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2 SLAIN AS CHICAGO BEER t WAR FLARES Bullets in Bloody Feud on South Side Fly in Crowded Case. DEFIED GANG POWERS Former Lieutenant of Al Capone Is One of Victims. 2?v/ United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—The bloody south side beer war was resumed today across the dance floor of the popular Granada case. There among more than 200 preholiday revelers, many of them in evening clothes, Hugh "Stubby” McGovern, former lieutenant of Scarface Al Capone, and William "Gunner” McF&dden, business agent for a labor racket, fell dead with bullets through their hearts, perhaps because one of them, McGovern, had defied the powers of gangland. The shrieking of frightened women, the hoarse cries of drunken men and the sharp reports of pistol fire spread confusion throughout the sonthside night club belt. But when police arrived on the scene they found only the bodies of the two murdered gangsters sprawled on one side of the dance floor and Gorge Maloney, operator of a soft drink parlor and cigar store, standing on the other side with a pistol in his hand. Maloney was arrested as a suspect in the shooting. Draws Gun; Slain McGovern and McFadden had been seated at a table with two women when Maloney entered and began talking to them. He and McGovern fell to arguing and suddenly the shooting started. The crowd in the case scattered in confusion as the guns began blazing. No one could be found after dawn who could give an accurate account of the battle. McGovern was said to have leaped to his feet, drawing his gun. He was known as a deadly shot, but before he could pull the trigger he fell a bullet in his heart. Mc- • Iden fired several times, but ;sed and his opponent shot him i.irough the heart. i The first pistol shot started a mad bush for the exits, men and women ■scrambling over tables in their haste Ito escape. I When police entered they found fche place nearly deserted, McGovern land McFadden lying within a few ■feet of each other and Maloney apparently dazed, and holding in his liand a pistol containing six empty Khells. ■ Too Drunk to Talk ■ He would make no statement reBirding the shooting. Police said B was too drunk to talk. rose from “back of the to a position of great promjKuce in gangland. Ralph Sheldon ■Ht him under his wing five years •Hi' and for the next four years the rarely were separated. McGovwas a police character and had IHn arrested in connection with brutal murders. Hnce he was accused of killing a MMfro deliberately "to see how he die.” :iesters told of how he would .DKure a victim and there were ■Efrpers that McGovern would kill Pjffnothing more than the doubtful of murder. Pfßu four years he acted as Shelchief bodyguard. Where Shelfound, there would be McGovern, watching his came a rift last spring. MeSSttflrn accused Sheldon of “short- _£,-■ him as much as a thousand rffiSMrs a week in the beer earnings south side, which they diCapone had turned the side area over to Sheldon. y# Leader of Gangsters le® lover n once shot Sheldon four his chief's life being saved by gklflP Donovan, who shoved Shelmffl aside as McGovern began *t,¥f|don went to New Mexico to his health and McGovern 1. ®ver, or tried to, the south side : ; Hidustry. He met strong oppo(■■however, and his success was returned to Chicago a ago and it was prethat McGovern would Sheldon, too. is known as shot- , glldden was well known in . . but did not hold the of importance that McP^^Bdid. not known over what Mcand Maloney had argued. was not connected with racket as far as police ■ “to train death Buowi-bv Sweetheart," Then H Self; Ties Up Traffic. Dec. 31.—An unman shouted "Good-by and then leaped to his ■ front of a southbound 1 iff'-Seventh avenue express • ** street and Lenox avenue Hfcerborcugh traffic was tied Hty minutes.

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DUAL TRAGEDY IS CLIMAX TO LOVE TRIANGLE

Farm Manager Kills Woman and Self After Being Fired. By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., Dec. 31.—Murder and suicide brought a tragic climax to an illicit love affair here Sunday when Ralph Mullendore Heath, 34, of 950 West Thirty-third street, Indianapolis, fired four bullets into the brain of Mrs. Mae Snyder, 45, his employer’s wife, and then turned the gun on himself. Since September, Heath had managed a poultry farm at the Snyder summer home here. Notes left in his room indicated his affection for Mrs. Snyder, wife of W. E. Snyder, manager of the exclusive Hotel Sewax-d, Detroit, was reciprocated. Snyder, informed of their relations, ordered his wife to come to Danville and dismiss her paramour. Saturday, she and Heath talked the matter over, authorities learned from Mrs. Snyder’s sister, Mrs. John Grider, of Vincennes. Dresses in Best Suit John Betts, caretaker, died at his home adjoining the Snyder home C aturday midnight. After arranging to have the body sent to an undertaking establishment, Mrs. Snyder and Heath returned to the Snyder home where Mrs. Nellie Guilkey, Heath’s aunt, was employed as housekeeper. A few hours after they had retired, Heath arose, dressed himself in his best clothes, shaved, penned farewell notes to his aunt, parents and Snyder, then took a .45 calibre revolver from a dresser drawer in his room and walked into Mrs. Snyder’s bedroom. The two were heard in loud conversation. Five shots rang out—four of the bullets entering Mrs. Snyder’s head while the fifth went wild. Mrs. Guilkey ran to the room, but Heath threatened her with death if she did not return to the kitchen. Then he returned to his own room, reloaded the gun, lay down on the bed and fired one shot into his brain, dying instantly. “You should thank me for getting rid of such a woman as your wife,” said the note Heath addressed to Snyder, who came to Danville by airplane when informed of the tragedy. Writes Notes to Parents Other notes found by Sheriff Henry Rodney included those to his parents Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Heath, jvith whom Heath lived at Indianapolis. “I know I have been a bad boy and made you lots of sorrow,” said one. “But I hop a you will forgive and forget. I think you know the relation that Mae (Mrs. Snyder) and 1 had had by the nights I have '.pent with her. Now there is a difference and the best way out is the outcome of this.” Another note to Heath’s mother said: “Mother let this be published in a paper. I hope that people look at this as my fault and not from you or dad. It was all my own fault.” Heath evidently had planned the act well in advance for he had indorsed a check to his father covering his account in a local bank. Expected to Attend Party Heath’s parents were expecting him to visit them Sunday when word came of the shooting. They were expected to come to Danville for a New Year’s party with their son today. The Snyders and Heaths had been intimate friends for a number of years. Heath was Democratic precinct committeeman of the Fifteenth precinct of the Fourth ward at Indianapolis, where he had lived twelve years. He had been married out was divorced. Funeral services for Heath will be held at the home Wednesday at 2 p. m. Burial will be in Crown Hill. The parents, a brother, Ray C. Heath, and sister, Miss Muriel Heath, survive. The Snyders formerly lived in Indianapolis, but moved to Detroit ten years ago. Mrs. Snyder’s body was removed to Indianapolis Sunday. WORKS TO 0. kTaIRPORT Board to Approve Site No. 8 for City Landing Field. The board of works this afternoon was to consider a resolution in favor of adopting site No. 8 for a municipal airport as a preliminary step to its approval by the city council and Mayor L. Ert Slack. The cost of the site is estimated at $692,000.

How to Play the Devil Raises Rumpus Among Opera Stars

By United Press , . . CHICAGO, Dec. 34. —Scientists in New York have formulated anew concept of God, but it remained for two opera stars to originate anew concept of the devil. The storm arc*ised in theological circles by the scientific hypothesis has had its counterpart among the artists of tUe Chicago civic opera. The operatic heresy arose over the part of Mephistopheles in “Faust.” Alexander Kipnis and Vanni-Marcoux, the modernists of the company, claimed that the well-dressed devil no longer wears red tights and a scarlet cloak. Kipnis recently ♦

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BY ARCH STEINEL -mj-OVE, MOVE—MOVIES! Since the “legit” did an aerial flip-flop and lit on its back after the first half-nelson applied by Cinema the Terrible Sob-Strangler, a nation of shoe clerks, cafeteria stragglers, and traffic bell jumpers have knocked knees in movie theaters trying to get to seats or out of them. Asa Sunday afternoon pastime it is warranted to ruin the disposition, obliterate the eyesight, enlarge the swearing vocabulary, and raise corns where there were no corns before. First you advance timidly before a window where your dollar bill does a Houdini. Passports in hand and the words of "Standing room only,” thrown at you as a receipt for your money, you stumble over a rubber mat into a foyer where wooden ushers eye you with that “well see what the cat drug in” look. It’s their move and they do. With a finger sign that resembles your own school-day requests for extra recesses you’re shoved into a bored line of waiters. A heavy-furred ton of Coty’s wraps her coat closer to herself and gives you a nonchalant punch in the ribs. Ugh! that ten-cent-store lilac downs the Coty’s as a No. 10 shoe stamps on your own meek 7. "Beg your pardon,” says No. 10. "Too late,” you mumble inwardly. Now! The line moves! You see an opening. Head-down you make for it. Thwack! your head hits the broad back of a washerwoman that might-have-been. "Some people haven’t got any politeness.” Ears burn, face goes hot, and your overcoat gets too big for you. n u tx “T TOW many?” queries the usher. XJL "One-half of one,” you chalk up mentally but with chastened air merely point at where your ribs were. Down an aisle like the buff part of blind man’s buff you trip and stumble until your row is reached. “The fourth from the end,” motions the Sphinx with the flashlight. Which end? Where? Slip us your flash light. But he’s gone to get more sheep for slaughter. It’s now or never. Bump! First shoal of knees, a coat or two knocked off seats ahead of you. A mutter—“Some people never look where they’re going.” Selah! Land’s in sight—there it is—no, it isn’t. Shell-game over again until you corner the prize pea —a seat. Twenty minutes getting oriented to the picture’s plot. n tt a “TJARDON me. The seats are X just the other side of that gentleman,” and out goes the flashlight and on comes the thundering herd. Clump Bump! Seats squeaking. Dank furs brushing hide-odors into your nostrils. "Oh; Let’s go, I just know I saw this in Chicago.” They halt on your foot while a caucus is taken of whether to sit it out or leave. They stay. Chatter! Stir! And fume. "He gets the girl in the end, anyway. You’ll not like it. I’ve seen her in so many better pictures.” Gum whacks up and down in voracious jaws. "Pardon me! The seat on the other side of the gentleman,” announces the flash-light Fiend. Bump! Coats discarded in your face and sooty scarfs smeared over the clean collar. Akimbo elbows settle on your seat-arms and prod the crystal of your watch, your fountain-pen. "Pardon me. The seat the fourth from the—,” Move! Move! Movies! SCHOOL BOARD ACTS Authorizes §391,000 Bond Issue for Proposed Addition. Election of officers for 1929 and action on a 1929 building program will be taken up by Indianapolis school commissioners at 11 a. m. Wednesday. The board today authorized a $391,000 bond issue for construction of Schools 81 and 82 and additions to Schools 15 and 49.

shocked his audience by appearing as Mephistopheles in a livid gray costume with the only touch of color a red feather in his cap. Vanni-Marcoux contends that Mephistopheles should appear as a dashing cavalier with no outward sign of evil. The fundamentalist of the company, Virgillio Lazzari, has continued to wear red tights, horns and a tail. A change in the part, he believes, will destroy the illusion and play the devil with the entire production. The clergy have not made known their attitude in the controversy.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1928

INFANT 1929 TO GET LOUD CITY GREETING .- . / U. S. Dry Agents Won’t Halt Eye-Openers in Honor of Arrival. LOOK OUT FOR COPS! 5,000 Reservations Made for New Year’s Parties in Indianapolis. A boisterous welcome awaited the infant 1929 as clubs, theaters and homes today made final preparations for watching the old year out and the new year in, tonight. While a rousing welcome is accorded the new year at a round of social events, congregations of many Protestant churches of the city will observe its advent with prayer and song. More than five thousand reservations have been made for New Year’s parties and dances at the city’s clubs, reservations show. Convivial souls who go a-merry-making with bulging pockets and corkscrews, have even less to fear from federal minions of the law than in former years, it appeared today. In Soup and Fish Federal agents will not bother much with New Year liquor, it is reported, for there are fewer than a dozen agents left in Indiana, due to the ravages of the civil service examinations. New appointments have not been made to fill the ranks. Ordinarily there are twen-ty-six agents in the state. Detectives and traffic squad members, dressed up in "soup and fish,” will be in attendance at all of the formal club dances, while others in their familiar uniforms or in plain clothes will mingle in the crowds at dance halls and roadhouses, Police Chief Claude M. Worley announced. Fifty-one been assigned to howw/clubs, and dance halls and ninety-seven extra men have been asslged to patrol downtown streets and “bootleg” sections of the city, with two men assigned to each block in the downtown section. Ail police were put on a twelvehour shift today, the 7 a. m. to 3 p. m. squad staying on the job until 7 p. m. when the 3 p. m. to 11 p. m. and 11 p. m. to 7 a. m forces will join to keep an eye on the merrymaking. Patrol for Drivers Motorcycle officers will patrol the thoroughfares until dawn on the lookout for drivers with a fogged vision and unsteady hands on the wheel. Clubs which have arranged elaborate dinner dances include the Columbia Club, Athenaeum, Broadmoor Country Club, Indianapolis Country Club, Elks Club, Hoosier Athletic Club and the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Although only private dinner parties have been scheduled at most of the hotels, the Marott has arranged a New Year’s eve ball for its guests. The Propylaeum and the Caroline Scott Chapter House D. A. R. will hold open house New Year’s day. South Side Turners will have a card party tonight. Theaters Plan Fetes Open house at the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday, will present an athletic program and concert in which 450 members will take part. Programs have been made up for morning, afternoon and evening. The public is welcomed. Downtown theaters will stage midnight shows tonight. Public dance halls will feature novelties in their New Year’s eve entertainments. Banks, stores, public buildings and industries generally will be closed all day Tuesday. Only special delivery and perishaable mail will be deliv ered and collections will be made on the usual abbreviated holidav schedule. GAS KILLS FAMILY OF 7 Carbon Monoxide Causes Death of Tenement Dwellers. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Seven members of one family were found dead in a lower East Side tenement house this afternoon. Police said the deaths were due to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Bachelors all, and to the end—of 1928. Unless Cupid gets in some fast work before midnight tonight here are six prominent Indianapolis men who jiyre gone through leap year unscathed. Above, left to right, Paul R. Brown, county surveyor; John L.

f:'ss hohlt CASE TO JURY Closing Arguments Today in Robbery Trial. Criminal court jurors this afternoon were to receive the auto banditry and robbery case against Lloyd Amos, 24, of 617 % North Illinois street, after a three-day trial. Amos is charged with participating in the attempted hold-up of the F. W. Hohlt & Son dry goods store, 1239 Kentucky avenue. Closing arguments were made by state and defense attorneys this afternoon. The jury was to get the case shortly after 5 p. m. Otto Price and Carl Kittrell, two of the bandits, were shot by police while Amos was captured in his automobile as he attempted to escape. Herman Armfield, one of the robbery gang, had informed police of the attempted robbery. The defense rested its case early this morning and the state called several rebuttal witnesses, including Mrs. Kittrell, and four local newspaper men. Amos also was recalled to the stand to answer additional questions but he did not deviate from his story that he did not participate in the robbery plans and that he did not sign any confession. COLD WAVE NEARS 15 to 20 Degrees Above Zero Predicted for Tuesday. A moderate cold wave Tuesday was predicted today by United States weather bureau officials. The mercury will drop to a low, mark of about 10 to 15 degrees above zero by Tuesday night, the officials said. Snow also is predicted. Rain tonight likely will change to snow, according to the prediction. Last New Year’s day was the coldest day of last winter, it was recalled. The mercury dropped to 8 below zero and a heavy snow fell. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 28 10 a. m 33 7 a. m 28 11 a. m 38 8 a. m 29 12 (noon).. 42 9 a. m 32 1 p. m 41 2 Die of Gas in Cabin By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 31. John Hilgendorf, 63, and August Hastings, 65, both of whom recently came here from Detroit, were found dead in a cabin at an automobile camp today. Carbon monoxide poisoning was held responsible for the deaths. A gas stove was burning and all windows were closed. Out-of-town telephone calls increase your social and business activity. Basic rate to CINCINNATI only 70 cents.—Advertisement.

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Niblack, state senator; Clyde E. Robinson, county treasurer. Center, left, Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott; right, Dr. Frederick E. Jackson, president of the city health board. Below, John K. Ruckelshaus, attorney.

Historians * Parley Is at Close Final Sessions of Meeting Are Held Today at Claypool. Final sessions of the American Historical Association were held at the Claypool today with the delegates divided into groups dealing with special historical subjects. Morning meetings included a joint assembly with the Bibliographical Society of America and group meetings on American Pre-History, the Far East, Hispanic America and a conference of historical societies. Among the interesting discussions was that regarding the authorship and authenticity of “The Diary of a Public Man,” which appeared in the North American Review in 1879. The diary has to do with many stories told of Lincoln. Sunday night the only gathering was the public meeting of the American Catholic Historical Society at the Knights of Columbus auditorium. Dr. Peter Guilday of the history department of the Catholic university at Washington was principal speaker. At the business session of the American Historical Association at the Claypool, Saturday, Durham, N. C., was selected as the meeting place for 1929 and dates of the convention will be Dec. 30, 1929, to Jan. 1, 1930.

FORD TO HIRE 30,000 MORE MEN; SPEED PLANT

Bu United Press > DETROIT, Dec. 31.—Although tempered with the statement that local unemployed men will be given preference, announcement by the Ford Motor Company today that 30,000 new men will be hired before March 1, brought optimism to Detroit business and civic leaders. The new employes will increase Ford production by 20 per cent. Thomas E. Dolan, general superintendent of the city’s public welfare department said the warning for unemployed to stay away ( from Detroit could not be over emphasized. Under the present Ford working plans the Ford output for a fiveday week average 33,500 cars weekly The new working plan will bring the schedule to 40,000 cars weekly. Employment of the new men will allow Henry Ford to continue his five-day a week work plan for his employes, but they will be allocated

POLICE SHAKEUP IS RUMORED Shift in Detective Bureau !s Seen by Meeting, The board of safety, Police Chief Claude M. Worley and Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell held a closed door conference with Mayor L. Ert Slack today. It was rumored the meeting might result in a police department shakeup. The conference still was in session at 1:30 p. m. Several changes of the detective department personnel were being discussed, it was reported. POINCARE MAY QUIT Premier Considers His Task Done; Urged to Stay. Bu United Press PARIS, Dec. 31—Premier Raymond Poincare told the cabinet at a special session today he considered his task complete with the passage by parliament of the budget, and desired to hand his resignation to President Gaston Doumergue. An official communique issued by the cabinet said the ministers had convinced Poincare that he should retain power for the present. Dog Digs to Build Home By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Dec. 31. Reverting to habits of wild ancestors, a mother dog here burrowed a distance of thirty feet in a sand bank to provide a home for her seven pups. Charles Geyer, a boy, found the dog’s home and brought out the pups.

so that Ford plants will operate six days weekly. Production this year dropped 100,000 cars under the fiveday week plan. Figured at minimum Ford scales employment of the new men will add almost $40,000,000 yearly to the Ford pay roll. The company is still far behind in advance orders for new model Fords. Enlarge Local Branch An additional force of workmen is expected to- be employed by the local Ford Motor Company branch to enable an Increase in production before March 1. George Stelnmetz, local Ford managex. said he had not received word of an order from Detroit headquarters to step-up production, but it is likely that the Indianapolis assembly plant will be subject to the announcement.

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11. S. POWER IN SHUMAKER CASE ARGUED Judge Baltzell Hears Plea for Writ to Free Dry Crusader. RULING TO BE DELAYED No Immediate Decision Expected on Order to State Farm. Upon whether federal court has a right to step into a case involving a purely state question today apparently rested decision as to whether the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, must serve sixty days on Indiana state farm for contempt of state supreme court in his 1925 annual report. Arguments were being heard by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell upon Shumaker’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus to prevent the sheriff of supreme court from carrying out its order of last Friday directing that Shumaker be immediately incarcerated, despite Governor Ed Jackson's pardon of Oct. 18. Delay on Decision It appeared likely that there would be no decision for several days, since Judge Baltzell in effect agreed to accept from Shumaker's attorneys citations which can not be prepared until Wednesday or Thursday. This, however, did not accomplish the move Shumaker’s friends sponsored to get th3 hearing postponed until after Attorney-General Arthur L. Gilliom’s te - m expires, at midnight tonight. The Shumaker forces regard James M. Ogden, the incoming attorney-general, as quite friendly. Gilliom got in his final argument today and the case was in Judge Baltzell’s hands, regardless of any* thing Ogden might attempt, it appeared. Ogden has refused to what he would do about the case if it got into his hands. Three Issues Involved At the outset of the hearing Judge Baltzell remarked that it appeared to him that three questions were involved: 1. Whether state supreme court had jurisdiction in the original instance. 2. Whether state supreme court had jurisdiction after the sixty days to which Shumaker was sentenced expired. 3. Whether state supreme court had jurisdiction after the Governor issued the pardon. Attorney E. A. Miles for Shumaker took this as his cue. He argued that state supreme court can punish for direct contempt, such as flaunting of its authority, but not for indirect contempt, such as criticism of the court’s decisions, as Shumaker was charged with.

“Thinking Out Loud’* Supporting argument that Shumaker passed from the state court’s power when the Governor issued the pardon he read a United States supreme court decision giving Governors power to pardon except in cases of treason or impeachment and contained a statement “after pardon by the executive officer the incident is closed.’’ Judge Baltzell, explaining he was merely “thinking out loud,” remarked after Miles finished that he believed there was a question as to whether the supreme court has a right to protect itself against criticism directed against it while a decision on a case is pending.” Gilliom answering Miles declared the scope of the case was far more limited than outlined by the court’s questions and Miles’ argument. While Gilliom answered the arguments as to the supreme court’s jurisdiction, citing many decisions to show the state court was within its authority in each step of the Shumaker case, he summed up his principal argument thus: “While your honor has the power to act in this case, the United States supreme court has constantly held that federal courts should not interfere in such proceedings unless a national questioo is involved or one involving the nation’s relations with foreign nations." “The United States supreme court has said that when a supreme court of a state construes its state constitution its construction is accepted as bipding.” Shumaker at Ease •Attorney Will H. Thompson followed Gilliom for the state, arguing that release of Shumaker on the Governor’s pretended pardon "was just the same as if the defendant ‘had escaped from the state farm.” He cited numerous authorities to show that none of Shumaker’s constitutional rights had been violated as Shumaker contends in the habeas corpus petition. Attorney Solon J. Carter, also assisting Gilliom, spoke next. Attorney James Bingham Sr., assisting Miles, and Miles spoke thb afternoon to close the argument Shumaker rocked easily to anl fro in a swivel chair, conferring norl and then with his attorneys. ■ Attorneys Albert Rabb and Johfl McCord sat as other assistant* tfl Gilliom. W,