Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1928 — Page 3

: KEB. 11, 1928.

JOHN D. JR. WILL TESTIFY BEFORE OIL PROBERS TODA Y

INDICTMENT OF STEWART ALSO TORE SOUGHT Two Bankers to Go Before \ Quiz Group Peering Into -I' Secret Deal. £ •) JTOUNG O'NEIL ABROAD Followed Father to Europe *j Last September; Treasury Cashed Bonds. , BY PAUL R. MALLON. * TJnitd Press Staff Correspondent / WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. —The Federal Government planned two decisive steps today in its attempt "to learn what became of $3,000,000 Liberty Bond profits of the Continental Trading Company, mysteriously organized by oil men in 1921. United States Attorney Peyton „ Gordon was to ask the District of Columbia grand jury to indict Col. Robert W. Stewart, board chairman l of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, for refusing to tell the Senate Teapot Dome committee what he knew about disposition of the bond profits and whether he had discussed such matters with Harry ■*‘F. Sinclair. At the same time, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., owner of stock in Standard Oil units throughout the country, was to appear in answer to a subpoena before the Senate commit- '■■■ tee to disclose what he knew about activities of any officials of his com-'-panies in the Continental deal. Ask Stewart Indictment He was to tell aprticularly of conversations he had had with Stewart. Senators Nye and Walsh of the Teapot Dome committe, after questioning Rockefeller, were to testify before the grand jury regarding Stewart’s refusal to ansewr questions. •' Indictment of Stewart was to be sought under a section of revised \ .statutes making it an offense to j refuse to testify before a congressional committee of inquiry. It was : . under this same section that Sinclair was indicted and convicted many months ago. Sinclair has appealed. Rockefeller’s appearance this draw great interest. He had written Senator Walsh of Montana he willingl would give the committe every possible aid in clearing up the Continental deal.

Bankers to Testify ‘ Walsh hoped Rockefeller might i know some of the facts Stewart de- j dined to reveal—evidence needed to j trac ethe Liberty bond profits. The! committee also desired to ascertain! whether Rockefeller intended to j discharge Stewart from his Stand- i ard Oil post. Walsh called, in addition, C. S. j Howard and A. W. Rice of the Ne w j York branch of the Dominion Bank j of Canada, for records of bond de- j posits made by H. S. Osier, missing head of the Continental company, and other oil men. The committee lias learned pri-' vately that more than $200,000 of | the missing bonds have been cashed ' at the treasury department and may' '! be traced there. Names of these! , who cashed the bonds are expected! , to be brought out at the public hearing later. The names have not yet been learned by treasury invesf tigators. ? An effort may be made to induce j >r Wayne O’Neil, son of the missing roil man. James E. O'Neil, to return \ from Europe, committee members l indicated. , O’NEIL FOLLOWS FATHER ' O'Neil followed his father to Europe last September, the committee was advised by United States ~ Marshal Moore, of Brooklyn, who |3iad been ordered to subpoena young O'Neil at his last residence, ' Garden City. .Long Island. Walsh also has developed that k a portion of the SBOO,OOO in bonds . which the elder O’Neil, conscience--5 stricken, ordered his son to repay io the Prairie Oil and Gas Company arc not Continental bonds. He said he had been informed, however, that young O'Neil merely made a mistake in removing the bonds from a safety deposit box. Rockefeller arrived' here last night. By coincidence, he was assigned to the same palatial hotel suite where Stewart was held "prisoner" one night last week immediately after he refused to testify. Stewart won his freedom next day on a writ, of habeas corpus. Tire Government's suit to dismiss this writ will take at least a week more. PORKERS END ACTIVE WEEK STEADY TODAY Top Stands at $8.75; Receipts Good For a Saturday. Hogs were unchanged at the Union Stockyards today, ending a week of almost steady incline in prices. Low receipts have been a marked characteristic of the market during the last seven clays, during which time the 8.000 figure was passed only once. About 7.000 were received today as against 4.500 last Saturday. Other livestock was steady and receipts were down to the usual Saturday levels. Tire market was fairly active at Chicago with light hogs weak to 10 cents lower than high time. Butcher* were generally steady. The early top was $8.45. Receipts were estimated at 13,000. An old English couple dwell undisturbed in a completely furnished rent-free house which, twenty years ago the owner vacated because of the appearance of a “ghost.” The steamship Leviathan uses 80.000 pounds of potatoes on a summer trip.

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City Man Remembers Great Emancipator in One of Early Campaigns. “Lincoln. The Hoosier” will be conunenorated Sunday both in Indianapolis and throughout the State. In the last decade Indianians have come to realize more anad more that the early years of his life, from the age of 8 to 21 years, spent in Spencer County really were the foundation stones of his later career. It was to the counties in southern Indiana that he later returned to make campaign speeches. His address in Indianapolis is commemorated with a bronze tablet at the Claypool, site of the old Bates House from whose balcony Lincoln spoke. Bier Rested in SfcUehouse The present Statehouse carriers memories of the one which preceeded it and where the bier of the Great Emancipator was placed in State before the return to Springfield, 111., and its final resting place. “Lincoln, the Hoosier,” is to come into his own. The Indiana Lincoln Union campaign for $1,650,000 for a shrine- at the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln in Spencer County already is well under way. Achievements of his presidential career, brought 1o a dramatic end by his assassination, are apt to obscure the man, but the picture of "Lincoln, the Hoosier,” was restored with vividness today by Capt. W. D. Wilson, w*ho is in charge of the Statehouse information bureau. Awkward Looking Hoosier Although a veteran of the Civil War. Wilson’s memories of Lincoln are of an earlier period. The period of Lincoln’s first great campaign, that for the seat of United States Senator from Illinois. The period of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Wilson at that time was 13. His father was a Lincoln backer and chairman of the committee which arraigned the debate at Winchester. 111., where he entei-tained Lincoln at dinner at the Wilson home. “Lincoln sure was a Hoosier," Captain Wijson relates. “You see over in Illinois we hadn’t found out

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that Hoosier meant something of i which to be proud. “I sat next to my mother at din- | ner that night Lincoln was a guest. I stared and stared at him. He was the most lanky, gawky, awkwardlooking Hoosier Id ever seen, and when he left I told my mother so. Served During War “Do you think that kind of a man will make a Senator?" I said. "Hehasn’t any more chance than any other wood-chopping Hoosier.” It was but a few short years later that Private Wilson was serving under Lincoln, the great Comman-der-in-Chief. His three years’ service included Sherman's march to the sea. Never again did he look on the face of Lincoln, but this memory of “Lincoln, the Hoosier,” remains. OFFICERS RE-ELECTED All Officers of Columbia Club Retain Offices. Norman A. Perry, Indianapolis Power and Light Company president, was re-elected president of the Columbia Club and all the other officers likewise were re-elected by the board of directors today. The other three officers are Fred C. Gardner, vice president; Frank A. Butler, treasurer, and E. P. Akin, secretary manager. Only two per cent of the population of Jamaica is white.

LAST MAN OF OLDEST ‘LAST MAN’S CLUB’ DIES

F.<j Vnited Press COVINGTON. Ind., Feb. 11.— Death of Lewis R. Hatfield, Fountain County’s oldest citizen, marked the passing of the last survivor of the earliest “Last Man’s Club” in the United States. The club, formed on Thanksgiving day, 1847, by twenty young blades of Covington, was known as the “Ragins Tads,” for reasons that posterity will never learn. Hatfield carried the secret to the grave. ' On the day of thanks, eighty years ago, the twenty gathered at the Philander inn for a dinner

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i CLOSE GUARD IS KEPT ON STATE STARWITNESS Detectives Puzzle About Illness of Lyons, Now in Dayton. (Continued from Page II cealment. prosecution would have to have been brought within two years I after the alleged offense. One Seat Stays Empty With eleven men practically agreed upon, It appeared late Friday that a jury would be completed before adjournment. The difficulty centered on Seat 7 when George H. Oilar, 1121 E. Thir-ty-Fifth St., structural iron worker, was excused by the court at his request for phj’sical reasons. Theo C. Anderson. R. R. H, Box 368, who next was called, survived questioning only a short time before he was removed on a peremptory challenge by the State. Then came James A. Baird. 3064 N. Delaware St., special agent lor the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. He professed to know Defense Attorneys Loreis and Silas Kivett, Prosecutor Remy and Robert I Marsh, a co-de-fendant, but believed he could act as an impartial juror. In reply to Defense Attorney Clyde Jones’ questioning, he said articles on the Jackson case which he had read in The Times last summer “left an impression on his mind." Challenged Peremptorily When Jones made much of this “iflfcression,” Judge McCabe remarked : “I presume any one having read the newspaper would have an impression. I would suggest you determine if the talesman has a fixed : opinion.” Baird replied he had no opinion that would not yield to fair con- | sideration of the law and evidence, j and reporters got near telephones In the expectation the Jury was about l to be agreed upon. “We challenge Mr. Baird per- ! emptorily,” from Jones, however, at; 5:20 p. m., threw the jury selection Back to an eleven-man stage, and ! Judge McCabe called for adjournment until Monday. Eight talesmen who were in the j jury box when court convened Friday morning survived the day. They were: Ira A. Minnick, 3828 Carrollton Ate., president of the National Dry Kiln Company; Ivan Fowler, R. R. D, Box 233, farmer; the Rev. H. B. Hostetter, 344 Leslie Ave., State secretary of the Presbyterian Church; Everett S. Penn, 801 N. Drexel Ave., salesman; Samuel H. Colbert, Negro, R. R. C„ laborer and subcontractor; David Porter- ! field. 3616 Salem St., employe of the ! Patterson Engraving Company; Hu- j bert Adams, R. R. B, Box 233, farmer, and Elmer Geiger, Greenwood, farmer.

Three Others May Stay The three others whose plans, after Friday’s questioning, were secure except from peremptory challenges and excuse by the court were: Everett McClain, New Bethel, employed at the Beech Grove Big Four Railroad shops; Ferd L. HoUweg, 4171 Washington Blvd., president of the Mutual China Company, 130 S. Meridian St., and Percey L. Allen, R. R. 1, Box 182. In the course of the day the State challenged three talesmen peremptorily: James A. Bange. 5865 Central Ave., real estate dealer; Henry W. Boggs, 3911 W. Washington St., livestock salesman, and Theo Sanderson. Three peremptory challenges remain in the State’s hands, although there was no indication of use on any of the eleven talesmen now in the box. The defense challenged two peremptorily, Dwight S. Ritter, president of Grassy Forks Fisheries. 4415 Broadway, and Baird. It still has opportunity to exercise four peremptory challenges. State challenged for cause Ennis Bradgon of Lawrence, planing mill operator, and Ralph G. Coe, salesman. 11l E. Sixteenth St. The court, with agreement of counsel, excused Ace Berry, 40 W. Twenty-Ffrst St., general manager of the Indiana Theater; Orville E. Baker, 315 S. Taft St., structural iron worker, and Oilar. cityTaces power"suit Action Seeking $237,587 Entered in Superior Court One. The Indianapolis Power and Light Company today filed suit in Superior Court One against the city for $237,589 said due the company for heat and light supplied the city since May, 1927. Decree Given Duchess Torlonia By Vnited Press BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Feb. 10.— Duchess Torlonia, former Greenwich society girl, was granted a di- | vorce today from her 65-year-old j husband, Duke Don Marino TorI lonia of Rome.

celebration in honor of the day, and "Mein Herr” Brown, the proprietor was prevailed upon to provide the liquid refreshments, now almost forgotten, but popular at that time. When the dinner was over, a single bottle of port graced the table, unopened, and Hatfield suggested that the wine be kept as a symbol of their youth, to be opened by the last survivor. 'i’he dinner on Thanksgiving day became an annual event, and for a few years there was a full attendance of the entire twenty. In 1861 there were only two

To Poilus Who Fought the Good Fight

(NEA Scr; ice, Taris Bureau) A comprehensive view of France's new war memorial inset in a rocky mountain tive a. iwcc -uu cf the throng which attended ytie unveiling ceremonies. Marshal Foci: dedicated it.

REAL ESTATE MEN ARE BUSY Market Fairly Active Here Despite Bad Weather. Indianapolis building permits during the week totaled $307,550, according to Indianapolis Real Estate Board figures. Os this amount, ten residences to cost $48,550 were projected. Other projects included a $60,000 addition to the Zion Evangelical Church. North and New Jersey Sts.; a hotel at Market St. and Capitol Ave.. for W. E. Byfield, at a cost of $178,000. and a SIO,OOO storeroom block, 4125 F. Tenth St. to be built by M. Sablosky. The real estate market continued fairly active, despite weather conditions. the board report states. Local farm land conditions compare favorably with those in other localities, the board points out. Reports from seventy-two member boards of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Including the Indianapolis board, comprise a Nation-wide survey on farm land sales. Indianapolis was one among only 10 per cent of the communities which reported that some purchasers are buying farm land to hold for increased prices.

FELLOWSHIP OFFERED Huesmann Foundation Sponsors Child Research. A research fellowship at James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for children will be the first use to which money of the Louis C. Huesmann Foundation will be put. it was decided Friday. The foundation, organized by fnends and co-workers of the late Louis Huesmann. elected as president, Hugh McK. Landon. head of the Riley Memorial Association, at am organization meeting at the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company. Income of the fellowship will not exceed $3,000 annually. It will be awarded on a competitive basis. Other officers are: Arthur Newby, vice president; Arthur R. Baxter, treasurer, and James W. Carr, secretary. In addition to Landon. Carr and Baxter, directors of the foundation, are: J. I. Holcomb. Arthur B. Ayres, Arthur V. Brown, Frank C. Ball, Mrs. Hugh McK. Landon and James W. Fesler. Normal Debaters Win By Times Special UPLAND, Inc., Feb. 11.—Indiana State Normal debaters from Terre Haute won over Taylor University here Friday night, taking the negative side of “Resolved, That the direct primary system for the election of Federal and State officers should be repealed.” The territory included by Wisconsin was first seen by a white man in 1,634. He was Jean Nicolet, the French explorer.

‘Up Jumped the Devil, ’ and in Walked a Cop

“Six catch a deuce!” “Seven, up and stop!" These and similar phrases employed in the game of galloping dominoes, caught the ear of Sergt. Curtis Barge as he passed the home of William Sloan, 29, Negro, at 538 W. Corbett St., on the night of Jan. 24. The conversation was accompanied by the familiar rattle. Just as a feminine voice said:

empty places prepared, but the Civil war struck the little group a crushing blow and in 1866 there were only a dozen left. U U tt YEAR by year the hand of time., was laid upon the dwindling few, until in 1902 only two remained. For years these met on the appointed day, and drank the health, and talked of those w’ho had gone before. They congratulated one another on their longevity, and boasted who w’ould live the longest, yet each secretly hoped that he would not be the last. Two years ago Hat-field fas

Long Legal Tilt Over Grave Is Nearing End

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Mother, With Little Emotion, Tells of Dead Son’s Request. With little show of emotion, a mother told Superior Judge James M. Leathers Thursday how her divorced husband in seeking to prevent her moving the body of their 19-year-old son to her own cemetery lot, “so I can lie beside him.” The case is expected to be finished Monday before Judge Leathers after a two-year legal battle, consisting for the most part, in delays in bringing it'to trial. The mother, Mrs. Carrie Vande, 1515 College Ave., has remarried, as has the father of the boy. The father is George I. Day, whose address has not been revealed to the court. Day’s present wife, Florence Day, and the Memorial Park cemetery, also are defendants in the suit for

“Up jumped the devil!” in walked the sergeant. The sequel to all this was a SIOO fine and thirty days’ suspended sentence in municipal court Friday for Sloan, who was found guilty of operating a blind tiger. Four Negro men and two women were fined $lO each and given suspended jail sentences for gaming. The sergeant found two bottles of liquor and a pair of “hot” dice, he said.

helped to the rendezvous for the last time. He was the last man. The wine w as brought and opened. Hands trembling with age and emotion, he fulled the fragile cup, and rose slowly and unsteadily to his feet to drink a last toast to the nineteen empty chairs. The wine sparkled in the old mans trembling grasp. His eyes lighted with the memories of that first dinner. Then grew dim w’ith the realization that he alone was left'. He pushed the glass away, barely tasted, and slumped in his chair, a defeated victor. “It v- the saddest occasion of my long life,” he said.

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injunction to prevent interference with the mother in removing the body. The case was not finished Wednesday. because Day could not be found. He will be in court Monday, Maurice Mendenhall, his attorney, said. Mrs. Vande did not falter when she told of her son’s request shortly before he died, in 1921, to be buried beside his mother. She said financial matters kept her and Vande from buying a lot at that time, and an arrangement was made with the former husband and his mothsr, Mrs. Clarinda Wolf, whereby the boy could be buried on Mrs. Wolf’s lot. Mrs. Vande maintained it was understood that the boy’s body could be removed when she bought her own lot. Now the former husband has fallen heir to the lot, due to the death of his mother, and he is seeking to prevent the removal. His attorney claimed he has offered to deed the entire lot to Mrs. His attorney claimed he has offered to deed the entire lot to Mrs. Vande, but she will not agree to it, because “there isn’t room for me to be buried beside him.”

American Architecture Influenced by Europe

Magnitude U. S. Distinctive Characteristic, State Society Learns. The most characteristic form of American architecture is the skyscraper, and in this the most drastic architecture! changes are occurring today, according to members of the Indiana Society of Architects, in two-day convention at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The architecture of the older skyscrapers was bound by the traditions of the old school. The Woolworth tower in New York is an example of this. Once looked upon as a triumph it is now regarded as a monstrosity. The introduction of steel into building constriction has made it possible to get away from the horizontal lines, the outgrowth of classic influence, and to use vertical lines. The tendency today is to build more rationally.

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QUEER QUIRKS FEATURE CITY CRIME WAVE Stolen Delivery Truck Is Used for Robbery of Filling Station. Many queer quirks of bandits, burglars and beggars were reported to police during the last twenty-four hours. The latest in banditry was use of a stolen Block Company delivery truck to stage a filling station robbery Friday night. The truck was driven to the Standard station, King Ave. ana Tenth St., and when Attendant Carl Wamsley, 28. of 1919 Montcalm St„ came out to give service. he was confronted with a gun. Ordered to “hand over money,” Wamsley leaped around the rear of the truck and ran to a nearby drugstore to call police. The driver dismounted and disappeared. Claude Campbell, regular driver of the truck, reported it had been stolen from rear of store short time before. Cruise in Automobile Three men in an automobile cruised up and down Adams St. for three hours late Friday afternoon, stopping every now and then at a vacant lot at Twenty-Eighth and Adams Sts., where one of the trio would dismount and enter the lot with a. traveling bag. At last they abandoned their car. a Chrysler, bearing one Ohio license plate, and walked away. Kenneth Richey of 2821 Adams St., and Paul Edwards of 2810 Station St., followed the men a short distance, but were eluded. They reported to police, who investigated buts ailed to find the bag or the cause for the mysterious actions. Clarence W. Means, of 230 W. Forty-Sixth St., reported a newstyle beggar. Answering front-door knock Friday night, he found note which read. “Won’t you give a poor guy a five-spot and leave it under the door-knocker?” Fifteen minutes later Means heard a noise and saw a man peeringunder the door curtain from a side porch. Conductor Is Robbed A Negro boy bandit held up and robbed Perry B. Morris of 126 E. Twelfth St., conductor on a Columbia Ave. street car. at 2143 Columbia Ave. Friday night. He got $24, threatening to shoot if the money was not turned over. The liold-up took place as Morris stepped from the car to throw a switch. The boy was accompanied by two accomplices in an automobile. Burglars, who escaped without loot, were reported at the home of Homer Elliott. 616 E. Fortieth St., and the drug store of Ralph Crosier at Thirty-Fourth and Clifton Sts.

ROBBERY IS FRUSTRATED Bank Teller Eludes Bandits to Sound Burglar Alarm. P,'/ Vnited Press ST. JOHNS, Mich., Feb, 10.—Five bandits attempting to rob the State bank here about noon today were frustrated by the prompt action of Asa Gillson. teller, who dropped behind a partition before the bandits covered him with their guns and sounded an automatic alar n. The bandits drew up before the bank in a large car. They drew revolvers as they entered and covered two customers and three other employes of the bank, other than Gillson. Before they could do anything further the burglar alarm sounded and they fled, taking nothing. Building Permits Gp M. Smith, wreck dwelling, 3752 N. Meridian, S3OO. 9 3 ” w. N a o n rtL J * 0 27 n 5 So "' BddiU ° n P ° rCh ’ O. C. Adkins, furnace, 602 W. ThirtvFirst, $217. Harold G. Lanham, furnace. 5951 Oak, S2OO. R. Micelli, repair. 653 S. New Jersey. *2OO. Tripp Warehouse Company, reroof. 1000 E. Ohio. *420. E. O. Porter, garage. 1004-10 Ashland, $3,000. M. Sablosky, storerooms, 4125-29 E. Tenth. SIO,OOO. A. Goldberg, dwelling and garage, 155} Finley, $2,000 J. L. Griffith, repair. 923 Spruce, SSOO. Robert Bryson, dwelling, 2341 Indianapolis, $4 800. Terre Haute Elks Plan Program TERRE HAUTE, Feb. 11.—Local Elks will entertain District Deputy George C. Masters of Connersville Wednesday. A display of the drill team will feature the program. Indigo takes its name from India, Mirabeau was a great orator in the cause of the French Revolution. Modern banking originated in Italy.

Since all American architecture is profoundly influenced by European tendencies, practically our only distinct characteristic is magnitude, and the fact that we excel in the mechanical equipment of the home, architects declared. The first business meeting of the society was held this afternoon, following a closed meeting of directors and separate luncheons of men and women guests. Visits to the Architects’ Building Material exhibit at 151 E. Market St., and to the architectural exhibit at the John Herron Art Institute are features of the program. The presence of Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect, who will be the principal speaker at the clciing banquet in 'the Travertine room of the Lincoln, Saturday evening, is of great interest to architects and laymen. Saarinen won second prize in the Chicago Tribune tower contest. Anton Scherrer of Indianapolis will speak and Harry G. Leslie will preside.