Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1926 — Page 17
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POISON THEORY ADVANCED IN GIRL’S DEATH
CHAPLIN CAN GET MARITAL LIBERTY FOR $1,1,1 Attorneys for Couple Confer on Financial Angle of Separation. Bu United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 3. A settlement out of court appeared likely today as a solution to the marital squabble between Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Chaplin. Attorneys for the pair got together to discuss ‘‘terms,” and this, it was learned, was the single bone, of contention in the way of a peaceful separation. Mrs. Chaplin, who has threatened to sue for divorce, expects at least $1,000,000 to refrain from filing action against her husband and naming a co-respondent. ‘‘There wdll be no reconciliation,” , said George Beebe, attorney for the 1 18-year-old wife and mother of the two Chaplin heirs. ‘‘We will demand a settlement that will be ample to care for Mrs. Chaplin and the children as they should be in their circumstances. "Whether Mr. Chaplin is willing to do this or not, I do not know. If not, we are prepared to take legal action to make him do it.” Alleged neglect probably would play a large part in divorce proceedings against Chaplin. It appeared today in light of gossip in Hollywood that during most of their two years of married life Chaplin went out with friends and left his wife at home. Chaplin’s studio officials, however, said there was no truth in the gossip that Mi:>s Merna Kennedy, the comedian's latest leading lady, was the "other woman” in the case. They pointed out that it was through Mrs. Chaplin that Miss Kennedy became the leading lady. They recalled Mrs. Chaplin and Miss Kennedy were chums in Hollywood High School. *Chaplin himself has taken occasion to furnish more details of the "party,” which preceded the depart lire from the Chaplin home of the 18-year-old wife and her two children. He came home from the studio late Monday night, Chaplin said, and went to his room. At eight minutes after two, he was awakened by a "noisy drinking party” down (stairs and he called to his wife and told her to get the company out of the house. This she did and left the next day. The "company” is reported to have included the Baron | and Baroness De Precourt, whom Mrs. Chaplin says left the home after being “insulted by Chaplin.” The Incident is said to have been ‘‘the last straw,"climaxing extended unpleasantness. The comedian, it was reported, never took his wife out with him, and Mrs. Chaplin felt this no way for a wife to be treated. GIRL’S ATTACKERS LOSE FINAL PLEA Madisonville Negroes Are Doomed to Hang. Bu Times Special MADISONVILLE, Ky., Dec. 3. The final chapter in the series of criminal assault cases which stirred this section of Kentucky last April will be written i>robably next month when Nathan Bard and Bunyan Fleming, colored, will hang for one 'of the crimes. The two Negroes, who were charged with criminally attacking Miss Nell Catherine Breithaupt, 16, on the country club grounds here April 7, lost their last appeal when the State Court of Appeals upheld the death sentence of the Hopkins Count}' Circuit Court. The men will be returned to Hopkins County for execution when Governor Fields sets the date, which is to be with thirty days. ’ Feeling ran high in this section following the crime, which was the climax of a series of similar events n Hopkins County. Mobs paraded the streets seeking the guilty men, who were spirited to Eddyville prison fop safekeeping as soon as they were atrested. A third Negro, Columbus Hollis, who was also charged with the crime, turned State’s evidence and was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. T acna-Arica Plan Acceptable, Report Bu United Press SANTIEGO, Chile, Dec. 3.—A high official in the foreign office said today that the new proposal of Secretary of State Kellogg for solution of the Tacna-Arich questldn is acceptable to the Chilean government, inspite of strong opposition among the public and press. Well-informed circles were of the opinion that anew discussion of the matter would lead nowhere and would make matters worse than they are now. The Kellogg proposal was discussed last night at a secret session of the parliament. j Former Policeman Executed in Chair Bu United Press OSSINING, N. Y., Dec. 3.—Former Policeman Jphn J. Brennan of Brooklyn here last night for killing Samuel Kraimen in a Brooklyn police station. The policeman was under the influence of liquor at the time of the murder.
Sousa’s Band Has Real Rival Here
Front row, left to jight: Donna Jean Hamilton, James McDonald, I>e na Jarret, Meredith Scott, Marcella Wilhelm, Jlaxlne Gary, with the rest of their band In the background.
Children, With Unique Instruments, Bat High in Enthusiasm. Here’s a ninety horse power band that certainly can make the echoes ring! At School 51, Olney St. and Roosevelt Ave., this band holds forth twice a week. It’s composed of the pupils of the two primary rooms and nothing short of chickenpox or measles could keep any one of Us ninety members from reporting at school on “band day.” “The children simply adore ‘playing’ in the band,” observed Mias Daysie Alwese, one of the primary teachers, who plays the piano for the organization. “You see their ‘playingi, is really keeping time with the music from the piano. In this way, they begin to get feeling for good music, an appreciation of rhythm and time.” Miss Olive Breisch is the other primary teacher who helps with the band. Then there's little Miss Maxine Gary who ‘directs” the band with twb energetic drum sticks and very alert Is Miss Maxine to discover any missed notes. The band instruments are unique. Master James McDonald has a drum made of a Quaker oats box. An old door bell, under the expert touch of little Lena Jarret, becomes a rare sounding instrument and other musical instruments are sand paper blocks, which make a lovely noise, small dinner bells and triangles. There Is a school orchestra for older children, but It’s doubtful If any “for sure” orchestra or band can beat this one In sheer enthusiasm and numbers. ANDERSON WANTS MORE Transfer of $35,000 to General Fund Requested. City officials of Anderson have asked the public service commission to transfer $35,000 from the municipal electric light fund surplus to the general fund to meet current running expenses of the city. The petition shows an existing surplus of $36,183.47. The commission four or five times this year has authorized similar transfers. Asa result, an order was entered by the commission reducing the electricity rates 20 per cent, effective Jan. 1, 1927. The commission some tkne ago insisted that the tax rate he made high enough to meet fiscal ex penses. A suit to stop collection of the reduced rates has been brought by city authorities.
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COLLEGIATE SLANG TALK SUPERLA TIVE Unwritten Dictionary of Freak Expressions Swelled by Trick Language Experts in Academic Circles.
By Morris G. Young "Smoked up, aired, an’. I’m pestered mad. Sure gets me down.” This Is the "very thing” when it comes to college slang. Dance halls and high schools lend their several dozens of trite expressions to the ever Increasing slang dictionary, hut the alyiolute superlative has been reached with the addition of words and phrases from the lips of the college slang experts. The student who voiced his feelings in the above remark was speaking entirely intelligible slang—that is, in college circles. The unprinted college slang dictionary defines it so: "Smoked up” means failure to qualify In studies, -also termed "flunk.” "Aired,” expelled from class. "Pestered mad," angry beyond adequate words. "Gets me down,” thoroughly disgusts me. String of Remarks But that isn't all, for the remark was followed by a string of more or less sympathetic remarks —In slang. "Sing ’em, kid, do, re, mi,” one collegiate said. He urged the complainer to "sing the blues” and aided him by supplying the musical pitch for a start'. "All In a fog, gold brick, give us the low down.” Which means they didn’t understand and wanted more explicit information. The ‘‘gold brick” was an endearing term meaning "loafer.” “Clutchin’ the burlap, that’s all,” the first speaker replied, which explained his trouble. Translated, it seems that the expression has supplanted the old one of "holding the sack,” which turn meant that he was “left out.” "Can the session, it burns me up,” concluded the Immediate topic. ‘‘Let’s stop the boresome talk, it disgusts me,” the speaker meant. Likes the Fur Coat “Cappy, I call it,” interposed one, noticing two girls, opining his favorable comment on their appearance. "Yeh, the sheddin' one’s best,” another chap replied, signifying the girl with the fur coat met his approval. "Bum steer, they’re both lost chorda.” piped another, indicating the girls were dumb and wouldn't go around With the boys. Which doesn’t confine college
slang to the boys, for the girls have equally complimenting terms for the “hoy friends.” Let a college youth Imbibe from a "Jug” (which means "flask” or ‘‘bottlo"), and the girls term him either “stinko,” "plastered" or "blotto,” according to his degree of unsteadiness. A dumb fellow is "flat” or “a pain.” "Oiler” Is applicable to both sexes, meaning even "dumber than dumb.” A "blurb’Ms a wise crack or pain, also termed a “swift one,” “good point,” or a "roar.” ‘l'm < rasliln' "I’m crashin’ the dance tonight," meant that the speaker was planning to get in when he hadn’t been invited. "Wunt ’em to hang a black lantern on you?” a companion questioned. Evidently visioning his friend being thrown out. the "black lantern” being synonymous with "black eye.” "It's a push over, no skids for mo." was the reply. A "push over” means easy to negotiate, the chap disdaining the Idea of being thrown out. ‘Breeze boy, breeze; it’s a rope-in,” the other said, repeating his admonition and warning the other that his opinion of easy access was based on "hot air,’’ ami that to attempt to get in was like walking into a trap. "Go fly a kite,” was the ignoring reply. All of which leaves us to believe that college slang Is superlative! Strike of 10,000,000 Settled in England fiv United Press LONDON, Dec. 3. —The greatest Industrial struggle in history, Involving approximately ton million men and costing England $3,000,000,000, or as much as its war debt, was at an end today. midnight Inst night, the emergency regulations under which the country was governed during most of the coal strike, were revoked. The Government's wireless broadcast the news to the people. The fight against reduced wages and longer working hours for the miners caused the calling May 3, of a general strike. More than 5,000,000 workers in other lines partlciuated.
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Coroner Plans Autopsy on Body of Clara Olson — Lover Defended. ’iv United Press PAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wls., Dec. 3.—lnability of Dr. C. H. Bunting, State pathologist, to leave Madison, today caused a hurried change In .dans to perform an autopsy on the body of Clara Olson, taken from a ••hallow thirty-five miles from here yesterday. The body of Miss Olson was found after she had been missing since Sept. 10. I>r. Bunting notified authorities this morning that Madison business prevented his leaving there Immediately officials here announced that they would attempt to proceed with the autopsy at 2 o’clock this afternoon, by employing local physicians. Tho finding of the girl’s body yesterday morning on Battle Ridge, near Rising Sun, thirty-five miles from here, climaxed an extended search of the countryside by hundreds of persons. She left her home In the early morning of Sept. 10, wearing anew dress, which she hoped would be a wedding gown, but which proved Instead a shroud. Already there Is a warrant charging Erdman Olson, the girl's 18-year old sweetheart, with the murder There is no relationship between the two. Erdman is alleged to have taken Clara away from her father's farm the night she left. Young Olson has been missing since Sept. 27, when he left Gale College, at Galesburg, Wls., where he was a senior. He dropped from sight shortly after Christ Olson, the girl's father, visited the school and demanded to know the whereabouts of his daughter. He left a letter to his | father which said "You'll never see ] me again unless it Is in a coffin.” Warrant for Murder I.ast Monday the father swore out a warrant charging Erdman with the murder, despite the fact that it was not known at this time that the girl was dead. This warrant Impelled the American Legion to take action, and yes tertlay morning a great posse composed of Legion men from thirteen posts in this section of Wisconsin started search for the body, which they felt was hidden away some- j where among the rocks and deep ravines of this country. Shortly before noon, Charles Boun, a farmer, leading a detail of three men, stumbled over the shallow grave of the girl. Battle Ridge where the body was found. Is only a quarter of a mile from Erdman's home. At night one may stand on its top among the tall oaks and see I the lights of the boy’s home. Boun took a stick and prodded the spot. "The search is over,” he called to his companions. Soon other possemen came up. to gather around the .vtinken spot and toll each other in awed whispers that "Christ Olson's dream vision has corne true.” Clara’s father, when he obtained the warrant, told authorities. "I've seen Clara. She’s dead. She's in a grave, burled on her face, up near Rising Sun.” Battle Ridge is only three miles ' from Rising Sun. Hurled Face Downward Subsequent developments proved the body to bp buried face downward. , Erdman’s father today maintained that his son Is Innocent. “I'm not saying this because It's the expected thing to say. hut he cause I'm convinced of It,” he said as he reiterated over and over that his son knows nothing of the murder. "Folks, I'll tell you. you Just can*t tell me that boy could kill that girl and come home from up there on the hill and tune in a radio and look at a mail order catalog before going sound asleep And that’s what he did oi that night.” Meantime sentiment Is divided. Some of the natives stand stanchly behind Erdman. Others are outspoken in their condemnation. Perhaps the spot of Battle Ridge comes in for more censure than does even Erdman. "I tell you that’s a had place.” one man said. "I know one time, was about forty years ago. I think. A man took two horses up there and tied ’em to a tree, and they starved right there, almost on the spot where that grave Is now.” Other stories regarding the hill were plentiful. Much discussion centers around a small automobile In which Erdman Is alleged to have taken Clara away from her home on the night of her disappearance. The automobile, now In the sheriff’s custody. Is reported to bear a large dark brown stain on one door. Sheriff Harry Sherwood, in charge of the investigation, ieft here early today for Dwight, II)., w'here he will attempt to Identify a suspect held there in the belief he Is young Olson. It Is believed, however, according to reports reaching here, that the Dwight suspect la not Olson.
Gone, but Not Forgotten
Automobiles reported stolen to police belong: to: W. H. Browning, Sixteenth St. and Le Grande Ave.; Auburn, 588-086, from 500 N. New Jersey St. Anna Hennlnger, 1853 Minnesota St.; Ford, 538-894, from Randolph and Minnesota. Sts. Rollln Williams, 910 N. Capitol Ave.; Nash, from Illinois and New York Sts. Harry Mack, 1201 Lowell Ave.; Hudson, from garage In rear of residence. Fred Thomas, 3832 E. TwentyFirst St.; Ford, from Sixteenth St. and Sherman Dr. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Auburn coupe, no title, found at 1714 Madison Ave. John J. Beatty, Franklin, Ind.; Maxwell, found at Pennsylvania and Georgia Sts.
Circle Theater to Make Times Boys Very Happy on Saturday
Although Jerry Mandy and Corinne Griffith will not be present oil Saturday morning at the Circle in person, yet they will make ham>.v hundreds of the Indiauai>olls Times carriers by tlioir work in “Syncopating Sue." ,
Hundreds of Indianapolis Times carriers will be the guests of Ace Berry, the Circle management, Dessa Byrd and First National Pictures at a private showing of Corrine Griffith in "Syncopating Sue” at 9:30 a. m. Saturday. The Times carriers wdll have a chance to see this new comedy several days ahead of Its regular opening at tho Circle next Sunday afternoon. Ace Berry has arranged a wonderful program for the boys. In addition to the Griffith-First National feature, the Circle will give the boys a chance to see the first of the Collegiate series, "Benson at Calford.” This is a •hot” college picture.
SCHLOSS MLS DUVAL APPOINTEES OR HEALTH BOARD Former President Asserts ‘Petty Politics’ Is Being Played.. , Accusing puvall appointed members of the 'City hoard of health of "playing petty politics," Sol Sehloss, board member and former president, urged the board "to get down to business and give the people of Indianapolis first consideration” at the hoard meeting Thursday night. Sehloss scored board members for concealing the dismissal of Dr. E. R. Hippensteele as medical Inspector for kindergartens and substitution of Dr. C. E. Hadden in his place, a matter never brougth before’ the board. Dr. Goethe Link sustained the position of Sehloss and voted with him to restore Dr. Hippensteele to the position. Withdraws on Tie When a tie vote resulted, Sehloss withdrew, asserting that he did not wish to embarrass Dr. Herman G. Morgan, board secretary, by forcing him to vote to decide the tie. “The people and every member of this board have the right to know what is going on,” Sehloss said. "There should be no secrecy here." ‘Pussyfoot” PoHtlcs Dr- A. E. Guedel, board member named by Mayor Duvall, said Hippensteele had engaged in the "pussyfoot politics" during his term as city hoapltal assistant superintendent. •• ‘Pussyfoot politics.'" exclaimed Sehloss. “I think we’ve got that right here. W inslsfioo,ooo Annual Pay Raise Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—A wage Increase of approximately $15,000,000 a year had been won today by 89,000 conductors and trainmen on eastern railroads as a result of the first decision of the hoard of arbitration under the new WatsonParker railroad act. The board granted a 7V6 per cent raise, an average of 42 cents a day. The railroad brotherhoods had sought 19 per cent or $1 a day increase. Workers on approximately fifty railroads are affected. PLAN mooo EXCHANGE Roll to Erect New Building at Lebanon; Advice Sought. Plans for the construction of a new $90,000 exchange building at Lebanon have been detailed to the public service commission by Curtis H. Rottger, president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Rottger sought the commission’s advice as to whether bonds or stock should be issued to finance the construction, Part of the stock in the Lebanon company is owned locally, but the control rests with the Bell concern. INDIANA MAN CLEARED Brother of School Employe Acquitted In Court-Martial. Bv Times Special WASHINGTON, Doc 3.—Charles Eurton, formerly of Elizabeth. Ind., now a ward officer In the Marine Corps stationed at Quantico, Va., was cleared Thursday by a courtmartial on a charge of manslaughter. His automobile ran down and killed two other Marines in a night accident last September. Representative Raiph Updike defended' him. Car! W. Eurton, Indianapolis schrol city employe, is the man’s brother.
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And then the all city favorite, Dessa Byrd, on the great Circle pipe organ, will play a lot of tunes for the carriers and they will be asked to sing as she plays. This great party Is made possible through the courtesy of Ace Berry of the Circle, the theater management, Ace Berry, the movie operator and others necessany to put on such a big show. The carriers will leave The Times building shortly before 9:30 a. m. Saturday and will march to the Circle Theater headed fey police escort and a drum corps of the Boy Scouts. It is going to be a big show.
NEW WATER CASE MOVE IS LIKELY, DECLARESRUGKER Corporation Counsel to Seek Legal Method for Asking Revaluation. Revaluation of the Indianapolis Water Company will he sought by Corporation Counsel Alvah J. Rucker, if legal methods can he found to so do, Rucker announced today. The company recently obtained an Increase in valuation from $15,260,000, set by the public service commission to ,$19,0*00,000 through a decision of Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger, w’hich was upheld recently by United States Supreme Court. Taxpayers May Petition “Until my preparation of the case against the merger of the two light companies and several other matters is completed, I shall be very busy, hut then I shall devote my attention to the water company,” Rucker said While'Rucker announced no procedure, it is said that the public service body may legally set a revaluation of the utility, upon the petition of ten taxpayers of Indianapolis That such a petition will be obtained easily was made certain in the declaration of A. Leroy Portteus, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Associations. Backed by Federation Mr. Rucker's move will be in the right direction and meets with the approval of our Association,” he said. "Certainly, the people of Indianapolis should not be compelled to pay exorbitant rates for service from the water company. Naturally, rates depend upon valuations. Hence If legal steps can be taken, I am sure that our body will be In thorough accord." State Attorney General Arthur L. Gllliom has announced he believes it “impractical” for the commission to ask for a rehearing of the Water Company case. This attitude was supported by public service commission members at a conference today, Chairman Samuel McCardle announced. He stated that all the commissioners ; agreed to abide by Gilliom’s stigges- ■ tlon. They will not reopen the matter on their own initiative. MAN SLEPT TOO LONG Fined for Having Liquor and Masonic Emblem. Farrell W. Tnte. 26, of 1935 E. Forty-Sixth St., arrested by Big Four ' detectives In the railroad yards, was flnM SIOO and given a suspended thirty-day sentence today by Municipal Judge Pro Tern. Willlanb Foust. Tlw> detectives said they found liquor on the man who was asleep in a coach. Tate was also fined SSO for unlawfully wearing a lodge emblem. EXPECTSNOW SATURDAY Nervous Mercury Is Due to Descend Again Tills Week-End The nervous mercury, which this morning hounded up a hit, Is due to descend again Saturday, the United States weather bureau announced today. Rain this evening probably will change to snow flurries Saturday, Meteorologist J. H. Armington said. The temperature by Saturday evening will probably will he about 25 degrees he stated, and It may go lower during the night. At 7 this morning, the mercury stood at 36, about normal. At 7 a. m. Thursday, temperature was 24. The low mark during the night was 32.
PATIENT WEARING CAST SOUGHT IN BOOTLEGGING CASE Left Hospital Thought to Be Owner of Hi-Jacked Auto. Police today were hunting for a man in a plaster cast, mysteriously spirited away from Indiana Christian Hospital, in their search for the hi-jackers who captured 200 gal'ons of alcohol from a lone bootlegger, Nov. 25, after terrorizing south side residents and firing more than fifty shots. The man in the plaster cast. Sergeant William Cox believes, Is the owner of the auto which the lone bootlegger, robbed of alcohol which would have been sold for $5,000 at prevailing prices, was driving. The certlfiieate of title In the auto, abandoned when the hl-Jaekers forced the driver to crash Into the curb in front of 933 English Ave., issued to this man, an English Ave. resident. But hospital records show the man was admitted to the hospital, Nov. 7, three weeks before the hijacking Incident, suffering from a fractured pelvic bone which he said was the result of an auto accident. Think He Was Leader Police believe he was the leader of a gang of rum-runners and that one of his lieutenants was the lone bootlegger who fled when the hijackers captured the auto he was driving, after chasing him twice around the block and firing more than fifty shots at the speeding auto. On Thanksgiving, the day following the hijacking Incident, the supposed rurr\ runner was taken away from the hospital at, 6 a. m. He signed the necessary release for hospital attaches and was driven away in arj ambulance by several men who represented themselves to he friends, taking him someplace else for treatment. Police have been unable to trace the ambulance. In tracing the auto title eerticate, police found the owner had moved from English Ave. to Fletcher Ave. He was not at hqme. Woman Moved Away That same evening the woman with whom he had been living moved away in a white truck. Neighbors, who had promised to Inform police when the man returned, said there was no name on the truck. Police are uncertain whether the man they seek was taken from the hospital by friends seeking to hide from police the only source of clews to the hi-jackers, or was kidnaped by the rival bootleggers who stole his liquor from one of his lieutenants. Officers at first believed only forty gallons of alcohol was hi-jneked, but a check showed that forty five-gal-lon cans, Instead of forty one-gal-lon cans, were transferred from the wrecked bootleg auto to the hi-Jack-ers’ car. One of the hi-jackers stood guard with an automatic pistol as the liqulor was transferred and forced pedestrians to go around the machines on the other side of the street. TWO HELD AFTER THRILLING CHASE Alleged Drunken Driver Strikes Police Auto. Gus Beyers, 29, of 1516 N. Harding St., nnd Gale Gibson, 27, of 320 N. Alabama St., who police charge were intoxicated Tuesday night when the car driven by Beyers struck a police car, were held today. Both cars were damaged. They wore slated by Sergeant O’Connor, who said the arrest followed a two-hour cjiase over miles of south side streets. The chase started at 900 block S Delaware St., where O’Connor and squad stopped to Investigate a parked auto, and ended two miles south of the city. 130 WALKS STRXNDED Bu T : nttcd Press TOKIO, Dec. 3. —Shallow water caused 130 whales to become stranded In a hay on the Pacific side of Chlbu Peninsula. About 500 whales entered the shallows, but most of them escaped. Farmers attacked the whales with" spears and pitch forks.
‘Mixed Up* When She Tried on Coats Instead of a Hudson Seal-fOr coat, Mrs. Fannie Collins, 49, of 426 N. feast St., Is going to wear an unattractive dark blue uniform at the Indiana Women’s Prison during the next six months. She received a halfyear sentence at the institution nnd a $lO and costs fine from Municipal Judge Pro Tem William E. Faust this morning. Alleged to have stolen the fur coat In a. downtown store Thursday evening, Mrs. Collins declared that she had tried on so many of the coats that she did not know she had on one belonging to the store, Instead of her own, when she started to walk out. She was arrested by Mrs. Lessle Rogers, of the Quigley - Hyland detective asrenev.