Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1928 — Page 1

FIVE NATIONS ’ IN SEARCH FOR | AOCCREWS fTwo Giant Planes Ready to l Hunt Seven Lost in f , Italia Crash. t 4 (AMUNDSEN IN SILENCE Batteries Will Be j Dropped to Nobile; Pleads | for Early Rescue. By United Press KINGS BAY, Spitsbergen, June P 2 . —Two .giant Italian seaplanes were prepared today to take oil jnomentarily on the first real search for the seven men of the dirigible tTtalia, missing without trace now for just four weeks. ’ Major Umberto Maddalena, who found General Nobile and his party of five men Wednesday, was in command of one plane. The other was commanded by fJajor Pierluigi Penzo. Each plane was fuelled with {gasoline sufficient for a flight of {from twenty to thirty hours. The aviators planned to pass (Nobile’s camp off Foyn Island and drop radio batteries, for which Mobile appealed urgently. From there the planes were to fcruise out from Cape Leigh Smith pver the ice floes between Spits - bergen and Franz Josef Land. Five nations joined today in a {great relief move to rescue the score of men trapped in the. Arctic. 'Five Nations in Rescue Sixteen of these men, members of the crew of the dirigible Italia, have been lost in the great ice-bound iwilderness since May 25, when their dirigible crashed. Six have been located and are known alive, including General Umberto Nobile. The remainder, headed by Roald Amundsen, have been missing since Monday when they started by airplane on a rescue expedition to save • {Nobile. Nations aiding in this great rescue jnove are Norwary, Italy, Russia, France and Sweden. Hope of early rescue of General Nobile was replaced by anxiety again today when Nobile wirelessed through the supply ship Citta Di Milano here an appeal to the Italian government to rush airplanes containing runners for landing on the ice. “It is impossible for us to march (to land,” he added. It had been thought that Nobile and the four uninjured men with him could march to land to meet the Russian icebreaker Krassin at Foyn Island, and that the' fifth man, Chief Engineer Cecioni, whose leg is broken, could be taken off by a small plane. Hours of silence today increased fears for the Amundsen party which set out from Tromsoe Monday to fly to the rescue of Nobile and has not been heard of since. Seven men were aboard the Italia after it had crashed deposited nine of its crew an dthen flew to the eastward. These seven men have never been heard from. Three of the party who were landed with Nobile started walking' across the ice towards Cape North. No word has been heard from them. Three dog sleigh teams have been sent out from the steamer Braganza to search for them. No Word of Missing Amundsen, Lieutenant Dietrichson iand Commandant Guilbaud, with a crew, started from Tromsoe in a French seaplane Monday to search for the lost Nobile party. They were expected to maintain radio communication with either the Kings Bay station or the Bear Island station. They did not communicate with either station. They did not appear at Kings Bay as they had been expected to do. Various relief expeditions now under way or ordered. Ship—Steamer Braganza at North •Pole; Steamer Citta Di Milano at Kings Bay; French Cruiser Stras-‘ bourg and destroyer Quentin Roose- ► velt ordered to proceed north; Norwegian Fishing supervision vessel Michael Sars and Norwegian cruiser Tordenskjold ordered into relief 'fservice; Russian ice breaker Krassin which will leave Bergen Saturday; Russian ice breaker Maligin now in the arctic waters. Airplane—Norwegian small planes piloted from Briganza by Capt. H. Riiser-Larsen and Lieutenant Luet-zow-Holm; Italian seaplanes piloted by Major Maddalena and Major Penzo; Swedish plane, Upland; Italian seaplane ordered from Marina Di Pisa; one hydroplane at lea ,c aboard the ice breaker Krassin; one hydroplane aboard the Torlenskjold. Dog Teams —Three dog teams have been embarked from the Braganza to start searching for three men who walked away from the Nobile party.

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FIRST DEGREE MURDER INDICTMENT RETURNED BY JURY AGAINST SKEEN

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Carl Skeen, held on murder charge, photographed In his cell at Denver

‘FRAMEUP FOR SHIPP’ IS BRAND ON SCHOOL REPORT

You and Your Children Will Like This Page The Times today inaugurates iis Playground Page. Officials estimate that 25,000 of the 50,000 youngsters released from school will play daily at city recreation centers. Twenty-five thousand children, directed by more than 200 trained men and women, can find a lot of interesting things to do—interesting to everyone. The Times throughout the summer will tell you about them on the Playground Page every Friday. The department takes the place of the weekly School Page, during vacation. Read the first Playground Page today. Turn to Page 20.

MAIL KILLED Airplane Falls in Flames i During Storm. By United Press LEBO, Kan., June 22.—Pilot Wayne Neville of the ChicagoDallas air mail route ran into a severe wind and electrical storm near here today, crashed and was killed. His plane fell, a mass of flames, John Seibuhr, farmer, said. Seibuhr sale he believed the plane had been struik by lightning. LIFTS TOT: BREAKS ARM Mother Picks Up Child, Shoulder Is Fractured. Fourteen-month-old Richard Dean Pruitt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Pruitt, 3639 W. Tenth St., sustained a fractured shoulder when his mother attempted to lift him by the arm as they were crossing Washington and Illinois Sts., Thursday afternoon. He was taken to city hospital by motor police. Couple Held for Assault Bailey Lowe, 812 Meikel St., Is in city prison today and his wife in city hospital. Both face assault and battery charges, it being alleged that Lowe knocked his wife through a place glass window -at Illinois and McCarty Sts., Thursday.

BY ROBERT MOOREFIELD United Pres* Staff Correspondent SUPERIOR, Wis., June 22.—1f silence means anything in trout Ashing, the success of President Coolidge’s future angling expeditions is assured. As his partner in the trouting trips along the Brule River, Mi. Coolidge henceforth will have

Condemnation of Three Ventilating Systems Is Bitterjy Assailed. A report of the State board of accounts condemning ventilating systems in three Indianapolis schools, made public late Thursday, is "an open and shut attempt to boost C. C. Shipp and knock his competitors and to get official support for Shipp after his recent castigation by the State tax board,” William H. Book, former school business director, declared today. A special meeting of the school board to consider the report hair been called for 10 a. m. Saturday. Book was business director when the three buildings condemned— Washington High, an addition to School 34 and School 46—were built. He now is Chamber of Commerce civic affairs secretary. School 34 is located at Wade and Boyd Sts. and School 46 at Miller and Reisner Sts. Condemn Three Systems The three systems condemned were the univent, heatovent and ozone systems. Shipp is a local manufacturer of the direct-indirect system, installed in about 60 per cent of the school buildings erected here in the last sixteen years. Fred Bates Johnson, chairman of the school board building and grounds committee when the three structures were put up, joined Book in declaring the report was an attempt of Shipp to gain official support for his system. The heating and ventilating systems of the three school were approved by the State board of health, Book pointed out. Approved by Board The State law requires school rooms have foul air flumes capable of withdrawing used air at the rate of 1,800 cubic feet an hour for every 225 cubic feet of school room space. The systems at the three buildings provided only from zero to 75 per cent of this outflow, the report said. “There is not a heating and ventilating system in any Indianapolis public school that complies with the State requirements concerning humidity contyjel.” Earl E. Trickier, district manager of the Buffalo Forge Company, which installed the Washington High system, said. “Not even the direct-indirect systems, installed by Shipp, have this control. I believe the report was all right as far as it went, but it should have included all types, including Shipp’s system.”

COOLIDGE, IN 10-GALLON HAT, TRAILS SILENT INDIAN TO TROUT POOLS

John La Roque, 59-year-old‘-Chip- | pewa Indian guide, who is reputed ’ to know more about the habits, peculiarities and preferences of Brule River Ash than any of the other natives permitted to conduct Ashing parties on the river. In La Rocque the President meets his equal for taciturnity. A few grunts constitute John’s en-

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New True Bill Provides Greater Penalty in Jarboe Death. Carl Skeen, 22, butcher, today was reindicted by the county grand jury on a first degree murder charge for the death of Mrs. Pearl Jarboe, 24, waitress, 614 E. North St., June 13. Skeen was arrested in Denver Tuesday night and indicted Wednesday on a manslaughter charge. Manslaughter carries only a prison sentence. Death or life imprisonment is the punishment for first degree murder. • The new indictment charges that Skeen ‘'purposely and with premeditated malice killed Pearl Jarboe by striking and pushing her from a motor vehicle.” The indictment was returned soon after Thomas C. Whallon, attorney for Skeen, had withdrawn a motion before Criminal Judge Pro Tem Frank A. Symmes to prohibit the prosecutor or police from interviewing Skeen when he is brought here from Denver. Detective Patrick Finneran is expected back with hun Sunday. The motion was withdrawn when the prosecutor declared it was not his custom to grill prisoners and he had no intention of trying to wring a confession from Skeen. Skeen has admitted to Denver newspaper men that he drove the car from which Mrs. Jarboe made her death plunge, June 13, receiving a fractured skull from which she •'died the following day. Efforts for speedy justice in the Jarboe death case are going forward rapidly at the courthouse. Remy said he will seek a trial at the earliest possible date.

Wed Too Well By United Press NEW YORK, June 22 Florence Goodman Isaacs, who has been married to Philip Isaacs three times,'has applied to have all three marriages annulled. The first ceremony was performed by a justice of the peace after the couple eloped. The second one was conducted by a rabbi in Atlantic City, N. J., then, just to “have the marriage done right, ’ Isaacs had Mayor Charles J. Norris of Bergen, N. J., perform another ceremcny.

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Old U. S. Highway Ruling Cited for Irvington.

City Engineer A. H. Moore today asked Building Commissioner William F. Hurd to prohibit construction over the building line in Irvington. Moore said his office discovered the Indiana Legislature in 1829 set out an eighty-foot roadway for the National Rd., in conformity with the Federal Government’s plan for the cross-country highway. ‘ When Irvington was platted, the roadway c St. was designated as seventy feet instead of eighty,” Moore said. “We will cake no steps to change the property line at present, but will guard against future encroachments on the public right-of-way,” Moore said. John F. Payton, engineering aid, discovered the ancient statute regulating the width of the National highway. GETS BACK STOLEN CAR Follows Auto Until It Crashes; Thieves Escape. Harley Litteral, 20, of 1518 Olney St., saw his car stolen and followed in another machine until his stolen car crashed into another automobile at Maryland and Delaware Sts. He recovered it. The two Negro youths who had stolen the machine escaped. Litteral came out of a downtown theater just as the Negroes drove his- car away. He hailed a passing machine and followed.

tire vpcal effort for the day. The State conservation commissioners, who appointed him to show Mr. Coolidge around the northern woods, decided John would be just the companion for the chief executive. John is a Asherman and canoeman of fame. Heretofore, Mr. Coolidge has not ventured far in his canoes, but if his secret service

ADMITS THEFT OF $147,100, ENDS HIS LIFE

Poison Causes Death of Noblesville Cashier, After Confession. STOLE FOR 28 YEARS Covered Up in Books and Spent Cash on Parties, He Admits. Bh 7 'imes Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 22. Alter confessing he stole $147,100 from the Citizens State Bank here in the last twenty-4ight years, Omer G. Patterson, 50, bookkeeper and assistant cashier, today died in Noblesville hospital. He had taken a large quantity of poison Thursday night. The bank was closed this morning by Thomas D. Barr, assistant State bank commissioner, who is in charge. Signs Confession Officers have a written confession. signed by Patterson from his hospital bed, admittting the $147,100 theft. It was taken over the entire period of his employment, in various amounts, and the books fixed so that it would not be revealed, the officers declare. “I spent the money on parties,” Patterson told Harry Carig, vice president of the bank, to whom he gave the signed confession. This revelation scarcely Is believed by his most intimate friends. A staid bachelor, Patterson had worked without a vacation during all the years at the bank. He never was known to drink, nor to have fast women friends. Held Up as “Example” Prominent in social and fraternal circles, he often was held up as an example to the youth of the city. His only recreation was to entertain a few friends, very sedately, at a river cottage. When State Bank Examiner T. G. Inwood and J. A. Parrett were examining the books of the bank Thursday. Patterson protested mildly against examination of two ledgers which he kept. The examiners were insistent. Patterson then fled in fear to his room at the Houston Hotel and drank poison. William E. Dunn is president of the bank. Although an aged man, he gained fame some time ago by sounding an alarm while robbers faced him with a gun. Barr said that every effort w'as being made to protect depositors and save the bank from loss. It is capitalized at SIOO,OOO. DUMP BONDED WHISKY Canadian Liquor Worth $3,500 Believed Brought in Plane. Nearly 250 quarts of “genuine” Canadian bonded whiskey, confiscated by prohibition agents, was destioyed at the Federal Bidg. today under direction of George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator. The liquor, valued at more than $3,500, is believed by agents to have been transported here from Detroit in an airplane. About fifty gallons of alcohol and “white mule" also were destroyed. Hourly Temperatures 7am 63 10 a. m 74 8 a. m 65 11 a. m 78 9am 68 12 (noon).. 80

Brew Did Brew U * It Actually Developed Alcoholic Ways in Warm, Cozy Spot.

HOME-BREW, if permitted to remain in p warm place for several days, is apt to become alcoholic. This lore was unfolded in court today by Henry Winkler, attorney, tor the information of Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter. Because of it, Winkler asked that his client, Russell Borden, 1225 College Ave., be released from blind tiger charges. Police found five gallons and eight quart bottles of brew at Borden’s home in a raid May 2, it was admitted. But Winkler declared police waited to test it until June 6, when it had developed a 5-plus kick. This .was through no fault of the brewer, Winkler said. The judge took the case under advisement.

guard will let him risk a ducking, John may teach him how to ride some of the rapids nearby. nun TT'OR his Ashing trips, incidental - * ly, the President has changed his costume. He has donned a ten-gallon and highheeled cowboy boots. They are understood to be the same that he

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The gavel which will rap the national Democratic convention to order at Houston, Tex., next week is pictured here in the hands of Miss Betty Jane Barrett, Wellesley sophomore and daughter of Fred Barrett, Indiana Democratic Club president. The gavel, built for strenuous usage, is the gift of William Patton, Martinsville furniture manufacturer. The Hoosier delegation has been assured by Clem Shaver, National Democratic chairman, that the “Andrew Jackson Old Hickory” gavel will be received gratefully by the gathering.

Mary Bobs! By United Press NEW YORK. June 22 Mary Pickford has given up the curls which helped make her “America’s sweetheart” and an International motion picture star. A baroer cut off the celebrated tresses just betore Miss Pickford left for Chicago.

HUNT ‘GAS HAWKS' Screams of Woman Heard From Truck. Police today were investigating the third and fourth report of attacks by “gas hawks” within the last three diys. Mrs. Mary Summers, 820 E. Georgia St., telephoned police this afternoon that a young man in an automobile tried to induce her daughter, Charlotte, 8, to get into his automobile as she came out of a grocery and when she refused drove slowly after her all the way home. Mrs. Ruby Ruckle, 1127 N. New Jersey St., called police at 1:40 a. m. after she and her husband had been awakened by a piercing scream of a woman in front of their home. Mrs. Ruckle said she and her husbarid saw a light truck speed away. Another scream came from the truck, she said. Police found no trace of the truck and there was no report of an attack or a missing girl. Another emergency squad found no trace of an intoxicated barefooted young woman who told Joe Noonan, 249 Christian Ave., milk man, a mile west of the city limits on the National Rd., that her escort had deserted her after a beer party. REED ON WAY SOUTH Sleeping Senator Fails to See Reporters at Dallas. By United Press DALLAS, Texas, June 22.—Senator Reed of Missouri slept while his train stopped here today on the way to the Democratic convention at Houston. Newspaper men were informed by Mrs. Reed that the Senator “was keeping to his berth late today.”

7 FACE MURDER CHARGES IN LYNCHING OF NEGRO

By United Pijcss HOUSTON. Texas, June 22. Indictments charging seven young white men with murder for the lynching of Robert Powell, 24-year-old Negro, were expected to be returned today by the Harris County grand jury. Before midnight last night—less than twenty-four hours after the

used in the Black Hills of South Dakota last year. With this wild west out At—a strange sight in the timber and lake region—Mr. Coolidge wears a Asherman’s jacket. In reply to his congratulatory message on the completion of her Aight across the Atlantic, Miss Amelia Earhart, the first woman

ELECTRIC CHAIR CLAIMSTHREE District of Columbia Kills Cop’s Slayers. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 22.—The District of Columbia’s first triple execution since the hanging of Mrs. Suratt and two other Lincoln assassination conspirators was held today. Three men went to the District’s new electric chair for the murder of Policeman Leo W. K. Busch, shot to death when he tried to arrest them as robbery suspects. Nicholas Lee Eagles, 32, went to the chair first, singing loudly the Jewish lament. He handed a note to a reporter protesting his innocence. He was pronounced dead fifteen minutes after he started the death walk at 10 a. m. Samuel Moreno, 20, tossed away a cigaret as he reached the chair. He kissed a cross in his hand and sat down. The current was applied at 10:20. One shock only was necessary for Moreno. His body was removed from the chair at 10:24. John Proctor, 19, a dapper, confident youth during most of the two years of imprisonment, was brought into the death chamber on a stretcher. He appeared unconscious. Groaning loudly, Proctor was taken from the stretcher by guards and placed in the chair. The shock was applied immediately and he was pronounced dead at 10:35. CITY" PATROLMAN FREED Manslaughter Charge for Fatal Shooting Is Dismissed. Charge /of manslaughter against Carl Wilson, city patrolman, who shot and fatally wounded Paul Connor, 18, of 548 Goodlet Ave.. was dismissed by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter Thursday afternoon. Wilson, v/ho was suspended from the police force, shot Conner when the youth refused to obey the policeman’s order to stop.

lynching—five of the seven men were in custody. One confession had been obtained. Others under arrest made statements to authorities. Murder complaints were filed in Justice of the Peace J. M. Ray’s court and the five men in custody held without bond. The cases were to be sent direct to the grand jury today. Arrest of the two men still at liberty was expected today.

to Ay across the ocean, has cabled the President her appreciation. “The crew of the Friendship,” she said, “desires to express its deep appreciation of your excellency’s gracious message. Success entirely due to great skill of Mr. Stultz. He was only one mile off course at Valentia after Aying blind for 2,246 miles at average speed of 113 miles per hour.”

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DEMOCRATS FUSS ON DRY SOFT PEDAL Prohibition Is Shaping Up as Big Fighting Point at Houston. / , ROW IS OUT IN OPEN Strong Farm Aid Plank Will Be Built Into Platform. BY CARL D. GROAT United Pres* Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, Texas, June 22.—Prohibition continued of foremost Interest in preconvention considera- ! W°n here today despite leaders’ efforts to soft-pedal It. Anti-Smith drys marshaled their forces more strongly than heretofore, while many Smith men sounded the cry, "prohibition is not a political issue.” Nevertheless, it showed signs of j being the one big fighting point in j the Democratic assembly opening | here next Tuesday. Governor Smith’s reiteration of j his previous views on the subject in ' New York, while containing nothing J fresh from a factual standpoint, ! served as added fuel to the drys' agitation here. Governor Smith is prepared to run for the Presidency on a lawenforcement plank, stronger even than the Republicans’ Kansas City plank, according to authoritative advices reaching his workers here today. Meantime anti-Smith workers were awaiting the arrival Sundaynight of Governor Dan Moody of Texas, to furnish them a nationally known figure to lead the dry fight in the convention. Dry Row Into Open The dry row really came into the open when Norman E. Mack of Buffalo, New York committeeman, declared Governor Smith was opposed to prohibition, favored temperance and advocated States’ rights in determination of beverages’ alcoholic content. Later, he asserted he was voicing his own views and that no on? could speak here for the Governor. Then in New York, Thursday night, the Governor made it clear he had not changed his views on amendment of prohibition provisions, leaving States to determine alcoholic content of beverages. The Governor also had made it clear previously that he favored enforcing laws while they remain on the statute books. Hold Prayer Sessions The Governor’s statement met with two chief reactions here, namely: 1. Drys claimed it put him more firmly on record as a “wet,” and as such they oppose him. 2. Smith’s friends said the part of frankness demanded that he make his position clear before the convention, thus not taking the nomination under false pretenses. The drys are holding regular prayer sessions in their headquarters around the corner from the Rice Hotel, chie. gathering place of the Democratic clans. Their noon day meetings are opened with prayer. Most of the drys are women. The Senator Reed forces have been trying to win their support, but thus far the effort seems to have failed, although Mrs. Jessie Nicholson of Chevy Chase, Md., a suburb of the capital, was named by Reed supporters as likely to join the Reed ranks and line up the dry women for Reed. Mrs. Nicholson emphatically denied she had any intention of supporting him. Many label Reed as a wet. Strong Farm Plank The Smith headquarters was silent about the Governor’s latest pronouncement. It was said there would be no attempt to amplify or interpret the Governor’s remarks, he could speak for himself. Meanwhile, the Democratic leaders who are engaged in what they term the constructive work of the convention—framing the outlines of the party platform—progressed to the point where they saw several planks taking form. They were: Farm relief. Corruption. Law enforcement. The farm relief plank will be very strong. The definite method of meeting the farmers’ equalization fee demands has not been determined, but it was stated that every effort will be made to satisfy farmers thoroughly without simultaneously raising among industrialists the cry that the method is “uneconomical.”

Virginia Uninstructed By United Prcaa ROANOKE, Va., June 22.—Virginia’s twenty-four votes at the national Democratic convention are in the hands of an unlnstructcd delegation. The State party convention here Thursday was featured by harmony. It adopted a platform denouncing graft and corruption in Government and endorsed the Eighteenth Amendment. Governor Harry F. Byrd was elected national co'.nmitteeman and Mrs. Robert C. Watts, national committee woman.