Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1928 — Page 3

SEPT. 20, 1928

JUDGE LINDSEY SEEKS TO END FILMDIVQRCES Scientific Court Is Urged in Hollywood to Stem Unhappiness Tide. L\i) Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Sept. 20. Hollywood will establish a scientific ..“court of conciliation” to head off its multiplying divorce and domestic triangle scandals, if it follows the proposal of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, noted domestic relations jurist and sociologist. Judge Lindsey believes that practically all the wrecked marriages that mar the lives of the film stars can be avoided if the problems are submitted to sympathetic advisers for adjustment out of court. The plan to set up such an official court has received much encouragement from leaders in the industry, he says, outlining his proposal in an article written for the October issue of Photoplay Magazine. Lindsey Acts as Adviser Judge Lindsey is here acting as adviser for a picture built around present-day social and domestic problems. “There is, as I see it, great need for an avenue through which to handle Hollywood’s domestic problems,” he says. “The solution lies, I feel, in the establishment of an inner court of conciliation, made to function along lines similar to the House of Human Welfare as I conducted it in Denver. "Such an agency would be a beautiful work, and it would be of inestimable worth to these children of the films—grown up and otherwise. I find much encouragement and enthusiasms for such a plan in Hollywood, so perhaps it will come to pass—its scientific experts in affairs of the human heart and problems of humanity setting a glorious example to the rest of the world." Actor Is Unbalanced The motion picture actor, Judge Lindsey declares, is emotionally unbalanced and necessarily so, since he or she lives in a world of makebelieve where love-making is usually a part of the day’s business and where temptations to lead unconventional lives are greater than any place else on earth. The actor who lives by exercising his emotions, his Photoplay article points out, naturally develops an emotional attitude toward all of life and is unable to apply clear reason to his domestic problems or other every-day affairs. Consequently the rush to the divorce court frequently is most propelled entirely by the emotions, where with rational guidance the players could be easily made to see the folly of their course. jiQLD ALBERT GREENE BURIAL RITES FRIDAY Funeral Services Arranged at Masonic Temple and Home. Funeral services for Albert B. Greene, 51, of 543 W. Forty-Sec-ond St., will be held at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Masonic Temple, and at 2:30 p. m. at the residence. Mr. Greene, secretary-treasurer of the DeWolf-Greene News Company, died suddenly Tuesday night. Services at the temple will be conducted by members of Central lodge No. 23, F. and A. M., and the Rev. J. Drove Forward, Sullivan, will officiate at the home. Burial in Crown Hill cemetery will be in charge of officers and past masters of Center lodge. Mr. Greene, a life-long resident of the city, was a past master of Center lodge and worshipful master in 1921. He was a member of both the York and Scottish Rite. DRAFT TAX PLOT SUIT I Gilliom to Charge Fulton County Officials With Irergularities. Charges are being prepared in the office of Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom to be filed in Fulton Circuit Court against six Fulton County residents alleged to have participated in a scheme to collect $38,240.75 in delinquent taxes in an irregular manner. The case will be founded on evidence unearthed by the board of accounts. Those alleged involved are Clem V. Leonard, former Fulton C- unty auditor; Omar B. Smith, president of the First National Bank, Rochester; W. A. Hiatt, H. L. Meredith and S. F. Smith, county commissioners, and Howard W. Dubois, Fulton County Republican chairman. COFFIN’S ‘ARMY’ READY County Workers in G. O. P. Campaign Number 7,569. Marion County has been organized for the Republican campaign by enrollment of 7,569 men and women for work in the county’s 269 precincts, George V. Coffin, Seventh district (Marion County) chairman, rpeorted today to Republican State headquarters. —This number, representing from *two to as high as twenty men and women in each precinct, does not include precinct committeemen and committee women, Coffin said. Approximately 2,000 of the 3,567 precincts in the State have been organized similarly, Harry C. Fenton, secretary of the State committee, said. 955,000 Visit State Points Bv Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Sept. .20. Nine hundred and fifty-five thousand persons came in contact this year with the department of conservation through six State parks, fc five fish hatcheries, one State forKest, two bibd and game preserves Pana four State monuments open to public visitation, Richard Lieber. State conservation director, told Rotarians here today in a luncheon address. This was a 20 per cent increase over 1927, he said.

Probe Murders

Police captured Gordon Northcott, 21, on whose chicken ranch near Los Angeles, 11 boys are believed to have been butchered and murdered, and are holding his father, Cyrus Northcott (below). The story of the murders was told by Sanford Clark, 15, (above) cousin of Young Northcott, who lived on the ranch.

JAIL RIOTERS QUIET Disorder in Maryland State Prison Subsides. By United. Press BALTIMORE, Md.. Sept. 20. Separated from their leader, prisoners in the State penitentiary here were quiet today after thirty-six hours of rioting. No demonstrations were held last night and Warden Patrick Brady indicated he believed there would be no repetition of the trouble which started when State officials refused the prisoners’ requests for an open hearing on charges of alleged cruelty by penitentiary heads. SERIES OF MEETINGS STARTED BY DAILEY Governor Aspirant Centers His Attention on Ft. Wayne. Frank C. Daily, Democratic nominee for Governor, today began a series of ward meetings in Ft. Wayne, which will be climaxed Friday night with a rally. Arthur J. Hamrick, candidate for secretary of State; Curtis Shake, candidate for attorney general, and Jap Jones, candidate for State treasurer, also will address the rally. John E. Frederick, Kokomo manufacturer. defeated for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the primary, will speak at a luncheon of the Democratic State committee at Kokomo, Saturday, Sept. 29. Dailey and R. Earl Peters, State chairman, will be principal speakers at a masj meeting there that night.

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CANADA POLICE CATCH MURDER FARMSUSPECT Held for Extradition to Los Angeles; Bones Are Unearthed. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20.—With Gordon Stewart Northcott under arrest in Canada as the suspected murderer of four or more boys on a ranch near Riverside, authorities mapped plans today to bring him back to California. Four prominent Los Angeles scientists, who have been working separately in their investigations of the murder farm story, have met and compared notes. After the meeting an announcemet was made that bits of bone and blood-soaked earth found on the Northcott chicken farm were undoubtedly from the bodies of two boys. The statement helped substantiate the story of Sanford Clark, who had charged that Northcott had murdered at least four boys. The scientists who helped in the investigation were: Rex Welch, city chemist; J. Clark Sellers, criminologist; Professor W. Lytle, paleontologist at the Los Angeels museum, and William A. Bryan, musium director. They said they were positive the bones were from the bodies of two boys. Anew development came with the confession of a youth returned to Los Angeles from De Kalb, 111.,

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NEW CLEW PROBED IN MILLER MURDER

Companion of Bandit at • Large Here Held in Terre Haute. Detectives today sought an alleged bandit at large here in their investigation of the latest clews to the murder of Motor Policeman Paul Miller July 17 at Station and Twenty-Fifth Sts. A companion of the bandit sought, Raymond Moon, 32, of Indianapolis, who has confessed he is the “talkative bandit” responsible for a string of recent holdups at Terre Haute, is under arrest at Terre Haute in connection with the investigation. Detectives are investigating the theory that Moon and the pal sought murdered Miller. Miller was that he was not Walter Collins, kidnaped son of a San Quentin convict, as he had pretended to be. “I do not know who I am.” the lad said. “But I know I am not Walter Collins.” The mother of the real Walter had refused to accept the boy but others had expressed belief that his claims to be Collins were genuine. Clafk had intimated that Walter was one of the victims of Northcott and the confession lent credence to this theory. Northcott and his mother, who was arrested at Calgary, Alta., probably will be taken to Vancouver, B. C., to wait extradition to California. Both admitted their identities when questioned by provincial police. Northcott denied any connection with the Riverside crimes.

shot down in a gun battle with two suspicious men who had been hanging about a drug store at Twenty-Fifth and Stations Sts. Moon is said to have admitted to Terre Haute detectives that he and his companion committed five filling station robberies here in June. The theory that he is connected with the policeman’s murder is based on a statement of a Terre Haute woman that Moon told her he and his companion killed Miler. The woman, however, has been adjudged insane, detectives said. Detectives Stone and Johnson were sent to Terre Haute late Wednesday when word of Moon arrested was received here. Stone returned today. Moon was arrested at the home of relatives at Taylorville, near Terre Haute. His wife and John Atterson, 18, a brother-in-law, also were held. VOTE RECOUNT DENIED Judge Sustains Demurrer to Appeal of Jacob Morgan. Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin sustained a demurrer in the case in which Jacob Morgan, defeated candidate for nomination as Republican State Senator, asked that primary returns be recounted without including the precincts which were disqualified by recount commissioners. Thomas C. Whallon, attorney for Election Commissioners Ira Holmes, George Hutsell and James E. Deery, filed the demurrer stating that the certificates of election had been issued and that Morgan should have asked for a recount.

IDENTIFY BODY FOUND IN RIVER ASM N!AN Cincinnati Resident Believed Murdered Here in Camp Brawl. The body of a man, believed slain, found in While River near Broad Ripple Sunday was positively identified today as that of Harry Linfert, 56, of Cincinnati, by his brothers, George and Frank Linfert of Cincinnati. The two brothers came here late Wednesday and viewed the body at the Moore & Kirk funeral parlors, 2530 Station St. Frank Linfert, Cincinnati druggist, remained here to take the body back to Cincinnati today. A Cincinnati tailor’s label in the man’s clothes led to identification. The dead man had been working as a gardener and farm laborer, his brothers said. He was last seen Saturday when he said he was going to Coney Island, pleasure resort near Cincinnati, to look for work, they said. He had only $5 and an Ingersoll watch when he left, and the brothers declared they knew of no reason any one might want to murder him. As far as they knew he was acquainted with no one here. The watch and 26 cents were found on the body. Detectives and deputy sheriffs have been working on the theory that Linfert was killed in a brawl at some camp on White River, but have no

Wildly Merry Bji Times Special * BOSWELL,, Ind., Sept. 20. —A woman, her baby and two children had a wild ride on a merry-go-round here when breaking of a casting threw a heavy piece of metal on a rope attached to the throttle of a gasoline engine, causing the merry-go-round to attain a terrific speed. The engine was finally stopped by flooding it with gasoline.

clews. There were three slashes or the face. The jugular vein was severed with a knife or razor. Harry Linfert had not been despondent and there was no reason for him to commit suicide, his brothers said. No Water in Lungs Detective Chief Jerry Kinney, however, declared he had been unable to get any medical authorities to positively state whether or not there would be any water in the lungs If the man had cut his own throat and jumped Into the river. The fact no water was found in the lungs has been cited as proof the man was murdered and thrown into the river dead. Kinney Wednesday located near Pittsboro, Ind., Frank Grummell whom several persons said the dead man resembled. Injured School Girl Better Bn United Press IMTCHELL, Ind., Sept. 20.—Margaret Cook, one of two girls seriously injured Wednesday when a consolidated school bus in which they were riding was struck by an automobile, was reported better today. Twenty-three other children sustained minor cuts and bruises in the crash.

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CHICAGO POLICE HUNT KIDNAPERS State May Ask Death; Hold Suspects. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—As a move toward the arrest and prosecution of the kidnapers of little Billy Ranieri, who was returned home Wednesday after being held captive in a farm house for thirteen days. Judge Frank Comerford today asked that the boy, and his mother and father be brought into his court. “The mother and father owe us something,” the judge said, explaining he would talk to them on their duty in prosecuting the kidnapers. “They owe something to the law. If they will help us we will make this kidnaping too dangerous a business and prevent some other mother’s child from a like fate.” Judge Comerford refused a writ of habeas corpus seeking release of Angelo Petitti. held as a suspect and asked that police prepare complaints against him. The State was said to intend asking the death penalty when the case is brought to trial. Three men were in custody, two others were identified through pictures and the names of a lawyer and doctor, believed implicated, were known.

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