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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1927
Page
10
Defense counsel in Painesville plan habeas corpus to challenge first degree murder charges against Velma West and seek bail and a reduced verdict. The confession remains unpublicized while the defense argues for leniency and full state case exposure.
Five hundred three inch aluminum discs donated by the Hoosier Motor Club arrived for traffic control measures. Traffic Captain Lester Jones said they will be installed Monday night at Meridian and Washington Streets to mark pedestrian lanes and replace pole markers. The discs will be embedded with expanding pins and used to mark stop lines and directions. the installation is described as an experimental change. The discs are already used in Chicago.
Federal grand jury is set to begin a probe into liquor conditions and alleged political corruption in Muncie Wednesday. Charges against sixty arrested in recent dry raids will be considered as witnesses are questioned in Indianapolis Shelbyville and Stark and Martin counties.
The Advertising Club of Indianapolis plans a public game tournament at the Spink-Arms tonight to crown city champions in checker, chess, bridge, and fiddle-de-winks. Players supply their own equipment. a small table fee is charged. Prizes, refreshments, and the possibility of inviting regional champions are planned per secretary-manager Lester C. Nagley.
A bill to appropriate 258 960 000 for lower Mississippi flood control was introduced by Senator Jones. The War Secretary would lead the project under Maj. Gen. Edwin Jadwin’s plan, with cooperation from states on levee control at key points.
A broad meeting at the Claypool Hotel gathered representatives from fourteen state groups to debate Indiana tax issues. The conference, arranged by the Indiana Bankers Association tax committee, covered proposed reforms including a shift to corporation taxes and strict budgeting under the 1927 law.
United Press dispatch from Hong Kong reports General Li Fu Klum, commanding moderate nationalist forces, issued a proclamation threatening to destroy Canton unless radical laborers who seized power surrender. Li launched a counter attack and was said to have retaken the police headquarters.
Marion County grand jurors neared the end of a lengthy political corruption inquiry. Several more witnesses were expected before the session ends December 31, with Prosecutor William H. Remy and Special Prosecutor Emsley W. Johnson conferring with the panel in the morning.
Mrs. Julia Wheelock, commander of an American Legion post in Rome, spoke at a national Legion conference about 6,000 stranded doughboys in Italy. She used private funds to aid them, urged aid for transport home, and noted many cannot pay dues while some 2,000 of 7,000 potential members could join.
President Coolidge has not approved a naval build up and reports of a billion dollar plan are unlikely. The Navy Department studies additions such as cruisers submarines and carriers with no final decision. Wilbur and naval leaders discussed Geneva and cabinet details were kept private.
Indiana swine breeders schedule important conferences January 2 and 3. The Indiana Swine Breeders Association meets Monday night at the Claypool followed by sessions of the Chester-White, Big Type Poland China, and Duroc Jersey associations at Claypool English and Severin venues respectively.
John C. Springer becomes president of the North Side Lions Club succeeding Claude C. McCoy. Samuel S. Wyly is named third vice president to succeed Springer and continue the club’s leadership lineup.
Al fred Watson nineteen from Battery B Ft. Benjamin Harrison used a forged parole to walk from the guardhouse and escape. Sergeant Bernard McGuire said Watson enlisted May twenty fourth nineteen twenty seven deserted August first arrested at Auburn September twenty fifth and court martial convicted November twenty second of desertion. He was sentenced to Ft. Leavenworth for a year and awaiting transfer.
T A Boyd head of GM research fuel section will present a paper on Automotive Fuels of the Future at the Indiana Section SAE meeting Thursday evening following a 6 30 dinner. He will discuss new synthetic fuels tested in Europe.
Miss Forest Hope Wall, former motion picture extra, files a suit against Harry K. Thaw alleging he wooed her in 1923 at Laguna Beach, gave an engagement ring, pledged marriage, then left. She claims he paid money, urged her to wait, and she abandoned her career to return to school. She seeks 100000 and 500 expenses for a 1926 trip toward his Virginia estate.
Col. Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Company, defines four essentials of leadership: broad knowledge courage constant activity and the ability to influence others. He credited Newton D. Baker Herbert Hoover and Charles M Schwab with these traits and spoke at the Contemporary Club.
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