Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 111, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1927 — Page 1

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‘STRIKE’ HINT IS VOICED BY DUVALLJUROR Renews Demand for Better Living Conditions in City Hotei. JUDGE iSSUES WARNING I ' Henninger’s Testimony Is Again Heard as Court Session Opens. * A "strike” for better living conditions was threatened by one of the Duvall trial Jurors when the sixth day of the trial opened in Criminal Court this morning. Special Judge Cassius C. Shirley warned the juror, Bernard Battey, that he should be careful not to be in contempt of the court. Henninger Resumes Stand The Rev. George S. Henninger, pastor of the Bast Tenth Street M. E. Church, resumed the stand today and again told of the Klan meeting at the church community house at which Duvall took the Klan oath and made a speech. Henninger also was on the stand Friday afternoon. At that meeting Duvall signed an agreement promising the Klan 85 per cent of city appointments in return for Klan support in his mayorality race, Henninger testifledl Davis Is Witness 1 Oren E. Davis, Marion County Horsethief Detective Association head, followed Henninger to the stand and told of a meeting attended by himself, Duvall, George S. Elliott, Harvey Bedford and Alonzo Jeffers in the courthouse after the primary, at which Duvall again promised the Klan 85 per cent of the city hall patronage. State Wins Point At the start of the afternoon session Friday, Judge Shirley ruled the State could give the jury a general picture of Duvall’s pre-campaig .1 activities and not be confin'd strictly to the specific charge sot out in the affidavit. Harvey Bedford, former krai Klan politioal worker, testified that Duvall promised him "the best automobile money could buy the day after election,” if Bedford could get the support of George V. Coffin. Bedford said ho was also promised the superintendency of Indianapolis parks by Duvall. Bedford’s testimony, excepting that relating to the alleged promise of an automobile, was stricken out. Frank Sipe, 330 Parker Ave., testified Duvall, after promising him the Job as city market master, apppointed another and thepn offered to make “the change for $3,000.”

$3,000 Solicited, Charge "After election I told Duvall I was disappointed and thought he should have kept his promise. He said he was mayor now and was sorry I felt that way,” Slpe declared. “He said if I wanted a change made to lay it down. I asked him what he meant and he said $3,000.” Ray Mullikin, 1322 Olney St., said he attended a meeting in a downtown hotel where Duvall said he would “give 85 per cent of the city hall appointments to the Klan.” George Snider, county commissioner and former sheriff, testified that he and Duvall visited the office of E. S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League head, twice during the campaign. After the first visit Duvall promised him a place on the board of safety. At the second conference Shumaker begged Duvall to name him police chief, but he refused the place, Snider also testified. Tells of Klan Parley Paul Bridges, former Klan member, told of a meeting between Duvall, Harvey Bedford, George El* liott, former exalted cyclops of the the Klan; Charles Clarke, deputy county treasurer, and himself, at which Duvall again promised the Klan 85 per cent of city patronage. William H. Armltage, star State witness, was re-called and admitted casing Claude Johnson when he retun, ed from Pekin, HI., telling him “it didn’t look like there was a chance in the world for him to become police chief, but there might be a chance on the board of works.” WORLD GIRDLERS SAIL Brock and Schlee on Way Frojn Japan to V. S.; Bringing Plane. Bu United Press TOKIO, Sept. 17.—'William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee, aviators who abandoned their around-the-v-jrld flight in Tokio after travt-sing more than 11,500 miles, today sailed from Yokohama aboard the liner Korea Maru. ■% Their monoplane Pride of Detroit wasyaboard. Brock and. Schlee will fly It from St. Francisco to Detroit. l£R|fes?sador Apt. Hotel.- Hi. 137 T exportable, beautiful, reaeonabl:.

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M'flDOO IS OUT OF 1928 RACE t Goes on Record in Letter; Will Fight Smith. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 17.—William Gibbs McAdoo was on record today as declaring, "I shall not be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1928.” The former secretary of treasury —son-in-law of the late President Wilson and himself aspirant in 1924 for the presidency—wrote George F. Milton of the Chattanooga News, under date of Thursday, the above declaration. McAdoo made it clear he desires to prevent a repetition of the “inconclusive and disastrous fight in the New York convention of 1924.” He added that a repetition "would be calamitous,” reducing the Democratic party again “to impotence in a presidential contest.” McAdoo’s letter generally was interpreted as a rallying cry for antiSmith elements and as a notice that McAdoo, even thqugh out, seeks to play a heavy role in determining the nominee of his party next year. Milton’s letter, dated Sept. 8, told McAdoo he could be elected. To this, McAdoo replied he felt he deserved a "respite” and had earned “at least an honorable discharge.”

Stations Selected to Broadcast Big Battle

Following is the corrected list of stations which will broadcast the Dempsey-Tunney fight next Thursday night, under auspices of The Times and the other twenty-five Scripps-Howard newspapers, which have been granted the exclusive right of broadcasting: '&EAF, New York. WSB, Atlanta WCCO, Minneapolis-' WPZ, New York WJAX, Jacksonville, St. Paul. • WGY, Schenectady FJa WHO. Des Moines WGR, Buffalo tufa a nnllas WDAF, Kansas City WHAM, Rochester AA ’ aiias WOW, Omaha WCSH, Portland, Me. WSM, Nashville - KVOO, Bristow, Okla. WEEI, Boston WMC, Memphis KOA. Denver WBZA, Boston WHAS, Louisville KSL, Salt Lake City Worcester WTAM, Cleveland KGO, Oakland, Cal. WBZ, Springfield WSAI, Cincinnati KPOi San Francisco Jvfass. WLW, Cincinnati - KFI, Los Angeles WTIC, Hartford WJR, Detroit KGW, Portland, Ore. Conn. WWJ, Detroit . KOMO, Seattle WJAR, Providence WTMJ, Milwaukee KFOA, Seattle WPG, Atlantic City WRVA, Richmond, KHO, Spokane . WFI, Philadelphia Va. KFSD. San Diego WCAE, Pittsburgh WFBM, Indianapolis CFCA, Toronto, Ont. KDKA, Pittsburgh WKBF, Indianapolis WTAD, Quincy, 111. WBAL, Baltimore KYW, Chicago KFH, Wichita, Kan. WRC, Washington WENR, Chicago WBRC, Birmingham WSAZ, Huntington. KSD, St. Louis WDAE, Tampa W. Va. WOC, Davenpoft WWNC, AshviUe, N.C. WBT, Charlotte, N. C. KWUC, Umars, la. WNOX, Knoxville The possible additions, announced by M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Cos., are: WICC, Bridgeport WDOD, Chattanooga WTAL. Toledo KPRC, Houston WSYR, Syracuse WELA, Clearwater, KFBC, San Diego WSBT, South Bend Fla.

62 STATIONS TO BROADCAST, CHICAGO BOUT Scripps-Howard ~ Papers Sponsoring Greatest Hook-up in History. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR Every Blow of Tunney and Dempsey to Be Described Over Ringside ‘Mike.’ By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 17.—Sixty-two broadcasting stations already have contracted for the blow-by-blow description of the Tunney-Dempsey heavyweight championship prize fight, with the possibility of eight further additions. Merlin H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Company, announces. This number exceeds by a wide margin all previous radio networks for sports events. The Indianapolis Times, The New York Telegram and the twenty-fo>-other Scripps-Howard newspapers are sponsoring this broadcast next Thursday evening, direct from Soldiers Field, Chicago, the National Broadcasting Company having received exclusive broadcasting privileges. International Audience The addition of short-wave transmitters ( 0f KDKA, Pittsburgh, and WGY, Schenectady, to the combined Red, Blue and Pacific coast networks of the N. B. C., will make the broadcasting of "the battle of three million” truly international. CFCA, Toronto, represents Canada in the line-up. As in the broadcast of Tex Rickard’s heavyweight elimination contest between Dempsey and Sharkey in New York, Graham McNamee and Phillips Carlin, veteran WEAF announcers, will be at the microphone in the first row of the press box. McNamee will describe the main bout blow-by-blow, while Carlin will supply, in his inimitable fashion, the side-lights on the battle. Other microphones will be installed on the ring-posts in the neutral corners so that the announcements made from the ring may be heara by those listening in. Over one of these microphones, the winner will greet the radio audience.

Dwarfs Other Hook-Ups The hook-up which broadcast the bout last year in which Gene Tunney won the championship from Dempsey—twenty-three stations—is dwaafed by the present wire lineup of sixty-two, and probably more broadcasters. Fifty-one stations broadcast the Dempsey-Sharkey bout under Scripps-Howard auspices. The Canadian station, CFCA, is the one furthest north. WDAE, Tampa, Fla., thus far is the southernmost transmitter. The exceptional success achieved by KDKA and WGY in relaying programs on short-waves makes it practically certain that the fight description of McNamee 'will be heard in South America, Australia, South Africa and Europe. McNamee’s description will be picked up at the ringside and routed through a “tesfing panel” on the field in Chicago. Transmission by telephone circuits to the N. B. C. headquarters at New York will be followed by re-trar smission via telephone wires to the individual stations on the combined networks.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, SEPT. IT, 1927

Dr. Shumaker to Senator Watson

PERSONAL , August 6, 1926. Hon. James E. Watson, Culver, Indiana. My Dear Senator:—l am doing what to me is an unusual thing in writing a letter of this kind to any one. , , As I said to you over the phone last night. I am entitled to a speedy determination of the criminal case that the attorney general of Indiana has brought against me in the Supreme Court, which case you say is going to be postponed until after the election. You further say that I will be found guilty and fined after the election is over. This looks to me very much like* a case of politics, and that the Republican party will have to bear the responsibility for a scheme of this character to impress the stamp of a criminal upon me, when, as I said to you last night, my influence, such as it is, has never been in favor of crime, but a cleaner, nobler, better manhood and womanhood, and the enforcement of the law without fear or favor upon rich snd poor alike. I am saying to you frankly that the Republican party can not hope to get any benefit by the postponement of a blow of this character until after the election without being responsible for the same. I think lam entitled to know one of two things immediately; either the decision of the court, or a plain unequivocal statement from yourself and the Republican organization that you are not in sympathy with Gilliom’s movement to overthrow the prohibition cause by breaking the character of one person who has been its foremost representative in this State for nearly a quarter of a century. I will add in conclusion that people all aver the State are talking about this and are holding the Republican party responsible for this vicious and unwarranted attack of the attorney general. I inclose you copy from an editorial in the Western Christian Advocate of July 24th concerning this matter. Yours truly, E. S. SHUMAKER. ESS :LWS.

Senator Watson to Dr. Shumaker

i United States Senate, Committee on Interstate Commerce, Washington, D. C. Aug. 8, 1926. Rev. E. S. Shoemaker, D. D. ’ Roosevelt Building, Indianapolis, Ind. My Dear Sir: Your letter shows the uncertainty of a telephonic communication. I was talking at the home of Henry Lane Wilson, in a room where many people were playing bridge. I may have said something to you that I did not intend to say, and evidently did, or else you heard me wrong. I did not intend to say that the Supreme Cour had determined not to decide your case until after election. What I tried to get across to you was that, inasmuch as they had adjourned for their summer vacation, I thought that the case would not be decided until after the election. Nobody told me that, and I had no authority to announce their conclusions, but I was giving my inference.

Furthermore, I did not intend to say to you that the court had decided to not send you to Jail, but to fine you apd reprimand you. I have no authority in the world for making a statement of that kind to you or anybody else. When Arthur Robinson came to me at Washington and talked tc me about this, he said to me that he was exceedingly anxious for me to work in my own way, as far as I felt I could consistently with my views in regard to courts, to keep you from being sent to Jail. I wrote a number of lettsi T IhKQugh Indiana that I hoped might be helpful in bringing about such a conclusion. I did not know, except from him, that there was any danger of such a decision, and, never having spoken to a Judge in my life about any case before his court, I was not in any position to either write to any judge of the Supreme Court or to discuss the matter with him over the telephone, which to me would have been a most impossible thing to do. From what I have heard here and there and yonder, I have come to the conclusion that they do not intend to visit any such punishment on you, and that is Just as far as my knowledge of the case goes, if indeed it may be called knowledge.

SHUMAKER AND ROBINSON

A statement attributed to Senator Arthur R. Robinson, regarding the statement in Senator James L. Watson’s letter to the Rev. E. S. Shumaker that Robinson had asked him, in so far as he consistently could to help keep Shumaker out of jail,, reads: “My only conversation with Senator Watson at Washington concerning the Shumaker case was to express my sincere sympathy for Dr. Shumaker and to discuss its effect on the Republican party. “Early in August, 1926, Dr. Shumaker came to my home and said in substance that, while he did not desire to influence the decision of the epurt, he would like to have it decide his case at an early date. “I told him that I could do nothing in the matter, and he asked me if I would call Senator Watson and tell him how he felt. This I did, and after reamhing the Senator asked him to talk to Shumaker personally. He did th’s and, of course, I do not know what conversation took place between them.” Shumaker issued this statement: “I called on Senator Robinson at his home to protest against the delay in the decision of the case (the contempt case pending in the Supreme Court) and expressed the belief that Arthur Gilliom was holding this over my 'head like a club to prevent me from, making any recommendations for the Supreme Court during the campaign. "It was then that he cafled

I have not received any knowledge on the case directly from any judge of that court and therefor I have no authority whatever to represent any member of it, much less the body as a whole, any suggestion I make. I do not believe the Supreme Court should be subject to direct political influence. I cannot believe that the Republican State central commmittee should be called together to pass a resolution to direct the Supreme Court with kind of a decision to make in your case or any other case. If that can be done there is no reason why the Democratic committee should not be asked to take such action, or, failing in that, it would be a plain effort to bring the Supreme Court within, the range of partisan influence exclusively. The Republican party has a fixed set of principles and definite policies to consummate and to carry into execution and I can not see how it is any part of that policy to attempt to direct the efforts or control the decision of the Suprer3 Court on any action. I have been called a boss, have been accused of trying to dictate everything in con-

Senator Watson on the phone and told him how I felt about the matter. I could not hear what Watson was saying, but Robinson, after talking with him for a few asked him if he would mind telling FLOWER CLUB TO MEET Ohio University Expert Will Give Garden Lecture. The Garden Flowers Society of Indianapolis wili open the season of 1927-28 on Wednesday at 8 p. m. at the auditorium of Central Library, when Prof. Alfred C. Hottes of the University of Ohio will speak on "The Satisfaction of a Garden.” Professor Hottes is an authority on floriculture. Lovers of flowers, whether members or not, are invited. AVIATION BUREAU OPEN Paul H. Moore Can Supply Information on Aeronautics. An aeronaiutics bureau has, been established by Paul H. Moore, Indianapolis Airport Corporation secretary, for the benefit of Indianapolis persons desiring information on aviation matters. \ Moore, with offices in the Chamber of Commerce Bldg., is equipped to supply information on aeronautical He is able to book passengers for cross country trips and supply mail and express rate information. t __

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nection with party organization and political machinery in Indiana, but I have never at any time been accused by anyone of an effort to influence any court on any question. I have studiously avoided making any suggestion to any judge at any time about any decision. Nor have I ever discussed yo r case with Arthur Gilliom for one minute. I did not know he was giing to bring the action, and, to *3ll you the truth, I have never even read the charge against you. I only know in general terms that it is a contempt proceeding, but I have never read the language attributed to you and I have not the slightest idea in the world about the merits of the proposition. I expect to be in Indianapolis next Sunday in consultation with Senator Robinson about various matters. If you are going to be there at that time I wish you would call him on the phone and tell him so in order that we may have a. meeting together and go over this whole proposition. I am anxious to be of service to you just as far as I can do so. With my very kindest regards, I am sincerely yours. W C JAMES E. WATSON.

me just what he had said to him. "I then was invited to step to the phone and Senator Watson spoke to me in substance as follows: “ ‘Doctor, I have done something in this case entirely different to anything I have done before. I have talked to three of the judges, and they are the three who are supposed to be friendly to you. They have assured me that you never will be sent to jail, and there will be nothing done in your case until after the election’ “I askqd him what could be done at that time. “His answer was that they would fine me, but not deprive me of my liberty. In order to hear from him in writing. I wrote him a letter the next day. He replied in a twopage letter in which he gave a different statement than the one he had given over the phone, claiming I had misunderstood him.”

Straw Reprieve By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 17. Mayor S. E. Spurgeon has extended the straw hat season here to Oct. 1, answering a petitition bearing several, names, which recited, “We, the undersigned, all being in our right minds ami cognizant of the fact that summer heat continues to flow.”

GILLIOM DEMANDS LONGER TERM FOR SHUMAKER, AS WATSON UTTER IS BARED Senior Senator and Arthur Robinson Arei Drawn Into Case by New Revelations of Correspondence. * CHARGE MOVE TO INFLUENCE JUDGES Corrupt Attempt to Win Favorable Decision From State’s Highest Tribunal Alleged by Attorney General. Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom today 'filed a motion! in Indiana Supreme Court asking that the sixty-day contempt! sentence of the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the In* diana Anti-Saloon League, be increased, upon the basis of cor* respondence between Shumaker find Senator James E. Watson, This correspondence was published today by a morning newspaper, following criticism of United States Senator Arthur! Robinson and Senator James E. Watson by The Indianapolis Times. Gilliom in his motion asks the increase of sentence because “of corrupt attempts by him, the said Shumaker, corruptly to influence a decision favorable to him in this cause.” In support of the motion, Gilliom says he offers testimony; of Clyde E. Walb, Republican State chairman; Senator Watson, Senator Robinson, Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador) to Mexico, and Boyd Gurley, editor of The Times.

Gilliom’s action is based upon a letter of Shumaker to Watson of Aug. 6, 1926, and a reply of Watson of Aug. 8, 1926. These letters have been in the possession of The Times, but publication has been withheld out of respect for Senator Watson, who Is ill at the Mayo Brothers' Sanitarium at Rochester, Minn. Gilliom acted Immediately upon publication of these letters this morning. Calls Senator Watson The Shumaker letter and a statement issued by Shumaker 6how that on the nigty of Aug. 5, when the Shumaker contempt case was pending in Supreme Court, Shumaker talked with Watson by long distance telephone. Watson was at Lake Wawasee, Ind. Shumaker says in the letter that Watson had said to him over the telephone that the Supreme Court was going to postpone action in the Shumaker case until after the election (in November) and that then the court was going to find Shumaker guilty, but give him only a fine. ’ / Shumaker wrote that he did not believe the "Republican party would get any particular benefit from the postponement of a blow of this character until after the election without being responsible for the same.” Alleges Misunderstanding The reply of Watson is to the effect that Shumaker must have misunderstood him over the telephone; that he was talking from a bridge party at the residence of Henry Lane Wilson, and that he had not promised that the Supreme Court would postpone the case until after election and then merely fine Shumaker, hut that he merely had made comments upon this line based upon talk he had heard "here, there and yonder.” • Watson’s letter contains this statement: “When Arthur Robinson came to me at Washington and talked' to me about this, he said to me that he was exceedingly anxious for me to work in my own way, as far as I felt I consistently could with my views in regard to courts, to keep you from being sent to jail. Writes Several Letters “I wrote a number of letters through Indiana that I hoped might be helpful in bringing about such a conclusion.” Watson declared that he had not written to any Supreme Court Judges, howfever. Watson concluded with a request for a conference with Shumaker when he reached Indianapolis. Gilliom’s intention to delve into the interest of Robinson and Watson in the Shumaker case was indicated by his listing of these men, Wilson, Walb and Gurley as witnesses. Gurley has made the charge, through The Times’ editorial columns, that there was undue interest in judicial proceedings upon the part of the two Senators and Robinson has demanded a retraction. The Times refused to retract, asking the Senator if he had forgotten what had happened upon dates which are identical with th 3of the Shumaker-Watson correspondence. Senator in Sanitarium Watson is at the Mayo Brothers’ Sanitarium at Rochester, Minn., for treatment for stomach ulcers. Shunuykar was cited for contempt

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of Supreme Court by Gilliom early in 1926, upon statements in the 1925 annual report of Shumaker to the dry league, terming some members of the Supreme Court “wet.” In July, 1926, a committee of lawyears, named by Supreme Court, made a report as friends of the court, recommending that Shumaker be declared guilty. The matter remained dormant lrf the court until Aug. 6, this year, when the court, by a three to two decision, held Shumaker guilty. A week later Shumaker was sentenced to serve sixty days on the Indiana State farm. Shumaker plans an appeal. Shumaker’s .'riends immediately rallied, many persons, including a number of ministers, offering to serve his sentence.

NEW SLEUTHS ON JOB Miller and Stagg Take Over Duties. Motorcycle Policeman William Miller and Patrolman Emmett Stagg today took over their new duties in the deteective division. Both men have been prominent in capture of criminals. Miller caught Maurice'-De La Tour, confessed firebug and escaped convict, and Lawrence Hartman and Robert Summers, charged with robbery and auto banditry. Stagg has been doing good work in Investigating robberies and holdups, Chief of Police Claude M. Worley said. Patrolman Mike Morrissey has been assigned to Miller’s place on the motorcycle division, Worley said.

HEAT WAVE EASING UR Weather Bureau Says Relief Is to x Come Gradually. Gradual waning of the heat wave in Indianapolis was predicted by the weather bureau today. The bureau believed the temperature would not go much about 88 degrees today, as compared with the high mark of 90 Friday. The bureau predicted that temperatures will have receded as much as 10 degrees by Sunday night DERBY PLANE CRASHES Aircraft Wrecked; Two Fliers Escape Death. By United Press ALTOONA, P£., Sept. 17.—The monoplane City of Olympia, entry No. 31 in the New York-Spokane air derby, piloted by Lieut. Valentine Gephart, Seattle, Wash., and Pilot Fred Parker of Anderson, Ind, crashed near Grampian, Clearfield County, eyrly last night when the engine went dead 2,000 feet in the air. Gephart, who Is secretary of the National Aeronautic Association* escaped by a parachute leap. The pilot landed by volplaning into a hay field, damaging the plane so badly that it could not continue its trip.

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