Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1928 — Page 3

FEB. 8, 1928

JOHN D. JR. ‘SORRY’ FOR STEWART SEN ATE DEFIANCE

TOLD OIL KING TO ‘BARE ALL' OF 1921 DEAL Rockefeller’s Letters Made Public by Walsh, Leader - in Dome Quiz. BURNS DECISION TODAY Judge to Rule on Request to Dismiss Sinclair . Contempt Case. BY HERBERT LITTLE Uhitcd Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—John D. Rockefeller, Jr., persuaded Col. Robert W. Stewart of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana to return from Cuba, to appear before the Senate Teapot Dome committee and is “sorry” now that Stewart did not answer all the questions of the committee. These facts were developed today when Senator Walsh of Montana made public a series of letters and telegrams. The correspondence disclosed that Rockefeller, who owns most of the Indiana company, of which Stewart is chairman of the board, directed Stewart to tell all he knew about the mysterious deal of oil men in 1921 by which a $3,000,000 fund was secreted in the Continental Trading Company of Canada. Stewart Was arrested on a Senate warrant last week for refusing to answer committee questions and the issue thus raised now is awaiting decision in the District Supreme Court. The correspondence also revealed that Stewart told his side of the story—the same he told on the witness stand —to Rockefeller several years ago when political suspicion was first cast on the deal.

“Should Have Told All” After Stewart had testified he personally made nothing from the Continental deal but refused to answer questions about whether he knew who got the money, Walsh called Rockefeller’s attention to “bow well your admonition to Mr. J Stewart was observed by that gen- ' tleman.” Rockefeller then wrote as follows \ in a letter to Walsh dated Feb. 2: “Colonel Stewart’s testimony be- j lore the Senate committee as re- j ported by today’s newspapers cov- j ered all the information given me ! and confirmed his statement to me, | previously referred to, that he did | r.ot personally profit by the transac- | tions in questions. “I have not felt that Colonel j Stewart failed in his duty to his j stockholders, but I am sorry that he | did not answer all your questions, for the situation calls for the fullest disclosure of the facts. “You are, of course, to use our correspondence in any way that will serve the public interest.” How Rockefeller asked Stewart to testify was revealed in a letter he j sent Stewart. Jan. 24. the substance of which he telegraphed to Stewart two days later when he discovered Stewart was in Havana. Rockefeller said: "The situation has reached such a stage that nothing short of the fullest and most complete statement of all the facts relating to the Continental Trading Company can clear the skirts of those, who, like yourself, had no improper connection with the transactions in question and remove the cloud of suspicion which hangs over the entire oil industry. Burns Ruling Today “You owe it to yourself and to your assistants in the management of your company, to your stockholders and to the public to help bring those transactions into the fullest light that can be thrown upon them. “No desire, however praise worthy, to protect those who may have been guilty of wrong doing, justifies the withholding of any slightest fact that will help clear up the situation.” Walsh first wrote Rockefeller, Jan. 16, asking him to help the committee fathom the mysterious deal in which some of the officials in the Rockfeller concerns wore involved. Justice Siddons, sitting in the Sinclair-Burns contempt case, said today he expected to announce his decision on the defense motion for dismissal this afternoon. Granting of the motion would end the case, now in its ninth week. Wayne O’Neil, son of James E. O’Neil, missing oil witness has not been located by Federal subpoena servers in a three-day search, it developed today at the Senate Teapot Dome hearing.

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AUTO HITS AGED MAN Ferdinand Norkus, 74, in Serious Condition After Accident. Ferdinand Norkus, 74, struck by an automobile at Ohio St. and Arsenal Ave., this morning, is in a serious condition at his home, 351 N. Jefferson St. The car was driven by Elmer Perkins of 440 N. Grand Ave. Norkus had several ribs broken and severe scalp wounds. HUNT RUNAWAY GIRL Three Other Missing Persons Sought by Police. I Police today are searching for 17I year-old Lena Kid, who was reported to be en route here with a man and woman, having run away from her home at Kokomo, Ind. Report was made by W. B. Kid of Kokomo, the girl’s father. Clifford Firestine, 14, is missing from his home, 3249 Adams St., his father Charles Adams, told police. The youth left home Tuesday to attend class at School 11, but did not arrive there. James Malton, 40, left his home at 921 S. Capitol Ave., last Saturday night and has not been seen since,! a son told police. Lloyd Brown, 18, Negro, of 2111 \ >N. Delaware St., left home to attend high school, but did not arrive. j Frank Mclntyre, of 113 Greeley | St., requested police cooperation in I locating Harry Monroe Deck, who I was last heard of at Denver, Colo. I Mclntyre wants to inform Deck of the death of his (Deck’s) mother.

THRASHERMEN MEET Record Registration Marks Session Start. The eighteenth annual three-day convention of the Indiana Brotherhood of Thrasherman opened at the Severin this morning with largest registration on record, according to E. E. Isenhower, Indianapolis, secretary. The first formal session was opened by President Elmer Crull, Hagerstown, Jessie Fletcher, manager of the Severin, made the welcome address and Isenhower took up the topic of “The Thrashermen’s Task” in the principal talk of the meeting. Special music and surprises will be features of the evening's program. Indiana’s oldest thrasherman, James R. Cree, Flora, will speak before the Thursday morning session. Ralph Teetor, chief engineer of the Perfect Circle Company, will talk on “Motor Efficiency.” A general discussion of various types of tractors will follow. Improvements in thrashers are running along in a ratio with improvements in airplanes and motor cars, according to thrashermen. The gas tractor is rapidly replacing the steam model for power.

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By l iiitcd Pres* BOSTON, Feb. B.—Police renewed the search for Boston's “firebug” today after confessions obtained from two boys had been followed by two more church fires. Scarcely had authorities finished questioning the youthful pyromaniacs when fires broke out in the Church of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary and St. Peter’3 Lithuanian church, both located in South Boston, scene of six other incendiary fires. Peter McDonough, 14, and Frank Femiano, 7, were held. Police said McDonough admitted setting the fire which yesterday endangered the lives of some 850 pupils at SS. Peter and Paul parochial school. McDonough was quoted as saying

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MATRON LIES NEAR DEATH FROMJLOWS Boy Inmate of State School at Plainfield Wields Mallet in Escape. Mrs. Helen Kirk, 30, matron at the State Boys' School, Plainfield, remained unconscious with only a slight chance for life, at the Methodist Hospital here today from mallet blows struck by an inmate, Anson Hafer, 16, in escaping. Hafer cause his own undoing by hiring a taxicab. At Brazil, thirty miles west of Plainfield, the driver, Howard Christopher, took advantage of an unguarded moment and overpowered the boy. He was returned to Plainfield. Hafer admitted the attack, saying he did not know how many times he struck Mrs. Kirk. Physicians believed she was hit thirty or forty times. The boy is charged with assault with intent to kill. Serving Third Sentence He was sentenced from Ft. Wayne for incorrigibility. It was his third confinement on such a charge, but his good conduct in the school had won him freedom of the grounds, and in this manner he was able to walk unmolested yesterday to Ralston barracks, where Mrs. Kirk, and her husband, Arthur Kirk, manual training instructor, live. Mrs. Kirk was alone. Hafer asked for the loan of a book, and when Mrs. Kirk returned with it, he beat her over the head with a heavy wood mallet, stolen from the school print shop. He admitted continuing to strike the matron while she lay unconscious on the floor. Then he ransacked the house for Kirk’s clothing, and found a revolver belonging to the husband. Because of previous good conduct, he was not stopped as he left the grounds. Flourished Revolver In Plainfield, he told Christopher he wanted to go to the school “to j see a brother.” When the taxi reached the institution, Hafer ex- j hibited his revolver and forced Christopher to continue westward. Christopher had no opportunity to protest until Brazil was reached. While the taxi stood still, halted by a traffic signal, Hafer raised his hands to light a cigaret. Chris-; topher lunged over the seat and grappled with the boy, but met surprising resistance. Meanwhile, a traffic light had changed, and Policeman Arthur j Bullenger hurried over. He snapped handcuffs on the youth and sent him back to Plainfield in charge of the driver. Christopher did not know until he returned to Plainfield that in addition to escaping, Hafer had assaulted Mrs. Kirk. She had been ! found unconscious on the floor two j hours after the attack and school; officials did not know, until Hafer's return, what had happened. The matron was immediately taken to the hospital.

he set the fire "because I didn't | want to go to school.” From Femiano, police obtained a solution of the mystery surrounding the fire which caused $150,000 damage to the South Baptist Church last Sunday. RE-ARREST CONVICT AS HE LEAVES CELL Serves Two Terms; Faces Another on Child Neglect Charge. When Sam Bartlett walked out of Indiana Statep rison Tuesday, where he had spent the last two years, he was confronted by Bailiff William J. Fahey of Marion County juvenile court with a warrant for child neglect. The warrant had been issued Monday. Barnett has served the maximum of a one-to-two-year sentence for transporting liquor. Previously he had served a year and a day at the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., on a similar charge. HOLD THREE FUGITIVES Face Charges in Various Parts of State. Three alleged fugitives from justice today awaited arrival in city prison of officers from various towns where they are said to be wanted. Maurice Mack, 23, of Bicknell, Ind., is wanted in Vincennes, Ind., on a charge of embezzlement, according to police. William T. Semon. 30. of Vernon. Ind., is wanted in Kokomo, Ind., on a fraudulent check charge, it is said. Harlie Brown, 30, of 1250 S. Capitol Ave., is said to be wanted in Ind., on charges of intoxication and assault and battery. COOLIDGE IS INVITED Gettysburg Address on Memorial Day Is Urged. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—President Coolidge was invited today to give his Memorial day address, May 30, at Gettysburg. A delegation headed by Representative Menges, Pennsylvania, told the President that each President since the Civil War, with the possible exception of President Hayes, has made an address at the famous battlfield during his administration. German War Hero Dies By United Press LIEGNITZ, Germany, Feb. 8 Gen. Carl 'Von Heister. 90, hero of the Franco-Prussian War, died today.

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Police Fail in Efforts to Trace Suspected -Couple Who Left Infant. BY MILDRED SCHOEN At six weeks or so a little girl can’t be expected to know' what it’s all about. In fact, beyond “comfy” clothes, food and kind hands to minister to her wants she doesn’t require much. So this morning the oaby that someone left in the automobile of Dr. A. E. Guedel. 4455 Carrollton Ave., parked in front of St. Vincent's Hospital Tuesday evening, w'as as happy as a baby could be, waiting for her breakfast. The healthy babe was found by Dr. Guedel as he left the hospital about 7:45. She was wrapped in a clean, new blue and white blanket and a bundle of silk and wool shirts, binders and other accessories, all of the best quality, had been placed on the floor beside her. Wears Good Clothes She wore fresh and dainty clothes and an embroidered knit sweater protected her from the cold. A cap to match the sweater was found with the other clothing. The blanket in which the baby was wrapped was damp, indicating that she had been carried for some time in the rain. There were no marks of identification on any of the articles. Dr. Guedel, upon discovering the small intruder, hastily notified hospital authorities of her presence and as hastily disclaimed all further responsibility for the future of the young unknown. Louis Flowers, night attendant at the hospital was delegated to carry the baby and her belongings inside the building. “She has a fine voice,” said Louis this morning. “I believe she’s going to be a singer.” Baby Strong and Well The baby weighs eight pounds and is judged by the doctors to be between 6 and 8 weeks old. She shows the effects of good care and is strong and well. While no definite plan has been made by hospital attaches for her future it is thought doubtful that she w’ill remain for long a guest, in the baby ward, where she is now being cared for. The little stranger is far too engaging a morsel of humanity to be without a real home. Several persons reported to police that they had seen a young man and an older woman loitering around the vicinity of Dr. Guedel’s automobile during the two hours that the doctor was in hospital. The woman w T as said to be carrying a bundle that might have contained the baby, but no trace of a couple fitting the description has been found by police. FACES TRIAL IN SLAYING If;/ Timm Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 8 Raymond Stephens, charged with slaying his cousin. James Stephens, w'ill go on trial in Monroe Circuit Court here Thursday. The dead man, known as “Big Jim,” died Oct. 8, from loss of blood after several arteries had been cut. A knife w’ileded during what authorities say w'as a drinking party. Local Man Fined as “Masher’* Ba Timm Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Feb. B. This city as a field of operations for a “masher” proved not so good for Herman H. Hull, Indianapolis. In city court he was fined $25 and costs for attempting to force Miss Priscilla Peacock to enter his automobile.

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2 KILLED IN CRASH Father, Daughter Die in Auto Near Delphi. /?;/ Timm Special DELPHI. Ind., Feb. B—George Trawin, 65, Carroll County farmer, and his daughter, Miss Verna, 26, w'ere killed instantly and another daughter, Miss Edna, 22, probably fatally injured this morning when an automobile in which they w'ere riding was struck by an Indiana Service Corporation interurban car at a crossing near here. The younger woman is reporter for ihe Carroll Circuit Court. Motorman Ora Jacobs and Conductor C. W. Fults, both of Huntington, were in charge of the car. MRS. LEROY ARNOLD IS REUNITED WITH FAMILY Relief Fund Reaches Total of $480; Job Awaiting Woman. After recuperating at city hospital from an illness and the shock of learning that her husband was killed by a hit-and-run motorist, Mrs. Le Roy Arnold, 21, of 2944 Schofield Ave., was reunited with her family at home today for the first time in three weeks. With Billie Jean, 1 month, and Carl, 17 months, gathered near her, Mrs. Arnold faces a brighter future than when her husband w r as killed two weeks ago. A relief fund collected by The Times will serve as a nest egg until she will be able to w T ork again. Mrs. Arnold was employed by the Postal Telegraph before her illness, and the company has said that there is a job waiting for her. With receipt of $5 from A. M. Glossbrenner and $3 from Herbert J. Teague the relief fund today reached a total of $480.75. TOO MUCH ROMANCE IS HELD DIVORCE CAUSE Courtship Can’t Last Throughout Married Life, Says Judge. “The key to the problem of divorce is in the study of marriage itself,” Judge Frank J. Lahr of juvenile court told Indiana Central College students at University Heights last night. “There can’t be courtship all through married life. The trouble today is that people let romance blind them to the greatest things in marriage,” said Lahr. He gave non-support as the most common causes of divorce.

NEGRO SCHOLAR TO CITY Dr. Alain Locke, first Negro Rhodes scholar and professor of sociology at Howard University, Washington, D. C., will speak on “Recent Gains in Race Relations,” at the sixth annual inter-racial Sunday at Roberts Park M. E. church at 3 p. m. The Rev. William I. Caughran is chairman of the program committee. F. E. De Frantz, secretary of the Negro branch of the Y. M. C. A., will introduce the speaker. Held for Portland Police PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. B.—Dr. O. C. Collins, a prisoner at Dallas, Texas, is to be returned here on charges of swindling business men of S7OO.

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BITTER BLAST HITS INBIANA PRISON CHIEFS Convicts Who Work Well ‘Rewarded’ by Longer Terms, Is Charge. Senator James E. Watson today sought to shield John W. Moorman, Knox, Ind., State Prison trustee, when he was assailed regarding conduct of the prison, at a hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission Senate Committee at Washington. Moorman in turn defended Warden Walter H. Daly of the prison, according to dispatches froga The Times Washington Bureau. He appeared before the committee to oppose a bill of Senator Hawes of Missouri, which would permit States to ban prison-made goods. Moorman explained that he u’ould seek a free labor wage and fair price agreement, in all prisons, at a meeting of prison superintendents and trustees in Washington next Tuesday. Rowbottom Makes Charges Hawes repeated charges hurled against Daly and Moorman at a hearing before the House committee on the same bill Tuesday. At that time Representative Rowbottom of Evansville, charged that efficient workmen at the prison are refused paroles, to keep up the prison factory output. These charges were denied today by Warden Daly, when informed of them by The Times. Hawes today told the committee of shoes being made at the prison and sold as United States Army shoes. This was done with the knowledge of Daly, he said, and he asked if such a warden should not be prosecuted and fired. “We think he is one of the best wardens in the United States,” Moorman declared in reply. Plan Called Failure He termed the State’s plan to dispose of prison-made goods a failure in Indiana. At the hearing Tuesday, Hawes charged Daly with permitting prison contractors to put labels on shoes and shirts made in the prison which indicated they had been made in outside factories. Hawes backed up this assertion with an order issued last summer by the Federal Trade Commission directing the Commonwealth Manufacturing Company of Chicago and the Chicago Manufacturing Company, contractors at the Indiana prison, to cease labeling their goods to indicate they were made in outside factories. “The brands were put on shoes and shirts under direction of the penitentiary warden,” said Hawes. "Labor Secretary Davis says a prisoner who sews such labels on prison-made goods is receiving a training in deceit. Rowbottom Takes Hand Rowbottom. member of the House Labor Committee, which held the hearing, took a hand in the discussion when Edgar Wallace, representing the American Federation of Labor, charged that prisoners eligible to parole often are denied freedom, to supply labor to the prison contractors. This was challenged by committee members. “I knew a man in my town.” said Rowbottom. “who was formerly in the marble works at the State penitentiary, and who said that time actually was often added to sentences in the case of efficient men to keep them for the contractors. “Well, when the warden of that institution lends himself to such schemes as that denounced by the Federal Trade Commission, I wouldn't put the other thing beyond him.” said Kent. Informed of the charges by The Times today, Daly stated that the Commonwealth Company had ceased the practice, as ordered by the commission. He said private labels still were being placed on prison-made goods, however. “As to a good workman being denied parole, the reverse is the case.” Daly declared. “It is only the efficient prisoners who are admitted to parole, due to good conduct.” Directly answering Rowbottom’s charges, he said that there had not been a marble works at the prison for the last four years.

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URGE LAKE-RIVER ROAD Proposed Highway Would Link State University Sites. A lake-to-river highway to link the university cities in the State is proposed to the Highway commission by a committee headed by Charles McGaughey, Greencastle mayor. The highway, beginning at New Albany on the Ohio River would touch Paoli, Bedford, Bloomington, Spencer, Greencastle, Crawfordsville, Lafayette and Michigan City. PRIZES TO REPORTERS Mrs. English Presents Awards to Prince, Shead. Prizes for outstanding achievements in newspaper reporting during 1927 were presented to Frank J. Prince and Walter Shead, Indianapolis newspapermen, by Mrs. Helen Orr English at her home in the Hotel English Tuesday night. Prince received a check for SI,OOO for the best work in the political field and Shead a check for SSOO for the best work In other journalistic endeavor. The presentation was in the presence of Indianapolis newspaper executives and Attorney Frank B. Rcss, one of the judges who made the awards. A dinner and theater party preceded the award. The checks were presented with letters from Mrs. English, commending the reporters and pointing out that the presentation fell upon the anniversary of the death of William H. English, father of the late husband of Mrs. English, and founder of the family traditions which led Mrs. English to offer the journalistic prizes.

HIRE HOUSTON TRAIN 200 Hoosier Democrats to j Ride Woollen Special. More than 200 Indiana Democrats are expected to go to Houston, in June, on the Evans Woollen Special, chartered by the Indiana Democratic Club. Frank P. Baker will be in charge. The special will leave June 23 and stop at Birmingham, Ala.; Montgomery, Ala., and New Orleans, reaching Houston June 26. A thirtyfive piece band will be carried. Fred Barrett, Democratic Club president, today announced committees for the year. Committee chairmen are: Committee of one. Thomas Taggart; house committee, John E. Hollett; Woollen Special, Baker; entertainment, Leroy Keach; publicity, A. Charles Sallee; new building, Charles A. Greathouse; speakers, Fred Hoke; finan'. Samuel E. Rauh; advisory, Jc * D. De Prez, Shelbyville; membership, L. Ert Slack; “Clean Up Indianapolis,” Frank C. Dailey; candidates. Daily; campaign, Woodburn Masson; reception, Hiram Brown. HIGHWAYS FLOODED High water is reported on> various roads throughout the State, Director John D. Williams of the State highway department, announced today. U. S. Highway 50 is closed at Medora and there is no detour. Traffic is being rerouted through Brownstown, Salem and Paoli, Williams said. State Highway 31 is covered by water at North Seymour, but traffic was still going over the road today.

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LATEST BANDIT EPIDEMIC NETS LOOT OF $1,700 Woman’s Screams Foil One Robber; Another Is Disarmed by Man. A woman’s screams frightened a burglar from her bedroom and a man disarmed a bandit who attempted to hold him up at his front door, but other bandits, burglars and sneak thieves were more successful here Tuesday afternoon and night, obtaining $1,700 worth of loot. Mrs. Trusky Ranakeser, 332 Blake St., awoke at 1 a. m. to see a burglar in her bedroom. She screamed and he ran with $5 taken from the dresser. Edward Bruce, 701 Union St., seized the revolver a man who said he was a merchant policeman thrust at him as he was going into his home. As Bruce's mother came to the door the man, believed intoxicated, ran without his gun. Filling Station Robbed Two young bandits, with revolvers drawn, surprised Earl Smith In the Supreme Oil Company filling station, Troy Ave. and Bluff Rd., before Smith could get to the gun with which he shot one of three bandits who tried to hold him up several weeks ago. They took $45 and asked him where he kept his gun. When he replied he had none, one of the youths conferred with a companion waiting at the wheel of their auto. Returning, he went directly to where Smith had hidden his rifle, and removed the shells. William Jared, 1543 S. State Ave., was robbed of $7 and a SSO watch by three bandits in an automobile just after he alighted from a street car near his home. Ring Is Taken Mrs. A. H. Voigt, 4726 Park Ave., was taking art lessons at a downtown store when someone stole a diamond-set ring, valued at $1,200. A sneak thief took $214 from three rooms at the Spink Hotel. H. E. Valley last S2OO of the amount. Mrs. George Foreman, 4132 Carrolton Ave., discovered a burglar in her home emptying a purse of $5. When he saw her, he ran. The marauder had cut out a back screen. A burglar scaled a guy wire alongside the home of Mrs. Maurice Moore, 1939 N. Alabama St., to get into the back porch. He ate a dozen oranges and a box of raisins and took along an old sword and revolver. Watch, Gun Taken A sneak thief entered the home of George Stanley, 601 N. La Salle St., with a master key and took a watch and revolver valued at $45. Edward Wicker, New Augusta, Ind., storing his furniture at 1612 E. Forty-Second St., reported goods valued at $127 taken from his rooms there. Mrs. Pearl Haig, chaperone at the Butler University chapter of the Delta Gamma Sorcrity, called police when a prowler placed a ladder against the sorority house in an attempt to get in a second story window. The prowler twice has tried to get in downstairs windows, she said. Refinance your debts now and repay as you earn. Low cost, confidential and quick. CAPITOL LOAN CO., 141 Vi E. Wash.—Advertisement.