Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1928 — Page 3

’APRIL 4, 1928.

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LONG-TERMERS ARE MOVED TO STATyRISON Crime Wave Among Youth Blamed for Crowded Conditions. WOMAN’S JAIL PACKED No Relief Possible Until Legislature Meets, Governor Says. Indiana’s new State Reformatory at Pendleton has become so overcrowded that it was necessary today to transfer sixty long-term prisoners to Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, Superintendent A. P. Miles of the reformatory announced. The reformatory is equipped to house 1,045 prisoners between the ages of 21 to 30, but the crime wave among young men in their prime has been so prevalent throughout the State that for several months the institution officials have been forced to provide quarters for an average of 2.080 men, Miles said. The situation among the young male criminals is parallel to that among women, the superintendent of the Indiana Woman’s Prison in Indianapolis having requested judges throughout the State several weeks ago to stop sentencing prisoners there until overcrowding is relieved. Many women long-time prisoners are being held in county jails. Such relief, however, has not been asked for male prisoners. Jackson Can’t Act Governor Ed Jackson has declared there is nothing he can do about the prison situation until the next session of the State Legislature, that being the only body which can provide money for additional housing. The reformatory was opened Nov. 30, 1923, with ample facilities to care for the 678 prisoners. In fact, the McCray administration was criticised roundly for having built such a large institution. In five years the number of prisoners has more than trebled, and the number is increasing at the average rate of sixteen new men a day, Miles pointed out. “Our overcrowded condition is most directly traceable to violations of the motor vehicle theft laws,’’ said Miles. “Judges apparently are determined to break up this particular crime wave by using the short sentence motor vehicle theft law passed by the last Legislature.” \ No Solution Found Miles said he has conferred with Governor Jackson and Warden Walter H. Daly of the State prison about the situation, but no permanent solution of the problem has been found. The State prison, Miles said he was informed, is near its housing capacity and could take no more transfers than sixty sent today. The sixty are men serving from ten to twenty years for major crimes. The prisoners were moved in a special interurban train by way of Anderson, Marion, Kokomo, Peru, Warsaw, South Bend and thence to Michigan City, with five guards in charge of A. F. Dowds as head guard. of the Fletcher Savings and Turst Company, illustrated a lecture before the Alliance Francaise at the Y. W. C. A. Tuesday night with motion pictures made himself on a recent trip to Paris. He outlined a plan of -visiting the French capital whereby the outstanding points of interest may be visited in the least possible time.

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PLEADS FOR LOYALTY Lexington (Ky.) Pastor Speaks Here. Increased loyalty to country was 1 urged by Dr. A. W. Fortune, pastor | of the Central Christian Church of Lexington, Ky., at the noonday Lenten service today at Keith’s theater under auspices of the Church Federation of Indianapolis. “We Americans should be more loyal to our country for it has done much for us,” said Mr. Fortune. “To forget our land is to iorget | our heritage and the sacrifices j which it represents; it is to forget | the freedom which is ours and the ! opportunities which America prei sents to us. | “One of the fine passages in literature is the Psalmist’s pledge of loyalty to his nation while he was a captive in Babylon.” TWO POLICEMEN OUSTED Milton Hyde and Perry Shipman Discharged for Drinking. Milton Hyde, 1471 Roosevelt Ave„ and Perry Shipman, 1946 W. Michigan St„ mounted policemen, were convicted of charges of drinking and conduct unbecoming officers and discharged from the police force Tuesday, by the board of safety. Hyde represented himself and Shipman as attorney at the trial before the board. They denied they were intoxicated Friday night when an auto driven by Hyde struck two cars on the Rockville Rd. Both were in uniform although not on duty. Hyde had appeared before the board on similar charges twice before. He assumed responsibility for the accident. The Indiana University Club will observe “Business Men’s day” at its weekly luncheon Monday at the Columbia Club, and will have as guests the sixteen advance students of the Indiana University School of Commerce who have been selected to assist the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce in their trade survey of Indianapolis, April 5-14.

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FT. HARRISON MEN TO TRAIN AT CAMP KNOX Kentucky Maneuver Grounds to Replace Greensburg. Maneuver grounds near Greensburg will not be used by troops from Ft. Harrison, Indianapolis and Ft. Thomas, Ky., this spring, it was decreed in orders received at Harrison, Tuesday. Troops from the two forts will use Camp Knox, near Louisville, Ky., June 4-7, it is set out in the orders received from Ft. Hayes, Ohio, headquarters of the Fifth Corps Area. The Eleventh Infantry will leave Harrison by foot May 21. After will be picked up by truck. Tenth marching ten days, the infantrymen Infantry from Ft. Thomas will march seven days of its trek to Camp Knox. Both regiments will return by truck June 8. The second field artillery will leave Ft. Harrison about May 2. The tank company will leave the same day, by truck. Artillerymen will remain in camp until September, serving as instructors at the Citizens Military Training camp after their own period of practice has ended. Brig. Gen. George H. Jamerson, fort commandant, will direct the exercises. Executive Secretary Murray A. Auerbach of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association left today for St. Louis, where he will conduct the annual institute for tuberculosis workers being held there for States in the Mississippi Valley Conference. All problems i elating to the war against tuberculosis will be discussed.

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REALTORS PLAN CLUB NIGHT FOR SHOW APRIL 13 Arranqe Special Program for Members of Luncheon, Civic Clubs. Plans for observance of Friday night, April 13, as civic and luncheon club night at the Realtors’ | Heme Show were announced today by J. F. Cantwell, director. On that night, members of local luncheon clubs and civic organizations will be irrged to attend the show by the Indianapolis Real Estate Beard. Special invitations will be sent by Emerson W. Chaille, president of the board. “The Realtors’ Home Show is being presented by the Indianapolis j Real Estate Board in an effort to I promote greater interest in the 1 building of better homes,” Mr. Chaille said. Urge Better Homes “The owner of a better home is a better citizen. In the interests of better citizenship and civic welfare, we urge every citizen of Indianapolis to attend the seventh annual Realtors’ Home Show nt the State fairground April 7 to 14.” In the interests of the home show and better built homes, J. W. Faddock, representative of the Southern Pine Association of New Or- , leans. La., whose lumber is being ! used to build the model home centerpiece of the exposition, is mak- | ing a series of speeches before luncheon clubs this week. Speaking before the Mercator Club at the Spink-Arms Tuesday noon, Mr. Paddock said in part; Lauds Show Committee “Indianapolis should be proud of the fact that it has a very excellent group which is putting on the finest ‘own your own home’ show in the United States. The Southern Pine Association is interested in the building of better homes and we are demonstrating the best methods of construction in the house now being built at the show.” Paddock addressed the Kiwanis Club at the Claypool today and will speak before the Indianapolis Real Estate Board Thursday, the Exchange Club Friday and the Scieni tech Club Monday. This is the first time the show will be open on Sundays, President ! Emerson W. Chaille of t Joe Indianapolis Real Estate Board announced. It will be open on Sunday from noon to 10:30 p. m., week-days from 11 a. m., and the grand opening on the first night, which is Saturday, at 6 p. m. ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY Detectives today slated Bennie De Witt, 22, of 1441 W. Twenty-Seventh St., on charges of robbery. They have evidence implicating De Witt in a West Indianapolis robbery committed by four youths who Tuesday admitted a long string of burglaries and robberies, they charged. Others of the gang under arrest are Paul H. Sheldon, John Alberts, Robert Prater and Herbert Skaggs.

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Firemen extinguishing flames which did $1,500 damage to the roof of the Governor’s mansion, Fall Creek Blvd. and Pennsylvania St., Tuesday afternoon.

REWARDS GUY GOPS Standard Oil Gives Yegg Nabbers S4OO for Pensions. Work of police in rounding up bandits was recognized and rewarded today by J. B. Marshall, Indianapolis manager of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, who sent a letter to Police Chief Claude M. Worley inclosing a S4OO check for the police pension fund. Marshall congratulated the local force ana gave particular recognition to work of Detectives William Rugenstein and Arthur Fields in rounding up a quartet of filling station bandits, all of whom are now serving time. The bandits are Robert Cline, Charles Menges, Joseph Dicks and George Adams. They were captured after the Butter Crust Pie Company robbery and shooting.

MONUMENT MOVE SEEN Congress Passes Updike Bill for Transfer of Memorial. Groups favoring removal of the Confederate monument from' Greenlawn cemetery to Garfield Park have been encouraged with the news that Representative Ralph E. Updike’s bill to effect the removal has passed the House of Representatives. The monument was erected in 1921 at a cost of $30,000. It bears the names of 1.616 Confederate soldiers who died at Camp Morton during the Civil War. Abandonment of Greenlawn cemetery started the movement for transferring the monument to Garfield Park.

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CONVICTED OF KILLING Bert Harris, Negro, Given 2 to 21 Years for Manslaughter. Bert Harris, 42, Negro, 934 W. Twenty-Seventh St., was sentenced to from two to twenty-one years at Indiana State Prison by Criminal Judge James A. Collins today. He was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a jury that heard him tried for murder in Criminal Court last week. Earl Morgan, 28, entered a plea of guilty to assault and battery with intent to rob and was sentenced to from one to ten years at the Indiana State Reformatory. Lewis Haynes, 5048 W. Fourteenth St., was his victim, the crime occuring on the night of March 3. Eugene Goss, 28, was found guilty of holding up Motorman Ira Cook, 1818 N. Illinois St., on a street car driven by Cook on Feb. 14. He was sentenced to five to twenty-one years at the reformatory.

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ATTACK ROBINSON Stump Flays Senator in East Chicago Talk. By Tines Special EAST CHICAGO, Ind., April 4. —lndiana should go Democratic as proof to the Nation that the organization which gave birth to “birds of a feather” has been discredited, declared Albert Stump, candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in an address here Tuesday night. “The devastating eloquence of Senator Arthur R. Robinson,” stump said, “has helped to clarify the problem of how to get rid of the unfortunate influences that have operated in the State and National Government in recent years. “What finer corrective for the evil publicity this State has received could be given it than to have the news proclaimed that the State had gone solidly democratic?”

COP LEAVES HOSPITAL Victor Houston, Hurt in Police Crash, Taken to Home. Lieutenant Victor Houston, 1311 Hoefgen St., was released Tuesday from city hospital after suffering forehead and chest injuries in the police emergency machine crash into a stone wall at Twenty-First and Illinois Sts., March 26. Lieutenant Houston was in charge of the emergency car when it crashed. Three reporters and a policeman are still confined in the hospital. Three policemen so far were reI leased.

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THREE JAILED IN ROUNDDP OF BANDIT GANG Extensive Operations of Ring Revealed by Confession. Two more members and one alleged aid of the Everett Perry bandit ring were in jail today. Perry, who is 20 and lives at 1611 Harlan St., in an amazing confession to Detectives Gaughan and Moore Sunday, revealed the complete activities of the ring and told of its complicity in sixty-five burglaries in the last two months. Activities covered safe crackings, pay phone thefts and store plunderings. Three more members of the ring remain at large, detectives declare, and when they are arrested the complete gang, numbering eleven, will be in custody. Oren Dickinson, 32, of 1242 College Ave., and Albert Curtiss, 27, of 1804 Ludlow Ave., are held m city prison, implicated by statements of Perry. Calvin Kirkwood, 27, of 864 Harlan St., taxicab driver, is held under high bond for investigation because of alleged conflicting statements. Police received word that members of the Perry ring deserted a stolen automobile near Greenfield last Thursday night and came to Indianapolis in a taxicab. Kirkwood denied hauling them. The first of the gang were taken ! into custody when Lieut. Patrick [ O’Connor and squad chased a car j they found parked west of the city ! for twenty-five miles, exchanging j shots and finally putting the ocj cupants to rout. Wilbur Allen, 22. of 1705 Naomi St., exchanged gunfire with Patrolman Le Roy Bartlett and was fatally wounded. Perry and Mrs. Belle Dobbs, 33, of 2210 W. McCarty St., was captured. • They implicated Leonard Wilson. 20, of Ben Davis, Ind.; Albert Smith, 20, of Lebanon, Ind., now serving a sentence at the State Farm for vehicle taking, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burd, 3400 Carson St., parentis of Perry's wife, who were arrested. All made signed statements acknoyledging connection with the bandit ring.