Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1928 — Page 3
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FEUD BEGUN IN SICILY BLAMED FOR ESPOSITO DEATH
POLICE GRILL Dl PRISEO. OLD RIVAL OF BOSS Enmity Begun Thirty Years Ago Between Boys in Vineyards. 'DIAMOND JOE’ A POWER Believe Political Strength Factor in Shooting; Opposed Thompson. f.y United Press CHICAGO, March 23.—A feud tyhich started more than thirty years ago in the vineyards of Sicily and developed bitterness in Chicago when its principals competed in politics and business was blamed by police today for the slaying of “Diamond Joe” Esposito. James Di Priseo was said by Chief of Detectives Michael Grady to have full knowledge of th eslaying. Di Priseo and Esposito were boys together in Sicily and worked side by side in vineyards there. At first they were friends. One day, Grady said, they fought with knives, but were separated before either was badly hurt. Di Priseo Arrested They came to Chicago. Esposito prospered in business, grew influential in politics and finally made a fortune, as so many of his countrymen have in Chicago in recent years. Di Priseo failed where his rival succeeded. He had difficulty in making a living, and was a hangeron at the fringes of gangs. Eighteen months ago Di Priseo was wounded in a gang war flareup. At first he blamed Esposito, but when the latter was taken to a hospital to face his accused, Di Priseo changed his story and absolved the man he hated. Di Priseo and four other men were under arrest today in connection with the slaying of Esposito, but it was on Di Priseo that police concentrated their inquiry. Wielded Political Power First reports early today of the slaying of John Infantino, 30. shot in his home, led to the belief that he might have been killed because of some knowledge of Esposito’s death. It was known he had conferred with Esposito recently. Investigation disclosed, however, police said, that Infantino was the victim of a jealous rival for the hand of a third man's wife. Police and the district attorney's office continued today to deny any political significance in Esposito's death, but members of the Italian colony were convinced that ’’Diamond Joe's” influence in the Twenty-Fifth ward, which he had held firmly against the city and county administration in election after election, was a factor in his death. He was a candidate for Republican committeeman from the district on the ticket supported by United States Senator Deneen and opposed by Mayor William Hale Thompson. GET ADDRESSES RIGHT City Hospital Head Asks Public to Aid Amublance Runs. Dr. William A. Doeppers, superintendent of city hospital, today appealed to the public to locate exact addresses before calling for city hospital ambulances in emergency cases. "On several occasions, ambulances recently have been called on emergency runs, only to learn the wrong location had been given,” Dr. Doeppers said. “The ambulances might be needed desperately in other places while they are answering false calls.’ PERU LAUDS U. S ENVOY Ambassador Poindexter Resigns to Enter Senatorial Race. By United Press LIMA, Peru, March 23.—Newspapers today joined in praise of the work here of Miles Poindexter, retiring United States ambassador, who sailed for home Wednesday to run in the Washington senatorial election. Before his departure, Poindexter said he would remain in New York for a few days and then go to Washington to report to President Coolidge. Afterward, he said, he would go to Spokane. ___
Check Flu-Grip By Using Vicks at First Sneeze Health Authorities Urge Precaution to Prevent Epidemic If all colds were checked at the beginning, influenza, pneumonia and grip would be greatly reduced. It takes quick action to get ahead of the germs of these dread diseases. Many cases of flu start from germs breathed in. The effective way to attack them is direct —with vapors of Vicks Vapoßub. When rubbed on the throat and chest the ingredients of Vicks are : released in the form of vapors which, being breathed in, carry medication to the inflamed air passages and lungs direct and instantly. In addition, it acts like a poultice and helps the vapors inhaled to break up the congestion. While grip and influenza are so prevalent local people are urged to keep Vicks Vapoßub ready at all times for instant use.
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Doesn’t Care to Talk About Charges of ‘Walking Out’ on Play. B.y United Press NEW YORK, March 23.—Jeanne Eagels refused to disturb her late morning sleep today to discuss her impending trial by the Actors’ Equity on charges of walking out on the play, "Her Cardboard Lover,” in Milwaukee and St. Louis. At the quiet Mid-town Hotel where she is in esclusion, she left word to inquirers that she did not care to talk. The Equity trial will be in secret. It is known, however, that the play’s pproducers, A. H. Woods and Gilbert Miller, will introduce testimony of physicians, members of the cast and managers of theaters where the play was shown. They will attempt to disprove her contention that an attack of ptomaine poisoning caused her to quit the show. The play has been shut down. The other members of the company u'ere due here today. Miss Eagels Thursday paid a brief visit to her home in Ossining, where she lived with Ted Coy, Yale football star, during their brief married life, but returned later to the hotel. Twenty district superintendents of the Indiana division of the Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, met Thursday at the Ciaypool to have a first conference with 11. Thomas Head, Cincinnati, the new superintendent for this division.
LABORER IS BURIED BY TONS OF CORN
Police and company employes worked frantically for more than an hour this morning in a fruitless effort to save Jeremiah Garvin. 50, OIL WITNESS SOUGHT Federal Men Search Chicago Trains! for Wilbur W, Marsh. By Lnitcd Press CHICAGO, March 23.—Deputy United States marshals boarded.all trains arriving in Chicago from the East last night, but found no trace of Wilbur W. Marsh, former treasurer of the Democratic national committee, on whom they wished to serve a subpoena issued by the New York Federal grand jury. Marsh testified Wednesday before the Teapot Dome investigating committee and it was understood he was returning to his home in Waterloo, la. Reports from Waterloo, however, declared Marsh could not be located there. FILES TO ISSUE STOCK Insull Company at Gary Asks to Sell 51,300,000 of Shares. Permission to issue and sell preferred stock amounting to $1,300,000 was asked today of the public service commission by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company of Gary, an Insull property. The stock is to bear SV, per cent and is to be sold for not less than 89 per cent of par. Yield on this issue is estimated to be $1,157,000 by the utility. Funds derived from the sale will be used to reimburse the treasury for expenditures on additions and improvements totaling $304,061.21 and for the retirement of other securities to the amount of $1,175,766, the petition says. BORER BILL UP MONDAY Com borer conditions in the Middlewest will be discussed at the conference of the international corn borer committee in Washington next week with William Jardine, agriculture secretary. Frank Wallace, State entomologist, will leave Monday to attend. A fight will be made at this meeting to obtain the $10,000,000 appropriation to repay the farmers for their clean-up work, Wallace said.
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FARMER KILLED UNDER TRACTOR Oaklandon Man Is Crushed Driving From Ravine. Herman Clepfer, 32. Oaklandon farmer, was killed instantly Thursday afternoon when he was crushed beneath a tractor he was attempting to drive out of a ravine on his farm. The tractor turned over backward, crushing him beneath it. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Besides the widow, Mr. Clepfer is survived by two children, Gertrude. 12. and Charles, 10. He was a member of the Oaklandon Christian Church. Leonard Featherstone, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Featherstone. 833 S. Missouri St., suffered severe bruises when struck by a truck driven by Jack Price, 518 E. McCarty St., near his Lome. M. J. Flannery, Cl, Spencer Hotel, is in Methodist Hospital today with a crushed foot, suffered when a taxi ran over it at the Union Station. William Peacock, 53, of 1833 S. Lexington Ave., was treated at city hospital and then arrested on an intoxication charge after he was pinned beneath an automobile in which he was riding and which overturned in the 700 block D. Morris St., when it struck a rough spot in the pavement. The driver fled.
Negro, 1430 Lee St., laborer at Piel Brothers’ Starch Company, 1515 S. Dover St., who was buried beneath several tons of shelled corn in one of the company elevators. Garvin w r as leveling corn with a shovel when several tons, which had banked against one side, slid over him. The pulmotor was used by the police in an effort to revive him. Body was turned over to Coroner C. H. Keever and taken to the city morgue.
RISKED PNEUMONIA NEGLECTING COLD
Congestion Spread From Nose Passages Down to His Chest —Then He Called Doctor RELIEVED QUICKLY BY NOVEL HOME METHOD Numbers of Indianapolis people —like Theo. H. Wicks—have found j it no longer necessary to neglect a 1 cold because of expense, incon- ! venience or the need of medicines unpleasant to take. For hospital physicians are now recommending for home use an inexpensive and pleasant method that brings quick, sure relief—often in a few hours. Mr. Wicks’ case is typical. He had neglected his cold, hoping each day it would “cure itself.” Instead, it got worse, spreading from his nose passages down towards his lungs. Fearing pneumonia then he called the clinic, where doctors gave him double doses of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral—a concentrated mixture of wild cherry, terpinhydrate and other ingredients used in treating even the most extreme hospital cases. Relief began with the first pleasant swallow. He felt its comforting, healing warmth—from his nose passages deep down into his chest. That night he could breathe freely through both nostrils and ' ■•'d very little. The next morning he felt like a different person —rid of the “feverish, grippy” feel-
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STEEL FIRM IS WORK OF LOVE, SAYS SCHWAB ‘I Never Made a Dollar Out of Bethlehem Company,’ Coal Probers Told. B.y United Press WASHINGTON. March 23. Charles W. Schwab, chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, told Senate coal investigators today he primarily is interested in the welfare of labor, but does not believe in collective bargaining. “I have not made one dollar out of the Bethlehem Steel Company,” he said. "It has been a work of love. I hope I have been a pioneer in bettering the conditions of labor.” He said the cooperative system adopted by his company is the ideal solution for the labor problem. Questioned by committee members Schwab said he favored "modified collective bargaining.” “I do not think that is fundamental, however,” he added. "Do you know that your officials refused to attend a meeting between operators and miners called by the Secretary of Labor?” Senator Wheeler asked. Busy Playing Golf "I do not know about that,” he | replied. "I have been busy for several months playing golf.” “What would you have done in j this 'situation?” Schwab asked , Wheeler. "I would not have broken a bindj ing contract,” Wheeler replied. “I | would not have refused to meet with the miners when the Secretary of Labor asked me to do so.” Schwab later told the committee: "You can depend upon me for any help I can give.” Wheeler than questioned the witness about his company’s abrogation of the Jacksonville wage agreement. “I am not informed about that matter, either,” Schwab said. "But 1 1 can tell you that it is the policy of the Bethlehem Corporation to keep any agreement it makes. I am not ready to admit that we broke that agreement, although I know nothing about the case in question.” Wants to Be Frank Pressed for an answer. Schwab said he could not reply without furj ther information. “Please don't try to put me In a ! hole.” Schwab said to Wheeler. "Let jus talk frankly. Believe me, at this ! point in life, with my fortune made, | my only concern is to get this situi ation remedied.” Schwab became impatient under the questioning of O. K. Eaton, United Mine Workers’ counsel. “I don't understand why you are | trying to make me appear such a i hell of a bad follow in connection | with conditions about which I know nothing.” he said. Schwab provoked laughter several | times during his testimony. Once he asked for a glass r? water unless you have someth:; * better. Attracts Large Crowd I The committee adjourned to 2:30 I p. m. when John D. Rockefeller Jr., I was to be called. The millionaire witnesses attracted a large crowd of spectators. 1 The committee room was jammed long before the hearing started anc! hundreds of persons stood in the ' corridors outside. Rockefeller and R. B. Mellon ar- ! rived a half hour ahead of any coni- j | mittee member and Schwab joined j them later. ! They chatted amiably with the j | mine operators who have been at- i | tending the committee’s sessions | I members took their | | places witlrout greeting the wit- j I nesses. Russiaville Wants More Trains j Rc-establisliment of two mail i trains in order to give adequate l service to Russiaville, which is now , served by but one train on the New j York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, is asked in a petition signed by j thirty-five residents filed with the public service commission.
ing—and in another day or so, doctors report, he was free from all traces of the cold. Note: See other cases reported daily —all certified by a member of the hospital clinic. Doctors find that this hospital medicine does far more than stop coughing instantly. It penetrates and heals iuUamed linings of the breathing passages. Absorbed by the system it quickly reduces phlegm, helps allay that “feverish.” grippy feeling and drives out the cold from the nose passages, throat and chest. Just a few pleasant spoonfuls o 9 Cherry Pectoral now and you’ll feel like a different person tomorrow. At all druggists, fiOc; twice as much in SI.OO hospital size.
Suspense Youth Fails to Recognize Judge’s Leniency When It Is Granted.
Leonard colglazier, is, of Pimento, Vigo County, didn’t recognize leniency when it was granted him in Federal Court today, where he pleaded guilty to robbing the Pimento postofflee of $65. Four elderly friends of the sobbing youth told of his past good record, his lack of schooling, and offered to held him get a job and go straight. “Well, I think I will sentence you to eighteen months, and—” Judge Robert C. Baltzell began. "Oh, Judge, that’s awful,” Leonard sobbed. “Wait a minute,” Baltzell said. “I am going to suspend the sentence for five years. How is that?” "Oh, it is worse,” the youth said in a fresh outburst of tears. When the court explained he didn’t have to wait five years and then serve the sentence, but that the sentence would be served only in case he got In trouble again within five years, Leonard decided that was all right. "The action of you four men in helping this boy is real Christianity,” Baltzell told the four friends of the boy. LOSES $250,000 LOVE SUIT AGAINST COUNTESS Jury Denies Mrs. Corbett Verdict After Four Hours. l<4/ United Press NEW YORK, March 23.—Mrs. Alice Bland Corbett has lost her $250,000 alienation of affections suit against Countess Guiseppe Soranzo. A jury in Supreme Court brought in its verdict Thursday after deliberating for nearly lour hours. The drinking and night club parties said to have been held by Corbett and the countess were reported to be the chief cause of dissension among the jurors. Mrs. Corbett charged that the countess stole the love of her husband while she was recovering from child birth. Corbett, who is serving a term in Sing Sing, married Countess Soranzo in Buffalo, but the marriage was annulled. STUMP WILL SPEAK The Irvington Democratic Club will hear Albert Stump, candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, and other Democratic candidates Saturday night in the Irvington Masonic Temple. Leroy J. Keach, Marion County Democratic chairman, will explain organization plans. Luther Shirley will preside.
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COMPROMISE IN FLOOD CONTROL READY TO PASS ‘Give-and-Take’ Measure Is Framed; Speedy Action Is Forecast. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 23.—Leaders in Congress have worked out a compromise Mississippi flood control program which, if finally ratified, will bring the legislation up within the next few days with prospects of speedy action in both House and Senate. The tentative program, the result of numerous conferences in the last few weeks, provides: Federal payment of all flood control costs on the lower Missisippi. Administration of the flood control project by army engineers. Investigation by army engineers into demands that tributary streams be included, with recommendation later to Congress. This program, to which it is understood President Coolidge has given his tacit approval, represents compromises all along the line. The agreement has not been sealed and signed finally, but that action confidently is expected. It is expected to be noted officially in the long-awaited report of., the House flood control committee, which probably will be ready at the end of this week or the first of next, and also by the Senate committee, in making slight changes in its Senate bill. DR. HINE ENTERS RACE FOR COUNTY CORONER Seeks G. O. P. Nomination: Served as Deputy in 1926-7. Dr. U. B. Hine. chief deputy coroner under Dr. Paul F. Robinson in 1926 and 1927. today announced Ins candidacy for the Republican nomination for coroner. Dr. Hine was associated wdth the police surgeon, as night physician at headquarters, for two years previous to his connection with the coroner's office. While deputy coroner he aided in securing convictions in a number of murder and manslaughter cases, and laid emphasis on the preventative rather than the investigative side of accidents. Borne in Boone County, Dr. Hine was graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine and has been in private practice three years. He is a member of Sahara Grotto, the Masonic order and Odd Fellow's. He resides at 919 N. Pennsylvania St.
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Camillo Rosasco Camillo Rosasco, 3507 N. Pennsylvania St., was named Riverside golf course manager Thursday by the park board. He succeeds Chic Nelson, who quit because of a park ruling that women should not be employed at the course. Nelson resigned because he felt the board should not dictate his employes to him, it is said. Nelson is a nationally known professional. Rosasco, a Republican, was recommended by President John Milnor, Republican, and Mayor L. Ert Slack, Democrat. Rosasco told the board he had seventeen years’ golf experience, but was not a professional. He wall name a professional for the course. PARK BONDS UP AGAIN Issue for Resurfacing Meridian Readvertised. Readvertisement of $6,000 of park board bonds for resurfacing Meridian St., between sixteenth St. and Fall Creek, was ordered today by the park board. The board advertised the bonds several months ago, but bond attorneys advised banks not to purchase the issue because of pending litigation over the mayoralty. The board said the Indiana Asphalt Company, which has the improvement contract, had agreed to find a buyer for the bonds. The board is anxious to rush the resurfacing. Engineer J. E. Perry said. Install New Traffic Signal Gamewell Superintendent William B. Griffis today announced installation of anew “stop and go” sign at Thirtieth St. and Capitol Ave. The signal was installed by the safety board on request of residents.
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137 ARRAIGNED IN U.S. COURT; 50 DENY GUILT 53 of 92 in Indianapolis Group Confess: Others to Be Tried May 10. Fifty-three persons from the Indianapolis division pleaded guilty and thirty-nine not guilty when arraigned before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today. A total of eighty-seven defendants in the Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Evansville and New' Albany divisions, pleaded guilty, fifty pleading not guilty. Trials of those pleading not guilty will be: Indianapolis division, May 10; Terre Haute, April 2; Evansville, April 9; New Albany, April 16. Four Deny Counterfeiting Albert C. Goodwin Sr. and his son Albert C. Goodwin Jr., and Thomas D. M. Goodman, all of Albany, N. Y., and Charles O. Behler, Ft. Wayne, pleaded not guilty to the charge of being involved in a counterfeit strip stamp conspiracy for which nineteen have been indicted. The Albany men are supposed to have flooded the country with fake strip and revenue stamps for use of bootleggers on "pre-war” liquor. Fourteen tons of labels and stamps were seized in a raid on a Chicago warehouse. Charles R. Nugent, 943 Massachusetts Ave'., pleaded guilty to charges of impersonating a Federal prohibition officer and bribery. Postal Clerk Pleads Guilty George T. Cortelyou, 2136 N. Talbott Ave., former assistant money order clerk at the postoffice, pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling $7,500 of money order funds in the last ten years. Arthur R. Ow r ens, Franklin, Ind., cashier of the Franklin National Bank, also pleaded guilty to embezzlement. Five persons from the Evansville division of Federal Court pleaded guilty and were sentenced, and twelve who pleaded guilty, will be sentenced at Evansville, April 9. Thirteen pleaded not guilty. Benjamin Reese of Attica pleaded guilty to using the mails in an attempt to defraud. Reese sought to sell six minks he never owned by mail. He has served two Federal prison sentences for selling animals he did not posses by mail. Twenty-five defendants pleaded guilty and six not guilty in the Terre Haute division; seventeen guilty and thirteen not guilty in Evansville division and eight guilty and four not guilty, New Albany division. A number of those pleading guilty in these divisions asked to be sentenced later at the trials of others.
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