Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 124, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1932 — Page 12

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RARE STAMPS DISPLAYED AT MEETING HERE A ■ Unusual Exhibits Shown by Enthusiasts From Three States. BY MRS. C. O. ROBINSON A stamp-ede of stamps and stamp enthusiasts featured the tri-state stamp meeting at the Hotel Lockecbie over the week-end, with collectors from Illinois. Indiana and Ohio present. Friday afternoon and evening were devoted entirely to viewing the exhibits, which were arranged attractively. Saturday afternoon the exhibit again was open to the public, and a bourse was held in an adjoining room. Saturday evening the exhibits were removed and an auction was conducted by H. Edgar French of Newcastle. Sunday noon the collectors gathered at a banquet which brought the meeting to a close. Veteran exhibitors consider that the display this year was one of ever olfered. The entries were sent by collectors from the three states and were varied in subject and arrangement. A. W. C. Brumfield of the Indiana club has offered a loving cup, called the Lockerbie trophy, far the most unusual exhibit. It must be won three times to be retained. Progress Is Depicted LeGrand Payne, last year's winner, defended the cup with an exhibit of stamps and covers cleverly illustrated with his own pen sketches. His display depicted the progress in the delivery of messages from the dove in the ark to modern air mail. French displayed unusual cancellation of the 3-cent stamp of 1862, and Mr. Harry Coburn showed oddities in cancelations. Dr. T. Victor Keene exhibited pre-postage covers, the oldest dated 1789, and one of 1811 with a royal signet, from William Hamilton, husband of the famous Lady Hamilton, who influenced English history through Lord Nelson. Shockley exhibited his sheet of 2-cent United States stamps with the 5-cent error. Two stamps of this sheet were printed with a 5-cent valuation. F. Vernon Smith had several interesting frames, one of United States pre-postage covers, one featuring Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt’s letters and covers, and one of ship cancellations, which he is sending to Roosevelt. Smith also! had a frame of autographed cov- ! ers from such celebrities as Meredith Nicholson, Orville Wright, Babel Ruth, Dwight Morrow, A1 Smith, Sir Hubert Wilkens and many others. War Covers Displayed C. O. Warnock's group of Graf ; Zeppelin covers made many of us envious. There were two interesting frames of war covers, one of the Civil and one of the World war, owned by Mr. Petri. Joe Zix had a beautiful frame of George Rogers Clark stamps and first day covers, and Glenn Pagett. president of the Indiana club, had Feb. 22, bicentennial cancellations from a town in each state named Washington, carrying the Governor’s autographs on all but Oklahoma. Alfalfa Bill refused to co-operate. Marion Clark's splendid exhibit of Bavarians is complete except for three stamps, and Mr. Brumfield's charity stamps include one of the first issue of Albert Vestal sent interesting pre-cancels, as did Emerson Erb of Wabash. Mr. Bedford of Akron, 0., displayed a series of stamps showing errors and imperfections, and Robert Flynn of Norwood, 0., an extensive exhibit 6f covers that had been in aeroplane crashes and also Lindbergh autographs. Walter C. Brink of Genesee Depot. Wis., brought a marvelous exhibit of the 2-cent stamp in the Columbian series (the first United States commemorative). His exhibit included many types of cancellations and breaks, the trial engravings in many colors, and the top row of stamps from the first sheet printed. Professor Is Speaker Guest of honor and speaker at the banquet was Dr. L. L. Steimeley, I professor of mathematics at the ! University of Illinois and a native j Hoosier. He gave an entertaining | and instructive talk on the stamps of Bulgaria, and displayed his Bulgarian collection. His stamps are mounted on cards embellished with pen and ink printed description, his own handwork, so skilfully done that it resembles engraving. The auction was hilarious and ! spirited, and a stamp collector must truly be "posted" to trade with such experts, as stamps valued as high as S3OO were offered for sale. THREE ARRESTED IN LAWRENCE RUM RAIDS Several Gallons of Alky, Whisky, Home Brew Seized by Officers. The town of Lawrence was given a "drying out” over the week-end when deputy sheriffs staged two raise, arresting three persons on blind tiger charges am' seizing several gallons of alcohol, whisky and home brew. Corporal Frank Haley, llth infantry, headquarters company at Ft. Harrison, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Riggs, were charged with blind tiger when the raiders found forty gallons of alcohol, several gallons of whisky and a quantity of home brew. Mrs. Lillian C. Waltz was charged with blind tiger when 125 quarts of home brew and eight gallons brewing were seized at her home. She told the deputies a doctor had prescribed beer for her health and told her to "drink plenty of it.”

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Like phantom* from a fabulous past. I Hvinir men and women flit now and then through the news, alwav* well bark of a Page One thev once dominated. Their names mav mean little or less to the vouneer generation, but stir mlghtv memories smone those who krow of the influences they exerted on their times . In a series of articles, of which the following Is the third. William Engle summons thse giants of othr vears from their present obscurit" for a reI view of the careers that made them famous. r BY WILLIAM ENGLE Times Staff Writer 'Copyright. 1932 bv the New York World Telegram Corporation i IN the shambles they had made -t- as they raided 20 Dey street. Judge William Travers Jerome stood, a little flushed, but urbane, and remarked that he now would hold court. This seemed both to the raiders and their quarry incomprehensibly funny. They did not believe he meant it. Did not realize that the young man-about-town jurist was suavely presaging, this spring evening *of 1901, one of the most zestful eras of reform ever to enliven the town, and taking the first bold, unconventional step in a career that marked him as picturesque a crusader as ever snubbed, then drubbed, a snarling Tammany. He had hardly declared himself presiding judge and the court in session, there in the suspected gambling resort, before a jittering gentleman edged over to him. ' Mr. Jerome. I can’t afford to be caught here. You must help me get out.” "You don’t understand this is a courtroom. Hold up your hand and be sworn.” The supplicant squirmed. “You can take your choice. Go to jail for contempt of court or hold up your hand.” The man held up his hand. He was John Doe, he said. “I shall be obliged to commit John Doe to the house of detention to find him when I want him. I do not know his residence.” Well, then, if the judge was serious, he was Maurice Holahan, president of the board of public works, and he was looking for a “wayward son.” In irreverent laughter, the town hooted over that, and forthwith Jerome, abetted by young idealists who were called the committee of fifteen, swung into a senes of combined raids and court sessions on the Spot that brought on a reign of terror in the halls of the corrupt. n n a A S judge first, then as district attorney, he twice beat Tammany into submission. He bagged Canfield, the gambler. He was a barbed fate to Harry K. Thaw. To red light district cadets and to fraudulent bankrupts, doctors guilty of malpractice, swindling lawyers and crooked bookmakers, he was a scourge. Detractors called him Carrie Nation Jerome, caricatured him with the little hatchet he never carried and the cigaret he always did; but he made a place for himself in Manhattan history as a snickersnee of justice. No head was too bard for that blade, no wall of influence too formidable. Before the first decade of the new century ended, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan and he were the best known men in America. Now, to a man of 72, a bronzed, dominant man with close-clipped, gray mustache and horn-rimmed glasses, broad shouldered and standing 6 feet in brown tweeds, that is all a tale told long ago, only a mildly stimulating memory. He stepped out of the spotlight nearly twenty-five years ago, never went back, never has been sorry. A day or two a week he goes to his Broad street office, high above the harbor, and the remainder of the time he spends either at his Murray Hill apart- • ment. or in his Yonkers home, where he lives with his wife, or at the nearby residence of his only son, William Travers Jerome Jr. tt tt tt HE now would much rather play poker in the Union Club, isolate himself in the workshop where he is a skilled goldsmith, or submerge hipiself in the details of Technicolor, the colored motion picture concern which he has backed, than ponder on the glamor of the old fighting days. Yet it is his happy fortune to be remembered generally as a young man. generally as the snickersee of justice. Oddly, his first trafficking with the Tammany he later pilloried was friendly; a graduate of Columbia law school, he married Miss Lavinia Howe of Elizabeth, N. J., in 1888, and in the same year, sponsored Hry his father, he was given a place as assistant district attorney through the intercession of Richard Croker. But at once he saw more than he could stomach, more officially protected law-breaking than he had imagined New York could hold. Withift two years he was supporting the ticket opposing Tammany and he was out of a job. That pleased him. He had his chance then to line up as associate counsel in the Lexow investigation's expose of police-promoted vice. ' He tasted blood. With that battle past, he, with Lewis Delafield. drew up the statute (the legislature passed It) which was one of his most constructive moves—the bill that brought into existence what is now the court of special sessions. i

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unusually fine fettle, he tried, — "I'm the Ghost of the Show That Was S-randcd ::i Pe-o-ri-a ■I ana * „ ' T sgi§ ROM -V fi:.'t. v n* n- - d--f; a :-.r.z ..•= - -: - - r ~ ~ H* did ns h* wa; :r. •ft Bp™ < m tj TOE|!|fwjßßP| But his blur.: frankne-v !v.~ - *'l% - jm' W'\ •y t compromising egoism, mace foes JBb ’ L in the very ranks where etherii -SjHfcw ' v * ~ ft/ Vise a roil call m:etv haw , Wk Wur’ - ail friends. - ‘ f' d ‘ d not mind Hp wa ' ro,! ' ■y'\ ' tent t 0 be at ocicis both ' lip ’ Tammany and with the civic gp*;leaders opposing Tammany. 'I . 'iu- O But his last years in office were • not congenial. When he comigM j V’f v pletcd his final term on Jan. 1, mBHBm&y . o '-'S'Wm i&ffiaa 1910. he retired from politics. jTrue, he did emerge for a while in 1921 mounting the fusion’s:s’ " ifM. 4kh~> stump to deride Hylan, but he had nothing personally to gain. - That was his last public appear-

npHIS court served its purpose. It smashed the protected gambling system, and Jerome became the plausibly fated choice of the fusionists for candidate for district attorney in 1901. Seth Low, president of Columbia university, was nominated for mayor, and turned out to be the most dismal campaigner imag-inable—hard-shelled unprepossessing, acdemic. Jerome bore the brunt of the campaigning; delivered eighty-six speeches, his fervor diverting throngs from Tammany torchlights; won the election, and began.as district attorney at 43, the headlined figure of the town. He asked no quarter; gave none; the bigger they came the harder they fell. He twice prosecuted Thaw. He convicted eight dishonest lawyers. He sent Edward M. Harlam, “millionaire pawnbroker.” to Sing Sing for two and a half years; he defied those who said he would kill himself politically and prosecuted Sam Parks and Diamond Phil Weinseimcr, labor's walking delegates, sending them to prison for extortion; he dogged Dick Canfield, king of all gamblers and finally convicted him. n a u /CANFIELD’S downfall doomed all the others of his kidney; Jerome sent word to them. “I’ve got the goods on you,” he told them. “You’ve got to shut up shop. Send down here by tomorrow afternoon In wagons every gambling implement in your place.” They did. He sent A1 Adams, “policy prince, to sing Sing, and convicted 482 others of low station and high in gambling cases, among them 268 bookmakers and 121 gambling house proprietors. Up in his office then went a plain cardboard sign. It read; OPEN GAME It was the invitation which for years had been pasted over a poker table in one of the large*gambling houses. Jerome exposed it in his office through the same exuberance of spirit which in those days used

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unusually fine fettle, he tried, “I’m the Ghost of the Show That Was Stranded in Pe-o-ri-a.'’ ana FROM the first, when as district attorney he dumfounded the fusionists at a love feast by declaring he was not going to "get too friendly with the reform administration.” he stuck to a policy stated in three words: “I'm running wildcat," he said. He did as long as he was in office. But his blunt frankness, his uncompromising egoism, made foes in the very ranks where otherwise a roll call might have shown all friends. He did not mind. He was content to be at odds both with Tammany and with the civic leaders opposing Tammany. But his last years in office were not congenial. When he completed his final term on Jan. 1. 1910, he retired from politics. True, he did emerge for a while in 1921, mounting the fusionists’ stump to deride Hylan, but he ■ had nothing personally to gain. That was his last public appearance. I

He would much rather wield the goldsmith’s mallet now than the sword of justice. Next—Mrs. Leslie Carter,

CONVENTIONS TO BRING 35,000 HERE IN MONTH Thirty-three Big Gatherings Scheduled for City During October. Thirty-three conventions scheduled for Indianapolis during October will bring 35,000 delegates and visitors to the city, Henry T. Davis, convention bureau manager, said today. Davis estimated these visitors would leave approximately $600,000 in the hands of local business houses during the month. Largest of the October conventions scheduled is the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. Oct. 20-21, which will be attended by nearly 15.000 teachers. The international convention cf Disciples of Christ, Oct. II to 16 at Cadle tabernacle, is expected to reg ister more than 7,500 church leaders and officials. Six thousand medicinal men and women of the country are expected to attend the inter-state postgraduate medical assembly ext. 24-28 at the Claypool and Murat. The American Prison Association congress, which started Sunday and will end Friday, was expect’d ts be attended by nearly 1,000, while the national conference of juvenile agencies, to be held in conjunction, will bring another 250. More than 500 delegates may attend the National Tent and Awning Manufacturers’ Association session Oct. 10 to 13 at the Claypool. YEGGS BATTER SAFES, FAIL TO OBTAIN LOOT Crooks Fail to Break Open Vaults, Investigating Police Told. Yeggmen battered combinations off safes in two downtowr furniture stores during the week-end, but failed to obtain loot, police were informed today. Combinations were ripped from two safes at the Freeman Company store, 338 East Washington street, police were told. Yeggs gained entrance to the Kirk furniture store, 37 South Meridian street, some time Sunday, but failed to break open a large vault, George E. Frank, manager, reported. Week-end thefts were reported by: Tom Conway, 1918 Adams street, $200; George Taylor, 1401 Hovey street, $10; A. L. Piel, 4410 North Pennsylvania street, unestimated; Kroger grocery, 1310 North Senate avenue, unestimated; Russell Stewart, 3060 North Illinois street, $250, and W. H. Harter of Frinceton (Ind.), S4O.

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