Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1926 — Page 1

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JUDGE GIVES REMY’S AID SIX MONTHS Special Investigator Keeney Found Guilty of Contempt by Baltzell. FACES BRIBERY CHARGE Casey, Confessed Bootlegger, Gets 60 Days More. Found guilty of contempt of court by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today W. J. Keeney, special investigator for Prosecutor William H. Remy, was sentenced to serve six months in jail. An appeal will be taken. Charges that Keeney accepted S3OO to “fix witnesses in liquor cases will be placed before the Federal Grand Jury next November. Date of the hearing before United States Commissioner Howard S. Toung, when Keeney will be formally bound over, on thtf bribery charge, has not been set, but it is expected to be held next week. Keeney alleged that charges against him were “framed” 'as the result of a conflict between police and Prosecutor William H. Remy, started when Remy charged bootleggers had “influence" on the police force. Casey Sentenced Further investigation was ordered by Baltzell. Tom Casey, confessed bootlegger, 105 W. Maryland St., fined SSOO and sentenced six months, was given an additional sixty days term on the contempt charge, to which he pleaded guilty. Keeney is alleged to have accepted the bribe in connection with the cases of Casey and Louis Webber, 105 W. Maryland St., serving a six months sentence. Baltzell first gave Casey a ninetyday term, but changed the sentence on plea of Albert S. Ward, United States district attorney. Ward said the Government had to have some way to get further evidence and agreed to a sixty-day term for Casey. He referred to the case as “one of the most contemptible matters ever before a court of justice.” To Appeal William Boson stated the case will be taken to the United States District Court of.Appeals’. Baltzell ordered a $5,000 appeal bond be provided. Sixty days were allowed for filing a bill of exceptions. Baltzell indicated he did not accept as the truth the entire story of U. N. Pope, alias James Polk, for several days a missing witness in the Casey case, and asked additional investigation. Baltzell said he believed Keeney made every effort to communicate with Pdpe during his absence from the city while the trial was in session.

CONVICTS MUTINY IN MINEBOTTOM Hunger Expected to End Prison Revolt. LANSING, Kan.. July 10.—Hunger probably will force 372 mutinous prisoners of the Kansas State Penitentiary to come out of their underground retreat by night, officials of the prison believed today. The convicts, said to be angered over a shortage of sheets in their cells, are holding thirteen guards prisoners in their prison mine, 700 feet urider ground. When the mine cage, containing dinner forAhe shaft crew, was lowered Friday the' convicts seized the cage, thrust heavy timbers through it and the hoist has been unable to break the timbers and lift the cage. Negotiations with leaders of the mutiny to send a committee to the top to “talk over” the difficulty, have met with jeers. The convicts are in control of the telephone system into the mine and so far have refused to talk to the warden. Escape from the mine is impossible, officials said. CUNNINGHAM SUBPOENAED Bv United Press WASHINGTON, July 10.—A subpoena was issued today for Thomas W. Cunningham, former treasurer of the Pennsylvania State Republican committee, to appear before the Senate primary investigating committee at Chicago July 26.

CAR GRIEVANCES SHOULD BE HEARD, CIVIC LEADER SAYS

Grievances of the striking employes of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company should be given fair consideration by the company, in the opinion of A. L. Portteus, .president of the Federation of Civic Clubs. ' “If employes were given a voice | in the management of the company, it might prevent a situation similar to the present labor dispute between the company and employes,’’ said Portteus. "The company and employes

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Their Wedding Was Not to Be Bu United Press NAPLES, July 10.—Seventeen years ago Maria De Cesa’s husband and Vincenzo Picone, her lover, fought a pitched battle for her. De Cesa was killed and Picone was sent to jail for the homicide. Maria was 43 then and she waited throughout the years for Picone’s release. At last he was freed and they arranged to be married today. During the wedding festivities the house caved in and Mrs. De Cesa was killed. So were two sons by her first husband. Picone alone escaped.

Aimee Quiz to Hear Mexican May or "Story Bu United Press AGUA PRIETA, Mex., July 10.— President Ernesto Boubion of this village announced today he will present his findings before the Los Angeles grand jury investigating the mysterious kidnaping and reappearance of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist. A written report of Mayor Boubion’s findings has been transmitted to Los Angeles authorities, alleged to contain evidence that the evangelist “planteh” herself in the Sonora desert for her dramatic “return to life.” “Mrs. McPherson was never held prisoner in this part of the country as she claims,” the president told the United Press. “There is not a bit of evidence to sustain her story and our investigators have searched the countryside and traced every clew to its source.” District Attorney Keyes ordered Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator of the Angelus Temple, be found and brought before the grand jury.

JOYCE GOES TO JAIL Bathtub Girl Arrested After Wild Auto Ride at Chicago. CHICAGO, July 10.—Miss Joyce Hawley, the girl of bath tub fame, was languishing in jail today, following a wild chase .through Chicago streets early today. Miss Hawley drove her automobile past two stop-lights, skidded into two taxicabs, and then, instead of stopping, “stepped on the gas.” When a motorcycle patrolman finally caught up with her. When he attempted to arrest her, she threatened to “kick his face in.” Miss Hawley was held on charges of speeding and disorderly conduct. She had come to Chicago to fill a dancing engagement at a suburban road-house, and to visit her father and mother. DON ROBERTS ACCUSED Woman Lessee of His Hotel Charges He Struck Her With Chair. Bv United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., July 10.— Don Roberts, former mayor and central figure in election fraud cases eleven years ago, attacked her with a chair today, Mrs. Delina Parrish, lessee of Roberts’ hotel here, charged here today. Mart Boswell, a hotel guest, was negotiating with Mrs. Parrish for the purchase of hotel furniture, it is said, and Roberts was called into conference. A dispute over the furniture provoked the attack, Mrs. Parrish said. She suffered deep bruises and lacerations. FALL FROM CAR FATAL Ice Company Employe Dies at Hospital From Injuries. Charles Burgess, 48, of 3052 W. Vermont St., an employe of the Po lar Ice and Fuel Company, died at city hospital today from head and chest injuries received late Friday. He fell from the top of a refrigerator car he was icing in the Peoria & Eastern Railroad yards. The cause of his fall was not known. Burgess had been an employe of the Polar Company for fifteen years. The widow and seven children survive. OWL SERVICES ON BUSSES Peoples Coach Company Offers Added Convenience, “Owl” bus service after midnight on the Central and Riverside and E. New York St. and Brightwood lines was announced today by the Peoples Motor Coach Coihpany. Busses will leave Monument Circle on the even hour and at the end of the line on the half hour, according to A. Smith Bowman, president.' FAVORS 7-CENT LEVY Duvall Believes Park Board Budget Will Not Be Increased, Mayor Duvall today expressed the belief that the park board levy of 7 cents would not be increased in the 1927 budget. The budget estimate, proposed by the board would call for a 9-cent levy, the legal maximum.

should be able to reach an agreement and maintain an understanding through a contract. Grievances of any body of laborers should be considered. Employes are quite an element to any firm and in the case of the street car company they represent a lot of people,” Portteus said. “If the grievances of the strikers are justified the company should give fair consideration, and if they are not the strike would amount to little because the public would not lend its support. No strike can

35 YEARS IN PRISON FORJRKIN Jury Finds Slayer Guilty of Murder —Refuses to Vote Death. ONE JUROR FOP NOOSE Mother Shouts: ‘They’re Persecuting My Boy.’ Bu United Press CHICAGO, July' 10.—Martin Durkin must go to prison for thirty-five years for the murder of Federal Agent Edwin C. Shanahan. The jury which heard the evidence In one of Chicago's most spectacular murder trials returned its Verdict of “guilty” at 8:45 a. m. and recommended the thirty-five-year penalty after an all-night; deliberation in which a compromise was necessary. After determining first that Durkin was guilty, the jury was split between the death penalty and a short prison sentence. One juror held out hour after hour for a hanging verdict. None but attorneys, newspaper reporters and photographers and the immediate relatives of Durkin were permitted in the courtroom when the jury filed in with its verdict. Durkin Nervous Durkin stood, nervously shifting from one foot to another. When the verdict was read, dropped his head. He was hurried back immediately to his cell. Members of Durkin’s •family, including his mother, had slept all night on courtroom benches, waiting for the jury’s verdict. When it was returned they broke into weeping and Mrs. Hattie Durkin, the slayer's mother, shouted out: “They are persecutors—persecutors. Oh, >my poor boy.” State Disappointed State attorneys admitted they were disappointed, expecting confidently that the verdict would provide at least for life imprisonment, if not for hanging. They indicated, however, they would not presc a second murder charge pencuna against Durkin. The murder of which Durkin has been convicted was committed on Sunday, Oct. 11, 1925. According to the testimony, Durkin was confronted with Shanahan in a south side garage. After a few moments of conversation there was an exchange of shots and Shanahan lay dead. It was Durkin’s defense that he shot Shanahan in the belief the Federal officer was attempting to hold him up. ROUMANIANS KILL 120 BULGARIANS Unconfirmed Dispatches Report Troop Massacre. Bu United Press ATHENS, July 10.—Uuconfirmed dispatches from Sofia, Bulgaria, quoted reports received in the Bulgarian capital as saying that Roumanian troops have advanced 120 miles into Bulgarian territory and “massacared 120 Bulgarians.” Bu Times Special SOFIA, July 10.—Unconfirmed reports have been received here from Rustchuk on the Bulgar-Roumanian frontier that 120 persons have been killed in fighting in the village of Staroselo. Bu United Press BUCHAREST, July 10.—Foreign Minister Mitilineu of Roumania has threatened the withdrawal of the Roumanian minister from Sofia following an exchange of brusque messages over border skirmishes between Roumanian gendarmes and Bulgarians. The Bulgarian cabinet has brusquely refused Roumania’s demands for reparations, sent in a note to Sofia Friday following the killing of a gendarme by Bulgarians. In a note to be presented at Sofia today, the Roumanian minister there charges the Bulgarian government of having supplied oorder gangsters with amys and money, and declares in addition that League of Nations funds, donated to aid Bulgarian refugees, are being used for military purposes. Roumania is urging Greece and Jugo-Slavia to make similar protests to Sofia, and political leaders here consider that a serious situation has arisen.

make much headway without public sentiment. "Merits of the present situation are difficult to judge. Every day the car company declares the strike is practically settled and the union claims added support. I understand the financial condition of the car company has not been so good, and certainly any one can see their rolling stock is badly run down. Possibly the company could not pay an increase. "If the company and strikers can

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ALCOHOLISM IN STATE EXACTS HEAVIER TOLL Blamed for Thirty - Four Deaths During First Five Months of Year. Alcoholism caused tiiirty-fcqr deaths in Indiana during the first five months of this year, twice as many as it caused during 1919, the first entire year prohibition was effective in the State, according to .records of H. M. Wright, State board of health statistician. This is 2.6 deaths for t,ery 106,000 population and if the same rate continues during the remaining months of the year the alcoholism death toll will be more than six persons & 100,000 population.* High in 1916 The greatest previous death toll a 100,000 population was 4.6 in 1916. From this point the alcoholism death rate slumped each year but one until 1921 and sin<;e has mounted, according to the board of health figures. In 1917 the rate was 3.7 and the next year, when wartime prohibition was placed in effect, it dropped to 1.9. To the satisfaction of dry leaders, the rate dipped lower to 13 in 1919, rising slightly to 1.6 in 1920, and hitting the bottom in 1921, with a record of only one death out of every 100,000 persons. Booze deaths flared up again in 1922, howfe%-er, to 2.3 persons out of 100.000. The 1923 rate was 2.7 ani kept rising to 3.2 in 1924. The 1925 rate was 2.7, and so far this year is 2.6, already on a parity with 1925. Higher Than Recorded Wright believes the toll higher than recorded by the figures, because physicians, since prohibition, are reluotant to attach the stigma of alcoholism to death certificates. A more lawful death cause usually is given. Back in 1908, when death records first were taken on a systematic basis, three persoi.'s out of every 100,000 died from alcoholism. Succeeding years, the report shows, follow: 1909, 3.2; 1910, 3.7< 1911, 3.9; 1912, 3.7; 1913, j. 9. 1914, 3.5; 1915, 3.2, and 1916, 4.6. TOO HOT, CUTS THROAT Hope Is Held for Recovery of Gary Man. Bu United Press GARY, life., July 10.—Hospital attendants today held out hope for the recovery of Nick Schanan, 66, who slashed his throat, because he was unable to bear the heat. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 19 T a. m 72 11 a. m 70 8 a. m 72 12 (noon) .... 69 9 a. m 74 1 p. m 69

not reach a settlement and the situation becomes so criticial that the welfare of the city is affected the city administration should take a hand. Certainly no one would deny the men the right to unionize. The employes have the same right as capitol to protect their interests,” Portteus declared. "Since I am not familiar with the conditions, I have no opinion.” said E. H. Kemper McComb, Exchange Club president. “Whether the strikers should have an increase or

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Above shows the full view of the United States submarine S-51 as Navy workmen prepared to enter and bring out the bodies of the crew. The crumpled prow, the great gash in the side, where she was struck by the City of Rome, are shown. Two of the pontoons that floated her to the Brooklyn Navy yard and the half-masted flag also can be seen. Below, the mortal wound of the S-51 just abaft the conning tower.

List Stands at Eighteen With Every Foot of Ves* sel Searched. Bu United Press BROOKLYN, July 10.—Although every abailable foot of the interior of the submarine S-51 has been scoured by searching parties, no more bodies have been found and the list of dead will stand at eighteen. Admiral Plunkett of the Brooklyn Navy yard notified the Navy Department at Washington today. No identification has been made of the six remaining unidentified bodies found in the hull Friday. Plunkett said temporary repairs will be made so the vessel can float until decision is made as to full reconditioning. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur said Congress would be asked for funds to recondition the ship. “We would like to see the S-51 restored to service as a better boat than when she was originally built,” he said here. “Not only because we need the ship, but because It will be a monument to those who were lost, and I think It will be an Inspiration tc- the men in the service.” It it not known w hether the body of Frederick Peter Teschemacher. former Indianapolis boy, is among the recovered dead.

decrease depends, I should think, on what the company has to pay. I have never had any experience with business and know little about labor troubles.” Although I have not studied the hotter closely, I think it should be sc uled between the street car company and the employes. It’s not an affair that the city should be dragged into,” declared Walter J. P r ay, Optimist Club president. "Street car employes have the same right to organize as any other

PROMISES AID IN MUM PROBE Crowe to Cooperate in Identifying Slayer. State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe of Chicago has written to Prosecutor William H. Remy promising cooperation to determine if Hilton Crouch, Indianapolis, auto race driver, is connected with the slaying of Wilkinson Haag, drug store official, who was murdered in a hold-up at the Green Mill barbecue. May 17, it was learned today. Remy said two witnesses have seen Crouch in Chicago, where he is held on a banditry charge, and two more will go to Chicago, Crouch resembles one of the two bandits who shot Haag as he was eating lunch at t)ie Green Mill with Miss Jessie Murphy, police say. Miss Murphy saw Crouch in Chicago, but did not positively Identify him. $309 DRUG STORE THEFT A drug store at 4627 E. Tenth St„ owned by Victor Pfou, was entered early today and $309 in merchandise stolen. Motorpolicemen Graham and Metiever investigated.

body of laborers. Whether they should have an increase depends on the wage scale in other cities of corresponding size. I think they should receive as much as is paid in any other city where conditions are similar,” Pray said. ' "I think the company should settle with the strikers. The matter should be arbitrated in A fair and satisfactory manner to 411 parties. I think it can be done.. All disputes of tbat kind ultimately jane arbitrated, probaUy both sideejfidli have to

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Frank S. Clark, Former Councilman, Announces He Will Form Committee to Ask Arbitration. TO ACT FOR PUBLIC WELFARE International Union Head Warns Car Men to Avoid Violence Sixth Day of Car Strike Frank S. Clark assumes task of organizing citizen*’ oommittee to act for arbitration of union men’s demands. Strikers ordered to abstSin from violence by international union official. Two busses fired upon, one bus stoned, one street car stoned, and dynamite found on rails during night. Night car service again curtailed, due to danger of injury of workers and passengers. Police drive against display of badges and sign* by striker* fails to materialize. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell takes under advisement union organizer’s answer to injunction. Frank S. Clark of 2407 Park Ave., a former city councilman, this afternoon agreed to assume the task of forming a citizens’ jommittee to act for peace in the strike of Indianapolis Street Railway’employes. Clark will call a meeting of representative citizens, he announced, “to settle this dispute to the satisfaction of everybody, including the public and taxpayers, who appear to have been left out of consideration so far.”

It is planned to have a minister, > a rabbi, a priest, a business men, a manufacturer, a labor leader and others on the committee, * Clark is president of,the Frank S. Clark and Company real estate and brokerage firm, a retired United States Army captain and one of the city's largest taxpayers. He served on the city council from 1895 tc 1900. May Go to Company When the committee meets, st. iking street car men are expected to appear before it to prevail upon the members to induce officials of the street railway to arbitrate the union men's demands, which precipitated the city into a strike seige early Monday. Harry B. Dynes, United States De partment of Labor concilator, participated in the efforts to get the committee. Meantime, orders to abstain from violence were given the strike . - s at a mass meeting by W. B. Fitzgerald of Detroit, first international vice president of the car men’s union. “The Indian, polis Street Railway Company cannot and will not defeat you unless you lend it your efforts to defeat you by using violence,” Fitzgerald declared. The seige must be won, he said, by peaceful persuasion of the general public that workers have a right to organize, the paramount issue in the strike. Will Arbitrate "We will arbitrate every other point,” he declared, and arraigned the company for its refusal to do so. “Is there any reason,” he asked, “why the Indianapolis Street Railway, If it is right, should refuse, as it has, to sit down before a fair tribunal, arbitrate and abide by the result?” Two busses were fired upon, one bus stoned, one street car stined, dynamite was found on street car rails and the public deprived of full service during the night because of the danger of injury. To Present Demands The men’s demands are an increase in wages, which netted them from $3.70 to $4.20 for 10 hours’ labor, reinstatement of employes discharged for joining the union and negotiation of a working contract recognizing the union. The company has flatly refused to deal with the union, declaring the men who struck are now out of the companys employ. Chicago and Detroit car men receive 75 cents an hour, Cincinnati car men 59 cents and Pittsburgh car men 68 cents, Fitzgerald declared at the strikers’ meeting. “Why should the merchants of this city sit silently by when they can ba of such valuable assistance In restoring peace and securing justice?” Fitzgerald demanded. H© exhorted the strikers to enlist the aid of their churches and the merchants with whom they spend ■their money in bringing about an orderly termination of the fight. James P. Tretton, railway superln(Turn to Page 2)

give in to certain points,” Pray said. Mervin Hammell, Kiwants Club president, said: "I am not acquainted, even remotely, with the merits of the controversy, but from your explanation of it, it looks to me like a matter between the men and. the street car company, with the public off on the side. The public always has to stand off on the side, whether it is a street car strike, a coal strike or whatever it is.” “I don’t know enough about the 'situation to express an intelligent

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SECOND SUBWAY CRASH AT GOTHAM Comes as 246 Power House Men Join Walkout. July 10.—The addition of 246 power house men to ths ranks of the striking subway and elevated employes of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company came today as the second aubway wreck In twenty-four hours occurred. The wreck was st 1:23 a. m. at the sharp curve near the Bowling Green subway station, 100 test from the spot where, Friday, a train went off the line. The company said no one was injured. District Attorney Banton of New York as a result obtained a summons charging the company ass corporation with the misdemeanor of employing an Incompetent man on a passenger train. Two trains stalled In the Bronx Friday night ami the 2.000 occupants walked the rails to a point where they could reach the street. Later a third train stalled on the line, and its passengers also were forced to walk. Frank Hedley, president of the Interborough. announced the walkout of the power men will not affect the service seriously. Jurors Refuse to Hear Rum Case Bv United Press NEW YORK. July 10—Lack of sympathy with the prohibition law has become so great In New York City that eleven men charged with conspiracy to violate the law and accused of operating a $26,000,000 rum ring, may be discharged because a Jury cannot be found which will listen Impartially to the evidence in the trial. For the first time In history, veteran Jurors have rtaen to their feet to say they would not convict prohibition violators. Eighty men have been examined In three days for the trial of William Y. Dwyer, yet the jury box remains unfilled. GIRL’S ASSAILANT SHOT Failed to Obey Orders to Halt, Police Say. Bv United Press GARY, Ind., July 10.—' William Francis, 27, is in a hospital hors today with a bullet wound through th# abdomen. Francis was shot when he failed to obey a police officer’s orders to halt. Francis and an unknown companion were attempting to attack Mario Barancyk. 18. as she waa returning from work, according to pollcs.

opinion.” said A. Dallas Hits, Rotary Ciuh president. "You see in our club we have representatives of sll classes, so as a matter of policy I refrain from commenting.”' "The strikers seem to me to be cutting off their nosee to spite their faces," declared Harlan J. Hadley, Service Club president. "The etreet car company here has had a bad time and la in a had way financially. /'Personally, I’m very anti union. I don’t know very much about the situation. ”