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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-13

winners will compete at New Au-
gusta, while Warren township
champions are spelling at Warren
Central. The John Strange school
was selected for the Washing
ton township competition and
Wayne townships championship
will be decided at Ben Davis.
From this list of forty-one
grade champions nine township
spelling kings or queens will be
chosen.
Superintendent Swails has de-
cided that the Beech Grove
school will not compete in the
township competition, but will
select a building champion from
the winners in the four grades.
The Beech Grove champion, how
ever, will compete with the nine
township champions when the
county spelling bee is held on
Tuesday, April 26. The building
for the county bee will be desig-
mated by Superintendent Swails.
Words for the various town
ship bees will be selected from
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Township Spelling Centers Chosen

the spoilers used in the fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth
grades of the rural schools. They
will be chosen by the principals
in each township. The princi-
pal of each spelling bee center
will supervise the township con-
tests. Each supervisor will Sc
lect a pronouncer and three
principals will serve as board
of judges. The contests will be
oral.
Each principal is requested to
file with superintendent Swails
the names of the grade winners.
Each township supervising prin-
cipal is to report the township
winner to the superintendent
Immediately after the township
matches. This will give the SUI
perintendent a complete record
of winners.
Principals Of the schools in
each township will meet imme-
diately before the contest and
mark the words that are to be
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MAYOR BILL
FIGHT TO CO
HIGH COURT.
ChamberIin DiSSoIves Tenn
porary Injunction Against
Act Publication.
GILLIOM IS SUSTAINED
City Manager Leaders An
nounCe Appeal.

City manager movement leaders
lost their fight to prevent the may
or savior" bill from becoming a law
today in Circuit Court, but an
nounced an appeal will be taken to
1.-The Supreme Court.
"a Judge Harry o. Chambelin dis
Solved temporary restraining or
der, issued Tuesday, prohibiting
Secretary of State Frederick E.
Schortemeier from publishing the
bill as one Of the acts of the 1927
Legislature, and dismissed the suit
for a permanent injunction against
Schortemeier by sustaining a demur-
rer of Attorney General Arthur l..
Gilliom.
Appeal Granted
Chamberlin granted request an
immediate appeal to the Supreme
Court be permitted.
The injunction suit was filed in be-
half of w. II. Insley and Franklin
Vonnegut, city manager leaders, and
attacked the legality of the bill which
would permit Mayor Duvall to serve
out his term even though the city
manager form of government is
adopted here.
Harvey Iartsock, local attorney,
appearing for Vonnegut and Insley,
asked that the restraining order be
made permanent. @A
Even if we conceded the tech
nical right to an injunction, as a
matter of discretion this court
should not grant the injunction be-
cause of public inconvenience and
public expense incident to the rear
rangement necessary by such a rul-
ing" said Gilliom.
Taking the position that the courts
are in no sense a part of the legisla-
tive machinery of the State govern
ment the Attorney General con-
tended that even if the Governor,
Abe Lieutenant Governor, the Secre-
1ry of State or any one else makes
mistake, or are guilty of wrong
doing in the passing, signing or pub
lication OF the acts of the Legisla-
ture, there is no authority to inter
fere while that work is in process"
Remedy Afterwards
Gilliom said that the only remedy
lay in seeking to stopping the en-
forcing Of the law after it had be.
come effective, and then said thai
the Supreme Court of Indiana had
repeatedly held that mo court can
go behind the enrolled act"
The city manager leaders con-
tended that the bill is illegal be-
cause it was not sent to the Gov
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GROCER TALKS BANDIT
OUT OF HOLD-UP ATTEMPT
Part Best of Friends After Customer Exacts Promise He
Will Not Be Shot in the Back

the customer, rendering a 81 bill to
the grocer.
Something Else"
Marlin opened the cash drawer.
Sixteen out of dollar"
"Oh yes, there was something
else" said the youth.
Merlin turned to find nasty
looking revolver stuck into his ribs
"All the money you've got in the
cash drawer!' the young man com.
manded.
"Wait a minute" said Marlin,
taken back. why not compromise
on $40 and call it square,"
He handed the visitor a $40 BILL
but that wasn't enough.
Il want all you've got" the ban
dit said, squirming the muzzle of
the gun in Martins side.
well, Mister, I've only got $40
insurance on this cash drawer" the
proprietor demonstrated, "and be-
sides, I've got to make good every
cent Of this money"
Sure enough?" queried the other.
That's tough
No Shots in Back
He hesitated a moment, then
handed back the $40. We'll, III
let you keep your money then; but
say, on one condition. that if you've
got a gun around here you don't
take a bang at me when I go out. 3"
Marlin promised he wouldn't.
1.-THE last time l gave q fellow
that chance he took a crack at me"
the visitor complained.
well. this is gentleman's agree
ment," Marlin replied, handing back
the original 81 bill and pushing the
groceries to the customer, who
walked out gingerly, with frequent
glances over his shoulder.
To Lieutenant Drinkut. Marlin
described the man as about 2S,
weighing las pounds. smooth shaven,
and wearing a neat light overcoat
and cap.
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STEVE GETS
HIS GUARDS
:. IN TROUBLE
Three Are Discharged From
State Prison for Car
rying Messages.
ONE DENIED HIS GUILT
Others Admit They Were
Ex-Dragon'S Messengers.

Three prison guards, who
slnuggled letters from the Indiana
State Prison at Michigan City, for
D. c. Stephenson, former Indiana
Klan Grand Dragon, have been dis
missed. Warden Walter II. DAILY an
nounced today.
Dismissal of the guards has
broken up Stephenson's underground
means of communication with his
friends, Daily said he hoped.
Two of the guards, Rudolph Ebert
and Leonard Studer, admitted they
had been carrying out communica-
tions from Stephenson, DAILY said.
One Denies Charge
The other guard, dismissed sew
against him. Daily did not make
public his name.
Stephenson began a life term In
the prison in November, 1925, when
he was found guilty of the murder Of
Miss Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapo-
lis girl.
Letters smuggled from prison by
Stephenson, made public by Thomas
II. Adams, Vincennes. publisher.
were responsible for beginning of a
probe of corruption in Indiana
politics by the Marion County grand
jury in October, 1926.
In the letters Stephenson de-
clared he could reveal widespread
corruption in the State in the days
when he was in power.
The jury investigated eight
weeks, but failed to return indict-
ments. The present grand jury is
continuing the probe on the recon-
mendation of the last jury.
Recent Letters
DAILY said that he had not inter-
cepted any of Stephenson communi-
cations to the outside world and
knows nothing Of their contents.
Some letters. however, have been
smuggled out of the prison very re-
Gently, DAILY said.
The warden declared he did not
know the amount of money, If any,
that had been paid to the guards to
carry Stephenson private messages
to his friends. That feature was
not included in the investigation
which brought dismissal of the
guards.
Warden Daily declared that he did
not notify Governor Jackson of the
ousting of the guards until noon to-
day, while he was here in con-
ference with the Governor on prison
matters. He said the orders to fire"
did not come from the Governor and
that Jackson knew nothing about 1t.
To Be Censored
Stephenson now must communi-
cate with the public through the
regular prison system of censored
letters, DAILY said, although he is
permitted to write whatever he de-
sires to his attorneys.
Daily declared that close watch
will be kept over guards or TRUSTEES
who come in contact with Stephen.
son. to defeat any effort of the for
mer Klan chief to build a new mes
senger" service.
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M'KESSON BOOSTS
FRIEND FOR POST
Wants Martindale on Pub
lie Service Commission.

Il cannot accept a position on the
Indiana public service commission
and 1 am not a candidate" Repre-.
sentative DELPHI L. McKesson, Ply
mouth, announced today following a
conference with Governor Jackson.
He declared he was boosting At.
torney Frank Martindale, Plymouth,
for one of the two Democratic ap-
pointments to be made soon.
Terms of Frank Wampler expires
May l and Clyde Jones has an
nounced he will resign to enter law
practice in Indianapolis. Commits
sioner Howell Ellis is also up for
reappoiptment on May 1.
Clarence Brown, Sixth district Re.
publican chairman, called on the
Governor accompanied by c. o. Will
liams, Indiana Teachers Associa-
ton secretary, and candidate for the
State education board. 1t. is ex-
pected that at least one of the two
appointments will go to a woman.
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Bp United Press
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa, April 13.
Less than twenty-four hours after
he shot and killed his mother be-
cause she would not let him play
with matches, 4-year-old Tommy
Ruby today attempted to stab Coro-
ner Shull of Franklin County while
he was being questioned.
Sure, 1 wanted to shoot her." the
lad shouted at the coroner. I'D
shoot her again. I'll shoot you"
Before he could be stopped the lad
grasped a butcher knife and rushed
at the official. The blade was
wrenched from his hand before he
could inflict injuries on the coroner.
Tommy shot his mother through
the neck with .32-caliber revolver
late yesterday. The mother died in
stantly, collapsing in a heap almost
on top of basket in which Tom
my's baby brother played.
After the shooting Tommy calmly
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FARMERS FOR LOWDEN?
Settle Pledges Hoosier Support to
Illinois Man.

Returning from conference
with former Governor Frank o.
Lowden, Illinois, at the Lowden
farm, Oregon, ILL.,, William H. Settle,
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation
president, has launched Lowden
boom for the presidency. He told
Lowden that Coolidge was opposed
for the Republican presidential
nomination by Indiana farmers, he
said.
"Our people are strongly in favor
of electing the next president from
the West" Settle declared.
Herman Steen, Indianapolis, Sec
retary of the Central States Wheat
Growers Association, accompanied
Settle to the Lowden farm.
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No Law Violation, but Post
al Inspector Seeks
Writer.

A letter purporting to have been
vestigated today by Postal Inspector
William c. Ella, although no postal
regulation was violated.
The letter addressed TO Henry
Wachtel, 1904 Z. Morris ST., tells it's
own story:
Henry Wachtel, Indianapolis,
Ind, struck and killed Lincoln
Spence with car in front of Deacon
ess Hospital on Dec. IA, 1924. Lest
you forget you are receiving this
notice written in blood"
LEST you forbet" was under
scored. Deaconess hospital is the
old name Of Indiana Christian hos
pital, Senate Ave. and Ohio st.
Inspection of the letter under the
microscope proved that the letter
was written in blood.
In turning the message over to
postal authorities Wachtel said:
81 would not prosecute the sender
Of this letter even If a mail regula-
ton had been violated. But / would
like to locate the sender to explain
my case and offer my regrets. They
need not have reminded me Of the
accident. Not a day passes but
what ] think of it,"
Wachtel was exonerated. following
the accident. and paid for several
weeks hospital care for The vic
tim, he told postal authorities.
According to police records zap
parent carelessness" of Spence, so,
Of Ill W. North St, caused the ac-
cident. Spence stepped into the
path Of Wachtel's auto and Wachtel
was driving slow, the records said.
The letters postmark is indistinct,
but it is believed to have been
mailed on a train between Spring
field, Ohio, and Indianapolis.
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PREDICTS WORKS
BOARD IS SAFE
Armitage Thinks Members
Will Not Be 0uSted.

William II. Armitage, reported to
have worked himself into the po-
litical graces of Mayor Duvall re-
Gently, today predicted the present
board of works members will re-
main in their posts.
Meanwhile, politicians at city hall
speculated on what had happened to
the rumor that the works body per-
sonnel was slated for the politi-
cal ak.
The mayors Office was dark"
today with the departure of DuvaIl
for Chicago to attend a two-day
traffic safety conference. He was
accompanied by Police Chief Claude
F. Johnson.
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Just One Room,
So They Wed

BIZ Onited Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind, April 13.
Miss Virginia Thurston and
N. B. Boynton arrived here to
attend a motor car convention.
The clerk at the leading hotel
remarked: There is only one
room left. Please come back
later"
Within an hour the couple re-
appeared and asked for the one
room. The clerk started to re-
fuse when the girl remarked:
"Oh, it's perfectly all right. We
got married"
Their home is in Oshkosh,
Wis.
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Pictures Future in
Talk to Engineers

Engineers, architects, public Off
cials and contractors of a number of
Indiana cities looked into the fu-
ture" at a dinner meeting Tuesday
night at the Indianapolis Athletic
Club. They heard Charles F. Abbott,
executive director Of the American
Institute of Steel Construction, out
line the change that he expects
traffic solutions to bring.
I'VE are entering upon a new era
of municipal transportation in which
vertical circulation by means of ele
vators within tall buildings will more
and more tend to replace pedestrian
and wheeled traffic on the horizontal
Streets" Abbott declared. Second
story streets will also help solve the
traffic problem, Abbott declared.
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OFFICERS HUNT
$1,175 DIAMONDS
Mrs. w. C. HaIStead Re-
ports of Valuable Rings.

Police today were attempting to
determine whether Mrs. w. c. Hal
stead, 1854 E. Twenty-Fifth ST., lost
her diamonds, valued at $1,175, or
whether they were stolen. She re-
ported she was visiting at her sis
ter's home at 621 Lockerbie St., when
she missed her three rings.
A burglar at the home Of Mrs. Sa-
rah Kemps, 2251 English Ave., took
a purse containing 81. When Mrs.
Kemps went to light fixture to OBJ
tain $50 hidden there, she discov-
cred that the burglar had taken that
money also.
w. C. Bierhans, Vincennes, Ind,
told police that while he read in the
Washington Hotel lobby, a thief en-
tered his room and stole clothing.
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School Row Continues

Majority and minority leaders of
the Indianapolis school board con-
ferred with members of the Indiana
tax board today. The decision on
Shortridge bonds had not been
reached at noon. Fred Bates John
son, leader in the fight against Shipp
equipment, was the first to be called
in and Charles w. Kern. majority
spokesman, was called later.
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z BURGLARS
SHOT DOWN
BY POLICE
Gunfire Ends Flight and
Sends Pair Seriously
Wounded to Hospital.
THIRD NABBED IN STORE
Filling Station Man Trades
Z Shots With Bandit.

Two burglars were wounded and
captured by police early today, while
a third, caught in a store, was cap
tured unwounded.
Vincent Dugar, 43, of 557 N. Tre-
mont Ave, is in the city hospital
with bullets from a police revolver
in his abdomen and right hip.
Leslie John Durham, Negro. of
1903 Peek ST., is in the hospital with
a charge from a shotgun in his left
thigh.
Both are in a serious condition.
Seen Breaking In
Dugar was seen trying to break
into the Kroger grocery, 2O24 w.
Michigan ST.. at 4:30 a. m. by Ser
geant Roy Pope and PatroImen AL
kire and Row.
Fleeing when he saw the officers.
Dugar was halted after the police
had sent three shots into the ground
and was captured at fremont Ave.
and Michigan st. Reaching to his
hip as if for a gun, he broke away
but was recaptured at Holmes Ave.
and Walnut ST., after three more
shots had been fired on the pave
ment. Police believe the man was
hit by glancing bullets.
One of the bullets penetrated a
plate glass window in a dry goods
store at 2502 w. Michigan St., Miss
Eta Elmer, proprietor, asked the
police to replace the glass.
Dugar refused to give his name,
but was identified by Patrolman
Zunk, who said he had resisted pre-
vious arrests.
Find Cache of Wine
At the Dugar home, police found
where Dugar had tunneled under
the woodshed and secreted fifty gal
Ions of wine, which was conflscated
The man is held on charges of va
grancy and resisting on officer.
Durham's shooting and arrest was
effected by Detective George Sneed,
who was aroused at his home by
neighbor, who said he saw a
burglar at work in the James Zivien
dry goods store, 1340 N. Senate Ave.
Clad in pajamas and armed with
a shotgun, Sneed went TO the store
and pursued the burglar into a
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Earl Carroll ILL.,;
Prison Trip Halts
BU United Press

BIZ United Press
GREENVILLE, S. c., April 13.-
En- route to the Atlanta Federal
prison Earl Carroll was removed
from the Piedmont limited at 1915
p. m. here today and taken to the
city hospital here, the Office Of the
chief train dispatcher of the South.
ern railway reported to the United
Press. Cause of his collapse was
withheld.
Chief Train Dispatcher N. WINS
ant said Carroll was removed in an
unconscious condition from the car
containing twenty other Federal
prisoners, bundled in an ambulance
and taken to the hospital.
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TWo Frame Schools
Sell for $50

More than one hundred In
dianapolis school children at
tended classes in two frame cot
tages which, according to a bid
offered the school board today,
} are worth $25 each.
The cottages were taken over
by the school board to care for
the overflow of pupils at School
8, e. Vermont and Davidson
SITS.
When a permanent addition
was completed about a month
ago the temporary structures
were offered for sale.
An offer of $50 was received
and the two buildings were
sold. Advertisement for sale
cost $40.
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Elmer Gantry' Barred
BD United Press

BOSTON, April ia brief state
ment by District Attorney w. j.
Foley setting forth charges that
Sinclair Lewis novel, Elmer Gen
try violated the Massachusetts
statute dealing with "obscene and
indecent literature" the book joined
the ranks Of the best sellers barred
by Boston authorities
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CroSIandS Divorced

BIZ UniteA Press
LOS ANGELES. Cal, April 13.-
Mrs. J. l.. Crosland and Alan Cros-
land. motion picture director, from
whom she has won a divorce, today
had embarked on their own re-
spective ways. Mrs. Crosland told
the court her husbands habits"
caused her to "have a nervous break
down"
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Aerial Ambulance
Aids Injured Boy
Rn IfnifcH prel

BV United Press
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April
13.-The first injured victim of
the rocksprings tornado reached
San Antonio today in a Kelly
field aerial ambulance. He is
Don Griffith, 10 years old. and
was placed in base hospital at
Ft. Sam Houston. The boy is
suffering from a broken leg,
crushed shoulder and body
bruises.
The ambulance plane pilot re- .
ported martial law had been de-
clared at Rocksprings.
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De Pinedo Going East

BU United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.-
Commander Francesca de Pinedo,
Italian world flier, will leave here by
train Friday evening for New York
to await the arrival of a new plane
with which to resume his four con-
tinent jaunt.
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Plan to Reorganize Bank
BIZ United Press

BU United Press
VALPARAISO. Ind, April 1S.-
Charles Cannon, cashier of the
Porter County State Bank at Kouts,
closed Tuesday by State bank ex-
aminers, said today reorganization
is planned and that the bank would
be reopened shortly.
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An east side grocer talked an
armed bandit out of a hold-up today,
gave him a loaf of bread and can
Of milk and parted the best of
friends.
"A loaf of bread, please, and
small can of milk" said the we'll
dressed young man, who left his
Chevrolet coupe at the door to saun.
ter into the A. and p. store at 4003
e. Michigan ST.. shortly before noon.
: "And what else?" asked d. G.
Marlin, 3S, the proprietor.
- "I guess thatll be about ALL" said
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URGES U. S. INTERVENE
Visitor to Nicaragua Talks With
President Coolidge.
BIZ United Press

WASHINGTON. April 1S-Pic-
turing Nicaraguans as tired Of civil
warfare, Linton Wells, globe trotter
and special writer, back from Mica
ragua, told President Coolidge today
the United States ought to intercede
to end the strife.
He said he felt the Liberal leader,
Sacasa, had moral but not legal
claim to the presidency, and he ad-
vised United States supervision of
new elections. Claimed to have proof
that Mexico is supplying the rebel
forces with ammunition.
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Eternal Flapper' and
Theatrical Man Wed

BB United Press
NEW YORK, April 13-"The
Eternal Flapper" is again a happily
married wife.
The Edna Wallace Hopper of
theatrical fame told her friends to-
day that she might be called Mrs.
Albert Brown. Brown is theatrical
agent for William A. Brady.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown will start on
their honeymoon as soon as Mrs.
Brown finishes a vaudeville con-
tract. They plan to go to Europe.
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Guadalupe River, which is holding
Red Cross parties and medical au-
thorities out of the town.
Driven From Phone
All communication was wrecked
for hours and when a telephone line
finally was put in working order, a
woman operator was forced to sit
in driving rain and pelting hail to
call for help and give brief reports
OF the disaster. The storm finally
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Brig. Gen. Aivord Dies

BIZ JHifcd Press
WASHINGTON, April 13.-Brig.
Gen. Benjamin Alsord, U. S. A., re-
tired, died at his home here today.
Alvord had been in poor health since
serving in France as the first adju-
tant general of the American expe-
ditionary forces.
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BOY, 4, MOTHER SLAYER,
TRIES TO STAB CORONER
Chambersburg (Pa.) Child Declares, I'D Shoot Her
Again'--RefuSed Permission to Play With Matches.

walked to a neighbor's home and
said, "Mama's bleeding" Before he
could be detained he ran to a school
where he told his sister OF the shoot
ing.
While his father and sister were
PROSTATE, Tommy showed a bitter
viciousness such IS local authorities
say is usually found only in the most
hardened criminals.
Mrs. Ruby was working in her
garden when the lad, after mounting
a. chair, obtained revolver from the
top shelf of closet.
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Veterans Get S7,OOO,OOO

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The
Government has loaned $7,000,000
to 10000 World War veterans on
their insurance certificates since
April 1. Director Hines of the Vet
Grams Bureau reported today to
President Coolidge.