Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1927 — Page 1

Home Edition

Read the life of Charlie Lindburgh, starting in The Times today. A chapter a day will be printed.

[VOLUME 39—NUMBER 17

LINDY TO COME BACK ON WARSHIP

LEGISLATOR LIVES; BROKE ■HI LAW t Liquor Used at Very Time jjgi Shumaker Blocked ~ Amendment, REP. EIKENBARY TALKS Wabash Official Grateful Over Violation. At the very time Indiana Legislators were being threatened, cajoled and browbeaten to prevent their consideration of an amendment to the Wright bone dry law to permit physicians to prescribe whisky, the life of a State representative was being saved by whisky, it was disclosed today. The representative is Edward E. Eikenbary, Wabash. Eikenbary, himself, added his name to the list of prominent persons, who have been compelled to violate the Wright law to save lives. His statement conies after the letter of Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom to Governor Jackson, urging the chief erecutive to use his influence to have the law changed. Gilliom disclosed that whisky, illegally procured, was used to save the lives of three Gilliom children, and of Mrs. Jackson. Shumaker Stopped It While the life of Eikenbary was being saved by whisky, an effort was being made to secure introduction of a bill in the State Legislature which would permit doctors to prescribe whisky. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-

Wright to Retire From Legislature ‘•l’m tired of notoriety," State Rep esentatire Frank Wright della; ed today, adding that he would not again be a candidate for the Indiana Legislature. Whatever "notoriety” Wright has achieved has been since his name was attached to the now famous Wright “bone-dry” law’. It is this law that does not permit liquor to be used to save life. Wright is a veteran member of the lower House, having served for many terms from Selma, Ind. Last term, however, he was one of the Marion County delegation, having moved to Indianapolis. He is employed in the securities division of the office of Secretary of State Frederick If. Schortemeier. Saloon League, since he has boasted that he prevented the introduction of this measure and said that there was "an inside story" which would be told later. Eikenbary's illness was similar to that, of the Governor's w'ife. He was stricken while attending the 1927 Legislature. For five weeks he remained at Robert Long hospital. Several times during this illness a prayer was offered in the House for his recovery. Word went out that he was near death, with a severe case of pneumonia. v His personal physician then prescribed whisky as a last resort. Some was procured —illegally of course under the Wright law—but Eikenbary's life was saved. Hospitals Praised “The doctors did what they deemed oest to save my life,” the Legislator declared. “Whatever is said about the case, I want to add a w’ord of praise for the excellent treatment I received during my five weeks at Robert Long Hospital, a State institution. “There are some persons who might misconstrue the use of whisky in the hospital, but I want to assure them that it was both prescribed end procured by my personal physician. It really worked.” Eikenbary took a prominent part in the Legislature. He was a member of Judiciary A committee and voted to irnpeach Judge Clarence W. Dearth of the Delaware Circuit Court. Muncie. During his recovery he furnished e dramatic highlight in the session of the lower "house when he was brought in in a wheel chair, accompanied by doctors and nurses, to cast a vote in favor of the medical injunction law. *1 WILL FIGHT FORD’ Sapiro Plans to Show Genius Distorted Religious Views. \Bv Thy it erf Pres* NEW YORK. May 31. —“I intend to fight Ford," Aaron Sapiro, cooperative marketing organizer, told an audience in Carnegie Hall last toight. The speech concerned his recent f1.000,000 libel suit trial in Detroit Which ended in a mistrial. “I want to get Henry Ford on the stand and tear away the veil of sec"'recy,” Sapiro said. “I want to show the world that he may be a genius at. mass production, but that he has distorted their minds and souls whent when it comes to giving them freedom in religion.”

The Indianapolis Times COMPLETE REPORT OP. WORLD-WIDE OF THE UNITED PRESS

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

Governor Ordered in Court June 11

Judge Leathers Directs Him to Answer on Assets of Steve. JACKSON SAYS NOTHING Move by Attorney for D. C.’s Former Wife. Governor Ed Jackson today was ordered by Superior Court Judge James M. Leathers to appear in court on June 11 for examination in the suit of Mrs. Nettie Stephenson Brehm, D. C. Stephenson's former wife, for $10,600 from the imprisoned Klan chief. Governor Jackson was named garnishee defendant in the suit when it was charged that he had had in his possession money and a car partly belonging to Stephenson. Mrs. Martha Dickinson, Stephenson’s former confidante, also was made a garnishee defendant. Judge Leathers signed the order for the Governor’s appearance upon application of Attorney Gloyd Mattice, representing Mrs. Brehm. Jackson Noncommittal Jackson refused to state whether he would appear or fight the court order. Jackson several days ago entered a written denial to the charges made by Mrs. Brehm. He acted as his own attorney. —Jackson's alleged connection with a Stephenson auto was brought to light by the testimony of Fred O. Butler, Stephenson former secretary, at a hearing on the suit. Butler's Story Butler testified that Stephenson traded in an old car on anew Lexington sedan, and turned the n&w car over to Jackson, who paid the difference between the “turn in" value and the purchase price. Jackson denied the transaction. Mrs. Brehm is seeking the $10,600 as support for her daughter, Florence Catherine Stephenson, 11. No action was taken to have Mrs. Dickinson to make a personal appearance in court.

KING FERDINAND REPORTED DYING Asks Coalition Government as Final Wish. Bi/ United Press BUCHAREST, May 31—King Ferdinand of Roumania was believed dying today. The King, critically ill for months, summoned Premier Averescu to his bedside and formally asked him and the rest of his cabinet to resign in favor of a coalition cabinet, embracing all parties, tl was understood to have been presented to Averescu as a dying request, the King anxious as his last act to bring order into the kingdom’s confused political situation. The premier was expected to yield. Physicians were understood to have confirmed reports that the King's cancer has reached the final stage.

TWO INJURED DRIVERS IN SERIOUS CONDITION Jules Ellingboe and Henry Kohlert Not Out of Danger; Norman Batten Recovering.

Three drivers remained in Methodist Hospital tjday as a result of accidents in Monday's Speedway race. Jules Ellingboe, Memphis, Tenn., and Henry Kohlert, St. Charles. 111., in the two most serious smashups are not out of danger, according to physicians. Their condition was reported as “fair” at the hospital. At noon Kohlert was slightly improved and Ellingboe was about the same, hospital attaches said. Norman Batten, New York City, is recovering from serious burns on the legs and arms and bad lacerations on his hands, suffered when he dived head first from his blazing car. EUingboe has a crushed chest with serious internal injuries. His steering wheel pinned him to the track after his car turned over sev-

Bored in Life , 'Asks Shocking Death Du United Press OSSINING, N* Y„ May 31. A young man frqm Paterson, N. J., called on Warden Lawes of Sing Sing Penitentiary, and qsked to he put to death in the electric chair because he was “tired of living.” The warden sent the young man to New York with an escort.

MOST ABLEI MAN WOULD BE MANAGER View of Homer Borst in Predicting Victory at Plan Election. END TO FACTIONS SEEN Addresses Central States Envelope Employes. The city manager form of government will mean elimination of the •'past master of getting a job," man at the head of city affairs and will substitute a man qualified “to conduct the Job,” Homer Borst. Community Fund secretary, asserted at a noonday meeting at the Central States Envelope Company, 16 S. Sherman Dr. The political war between political factions will be a thing of the past, Borst said. If the city votes Tor the manager form June 21. He predicted a manager victory: “What all of us want from our city is something for our money and , something for our interest," Borst j said. Welfare Certain "That means not only honest ad J ministration, but administration which has forethought and is stantly planning public service on such sound and progressive lines Manager Forces at Evansville Win Fu United Press EVANSVILLE, Tnd.. May 31. Forces fighting for a city manager election here won a victory today when Specistl Circuit Judge Cutler ordered City Clerk Louis Sarlls to certify a petition calling for an election to the city council. Sarlls refused to certify the petition when presented to him and manager forces brought mandamus action against him. Sarlls' counsel announced they would appeal to the State Supreme Court. Appeal would make It virtually impossible to hold a city manager election here this year, as the law I provides it shall he held not less than thirty and not more than sixty days after May 1. that its contribution to the happiness and welfare of citizens is unmistakable. Os course, there •is a large business element in this program. Cities are, to a large extent, business corporations. ‘City ordinance# are. in a large measure, similar to the resolutions passed by boards of directors of private corporations. It seems to me that the manager form holds out promise of an administration which will he honest, as a matter of course, will recognize the buslnes sside of city government to the fullest extent, but at the same time make all of these considerations subservient (Turn to Page 13)

eral times. The car had hit the wall on the northwest turn. Kohlert has jg. fractured skull, crushed face and body bruises. His accident was one of the most spectacular mishaps in Speedway history. Kohlert, according to observers, hit the southwest turn too fast and struck the wall. Accounts of witnesses differ, but the general testimony was that the car swerved out(Turn to Page 6)

Courage Lindbergh's Heritage

Editor's Note: Capt. Charles A Lindbergh, New Y’ork to Paris flier, inherited courage, his biographer deelares. The first chapter of the aviator s life story follows. By Morris De Haven Tracy United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 19-7. by the United Press) CHAPTER I Charles A. Lindbergh's greatest aversion is his own curly blonde hair. He likes French pastry well enough to ask an ambassador for a second helping, but he likes pie better. Asa boy he played with the other kids and in college he liked to make experiments in the laboratories but disliked to write up his notes, so he didn’t write them. Which are just some of the things

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1927

‘OLD GIRL, YOU’RE SOME BOAT,’ SAYS SOUDERS TO 500-MILE STEED

' . . -

Stiff and Sore, He Hies Early to Speedway to See Her. A blue-eyed young man stood over car No. 32 at the Indianapolis Speedway today, looked down Into the tiny engine, and smiled. “Old girl,” he said, "you're some boat for taking’punlshment.’' And there you have the philosophy which governs George Souders wh#n he takes No. 32 into competition for Speedway prizes. Still stiff and sore from his gruel- ' ling achievement of Memorial day when he won the annual Indianapolis Motor Speedway race by outdriving. outmaneuvering and outdistancing some thirty-two other drivers, Souders was at the track j early this morning. His first thought when he awak- | oned this morning was “of the old [ boat.” And while he went over it, finding things wrong here and there, a Times reporter asked him how it feels suddenly to step Into the elite circle of racing drivers. “I'm still wondering what it's all about,” he said, “can'k seem to get it through my head that it's all true. I’ve dreamed about winning this race I guess every driver does —but 1 wasn't looking to win one so soon. George still reminds one very much of a college boy. He's only 26 now. Out of Purdue for five years he's stifl too collegiate to wear a hat, clinging religiously to a cap. His pants are of the college variety. His tie —well, it has plenty of color. He doesn't know exactly why he's a race driver —except that "I’ve had a hankering to be one ever since I've been big enough to drive an automobile. “Down in Lafayette,” he said, “where I ltve, I used to be thinking about automobiles when the rest of the boys were playing baseball. Went through high school with thoughts like that. When I got into college, I couldn’t seem to get settled into studies. Always was thinking about speed. Got through two years at Purdue and then decided it was about time to do some of this driving I'd been dreaming about." Souders' first public appearance as (Turn to Page 6) Visitors’ Auto Stolen Harold Heiser, Muskegon, Mich., said his auto was stolen from Louisiana and Meridian Sts. The car contained coats and field glasses valued at $75. Among the auto theft reports, police say five speedway visitors were listed as having their means of transportation back home stolen.

which go to show that Charles A. Lindbergh is no superman different from other people, but is just a normal American youth who had three outstanding characteristics, namely complete mastery of himself, direction in life and great courage. Before going a bit behind the scenes he may seem only an amazing adventurer. You believe he must be a genius and that Charlie Lindbergh just happened to be born blessed with luck and a darling of circumstance. But if when one is amazed - at his splendid tact shown in a speech of 100 words which sends a. gathering of French statesmen and citizens into wild enthusiasm, it is recalled (

SOSfIMI I ■'wtrrqi ip wj JgppIIIIMPNM

Above —One of the most spectacular scenes of Monday's Speedway race. Norman Batten's flaming car coasting to a stop at the southwest turn after Batten had lewped out opposite the pits. The car. chased by firemen and guards, coasted 500 feet, leaving a trail of blazing oil and gas. Below—You must shout when you congratulate a, Speedway winner. The long grind denfens them. William White, California sportsman, who owns the winning car, congratulating George Souders.

WFBM to Close for Expansion Tonight WFBM. Indianapolis Power and Light Company broadcasting station. will close for the summer after its program tonight, Bailey Fesler, program director, announced today, to permit enlargement of the static " The closing date had been announced as June 15. Anew building is to be built for the radio equipment and the transmitting apparatus improved. Dr. Jackson Renamed Dr. F. E. Jackson, city health hoard president, today was renamed for another term by Mayor Duvall. Dr. Jackson was appointed to the hoard last June. Duvall said no other terms expired this year.

that his father was a power to be met in politics for twenty years and his grandfather sat in the Parliament of Sweden, it is realized tha his heredity is one which points to such skill. When one reads of his exquisite courage, It can be recalled that his grandfather lost his right arm hewing at the trees to clear his homestead in the Minnesota forests and a few months later was back wielding in his left hand his great ax once more. And it was his own father, who, because he was busy, summoned a friend to an operating room where surgeons were operating upon him,

Outside of Marlon County 12 Cents Per Week. Single Copies

Police Pursuing Parrot Pilferer It the loot ever begins to talk, a thief might find himself in trouble. Clinton Puckett, 541‘a S. New Jersey St., told police that on Sunday his parrot flew out of the window. A truck driver caught the bird and drove away. Puckett asked police to retrieve his lost pet, valued at $35. New York State Loses Hi/ United Press WASHINGTON, May 31. —The State of Illinois and the Chicago sanitary district today won their attempt in United States Supreme Court to have eliminated from the Great Lakes water diversion suit against them the charge of damaging New York State's hydro-elec-tric power resources in the Niagara and other international rivers.

and for an hour while the surgeons worked, without an anaesthetic, talked politics and then feared his friend, not himself, had suffered. When one reads of his liking for mechanics and desire for attempting that which is new. it is recalled that his maternal grandfather, Dr. C. H. Land, was an inventor, and was a pioneer of modern dentistry. Thus courage, the steadfast purpose and the simplicity of Charles Lindbergh’s great feat of flying the Atlantic can be traced back through years and years. One finds that the blood of the Norsemen in him is mixed with the blood of the crusaders of the England of King Rich(Tum to Page 12)

THREE CENTS

Paris Flier Accepts The Times’ Sug- ... gestion and Will Leave Havre, ' i France, for Home Saturday. CHARLIE MEETS KING, PRINCE Atlantic Hopper Greeted and Feted by Enthusiastic Englishmen. Charles Lindbergh will start home Saturday on an American warship. The riving hero announced in London today that he had iinally accepted the invitation of his Government to ride home upon the Destroyer Breck, which leaves Havre, France, Saturday. The invitation was authorized by President Coolidge upon suggestion of The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers the day after Lindbergh lauded in Paris.

Lindbergh said his plane. Spirit of St. Louis, in which he made his non-stop flight from New York to Paris, would be shipped from Southampton on Thursday aboard the George Washington of the United States lines. Lindbergh said he would fly from London to Paris on Thursday in a machine of the British Royal Air Force. After saying farewell to Paris, he will fly in the same machine to the point where he will embark.

ENGLAND’S KING PINS MEDAL ON LINDBERGH

Fv United Press LONDON, May 31.—King George today received Charles Lindbergh at Buckingham Palace and bestowed on the trans-Atlantic aviator the Air Force Cross. Llndy’s visit to Buckingham Palace came after he had said au revoir to his monoplane, which carried him from New York to Paris, Brussels and London. He flew the plane from Cory don to Gosport, where it was to be dismantled for shipment to the United States. His Majesty King George V can put on a fine show for Lindy in the way of smart and gaily arcourtered SCRIPPS-HOWARD BALLOON IN AIR Fourteen Other National Race Entrants Still Up. Bu United press AKRON. Ohio. May 31.—Two balloons of the fifteen which started from here late yesterday in the national balloon race had reported their whereabouts today, about 300 miles from Akron. The others were beljeved still in the air. A balloon believed to be \the Scripps Howard, was sighted by a resident of Lake Alexander, about forty miles from Buffalo, N. Y., early today. The resident said he talked with the balloon by megaphone and the pilot asked the direction to Buffalo. Lieut. T. G. W. Steele, in Navy No. 1, passed over Rochester, N. Y., at 7 a. m., officials here were advised. Another message came from C. D. Williams, Jr., Detroiter No. 1. He dropped a note at Gratz, Pa., at 5 a. m„ saying he was 500 feet up. A large balloon was sighted at Pittsford. N. Y., twelve miles from Rochester, about 3,000 to 4.000 feet high.

BOY KNIGHTS OF ROAD UNHORSED BY SIR LAW Race-Errant Trio of Shelbyville Awaits at Detention Home —One Parent Has Claimed Own.

“We've met the enemy and, gee, but they've got a big, ugly jail.” That in substance was what three thrill seekers, the oldest 14, said at the Detention Home today. They were being held "under orders,” which means in this instance arrival of their parents. The boys are John Tuley, 13, Carl Beasley, 13, and Walter Copple, 14. A fourth member of the crew of wanderers, Clifford Burkett, 10, has “been sunk' without a trace.” His daddy came after him. Hop a Freight The boys came to Indianapolis from their home in Shelbyvtlle Monday to see the Speedway race. But the nearest they got to the race was the Big Four yards, where they planned to "hop a freight" which might bear them homeward. The youngsters were sitting alongside the road in Shelbyville Monday morning watching the throng of race fans stream by. “Let's go to the laces,” Copple suggested eagerly. “We can get a ride.” A chorus of "uh-huhs!” A slight acquaintance—a Shelbyville man—brought them here. The morning passed while they played around the Prospect St.

Forecast Mostly cloudy tonight, and Wednesday, with not much change in temperature expected.

TWO CENTS

MARION COUNTY

The U. S. destroyer Breck on which Lindy will return, is a modern vessel which has just completed a year's service in European waters. She is a unit of Destroyer Division 25, and is commanded by Lieutenant Commander J. H. Magruder Jr. The destroyer selected to bring (he plucky flier home was named after another plucky man, acting volunteer Lieutenant Commander Joseph B. Breck. Civil War hero.

troops and Lindbergh learned as much today. A band of 250 pieces played martial airs outside the palace all the while Lindbergh was with the King and 1,000 soldiers comprising detachments of the Welsh. Scottish, Irish and Grenadier Guards marched past. Plane Dismantled After flying to Gosport. 75 miles i away, Lindbergh returned to Cory- | don as a passenger in a Royal Aitforce plane and dressed at once for | his visit to King George, the second j monarch he has greeted within four days. The Air Force cross was his third 1 decoration from a European nation France made him a Knight of the Legion of Honor and King Albert o' the Belgians made him a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold. The meeting between the Prince of Wales and Lindbergh, the two most popular and famous unmarried

Flight Pictures Arrive Bu United Press NEW YORK. May 31 —First pictures and news reels of the arrival of Charles Lindbergh at La Bouiget field and at the American embassy in Paris arrived today on the White Star liner .Majestic. /The pictures were printed in today's editions of the New York papers and the films were shown in movie houses. The pictures and films were being distributed through the interior by air mail.

young men in the world, was private. Wales received Lindbergh in his private apartments alone. Buckingham Palace officials gathered in the vestibule to welcome Lindbergh, Princess Elizabeth, the infant daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York was brought down by her nurse to see Lindbergh. Lindbergh probably will decide to day whether to return to the United (Turn to rage 13)

bridge. With the afternoon came thoughts of home. They headed for town and found the Pennsylvania-Big Four crossing. The tower attendant, directed them to a freight, which was headed westward. A detective stopped them. “Better let me call some friends and have them taake you to town." he said to the quartet of adventurers. “They’ll see that you get a bus home." “Ain't This Fine?" A bus! The boys agreed. "An’ ain't this a fine-lookin' bus?" young Beasley piped up, surveying the Detention Home walla. The boys parents were notified and John Burkett came after his 10-year-old this morning “111 aettle with that scoundrel that brought them here," he growled as he departed. Mrs. Ethel Beasley and Harry Tuley were due here to get their wanderers this afternoon, as was Mrs. William Thrasher, mother of Walter Copple. Hourly Temperatures R a. 69 10 a. m...... 65 7 a. m* 69 11 a. m 68 8 a. m 60 13 (noon) .... 70 9 a. m...... 61 1 p. tl