Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1928 — Page 14

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SMUGGLERS FLOOD U. S. WITH OEMS International Diamond Ring Brings in Jewels Worth 40 Millions Yearly. til United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.—Operations of an international diamond smuggling ring, which insured deliveries of millions of dollars in gems into the United States to escape a 20 per cent import tax were disclosed to a customs sub committee of the house ways and means committee Friday. Smuggled diamonds may total $40.00.000 a year, equal to the legal imports which are decreasing because of the competition, it was said. The estimate was made by Meyer D. Rothschild, New York, president of tire American Jewelers Protective Association, who said smuggling was menacing the prosperity of the blllion-dollar jewelry industry of the nation. Directed From Holland George W. Messersmith, United States consul general at Antwerp, said the smuggling originated and was directed from Amsterdam and Antwerp, world diamond centers. He suggested cutting the duty to 2 per cent. Phillip Elting, collector of the port of New York, said 100 per cent enforcement against smuggling was impossible and suggested doubling ihe force of customs guards at New York. John W. Roberts, New York, treasury agent, said 50 per cent of smuggled diamonds came in by way of Canada, w’hose import duty is only 5 per cent. Discussed Openly Abroad Messersmith said the Dutch and Belgian smuggling brokers insured their deliveries with banks against possibility of theft by carriers and seizure by customs authorities. Total cost of illegal importations ranges from 6 M to 8 per cent and unset diamonds cannot be traced and identified as smuggled goods after their delivery here, it was stated. The consul general said diamond smuggling was discussed almost openly in the “Famous Diamond Club” of Antwerp. He told of efforts to trace down smuggling by secret service methods. One broker, after two years, told a secret agent every detail except the names of the ship board carriers. Without these names it is impossible to stop smuggling, he raid. Special Squad Asked Commissioner of Customs Ernest W. Camp testified smuggling could not be stopped under present conditions. He disclosed that the Treasury has asked the budget bureau for funds for a special “diamond squad” of under-cover secret service men to operate in this country and abroad. Elting said that only ten seizures of commercial diamond smugglers had been made at New York In two years.

THE CITY IN BRIEF

SATURDAY EVENTS Indiana Academy of Optometry convention. Severin. all day. Sigma Alpha Epsilon luncheon. Chamber of Commerce. Beta Theta Pi luncheon. Board of Trade. Efforts are being made by Henry T. Davis, convention bureau head, to win the 1928 convention of the National Hay Association for Indianapolis. Directors of the association will pick the convention city at a meeting at the Lincoln Monday. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson, Postmaster General Harry S. New and Edgar Brown are new honorary members of the Indiana Stamp Club. Raymond V. Bahr of Springfield, 111., spoke on first flight air mail covers at a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce Friday night. The Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Society and the Indianapolis Medical Society will be addressed by Dr. Wells P. Eagleton, specialist of N. J., on “Philosophy of Meningitis’’ Tuesday night at the Athenaeum. The Sick Benefit Society of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church obesrved its twenty-fifth anniversary Friday with a dinner at N the church. J. T. Mehlich, 62. of 3024 Kenwood Ave., suffered a broken leg when struck by an automobile driven by William Tillinghast, 25, of 4902 Barnett Ave. The accident occurred at Thirtieth St. and Kenwood Ave. Edward Kins, 56, fell from a dining room chair at the home of Mrs. Etta Jacoby, 931 Villa Ave., Friday night and was dead before the doctor arrived according to a report to Coroner C. H. Keever. The body was taken to city morgue for examination. District Passenger Agent H. D. Lyons of the Southern Railway system. 307 Merchants Bank Bldg., announced today that stop-over privileges will be granted on all tickets to the South. Tire road operates three trains daily between Indianapolis and Florida. Among the principal points at which stop-overs may be made are Asheville, N. C.; Atlanta, Ga.f Augusta, Ga.; Birmingham, Ala.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Macon, Ga.; Richmond. Va.; Savannah, Ga.; Winston-Salem, N. C. SEVEN FIRSTS TO .1. U. ft<' Timet Srrrlnl BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 7. Indiana University swimmers easily out-splashed Wabash College paddlers in the local pool Friday and yjon, 92 to 17. I. U. men captured seven firsts in eight events. Fulton of Wabash won the fancy diving rnntMfc .*

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STEPHENSON OPENS FIGHT FOR NEW MURDER TRIAL

Now It s Lowly Prune’s Time for Big Laugh

For Its Color Features Decorative Scheme of Big New Liner.

Bu SEA Service NEWS, Va.. Jan. 7. The lowly prune, famed chiefly as the favorite raw material of boarding house jokesmiths, at last has won a real distinction. It contributes the dominant color note for the interior decorations of the new liner California, largest American-built passenger ship, now being completed here. A New York firm which had charge of decorating the California made a special study, on the Pacific coast, of the plums from which prunes are made. The richest prune shade was sought. Orchards were visited and color charts prepared. A typical tone designated as "California prime” was established. This color will appear in a magnificent Saxony carpet woven for the ship’s lounge—the design also embodying another classic California product, gold. The same combination will feature draperies, tapestries and brocades throughout the vessel. The California soon is to make her first voyage between New York and California ports. She is 601 feet long, displaces 30,000 tons, and is the world's largest commercial ship with electric drive.

DEATH APPEAL FAILS Only Jackson Reprieve Can Save John Hall, Killer. Only a reprieve from Governor Ed Jackson now can save John Hall, alias John Grazb, 23, bandit, from dying in the chair March 9, for the murder of Louis C. Kreidler, South Bend druggist. The Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Justice Clarence R. Martin, refused Hall’s appeal for a new trial, after having granted three stays of execution, the first to June 24, the second to Nov. 4; and the last to March 9. The slayer’s attorneys have thirty days within which to make application for anew hearing. Hall and Tommy O’Brien held up Kreidler March 29, 1926: and when the druggist resisted O’Brien held a gun on him while Hall beat Kreidler over the head with his revolver, inflicting wounds that later caused his death. O'Brien was sentenced to life imprisonment. Hall was convicted of the murder and sentenced to tfte chair Nov. 4, 1926. The earliest of all Christmas hymns was written by Prudentius, who was bom in 348,

COOLIDGE STILL IN -RACE, SAYS BUTLER

Bn United Press KANSAS CITY, Jan. 7.—William M. Butler, chairman of the Republican National committee, said today that President Coolidge was not necessarily eliminated from the list of presidential nominees. The generalissimo of the Republican party said Coolidges second statement on the subject of his candidacy in his opinion, did not say more than did the Aug. 2 statement in the Black Hills. “The President did not say he

Pretty Mss Julia Millet or San Jose, Cal., is pictured above among some prunes that still arc just plums. Below, the new liner California.

SEEKS TO CLEAN LAKE Dr. William H. King, secretary State health board, has received no letter from Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, commissioner of the Chicago sanitary district, asking that negotiations be begun to prevent contamination of Lake Michigan by phenol waste from Indiana industrial plants in the Chicago district. According to dispatches, Bundesen will write to King pointing out that Chicago water was nearly undrinkable from Dec. 23 to Dec. 27, because of the phenol wastes and asking that the plants be required to evaporate them. Circus Wants Gray Horses Bi' Timph Nnrcial NOBLESVILLE. Ind., Jan. 7. Business js good for owners of gray horses in Hamilton County. George Lanham, Sells-Floto circus representative has arrived here to spend the remainder of the winter buying draft horses for the circus. He plans purchasing two or three carloads. Only gray horses are wanted.

would not accept and the East largely believes that the President is subject to draft,” Butler said. “The Republican party will be victorious this fall regardless of who is nominated by both parties,” he said. “It is certain to be a Republican year.” Butler said he believed Herbert Hoover had a far stronger following in the East and Far West than President Coolidge in view of Coolldge’s desire not to run.

THE IN ULAN AROLRS TIMUB

Bases Plea on Charge That Fear Kept Him From Testifying for Self. Based on the plea that fear kept D. C. Stephenson from testifying in Iris own behalf when he was convicted of murder at Noblesville in 1925. another fight will be waged to gain Stephenson anew trial, Attorney Olin R. Holt of Kokomo announced. The new move will be filing of a petition for a w r rit of error, coram nobis, in the trial court at Noblesville. The petition for a writ of error, coran nobis, is an old common law action, Holt declared, which has been used only two or three times in Indiana, but which has been recognized by Indiana courts. Affidavits to Be Filed “The petition will be based on the contention that Stephenson, owing to the sentiment and prejudice against him at the time, was prevented from taking the stand to establish his ow r n innocence through fear and duress,” Holt stated. A number of affidavits will be filed to support the petition, he said. Certified copies of a number of resolutions condemning Stephenson adopted by various women’s and civic organizations will be included, he said. Record of a rebuke of Judge Fred Hines to Special Prosecutor Charles E. Cox for an alleged statement of Cox that if he were a relative of Madge Oberholtzer, the Indianapolis girl, for w'hose death Stephenson was sent to Indiana State prison for life, there would be no need to invoke man-made law against Stephenson, also will be offered, Holt said. Sparks Will Rule Cox made the statement, according to Holt, at a hearing on Stephenson's motion to be admitted to bail before Judge Will M. Sparks of Rushvllle was named special judge of the murder case. The trial judge, Sparks, will rule on the new petition. Holt said. According to Holt, if the writ of error is granted Stephenson, he automatically is granted anew trial at Noblesville and his conviction and appeal to the Supreme Court will be set aside. If the petition is denied, however, the refusal has no effect on the appeal. The petition likely will be filed next week, Holt said. He w'as retained by Stephenson to act in the filing of the new petition, and not for any other matters, Holt said.

PROTEST FIRE IN COAL NEAP Families in the vicinity of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company’s plant on Washington Ave. today were protesting vigorously the smoke screen that has hung over the neighborhood for the last month while a steam shovel gnawed into a huge smouldering coal pile to end a five weeks’ blaze. With prevailing winds carrying the smoke and gases northward, more than a hundred homes on Bright and Geisendorf Sts., as far north as New York St, have been blanketed, to the discomfiture of residents. Frequent protests have been carried to the power and light company and to the city health board. “We are doing all we can to put out the fire,” said H. J. Sneeden, general power plant superintendent. “For five weeks the steam shovel has been eating closer to the source of it, taking out ten or twelve carloads of coal a day. We hope to put an end to it within a day or two.” Sneeden would not estimate the tonnage of the huge pile, which has been cut in the middle to localize the blaze, started by spontaneous combustion, following early winter iins.

HOMEBUILDING MARKS WEEK'S REALTY ROUND Real Estate Market Brisk Despite Cold Weather, Board Reports. Building permits, totaling SIOB,860, issued during the last week were principally for borne construction, the Indiana Real Estate Board announced. Despite the holiday season and severe weather, the real estate market was brisk, the board reported. Largest residential permit was to H. L. Simons for a $60,000 residence at 5008 N. Meridian St. Expansion of the N. Meridian St. residential district between Forty-Ninth and Fist; -Fourth Sts., has been marked in the last year, according to officials of the American Estate Cos. The firm reported sales of home and homesites in this sectin exceeded $500,000 in 1927. Build $97,000 Apartment Among larger building contracts let during the week was one to the Southern Building and Realty Company. for a brick apartment house on E. Washington St., near Audubon Rd„ at a cost oi $97,000. Cost complete, including site will approximate $150,000 according to the Hanning Realty Company, owners. Four ten-year leases, involving rentals approaching $170,000 for the period, were closed, including that of the Lyman Bros., Inc., picture frame manufacturers, who leased a three-story structure at 215-217 E. Ohio St. Bridges and Graves, realtors. reported deals totaling $56,000 closed within the last few days. A. M. Graves announced the company has started a winter building program of twelve homes. 59 Lots Are Sold Sales amounting to approximately $30,000 were closed during the week by Noble C. Hilgenberg, realtor, of the firm of C. A. Hilgenberg and Son. Sale of fifty-nine lot3 in the vicinity of Bellefontaine and FiftyNinth Sts. to T. E. Grinslade, Charles R. Yoke and Fred T. Reed was made by E. Kirk McKinney, real estate manager for the State Savings and Trust Company acting for the State Property Qompany owners. The United States Government, sole producer of helium, is forbidden by law to sell this gas.

Indicted Postmistress Is Worrying Over Children

Shortage of $1,712 Mystery, Woman Says; Small Hope of Making Bail. Mrs. Helen G. Fenton, 25, former postmaster at Midland, held in the Marion County Jail on a Federal grand jury embezzlement indictment, is the second woman postmaster at Midland to be indicted in the past three years. Her predecessor in office, Miss Inez Jewell, pleaded guilty to embezzlement of $1,319 Dec. 19, 1925, In Federal Court and was given a one-day jail sentence by Judge Robert C. Blatzell. Mrs. Fenton, mother of tw’o small children, aged 6 and 3, w’as placed in the Marion County Jail Wednesday night wnen she was unable to raise $2,500 bond. Greatly worried over her two children, left with a bachelor brother at Midland when she was arrested, she has small hopes of providing bond. Girls Aid in Office “If I could only get out of jail I could sell my home and raise probably enough to make up the shortage,” she told friends. The indictment charges her with $1,712 shortage. The money must have been stolen, from time to time, she said. But she declared she did not steal it. Midland is a town of about 300 population. As postmaster, Mrs. Fenton w’as permitted to keep not more than SSO in cash on hand at one time. “I have not been well for some time,” she said, “and during the past fifteen months I have employed eight or ten girls to help out in the post-office w’hile I was aw’ay. "I noticed my accounts were short and called in the postal inspectors. They told me I was more than $1,700 short. Where it went I don’t know’. I might have suspicions, but I cannot prove anything.” The postmaster’s salary at Midland is S6OO a year. Shortage Over 15 Months “If it hadn't been for the rent from three small properties I inherited from my first husband, who

‘POUR IT ON’ NAVY CRITIC AT HEARING

Bjj United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. —The House Naval Affairs Committee was thrown into uproar Friday over a dispute as to the amount Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder received for his recent, magazine article criticising the Navy and the fleet of the article upon the Navy dis cipline. Representative Miller (Rep.), Washington, hotly assaailed Magruder for citicising the navy which had "urtured” him and given him his "bread and butter.” Miller said if every naval officer wrote similar articles. "God knows what would happen to discipline.” He asked the admiral how much he had received for the article. “It’s none of your business,” Magruder shot back, angry for the first time in his appearance before the committee.

PEERLESS HEAD RESIGNS * Edward Ver Linden Differs With Policies of Directors. Vi/ United rress CLEVELAND, Jan. 7.—Edward Ver Linden, president of the Peerless Motor Car Company, announced Friday he had resigned. Differences with policies of the directors were believed to have caused Ver Lindens action. Ver Linden became head of the Peerless company in 1925 succeeding the late D. A. Burke. Local business leaders were uncertain whether the withdrawal had any connection with recently rumored mergers with which the concern had been reported associated. OGEANAIRLANE TEST PROPOSED Three Atlantic Flights by Same Plane Urged. WASHINGTTON, Jan. 7.—'Three round-trip Transatlantic flights by the same plane next summer appeared as a possibility today. Porter Adams, president of the National Aeronautic Association, proposed the venture to the association’s board of governors, and the latter left the matter to him and the organization's advisory board. Adams said the time had come to prove whether regular crossings of the Atlantic are feasible. He suggested a tri-motored plane be used, with a crew’ of five—one each from the Army, Navy, and Commerce Departments, and tw'o civilians. He suggested two of the flights, from New’ York to Paris and return, should be by the northern route and the third by way of the Azores. Stops would be made at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland and Ireland. The experiment would cost SIOO,000. Adams said. He offered the first SI,OOO out of his own pocket. STARKS DENY RUMORS Ex-Dry Agent Not to Assist Muncie Prosecutor Investigate. Sanford Starks, Federal dry agent, who resigned as a protest to being transferred from the Muncie liquor investigation to Chicago, has denied reports he has been employed to assist Joe Davis, Muncie prosecutor, investigate official corruption at Mimcie. The former agent announced he i will sell life insurance.

died three years ago, I wouldn't have had enough to get along on,” she said. Postal inspectors reported the shortage covered a period of fifteen months. They charge Mrs. Fewton gave wrong totals on her money order reports when the accounts did not balance. Mrs. Fenton's first husband, a railroader, died in 1924, leaving her with the two small children to support. She was appointed postmaster Feb. 14. 1925, and about three months later re-married, later divorcing her second husband. Inspectors’ reports indicate she was contemplating another marriage W’hen she was indicted. PUZZLE HEAD CONTEST ENDS Ted Makes Final Awards in Caption Twisters. BY PUZZLE-HEAD TED Ted is making his final bow today, Puzzle-Headers, to announce the winners of the final Puzzle-Head contest. The cash awards today go to those who made the best Puzzle-Head lists from headlines published in The Times last Saturday. The first prize of $5 in cash for the day goes to Lester P. Koelling, 859 West Dr. Woodruff Pl„ for a list that was interesting, clever and lengthy. Joseph Kretzer, 441 E. Morris St., captured the second prize of $3 in cash for his Puzzle-Head entry. The third daily award df $2 in cash was won by Mildred Turgi of New Castle. Puzzle-Head has been great sport and in spite of the hard work connected with judging the hundreds of daily entries Ted is sorry the game is ended—sorry that there w’asn’t time for all the puzzlers to capture a prize for their lists!

“I’ll make it my business,” Miller shouted. Representative Britten (Rep.), Pennsylvania, broke in to say the admiral had received $750 for his article, and had a contract of $3,000 for three articles. “There has never been any agreement,” Magruder said. “I send the magazines articles and they send me checks.” The magazine for which he wrote would not accept articles from more than six men in the Navy, Magruder said. This provoked a titter, and Miller asked what committee members were laughing at. “We were laughing at the admiral’s conceit,” Britten said. “I object to th&t,” Magruder put in. Britten thereupon asked that his remark be stricken'from the record.

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