Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 95, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1928 — Page 1

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YANKS SMASH JACKS, AGAIN LEAjHEAGUE Crushing Blow Hits Hopes of Athletics: Defeated 5-0 and 7-3. MEUSEL IS HOMER HERO k Philadelphia Faces Huge Task in Beating Back to Top of Heap. Su United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 10.—The New York Yankees are back in first place today with a game and a half lead over the Philadelphia Athletics and Connie Mack’s great baseball machine again faces the gigantic task of overhauling the world champions. The team which sloughed off a thirteen and one-half game lead in the last two months came back with a vengeance yesterday and defeated the Athletics twice, 5 to 0 and 7 to 3, in the most important double-header in the recent history of baseball. Bob Meusel, with one swing of his yellow bat, struck the blow' that . may mean the pennant for the Yanks. Lazy, lanky Bob came to bat in the eighth inning of the second game with the score tied 3-3. The bases filled and none down. Meusel Clears Bases YRTth the count three and two, Meusel hit a home run into the , left field bleachers. Koenig, Gehrig and Ruth scored ahead of Meusel. Ruth stopped at the plate and put a headlock around Bashful Bob’s head. Meusel broke it and ran to the dugout. Ten thousand and more straw hats, cushions, newspapers, paper airplanes and scorecards sailed onto the field. The game was held up for six minutes. The double defeat was a crushing blow to the Athletics and the Mackmen may not be able to gather their forces out of the wreckage to stage another pennant drive. The long, hard haul up the A merican League ladder in the last tt) months has taken a toll from the A.’s, and they may not have the heart to recover from yesterday’s bitter dose. Connie Mack used up four of his pitching aces in an attempt to stop the Yanks, and all failed. John Picus Quinn started the first game and blew up after pitching five scolesess innings. Rube Walberg collapsed in the second game, after holding the Yanks to one hit for six innings. Relief Hurlers Flop Ossie Orwoll was rapped for four hits and tw’o runs in one inning of relief hurling in the first game. Ed Rommel was raked for three hits and four runs in one and one-third inning of relief pitching in the second game. Today was an off day for both teams, but the series will be resumed Tuesday and completed Wednesday, after which both teams head W’est to end the season on the road. Mack must choose from Grove, • Earnshaw, and Ehmke as his pitching choices for the other two games unless he wants to turn to Orwoll or Rommel again. Grove has won twenty-two games and lost only six this season, but the Yankees have beat him five times. The lean southpa” has won his last 14 games, but the Yankees appear to have the Indian sign on him and many baseball men believe it would be suicide to start him. Hoyt and Johnson Left On the other hand, Miller Huggins had Waite Hoyt as his ace in the hole. Hoyt, who pitched two innings of the second game, allowing one hit, is highly favored to win his Ifgame. Hoyt received credit for the victory, he went to the mound v ith the score tied. Henry Johnson, who ..os beaten the A’s four times, probably will pitch the last game of the series. The Yankees have their old confidence back and may end the American League race by crushing the A’s in the two remaining games of the present series. If the Yanks win Tuesday and Wednesday, they will go West with a three and onehalf game lead, which at this stage of the race virtually should clinch the pennant. The return of Tony Lazzeri. who has been out of the lineup with an ailing shoulder, has helped to strengthen the Yanks for the final Lazzeri drove out three hits in the first game yesterday, and accounted for two runs. Pipgras in Great Form The pitching of George Pipgras and the hitting of Gehrig and Lazzeri won the first game. Pipgras allowed only nine hits, and fanned Jimmy Foxx in the eighth with the bases filled and two out. Gehrig broke up the scoreless tie with a tremendous whack in the sixth inning. The A’s seemingly had the second game won when A1 Simmons drove home three runs in the sixth and seventh innings. Simmons hit a home run in the sixth with Cochrane on base and his single in the next frame accounted for the other V run.

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Air Derby Planes to Goal Today Earl Rowland Keeps Lead in Class A Dash at San Diego. Bn United Press Three groups of planes in the trans-continental air derby pointed their motors westward at points across the Nation today and continued their races from New York to Los Angeles. Out in front in elapsed time Earl Rowland of Wichita, Kan., in his Cessna monoplane, seemed a certain winner in the Class A race. Rowland led the planes’ arrival at San Diego. Officials at Mines field, Los Angeles, awaited the finish of the 3,000-mile race with Rowlanu starting from Yuma, Ariz., in quest of the $5,000 first prize. First into Ft. Worth, Texas, on the Class B flight from Oklahoma City was E. E. Ballough of Chicago, in a Laird biplane. Ballough gained 15 minutes on John Livingston of Monmouth, 111., who leads the Class B entrants. Robert Cantwell of Duncan, Okla., left Oklahoma City in his LockheedVega monoplane, holding an unofficial lead of one hour and 22 minutes over his two rivals' in Class C

CHOOSE 11 FOB SKEEN JURY Expect to Fill Murder Panel Today. Eleven jurors were accepted by defense attorneys today for the trial of Carl Skeen, 22, of 417 Jefferson Ave., charged with the murder of Mrs. Pearl Jarboe, 24. of 614 E. North St. The State passed the jurors once and Judson L. Stark, chief prosecutor, said he Believed the jury would be selected this afternoon. Skeen is expected to take the witness stand and tell the story of Mrs. Jarboe’s fatal ride in his own defense. The State will attempt' to prove that Skeen shoved Mrs. Jarboe from his automobile, while the defense will aver that Mrs. Jarboe either fell out of the car or stepped out near Sixteenth St. and Colorado Ave., the afternoon of June 13. Mrs. Jarboe died soon after. Skeen was sought for several days following the woman’s death and was apprehended in Denver, Col., where he admitted being the man with whom Mrs. Jarboe went driving after leaving work that afternoon. However, Skeen insisted that he did not push her from the car.

ORDER DOCTOR HELD Criminal Operation Charged After Woman’s Death. Following an autopsy by Dr. 6. H. Bakemeier, deputy coroner, and investigation by detectives, Coroner C. H. Keever, today ordered Dr. John M. Rhodes, 802 S. West St., held in connection with the death of Mrs. Helen Ball, 27. Mrs. Ball died suddenly Sunday night in her room at the home of Mrs.. John F. Concannon. She has been ill for two weeks. According to the coroner the autopsy revealed that illness and death had been brought about by a criminal operation, alleged to have been performed by Dr. Rhodes. Detectives, who went to arrest Dr. Rodes, declared that he is out of the city on vacation. WINS SERVICE EMBLEM Twenty-Five-Year riione Employe Honored With Award. L. A. Wade, 2116 Olive St., cable splicer for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, has been awarded the twenty-five-year service emblem. Presentation was made today by J. W. Hannon, general superintendent of the plant; George Page, division plant superintendent, and A. H. Huber, division splicing supervisor. WIDENING MAPPED Delaware St. Project is Outlined, Delaware St. and* Washington Blvd. probably will be widened between Fall Creek and Thirty-Sec-ond St., A. H. Moore, city engineer, declared today. The widening will be in anticipation of the proposed three-way outlet for Delaware St. traffic contemplated by the park board. The park department is planning to purchase a diagonal tract north of the Delaware St. bridge to construct outlets to Talbott and Washington Blvd. Moore said it is expected that the Washington Blvd. lane will be built soon and the Talbott St. branch later.

CITY WINS IN FIGHT TO GET PHAYER HERE Missouri Governor Grants Extradition of Suspect in Club Robbery. GUARD AGAINST ESCAPE Seek Possible Link With Gang Held Here in Machine Gun Murder.

The powerful influence of the St Louis underworld today were beaten by Indianapolis detectives who won the fight to have Charles Phayer, 40, charged with complicity in the SIOO,000 Broadmoor Country Club robbery, ordered here for trial. A United Press dispatch flashed the word that Governor Sam A. Baker of Missouri in a hearing at Jefferson City, Mo., had granted extradition of Phayer from St. JLou s to ItuManapois. Detective Donald Tooley, who represented the city, was expected to start for St. Louis to get the prisoner at once. He might be able to reach the city with Phayer Friday. St. Louis police, regarding Phayer as a dangerous man with dangerous connections, were prepared to take extraordinary precautions to prevent Phayer's associates from attempting to free him while he is being transported to Indianapolis. Tooley was to be prepared for emergencies. Watch Is Clew Phayer has been indentifled partially as one of the six or eight men who held up 150 guests at Broadmoor the night of May 30. He was captured last Wednesday morning with another underworld character, Ben Boratti. Phayer had in the waistband of his trousers a $350 watch taken by the Broadmoor robbers from E. W. Fisher, 1840 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. The St. Louis police traced this watch and notified Indianapolis authorities. Phayer contends he got the watch in a dice game he and seven others operated in East St. Louis several weeks ago. Phayer attempted to employ Sigmund Bass, the leading criminal lawyer of St. Louis, but Bass declined the case after conferring with St. Louis police. Phayer got another good lawyer, and this attorney put up a strenuous fight against extradition' He contended the partial identification of Phayer by four victims of the Broadmoor holdup was insufficient grounds for his removal. Seek Wright Link Police Chief Claude M. Worley was elated when informed the extradition fight had been -won. Detective Chief Jerry Kinney plans to grill Phayer about a number of big robberies here. The detectives also are working to discover possible connection between Phayer’s gang and the group arrested here Aug. 21 in the investigation of the machine gun murder of Edward Eckerle, alias Shannon, near Clinton, Ind. P omer Wright and James Walker, both with St. Louis connections, are held. Wright was a friend of Edward Traugott, part owner of the ex-plosion-wrecked Traugott clothing store. Phayer has said he knows Clarence Wright. Homer Wright has a brother of that name. Probe Auto Thefts Prosecutors were gathering evidence of Wright’s past with the idea of filing an habitual criminal charge against him if facts warrant. Conviction would send him to prison for life. He is held now on a charge of being an exconvict with a weapon. Detectives say they found a machine gun in his. apartment, 1129 N. Alabama St. and a revolver in his pocket. Federal officials investigating the Chicago - Cleveland - Indianapolis auto theft ring also are expected to be interested in the arrival of Phayer. They have planned to interview Wright and Walker and Arthur Hartman, also of St. Louis, who was picked up for questioning during the investigation of the Traugott explosion.

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Billy Beaning (left), son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Beaning, 3820 Kenwood Ave.. as he wound up vacation days Saturday and the self-same Billy Beaning (right), as he trudged to Public School 43, Capitol Ave. and Fortieth St., today.

‘FIRST DAY’ MEMORIES STIRRED

City Greats Recall Their Schoolroom Debuts

“T HAD on a wide collar and 1 didn’t like it.” This is the recollection Dr. Herman Grover Morgan, city health board secretary, has of his first day of school. It was a hot September day in 1891 when Dr. Morgan began his study of the alphabet in a small schoolhouse at Brooklyn, Ind. “I remember quite clearly that my mother dressed me up in a wide white collar, putting it on the outside of my coat,” Dr. Morgan recalled. “As I approached the schoolhouse the boys made fun of me. Soon I put it inside. When I returned home for lunch mother wondered why the collar was inside. I had three fights before I got it inside and intended to keep it there. From that day I have been against wide collars for kids,” the health expert said. “It was hotter than S7OO that day in September. I remember the teacher well. Her name was Mattie Slaughter, and we met last winter for a few minutes’ recollection of school days.” Dr. Morgan recalled he got measles the first week of school and decided to take up medicine shortly thereafter. ana A SPELLING book. First Reader, slate and sponge formed the only school equipment Charles F. Miller, now Indianapolis school superintendent, carried as he trudged down a dusty, country road forty-eight years ago to his first day at school. “We didn't have as many and as varied subjects in the schools then as we have now, so we didn’t need as many books,” he said. Miller’s first day in school was spent in a one-room rural building in Richland Township, Fountain County, when he was 5 years old. “George W. Howard, who later studied medicine and became a physician, was my first teacher,” Miller recalled. “I remember he was a strict disciplinarian. "I distinctly recall that I at-

5 DRY AGENTS FIRED Failure to Pass Service Tests Ousts Hoosiers. Dismissal of five Indiana Federal prohibition agents was admitted today by James Browning, new acting deputy prohibition administrator. They are: Frank Conroy, Ft. Wayne; J. E. Wright, Washington; Harvey Rhed, Lake County; Ray Trueblood, Terre Haute, and L. O. Rarick. Browning refused to give reasons for the dismissals, but it was learned these were among the group who failed to pass civil service tests. Hourly Temperatures 8 a. m.... 69 11 a. m 82 9 a. m 73 12 (noon). 82 10 a. m.... 77 1 p. m.... 83

tended two weeks before the teacher called on me to recite, or paid any attention to me other than to call the roll. tt n n EVERYTLME the period for school rolls around my mind goes back thirty-four years ago when I lined up before a onestory brick building that was the school for distriict No. 1, Van Buren Township. Grant County.” “What a memorable day it was. For I had upon my feet the object of my heart’s desire, a pair of boots with red tops and brass toe tigs.” and Roy P. Wisehart, State superintendent of public instruction, rolled back in his chair and laughed as he thought of those glorious boots. “But I wore them only the opening day of school, for we went barefoot until the first snow, and removed our boots at the first robin. “I doubt very much if I could walk a block barefooted today, much less walk the miles to and from school that I did when I was 7 years old.” non A 6-YEAR-OLD boy rubbed one bare foot against another and timidly took his place in line as the bell was rung by a '“pretty young lady” at the top of the outside stairs which led to the second story of the old frame building in which the elementary grade students received their schooling at Centervile. It was his first day in school, a schooling that was to end when he “got through McGuffey's Fourth Reader.” “I don’t remember that teacher’s name,” said Governor Ed Jackson today. “But I certainly remember the staircase that ran up the outside of the school building. “I went to school barefooted and continued that way as long as possible in the fall; and shed my shoes in the every early spring. “We were poor and one pair of shoes had to do me for the year,” the Governor said. "The next year I started school at Michigantown. My father was a master sawyer and our family moved around a great deal. “An incident of my first school

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year which I remember well was an argument I had with another lad who sat in front of me as to which of us could write the best. It wasn’t really writing, it was a sort of printing. “The argument went back and forth and then our teacher appeared and after quieting us, asked what the matter yas. I told her and she said: ‘Of course, you can write better, Ed.’ “That settled the argument, but I believe today that she made an error, for I have the worst script of any one 7 kr.ow.” a a a nnHE fact that he was a very -*• good boy, while his twin brother Clyde was very, very bad, is what Police Chief Claude M. Worley remembers most distinctly of his first day at school. It was at Frankfort, Ind., thir-ty-three years ago. Claude, dressed spick and span, waited anxiously while his parents struggled to get Clyde in shape for his encounters with education. Claude wanted to go to school, Clyde didn’t. And it was like that all their first year at school, according to Chief Worley. He won head of the class honors, but Clyde always was getting into trouble. And as Claude and Clyde looked as much alike as the proverbial “two peas” Claude sometimes suered in place of Clyde. Clyde now lives in Memphis. n INDIANAPOLIS was a medium sized town of 75.000 population fifty-eight years ago when Detective Jeremiah Chief Kinney trudged his way to his first classroom in the Fourth Ward school at Michigan and Blackford Sts., then the elite section of the city. And Detective Chief Kinney remembers well that he went to school that day well coached to practice deception. He was only 5 years old, wouldn’t be 6 until the next March. And the school laws then, as now, provided that beginners in school be 6. So the youthful Jeremiah had been informed by his parents that his age automatically changed from 5 to 6 as soon as he entered the school door. A Mrs. Ingersoll was principal of the school then, Kinney remembers. That was before the days of the many school books which now seriously dent Daddy’s bankroll when Johnny goes to school. A slate and pencil was practically the only equipment a school boy needed in those days, says Kinney. ASSASSIN’S TRIAL SET siayer of Obregon Faces Jury Sept. 25. Bil United Press MEXICO CITY. Sept. 10.—The trial of Jose De Leon Torral for the assassination of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon was set tentatively today for Sept. 25.

REMY STARTS ROUNDUP IN CITY UNDERWORLD TO FIND NEW STORE BLAST CLEWS Bootleggers Will Be Called in for Quiz; Search Will Be Extended to All Haunts of Criminals. TRAUGOTT WILL SUBMIT TO ARREST Owner of Wrecked Shop Reported Here; Grand Jury Will Take Up Fire and Auto Ring Cases. Prosecutor William 11. Remy today started dragging the Indianapolis underworld in a search for new clews to the Traugott clothing store explosion of Aug. 26. The prosecutor frauklv stated that the explosion had led to so many ramifications and so many peculiar circumstances that he believed the time was ripe to dig into every angle of the crime situation. To start the dragging, Remy sent agents out to find two known bootleggers. He and his deputies will grill every person known to have underworld connections they can lay their hands on. They will include persons who have neither been accused of nor convicted of crime, but who have been dose to know r n criminals. Bootlegging, robbery, arson, hijacking—these are some of the criminal lines the prosecutor planned to delve into. He hopes

that somewhere along the line he will pick up facts which dove-tail w r ith what the officers already know about the fire and what Federal agents say they know in the case in which Edward Traugott and Harry Sussman, owners of the store, and Elmer Sussman, cousin of Harry, are charged with conspiracy to violate the Federal law prohibiting interstate dandling of stolen automobiles.

The Sussmans were arrested Saturday. Traugott w r as not found. His attorney, Ira M. Holmes, said he would have Traugott at the United States marshal's office to surrender today. Report Traugott Seen Traugott was reported seen riding in Harry Sussman s automobile today, on a downtown street, but he had not appeared so rarrest at a late hour. Meanwhile, the prosecutor was prepared to start presenting evidence about the fire to the county grand jury by Wednesday or Thursday. The grand jury was ready to stop routine business to consider anything important the prosecutor might have, meanwhile. District Attorney Albert Ward is expected to present the automobile theft case to the Federal grand Jury, which convenes Tuesday. Evidence connecting a former Indianapolis policeman, an Indianapolis bootlegger, and another man who recently has figured in local crime news with the alleged automobile theft ring which was to be turned over to Department of Justice operatives today by Robert Humes. State police head. Marshals arrested the Sussmans, who are cousins, Saturday afternoon, after the Department of

ASK ALLISON SHIFT Removal of Damage Suit to U. S. Court Sought. Removal of the $2,000,000 damage suit of Mrs. Cornelia Allison against Mrs. Lucille Mussett Allison, second wife of the late James A. Allison, from Superior Court 4 to Federal Court will be petitioned by the defendant, notice was served today. The notice was contained in an appearance entered by Smith, Remster, Hornbrook and Smith as attorneys for Mrs. Lucille Allison. HUGHES JAKES POST Accepts Election by League as World Court Judge. Bn United Press GENEVA, Sept. 10.—A telegram from Charlies Evans Hughes was read to the assembly of the League of Nations today, accepting his election as a judge of the World Court and expressing appreciation of the honor. lOWA CHIEF DIES Lieutenant Governor Kimball Passes Away. Bv United Press COUNCIL BLUFFS, la.. Sept. 10. —Clem F. Kimball , Lieutenant Governor of lowa, died at his home here shortly after 1 a. m. today of sarcoma, after an illness of more than a year. He was serving his second term as Lieutenant Governor and was a candidate for re-election.

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Justice had alleged it had connected the trio with at least two of eleven stolen automobiles sent to Indianapolis from Chicago and Cleveland and resold af, cut prices to leading Indianapolis citizens. The Sussman s were held in jail until after 9, Saturday night, w'hen they provided $25,000 surety bonds through the H. H. Woodsman Company. “I sent Eddie Traugott east Friday to obtain more affidavits. He went to Eaton, Ohio, and then on farther east to interview a sheriff at whose home he spent the night when his store was burned,” said Holmes. Holmes Distrusts Officers Holmes said he did not trust the motives of authorities investigating the fire, so he was getting affidavits to back up the story Traugott and Attorney Paul Scharffln told of having left Indianapolis the afternoon of Aug. 26 for New York, from which trip they returned Friday, Aug. 31. The explosion occurred about 8:50 the night of Aug. 26. Traugott and Scharffin both declared they were near Eaton, Ohio, a little after 6 o’clock that evening and witnessed a bad automobile accident. They contended they knew nothing of the explosion until the following Wednesday. ‘‘Traugott has nothing to fear, so he will surrender at the marshal’s office as soon as he gets in town,” said Holmes. Stolen Cars Traced Federal agents and State police have been working on the automobile theft ring for about two months. Insurance detectives of Chicago and Cleveland traced some expensive stolen cars in this direction and sought aid of the authorities. Asa result, ten cars, such as Cadillacs, Packards, La Salles and Lincolns, were taken away from prominent Indianapolis citizens and returned to Chicago and Clevelad owners, and the investigation of the persons through whose hands the cars had passed was started. The affidavit against Traugott and the Sussmans charges they handled a Packard car stolen from Cleveland, which was sold to Max Goldberg here. State Policeman Charles Bridges disclosed that the “fences” had an ingenious scheme for disposing of the expensive cars. They had two or three glib salesmen at work in the city. Use Smooth Scheme The motor numbers of the stolen cars were altered to correspond with number of cars of the same make and model on records of New York State. With certificates of title and bills of sale, either made by some conniving official in New York or cleverly forged, the ’fences’’ found it easy to transfer the titles to Indiana persons and get perfectly plausible license plates and papers here. Federal agents are investigating this angle, it is said. In most cases local citizens purchased the $4,000 and $5,000 cars for from $l,lOO to $1,700. Officials pointed out that the citizens should have suspected there was something wrong, with such a bargain. Trailed to Terre Haute In addition to the ex-policeman, the bootlegger, and the man figuring in criminal news, the officials have traced some of the “hot” cars to two and possibly three persons in Terre Haute. Besides the ten cars recovered, the authorities have traced one Cadillac which was taken into the country south of the city and burned, apparently by someone frightened by the hot pursuit of the Federal agents. Officials say they believe three more of the stolen cars are in the city which they have not located.