Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 157, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1928 — Page 13

Second Section

HUNDREDS OF CITIZENS HUNT FORAX FIEND All-Night Patrol Kept in Omaha for Reappearance of Hatchet Killer. DEATH TOLL AT THREE Elaborate System of Light Signals Arranged to Spread Alarm. By United Brest OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 21.—Omaha awoke to learn that the “hatchet killer’ 1 had not struck Tuesday night. Each night since Sunday the maniac has taken his toll with a hatchet. Five hundred police and citizens patrolled the streets all night. A system of light signals had been worked out so the alarm could be spread in case the ax slayer resumed his grewsome work. The death toll stood at three today. Sunday night the body of Joseph Blackman, 75, was found in his home. He had been hacked to death as he slept. Early Monday the hatchet man entered the home of Waldo Re3so, milkman, shortly after he left at 3 a. m. He killed Mrs. Resso, 21, mother of two children, and then went upstairs, where he killed her sister, Miss Creta Brown, 18. Children Not Harmed Resso found the bodies when he returned from work about 2 p. m. the bodies lay on the beds, hacked and stripped of night clothing. The two children had not been harmed. The older of the children greeted his father with the exclamation: "A black man butchered mama!” The latest attack was that on Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stribling early Tuesday. “I was awakened about 3 o’clock,” Mrs. Stribling told police. “A mulatto was standing over ur bed. He had his ax raised. I screamed, but the ax fell before Harold could do anything. He struck Harold again and then hit me. Arrange Warning System “Mollie, our 18-months-old girl, lay between Harold and me. The killer pulled back the covers and looked at her for a long time. I was afraid he was going to hit her, too. “He made me get up and go with him. Dressed only in a silk nightgown, I was forced to walk three miles through the cold to a swamp where he kept me an hour before he left.” Mrs. Stribling staggered to the outskirts of town and found a detective. Stribling was near death today with a fractured skull. Mrs. Stribling’s nose was broken by the mulatto. A battery of telephone operators remained on duty all night to flash warnings to the city if the mulatto was known to be abroad. A flashing of electric lights in the homes of any district was to be the signal for policemen to call headquarters for instructions as to where to trail the mulatto. Dozens Questioned The city was more aroused over the killings than it was over the "phantom sniper” two years ago. He was Frank Carter, who shot several persons with a silenced rifle. After several days of nervousness on the part of Omahans, he was caught and later was hanged. Dozens of Negroes were taken into custody and questioned, but none answered the description given by Mrs. Stribling. She said the assailant was light and about 21 years old. Police believe the crimes were committed by a degenerate oi> an escaped lunatic. FOUR PERFECT IfANDS Bridge Game Freak So Surprised Player Misdeal Is Declared. By United Press VANCOUVER. S. C., Nov. 21. One deal at a bridge game resulted in four perfect hands. M. E. Ska.ife, customs officer, shuffled the cards, then gave them to A W. Davis, who shuffled them again had them cut and dealt them. Skaifu’s wife was so excited over her hand that she laid it face up or the table, and a misdeal was declared. KILIITiN TOKIO RIOTS Labor Demonstrations Cause Clash / With Police and Troops. lly United Press LONDON, Nov. 21.—The Manchester Guardan’s Shanghai correspondent said today that the Chinese official Koumin News Agency at Tokio reported twentynine labor demonstrators and two soldiers were killed and sixty laborites were wounded in Tokio in clashes with the police and Japanese troops on Nov. 11 and 12 during the enthronement ceremonies. The report said 200 demonstrators were arrested. Censorship had prevented foreign correspondents from cabling reports of the incident. Girl Dies of Auto Injuries By Times Special ELKHART, Ind., Nov. 21.—Miss Helen M. Albright, 18-year-old Elknart high school junior, is dead of Injuries suffered in an auto accident Sunday.

Entered As Second-Class Matte: at PostoSice. IndlarSqjolls

HOOSIER REFUSES TO PROFIT FROM VISITORS AT SKELETON DISPLAY

Views of the mastodon skeleton found near Romney, Tippceanoe ,> county, by William Barnhart. Its l|%|| bones, according to a geological authority, tell the story of a tragedy tens of thousands of years ago, as it is believed the animal died of starvation after becoming ■ "'lWWWPinmnwiiiSiwii MUimufliomi nii'iiiii i II IHIIII ii .

Views of the mastodon skeleton found near Romney, Tippecanoe county, by William Barnhart. Its bones, according to a geological authority, tell the story of a tragedy tens of thousands of years ago, as it is believed the animal died of starvation after becoming mired in a swamp. Animals of the species attained a weight of ten tons and a length of twenty-one feet.

Hundreds Attracted to Romney by Mastodon Bones. BY KATHRYN TRESSEL ROMNEY. Ind., Nov. 21,—Unearthing of a monstrous mastodon skeleton by William Barnhart In Jackson township, Tippecanoe county, has given this little town a floating population of between 300 and 400 persons daily. The scientist from Chicago, students from Indiana colleges, the Romney cornhusker, the school teacher from Ohio, men, women and children from all w’alks of life stand in line in the Barnhart farm yard home at the north edge of Romney and patiently await their turn to be admitted to the shed which houses the mammoth skull, ribs, leg bones, shoulder blades, tusks, vertebrae, glittering teeth and other parts of the animal. Barnhart continues to dig, hoping to find the few missing parts of the skeleton which he discovered about a week ago in Jones creek, six miles west of Romney, on a farm tenented by Rupert Brown. He was looking for a place to set a trap and TWO SLAIN; MYSTERY Pcobe Death of Hunters Found Under Hedge. By United Press STAUNTON, 111., Nov. 21.—The bodies of Rolle Davis and George Arnold, their shotguns beside them, were found under a hedgerow neai here today. The two men had gone hunting together, Monday. Authorities said both men had been shot but they were unable to determine whether they had been killed in a duel, a suicide pact, a double murder, a murder and suicide, or in some peculiar accident Both men, mine workers, were the heads of large families. Posses found their bodies after the tolling of the village fire bells had spread the alarm that two citizens were missing.

WIZARD OF RADIO WILL AMAZE CITY WITH ASTOUNDING CONTROL FEATS

WONDERS of radio never before presented in this < lty or this section will be offered here for seven days, starting Sunday, and several amazing exhibitions will be given under auspices of The Indianapolis Times. The experiments will be conducted by Maurice J. Francill, world-famed wireless wizard. It is planned for him to operate a trolley car, automobiles, and one or more manufacturing plants by

The Indianapolis Times

Heart-y By United Press OWENSBURG, Ind., Nov. 21. —A chicken with two hearts was killed here by Mrs. Nancy Simpson. A veterinarian said apparently both functioned.

stumbled over a shiny object sticking up about two inches out of the ground. It was a loose tooth of the mastodon. Skull in Creek Continuing to dig. Barnhart found the skull in the creek, and the other parts extending at right angles from the creek bed into the low banks. Most of the bones were only three or four feet deep in the earth and are in a splendid state of preservation. It is estimated that they have probably been buried 50,000 to 60,000 years. Dr. R. B. Wetherill of Purdue university, Lafayette, who has maiie extensive studies of prehistoric life considers the discovery most important. To his knowledge, tnis is the first mastodon ever found bi this part of Indiana. An entire fossil is rare—there being only three or four in existence. A mammoth skeleton has been found near Darlington, and mammoth teeth have been found near Lafayette and Romney. The mammoth had enormous tusks similar to those of the mastodon, but the mammoth’s tusks were straight, whereas those of the mastodon curved upward. The weight of the livirtg mastodon was about ten tons and it stood about twelve feet high. The length of the animal from tusks to tail was twenty-one feet. Bones of Young Animal The. mastodon skeleton earthed by Barnhart belonged to a young animal, according to Dr. Wetherill, and it probably became mired in the marshy ground, where it lay unable to release itself, finally starving. The discoverer of the mastodon skeleton is a carpenter by trade but a hunter, trapper, hiker and lover of the outdoors by choice. “I like to tramp around, to trap, to hunt and to watch things grow, - ’ he explains, “and I'm always finding something. A few years ago I found a mammoth tooth in a pile of gravel, and this territory is chuck

radio control and without the touch of human hand. Advance agents of the wizard arrived here Tuesday night and are, busy with arrangements for the expert’s demonstrations. Francill will be the supreme attraction all next week at the Lyric theater. On the stage at each performance during his engagement, he will operate one or more standard, stock model automobiles. without drivers and solely by radio wave control. He will

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21, 1928

full of Indian relics —arrow heads, skinnin’ rocks and such. I haven’t so many of those though, but my brother, Charley, has. He has several trays of flint arrow heads, deer bone sewing squares, hatchets. Oh, yes, he has had lots of chances to sell ’em but I reckon he won’t ever do it; he likes to have ’em around.” Interesting folk, these Barnhart brothers who hammer, saw and nail for a living, but enjoy collecting rare stones, fossils, Indian relics—and now mastodon skeletons. “Os course, you’ll sell this skeleton,” they are urged. But they look embarrassed when the suggestion of capitalizing any of their finds is even mentioned. "Shucks,” William Barnhart says, "it really isn’t much, just a curiosity, but we don’t even have time to sleep any more or eat either.” The suggestion was made that a small charge would pay them in part at least for the trouble the many visitors cause. "Well, that wouldn’t be fair—not very fair would it, since SO many have been here already and we haven’t charged them anything? Besides if all these folks travel so far to see the skeleton, I guess we can show it to ’em,” Charles offered in his low-pitched voice. And so the Barnhart folk extend their gentle hospitality to the floating population of Romney. CANNERS TO MEET Indiana Association to Hold Annual Two-Day Session. The Indiana Canners’ Association will hold its annual meeting Thursday and Friday at the Claypool. The meeting will open with a luncheon Thursday noon, followed by an afternoon session and the annual dinner at 7 p. m. The dinner will consist entirely of'canned foods. The final session will be held Friday morning. Soviets Ridicule “Crash” Story By I >iifed Press MOSCOW, Nov. 21.—The Soviet press ridiculed today a statement in the British Parliament on Monday by Captain D. H. Hacking that financial collapse of Soviet Russia was imminent. The press contrasted Russia’s increase in United States trade with Britain’s “diehard” trade refusal.

start and stop motors, sound and silence horns, flashlights, etc. n tt a IN addition to this phase of his offering, he also will operate upon the stage a miniature battleship, fourteen feet in length. By wireless control, the wizard will flash lights, hoist flags and pennants, fire cannon singly or by volley; release toy balloons, ring bells, sound a fog horn and control a searchlight. There is even a phonograph that plays stirring

‘DING, DING'AT CORNERS MAY JOINTHEDODO Council Plans to End All Turns at Intersections in Heart of City. ‘BREAK’ FOR WALKERS Pedestrians Would Get Every Other Signal in New System. “Ding! Ding! Ding” will not punctuate the traffic din at downtown street corners if plans of city council for the elimination of all turns, street cars and automobiles alike, at the intersections of Illinois and Meridian streets with Washington street are carried out. Pedestrians will cross downtown corners with the traffic, getting their chance with every other flip of the signal, instead of every third change, when plans now under consideration materialize. Under provisions of the new traffic code adopted Monday night by council and awaiting the mayor’s signature and publication before becoming effective, powers of the board of safety were enlarged to permit it to designate streets, where traffic will not make right or left turns. Traffic, in the sense of the ordinance, includes street cars. No Word in Code At the same time, the new code, said not a word about the “three bells for pedestrians” that have brought snickers from the sophisticated. Their only chance for salvation. it Is pointed out, lies in the code's provision that the safety board may take steps to meet emergencies arising in traffic control. Their continuance may not even became an issue betweeen council and safety board, because council is intent on eliminating street car turns at Meridian and Washington streets, and Illinois and Washington streets, by rerouting the lines downtown. This would open the way lor stipulating no traffic turns at these corners and automatically eliminate the necessity for a traffic period for pedestrians only. City Engineer Alfred H. Moore came to council meeting Monday with a map and tentative plans for rerouting the downtown car lines to avoid the turns. As the suggestions were not complete, the matter was left open. Plans Being Completed The plans, however, are being finished and will be submitted to the Indianapolis Street Railway company for Joint consideration before action is taken to eliminate the Washington street turns. Mayor L. Ert Slack has until Nov 30 to sign or veto the new traffic code. H.'s approval is contemplated. Before the ordinance can become effective it must be printed in pamphlet form and advertised two weeks, so that it probably will not become operative until late in December. To avoid any confusion in the heavy Christmas traffic, approval and publication so may be timed ato make the measure operative a day or two after Christmas, officiate say. It is hoped that the elimination of traffic turns at the downtown cor ners may be arranged so that the three-way traffic arrangement now accompanied by the bell-ringing ai. three downtown intersections may be eliminated at the same time the other provisions of the ordinance go into effect. SEEKS SPEAKER JOB Oscar Ahlgren. 'Whiting, Enters Ring for I-egislatiure Post Oscar Ahlgren. of Whiting, has announced his candidacy for speak - er of the house of lepresentatives in the legislature convening Jan. 10 Ahlgren was a member of the house in 1921, was Republican floor leader in 1923 and chairman of the education committee in 1927. Others who either have an nounced their candidacies or have been mentioned lor the speakership include: J. Glenn Harris, Gary: Samuel J. Farrell, Hartford City; James M. Knapp, Hagerstown; Frank E. Wright. Indianapolis; John W. Chamberlain, Terre Haute George W. Freeman, Kokomo; and Herbert H. Evans, Newcastle. Accused Detectives Freed By United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 21.—Charges against Everett Delvin and Wayne Lucas, both of Indianapolis, charged with operating as detectives here without dicenses, have been dismissed in Delaware circuit court. They were employed by Muncie clients to obtain evidence of liquor selling and gambling. They caused several arrests, but when accused came to trial the detectives admitted they did not have licenses and the defendants were released.

martial music in response to the wizard’s waves. Under auspices of The Times, it is planned for Francill to give scientific demonstrations before the student bodies of the city high schools and of Butler university Before the students and faculties of the educational institutions he will demonstrate that by wireless controlled devices he can duplicate by science every phenomenon of fraudulent spiritualistic mediums and clairvoyants.

Dodge Heiress to Wed

Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, above, heiress to the Horace E. Dodge millions, will marry Raymond T. Baker, former director of the United States mint, in New York, Dec. 4. Both have been married before and recently were divorced.

CAUTIONS EARLY YULETIDE MAILING, PLAIN ADRESSES

Jingle! Here Is No. 2 in the Christmas Shopping Contest.

Till Chiei^rM?-

If you will start your shopping now, To salesfo!k you’ll be kind. Not only will it help them, but Name Address It’ll be easy for you to go to the theater free next week. Just write four or five words, or whatever number you think is best, for the missing line in the jingle above, and mail your idea to The Times Jingle Editor. The three best last lines will win three pairs of tickets to the Indiana theater, where Billie Dove will be seen next week in “Adoration.” Winner will be announced Tuesday, Nov. 27. And watch for tomorrow’s jingle, so you can try your luck again. And again, remember, only twenty-seven shopping days until Christmas. 437 FUND SPEECHES Numerous Engagements Filled in Six Weeks. Mark Hamer, chairman of the Community Fund's speakers’ bureau. announced today that 437 engagements had been filled during the past six weeks. “These figures show an awakened interest in the thirty-seven agencies sharing the fund,” said Hamer. “If we had had more speakers available for duty the number of engagements easily would have exceeded 500.” Two hundred and eighteen churches arranged for special speakers to appear before their congregations, in addition to the dates filled by the speakers’ bureau. Out of eighty-five parent-teacher clubs in the city eighty-two had special Community Fund programs, and pupils of nearly every school in the city enacted plays and pageants. Educational trips to various fund agencies, arranged in co-pperation wtih the street railway company, were taken by 411 members of par-ent-teacher clubs.

He will out-medium the medium, going them several points better by producing phenomena they can not duplicate. Then he will expose his feats, showing exactly how he has created and produced the deceptions. an u TF the co-operation of traction can be obtained, the trolley car will be operated by Francill from one extremity of the business district to the other.

Second Section

Full Leased Wire Service of the United Press Association

Bryson Makes Plea to Reduce Undeliverable Christmas Packages. Help reduce the amount of undeliverable Christmas mail by mailing early and having complete, correct addresses on each letter, card and parcel. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson urged today. Annually thousands of Yuletide greeting cards and gift packages find a resting place in the dead letter office because of incomplete or incorrect addresses, Bryson said. Christmas mailers should not only write all addresses complete, with house number and name of street, postoffice box or rural route number, typed or plainly written in ink, but should include a return address in the upper left corner of each piece of mail. Careful Packing Urged If a tag is used, the address and return card should also be written on the wrapper for use if tag is lost, and a copy of the address inclosed in the parcel. Careful packing of all parcels with strong paper and heavy twine, he said. Umbrellas, canes, golf sticks and similar articles should be reinforced their full length by strong strips of wood, tightly wrapped. Boxes of Christmas candy should be inclosed in strong outside boxes. Liberal quantities of excelsior should be used in crating articles easily broken or crushed. Postage must be fully prepaid on all mail. Foreign Mail Dates Dates for mailing letters and cards to foreign countries announced include: Nov. 25, China. Coriento, Nicaragua and Phillipine Islands; Dec. 7, Austria, Norway, Greece, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Rumania, Sweden; Dec. 9, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Portugal, Italy and Bluefields, Nicaragua; Dec. 11, Spain, Hungary, Denmark, Czechoslovakia; Dec. 13, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Hiti, Ireland, Netherlands, Panama, Scotland, Switzerland; Dec. 22, Cuba. An additional twenty-four hours is required for packages to these points. All matter should be mailed as much earlier than these dates as possible, Bryson said. Final mailing dates for other countries may be obtained at the postoffice. Bryson also urged the mailing of Christmas cards in ten or more two or three weeks before Christmas, to be delivered a few days before Dec. 25. Tie Cards in Bundles These cards should be tied together in a bundle, labeled to show they are Christmas cards and left at the postofflee or in a mail ~ox. . Christmas cards and gifts to points within one day’s travel, Bryson said, should be mailed not later than Dec. 16. For more distant points Dec. 14 is the deadline, and for local delivery Dec. 21. MAN AND WIFE IN JAIL Couple Held in Washington Were “Bumming” Way on Train B.y Times Special WASHINGTON. Ind., Nov. 21— Mr. and Mrs. James B. Stethan arserving jail terms here because of their inability to pay fines of $1 and costs, totaling sll each, for unlaw fully riding a train. They were ar rested while “bumming” their way on a freight train. They said they were en route from Houston, Tex to their former home in Pennsylvania, where the husband hoped to obtain work.

There will be no motorman nor conductor on the car. The car will weigh more than 50,000 pounds. The radio control apparatus will weigh less than four pounds. The wizard will arrive Sunday morning. His first big free exhibition under auspices of The Times will be given probably on Tuesday, at noon. From then on for the seven days of his engagement, he will have a busy schedule of special exhibitions.

SHIP OWNERS’ GREED IS HELD TRAGEDYROOT Every Major Disaster at Sea in Fifty Years Laid to Rapacity. VESSELS CAN BE SAFE Sinking of Vestris Seen as Inexcusable, Easily Avoidable. Charlse Johnson Post Is a well-known investigator, author and marine expert. He explored the Interior of South America for Harper’s magazine In 19031004, exposed the Rock Island scandal for the New York Globe, and has actd as adviser In the United States shipping board and to many private steamship lines. With this Issue he begins a series of articles dealing authoritatively with the Vestris disaster. BY CHARLES JOHNSON POST, (Copyright, 1928, by the New York Telegram) “There has not been a major disaster at sea in the last fifthy years that was not due to the rapacity and greed of the ship owners.” A man who holds a master’s license and who has had years of sea experience and shore experience in the business of ships, made this remark to me. It was not, therefore, the statement of an emotional enthusiast, wringing his hands over the tragic fate of 113 women and children and men who were drowned in the sinking of the Vestris, of the Lamport & Holt steamship line. I went to another man—-a man of the sea. an engineer—for I am not a sensationalist, but wanted to know. “It is a broad statement,” he said, and then he paused to reflect. “Yes, it is substantially true.” Answer Is the Same I went to others, all of them men of the sea and of sea business—nor sailors before the mast, mind you, or stokers, but men of certificates and both practical and technical ability and experience. And the answer was the same. I’ll ask you to note the manner and substance of the men now bearing witness before Commissioner O’Neill in the matter of the wreck of the Vestris. Here are men, sober men of industry and character and intelligence, (else they could not have secured the licenses and certificates they have) suddenly talking in whispers, in embarrassed pauses, and who shuffle and shift in obvious evasions. Is this etheir natural manner? Man, man, have you ever been tc sea? Do you know these men when they have a clear sweep and no lee shore and have a tale to tell? What has changed them? Fear —fear is the only thing that can change men like that. Fear of what? It is the same fear that gripped the luckless Captain Carey, the fear of costing the owners a dollar extra, no matter what the hazards may be to themselves. Couldn’t Stay Afloat The single basic and absolutely fundamental fact Is that the Vestris wa. unable to stay afloat. Had the Vestris been able to keep afloat, there would have been no need for lifeboats. The plain fact is that there was not the slightest excuse from an' engineering point of view’ for the Vestris sinking at all, had she been properly constructed in the light of modern safe principles, or had she been reconditioned in accordanace therewith. The sinking of a ship today is not a matter of seamanship; it is a matter of ship design. The unsinkable commercially practical ship is here and perfectly available to any shipowner. But not at the price of a sinkable ship. Whp Is Responsible There is no law either in Great Britain or in the United States to compel any shipowner to keep his ship abreast of the times in matters of security through reconditio- 'ng Or. to put it a little differently: Once a ship is launched, there Is no way of condemning the use of that ship for transporting either passengers or crew. She. will, of course, have to provide herself with lifeboats and rockets and flares and various secondary equipments of that kind. But she may be the veriest water-trap—so long as she has complied with the law at the time she was built—and she can go on her profitable ways without reproach. And then the crew must shuffle and shift and blame it on the weather, misunderstood by the public, and quivering helplessly as they protect the ship’s owners and their only job on the sea. Suppose a bridge collapses and kills a number of people. What do we do about it? We do not lay any initial stress upon the bridge-tend-ers or gatekeepers or bridge employes or whether ladders were properly placed for rescue work. Not a bit. The first thing we do is to scan the plans of that bridge to determine if that bridge was faulty in construction. All other points aresubordinate to the fact that the bridge itself collapsed. And, as a matter of fact, we do not wait, ordinarily, for a bridge or building to collapse. We condemn it first. We compel the owner—if it Is a building—to make his building properly secure and safe. But when it comes to the sea and the ships—and the men who go down to the sea in ships— then, in that field, we adhere to tradition and superstition. The sea is full of heroisms and full of scandals. Let us not allow the heroisms to be used to blind us to the scandals, whether they be scandals of thrift, or scandals of rapacity, or scandals of an Inherited incapacity.