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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-16
WITNESSES FOR
COACH COMP ANY
LAUD COMFORT
Convenience Also Praised
at Public Service
Hearing.

Motor buses offer an element
Of comfort and convenience not
characteristic of street car trans
portation, several witnesses for the
Peoples Motor Coach Company de
clared today before the public service
commission at hearing on applica
tons Of the bus company and the
indianapolis Street Railway to
establish new bus lines.
Four teachers at School Al praised
the bus service. The following wit
nesses were presented by the coach
company:
Miss Celia Meskill, 1904 N. Della.
ware St.; Miss Nellie O'Donnell, 1911
Bellefontaine ST.; Mrs. Alice E. Hill.
$40 E. Twenty-Fifth ST., and Miss
Vivian c. Sewer, 2110 Woodlawn
Ave-, all teachers; Ford Woods, 269
Buckingham Dr., real estate dealer;
Theodore Bcrnd, 22l7 Union ST., city
councilman, and A. Smith Bowman.
head Of the coach company.
Attorneys for the coach company
expected to complete introduction
of witnesses today and the Indian
apolis Street Railway Company
planned to enter the active fight
Wednesday. Clyde H. Jones, public
service commission member, is pre-
siding.
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CHINESE STORM
u. S. HOSPITAL
Canton Consul Reports In
cident to Washington.

Bp United Press
WASHINGTON, June 16.-The
American Baptist Hospital at WI
Chow was storned by Chinese mob
who shouted at the staff: Kill for.
signers," the State Department was
advised today by Consul General
Douglas Jenkins at Canton. The
Incident took place last week, Jen-
kins said, adding that no disorders
followed
Anti-foreign agitation is continu-
Ing In Canton, Jenkins reported, but
.he said the police department was
beginning to function again and ''it
now seems likely that order will be
restored shortly"
Jenkins said he still was urging
Americans, especially women and
children, to leave for safe places.
Since the capture of Canton by
The Cantonese army and the result
Ing route of the Yunnanese, the
cadets of the military school at
Whampoa, OF which the instructors
are Russian soviet officers, seem to
dominate the situation, Jenkins
9a4ds
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until 4 in the afternoon" he said
THAT was six hours and doctors
say that no matter what medical at
tention would have been given her
after that lapse, It would have made
absolutely no difference. That
knocks the murder charge in the
head. The statement also shows that
Stephenson wanted TO marry the
girl and that she refused So
where's their case?"
States attorneys expressed them
selves as confident they have not
lost much ground. They have to
put the statement in as q whole, {"
said Remy.
Stephenson Happy
Stephenson laughed and shook
hands with friends in the courtroom
during the long recess while the
copies OF the statement were being
made.
do I look downcast7" he asked
Sure, have bath every day, and
I'm Just as clean as I look"
The former Khan leader is as fat
and rosy and shakes hands with as
strong a grip as ever. Two months
and a half in jail have not affected
him a bit, to all appearances.
Slow Start
The hearing was slow in gettine
under way. Taking of hashlight
photographs by newspaper pho
tographers. arrangement OF chairs
for the large number Of lawyers
present and other preliminaries
occupied almost thirty minutes.
1t was 9:15 when the defendants
were brought into court. The pro-
TuTn to Page y
t4 ~ 19t-f'~f
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REPORT MADE
ON JULIETTA
Board Says East Wing
Should Be Torn Down..

The east wing of Julietta, county
hospital for the insane, should be
torn down, according to a report of
board of arbitrators on file today
with Russell j. Ryan, county attor-
ney. Ryan said he will submit the
report to county commissioners.
Inmates Of the institution have
been housed in the west wing due
to the faulty construction. The
east wing is dangerous because of
bad concrete, the report states.
County commissioners recently an
nounced they will take steps to
close the building. saying inmates
should be provided for at expense
of the State.
Ryan said he will soon be able to
file suit for approximately $3.50. 900
damages against George A. Weaver
G. Son, contractors. who constructed
Julietta.
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BY Ruby We'll
Times Staff CorresDOndent

HAMILTON COUNTY CIRCUIT
COURTROOM, NOBLESVILLE,
Ind, June 16.-Madge Oberholtzer'
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George E.
Oberholtzer, and her brother, Mar
shall, saw D. c. Stephenson for the
first time today. There was hardly
a flicker Of the eyelids as the three
Oberholtzer's looked across the court
room to where Stephenson, with
Earl Gentry and Earl Klinck, sat
with the attorneys who were fight
ing TO have the trio admitted to bail.
Trio Avoid Eyes
The three who are charged with
the murder Of Madge Oberholtzer did
not return the look. They turned,
chatting and smiling to their at
torneys. There was only g. slight
stir in the courtroom as the three de-
PENDANTS, apparently well groomed
and in good spirits. entered with
deputy sheriffs AS they went for
ward. Mrs. Oberholtzer and her son
entered, and took seats beside Mrs.
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MISSIVES WRITTEN TO
YOUTH AT DARTMOUTH
Isabelle Says Foster Fatf sr
of MCClintoCk Became
Very Cool After Million
aire Lad Announced Their
Engagement.
Rv Edward G.. Derr
By Edward G. Derr
United Press staff CorresDondent

Untten Press StuIT COTTeSpOHueHC
CRIMINAL COURT, CHI
CAGO, June 15.-Smiling and
blushing, beautiful Isabelle
Pope today went through the
"hardest ordeal "-she saw her
love affair with Billy McClin-
took the millionaire orphan, "
paraded in public in a crowded
courtroom.
Isabelle was a witness for the
prosecution, seeking to prove that
William D. Shepherd murdered
young McClintock in order to OBJ
tain Billy's fortune.
But it was under cross examina-
ton by William Scott Stewart, chief
counsel for Shepherds defense. that
Miss Pope was called upon to test
her nerve She identified love let
tiers she had written to Billy and
heard them read in public.
Stewart handed Miss Pope the
original letters she had written to
Billy when he was at Dartmouth
College. She turned them over,
looked at her own handwriting, read
the endearing phrases and said:
yes, 1 wrote these letters to
Billy"
Reads Only Portions
Stewart then read only those por.
tions which he considered vital to
Shepherds defense. They dealt
chiefly with her attitude toward
Billy's foster parents. Isabelle had
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OBERHOLTZERS STOIC
DURING THEIR ORDEAL
Father, Mother and Brother of Dead Girl See Accused
Men for First Time.

Oberholtzer's husband, who had been
in the room sometime.
1t was two months to the day that
Oberholtzers had buried Madge, after
a month during which doctors had
fought an admittedly futile battle to
save her life. Madge died on April
IA. She was buried two days later.
Brother Aged
In these two months Marshall
Oberholtzer has grown older. There
was a firmness about his mouth as
he sat beside his mother, talking
occasionally watching proceedings
closely. His mother, simply dressed
in black with a small white lace
collar, and an unveiled black hat,
hardly looked at Stephenson until
the hearing was well under way. Her
husband, an unassuming man, main
tanned the most stole determination
to "see it through" that marked
his manner from the time Madge
was taken home to die.
With the Oberholtzers were Mrs.
Eunice Schultz, who rooms at the
Oberholtzer home at $500 University
Ave. Indianapolis; DIR. John X.
Kingsbury, the doctor who tried in
vain to save Madge, and Miss
Beatrice Spratley, the nurse who
worked night and day, helping him.
Motley Crowd
A motley audience watched the
proceedings. There were perhaps
twenty-five women and about 100 to
125 men in the room. These were
motherly women in house dresses,
without hats, tanning themselves
with palm-leaf fans.
There were few younger WON.
en-, dressed up for the occasion.
Many Of the men were in shirt
sleeves and suspenders. A few were
without collars.
Few glances were directed at the
defendants or the Oberholtzer fam.
lily.
Among the spectators four Indian
apolis women, friends and relatives
of the Oberholtzers, watched the
proceedings. They were Mrs. A. B.
Boiler, mother of Mrs. Oberholtzer;
Mrs. William Hodgson, Mrs. James
Ferguson and Mrs. Downey Phillips,
all Of Speedway City.
With them was Mrs. Marshall
Oberholtzer. whose home is in Lin.
ton, Ind, and Mrs. G. w. Gooding,
wife of the Hamilton County sheriff
and a friend of the Speedway City
women.
Only once did Mrs. Oberholtzer
shows signs of breaking down.
For all purposes of the court,
Madge Oberholtzer will be on the
witness stand when her dying state
ment is read in court" asserted At
torney Charles f. Cox.
Mayes mother looked down. her
handkerchief to her lips. 1t was
many moments before she looked
up.
The time dragged. while the at.
torneys argued back and forth.
Technicalities - Mrs. Oberholtzer
was not interested in these. but she
was interested in the men who were
arguing. Her glances went from
the leader of the defense, Eph In.
man. large dignihed, and firm, to
Prosecutor Remy, much younger,
slight but just-as -deterw med.
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Principal State witnesses, includ-
ing Miss Oberholtzers parents, her
brother Marshall; DIR. John K. Kings
bury, her physician; Mrs. Eunice
Schultz, who lives with the Ober-
holtzer family; Asa ]. Smith, Indian
apolis attorney and friend OF the
family; Griffith Dean. Smiths law
partner, and H. A. Permiss, man.
ager of the Indiana hotel at Ham
mond, Ind, have been called by the
defense to testify.
Others in Court
Others present who expect to be
called are: DR.. J. A. Macdonald OF
Indianapolis, who was called in con-
sultation several times during Miss
Oberholtzer's final illness, and De-
tectives McMurtrie and McGlenn who
arrested Stephenson at the Wash
ington Hotel on the warrant signed
by the young woman's father, charg-
ing assault and kidnapping. This was
several weeks before her death.
Before the hearing Ira Holmes Of
the defense counsel admitted that he
believed the hearing would be con-
cluded Wednesday night.
Lawyers representing the defense
are Eph Inman, Holmes, Floyd G..
Christian, Ralph A. Waltz, r. E.
johnson and Alfred Cowan.
Al.
Charles e. Cox. Ralph X. Kane,
Thomas X. Kane and justin Rob
erts, Hamilton County prosecutor.
Holmes Jubilant
Attorney Holmes was tubilant
after reading the dying declaration.
"It shows that Miss Oberholtzer took
the poison tablets at 10 in the morn
ing. nd never told any one, about it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-16
GALES VICTOR
I'm first TILT
WITH KELLOGG
Mexicans Seize Land of
Americans and Leave Rep
aration to Commission.
By William Phillip Simms
Times WASHINGTON Bureau,
1922 Netr York A rcnMe

WASHINGTON, D. c., June TO-
The big stick fourished by Wash
ington with fearsome gusto in the
face of surprised Mexico, more than
likely will turn out to be merely a
stuffed club productive of more noise
than gore.
President Gales having won the
first tilt fought out in public, Sec
rotary of State Kellogg shows a dis
inclination to continue the bout in
the open. The rest of the battle will
be behind closed doors, at least for
the time being
Thus far diplomatic circles are in
clined to award the honors to Presi-
dent Gales and the indications are
that the prestige of the United
States has not been greatly en-
HANGED by the Kellogg Gales en-
counter, particularly in Latin
American countries.
Stands by Peasants
The incident, however, is still far
from closed. President Gales openly
declares his fast duty is the peasant
and laborites, who elected him. Fur
thermore he has promised that be-
fore he is through, the 100000
peasants who constitute four-fifths
of Mexico's population will be given
land. And today he is only about
half way through with his land dis
tribution job. Even If he wanted to
he could not back. 1t would mean
revolution.
But apparently Gales does not
want to back down. Sooner or later,
he says, the oil and other mineral
deposits of Mexico will become ex-
hausted and then the country must
depend upon her agricultural re-
sources for her existence. With a
view to that day Mexico's illiterate
peasantry must be given land and
taught how to use it. Such in a nut
shell is his program.
Claims Are Considered
If, in the process of putting this
program through, American and
other property owners have their
rights infringed upon, as lis ad-
mittedly likely, it is pointed out that
there are two INSTRUMENTATION
claims commissions already formed
and now sitting to redress the
wrongs.
More than 5000 claims have been
filed. More are being filed daily
1t is estimated that between $30,O00,-
600 and $50,000,000 will be demanded
from Mexico through these claims,
but vast scaling down is certain
before any payments actually are
made.
Property Seized
American owners claim Mexicans
era selling their property with the
deliberate intention Of throwing the
prices before the claims commission,
knowing it will be years before most
of them will be settled. Meantime
the Mexicans will be in possession
Of the property, in some cases, they
charge, to their ruination.
This last is understood to be
among the specific grievances which
the United States will call to
Mexicos attention some day. Sec
rotary Kellogg's blunt warning to
Gales seems to have been merely
his first bluff in the diplomatic poker
oh 10
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-16
CONSTRUCTION KEEPS ON
Commissioners Report For Week
Shows 321 Permits.

Indianapolis building boom con-
tinues. Report Of Francis F. Ham
ilton, city building commissioner, for
week ended June 10 shows 321 per-
mits, with valuation of $734,925. H.
F. Templeton, smoke inspector,
made forty-five inspections during
the same period.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-16
CITY BOARDS BANKRUPT?
"Fire Somebody" Says Mayor to
Secretary Williams.

Fire somebody, suggested Mayor
Shank today when Oscar Williams,
secretary of the board OF safety, re-
ported various branches of that de-
partment are bankrupt at meeting
today. Board instructed William TO
prepare complete report Of financial
condition.
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THIEF TAKES HER TEETH
Pocketbook Stolen From Home Also
Contained Watch.

Theft of purse from her home
was vital to Mrs. A. j. Iron, 20
Virginia Ave, she told police today.
1t contained her false teeth.
A watch set In stones and a bank
boolxswas also lost.
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Train Bearing Germans
From Chicago to Coast
Wrecked by Debris Filled
Switch at HaCkettstown,
New Jersey.
SEVERAL DIE FROM
STEAMPIPE SCALDS
Engine Flows Into En-
bankment and Coaches
Pile on Top of It-Farm-
ers Hear Crash Above
Noise Of Storm.
9N United Press

sg United Press
HACKETTSTOWN, N. j.,
June 16.-At least twenty
sight persons lost their lives
md more are dangerously in
jured as the result Of Lacka-
wanna excursion train piling
Up on a debris-chocked switch
during a lightning storm near
here early today.
Most oft he victims were members
If an excursion party of Chicago
Germans, bound for New York, to
sail today for Germany on the liner
Republic.
Fifty persons were injured serious.
", and a score others suffered pain
full, but less serious hurts.
Burned by Steam
Those who died in hospitals were
victims Of burns from steam poured
into the cars after the steam pipes
had broken.
The dead included four small chill
dren. Three have been identified.
One doctor said the death list
would be greatly augmented as
many of those scalded could not pos
sibly recover. Those persons were
In the first three cars, which filled
with steam from broken pipes on the
wrecked engine which lay a smok-
Ing mass of twisted steel at the bot
tom of the heap Of wreckage.
Cars Pile Up
Nearing it's destination, the train
was forging ahead at a fast pace
through the binding torn when the
accident occurred. Lightning flashed
with stage-like frequency to an ac-
compartment of booming thunder.
Suddenly the cars swerved as the
wheels dropped from the slippery
rails onto the ties. Men, women
land children were hurled from their
seats. The engine plunged nose first
into the rocky border Of the roaobed.
Three cars piled up on top OF it.
Broken pipes Of the engine spurted
scalding steam upon the helpless vic
Tins as they struggled vainly to ex-
tricate themselves from the tangled
metal. Women and children were
trampled In the mad stampede for
safety. Passengers broke through
windows, Jagged with shattered
glass.
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SWEEPING VICTORY SCORED
j. AS COURT ORDERS COPIES
Prosecutor Taken by Surprise When
Called to Testify in Hearing to
Release Accused Trio on Bail
Mother in Court, Weeps.
BY indianapolis Times Leased Wire

CIRCUIT COURT ROOM NOBLESvILLE Ind. June 16.
The dying of Madge Oberhozer of Indianapolis
with whose murder D. c. Stephenson, Earl Knck and Earl
Gentry charged is in possession of the defense.
Scoring sweeping victory at the opening session of the
hearing the defendants ball. the defense obtained
rulings from Judge Fred E. Hines of Hamilton Circuit Court
giving the right have copies of the dying statement and
page of the register of the Indiana Hotel Hammond Ind
State forces led by William H. Remy Marion County pros
ecuor determined battle against urrendering the doc
umens and did only with the understanding that the de-
Tense have them only for the purpose of reading them
evidence and for inspection for the purpose of prepang
defense
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Small Crowd

The courtroom filled slowly but before adjournment was
almost filed probably l25 spectators being present
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Vigorous Opposition


From the first the State had vigorously opposed surrender
of the dying statement of Miss Oberholtzer
The statement alleged to have been given by Miss Ober
hotter to her parents she kidnapped the night Of
March 5 forced occupy sateroom train with Stephen
attacked by him. The following morning she said the
party left the train Hammond and hotel While
there she said she obtained poison and took and then
rushed back Indianapolis by automobile and kept pr
until the day. being refused medical assistance or
opportunity to obtain it.
She died April a. Stephenson Klnck and Gentry
indicted April 18 and have been in jail April 90 For the
three weeks they have been in jail Nobesve
change of venue from the Marion Criminal Court.
Mother Calm
Throughout the proceedings the parents of Miss Oberho
and her brother Marshall at the States table and
watched the proceedings ntenty At times Mrs Oberhozer
would bow her head and weep slightly but time did
lose the remarkable which characterized her when
she entered the court
The defendants excellent SPIRITS they took lively
the progress of the and eated with
ruling by which they obtained sight Of register page
and the dying statement.
Stephenson particularly interested in the hotel register
page which March inspected carefully
then smiled, and turned to newspaper and sadi See
said Klnks mine is there have
said all the time"
Among the the page the folowngi
mr. and Mrs w. B. Morgan, Franklin Ind. and Earl
Gentry"
Gentry is a defendant.
Small Crowd
The courtroom filled slowly before adjournment was
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Forecast

X ENERALLY fair tonight
VI and Wednesday, except
possibly local thunderstormsy
moderate temperature.
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Home Edition

TIER child dead, Chickie re-
IL turns to her home. Read
"Chickie" on the back page
every day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-01

ca { do her any good. She's ready
to 90. She has srent all her life
on the roads o. the world from
on. encampmert t o another. We
were born, oh, everywhere, but all
w VS. under the sky. One Of US
came in Germ: any, one in Italy, one
in England, one. in Spain, others in
r mau,a. Listen 10 her nutter, but
she's still the queen until she dies.
A mandolin, its bright-hued RIB
hons all aflutter, hangs on the wall.
1. is mute now for there is no mus
i. in the camp While the queen lies
SD i'll.
The mandolin typifies the 70.
nance that the gypsy queen haa
lnown-love, song, the free and
easy life Of the road-but squalor,
Lo, and in the end squalor is all
@hat remains. The rest-like the
knandolin--ia mute.
The queen 5 known to all the
gypsies of the metropolitan area
as Mrs. Sara stevens. Her hus-
band, aged and feeble, lies on 2
cot beside her, with the vagrant
winds bringing him also dim pie
lures and historic messages.
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VIVID PICTURE
OF CONDITIONS IN
RHINE REPUBLIC
lC0ntIMued from p 0nal

Continued from Page Onel
country is in a most fIourisbirg
state, The sterilization of their
currency has made a new country
Of it.
Industry is gong full tilt and
you have never seen anything like
the number, size and variety of their
factories and plants Of every de-
scription. They are UP to date in
everything.
At an industrial exposition I saw
in Munich, they had two radio loud
speakers about six feet square en-
retaining a tremendous crowd with
music instead of a band. Not once
did [ hear any static. 1t was by
far the best radio I have ever heard.
We saw some so airships which
are at the present time flying
around Germany They are small
only 40 to so horse power-thc
larger ships the allies VIII not al
low them to construct.
The price Of everything is very
high-about like American prices.
A good meal in a hotel costs about
$500 and a room SIS to SO.
There is absolutely no sign Of
poverty. Everyone looks prosper
Gus and happy. The energetic, full
day German is in evidence every,
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They ate doing everything IN
their power to bring about re
versal o. public opinion in their
favor in England and America.
/ understand that the German
newspapers have ceased all anti
foreign 1ropaganda-eyen against
France.
The election of Hindenburg was
an effor. to steer clear Of politica!
party leaders and select a man big
ger than any party. There was no
thought Of Monarchism returning.
A German visa on our passports
now costs only $500 and our bag
GAGE WIS not even opened.
We return to Paris about June
goth AMI sail for home on June %,
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congress

During the past few years
there has been almost unpre-
cedented criticism OF our nation
al congress.
Congress was never exactly
tree of critics. But Of late the
complaints and sarcasms have
been louder than ever.
Assuredly. cur congress is far
IRON perfect. Certainly it has
many members who are no oma-
ments to any legislative BODY.
But ism t it a safe bet that
much of the criticism is being in
sPired by interests that would
Ind their own ends served
much better if congress were
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E 3 q >>PAlC a. II IA :!

envy the luck of very close friend It's funny h
luck For Happiness paishp and such ne deper
on a couple Of regular
youngster of Twelve and youngser OF eight k2
fathers right spirit t;m There's nothing, know Of TO eN
abate ter worth and their meaning 10 him.
He comes home at night to the shout Of his boys and
answers their play with Us" call He rather expects hein
make lots Of noise, and provokes him at all
When Saturday there long hikes to lake, and
kids keep their dad the There may be tour and
camp ire to make With the cugsters it's twice much
No wonder envy this close friend Of mine who IS uc
as LUCKY can be- On all that he does I've very close In
for this bosom acquaintance is me