Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 327, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1927 — Page 1

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DALE MUST SERVE 90 DAY TERM Highest Court in Land Upholds Editor’s Conviction. ‘TRUTH IS NO DEFENSE’ This Effect in Indiana Contempt Cases. George R. Dale, the Muncie editor, must go to the Indiana State Farm for ninety days under a sentence imposed by Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth for an article written in •ruary, 1923. lie United States Supreme Court today dismissed his appeal at Washington because it found that no Federal question was involved. Dale’s own lawyer, former Senator Moses Clapp, Minnesota, informed Chief Justice Taft that upon reading the printed transcript of the decision in lower courts he found no Federal question was involved. Justice Taft frowned and informed Olapp the court's mandate would be issued at once. Taft said he wished more attorneys would follow a similar course when they found their cases lacking in Federal questions. The decision of the Indiana Supreme Court in the same case which held that the "truth is no defense" stands. In the final appeal Dale was represented by former United States Senators Moses Clapp and Augustus O. Stanley, but they found no legal way of raising a Federal question and the appeal was dismissed on the motion of Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. The article on which Dale was sentenced followed his Indictment on a liquor charge. That cast was never tried and was dismissed. “Jurors Unfair,” llis Charge Dale, when indicted, charged that the jury commission, then composed of Jacob Cavanaugh and John Hampton, now the mayor of Muncie, had so drawn the jurors that the Indictamounted to a conspiracy. He Jigged that the jurors were unfair, that the charge was “framed” and that he was the victim of a political ring which objected to his demands for a clean city. He offered, when brought into cotirt, to prove the truth of every charge he made, but the courts held that the truth was not a defense. His plea on the contempt charge was that he desired only to inform the court of conditions so that changes of conditions could be made. Since that time Judge Dearth has been tried by the State Senate on impeachment charges brought ..by the House of Representatives. Close Vote Results The charge made by the lower house was that Cavanaugh had been illegally appointed jury commissioner and later qualified by the deed of a small piece of land valued at not more than S2O, the deed being made by Judge Dearth. It was on this charge that the Senate voted 32 for conviction of Judge Dearth to 17 for a vindication. The impeachment failed by two Senate votes. On other charges, involving some of the matters Charged by Dale in his article, a majority of the Senate voted for the conviction of Judge Dearth. The law requires that twothirds of the Senate vote to sustain any impeachment charge. Now after four years, Judge Dearth retains his seat upon the bench through the slight margin of two votes. Dale goes to jail. The of the Supreme Court that the is no defense in a contempt proceeding stands as the law of Indiana.

VANDALS DAMAGE COLLEGE BRIDGE City Hires Night Watchman —Await Bond Sale. Following destruction of a railing at the sunken College Ave. bridge over Fall Creek a nightwatchman was hired today to guard the bridge at night, City Engineer Frank C. Llngenfelter announced. Vandals pushed part of the crumbled railing into the creek one night last week, Llngenfelter said. Repair of the bridge by the board of works is being held-up pending sale of the bonds by City Controller William C. Buser. Virgil Vandagrlfft, works board president, said the contract would be let and work rushed as soon as the bonds are sold, making the procedure legal. The bridge has not fallen any In the last few days, Llngenfelter said. Changes Tire, Drops Dead Kprrial wStHMONU, Ind., April 25. in changing a tire was blamed today for the death of Christopher C. Cain. 76, who dropped dead on the National Rd. near Lewisville Sunday. * The Best-Grand Laundry, Main <1774. Economy finished, 10 lbs., $1.51 K half fiat. Everything ready to use. <~Adv,

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COUNTY’S ZONE BEE TUESDAY Township Spelling Champs to Meet at Warren Central Building. A County Zone Spelling Champion will be chosen, Tuesday. And it will be a big day in the schools. Out at Warren Central nine township champions and the winner of the Beech Grove building been will fight it out for the rural zone honors. The victor will represent Marion County in the State Spelling Bee, sponsored by The Times, in Indianapolis late in May. And, if betting were your inclination, you would wager much that it will be a keenly contested affair, Tuesday afternoon, when the ten champions match their spelling ability. The battle of words will be staged in the auditorium of Warren Central School at 1 p. m. Tuerday afternoon. Arrangements for the affair has been made by a committee appointed by County Superintendent Dee Swails. It is composed of Principal C. E. Eash of Warren Central, chairman; Princi(Ttirn to Page 5)

BOY WINS ‘HIT AND RUN’ RACE Knocked From Bicycle, He Corners Pair for Police After Auto Chase. Harold Shumate, 436 N. Warnian Ave., is only 16, but he nabbed his man after a long chase which followed an accident today. James T. Ogden, 45, of R. R. C., Box 611, ran over Shumate's bicycle as the youth rode on W. Michigan St. The wheel was wrecked, but the boy escaped serious hurts. While Shumate went to surjinion police, Ogden and his companion, Jesse Burnett, 43, of 724 W. New York St., drove away. Shumate appealed to D. B. Calvelage, 2610 W. Michigan St., for aid and the chase was on. Ogden drove east on Michigan St. to Belmont Ave., south on Belmont to AVashington St., and west on Washington to Eagle Creek, where the pursuers overtook and cornered him. While Policemen Graham and Oakley were at Holmes Ave. and Michigan St., scene of the accident, they were notified by headquarters that the victim had the men in tow. Ogden was charged with drunken driving and failing to stop after an accident. Burnett was charged with intoxication. Glad Her Attempt at Suicide Failed Mrs. Ethel Stofer, 38, of 1322 Wade St., was improved at city hospital today, glad her suicide attempt Sunday failed. She tried to end her life with gas because dieting had reduced her weight from 325 to 145 pounds, but apparently failed to relieve her of the danger of paralytic strokes. She began dieting a year ago after a serious stroke, Mrs. Stofer said. Sunday she fell and noticed other indications that she was about to suffer a stroke. Despondent at the prospect of another illness and because alone—her husband had gone fishing Saturday night—Mrs. Stofer turned on the gas in the kitchen stove. Neighbors, noticing the closed windows, Investigated, smelled gas and called police. Hospital attaches said she would recover. < Unloaded Gun * to Cost Sight of Eye City hospital doctors today said that Willard Neal, 12, of 146 Douglas St., will lose the sight of his right eye. He was shot Saturday by Aaron Aronstam, 14, of 1806 S. Meridian St., who told police he did not know the .22-calibre pistol was loaded. The Neal youth wandered about the street until two women, attracted by his tears, took him to his home. Police found the Aromstam boy selling papers downtown. He said he threw the gun in a ditch that men were covering up. He bought the gun from another boy, he said.

Kerensky , He Who Gets Slapped—Twice Bn United Pm* CHICAGO, April 25.—For the second time since he has been in this country, Alexander Kerensky, preSoviet dictator of Russia, has suffered a "dignified insult" —a resounding slap on the face in public. The first assault, in New York a month ago, war the work of a woman so Kerensky considered here was no recourse. Last night, the former premier was slapped by a Czarlst army captain. He asserted "that is all one can expccj of the Czar's officers.” and refused to ark the “insulter’s” arrest. Captain Boris Gregory Telesnitsky slapped Kerensky as he was about to enter a hotel banquet room last night "to avenge the indignities brought on Russian officers.” He was accompanied by Lieutenant Sergi Burch, also a former "white” of-

SNYDER CASE OUTLINED BY PROSECUTION District Attorney Refers to Blond Defendant as ‘That Woman.’ KIN OF VICTIM HEARD Brother First Witness for State. By United Prist LONG ISLAND CITY. N. Y., April 25. —The case of the State of New York against Ruth Brown Snyder and Henry Judd Gray, accused of the murder of Albert (Snyder, was outlined to the jury today by District Attorney Newcombe. The blonde suburban housewife and the swarthy corset salesman sat close by the prosecutor as he pictured them murderers of Mrs. Snyder’s husband, Albert. Jury Under ('loud Before Newcombe began his opening statement Supreme Court Justice Townsend Scudder received opposing counsel in chambers and discussed the case since their selection. Court was an hour late in starting, and during the interim there were rumors that a mistrial might be declared, that the two jurors might be withdrawn and that a change of venue was possible. But when the court convened no mention was made of the occurrence. Instead, Edgar Hazleton, counsel for Mrs. Snyder, made a routine motion that all witnesses be excluded from the courtroom until called. The courtroom crowd, which included several women friends of Mrs. Snyder, the Marquis and Machioness of Queensbury, and David Belasco, shifted uneasily while awaiting opening of court. Records Guarded A dictaphone with two dozen records was stationed at one s.de of the courtroom and was guarded by employes of the district attorney’s office. A report that the confessions of the defendants, since repudiated, had been taken on dictaphones and would be “run off” in court was not denied by the prosecution. Among those in the room was Warren Schneider, brother of the slain man, scheduled to be called as the first witness for the State. With Schneider were two sisters, who also retained the original spelling of the name. Snyder changed his name at request of his wifo. Newcombe began to speak slowly and in a conversational manner. He (Turn to Page 2)

UMPIRE ADMITS . ATTACK CHARGE Fined in Court —Suspended by President Hickey. Pleading guilty to assualt and battery on Ivy Griffin, first baseman of the Milwaukee baseball club, George L. Magerkurth, 38, of Moline, 111., American Association umpire, was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to thirty days in jail by Municipal Court Judge Paul C. Wetter today. The jail sentence was suspended on promise of good behavior. Magerkurth was suspended on orders of Thomas J. Hickey, American Association president, pending a hearing before the Chicago official. Motor Policemen Powers and Schrieber arrested Magerkurth in his hotel room Sunday night, after investigating the fight earlier at another hotel where Griffin roomed. They weer told the fight was the aftermath of an argument at Washington Park during Sunday’s game. Magerkurth said he went to Griffin’s room to demand an apology for an epithet Griffin is alleged to have hurled at him. Griffin and his wife returned to the hotel about 10 p. m. and Magerkurth followed them to their ropm. He knocked on the door, and when Griffin opened it, struck him, Mrs. Griffin said. Griffin retaliated and the two fought in the corridor. At the Indiana Christian Hospital, where Griffin was treated for a dislocated shoulder it was said he will not be able to play for a month. Kills Girl and Self Bu United Press BEDFORD, April 25.—Susie Wasson, 29, Negro, and Will Jackson, 39, are dead today as the result of a murder and suicide. Police said Jackson killed his sweetheart and then himself because of despondency.

AIMEE GETS A 808-TEMPLE PILLARS RIVEN

Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, April 25. Aimee Semple McPherson has bobbed her hair and split her church. The bobbed hair was the sole cause of the split, Gladwyn Nichols, leader of 600 former members of Angelus Temple who left it last week, said today. He waa radio announcer for the temple. . It wasn't that the ax-followeiti

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 25,1927

WHY RED CROSS NEEDS YOUR HELP

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POUR 15,373 IN LOCAL FUND FOR FLOOD STRICKEN Appeal for Additional Money to Carry on Relief in River Zones. With approximately $5,379 received, the local chapter of the American Red Cross today renewed its appeal for “quick assets" to be used in caring for the thousands of homeless in the Misisssippi River flood area. Mails and visitations to Red Cross headquarters at 777 N. Meridian St. since Saturday increased the ! fund about $3,700, William Fortune,! local Red Cross chairman, said. Ad- ] ditional mails and additional personal visits today were expected to swell the present total. No limit “There is no quota set for Indianapolis—there is no limit,” Fortune declared. “Every dollar that can be given should be given and all that can be subscribed will not be I too much for the unfortunate victims 1 of the greatest Mississippi Hood that rivermen can remember.” From the city’s pulpits, Sunday, came the appeals that were answered in cash contributions received at headquarters. The Zion Evangelical Church led with $l6O. Many other ministers reported and the daywill bring additional reports. There is no personal solicitation in the local drive. Whatever is obtained here will be raised through the appeals through the newspapers, it was said at Red Cross headquarters. With a hundred thousand or more families homeless, and destitute, facing illness from exposure, Red Cross officials feel that the residents of “safe cities" will contribute generously, through their sympathetic and charitable impulses. The plea, however, is for immediate contributions. Most of the $5,000 already raised here will be sent to Washington headquarters today Checks received Sunday and today included: Mrs. C. S Xrosley, $200; G. M. Costin, $150; Mr. and Mrs. A. Metzger, $100; State Automobile Insurance Association, $300; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coleman, $200; J. K. Lilly, $500; Mrs. Elizabeth C. Marmon, $100; Emma Claypool, $100; H. Lieber Company, $100; L. L. Goodman, $100; Mrs. John C. New, SIOO, and Dr. Frank A. Morrison, SIOO. The Modern Woodmen of America, with a quota of SIIO,OOO has assessed local members of the lodge a dime each, the money to go to flood relief work. A message from E. K. McComb, Vicksburg, Miss., where he has joined the Red Cross relief forces as the first person from Indianapolis to go on active duty, said that conditions there are ‘‘extremely serious.” McKomb appealed to Indianapolis to be generous in its contributions.

IF YOU HAVE TEARS, PICK RIGHT PLACE TO WEEP Maurine Watkins, Speaking of Mothers Grieving in Snyder Case, Remarks Victim Had One, Too.

By Maurine Watkins Author of "Chicago” NEW YORK, April 25.—1f we’re going to weep, let’s sob in the right direction. Every paper in town has told you of Mrs. Gray’s devotion to her boy, Judd, and each one has painted the dramat'v entrance of Rut' Snyder’s mother to the mournful accompaniment of "Nearer, My God, to Thee” from a funeral band on the street below. "A pale, worn little woman, whose tired eyes never wander from the face of her child, somebody's mother. She remembers the touch of a

of Mrs. McPherson were angry, he explained. They were Just hurt—deeply hurt. Nichols based his objections on the words of the Apostle Paul as found in I Corinthians, eleventh chapter, fifth and sixth verses, which are as follows: “For every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head, for that is even all one as If she were

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Within a few days after the Mississippi flood reached its height, the Red Cross had established thirty-two refugee camps. Many of them, such as the one near Hickman, Ky„ in the picture at the top, are, tent colonies. At the center and right (bel are shown refugees in a hastily (Instructed relief camp near Hickman, Ky. At the lower left a Salvation Army worker is shown with some of the first refugees that arrived in Memphis, Tenn., from flooded districts.

FLOOD OF MISERY, TOO, AS HIGH WATER RAGES United Press Correspondent Broadcasts Eye-Witness Story From Ravaged Districts.

fEditor* Note: E. IV. Lewis, United Press staff correspondent, who is carryiior out a rovinr assignment in the Mississippi flood zone, wired an account of what lie had seen in one day in the vicinity of Vieksburp to New York last night and it was broadcast over station WJZ and other members of the WJZ chain of radio stations as the Sunday nijrht program ol Collier's innirazine. The hroadeast. heard by thousands of radio listeners, presents a eolorful description of scenes of the flood zone and is herewith carried In full, i By E. W. Lewis. United Press Staff Correspondent VICKSBURG. Miss., April 25. We're not going to do much sleeping in this city of Vicksburg, Miss., tonight, no matter how well the rest of America sleeps. A human flood hit us today, a flood of misery. The Mississippi's flood of waters is rising along this city’s embankments —but it is the flood of homeless men, women and

little head on her bosom, of soft, clinging arms about her neck —her baby, now in the cruel clutches of the law now in the cold gray shadow of ‘the chair’ and the sunshine streams on, but Its glory is gone, her baby! Mother love, that endures and suffers all.” Grab your handkerchiews, gentlemen—lt’s our national weakness. It’s insidious, that appeal, because It strikes genuine sentiment as well as sentimentality, because It touches something really worth while. “How would you like for your mother—” We go .jwn before that instantly: we have mothers, all of (Turn to Page 5)

shaven, for if the women to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered." Mrs. McPherson's hair has always been one of her most attractive features. It drew the eye like a magnet, especially when she wore the white robes she usually affected on the platform. But the evangelist recently loft her evangelical city, after her kid-

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children. that is holding Vicksburg’s attention. I have today seen thousands of homeless, penniless ruined American families. They are all about us here in this city tonight. I heard the steamboat Minnesota whistle at the bend in the river this morning at 4 o'clock. On her decks were 1.600 persons whose homes had been swept away. I saw them land —men, women and children. What do you suppose they wer?< carrying? Well, what would you carry away from home, if you were suddenly driven out and could take only a few things? I know what you'd take; I’ve seen it myself, today, among these thousands, at first hand. You’d take bedding. Your last thought, if you were crowded out of your comfortable homes tonight. perhaps with the children, would be not so much "where shall we find the next meal” as “where shall we find a roof and a place to sleep?” Ride on Car Roofs Down at the railraod station, several times this Sunday, I have seen the refugee trains come in. A number arrived between midnight and early morning. In box cars, on the roofs of box cars, in cabooses, came hundreds, of the homeless families. Everybody, even gome of the children. were carrying bedding. Father nearly always carries the mattress; mother and children' the clothing. Maybe the children are asleep tonight; hundreds of them said their “now I lay me’s” beside bare mattresses stretched out on floors. But there isn’t much sleep for fathers and mothers who have lost everything and who have no money with which to buy food; it’s hard to sleep when you face the prospect of starting all over again in life. I saw a hundred children this (Turn to Page 2)

naping experience, and toured the country. She held meetings In New York. And she came home and bobbed her hair. “I didn't know my hail had any thing to do with the break." Mrs. McPherson said today. “If I did, the Nichols group is foolish. Religion, not length of hair. Is the basic thing about Angelus Templet” .... ...

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FLOOD AREA RESIDENTS FACE FORCED REMOVAL BY MILITARY AUTHORITY Mississippi National Guard Commander Declares Obstinate Will Not Be Permitted “to Die Like Rats.” VICKSBURG SERVES AS HAVEN Five Thousand Refugees Bound for City Already Caring for Like Number.

DISASTER BRIEFLY TOLD

Forcible evacuation of residents in flooded area of Missiisippi ordered by commander of State’s National Guard. Known dead reach 125 t with probability that actual toll, due to widespread destruction, will never be known. Vicksburg, Miss., will be sheltering 10,000 refugees by night. Red Gross and other relief agencies organize on wartime basis with Secretary Hoover directing activities from Memphis, Tenn. Doctors and nurses fight disease, succeeding so far in preventing any serious epidemic. Bu United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 25. —Orders for forcible evacuation ot‘ Greenville, Leland and other flooded Mississippi towns were issued today by Gen. Curtiss T. Green, commander of the Mississippi National Guard. A fleet of more than 100 boats of all sizes was being assembled at Vicksburg to carry soldiers into the flooded areas to bring out residents remaining in the flooded regions by force if necessary.

“We cannot allow these people to die like rats from disease and privation or permit them to be trapped by the rising water,” Gen. Green said. “If they refuse to leave, we intend to force them out of the stricken territory.’’ More than 30.000 refugees in the towns of Greenville. Lelatid, Shaw, Elizabeth, Percy and Hollendale will be removed on the forcible evacuation order if they refuse to leave on their own a?eord, Gen. Green said. liCvee Break Reported An unverified report that the main Mississippi levee near Yonkapin, Ark., several miles above Arkansas City, had given way reached T. W. Keese. levee board chairman, at Helena, Ark., today. The Memphis levee board was without word of the reported break. Breaking of the levee at Yonkapin would flood Arkansas City with several feet before night, river men said. Telephone service was out between Memphis and Arkansas City today, although workmen had been sent out to repair breaks in the lines. The crest of the flood had passed below Memphis today and this city, freed from the fear of overflow, turned its whole attention to succoring the stricken lands below, where the yellow river still was rising. Fifteen Reported Dead Fifteen women and children believed to have been Negroes, were reported drowned when a cabin in which they took refuge near Winterville. Miss., toppled into the water, trapping them inside its whitewashed walls. It was near Greenville that one levee collapsed while scores of workmen labored to save it, hurling them -nto the river. The number who died has not been definitely established—probably never will be definitely known. It is estimated at from a dozen to 100. Down the whole length of the Mississippi—some 600 miles in a straight line, but nearer twice that distance by the tortuous channel of the Mississippi—the river has broken down levees, flooded farms and towns and taken its toll of life. On

Thousand Tents Give Shelter to Refugees Crowding Vicksburg Bu United Press "VICKSBURG, Miss., April 25.—Vicksburg, built on high ground, out of reach of the flooded Mississippi, was like a city on the edge of a war zone today as preparations were made to receive 5,000 refugees from the north. About an equal number already has gathered here. A thousand tents on the outskirts of the city housed refugees. Relief work moved with military precision.

Farmers, business men, housewives, made penniless by the flood, wore the same dull expression found on the faces of citizens driven from their homes by an Invading army. Vicksbulrg has become the concentration point for refugees from Greenville, Leland and half a dozen other river towns. The number seeking refuge here from the peril of the flood Increased hourly. Residents of Vicksburg threw their homes open to hundreds. Grave fears were felt over conditions at Greenville where the situation was described as appalling in reports to Miss Pauline Marshall, in charge of Red Cross relief work here. / Dozens of refugees were ill from at.. (Turn to Pag* 11) ,

Forecast Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; warmer with possibly showers tonight.

Radio Helps Request numbers will be played lor Red Cross Flood Rciief contributors over WFBM, Indianapolis Tower and Light Company radio station from 9 to midnight tonight. The promise to contribute and request should be telephoned over Main 1346, 1347 or 1348, or telegraphed to the Carr Tire Company, Delaware and Michigan Sts., Indianapolis. Contributions must he sent direct to the Indianapolis Chapter, American Red Cross, War Memorial Bldg., 711 N. Meridian St. Checks must be pade payable to Frank D. Htalnaker, treasurer.

the other side, southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana have felt the same scourge. Through central and southern Louisiana—the delta country where the river widens slowly until it ends, below New Orleans, in a score of branches—the waters are rising and are expected to reach a critical level this week. The same story of loss of life that has come in the last week from Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas and northern Mississippi may be expected to be repeated as the days pass from more southern points. The tragedy of the flood has scarely started. Whole Families Perish Refugees brought stories of isolated. nameless tragedies—children drowned here, a mother and her offspring flung helpless into swirling currents, whole families wiped out — deaths which in many cases can never be verified and officially recorded, The established death list has passed 125. Scores of refugees who had spent days soaking wet huddled in houses foul with the slime of the river suffered from severe colds which threatened to become pneumonia. Mumps, chicken pox and measles spread. The sufferers, weak from exposure and hunger, could give little resistance against disease, and it was feared many would not survive.

MacDonald Better Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, April 25.—Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the British Labor party and former premier of England, "spent a comfortable night and was much improved,” it was said at the Jefferson Hospital, where he is confined with a sore throat and cold today. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. ra 39 10 a. m. 49 7 a. m. 41 a. m 51 8 a. m 45 12 (noon) .... 62 $ ®>u iu 48 J. p. 5$