Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1927 — Page 1

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SMITH STARTS I HONOLULU AND :r RETURN HOP I IjAviator Soars Off on Dash rs Across Pacific, After ..i ii False Getaway, r fJWEATHER IS AT BEST L cjFog Routed and Conditions •j for Trip Are Regarded as Favorable. ' L BY JOHN PALMER I United Press Staff Correspondent ,t MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, OAKLAND, Cal., July 14.—The silvery Jjvinged monoplane City of Oakland, (which once was forced to turn back Jafter starting for Hawaii, today launched an adventurous flight which may be a round trip between Oakland and Hawaii. At the controls was Ernie Smith, 82-year-old former mail pilot, and JSmory B. Bronte was the navigator. The hop-off was at 10:30 a. m. A few minutes previously, a false fctart had been made. It was caused before the plane took the air by a rut in the runway. The plane was (towed back and the new start made. , Sun Routs Fog The big monoplane shot down the special runway and lifted easily into a hazy and sun-flecked sky. Earlier in the day there had been e heavy fog, but a brilliant sun broke through the mist about thirty minutes before the take-off. Good flying conditions were expected to be found. The plane rose slowly, ascending to about 700 feet before the silver gray wings faded from sight in the haze over San Francisco. Three Objects in Flight The object of the flight of Smith and Bronte was three-fold: To be the first civilians to make the flight to Hawaii; to make the first round trip flight; and to lower the time of 25 hours and 49 minutes, made by Army aviators, Maitland and Hegenberger. Nine minutes after he disappeared in the haze, the plane, City of Oakland, was headed back toward Oakland airport and circled the field. Smith descended to an altitude of 200 feet. Bronte’s head appeared through the window of his cockpit. He waived to the crowds, who cheered. Five planes escorted him in his last farewell to the field—one on either side and two directly in the rear. Swinging gracefully around, the plane headed once more for the bay entrance, gaining altitude rapidly. The City of Oakland will carry two homing pigeons. The first will be released when they are 200 miles at sea. The second will be freed 450 miles out. Radio to Carry Word After the second pigeon has been released, the civilian fliers will depend upon radio to keep the waiting continent in knowledge of their progress. Their radio is of power sufficient to send 300 miles in day time and an unlimited distance at night. It will receive messages from 1,200 to 1,500 miles. The radio on the small monoplane will have as its call letters tWLO. An escort consisting of four navy planes and two marine corp ships was to follow the City of Oakland as far as the Farallon Islands. WILL DUMP OUT LIQUOR • (Confiscated Booze to Be Poured Out at Federal Bldg. Orders for destruction of approximately 125 gallons of whisky and alcohol confiscated by Federal dry agents were issued today by Federal •fudge Robert C. Baltzell. The liquor is to be dumped into the sewers in the basement of the Federal Bldg, about 2 p. m. Friday, George L. Winkler, Federal dry administrator, announced. A large quantitly of liquor confiscated in State cases will be disposed of at the tame time. FIRE HEROINE AT 65 Aged Woman Saves Hotel Guests by Braving Flames. United Press NEW YORK, July 14.—Mrs. Matilde Bordeaux, 65, threw a skirt over her head and went through the rooms of the hotel Lanwell to arouse guests when fire started. She refused to leave until assured all guests were safe, although she was almost overcome by smoke. ELEPHANT KEEPERDIES Second Fatality of Interurban Train Crash Into Herd. Bn United Press July 14.—Edward Welch, elephant attendant, is dead from injuries received when an interurban train hit a group of Ha-genbach-Wallace circus elephants Sunday. His home was in Logansport, Ind. Another trainer was instantly killed in the accident Sunday and five other persons injured.

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RABIES MENACE COMBATED BY HEALTH CHIEF Officials Discuss Steps to Check Increased Danger of Dog Bites. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian today moved to combat the dog bite menace in Indianapolis. Approximately eight persons a day from over the State are receiving pasteur treatment to ward off rabies from dog and cat bites at the State pasteur laboratory. About one-fourth of the patients are from Indianapolis.

Dr. Morgan asked the board of safety to require more careful combing of the city for stray dogs. He pointed out that there is no cause for widespread alarm, but the situation is such that it requires closer control. Don’t Shoot Dog! The sanitarian advised against immediate shooting of dogs which bite, pointing out that if they are permitted to live under observation in most cases it is determined they are not suffering from rabies and hence there is no need to give the bitten persons the severe pasteur treatment. Dr. Morgan also conferred with Dr. Fred Mayer, county health officer, about the situation in the county outside Indianapolis. "Rabie is a rare disease and I don’t believe there is any occasion to be alarmed at present,” Dr. Elizabeth Conger, city pound master, said. Hysteria Cases * She said she had studied the situation and believed the large number of cases due to “nervous hysteria.” “In handling some 35,000 dogs, I have found only two cases which I thought might be rabies. They were in the last six months, and I was not sure of them,” she said. “There is a psychology to dog bites. People often become needlessly alarmed when dogs have fits, which may be brought about by several diseases. Dogs frequently have fits before taking distemper or flu and have high temperature. In cases where dogs are delirious they soon recover with proper treatment, ’ she said. Dr. Conger advised that dogs be vaccinated if they are to run at large. OPPOSE JOALE PLEA Muncie Men Argue Against Clemency for Editor. Bn Times Special PUTNAMVILLE, Ind., July 14. Wilbur Ryman and Van Ogle of Muncie, close friends of Judge Clarence R. Dearth, and bitter enemies of George Dlae, Muncie publisher, appeared before trustees of Indiana State Farm here for a hour and a half today and argued against clemency for Dale. Dale seeks a pardon from Dearth’s ninety-day sentence of him for contempt of court. The trustees said they had made their decision and would forward their recommendation in Dale’s ca seto Governor Jackson this afternoon. , COMMISSION TO VISIT GARY Public service commissioners have accepted an invitation of the Gary Chamber of Commerce to a luncheon there July 22. They will inspect the various utility projects undeV way there, Chairman Frank Singleton announced. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 73 10 a. m 76 7 a. m 74 11 a. m 79 8 a. m 74 12 (noon) ... 81 9 a. m 76 1 p. m 75

Dawzinski Wakens to Meet Funeral Crowd By United Press CHICAGO, July 14.—When John Dawzinski awoke, he saw through his bedroom window a score of automobiles filled with men and women who looked seriously at his house and began to unload quantities of flowers and wreaths. There was a knock at the door. Dawzinski scrambled into his trousers and answered it. “We are friends of Mr. Dawzinski from South Bend and La Porte,” the spokesman said. “We came for the funeral. So sorry to hear ” * Dawzinski reconnoitered and decided the funeral was premature. He told them so. The party insisted they had acted in good faith and asked to see the corpse. It was finally discovered that John’s address and that of a departed and unrelated Dawzinski had been mixed. - ♦ .

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Picture at top shows plane in which Ernest L. Smith and E. B. Bronte will attempt a Frisco to Honolulu and return flight. Below is Smith, air mail pilot.

GASOLINE PRICE WARJENEWED Product Slashed to 10.2 Cents by Two Firms. The gasoline price war between the Robert Bryce Automobile Service Company and the Western Oil Refining Company broke out again today resulting in a price drop to 10.2 cents a gallon. Bryce, operating filling stations at Meridian and Souths Sts., and 1225 E. Washington St„ reduced his price to 17.2 cents to 15.2 cents to meet the price of competing Western Oil stations. When the Western company slashed further he met their cuts at the South and Meridian Sts. station and the price dropped to 10.2 cents in two hours. On July 2 the two companies engaged in a price war that cut the cost to motorists to 12.2 cents, but the price had risen again gradually until today. Western Oil Company officials say the gasoline they are selling at the reduced price is not as good as their regular grades. The reduced price gas is not sold at all of their stations. EIGHT U. S. PRISONERS TAKEN TO LEAVENWORTH Indiana Men’s Sentences Range From One to Ten Years. With eight Federal prisoners Ip tow, Charles E. La Selle, United States deputy marshal, left this afternoon for Leavenworth prison, Leavenworth, Kan. Sentences of the prisoners range from a year and a day in the case of Dale Metzger of Wabash County, charged with auto theft, to Rupert W. Pottorff, ten years on a similar charge. GROCER ROBBED OF SBS Currency Disappears as Customer Leaves Store. Description of the man who entered his store and-took SBS was given to police today by Jewell May, manager of Kroger grocery, at 749 N. Belle Vieu PI. A $5 bill was given by the man for a $2.64 purchase Wednesday morning, May told police. May went to the rear of the store for a paper sack, containing $35 in change and SSO in checks, which he laid on the counter. ’ When the man left, the paper bag and currency went with him’

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STEVE’S CHECK WAS USED AS COFFINIADDER’ Spent SSOO to Name City Boss; Turning Point in State Politics. (Copyright, 1927, by The Indianapolis Times) That D. C. Stephenson paid SSOO to workers and members of the Republican county committee in 1924 to name George B. Coffin as chairman and boss of this city and county is revealed by a note attached to one of the checks delivered to The Times. The check, reproduced today, was drawn to cash. It was dated May 10. 1924. That was the day when the convention was held. There is no indorsement on the back. It indicates that the Marion County State Bank, of which John L. Duvall, later to become mayor, was then chairman of the board of directors, cashed it without question. It required no other name than that of Stephenson upon its face. Was Turning Point It was at this convention that Coffin obtained power and overthrew the influence of Shank and Armitage. It was a convention when turmoil reigned and two courts were involved in the effort to get control. This convention was the turning point in the history of the Republican party in this State. It was in it that Stephenson gained the foundation for his control of the State machine and the election of Clyde Walb. Shank and Armitage were fighting for control. There was a midnight injunction by Judge Leathers preventing twenty-one committeemen, pledged to the Shank, from oarticipating. George Snider, the sheriff, was there to enforce it. The police force, under Shank, were on the ground to resist. Coffin Won in End There were other court orders and then the ballot and finally Coffinwon by a vote of 110 to 96. Stephenson had made Coffin and had captured the dominant party in the State capital. He openly boasted of it. On the following Monday Stephenson called a convention of Klan delegates to plan to move on the State. He was Just emerging as a political power. He openly declared his preferenra for Clyde Walb for State chairman and later Walb was elected. On the following Monday William Freeman, spokesman for Shank, denounced that conventiomand its selection of Coffin and declared that he was glad because It relieved him and his friends of any responsibility for the sort of ticket which had been nominated. Sad Story Told Over in his cell at Noblesville, just before he went to Michigan City, Stephenson was sorting his checks. He saw this one for SSOO. He looked back. Then he wrote that he had paid SSOO to workers and committeemen to elect Coffin as party chairman on May 10, 1924. What happened later is sad history.

AIR ESCORT FOR HEROES Maitland and Hegenberger Will Be Met at Chicago. By United Pjcss WASHINGTON, July 14.—Lieut. Lester Maitland and Lieut. Albert Hegenberger, conquerors of the Pacific, will be met in Chicago by an Army air escort and. accompanied to Milwaukee, Dayton, and Washington. No dates have been fixed, pending the officers choice of dates for leaving the Pacific coast aboard a train for Chicago. A three motored Fokker transport plane, sister ship of their Pacific plane, will be flown from Washington to Chicago for their use. NO CARS ARE STOLEN Times Omits ‘Gone, But Not Forgotten’ Column. For the first time in many months there is no “Gone, But Not Forgotten” column in today’s Times. That department which religiously has listed the mourners of stolen $20,000 Mercedes sport cars and flivver roadsters, and every type of stolen car from straight eight sedans to gravel trucks had not a single wanderer to report this morning. No stolen car report for twentyfour hours is the the unusual, police believe.

63 DIE FROM SEVERE HEAT, NATION WIDE Heavy Toll of Life Taken in Eastern Cities as Mercury Climbs. HAIL HITS COLORADO Weather Disturbances Reported From Several Parts of Nation. (By United Press) deaths have been caused in the United States by the two-day heat wave, which continued unabated today throughout the East. Approximately twelve of the deaths were due to drownings or lightning. The remainder were attributed directly to the heat. Deaths recorded in the twentyfour hours ending shortly before noon today included: New York and New Jersey, 13; Chicago, 10; Philadelphia, 5; Buffalo, 2; Detroit, 2; Baltimore, 3; Ohio, 5; Pennsylvania, 5; Morgantown, W. Va., 2; Schenectady, N. Y., 2; Walsenburg, Colo., 2; Albany, N. Y., 1; New London, Conn., 1; Cliftondale, Mass., 1; Syracuse, N. Y., 1; Erie, Pa., 2, and Cleveland, 5. Most of the East continued to suffer, today under extreme temperatures and high humidity, with the only hope of relief held out by weather forecasters in the promise of possible showers later in the day. Eastern Cities Swelter Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh and other cities were suffering intensely. A high of 95 was reached in Boston and Washington and? lin New York. Relief came to tHe Midwest today after a cooling rain. A freak storm in Colorado ended a period of high temperature there. The majority of deaths occurred in metropolitan York and nearby New Jersey. Nine were attributed directly to the heat. Three were drowned and Ignatz Mestricki, overcome by heat while walking on the railroad tracks at Perth Amboy, N. J., was killed by a train. Ten Die in Chicago Before relief came to Chicago, ten had died there. The other deaths came from points in New York, Pennsylvania. Qhio and other Eastern States. In addition to the heat deaths, others died from lightning and freak storms. A woman was killed by lightning in Massachusetts, while a mother and son were swept to death by a seven-foot wall of water when a cloudburst carried their automobile away near Walsenburg, Col. New York Suffering By United Press NEW YORK, July 14 —With nine already dead, another day of torrid heat broke bver New York this morning. Every indication that yesterday’s heat record for the year would be exceeded. In addition to the nine deaths attributed directly the heat, four persons were drowned seeking relife in nearby waters. Approximately twenty were overcome and required medical treatment. At noon the temperature was 86. compared with 84 at that time yesterday. The humidity, however, was much higher than yesterday and the suffering was correspondingly greater. Relief Is Promised By United Press WASHINGTON, July 14—The heat wave will break tonight and tomorrow under the cooling influence of general thundershowers which will visit the whole sweltering area east of the Mississippi, Chief Forecaster Mitchell of the weather bureau, said today. “I am not predicting any unusually cool weather,” lie said, “but there will be some relief throughout the east. Thundershowers over the west have brought cooler weather there.” Mitchell said he could not make any definite forecast for the weekend, but indications are temperatures will be near normal for this season. Yuma, Ariz, was the country's hottest city yesterday, with a mark of 108, while Phoenix and Red Bluff, Cal., each with 106, were the next hottest. Eureka, Cal., was the coolest place, with a maximum of 60 and a minimum of 50, while San Francisco was a close second with a maximum of 64 and a minimum of 54. TEACHERS WILL MEET Annual County Institute to be Held Here Aug. 22-26. The Marion County Teachers’ Institute will be held Aug. 22-26 in the Criminal Courtroom, it was announced today by County School Superintendent Lee SwaUs. Speakers include: George H. Tapy, head of the educational department at Wabash College; Charles Miller, State Superintendent of Instruction; Dr. Gilmore Stott, of Franklin. Ind., and Albert Stump, Indianapolis attorney.

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MANAGER BOARD ACTS TO SELECT COLISEUM SITE Real Estate Men and Other Organizations Asked to Submit Proposals. First steps for erection of a municipal coliseum for Indianapolis were taken by the coliseum board of managers today at an organization meeting in Mayor Duvall’s office. J. Edward Krause, owner of the Washington Hgtel, and representative of the Chamber of Commerce convention bureau, was elected president, and S. P. Meadows, State Federation of Labor representative, was named secretary. Duvall was chosen vice president. Site Selection First Step First move toward erection of the proposed $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 Coliseum must be selection of a site. City Corporation Counsel Schuyler A. Haas advised the board, answering a question of Theodore F. Vonnegut, school, board representative. The managers directed the secretary to ask President L. H. Lewis, Real Estate Board president, to submit suugestions in behalf of the board and invited any other organizations to submit proposed sites. A resolution was adopted favoring purchase of a full block for the site in a “central location.” Suggestion of Mayor Duvall that the resolution read “in the mile square” was changed on protest of A. L. Portteus to “central location” to provide more flexibility. When the cost of a site is determined the board's next move will be to ask council to authorize issuance Os bonds, Haas said. The city will buy the site, under authority of a law passed by the last Legislature, and the coliseum be erected by a private’corporation which will lease the building to the city according to the present plan for the coliseum project. Board to Meet Weekly The board of managers is composed of six representatives of civic organizations and Mayor Duvall. The officers were elected unanimously on motion of Wilbur C. Patterson, American Legion representative. The board will meet every Tuesday in the board of works office at city hall. BEATS BOY; PRISON Oral Carpenter Gets 30-Day State Farm Sentence. Use of a strap instead of his hands to spank his brother-in-law, Walter Neal, 13, an orphan, brought Oral Carpenter, 22, of 1437 Prospect St., a thirty-day State Farm sentence and a SSO fine today. Carpenter beat the boy with a strap when he ran out to play without washing the dishes, as he had been told to, the boy and Mrs. Carpenter, the orphan’s sister, testified in municipal court. Judge Paul C. Wetter examined scars on the boy's face and body, and severely condemned Carpenter’s means of punishment. "It’s all right to spank in the legitimate way, but you had no right to use a strap,” Wette* said. Carpenter was arrested on a cruelty to children charge brought by his wife. CEMENT WORK HALTED New York Unions Unable to Agree Concerning Jurisdiction. By United Press NEW YORK, July 14.—A1l construction work involving cement finishers was at a standstill in New York today because of the dispute between the plasterers and bricklayers internationals over which had jurisdiction over the cement finishers. General construction work was not effected. Speedy settlement of the dispute was predicted by labor officials.

GOVERNOR ADMITS RECEIVING CHECK FROM STEPHENSON; PAY FOR HORSE, HE INSISTS

$2,500 Changed Hands in Legitimate Business Transaction, Jackson Contends, in Giving Out Statement. EXECUTIVE DEFIES “BLACKMAILERS” Won’t Be Coerced Into Granting Pardon to Former Dragon, He Says; Prose- „ cutors Continue Inquiry. Another'Steve check on Page 3, Governor Ed Jackson, hack from his trip to Kansas, today, issued a statement admitting receipt of the $2,500 check from D. C. Stephenson, printed in The Times last Monday, hut declaring it was in payment for a saddle horse and equipment. Jackson issued the statement after a conference with Fred C. Gause. Gause is a former Supreme judge. He also was one of the special prosecutors, paid $5,500 out of the Governor’s contingent fund last fall for acting as one of the special attorneys general, assigned to aid Prosecutor William H. in the first invsetigation into Stephenson’s charges of political eorrpution in Indiana. The Governor said: .“When it was published last fall that D. C. Stephenson, an inmate of the Indiana State Prison, had in his possession a check for $5,000, purporting to be indorsed by me, I made a public statement that D. C. Stephenson never at any time gave me a check for $5,000 or for any other amount as a gift or for campaign purposes. “That statement was absolutely true. Since Mr. Stephenson has been denied a parole, he has seen fit to publish a check for $2,500, indorsed by me, accompanied by a statement that it was a one-fourth payment of a SIO,OOO campaign contribution to me. “In order that no one may be misled or deceived by this false statement, I want to state to the public that the check for $2,500 given to me by D. C. Stephenson was in payment for a very valuable saddle horse and equipment, a legitimate business transaction. “This transaction was closed the year before I was a candidate for Governor and months before I knew that I would be a candidate. “This check, the only one D. C. Stephenson ever gave me, was given long before Mr. Stephenson was charged with any crime. "D. C. Stephenson is in prison for the murder of a young girl, and I never will be blackmailed into granting him a pardon.”

Rumors that The Times has in its posssession a check for $240 to Mrs. Vivian Tracy Wheatcraft of Watson “poison squads of whispering women” fame, signed by D. C. Stephenson, today brought Mrs. Wheatcraft back into the political spotlight. In a statement at Washington. D. C., Mrs. Wheatcraft declared that the check was given her by Stephenson for the purpose of paying the salary of Mrs. Allen T. Fleming, as a field worker in the Republican women's organization in the campaign of 1924. Mrs. Fleming is a Republican woman leader who consistently has fought Mrs. Wheatcraft. Jackson Recommended Mrs. Wheatcraft said that Governor Jackson, then a candidate, asked her to give Mrs. Fleming a Job, but she told him she had no funds for an additional worker. . That evening, Mrs. Wheatcraft said, Stephenson came to headquarters and gave her the check for $240 to pay Mrs. Fleming. She said she wrote the purpose of the check across the back and put Mrs. Fleming to work. She said Mrs. Fleming did not know the source of her salary. She added that she turned the over to Daily McCoy, then secretary of the Republican state Committee. McCoy’s version differed. He said he merely cashed the check for Mrs. Wheatcraft. Called Spite Move Mrs. Fleming indicated that Mrs. Wheatcraft's statement was another of a series of moves by the rival woman leader to damage her. Mrs. Wheatcraft still is vice chairman of the Republican State committee. The check, according to rumors which other newspapers have printed, is dated Sept. 6, 1924. Mrs. Fleming produced newspaper clippings which prove that she went to work, not under Mrs. Wheatcraft, but as the office director of the Republican traveling men’s organization long before Sept. 1. She said, as she remembered It, that she started operating her bureau between Aug. 1 and 10. She was employed directly by State Chairman Clyde M. Walb, she said. “I never worked under or with Vivian Tracy Wheatcraft during that campaign. I have not worked under her nor with her since and and I never would work around her,” said Mrs. Fleming. “I worked as executive secretary of the traveling men's bureau until four weeks before the election, when Chairman Walb closed all bureaus because of lack of funds. “After that, Mr. Walb asked me to take charge of circularizing his complete State organization and I did this and made a few speeches until the end of the campaign. I never Was a field worker under Mrs. Wheatcraft. - Hiller Office Supply Cos. Main 0612. Desks from factory—a days.—Avd.

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Two new orders for delivery of documents were received from D. C. Stephenson at Indiana State Prison Wednesday afternoon by Prosecutor William H. Remy and Special Prosecutors Emsley W. Johnson and John W. Holtzman, It was learned authoritatively today. * One of these orders. It Is understood, Is directed to Lloyd O. Hill. Stephenson’s Indianapolis attorney, who has turned over a number of Stephenson’s papers to The Times. The order to Hill, It Is understood, directs him to give the prosecutors the remainder of the documents. Statement Suppressed The prosecutors were with Stephenson for three hours. Stephenson’s Michigan City attorney. Robert H. Moore, attended the conference. At the close, Stephenson gave Moore a one-page statement for the press. Deputy Warden H. C. Claudy refused to permit Moore to take this from the prison. Stephenson asked Claudy to return It to him. Claudy refused. Stephenson, for the moment, stepped back Into his old character of “I am the law In Indiana,” drew himself up haughtily, and barked at Claudy: “That's just some more of your trickery.” Claudy flushed with anger, but held his peace. Has Faith In Remy Several days ago Moore threatened “to lick that Irishman yet," when Warden Walter H. Daly refused to let him take one of Stephenson’s statements Irons# the prison. The statement which was suppressed yesterday reiterated Stephenson's faith that Prosecutor Remy really desires to clean up Indiana politics and lightly rebuked Attorney Hill for his letter questioning Remy’s intentions, printed in The Times Monday. The statement added, however, that Hill was not to be censured, because Hill knew that Stephenson “had been double-crossed so often." The paper criticised the prison management as being the “tool of the Governor” in an effort to "keep me buried.” Prosecutors Confer Remy, Johnson and Holtzman conferred here today upon the results of the meeting with Stephenson. The prosecutors Indicated they did not waste any time rehearsing material Stephenson turned over to them last week In a four-hour meeting. As far as known, they have not taken any definite action on this data. It was reported the prosecutors went to Michigan City to tell Stephenson that "there was nothing to the Information” he had given previously. • Hill said that he was considering going to Michigan City late today to see Stephenson about "whet is the next move.”