Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1928 — Page 3

NOV. 29,1928.

NEW CLEWS TO DEATH OF ‘BET KING’AREBARED Host to Poker Party ‘Tells All,’ Says District t Attorney. BY MAX BUCKINGHAM, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—District Attorney Joab Banton rested on his laurels today after a twenty-four-hour stretch which brought forth the most illuminating developments in the Arnold Rothstein murder mystery since Mrs. Ruth Keyes came all the way from Chicago to tell her story. Jimmy Meehan, host at the poker game that may have been the indirect cause of Rothstein’s death, went before the grand jury yesterday and, according to Banton, ‘ made a clean breast.” The secrecy with which the district attorney is surrounding his investigation made it impossible to learn the nature of the information which Meehan gave. Meehan got his reward, for immediately his bail was reduced to SIO,OO0 —which he raised quickly. Banton said he was certain that Mrs. Keyes, a model, would be willing to return and aid the investigation in any way possible. Woman Gives Clews Until Meehan went before the grand jury yesterday, Mrs. Keyes had been the most valuable witness, officials said. She was able to tell room 349 of the Park Central on police there were three men in Nov. 4. It was in this room that Rothstein, perhaps the nation’s bestknown gambler, was wounded fatally the night of Nov. 4. Yesterday the investigation reached the point where newspaper men felt justified in asking Banton if he had any theory as to why Rothstein was shot. "I don’t care to talk about that,” said the district attorney. Broadway has theories, however. The most popular one is that Rothstein was summoned to the hotel to discuss a gambling debt and that he was shot because of an argument that ensued. The gambler lost more than $300,000 in a stud poker game at Meehan’s apartment on the night of Sept. 29. Held in Heavy Bail Because of that Meehan, “Titanic” Thompson and “Nigger” Raymond —participants in the game were held in heavy bail as material witnesses. Meehan’s testimony yesterday brought a reduction in his bail, ana Banton promised similar treatment for Thompson and Raymond if they would tell the grand jury all they knew about the case. Mrs. Bridget Fahy, former chambermaid in the Park Central hotel, is in Jefferson Market prison today because she wants to be. She told Banton her life had been threatened because she had identified George McManus as one of the three men in Room 349 of the hotel on the day Rothstein was shot. She asked the district attorney to commit her to jail for her own protection. SUES - TO SEE CHILDREN Sick Anderson Woman Charges Husband Keeps Them Away. fil/ Times Snccial MARION, Ind., Nov. 29.—Mrs. Tela Elliott, declaring she is near death from tuberculosis, has petitioned the Grant circuit court for a writ of habeas corpus so she can see her children, Mary 6, and Lewis 4. She alleges the children are being kept from her by her husband, John Elliott. The petition asserts Mrs. Elliott was removed by her parents here from her own home at Anderson because she was not being given medical treatment. $17.10 Fire Loss in Month CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 29.—According to an announcement here recently, a total of fire losses in this city during October totaled $17.10. The department answered ten alarms.

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1,155 FIRES PROBED State Arson Division Gets Many Confessions. Investigation of 1,155 fires of supposed incendiary origin was made by the arson division of the state fire marshal’s office between Oct. 1, 1925, and Oct. 31, 1928, according to a statistical report made public today by State Fire Marshal Alfred Houston. There were 124 confessions during the period; 188 arrests and eightyfour convictions. Forty-six cases were dismissed, twenty-nine were acquitted, and six resulted in jury disagreement. During 1928, investigations under Albert Fowler, chief of the arson division, were as follows: January 41, February 37, March 29, April 27, May 26, June 34, July 26, August 9, September 31 and October 35. A total of 95 cases was investigated this year to Oct. 31; sixty-six arrests, twenty-seven confessions ahd nineteen convictions. Five arrested were acquitted. Four cases were dismissed and tw s o juries disagreed. PARK BOARD BUYS LAND Thirteen Acres Purchased for Playground at $19,500. Purchase of a thirteen-acre tract east of the Monon railroad, between Forty-sixth and Forty-ninth streets, was authorized today by the park board. The property will be bought from Edward Moore for $19,500 and used for a playground and park. The appraised value was accepted. Campbell Gil Company petition for a fillling station at Thirtieth street and Cold Spring road was denied, in response to remonstrance of property owners. Issues Clover Seed Warning B-y United Press NEWPORT, Ind., Nov. 29.—The Vermillion county farm bureau has issued a warning to farmers to use caution in selecting clover seed for the coming year, pointing out that much Oregon seed, which is practically worthless in this climate, has been shipped to the vicinity It also stated Italian seed is another kind not suitable to this climate. Hurt Where Mother Died By United Press ROCHESTER, Ind., Nov. 29. Max Graeber was probably fatally injured near here when his automobile was struck by an Erie passenger train at a crossing. Several years ago his mother was killed at the same crossing. The accident occurred while Graeber was en route to the bedside of his father, who is seriously ill.

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Left to right they are Nadine Carter, president; Nellie Hallowed, vice-president; June Darnell, secre-tary-treasurer, and Thora Arthur, librarian of the glee club.

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FRIDAY EVENTS Indiana Hotel Association convention, Clavpool, all day. , , ~ Motor Truck Association of Indiana convention, 415 South Pennsylvania street, all day. _ .. Indianapolis Round Table luncheon, Lincoln. . _ . . Knights of Columbus luncheon, SplnksArins. . , Optimists Club luncheon, Butler university. , _ . Altrusa Club luncheon. Columbia Club. Phi Delta Theta luncheon, Chamber of Commerce. Master Painters* Association luncheon. Elks Club. Delta Tau Delta luncheon, Columbia Club. First Ward Republican Club meetinit. Compton hall, 8 p. m. Colonel W. G. Archer of the plumbing and heating industries bureau, will be the speaker at the Indianapolis Building Congress dinner at 6:30 p. m. Friday at the Severiri. His subject will be “Apprenticeship in the Building Trades.” Fermor S. Cannon, chairman on the apprenticeship committee of the congress, will give a short talk on what the congress is doing to promote building trades apprenticeship in Indianapolis. Frank Ryan, 34, of 3926 East Michigan street, was injured Wednesday afternoon when struck by an automobile driven by De Witt Jones of 1638 Montcalm street, at 819 Massachusetts avenue. Jones said he swerved his car to avoid hitting Bryan when he ran into the street, but that Bryan ran into j Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported to police as having been stolen: Harry E. Dodd, 501 Main street, Beech Grove, Ford roadster, 13-770, from New York and Meridian streets. Otto F. Reifreis, 746 Orange street, Chevrolet sedan, 39-732. from 746 Orange street. George M. Craig. 401 North Illinois street, apartment 68, Buick coach, 9-992, from 401 North Illinois street. Bernal K. Motfitt, 3125 Bellefontaine street, Chrysler coach, 637217, .from Seventeenth street and Broadway. William C. Raible, 2829 McPherson street, Chevrolet coupe, 660020, from Fall Creek boulevard and Central avenue. Leona Summers, 29 North Sheridan road, Marmon sedan, 29-291, from 34 East Maryland street. Harold Carpenter. 804 South Meridian street. Harley-Davidson motorcycle, from 706 South Meridian street.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by the police. Charles Gant, 3020 East Washington street, Hudson sedan, found at Vermont street and Capitol avenue.

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the side of his car. Bryan was taken to Methodist hospital with a cut on his head. Instruction, in first aid and lifesaving methods will be given police and firemen by the American Red Cross staff at 10 a. m. Friday. Dr. W. J. Fenton, in charge of the first aid car, will conduct instruction work for the police and file squads, which frequently are the first to reach an accident. The eighteenth annual nationwide observance of Ohio State uni. j versity day, Dec. 7, will be celebrat- , ed here with a dinner meeting at I the Hotel Lincoln, D. R. Rowles, secretary of the Indianapolis Alumni j Association, announced today. Dr.: George W." Rightmire, president of I the university; and Dr. W. O. j Thompson, president emeritus, will \ speak over a midwestern radio I hookup. Mrs. Carrie Ringer, a former Shortridge high school teacher and wife of Victor Ringer, an attorney at Williamsport, Ind., has been appointed probation officer of Warren county. She will be Warren county’s first probation officer. Two hundred representatives of the Indiana farm bureau automobile insurance department attended the annual meeting at the Calypool Wednesday. H. R. Nevins, director, presided, and speeches were made by George J. Mecherle, W. A. Charman, and James Costello, officials of the State Farmer Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, a farmer-owned firm operating in twenty states. A thirty-year gold service emblem has been given Miss Kate Foley, 1717 North Talbot street, of the accounting department of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Miss Foley started work with the telephone company in 1902 at Newcastle. RIDING CLUB IS FORMED Incorporation Papers Are Granted to Arlington Stables. Incorporation of the Arlington Riding Stable, Inc., with $20,000 capitalization, has been announced, with A. Hastings Fiske as president; Donald L. Bose, vice-president; Volney M. Brown, secretary-treasurer, and Donald Test and Walter B. Smith, directors. The club’s grounds, to be located at Arlington avenue and Forty-sixth street, will have both inside and outside rings. Work on construction of stables will begin at once and jt is expected to have them completed Jan. 15, 1929.

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CITY MAY LOSE STATE PRISON ANDASYLUM Woman’s Penal Institution and Central Hospital Removal Planned. Possibility of Indianapolis losing both the Indiana State Women’s prison and Central State hospital loomed today. Removal of the prison to a farm, within fifty miles of here, and $320,000 for that purpose is to be asked of the legislature by trustees of the institii ion. Removal of Central hospital has been discussed by members of the state budget committee, but is opposed by Dr. Max A. Bahr, superintendent. It has beeen suggested by certain committeemen that, the land occupied by the hospital for the insane could be subdivided and sold to such advantage that removal and purchase of new land and erection of buildings could be financed largely. The move would be ba. ed on the idea of operating a farm r• >lony for the patients, as is done at the four other state hospitals for the insane Called Poor Economy Dr. Bahr pointed out that SIOO,OOO worth of new buildings just have been completed at the institution, the money having been appropriated by the 1927 legislature. He says the move would be uneconomical. since the total buildings at the place are worth in excess of $2,000,000 and the property could not be sold as lots for that sum. He is asking $540,000 for new buildings in the 199 legislative budget and $225,000 for repairs to the heating plant, which includes installation of new boilers. Two years ago an effort was made to have Julietta, the Marion county hospital for the insane, turned over to the state. Dr. Gahr disapproved, on the grounds that, being eleven miles from Central hospital, it would have to be operated as a separate institution. He suggested at that time that the Marion county poor farm might be taken over by his institution and Julietta patients taken there and the indigent removed. This plan would give a farm colony without removal from the present institution, he pointed out. The poor farm is but a' short distance from the state hospital. Woman's Prison to Be Moved The prison trustees’ plan to remove the women's institution into the country is in accord with recommendations of the state charities board. These w*ere included in a report to Governor Ed Jackson, made Oct. 3. It pointed out the overcrowded conditions at the place and cited the advantages of a country lcca-* tion and the need of new buildings. The appropriation asked would include $20,000 for land, $20,000 for a power plant, $75,000 for equipment of the power plant, and $205,000 for the prison and other buildings. The prison would have a capacity of 400. The budget included a request for $128,480 for operation, salaries and other expenses for the next two years. Fathers and Sons to Meet By United Press DECATUR. Ind., Nov. 29.—The annual father and son banquet will be held Friday night, Dec. 7, it is announced by the committee in qharge. The banquet will be held at the First Presbyterian church, with approximately one hundred fathers and sons attending. Edward K. Hoffman, Ft. Wayne business man, will be the chief speaker. Dairy Show Dates Set By United Press CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Nov. 29.—The annual Montgomery county dairy show will be held here Feb 4, 5 and 6, it was decided at a mcetj ing of the Montgomery County I Dairy Products Association. Asthma Absolutely Relieved. Pay no money until satisfied. then only SI. OO pitbottle. Stops all misery. Sent postpaid. Sold only by BREATHE FREELY CO. Station A. Box 24, Indianapolis, Ind.

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Master of Wireless to Perform Amazing Feats Friday. The second big free open air exhibition by Maurice J. Francill, wireless wizard, will be given at 12:15 p. m. Friday under auspices of The Indianapolis Times in North Meridian street between Washington street and the Circle. Francill will operate three regulation Hudson-Essex automobiles entirely by radio control. Two of the automobiles w'ill be operated

Buys Brown County Farm, and Now He Can’t Find It

State Employe Walks All Day to Locate Tract, but Has No Luck. When a man just has bought a forty-acre farm in the beautiful hills of Brown county and plans to erect a summer home there, he nas much to be thankful for on this Tnanksgiving day. Ed Witmer, Pendleton, head of the rebate department in the office of the secretary of state, is a man in that position. But today he is sort of thankful with reservations. For Ed spent one whole day this week roaming the Brown County hills, only to return at nightfall, weary and exhausted, to report that he "couldn’t find the darned farm.” He is going to make one more such hunting trip next Tuesday and he has assured his fellow workers at the Statehouse that if he doesn’t find it, he will not build his summer home there. Guide Can’t Help Him No Alpinist, Ed took William Kruger, manager of the Western Newspaper Union, with him as a guide. Here is what he had to say about the fruitless search for his new farm: "You see. Bill Kruger Is a big fellow, with long legs and I’m sort of short and light. Right there is where I made my first mistake taking him for a guide. “Well, we drove down in the direction of the place where I thought my farm ought to be and we just drove and drove until he ran out of road. Then we parked the car and started in to walk through those hills. Now I know that there is a creek starts right from the middle of my forty. “So I said to Bill: ‘All we have to do is to find that creek.’ It sounded easy. But it wasn’t. We walked up hill and down and through underbrush, with me trailing Bill and longing for a pair of seven-league boots. Rest on Log “When we’d rest on a log, I’d listen for the sound of running water, Out the only thing I heard was an old crow. It got dark and so we thought we better abandon the farm and start back to the car. Then we found we had lost trace of it also and it was an hour before we finally found it.” The pair then toured back to Nashville and resting there on the “liars’ bench” in front of the courthouse. they told the assembled natives of their plight. Big Tom Sparks, former Brown county sheriff, was the only person offering Ed any consolation. He said he recalled the tract. “Why, that's the place where I arrested that bootlegger and them girls,” he informed Ed. So, after returning to the state-

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Tomorrow is E. O. M., the monthly clearance of odds and ends, incomplete size ranges, slightly damaged things and specially purchased lots. All seasonable merchandise at bargain prices.

at the same time, using one wave length, one transmitter, and one electro-magnetic impulse. This feat is called the riddle of radio, and Francill is said to be the only man in the world who has accomplished the work. The third automobile Ygill be steered by Francill by radio in any direction. All cars will be loaned by the R. V. Law Motor Company, 1219 North Meridian street. The same automobiles are used on the Lyric stage for Francill’s exhbition at every performance, under auspices of The Times. During the demonstration by Francill, the street will be closed to traffic.

house and referring the matter to Earle Coble, chief examiner for the securities commission, Ed has resolved on the Tuesday trip. He says that if he j :st finds the darned farm he is going to entertain the whole Republican Editorial Association there next summer. Coble suggested that the invitations be sent out three weeks in advance so everyone can get there.

SET AIRMEN RITES Two City Aviators Will Be Buried Friday. Funeral services for two Indianapolis aviators killed in airplane crashes over the last week-end will be held Friday. Last rites for Louis Deßurger, Ford airplane factory pilot, killed Friday when a huge tri-motored plane dashed near Spokane, Wash., in a heavy fog, will be at 2:30 p. m. Friday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Deßurger, 225 North Addison street. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Services for Lawrence H. Garrison, National Air Transport Company pilot, k'lled when his mail plane crashed in a snowstorm near Bristolville, Ohio, Sunday, will be at 2 p. m. Friday at -the Linwood Christian church, with the Rev. Homer C. Boblitt officiating. National Guard planes Wednesday dropped flowers on the graves of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Howard Bassett, who died in a plane crash near Edgerton, Ohio, Saturday night. Double funeral services were held Wednesday from the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary.

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Weather conditions at 9:30 a. m. at Indianapolis airport: East wind, 8 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.21 at sea level; temperature, 40; no ceiling; no visibility; heavy fog.

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BANDITS QUICK ON TRIGGER IN NIGHTHOLDUP Bullets Halt Flight of Victim; Suspected in Pulliam Killing. Two “quick on the trigger” bandits- who staged hold-ups here Wednesday and Thursday nights were sought by detectives today as possibly connected with the murder of Paul T. Pulliam, Bair theater chain manager, a week ago Monday night. The bandits fired a shower of bullets at Robert F. Lewis. 3141 North New Jersey street, whom they held up Wednesday night when he tried to get away from them. Tuesday night youths of the same description, driving a Chevrolet coupe, forced Luther M. Graham, 2839 Central avenue, to stop his Hupmobile sedan at Twenty-fourth street and Riverside drive. They had drawn their guns and were about to shoot when Graham stopped as fast as his brakes would work. They drove off in his car, taking with them two Atwater Kent radio sets. Neither the car nor radios have been recovered. Coupe Not Bandit Car A Chevrolet coupe found near tht scene, containing a radio set, at first was believed to have been the car used by the bandits, but later was found not to be. Lewis was driving on Central avenue about a block south of the canal with a young woman when the bandits drove alongside and pointed blue steel revolvers at him. Still pointing their guns at him they ordered Lewis to drive west on Canal boulevard to Illinois street, north to Kessler boulevard, and then west. “And don’t look around.” they ordered. They followed in their own car. When they reached Kessler boulevard they drove alongside again and Lewis speeded up in an attempt to drive away from them. They fired four shots at him and he stopped. Forced From Car; Robbed The bandits forced him from his car, searched him, taking $3, his overcoat and keys, and told him they would throw the keys in the road after driving 100 feet. They did so and Lewis was able to drive to the city and report the holdup to police. The bandits made no attempt to moicst the young woman. The reachless with which the bandits used their revolvers leads to the belief that they may have been involved in the Pulliam slaying. Detective Chief Jerry Kinney said. Pulliam was shot by one of three bandits as he was driving in the 700 block, Ft. Wayne avenue, taking theater receipts downtown. The bandit car had been parked at he curb. The shot which killed Pulliam was fired apparently without reason, as the bandits started their machine and swerved around Pulliam’s car.