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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
CHECK 'KITING'
TO Save FIRM
IS DESCRIBED
Manufacturer, Now Dead, I2
Blamed by Defense in
Steinbrenner Case.
NEEDED WORKING FUNDS
Government Charges Two
Banks Failed Because
of Operations.

How Henry G.. Steinbrenner, de-
ceased Noblesville tire manufacturer,
strove desperately to save his
factory, with 100000 assets, by
'kiting' checks until sales orders
should start, was described by de-
fense attorneys in opening state
ments at trial of the Steinbrenner
Rubber Company postal fraud case
in federal court today.
The government charges the
check kiting' resulted in failure of
the First National bank, Noblesville,
and Huntington County State bank,
Huntington, in 1926.
The trial is expected to last two
days. The government has called
about forty witnesses and the de-
fense thirty.
Defendants are S. Homer FEEDER
man, secretary treasurer Of the
company; Newton Cowgirl, cashier;
Walter w. Bray, assistant cashier of
the Noblesville bank, and Edwin B.
AyreS, president, and E. Porter
Ayres, cashier; Huntington County
State bank.
Committed Suicide
Steinbrenner committed suicide
a year ago at Chicago following his
indictment.
The government charges the tire
company, to provide working capi-
tai, began a flow of worthless checks
for large amounts through the four
banks, making it appear there were
large balances in each bank.
1t is alleged the company OBJ
tanned as much as 100000 from
these transactions. Albert Ward,
district attorney, said he would prove
the company put through these
banks $4000,000 month in worth
less checks, with knowledge of the
banking officials under indictment
Defense attorneys promised to
prove Steinbrenner, after investing
his fortune of about 100000 in get
ting the company started, sought to
protect his investment and loans by
banks until the company began re-
ceiving orders, and, without knowl-
edge of the bankers, kited checks.
Ayres Suspicious
1t was alleged that E. B. Ayrss,
becoming suspicious of circum-
stances, forced admission of the
transactions by Steinbrenner and to
reduce the float" with two of his
directors paid in $135,000 of their
private fortunes, and later Ayres
gave all his money, saving deposit
tors of his bank from loss, but fail
ing to prevent the bank being
closed.
The jury was sworn at 1920 a. m.
after nine talesmen had been ex-
cused by the defense, five because
they admitted former connections
wi the Ku-Kiux Klan.
The jury, as impaneled, was: John
Batzner, Upton, farmer; Ora Smith,
Rush county, auto sales business;
Calvin Bolin, Brazil, school janitor;
j. A. Bunnell, Hagerstown, farmer;
William Cutrell, Pla5adeld, farmer;
Charles F. Dell, Columbus, mer-
chant; Hugh Giles, Sullivan,
transfer business; Clyde Hoke, Win
chester, farmer; Joe johnson, Nor
gan county, farmer; Claude Meyers,
Jeffersonville, lumber business;
Charles Riley, Charlottesville, drug
gist.
In addition to failure of the Hunt
ington and Noblesville banks, the
scheme is alleged to have resulted
in loss of $55,O0O to the Guardian
National bank and $4,000 to the
Central Trust Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
CONSIDER BUS LINE
Use of Meridian Street Up
to Park Board.

The park board was to meet at
2 p. m. today to consider request
of the Peoples Motor Coach Com
pany that the company be allowed
to operate its new Butler univer-
sity bus line over North Meridian
street.
The board likely will reach a de-
cision this afternoon, John E. Mil
nor, president, said.
Residents and officials of five
schools on the street objected to use
Of the street by buses, at a hearing
on the proposal before the board.
Adolph Enhardt, park board
member, said he favored further
consideration of the proposal be-
fore acting, but added the busses
might be permitted to operate over
Meridian street for thirty days to
"try out" the plan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
STOCK SALES BOOM
New TiCkerS Whir as Fast
Pace Is Set.
BIZ United Press

BIZ Gnited Press
NEW YORK, Nov 22.-The stock
market doomed along at a terrific
pace today, prices ascending sharp
ly for a time and then sagging on
sales that were made on a profit
taking basis.
At no time was there a lull in
the trading, however, and the newly
installed tickers-designed to keep
pace with the trading-buzzed along
frantically as though to prove their
efficacy.
Airplane share and Radio Cor
poration were the leaders.
Sales to noon totaled 2,379 900, or
at the rate of nearly 100000 shares
for a full session and tickers were
only twelve minutes late. Wednes-
day at noon they were forty-eight
minutes behind and on Tuesday
f1fty-nine minutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
Ho0Uer Hooks 2 Fish;
Biggest One Got AzCuy'

BY United
BOARD the u Maryland 22-Stopping battehip for
the first time in history uSt fish, Hoover
the angling luck Wednesday Of two the biggest one got
away. - o.
The Presdenects catch off of Cape Lucas Lower Cali
mackerel.
After ensnarng the work to bring
in the dolphin Mr. Hoover found another bite" President
elects line tangled with that of Mark Sullivan political
the fish that might have made zaak Walton history
Mrs Hoover watched husbands the ships deck
with pair of glasses luck to
attending navy officers
The Hoovers served the Presdentes freshly caught
mackerel luncheon.
AS the Maryh were preparing Mr.
Dolphin in the ships
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
IS HURT IN BLAST
Glass Company Is Wrecked
by Explosion.

By United Press
BARBERTON, O., Nov. 22.-An
explosion partially wrecked the
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
plant here today. Sixteen men were
reported injured. Every available
physician was rushed to the scene.
The cause of the blast was not
learned Immediately. Police and
fire departments were summoned
and ambulances were sent to the
scene.
First reports said a good many of
the injured were expected to die.
They were removed to hospitals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
HOUSE, IN

the summer here with my two
boys. Then I found out that you
couldn't hear the music in the
yard, only in the house.
Il never thought much about it
that it was some sort of acci-
dent.
But last August our home in
Freeport was crowded with guests
and a friend, Miss June Bell, New
York, and came over to spend
the night. We heard the music
again. 1t seemed to be coming
from everywhere, this time. said:
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Personnel of navy recruiting
stations change frequently but
Someone must know where she
is"
" w. ELKE, chief signalman,
l. L. investigated and found Mrs.
Turner.
He found her alone in her
boarding house sitting by the
framed likeness of her boy
he's still her boy although he'd
be 50 years of age Tuesday, had
he lived-which she has willed
the recruiting station upon her
death.
81 couldn't come this birthday.
My rheumatism-the doctor ad-
viSes against it-but-I have him
here" and she pointed to the
water-colored enlargement of the
photo which he sent her the day
before he sailed from New York
on his way to waiting death.
A smile-one of those you see
at cradles-pinched ages wrinkles
into a beatitude of peace. Then:
"He was such a good boy. Went
to Sunday school just few blocks
from here. Never gave me any
trouble" her hand stroked the
gilded frame.
A MOTHER caressing her
IA sleeping babe-you've seen
them do it. Peering into their
eyes for that which is of them,
just as Mrs. Turner looked at ''her
Harry's" photograph.
"You know-he always wanted
to be a sailor. I remember how
he used to sail little paper ships
whenever my wash-tub was full
of rinse water" she murmured.
Bluing in rinse water of a wash
tub and tn blue of the ocean
wave-a wave over cher Harry's"
grave-and he sailed a ship that
never came back.
"The Saturday before the Maine
before it-bl-before it hap
pened-he wrote me he was COM
ing back to- stay with me always.
That he wasn't going back to sea.
He did-he came back" and her
eyes looked first to the gilded
frame-a frame that holds her
heart-then up or out somewhere
far outside her honey room. A
place no one could see.
S-sh-Iet's go! It's Mrs. Turn
er's memorial day-every day.
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June, you go to the back door
and I'll go to the front and see
where it's loudest."
"But when I'VE got outdoors we
couldn't hear it. Finally it got
loudest in the cellar.
Believe me, we got scared.
when it never stopped we got
petrified.
about / o'clock in the morn
ing it stopped and we went upstair:
both of us in a single bed.
That's the last time I have
slept here.
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occurred daily and nightly for
months, but was kept a secret by
Mrs. Lou Greenamyer, owner of
the property, who hoped that the
manifestations would stop.
The Greenamyer house not
only reproduces the programs
from WEAF's control station, half
a mile distant, but reproduces
them more clearly than an ordi-
nary radio set and absolutely
without static.
Most of the radio voices and
music seemed to come from the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22

anything strange, however, last
February.
Mrs. Greenamyer, a matter-of-
fact young matron, denied indig-
nantly that she took any stock
in village talk that the place was
haunted
"But it is enough to give you
a start" she said. II remember
last spring, the first time
heard it.
IT WAS busting the furniture.
i getting ready to spend part Of
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Hourly TemneratureS

south wall of the living room.
Then for no apparent reason they
would come from the cellar.
TT was admitted at the WEAF
l. control station that experts
had been utterly at loss to solve
the mystery or even to explain it
after going over the old farmhouse
from top to bottom.
Mrs. Greenamyer explained she
had been unable to rent the house
since the last tenants moved out
suddenly - without mentioning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
NATIONAL CONVENTION
OF w. C. T. U. TO CITY
1929 Meeting to Be Held Next
August or September.

1923 Meeting to Be Held Next
August or September.
The 1929 national convention of
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union will be held in Indianapolis
next August or September, Henry
T. Davis, manager of the Indianapo-
lis Convention Bureau announced
today.
Davis received wire from Boston,
Mass, wher ethe 1928 convention
just ended, that Indianapolis had
been chosen for the 1929 meeting in
preference to Milwaukee, Wis, and
San Antonio, Tex.
From $500 to 5000 persons will
attend the six-day meeting here in
addition to several thousand of the
$4,000 Indiana members of the or
ganization who will attend some
sessions, Davis said.
Invitation to meet here was ex-
tended at Boston by Mrs. Elizabeth
Stanly, state president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
STATE LIONS MEET

Officers Hold Conferences Banquet
Tonight.
State officers of the Lions club
met at the Chamber of Commerce
this afternoon for a conference. The
Indianapolis Lions Club was host.
Lynn Craig, -Scottsburg, district
governor, presided. Ben Ruffin,
Richmond, Va, international Lions
president, will be the principal
speaker at a banquet at $50, at the
Chamber of CVommerce. The local
club will provide an entertainment
p -ograrn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
SHUMAKER TO
FACE QUIZ IN
HIGH COURT
Told to Explain Why He
Should Not Serve
Prison Term.
TEST PARDON POWER
Judge Clarence Martin Dis
SentS From Order to
+ Dry Crusader.
TEST PARDON POWER

The Indiana supreme court today
ordered Edward S. Shumaker, IN
diana Anti-Saloon League superin-
tendent, into court Dec. to show
cause why he should not serve the
sixty-day sentence the supreme
court imposed on him for contempt
Of court, and from which Governor
Ed Jackson pardoned him.
The order, written by Chief JUS
tice David A. Meyers, is result of
action by Attorney General Arthur
L. Gilliom attacking the Governors
power of pardon in the contempt
case.
Gilliom filed motion urging the
court to carry out the sentence Oct.
19, the day Shumaker went to the
Indiana state farm with calva-
cade of friends prepared to serve
the siXty-day sentence as a martyr"
to the cause of prohibition.
A telephone call from the Gov
ernor'S office arrived at the farm a
half an hour before he did and
before nightfull the pardon had
been sent there, Shumaker had paid
his $3.50 fine and was home again,
Seeks to Speed Case
Nov. 10 Gilliom filed his brief sup
porting his motion and contention
Jackson had no right to overrule
the supreme court with a pardon
Early this week Shumaker's attor-
neys filed motion asking GilliomS
motion be overruled.
Today Ethan A. Miles, league at
torney, requested thirty days time
from Nov. 10 in which to file a brief
supporting the Shumaker motion
The court apparently ignored this
request in its order today.
Wednesday, Gilliom, who goes
out of Office Jan. /, in an effort to
speed up the case waived the ten
day formal notification period on
the Shuraaker motion.
Judge Myers who signed today's
order was bitterly fought by Shu-
maker in the last campaign. Myers
was reelected, however, by a big
majority.
Justice Martin Dissents
Sudge Clarence Martin diSsented
from the order. Judge Willard B.
Gemmill, who joined Martin in
dissenting to the original Shumaker
conviction, did not join him today.
Martin cited three reasonc for
dissenting: Cd That the supreme
court sheriff has a receipt from the
state farm superintendent that
Shumaker was delivered there and
the Sixty-day sentence judgement
executed. (2) That Gilliom's motion
fails to show the real reason
Shunaker didn't serve his sentence,
which was because Governor jack
son pardoned him. 90 That the
state farm superintendent also
should have been made party to
Gilliom's action,
Sheriff William Resoner was to
serve the court order on Shurnaker
at Martinsville this afternoon. Shu-
maker is there recuperating from a
minor illness, his wife said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
EXPLAINS ON SHOALS
Coolidge Opposes U. S. in
Business, So Vetoed Bill.

WASHINGTON, Nov. o.
President Coolidge gave the Norris
NORM Muscle Shoals bill a pocket
veto because he believed it would
put the government into the retail
power and fertilizer business, he told
a congressional delegation which
called on him at the White House
today.
The President indicated he never
would sign the bill no matter what
changes are made in it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
AL TO GO HOME
Expects to End Vacation
Saturday.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
BILOXI, Miss, Nov. 22.-Governor
Alfred E. Smith may start back
north Saturday, it was learned to-
day. 1t is expected he will stop en-
route at Atlanta and Warm Springs,
Ca, where Franklin D. Roosevelt is.
Governor Smith, after disastrous
rounds of golf, had better luck fish
ing Wednesday. He caught seven
sea trout while John J. Raskob,
Democratic national chairman,
caught a small croaker and a cat
fish.
Golf was on the program today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
CALL HEIR 4MPOSTOR
Woman Admits Faking
Boys Birth for Riches.
By United Press

By United Press
DETROIT, Nov. %. - Five-year-
old Dode Alfred Boyer, once the
heir apparent to the millions of the
chairman of the board of Burroughs
Adding Machine Company, officially
was decreed an imposter today by
the Wayne county circuit court, and
his birth records ordered cancelled.
The action, a mere perfunctory
one, came after the foster mother,
Mrs. Myron L. Boyer, admitted that
she had faxed" the boys birth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
EX-WAR CHIEF


Jacob Dickinson, in Cabinet Of Taft,
in Hospital.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-Jacob M.
Dickinson, secretary Of war in the
cabinet Of former President Will
liam Howard Taft, is under observa-
ton in st. Lukes hospital here for
gall bladder trouble.
DR. Arthur r. Elliott, ordered
Dickinson taken to the hospital after
treating him at the former war Sec
retary's home for six weeks.
Dickinson is 78 years old and in
view of his advanced age his ply
sician said he is making a good
fight" against disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
MAD HORSE BITES z
Woman, Boy TrampIed by
Annual.
By United Press

BV United Pfe88
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-Two persons
were bitten and trampled in the
Lawndale district Wednes day night
by wild horse, apparently the vic
tim of rabies.
After a long chase, police shot the
horse.
Mrs. Cecilia Gold, 26, was bitten
on the right hand when the horse
dashed into her. Two fingers we're
broken and Mrs. Gold was trampled.
William Frazin, 16, attempted to
drive the horse away, but it bit him
on the shoulder and knocked him
down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
Boys Body Found on Tracks

BIZ United Press
KOKOMO, Ind, Nov. 22.-The
badly mangled body of a boy, found
on the Glover Leaf railroad tracks
near here, has been identified as
that of Ralph Leppo, IS, by his
father. The severed head was found
approximately twenty-five yards
from the remainder of the body,
Charles Mark, who discovered the
body, said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
$53O,OOO FOR SEAT

New High Record Again Set on
Exchange.
B1 United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-Expecta-
ton of continuation of the tremen-
dous activity on the Stock Exchange
was mirrored today in the an
nouncement that arrangements
we're made for the sale of a mem
bership of $530.00O, a new high rec
ord and an increase of $4,000 over
the last previous sale made
Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
FUGITIVE BACK TO JAIL
'Lifer' Returned to Prison; Arrested
Here.

Ernest Steed, guard from the
West Virginia state penitentiary, to
day returned Samuel Blevins, ar
rested here on burglary charges Nov.
6, to the penitentiary to serve the
remainder of a life sentence foT
murder.
Blevins killed railroad watch
man at Wheeling, w. Va, nine years
ago, Steed said. He escaped from
the prison Nov. 1.
Blevins was arrested in a street
car here election night after Will
liam Behnke, 2426 Unian street, had
surprised him in his house and
been held up and robbed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
CREW OF VESTRIS
TESTIFY AT QUIZ
Shop Early!
By United Press

bU UHtItU PTeSS
HAMMOND, Ind, Nov. o.
The good people of Lafayette
shuddered at the prospect Of
going into the holiday season
without their favorite caterer,
one Peter Mitchin. So they
sent a plea to Federal Judge
Thomas Slick, explaining how
difficult Christmas would be
without the expert Peter. Judge
Slick said he knew how it was.
He then suspended Peters SEN
tence for selling liquor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
AIRY ]. Keys, who went down with the

STEINEL
entered its
w city Tuesday ndianas only
beshp Maine being held the heart
attended the memorial evefor naturally
that the birthday anniversary of
United States navy-Nrs Turner's the United
waiting
yearly them
did
questions mounted Where could they find
Lols
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
BY SAM LOVE

United Press Staff Correspondent
DELLMORE, L. L, Nov. o.
- A radio ghost" that "haunts"
an urtenanted and ancient farm
house here, causing voices and
music to come apparently from
the walls themselves, literally has
set this peaceful village by the
ears and caused the owner to an
nounce a conviction that she
never will be able to rent the
property again.
The strange phenomenon has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
HEARS DEATH SENTENCE
By United Press

Dreyfus RhOadeS to Go to Electr'
Chair March for Murder.
BIZ United Press
PRINCETON, Ind, Nov. %
Dreyfus Rhoades, convicted slayer
Of Simon Carrie, Vincennes police
man, was sentenced to die in the
electric chair, March 6, 1929, BY
Judge Claude Smith, in Gibson cir
cult court here today.
Judge Smith overruled a motion
Of defense attorneys to withhold
Judgment until they filed motions
for new trial Immediately after
he was sentenced, Rhoades was
taken to the Vanderburgh county
jail at Evansville for safekeeping.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
CLOSE HISTORIC DEAL
Sell Chicago Bank Building for
10000, 900.

By United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-The largest
real estate deal in the history of
Chicago was closed yesterday when
the United Power and Light Cor
poration purchased the building and
site of the National Bank and Trust
Company, on South Lasalle street.
The price was reported to be
$20,000,000.
The building occupies a block and
is twenty-one stories high.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22

Renew Out-Of-tOwn friendships by
telephone. Basic rate to DETROIT
only $1.S5.-AdYertisement, .
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EARLY FARM AID URGED

Short Session Should Pass Bill,
Says TilsOn.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.--Farm
relief legislation largely should be
passed by the short session of con-
gress and the extra session, if there
is one, should be devoted to general
tariff rivision, Representative John
Tilson of Connecticut said at the
Whitehouse today after conferring
with President Coolidge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
KNIGHT HURT IN CRASH
By United Press

Aero Official of Britain Injured in
Airplane Landing.
BIZ United Press
BAGDAD, Nov. 22.-The British
air vice marshal, Sir Edward L. FL
lington, was injured today in a
forced landing near the Euphrates
river, en- route from England here.
The plane, piloted by his aid-de-
camp, somersauted when it came
down in a fog. The pilot was un-
hurt, but Sir Edward was bruised
and shaken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
SELECT WALKER JURY
Ex-Convict, Arrested With Wright,
Goes On Trial.

UOeS On IrlaI.
Criminal court jury to try James
Walker, charged with being an ex-
convict in possession of a revolver,
was being selected today.
Walker was arrested with Homer
Wright, alleged st. Louis gangster,
who is held in connection with the
hold-up of the Broadmoor Country
Club, May 30.
JednosÌc Polek = Unity of Polish women. [volume] (Cleveland, O. [Ohio]) 1923-current, 1928-08-29
POLSkA w WYSCIGACH
AEROPLANOWYCH

WIEDEN. - Odby}y sic Gle
kawe wyscigi aeroplanowe w
ktorych wziely udzial: Polska.
Czechosiowacja, Rumunja i Jn-
goslawja. Kazde panstw do
starczylo po szesc aeroplanow.
Przestrzen, ktora mia}y aero
plany przeleciee wynosi}a 1900
mil. Trasa prowadzila z Pragi
do Warszawy, nastepnie do Bu-
karesztu. Belgradu z powro-
tenn do Pragi.
Pierwsze miejsce zdobyl Gee
choslowacki major Janusek
przelatujac przestrzen 1900 mil
W niespelna pietnastu godzinach
lotu, ktory rozlozono ma diva dni.,
Przecietna szybkosc aeroplanu
Januska wynosila 12O mil ma GO
dzine.
Druge miejsce przypadio W
udziale Polsce, trzecie Czechosio
wacji, czwarte i plate Jugosia-
VIII szoste Polsce. Razem Ia
aeroplanow ukonczylo lot. lime
zmuszone byiy do ladowania W
drodze. Jeden aeroplanow roz
bill sic, ale lotnik wyszedl caio.