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FIRST lONES TERM GIVEN ill CITY TRIAL Negro Gets U. S. Prison Sentence Under New Booze Law. HEAR NOVEL EXCUSES Gallon of Whisky Is for Sickness. Federal Judge Told. Hugh Heston. 24. Negro. 525 West Vermont street, the first liquor defendant to be sentenced under the Jones ac;. providing heavier maximum liquor violation penalty, in federal court here, today received a sentence of a year and a day at Leavenworth penitentiary. He was charged with possession of a still, and was alleked to have been caught with stills several times before.

The Jones act provides a maximum liquor violation penalty of five years and SIO,OOO fine. Several other defendants. whose offenses were, committed after the Jones act was passed were to be sentenced this afternoon. Give Novel Excuses t ifty-one persons pleaded guilty and seventeen pleaded not guilty v hen arraigned before Federal Judge Robert. C. Rail re)]. Several liquor defendants gave the couii novel excuses "I tried to make that beer so weak n wouldn't be intoxicating," John Kosl of St, Meinrad, who pleaded not guilty, said. "Did you ever " ear a white apron and tend bar?" Raltzell asked. Host mumbled yes. "I thought so. I usually can tell," RalUell replied. “Gallon" for Birthday When Miss Mary McCutcheon. 131 ft Rates street, said a gallon of whisky found by dry agents in her home was “just for sickness." Baltzeli remarked: “You must have expected to be pretty sick." George Hampshire, 7100 West Morris street, alleged to have sold liquor to boys aged 19 and 20. said a gallon of liquor fo> ! nd by raiders had been purchased for his birthday. He was fined sifio and sentenced to serve 60 days in jail. Sentenced for Liquor Liquor sentence, included: Raleigh Lane. 229] Aliord street. Negro, ninety days: Raymond Parham. 38. and Henry Turpin Orsborne. 17. Negroes. 846 Meikel street, forty-five days each: Joe Schmidt. 2259 North Capiiol avenue. SSOO fine and nine months: Charles B. Hearn, 2236 Madison avenue. S2OO fine, six months; Bernard Wainscot t. 610 Union street. SIOO fine, ninety days; Don White. 1609 East. Minnesota street. SSOO fine: Thomas Beverly, Negro. 533 Bright street, sixty days: Wiley O'Connor. 217 West Twelfth street. Negro, sixty days: Jack Prior. 345 Eas f Washington street, jour months: William F. Stephens, 438 Park avenue. SSOO fine, six months: Miss Laura Leppert. Ferdinand. Ind.. SSO fine. Narcotic sentences included: William Dunbar. Negro. 519 West North street, three years, and Joseph Price. Negro. 623 Minerva street, two years. Gel* Drla' for Washings Lulu Lane. .20i Alford street, street, Negro, was given until Saturday to start serving a sixtv-day liquor sentence for liquor law violations when she told the court she had several washings to get out. "You had better tell the. families to get. another washwoman." Balt--2!p1! told her. Thurman Joseph Swan, 17. of 851 College avenue, who admitted stealing more than 150 letters from north side apartment mail boxes, obtained more than SIOO in checks, which he cashed, was sentenced to serve two years at v the Chillicothe (O ' reformatory. Motor Theft Sentences Motor theft sentences included Walter W. Edwards. 912 East Twen-ty-fifth street, three years in Leavenworth; Clifford Bernard James. 19. Mingo Junction. 0.. three years at Chillicothe: Hollis L. Wells. 17. Dayton, 0.. three years at Chiliicothe: Wilbur Ballard. 18. Evansville. two years at Chii.icothe: Lawrence Elliott. 23. and Edward Peck. 19. of Shelbyville. eighteen months each at Chillicothe. CHEMISTS CHOOSE CITY National Society to Meet Here in 1931. The nation's foremost scientistss. engineers and educators will be guests of Indianapolis in the spring of 1931 when the national eonvent tion of the American Chemical So- * ceity will meet here. Word that the convention would come to Indainapolis was received by Dr. Harry E. Barnard. Indianapolis. director, from the 1928 meeting at Columbus. O.

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Boy Who Shot Dry Raid Killer of Mother Wants to Be Aviator

Gerald De King

'Take My Life' Burglar Has Pity on Aged Invalid: Leaves Empty Handed.

“✓'"'O AHEAD and take my life. I’m tire of lining anyhow." replied Oscar Hennigan. 74, of 2824 West Tenth street, to a burglar who Tuesday evening walked into his bedroom, poked a gun against his ribs and ordered: “Your money or your life." Some fingering shred of compassion stayed the burglar’s hand. He contemplated the aged invalid for a few seconds and then remarked: I won't take your life if you'll do what I say. Sit up and let me look under the pillow." The invalid struggled painfully up on an elbow and the burglar fell under the pi’low, found nothing and ejaculated: “I'll give it, up. By . it’s gone," turned on his heel and walked out the front door, by which he had entered. “I think it was someone who knows us. because my wife always keeps our money under the pillow." said Hennigan. Mrs. Hennigan had gone to visit a neighbor a few minutes before the burglar entered.

WIFE DIUOROES TERFECT LOOT 'Bragged of His Ability,’ Woman Testifies. Paul Dickson. 23. of 314 Eastern avenue admitted he was the “perfect lover," according to his wife, Mabel, who was granted a divorce today in superior court. Taul was always bragging about his ability at love making and told me he was a ‘perfect lover’ and could have any woman he wanted," testified Mrs. Dickson. "When we were married he represented himself to me as a minister. Since then I found out he was not and was a fugitive from justice. He has carried on associations with other women all during our married life and recently had the nerve to tell me his next wife was certainly going to be a blonde," declared Mrs. Dickson.

JOIN THE SAFE DRIVING CLUB NOW; BE GUIDED N BY THE GOLDEN RULE

Times Film Being Shown' at Palace Will Teli You Why. Have YOU joined the Golden Rule Safety Club For the four weeks ended April 20. 1929. seven persons were killed in automobile accidents in Marion county. This is exactly the same number killed for the four weeks ended April 21. 1928. Thousands of persons who have seen the two-reel safety picture. "The Penaltv." now at Loews Palace theater, have become members. This picture, shown in connection with the Palace’s great feature, "Coquette,” with Mary Pickford. has stirred great interest. For the fifty-two weeks ended April 20. 1929. the accident toll in Marion county was 102, and for the city of Indianapolis. 64. This was a great increase over the period ended April 21. 1928, when 80 persons were killed in the county and 62 in the city. What are you doing to aid in cutting down that terrific toll? \ The Indianapolis Times and Loews Palace theater offer you an opportunity to do your bit. Have YOU joined the Golden Rule Safety Club? Members of the Rotary- Club at their Tuesday luncheon signed the pledge to "drive as I would want

BY MARIE DU CHALET United Press Special Correspondent AURORA, 111., May I.—When 12-year-old Gerald De King grows up he wants to be an aviator and fly around the country seeing all the people who have sent him money or written sympathetic letters to him since a prohibition agent killed his mother in the De King home. Gerald has aged noticeably since the night of March 25 when DeputySheriff Roy Smith clubbed his father to the floor with a shotgun stock and then shot his mother in the abdomen. He no longer plays ball after

BOARS SIGNS FOR CEMENT Highway Body Discovers State Is Not Paying 'Educational’ Levy. After investigating the “Oklahoma idea" of the state refusing to pay the 10 cents a barrel which the Portland Cement Asosciation assess on each barrel of cement for “educational purposes," the Indiana highway commission today declared they are making the same saving. Whereupon the commisisoners signed up about $2,500,000 worth of contracts with cement companies. The cost is slightly under $2 a barrel and the state receives a 10-cent-a-barrel cash discount s?*'d another 10-cent special discount which Chairman Albert J. Wedeking declares is equivalent to the Oklahoma saving. Private contractors get only the one 10-cent cash discount, he asserted. For the first time since 1922 an out-of-state company was awarded a. contract in competition with the Indiana cement combine. This is a 125.000-barre! award to the Marquette company of Chicago, whose mills are located, at La Salic, 111. Contracts were signed for 1.330.000 barrels of standard grade and. 2.000 barrels for special hardening, which is used for patching. The 2.000 barrels of special cement will be supplied by the Louisville Cement Company. Other awards were 180.000 barrels to the Lehigh: 315.000 to the Lone Star; 270.000 to Louisville: 315.000 to Universal and 125.000 to Wabash* Figures are from 1 to 10 cents'a barrel lower th*i last year, the commissioners contend. They declare they will save $65,000 over the 1928 figure. Bids also were received on “from sixty to seventy-five" trucks w-ith forty-two companies making offers. Six cement mixers were bid on by eight, companies. Awards of trucks and mixers w-ill be made later, it w-as announced. AWAIT MOVIE MAGNATE United Artists Stars Ready to Talk Merger With Warners. Bn l nit id, Press NEW YORK. May I.—Arrival of Harry M. Warner from Europe Monday was awaited by a group of motion picture notables who came from Hollywood for conferences over the proposed merger of United Artists and Warner Brothers. The group included Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Richard Barthelmess. Lillian Gish and Joseph. Schenek.

others to drive and to cross streets as I would like others to cross." The Kiawanis Club has done the same. i A resolution of praise was adopted by the Speakers’ Forum, which also volunteered speakers. Scores of letters of commendation have been received from persons prominent, in the state.

MOTHER OF JAZZ-GIN GIRL IS SET FREE BY JUDGE

Bu United Frees CHICAGO. May 1.-Blame for high school gin parties was shifted from the shoulders of parents to the board of education today with the dismissal of truancy charges against Mrs. Jane Liston, mother of Coletta Liston, 15-year-old “jazz age" pupil, who told a coroner's jury that “all girls drink and smoke or are left out.” Judge Max Luster, before whom the case was tried after a jury of prominent women sociologists and welfare workers had been dismissed, ruled evidence against Mrs. Liston was insufficient to warrant charges that she connived at the truancy of her daughter. Several witnesses testified that Mrs. Liston was introduced several times when they tried to check up on Coletta's absence from school.

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school with neighbor boys. Instead, he helps his father at the filling station and in their home. At night he studies geography and history with especial attention to the maps. On these he looks up the names of towns from which letters and telegrams have been coming in endless streams. The boy who shot Deputy Smith in the leg after he had seen his mother and father so roughly treated by the prohibition raider, seems to have taken a large portion of the world s burden onto his own slender shoulders. He talks about law enforcement with the confidence of a

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HMISSEfI FOES READY IS SUE Fight to Compel City to Hold Primary May 1, George V. Coffin’s Republican city organization today took steps toward filing a suit to compel the city election commissioners to hold a primary election May 7 under the federal form of government despite the fact that Indianapolis citizens two years ago voted five to one to switch to the manager form next January. Warren Sampsel. Coffin candidate for city clerk, today served a formal demand on City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr. that he certify candidates who filed for primary several weeks ago and proceed to hold a primary May 7. Boyce formally refused. Sampsel then announced that the Coffin machine is hiring Clinton H. Givan as attorney to file a suit to mandate Boyce to hold the primary and enjoin him from calling the city commissioner election in November under the manager form. Givan said he had been approached but not yet hired. There was some division of opinion among the Coffin henchmen as to whether the suit should be filed before May 7. the primary date or whether the date should be allowed to slide by and then some other kind of legal action instituted. Sampsel’s demand today indicated that Coffin had decided upon the immediate suit.

•TAIL LIGHT’ EXPLODES Three Autos Burned When Parking Lantern Spreads Flames. Bu United Press WASHINGON. May I.—A lantern Harrison Willis hung on his automobile in lieu of a tail light exploded last night and destroyed three cars parked nearby.

The judge's critftism of the school board was directed at insufficient documentary evidence, pointing out that the bill of information was dated 1492 instead of 1929. Coletta was a member of a party of high school revelers when George Lux was killed in an automobile accident. At the inquest she recited details of her “jazz age" companions, dwelling on liquor drinking by school girls, which, she said, was necessary if the girls were to have a good time. The case was continued when started before the extra-legal jury of women last week before a large crowd of social workers and parents who wished to inquire further into tales of widespread drinking among high school students.

Clarence Darrow and with a Darrowian philosophy, too. “I’m not against prohibition alone." says Gerald. "I want to ‘get’ all laws that let people into folks' homes and kill like they did my mother. “I’m going to learn to be an aviator so I can go all over the country and see how other people live. Then I’ll ha'-e a better chance to help keep other folks from having the trouble my daddy and I have had." Much advice and some money has been heaped cn Gerald since the shooting. From east and west came telegrams telling him he should

WET SENATOR ASKS DRY FUND Rigid Enforcement Hastens Repeals, Says La Guardia, I ?,>. United Press WASHINGTON. May 7.—A demand that congress appropriate $150,000,090 for prohibition enforcement to carry out President Herbert Hoover's law enforcement provisions was made in f hj: house today by Representative F. H. La Guardia (Rep., N. Y.). La Guardia. a wet, quoted the President as stating recently that “if a law is wrong, its rigid enforcement is the surest guarantee of its repeal." “The majority of the voters of this country are now against prohibition." he said. “The Hoover vote and Smith vote as such can not be taken as votes for and against prohibition.. “Hqpver knowingly and willingly accepted the support of nationally known and. outstanding wet leaders in the campaign. The President meant exactly what he said, that prohibition was still in the experimental stage and that if the experiment continued to be a failure modification of the law' would follow."

RARE OPPORTUNITY GIVEN HOOSSER BOYS BY OFFER OF THOMAS A. EDISON

The Times Is Ready to Aid Governor in Choosing Fortunate Lad, In there a boy in Indiana who some day may be the successor of Thomas A. Edison? Do YOU know a boy in whom this spark of genius may be latent? Is there, amqng your acquaintances. a lad whom you could recommend for the great opportunity Edison offers the youth of the nation? If there is. this newspaper asks you to send in his name, his qualification. the details of his life and his photograph, if possible. Mr. Edison's son. Charles A. Edison. yesterday announced that the Governor of each state would be asked to send one boy to Orange, N. J., headquarters of the electrical wizard, to be tested as to fitness to follow in his footsteps. The boy chosen from the fortyeight wili be given four years of training in a technical college. ( with all expenses paid, in the hope that he can carry on the work of the great inventor. Governor Leslie will name Indiana's choice, after searching inquiry into the qualifications of every applicant. He declared Tuesday, in an interview with The Times, that

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i have aimed for the heart when he | shot his mother’s slayer. Others ! recommended that he forget the whole affair and study hard so that ; he will be a credit to his family. Several metropolitan newspapers i have raised funds for Gerald's edu- ' cation, but Gerald's father says he has received only sls in actual cash so far. Several thousand dollars, however, is expected from the newspaper funds. But Gerald is determined not to have an expensive education. “College men fool away their time." says Gerald. “I just want to be an aviator."

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The charred body of pretty Mrs. Dorothy Peacox (above) of New' York City, was discovered in a woods near Greenburg. N. Y. Her husband. Earl F. Peacox, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., confessed he strangled his wife to death and later fired her body. Peacox is shown in the center of the picture to the left in the custody of police officials.

TORCH KILLER HAUNTED BY SPECTER OF WIFE'S BODY ABLAZE UNDER APPLE TREE

Stricken With Remorse: M Want to Die,’ Says Slayer, Bu United Press WHITE PLAINS. N. Y.. May I. Earl Francis Pea cox. young radio lecturer who strangled his wife Dorothy and later applied the torch to her kerosene-soaked clothing, is ready to pay the penalty for his crime. Stricken with remorse, he tossed

he believed he would have no more important appointment to make during his term of office. This newspaper, also, believes that it could undertake no more important task than to assist the Governor in this momentous decision. Therefore, The Times today is asking every youth in the state who honestly believes he may have the qualifications for this stupendous achievement to write in detail to this office. Tell us of your hopes, your schoolings, your hobbies, your health, of your interest in electricity, of your experiments, your choice of books. Send a photograph, by all means, if you have one. Hundreds of youths, perhaps thousands in Indiana, will seek to grasp this opportunity, an ambition as laudable as any that could be conceived. All these letters and photographs will be turned over to Governor Leslie, to assist him in every way possible to make a wise choice. This selection will be made before July 1. allowing about two months for the state's chief executive to ponder the matter. Even this time is short for such an important decision So send in your letter now, to Thp Times, to the Edison Opportunity Editor. You may be the fortunate one. You at least will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have been considered in the selection.

The boy is proud of his letters. He displays them before visitors. One from England praised Gerald for “bravery and gallantry in defense of your mother." An lowa radio station offered to adopt him. Another letter from a New York woman's committee for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, offered to raise money to aid the De Kings in any way they need. “I reckon we'll get along all right without that,” says Joseph De King, the widower. “The filling station business is pretty good now that summer is coming again."

all night in his cell at the county jail here moaning. "I want to die. I want to meet my wife." He told a guard lie was haunted with the specter of his wife’s flaming body under an apple tree where he had placed it after the. murder. He said that though he was a student of crime a,nd fancied himself an amateur detective, he never would have conceived the "torch murder” had he not read of a similar crime recently near Cranford, N. J. “That led me to do this terrible thing." he said. “I am ready to pay the penalty and the sooner it is done the better I will like it." Peacox is said to have a rich uncle living in Detroit, but he said he did not want to "draw my uncle into this" and refused to state his kinsman's name. Authorities announced they had found a letter in Peacox's apartment which had been directed to Mrs. Peacox. The letter was signed “Gene" and was from a young college student of Baltimore who had been seen in company with Mrs. Peacox. The letter asked for her to return his pipe and hair comb. Peacox. who lectured three times weekly on radio mechanics, greeting his audiences with a cheery, “hello, folks," had been in the habit of answering magazine crime puzzles. His efforts had included “solutions" of the Dot King and Joseph Elwell, celebrated New York mysteries. One of the attempts to “cover up" i the slaying of his wife was the inI troduction of a girl as an “alibi witness."

Frances Newman, a blonde, who swung quickly from flashes oi anger at her questioners to spells of hysterical weeping, and back again, was held as a material witness to explain this part of the case. Miss Newman described herself as a housewife, spent last Wednesday night with Peacox at his Mt. Vernon apartment, she admitted. "If anybody'asks you about the girl I carried out of here last Sun- | day you tell them you were drunk i and I had to help you into the car," j Peacock told the girl. But in his confession to police | after eight hours of questioning j Tuesday, Peacock said that “the girl | I carried out of here last Sunday” ! was the limp and lifeless body of I tiis wife.

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ROBINSON AND WATSON SPLIT OVER HEFLIN Junior Indiana Senator, Votes for Resolution of Alabaman. MEASURE IS KILLED. Refuse to Back Anti-Catho-lic Crusader on Brockton Trouble. BY PALI R. MALLON I nitrd Tress Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 1.-Senator Tom Heflin lost his fight to get a formal declaration of moral support from Ihe senate today. * By a vote of 69 to 14 the senate defeated Heflin's resolution proposing to place the senate on record s saying it “heard with deep regret of the interference with the American right of free speech and peaceful assembly and of the attempted assault upon Senator Heflin at. Brockton. Mass., on the night of March 18, 1929, and hereby expresses its disapproval and condemnation of the conduct of thos® guilty." Heflin claimed a. policeman guard-, ing him was hit by a milk bottle intended for himself after the senator had delivered a speech criticising Catholics and others. He has been speaking in the senate almost daily on the subject since the special session convened more than two weeks ago. Musters Only 14 Votes On the roll call which he demanded. Heflin was able to muster but fourteen votes, of which twelve were cast by southern Democrats and two by Republicans* F. M. Sackett of Kentucky and Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana. The Robinson vote was especially significant in view of the fact that James A. Watson, his Indiana colleague and Republican floor leader, led the contest against Heflin. Watson contended the senate was no place to pass such resolution. The twelve Democrats who joined Heflin were himself, his colleague, Black of Alabama: Fletcher and Trammell of Florida. George and Harris of Georgia, McKellar and Tyson of Tennessee, Simmons of North Carolina, Thomas of Oklahoma. Blease of South Carolina and Sheppard of Texas. Senator Overman of North Carolina was present, but did not vote. Watson in Controversy Nineteen Democrats voted against Heflin, several of them from the south, including Caraway and Robinson of Arkansas; Connally, Texas; Harrison. Mississippi, and Broussard. Louisiana. The vote came after a controversy between Watson and Heflin. Watson obtained the floor to make a farm speech, but Heflin continued to interrupt him, serving notice “you can't prevent me from speaking." Heflin sa,id he would have a. pertinent speech to make later in the day. Watson said he would ask unanimous consent for a vote on the resolution if Heflin would agree not to talk. Heflin said he would delay his talk until after the vote. Quorum Is Called When the vote was taken Heflin demanded a recapitulation, and then, when Watson obtained the floor, the Alabama senator arose again and sought to yield and President Pro-tern. Moses heatedly told Heflin he was out of order, and demanded he take his seat. This Heflin declined to do. Heflin then took Watson off the floor by suggesting the absence of a quorum. When the quorum was called Heflin left the chamber and Watson delivered his farm speech, telling why be had proposed an amendment to the pending bill striking out the debenture provision objected to by President HoOver. It appeared. however, there was little prospect of a vote on the Watson amendment before tomorrow. Hourly Temperatures 8 a. m.... 54 10 a. m.... 66 7 a. m.... 56 11 a. m.... 69 3 a. m.... 61 12 fnooni.. 71 9a. m.... 63 Ip. m.... 72

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