Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1927 — Page 2

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900 INDIANA 0. SENIORS GIVEN i THEIR DEGREES Everett Sanders Brings Confidence Message—fr Dr. Bryan Honored. Bu United Press BLOOMINGTON. Ind., June 7. A brilliant twilight ceremony was held here in the Indiana Memorial Stadium yesterday when Governor Ed Jackson presided over the graduation exercises of the State uni- j versity here. Everitt Sanders, secretary to President Coolidge. made the prin- ] cipal address and brought a message of confidence in public education to the seniors. President W. L. Bryan conferred degrees on about 900 graduates. He paid a tribute to three former officers of the university who have; died recently: Charles L. Henry, j trustee; Carl H. Eigenmann, proses- 1 sor and dean,' and Joseph Swain, I professor and president. Teachers Lauded Sanders praised the modern educational system and lauded teachers who sacrifice business life to contribute knowledge to young America. He quoted the definition of education given by Charles Evans Hughes, that “the well-educated man who is an ideal citizen is one who possesses faith without credulity, convictions without bigotry, charity without condescension, courage without pugnacity, self respect without vanity, humility withous obsequiousness, love of humanity without sentimentality, and meekness combined with power.” Worked Way Through Sanders worked his way through Indiana University, which he entered twenty years ag®. Mrs. Sanders attended school while her husband studied law here. The board of trustees passed a resolution paying tribute to Bryan. The resolution, coming on the silver anniversary of Bryan as president, declared that under his direction Indiana had made magnificent strides, the number of students having increased from 1,334 in 1902 to 5,742 this year and the faculty from 65 to 310. 990 OF 1,150 CASES HANDED Supreme Court Adjourns to Oct. 3. Bu United Press WASHINGTON; -June 7.—Aftpr wnting 207 decisions and disposing of 900 of tITe 1,150 cases docketed in its eight-month term, the United States Supreme Court stood adjourned today until next Oct. 3. , Chief Justice Taft and the eight associate justices, after attending j funeral services today for W. R. Stansbury, veteran clerk of the court, who died Sunday, will spend the summer at quiet vacation spots in Canada and this country. Charles Elmore Cropley was appointed clerk of the court, climaxing nearly a score of years’ service, which started when he became a page boy carrying papers and glasses of water to the justices. Only five cases were left awaiting decision next term, a much smaller number than usual. These include the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve and the Liberty warehouse case, involving validity of standard farm cooperative contracts in forty-two States, providing for delivery of cooperative members’ products to the association. SEVEN DIE DAILY IN AMERICAN MINES Bii United Press WASHINGTON, June 7. Coal mines take approximately sixtythree lives every ten days, the United States Bureau of Mines reports. Metal mines take fourteen lives in the same period of time. Nearly half of those deaths are due to falls of the mine roof. These roof fatalities attract little public attention, the bureau says, although they constitute the biggest problem facing the mining industry of the United tSates. Congress has appropriated funds for a special investigation. ® SILENCE EDICT ENDS Court Dissolves Order Closing Pastor's Lips About Woman Bn United Press MONROE, Mich.. June 7.—The injunction obtained last fall by Mrs. Iva Bryan, 26, restraining Rev. Evan Curtis, 55, pastor of a local church, from paying any attention to or molesting her was dismissed in circuit court here today on motion of J. J. kelley, attorney for Mrs. Bryan. Curtis resigned Sept. 1, 1926, from the church and moved to Adrian. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan now are understood to be living at\ Middletown, Ohio. SETSWEDDING RECORD Two Silver Anniversaries Are Celebrated by Woman. Bit NEA Service BALTIMORE, June 7.—Married fifty years, Mrs. F. A. Broadsent has had two silver weddings. She married in 1867, wheq 15 years old, and celebrated a silver wedding in 1892, as Mrs. B. H. Morgan. Her husband died and she married again in 1902. Now she has celebrated a geccnd silver anniversary.

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Miss Dorothy Williamson, picked by judges as winner in first elimination in The Times-Publix Theaters Opportunity Contest.

AH entrants in The Times Opportunity Contest who have not been assigned places on the week’s program are requested to report on the stage of the Circle Theater Wednesday evening immediately after the last performance. * The toes of Miss Dorothy Williamson, 3109 . Sutherland Ave., carried her to the top. Miss Williamson was judged winner of the first evening elimination contest in The Times-Publix Theaters Opportunity Contest at the Circle Monday night. The judges decided she was best, on the basis of personality, beauty and talent of the four young women who “tried out” before the audience. Miss Williamson is eligible to compete in the final tryouts with the other nightly winners to be chosen this week. “Miss Indianapolis,” who will get a nineteenweek contract to tour the country in

Girl Slayer Dazed Jn Jail; Lacking in Emotion Dorothea Walser Fails to Realize Enormity of Tragedy in Fairmount Poisoning Case. (This Is the first article upon factors in the life of Dorothea Walser. 16. Fairmount (Ind.l girl wife, who confessed her part in carrying out a cold-bloodca plot to poison her 12-year-old cousin. A Ti mes staff correspondent sought to learn how a 16-year-old girl could participate in a murder and discuss it with perfect calm afterward.) BY VOLNEY B. FOWLER MARION, Ind., June 7.—Dorothea Walser. blond, blue-eyed, who confessed her part in the poisoning of her 12-year-old cousin, George Cox, used to go to Sunday school every Sunday. While the peal of the chimes of the First Presbyterian Church rang into her cell in Grant County jail here Sunday morning, Dorothea talked about her past life. Downstairs in the jail office Dorothea’s mother sat holding the girl’s 2-month-old baby. Dorothea’s eyes were a little red. She had cried a bit over the child when Mrs. Jacob Campbell, wife of the sheriff, had brought it up for a half hour’s visit.

But now the baby was going back | to Fairmount with grandmother, j The sorrow of parting with her child ; was an elemental emotion which \ registered strongly 'with Dorothea.! Having had a share in the taking of a human life appeared not to affect her half as much. t Emotions Are Dormant When one knows the background of Dorothea’s life for the last sixteen years, perhaps it isn’t so hard to understand why Dorothea has not gone into hysterics, has not even wept as-would an ordinary child facing what she faces. Dorothea apparently does not feel anything very strongly. She doesn’t even hate strongly. The only factor which appears to have made much of a dent in her strange mental shell is her baby. And yet you wouldn’t call Dorothea stupid, or even just dull. When she talks she is animated, almost vivacious. She jerks her straight, blonde, bobbed hair out of her eyes. She brushes a lock away from her nose. She shrugs her shoulders. Now and then a faint smile flits across her face v _She uses her hands to emphasize her Os Good Family Dorothea comes of good family. Not rich, not even comfortably situated, as most city folks would regard it. But Dorothea always had decent clothes, and Dorothea had an exceptionally fine middle-class mother. Dorothea began life under a handicap. There were six children in the family. “Three months after Dorothea was born, she had spinal and brain fever,” explains her mother, Mrs. Mary Cox, of Fairmount. “It lasted-six months and we thought'for a long time we would lose her. But she came through and we never noticed anything ppsitive that would indicate she was not normal. She did not, however. have the realization of life's difficulties which a mother should have.” This illness of Dorothea’s is likely to be heard of again and again in this case. It may turn out to be one of Dorothea’s best defenses. In the hands <sf an alienist in a murder trial, it would be invaluable. (To Be Continued)

| the revue, “Young America,” will I be chosen in the final test. The winj ner gets $75 a week, railroad fare and hotel accommodations during the .tour. Miss Marjbrie Miller. 467 W. Thirty-First St., pianist; Miss Helen Raftery, 1604 Woodlawn, singer; and Miss Emmalyne Boone, Whiteland, Ind., singer, were others who tried out Monday evening: Tonight these girls will try out at the Circle: Miss Mae Ladin, 2740 Cornell Ave., marimbaphone player; Miss Waldine Cunningham, 120 E. Twenty-Seventh St„ pianist; Miss Doris Nesmith. Ambassador Hotel, singer; Miss Esther Lefkovits, 3960 Carrollton Ave., singer, and Miss Ruth Mosias, 560 Highland Dr., dancer. Judges are: Mrs. Henry Schurmann, president Indiana College of Music and Jfinc Arts; Randolph L. Coats, Indiana artist; Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor All Souls Unitarian Church.

JUST GAL AND AL Ohio Republican Says No Others Have Chances. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, June 7.—“ The people are thinking in terms of the presidency only of Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Smith.” This is the report brought to the White House today by Walter Brown of Toledo, regarded here as one of the most astute and careful political observers in the country and long a leading figure in Ohio politics. “Republicans,” he said, “are talking about Coolidge only and the Democrats are talking only of Governor Smith. * In neither party Is any other candidate or prospective candidate mentioned.” Brown, a Republican, says that the so-called third term barrier is not figuring in the people’s thoughts epneerning Coolidge. Japanese women are engaged in a campaign to save a half-cent daily to pay their country’s war debt of about $739,000,000.

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ANDREWS TOILS AT HIGH SPEED ON DIU PLANS General Sees Organization ♦ as Monument to His Long Endeavors. Eu Times Special WASHINGTON, June 7.—Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews is hurrying to complete a uniform unit which will function from one end of the country to the other under strict staaff control. He hopes to leave as a monument, when he retires as assistant treasury secretary, Aug. 1, he said today, a “dignified, self-respecting, busi-ness-like organization which I hope ultimately will have the public’s respect." To this end are being written manuals similar to field service regulations in the Army, Andrews said, which will be distributed and expounded to prohibition administrators when they gather here July 11. Part Retreat Hinted The uniformity plan apparently represents at least part retreat from the decentralization policy put into effect by Andrews himself, on taking office two years ago. Andrews revealed the reason for the rapid promotion of Major H. H. white, formerly Texas-Oklahoma and Maryland administrator, who is acting prohibition chief of staff, and who is working on the manuals. “White's the first man I ever got hold of who had the ability to visualize the need of organization and staff control,” said Andrews. “Wc have been soliciting suggestions of the field men from their practical experiences. That’s one reason we brought Alf Oftedahl, in whom we have great confidence, from San Francisco, to become deputy commissioner in charge of enforcement. G. H. Q. Now Perfect “We now have a perfect organization for headquarters. Wc expect to extend it so as to have a perfect organization for each administrator’s office. “The work of getting up these manuals, to which Dr. J. M. Doran, the new prohibition commissioner, has also been giving his personal attention, is practically complete except for a fexf paragraphs on morale, spirit, etc., which I shall write.”

MRS. SNYDER'S HEALTH FAILING Alienists Worried at Attitude of Woman. Bu United Press OSSINING. N. Y., June 7.—The spirit and poise “witch carried Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder through her trial for the murder of her husband. Albert Snyder, have collapsed under the deadening influence of the Sing Sing death cell, and alienists are seriously concerned over her conditions. At was reported today. Dr. George Smith. Dr. Joseph W. Moore and Dr. Paul planned to examine Mrs. Snyder. Pehitentiary attaches said she had talked little and refused to read in the last few days. She sits on the edge of the cot staring at the wall, they said. The / alienists also will examine Henry Judd Gray, convicted with Mrs. Snyder. The Prudential Insurance Company has started its fight to avoid payment of policies on the life of Snyder, totaling $95,000. A court order w&s obtained authorizing the company to return to Mrs. Snyder the premiums she paid on the policies. Attorneys for the woman said she would refuse to accept the premiums and that they would carry to court the fight to force payment of the policies. LOSES HIS JOB AT-90 Man Married CO Years Wants to Keep on Working. Bu XUA Sereire NEW YORK, June 7.—“T00 old to work,” said the employer of Abraham Bass as he fired him. Bass is 9J). has been married 60 years, has never been without a Job. He worked 26 years in his last place. “I'll find another place, all right,” he said. “There’s a lot of work in me yet.” Auto Injures Pedestrian Robert Daugherty, 18 N. Tremont St., received a sprained back and bruises when he ran into Washington St. between Capitol Ave. and Illinois St., in an effort to catch a street car and was struck by an auto driven -by Roosevelt Stanton, 2216 N. Arsenal. A wheel passed over his back. H<r-was treated at city hospital.

SHIPPING BOARD FLEET STAYS IN PERPETUAL PORT 74 Vessels Await Buyer or Junk Yard of the Sea. NEW YORK, June 7.—“ Yes. sir; they're all individuals to me. Landsmen may call them a bunch of rustling hulks if they like, but I know ’em, every one, just as persons. They’re sound, true ships.” Capt. A. S. Lee withdrew a hand from the breast slits of his great coat and gestured out over the fleet slumbering below the bridge of his flagship. “The Lockport.” Along the bank, where the Hudson rounds Jones Point, the vessels stretched away at anchor in a mile of funnels, masts and deck rails. Every railroad passenger between New York and Albany has wagged a head at them. Fleet Halved “There used to be 140 of ’em,” said Captain Lee. “But now there are only seventy-four . Now and then we break one out to put her in service and once in a while another comes here to anchor. “The ‘South Pole,’ the gangway ship. Lying nearest the shore, we use her as a base for the spankers and the launches. If any of the men come back drunk, we throw ’em in the brig there and let 'em sober up till morning.” Captin Lee pointed out with pride the excellent condition of the Congfon. Inside and out she shown, fresh from the paint pot. “Buyers come up here quite often. These ships have to be kept in just the condition that attracts them. And that goes for the machinery, too. And below the water line. Not only what you can see,” he said. Always In Port As captain of the shipping board’s Caldwell inactive fleet, perpetually in port, this deep and hairy-chested Norwegian-Americpn is no less extraordinary than his command. He saw brief service on a Dominican gunboat in the Gulf of Mexico, later becoming naturalized and joining the shipping board. During the war, while most of his present charges were being rushed to completion in the shipyards, he was piloting a powder boat from Delaware Bay to the hungry guns in France. And now he’s at anchor forty miles from the Atlantic. “It's better here than being on the ocean, I guess,” said he. “I go ashore once a week now and get home to Brooklyn to my wife and boy.” A legend that the Ark of the Covenant is hidden in an old temple in the wilds of Abyssinia is to be investigated by an expedition which left America recently.

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IT WAS under a summer's moon that Lorraine gave her heart into George Miller’s keep' ing. Never were two souls more rapturously happy. Then the handsome, fascinating, devil' may'care Captain Stephens came into her life. At first she accepted his attentions as a mere diversion. Had she only fore' seen the disaster that lay just ahead! But she went blindly ahead until one night she found herself entangled in a mo6t fearful adventure—as helpless as a bit of driftwood, lashed and driven „ by the fury of the storm. And that was only the beginning. The anguish, the pathetic hopelessness of the days that followed are grippingly described by Lorraine in *‘My Soldier Lover" —one of the sixteen big features in July True Story Magazine. Don’t miss it! j

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Gears Fall Out; Now He’s Out With Law Because his newly bought, second-hand automobile had a $12.50 growl in the back end of it, Robert L. Thomas, Greencastle, set it on fire. Subsequently he confessed to Deputy Fire Marshal George E. Coogan, and entered a plea of guilty to arson charges in Putnam Circuit court. According to his confession the car was a SSO down payment and a sl!> a month installment plan. He took out insurance amounting to $l2O. The confession continues: “I was driving in the country a week ago Sunday when I heard the back end growl. I got a garage man to ride with me and he told me it would cost $12.50 to have it fixed. “Later I took my wife and five children for a ride and the growl grew worse, the car stopped, and the gears fell out. I sent the folks to town with a passing motorist and then set the darli thing afire. It was only junk, but I figured the insurance company would pay the remaining installments.” The judge took Thomas’ case under advisement.

ROTARY NAMES HOOSIER CHIEF Arthur Sapp of Huntington Nominated as Leader. fin l nltcH Priss OSTEND, Belgium. June 7.—Arthur Sapp of Huntington, Ind., was unanimously nominated today for the 1927 international Rotary, presidency. The international convention of Rotary clubs which began here yesterday considered the problem of a president soon after convening today. W. T. Elliott of Leeds, England, requested at the last moment that he be not nominated because his duties as a clergyman, would prevent his giving the requisite time to office. Elliott and Sapp were the principal candidates. The convention nominated the following to be directors of international Rotary: Raymond Knoeppel, New York; Leonard Ukeggs, Youngstown. Ohio; Corney Garrctson. Wilmington, Del.; Robert Heun, Richmond, Ind.; J. G. Palmer, Shreveport. La.; John B. Orr, Miami, Fls'.; Norman Black, Fargo. N. D.; Walter D. Cline, Wichita Falls. Tex.; Joseph S. Royer. Quebec; Charles White, Belfast. Ireland. The election will take place Thursday. PHYSICIANS TO MEET Eclectic Groups to West Baden June 21-24. Several hundred eclectic physicians will gather in West Baden June 21-24 for the fifty-seventh annual meeting of the National Eclectic Medical Association. Indianapolis physicians expected to attend are Dr. Earl Holman. Dr. F. W. Moses. Dr. F. W. Hosman and Dr. W. P. Best. Dr Robert Olcson. United States Public Health Service, who is making a survey of goiter conditions, wlil speak.'

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TRAFFIC CODE CHANGE HEARD Amendment Hitting Parking Before City Council. A traffic code amendment prohibiting parking on Illinois St. between Georgia and Ohio Sts., and on Pennsylvania St. between Maryland and Ohio Sts. and providing flat to curb parking on Virginia Ave., was introduced by Boynton J. Moore, majority faction leader, in ! city council Monday night. An amendment putting “teeth” in the ordinance that bondsmen must obtain city licenses was of- i sered. The amendment provides a fine of not to exceed SIOO and sen- \ tence of not more than thirty days. No penalty was provided in the original ordinance. Ordinances to rezone thirteen locations for business were introduced. The council voted not to meet June 20 because of the city manager form election the next day. An ordinance approving the board of works contract with W. H. Blair to operate 100 or more waste paper boxes on downtown streets at $1.50 rental a month was introduced. The council passed an ordinance authorizing the permanent improvement of Bicking St. between Delaware and East Sts. RUNAWAY GIRL ARMED Anna Hummel “Packs” Gun, Dad Tells Police. Dressed in boy’s clothing and carrying a revolver, Anna Rose Hum- ( mcl, 13, is some place between here and St. Louis, her father, Jacob Hummel. Fifty-Fourth St. and Nickel Plate railroad, reported to police today. The girl ran away Monday and is on her way to the home of her mother, Hummel said. She is wearing a dark blue suit and has brown eye# and black bobbed hair, he said. Beef contains a large amount of Iron food.

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LEGACY FOR MAN FIRST TO TALK TO OTHER STARS a 100.000 Francs Reward Offered for Inter-Planetary Communication. fin XUA Serrire PARIS, May 7—“ l leave to the Academy of Science, 10,000 francs, to be awarded, without distinction of nationality, to the first scientist who will succeed in communicating with a heavenly body . . . and receive a reply to his signal. I exclude the planet Mars . . Lot of Bother So reads the will left in 1893 by Mme. Anna-Emillie Clara Guzman, philosopher and astronomer, who believed in the march of science. But since the prize was posted thir-ty-four years ago it has become a source of more trouble for the French Academy than all its other duties combined. Many scientists believe the prize never will be awarded and that they are holding themselves up to international ridicule by accepting its guardianship. Many Make Cl^m A few defend it, claiming that communication with the planets Is not beyond the range of possibility. Yet there never was an award that was claimed by so many people. Thousands of letters pour in from all purts of the world, their writers earnestly trying to convince the trustees that they have been in conversation with inhabitants of Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. ACTRESS KILLS SELF Daughter of Society Leader Dies by Poisoning. Hu United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., June 7.—A series of quarrels with her husband led to the suicide of Mrs. Helen St. Clair Evens, beautiful film actress and daughter of Mrs. A. G. Daniels. New York society leader, police believed today. Following an argument as to whether Arthur Frederick Evens should complete a scenario or take his wife to a motion picture show, the actress went to the theater unescorted last night, and drank a bottle of poison upon returning home, according to police. No cause other than domestic discord could be attributed as the motive, officials said. A previous family quarrel was patched up in the Hollywood police staton Saturday night through efforts of the Evens’ friend. Edwin Bower Hesser, artist and author, and police captain Charles Knowes, it was said.

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