Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1929 — Page 2

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BARE SWINDLE IN SLAYING OF ROTHSTEIN AID Murder Threat May Seal Lips of Business Man in Huge Booze Plot. BV ALFRED P HECK tnitfi! Prfs* Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON. March 13.—A man. reputed to be a notorious rum runner with offices in New York, may be indicted as the result of the murder of Thomas < Fatty) Walsli, bodyguard to the late Arnold Rothstein, New York gambler, it was learned today. Walsh was killed recently in a Coral Gables, Fla., hotel. Tuesday It was revealed his death occurred not as the result of a card game quarrel, but because of an international liquor conspiracy involving a $1,000,000 cargo of pre-prohibition American rye whisky. Federal agents have been working on the case since Walsh’s bulletridden body was discovered sprawled in the Florida hotel room. Two theories were advanced for his murder/ First, the card game quarrel, and second, because of his connection with Rothstein. Two Theories Discarded Both were discarded when it became known Walsh was involved in the liquor conspiracy through which a prominent New York iron and steel man lost $172,000. Indictment of the alleged rum runner will depend upon how far the New York business man is willing to go to recover his money, federal authorities said. The business man. regarded by federal officials as the victim of a trio of “sharpers” has been threatened with death unless he drops efforts to recover the $172,000. A notorious New York gangster is /<Mdd to have called upon him in his mid-town offices and persuaded him, with the assistance of a pistol, to “forget about it.” According to information gathered by goverriment investigators, Walsh and the alleged rum runner called upon the business man and suggested purchase of a quantity of American rye whisky held by Cuban authorities for non-payment of Loses His 5172,000 The two explains f hc whisky could be purchased lor roximately $200,000 and resold t ..icrican tourists in Havana for fa y prices because of the -scarcity of nerican whiskies. The business man put up $172,000. The whisky was purchased and loaded on a Cuban schooner, without the business man’s knowledge. A Cuban lawyer, a member of the Cuban congress, was called in and made a technical libel against the schooner and. liquor for SIOO. Walsh and the alleged rum runner, acting for the business man, did not protest the libel, so * the liquor was seized and resold to Walsh, the alleged rum runner and the Cuban lawyer, leaving the New York business man out of the deal and out his $172,000. Quarrel in Hotel Walsh and the alleged rum runner met in the Coral Gables hotel to discuss means of leaving the Cuban lawyer also “holding the bag.” A quarrel ensued, investigators said, which resulted in Walsh’s death. The other conspirator flew back to Havana and last Saturday the liquor caygo left Cuba on board the sohooner. Its last location was reported off Gun Key, near the Flor/ida mainland. COLLECTS AUTOGRAPHS Marion Woman Has Names of Nearly 100 JTomincnt Persons. By United Press MARION. Ind., March 13.—Miss Edith Sweetser Smith, daughter of Mrs. S. H. Smith of Marion, has in her collection of autographs those of Charles A. Lindbergh and his mother. Mrs.‘Evangeline Lindbergh. Names of many of the foremost persons in the United States, including authors, artists, educators and statesmen are in Miss Smith’s collection. The collection totals nearly 100. On his personal stationery, General Pershing wrste “John J. Pershin, June 23, 1927.” Memorial Fund Sought Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. March 13. —A campaign is being conducted on the Indiana university campus to raise funds for a scholarship in memory of Mrs. Frances Skjerne, former instructor in the university music school and wife of Professor Axel Skjerne, former professor of piano. Road Hearing Thursday By Times Special MARION. Ind.. March 13.—Walter Bridges, representing the Indiana tax board, will conduct a hearing on a remonstrance against a $33,500 bond issue for improvement of the Gillespie road, here Thursday. Petitioners have asked that the road be paved. Complete Automobile Insurance at Lower Cost Oitl Trails Aotomohile Insurance Association ttll Floor Old Trails Bids- Kl. 1301 Your Savings Account With The Meyer-Kiser Bank Will Earn 4Vz% Interest 12* K. WASHINGTON ST. G & J TIRES on Liberal Pqy Plan SELIG TIRE CO. t 23 South East St/’

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Justice Richard J. Hopkins of the Kansas state supreme court is being mentioned prominently to succeed Judge George T. McDermott of Topeka as United States district judge for Kansas. Hopkins is shown above. In the inset is Judge McDermott, 42-year-old overseas veteran, who has been nominated for judge of the new Tenth judicial circuit of appeals, created under the Newton bill recently passed by congress, which includes the states of Colorado. Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma and New Mexico. PAYS FOR PATRIOTISM Poincare’s Wife Eager for Premier to Resign. By United Press PARIS, March 13.—Persistent indications that Premier Raymond Poincare is anxious to resign from active politics when the reparations question is out of the way find active confirmation from at least one “authoritative source.” The “'authoritative source” is Madame Poincare, who busily is campaigning in the Poincare home for her husband to retire and resume his law practice—due entirely to the family budget. She also is worried about the premier’s health. The premier’s wife points out that the family fortune has suffered by his patriotic devotion to his country. Poincare, instead of earning nearly a million francs a year as a lawyer, is paid 180,000 francs annually as president of the council. He is paid as a senator. The two salaries together give him far less than he spends. Two Killed in Motorcclc Cr-. h • I*ITTF 7RGH Pa.. March 13. Two men were killed in a head-on collision between a motorcycie and a truck here today. The driver of, the truck and a passenger escaped injury. The dead: Morris Shapira, 35, and John P. Hornett, 32.

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TURMS BACK ON MILLIONS FOR . COWBOY MATE Two Weeks Absence Test Sends Society Girl Back to Husband. Bn United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., March 13. In a simple Hollywood apartment a Chicago girl, who turned her back on millions, sat in the arms of her stalwart cowboy husband today and said she bad found love and with it happiness. She is Mrs. George Gillespie, formerly Katherine Thorne, daughter of Robert C. Thorne, one time president of Montgomery Ward & Cos. She and the man with vgiom she eloped have come safely through a two weeks’ separation, a test imposed by her father so they might decide whther they were really in love. “My feeling didn’t change and neither my husband’s,” she said. “I have done what I promised my parents I would and have made my choice.” Mrs. Gillespie’s .mother, father and brother-in-law, having failed to convince her that she had made a mistake, were reported en route to Chicago. "My father’s attitude?” the bride said hesitantly, “Well, I wouldn't say that he had given his approval.” The Gillespies are living in an apartment that, compared with the bride’s former surroundings, is poor. But to them it is their home and probably will be for some time. Gillespie is working as an extra in pictures. “If the movie work runs out he can get something else,” the young wife explained, hopefully. “You see, we have to live either in California or Arizona because of my husband’s asthma,” Mrs. Gillespie said. “My parents made some sort of an attempt to show that 1 had been kidnaped when w eloped, but I am 21 and it is my life I’m living. “I don’t like to seem an undutif* 1 . daughter, but we are in love and a husband has some right, you know. “When I got married I fully was aware of what I was doing. I am more sure of that than ever, after the two weeks’ separation. The only •■hing that George has done, as I see it, is to love me. “He could not help that any more than I could. I am sure that my father’s money did not influence our marriage. My husband stands to gain nothing but me and he seems satisfied.” INDIGESTION A, RELIEVED JT .. . QUICKLY CARTERS This Purely Vegetable Pill VwUIvER aids nature as a laxjjmij*. ative in. its digestive ffflsadl duties. Often one of these little pills taken after meals br at bedtime will do wonders, especially when you have overeaten or are troubled with constipation. Remember they are Dr. Carter’s for mula, young and old can take them. AH Druggists 25c and 7 1 5 c red pkgs. CARTER’S IKB PILLS

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