Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1927 — Page 1

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EPIDEMIC OF RABIES LOOMS BEFORE CITY Dag Bites Driving 80 Persons a Day to State Health Office. FIRST DEATHS IN YEARS Pasteur Treatment Being Given by Doctors; Most | Victims Are Children. Dog bites, from which there is danger of rabies, are driving approximately eighty persons a day, mostly children, to the Pasteur laboratory of the State board of health, 202 Gallup block, Dr. C. F. Adams, the laboratory head, declared Wednesday. About onefourth of the patients are from Marion County. Two deaths from rabies have occurred in the State this year, the first in about twenty years. The health department has no record of the actual cases of rabies there may be scattered over the State, but the rush of persons to take the preventive Pasteur treatment is unprecedented. 25 Stand in Line

More than twenty-five patients were in line at the laboratory at one time today waiting for treatment. The laboratory gives a series of fourteen treatments, which, if the case is caught in time, prevents rabies. Meanwhile, the health board officers stated there is no state-wide regulation in effect to combat the dog bite menace. Early in the year Dr. William F. King quarantined for three months all dogs not inoculated against rabies. This quarantine, which confined unmuzzled, uninoculated dogs to owners’ premises, expired in May. Couldn’t Enforce Order . The health board office said that I it was necessary to depend upon 9 police and sheriffs to enforce the order and they failed to cooperate. Lacking an organization to enforce the quarantine, health officers said they decided it useless to continue it. Approximately half of those taking Pasteur treatment are persons who hve had contact with others bitten by rabies, suspected dogs or cats. The municipal code of Indianapolis empowered the mayor, when an epidemic of rabies is threatened, to issue an order for muzzling and confining of dogs and to*direct police to enforce it. Police are required to kill dogs found running loose in violation of such a proclamation. CITY’S EVIDENCE SHOWS NEED TO CLOSE BEACH White River Polluted, State Health Engineer Testifies. Testimony showing White River at McClure Beach, Twenty-Sixth St. unfit for swimming was ir cluced today before Judge Joseph L Milner, Superior Court Five, in the suit brought by James Angelo, concession holder, seeking to have the beach opened. It is closed under city order. Ira Holmes, attorney for Angelo, Monday introduced evidence showing other chemists had examined it and found it sanitary. | BURY SALESMAN TODAY Funeral of John M. McPhetridge Is Held at Danville. Funeral services for John M. McPhetridge, 72, of Linden Hotel, 311 N. Illinois St., a salesman for Kahn Tailoring Company for thirty years, are being held today at Danville, Ind., where burial will be made. Rheumatism and other complications are given as causes of McPhetridge’s death while he was at the home of his sister, Mrs. O. M. Piersal, in Danville, the place cP his birth. The widow, a son, daughter, two sisters and a brother survive. POLICE BUY AIRPLANES Captain and Three Aides in Gary Take to Flying. Bn United Press GARY, Ind., July 13.—An air police squadron was started here when Captain John R. Smith and three members of his force purchased a plane and announced they would use it “for business as well as pleasure.”

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 54

One of Many To The Times Editor: It is a source of satisfaction to your friends to see the position which you have maintained with regard to the corruption in Indiana so thoroughly vindicated by recent disclosures. You have certainly made good. • Very truly yours, J. W. ESTERLINE.

'EARN AT HOME’ PLANJSPROBED Postal Injectors Seek Chiefs of ‘Letter Service.’ Postofflce inspectors today sought men who gave the names of Edward J. Wilson and Charles H. Trotsky, proprietors of the Troy Letter Service, Century Bldg., in investigation of an “earn money at home” plan which they had advertised nationally. The Investigation started after more than 4,000 letters were returned to the postoffice as undeliverable at the letter service office. According to inspectors the two men advertised that they would send details of the scheme to earn money at home to all persons who mailed one dollar. About 10,000 responded in two weeks, it is said. For the dollar the customers got a folder advising them to clip newspapers and send a form letter to persons mentioned offering to send a clipping of interest to them for thirtyfive cents. According to inspectors the folders could be printed for about $lO a thousand.

MAYOR PRAISES CIVIMERVICE Duvall Says Lack of Politics Makes Better Firemen. Efficiency of the Indianapolis Fir- 5 . Department is a result of the civil service system, removing employes from political control, Mayor Duvail declared today in welcoming the Indiana Firemen’s Association in convention at the council chamber. Duvall praised the civil service plan, because it “gave firemen independence of action.” “I attribute the efficiency of our department under Fire Chie’ Hutsell very largely in that fact. It has worked successfully the last year,” Duvall said. Gamowell Superintendent Robert Gaskell, Ft. Wayne, responded to Duvall’s welcome. Frank Jordan of the Indianapolis Water Company discussed fire prevention. Jordan announced a meeting of Indianapolis factory and store watchmen, Thursday afternoon, at Cadle Tabernacle. Richard Lieber, State conservation director, will speak. SEEK BATHING BEAUTY Contest Will Be Held at Walnut Gardens, Aug. 13 and 14. Dates for Miis year’s bathing beauty contest at Walnut Gardens, southwest of the city, were set today as Aug. 13 and 14, Carl Freyn, manager, announced. Because of the unusually large list of entries anticipated there will be preliminaries at 8 p. m. on Aug. 13, and finals at 3 p. m., Aug. 14. Selection of judges is underway. Capital prize for the 1927 title winner will be a trip to Atlantic City, N. J. STEAMER IS STRANDED Canadian Government Boat Sends Call for Assistance. By United Press PICTOU, N. S., July 13.—The Canadian government steamer Margaret today wirelesssed that she was in danger of stranding off the Magdalen Islands. The steamer Hochelaga, bound from Pictou to Charlottetown, P. E. 1., has been ordered to her assistance. URGE NEW SCHOOL SITE Commissioners Advised to Purchase Eighteen Lots. Purchase of eighteen lots as the site for a future school building was suggested in a letter read to the board of school commissioners Tuesday night from Union Trust Cos. The lots, situated between FortySeventh and Forty-Ninth Sts., from Boulevard PI. to Cornelius Ave., can be purchased at an average price of $1,850, the company reported. 9 LYNCHINGS REPORTED Tuskegee Institute Reports Record Thus Far This Year By United Press TUSKEGEE, Ala., July 13.—Nine lynchings have been recorded by the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute’s record department for the first half of 1927. The same number occurred in 1925, and 1926, according to the statement. Poland Bans Wheat Import ButUnited Press JSmA RSAW, Poland, July 13.—The has forbidden importauntil Aug. 31.

THREE KILLED WHEN TRAIN STRIKES AUTO f Four Injured at S. Arlington Ave. Crossing by Pennsy Railroad Flier. ANOTHER NEAR DEATH Lives of Mother and Baby Son Lost When Machine Is Demolished. Three of the seven passengers in a Ford touring car wpre killed and all the others injured, two critically, when “The American,” crack Pennsylvania Railroad New York-to-St, Louis flier, crashed into the auto at the S. Arlington Ave. Pennsylvania crossing today. The dead: MRS. GOLDIE ROTH, 23. 5127 N. Arsenal Ave. JUNIOR ROTH. 3, her son. EUGENE KELLER, 6, 4720 Caroline Ave. The injured: Mrs. Erma Harden, 5151 N. Arsenal Ave. Serena Harden. 15, right arm broken, head and leg cuts; condition critical. Lester W. Harden. 17, possible skull fracture; condition critical. Mrs. Catherine Keller. 37. 4720 Caroline Ave., mother of Eugene, body inuries. Mrs. Keller, least seriously injured, was driving the auto south on Arlington Ave. Tries to Save Son She saw the train approaching when a short distance from the crossing and tried desperately to stop, she told police. The machine stopped on the track directly in front of the approaching flier, she said, and she made a final effort to save her son, who was riding in the front seat with her. “I grabbed for my baby, hoping I could throw him out of the way, and just then the train struck. God knows what I grabbed when I reached for him,” she said. The auto was carried seventy-five feet by the crash and demolished. The train stopped within 300 feet. The bodies and the injured were hurled out of the machine along the track. Carries Children to Porch Edgar York, 150 S. Berry Ave., saw the crash and carried Eugene Keller and Serena Harden to the, porch of R. E. Newby, 201 S. Arsenal Ave. Eugene Keller died On the way to city hospital. Mrs. Roth and her 3-year-old son, who had been sitting in the back seat of the car with Mrs. Harden and her daughter, Serena, were killed instantly. Dr. J. K. Kingsbury, 5462 E. Washington St., administered first aid to the inured, before they were taken to city hospital. Mrs. O. J. Bauermeister, 156 S. Arlington Ave., whose home is at the northwest corner of the crossing, was sitting on her front porch and saw a pocketbook and one of the auto’s tires light in her front yard. The American, west-bound, was due at Union Station here at 11:32 and the crash occurred a few minutes before 11:30. Crossing View Clear

W. D. Smith was engineer of the train and J. E. Stevenson, both of Columbus, Ohio, was conductor. The crossing is not particularly obscured, police said. Mrs. Keller declared that the train did not sound its whistle and that she saw no warning light at the crossing, police said. The crossing is protected by a light, which flashes off and on at the approach of a train, but it is difficult to see the light in the bright sunlight, police pointed out. Ray Holland, 260 S. Arsenal Ave., who said he was a railroad signal maintenance man, inspected the light soon after the accident, and told police it was in operation. Mrs. Keller and Mrs. Harden are sisters. With the children they were on their way to visit another sister, Mrs. Ruth Sumnes, living southeast of the city. CUTS PHONE VALUATION Tax Board Allows $500,000 Slash at Hearing. Reduction of $500,000 in its original tax valuation was allowed the American Telegraph and Telephone Company today by the State tax board. Other utilities have asked for reduced valuations and hearings are being continued. Tuesday afternoon the Citizens Gas Company, Indianapolis, appeared and asked to be relieved of the $1,000,000 added this year in face of a reduced rate schedule filed with the public service commission. PAYS FINE WITH AUTO Penniless Drunken Driver Succeeds in Dodging Jail. By United Press CENTRAL FALLS, R. 1., July 13. —Fined SSO for drunken driving, and broke, Andrew Gazda of Pawtucket sold his car to the officer who had arrested him and paid, escaping jail sentence.

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Checks Drawn for Negro Aid in 1924 Campaign

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These checks and the explanations in the handwriting of D. C. Stephenson are produced for whatever value they may have in determining the truth or falsity of Stephenson's statements that he could prove “vast corruption.” The one drawn to W. H. Jackson, editor at that time of a Negro paper, for S6OO is admitted. The other Jackson could not remember. It was cashed on a stamped indorsement of the Ledger. These checks are a part of the documents turned over to Boyd 6urley, editor of The Times, and Thomas H. Adams of the Vincennes Commercial by Lloyd O. Hill, attorney lor Stephenson, at his direction. Photographs copyright, 1927, by In dianapolis Times.

PROSECUTORS ' REMAIN SILENT Remy and Aides Won’t Talk About Steve Parley. Prosecutor William H. Remy and Special Prosecutors Em6ley W. Johnson and John W. Holtzman came from a long conference with D. C. Stephenson in Indiana State prison at Michigan City with their lips sealed today, according to a dispatch to The Times. Robert H. Moore, Stephenson’s Michigan City attorney, joined the prosecutors at the prison and went in with them. After the conference, all refused to comment, except to state that they might return to see Stephenson later In the day. The prosecutors left the city last night hurriedly and mysteriously after receipt of a message. From whom the message came was not determined. The prosecutor’s staff, including Deputy William H. Sheaffer, refused to discuss the latest move. Sheaffer was busy in the grand jury room starting presentation of evidence in twelve murder cases, which are expected t€ occupy the jury’s attention the rest of this month. Sheaffer usually has accompanied the other prosecutors on their trips to see Stephenson. Lloyd O. Hill, Stephenson’s attorney, who turned over Stephenson’s documents to The Indianapolis Times for copyright publication, was in Indianapolis, contrary to a story published by a morning paper that he had pushed to Michigan City in some sort of move to get some more Stephenson documents released. Hill gave no Indication of intending to go to Michigan City., Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m. 74 10 a. m 85 7 a. m 76 11 a. m 87 8 a. m 80 12 (npon) ... 89 9 a. m...... 83 l p. m. 90

Bank Officials Silent on $2,500 Check to Jackson

State Savings and Loan Cb. Neither Affirms Nor Denies Allegations. Officers of the State Savings and Trust Company, at which the $2,500 check signed by Stephenson in favor of Ed Jackson and bearing the indorsement of Ed Jackson was cashed, refuse to make any statement concerning the check. The check, in possession of The Times, was shown to officers ol the bank today. On the back of the check are various bank stamps showing its course from the State Savings and Trust Company, at which it was paid, through the Indiana National Bank as a clearing house, through two clearing banks in Cleveland and then to the bank at Columbus, on which it iyas drawn and which paid it to someone. “Matter of Confidence” “Was this check paid in cash to Ed Jackson or was it deposited to his account?” was asked, after the check had been examined carefully by two officials. Wallace Weatherholt, secretary of the bank, acted as spokesman and said: “This is a matter of confidence between this bank and a client and we have no statement to make.” '“ls this the signature of Governor Jackson?” The same reply. “Was any claim ever made on behalf of Stephenson for the return of this money because of a forged indorsement?” Again the same response. Client Over Ten Years “Is Governor Jackson a client of this bank?” “He has been for iqore than ten years.” “Do you believe that the indorsement is in his handwriting?” “This is a matter'of confluence

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between this bank and a client and we have no statement to make.” Governor Jackson left Osawatomie, Kas., Tuesday evening by automobile and is expected in Indianapolis tonight or Thursday. He could not be reached en route. Thus far his only comment on the check Is that he “has nothing to say.” MIAMI WINS ELKS MEET Defeat Los Angeles 510 to 366 After Bitter Contest. Bu United Press CINCINNATI. Ohio, July 13. Miami won out over Los Angeles here today in the contest for the Elks 1928 convention. The vote was 510 for Miami to 366 for Los Angeles. Atlantic City withdrew. On yesterday's vote, Los Angeles had 713 votes or 31 less than the majority required, Miami 538, Atlantic City 235 and Minneapolis 1. FRENCH ‘TIGER’ BETTER Appetite Is Improved j' Sleeping More Regularly. Bu Vnited Press PARIS. July 13.—Continued Improvement in the condition ofGeorges Clemenceau was reported today. Although still enfeebled, his appetite has improved and. he Is sleeping more regularly. LINDBERGH HERE AUG. 9 Tentative Date Set for Filer’s Address in City. By Times Special WASHINGTON. July 13.—Aug. 9 tentatively has been fixed as dale on which Charles Lindbergh will speak in Indianapolis on his transcontinental tour in behalf of commercial aviation. This date is unofficial and is subject to change.

NEGRO ADMITS GETTING CHECK Money Paid to Aid Jackson, Publisher Says. William H. Jackson, Negro, 2708 Paris Ave., Center Township, deputy assessor and Republican leader, today admitted receiving a S6OO check from D. C. Stephenson, when presented with a photostatic copy. Jackson, active Negro politician, said the money was for Governor Jackson's campaign publicity and advertising in the Indianapolis Ledger, Negro paper, which he published in 1924. A Times reporter showed Jackson photographs of two of the four Stephenson checks in possession of The Times. He said he did not remember receiving the other check for $320, dated Feb. 3, 1924, which w>s made payable to “cash” and bid indorsement of the Indianapolis Ledger with a rubber stamp. “I don’t remember that check. I think the paper was in the hands of a receiver at that time. Otis Calvin was made receiver in February or March, 1924. All records were turned over to Schuyler Haas, who bought it at receivership sale,” Jackson said. "I guess I received that S6OO check, but where is the original?” he asked. “I don’t remember ever receiving any other checks from Stephenson.” Jackson said he had been "for” Governor Jackson as far back as 1914 and supported him long before the Governor knew of Stephenson. “I worked for him when he ran for Secretary of State and was one of the first to support him. But I never did anything which would incriminate me,” he said. Jackson said he never published a “Leader,” as pointed out in a nota,ion pinned to the S6OO check.

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STEVE CHECKS j USED TO WIN NEGRO VOTES Four Given Colored Political Leader to Aid Campaign of Ed Jacksor.. RECEIVES BY ‘BIG JACK’ Notes Written by Prisoner! Clearly Show Purpose of Documents. (Other Cheeks on Pace *) (Copyright. 1927. by The Indianapolis , Times) The four checks printed in today’i Times, bearing the signature of D. C. Stephenson, reveal the early activities of the former head of tha Indiana Ku-Klux Klan in behalf oI Ed Jackson, then a candidate sos Governor in the primary. Attached to each check when de* livered to The Times was a note in the handwriting of Stephenson. Those notes tell the story. According to these notes, tha checks were given to the owner and publisher of a newspaper circulated among Negro citizens. At the time they were given, Stephenson was the head of the Klan, dedicated to the supremacy of the white race. Check to “Big Jack” The first of thes(?schecks, bears date of Feb. 3. 1924. the time when Jackson's candidacy before the primary first began to take on the burden of the Klan. “This is what Stephenson wrote concerning that check, for it was made out to “cash,” although it bears the endorsement, in stamp, of the Indianapolis Ledger: “ ‘Big Jack’, owner of Ledger, colored paper—for Jackson publicity and to be used among colored people who could be induced to work in behalf of Ed." This was written after Stephenson had been convicted and was in jail at Noblesville, awaiting removal to Michigan City under the life sentence imposed upon him. It was at this time that he was referring to the Governor of the State as "Ed”. For Publicity Purposes The second check, bearing date of Feb. 28, 1924, in the sum of S6OO, is made out to W. H. Jackson, known in Indianapolis political circles as “Big Jack.” It bear., his indorsement. And pinned to it, when it was delivered to The Times, in the handwriting of Stephenson, was this notation: “Owner of Indianapolis Ledger for Jackson publicity among colored people” Came March 26. 1924. and another check, made out to “Cash.” but banked under the stamped indorsement of the Indianapolis Ledger, and signed by Stephenson. And as he sorted his checks and was writing the record of his adventures as he sat in the Noblesville jail, the former head of the Klan, who was to rule conventions and name the officials of Indiana, wrote this statement: “Paid to Indianapolis Ledger—. ‘Big Jack’s’ paper—for Jackson publicity.”

Another for S2OO Then, on May 8, after the primary had passed, there was another check for S2OO. bearing the same signature of Stephenson, bearing the same stamped indorsement, and pinned to it was this note. “Paid to Indianapolis Ledger for Jackson's last primary publicity.” W. H. Jackson stands well in Republican circles. His admission that he received the check for S6OO was made to The Times today. He said he could remember no more checks. He was shown but two of the four checks. His explanation that it was paid for papers or publicity or something to help Jackson was given hesitatingly. He was quite sure that he had done nothing to incriminate himself. The Times did not ask him about crimes. Reveal Aid to Jaekson The importance of /these checks lies in their revelations of the activities of Stephenson in behalf of Jackson and as supporting the statement credited to Stephenson that he had spent thousands of dollars In behalf of Jackson. This statement has been denied by friends of the Governor. Now comes the supporting evidence, in the form of cashed checks given to leaders of a race which looked with at least suspicion upon the candidacy of Jackson. “He could tell who furnished the $120,000 in the Jackson 1924 campaign and what Interests were to be protected for it,” said the letter smuggled out of the prison by Stephenson last fall. The total of these checks paid to one paper circulated among colored people was $1,320. The Times will show later other checks which will be a revelation to manyy groups and to many citizens. They will show the mistake of believing that 3tephenson distributed largess only to ths leaden of the colored race, and that no one should infer that only this Ledger sold publicity to the head of the Klan for his candidate.