Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1928 — Page 3

MARCH 9, 1928.

CLERK AND COP BATTLE NEGRO STORE BANDIT Bandit Flees With Loot, as Policeman Opens Fire . on Him. Police today were looking for a Negro bandit, believed wounded, who held up Robert Williams, 22, of 730 N. Illinois St., clerk at the Rouson drug store, 1102 N. Illinois St., Thursday night, robbed him of S2O and escaped after a gun battle with Williams and police. Williams told police that the Negro entered \s[ith a drawn gun and ordered him to hold his hands above his head and face the wall. The bandit then walked to the cash register and took the money. When he was about to leave the store, Williams jumped behind the prescription counter, grabbed a revolver and fired one shot at the bandit. The bandit leaped through the door and fired two shots, both bullets crashing through the front window. Patrolman Herbert Reinking, came running and fired five shots at the fleeing bandit. He believed several took effect. The bandit ran to Muskingum and Twelfth Sts, and made his escape through alleys and back yards. William Bell, 432 W. New York St., reported to police that a Negro stepped out of an alley on W. Tenth St. Thursday night and robbed, him of $10.75. He said the bandit struck him on the head with a blackjack and knocked him to his knees after taking, his money. William Hobbs, 27, Negro, 145 Geisendorff St., was treated at city hospital for knife wounds on his chest inflicted, he said, by a Negro who tried to rob him; near Michigan and Blake Sts. Police arrested him on a vagrancy charge for questioning.

OFFICIALS SEE TEST OF UNDERWATER LIGHT G. C. Weis Is Attempting to Sell His Products to City. City and county officials witnessed a demonstration of the submersible lights used to locate bodies underwater at the Central Ave. bridge over Fall Creek this afternoon. G. C. Weis\ who operated the lights to locate several objects beneath water, is seeking to sell his product to the city. Weis said the outfit could be used to detect the condition of bridges under water and in connection with sewer construction. Police have used the equipment to locate drowned persons on several occasions. MYERS REPLIES TO KLAN Explains His Stand Taken Against Secret Order, Walter Myers, Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, today replied to an advertisment in a Greenfield paper assailing for his anti-Klan stand. Myers cited the lists of Republicans indicted in Marion County and declared the indictments were the result of the Klan regime in Indiana. “Mr. Klansman, if you are 100 per cent American you believe in the Constitution of the United States, the first admendment of which is: 'Congress shall make no' law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ ” Myers declared. Plans Probe of Girl’s Death By I nited Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., March 9. —The Whitley County grand jury today was reported to be considering an investigation into the death of Frieda Leitch, 21, who died in a hospital here Feb. 27, allegedly as a result of an illegal operation. Tfie local coroner announced today that the girl had named a Columbia City physician and a young man in a deathbed statement.

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BLANKS SENT FOR DOG SHOW 1,000 Entries Expected for Exhibit March 27-29. Registration blanks have been sent out for entries in the annual dog show to be held at Tomlinson Hall under the auspices of the Hoosier Kennel Club, Inc., March 27, 28, 29. Approximately one thousand entries are expected, and about 1,500 exhibitors and out-of-town guests. The admission of the Hoosier Kennel Club about a year ago to the American Kennel Club, recognized as the leading power in dog matters, puts the Indianapolis organization on a par with the Cincinnati and Chicago. clubs. The Cincinnati show immediately precedes the local one and the Chicago show follows. Arrangements have been made for a special sleeper and baggage car to take Indianapolis exhibitors to the Chicago show. It is possible, by covering the three-city circut. for dogs to make their championship fifteen points. Officers of the Hoosier Kennel Club are J. P. Booty, president; J. C. (Billy) Clark, first vice president; Albert Meyer, second vice president; L. Ert Slack, treasurer, and Miss Marguerite Vance, secretary. Tire show will be superintended by E. W. Leach, manager of the Kennel Club Service Bureau of Minneapolis, Minn. Premium lists and entry blanks may be obtained from Miss Vance, 3040 Baltimore Ave., Indianapolis.

SEES CITY GROWTH Cincinnati Realtor Predicts Great Urban Development. Continued growth of American cities was predicted by Walter S. Schmidt of Cincinnati, at the Indianapolis Real Estate Board luncheon Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce. “The same number of farmers are turning out twice as much food as formerly,’’ he pointed out. “Since an increase in population means only a small increase in consumption of food, proportionately, we may expect that in twenty-five or fifty years, with a population of some 200,000.000 in the United States, cities will be not doubled in size, but tripled or quadrupled. That will be true because the demand for other things than food will increase in greater proportion than the population. “With this in mind, we realtors must plan our cities to accommodate the future population.’’ DOCTORS PUT UP FIGHT MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. March 9. —While doctors worked over him, using every known method to discover the nature of the mysterious sickness from which he is suffering, William Sims, continued in a ous condition today. He apparently is afflicted with the same illness which brought death to Orville and Richard Bohle, his niece and nephew, two weeks ago. So far, physicians have been unable to determine either the cause or the nature of the illness.

NEA London Bureau. Figure skating was on the program of the winter Olympic games held recently at St. Moritz, Switzerland. And figures are what Miss Eustace Smith of Toronto, Canada, knows all about, from 1 to 100, not having such a bad one herself. She is shown cutting a caper or two for the Swiss. TACKS PUT IN STREETS Worley Promises Drastic Action for Annoyance to Motorists. - Vigorous prosecution of persons round throwing refuse in the street with the intent of annoying motorists was promised by Police Chief Claude M. Worley today. Worley said tacks and nails had been found in the streets of the south side.

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FALL GANT GO TO COURT;ILL Weakness Will Prevent Testimony in Teapot Trial Bn I'nil’ and Press EL PASO, Texas, March 9.—The condition of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, is such that he will not be able to appear in Washington, April 2, Dr. H. T. Safford, Fall’s physician, said today. Fall was host Thursday to Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate and codefendant in the oil conspiracy case which is scheduled to start April 2. Sinclair, who is in this section cn business, said the call was purely social and had nothing to do with the Teapot Dome oil case. Fall’s condition still is very weak and will not stand the strain of travel. Dr. Safford said. OLD RELICS ON DISPLAY Pioneer Collection Shown at Central Library Until April 6. An hour glass, a perforated candle lantern, a spur worn by an officer of the early Indiana State Militia, a betty lamp, candle moulds and hand wrought smoothing irons are only a few of the interesting pioneer objects now on display in the art room at Central Library. The collection is shown through the courtesy of the Children’s Museum and will be on exhibit until Aoril 1.

PROBE REPORTS OF BLACKMAIL ON ’HOAX BABY’ Nurse Who Aided Woman at ‘Fake Birth’ Believed Found.

By Vuited Press DETROIT, March 9. Secret) service operatives of the State De- i partment of Public Safety investi- I gated reports today that Mrs. Myron , L. Boyer had been blackmailed by persons familiar with the plan by which she foisted a nameless waif upon her millionaire husband as their natural son. It was reported Mrs. Boyer had paid to blackmailers large sums to keep the child s real identity a secret from her husband. The operatives surrounded their investigation with utmost secreey. Little was known of its scope. Hoax Nurse Is Found There was an unconfirmed report, however, that the woman who; acted as “nurse’ ’to Mrs. Boyer at the hoax “birth" of the child had been located and that she had been questioned. According to Mrs. Boyer, the physician who participated in scheme is now dead. The investigation followed Mrs. Boyer's adoption of the child in the Oakland Probat? Court at Pontiac. The court changed his name to Dode Alfred Boyer and accepted as facts the allegations contained in the suit of Myron Boyer which seek to expunge from State archives the fraudulent record of the child's Seeks to Cancel Trust Fund Boyer's suit alleged the boy was smuggled into his home while he was absent on Nov. 9, 1923, and was represented as a child bom to Mrs. Boyer. He seeks in another suit to prevent the boy from benefiting from a $5,000,000 trust fund established for a grandson by his father, Joseph A. Boyer, chairman of the board of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Belgians Flying to Africa (V/ I'niti il I‘rrsn BRUSSELS, March 9.—Three Belgian fliers took off this morning for Oran, Algertis, on the first leg of a flight from Belgium to the Congo. They expect to make the flight in four stages.

\ Policewoman With Boyish Bob Hunts Missing Autos

Attire Confuses Those Visit - ing Department; Call Her ‘Sir.’ “Pardon me, sir. but is this the stolen automobile department?” someone asks at the window. “Yes. it is. What can I do for you?” Policewoman Bertha Duclus, head of the department, looks up and asks. “Why, I beg your pard—!” the person stammers as he shifts uneasily from one foot to the other. Miss Duclus. her bobbed hair combed .back in pompadour style, and wearing glasses, a man's shirt, tie and hat and a business suit, is mistaken for the male species at least five times each day. Until she raises her head from her desk where she is busily at work or until she speaks, one cannot be blamed for addressing her as “sir,” for looks are deceiving. Miss Duclus. who has been head of her department for more k than two years, takes care of all automobiles reported stolen, recovered or found abandoned. An average HAPGOOD SEEKS JOB Will Stay in Coal Fields to Work and Speak. By l nited Press WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March 9. Although leaders of the mine union faction whicn he so bitterly opposes may object. Powers Hapgood, Indianapolis, of the American Civil Liberties Union of New York, intends to present himself at the emnloyment office of the mine in which he worked here prior to his recent imorisonment for inciting riot. Hapgood and his wife, the former Mary Donovan, were released from the Luzerne County Prison here Thursday when a bonding company posted $2,500 bail, and a $2,500 peace bond to keep the peace. Hapgood's announcement that he intended to remain here, working in the daytime ,and at nights addressing local unions in an effort to obtain money for the release of Sam Bonita and others held for the recent slaying of Frank Agaty, influenced Judge Benjamin Jones to cling to his surety bond demand, although Hapgood's attorneys protested.

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of twenty cars literally pass through her department each day. When an automobile is recovered or found abandoned and the owner is unknown, “Duke” checks the iecords in the Secretary of State's office in an effort to locate the owner. When a car is reported stolen, she makes out a report which is read to all policemen at the three roll calls and they keep on the lookout for the stolen automobiles. When they locate the cars, she notifies the owners. EDITORS VISIT CALLES By United Press MEXICO CITY, March 9.—Middle western editors, touring Mexico, were rececived by President Calles and former President Obregon at noon today. Roy W. Howard, chairman of the board of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, and Bruce Barton, author and advertising man, who were members of the party, left today for Vera Cruz, to sail aboard the liner Monterey for Havana.

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