Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1929 — Page 9

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FLIER KILLED * WHEN PLANE ' HITS ON ROOF Pilot Ignores Passenger’s Advice and Dies in Crash. SEVEN OTHERS HURT Debris Bursts Into Flames Threatening Lives of Trapped Victims, E'j United Preset ST. PAUL. Minn.. June 25.—A gruff statement that, he was pilot and could take care of his ship without, suggestions from passengers came as the last words of Edwin H. Middage just before his giant tri-motored airplane dived into housetops here Monday night, killing Middage and more or less seriously injuring seven passengers. The plane wobbled perilously at the take-off and failed to gain altitude. H G. Foote, one of those aboard. declared: I asked Middage if he wasn’t too low,” Foote, who is suffering from Burns at a hospital here, said. Needed no Help “He replied that he was pilot and did not need any help in taking care of the plane. “As he said this all three motors stopped and the plane went into a nose-dive. “We hung on to our seats as the housetops came up to meet us. Nobody said anything. “Middage worked frantically at the controls. The ship didn’t respond. “I noticed I felt light as a feather in my seat. “Then we hit something. “That's all I remember.” The pilot, pinned beneath the wreckage, was burned to death when the gasoline tank exploded. Rescuer Burned The passengers were dragged from the wreckage by volunteer rescue workers, one of whom. E. J. Miller, St. Paul, was burned badly. The machine, with a passenger list of five men, a young woman and a 3-year-old boy left the airport here for Minneapolis shortly before 7 p. m. Seven hundred feet in the air its motors became silent, it tilted over and crashed into a housetop. From there it bounced to another roof and burst into flames. WIDEN CREEK CHANNEL FOR COUNTY BRIDGE Big Eagle Span to Cost $54,000, Commissioners Say. The channel of Big Eagle creek at West Tenth street will be widened several feet to provide a more suitable location for erection of anew bridge, it was announced today by county commissioners. The decision to alter the channel followed a conference of commissioners with property owners in the vicinity and Charles Mann, county highway superintendent. The E. F. Smith Construction I Companv will build the bridge at a cost of $54,000. The old covered bridge was condemned by Mann a month ago. CHILD INJURED BY AUTO Small Boy Runs Into Street; Internally Hurt. % Leonard Bishop, 2's years old, 1311 North Denny street, is recovering today in Methodist hospital from internal injuries sustained when he was struck by the automobile of William Fattig. 2321 East Michigan stret.. Monday night. Holding the hand of Joy Bettis 12. of 3705 East Michigan street, the little boy ran into East Michigan street from between two cars parked at the curb. Witnesses said Fattig was not to blame. LABOR JOINS C. OF C. Head of Union Body Named on Chamber Committee. The Central Labor Union today was affiliated with the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce through membership in the chamber held byJohn Smith, union president. Announcement of Smith's membership and his appointment as a member of the chamber civic affairs committee was made Monday night at the union meeting. Union officials, it was said, will co-operate in every with with the chamber for development and expansion of industry. CAPTURE RUM YACHT Coast Guard Seizes Craft Off North Carolina Seashore. By United Pres* WASHINGTON. June 25.—Coast guard headquarters made public today a report of the seizure off the North Carolina coast Sunday of the American yacht Eolis with a cargo of rum aboard by Patrol Boat 232, which tpwed the craft into Morehead City. N. C. According to the American register of shipping the yacht, a forty-four-foot vessel, is owned by John McQuade of Cocoanut Grove. Fla., but coast guard headquarters was without word on what action was taken regarding the craft's crew.

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Buyer of 14 Autos in 2 Years Faces Divorce By T<m*s Special. ANDERSON. Ind., June 25.—Herman Rigney bought fourteen automobiles in their two years of married life, his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Rigney. complains in a divorce bill filed in Madison superior court. She asks the decree on the ground of failure to support, alleging that her husband spent all of his money on automobiles. There are no children. Mrs. Rigney alleges her husband had no time for home life after his habitual and protracted periods of motor repairing.

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John McNaught Sitting in an easy chair that was the parting gift of fellow employes, John McNaught, 69, of near Bridgeport today contemplated “just taking it easy” the rest of his life. Monday afternoon McNaught stepped down from the cab of a flag-draped locomotive in the Baltimore & Ohio railway yards, kissed his wife, shook hands with a group of friends, and culminated forty-nine years of sendee as an engineer in the Indianapolis yards.

C. M.T.C.HAS Second Formal March Thursday; Public Invited. First formal parade of the Citizens’ Military Training Camp regiment at Ft. Benjamin Harrison was to be held at 5 p m. today. The Eleventh infantry band, with the C. M. T. C. fifty-piece band, were to play. The second parade will be Thursday afternoon. The public is invited. Mass, calisthenics and instruction in the manual of arms occupied the cadet regiment this morning, and the advanced training men were given map reading instruction. Qualified candidates will receive scholarships in a number of colleges and universities. Captain G. C. Hollingsworth. adjutant, announced. Schools offering scholarships are: Indiana Central college. Rose Polytechnic institute, Terre Haute; Cen re college, Danville. Ky.; Capital university. Columbus. O.: Capital City Commercial college, Charleston, W. Va.; Davis and Elkins college, Wilkins. W. Va.; Kentucky Wesleyan, Winchester, Ky.; University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.; Mt. Union college, Alliance, O.; Western Kentucky Teachers’ College. Bowling Green. Ky.; Lockyear’s Business college, Evansville, Ind.; University of City of Toledo, Toledo, 0.. and Tiffin Business university, Tiffin. O. ATTACK ENDS IN RAID Girl’s Story Causes Arrest of Two Men. A 21-.vear-old girl’s story of her escape from an apartment where Robert Goodale, 27. Apartment 205, the Col-Ten apartments. Tenth street at College avenue, attempted to atack her as the climax of a party in an Indianapolis roadhouse, resulted in the arrest of Goodale and John Pierce. 3030 Graceland avenue, early today on blind tiger charges. Raiding Goodale’s apartment, po-. lice charge they confiscated twentyfour half-pints and three gallons of alcohol, nine dozen pints of whisky, thirty-four quarts of beer and five gallons of brewing beer. After the party in the roadhouse the girl went with Goodale to his apartment where he said he would call a taxi to take her home, the girl told Sergeant Harley Jones. He refused her demands to let her go and attacked her, she said. As Pierce, who had been a member of the party and had taken another girl to her home, entered the apartment. she fled. HOLD AUTOPSY ON DOLL Baby’s Body.’ Found on Road, Proves Full of Sawdust. Bu United Press PEEKSKILL, N. Y.. June 25. Frank O’Mara. a taxicab driver, reported to Coroner George A. Logan, that he had found a baby's bodyon the road near here. The body, dressed luxuriously, was brought in by O'Mara and Logan decided to hold an autopsy. A physician examined the body and jabbed a knife into it. Sawdust poured out. It was a dc&

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Refuses to Answer Queries of Legislative Quizzers, By L nitrd Press TRENTON. N. J.. June 25.—The controversy between Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City and the New Jersey legislature has culminated in the arrest of Hague for refusing to answer questions about his private wealth. Today Hague was free, but Monday night he was faced with the prospect of going to the Mercer county jail and staying there until he was ready to answer ten questions put to him by the McAllister investigating committee. What the committee particularly wanted to know was the source of $400,000 which Hague allegedly has spent in the last ten years. p Russell E. Watson, counsel for the committee, allowed Hague to be placed in the custody of Marine De Witt, sergeant-at-arms of the state senate, in order that the mayor might seek a writ of habeas corpus, but specified that Hague must surrender at 8:40 p. m. today. The legislature, which is Republican, held Hague, a Democrat, in contempt Monday night when he declined to answer the questions. Both sides expect the litigation to go to the United States supreme court.

Death Laugh By United Press CHICAGO, June 25. A funny story caused William Holton’s death. Laughing at a friend’s joke, Holton lost his balance on a porch railing and fell ten feet to a sidewalk, fracturing his skull.

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SNOOK JUDGED SANE Alienists Report in Move to Check Insanity Plea, By United Press COLUMBUS, June 25.—Dr. James H. Snook, confessed slayer of Theora Hix. Ohio State university medical co-ed, is sane, three state alienists who examined the former professor, declared in a report to County Prosecutor John J. Chester today. The alienists were appointed to examine Snook in what was interpreted as a move by the state to counteract an insanity defense expected at Snook's forthcoming murder trial 4

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 2-3, 1929

SINCLAIR’S AID JOINS BOSS IN CAPITAL JAIL Henry M, Day Begins FourMonth Term for Oil Case Jury Shadowing. BOTH WORLD FAMOUS Activities in Fail Teapot Dome Scandal Put Them Behind Prison Bars. BY KENNETH G. CRAWFORD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 25.—The District of Columbia jail houses two of the world’s most famous oil operators today—Harry F. Sinclair and Henry Mason Daj\ ! Sinclair now is an old resident, spending his sixth week in the big stone house, but Day joined him only Friday night. Sinclair must remain six months and Day. four months minus a few days each for good, behavior. The two men who worked side by side to build up a gigantic oil ! business were sentenced for the i same offense, contempt of court. The charge grew out of their jury shadowing activities during the trial of Sinclair and Albert B. Fall, former secretary of interior, for alleged conspiracy to defraud the government. Hired Jury Shadowers Dav. with the knowledge and consent of Sinclair, hired the Burns Detective Agency to watch and report on the nature and activities of the jurors who were to decide the guilt or innocence of Sinclair and Fall. A mistrial was declared as soon as the jury shadowing was discovered. Sinclair later was tried on the conspiracy charge and acquitted, but Fall never has come to trial because of ill health. Day arrived at the jail Monday night apparently little concerned at the prospect of spending four months inside its red stone walls. He posed smilingly for photographers and answered the questions of reporters. “I want to give you fellows a break,” he told them. “We’ll get together and stop this squabbling, I have all the time in the world.” He apparently referred to the controversy between jail officials and the press at the time of Sinclair’s imprisonment when reporters were barred from the jail for several days to protect Sinclair from what they considered humiliating publicity. John Clarson, assistant deputy marshal, was waiting for Day at the jail when he drove up alone in a taxicab. Ready for Business The new prisoner wore a gray suit, gray hat and blue shirt. His manner was as businesslike a-s if he were about to negotiate a million dollar oil contract. Before walking through the barred door, he passed out a prepared statement reasserting that both he and Sinclair are innocent of any criminal offense. “I am now and shall be able to look any man straight in the eye, as I have all my life,” the statement said, “I have nothing to live down.” He said he would resume his duties as vice-president of the Sinclair Exploitation Company as soon as he is released. Sinclair now is the prison pharmacist with quarters near the dispensary. Day probably will be assigned to office duty and may have little opportunity to converse with his chief except at meals. LOWTHER TO TRIAL Son of Wild Bank Receiver to Face Judge, Richard Lowther Jr., 19. of 5540 Central avenue, will be tried before Special Judge Fred B. Johnson in criminal court Wednesday on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. The indictment charges Lowther was driving fifty miles an hour when his car struck and fatally injured Julius Underwood of Jamestwn, Ind.. at Fifty-second street and Central avenue, Jan. 7.

Lowther, who is a page in superior court 3 and the Son of Richard Lowther Sr., receiver for the J. F. Wild & Cos. State bank, has been at liberty under $2,000 bond. Prosecutor Judson L. Stark will prosecute the case with William H. Remy. former prosecutor, defending Lowther.

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F.ti Times Special KOKOMO, Ind.. June 25.—Mrs. Elizabeth Drake, 77, who on July 29, will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary’ o i her marriage to W, J. Drake, has only contempt for companionate marriage. “There is only one kind of marriage,” Mrs. Drake declared, “and that is the kind that is made in the sight of God. That kind has to be decent and loyal and honest and brave.” Reference to the long years as a wife and mother brought from Mrs. Drake the response: “It really doesn’t seem long. To me the children are still just babies and lots of things that happened years ago seem as though happened just yesterday.” Drake only remarked, “We have been very happy,” when asked to express himself regarding the union that has endured three score years. He is a Civil war veteran, having taken part in eleven major battles of the conflict and was with General Sherman on the famous march “from Atlanta to the Sea.”

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PICK SPECIAL JUDGE John McCord to Conduct Drivers’ License Cases, John McCord, Pittsboro, Hendricks county attorney and for many years a familiar figure at the statehouse, has been appointed the first of a series of hearing judges under the new automobile drivers’ license law by Otto G. Fifield, secretary of state. The law provides for hearings before such a judge in the matter of license revocation. Fifield will appoint others to serve in various sections of the state, if found needed, it was announced. McCord will have offices in the statehouse basement, where the licenses are issued. McCord spent a total of thirteen years as a traveling deputy in the attorney-general’s office. He retired when Attorney-General James M. Ogden refused to reappoint him. having served under former Attor-ney-General Arthur L. Gilliom. One time connected with the state securities lommission, McCord has served as auditor there, while Representative Frank (Bone Dry) Wright attends sessions of the legislature. BURGLARY IS CHARGED Negro Alleged to Have Been Seen Leaving Store. Henry McKinley. 27. Negro, 2205 Alvord street, was under arrest today on charges of burglary and grand larceny. McKinley is alleged to have fled from the store of Frank Corey, 2255 Columbia avenue, when Corey opened it on the morning of June 22. Nothing was stolen that time, but burglars had visited the store before.

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IMPOSTER STEALS DRUGS Pretends He’s Narcotic Agent Then Takes Quantity of Tablets, A man representing himself as a federal narcotic inspector stole a quantity of drugs from the Dolly Drug Company store, 3749 West Washington street, police said today. On strength of his claims he was allowed to check the store’s narcotic supply Monday night. $1,505 RINGS STOLEN Taken From Dresser While Owner Sleeps, Theft of two diamond rings valued at $1,505 from a jewel box on her dresser Monday, was reported to police early today by Mrs. R. A. Shirley, 4934 Washington boulevard. The rings were taken while she slept Monday afternoon. An armed bandit Monday night held up Marshall Kendall. 2732 Bellefontaine street, attendant at a Standard Oil Company filling station at Randolph and Washington street. He took sl3 and escaped. Huntington Man Elected By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. June 25.—Herbert B. Spencer, Huntington, today was elected Indiana department commander of the United SpanishAmerican War Veterans at the closing session of their slate encampment here. La Porte was selected as the 1930 convention city, defeating New Albany after a spirited contest. All state officers were advanced to higher posts. SIGNS RIVER PACT President Gives 0. K, to Colorado Proclamation. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. June 25.—President Herbert Hoover today signed the Colorado river proclamation. The proclamation mpkes effective the Colorado river compact for the distribution of water rights among six of the seven states interested in the river development. Arizona has not yet accepted the terms of the compact In announcing the proclamation President Hoover pointed out that the failure to agree upon water rights had held up development of the river for twenty-five years.

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760 PETITION FORJWDENINB Board, However, Is Opposed to Improving Michigan. The board of public works today looked with disfavor on the petition to widen Michigan street from White river to the Pleasant Run boulevard, according to Theodore Dammever. president. A petition bearing about 700 names was filed with the board Monda3’. Dammeyer said it was not wise to consider the project under the thoroughfare plan which provides the city pay most of the cost. The thoroughfare fund is depleted, because of the proposed widening of Sixteenth street. Dammeyer indicated the board will order the improvement, but assess the costs against property owners in the benefited district. If the property owners won’t stand for that I don’t see much chance for their petition.” Dammeyer declared. Representatives of a number of industries signed the petition for the east and west artery north of Washington street. No engineering estimate of the cost has been made, but it is likely that the expense would total about $1,000,000. The petition was referred to the city engineer for a recommendation. JURY LISTS PICKED Talesmen Ordered in Criminal Court Monday. Prospective grand jurors and petit jurors for the July term of criminal court were drawn today by county jury commissioners. Grand jury talesmen who will report before Judge James A. Collins for examination next Monday morning are: Fred W. Jungclaus, 4057 North Meridian street, president and treasurer of the William P. Jungclaus Company, building contractors. Joseph Seehofer, 467 Virginia avenue, steward. Wilfred F. Seyfried. 3699 North Delaware street, builder. Christian Iverson, 1625 Montcalm street, coal dealer. Walter A. Johnson, 526 East Fall Creek boulevard, president International Railway Institute. Samuel Arnold, 3851 Broadway, Capitol Cap Company. Police, Workers Clash, 25 Hurt By United Press PARIS, June 25.—Twenty-five policemen were wounded Monday night in a clash with several hundred laborers who protested the arrest of two of their leaders for ordering a strike. Thirteen were arraatob

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SLAY FIGHT • PROMOTER IN RACKET FEUD Frank Marlow Found Bleeding to Death in Clump of Bushes, MYSTERY GIRL SOUGHT Spoke 12 Words on Phone, Vanished Just Before Killing Is Discovered, By United Press NEW YORK. June 25.—Meager clews to the killing of Frank Marlow, night club owner and prize fight manager, today set police on the trail of a mysterious girl who spoke twelve words over a telephone and disappeared shortly before Marlow was found bleeding to death in a clump of bushes in Flushing. Grover Whalen, police commissioner, said today several important leads had been uncovered in Manhattan by the battalion of detectives sent out to solve the most sensational gangland killing since Arnold Rothstein was mortally wounded last November. The first thing the detectives learned was that a friend of Marlow called him on the telephone at the Hotel Victoria Monday evening to discuss business. The friend, whose name police refused to divulge, said a girl answered the phone and told him: “Frank is not here, but he ought to be here any minute.” Known as Racketeer When police entered the hotel room, they found it vacated and there was no indication how long the girl had been there or the exact hour at which she had departed. Marlow, known throughout the United States as the former manager of two boxing champions, never regained consciousness after he was? found by two motorists Friday night. Police knew Marlow as a racketeer. beer runner, gambler—an intimate friend of Rothstein—and more recently as an owner of night clubs. He brought Jack Delaney out of obscurity and taught the FrenchCanadian to fight his way to the lightweight championship; he bought the contract of Johnny Wilson, former middleweight champion, for $50,000 when the only contract I Wilson had was a verbal one; he I was reputed to have won $250,000 in i one bet on his horse Anne Marrone 11. The medical examiner found three bullet wounds in the body—one through the temple, another through I the jaw and the third in the neck, j Powder burns indicated the shots j were fired at close range, leading police to believe Marlow war shot ! in an automobile and left to die in I the bushes opposite a cemetery in | Flushing. A knife wound in the thigh, freshly healed, caused detectives to surmise Marlow had been in trouble recently and probably had been shot as t e result of a gang quarrel. Sought to Hide etw’ntity w Recently Marlow had >een commuting between here and Boston, living in the two cities alternately. In his pockets were found memi bership cards In the Massachusetts and New York automobile clubs, a pistol permit issued at Brookline, j Mass., and one which he had ob- | tained in Suffolk county, N. Y. Another card indicated he was a member in the Ohio State Athletic Club. Police learned that when Marlow returned from Boston a few days ago he tried to register at the Hotel Victoria under the name of Frank Ross. Hotel attaches knew him, however, and insisted on propar registry. He was born Gandolfo Curto forty-five years ago, but changed | his name. His wife was located today in Bellport, L. 1., and police said they would ask her to make official identification and also question her concerning Marlow’s associates. She lives under the name of Curto. FOREMEN TO ELECT* NEW HEADS TONIGHT | Second Annual Banquet to Be Held at Commerce Building. Second annual business meeting j ot the Foremen’s C.ub of Indianapolis will be held in the Chamber of Commerce dining room at 6:30 this evening. Officers will be elected to succeed Charles A. Trask as president; J. W. Robertson, secretary; Orviile Burk, vice-president; George J. Hoffman, treasurer; James W. Doeppers, Fred Noerr and William S. Elliott, board of control members. Elliott of the United States Rubber Company and vice-president of j the National Association of Foremen, Is slated for the presidency of [ the Indianapolis organization. Robs Iceman With Tongs A bandit who struck. Crawford i McDonald, 33, of 1021 East Maryland street, ice wagon driver, on the head with a pair of ice tongs and robbed him of sll, at Baltimore avenue and Forty-sixth street Monday, was being sought by police today. Storm Sweeps Frankfort By L nited Press FRANKFORT, Ind., June 25. Several residences were damaged, gardens wrecked and trees leveled by a windstorm which struck here yesterday. A heavy rain followed the storm, flooding cellars and j

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