Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 126, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1933 — Page 3

OCT. 5, 1933

‘HORSE THIEF’ DETECTIVES TO BE DISBANDED Former ‘Klan Tool’ Acts as Result of Losing Arrest Powers. Branded as the tool of the KuKlux Klan during a regime of intolerance, the Indiana Horse Thief Detective Association, outlawed by the 1933 state legislature which repealed the statute under which it was formed, voted at Noblesville last night to disband for the present. A committee was appointed to go before the 1935 legislature with a view' to enactment of a law' to reestablish the association. Formed forty years ago, the association served for a time in hunting down horse thieves. But the automobile reduced that field, so members turned to efforts to stop petty thieving. Obtained Wide Powers From 1923 to 1926. the association had its greatest power. It was charged that D. C. Stephenson, then grand dragon of the klan in Indiana, enlisted the association members as his henchmen, and that through them, the hooded order obtained wide constabulary powers which, it is charged, were used in persecution of klan foes. With Stephenson sentenced to a life term in prison in the murder of an Indianapolis .woman, the power of the klan faded. So did the power of the detective association. It suffered greatly as evidence of its alliance with the klan was disclosed. Repeal Was Fought “Repeal of the statute was not obtained w'ithout a fight. Repeal advocates branded the association members as “snoopers” on petting parties in automobiles, w'hile opponents asserted the organization W'as highly useful in vigilante W'ork. Among those opposing repeal were several legislators whose affiliation with the klan was an open secret. NOTED EVANGELIST TO SPEAK AT TABERNACLE Death Valley Woman to Appear on Anniversary Program. Mrs. Albert M. Johnson, noted evangelist of Death Valley, California, will be the principal speaker at the celebration of the twelfth anniversary of the dedication of the Cadle Tabernacle next Sunday afternoon and night. The Tabernacle was dedicated Oct. 8, 1921, to the memory of the mother of E. Howard Cadle, its founder and builder. Mrs. Johnson has been guest evangelist on several previous occasions. Guests of honor for the anniversary service will be the many people who have been converted at the Tabernacle during the past twelve years. Both morning and evening services will be broadcast over WKBF and arrangements are being made for part of the program to be carried on the NBC hookup. The Cadle Tabernacle choir, consisting of 1,300 members, will render special music under the direction of Ray Harris. PASTOR TO LECTURE ON EUROPEAN VISIT Weekly Addresses Will be Given at Carrollton Avenue Church. Th Rev. E. G. Homrighausen, D. D„ pastor of the Carrollton Avenue Reformed church, will begin a series of weekly lectures tonight on ‘Understanding Other Peoples,” based upon his experiences and observations in Europe last summer. Mr. Homrighausen was a delegate to the international convention of Presbyterian and Reformed churches in Belfast, Ireland, in June, and afterward visiting England, Scotland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France and Switzerland. The lectures will begin in the social hall of the church. Fortyfourth street and Carrollton avenue. The public is invited. 100 ENROLL AT SCHOOL Jordan Conservatory Registration Total Is Announced. Over one hundred students have enrolled in the degree division of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, according to the statistics of the registrar's office. The figures do not include preparatory students who are taking private lessons in music, dramatic art and dancing. Totals for the four classes are as follows: Freshmen, thirty-eight; sophomores. sixteen; juniors, sixteen; seniors, twenty-seven, and graduate students, four. $3,300 GEMS STOLEN Inland Steel Chief Reports Gold Coast Home Entered. By T'nitni Crrs* CHICAGO. Oct. s.—Edward M. Adams, president of the Inland Steel Company, reported to police toay that his home on the Chicago Gold Coast had been robbed of a jewel box in which there was kept approximately $3,300 worth of pre* cious stones. Adams said the jewel box was taken sometimes during the night of Oct. 2. The University of California has a solid board of sugar pine on exhibition: it is 5 1 " feet wide. 18 feet long and 8 inches thisk. was cut a, a table top but is now preserved as a curiosity.

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‘Political Fox’ —That’s City’s New Postmaster

But Seidensticker Prefers to Call Self Just Rhinoceros. BY ARCH STEIN EL Time* Staff Writer In the town's political potpourri they're calling him the “Fox,” but he's just a “Rhinoceros” to himself. Credited with being a smarty and creeping slyly into the postmastership of Indianapolis, one finds Adolph Seidensticker, the city’s new postal head, denying he sought the office, despite a languishing w'ish of boyhood to one day become a mailman, and admitting a kinship to the “rhino” in the way he’s taking his new job. “I'm not going to be figure-head postmaster. I want to know all there's to know,” says the quietspoken, florid-faced man of German ancestry. “I want to go into the mail rooms. I'm a Democrat in spirit as well as politics. It may take time for me to get every place but I’ll do it.” declares the one-time secretary of the state board of pardons. “No Secrets” Is Motto “No secrets. Everything's to be open and above-board and newspaper men will always receive a welcome,” he said. “Some seem to think that being postmaster will mean as they call it a lot of jobs open.’ That's not true. Until I familiarize myself with the work—about all I've known about the postoffice in the past is where to mail a letter there’ll be no transfers or discharges,” he asserted modestly. Talking to him of his past is like pulling taffy from a stubborn molar. He may tell of the time he urged, out of sentiment’s sake, that the old Independent Turnverein sell its $225,000 site on the Brevort hotel ground and move to the present site of the Hoosier Athletic Club so that elder members could see how their investment had grown into a huge tangible piece of property with a large treasury. Left Law Practice But no boastfulness enters his conversation. He is what he is. If he liked sauerkraut and pigknuckles for breakfast he'd say so. He’d say it bashfully, but outright. In leaving his law practice for a $6,800 job—it paid SB,OOO before the depression—Mr. Seidensticker sliced his contracts as easily as his secretary clips this to put in his scrapbook. In his boyhood at old No. 2 school, Benjamin Harrison, he had thfc adolescent dreams of most youths to be something that required either a lot of mechanical skill or footwork. Father Was Reporter But the postmaster’s ideals ran to hack-driving and mailman insteal of engineer and policeman. He dodged both. A graduate from Shortridge high school, he went to the Indiana law school. He hung his sheepskin and began the practice of law in the firm of Florea & Seidensticker. And, oddly enough, if it hadn’t been for a newspaper reporter there would have been no Postmaster Seidensticker of Indianapolis. The reporter was his father. He came to America in his early life to report the Indiana constitutional convention for a German syndicate of newspapers. He liked the Hoosier city. He stayed. Mediator of Factions And if the few who call him the “Fox” tire of that pseudonym in twitting him, they will admit quickly that “Peacemaker” will serve instead. The new postmaster is credited with making it possible for Senator Van Nuys to obtain a split delegation with Walter Myers, opponent for the Democratic nomination for the senatorial post, in Marion county. Mr. Seidensticker is 58. He is married, has three grown children—all married—and lives at 3720 North Pennsylvania street. ASK SIO,OOO DAMAGES FOR DEATH IN CRASH Suit Filed Against City Firm Result of Accident in Martinsville. Trustees of George Hitz & Cos., local commission mei chants, w'ere named defendants in a SIO,OOO damage suit for the death of Roy Churchill, filed in superior court four yesterday. According to the complaint, Mr. Churchill died following a collision between his automobile and a truck of the Hitz company in Martinsville, I Ind.. June 7. The suit was filed by Harry Morgan, administrator of Mr. Churchill's estate. Defendants are Alfred and Benjamin Hitz. Joseph J. DanI iels and Orvill Rhoades, driver of I the truck. Woman Struck by Thief As she turned to enter home last night. Miss Fay Blankenbaker, 2540 Broadway, was knocked over by a boy about 15, who grabbed a small brief case containing $1 and some insurance papers. Denison Worker Crushed While working as one of the wrecking crew T dismantling the Denison hotel yesterday, Bud Radford, 43, Negro, 730 West North street, suffered injuries to his si<Jg when a piece of timber fell on him.

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JEWISH GROUP SETS jLECTION Beth-EI Congregations Will Name Directors. The Beth-EI Zedeck Congregation will hold its annual general membership meeting at the temple building, Thirty-fourth and Ruckle streets, Monday nigjit. Eleven directors will be elected at the meeting. Nineteen candidates have presented themselves for election, which will be of unusual interest, since this is the first time women members of the congregation will be allowed to vote. Candidates include Henry Blatt, Louis Barnett, H. T. Cohen, Louis Falender, Dr. Philip Falender, J. A. Goodman, Philip Grenwald, Louis N. Grossman, Max Katz, Leo Lefkovits, David Lipp. Adrian A. Reiter, Louis W. Sagalowsky, Louis Sakowitz, George Samson, David Shane, Martin Shane, Jacob Solotken and Louis Talesnick. Rabbi Elias Charry, formerly of Youngstown, 0., is the new spiritual leader of Beth El Zsdek Congregation. NRA IS UNAMERICAN, Lions speaker says Attacked by City Lawyer as Dictatorship. Charging that NRA involves an un-American form of dictatorship, Lloyd D. Claycombs, Indianapolis attorney, addressed the Lion’s Club at the Washington last night on “Some Trends in Government.” “I construe the NRA as a modified form of dictatorship,” Claycombe asserted, “imposed as a temporary effort to bring about prosperity, but we are confronted at the outset with enforcement of its provisions.” “Perhaps we shall find that natural economic laws will assert themselves in the end. We must remember that the Constitution guarantees certain rights to all citizens and sets up our basic law of the land.” PRISONS TO BE SUBJECT Former Chaplain to Discuss Work in Reforming Convicts at Church. The Rev. Larry Newgent, former prison chaplain, will speak of his prison experiences at the Northside Church of God, 900 West Thirtieth street, at 7:30 tomorrow night, the Rev. P. B. Turner, Northside Church pastor, announced today. Mr. Newgent spent several years in prison work, and made a careful study of prison life, segregation of prisoners, convict labor and juvenile problems. Admittance to the lecture will be free.

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RILEY'S BIRTH WILL BE NOTED BY 500 PUPILS Service at Home to Mark Noted Hoosier Poet’s Anniversary. The eightieth anniversary of the birth of James Whitcomb Riley will be celebrated in a program to be presented by more than 500 school children at 11 tomorrow morning, at the Riley home on Lockerbie street. Hugh McK. Landon, Riley Memorial Association president, will open the ceremony. He will be followed by Paul C. Stetson, schools superintendent. Children from School 9, Vermont and Fulton streets, will recite six of the poet’s well-known works. Following the program, members of the memorial association will place a wreath on Riley's tomb in Crown Hill cemetery. The Riley home will be open to the public all day tomorrow except during the hour of the program. Visitors will be welcome at Riley hospital from 2 to 4 in the afternoon. In the event of bad weather, the school program, directed by Miss Margaret Ott, will be held in the auditorium of School 9.

Hot Ice! ‘Stolen Gems’ at Bargain Prove Fakes. QUSPECTED of plotting to get profits not known even in the palmiest days of prosperity, Memiah Farrell, Negro, 1335 Boulevard place, was arrested last night by police on a vagrancy charge and is held pending outcome of an inquiry into his jewelry business. Receiving a report that a man was attempting to sell rings at West and Ray streets, officers went to the corner and found Farrell, who, it was reported, had whispered to another Negro that he had a “hot” ring he would sell for SSO. Farrell, police said, had five rings with fancy settings, none of which cost more than a dime. Each ring was in lavishly embellished box and price tags read from $250 to SSOO. INDIANA STAMP CLUB WILL HOLD MEETING Observe “Penny Night”; Members to Bring 20 Stamps. The Indiana Stamp Club will meet at the Lockerbie tomorrow night at 8. This will be known as “Penny Night.” Each member is requested to bring at least twenty stamps, which will be placed on sale at 1 cent each. TROOP 21 IS WINNER OF COURT OF HONOR Scouts Are High. Scorers in Rite at Church. High point scorers at the October Boy Scout court of honor held last night were members of Troop 21, with headquarters at the Broadway M. E. church. Three members of Troop 21, Fred Cretors and William H. Cook, assistant scoutmasters, and John Cross were elevated to the rank of Eagle scouts. Cretors also received the veteran badge denoting five years of active work in scouting. Dudley Swartz of Troop 71 also qualified for the rank of Eagle scout. The court of honor, which was presided over by Irving Williams, was held in Cropsey auditorium of the City library and was attended by a large group of scouts and parents.

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BOY, GIRL ARE HURT IN AUTO MISHAPS HERE Third Child Is Injured as Bicycle Is Hit by Car. Three pedestrians, two of them children, were injured yesterday afternoon and last night in traffic accidents. Injury of the right hip was incurred by Lester Hickey, 25. of 3400 Bethel avenue, who was struck by a car driven by Hansen B. Clark, Greensburg, at Thirtieth and Illinois streets. Fracture of the right leg was suffered by Robert Buckner, 10, Negro. 2320 Sheldon street, who was struck in an alley back of his home by a car driven by the Rev. Charles W. Poole, 53, Negro. 2026 Cornell avenue. Mary Miller, 12, of 506 North Oriental street, was cut and bruised

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Miss Dorothy Wehling, 17, of 405 Harvard place, when an automobile she was driving collided at Fiftyseventh and Pennsylvania streets with a car driven by Mrs. James Jamison, 39, of 935 West Fifty-sev enth street. A* man in Reading. England, uses his kitchen for a workshop to make models of airplanes which are used to make official tests in that country.