Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1928 — Page 3

JULY 25, 1928

READY TO BALK DISMISSAL ACT BY STEPHENSON Attorney General to Open Fight Thursday for Ruling on Mandamus. Bu Times Special LA PORTE, Ind., July 25. —Another move in the D. C. Stephenson case is to b? made in La Porte Circuit Court here Thursday when Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom will file objections to dismissal of a suit by Stephenson’s counsel in which he asks a w of mandamus to compel offleiau of the Indiana State Prison to permit him to have private conferences with his attorneys. During the taking of a deposition , from Stephenson by Gilliom at the prison Tuesday, th eg prisoner declared it is his desire to have the suit dismissed, asserting that prison officials since July 6 have permitted him conferences with counsel and that so long as present conditions obtain he is satisfied.

Desires Showdown Gilliom, however, declares he intends to force a showdown in the mandamus case, pointing out that four such suits have been filed for Stephenson and none of them pushed to final decision. 5 The attorney general is waiting developments in the case here before determining wl*at use he will make of testimony given by Stephenson Tuesday. Objecting to answering almost every question put by Gilliom, Stephenson sat for nearly two hours, parrying with the attorney general, taking occasion to say “I have no moral or legal responsibility for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer,” for which he was sentenced to a life term. Stephenson gave a long list of reasons for not answering most of the questions, heading them being absence of his counsel. Gilliom said counsel had been notified and acknowledged receipt of such notice. Turns Against Klan The prisoner is ready to turn against the Ku-Klux Klan, for which he was once Indiana grand dragon. He told the attorney general he would aid him in his suit to oust the Klan from Indiana, by making a deposition. Stephenson has three copies of Collier’s Weekly, given him by Gilliom, in which are articles relating to the Klan, written by William G. Shepherd. In one of these, Hiram W. Evans, former imperial wizard, is quoted as saying, “I don’t care what they do to Stephenson.” During taking of the deposition, Stephenson bitterly assailed Evans and what he termed the former wizard’s “associate gun men,” charging that “time and again they have tried to compromise me with a woman.”

STEAL $75 AT HOTEL Money Disappears as Night Clerk Sits 20 Feet Away. J. E. Voris, night clerk at the Morton Hotel, is wondering today if burglars have learned some mysterious way of working their trade by telephone. He told police that he placed $75 for safekeeping in the back part of the telephone switchboard at the hotel Tuesday night. He then sat down at the front door, twenty feet away, to watch the cache. When he went back to the board, however, he found the back removed and the money gone. Davis Reunion Set for Aug. 26 Bn Times special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., July 25.—More than 150 persons are expected to attend the annual reunion of the Davis family to be held here Aug. 26. Dodge Davis of Indianapolis is president and Mrs. Rosa Galloway of Danville, 111, is secretary.

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SPUR ARCTIC REUEFPLANS Searches to Be Made for 12 Men Still Lost. By United Press MOSCOW, July 25.—As eight rescued members of the crew of the dirigible Italia prepared to return to their homes, relief measures were under way to search for six other members of the Polar craft. Twelve men still are lost in the great space below the north pole. These twelve men include the Alessandrini group—the six men who floated away with the envelope of the polar craft—and the Roald Amundsen rescue party. The Italian government has requested the soviet relief committee to continue searches for the Alesisandrini group and has offered two Italians seaplanes for the searchers. The naval Scientific Institute has applied for permission to send its ship, Persey, to Franz Josef land to search for Roald Amundsen’s party. The ice breakers Krassin and Maligin now are at northern ports being refuled and the Krassin is undergoing repairs.

'HORSE THIEF’ IS SOUGHT Angry Owner Protests Borrowing of Animal. Nathan Kurriee, 2710 N. Oxford St., insists on prosecuting someone for stealing his horse, but police today pointed to the animal grazing peacefully in Nathan's pasture and said: “You can’t do that. There he stands.” Nevertheless, Kurriee is aroused. Tuesday his horse was gone all day, although he remembers putting him safely in the pasture Monday night. This morning Kurriee says the horse shows signs of wear. NARCOTICS ARE STOLEN Drug Store Is Looted After Door Is Torn Off. C. H. Alford, 401 E. Nineteenth St., reported to police that burglars had taken the door from his drug store at 412 Bowman Ave., and rifled the narcotic case Tuesday night. He did not know just what was taken when making the report.

HEADS NATIONAL HOME FURNISHING CAMPAIGN Randolph Branner Will Address 150 Furniture Dealers Thursday. Randolph Branner, merchandising manager for the national home furnishing campaign to be staged under direction of the Millis Advertising Company, will explain the project of 150 furniture manufacturers of the State at a meeting

Thursday at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The meeting was called by the Indianapolis Furniture Manufacturers’ Association and all furniture manufacturers of the State are invited. Branner has just completed a survey of the furniture industry, which campaign plans are to be

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based. It probably will start in May, 1929, and continue four years. The purpose is to educate buyers to better taste in furniture and home furnishings, he says. Vice President August Krieg of the Indianapolis association, will preside at the meeting in the Absence of President Murray H. Morris, who is out of the city.

HOLDUP PAIR IDENTIFIED Victim Recognizes Negroes as Men Who Robbed Him. Detectives Emmett Englebright and George Hubbard today announced that two Negroes they arrested some time ' ago have been identified by Charles W. Morgan, Julietta Hospital,, as the pair that held up and robbed him July 1. The men, held for the robbery, are John Brown, 32; Fred Black, 22, both of 633 N. Senate Ave T Morgan said they took his watch and SB, while he was walking on N. liinois St., between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Sts. Fail to Find Armed Prowler Isaac Born, attorney in the Occidental Bldg., saw a man with a revolver in a washroom at that building last midnight. Born slammed the door of the washroom, and, going to his office, telephoned

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OBREGON GROUP READY TO PICK NEW PRESIDENT Favor Calles Unofficially to Continue; Morones in Hiding. BY GESFORD F. FINE United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, July 25.—The resignation of Luis Morones as Secretary of Labor has been accepted officially, and it is expected now that unofficial selection of a provisional president of Mexico will come within the next few days. Leaders of the Obregon group, returning to the capital from the funeral of Gen. Alvaro Obregon in Sonora, are expected to confer and decide upon the man who will take the place to which Obregon was elected a few weeks prior to his assassination. President Plutarco Calles still seems the most likely choice, but there is a question whether he will accept the provisional presidency, even if a law Is created to permit him to succeed himself. Others prominently mentioned are Governor Aaron Saenz of Nuevo Leon and Gen. Fausto Topete, governor of SOnora. Each is supported by one group of the Obregon party. Morones definitely' is out of the government now. He was the principal opponent of the Obregon group and recently his following—the labor class—was blamed for “intellectual

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There was little or no fear felt for Morones. He has been the center of considerable attention since Obregon was assassinated and a few minutes after the general was killed it was reported Morones too was shot. This proved untrue. Then Morones resigned, saying he believed the resignation would aid in clearing up the Obregon affair. There were additional reports from outside Mexico, that Morones was shot in the thigh Sunday night.

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