Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1929 — Page 1

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FORMER STATE SENATOR AND SEVEN OTHERS IN CUSTODY AFTER ROADHOUSE SLAYING Three Mishawaka Attorneys Among Those Held Following Death by Shooting of Edward Blankert. GRAND JURY TO GET CASE TUESDAY Woman Proprietor and Employe of Place Fled When Fight Started as a Result of Resentment Over Remark. Pi/ United Prrii M>[ 111 BEND, Ind., dun? S.—Further investigation into 'll*’ slaying ot Edward Blankert, Mishawaka politician, who shot to death in a St. Joseph county roadhouse, is being made today by authorities. The county grand jury will consider the case Tuesday. < oroner ('. B. t 'rumpacker and Deputy Prosecutor Glenn i hompson conducted an investigation Friday night, eight persons, including a former state senator, being examined. r l hose questioned and held in custody include Qrrin E. darkle, attorney, former state senator and football star at Indiana university and ISwarthmore college; Hawley Burke and AI ex Sic vers, attorneys, who were in the roadhouse when the -la} ing occurred : M s. Ethel Boyer, proprietor of the place; Miss May Mitchell, employe; George Carter and John Drummond, alleged gamblers, and Marvin E. Cramer, the dead man’s companion while at the place.

The shooting was said to have followed a remark as Blanker! and Cramer entered the roadhouse. Rlankert was said to have resented the remark and . sked Cramer to set his gun from the automobile. When Cramer returned he was met t the door, struck on the head and tossed through a window. He said that when he regained his enses a fight was raging. He explained that at the time he was hit at the door he remembered hearing one shot. Cramer said he walked to Mishawaka and notified police. Neither the proprietor or Miss Mitchell were able to throw' any light on the affair, saying when the fight started they fled. According to Mrs. Boyer ‘ one man followed us into the rear and threatened to hit us with a glass if we notified police." Escaping from the man. the woman said they drove to Mishawaka and notified police. Upon arrival at the roadhouse, police said the place was deserted except for Blankert's body which was found in a pool of blood. According to police. Sievers says he believes he can identify the slayer.

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FORD, DU PONT WAR PREDICTED Giants to Battle for Dyes, Says Chemist. War to the death between Henry Ford and the Du Pont interests for control of the worlds supply of chemicals, dyestuffs, lacquers, solvents, synthetic resins, etc., was predicted by Kftm Kathju. former leading chemist for the Ford company and now in charge of the laboratories of the Cook Paint and Varnish Company, a ten-million dollar Kansas City corporation, before the sixth annual Foremen's national convention assembled in Indianapolis today. Kathju spoke before the industrial night session at the Claypool hotel here Friday night, which was attended by more than 1.000 of the visting delegates. The subjects discussed ranged from a dryer than dust ice to dyed aluminum, which can be made harder than steel. Kathju also predicted that pres-ent-day lacquer now used in automobile finishes would soon be as obsolute as paint as a weather resistant. j "In my opinion, lacquer now hailed as the ultimate inautomobile body finishes, will, in two years, be as obsolete as tne old method of oil paint, is today." Kathju said. Its death knell is being sounded because of the giant strides being made by the chemists in the domain of synthetic resins, which are fasttaking the place of mitro cellulose and otl type materials." Bond Discount Overruled Holding companies building schools can not. legally sell bonds for less than par value and accept, par value from the townships in lease payments. Attorney General James M. Ogden ruled Friday on request of Lawrence F. Orr. chief examiner of the state board of ac-

FILIBUSTER THREATENED AS FARM AID BILL, MINUS DEBENTURE, NEARS VOTE

Democrats Join Majority to Block Prolonging of Session. BY PAIL R. MALLON Ynited Pr*?* Staff Corr*spco4nt WASHINGTON. June B.—Threats oi filibuster, heard near the close of every session of congress, were sounded in the senate today when the administration farm bill minus the debenture clause came up for discussion. Not only was a small group organizing to force congress to remain :hrough the summer for a further fight on the debenture, but an ini tipient. filibuster seemed to be grow- ' ing against the move to repeal the national origins law. Leaders believe they have sufficient votes to crish opposition to the modified farm bill even if they are unable to follow President Herbert Hoover's wishes and repeal the national origins clause. They are so sure they can pass the farm bill within the next few days that they are planning to recess next Saturday until Sept. 3. Democrats are co-operating with | the majority in working out the rei cess problem.

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SUICIDE SHOW GIRL IDENTIFIED Actress in Death Leap Used Maze of Aliases, By United rrces CHICAGO. June B.—Out of a maze of aliases, the real idemity of "Barbara Cole,” came today through a. telephone call as the body of the pretty show girl, who sought to forget her love for a broker by suicide, still was unclaimed at a north side morgue. Her real name was Donna Barr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Barr of Bethlehem, Pa., who said Friday night by telephone there was little doubt the show girl, who threw herself out cf a twelfth-story hotel window, was their daughter. Barr, who was the dead actress’ stepfather, said Donna had left home four years ago. She married a man named Charles Barron, he said, and there was one child although he never had seen the child or its father. A phone call made by the actress last week was traced and the identification followed. F,dwin Page, broker, for whom the show girl professed an undying love in suicide notes, remained silent although he went to the Stock Exchange as usual Friday. He has refused to make a statement to Coroner Serman Bundesen. who wished to question him about the notes and a wedding ring found on the girl's fineer inscribed. "5-?-'27. E. P. to D. B."

A Democratic conference has been ' called for Monday to take official ; action on the situation, but most of , the prominent Democrat', including Senator Joseph T. Robinson, the i floor leader, already have agreed to [ recess. Robinson announced he desired only that rights of the minority to ' propose amendments and to dehate i the tariff bill be fully protected, when the time for a fail vote on the bill is fixed. He favors the debenture plan.

RAILROAD TUNNEL CRASH KILLS THREE, INJURES SIX

CALIENTE. Nev., June B.—Crashing rock and timbers in a tunnel on the Union Pacific railroad west of here killed three persons, one of them a 7-year-old girl, and injured six others. j The collapse occurred late Friday but news of it did not become known ; until late Friday night. The injured are being taken to Los Angeles today on a special train. The girL whose name was not , learned, was killed when the heavy ‘timbers which were being replaced

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Police Shot by Strikers, Sixty Held

Police and Deputy Badly Wounded in Dixie Textile Clash. Bu United Frees GASTONIA. N. C.. June B.—Folice arrested sixty textile strikers today in an attempt to find the individuals who ambushed and perhaps critically wounded E. F. Aderholt chief of police, and Charles Roach, deputy sheriff Friday night, while the officers were en route, to a mass meeting of the National Textile Workers Union. Two other officers and a civilian were wounded. The shooting occurred when officers were called to break up a mass meeting being held by striking members of the National Textile Workers Union. Seventeen hundred members of the union still are on strike here, after having walked out several months ago when demands for increased pay and better working conditions were refused. The shooting began about 10:30 p. m. when the officers approached the meeting being held in the open air in the tem city occupied by strikers evicted a month ago from homes by the Manville-Jenckes Company, operators of the Loray cotton mills. Fearing mob action, mill officials summoned the police after what was described as a particularly inflammatory speech by Fred Erwin Beal, Communist, agitator f.-vr the union, in which he is said to have urged the strikers no longer to submit to “oppression." Led by Chief Aderholt, the officers started for the meeting. When about 100 yards from the mass meeting, a number of shots rang out in rapid succession from dark tents nearby. According to witnesses the fire was not returned by the officers. A search immediately was made by other officers in the party, but no one wa-s arrested and no clews were found. Policeman Tom Gilbert and Charles Gilbert and a mill worker named Harrison were the others wounded.

in the Union Pacific tunnel crashed down on her. She tps believed to have been from Parowan. Utah. Killed with the child were William C. Benson, also of Parowan, and Fred B. Sisher of Caliente. Those injured were Charles Karstens of Des Moines. Fred White, Andrew W. Pearson, Paul Warkne. John W. McCarthy and Alton H. Bullock, all believed residents of nearby towns. Fifteen men were working on the tunnel when the accident occurred

HOSPITAL REST TAKEN 8Y TAFT Supreme Court Justice 111. Not in Danger, F :/ United Frees WASHINGTON, June B.—William Howard Taft, twenty-seventh President of the United States and at present, chief justice of the supreme court., who for nearly half a century has pursued the arduous labors of pubiic life, today was in Garfield Memorial hospital, not in danger, but “in need of rest.” The 71-year-old lawyer, on the eve of his intended retreat for the summer to his beautiful and restful Murray Bay summer home in Canada, was persuaded Friday by his physicians to subject himself to hospital treatment before going. Taft entered the hospital on returning from a short trip to Cincinnati. his birthplace, immediately following the recess of the supreme court. His wife accompanied him to the hospital but returned to their home immediately, strengthening the information the. jurist, was taking but another of his periodic complete rests. The delicate health of Taft has been the subject of concern for some time. Never particularly robust, he has always applied himself to the work in hand unsparingly. On numerous other occasions, Taft has entered a hospital at the suggestion of his friends who. better than himself, recognized the signs of overwork. OCEAN FLIERS READY Stockholm-New York Flight to Start Sunday. By United Press STOCKHOLM. June B.—Captain Albin Ahrenberg. Swedish aviator, will start his trans-Atlantic flight to New York at 6 a. m. Sunday (Saturday midnight, eastern standard time*, he announced here today. Captain Ahrenberg and his two companions. Lieutenant Axel Floden and Robert Ljungland, will fly from here to Bergen. Norway, and thence to Iceland. Greenland. Labrador and New York. Landings will be made enroute for refueling. Captain Ahrenberg said he would earn - on the flight with him a hat which will be presented to the first person of Swedish birth who greets the fliers on their arrival in New York. In the Air Weather conditions a* 9:30 a. m. at Ind'anapohs airport Northeast wind, twelve miles an hour: temperature. 60: barometric pressure. 30.04 at sea level: ceiling. 1.000 feet: solid overcast: visibility three miles. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 54 8 a. m 57 7 a. m 55 9 a. m 59

BRITISH LABOR RULERS TAKE OVER OFFICES Seals of Office Handed MacDonald Cabinet by King. PRAISED BY NATION Hailed Even by Opponents as Party's Strongest Group of Leaders. Bi WEBB MILLER. United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. June B.—The second labor government of Great Britain came into existence at 11:30 a. m. today, when King George V handed the members of Ramsay MacDonald's cabinet the seals of office at Windsor Castle. The seals had been returned to the king Friday by the Conservative cabinet of Stanley Baldwin. Members of the new government, twenty-one in all. arrived at Windsor from London on a special train at 10:50 a. m. and immediately were taken to the castle, where a privy council was held at 11 a. m. After the privy council. King George received the entire new government and handed them the seals which denoted their rank as members of the cabinet. Hailed as Strong Group The men were dressed in frock coats or morning dress, black m either case, and wore silk top hats. Miss Margaret Bondlield, labor minister and the first woman cabinet member of Great. Britain, wore a mannish costume consisting of a black coat, a black frock trimmed with white, and a black and white hat. The king. In morning dress, received the new government members one at a time in the audience room of the castle. Each kissed the monarch's hand. Prime Minister MacDonald's new labor cabinet was hailed even by his political opponents today as the strongest group of men the Labor party could have chosen to head the government. Thebe were several Surprises when I the names were announced, not the j least of them being A. V. Alex- : ander’s appointment as first lord of I the admiralty and Sydney Webb's | as colonial secretary. Goes Outside Party Alexander was not recognized popularly as a Laborite. His ap- ; pointment was viewed as a gesture of friendship toward the Co-opera-tives. whom he heads. Webb is recognied as the best informed economist in the Labor party. MacDonald's action ingoing outside his party to name two other cabinet officers, Lord Sankey as lord chancellor and W. A. Jowitt as attorney-general, drew praise for his courage from many quarters. Another interesting feature, of the | cabinet wa, sthe membership in it of Great Britains’ first woman cabinet officer. Miss Margaret Bondeld. former school teacher, shop assistant and national and international trade union official, who was made minister of labor. Strength of the cabinet also was shown in the presence of Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer: Arthur Henderson, foreign secretary, and J. H. Thomas, lord keeper of the privy seal, who also will hold the new offiep. minister of employment. Strong Names In Cabinet Besides those named above, the following were appointed to cabinet posts: J. R. dynes, home secretary’; Thomas Shaw, war; Lord Parmoor, lord president of the council; Wedgewood Benn, secretary of state for India: Lord Thomson, secretary of state for air; Arthur Greenwood. minister of health: Noel Buxton, minister of argriculture Sir O. P. Trevelyan, president ol the board of education: W. Graham, president of the Board of Trade: W. Adamson, secretary of state for Scotland, and George Lansbury, first commissioner of works. Minsters appointed who are not actually members of the cabinet were: Sir Oswald Mosley, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster; J. B. Melville. solicitor general; F. C. Roberts, minister of pensions; Herbert Morrison. minister of transport: T. Johnston, parliamentary undersecretary for Scotland: General Lees Smith, postmaster-general, and Lord Arnold, paymastercrpnprn 1

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TWO HELD AS LABOR WAR RACKETEERS Police Claim Pair Confesses to Defacing Dozens of Illuminated Signs in and Near City With Lamp Black 'Bombs.’ EVIDENCE MAY GO TO GRAND JURY Vandalism Follows Inauguration of 'Open Shop’ Policy by General Outdoor Advertising Cos., Walkout by Bill Posters. BULLETIN Prosecutor Stark filed malicious trespass affidavits against Itskin and Tieben in criminal court. Maximum punishment is a fine of double the amount of damage and one-year imprisonment. City detectives today solved ilie first serious instance of racketeering in Indianapolis in many months and held two members of a labor union upon alleged confessions Defacement of seventy-one illuminated signboards of the General Outdoor Advertising Company along routes to the Speedway, May 29, the day before the race, and since, was the alleged racketeering. Damage is estimated at SI,OOO. At the same lime Police Chief Claude M. Worley said police were getting close to the solution of who set off a bomb in the nearly completed eight-story apartment house of the Arthur Baynham Construction Company, 3056 North Meridian street, last Monday night.

150 INJURED IN FRENCH RIOTING Citizens Attack Police When Slayer Escapes Qeath. Bn United Press LIMOGES. France. June 8 —Government troops restored order here early today after an all-night battle through the streets between citizens and police. More than a hundred citizens were injured and fifty members of the police force were being treated in the hospitals. The trouble arose Friday when a court failed to impose a death sentence upon Charles Barataud who had murdered two men. He was sentenced instead to life imprisonment on Devil's island. The angry townsfolk, who began to riot during t.he afternoon, continued their assaults upon the police during the night. They dug out, paving stones and hurled them at the policemen and against the prison in which the sentenced man was guarded. After several hours of fighting, in whicht housands of citizens participated. the police department, was wiped out completly through injuries. HOGS STEADY TO 15 CENTS OFF IN PENS i Sheep and Lamb Market Quoted Steady. Hogs were steady to 15 cents lowler. mostly selling 10 cents off in the I Local stockyard? today. The bulk of | 160-275 pounds sold at sll to $11.15. ! The top price paid was $1125. Re- | ceipts were estimated at 5,500, and holdovers from Friday's market totaled 215. Cattle were nominal. Vealers were steady selling at 816 down. The sheep and lamb was quotable steady. Better grade lambs brought around sls to $16.50. Fat ewes sold I at $4.50 to $6.50. | ESTATE - TAXED MILLION Heirs of “Wheat King” Assessed $1,525,723 for Inheritance. By United Press CHICAGO. June a.—The last step in settlement of the $20,000,000 estate of James A. Patten, “wheat king,” was taken when trustees! handed to the county treasurer an j inheritance tax check for $1,525,723. The majority of his estate was left to the widow. | The Patten estate was appraised at $19,788,524. Illinois’ largest fortune registered since the inheritance | (-ax - has been in effect.

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The investigation of both instances of vandalism has reached the point where police can go no further without I records in the hands of certain I persons and Worley announced I lie has turned his evidence over to Prosecutor Judson L. Stark. The grand jury can compel the turning over of the desired records. ' Harry Itskin. 43. of 40 Jackson place, and Frank Tiebcn. 34. of 314 North Delaware street, are the men held upon alleged confessions to the defacement of the signboards. Their bonds were set at $2,500 each on vagrancy charges. They are held pending the grand jury investigation. Confession Is Reported The. reputed confession of Itskin declared that the General Outdoor Advertising Company April 30 through Ray Nealis. foreman at the shops. 1010 East, Maryland street, informed the men that the open shop would be installed and those who wanted to work on that basis could remain, but, those who did not should take their belongings and get out at once. Itskin says that he and eleven other members of the International Alliance of Bill Posters and Billers of the United States and Canada left. Confessions of both Itskin and Frank Tiebcn then tell how after several union meetings to discuss the situation Itskirt was notified he was to go cut and deface some bill boards. He told of finding a dozen electric light globes filled with lamp black and oil outside the door of his room. The Itskin confession says he telephoned Tiebcn to meet him at Illinois and Georgia streets at 1 a. m. May 29. In Itskin's Chevrolet coach they toured tl-,' 1 west and hurled tlw lamp black “bombs” at General Outdoor bill boards with the idea, that high officials of the company would see them on their way to the race the next day and for the local branch manager to restore the union men. Won't Be Tolerated The first clew to Itskin and Tieban came from a patrolman, who the night the vandalism was committed, had taken the names of Itskin and Tieben and the number of Itskin's ear. The patrolman had been standing at West Michigan street and Belmont avenue when he heard the glass breaking. Itskin contends that the company had fired the union men making $45 a week: and replaced thpm with men from out-of-town at $25 a week. Detective Chief Jerry Kinney directed the work of Detectives John Gaughan and Fred Simon, who £ot the confessions. Kinnev said that the bill board company firs* hired a pri'-atc detective agency then after a few days came to police Not being in position to sec the black smeared bill board he thought someone had thrown a bottle. He went out to itskin's car. questioned the pair, and let them go. “This is a form of racketeering and the city will not tolerate it. Let that be understood right from the start.” declared Chief Worley. C. M. Bryan, general manager of the Outdoor Advertising branch, said he had negotiated unsuccessfully for weeks before the agreement with the union expired May 1 and there was nothing to do but recruit anew working force. He said that in addition to the twelve boards Itskin and Tieben confessed defacing fifty-nine others have been damaged by the same method. Saleswoman Is Bankrupt Mrs. Ethel L. Stout. Muncie, automobile sales representative, has filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court, listing $5,667 liabilities and $3,639 assets. r