Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 163, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1926 — Page 1

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REED CALLS COMMITTEE! FOR MONDAY Will Not Deny Indiana Case Is to Be Taken Up at Chicago Session. CANCELS SPEECH TOUR Refuses to Announce Purpose of Gathering. Bu United Pres* ST. LOUIS. Mo., Oct. 14.—Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, chairman of the senatorial investigating committee, has summoned a meeting of the committee for Monday in Chicago. The Senator refused to announce the purpose of the meeting, although he would not deny that the meeting was for an investigation into the political affairs which have been under investigation in Indiana for the past week Reed left here to fill a speaking date, but has canceled speaking dates in behalf of Missouri Democratic candidates for the next two weeks. He is expected to speak in Joplin, Mo., today and probably will go to Chicago from there. When Senator Reed was shown a telegram quoting Clyde A. Walb of Indiana saying that any evidence which he had about corruption in the senatorial campaigns would be given only to Reed, the Missouri Senator said: ‘‘lf Mr. Walb tells me anything he will tell me across a table, under oath, and in public.” Senator Reed was asked to investigate the Indiana situation by The Indianapolis Times after Republican State Chairman Clyde A. Walb declared bankers are trying to debauch the election. SUBPOENAS ISSUED Indicate Illinois Politics Will Be Investigated. Bu United Preaa CHICAGO, Oct. 14. —Persons prominent in Illinois political and business fields have been subpoenaed to testify before the Senate investigating committee when it convenes here Monday, indicating that the session has been called for further investigation of Illinois political campaigns rather than to probe the Indiana Klan situation. Among the persons ordered subpoenaed, only five names were made public. They are: James Simpson, president of Marshall Field and Company largest department store in Chicago: Clement Studebaker, multi-millionaire utility operator and associate of Samuel Insull; Mrs. James F. Morrison, wealthy hotel opeator; E. J. Davis, president of the Chicago Better Government Association, and George B. Safford, superintendent of the Illinois Anti-Saloon League.

APPEALS TO PRESIDENT Adams Send Plea; Walb Says He Will Abide by Jury Verdict. Clyde Walb, chairman of the Republican State committee, will “abide Pby the results of the grand jury investigation," according to a telegram he sent to Thomas Adams today. The telegram from the Severin to the English Hotel, in response to a (Turn to Page 3) ATHLETIC CLUB FILES Hunting and Fishing Organization Also Asks Incorporation. Incorporation papers for the International Athletic Club of Indianapolis were flle.d today at the Statehouse. Organizers are C. Barriger, Emil Weaver and Charles A. Crumbo. No capital stock is provided. The Fountain Square Hunting and Fishing Club also filed papers today. Incorporators of the latter are E. L. Lohman, Don White, Oscar Miller, John Jones and James Wright. Papers for the Singleton Waters Benefit Association, a beneficiary society for Negroes, also were filed. Long Swim Resumed by Woman in Nude Bn United Prcvt KINGSTON, N. V., Oct. 14.—Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, wearing only a heavy coat of grease and a bathing cap, entered the chilly Hudson River just above this city early htoday to continue her attempt to "swim the 160 miles from Albany to New York in record time. Mrs. Schoemmell discarded the one-piece bathing suit with which she started out, believing it impedes her progress. Reports that a nude woman was slowly breasting her way down the Hudson caused scores to line the banks.

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Tells of Stephenson’s Rage When He Learned of Police Chief Appointment. ORDERED IN BY JURY Noblesville Man Tells of Other Documents. Roaring like a mad man, D. C. Stephenson swore vehemently and shook the bars of his cell at the Noblesville jail like a caged animal when information reached him that Mayor-Elect John L. Duvall had selected Claude Johnson for Indianapolis chief of police instead of Claude Worley, according to Floyd Christian, one of Stephenson’s attorneys. Although the disappointment at the naming of Chief Johnson came in the midst of Stephenson's trial in Hamilton Circuit Court for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, the exKlan leader’s intense interest In Indianapolis politics overshadowed the seriousness of the criminal charge against him. Forgetting, for the moment, the murder trial, Stephenson burst forth in a passionate denunciation of Du vail and dived into a mass of documents piled on his bunk a foot high, throwing papers right and left, Christian said. Christian has been subpoenaed to appear before the Marion County grand jury this afternoon to tell of the documents he saw in Stephenson's possession. Calling Christian to his cell, Stephenson shrieked as he waved a handful of papers in his lawyer’s face and cried out: "There it is. I'll show ( some of those birds who I am. Whey they deal with me they sign on the dotted line.” Showed Document Inspection of the document, according to Christian, showed it to be a contract commanding Mayorelect Duvall to appoint Worley chief of police and Earl Klinck, one of the defendants in the murder action, a captain. It also carried the pledge to allow Stephenson to name Duvall’s new city board of works. "It was the original of the photostatic letter printed recently in The Indianapolis Times,” Christian declared. “I remember it well, in fact I remember the conversation I had with ‘Steve’ over a certain peculiarity in the date at the top of the contract. If you inspect the photo--static copy of the contract you will notice that the date, 1025,, at the top of the document, seems blurred. I thought there had .been an erasure and asked Steve if it hadn’t been written at one time and signed at another. He asserted that the contract was written Just before being (Turn to Page 3)

Four Rangers Sent to Clean Town of 5,000 Bn Unit fit Prenn BORGER, Texas, Oct. 14. —Borger, little oil boom town near Amarillo, is to undergo a “house cleaning.” Following the killing of a 15-year-old girl here Wednesday night and rumors that citizens of the town are boasting that it is the “wickedest oil town in the country," Governor Miriam A. Ferguson has ordered four Tyxas rangers to report here for duty. Four rangers can easily handle a population of 5,000, according to tenets of the ranger code. WHERE ARE BERLINS? Hide and Seek Game With F'amous Couple on Again. Bit United Preen BOSTON, Oct. 14. —The game of hide and seek started by Irving Berlin. Jewish song writer, and his wife, the former Ellin Mackay, when they sought to escape newspaper reporters upon their return from their European honeymoon recently, has been resumed in Boston. More than a score of reporters searched for the couple Wednesday night after hearing that they were coming to Boston for Mrs. Berlin to enter a hospital and for a meeting with Clarence H. Mackay, her father and president of the Postal Telegraph Company. Reports were that telegrams for reservations signed Irving Berlin had been received at a local hotel and a local hospital. No hotel or hospital officials would admit receipt of the telegrams. FIRST HUNTER KILLED Bn United Preen KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Oct. 14. A verdict of accidental death was rendered by Coroner Leland Frurip here today, following an investigation of the death of High Hamilton, 23. of Elkhart, who was instantly killed near Ligicner in the first hunting tragedy oi ’hp season in this vicinity. *25,665 GEM ROBBERY ” Bn United Prenn SYO.SSETT, L. 1., Oct. 14.—fheft of jewelry valued at $25,665 from the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Willock on Oct. 3, was reported by police today. Willock was at one time a prominent steel manufacturer in Pittsburgh.

Chairs Atop Pole; Halloween Near Police were reminded today that Halloween is near. . Two willow chairs, freshly painted in orange and black, topped the flagpole this morning at School 66, 604 E. Maple Rd., the cus todian of the school reported.

‘9 O’CLOCK’ ORDINANCE ' IS SIGNED Curfew for All Under 17 as Result of Mayor’s Action. Boys and girls shall not go wrong in Indianapolis' So Muyui .. ■.. when he signed the c... nance prohibiting young men and women under 17 from being on the streets of Indianapolis after 9 p. m. "unless they have a good reason.” Councilman Otis E. Bartholomew introduced the ordinance as a pan acea for the "crime wave” among younger persons. Bartholomew pointed out the majority of hold-ups and auto thefts are committed by youths. Police were confronted with the problem of picking the flappergrandmothers from the seventeen-year-old gjris. Chicago police who were charged with enforcing a slmiliar ordinance found difficulty In tilling the grandmothers, with bobbed hair and short skirts, from the girls effected by the curfew. Person? under 17 are prohibited on the streets unless on an errand or accompanied by an older person, according to the law. The ordinance becomes effective In fourteen days after publication in a newspaper, according to City Clerk William Boyce, Jr.‘ Boyce said copy of the law -uium bo published once each week for two weeks. / Duvall also signed an ordinance rezoning the district between Twenty-Fifth St..and Fall Creek on Delaware St. from a residential to business section.

PLAN INTERSTATE ROUTE Petition for Bus line Certificate Asked by Ohio Company. Petition for a certificate for a bus line between Richmond find the Indiana-Ohio line, part of an interstate route, was filed with the | public serviice commission today by the Greenville-Dayton Transportation Company of Greenville, Ohio. In the petition it is pointed out that the company will do a strict interstate business. Busses will start from each terminus every two hours throughout the day. UIS ANGELES'ON WAVJ DETROIT Dirigible to Test Mooring Mast at Ford Airport. Bn Unitel Prenn LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 14 —The naval dirigible Los Angeles left the hangar here at 11:05 a. in. today on a. test flight to Detroit, where she will try out the mooring mast at the Ford airport. The dirigible was commanded by Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl. She carries a crew of eleven officers and thirty-one men. The weather was perfect when the big silver dirigible was cast loose from the mooring mast and, circling the field, turned to the southeast. Weather reports from Washington predicted favorable condition along the route. BORAH JOINS JOHNSON • 0 Says Corrupt Want Primary System Repealed. Bn United Prenn WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Senators Borah (Rep.), Idaho, and Johnson (Rep.), California, today defended the direct primary system following Vice President Dawes’ Philadelphia attack on it and charged that the corrupt wanted the system repealed. SHUMAKER IS SPEAKER Bn United Prenn SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 14.—The Rev. E. S. Shumaker, head of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, was the principal wponker at today’s session of the ninety-fourth anrtual conference of the Indiana Baptists. FORMER MARION MAN DEAD Bn United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Richard E. Breed, chairman of the board of the American Gas and Electric Company, died in Roosevelt Hospital today. Breed was for many years a resident of Marlon, Ind. ,

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When Watson Changed His Mind KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 7. (A.P.)— Referring to ,tl*9 charges of corruption in Indiana politios made by Thomaa H. Ad. ma, publisher oCfhe Vincennes Commerioal, as a "trivial mattar", Senator James E. Watson, (republican candidate for the senate*, here on a speaking tour, advlae v d that no attention be paid such "minor matters". * "lA Jiist like a family affair, and family affairs don't interest me" the senator explained. "77hat I'm Interested in are national issues, not pettfy problems," he added. . *— 17- A.P. BULLET I-N KOIOliO? tnd., Oot. 7 Editors: Watson, statement on Adama corruption charge. Inaccurate. gub coaingj avp rorwrii u ot. 7. - (A.P. )--Unl.ted States Be*tor J axes E. Watson, seeking reflection in the lovember election; before a meeting at which he was to speak here tonight was oalled to order, commented briefly on the oharges of political corruption in Indiana made as a result of a recent investigation by Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher, "I'm not saying anything, because I am not in possession of thp facts. My attention recently has been given only to national issues and this, of course, is not a national issue. ■ls, however, there has been corruption In Indiana by any person, high or low, I hope he will be brought to book." —u/Ajp-

Jutft in order to make complete the record of the time when Senator James E. Watson decided that he hoped, if there had been corruption in Indiana, the guilty would be “brought to book," data Is fortunately furnished by the Associated Press telegrams delivered to Its clients last Thursday evening. It may be recalled that until that day no State official or Senator had demanded an investigation or an inquiry of the charges that had been broadcast. There had only been a consistent refusal to permit six State

BANDITS TURN MACHINE GUN ON MAIL TRUCK, GET S2OO, 000

Shoot Four, Crush One to Death by Driving Back and Forth on Him. Bil United Prenn ELIZABETH, N. J„ Oct. 14. Eight Bandits, riding down on a United States mail truck behind a barrage of machine gun Are here today, shot and killed the driver of the truck, wounded three others and escaped with registered mail and pay roll consignments the value of which may total $200,000. The citizens of northern New Jersey, aroused by the spectacular ferocity of the crime, which is one of a sereis of murderous hold-ups and assaults in the last two months, turijed out in force this afternoon to exact vengeance. Business houses were closed and men with shotguns posted themselves at every vantage point. Rake Streets With utter disregard for human life, the bandits let loose their bullets In every direction. The machine gun, a light Thompson model, fired from the shoulder, swept from side to side, shattering windows in houses and saloons and endangering a dozen or more pedestrians in the vicinity. One passerby was amoung the wounded. The bandits appeared in two large autos, both stolen. The first car bore down on Jacob Christman, motorcycle policeman, assigned to guard the truck. As Christman lay unconscious in the road, the bandits turned the machine gun on him. Then they swung the gun to the truck and turned it on the driver, John Enz, and Patrick S. Quinn, his helper. The bandits threw both men to the ground. As they laid there the bandits again turned the gun on them and more bullets entered their bodies. Runs Over Body While the others were looting the truck, one of the bandits took the wheel and moved the truck back and forth over Enz’s body. He died later in the hospital. Both Christman and Quinn may die. The exact amount taken has not been checked up and some estimates placed 4t at over $400,000. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. 48 10 a. m 61 7 a. m...... 48 11 a. m 64 8 a. m. 52 12 (nooa) .... 67 9 a. m...... 65 1 p. m—6B #

Senators and responsible newspaper men to see Stephenson in hi coil. Note the interview gent out at 6:30 o’clock. Earlier in the day at La Grange, Theodore Roosevelt had forced a public declaration on this question. It was the first time the Governor had promised an inquiry. Official organs say that Roosevelt carefully wrote his statement and submitted It to Jackson and Walb before he spoke. _ it may be a fair inference that at that time the Senator had not heard of this speech or did the al-

HE WANTS HIS SI,OOO Refomialnry Superintendent Writes to Attorney General. “I want my $1,000,'.’ wails Superintendent A. F. Miles of the Indiana State Reformatory. Miles, learning that the State legislative finance committee has rescinded a number of the SI,OOO salary cuts It Imposed on State officials a year ago, wonders why they forgot him recently when most of the salaries were restored. He is so interested that he ha.s written to Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom asking if the committee ha.s authority to restore his own pay. Miles received $5,000 a year prior to Oct. 1, 1325, when the cuts were ordered. Gilliom replied that a committee could undo anything it had done.

LEGION REFUSES STANDONCO UR T Refuses to Accept Report, Reaffirming Support of President Coolidge.

Bv United Prenn PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 14. The American Legion convention refused today to except the report of its legislative committee, reaffirming its support of President Coolidge and the United States Senate in providing American participation in the World Court. A fight against the resolution was staged by Mid-Western States and it was voted down upon a rail call. An extensive program of aviation development, including many of the ideas of Col. "Bniy" Mitchell, air ace. who criticised the present air administration, was adopted to the convention. Ten recommendations uring that adequate air protection be given all large Ameircan cities, co-ordination of air defense into a single department, with secretaries of equal importance for land, sea and air forces, and development of air units in the reserve, were suggested by the aeronautics committee. The fundamentals of Mitchell’s

ways accurate Associate Press misquote this Senator? Note at 10 o'clock, there came a hurried order to "kill” the interview in w.hich the Watson view is given that these charges are a “family affair.” Then read the carefully guarded statement .which supported the position taken by Jackson earlier in the day. Again the Associated Press is to he either congratulated for furnishing accurate history, or can it be admitted that it ever errs and misrepresents a United States Senator?

Twins Are Born in Different Counties Rtt T nitcfl Prr** EFFINGHAM. 111., Oct. 14.—Mrs. Flossie Jones, wife of Deputy Sheriff Jones of Jasper County, today en joyed the distinction of being the mother of twins born in different counties. Mrs. Jones gave birth to a baby girl in Newton, Jasper Coun ty, at 10 p. m. She then was hurried to a hospital in Effingham, where she gave birth to a boy. YELLOWLEY IS VISITOR District Prohibition Director Calls at Office of Deputy Harris. E. C. Yellowley, Chicago, prohibition director of the Thirteenth district visited the offices of Deputy Administrator A. R. Harris today. Yellowley said he was here on his regular visit to the various district offices.

plan for air service development which caused such a furore last year were accepted in the unanimous committee report. The convention decided unanimously to hold the 1928 convention in San Antonio, Texas. Denver, Colo., and Miami, Fla., were contestants. It was decided at caucuses of leaders early this morning that Gen. .John J. Pershing, commander of the expeditionary forces, should be chosen honorary commander for life, but that the post of active command er should go to one of the active workers of the Legion. The program failed to meet the full support of all the delegates and there were possibilities that it will encounter opposition when presented to the convention Friday. Thus far, how ever, convention leaders have been able to preserve peace. The midnight conferees swung behind Col. “Steamboat” J. Monroe Johnson, popular Legion leader of South Carolina, and they Intend toput him over at the election Friday.

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Dramatic Race to Secure Possession of Missing Documents Between Remy Forces and Opposition. YOUNG WOMAN HOLDS KEY Prosecution Virtually Holds Mother Hostage Until Daughter Is Found.

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Grand jury quiz takes dramatic turn when Prosecutor Remy starts nation-wide search for Miss Mildred Meade, beautiful Indianapolis girl, believed to have had some of the missing Stephenson documents. Dramatic race is on between forces attempting to ferret out political rottenness and the opposition to obtain possession of the missing Stephenson documents. Floyd Christian, Noblesville attorney, reiterates his statement that he saw the D. C. Stephenson documents which Thomas H. Adams says will prove charges of corruption in Indiana. Christian is summoned before the grand jury. Governor Jackson denies ever having received any kind of contribution from Stephenson. Christian answers this with the reiteration that he saw a check for $5,000 and other for $2,500, he thought, both of which bore the name of Ed Jackson in indorsement, but he would not say that the name was in the Governor’s handwriting. Christian describes Stephenson’s intense anger in the Noblesville jail when he learned that Mayor Duvall had named Claude Johnson chief of police instead of Claude Worley. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri admits his election investigation committee will meet in Chicago Monday and will neither confirm nor deny the report that it will come into Indiana to probe political rottenness. Stephenson is back in Indiana State Prison after having refused to testify in the assets inquiry before Superior Judge Miller here Wednesday afternoon and after having been before the grand jury an hour Wednesday morning. Convinced that- the key to the whereabouts of some of the most important of the missing D. C. Stephenson documents lies in the hands of a frail, beautiful, 23-year-old Indianapolis girl, Prosecutor William H. Remy today planned virtually to hold the girl’s mother hostage until the girl is found. The girl is Mildred Meade, 3523 E. Sixteenth St., a former friend of Stephenson. She dropped out of sight last Friday, according to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meade, 3525 E. Sixteenth St. The girl, the prosecutor is convinced, had some of the missing Stephenson papers, wanted in the grand jury investigation of charges of corruption during the Stephenson regime as “the law” in Indiana.

The prosecutor also is convinced* that the girl either moved these pa pers herself, or assisted in moving them from a. place where they have been cached since Stephenson had them photographed while he was in jail at Noblesville last November. According to exclusive information gathered by Indianapolis Times agents Forest Strader, former secretary of Stephenson, turned these papers over to Miss Meade some time ago. When it became evident that Stephenson had split the documents. “which Thomas H. Adams, head of the Republican Editorial Assoviation committee probing Stein Indiana politics says will prove his charges that officials were ruled by Stephenson” into three sections search was begun for Strader and Miss Meade. It was learned that Miss Meade had suddenly dropped out of sight. Her parents insist that they do not know where she is. I’arenfs Sign Note Mrs. Meade was before the grand jury this morning. The father testified this afternoon. Meanwhile Remy obtained from Mr. and Mrs. Meade their signature to this note: “To our daughter, Mildred Meade, w-herever she may he: “Please come home at once, no matter who is advising you to stay away.” Remy planned to hold Mrs. Meade under close surveillance until the daughter is found. Meanwhile a search which has extended into three Middle Western States was conducted for the other groups of the missing documents. The hunt included search for Strader, for L. G. Julain, of Evansville, former partner of Stephenson in the coal business and the exact location of a safety deposit box in Ohio, where some of the papers are understood to be hidden. Race for Documents The situation was made more dramatic by the fact that the forces who fractionally fear the disclosure which it is believed the documents would make, also have a large corps of agents Th the hunt. The situation narrowed down to a race between Prosecutor Remy’s forces and those of the opposition to locate and secure the documents. These once in the hands of the enemy, would be destroyed immediately the prosecutor believes. However, the forces seeking to rout political rottenness believed that sufficient evidence is being amassed

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through means other than the documents to combat the efforts of the opposition to vitiate the investigation. The mother declared that the girl came home last Friday evening from her work at the Stafford Engraving Company, where she is a bookkeeper, and left without eating dinner. The mother said that none of the girl's belongings were gone. The father said that he saw his daughter Sunday morning when the girl came up on the sidewalk in front of the house. He said he went out and talked with her, the mother still being in bed. He said the girl did not say where she had been nor whore she was going. Since then he has not seen her, he declared. Floyd Christian, Noblesville attorney, who declares he saw in Stephenson’s possession in the Noblesville jail documents said to implicate prominent politicians, was also to be before the grand jury this afternoon. Subpoenas also were issued for C. M. Hull, Anderson photographer, who has said he photographed a number of canceled checks and other documents brought to him by .an agent of Stephenson while the exKlan chief was in the Noblesvlllo jail, and his wife. Christian appeared at the courthouse about 1:40, waiting outside the grand jury rboni with Miss Meade's father. Seek Dornments Interviewed by The Times Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Meade at first declared that they "knew nothing and had nothing to tell," but presently the mother’s anxiety for her girl broke through her caution. “Mildred hasn’t got those papers,” Mrs. Meade declared. “Every one of them was sent on to New York. Mildred hasn't one single scrap in her possession. Certain folks think she has, and are hounding her, but they’re on the wrong track. She sent the papers to New York —I mean he sent them.” “Who sent them, Stephenson?" she was asked. "Well, he caused them—well, anyway, every single paper was sent to New York," she repeated. "Were there photographs also?" she was asked. “No, only papers," Mrs. Meade answered. Where Is She? Both parents were very anxious to make the point that they knew nothing of the girl’s whereabouts, "if my life depended upon it, I couldn't say where Mildred is at this mo(Tura to Phffe i)