Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1927 — Page 2

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J.BULLEY SILENT ON HIDING PEACE OF SHILOH SHEIK House of David Man Says ‘King’ Knew What He Was Doing. Bu United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich., May 18.— Two unsuccessful efforts to force members of the House of David cult to reveal where “King Ben" Purnell, colony bearded ruler, stayed during the four years he spent in hiding after he was sought by the State of Michigan on criminal charges, were made by State prosecutors today at the hearing to dissolve the colony. John Bulley, one of the four colony governing officers, said neither he nor any of his fellowexecutives knew where the “King” was in hiding. “We talked it over among ourselves sometimes, but none of us ever knew or guessed where he was,” Bullejr testified. “Since he's been back we haven’t inquired. It was none of our business, and we felt ho knew what he was about.”

LIGHTNING LOSS IN CIH HEAVY (Continued From Page 11 of Are fighters to extinguish the blaze. The Gates concern manufactures auto tops. While firemen were fighting the fire in the Gates plant they broke a skylight of the Hancock Motor Sales Company, next door. Falling glass did damage estimated at SIOO to autos. Harold Hancock, manager, complained it was not necessary for the firemen to break the skylight, inasmuch as a back door was open. He said he carried no fire insurance. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, lightning prankishly destroyed several household articles, but did little damage to the house itself. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, awakened by the storm, were lying in bed when they heard a deafening crash of thunder. Bolt Strikes House “Sounds like it struck the house,” Mrs. Ellis remarked. “It does, at that,” Ellis returned. Presently, Ellis smelled smoke. Mrs. Ellis chided him, telling him it was his imagination. Ellins went to the bedroom door, opened it, and was almost suffocated by smoke billowing up from the lower floor. He and Mrs. Ellis rushed downstairs and called the fire department, which extinguished the blaze before much damage had been done. Lightning had struck the chimney,* destroying a tapestry, valued at $l5O, above the mantel, then leaped across the room to destroy a stand lamp and a vase of artificial flowers. Total damage to the house and furnishings was estimated at about $250. Electric Service Impaired Pull corps of workmen of the Indianapolis Light and Power Company were busy this morning restoring service lines throughout the city. Service was seriously interrupted when lightning struck transformers in widely separated sections, according to W. S. Cronin, service maintenance department manager. Damage resulting from fires in transformers could not be estimated, Cronin said. Indiana Bell Phone Company officials said 250 phones were put out of order by the storm, but that practically all were back in working order by noon. Meteorologist Armington reported that .71 inch rainfall was recorded. (Phis Included hail and rain. More rain, with much cooler weather, was promised for Indianapolis and vicinity tonight and Thursday. However, it was not expected that there would be a repetition of the storm.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: L. S. Wright, Hotel Lincoln, Hudson, 24-905, from Kentucky Ave. and Washington St. E. H. Lederer, 2145 E. Riverside Dr,, Moon, from in front of 225 N. Delaware St. Fred Farber, 1044 N. Illinois St., Dodge, 520-481, from Illinois ancl Eleventh Sts. ■ I* J. Smith, 1030 E. Washington St., Chevrolet, 8-650, from Kentucky Ave. and Washington St. Zella Hanson, 1455 W. ThittySecond St., Chevrolet, 531-587, from garage in rear. Bernard Winnings, Plainfield, Ford, from Senate Ave. and Georgia St. Paul Mittrach, R. R. 3 Box 309, Ford, 518-564, from South St. and Capitol Ave. • . Carl Mounce, 22556 Adams St., Ford, from Capitol Ave. and Sixteenth St. Market Motors Company, 325 E. Market St., Auburn M 354, from in front of 127 E. St. Joseph St.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Ralph Williams, 518 N. Jefferson Ave., Marmon, found at 2400 E. Washington St. Chevrolet coupe, 516-823, found at Ohio St. and Senate Ave. Roy Bennam, 920 E. Forty-Fourth St., Overland, found at Alabama and Pearl Sts. Maurice Spaw, R. R. 4 Box 18, Ford, found at 2001 Bluff Rd. Raid Nets Nine Nine men were arrested on gambling charges in a raid at the Princeton Hotel, 232 S. Illinois St., at 4:30 a. m. Lieut. Cliff Richter tni squad charged the flgen were ■gaged in an all-night poker game.

DARROW SEEKS TO SAVE GRIEF-CRAZED SLAYER Italian Laborer Doomed to Die for Strangling Doctor Who Attended Dead Son.

Bi/ T'nited Press NEW YORK. May 18.—Francesco Caruso never heard of Clarence Darrow, one of the Nation's most noted criminal lawyers. Yet the case of Caruso, illiterate Italian laborer, has stirred Darrow and he has volunteered his services to those trying to save Caruso from the electric chair. Caruso, crazed by grief when his son, Joe, died last February of diphtheria, thought that Dr. Casper Pendola, who attended the boy, had killed him by injecting anti-toxin. So he strangled the doctor. Condemned to Chair A jury decided that Caruso should die in the electric chair. Since Caruso was sentenced the ranks of those who think that first degree murder was a severe sentence for his irrational act have grown. Alexander Marky, chairman

ELIZA BROWNING OF LIBRARY DIES Served City 45 Years — Long Illness Fatal. Friends and relatives today mourned the death of Miss Eliza Gordon Browning, 70, for more than forty-five years actively engaged in library work here. Miss Browning died shortly after midnight of an extended illness. She lived at 3624 Guilford Ave. Since 1917 Miss Browning has served as assistant city librarian arid previously was librarian for many years. No immediate relatives survive, except a sister-in-law, Mrs. H. L. Browning. Funeral services wil be held at Christ Church, Monument Circle, Thursday at 2:30 p. m. The Rev. Floyd Van Keuren will officiate. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Friends may view the body at the home Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Miss Browning was first associated with the library in 1880, when she worked a year without salary. In 1892 she became librarian, but when the new Central Library was erected in 1917, she retired to the post of assistant. Bom in Fortville, Hancock County, Sept. 23, 1856, Miss Browning came to Indianapolis with her parents a short time after her birth. She was educated in the city schools. WOMAN FIGHTS OFF MAN Driver of Car Also Alleged to Have Attacked Drug Clerk. Police have no trace of a man who is alleged to have attempted to drag a woman into an auto at Thirteenth and Illinois Sts., at midnight, Tuesday night. He stole her hand grip and attacked a drug clerk and a customer in a nearby store. Police were also unable to find the woman who left in a cab after giving them an address that proved fictitious. Calven Rothenback, 1231 E. Thirty-Fifth St., the drug clerk, told police he saw the man seize the young woman and when she fought him off, take the grip. Rothenback ran to the telephone to call police. The man stopped the auto, ran into the store, pipked up a chair and struck him and also a boy customer. Police learned the woman left the cab at Capitol Ave. and Walnut St. managerludge to sit Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind.*, May 18.— Special judge will be chosen Thursday to sit in the mandamus proceedings of the city manager forces against City Clerk Louis Sariis. The suit demands the clerk present the petitions, calling for an election on the city manager questions, to city council. Judge Charles Bock, who disqualified himself, named Judge Roscoe ICiper, Booneville, and James Ensle and James T. Cutler, Evansville attorneys, from whom a judge may be chosen.

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of the Caruso defense committee, today said Darrow had volunteered to defend the Italian without charge on an appeal. Darrow was on his way from Philadelphia to Chicago today. Now tragedy further touched the bewildered man sitting in the deathhouse at Sing Sing. Caruso was told that his 4-months-'old daughter, Ida, had gone to join her brother. Ida died yesterday of pneumonia. Family Destitute Marky said today that Warden Lawes of Sing Sing and, if necessary, Governor Smith might be asked to allow Caruso to leave the deathhouse under guard to attend the funeral. It was doubtful whether the request would be granted, as no one has even been granted a leave of absence from the deathhouse. Caurso's wife and three remaining children, Lena. 9; Josephine, 8, and Salvatore, 2, found living in destitution in Grantwood, N. J., are being cared for by the defense committee.

JUDGE NOT AS GULLIBLE AS DARKTOWN SMITHS Friday the Thirteenth Wile Gives Persuasive Gypsy Something to Care About for Seventy Days.

Bread and salt, luck pieces, a missing S7O ring, an attractive Spanish gypsy and Mr. and Mrs. Alva Smith, Negroes, blended in Judge Paul C. Wetter’s municipal court Tuesday afternoon against the sinister background of Friday the thirteenth. According to Mrs. Smith's story, Mary Stanley, the gypsy from a camp in Brightwood, came to her home Friday, the thirteenth, told her fortune, then placed Mrs. PASTEUR FUND SLUMPS "T Rabies Treatment Finances Becoming Exhausted. Health officers and county trustees throughout the State today received letters from the State Health Board calling attention to the fact that funds for the Pasteur treatment for Vabies is rapidly becoming exhausted and it may be necessary to depend on the Governor's contingent fund until new funds are available in March, 1928. It is pointed out that many have taken advantage of the State treatments, who could well afford to pay, and that after May 25, it will be necessary for each non-paying patient to present affidavit that he has not the means to pay. Fares are paid by the State to the labaratory across from the Statehouse, where treatment is given. THEFT LAWS INVOKED Judge Collins Convicts Three I'nder New Legislation. Criminal Court Judge James A., Collins Tuesday convicted three persons under the new vehicle taking and burglary laws, passed by the recent Legislature. Harry Eliott, 23, was sentenced one to ten years at the Indiana reformatory for auto theft and James R. Smith, 16, and Wilbur Slater, Y 7, received similar sentences for second degree burglary. Elliott was charged with the theft of an auto belonging to John Smithmeyer, 22 S. Capitol Ave. Slater and Smith were charged with breaking into grocery store of Edward Schilling, 2826 Shelby St. Under the old law, vehicle taking carried three to five years and second degree burglary, two to fourteen years. PARDON THE $9,250! When the defunct 1927 Legislature abolished the pardon board, they forgot to strike out the board’s annual appropriation of $9,250. Since trustees of penal institutions are to function in the board's place, they have asked an opinion of Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom,as to whether they may use this fund, which becomes available Oct. 1.

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NEW CHURCH PLANNED Evangelical Church to Be Built oi> Broadway. Plans will be completed before June 1 for the new Evangelical church to be built at Broadway and Fifty-Sixth St The Rev. L. E. Smith of Huntington will become pastor. He will arrive this week to supervise contracts. The auditorium, which will be built first, will cost $50,000. A $25,000 Sunday school unit will be added.

CARTER HOME SADNESS ALLEVIATED BY FRIENDS Furniture Debt Arranged by Contributions Is Pleasing News to Widow

Assurance that sufficient money to save her household furniture so that she can keep a home together for her two young sons came today as wonderfully cheering news to the little widow of Charles E. Carter, 2014 Brookside Ave. Carter was the hero patrolman shot some days ago while bravely trying to disarm a crazed, drunken man. Owing to financial reverses and months of unemployment before becoming a police officer. Carter left his family, the widow, two sons, 8

Smith's ring In the corner of a handkerchief together with the necessary amount of bread and salt to produce good luck, and walked out with the handkerchief, promising to return it the following day. But she didn't. Judge Knows His Bariium “Where are you from, Mrs. Smith?" the Judge Inquired. “From Decatur, 111., ’ was the reply- “ Barnum didn’t live over that way, did he?” the judge asked. Mrs. Stanley had a deefnse. She was a Spanish gypsy and Spanish gypsies don't tell fortunes: she was in the movie and vaudeville business; her husband had a tent show in Brightwood: she had been on the stage seventeen years; she was 24 years old at the moment of appearing before Judge Wetter; she had not loft the Brightwood camp the day the Smith ripg disappeared. So’s the Judge The Smiths were convinced; so was the judge. “Twenty-five dollars and costs and seventy days in the Woman's Prison,” Judge Wetter said. In the meantime Judge Pro-Tern Thomas Garvin, sitting in Judge White’s court, sentenced Rose Oilk and Minnie Mitchel. two other gypsies. sl(k and ten days, for taking $17.50 from Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, 932 N. California St., Negroes. The gypsies promised to bless the money and return it doubled the next day.

Charles E. Carter Fund Mr. John E. Ambuhl, Treasurer: I inclose dollars for the Charles E. Carter Fund for the relief of the family of Patrolman Charles E. Carter, killed when he attempted to arrest a drink or drug crazed man May 7. Name Address ' (Clip this coupon and mail or take your contribution to John E. Ambuhl at police headquarters or to the Charles E. Carter Fund Editor, The Indianapolis Times.)

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NEGRO HERO—SAVES 3 Carries Residents to Safety During House Fire. Harvey M. Bess, Negro, 1120 Myron St., was the hero early Tuesday at a fire at the home of Anna Dennis, 39, Negro, 1110 Myron St. Bess placed a ladder at the rear of the home and carried Anna, Virginia, 13, and Frank Dennis to safety. A slight blaze, which did damage estimated at $25, had shut off the stirway.

i and 11, a-d his father. S3, in straitened circumstances. Even the furniture in the cottage where they had lived was not paid for. Debt for Furniture With $403.75 in the fund fostered by The Times. Mrs. Carter is assured of enough to pay the debt on the furniture, but more is needed if the family is to live together in simple comfort. Believing many other Indianapolis persons desire to contribute. The Times will receive contributions for several more days. Contributions may be sent to the Charles E. Carter Fund, Tho Times, or to John E. Ambuhl, police headquarters. Make all checks payable to John E. Ambuhl, treasurer. Much Gratitude Mrs. Carter has expressed gratitude to The Times and all those who aide dher. “It's such a relief,” she said today. “The kind folks who have reached out a helping hand to me will have my gratitude as long as I live. I so wanted to keep a home for the boys because I know it would please my husband so, and I like to think that he knows—wherever he Is —that kind friends are helping us.” Contributions Contributors today to the Carter fund are: George J. Culman $ 5.00 Harry Danziger 1.00 A Friend 2.00 William H. Avent 10.00 Joseph F. Sexton 1.00 J. H. Selbe 2.00 H. A. Crouch 5.00 Nellie Miller ... 1.00 Lawrence I-eppert 1.00 Ida Ward Srhad 2.00 Mrs. John A. White 1.00 Hans Clausen 5.00 Friends 12.00 Mrs. C. A. T 5.00 Byron K. Elliott 25.00 A Friend 50 Harry Ross 5.00 M. Eschenbacli 2.00 K. N. Franklin 2.00 W. A. McClue 1.00 O. I). Haskett 5.00 In His Name 3.00 Joint A. George 5.00 John A. Kuhn 5.00 Jr. O. I'. A. M., Capital City Council No. 6K 16.25 Jr. O. V. A. M., Eighth District Degree team 5.00 Junior Reinhardt 2.00 Total $110.75

IDOLIZED ‘CHINATOWN BISHOP’ SPEAKER HERE Tom Noonan, Attending Mission Sessions, Tells Experiences Saving Souls in Great City.

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STEEL SOCIETY TO MEET Harper, Eiseman, Speakers for Monday Session. The Indianapolis chapter of the American Society for Steel Treating wil hold its second annual meeting for out-of-town members and guests at the Y. M. C. A. at 6:30 p. m. Monday. Speakers will he J. Fletcher Harper, national president, and William H. Eiseman, national secretary. A musical and entertainment program will be given by employes of the Remy Delco plant, Anderson. A dinner will preceed the meeting. HAMMOND LINE SOUGHT Jiu Times Special *- HAMMOND. Ind.. May IS—John A. Shafer, Indianapolis, president of Monon Rail Rapid Transit Company, has petitioned Hammond board of works for a fifty-year franchise to operate through this city. Construction of a line, costing from $250,000 to $300,000 a mile, is proposed through the Calumet distiiot, from Miller, east of Gary, into the Chicago loop.

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Sent to prison when a boy of 16, after being a Bowery tough and thief, “Tom” Noonan of New York City, known as the "Bishop of Chinatown” is in tho .city as one cf the visitors to the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the International Union of Gospel Missions in session at the Central Christian Church. Noonan, who has worked in the slums and lowest dives of Chinatown for twenty-five years was turned from his pursuit of crime through the influence of Mrs. . Ballington Booth, while he was still in prison stripes. He is one of the best known mission workers in New York and his influence with criminals he attributes to the fact that the "men know I know what they're up against” and to his optimism. t Want Cheerfulness “The ‘preachy’ attitude is fatal with the down and outers,” he says "You have to keep optimistic, too, to do any real good. Cheerfulness they reach for as wilted flowers turn to sunshine.” Noonan, who never knew his parents and whose boyhood was spent slinking in the gutters, his only home, stands at the door of his mission in the depths of Chinatown every night. The building was once a low dive and Chinese haunt and here every evenirfg, a homeless and ragged bread line forms. “If you haven't a friend, you can find one here.” Such signs as these greet the waiting men and after have had their bread and coffee, huhdreds of them slink past into seats to listen to what Noonan and his helpers have to say. Hundreds of sordid tales are related in these meetings by the “down and outers” and they raise their husky voices in songs under Noonan's encouragement. Saved from Crime “Sodden with drugs and drink, many gt them are,” relates Noonan j "and exciting, terrifying and strange are many of the experiences we have with them. Sometimes—in several instances, years after —they come back and tell us that coming into the mission saved them from committing grave crimes. It's a marvelously intere'sting work that we have In the tlepths of Chinatown. We never get tired or discouraged with it—we're too busy.” The Chinatown Rescue Society broadcasts a service from an old Chinese theater, every Sunday afternoon, under Noonan's supervision.

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CHARGE AGAINST DRIVERS CHANGED WHEN YOUTH DIES Pair Reslated for Manslaughter as Crash Result. Paul Peters, 14. of 2709 Jackson St., died at city hospital at 3:5 i a. m. today of injuries received Sunday

afternoon in en auto accident at King Ave. and Fourteenth St. Peters waa one of three youths Injured when the car in which they were riding, driven by Frank Hoefling, 17, of 2617 Jackson St., collided with a car driven by < ullie Craig of 1260 N. Holmes Ave. Bolli autos were traveling north on King Ave. The accident

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occurred w h e n Craig, who was ahead, turned loti into Fourteenth St. Tetcrs suffered a fractured sk.rtl and internal injuries. He never regained consciousness. Craig was arrested by police for failure to give hand signals and Hoetiing was held for speeding and reckless driving. Coroner Paul F. Robinson ordered them reslated on involuntary manslaughter charges. Hoefling was slightly injured as were James Barrett, 16, 2503 Jackson St., and Edgar Harvey, 14, 21 S. Addison St., all occupants of Hoefling's car. The dead youth is the son of Frank J. Peters Sr., Belt railroad train dispatcher. He is survived by the parents, a sister, Helen and two brothers, Gordon and Krank-Jr. Funeral arrangements have not been completed but burial will be from St. Anthony's Church, of which he was a member. Recital Postponed The regular monthly recital of the Beriault School of Expression, to have been given tonight, lias been postponed because of the death of the mother of Helen E. Volz, school secretary.

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