Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1928 — Page 9
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PLANE FALLS AS PASSENGER SLUGS PILOT Crazed Man Attacks Flier With Hammer 2,000 Feet in Air. CRAFT IN TAILSPIN Maniac Renews Antics as Ship Hurtles Down: Both Live. Pm United Press PONTIAC, Mich., May 15.—0n his cot in a Pontiac hospital today, Harry Anderson, 28, an airplane pilot, related the amazing story of his encounter with a crazy man while flying at an altitude of 2,000 feet above the grounds of the State insane asylum. Anderson was beaten over the head with a hammer by his deranged passenger, but kept his plane under control until it was near the ground, where it crashed. Physicians say he will recover.
Clarence Frechette, 23, the passenger, also survived the crash and was under police surveillance at the hospital. The plane, which fell late Monday on the grounds of the State insane asylum, was wrecked completely. Attacked High in Air As he was being prepared for the operating table, Anderson related an amazing story of his fletionlike experiences. “The man paid me to carry him from near Detroit to Pontiac,” Anderson said, speaking in jerxs “He said he was a parachute tester. “Everything seemed all right until, as we were sailing along easily about 2,000 feet up, we sighted the insane asylum. For no known reason, I happened to turn my head suddenly. “I saw a flash of the man standing up, swinging down a hammer with full force. Paralyzed with surprise, I managed to duck somehow. The blow glanced off my head, stunning me. Pulls Out of One Spin “I shouted to the fool. The plane dipped and I slid out of my seat. Then the ship went into a spin. I don't know how, but I pulled out of it. “I looked around. The fellow was coming after me again with that hammer. I ducked, but he hit me on the head. I remember clutching at the controls as we went into a nose dive. Then I passed out.” Spectators, thinking, rightly, that they were seeing some new air stunt as they watched antics of the airplane, rushed to the wreckage. Anderson was clutching the control stick, and Frechette, mumbling incorrehently, had his hammer, which had been broken. Youth Claims to Be Pilot Frechette told a disconnected story of being “attacked” by Anderson. He claimed he was piloting the plane when Anderson began pounding with the hammer. Frechette’s father, mother and sister said he had acted “wild” sometimes, but always appeared rational. ' In the supposed crazed man’s pocket were two letters. “Death is my postage, sweetheart,” was scrawled in an erratic hand, in one addressed to Miss Georgia Perdee of Pontiac. It spoke of*undying love and said the memory of her would be carried forever in his heart, as he feared death “will come at any time now.” The other was to his mother. Both will recover hospital authorities said.
TWO OFFICIALS LOSE MICHIGAN CITY PLACES Commission Ousts Police Chief and Engineer Effective at Once. By Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., May 15. —Richard J. Kruse, 29, police chief here, and believed one of the youngest men in the country holding such a position, has been ousted by the city commission. Wade W. Swasick, city engineer, has also been discharged. Dismissals are effective at once. The commission • announced no reason for its action. Some connection is believed to exist between the dismissals and raids here Friday by Federal dry agents in which forty-four persons were arrested. The raids are said to have been made at the instigation og the Rev. Donald C. Ford, First Christian Church pastor, and former local leader of the Ku-Klux Klan. LOCAL SPEAKERS HEARD Three on Today’s Program of State Church Convention. ' By Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., May 15.—A conference period opened today’s session of the convention of Indiana Disciples of Christ Churches. The speakers were Mrs. Effie L. Cunningham, H. C. Armstrong and Genefrede Harris, all of Indianapolis. This evening there will be a business men’s commission banquet and a banquet of young people. Body Washed Ashore NEW ALBANY, Ind., May 15. The body of John Featheringill, accidentally drowned in the Ohio River here March 15, has been washed ashore by waves in the wake of a passing steamboat, after use oi dynamite had dislodge
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FINDS RICHES IN FAKE GEMS
Movie Diamonds Are Mint for
Esther Ralston (left) is wearing just enough jewels, but Florence Vidor (right) has too many, according to Willie Peterson (below), maker and faker of Hollywood’s gems.
‘CRAZY,’ PLEADS MAN WHOSHOTTWOGIRLS
New Topper Pm United Press NEW YORK, May 15.—Governor Smith, attending the 139th anniversary celebration of the Society of Tammany, explained why he was wearing anew gray felt hat. “The brown derby,” he said, “was used up on my trip south and I’ve had to ‘can’ it. However, I’ve got another one coming.”
TEN LOST WHEN BOATCAPSIZES One Swims Mile in Cold Lake to Shore. Pm United Press ROCKWOOD, Maine, May 15. Searching parties will start out early today for a spot in Moosehead Lake hoping to find some trace of ten men who were tossed into the rough waters Sunday when their motorboat suddenly overturned. There was little hope any of the men would be found. Capt. James E. Lays, the one survivor who swam through the cold water and then walked to Rockwood, said he saw no trace of his companions when he had reached shore. Lays said the party—an annual fishing group from Brockton, Mass, —had started Sunday from Greenville in a motorboat. About a mile off shore a leak developed and soon the little boat was submerged. Lays started swimming for shore, about a mile away. He was almost exhausted and said he discovered none of his companions had made the swim.
COOLIDGE TO.SEE COLONIAL PAGEANT
BY ROBERT MOOREFIELD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 15.—When President and Mrs. Coolidge leave the White House at 1:30 o’clock today for Annapolis they will turn back the calendar 150 years to walk among a citizenry of powdered wigs, knee breeches, swords and threecornered hats. The occasion will be the Colonial day celebration under auspices of St. John’s College to commemorate the Annapolis convention of 1786. President and Mrs. Coolidge will receive a welcome similar to that accorded George Washington when he visited the city, en route to New York to accept the presidency of the United States. Annapolis, rich in historical lore and background of the colonial era, has been transformed to present as closely as possible the city of the
Following is the second United Press dispatch in a series dealing with the case of five women factory workers in New Jersey who are dying of radium poisoning. ORANGE, N. J., May 15.—Miss Grace Fryer, one of the five New Jersey factory workers, who have been given up by physicians to die a slow and painful death, described some of the symptoms of radium poisoning in an interview with the United Press today. While she waits for the law to come to her aid in the $1,250,000 damage suits which she and her former working companions have filed against the United States
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Rush County Farmer Is Caught at Muncie After Fleeing Greensboro. BV Times Special GREENSBORO, Ind., May 15. “I must have been crazy,” is the comment of Marion Rider, 24, Rush County farmer, who shot two girls here Monday. The wounded are Miss Helen Redick, 23, Mays Station, who six weeks ago broke her engagement to Rider, and Miss Viola Ratliff, 16. Miss Redick is in a serious condition. Rider came to the William Ratliff home here Monday morning and asked for the engagement ring he has given Miss Redick. As she handed it to him, he opened fire with a .22-caliber rifle, four 5f five shots strikiing the young woman. The fifth missed her, but struck Miss Ratliff in a leg. Miss Redick had been a guest at the Ratliff home several days and Rider is said to have been jealous of Morris Ratliff, a son in the family. After the shootiing, Rider fled in his auto, but was captured at Muncie early this morning. He was recognized by Lyle Cummins, traction station ticket agent, when he asked him the quickest way to get to Chicago. Near the station Muncie police found Rider’s car. In it was the rifle he used in the shooting. Its magazine was full of cartridges, Rider having reloaded it after fleeiing from the Ratliff home. He said he bought the weapon Saturday to use in hunting. $5,000 Fire at Anderson By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 15.—Damage of $5,000 resulted from fire at the Winters-Mercer-Brannum Lumber Company yard. The fire is believed to have been caused by a defect in electric wiring.
immediate post-revolutionary period. Numerous mansions and buildings around which > centered pivotal events of the past will be used as the background today for pageants depicting early Maryland history. Thd presidential entourage will arrive at Annapolis at 3 o’clock, after an address of welcome by John Hays Hammond, noted soldier of fortune and mining authority, at the outskirts of the city, the official party will be escorted by a cavalry detachment to the old Statehouse where in 1786 the Annapolis convention met and where, three years earlier. Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the continental armies. There a scheduled program will begin that will command the President’s attention until his departure at 5 o’clock.
19 OPERATIONS FAIL TO SAVE GIRL DOOMED BY RADIUM POISONING
Radium Corporation, her bones are being disintegrated by the radium which she took into her body while painting watch dials. “I have had nineteen operations,” Miss Fryer said, “but my doctors tell me there is no hope.” The strange malady, for which the world of science knows no cure, has centered in Miss Fryer’s right leg and in her jaw and back. She wears a large brace on her back and the trouble in her jaw is causing her to lose her teeth. MISS FRYER estimates that she put the radium paint brush to her lips to wet it about
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 15,1928
Ingenious Dane
BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer Hollywood, cai., May 15. Diamonds, pearls and other rare stones which adorn “Princess” Florence Vidor or “Countess” Esther Ralston when they parade across the silver screen aren’t real jewels at all. But they enable Willie Peterson, Danish faker of jewels, to buy real diamonds and anything else which strikes his fancy. The story of Willie Peterson is the same story that has been told so many times—and yet it is different. A poor foreigner, Peterson came to this country to make his fortune. Made Wealthy by Films He didn’t know what he was going to do, although he was an experienced jeweler. When he came to Hollywood, Peterson didn’t have any idea of “crashing” the movies. To him they were merely a form of entertainment. But it is tb film industry that has made him wealthy. Naturally the jewels that are used in motion pictures cannot be real. The cost would be prohibitive and there is too much danger of them being stolen. Therefore cheap imitations must be made so that they will photograph like the genuine article. Discovered by Paramount It was while Petersen was working in a Hollywood jewelry store that he was “discovered.” A property man from the Paramount studio had been sent out to find someone who could copy quickly a group of Louis XlV’s crown jewels. The Dane did the job and did it so well that orders started pouring in from all studios. Willie’s employer’s profits went up, but Willie’s salary stayed where it was. So he quit and went into business for himself, one room of his home-made house serving as his workshop. Originality Needed In his new line, Petersen quickly learned the value of the originality which had been literally pounded into him during his six years of apprenticeship under various European jewelers. “In Europe there is not so much money and the jeweler must be more original and artistic,” explains Petersen. “American women have too much money to spend on jewelry. Most of them sacrifice beauty for size. “Even in pictures there is a tendency for that same thing. They try to make a woman lock flashy instead of beautiful with jewels. Finds Joy in Creations “However, the film directors do want something original. They don’t want the women in their pictures wearing ordinary bits of jewelry. “They want them to have something different so that it will attract attention on the screen. “That is why I like this business—because I enjoy creating original things.
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Du Pont Lines Up With Prohibition Laic’s Foes
Dry Act Blow at Liberty, Has Bad Economic Effect, He Says. /*/ A T EA Service WILMINGTON, Del., May 15. Pierre S. du Pont, chairman of the directorate of two of the world’s greatest corporations, has become an outspoken foe of prohibition. Du Pont, head of the boards of General Motors and of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, believes the Eighteenth Amendment should be erased from the United States Constitution. Copies of a recent questionnaire on prohibition sent to more than 100,000 Delaware adults by the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment were accompanied by a letter from du Pont. He voiced the belief that prohibition has had a bad economic effect, and is an infringement on liberty. Money which would go to the
300 times a day between 1917 and 1920, when she and seventy other women were employed in the watch factory. Thirteen of her former working companions already have died and doctors have despaired of saving the five involved in the present suit for damages, Redress for the condemned women is being delayed by a provision ih New Jersey laws which requires that suits for damages must be filed within two years after the cause of the injury. Ra-
PUN TO LINK EAST-WEST IN 48-HOUR TRIP Would Combine Airplanes With Fast Trains for Passenger. LINDY DECLINES OFFER Stays Free From Commercial Field, but Praises New Air-Rail System. B if United Press NEW YORK, May 15.—A national tiansportation system—combing airplanes and fast passenger trains—has been planned with the idea of placing San Francisco within forty- | eight to fifty-two hours of New | York. A series of conferences to work j out details for the system was in progress today. Announcement of the complete West to East schedule was expected this afternoon. Wall Street reacted to the announcement of the service when the Stock Exchange opened with stocks of companies involved in the project going up. Shares in the Wright Aeronautical Corporation and the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation reached new high prices, stock in the former selling for $205 a share, and the latter, $165. Lindy Declines Offer Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has been approached with the idea of heading the new organization, but thus far has decided against connecting himself in any way with commercial airplane organizations. The plan as considered now would include the Pennsylvania Railroad, fUe National Air Transport Company and possibly the Atchison, Topekaa & Santa Fe Railroad and either the Boeing or the Western Air Transport Airplane Companies. C. M. Keyes, president of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, is actively interested while Blair & Cos., New York banking house, has become the fiscal agent. Definite announcement is expected soon.
Take Trains at Chicago Passengers now are carried from coast to coast by the air mail companies but pilots are disinclined to take passengers on the night flights. The tentative plans call for a program that would have a passenger leave New York in a regular airplane, operating on a schedule synchronized with railroad schedules, and make a day flight to Chicago. At Chicago the passenger would be transferred to a fast passenger train for the night trip. The following morning he passenger would transfer to airplane and perfect schedules would be kept for the entire journey. Plane Dining Service Fourteen-passenger cabin planes equipped with ■restaurant serivee would be used. The operating company of the newspaper was said to have been capitalized at $5,000,000. Plans are still in a tentative state and it has not been decided definitely what railroads and airplanes in the West would operate with the National Air Transport and the Pennsylvania Railroad in the East. Colonel Lindbergh lauded the idea of the new National transportation system and said he thought it would work out well. However, he said he was not yet ready to go into commercial airplane business, feeling he could be of more aid to aviation in the undertakings he already has.
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Government as revenue from a con-
trolled liquor traffic now goes to bootleggers, he said.
dium poisoning, however, does not show itself until several years after it is contracted. In the case of the five women in the present suit, their ailment was not diagnosed for seven years. “The worst part of the whole thing is that I don’t dare do much with my hands, for fear of being scratched,” Miss Fryer said, “The least scratch will not heal, because of the radium.” r v u DR. ROBERT E. HUMPHRIES, head of the staff at Orthopedic Hospital here, concurred in
Miss Lucinda Smith Is Butler Carnival Queen
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Program for June Day Fete at New Campus Is Arranged. Miss Lucinda Smith today was announced as Queen of the June day carnival to be held by the students of Butler University on the new campus at Fairview June 1. The carnival will be under the auspices of the Woman’s League, whose president is Miss Mary Lee Orloff, and the Men’s Union, Henry Hebert, president. The program will begin with a June breakfast at 11 in charge of Miss Dorothy Pier, assisted by the girls of the Scarf Club. Breakfast will be followed by a band concert under the direction of Henry Hebert, after which will come a pageant representing all the departments and clubs at Butler. The pageant will be directed by Miss Martha Dean. In the evening *\ dance will be held at the Claypoi 1. Miss Gladys Hocker will be in charge. The line of march of the pageant: University Band—Chairman Henry Hebert. “Alma Mater.” represented by Miss Mary Louise Larmore, with escorts. Miss Mary Lee Orloff, chairman. Queen of the carnival. Miss Lucinda Smith, with escorts. Misses Martha Dean and Emily Mauzy, chairman. Men’s Glee Club—Joe Gremmelspacher, chairman. Student Representatives Miss Wilma Dunkle, chairman. Department Clubs—Miss Jane Ogborn, chairman, assisted by Miss Grace Myers, Douglas Perry, Stanley Cain and Miss Ida Wilhite, facultv adviser. Greek Letter Societies—Miss Edna Christian, chairman, assisted by De Forest O'Dell and Miss Allegra Stewart, faculty advisers. Social, Religious and Honor Clubs —Miss Margaret Wcesner, chairman, assisted by Misses Olga Bronke, Dorothy Brady and George Schumacher, faculty adviser. Athletic Teams and Clubs— George (Potsy) Clark, chairman, and Miss Louise Schulmeyer, faculty adviser. Teachers’ College—Miss Fay Marshall, chairman. Art Institute—Miss Edna Shover, chairman. Indiana School of Music —Mrs. Henry Sherman and Mrs. Blanche Harrington, chairman. Metropolitan Music School—Mrs. Grace Mac Kay and Miss Frances Beik, chairman. Forest scene from “As You Like : It,” Miss Beik, chairman. I
SENATE PROBE OF TAX CASES LI.KELY
By Times Special • WASHINGTON, May 14.—A senatorial investigation of circumstances under which the treasury attempted to collect $10,000,000 in extra taxes from profits of Senator Couzens in selling Fo/d stock seems assured. The Senate judiciary committee yesterday reported a resolution by enator La Follette of Wisconsin for the investigation. It had been unanimously recommended by a subcommittee consisting of Senators Borah, Blaine and Walsh, Montana. Senate interest in the La Follette
the testimony of other physicians at one of the hearings on the case. Dr. Humphries has treated all five of the women. “We know they have radium in their systems,” he said, “but no one yet has succeeded in developing an antidote for the disease. It may be that the radium poisoning makes them so weak as to be susceptible to other diseases. It destroys their will to live. “Just how long they will live, I cannot say. We do know that radium is so devastating that it cannot be long.”
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OCEAN FLIERS IN SL LOUIS Parade and Dinners Given Airmen. By United Press ST. LOUIS, May 15.—St. Louis paid its tribute today to the Ger-man-Irish crew of the trans-Atlan-tic plane Bremen. A civic parade, a reception by Mayor Victor J. Miller, a groundbreaking ceremony at the proposed new German House here, luncheon with August A. Busch, the brewer, and a public dinner as the guest of the Chamber of Commerce, comprised today’s program. The east-west conquerors of the Atlantic, Baron Guenther Von Huenefeld, Maj. James Fitzmaurice and Capt. Hermann Koehl, arrived here by air late Monday from Milwaukee. after a 350-mile flight featured by aerial honors over the tomb of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield, 111., where German and Irish flags were dropped. There was a distinct Spirit of St. Louis-Bremen touch to the reception of the visitors, whose trip here seemed to emphasize the aerial bond between the two cities. They delighted St. Louis, too, with the gracious reference to Lindbergh as “the greatest aviator in the world,” while Von Huenefeld admitted it was Lindbergh's flight which inspired his own venture.
FREDRICK TO FIGHT Will Carry Contest With Dailey to Floor. fill Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., May 15.—John E. Fredrick. Kokomo manufacturer, who ran second in the primary race for the Democratic nomination for Governor, will carry his fight to the floor of the Democratic State convention in Indianapolis, June 6 and 7. In a statement Monday night. Fredrick said his supporters throughout the State urged him to give a battle to Frank C. Dailey, who led in the primary, but failed of a majority.
resolution has been heightened by recent defeats of the treasury in its attempt to collect the tax. Two Federal Courts have held in favor of one of the group of Ford stockholders, and the board of tax appeals has ruled that those, including Couzens, from whom the treasury tried to collect about $30,000,000, not only do not owe that, but may have a rebate coming. The La Follette resolution cites “evidence of collusion between internal revenue officials and so-called tax experts.
The next hearing on the plea of the plaintiffs to enjoin the radium company fronr taking refuge behind the statute of limitations has been postponed until / September. A motion by Raymond H. Berry, attorney for the complainant, seeking to have the hearing speeded up, will be argued in the Newark chancery court next Tuesday. nun (Tomorrow's dispatch on the New Jersey radium cases will deal with the tangle which thus lar has prevented the victims Irom obtaining redress through law.) s
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CHINESE PUSH FORWARD TO SEIZE PEKIN Manchuria Leader Starts Retreat Before Onrush of Nationalists. JAPAN KEEPS WATCH Foreigners in Capital and in Tsientsin Believed to Be Safe. BY MILES W. VAUGHN, United Press Staff Correspondent TOKIO, May 15.—Japanese officials today maintained a careful watch on the steady advance of the Chinese Nationalist armies on Pekin and Tientsin, both of which may fall before the southerners with little or no opposition. The capture of Pekin is expected momentarily and It was questioned here whether Gen. Chang Tso Lin, the Manchurian leader and head of the northern faction, would oppose strenuously the occupation of the central government capital. Chang is expected to retire to Manchuria and latest advices said his northern forces were retreating slowly from their defense lines. Relations between the Japanese and Chinese were quiet today. From Tsinan came reports that the Japanese consul general had arranged with the Chinese for maintaining peace. It was in Tsinan that the Japanese routed the Nationalist forces recently, after bitter engagements in which there were a number of casualties. The Chinese eventually evacuated the city and continued their drive toward Pekin. At Tientsin already there are a number of troops, including many Japanese marines. Japan watched that situation closely and had made no decision as yet whether to dispatch additional troops to that area. Japanese also watched the drive on Pekin. Japanese Nationals there are said to be well protected. Latest reports here were that the Nationalist leaders indicated the recent difficulties with the Japanese at Tsinan were caused by enemies of Gen. Chianftg Kai Shek, leader of the Nationalist group. Some records dispute this claim. Also it was said here that Gen. Hoy Act Su, whose troops are alleged to have originated the trouble with the Japanese at Tsinan, had been dismissed from the Nationalist forces.
Americans Believed Safe Bn United Press WASHINGTON, May 15.—Rapid changes in the Chinese military situation in the last few days pointing to early capture of Pekin have convinced authorities here that Americans and other foreigners in Tientsin and Pekin are reasonably safe and that there will be no repetition of the Nanking or Tsinan disorders in either city, the United Press was informed today. This confidence was based on information showing that certain uncontrollable elements in the Nationalist and allied armies, which are believed to have been responsible for the Nanking and Tsinan outbreaks, have been suppressed definitely. Officials here say they have more confidence in Feng Yu-Hsiang and Yen Hsi-Shaw, who apparently have taken complete charge of the drive on Pekin, at least insofar as the protection of foreigners is concerned.
League Gets Tokio Note Pi! United Press GENEVA, May 15.—For “purely informative purposes,” Japan today submitted to the League of Nations ; copies of two declarations made by i the government at Tokio. One explained the necessity for ! sending military and naval forces to Shantung Province, China. The other affirmed Japan’s intention to withdraw the forces when they no longer were needed. This was the first official intimation the league had had of the Japanese-Chinese crisis since the Chinese Nationalist government’s appeal for intervention. ACCOUNTANTS TO ELECT City Chapter Will Hear Talk by Real Silk Comptroller. The Indianapolis Chapter, National Association of Cost Accountants, will elect officers at the final spring meeting at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce. William Baum, Real Silk Hosiery Mills Comptroller, will speak on “Time Study and Wage Incentive Plans.” Baum, after being graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, served for a number of years as assistant to Charles P. Steinmetz, deceased, the electrical wizard. Later he was dean of the engineering school of Milwaukee. BANK HEARING SET / Argue Quash Motion Thursday in Symons Case Judge Hurt Hunt of the Miami Circuit Court will hear the motion of Fred Gause and Victor Ringer at Williamsport Thursday that th> indictments be quashed agahisj Luther Symons, State banking commissioner, charging negligence in connection with the closing of the Warren State Bank. Original indictments were quashed when it was found that the grand jury had not ben properly sworn in and new Indictments were drawn by th& prosecutor.