Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1927 — Page 1

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CANADIANS TO HOP OFF FOR OCEANSEARCH Royal Windsor to Hunt Five Missing Fliers, Hoping Yet for Rescue. BOAT MAY SAVE PAIR Sir John Carling Rubber ‘Ship’ Can Ride Rough Seas, Aviators Say. United Pres* HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland. Bept. 9.—Postponing temporarily their planned flight to Windsor, England, C. A. Schiller and Phil Wood will start a search for the missing planes Old Glory and the Sir John Carling and the five missing fliers. Both aviators said they believed there still was chance of rescuing the missing men. They said that the rubber lifeboat carried on the Sir John Carling by Lieut. James D. Medcalf and Capt. Terence Tully was sausage-shaped and could ride heavy seas like a gull. Wood and Schiller planned to continue their hunt for several days, searching by daylight and returning to Harbor Grace at night to refuel the planes and to sleep. They would search, they said, until the fliers had been found or all kope lost of their being found. Believed Near Ireland Wood believed that Tully and Medcalf succeeded in crossing most of the Atlantic and went down near the Irish coast. He recalled the flight of Harry Hawker, whose plane fell in the sea near tne Irish coast. Hawker was rescued. The search was postponed today because of bad weather. Reports from vessels indicated rough seas and easterly gales. The barometer also was falling. Speaking of the chance of Tully and Medcalf being afloat, Wood that they obtained OTtitrol of the raft and emerged successfully from the wrecked plane, their chances of riding even heavy waves are good. Their raft is sausage shaped, permitting complete enclosure, which may te curmerged and i till come to the top and ride the waves. Danger of Being Cut “The only danger would be that the raft might come into contact with the plane or some other floating object that might cut it ip two.” Wood said there also was a chanoe of finding the fliers afloat in the plane, provided they had time to release the gasoline. He said he believed it was also possible tm the Sir John Carling to drop the undercarriafe and even the engine, and thus make a lifeboat of the plane. Plane Is Long Overdue By United Press LONDON, Sept, 6.— As dawn and early forenoon arrived and passed today without news of the monoplane Sir John Carling, now overdue twenty-four hours, it was certain that the plane no longer was in the air. Two young Canadian aviators, Capt. Terence Tully and Lieut. James D. Medcalf, left Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Wednesday morning on an attempted flight to London. Bad weather continued over the Atlantic today, causing another postponement of the intended flight of Charles A. Levine and Capt. •Baiter R. C. Hinchliffe tfo New w>rk in the Bellanca monoplane Columbia. “If there is no improvement In the weather during the next fortyeight hours,” Levine told the United Press today, “we will abandon the attempt for this year.” World Fliers in Hongkong By United Press HONGKONG, China, Sept. 9. The American world fliers, William S. Brock and Edward P. Schlee, arrived here from Hanoi, French Zndo-China, at 3:30 p. m. today. Plying eastward from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, they reached the Pacific Ocean on their fourteenth day of the flight, setting a new world record. They had covered approximately 9,550 miles of their 22,067-mile itinerary around-the-world. Brock and Schlee affirmed their determination to continue their journey by air via the Midway Islands and Honolulu. They planned to depart tomorrow morning for Shanghai, whence they would fly to Tokio, Midway Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco. INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Woman Is Hurt When Three Cars Come Into Collision. Mrs. Owen Dowden, R. R. O, box 144, received injuries to her left hip and leg today in a three-auto collision at Thirtieth St. and Roosevelt Ave. A car driven by E Baird, Joliet, 111., collided with driven by Morris Cornwell, ch Lick. The Baird auto was knocked across the street into the Dowden machine. All three cars were damaged.

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Residents of the 1500 block in W. New York St., got tired of waiting for the city administration to patch a deep chuckhole which Roscoe Campbell, 246 Minkner St., said they had been complaining about all summer, so the children of the neighborhood took things into their own hands. Jean Evelyn Ludwig, 1541 W. New York St., is exhibiting the results in the picture above. City EngLieer Paul R. Brown sgid the hole never had been called to his attention and that the city would patch it at once.

HOSTETTERS TO PRISON CELLS Bandits Draw Long | Terms in State Hold-up. The long fight of Robert Hostetter, 22, and his brother Howard, 18, to escape punishment for the robbery of the Citizens’ State Bank at Southport, Feb. 18, 1926, and the shooting of a deputy sheriff in an escape when they were trapped in a house here a few days later, came to an end today, when they were sentenced by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Both pleaded guilty. Robert was sentenced' to from five to twenty- j one years in Indiana State prison on a charge of automobile banditry and concurrently one to ten years on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Howard was sentenced to from one to ten years in Indiana State reformatory on a charge of automobile banditry. Police had trailed the Hostetters over the country until Buffalo (N. Y.) authorities captured them last month. Deputy Sheriff Charles Beil was wounded slightly when officers trapped the Hostetters and others of their gang in a house here a few days after the robbery. Dennis Hostetter, another brother; Kenneth Reeves and Miss Rose Mary Kaiser are serving terms for participation in the bank hold-up. They were convicted April 13, 1926.

COOLIDGE VACATION IN WEST AT END

By United Press RAPID CITY, S. D., Sept. 9.—The whole town of Rapid City closed today to tell President Coondge and his summer vacation party good-by in a big way. Every merchant closed his shop promptly at 10:45 a. m., schools dismissed classes, streets and kitchens were deserted. Every one went up to Mr. Coolidge’s schoolhouse offices to shake his hand and to tell him how much they appreciated his coming out here. The line of march formed on Main St. behind the Rapid City band, which played martial airs until it reached the schoolhouse, where' it struck up “Hail to the Chief.” Mayor Jepsen presented the testimonial of the city.

$40,000 IN JEWELS STOLENAT MARION

By United Press MARION, Ind.. Sept. 9—Diamonds and other jewelry worth $40,000 was obtained from the Ralph Roessler jewelry store here today by five bandits who held up Roessler and five clerks, bearing Roessler and forcing the clerks to lie d£*vn behind the counter. Roessler is president of the Indiana Jewelers’ Association and nationally prominent. The robbery was well timed, and although it occurred within three blocks of the police station and a lesser distance from the county Jail the bandits escaped in an automobile after beating Roessler so severely that he collapsed. Roessler’s wounds are not serious. Roessler had just opened the store and unlocked the vault when the men, all young and neatly dressed,

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SLAY ALLEGED ‘ALKY’HUACKER Body Found in Weeds; Five Are Held. Elmer Russell, 21, of 2261 Union St., is in the city morgue, the victim, police believe, of a hi-jacking battle. His body was found this morning in a patch of weeds along National Ave., four and a half miles south of Monument Circle and west of Madison Ave., in front of the home of Morris Spaw, 35. A single bullet through his forehead had brought death. Coroner C. H Keever said. Keever, Deputy Sheriffs Bel). Brown and Shipp arrested spaw and his wife, Charles Geisking, 23, of 1350 S. Belmont Ave.; Albert Brandlein, 21, of 1506 S. Alabama St., and Irwin Vogel, 22, of 1522 S. Alabama St. Leonard Spaw, 13, a son of the man under arrest, discovered the body at 9 a. m. and called neighbors. Russell’s sisoer, the deputy sheriffs said, told them that Spaw called their home by phone at about 3 a. m. and asked if Russell'had returned. Russell, he and anotherman, Spaw said, according to the sister, had hijacked Geisking of seventy gallons of alcohol. After the other man in the party had driven ofl with Geisking’s auto and the “alky,” Geisking had started in pursuit of Russell on foot he Is alleged to have said.

The presidential special will leave here before 10 p. m.. Mountain Tiipc, for Washington. Itr will stop at Brookings, 8. D., tomorrow morning to permit Mr. Coolidge to make his final western speech at dedication of the Lincoln library at the' South Dakota Agricultural school. After a two-hour layover, the train will go to Chicago over the Chicago & Northwestern anti from there to Washington over the Baltimore <fc Ohio, arriving in Washington before 10 Sunday night . The 3tate game lodge, which has been" the summer White House, will open Monday as a hotel and scores of reservations have been made by those who want to sleep in the rooms used by the President and his family for three months.

entered. One of them ran to the safe and grabbed all the diamonds in sight. Other jewelry was not touched. The other four beat the jeweler over the head. FIRE AT ‘PEEPING TOM’ Negro Escapes After Chase of Several Blocks. Two shots were fired at a "Peeping Tom” early today. He was chased several blocks, but escaped. Eddie Fields, 536 N. Illinois St., fired the shots after his guest, William Allison, 3271 Martindale Ave., saw the negro peering through a window. Police investigated a complaint at 540 N. Illinois St. that persons there saw a'man looking into the window.

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BOSSERT GAVE HUGE SUMS TO HELPJACKSON Foe of Steve Contributing to Same Purpose as Was His Bitter Rival. BILLS’ TOTAL IS $3,700 Checks Cashed in Way to Avoid Publicity Are Brought to Light. (Copyright, 1927, The Indianapolis Times) How Walter Bossert, who succeeded D. C. Stephenson as dragon of the Klan, contributed huge sums of money to the Jackson campaign at the time that D. C. Stephenson, his enemy, was providing funds for the same purpose now can be shown by documents and memoranda. The bills for the Jackson for Governor Club were listed and sent to Bossert and his associates for payment. The money, so it was asserted, was sent. These bills, as shown by the list now in possession of The Time?, amounted to about $3,700. Following the sending of these bills, later paid, the official report of Schuyer Haas, as political agent for the club, shows a contribution accredited to Ed Jackson for $3,600 and one to James Jackson, his brother, for SIOO Five Checks Revealed Over in a bank at Liberty, the home of Walter Bossert, are five checks for SI,OOO each, cashier’s checks purchased by Bossert on the eve of the campaign and ashed in this city at the Fletcher American Bank without indorsement. In the corner of these checks are initials, indicating that the man who drew the checks was known to one of the bank officials. Those checks, it is asserted, were a part of a much greater contribution given to George Coffin on the eve of election for his use in carrying the election in November and were cashed on the day before the election. Not Eager for Publicity The cashing of the checks by the Fletcher American Bank without endorsemem 1- not an unusual proceeding in banking circles where the oarty cashing the chicks is known to ban’’; officials and is drawn to “cash.’ in itself an indication that the drawer of the note was particularly anxious to safeguard its payment and took responsibility for its payment only to the person for whom he intended it. Purchase of a cashier’s check was another indication that no especial desire for publicity or permanent record of the check was desired by either party. , That the Klan was paying bills for the Jackson candidacy in the primary is shown by the memoranda, sent to the Bossert camp, of bills owed by the Jackson club. The final report shows that these bills were paid very shortly after this was sent and $3,700 sent for payment. Totals Are Same Official report of the club shows a contribution from Jackson and his brother totalling the exact amount of money which it now is asserted was sent for these bills. There is one other check down at Liberty, a check for SSOO, sent to the Coffin-Dodson Auto Company by Bossert. This check was given by Bossert on April 29, 1924. The check was given, so it is explained, not for an automobile, but for political purposes, when Coffin needed money for the campaign. MpCoy Disclaims Knowledge Daily McCoy, State purchasing agent, and Jackson for Governor Club manager, disclaimed knowledge of Bossert’s contribution, later listed as contributions of Ed and James Jackson, on the sworn statement of expenditures. , “You will have to ask Schuyler Haas about that,” McCoy repeated six times. “I assume the two entries are from the same source,” McCoy admittea. Asked why the contributions were sworn to as having been made by the two Jacksons, McCoy replied, “They made contributions every couple of weeks during the primary.” Os his own S6OO contribution, McCoy said it was made with “his’own money.” He received a total salary as club manager of $750. AIRMEN FORD’S GUESTS Ballonists of Eight Nations Ready for Race Tomorrow. DETROIT, Sept . 9. Balloon pilots from eight nations who will compete for the Gordon Bennettr trophy tomorrow were Henry Ford’s guests at lunch today. The nations represented in the race are Belgium, England, France Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the United States. At a dinner last night the pilots and their aides adopted a resolution that trans-oceanic flights should be limited to dirigible airships or large flying boats having seaworthy hulls and adequate supplies.

Jackson Campaign Donations Bared First tabulated list shown below is a photograph of claims against the Jackson committee sent to financial agents of the Ku-Klux Klan for payment and for which $3,700 was returned to pay these bills. The $3,600 contribution accredited to Jackson followed the donation by the Klan leaders. The bottom list is a photograph of the report filed by Schuyler Haas, political agent of the Jackson-for-Goveror Club, showing contributions by Jar’-ron and his brother.

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Friday i Judging of fat barrow swine. Ayrshire cattle, all day. Grand Circuit races, vaudeville, grandstand, afternoon. Gordon fireworks, grandstand, evening. Society Night horse show, Cc.iseum, evening. Sale of beef calves, Coliseum, afternoon. D. D. Murphy shows, midway, all day. Saturday Auto Race Day. ‘ A. A. A. auto races, grandstand, afternoon. D. D. Murphy shows, midway, all day. All regular exhibits remain in place. One of the most elaborate programs of the week featured Indianapolis and Government Day today at the Indiana State fair diamond jubilee celebration. In addition to the regular attraction of stock judging and exhibits, the Indianapolis Day parade and a double bill on the Grand Circuit card were on the program. The kindness of the weather man in producing almost ideal weather Thursday boosted attendance to 54,281, an increase o! 21,191 over the same day last yeir.

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With the heavy bill on today, fair officials expected another banner day. The city parade formed at Alabama and Ohio Sts. at 12:30 p. m. and at 1:15 p. m. marched through the downtown district to the fairgrounds, where fifteen floats entered by business houses were to be judged in competition for the $l5O in prizes. Guy Cantwell, president of the fair, welcomed representatives in the parade, and A. Kiefer Mayer, vice president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, gave the response. Eight pieces of Indianapolis fire department equipment were included in the parade, as were other vehicles of the city department. r -utz and Marmon motor car companies supplied transportation for officials. All stock judging was to end today. A large class of Ayrshire cattle and fat barrow swine wa3 to be judged this afternoon, while the remainder of the horses were judged this morning. * The race card included 2:18 trot for a purse of $1,000; Senator Farm, 2:06 pace for $2,000; Stegemeier Cafeteria, 2:12 pace for $1,000; Marott Shoe Shop, 3-year-old trot for $1,000: Frank F. Fox, 2-year-old pace for an estimated sKske of

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$15,000; 2:08 trot for .1,000, and 2:16 pace for SI,OOO. Whippet races, vaudeville and a band concert also were on the program for the afternoon grandstand attraction. The last section in the elimination of old fiddlers’ contest was scheduled this afternoon in the grand stand. Finals for the State championship will be conducted tonight in the Coliseum. The winner, in addition to the cash prize, will receive a vaudeville contract, officials say. The feature horse show event of the week, the William H. Block SI,OOO championship award, for the best stallion, mare or gelding will be judged in the coliseum tonight. The three first horses in the stallion, mare or gelding classes will compete. . Red Cross emergency hospital handled 165 cases Thursday, according to Dr. Herbert Wagner, director. Sale of 'beef calves in the Coliseum was set for this afternoon. Other livestock was auctioned off at the barns.

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GRAND JURY EXPECTED TO INDICT TODAY Extraordinary Care Taken to Guard Names of Those Likely to Be Hit. LONG SESSION IS HELD Prosecuting Staff Asked to Leave Room, Presumably for Balloting. The Marion County grand Jury went into a session this afternoon out of w.tich was expected to come the first indictments resulting from eleven months of investigation of corruption in Indiana politics and government. The secret of just who the grand jury intended to indict was guarded with extraordinary precaution, but from the witness list of the last few weeks the charges were expected to include a high State and a high city official and several leading Republican politicians. Soon after the jury wfent into session at 9 this morning the prosecuting staff was asked to leave. This was taken to indicate that indictments were being voted upon, since law provides that the jury must be alone during balloting. Prosecutors Confer Prosecutor William H. Remy, Deputy Prosecutor William H. Sheaffer and Special Prosecutors Emsley W. Johnson and John W. Holtzman held a conference In Remy’s office while the jury deliberated. They took what appeared to be a typewritten statement into the conference with them. Remy’s stenographer was called in and came out rapidly to type from notes. At 9:55 the prosecutors were called back up to grand jury room. This conference lasted until 10:50 a. m., when members of the grand jury departed, announcing they would be.back at 2 p. m. and probably would have something of interest to report soon thereafter. The prosecutors remained In the grand jury room. The stenographer took a typewritten indictment in after a while. Probe Since October, 1920 Investigation of political corruption has been under way since Oct. 11, 1926. The Times had begun printing the mysterious letters of D. C. Stephenson, smuggled out of Indiana State prison, threatening tc disclose wholesale law violations by officials and politicians, on Oct. 2. Two grand juries have failed to act. The present jury took up the investigation July 11, prosecuting its task with continuous vigor. Holtzman and Johnson were named special prosecutors by Judge Collins after the second grand jury was dismissed because one of the jurors had disclosed that he had been offered a bribe. Sheaffer took a leading part in tl\e inquiry during August while the other prosecutors were away on vacations. Sift McCray Charges From witnesses called in the last few weeks It generally was inferred that the jury carefully was investigating the charge of The Indianapolis Times that Governor Ed Jackson, his law partner, Robert I. Marsh, D. C. Stephenson and Fred B. Robinson, former State purchasing agent, participated in carrying to McCray an offer from politicians of SIO,OOO for attorney fees and a guarantee no jury would convict him if he would name James E. McDonald, local attorney, prosecutor, to succeed William P. Evans. Evans, McCray’s son-in-law, was about to resign in December, 1923, rather than participate in prosecution of McCray upon financial fraud indictments. GASOLINE BURNS FATAL Former Indianapolis Woman Dies in Paris HospitaL Mrs. Angelo Loruso, formerly Miss Florine Sebring of Indianapolis, died Wednesday at the American Hospital in Paris, following burns suffered when a can of gasoline exploded at her home near Paris. Her husband, Angelo Loruso, is traveling auditor of the American Radiator Company in Brussels and was located in Chicago for several years. He has been in Europe for the last seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Loruso had been married about six years, Roy N. Downs, manager of the Indianapolis branch of the company. said. WOUNDED BANDIT DIES Gun Battle at Barbecue Result, in Death. Alvin L. Price, 27, of Kokomo, Ind., bandit wounded Aug. 29, In a gun battle with Henry Weidner, proprietor of the Rainbow Barbecue, Emerson Ave. and Pendleton pike, died at city hospital today. The duel occurred when Price and Kenneth E. Hulbert, now held in county jail, attempted a hold-up at the barbecue. Weidner was wounded. but is recovering. Price died denying the confession of Hulbert that the two had staged more than seven robberies in Indianapolis and nearby towns.