Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 240, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1929 — Page 3

FEB. 25, 1929.

NIGHT BATTLE ENDS IN DEATH OF WATCHMAN Blood Stains. Disorder Tell of Struggle With Assailant. Beaten fatally in a desperate struggle with an unidentified assailant Saturday, Louis Miller, 63, of 221 Dickson street, was left to die in the basement of the Cole Motors Company, where he was a night watchman. The death battle apparently occurred about 10 p. m. HLs body was not found until 6 a. m. Sunday, however, and attaches of the coroner’s office believe he died more than an hour after the fight. Miller was killed on his sixty-third birthday anniversary. Evidences of a desperate struggle, which ended when the intruder inflicted a double skull fracture on Miller with a heavy club, were found in the basement and subbasement. Tried to Start Car The fight apparently began in the basement when Miller, making his rounds of the building, war accosted by the Intruder. The two battled across the length of the basement, apparently, overturning furniture as they struggled. At the battle’s end Miller was hurled down the sub basement fairs and robbed o" $35 and his revilver by his assailant, who fled from the building without making an { effort to loot the establishment. Miller, mortally hur-t, after a futile effort to use the telephone, dragged himself twenty yards to another part of the basement in which his automobile w r as parked, and attempted to start the machine. A trail of blood marked the progress of the battle and Miller’s effort to obtain aid. Blood on the cushions of the car showed he tried to start the machine and then, spent at last, slumped to the running board where his body was found. Wife Survives Police learned of the death battle after they were called to the building by two men who were to meet Miller at 5 a. m. to get supplies. They were forced to w'ait half an hour before Grant Phillips, Negro fireman at the plant, arrived and opened the doors. Miller, a native of Indianapolis, had been employed by the motor company since September. Surviving are the widow’, tw'o sons, Charles and Will Miller, and five sisters, all of Indianapolis. FORMER N. D. HEAD IN SERIOUS CONDITION Students Asked to Pray for Recovery of Father Walsh. Bu Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Feb. 25. ! The Rev. Matthew J. Walsh, for- '■ iner president of the University of ; Notre Dame, is in a serious condition in St. Joseph hospital here as a result of an attack of pneumonia contracted Thursday. Thr. seriousness of Father Walsh’s concil on was made known Sunday when Notre Dame students were requested to offer prayers for his recovery’. Father Walsh contracted a cold when in Chicago Thursday. That night he w’ent to the university in.irmary and was ordered to' the Hospital Friday morning. He was ;irst elected president of the university, in 1922 and was re-elected in 1925. His term expired in 1928. TWO SWALLOW POISON One Attempt Caused by Tiff; Another by Death if Daughter. Following a domestic quarrel Sunday night. Mrs. James Dennis, 23, of 619 East *New York street, attempted suicide by swallowing poison in her home, police said. The husband knocked the poison bottle from her hand before she swallowed much of the liquid, how’eyer, and her condition is not serious. Despondency caused by grief over the recent death of his daughter caused George Sebern, 32, of 445 North Gray street, to swallow poison Saturday night. He is in serious condition at city hospital. BOY OVERCOME BY GAS Fumes From Water Heater Prove Nearly Fatal. Samuel Layton, 12, of 1315 Brookside avenue, is much improved in city hospital today after a narrow escape from death Sunday when he was overcome by fumes from a gas heater in Ills home. He w’as saved by his brothers, Frank and Robert. who heard his cries for help. The boys called police.

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Captain Godfrey Rodrigues jusi has finished showing Glendon Macy, police emergency driver, how to stand, walk and sit correctly. The captain is in Indianapolis under auspices of The Indianapolis Times and for ten days is giving talks in schools, before various physical training groups and civic bodies. Captain Rordigues says that violent exercises are not needed to build a healthy body. All nature demands is a correct body position. The body will take care of itself, he says.

FRANK KEENAN. ACTOR, DIES Veteran Stage and Film Star Pneumonia Victim. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Cal., Feb. 25Frank Keenan, for forty-eight years an actor on stage and screen, died

at his home here Sunday following a brief illness of pneumonia. Keenan began his stage career at Jhe age of 22 InLawrenc e, Mass., playing in a Boston stock cornpan y. He then went to New York, where he played in several hits. He took the role, of Cassius in Julius Caesar and played in other

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Shakespearean roles. Later, he appeared in ‘The Warrens of Virginia,” “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Texas Steer.” He went into the motion pictures ; about ten years ago and of late had | acted as director as well as player. $2,000 FOR PRIZES State Oratory and Essay Contest Open. Winners of the annual state oratorical and essay contests for promotion of constitutional education this year will diyde a gift of $2,000 made by Frank C. Ball, Muncie capitalist and manufacturer. The gift was announced by At-torney-General James M. Ogden, i chairman of the state bar associaI tion's committee on American citizenship. The contests are open to secondary school pupils under 19 years of age. The oration must be original and require not more than ten minutes to deliver. The essay must contain not less than 500 nor more than 1,000 words. A number of suggested subjects are provided. Final dates for contests are: Prei liminary, in each school, March 8; county. March 22; congressional district, April 12; zone, April 19; state, April 26; national semi-finals. April 30 to May 17, and national ; finals. May 25, at Washington. International finals will be held at Washington Oct. 26. Participants in the national finals will be taken for a South American tour, starting July 4. ending Sept. 24. MARSH SER VICESTODAY Burial for Mrs. Sarah E. Marsh to Be in Montrose, Mo, ! Funeral sendees for Mrs. Sarah ! Elizabeth Marsh, 69. mother of RobS ert I. and Fayard C. Marsh, Indisnj apolis attorneys, who died Sunday at the home of her son, Bayard, 32 Spencer avenue, were to be held today. Burial will be in Montrose, Mo. Mrs. Marsh has lived in Indianapolis the past sixteen years. She was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Montrose. Sunivors, in addition to Robert I. and Bayard C. Marsh are: Another son, George E. Marsh, and a daughter. Mrs.. Myrtle Kent, both of Indianapolis, and a daughter, Mrs. Bertha Rondall. Montrose. Priest's Funeral Tuesday | H. United Press KOKOMO. Ind., Feb. 25.—Funeral services for the Rev. Robert J. Pratt, pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic church here, will be held Tuesday morning with solem requiem high mass, following an eulogy by the Rt Rev. John F. Noll, bishop of the Ft. Wayne diocese.

Bad Debt Auto By United Press HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 25. —Uneasy days are in store for Hartford debtors. A company just organized employs a novel threat. Delinquent payers are sent a photograph of the company's “bill collecting auto.” The car is painted w’hite and carries the bold black inscription, “Bad Bill Collector.” The company expects the threat to prove very successful.

BOY DIES IN CRASH Truck Driven by Father Hit by Street Car. Pinned beneath the -wreckage of his father’s truck, which had been hit by a street car, William Owens, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Owens. 2136 Conrad avenue, was injured fatally Sunday. The father, driver of the truck, and Ralph Woodward, 25, of 6049 Dewey operator of the oneman West Indianapolis street car, were taken to city hospital suffering from severe cuts and shock. Both were slated on charges of involuntary manslaughter and released on their own recognizance. Witnesses told Coroner Charles H. Keever that Owens, who was driving east on Lambert street, attempted to turn north on Reisner street when he first saw the approaching car. He was unable to make a sharp enough turn, however, and the truck was struck and carried almost half a block. Besides his parents the boy is survived by three sisters. MRS. DORA P. RILEY' RITES TO BE TUESDAY Member of Pioneer Family Dies of Heart Disease. Funeral services for Mrs. Dora Pendleton Riley, 60, of 56 Whittier place, a member of a pioneer family of Indiana, who died of heart disease Sunday at St. Francis hospital will be held Tuesday at 10 a. m. in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Riley was born in Franklin. She received her college degrees from Butler college, now' Butler university. She was the widow of Charles C. Riley, former superintendent of the B. & O. railroad. Survivors are: Her mother, Mrs. R. S. Pendleton, Franklin; a brother, Dr. George H. Pendleton, Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. James M. Henderson, Franklin; two daughters, Miss Katherine Riley, New York, and Miss Aileen Riley, a student in Paris. 1,500 IN BIBLE CONTEST | iai-lj Club Members Enter Study Competition. More than 1,500 were enrolled in the Hi-Y Club Bible study contest which was begun today, C. A. Tevebaugh, Y. M. C. A., state secretary, announced. Appropriate awards will be given clubs making the best | showing. The contest closes April 13. STOPS ASTHMA OR NO PAY D. J. Lane, a druggist at 1413 Lane Building, St. Mary’s, Kan., manufactures a remedy for Asthma in which he has so much confidence that he sends a $1.25 bottle by mail to anyone wTio will write him for it. ' His offer is that he is to be paid for | it after you are satisfied with results, and the one taking the treat- ; ment to be the judge. Send your name and address today .—Advertisement.

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COOLIDGE MAY | TAKE JOURNEY AROUND WORLD Many Guesses as to What President Will Do After March 4. BY ROBERT MOOREFIELD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—What President Coolidge will do after he leaves the White House is a subject of much speculation .in Washington now. He has a strong feeling that the dignity of the presidential office requires an ex-President to conduct himself within certain circumscribed lines and he is averse to entering upon any employment which would constitute practically the selling of his name as ex-Piesi-dent to some large firm which desired to use his name for. advertising purposes. There are, however, a number of dignified activities to which the President may properly turn if he desires. Some have thought he might eventually become president of Amherst college in which he has always been strongly interested. Variety of Occupations Former Presidents have followed a variety of callings after retiring from the chief executiveship. Some, either for gain or diversion, turned to banking, globe trotting, journalism, lecturing, wild game hunting, farming, politics, the law, and educational and charitable services. Persons who insist they are “in the know” have assigned the President to positions as railroad executive, insurance firm director, educator, world traveler, banker, and author; but Mi’. Coolidge himself has exercised the silence he has made famous and steadfastly declines to clear up the situation. He is letting rumor take its whimsical course —and apparently enjoying it. Recently the President told persons who questioned him about his work after March 4 that “one guess •was as good as another.” He has made it known he wants to hold his future plans in abeyance until after he quits office. He has a strong sense of the ethics of the situation. Worth Half Million After all, Mr. Coolidge doesn’t have to work unless he wants to. Unlike Jefferson, who left the White House so poor he feared his creditors would refuse to allow’ him to leave Washington for his home in Virginia, President Coolidge has a comfortable fortune of nearly—so his friends say—half a million. Interest from this alone would permit Mr. Coolidge to live in the unpretentious way that he prefers. It virtually is certain the President will return to his home at Northampton, Mass., for a while after his presidency. He still maintains a home and law office there; last November he personally directed transfer of numerous personal belonging from the White House to his home. Later he indicated It would be “quite natural” for him to return to Northampton “for a time at least.” According to reports here, Mr. Coolidge is considering an extended world tour, on which he possibly might write his memoirs or engage in other literary work for a market already clamoring for his copy. Should he decide to travel, he would follow the steps of Filmore, Pierce, Van Buren, Grant and Roosevelt. 38 in Summitville Band Bu limes Special SUMMITVILLE, Ind., Feb. 25.—A band organized here three months ago has a membership of thirtyeight. Its members will attend a concert to be given by the Collins band at Muncie Thursday night.

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FEAR KIDNAPED BOY . SLAIN IN DESERTCHASE Lad’s Footsteps in Sand Vanish, but Man’s Trail Goes On. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25.—Possemen who trailed Harry Palmer, alleged kidnaper of 11-year-old Dickie Grant, to windswept rocks on a mountain slope four miles northwest of the Eldorado mine Sunday night feared the boy may have been murdered. After a four-day search in which footprints of a man and a fcoy guided the pcssemen across desolate stretches of the Mojave desert, the smaller depressions disappeared. The posse of 100 men also followed automobile tire tracks of the peculiar kind believed to have been used on Palmer’s car to the mountains. Boy’s Shoes Fit Tracks Shoes brought from the kidnaped boy’s home fitted the smaller footprints on the sand. The larger depressions were made by a man with a twisted left foot, such as Palmer is said to have. The automobile tire prints led over a sandy trail to granite slabs on which the trail was lost. A short time later the footprints of only the man were found. The automobile tracks and the footprints of the boy could not be seen. City detective Robert Griggin of Los Angeles, and John Samuelson, desert trailer, believed the man had abandoned his automobile and rolled it off a cliff. Shack Is Located Four years ago Palmer staked a claim between the Eldorado and Lost Horse mines. He was employed later by young Grant’s father. After being discharged last December he obtained permission to take the boy to a party and neither has been seen since. $ Several persons acquainted with Palmer have been reported seeing him on the desert with a boy during the last week. One woman told of passing him at Twenty-Nine Palms. The desert shack in which the missing pair is believed to have lived for an indefinite period also has been located. FRAT MEMBERS DINE Delta Upsilon President Is Chief Speaker. Co-ordination, enlargement and strengthening of existing institutions was predicted as the major development in higher education in America during the next 100 years by John D. Scott, president of Delta Upsilon, college fraternity, at the annual Indiana dinner of the fraternity at the Marott Saturday night. Scott said he expects existing institutions to be expanded to meet problems of the future rather than the creation of new colleges and universities. With active chapters from De Pauw, Indiana and Purdue universities and alumni from throughout the state attending, more than 150 dined. • William H. Meub was toastmaster. Sam G. Howard was elected presfdent of the Indianapolis Delta Upsilon Assocation. succeeding Walter O. Lewis. Others elected; Carl B. Shatter, vice-president; Harold S. Brown, re-elected secretarytreasurer, and J. Burdette Little, director. More than 100 couples attended a dance following the dinner.

Twin ‘Best Twins’ Share Award at Baby Show

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Above —Mrs. G. J. Betzler holding her grandson, Norbert. and (right) Norbert’s twin, Norman, in the arms of his mother. Below (left to right) Gene and Jeannine Updike. Inset—Ruth Alvenia Wells.

It was a “twin” victory for “twins,” Saturday at the final day of judging in the baby show held

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MRS. MURDOCK FUNERAL SET Former Resident to Be Buried Tuesday. Burial rites for Mrs. Samuel Murdock. 61. mother of A. Gordon Murdock, president of the Murdock Pump Company, who died at her son’s home, 1321 North Meridian street. Saturday, will be held Tuesday in Lafayette. Services are scheduled for io a. m. in the St. Mary’s Catholic church. The burial service will be preached by the Rev. John Cavan- | augh of Notre Dame. Burial will \ be in St. Mary's cemetery. Mrs. Murdock lived in Indian- : apolis until the death of her hus- | band. Samuel Murdock, eight years ago Born in Nebraska. Pa., she was j brought to Elkhart. Ind.. at the ago of 5. After attending the Elkhart i grade schools Mrs. Murdock matriculated from St. Mary's at Notre Dame in 1891. She was married to Mr. Murdock the following November. During the time Mrs. Murdock lived in Indianapolis she resided at 2820 North Meridian street. Her I home now is occupied by the Interj national Typographical Union. Survivors in addition to the son ; are; A son, James Gordon Murdock, i Cody. Wyo.: a daughter. Mrs. Horace | R. Lyons. Chicago; three brothers, j Alexander Gordon. Richmond; AlI bert Gordon. Elkhart, and Will , Gordon. Estherville, la., and a twin ; sister. Mrs. Ben G. Schaefer, Goshen. Store Yeggs Get $5,000 BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. Feb. 25. Loot of $5,000 in cash and checks was taken from the Vermilya drug store here early Sunday when two safes were blown. Police said the burglars apparently wore gloves as no fingerprints were found.

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