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'JULY 10, 1930
STATE G. O. P. IS HARASSED BY RISING TIDE OF SCANDAL
LESLIE IS HELD
AT FAULT FOR
t FAILURE TO ACT
Governor Is Rapped for
Farreil Appointment,
Called Illegal.
JAM OVER GAS TAXES
Grand Jury May Look Into
Oil Remittances and
- Insurance Deductions.
BY BEN STERN
While Governor Harry G. Leslie
Is gamboling on the sands at
Dunes state park, continuing the
rarely interrupted vacation which
began Jan. 15. 1929, his entire ad
ministration is becoming involved
In a series of investigations which
eventually may result in probes by
the Marion county grand jury.
Republican leaders, looking fran
tically about for leadership out of j
the maze of scandal, declare it is I
a direct result of the lack of cxecu
tive guidance.
Leslies attention has been di
rected rejieatedly to various de
partments which have been de
clared in need of changes in execu
tive personnel.
“I will make changes when the
grass gets green,” Leslie said last
winter.
Appointment Criticized
• The grass is getting sere and yel- |
low again and no changes have j
been nude,” u friend of the execu
tive’s said. I
In the face of strong criticism of
those close to the administration. \
Leslie has reappointed Representa- j
tive Sam Farrell. Hartford City, to,
the budget committee. |
This appointment is made with:
the Governor knowing well that j
Farrell’s status is illegal. The statute j
creating the budget committee de- |
dares that no person engaged
directly or indirectly in sales to the |
state may be a member.
Yet despite the warning. Leslie j
appointed the man who helped make
possible his expenditure of more
than $17,000 for the refurnishing of j
the executive mansion.
Farrell attracted much attention i
recently when he protested: ’ Why j
don’t you w r rite something about the
big graft that goes on around here?” i
in answer to criticism of his action j
In selling trucks to the state . ,
Scandals Are Bared
The last seven days have brought i
,o light discrepancies in oil remit- |
tances which may rrsult in a grand j
j 'ry investigation; alleged illegal tax
deductions by the state insurance,
department, and more information j
on the gasoline tax evasions which j
directly or indirectly caused the res- j
ignation of the ponderous Bruce j
Cooper, former Posey county state |
senator, as gas tax auditor.
The gas tax evasions investigation j
brought into the picture Clarence
Fate, investigator for the securities j
division of the secretary of state's
deDartment. whose son, Joseph Fate,
with Malcolm Clark, took over con- j
trol of the stations owned by the
Dunes Oil Company, one of the al- I
leged evaders.
Attorney-General James M. Ogden j
must decide upon a method of j
criminal prosecution of the era- j
ployes who allegedly are responsible j
for the defrauding the state of j
hundreds of thousands of dollars in J
gasoline tax money.
Politicians Are Hit
Defendants probably will be active
political workers and other former ;
state employes who. investigation j
may show, were to receive thousands
of dollars in cash and property for .
arranging compromises.
Cooper, it has been learned, was j
assigned during the winter to in- .
vestigate the complaints of evasions!
and made a report showing nothing
wrong.
About six months ago, rumors
were heard of discrepancies in re- |
mittances cf the oil inspectors and
it was learned that the board of
accounts turned its report over to |
Governor Leslie.
Since that time the Governor, it
is said, has been negotiating with
bonding companies to regain some j
cf the money due the state.
A total of $25,000 in fees is said ;
to have been withheld by inspec- j
tors.
Insurance Probe On
According to I. N. Miller, state
food and drug commissioner, who
heads the inspectors, one employe.'
Arthur Reat. Greencastle, has re
signed.
The board of accounts also is at
tempting to collect thousands of
dolllars of loss deductions from j
several fire insurance companies, •
alleged to have been allowed ille- ]
gaily, while the books of scores of
casualty companies are being ex
amined to recover taxes on fire in
surance, which it is charged, they
have evaded paying.
The Indiana law provides for a
3 per cent tax on Are insurance pre
miurns and permits deductions of
losses in all cases except where
companies are operating out of
states where such deductions are not
allowed.
Clarence Wysong, state insurance
commissioner, and Jackson ap
pointee, who for a long time has j
been scheduled for displacement, has j
not made a statement. It was re- j
ported, however, he is aiding Orr in ;
the collections. These illegal de
ductions have continued for four
years, the length of the commis
sioner’s term.
“A Good Place to Bank ’
Marion County
State Bank
139 East Market Street
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America Helps Revolutionize Russia
Anew and thoroughly industrialized Russia, as
these pictures show, Is growing out of the chaos left
by the World war and the revolution.
Lower center is the new chairman of the board
of the Amtory Trading Corporation, Peter A. Bog
danov, whose job in this country is to introduce
American .nen, methods and machines in the Soviet
building program.
PREPARE FOR PICNIC
Rivalry Between Police and
Firemen Flares.
Rivalry between the police and
fire department has developed with
preliminary plans for the police and
firemen’s field day and picnic. Aug.
5 and 6 at Broad Ripple park.
Wide interest is being show in
plans for the tug-of-war, which
contemplates dragging of the losing
side through the pool at the park.
Winner will be determined by the
side that wins twice out of three
attempts.
Hod Eller, former big league twirl
er. is recruiting a police ball team,
with the view of trimming the fire
eating nine. Rescue and life-sav
ing demonstrations, pistol meet and
other contests will be staged by the
committee composed of Detective
Arthur Lyke and Captain Louis
Johnson, police force, and Captain
Farenback and Captain Bernard
Lynch of the fire department.
REPAYS 20-YEAR LOAN
Mail Clerk Who Borrowed 35 Cents
Finally Eases Conscience.
r.u Unite* Press
CHICAGO. July 19.—The 35 cents
which worried Charles W. Long,
railway mail clerk, for twenty years
will not worry him any more.
Long was stranded with another
clerk. Robert A. Baker, between
trains fit: a small Arizona town
twenty years ago. He borrowed 35
cents from Baker and never has
seen him since.
During the years that followed,
Long often recalled the loan. Each
time he recalled it. he determined
to repay it. Each time he forgot.
The other day, however, he carried
out his determination, and sent
Baker sl, explaining the 65 cents
was interest. Today he had re
ceived word that the money was
received.
French Wheat Supply Ample
Pul ititefi Press
PARIS, July 19. —Sufficient wheat
now is stored in France to last the
country until the next harvest with
out the necessity of special legisla
tion, it was announced after a con
ference here Friday night between
Fernand David, minister of agri
culture. and a delegation from the
peasant defense group.
Fletcher Ave. so.vin£s & Loan Assn.
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vertisement should have been as
follows:
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Lower left is a typical group of workers’ homes
and lower right an electric railway station in the
Surachan district, with oil fields in the distance.
Upper right is the massive refrigerating plant of
a modern, American-planned factory, and pictured
at the right is a view of one section of the Kolemen
sky locomotive plant.
$60,000,000 PIPE LINE
TO RUN THROUGH CITY
Indianapolis on Rilght-of-Way
From Tulsa, Okla.
A $60,000,000 pipe line and re
finery program of the Gulf Pipe
Line Company will include Indian
apolis, officials of the company
said today.
They now are obtaining right
of-way for the pipe line, from Tulsa,
Okla., to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati,
via this city.' Refineries will be
located in Toledo and Cincinnati,
via this city. Refineries will be lo
cated in Toledo and Cincinnati.
The pipe, an eight-inch line from
Tulsa to Indianapolis and Toledo,
and six inches to Cincinnati and
Pittsburgh, will be laid two feet
underground.
AIRPORT BUILDING IS
PLEDGED BY OCT. 1
Contractors Agree to Double Work
ing Forces to Speed Completion.
C. T. Caldwell, contractor on the
administration building at city air
port. today promised the works
board to complete the structure by
I Oct. 1.
E. Kirk McKinney, board presi
dent, called in McGuire & Shook,
architects, Caldwell and representa
tives of the bonding company, in
an effort to speed up the project, so
the airport will be available this
fall. The building originally was
scheduled for completion Aug. 1,
but several delays were encountered
by Caldwell.
The contractor agreed to double
the working force to rush the com
pletion date.
HOOVER ASKS ECONOMY
Order Issued to Officials in View of
Possible Revenue Decrease.
Bu United Press
WASHINGTON. July 19.—’The or
der to reduce every possible govern
ment expenditure this year has gone
down the line from Prsident Hoover
j to cabinet members and officials of
[ the various government depart
ments.
The President is aroused at the
prospect that government revenues
may decrease this year while con
gress has authorized expenditure of
$209,000,000 more than was made
available for actual expenses last
year.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
LIST REALTY DEALS
Sale of Oil Firm Lease Is
Reported by Yelch.
Real estate deals of the past two
weeks, were announced today by
four local realty firms.
Robert Allison of the Allison
Realty Company, 607 Peoples Bank
building, reported seven deals, total
ing $40,000.
The F. C. Tucker Company,
through H. L. Yelch, sales manager,
announced the sale of the lease,
equipment and stock of the Civic
Oil Company, 1009 East New York
street, to Gaseteria, Inc., whose
home office is at 1801 Madison ave
nue.
W. H. Keller, of Schmid & Smith,
130 North Delaware street, an
nounced the sale of four pieces of
property.
Henry M. Stackhouse of the Com
mercial Credit Realty Company, 223
East Ohio street, announced the
sale of a five-room modern bunga
low at 2035 South Pennsylvania
street, to Otto L. and Florence
Kritsch.
KIP TO PAY $250,000
Rhinelander's Ex-Wife Waives Her
Dower Rights Claims.
Bu United Press
NEW YORK. July 19.—Alice
Jones Rhinelander, former wife of
Leonard Kip Rhinelander, will re
ceive $250,000 for waiving her dower
rights and all claims against the
Rhinelander family, according to
Samuel F. Swinburne, lier attorney
here.
Swinburne insisted the $31,500
mentioned in dispatches from Las
Vegas, Nev., telling of the settle
ment was only a part payment.
Business Places Bum
Bu United Press
VALPARAISO, Ind., July 19.
The Williams paint and glass store
and the Schlossers cream station
were destroyed by fire Friday night.
Although officials of the two busi
nesses were away from the city and
could not determine exact amount
of loss, it was thought to amount
to several Thousand dollars. Spon
taneous combustion is said to have
started the fire.
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FLETCHER
AMERICAN COMPANY
Affiliated with The
FLETCHER AMERICAN
NATIONAL BANK
SUCCESSOR FOR
COOPER UP TO
STATEJUJDITOR
Bobbitt Ponders Task of
Naming' Field Man in
Gas Tax Division.
State Auditor Archie Bobbitt re
turned today from a campaign trip
and at once tool: up the matter of
appointing a successor to Bruce
Cooper as field auditor in the gaso
line tax collection division of his
office.
The new appointee will be a man
now employed oy the state and
from the third district in southern
Indiana, it was learned. Bobbitt
comes from English, which is in
that district.
Cooper came from Stewartsville
and at the time of taking over the
field auditorship, was a state sena
tor, First district Republican chair
man and candidate for congress in
the primary. New he is none of
these. He resigned, under a cloud,
after new disclosures in the bootleg
gasoline expose in northern Indiana.
Big Bribe Reported
This new evidence, including, it
is said, the charge that a certain
state employe received $50,000 for
fixing settlements, is to be given At
torney-General James M. Ogden
next Tuesday.
Poole Harrison, J. T. Conner and
George Bowen, all of Chicago and
alleged “brains” of a million dollar
bootleg gasoline business are ex
pected to appear at the attorney
general’s office at that time and
make the charges.
Ogden has promised that prosecu
tion will follow, if these disclosures
are as indicated.
Bobbitt, hi explaining for the first
time his appointment of Cooper to
a position of trust, said that it was
"because he was First district chair
man ”
He admitted that Cooper had the
indorsement of Elza O. Rogers, G.
0. P. state chairman and the Repub
lican state committee. Cooper had
been Rogers’ mouthpiece in the
senate, although he was known
among his senate colleagues as "the
weakest man on the floor.”
Clarence Fate of the secretary of
state's office is another whose con
nection with the gasoline tax set
tlements will be discussd with
Ogden.
Took Over Stations
Fate took over several northern
Indiana bootleg gasoline stations,
after settlement was made in Bob
bitt’s office.
He is listed as "investigator for
the securities commission” under
Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield.
Records disclose that he gets
$125 a month for this service. But
he is on another Fifield pay roll
for another $125 a month. There
he is listed as being engaged in the
distribution of automobile license
plates. With the combined two
pay roll salary of $250 a month, he
lives at the Indianapolis Athletic
Club when in Indianapolis. /
The last examination of the se
curities commission by the state
board of accounts discloses that
Fate had a $1,443.23 expense ac
count between Dec. 1, 1928, and
Sept. 30, 1929.
This money is derived from com
panies which have securities up
for investigation. Fifield continues
to keep these funds, although the
board of accounts twice has rec
ommended they be turned in to
the state treasurer and pass
through the state auditor’s office.
VISIONS BUSINESS RISE
Improved Conditions Late in
August Forecast by Stewart.
Improvement in business condi
tions was forecast by Malcolm M.
Stewart of Cincinnati, in a talk be
fore the Indianapolis World Trade
Club at a luncheon in the Chamber
of Commerce, Friday,
"All authorities seem to agree that
by the end of August buMness in
general will pick up,” he said.
Stewart is chairman of the middle
west foreign trade committee.
Veteran Police Officer
Finally Buys Uniform
FifielcTs Aid Dons Regalia
After Years of ‘Service’
in ‘Civvies.’
Friends of Captain Milo Hershey,
veteran member of the state police
force and political worker for Sec
retary of State Otto G. Fifield, sel
dom, if ever, have seen him in uni
form, despite the department rule
that all officers must wear them.
It was learned today, however,
that, after many years' service in
civilian clothes, Captain Hershey
finally has purchased a uniform.
The purchase is reported to have
been made in the general uniform
buying done by the state police at
a meeting this spring.
Reports in Civies
Captain Hershey has not yet
made a habit of dressing up in his
new uniform, if it has been de
livered. He continues to report at
stateheuse headquarters in "civvies.”
What he "reports” is not, disclosed,
as he is said never to have made
an arrest.
The picture of Captain Hershey
in uniform was taken when he
borrowed an outfit belonging to
Captain Joseph Shinn, Coffin po
litical ally, to pose for a cut used in
the state police edition of the In
diana police chiefs’ magazine.
Get S2OO a Month
Both Hershey and Shinn receive
salaries of S2OO a month. Hershey,
who resides on a farm in Hamilton
county hear the Marion county line,
is said to oe engaged at present in
"inspection work.” He tours about
in a state car accompanied by
George Clark, field auditor of the
automobile license department.
A former friend of D. C. Stephen
son, Hershey is said to be caring for
a very valuable bird dog belonging
to the one time Indiana Ku-Klux
Klan czar, while Stephenson serves
a life sentence in the Indiana state
prison, awaiting action by the Indi
ana supreme court.
FLIERS STIR PROTEST
Mexico Raps Violation of Boundary
Rules by Army Aviators.
Bu United Press
MEXICO CITY, July 19.—The
Mexican government was expected
today to make representations to
the United States over reports that
army planes were flying over Mexi
can territory, in violation of boun
dary regulations.
Piedras Negras, Mexican immi
gration agent, informed the interior
department that numerous planes
marked with the emblems of the
United States army frequently were
sighted over Mexican territory.
"AH ADOMSSOfWSTINCnON”
w SUMMER ADVANTAGES
Overlooking Lake Michi
gan ... with parklands ...
\ beaches and bridle path
close at hand . . . Restfully
quiet . . . yet within a few
minutes of the Loop stores
... and theatres. Rooms are
light.,. airy... foods tempt
the lagging summer appe
tite. Rates begin at $5.00 per
day. Permanent Suites at
Special Discounts.
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the largest staff of investment
specialists to safeguard the
interests of the investing public
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AWAfiD $24,406
IN PAVINO WORK
Nine Contracts for Street
Improvements Announced.
Public improvement contracts
totaling $24,400 were awarded today
by the city works board. The nine
contracts awarded are:
First alley north of Thirty-sixth street.
Northwestern to Crescent, concrete paving.
Schwert Brothers. $745: alley west of Fay
ette street. Walnut street to St. Clair
street, concrete paving. R. M. Bowen Com
pany. $1,418: first alley south of Sumner
street. Stanley to Allen, concrete paving.
Abel Brothers. $1,590: Dearborn street, east
side. Twenty-third to Twenty-fifth street,
concrete walks. Fred G. Janltz. $1,179;
Udell street. Harding to Riverside drive,
concrete paving. Indiana Asphalt Paving
Company. $4,445: first alley west of Dexter.
Twenty-first to Twenty-second street,
concrete paving. Standard Paving Com
pany. $2,980; Manlove avenue, Forty-
Sixth to Forty-Eighth, grading and curb,
Schwert Brothers. $2,423; Manlove avenue,
Fortv-eighth to Fiftv-second street, -grad
ing and curbing. Indiana Asphalt Paving
Company. $4,106: Baltimore avenue. Forty
sixth to Fiftv-second. grading and curb.
William D. Vogel, $5,800.
Resolutions adopted: Pratt street,
Illinois to Senate, treating surface
with asphalt; New York street, Ran
dolph to Tuxedo, widening roadway
to forty-five feet and resurfacing;
St. Clairr Massachusetts to High
land avenue, Asphaltic resurface.
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INSULL HEARING
COSTS $64,154-
Utilities in Banned Merger
Divide Payment.
Utilities involved in the $70,000.-
000 Insull utilities merger attempt,
today paid the public service com
mission $64,154.58 for the investiga
tion and hearing which resulted tn
their being turned down.
Commissioner Howell Ellis, who
had the case in charge, reported the
total payment divided among the
utilities involved as follows:
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & East
ern Traction Company, $15,729.24;
Terre Haute Traction and Light
Company, $10,489.09, and the Cen
tral Indiana Power Company,
$37,936.25.
Appointment of William P,
Holmes, 3805 West Washington
street, as successor to David E.
Matthews as chief of the railroad
inspection also was announced today
by Chairman John W. McCardle of
the commission.
Holmes is a veteran railroad man
and past grand knight of the Indi
anapolis Knights of Columbus.
REACH MINE WAGE PACT
Anthracite Union Delegates to Vote
on Agreement Aug. 4.
Bu I nitnl Press
NEW YORK, July 19.—A tri-dis
trict convention oi local union dele
gates will be held at Scranton, Pa
on Aug. 4 to determine whether
the tentative working agreement
reached by a joint conference of
operators and miners will guide the
anthracite coal industry until April
1, 1936.
The full scale committee of the
workers approved the agreement
Friday night. It was announced
that their acceptance was unani
mous despite the fact that some
members of the committee had ex
pressed disappointment in private
conversations.
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