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RUTH SNYDER, FACING NOOSE, BREAKDOWN (Gray Is Quiet on Hearing News of Death; Finds Solace in Bible* MOTHERS VISIT PRISON Husband Slayer Sobs Self Into Fitful Sleep in Learning Fate. 1 Bu United Press OSSINING, N. Y., NOV. 23.—Ruth fnyder, her face tear-stained under er faded blonde hair, knew today that she must die in the electric chair the second week of January, unless the unexpected happens. Henry Judd Gray, her partner in the murder of her husband Albert, knew too, but he was resigned and unmoved. . .. Mrs. Snyder cried most of the night in her cell, prison attaches ■=aid, while Gray passed a quiet and restful night. She was nervous today and took virtually no food. Mother Visits Ruth Ruth’s mother, Josephine Brown, today visited her daughter. As Mrs. Brown approached Mrs. Snyder’s cell in the death house, Mrs. Snyder stepped forward to meet her. Then she covered her mouth with a handkerchief and gazed squarely into her mother s eyes. Neither spoke. While other prisoners were receiving present of cigarets, Thanksgiving dainties and various luxuries to cheer them over tomorrow's holiday, Mrs. Brown brought nothing to her daughter. During the last few days, it was learned, she had been packing up the furniture in the Snyder house in Queen’s village, where Mrs. Snyder and Judd Gray murdered Albert Snyder. / "It was a sad task,” she was quoted as having told friends. “The dining room was just as it was last ThanksFormal Date Withheld Mrs. Snyder and Gray were informed Oil Tuesday that the State Court of Appeals had denied them a nsew trial and they jnust die unless Governor Smith intensifies. „if The executions probably will take place at 11 p. m. on Jan. 12. The death waramts provide that the warden may carry out the executions at any time during the week of Dec. 9, but the custom has been to select Thursday night. Warden Lawes refused to say definitely today if he would follow the custom, but it was indicated he would. The contrast was marked between the doomed lovers, who plotted the death of Albert Snyder and killed him with chloroform, sashweight and picture wire while he slept. Gray Gets Rest Gray has taken consolation in religion. He reads his Bible every day and takes solace from the visits of the prison chaplains. He read until late last night and then retired. Those who watch over both prisoners night and day found that he slept peacefully and awoke at 6:30 as usual, seeming almost cheerful. He asked for the newspapers and read through them. Mrs. Snyder broke down and screamed when she was notified of, the failure of her appeal, lost control entirely. She wept hysterically for hours and all through the night tossed and moaned on her cot. The prison doctor examined her at intervals. Two to Die Earlier Mrs. Snyder and Gray will be left in their present cells until twenty-four hours before the execution, Warden Lawes said. The death cells are in a separate wing of the building, apart from the other prisoners. Until they are moved into the cells from which few ever emerge alive, close to the death chair, their routine will be undisturbed. 'Both will have plenty of newspapers, magazines, books from the prison library and such visitors as they care to seer. Beyond their counsel they have few callers. Only their mothers stand by them in ‘their extremity. Mrs. Gray was there to comfort her son when the news was received, from Albany.--'

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 169

FIRE PERIL DRIVE BRINGS ARREST, QUICK CLEAN-UP

City Will Ask Judgment of $3,000 for Failure to Heed Warning. All but one of twenty fire hazards dangerous to life discovered in the city fire prevention bureau-Indian-apolis Times survey of the last week have been or are being rectified, Fire Prevention Chief Horace W. Carey announced today. The first arrest was made today with the filing of a warrant against William Jackson, 825 Meyer-Kiser Bank Bldg., by the prevention bureau. Jackson is charged with permitting paper and rubbish to accumulate in a narrow court behind a frame building at 301 W. Ohio St., diagonally across from city hall. Eight inspectors of the place have been made since Oct. 26 and Jackson has ignored repeated “cleanup” orders, Carey said. Will Ask $3,000 Judgment '-City Prosecutor Arthur M. Dinsmore, who drew up the warrant, said that a $3,000 judgment would be asked. The ordinance provides for a maximum fine of SIOO a day for each day the condition is allowed to exist, Dinsmore said. “The prosecutor’s office is going to prosecute vigorously every fire hazard case brought to its attention,” Dinsmore declared. “I may ask for a jury trial in this case.” Carey threatened Tuesday to make twenty arrests unless the conditions found were remedied. Building owners hastened to comply with the orders, some notifying the bureau that they had cleaned up, others declaring by telephone that they were complying as fast ts they could. Survey Follows Disaster The survey was made by a Times reporter and a fire prevention inspector, after The Times suggested the action to Carey, following the Graystone Apartment fire of Nov. 13, in which nine lives were lost. Within hailing distance of city hall the reporter and inspector found such conditions as fire escapes leading into blind courts, doors opening inward in the middle of the only stairways from upper floors, trash under stairways, hot ashes in cardboard containers and .a four-story building without a fire escape. _____ Promises to Act Carey said the bureau cannot compel erection of fire escapes, so the case of the “escapeless” building was turned over to the State industrial board. The board office reported that)' the building owner had promised to erect a fire escape immediately. In this case, according to the bureau, the owner has resisted all efforts to force him to put in the escape, using for many years his political influence.

$20,000 FIRE TOLL Box Plant Is Destroyed by Flames; Seek Firebug. Fire, believed to be of incendiary origin, destroyed thg Indianapolis Box and Separator Company plant, Nineteenth St. and Martindale Ave., today. George T. Purves, 5261 Carrollton Ave., owner, estimated the loss of $20,000, mostly covered by insurance. Purves attributed the blaze to a Negro pyromaniac who has been -operating in Indianapolis. The plant, formerly operated by the At-las-Midwest Machine Company, is located in a district largely inhabited by Negroes. The structure was a two-story frame building and contained thin lumber used in manufacturing cigar and novelty boxes. CLUBS THID SLACK Federation Meeting Js Set -for Friday Night. Means of aiding Mayor L. Ert Slack in placing public affairs on the “highest standard of efficiency” will be discussed by the Federation of Civic Clubs Friday night at the Chamber of Commerce Bldg. President John F. White said the Federation desires to aid Slack in “straightening out the municipal tangle and giving the city an honest administartion for the next two years.”

GIRARD, Kan., Nov. 23.—Josephine Haldeman-Julius, 13-year-old daughter of the Kansas publisher, and Aubrey Clay Roselle, to whom she was married yesterday, today eluded thenfriends who followed them with rice and old shoes, and were enjoying their honeymoon in a secluded spot. , Not even the bride's mother could divulge the place the couple had gone. But, mother-like, Mrs. Haldemann-Julius had counseled her daughter that she would have to “be back in school Monday.” The 18-year-old • high school girl, who has startled tl)6 country, last night told in an exclusive

Teeth Marks in Candy Make Burglar Confess Bu United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Nov. 23.—A candy bar in which a burglar took a big bite while robbing the Forest Park grocery last summer proved the undoing of Edward B. Pilant, 19, Brazil, who confessed a dozen or more robberies here And in Terre Haute within the last year. * Captured after a running gun battle following an attempted burglary last Monday, Pilant gave his name as Paul Carter and said he was from Terre Haute. He admitted breaking into a furniture store to try to steal radios. The man insisted he was Carter until today when Chief of Police Fulk produced* a candy bar which he had kept since the grocery robbery. Two large teeth in the prisoner’s mouth exactly fitted the prints in the candy bar and Carter eventually made a full confession. Carter gave his right name and implicated his brother, Arthur Pilant, 17. The older boy admitted robbing eight stores in Brazil and four in Terre Haute and listed the places where he disposed s os the loot.

ASKS STATE TO RULE ON TAXES City Wants to Know Where Budget Is Affected. An order specifically showing where the 1928 tax levy cut shall affect the city budget will be asked of the State tax board by/deputy City Controller A. B. Good. Good will act on advice of 'Corporation Counsel John W. Holtzman, who cited a 1927 statute providing the “tax board shall indicate” wherg. reductions apply to the budget. The tax board’s order Oct. 29 specified that "distribution of reductions shall be left to the discretion of local officers.” City council’s levy of .6125 for the general fund was cut .0445, which will require reduction of nearly $220,000 from the budget figure passed by the council. The 58.6 cents general fund levy fixed by the State body will be assessed against a property valuation of $666,000,000. It was pointed out that the city will face a $220,000 deficit at the close of 1928, if the State board fails to make the reductions and The present budget is followed. The board probably will have to take a stand on the $140,000 police and firemen salary Increase which the council slipped in the budget at the last minute. MAY~ABANDON FLIGHT Junkers Plane Fails in Aiores-to-America Trip. tin United Press HORTA, Fayal Island, Azores, Nov. 23.—Doubt was expressed today whether the Junkers seaplane, D-1230. which made an unsuccessful attempf yesterday to take off for Newfoundland, would again try the western trans-Atlantic flight this season. Take-off failed when the heavy plane, after whirling down the harbor just at dusk, failed to rise, ow(ing to a too-heavy load. EX-PURDUE STAR I>UED Edgar Murphy Enters Priesthood; $50,000 Heart Balm Asked. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—Because Edgar E. Murphy, Purdue University football captain in 1922, decided to enter the Catholic priesthood on the eve of his proposed marriage to her, Ethel Jean Masden of Dallas, Texas, has sued him for $50,000. alleging breach of promise. Murphy is now in a California seminary, she said. His ideals were offended by an incident she said occurred during “a moment of worldly weakness” while they were waiting to be SCHOOL MUSICIANS PLAY Shortridge Hears Thanksgiving Program by Students. The Shortridge High School music department entertained the school with a Thanksgiving recital at 10 a. m. today in Caleb Mills hall. The orchestra, directed by Will F. Wise, opened the program. Two numbers were sung by the choir, directed by Mrs. DorisE. Mohe. Miss Mary Frances Litten, representing the Red Cross, talked on Christmas seals.

TRIAL MARRIAGES’ DEFENDED BY GIRL feRIDE AS BLOW AT IMMORALITY

interview with NEA Service and The Time’s why she believes such a marriage is superior to the oldfashioned form. In, the interview,/ which was obtained in the presence of her parents, Miss Haldeman-Julius reveals an amazing knowledge of life for one who has not yet obtained a high school diploma. She is convinced that companionate marriage, instead of being immoral, will tend to decrease the immorality of modern youth. ’ Miss Haldeman-Julius intends to continue her school work and eventually hopes to become a professional dancer.

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WOMAN FIGHTS ‘DOC’ COOK PLEA Mabel Willebrandt Opposes .Explorer’s Appeal. By HERBERT LITTLE Vnittd Pre.s Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.—Mrs. Mabel Walker Williebrandt, famed as the nemesis of George Remus and other 'big-time bootleggers stood today as the principal obstacle between Dr. Frederick A. Cook, aging Arctic explorer, and freedom. Mrs. Willebrandt, slight, dark and youthful, is representing the Government before the United States Supreme Court, opposing Cook’s appeal for release on a district judge’s probationary order. Cook is serving sentence of fourteen years and nine months in Leavenworth prison for using the mails to defraud in a Ft. Worth, Texas, fake oil stock selling schemeAppeal involves of Federal district judges to order prisoners released on probation after they have entered the penitentiary and also after the term of court at which they were convicted has expired. "You hold that a judge has the right to take a man out of the penitentiary at any time?” Justici Mcßeynolds asked Cook's lawyer, when the arguments on appeal opened yesterday. “That’s it,” was the answer. Cook’s lawyers, Herbert C. Wade and Sam J. Callaway, Ft. Worth, were to resume their argument at noon today. Mrs. Willebrandt was d;o follow. cloudyToFhqOday Overcast, Cooler, No Rain, Is Forecast. Mostly cloudy, byt probably no rain; temperatures from 37 to 42 degrees. This is the Thanksgiving weather J. H. Armington, United States Weather Bureau head, officially predicts for Indianapolis. First ripples of the chill wave from the Northwest, which will drop temperatures down to 37 tonight, struck tSe city this morning. Mercury dropped from 61 to 51 degrees from 5 to 9 a. m. Tuesday’s temperature averaged 60 degrees and spring-like .weather prevailed over night. Today’s 7 a. m. temperature of 57 was 22 degrees above normal. Thursday’s temperatures of 37 to 42 degrees will be just about normal for this time of the year, Armington said. TRAIN KILLSWORKER Big Four Machinist Falls , Under Wheels. William C. Walters, 42, of 4102 Boulevard PL, was killed today when he fell beneath a Big Four train at Leota St. The body was taken to the city morgue. n Walter, employed at the Beech Grove shops as a machinist, apparently stumbled as he attempted to board the moving accommodation tfcain for employes. * *

“WHY I FAVOR TEST MARRIAGES ” “Why should young people be expected to wait for marriage until they reach economic independence?” * a u "When we are ready to make our home together like other married people, we shall have children.’ HUM “I believe that if many of the boys and girls I know were to do likewise there would be fewer tragedies.”

AT the outset, she emphasized the fact tiiat this marriage is in no sense a “trial marriage.” “My most enduring hope is to make our marriage a lasting one, and I know this is the case with Aubrey,” she said. “At 18 I find myself filled with

GANG BULLETS HUM DEFIANCE TO LAW EDICT ‘Scarface Al’ Capone Subdues Rival’s Uprising, Puts Chicago in Fear. \ ONE POLICEMAN SHOT Cowed Thug Leader Hides as Henchmen of Foe Roam City With Guns. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 23. Terrorstricken, Joseph Aiello, who dared to raise the standard of revolt against retirement today while Capone gunmen hunted him and police squads sought without much hope of success to prevent further bloodshed among the gangsters. The revolt which smouldered for weeks before it broke into open war apparently had > ended in a complete victory for Capone and only the detail of administering punishment to the rebels seemed to remain. So fearful was Aillo that he did not appear in court today to answer charge in connection with his alleged plot to assassinate Capone and Tony Lombardo, head of the Unions Siciliano. “Health Is Bad” His attorneys presented a medical certificate of “serious illness” for the man who was in the best of health yesterday; and -his case was continued until Dec. 21. ” Few believe Aiello would be here to answer then. Ten of Aiello’s aides also won continuances until Dec. 21, and cases of two Capone gunmen, arrested while allegedly scouting for Aiello, were continued to Dec. 2. Police Sergt. Tom Lynch was wounded critically in a running battle with an automobile load of gangsters today. A few hours earlier a bomb had blown out the front of a west side resort of the Bertsche-Skidmore-Zuta vice syndicate, with which Joseph-Aiello and his brothers are allied. Warning to Rivals The bombing apparently was a warning by the cohorts of “Scarface Al” Capone that Aiello’s attempt to usurp the underworld throne of Capone would meet the same answer that previous revolts a&ainst the powerful gangster chief have received—death to the upstarts. Following the shooting of Lynch, scores of police motor squads were sent cruising about tjie areas where gangsters congregate. Capone Gang Strike Lynch was one of five policemen in an automobile pursuing the gangster car. The police car was making about seventy-five miles an .hour, his companions said, and ocSjipants of both machines were ring volley after volley. Lynch was beside the driver. If the bullet had hit the latter instead of Lynch, all five of the police undoubtedly would have been killed. Today’s events opened the active attempt of Capone to defend his power among the gangs. Police Chief Michael Hughes said after an investigation that he believed it possible Lynch has been shot accidentally by one of his companions in the police car. The pursuit of the gapgster car by police was called one of- the most sensational in recent Chicago history. Scores of sho's were fired, it was said, and the police car was struck several times. WATCH HOLIDAY YEGGS Worley Orders Cops to Be on Guard Over Thanksgiving. A' close watch, of all business places where cash 'wilt be kept over Thanksgiving day was ordered today in an order by Police Chief Claude M. Worley to all police officials. "Instruct all men under your command to keep close watch on all places of business where firms will probably keep Iheir receipts over Thanksgiving in safes or vaults at their respective places, of business,” said the order. "Have men be on the alert and arrest all suspicious characters, as this period will afford yeggs a good opportunity to ply their trade.”

ideas and impressions of the emotional life I see on all sides. Why should we young people be expected to wait for marriage until we have reached economic independence? Why should let our best years slip by? “Why cannot parents help us

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It’ll Set 9 You for Holiday Feast

ARE you fasting today? You should be, according to Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board secretary, if you would enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner to the fullest degree. For a judicious light diet today will clear one’s stomach cobwebs away and increase one’s Thanksgiving capacity perhaps as much as 20 to 30 per cent, says Dr. Morgan. Here’s why: How much one can eat of the turkey, duck or other fowl or meat, and the appropriate trimmings, depends on stomach capacity. But a little fasting will leave the stomach entirely empty, ready for a full load.

But Dr. Morgan is not an advocate of overeating on the great America Turkey day holiday. "Don’t eat to fullness, not even to dullness; eat to gastric satisfaction,” is his motto. To reach that happy state of “gastric satisfaction,” which means no “tummy aches” the next day, you should turn from the table little appetite remains, says the doctor. To help accomplish this he suggests: “Eat a well-balanced meal—as much screen stuffs as possible with the meat and starchy foods. “Exercise a little before eating. Play golf or indulge in some oth;r pastime. And if there is much that mUst be eaten and the spirit is willing, but the flesh weak, exercise a little in between courses. “Don’t drink any home brew beer before or with the meal. Beer causes distention. You won’t be able to eat as much if you drink. ' Abstention from alcoholic stimulants also is the main point in the

solve this problem, so that we may avoid the pitfalls that so often cause tragedy? "In our own case we have been most fortunate. Father and mother have cooperated with us, have studied our heart problems fro the viewpoint of youth, and as a result- we are receiving help instead of discouragement in living normal lives. “I shall, though I am married, continue with my school wprk and Aubrey will continue his. We will meet often—as often as we really desire. We will live in a healthy love instead of bearing the burden of puritanical inhibitions. . . . , .

Thanksgiving health commandments of Dr. William F. King, State health board secretary. He also advises: "Be sure to include a piece of cheese in the menu. “Drink coffee if you must, but only one cup. “Don’t have two kinds of potatoes. Have plenty of celery and lettuce. If you must close the meal with mince pie, go easy on the fowl, “Have fruit and nuts on the table and eat them.-” „ EVANSVILLE - BRIDGE UP Consideration of a contract Wed with the State highway commission whereby the proposed bridge across the Ohio river at Evansville can be constructed by P. W. Chapman and Company of Chicago, through a bond issue was scheduled this afternoon. The bridge problem has been before the commission several months.

i *\\7’ E shall tr y to make it ’ ’ last, but if it doesn't we shall face the facts calmly. “Os course, we are legally married—a license, minister, two rings and the rest. “I know that this will sound extremely forward to our more conventionally-minded friends, but I cannot in all honesty, take a different position and still be true to my best ideals. “I hope my own step and the attitude of our parents may prove an encouragement to other young people and their parents to follow our example.”

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REMUS CLAIM OF ‘COERCION’ IS RULED OUT Judge Holds Chauffeur of Ex-Bootleg King Not ‘lntimidated.’ TELLS OF DEATH RIDE Aid Describes Actions of Employer Prior to Killing Wife/ BY PAUL W. WHITE 1 United Press Staff Correspondent CINCINNATI, Nov. 23. Th charge that George Klug, his chauffeur, had been intimidated by the prosecutor’s office was made today by George Remus before the jury that is trying him on the charge of murdering his wife, Imogene. After hearing evidence in support of Remus’ allegation and the State's replies, the court ruled that “no coercion or intimidation has been shown” and the examination of Klug continued. As the morning session of court closed an argument broke as to how far the State could go in its attempt to prove George Remus conspired with others to murder his wife. Judge Shook satisfied the defense with the ruling that the State first must connect up Remus with the post slaying activities of his alleged confederates. Before that the State had gained an important admission from Klug, who said that when he drove away from the spot in Eden Park where Mrs. Remus was shot and killed by her husband, he went across the river to the home of Mis- Blanche Watson. Klug previously had denied even having seen Miss Watson, secretary to Remus, after the killing. Intimidation Charged Charles Elston, co-counsel for Remus, arose and asked whether Klug’s testimony was admissable, in view of the fact that Remus did not go with him to Miss Watson’s home. The jury was excused for the ensuing argument. Remus made the “intimidation” accusation while Klug, styled as a hostile witness, was being examined by Walter K. Sibbald, assistant prosecutor, on statements allegedly made by the chauffeur shortly after the killing. The jury was excluded from the courtroom. "Were you intimidated?” asked Charles H. Elston, co-counsel for defense. “Yes,” said Klug. “In what way?” i “John Clippingar, the assistant prosecutor, said to me, ‘You have been a boob for George Remus long enough. You couldn’t open your mouth down in Federal Court. Don’t be a boob for him now or you’ll go to prison at Columbus.’ ” He then said he had been given five minutes to say he had driven Remus to the Pennsylvania station after Mrs. Remus was shot. Didn’t Answer “Right” “And because I wouldn’t answe* the way he wanted me to, the witness related, “they sent me to the hospital in jail where the dope fiends are kept and I was made to give SIO,OOO bond as a material witness to get out of there.” The interruption came when Sibbald asked Klug whether on the morning of the murder Remus had joked with him before leaving the Price Hill mansion, that once was the scene of Remus’ bootlegging activities. “No,” Klug said. “But didn’t you tell me to the contrary in an interview we had in the prosecutor’s office. Remus then made his coercion claim. During the hearing on the intimidation charges Klug said: “I told the truth as far as I know —talked of my own free will.” Judge Rules for State That was enough for Judge Shook and he ruled in favor of the State. The judge's ruling was read. The jury was called back and Sibbald went on with his questioning. Klug said that when he drove Remus to Eden Park on the morning of Oct. 6, when .Mrs. Remus was shot, he and Remus had Just been “chewing the rag” and that included in their conversation was the remark: “Well, the time we spent together in Atlanta penitentiary wasn't so bad after all.” The witness said he stopped his car near the Alms Hotel, where Mrs. Remus was registered. “Mr. Remus told me he wanted to see his wife before they met in divorce court that morning,” Klug went on. “After five minutes of sitting there, Remus said: ‘There she goes in that cab now.’ So I started after the cab. He told me to pass the cab and cut it off so he could talk to his wife. , p “The first time I tried it the driver of the taxi swerved his car. But the second time, I stopped suddenly and the other car stopped. “Refflus got out and walked back.” WE OFFER rrit: BEST of foods at low prices. Try it for dinner tonight. Fletcher Cafeteria, 18 E. Market.—Advertisement.