Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 188, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 188

JURY PROBES MOVES TO STOP QUIZ

GOSSIPERS HALL MAID Testifies She Feels Like a Sneak in Telling on Guild Girls. |RILL NEWSPAPER MAN Hint Trial Promoted for Financial Reasons. Bu United Press COURTROOM, SOMERVILLE, N. J„ Nov. 12.—Miss Barbara Tough, former maid in home of the Rev. Edward Hall, took the stand again in the Hall-Mills murder trial today and under protest “told on the girls at the guild" who gossiped about the rector and Mrs. Eleanor Mills. “I feel like a sneak," she said. What the “girls” said in their gossip was not revealed. Miss Tough shared the time with Phillip Pane, editor of the New York Mirror, who told the jury a bit of Blood Transfusion lin I nit ill Press JERSEY CITY, N, .1., Nov. 12. .Mrs. Jane Gibson, the pig woman, and the State's chief witness in the Halls Mills murder trial, underwent a blood transfusion operation at a hospital here today. Patrick Scott and Thomas Kent, local firemen, gave their blood. the history of the fingerprints of Willie Stevens, who, with Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and Henry Stevens, is a defendant. The prints are on a card alleged to have been found on the dead body of the Rev. Hall. Payne said that he secured the card from a detective in Newark, J. He denied he had paid the tective anything, but said he aspired him that by surrendering the. card he would be rendering a great service to the State. "Did you suggest that the card be sent to Middletown, N- Y., to be examined by Joseph Faurot?” a defense attorney asked him. "No, I sent a reporter." "Then you didn't suggest, but demanded?" Not the Queen "Well, I'm not the Queen of Rou mania." "No, but you’re the Queen of the Mirror, aren't you?" Payne's answer was drowned out by the judge's gavel. Defense Attorney McCarter was angered when lie drew from Payne (Turn to Page 14)

CITYISSUEDBY CREDITOR FIRMS More Than Forty Companies Seek to Collect, ■Suit by more than forty firms, editors of the city of Indianapolis, to collect amounts due them for supplies and services to the city prior to Jan. 1, was filed in Circuit Court today. kThe firms charge the city failed to ovide for the payments of the iounts due them in this year’s budget. The total amount of the suit is between SB,OOO and $9,000, each firm asking amounts from 38 cents to $4,854. Tlje $4,854 is sought by the Citizens Gas Company. John K. Ruckelshaus, city attorney filed a waiver of process and entered a general denial to the allegations. Law firm of Walker & Holett represents the plaintiffs. HOURLY TEMPERATURES . 6 a. m 29 10 a, m....\. 37 7 a. m 29 11 a. m 43 ■ 8 a. m 31 12 (noon) .... 47 9 a. m 35

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NOT ALL OF INVITED TO SEE QUEEN Ask 80Q to Banquet—Accommodations for Half That Number. The official list of "Indiana’s 400” who are to attend the banquet at 9 p. m. next Wednesday at the Columbia Club in honor of Queen Marie of Roumania, will not be forthcoming until about next Monday, it was announced today by Adjutant General William H. Kershner, bead of the official committee named by Governor Jackson to have charge of the Queen’s reception here. It is expected that replies to the invitations will be received by that time. Though accommodations at the club was only 400, invitations for practically twice that number have sent out, it is understood, the committee believing that many invited would find It impossible to attend. By crowding, 450 can be accommodated, It is said. The invitations were sent to persons all over the State by the banquet committee headed by John C. Ruckelshaus. Other members of the committee are Alec J, Lupear, Mrs. Charles W. Jewett and Mrs. Ralph Lemeke. The tentative program arranged for the reception here has been approved, according to a telegram received by Kershner today from Col. John A. Farrell, in chage of the trip. ■\Tlie Queen will be here only the evening of Nov. 17.

MINE OWNERS DENY AGREEMENT Government May Have to Pledge Legislation. Bn United Press LONDON, Nov. 2.—The executive of the miners’ federation today decided to refer without recommendation to the miners’ delegate confer cnefc the proposed terms for settling the coal dispute, which ,was in its seventh month today. Meanwhile, it was officially announced by the Mine Owners' Association that the owners had not seen the settlement memorandum devised by the miners and the government until it appeared in today's newspapers, and that the memorandum did not represent any agreement between the owners and the government. If a settlement were reached today it appeared that the government would be compelled to pledge itself Ito legislation effectuating any clauses of the settlement which would require concessions by the owners. The delegate conference adjourned | until 5 p. m., after hearing the proposed terms to enable the miners’ executive to meet representatives of the government to obtain further elucidation.

Business Men Are to Clash on Polo Field Indianapolis’ Main Streeters have come into their own. Under the censorship of officers of Ft. Benjamin I-larrirson, Indianapolis business men will have the opportunity to participate in polo games at the State fairground Coliseum during the winter, it was announced today. Games will be played Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons. A tournament will be held during December and competition will contirme between various Army post teams. The business men’s team will oppose the Whites, one of the Ft. Harrison squads, in the opener Sunday afternoon. Members of the busi ness men's team are: Fred Rakenmn of the Washington Bank and Trust Company; F. G. Foote of the Truscon Steel Company, and P. R. Tombaugh, also of the Washington Bank. 100 BODIES ARE BURNED Hurricane Victims Cremated to Prevent Epidemic.. Bn United Press MANILA, Nov. 12.—Red officials reported today the discovery |of about 100 bodies in hurricane wreckage in the city of Batangas, j Island of Luzon. The bodies were burned on a huge fire In the center ! of the city to prevent an epidemic. PICKPOCKET IN THEATER Money, Bank Papers, Rings and Railroad Pass Form Loot. J. D. Conner, Jr., Hotel Lincoln, reported to police today that while attending a performance at a local theater Thursday night a. “dip” picked his pocket of SSO in cash, three certificates of deposit, totaling S6OO, and two rings valued at $lO each and an annual pass on the \Va bash Railroad. TIKE CUTS REPORTED I'ti I nUeil Pri es NEW YORK. Nov. 12 - l/riva.. ■ and | vices to Dow-Jones & Cos., today said the B. F! Goodrich Company hfid made some small reductions on csrtsin sizsa of tires.

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BANDITS GET 140,000 AT LAPORTE, IND. Five Men Hold Dp Peoples Trust and Savings Bank and Escape. VIGLANTES IN PURSUIT SIOO,OOO in Securities Also Obtained. Bu United Press LA PORTE, Ind., Nov. 12.—Five well-dressed, unmasked bandits help up the Peoples Trust and Savings Bank here at 11 a. m. today and escaped with $40,000 in cash and SIOO,000 in securities. They escaped in a touring car, driving west. Vigilantes are in pursuit. Leaving their car in the street with the motor running, the five entered the hank with guns drawn. Four carried pistols, while the fifth was armed with a sawed-off shotgun. Customers in Bank The bandits forced four customers and all bank employes into the cages and compelled them to lie on their backs. "While the man with the shotgun stood guard at the door the others scooped up the money off the counters and into sacks. After sacking the money the bandits ordered Harry Keller, cashier of the bank, to arise and open the bank vault. Securities, valued at SIOO,OOO, all hard to negotiate, were seized. George Petering, a teller, was in the telephone booth when the bandits entered. Seeing him, the holdup men seized him roughly and forced him to the floor. The five ran to their automobile and, after speeding south past the police station, turned westward. One Shot Fired As they entered the bank the shotgun was fired into the ceiling as they ordered all back of the cages and to "get down on your backs. Kent Ohlis, employe of a nearby store, saw the men enter with drawn guns, but didn’t realize a robbery Mas being staged. No one noted the number of the machine. The bank is* in*the heart of the business district.

FEWER NEWBERRY SENATORS REMAIN Only 16 in Congress to Try Smith, Vare. WASHINGTON.' Nov. 12.—Only sixteen senators who voted for Newberry in 1922 will be in the Senate that decides whether or not William S. Yare and Frank L. Smith spent too much money in their primary campaigns. On the famous roll call four years ago, forty nine Senators voted for Newberry or were paired for him. Twelve of them died in office. Twelve were defeated and ten were re-elected prior to this year, including two who have died since. Eight were re-elected this year, and nine were defeated, Lenroot, McKinly, Pepper and Stanfield irf^the primaries, and Cameroon, Ernst, ITarreld, Wadsworth and Weller tn the finals. The Newberryites who will sit in the seventieth Senate are Curtis, Dupont, Edge. Gooding, Hale, Keyes, McLean, McNary, Moses, Oddle, Phipps, Shortridge, Smoot, Warren, Watson and Willis. PARKING SURVEY" MADE Strike Shows Loss of Time for Motorists. Bu NBA Service NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—The recent subway' strike demonstrated the wastes of parking in a city like this. During the strike all main streets were barred to parkers, so traffic I was hastened, it is estimated, by 20 to 30 per cent. That downtown perking doesn’t I help retail stores, either, is shown I in a survey of thirteen of the leading stores. Here, during a busy shopping hour, 35,252 customers entered. Os these, only 813 came by private automobile or taxicab. POLICE ON JAP TRAINS Cops to Have Regular Beats BeDveeii fifes to Protect Passengers. • ’ ■•■‘-.I Press TON ID, Nov. 12. —Trains on the Imperial Japanese Railways soon will he equipped with itinerant policemen to prevent theft and other criminal offences by travelers. The police will have regular beats between all large cities, one or two being assigned to each Important train.

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UNCLE JOE CANNON DIES A TDANVILLE

Dynamic, Vital Life of Former Speaker of House Ends Quietly. B danville! hi.. Nov. 12.— Joseph Gurney Cannon, America's "Uncle Joe,” for half a century one of the Nation’s foremost statesmen, died here shortly after noon today. Death came quietly, in contrast to the dynamic, vital life of the man America knew and dearly loved. The only semblance to the gaunt, bustling, fighting ex-speaker of the House of Representatvies was the strong bearded face. Was 91 Years Old Cannon’s body was wracked by almost 81 years of strenuous life and weakened by a year of almost continuous illness, but he summoned enough courage to smile just before the end came. As tiie news trickled through the city that Danville’s first citizen had finally succumbed to the infirmities of old age, down Vermilion St. (on which the Cannon home stands out in almost as much relief as “Uncle Joe" stood out in a warm political fight), they came. He Was Plain They were Cannon's friends. Everybody here was a friend of Joe Cannon. Some walked, a few rode in limousines, but the majority piloted rather creaky automobiles — jnst plain American citizens who liked "Uncle Joe" because he was plain. They were told there was nothing to he done.. But they gathered around in little groups to talk. “Remember that time Uncle Joe put over the McKinley tariff bill. He sure socked ’em there,” came from one group. “Unde Joe” had shaken hands with Lincoln and he bad known nearly a dozen Presidents, most of them well enough to call them by their first names. For forty-six years he served in Congress and for eight of these years he was Speaker of the House of Representatives. In his lifetime, he saw half of the forty-eight States admitted to the Union and he helped admit eleven of them. LOS ANGELES ON FLIGHT Dirigible Leaves Air Station for Norfolk, V*. Bit United Press NAVAL AIR STATION. LAKE HURST, N. J., Nov. 12.;— The dirigi hie Los Angeles left the air station here soon after 11 a. m. today on a practice flight to Norfolk, Pa. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl said the ship probably would cruise over the ocean in the vicinity of Norfolk and might moor to the mast ship Patoka tonight. COLD WAVE IS BROKEN Mercury, Aided by Warm Sun, Climbs—29 at 7A. M. The season’s first cold wave todav was broken, with u warm sun bring Ing up the mercury which had hov ered below freezing for some time. Temperature at 7 a. tn. was 29, seven degrees above the mark for that hour Thursday. Lowest temperature tonight is expected to be about 35 degrees.

“Uncle Joe” Cannon

C. OF C. COUNSEL MAY SEEK LATER MERGER HEARING Declares Public Has Right to Sufficient Time for Full Study. Frederick E. Matson, counsel for the ’chamber of Commerce, who is studying the proposed merger of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and the Merchants Heat and Light Company, probably will ask that the hearing set for Thursday be delayed to allow time to study the proposal. “I expect to ask a continuance on behalf of the Chamber anil in cooperation with other civic bodi;s which are seeking time to study the case.” said Matson. “The public is entitled to time l o really investigate the proposal and see to what it will lead,” he declared. Matson, senior partnei\of Matson, Carter, Ross & McCord. 947 Consolidated Bldg., was retained by the Chamber to represent it at the hearing. Chamber directors Thursday pledged themselves to see that the public interests were guarded in the mattr. The Real Estate Board demanded thorough investigation by competent persons in a resolution adopted at luncheon Thursday at the Chamber. Federation of civic .clubs executive committee representing eighteen separate clubs urged the public service commission to grant more time for the city to prepare its case, A. L. Portteus, president, declared. John F. White was named chairman of a committee to aid in investigation of the utility plan. STUDENTS SEIZE TRAIN Wild Football Victory Celebration Staged. Bit l nited Prt ss PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 12. Thirty students of West Philadelphia High School, some of them with black eyes and bumps on their heads were held today on charges of malicious mischief and assault and battery. The charges are the outcome of a wild celebration of a football victory last night in which the students seized a subway-elevated train wrecked cars, ejected trainmen, carried passengers miles beyond their stations and finally battled a squad of police, sent to recapture the train.

Whereupon 9,000,000 American Women Start House Cleaning

Bu United Pretin ABOARD QUEEN MARIE’S TRAIN IN MISSOURI. Nov. 12. Friends of Queen Marie are considering a plan whereby Her Majesty may see the inside of an American home. Knowing that if they announced a visit of this kind the housekeeper would be frightened into renovating bar house beyond its natural condi

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CITY NEEDS MORE LIGHT; MONEY GONE Engineer Holds 8,000 Re-quired-Fund $125,000 Overspent. Indianapolis needs 8,000 street lights. Chester Oberleas, city engineer, made that statement today, but coupled it with the sad news that the board of works has spent $125,000 more than the appropriation for lighting this year Shank administration board of works members contended they had created the "Jjest lighted city in the country” through a contract with the Merchants Heat and Light Company, last year.' Contract l*riees High Oberleas. however, pointed out (hat this contract is party responsible for the large deficit in lighting funds. Under its terms the city pays $1.75 a year for rental of two-center light standard and $75 a year for the single-center type. In cases where standards are more than 100 feet apart, the city pays an additional rental of 10 cents a foot for cable. Meanwhile, a complete survey of the lighting system will be undertaken soon. Engineers will endeavor to remove many of the bright lights which they contend were placed too close together and take out some of those In Forest Hills and other districts where houses are plorks apart. "W hoi>e to redistribute the lights In a common sense manner,” said Oberleas. New Contract Considered Board of -works members soon will negotiate with light, companies for a contract for street lighting in outlying residential districts, according to Oberleas. However, there is considerable uncertainty, due to the fact that an attempt now is in progress merge the Merchants Heat and Light and the Indianapolis Light and Heat Companies.

MORALS OF PUBLIC BLAMED FOR CRIME And More Laws or Censorship Will Not Help, Says ex-At-torney Genera! Lesh in Speech.

Lowered public morals and ideals are bringing about the present crime wave. And more laws, boards of censhorship and more restriction on the public will not check the growing indifference of the American people to law violations. This was the statement of U. S. Lesh, former attorney general of Indiana, at the noon luncheon of the Exchange Club at the Lincoln today. His subject was “Meeting and Combating Crime.” “Putting a salve or a lotion on a deep-rooted sore may temporarily heal it, but such treatment will not remove the cause. Neither will ■* cumbersome book of penal statutes cheek the commission of crimes,” Lesh said. Decrease in Morals “The increase of crime and criminal negligence is due to a constant decrease in public ideals and morals. “This in turn, is due in a large measure to the flood of obscene literature, immoral motion pictures and cheap stage presentations, which are serving to make great numbers of people veritable mental inebriates. Also Economic “I had occasion to study this problem during my term of office and I am fully convinced that the majority of minor crimes are traceable to these sources. It is not only a moral problem but it also is an economic one. Statistics estimate the cost of crime in actual dollars and cents was three and one-half billion dollars last year, in the United States. - "Censorship of magazines, movies

tion, members of the Queen’s party are planning a sudden raid. “We would drop these official greeters for once, whisk her majesty up a residential street, stop at some typical appearing house, knock on the door and say this is the Queen of Roumania.” one of the members explained. The Queen is said to be delighted with the idea and looking ahead to a city where it can be carried out.

THREE CENTS

Mildred Meade Again Witness Before Investigating Body—New Angle to Action. WHAT INTERESTS BLOCK MOVES? Remy and Gilliom Seek to Disclose Hidden Motives. What interests have been back of the many attempts to block the Marion County grand .jury investigation of charges ot‘ widespread political corruption in Indiana while D. C. Stephson was ‘‘the law” in the State? This was the question the grand jury and Prosecutor William H. Remy and those aiding him in the investigation sought to answer today. Temporarily the jurors dropped their investigation into the corruption charges and turned to the new angle. Miss Mildread Meade, former confidante of Stephenson, and Deputy Prosecutor William 11. Sheaffer were the two persons before the jury this morning.

Miss Meade, attractive 23-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meade, 3523 E. Sixteenth St., has figured in the grand jury investiga tlon before. When a hunt was first started for the collection of Stephenson documents believed to prove the corruption charges, Miss Meade was sought its a grand jury witness. Missing Two Weeks But she was missing from her home. Two weeks later she voluntarily returned and appeared before the jury. A safety deposit box in her name in a local bank also was taken before the jurors, but apparently the box was empty. The Times lea’-ned Miss Meade removed the contents of the box Sept. 30, a week before the investigation got under way. Presumably she was railed by I lie prosecutors this morning to tell why she disappeared so mysteriously when sought by the prosecutors, who told or advised her to leave the city and who paid her expenses while she was away. It was the visit of Deputy Prosecutor Sheaffer and Deputy John L. Nlblack and L. G. Julian, former business associate of Stephenson, to the State Prison at Michigan City where Stephenson now is serving a life term for murder, that prompted the new angle of the, jury investigation. For, although the visit to the prison was to have been secret, word of it somehow leaked out and John 11. Kiplinger and Lloyd O. Hill, Julian’s attorneys, were at the prison in conference with F’ephenson when Jul’an and the officials arrived. Not only Remy. hut also Attor(Turn to Page 29)

and stage Is not effective in abolishing the existing yvil among them. The public itself must stop seeking entertainment that is below par. It is up to the public and- an effective suppression of this rot to ' bring about a decrease in crime.”

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Harold B. Ogden. 16 N. Senate Ave.; Chevrolet, 134 312 from 16 N. Senate Ave. E. F. Church. 414 Ruakin PI.: Chevrolet. 510-200, from New Jersey and Market Sts. R. T. Odlinger, 3823 N. Pennsylvania St. R. H. Syfere. 128 E. Thirty-Sixth St.; Chrysler, from New York and Meridian Sts. Maurice Clinger. Interne. Methodist Hospital; Overland, 550-338, from garage 1620 N. Capitol Ave. ,W. T. Howard, R. R. A. Box 236 E.; Overland, from 300 S. Illinois St. BACK HOME AGAIN 1 Automobiles reported found by police belong In: Ford touring, 516 434; found at Meridian and Washington Sts. C. W. Richardson, 3316 Northwestern Ave.; Buick. found at Sugar Grove and Twenty-First Sts. L. Thompson, 817 W. New York St.; Chevrolet, found at 600 W. Vermont St. Ford, 507-863; found at Riverside Park. Ford. 588-657; found ,at 19 IV. Michigan St. V McKIMiKY EXCHANGED Hn l sited Prrnn MART! NBV IDLE. | n .l.. Nov. 12. —The condition of Senator Willium B. McKinley of Illinois, ill in a sanitarium here for the past three months, remains practically unchanged today, according to Dr. R. H. Egbert, his physician.

Forecast Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday; probably rain by Saturday night; rising temperature; lowest tonight about 35.

COUNTY TWO CENTS

SHOTS PROBE OF WOMAN’S DEATH TO GRANDJURORS Coroner Decides on Course After New Evidence in Todd Case. "The evidence certainly warrants grand Jury action,” Coroner Paul F Robinson declared today at the close of the morning session of his re newed probe into the death of Mrs. Mary Todd, 27, at her home, 937 Chinch St.. on Aug. 2. The woman was fatally shot while in the presence only of her husband, Ruck er Todd, former street car conductor. Details of today’s teetimoney were withheld by the coroner, who announced lie would turn the evidence over directly to the Marion County grand jury. Todil stated at the time the shooting was acidental, happening when he opened a revolver to remove the cartridge before placing it under the pillow of his bed. He said a stuck shell exploded when he reclosed it. Witnesses at the new inquest were John Mulvihill, 1010 a. Senate Ave., father of Mrs. Todd; Mrs. Nora Briggs, 250 W. Ray St., her cousin: Mrs. Bridget Rally, 1013 S. Senate Ave.; Mrs. Minnie O'Neil, 1017 S. Senate Ave.; Mrs. Matilda Hargrave and Elwood Hargrave, 1504 E. Southern Ave.; Mrs. William M<’ Laughlin, 913 Church St.; Mrs, Hattie White, 314 W. McCarty St. and Virgil Briggs, 250 W. Ray St. At the first inquest, testimony was given by Mrs. Clennie Jeffries. Mrs. Maude Thompson, Dr. Lloyd Spitler. Mrs. Lillie Lynn, Police Sergeant Volderauer, Detectives Tooley and M.irrcn and the dead woman's bus band. Todd was arrested several weeks ago. with Mrs. Briggs and Sam Richman, 1317 Charles St. All were charged with implication in the theft, and re-sale of street car tickets alleged to have been taken from (he Indianapolis Rtreet Railway company office, where Mrs. Briggs was employed. Detectives under Chief Claude Johnson and Inspector Claude Wor ley, delved into details of the shooting. One of the principal questions involved seems to apply to th emechanism of a revolver. “Can a re volver opened to eject cartridges be discharged when reclosed?” NO ARMISTICE IN IRELAND Bn I >ii fed Press DUBLIN. Nov. 12.—Nine persons were in a hospital here today recov erlng from Injuries received in an Armistice day street fight between Irish Republicans and Royalists. Many others - were Injured besides those taken to the h.spltal.

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