Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1927 — Page 3

SEPT. 16,1927

3.000 ATTEND - LODGES’ PARTY AND PAGEANT Twenty-Eight Groups Are in Parader Hold Stunts at Park. More than 3,000 persons attended the parade and jollification of the Associated Fraternities of the city Thursday night in University Park, according to M. T. Wright, member of the executive committee of tl)e organization. Representatives of the twentyeight groups in the association participated in the parade,-which started at 8 p. m. from St. Clair and Delaware Sts., and marched through the downtown district. Drills Are Given Following disbanding of the 1,500 marchers at the park, drill teams gave exhibition drills and stunts, accompanied by the Indianapolis Firemen and Policemen Band. The Boy 6cout drum and bugle corps and corps of fraternal organizations gave programs. A1 Womack, grand marshal, headed the parade with a contingent of mounted police. The Boy Scout drum and bugle corps and the Convention City Post of the Veterans ‘of Foreign Wars was followed in the line of march by the M. W. A., Royal Neighbors, Loyal Order of Moose, Improved Order of Redmen, Pocahontas, Knights of Khorassan, Knights of Pythias, Protective Home Circle, Women’s Benefit Association, Ben-Hur, Brotherhood of American Yeomen, Maccabees and Shepherds. Dance in Street New York St., between Meridian and Pennsylvania Sts., was roped off for the fun makers who danced to music played by the K. of P. Bird of Paradise orchestra and the Carmel Syncopators. Refreshments were served. “The Association is well pleased with the success of first annual parade and entertainment and expects to make it an annual affair of the fraternities of the city,” said Wright. “Although the organization is comparatively young, it is gaining supporters from fraternal bodies in Indianapolis and is becoming stronger each day as an element for the construction cf brotherhood and good will,” he said. SLAYING OF SMALL GIRL IS LAID TO YOUNG BOY Search Is Being Made for DullWitted lowa Youth. By United Press CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa, Sept. 16. —Killing of 6-year-old Kathleen Forrest, the victim of a brutal attack, today was laid to a dull-witted 14-year-old boy. An extensive search was instituted for the boy, Lyle Messner, following discovery of the bruised body of the little girl in the basement of an abandoned house next ( to the Messner home. He has been missing since Tuesday when he was seen playing with Kathleen. KatlJeen, Virginia Gudzus and Lyle’; 'ister, Maxine, were playing with Lyle in front of his home Tuesday afternoon when he offered Kathleen a nickel to go to the abandoned house with him, according to the story told police by the other children. The girl refused, and young Messner was said to have become angry and dragged her toward the abandoned house. M’GLENN TO AID REMY Detective Is Assigned to Post in Prosecutor’s Office. Assignment of Harry McGlenn, detective, to the office of Prosecutor William H. Remy, to fll the vacancy made when Jesse McMurtry was promoted to detective captain last Tuesday was announced by Police Chief Claude M. Worley, and Detective. Chief Jerry Kinney today. McGlenn served in that office before, being assigned there with McMurtry last year during the early part of the Stephenson corruption probe by the grand jury.

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MILLER DEFIED BY SUCCESSOR Former School Head’s Choice for Inspector Loses. Defeat of any attempted dictation on the part of Charles F. Miller, Indianapolis school superintendent, of the policies of the State Superintendent’s office under Roy P. Wisehart was seen in the outcome of the first State education board meeting attended by Wisehart today. Going into executive session, the board approved Eugene Butler, Rushville, State high school inspector, and Don Hussey, Zionsville, as his assistant. This was the Wisehart slate. Miller, who resigned the State superintendency to accept the Indianapolis position, conferred with Wisehart before the meeting. ‘ He and Assistant State Superintendent Fred Gladden were said to have backed L. O. Slagle, Lebanon, for the position as assistant high school inspector, a $3,000 job. Gladden was Miller’s choice as his successor, but Governor Jackson appointed Wisehart. A battle over today’s appointments loomed, but did not materalize. Slagle, who was at the Statehouse, was said to have State and district Republican support, while the county organization was for Hussey. Both men are residents of Boone County. 3 INJURED IN CRASH Mother and Daughters Hurt When Truck Hit Car. A mother and her two daughters were injured seriously late Thursday night in a collision between their auto and a truck driven fly Thomas Sullivan, 20, of 549 Parker Ave., at Forty-Sixth and Pennsylvania Sts. Mrs. H. L. Ruch, 45, and her daughters, Jeanette, 22, and Martha, 25, all of 4816 N. Illinois St., were taken to city hospital. Mrs. Ruch suffered severe cuts and bruises on her face and body, Miss Martha Ruch suffered a wrenched hip, and Miss Jeanette had an artery severed in her right arm and, sustained severe bruises on her head and body. Sullivan is held in city prison on charges of assault and battery, speeding and reckless driving. Miss Viblet Martin, 21, of 2122 £. Tenth St., and Joseph Shurman, 21, of 819 E. Twenty-Fourth St., were injured Thursday night when their motorcycle overturned on ThirtyEighth St. two rpiles east of the city.

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Orders No Stone to Be Left Unturned to Help Mother Identify Infant. By XJnitcd Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 16. Common Pleas Judge Carl V. Weygandt stepped down from his bench today personally to interview a mother who is doubtful of the identity of a baby hospital officials say is hers. In laying aside his duties as a jurist for the day, Judge Weygandt said he would leave no stone unturned in arriving at a solution of the case. His reiterated previous statements that he meant to recheck the hospital records and informally question nurses and physicians at the hospital. May Make Blood Test Mrs. Sam Smith has questioned whether a baby girl said to be hers by nurses at the Maternity hospital, is the child that was born to her three weeks ago. Mrs. Smith believes she is the mother of a baby boy and states that a physician told her at its birth her child was a boy. In his effort to get at the facts of the case, Judge Weygandt late yesterday appointed a committee oi four blood specialists to determine whether a blood test would be feasiDle in determining the baby’s maternity. Charles McConnell, attorney for Mrs. Smith, will confer with the experts today. - “If these physicians say a blood test will help, we can have them go ahead with the test and perhaps It may be possible to accept their verdict and reach an agreement," Judge Weygant said. Nurse Doesn’t Remember Judge Weygandt also announced he will appoint a physician to examine the physical characteristics of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the disputed baby in an effort to discover some physical resemblance which may aid in solving the case. A nurse who was present at the birth of the baby said in Detroit yesterday she did net remember the sex of the child, but that Mrs. Smith had admitted to her that “the girl was her baby.” A companion nurse had testified in court previously that she had bathed the Smith baby for eight days before she discovered its sex. FLOOD FUNDS ASSURED By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Director of the Budget Lord informed President Coolidge today that the Government can find money to close Mississippi River flood levees, despite Comptroller General McCarl’s ruling that $2,000,000 set aside for that purpose could not be used. Lord said that if the McCarl ruling stood and it is a matter of dire necessity, the Government can locate the necessary funds for the work, though he did not specify the source.

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Ironwood Camp, No. 6984, of the Modern Woodmen of America, Tenth and Rural Sts., had the first float in the parade of the Associated Fraternities Thursday night. The float was followed by several teams of other Woodmen camps, who gave a demonstration of fancy drilling on New York St., between Meridian and Pennsylvania Sts., following the parade through the downtown district. CAPTAIN HAWK G. A. R. LEADER Westerner Elected Commander by Aging Veterans. By United Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 16. —Elbridge L. Hawk of Sacramento, Cal., who fought through the entire Vicksburg campaign in the Civil War and was discharged with the rank of a captain, is the new com-mander-in-chief of what remains of the Grand Army of the Republic. His election came after a spirited struggle. Hawk is the first far Westerner to hold the command. He came close to election at two previous encampments, but was prevented from taking part on account of ill health. He is now fully recovered. The new commander enlisted April 22, 1861, as a private in the 18th Ohio Regiment. He re-enlisted in th£ same regiment in September and later organized a company of the 114th Ohio. He rose from the ranks and at the close of the war was made a senior captain when detailed to assist in the demobilization of troops at New Orleans. The sixty-first encampment is to close tonight. Next year's reunion will be at Denver, STRESSES WATERWAY William L. Harding, Former lowa Governor, Addresses Realtors. By Times Spec i'll MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., Sept. 16. —Farmers and manufacturers would be saved millions of dollars each year in transportation charges through use of a St. Lawrence River-Lake Michigan waterway. William L. Harding, former Goy-* ernor of lowa, declared in an address here before the Indiana Real Estate Association convention. Other speakers Thursday were L. H. Lewis, president, Indianapolis Real Estate Board, and Jack Lonnquist, Michigan City, president of the Lonnquist Company. Hoosier 111 in Bagdad By Times Special • RUSHVILLE, Ind., Sept. 16.—Burton Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben A. Cox of this city, is ill with typhoid fever in a hospital at Bagdad, Mesopotamia. The stricken man has been in Mesopotamia several months in the employ of the Turkish Petroleum Company.

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PREDICT EARLY TEAPOT DOME LEASEJNLING Supreme Court Expected to Hand Down Decision as Soon as Term Opens. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—One of the first decisions the United States Supreme Court will hand down when it reconvenes two weeks hence will, in all probability, cancel or confirm the lease of Teapot Dome naval oil reserves to Harry F. Sinclair. The Supreme Court convenes Oct. 3. Oct. 17, Sinclair and Albert Fall go on trial in the District of Columbia courts charged with conspiracy to defraud the government, in making this leaseThus, if the Supreme Court announces, its decision during the first two weeks of the fall session, it may have a distinct bearing on the criminal trial that follows. Miight Drop Trial If the Supreme Court should find the lease valid, government attorneys might decide'that it would be useless to let the conspiracy charges go to trial. On the other hand, a decision by the high tribunal that the leases are fraudulent should increase the government’s chance of convicting Fall and Sinclair; although defense attorneys will use every possible means to secure a Jury that has not read anything about the case and, judging by oil trials already past, this is still possible even in the District of Columbia. Cleared by Criminal Court When Albert Fall and Edward Doheny were acquitted of conspiracy charges in the parallel Elk Hills case last fall, the Supreme Court had not yet handed down its decision which unaniomiusly found that “the whole transaction was tainted with corruption” and therefore illegal and void. If the decision had come before the criminal trial It Is hard to believe that the Fall-Doheny jury could have given its verdict calling this same transaction harmless and legitiinmte. Sweeping Principles Involved The Teapot Dome cases were argued before the Supreme Court

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RUCKER’S MOVE NEXTJN SUIT Judge Overrules Demurrer in Libel Case. Federal Judge Robert and. Baltzell has overruled demurrer of Alvah J. Rucker, former city corporation counsel, to the amended malicious libel complaint of Harley L. Clark, Chicago public utility promoter, asking $25,000 damages. Rucker charged in a suit filed in Marion Circuit Court last winter that Clarke contributed to Governor Jackson's campaign fund in return for appointment of a favorable public service commission. Rucker’s answer to the amended complaint is the next legal step. A “general answer” will place the case at issue and ready for trial, while a “special answer” requiring an answer from Clarke will result in further delay. The original complaint was filed in Federal Court Nov. 18, 1926, following fight over proposal to merge the Indianapolis Light and Heat. Company and the Merchants Heat and Light Company. Rucker’s spit in Circuit Court charging Clarke and other promoters with contributing $19,000 to Jackson’s campaign fund, forming

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Doctor to Last By Times Special SULLIVAN, Ind., Sept. 16. Alone in his automobile on the New Lebanon Rd., Dr. G. W. Pirtle, prominent Carlisle physician, applied his stethescope to himself when illness overcame him. With the instrument still clamped to his ears, the doctor was found unconscious, slumped against the steering wheel of his car after suffering a stroke of paralysis. He is in a serious condition at the Mary Sherman Hospital here.

a conspiracy, was dismissed for of jurisdiction. Rucked was ask* J by Mayor John L. Duvall to resign as city'corporation counsel. AIRMEN AT YOKOHAMA Brock and Schlee Make Hop From Tokio to Port Saftely. By United Press TOKIO, Sept. 16.—William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee of the ’round-the-world monoplane Pride of Detroit 1 , flew to Yokohama from here today. They have abandoned their plans to fly across the Pacific and will travel by boat. They expect to fly on from San Fraitcisco, making the flight to Detroit without a stop.