Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1926 — Page 1

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WIDOW OF MURDERED HAUJELD Arrested on Formal Charge of Killing Pastor and Choir Singer in 1922. IS COMMITTED TO JAIL Accused Woman Brands Action as Ridiculous. Bu United Press SOMMERVILLE, N. J., July 29. Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, a defiant, middle-aged woman, prepared today to fight to the utmost, the ‘‘ridiculous charge” that she murdered her alleged unfaithful husband, the Rev. Edward W. Hall, and Eleanor Kills, choir singer. Mrs. Hall \vas arrested at her home in New Brunswick, late Wednesday night, by State troopers. Within a few hours, she had been arraigned, held without bail on a murder charge and at 3 a. m. was in county jail here. An order, summoning the April grand jury still techinally in session, to take up the case was expected this afternoon. Further arrests of persons alleged to have been implicated in the ,murder were believed imminent as State' [and county detectives aided by special investigators worked secretly here and in New Brunswich. They were reported to have two warrants ready to be served. Mystery Continues The mystery that has surrounded the case since the bodies of the preacher and the choir singer were found under a crab apple tree on the Phillips farm neAr New Brunswick on Sept. R 5, 1922, continued today. Prosecutor Francis Bergen of Somerset County, who swore to the warrant; Justice of the Peace William R. Sutphen of New Brunswick, who held her for the - grand jury; Maj. Mark O. Kmberling of State police, and other officers who made* the arrest—all refused to give any hint on what facts they based the arrest. The investigation was revived about two weeks ago, when Arthur S. Riehl filed a petition seeking annulment of his marriage to LouiseGeist Riehl, a former servant in the Hall home. He charged his wife had confessed to him that ohe had been Dr. Hall’s sweetheart and had been paid 15,000 to withheld facts she possessed*regarding the murders. The woman denied the charges. Women’s Story Recalled The investigation recalls the testimony of Mrs. Jane Gibson at the time of the first inquiry. She told the grand jury that on the night of the murder she saw four figures under the crab apple tree—two women and two men. One woman, she said, was Mrs. Hall. She said she heard several quick shots. The man and the woman fell. Then a. 1 cloud passed over the moon. Next she saw a woman in a gray coat .jobbing over the clergyman’s body. When the bodies were found, fragments of love letters were scattered about. “I love you ‘most when you love me as you did today, not physically but prayerfully,” rpad one allegedly written by Mrs. Mills and tinged with the religious coloring which was,said to have marked the affair of the choir singer and her pastor. “Good night, beloved,” said another, attributed to Dr. Hall. "Only help me be strong and patient until we are In each other’s arms again.” “I am not fretting,” Mrs. Mills was said to have written again. “I know there 'are girls with shapely bodies, but I don’t care what they have. I have a noble man’s deep, true and eternal love. My heart Is his; my life is his. Poor as my body is; scrawny as my skin may be; I am his forever.”

DAYLIGHT GROCERY HOLDJJnTAGED Negro Bandit Forces Clerk Into Ice Box —Gets S3O. Forcing a clerk into the refrigerator at the point of a revolver, a lone Negro bandit obtained about S3O in a daring daylight holdup of a meat shop operated by Richard Kiovsky, at 041 Indiana Ave., today. • Richard Kiovsky, Jr., 17, son of the proprietor, in charge of the store, \Baid that he was standing outside smoking a cigaret when the Negro pointed a gun at him and forced him in the store, Kiovsky said when he laughed at the bandit and wanted to know “what the joke was," the man pushed him into the ice box. The bandit fled through a nearby alley after obtaining the money from the cash drawer. Lieut. Fred Winkler and Detectives Tooley and Brumfield searched the neighborhood. The hold-up was the latest of a series of bold daylight robberies in the past week, in which more than a SI,OOO has been obtained by bandits.

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Girl Plays Own Dirge , Shoots Self Bii United Press BROOKLYN. N. Y., July 29 After playing a funeral march on a piano, Josephine Farina, 14, committed suicide with her father’s revolver. TRAIN ROBBERY INEAST Three Men Hold l’i) Baggage Master Escape With $30,000. Bu United Press AMESByRY, Mass., July 20. Three men held up the baggage master on a train of the Amesbury branch of the Boston and Maine rajlroad today and escaped with $50,000 mostly in cash, and two sacks of mail. ‘SCARFACE AL’ IS JAILED Suburban Vice King Charged With McSwiggin Murder. Bu UnitcdrTt-css CHICAGO. July 29.—" Scarface Al” Capont, suburban vice king, was in jail today, charged with the murder of Assistant State's Attorney W. 11. McSwiggin, Surrendering Wednesday on liquor charges, Caponi was freed on $5,000 bond and then was arrested immediately upon a secret warrant is sued after the machine gun slaying last June of McSwiggin and two alleged bootlegger companions. TWO SLAIN - .AT OMAHA Chicago Gunmen Hunted in Connection Witli Ambush Shooting. Bu United Press OMAHA, July 29. —Two Chicago Italian gunmen were sought today in connection with the murder of P. J. Blackwood, 30. motion picture operator, and his wife, shot to death from ambush. Police believe the murders revenge for the shooting by Blackwood of* Tony Veneziano, alleged bootlegger, in 1924. Blackwoo dwas acquitted on a self-defense plea. DEMOCRATS AND MISERY That’s t)pinlou Advanced by Robinson at Mooresville. Bu United Press MOORESVILLE, Ind., July 29. Only financial chaos, agricultural crises and an era of poverty and misery can result if the Democratic party succeeds in gaining control of Congress and passes its bill of “tariff for revenue only.” ' This opinion was advanced here Wednesday night by Senator Arthur Robinson, Republican short term • candidate, in a campaign address. BLAZE is INVESTIGATED Oil Waste Found at Paint Company, Following Fire.) 4 Investigators frbm the State fire marshal's office and city fire department and city detectives today started investigation of the fire at the Allied Paint and Material Company, 317 W. Tenth St., Tuesday night, which did a damage of $lO,000. That the fire was of incendiary origin was ascertained when William Reed, 718 S. Capitol Ave., manager, found oiled waste stuffed between joists and flooring, late Wednesday.

BRIDE IN OVERALLS LOOKS FOR -HUBB Y’ Girl Appeals to Police—Says She Came Here With Husband on Freight Trains- He Left to Seek Job.

Mrs. Gladys Porter, a 17-year-old bride of three weeks, clad in overalls, who "bummed’ her way to this city with her husband on a freight

CHURCHES CLOSE THIS SATURDAY \ Mexican Government Plans to Take Over Control. / i Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, July 29.—The prelates who minister to the spiritual needs of nearly 14,000,0000 Catholics lr Mexico decided today to abandon their temples Saturday. Friday will be the last day on which the mighty forces of the holy mother church will be represented within sacred places here by the ordained priests. Meanwhile, th'e-government actively prepared to take over control of abandoned churches and their contents and Federal judicial officers were studying the words of the churchmen, to determine whether or not they could be construed as se ditlous. Rumors 6f arrests began to circulate around the capital. "El Universal,” a local newspaper, reported that the editor of “El lyTundo,’’) of Tampico, and the editor of “Correo De Chihuahau,” of Chihuahua, had been arrested todas- because of religious articles published in their papers. 1 . The Spanish minister today denied, the rumor that Spain would with draw recognition from Mexico •be cauSe of the religious laws. There was no let up today in the pilgrimage of the faithful to the holy places. Confirmation aud baptism of infants continued unabated. MUSSOLINI’S DAUGHTER ILL Bu United Press FQRUI, Italy. July 29.—Premier Mussolini' and Mme. to day were at the bedside of their daughter Edda, who is suffering from diphtheria. Edda was greatly improved. ' \ ) ’ t

VOTE QUIZ IS DEFIED BY WITNESS Cunningham Refuses to Tell Where He Got Money He Gave Vare. CITED FOR CONTEMPT Committee Also Hears Barrett and Crowe. Bii United Press FEDERAL BUILDING, Chicago, July 29. —While two Chicago political leaders waived any legal rights to silence, Thomas Cunningham, Philadelphia politician, today defied the Senate Primary Investigating Committee and stirred a sensation when Chairman Reed informed him he would be cited to # the Senate for contempt. Charles V. Barrett and State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe opened up their county campaign financing to the committee, but Cunningham refused to. tell where he obtained $50,000 which he —a court clerk at SB,OOO a year—donated to the William S. Vare, Pennsylvania Republican senatoria' nominee. Grill Rrookhart The committee turned from its Pennsylvania and Illinois inquiry to question Smith W, Brookhart, Republican senatorial nominee in lowa, who was in the audience. Brookhart said he raised about $1,900 or $2,000 in his successful campaign aiyl that his entire organization spent about $6,000. “You don't seem to have spent much money?” Reed said. “You don't have to when you stand for something,” Brookhart replied. Has Attorney Cunningham was represented by Benjamin Colder as attorney, who sat beside him to advise him as to questions he should answer. Reed and Golder argued over the power of the committee, Golder contending it had no power even to In vestigate the Pennsylvania primary. “You think your opinion is law?” Reed asked. ‘‘lt will be as far as Mr. Cunningham is concerned at this time,” retorted Golder. “Well we will see about that a little later,” said Reed. Cunningham said he received SB,OOO a year salary, but refused to tell whether he had saved the $25,000 donation out of his salary. ‘‘Was there anything wrong or crooked about the way ?ou got this money that it would embarrass you to tell where you got it?” Reed asked. Golder objected and Cunnihgham refused to answer.

train, today appealed to police to find the husband. A month ago, she told Sergt. Rachael Schweir, she. met Charles Porter, 26, at her home in Cayuga, Ind.. and they fell* 4n' love. “He is a fine fellow,” she said. Married Three Weeks Ago So three weeks ago they went to Newport and were married. Finding they could not live on love Tuesday night they boarded a freight train for Indianapolis, where he was to find work. Arriving Wednesday, they went to the Union Station, where he was to apply for work on a railroad. He left her outside the door. She .waited. Waited All Night fn fact she waited all night. She grew tired of waiting, after more than twenty-four hours, and appealed to police. “Spmething's happened 4o him sure,” she said. “He wouldn't leave ine like that. Maybe the railroad sent him away.” Sergeant Schltveir sent her, to Detention Hopie, while search is being made for Porter. Her parent?, Mr. and Mrs. James Cheesman, of Cayuga, were notified. STATE EXPORTS GAIN Increase for Fiist Quarter More Than SBOO,OOO Over 1925. _ tuts yew York Avenue Times Washinnton Bureau. WASHINGTON. D. C., July 29. Indiana increased -its- export trade more than ssoo,ooo for the first quarter of 1926, against the corresponding quarter of 1925, the Com* merce Department reported today. The State's shipments abroad totaled $17,243,000, against $16,406,000 for the same period last year. Indiana retains her position as the seventeenth State. Autos and thel? parts were the most valua’ble export, worth $4,033,000, with meats, lard and machinery following in order. FALLS DOWN SHAFT Bu United Press LOGANSPORT. Ind., July 29Falling ten feet to the basement of a local business house when he waluked into an open elevator shaft, a. E. Packard, 40, was seriously injured today.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1926

INMA TES MA Y BE JAMMED IN ABANDONED ROOMS AT FARM

Razing of Building Ordered, but Commissioners Decide on Renovation. Unless county officials find a way out within the next few weeks dozen.- of Marion County Infirmary inmates, many aged and infirm, must I be housed this winter on the third and fourth floors of a structure j eighty-nine old, condemned a firey-ap and without heating and I plumbing, it was disclosed today. . Though the county* council a month ago appropriated SI,OOO to raze the structure immediately, it made no provision of housing the inmates occupying it. and so today (Turn to Page 11) MELLETT MURDER SUSPECT SEIZED Friend of George the Greek to Be Questioned. Bu United Press CANTON, Ohio./July 29.—Ora Sla ter, special Stark County investigator, was to go to Youngstown this afternoon to question Mike Contos, arrested there on suspicion in connection with the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher. Contos, a friend of “George the Greek" Psllias, previously questioned at Pittsburgh, is thought to have been with Psllias in the latter’s automobile the night Mellett was amt bushed. Psilij.s is In jail at Pittsburgh. The new arrest resulted from a statement to peteetive Peter Connors, by John Critz, a Somerset (Pa.) miner, that he was offered $1,500 to "Do a job In Canton,” by Contos an<j two other men on June 10, it was understood Were. Meanwhile Mellett’s home was guarded, following an attack with gas fumes Wednesday, in which the widow, her sister-in-law and two children, were tenipoiarely overcome.

PLAN STREET CAR POWER SUB PLANTS Note Issue Asked —Three Stations Desired. ’ The Indianapolis Street Railway Company today petitioned the public service commission for permission to issue notes for $351,000, which with $202,000 trustees of the company hold for reinvestment, will be used to construct three power substations. Present system of suppplying power to g-ars on outskirts of the city through feeder wires is antiquated, it is said in the petition, and by use of the proposed sub-stations cars can be operated with greater efficiency. Robert I. Todd, president of the company, stated that though no definite locations for the substations have been decided upon, tlsey will, according t<\ present plans, be located in the north, east and southern sections of the city. booziT toll - spreads Four Farmers Die Near Jamestown, N. Y.—Forty-Four Is Total. Bu United Press BUFFALO, July 29.—Poison liquor appeared in anew quarter .today—the southern tier of western New York. • J' Four farmers, near Jamestown, died and another man is in la oritical condition. , From Salamanca, Olean, Neville and intermediate points came reports that large quantities of the deadly liquor we’re there. The death toll stood aj/44. Search was instituted for three men said to be members of tho “higher tips” coterie sought by authorities. BISHOP TO TOUR WORLD Bn United Press LONDON, July 29.—Great crowds today shouted farewell as the Bishop of, London departed for a world tour, including the United States, Can ida Japan, Ohina and Austrai'a.

Unless comity commissioners and county rounoilmen decide to tear down the building pictured below and utilize the material in modern buildings, the winter influx of poor form inmates will be quartered in rooms like the one pictured above. Commissioners’ present plans provide for renovating rooms like the one above.

BIMINI, R UM TRADE PARADISE, LEVELED Practically Every House Th ere Wrecked by Hurricane, Word —Terrific Toll at Nassau Also.

Bu United Press MIAMI, Fla., July 29. —Practically every house in Bimini, rum runners’ paradise, was leveled by the Bahamas hurricane Monday, according to first authentic word brought here today by the stormWOMAN, 106, IS DEAD I>om in Indianapolis—Her Father Reached 104 Mark. Bu United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 29. Mrs. Deborah Henderson, whom relatives say was 106, died Wednesday at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. John Hess. She was born in Indianapolis. Her father be ,104 and her mother died at 99. BLAST KILLS'TWO GIRLS Kerosene Tank in Yard Explodes —Three Other Children Hurt.' Bu I nit cd Press • CIMMARON, Kas., July 29.—Eva Tice, 7, and Anna Gepner, ft, were killed and three other little girls were dangerously injured when a kerosene tank exploded in their Wednesday night. WILL INSPECT ROADS Highway Commission Members Start Soutliem Indiana Tour. John D. Williams, State highway commission director, left today with George Hirschman and R. B. Boren commission members for an inspection tour over southern Indiana roads. The route will be a* follows: Greensfburg, Columbus, Salem, Scqttsburg. and over State Road 4 to Versailles, then over State Road 53 to a point south of Sunman. REV. NORRIS INDICTED Grand Jury Acts in Ft. Worth Shooting Case. Bv United Press FT. WORTH. Texas, July 29. The Rev. J. Frank Norris, pastor of the First Baptist Church, today was indicted for the murder of D. E. Chipps, wholesale lumberman, by the grand jury in Criminal District Court. Chipps was slain -in the study of the First Baptist Church July 17. V

scarred yacht Zuleita 11, which put in with her twenty-one passengers uninjured. Two large churches and a large liquor warehouse were destroyed and several big rum boats were sunk in the harbor. The ocean front is strewn with wreckage and overturned cocoanut palms. Meanwhile the hurricane's known death toll stood at ten with property damage estimated at more than $15,000,900. Damage at Nassau, was put at $5,000,000. Damage to the Florida coast was put, at between s7,ooo.o<*> to $10,000,000. Hundreds of boats have been sunk, bridges and roads washed away and power lines torn down. Eight persons are known to be dead in Nassau, Bahamas, according to radio advices. Two linemen were killed in Miami, repairing wrecked wires. Two sailors were reported dead aboard an unidentified British steamer flying distress signals near here. , A Navy tug reported passing a barge with none on board, resemljjing the Dallas, which broke loose here from a tow. It had six men aboard. British consular officials at Miami, Florida public utilities companies, l and the United States Coast Guard, prepared this afternoon to rush aid to the stricken Bahamas. At Nassau, according to a report to the British vice-consul at Miami, the entire public utilities system was wrecked. Jacksonville, Fla., Savannah, Ga., Charleston, S. C., and small towns along the coast between those cities have felt the effects of the diminished storm in the, last twentyfour hours. Heavy rains resulting in flooded streets, and high tides which inundated islands caused more damage than the wind today. STORM COMING THIS WAY Bu United Press WASHINGTON. July 29. The tropical storm now sweeping along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts may reach as far as the? upper Ohio Valley, the weather bureau said today. No serious damage is expected. j Heavy rains east of the-Mississip-pi will accompany the storm, tfce bureau predifcted. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 70 10 ?. m 84 7 a. m 72 11 a. m 86 8 a. m 76 12 (noon) .... 88 9 a. m.. 0.. 80 1 p. 91

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CAR MEN DECLARE STRIKE WILL GO ON IN SPITE OF JAILING OF UNION LEADERS Judge Baltzell’s Ruling Finding Parker and Armstrong Guilty of Contempt to Be Appealed. OTHER OFFICERS EXPECTED Mass Meeting Planned Tonight Another Convicted. Although their leaders, John M. Parker and Robert Armstrong, ‘found guilty by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell of contempt of court, were in Marion county jail, striking street car men today declared they would continue the strike to a finish. Strikers said they expected other national officers of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Em-

ployes to come here. Frank P. Baker, one of the st\rlk-< ers’ attorneys, said L. I). Bland. Chicago, treasurer of the association, was to come to Indianapolis tonight to confer with him. Judge Baltzell’s ruling finding Parker and Armstrong guilty of contempt will be appealed to the Girouit Court of Appeals at Chicago, Baker said. Mass Meeting Tonight Plans for a mass meeting of strikers at 8 tonight at Dorman and E. Tenth Sts. were made at the strikers’ daily meeting at Plumbers’ Ha'J this morning. The meeting will be on property which has been rented for the purpose and strikers were urged to stay off of other property, to avoid ar rest for trespassing, by Mrs. Jeanette O'Brien, 1301 Polk St., leader of women sympathizers. Police Chief Claude F. Johnson said he would send officers to the meeting to preserve order. The officers will be under orders not to molest the strikers unless the discussion develops into disrespect for law or Judge Baltzell, he said. Each striker was urged to bring several citizens to the meeting. Just Started L. J. Duggan, 142 W. Twentieth .St., one of the strikers, declared that, although Parker and Armstrong are in jail, the strike has “just- started.” He advised the men to be prepared to prove their whereabouts each night, declaring "We want no more men in this hall to he charged with dynamiting.” “Stool Pigeons" Scared Albert Greeson, former preacher and street Car employee, scared “stool pigeons" and urged they be thrown out of the meeting if found. He compared th& case of Parker and Armstrong with the death of Don Mellett. Canton (Ohio) publisher, slain by assassins after he had attacked vice and corruption in that city. “Don Mellett’s fight did not die with him. Tt is being carried on. Similarly* the work of Parker and Armstrong is being carried on," he said. Another Found Guilty Jefferson Fade, union member, was found guilty of contempt of court by Judge Baltzell this morning, and was ordered sent back to jail. He is to 1 be sentenced Friday. Since Fade is charged with no actual act In violation of th% court's injunction, the judge wild that if he could “find some responsible person to vouch for him,” he might be set free. “You had a right to quit the em(Turn to Page 11)

This Is the Speech Which Was Ruled Contemptuous

Here are excerpts from the speech of John M. Parker, a vice president of the Amalgamated Association of Street'’ and Electric Railway Employes, which Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell referred to In finding Parker and his fellow organizer, Robert Armstrong guilty of contempt of court Wednesday. The speech made at the strike vote meeting ‘‘of the union July 5. two days after the! court isued a temporary injunction prohibiting them from'interfering with the operation of street cars, was granted by Judge Baltzell. It was introduced in evidence by the defense and was read by Norman Metcalf, shorthand reporter, who was called to the meeting. “I don't know anything more about the interpretation of this injunction any more than to read it, but I say that I have reaif more Injunctions than Bill ,Latta or Watson (W. H 7 Latta and D. E. Watson, street car company attorneys), and I say without tear of contradiction, Mr. Judge Baltzell himself. I know something about injunctions. I have got a bushel basket full of them at home, if anybody wants to look over them, and it doesn’t worry me, very much." "I never violated any injunction, never was cited for contempt of an lnjunctiop—and I want to say to you'men that it has been broadcasted over this city that?l was indicted for dynamiting. I have a telegram in my grip in the hotel, received about three weeks ago, stating that those charges have been wiped off the bopks. So that I ‘am not In-

Forecast Partly cloudy, probably 'showers or thunderstorms tonighi or Frida# ; cooler Friday.

TWO CENTS

Street Car Strike Developments

Stripers arrange to hold mass meeting at Dorman and E. Tenth -Sts. tonight at 8. Attorneys plan appeal from Federal Judge Robert- C. Baltzell’s ruling that Robert Armstrong and John M. Parker, national street car union officers, we re v guilty of contempt of court. The two are held in Marion County jail, pending sentencing! Friday. Aliotlier union member is found guilty of contempt by Judge Baltzell. Street car men say strike will go on anti that they expect other national officers here to lead conflict. The street ear company announced that effective today the $2 a day bonus paid employes, who did not strike was abolished. None of the men quit because the bonus was abolished, officials said. LARGE ■ CROP SURPLUS U. S., However, Announces Harvest Acreage Cut. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 29.—With approximately three hundred ani fifty-five million acres planted In crops for harvest, the United States will have a large surplus of farm products for export this year, the Agriculture Department forecast today. The area planted In harvest crops, however, has .been reduced nineteen million acres in the last five years, the first time In United States history. plan"body levy .ess Secretary's Salary Cut; One Post Is Eliminated. The 1927 budget for the city plan commission as submitted to City Controller William C. Buser today, is S6OO less than the 1926 budget. The budget for next year calls for $80,500, as compared to $21,100 this year. The new budget reduced the commission secretary’s salary, from $3,000 to SI,BOO a year, and eliminates the assistant secretary's job, which carried an annual salary of SI,BOO. However, it provided a $2,700 annual salary for a commission attorney. The police and firemen’s pension fund tax rate was submittetd at 1(4 cents for each department. This is an increase of 1 cent over 1926.

dicted at the present time for anything. “So now, brothers, I am going to quit and give Brother Armstrong an opportunity to say something to you. I have tried to make my position clear. I do not want anybody to misquote me in this hall. I say I am going to live up to every letter In that contract as Interpreted to me by our attorneys, who we are paying good money for that advice. “If someone wants to make an affidavit that we have counseled you men tonight, then they can cite us for contempt of court. If they cite us for contempt of court we will take our medicine, but I don’t think they are going to do it, and if Judge Baltzell rules against us you can take this message to the judge that we are going to appeal from his decision. We are not going to take his decision on it. “I am not going to take up very much more of your time. I am going to say this to you, that 6ur attorneys, Mr. Bachclder and Mr. Baker, have informed us, which the injunction reads, that we are the plaintiffs. Brother Armstrong and myself—or the defendants rather — and that we are enjoined from advising. soliciting you or in any man. ner whatsoever, trying to intimidate you to do anything. “I say again we are going to live up to that order. We are not going to, or wouldn't if there wasn’t any injunction, advise you men either to strike or not to strike. There has never been any mention made in this hall or any other hall by Brother Armstrong and myself up to the present' time about a strike.’’