Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1928 — Page 11

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STORMY SKIES DELAY START Os OCEAN HOP Germans Wait First Signs of Clear Weather to Leave for U. S. SHIPS TO SIGNAL PLANE Arrangements Made With Boats on Course to Assist Fliers. BY GEORGE MacDONAGH, United Press Staff Correspondent DUBLIN, March 29.—With the stoicism that has been their grace since arriving from Berlin, three Germans—a baron, a noted aviator and a mechanic—watched stormy skies prevent their starting in the Junkers monoplane “Bremen" for! United States today. They retired when postponement : was inevitable, determined to leave on the hazardous flight to the North American continent, as soon as the weather cleared. The postponement today was due to a sudden hurricane which whipped across the field. A wind of forty-five miles an hour lashed the field and rain was falling. The Bremen was kept on its plal- j form to be ready to depart Friday fnerning if the weather was favor- , able. A large crowd, including the Gcr- ' man consul, was at the field. All had been prepared for a takeoff at 5:30 a. m. today. Baron Von Huencfeld, Captain Hermann Koehl and Arthur Spindler had ordered the trim gray “Bremen" brought from its hanger. The machine w r as wheeled out at 4:30 a. m. and overhauling completed. Numerous mechanics bustled about. Flares on the flying field were lighted and the half-mile wooden runway, completed for this trans-Atlantic attempt, stood out in the early morning light. A dull rain fell, but this did not stop preparations. Every effort was made to get the plane in readiness for the long hours, perhaps a day and a half of flying over the North Atlantic and down to Mitchell Field, L. I. Then shortly after 6 o’clock the rain storm and wind continued and it was decided that no attempt would be made to start on the flight this morning. The fliers were still determined, however, to get away as soon as the weather cleared. 2?i v United Press LONDON, March 29.—An intricate system of signaling to ships at sea has been arranged by the crew of the German airplane Bremen, which soon will attempt a flight to the United States, the Daily Chronicle said today in dispatches from Dublin. All ships known to be sailing the course the aviators have mapped have been advised of the flight and to be on the lookout for the airplane, the Chronicle said. Two signals have been sent each of the ship piasters. If the Bremen should showw a red Signal, it will mean “We are going to come down on the water. Send boats.’’ If it should show a green signal It will mean, “indicate the American coast by changing the course of the ship toward it. Fire a smoke signal and give the distance to the United States coast, one short blast for every 100 miles.” The Chronicle also said that when the Bremen leaves, the rear wheels, weighing 150 pounds, automatically will be discarded. The fliers have decided to take bananas, hard-boiled eggs, sandwiches and beef tea in flasks for the long flight. 4 TRIES TO DIE FAIL iPersistenf Suicide Is Locked Up by Police, SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 29.—George Husasalas is nothing if not persistent. Following four attempts at suicide police were forced to lock him up. The four tries at self-extermination included: A jump from a three-stor;* •window. Landed in deep snow bank pnd was uninjured. Leaped in front of street car and pulled away by a policeman. Two attempts to throw himself out of a window at Emergency Hospital, frustrated by attendants, who returned him to police for safe-keeping. NEGRO HELD FOR QUIZ Arrested in Basement; *Says He Hid to Avoid Being Shot. Police today questioned Harry Layrie, Negro, 1222 Cornell Ave., arrested late Wednesday night in the basement of the home of Mrs. Lula Smith, Negro, 709 Ogden St. Layne said he leaped through the basement window to get away from another Negro who threatened to shoot him. SAVOEGRO FROM WIFE Police interfered just in time and Reiford Bunch, Negro, 25, of Apartment 10, Douglass Ct„ is in the city hospital today with a cut on the arm instead of being in the city morgue. The officers said when they saw Bunch’s wife, Maude, 21, slashing at him with a knife while they fought in the street at 400 Indiana Ave., she was yelling avowed intentions of cutting him into little pieces. She was slated at the city prison on an assault and battery with intent to kill charge and he was held at the hospital detention ward charged with assault and battery.

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—Photo bv H. F. Rowo. Here is the Ions: and short of the large class of Initiates taking their final degrees in the Scottish Rite here today. The little man is C. N. Satterfield of Anderson. Ind., who is 5 feet 4 inches, and the tall gentleman is C. P. Stapleton. 2605 College Ave., 6 feet 6 inches. Satterfield is a member of Mt. Maria Lodge No. 77, Anderson, and Stapleton, Oriental Lodge No. 500, Indianapolis. There are ninetyeight candidates taking their thirty-second degree today. The four-day ceremonial closes tonight with a banquet at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, 29 S. Pennsylvania St. Vincent V. Smith, thrice potent master of Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection, will preside.

BROKERS ASK REST FROM MAD MARKET

Male-ennium! fit*/ United Urrsft EAU PLEINE, Wis., March 29.—Leap year holds no fears for the canine population of this town. Harry Marchal, town treasurer, announced a list of dogs assessed showing there are 149 canines in this section and that every one is a male.

DOG SHOW TO CLOSE Final Judging Tonight Ends Second Exhibition. Inclement weather was not expected to decrease the record-break-ing attendance of the last two days at the annual Hoosier Kennel Club dog show, which closes tonight. The dogs on exhibition number approximately 600—a greater number of canine bluebloods than Indianapolis has boasted at any previous show. * Judging of variety classes and selection of the best dog on exhibition will close the show tonight. Twenty-two States are represented in the entries, as \vell as Canada and several European countries. Winners of the seven breeds judged Wednesday and owners, were as follows: Bulldog, Ch. Kamel Hefty Legacq, owned by W. Earle Smith; Chow Chow, Yuan Frere of El Cher, owned by El £her Kennels; Great Dane, Steinbacher’s Chancellor, owned by G. M. Williams; old English sheep dog, Hillgarth Blue Premier of Firenze, owned by Col. M. R. Guggenheim of New York; pinscher, Senenia of Arkenden, owned by Teresa Landgraf; Boston terrier, Ch. Saunders Beauty, owned by Mrs. Salvatore Castro; collie. Bellhaven Gold Bond, owned by WoodfieldKennels. Bedlington terriers, bull terriers, smooth fox terriers, wire-haired fox terriers, Irish terriers, Scotch ,teriers, shepherds and variety classes will be judged today. Divorce to Evansville Mayor By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 29. Herbert C. Males, Evansville's mayor, has won a divorce after being married thirty-three years. Mrs. Males did not contest the suit, which was brought on the ground of cruelty.

COTTON KING HITS CHARGE AS FALSE

Bp United Press WASHINGTON, March 29.—W. L. Clayton, head of the largest American cotton house, made exhaustive denial before the Senate cotton investigators today of market manipulation charged against J(is firm. He started with a flat denial that Anderson, Clayton & Cos. had the tacit approval of the Federal trade commission in its “long operation in May, 1923, cotton futures contracts.” Clayton said he furnished the figures of this operation to Agent Twombley of the commission three weeks after the deals were consummated, he denouced the “tacit approval” charge, made by Arthur R. Marsh, former president of the New York Cotton Exchange, as “false and sinister.”

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Strain of Four Million-Share Days Is Too Much: Ask for Holiday. By l, nitetl Pn is NEW YORK. March 29.—The present run of 4,000.000-share days on the New York Stock Exchange may be highly profitable to the State of New York—and the State makes about SBO,OOO a day out of them—but the brokers complain they can't stand it. They have asked for a three-day Easter holiday. There is much agitation for a five-day week. But the question of the five-day-week and the three-day Easter holiday are problematical. The former is merely an idea to get away from frenzied trading. The latter has been presented to the board of governors as a respite from the present seventeen-day run of heavy trading. It will be decided next Wednesday, because the governor’s had ruled out all holidays except legal holidays. And the State of New York continues to enjoy SBO,OOO revenue daily. On each share exchanged on the market New York State gets two cents. Wednesday the Dow Jones figures showed 4,139.500 shares exchanged. Millions have been made and lost in this present run of big markets, but many' of the millions made are going west from New York, according to George Griggs Buchanan, a veteran of the market. He believes more than 300 new millionaires in the west have been created in the last year or so of big markets in New York. He said many persons had been permitted to purchase stock in the companies for which they worked and thus got a taste for stock transactions. In days gone by bookkeeping was one of those back-ground things in connection with the stock market, sort of a necessary evil. Now it has become an important market factor, brokers say in asking a five day week. The brokerage houses need the extra time to mark down their transactions. The exchange itself is having some difficulty in keeping apace. Anew ticker system was installed. Wednesday the ticket was twenty-seven minutes behind at one time and the day before thirty-three minutes behind. It was said a revised ticker, capable of handling a 6,000,000 share day, already was being worked upon.

Clayton said he surveyed the cotton situation in 1922 and bought 201,400 bales on May contracts in November, December and January. His firm actually received 80,000 of these bales and sold the rest of its contracts, he said. He asserted it was not fair to measure May contract prices by July and October contract prices, as Marsh did, because the earlier deliveries were more valuable. Clayton denied he was “practically alone” in advocating New York Cotton Exchange sales and purchases on the basis of cotton delivery at Southern cotton centers, and cited a list of o f her cotton men who supported this plan before the trade commission report it was put in operation a year and a half ago.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1928

CHURCHES TO PAY MILLION FOR BUILDING Construction Projects in Coming Year to Cost Huge Sum. PRESBYTERIANS IN LEAD j Pastors Point to Spiritual and Material Growth in City. Indianapolis Protestant churches will complete, or undertake at least. : $1,345,400 worth of church building | projects during 1928. a survey by The Times showed today. Religious leaders viewed this as a strong answer to assertions that the church is on the decline. They pointed to heavy gains in membership during the present Lenten evangelistic campaigns in practically every Protestant church. They gave this as evidence that the strictly spiritual growth of the city is healthy. The leaders also said they were happy to note that the material life of the churches apparently is assured. Presbyterians in I,ead The largest program definitely announced is that of the Presbyterians, totaling $905,400. It includes: Tabernacle Church. Thirty-Fourth St. and Central Ave.. $450,000 Sunday school and chapel building to join and conform with the present beautiful structure. Meridian Heights Church. FortySeventh St. and Central Ave.. $225,000 auditorium and gymnasium. Irvington church. Johnson and Julian Aves., $227,000 new building, for which excavation has been started. Traub Memorial Church. Cottage Ave. and Leonard St., 53.400 addition. In addition to this definite pro- | gram, the First Presbyterian Church. Sixteenth and Meridian Sts., plans to spend several hundred thousand dollars upon anew building. Methodists Have Program The Methodist definite program calls for expenditure of $240,000. including: North Church, on new site at Maple Rd. and Meridian St.. $175,000 for first unit of new building. Methodist Episcopal Settlement, Fletcher and Virginia Aves., new $40,000 building. Edgewood Church, new $25,000 building. In addition, Forest Manor Church, Thirty-Fourth and School Sts., plans anew building. The Christian porgram is by no means complete, but definite plans so far call for expenditure of sllO,- ; 000, including SBO,OOO by the Linwood Church, 4424 E. Michigan St., for anew building and $30,000 by the Bethany Church, Minnesota and Quill Sts., for anew building. New Evangelical Building The Broadway Evangelical Church, Fifty-Sixth and Broadway, is receiving anew $90,000 building, funds for which were procided through the home mission board by other Evangelical churches of the State. Other churches, both Protestant and Catholic, will undertake the usual remodeling agid repair programs, which annually amount to a large sum. TWO HOOSIERS RECEIVE THEODORE VAIL MEDALS, Muncie Man and Woman Recipients of 1927 Awards. Two employes of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company are recipients in the 1927 award of Theodore N. Vail medals. A medal was given Clarence! Harrold, Muncie for stopping flow j of blood from a wound in an arm j of Mrs. Grace Sanders, Muncie ex- 1 change operator, injured in an auto accident. Miss Lillian M. Pierce, Marion j exchange supervisor, received a medal for notifying Marion police of a bank robbery at Amboy, resulting in capture of the bandits. An emergency call from Amboy requested Perp police be notified. Miss Pierce put the call through as instructed, but realizing Marion was nearer Amboy than Peru, also notified Marion police. ANALYZES TEMPTATIONS Third of Series of Sermons to Be Given at Christ Church. The second temptation of Christ, wherein he was urged by the devil to leap from the roof of the temple in Jerusalem was described by the Rev. Floyd Van Keuren, rector of Christ Church, at an interparochial services Wednesday night, as a sort of publicity stunt. “Every temptation becomes in part a-temptation to push away our companion God, every victory binds him closer to us,” Mr. Van Keuren. “God, Our God,” will be the third topic of a series of discussions on “Christ’s Temptations and Ours” to be continued by Mr. Van Keuren at the noon hour service at Christ Church today, Knox County to Fight Rats B,y United Press VINCENNES, Ind., March 29. The week of April 2 to 11 has been set aside for a war on rats throughout Knox County. Free barium carbonate can be obtained at several distributing points and other poisons can be purchased at drug stores for use during the week.

Win Revival Large Family Contest

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Front, left to right, Victoria. 9; Fred 11. Wysong. the father, holding Bobbie, 2; Mrs. Clara Wysong, with Frederick, 5, and Marilda, 12. Back, left to right, Frank, 24; Mary, 18, and Gahr io.

Unlike the old woman in the shoe, Fred H. Wysong, 418 N. Denny St., knows what to do with his family of eight children. “Feed ’em,” he says, “if you don't do anything else.” Wysong is shown here with his wife and seven sons and daughters

KILLER CAUGHT; WOUNDS SELF Girl's Slayer Is Captured After Chase. Rji l mtrd Press WALKILL, N. Y„ March 29. Harry McHugh, fugitive postmaster, charged with the murder of Marie Terwilliger. telephone girl, was captured in a lumber yard here today. He shot and wounded himself when cornered by two State troopers. Miss Terwilliger was shot three times at the door of the telephone exchange Tuesday. Margaret Goldsmith, another operator, told how McHugh, a former admirer of Miss Terwilliger, entered the exchange and attacked the girl after abusing her. McHugh had quarrelled with the girl about accepting attentions of his brother and other men. McHugh was taken to his home here under guard. Doctors said he was mortally wounded and probably would die today. When trapped in the lumber yard, McHugh fired on the troopers. The pistol clicked harmlessly. The officers retreated and a moment later heard a shot. They approached and found McHugh unconscious, a bullet in his head. SEEK ACCIDENT DATA Safety Council to Check on Persons Injured. Means of obtaining accurate and complete information on every accident in the city were discussed at- the first meeting of the statistics committee of the Indianapolis Safety Council, at the Chamber of Commerce today. The plan outlined by Capt. Harry M. Franklin, director of the council, entails the cooperation of the accident prevention bureau, the hospitals. owners of private ambulances and the city and State health boards. In addition, direct contact with every firm employing more than five persons is being sought. These firms are being requested to report monthly to the council every accident that happens within thenplants. The council has been assured the cooperation of 120 of the largest firms in the city, Captain Franklin said. Os this number sixty-eight, have well equipped first aid stations, and eight have provisions to care for all minor injuries. Practically ali of them keep records of accidents in which an employe loses any time. TOWNS FED BY PLANES Food Dropped to Snowbound Cities in Parachutes. LONDON, March 29.—Snowbound towns in Great Britain are being fed by airplanes. A fleet of these mechanical birds are equipped with 200 pounds of food each. It is transported to the isolated towns and dropped from the planes by means of parachutes. Confederate Veteran Buried Pit Times Special LEBANON, ind., March 29—Funeral services were held here today for Allen Weddle, 86, Confederate Civil War veteran, who died Monday after a two weeks’ illness. Come From Alaska to Win S6OO Bp United Press NEW YORK, March 29.—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Magids came from Deering, Alaska, to win a S6OO court verdict against Hirsch & Frechtel, furriers.

after witning the largest family contest at the Garfield Methodist Church old-fashioned, revival meeting Wednesday night. Ambrose, 21, did not attend church Wednesday night. Wysong recommends having a large family.

THIEF IS SUSPECT IN HAMMER DEATH

‘Devil With Woman’ Faces Life in Prison for Postal Forgeries. B." ! nil’ and Pnss ST. PAUL. Minn.. March 29.—New York police must show a clear case against Fritz W. Edel. 33. suspected of the hammer murder of Mrs. Emma Briswalter Harrington, before postal authorities here will relinquish him. Federal officers said today. Edel is charged here with forging postofficc money orders, and faces a maximum sentence of 100 years on several postal charges. He is held under $25,000 bonds. Edel admitted intimate acquaintanceship with Mrs. Harrington, whose body, with the skull crushed by hammer blows, was found in a New York apartment last December. He denied he killed her, how-over. Was “Devil With Women” Edel was “a devil with the women,” he told postal inspectors. It was a woman who caused his downfall here. She caused his arrest when he made an engagement to entertain her with the spoils from his money order operations, it was said. The woman recognized Edel as the man sought for the Harrington murder. Edel said he was born in Germany. came to the United States, and lived in Minnesota. Chicago and New York. He served a term in Sing Sing for robbery, and was released in July, 1925. He tried to go straight. He bought and interest in a Meriden (Conn.) restaurant, but found existence there too slow-, and he returned to New York. “I soon had plenty of money and plenty of girls,” Edel said. One of the - ills was Mrs. Harrington, danc: and wife of a stock company actor. Gets Woman’s Clothes He was on a prolonged spree last December, he said, when a chauffeur delivered a suitcase to him at the Pennsylvania Hotel and told him Mrs. Harrington’s clothes were in it. t “She'll meet you in Springfield,” the chauffeur told him, he said. Edel went to Springfield. When Mrs. Harrington didn't arrive. he said, he “picked up a couple of other girls.” Then he came west while police sought him in connection with the murder. Nab “JcIT” in Bandit Team NEW YORK, March 29.—Police believe they have broken up the “Mutt and Jeff” bandit team that has robbed fifty taxicab drivers. Albert Roberts. Negro, was arrested, charged with being “Jeff.”

TRADER HORN GIVES HIS ONLY U. S. TALK

Bp United Press NEW YORK, March 29.—Trader Horn made his first and only public appearance in America before an exclusive gathering at Town Hall and paused half-way in his rambling, good natured speech so that William McFee might make the introductory speech. The venerable literary man, whose real name is Alfred Aloysius Smith, appeared on the stage and the crowd applauded. He bowed, walked to the center and started talking while McFee, who had a dandy introduction ready, fidgeted. The Trader talked of the hippopotamus that had a broken heart;

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“I’ve had my share of the feeding,” Mrs. Wysong laughed. The husband has been in the meat and grocery business throughout his married life. He now owns a mejft market at 3903 English Ave. “I believe it’s the best business a man can have if he wants a big family,” he said.

Squeals Tagged Bp I niled Press EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., March 29.—Frank Bihss insists he knows hogs. He caused the arrest of five Negroes when twenty-five hogs were found in one of their yards. Bihss, operator of a buying and selling agency, identified the hogs squealed in a manner known only to buyers and sellers of porkers.

OLD TRIO AS BANDITS Suspects Await Identification in Holdup. A trio of bandit suspects are held at city prison today awaiting identification by J. R. Diven, clerk, and Harvey Stanley. 18, of 2345 Southeastern Ave., who were held at bay with guns, while the drug store of Roy Langenaur was robbed of SIOO Wednesday night. Ted Flora. 212 S. State Ave., was standing in front of the drug store when he saw the two men who later turned out to be the b: os He took the number o:. ,etr automobile and turned it over to Lie it. Otto Petit and squad, who were sent on the robbery call. Through the number the trio was brought to the station. RALSTON ENTERS RACE Realtor First Democrat to Seek County Treasurer’s Job, Glenn B. Ralston, director of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, tc day became the first Democrat to seek the nomination for county treasurer. Ralston has been in the real estate business here fifteen years with his father, Boyd M. Raiston, 1921 Democratic nominee for mayor. He was second lieutenant in the tank corps during the war and studied law at Indiana University. Ralston was a member of the city civil service commission until it was abolished by Mayor Duvall. Fire Causes Third Death By Times Special MEDORA, Ind., March 29.—Howard Gilbert, 30, has succumbed to burns suffered in a coal oil explosion at his home near here Tuesday in which his twin babies perished. Another child and Mrs. Gilbert, who suffered burns, are recovering.

cf the lion that left him to get married; or the ship that Livingstone owned and could not navigate because “Bibles and navigation don’t go together” and of trading days. He rolled up his trousers to show a perfect leg, which he claimed doctors wanted to amputate, but witchmen saved. Dr. Arthur Torrance whispered in his ear, attempting to stop the Trader so that introduction could be made. But it wouldn't work. Finally the Trader's throat became dry and he went for a glass of water. Then McFee introduced him.

HUGE HIGHWAY PLAN UP TO COUNCILAGAIN Commissioners Renew Efforts to Secure Approval for $1,300,000 Project. DEFEATED LAST FALL Would Encircle City With Concrete Roads and Give 2,500 Jobs. County Engineer Henry R. Campbell and the majority faction of the county commissioners are renewing their efforts for county council approval of their contemplated $1,300,000 county road buildig program, it was learned today. The second effort will be in the face of the opposition of the majority of the council, which killed the issue when it was first presented last fall. The old breach between the majorities of the two boards is evident in the renewal of the fight, courthouse observers pointed out. The I majority on the commission con- | sists of men favorable to the Dodson faction of the Republican party, 1 while the majority on the council is : made up of members of the Coffin | faction. Plans Arc Ready Plans are going forward for the j calling of the council in special session to go into the Sunnyslde tuberculosis sanatorium water supply situation. Campbell plans to present the road situation to the council again at this time. The meeting probably will be called within a few weeks. Due to the fact that the council killed the main part of Campbell’s program, which had the approval of automobile clubs and civic organizations, construction work row in progress is on small jobs only. His program is built around a two or three year plan to encircle the city with concrete or macadamized roads along Eighty-Sixth St. on the north: Southport road on the south; High School road on the west and Shadeland Ave. on the east. * All these roads and others in his general program have been rcpctitioned, specifications are drawn and everything is ready for the formal approval of the council, | which was refused last fall. Jobs For 2,500 Roads in the general program for I 1928 are: Eighty-Sixth St. from Nora to Mud Creek Rd., 6.71 miles, concrete, $232,600; High School Rd., from Rockville Rd. to Road 67, 5 miles, macadam, $129,000; Southport Rd. from Bluff to Shelbyville Rd„ 6.15 miles, macadam, $165,900; Shadeland Ave. from Washington St. to North. 5.72 miles, concrete; College Ave. from the canal to the County line, 3.97 miles, concrete, $157,959; Spring Mills from Seventy-Fifth St. to county line. 2.52 miles, concrete, $96,020; E. Tenth St. from Arlington Ave., east, 6 miles, concrete, $195,497; Holt Rd. from National Rd. south, 2.5 miles, concrete, $76,913; Shelbyville Rd., 6.81 miles, macadam, 190,000; Acton Rd., 2.96 miles, macadam. Should the above program, planned originally to be completed in 1928, be started it would give employment to 2,500 persons, exclusive of added forces needed in cement firms and allied industries, Campbell estimates. Would Complete Plan by 1930 The sections of the four main roads, which eventually would encircle the city, not completed in 1928 wiuld follow, in 1929 and 1930 if Campbell s general scheme for improvement should be followed. Cap- be)' is backed by Commission res; at Charles O. Sutton and Commissioner Cassius L. Hogle. The third member is (. A rge Snider. The four who form u the opposition on the council last fall were President George Mont apery, Paul Dunn, John Shearer. Dr. O. R. Runnels. Other three renaming members are Frank Cone.;, James Edwards and Grant Moore. Undfer the law, the commissioners attend to the details of preparing for building such roads, the issuing of the bonds and awarding contracts. The council has authority to declare there is a public necessity for such improvements. The council majority’s opponents claim the council has tried repeatedly in this and other matters to overstep its authority and dictate policies to the commissioners. CHARGES SLAIN WOMAN BIGAMY LAW BREAKER Alleged Third Husband Makes Disclosure at South Bend. By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 29.Mrs. Marie Luzcowski, 45, with whose slaying last Friday her husband, Roman Luzcowski, 21, is charged, was married three times before, according to Robert N. Slade, Dayton, Ohio, who says he was her third husband. Slade, here to attend the woman’s funeral, asserted she committed bigamy by wedding Luzcowski, as she had not obtained a divorce from him. According to Slade, the husbands preceding him were Charles A. Stiener and Oscar P. Lesher. Authorities Indicate there may be some startling disclosures in the case soon. Already they have discovered that the woman did not possess the large amount of property credited to her at the time of her death, a desire to obtain which was among motives ascribed for the slaying.