Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1928 — Page 1

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MOORE IS BRANDED ‘BRIBE GRABBER’

THAI ‘PACKET’ MAILED BY OIL MEN TO JUDGE Teapot Committee Gets Copy of Telegram Concerning Package. NOT JUSTICE SIDDONS Special Session Called to Check Story of Mystery Witness. Ry United Press ST. LOUIS, March 19.—A representative of the Senate Teapot Dome investigating committee has obtained from M. B. Frederick, Washington, 111., a copy of a telegram relating to a mysterious package delivered to him by mistake, the St. Louis Star quoted Fredeirck as saying today. The telegram ordered Frederick to re-direct a package sent to Washington, 111., by mistake, the Star said. Frederick is agent for the American Express Company in Washington. “The telegram,’’ the Star quoted Frederick as saying, “was received Nov. 21, 1927, from the claim agent of the company telling me to change the name on a package that was on the way from the Sinclair Oil Company, and to send it to a judge in Washington, D. C. “The judge was not Justice Siddons. “The package never arrived, so I had no occasion to carry out the order.” Call Special Session B.u United Press WASHINGTON, March 19.—A special executive session of the Senate Teapot Dome Committee was called this afternoon by Chairman Nye to determine what will be done to check up on the sensational story given the Nye subcommittee in Chicago involving an alleged mysterious package supposedly intended for a Washington <D. C.) man but misdirected to Washington, 111. The testimony is said to have indicated the alleged package was sent by an oil company and intercepted by a man in Washington, 111. Subsequently, a member of the committee admitted that “possibly” a member. of the judiciary was mentioned in connection with the case. Justice F. L. Siddons, who recently sentenced Harry Sinclair, oil man, and others for contempt, denied emphatically he knew of any package or had received any from a Sinclair Oil Company official or any one else. His statement followed publication of reports that the committee called F. L. Siddons, in Chicago, who did not respond.

Check Story’s Truth Committee investigators already have been put to work to check the accuracy of the story told the subcommittee. It was learned today they have reported there was an exchange of communications between the Sinclair consolidated oil office in Chicago and a man in Washington, 111., concerning the erroneous address of a package which the Sinclair people had intended to j send to Washington, D. C. “I must decline to say anything about the matter now,” Nye told the United Press this afternoon, “because any statement I would make might involve some wholly Innocent parties. The facts will all be brought to light, probably, when we resume hearings Wednesday, and I do not wish to say anything until then.” Justice Siddons expressed confidence that the Senate committee will see to it that on “injurious implications or inferences, injurious to the court or a member of it, will receive their sanction without convincing evidence of their truth.” Witness’ Identity Secret The, witness at Chicago was introduced to the committee by Federal Judge Lucian Malmien. His name has not been divulged pending investigation of his story. If his story checks, he’and others will be called to testify at an open hearing. No charge was made by Nye or any member of the committee that Siddons’ name was mentioned. Nye would not identify the official accused by the mystery witness, but said the committee had no present intention of summoning Justice Siddons. Levine and “Queen” Take Train Zfy/ United Pres* CHARLESTON, S. C., March 19. —Wilmer Stultz, pilot of Charles A. Levine’s Bellanca monoplane, took off for New York today. Levine and Miss Mabel Doll, who accompanied Stultz in the New York to Havana flight, left here Saturday for New York by train. EXCELLENT MEATS. Prepared by chefs who know how. FLETCHER CAFETERIA, Basement Fletcher Trust Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to 7:30 p. m—Advertisement.

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Dever Shuns Big Bill’s Handshake at Funeral By United Press CHICAGO, March 19.—1 t seems there were a couple of mayors named William and Bill, who met at a funeral. Former Mayor William E. Dever, defeated at the last election, and Mayor William Hale Thompson, who defeated him, both went to the funeral of Joseph F. Haas, county recorder. Mayor Thompson, according to one story of the meeting, offered his hand to Dever. who refused it. „ “No, no, I wouldn’t shake hand with you,” Dever was quoted as saying. “I wish you would offer me your hand some place other than at a funeral.” “That goes double,” Thompson was supposed to have said, with a by-comment on poor sportsmanship. Friends of Dever had a milder story of the meeting. “I’d really rather not say anything about it,” Dever said today.

PACKERS LOSE TRUST FIGHT Supreme Court Upholds Ruling in Famous Case. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 19.—Swift and Armour packing interests lost in the United States Supreme Court today an attempt to cancel the famous 1920 packers’ consent decree. Justice Brandels announced the court’s decision. Justice Brandeis stated that the court decided it had jurisdiction to review, the case and it had concluded the District of Columbia court was right in dismissing the Swift-Armour petition. The 1920 decree, entered in the District of Columbia Supreme Court as the culmination of an anti-trust suit started by the Federal government, was signed by 135 defendants, including representatives of all the “Big Five” packers—Swift, Armour, Cudahy, Wilson and Morris. The decree enjoined the packers from engaging in many activities which the Government alleged to be in violation of the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust laws, including holding of stock in public stockyard market companies and terminal railroads, and merchandising of wholesale groceries, canned goods and other commodities, not directly related to the meat-packing industry. Swift and Armour interests In 1924 commenced legal action to have the decree set aside, on the ground that the court had exceeded its authority. The United States opposed the new suit, and was joined by organized wholesale grocers, who argued their business would be damaged by the packers’ competition if the decree were vacated.

GIVE WILSON PRIZE TO LINDY TONIGHT

B,u United Press / NEW YORK. March 19.—C01. ! Charles A. Lindbergh will add to! to both his fa meand fortune when: he receives the Woodrow Wilson! medal and $25,000 tonight at a j banquet of the Woodrow Wilsorij foundation fund. Fifteen hundred persons will attend the dinner at the Hotel Astor. John W. Davis and Orestes Ferrara, SPRING NEARLY HERE Mercury to Mount With Arrival Tuesday. Cheer up, spring is nearly here. It arrives at Indianapolis at 2:45 p. m. Tuesday. And it will be warmer Tuesday, rising to 60 degrees in the afternoon, Weather Man J. H. Armington predicts. Tuesday is also the time when daytime and night time are nearly of equal length. The sun will rise at 5:48 a. m. and set at 5:57 p. m. Tuesday, according to the United States Weather Bureau experts. Then the days gradually become longer arid on June 21, when the sun rises at 4:16 and sets at 7:17, summer will begin. SEVEN HURT IN BLAST Mysterious Explosion Wrecks Building in Kansas City. B.y United Press KANSAS City, Mo„ March 19. Seven persons were injured in an explosion which demolished a threestory apartment building here today. The blast, of undetermined origin, shattered windows in buildings with a radius of five blocks and caused damage estimated at nearly $50,000. Pity for Birds Causes Death By United Press ..WORCESTER, Mass., March 19. Sympathy for hungry birds in the snowstorm caused the death of Mrs. Mary Nolan Sunday. Leaning over the piazzi railing to throw food to them, she lost her balance and fell twenty-five feet.

3 KILLED WHEN TRAINHITS CAR Another in Auto Escapes at South Bend. By United Press SOUTH BEND. Ind.. March 19. Three persons were killed when their automobile was struck by a west-bound New York Central freight train at the Lafayette St. crossing here early today. The dead are Benjamin Drake. 58. his son, Sam, 29. both of Bremen, Ind., and an unidentified man. Aldin Weaver, 29, Bremen, escaped serious injury by clinging to the cowcatcher of the locomotive, on which he rode three blocks before the train could be stopped. Wrecking crews rushed to the scene worked two hours in extricating the bodies from beneath the train. The men were returning home from work when the accident occurred. A concrete abutment under construction at the crossing was thought to have prevented the party from seeing the train. CATCHING UP ON SLEEP Jimmy Walker’ss “Rest” 98 per Cent Slumber; 2 Per Cent Fishing. By United Press PALM BEACH, Fla.. March 19. A vacation of “98 per cent sleep and 2 per cent fishing” lay ahead of Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York today. The mayor arrived here Sunday and was the guest of Mayor Barlay Warburton at a dinner last night. He made the trip, he said, merely for the rest.

Cuban ambassador to the United States, will speak. The medal is of bronze, twelve inches in diameter. This inscriptoin is on the reverse side: “To Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh for His Services in the Cause of International Friendship. From the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. March 19. 1928.” By fniter? Press WASHINGTON, March 19.—The House Military Affairs Committee decided today to invite Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to testify before it regarding the Furlow bill for a separate promotion list for the Army air corps. The decision was reached after a letter from Lindbergh was read to the committee . The letter said Army aviators are not properly paid for the risks they face. No date was set for Lindbergh’s appearance. BOY HELD AS PATRICIDE Georgia Youth, 12, Says He Shot in Self-Defense. By United Press ALPHARETTA, Ga., March 19. Marvin Barrett, freckled 12-year-old country boy, was held today in connection with the death ot his father, Robert L. Barrett. The father was found shot to death in his farm home. The boy told relatives he fired a shotgun in self-defense when his father, intoxicated, threatened him.

FANS GET SUPERB SERVICE BY RADIO ON STATE BASKETBALL TOURNEY TILTS

Thousands upon thousands of Indiana basketball fans who could not get to the Butler field house for the State basketball finals still were discussing today the thrilling details as authoritatively as those who saw the games. They also were pouring out congratulations to those who made it possible for them to get the details by radio —Blythe and Tommy Hendricks, pioneer American basketball announcers, for the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, radio station WFBM, and The Indianapo-

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TOMB OF S-4 OPENED; LAST BODIES FOUND Inspectors Enter Hulk of 111-Fated Sub to Learn How Men Died. WASHED FROM BUNKS No Effort Made by Any of Crew to Escape Through Tubes. By United Press BOSTON, March 19.—The scene in the torpedo chamber of the submarine S-4, where six men waited in vain for three days to be saved from their underwater tomb, was described today over a telephone line from within the hull to a shack at the side of the dry dock. The naval board of Inspection entered the battered hulk just after 1 p. m., when the interior was declared sufficiently cleared of foul air and water. Commander Harold E. Saunders, chief salvage officer at Province- i town, where the ship was sent to the bottom in a collision with the coast guard destroyer Faulding, was the first to enter the torpedo room. He immediately was followed by the board. Lieut. A. C. Smith, described the scene in the torpedo room. Floor Covered With Slime “The floor is covered with oil and slime. The men seemed to have died j in their bunks, but were washed on to the floor by the water. “The torpedo room door was dogged tight and propped with a lead maul. The window of the door appeared to have been leaking, for it was covered with a sheet of rubber. “Although none of the men wore gas masks, there are indications they had been used. “Fitch < Lieut. Graham Newell Fitch) has been identified by an Annapolis class ring and an athletic swearin bearing the date 1923. “Three bodies are at the foot of the ladder, two aft of the room under bunks. Fitch was near the torpedo tubes. “There was apparently no effort j to use the tubes for escape. The i doors to the torpedo tubes had not been tampered with. We have been unable to find any written record, but are still searching.” Divers Are Lowered Four civilian divers, Thomas Fulks, Joseph Madden, John Green and George Duke, were lowered into the water-filled dry dock to shore up the keel—an operation whicn was to insure an even settling of the craft when the water is drawn out of the dry dock. The same good fortune which attended the submarine’s trip from Provincetown, where it was raised from the ocean bed last Saturday, marked its placement in dry dock. Favored with a higher tide, the S-4 was drawn slowly over the sill of the dock. The task required about forty minutes. Then the huge caisson that formed the outer gate of the dry dock swung into place and the submarine was in a water-filled compartment. As the water in the dry dock slowly receded, the huge gash in the starboard side of the S-4 came into view.

A Waif Adrift Poor little Sally! Poor little “Nobody’s Girl” leaves the orphanage, the only home she has known, to live on a farm. She hasn’t a friend in the world except the other orphan children whom she leaves behind her. Sally faces the world with virgin eyes and ideals. Soon the tiny world of safety she has known comes tumbling down around her. But Sally meets David. And then the whole story changes. You will be thrilled with Sally’s adventures in “Nobody’s Girl.” Start it today on the last page of the Indianapolis Times.

lis Times, which has had charge of State tourney broadcasting since the first time the big games were put on the air. Five hundred telegrams praising the broadcasting were received while the games were in progress Friday and Saturday. The Times received so many telephone calls, local and long distance, that it was necessary to request fans to stop phoning congratulations.' Times employes could not get business calls in or out of the office, so busy were the lines.

$15,000 FOR HER LOVE Young Mother Offers Self for Sale

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Alice Paraahy of Pittsburgh, shown here with her 4-year-old son, is willing to marry a man for 515.000, the money to be used in paying off a mortgage on her mother’s home and to assure her sou an education.

MY LOVE and affection lor $15,000; anxious to marrv man about 30 years of ae; purpose of securing money is to pay off morts?ae on mother's home and Insure education of my four-year-old boy; am 21 years old. 5 feet 5 Inches, brunet. blue-grav eves; want a comfortable home and the protection of a dutiful husband. No triflers need apply. Write W 55, Pittsburgh Press. Hu SEA Service PITTSBURGH, March 19—“ My love and affection for sls,ooo—'' Tired of the struggle to make ends meet, and faced witn the uncertainty of an education for her 4-year-old boy, Alice Pamahy, young and comely Pittsburgh widow, has made that offer to the world. "I am lonesome and want a husband,” she said. “I suppose I will be adjudged mercenary for asking for the $15,000 to marry, but I do not wish any of the money for my self. “I am making my home with my widowed mother and I want to get her out of debt and pay the mortgage on the home. “I have a young son and it Is my ambition to see that he receives a good education. “Elver since the death of my husband three years ago I have been struggling to make ends meet, and I have found it very difficult ” The man with the $15,000 must be somewhere betwen 30 and 50. “I would prefer a husband who Is interested in good books and music I like the theater, but cabarets have little appeal to me.” The details of settling the mortgage and investing the money for the education of her boy will be handled by her attorney, she says. NEW PETITION FILED BY HOLMES IN MAYOR SUIT Intended to Forestall Slack's Lawyers’ Moves tn Case. Amended complaint in the quo warranto suit by which Attorney Ira M. Holmes seeks to become mayor of Indianapolis was filed in Circuit Court today. The new complaint does not set forth any new facts, but is designed to forestall motion of attorneys for Mayor L. Ert Slack, defendant, asking the original complaint be made more specific. Joseph L. Hogue, also defendant, succeeded in securing a favorable ruling on demurrer to the original complaint and such action is likely to be asked in the new move.

Anew recognition of the finals broadcasting as one of the great annual feats of radio came this year. The Dictaphone Sales corporation, 241 E. Ohio St., made a permanent recording of the description by Blythe and Tommy of the final game between Muncie and Martinsville Saturday night. This was done through a remarkable hook-up of a loud speaker and a dictaphone recording machine, receiving from a receiving set in the WFBM studio.

Entered as Seeond-Olass Matter at Postoffiee, Indianapolis

ADMiTS MURDER TO SHIELD WIFE M'Donald Takes Blame to Avert Girl's Hanging. I By United I‘rrss MONTREAL. Quebec. March 19. Quebec went ahead in the grim task i of planning the death of Doris Mc- | Donald—the first woman to be senj tenced to death in the province in I twenty years—despite that a re- ! ported statement, exonerating her, j had been published, j The statement was reported to have been made by her husband, j George McDonald, also under senI tence of death, to officials at Valley Field Prison. In the published statement he assumed all blame, denied a confession she made in Denver and said she had no part in the crime. One of Mrs. McDonald's attorneys was reported to be in Ottawa to urge the minister of justice to show clemency towards the young } wife—an American girl. The gallows, now painted a brili liant red, aie ready for transportation to the Valley Field Prison. The couple will meet for the last time on this red gallows, Friday, and both will pay for the murder of Adelard Bouchard with their lives—unless there is clemency. START FLIGHT TO POLE Italian Diriglible Leaves Rome on First Stage of Journey. Pji United Press ROME. March 19.—The Mobile north pole expedition got under way officially today. The diribible Italia, carrying Gen. Umberto Nobile's party, left Rome after a final test flight, for Spetia, on Genoa Bay. The huge ship will spend the night, in the bay. Police Fire at Burglar; Flees Patrolman Shaw and Do Long fired eight shots at a man they saw crawling through a window at the Hendrick restaurant, Rural and Bloyd Sts., Saturday night. The burglar escaped.

This is the second time in history that the Dictaphone company has recorded sport event broadcasting. The first was the recording of Graham McNamee's report of the second Dempsey-Tunney prize fight. The Hendricks brothers will listen to their own broadcasting at the Dictaphone salesroom Tuesday morning. They are intensely interested in the experiment, because it will give them an opportunity to criticise their own “stuff” and plan improvements for next year.

ALBERTSON BARES DETAILS OF CASH PASSING IN DARK TO BUY COUNCILMEN VOTES Former Ally of Defendant Tells Sensational Story to Jury of “Sell-Outs” Made on Municipal Projects. BILLS WILL BE SHOWN IN COURT Defense Counsel Raises Storm of Objections to Testimony; ‘Gift’ From Boxing Promoter Is Charged. City Councilman Boynton J. Moore wwas pictured as “chairman of a sort of council bribe committee” by his former ally, O. Ray Albertson, from a Criminal Court witness stand today. Bribe after bribe, SIOO here and $l5O there, secret meetings at which the money was counted out in as many piles as there were votes present, darkened rooms with hands reaching out for dollars—all this was told by Albertson. Listening intently, yet unmoved, Moore sat behind the chairs of his counsel, who objected frequently to the injection of deals other than that for which Moore is on trial. He is charged with soliciting and accepting SIOO to influence his vote on impeachment of Mayor John L. Duvall last fall. The testimony of other deals was admitted in evidence by Special Judge Paul G. Davis to show intent.

Albertson was led through the stories of each of five indictments pending against Moore, by Prosecutors Kinsley \V. Johnson and William 11. lie my. Five hundred dollars in yellow bills, the very ones that Moore placed in Albertson’s automobile in | front of the City Hall for Albertson's vote on a certain fire equipment contract last summer, are due to dangle before Moore this afternoon, prosecutors said. Money in Vault Albertson has vhe money in a safety deposit box in the City Trust Company, he said, and was ordered to bring it into court. The State put over its heaviest blows today, in its efforts to show intent. Moore was connected with deal after deal, in which a price was set on council voites. often dickering over the cost, and finally the transier of the money, in State's testimony. Prosecutor Johnson said he hopes to finish his case by night. Crossexamination of Albertson is expected to take longer than that of any former witnesses. John J. Collins, former city purchasing agent, exMayor John L. Duvall and Chief of Detectives Claude F. Johnson. Henry Winkler and Ira M. Holmes, Moore’s attorneys, are expected to go into each of the numerous alleged bribe deals on which Albertson testified today. Connects Self With Deals For more than an hour, the member of the council connected himself with some of the deals he detailed and told of Moore’s connections with the “kitchen cabinet” meetings of the council. His.direct testimony was continued this afternoon. Judge Davis overruled a second motion of the defense to take the case from the jury early in Albertson's testimony. Albertson testified that Moore, Councilman Otis E. Balthomew and “one of the Farb brothers, the boxing promoter,” came to his place of business in December, 1925, less than a month before he took office as councilman. “Moore introduced Farb as a boxing promoter and Farb told me he had a Christmas present for me,” Albertson testified. "He went back to my desk and put SIOO under the phone. “Moore was there, but there was an obstruction in his line of view. Going to See Todd “They said they were going to see Dr. Todd.” The defense objected to the testimony and Remy argued that the State wanted to show Todd and Albertson became members of the boxing commission of the city council and that “Farb conducted boxing exhibitions with the sanction of these men until stopped by the American Legion.” The court sustained defense objections. Albertson then related that before taking their offices Moore came to him and said he expected to “make all he could out of the job during the four years.” “He said I should work with them and they would teach me how to make money,” Albertson testified. “Did you ever have a conversation with Moore concerning money on votes on any matter before the council?” Johnson asked. “Yes,” answered Albertson. He had started the first of a series of bribery stories that kept the jurors on the edge of their seats, so eager were they to catch every word. Attorneys often were on their feet objecting. and several times Judge Davis had to rap for order. Albertson said he talked to Moore

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“prior to the passage of an ordinance rezoning Forty-Sixth St. and College Ave.” on which deal Moore is under indictment, but not on trial. “Just tell what was said.” “He said if I would vote for the rezoning it would mean $300.” “Who said that? “Moore.” Albertson told how he—-Albertson —told Moore to give the money to Charles M. Davidson, chief clerk of the park board, which later was paid on a lot Albertson was buying on W. Thirtieth St. “Did he tell you how much others were to receive?” “Yes. $1,000.” Discuss Rezoning Ordinance From here Johnson led Albertsor to a conversation about passage oi an ordinance rezoning the corner of Twenty-Seventh and Meridian Sts. “Where did this conversation take place, and who else was present?” “No one was in the group with us in the council chamber. He said that there would be something in it if we re-zoned that corner.” "Was the money paid?” “Yes, $150.” “Did you have any other conversation with Moore regarding money?” “Yes.” "Who was present? “Dorsett, Collins, Ferguson and Moore.” Tells of Dividing Money He referred to Walter R. Dorsett and Millard Ferguson, both of whom are under bribery indictments, their trials to follow that of Moore. He told how SSOO was divided among the group. The next deal recounted was one regarding the appointment of Ray Seibert as garage superintendent. Seibert is a relative of Moore “What brought in the money?” “Seibert.” “Where did he put it?” "On the desk. Moore took the money. He counted out five piles. Each man had to give $5 back to Seibert.” Johnson led his witness to a conversation with Moore in the latter’s office in the Union Title Bldg. He said Moore told of $95 “being ready.” “He paid you the $95?” “He did.” Fire Equipment Offer The next deal was a conversation before the awarding of contract for fire equipment. “Where did you meet him?” “In front of 227 N. New Jersey St., in the street.” “Who else was there?” “A man I didn’t know.” “What was said?” “This man said he would give 10 per cent if he got the fire equipment contract.” The conversation regarding the fire equipment was continued, Albertson said, in Moore’s office. “Who was present?” “Moore, Bartholomew f councilman also under indictment • Ferguson.” “Moore said he had been offered 10 per cent to get this company the fire equipment contract.” “How much did the contract amount to?” “Eight thousand five hundred dollars.” “He said the bond issue already had passed.” Through a misprint, The Times, in its sports edition Saturday referred to Collins as the “defendant” in the trial, when the word should have been “witness.” The story was a report of Collins’ testimony in the trial. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 29 10 a. m.... 37 7a. m.... 30 11 a. m.... 38 Ba. m... 33 12 (noon). 39 8 a. m.... 35 1 p. m.... 31