Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 234, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1927 — Page 9

Second Section

FEAR FOR SAFETY OF AMERICANS IN CHINA

SEVENTEEN LIFERS ASKPARDOKBOARD TO REDUCE TERMS List'Applying for Commutation includes Fifteen Murderers. Seventeen life-term prisoners will seek pardons or paroles at the meeting of the State pardon board, which convenes Jan. 10. Os this number fifteen have been sentenced for murder and the other two for rape. Eighty-eight new and fifty-eight reopened cases are on the docket. Work of the board is being greatly handicapped by the reopened cases and Secretary Charles C. York is making a vigorous protest to prevent unworthy cases from being heard “time and again.” Os the new cases, those from Marlon County include Forrest Applegate, sentenced to Indiana Reformatory, Feb. 6, 1926, ten to twentyone years for robbery; Fred Martin, March 3, 1926, two to fourteen years for larceny; Bruce P. Conger, State Prison, Feb. 27, 1926, one to five years for fraudulent check; Oliver E. Jackson, Reformatory, Jan. 24, 1925, ten to twenty-one years for robbery; John Burt, State Farm, July 23, 1926, one year for grand larceny; Harry Logan Long, Reformatory, March 19, 1926, two to fourteen years for burglary; Thomas J. Rogers, State Farm, Sept. 14, 1926, six months and SSOO for child neglect; Beatrice Saunders, Woman's Prison. Dec. 1, 1926, thirty days and SIOO for blind tiger. Roberts Included Reopened cases from Marion County include Joseph Benson, State Prison, February, 1917, life for murder; Roy Lucas, Reformatory, April 12, 1922, ten to twenty-one years for robbery; George Talkington, Reformatory, March 14, 1925, ten to twenty-one years for robbery; Edward Wilson, Reformatory, Oct. 7, 1921, ten to twentyone years for robbery; William Childers, State Prison, April 21, 1918, life for rape. Although sentenced in Hamilton County, Edward Prater might also be included in the Marion County list, for his case was taken there on a change of venue. He and a companion attempted to hold up an Indianapolis street car motorman, and during the scuffie Prater shot the man, the wound resulting in death. He awaited trial for months in the Noblesville jail, where D. C. Stephenson was then quartered during the famous murder trial. When at last Prater's case was tried he wag found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced two to twenty-one years in the Reformatory. The list also includes the case of Carl Roberts, former Ft. Wayne policeman, sentenced to the Reformatory for ten to twenty years for robbing a Hagerstown, Ind., bank, with Jack Pritchard, also a former Ft. Wayne officer. Roberts was sentenced Nov. 28, 1924. His plea for a pardon has been augmented by letters from Walter Kavanaugh, Ft. Wayne police chief, and Congressman jDavid Hogg. Physician in List Should the plea of James Walker be granted, the State Prison would lose its "assistant physician.” Walker is serving a double life sentence for murdering two policemen at Alexandria and each time his case is heard a delegation of Elks from Marion County appear against him. He was sentenced April 3, 1911. Henry Romine, who received a life sentence for a murder in Bartholomew County in March, 1913, is on the list again. He is a Civil War veteran and has enjoyed the privilege of attending encampments in recent years. He is 80 and broken in health, .according to prison authorities. Blythe Lamb, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of a woman in Dubois County in November, 1919, is on the “reopened” list. He has already enjoyed several paroles and is still out on one signed by Governor Jackson. FAVORS BARRING TWO Senator Pat Harrison Assails Both Smith and Vare. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 5. —Both Frank L. Smith, Illinois Senator-designate, and William S. Vare, Pennsylvania Senator-elect, should be barred from the Senate, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi said in an address here. “The doors should be closed to both their faces when they try to enter the Senate/' Harrison said. After delivering the broadside against the two potential Senators, Harrison attacked President Coolidge for his naval economy program, declaring that the 5-5-3 ratio was a “joke.” Friends of Smith are still uncertain as to when he will attempt to take his seat. CHILD EATS BLUING Seriously 111, But Will Recover, Physicians Say. Bu Times Special FRANKFORT, Ind., Jan. 5. Physicians today sai& James La Marr Ashley, young son of Mr.*and Mrs. Elmer Ashley, will recover from a serious illness caused when he ate two balls of blueing he had found on a table. WAGON FA LI, FATAL Bn United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 5. Anton Haisch, 36, of St. Joseph County, an inmate at the Indiana village of epeleptics here, was instantly killed Tuesday when he fell from a wagon while unloading corn, breaking his neck.

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By Ross H. Garrigus. I’m the new street .car token. Ho ho! Ha ha! Hee heel I'm small. I'm devilish. I have great fun Hiding from folks. Ho ho! Ha ha! Hee hee! The only man I hate t Is the Scotchman. He stabs me through with a Safety pin. This morning— Ho ho! 11a ha! Hee hee! I rode with a fat man. I was way down in his pocket. All alone, too, I was all alone. Not a dime. Not a nickel, not even a Penny. Kept nip company. He knew darn well I was Down there. He put down his hand To get me. I know my stuff. - I eased over into the lining Os his pocket. He never did find me. Ho ho! Ha ha! Hee hee! But the conductor spoiled it all. He let the man ride free. Yesterday I rode with a mother. She had three children. The oldest was five. She looked in her purse. To find me. Oh its a great game. And one of the children Started crying. And there was a line of folks Back of her. So she bought four more of My brothers and sisters. Now we are hiding together. Ho ho; ha ha; hee hee; hee! JACKSON CORDIAL ON AGEPENSION Approves Aims of Humanitarian Measure. Governor Jackson Tuesday told a delegation of fraternal representatives that he approved the spirit of a bill to allow counties to substitute pensions for almshouses on a vote at any election upon petition of 200 voters. The measure, which will be sponsored by Senator James J. Nejdl, is backed by practically all fraternal orders and labor organizations. The committee was composed of Frank S. Clarke of the Knights of Pythias; Otto P. De Luse of the Eagles; John A. Royce of the Knights of Columbus and American Legion; Frank T. Strayer of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Lewis C. Schwartz of the Ancient Order of Druids; W. A. Anderson of the Moose, B. Robinson of the labor organization, and Dr. Alva Taylor. 1927 NOME SNOW SET ML 2 French Cottage Will Be Principal Building. Initial plans for the 1927 Home Complete Exposition were begun Tuesday with the announcement of J. Frank Cantwell, director, that the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association would build the principal building for the display. The home will be a brick, French cottage ar.d embody the latest ideas in construction. Everett J. Holloway, association president, appointed Walter M. Evans chairman of the committee to design and construct the cottage. Richard E. Bishop is the architect. The date announced by the Real Estate Board, sponsors of the exhibition, is April 2-9. TEN SAILORS INJURED Bu United Press NORFOLK, Va., Jan. s.—Ten sailors, burned in an explosion on the destroyer Charles Osborne in the Navy yard here yesterday, will recover, authorities of the Portsmouth naval hospital said today. The men were burned on faces and hands when a steam drum blew off. but the shock was not severe enough to injure them otherwise.

Eight Couples Wed 829 Years Bu Times Special . MIDDLEBURY, Ind., Jan. 5. —This town of 600 population claims the national record for having the most couples per population married more than fifty years. Eight have been married for a total of 829 years and six months. They Mr. and Mrs. William Fletcher, 52 years; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Stutzman, 53 years; Mr. and Mrs. Allen H. Miller. 50 years, 5 months; Mr. and Mrs. Shem Beachy, 52 years, 9 months; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ivnepp, 50 years; Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Schrock. 52 years. 9 months; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Balyeat, 51 years, 2 months; Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Shoup, 52 years and 8 months.

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KLAN LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM MILDER THAN HERETOFORE Favors Religious Instruction and Tighter Rules for Teachers. Reading of a portion of the Bible in the public schools each day and an amendment to the teachers’ licensing act making it more definitive were agreed upon as the 1927 legislative activities of the Ku-Kiux Klan at its banquet in the Lincoln Tuesday evening. Os the forty-eight legislators credited with belonging to the secret order, only a small number answered the invitation of W. Lee Smith, grand 'dragon for Indiana. Twenty-seven persons attended the meeting. Should present plans go through without change, the bill to make the reading of a portion of the Holy Scripture in the public schools each day would not make it compulsory on the part of the children. No Comment on Reading The hill Is to provide only for the reading of a definite number of chapters each day, the lesson to be closed without comment. Children who did not desire to do so or whose parents objected would not be required to participate. Supplanting the unsuccessful effort of the last session when a Klan bill would have made it impossible to secure a teacher’s license unless an education had been secured in the public schools, the present amendment will demand that the curriculum of the high school from which the candidate for license has graduated shall be on a par with the standard of the public schools of the State. Through this amendment it is hoped to bar at least some of the students making applicatinon for teacher's licenses whose education has been confined to parochial schools. Rill Is Toned Down The proposed amendment eliminates the features which caused most of the acrimonious discussion during the 1925 session and which would have barred students of military academies and similar private institutions of learning. It is understood there was hesitancy on the part of some of the Klan legislators to be seen attending the gathering. Information indicates that the House speakership will not become a Klan issue. Some of the members of the order are for Harry Leslie, wile others have allied themselves with Lemuel A. Plttenger for the honor of swinging the gavel in the House. It is understood that with the vote so close on the eve of the caucus a “hands-off” policy was adopted. WRECK THWARTS HOLD-l'P Bii Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Jan. .—One bandit was in a hospital and another was in jail as a result of an attempted hold-up. The bandits in attempting to overtake the auto in which Dean Sheppard, cashier of the Borden Farm Products Company, and a guard were carrying $2,000, crashed into a parked auto. One of the bandits was hurt and the other was arrested. * MARRIED SECRETLY Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 5. Alice Calhoun, movie actress, and M. C. Chotiner, Los Angeles theatrical magnate, were secretly married on New Year’s Eve at Ventura, Cal., friends learned today. Miss Calhoun was one of the original Vitagraph stars. She is now a freelance player.

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SECOND YOUTH DIES Taylor University Student Succumbs to Auto Injuries. LA PORTE, Ind., Jan. s.—Edward Anderson, 22, Waterloo, lowa, died at a hospital here late Tuesday, the second victim of an auto accident, near here a w'eek ago. He l ever regained consciousness. Anderson, who was a star football player at Waterloo High School before entering Taylor University at Upland, Ind., iq memory re-enacted parts of his gridirons experiences while unconscious and it was necessary at times to place him in a straight jacket. Lavern Bat*hell, 19, was killed in the accident a week ago and four other students, who were returning to Taylor following the Christmas holidays were injured. Anderson’s body will he f aken to his parents' home at Fertile Lake, Wis., today. uIINIRYNETS NEW ACCUSED IN MELLEJTMURDER Alleged Bootlegger Charged With Hiding McDermott While Hunt Was On. Bu Initrd Ptrss CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. s.—For the first time since the night of last July 16 police authorities today believed they were near the true solution of the underworld slaying of Don R. Mellett, vice crusading editor of the Canton Daily News. Although three men have been Indicted and one of tho trio convicted for the murder, the officials so far have'failed to establish anything but circumstantial evidence against any one. Patrick Eugene McDermott, so-callled “key man,” was tried and convicted. Ben Rudner and Louis Mazer, alleged conspirators with McDermott, are scheduled to stand trial in Canton in a few' weeeks. All three have steadfastly denied any knowledge of the slaying. Yesterday the case was re-opened here with the Federal Government taking a h nd. United States Attorney A. E. Bernsteen called in Stark County's prosecutor, Henry W. Harter, who assisted In gaining McDermott's conviction; C. B. MeClintock, retiring prosecutor, who led Hie State's forces against McDermott, and Ora Slater, Cincinnati sleuth, who brought about the arrest of McDermott. Following the conference a warrant was issued and served on Ben Nadel, alleged bootlegger reputed to have aided McDermott in hiding from the police following Mellett’s death. Nadel will go before the grand jury today and probably will go to trial immediately, according to the Cuyahoga County attorney's office. According to Bernsteen, the new probe is based on an amazing tale of a pretty, red-haired woman, the wife of a bootlegger, who insisted on telling “what was right about the whole affair.” The woman Is Mrs. Charlotte/Slagle, wife of Stanley A. Slagle, who has admitted in a signed confession that the pair harbored McDermott in this city while a Nationwide search was being made. They told Bernsteen that they hid McDertnott and that he had told them he had been in on the underworld conspiracy to kill Mellett. Throughout his trial, McDermott refused to name the persons who aided his concealment. Tape measures, held aloft by fellow employes In a drapery establishment, formed a novel archway for a bride recently in England.

SUGGESTS PLAN TO LEARN TRUTH OF W SCARE Newspaper Man Proposes Testimony Be Offered in Propaganda Case. Hu Times Special ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Jan. 5. —Congress can easily learn whether or not the State department persuaded the Associated Press to put out propaganda on the Mexlco-Nicaragua situation, for which tlie department was unwilling to take responsibility itself, according to Paul Y. Anderson, Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Anderson, who attracted national attention by bis story of the manner in which Assistant Secretary Olds persuaded this press association, and failed to persuade two other press associations —to carry a dispatch relating an imminent threat of Bolshevism in Central America—is spending the week at his home here. He was interviewed today, following Secretary Kellogg's formal denial that the State department had beeq guilty of the charge made against it. He suggested, in effect, that Congress question the three press association men who were called into conference by Assistant Secretary Olds prior to the dissemination of the Bolshevist story' by the Associated Press. Anderson made clear at the outset that he spoke only for himself and not for his newspaper. “I have no authority to speak for the PostDispatch, which speaks for itself on Its own editorial page,” he said. Knew Story Inspired “My account of the Olds incident was a piece of routine reporting. When the Associated Press stated that the ‘spectre of a Mexican-fos-tered Bolshevist hegemony intervening between the United States and the Panama Canal had thrust Itself upon the American-Mexican relations,’ and failed to give its authority, virtually every experienced correspondent in Washington recognized it at once as an inspired story. I was one of several who started (♦ut to discover w'ho inspired it. From this investigation resulted the dispatch published in the Post-Dis-patch of Nov. 28. In reporting an event at which he was not present, a reporter must gather information from sources which he considers reliable. If he misjudges the reliability of his sources, he should be and usually !s, held accountable by the newspaper which employs him. On the PostDispatch the rule is strictly enforced. Had Corroboration “The principal source of my Information on the Olds Incident was a gentleman with whose personal and professional character I was thoroughly acquainted, and whose word I would unhesitatingly accept against that of Secretary Kellogg under any circumstances that I can imagine. It was subsequently corroborated from other sources, some of them inside the State Department. I was perfectly satisfied with the accuracy of the information then and I am perfectly satisfied with it now. The terms of Secretary Kellogg’s denial, the lateness of its appearance and his reputation for frankness in public affairs, suggests that he may have resorted to the diplomatic device of construing the questions in the way that will allow him to give the most convenient answer. The device is not original with him. “But why bandy words? Does Congress really want to know whether the State Department requested press association to send out a story of the kind which the Associated Press actually did send out? If so. Congress can easily

—By Blosser

They Seek Post of Speaker

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The two leading candidates for the most-sought for office in the State legislature. Above: Lemuel A. Pitteiiger, Salem. Below: Harry G. Leslie, Lafayette. find out. The names of the press association men who attended Air. Olds’ conference can readily be ascertained. All of them are In Washington. It would be a simple matter for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to take their testimony and that of Mr. Olds.” LEE MADE TERRIBLE MISTAKE Mother of Escaped Convict Mourns Because He Fled. ‘‘My poor boy. He’s made a terrible mistake in breaking jail this time. If I could only have seen him and persuaded him not to!” So mother love and deep anxiety follow the desperate footsteps of Ralph Lee, the escaped convict, who, while awaiting, trial for the murder of Abner Peek, a Speedway grocer, broke jail at Franklin,, Ind., last Friday and is still at large. It was Lee's eleventh escape from jail and his third escape from the Franklin institution. His mother, Mrs. May Mcllvain, living at 4050 Cornelius Ave., is a small woman with almost snow white hair. In the living room of her home today, she clasped and unclasped nervous hands that trembled visibly as she talked of her boy. "Why things looked so bright for him. I thought so and I believed ha did. That’s why his escape lias been such a shock. “ ‘lf they’ll just give me one more chance to go straight, mother, I know I’ll make good,’ he said to me less than two wooks ago when I visited him at the jail. Then to make this awful mistake! But after all, I do believe I understand it. I When I visited him —it was Dec. 22 —I had taken him a little Bible and some home-made jelly. He was suffering from depression, even though he agreed with me that he was likely to have the one more chance that he so !mucli wanted. ‘But if I don’t, mother, and have to see only the bare walls of jail all my life. Mother, I just couldn't stand it,' he said. Holidays Depressing "I knew he needed lots of encouraging and I told him I’d be back the next day after Christmas. I couldn’t. I got sick. Then I know what happened. He got to imagining things—life forever in prison, you know—and he’s got panicky.” The little woman rose and peered anxiously out the window. “Os course I know it's foolish to expect hefd come here to me,” she apologized. "Although I don’t see them, I know officers must be watching the house. He’d know it too, but I’m so wishing I could see him, or tell him to do the right thing and give himself up., "If I just hadn’t got sick right after Christmas and could have gone to see him he wouldn't havo made this terrible mistake,” she declared, brokenly. And 30, wonderful mother love, seeking to take the blame and make some sacrifice, waits anxiously today for further news of the escaped Ralph Lee. "He's not a bad boy at heart,” were the last words that floated pitifully after us as we left the house.

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U. S. Officials Anxious About 300 to 400 in Yangtze x River Area. BRITISH, RIOTERS FIGHT General Anti-Foreign Uprising a Possibility. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—Officials hero today were fearful for the safety of 300 to 400 Americans who live in the Yangtze River section of China, where United States navai vessels and Marines have been ordered to stand by and render any needed protection. With American naval and consular officers empowered to use such forces in an emergency, the State Department anxiously awaited reports on whether United States troops had been landed at Hankow and Wuhu, where disorders are greatest. A message front Consul General Lockhart at Hankow, dated yesterday, told of fighting between British troops and Chinese rioters there, but did not report that Americans were in special danger. Officials here, however, fear that the anti-British risings, unless checked, may turn into a general anti-foreign demonstration. Faced with a Chinese situation daily growing more disquieting and acute, Preside-nt Coolidge has ordered temporary recall to Washington of American Minister John Van A. Mac Murray in Pekin to assist the administration in formulating a now Chinese policy to meet demands of the radical Nationalist government at Hankow. U. S. GUNBOATS ON DUTY Anchored Off Hankow. Center of Chinese Disturbance. Bu Uni<<d Press HANKOW, Jan. s.—United States gunboats today were anchored off this turbulent city awaiting the possible necessity of going into action to protect American property from Chinese mobs whose anti-foreignism already has taken form in violence against Britishers and th© British concessions. United States property had not been affected nor had the Japanese and French concessions been violated today because of the antiBritish flare-up which began Monday with a clash between natives and British sailors and marines from the gunboats Magnolia, Woolstan and Bee. The three vessels also swung with tho current of the Yangtze River today, their guns and landing parties ready to act for the protection of British Interests. British women and children today were ordered by British authorities to evacuate the concessions and suburban Britishers were summoned to come inside the concessions so protection might be facilitated. Grief Is Fatal to Mine Victim Widow Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. s.—Mrs. Claude Wright, widow of one of the miners, whose body was sealed in the Francisco mine, died here from grief. Her body was sent to Bicknell for burial. BANK ROBBERY FOILED Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. s.—Sheriff Frank Daniels today believed yeggs were frightened away in an attempt to rob the State Bank at Markleville early Tuesday. The outer door of the safe had been burned open and work was started on the inner door when the yeggs fled.

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BANDITS STAGE TWO DAYLIGH ROBBERIES NEI Yeggmen Fail in S j J Cracking Attempt—ll Hold-ups. •> Two dayligth hold-ups early morning and a drug storo lobl late Tuesday brought the robl total to eleven during the last so eight hours, police reports showe Several north side store burgla were reported. Bandits victimized a filling sta attendant, two grocery clerks, c store clerk, motorist and bus di’i Loot totaled^2o6. Forced Into Rear Room Fred T. Horn, 31, of 709 E. I ris St., Kroger Grocery manage) 1915 Park Ave., was foroed lnt rear room by a bandit, \yho obta $25 shortly after the store opene “Keep ’em down and open safe” was the command of a dlt to Merl Gider, 22, of 2644 R St., attendant at a Standard oil tion at Twenty-Ninth and Cll Sts. at 6:45 a. m. The bandit lainoff about S6O from the safe, dor was forced into a back rooi A holdup at the Case drug s 1837 Central Ave., was not repo to police for six hours because . M. IJieor, clerk, was ill as resul the fright. Loot totaled S3O. Prying open a window of Standard Oil station at Twefity-I St. and Martindale Ave., ypggn i to chisel the combination from safe, but failed. Police said poured motor oil on the floor. I* lng was taken. Took Pay Fhone TTB The same burglars are sjispeett entering the Sinclair Oil statio Twenty-Fourth and Meridian where they took tho pay phone contents. The Paul Krause shoe shop, E. Tenth St. was entered and pairs of shoes, a gum machine some cash was taken. Police believe the same bar who robbed a Brightwood bus dr Monday night, held-up Chr Burns, 1322 S. Peoples Motor Coaeli iiorn|L driver, and obtained $24. Burns robbed at Central Ave. and Fort St., where two bandits entered bus. A passing motorist frustrated Negro bandits who attempted to Allan Sweeney, 1240 Central Ave. Park Ave. and Twelfth St. William Smith. 1240 N. 1111 St., told police two bandits obta! sl2 from tho Standard grocery 1001 N. West late Tuesday. Marcus Mills, Chicago, told p< two bandits robbed him of $65 jewelry thirty miles west of city on the National Rd. The ba car block the road so he could pass. Mills said. Burglaries reported: Sam Pollock, dry goods store, J W, Tenth St., window smasl merchandise valued at S4O; John Shane, 3045 Martindale Ave., elec pump, $140; Rex Dawson, 4735 £ set Ave., dog, S2OO. The mouth of a full-grown wh when open, measures twelve feet eighteen feet.