Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 333, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1927 — Page 1

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.VOLUME 37—NUMBER 333

110,000,000 FLOOO FUND SET AS GOAL Hoover Announces New Figure After Conferring * With Coolidge. 350 KNOWN FATALITIES New Breaks May Increase: Homeless to 500.000. j

THE DISASTER TODAY

Relief fund goal raised from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. Known dead peach 350. New levee breaks menace secI tions of Arkansas and Louisiana. Expected spread o' flood will increase homeless to 500.000. Refugee problem assumes proportions causing grave concern. flu United Press WASHINGTON, May 2.—Tho National Red Cross today, upon recommendation of Secretary of Commerce Hoover and with approval of its central organization, decided to ask the nation to raise a minimum of $lO,000,000 for Mississippi flood relief. Chapters throughout the land were asked to double their present quotas to meet the urgent needs of sufferers in the flood valley. Coolidge Concurs This action followed a conference between Hoover and President Coolidge. Meantime, the Red Cross announced Us $5,000,000 drive had gone over the top. Hoover said that there is no danger of plague, that relief work has been put on a scale that cannot be further enlarged and that some plan probably will be worked out to enable farmers to reclaim their crops. Hoover indicated he believed the worst of the flood is over. No additional loss of life is expected. A complete system of communication has been set up so that whenever levee breaks occur Red Cross aid can be rushed to the area for the rescue of citizens. Hoover said he would return to the flood district Wednesday night to carry on his supervision of relief organizations. “Nothing on earth can be done that isn't now being done," he declared. 3,<fo) SQUARE MILES IN PERIL New Levee Breaks May Loose Flood in Arkansas and Louisiana. Bu United Press Best estimates today of flood dead place the total at 350 with an unknown number missing, many of. whom are believed drowned. New levee breaks on the west bank of the Mississippi River near the Arkansas(Tum to Page 11)

DOUBLE GUY’S QUOTA Need Additional $25,000 From Local Red Cross. - With $25,038 in the local Red Cross relief fund, Indianapolis today found she must raise at least that much more for work among refugees of the Mississippi River flood districts. This announcement came with an appeal from Washington headquarters for an additional $5,000,000 to carry on rescue work among the possible 200,000 homeless and destitute victims of the flood. About $5,000,000 already has been raised land spent. William Fortune, head of the local Red Cross, appealed to those who have given to increase their gifts, if possible, and to those who have failed to contribute to give quickly and generously. Checks should he sent immediately to Red Cross headquarters, War Memorial Bldg., 777 N. Meridian St. State Commander Paul McNutt appealed to American Legion posts to contribute. Kiwanis Clubs throughout Indiana were asked to give generously in an appeal from their Governor. Mine Parley Tuesday District No. 11 United Mine Workers of America and Indiana Bituminous OoaJ Operators Association delegations to the joint negotiation conference were preparing today for tomorrow’s joint negotiation conference, intended to bring and end to the coal mining suspension in the Btate. Chiropractors Lose Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 2.—Laws of Louisiana requiring chiropractors to fulfill the same requirements as physicians and surgeons, but exempting osteopaths, were upheld by the United States Supreme Court today ip three test eases appealed by two New Orleans chiropractors. Dr. Joseph B. Fife and Walter W. Fife. The Best-Grand Laundry, Main 0774. Economy finished, 10 lbs., $1.51 ts half fiat. Everything ready to use. i *—Adv,

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Tomorrow and Wednesday afternoons at 3, Milton C. Work -will bo at the L. S. Ayres & Cos. tea room to talk and demonstrate his theories of Auction Bridge. For years he has been recognized as the final authority on thiff game. He is to it what the Supreme Court is to the law of the Nation or Mussilini to Italy. When he has spoken, no one disputes. He is so recognized because bridge players fpr two generations have yielded to him the high honor of greatest skill and the most scientific reasoning. Under his guidance, the amateur learns how to properly bid hands and how to obtain all the tricks possible. His advice has helped thousands to properly appreciate the game and to become welcomed partners instead of avoided pests.

PARALYZED YOUTH S IRON WILL AGAIN STAYS DEATH . S' Walter Booth, Given Up by Doctors on Eleventh Day of Forced Breathing, Rests Easier.

Bu United Press i ROANOKE, Va., -May 2.—-The j tenacious wili (o live which has kept ! Walter L. Bootli existing eleven days with collapsed lungs came to his rescue again today after doctors and even close personal friends had abandoned hope. The same physicians who, following a relapse last midnight, said "he Raid Chicken Roast and Break Up Party Five headless chickens and eight men were loaded Into a patrol sent to 515 W. Ray St. Sunday night following a raid. Officers said the men were "enjoying a liquor party” and had-decided to roast a few chickens. The men are held on vagrancy charges. CHURCH CATCHES AFIRE Councilman Praises Firemen For' Efficient Work. City Councilman Austin Todd today commended the Are department for efficient work in extinguishing the flames which threatened the Home Presbyterian Church, at Rader and Thirty-First Sts. Chief Jesse Hutsell personally directed the nine pi epos Os fire fighting apparatus. Fire originated in a wall from spontaneous combustion and caused explosion of a gas pipe. The organ and pulpit were damaged and the floor weakened. The Rev. Arthur L. Duncan, 1001 W. Thirty-Second St., is pastor. Damage is estimated at SI,OOO. NEW TEACHER BLANKS Reworded Form Submitted for Board of Approval. New teachers’ contracts, worded by School Board Attorney Martin Hugg, to conform with the new teachers’ tenure law, will be submit- | ted for approval at a special board meeting at 11 a. m. Tuesday. The new contracts will place teachers with five years’ experience on indefinite tenure. They can be removed only upon proof of grave misconduct. Contracts are to be distributed this month. BASEBALL GAMBLING Police Arrest Two'on Ticket Charges Wagering. Edward J. Payuer, 63S Massachuj setts Ave., was charged with keeping , a gambling house and possession of i baseball tickets, and Victor Gouchat, I S2O N. New Jersey St., with possesI sion of baseball tickets and sale, by police. Roy Taylor, 1842 Brookside Ave., told police he paid 10 cents each for six tickets which he said he purchased from Gouchat.

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Milton C. Work

Work, whose daily lessons on Auction Bridge appear iu The Times, will arrive tomorrow morning for a two-day stay. At the L. S. Ayres & Cos. tea room each afternoon the. demonstration will include open play of hands. Work also will deliver a short lecture. Refreshments will be served, included in the admission fee of $1.50. On Tuesday evening Work will be at the Indianapolis Athletic Club where his demonstration will be made for the club members and their friends. Wednesday evening he will be the guest of the Columbia Club for a similar treat for their members. The public demonstrations at Ayres in the afternoons will permit those who have purchased copies of Work's book on bridge to secure his autograph, if this is desired.

cannot live through the day,” admitted this afternoon Booth had rallied and was “about the same” as he had been for days. Sleep, even though fitful and induced by opiates, assisted the 18-year-old farm boy's improvement. Walter no longer gasped and sobbed, though he still complained of pains in his chest, induced by constant pumping of his arms to give him air. ROAD BIDS ARE OPENED Engineers Estimate Project Cost at sloo,ooo—First Prices High. Readvertised bids were opened by the Indiana Highway department today, for paving and resurfacing estimated by highway engineers at about SIOO,OOO. _ The work included six miles of bituminous penetration on Rd. 29, north in Knox and Stark Counties; resurfacing two miles on Rds. 10, 31, Marshall and St. Joseph 15.83 miles on Rds. 29, 2, 30, La Porte County: 5.52 miles on Rds. 2, 12, Porter County, and 6.43 miles on Rds. 30, 41, Lake County. Original bids received April 6 were too high. / VERDICT AGAINST STATE Contractor Awarded $13,995 Claim by Judge. John R. Feigel, contractor, was awarded $13,995 by the Court of Claims slitting in general term heye today, in his suit against the State. Feigel contracted with the State highway commission to build a sixmile road near Princeton, Ind., In 1925, and charged he was damaged because the State failed to procure right-of-way in several instances along the route which held up the work. Anti-Strike Bill Pushed Bu United Press LONDON, May 2.—Conservatism today defied the challenge of labor and proceeded with enactment of the extremely controversial trades disputes and trades union bill, protested at 3,000 May day meetings Sunday. The bill, designed to make general strikes Illegal has aroused political feeling in which promises bitter strife.

Tack Fails as Food; Coughs It Up. Arthur Hall, 21. of 1626 W. Morris St., was apparently none the worse today after having dined heartily on a well-done tack Sunday. While hanging a window shade Hall swallowed a tack, held in his mouth. As doctors at city hospital discussed an operation, he coughed up the tack.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1927

EX-WIFE OF SIEVE WINS BY DEFAUIT But Stephenson Acts to Set Aside Order Issued by Judge Leathers. ENGAGES NEW COUNSEL Default Entered in Fight for $10,600 to Support Mrs. Nettie Stephenson Rrehm, former wife of D. C. Stephenson, to- ' day held the advantage over the famous life prisoner in her suit to compel him to pay $10,600 for support of their 11 year-old daughter, Florence Catherine. Superior Judge James M. Leathers Saturday entered default against Stephenson because no attorneys had appeared for him for several weeks. He had been represented by the firm of R. E. Johnson and A. N. Cowan, but they withdrew several weeks ago. Meanwhile new attorneys took up the job of saving Stephenson from another reverse. L. O. Hill and Paul Newman obtained permission from Leathers today to file a motion to set aside the default. Floyd Mattiee, attorney for Mrs. Brehm, consented to this move so the matter would come to argument. In order to get the motion into court Hill and Newman must obtain Stephenson's signature at Indiana State Prison. Michigan City, where he is serving a life term for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis. Hill and Newman said Stephenson did not know that he was no longer represented in the case. If Judge Leathers should deny motion to set aside default he can enter judgment against Stephensoij without further steps and Stephenson Vould face the loss of another slice of the fortune which he boasted he built up while he was a power in Republican State politics through his leadership In the Ku-Klux Klan. Boy Mother Saved With Blood Recovers. Bu Tinted Sprei.jl TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. May 2. Nine-year-old Harold Kays of Petersburg. Ind., waa preparing today to leave Tuesday for his home after a blood transfusion at a local hospital. His mother gave a pint of her blood to save the life of the boy, who was stricken on a train en route here after being poisoned by shoe dye, aplied to his shoes just before he and his mother left their home last Friday. MARINES REACH CHINA U. 8. Transport Henderson, Carrying 1,500, Arrives at Shanghai. Bu United Press SHANGHAI. May 2—The United States transport Henderson, carrying 1,500 United States marines, arrived today. Bu United Press LONDON, May 2.—Further exchange of fire between Chinese on shore and British warships In the Yangtze River was reported in an admiralty communique today. It was also authoritatively reported the British representative at Ilankow had protested to the nationalist government there against occupation of the British consulate and other British property at Chingkiaifg. GUARD DE PIN EDO PLANE Fascist! Sheild Machine to Replace One Burned in Arizona. Bu United Press NEW YORK. May 2.—Guarded by six Fascist! armed with stilettos and revolvers, the Santa Marla, which will replace Francesco De Pinedo's destroyed trans-Atlantic plane, arrived here yesterday on the Italian liner Duilo, an<l was being assembled today for resumption of the aviator's four-continent flight. On the trip from Italy a 24-hour vigil was kept by the black-shlrted guard.

UP-TO-DATE WAYS TRIP TUXEDO HOLD-UP PAIR Arrested Men Refuse to Divulge Name of Third Man Said to Be Leader.

“Modern conveniences” spelled capture for Thomas Newton, 37, Austin, Texas, and Joseph Hunter, Toledo, confessed Tuxedo State Bank robbers, apprehended in Toledo, Saturday, now lodged in city prison. Travelers checks, a motor bus station, a chop suey dinner and clicking telegraph keys were modern elements in the net which spread from Chicago to Philadelphia and closed around the pair in Toledo. Both men have penitentiary records and severa. aliases, police say. Neither will Implicate thethird member of the group, who is believed to have been the "brains” of the robbery. At Toledo Newton, tlias Gathright or Gartright, said: “My wife and I will go to the chair before I put my finger on my

SLAIN SNYDER’S LITTLE DAUGHTER MAY BE WITNESS AT MURDER TRIAL

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Mrs. Ruth Snyder oil the witness stand.

‘THUMBS DOWN,’ YELL OF MOB FOR RUTH AND JUDD Sex Antagonism Pillories Widow —‘Squealing’ on Woman and Borrowing Her Money Damns Man.

\By Maurlne Watkins Author of “Chicago” NEW YORK, May 2.—On trial. And the mob is yelling “Thumbs down!” Thumbs down for Judd Gray, it seems not for planning and executing a murder, but because he's “squealed on a woman," and worse still, because he borrowed money from her. % That’s the most damaging evidence against him so far. it would appear from men’s comments —the dribbles of money. SSO. S6O, S9O that he borrowed and forgot, so sho says, to pay back. (And her voice cracked more in hatred at that than it did when she told how he murdered her husband.) Condemn Sob Stuff | As for Ruth—i The courtroom, it seems, is a caldron of feminine venom—sex antagonism—resentment that she’s stolen another woman s husband, understanding—perhaps jealousy—of her wiles, and a pent-up determination I to end this sob stuff over women i who kill. They listen, jammed in seats, packed in the aisles, lined around the walls four, five and six deep as (Turn to Page 5) National C . of C. Opens Convention Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 2.—The United States Chamber of Com- ! merco opened Its fifteenth annual J convention here today to map out ! a future course for business. I Master minds of all branches of industry and 1,500 representatives of chambers of commerce and trade associations are here for the fourday session. President Coolidge will address the delegates tomorrow night when they meet in joint session with delegates to the third Pan-American Commercial Conference. Attention will be given Wednesday to the problem of curbing floods in the Mississippi valley. This problem is to be considered in conjunction with a discussion of water as a source -of both power and destruction.

pal. My conscience would dog me if I squawked.” Two thousand dollars/ in gold bonds and $1,200 in negotiable travelers checks were taken from Newton. An express company travelers’ check cashed at a Chinese restaurant brought George Plewman and A. J. Kiffmeyer, American Express Company detectives, on his trail. Hunter's arrest came while he was waiting in a Toledo bus station with his girl for a bus that was five minutes late. If It had been on schedule, Kiffmeyer said, Hunter would have evaded capture. The Tuxedo robbebry was staged shortly after 1 p. m., April 8, by three bandits, and $2,100 in cash, approximately $5,000 in American Express Company travelers’ checks and $2,000 in bonds taken, ~ .....

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* Chicago * Heroine to Ask Divorce Bu United Peres CHICAGO, May 2 —Beulah May Anqan Harlilv Chicago's most beautiful murder trial defendant, inspiration for Ma.urine Watkin's melodrama, “Chl/cago,” soon will bring .ar second divorce action. She was acquitted of Killing Harry Kalstedt, her admirer, as her phonograph ground out jazz on the morning of April 3, 1924, after her husband had gone to work. The first husband was Albert Annan, a mechanic, who financed her successful defense. In accordance with a post trial announcement, she divorced him last summer because he was “too slow.” A second divorce is directed against Ed Harlib, former pugilist. The charge will be cruelty and a settlement of $5,000 has been arranged, according to an announcement by her law-

DAUGHTER DIES; DROWNS3, SELF Father and Four to Be Buried Tuesday. Bu United Press BATESVILLE. Ind., May 2. Five victims of a tragedy without parallel in this little town will be buried here Tuesday, when last rites are to be held for Fred Hackman, 47, and hie four children, three of w r hom he drowned Saturday. Hackman’s wife informed police j that her husband had committed the i crime while mentally deranged over | the death of his eldest daughter, ; Alma. 20, who was a victim of tuberculosis Friday night. Saturday afternoon he and the three other children, Elanora 7, Harold 5, and Bernice 3, went for a walk and did not return. In the evening a search was started by relatives, which revealed that Hackman had tied a rope about the children and j drowned them and himself in a shallow creek near his home. Hackman had been constantly at the bedside of his oldest daughter, who was by a former marriage, during her illness. After her death Friday he seemed Inconsolable, according to relatives. Eight Orphans Run Away; Six Run Back Spring sunshine flooding boyish hearts caused eight boys from the Indianapolis Orphans Home to run away immediately after church services Sunday morning. The boys, ages 12 and 13 years, were dressed in their Supday best. This aggravating fact may have had something to do with the return of six of them as the afternoon shadows lengthened. The other two itill

THREE CENTS

Lorraine, 9, Brought to Court Where Accused Mother Is on Stand, Bu United Perea LONG ISLAND C'ITT, N. Y.. May 2.-—Nine-year-old Lorraine Snyder, whose father, Albert Snyder, was murdered allegedly by her mother and Henry Judd Gray, was brought to the courthouse here this afternoon to testify should attorneys Insist on their intention to call her. The girl was brought into the courthouse by a side entrance and taken to the rooms of Justice Scudder to avoid the gaze of the crowds. Ruth Snyder, resolute and generally composed, swore that her lover an co-defcntlant, Judd Gray, acted alone in the slaying of Albert Snyder, who was pictured as a husband who trusted his wife implicitly and paid her the compliment of access to all his funds. Yet she swore she neither hated him nor loved him —in fact, was unable to analyze her feelings toward him. Throughout the morning session she was cross-examined by counsel for Cray and for the State. William Millard, Gray's attorney, spoke slowly and carefully and made her cry. Charles Froessel, assistant district attorney, spoke harshly, “barked” at her, gestured at her and made her answer sharply. But neither was able to force an admission that she urged Judd Gray to help kill her husband to collect $96,000 in life insurance. The Ruth Snyder Gray sas - s was too much for him also was too much (Turn to Page 10)

MANY APPLY FOR JOBS School Attendance Positions, at SBOO a Year, In Demand. No political job is too small to start a contest. This conclusion might l>e drawn from the number of applicants for jobs as county school attendance officer. Many took the examinations conducted by the State superintendent's office. Ninety-two are to be chosen, one in each county. The job pays $5 a day for not more than 160 days per year. School enumerators today were to present final reports to the county superintendents, who in turn will submit them to the State superintendent's office. The enrollment includes all between 6 and 21 and is used in the per capita distribution of State school funds. HOLD UP TRANSCRIPT Dearth Trial Reenrd Not to Be Printed Until Court Rules. Printing of the transcript of the Judge Dearth impea’chment trial, ordered by the Indiana Senate, will bo held up until constitutionality of the trial is decided by the Indiana Supreme Court, the State printing board, meeting today decided. Copies of the Acts of 1927 were distributed. It is expected the acts will be sent to county clerks and their receipts received here so Governor Jackson may declare the acts in effect by May 15. CHARGED WIThToRGERY Big Four Railroad Official Causes Arrest of Newby. Robert Newby, A, of 117 W. Thirty-Fifth St., was held in city prison today on a forgery charge. An affidavit was filed against Newby by the auditor of the Big Four Railroad, charging Newby indorsed a check with the name of E. H. Barthel, a supervisor. Newby refused to divulge how he came to possess the $73 check. WILL EXPLAIN PARKS State Conservation Director to Speak in Three Cities. Indiana parks will be explained to various audiences throughout the State this week by Conservation Director Richard Lieber. Tuesday he will address the Bedford Kiwanis Club, Wednesday the American Literary Society, Knightstown, and Friday at Lincoln City. TO NOMINATE OFFICERS Church Federation to Hol(f Its Annual Meeting Tonight. Dr. O. W. Filer. Central Ave. Methodist Church pastor, will speak at the annual meeting of the Church Federation tonight at Central Christian Church. Dr. C. H. Winders heads the committee to nominate officers. Women of the church will serve a dinner at 6:15 p. m. Name Study Planners State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles Miller today announced the appointment of two members to the character education committee, which will have charge of outlining a course In character study for Indiana schools. Appointees are School Superintendent J. W. Foreman, Goshen, Ind., and County Superintendent G. O. Simpson, Angola. Slays Four, Kills Self Bu United Press KEYTESVILLE. Mo., May 2. Peter Johnson killed his wife and three children with a hammer and then committed suicide at their home here. Caijse of his act has not been determined. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m /52 10 a. in 63 7 a. 53 11 a. m 66 8 a. m 5712 (noon) ~.. 67 8 l> It 1 P* 8$

Forecast Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight followed by showers Tuesday; cooler Tuesday night.

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ARMITAGE ‘REVEALS’ HIS LIFE Tells Details of Career in Denying Bribery Attempt Charge of Achey. I DOES NOT KNOW DUVALL Began Life on Meat Wagon —Ran Gambling House. Admitting that he attempted to | discover whether his brother, William H. Arndt age would be called i before the grand jury in its political j probe, and had asked Claude Achey j concerning this, James E. Armitaga j denied that he ever had offered 1 Achey a bribe not to Indict Mayor ! John L. Duvall in Criminal Court ' today. Armitagc took the stand befora ' Judge James A. Coilins in his own defense on a ehhrge of contempt of I court and after detailing his career ; as a boy, a bartender, a saloon keepj er, owner of gambling houses and j a member of the board of safety, dej nied the bribery charge of Grand | Juror Achey. Denies All Charges His testimony went into all the i details as sworn to by Achey and ' ho denied each charge. He said that he did not know the mayor, that he ! had rot offered Achey $2,600 and a city job, and that he never discussed the changes in the board of public works. He said that he had talked to Achey twice and on the second time had tried to discover whether the jury would interrogate his brother, William H. Armitage. William Armitage was city hall boss during Mayor Shank's administration and recently was said to be about to assume the same role under Duvall. Questioned l*y his attorney, Eph Inman, Armitage said that he had lived in Indianapolis since he was 3> that he is 56 and that he came from Louisville. He said he was single and lived with his brother, William, at 3555 Washington Blvd. He said that he also maintains a room at 12t W. Vermont St. Humble Beg nning I For the lest six or seven years, | he testified, he has been in the team ' business and has teams working for i the street railway company. Ar* I mitage, stated that he quit school 1 in the fifth grade and worked on ! a meat wagon for $1 a week. He said that for the following fifteen years he was employed for 50 cent:'! a day. Later he went to work ior the Central Chair Company, Missouri and Georgia Sts., I where he worked for one year, quitting after he had a stroke of (Turn to Page 2)

OPEN BIOS FOR STREET PAVING Six to Be Surfaced; Two Others Recommended. Bids on the permanent Improvement of six streets were opened today by the board of work*. The bids were referred to City Engineer Frank C. Lingeufelter, who will make a. preliminary recommendation on material Wednesday. If the material recommended is not. acceptable to property owners asking the improvement a remonstrance may be filed within ten days. Concrete bids were approximately $1 a lineal foot below asphalt and asphaltic concrete on most streets. Proposed for paving: Haugh St., between Tenth and Twelfth Sts.; Kennington St., between Terrace Ave. and Lincoln St.; Kealing Ave., between Pratt and Tenth Sts.; Holmes Ave., between Tenth and Sixteenth Sis.; Kealing Ave., between Pratt and North Sts., and Pershing Ave., between Tenth and Lafayette Rd. Resolutions to pave Economy St., between Michigan and Biddle Sts., and Chester St., between Twelfth and Sixteenth Sts. were confirmed. Accident Fatal to Hunter Bu Times Special NEWCASTLE. Ind., May 2. Climbing through a fence with a loaded shotgun cost the life of Carol Wright. 25, of Lewisville. The gun was accidentally discharged, the charge taking effect in his leg. He bled to death. Wright was on hie way to shoot crows.

This Fireman Was All Wet Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 2.—City firemen responded to one “alarm” with glee. Vernon Gough, one of the Art men, ignited a box of matches in his clothes when he dragged some hose from a truck. His buddies put out the fire with more water than was necessary, Gough complained today.