Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1932 Edition 02 — Page 1

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HUNGER STRIKE OF SCHOLAR IS IN 201 DAY ‘Depression Faster’ Will Refuse Food Until He Gets Job, He Says. REMOVED TO HOSPITAL No Law to Force Ending of ‘Hard Times’ Protest, Say Capital Police. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 19.—Dr. Frederick F. Wolter entered the twentieth day of his “hunger strike against the depression” today, while l police searched in vain for a law |to make him eat. He was placed in Gallinger hospital here for care and observation this afternoon. Wolter did not protest. f "They can watch me there and see pfor themselves that I don’t eat,” he v said. i. Meanwhile, Dr. Oscar Hunter of hGeorge Washington Medical school reported that he had made a comrOlete examination of Wolter and hi ad found evidence that Wolter had a small amount of food, t; Wolter admitted eating one peanut this week, in a weak moment, vbut immediately repented. .st “Futile,” Says Congresswoman R. P. Stumph, sanitary officer cior the District of Columbia, apealed to the police for some action (I hich would break Dr. Wolter’s announced determination to starve hiimself. ti’ “Dr. Wplter appeared perfectly ptional,” said Captain W. E. sfolmes, commander of the first precinct police, after an investigation. He refused to intercede. r> Dr. John A. Ryan, Catholic university sociologist and famous as a ocial work expert, said he believed cVolter should be fed forcibly. 1“It is practically a case of suiie,” he said. Representative Mary T. Norton >em., N. J.), chairman of the Disict of Columbia committee of th,a >use, called Wolter’s action a “fule way of arousing public opinion.” , The German-born scholar, 57, is llowly starving himself to death in protest against unemployment, par":ularly that aspect of unemployment which deprives an educated Professional man of “suitable work.” if He resigned from the library of ongress in 1926 due to failure to -in promotion. Can’t Be Forced to Eat Wolter, holder of three university degrees, is not insane, according to psychiatrist who examined him at lis own request. f “A bit abnormal, perhaps,” the - isychiatrist said, "but not insane.” And since he is sane, and since -here is no law to make him eat, Washington is being treated to the ;pectacle of a one-man hunger ;trike against the depression. When the depression ends for Wolter he'll eat, he said. An offer of a temporary sls-a--->veek job did not mark the end of his personal depression, he explained. Such a job, in his own line *of work, was offered him by a university library. "If I am destined to a life of 'starvation,” he remarked, “I prefer .’to starve rapidly. Recall MacSwiney Death } By United Press l NEW YORK, March 19.—The J prolonger and fatal hunger strike of Terrence MacSwiney, Irish patriot and lord mayor of Cork, Ireland, in 1920, was recalled today by the efforts of Frederick F. Wolter, Washington librarian, to “starve himself to death” in protest against the depression. MacSwiney died in Brixton prison, London, Oct. 25, 1920, after re--fusing food for seventy-four days in 1 protest against his imprisonment, -and to call attention to the Irish r republican movement.

DARROW’S MIND ‘OPEN’ ON HAWAII HONOR CASE

By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, March 19. Clarence Darrow. famous attorney, Is going Into the Honolulu “honor” murder case with a mind “as unbiased as that of an ideal juror," he said today on the eve of sailing. He arrived here en route to Honolulu to defend Mrs. Granville Fortescue, American society matron, and three navy men charged with the slaying of Joe Kahahawai, one of the youths accused of mistreating Mrs. Massie, beautiful 18-year-old daughter of Mrs. Fortescue. Darrow sails on the steamship Malolo. Mrs. Darrow accompanied him. He said he had formulated no defense plan. Asked why he accepted the case since he has maintains! a determined stand against lynching, Darrow replied: “Does any one knows the definite facts of the case? I don’t believe they do." This was taken to mean that Harrow and his Honolulu associates might attempt to establish the de-

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Seven Men Lashed at Delaware Whipping Post By United Press WILMINGTON, Del., March 19—The cat-o-nine tails, in the hand of Warden J. Elmer Leach, had a busy session today at the Newcastle county workhouse —seven convicted men having received forty blows each across their bare backs. Warden Leach, who personally is opposed to the whipping post, administered the 280 lashes with the three-foot whip, made up of nine separate straps. Taken from their cells, each victim was marched down a long narrow passageway by an armed guard, and one at a time taken into the workhouse yard where the whipping post is located. The post in reality is a stone wall with imbedded steel rings. With his face to the wall the hands of each victim were fastened securely above his head to the steel rings. His guard stepped back and Warden Leach applied the forty strokes firmly across the bare back. This punishment completed, the prisoner was taken back into the workhouse and examined by a physician. Cuts and bruises were treated and the next victim was led to the post. A score of witnesses stood about in the courtyard. All floggings are open to the public and usually are held on Saturday. Those flogged today were John Lundy, 22; Joseph Garry, 32; James S. Hughes, 20; Edward Keen, 20; Herbert Mick, 29, all of whom were guilty of robbing a Wilmington pawnshop, and two Negroes, Leon Butler and George Griffith, convicted of petty larceny. In addition to the floggings each man will serve prison terms.

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“T>OOTS’ ” Easter shopping trip JLJ was one grand success! Which means that every youngster is going to have the finest possible collection of “Boots” paper doll cut-outs! “Boots” had the fun of getting ten new, beautiful dresses—and right from her own personal fashion expert—none other than Edgar E. Martin, who sketches all of “Boots’ ” gowns, in the “Boots and Her Buddies” comic strip. And now YOU are going to have the fun of fitting these dresses to "Boots’ ” trim little figure. The first sketch of “Boots,” with one of her dresses, will appear in The Times Monday. ROCK DERAILS TRAIN Engineer, Fireman Killed as Engine Is Knocked Over. By United Press PLAINS, Mont., March 19.—A ten-ton rock rolled down a mountain side and derailed the Northern Pacific North Coast Limited near Eddy last night. The engineer and fireman were killed. The rock hit the locomotive and knocked it over. A baggage car also left the rails. MADISON EDITOR DIES Moses Hodge Cochran Passes at Age of 87. By United Press MADISON, Ind., March 19. Moses Hodge Cochran, 87, editor of the Madison Daily Herald for more than thirty-five years, died here today after a year’s illness. He was one of Indiana’s oldest active newspaper men. Cochran formerly was publisher of the Columbus Evening Republican. The widow and six children survive him.

sense that Kahahawai was killed accidentally. The prosecution claims Kahahawai was abducted, taken to Mrs. Fortescue’s home, where, after a terrific struggle, the native youth was held in a bath tub of water and shot. “I have known honor slayers,” he said, “who have been convinced that justice was unobtainable in the courts. But I have never known an ’honor slaying’ case, where the facts clearly were proved as such, to end in a guilty verdict.” Darrow laughed when told a newspaper in Los Angeles, where he defended the McNamara brothers, alleged bombers of the Los Angeles Times, had said his defense of the honor slayers might yank him into heaven. “Hell,” he said. Asked to comment upon another newspaper editorial that his defense was the “first respectable thing he has done,” Darrow replied: "Maybe so. Certainly this is one of the few cases I’ve defended where I wasn't considered a criminal. That mcap something to an old man."

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LOST PLANE IS FOUND ALIVE Rescue Fliers Rush Crash Injured to Hospital. By United Press TIMMINS, Ontario, March 19. —Seven men, imprisoned in the cabin of their plane when it crashed during a northern Ontario blizzard Wednesday, were found alive, but injured, by a searching plane today. ! Carl Ayr, local pilot, who sighted ! the damaged plane, returned here j immediately with H. D. Marshall, i who appeared most seriously in- j jured, and started again with two i other planes to bring the others j back to warmth and safety. The pilot of the crashed plane | was Ernest Levine. Th e passengers were the Rev. Father Charles Thaviault, Wilfred Gauley, C. M. Chinn, C. L. Evans, Marshall and L. Stone, all prominent Timmins citizens. The group set out on return from a hockey game at Toronto Wednesday and had not been heard from until today. FLOODS MENACE WEST Washington Fears Renewal of Disasters Which Took 14 Lives. By United Press SEATTLE, Wash., March 19. The state of Washington was threatened anew today by landslides and floods which recently took fourteen lives and caused thousands of dollars property loss. NAMED FESTIVAL QUEEN Descendant of Washington’s Brother Is Shenandoah Valley Choice. By United Press WINCHESTER, Va., March 19. Miss Helen Ames Washington, 18, j of Overbrook, Pa., has been selected ! queen of the famed Shenandoah | valley apple blossom festival, which | will be held here early in May. ; Miss Washington is a descendant | of a brother of George Washington. INCOME TAXES SLUMP $24,269,071 Total March 17 Was $19,909,072 Les Than Year Ago. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 19.—Income tax receipts tabulated by the treasury on March 17 were $24,269,071. This was $19,909,072 less than receipts on the corresponding day last year, when $44,178,143 of income taxes were recorded. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 35 10 a. m 43 7a. m 35 11 a. m 45 Ba. m 39 12 (noon).. 46 i 9a. m 41 Ip. m 50

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Friday Saturday VINCENNES (15) \ 9:00 A.M. CICERO (13) \ CICERO (17) ) 8:30 A.M. NEWCASTLE ....... \ SEYMOUR (20) \ \ \ 10:00 A.M. NEWCASTLE (25) ..../ NEWCASTLE (25) ) ( 2:30 P.M. \ ” WILEY (T. H.) (17) ..) ( 11:00 A.M. CONNERSVILLE (23). \ 1 CONNERS VILLE (20).) I 9:30 A.M. GREENCASTLE / COLUMBIA CITY (19) \ \ 2:00 P.M. ( GREENCASTLE (24)../ GREENCASTLE (32)..) O 8:00 P.M. f f LEBANON (31) \ • 3:00 P.M. x DELPHI (29) ) LEBANON (31) J 10:30 A.M. WINAMAC \ WIN AM AC (48) \ i 4:00 P.M. WINAMAC (34) ) 1 BLUFFTON (30) ) I 3:30 P.M. > - BOSSE (EVANS) (25). \ 7:30 P.M. BOSSE (EVANS) (27)..\ \ MICHIGAN CITY (21)) J 11:30 A.M. BOSSif (EVANS.) .../ COLUMBUS (21) \ \ 8:30 P.M. [ TECHNICAL (15) / TECHNICAL (33) )

SLAYER FLEES HAUNTED HILLS OF FARNORTH Roaming Pack of Huskies Bares Two Murders in Lonely Tent Year Ago. ESKIMO IS SOUGHT Mounties’ New Man Hunt May Require Months, and Reach Far Into Arctic. By United Press FT. SMITH, Mackenzie, March 19.—Two rock cairns in the haunted Thelon river hills today started the Royal Canadian mounted police on another man hunt—one that may take three years, and lead the redcoated corps to the Arctic ocean’s border. The cairns mark the bodies of Edward Olson and Emanuel H. Bode, slain about Dec. 5, 1930, as they slept in their solitary tent on Thelon river, northeast of Great Slave lake, in a country called by the Indian’s bewitched. For the murder, police officers seek Tekaluk, an Eskimo last seen a year ago about to start a long journey to the Arctic coast, 300 miles northward. Pack of Huskies Bares Murders In September of last year, Howard George Price, trapper of the Thelon river region, saw a pack of huskies roaming through the woods which he believed was that of the slain trappers. He investigated and found the men’s bodies. Nearby were the skeletons of seven dogs, chained to a post. For weeks in the solitary hills he met no one to whom he could entrust his finding. Then by an Eskimo he sent a note to trapper Clark Groft. Groft sent the news by an Indian courier to Ft. Relance on the eastern end of Great Slave lake. The Indian arrived there Dec. 23 and told his story to Constable Gray. Then came a wait until the Arctic patrol reached Ft. Reliance, bringing Inspector Gagnon, with whom Gray set out over the snowbanked trails, reaching the Thelon river camp Feb. 13. Rude Cairn Marks Graves They held a rude inquest and determined the men were slain with ax and knife more than a year before. Traveling by dog team, Gray and Gagnon questioned the few trappers and Indians of the district. They learned Tekaluk was nearby at the time of the slayings and that he carried a rifle similar to one missing from the camp. Trapper Evan Peterson said he met Tekaluk in a snow hut near the Bode camp last March and that the Eskimo "signed something with his fingers about two men.” Peterson could not understand the Eskimo’s sign language, but said Tekaluk was frightened and about to leave for the Arctic coast. Leaving a rude cairn of stones to mark the two graves, the police officers trekked back through blinding storms and bitter weather. Friday after an 800-mile round trip in the heart of winter, they arrived with the report, and the radio which links the northern outposts crackled the news to listening officers and trappers from MacKenzie to Hudson bay. The message was to watch for Tekaluk. Meanwhile, patrols are being fitted out to hunt the desolate wastes. The Thelon river region is said by Indians to be cursed. Four other murders and suicides in the district are pointed to by them as evidence of evil spirits.

THE WOMAN PAYS!

Tech Star Wins Quarter, Rooter

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Miss Wilma Shaull, nurse, and Tommy Taylor

POWERS DIES ONJCAFFOLD Bluebeard, Accused of Five Murders, Calm at End. By United Press MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., March 19.—Harry F. Powers, calm as he was the day police dug up five bodies behind his garage at Quiet Dell, was hanged Friday night for the murder of Mrs, Dorothy Presslar Lemke of Northboro, Mass. Hers was one of the five bodies, all of which bore evidence of having been hanged or strangled. The “mail order Bluebeard” —socalled because he wooed his victims by mail through a matrimonial agency—was asked if he had anything to say before he died. “No,” he replied quietly. A slight twitching of the lips was his only indication of nervousness. Powers was dressed in a black suit with a pin stripe. He wore a rather flashy blue tie and white collar. Just before 9 o’clock he was led to the platform of the state penitentiary gallows. A crowd of forty, including state and prison officials, doctors, policemen, and one of the jurors who has convicted him, stood in the area below, watching tensely. The noose was adjusted. Three deputies pulled at ropes, none knowing which was opening the trap over which Powers was standing. The trap swung open. Powers’ squat body dropped heavily. It was snapped short at the end of the rope—and Powers was dead. SOVIET STILL IGNORED U. S. Attitude on Recognition Is Unchanged, Capitol Announces. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 19.—The state department, in reply to questions, said today there had been no change in the American attitude toward recognition of Soviet Russia.

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THE woman always pays! And because of the truity of that motto, Technical high school had an extra rooter today and Tommy Taylor, Tech athlete, is “twobits” head of the state basketball tourney. True, the gain of one rooter for Tech didn’t help the Green and White against Bosse of Evansville, but it did ease the physical as well as the mental pain for Tommy as his hopes went down to defeat. Tommy, who has been confined to a bed at Methodist hospital since his spinal injury last fall in a football game with Manual Training high school, won that “two-bits” today when he rooted for Winamac over Lebanon via the ether waves. nun THE radio has been Tommy’s only means of communing in spirit with his old school, but today Tommy discovered opposition in his room to his tourney selections. Friday night the confidence of Tech's team sounded in Tommy's ears as teammates said they’d win. ‘‘Winamac will beat Lebanon,” forecast Tommy. “They won’t,” retorted Miss Wilma Shaull, his day-nurse. “Lebanon’s my home town.” How much you got to say they won’t?” argued Tommy from the white bed. “Two bits,” Miss Shaull replied, “and we’ll let this newspaper man hear the bargain. “If Lebanon loses, I’ll be for Tech from then on,” offered his nurse. “It’s a bet, and I’m going to hear that game, too, even if I am getting sleepy. You see, she gave me some medicine to go to sleep. She’s trying to slip something over,” joked Tommy. * n THE radio’s loud speaker crackled through the four quarters of the Winamac-Lebanon game. It was nip-and-tuck at the fieldhouse and the same way in the hospital room. “C’mon Winamac,” pleaded Tommy. “Get ’em Lebanon,” countered the nurse. And, of course, the woman paid. And even though Tech didn’t get to the last bracket, little Winamac will find itself with two “rooting-tooting-rooters’ ’if it gets to the finals. ‘HASTENS’ FIRETbUrNED Thomas Potter Injured as He Poors Oil on Flames. Thomas Potter, 30, suffered severe burns on the face, arms and hands today when coal oil he threw into a furnace to hasten a fire, exploded at his home, 626 North New Jersey street.

RADIO APPEAL FLASHED TO AVERT DUAL SUICIDE

By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 19.—Los Angeles police waited today for word of a mother and daughter to whom they addressed a radio appeal in hope of blocking a threatened suicide.' Over police radio Station KGPL flashed the message of Officer Floyd Cullings every ten minutes between 8:30 and 9 Friday night, appealing to Mrs. W. L Brown of Boulder Creek, in the Santa Cruz mountains. She was urged not to carry out the plans she revealed in a letter to the broadcaster, whose voice her dead son had admired over the radio. No check of the letter’s authenticity could be made, but police were not inclined to doubt its sincerity. Mrs. Brown declared she and her daughter were “slipping out. of the picture Friday Ephi.” She said she Vnd her daughter

BOSSE QUINTET DEALS OUT TERRIFIC 27-15 THUMPING TO INDIANAPOLIS ATHLETES Butterworth, Giant Center, Stars in Sensational Fashion for Crack Downstate Aggregation. CICERO ELIMINATED BY NEWCASTLE Greencastle Noses Out Connersville and Winamac Tosses Way to Triumph Over Lebanon. BY DICK MILLER Times Sports Writer With two unexpected faces in the cast, Hoosierdom’s annual prep cage carnival played semi-final engagements at Butler fieldhouse this afternoon. Winamac, one of the strongest teams to come out of the north in recent years, and Bosse of Evansville, Harry King’s battling southern hopes, were the newcomers.

Tech, local pride and title hope, and Lebanon, one of the two three-title winners in the twenty years of titular battles, were ousted in sensational upset battles this morning. Tim Campbell’s local pastimers bowed to the Pocket City Bulldogs, 27 to 15, while Lebanon’s Tigers took the count before Winamac, 34 to 31. Strong Teams Collide Newcastle and Greencastle, only survivors of the pre-tourney favorites, tangled in the opening matinee encounter at 2:30, in which one of tonight’s finalists will be decided. Both were rushed to the limit by second-round foes, the Trojans being forced to turn on full force to humble Cicero, 25 to 13, while McAnally’s last-minute field goal was all that saved the day for Greencastle in its 24 to 23 struggle with Connersville. Winamac and Bosse are slated to tangle at 3:30, with the title battle carded for 8 o’clock tonight. A crowd of 15,000 was present today. A swift finish by Newcastle’s fast-stepping Trojans eliminated Cicero, dark horse conqueror of Vincennes, in the curtain-raiser today, 25 to 13. Newcastle Finishes Strong For nearly three-fourths of the game, the gallant small-town hoopsters dogged the heels of the touted Trojans. Late in the third quarter, Cicero trailed 14 to 12 and missed two free throws which would have tied the count. At the gun, Newcastle led 16 to 13. Vernon Huffman, Newcastle’s brilliant all-state guard, took command of the final period and the fast-tiring Cicero boys wilted under a barrage of baskets. Free throws helped the Trojan cause, Newcastle counting nine from the charity stripe while the Red Devils registered but one. A last-minute under-the-basket flip by McAnally, lanky Greencastle center, after he had intercepted a Spartan pass, gave the Tiger Cubs a 24 to 23 triumph over Connersville. Loses After Uphill Fight Connersville’s uphill battle, after trailing throughout the fray, was one of the highlights of the sec-ond-round action. Greencastle swept into an 18 to 11 advantage

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would abandon their cabin for the San Francisco waterfront. “Our bodies will never wash up,” she wrote. I’ll see to that, and there is no one to know or to ask about us. But we want to listen in on the broadcasts our son and brother loved so much, just once more before we go. We hope Officer Cullings will be speaking.” Since the death of her son, Harold, 12, Mrs. Brown wrote she had nothing to live for. Harold, she said, loved to listen to Officer Cullings, and pretend he stood beside him at KGPL. .So Friday night Cullings sent the following message over the air: “Mrs. Brown: Don’t carry out your plan. It is wrong, regardless of your present belief. I am writing a letter which will be in the general delivery for you Saturday in San Francisco. The letter will give you a plan for a worthwhile life and anew start.” San Francisco officers were asked to watch for the couple. *

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at the half and maintained a 21 to 14 margin at the three-quarters mark. Dillingham and Sleet stepped out for the Spartans and banged the hoop with regularity to send the Spartans into a 23 to 22 lead just one minute before the final gun. McAnally’s two-pointer ended the Connersville hopes, however. Anew northern hope lined up for action this afternoon as the result of Winamac’s thrilling 34 to 31 decision over Lebanon.

Tech-Bosse

Three minutes elapsed before Edwards pushed in the first points cf the Technical-Bosse game. These quickly were matched by Butterworth, and Johnny Townsend sent the capital city boys out in front with two free throws. Zint had three consecutive chances at the foul line for free throws, making only one point. Johnny Townsend was fouled by Osborne and he gained another point for Tech. Boink, fouled by J. Townsend, failed to connect as the quarter ended. Score: Technical, 5; Bosse, 3. Boose Forges Ahead Butterworth went under the hoop to tie the count at 5-all. The giant Bosse center next sent one in from side center to push Bosse into the lead. Then he went down to take a shorter shot which bounded bacK into his hands, and he sent it m for another field goal, forcing Teen to call time out. Score: Bosse, 9; Tech, 5. Standing at the foul circle, Butterworth pushed through his third consecutive field goal. Boink fouled Edwards under the basket, and Edwards made one of two free throw attempts. Gauker pushed Osborne, who missed a foul attempt. Butterworth made a beautiful pivot shot from in front of the hoop, as the half ended. Score: Bosse, 13; Tech, 6. Butterworth Is Star It was a battle of giant centers, Butterworth for Bosse and Edwards for Technical, and the downstate pivot man played one of the finest games in the first half yet seen in the tournament. He scored twelve of the thirteen Bosse Points, all six field goals, credited to the southerners. When the green and white players trotted out on the floor to start the second half, they were given the raspberry, all but the Tech cheering sections booing and giving cat calls. Coach Tim Campbell of Tech shifted his defensive tactics in the second ha,lf and put Gladden, big back guard, on Butterworth, in an effort to stop the big downstate player’s scoring. Big Center Keeps Up Pace Osborne shot, but the ball rolled around and out. Butterworth drove in and batted the ball _ back into the basket for two points. Gauker arched a high one into the net for Tech. Huston missed two from the foul line, and Zint was called for traveling. Tech took the ball out of bounds, worked it down, and Johnny Townsend tipped one in from under the hoop for two points. Evansville called time out. Score: Bosse, 15; Technical, 10. Free Throw Added Johnny Townsend added a free throw, making the score Bosse, 15Tech. 11. Gladden fouled Curnick, who missed, but he followed in and (Turn to Page 11) CLAIM HOLDUPS SOLVED Suspect in City Theaters Robbery. Alleged to Have Confessed. Robbery of the Fountain Square and Granada theaters here about a month ago, was confessed today by Harry Fields, 26, held at Columbus, 0., according to a press dispatch, quoting Sheriff Harry Paul. Loot of SSOO was obtained. Fields and Maurice O’Flaherty were arrested at Columbus a few days ago and O’Flaherty was identified as one of the robbers by Earl Cunningftam, manager of the Fountain Square theater. O'Flaherty, however, denies his guilt.