Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1927 — Page 3

OCT. 18, 1927

MAN IN UNIFORM HELPS ROB COUPLE IN AUTO ON ROAD

SHOWS EFFECT OF HORSE THIEF DETEGTIVE LAW County Has 317 Who Have Permits to Wear Garb of Officers. a 2,000 COUNTY MEMBERS Only One in Clothes of Constable Is Needed in Raiding Parties. The robbery of D. J. Murname. Greencastle, Ind., of a. S2OO diamond ring by a man in uniform and two others with badges has disclosed the workings of the law passed by the last Legislature under which HorseThief Detectives function as con; stables. Murname and a girl were parked on the Allisonville Rd., four miles north of the city when accosted by three men, one in uniform. He tells the police that he paid them $5 as a peace offering to escape the humiliation of being arrested on some charge they threatened to make and that then these men, who pretended to be officers, stole his valuable diamond. Easy to Get Uniforms The incident is but one of many instances of activities of the Horse Thief Detectives since the last Legislature passed a law which on its face was intended to curb their activities but in reality gave them greater license to stop cars, interfere with citizens and otherwise usurp the functions of the regular police. Sheriff Omer Hawkins says that it is possible for the detectives and other officers to buy uniforms for sll. In that he errs to the extent of 25 cents. ~ The uniforms cost $8.50 with an added charge of $2.75 for the cap, and are furnished by H. L. Sanders, 218 Indiana Ave. Dress Prescribed by State The law provides that no peace officer shall make an arrest on public highways for violation of motor laws unless he wears a distinctive uniform and badge. But there is also the generous provision that this does not apply when there is a uniformed officer present. The law provides that the secretary of State shall prescribe and approve the type of uniform. As soon as the law was passed, Secretary of State Frederick Schortemeier approved a uniform for the Hor:e Thief Detectives which is ven* similar in appearance to that of the State police who are under his jurisdiction. Loophole In Law The Stephenson Legislature in 1925 already had legalized the :arrying of revolvers, not only by the horsethief detectives, but by any one of the Klan members if he wished to say that he was on his way to or from a meeting of that organization. The approval of the uniform by Schortemeier set the stage for the incidents of which the robbery of Murname is the latest. The thrift of the organization, which has 2,000 members in Marion County, of which only a little more than 300 have given the reouired bonds, is shown by the fact that it takes advantage of the loop hole in the law that requires the presence of only one man in uniform. \ The raiding squads are formed of one man in uniform and as many of his companions as he wishes to take along on the raids on highways which, in this case, resulted in robbery. Bonds Given by 317 Men. The uniform is almost identical with that of the State police who are employed to patrol the roads. There are3l7 men who have given bonds in this county and are entitled to wear these uniforms. The large number makes it somewhat difficult for police to discover what member, and both police and sheriff are convinced that the robbery came from this source. There are two kinds of horsethief detectives in this city. One is headed by Oren Davis and is called the Marion County Council. It is this branch which patronizes Sanders. There are eleven other companies of detectives which do not affiliate with his group. Seek Makers of Uniform Sanders says that in all he has made not over fifteen of the uniforms and in each case he had received an order from Davis. It is not known who builds the uniforms for the so-called idependent group or how many are now being worn on the night raiding parties. Davis says that he will make an investigation to discover where the men to whom he gave orders for uniforms were on the night that Murname was first blackmailed and then robbed. SLUG, ROB SALESMAN Bandit Strikes Victim With Building Brick for S4O Loot. Struck on the head with a building brick, Ernest Weddle, 26, of 2150 E. Raymond St., salesman, was knocked unconscious and robbed of S4O at the alley intersection, 230 S. Meridian St., at 9 p. m. Monday. Weddle was unable to give any description of his assailant, who attacked from the rear. When he regained consciousness he was laying about twenty feet in the alley. Organize to Aid Dailey Bn Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. 18.—A group of local Democrats have organized a club to support the candidacy of Frank C. Dailey, Indianapolis, for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Indiana. '

FUNNY CARVINGS NEAR SUEZ MAY BE KEY TO HIEROGLYPHIC POT-IjOOKS AND A B C’s

Bn United Press rpqAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 18. (j —Two Harvard professors * * claim to have discovered the “missing link” between those funny looking hieroglyphs on Egyptian mummy cases and the modern A B Cs. From the time some uncouth ancient first chipped on stone his crude affections for Miss So-and-So, a fairly unbroken history of thought symbols had been un-

TEACHERS SPLIT OVER GATHERIHG PLACEIHSTATE Politics Seen for Meeting Thursday; 14,000 Due Here. Politics aplenty will be rampant when 14,000 teachers gather here Thursday for the seventy-fourth annual session of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. Groups are busy preparing an attack on the present administration, which has survived many similar battles in the past. South Bend will be present with anew constitution, which would make the big meeting in Indianapolis a mere delegate affair and substitute district meetings instead, according to C. O. Williams, association secretary. Business Getters Join South Bend, Evansville and Ft. Wayne have backed district meetigj, the local Chambers of Commerce and other commercial bodies feeling that they bring trade to the city. South Bend held its meeting last week and will not excuse teachers to attend the Indianapolis gathering, Williams said. Ft. Wayne and Evansville have scheduled district meetings for the same time that the State event is being held. These meetings attract about 2,000 teachers each. Williams has been assured that 321 teachers will preferably attend the Indianapolis meeting from Ft. Wayne. The county superintendents have advised teachers to take their choice. “Despite these events, we expect to have 14,000. out of a membership of 16,000 techers present,” Williams declared. / Fight Secretary Williams himself may be under lire when the convention assembles. It is asserted by certain factions that a motion was passed by the convention last year requiring the finahciai statement of the organization to be published in the convention number of “The Indiana Teacher.” It does not appear there and Williams declared today that no such motion was passed. It is said to have been introduced by T. J. Fitzgibbons of Muncie, who was killed en route to Muncie during the convention last year. Friends of Roy P. Wisehart, State superintendent of public instruction, feel that he has been treated unfairly and this may also be taken up at the general sessions. No account of his appointment appears in either the September or October numbers of “The Indiana Teacher,” official organization publication. He was appointed Sept. 1. They attribute this omission to the editorship of Donald Du Shane, Columbus, who was a contender for the State post. Williams explains the absence of mention of Wisehart’s appointment in the October convention number on the grounds that it had not been consummated when the material was prepared. Wisehart incidentally is mentioned in an editorial in the issue, however, and his friends are irate at Williams’ explanation. Would Reorganize An amendment to the constitution of the association, proposed last year, will be voted on at this week’s session, and this is also the focal point of considerable controversy. - It would abolish the present administration system of officers and executive committee and substitute a biard of directors of five and have the organization incorporated. Administration enemies assert that the Teachers’ Federation plays too large a part in present organization plan. The executive committee members are chosen at district meetings, and it is alleged that these are often federation controlled.

BODY FOUND IN WEEDS IDENTIFIED AS PAINTER Relatives of Charles E. Clark Sought in Detroit. The body of a man found in the weeds near White River between the Oliver and Kentucky Ave. bridges Monday was identified today as Charles E. Clark, 55, painter, by Charles A. Taylor, 628 N. Temple Ave., chief engineer at city hospital. Coroner C. H. Keever said that th* man had died of alcoholic poisoning. Among the things found near the tent where he had been living, police discovered five empty bottles. The body was discovered by Harry Hodges, 522 N. Warman Ave., who called police. It was taken to Royster & Askin, undertakers, who are trying to locate relatives. Clark had a wife and daughter in Detroit, Taylor said. Woman, 88, Killed by Train IJn Timm Xnrcinl RUSHVILLE, Ind., Oct. 18.—Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, 88, met instant death here when she stepped out of an alley into the path of a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train.

earthed, with the exception of an unspanned gap between the shorthand of Egyptians and the longhand of Phoenicians. Dr. Kirsopp Lake, professor of ecclesiastical history at Harvard, and his companion, Prof. Robert r*. Blake, knew that little Willie Phoenician was the first lad to learn any sort of alphabet. They decided to find out just who had changed the style frc >. Egyptian picture writing on cas-

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Mrs. Mary Day Ewing, who was deserted by Willard Ewing when he illegally married Miss Zenith Bur res, victim of the Mt. Comfort double ax slaying, says her 4-year-old boy, Robert, will be called “Bobby Day” hereafter. Bobby, inset. Interview with Mrs. 'Ewing on Page One.

OEATH ACCUSED TO TAKESTAND Mrs. Walser Will Testify at Marion TodayBji United Press MARION. Ind., Oct. 18.—Mrs. Dorothea Walser, 17, Fairmont, was to take the witness stand in Grant circuit court today to tell her story of the murder of her cousin, Clifford Cox, 14, last June. Mrs. Walser is on trial charged with murder. Her defense is that her husband, Arthur Walser, 29, forced her to induce Clifford to shallow lemonade containing paris green. Clifford died in the yard of the Walser home and Mr. and Mrs. Walser were arrested. Walser, who denies the charge, 'is to be tried later. At 7 a. m. today, the corridor outside the courtroom began filling with spectators, most of them from Fairmount, where the Walsers lived. When court began at 9 a. m., the room was filled and some spectators were standing. Mrs. Walser was brought from the cell in the county jail, carrying in her arms her seven months old baby, Mabel Louise. The youn; mother showed not a trace of nervousness.

MEDICAL MEN TO PAY TRIBUTE TO FIVE DEAD Memorial Services Will Be Held at Meeting Tonight. Indianapolis Medical Society will hold memorial services for Dr. John H. Oliver and four other prominent physicians, who died within the last year, at the Athenaeum tonight. > Those whose deaths are to be commemorated are Dr. Orange G. Pfaff, Dr. William H. Foreman, Dr. L. C. Cline, and Dr. Paul F. Robinson, Marion County coroner. Funeral services for Dr. Oliver, who died Sunday at St. Vincent’s Hospital, will be held at 10 a. m., Wednesday at the Oliver home, 1912 N. Meridian St. The Rev. Virgil E. Rorer, Meridian St. M. E. Church pastor, will conduct the services. The Masonic lodge will have charge of the private burial at Crown Hill cemetery. DOUBT HOLDUP STORY Police Suspect Negro Sought to Regain Money Lost by Gambling. What police suspect was a holdup story to recover money lost In a crap game was told Monday night by Jesse Bryant, 28, Negro, 721 W. North St. While walking near that address he was robbed by another Negro youth who put a knife to his throat and took $9, Brown said. Ira Moore, 26, Negro, Ernest McClain, 27, Negro, both of 718 Hiawatha St., and Thomas Grizzard, 28, of 514 Blake St., declared Brown was shooting dice with them and lost. Police charged all with gambling and vagrancy.

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kets and valentines to word formations with letters. * * • SHE professors, some months ago, set out for sun-baked Mt. Serabit, seventy miles from Suez, where they had heard, were the famous undeciphered red Serabit inscriptions. Since 1906 scientists had known that tile Serabit inscriptions existed, but no one could read them. Consequently their importance was not recognized.

DAVIS TO SEE WORKON DIKES Coolidge Sanctions Inspection Tour of Flood Area. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Moved by disputed reports that levee repair work along the Mississippi River cannot be completed before the next rainy season, President Coolidge has sanctioned an inspection trip by Secretary of War Davis through the flood section. Davis will leave here tonight for St. Louis and start from there tomorrow on a week’s trip through Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. He will use boat, train and motor to inspect the work of the war department and other agencies in building up bulwarks washed away in the recent flood. Coolidge has been informed by Senator McKellar, (Dem.), Tenn., that the South faces new flood dangers unless restoration work is accelerated. Leaving St. Louis Wednesday, Davis will go to Stuttgart and Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 20; McGehee and Arkansas City, _Ark., and Mounds Landing Break and Greenville, Miss., Oct. 21; Melville, La., and vicinity, Oct. 22; New Orleans, Oct. 23; Memphis and Eastern Arkansas, Oct. 24; returning to St. Louis Oct. 25. STEAL COATS IN CARS Chief Issues \ ning Against Leaving Wrap* i Parked Autos. Don’t leav- /vercoats in parked autos, Police Chief Claude M. Worley warned today. Monday night Thomas Clark, 3117 Sutherland Ave., reported his top coat valued at $32, taken from car parked at Pennsylvania and North St. Coats also were reported stolen by J. W. Wilcox, 315 Peoples Bank Bldg., S2O; Richard Mattingly, 315 Peoples Bank Bldg., $35; John Tracy, 1350 Barth Ave., sls; Ed Woods, 810 W. New York St., S3B. 13 NEGROES FACE BAR Game Operator Gets Suspended Fine; Others $5. t Thirteen men, all Negroes, faced Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter ti gaming charges Monday. Gilbert Douglass, 22, of 812 W. North St., was given a suspended fine of $25 and costs for keeping a gaming house and was fined $5 and costs for gaming. Twelve others were fined $5 and costs on gaming charges. COUNTRY CLUB ELECTS Three Directors Are Chosen at Meridian Hills* Frank P. Manly, Charles H. Beckett and William P. Chapin were elected directors of the Meridian Hills Country Club at a meeting Monday night. Officers will be elected Tuesday night. Present officers are Ira Minnick, president; James L. Murray, vice president; Fred A. Likely, secretary, and George Olive, treasurer.

After lurching along on camels for five days through “black volcanic mountains which looked as if they had been made and then discarded,” Profeßors Lake and Blake arrived at Mt. Serabit. A day’s hike, on foot, under a broiling sun, brought them up to the mountain top. Working in a temeprature of 115 degrees in the shade, the Harvard party chipped the huge Serabit tablets to portable size, so that they might, be carried by

STATE P. TANARUS, A. REPORTS SHOW VARIED WORK Pageant Will Be Given Tonight; Reception Planned at Severin. The annual convention of the Indiana Parent-Teacher Association opened at the Hotel Severin last night with a meeting of the board of managers, who took up the appointment nf county and district chairmen for the coming year. The reports of the State officers and local organizations were read this morning when the meeting opened at 10:30 a. m. The State officers are Mrs. Homer J. Miller, president; Mrs. Frederick Lauenstein, vice president at large; Mrs. E. A. Clark, recording secretary; Mrs. John H. Kern, treasurer, and Mrs. R. A. Acher, historian. Report on Activities Typical activities reported by various local organizations were health programs installed in schools; music memory contests conducted; art poster contests; agitation for good motion pictures; encouragement of good standards tof literature and interest in kindergartens. Typical business of the local organizations reported was ways and means of collecting money for activities, and the use made of it; publicity; membership; contributions to the Orme Memorial at Riley Hospital; organization of pre-school circles; and observance of the national birthday of the P. T. A. Pageant Planned Tonight The addresses this afternoon will be as follows: “The Lincoln Memorial,” by Mrs. Studebaker Carlisle; “Juvenile Delinquency,” by William H. Remy; “A State Wide Program for Character Education in the Schools,” M. J. Abbett, and “Securing Equal Educational Opportunities for Rural Children,” George H. Reitzel. A pageant arranged and directed by Mrs. Q. G. Derbyshire will be given at the hotel tonight at 8. followed by an informal reception.

ROB CLOTHING STORE Loot Worth $2,000 Obtained by Burglars. Clothing valued at $2,000 was stolen from the Sun ClothingStore at 407 W. Washington St., operated by M. P. Kauffman Monday night. Entrance was gained by sawing an iron bar over a skylight window. Stolen articles included 200 pairs of trousers and a number of sheepskin coats, corduroy coats, ladies’ dresses, shoes, sweaters and other merchandise. TYPIST RETAINS TITLE Jersey Man Leads Sixth Time With 133-Word Average. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Writing 133 words a minute, George Hossfleld broke his own record and retained his title for the sixth time in the twenty-second annual international typewriting contest here last night. Albert Tangora was second with 131 words a minute. Both winners are from New Jersey. Anew record for accuracy was established in the world’s championship class by Miss Stella Willins of New York, who wrote one hour continuously with only sixteen errors.

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camel to the museum at Cario for dechipering. * * * r— iATER, a thorough study of | the inscriptions revealed [Li J that though written in Egyptian signs, the characters did not represent Egyptian objects, as have all previous hieroglyphic tablets. Instead they stood for words in another language, the Semitic. “They are closely related to the next step in the evolution of writing, the Phoenician alphabet,

Liberty! Evansville Woman, Former Slave, Now Asks Marital Freedom

Bii Times Rvecial ' _ , ~~iVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct .18. IT —“Befoh de Mrs. * Hilda Cheatem, 76, spent thirteen years as a slave girl, but nobody, not even her husband, 68, is putting anything over on her in these days of women’s rights for both white and black. Testifying her in an attempt te obtain a divorce, Mrs. Cheatem said at times her husband’s contributions to the family treasury ran as low as a dollar a week, and that she was tired of his failure to work. The court withheld Judgment with provision that a divorce may be granted three months nence.

90 MILLIONS GO ‘FOR HUMANITY' Railway Man’s Fortune Is Willed to ‘Public Good.’ Bjl United Press MIDDLETOWN, R. 1.. Oct. 18.— The many millions that the late Thomas J. Emery made as railroad and hotel man will be used “for the good of humanity.” His widow’s will filed for probate here, disposed of an estate estimated at $100,000,000 and revealed her as one of America’s richest women. Mrs. Emery died Wednesday in Cincinnati, in her sixty-fourth year. Except for bequests of SSOO to $2,500,000 to relatives, friends, domestic and charitable organizations, the estate will be used to create a fund to be known as “The Thomas J Emery Memorial.” It was estimated the fund would amount to about $90,000,000. It will be created “to bring about the physical, social, civic and educational betterment, on humanitarian lines, of residents of the United States.” CHURCH Mt'N TO STAGE BUILDING FUND SHOW “Womanless Wedding” to be Given at Downey Avenue Gathering. A “Womanless Wedding” will be staged at School 57 Saturday at 8:15 p. m. by a large cast of members of the Downey Avenue Christian Church under the auspices of the Men’s Club of the church. Proceeds of the “wedding.’* to which the general public has been invited, will go to the building fund for anew edifice for the Downey Avenue Church. Members of the club will represent over thirty characters. Including such well-known people as the Coolidges, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, the Bean family and others.

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which also was Semitic,” Dr. Lake explained. “From the Phoenician all modern alphabets are derived.” Dr. Lake continued: "It seems to us that we have here the missing link between the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Phoenician alphabet, and If so, it becomes extremely probable that the alphabet was the Invention of some early Semite who took Egyptian signs and gave them the value of Semitic consonants.”

PLEA FOR FUND IS SOUNDED TO CiTYROTARIANS Three Meetings Tonight in Campaign Starting Nov. 4. That the annual campaign of the Indianapolis Community Fund, Nov. 4-14, offers a chance for constructive service was the declaration of Fred Hoke, former president of the fund and member of its board of directors, at the meeting today noon of the Rotary Club. “The eighth annual budget of the Community Fund will be subscribed if each citizen will realize his responsibility toward this highly meritorious civic project,” said Hoke. “It is a chance for eaeh citizen to show his true colors. Thirty-eight social service agencies share in the fund and all of us benefit directly or indirectly from it.” At Chemical Society Another noon meeting was that of the American Chemical Society, at the Chamber of Commerce, with A. B. Cornelius as the speaker. Mrs. Will Adams appeared this Afternoon before the Fortnightly Club at the Propylaeum in the interest of the fund and Mrs. Donald Jameson was the principal speaker at the luncheon held by the proctor Club. The Carnelian Club, meeting with Mrs. D. B. Sullivan, 2249 College Ave., was addressed by Mrs. | Sullivan and other community fund workers. Three Tonight Mrs. Paul Gray, 4105 Graceland Ave., entertained this afternoon for the women associated in District 9 of the North division of the Community Fund Women’s Army. Three meetings for tonight are also announced by the speakers’ bureau of the fund. At 8 o’clock the Shortridge High School ParentTeacher Club will be addressed by Lester C. Nagley; at 8:30 there will be a meeting of scoutmasters at the Capitol Avenue M. E. Church, and at 8:45, Joseph A. McGowan will speak before a Daughters of Isabella j meeting at the Catholic Community 'center, 1004 N. Pennsylvania St. HOLDUP MEN GET~ $34 Robbers Recognized as Former Customers by Druggist. Two hold-up men whose laces were familiar to both C. M. Combs, 47, druggist at Twentieth and Dearborn Sts., and a George W. Rodebush, 2056 N. Dearborn St., robbed the store cash drawer of $24.50 Monday night and escaped in an auto. Combs and Rodebush said when the two entered the store one drew a gun. Combs was ordered to open the cash register and the unarmed man scooped up the cash. Because he had seen both men in the store before, Combs said he was not alarmed when they entered.

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MRS. WHEELER DIES i IS 20TH CRASH VICTIM Triple Probe in Tragedy Continued by State, City and County. Deaths in the Grotto crossing crash tragedy of last Friday night were increased to twenty when Mrs. Charles Virgil Wheeler of Edgewood died at 9:30 this morning in city hospital. Mrs. Wheeler’s husband, also a passenger on the ill fated trailer, struck by a Newcastle interurban at Emerson Ave., near Twenty-Third St., was killed. He was buried Monday. Funeral of five more victims ot the tragedy were held today. Serv. ices for fourteen were held Monday. A double funeral was held today at 2 p .m. for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jones of 611 Arch St., at the J. C. Wilson funeral home, 1230 Prospect St., followed by burial in Washington Park cemetery for Masons and their families. Services for the nineteenth victim, William M. Hodges. 31. of 5949 Beechwood Ave., were held at 2:30 p. m. at the home. Burial in Washington Park. v Two Services Are Held Two services were held at 10 a. m. today. One for John G. Watson. 33, of 213 Audubon Rd., at his home, followed by burial in the cemetery for Masons. The other was for Mrs. Rowland P. Rhodes. 35, of 331 N. Temple Ave., at htr home. Bvyiat was in Washington Park. Her husband, Rowland P. Rhodes, also was a passenger'on the truck trailer in which death rode with the merrymakers. He was one of the few to escape unhurt. The Rev. O. A. Trinkle, Englewood Christian Church pastor, officiated. 5,"00 See Cemetery Rites Five thousand persons were at Washington Park Cemetery Monday to watch the various city Blue Lodges, of which the victims were members, give their burial rituals. Services for'Charles O. Poisel, 40, of 2002 Mansfield Ave., were held Monday afternoon at the Temple Baptist Church, folowed by burial in Washington Park. Meredian Lodge No. 480, I. O. O. F„ conducted the services in the church. Odd Fellows Will Goodwin and W. M. Stewart read the ritual. The Emerson Avenue Baptist Church was scene of services for | Mrs. John H. Berling, 3214 Maple Lane, wife of the secretary of Sharah Grotto. Centre Blue Lodge 1 members held the ritualistic services in Washington Park. Quiz Is Continued Harold S. Wolfard, 31, of 4728 Shelby St., was buried at Washington Park, following afternoon servj ives at his home. \ The number of injured in hospitals reduced to one today when Charles L. Kepner, 838 E, Sixty-Third 'St., was taken home from city hospital. Robert Reinhardt of 1535 N. Gale St., still is in Methodist Hospital, where attaches pronounced his condition “good." Seven Owners of Hotel * Bn Timex Surd'll HARTFORD CITY, Ind.. Oct. 18. —Hartford Hotel here is now owned by A. N. Pursley and Mathias Scheidler'as the result of a recently completed transaction, the seventh change in ownership since Dec. 29, 1926. In the various transfers, $200,000 was involved.