Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1929 — Page 1

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STIITZ MOTOR MERGER NEAR, OFFICIAL SAYS Consolidation With Leading Concern Is Reported Under Way. THREE SUITS ARE FILED Appointment of Receiver Is Asked in Two Court Actions.

Plans for the merger of the Stutz Motor Car Company of America here with a prominent and leading automobile manufacturing concern are near completion, according to M. E. Hamilton, treausurer of the Stutz company. With three suits, two asking appointment of a rceiver, filed against the S'.utz company in state and federal courts here today, reorganization ■ t the Stutz interests probably will be announced definitely Tuesday xrMming, ■when E. S. Gorrell, president, returns to Indianapolis, according to Treaurer Hamilton. Hamilton refused to divulge details of the proposed merger today indicated one of the outstanding motor firms in the nation may absorb the Stutz interests. The Stutz plant has been closed for several months and reorganization plans have been under way for th it length of time. Hamilton dech red today that negotiations had reached a point where he expected President Gorrell to make an announcement Tuesday morning. Liabilities Are Large Sums involved in the three suits filed against the Stutz company in courts here are small, but attorneys for plaintiffs declared the company has liabilities in excess of $1,400,000, Including $500,000 borrowed from stockholders. Hamilton refused to comment on these figures today. A petition for adjudication of the Stutz company as involuntary bankrupt was filed in federal court today by three Indianapolis firms. Suit asking appointment of a receiver was filed in Marion county superior court. Room 3, Saturday and an intervening petition in the same case also asks appointment of receiver. Receiver Is Asked In the superior court suit filed bv the Standard Automotive Equipment Company of Muskegon, Mich an account of $753.12 for valves and tappets furnished the Stutz company is listed and appcointment of a receiver is asked on grounds of •imminent danger of insolvency.” The intervening petition was filed by the Faires Manufacturing Company of Decatur, 111., manufacturers of electrical appliances and brass fittings, listing an account of $1,399.06 and asking appointment of a receiver. The E. C. Atkins Company, the Hide, Leather and Belting Company and the Vonnegut Hardware Company united in a petition in involuntary bankruptcy filed against the Stutz company in federal court today, listing total claims of $2,175 98. No receiver is asked in this action. Three List Claims The Atkins company lists claims of $325.14; the Hide. Leather and Belting Company claims of $149.84, and the Vonnegut Hardware Company claims of $1,701 against the auto firm. Payment of cash to preferred creditors by the Stutz company is charged, and it is set out that this Is an act in bankruptcy. Failure to file answer within the twenty days would mean automatic adjudication of the bankruptcy. If an answer is filed the case will be referred to Carl Wilde, referee in bankruptcy, and hearing will be set. TICKET SALE TO OPEN Speedway Will Accept Mail Orders for 500-Mile Event Jan. 10. Advance sale of tickets for the eighteenth annual 500-mile international sweepstakes at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday. May 30, will be opened Jan. 10. Mail orders will be taken at that dae and the counter ticket sale will open Monday, Jan. 13, at 444 North Capitol avenue. Nine Natives Are Killed Bv United Press AUCKLAND, N. Z., Dec. 30.—Nine natives, including Tamasese, Fiji Island chief, recently imprisoned in New Zealand for rebelling against paying taxes, were killed Sunday in anew revolt against the British authorities. Officers Killed After Raid Bu United Press OXFORD. N. C.. Dec. 30.—Bernard Puryer, a deputy sheriff, and Mack Tuck, policeman, died in a hospital today from bullet wounds received when they were ambushed near Clarksville, Va., after a liquor raid. Man Injured in 30-Foot Fall Roy Bunte. 27. of 3201 East Twenty-fifth street, suffered a dislocated left shoulder In a thirtyfoot fall from a roof at 3343 Carrollton avenue, where he was making roof repairs today. He was taken to city hospital.

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A11556 Today Flu United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 30—Former Governor Alfred E. Smith, went “to business as usual,” on his 56th birthday today. "I am very happy to be alive and well,” he said. “I’m going to business as usual. A birthday means nothing to me, except another year in the march to old age.” The former Governor worked in his office at the County Trust Company today, and tonight he will have dinner with his family, after which he and Mrs. Smith will go to the theater.

HOOVER TO ACT IN DRY BATTLE President Will Present Plan to Congress. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—President Hoover is preparing to submit the law enforcement commission’s prohibition recommendations to congress within ten days, it was learned today. In the meantime he will follow a hands-off policy regarding the prohibition battle now raging in Washington. These recommendations will call for relieving the over-burdened courts, codification of the numerous dry laws, transfer of prosecution work from the treasury to the justice department, and unification of the board of control forces. The White House is w’atching the prohibition controversy with extraordinary interest. Word has gone down the line to the treasury and justice departments that every effort must be made to stem the wet tide, according to reliable advices. Demand for a tightening up in enforcing the liquor law’s comes at the very season w’hen there is the greatest demand for bootleg goods at New Year’s festivities, observers pointed out today. PRISON BREAK FAILS Guard, Convict Wounded at Jefferson City. Bv United Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.. Dec. 30. —One guard was stabbed and slugged and one prisoner w’as wounded during an attempted break at Missouri state penitentiary today. Two convicts, Virgil Davis, 24, and Clarence Hansen, 24, climbed into the guard tower and attempted to overpower John T. Bradley, a guard. In the fight they stabbed Bradley in the abdomen and near the heart. Davis was shot, as he vaulted the wall. Hansen escaped but. was captured by a citizen in whose home he sought refuge.

SACKETT IS ENVOY Kentucky Senator Will Go to Berlin. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—President Hoover has selected Senator Frederic M. Sackett (Rep., Ky.) to succeed Jacob Gould Schurman as ambassador to Germany. Schurman resigned last week after serving more than four years at Berlin. Sackett’s term in the senate was to have expired March 4. 1931. Governor Flem Sampson of Kentucky has indicated he will appoint Representative John M. Robison as Sackett’s successor. REPORT CALVIN SEEN Missing Business Man May Be in Southport Region. Reports that Otis F. Calvin, 65, president of the Indianapolis Sand and Gravel Company, had been seen at Southport today were being investigated this afternoon by a police emergency squad. Mrs. R. R. Hartman reported a man answering the description and obviously of culture, applied at her for work and that she gave him 10 cents. Calvin has been missing from home thirteen days. Description given by Mrs. Hartman tallied in most respects with that of Calvin. Sheriff to be Sentenced Bu United Press COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho, Dec. 30. —Sheriff R. E. Weniger of Shoshone county, Idaho, and twenty-three others, found guilty of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act by a jury in federal court late Sunday night, will be sentenced on Tuesday.

ONCE AGAIN THE DRY PARADE FORMS TO HALT NEW YEAR S EVE FLASK FLOURISH

'T'HREE prohibition agencies today joined hands in a ring-around-a-rosie they declare will encircle closely Indianapolis’ 20,000 or more New Year’s eve revelers in the city’s cases, hotels, theaters, dance parlors and even the most exclusive clubs. In conference at police headquarters, Police Chief Claude M. Worley, John W. Wilkey, deputy

GRAYSON PAIS ARE BELIEVED TO BEJ CITY Kentucky Detectives Here to Press Search for Killer Suspects. SEEN AT NORTH VERNON Pair Sought for Robbery of Bank and Slaying of Posse Member. Search was being made in Indianapolis this afternoon for Richard McNeese and Ben Orville, wanted on bank banditry and murder charges at Bowling Green, Ky. Two Bowling Green detectives arrived here today and obtained cooperation of Indianapolis detectives in searches for the two wanted men. Officials at North Vernon Sunday night reported men answering descriptions of the two had passed through that town. Little notice was taken of the report, however, until Bowling Green detectives arrived here today and indicated they have information that the two fugitives have reached Indianapolis. Sought as Accomplices The two are wanted as accomplices of Elmer Grayson of Indianapolis, in the holdup of the Oakland (Ky.) bank, In which SI,OOO was the loot, and for fatally shooting z Smith’s Grove (Ky.) bank president in making their get-away. Meanwhile Grayson, taken from Nashville jail back to Bowling Green, was moved again this time to Louisville, Ky. Mayor Johu Redes of Bowling Green ordered the removal because public feeling in Bowling Green was at high pitch and mob violence was feared. Grayson was removed from Nashville because of fears he might take advantage of a technicality and fight extradition. City Girl Visits Jail Miss Jean Harney, 23, of 1250 Union street, had not returned here today after visiting jails at Bowling Green, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn., in an attempt to see Grayson, who. she declares is her fiance. Her mother declared she had known Grayson for some time and that he frequently called at the home. Miss Harney was not permitted to see Grayson. Grayson has been charged formally with bank banditry and wiuh murder. He denies being with McNeese and Orville when they returned gunfire of a posse at Hays. J. Robert Kirby, Smith’s Grove (Ky.) bank president, was killed and another member of the posse wounded in the exchange of shots. Grayson told Kentucky officers he left the car before the shooting began and fled into the woods, McNeese is the only one of the trio with a police record here, police said. He was arrested on a vabrancy charge here some time ago in connection with a serious offense, but was released.

Slow Bullet? Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Dec. 30. —Three motor cars sped, horns screaming, through traffic lights to answer a call that a man had been shot. Detectives rode in one, patrolmen in another and the third was an ambulance. “He’s up stairs,” a woman at the destination told them. “He came staggering in and said he was shot.” To the detectives, patrolmen and hospital attendants William L. Allen, 70, bleary-eyed, exposed a scar on his leg. “Sure, I’m shot,” he said. “It was seventeen years ago that I got that.”

SNOOK FILES PLEA Reversal Is Sought for Appeal Refusal. Bv United Press COLUMBUS. 0., Dec. 30.—Attorneys for Dr. James Howard Snook, former University professor, condemned to die Jan. 31 for the murder of his co-ed sweetheart, Theora HLx, filed motion in the state supreme court today, seeking a reversal of the court’s decision refusing to review Snook’s appeal. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 36 10 a. m 41 7a. m 35 11 a. m 44 8 a. m 35 12 (noon).. 47 9 a. m 37

prohibition administrator for Indiana and Sheriff George L. Winkler plotted the campaign they say will give the city the driest New Year's eve of its history. Worley contributed his entire force, which will go on twelvehour shift Tuesday and Wednesday, to form the hub of the dry phalanx. Winkler said his force

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THREE OEAD IN RUM ROW WAR $600,000 Worth of Liquor Is Confiscated. Bv United Press NEWPORT, R. 1., Dec. 30.—Three members of the crew of the notorious rum-running speedboat, the Black Duck, dead: Its captain wounded; two other smuggling craft captured; $600,000 worth of liquor seized—thus were tabulated today the results of a Sabbath drive on rum row by the coast guard. The wreck of the Black Duck and the two other craft with their cargoes were tied up at the coast guard base at New London, Conn., today. The bodies of the three men lie in a morgue at Ft. Adams, awaiting the official verdicts of all the officials who set about to determine just how they met their deaths. But there is no mystery about that. They were riddled by machine gun fire from the patrol boat CC-290 at the entrance of Narragansett bay. According to coast guard officials, they had refused to halt their craft when ordered to heave to. The three men killed by machine gun bullets from the government boat were: Jacke Weiseman, Providence: Dudley Brandt, Boston, and John Goulart, Fairhaven, Mass. They were found dead in the pilot house. SIOO,OOO Booze Seized Bv • -■■ ■’ J'rcss OCEAN CITY. Md„ DcC. 30. Eight men and a cargo of choice whisky valued at SIOO,OOO, were seized by a lone coast guardsmen on the beach near here early today. The rum runners were transferring 1.000 cases of liquor from two small boats to three trucks on the beach when the coast guardsman appeared and ordered them to surrender. The eight men gave no resistance. It was one of the biggest one-man hauls in years.

MAGNATE TAKES POISON Wealthy Pencil Manufacturer Found in Hotel by Sweetheart. By United Press CHICAGO. Dec. 30.—The body of Wilfred E. Gerry, 52, wealthy pencil manufacturer, was found in a room in the Embassy hotel early today by his 44-year-old sweetheart, Mary Lou Arndt. A bottle containing poison lay near the body. His son-in-law prouounced the death a suicide. Gerry, divorced several years ago, and Miss Arndt ate dinner in his apartment at the northside hotel on Sunday night, after which Miss Arndt said she fell asleep. When she awoke at 3 a. m. she said she went into another room, where she found Gerry’s body, fully clothed, with the bottle of poison near by. VICTIM OFTMPTY r GUN Revolver Explodes as Man Looks Into Muzzle; May Die. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—John Draka, 60. was aiding his nephew, Alex Nastanski, prepare to observe New Year’s eve. He produced a gun. “Here’s a revolver to fire Tuesday night,” he said. “It isn’t loaded now, though,” he added, looking into the muzzle as he pulled the trigger. But it was. and physicians say Draka probably will die. Davis May Run for Senate By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 30.—Secretary of Labor James J. Davis is considering becoming a candidate for United States senator instead of the governorship of Pennsylvania, ll became known today.

of deputies would flank the city authorities on one side, while Wilkey promised reinforcements of extra federal dry agents to add a second wing to the anti-booze army. •'We're going to cover this town,” said Worley. "I mean it. Where we suspect a damp spot we re going to apply the sponge.” “I second Worley’s promises,” nodded Wilkqy.

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Police Chief Claude M. Worley (left) congratulating Detective Chief Jerry Kinney (center) on his appointment as police chief, and (right) Fred Simon, who will become chief of detectives in the Sullivan administration. The appointments were announced today by the incoming safety board. Below, a closeup of Kinney,

DISREGARD LULL IN MENINGITIS, PLEA

Continued Care Urged by Morgan; One New Death and Another Case. Continued precaution against the spread of spinal meningitis was urged today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health commissioner, despite the lull in the deaths and new cases. Carolin Dugan. 6. daughter of Patrolman Lawrence E. Dugan, 1048 South West street, was the only additional case reported, making a total of fifty-six cases, including fatalities. The death of George Parkinson, 4, of 2047 North Adams street, brought the death total to thirty-six. Members of the police force are being treated with antiseptic solutions by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health commissioner, and his assistants, as a protective measure. Edward Roesch, Hook Drug Company vice-president, announced about 4,000 one-cunce bottles of mercurophen have been given away following Saturday’s offer About 1,000 bottles remain at the Lincoln hotel store, Illinois street and Kentucky avenue for free distribution. Dr. Morgan praised the work of Dr. L. G. Zerfas, director of Eli Lilly <fe Cos. laboratory; Dr. W. A. Jamieson, Lilly biological director, and the city hospital nursing staff, who have co-operated in combating the disease. Ten squads of city health workers continued to take throat cultures and treat infected persons today in an effort to determine carriers and spread of the malady. Urging continued use of antiseptic solutions, such as mecurophen, Dr.

And the sheriff made it understood. To police will be assigned the task of guarding cases, theaters, dance pavilions and other places of merriment within the city, including the exclusive city clubs. They will be abetted by federal sleuths. Squad cars of deputy sheriffs will operate In tJu* suburban dis-

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Little Bad Bill Bv United Fress DENVER. Dec. 30.—Billy Russel 1 Howard, 3, is going to turn over anew leaf New Year’s day by giving up his daily pipe of tobacco. Several months ago, Billy crashed the front page by beoming the nation's youngest smoker. His doctor prescribed a pipe to cure his insomnia. Lee Howard, Billy’s father, is skeptical about his son’s resolution. “I hope Billy means it,” he said. “But you never can tell about smokers.”

Morgan said it was essential for the solution to be administered two or three times daily in each nostril. The person receiving the treatment should lie on his back with head bent back over the bed or table far enough to permit the solution to penetrate into the sinuses. Five drops should be placed in each nostril and the person treated should lie with head back for at least two minutes. GERMAN AUTHOR HURT Remarque in Berlin Hospital After Auto Accident, Is Improving Bv Un and Press BERLIN, Dec. 30.—Erich Maria Remarque, 34, author, was seriously injured in an automobile accident Christmas eve. Remarque was taken to a hospital after his automobile turned over on a suburban highway. Hfe was reported improving today. Remarque is the author of “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

tricts with ears and eyes sharp for sights and sounds bespeaking communion with forbidden spirits in the roadhouses and barbecue stands that fringe the city. Os the 20,900 celebrants of the new year’s birth, probably 15.000 will plan to moisten their joy in varying degrees, according to those who should Irnmi

JERRY KINNEY IS SELECTED AS WORLEY’S SUCCESSOR; SIMON ALSO IS PROMOTED New Department Leader Has Filled Every Post From Patrolman Up in Long Period of Service. GIVEN FIRST JOB IN JUNE, 1887 Safety Board President Announces That Harry Springsteen Will Remain as Market Master. (Statements by Kinney. Worley and Simon on Pace 2.) Appointment of Jeremiah E. Kinney, 65, chief of detectives, as police chief in the Sullivan administration, which takes office Jan. 6, was announced today by Charles R. Myers, safety board president. Fred Simon, former detective chief, was promoted from detective sergeant to detective chief, succeeding Kinney. Kinney, a veteran Democratic member of the police department, will succeed Claude M. Worley, appointed police chief during the Duvall administration in 1927. No announcement was made as to the fate of Chief Worley, but it was presumed that he will leave the department. Worley is a Republican. Os Worley’s fate, Myers said: “That will be up to the police chief.

The only other appointment announced by Mayor-Elect Reginald H. Sullivan's safety board was the reappointment of Harry Springsteen, brother of Councilman Robert E. Springsteen, as city market master. He is a Democrat and was supported by standholders and commission merchants for the post, Myers said. Kinney’s appointment met with high favor generally, as he is widely known as result of his connection with the department since June, 1887, when he was appointed a patrolman. During that time he has filled every post from patrolman to chief having served two years as chief

BIG CITIES BAND IN RACKET WAR Whalen, Russell Join in Fight on Exortionists. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 30.- Police Commissioner Grover Whalen returned from Chicago today, reiaterating that his western trip was for the purpose of studying traffic control in the loop. Police Commissioner Russell is a “high type of official,” Whalen said. ■ ■■ Bu Times Koerial CHICAGO. Dec. 30. Grover Whalen, police commissioner of New York, left Chicago after making an agreement with William F. Russell, Chicago police commissioner, to wage a finish fight against racketeers. A few hours later, the opening police attack was launched in a raid upon the headquarters ox the Bugs Moran gang. Eight men w’ere taken into custody and files W'ere seized. Shortly after, three men, alleged extortionists, w’ere shot to death by police, who trapped them in a $lO.000 plot. Commissioner Russell reiterated his intentions of “cleaning up” the terrorists.

CHINA SENDS EDICT U. S. Informed of Action on Extra-Territoriality. WASHINGTON. Dec. 30. Nationalist China's formal announcement that extra-territoriality privileges, enjoyed by foreigners, w r ould be abolished Jan. 1, reached the state department today. Foreign Minister C. T. Wang sent the official text to Howard Bucknejl Jr., secretary of the American legation, in a personal note, and Bucknell forwarded the document to Washington. It states that extra-territorialty privileges enjoyed by foreigners are incompatible with Chinese sovereignty, and that after Jan. 1 all foreigners in China must consider themselves amenable to Chinese law’s and court.

“Those 15,000 wet celebrators will be congregated together pretty much,” Worley said. “Our little dry army will give a pretty good account of itself. “I’m absolutely in earnest about this thing. Those folks who think my statements are just the usual bunk are going to get the shock to ttoir kvßtn” to tofitonfc

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j when named successor to George V. | Coffin, ousted by Mayor Charles W. j Jewett, Aug. 5, 1919. Kinney soon was assigned to a clerkship in the Bertillon division following his appointment to the force and he has received many promotions. Changing administrations brought demotions as well as advancements but he persistently held a high rank in the departmet. The last time he was made chief of detectives was in December, 1927, following appointment of Worley as chief. He was promoted from detective captain to detective chief. He is nationally-known for his record as an investigator and pol’ce officer in his forty-tw’o years in 1 he department. The appointment of Kinney and Simon came after numerous conferences between Sullivan and the safety board and friends of the administration. The choice for chief was the result of “mutual agreement” between the mayor-elect and the board. Myers said. Bitter Fight Waged Friends of other candidates for police chief have waged a bitter fight for the appointment, but the board deedide that, “Kinney would be most efficient,” the safety board president said. “Kinney Is a man of outstanding integrity, honesty and ability,” he asserted. Policy of the new safety board will be to hold the chiefs responsible for their various departmental activities, throwing the reorganization task upon Kinney's shoulders as soon as he takes office. Myers said the board will expect “law enforcement without favor or partiality.” “There’ll be no special privileges if we can help it,” he added. Simon Often Shifted Simon’s career in the police department has been one of continuous shifting, most of which followed his promotion to detective sergeant. He served as a patrolman, then bicycle patrolman, and subsequently in the detective department, in which he has held every superior rank. Most of his detective experience has been under direct supervision of Kinney, making him familiar with Kinney’s detective policies, Simon’s record does not contain a single mark against him and contains nine different promotions and only three reductions, these being assigned to political shake-ups at the beginning of new administrations. He is 50 years old, married, and lives at 1355 South East street. He was appointed to the department May 9, 1906, and his first promotion came two years later. Voshell in Favor It is conceded generally that Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell will be retained, although no decision has been reached. Myers declined to to comment on the Are department personnel, but it is understood that politicians are not seeking strenuously to unseat Voshell. Major Louis Johnson, a Democrat, now major of police under Worley, is mentioned for captain oi traffic to succeed Lester E. Jones, a Republican. Detective Sergeant Herbert Fletcher, also a Republican and former detective inspector, is understood to be favored for major of police. Myers pointed out that a better police organization could be perfected by giving the chief a free hand to select personnel. “Too much interference would be unwise,” he asserted. Democrats are concerned over the fact that there are 150 more Republicans on the force than Democrats, although the law provides the department shall be “even” politically. Myers said the board will follow the law, but offered no solution for equalizing the personnel as to political faith. Majority of appointments made by Mayor L. Ert Slack won

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