Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1927 — Page 1

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DEARTH TO TELL STOW TO SENATE Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie will take the stand and defend himself against the charges made by the House of Representatives, when the State Senate sits as a court of impeachment next Monday. This announcement was made today by his attorney, Frederick Van Nuys, after a conference with Dearth. The latter returned to Muncie before noon. Two hundred and thirty subpoenas will be issued by Judge Dearth in his own behalf, Van Nuys said. The blank writs were issued at noon and will be filled out by Dearth before being served by Jerome Brown, chief doorkeeper. Demurrer in Senate? Van Nuys said the Dearth forces will file a demurrer to the impeachment charges as soon as the hearing spens. This action will charge unconstitutionality of the law undqr which the charges were originally ■nade. He said he will ask the Senite to hear oral arguments on the lemurrer. Circuit Court Judge Harry O. Chamberlin today said the hearing in the pending mandamus suit to iave Governor Jackson appoint a successor for Dearth while the impeachment proceedings are under way might be held next week. Van Xuys declared, though, he might not >e able to attend the hearing if held •text week. That the Senate will proceed with he impeachment trial of Judge 'earth, charged by the House of Representatives with, invading the institutional guarantee of freedom ■ the press and witfr obstructing '.stipe through a peculiar drawing juries, seemed certain. No Delay Foreseen The House managers, in charge f the impeachment, will be ready to iroceed with their witnesses and suggestions that the “friendly suit” n the local court to test the right if the Legislature to impeach a udge for any cause are not accepted >y Senate leaders. Intimation ( from sources friendly jo Dearth that this suit would be urged as a basis for delay and adjournment in the impeachment trial do not correspond with the views of lawyers in the Senate as to the course that body should pursue. These Senators take the attitude that the Legislature must assert and maintain its power to impeach until the law under which it acts has been declared void. They maintain that to wait until the Supreme Court had acted in some suit which might or might not settle the question and which might be decided upon some other issue than the constitutionality of the law itself would be to surrender its prerogatives and actually nullify the practical effect of the law. Comment of Senators Senator William T. Quillen of this city, in discussing the widely published statements that the Senate should delay action, makes this comment: “It has been my view from the start and still is that the Senate should proceed in this matter unhampered. Certainly when we assemble on Monday the thing to do is to hear the evidence in the case and then act wisely and justly. Nothing should prevent carrying out the matter to its logical conclusion by listening to testimony and rendering a verdict. If the statute of 1897 is unconstitutional, as certain parties outside the Senate contend, the only adequate way to test its validity is for the Senate to proceed. I Senator Sumner Clancy, Indianapolis, said: “Since the Senate adopted a resolution to proceed with the impeachment trial, it is no longer optional. We must act. If there is a question of jurisdiction, let the Senators decide it when they assemble on .Monday. In my opinion, the Senate is the place to thrash out jurisdictional arguments in the matter, lather than the courts. If any one has power to judge jurisdiction, they have. Surely a legislative body can act upon its own ways and means, without being subject to outside procedure. If interested parties want to argue the matter of jurisdiction, let us hear the arguments when the Senate convenes, and then proceed if we feel that we have the right to do so.” $500,000,000 SURPLUS Bit United Prexs WASHINGTON,. March 17.—The Treasury surplus for the current fiscal year will exceed $500,000,000, Secretary of Treasury Mellon said today. Thip was lihe first official statement that the surplus would be more than $383,000,000 —the figure forecast by President Coolidge several months ago. Mellon refused to say the huge surplusi would mean a tax cut next year, but it was a favorable factor in considering any possible tax reduction.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postcffice, Indianapolis

Murder Mystery in Crawford County Ru Timex ftnecial ENGLISH, Ind., March 17.—Louis Doolie. Crqwford County coroner, and Sheriff G. W. Satterfield today were investigating the death of Arthur Mitchell, 29, whose body, riddled with ’buckshot, was found at the home of his father, J. A. Mitchell, near Eckerty, Wednesday. No arrests have been made, pending investigation. The widow and Mrs. Martha Adkins, sister of the dead man, both charge the other did the shooting. Details are lacking. Mitchell and two of his brothers were acquitted several years ago of complicity of the murder of John Lawrence. GUNPOWDER NO REMEDY FOR CHINA Gunpowder will not settle the dispute between China and other powers, Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese minister to the United States, declared today at the Lincoln hotel at a lnucheon under auspices of the Indiana Council on International Relations. “Such controversies between the powers will never be settled by threats. But I trust and believe that they will be settled by according justice to the nation which invented gun powder,” he said. Misunderstandings are responsible for the chaotic conditions in China, Dr. Sze declared. The Chinese minister discussed so scial, political and economic conditions of his country before 300 leading Indianapolis residents. “In the next twenty-five years there will be anew China, Tremenddcus changes will come forth as soon as China has rid herself of those misunderstandings which blocked growth and progres,” Dr. Sze declared. Not Anti-Foreign “My people are not anti-foreign, but we are anti-foreign aggression,” he said. “There is as much difference between the meaning of the two terms as between light and darkness. It is our earnest wish to respect the legitimate interests of foreigners, but on the other hand we wish others to treat us with justice and fairness and we wish returned to us, those soverlegn rights we have had taken from us. The Chinese struggle is to get rid of a foreign super-state in China. “This struggle will continue, as it should, till the goal is reached when China will be truly independent within her own borders. “You have heard lately . a good deal of the sending of Warships, marines and troops to China ostensibly for the sole purpose of protection, as if there were or had been loss of foreign blood by Chinese. Such is not the case. Blood Lost “But Chinese blood has been shed and Chinese blood has been lost by the action of foreigners. While the British and certain other governments fear serious danger to the property and life of their nationals, the Germans, Austrians and nationals of other countries continue to live and trade in peace in China without their home governments ordering military or naval forces to China.” Dr. Sze was met at the Union Station by a large delegation of Indianapolis residents, including a number of Chinese.

CITY WEARIN’ THE GREEN, IN HONOR OF ST. PATRICK

Indianapolis today is ‘-‘wearin’ the green.” The spirit of St. Patrick’s day that is celebrated the world-around, because. Irishmen are to be found everywhere, invaded Indianapolis early, wearing the bright badges of Erin. St. Patrick, the patron saint of SIOTING VICTIM FIGHTS FOR LIFE George A. Neville, 45, of 1708 S. East St., is in the city hospital critically wounded, the victim of an accidental, shot fired at the home of a friend. Neville and his wife, Mrs. Cora Neville, 35, were visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Naef, Minnesota and Tottlian Sts., Wednesday. evening when Mrs. Naef brandished her husband’s revolver. The safety catch was not fastened, police said, and the gun accidentally discharged, the bullet striking Neville below the light eye. Physicians say that the victim has a good chance for recovery. RUM PLANT SEIZED Bit XEA Service TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 17. —Floyd Jenks, was under arrest today following the seizure of a plant near here for the manufacturer of imitation Bacardi rum.

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SCHOLL TO LET STATE EM LIFE Bu United Press GARY, Ind., March 17. Walter Scholl, confessed slayer of his two children, was formally held to the Lake County grand jury today on a double murder charge. Scholl asked that he be given the death penalty. He was to be transferred this afternoon to the county jail at Crown Point to await indictment and trial. The Rev. Charles W. Scholi of Pittsburgh, Pa., father of the confessed murderer,, said he would make no defense for the son at the trial in an effort to save him from paying the extreme penalty. Scholl, whose second wife left him in Indianapolis several weeks ago, was arrested in Chicago Wednesday, after the bodies of his babies, Vivian, 8, and Donald, 8, were found in ft cottage here. “They had no chance. I killed them,” the former accountant told authorities here today. Scholl said he intended to take his owp life because he could not live with his wife —the foster mother of his children. Realizing his children would not have a chance without him, he killed them, intending to shoot himself, he confessed. “Then I lost my nerve.” The dual murder, however, has brought a reconciliation with his wife. “I intended to commit suicide and didn't want to leave the babies to face the world alone," Scholl related. “Vivian agreed to die with me. Donald was too young to understand.” He explained that he failed to kill himself partly through loss of nerve and partly because he wanted to see his wife before he died. After his capture by Chicago detectives he met her in tife office of Chief of Detectives William Shoemaker in Chicago. Glad to See Her “Oh, honey, I'm glad to see you,” Scholl declared, kissing her. Then he fainted. He was revived. Confesses to Priest Scholl’s arrest was brought about on information of a Catholic priest at Chicago, to whom ho confessed the crime. He was returned here Wednesday night and was taken to the, morgue (Turn to Page 9) •* High Temperatures Felt in Wide Area Bu t niled Press While spring-like zephrys today caused most of the Nation to think it was spring, scientists said winter would not end until 9:59 a. m. Monday. Experienced garden diggers and floriculturists refrained from spading in anticipation of a possible renewals®! winter before the growing season. Temperatures ranged from 45 to 73 degrees in Washington in the last twenty-four hours; from 46 to 66 in New York City; from 54 to 72 in Chicago: from 52 to 74 In St. Louis, and similarly over the Nation east of the Rocky Mountains. Denver’s range was from 22 to 36. The warm weather which has been prevalent in the East all this week so far has shown no sign of a break, according to weather bureau experts at Washington. The bureau predicted continued warm weather in the East and South, with some showers for the rest of the week.

all good Irishmen, was born at Kilpatrick, Scotland. When 16 years of age, Succeath, as Patrick was then known, was sold into bondage in Ireland. A few years later he escaped, returned to his parents in Scotland and then went to France to study for the priesthood. In 430 A. D. Pope Calestine changed the name of the young zealot of Patrick, anadc him a bishop and sent him to Ireland, then a land of idol worshippers, to convert the Irish. The baptism of the high king of the Druids, at Tarar, is history. Patrick established churches in the hills and glens of the island and at Armagh, he set up an archepiscopal see. Beside each little church he put a school. High mass was solemnized at 9 a. m. at St. John’s Church. Rev. M. W. Lyons, Our Lady of Lourdes * pastor, delivered the sermon. TJie usual St. Patrick’s day parade was dispensed with this year according to plans of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and today’s program will be climaxed with an enterainment in Tomlinson Hall tonight. A newsboy’s band will play at the night program. Irish songs will be sung and St. Patrick’s day will be over for another year. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 54 11 a. m 58 7 a. m 54 12 (noon) .... 61 8 &. 54 1 P- 63 9 a. m 55 $ p. m 55 10 a. 67 S p. 61

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ENGINEERS 0. K. BRIDGE REPAIR COST ESTIMATES Engineers of the contracting firm of Kress Ovetz and Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., today declared that City Engineer Chester C. Oberleas was right in his estimates and recommendations as to ths repair of College Ave. bridge, which threatens to topple in Fall Creek. The engineers inspected the bridge before making bid for the contract. $70,000 Estimated Oberleas estimated repair of the bridge would cost at least $70,000 and declared some of the stone in the bridge could be salvaged. He declared that the council’s recommendation that the board of works take immediate steps toward salvaging the railing and various parts of the bridge was preposterous. “We have neither the equipment or the time to do this,” he declared. "It is up to the contractor who gets the job to do the salvage work." Members of the majority faction of the city council declared they would Ignore the board of works’ recommendation that the gasoline tax fund bo not used for repairs. "We know what wo are about," Councilman Boynton J. Moore declared. “We are working for the interests of the taxpayers and not for the interests of a group of appointive office men.” Board Opposed Roy C. Shaneberger, board president, declared Wednesday that if the gasoline tax fund was used for this purpose all street repair work would be stopped about April 1 for lack of funds. “A agreement was made with the council when It cut our street repair budget that this gasoline tax fund would be appropriated for street repair,” Shaneberger said. “But councilmen are representing the people. If tfce people want a bridge without good streets it is all right with the board of works.” Shaneberger also pointed out that a bond issue could be passed for the repair of the bridge but that a bond issue for the repair of streets would be illegal.

TIMES BROADCASTING OF BASKETBALL, FINALS GREATEST ANNOUNCING FEAT

While basketball fans by the thousands begin to enjoy the greatest tournament in the country at the State fairground at 9 Friday morning, radio fans by the hundreds of thousands will start listening in on the greatest broadcasting feat. Broadcasting of the State high school basketball finals by Blythe Q. Hendricks for The Times over WFBM, the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, according to radio authorities, stands out as the longest and most difficult feat of announcing on the radio calendar each year. This will be the third season that Hendricks lias described every game of the finals, play by play, from the fairground for The Times over WFBM. It is estimated that several hundred thousand anxious fanß back home keep track of the progress of the tourney through The Times broadcasting. From a specially constructed booth

(Copyright. 1977. by NBA Service) Here are the first pictures received in Indianapolis of Walter Scholl (left! * JfiT, former' lilTMllapolis man, who has confessed he murdered his two children, at Gary, and Mrs. Margaret Scholl, foster mother of the babies and estranged wife of Scholl.

CHILDREN WHOM FATHER MURDERED PLAYED HERE

Dark-eyed Vivian Scholl, 8, and her brother, Donald, 6, murdered in Gary, Ind., last week by their father, Walter Scholl, who was arrested and confessed the crime, Wednesday in Chicago, played on Indianapolis streets while in the city a month ago. During the children’s two weeks stay, with their father here, they roomed at the home of Mrs. A. Meyers, 26?6 N. Illinois St. Scholl left with the children suddenly on the morning of March 1. “He came to rent a two-room upstairs suite from me in answer to a newspaper advertisement,’’ said Mrs. Meyers. He drove up in a car and said Tie was taking his wife to the depot, as she was leaving for Chicago. I never saw her at all. Later in the day he returned with the children. “They were sweet children. The little girl was especially attractive, with large dark eyes. Both children had dark hair, as had the father, who was tall and slender. I never talked much to him. but somehow I didn’t like him. His traveling cases, ivory toilet articles, everything they had brought with them, were of exceptionally excellent quality. “The children went to the Catholic school near here, and I allowed them to play around the house after hours. One time when the little boy was in my hous& he indicated that he was extremely hungry, and while I don’t think the father denied them sufficient food. I felt sorry for the little things, fed only with food prepared by a man’s hands, and had them in here frequently for meals. They were sweet, polite, obedient children, minding him well. “Scholl told me his wife and he had not gotten along, as she was insanely jealous. That’s all the reference he ever made to her, as I did not encourage the conversation. He said she was his second wife. He occasionally took the children to

over the center of the west section of seats at the Exposition Bldg, the play by play accounts of each game will go out. Hendricks will go on the. air at about 8:45 Friday morning with line-ups of the first game, between Bedford and Central of Evans* ville. When the game starts at 9 Hendricks will trace the progress of the ball until the close of the tournament Saturday night. This means that, except for luncheon and dinner periods, brief relief by his brother, Thomas A. Hendricks, Hendricks must talk into the microphone from 8:45 Friday morning to 9:30 Friday evening and •from about 8:15 Saturday morning until about 9:30 Saturday evening. Brwrdcasting basketball as Hendricks does it is no leisurely conversation. He fires his words as rapidly as the ball whizzes about the court, apd interpolates sidelights, always remembering to speak distinctly.

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a picture show. Otherwise, they stayed at home closely after school. “One morning the milkman complained that Mr. Scholl owed him a substantial bill, and I went up to tell him. I saw the room had been vacated. The children had left for school, and I ran out to the alley to the garage, where his car was parked. He was Just leaving. "I called to him to give me my door key, and was going to tell him about the milkman, but he slammed the door in my face. That’s the last I saw of him.” Scholl rented his garage from Mrs. C. A. Boyle, 116 W. Twenty-Sixth St. DR. COOK GIVEN PAROLE BY COURT Bu United Press FT. WORTH, Texas, March 17. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, physician, scientist and Arctic exporer, convicted in Ft. Worth three years ago on a charge of using the mails to defralid, was granted a parole today by Judge James C. Wilson. Cook was sentenced to fourteen years and nine months in the Federal penitentiary. United States Attorney Henry Zweiffel immediately served notice that the Government will appeal the parole decision. FOLK 'S FIND LIQUOR Sergeant Wilson raided the home of Mrs. Eva Mallory, Negro, 30, 2458 Cornell Avc., at 3:30 a. m. today. She was charged with keeping a gambling house and operating a blind tiger. Three women and nine men were charged with gambling.

There ’is no sport more thrilling than basketball and listeners agree that there is nothing so thrilling on the air as Hendricks’ description of it. Back of Hendricks is an elaborate organization. Besides the specially constructed booth The Times must provide a special telephone wire from the fairground to WFBM’s studio at the Athletic Club and an auxiliary wire from the fairground to the WFBM radio station direct. Another telephone wire connects the press box at the sidelines with the booth. Carl Fohl, Times radio technician, sits on the wire on guard throughout the long grind to make certain that the amplifying apparatus, also provided by The Times, is properly sending Hendricks’ voice. Special score keepers and other assistants swell the staff in the booth to six persons.

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Senator Charges Sapiro Was Exploiter in Opening Defense of Ford in Million-Dollar Case B ‘ l DETROIT, Mich., March 17.—Charges that tobacco grow, ers of the South were mulcted out of vast sums iu protits which they should have made on the 1922 tobacco crop sfeatured this afternoon’s session of the Ford-Sapiro libel suit.

Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, making the opening statement for Ford before the Jury, promised to prove that in one case 30,000,000 pounds of Kentucky tobacco was dumped Onto the market in a single day by officers of a growers’ association whom Sapiro had allegedly picked. The prices received was 10 cents a pound, Reed said, while independent growers for the same crop received 14 Vi cents. He charged Sapiro had gone through the South making elaborate promises that he would bring about a day .when farmers would “ride in Cadillacs,” send their children to college and live in comparative luxury, as he said they were then doing in California. But, Reed charged, heavy losses were the eventual lot of the fanners, while Sapiro collected fees as high as $142,000 for hia services fn forming the cooperatives. The American farmer, as pictured by Senator Reed, was in the grip of Sapiro, exploiting him for his own profit, and with no redress. Sapiro, on the other hand, was pictured by Reed as a man who had dreams of wealth and power which extended not only to the control of.all the farming industry of Araer-

FIRST CUT MADE IN TRIBE SQUAD

* By Eddie Ash Times Sports Ikmor SANFORD, Fia., March 17.—Manager Bruno Betzel of the Indians made his first cut In the Tribe squad today when he ordered the release of Catcher Graham Thomas, former Virginia Folytechnical Institute athlete.

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ASK COMMUNITY HOUSE A Broad Ripple Chamber of Commeree delegation petitioned the park board today for a Broad Ripple community house, KILLS ELEVEN SNAKES Bu United Press ZANESVILLE, Ohio, March 17. —Grant Davis today claimed to be a modern St. Patrick, and he produced eleven dead snakes (o prove his contention. Davis killed the eleven garter snakes, each more than two feet long, while on a ten minute walk from his home to the plant of the Weller Art Pottery Company here today, he said. ICE BREAKING UP Bu Unit’d Press ... , SAULT STE. MAKIE, Mich., March 17. —With the ice in the St. Mary's River breaking up rapidly, marine men today predicted navigation in the upper lakes will be open before April 1, the earliest since 1902. HONOR TO DEAD FLYERS Bu United Press WASHINGTON, March 17.—A formation of Army planes, headed by Assistant Secretary of War Davison, will meet the steamer Vauban when It arrives in New York Monday or Tuesday hearing the bodies of ('apt, Clinton F. Woolsey and Lieut. John W. Benton, Army Pan-American flyers killed Feb. 26 at Buenos in an aviation crash.

1928 License Tags Maroon and White "Doggy plates for 1928” is what Mark Rhoads has to say about the new automobile license numbers that are being prepared for next year. Rhoads is head of the automobile licensing bureau of the Secretary of State’s office. Samples of the new plates were be- - displayed in the office of Secrek * State Frederick E. Schorte- \ day. They have white lettelk maroon background and areX. -made. . For the first time the word "Indiana” is spelled out, rather than abbreviated. HOLD-UP SUSPECT HELD Detectives attempted to gain a confession from M. T. Taylor, Negrfo, 31, 1844 Boulevard PI. today, that he held up a Ailing station at FortyNinth and Pennsylvania Sts., recently. The station attendant called police after Taylor drove into the station. Tayor is held under $5,000 vagrancy bond, and denies the charge. TWO CONVICTS ESCAPE Bp United Prrn LEAVENWORTH. Kan., March 17.—N0 trace had been found today

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ica, but to the wheat—tho very bread supply—of the entire world. Association managers were named by Supiro, he said, and they made vast profits from buying and selling through firms in which the managers themselves were partners. Reed followed Attorney W. H. Gallagher for Snpiro, who completed his opening statement early in the morning session. “This is not the case of the Hebrew race against Henry Ford,” Reed warned the Jury at the outset. “Mr. Sapiro has no right to collect damages for the Hebrew race and put the money In his own pocket.” Sapiro insisted today that he was out for a finish fight with Ford. “I’ll never give this thing up now,” he aid, discussing reports that went around that he had intimated to Ford's attorneys that he would drop the suit if the Dearborn Independent. even at this late day, would retract the charges it made against him. “I am going through with it, regardless of what It does to me or to any one else,” he said. "I am right and I am going to have vindication.”

The big rookie is not a good receiver and Betzel advised him to try the outfield if he plans to remain in baseball. Outfielder Melvin Rice, former Marine Corps baseball star, probably will be the next candidate cut off the Tribe roster. A lengthy practice session was held today.

MAD GOLD RUSH RAGES IN ARIZONA By Unitrit Prres DRIPPING SPRINGS, MOUNTAIN RANGE, Arlz., March 17. Lure of a glittering yellow sub-' stance sparkled brilliantly today as hundreds of fortune hunters trekked over miles of mountain trails to Tornado camp, center of Arizona’s latest gold strike. Trails were dotted with old sourdoughs nnd young city clerks, all with the fever of gold in their eyes. Some rode in automobiles and some trudged op foot. Hundreds of sightseers. Along with gamblers and bootleggers, followed along, loaded with tents and provisions. The strike was made known two days ago, when ore said to be from the vein assayed SIOO,OOO a ton—the richest ever mined in Arizona. Since then Tornado camp and the thirtymile area surrounding it has become active. “It looks just like Klondike and GoldAeld used to in the good old days,” enthused one grizzled veteran between chews of tobacco.

THORNTON IN LINE FOR SCHOOL POST Joseph F. Thornton, acting school superintendent, In the place of Superintendent E. U. Graff, ousted last week, may be appointed permanent superintendent, it was indicated today. The school board majority faction comprised of Theodore F. Vonnegut, president;.Mrs. Lillian Sedwick, vice president; and Commissioner Charles W. Kern, although denying any consideration hna been given candidates, authorized Thornton to distribute his former duties among department heads, leaving him free for the duties of superintendent. Thornton’s former assistant superintendency, vacated with his new appointment, will not be Ailed, the majority group announced. Assistant Superintendents D. T. Weir, Flora E. Drake, Research Director Murray A. Dalman and Physical Education Director Dr. W. A. Ocker, will absorb Thornton's duties as Instruction director of the upper elementary grades. It is believed the announcement may be made at a special session Friday. WAGON KILLB CHILD By United Preen LOOANSPORT. Ind., March 17 A fall from a farm wagon caused the death early today of Hayden, 8-year-old son of Mr. aiidJ