Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1926 — Page 1

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NEW MOVE IN COUNCIL FORMMEI Faction Revives Old Plan for Spending $1,000,000 on House. BOYNTON MOORE LEADER Hearing on Beech Grove Annexation Set. K Stimulated by their success in appropriating more than $2,000,000 a few nights ago, majority faction city councilmen today set anew quota of $1,000,000. The miilion-dollar allowance would be the amount of a bond issue, President Boynton J, ftfoore explained, necessary to buildl q. new icity market house. Old Move Revived Moore was chief proponent of a pew market house several months ipgo, but when representatives of 'the Chamber of Commerce and others objected, councilmen retired ’from the scheme. x Mayor Duvall, who has championed the project, developed a '■ehnage of front and asserted publicly that the present market could be repaired. "We went so fast that time we got away ahead of Duvall,” Moore explained, "Looked all around and ’couldn't find him anywhere. But when you plqy marbles in this city game, you've got to have a big taw, I have decided to be that big taw.” Death for Request The councilmanic move, it is believed, will mean death for the request of Marketmaster Earl Garrett for a bond issue of $15,000 to make repairs to the present structure. Public hearing on the ordinance to annex Beech Grove will be held p.t 1:30 p. m. Wednesday. Wanri encounters are expected this afternono when councilmen held a public hearing on proposals to reeone for business the south approaches of the Delaware St. bridge Fall Creek and Forty-Sixth St. stand College Ave.

GOUNCILPROBES UTILITY TAXES Investigation of Proposed Valuation Ordered. An investigation into the low taxation worth of the two local electric Utilities, compared to the valuation which they seek for stock issuanae purchases under their proposed merger, will he made by city council, Boynton J. Moore, president of that body, announced today, Moore also asserted he favors looking into the taxes of the Indianapolis Water Company, which the "Supreme Court of the United (States recently decided has a valuation of $19,000,000. Taxes are paid pn a much lower figure, the council head said he understood. He pointed out that the taxation value of the Merchants Heat and Light Company and the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company is $lB,000,000, while the Indianapolis Pow or and Light Company, which would take over the two, has before the public service commission a petition for a merger with stock Issued on a $55,000,000 valuation. IfcONTEST ON ‘BEN-HUR’ #slifirtrdge Students Urged by Teacher to Enter Competition. Bhortridge High School students today were urged by Miss Grace (Shoup, Shortridge teacher, to enter the “Ben Hur" film essay contest /conducted by English’s in cooperation with The rffdianapolis Times. Twenty contest winners will have an opportunity to see the great film free of charge. Manuscript relative to the Roman galley scene in the picture must be submitted to the Ben-Hur Editor of The Times before 8 a. m. Monday.

M SHOPPING DAYS TILL <7 ? ' \ j Pop’s had the saving habit and He s sure been growing strong. His podtetbook is fat right now. But won’t be very long.

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Mrs. Irving Berlin and her husband.

But Mother of Former Ellin Mackay Visits New Relative. Bu t •' itrrt Press NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—The Berlins’ baby has arrived. A sevenpound girl, and already a name has been selected. She will be known as Mary Ellin. It had been rumored several months ago, while the couple was still In Europe honeymooning, that Mrs. Irving Berlin, formerly Ellin Mackay, was to present her songwriter husband with a baby. The child came Thanksgiving afternoon. And now the question is, will the tiny hands of the new arrival soften the heart of Grandfather Mackay, wealthy head of the Postal Telegraph, who disinherited his daughter when she married Berlin of “Tin Pan Alley.” Mrs. Berlin’s mother, now Mrsf. Joseph A. Blake, welcomed her grandchild at the hospital, but Mackay did not. Mary Ellin Is said to be the picture of her mother—with large, blue eyes. The baby in “Just as perfect as they make ’em,” said Dr. Harold Bailey, obstretriclan at York House. The Berlins were married Jan. 4. Miss Mackay, formerly a Catholic, gave up her religion, her .family and many friends to many the composer of “Always.” A New York newspaper today published a story that the Berlins had been married in the Catholic faith twenty-four, hours before little Mary Ellin came. But the priests who were said to have performed the ceremony denied they had even heard of such a thing.

HOLD-UP STAGED NEARPOLICE Bandits Rob Lebanon Filling Station. Bu Times Bneeial LEBANON, Ind., Nov. 26.—Two bandits, believed to bo the same men who held up a filling station at Martinsville Wednesday, early today held up a Standard Oil station here and escaped with $l6O. The hold-up occurred within three doors of the police station. The bandits drove up Just as the filling station man opened up for business. They stuck a gun in his ribs and forced him to open the safe. They drove toward Indianapolis, according to Sheriff Sanders, who was informed of the robbery too late to start pursuit.

COLLEGE BOYS AID IN LIQUOR TRIALS Woman Convicted of Selling Booze—One Student Sent on Hunt for House Where Rum Was Bought.

Two college students and another boy of college age were witnesses In liquor cases in Criminal Court today before Judge James A. Collins. Bessie Johnson, Negro, 537 Douglass St., was sentenced to four months in the Indiana Woman's Prison and fined S2OO on the testimony of the college boys. In the case of Frank Cain, indicted under the name of Frank Kane, Tenth and Meridian Sts., Nebeker, 1023 N. Delaware St., a college student, was ordered to search for a house in N. East St. where the boys were alleged to hajre made liquor purchases. He and Special Investigator Jesse McMurtry began the hunt before noon and were to report this afternon. Nebeker and John Hollett, Jr., 4001 N. Meridian, testified against the Johnson woman. Sam Simpson of 519 N. Meridian St., testified with Nebeker against Cain. The boys testified that they first bought liquor

ARGUES PHI OF EVIDENCE IN OIL . CONSPIRACY CASE Defense Seeks to Exclude Doheny’s 'Confession’ Before Probe Body. Bu i'nited Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The "million dollar” Fall-Doheny staff of lawyers attempted today to shut out of the oil conspiracy trial the most sensational developments of the Senate oil investigation. Justice Adolph Hoehling heard three hours' argument on the Government attempt to place in evidence the conflicting stories told thV Walsh Senate committee by the two defendants, former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fail and E.> L. Doheny, oil multi-millionaire.' The argument seemed likely to continue far into the afternoon, with a declsioh unlikely before Monday. The revelations attacked by the lawyers for the former secretary of interior cpnd the oil multi-million-aire consist of certified official reports of the Senate oil scandal testimony. One Is Fall's letter written here Dec. 26, 1923, and read before the Senate committee two days later, asserting that tho SIOO,OOO with which Fall bought a New Mexico ranch was loaned him by E. B. McLean, Washington publisher. Fall reported then he was too ill to appear personally. The other two exhibits are records of hearings on Jan. 24 and Feb, 1, 1924, In which Doheny appeared personally without subpoena and acknowledged he loaned the money to Fall, tore in two the unsecured note given him by Fall—because Fall was an old friend of his early prospecting days. Witnesses from a New York bank to testify to the transfer of the SIOO,OOO cash from Doheny to Fall are scheduled to he called as soon as the Jury is called back. Earth Tremors Felt / in Pennsylvania Bn 1 niter! Press PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Nov. 26Homes were shaken and residents of Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill were alarmed by two earth tremors early today. The cause of the shocks is Unknown. Officials at the Swarthmore College observatory say no earth tremor was recorded on the seismograph there.

from Cain on N. East St., and later at his present address. , Cain denied the charges on the witness stand. The case of Harriett Owsley and her son Argol, 23 W. Sixteenth St., was continued until Dec. 10. They are charged with the sale of liquor to the same boys and other college students. She and her son have been before courts on liquor charges more than a dozen times in the last three years. Trial of Ned Russell, John Taylor and Jack Fisher, constables, for violation of the liquor law, was postponed until Dec. 2. These men have testified before the Marion County grand jury in the "Stephensonism’’ Investigation. They are charged with transporting two quarts of liquor. The constables declare they had arrested the men from whom they took the booze and were taking the liquor to the prosecutor’s office. They say the charge against them was “framed.”

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39 KILLED, 138 INJURED BY STORMS Ten Missing in Sections of Arkansas, Missouri and * Louisiana. HEAVY PROPERTY LOSS Damage Estimated at Mere Than $1,250,000. Bu I'nited Press .... MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 26. —W lnle rescue workers continued their search for additional bodies in the devastated area in Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana, laid waste by a series of cyclones last night, a checkup today placed the known dead at 39, the.injured list at 138, the missing at 10 and the property loss in excess of $1,250,000. Heber Springs, Ark., a little resort town, was the hardest hit. It has a population of less than 1,750, and it has eighteen known dead and fifty known injured. q’he gale lashed Moscow. Ark., while a marriage ceremony was being performed jn the Good Hope Baptist Church and leveled the structure. It carried a Negro schoolhouse fifty feet, unroofed buildings, tore down trees and cut a sw'ath 200 yards throughout the countryside, which is littered with dead live stock and debris of all sorts. The little town of Gould, Ark., is cut off from communication with the outside world and it is not known whether there was any loss of life there. Two cyclones hit Heber Springs, at 5:46 jp. ir. and 7.30 p. m. The first was the more disastrous and left in its wake most of the casualties. With the crash of buildings halted, survivors dashed into a blinding rain to gather up the dead and injured. They were in the midst of this worlfc when the second storm struck,t injuring some of them and driving the rest to shelter. Some of the wrecked buildings caught fire, adding to the horror, but reports do not state whether the flames claimed any llv,es.

PACIFIC COAST LASHED Galea Sweep California— Ships Encounter High Seas. Bn United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 2G.— Blustery weather elements, which yesterday took a heavy toll in property damage, today gave the Pacific Coast area little respite from the strain of near cloudburst and pear, hurricane difficulties. The United States Weather Bureau here reported no ’relief in sight from deluges of rain and gale winds on the coast for at least twenty-four hours, and held out little hope that the storm would abate before next week.* Two distinct gales swept the coast yesterday and were still raging, in somewhat diminished form, today. One storm is centered off Vancouver, B. C., moving slowly northeastward. The other gale is centered off Eureka, Cal. v Ships reported gales blowing 300 and 400 miles out. A terrific wind lashed Point Reyes, just north of San Francisco, last night. Northhead, Wash., was getting a 48-mile buffeting early today, and the storm was becoming more intense hourly. LIQUOR FINE REMITTED Governor Jackson Acts in Case of Harvey Thompson. ’ Governor Jackson today remitted $l5O of the $250 fine assessed against Harvey Thompson alias Frank Moore, convicted in the Marion County Criminal Court, Jan. 18, for violation of the liquor law and sentenced to six months at the State farm. Thompson had served the time and paid SIOO of the fine and costs. Three short paroles were allowed: Two days for Herschel Snoddy, Bloomington, serving sixty days and a fine at the State farm, to attend his father’s funeral; three days for Doe Miner, Lake County, serving six months ■'at State Farm, to attend child’s funeral, and one day for Jesse Lawson, Delaware County, serving two to- twenty-one years at reformatory, to visit mother, who i% ill. SSOO DIAMOND IS LOST Claypool Manager Reports Gold Shrine Ring Gone. Yellow gold Shrine ring, set with one and three-fourths karat diamond, valued at SSOO, was reported lost today by Charles Kepner, Claypool manager. Kepner said the ring was lost downtown. WIFE TAKES OWN LIFE Mrs. Marie Rubush. wife of former Patrolman George Rubush, ended her life at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Bowles, 1633 Minnesota St., today by drinking poison. The daughter heard her mother, on the second floor, scream and found her dying. Rubush from the police force several months ago ..*.*■ - . , i •

Farming by-Moon Just ‘Moonshine’ Hu T'nited Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. Mooq-farming is “moonshine,” according to the Agriculture Department. The old belief that the moon has something to do with when to plant and harvest crops and temperature and weather conditions in general is erroneous, the department said today.

HENNINGER IGNORED B Y GOVERNOR Recommendations of Others on Pardon Board Followed. Completely ignoring the’ wishes of the Rev. George S. Hennlnger, president of the State pardon board, Governor Jackson today followed the decrees of the other two board members in acting on the November report, which carried four divided recommendations. Three paroles and twelve commutations of sentences were allowed by Jackson on recommendation of the full boards, one of the paroles went to Frank Hooper, former “lifer” at the State Prison; who has made good, according to the board. Hooper, charged with killing two men in 1913 in a saloon brawl at Bicknoll, Is attendant now at a local service station, having been released on temporary parole more than a year ago. Spurned by Jackson Henninger’s recommendation that the sentence of Jasper McCormick, Daviess County, be reduced, was spurned by Jackson, who followed the advice of C. C. York and John C. Chaney, the other members. McCormick is serving two to fourteen years for embezzlement. On the sole recommendation of York for a parole for Henry Descamp of Clay County, a “lifer,” and against Henninger’s recommendation for denial, Jackson approved a parole. Chaney refrained from voting on this case. Grants Parole Jackson paroled Fred Moore, Shel by County, although Henninger and Chaney favored a commutation and York a denial. Jackson denied com mutation of the 10-21 year prison sentence of Willard ,Whitehill of Marion County, following recommen datlon of Chaney and York. Henninger recommended clemency. , One hundred and fourteen clemency appeals were denied by Jackson, seven were striken from the docket, sixteen were continued until the January term and three were withdrawn.

WINS |25,m AS DRY RAID DAMAGE Ohio State Senator Victor in Suit. Bu Vnitrd Press CLEVELAND. Ohio, Nov. 26. State Senator George Bender was awarded $25,000 today in a $50,000 damage suit brought by him against Prohibition Inspector W. J. Patrick and East Cleveland State dry raiders. Bender charged that Patrick and raiders entered his home Aug. 19, 1925, armed with a search warrant based on an anonymous note. Although no liquor was found, Bender declared his reputation was seriously damaged and that his wife and infant daughter suffered from shock.

COLD WAVE WITH SNOWPREDIGTED Temperature Drop Starts During Morning. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 52 10 a. m 50 ’ 7 a. m 61 11 a. m 45 8 a. m..>... 51 12 (noon) 40 9 a. m 52 1 p. m 39 Winter again. This was the word of the United State weather bureau today when a prediction was sent out for a temperature drop of nearly 30 degrees by Saturday morning. The mercury, *vhich registered 51 at 7 a. m., descended to 40 at noon and, according to the bureau, will stand between 20 and 25 degrees by Saturday. Rain, which marred Thanksgiving day here, probably will change to snow by night and winds will increase. The rainfall for Turkey : day was .36 of an inch. The cold wave is coming from the plains region and the northwest, bureau officials said. It will last through Saturday, but may lift soon after that. 70 SEEK CITY POSTS Dec. 1 I.aat Date for Police Civil Service Applications Dec. 1 is the last day for filing applications to take civil service examinations for appointment on the police department, according to Claude McCoy, saftey board secretary. Examinations will be between Dec 10-15. About seventy tUHf A*ed applications.

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‘Hungry’ Bandit Secures slll for Belated Meal

Thomas 11. Spann, who turned from taking cauliflower from the ice box of the Kroger grocery at 802 S. State Ave., this morning to look into the pistol of a "hungry” bandit.’'

Daylight Hold-up Staged at Grocery Soon After Store Opens. A "hungry” daylight bandit held up the Kroger grocery at 802 S. State Ave., at 7:15 a. m. today, shortly after the store opened, and obtained $ 111.22 from Thomas H. Spann, 22, of 1313 Hoyt Ave., manager. Spaan was stooped before the store refrigerator when the robber came in, he told police and Paul Munch of 959 Drexel Ave., Kroger district manager, who investigated. "Something for you?” Spann asked the bandit. "Yes, I want all you’ve got,” he replied and pulled an automatic pistol. Didn't Eat Yesterday "I didn't eat all day yesterday,” Spann told police the bandit said. “Open uP the cash register.” Seeing the register empty, the bandit snatched up a bag of change from the counter and forced Spann tnr hand over the balance of the loot, which was in bills Spann had it) his pocket* Stuffing the money in his own pockets the robber edged toward-the door, ordering Spann into a rear room and admonishing him not to "call anyone fpr ten minutes.” He then fled from the store ami went south on State Ave., disappearing from sight in the first alley, according to Ben Burrows of 1134 Harlan St. Spann notified the district manager and he called police. The ban dit was described as being about 30 years old, shabbily dressed, wearing a cap and no overcoat, and had a prominent front tooth, which was badly discolored. Police Lieutenant Walter Classy and squad Investigated. Wild West Bandit A bandit of the wild west type, masked with a handkerchief over the lower part of his face and firing shots Into tho floor, held up the Victor Pfau drug store, 4617 E. Tenth St., late Thursday and escaped with $5.10. Robert Spaulding, 427 N. Drexel Ave.. was standing behind the soda fountain when the bandit came in. He commanded Spaulding to get over behind the cigar case with Pfau and fired a shot into the floor to make the command more emphatic. Then he took the money from the cash register backed out of the store firing another shot into the floor. Pfau and Spaulding said he got In an old model auto and drove north.

PANAMA FLIGHT EFFORT RENEWED PN-10 No. 2 Wings Way With Engines Humming. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The United States naval seaplane P!# 10 No. 2 hopped off at 6:55 a. m. today from the Isle of Pineß, resuming its interrupted flight to Colon. Panama, from Hampton Roads, Va., according to a delayed dispatch received by the Navy here this morning. The PN-10 No. 2 wa3 forced to halt its trip Wednesday when it ran out of oil. It was given anew supply by the U. S. S. Raleigh. The PN-10 No. 2 passed the Raleigh posted as a guard ship 160 nautical miles south of the Isle of Pines, at 9:05 a. m., Lieutenant Commander Bartlett, commanding the seaplane, reported by radio to the Navy here. The engines were working perfectly, he said. The PN-10 No. 2 passed the U. S S. Humphreys at 10:15 a. m. and the U. S. S. Paulding, 316 miles from the Isle of Pines, at 11, later messages said. The vessels were stationed at Intervals between the Isle of Pines and Colon as jfuftrd ghip®.

THREE CENTS

II BRIBE OFFER BY ‘PIG woman; WITNESSASSERTS Farmer Testifying for HallMills Defense Makes Charge. Bu T'nited Press SOMERVILI.E, N. J., Nov. 26. The sensation of the morning session of the Hall-Mills murder trial came not long before noon adjournment today, when George M. Sipel testified that Mrs. Jane Gibson, "pig woman.” the State’s star witness, offered him SIOO if he would testify he saw a "man or a wpitian” on a mule in De Russey’s lane the night of the murder nnd otherwise corroborate her story, told so dramatically a week ago. Henry De La Bruyere Carpender added his share of denials to’evidence and then the court once more plunged into the mysteries of fingerprints, clearing the way for the grand climax —the promised appearance of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall as her own chief witness. Carpender denied he ever talked with investigators about the murder of Mrs. Eleanor Mills and the Rev. Edward W. Hall. He is under Indictment for alleged compicity in the murder for which Mrs. Hall and Willie and Henry Stevens are on trial.

ATTORNEY QUITS ' IN ARSON CADE ‘Not Working for Health,’ Says Ira Holmes. “I’m not working for my health.” With this statement Ira Holmes, local attorney, withdrew today as attorney for Earl Kline k and Earl Gentry in the arson case against them. D. C. Stephenson and Fred Butler, Stephenson’s former secretary, in Criminal Court. The charges resulted from the burning of Stephenson's Irvington home before he began serving a life term in Indiana State Prison for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis girl. Holmes said he had not been paid his fees and that other attorneys had been retained. At the same time. Judge James A. Collins, reduced Klinck's bond, which has been $5,000, to $2,000. The reduction was made on recommendation of Prosecutor William IT. Remy.

1325 CIVIC DRIVE MARKISBEATEN )- Campaign for Funds Will End Tonight. By noon today the Community Fund had reached last year’s quota of $650,662. Campaign officials believed that by evening, when the seventh annual drive for funds Is closed, last year's mark will be exceeded. Mqch depended On one or two large subscriptions expected to be giver#by persons who at present are absent from the city. One of these gifts is undrestood to be in excess of >2.000. In spite of the deary rainfall, workers made finaj report* k****uarters tod/rtL >

• Forecast Probably snow tonight; cold wave and leniperaLuxe 2D to 25; Saurrda/ fair and cold wind*

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MARION COUNTY

NIGHT FORCE GETS SNIFF BOOZE TEST Officers Smell Breaths of Patrolmen Following Complaints. ‘WHEEZE/ SAYS DRINKUT And Sergeants Whiff, but Find No Liquor Odors. Patrolmen on the night police shift were given a breath test this morning. But not one breath smelled of liquor, the examining committee reported to Captain Walter White. All palrolmen on the night shift were ordered into headquarters by White, when they made their last telephone report to headquarters at 6 a. m. and were lined up In the rollcall room. I,ook for Red Noses "Wheeze Out,” Lieut. Fred Drinkut ordered and he and Sergeants Reilly, Elsenhut and Dever, passed down the lines smelling each man’s breath, and examining the patrolmen’s faces for red noses or bleary eyes. But not a man was questioned or given a second Inspection, for the examining committee reported no traces of liquor. Complaints Received Complaints that some of the men on the shift, which is on duty from 11 p. m. to 7 a. m., have been going to their homes Intoxicated, caused the breath test, Captain White told the men. “If any of you wer.% lucky this morning let It he a lesson, for some of you are going to be suspended if the tips are found to be true,’’ White said. White also said that he has been watching some of the men whom he suspects.

NEJDL CANDIDACY IS GIN SUPPORT Friends Declare 34 Senators Will Back Whiting Man. Supporters of tho candidacy of State Senator James J. Nejdl of Whiting for re-election as president pro tern, of the State Senate, today declared they have mustered thirtyfour of the \fifty senators in his behalf. Friends of Nejdl also declared that for the first time the Whiting man will have the unanimous support of the Lake County delegation. A slightly embarrassing factor is the candidacy of Representative Thomas M. Grant, also of Lake County, for speaker of the House of Representatives. Governor Jackson, it is said, is feeling his way to sound his strength in the 1927 General Assembly. A move in that direction is believed to be the candidacy of Senator Denver C. Harlan of Richmond for president pro tern. Harlan was mentioned for membership on the State budget committee, but Jackson is said to have demurred, declaring he had something else In mind for the Wayne County legislator. This was believed to be the ofllce of president pro tern.

LIGHTNING HITS KOOSIER CHURCH $2,000 Damage by Storm at Rushviile. Bu United Press , RUSHVILLE, Ind.. No v. 26. Lightning struck the * cross on St. Mary's Catholic Church here Thursday night doing damage estimated at $2,000. The steeple of the church was so badly damaged it was feared It might fall. Pedestrians were barred from the vicinity. Other slight damage from the storm was reported in Rush County PURDY CASE DELAYED Fourth Continuance on Charges Growing Out of Crash. Another continuance was taken today In the case of Hal L. Purdy, official of the Marmon Motor Car Company, charged with assault arid battery and fallur to stop after an accident, as the result of an auto a"cident Aug. 22, when Mrs. Carl Frederlckson, 32, of 5418 Broadway, suffered serious Injuries. The suit was carried forward to Dec 18 by Municipal Judge Pro Tern. William E. I'll u st. Mrs. Frederlckson. who still Is In a serious condition, was unable to appear and Sergt Frank Owens was called away. This Is the fourth oon tlnuance. Attorneys for Purdy Insisted each time that the case be tried.