Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1927 — Page 2

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CHINESE AND BRITISH FALL IN SHUN Northern Forces Storm Point of Foreign Area —Shots Near Americans. Bu Ut/.ted Press SHANGHIA, March 22—Northern Chinese soldiers today stormed the gates of the International setlement in the vicinity of the North Station, rushed past a handful of white British soldiers into ranger road and then engaged the British in brief battle. Several Chinese were killed and two British, members of a Durham battalion, were wounded. Scores of northern soldiers were killed or wounded this evening at the north station. The carnage began soon after Cantonese regulars arrived at the station to displace a detachment of belligerent northerners who had established themselves there. All foreigners were evacuating Nanking today. The American marine intelligence service reported the northerners surrendering the city and the Cantonese taking possession. American and British landing parties came ashore* from river boats. The authorities were planing to evacuate Chingkiang momentarily. It was persistently reported that Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang had joined the Cantonese and the rout of the northerners along the Yangtze apparently was complete. United States marine headquarters here were under Are this afternoon. Shells and rifle bullets frequently struck in the vicinity, but there had been no marine casualties when this dispatch was filed. A squad of American volunteers saw action this afternoon when they rescued three American families in the Chinese area beyond the end of the north Szechuan road. The rescuers ran through a barrage of snipers. There were no casualties. The British warship Vindictive was fired on this afternoon and re-turned-the fire. There was a brisk engagement a mile below Shanghai was a city of flames and bullets today and shots were falling continuously in the foreign settlement, which was protected by troops, barred wire and sandbags from the depredations of rioting Chinese. A famine was feared because of -Jhe strike of employes of the waterworks. Authorities maintained a partial supply today by employing Russians 'to man the works. Food was plentiful. The French Catholic international orphanage in the chapel district, which housed hundreds of children, was reported burned. Fate of the inmates could not be learned. In contrast to the native city, the foreign settlement was orderly but tense. Fifteen hundred United States Marines were among the troops guarding the settlement.

COLISEUM MAY BE PRIVATELY BUILT City Would Eventually Take It Over, PJan. / That the city will buy a site for a coliseum and turn the property over to a private corporation to construct and operate the building, probably will be recommended at a special cabinet meeting called by Mayor Duvall for late today. The plan, one of several methods of procedure provided by the coliseum act recently passed by the General Assembly, was the most favored at a conference Monday afternoon attended by the mayor, other city officials and Chamber of Commerce leaders. The city eventurlly would take over the coliseum corporation, It was unofficially agreed, such action at this time being avoided in order not to bond the city too high in connection with the project. A site for the building was not discussed, it being generally understood, however, that a downtown location will be chosen. Henry T. Davis, Convention Bureau manager, who has been active in pushing the movement, today was assembling data on expense, operation and management of coliseums over the country. % 350 "RECRUITS WANTED That Number Is Marion County’s Quote to Citizens’ Military Camp. * Citizens’ Military Training Camp Association lieadq-uaraers have been established at 140 N. Meridian St., in Hotel English building, Wallace O. Lee announced today. L,ie is chairman of the committee which has undertaken enrollment of Marion County's quota of 35'0 young men to enter training camps next June. The committe was to meet late today in Gdvernor Jackson’s office to discuss plans. Felix M. McWhirter, Indiana civilian aid to the Secretary of War; Col. G. L. Townsend, chief of staff of the 84th Division, and Governor Jackson were to speak kSt the meeting. to speak Harriet Tufttle Bartlett of national lecturer for the (■ So/iety. will ? I'. ■ ~“nt Advent as ’ 1 Friday evejPfllPß:l. .n I;it,hi f.21. K. of of the; In"IF^:i1 Lodge.

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TRIPLE TRAGEDY GRIEVESHOOSIER Sister of Ft. Wayne Among Slain at Chicago. Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 22.—Authorities today delved into the life history of Arthur Mac Ewen, pelf-poisoned former Canadian mounted policeman, in an effort to show that he plotted the dearhs of his bride and her 11-year-old son and then planned to take his own life. The body of the boy, beaten to death and then burned, was found Saturday. The next day Mac Ewen and his wife were found dead of poisoning in their apartment. From evidence already gathered, police have learned that Mac Ewen was strangely fascinated by poisons and their reactions, by the subject of death and cremations. They are inclined to the belief that he planned the two murders and suicide while mentaliy deranged. Mrs. Susan Eeonard of Ft. Wayne, Ind., a sister of Mrs. Mac Ewen, testified at the opening of the inquest and offered that Mrs. Mac Ewen could not possibly have killed her son or herself. The inquest was then continued.

W.J. KEENEY MUST SERVE SENTENCE Federal Appeals Court Upholds Baltzell. Wilbur J. Keeney, former special investigator for Prosecutor William H. Kemy, will begin serving a sixmonths sentence for contempt of Federal Court as soon as a mandate is received from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. Keeney was found guilty and sentenced by Federal J udge Robert C. Baltzell after being charged with accepting S3OO bribe money from Tom Casey, local confessed bootlegger, to “fix” a case in the court. Keeney, through his attorney, William Bosson, carried the case to the appeal court, which Monday upiield Judge Baltzell. An indictment charging bribery in the same matter, is pending in the court against Keeney. It is understood United States District Attorney Albert Ward has agreed to drop this charge, when the one on contempt is served. Mother of Six on Trial for Murder Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 22.—Charging she disrobed and bathed her husband after she had strangled him to death so that he was ready for the undertaker, the State is endeavoring to complete a jury today to hear evidence against Mrs. Bertha Heilman, 48, mother of six children. Some of the children will testify against her, prosecutors said. The defense contends Mrs. Heilman acted in self-defense, being j threatened with a knife. The State ! probably will not ask the death penalty. ADMITS CHILD NEGLECT Mother, \\'lio Tried to Give Away Baby, Gets Six Months Sentence. Pleading guilty to child neglect, Mrs. Rebecca Cole, 23, who was arrested in Indianapolis last week, when, it is alleged, she was trying to give away her 3-months-old baby, was sentenced to six months in the woman's prison and fined SSOO in Judge Hutchison's court at Brazil, i Ind., Monday, i RESIDENCE IS RAZED N. Emerson Ave, Family Made Homeless by Early Morning Blaze. The family of William Farres, Negro, 1520 N. Emerson Ave., was left homeless today when fire razed their residence. Firemen who responded to the alarm at 8 a. m., were unable to check the slams. Mrs. Farres fled the house carrying a few pieces of clothing. She said she was In the rear of the house when she smelled smoke, and then found the front room a mass of flames. The origin was unknown. Firemen gaAe the loss at more than SI,OOO.

TWODISAVOW CONFESSIONS OF MURDER Albert Snyder’s Widow and Alleged Lover Charge ‘Third Degree’ Used. Bu United Press NEW YORK, March 22.—Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray faced a magistrate in Jamaica today and denied that they had beaten Mrs. Snyder's husband to death in a premeditated murder plot to give Mrs. Snyder possession of Snyder’s $25,000 insurance, as charged by police. The lovers'met face to face for the first time since the murder. Pale, haggard 'looking after the long police ordeal they had been through, they avoided each other's eyes. Neither spoke. Their counsel repudiated the confessions which police said they had obtained from both. Counsel informed Magistrate Frank Giorgio that the confessions had been obtained under duress and demanded an immediately hearing. The State was not ready, and Giorgio set the hearing for Thursday. Gray confessed, according to District Attorney Richard Newcombe, that he and Mrs, Snyder had plotted the murder; that he beat Snyder with a sash weight, chloroformed him and made death triply sure by garroting him with picture wire. Newcombe called the murder the coldest premeditated crime in the history of the New York police department. Arranged Alibi Gray fled after he and Mrs. Snyder had arranged the Snyder home to make it appear that robbefs had committed the murder. lie left Mrs. Snyder bound and fled to Syracuse, N. Y„ where lie had prepared a careful alibi, Newcombe said. One little detail, the secreting under a mattress of the Jewerly that Mrs. Snyder told the police had been stolen, gave the clew" that upset the whole elaborate structure. Gray was arrested In Syracuse. He was brought back early this morning and in Newcombe’s office in Long Island City calmy told Newcombe and Police Commissioner McLaughlin the entire story. Gray, who is 35, a smiling, welldressed business man, told how he and Mrs. Snyder had been lowers, i She is 32, a pleasure-loving, goodlooking blond, married to a man a dozen years her senior. Gray blamed the woman, Newcombe revealed. “The murder was done by prearrangement and was as cold-blooded as we originally conceived it to be,” the district attorney said. “All the details were prearranged by correspondence. The motive was the $25,000 insurance on Snyder’s life and Mrs. Snyder’s threat to expose Gray’s relations with her to his wife unless he helped her.” The most startling part of Gray'* confession, as told by Newcombe, was’ where he said that Mrs. Snyder helped him with the actual murder and that when he dropped the bludgeon, she picked it up and hit her, unconscious husband over the head.

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IN WAIVERS TO SHAREINPAVING Shelby St. Residents Seek tj End Delay. South Side Business Men's Association, headed by Harold Koch, president, today started to get the signatures of property owners to waivers agreeing they will pay part of the cost of paving Shelby St. fyom Madison Ave. to Troy Ave. - This section is out of the city limits and can be paved only by annexation or by the connecting link law. Cassius Hogle, county commr'rsioners’ president, declared commissioners are ready to cooperate with the board of works in paving tho street. An ordinance is now before the city council for annexation of the territory. Chapman Price Steel Company declared it would move its plant, situation in this territory, if It were forced into the city by the annexation process. Roy C. Shaneberger, works board president, declared that the board was ready to do all within its power to keep industries v In Indianapolis and that it would cooperate with county commissioners in the paving project. FOREMEN’S CLUB GROWS Five Hundred Members Is Goal of New Organization. A campaign is in progress by the Indianapolis Foremen’s Club to increase its membership to 500. Th club is comprised of foremen in Indianapolis industries. At the organization meeting last week it was decided to hold up jthe charter roster of the club until the next monthly meeting by which time It is hoped the membership can be Increased. The following officers have been chosen: President, James f\V. Doeppers, superintendent Diamond Chain and

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Johns Hopkins Sophomores and Freshmen in ThreeHour Battle. NINE OTHERS ARRESTED Effort to Break Up Dinner Started Trouble. Bu United Press „„ ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 22. Johns Hopkins University authorities tcdqy planned a rigid investigation into a battlo last night between freshmen and sophomores which police used fire hose and guns to quell. A score of students were injured, three seriously, and nine were arrested. Tho National Guard Armory was badly damaged. Governor Ritchie refused a request that he call out the State militia. The three-hour fight started when sophomores attempted to break up the annual freshmen dinner at tho Armory. A score of second-year men were reported to have hidden in the Armory, and when the first freshmen arrived the sophomores knocked over the carefully set dinner tables and rushed tho “yearlings.” Two liundred’and fifty sophomore reinforcements arrived and tried to rescue their twenty-five fellow classmen from some 250 angry freshmen. Six policemen then Hoined the fray, wielding nightsticks, but were driven off. They fired a volley of shots over the heads of the rioters and summoned reinforcements. More police arrived, but were unable to end the fight until firemen joined them and swept the scrambling crowd with forceful streams of water. Despite broken windows. upset tables and broken dishes, the freshmen carried on, but tlieir troubles were not over. As the banquet finally got under way. Mayor Allan Bowie Hoard entered the hall, cast a frowning glance at thinly-clad dancing girls entertaining the youths, and ordered that the stag dinner be kept strictly stag. The girls left. Most of the casualties were sophomores. Three Were in Annapolis Emergency Hospital. John Grayson Turnball of Townson, member of a prominent Maryland family, suffered a fractured arm; Bernard Brack, son of a Baltimore phylslclan, may have a fractured skull, and William Gladstone Beankopf, Baltimore, suffered cuts and bruises on the head. The seventeen others injured were taken to Baltimore hospitals.

CITY FIREMAN IS SUSPENDED One of Trio of Marauders Woman Tells Chief. James McHugh, 26, 846 Southwest St., city fireman of Truck Company 13, was suspended today by ordpr of Fire Chief Jesse A. Hutsell, and was to face a hearing before the board of safety this afternoon on a charge of conduct unbecoming an officer on Information supplied by Mrs. Mary Boyd, 701 Russell Ave. Mnv Boyd Identified McHugh as one of threo men who, she said, came Into, her home this morning, upset a table of dishes and threatened to shoot Ralph Wolfenbarger, a roomer at her home. She told police all three brandished guns. rolice, who answered the call found no trace of the men. but Informed the fire chief, who from the descriptions furnished by Mrs. Boyd, judged McHugh to be one of the trio. McHugh declared he had “done nothing wrong.” The safety board this afternoon also was to hear charges against Patrolman John T. Welch, that he accepted a $1 bill for a ticket to the State basketball tournament Friday. He denied the charge. Horsewhipping Case Lures Film Colony Bu ILnited Press LOS ANGELES, March 22. Members of the Hollywood motion picture colony were In court today to witness cross examination of Lieut. Gerard De Merveaux, asking $25,000 damages from J. Stuart Blackton, film producer, for an alleged horsewhipping. De Marveaux, a fencing master and war-time aviator, contended the alleged whipping took place in the Blackton home where he was visiting during the producer’s absence In April, 1925. Blackton has filed a counter suit asking $50,0000 damages for an alleged attack by Do Merveaux on Mrs. Blackton, prominent society woman of Los Angeles and Hollywood. SETTLE RAPS COOUDGE Bu Times Sorrial SHELBYVILLE, Ind., March 22 —President Coolidge was contradictory in his message to Congress explaining his veto of the McNaryHaugen farm relief bill, William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bereau Federation told a conference of Eight district farmers here Monday. He said Coolidge ha:l been misinformed. STUDY NEGRO PROBLEM Further study on Negro hospitalization in other cities before Indiaha polls can work out a feasible plan for creating a local Negro hospital unit was recommended Monday by the Indianapolis Council of Socinl Agencies at the Lincoln, In a report of Eugene C. Foster, chairman. $200,000 MEMORIAL. Bu United Press NEW YORK, March 22—In Tnomory of hlse wife, who died of sleeping sickness, .1. Picrpont Morgan has given s2t>o.O(Mi to the Neurological Institute to aid ip the study of the malady.

MARCH 22,1927

FORDPAPERARTICLES ON JEWS IFAD Editor of Dearborn Independent on Stand to Identify Matter. Bu United Press DETROIT, Mich., March 22. Paragraph after paragraph from the Dearborn Independent bristling with references to “a Jewish holding company,” “oriental financiers” and “Jewish exploitation” of American farmers went Into evidence today at the trial of Aaron Sapiro’s milliondollar libel suit against Henry Ford. With William J. Cameron, editor of the Dearborn Independent, *s the witness, William Henry Gallagher, attorney for Sapiro, had the paragraphs on which the libel suit Is based identified and read them before the jury. In the few questions Cameron, aside from identifications, he more asserted Ills complete nance of the editorial department of the Independent. He somewhat spiritedly denied the suggestion of Gallagher that perhaps “Mr. Liebold. Mr. Ford's secretary,” was his superior. "I am the sole editor and sole arbiter of such matters,” Cameron asserted, rei'erring to editorial policy. “I am not going to bo responsible for any one elsc's judgment.” Ho said that Ford, whenever he discussed questions regarding the Independent with lilm, woulcf say: “You-are the editor; be sure you are right.” Those were Ford's only Instructions, he maintained.

STAGE OF RIVER SLOWLTFALLING (Continued From Page 1) of the bridge had Increased several Inches. The Central Ave. bridge, which was closed Monday, was still Impassable. Engineers used additional workmen to fight aeepage near the Warfleigh bathing beach, near College Ave. bridge. Oberleas said he believed the danger point was passed. “We have the levee at in good shape. The only thing that will make It break now is a heavy rain. We are keeping 100 men busy reinforcing It In anticipation of such rains.” Unsettled Weather North of Broad Ripple at the White' River bridge the water waa about six Inches deep over U. S. highway 31. The Maxwell Gravel Company plant near by was flooded. Two city trucks wers stalled at Broadway and Rivervlew Dr. Although the weather prediction was cloudy and unsettled with probably light showers Wednesday sufficient rain to affect the river stage was not expected. The force of seventy-five workmen, which was on duty to wnrn residents If a danger point was reached, dwindled during the night when It was learned tho river was not rising. Forty families remained marooned by flood waters In the Itavenswood district, where It was expected the flood conditions would not be wholly removed for forty-eight hours. Tho water level there began slowly receding today but families still resorted to the use of boats In making trips for provisions and communication with the “shore.” * —"■ STREETS UNDER WATER. Property Damage at Peru Is Small However. Bu United Press PERU, Ind., March 22—Ths Wn, bash river reached flood stage today. Lowlands surrounding city, Interurban tracks, rural highways and thousands of acres of farm land near the river wore Inundated. A few city streets were under water. Tho property damage was small. The river continued to rise slowly i this morning despite predictions that it had reached the crest Mon- 1 day night. FEAR FORTY FOOT STAGE Evansville I-ovvlanil Residents Prepare for High Water. bu United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 22. Lowland residents today were preparing for at least a forty foot stage of the Ohio River as tributaries 1 poured an increasing volume of water Into the main stream nbove here. It was Impossible to exactly forecast the crest that the Ohio will reach, weather bureau officials said. WABASII STILL RISING Crest Not Expected Before Thursday at Terre Haute. Hu United Press TERRE JIAUT7, Ind.. March 22. —With all feeder creeks In the county back within their banks today and their waters diminished by from five to six feet tho Wabash River continued to riso und had r sac hod a stage of 18.7 feet, two and- seventenths feet nbove floor Kluge.The river s rise is nyore gradual due to Its spreading: oot over loflfc lands. Residents in the ern part of West T*ri*eHaute, southern Taylorvllle and at Rand Burr Hollow were preparing to leave-tjieip homes. Greet Os Ui river is expected to bo reached Thursday when * one feet la predicted.