Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1930 — Page 2

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MAYOR FEARS OHIO INVASION BY CAPONE CANO Warning to Police Force on . Racket Graft Issued by f Youngstown Executive. Hu L'uitrd Press YOUNGSTOWN. O, July 24 Joseph Hefftrnan, mayor of Youngstown, feais an Invasion of cities by the Capone gang and will call on the federal government so aid rather than see organized gangs get a foothold here, he told the United Press today. The ma\or laid down the law to the police department Wednesday, charging that 80 per cent of the police force is accepting underworld money. He threatened federal intervention unless police heads ••get on their toes." “I’m simply heeding the signs of trouble." >ie said today, "and I’m here to that Youngstown never witnesses such things as have hap-! pened in Detroit and Chicago.” The mayor did not explain what form his threatened federal inter\ention might take. Bookies’ Wire; Change "Youngstown has never been a ! lawless city.” he explained. “But, recently we have seen grave indications that at least one underworld ! organization—the A1 Capone gang— j is attempt,ng to get a foothold i here. "A week or so ago word came to Us that the race bookies’ wires had changed hands and that Capone men were in charge of that racket. “You know what happened to Jake Lingle in Chicago and Gerald Buckley in Detroit? Well, that’s 1 what I’m trying to prevent here. I want the police force to quit play- | lng around and root out these gang- | sters. If they can’t do it I’ll ask j help from Washington. •The gangs are having a hard time in the big towns,. What is more ! natural than that they should turn, to the smaller cities, especialy industrial centers like Youngstown? Charges Arc Specific "We have information that Chicago and Detroit gangs are also attempting to enter Akron and Cleveland.” The mayor declared that one vice squad member gets twice as much money as the chief of police earns in salary. That as mayor he was offered a bribe of SI,OOO a week to allow a vice establishment to operate. That police themselves warn the underworld of impending raids. That one vice squad officer threatened to "beat the mayor up if he continued in his crusade. That one detective received a S6OO bribe, and another S4OO. ALLEGED ILLEGITIMATE SON SUES FOR ESTATE Illinois Man Would Share in $200,000 Left by Anderson Banker. Hu Timet Special ANDERSON, Ind.. July 24. Courtley E. Hennings, Antioch county, Illinois, resident, claiming his an illegitimate son of the late Joseph Hennings, wealthy Anderson banker and business leader, has filed suit here in an effort to obtain a share of the Hennings estate valued at more than $200,000. The plaintiff says his mother was Lilia Hathom and that he was bom at Greenville, 0., forty-four years ago. The purported mother now lives at Antioch, 111. It is alleged in the suit that the banker agreed to pay the Illinois man’s mother S4O a month during his lifetime and that at his death sho should receive $3,000. The widow. Mrs. Josephine Hennings, lias been proceeding with administration of the estate on the pre•umption that she was the only heir. DOCTORS FACING SUIT Father *f Boy Who Died Under Anesthetic Asks SIO,OOO. Bjj Timet Special AUBURN. Ind., July 24.—Lee P. Holbrook, living near Laotto. has filed suit for SIO,OOO damages in Dekalb circuit court here against Drs. ! M. E. Clingei and C. P. Fox of : Garrett as a result of the death of j his son, Ellsworth, 11. The boy died at a clinic in Garrett, Dec. 27, after an anesthetic had been administered preparatory to extraction of a tooth. It is alleged the doctors were negligent. Alleged Robbers Held Bu Times Special MUNCIE. md., July 24.—Howard Reese and Roy Davin, both of Muncie. are held at Des Moines, la., for the alleged robbery of Roy Hurst, Muncie bus driver. The two were arrested on the request of Muncie police and will be returned here for trial.

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Novice Flier Dies in Crash

LONE RECLUSE LEFT IN MYSTERY HOUSE TO DEFY PROGRESS Death Takes Sister Who Refused SBOO,OOO for Fifth Avenue Property Used to Dry Washings. Bu Vnited Press . , NEW YORK. July 24.—An 84-year-old woman held sway alone today in the mysterious house at 442 Fifth avenue that has resisted the march of progress for seventy-four years. Death removed Miss Ella Wenae. s only iiving sister Sunday, and now she alone is left of the family of seven to administer the $100,000,000 Wendtl real estate fortune and carry on the Wendel tradition. It was in keeping with this tradition that the death of Mrs. Rebecca Wendel Swope, sixth sister, should not become known for three days.

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Miss Frances M. Thompson, 26, of 309 North Mount street, divorcee, who was found dead in her automobile parked on the Seerly road, five miles west of Maywood this morning.

DEATH DUE TO SUICIDE Coroner at Rockville Gives Verdict on Unidentified Body. Bu United Press ROCKVILLE, Ind., July 24.—A verdict of suicide was returned by Coroner Arthur McMullen, in the death of an unidentified man, whose badly decomposed body, with a bullet wound above temple, was found in a wheat field east of Lyford. The verdict was based on finding only one wound and a .32-caliber revolver lying beside the body, from which the bullet was apparently fired, McMullen said. The body, believed that of a man about 60 years old, was found by threshers. All marks of identification had been removed from the clothing. Business Places Robbed B.u Times Special RACCOON, Ind., July 24.—Nine business places were robbed here and loot of undetermined value stolen. Among the places robbed were the postoffice, groceries, hardware stores and filling stations. Ln each instance the front door had been pried off with a wrecking bar. Robberies occurred on the same date at Bainbridge, Fincastle and Barnnard.

The last death in the family, that of Brother John, was not known for more than a month, so completely did the big brick house hide in cloistered seclusion the doings of its eccentric inhabitants. To thousands of people who Lurried by today the mansion still held the same air of inscrutability. Built in 1856 for $5,000 Built in 1855 for $5,000. no detail has been changed, and it increased ,in value as the skyscrapers and stores moved uptown past Thirtyninth street, until it is now appraised at $1,800,000. Adjoining the house is a lot, boarded in by a high fence, for which the two sisters once refused SBOO,OOO. They were unwilling to part with it because it provided a good runway for their dog, and they needed it to hang up the washing in every Monday. For 200 years, no Wendel has sold a foot of the property. Miss Ella is the greatest recluse of all the Wendels. It is said she | can count on her fingers the number of times she has left the mansion. Even the unostentatious trips of Mrs. Swope to her summer home or | to the opera, when she left by a side . door, were not for Miss Ella. Carries on Old Tradltious In the old, spacious residence, Miss Ella will carry on the Wendel traditions, reading by gas light because the Wendels never installed electricity, doing without "he telephone or an automobile, and remembering the four principles John Gottlieb Wendel set forth when he bought his first piece of real estate 200 years ago: “Never mortgage anything, never sell any property, remember that Broadway moves north ten blocks every decade, and require tenants to make their own repairs.”

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Accuse Man Who Found Still of Trying to Run Over Wife With Car. Charged with deliberately running down his wife with an automobile as she fled toward police headquarters for aid after he is alleged to have beaten her, William Gibbs, 32, Negro, 325 Ellsworth street, obtained a continuation of his ' trial suit on assault and battery charges in Judge Clifton Cameron's municipal court this morning. He walked from the court room without being detained by police despite his own story that Tuesday night he entered the home of Carl (Connie) Mack, 1119 Churchman avenue, as a “volunteer” raider in search of a still. No Comment by Kinney Police Chief Jerry Kinney refused to comment on the liquor raid. It was pointed out Gibbs might be charged with impersonation of officer, entering a house forcibly, assault and battery on Mack and wide variety of other charges on his own story of how he entered the Mack home, found a still and tied Mack in a chair with lace curtains and cord. Gibbs appeared at police substation No. 2, Indiana and Michigan streets, Tuesday night and informed police he knew the location of a still. The Negro told police that he and two Negro companions entered the house after overhearing two boys talking about manufacture of liquor there. In the house, Sergeant Huber quotes Gibbs as saying, “We bound the old man up and went for the police.” The raiding police said they found a seventy-five-gallon still, not in operation, and several barfels of mash in the upper rooms of the house. Mack has not been apprehended. Gibbs Is Arrested “There was no evidence of any one having been tied up except two curtains on the floor," Sergeant Huber said. Gibbs did not represent himself to be an officer, as far as we could learn.” Gibbs was arrested at noon Wednesday by Sergeant Walter White after it is alleged he attacked his wife. She fled toward police headquarters for aid. Leaping into his automobile, Gibbs is alleged to have deliberately struck her with the machine neac*police headquarters- a

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Wreckage of a monoplane in which Ted B. Madden (left, below) w*s killed in a crash Wednesday afternoon, a half mile northeast of Brightwood airport. Striking the ground and a row of small trees fringing the field, the plane was reduced to twisted aluminum and steel, and ripped fuselage cloth. Witnesses said Madden, a novice flier, was stunting immediately before the crash.

HOOSIER HOLDS CAMPCOMMAND Colonel A. T. Dougherty in Charge at Knox. Bu Times Special CAMP KNOX. Ky., July 24.—Five hundred civilians from all walks of life will don the uniform of the United States rrmy Monday and for the next two weeks will undergo training as a part of the Officers’ Reserve Corps camp which will open here Sunday. Approximately 900 reserve’officers will be trained this summer at Camp Knox. Ten states, in addition to those comprising the P'ifth corps area— Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia—are represented on the roster. They are Illinois, lowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, North Dakota, Arkansas, Minnesota and Nebraska. Colonel A. J. Dougherty, Indianapolis, chief of staff of the Eightyfourth division of the organized reserves, is commander of the reserves camp. Preliminary organization of the camp was set up this week by Colonel Dougherty and other regular army officers who arrived early prepare for the reservists. Captain William L. Brown, Muncie, is supply officer. Among the reserve officers who will report Sunday for the two-week course is Bowman Elder, Indianapolis, national treasurer of the American Legion. Elder is a colonel in the coast artillery. Heirs to Share Estate By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 24.—Distributive shares will be small among the nineteen heirs of Arthur C. Bryant, who died at Pendleton on July 14. He left an estate valued at $1,200, and there are several claims to be paid before a distribution is made among the heirs.

$l5O Liberty B.u Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 24. —Norman Irwin must choose between going to the Indiana reformatory to serve a sentence of from one to seven years or raising $l5O and turning it over to his wife and children for their support. Irwin came here from Indianapolis to enter a plea of guilty to a charge of having failed to support his family.

ROAD TO COST $105,000 Delaware and Blackford Counties Wil! Share Expense. Bjj Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., July 24.—Blackford and Delaware counties will join in the construction of a county line road, costing approximately $105,165, It was decided at a joint meeting of the commissioners of the two counties. The road will start, at Dunkirk, going five miles to a point connecting it with a state road between Muncie and Hartford City.

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CRIME GROUP IS TO IGNORE DRY ISSOEJNPROBE Rappaport Resolution for Quiz Will Be Voted Down Saturday. Prohibition as a cause of crime will not be gone into by the state crime commission. Death has been decreed for the Rappaport resolution asking that prohibition be investigated by the commission, it was learned today. The resolution is scheduled for action by the commission Saturday. Attorney Leo M. Rappaport, wet president of the Indianapolis Family Welfare Society, is not expected back in the city until Monday. Therefore, the resolution is likely to lose one vote in its favor. Rappaport Is Absent I Rappaport, who is a subcommittee chairman of the crime commission, was not present at the subcommittee chairmen’s meeting in the office of Michael E. Foley in the Traction Terminal building Wednesday afternoon. At that time, a set of recommendations was drafted for adoption by the general commission meeting at the statehouse Saturday morning. Exact nature of these recommendations was not disclosed, but, being based on subcommittee reports, they will ask for legislation and departmental action in curbing crime. Issue to Be Ignored Prohibition will be ignored, it is said. However, the recommendations likely will include a demand to speed up action by the supreme court, which is years behind in its rulings, due to inactivity of certain judges. Making the state police a public service rather than a political asset for the secretary of state also will be recommended, it is understood. SPURN COURT ORDER Toy Golf Course Operators Open New Links. Despite a court order issued by Superior Judge Joseph M. Milner, the miniature go’s course at northwest comer of Thirtieth and Pennsylvania streets was opened for play Wednesday night. The Meridian Park Golf and Athletic Club., Inc., formed ostensibly to evade the city zoning ordinance and the restraining order, operates the links. Membership cards are issued to all desiring to play. Declaring that the operators are in contempt of court, Edward H. Knight, corporation counsel, took up an investigation of the evasion of the zoning law. DETECTIVE IS SHOT Railroad Officer Victim of Alleged Ride-Stealer. Bu Vailed Press MARION Ind., July 24.—Robert White, Peru, C. & O. railroad detective, is in a Marion hospital recovering from buckshot wounds suffered when fired upon by a man who allegedly had stolen a ride on a freight train. According to the detective’s story, he caught Ernest Parks, 35, Marion World war veteran, and several other men riding the rods of a freight train. As the men fled from the railroad yards, the detective ran after Parks, firing several shots into the air. Later, Parks is said to have returned with a gun and fired at White, the charge striking him in the body and shoulders. His injuries were not serious. Parks is held ih the Grant county jail. JAILS WET ASPIRANT Drunken Driving Term Given Senate Candidate. Bu United Press PORTLAND, Me., July 24.—Dugald B. Dewar, Portland investment broker and wet candidate for the Republican nomination for United States senator in the Maine primaries last June, was sentenced to sixty days in jail for alleged drunken driving, when arraigned in South Portland munciipal court today. Sentence was imposed by Judge Stephen W. Hughes after he had found probable cause. Dewar appealed and furnished SI,OOO bail. The unsuccessful senatorial candidate had been arrested by patrolman Ralph O. Price, who charged that the defendant failed to stop on signal.

Man Lies in Trance as Fellow Church Members Wait Anxiously at Bed

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Edgar K. Wheatley, supported by his son Ernest, 14, as he lies on a cot.

Went ‘lnto Sleep’ Monday Night; Orders Watchers Be at His Side. BY ARCH STEINEL Life in the 300 block on West McCarty street had for its orbit today a man dressed in white lying on an iron cot in the Church of God, 311 West McCarty street. The man, Edgar K. Wheatley, 54, has been in a semi-coma since Monday night. Neighbors whisper, "He’s in a trance.” Fellow church members say, “The Holy Ghost is in him.” While visitors say, "He’s sick.” "He Went into the sleep Monday night. He had been sick in bed. He was healed and he walked from his bed into the church,” declared M. C. Harvey, pastor of the parish. Foresaw His Trance "We were kneeling down to pray when he fell face down on the floor in a trance. He told us he would go into this trance and said, ‘I don’t know how long it will be,’” the pastor explained. "It’s the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this in my six years of preaching. Prior to entering the state of coma, Wheatley laid down rules which should be followed at his bedside, rules that have been followed faithfully by the seventeen members of the little frame church since the trance began. They are: That four members always shall be on watch over him. That Mr. Harvey shall be the only one to feed him milk and water. Orders Electric Light That no woman member of the parish shall touch him except for healing. That an electric light shall shine nightly over the sign, “Church of God,” above the edifice’s portal. Throughout the last two days and today, four parishioners always were beside his cot in the church, fanning and feeding him. His specification that he should be dressed entirely in white has been carried out. A white shirt, white duck trousers, and white socks form his garb. He answers questions of visitors by mumbling Biblical quotations. “The soul is one,” he says. Church members pray by his side. Children play with hymn books in. the corner of the church. ’ Struck by Bandits "He was struck on the head by bandits when he was watchman at the Board of Trade building,” whispers a friend. "He forecast that doctors and lawyers would come to his bedside,” a church member explained, "and last night a doctor came. He didn’t touch him. Any doctor can examine him, but he mustn’t give him medicine or use a knife. The Holy Ghost is with him.” Wheatley is a maintenance man at the William H. Block Company store. Officials of the company did not know of his condition until informed by The Times. They said his job awaits him. TRAIL OF BANDIT COLD Clews Lacking to Robber Who Took S9OO at Marion Theater. Bu Times Special MARION, Ind., July 24.—Grant county authorities have been unable to discover any clews to the identity of a bandit, who obtained more than S9OO in the robbery of the Paramount theater here, Sunday night. Miss Helen Etler, 18, cashier; W. F. Balls, manager, and G. F. Null, assistant, who were in the office during the robbery and 1 who gave officers a description of the bandit, were unable to identify any photographs of criminals on file at police headquarters.

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STATE’S HONEY CROPJN PERIL Yost Warns Dry Weather Is Starving Bees. Indiana’s honey crop, normally about 8,000,000 pounds, will be only about 1,000,000 pounds this year, it was predicted today by Charles O. Yost, head of the apiary inspection service of the state conservation department. "Dry weather, parched lands and withering honey plants are the cause for this great shrinkage,” Yost explained. "In some localities bees are starving and unless fed immediately thousands of colonies will ate. Syrup made with equal proportions of sugar and water will suffice for food. “In the most barren sections adult bees are uncapping the sealed brood and sucking substances therefrom, which means death of the young brood and depopulation of bee life. Yost predicted that if bees do not receive prompt aid fully, 75 per cent will die. So far this season the state entomologist’s office inspected 42,000 colonies. Most were free from disease, but in danger of starvation. CURTISS RITES SET Funeral for Air Pioneer to Be Held Friday. Bu United Press HAMMONDSPORT, N. Y., July 24.—80dy of Glenn H. Curtiss, airplane builder and pioneer aeronautical engineer, rested at his birthplace and home here today. Curtiss died suddenly Wednesday at the General hospital in Buffalo, where he had undergone an operation for appendicitis more than a week before. His body was accompanied here Wednesday night by his widow, his son, Glenn H. Curtiss Jr., and his half brother, G. Carl Adams. Funeral services are to be held at 4 Friday, the Rev. G. P. Summerville of the St. James Episcopal church officiating. SEEK SALES SWINDLES Better Business Bureau Warns Against Order Takers. Solicitors who take orders from employes of business houses for ladies’ undergarments, collecting deposits of $1.25 and failing to make deliveries, are sought by the Better Business bureau. The order form and receipt used is headed “Interstate Knitting Mills, New York City.” A firm of the name in New York manufactures only tie cloth. Canary Thief Returns for Seed. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, July 24.—N0 one could doubt that the thief who entered Sidney Stewans home here Wednesday night and stole a canary in its edge was a lover of birds. He returned to Stewan’s home later to pick up a box of bird seed to feed the canary.

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RENEW EFFORT ! TO DONATE T. 0. HOSPITAL UNIT Flower Mission Society in Offer, to Solve Problem of Condemned Building. Renewal of the request for permisison to donate city hospital a new $60,000 unit for advanced tubercular patients was planned today by the Indianapolis Flower Mission Society, as a means of providing a permanent solution to the problem of caring for acute tuberculosis cases. For some time the city health board has had under consideration the request of the society for a site along Fall creek, west of the new city hospital power plant, but due to the uncertainty of the future building program, city officials have delayed an answer. The board will discuss the question Friday. No Place to Treat Patients Condemnation of the dilapidated wooden structure on Coe street, in rear of city hospital, brought to a climax the situation, making necessary immediate steps to provide facilities for sixteen patients now in the hospital. For several years the city has allowed the Flower Mission to use the building, providing food and maintenance for the institution. Whether to accept the $60,000 individual unit gift or to incorporate the ward in the main hospital building, contemplated in the distant future, is puzzling the health board. Eugene C. Foster, Indianapolis Foundation secretary, and Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian, recently were instructed to make a survey of the patients at the tubercular hospital with the view of advising as to the city’s needs for hospital facilities for advanced cases. Sunnyside, county tuberculosis hospital admits only curables. The Flower Mission Society, which has carried on the city-wide tuberculosis work for nearly thirty years, has accumulated more than $60,000, donated for anti-tubercu-losis work. Several Donation Proposals Several proposals to donate additional funds for the project have been made to the board, including a $3,500 bequest from a laboring man who desired to further the movement. Flower Mission leaders Thursday at the Columbia Club authorized Mrs. James D. Ermston, secretary, to acknowledge the thirty-day vacation order of the state fire marshal and advise that every effort will be made to comply with the notice. Mrs. Ross appointed a committee composed of Mrs. J. H. Lowes, hospital superintendent; Mrs. Ermston and Mrs. William C. Smith, to confer with Foster on a feasible plan for caring for the sixteen patients now at the hospital. VICTORY IS FORECAST FOR SENATOR SHEPPARD Texas Does No Campaigning for His Renomination. Bu Seripps-lf ntrnrd X cusspnvrr Allinvre WASHINGTON, July 24.—Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas is almost certain to be renominated in the Democratic primaries Saturday. Sheppard has opposition, but it is not formidable. This new Sheppard victory will come about without most of the voters having seen their seinor senator throughout the campaign or having heard his voice. Sheppard, stressing his duty as a senator above anything else, decided to stay in Washington for the special treaty session and will be in Texas only about two days before the election. Sheppard is opposed by R. L. Henry of Houston, running as a wet; and a West Texan named C, A. Mitchner. The latter’s platform advocates that the government give one cow to every farmer who hasn’t one.

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