Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1928 — Page 11

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15 WILL FACE .COURT IN AUTO THEFTCASES Arraignment Is Set for Friday in Federal Tribunal Here. SIX STILL AT LARGE Traugott, Sussmans and Former Klan Chiefs Will Plead. Fifteen of the twenty-one persons Indicted Monday by the Federal grand jury in the interstate motor theft ring case will be arraigned in federal court, Friday. All defendants previously arraigned bn similar indictments, returned in September, pleaded net guilty jSept. 29. The grand jury Monday returned four indictments in the case, one a blanket conspiracy indictment, accusing seventeen of those previously named in true bills and four additional defendants not yet under Arrest. This brings the total of federal fcourt defendants in the motor theft ring to twenty-three, seventeen of Whom are under arrest. Traugott to Face Court Those to be arraigned Friday Include Edward Traugott and Harry Sussman, proprietors of Traugott Clothing store, damaged Aug. 26, by A mysterious explosion; Elmer Sussman, cousin of Harry; Wolf Sussman, peweler, father of Harry; Jacob Wohlfeld, furrier, and his son, Mortimer; W. Lee Smith, lawyer, former Klan grand dragon; Robert F. McNay, former Klan titian; Dr. Fred V. Binzer, Terre Haute optician; Bertram Libowitz, 39 North Jefferson avenue, salesman, brother of Harold Libowitz, who died of burns received in the Traugott store explosion; William J. Laffey, former soft drink saloon operator; Mr. and Mrs. William M. Jones, 5502 Winthrop avenue; Ted Baldwin and Miss Lloyd Harrison, actress, arrested at Chicago. It was expected that at least one of the six defendants not apprehended would be under arrest in time for arraignment Friday. Two Not Reindicted The grand jury in its report this week did not reindict Frank R. Wolf, yice-president of the H. P. Wasson & Cos., and Michael J. Glenn, Long Island, N. Y., former Indianapolis traffic inspector. They are charged with transportation of and receiving a Lincoln coupe stolen from Fisher Brothers Company, Cleveland, Wolf buying the car from Glenn. Trial of defendants who pleaded not guilty Sept. 29, is set for Nov. 13, before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Albert Ward, United States district attorney, said he would not ask additional bond on the new indictments, inasmuch as all defendants are under $25,000 bond on the original indictments. All provided the bond and were released except McNay and Miss Harrison. Traugott, in addition to the federal motor theft charges, faces state court charges of conspiracy to violate the liquor law, which may be taken over by federal authorities. SET PROTEST HEARING FOR NEW POWER SITE Federal Commission Meets With Bodies on Nov. 4. %V Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—Protests against letting Cumberland Falls hycro-electric site on the Cumberland river in Kentucky fall into private hands will be heard by the federal power commission Nov. 14. The date for the hearing has lust been fixed and members of the Izzac Walton League, Cumberland Protest associations and others are expected to appear. Application for license has been made by the Cumberland Falls Eydro-Electric Power Company. The site is considered one of the most valuable in Kentucky and compares favorably to Muscle Shoals and sites on the Tennessee river in its power possibilities. 16,000~MILES BY AUTO Australian Finishes Long Journey From London. SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. I. Francis Birtles has completed a 16,000-mile auto jaunt from London to this city. He traveled only 500 miles by sea. Part of the way he was forced to cut his way through jungle. He had no tire trouble until he had traversed more than 11,000 miles. N DOG~ KILLED BY BEES Animal Attempts to Battle Off Swarm and Loses MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Nov. I. Bees are bad things to fool with when they’re swarming. A swarm of bees looking for a safe landing place, landed on an English bulldog owned by Paul Gorman. The dog, instead of fleeing, started to fight the bees and was stung to death. Flood Theatens Swiss By UnitaLPress GENEVA, Nov. I.—Heavy rainfall was recurrent in the Ticino district today and floods once more threatened neighboring villages. The St. Gothard railroad was inundated for ft considerable distance.

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Girl Burglar Arrested

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This is Mrs. Mary Thompson, 19-year-old “evening gown burglar.” Police found her rolled up in a mattress in the home of Arthur A. Brown, 4145 North Capitol avenue, Wednesday. She was wearing an elaborate gold-beaded evening gown belonging to Mrs. Brown. She admitted she and a man, whose name she said she did not know, have

ELECTION DAY ‘LID’ IS ORDERED Dry Agents to Keep Close Watch at Polls. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—Prohibition Commissioner J. M. Doran ordered administrators today to take precautions to prevent bootlegging or public drinking in the vicinity of balloting places on election day. “While this primarily is the duty of local authorities, we are taking every step possible to stem flagrant liquor law violations during the balloting and celebrations that will follow,” Doran told the United Press. “Federal agents will be kept on duty day and night Nov. 6, and special reserves will ba available in each district to answer complaints." Doran said special efforts would be made to clean up speakeasies in the vicinity of polling places. “Government agents will handle the election just as they operate during any other big event,” Doran said. “All agents have been told to be alert and arrest all violators.” COX BOOSTS LUDLOW Former President Candidate Lauds Hoosier. Another former Democratic presidential candidate today added his indorsement to the candidacy of Louis Ludlow, veteran Washington correspondent, for congressman from the Seventh district on the Democratic ticket. James M. Cox, Dayton, 0., publisher, Democratic standard bearer in 1920, said of Ludlow today in a statement received here: “If the voters of the Seventh Indiana district know Ludlow as I do, his industry, his conscientious devotion to tasks and his comprehensive knowledge of all the details of government, then the listing up of the result on election night would be a mere formality. If he is elected, and I earnestly hope he will be, it will be but the reward of character and capacity.” John W. Davis, the other living former candidate, recently Indorsed Ludlow’s candidacy. Schortemeier Talks at Butler Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of state, addressed the Butler College Republican Club today on “The Importance of Young People’s Interest In Politics.”

COP LEAVES MEAL TO SLAY ROBBER

Bu United Press CHICAGO. Nov. I.—Three bandits made the mistake of interrupting Police Lieutenant John M. Kelley while he was eating. One of the holdup men is dead. The other two fled. Kelley was eating in the rear of a bar last night when he heard the command "stick ’em up” from the front. The lieutenant peered into the

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robbed the Brown home several times in the past week. The Brown family is on a hunting trip. Mrs. Thompson, according to police, was released Sept. 27 from the Indiana Woman’s prison where she served a year’s term for petit larceny. The girl's mother and father and husband, from whom she is separted, live on South Senate avenue, according to prison records.

NORBECK STAYS IN G. O.P.FOLD South Dakota Senator in Line for Hoover. By United Press SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Nov. I. Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, until now silent on the candidacy of Herbert Hoover, today was on record as favoring the Republican ticket. "We need to elect Republican senators and congressmen to aid the Hoover program,” Norbeck said in introducing Senator Charles Curtis, vice-presidential nominee, here last night, Norbeck previously had not committed himself on the presidential race since he denounced Hoover’s candidacy at the Republican national convention in Kansas City last summer. Curtis, in his speech, said the Democratic Congressional Record has been opposed to farm relief and “Hoover has promised to put agriculture on an equal basis with other industry and you may be sure he will do it.” The vice-presidential nominee scored the Democratic stand on tariff. denieTlove test blow Evansville Doctor Contradicts Wife in Divorce Killing. Bh Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov, I—Dr. Walter Reitz, testifying in a divorce suit brought by Marie Reitz, denied her charge that he beat her baby by a former marriage as a test of her love. She had declared the doctor beat the child and remarked he wished to find if her love as a wife was stronger than her love as a mother. Otto Scheel. former husband of Mrs. Reitz, has sued the doctor, alleging alienation of affection. According to the doctor, his wife was “wild as a tiger” during outbursts of anger. DE MOLAYS TO SKATE Party Planned for Friday Eve at Riverside Rink. The Indianapolis chapter of the Order of De Molay will give a skating party at 8 p. m. Friday, at the Riverside rink, according to Norman Berkhardt, chairman in charge of arrangements. He is being sisted by Urban Tucker and Lewis Monfort. The team will give an exhibition drill.

front room and saw three bandits. Kelley stepped around the partition and shot the 1 ndit who was in the act of opening the cash register. The bandit made a move to return the fire and Kelley shot him twic.e more, the last bullet striking the bandit in the head. The two other robbers dropped their revolvers and fled. The dead bandit was identified as Hyman Greenberg, 23. . ...

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EXPERTS RATE ENTIRE SOUTH SAFEFOR AL Dixie to Stay Solid, Border States to Favor Smith, Survey Indicates. G. 0. P. LOSES FOOTHOLD Strenuous Efforts Bring Wavering Democrats Back Into Line. BY C. J. LILLEY Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. Although this is not borne out by the Literary Digest and other preelection polls, practically all political experts now concede A1 Smith the ten "Solid South" states and a majority of those along the Mason and Dixon border. Just why is the question that is perplexing Republican headquarters, which has been giving those states more attention than ever before. With Herbert Hoover as the candidate and his record of Mississippi flood relief to help them, the Republicans had hoped to carry a majority of the border states and to annex North Carolina. Alabama. Texas. Florida and possibly some of the others. G. O. P. Hopes Were High When the campaign first opened, hopes for Republican victory were particularly bright in North Carolina, Texas and Alabama. The Democratic delegations from these three states to the Houston convention had opposed Smith and party leaders in those states were believed to be against him. Had the election been held immediately after the convention, the Solid South would have been broken. In the intervening weeks, the Democratic machines have been reorganized and bolstered. Drys have been enticed back into the Democratic fold. Party leaders have overcome their animosity to Smith to present a united Democratic front. Whereas in August fewer than half the Democratic leaders in the south were for Smith, today c.iiy a few are opposed to him. Party loyalty has been emphasized so strongly that religious animosity and other factors have been overcome, it is said. No Credit to Smith Bringing the south back into the fold is not credited either to Smith or to Chairman Raskob. Smith's speeches have made the work of the southern leaders only more difficult, they say, and they call the appointment of Raskob the hardest blow of all. The work is being done by southern congressmen, state leaders and the other elements of the Democratic campaign machinery of the south. And it is being done by the southern voters themselves, most of whom have always voted the straight ti<Jket and do not feel like changing, even though they are not keen about Smith. The only doubtful factor from the Smith standpoint, according to the dopesters, is the women’s vote. This is expected to give Hoover more votes in the south than any Republican ever received before.

WINDUP ARRANGED Democrats Hold Final Rally Here Saturday. The Democratic campaign in Marion county will be climaxed with a rally Saturday night in Tomlinson hall at which Frank C. Dailey, and Mrs. F. A. McGowan, of Canton, 0., will be the principal speakers. Leroy J. Keach, county chairman, is making preparations for a capacity crowd at the closing event of the campaign. It will be Dailey’s third campaign address in the county. South side Turners’ hall was crowded for his first speech as was the Irvington Masonic temple on a later occasion. Mrs. McGowan was a member of the Governor Smith notification committee. She was an alternate from the Sixtenth Ohio district at the 1924 national convention. She is a deputy commissioner of the Girl Scouts of Canton and an active member of the American Association of University Women. War Veteran KlUs Self B.y Times Special LINTON, Ind., Nov. I.—Robert Parks, 38, World war veteran. Is dead here, a suicide by shooting. He was badly wounded while serving in France and was a hospital patient several months.

Death Blots Page Kept Spotless for 51 Years Bu United Press CAMDEN, N. J., Nov. L—For 51 years Robert Hammill, who sits at the throttle of one of the fastest trains in the world, enjoyed a spotless record. No locomtive driven by him ever had inflicted death or injury. So he decided to retire, and to celebrate the occasion a dinner was arranged last night by 200 friends and railroad men. The “Boardwalk Flyer” swept into Camden promptly on schedule, and Hammill, 70, alighted from the cab for the last time. He rushed to receive the greeting of his gathered friends, and at the dinner told them stories of his long career and his narrow escapes from accidents and fatalities. They cheered him and congratulated him. But they did not, have the heart to tell him one thing still fresh in their memories. So the veteran engineer read it in the papers this morninghow, in the last two minutes of his farewell run, his train had struck an unseen motor car at a Camden grade crossing and killed Nikifor Rachiz, 47, and his daughter, Vera, 17.

Burns Self in Furnace as Love Test

Elfrieda Knaack, Lake Bluff (III.) girl (at side), was found in the basement of the police station there, burned probably fatally, as result of attempting, through a *furnace ordeal,'* to prove her love for her “spirt mate," Charles Hitchcock, Lake Bluff policeman (below), who is bedfast with a broken leg.

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CITY TO WELCOME COURT ACTION ON BOXING ORDINANCE

Ready for Test If Legion Decides to Battle New Rulings. City council will welcome a test case on the new boxing ordinance which places a commission in charge of all boxing matches, Councilman Robert E. Springsteen, chairman of the council committee which drew up the ordinance, declared today. The American Legion, which has been staging boxing shows at the state armory, is considering a court test of the measure. “I would like to see a suit brought in the matter so we could see where we stand before we go any farther,” Springsteen said. The ordinance goes into effect Saturday. Fred W. Connell, board of safety chairman, who becomes ex-officio chairman of the boxing commission, said he did not know when the commission would meet to organize. The Legion objects to the provision that no boxers may be engaged on a percentage basis. This clause, Springsteen declared, was copied from the state law, which defines a boxing match for which fighters receive a percentage of the receipts as a prize fight, which is prohibited. The new ordinance also provides that fight promoters must pay $lO for a boxing show permit and pay the city 5 per cent of the gate receipts. Although the American Legion has announced a boxing show for

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Education By SEA Service MADISON, Wis., Nov. 1 And all the brains aren’t in college. At least, the interpretation of English words by engineering students at the University of Wisconsin astonished officials and scored one point in favor of stricter classes in English. Here are interpretations of some English words that a few juniors at that college offered: “gubernatorial”—pertaining to the power of eating; “pseudo” —Mexican coin; "albino”—an animal similar to a mule; “agrarian”—grasfc eating; “sextant”—a person in church who rings the bells; “epithet"—a missile.

next Tuesday night at the armory, Legion officials have not announced definitely whether they will abide by the terms of the ordinance or start a test case. They conferred on the matter Tuesday, but Mark Hamer, legion trust fund president, declined to announce the results of the confab. Rat Bites Boy on Face By Times Special EDEN, Ind., Nov. I.—Kenneth Carrolton, 12, is in a serious condition at his home north of here as a result of blood poisoning which developed from a wound inflicted on his face by a rat while he slept.

WORKS AS SLAIN LOVER IS BURIED

By United Press ASBURY PARK, N. J., Nov. I. The funeral of Harold Johnston was held yesterday while 16-year-old Marianne Farruggio, the girl over which he was murdered, remained at her home “across the tracks” to wash the clothing of her nine brothers and sisters. Harold and Marianne had a comely little romance. < He was the Neptune township high school football star and the son of one of the prominent Asbury Park residents. She was a bright-eyed, vivacious and hero-loving daughter of a Sicilian workman who lived in the poverty district that “across the tracks” always defines. She admitted she worshipped Harold. When gossip got to Marianne’s father, Joseph, he went to the John-

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HEFLIN FACES PARTYOUSTER Vote Against Smith Will Bring About Ban. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—Senator Heflin of Alabama may have to run as an independent in 1930 if he hopes to be re-elected. His opposition to A1 Smith, with which now are coupled published statements that he openly has defied the Democratic party, make it possible for the Democratic executive committee In his home state to bar him from the party ballot. Heflin’s latest utterance, as credited to him in the Montgomery Advertiser, is said to be “so help me God, I will vote against A1 Smith if they read me out of the Democratic party and drive me from every senate committee.” Heretofore Heflin has refused to say whether he would vote against Smith. His silence was believed due to the Democratic election rule in his state that candidates must swear they have supported all nominees of the party for two years previous. If when he comes up for re-elec-tion in 1930, Heflin is unable to show that he voted for Smith in 1928, he can be barred from the Democratic ballot. Missing SSOO Chow Sought A chow dog valued at SSOO today was reported missing by J. M. Young, 2933 North Meridian street, its owner. The dog disappeared Wednesday, Young said.

ston home with his daughter. They argued the matter out there until Harold was reported to have sneered at them. Joseph shot and killed Harold, later was arrested, and now is held pending grand Jury action. His only defense is that he had the right to portect his daughter’s honor. The vivid contrast of that little romance was plain yesterday. The Neptune township high school was dismissed at 12:30 so students might attend Harold's funeral. One special Are truck had to be taken to the Johnston house to help carry the flowers. Hundreds stood outside to pay respect. But across the tracks Marianne worked, and occasionally she would drop to her knees and pray in Italian.

ITS EASY TO VOTE AND ALL SHOULD DO SO Either Machine or Ballot Method Is Simple, as Explanations Show. ALL DONE BY LEVERS Just a Few Moves Will Register Choice of Electors. Voting is easy! That, in short, Is “the truth of the matter,” that workers In both major political parties areHrying to pound home to the voters, who, too often, they say, take one look at the long list of candidates and throw up their hands in despair. Voting, either by machine or ballot, is easy and should hold no terrors for the timid, workers explain, if the voter acquires some understanding of the method and goes to the polls with mind made up on the candidates he will support. The Times tomorrow will print a list of Republican and Democratic candidates for all the offices Subject to the general election next Tuesday, Nov. 6. Clip it tomorrow and before going to the polls next Tuesday, check the names of candidates for whom you intend to vote. Take it with you to the polls. It will speed up the voting and prevent confusion and bewilderment when you get your one minute in the voting booth. Voting by Machine Simple instructions for voting by machine are: 1. Upon entering the curtain-in-closure surrounding the machine, pull the large lever at the left and top of the machine to the right as far as it will go, thus closing the curtain. 2. At your left are the “party ievers” over the names and symbols of the various parties. Selecting the lever of the party for a majority of whose candidates you wish to vote, pull the lever to the right until the bell rings. This throws down all the keys of the presidential electors and candidates of that party. If you wish to vote the ticket "straight,” this ends the operation, save for opening the curtain again by means of the lever with which you closed it. 3. To “scratch,” first pull the lever of the party for a majority of whose candidates you wish to vote (as above), thus throwing down all the keys for electors and candidates of • that party. Then to “scratch” any candidate of that party, push up the key immediately above his or her name and pull down the corresponding key under the candidate for whom you wish to vote. Voting by Ballot The Australian, or paper, ballot will not be used in Marion county except where machines are unable to record all the voters before the closing hour, 6 p. m. If this occurs, the voter will be handed two blank ballots; one, the state ballot, presenting the names of presidential electors, and candidates for United States senator, governor and all state offices; the other, presenting the names of all candidates for congress, legislature and county offices. Voters desiring to vote the ticket “straight” simply mark a cross in the circle containing the party emblem at the top of the list on each of the two ballots. To “scratch,” the voter must not place the cross on the party emblem but mark a cross in the little square before each candidate’s name for whom he desires to vote on each of the two ballots. Qualifications to Vote The Indiana registration law and the absent voter law were repealed by the 1927 legisalture. Therefore, no registration Is required for voting in the general election Tuesday and every voter must be present in person to vote. Every citizen of the United States of the age of 21 years and upward is entitled to vote in the precinct where he or she may reside, provided he or she shall have resided in the state six months, the township sixty days, and the precinct thirty days immediately preceding the election. A person who will be 21 the day after election is entitled to vote. Again, clip the list of candidates from Friday’s Times and check the names of those for whom you want to vote. Take it to the polls with you. FACES FOURTH ~ TRIAL Former Parke County Klan Official Accused of Arson. B,y Times Special NEWPORT, Ind., Nov. I.—Samuel Withrow will go on trial at the November term of Vermilion circuit court here for the fourth time on an arson charge. Juries at three previous trials disagreed. The arson case followed burning of a schoolhouse at Bridgeton in 1924, during a Parke county election In which the Ku-Klux Klan and its foes staged a bitter contest. Withrow is a former kligraph of the county klan. Scientists to Meet By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. I. Dec. 6, 7 and 8 are announced here as dates for the forty-fourth annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science, to be held at Indiana university. Approximately 200 members are expected to attend the meeting, which will be given over largely to sectional sessions for the consideration of papers in many fields of science.