Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1926 — Page 1

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SAY WAYNE COUNTY HAS SHORTAGE State Board Alleges Discrepancies in Accounts of Treasurer. |TO INVESTIGATE OTHERS Findings Will Be Turned Over to Gilliom. Wayne County was rocked today with disclosures by the State board of accounts of numerous irregularities on the part of her public officials. Cash discrepancies totaling $6,247 64 have been unearthed by accounts board examiners through, an audit of of the books of Harry E. Thornburgh, auditor of Wayne County, of which Richmond is the county seat. Asa result of the disclosures, an investigation, it is understood, will be pressed to determine how many county officials are affected. The findings will be turned over at once to Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, whose duty it is to sue for col lection of money illegally collected or retained by public officials. The irregularities range from the collection of illegal pay to the retention by officials of tax collections which should have been surrendered to the county treasury. During the course of the inquiry, the examiners col lected $5,007.60 due the county, the report shows. 'Discrepancies of $1,240.04, however, remain unadjusted. Official Pays Following the charge by exam|lners that J o. Edgerton, Wayne (township assseesor, had retained Illegally $1,759 in dog taxes, the official paid the amount to the county treasury, the report shows. Examiners reported Edgerton had retained $644 of the 1925 collections and $915 of the collections for the first seven months of 1926. Thornburgh, the report shows, collected $l,lOO from the county for services which, according to the examiners, the law requires as part of his regular duty. The collections consisted of SSOO for “carrying over delinquent tax," which the examiners said “was part of his official duty”; S3OO "for making assessors’ bonks," “to-which he was not entitled," according to the report, and S3OO "for making new transfer books," which the accountants said was "part of his regular duty.’’ Responsibility for the illegal payments to Thornburgh was laid partly on the board of county commissioners through contracts, the accounts board report says. None of the' claims against Thornburgh have been settled The commissioners are Albert S. Hindman, Garfield Jackson and Louis N. -Hampton. Ail are Republicans. Discrepancies Settled Other discrepancies which have been settled follows: Overpayments of $3,113.85 on macadam road bond accounts, overpay ment of $19.75 to Dunbar & Son on equipment for county infirmary, item of SIOB retained by Infirmary Superintendent J. L. May from payments by guardians of inmates and an overpayment of $7 to clerks ernPoyed by Deputy Coroner F. E. eith. Among the unsettled claims are the following; Overcharge of $34.14 on public advertising by F. C. Mosbaugh, former publisher of the Cambridge City Tribune, and claims of $75 pay and $30.39 expenses by E. J. Martin, dep uty health officer, on authority of Dr. John M. Fouts, county health commissioner, during 1925. Commenting on the latter charge, the examiners declared: "Such service would be part of the official duty of the secretary, for which he receives a salary.” Carelessness of county officials in protecting public funds on deposit In the county banks is criticised in the report, which declared that on May 18, 1925, there was in excess of $46,000 in public money on deposk, unprotected. The 1925 tax refunds were too numerous and many were not valid, the examiners also charged. SCHOOL BUS OVERTURNS > - Seven Children Slightly Hurt Near Hartford City. Bu United Press HARTFORD CITY, Ind„ Oct. 12. Seven school children were slightly Injured today when a school bus driven by Lon Spaulding overturned PTear here today. Von AatiifT and Thelma F.errier were cut about the face and head and the others injured received minor bruises and cuts. Fifteen children and the driver were in the bus, which was en route to the Roll Consolidated School in tVashlntgon Township, Blackford County.

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QUEEN AND SON CAROL RECONCILED Dramatic Meeting Staged as Marie Starts on Trip to United States. b’u United Press PARIS, Oct. 12.—Queen Marie of Roumania and her son, the former Crown Prince Carol, today publicly attested their reconciliation, after more than ten months' estrangement when CaroParrived at the Care Saint Lazare to see her majesty off to visit the United States. After their appearance together at the station an intimate friend of Carol’s Laid: "It means that Carol will be the next King of Roumania.” Clasps Him to Breast Carol sought to kiss his mother’s hand after she had descended from the automobile which had brought her from the Ritz, hut she Jerked •the hand away from him and clasped him to her breast. The United Press learned from an authoritative source that Carol met (Turn to Page 2) Comes Here Nov. 25 Queen Marie will visit Indianapolis Nov. 25, according to announcement at the Roumanian embassy at Washington. The itinerary schedules tjie queen to arrive here at 6 p. m. from Chicago and leave at 12:30 a. m., Nov, 2fi, for Cincinnati, Ohio, giving her six hours here. FEDERAL REPORT SHOWS DROP IN GOAL PRODUCTION 4,826 Fewer Miners Employed in State in 1925 Than During 1924. Four thousand eight hundred and twenty-six fewer miners were employed in the Indiana coal fields in 1925 than in 1924 to a report of the bureau of minss of the Federal Department of Commerce, issued today. Consequently there was a decrease in volume <lt output and total value of coal produced, and the average per ton cost also was less. 22,732 Miners The total number of miners employed in all branches of coal mining was 22,732 in 1925. In 1924 there were 27,658 employed. The 1925 volume was 21,224.966 tons, valued at $42,831,000. The same statistics for 1924 were 21,480,213 tons, with value of $46,453,000. This is decrease of $3,622,000 in total value. Tlie average cost per ton in 1925 was $2.02. while in 1924 it was $2.16. 159 Working Days In 1925 the average number of days worked was 159 and the average production per day per man was 5.89 tons. In 1024 the days numbered 156 and production was 5.75 tons per day. Clay County was the only one in which production, in money value, exceeded the 1924 figure. The total output value in Clay County amounted to $1,804,000 in 1925, while it was only $1,378,000 in 1924.

ASKS DELAY IN NAMING MELOY Adams Says He Will Give Facts About Appointment. Thomas H. Adams, chairman of the investigating committee of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, took a hand in the rumored appointment of A. O. Meloy as United States marshal to succeed Linus P. Meredith today. He sent this telegram to the Department of Justice at "Washington: “Understand that Meloy, former bailiff in Superior Court Four, Marion County, has been recommended by Senator Arthur R. Robinson for appointment as United States marshal for Indiana. "In the interest of good government I respectfully ask you to hold up the appointment until I can furnish you some information.”

Have You Joined the Inks*? Have you Joined the Inks? It's the new political society, and its membership has multiplied exceedingly since Thomas H. Adams, chairman of the investigating committee of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, began his investigation of past events Ip Indiana politics. I.N.K.S. means "I Never Knew Stephenson.’ ’ Wherever Republican politicians gather they Jokingly ask each other if they have joined.

GRAFT DATA IS AWAITED BYJBORAH Possible Senate Investiv gation of Stephenson Scandal Is Pending. MAY CANCEL SPEECHES Wants to Be Conversant With Local Situation. By Roscoe B Fleming Times Stott Correspondent WASHINGTON. Oct. 12. Possible Senate Investigation of the Indiana Republican Klan corruption scandal was pending today while Senator William E. Forah awaited data from Thomas Adams, Vincennes editor, which he wired for Monday. Borah said he would await receipt of Adams’ charges and evidence before determining his future course. Adams Monday wired Boron that he was mailing him facts in the case and expressed the hope that the Senate would investigate the workings of the super-government of the invisible empire, and adding that/ the Klan "super-oath smacked of treason.” He Explains Asked why he wired Adams for the facts, Borah said only: "There has beer, so much printed about the Indiana scandal that I felt it my senatorial duty to inquire into it. If I find that it i3 simply a personal fight out there, I probably shall do no more. If I find the charges have some basis, however He stopped there, committing himself no further. May Cancel Speeches Incidentally he intimated strongly that receipt of Adams' telegram might decide whether or not he would speak In Indiana this fall It has been tentatively announced by the Republican Speakers Bureau at Chicago that Borah would speak. “Will you do so if the charges prove to be well founded?” He was asked. ”1 can not say at this time what I shall do, but if I speak in Indiana at all, 1 shall certainly want to be conversant with the local situation." Borah answered. If the mess into which Indiana Republicans have got themselves keeps Borah out of the State, he will he the third Republican big gun so spiked. Postmaster General New, Indiana's only Cabinet member, will speak In Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois, drawing a wide circle around his native State, but carefully avoiding it. Presidential Secretary Everett Sanders had tentatively decided to speak at Terre Haute and elsewhere, but reconsidered when '♦ was pointed out to him that this might be construed as direct aid and comfort from President Coolidge to Senators Watson and Robinson, who opposed the President on Important issues last winter. May Invite Reed Borah incidentally said that while he was not familiar with the resolution of inquiry under which Senator James A. Reed's committee is working he believes it in Reed’s power to call D. C. Stephenson as a witness or to go to the Indiana State Prison and interview Stephenson there. He also said he believed that the Reed resolution undoubtedly was wide enough in scope to permit investigation of Indiana, even though the charges mostly concerned matters before the 1926 senatorial primary.”

TRAINS CRASH IN LOG NEAR PERU No One Injured—Engine and •Four Cars Derailed. Bu United Press PERU, Ind., Oct. 12.—Running in a heavy fog, passenger train No. 2 on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Cincinnati bound, crashed into a Big Four freight train at a switch be tween Peru and Marlon today, according to a report to division headquarters of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad here. The engine of the passenger train and four cars of the freight were derailed the report said, but no one was injured. Engineer P. T. Monahan and Fireman Russell Busbee, both of Peru, presumably jumped before the crash. VETERAN LAWYER DEAD Bu Vnlted Pres* WARSAW, Ind., Oct. 12.—T. R North, 88. dean of the Kosciusko County Bar Association, and widely known throughout northern In diana. died here today following a paralytic stroke. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 55 10 a. m 67 7 a. m.... 55 11 a. m 71 8 a. m v 61 12 (noon) .... 72 9 a. m....... 64 1 p. m...... 72

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCT. 12, 1926

Probing Corruption Charges

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Marion County grand jury, which is hearing evidence in the Investigation of the charges of corruption In Indiana politics in connection with the reign of D. C. Stephenson.

OVATION IS GIVEN GEN. PERSHING AT LEGION GATHERING Forecasts His Election as Commander to Lead Veterans to Paris. RV United Press PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 12—Head ed by Vice President Dawes and General Pershing, more than fifty thou sand Legionnaires in trench helmets and vari colored uniforms, staged the •rig pprade in Philadelphia today Nearly 300,000 spectators bank'd the three mile tine of march from city hall to stad ium, cheering the marching veterans, while a score of airplanes droned overhead and the silver figure of an Army blimp, flashing back the rays of an autumn sun, furnished a fit ting setting for one of the greatest patriotic demonstrations ever seen in the Quaker city. The parade followed a morning session In which the Legion indicated it sintention to elect Pershing as commander to lead next year's con ventlon to Pairs. Pershing was welcomed with an ovation at the opening of the sec ond day's session during w hich representatives of the French government presented official invitations of welcome, and Vice President Charles G. Dawes delivered an attack on the present primary election system. The commander of the A. E. Fwas greeted upon his introduction to the convention with a serenade from the band and the Michigan delegation seized its banner and started a parade*around the hall in true political convention style. An old French taxicab, used (Turn to Page 2) HEARS ARGUMENTS IN BARRETT CASE Motion for Venue Change Under Advisement. Special Circuit Judge Lew Wallace Jr., heard arguments this afternoon on petition of Alvah J. Rucker, city corporation counsel, for appointment of a receiver for County and City Treasurer Edward A. Ramsay to control the Barrett Law fund and Interest. Judge Wallace took under advisement a motion of James D. Ermston, attorney for Ramsay, for change of venue from this county and continued his ruling on the defendant’s demurrer. Rucker objected to filing of a demurrer, declaring it was a move to delay hearing on the application for a receiver. Judge Wallace declared he wished to dispose of the case as quickly as possible, but would not do so by invading the rights of any of the parties concerned. Arguments on the appointment probably will be taken under advisement. INJURED MEN ARE HELD Two Alleged to Have Attempted Filling Station Robbery. Two men, held at the Robert Long Hospital today, suffering from injuries said to have been received in an auto accident near Franklin, Ind., will be returned to Franklin to face charges of attempting to rob a filling station late Monday. A third member of the alleged ring. Buddy Kane. 214 S. Illinois St., Is held in Johnson County pail. The deputy sheriff who brought the in jured men here said they gave their names as Bert Lambert, South Bend, Ind., atd Denny Moore. Indianapolis.

former G. O. P boss: (Left to right), , Otis Calvin. 5262 Central Ave; Wilson Furnas, Bridgeport: Joseph C. Srhaff, Columbia Club; Hilary Mor- | rls. 6045 Ashland Ave ; Herman F.

TRIBUTE PAID TO ADAMS BY EDITOR Head of New Mexico Paper Stresses Moral Responsiliility of Public Press Before Rotarians.

‘ Honest citizens of Indiana owe Editor Thomas H Adams of Vincennes a debt of gratitude for the courageous fight he Is making against what he believes is corruption in the political life of the State. Regardless of the ultimate outcome, such a splendid stand for truth and righteousness should be upheld and all decent persons should rally to its support ” This was the tribute today of Carl C Magee, editor of The New Mexico Tribune, a Scripps-Howard news paper. Aitnirqtterqm N M , who gained national fame by hts fight against corruption in that State. Magee spoke on "Freedom of the Press.” at. the Rotary Club lunch eon at the Claypool. Guard Danger "The press," he said in an interview. must not only be con tinually on the defense of the right to say things, but must also be $25,000 GEM HOLD-UP Three R,indite Rind Five in Chicago Office. Bu United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 12.—Three bandits bound Rud Noel, diamond importer, four men and one woman, and after rifling the shelves of diamonds and other jewels escaped with loot valued at $25,000 shortly before noon today. The robbery occurred high in a downtown office building. The jewels were insured. 31 REPORTED DROWNED Many Missing in Severe S.orms in North Sea. Bu United Press BERLIN, Oct. 12.—Thirty-one fishermen have been reported drowned and many were missing today. according to the German government wireless, which reported severe storms in .the North Sea and throughout northern Germany. FIRE DAMAGE IS SMALL All Downtown Apparatus Called to Ko.he-VVells-Bauer Plant. Small damage was done today by a roof fire at the plant of Kothe-Wells-Bauer, wholesale grocers. New Jersey St. and Virginia Ave., though a second alarm was sounded and all‘downtown fire-fighting apparatus called to the scene. The blaze was thought to have been started by overheated coffee ovens, located on the fifth floor, just under the roof. NEW SCOTT WRtTfILED Motion Would Delay Execution Set for Friday. Bu United Press SPRINGFIELD. 111., Oct. 12. A motion for a writ of supersedeas to stay the execution of Russell T. Scott, sentenced to hang Friday at Chicago for the murder of Joseph T. Maurer in a drug store hold-up, was filed in the Supreme Court today. The court may act on the motion at its session tomorrow. BOND ISSUE SOUGHT Authority to Issue and sell $56,500 In bonds was asked of the public service commission today in a petition filed by the Evansville & Ohio Valley Railway Company. Proceeds are to be used for additions and betterments. TRY HONOR SYSTEM Bu United Press lOWA CITY”, lowa. Oct. 12.—An honor system, similar to that employed by Oxford University in England, will be given a trial at the University of lowa by the department of English within the next two years.

Sprandel, 1135 Central Ave., and William Webb. 1816 W. Washington St. Grand Jury Deputy William H. Sheaffer in the rear.

'watchful of tie danger of not fulI filling its duty to sav them. "Newspapers are failing in their duty when they refuse to print the | things they know are corrupt and i anti social. If there is something deep seated and rotten in the underground political life in Indiana, it should he brought to the surface. The paper that refuses to aid in such an obvious duty is as corrupt as the thing itself. "The press of this country is a trusteeship, in which the public is ■JL*by concerned. A paper has no more right to dispense sugar-coated pills in a crisis that a physician has "hen a patient is suffering from a malignant disease. ’ There is the moral responsibility of the press, which is just as vital as its freedom.” Outlining the tariour factors that tend to suppression of facts Magee pointed to the social ostracism that is sometimes used against the editor and his family: economic pressure, through advertising and boycott, and civil and criminal suits, designed to intimidate. "Libel suits are also commonly used to enforce intimidation, he declared. "They are filed and then dismissed when the stonn and danger has passed." Cleared by Jury Magee went to New Mexico in 1920, from Tulsa, Okla., where he had been a lawyer. He founded a paper in Alherquerque. Since that time every means used to coerce editors has been used against him. He fought the Albert B. Fall, po-litic-economic corruption, through courts and even into jails. At one time he was sentenced to serve a I year in jail and fined $4,000, but was pardoned by the Governor. After a vicious physical attack by Judge E. J. Leahy in a hote lat Las Vegns he used a pistol to protect himself and accidentally shoE a friend. The district attorney, friend of the judge, charged him with murder. Later the prosecutor wanted to dismiss the case, but Magee insisted it be tried. He was given a verdict of “not guilty” by both judge land jury. The Scripps Howard Alliance became interested in Magee’s fight for truth and aided him in continuing his campaign in New Mexico by backing his paper, which is now one of the league of which the Indianapolis Times is a member. NEWDAUGHERTY TRIAL IS HELD UP Decision May Not Be Made for a Month. Bu United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 12.—Retrial of Harry M. Daugherty, former Attorney General, and Col. Thomas W. Miller, former custodian of alien property, hinged today upon the decision of United States Attorney Emory R. Buckner, who held up his decision pending a conference with Department of Justice officials in Washington. Buckner was keenly disappointed by the disagreement of the jury Monday in the four-week trial of Daugherty and Miller while the former officials expressed equal disap-, pointment at their failure to win an acquittal of the conspiracy charges. ‘T il not be able to tell for a month whether 1 11 bring them to trial again or not,’ Buckner said. MRS. COOLIDGE ON TRIP Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 12.—Mrs. Calvin Coolidge motored to Mercersburg. Pa., today to attend dedication of the Mercersburg chapel.

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Long Wait of Attorney at Columbia ' Club for Secret Figure Adds to Air of Intrigue. GRAND JURY TO HEAR FOUR MEN Adams, Gentry, Klinck and Asher Called—Some Appear Today.

Today’s Developments

Entrance of John L. Kiplinger, Rushville attorney, into Stephenson affairs provides a mystery which holds the chief interest in the day's development. Thomas V. Miller, Muncie attorney for Stephenson, tells of receiving a telegram signed D. 0. Stephenson, directing “stop all publicity,” which he believes to be unauthentie. * Miller wires Stephenson, warning him to make no statements and to refuse to testify before grand jury until after conference. He announced that Stephenson will not testify before grand jury unless given signed statement that his testimony will not be used in prosecution of charges now pending agninst him. Prosecutor Remy calls Thomas Adams, Vincennes publisher, who started the present uproar by publishing letters he said came from Stephenson saying- the former Klan dragon desired to expose corruption in Indiana, before the grand jury at 2:30 this afternoon. Remy also subpoenaed Earl Klinck, Earl Gentry and Court Asher, Stephenson lieutenants. Klinck was ordered to appear at 3 this afternoon. Warden Walter H. Daly of State Prison says he does not know whether he will obey the habeas corpus writ of Judge Sidney S. Miller, ordering Stephenson in Superior Court Three here at 2 p. m. Wednesday. The. Warden says he will obey the grand jury Subpoena calling Stephenson here at 9 a. m. Thursday.

• - # I First definite moves in the Marion County grand jury investigation of charges of corruption in Indiana polities were made by the grand jury this afternoon. Court Asher, one of Stephenson's former lieutenants, went before the jury shortly after 1:30. Thomas 11. Adams, chairman of the investigating committee of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, also was to be questioned. It was Adams’ statement that Stephenson, serving a life term in the Indiana State Prison, desired to reveal political deals and produce evidence of graft and fraud among State politicians that revived Interest in the Stephenson case. Others Called A subpoena calling upon Adams to appear before the jurors at 2:30 p. m was served upon him. Subpoenas for Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry, former aids of Stephensno who were found not guilty of the murder charge on which Stephenson was senten-ed, weer issued by Prosecutor William H. Remy. Fred O. Butler, former secretary of Stephenson, was also subpoened, it was learned. • Klinck declared he would refuse to testify when brought before the jurors. Lieut. George Winkler, who served the summons, said. Klinck was to be before the grand jury at 3 p. m. The subpoena directs those summoned to bring with them “all books, papers, documents, exhibits and at)y other evidence in his possession having to do with corruption or official misconduct in Marion County. Although the grand jury assembled this morning, there were no witnesses to be heard. An atmosphere of secrecy pre vailed at the prosecutor's office. Many Conferences Early in the morning Remy was in conference with Fred C. Gause, | former Supreme Court judge. Remy said he is considering naming a number of other local attorneys as special deputies to aid him in the investigation. Gause may be one of those named, he said. Later Ralph K. Kane and Attorney General * Arthur L. Gilliom joined In the conference. Gilliom and Kane were named special deputies by Remy, Monday. State Auditor L. S. Bowman also was in the conference. GOVERNOR FUQUA DEAD Internal Gastriek Hemorrhages Fatal to Louisiana Executive. Bu United Press BATON ROUGE. La., Oct. 12. —Governor Henry L. Fuqua of Louisiana, died at the executive mansion here late Monday night from internal gastric hemorrhages. 1 The executive, who had served two years and five months of a fouryear term, had been ill since his Inauguration.

Forecast Unsettled with probably showers tonight, followed by fair and cooler Wednesday.

TWO CENTS

> , The entrance of John H. Kiplinger, Rushville attorney, and his activities formed the outstanding interest in the Stephenson case today, overshadowing even in importance the actions of the grand jury. It started with a telegram received by Thomas V. Miller, attorney for Stephenson, which read: "Put Kiplinger back on the list and stop all publicity.” It was sent from Michigan City andw as signed by the name of D. C. Stephenson. Kiplinger was one of the Stephenson defense lawyers at his murder trial. He was recently, with the other attorneys, released by Stephen eon. Doubts Authenticity While Miller was inclined to doubt the authenticity of the telegram and refused to recognize its authority, the activities of Kiplinger lndicated that he had a great inter est in the matter, starting with a long vigil at the Columbia Club Monday, where he said he was waiting for a former l business associate of Stephenson. So was a Times reporter, who had learned that this man had suddenly left his home in a distant city. Kiplinger was located at Michigan City this afternoon. Waited at Club Kiplinger waited at the Columbia Club for eight hours Monday for a conference with a former close associate of Stephenson, whose movements in the present, affair are shrouded in deep mystery. The man did not. appear for the interview and Kiplinger finally left the club, carrying a black bag. Mrs. Kiplinger, at the club with her husband, did not leave with him. The wife of the former associate of Stephenson, over the long distance telephone said that he had left there early Monday and would be registered at a certain Indianapolis hotel. He was not registered at this hotel. Hears of Deposition Kiplinger. while he waited for Stephenson’s former associate, talked with an Indianapolis Times reporter. He said, among other things, that he. had heard that Stephenson had made a deposition in prison that he had sent out no letters. Further complications set in when Miller announced that he was going to file in plea in abatement in the million dollar conspiracy to defame suit, filed against Stephenson by (Turn to Page 11) MINORITY STOCKHOLDERS LOSE Bu United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—Minority stockholders of the Chicago. Milwau kee & St. Paul Railroad were today denied permission to file an interven ing petition in the bankruptcy hearing of the road by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson. BOY CYCLIST INJURED Floyd O- Haver, 17, of 4548 Soho field Ave.. was taken to city hospital with head and body injuries today, after he had been knocked from his bicycle at College Ave. and Pall Creek by an automobile ; driven by Glenn Louck, 1419 Southern Ave,