Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1929 — Page 3

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‘CZAR 9 HIGHWAY CHIEF TOLD THAT HE SHOIORESIGN Commissioner Brings Word of Leslie’s Wishes, but Boss Stays On. BOARD MAY ACT SOON Fight to Retain Post Seen as Likely; Must Be Given Hearing. i As scheduled, Jess L. Murden, Peru, Republican member of the late highway commission, called on Director John D. (Czar) Williams today and told him that Governor Harry G. Leslie wants him to resign and turn the job over to John J. Brown, Rockport, now the Governor’s secretary. Murden emerged after several hours with Williams to announce to the waiting newspaper men that Williams wasn't going to resign today. "Thcrew ill be a meeting of the commission next week and we will discuss the matter,” Murden said. "Until that time I can say only that there has been no official commission action in regard to the Governor’s proposal.” When Williams learned about the Governor’s desires it was no news. The matter had been discussed previously with the commissioners, he admitted to newspaper men before Murden arrived. May Fight Ouster He may fight the dismissal, oil the ground that the highway law provides that a competent director be appointed without regard to politics and that he can be ousted only for “inefficiency, malfeasance, or neglect of duty.” ■ Then he must be given notice and a hearing before the commissioners. It may be that, as in years past, the commissioners will get “cold feet” and that Leslie will have to wait until he puts in his own appointees to do the job. The Governor could ask the commissioners to resign. PICK UP AS LAST ADD NEW lead Seven years of directorship, which often has been termed “dictatorship,” is Williams’ record in the department. During his term of office approximately 1,700 miles of state roads have been paved. Ardent attempts to oust him was made by Governor Ed Jackson, Williams even having been indicted after the board of accounts exposed his handling of war material from the federal government. • Indictments Quashed

Jr The indictments were quashed, r i ter some years pending, by then Prosecutor William H. Remy of Marion county. A so-called “road-ripper” bill, giving Governor Jackson direct control over Williams’ job, failed in the 1925 legislature. Commissioners appointed by Jackson would become Williams men apparently and before the Jackson regime was over the Governor and director were traveling about the state together. Jackson devoted a large share of his last legislative speech to the director's praise. But Leslie remained unconverted and ‘‘Williams must go” is a plank in his personal platform, which, like others, he is determined to carry out. his friends say.

Meetings Secret One of the complainants, aside from, “high-handed rule,” against the Williams regime is that the millions spent by the department hav been shrouded in more or less mystery. Information coming from the department has been filtered through a paid publicity man. Meetings of the commissioners have been behind closed doors. When Albert J. Wedeking, Dale, now commission chairman, was appointed to the commission by Jacksou he announced that his would be changed. He changed his mind. He scarcely has made an announcement since and would not comment Tuesday on the Williams removal. It was reported that the job of asking Williams to resign has fallen to the lot of Jesse Murden, Peru, the other Republican i.lumber of the commission. Removed ‘With Apologies” Brown has a record of eight years ns chairman of the state tax comhvssion. He was removed by Jackson. with profuse apologies, to make room on the board for Jackson’s secretary. Pliny Wo’fard. After being out of the statehouse but a few weeks he returned to become Governor Leslie's secretary. He handled this job throughout the legislature and during the signing of the bills was assisted by Gaylord Morton, who was formerly in the state auditor’s office.

PLAN MANAGER TALKS Irvington Rcpubl in Club to Engage Sp kers. City manager government will be dicussed in a series of talks before the Irvington Republican Club, it was announced today. Speakers of authority on citymanager government will be engaged and members of both major political parties will be include on the program. Fred M. Dickerman heads the program committee in charge of arrangements. United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson will address the dub next Monday night. The United States uses over nineteen kilowatt hours of electricity per ' year for each man. woman and child; Germany uses only five and Denmark only a fraction of one.

WILLIAMS STICKS, FOR TIME BEING, ON ROAD JOB

Girl Bigamist Is Sorry Only for ‘Man I Love’

'Can’t Go Back’ to Second Husband Even If Law Permitted. Penitent only because she heaped the fire of publicity on an innocent man and not because she became a bigamist, Mrs. Marie ParhamMcDevitt, 20, today acclaimed her love for her week-end husband, Herbert J. McDevitt, 3557 North Capitol avenue, but said she wouldn’t remarry him even though she were permitted to do so legally. Mrs. Parham-McDevitt was arrested Tuesday by police on complaint of husband No. 1, William P. Parham, 29, of 831 South Senate avenue, after he had played detective and discovered the second lovecote Mrs. Parham had created for herself. McDevitt married Mrs. Parham Saturday shortly after she had left her first husband. “Can’t Go Back” Today hirs. Parham’s arraignment on a bigamy charge in the court of Judge Clifton R. Cameron was continued until the morning of March 29 at the request of her attorney. “He wouldn’t want me now—and I couldn’t marry him again after what I’ve done to him,” muttered the 20-year-old girl behind bars at police headquarters as she told of her love for McDevitt. “No, I’ll not go back to my first husband. I love Herb. He was good to me. He trusted me. He didn’t know but what I was a good girl—and not married. I couldn’t go back after bringing this all on him—even if they let me,” she reiterated. She charged that her first husband had been unkind to her, that he had not given her the “things I wanted.” ' | She said she met McDevitt at a Y. W. C. A. party while she and her husband were quarreling. They went together.

“Tired of Past” “He wanted me to marry him. I put him off. I knew I couldn’t—that it was wrong. Then Saturday my first husband and I quarreled— I left the house. I went to Herb and told him I’d go with him. He got a marriage license and we were married by a justice of the peace. What could I —I couldn't tell him I was manned—and I .was ‘so tired of the past. I would have made him so happy he and his little girl Patsy—Patsy loved me,” she asserted as she explained that Patsy was McDevitt’s 6-year-old daughter. The quarrel which resulted in Mrs. Parham’s flight from her first husband occurred over a $6 permanent wave and S8 slippers which she had purchased, Parham told police. * McDevitt’s first %ife is dead. He is an interior decorator. Parham is a tinner.

PREACHES OPTIMISM Lent Speaker Urges Bright Viewpoint in Life. Urging an outlook on the wholesome aspects of life instead of through dready panes of pessimism, Dr. Albert W. Beaven, Rochester, N. Y., spoke at the third Lenten noon-day service at Keith's theater, today. The services are held under the auspices of the Church Federation of Indianapolis. “Life has its windows opening on all four sides, and each of us is free to choose that viewpoint of life which we desire,” Dr. Beaven declared. “Christ used the east window. Let us open that window and look out of it and live by it—it is what the world needs—the viewpoint of Christ,” he said in concluding his address.

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Mrs, Marie Parham and her $6 permanent wave which resulted in a quarrel with her husband and her leaving home to marry Herbert McDevitt.

GOOD FRIDAY FOR EMPLOYES Arrangements Made for Leaving Work. Employes v members oi the Indianapolis Merchants’ Association who desire to attend the Good Friday noon services to be. held at Keith’s theater. March 29, will be permitted to do so, according to a bulletin issued today by the association. With services scheduled in churches and the theater between the hours of 12 and 3 p. m., the bulletin asks that members of the association release all employes from duties who make known their desire to attend between those hours. Today’s ruling of the association was similar in content to rulings made in the last two years. Speakers at the Good Friday services are Dr. Charles F. Wisehart, president of the College of Wooster. Wooster, O.; Dr. Virgil E Rorer, pastor of the Meridian Street Methodist church, and Dr. William A. Shullenberger. pastor of the Central Christian church. Dr. Wisehart. speaker at Keith’s throughout the week’s noon-day services, will make the opening talk. Dr. Shullenberger will be the second speaker and Dr. Rorer will close the services.

DRINK KING’S HEALTH By United Press LONDON. March 20.—The prince of Wales, toasting the health of the king at the annual dinner of the Honorable Company of Marines yesterday, said he was “more certain than ever” that the king was on the road to complete recovery. POLICEMEN IN LEAGUE Indiana State Police Association, Marion, has filed incorporation papers with the secretary of state. Object of the organization was given as “to promote brotherly regard and good fellowship.” Incorporators are Lewis Lindenmuth, Elmer Smith, Harry Thompson, Emmet Tegarden, Frank Brandon and Anthony Hennigan, all members of the Marion police force.

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U, S, ATTORNEY GRILLS CAPONE ON BOOZE RING ‘No Hoodlums’ Here, Says Official Stopping Photographers. Oy L nit erf Press CHICAGO, March 20.—Scarface A1 Capone, Neopolitan heir to Chicago’s million-dollar-a-month vice, gambling and liquor rackets, matched wits with his Uncle Sam today behind the heavily guarded doors, of a grand jury room on the eighth floor of the Federal building. After waiting an hour in the office of an assistant district attorney, Capone was taken before the grand jury and questioned about the operations of the beer syndicate which has debauched the once peaceful suburb of Chicago Heights. As soon as word spread that Capone had come back from his Florida retreat in answer to the grand jury summons and was at the Federal building, loop workers found lots of excuses to “go to the postoffice.” At noon, with Capone still before the grand jury, crowds formed at the Adams and Clark street entrances to the building, milling about eagerly and waiting for Scarface to be brought out. Capone found his Uncle Sam much less impressed by his importance than were the Chicago police who turned cut by the'’dozens to escort him through hostile territory. George E. Q. Johnson, United States district attorney, called Scarface a hoodlum to his face and while Capone snarled, Johnson stopped camera men from making flashlight pictures of him in an assistant district attorney’s office. “We don’t want this office identified with hoodlums in any way,” Johnson said. Shortly after noon Capone exposed himself to machine gunners, if any were in wait for him, when he ran across the street to the Marquette building and boarded an elevator which took him to the private office of William Waugh, one of his attorneys. The grand jury had released him until 2 p. m. and two police guards v. ere assigned to escort him to lunch. Capone eluded his guards, however, in fleeing from federal building crowds and dodged through traffic to the opposite side of the street.

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LICENSE THEFT RING ISjOUND Fifty Auto Plates Stolen; Two Men Held. Theft last Januai-y of fifty sets of license plates from the office of the secretary of state was bi'ought to light today with the recovery of two of the markers, the halting of an alleged rum-running expedition, and the arrest of two men by Motor Policeman John Alkire. The tags, numbered between 62-500 and 62-550, were stolen from the basement of the statehouse in late January. The theft was imported to state police, but had not been made public. Their theft followed the discovery of disappearance of fifty applications for plates during the Traugott inter-state motor theft ring investigation. It is believed the plates were stolen by a band of rum-runners backed by Chicago beer bai’ons. Alkire, while driving near Michi-

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gan street and White river boulevard, saw a Chicago-marked automobile stop, two men leap out and hand the license plates to two men in a Ford coupe. He following the coupe until it stopped for fuel at a nearby filling station, and arrested its occupants, Alex Geisking, Valley Mills, and John Cox, 528 Arbor avenue. In the car he found the stolen license

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