Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 84, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1927 — Page 2

INDIANA PRISON j HOLDS MAN OF j HEALING HANDS Friends of Jimmie Walker, - Slayer of Two, Will Ask Clemency. Mil United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 17.—Anderson citizens who remember Jimmie Walker, now serving a life sentence in the Michigan City prison for murder, are wondering whether a murderer can atone for his crime by saving lives as a physician and surgeon. Walker, who was hardly more than a boy at the time, sixteen years ago conspired with Rufus Warren, another Anderson youngster, to hold up and rob a pawn shop here. They were caught in the act. Warren escaped, and Walker shot his way to temporary freedom, killing Patrolman Virgil Kirkham. Another attempt to capture the killer resulted in the death of John Ellis, Alexandria police chief, but Walker was surrounded and captured in a barn near Frankton A few days later. Both Walker and Warren, who Was also captured, were tried and sentenced to life imprisonment and Anderson had almost forgotten the pair until stories began coming from the prison recently telling of Walker’s wonderful ability as a physician and surgeon. According to the report, Walker made the best of things at the prison, became a trusty and served as assistant in the hospital. He worked hard, and little by little became so efficient that doctors at the institution began calling on him for emergency surgical assistance “If Jimmie could get out of prison and could attend a medical college for a few years, he would become one of America’s finest surgeons,” said one man who is familiar with conditions at the prison. “His nerves are of steel and his knowledge of medicine and surgery is probably equal to that of many successful surgeons. If Jimmy had a chance now he would live to have the respect and honor of the world." Whether Walker ever will have his chance is doubtful. He killed two men, and under the law its the lives taken and not the lives saved that count. Friends in Anderson, however, are planning to present his case to Governor Jackson in the near future, it is said, where they will make the plea that a mature man with healing hands has atoned many times over for the crimes committed by the young "tough,” who used to be Jimmie Walker, Former Coroner Buried Bn Times Special LA PORTE, Ind., Aug. 17.—Funeral services were held here today for John G. Sweitzer, 60, coroner of La Porte County from 1921 to 1925, who died after six weeks’ illness.

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Fear Foreclosed Mortgage Will Take Home and All Furniture. Somewhere—his family hope it’s, in the vicinity of Indianapolis—a g’-ay-haired man is wandering unhappily today. He is James H. Condon of 755 Luett Ave., and unless some miracle has come to him since he left home and family Aug. 2, he believes the world has no further place or opportunity for him. “That’s what drove him to this,” the faithful woman who has been his wife for seventeen years, says witn tears in her eyes. “He’s been without work since last June. He has five children to keep clothed and fed.” Mrs. Condon has other problems besides the disappearance of her husband for not only is the little house where she lives, under the shadow of a foreclosed mortgage, but almost every piece of furniture in the house also is mortgaged. If the furniture goes, with it will

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Mrs. Nora Condon (center, second row), whose husband, James H. Condon, has been missing twelve days, and her children. Condon ‘MO|sq u.uoqs S| go the washing machine from which has come the family’s only income. Earns Money -on Washings “I’ve made $4 or $5 a week on washings and ironings,” Mrs. Condon said. “The Family Welfare Society has been kind in giving us some groceries, but our only money for all other necessities has come from what I could make in this way.” The oldest child. Clarence, 15, has sometimes been able to find odd jobs, but “as any one knows who investigates the subject, a regular jcb for a boy who is in school yet, is tragically hard to find.” And here the sad-eyed mother touches upon her heart’s desire. It is to keep this oldest boy in school one more year, for hr is in high school and will be graduated in June—if he can hold on to his school days a few more months. Desperate Over Situation Last winter, Condon traveled alone to Florida, hoping to retrieve the family fortune. He is a carpenter. but Florida in a slump, offered him nothing. He came back ‘and he’s told me so much of how homesick he was without us. that I know that he’d never leave us now if he wasn’t just so worried he is fairly out of his mind,” Mrs. Condon said. Condon is 60. He is 5 feet 5 inches tall, has gray eyes and was wearing gray trousers, a brown coat and e, blue shirt.

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DRYS STRESS CONSTITUTION IN PLATFORM Anti-Saloon League Fixes Political Course After Long Debate.

111/ United Press . WINONA LAKE, Ind.. Aug. 17.—A policy of “uphold the Constitution” will be the stand of the Anti-Saloon League in political campaign of the future. The decision to make this slogan the outstanding plank in the league platform was reached here at a conference of the national executive committee. It followed sixteen hours of debate, during which some members of the committee urged “the question of prohibition be put squarely on the shoulders of the national political parties.” Heated argument during the meeting kept the 100 members of the administrative body swinging back and forth as some speakers urged the league demand an open statement from the parties on “what stand they will take on prohibition.” Adopts Substitute Finally it was decided to adopt a substitute resolution calling for constitutional support, the league taking the attitude it can dojiothing but support the Constitution, and all candidates favoring prohibition would be supported and all against it would not be. It was not revealed whether any replies to telegrams the league is believed to have sent to the ten leading Republican and ten foremost Democratic presidential possibilities were received. These telegrams, it is understood, demanded a statement from the candidates as to what their positions would be regearding the prohibition question. Supports Shumaker In commenting on the case of E. 8. Shumaker, superintendent ol the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, the execuitve voted its unanimous support. Shumaker was sentenced to nine.y days in jail and fined $250 for contempt of the Indiana Supreme Court because of criticism of that body. The league expressed the belief that “it should be the recognized right and privilege of citizens to offer constructive criticism of the acts of all public servants and agencies of government brought into public service by the authority or vote of the people.” OLD HOUSES ARE SOLD Several old houses on school property were sold by the school board, Tuesday. H. L. Brittenbach purchased five buildings as follows: 2826 and 283 C Kenwood Ave., $75 1005 W. Twenty-Sixth St. and 1009 W. Twenty-Sixth St., $65 each; 2512 Rader St., $25. William W. Richardson purchased the building at 1013 W. Twenty-Sixth St. for SIOO. The board instructed Ure M. Frazer, business director, to confer with the board of works in regard to amending a resolution for paving the alley between Capital and Kenwood Ave., from Twenty-Eighth to Twenty-Ninth Sts., as the board has purchased adjacent property and is removing the buildings to provide a playground for School 42.

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BIGGEST ‘KICK” IS FIRST DROP IN PARACHUTE Dizzy Leap From Airplane Described by Navy Champion.

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Wronged Husbands Love Brings Home Erring Wife

Children Born While Woman Is Absent Welcomed Into U; S. By RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—1 t was a conflict between love and law which immigration officials were called upon to decide today, and they decided in favor of love. Modifying the cccision of the Ellis Island board of inquiry, the Department of Labor admitted to this country a wife who left her husband six years ago, as well as two children born to her during her absence from her husband’s heart and hearth. Forgives and Forgets. The father’s willingness to forgive and forget wrung from the board an opinion said to be unique in the annals of the department. Said the woman: “I have done wrong, but I have confessed and been forgiven. Won’t the wing tip of a swift ship thousands of feet in the air. The dizzy fall, the roar of the wind slipping by your face, the hysterical suspense as you jerk the ripcord, the “freezing” of muscles and heart action as you wait for the pilot to “anchor” and the deep wave cf relief as the huge circle of silk “strings out” and all is well—no man can forget that! There is no describing the sensations to anew recruit. I have seen the most hideous expressions come over their faces as they let go and fell to what they believed would be certain death. A mail sitting in the electric chair could not look more indescribably frightened or agonized. Some men stare at the earth in fascination, as a bird charmed by a snake. Some grit their teeth and literally hurl themselves off. Others, with a despairing glance at companions in the fuselage, simply roll off. All have to conquer a form of hysteria that makes them often forget ten to twelve weeks of ground instruction. I shall never forget the biggest kick I ever got out of life. It was niy first jump, part of my graduatUm performance at Chanute Field in T llinois! s-ayiaras SUICIDE IDENTIFIED Bo Times Special LEBANON. Ind., Aug. 17.—A man who committed suicide here by throwing himself beneath an interurban freight car, has been identified as George Parkhurst, 69 former Boone County resident. Gas stoves, ice boxes, articles of household furnishings, used but still useful, can be sold for cash. Put a Want Ad in The Times and get a buyer with ready cash. IUHIIKBHaaUHHBHi

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INDIANA OIL FIELDS BOOM Unprecedented Activity Reported by Geologists. First six months of 1927 has been an oil boom in Indiana that has surpassed activities of recent years according to a survey just completed by the geology division of the State Conservation department. During this period 127 wells, with an initial production of 1,704 barrels, were completed, while in 1926 there were but sixty-seven wells with 830 barrels production. Os wells drilled in the first six months of this year, fifty-seven were oil, fifteen gas and fifty-five dry. Total production was 409,000 barrels of oil, as compared to 285,000 in 1926. This is an average daily produtcion of 2,265 barrels. It is estimated that there are 2,650 producing wells in Indiana today, although some of them are not pumped regularly. KIWANIS HEAR ROBINSON Bu Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Aug. 17. A plea for defense and support of the United States Constitution was made here by Senator Arthur R. Robinson addressing the local Kiwanis Club, Tuesday night.

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