Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1927 — Page 9

Second Section

PUBLIC CALAfON THREATENED COAL STRIKE

‘GOSH,’ALL THAI LIFE TERM GETS FROM CROARKIN Counsel for Little Boy’s Slayer Glad Client Escaped Gallows. Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 17. —The remaining years of the life of Harold J. Croarkin, 26-year-old son of a prominent family, must be spent in the State penitentiary. Croarkin last night was convicted of killing 6-years-old Walter Schmith Jr., and given a life sentence. The verdict was a compromise that met with the approval of defense attorneys who had fought against Croarkjn’s being sent to the gallows. They had maintained Croarkin was insane, had been known since childhood as “the goof’’ and therefore should be sent to an asylum rather than the gallows. It took only a few ballots to find Croarkin guilty. The jury received the case shortly after 6 p. m., Wednesday and within three hours Croarkin —mild mannered and listlessless—listened to the intoning of the life imprisojynent verdict. “Gosh,” he half muttered when the case had ended. That expression was his whole contribution to the case. He did not testify in his own behalf. He whispered \o words of advice to his counsel. Through the entire trial he sat apparently unheeding his surroundings. Twice while prosecutors were making eloquent pleas that Croarkin be hanged, the defendant feel asleep. Croarkin’s mother —who had testified in an attempt to save her son—was in the courtroom when the verdict was read. She screamed, then started weeping. Croarkin paid little attention to her. There is little change of any appeal in the case. Attorneys for the defense announced they were pleased at having saved their client from the gallows. State’s Attorney Robert E. Growe, who handled the case personally, and made a dogged fight for the death sentence, remarked: “I had hoped they would hang him,”

TAX TOTAL NEARS 15.000,000 MARK State Income Figures Jump More Than Million. Indiana’s 1926 income tax total approached the $5,000,000 mark today when tabulations continued in the internal revenue office here added $1,344,818 to the State-wide figure. The total income reported on at midnight, March 15, deadline for filing returns, amounted to $3,433,634, making the State total at noon $4,778,453.04, with additional returns yet to be tabulated, according to <: corse Foote, deputy collector.

News Quirks

NEW YORK—A two-passenger electric roadster weighing only 200 pounds and with a maximum speed of ten miles an hour is a feature exhibit at the electric truck show here. WHEN LINE FAILS STERLING. 111.—When the line on which he had hooked a sixtyk pound sturgeon snapped Luke’’Alexlander stepped into the Rock River and seized the fish. BUSY BURGLARS IRVING, 111.—In an over night crime epidemic here, burglars enlered thirteen places with a total loot of less titan five dollars. STRIKE OF PRAYER NEW YORK —Decrying “unwarranted interference in the hours of worship,” at the Welfare Island Synagogue, Jewish patients at the city hospitals on the island have gone on strike. They pray outdoors in little groups, refusing to enter the Synagogue. KILLED BY BALI. MOBERLY, Mo.—The first basebull fatality of the season was announced when Howard Sons; 12, died being siiuck by a batted ball. STUDENTS MAY STRIKE Bu United Press SUPERIOR, Wis.—Pour hundred students in Central High School threaten to strike unless Miss Lulu Dickinson, English instructor for twenty-three years, is reinstated.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Emil Vollrath, 631 E. Morris St., Ford, found at Shelby and Naomi Sts. Ford roadster, license 395-140, ound at rear of 2030 Madison Ave. J. L. Balay, 850 Temple Ave., Chevrolet, found at St. Clair St. and Temple Ave. Homer Ettenburn, 517 E. Ohio St., Ford, found at Kentucky Ave. and Washington St. W. P. Church, 1020 Central Ave., Chevrolet, found at Oliver Ave. and White River. G. J. Hurty, 21 Hampton Court, at Crawfordsvile, Ind.

BOBBY, 19 MONTHS OLD, ST. PATRICK’S DISCIPLE

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LEADERS OF IRISH SEND SAINT’S DAY GREETINGS

President Cosgrave Recounts Year’s Progress of Free State. By William T. Cosgrave President of the Irish Free State (Written for the United Press) DUBLIN, March 17. —We send greetings to the many friends of Ireland on the American continent on this great national festival of our patron saint. The Irish Free State on St. Patrick's day, 1927, records a year of harder work, greater achievement and improved progress. People of Irish descent in America will be gratified to learn that while we are yet far from achievement of all that we aspire to, social and economic improvements are marked and valuable work has been done which must result in steadily Increasing prosperity. No nation can be isolated from the economic circumstances of its neighbors, and improving conditions in neighboring countries are having beneficial reactions here. The events of recent years have contributed toward the developmnt of self-reliance and have evolved a new spirit of pride and confidence, a spirit which no longer runs in ex clusively political channels, but finds outlets for the national energy in economic and cultural development.

BUYING PUBLIC, ‘BOSS’ And Advertising Must Please Him, Says Chicagoan. Modem advertisers have a wonderful and important ally in the daily newspaper, a medium by which the advertiser can each day address an audience embracing practically every family in its trade territory, declared Carl L. Gibson of Chicago, vice president of the' Standard Corporation, in an address today at the Advertising Club luncheon at the Spink Arms. Gibson, who spoke on “Pleasing the Boss,” pointed out that the buying public is the ‘‘boss.” He insisted that thoughtful advertisers should take advantage of the merchandising opportunities offered in the daily., newspaper to build up an increased business, better business prestige and reputation and Influence potential customers. "Advertising to be profitable must please the boss. The owners of stores are merely holders of franchise rights which the public can revoke at will —a privilege which is often exercised. “Better stores are making real progress. They are remembering that advertising can be made the store's representative which can call at thousands of homes every day and tell the news of the store to tens of thousands of men, women and children. CITY SAFER Bu United Press CHlCAGO—Country people are more liable to injury than city people and the largest percentage of accidents happen in recreation rather than working hours, according to J. R. Austin, vice president of the United Craftsmen# Insurance Company.

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day today by wearing enougih green for all the twenty babies at the home. Nope, he's not for adoption! His mother and father are looking forward to the first part of April, when they will take Bob home to their new place in the country.

Eamon de Valera Voices Rallying Cry For Independence. By Eamon De Valera, First President of Irish Republic. Written for the United Press NEW YORE, March 17.—T0 every one of the Irish race—beatha agus rlainte! (Greetings and health!) This St. Patrick’s day dawns with anew hope for all of us. The effort that is being made at home to heal the wounds of the recent past, to rally the people once more and 'to strengthen their will to resume the march toward independence has met with the last few months with a success which a short time ago would have been thought impossible. Heads are being raised that were bowed in sadness and despair, and anew confidence is being born that the ideals which we formerly cherished Btill are realizable. Seven years ago we found ourselves in the vanguard of freedom, inspiring *td leading! from their dungeons of political servitude, the exploited subject nations of the world. The spiritual leadership which our nation then held it is our duty to recover. To win it back, to have it securely established when in a few years we shall be celebrating the 1,500 th anniversary of the coming of St. Patrick is an aim worthy of the best efforts of us all. To its achievement every true Gael will pledge himself on this St. Patrick’s day. >

CHINESE ADVANCE; AMERICANS FLEE Fifty Women and Children Leave Nanking. Bu United Pres* SHANGHAI, March 17.—Cantonese troops were reported today to have defeated the Northern forces defending Nanking and Shanghai and to have pressed forward to within twenty miles of Chang ChungChang's headquarters at Nanking. Fifty American women and children hastily evacuated Nanking as the Nationalists advanced, fearing outbreaks and looting within the city if it is captured by the Nationalists. The Cantonese attack was shifted from Soochow to Nanking several days ago and the Southerners have been forcing their way slowly toward the city. A United States warship was on guard at Kuochangmiao, south of the Shanghai native city, to protect American interests at Kiangnang dock, which was seized by General Pi, commanding ■northern troops there. Pi explained the docks were seized to permit urgent repairs to northern warships. Several American ships were under construction at the dock. Telephones and signals on the Nanking-Shanghai railroad were reported destroyed by strikers sympathetic to the Cantonese, and service on the Shanghai-Hangchow railroad was suspended completely when employes, summoned by the railroad union, departed fpr Ningpo. * BANDIT ON BICYCLE CHICAGO—Newest in banditry is a bicyclist who rides past his women victims and snathes their purses, Mrs. A. H. Zoellner reported to police.

SINCLAIR AWAITS SENTENCING TO ‘COM TAIL’ Wealthy Oil Man Convicted,, of Contempt for Senate. / Jiu United Press WASHINGTON. March 17. Harry F. Sinclair, multimillionaire oil magnate and sportsman, faces a jafl term for refusing to answer questions by the Senate Oil Commifitee three years ago. A jury in District Supreme Court last night found Sinclair guilty of corctempt of the Senate, giving the Government its first victory in criminal prosecution growing out of the Senate investigation. A jail sentence is mandatory for the offense, the law providing for a fine of from SIOO to SI,OOO and from one to twelve months in a “common Jail.’” Sentence will probably be passed a week from tomorrow when Justice William Hitz Is expected to hear the defense motion for anew trial. Immediately after the Jury reported Its decision, George P. Hoover, associate defense counsel, entered a motion for anew trial and secured an extension of Sinclair’s bond. While refusing to comment on the verdict, Sinclair's attorneys said every legal means would be employed to prevent the oil man from going to jaiL They may appeal to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia and carry the case from there to the United States Supreme Court. Sinclair .showed no sign of emotion when the verdict was announced. “This is only the first inning,” he commented with an ironic smile as he left the coutroom.

Far and Near OPOSE SUBMARINES LONDON—British merchant shipping circles have taken advantage of naval disarmament discussion to revive 'their campaign for the abolition of the submarine. The United States has more than any other country, with 121 built and seven projected. PRAISES AVIATION ROME—Aviation is the front line of national defense, Premier Mussolini said after witnessing aerial bombing and torpedo practice at the Civitavecchia proving grounds.. He was elated with the results of the tests. PLAN FLIGHT RIO DI7 JANEIRO Capt. Augusto Kodriguei and Lieut. Harold Leitao, the newspaper Globo announced, will attempt this year to fly from Genoa, Italy, to Santos, Brazil, in a 500-horse power hydroplane, i $20,000 THEFT CHARGE BALBOA, Canal Zone—Luis Calcagno Crossa and Manuel Guzman have been arrested on request of Cuban authorities who charged that the pair defrauded the National City Bank of Havana of $20,000. Local police said they recovered $19,880 from Gqzman.

COLD CASE DROPPED NEW YORK—The suit against the Pullman Company by William F. O’Connor, who managed Sarah Bernhardt’s tour of the United Staten in 1917 until it wan cancelled because of her illness, has been dismissed. O’Connor sought damages because he claimed Mme. Bernhardt had caught cold while riding in an ill-heiated Pullman. WINNING FLORIST DETROIT—Edward Dale, Brampton, Ont., who has entered 6,000 roses, 6,000 carnations and four rose trees ten feet high, In the National Flower Show here, won the coveted SI,OOO prize for best bunch of cut roses. Approximately 125,000 persons have visited the mammoth flower display since Saturday. FAILED TO HEAR DETROIT —Henry Lofgren. 25. formerly of Centerville, lowa, slightly deaf, failed to hear the "hands up" command of two bandits holding up a drug store where he was enjoying an ice cream soda, and was badly wounded by a bullet from one of the thugs’ gun. DEADLY POLICE CAR WASHINGTON—A police patrol wagon hurrying to answer a call, ran over and fatally injured Mary Suit, 9. Police said the child broke away from a group and ran in front of the heavy truck at a street crossing. BODY NOT IDENTIFIED DETROIT—The 60-year-old woman, registered as “.lean Nash.” who was found dead In a fashionable hotel here, is not Miss Emma Potter. former Toledo beauty parlor proprietor, George Miller of Fremont, Ohio, declaed after viewing the body. Two sisters of Miss Potter, who has been missing for eighteen months, thought the body was hers, excepting that It weighed too much. HOME BREWERS HIT LANSING, Mich.—Home brewers of Michigan who offer their product for sale, face a mandatory prison term under provisions of a. bill favorably reported to* the State Senate by the upper house Prohibition Committee. A line of from S2OO to SI,OOO and from one to two years In prison I would be mandatory upon conviction.

WHAT A DAY FOR AN IRISHMAN’S BIRTHDAY!

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If there’s any doubt In anybody’s mind that Alexander Tibertlus Patrick Demmer is Irish, let it be here and now dispelled! He's Irish ail right! And to clinch the argument, let us add that A1 was born on St. Patrick’s day, and it wasn’t until just few days ago that he discovered the holiday was not originated especially for his benefit.

LIFE THROUGH CENTURY; 2 WHO KNOW COMMENT

Woman, 110, Prescribes Simple Food and Forgetting Troubles. Bu United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 17—Over the century mark and ten years beyond—a span of 110 years—will be the occasion for a celebration in the home of Mrs. Miriam Sparks Banister, St. Louis’ oldest resident Saturday. But ten candles will grace the huge birthday cake. The other 100 were dispensed with after the 100th birthday. Simplicity of food and ability to forget the trials and tribulations of life are given by the little English woman as the reasons for her longevity. Asa memory test, Mrs. Banister today recalled the date and many details of the death and funeral of the Duke of Kent. She witnessed the funeral as a girl in Devonshire, England J

ADVENTURES IN PEARLS

Miss Doris Batkin of 8729 'Graceland Ave., wrote her way to first honors today In the pearl story-writ-ing contest of The Times. Several other stories came very close to first honors. The reward for her effort will be paid in a five-pearl start of an Add-A-Pearl necklace which will be given Miss Batkin through a Times order on Julius C. Walk & Son Jewelry Store, 5 and 7 E. Washington St. You can see that It Is easy to write the winning story and receive •BORER SPECIAL' ROUTEJS GIVEN Purdue Train to Tour State in Pest Fight. Bu United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 17. Officials of the agricultural department at Purdue University today announced the Itinerary of a “corn borer,” special that will tour northern Indiana late this month and early in April. A special car will be provided by the Pennsylvania railroad to transport Purduce lecturers and exhibits of methods of eradicating the corn borer on the tour. The car will leave Logansport on March 28, and will return to that city on April 8, after making twen-ty-five stops In territory near the area Infested by the corn borer. The itinerary: March 28, Kewanna, Fulton and Lakeville: March 29, South Bend and Plymouth; March 30, Hamlet and Valparaiso; March 31, Wanatal and Hanna; April 1, Bourbon and Ft. Wayne; April 2, Columbia City .Warsaw and Areola; April 4, Ft. Wayne and Portland; April 5, Decatur, Berne and Bryant; April 6, Ridgeville and Dunkirk; April 7, Hartford City, Marion and Converse; April 8, Upland, Bunker Hill and return to Logansport. PLAN BEAUTIFICATION Plans to permit architects of Indianapolis to exercise a positive Influence in city planning In the future were made af: an Indianapolis Architects’ Asscia’.ion meeting at 151 E. Market St. Wednesday. A committee to be named by the president, Edward D. Pierre, will work out a plan for the organization to advise the plan commission concernlng future city planning.

He lives at 510 W. Thirtieth St., the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. -Joseph Demmer. His mother's parents, James and Mary Lynch Geraghty, were born in County Mayo, Ireland. ' Al is sixteen and attends Cathedral High School. He has his eye on a career similar to that of his uncle, Tom Geraghty, who is production manager for Famous Players Lasky Corporation.

Man, 100, Says You Just Naturally Reach Old Age or Otherwise. Bu United Press KANSAS CITY* Mo., March 17. One just naturally lives to be 100 years old, or he doesn’t, that's all, according to F. P. Platte City, Mo. Clark says this advice about rules for living to grow old Is a “plot of humbug.” Clark irnssed the century mark yesterday and came here to visit relatives. But his birthday was “nothing to get excited about,” he claimed. “It's Just another year.” he said. “And I’m going to treat it Just like any other. There are lots of folks older than I. Why, there’s a woman In Kansas City who makes me look like a kid. She’s a hundred and four.”

this beautiful award of genuine oriental pearls. Thousands of girls and women are making themselves happy through adding these pearls to this necklaces. The pearl story chosen as winner each day must have pearls as the center of the plot, the motive of action. When you read about the importance of pearls, their place in the wealth of the world, it’s not difficult to write a very Interesting short story of not more than 200 words and win firart place in The Times contest. By Doris Batkin 3729 Graceland Ave. Melba was the lovely daughter of Le-Jeta. Don Pedro loved her, as did many others. But to win a smile from her there must be the gift of a pearl. Her father had given her priceless ones, and often gazing at their loveliness became hr one obsession. Don Pedro came one moonlight night and she listened with a cold, lazy smile on her lips as he sang his love songs. Then she said: “If you desire to make me your wife, bring me a pearl, the rarest of all.” “Ah, yes,” Don Pedro answered, “I will bring a pearl worthy of you.” For a long time Don Pedro was away, with only a native diver as a companion. He found the pearl, the rarest of all, the black pearl. But death claimed him before he could return. Don Pedro's dying request was for the trusted native to take the pearl to Melba. And so it was given into her trembling, anxious hands, but no comfort came to her by gazing at its beauty, for she realized at last that Don Pedro’s love Itself would have been more to her than the most priceless fcearl of all.

Spring Has Come; Rowboat Is Stolen Spring has come, with its call to the budding woods and rippling waters. What surer sign than that a rowboat belonging to Charles Bernauer, retired policeman, 2949 Paris Ave., was stolen from a rack near Casino Gardens? Bernauer. calling his former mates to the rescue, said the craft was valued at $25 and is painted yellow and blue, with Initials “C. A. B.” on the side. Police, consequently, are keeping an eye on the rivers for the annual springtime regatta of rafts, rowboats and canoes propelled by venturesome urchins answering the, urge to go “down to the sea in ships.”

Second Section

Corporations Take Every Precaution Against Possible Fuel Shortage on April I—Record Stocks Mr. and Mrs. Householder refuse to get excited about the possibilities of a coal strike April 1.

Big, burly corporations, who stuff tons and tons of concentrated fur-nace-food into yawning boiler mouths every day, are taking every precaution against having their brood go without breakfast food, if the threatened strike does occur, but Mr. and Mrs. Average Householder, who take their coal in daintier quantities, are poohooing the rumored shortage. This, In Effect, is the way Indianapolis coal men have sized up the present situation. Meantime, at Terre Haute, union miners are negotiating for a separate peace for Indiana coal fields, and from Washington comes news of the largest supply of coal on hand throughout the country since 1924. Huge Reserve Stocks All records for accumulated stocks of bituminous coal will be broken by April 1, according to Washington reports. They say coal on hand will reach 733,000,000 tons, or enough to supply all needs of consumption and export for about seven months even If none were mined after April 1. Central Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Montana and Washington operators have already signed an agreement with their workers to continue in effect the Jacksonville scale agreement of $7.60 a day, according to a Washington labor department official. Chief apprehension centers about the mines of western Pennsylvania and Ohio. Ohio mine owners have already announced a general shutdown for April 1. Should a strike materialize, the outcome, coal men say, will depend largely on whether union miners can induce men In nonunion fields to walk out with them. During the 1922 strike 40,000 nonunion miners did this. Big Supplies Here “By April 1 the Indianapolis Power and Light Company will have 1000,000 tons of coal on hand with several hundred car-loads on the way, enough to last us at least three months and possibly longer, depending largely on the weather,” Vice Presldont Emmett G. Ralston said today. Other utilities are well stocked. John J. Collins, city purchasing agent, said Indianapolis institutions were well eupplied In event of a strike. “The city hospital has at least 1.500 tons stored and the fire department has about the same. In all, the city has about 8,000 tons available for city use,” Collins said. COMMITTEE NAMED Empowered to Seek Further Wage Negotiation*. By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., March 17. —A committee of eight union miners representing the Indiana district organizatlon of the United Mine Workers today was empowered to seek further wage negotiations with Hoosier bituminous operators. The committee was named after the Indiana district convention late Wednesday voted almost unanimously to make peace overtures to the operators in an effort to avoid a shutdown of the mines on April 1. District representatives on the International wage scale committee in reporting to the convention on the futile Miami joint wage conference recommended renewed efforts to come to terms with the Indiana operators. The committee selected by the convention will make proposals to the operators for a district wage conference at an early date. Officials of the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association refused to discuss the miners’ vnove until a formal proposal Is laid before them. Tyler G. Lawton, Indiana district president, explained that any agreement reached at a district conference with the operators will await approval of the international policy committee of the United Mine Workers before It becomes effective. It was taken for granted that if a separate agreement was reached by the Indiana miners on the basis of no reduction in wages from the present scale it would receive approval of the international policy committee. It was agreed to permit negotiation of separate contracts, which must follow the mandate of the international miners’ convention against accepting a cut in the present basic pay of $7.50 a day. If Indiana miners effect an agreement with the operators, rearly 20,000 miners will continue at work in the State after April 1. “American Bayonets Stopped Me,” King Bu United Press SANTO DOMINGO. March 17. “American bayonets" kept him out of Haiti, Senator King (Dem.), Utah, said today, explaining his sudden decision yesterday not to carry out his plan to force his way Into that country. President Borno of Haiti had barred King as ar. “undesirable," holding the Utah Stator was sponsoring a dangerous political element in that country. American Marines in the uniform of the Haitian constabulary, to which they have been lent, probably would have been called upon to arrest King had he visited Haiti. STIFF NECK, $35,000 CHlCAGO—Because his neck will be stiff for Abe rest of his life as tile result (■' '"'iuries suffered in a collision Ir Chicago 1 Alton * * x **i* berth, a Jury

‘MAKIN’S’ FOR MAN, 95 CENTS Clarence Darrow Expounds Mechanistic Theory Dur- / ing Debate. Bu United P~ess BOSTON, March 17.—The stuff man Is made of can le purchased at any reliable drug store for about 95 cents, in the opinion of Clarence Darrow. Chicago's noted criminal lawyer used that argument here last night to support the affirmative on the question, “Is Man a Machine,” In hla debate with President Clifton D. Gray of Bates College, It was a no-declsion contest in whieh both speaker* strayed from the subject on several occasions to express their views on religion. Darrow said the human being had mechanical aspects; that all organa worked mechanically; and that arms, legs, fingers, toes and spinal column followed the theory of leverage, Man lived and died and worked aa all other mechanisms lived and died and worked, he argued. Upholding the negative, Gray mild Darrow in action was one the most powerful refutations of hie own philosophy. “It is my sincere Judgment,” he said, "that no human machine could possibly have produced such a persuasive, eloquent, Interesting and Ingenious argument. I saw no evidence of mechanistic origin.* Gray Instated that it was the soul, and not the human mechanism, which, in the face of darkness and death, urged the Individual on to fight.

SCHOLL AWAITS DEATH_| CHI (Continued From Page 1) where the bodies of the two children he killed were. Scholl broke down and wept. He fell down on hia knees. With his handcuffed hands lie touched the small form*. He whispered in the car of his young son Bobhy and then turned to the daughter's body. “I'll be with you soon, darling,” he whispered. Police Jerked him to his feet and took him to headquarters. where he confessd the details of the murder of the two children in the abandoned house here to which he took them after carefully planning the double killing. He said he placed towels soaked with chloroform over th# faoee of the children. Daughter Watches The little boy slept while the father placed the towel over his face, but the girl was awake and watched his preparations to kill them, offering no resistance, the confession said. Scholl said that because saturated towels of ether and chloroform failed to blot out the children's lives, hs strangled them. “Vivian told me Just before, ‘Daddy, I know you can’t live without mama, so if you want to die, I'll die with you,’ ’’ he aatd. Scholl waited alone in the house with the bodies of his children for h long time to make certain they were dead before slipping out Into the night. Belief that he could effect a reconciliation with his estranged second wife, Mrs. Margaret Gibeon Scholl, if the children were out of the way, caused him to commit the murder, Scholl said. Separated Here The second wife separated from him in Indianapolis a month ago, and later he wrote her, threatening to kill himself and the children. Scholl said he and the children left Indianapolis about March 1, going to South Bend, La Porte, Valparaiso and then to Gary. At each plaoe, he said, he attempted to reach hia wife. It was through information furnished by Mrs. Scholl that the search which ended with the finding of the bodies was started. She was being questioned by polio# in Chicago at the time her husband was captured. First Wife Dead Scholl's first wife, the mother of the two children, has been deed for four or five yeare. The dead boy was innocently Instrumental In breaking up their home, Mrs. Scholl said. Tells of Other Woman ”1 was putting on his shoes about a year ago," the said, “when Donald said: ’You don't lace my shoes like my other manta.’ I questioned my husband, and he admitted he had lived with another woman while on a visit to Hot Springs, Ark.” The Rev. and Mrs. Ch arise W. Scholl of Pittsburgh, Pa., parents of the prisoner, came to Gary late Tuesday. The father i a retired Seventh Day Adventist preacher. When he |4w his miserable eon, the father '"Why didn’t you you kill “I had M myjiead. but