Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 116, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1930 — Page 1

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CHICAGO CUBS NAME HORNSBY NEW MANAGER Famous ‘Rajah’ Is Appointed Successor to McCarthy as Bruins’ Boss. SELECTED BY WRIGLEY Veteran Star to Confer With Owners on Arrival in Windy City N 35v T'niti-d Prrn g CHICAGO, Sept. 23. Rogers Hornsby, veteran infielder of the Chicago Cubs, will succeed Joe McCarthy as manager, William Wrigley owner of the Cubs, announced today. Hornsby is returning with :the Cubs from the disastrous road trip that cost them the pennant, Land will confer with Wrigley on ■arrival regarding his new assignPtnent. r McCarthy, whom the Cubs took from Louisville of the American As-

sociation five years ago, is stepping out, perhaps into another major league managership, because he Huldn't make rigley's dream the world's t series championship come true. Wrigley's announcement confirmed rumors that have kept Cubs’ fans gossiping t since the team left

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Von an eastern trip three weeks ago the National League pennant virtually in their grasp and ran into disaster in the form of thirteen defeats in twenty-two games. Charlie Grimm, captain and first baseman of the Cubs, also was/mentioned as McCarthy's jYissible successor, but Hornsby, foT whom the Cubs paid the Boston Braves a sum conservatively estjhiated at $130,000, was regarded 'an almost certain choice. Confident of Acceptance Hornsby is with the Cubs on a train due to arrive from Boston this afternoon and does not know that he has been singled out officially for McCarthy's job. However, Cub officials feel confident they will come to terms without difficulty and that he will accept. Bothered by an ailing heel that slowed him earlier in the season. Hornsby has not played regularly since May 30, when he fractured his leg sliding into a base. In 1929, he was regarded as the factor that clinched the Cubs’ National League pennant victory. He is 37, well along K-4n years, as baseball players go, however. During recent weeks, with the Cubs slipping. Hornsby has been called upon several times to deny j-umors that he was a cause of friction among the players. He called the reports absurd. Overcame Many Setbacks McCarthy managed the Cubs to the pennant in 1929 and overcame b series of distressing setbacks this season to keep the Bruins in the . thick of the fight until the waning * ! Cf the season. The death of Hal Carlson, veteran rfpitcher; Hornsby's bad heel and leg [injury, the enforced vacation of )Rigg Stephenson, hard-hitting outjfielder; an injury to Captain Grimm, complete collapse of his pitching .staff, including injuries to Charley Root and Sheriff Blake—those were some of the setbacks the portly Irishman battled against. "Has Been a Good Manager” "He has been a good manager," Wrigley said. ‘‘However, in recent . conversations he has said nothing 1 about a renewal of his contract and 1 felt that he didn’t want one.” McCarthy’s comment when informed at Boston of the impending Change in managers was that he was • merely following a long line of r Cubs’ managers." He added that Chance was the only one who lasted as long as he had. Hornsby's baseball record reached ft high point in 1926 when, as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, he took his team to the National League and world’s championships. He afterward became assistant manager of the Giants under McGraw. and in 1928 went to Boston and from there came to the Cubs. It is assumed that Hornsby will keep in the game despite his new role as manager. Hourly Temperatures 62. m 67 10 a. m 79 7a. m 69 11 a. m 82 Ba. m 74 12 (noon).. 85 9 a. m 76 1 p. m 85

New Furniture THERE arc new modes in furniture this fall, just like there are new styles in clothes—and it’s important for your home to be as up-to-date as you are! Asa helpful guide to the prospective home decorator. The Times begins on the Home Page today the publication of a series of seven authentic articles showing the new trends in household furnishings. These articles are intended to make you more conscious of style and design in the new furnishings. They will show the correct arrangement, color schemes and harmonious groupings of furniture that may be purchased in Indianapolis stores this season. Follow these articles closely every day in this newspaper.

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 116

City Woman Is Killed by Interurban Stepping in the path of an inter- ; urban car at Stop 8 on the Newcastle line at noon today, Mrs. Ida Johnson. 68. of 706 North Sherman drive, was killed almost instantly. Mrs. Johnson was waiting for the car at the stop with Mrs. Willard Mithoefer, R. R. 12, Box 313. with whom she had been visiting. Misjudging the approaching interurban’s speed, she evidently attempted to run across the track to exchange a Yarewell greeting with Mrs. Mithoefer when the car struck her. Motorman Charles Bicknell of Muncie and Conductor Frank Shelton of Newcastle were held blameless for the accident. Mrs. Johnson made her home here with her son, Edward Johnson. DEBTS CLEW IQ MISSING BANKER Lake County Man Believed Dodging Creditors. tin I'nitrd Prc* EAST CHICAGO, Ind.. Sept. 22. Disappearance of Hazel K. Groves, Lake county treasurer and banker, who has been missing four days, was believed by police today to have resulted from his inability to repay creditors. Groves, a northern Indiana Republican leader, “ran heavily into debt playing the stock market and it is possible he disappeared to avoid meeting creditors,” the police said. Although an investigation of the American State bank of East Chicago, of which Groves was president, has not been completed, authorities said they believed the institution is sound. Except for an overdraft of slls in Groves’ personal account, there were no irregularities immediately found, it vas said. Affairs of the county treasurer’s office were found in regular order, police said. It was intimated by investigators that they believed other banks in Lake county may hold personal notes of Groves which he drew' to meet 4he stock market speculations.

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Tram Triangle Killer Husband Charges Scrubwoman Loved Motorman.

Bit Times XDedal . Chicago, sept. 23. —Mrs. Mary Jakubiak scrubbed floors nightly in a skyscraper to feed her four children and" her husband Michael. Michael was out of work. He sat around the house in his socks while Mary scrubbed late into the night. Sometimes she scrubbed so hard her fingers w r ould bleed. She’d stop then and go to the window of some empty office and look out on the city below, playing. and she'd dream. Maybe she dreamed of romance, of being a fine lady and dancing under the glittering roof signs of a loop hotel. * it o a THEN she'd go back to her scrub bucket and smarting fingers. Dawn would come and she’d ride the last "owl” home. It was cheery inside the street car and the motorman was cheery, too. They talked. Maybe they laughed sometimes, and maybe Mary forgot Michael and the four children. The scrub bucket, the raw fingers, were forgotten. She was a lady and her limousine a lonely old “owl" car, and her chauffeur, the motorman. a a a LIFE went like that for months and then one night a neighbor found her body on the path she took from her "fairy limousine” to the drab home. Her throat was cut. And today the children are fed by charitable organizations. Michael, in his cell, stands near the bars in his socks and says: ‘I killed her myself. She was unfaithful. "She had been carrying on an affair with that motorman!” BUS ROUTE PROPOSED Seek Permission to Operate Here From Monon to Lafayette. Monon Transportation Corporation, a Monon railroad subsidary, today petitioned the public service commission for permission to establish a bus route between Monon and Lafayette. The Monon railroad asks that this bus line be allowed to replace trains, operating at an alleged loss of $20,000 annually.

JACK DEMPSEY STRUCK BY HIT-RUN MOTORIST

I'-V I'm'ffd Press NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 23.—Jack Dempsey was injured here today when struck by a hit-and-run driver. The accident occurred in the French quarters, as Dempsey was getting into his automobile. He had been attending a reception in nis hoaor.

RAILWAY CHIEF KILLED IN HIS OFFICE BY AID Vice-President May Die of Wounds After Fight With Superior. SHOTS CLIMAX FEUD Western Maryland Leaders Reported at Odds for Several Months. If" I nil at Prc&t I BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 23. Maxwell C. Byers, president of the Western Maryland Railway, was shot to death today in his office in the Standard Oil building. ! He was slain, according to police, by Dudley G. Gray, vice-president 1 in charge of traffic, who is at Mercy hospital, wounded, probably fatally. The shooting is said to have followed an altercation between the railroad president and his aid, and 1 was the culmination of a feud which had existed between the two executives for several months. According to witnesses Gray, who lived in the Eden Hall apartments. : entered the offices about 12:30 p. m He went directly to Byers’ offices, separated from the main offices by a frosted glass dobr and locked the door behind him as he entered. Soon after his entrance, it was said, loud voices were heard inside the private office. Opens Door and Collapses It was impossible to distini guish the words of the argument, George Charlton, Byers’ secretary, told police, but it was evidently the two were enraged. Suddenly several shots were fired, Charlton said. Following the fifth shot, the secretary reported, there was the sound of struggling and Byers wrenched open the door connecting his suite with the main offices. For several seconds, he clung to the frame of the door, it was said, and then collapsed on the floor, ' apparently dead. Employes entering the offices ■ found Gray seated behind Byei%’ ! desk, unconscious, a .32-caliber revolver on the floor beside him. Recovery Is Doubtful Byers and Gray were taken to | the Mercy hospital, where the president was pronounced dead. It was found three bullets struck him, two in the region of the heart and one in the left arm. Gray was wounded twice in the' chest. Physicians at the hospital, said his recovery was doubtful. According to information vclun- ' teered by employes and officials of | the railroad company, business difficulties between the two resulted in a feud which had flared up several times within the last two weeks. The pair engaged in frequent wwd battles and recently almost! came to blow's at a directors’ meeting. Bullet Crashes Through Glass Officials of the Western Maryland I w'ere emphatic in their assertions there were no differences between the two outside of their business relations. Apart from their contact in their ! respective positions, it was said, the | pair never encountered each other I in social circles. It was later reported one of the ! bullets fired in the shooting crashed through a window of the office into the main offices adjoning. Stenographers and clerks were thrown into a panic, it was said, when the missile buried itself in a ! wall at the opposite side of the j room, less than five feet from an i empolye. Several women employes are rei ported to have feinted when Byers | appeared at the door of his office, blood strear.ir from his wounds. SHOOTS WIFE, SELF Financial Losses Blamed for Rich Man’s Act. By l nitrd Press CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Aldrich Van Patten, 47, wealthy credit manager ! for Armour & Cos., shot his wife ! Maude, 45, to death today and then committed suicide. The bodies of Van Patten and his i wife w'ere found bv a friend in a bed in the luxurious Van Patten apartments on Stewart avenue, a fashionable district. The friend, R. C. Frederick, who ! lives below the Van Patten apartment, said the credit manager had been worrying over unprofitable in- ! vestments and several times had 1 threatened suicide. Schools Borrow 5900.000 Bid of the Harris Trust and Savings Company, Chicago, on a $900,000 temporary loan for the Indianapolis schools, was accepted by the school board today. The loan, to be repaid Nov. 15, after fall tax money is received, will bear 3 per cent interest.

An automobile swept around the street intersection, striking the open door of the car and jamming the ex-champion's arm between the door and the side of the machine. He was taken immediately to a hospital where several stitches were taken. The wound was painful but not considered serious.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930

Safety Board Sifts City Police Bribe Scandal in Secret Parley

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Til is morning it was summer, but this afternoon it's autumn. For at 12:37 p. m. today, according to the World Almanac, summer closed shop for a season of u'alnut stains, football “rahs,” turkey gizzards and “punkin” pies. So here’s some autumnal equi-

CONFESSION AS KILLER DOUBTED Admitted Slayer of Appel Girl Believed Insane. i Bu l titled Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 23. Authorities questioning George Sherman Myers, 40, today expressed doubt in a confession which they said he made to the murder of 8-year-old Marverine Appel on Aug. 27. Myers, they said, confessed after long questioning that he kidnaped and attacked the girl, then choked her to death with a piece of wire, left her body in a barn and later carried it to an alley, where it was found two days later. Some of Myers’ remarks did not coincide with known facts, authorities said, and they believed he might be insane. He was questioned throughout most of the night at the sheriff's office. Early today he was removed to Michigan City for safe-keeping while South Bend authorities debated on what to do with him. “Obviously he’s demented.” Glen Thompson, deputy prosecutor who questioned the suspect, said. ’’l don’t believe the confession will stand up. The facts do not check with the evidence we have. Probably got his information from newspapers.” Myers has lived in South Bend several years and made a living salvaging junk and selling it. From the state prison at Michigan city. Warden Walter Daly telephoned Governor Harry G. Leslie this morning and informed him feeling against the suspect is running high in Michigan City. The Governor advised Daly to safeguard the prisoner. When Daly told the Governor newspaper men were insisting on interviewing the suspect. Leslie reminded him prison rules forbid such interviews. CITY BONDS ARE SOLD Fletcher Savings and Trust Gets Street Improvement Issue. City Comptroller William L. Elder sold $19,000 in 4 per cent street improvement bonds today to the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company at a premium of $>3.80.

nox signs as snapped on Butler university’s campus. Upper left: A shady lane r.nd leaves and —maybe love. Upper right: Miss Betty Ramey, 5686 Washington boulevard, inaugurating the indoor swimming pool season in the field house. Left-center: Bert Davis (left) and Ben Parrish (right), former

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MAX KOS FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING TWO WITH CAR

The second trial of Max S. Kos, charged with involuntary manslaughter, ended shortly before noon today when a criminal court jury returned a verdict of guilty after seventeen hours’ deliberation. The conviction carries with it a sentence of one to ten years in the Indiana state prison. Kos will be sentenced at 9 a. m. Monday by Special Judge Harvey A. Grabill of the criminal court. He was released on bond pending his sentencing. Asks for Instructions The verdict was returned two hours after the jury had called upon the judge for re-reading of his instructions. Kos was stoical throughout the reading of the verdict. The conviction may be appealed. Kos' case was submitted to the jury late Monday after a six-day trial. Closing arguments were made by* Paul Rnoadarmer, chief deputy prosecutor, and Ira M. Holmes, defense attorney. Tried twice for the offense, Kos is alleged to have run down two workmen for the Indianapolis Street Railway Company at Linwood ave-

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Tech “backboard'' artists, raking in something besides goals. Lower left: “When the leaves wouldn't be left alone.” could easi ily be the title of this, with Miss Charlotte Cashon. 3909 Central i avenue, Butler “frosh,” keeping them company. Lower right: The tree of knowl- ! edge.

YOUNG BANDIT SLAIN BY COPS ' Hunted Boy, 21, Killed as He Is Cornered. I Jill I nill'll pres* HAMMOND. Ind., Sept. 23.—A ; night alleged to have been spent in I banditry was ended for John Ashby, 21, when he was shot anc killed : early today by Hammond police. Police said they fired w'hen Ashby | appeared to be drawing a gun after being cornered. They captured Monroe Mullen, 20, : Ashby's companion. Ashby and Monroe, according to ! officers, held up a garage in Calu- ! met City and shot Ed Bisa, the at- ‘ tendant. He was not expected to ; live. Robbery of a soft drink parlor was said to have followed. Police found the men at the home of Ashby’s sister here.

nue and East Washington street, killing them both instantly. The jury in the first trial disagreed on a verdict. Kos is a World war veteran, holding several medals for valiant service. On the witness stand Monday, he denied being intoxicated when his sedan crashed into the men, but admitted he had “one drink.”

$2 and Compact Carry Girl on Long Sea Trip Bn T nited Press NEW YORK. Sept. 23 —Miss Julia Green Nelson, pretty 22-year-old San Francisco nurse, who boarded the liner Pennsylvania with $2 and a powder compact, arrived here with her passage paid first class. Miss Nelson went on board the Pennsylvania at San Francisco and sat down in a deck chair. After twenty-four hours at sea she felt something ought to be done about a meal. She made known her presence to the captain who put her to work rolling bandages in the ship’s hospital. A wealthy passenger heard of the incident and paid her passage. Women passengers furnished her with a wardrobe for the trip.

Prior to Meeting, Mayor Sullivan Orders Department ‘Cleaned of Alleged Corruption’; Asks U. S., State Aid. SHIFT IN DISTRICTS EXPECTED Sufficient Evidence Before County Grand Jury to Obtain Some Indictments, Says Stark; 18 Cops Face Trial. First moves to cleanse the Indianapolis police department of alleged corruption were believed under discussion at an informal, secret session of the safety board at noon, after the board at its regular meeting this morning failed to touch on indictment 'of eighteen patrolmen and officers on federal conspiracy charges. Attending the session were all board members except Frank C. Dailey, occupied with legal matters; Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Police Chief Jerry E. Kinney and Lieutenant John Sheehan. Prior to the board meeting, Mayor Sullivan ordered the police department “cleaned up,” and asked federal, state and

county aid in the cleaning. His demands came as federal probei-s were reported still active in the city, and county grand jurors prepared to investigate the situation. Sheehan on Aug. 30 witnessed a sale of liquor in a speakeasy of which Chris and Pete Schischcoff and Chris Vilaschcoff, both under federal indictment on liquor charges, were proprietors. It was in this place, at 843 East Washington street, that much of the federal investigation was carried on. Morris Defends Department Sheehan arrested the trio on blind tiger charges, but the case against Schischcoff was dismissed by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron, who ruled Sheehan had no right to make the arrest without a search warrant. Vilaschcoff today was given a continuance until Sept. 30. While many deplored the situation today as extremely black, Donald S. Morris, safety board member, pointed out that the smear was not large when the size of the police department was considered. Four agencies, the prosecutor. Attorney-General James M. Ogden, the federal agents, and the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, have investigated conditions here several months, and succeeded in indicting only eighteen of the 545 members of the force, he said. “That's a better record than most organizations, private or municipal can show,” Morris challenged. Scanning of charges of alleged graft and a “wide open” city, has been ordered, as federal authorities are preparing to try eighteen city policemen arrested Saturday for alleged conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law. Arrest of several persons not connected with the police force, but said to have been implicated in the alleged conspiracy, is expected momentarily at the federal building. Bootleggers Take Recess Meanwhile, bootlegging activities today were said to be almost at a standstill after patrolmen Monday afternoon are alleged to have passed the word down the line to “lay low for a while.” Major Herbert Fletcher, whose post in the police department is equivalent to assistant chief of police, returned to headquarters this morning, having cut short his vacation, which began last Saturday. “I started on a fishing trip,” Fletcher said, “but when I learned of the indictments, I returned at once to be of whatever assistance I can to Chief Kinney.” Secret probe had been under way by Prosecutor Judson L. Stark and his deputies before the federal grand jury reported, and sufficient evidence already has been gathered to obtain indictments, it was said. Stark criticised reports that the secret finding will “blow the lid off of the protection graft.” as “exaggerated.” “There are a lot of shady facts we can’t uncover now,” Stark said, adding that federal government’s probe had “scared them to death.’ Stark Blames Lack of Funds No witnesses have been summoned before the grand jury, according to Stark “It will be impossible to justify the expectations of the public under these circumstances,” the prosecutor declared, “but this office will attempt to get at the root of every evil in police circles.” Stark's brother, Noel Stark patrolman on the police force, was among officers named in federal indictments. Stark blamed lack of funas and investigators for being unable to

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make his probe of the past two weeks more extensive. "This office is so crippled for means that our probe can’t be sweeping and probably won’t extend outside the city,” he said. Stark Boosts Probe Rumors that Sheriff George L. Winkler’s deputies will come under the probe ax are believed to be shattered with this statement. Stark’.* boosting of the pofice investigation is construed in some circles as an "escape” from the incomplete grand jury investigation into primary election fraud and corruption. Sullivan said he will not seek evidence from the government for the '■ Mid of safety trials of suspended polio: officers. “Such a move would not be fair,” he aeded. "We will wait until after the federal trials in November. It would not be fair either to the men or the government to place the men on trial before the board at this time.” Sullivan said his aids are working secretly in their efforts to “get at the bottom of the whole mess.” “We have consulted with the government and we want the co-opera-tion of federal authorities,” he said. “We also want county and state authorities to aid. Attack Warrant System The city is without a fund to employ investigators, Sullivan pointed out. It is expected orders will be given to the detective department to aid in the operations. City officials today attacked the methods which thwart police in their efforts to obtain search warrants. “The system is ridiculous, “one official declared. “Requirements a police officer must meet before he is granted a warrant have had a lot to do with inability to enforce laws in this city.” MELLON AIDS DENY HE OWNED BREWERY ‘Wild Cat' Beer Plant Building Is Listed in Secretary’s Name, Rv I nited Press PITTSBURGH. Pa.. Sept. 23.—A building listed in the city assessor's records as owned by A. W. Mellon was raided by Federal dry agents Monday and a “wild cat” brewery, they said, was discovered. The local office of Secretary of Treasury Mellon denied knowledge of the ownership. Frank Carr, 27, was held in the raid. Quantities of beer, wine, whisky and gin, the raiders said, were seized. "LEGS’ DIAMOND ON RUN Gothem Gangster Given Hour to Get Out of Philadelphia. Bpl nited Press PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23.—Jack (Legs) Diamond, New York gangster who so cordially was invited to leave Germany, also was invited to leave Philadelphia today, but with a onehour time limit. The New Yorker was arraigned on a “suspicious character” charge, after being arrested upon arriving here on the freighter Hanover Monday, and was ordered to leave town within an hour. DRY AGENTS ROBBED Relieved of Confiscated Auto While They Eat ir. Restaurant While federal operatives munched sandwiches in a nearby restaurant, someone stole their confiscated Hudson automobile Monday, from its parking place at the curb in the 20Q block Indiana avenue, they reported to police today. The car, the property of the department of justice, bore Georgia license plates. SUSPECT IS QUESTIONED Former Convict Held by United States in Counterfeiting Case. Federal officers today continued quuestioning Harry Jaeger, alias Hunter, alias Brechong, 53, of 225 North Liberty street, whom they suspect as a counterfeiter. Jaeger has served two federal prison terms for counterfeiting. In his room officers who raided with search warrants say they found equipment for manufacturing spurious 50-cent pieces.