Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1927 — Page 3

JOTE 27, 1927

NEW OIL STOCK SCANDAL ROCKS SAN FRANCISCO Two Federal Courts Name Receivers for Julian Petroleum. BY FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW (United Press Staff Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, June 27.—The multi-million dollar Julian Petroleum Corporation stock swindle, qualified to go down in history with the “Mississippi Bubble” and other financial scandals, will re-enter the San Francisco courts today. With an audience of over 40,000 Californians who have invested in what is alleged to be an issue of fraudulent and unauthorized stock to the astounding total of $140,000,000 eagerly watching the proceedings, two Federal judges will appear before a third and higher court here. Each judge has appointed a set of receivers for A. C. Wagy & Cos., a brokerage house which also went to smash in the wrecking of Julian “Pete.” Judges Disagree One judge ordered the State corporation commissioner, John M. Friedlander, to deliver to his receivership appointees the books and records of the brokerage firm. The other judge issued an order forbidjng him to do so. v The higher court, the Circuit Court of Appeals, will have to decide which of the conflicting orders by the two Federal jurists is to be respected, and which set of receivers is actually to act with authority. It is said that such a situation has never before occurred in the history of California jurisprudence. The financial foundation of the entire State has been rocked by the $140,000,000 explosion of Julian “Pete.” The hitherto immaculate reputations of leading financiers, movie millionaire, high political figures and civic leaders are being spattered with oil as the slow litigation goes on. Exposed Through Sale The story of the Julian promotion is more astonishing than anything concocted by J. Rufus Wallingford in hjs prime. Briefly, it is that of a clique of operators who arrived in Los Angeles from New York and Texas a year ago and took over a tottering $30,000,000 oil concern. In one hectic year, unauthorized and over-issued stock to a value of $140,000,000 is alleged to have been issued, and when the collapse came some 40,000 Californias of a speculative turn of mind found that they had been “done in oil.” The false inflation was discovered when the California-Eastern Oil Company completed negotiations to buy the Julian concern, and tried to effect a stock transfer by issuing shares of California-Eastern for those of Julian. SOUTH DEATH TOLL IS 13 Seven Drown; Cars Kill Six in Oklahoma, Arkansas. Bu United Press OKLAHOM CITY, Okla., June 27. —Thirteen deaths occurred in Oklahoma and Arkansas over the weekend as crowds sought means to escape excessive heat in the two States, according to reports reaching here. Seven persons drowned and six .lost their lives in motor car accidents: Five persons were drowned here and one in Van Buren, Ark., while five others were killed in motor car accidents in Oklahoma and two in Arkansas. FILM STARS HONEYMOON Thousands See Rod Laßocque and Vilma Banky Marry. Bu United Press HOLLYWOOD. Cal., June 27. Vilma Banky and Rod La Rocque, noted screen lovers, were en route to Vancouver today on their honeymoon which will include a two months’ tour of the Canadian Rockies. Miss Banky, whose name in her native village in Hungary was Vilma Konsics, and La Rocque, were married yesterday in the Church of The Good Shepherd in Beverley Hills. Thousands of persons assembled to view the event.

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Homer gave Helen beauty. Erskine endows her with brains as well. In the forthcoming serial, she uses both these gifts to tffe utter consternation of her seriousminded daughter and the unending distraction of her gullible husband. You’ll enjoy every line of this sprakling satire of modern times thru the lips of the ancients. THE PRIVATE LIFE of HELEN of TROY Beginning June 30 in The Indianapolis Times To Be Sure of Getting Your Copy Phone Main 3500

Are You Here? Three More Win Prizes

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Can it be possible that this trio is thinking they would like to see Colleen Moore in “Naughty But Nice” this week at the Circle, where Vincent Lopez is playing with his Casa Lopez orchestra? They can be the guests of The Times by identifying themselves to the Whoozit Editor. The tickets each for the three young ladies are waiting. And the lady who is so intently interested in one of the downtown shop windows can have two seats for “Ice Bound,” in which McKay Morris and Ann Davis are starred

STATE’S DRIVE FOR PURE MILK MEETSSUCCESS Indiana is forging ahead steadily in its campaign for pure milk, according to F. C. Wilson, State board of health milk inapector. Wilson declared that milk sanitation was more complete at the present time than at any period in the State’s history. Commenting upon reports that the Illinois beard of health was going to use an up-to-date, motordrawn laboratory to make milk inpections in various parts of the State, Wilson said: “I can only commend this move by the Illinois board to check up on the dairies of the State, but in fairness to Indiana I wish to point out that this State had such a traveling chemical and bacteriological laboratory as far back as 1921. In 1923, according to Wilson, demands upon the traveling laboratory became so numerous that it was impossible to take care of them. “We were overwhelmed with inspection requests,” he declared. “So we decided to bring our equipment back to Indianapolis and establish a ‘centralized’ laboratory. “We purchased the best possible testing equipment and installed it at the food and drug laboratories at the Statehouse.” Since 1923, he explained, the department has kept a close check on conditions throughout the State,samples of milk being sent from every Indiana community by board of health inspectors and tested chemically and bacteriologically at the Indianapolis office. “Os course, where local health officers are active, we depend upon them to watch their dairies. In this manner we have made it almost im possible to obtain impure or contaminated milk from Indiana dairies,” Wilson said.

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this week at Keith’s by the Stuart Walker Company: “Ice Bound” in this hot weather —what a treat! And here’s laugh a on “Whoozit!” Man Gets Tickets In preparing pictures for last Friday’s issue of Whoozit a mere man in the background went unnoticed. Mr. Mere man saw himself, though, and came in to get his tickets. He proved to be Ed Tobin, 4751 E. Washington St., a pressman on the Indiahapolis News. He went out smiling with two seats. Free theater tickets for persons

DAutremonts Snared By 2,500,000 Posters

Postal Inspector Tells How Mail Bandits Were Trailed. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, June 27.—The extent to which the Government went to apprehend the D’Autremont brothers was revealed today by Postal Inspector Grant B. Miller. Miller said the postoffice department sent out more than 2,500,000 circulars to locate the brothers, charged with dynamiting a mail train at Siskiyou, Oregon, in October, 1923. In the robbery one mail clerk v'as killed by the explosion and three more of the train crew shot. In Six Languages The circulars all bore excellent photographs and detailed descriptions of the trio. Up to the time the youngest brother, Hugh, was arrested in Manila Feb. 11, the department had sent out 2,144,000 in English, 215,000 in Spanish, 65,000 in French, 35,000 in German, 25,000 in Portuguese and 10.000 in Dutch. A- soldier returning from the Philippines was struck with the resemblance to a soldier in his regiment, and told the department in San Francisco of his suspicions. An inspector sent to Manila arrested Hugh D’Autremont two weeks later. With the work of detection but one-third finished the government did not quit. Stick to Trail “I had 75,000 special posters of the two remaining brothers prepare*! and sent to every postmaster in the United States with instrucions to display them prominently,” Miller said. Miller said that displaying of one of these posters at Steubenville, Ohio, led to the arrest and confession of Ray and Roy D’Autremont, twin brothers, two weeks ago. At the time of their arrest Postal Inspector C. W. Long was in Jacksonville, Oregon, arranging for the trial of the younger brother. “Long drove 15 miles by auto In 12 minutes to catch a train for Sacramento, talked to me by long distance telephone from there Friday morning, reached Cleveland by airplane Saturday morning and was talking to the prisoners in Columbus five hours later,” Miller said.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Monte Bose, 403 Wild Bank Bldg., Ford, 18-882, from Pennsylvania and Thirteenth Sts. J. M. Davis, 1242 N. Alabama St., Chevrolet, 526-719, from 500 block N. Alabama St. W. H. James, 2937 Madison Ave., Chrysler, 396-459, from Walnut and Meridian St. J. E. Bennett, 1325 Oliver Ave., Ford, 407 from in front of that adMargaret Hall, 500 Fletcher Trust Bldg., Ford, 570-207, from Market and Alabama St.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by police belong to: General Outdoor Advertising Company, 120 W. Maryland St., Ford, found at 821 Birch St.

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whose pictures appear is the rule, even though they be in the background. Minus the package she carried in her arms in the photograph, Mrs. E. H. Grubb, 2241 Brookside Ave., identified herself, as did Mrs. G. A. Oakes, 428 N. Bosart Ave. Miss Mary C. Reeves, 2545 Broadway, on the extreme right in tlje Friday picsaid she did not know what it was all about when she saw the photographer at work, but “it does pay to read The Times always." You may appear tomorrow—it will pay you to watch this space. P. S. —So far “Whoozit” has a perfect score- each picture printed has been identified, proving that The Times is widely read.

PRISONER IN ICEBOX Bandit Locks Up Attendant ✓ and Takes $75. An unarmed bandit locked W. A. Bates, attendant of the Polar l£e and Fuel Company, cash and carry station at Thirty-Fourth and Illinois Sts., in the station ice box this morning and robbed the cash register of approximtaely $75. Dr. S. G. Bush, dentist at 3415 N. Illinois St., heard Bates pounding on the door and released him as the bandit drove out the rear of the station property in his Ford coupe. The bandit asked Bates for fifty pounds of ice and locked him up when Bates went into the ice compartment. 'He scorned pennies, nickels and checks in the cash draw-er. BLAME ALCOHOL FOR CRASH WITH TROLLEY Auto Driver, Injured in Smash-Up, Charged With Drunkenness. Alcohol, autos, street cars and speed don’t mix, Police Lieutenant Forsythe declared today. If they do, it usually takes police ambulances and what not to untangle the mess. John “Jack” Kern, 40, of 209 N. Temple Ave., is held in the city hospital detention ward, charged with driving while intoxicated. He is injured internally. Driving his auto at an estimated speed of thirty-five miles an hour east on Thirteenth St., Kern is alleged to have crashed into the side of an outbound College Ave. street car. The auto engine was driven back into the body of the auto and the motor caught fire. Firemen from Engine House 16 at Sixteenth St. and Ashland Ave., in charge of Lieutenant Geizendanner, / extinguished the flames. G. O. P. at Anderson Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 27.—Republicans are expected heer from all parts of Indiana Tuesdap night at a banqueet which will be addressed by Frank Mondell, Wyoming, former Republican floor leader in the House. Attendance of 500 is forecast.

Grotto Corps to Be at Convention

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Sahara Grotto Drum and Bugle Corps, which will, be one of the uniformed bodies of the local Grotto at the Grotto international convention at Cleveland next week.

Five hundred members of Sahara Grotto will attend the convention. The delegates will leave here at 8:30

CIRCUS ESSAY WRITERS HAVE UNTILTUESDAV Times Contest Will Give 50 Children Chance to See Show Free. Indianapolis boys and girls under 16 years of age have twenty-four hours more before closing time of the great circus contest. At promptly 6 o’clock Tuesday night the deadline arrives for the essays, and all articles should either be in the hands of the Circus Editor or in the postoffice. . Unless your letter is postmarked before 6 o'clock it will not receive attention by the judges. Fifty tickets will be awarded the writers of the fifty best essays, while all others who submit articles will receive a special ticket that, when presented with 25 cents, will be good for admission at the afternoon performance onljK on Thursday, when John Robinson's Circus exhibits on Sugar Grove Ave., near Eighteenth St. All tickets are good for the matinee only. Everybody Has Chance Several hundred letters have been received by the Circus Editor, bid this does not mean that the tunity is not available for w inning a prize. All essays received previous to 6 o’clock will receive careful attention at the hands of the judges and the winners will be announced in The Times on Wednesday kfternoon. Tickets will be presented on that day and also on Thursday at The Times office. Essays are limited- to 150 words and the subject must be “Animals. If you like the elephant better than a camel, then dash off some nice words on paper and forward immediately to The .Times. Or the boys and girls can write on lions, tigers bears, pumas, leopards, giraffes kangaroos, ostriches, zebras, monkeys or any of the other hundred species found in the augmented me■agerie carried by John Robinson Even the ponies, horses and donkeys are included, as they all come under the same category. Last 1927 Circus The Times wants every boy and girl in Indianapolis to attend thr urcus and all the fifty winners wil! receive special consideration. So if you want to be in the list get busy immediately and write 150 words about your favorite animal. If you need additional information call at The Times office and get a free copy of a “Short Lesson in Zoology,” which tells of all species and specimens. The Robinson Circus will be the j last b!g “white top” of the sum- ! mer, and after the tents are folded hnd the long trains pull out of the city, all thoughts as to the “white be dismissed until the spring of 1928 rolls around, it is announced.

‘Sugar Alky’ New Foe of Dry Sleuths

And now it’s Sugar Alky. Harassed agents all but exhausted running down the myriad moonshine products have anew one to cope with, according to Indiana Federal Dry Chief George £j. Winkler. The new potion Is sugar alky. Copn liquor distillers have turned from the fields of ripening ears to the manufacture of alcohol from sugar because of the larger profits from the product, Winkler said. A special study of the new situation is being made by dry sleuths, already considerable quantities of sugar alky having reached bootlegging channels and a number of sugar alcohol stills set up in the middle West, according to Winkler. Rum runners are seeking chemists throughout the country who can find a method to remove the unpalatable aldehol in denatured alcohol. Dry agents report that nearly every chemist in New York City has been approached by bootlegger representatives. Joins Indiana University R. Clyde White has joined the sociology staff of Indiana University, and will aid Prof. U. G. Weatherly In the extension division, 319 N. Pennsylvania St. He is a graduate of and Columbia Universities, and Union Theology Seminary. He has had wide experience in social work in New York City and Texas. Radio Dealers Convene Here than 200 radio dealers gathered in Indianapolis today for a sales convention of the H. T. Electric Company, Atwater Kent radio distributors for forty-two central Indiana counties. The sessions are at the Severin.

a. m. Tuesday on a special train. Sppcial cars on the train will carry delegates from Lafayette, Terre

Dog Wins First Round

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Nellie used to be Just a forlorn street roamer. kicked and scorned. But now she is engaging the attention of high-priced lawyers and sedate judges. Humane Officer Harry Moran, who rescued Nellie from a medical laboratory. is pictured with her.

WOMAN KILLED, 23 INJURED IN AUTD ACCIDENTS One woman was killed and j tweny-three persons injured in auomobile acceidents here Sunday. Mrs. Wilcox, 45, of Nashville Ind., diem at city hospital following an accident Sunday aternoon at Eighteenth and Harding Sts., when the car in which she was ridinr was sruck by one driven by William F. Jones. 21, of Bloomington. Alice Wilcox, 17, her daughter; Mrs. Louis Voland, 65, and Walter Voland. 21, her son, were also injured and taken to city hospital All were from Nashville. Auto Hurtled Into Air Witnesses said Jones was speeding west on Eighteenth St. The other automobile, driven by Voland, was hurtled into the air and overturned twice. ' r Jones’ car skidded sixty feet, police say. He was arrested for assault and battery, reckless driving and vagrancy. Upon the death of Mrs. Wilcox, he was reslated on an involuntry manslaughter charge. The Nashville residents were visiting at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Floyd. 1416 Roache St., and had started home. Mr. and Mrs. W. parents of the driver of the second car. and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dechard, all cf Bloomington, were riding with Jones; but escaped injury. Boy Badly Hurt Vincent Commons. 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Commons, 1329 Blaine Ave., is in a serious condition at city hospital with a possible skull fracture and internal injuries, suffered when struck at E. Tenth St., and Eagle Creek Sunday afternoon by an automobile driven by Albert Askew, 884 N. Oxford St. The boy stepped from Jiehind a parked truck into the path of the car, witnesses said. Seven persons were taken to city hospital Sunday night following an accident near Cumberland on National Rd. Mrs. Leona Allison. 1351 Brookside Ave., is the most seriously injured. Others Injured Others injured were: Cleo Allison, 1351 Brookside Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dunham, 1851 Ingram St., and their three children, Selma, 4; Coline, 2 and Dorothy, 5 months; Mrs. Louise Barner, 29, Negro, 955 Miley Ave.; Link Barner, 45, Negro, same address. Miss Anna Gaston, 12, Negro, 424 Minerva St.; Miss Bessie James, 24, Blue Island, 111.; Herbert Honeycutt, 18, Southport; Paul Jones, 4. 26 N. Jefferson Ave; Robert Woods, 30, 2418 Southeastern Ave. and his 5-year-old daughter, Dorothy; George Goss, 536 N. Delaware St.; Mrs. Blanche Layton. 28, 1744 Draper St. and David Mitchell, 67, Negro, 523 Indiana Ave'. Autoists Rob Pedestrian Lamont Hammer, 1712 ( N. Alton St., reported to police that he was walking near the intersection of Rockville and National Rds. at 1 a. m. today when he passed two men in an auto. They asked him a dirfttion and when he stepped nearer the auto to better under it the driver thrust a gun at him. he told police. The other man alighted from the car, searched and took $1.25.

Haute, and Evansville. It Is anticipated that the Cleveland convention will be the largest of a fraternal kind ever held.

Law Vs. Law Bu Times Special EL WOOD, Ind., June 27. Motorcycle Policeman Merida chased a speeding motorist three miles. He finally caught up and found the pursued was Sheriff Daniels making a fast trip on official business.

196 GIANTS OF INDUSTRY EARN THREE BILLION Bu t nitrd press WASHINGTON. .June 27.—One hundred ninety-six of Americas giant corporations make a total of more than three billion dollars in 1925, or almost half the net earnings of all the 430,000 American corporations for the year. The figures are contained in the treasury’s analysis of 1925 income, inheritance and ‘bo.poration tax collections on 1923 income, made public today, the first complete analysis of the workings of the 1926 tax law. Each of the 196 giants made $5,000,000 net incomes or over, and their average net income, the total being $3,097,610,000. was about $15,800,000. It’s All Clear This represents profits alone, expenses being deducted before they reported the taxable income. The figures also showed that 1.113 corporations, including the 196 noted above had net incomes of $1,000,000 or more apiece, a total of $4,973,863,000 and an average of $4,470,000. At the other end of the scale were 177,738 corporations, or two-out-of-five of the 430.000 reporting, which had no net income for the year and which reported a total deficit of almost two million dollars. Records Shattered The total net income of the 252.000 corporations which reported making money was $9,583,000. This is a record-breaking figure, almost exactly two billions more than the figure of $7,685,000,000. Subtracting the losses reported from the 1925 total gives approximately $7,600,000,000 as the total net income of all American corporations for the year, which is also a record-breaking figure. The corporations paid total taxes of $1,170,000,000. almost a $300,000,000 increase over the preceding year’s figure of $881,000,000. The 1926 law raised the tax on corporation incomes to a flat 13 per cent, in place of the flat 124 per cent previously assessed. Auto Supply Store Robbed Thieves broke in a window and stole tires, tubes and accessories worth sllO, Ralph Dieckman, proprietor of the Dieckmann Auto Supply Company, 705 Washington St., reported to police.

Excursions

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MINE STRIKERS ! FACING DANGER OF FREEZEOUT Water and Lights Shut Off, Hucksters Barred, By Corporation. Bu United Prc&s PITTSBURGH. Pa., June 27. Cutting off city water and electric lights and barring fruit and vegetable hucksters from its mining villages, the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation has begun a ‘freeze-out* campaign'Ukgainst striking miners at its pits on the outskirts of this city, union officials charged today. With its plan to evict strikers blocked by court action, the company apparently intends to speed evacuation by making life so uncomfortable for the miners that they will surrender and lc^ve. Philip Murray, international vice president of the United Mine Workers, today charged that water had been disconnected at two mines; that lights had been cut off at a number of villages, and that milk dealers and hucksters are barred. Osier Admits Moves George F. Osier, vice president of the coal corporation, admitted all these moves, except that relating to milk. He said the milk companies . refused to deliver, for fear of age to their wagons. A Strikers declare that, bakery wagß ons. butcher carts, icc trucks an<H other food delivery services havfl been banned from the mining tow ns H Newsboys are not permitted to entr|H Shutting off the water means thfl wives of strikers, instead of gettlnß water from easily accessible hy* drants, must carry it long distances for washing, cooking and drinklng.l Women must w T alk to distant for vegetables and fruit. It is the same with milk, and there are many babies in the villages.

Invisible Deadline Squads of coal and iron police, employes of the company, have set an invisible deadline on the streets leading into the mining villages. Cut off thus from the outside world, the miners continue to hang on to their homes. . Union officials, saying they fear an epidemic of disease, have asked the State health authorities to investigate. Osier admitted that the 1 authorities have questioned him. Osier said the compahy had to pay for the water and does not intend to buy It for the strikers, who are not paying any rent. The strikers’ families use water sparingly now, because of the distance it has to be carried. They living almost as primitively ass chelTw grandparents did in the same community. 50 MUTINEERS ON TRIAL’ Kansas Prison OfTii-ials Seek Leaders of Revolt. Bu United Press LANSING. Kan., June 27. Responsibility for the mutiny or 328 prisoners cf the Kansas State penitentiary last week will be determined at the trial of fifty convicts being conducted by R. H. Hudspeth, deputy warden. The trial was to continue today, with the supposed leaders of .ho mutiny being questioned into ifio affair. As soon as the respmsit.iity has been fixed and pm.isnment meted out, the State board of administration will start an investigation. RINGS STOLEN IN STORE Window Smasner Get3 Jewelry Loot Totaling $309. A professional window smasher is operating in the city, police believe. The fourth jewelry store window to be broken within a week was looted early today. At 4:30 a. m. Patrolman Warren McClure said he passed the Rite jewelry store, 43 S. Illinois St., and everything was intact. At 5:20 a. m. Robert Nelin. 3641 N. Illinois St., city sprinkler wagon driver, noticed shattered glass in front of the place and called police. A padded brick was found inside, and according to Richard Evans, stone manager, diamond rings valued at SCO9 were missing. The glass was valued at $75.

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