Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1929 — Page 1

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NOTARY HELD FOR THEFT OF DRIVERS’ FEES Arrest of Kokomo Man Is First Gun in State Police Drive. ARRAIGNMENT IS TODAY Head of License Division Asserts Embezzlment State-Wide. Arraignment today of Gale Cooper, Kokomo notary, charged with embezzling about 100 driver’s license fees from the state, is the opening gun in a war aganist similar practice said to extend throughout Indiana, according to James A. Bradley, head of the automobile license division in the office of the secretary of state. Complete check is being made by the state police, it was announced today by Chief Robert T. Humes. Cooper’s arrest resulted from such investigations at Kokomo made by State Policeman Dow Chappel. He procured receipts for license fees paid Cooper and found that these never were turned into the state, he said. The result was that those w r ho applied never received their driver's license and the state was “out” the 25-cent fee in each case. Besides being a notary, Cooper is Kokomo agent for an insurance company. He was arrested Thursday and released under SSOO bond to appear in Howard circuit court today. Glen Hillis. Howard county prosecutor, stated that a rharge of embezzling insurance premiums also may be filed and the two cases tried together . Bradley asserted that none of Coope: s driver's license applications had been received by his department. “I am convinced tha* this practice has been prevalent throughout the state,” he declared. "We are checking each report of failure to receive a driver's license. So far, it has been discolsed that the notary failed, in almost every instance, to turn in the application and the fee. “We expect other arrests to follow.’’

STATE BOARD CLEARS WAY FOR ROAD WORK Warrick County Project Protest Dismissed by Commission. Public service commissioners officially have removed all objection to construction of state road No. 63 to the bridge over the railroad tracks near Newburg, in Warrick county. An order was passed at the commission conference Friday dismissing the protest against the road and bridge filed by the receiver for the Evansville & Ohio Valley railroad. This action was in line with the opinion of Attorney-General James M. Ogden, who held that the state highway commission, and not the public service commissioners, have entire jurisdiction. The highway commission is continuing construction of the road to meet the $60,000 bridge built a year ago. Director John J. Brown declared today. William M. Carsons, receiver for the railroad, is attempting to halt construction with an injunction suit in Warrick circuit court.

In the Stock Market

>Bv Thomson <fc McKinnon t NEW YORK. Oct. 19.—The suggesiion recently advanced that in spite of the substantail decline in the security markets there has been no appreciable liquidation upon the part cf the general public and that stocks have been passing from strong to weak hands, finds corroboration in the monthly compilation of the value of all listed stocks and the ratio of loans issued by the New York Stock Exchange. Notwithstanding a decline of approximately $2,500,000,000 in the value of all listed securities, the ratio of borrowings has increased within a month from less than 9 per cent to almost 10 per cent. Bearing in mind that the latest Stock Exchange statement covers conditions for the month of September, while the loan account has continued to grow, we must assume that in view of the reluctance of the public to reduce security holdings, the ratio today Is even less favorable than it was at the beginning of the month. It may be that short covering will develop some technical rally today. Should it appear, we believe it should be used only to reduce speculative holdings. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 49 9 a. m 60 la. m 49 10 a. m~... 65 S a. m..,.. 55

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 138

Mayor Quits in Election at Anderson By Timex Huecial ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 19. ! Mayor Francis M. Williams of Anderson has wihtdrawn as a candiI date for re-election, taking the step Friday night at a meeting of the Republican city committee. The day previous the mayor had announced he would fight to a finish to retain his office after all other candidates on the Republican ticket had withdrawn and placed their names on a citizens’ slate. Immediately on withdrawal of Mayor Williams, the citizens’ ticket was voted back into the Republican ranks, with Albert P. Priest, vicepresident of the Ward Stilson Manufacturing Company, as nominee for mayor. Others on the Republican ticket as it now stands are: For city clerk. Ray E. Hall; judge, Charles B. Salyer; councilmen at large, Charles S. Hughes and Marino Haubursin; councilman, first, Wilbert O. Rhoton; second, Earl Berkebile, and third, Cary A. Rains. Now Party Fight As matters now stand, the campaign will be between two parties instead of being a three-cornered fight. Jesse H. Mellett, twice mayor of Anderson, is the Democratic candidate opposing Priest. Williams said he withdrew to promotet harmony and to enable the party to present a united front against the Democrats. He was elected mayor in 1925 and will leave the office Jan. 1. Blocked Program The last four years have been a stormy period at the city hall. Trouble started when Councilmen Robert W. Webb and Mark J. Rozelle became angered at the mayor because he failed to appoint them ’on the board of Works. Then came a period during which the belligerent councilmen blocked the administration program. Mayor Williams reorganized the board of works with Webb and Rozelle as two of the three members. Strife continued until two years ago when a bill was enacted by the . legislature providing that each of the five members of the council also ! serve as members of the board of works. This arrangement will continue until the beginning of next ; year when Anderson will become a city of the second class and the mayor will have the authority to i select a beard of works outside the 1 membership of the council.

MONEY RUSHED BY AIR TO HALT RUN

Only One Bank in liiinois City Keeps Doors Open After Scare. Bu l nitt'4 TAYLORVILLE. 111. Oct. 19. The Farmers’ National bank, its vaults stocked with more than $500,000 in cash, most of which was rushed here by airplane from Chicago Friday, was the only one of the city's four banks open for business today. When federal reserve officers arrived at 1:45 o'clock Friday afternoon, an hour and fifty minutes after President J. J. Adams had telephoned to Chicago for $500,000 to cope with an all-day run. It was believM the worst money scare in the history of central Illinois had been broken. Six Christian county banks had closed their doors in the last week, three of them Friday morning. The scare caused hundreds of depositors to storm the Farmers’ National. Withdrawals by noon had reached SBO,OOO and President Adams realized available surrency would not meet the demand.

PERU BANK BANDIT GANG MAKES CLEAN GETAWAY

>< Timm Special PERU. fnd.. Oct. 19.—Authorities today are conducting practically a blind sArch for eight bandits who robbed the First National bank here of $50,000 shortly before noon Friday. There is not a clew to where the band fled, their automobile having taken a route from here that might have had either Indianapolis or Logansport as a destination. Os the loot, $35,000 was in currency and $15,000 in non-negotiable securities. Officials of the local bank have notified the federal reserve bank at Chicago to void the securities as a measure to prevent obtaining money on them. Two men were wounded while the robbers were scooping up money after cowing fifteen employes and patrons. Patrolman John Devaney of the Peru police force was struck in an ankle by a bullet and H. L. Howenstein. Michigan City, suffered a fracture of the leg from a bullet. Four of the bandits entered tite

NEW PROCESS OF EDUCATION IS DEFENDED Teachers Hear Columbia University Leader Score ‘Pessimists.’ GOVERNOR ALSO TALKS Closing Session of Annual Convention Under Way at Tabernacle. Educational pessimists who decry modern trends in education were scored today by Dr. Otis Caldwell, director of the institute of experimentation at Columbia university, at the closing session of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association in Cadle tabernacle. ‘‘They give nothing but destructive criticism and offer nothing constructive. It is the easiest thing in the world to do,” he said. He defended the new educational processes and explained their relationship to past methods of educating youth. “The children in schools now are not merely to be the next generation, but are the next generation. New generations always are growing and always clinging to essentials in past generations. The old generations have memories of what used to be.” he said. “One generation does not give place to its successor as an old bifilding Is razed. Old generations are remodeled, added too, but never completely torn down, as buildings are at times,” he asserted. His address was preceded by a talk by Governor Harry G. Leslie and musical and memorial programs. STORK BEATS TAXICAB ‘Hospital—and Hurry;’ but Even the Motor Car Is Loser. Bi; T'nited Vrrxx WASHINGTON. Oct. 19.—“Gallinger hospital—and hurry,” Mrs. Eufezia Armstrong ordered a taxi driver. He hurried, but was too late. Opening the taxi door, he found the woman had given birth to a seven-pound baby.

Gin Fancier Bn Cnited Prcst CHICAGO, Oct. 19. One juniper berry to a bottle of alcohol was L. F. Cunyan's recipe for gin, Mrs. Bertha Cunyan charged in her suit for divorce. Because he refused to put any water in the mixture, he got pie eyed and stayed that *way for two years, his wife charged. Besides, she got tired having the house cluttered up with potter juniper plants.

NATIONAL PARTY MEETS

National party candidates in the city campaign discussed the issues at a rally Friday night at 206 Holliday building with John Zahnd, national chairman presiding. Speakers were: W. J. Rominger, candidate for mayor; Mrs. Lillian Stems, candidate for city clerk; and Bert Decker and C. D. Reddick, councilmanic candidate.

A meeting will be held Monday night at 2349 Bellefontaine street.

bank, leaving the others at the front door, and forced the customers and employers to lie on the floor. Kendrick Kenny, an assistant cashier, entered the bank while the robbery was in progress and turned on a burglar alarm, the robbers not having noticed him at first. Then the telephone rang. Miss Martha Endicott. obeying orders, replied “All’s well.” Police Chief Delbert Brown was at the other end of the wire. Prosecutor Paul Lutz of Marion county and a posse of five men in an automobile belonging to Jess Murden of the state highway department were fired upon at Claypool while searching for the bandits. The shooting was done by Edward Alexander, a vigilante, who mistook the prosecutor and his party for the bandits. An airplane covered roads In the vicinity of Rochester, Mentone and Culver, shortly after the bandits fled, but the pilot found no trace of tbem.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, OCT. 19, 1929

State Elevens Face Intersectional Foes Butler Clashes With Haskell Indians Here Today as Indiana Opposes Colgate in Fray at Bloomington.

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Two powerful lines, composed largely of veterans, will meet this afternoon when “I,one Star” Dietz brings his Haskell Indians to Butler bowl. Shown above (left to right) are John Prim, Haskell end; Frank Heddon, Butler guard, and James Grant, Haskell end.

WOMAN FOILS HOLDUPEFFORT Screams When Bandit Tries to Rob Candy Store. Courage of Mrs. Edith Dudley, 440 North Alton street, saleswoman at the Maud Muller candy store, 11 North Illinois street, early Friday night thwarted a bandit's efforts to rob the store. With hundreds of people w.thln a few feet of the store, the bandet walked into a small room in the rear where Mrs. Dudley was wrapping candy. The holdup man grabbed Mrs. Dudley’s throat and pinned her against the wall. “Stay back now and keep your mouth shut,” Mrs. Dudley said the bandit growled at her. “For a moment everything went black,” said Mrs. Dudley, “but when he released me. I realized he was there to rob. As he turned in the direction of the cash register, I started after him. What are you going to do?’ I yeled. I wasn’t afraid, I was just mad all through.” When Mrs. Dudley screamed, passersby paused and looked in the store and thfe bandit fled, without opening the cash regitser. PRELATE IS DEAD Heart Disease Takes Life of Catholic Official. R ASINGTON. Oct. 19—Monsignor C. A. Dougherty, controller of Catholic university and pi eminent prelate of the Roman Catholic church, died here Friday night of ’ disease. He was 68 years old and was appointed prelate in 1921 -j * - - -Lw X:. In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9:30 a. m.: Southwest wind, seven miles an hour; temperature, 62; barometric pressure, 20.06 at sea level; ceiling unlimited; visibility, three miles, slight, haae, clearing; field good. •

Below (left to right) are John Walsh, Butler tackle; Lawrence Johnson, Haskell center, and Jim Puett, Butler center. The Kansans hold an average weight advantage of three pounds in the forward wall.

Traditional rivalries and intersectional games feature the activities of thirteen Indiana collegiate football teams today, one of the most promising programs of the season to date. Topping the bill in local interest are the invasion of Butler bowl by the famous Haskell Indians and Indiana's tussle with the Colgate Maroons at Bloomington. One of the major tilts of the day in national importance is the Notre Dame-Wisconsin encounter at Chicago, where the Ramblers will attempt to avenge a crushing upset at the hands of the Badgers last season. Purdue has little fear of De Pauw in their annual rivalry battle at Lafayette, but the Tigers’ will furnish more than scrimmage opposition. Other games: Franklin at Earlham. Terr* Haute Normal at Chicago. Georgetown at Wabash (night). Hanover at Hose Poly. Concordia at Valparaiso. ARREST WATER WORKS CLERK

High Bond Asked in Deficit Case at Newcastle.

Bu Timex Soerial NEWCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 19. Oscar Grant, clerk of the cityowner water works plant here, was in jail today while friends attempted to obtain bond for him. following his arrest on a charge of embezzling public funds. Grant was arrested Friday night by Sheriff Elmer Cannon, and Circuit Judge John H. Morris said, "a high bond will be set.” Morris instructed officials not to permit Grant’s release on bond until he approved the bail. The grand jury is expected to convene next week to conduct a thorough investigation of the charge against Grant. A shortage of $13,821 was discovered in Grant’s books by state accounts board examiners. He told them the shortage was “due to an error.” The city council in session Friday afternoon discharged Grant and named Robert. Heath to succeed htnryl k

RUM EMPIRE RECORDS SCANNED FOR CHECK MADE OUT DY KING OF RACKETEERS

SEEK IDENTITY OF SLAIN MAN Police Baffled in Case of Bandit System. State and federal authorities today sought to identify the body of an alleged bandit slain Friday on the statehouse steps when he tried to escape from Lieutenant Charles Bridges, state policeman. He is known to police now only as Charles Jackson, Cleveland, but this name, they believe, is one of several aliases he used. Meanwhile. Cleveland authorities were en route to Indianapolis to return William Travis, 27, Cleveland, Jackson’s companion, who tried to shoot Bridges as his friend fled. Travis, wanted in Ohio for several robberies, waived extradition. Police say he admitted the crimes in the Ohio city. Efforts of state police Friday night to locate relatives of the dead man and to identify him as having served a prison term in Michigan failed.

BANDITS SLUG BARBER, HOLD UP DRUG STORE

A roughly-dressed bandit slugged Ora Ruffin, 59, cf 1424 Montcalm street, proprietor of a barber shop at 648 Blake street, today while Ruffin was chopping kindling in the rear of his shop. The bandit stole $39.50 in cash from Rufiin's pocketbcok and a $l5O diamond ring Ruffin was wearing. Ruffin told police the young bandit, dressed in overalls, walked up behind him and asked how long it would be before Ruffin could shave "him. Ruffin said he told the bandit he would be through chopping kindling in a few minutes. The bandit then slugged Ruffin from the rear, knocking him unconscious. Ruffin was found suffering from head wounds by Lincoln Carter, 68, of 1417 Rembrandt street, who noti-

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By United Presi NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Although a lack of unanimity appeared to exist today among federal officials investigating the operations of what perhaps was the most powerful syndicate in the country, the name of Scarface A1 Capone, kingpin of Chicago racketeers, continued to be linked with the ring. Existence of a $1,500 check made out by Capone to one of the indicted higher-ups of the syndicate and on which payment was stopped before it was cashed was announced by James E. Wilkinson, assistant United States attorney. The check, Wilkinson said, was sent last month, but how Capone was able to send it from his Philadelphia prison cell, where he is serving a term for illegally carrying firearms, was one of the many problems still confronting federal investigators. The check is being sought among the seized records.

How the Market Opened

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fied. George Dietl, manager of a Standard Grocery Company store, 650 Blake street, who called poiice. Ruffin was sent to the city hospital to have his wounds dressed. An armed bandit held three men and a boy at bay in the Roesch drug store, 2330 Station street, Thursday night and scooped S9O from the cash register. The bandit asked for cigarets and when James Streif, 2234 North La Salle street, clerk, started to comply. the man trained a revolver on him and ordered Herman P. Roesch, proprietor; Edward Clarke, 2322 Stewart street, a customer, and Charles Bell, 11, of 2206 North Gale street, delivery boy, to keep quiet. Roesch failed to heed the order, however, and scurried to the store basement, where he remained until after the holdup.

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An epidemic of eyebrow | raising seemed to afflict fed- | eral authorities Friday after j each announcement of a develj opment. When Wilkinson an- ! nounced that he was convinced of Capone’s connection i with the ring, United States ‘ Attorney Philip M. Forman in ! Trenton, replied he had no 1 evidence connecting the Chii cago gangster with the syndij cate. There also were varying views among these officials as to whether certain banks had financed the syndicate, which is said to have made a profit of $2,000,000 in six months. Liquor Still Plentiful Meanwhile, with virtually ali the “big shots” of the liquor corporation reliably reported vacationing in farflung corners of Europe, South America and Canada, rum purveyors here seemed little perturbed over the greatest general dry cleanup by the federal government in recent years. Liquor, it was said, will be no less plentiful for the coming Thanksgiving, but it will be slightly higher in price. One reason, according to reports, was that despite the government’s elaborate preparations for the demolition of the syndicate, it went for naught because the rum ring knew of the impending drive several hours before its inception. A super-efficient system of espionage made this certain, it was be-, lieved. Seek Another Station An indication of this was seen in the fact that the trawler Shawnee, of Canadian registry, said to be one of six ships owned by the syndicate, continued to elude coast guard destroyers, although it had been expected to be led into a trap through fake wireless orders for it to come into New York. According to Wilkinson, it was possible that after the government had captured the syndicate’s unlicensed wireless station near Atlantic Highlands, N. J„ another one still existed. He said he had evidence that a second such station was in operation on Long Island and that it may have tipped the Shawnee. HOLDUP MAN GETS $H Filling Station Attendant Robbed; Two Places Entered. Requesting Roy M. Bennett, 21, of 45 Kenmore road, attendant of a filling station at McCarty street and Madison avenue, “to step over to the car,” an armed bandit robbed him of sl4, Friday night. The Indian Refining filling station at Washington street and Arlington avenue and another of the Pure Oil Company, Oakland avenue and Washington street, were broken into and ransacked by thieves Friday night. No • money was taken.

PROBE WOMAN’S DEATH Wealthy Houston Resident Leaps or Falls Ten Stories. Bu J'nitrd Prmi WASHINGTON, Ocfc 19.—Police today were investigating the death of Mrs. Alma Cleveland Siouasat, wealthy Houston (Tex.) woman, who leaped or fell ten floors to her death at the Raleigh hotel here. A note, found in the dead woman’s purse, asked that William D. Cleveland. wholesale grocer of Houston, be notified. MOTHER - NEAfr' SLAYER Seeks to Aid Son, Accused of Sweetheart's Murder. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Mrs. Edith Dayton, Kansas City, Mo.. was looking for a job here today to be near her son, Dexter Churchill Dayton, accused of the murder of his sweetheart. Miss Marjorie ODonnaU.