Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1929 — Page 1

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WHITE RIVER STILL RISING; CREST NEAR Further Heavy Rains Over Central Indiana Might Cause Floods in City. WABASH OUT OF BANKS Expected to Rise Two Feet Higher at Terre Haute; Mt. Carmel Periled. Unless there are further heavy rains over central Indiana, White river probably will not rise above the fifteen-foot level here, three feet below flood stage, J. H. Armington, weather bureau chief, said today. At 7 a. m. today the level was 10.6 feet, representing a rise of one foot and a half in the last twenty-four hours. The crest here should be reached about Wednesday morning. Armington declared. While the White river was below flood stage at all points along its j course, the Wabash was out of its j banks and above flood stage at many points. Higher at Terre Haute At Terre Haute, the Wabash had r sen to sixteen feet, flood stage, ihis morning and was expected to go at least two feet higher. Vincennes, with a flood stage of 14 feet, reported a 11.3 foot level this morning and the river will continue to rise there for three or four days. Armington said, predicting a crest of about 16 feet. The Wabash was expected to go above flood stage at Mt. Carmel today. Sixteen feet is the danger point. The crest will be about foul feet more than that, without further rains, the weather bureau predicted. Anderson reported a level of 10.5 feet for White river today, a foot and a half below flood stage. Noblesville reported a 11.9 level, about two feet under flood stage. Both may expect a further rise of one or two feet, Armington declared. Report Little Damage Thus far little damage has been j reported, although lowlands are be- j coming inundated, particularly in! southern Indiana. Advices from Marion said the Mississthewa river was four feet above flood stage and had flooded many acres of cultivated fields. High water in some instances had, hampered motor travel across the state. Highways at various points were reported ‘‘under water.” Fears that. Derby day automobile traffic might be delayed by flooded roads in southern Indiana was expressed by the state highway department. It was pointed out that Road 62, cn the New’ Albany to Evansville route had been closed to traffic three and a half miles east of Leavenworth. This is an important artery for traffic on the Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky route and detours are poor, it was said. U. S. Road 150 also is menaced, it was said. Fourteen inches of water are over the road west of Prospect, near French Lick and the waters are rising one inch an hour, due to recent rains. So far highway commission trucks have been able to pull all traffic through. Four Drown in Texas Flood F’i United Press LAMONT. Tex., May 14.—Raging through the bottomlands. Choate creek spread destruction through this section today. Scores of families were forced from their homes when waters of the stream, swollen by recent heavy rains, rushed over the banks. Four persons are knowm to have drowned in the flood and it is feared other fatalities may have occurred. GUARDSMAN KILLS BOY Youth Died in Friendly Scuffle' for Rifle. Accused Says. Pu Inited Press GENEVA. Ala.. May 14.—Private James E. Ingram of the Alabama National Guard detail patrolling the quarantine line against the Mediterranean fly invasion from Florida, was in jail on a murder charge today, after the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old farmer boy. Ingram said the boy, Lynn Burket. was killed in a friendly scuffle, during which the guardsman's rifle was discharged. EX-FILM ACTOR IS HELD Arrested on Charge of Taking $15,000 From His Wife. ST. PAUL. Minn.. May 14.—'William Fabian. 40. Los Angeles, former motion picture actor, was arrested as he stepped from a train here today, on a warrant issued at the complaint of his wife in which she charged that he had taken $15,000 of her money. The Fabians were married April 15. “It isn’t true.” Fabian said. “She gave me the money for medical treatment.” Hoover Jr, Boosts Airplanes Fit Inited Press ALBUQUERQUE. N M , May 14. —Herbert Hoover Jr., son of President Hoover, advised everyone who can afford it to ride airplanes. Hoover installed a radio station here for (he Western Air Express, — r -

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 2

Heiress Drinks A iito Radiator Dry to Escape Death on Desert

Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes and Captain C. A. Soderstrom.

ANNE NICHOLS LOSES $3,000,000 DAMAGE SUIT CHARGING PLAY PIRACY

U. S, Judge Holds Film ‘Cohens and Kellys’ Not Based on ‘Abie.’ By United Press , NEW YORK. May 14.—Anne Nichols today lost her suit against Universal Pictures, Carl Laemmle and Harry Pollard for alleged plagiarism and approximately $3,000,000 damages. The. suit was based on her charge that Universal and Laemmle as producers and Pollard as the author of “The Cohens dnd the Kellys,” a screen production, had pirated her successful play, “Abie's Irish Rose.” Federal Judge Henry W. Goddard, who heard the case last fall and viewed not only the stage production but the screen production of ; Miss Nichols' play as well as “The j Cohens and the Kellys,'-’ held in his I decision that although there was strong inference” that the author j of the latter production got some ; of his ideas front Miss Nichols’ play, j that, nevertheless, the portions of her play which were protected by copyright had not been infringed | upon. “There is a wide divergence between the two in that in ‘Abie's Irish Rose,' religious motives provide the conflict between the two families, while the ‘Cohens and the Kelleys’ it is a matter of family, Tammany Hall and corned beef.” The court found that the success of Miss Nichols’ play was not due so much to newness of plot as to “the author’s genius in presenting i it.” “My observations led me to conclude,” Judge Goddard said, “that i the two productions differ as to themes, scenes, episodes and expression of idea, although both made use of the common property of Jew- i ish and Irish characters, marraige, j strong parental objections and re- j conciliation. “The plot of each has long belonged in the common domain as common property. As Tong ago as 1890 the same plot was used in j ‘Joseph Lewis and Son' and later in i ‘Krausemeyer’s Alley’ and in 1918 in i ‘The Rabbi and the Priest.' ”

VIOLENCE FLARES ANEW IN TENNESSEE STRIKE

By United Press ELIZABETH, Tenn., May 14. New disorders broke out today in this strike-torn textile town. National guards arrested more than 200 picketing strikers. Several were injured in the clash, one believed fatally. As fast as arrests were made the pickets were herded into busses and driven to jails, which filled quickly. The busses were manned by guards equipped with bayonets, tear gas bombs and gas masks. Alleged attempts to intimidate loyal workers first assumed threatening proportions Monday when picket groups of strikers held up cars en route to the plants. Police charged the pickets sprinkled tacks on the highways. One girl was badly cut on the hand when she attempted to pull a “loyal worker” from a truck. Strike charged the

He Knew Shep By United Press CHICAGO. May 14—Bobbie Watkins, 3, was lost and could not tell where he lived. But he knew his dog's name was Shep. Police checked over the dog licenses and found Bobbie’s home.

LOVER-KILLER DIES IN CHAIR Slayer of Teacher Marches to Death Calmly. By United Press BOSTON, May 14.—Frederick Hinman Knowlton Jr.. Framingham business. man, paid with his life early today for a murder which ended his clandestine love affair with a Beverly school teacher. Amazingly cool and indifferent, the doomed man marched to the electric chair at Charleston state prison and was executed for the killing of Miss -Marguerite Isabelle Stewart, whose body was found on the Cambridge turnpike in Concord cn March 30, 1928. He entered the death chamber at 12:05 a. m. and was pronounced dead less than six minutes later, after four shocks had been applied.

3 WOMEN SENTENCED Given Jail Terms and Fines for Shoplifting. Three Negro women were sentenced in municipal court today on charges of shoplifting. They are: Elizabeth McDonald. 22. of 328 North West street; fined $25 and costs and sentenced to the county jail for 120 days; Helen Jackson, 29, same address, fined $25 and costs and forty-five days, and Elvira Brown, 20, 724 North Senate avenue, fined $25 and costs and thirty days. The women were arrested recentlv in the basement of Block's department store.

v orker drew a knife and slashed the girl. A taxi driver bearing workers to the plant was hit on the head with a rock.

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TY IVAL WIVES, a wife at home and a business wife. That was the case of Nan Carroll's employer. John Morgan, although he did not know it Nan Carroll thought she was in love with her work, and dreamed of the day when she would be made Morgan's junior partner in name as well as fact Then the realization that she was in lovfr with fees employer, ia

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929

Drinking the radiator of their car dry’ to assuage a desert thirst, and fleeing from Chinese bandits to save tiieir lives, are among the experiences of Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes, German steel magnate, and Captain Carl A. Soderstrom. Swedish sportsman, who visited Indianapolis today on a world tour. Thirst for adventure sent the German heiress and her rich companion on a trip through nineteen nations, over uncharted territory. The Stinnes-Soderstrom Globe-

WOMAN ENDS LIFE BY GAS IN CITY HOME

Dead Victim Is Found in Kitchen With Pipe of Range in Mouth. One person is dead and another is in the city hospital as a result of being asphyxiated with gas in two tragedies in different parts of the city Monday night and early today. Miss Isabelle Amy Wright, 37. of 608’ 2 East Walnut street, was found dead on a couch in the kitchen of her apartment early today by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bradford, custodians of the building where Mrs. Wright roomed. A pipe connecting a gas range had been uncoupled and one end Was protruding from the mouth of the dead woman. The Bradfords and Mrs. Hattie Steele, 1705 Roosevelt avenue, sister of the dead woman told police today they had visited with Miss Wright Sunday evening, leaving her about 11 p m. In Best of Health At that time Miss Wright apparently was in the best of health and seemed happy. Mrs. Steele said she could think of no motive for the woman's act. ‘We usually heard Miss Wright when she prepared for bed at night,” Mrs. Bradford said. ‘‘Not hearing her last night- I remembered I had not seen her all day Monday. Today I became worried so I knocked at the door. Receiving no response, I had my husband get a step-ladder and looked through the transom.” Dr. O. E. Bakemeier, deputy coroner, who investigated the case, said the woman had ben dead for about twelve hours and was a case of suicide. Surviving Miss Wright is her sister and one brother, Albert Wright, Chicago. The body was taken to the city morgue. Narrowly Escapes Death M. D. Parker, 25. 61 South j La Salle street, narrowly escaped j death when he was overcome by gas escaping from a hot water heater. George Meuller. motor policeman, revived him with artificial respiration. Dale Evans, call boy for the Pennsylvania railroad, was on his j way to call Parker, a brakeman, to report to work. He noticed through the window that the air inside was murky. He called to Albert Roneril, a neighbor. The two broke in a door and found Parker lying at the foot of a stairs unconscious. Mrs. Parker and their two children were visiting a neighbor when the accident occurred. Parker apparently had lighted a gas heater in the kitchen and gone upstairs. While he was gone the fire went out and fumes of the gas filled the room. Returning to the lower floor he was overcome at the bottom of the stairs and fell where Evans and Roneril found him. At the city hospital it was reported he would recover.

FARNUM TO PAY WIFE Judge Orders $1(K) a Week Until Divorce Case Is Heard. Bn Times Special LOS ANGELES. Cal. May 14. William Farnum. screen actor, must pay his wife, Olive Ann Farnum, SIOO a week between now and the time Mrs. Farnum's divorce case comes up, Judge Rey Schauer ruled here. REFUSES BEGGAR" SHOT f Reporter Wounded When He Declines to Give Price of Bed. By United Press CHICAGO, May 14.—Incensed at the curt refusal of Joseph Murphy, 33-year-old newspaper reporter, to give him the price of a bed, a beggar shot the reporter in the leg early today. The wound was not serious.

love with Morgan, who was devoted to his beautiful, selfish wife, Iris Morgan. She must resign, thought Nan, but she could not. Morgan depended upon her absolutely. Without Nan he never would be the brilliant lawyer Nan wanted him to be, and Nan knew it. b a a HERBERT CRAWFORD.- Morgan's best friend, enters the story. Naa senses that he is in

trotting expedition left today for Cincinnati. They plan to arrive in New York May 27. Fraulein Stinnes said she tired of sitting on a sofa, pillowed by millions, and desired to know more of life. “Captain Soderstrom, four mechanics and I left Germany in May, 1927, he to take motion pictures and I to gather data for a book and lectures. Hardships developed and our mechanics revolted. Two quit our party

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By United Press MUNCIE, Ind., May 14.—Adaline Patti Harrold of musical comedy fame, the daughter of Orville Harrold, noted tenor, and Mrs. Evelyn Kiger Harrold of Muncie, was to be married today in New York City to George Meeker, manager of a New York theater. This is the second marriage of the young singer, she having secured a divorce from Jack McElroy, actor, several months ago. Patti Harrold rose to fame as the leading woman in “Irene,” which played almost two years in New York before going on tour.

BIRTH CONTROL CLINIC DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE FREED BY JUDGE

Blast It All! By United Press ANGLESEA, N. J., May 14. Skippers of the marooned fishing fleet, who planned to blast a channel through the sunken island that blocks Herfod inlet, gave up their project when their wives threatened a “kitchen strike.” Informed that the blast probably would damage their crockery, the women said that unless the dynamiting was abandoned, there would be no more strawberry shortcake. The fishermen then voted to dredge the channel.

SCHOOL CITY GROWS County Enumeration Shows Gain of 1,404. There are 96,143 children of school age in Marion county, according to the school enumeration completed today by Lee Swails, county school superintendent. This is an increase of 1,404 over May 1, 1928. The total includes: City, 82,851, increase of 953 over last year; towns, including Speedway City, Woodruff Place and Beech Grove, 1,342, an increase of 162 and townships, 11.959, an increase of 289. The Washington township total was reduced 352 because of the annexation of part of the township to the city last year.

love with Iris and is worried for Morgan’s happiness. And William Todd. He was Nan's only boy friend and wanted to marry her. It was Todd who told Nan she was in love with her employer, a fact Nan bitterly resented. Tangled in this skein of lives which Anne Austin, author of “The Black Pigeon,” has woven, is the unhappy existence of Curtis Morgan, the 6-year-old sgn ot

I in Moscow’ and the other two left us in Siberia.” she said. “In a desolate section of China | we were chased by 2,000 Chinese bandits. They attempted to surround us. “We put on as much speed as we could with our two automobiles over the rugged, wild roads, and it was a day before we out-distanced 1 them. A Chinese guide who' led us to an off-trail helped us elude the j bandits',” | “In Peru, we were lost in a desert. J for four days we were without food.

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New York Court Dismisses Charges Against Five Held in Raid. By United Press NEW YORK, May 14.—Charges against two women physicians and three nurses arrested April 15, in a raid on the birth control research clinical bureau, founded by Margaret Sanger, were dismissed today by Magistrate Abraham Rosenbluth. The physicians and nurses were charged with illegal distribution of birth control information. Mary McNamara, the policewoman, who had obtained the contraceptive information upon which the arrests were based was present when Magistrate tosenbluth read his long decision. Mrs. Sanger was in the court room to hear the decision. She and her acquitted associates hailed the verdict as a triumph for their cause.

DRY REPEAL WOULD FILL MORGUES, SAYS WRIGHT

“If we were to repeal the eighteenth amendment and our state dry law r today, tomorrow’ our morgues and hospitals w-ould be filled with the dead and dying.” This gloomy prediction was made by Frank Wright, Marion county

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i We drank the water from the radi- | ator of the car. When this was 1 gone we abandoned the car and 1 walked and crawled fifty miles to : get help.” j Miss Stinnes is prominent in German sports and social circles and is known as a skillful driver of racing cars. The two explorers were accompanied here by Herbert L. Dickey, automotive engineer for the Vacuum ! Oil Company, and were entertained i during their stay by O- J- L. McNerny, Indianapolis manager of the i oil company.

SENATOR GOES ON ‘WAR PATH’ AGAINST HOUSE Ire Aroused by Threat of Refusal to Accept Farm Bill. BY PAUL R. MALLON, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 14.—The senate went on the “war path” today when it heard reports that the house would refuse to accept the debenture provision of the farm relief bill which it contemplates passing before nightfall over the objections of President Herbert Hoover. The move of house leaders was denounced by Senator Joseph Robinson, the Democratic floor leader, as ‘‘a cowardly attempt to interfere with legislatin,” and Senator Smith W. Brookhart of lowa advocated that the senate refuse to receive any bills or communications from the house if the farm bill should be held up there. The house leaders were in conference and would not say what they were going to do. They were busy with tariff troubles, watching the progress of the new w r ays and means committee hearings where thirty-five Republicans were pleading for revision of the bill now under consideration in the house. Advocates of increased duties on agricultural by-products were heard and the committee recessed until Wednesday. No decision about proposed changes in the bill is expected before the end of the week. The house leaders are known to be opposed strongly to the debenture plan and refused to permit it to be voted upon whn the farm bill was under consideration in the house several weeks ago. There has been talk that they would postpone action on the senate bill until after the tariff measure is passed and let the senate carry out its threat to put he debenure plan on the tariff bill, too. Such tactics would precipitate a war between the two houses, stalemating all legislation and creating a congressional condition which never before has arisen in this country, Robison said. Brookhart said such action by the house would create “legislative anarchy.”

DOCTOR DECISION DUE Cancer Hospital Head Will ""Know Fate Wednesday, Decision as to whether Dr. Charles C. Root, director of the Indianapolis Cancer Hospital, New York and California streets, shall lose his license to practice medicine in Indiana will be made Wednesday w'hen the state board of medical examiners meets at the statehouse. Dr. Root was tried at a hearing before the board a month ago on charges of drunkenness, unprofessional conduct and treating persons for cancer when they were not suffering from that disease. ‘Following the hearing the board took Dr. Root’s case under advisement. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 63 10 a. m.... 65 7 a. m.... 63 11 a. m.... 66 8 a. m.... 65 12 (noon).. 68 9a. m.... 64 Ip. m.... 71

state representative and author of the Wright “bone-dry” law’, in addressing a Universal Club luncheon at the Columbia Club today. His conclusion was based on the idea that if repeal was brought about every one would get drunk and drive their automobiles into accidents. , Wright believes there are few’er persons drinking now, he told the diners. He also thinks prohibition a success. “But there is yet a low breaking, howling minority backed by the money coined from wrecked homes, broken hearts and mothers’ tears, who do not accept the eighteenth amendment,” the dry' speaker declared. “They are doing everything that unprincipled men can do to break down our prohibition law. “We’ve tackled a big job in trying to enforce a law that a lot of people don’t want, but I believe the dys wM do It,* m

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ASK EVICTION OF CHICAGO’S SOCIAL ELITE Nattily Garbed U. S. Marshal, Gardenia Adorned, Moves on ‘Gold Coast/ AFFECTS 3,500 PERSONS Hundreds of ‘The’ Families Must Fight Streeter ‘Squatter’ Case.

BY EARL J. JOHNSON. United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, May 14.—John Oros, United States deputy marshal, adjusted a gardenia in his lapel, twirled his malacca stick nonchalantly and stepped into the rear seat of his luxurious limousine in front of the Chicago federal building today. “Up along the Gold Coast,” Harry Oros said to his liveried chauffeur, Harry Bloom, “we have a number of stops to make, so drive slowly and I'll read them to you.” On the immaculate deputy’s calling list were the Potter Palmers, the Swifts, the McCormicks, the Benjamin Carpenters, the Lake Shore Athletic Club and hundreds of other names and addresses, which mean wealth and social position in the exclusive district bordering Lake Michigan, north of Towertown and east of the world of furnished rooms. Involves 3,500 Persons Thirty-five hundred persons including countless social registerites, Deputy Oros must see personally, serving on each one a notice that he must contest a suit which has ben filed against him in federal court. If the suit is won it will mean the ejection from their palatial homes and apartments and places of business all 3,500 of the persons who now live on the property which twenty-two heirs of old Captain George Wellington Streeter claim “squatters rights.” It also will mean that the inhabitants of the Gold Coast sector must pay the heirs $5,000,000 in damages. Way back in the seventies when the present Gold Coast was a mere sand waste north of the river seldom invaded by the residents of the thriving town of Chicago, “Pa” and “Ma” Streeter came ashore from their lake boat and started a settlement of their own. Claim “Squatters Rights” They claimed “squatters rights” to a strip of land that nobody wanted. For in those early days no one could foresee that Chicago in less than half a century would expeirence a mushroom growth which would carry it over and far beyond the dingy novels that comprised Streeterville. / But that is just what happened and today the twenty-two Streeter heirs are suing to evict and penalize the rich and prominent inhabitants of their ancestral habitat. Deputy Oros, in his determination to see every defendant personally, left the federal building in a snappy business suit. In the rear seat with with the big bundle of summonses was a complete outfit of e.vening clothing. “I don’t intend to be stopped at any door, because I am not dressed up,” said John. ‘lf any butlers try to stop me I will have my star right under the lapel of my dinner jacket.” Socially Elite Affected Among those who Oros must notify of the eviction and damage suit are the owners of the Chicago Tribune, 650 individuals in the big furniture mart, four different McCormicks, three Swifts, Silas H. Strawn, George W. Dixon and Adrian C. Palmer, executor of the Potter-Palmer estate. Oros estimates that the job will require several weeks and may be months. J. Hamilton Lewis is attorney for the Streeter heirs.

EARHART PILOTS PLANE New Craft Taken on Opening Trip to Detroit. By United Press CLEVELAND, 0., May 14.—The new passenger plane Miss Cleveland, piloetd by Miss Amelia Earhart, on its opening trip, arrrived at Detroit this afternoon, after spending four and one-half hours on the trip. ZEP START POSTPONED Dirigible Scheduled to Begin Flight on Wednesday. By United Press FRIEDERICHSHAFEN, May 14. —Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin, announced today that the start of the Zeppelin on its second westward voyage across the Atlantic, scheduled for Wednesday morning had been postponed. Planes to Guard “Rum Front” By United Press DETROIT, May 14.—A squadron of fleet airplanes will be used by federal prohibition men along the Detroit “nun front” this summer, according to announcement by Seymour Lowman, assistant secretary of the treasury, who made a recent #U22££ - - , T . Yf. j

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