Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1927 — Page 1

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DEFENSE OF DUVALL RESTS; STATE STARTS REBUTTAL; MAYOR’S WIFE IS ON STAND Lew Shank First Witness Called by Prosecution; Stopped From Telling of Campaign Conversation. CENTER QUIZ ON KLAN CONFERENCE Veracity of Constable Sipe Is Under Fire; School Board Member Is Closely Questioned by State. (Duvall Testlm ony on Page 2) The end of the trial of John L. Duvall upon charges of violating the corrupt practices act drew near this afternoon, as the State introduced rebuttal witnesses. The defense rested at 10:50 a. m., after a morning of testimony marked by the brief appearance of Mrs. Duvall to help her husband escape sentence. The State called former Mayor Lew Shank as its first witness in rebuttal, but was stopped from telling of a conversation he had with Duvall during the summer of 1925 in front of the Shank residence in Golden Hill. The defense objected upon the ground that Shank should have been a witness in chief and rot in rebuttal.

The State hoped to show agreement with Armitage to that Duvall had discussed an give him city hall patronage in return for a $14,500 campaign contribution. Special Judge Cassius C. Shirley temporarily sustained the objection giving the State opportunity to offer authorities to change his view. While argument upon whether Shank should be permitted to testify progressed this afternoon, the State announced It had but one other rebuttal witness, George S. SNOW AND ICE CHILLOHIOANS Killing Frost Brings Losses to Truck Gardeners. By United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 21.—Ice, snow and killing frosts were reported from various sections of Ohio today. The change from record-break-ing warm weather to temperatures as low as 30 degrees came in twenty-four hours. In Sandusky flakes of snow were reported Ip have accompanied a rain storm. Ice was reported from Perry County last night, when a killing frost caused considerable damage to truck gardens and the com crop. Parts of Hocking County reported killing frost. Light frosts were reported throughout central and northern sections. Warm weather was in prospect. \ Light Frost in Indiana Frost appeared in the lowlands of Indiana this morning, but did little damage, according to J. H. Armington, United States Weather Bureau head. There was a light frost about Indianapolis, but none in the city limits, Armington said. Marion, Farmland, Columbus and Vincennes reported a heavy frost and a number of State points reported light frosts, he said. Cool temperatures will continue today and tomorrow, according to Armington, with frost probably appearing again tonight in the lowlands. Today’s 44-degree temperature at 7 a. m. was 13 degrees below normal. Last Wednesday’s temperature averaged 85, which was 17 degrees above normal. SELLS FOR $4,300,000 Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Philadelphia Brings High Price. Bn United Press PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21.—The Ritz-Carlton hotel here owned by the estate of the late P. A. B. Widener, has been sold to a local syndicate for $4,300,000. The property, at the comer of Broad and Walnut Sts., is assessed at $2,600,000. It will be continued as a hotel under the new ownership, it was said. The structure was erected in 1912 by Widener.

Halt, Cupid 7 By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Sept. 21. —Calvin A. Massey and Angeline Morrow, Starved Rock, 111., won’t be marrisd for some time yet. While driving through Indiana en route to his mother’s home In Ohio where the wedding was to take place. Morrow was arrested on an Intoxication charge and in Cirenlt Court here was fined $25 and sentenced to the State farm for sixty days.

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The Indianapolis Times Fair tonight and probably Thursday; not much change in temperature; probably light frost in low places.

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Elliott, former cyclops of the Marion County Klan. If argument upon the evidence was reached this afternoon, it was expected that the case will go to the jury late Thursday, If argument is not begun until Thursday morning, it was regarded as possible that the jury may not get the case until Friday morning. Bare Mystery Meeting Another development was disclosure by State cross-examination of Frank Cones, board of works and county councU member, a defense witness, that Cones attended a “mystery meeting’’ of Duvall friends at Police Chief Claude M. Worley’s office Monday night. Others there were Worley, Fred Connell, safety board member; Otis Dodson, Republican faction leader; Jesse Hutsell, fire chief; and Harvey Grtybill, one of Duvall’s attorneys. Purpose of the meeting was not disclosed. The defense introduced a number of character witnesses for Duvall and four witnesses against the reputation for veracity of Constable Frank Sipe, who had testified for the State that Duvall offered him the city market master’s Job for $3,000. The State, in rebuttal, put Court Reporter Norman E. Metcalf upon the stand and had him read conflicting testimony of Fire Capt. Oscar L. Hupp and Alonzo Jeffers, Klansman, given before the county grand jury and in the present trial about whether Duvall promised he would favor the Klan in his administration. Charles W. Kern, school board member, was the first defense 'witness of the morning. He testified he attended the Klan mass meeting at the E. Tenth Street M. E. Church community house, at which the Rev. Oeorge S. Henninger testified Duvall pledged himself to give at least 60 per cent of city appointments to Klansmen, but declared he heard no mention of percentage of appointments at the meeting. He told of some of the questions read the group of candidates by Henninger and said after the reading some of the candidates answered “I do” and “I will” and some “No,” but said he did not see anyone raise his left hand, the Klan voting sign, in the row in which Duvall sat. Go Behind Curtain On cross-examination he admitted that after reading of the questions the candidates gathered on the platform in two groups and a curtain drawn between those who had answered "I do” and those who had voted no or made no answer. There might have been some mention behind the curtain of percentage of appointments to go' to the Klan, he said. Clyde Robinson, county treasurerelect and Marion County State Bank president, testified to receiving a $12,000 check and note directing him to give the $12,000 to W. C. Buser, the mayor’s brother-in-law, from Duvall the night of Nov. 8, 1925. The next day the money, which Buser has testified he turned over to William H. Armitage at once, was paid to Buser, Robinson said. The mayor’s wife, modishly dressed, in the two minutes she was on the stand, calmly denied that she ever had met William H. Freeman or that she could remember him ever having been at their home. The State refrained from crossexamination. Mrs. Duvall stepped,, from the witness chair and took a seat beside the mayor. This was her first appearance at the trial the court having ordered that all witnesses be excluded until they had testified. DIRECTS KLAN’S PICNIC Mrs. Lillian O. Sedwlck, school board member, presided at a Boone County picnic of women of the KuKlux Klan at Lebanon Sunday, according to Lebanon newspapers. An Indianapolis band and the Inj diana Girls’ Drum Corps. Indiani apolis, provided music. The Rev. 1 Nicely of Shelbyvilie spoke.

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This sketch by Lee Williams, Times staff artist, In Criminal Court, shows the sealing arrangement for principals in the trial of Mayor John L. Duvall: I—Judge Cassius C. Shirley. 2—Witness John L. Stump. 3—Court Reporter Norman Metcalf. 4—Prosecutor William H. Remy. s—Special Prosecutor J. W. Hoitzman. 6—Special Prosecutor E. W. Johnson. 7—Defense Attorney Michael A. Ryan. B—John L. Duvall.

THREE PLANES LINE UP FOR RACE ACROSS CONTINENT TO SPOKANE

JURY RESUMES POLITICAL OUIZ Head of Red Star Group Is Witness Before Group. The county grand Jury returned to its investigation of alleged political corruption in Indiana, it was learned today. The jury subpoenaed and heard the testimony of Robert McNey, leader of the Red Star organization. This group formerly was the old Marion County Klan No. 3. McNay is one of several witnesses who will be called by the grand jury, Deputy Prosecutor William H. Sheaffer announced. "The grand Jury has strated again and is keeping right up with the Duv*ll trial and the court,” Sheaffer announced. The last official act of the grand Jury in the probe was the return of indictments against Governor Ed Jackson, George V. Coffin, Mayor Duvall and Robert I. Marsh. Jackson, Marsh and Coffin were indicted for aleged conspiracy to commit a felony for the attempted bribery of former Governor Warren T. McCray. McCray will be the chief witness of the State in the trial, it has been announced. The men will be arranged in Criminal Court Oct. 3. FIVE PRISONERS WAIT Reformatory Refuses to Admit Men Without Papers. > By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 21.—Five young men sentenced to the Indiana State reformatory at Pendleton are being held in the Madison County Jail today because Deputy Sheriff McDonahey of Rush County neglected to bring along commitment papers. With the five prisoners handcuffed. the deputy presented himself at the reformatory and was told they could not get in unless commitments were presented. So the prisoners were brought here while McDonhey awaits the capers by mail. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 43 10 a .m 53 7 a. m..... 44 11 a. m 54 B a. m 48 12 (noon) ... 56 9a. m LSO 1p .m 56

JOE’S LOOSE AGAIN; THAT MEANS TROUBLE

—TLUSIVE Joe Case is at liberty again. jhat does not mean much to the ordinary Indianapo,lis citizen, but it means a lot to Indianapolis police. For the last time Joe was at liberty he romped about the city in stolen autos, with a handcuff dangling from one arm, giving police the merry ha ha for a week. Joe, a slender, 130-pound, sandy-haired youngster of 17, staged the fourth escape of his rather unusual career at the Indiana Boys’ School 1 at Plainfield Tuesday night. Joe was practicing basketball in i <

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Indianapolis Radio Fans, This Is Your Big Party ■■ 1..,.. Tune in on this, \r* radio fans! is spot news that has to do with the broadcasting party to be given by The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers when Deupsey and Tunney step in the ring Thursday night to make each other take back the harsh words that have added to the static of the last few days. Read on: Station WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company, will use for the first time its new assignment of 1090 kilocycles (275.1 meters) and also will use for the first time its 1,000-watts power. The broadcasting will start at 8 o’clock and will be transmitted through a large Fada set to crowds gathered in front of The Indianapolis Times office, 214 W. Maryland St. The receiving set will be in charge of a radio expert from the College Avenue Garage, wliich, in conjunction with the Gibson Cos. has made The Indianapolis Times arrangement possible.

Radio Station WEAF’s new fiftykilowatt transmitter at Bellmore, L. 1., also will be used on this occasion. All Indianapolis Is Invited to this party as guests of The Times. Come early. Hear Graham McNaURGES ADS BY DOCTORS Michigan Governor Points Ont Publicity Is in "Charletans” Hands. By United Press DETROIT, Sept. 21.—Physicians should advertise instead of leaving “the tremendous power of newspaper pupllcity as a terrible weapon in the hands of quacks and charletans,” in the opinion of Governor Fred W. Green of Michigan. Addressing the Wayne County Medical Society last night, Governor Green urged medical men to advertise “for the sake of the public.” “I am not pleading that you use the newspapers for your own sake,” he said. “You do not need it. Perhaps you will say that the public should discriminate, but too much cannot be expected of us laymen in the matter of discriminating intelligence.” Bandits Nail Down Bank Employes By United Press GUADALUPE, Calif., Sept. 21. Nailing four employes to the floor with strips of cloth to prevent attempts at immediate pursuit, three bandits held up the Guadalupe Branch of the First National Savings and Trust bank and escaped with $5,000. '

the school gymnasium, according to Superintendent C. A McGonagle, when he slipped into the adjoining wash room, put a coat over his gym clothes and climbed out a window. When Joe began his “escape” career two years ago, he was enamoured of a miss of about his own age in the community east of the city on the Rockville Rd., where he lived. The girl’s brother had objections, however. mOE obtained a gun, hid along the road and held up the brother, finally letting him go unharmed when he promised not to interfere further with love’s true course,

mee and Phillips Carlan, the announcers, describe the crowds. You won’t miss a blow and you probably will be able to see about as well as will some of those who sit in $lO seats a block or so from the ringside. PUTS VICTIMS ON ICE Bandit Locks Three In Refrigerator; Escapes With S6O. A bandit held up the Kroger grocery, 122 E. Twenty-Second St., late Tuesday, locked three employes in the ice box and escaped with S6O. Owen E. Cobb, 1522 Burdsall Pkwy., manager, said he and Harlan Mlnnink, 414 N. Delaware St., and Truman Ragsdale, 1635 N. New Jersey St., employes, were preparing to lock up for the night when the man came in and waved them into the ice box with a gun. He did not attempt to search the men, but was content with the store receipts. RESCUER IS BURGLAR Negro Tells Woman That Thief Is in House; He’s the Thief. “There is a man in your house and I’m going to call police,” a Negro she met at the back door of her home whispered to Mrs. Paul Rich, 3402 Capitol Ave., Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Rich waited, but no police, came. Finally she summoned other aid and found the house had been ransacked, but nothing ia. en. Police are seeking the man she met at the door.

As love was the motive, juvenile court authorities let Joe go on probation that time. Joe was arrested later for auto stealing and taken to the Detention Home. His first escape was from that institution, but he was captured a short time later in another stolen atuo, and sentenced to the Boys’ School at Plainfield. He escaped from the barber shop there. • • • jRRESTED in Kentucky few weeks later in the * usual stolen auto, an officer of the school brought him here en route to Plainfield.

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BULLETIN By United Prase ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y, Sept. 21.—The non-stop flight from New York to Spokane, feature of the national air races and Spokane air derby, started this afternoon. At 3:01 p. m. Eddie Stinson’s orange-colored monoplane rolled down the famous trans-Atlantic runway of this flying field, raised gracefully into the air and headed west for Spokane. BY PAUL W. WHITE United Frees Staff Correspondent ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., Sept. 21.—Three sturdy airplanes designed to carry hpavy loads and hold up under the strain of long-sus-taained flight, lined up here this afternoon for the start of the New York-to-Spokane nonstop air race. Not since 1922, when Lieuts. John Macßeady and Oakely G. Kelley made their historic flight from New York to San Diego, Cal., has a successful attempt to span the continent wtihout stops being made. A staff of twenty soldiers from Mitchell field will be on hand to maneuvre the planes into position. Nassau County police will hold back spectators. The planes entered are: StinsonDetroiter (Veedol) an orange ana black monoplane deisgned and constructed by the pilot, Eddie Stinson at his aircraft factory, NorthvilJe, Mich. The plane will carry 400 gallons of gasoline and will weigh, loaded, about 6,000 pounds. The second entrant is the yellow, black-lettered, Stinson-De-troiter Royal Windsor monoplane, in which “Duke” Schiller and Phil Wood planned to cross the Atlantic from Windsor, Ont., to Windsor, England, ’“'he plane will carry 380 gallons of gas and will weigh some 5,700 pounds. Youth Is Dark Horse The dark horse of the race is the light gray anc' dark blue biplane, Air King, entered by the National Airways System, Lomax, 111. It will hold 366 gallons of gasoline and will weigh some 5,000 pounds. The pilot, the youngest in the race, is Steve Bacey, 24, of Minneapolis. Fliers in Far West Class A and Class B planes in the great air derby from New York to Spokane flew across the sparsely populated plains and badlands of the Dakotas and Montana today, Rearing their goal in eastern Washington. In another race from dan Francisco to Spokane, six class B craft and five in Class A were speeding northward toward the common goal.

When the officer took the boy into the washroom at Traction Terminal and unloosened one of the handcuffs, Joe fled. For a week he dodged about Indianapolis, the handcuff s ill on the other arm most of the time, seen here and there, but uncaught. He finally was caught when a woman from whom he had rented a room recognized him. Joe’s mother has remarried, but still lives in Indianapolis, according to police, so it is likely the boy will return here again.

MAMMOTH PARADE STARTS TD CHICAGO FIGHT; ODDS ON TUNNEY ARE BEING SLASHED Scandal Put on Shelf; the Battle’s the Thin# Now; Huge Crowds Reach City on Special Trains. AUTO AND PLANES BRING MANY3 British Peers and Gotham Gamblers Rus Elbows; Reformers’ Hopes of Halting Scrap Fade. By C. C. NICOLET United Press Stall Correspondent CHICAGO, Sept. 21.—Reports that Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney have not trained properly and rumors of unsavory conditions in the boxing industry faded into nothingness today, as the hour of battle for the heavyweight championship approached. The boxing public—which apparently includes in this case the 150,000 or so persons who will attend the fight, and all of Chicago besides—may be cynical a week before a major ring skirmish, but the drama of a championship fight now has gripped the public, as it always does on the eve of a big bout.

The sporting gentry, who twenty-four hours ago were telling all comers that the whole thing was “in the bag,” today were standing in line at betting offices to place their money on the champion or the ex-champion, and they were prepared to back their choices with argument, statistics and almost with blows. Tunney Still Favorite Tunney still ruled the official favorite, with the odds shortened from 7 to 5 to 6 to 5; but Dempsey money was more plentiful than Tunney cash, and there was more than a possibility that the champion’s slight edge would be lost before tomorrow night. On the other hand, it was possible the champion’s utrong backers were holding their money for more favorable odds and would produce cash in plenty later today or tomorrow. At Philadelphia last year, it was recalled, Tuney money was scarce until a few hours before the fight, when it suddenly became remarkably plentiful. The last legal obstacles apparently had been disposed of, although there was possibility that the Rev. Elmer Williams might file anew injunction application in a State court. He was denied an injunction in Federal Court yesterday. Big Parade Starts The parade of special trains into Chicago started today, and until late tomorrow afternoon all railroads will bring fight fans by the thousands into the city. British peers and New York gamblers, cabinet members and movie stars, and business magnates of international note were en route to Chicago, to see the fight. Automobiles added their share of prospective spectators at the Rickard opera, and tomorrow airplanes also will bring their quota. While the thousands told each other who would win, and why, Gene Tunney, the somewhat cultured and comparatively unpopular champion, and Jack Dempsey, the former champion, who has struggled near the top of the come-back trail, rested at their training camps. Their managers and hangers-on devoted themselves to keeping the fighters in a proper frame of mind —for psychology, in this day when champions read books and consort with social leaders, has become a factor in prize fights. Betting Brisk Here Indianapolis fight fans with an inclination to back their convictions on the outcome of the’ DempseyTunnfy encounter with a bit of legal tender were “getting together” today at even money, or near it. Following the "market” in Chicago, where odds favoring the champion have been hammered down within the last two days from 7 or 8 to 5 to a present 6 to 5 and some even money, odds here have been reduced correspondingly. With the days of blackboard bets past, wagering on the title bout is anything but blatant. But in the clubs, cigar stores, barber shops, poolrooms and hotels it is going on steadily. Today’s fight gossip in these place said: Most bets actually closed are at or near even money instead of 7 to 5, favoring Tunney, as a few days ago. One sportsman who flourished S9OO in a hotel Tuesday, willing to stack ot against SBOO that Tunney would win, found no takers. Word was received in gambling circles here that “there’s a carload of money in the East that says Dempsey will win, at even money.” Offers of 1 to 3 that Dempsey will knock Gene out are slow finding vti#:/: . , , . , ‘

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DOZEN HELD IN SLAYINGOF GIRL Police Without Definite Clew in Brutal Attack. By United Press HILLSIDE, 111., Sept. 21.—1n an effort to solve the brutal killing of 15-year-cld Edna Mueller, police today had arrested more than a dozen suspects for questioning, but were, without a definite clew to identity of the killer. The body of the girl was found in a vacant lot near her home in a sparsely settled section of this Chicago suburb Tuesday. She was last seen alive leaving the elevated railroad station early Monday evening. The body showed marks of horrible brutality. She had been badly beaten, her head crushed and her throat bruised. The murderer had attacked her. Blood under the girl’s fingernails showed, police believed, that she had fought for her life and had scratched the attacker. They were searching for a man whose face had been lacerated. One suspect, Anton 4ntonowich, 60, a laborer, had scratches on his face which he claimed were sustained when he climbed through a barbed wire fence. He lives in a shack near the place where the body was found. Coroner’s chemists examining stains on a pair of shoes Antonowich admitted wearing declared they were blood. AUTO HITS PEDESTRIAN Victim In Hospital; Head and Body Bruised Badly. Melvin Chestnut, 33, of 1008 Wright St., struck by an auto at Buchanan St. and Virginia Ave. Tuesday night, is in city hospital suffering from severe head Injury and body bruises. Witnesses told police that he stepped into the street from behind a parked car in front of an auto driven by Harold .Van Walter, 1314 Calhoun St. ASKS SALARIES FUNDS Transfer of $14,000 to Pay 15 City Policewomen Urged. Transfer of $14,000 to meet the salary of fifteen policewomen, who worked several months without salary, was asked by the safety board on recommendation of Police Chief Claude M. Worley. The board asked City Controller Claude F. Johnson to request an ordinance providing the transfer from police salary fund. Lumber Yards, Mill Bum By United Press kOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 21.—The Miller, Davis & Company lumber yards and sawmill at Burlington, twenty miles west of here, was destroyed by fire Tuesday. The loss was estimated at between SIO,OOO and $15,000. Ignited sawdust is believed to have been the cause.

Fatal Scratch By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind.. Sept. 21. —Funeral services were held here today for Richard B. Stellhorn, 15, high school student, who this summer rescued two persons from dorwning, but died of blood poisoning which developed in a scratch on his chin, so slight that it did not bleed. Stellhom was hurt while at football practice at North Side High School.