Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1926 — Page 1

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DAUGHERTY DEFENDANTS IN CONFLICT Lawyers Quarrel in Court Over Introducing of Evidence. TO FIGHT SEPARATELY Merton Tells of Swiss Firm’s Organization. h a rnfted rren.t | NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Efforts to Introduce Into the Daugherty-Miller conspiracy trial today, certain correspondence of the Swiss Metal Securities Company and John Foster Dulles, New York attorney, brought out sharp conflict between attorneys for the two defendants. After Monday's Indications thqt Thomas W, Miller, former - alien property custodian, and Harry M. Daugherty, former .attorney-general, would act Independently In defense of the joint charge against them—each fighting his own battle—today's developments were considered significant. Max D. Steuer, attorney for Daugherty, objected strenuously to Introduction by U. S. Attorney Emory R. Buckner, of the correspondence. It was pointed out that the way for the evidence had been opened by the cross-examination of Richard Merton by Col. William Rand, attorney for Miller, ‘Different Client* ‘‘Colonel Rand,” exclaimed Steuer, ‘‘represents a different and separate client than I, and he is conducting the defense of his client In the light of the best advice he had. Judge Julian R. Mack, presiding, commented that he thought Steuer had acquiesced to the evidence by his alienee. “L seemed to acquiesce because to do Otherwise would have been unseemly,” answered Steuer. The letter finally was admitted, against Steuer's exceptions. Merton, th German financier who Is alleged to' have paid $441,000 in commissions to the late John T. King for securing return to his group of $7,000,000 of seized assets of the American Metal Company, was under examination by Buckner. Closely Questioned. He was closely questioned on the interna] organization of the Swiss concern. He said Its activities were controlled largely by an executive committee composed of himself, his brother, Alfred, Fritz Zahn. of Basle. Switzerland, and Leouold Dubois, of Basle, Switzerland, who is also a financial adviser to the League of Nations. He told of the meetings of the committee and how finally the letter (Turn to Page 13)

KILLER IS RELEASED Indictment Dismissed—. Jury In Case Did Not Agree. Bu United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Sept. 14.—Hugh Reese, 51. who killed his employer, Mike Miller, bachelor farmer, today was released from the Clay County Jail following dismissal of the Indictment for first degree murder against him. Reese was tried last July, but the Jury failed to agree. Reese claimed self-defense. UNION JRUST WINS Bank Is Successful Bidder for City Loan. With a bid of 4 per cent and a premium of S4O, the Union Trust Company today received the $350,000 bond Issue required by the city for three months to finance operating expenses. William C. Buser, city controller, Hill receive $250,000 Sept. 15 and SIOO,OOO Oct. 15. POLICE RETURN MOTHER Or BABY Woman Admits Fleeing After Child’s Birth. Charged with being the mother of a baby girl deserted a few hours after her birth at Robert Long Hospital Sunday, Mrs. Mary Redding of Acton, Ind., was brought here today by Detectives De Rossette and Barnaby and taken to thp hospital for identification. Mrs. Redding, detectives said, admitted she was the woman who gave her name as Mrs. Ruth Smith, 1507 Broadway, to hospital authorities. She entered the hospital at 12:45 a. m. Sunday, the child was born at 1:45 a. m. and she had disappeared at 6 p. m. when a nurse took the child to her room. Detectives said Mrs.. Redding has been separated from her husband for some time. She appeared at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary Paugh, Acton, at '6 p. m. Tuesday and refused to say where she had been since leaving the hospital twenty-four hours be- / ore '

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Saint and Sinner By ANNE AUSTIN

WHAT HAS OONK BEFORE The LANES are an average American family, hard up. but ambitious to better themselves. There is MRS. LANE. tat. mlddle-ased. a chronic semi-invalid, not too (roodtempered. JIM LANE. th husband and father, a carpenter who hopes to become a contractor on a small scale. JUNIOR. 21 nicknamed Lone Lane, lovable Irresponsible, rattier wild. FAITH. 20. mainstay of the family, tall, splendid-looking, but not pretty. CHERRY. JB. a typical flapper. JOY 0 Who Is always making emDarrassinjr "breaks.'' and who knowa everyore s affairs When the story opens both Junior and Cherry have lost their lobs. Cherry maintained that she had to leave her employer because he ‘'dot fresh" with her. Mr. Lane asks Faith, the stay-at-home drudge to cook an especially nice dinner, since he has invited 808 HATHAWAY, r young ousincss man with whom he hopes to land a contract to build two bungalows Cherry receives a telephone call from CHESTER HART, who has been Faith's "steady,” and arranges that he is to nick her ud a block from the house bo that Faith will not see them. NOW GO ON WITH TIIE STORY CHAPTER II ‘‘Oh, Faith!” Cherry, looking as cool as a water lily in her petalskirted green organdy, her vivid face framed in a drooping-brimmed Leghorn hat. popped into the kitchen where Faith was at the sink, scraping eggy breakfast dishes. “Be an angel and clean my pink georgette! I’ve got to rush down town and get my application in at the agency. May get a try-out today, who knows? I won’t be home for lunch.” Joy, swathed in one of Faith’s long aprons, flirted her tea towel alarmingly close to Cherry's carefully tinted face. “I heard you at the telephone. Cherry Lane! You was flirting with Chester Hart! He’s going to take her to town in his car, Faith —” “You little liar!” Cherry seized her small sister by the shoulders and shook her fiercely. “I’ll make mother attend to you, you little devil! Don’t you believe a word she says, Faith. I wouldn't lift a finger to —” “Oh, it’s all right, Cherry,” Faith said, and thumped a stack of plates into the sink so hard that they rattled. “If Chester likes you better than he does me, you can have him! Don’t think for a minute that I want him—” “Well, neither do I” Cherry laughed with relief. “He's a funny old fat-head, isn't he? And his hands perspire—ugh! Didn't you loathe it when he tried to paw you, Faith?” “He knew better than to try It," Faith said grimly. “You’d better run along, Cherry. There’ll be a dozen girls ahead of you. Bring me a skein of dark red embroidery floss, won’t you? I need it for Joy s tan linen dress. She wants to wear it the first day of school." Mrs. Lane had settled herself groaningly at a window of the dining room—a window which commanded a view of Myrtle St., on which their (Turn to Page 1)

POLICE CATCH MAN IN TWO-MILE R UN Negro Said to Have Cut Screen, Frightened Woman and Fled When Neighbors Yelled at Him.

A two-mile cross-country chase by ■Motor Policemen Baker and Baker resulted in the capture ot Herman Lapimore, Negro, 20, of 240 W. Vermon st., an alleged burglar, today. Chase started when neighbors phoned police that the man had FONCK FLIGHT TO START € __________________ Fill Hop Off at Dawn Wednesday If Weather Is Good. Bn United Prrs NEW YORK, Sept. 14—Rene Fonck will hop off from Roosevelt field, Long Island, at dawn on Wednesday, If weather permits, on his 3,600-mile nonstop flight from New York to Paris, he announced this afternoon at a luncheon given in honor of the Fonck party here. Substitution of Lieut. L. W. Curtin, T’nlted States Navy, for Lieut. Allan Snoddy, United States Navy, as navigator and relief pilot of the plane, also was announced.

B. V . Ds. May Be Football Uniform If police here are unable to round up burglars who visited the Sheridan (Ipd.) High School Monday night, the school's football team may have to brave faiy blasts and opposing elevens in their B. V. Ds. H. Ct. Newman, marshal of Sheridan, sent an S O S here today asking local officers to be on the lookout for the thieves, who Entered the school I gymnasium and stole six pairs of football pants and seven pairs of football shoes. DISAGREEMENT ON LEAGUE COUNCIL Representatives of Cuba, Chile, Uruguay in Tilt. Bu United Press GENEVA. Sept. 14.—Spirited disagreement arose today In the League j at Nations assembly committee considering the reorganization of the ' league council. The representatives of Cuba and Chile asked that the Latin-American states be exempted from the proposed rule relative to eligibility for re-election to the counsel, explaining that the Latin-American nations desired to be allowed to designate their candidates in a caucus. M. Guani of Uruguay protested against the Cuban and Chilean request. LONG LIVE THE FELTS! Hold Official Funeral for Straw Hats. Hundreds of citizens were on hand for the official funeral of straw hats, which was staged at noon today by the Mercator Club. Ip solemn procession the club members marched behind a muledrawn hearse from the Splnk-Arms to the Circle. Here forme.- Mayor Lew Shank gave the funeral oration. Straw "kellies" were cast into a special built Incinerator, which was also a feature of the mock funeral. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 68 10 a. m...... 74 7 a. m 50 11 a. m '76 8 a. m 65 12 (noon) .... 78 9 a. m 67 1 p, m 80

ripped the screen from the back dooi of the residence of Mrs. Irsey Fletcher, 2862 Indiana Ave., and a> about to enter. They yelled at hip and he fled. Mrs. Fletcher was pros trated from fright. Officers picked up the trail at In dlana Ave. and Fall Creek and tin chase began. After two miles of scurrying cross lots, In which the officers fired three shots at the fugitive, the Negro sought rofug* In the house of Mrs. Sarah Cum mings, 2519 Highland PI. He entered the rear door, commanded residents there to keep quiet and shout ed warning to one of the officers not to enter or he would shoot. When both Bakers arrived and were about to enter together the man came run nlng out the door and was cap tured. He had no gun. He was bookeft for vagrancy and attempt to enter a house and commit. a felony. Bonds were set at $5,000. When police went to the Vermont St. address to investigate they found Sam Brooks, Negro, who was released from the penal farm this morning. Hd identified,the man held at jail as Thomas Fuller, who was released from the penal farm Monday after serving a sentence for larceny.

CHARGES OF HOAX BY AIMEE GROW Strengthened by Telegrams and Documents Seized. Bu United Frees LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14.—A number of telegrams and statements seized by authorities in a safety deposit box are purported to strengthen the charges that Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, planned the “Miss X" hoax to protect heaself from public scandal, following her “kidnaping’’ three months ago. Re-calling of Mrs. McPherson before the grand Jury wAas among the possibilities following the "confession" of Mrs. Lorraine WlsemanSeilaff, who swore she was paid by Mrs McPherson to perpetuate the “Miss X" hoax Her statement charged that on a promise from Mrs. McPherson that she would receive $5,000, she posed as the companion of Kenneth G. Ormiston, radio operator, at a cottage In Carmel-by-the-Sea. Among the documents seized were directions for getting to Carmel-by-the-Sea from Venice. It was on the beach at Venice that Mrs. McPherson disappeared to reappear later at Douglas, Ariz., to tell her now famous story of being “kidnapped. ' " ' ■ - ■■ ■ * START NEW MOTOR CLUB Papers Ifiled for International Motorists’ Association.* Incorporation papers for the International Motorists’ Association of Indiana, with headquarters here, were filed today with Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier. Purposes of the organization are cultivate good will between Indiana motorists and those of other States, to promote reciprocity and to effect uniform legislation.” No capital stoc;k is provided. Officers *are O. G. PenrcM, president: John E. Ambuhl, vice president, and Ester Kapple, secretary and treasurer.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 14,1926

COHSPIRACV TO ROB U.S. IBS SEEN Arrest Man Said to Have Followed Trucks in Auto. ACTIONS INVESTIGATED Held on SIO,OOO Bond on Vagrancy Charge. Postal authorities today believed an attempt to rob a United States mall truck of valuable securities and money had been frustrated with the arrest of a man In a large sedan, who had trailed trucks from the Union Station to the postoffice the last few days. Police early today arrested a man giving his name as William Donlan, 516 Oxford St., for questioning after he Is alleged to have trailed a registered mail truck to the Federal Bldg. Postmaster Robert 11. Bryson said the first time that the mail truck had been followed was Saturday after an early train. The man driving the car passed through the spe rial drive back of the postoffice, It was said. Bryson said steps were taken to guard the malls, after the Incident was reported by the driver. Harvey Patton, 1519 W. New York St., said his truck was followed Saturday at 6 05 a. m. when he left the Union Station.- The same car followed a registered mall truck driven byl Doyle Brady, 931 Garfield Ave., Monday night. Donlan was arrested by police, who said his license number corresponded with that given them by Brady. Donlan was arrested la Washington St., near Illinois, by city detectives and charged with vagrancy. Bond was fixed at SIO,OOO. In one Instance the large sedan blocked the driveway back of the postoffice. Federal authorities said.

LENGEL FIRING UPHELD Civil Service Commission Backs Up Canton Mayor. Hi; United I re CANTON, Ohio. Sept. 14.— Mayor S, M. Swarts' dismissal of S. A. Lengel, for years chief of Canton jpolice, was upheld today by the Civil Service Commission. Lengel was ousted on charges of Inefficiency resulting from the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton Daily News publisher. ROUND UP ON 0FM THEFT RING Inspector Worley Predicts Loot Recovery. A ring of tire and auto accessory thieves and their alleged fences is to be rounded up today, according to Detective Inspector Claude M. Worley. Monday night Karl Huston. 29, of 814 N. Colorado Ave., and Albert Fir.kel, 35, of 2235 N. Talbott Ave., were arrested on charges of receiving stolen goods. Flnkel Is also charged with grand larceny. Several similar arrests have been made. Worley said loot valued at thousands of dollars will be recovered and returned to the owners on identification. Several wire wheels, rims, tires and tubes are in the stolen goods room at headquarters and more are to be seized. Most of this sort of loot, according to Worley, is never claimed because the owners do not have the serb 1 numbers for indentifleation. Detectives Young, Hillman, Colder, Gillispie. Hynes. Stump, Dugan and Musgrovep are working on the investigation.

FLAPPER FANNY SAYS'.

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Butler Co-Eds Greet Football Captain

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They’re looking over easy courses! Arthur Black, Butler University football captain, is the popular man in the center. Co-eds (left to right) are: Eleanor Wolf, Charlotte Wiesike, Louise Eleanor Ross and June Oglon.

Former Students Register— Increased Enrollment Predicted. Butler co-eds gave Arthur Black, Butler University football captain, a warm greeting today when he appeared at the Irvington campus to register for the first semester. A group of the young women called “Art” to one side and conferred on the “snap courses” offered in the schedule of classes. “I think practical theology would be a good subject,” said the gridiron hero. “That's not so interesting,” replied the co-eds. Long lines of former students tiled into the gymnasium, where they selected their studies, registered and paid fees. Enrollment this semester Is expected to reach 1,650, considerably more than last year, according to Dean James Putnam. About 500 new students are ex pected this year, Miss Sarah E. Cotton, registrar, estimated. New students will enroll Wednesday. “The co-eds are going to be back of the football team this fall,” Miss Charlotte Wiesike, a sophomore, told the gridiron captain. STORMS TO MISS U. S. Two Hurricanes Now in West Idles Area, Say Weather Bureau. Bn United l‘re* WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Two hurricanes in the West Indies area, one now 7 north of Cuba and one northeast of Saint Christopher island, both probady will miss the United States coast an advisory storm warning issued by the weather bureau today indicated.

COUNTY TO SUE ON WORKHOUSESTRIP Commissioner Says Attempt Will Be Made to Settle Dispute With Fairbanks-Morse.

Schuyler A. Haas, county attorney, will shortly submit a petition to quiet* title to a small strip of land situated near the Fairbanks-Morse Company's plant at Twenty-First St. and Northwestern Ave., it was learned today. The strip is a part of land composing site of the old county workhouse sold the plant in 1923 by the county commissioners. The company plans to built a $300,000 electric motor plant on the purchase property, but work on the project is impossible until ownership of the strip of land is settled. It was disclosed by The Times last week. “This matter is going to be brought to a head very soon,” said Cnarles O. Sutton, president board of commissioners. “We are going to sei/Le it so that it will be settled and we'll then know who .owns that property,” Sutton asserted. “The commissioners want to clear it upone way or the other,” Sutton said. Commissioner John McClosky, Democrat and minority member, said he was always under the impression [ this strip was part of the land sold the company. He said he has always

$5 OOF OR A HUG; IT CRACKED A RIB Indianapolis Manicurist Given Damages in Suit Against Garage Owner.

The price of hugs went up today. For an Indianapolis woman, Miss Elizabeth Deitz, manicurist In the Ratcllffe Barber Shop, Consolidated Bldg., has been awarded SSOO damages for a hug she alleged Lewis J. Groh, proprietor of a garage at 618 Sanders St., gave her. The hug, she charged, broke one of her ribs. The SSOO verdict was awarded by a jury at Danville, Ind., Monday after four hours’ deliberation. The case was venued from Superior Court Two. According to Edward Little, attorney for Miss Deitz, the rib breaking hug was administered in February. 1923, in a house on Salem St., where Miss Deitz was rooming with two other girls. Groh, the attorney said, and sev f eral other young men called on the other girls one evening. As Miss Deitz was passing through the room one of the men grabbed Miss Deitz and sat her down on a couch beside Groh. Then Groh administered the hug, the attorney charged. Groh denied administering the hug today. He was not represented in Danville Monday. The suit, which asked $5,000 damages, was dismissed in Superior

suggested letting the plant have the strip in order tq expand its operations. Commissioner Cassius L. Hogle declared that something will be done about it soon, "but I'm not giving out anything." Sutton said the suit to be drawn by Maas will be approved by the commissioners before being filed in one of the county courts. JONES TURNS IN~ 143 Bu United Press SHORT HILLS, N. J., Sept. 14. Bobby Jones, defending champion, virtually assured himself of the qualifying medal in the national amateur golf tournament here this afternoon, turning in a card of TOTS—I 43. • BYNUM SPEAKER IN EAST Dixon H. Bynum, chairman of the Indiana industrial board, was to i speak today at a meeting of the Natiomil Association of Industrial land Compensation commissioners at j Hartford, Conn. He will preside at ' the convention Thursday.

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Court Two here, he said, because the plaintiff did not appear. He admitted that he Knew Misa Deitz, saying he hgd met her at a house parly sever.ll years ago and said he had seen her serveral times since in the company of others. Court records show that the suit, filed Jan. 6, 1925, was dismissed Feb. 12 of the same year. But on July 1 it was reinstated on motion of the plaintiff. DEMOCRATIC PLAN HELD IMPOSSIBLE Presidential Spokesman Opposes Tax Reduction. Bu United Press PAUL SMITH'S, N. Y., Sept. 14 The Democratic plan for a $560,000,000 tax reduction at the next session of Congress would be impossible without compltely rearranging the financial set-up of the Treasury, the presidential spokesman said today. The alleged surplus, he added, is (jnly theoretical and the Government has just been forced to borrow $350,000,000 to meet obligations maturing Wednesday. WRECK OF CRACK TRAIN DELIBERATE Engineer on ‘Sunshine Special’ Killed. Bu United Press M’GEHEE, Ark., Sept. 14. —The Missouri Pacific crack "Sunshine Special," derailed here early today, was deliberately weeked, investiga- ; tion by railroad officials showed this afternoon. George Busby, engineer, was killed, 11. J. Mundel, fireman, tvas seriously injured and scores of passengers were badly shaken up in the accident. CHARGE FURNITURE"MEN Trad ' Commission Alleges Fraud in Manufacturing. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 14.—The Federal Trade Commission charged twenty-seven furniture manufacturers, chiefly in Michigan, with fraud because they allegedly sold ven&red gum wood and chestnut products without revealing that they are veneerod.

Forecast Increasing cloudiness; becoming unsettled tonight and Wednesday; probably showers; rising temperatures.

TWO CENTS

NEXT EMI CASE MOVE TOBEEASt Attorneys Prepare to Sink Pennsylvania Injunction* Against Dempsey. ■ ORDER GRANTED HERIj Restrains Dempsey From Meeting Tunney.

Attorneys for the Chicago Coliseum Club, who were granted an injunction Monday night by Judge Clinton H. Givan of Superior Court Four, enjoining Jack Dempsey, world's heavyweight boxing champion, from fighting Gene Tunney in Philadelphia on Sept. 23. today planned to “go East” to obtain a like court order against the champion In Pennsylvania. The Injunction was formally Issued this morning hy Judge Givan. Attorneys for Dempsey were not in court. Judge G. A. Farabaugh of South Bend, plaintiff's attorney, said he and Andrew Weisherg, owner of the Oliver Hotel at South Bend, said he and Weisherg would return to South Bend and go on to Philadelphia Thursday to carry the case to a court there. Although attorneys for Dempsey contend the Indiana injunction will not have effect in Pennsylvania, attorneys for the plaintiff argue that the Pensylvania court will recognize it as a basis for a petition for an injunction. Contract Alleged The club Wrought suit on the ground that Dempsey-violated terms of a contract said to have been signed last March hy the club and himself, providing for a fight with Harry Wills, Negro challenger. The club disclosed in evidence that Dempsey admitted/- destroying the original contract. “This Injunction will, I am quite certain, prevent Jack Dempsey from meeting Tunney or any one else un til he has fulfilled the terms of his contract with us.” said Farabaugh. “The legal decision of Judge Glvar Is so well reasoned and ao logical that no other court could fall to fol low it. The evidence of the con tract *whlch Dempsey threatens to violate was overwhefmlng. “The case was contested bitterly. Dempsey presented his defense and failed. The questions of fact and law have been settled and we have been vindicated. ‘‘Breaker of Contracts” “This decision thoroughly stops Dempsey as a breaker of contracts, (Turn to Page 7)

TWENTY-FIVE DIE INTRAINACCIDENT Australia’s Worst Crash in Many Years. Bu United Press SYDNEY, Austgalla, Sept. 14. Australia's worst railway accident in mapy years occured Monday night when four freight cars rolled down a steep grade and struck a passenger train. Twenty-five persons were killed and forty injured. The collision occured near Murrurindi, about 200 miles from Sydney, In the mountains. The four cars broge away from a rtain at the top of the grade/ VIEW CALHOUN PICTURE Man Resembles One of Haag Bandits, Inspector Worley Says. Witnesses of the murder of Wilkinson Haag, drug company official, slain when held up by two bandits at the Green Mill Dance Hall, May 17, were shown a picture of Jean Calhoun, Indianapolis man, now held in New Orleans, today by Detective Rugenstein. Tills action was ordered by Inspector Claude M. Worley when a new picture of Calhoun was received from New Orleans. Calhoun, Worley said, resembles the taller of the two bandits, the one who fired the shot which killed Hagg. Calhoun is to lie brought here for questioning.

Givan Wearied by Dempsey Litigation Working until 10 p. m. Monday on the Dempsey injunction petition and plunging this morning into tile hearing of seventeen divorce cases proved too much for Judge Clinton H. Givan of Superior Court Four today. > While attorneys fighting Dempsey were elated over the injunction granted them, Judfce Givan wa3 suffering from "an awful headache.’’ After hearing several cases Judge Givan decided h ewould select a special judge to sit this afternoon. Fae W. Patrick, attorney, accepted the court's plea to sit aa special judge.