Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1929 — Page 1

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URGE SAURY HIKES ASKED IN MEASURES Total of $264,400 Increase Involved in 11 Bills Before Assembly. BOOST FOB JUDGES Standardized Salaries to Replace Fee System Urged by Orr. Salary increases totalling $264,000 are provided in bills now pending before the Indiana legislature, according to a tabulation made today by Lawrence Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts. The list includes six senate bills Bnd five bills in the house with definite figures incorporated In addition, it is pointed out by Orr, there is a house bill increasing the fee of the county coroner 100 per cent, and allowing $5 a day for a clerk at all inquests. It is impossible to estimate the total of this increase, he declared. The compilation does not include the bills for increasing salaries of numerous city officials which now are pending. Judges May Get Boost Senate bills include the following: Authorizing increase from $4,000 to $7,000 for clerical assistants in counties having a city with 85,000 population and $170,000 assessed valuation. Affects Marion, Vanderburgh and Allen counties, making a total increase of $9,000. Giving Vigo county clerk a $1,400 salary increase, $9,100 to $10,500. Creating county courts in all counties now having no separate circuit court. Eighteen counties at $3,600, or $61,800. Increasing St. Joseph county judges to SIO,OOO, county to pay up to $5,800. Means three judges increased $3,000, a total of $9,000. The senate passed this today by vote of 33 to 13. Salary increases for all judges of cireuit, superior, criminal, probate and juvenile courts from $4,200 to $5,000, the additional SBOO to be divided between county and state Affects approximately sixty-two empties at S4OO each. Mean additional $24,800. Establishing a $2,000 salary for deputy court clerk at Michigan City. Standardization Urged Bills in the house; Authorize Marion county circuit and criminal judges to appoint chief clerks and fix salaries, estimated at $3,000, means $6,000. Increase Marion county inheritance tax collector from $2,400 to $3,600, a $1,200 boost. Increase Marion county Barrett law clerk from $2,400 to $3,000 and assistant from SI,BOO to $2,500. Total $1,200. Permit county commissioners to appoint assistant to county highway superintendent at $1,500. Effect all the ninety-two counties, totalling a possible expenditure of $138,000. Increase four Marion county municipal court judges from $5,000 to $7,500, a total of SIO,OOO. Os tho house salary boost bills the total affecting Marlon county only, means ar* increased expenditure here of $18,490. Orr urged the passage of the standardization salary bill before the fees and salaries committee of the house recently and pointed out the possibility of huge savings by the abolition of the foe system. The bill still ?s in committee. Large Saving Provided It is opposed by the Lake county delegation, because fees there long have supported the Republican organization. Some mount w T ay beyond the salary of the President of the United States, it is said. Under the bill, drafted by Orr's department after two years’ research the utmost salary increases possible would only total $137,000, he contends. This maximum is nr.t likdiy to be reached, in his opinion. The salary bill does not affect judges. Orr estimated that it will mean a saving in fees totaling $730,018. This he divides into saving in the treasurer’s office, $306 978; recorder’s, $143,633, and prosecutor’s, $279,507. Arguing before the committee against the <ee for collecting delinquent taxes. Orr asserted that no public official should be given a beaus for doing his sworn duty.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 241

Twins Take a Whirl at Auto Show

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The “Twins” went to the eighteenth annual Indanaipolis automobile show at the state fairground today to shop for a car. They are Irine and Florine Phelps, who are appearing at the Indiana this week in a song and dance number. The top photo shows Florine at the wheel and Irine in the seat of half-a-Ford. The inset shows Irine getting chummy in a Willys-Knight roadster’s rumble seat with O. T. Clark, motor car sales manager, as the pretended

SEEK JURY IN HAAG MURDER Completion of Panel Expected by Wednesday. Selection of a criminal court jury to try Rupert McDonald, 22, of Chicago, charged with the murder of Wilkinson Haag, local druggist, was expected to be completed late this afternoon or Wednesday morning. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark said he planned to challenge at least three talesmen who held their seats in the jury box this morning after a rigid examination by Eph Inman, defense counsel. Inman passed the jury once and Stark opened his examination this afternoon. The defense drilled away during the morning at what was expected to have been the high points of the state’s case when he questioned jurors whether the state’s probable references to McDonald as a “gangster, gunman, racketeei or bandit’’ during the trial would prejudice the jurors. He also succeeded in putting the prospective jurors on record as being against any effort “to deter others from crime by convicting an innocent man.” Haag was shot during an “attempted robbery at the Green Mill barbecue, on East Thirty-eighth street, near Keystone avenue. The shooting followed his refusal to hand the ring to the bandits. Lawrence Ghere, who is awaiting trial on a similar indictment, is alleged to have been McDonald’s accomplice in the shooting. DELAY VARE SEATING Senate Gives Committee Power to Continue Probe. Bu Vnitsi Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Final determination of the question of seating William S. Vare as senator from Pennsylvania, was postponed definitely today by the senate. A resolution by Senator George W. Norris (Rep., Neb.), giving the Reefl special elections investigating committee authority to continue its investigation during the recess between sessions and carry on its work until discharged by the senate, was adopted.

“petter.” The seat has room enough for a chaperon as a “safety” feature of the new modes. Center is Irine (left) and Florine (right) resting from their labors of climbing in and out of cars in front of the Cadillac show booth’s beauty spot, with its gurgling fountain. But the “Twins” didn’t get out of the show until they’d been duly instructed on traffic violations and warned by patrolman Roy Daniels, as shown with the Chrysler in the bottom photo.

Interest of Crowds at Exposition in New Cars. While Sammy Watkins radio orchestra played “Sonny Boy” and the varied “rain” songs a crowd of approximately 2,000 persons hummed the airs Monday night and forgot the outside darkness at the Indiana state fairground as they examined open and closed models of motor cars for 1928. It was the opening of the eighteenth annual motor show. When the doors were shoved open at 10:30 today to remain open until the same hour tonight a group of housewives with their morning’s “vacuuming” done filed into the building. The auto show this year Is a flower garden stuffed with mechanistic wonders in Nile greens, camel yellows, and in silvered trappings. The Ford display with its “halicar” drew many curious as they studied a 1929 model that had been cut in two as is sawed from top, through upholstery, into chassis. The De Sotos, Blackhawks, Plymouths, the Reu Mate, and the Chevrolet “six” were main ring attractions with other lines claiming almost as great attention. Comparisons were drawn by the crowd with audible comment that failed to shake the gracious salesmen who attended each group that gathered to inspect, “sit in,” and “get the feel” of the city’s boulevard modes for 1929. Motor trucks on display are: the Studebaker, Whippet, Willys-Knight, Ford, Chevrolet, and Stewart. The Harley-Davidson motorcycle exhibit is playing a lone role at the show. ORDER 1,500 SIGNS Stop Street Markers Will Be Installed by City. Complying with the new model traffic ordinance the board of safety today took steps to buy 1,500 rubber street level stop signs. As fast as possible the signs, which protrude from the pavement, will be used to replace pavement painting. The board recommended that city council make FoHy-sixth street a preferential highway. There is no through east and west street north of Thirty-eighth street. > - jL •

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SUICIDE CURSE KILLS FINANCIER Inherited Strain Believed Only Death Motive. Ry United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—An eerie strain of suicide that has ru.n like a black thread through the lifepattern of the multi-millionaire Towne family appeared again today with the suicide of 47-year-old John D. C. Towne, lawyer, financier, and sportsman. Towne shot himself with his son’s pearl-handled pistol in the library of his Gold Coast home Monday afternoon. Investigation of the suicide today revealed not a single motive, unless it could be said that John Towne was moved to take bis own life by the power of suggestion. His business affairs were in good condition and his home life happy. Jbhn’s paternal grandfather, William B. Towne, ended his life with a .22 caliber rifle in Boston fifty years ago. Mrs. Towne’s first husband. Ward A. Villas, who was prominent in society, died after swallowing an overdose of sleeping powder here in 1920. Suicide Attempt May Succeed Bu Times Special _ . _ , NEWPORT, Ind., Feb. 26.—Miss Marie Anglemeyer, 22, is not expected to survive, following swallowing of acid with suicidal intent. Relatives say they know of no reason for her to wish to end her life.

Times to Broadcast Fight The Indianapolis Times, the New York Telegram and the twenty-three other Scripps-Howard newspapers Wednesday night will combine in offering by radio the biggest treat of the winter fistic season—the Jack Sharkey-Young Stribling encounter at Miami Beach. Just a twist of the dials on your radio set and the clear, pleasing voice of Graham McNamee, veteran sports announcer, will give you the blow-by-blow description of the big fight between the contenders for the heavyweight championship. This big Scripps-Howard feature will be presented over the National Broadcasting Company blue network. Assisting McNamee at the microphone will be Bill Munday, sports announcer of WSB, Atlanta. The broadcast will begin promptly at 8:30, Indianapolis time. Among stations putting on the big Times’ treat are WJZ, New York; WBZ, Springfield, WLW, Cincinnati; WBZA, Boston; WHAM, Rochester; WBAL, Baltimore; KDKA, Pittsburgh; WJR, Detroit; KYW, Chicago, and WREN, Kansas City.

‘LOVE MANIA’ DEATH TRIAL JURYCHOSEN Nurse on Knees in Cell as Trial Opens in Killing of Policeman. PRAYS FOR HER VICTIM Woman Who Shot Wounded Cop in Hospital Blames Her Affections. BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN, United Press Staff Correspondent DENVER, Colo., Feb. 28.—A jury to try Farice Mary King, Denver nurse, for the “love mania” slaying of her sweetheart, patrolman Robert K, Evans, w'as completed today. All but two of the jurors are married, as was the patrolman. Their ages range from 31 to 56 years. The man who pleaded for the nation’s first “mercy murder” undertook today to justify the killing of a policeman by a cast-off sweetheart. “Love mania” was the term Lewis D. Mo wry brought out to describe the defense he hopes to build up for Miss King, the nurse who killed Evans because he spurned her love. Arrayed against the veteran defender of Dr. Harold Blazer was Earl Wettengel, sandy-haired district attorney, conducting his first major case as a state officer. Sympathy by Veniremen Selection of a jury proceeded with difficulty because many of the veniremen admitted they were inclined to free her without further ado. Evans was taken to Denver general hospital three months ago suffering from gunshot wounds inflicted by a bandit he had attempted to arrest. He was placed in the ward over which Miss King had charge. She recognized him as John C. Bobzine,. who had married another wiman while pressing his suit with her. Miss King bought a revolver, and that night while Evans slept on a hospital cot she shot one bullet through his head and another .through his heart. She then attempted suicide, but recovered. “I shot him because I loved him,” she said. “Love Precious to Me” Physicians despaired of Miss King’s life for a time. She said she wanted to die. She recovered slowly, however, and was placed in the county jail. She took scant interest in the life about her. “I do not want to live without him,” she said. Before court opened Miss King was on the verge of collapse. She knelt in her cell, matrons said, and prayed for a just verdict. Next, she said a prayer for the soul of Evans. Then, according to the matrons, she rose unsteadily and sobbed: “Love is precious to me.”

POLICE GUARD POLLS Machine Guns, Tear Gas Keep Lid on in Chicago. By United Prcsi CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—Police armed with machine guns and tear gas kept the lid on Chicago during the aldermanic elections today. “Big Bill” Thompson, the once powerful mayor, sent his cohorts out to meet the enemy on a field so thoroughly patrolled by his own police department that not a single shooting, slugging or kidnaping marked the early hours. The dominant issue in the election was whether Thompson would continue to control the city council. Kidnaping and intimidation of witnesses in the closing hours of the campaign had left its mark on the public mind and early voting was light. Veteran Postmaster Dies By Times Suecial SOMERSET, Ind., Feb. 26.—8. F. Starbuck, 82, who served as postmaster here thirty-one years, is dead of heart disease. He resigned a year ago. Throughout his lone service, Mr. Storbuck had never been asked to take a civil service examination.

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Traders Alley Loses Bill Henry by Death

Dealer and Lover of Horses Made Business Pay, Even in Gasoline Age. DEATH today overtook William Henry, the one and last Indianapolis horseman the automobile never caught up with. Bill Henry, known throughout the midle west as the last survivor of the colorful group of men who were the life and fun and business backbone of the street called Traders Alley, died at his home, 912 North Illinois street, of pneumonia at 7 this morning. Vast trucks rumbled through Traders Alley (Pearl street between Missouri and West streets) this morning leaving faint trails of gasoline fumes —wraiths to mock the memory of the man who continued to deal in horses and make big money up to the day his last illness seized him. Forty draft horses, splendid specimens, the kind Bill Henry combed the middle west for, shifted about in stalls at the Henry barns at 427 West Pearl street as if nervous over what is to become of them now. tt n a A WEEK ago today Mr. Henry was in Galesburg, 111., buying horses. He wired Mrs. Henry he was ill and asked her to meet him at the . train Thursday. He rallied Monday, but death stole quietly to him this morning. Mr. Henry was born in Brown county, near Nashville, fifty-two years ago. He was 12 when his father, William Henry Sr. brought him to Indianapolis. He got a job for a dollar a day in a livery stable. A native love of good horseflesh and ability to judge, carefully nurtured by his father led him to business success—that and the fact that men soon learned that Bill Henry’s word was a bond. They tell a lot of stories about Bill Henry in Traders Alley, but they are not based on any victories in horse deals due to sharp practices. It was the custom two decades ago for practically all wealthy men to have Mr. Henry appraise a horse before they bought it. For a time he operated a high class livery stable at Washington and West streets. About fifteen years ago he established the place in Traders Alley. It was quite the thing in those days to rent a spanking team from Bill Henry’s place and gallivant around on week-ends. tt tt a STRANGE contrasts marked the life of the man who fought his way to leadership of the hardliving group of men who made Traders Alley. Amidst freely flowing liquor he rarely drank. Around horses most of his life, he did not “follow the ponies.” He got his thrill out of the beauty in a well built draft aninjal. Slowly, and as efficiently and honestly as a Washington street merchant,, he attended to business, sought new sources of supply and opened up new, sure markets so that when the motor industry engulfed most of his fellows his position was impregnable. Had he been alive today he probably would have shipped a carload of fine animals to Buffalo. The passing of Bill Henry removed one of the few links with pioneer days. A feature of his business in the early days was trading in oxen as w T ell as horses. tt tt tt BESIDES Mrs. Theodosia Henry, the widow, Mr. Henry is survived by his brothers, Ollie, a policeman, and James, and a sister, Mrs. Jennie Connors, all of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 2:30 p. m. Thursday with burial in Crown Hill. Friends are invited. PETITION DRY VOTE Wisconsin Legislature Asks National Referendum. By United Press MADISON, Wis„ Feb. 26.—The Wisconsin legislature today asked congress to provide a national referendum on the question of modifying the Volstead act. The resolution of Senator Thomas M. Duncan, Milwaukee, Socialist, petitioning congress to take such a step, was concurred in by the assembly after Its adoption previously in the senate.

SIO,OOO FOR INJURY Sum Voted to Family of Crash Victim. Without a dissenting vote the house of representatives today passed a bill providing for payment of SIO,OOO to the family of Scott P. Matthew,;, 603 East Thirty-second street. Matthews is an inmate of the Central state hospital for the insane as a result of injuries received in 1026 when the automobile in which he and his wife and child were riding was struck by an automobile driven by R. D. Fleming, a state game warden. Matthews sustained a fractured skull

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FLOODS MENACE CITIES IN OHIO Several Villages Isolated by High Water. Bu United Press COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 26.—Swollen by a two-inch rainfall, rivers and creeks in Ohio burst their banks today, inundating lowlands and isolating several villages. Springfield and Hamilton were hardest hit and police, manning row boats, rescued more than seventyfive families marooned by the waters. In Springfield industrial plants along the banks of rampagmg Buck creek were flooded and closed down. Families in surrounding houses were marooned and were carried to safety by crews of police, working in relays. More than 100 persons were rescued from Peck’s addition, near Hamilton. The village is situated in the big Miami river lowlands and the town was flooded. Two hundred families living south of Newark were isolated when the Licking river burst its banks They ere in no imminent danger. Highways throughout central and southern Ohio were flooded and automotive and traction service in some sections was brought to a standstill.

FILE SHUMAKER PLEA Un awfully Sent to Prison, Petition Asserts. Supreme court judges were without lawful power to send the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, to the Indiana state farm where he. now is serving a sixty day contempt sentence. Since he was not found guilty of a criminal offense he should not be sene to an institution for criminals. These two new points form the basis of a petition for hearing of the Shumaker case filed in the supreme court today by E. A. Miles, attorney for the dry chief and his organization.

TEST RACING AUTO Car Makes 180 Miles an Hour in First Performance. By United Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 26. —Major H. O. D. Segrave, British race car driver, was pleased today with the initial performance of the Golden Arrow, the specially built car which he hopes to set anew world’s record with. The twenty-seven-foot ' acer that resembles a long yellow torpedo with a tail like an airplane and a snout like a cold chisel, reached a speed of 180 miles an hour on the sands Monday. It has a theoretical speed of 240 miles an hour. The world’s record, made last year by Ray Keech in J. M. White’s triplex, is 207.55 miles an hour.

GOVERNOR TO OPEN DEFENSE THURSDAY Prosecution Rests Case in Ouster 1 Fight Against Johnston. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 26.—The battle of Henry S. Johnston, suspended Governor of Oklahoma, against efforts to remove him from office, will begin Thursday. A recess was granted the defense after the prosecution had rested its case Monday. The prosecution had hammered throughout its twelve days of testimony at relations it charged existed between Johnston and Mrs. O. O. Edwards, resigned confidential secretary to the Governor. Testimoy tended to show- she dominated the Governor’s offiial sets.

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33 PERSONS IN SOUTH KILLED DY TORNADOES Duncan, Miss., Bears Brun' of Storm’s Fury; 21 Dead in Town. TROOPS AID RELIEF Gale Strikes First in Texas and Rips Swath of Ruin in Four States. Bu United Press The southwest and lower Mississippi valley today turned to relief measures in the wake of a tornado that swept in a wide area, late Monday, taking a toll of thirtythree known dead, several missing and fifty Injured and property damage estimated at more than $750,000. Duncan, Miss., where twenty-one are known dead, several missing and fifty are injured, bore the brunt of the storm. Eight of the ten brick business buildings of the town and fifty of the 150 residences were razed. The Red Cross took charge of the situation today, erecting an emergency hospital and morgue. Aided by state troopers and volunteer citizens the relief agency took up the task of searching the ruins and caring for the injured. Strikes in Texas First Relief work in Mississippi and Arkansas where the storm reached its mightiest fury was hindered by swollen streams and broken communications. Striking first at Grand Prairie Tex., where two were killed, then 150 miles northeast at Cooper, Tex. where two others were killed am several injured, the storm lifted across western Arkansas. Continuing its wide arc. It nexi descended near Dewitt, Ark., when two were killed and one serioush injured. A few miles further eas two were .killed and several injurecat Van, Ark. After whipping the waters of the ; Mississippi river the tornado swep across western Duncan county, jusi across the river in Mississippi, razin • farm houses. Cuts Swath Through Town Shortly before 4 p. m. it struck Duncan. Cutting a swath through the town, it completely destroyed communication facilities and left the townspeople to gather their dead and Injured in isolation and confusion. Ten miles north of Duncan it hit the town of Alligator, killing two Negroes and injuring an unknown number. Reports from the rural section between Duncan and Alligator indicated further deaths and damege in that section. Continuing its arc, the storm swung back toward the river, killing two unidentified Negroes as it tore through Quitmtan county. Its path led the storm over Memphis, Tenn., where a severe electrical storm was accompanied by high winds. Trees were uprooted and several frame buildings blown down, but no Injured were reported. The storm then petered out over northeast Arkansas, causing heavy rains and electrical storms, but no considerable damage. ELI NOR GLYN TO WRITE ON CHICAGO FOR FILMS Screen Author Rents Entire Hotel Suite for Work. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—Elinor Qlyn Is coming to Chicago to do some first-hand writing about gangsters and tneir women for a motion picture. An entire hotel suite will have to be re-decorated for her. “I,” Miss Glyn wired to the hotel, “shall put In two full busy days in Chicago and impossible to work unless have neutral colored room. Expense no object.” IDENTIFY WOMAN AFTER MONTH IN HOSPITAL Recovers Memory; Picked Up iff Street After Collapse. Bjl United Press CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 26.—A woman who has lain in charity hospital for a month unnamed today was Identified as Mrs. Harriett L. Bailey, 64, of 625 Holland street, Erie, Pa. The identification was made by the woman herself and confirmed by G. E. Wade, of Erie. Mrs. Bailey collapsed on public square Jan. 24, and was picked up and taken to the hospital. When revived she could tell nothing about herself.

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