Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 38—NUMBER 17

DEMOCRATS TALK OVER PLATFORM Advisory Committee Named by Chairman Begins Difficult Task. WATSON’S FOE SUBJECT Adjourned Meeting of State Body Wednesday. The difficult task of formulating the Democratic State platform was begun in earnest this afternoon by fifteen Democrats selected by State Chairman R. Earl Peters of Ft. Wayne, to act in an advisory capacity to the State convention’s resolutions committee. Though the platform was the business at hand for “early bird’’ delegates and politicians, gathering for the convention Thursday, speculation on selection of the party's foe for Senator James E. Watson, G. O. P. candidate, dominated informal conversations. The State committee will meet in adjourned session Wednesday afternoon to select a secretary and treasurer to succeed Miss Gertrude Fanning McHugh and Bowman Elder, present secretary and treasurer, respectively. Expect State Tax Demand The platform advisory committee, like the Republican convention resolutions committee last week, was faced with an utimatum by Farm Bureau Federation leaders for a plank indorsing the State income tax proposal to be voted on in the fall elections. Opponents of the plank argue a declaration for more taxes Would alienate thousands of voters. The committee faced another perplexing problem on its tariff plank. The party’s short-term senatorial nominee, Evans Woollen, Indianapolis banker, already has declared against any drastic revision of existing tariff schedules, as has John Fredrick of Kokomo, one of the candidates for the long-term nomination. May Ask Low Schedules It is a foregone conclusion some of the old-time Democrats, never-the-less, will demand an out-and-out denunciation of Republican tariffs and inclusion of a declaration for lower schedules. The committee members were Thomas Taggart, veteran leader; Charles A. Greathouse, national committeeman; Walter S. Chambers, Newcastle; W. H. O’Brien, Lawrence, burg; Charles Fox of Terre Haute; Harvey Harmon of Princeton; Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Indianapolis; Dale J. Crittenberger of Anderson; Dan W. Sims of Lafayette, Lincoln Dixon of North Vernon, John S. MeFadden of Rockville, Joseph M. Cravens of Madison, Daniel Link of Auburn, L. G. Ellingham of Ft. Wayne and Frederick Van Nuys, Indianapolis.; GENTRY SEEKS TRIAL t Early Hearir.g on Indictment, Plea of Defendant. Earl Gentry, former deputy sheriff and aid to D. C. Stephenson, serving a life term at the Indiana State Prison for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, asked Prosecutor William H. Remy and Criminal Judge James A. Collins today for an early trial on the indictment charging him and Earl Klinck with conspiracy to commit arson, in connection with the burning of Stephenson’s former Irvington mansion. Klinck asked an early hearing two weeks &go. Gentry told Collins that since the trial in Noblesville, when he and Klinck were acquitted of murder, he has been unable to find employment. 20 ADMITTED TO BAR Twenty graduates of the Indiana University School of Law were admitted to practice today before the State Supreme and Appellate Courts. Indianapolis members of the class were Theodore L. Sedwick and Bruce E. Sillery.

A Bi-Product of Basketballites Bu Times Saccial KOKOMO, InJ., June I. Principal Hinshaw of the Kokomo High School from now on is going to frown on senior class money raising. This year’s class realized more than $5,000 from candy and ice cream sales during the basketball season. The question has arisen: What to do with the money? The school has all the pianos it needs. It has a complete stage, which needs nothing. There are trophy cases galore. Rest rooms are furnished. In' fact, classes of other years have given about everything'to the school. This year the class by desperate means, such as repainting the stage curtain, managed to spend something like SBOO, but there is a balance of more than $4,000. "This money will just stay in the banks,’’ said Hinshaw. “What we will do with it, I don’t know.’*

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EXTRA CROTHERSVILLE BANKHELD UP Bu United Press SEYMOUR, lnd., June L—The Union State Bank at Crothersville was robbed by two masked bandits early this afternoon,, according to word received by Seymour police. Bank officials estimated the loot at .$6,000 in cash. • The president, of the bank and Robert A. Harmon, cashier, were in the bank when the bandits entered with drawm revolvers and forcbd them to lie on the floor. The bandits fled in an automobile towards Scottsburg. UNION MEN WANT THAT EXTRA HOUR To Protest Daylight Saving Ordinance Desire to Sleep in Morning. Officials of the Building Trades Council, representing 5,000 men, were to call on Mayor John L. Duvall today to ask him not to sign the daylight saving ordinance passed by city council Saturday. The Building Trades Council adopted a resolution Saturday protesting against putting daylight saving time into effect here. The workers contend the proposed ordinance will subject them to hardship by eliminating an hour of earlymorning sleep during the hot summer months. Many of the workmen live at long distances from their work, forcing them to arise two hours before they report for work, it is said. Duvall has not declared whether he will sifen the measure, but announced he would x-each a decision soon. statecapltals MAY BE VISITED IN SENATE QUIZ Plans for Primary Probe to Be Formulated Today or Wednesday. Times Washinoipn Bureau, 1322 A’cw York Avenue (WASHINGTON, June I.—Plans for conducting the thorough Investigation of senatorial campaign expenditures are to be formulated today or Wednesday by the five Senators selected to make the probe. “I intend to see all the Senators on the committee some time today and arrange for the initial meeting,” Senator James A. Reed of Missouri said. Reed, author of the resolution authorizing the resolution, undoubtedly will be made chairman. Although reticent to discuss plans of procedure until after the committee is organized, It is known that Reed favors having the committee go directly to the capitals of various States where huge campaign conti’ibutions and expenditures have been reported. Already reports from Pennsylvania indicate that more money was expended in that State alone, during the recent senatorial campaign, than the last senatoi'ial campaign committee found had been expended in the United States on behalf of the campaign of Calvin Coolidge. HUNGER HIKE STARTED Athlete to Live Only on Water in Long W’alk. Bu United Press CHICAGO, June I.—George Hazier Johnson, a 26-year-old gymnasium instructor, took his last bite of food for thirty days this morning and then started walking to New York. The athlete, who once before went without food for thirty days, stepped away from the city hall here at noort and for the next month expects ‘to march along highways between here and the Atlantic coast, gaining strength from water only. He plans to di'ink twenty quarts of water daily. v

BOMB SLAYER OF3 GIVEN LIFE TERM Constable Admits He Sent Death Package Political Enmity Blamed.

Bn United Press % * MUSKEGON, Mich., June I. Michigan today exacted the lifetime liberty of Asa K. Bartlett, 28-year-old Blue Lake Township constable, fdr the confessed "bomb’' murders of three persons at Three Lakes Tavern last Thursday Political enmity was the motive. The prisoner had made a complete signed confession to Prosecutor Dunn of Muskegon County that he manufactured and sent through £he

BANDITS IN GUN BATTLE ARE ROUTED j Merchant Policeman Believed to Have Wounded at Least One of Gang. • ENTERING DRUG STORE Deserted Auto, BulletRiddled, Found. Routing thi-ee bandits as they were attempting to enter the Mersehat drug store, 3750 E. Michigan St., early today Merchant Policeman George Culley fought a pistol duel with the men and is believed to have wounded at least one. Police think a deserted auto, bul-let-riddled and blood-spattered, found at South and Henry* Sts, was the one in which the bandits escaped. Culley told Motorjoolicemen Graham and Metevler that he saw the men just after they had bi'oken the drug store window with an auto jack. He fired on them and they ran to a large touring car and drove west returning his fire. Woman Saw Battle Mi-s! Laura Taylor, 3815 E. Michigan St., who was attracted by the crashing glass, saw the battle and said one of the five bullets fii'ed at the fleeing auto by Culley struck the machine. Glass was found in the sti-ept a short distance away. She said the bandits fired twice at Culley. Sergeant Paulsel and squad found the ‘deserted auto, a Nash touring car, at South and Heni-y Sts. The rear glass of the machine was riddled, and there were bullet holes found in the hood, radiator and right headlight. A straw hat,' showing a Boston, Mass., manufacturer’s label was in the car. The rear seat was covered with blood. The auto, owned by William Vollmer, 770 N. Pershing Ave., was stolen from Senate Ave. and Market St., between 8 and 11 p. in. The shooting occured about 1 a. m. Chances for the recovery of Everett Jarrett, 204l # N. Temple Ave., State policeman, who is suffering with bullet wounds in his back, arm and hip, received %arly Monday, when ho was fired upon by bandits near Malott Park Road and Keystone Ave., are regarded as good, attaches at Methodist Hospital said. Jarrett and his feltow officer Charles Bridges discovered a partly dismantled roadster parked by the road side and hid in the weeds. Another auto containing two men drove up. As the officers ordered the men out of the auto a third man, who was hiding in the weeds opened fire upon' the officers. Bandits’ Wives Held Wives of two bandits sobbed their feelings at city prison here today, interested in one thing only—to be able to see their husbands. Mrs. Dorothey Garner, 20, married but a year, between sobs and thoughts of her husband, despaired at the thought that her parents in Brooklyn, N. Y'., would learn of her trouble. Her husband, Edward J. Garner, 30? Gi'eencastle, Pa., is held at Andei'son, lnd., on charges of murdering Leonard Clay, 35, Anderson policeman. Clay surpi'ised Garner and Lloyd Shenneman, 24, of Wauseon, Ohio, while they were bux-glarizing a filling station early Monday. Shenneman was captured. Mrs. Florence Shenneman, who gave her name hei’e as Mi's. Florence Carrollton, 25, Bluffton, lnd., and Mrs. Gamer were arrested in an apartment at 1115 E. Washington Street. Both Fire According to the story from Anderson, after Shenneman was captured, Garner was followed by Clay. They met, Garner opened fire and Clay returned it. The poYlee officer was fatally wounded. Garner, wounded while trying to Steal an auto, was captured in a small interurb’an waiting room near Sylvest Station. A good portion of the tents, radios, jewelery, trunks and supplies found jin thp apartment, had been stolen, Detectives Rugenstein and J. White said. Although Garner told police at Anderson he had a wife and two j children, both women here said they have no children. Mrs. Garner said she celebrated her first wedding anniversary, April 3. Police believe he has another wife elsewhere. The women were to be taken to Anderson I today.

mail the infernal machine which killed August Krubaeck, 48, his political rival; Janet Krubaeck, 19, and William Frank, 22, of Chicago, the girl’s fiance. In his "confession’’ the prosecutor said, "Bartlett admitted he ‘did not like the man,’ referring to the elder Krubaeck. Krubaeck was leader of a rival political faction and in April was nampd township supervisor, , 4 _

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1926

PR A YER FOR SIGN FROM GOD FAILS Swish of Pine Trees Only Answer to Supplication of Ewing Pilgrims. Bu United Press TAMARACK, Minn., June A dejected group of pilgrims left their outdoor temple In a w’ooded grove here at 11 a. m, today after silently praying for an hour for God to perform a miracle and reward their faith. Though the skies clouded and a light wind swayed the tall trees, there was not a sign that God had heard the • voiceless supplication. Even Vernon <6wing, the prophet of the Minnesota wilds and leader of the rite, admitted as much as the little band of faithful quit the grove. “But l am not discouraged,” Ewing, standing alone In the prayer circle, said. ’I had hoped that this form of appeal would bring a response from God, but He willed differently. Now I know that I must continue my search for the true religion, and, if it pleases God, I shall find It through abiding faith in His powers.” DURKIN GOES ON TRIAL, BUT SCOTT WINS NEW DELAY Shooting Sheik Wonders Where Betty pd Irma Ara. Bu United Press CHICAGO, June 1. —Martin Durking, shooting sheik, went on trial today, but Russell Scott, the noose dodger and Durkin’s rival for notoriety as a killer, won another continuance in his sanity hearing. William Scott Stewart. Scott's attorney, made a plea when the sanity hearing was called today that it be postponed until June 14. After lengthy argument and conference. Judge William V. Brothers granted the request. The sanity hearing is to he held to decide whether Scott is sane and should be hanged or whether he is insane and should be recommitted to the Chesty, 111., asylum. Durkin, who has admitted killing Edward C, Shanahan, Department of Justice agent, was garbed in the height of fashion. He sat unperturbed as the State started questioning 100 veniremen, and each question indicated the State would demand the noose. His mother and sistep, however, ci-ied. Durkin’s only worry seemed to he in that Betty Werner, the girl he deserted, and Irma Sullivan, the girl with whom he eloped only to be captured In St. Louis, were missing from the courtroom. Rubbing his hand over his carefully pomaded hair, Durkin flashed a smile about the courtroom and then; “I wonder why Irma and Betty aren't here? I thought they would be here.” Woman Is Sentenced for Selling Liquor Susie Davey, 54, of 551 Wilkins St„ was sentenced to sixty days in the Indiana Woman’s Prison by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today for violation cf the prohibition law and maintaining a nuisance. She pleaded guilty before Judge Baltzell two weeks ago. According to prohibition officials she sold them liquor four times. Oscar Holman, agent, said first reports on her place come from high school boys and girls who said their friends were buying from the woman. When she pleaded guilty two weeks ago she was excused on bond because her son-in-law was ill. Last Saturday she told the court he had died and she wanted a few days to arrange her personal effects before being sentenced. ELECTRIC DRILL STOLEN Police believe safe crackers equipped themselves at the Northwestern Avenue Machine Company, Northwestern Ave. and Fall Creek, Monday night. Burglars stole an electric drill and a battery valued at SIOO. '

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FANS STUDY RECORDS OF GAS DERBY Figures Show Speed King Traveled 402 1-2 Miles for Checkered. Flag. LOCKHART SENSATION Youthful Winner Talked of as ‘Genius.’ By Vedder Card The tumult and the shouting has died away. The confusion at the sudden ending of the annual race at the Speedway Monday has subsided. Even those wet and slippery bricks which made driving extremely hazardous have dried. The big race is over and nothing remains except the check up and official figures on the standing. But those figures have unusual intei'est today because, in realty, Lockhart, the sensational youngster, who won the abbreviated struggle of the roaring cars, went 402 Va miles before he received the checkered flag. His time of 4:13:37.78 for an average speed of 04.63 miles an hour was broadcast to the world as the speed made at 400 miles when It really was the time at the end of 161 laps or 40214 miles. The official figures made public today reveal that those tn charge consider the race completed at 400 miles. The time was 4:10:17.95 for an average of 95.885 miles an hour. It was the intention to give Lockhart the green flag (which means (Turn to Page 9) HUDSON R. BOAT SINKS;ALL SAVED Big Steamer Collides With Tug Near Hoboken. B United Press HOBOKEN, N. J., June I.—The Hudson River steamer Washington Irving, said to be the finest river steamer in existence, built and designed to carry 5,000 passengers, sank in the Hudson River today, after colliding in a fog with two oil barges in tow of a tug. All of the 200 passengers aboard were i-escued. No one was Injured. Many walked to shore on a long gang plank. Others were taken off by tugs which swarmed to the rescue. SHIP TOWED IN PORT Special Train Takes 568 Passengers to Destination. Bu United Press NEW LONDON, Conn.. June I. The passenger steamer Priscilla of the Fall River line, which went aground in a fog early today on Gull Island on Long Island Sound, was towed into New London harbor today. The 568 passengers were transferred to a special train here and taken to thfeir destinations at Fall River and Boston. june¥setTs LEE TRIAL DATE Judge Says He Will Call in Attorneys June 7. Ralph Lee, jail breaker and alleged murderer bf Abner Peek, Speedway City grocer, will be tried In Franklin, June 21, Judge Freemont Miller informed Deputy Prosecutor John L. niblack today. Judge Miller said he had set the case on this date and would issue an order June 7 to have Lee brought before him with his attorneys and Pi-osecqfor William H. Remy to formally agree on the date. Prosecutor Remy said he will be ready td go to trial then. Ira M. Holmes, Lee’s attorney, also agreed upon the date. Lee has been kept in Marion County jail since his recent arrest at Buffalo, N. Y.

DRIVE FOR JEWISH RELIEF UNDER WA Y 'Ten Cents a Day Will Save a Life/ Women Are Told at Luncheon

"Ten cents a day will save a life “ Miss Irma May of New York declared today at a luncheon of women at the Claypool, opening a drive in Indiana for $500,000 for starving Jewish children of eastern Europe. Miss May recently returned from a relief expedition into the Jewish centers where the money will go. Rabbi Abba Hlllel Silver of Cleveland, Ohio, noted Jewish orator, also spoke. Mrs. Isaac Born presided. Donations were solicited. , Miss May urged the woman to cut

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Child Prodigy Announces She Will Earn Her Own Way From Now On. By Virginia Swain A EA Service Writer NEW YORK, June I.—Ellen Elizabeth Benson and Annie Austin have reached the crossroads. Anne Austin is Ellen Elizabeth’s mother and Ellen Elizabeth is being graduated from high school. The May evening exercises at the Gardner school, in which 12-year-old Ellen Elizabeth will stand among her 18-year-old classmates anc receive her diploma, mark the end of the road which she and Anne Austin have walked together. Finishing college preparatory work at 12, with the mental capacity of a girl of 19, Ellen Elizabeth is still a little girl, clinging to her adored mother —herself barely 30— with the trusting affection of a child. New York educators are in a furore over Elizabeth’s accomplishments. She holds the highest mentality test for her age ever recorded in Amei'ica. She has read more than most college pi'ofessors and writes with a distinguished style. “The most remarkable child prodigy in AnYcrica,” the schoolmen are calling her. Since the announcement of her age by the school, reporters, psychologists and educators have flocked to the little apartment, where Anne Austin and her daughter live. The telephone rings with congratulations and the mailman bi'ings gifts. But Anne and Elizabeth are rather somber. For them, this graduation is the end of something precious. When 12-year-old Elizabeth steps out into the world next fall to make her own living, as she intends to do, two dear friends will see the end of that close intimacy of thought and life which began when the younger was a baby. It*was a strange babyhood, clouded by the desertion of Elizabeth's father and the despair of her girl mother. Their life has been an odyssey, beginning In Waco, Texas, and touching most of the large towns in the Middle West, and some in California. Anne Austin has earned a living for them first as teacher, then as newspaper writer and magazine cditoiv Hampered by illness, tormented with anxieties for the future (Turn to Page 5) HOURLY TEMPERATI RES 6 a. m 62 10 a. m...... 67 7 a. nx 62 11 a. nx 69 8 a. m 65 12 (noon) .... 71 9 a. m 66 1 p. m 73

their bill for luxuries in half and contribute an equal amunt to the relief fund. ' ; Members and captains of men's teams were to meet at a dinner at the Claypooi tonight, preceding a general mass meeting at the Murat Theater. State-wide Interest is being shown in the drive, according to Louis JBorinstein, chairman. Many in the larger cities have contributed generously with preliminary campaign pledges. . ■.

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For Mothers, Fathers, and Everybody The heart-stirring, fascinating story of Ellen Elizabeth' Benson 12-year-old New York girl now acclaimed as the world’s brightest child is being told by her mother, Anne Austin. The articles are exclusive to the NEA Service and The Indianapolis Times. Tho mother, an experienced newspaper woman who lias earned bread for them both with her typewriter since the child's birth, describes her own rash marriage, the bitter struggle for existence and the dawning genius of her daughter. She tells her rules for health, discipline and education—and they apply to the 99,999 average childrer as well as to the one super-child. The articles begin In The Tinies Wednesday, Head (hem all.

PRESIDENT AT LAST Ignace Moscirki, Indorsed by Filsudski, Elected. Bu United Press WARSAW, June 1. Mosclcki, candidate of middle party of the Polish parliament and indorsed by Marshal Josef Pllsudskl, leader of the recent revolution, today was elected president of Poland by the parliament. SENATE TURNS DOWN GAG Refuses to Limit Debate to iti'cak Deadlock. 81l United Press WASHINGTON, June I.—The Senate refused today to give 'a twothirds majority for adoption of the drastic cloture rule to enforce a vote on the migratory bird measure which has deadlocked the upper house for three weeks. Farm relief and other important bills have been held up. SPEEDWAY TiCKETSIEFT .Scalpers Fail to Reap Harvest as Expected, Report. Efforts of ticket scalpers to reap a harvest on Speedway tickets failed, hotel employes said today. A number of the ticket speculators, although discouraged by the hotel management, made their headquarters in downtown lobbies. Kept on the move by detectives, at least twelve of the scalpers were left with tickets unsold when the big race started. One had S3OO worth of tickets op hand. In a last minute effort to escape loss $2.50 grand stand tickets were sold for sl. MAY RAISE TAXI TAX Council Faction Proposes Increase in . License Fee. Majority faction councilmen soon will start a drive to raise license fees on bqssses and taxi cabs, Boynton J. Moore, president, said today. They will propose an ordinance charging SIOO for the first and $25 license fees for each additional bus and taxicab belonging to the same company. The present license is • . r

Forecast * Fair weather tonight and Wednesday; somewhat cooler tonight.

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INTOXICANT POSSESSION IS CRIMINAL’ So Rules State Supreme Court in Upholding Section of Wright Act. CITE CONSTITUTIONALITY Denies Plea Liquor Disposal Was Not Provided For. Constitutionality of the "possession” clause of the Wright bonedry law, tho most contested section of the present dtty statute, was upheld today by the State Supremo Court. In denying anew trial for Matthew Guetling of EvanHville, tho court declared “the possession of Intoxicating liquor for a personal Use may be forbidden by a State without infringing on the constitutional rights of citizens.” • Guetling was convicted in Vanderburg Criminal Court, June 2i>, 1925, a/ter a raid on his home a month before disclosed fifty-seven quarts of home brew, lie admitted ownership of the liquor. The Wright .“bone-dry” law became effective by proclamation of Governor Jackson on April 25, 1925. “Uncertainty” Was Alleged Constitutionality of the "possession” section, which prohibits ownership of Intoxicating liquor in any quantity and makes ownership prima facie evidence of Intent to sell, was assailed on grounds of its "uncertainty” in that it bars possession without providing legal means of disposing of any liquor on hand when the act became effective. The court held Guetling had “plenty of time” to dispose of his liquor. Guetling was sentenced to a sixtyday term in tlie Indiana State Farm and fined S2OO and costs. Supreme Judge Willard B. Gemmlll wrote the opinion. Other Appeals rending Several other appeals pending in Supreme Court are aimed at validity ' of other sections of the Wright law. [ In 1923 the Supreme Court held I unconstitutional the "possession'* I clause of the prohibition law then effective, because the title of the act made no mention of possession. From that time until the Wright [ law betaine effective the possession | of small quantities of intoxicating liquor was not, In itself, punishable. RULING ALLOWS MAGUIRE TRIAL Restraining Order Against Mayor Dissolved. ' Judge Harry O. Chamberlin of Circuit Court today sustained a motion W Alvah J. Rucker, city corporation counsel, .to dissolve a temporary restraining order enjoining Mayor John L. Duvall from hearing chaVges against Albert M. Maguife. park board member, Maguire brought suit against Duvall and William C. Buser, city controller, alleging they were conspiring to oust him from office without a fair and impartial hearing. Judge Chamberlin ruled that he had no jurisdiction over the matter at all. The court declared that Iho defendant could find relief from tlw mayor's finding if Maguire eventually was removed from office and another named in his stead. Rucker announced Maguire's trial would he held at 9:30 a. m. Friday in the city council chamber. NO HOPE FOR TAX CUTS Coolidge Feels Nation .Must ray Off Its National Debt First. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June I.—President Coolidge fee la that there is scant possibility of a reduction lu Federal taxes within the next few years. | The Whit# House spokesman pointed out today that the nation must pay off its national debt and that every available cent could be well expended In that direction.

Hoosier Is Dengue Fever Hero Bu United Press WASHINGTON. June L Leonard Hughes of Richmond, Ind., was cited by Surgeon General Ireland, U. S. A., with seventy-five other enlisted men for unselfish conduct In submitting to Inoculation and experiment for the conquest of dengue fever or break bone fever, the dread disease of the tropics. Asa result of experiments on Hughes and his fellows, Army surgeons have been able to Isolate the disease germ and greatly reduce its prevalence In the Philippines. The disease is carried by the yellow fever mosquito^