Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1927 — Page 11

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Lieut. L. J. Maitland

PRISON PROBE REPORT READY FOR GOVERNOR Charities Board to Submit Findings to Jackson Next Tuesday. Following a meeting of the State charities board Thursday, at which the final report on the Stephenson prison investigation was framed, it was announced that the board would reassemble next Tuesday to present the report to Governor Jackson. Absolutely no publicity has been given the affair thus far, but it is understood that the final report eventually is to be made public. A copy is to be sent to trustees at Indiana State prison, who will meet next Friday to consider the parole plea of D. C. Stephenson, former Klan dragon now serving a life time for murder. Oral argument on habeas corpus proceedings appealed from the Laporte Superior Court are to be heard before the Supreme Court on the same date. Should the lower court be reversed Warden Walter H. Daly of the prison would be required to release Stephenson. Error Alleged This plea is based on error in taking change of venue from Marion to Hamilton County for the murder trial, and is also the basis for the general rppeal now pending in the Supreme Court. The charities board investigation was launched upon request of the prison trustees. They asked that charges made by Stephenson in his plea for parole be investigated. These included alleged mistreatment at the prison, which Stephenson attributed to a plot laid by Klan Wizard Hiram Evans, Atlanta, Ga., with Warden Daly and John H. Moorman, prison trustee. All Testimony In • The board went to Michigan City and interviewed Stephenson, Daly and Moorman. Testimony was compiled and reviewed and the final report arranged at the meeting Thursday. “No more testimony will be taken,” it was announced, but no intimation of the nature of the report was given. Those attending the Thursday meeting were Secretary John A. Brown, Mgr. Francis H. Gavisk and Mrs. E. C. Rumpler, IndianapolisW. H. Eichhorn, Bluffton, and the Rev. William J. Sayers, Muncie. WANT BRIDGE RUSHED |Evansvil]e Men Ask Governor to " Speed Project. Marcus Sonntag, E. D. Wemyss and H. C. Cleymeyer, all of Evansville, yesterday conferred with the State highway commission and Governor Jackson in an effort to hasten construction of the Evansville Ohio River bridge, provision for which was made by the last Legislature. It is estimated that the structure will cost approximately $3,000,000 and is to be paid for by State, countyy and highway funds. The plans are to operate it under a toll system until the county and highway department are reimbursed. Effort is being made by private bridge builders to secure the contract and operate the toll system for profit. This is being fought by the Evansville Chamber of Commerce. PLAN HARTMAN FUNERAL Rites for Cumberland Man Will Be Held Saturday. Funeral services for William Hartman, 50, of Cumberland, Ind., wifi be-held at St. John’s Evangelical Church, Cumberland, at 2 p. m. Saturday with burial in the church cemetery. Hartman took his life late Thursday by slashing his throat with a razor. Coroner Paul F. Robinson said Hartman had made an unsuccessful attempt to end his life in the day by drinking |jolson. Relatives attributed his act to despondency over financial losses. Beside the widow, Mrs. Matilda Hartman, five children and two brothers, all of Cumberlandi, survive. Hartman lived at Cumberland lafi his life, his parents having emigrated there from Germany several years ago.

Americas Aces of Air Lined Up for Two Races Across Pacific

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Dallas-Hongkong Flight Longest Ever Tried Bu'United Press SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. With the Atlantic ocean conquered by the gleaming silver monoplanes of Charles A. Lindbergh and Clarence Chamberlin, anew challenge arises to confront the airmen of America. The Pacific ocean', never yet spanned by air, stretches in a great blue plain from San Francisco west to Asia. Its distances dwarf the flights of Lindbergh and Chamberlin. / Yet before the summer is over some of the Nation’s finest aviators will risk death for the glory of being the first to cross the Pacific by air. \ Two Races Arranged Two races have been scheduled, each for a sizeable pot of gold. First comes the San FranciscoHonolulu race, sponsored by James G. Dole, Hawaiian pineapple king, and the San Francisco Daily News, a Scripps-Howard newspaper. Dole offered $25,000 to the flyer who crossed first and SIO,OOO for second place. The News is raising a fund that eventually will boost first prize money to around $50,000.

NEGRO UNITY AT POLLSISURGED Speakers Stress Need of Political Organization. Organization of the Negroes into political groups was urged today by three speakers today at the eighteenth annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Bethel A. M. E. Church, Vermont and Toledo Sts. "Only by getting together and voting will we get the improvements that are so necessary in our communities,” William Pickens of New York, field secretary of the association, said. “If the Negroes vote it will not only benefit them, but will also strengthen the backbone of the white people who want and are willling to help the Negroes.” Bishop I. B. Scott of Nashville, Tenn., told of the difficulties of organizing Negroes in the South. “The only way to prepare the Negro for use of the ballot in 1928 is to teach him to play the game of politics right,” said Harry E. Davis of Cleveland, member of the Ohio Legislature. "Improvements around our homes, such as paved streets, sewers and good lights, can only be gotten by putting the man in office who will get those things for us.” Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr., New York, advocated the installation of machine guns and other heavy firearms to curb lynching in the South, in.an address Thursday night at Caleb Mills Hall. PRAISE NEWSPAPER ADS Public Utilities Must Foster Good Will, Says Chicagoan. Newspaper advertising is the greatest medium by which public utilities can obtain favorable public opinion, Dempster Mac Murphy, Chicago, Middle West Utilities Company public information director, told the Advertising Club at a luncheon Thursday. "Public utilities have no place for a press agent,” Mac Murphy said. "But there should be an ambassador to tne public from the utility viewpoint. Good will advertising is bringing about slowly and surely a better understanding by the public.” NURSES MAKE CHARGES Jewish Internes in Hazing Affair Face New Accusation. Bu United Press NEW YORK, June 24.—Charges which hospital authorities said would result in immediate dismissal if they were proved stood today against two of the three Jewish internes at Kings County Hospital, whose allegations that they were hazed and persecuted by Gentile internes caused an investigation of the entire public welfare department of the city. Two nurses made the charges against Drs. Hyman U, Solovay and Louis Borow.

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The. other race is longer and more difficult. It calls for a flight from Dallas, Texas, to Hongkong. A prize of $25,000 has been offered by William E. Easterwood Jr., rich Dallas chewing gum manufalturer. Only three stops are permitted in this race—at San Francisco, at Honolulu and' at either Guam or Manila. Further, the flight must be completed within 144 hours of the time it starts. It will be the most arduous distance flight ever undertaken. From San Francisco to Honolulu

SBOO,OOO HOTEL IS PLAN Firm Gets Permit to Erect 132 Apartment House. The Pennfore Realty Company, headed by Fred M. Meier, today announced plans for a 132 apartment hotel at Fourteenth and Pennsylvania Sts. The building will cost SBOO,OOO. The board of zoning appeals granted permission to build the structure if the ground floor is set back to allow for future widening of the street. An arcade will meet the requirement. Storerooms will be built on the street floor. The hotel will replace a two-story frame building at 1404 N. Pennsylvania St.

BOARD GETS PETITiON Railway Employes File Case With Commission. Six points of grievance are set forth in the arbitration petition of James Green and other employes against the Indianapolis Street Railway Company filed today with the public service commission by Attorney Frank Baker. • It sets forth that sixty-four employes were dismissed before the strike in July, 1926, in defiance of the open-shop agreement; that these employes were unjustly accused of being strikers; that extra board employes now report at 4 a. m., and often receive no work or pay; that there is not sufficient rest time between service days; that strikers who returned to work lost their seniority, and that living wages are not being paid. Return to service of strikers, restoration seniority rights and a new wage scale with a minimum of 60 cents and maximum of 65 cents is asked, with adjustment of other grievances. Present scale is 40 to' 45 cents an hour. Present petition has been turned down by company officials. Petition, was also filed today for reinstatement of Arthur Rendree, discharged employe. —6 . ELECTION BY DRUGGISTS Wood Wiles, Bloomington, Heads State Association. Bu Times Special CULVER. Ind., June 24.—W00d Wiles of Bloomington is the new president of the State Association of Retail Druggists. Other officers elected here Thursday at the closing session of the association’s convention are W. A. Oren, Indianapolis, secretary; L. G. Kramer, Michigan City; Fred Smuch, and H. W. Heine, Lafayette, vice presidents, and E. G. Buechnel, Elkhart, treasurer; Frank B. McCullough, New Albany, permanent secretary. Dog’s Snores Alarm Operator Bu Times Special WINSTED, Conn., June 24.—A telephone operator trying to put through a call was alarmed to find the line open and the sound of labored breathing coming over the wire. The owner of the house was reached and hurried home to find his dog lying close to the instrument, which he had knocked from a table.

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is 2,091 miles—nearly two-thirds of the entire distance flown by Lindbergh from New York to Paris. Every foot of this is over the open ocean. Consider, then, what awaits the Dallas-Kong fliers. Terrible Handicap First they must make the 1,500Mile flight over the Rockies from £ alias to San Francisco. Then with only a short time for tuning up and refueling, they must take off for Honolulu. And, making this hop

TWO BANKERS AREJNDICTED Columbia City Officials to Go on Trial. Two bank officials of Columbia City, Ind., must face trial on charges of conspiracy, abstraction, and embezzlement, as a result of indictments returned by the federal grand jury here. They are Archie G. Smith, vicepresident and cashier of the First National bank of Columbia City, and Frank E. Kenner,, cashier. The charges grew out of a failure of the bank. Another indictment named fcdison L. Wagner, teller of the McKeen National Bank, of Terre Haute. He is charged with abstracting more than $29,000 from the bank. Seven Indianapolis persons are named in the twenty-three indictments returned Thursday afternoon. They are: Charles H. Colvin, charged with impersonating a federal officer; Homer Billiups, Clayton Thompson, Landis Johnson, Sam Pendygraft, Walter Mueller, and Paul Mueller, charged with conspiracy to violate the national prohibition laws. The sixteen other indictments returned Thursday concerned persons in Ft. Wayne, East Chicago, South Bend, and Evansville. K.P. RALLY PLANNED Olive Branch Lodge to Give Drills. Olive Branch Lodge No. 2, Knights of Pythias, will hold a patriotic rally Saturday nijht at Castle Hall, 230 E. Ohio St. Drill teams of the lodge and Pythian Sisters give fancy drills. Chancellor Commander will preside. Archibald Hall will make the address; Robert Wenner will give a banjo solo; George Williams, a piano solo; Mrs. John Mushrush and Miss Florence Smith, readings, and a trio composed of Miss Helen Brose, piano, Otto Brose, violin and George William, cornet, will provide music. CHURCH BODY ADJOURNS Luther League Officers Installed at Richmond. Bu United Press RICHMOND, Ind., June 24.—Installation of officers closed the thirtieth annual Indiana convention of the Luther League, Indiana synod, United Lutheran Churches of America, here Thursday night. Officers are: President, the Rev. J. S. Albert of Muncie; vice president, Miss Verna Schwab of Louisville, Ky.; recording secretary, Miss Cordelia Nickel of Batesville; treasurer, Airs. Oliver C. Fetta of Indianapolis, add member of the executve comrJlttee for five years, Miss Marie Schneider, Indianapolis.

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safely, they And the worst part of the flight still ahead of them. From Honolulu to Manila is close to 5,000 miles. Many say the Dallas-Hongkong flight will never be made. Yet a number of fliers have entered this contest—chief among them Capt. William P. Irwin of Dallas, war time ace and distinguished aviator. ' Several Entries The San Francisco-Honolulu flight has drawn more entries. The

SHOOTING UNEXPLAINED Police were unable to solve the mystery connected with the firing of a shot at White River and Wash-

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Prize of $50,000 Lures Many to Frisco most famous, perhaps, are Leigh Wade, army round-the-world flier, and Linton Wells, who will travel together. Then there are Ben Stem and Jess Windham. Stern is a reporter for the Memphis (Tenn.) PressScimitar, and Windham is a Memphis aviator. These two flew hundreds of miles this spring taking pictures of the Mississippi flood for the Press-Scimitar and NEA Service, Inc. Miss Mildred Doran, of Flint, Mich., is the sale woman entrant. With a male companion, she is preparing to take off from San Francisco. Meanwhile, Lieut. Lester Maitland of the U. S. army force is piloting a big Fokker plane to the west coast preparatory to Jumping off for Hawaii. Last but not least, there is Charles Lindbergh, conqueror of the Atlantic. Sponsors of both flighths are trying to get him to enter. Whether or not they will succeed is a question; to date he has not committed himself.

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JUNE WEATHER FAILS TO STEM MARRIAGE TIDE Only One Couple Scared Out by Weather—326 Licenses Issued. Rain or shine, warm or cold, Cupid does his stuff, Indianapolis lads and lassies, and some of too mature mien to be called such a familiar term, parade into the county clerk’s office, pay $2.50 for a marriage license and hopefully promise to honor and obey. “Even this year’s cool, rainy June has failed to dampen the usual June marriage parade,” said County Clerk George R. Hutsell. His records show that only two fewer couples have gotten licenses this June than last. This year up to date, 326 licenses have been issued. “I believe the weather does account for one of those marriages this June is needing to catch up,” Hutsell said. "One day early in the month a girl and youth came back late in the afternoon with a marriage license she had gotten that morning. “It looked like rain that night and she didn’t want to get her new wedding frock wet, so she was going to wait another day to get married. She wanted the license fee back. “I don’t believe that couple ever came back.”

SEEK 100,000 MEMBERS FOR CITY LEAGUE Manager Form Friends Launch Drive Throughout Indianapolis. A drive for 100,000 members was begun today by the Indianapolis City Manager League. All citizens interested in the movement for good municipal government, advocated In the city manager plan adopted at the special election Tuesday, will be asked to Join. Sol 6chloss was named chairman of the committee to arrange a meeting of ward and precinct workers. A meeting will be called to discuss the success of the election campaign and plan for the membership drive. Other committee members are: Mrs. Lehman Dunning, organizer of women; Roy Lewis, men’s organizer, and Claude H. Anderson, executive secretary. Chairman Charles F. Coffin. J. W. Esterline, vice chairman, and Edward O. Snethen, secretary, compose the headquarters committee. Directors of the league held their first meeting Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce and authorized the membership drive. The league was formed with the Citizens Committee of I.OCO, which sponsored the election for a change of form, as a nucleus. The campaign executive committee composed of seventy civic and business leaders becomes the league board of directors. The purpose of the league is to "unite the people in a common purpose for securing and maintaining a non-partisan, economical municipal government.” Charles F. Coffin, executive chairman, said the league will be composed of persons interested in securing and permanently maintaining the business-like principles advocated in the city manager plan. Present directors will serve until the first election of commissioners, thereafter the members electing directors. An early meeting of precinct and ward workers will be called to present the membership campaign plans, said Vice Chairman John WJ Esterlin. president of EsterllgM Angus Company. The directors voted to meet every Monday at luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce. Phone Deal Approval Sought Petitions to purchase and sell have been filed with the public service commission by the Fayette Telephone Company and the Connersville Telephone Company. The latter would buy the former for $12,000.