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KILLED CO-ED TO SAVE WIFE, SAYS TEACHER Girl's Threats to Slay Family Caused Murder, Professor Declares. QUARRELED ABOUT TRIP Only Meant to Stun Paramour. Dr. Snook Claims in Confession. /;•/ r nitrrl Prr~, COLUMBUS, 0., June 21—The law set. a swift pace today in its attempt to accommodate Dr. James H. Snook, confessed murderer of Miss Theora Hix, who wants to “get it over quickly.” The Snook case was docketed first on the calendar of the grand jury convening today. The former professor of veterinary at Ohio State university said he would plead guilty, and it was likely that his trial will be set for he new term of court opening Sept. 16. Burial of Miss Hix will be in Binghamton. N. Y., her former home, it was announced by Melvin T Hix. the girl's father. Says Girl Made Threats The confession obtained from Snook Thursday, after twenty-four hours of questioning, revealed Snook killed the girl because she had threatened to kill his wife and hild if he went through with plans to take a week-end trip with them. Miss Hix’s body was found a week ago on the New York Central rifle range. She had been killed the preceding evening. '•Miss Hix remonstrated with me against leaving the city with my family as I previously had planned to do,” Snook’s confession, as given to Prosecutor John Chester, said. ' She threatened that if I did go she would take the life of my wife and baby.” Snook said he drove Miss Hix to the rifle range and discussed the proposed trip. Intended to Stun Girl They quarreled, he said, and the girl reached for her purse in which she carried a .41-caliber Derringer, a gift from Snook. “In the struggle I hit her on the head with a hammer which was in the back of my coupe,” the veterinarian said. "I intended to stun her. "She continued to fight desperately and an increased number of blows of increasing force was necessary to stop her. “Realizing then, no doubt, that her skull was fractured and, to relieve her suffering, I decided to finish her. I severed the jugular vein with my pocket knife.” The hammer and the knife were found in packing boxes in the basement. of the Snook home Thursday, although a previous search had failed to disclose them. Weeps Telling Story Snook wept as he described his movements after the murder: ‘‘l proceded to pick up the things that had been scattered about during the struggle and hurriedly left the scene of the struggle, leaving her body at that point. “After leaving the rifle range I proceded to go home, tossing the purs? into the Scioto river on my way. After the struggle vs over I discovered the gun was not in the purse. I met Theora Hix about three years ago. The friendship continued in a verv r intimate way ever snice, inasmuch as she was a very good companion. "I have been living with my wife fll during this three-vear period and regard my wife very highly and respect her very 7 much as a wife. But she lacked some of the companionship afforded by Miss Hix.” ‘•Will you plead guilty to first degree murder?" he was asked. “What else can I do?” he angered. “However, that is not my business.” he continued quickly, inferring a consultation with his attorneys. • Priest's Auto Kills Child £ . United Press LAFAYETTE. Ind.. June 21.—An nutomobi e driven by Father Francis J. Quinn, a Catholic priest, while motoring to East Chicago to visit a brother, ran over and killed Fred Wright, 2. The baby was crawling in the street, having escaped from the lawn in front of its home. The priest said he saw the child too late to avoid hitting him.

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 35

LIVES 'IRONED OUT’

Make ‘Men’ at Fort Harrison

Within a half hour’s time a civilian is ‘“evoluted” into a soldier at the citizens’ military training camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. In the above photos, left to right, are shown Carl Metz, 17, of Coshocton, 0., as he came to camp carrying nothing but a toothbrush: at the half-way point as Carl walked on a board runway in “shorties” to get his khaki garb, and on the right, Carl, the thirty-minute soldier for thirty days. BY ARC H STEINEL. A LAUNDRY where lives are ironed out, where round shoulders are made straight, where fat youths are made lean and the “leanies” made fat. opened today at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. “Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!” churned the hob-nail clatter of the shoes of 1,400 youths as they wheeled into line and echoed their allegiance to the citizens military training camp today with the words “I solemnly swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America.”

From jerking sodas in a Goshen drugstore came Max with his malted milk paunch; from Coshocton, 0., came Carl with the big feet and from Bethan, West Va., Sam and his chicken-breast to spend thirty days at the expense of the government to learn how to do “squads right” and hear the inveterate plaint, “this man's ariry.” bob ONE mother brought her son to the camp from Cleveland, 0., in the family “shake-buggy,” because as she put it, “He might get lost on the way and I wanted to be sure he got here.” Since Tuesday night motor lorries have beaten an oily trail to and from the fort’s interurban station with its carload of “basics,” “reds,” "whites” and "blues.” For if you’re a “basic” (the first year in camp) it’s your old red, white and blue hat cord when the second, third and fourth-year men catch you. That’s the only camp division, a bit of sport out of the thirty-day “rookies.” Creeds are as mixed up as pieces in a domino game. The Jew bums a fag from a Catholic, the Catholic helps i “rook” unravel the army’s greatest Thurston act, putting on wrapped leggings. AS each motor lorry disgorged its valise and griup carriers the carriers were given the forts first meal, "a dog on a bun” with lemonade as a thirst-quencher. Then they were “processed.” No! Sonia, it isn't anew name for an operation for appendicitis, but just the army term for giving family album verbally, having your left tonsil felt by a doctor, and leaving your “civies” in the hands of a “hardboiled” army sergeant to be reclaimed after you’ve gotten a month’s wear out of a “may-fit” uniform. At that, the recruits mustered in Wednesday and Thursday hadn’t a “comeback” in a checkbook full, for the quartermaster’s corps at. the fort knows more about the clothing worn than the one that wears them. They can hit a shoe size by looking at the “whites” of your eyes and we’re not speaking of target ranges. 808 BUT out of the "processing” rooms come a few—there were seventeen in the first 700 accepted—with tags marked “rejected.” Bad hearts, ears out. of gear, tie the tag to them and give transportation money home. They argue with the doctors, plead for a chance, and then as the camp beds down after “taps” they walk alone down the Ft. Harrison road to the interurban station to try their luck again next year. HEFLIN WILL AID SON Promises to Help Kin See Danger of Drinking. United Press WASHINGTON. June 21—Senator Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama, whose son Thomas Jr. Thursday pleaded not guilty in police court here of charges of driving while under the influence of narcotics, today issued a statement expressing his grief at learning his son “has beer drinking again" and promising "to help him see the danger of such indulgence.” Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 65 10 p. m 74 7a. m 67 11 a. m 75 8 a. m 71 12 tnoon).. 75 9 a. 72 1 p. m..... 76

CHAIN STORES ASK INJUNCTION Decision on New Tax Legality to Be Deferred. Application for a temporary injunction against enforcement of the chain store license law, effective July 1, was to be filed today in federal court, attorneys for Lafayette A. Jackson, owner of 250 Standard groceries, announced. Decision to file the petition was reached in a conference with representatives of the attorney-general’s office following action of Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, in overruling the motion of the state to dismiss Jackson’s injunction suit. Attorney Will H. Thompson informed the court that state attorneys have agreed to the filing of the application for a temparary injunction before a three-judge court in order that trial be postponed until fall, and chain store owners be relieved of paying penalties for failure to take out licenses by July 1. For licenses for his store Jackson would be forced to pay $5,443. He charges the bill is unconstitutional because it discriminates against the owner of two or more stores.

ROAD BIDS LET Three State Projects Awarded by Highway Body. Three paving and grading contracts totaling a third of a million dollars were let today ,y the state highway commission. The Dunzweiler Construction Company, Zanesville, 0.. was awarded a contract for 10.25 miles of concrete on Road 43 in Wh. e county, between Brookston and Reynolds, for $171,486.23. On a bid of $132,602.64. the Hodgkins & Adams Company, Winchester. Ky., was awarded s. contract for grading and small structures on 2.8 miles of Road 50 from Versailles to 24 miles north of Elrod in Ripley county. Contract for construction of 1.5 miles of concrete pavement in Clinton county, 14 miles southeast of Antioch, was awarded Alva F. Adams of Clinton on a bid of 532.695.65.

CITY IS COOLED OFF Mercury Drops Nine Degrees in 24 Hours. With temperatures about nine degrees lower today than Thursday the heat wave in which the city baked for three days was believed broken. “Mostly fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature,” was the day’s forecast. The mecury tumbled from its 86degree peak Thursday afternoon when light showers brought cooler temperatures. At Columbus, Madison and Vincennes the maximum was 93 degrees.

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FLOGGED FOR FLIGHT, SAYS ! FARITSLAVE’ Georgia Man Charges He Was Held Captive on I Peanut Plantation. OWNER IS ARRESTED Three Negroes Verify Story of Cruelty and Whippings to White Man. £u United Press ATHENS, Ga., June 21.—Claude King, 28, today was being held incommunicado in Clarke county jail along with three Negroes, as the government’s principal witnesses against a wealthy plantation owner, who is under indictment for peonage. W. D. Arnold Sr., for whom King and the Negroes worked in sparsely settled Webster county, remote from any large town, is under SIO,OOO bond after having been arrested on a federal warrant charging peonage. He is scheduled to be' arraigned at a special session of the United States district court at Americus July 2. King, who has a wife and four children, claims that he worked on Arnold’s pean it plantation for three years, and that for the last two years and a half he has received but $2.50 weekly with which to buy provisions. Whipped by Negroes In addition he was furnished with a tenant house inadequately equipped and in disrepair. He was held by two Negroes while another whipped him, at Arnold’s command, he charges, after an attempt to run away and gain a fresh start in life, several months ago. Arnold followed him to a nearby hamlet, where he had gone to arrange for the removal of his family, King claims, forcing him to return to the plantation. There he was flogged, he says, and forced to go back to work in the fields, although weak from effects of the lash. The two Negroes alleged to have held King while Arnold stood by with a pistol, forcing a third Negro to beat the tenant with a strap, are in jail here, and bear out the white man’s story, according to police. The Negro who flayed the bared back of King is sought by authorities as another material wdtness against the plantation owner. Negro Also Flogged King, gives the impression of possessing an intelligence above that of the average farm hand. He frequently has asked Arnold for a reckoning, he said, being rewarded on each occasion with the answer so often given plantation tenants—that he was indebted to the planter. The alleged peonage system employed at the plantation was brought to the attention of federal authorities by John Vanover, one of the Negroes held here as a material witness. Vanover also was said to have been flogged. It was this which prompted him to tell his story.

TWO CHILDREN DIE IN KEROSENE BLAST Mother and Three Other Tots Seriously Injured. Bu United Press MT. PLEASANT, Pa., June 21. Two children were burned fatally today when fire which followed a kerosene explosion, destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilkinson. Three other children and the mother were seriously burned. The children attempted to start a fire in the kitchen stove with kerosene. The kerosene exploded, seting fire to their clothing and the house. The mother was burned in rescuing them. TEARS OUT OWN EYE Postal Employe Hurt When Hand Slips From Mail Sack. Bit T’nitrd Prru.* CENTRALIA, Wash., June 21. Orville Spencer gouged out his own eye with his thumb here. Spencer, employe of the local postoffice, was removing a mail sack from a motor truck. He jerked hard to pull it from beneath other sacks. His hand slipped and his thumb flew into his eye, injuring the organ so badly it had to be removed by physicians.

Times Playground Page to Start Next Friday STARTING Friday, June 28, The Times will again publish a complete playground page every week, devoted to the activities and interests of Indianapolis playgrounds. This Friday playground page will last throughout the summer until the playgrounds are closed and school takes up in the fall. Complete programs to be followed at the different playgrounds , stress laid on various forms of child recreatiton and the prominent features of each playground will be in this weekly Times page. Pictures and stories will be used to show Indianapolis each week what Indianapolis sons and daughters are doing under the supervision of the city recreation department and the scores of instructors, supervisors and matrons under the supervision of Jesse McClure, recreation director.

City Boys Enter State Edison Finals

Elbert Marlow -Photo by Dexheimer Studio.

Manual, Tech, Shortridge Graduates to Compete With 20 Others. These three 16-year-old Indianapolis youths will vie with twenty others from throughout the state in final examinations next Friday and Saturday for the honor of being the Hoosier youth to appear before Thomas A. Edison in the aged inventor’s nation-wide scholarship contest. Elbert Marlow, w 7 ho graduated this month from Arsenal Technical high school, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest O. Marlowe, 821 North Centennial street. William Winter, the son of Mrs. Leona Winter, 1002 South New Jersey street, worked his way through Manual Training high school where he graduated this month. Gordon Ward, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton D. Ward, 4065 Central avenue-, will uphold Shortridge high school’s colors in the state finals. A former student in Morton high school, Richmond, Ind.. Ward was graduated from Shortridge this month. Each of the three won high honors in scholarship and- high school activities. Twenty-three candidates from a field of seventy survived the preliminary tests at six colleges and universities throughout the state. The winner of the national contest will receive a four-year scholarship at the technical school of his choice, with Edison’s eye upon him.

PUGILIST GONVICTED Tony Phillips Found Guilty of Burglary. A criminal court jury that deliberated all night, in a sealed verdict this morning found Tony Phillips, 21, former pugilist, guilty of second degree burglary and grand larceny, for theft of SSOO worth of coats and dresses from the King Outfitting Company store 342 East Washington avenue, last February. Phillips was arrested with Max Epstein, poolroom operator of Indianapolis, in Chicago. In their car police found the loot, which Phillips said he bought from another man. Special Criminal Judge Thomas Garvin wifi sentence Phillips Wednesday morning. The penalty is from one to ten years in the state reformatory. Epstein will be tried later on the same charges.

TOM MIX GETS BACK HIS STOLEN SIOO,OOO Negro Porter Held in Reported Theft, Valet Freed. Bv United Press PORTSMOUTH, N. H„ June 21. Tom Mix’s leather bag, containing cash and securities said to represent nearly SIOO,OOO, was safe in the movie star’s hands today after a brief investigation into its disappearance from his berth in a circus train. Russell Everett of Peru, Ind.. 22-year-old Negro porter attached to the train, was held in jail here on a larceny charge, police declaring he had confessed to stealing the bag and concealing it in a battery box under a show car.

Entered ns Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

William Winter ~-Photo by National Studio.

HOOVER PROMISES DRY AGENTS WILL KEEP WITHIN LAW

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RECORD AUTOS STILL TRAVELING Two Roosevelts Pass 218Hour Mark in Test. “Two hundred eighteen hours continuous running and all is well,” was the report at noon today from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway where the two Marmon built Roosevelt stock cars continued their rec-ord-breaking endurance run. With American Automobile Association representatives presiding over the performance, the Roosevelt straight-eights more than quadrupled the previous nonstop automobile record of 50 hours 21 minutes and 1 second and passed the airplane record of 172 hours, 32 minutes. A third Roosevelt also is making the test, twenty-four hours behind the leaders because a fresh start had to be taken after a tire blow-out.

HUNTING WOUND FATAL Greencastle Woman, Shot June 12, Dies in Hospital Here. Mrs. Mary Abrams, R. R. 2, Greencastle, Ind., who shot herself on June 12 while hunting near Greencastle, died this morning in Robert Long hospital. A shotgun she was carrying accidentally discharged when Mrs. Abrams, who was hunting with her husband, Fremba Abrams, climbed through a fence. She made a statement before death to this effect. ELECTROCUTE 2 BANDITS Negroes Executed for Murder in Drug Store Robbery. Bu United Press CHICAGO, .June 21.—Two Negroes, Charles Swan and Napoleon Glover, died in the electric chair in Cook county jail early today. The youths were executed for the murder of Charles Metlock, Negro, in drug store robbery a year ago. They confessed also to killing another Negro, Peter Lucas, when he upbraided them for desecrating the Sabbath and banditry. ,

30 KILLED IN BLAST 70 Hurt in Hospital Fire and Explosion in China. Bv United Press HONG HONG, China, June 21. More than 100 casualties, including more than thirty dead resulted from a fire followed by explosions in the emergency military hospital at Canton today. No foreigners were involved. The cause of the fire that preceded the explosion, which took place in a room where ammunition was stored, has not yet been ascertained.

Gordon Ward —Photo by Voorhis Studio.

Replies to Plea From Aroused Citizens of Minnesota. Bit United Press INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn., June 21.—The federal government has no intention to “in any way transgress the limits of the law,” President Herbert Hoover said in a letter received today by the city council of International Falls. The message was in answer to two “For God’s sake, help us” appeals sent to the President by prominent citizens and the city council, after customs guards had killed Henry Virkkula, Big Falls confectioner, whom they suspected of transporting liquor. “You may rest assured,” the President’s message said, “that there is no intention on the part of the federal government in any w r ay to trangress the limits of the law 7. “The matter, as mentioned in the city council message, has been referred to the treasury department for action.” The answer came almost a fortnight after Virkkula had been killed and Emmet J. White, border patrolman, lodged in jail on a murder charge. At the same time George Johnson, city clerk, received a letter from United States Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota, to whom a second appeal had been made. “This is a terrible thing,” Schall said, “and some means should be found to prohibit its repetition.” The message to the President asking relief from arrogant lawlessness, was sent June 17, and that to Schall June 10. Similar appeals were dispatched to Senator Henrik Shipstead and Representative Fred Pittenger. Virkkula was slain on the highway, twenty-seven miles south of here, when he failed to halt his motor car for liquor inspection. His wife and two children w'ere in the car with him.

GERMANS 0, K. PLAN Young Debt Agreement Is Approved by Cabinet. Bv United Press BERLIN, June 21.—The German cabinet today approved the Young plan for settlement of the reparations problem. AUTO FUMES KILL TWO Die When They Fall Asleep in Closed Car. Bu United Press KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., June 21. —Two men who had curled up in the back seat of their closed automobile for a nap with the windows closed and the motor idling to provide warmth, were found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning at a camp near here. They were John M. McMillan of Bly, Ore., and James Parkinson of Beatty.

CHILD, 9, IS MISSING James Stallings Leaves Home Thursday With So. Police today were asked to end the tour of James Stallings, 9, who left his home at 4021 East Twentyfirst street Thursday morning with $5. He wore gray trousers and a light shirt, Mrs. Grady Stallings, his mother, said. Picked up here Thursday afternoon, Anabelle West, 14, is being held at the detention home for her father. C. West, Bloomington, Ind. She left her home Thursday. AMERICAN LEAGUE (First gamej Philadelphia.. 010 201 New York.... 100 000 (Phila.) Grove and Cochrane; (N. Y.) Pennock and Grabowski,

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ATLANTIC HOP IS STARTED BY SPANISH PLANE Fliers to Halt at Azores Before Continuing to New York. SEEK DISTANCE MARK Round Trip Across Ocean Expected to Be Made in Ten Days. Bu United Priss MADRID, June 21.—The air ministry announced today that Conmander Ramon Franco, Spanish aviator, and his two companions took off from the Alcazares r,ir field near Cartagena at 4:49 p. m. for New York, by way of the Azores. Captain' Ruiz De Alda, Commander Gallarza and Mechanic Madariaga accompanied Franco, the war ministry reported. It is the second flight which Franco has started across the Atlantic, he having successfully flown from Palos, Spain, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1926. Reports of gusty weather about Gibraltar caused Franco and his companions to postpone the flight from the morning until the afternoon. The fliers will have the advantage of a full moon tonight, taking their course by way of Cape San Vicente. It is their plan to remain at the Azores eighteen hours before continuing their journey to New York, whether they will fly with Halifax in view as an emergency port, should bad w'eather be encountered. The leg from the Azores to New York, about 2,391 miles, is expected to be covered in twenty-three hours. The fliers hope to better the previous hydroplane distance record for a machine carrying the load the Spanish plane will be lifting. The previous hydroplane record is 1,925 miles in tweny-four hours. Franco plans to make a round trip from Spain to New York and back again in ten days, it is reported. The Infanta Alfonso of Bourbon was present to bid the fliers farewell. They look off down the coast line of the southern peninsula in the direction of Gibraltar. Over the strait they expect to turn to the ocean. The first leg of the trip is about 1,366 miles.

CITY MAN CRITICALLY HURT IN AUTO CRASH W. Kind&lle How'ard, 56, Turns Car in Front of Another. W. Kindalle Howard, 56, living on Washburn avenue in Drexel Gardens, southwest of the city, was critically injured today when he turned his car suddenly into the path of another automobile at West Washington street and Lynhurst drive. Internally injure!. Howard was taken to city hospital His car was struck by one driven by George W. Thompson, 64, of Bridgeport, Ind. Witnesses said Howard turned into Lynhurst drive without giving a signal, and that Thompson could not avoid the crash. No charges were lodged against Thompson, who was unhurt.

POWER FIRMS WIN SUIT Dismiss Writ Enjoining 132,000 Volt Tower Near Hammond. Suit of Charles B. and Charles C. Shedd, Chicago, against the State Line Generating Company and Interstate Public Service Company, to enjoin placing of a 132,000 volt steel tower line over their property between Chicago and Hammond, was dismissed by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today on motion of attorneys for the Shedds. Murder Evidence Opens Bv United Press SPENCER, Ind., June 21.—The jury which will decide whether Dewey Brothers was guilty of the murder in the slaying of Ralph Pogue, Bloomington policeman, heard the first testimony today in his second trial. The first trial ended with a jury disagreed.

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