Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 146, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1927 — Page 3

OCT. 27, 1927

MRS. REMUS LOVE AFFAIR WITH DODGE IS CHARGED

QUIZ MYSTERY WOMAN ABOUT ABENTOF U. $. Justice Department Sleuth ‘Played Around’, With Wife, She Says. TOGETHER AT HOTEL Bellboy Declares JHe Saw Pair in Same Room at Cleveland. It a United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—The “mystery woman” in. the George Remus case swore to a deposition today in which she lent strong support to Remus’ charges that his wife, Mrs. Imogene Remus, had engaged in a love affair with Franklin Dodge, prohibition agent, while Remus was in jail on boootlegging charges. The mystery woman, whose identity had been carefully hidden until today, was Mrs. Olive Webber Long, a sister of Mrs. George Heicher, an intimate friend of Mrs. Remus. Mrs. Long swore that she heard a telephone conversation between Mrs. Remus and Dodge in which expressions of affection abounded, and said Mrs. Remus told her she was in love with Dodge. Said She’d “Fix Him” Mrs. Long said she called on Mrs. Remus in a hotel here in the fall of 1924 or 1925, the night after Remus was released from jail at Portsmouth, Ohio, where he served a term in connection with activities gained for him the title of ‘millionaire bootlegger.” Mrs. Remus, she said, w r as telephoning to her mother in Cincinnati. Mrs. Long said she heard Mrs. Remus say, “Don’t worry, I’ll fix him.” Samuel Charles Clapper, bellboy at a hotel here, testified he had seen Franklin Dodge Jr. and a woman later pointed out to him as Mrs. Remus in a room of the Hollenden Hotel, Cleveland. % Clapper said he then was night clerk of the hotel and knew Remus . well. At 2 a. m., Feb. 26, 1925, he said, Fred Yocke, night watchman, reported to him that a man and woman were talking in a certain room. Saw Woman in Bed At 3 a. m. the watchman reported they still were talking. Clapper said he went to the room and knocked. After about fifteen minutes, he said, Dodge came to the door carrying his shoes. Clapper said he saw the woman in bed. She said, he testified, that she had a sick headache and Dodge was caring for her. Dodge told him, Clapper said, he intended to marry the woman. Clapper identified a picture of Mrs. Remus as the woman whom he had seen in bed and siad he had also recognized her as the same woman when she had been pointed out to him some time after the hotel episode.

SCHOOL HEAD MAKES FINAL BUDGET PLEAS L .ores Tax Board for Cut of 43 Cents in Levy. “The State tax board is deterJhined to set the Indianapolis city L hool rate at $1.02 and it doesn’t give a damn about the result.” This was the assertion of President Theodore Vonnegut of the school board before the tax commissioners today, accompanied by other school officials, in a final effort to save the budget. Their original budget called for a $1.45 tax levy. r ihe 43-cent cut is excessive, the schoolmen declare. The. final order has not been i;cade by the tax board, but it appeared certain that they would stick to $1.02. This would allow the special fund 30 cents; tuition, from vhich salaries are paid, 65 cents; library, 6 cents, and kindergarten, 1 cent. WINS $12,000 DAMAGES Former Butler Star to Pay for Automobile Crash. Carl W. Rafert, 61, was awarded ,12,000 damages in Superior Court Two today against Robert Wakefield, 22, of Ben Davis, a former Butler University basketball star. Rafert suffered a broken arm and I ;g, and subsequently underwent amputation of one leg, when struck by Wakefield’s auto, Sept. 21, 1926, r.s he was alighting from a street car at W. Washington and Blackford Sts. Wakefield was charged with speeding and reckless driving. HOOSIER GIVEN MEDAL Soldier From Kokomo Showed Bravery in Explosion Disaster. Uil Times Sneriil WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Staff Sergeant Arlie L. Downey, Kokomo, Ind., has been awarded the soldiers’ medal among others who took part in rescue work during the Lake Denmark (N. J.) arsenal explosion in May, 1926, for exceptional bravery. Downey, seeing a woman lying near the scene of the heaviest explosions, ran to her aad while the air was still filled with flying shells and magazines were exploding continuously, carried her to safety with the aid of two other men. He is now stationed at the ordnance school here. Campaign to Open Friday llji United Press , . EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 27.—Albert Stump, Indianapolis attorney, will officially open the Lincoln Memorial drive of the First district Friday night when actual solicitation for funds will start at a dinner here. More ttyan 100 campaign workers are expected to attend.

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CLERGY VOTES . AGAINST DRYS Episcopalians Find Volstead Act Unsatisfactory. Bn United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—1n 2.5 M, responses to a questionnaire sent out to 5,000 clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church the majority opinion was against prohibition, the Church Temperance Socity conducting the poll announced today. The society caused some dissension when it made a similar suryey eighteen months ago. It has taken a stand against regulation of intemperance by legislation. The yote on various questions follows: “Regardless of one’s attitude toward the use of liquor, do you believe a prohibition law offers the best solution for the problem of Intemperance?” “Yes,” 624; “no,” 1,138. * “Should the Vols'tead act be modified?” “Yes,” 1,032; “no,” 593. “Is prohibition a success in your locality?” “Yes,” 445; "no,” 745. “Have we had the law long enough for a fair trial?” “Yes,” 950; “no,” 621. “Should the Eighteenth Amendment be repealed?” “Yes,” 825; “no,” 793 L In commenting up the survey, the ReV. Charles A. Livingston,, chairman of the society’s publicity committee, said “the progress against prohibition is very satisfactory.”

THE CITY IN BRIEF

FRIDAY EVENTS Seevr.th District Federation of Cubs metieng. Severin, 10 a. m. Exchange Club luncheon, Lincoln. Knights of Columbus luncheon, SpinkArms. Optimists Club luncheon. Claypool. Phi Delta Theta luncheon. Chamber of Commerce. Delta Tau Delta luncheon, Boawl of Trade. Rainbow Division Veterns’ Association meting and bowling, Capitol alleys. Grocers and Meat Dalers meeting. Chamber of Commerce. 8 p. m. St. Patrick’s Social Club skating party, Riverside Park ignk, evening. Arthur Smith, bulb and plant expert of Sassenheim, Holland, today visited Indianapolis parks to survey of city’s heeds for spring planting, with Superintendent R. Walter Jarvis and Assistant Superintendent George Morgan.

Three national officers of the Railway Mail Association and auxiliary were honored at a dinner attended by 200 members of the local branch Wednesday night at the Odd Fellow Hall. Speakers were W. M. Collins of Washington, national president; Mrs. Alta L. Schick of Columbus, Ohio, national auxiliary president, and B. G. Burris of Cincinnati, Ohio, fifth division president. Charged with giving liquor to Negro high school girls, Miss Hadda Young alias Sims, 25, Negro, 603% W. Eleventh St., was fined SSOO and costs and sentenced to six months in the Woman’s Prison Wednesday afternoon by Special Judge William H. Faust in municipal court. “A Fool’s Religion,” will be the subject of Dr. E. E. Violette, evangelist, tonight at revivial services of the University Place, Christian Church in a temporary tabernacle at Thirty-Eighth and Illinois Sts. “Devotion to a Great Task” was Dr. Violette’s subject Wednesday night. The Rev. Kurt Zorn, 26, son of the Rev. H. M. Zorn, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, is on his way to the Orient according to a radio letter received by the father. The youthful preacher is aboard the S. S. “City of Lahore” bound for India for seven year’s missionary work. Indianapolis Food Dealers’ Association tonight at the Christamore Settlement on W. Michigan St. to interest retail grocers and butchers to support aid home industry.- The last meeting was held for east side grocers Wednesday night at Dirk’s grocery in Irvington. Hoosier State Chapter No. 16, Telephone Pioneers of America, held their annual meeting and pinner Wednesday night at the Lincoln. Percy Redmond, general manager of the'Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, St. Louis, spoke. Telejhone employes with twenty years service are eligible to membership. Indiana Yale alumni were hosts to George Parmly Day, treasurer of Yale University , Wednesday night at a dinner. E. G. Driscoll, local association president, was toastmaster. Day is touring the Middlewest in behalf of the $20,000,000 permanent fund drive. Statehouse newspaper reporters have been supplied with a press room in the new allocation of departments made by Building Superintendent -Orville Engle and approved by Governor Jackson. More space has bei*n made in the btiilding by transfer of the health* and highway department to Statehouse Annex.

CHINESE BEATS FT. WAYNE GIRL KILLS HIMSELF Yellow Man's Spurned. Love for White Girl Ends Tragically. Bu United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 27.—The line from Kipling, “For east is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet,” is only a repetition of an old teaching in % the Orient, and Allen Young, 24, Americanized Chinese, knew that. But he thought his ancestors unwise. Did not the United States tell its citizens that all men are free and equal? It did, and for two years Young wooed Miss Korea Weeks, 17, and pretty. There was no response. The American girl was inexperienced, and did not know exactly how to go about it, so the manner in which she repulsed her Oriental suitor did not impress him as being final, and he kept courage.' Realized Coldness There came a day when Young uneasily wondered whether hojie ever was to be rewarded. For he had made no progress and it came to him that Miss Norea was colder than ever toward him. What other thoughts ran through his American-trained Oriental mind may only be guessed except by clews contained in the note he left in his apartment Wednesday night when the news came to him that Miss Norea was about to go to Detroit. “I love American girl,” the stilted handwriting read. “I love her for two years, but I am dust under her feet and now I go to her for last time.” Unconscious In Bedroom It was the last time. Unconscious | from a blow, Miss Norea was found today in the bedroom of her home —she rooms with her brother-in-law, Leslie Eisenhut. Later, Young’s body was found in a barn back of the Eisenhut home, where he had committed suicide by hanging. Miss Norea could not speak and tell what happened. But it was apparent that she had been struck a cruel blow on the head while* asleep and a hammer near by indicated how it was done. 'Perhaps Young’s ancestors will understand his deed was one of love, an appreciation that will not occur to the occidental. Perhaps Young’s failure to win Miss Norea’s love in life had determined him that they should leave the world together in death. There seems to have been no other motive. ,But Young’s purpose, ] if such it was, will not be realized, for although she is suffering from shock, Miss Norea probably will recover.

‘Phoney’ Wrong Number Calls Keep County File Clerk in ‘Good’ Humor.

OA.VE you any fresh pig hearts today? “Who, me?” . "I say, have you any? fresh pig hearts today?” “I am sorry, but this is the county clerk’s office.” 'fhis was the conversation between Louis Meyers, county file clerk and some unknown over the telephone. “Now wouldn’t that jar you?” Meyers asked as he hung up the receiver. “I guess I’d better keep the phone near at hand because somebody will be calling in a few minutes to find out what time the next train leaves for Chicago.” Meyers g?ts as many odd calls as an information desk. They are not purposely-made calls, but come from errors on the part of callers and phone operators. “They ask anything and everything,” he continued, “What I need is a city directory, market prices and a train schedule and then maybe I could help. I get as many calls for the Statehouse as I do for my office. MRS. STILLMAN IN AIR Trip From Quebec Lodge Is Cut By Two Days in Plane. B.ii United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—T0 the ranks of aviation enthusiasts today was added the name of Mrs. Anne U. Stillman, who has found that she can shorten by two days the trip from her lodge at Grand Anse, Que., to her estate at Pleasantville, N. Y. Mrs. Stillman and her daughter, Mrs. Henry P. Davison, flew the 700 miles in a hydroplane yesterday, completing the trip in less than six hours. It was believed that the capitalist’s wife would use aerial commutation hereafter. REPORT 20 EXECUTIONS Peking Hears Students Are Killed for War on Government. Bn United Press PEKING, Oct. 27.—Widely published, but not officially confirmed reports today said twenty students at local universities, including a girl, had been executed within the last forty-eight hours, charged with subversive activities. Woman a Forger, Charge. HUNTINGTON, Ind., Oct. 27. Miss Ethel Jacobs, 28, is at liberty today under $2,100 bond following indictment for forgery. It is charged that Miss Jacobs, while manager of a Swift & Cos. cream station at Banquo, issued checks to farmers for cream purchased but instead of turning the checks over to the sellers indorsed Ifietjpl in their names i.nd cashed them.

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Bii United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—“ You wop; you big. wop,” cried Hope Hampton in her late Broadway musical comedy, “The Princess,” and Guido Ciccolini almost fell out of his seat. Because his feelings were hurt, Ciccolini, a singer, has brought suit against the actress, her husband, ~ and the producer of the show to collect SIOO,OOO. In his complaint, Ciccolini alleges the principal male character in “The Princess” has been named “Ciccolini,” that he is indirectly * held up to ridicule by the lines; and that SIOO,OOO and an injunction against road showings are aU that will satisfy him.

NEW CRUSADER JOINSm BILL’ German-American Editor Hits ‘British Conspiracy/ Bii United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—A brand new star today stepped into the spotlight of Chicago’s drama, “Schoolbooks and Kings,” and literally stole the show from Mayor William Hale Thompson, heretofore the leading character. The newest performer, Frederick F. Schrader, 71-year-old GermanAmerican magazine editor, believes, like Thompson, that “King George should be chased out of American schools and libraries.” Hu believes it so firmly that he has astounded even Thompson’s most ardent followers with his blunt condemnation of “British tactics in obtaining a foothold in this country.” V Undaunted by a barrage of attacks turned on him by opponents of Thompson, he tore loose with statements far stronger than any yet made by the most vigorous backers of the "America First” movement. Schrader was brought into the campaign by Thompson to aid in the prosecution of Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew, who is on trial on charges of "favoring England in 6choolwork.” . McAndrews’ trial again w r as recessed yesterday and will reopen Nov. 2.

WAIVES QUIZ IN STABBING CASE Lucid Kin’s Murder. Geoige Lucid, 35, of 926 Prospect St., today awaited gra: \i jury indictment for murder after waiving preliminary hearing in municipal court Wednesday afternoqn before Special Judge William Faust. Lucid is charged with having fatalls stabbed his brother-in-law, Leo Dewey Carpenter, 29, of 2021 Minnesota St., with a penknife, following a beer party Tuesday night at the home of George Lee, 1229 Laurel St. Relatives told police that Lilfcid bore a grudge against Carpenter, who, as a "stool pigeon” for Federal prohibition officers, had testified against one of Lucid’s friends. Lee,-at whose home the argument is believed to have started, was sentenced to ninety days on the State farm and fined SIOO and costs on a blind tiger charge by Judge Faust after Lucid’s preliminary hearing.

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Arthur E. Kortgord, 418 E. North St., I- aick, 511-957, from front of home. W. G. Cash, Inc., 2833 Northwestern Ave., Chalmers tauring, M-59, from 2833 Northwestern \ve. James Aldrich, 187S S. East St., Ford sedan, 517-033, from Beecher St. and Pleasant Run Blvd.

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HARDING TOMB IS COMPLETED President and Wife to Be Moved to Memorial. Ril United Press MARION, 0., Oct. 27.—The bodies of President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding will be moved Armistice day from the temporary vault in Marion cemetery to the SBOO,OOO marble memorial, it was announced today. The exterior of the memorial was completed today. Hoke Donithen is chairman of the executive committee of the Harding Memorial Association. Although simple ceremonies are being arranged in connection with the entombment a number of prominent persons throughout the United States have signified their intentions of attending. . A wreath will be placed on the tomb as part of the simple services by Mrs. Wilma Sinclair Levan, Republican national committee woman for Ohio.

BRIEF DENIES PLOT TO HAUL ALCOHOL TO CITY Agents, Not Conspirators, Brought in Rum, Says Jorman. Cornelius Jorman of Indianapolis did not enter into a liquor conspiracy for which he was fined SSOO and sentenced to two to fourteen years in prison by the Marion County Criminal Court, according to defense set out in his appeal, brief filed today in Supreme Court. He merely hired Charles Henry, Henry Elliott, Clifford Caslette:" and Mary Belle Rhea to take his car to Chicago and bring back huge quantities of alcohol. The original car broke,down on the return trip, so Jorman sent another which arrived in Indianapolis with the cargo, only to be picked up by Detective Jesse McMurtry. “It takes two or more to make a conspiracy,” the brief asserts, pointing out that the rum runners were mere servants whom Jorman ordered, rather than fellow conspirators. Man, 71, Kills Self Bit Times Special KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Oct. 27. Bernard F. Pullman, 71, is dead here today, having taken his own life Wednesday by shooting. The family ascribes ill health as the cause.

SAVE MONEY ON ROADS DY NEW PROCESS Tar Retread Enables County to Work; Cut Profits of Contractors. Under anew process of road construction Marion County taxpayers will be saved 20 per cent on road building if county employes do the work rather than contractors, it was revealed today in a report of Highway Superintendent Luther Tex. The new treatment known as tar retread has undergone experiments in the county and will be recommended for future construction, Tex pointed out. “The problem of maintaining roads in Marion County has resolved into two considerations,” he said. "One is to make a road strong and safe for travel and the other to control the dust and loss of aggregate from the surface.” Used on W. Thirtieth St. He pointed out that the new process was used on W. Thirtieth St., from Flackville to the Georgetown Rd., and south on this highway to Sixteenth St., in 1926. This road, during the period of the Speedway races, is "subject to extremely heavy traffic,” Tex said. Recent tests of the road show it to be in good condition and that maintenance will cost only 10 cents a square yard, while actual construction costs 45 cents a square yard. ‘.This type of construction is adaptable to a county road program and. cannot be handled by contract for within 20 per cent of the cost which it is now being constructed by county employes,” he said. Economical Resurfacing Fifty-Sixth St„ Cold Spring Rd., the Edgewood Rd. and the Allisonville Rd., from the State fairground to Fortieth St. and Keystone Ave. are so constructed. The engineer’s estimate for the Allisonville Rd. was $32,386. The total cost of this road, under the retread process was $9,426.40. “It will be this department's intention, by these methods, to show how county commissioners economically can resurface secondary roads in the county and other sections of roads which can not be constructed otherwise because" of petty blocks which are easy to place in the way of any procedure where political units are apt to be involved,” the report read. “It has been proved that a mile of

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BANKERS VISION GOOD BUSINESS No Sign of Depression, Say Convention Visitors. Bji United Press HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 27.—An optimistic future for business was predicted by bankers attending the American Bankers’ Association convention here. “Thtere is nothing to indicate we are likely to face anything in the nature of depression,” a resolution adopted by the meeting said. “The country has been prosperous and all sections have continued to flourish.” The bankers also saw indications of improved farm conditions. "Agricultural conditions are improving,” they said. “Though there is room for much betterment. Farmers are likely to have much less cause for complaint than in the past.” Congress was urged to take prompt action to provide for construction and maintenance of necessary flood control projects. It also was recommended to Congress that cooperation taxes be decreased at the next session. Dental School Rated Highest BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Oct. 27. —The Indiana University School of Dentistry has been given Class A rating, the highest, by the National Association of Dental Schools now in session at Detroit, Mich., U. P. Smith, I. U. bursar, has been advised by Dr. Frederick Henshaw, dental school dean,.who is attending the convention.

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CARL MAGEE TO OKLAHOMA CITY Scripps-Howard Executives Are Shifted. Bu United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 27.—Carl A. Magee, editor of the New Mexico State Tribune, today was appointed editor of the Oklahoma News, Oklahoma City. Edward A. Evans, for four years editor of the Oklahoma News, was appointed to a place on the general editorial board of the Scripps-How-ard newspapers. E. H. Shaffer, who has been managing editor of the New Mexico State Tribune, was appointed editor of that paper. These changes were announced here today by G. B. Parker, editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, of which both the Oklahoma City and New Mexico papers are members. >

CENTRAL M. E. PULPIT DECLINED BY TAYLOR Church Will Discuss New Steps to Obtain Pastor. Since the refusal of Dr. Franklin D. Taylor, pastor of the St. John's M. E. Church, Watertown, Mass., to accept the pastorate of the Central Avenue M. E. Church, no further plans have been made by the committee to select a minister, according to Charles F. Coffin, chairman. Steps to be taken will be discussed soon. Dr. Taylor’s selection was announced Sunday, but a telegram from him Wednesday declined the nomination. The post was left vacant when Dr. O. W. Fifer was appointed Indianapolis district superintendent. Dr. Fifer has been acting pastor since that time, however. YOUNG FUNERAL SUNDAY Wife of Detective Sergeant Will Be Buried in Ebenezer. Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Young, 42, of 2500 Roosevelt Ave., who died Wednesday night in city hospital after a short illness, will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. at the Fountain St. Methodist Episcopal Church. Burial will be in Ebenezer cemetery. Mrs. Young, wife of Samuel B. Young, city detective sergeant, was a life-long resident of Indianapolis. Besides the husband she is survived by three children, Kenneth, Margaret and Helen: two brothers, William and Raymond Todd of Harrisburg, and her father, William E. Todd Sr.

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