Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1928 — Page 3

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GANGS ANOTHER BLAST IS ANSWER TO MAWS EDICT Police Start Greatest Hunt in City’s History for Defiant Thugs. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED Chief Hughes Says Drastic Steps Will Be Taken to Curb Lawlessness. Ey t inted I'rcss CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—As Chicago today prepared to start one of the most extensive hunts for perpetrators of bomb outrages in the city’s history, rocketeers expressed their contempt for the search by another bombing. A bomb was thrown in the doorway of a shoe repair shop less than a block from the home of Dr. William Reid, bombed yesterday. The bomb was directed at J. Kustczyk, who said he recently had been threatened with violence if he did not join a shoe repairers’ association. Damage was slight. There were no clues to the persons who yesterday threw bombs at the homes of Charles Fitzmorris, city controller, and Dr. Reid. It was believed those two bombings had come as gangster expressions of hatred against the vice campaign of Mayor William Hale Thompson. Plan for War on Gangs Fitzmorris and Reid are among the most prominent of Mayor, Thompson's political advisors. Michael Hughes, police commissioner, conferred with the two last night and drew up plans for the war, which he said would be announced today. t Mayor Thompson declared the bombings were a direct challenge from the lawless, “and we accept that challenge,” he added. ' “We shall work harder than ever to break down the gangs back of these outrages,” he said* Commissioner Hughes declared that “when we go out for these men we'll know who wc want and we’ll get them. You may be sure we won't handle them with kid gloves, either.” , Guards were placed about the Reid and Fitzmorris homes last night, and two policemen were assigned to watch Hughes’ home. There was a guard at the Fitzmorris home Wednesday night when the bombing took place, it was •learned today, but he was inside at the time. Clews Are Flimsy There were no tangible clews from whteh the police could build a case. It was reported the bomb thrown ,at the Fitzmorris home had been hurled from a Dodge sedan, but no distinctive description of the motor car was obtained. Fitzmorris formerly was police chief here, and it was pointed out .[that he made many enemies among the gangsters. Tire theory also was held that some of the saifce men may hold grudges against Dr. Reid, former smoke inspector. To trace this theory, wardens of all Illinois prisons were asked to send the names of all men released in the last few weeks. Five arrests were made yesterday. However, it was doubted that any of the men were connected directly with the bombings. It was hoped "they might be able to give some information which would lead to the actual bombers. ORDER PHONE REPAIRS An inter-Office telephone system at efty hall has been ordered repaired by the board of works. The sytem, installed during the Shank/ administration, frequently is out of repair and seldom is used. <The phones cost $5,800. The board signed a contract to repair the phones for $390.

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Romance Gone From Sea, Says Retiring Skipper of Leviathan

The Leviathan, greatest of American ships, is pictured here with her old and new masters. Captain Herbert Hartley, shown at the left in civilian dress and at the right in uniform, has resigned command of the “Levi” in favor of Captain Harold A. Cunningham (center).

Ocean Life Is Healthy One, But It Takes ‘He-Men,’ Hartley’s View.i ' BY RODNEY DUTCHER For NBA Service \ WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Once there may have been romance wherever ships rode the ocean's rolling waves, but if so it was a long time ago. Least of all is there romance today aboard one of the huge transAtlantic liners which carry the cream of the ocean Dassenger trade. Captain Herbert Hartley observed as much when he quit the bridge of the Leviathan, proudest of American vessels, to enter private life. Hartley has become a special representative for a New England textile concern. Traveled 2,500,000 Miles For five years Hartley commanded the great “Levi.’’ He was commodore of the United States Lines fleet. His retirement was at the age of 52. He had made 860 trips across the Atlantic, traveling more than 2.500,000 miles. No skipper was more widely, known. “Some men go to sea too long and can’t give it up,” Hartley. "I have reached the height of my profession and I’m not content. There are greatest opportunities ashore.” / Hartley, whose salary has been $9,000 a year, does not recommand the sea for any young man ambitious to rise. "It’s a healthy life,” he said, “but it’s a hard one. It takes longer to get anywhere in that career than in any other.” Hartley learned his seamanship on the naval schoolship Saratoga, to which he was admitted at the age of 18. Wireless has changed the seaman’s life completely, but hartley said there is still opportunity to make it safer—wireless detection of icebergs, for instance. , “Fog is the worst menace of the sea today,” he added. “We hate that worst of all.” Here are some of Hartley’s ideas, after thirty-five years of sea life and ten years of command: , “I’d recommend that the Government stick at the shipping business until we get a well-balanced fleet and have something for sale. Then let private interests buy it with their own money and not the Government’s. Tourists Save Trade “The Leviathan is popular for speed, but the only thing that has saved the tther American liners is the new tourist business since immigration stopped. Our ships are making good, though. “Tourists are about the sanfe as ever—all kinds, only more of them —everything from royalty to third class passengers. “Prohibition is one of the biggest

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handicaps in our competition with foreign ships. The Leviathan has been popular, but so many people have told me frankly they wouldn’t sail on her because she had no bar. “The Government ought to give

ORDER BUTLER ROAD New $25,000 Boulevard Will Join Fairview Campus. Park Engineer J. E. Perry today was authorized by the park board to draw plans for a $25,000 boulevard to connect the new Butler University campus at Fairview with Maple Rd. Blvd. The thoroughfare, known as Conser Blvd., will run north from Maple Rd. on the east of Crown Hill cemetery. It will join Butler Blvd., one of the campus streets. The park board took under advisement the request of property owners to relinquish jurisdiction of Capitol Ave. between Sixteenth and Twentieth Sts., to the board of works, so it may become a business street. Recreation Director Jesse P. McClure reported 800,558 persons attended Indianapolis playgrounds between June and September. Os this number 417,086 were boys and 383,472 were girls. There were 84,100 boys and 41,380 girls at beaches and pools, setting anew attendance record despite the fact that McClure beach was closed. CREDIT UNION ELECtS Fourth Annual Meeting of League Is Held at Y. W. C. A. C. C. Winegardner was elected to succeed Le Roy Austin as president of the Indiana Credit Union League at the fourth annual meeting at the Y. W. C. A. Thursday night. Other officers are: Bruce Parcels, rice president, and Miss Florence Ruby, secretary and treasurer. Directors elected are: Laurent S. Polliquin, Kenneth Lucas, M. S. Chasteen and Miss Emily Schwing, re-elected. Committee reports showed loans increased almost one-third during the year.

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us aid. but not a subsidy, to overcome that. Having hit us with an eighteenth amendment, it ought to help us out of a hole. Prohibition hurts all ships under American flags.”

BUS HITS AUTO AND CRASHES INTO HOUSE Police Charge Driver of Car Failed to Halt at Stop Line. Colliding with an auto driven by La Ru:! Bennett, 27, of 1728 Broadway, a People's Motor coach bus driven by Edward Sturgess, 31, of 1450 E. Sixteenth St., clashed into a house at De Quincy and E. New York Sts. at 12:15 a. m. today. Police charged Bennett failed to a stop iine. The bus struck the home of Mrs. Helen Cummings. 4902 F. New York St., caving in plaster in two rooms and damaging Ihe foundation. Cuts on Bennett's head were treated at city hospital. Merle Bennett, brother of the driver, was charged with intoxication. Police took one girl, also riding in the auto to her home and another fled before they arrived. No one in the bus was injured. HARGRAVES RITES SET Baby Who Ate Poison Pills to Be Buried Saturday. V Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at4he home for Violet Hargraves, 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Hargraves, 1647 S. Meridian St. The died Thursday after eating ten poison pills she thought Were candy. Burial will be at Anderson, Ind. WORK UP ROBBERY CASE Chief Deputy Prosecutor Judson L. Stark interviewed Jean Calhoun, serving a ten to twenty-one-year sentence in the Indiana Sta,te Prison, today in preparation for the trial in Criminal Court Wednesday of Hilton Crouch, charged with participation in the Duesenberg pay roll robbery in April, 1926. Steve O'Hagan, another alleged accomplice in the robbery, is in prison at Albany. N. Y.

SLAYER, 80, IN CELL 14 YEARS, DENIEDPAROLE Plea by Sister of Pair Killed in 1902 Prevents Clemency. Bu Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Jan. 27.—A Civil War veteran charged with' the murder of John and George McQuaid, brothers, of North Vernon, Ind., in 1912, today began his fifteenth year in the solitude of the Indiana State Prison after members of the prison pardon board refused the parole petition of Henry Romine, 80, Thursday afternoon. This was Romine's fifth attempt. Board members heard the plea of Mrs. Elizabeth Noon of Indianapolis, sister of the slain pair, that Romine be denied freedom. “I feel it best to have him behind the bars,” she said, her voice still full of the tragedy that fell on the home of her brother and her invalid sister, Margaret, almost sixteen years ago. Revive Story of Shooting “I don't think it is safe or the thing to do to let him out.” According to the evidence before the board, Romine, J. R. Clark and James Tyler were involved in the shooting fray. Romine was convicted on evidence that showed he went to the McQuaid house and asked Charles to bring a lantern because his wagon was mired in a nearby road. When the latter did this he %as shot as he stepped through the doorway. He screamed for his brother, John, who was shot as he came to the rescue. “After shooting Charles and John, my sister, who has been an invalid and has not walked since 1878, lifted a window and screamed for help, ! Mrs. Noon related. “They even shot at her. The bullet lodging in the window casing.” Cold-Blooded Murder John Corydon, retired Indianapolis policeman, assigned to the case at the time, said Romine was convicted when .41-caliber bullets were found in the dead mess bodies. Corydon told the board “one couldn't find a gun of that type iii a day's walk.” For the last five years Romine has been granted two weeks' parole from the prison to attend G. A. R. conventions. It was suggested by Board Chairman John T. Moorman that he be permitted to spend the remainder of his days in a G. A. R. home. This suggestion was lost on vote. "It was one of the most brutal murders ever committed in Indiana,” Member M. E. Foley of Indianapolis declared. “It was blooded, and what made it worse was the firing of the shot at the invalid sister." “Personally he seems to be a nice old man and so gentle he would not kill a cat,” Member Jesse Andrews commented. Donahue Petition Denied Edward Donahue, sentenced from the Lake County Circuit Court twenty-three years ago for murder, lost his petition for parole. He was sentenced to hang in 1905, but his sentence was commuted by the late Governor J. Frank Hanly one hour before the hanging w r as to have taken place. He was found guilty of

City of Children Is Gift of Kresge for Orphans

Cottages With ‘Mothers’ to. Create Air of Home Life. By Untied Press NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 27—A city of children, pedpled by orphans in a new atmosphere of real home life will be created in Detroit by the Kresge Foundation. The foundation through a gift to the Methodist CTiildren’s Home So-

killing a man associated with him in horse trading. An altercation occurred between the two men as they were bringing horses from Lake County to Michigan City. Hanley, board members said, commuted the sentence on grounds of insanity. Andrews said Donahue seemed now to be “a good old fellow.” “I was with Governor Hanly the night Donahue was to die,” Moorman said. "The Governor was so ill he could hardly read the evidence that led him to change the sentence. The gallows were built.” Joseph L. Hogue. Indianapolis controller under the late Mayor Lew Shank, appeared before the board in behalf of Joseph Benson, charged with the murder of Walter Owens in a fight in Jack Dillon’s saloon in 1918. - According to statements, Benson was drawn into the fight by'members of a “gang hanging out around the place” and shot Owens in selfdefense. Thirty-Two Pleas Are Lost Letters recommending commutation of Benson’s sentence given in the Marion Criminal Court Feb. 2, 1918, were presented the board from Police Chief Claude Worley, Judge James A. Collins and former Corporation Counsel Alvah J. Rucker. Action was postponed until the April board meeting. Miss Ada Bush, secretary to former Governor Warren T. McCray appealed to board members to grant Dock Newton, Texas youth and World War veteran, a parole. He was sentenced ten to twenty years from Lake County for burglary. Members recommended the petition be presented in a year. Thirty-two petitions were denied by the board, five postponed.' six rejected and two were recommended for parole. STINSON PLANE OVERDUE Pilot, Three Passengers Left Tampa; No Word Received. Py United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—Eddie Stinson and three passengers who left Tampa, Fla., for Chicago Thursday in a St.nsor -Detroiter airplane were more than twelve hours overdue this morning. No word bad been received from the fliers since they left Tampa, officials at the city airport, where the plane was expected to land, reported. Hold Youth for Theft of Ring Herbert Legg. 22. of 909 N. East St., is held today on petit larceny charges following theft of a cameo ring valued at $75 by the owner, Lawrence Steigelmeyer, from a room at 1403 S. East St.

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ciety of Detroit, will build an entire community of small cottages where children will be reared in individual houses with the atmosphere of a private home. A fund of $725,000 will be put into the new project which will begin within the next few weeks with the erection of the first group of cottages on a 28-acre tract just outside the city. Earl Groth, Kresge store manager here, announced the gift. Each cottage will house a group of three or four children to be raised under the guidance of “mother,” a selected social worker, and possibly a "father.”

DELAY REMUS MOVE ■ V* Freedom Efforts Postponed Until Next Week. Bu United Press LIMA, Ohio, Jan. 27.—Efforts to obtalli the release of George Remus, former millionaire Cincinnati bootlegger, from the State hospital for the criminally insane here, likely will be postponed until next week. Remus’ attorneys, who planned to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, postponed the action when they were advised they could not obtain an immediate hearing. Remus, acquitted of the slaying of his wife on the grounds of,‘ insanity, was committed to Lima by the Cincinnati Probate Court. He may be liberated at any time he proves himself sane.

MANY END COLDS IN FEW HOURS BY HOSPITAL METHOD

Doctors Recommend It as Ideal for Home Use in Pneumonia Weather Realizing that every common cold may be the forerunner of pneumonia —unless treated properly in timehospital physicians have chosen a remedy that is ideal for use at home. And numbers of Indianapolis people find that it brings quick, sure relief —often in a few hours —yet is inexpensive and pleasant to take. Mrs. H. E. Giddis, for instance, had such a stuffy cold she couldn’t breathe thru her nose and coughed so deep she feared pneumonia. Then she sought advice from her doctor, whp prescribed double strength doses of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral—a concentrated mixture of wild cherry, terpin hydrate and other ingredients which have relieved even the most extreme hospital cases. Relief began with the first pleasant swallow. She felt Its comforting. healing warmth from her nose passages deep down into her chest. In’ a few houjg, she began to get relief from that “feverish, grippy” feeling. By night she coughed less and was able to breathe through her nose. And in another day or so, the doctor reports, she was rid of the cold completely.

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STATE SCHOOLS ARE BENEFITED BY SJW WILL Income From Funds to Be Used as Awards for Best Students. Six Indiana institutions the city of Indianapolis were benefited by the will of Mrs. Margaret Butler Snow, former Indianapolis resident, according to a Washington dispatch. Mrs. Snow, who died Jan. 7, was the widow of Alpheus Henry Snow, international law authority. Indiana institutions were bequeathed most of the estate. Indiana University, SIO,OOO for memorial to~Mrs. John M. Butler, her mother. Income to be annual prize to woman with highest scholarship and character rating. Shortridge High School, SB,OOO in memory of Mr. Snow, the income to be used for awards. Boys’ Club of Indianapolis, $5,000 in memory of John Maurice Butler, her brother, income to be used for club’s work. Wabash College, SIO,OOO for scholarship. Second Presbyterian Church, $lO,000 for church charities and activities. Indianapolis Bar Association, which is to establish a club in memory of John M. Butler, father of Mrs. Snow, and the city of Indianapolis are to receive sums.

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