Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1927 — Page 1

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HOGLE IS ELECTED Chosen President of County Commissioners Totlay. Cassius L. Hogle was elected president of the Marlon county board of commissioners in a brief organization meeting this morning. He has been a member of the board for the last year, and with Charles O. Sutton, both Republicans, formed the majority. George Snider, who succeeded John McCloskey, Democrat, today, is a Republican and makes thd board entirely Republican. Appointment of Clinton H. Givan, retiring judge of Superior Court four, aa Marion County attorney, succeeding Schuyler C. Haas, was announced. Prior to his service on the Marion County court bench, Givan was a member of the Legislature, holding office during the 1919 and 1921 sessions. LEASE BUSINESS ROOMS Two Downtown Rooms I .eased for Ten Years. Two downtown properties have been leased for ten-year periods, with an aggregate rental of $260,000, it was announced today by Klein & Kuhn, Inc., property management agency. The Petot Shoe Company has leased the room at 8 E. Washington St., for $160,000. It is now occupied by the Emerson Shoe Company. Two store rooms at 119-21 N. Pennsylvania St., have been based to Jaffe & Sons, optometrists. The place is now occupied by Thompson’s restaurant. UNCLE SAMUEL GIVES HQOSIERS 1 LARGEREFIiNDS Homer McKee Gets Back $32,072 in Federal Taxes. Times Washinnton Bureau, lS2t New York Avenue WASHINGTON, -Jan. I.—-Another batch of large tax refunds of Indiana corporations and persons was discovered today in the nearly $300,000 refunds released by the Treasury Department. Among the largest were $14,509 to the Indianapolis Water < irnpany, $82,998 to the Davis Coal end Coke Company of Terre Haute, $7,491 to the Hercules Gas Engine Company of Evansville and $30,524 to the Indiana Condensed Milk Company of Indianapolis. Others of general Interest were: National City Bank, Indianapolis, $1,927; Stutz Motor Car Company, Indianapolis, $4,214; Dickinson Trust Company, Richmond, $42,468: Arysdale Coal Company, Terre Haute, $1,707: Merchants Heat and Light Company, Indianapolis, $11,965; Cole Motor Car Company, Indianapolis, $902; Union Assurance Company of Indiana, Indianapolis, $2,394; Sanitary Milk Products Company, Indianapolis, $992; Turner Brothers Company, Terre Haute, $1,742; Mme. C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, $8,399. Nancy C. Braddoek, Greenfield, $1,492; Eno: Porter, Shelbyville, $2,808; P. and N. Lawn Mofrer Company, Richmond, $7,397; R. V. Law Motor Company, 1219 N. Meridian St., SO-42; Commerce Coal Company, Evansville, $3,215; Delta Electrical Company, Marion, $19,238; Homer McKee, 3145 N. Delaware St., $32,072; estate of Fred Herbert, Evansville, $570; Coal Bluff Mining Company, Terre Haute, $5,003; Nordyke & Marmon, Indianapolis, $142; West Baden Springs Company, $7,124. i92gTireToss IN CITUOWER S7O Balance Left From Appropriation. The fire loss per capita in Indianapolis vvas considerably lower in 1926 than for the past three years, according to the annual report of Horace W. Carey, fire prevention chief. The 1924 loss was $3.47; In 1925, $3.35, and for 1925, SI.BO. The total appropriation for fire prevention was $23,971.50, total expenditures of $23,901.50 leaving a balance of S7O. “Perhaps the most important routine work of this division,” Carey said, “is the regular daily door-to-door inspection for the purpose of eliminating fire hazards in the mile square downtown district. This territory is divided into four'districts and is handled by four inspectors who were able firemen of many years experience.” SONG RECITAL SUNDAY Edward I.a Shell to Appear at John Herron Art Institute. Edward LaShelle is scheduled to appear In a song recital at the John Herron Art Institute Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, it was announced today. He will present four groups of songs, opening with “Invocation to Isis,” from Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” and closing with “Cap’n Stratton’s Fancy,” by Deems Taylor. The concert is free to the public. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 22 9 a. m 21 7 a, m. 21 10 a. m...... 23 8 a. 19

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NO TRACE FOUND OF RALPH LEE Notorious Bandit Escapes From Franklin County Jail for Third Time. FLEES WITH 2 OTHERS Ex-State Cop Losey Deputy Sheriff Beaten. Ralph Lee, Indiana’s most notorious Jail breaker, was at large again today for the tenth time. He escaped for the third time about 10 p. m. Friday night from the county jail at Franklin, Ind., where he was held for anew trial on charges of murdering Abner Peak, Speedway grocer, in a hold-up in July, 1924. Overpowering Carl Losey, a deputy sheriff and former State policeman, Leo with William Rowe, 616 Drover St., Indianapolis, and Thomas Snfedeger, 60, of Greenwood, walked out of the Jail and disappeared. There was one clew. Shortly before the jail break. Snedeger asked Losey to telephone his son in Indianapolis. Losey put in the call but received no answer. Sheriff C. E. Bowen at Franklin believes the call may have been a signal for the son to meet Snedeger with an automobile. Patrol Roads Police here watched all traction cars and patrolled roads leading in here from Franklin. Homes of Lee’s relatives here were watched by police. Police also went to the home of Rowe. Losey was severely beaten by the men and left handcuffed in the cell. The three men also attacked Arthur Craig of Indianapolis, another prisoner, who refused to join in the jail break. It was at first thought his jaw had been broken. Losey was overpowered when he went to the cell block, on tho plea of Lee that Roy Woods of Kokomo, a negro prisoner, was dying. As Losey entered the cell section he was attacked by the three men and disarmed. He then was trussed up with a handcuff leader to a cell bar, and gagged. Craig was knocked out by a blow to the chin when he attempted to interfere. Donning Losey's overcoat and Stetson hat, Lee and the other prisoners went to the living quarters of the jail and took three guns. They dragged E. Hedrick, jail cook, out of bed and took him back to the cell block and locked him up with Losey. Then locking all doors behind them, the three walked out into tne night. Losey released himself after several minutes and gave the alarm. Escaped First in 1925 Lee first escaped the Franklin Jail two years ago while awaiting trial for the Peak murder. He was captured several days later. He again broke lose in the following March. The next word heard of his was when he was arrested in Tennessee on a banditry charge. Tennessee authorities refused to extradite him and sentenced him to the State prison at Nashville. Lee and ( other prisoners, using a wooden gun, escaped the Tennessee prison last April in 'a sensational break. Lee was captured at Buffalo, N. Y., and returned to Franklin. Last October he went on trial at Franklin, hut the jury failed to reach a verdict and anew trial was ordered. • Lee's other jail breaks ares Boy’s school, Plainfield, 1911. Jail at Bluffton, 1911. Washington State Reformatory, 1916. Indiana State Farm, 1923. Indiana State Reformatory, April 26. 1924. Indiana State Reformatory, May 19, 1924. GILBERT HEADS BUREAU Named Acting Chief Accountant of Public Sendee Body. Official announcement of appointment of Webb Gilbert as acting head of the accounting department of the Indiana public service commission was made following the regular weekly conference of the commissioners Friday. Gilbert will take the place of Chief Accountant John Powell, whose resignation was effective today. Powell Is to enter the practice of law In Indianapolis. No announcement was made regarding the appointment of a secretary to succeed Howell Ellis, now a commissioner* by appointment of Governor Jackson. It has been reliably reported that this job will go to Reed Cain, Delphi, who is said to have friends in the Legislature, where the commission may need help. LINK BUYS APARTMENTS Physician Tays 5225,000 for Two Structures. The Rink and Savoy apartment buildings at the northeast corner of Illinois and Vermont Sts., were purchased Yh-iday from the Gibralter Realty Company, by Dr. Goethe Link, 4207 N. Pennsylvania St., for about $225,000, The Rink is a seven-story building with twenty-six apartments and the Savoy has six stories with twelve apartments. The site of the two apartments has a frontage of thirtytwo and one-half fret on Illinois St., and extends 180 feet on Vermont St.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 1,1927

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BANK EMBEZZLER ‘ALL RIGHT NO W’ Teller Who Took $4,800, Says It’s No Use to Worry Now —Sorry for Wife, Child and Aged Parents.

“I feel all right today,” said Lloyd Orwig, 34, of 610 N. Parker Ave., teller at the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, charged with embezzling $4,800 in cash from the bank, as he sat on the hard metal bunk at the city prison. “I have suffered my worries during the past two years, and while these men in here worry about the HOPES MF . ELECTRIC CHAIR Man Ready tb Atone for Thirteen Murders. Bit T'nihtf Press PLAIN VIEW, Texas. Jan. I. Spending New Year's day on a cot in jail here, George Hassel, confessed murderer of thirteen, hoped that he would recover from his selfinflicted knife wounds so that he will “be in shape to go to the electric chair when my time comes.” “I do not wsnt. a long jail sentence, nor do I want to fall Into the hands of a mob,” the Texas rancher told his doctor. Hassel was brought here from Farwell, where feeling ran high after the finding of Kassel's wife and eight step-children, murdered and buried in a farm cave. Hassel confessed to the murder with which he is charged and also mentioned having disposed of his former wife and three adopted children in California by a similar method about ten years ago. THREATEN STEVE JURY Judge and Jurymen Receive Fanatic’s Blackmail Letters. Bit Timrs Special NOBLESVILLE, lnd., Jan. L Authorities here are searching for a man thought to be a fanatic, who has sent threatening letters to Circuit Judge Fred Hines and four nembers of the jury who tried and convicted D. C. Stephenson, exdragon of the Ku-Klux Klan of Indiana in this city a year ago and found him guilty of first degree murder, it was announced by Sheriff Charles Gooding today. “A man drove up to the countryhome of one of the jurors and threatened him with revenge for the conviction,” Gooding saidj“The man disappeared and no trace has been found of him as yet.” Some of the letters threaten bodily harm and others demand money. It was said. The jurymen conferred with the judge, who gave an opinion the letters were the work of a crank. SHEETS FOR FARM BOARD Governor Appoints Successor to Charles J. Murpliy. Governor Ed Jackson Friday announced the appointment of Austin 11. Sheets, Marion County farmer, to succeed Charles J. Murphy, Indianapolis, as a member of the State board of agriculture. J. E. Green of Muncie and John R. Nash, Tipton, were reappointed to the board. THE METHODIST VIEW Board Believes Prohibition Is Better All Along Line. Ba United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—The New Year “finds prohibition enforcement better all along the line,” the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church announced today. “Tho production of moonshine, however, Is still far too general,” the board said. “This situation must be controlled ,by local authorities.”

minor charges against them, I am at ease. “I worry about my family, my wife and my baby girl, 3; my father, 00, and my poor old mother, but if I had worried about them two years ago I would not be In this mess. Tries - Suicide “Last Sunday the Christmas spirit overcame me and I tried to end it all.” On that night he said he left his home, secured a pound of ether at a drug store, registered in at a downtown hotel, where he took It. He recovered. Orwig said he hoped the bank officials would accept his statement concerning the embezzlement, stating that ho was willing to make oath that $4,500 covered the amount taken, but Evans Woollen, president of tho hank, said that until a check was jnade no definite sum would be given out by the bank. Orwig, said he manipulated the accounts by holding duplicate ac count slips for deposits and deducting amounts from the balance he carried on hand. From the duplicate slip he kept he was able to tell the amount his reserve fund was and the amount it should be. Finally It totalled $4,800 which was too much, Orwig said. So he sent a cheek through against an account he regarded as Inactive. By that he said the man who owned the account never drew out anything but the interest. He added that his reserve balance remained $1,300 short. Shortage Noted When he failed to show up for work last Monday tho substitute teller noted the $1,300 shortage. The bank officials visited his home and a search revealed him at the hotel. They sent him to the Indiana Christian Hospital. iriilay his wife tried to sign a note against her farm to settle the shortage, Orwig said, but the bank officials turned it back and ordered his arrest. The money w-as spent for general uses, Orwig said. The only thing to be held against him, he said, was the purchase of three pints of w-hisky. DORSETT OUT OFRACE Withdraws in Favor of Councilman Bartholomew. Walter R. Dorsett, candidate for the presidency of the city council, announced that he was going tp withdraw from the race in favor of Otis E. Bartholomew. Bartholomew, according to Dorsett, is the favorite of the majority council. The president of the council will be voted on Monday noon. DILLON ONLY CHANGE Will Yield Place on Plan Commission. With the exception of the appointment to fill the place of Thomas Dillon, whose term on the city plan commission expires Jan. 1, no changes will be made on any board the first of the year, Mayor Duvall said. The appointment to fill Dillon’s place will be made the first of the week, Duvall said. REPORTED MISSING Muncie Youth, Vincennes Girl, Sought By Parents. Mrs. Robert May of Muncie wrote local police and asks that they search the city for her daughter, Helen, 21. who has been missing four months. She has gray eyes, chestnut brown hair, and wore a light tailored suit. Hamet M. Hinklf, 22, of Vincennes, Is missing from his home according to a letter from his father, H. p. Hinkle. He asks local police to search for him.

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ENGINEER REVIVES FLOOD PREVENTION FOR SlfflOO Board Approves Plans of Morris St. Bridge, Levees and Widening. The board of works Friday adopted plans of City Engineer Chester C. Oberleas for the W. Morris St. bridge, building levees and for widening the White River channel at that point. Oberleas was ordered by tne board to make complete plans and specifications for the work. The project, part of the city-wide Hood prevention plan, will cost sl,132,000, Roy C. Shaneljerger, president of the board, said. The estimate of the Shank administration engineer was $1,396,000. Purchase of from forty to fifty acres of land by the city Is provided. The proposal will he submitted to the city council and the county commissioners for appropriation of money. The city will bear 45 per cent of the cost, the county 43 per cent and the ahuttlng property owners 10 per cent. Channel Shortened The channel will be 600 feet In width and will shorten the present channel 1,750 feet by straightening a curve. The levy will extend one and one-fourth miles. A road will be built on the levy. The bridge will be of reinforced concrete and will be eighty feet wide. It will cost $450,000, which la Included in tho complete estimate. The hoard will ask the Indianapolis Real Estate Board to name three appraisers for the land necessary for the flood prevention project. The contract lias already been let for the Belt Railroad bridge, which is near the Morris St. structure, ALCOHOLIC CASES FEW FORHOLIDAY No Poisoning Patients at Hospitals Friday Night. Bootleggers with bad whisky didn't make much of a dent on Indianapolis citizens this New Year's, if reports from Indianapolis hospitals, tell the tale. “No alcoholic cases. Everything quiet,” was the general report. “There were no alcoholic cases admitted after 6:45 p. m.” said Methodist Hospital attaches. Eighteen persons suffering from various stages of alcoholic poison, however, had been in the hospital during the previous twenty-four hours. “\Ve have no record of last year’s alcoholic cases at hand,” It was said at the city hospital, “but this perfectly clean slate on New Year’s morning, does seem unusual and certainly, very gratifying.” HOLD UP THREE PERSONS Bandits Show Bold Front In Night’s Activities. Police today vf/tre attempting to solve three bold holdups that .occurred Friday night. Persons who reported to police, were: L. P. Judd, 1203 N. Temple Ave., manager of'the Domestic Coal Company, 331 \V. Walnut St., robbed of $9.25 In cash and a $25 check; J. H. Price, proprietor of store at 1409 N. Missouri St., was robbed of $45 by two Negro bandits who walked In while he was waiting on a customer, and Ira Dyre and August Mitchell, Apt. 2, 522V4 Massachusetts Ave., reported theft of a diamond and clothing,

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LIQUOR FLOWS FREELY AS INDIANAPOLIS GIVES' 1927 HILARIOUS HELLO Drinking Comparatively Unrestrained in Clubs and Dance Halls but Order Is Maintained BOUNCER BUSY AT ROADHOUSE Officers Confine Efforts to Seeing That No One Is Hurt. With a bottle in one hand and the bell rope in the other, Indianapolis Friday night and this morning tolled out old and infirm 192 G and rejoiced in its welcoming of toddling 1927^,4^ If New Year’s eve activities would indicate what t>id coming year was going to be like, Indianapolis mig4\t asHvell now begin to realize that she is in for a damp but fairly orderly twelve month.

At the stroke of 12 a light flurry of snow fell. It was the only hindrance of the evening to the auto and outdoor celebrants, who disregarded law and ethics and drank liquors any place. Os course, it had no effect on the persons who were celebrating in hotels, clubs, dance halls and private homes, but a survey of most of the public places showed that the drinking had started, and. In some cases, was finished, before the New Year stepped in. Police made few arrests and Federal agents none. The chief aim of authorities appeared to be to see that no one was seriously hurt. The three muses of the New Year —wine, women and song—were conspicuous with the passing of the old year. Thrills Aplenty The wine was stroijg, some women wild and the song was raucous. It was a gala night, replete with thrills, and unsullied by the influence of the law. More old-timers In the New Year’s celebrating game turned out Friday night than ever befgre. And they raid they never sawnp. freer, looser Now Year’s eve than ras Just passed. With nothing to mar the celebration, it was a dizzy success. At a certain roadhouse, northwest of the city, things went so’fast It was hard to keep up with them. Old, aristocratic-looking gentlemen were carried or.t the same as the youngsters who seemed to he on their first bust. The dance floor was filled with a crowd that staggered and careened. Police and Federal agents worked hard In an effort to stem the tide, but the situation was far out of their hands. Fall Downstairs , Women and girls fell down the stairway promiscuously and time and time again, employes at the' place and representatives of tho law. collared fellows and dropped then, into the snow outside the door. Drinks were taken in the open. Very few flasks were present, they had been succeeded by plain pint and one-half pint bottles, that the owners poured as easily on top of tables as underneath. The thousands of celebrants received quite a shock when things began to close up this morning long before scheduled time. At the roadhouse, where dancing was scheduled until 3 a. m., the word went out shortly after midnight that the place was closing. It did so, at 1 a. in. Downtown clubs closed “all of a sudden.” One place where the celebration was heralded as lasting until 3 a. m. with plenty of music, eats and room to dance In, was closed tight shortly after 2. Dull by 2 a. m. The hotels held up as long as they could with their entertainment schedule, hut most of the guests cleared out between 12:30 and 2 a. m. Nothing seemed to hold the festive crew. They wanted liquor—and got it. A downtown hotel In which an organization was holding a dance was bespattered with alcohol and persons under the influence thereof. Members of the organization were seen running laps around the Monument shortly before 3 a. m. “Whce-ee,* and another fellow crossed the floor with his bottle held high into the air seeking some friend. This occurred at a roadhouse time and time again. One fellow was dragged from the roadhouse, and as he was pulled through the door his head was knocked against the stonework, knocking him more senseless than he already was. At this roadhouse The Times reporter saw two girls standing more than ankle deep in the snow, without coats or hats, yelling: “Where the h Is that man and bottle?" Soon the fellows came along. They pushed tho girls Into a cab and were off. Fights In Checkroom The reporter fought the gang at l the place more- than an hour trying ; to get his co4t knd hat. Four fights 1 occurred in theriittle checkroom and guests were bounced continously. Celebrants were seen riding home on auto bumpers. Men and women, alike, clung to the side of cars that sped through downtown streets In the wee small hours. On Thirtieth St., near Riverside park, crowds collected when some V (Turalc Page 11)

Forecast ' Tartly cloudly and warmer tonight and Sunday; lowest temperature tonight about 30.

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C. OF C. DIRECTORS CONSIDER CHOICE OF NEW SECRETARY Contract of John B. Reynolds Expired Friday— Engineer Desired. Appointment for the position held by John B. Reynolds, general sec retary of the Chamber of Commerce, whose contract expired Friday, is to be considered by the bCKira-'of directors within 'he next few day?, it Is understood. Reyonlds will be retained temporarily until a man to hi* ’ p’aco is elected, it was Friaa£{ n'ght by one of tho board Reynolds’ possible retention was expected to have been decided upon during the past week, but Dick Millr, president, failed to call a meeting for that purpose. Dissontion between Reynolds and some members of the board of directors is said to have caused the break primarily, coupled with <he now administration program in accordance with the Indianapolis First movement calling for (he sppoirtment of an industrial engineer as tin executive to ‘sell” Indianapolis to industries seeking location. It is tiro general opinion that the board was undecided upon retaining Reyrtolds thereby having two high-salaried executives attempting to work out a program under the new policy. Reynolds to Go? At first the proposition was broached that Reynolds might be subordinated to the proposed Indus trial engineer, whose apointment Is momentarily expected from among several qualified men under consid- ( eration, but It is now understood Reynolds’ connection with the or * ganizatlon will be definitely severed. f Reynolds has insistently refused. ' to comment on the situation, ft* jab 4 I nied, however, the rumor that his j resignation had been Impending. NEWSEESGOOD ! YEARPROSPEGI - Postal Head Reports Records Are Broken. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—The new year gives every promise of being 1 oven more prosperous than 1926, Postmaster General New said today, "The manifestation of national prosperity Is found In the report for twenty-eight days In December showing money sent ebroad In International money orders reached $7,406,652, an Increase of 12 per cent over the same period last year,” , New said. “Moat encouraging In the indication of tho Nation’s healthy economic condition Is a report of December postal receipt* from cities of all sizes picked at random, Increases of from 1 to 27 per cent.” New said Atlanta. Ga., reported a gain of 25:80 per cent; Birmingham, Ala., 8 per cent; Memphis, Tenn., 3 per cent, and Charlotte, N. C., 1 per cent; Nashville, Tenn. Jacksonville, Fla., and Oklahoma City reported receipts about t pefH cent lower than In December, 192F&1 while Dallas, Texas, and New oH leans broke about even. The postal service handled I,(bWm car loads of mail in excess of I>iEm| vious records during Deeember. nuji'' 1 of it being gifts and greetings of tjgfiL’ holiday season, New said. VjfJptEjl CUPID FAR AHEAD Bu United Press BL\ -i NEW YORK, Jan. L—CuK|3 worked overtime In luring 1926, with marriages. . r . ; record. Thi,r v 4. 4,MA $