Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1927 — Page 3

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WEMUS BRANDS DODGE ‘SOCJAL LEPER ’IN PLEWFOR LIFE

BSE CLOSED ■[ DRAMATIC ■tALKTO JURY Biounces Taft for TravelPng 'Around the CounW try’ With Dry Sleuth. HEARD BY DAUGHTER Ramola in Court as Father Ends Fight to Escape Death Charge. BY PAUL W. WHITE United Press Staff Correspondent CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 19. George Remus arose today to plead for his life. A3 counsel for himself hi was permitted to conclude the closing defense argument before the jury trying him on the charge of wife murder. \ Romola Remus, his 24-year-old daughter by a previous marriage, sat at the counsel table. She was vivacious and commented, “I feel so happy I just know everything’s going to be all right." Tire largest crowd of the trial jammed its way into the courtroom. Remus had been left barely an hour in which to sound his plea. Three hours of the time allowed the defense were taken up by Charles H. Elston, co-counsel, who argued for a verdict of not guilty. Asks for Happy Christmas Elston called upon the jurors to give Remus the happiest Christmas he has had in more than two, years and to send out the defendant in the spirit of “Peace on earth, good will among men.” Then Remus, his stocky well mus - cled figure attired in a light nish-gray suit, despite the coldness cf the day, came to the front of the jury box. “Here before you stands Remus the lawyer,” he began. “In that chair sits Remus, the defendant, charged with murder.” He thanked the court and the jury for their patience. Even the prosecutors had done their duty, he said. He apologized to the jury for his displays of emotion, but asked that his imprisonment for bootlegging be considered. ‘“Oh, the desolations of imprisonment!” he cried. “It is a serious preposition to be deprived of liberty, to be incarcerated year in and year cut for' the violation of an act —that is the greatest abortion of lav/ ever inflicted upon a civilized community.” Remus pointed out that an alienist had said there were many definitions of insanity and he asked the jury: “Then how can you absorb more knowledge than men trained in medicine and science.” Attack on Dodge It is a matter of common sense, Remus said, and the jury must decide on the law of insanity. Here Charles P. Taft 11, "county prosecutor, objected on the ground that the court alone must give the law of insanity. The objection was overruled. Remus praised the sheriff and the newspaper men and launched into a denunciation of the State s emert to I prove he had conspired with friends : to kill his wife. Suddenly he attacked Franklin L. Dodge Jr., the former uepui ci justice operative he blames for the loss of his wife’s love. Dodge is a “social leper,” Remus said. He denounced Taft for traveling around the country with Dodge. “He was the ‘ace’ among dry agents and the deuce among his fellow men,” cried Remus, ‘yet here we have the prosecutor travelling—” Taft objected, claiming that Remus was going outside the records. Judge Shook admonished the law-yer-defendant but Remus at other times drew objections, from the State as he continued. Smoke is so thick over English industrial cities that experts estimate that 3,000,000 tons of soot fall cn the soil every year.

Prize Dolls to Make Children Happy

Wtf B. " ■ m P Children of the Hawthorne Settlement, the Riley Hospital, and the Indianapolis Orphanage will be made happy Christmas by the gift of 150 dolls, dressed in holiday attire by the students and faculty members of the Washingotn High School, in a contest conducted by the Washingtonians, an organization of senior girls. TJre blue ribbons were given to Thelma Ogden, for the best-dressed doll; Ray Aiene Neal, the cleverest: and Mrs. Russell McClurg, wife of a faculty membd', the prettiest. Geraldine Kuntz received honorable mention. The judges of the entries were Mrs. Fred Kepner, Mrs. Walter Gingery, and Miss Elizabeth De Hass. Mrs. Ina Gaul of the faculty in charge of the contest, plans to make this event an annual tradition of Washington High School.

Children of the Hawthorne Settlement, the Riley Hospital, and the Indianapolis Orphanage will be made happy Christmas by the gift of 150 dolls, dressed in holiday attire by the students and faculty members of the Washingotn High School, in a contest conducted by the Washingtonians, an organization of senior girls. TJie blue ribbons were given to Thelma Ogden, for the best-dressed doll; Ray Aiene Neal, the cleverest; and Mrs. Russell McClurg, wife of a faculty membd*, the prettiest. Geraldine Kuntz received honorable mention. The judges of the entries were Mrs. Fred Kepner, Mrs. Walter Gingery, and Miss Elizabeth De Hass. Mrs. Ina Gaul of the faculty in charge of the contest, plans to make this event an annual tradition of Washington High School.

LIFE TERM FOR > REVENGE KILLER No. 3 Head—See Puzzle Bootlegger’s Slayer Cork victed at Crown Point. Bil Times Special CROWN POINT, Ind., Dec. 19. Erasino Romeo, former gardener for Cardinal Mundelein at Chicago, is under life sentence today in the Indiana State Prison for the murder of Sam Bianco, bootlegger “kinfc” of Gary, as the result of a jury verdict in Lake Criminal Court here. Conviction of Romeo adds prdbably the last chapter to one of the most dramatic slayings in the history of the Calumet region. He declared he shot Bianco to death because the bootlegger wronged his aged brother, a cripple. Romeo declared Bianco borrowed SI,OOO from his brother, promising to pay it back wtihin a short time, but never paid, reducing his brother to poverty. Afjer Romeo had been arrested in the slaying, a son of Bianco got himself into jail by purposely violating a number of traffic ordinances and while a prisoner attempted to avenge his father by choking Romeo.

AUTO VICTIM BETTER Charles Williams Recovering From Injuries in Crash. Charles Williams, 32, of 312 N. California St., is recovering at his home today of severe head injuries received when he, was struck by an auto at New York and California Sts., as he alighted from a street car. Williams is the son of the Rev. A. L. Williams, pastor of the Merritt Place M. E. Church. It was erroneously stated in The Times Saturday that he is a Negro. Three Negroes Seize Woman Three Negroes seized Mrs. Cecil Rayerson, 30, of 533 Ogden St., as she stood in a safety zone at North St. and Massachusetts Ave., Sundsfr night, she told police. She fought them until a street car came and the trio fled. They made no attempts to rob her, she told officers.

LOOT SIOO IN HOLDUPS Grocery Cash Register Is Rifled of SSO by Two Men. Two holdups Saturday night netted bandits SIOO, police records disclosed today. Two men, both carrying large revolvers, entered the A. & P. grocery. Spruce and Minnesota Sts., and rifled the cash register of SSO. A third man remained outside at the wheel of an auto. A lone Negro watched Walter Norris, 519 E. Ohio St., leave an E. Washington St. store, where he cashed his pay check and then followed him to New Jersey and Pearl Sts. Norris said the bandit reached in his pocket and took the money, but never displayed a gun. He escaped in a nearby railroad yard.

RAID SOVIET OFFICES Seek Communist Propaganda in Canton. Pm United Press SHANGHAI. Dec. 19.—Chinese police today raided the Russian consulate, the Russian Mercantile Fleet Agency and various Russian commercial agencies in search of communist propaganda. No arrests were made, police said. The Russian bank was closed and a police guard placed there and at the consulate. A demand by the American consul that American depositors in the bank be paid in full was agreed to by officials. The steamer Sishman was held to take the Russian consular and other officials away. Following the order cf the Nationalist government that they must leave China, some of the Russians were expected to leave tomorrow.

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FIND STUDENTS USING NARCOTIC No. 3 Head—See Puzzle Gary Police Hold Three as Hashish Peddlers. Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Dec. 19.—Use of hashish, an oriental narcotic, by some students of Gary high schools has been revealed and three men are under arrest accused as dope peddlers while police continue an investigation to determine how widespread the use of drugs is among students. Those in custody are Victor Garcia, 21; Romeo Hermandez, 53, and Frank Alaclaio, 49. Police say they have confessed. In addition to the arrests, nearly a bushel of hashish was seized. Attention was first directed to the drug using when a party of young students staged a revel at a hotel last week. Some of them appeared intoxicated, but investigation showed they had been smoking cigarets filled with the drug. They told police they bought the drug in 25cent quantities. Hashish is from the hemp plant, but is in several forms. The tops and leaves are sometimes used, and the drug Is also obtainable in the form of a wax secreted in the growth of the plant. An extract Is made from the plant, too. It is chewed or smoked, and In addition, the Gary Students are said to have made a tea from dried leaves of the plant. WE CAN SUPPLY MONEY NOW for current needs. Confidential and quick. CAPITOL LOAN CO, 141 V 4 E. Wash. St.—Advertisement.

TROLLEY-BUS MERGER TO BE AIREDTUESDAY Two-Day Unification Hearing Open to Public; Civic Clubs Protesting. Public hearings on the proposed unification of the People’s Motor Coach Company with the Indianapolis Street Railway Company will be held Tuesday and Wednesday in the council chamber at the city hall with F. T. Singleton, chairman of the public service commission, presiding. ill preliminary steps were completed with a signing by officials ol the railway company of a $500,000 note which will pay for the bus company holdings. The note was turned over to the Indiana Trust Company which in turn will issut 8 Tier cent notes payable in ter, yems. 'Phe proposed merger was denier' twee by the public service commission, but now has been ordered approved by Judge Harry O. Chamberlin of the Marlon Circuit Court. Many Changes Proposed The hearing Tuesday has to do with the People’s Motor Coach Company petition to extend its Central Ave. lines and the Indiana Street Railway Company to abandon its Central Ave. and College Ave. feeder bus lines; the petition of the coach company to extend its Thirtieth St. line, and the railway company to abandon the Thirty-Eighth St. and Keystone Ave. feeder bus lines; and the petition of the coach company to extend the E. New York St. route; and of the railway company to abandon the Emerson Ave. and Twenty-First St. line, and the E. Tenth St. feeder lines. Hearings Wednesday will be on the petition of the coach company to etexnd the Brightwood line, and of the railway company to abandon extensions of the routes between Emerson Ave. and Twenty-First St. and between Shadeland Ave. and Twenty-First St. Civic Clubs Object At the same time hearings will be held on the petition of citizens seeking retention of service to Ritter Ave. on the Shadeland Ave. route; another asking that the railway company be ordered to furnish feeder bus service to the Minnesota St. car line, and additional bus service on English Ave. In all the petitions for unification the petitioners seek authority to charge 2 cents for all transfers Issued from bus to bus and from bus to street car and vice versa, and that the passengers transferred from street car to bus pay on the bus the 3% cents token or 4 cents cash fare to equalize the difference of street car and bus fare. Petition asking that the petitions be dismissed, as being advantageous only to the street railway company, was filed in the name of the Indianapolis Federation of Civic Clubs. Their attorney, Edward O. Snethen, will offer objections to the company moves. To counteract objectors, street cars throughout the city carry pamphlets for distribution to passengers presenting their side of the case. NewcasUe Child Killed Bn Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind, Dec. 19.—Virginia Chaney, 6, daughter of Oscar Chaney of this city, is dead of a broken neck suffered when an auto driven by her uncle, Thomas S. Engle, Hamilton, Ohio, crashed into a stone abutment on a highway at Pennvale. Engle, the girl’s mother and her two sisters escaped injury.

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Santa Claus alwsy gets in his work early at the Meyer-Kiser Bank. Miss Dean Thompson, left, and Miss Nell Alley smiled their appreciation for the Christmas bonus they received Friday along with every employe of the institution. Gifts to employes, from messenger boys to executives, approximated SIO,OOO. Sol Meyer, president, said awards were made in recognition of efficiency and not upon the basis of length of service. /

HOSPITAL GETS 2 AMBULANCES No. 3 Head—See Puzzle New Emergency Cars for City Painted Red. Two new emergency ambulances will be put in service at city hospital Friday or Saturday, according to Dr. William A. Doeppers, hospital superintendent. The Studebaker chasses are' at Knightstown, where the Knightstown Body Company is building a special body. The body will be painted red with "city hospital ambulance” in gold on the sides. They will have black fenders and red wheels. Latest first aid emergency equipment will be carried on the mack which cost $4,250. Two Peerless ambulances were traded in. Red ambulances will be more distinctive and enable the drivers to

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Found It! Bn Times Special BICKNELL, Ind, Dec. 19. O. L. Barr, city councilman here, went out to find the end of a sewer line here after a street became flooded. He found it by falling into water up to his waist.

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BUTLER NEEDS HUGE FUND TD FINISHPRDJECT Gift of $1,000,000 or More Would Be Welcome From Santa. Butler officials, estimating the lion dollar gift from Santa Claus this Christmas. Butler officials estimating the needs for next year, said that sum would fit in nicely—or two or even ten million dollars. Construction of large parts of the university project at Fairview Is under way, but several offer gifts would be enthusiastically welcomed. Buildings Are Needed Among them are: Library building. Dormitory. Chapel.' Administration building. Miscellaneous structures. Several millions for the endowment fund. The faculty would like larger salaries. This year Butler, let a contract to Hegeman-Harris Company of Chicago for the $1,100,000 Arthur Jordan Memorial Hall. The Indianapolis capitalist and philanthropist for whom the first unit was named played the role of Santa Claus and gave the money for construction. Building Football Field * By the time the oval “pigskin” Is being punted and passed around in the crisp air next fall, Butler will have a stadium with a seating capacity of 35,000. The new field house and gymnaslym are rapidly taking form and wfll be ready for next fall’s occupancy. Stone work on Memorial Hall Is complete to the third story, and practically all the steel work has been finished on the field house, a building with a 15,000 seating capacity. The field house and gymnasium will be completed in time for the annual State high school basketball tournament to be held the latter part of March. More than 2,000 students will have room in the Memorial hall for class rooms and laboratories. Administrative offices will be located there. Rob Filling Station Bjj Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Dec. 19. Between S2OO and S3OO was obtained by two unmasked bandits, each about 20, who held up Peter Loomis, attendant at a downtown .filling station, Sunday night.

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