the show to Governor Jackson. Short talks will be made by each of these men. The opening night will be million population and Indianapolis realtors’ night. Other special days during the week of the show have been named as follows: Monday, lumber, millwork and material, men's day; Tuesday, architects', contractors' and builders’ day; Wednesday, model home, furniture and furnishings day; Thursday, Indiana day: Friday, club day, and Saturday, building and loan association day. Closed Sunday The show will be open from 6:30 p. m. to 10:30 p. in. the opening night and from 11 a, m. to 10:30 p. (Turn to Page 10)

is understood, have been undertaken during the late winter and spring as a precautionary measure against spread of the malaria, which can be carried by mosquitoes. REPORT GREECE IN CIVIL WAR Conflicting Dispatches Are Received. Bu United I rcss BERLIN, April 10. —Dispatches received today from Belgrade describe Greece as plunged in civil war following the mutiny yesterday in Salonika. Other dispatches report the attempt to overthrow Dictator Pangalos to have been -suppressed.

Butler Arouses Politicians

Editor’* Note—This is the fourth in- | stallment of General Butler’* story of his ’ork as hsad of Philadelphia police and his dismissal early this year. The articles will appear daily. The Times owns exclusive right* to the articles in this territory. By Smedley D. Butler Those first days were hectic ones. It was drive, drive, drive and raid, raid, raid. Speakeasies, saloons, disorderly houses gambling dens, all were raided. Prisoners were taken by the hundreds. Gambling paraphernalia was smashed. Liquor was seized. There was purpose behind this forced activity—to show the underworld that the police meant business. To the police themselves my order was: Clean up the city in fortyeight hours or get out. I knew the Philadelphia cesspool couldn’t be cleaned up in that period. Nevertheless the order was issued, so that I might establish

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 10,1926

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Emriclisville dam in White river, where Clifford Piatt, 11 (inset right) was drowned and where Lewis Spring, er (inset center) rescued Thaddeus Quinn, 12 (inset left) from the rickety canoe in which the boys dared the flooded stream.

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HIS REFUSAL TO CHANGE FIGURES COSTS POSITION Highway Body Clerk Says He Was Dismissed for Not Juggling Statistics. His refusal to juggle figures waa flisclcsed today by Howard D. McClelland as reason for his summary dismissal Friday as State highway commission chief clerk. Highway commission members had said McClelland's dismissal was due to “lack of cooperation.” Some time ago McClelland was ordered to ascertain the commission's overhead expense. His figures showed nearly 5 per cent overhead. Director John D. Williams ordered McClelland to reduce the figure. McClelland refused and the matter was taken out of his hands. The commission, by deleting salaries of district superintendents, testing laboratory expenses and miscellaneous expenses of the thirty-three district garages. was able to pare its overhead to 3.08 per cent, McClelland explained. Crawford Slated Mrs. Mary Olive McConnell, daughter of State Auditor L. S. Bowman, will relieve McClelland temporarily, It was announced. Earl Craw ford, commission member, Is slated to succeed McClelland when the former's term expires next Saturday. Explaining his stand, McClelland said: "If cooperation means changing figures in the annual report to suit Mr. Williams I cannot cooperate. I have sought only to present facts and figures showing the truth in highway department affairs, to which the citizens are entitled.” ‘SHEIK’ SEND TO CHAIR New York Youth Hears Sentence y in Tuxedo. Hu United Press NEW YORK, April 10.—Dressed in a tuxedo, because he expected to be freed, and had a dinner engagement, Herbert Koerber, an 18-year-old sheik, heard instead a jury pronounce him guilty of murder and sentence him to tho electric, chair. Herbert was convicted of killing a lunchroom keeper in a hold-up after an all-night orgy of red wine and synthetic gin.

quickly and defintely which officials were loyal and would make an earnest effort to carry out instructions and which would not. I soon found out. Surprise Tours Made At all hours of the day and night, with Elliott and other officials. T made surprise tours of the city. I would pop into a station house to find that, despite the forty-eight hour clean-up order, there was no police activity. The police lieutenant would look into my eyes and report that his district was spotless. I yould go outside and see half a dozen saloons a block away. The lieutenant would be demoted or suspended. I found one lieutenant listening to a radio concert —and this was in a district overrun with vice. He was demoted and, when I last heard of him, was working for a brewery. I discovered that Philadelphia was

Modification Has Brought Temperance, Senate k Told. Hu United Press WASHINGTON. April 10.—Prohibition was tried in Canada and failed because it did not prohibit but instead provoked crime and demoralization of young neopkt. Sir William Stavert, formerly of the Quebec liquor commission, and F. W. Rusell of the Manitoba Temperance Society told the Senate prohibition committee today. Restricted Government sale of liquor has eliminated the evils of prohibition, they said. Their testimony, coming after John Sullivan of the New Y'ork Federation of Labor had ;,lctured "young girls carrying flasks of gin on their hips in New Y'ork." had a visible effect upon both wet and dry members of the investigating committee. Sir William and Russell were closely questioned regarding the Quebec and Manitoba systems of government distribution, which they said eliminated bootleggers, raised revenues for road building and resulted in temperance. With only nine hours of their day in court remaining. Senator Walter E. Edge. Republican, New Jersey, wet bloc leader, made a declaration that the wets had made a case and challenged the dr.vs to answer revelations of bootlegging, corruption, disease and crime. “We have used Government officials and produced facts and records—not simply opinions.” Edge told the United Press. "We have records and men to prove that conditions are relatively the same In every corner of the United States. “If the opposition gets anywhere, it must refute these facts and not, as in the pa6t, defend the law by exhortation and evasion.” A. REAL HAUL HERE Port Wine and Canadian Whisky Taken by Police Raiders. One quart of Concord port wine, one quart of Canadian whisky, seven quarts of Old Dominion whisky, eleven pints of red whisky and two pints of beer. That is what Sergt. Ed Deeter and squad said they found when they visited the home of Walter W. Mueller, 36, of 2604 Madison Ave., today. Mueller was charged with blind tiger.

virtually pollceless at night. Incoming and outgoing shifts, instead of relieving each other at their designated posts, were meeting in the station houses, blocks, sometimes mile:;, from the posts they were supposed to patrol. That was halted immediately. Within the first ten days it was necessary to rid the department of eight or ten lieutenants and scores of policemen for inefficiency, lack of cooperation and drunkenness. They apparently couldn’t understand that an order meant just what it said. They had been used to other condl tions. I didn't have power to dismiss those officials, but they were suspended or demoted. Hundreds of Raids In the first six days some 484 raids were staged. The underworld began to take notice, and soon there (Turn to Page 2)

SHUMAKER SAYS I WETS MAY GET HOUSE CONTROL Appeals to M. E. Conference Delegates to Aid AntiSaloon Body. Hu Timm bvccial NEWCASTLE, Ind., April 10.— Appealing to the delegates to the Northern Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church to sup port the Anti-Saloon League with "prayers, sympathy, ballots and money.” Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana League superintendent, today declared wets are likely to gain control of the House of Representatives ut the coming congressional election. Anti-dry forces need only elect their men in forty-one of the 435 congressional districts in tho country to control that body, he said. Senate Would Follow And if the House of Representatives goes wet. the Senate will follow and prohibition enforcement laws be annulled, he said. “Wets are staging an intensive drive to overthrow prohibition and their main effort is being directed to discredit work and officials of the Anti-Saloon League, he said. He defended his annual report. Attorney General Arthur L. Gilllom has asked the Supreme Court to cite Shumaker for his alleged attacks in this report upon the attorney general’s office and on court action on Jiquor cases. “I was careful. I believed then and still believe every statement in that report.” Shumaker said. Shumaker was to cite figures on what use has been made of saloon property since prohibition, in another speech tonight, before the | conference. Saloons Changed He will state that of 2,785 saloons in 180 Indiana towns, 799 are now } grocery stores, 309 clothing stores, | 323 home equipment stores, 171 house auto dealers, 36 banks, 67 book stores, churches and museums, and 679 businesses of miscellaneous classifications. Only 386 are used as soft drink places, he will say. Ministerial assignments for the district are to be announced Sunday night or Monday morning.

WANTS BARRETT PROBE IN OPEN Voters’ League Against Interest System. The Marion County Voters League is firmly opposed to continuation of the system by which the Barrett law interest goes to the county treasurer, Councilman Claude E. Negley, League officer, announced today. However, Negley, who was a leader in the councilmanic fight to obtain passage of a resolution to investigate the system, urged removal of the question from politics. “The taxpayers of Indianapolis, irrespective of parties are the persons involved in this matter,” said Negley. ‘‘We have launched this fight to save the citizens from this practice of awarding to politicians unearned money obtained, largely from the savings of our industrious citizens.” v

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Clifford Platt, 11, Loses Head and Plunges Into White River —Body Disappears After Going Over Dam Near Emrichsville Bridge. THADDEUS QUINN, 12, CHUM OF VICTIM, SAVED BY FISHERMAN Man Extends Pole to Lad in Boat and Pulls Him to Shore Just as He Is About to Dash Into Dangerous Rapids. Two boys dared the raging waters of rain swollen White River in a riekety canoe today. Asa result: Clifford Piatt, 11. son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Platt, 1246 N. Holmes Ave., is dead, his body still in (lie water somewhere soutli of Emrichsville bridge. J haddeus Quinn, 12, of 115-4 N. Belle Vieu PI., is alive, by the slender chance that a fishing pole in the hands of a man was long enough to reach the canoe just as it was about to plunge the dam south of Emrichsville bridge.

Thaddeus went to Clifford’s home this morning. “What you going to do this morning?” asked Clifford. “Guess I’ll go riding on my wheel,” replied Thaddeus. Fateful Decision “No, let's go over to see how the river is,” suggested Clifford. "I’ve got a boat over there. It belongs to Jude Poynter and me.” Jude Poynter, 13, lives at 12C6 N. Hnugh St. Thaddeus agreed and they went to one of the boat houses in Camp Shank, naval reserve summer school in Riverside Park. They dragged out the dilapidated canoe and launched it. With a board for a paddle they embarked Into the swift stream. It is from eight to ten feet deep at this point, due to the dam n short distance downstream. As they reached the center of the stream the boys began to lose their nerve. “Gee, it's pretty swift out here,” said Thaddeus with a shiver. Danger Nears One hundred yards downstream the canoe bumped into one of the abutments of the Emrichsville bridge. The swift eddies tossed them about and the canoe shipped some water. The roar of the water over the dam only two blocks downstream in their ears, the boys became panic stricken. “Jack," the dog of Thaddeus, who had followed them along the bank, realized liis master was in danger. "Jack” plunged into the stream and (Turn to Page 10)

BELL VALUATION FIXED BY STATE Telephone Company to Pay on $30,680,976. Valuation of the Indiana Bell Telej phone Company, on which it will I pay taxes next year, was fixed at $30,680,976 today by the (State Lax | board. The figure, which includes ,$ 1..990.860 in local taxes, represents an increase of $1,176,662 over i the total assessment last year. The 1926 valuation was $29,504,314, including $1,146,275 in local taxes. Today’s figure represents substantially the. same assessment suggested Friday by Commissioner William A. Hough. The Beil Company now operates on a $36,500,000 rate valuation placed by the public service commission. Bell representatives contended that the -tax valuation should not exceed $27,000,000, although they asked the public service commission for a $45,000,000 rate value. GRAND JURY TO MEET Federal Indictments Expected in Vincennes Dry Raid. Federal grand jury will meet May 5. the opening of the spring term, it was announced today by United States District Attorney Albert Ward. Evidence probably will be presented on an alleged conspiracy to violate the prohibition law bared by Federal raids at Vincennes several weeks ago in which forty-three persons were arrested. A. R. Harris, deputy Federal prohibition administrator, said the evidence is being collected. SURGEONS SELECTED Two Chosen by Updike to Complete Pension Examining Boards. Bu Times Boerial WASHINGTON. April 10.—Representative Ralph E. Updyke has selected Dr. Thomas J. Beasley and Dr. Roy Egbert tr> complete the two Indianapolis boards of surgeons to examine war pensioners applying for increases in pensions, he announced today. Five new members were announced several days ago.

Forecast INCREASING cloudiness, ■becoming unsettled late tonight and Sunday; probably rain; cooler Sunday.

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Hoosier Repents: Asks Spud Bill Bu Unit-id Press CHADRON, Neb., April 10.— Ed Wilkinson, potato grower, believes all men are honest. He has received a letter from a man signing himself James Williamson, Muncie, Ind., saying he took a sack of potatoes from Wilkinson’s field while touring last fall. The writer said he was "converted” and asked Wilkinson to submit a bill so ho could pay for the potatoes.

MACREADY TO RESIGN ARMY To Make One More Effort for World Record. Bu United Press McCOOK FIELD, Dayton, Ohio, April 10. —Upon completion of his flight in an effort to recapture the world's altitude record this afternoon Lieut. John A. Mac Ready, nationally known Army aviator who has led many daring exploits Into the untrammeled paths of the air, will telegraph his resignation to Washington, the United Press learned this afternoon. The resignation is to become effective tonight, and ttye airman will join the sales force of the DelcoLight Company, a subsidiary of the General Motors Company, It was announced.

‘GRAVE’ REDUG BY POLICEMEN Suspect Body Buried East of the City. Belief that a body might, be burled in city park property at Pleasant. Run Blvd. and Brookside RfL today led police to rodig a hole about the size of a casket. W. F. Osborn, 33 Gladstone Ave., told Patrolman Love he noticed a sunken place near the roadside which he suspieioned had been dug by someone attempting to cover up a crime by burying tho body there. Cnpt. Walter White assigned Mbtorpolicemen Elmer Clary and Elmer Branch to Investigate. The policemen, after digging an hour, decided they were not employed to dig holes and sought aid of two Negroes from headquarters. Digging was abandoned when Love advanced the theory some contractor had dug originally to test the gravel content. PRESIDENT IS CAPTURED Chinese Nationalists Disarm Bodyguard. Bu United Press PEKING, April 10.—President Tuan of China was seized and made prisoner today by the Nationalist troops, which control tho Peking area, Nationalist leaders announced. The presidential bodyguard was disarmed. The capital is normal today except that troops and machine guns are distributed through the streets. Other than Nationalist sources deny that Tuan has been captured or that the bodyguard has been disarmed. The palace gates have 1)0611 opened, and telephones reconnected HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 39 10 a, m r>9 7 a. m 44 It a: in r>s 8 a. m 49 12 (noon) .... f>6 i 9 a. m...... 51 1 p. $$