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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
SUIT ATTACKS
LEGALITY OF
new BUS Law
GiIIiom Says State Never
Planned Monopoly for
Traction Lines.
BULLETIN
BULLETIN
Judges Chamberlain and Mil
Ter took the bus case under adj
visement at 1:45 p. m.


Constitutionality of the ninety-day
clause of the new motor bus regula-
ton law was at issue today at a
consolidated hearing before Judges
Harry o. Chamberlin. Of Circuit
Court and Sidney S. Miller Of
Superior Court Three, in Circuit
Court today.
Hearing was on demurrer to in
junction suits filed by the Terre
Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern Trac-
ton Company against the public
service commission to stop issuance
of permits to operate under the
clause to Hiner's Red Ball bus lines
and the Joseph Gregg lines.
Arthur l.. Gilliom. attorney
general, was the spear head Of the
States drive to uphold the law He
based his argument on the broad
basis that the traction company was
attempting to restrict scientific de-
velopment and progress in trans
portation.
1.-THE State never intended and
could not under the Constitution
enter into an agreement that would
give a monopoly Of transportation"
he declared.
He argued that at the time the
contract between the State and
traction company was entered into
the motor bus had note been de-
yeloped and to uphold the companys
contention would be to bar trans
portation progress in the future both
on land and in the air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
BUTLER CLASS
DAY OBSERVED
Commencement Will Be Held
Monday Morning.

Senior Class day opened the three
day program for Butler University's
1925 commencement exercises at 10
a. m. this morning in Butler Col
lege chapel. Miss Constance Forsyth
read the history of the class of 1925;
Irene Seuel, prophecy; Gene Colway,
class will, and George Schumacher
gave the class poem.
Sunday the Baccalaureate sermon
will be preached in the college chapel
by the Rev. Frederick Doyle Kersh-
ner, dean Of the College of Religion.
Invocation will be given by the Rev.
w. L. Ewing, pastor of the Irving
ton Methodist Church. Benediction
by the Rev. Oswald j. Granger, of
the College of Missions.
Seventh annaul commencement ex-
ercises of Butler University win be
held on the college campus Monday
morning at 10 O'Clock. Senator
Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, will give the
address.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
FOUR DEAD IN STORM
Wind and Lightning Sweep Middle
Western States.

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CHICAGO, June 13.-Terrific wind
and electrical storms throughout
wide sections of the Middle West
were blamed today for four deaths
and many injuries and hundreds OF
thousands of dollars damage to crops
and telephone lines.
In Wisconsin one psrson was
killed by the storm.
Flood waters in Minnesota. result
ing from the wind and rain, were
reported below the danger point to-
day. but relief workers in the
stricken areas declared damage to
farms will total $4,000.
Lightning killed one man near
Ivanhoe.
Thursday nights storm in Iowa
cost at least two lives, 1t was re-
ported today. The village of Alex
ander was half wiped out, fifteen
residents being injured. Damage at
that place alone was estimated at
$3.50, 900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
Minor Tornado Strikes Parts
of City as Forerunner
of Relief.

Indiana's prayers for rain were
answered in part early today. when
local showers fell over most of the
State. While rather widely scat
tered and not sufficient to break the
drought of the last month and a
half, crops were aided materially.
Indianapolis rain started at 3 a.
M, and at noon total Of .32-
inch n q fallen. 1t was the first
substantial rain since May "a. Other
places reported varied rain, the
highest being IL inch at Elliston,
near Vincennes, and .9S inch at Ev-
ansville. The forecast is for clear
weather by tonight.
Temperature mounted in Indian
81 polls Friday afternoon, reaching 92
degrees at 1850 p. m. With 1t came
high winds, reaching thirty-eight
miles an hour velocity, at $3.50 p.
m. Average is about twelve miles
an hour.
A miniature tornado descended on
Brookside Ave, Friday afternoon.
Tree on city property was hurled
crashing on the homes Of Joseph
Bevel, 1454 Brookside Ave-, and
oliver Wells, 145S Brookside Ave.
About 500 damage was done.
The wind also wrecked a window
and damaged a soda fountain at the
drugstore of w. c. Stedfeldt, 4901 N.
Pennsylvania st. 7 Jss was 5000.
According to NJ. NJ. Justin, agri-
cultural statistician, Indiana needs
at least an inch of rain to break the
pronounced drought, and save crops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
PHONE APPRAISER HIRED
Service Commission Names Realtor
for Work. z

At joint conference today of the
public service commission and rep
resentatives of the Indiana Bell
Telephone Company, the comm ission
announced employment of George
N. Montgomery. local realtor, to ap-
praise real estate and Improvements
of the company. The Bell has hired
Fred Dixon to cooperate with Mont
gomery. Montgomery will receive
$500 for his part of the task. +,
Field wor kon the Statewide in
ventory of Bell property will be com
pleted within two weeks and the real
estate appraisal will begin at once.
The commission expects to begin
hearings on valuation OF the Bell
about JULY Is. in accordance with
a Federal Court order.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
SCHOOL BUDGET
PROPOSES buy
OF five SITES
Tentative Program Provides
Relief in Acute Housing
shortage.
COST PUT AT $4,000
Erection Of Thirty-Two
CIassrooms Sug-
gested.

Appropriation of $140,000
for purchase Of five sites for
new grade school buildings and
provision for erection of about
thirty-two new class rooms will
be included in the 1925-26
school budget, William H.
Book, business director, in
dicated today.
While the program Is tentative,
the board probably will endeavor to
carry out the plan If it can be done
in the face of other needed ex-
penditures, Book said.
The plan calls for purchase of two
sites on the north side, one on the
west side, one east, and one north
east, Book said.
Two Plans
The new classrooms may be in
three new buildings, or in additions
to present buildings, it is said Three
new buildings provided for under the
1924-25 budget will take care of only
the normal increase in grade school
children, about 1900. These build
ings will not be ready before Sep
tenber, 1925, it is thought.
In order to relieve crowded con-
ditions the board must keep on add
ing buildings. If the proposed new
class rooms could be erected speedily,
it would mean sixty new grade
classrooms within approximately a
year and half
Conferences Tuesday
The special budget committe. COM
posed Of Book, Murray Dalman,
Michael Madden and George Keiser,
will begin conferences Tuesday with
department heads relative to re-
ducing preliminary requests, Book
said, before turning the budget over
to the finance committee, of which
Charles L. Barry is chairman.
Barry has said the budget may
call for $7,479 900, but that figure
was considered in February and at
present is far excessive, Book be-
lieves. Book would not make an
estimate on the total, as there is
still much pruning to be done,' he
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
CANTON FREED OF FOES
Shells Drop in Native Quarter OF
Chinese City.

HONG KONG. June 13.-Yun-
nanese troops driven out of Canton
by brilliant coup of the Cantonese
forces are in full flight today.
At their heels, the Cantonese are
giving chase.
Meantime. foreigners in the Sha-
meen colony. Canton, are throwing
up barricades, fearing possible
further trouble Foreign women and
children are being taken to Hong
Kong.
During the bombardment of the
outer city. shells dropped in the
native quarter. causing the local or
ganizations to appeal to the consular
body to arrange that. there should be
no fighting within tep miles of the
city. No action was taken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
MAN NAMED
DIR. Carl w. Sibbitt Appointed to
Dental Board

Governor Jackson has appointed
DR.. Carl w. Sibbitt of Frankfort as
a member of the State board of
dental examiners to succeed DR..
Scott w. Shields Of Seymour, whose
term expires June %. Carl G.
Heustis of Greencastle has been re-
appointed member of the board of
trustees of the Indiana State Farm.
Both appointments are for four
years. 4.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
SUMNER GIVES
APPEAL BOND
viii Fight Contempt Of
Court Penalty.

A $1,000 appeal bond was pro-
vided by Police Captain Charles
Buck) Sumner when he appeared
with William Bosson, his attorney,
in Superior Court -Four this morn
ing before Judge Clinton H. Givan
Sumner was fined SIS and costs Fri
day afternoon and sentenced to
seven days in Marion County Jail
on contempt Of court charge. Sum-
ner will appeal to the State Supreme
Court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
LOCAL man IS
STATE WITNESS
In GERM CASE
Jerome MatiIIo Says Shep-
herd Expected to Get
McCIintock Money.
MAINTAINED LABORATORY
Housemaid Tells About MyS-
terious Bottles in
Home.
BIZ Enited Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, June 13.-William Oar
ling Shepherd, formerly of Indian
apolis, declared that he intended to
come out OF this McClintock busi-
ness with his pockets full" Jerome
Matillo. Indianapolis. brother-in-law
of the defendant. testified in Crimi-
nal Court here today in the trial Of
Shepherd who is charged with the
murder of the millionaire youth,
Billy McClintock.
Shepherd maintained a complete
chemical laboratory in his home for
many years, Anna Bedford. a for
mer maid in the Shepherd home, tes-
titled. Shepherd is charged with
killing McClintock by giving him ty-
phoid germs.
Laboratory Was Secret
He kept rs or 100 bottles of medi-
cine locked up in a closet in his
bedroom" Miss Beckford told the
jury. He told me not to come into
that room-it was secret.
"Once | went in by mistake and
he was holding a bottle over a glass
flame and laughing as the medi-
cine bubbled.
"Once 1 caught cold and he gave
me some medicine and I got deathly
sick. l had to go to the hospital" "
Will Is Read
Through Miss Beckford S testimony
States Attorney Grove attempted to
picture Shepherd in the role of an
amatuer chemist, plotting to pre-
pare a poison with which to murder
his millionaire ward. 1t was another
link in his chain of circumstances
by which he hopes to prove Shepherd
guilty. Billy's will. giving $4,000
year to his fiancee, Miss Isabelle
Pope and the balance to Shepherd
was then read to the jury as a
matter of record.
DIR. Mantle Rongettin, director OF
the next witness. He said that Shep-
herd came to his institution about q
year before Billy McClintc ks death
and discussed the possibility of TAX
ing a course in bacteriology.
Interested I'm Typhoid
Shepherd manifested particular
interest in typhoid fever" DR..
Rongetti testified. He wanted to
known how it was contracted. He
also talked about tuberculosis"
Shepherds attorneys attempted to
attack the credibility of the witness
by showing that he had been in
dicted for obtaining money under
false /pretenses, but Judge Lynch
stopped them and adjourned court
until 10 a. M, Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
BLACKER is BANKRUPT
Chile ParIor Operator Files Volun-
tar-y Petition With Court.

Dory c. Blacker, operator of
Blacker's chile parlor at 555 Massa-
chusetts Ave-. as w. Ohio St., and
1874 S. Illinois ST., today filed vol
untary bankruptcy petition in Fed
eral Court.
Debts are listed at s70.627.91 and
assets at $46.669.S1. Blacker owes
s1.s63.73 to his walters and wait
resses and other workmen, num-
bering sixty-two individuals, the pc
tition shows.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
TWO SUSPECTS ARE HELD
Rrrests Made in Probe Of Galveston
Bank Robbery.

BIZ United Press
LOGANSPORT, Ind, June 13.--
Two alleged members Of the bandit
gang which robbed the State bank
at Galveston a week ago were under
arrest today
Charles Korbeck. 81, identified by
Charles Gephart, cashier, as the
tall, good looking member" of the
gang, was brought here from Calu-
met City. ILL.,. and placed in Jail.
His brother, Joe Korbeck, is in
custody at Calumet City and has
also been identified, according to
word received here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
REAL SILK AIDS BUTLER
Contributes $4,000 for Building
Fund of University.

Officials of the Real Silk Hosiery
Mills today authorized a contribu-
tion of $4,000 to the Butler Uni
versity building fund, to be used
as part payment for the new school
of commerce building in the univer-
sity site at Fairview Park.
Prize OF 500 each year also will
be awarded to the commerce student
who writes the best essay on the
subject of Corporate Distribution. :"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
ARRESTS UP
Judge Upholds Right of Detectives
to Tote Guns.

Members of horse thief detective
associations are duly qualified peace
officers and can carry guns, Judge
Dan v. White ruled in city court
today, when cases of fifty men ar
rested primary day, May 5, while
distributing the famous "clothespin
slate" were called for trial. The
men claimed to be members Of the
association and were workers for
John l.. Duvall, successful candidate
for the Republican mayoralty nomi-
nation.
Forty-three cases were dismissed
or defendants discharged. Seven
cases were continued until Wednes-
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
Interested in Typhoid
REALTY FIRM , FORMED
Will Take Over Assets of Lafayette
Building Company.

Articles of Incorporation for the
Lafayette Realty Company, Indian
apolis, were filed today with the Sec
retary of State. The firm will take
over assets Of the Lafayette Build
ing Company, now held by James
w. Hunt as receiver, valued at
$500 900. Incorporators and directors
are Elmer w. Stout, c. Milton Kelly,
Dick Miller, Soil Kiser and George
B. Elliott.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
LEGION STANDS
With GOVERNOR
State Department Not to
Observe Defense Day.

The State department of the
American Legion is not making
preparations for observance of De-
fense Test Day, July 4, according to
Frank H. Henley, State adjutant.
The Legion is acting in accord with
Governor Jackson's views on the
subject, Henley said.
The test day would not get the
proper observance If held on July
A." said Henley.
Governor Jackson Friday wrote
the war department the State did
not have time to prepare for the
event. National Legion officials
have promised cooperation in OBJ
serving the day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
COLLINS GIVES TERMS
Four Are Sentenced and Fined In
Criminal Court.

Convicted of second-degree bur-
glary, Herbert Means, 20. today was
sentenced to two to fourteen years
in the Indiana State Reformatory by
Criminal Judge James A. Collins.
George Albert was fined 81 and
costs and sentenced to sixty days
on the In6Aana State Farm on a
charge of feceiving stolen goods.
William Featherstone received the
same fine and sentence on, petit
larceny charge.
Roscoe Hash, convicted of auto
mobile stealing, was fined $25 and
costs and sentenced to thirty days
on the State Farm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
STONE RITES MONDAY
Executive Council to Pick Successor
to Union Head.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 13.-
Warren S. Stone, president Of The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, who died yesterday after
brief illness, will be buried here Mon.
day.
Immediately after the funeral
members of the executive council
of the organization will meet to
elect a temporary successor to their
leader of twenty years. Upon the
death of their chief, William B.
Premier, first vice president, became
acting president Of the brotherhood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
DEATH EVIDENCE
TO BE- FOUGHT
BY STEPH ENS0N
Will Be Crux of Bail Fight
Defense Wins in First
Encounter.

Around the dying statement of
Miss Madge Oberholtzer will rage
the legal battle to admit>to bail d. c.
Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl
Gentry charged with her murder,
before Judge Fred E. Hines in the
Hamilton Circuit Court at Mobiles
vile, Tuesday.
This became certain Friday when
Eph Inman, chief defense counsel,
filed a motion asking the State be
compelled to produce this state
ment together with a page from
the register Of the Indiana Hotel
of Hammond in court Tuesday. In.
mans action followed victory of the
defense in the first legal skirnish
before Judge Hines.
Argue Four Hours
After four hours of argument
Judge Hines overruled the States
motion to strike out petitions of
the defense for the right to inspect'
the dying statement and hotel
register page.
He did not rule on the petitions,
The page of the hotel register is
believed to be of date of March 16.
and is said to contain signatures of
some of the defendants. According
tos the story Miss Cperholtzer told
her parents, she was kidnapped the
night of March Is, placed on a sleep
ing car and attacked by Stephenson.
The following morning, she said she
was taken to hotel at Hammond
and that after taking poison she
was placed in an automobile. rushed
back to Indianapolis, and kept pris-
oner until the following day in Ste
phenson's garage in the rear of his
home at 5434 University Ave. Dur
ing this time shel said she was de-
MED medical assistance and refused
opportunity to obtain it for herself.
Hotel Man Called
H. A Permiss, manager of the In
diana Hotel, will be subpoenaed for
the hearing Tuesday by the defense.
Others for whom subpoenaes already
have been issued are Miss Oberholt-
zer's parents, her brother, Marshall;
Osa Smith, Griffith Dean and DIR.
John K Kingsbury, her physician.
All these were witnesses before the
grand jury which returned the muir
der indictment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13

DdnkS 10 HlllHS SldIlOllS'
Friday night two young hold-up
men took $275.50 in a daring rob-
berry of two filling stations at Maple
Rd. and Fall Creek Blvd
Declaring the city unable to pro-
vide special protection for filling
stations the board announced the
twelve hour shift move would make
more men available to combat the
crime wave in general.
Too Many Stations
Chief Herman f. Rikhof cited
there are 161 filing stations listed
in the telephone directory and he
can only use 159 men on patrol duty.
The new shift will go in effect at
D. m. tonight, according to orders
posted by Chief Rikhoff, directed at
men in the detective. traffic and uni
form departments. Two rolls are to
be held each day at Z a. m. and Z
p. M All officers were ordered to
see that their guns are in excellent
condition and so carried they will be
ready for instant use.
The new order will result in max
ing 10S men available for night pa
troll duty in addition to twelve men
assigned to night riding squads. Six
ty.two men were taken from the old
shifts of p. M. to II p. m. and
from Z p. m. to a. m.
Board members estimated the new
shift would provide 65 more men on
duty at a time.
Band I'd Quit
Ernest l.. Kingston, board presi'
dent, ordered William T, Bailey, as
sistant city attorney, to cancel all
engagements of the Police and Fire
mems Band until the crime wave Is
checked Band was to play tonight
and Sunday.
Recommendation that filling sta
ton attendants be instructed by their
companies to shoot to kill was made
by board members. In discussion
whether special police protection
should be provided for filling sta
tions, it was pointed out that oil
companies were financially able to
provide for their own guards and
that more resistance to hold'ups
should be shown by the attendants.
Harold Huber 10, of 4007 Broad
way, attendant at the Western OIL
Refining Company station and
Donald Brown, q, of 52S e. Eleventh
St., of the Standard Oil station were
the men held.up at Maple Rd. and
Fall Creek. The bandits escaped in
Browns car.
Police were told the bandits picked
up two girls short distance away.
Store Robbed
Homer T. Hackett, 441 n. Oakland
Ave. grocer at Forty Sixth st. and
Central Ave, told police he was held
up By lone bandit wearing hand
kerchief mask. He said $12 was
taken.
A long distance call from Reyn-
olds, Ind, stated that four men and
two women, all resembling Gypsies.
pulled across the road and stopped
a car in which two youths were
riding. They took a small amount
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
CHINESE MOB
ATTACKS JAPS
and ENGLISH
ConSuIates Are Burned
NipponeSe Marines Restore
0rder-Many Hurt.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
SHANGHAI. June 1S.-The British
concession at Kiu Kiang on the
Yangtse River was attacked by a
mob today.
The British and Japanese con-
sulates were burned and other build
ings wrecked. Many japanese were
injured by the mob.
Japanese marines landed and re-
stored order.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
FLOOD FOLLOWS CRASH

BIZ TIWFN NVtCIHT
SEYMOUR, Ind, June 1S.-Miss
Lillian Mercer Of Brownsburg drove
her auto into fire plug rather than
strike a boy Streets were flooded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
PICNICS STARTED

The first of a series of picnics
planned by the New York Store Wei
fare Association for members, their
families and friends, was held Fri
day afternoon and evening at Broad
Ripple Park.
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Formal Ceremony Will be Held at 3
D. m. Sunday.

Addresses will be made by Mayor
Shank. Emsley w. Johnson, Ben v.
Young, exalted ruler of the Elks
Lodge; Lieut.. o. F. Hesler, command
ing officer, 9th Regiment, Naval
Reserve Force and Lieut.. F. f.
Knachel, commanding officer of the
camp.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
ATTORNEY NAMED

BIZ United Pfcss
WASHINGTON. June 13.-Presi-
dent Coolidge today appointed Ber-
tice Marvin Parmenter Of Lawton.
Okla, to be an assistant attorney
general Of the United StatsA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-13
BANDITS TURN FROM BANKS
TO ROB FILLING STATIONS
Two Seize $275 in Dual Hold-Up,
Flee in Attendants Auto With
Two Girls-Hiring Of Additional
Patrolmen Regarded Doubtful.

Police were put on Shifts by the board of safety
today to provide for combating bandltry Ihey
have been working in three eght-hour shifts
The board met in special consider giving special
protection to filing stations such has been provided for out
lying banks Armed guarding twenty-six banks
This followed the shifting of activity by bandits from