Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 330, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1927 — Page 2

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Condemned Man May Save Sacco and Vanzetti

MAX R. HYMAN, 68, ACTIVE IN CMC AFFAIRS, IS OEM) 111 Five Days, Succumbs at , Hospital After Operation. Max R. Hyman, 6S, of 90S Broadway. died at 9:30 a. m. today at Methodist Hospital, following an operation for intestinal disorder. He had been ill five days. Mr, Hyman, member of the Indianapolis Star staff, was born lft Edinburg, Ind., Marclt 16, 1859. He bad lived in Indianapolis since 1862. When still a boy he started a print shop and later founded the Indianapolis Herald, a weekly, no longer published. He also founded "Scissors,” a magazine of humor which enjoyed wide circulation. He wa among the first publishers to use zinc etchings. Launched Coliseum Plan The city coliseum movement of twenty years ago was launched by Mr. Hyman and option was held on a city block east of the Federal building. The Indianapolis Military Band was organized at his instigation. Mr. Hyman had been active in various civic enterprises and had published Hyman's Handbook, containing the city's commercial history, at intervals. In 1916, Mr. Hyman edited and (published the Centennial History of Indiana, which is used as a text book in some schools. Mr. Hyman was a Mason and'a member of Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation. Funeral Friday The widow, Mrs. Frances Hyman; ®, son, Herman R. Hyman, and a sister, Mrs. Fanny Meidner, all of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Rose Fishes of La Crosse, Wis., survive. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p. m. at the Hisey & Titus chapel, Delaware and St. Joseph ’ Sts. Rabbi Morris Feuerlieht will officiate. Burial will be in Hebrew Congregation cemetery. BEVERIM rTtES SEE FOR FRIDAY (Continued From Page 1) service Germany, is abroad. Mrs. Beveridge, formerly in the consular service in Germany, is abroad.'Mrs. E. B. Eden, her sister, living in southern Illinois,, is unable to attend the, services, it was saftf. Masonic, bodies of which Mr. Beveridge was a member offered their services to the family, but will not i>articipate in the funeral. The Indianapolis Association will hold a memorial service Friday mOrning in Federal Court for Mr. Beveridge, Samuel Ashby, president, announced. William L. Taylor is chairman of the memorial committee, which will conduct the service. A special committee to draft a resolution of regret is comprised of James W. Fesler, chairman, Larz#A. Whitcomb, Supreme Court Judge Clarence R. Martin, Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin, and Thomas A. Daily. Several members of the bar association will pay tribute to the former Senator in brief talks at the service. Stricken April 14 Mr. Beveridge returned to his Ihidianapolis home, April 3, after a two months’ stay in Chicago. He was |Stricken April 14, and was believed to be recovering when the heart attack became fatal, according to Dr. Charles P. Emerson, his personal physician and friend. Mrs. Bever- ■ Mge was at his bedside, having been awakened early Wednesday morning when Mr. Beveridge became restless. •Extreme devotion to literary endeavor in obtaining material for and Waiting his ‘‘Life of Abraham Lincoln” hastened his death, in the belief of friends. It became known following the fatal attack that numerous friends had warned him recently that he “had been working too hard.” Those close to the family said Mrs. Bfeveridge, who had manifested keen interest in the work on Lincoln, was familiar with the mass of materials gathered from all parts of the country and could finish the undertaking if she desired. Friends Visit Home -Senator Arthur R. Robinson was among friends who called at the Beveridge residence to pay their respects this morning. Many close friends visited the home Wednesday following announcement of the former Senator's unexpected death. George Braniwell Baker, Boston banker, sent word that he would attend the funeral. The list of honorary pallbearers was not completed pending Word from numerous high officials, said James W. Fesler. who is aiding with arrangements. .Active pallbearers are to be A. M. Glossbrenner, James W. Noel, Benjamin F. Lawrence, Supreme Court Jiidge Clarence R. Martin and Whitcomb and Fesler. Fred Storey, Chicago sculptor, made a death mask of the former Senator late Wednesday. TO BURY' BURRIS HERE Inferment at Crown Hill to Follow Rites at Muncie. Bv United Press MUNCIE, Ind., April 28.—Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 11 for Benjamin J. Burris, 45, president of Ball Teachers’ College died at Hope, Ind., Tuesday Jllght. Burial will be. at Crown Hill cer|eterv, Indianapolis. |

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The word “deceive” was deceiving for Pauline Hines, Pike Township entry in the County Zone Spelling Bee at Warren Central School, Tuesday. She transposed the “e” and the "i,” which eliminated her. She had correctly spelled tlio words given previously but was the first contestant spelled down in the contest wlvch crowned Mildred Biddle of Decatur Toivtislijp county spelling champion.

DE PAUW RECALLS BEVERIDGE LORE (Continued From Page 1) when it hung in the old fraternity hall on west side of the Courthouse Square during his student days. At chapel Friday De Pauw will hold a memorial service for the late orator and author, with Dr. Henry Boyer Longden, university vice president the principal speaker. Longden was a close friend of Mr. Beveridge, being a member of the same fraternity and having taught him in language classes. Dr. William Warren Sweet, history professor, who read much manuscript for Beveridge, will speak on him as a writer and historian. City, Students Mourn , De Pauw students and residents of Greencastle alike, mourned ■ the untimely death'of ‘Beveridge, who was a frequent visitor here. He had spoken on numerous occasions, since graduation and recently conferred with Jesse W'eik, ‘Lincoln authoritiy, relative to material -for his “Life of Abraham Lincoln.” Beneath a beech tree near the Big Four Railroad bridge, west of Greencastle, was a spot dear to the heart of the noted American author, and always vissited it 'on his trips; “back home.” Its sturdy trunk bore the carving of a heart with the initials "A. B. and K. L.” The "A. B." was the mark of Beveridge aAd the “K. L." were initials of Katherine Largsdale, Greenoastie. the author's sweetheart of college days and later his wife. She died .Tune 18, 1900. George Langsdale, father of the young woman. Was a publisher of the Greeneastle Banner and active in promoting the building of Soldiers' and Sailors’ Monument at Indianapolis. Beveridge won high scholastic honors as a student and was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key on graduation. He was a school trustee from 1910 to 1914. "Beveridge was an earnest and diligent student and never was willing to be outdone. He always wanted to appear the master of a situation,” said Dr. Longden. Ho Loved to Work “Once I gave a Virgil class an unusually large assignment to test their nerve. Many pupils complained of the task, but Beveridge came to class with the entire assignment translated in poetry. “He simply would not be outdone. I had always felt that his love for his work and his literary devotion would prove fatal. • “On the occasion of the inauguration of a De Pauw president several years ago Beveridge was the principal speaker. He told me the day before while strolling arm in arm across the campus that he would read his speech the following day, something he never had done before. M said, ‘Well, the audience will be disappointed. Some of the rest of us can do that, but no one expects to hear you read a speech.’ He replied that the manuscript already had been given to newspapers. “But that night, after a reception, he went to his room in my home and spent the night mastering his address. The next morning he came on the platform and delivered an hour's address practically verbatim.” "Loss of sleep meant nothing to him compared with the possible disappointment of an , audience,” said Longden. Had “Hot Temper” Dr. Longden said at one time Beveridge differed on a point with Dr. Ridpath, historian, and the argument nearly resulted in the youth's suspension from college. The professor said Beveridge's hot temper was aroused and he told Dr. Ridpath that “if such and such a thing happened such, and such a thing would happen.” “But such and sdeh a thing didn't happen, so there was no trouble," declared Longdeji, While a United States Senator Beveridge visited Russia and was informed an embassy from Japan was about to arrive. Beveridge waited for the arrival of tlie embassy and was greeted by a “Hello there Bev.” from Count Suitinia Chinda, a former student friend. The principal advisor to the Emperor of Japan was graduated in 1881, and later became prominent in international relations. Aside from his regular college work, oratory was Beveridge’s specialty. He won sufficient prizes for oratory in two years to pay for his college course, according to Profe~nr

BAR ASSOCIATION 1 DIVIDED ON PLAN OF CITY MANAGER City Officials Hedged in by Restrictions Now, Say Proponents. ■ Members of the Indianapolis Bar Association today stand divided on the question of whether or not Indianapolis should have * the city manager form of. government on which citizens will vote June 21. At a meeting of the organization Wednesday night at the Chamber ol Commerce speeches for and against the proposed governmental change 1 were made. Class prejudice, too much power J vested in the governing body and I unconstitutionality of the law were ! the bases for attacks on the mani nger ' plan. Members supporting the j change declared it will give citizens an opportunity to choose highly competent officials so that the municipal government would be operated as a business proposition. Business Form Urged Claude 11. Anderson, executive secretary of the manager organization, said that under the present form of government, a man who is capable of performing duties for the good of the city can not do so because he is hedged in with restrictions. Charles F. Coffin, also favoring the proposal, declared he was not dissatisfied with the present administration, but believes the city manager form will bring about a businesslike operation of the local government. Edward O. Snethen also spoke in favor of the plan. Former Mayor Lew Shank, a guest, joined tfce discussion, asserting he did not favor it because it created prejudie and the city would have “the worst government it ever had." Opposition Voiced “The trouble is you don't get out and vote and men of your type will not run for office.’’ he said. “You'll never make me believe an outside man loves Indianapolis better than one .of us,” “it will be as easy to own the 'commissioners as the primaries,” was the charge of James Bingham Sr., who opposed the plan. He declared “too ipuch power" is vested in the seven ’ commissioners. Former Supreme Court Judge Lewis Ewbank attacked validity of the law. Others who spoke against it were: William Bosson, former city attorney; Isidore Wulfson, Samuel Ashby, Bar Association piesident, and William Pickens. BELL WILL SPEND $4,000,000 IN 71 $2,000,000 Here for Better Phone Service, Promise. Plans for expending approximately $4,000,000 during the year for “extensions and betterments” were approved at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Indiana Bell Telephone today. Os this sum, $2,000,000 will be spent in Indianapolis, President C. H. Rottger announced. Members of the board of directors of the' company were re-elected. Officers are Rottger, president: F. A. Montrose, vice president and general manager; A. R. Henry, secretary treasurer; W. J. McWilliams, general auditor and C. P. Cooper, F. C. Gardner, W. S. Gifford, Frank D. Stalnaker, Elmer W. Stout, H. B. Thayer and E. S. Wilson, directors. A program for expenditures throughout the State to total $13,000,000 between now and 1931 was outlined. The regular 6 per cent dividend, payable in quarterly installments, was approved. Three Killed, Twelve Hurt in Train Crash Bv T’nftrd Pres* WHEATLAND, Wyo., April 28. A head-on collision between Colorado & Southern passenger train No. 30 and a switch engine brought death to three trainmen, serious injuries to another and minor bruises to more than a dozen passengers near Yuba early today. The dead: J. R. Morgan, 55, Ft. Collins, Colo., engineer of No. 30; C. B. Carter, 35 Cheyenne, Wyo., engineer of the switch engine; H. C. Morgan, 40, Cheyenne, Wyo., fireman of the switch engine. Lauds Von Hindenburg Bit United Press CHICAGO, April 28.—President. Von Hindenburg is the “Lincoln of Germany,” according to Baron Ago von Maltzan, German ambassador to this country, who is Chicago's guest today. “He united the right and left wings," Baron von Maltzan said, “just as Lincoln united the North and South.”

FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS Indianapolis Chapter, American Red Cross, asks persons who desire to contribute to the fund for relief of Mississippi River flood sufferers to flit out this blank and forward it with the contribution to: AMERICAN RED CROSS, 100 War Memorial Bldg., 777 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. I am sending for the Mississippi Valley Flood Sufferers' Fund. Name Street \ City e Make checks payable to Frank I). Stalnaker, Treasurer.

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-n • ~ . , NEA Service Photo. Transmitted by telephoto. Tins remarkable close-up shows the wreck of the great three-motored airplane, "The American Legion,” in which Lieutenant Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster met death in a shallow marsh near Langley Field, Pa. Note how the engines were buried in the mud and how the framework of the plane was shattered. Davis and Wooster had hoped to fly to Paris in the plane.

ARGUE WAGES FRIDAY Street Car Employes’ Petition for Higher Wages Ba'ore Commission. Oral argument in the arbitration case of James Green against the Indianapolis Street Railway Company will be heard by the Indiana public service commission in the Indiana House of Representatives at 10 a.m. Friday. Commissioner Howell Ellis will preside. Witnesses in the case already have been heard. Green is seeking an increase in wages for car company employes. TEARS AND LAUGHTER -MURDER Ruth Snyder’s Reference to Crying in Confess'on Hardly Rings True. By Maurine Watkins Author of “Chicago” NEW YORIC, April 28.—Extracts from Ruth Snyder's confession, referring to earlier plan to kill her husband; "But Mr. Cray and 1 both got cold feet that night and the two of us cried like babies, and I said to him, 'Go home; you're not going to do it.' ” Cried like babies—it must have been because they didn't pull it off: For you can't imagine them in tears of remorse—the marble woman and the putty man. For she laughed and danced at a party all the while her brain was swimming with the hideous plan of slaying; and he joked and laughed on the train that brought him back from Syracuse to face a murder charge. And together they drank of wine and love while the blood was still warm on their hands. And even now no tears. Undisturbed by Glantes With calculating eye to the future she sits undisturbed by the curious, seeking glances that would scorch a sensitive woman. In business-like manner she confers with her and registers pantomime contradictions to adverse testimony; a shake of the head, a mouthing of “no,” at any incriminating statement, either from witness or her lover's confession read to the jury- The revolting brutality of the crime—three times she has heard it described in detail—leaves her serenely unmoved; just so the jury realizes that she was not to blame, that she was unwillingly influenced, and really no participant—she's out to save her neck. But Gray—the future holds nothing for him, it seems, and he slumps in his chair without word for attorney or eye for jury. (■rand Passion? No It was no grand passion, not love that swept the world aside, made him W'ant to renounce his wife and home. Oh, no. Even after recounting their intimacy he explains: "I told her I was married and said there never could be anything between us so far as we were concerned, a I was very happy at home and had a very fine wife.” He was not torn between two loves —just another of those married men who want to eat their cake and have it too. Bit by bit he became more involved —infatuation, fear—and he sank deeper and deeper till the shadow life became more engrossing, more real to him than the actual. The crime did not shatter their world —they even celebrated it with orgy—but detection did.

REMUS, JUST FROM JAIL, BREAKS INTO OWN HOME < Millionaire Bootlegger Gets Into Kitchen of Thirty-One-Room Mansion and Then Calls Locksmith.

Bit United Press CINCINNATI, Ohio. April 28. George Remus, millionaire bootlegger. found it more difficult to get into his own palatial home here than to get out of the Portsmuoth (Ohio) jail. Remus, recently released after serving his sentence for violating prohibition laws, found his thirty-one-room Price Hill mansion locked and barred. • “Fancy it,” chuckled Remus, "first one can’t got out. and nowone has to break in." Forced Window By forcing a window in the rear Remus made an opening just large enough to squeeze his sturdy form into the kitchen. But there he was still outside looking in. Doors which led into the other thirty rooms were nulled and bolted. It was only with the aid of a locksmith that Remus was able to proceed further. Fifty locked doors stood between him and complete repossession of his home. The locksmith he employed by ebanoe was John Schroder, who, in behalf of the Federal Government,

SPELL ’EM? WE CAN’T EVEN PRONOUNCE ’EM Anyway, Here’s a Good Way to Exercise the Old Gray Matter Stored Away for Such Occasions.

Now that the county zone spelling champion is chosen and the city spelling competition has simmered down to eighty-one contestants who will enter city zone bees on Thursday, May 5, for honors that will carry eight zone champions into The Times State spelling bee. here late in May, let's turn to the matter of adults and spelling for a minute or two. Just for the fun of the thing, and to test your spelling ability, ask some member of the family to pronounce thes “A” words to you; then sec if you master them: aqueous agnosticism abscess assess alerate abattoir analine assay . automaton augur attar avoirdupois alimentary amateur abstemious abyss adventitious averred apocalypse analysis And. if you've found them easy, perhaps a few taken from the “B” list in Webster's dictionary may give you further delight. Try: baccarat burro banister brigadier belladonna bayou brunette balustrade boundary buoy balet bivouac bagatelle bulbous baptistry balearic belligerent bilibiate billet blench Now that you've only misspelled at least half of those words, we’ll let you take a fling at these, and quit: Isthmus, cuisine, leash, weasel, psalms, niece, phlegm, embarrass, awry, sieve, schism, naptha, willful, gauge, hemorrhage, asafoetida, dekrhke (may be spelled with “i"), TO SCAN CITY EXPENSE Chamber of Commerce Group Will Confer With Officials. A sub-committee will be appointed by William Fortune, civic affairs committee chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, to confer with city officials on a unified program of city expenditures. Authorization was granted at a meeting of the main committee Wednesday. Mayor Duvall accepted the Chamber's offered cooperation in a letter to Fortune recently. The committee will confer with city officials to devise a unified program of spending $6,000,000 for city improvements. In offering the Chamber’s aid to Duvall, Fortune pointed out that the city’s capital structure- might be Impaired if an expenditure program was not caref,,Mr wrM-Vorl nut.

forced the Remus strong box in a bank here during the trial of the one time millionaire bootlegger and found the box empty. ' Schroder finally opened the Price Hill home, but, as in the case of the box, found nothing. The rooms were empty and the cupboards bare. Even Shoes Didn't Fit A billiard table attached to the floor and a pair of men's shoes which did not fit Remus were all that remained of the furniture, l ooks and art work which formerly adorned the house. The emp'iness, Remus declared, was due to the fact that his wife. Jmogenc, from whom be is estranged, had removed his effects. Even the Remus wardrobe of thirty suits of all styles Snd colors, fifteen pairs of shoes, eight overcoats. and a dozen hats were gone. But Remus didn’t mind much. It was much better than some of the eight jails be has been in. he said. He watched the water splash into his $173,000 swimming pool and chuckled: “Shp had to leave me the plunge anyway, and the water I'oraes from a city main.”

chrysalis, sepulchre, phthisic, pseudonym, kidnaper, enceinte, horseshoeing, dirigible, collectible, ecstacy, lateral and precede. Pay Honor to Burris State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles Miller announced today that his department offices will be closed Friday for the funeral of Benjamin J. Burris, president of Ball Teachers’ College, Muncie. who died suddenly Wednesday night. Burris was former State superintendent.

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LECTURE IN OUR TEA ROOM, Fifth Floor May 3rd and 4th at 3:00 P. M-. /

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Bank Cashier’s Slayer Declares He, Not Radicals, Guilty. Bn l nited Press BOSTON, April 28. —Celestino Madeiros may save the lives of Bartholemeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, or he may die with them in July, in the second triple execution in this State this year. Governor Fuller last night reprieved Madeiros for a third time, that his confession that he and not Sacco and Vanzetti was responsible for the murder for which the two radicals are under death sentence, might be investigated. Sacco and Vanzetti are under sentence to be electrocuted during the week of July 10 and Madeiros was j reprieved to the same time. Confessor Sure to Die Asa result of the Governor’s action Madeiros is in a position where his own confession may save Sacco and Vanzetti, but if it does, he himself will die for the crime on the day set for their execution. Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers were jubilant today at the news of the Madeiros reprieve, in which they saw a stronger possibility of an eleventh-hour review of the internationally famous case at the direction of the Governor. Killed Bank Cashier Madeiros was twice convicted of first-degree murder for killing James A. Carpenter, elderly bank cashier, during a hold-up at Wrentham, Nov. 1, 1924. He was sentenced to die during the week of Sept. 5, 1926. Subsequently Madeiros was reprieved until Oct. 27, again until Jan. 27 last, for a third time until yesterday, and now until July 10. In each instance the New Bedford man's life was temporarily saved through his confession *<> ti e crimes of which Sacco and Yanz tti wore convicted. This confession stated that Madeiros and certain members of the notorious Morelli gang of Providence, R. 1., and not j the radicals, were responsible for the South Braintree murders. FLOOD DISEASE PROBLEM GRAVE Red Cross Adviser Speaks on Conference Eve. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, April 28.—The | disease problem in the flooded Mis- | sissippi areas is “the gravest this ; country has ever had to face in peace times,” Dr. William R. Red- j den, Red Cross medical adviser, dc- j dared today. His statement was made as health officers of seven States met at Mem- j phis, Term., in co-ordinate plans to j attack disease in the flood regions. I Representatives of the American Medical Association, the seven State J medical associations and the fourth ! and seventh corps area headquarters I of the Army were assisting at the conference, Redden said. Today Admiral Billard, coast guard commandant, ordered all available coast guard boats on the Great Lakes shipped to the flood ! district by rail. MAM AND WIFE SHOT Believe Woman Wounded Man, Then Attempted Suicide. Bit Times Special EAST CHICAGO, Ind.. April 2S.— Little hope was held today for the recovery of Mr, and Mrs. Sheridan Hayne, found shot in their home here. Police believe Mrs. Hayne shot her husband, then turned the gun upon herself. A note found by the bodies asked that relatives be notified. |

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MAGE TRIAL , DEFENSE JO POT DP LONG BAHLE Two Weeks of Court Sessions on Bribery Charge Likely. Ii will tako more than two week:; to try James E. Armitage, brother of William H. Armitage, local politician, on charges of contemp't of Criminal Court for his alleged attempt to bribe Grand Juror Claude A. Achey. This was the opinion today r persons interested in the trial whirl opens Friday. Eph Inman, at torney for Armitage, indicated week to ten days might be used I>. the defense to resent seventy-thr witnesses. State’s Case Brief “No definite estimate can be mad bgcause of the number of witne; and questions that will arise during the trial,’’ Inman stated. Prosect tor William 11. Uemy, who on the basis of an affidavit by Achey charges Armitage tried to bribe the grand juror with “.?2,600 and a Job* if he would vote against indictment of Mayor Duvall, said he probably will not call “a great many wit- i nesses.” " It is said some of the witnesses on the defense will devote their testimony to telling of Armltage's fine character. Expects Attack The defense is expected to attack Achey's character. The grand juror said lie was expecting the Armitage forces “to dig all the dirt they could.” Remy indicated lie will drive and hammer on the main issue throughout the trial, that Armitage is alleged to have attempted to bribe Achey. OFFICERS NAMED BY EASTERN STAB “ - # Mrs. Lucile Johnson, Vincennes, Is Honored. Mrs. Lucile Johnson of Vincennes today was elected associate grand conductress of the Indiana grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star at the final day's session of its fifty-third annual meeting at Ala - sonic Temple. Installation took place this afternoon. Other officers elevated ; Grand j matron, Mrs. Lottie Ferguson, Ft. I Wayne: grand patron, Dr. Olin E. Holloway, Knightstown; associate grand matron, Mrs. Susie Masters, Indianapolis; grand conductress, Mrs. Edith Mclntyre, Greensburg; grand secretary. Mrs. Nettie Hansford, Indianapolis; grand treasurer, Mrs. Mamie Conrad. Warsaw; associate grand patron, Everett M. Lenon. Evansville. With final reports of committees and the reading of the minutes, the session closed late this afternoon. A pilgrimage to the Masonic Home at Franklin will be made Friday. Empress Marie Louise, Second wife '■'f Napoleon I, used to wiggle her ears, believing it would drive away wrinkles and make her beautiful.

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