Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1928 — Page 3

FEB. 15, 1928_

HICKMAN AND PAL GO ON TRIAL FOR DR UGGIST MURDER

LAWYERS FOR ‘FOX’ FAIL TO OBTAINDELAY Slayer of Marion Parker Is in Excellent Spirits at Hearing. TEST SANITY PLEA LAW Attack on New Statute to Be Made in Appeal to High Court. BY DAN CAMPBELL, United Press Stall Correspondent COURTROOM, Los Angeles, Feb. 15.—William Edward Hickman and his erstwhile pal, Welby Hunt, went to trial here today for the murder of C. Ivy Thoms, Rose Hill druggist, in a hold-up. The case was assigned to Superior Court Judge Elliott Craig after Superior Judge Carlos S. Hrady had overruled a motion for a continuance made by attorneys for Hickman. A second motion similar to the one made before Judge Hardy for continuance was denied by Judge Craig, forcing the defense to begin trial immediately. Defense Attorney Jerome Wa><* filed an affidavit, signed by Hickman in which the attorney declared that he could not handle the case properly because of the short time he had to prepare for it. Hunt and Hickman stood together as Judge Hardy read the affidavit and denied the motion. Hunt stood with downcast eyes, but the convicted slayer of Marion Parker smiled and appeared to be in excellent spirits. Selection of a jury was scheduled to start at once. Appeal Is Prepared An attack upon the constitutionality of California’s new and untested criminal statute which allows a defendant to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, appeared probable today. Attorneys for Hickman prepared to seek a State Supreme Coyrt appeal from a sentence of death imposed upon the convicted slayer of the Fancer girl. The appeal was to be based upon the contention that Hickman was denied his constitutional right of trial in the Parker case. Defense counsel contended Hickman was not tried on the question of his guilt or Innocence, but on the sole issue of |iis mental condition. 'Hie new California statute allowed Hickman to enter a plea of •not guilty by reason of insanity,” and it this new law that Walsh and Cantillon intend to make their stand to save Hickman from the gallows. May Live for Year The moves, proposed by defense counsel, may delay execution, set for April 27, for at least a year, it is pointed out. Defeat in the State Supreme Court will be followed by an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, Walsh and Cantillon have declared. District Attorney Asa Keyes declares the State intended through the Thoms trial to “tie a double noose about Hickman’s neck.” “The State will prosecute the charges for the Thoms killing just as if Hickman already were not condemned to death,” Keyes said. While his attorneys worked to save his life, Hickman seemed resigned to accept the verdict meted out by Judge J. J. Trabucco. The youthful slayer had appeared before the court, outwardly composed, but there was a noticeable tremble and a slight paling, when Judge Trabucco solemnly pronounced sentence. The condemned youth was led to an anteroom where he asked of newspaper men and guards: “Say I took it like a man, will you?”

COUNCIL TO PASS BILL OVER VETO BY HOLMES ‘Mayor* Fails to Sign Temporary Health Board Loan. The city council probably will pass the $125,000 temporary health board loan ordinance over the “pocket veto” of “Mayor” Ira M. Holmes, Republican, Monday night, it was indicated today. Holmes has not signed the ordinance presented to him by last week City Clerk William A. Boyce, Jr., Holmes said he had not decided definitely whether to sign the ordinance. Failure to act on the ordinance would be considered a “veto” under the law. permitting the council to pass the measure if six affirmative votes were cast. Holmes declared he v/ould not sign the measure unless he was assured the money would be loaned to the city. WAGE CUT TO SPINNERS Notice Also Includes Extension of Working Hours From 48 to 52. t)y United Press MANCHESTER, England, Feb. 15. —The general committee of the Master Spinners’ Federation today decided to post a one-month notice of a wage reduction of 12 Vt per cent and an extension of working hours weekly from forty-eight to fifty-tw’o hours. , The order affects 150,000 operatives and 400 mills spinning American cotton, and it is believed will result in a strike in the industry. •. ' ” City Official Dies By Timet Special SHELBYVILE, Ind., Feb. 15. Funeral services will be held Thursday for Oscar Howard, city street commissioner, who died Tuesday of pneumonia. He was active in civic, political and fraternal affairs of the city and county.

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Deceased, Former Member of Troupe to Be Buried Thursday. When funeral services are held Thursday at 2:30 p. m., at the Seventh Christian church, Udell and Annette Sts., for Jess A. Moon, 33, of 1011 W. Twenty-Ninth St., among the pallbearers will be two members of the famous Mokana Trio, who, with Moon, often entertained the public, both on programs of Sahara Grotto and over the radio. The other members of the trio are Earl Davis, motorcycle officer with the Indianapolis police department, and Clay Gullion. In their numerous appearances they were accompanied on the piano by Mrs. -ftuth A. Moon, wife of the deceased, Mr. Moon died Tuesday atfcßidiana Christian Hospital after suffering for two months of meningitis. The Rev. Aubrey H. Moore, pastor of Seventh Christian Church, will preside at the church services and Grotto members and brothers of North Park Masonic Lodge, No. 646, will have charge of burial at Crown Hill cemetery. Other ballbearers are Tom Ruse, Charles Ogle, Karl Krath and Lawrence Drapier. All are members of the Grotto and Drapier is past monarch. Surviving him, besides the widow, are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Archie L. Moon; a daughter, Maxine Moon; six brothers, Russell, George, Noel, Earl, Kenneth and Dewey Moon, and a sister, Mrs. William Wiggins, all of Indianapolis. Mr. Moon was a foreman at Kingam & Cos. for the last thirteen years.

INDIANA’S MARKET FOR* AUTOS GOOD AS ANY Fletcher Bank President, Speaks at Willys-Overland Banquet. "In my judgment. Indiana and Its surrounding territory offer as good a market for automobiles, as any to be found in the country. Efficiency in sales organization is an indlspensible feature, of course, if you are to achieve the best results, “declared Elmer W. Stout, president of the Fletcher American National Bank, speaking before the WillysOverlana dealers’ and executives’ banquet at the Indianapolis Athletic Club Tuesday night. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Capitol Motors Company, serving Willys-Overland in Indiana and southern Illinois. Company officials present were, George M. Graham, assistant to John N. Willys, president; L. G. Peed, general sales manager, and R. M. Rowland, sales promotion manager, all of Toledo. “Our orders at this time far exceed our fact by capacity, but we are increasing production rapidly, and expect within a short time to be at the production peak of 1,700 cars a day, at our factories in Toledo, Ohio; Elmira, N. Y., and Pontiac, Mich., "declared Graham in his evening speech before the gathering. STATE TUBERCULOSIS BODY IN CONVENTION Gary Is Host for Annual Tuesday Session. Bu United Press . GARY, Ind., Feb. 15. to the seventeenth annual StatfpTuberculosis Association convention here viewed the Gary works, the world's largest steel plant, from a special observation train this afternoon, in advance of the opening session of the conference. Convention preliminaries occupied the morning session with acting Mayor L. B. Snowden of Gary, and Charles Blackburn, Bedford, State Association president, on the program. A. L. Trester, Anderson, secretary of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, L. E. Steinbach, Indianapolis, of the State Board of Health, and Dr. C. C. Robinson, East Chicago, were the principal speakers this afternoon. Tonight’s banquet will be a feature of the two-day meeting.

POST ASSETS LISTED IN COURT TOTAL $29*284 Liabilities of Defunct Paper Are $54,000. Physical assets of the defunct Indianapolis Post, a daily newspaper started by former Mayor John L. Duvall and lasting six weeks last fall were listed at $29,284.10 today by Trustee Obie J. Smith with Carl Wilde, referee in bankruptcy appointed by Federal Court. The list included linotype machines, metal, desks, typewriters and other newspaper furnishings. It did not include the press, which, it is understood, has been returned to the company from which it was purchased on the payment plan. Liabilities of the paper were given as $54,000. Besides the physical assets there are outstanding $21,000 in stock unpaid by subscribers. Os this amount, $16,000 is owed by Duvall. This makes a total of bills receivable of $50,284.10. Next step in liquidation will be petition of sale to be filed by Wilde. MASS GUATEMALA ARMY Soldiers to Prevent American Banana Firm From Operating. By United Press GUATEMALA, Feb. 15.—The Government has sent several hundred soldiers to the Honduran front, it was reported today to prevent foreign companies from invading Guatemalan territory. It is understood the soldiers are to be massed in preventing an American banana company from operating on what is claimed to be Guatemalan soil at a point on the frontier that is not clearly delineated as between the two countries!

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TARIFF JAM MAY BREAK PARLEY —i — Pan-Amerioan Delegates Fear Argentina Through. B LOUIS JAY HEATH United Prc* Staff Correspondent HAVANA, Feb. 15.—Pan-Ameri-can Union delegates today feared that Dr. Honorio Pueyrredon, chief Argentine delegate, had withdrawn from the conference after his refusal to sign a union constitution unless it contained an anti-tariff clause. It was admitted that such withdrawal would mar the entire conference, already facing the necessity of confessing inability to do the work it set out to do. An hour after the time set for the meeting of the Pan-American Union committee, Dr. Pueyrredon and his fellow Argentine delegate, Laurentino Olascoaga, were absent and Pueyrredon could not be reached by telephone. Delegates immediately suggested among themselves the possibility that Pueyrredon had decided not to participate. Up to the time of meeting, no solution that was regarded as having a chance of success had been suggested. The situation was deadlocked, with Pueyrredon holding out alone on what he said was a matter of basic principle. For-, days, Charles E. Hughes, chief United States delegate, and others had tried vainly to move Pueyrredon. TRIBUTE IS PAID BY ROTARIANS Muncie Minister Is Speaker at Meeting. “Abraham Lincoln, the Soul of America” was the subject of an address Tuesday by the Rev. Arthur W. McDavitt of Muncie, pastor of St. John’s Universalist Church and Lincoln authority, before the Rotary Club at the Claypool. The entire meeting was of a patriotic nature. When it was called to order the room was darkened and a light was flashed upon an American flag, which stood unfurled in the breeze. Two Boy Scouts stood as color guards while Scout Raymond Johnson of Troop 51 sounded the trumpet. SAFETY MEETING HELD Employes of Power and Light Company Speakers. James Willard; personnel officer of the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company, and Wallace O. Lee. director of public relations of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, addressed members of Safety League No. 4, including employes of the meter connection and engineer departments of the light company, at administration offices, Pine and Daly Sts., Tuesday afternoon. President T. W. Ayton of the league invited them to talk on safety matters.

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SENATE GROUPS ‘SWAPPING’ TO BLOCKKOOVER Farm Bloc Help Solicited in Effort to Halt Rising Tide. BY PAUL It. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—The dominant Republican party group in the United States Senate is negotiating privately with the MidWestern independent farm group to solidify opposition to the candidacy of Secretary of Commerce Hoover for the party presidential nomination. An appointed Republican leader went to a leader of the independent group after Hoover’s candidacy was announced Sunday night, the United Press learned today. He received the following assurances from the farm lieutenant: 1. The farm group members strongly oppose Hoover and even would prefer President Coolidge—whom they do not favor especially —for renomination, because of their feeling that Hoover chiefly is responsible for the President’s attitude against the McNary-Haugen bill and because of Hoover’s activities as food administrator during the war. May Start Split 2. If Hoover should be nominated against a Democratic candidate who favored farm relief, the farm group would begin agitation for a diversion from the Republican candidate. 3. The farm group is planning a more active movement for Senator Norris of Nebraska in the next few weeks, with an idea of building up strength for him in the convention. It is expected he will have at least Wisconsin and Nebraska. In answer to these statements, the Republican leader declared that his group would work for an advocate of the McNary-Haugen price stabilization farm bill and that he believed the two factions of the party which have always been divergent might unite on a candidate. Just how far these maneuvers can and will be carried remains to be seen. The Senate group now negotiating never has been extremely friendly to President Coolidge, although its members never opposed him openly. Coolidge Support Would Aid Some openly have opposed Hoover, while others are working for “favorite sons” and still others are seeking uninstructed delegations. Politicians admit that if Hoover can get the open support of Mr. Coolidge he can jockey this congressional opposition into reluctant silence at least. They could not openly oppose Hoover against the President’s wishes, some say.

ELUDE ARREST ON LAKE Five Youths, Pursued by Cops. Leap From Pier. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. s.—Five youths, pursued by police who thought they were automobile thieves, leaped from a pier into Lake Michigan last night, and three of them were reported missing today. Two were captured as they clung to rocks fringing the pier. Police believed the three missing youths were drowned. Coast Guardsmen, asked to drag the lake near the pier, said the youths probably had waded ashore. The five youths were riding in a stolen automobile when police started chasing them. STUMP LAUDS Country Man Underestimated, Says Candidate^ By Times Special FOWLER, Ind., Feb. 15.—“ The farmer frequently is underestimated," declared Albert Stump, Democratic candidate for United States Senator, in a speech here before the Farmers’ Bureau. “It seems that when one is asked to talk to the farmers too many times he feels that he must talk only about farming, as if that were the only interest in life that farmers have. My experience has dem‘onstrated to me that there is no group in America of wider interests, more philosophical attitude nor keener appreciation of the finest and noblest things of life than the farmers.”

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Mark Adkins, 16, is a freckled face shoe-leather Lindbergh, who arrived at the home of his cousin, Barney Ferguson, of 58 S. Chestnut St., after coming crosscountry “afoot” from Seattle, Wash. The trip took the boy three weeks and he admitted riding in eighteen automobiles “just for a lift.” The youth is the son of Thomas Wesley Adkins, former resident here, who now resides at Sheridan, Wash. Expense of the trip was paid by money the boy earned in the Montana harvest fields last fall.

PULLMAN SURCHARGE ATTACKED BY MYERS Politicians Fool People by Double Tax, Says Candidate. By Times Special LEBANON, Ind., Feb. 15.—“ These politicians who have fooled Republicans and Democrats alike have had no scruples in permitting a burden on business and an indirect tax on travel in permitting the 50 per cent surcharge on Pullman tickets to stand,” declared Walter Myers, Democratic candidate for nomination for United States Senator, here last night. “Adopted as a war measure, this is continued as a peacetime regulation. In many cases it costs more to spend a night on a Pullman than it does to stay in the finest hotel. If such a surcharge or burden is proper at all, let it be a fair and reasonable one. “These politicians who have fooled the people have practically doubled taxes by putting burdens on business.”

ENGINE HITS ENGINEER; HE FINISHES HIS RUN CHy Man Escapes Injury in Accident at Jeffersonville. After being run over by a switch engine at Jeffersonville Tuesday night, Engineer Peter Yutmeyer, 48, of 1441 Fletcher Ave., returned to his home this morning in the cab of his Big Four engine, his hand on the throttle as though nothing had happened. Yutmeyer stepped into the path of a locomotive at Jeffersonville as he leaped from another track to' avoid being.struck by a passenger train. He suffered only a few scratches. New Trial in Slaying Bit Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 15. Jesse Brown, Negro, convicted in Monroe Circuit Court here recently of the slaying of Palmer Morris, Negro, and sentenced to life imprisonment, has won anew trial which has been set for March 12. Bowmans counsel based anew trial plea on an allegation that the court erred in jury instructions.

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JOINT RAIL AND AIR TRANSPORT FORECAST SOON N. A. A. Head Sees Fast Cross-Country Service as Next Step. BY CECIL OWEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—The next important stage in aviation development will be use of airplanes as auxiliaries to the fast railroad lines of the country, in the belief of Porter Adams, president of the National Aeronautical Association. Adams pictured a time, probably in the near future, when passengers will cross the continent in two and one-half days by a combined air and rail transport system. For comfort, air travel would be restricted to the daylight hours. Planes would land in the heart of a city by utilizing train sheds as landing fields, Adams predicted. He said he has noted a great increase in interest by railroad executives in the possibilities of airplane transportation, and many important roads are now considering such projects. Road Buys Plane A report has come to him, Adams said, that one of the country’s largest roads has recently bought fifty planes as an auxiliary to its service between two large cities and intends to put them in operation soon. Trans-Atlantic stunt flights are a ’ thing of the past,” in Adam’s opinion, and the next stage in oceanic flying will be development of a regular trans-Atlantic service, he said. For the present he added, dirigibles are more practicable for long overwater flights, but as a trans-Atlantic airplane service may be expected within a few years. Decides Against Sea Hops The advisory board of the N. A. A. recently decided against a proposal that the association sponsor one or two trans-Atlantic flights. Development of commercial aeronautics was held to be a more promising field than exploitation of airplane service across the North Atlantic. Along with use of airplanes as an auxiliary to railroads is the proposal to bring Europe a day nearer this country by ship-to-shore service . Adams said he expected this service to grow rapidly, once it starts.

BOYS ‘HOLD UP’ BEGGAR Police Seek Youths Who Took Tin Cup and $4. Police today sought two youths, who not only stole from an aged man’s tin cup, but also took the cup. Two boys, about 13, stole his tin cup and $4 while he was at-Wabash and Delaware Sts., Charles Conroe, 74, of 208 N. East St., reported. Conroe didn’t say what was doing there with the cup. It is a violation of a city ordinance to beg on the streets. KIWANIANS HOLD DANCE More Than 200 Attend Annual Valentine Party. Annual valentine dinner dance of the - Kiwanis Club was attended by more than 200 Tuesday night at the Columbia Club. Julian Wetzel, president, was toastmaster. Ace Berry, entertainment committee chairman, was in charge. Entertainment was furnished by a dancing team, Miss Louise Powell and Allan Carey, the Pennsylvania Railroad quartet of Chicago, and by Ernie and Valle Stanton, Indiana Theater dancing team. Refinance your debts now and repay as you earn. Low cost, confidental and quick. CAPITOL LOAN CO., 141 E. Wash.—Advertisement.

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Earl Crawford, former State highway commissioner, who announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination /for Governor today.

HENRY IS AGAIN TITLEWINNER Has ‘Been in Money' in Every ‘Gorilla’ Contest. Percy D. Henry, 1924 Dexter Ave., took first honors in the fifth picture of the Gorilla Subtitle Contest with the line “The Denunciation.” Henry has “been in the money” in every contest, and has $7.50 waiting for him at The Indianapolis Times office. Robert G. Barnhill, rural route H, Box 170, Indianapolis, won the $5 second prize with the subtitle “A Point of Law.” Third prize money of $1 was mailed today to Mrs. U- R- McLane. 3326 N. Illinois St.; Nellie Goodwin. 30 Gorden St., Shelbyville, Ind.; Mrs. John Meehan, 422 Congress Ave.; Elmer Bracken, 903 Pearl St., Columbus, Ind.; Herbert Campbell, 3017 Jackson St. Pairs of tickets to the Indiana Theater for the “Gorilla” were mailed today to Carolena Campbell, 1037 E. Market St.; Malachi Pettie, 634 Blackford St.; Mrs, W. J. Keeney, 6108 Monon Rd.; Bessie Day, 1221 Tuxedo St.; F. C. Snell, 845 N. Rural St.; W. J. Casserly, Postoffice Department; Cora Johnston, 1415 Prospect St.; Flip Moriarity, 601 Majestic Bid.; Mrs. J. D. Roth, 3163 N. Capitol Ave.; Frances Ferguson, 1326 W. Twenty-Fifth St.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: R. F. Buhner, Seymour, Ind., Nash, M-804, from New York and Illinois Sts. Joseph Gross, 3550 Guilford Ave., Chrysler, 621-998, from New York and Meridian Sts. Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, 209 W. South St., Ford, 4-208, from Pearl St. and Capitol Ave.

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Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Dr. Moag, 4453 Central Ave., Chevrolet, found at 111 E. Michigan St. Chrysler sedan, M-723, found at Thirteenth and Illinois Sts. Everett Cain, 1211 Cruft St., Ford, found at Missouri St. and Kentucky Ave. Charles W. Freeman, 2049 N. Alabama St., Willys-Knight, found at Alabama and Wabash Sts. James Brown, 25 Sycamore St., Ford, found at 325 E. Market St.

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EARL CRAWFORD GETS INTO RACE FOR JjOVERNO!^ Calls Attention to Fight H$ Made on Steve and Cohorts. Earl Crawford of Milton, Wayn* County, former highway commissioner, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor with a formal statement pledging five reforms of State government. Calling attention to his “fight against the D. C. Stephenson cohorts, who have been responsibly for dragging the good narne of Indiana into the mire of political conspiracies, corruption and disgrace,* Crawford appealed for the support of all desiring an efficient govern* ment. i Fiv; Points in Program 1 He listed these five points in his definite program: “Placing the State banking de* partment under the strictest civi| service regulation, and requiring all banks under the control of the department to set forth specifically ini their every published statement all State, county, township, or othej municipal funds on deposit. “Reorganize the State board of accounts and restore it to the function originally intended, by removing political whitewash and official blackmail. “Providing the necessary revenue for. and speeding up, the construction of permanent, hard surface roads in the State highway system, “Relief to public utility patrons! who are now paying excessive rates! because of unreasonable and unfaiu theories of utility valuation and ratql making, and the establishment of such utility regulation as will by fair and equitable to both the producers and consumers. i Opposes Slush Funds j “Such reform in the tax laws a A will retard the constant increase in taxes and more equitably distribute the burden taxation necessarily imposes.” Crawford declared himself opposed to large campaign contributions, in favor of the primary law if the voters take a proper Interest in the primary and pledged himself to removal from office “all those who use their positions for ill-gotten gain, wherever evidence of such official misconduct be discovered by diligent investigation.” ORGANISTS ON U. S. TOUR Dean Palmer Christian, Famed Musician, Here Monday. Dean Palmer Christian of the department of music at the University of Michigan, who will appear in an, organ recital Monday evening at Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Thirty-Fourth St. and Central Ave., is making a tour of all the Important cities of the United States. He will also tour Canada. An organist of distinction, Christian has appeared as soloist with symphony orchestra at Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, Rochester, New York and Philadelphia. He was brought here under the auspices of the choir of the church and thy American Guild of Organists. Owl Scratches Girls’ Eyes QUEBEC, Quebec, Feb. 15.—Emi’.a Dubeau’s 4-year-old daughter faced possible loss of her sight after aqj attack by a large owl. The owl was killed after it had scratched at tha( girls’ eyes several times.

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