Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1929 — Page 2

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GRAND JURY CLEARS GOSPORT WOMAN IN POISON CASE

MOTHER WINS ; RIGHT TO KEEP TWOJHILDREN Allege Husband’s Jealousy Caused Plot Case in Owen County. • ACCUSED OF ‘SPITE’ I Attempts to Kill Child, Mother-in-Law, Mate’s Father Denied. Bu Times Special SPENCER, July 4 —Owen county s famous alleged ‘spite” case was at an end today with the victim of what was charged to be a husband's jealousy fully cleared of the charge that she tried to poison her 7-year-old son and that she poisoned her father-in-law and a mother-in-law by a former marriage. The grand Jury finding clearing Mrs. Blanche Thomas, Gosport, of the charges resulted in Special Judge Hughes of Greencastle, awarding her the custody of both children instead of one as specified in the decree of divorce from Loren Thomas, her former husband, who made the poisoning charges. These were investigated by the Owen county grand jury while the husband's petition to modify the divorce decree and grant him custody of both children was heard before Judge Hughes. Charges Son Was 111 ; The husband had charged that their 7-year-old son Ralph came home very ill from a visit to his mother's home, that he was suffering with severe headaches and pains „ and that an urinalysis revealed traces of salt of tin and arsenic. It was alleged that symptoms similar to that described by the boy were experienced by Charles Thomas, the father-in-law who died last year, and that following his death samples of the water were taken from cistern and sent to a Chicago laboratory and these revealed traces of phenol. The complaint set further that it was recalled Mrs. Thomas would not drink any water nor food when she visited the elder Thomas’ home and that she studied chemistry while at school. Symptoms similar to that experienced by the boy and the man were suffered by Mrs. Anna A. Zein of Indianapolis, a mother-in-law of Mrs. Thomas by a former marriage, who had died in 1912, the petition said. No Evidence of Poisoning The defense called to the stand R N. Harger of Indianapolis, associate professor of chemistry and ■ toxicology at Indiana university I school of medicine, who testified that the amount of tin and arsenic found in the urinalysis was common and was not dangerous, three or ‘four people out of five may possess that amount in their systems. “As for the tin, which was two milligrams, any person eating one ounce of canned tomatoes might place in his system that amount of tin,” Professor Harger said, declaring there was no evidence of poisoning. NEW BUFFALO RAILWAY i STATION TO OPEN SOON New Tork Central Terminal Will Be Dedicated June 23. Bu Times Soecial BUFFALO. July 4—Buffalo Central Terminal, the magnificent new passenger station now being .completed by the New York Central Railroad, ■will be opened for service June 23. the railroad announced today. While in some particulars the sta- . Won already is practically completed, this date has been chosen as a measure of convenience to the public. inasmuch as the railroad's summer timetable changes will take place on that date. The selection of this date also means that all the various accessories to the station will be in operation on the opening day. A committee of railroad, Buffalo .Chamber of Commerce and municipal officials is working out a program for ceremonies to dedicate the station, which sets new standards of convenience and beauty. These Trill be held Saturday. June 22. LIGHTNING HITS TWICE * Boston Store Owner Doubts Truth of Ancient Adage. Bu United Fees* BOSTON. Mass. July 4.—The old copy-book favorite. "Lightning ■ never strikes twice in the same 1 place.” finds Antoos Sakey a bit '-skeptical. Recently a motorbus through the display window of his fruit store, demolishing his "soda fountain and several counters, t Two years ago. a taxicab entered 'the store in a similar manner. On that occasion, the cab driver stepped from his wrecked machine, lit a cigarette, and said: “I'll have a strawberry frappe.”

Kisses Go Up Bn United Prett WEST ORANGE, N. J., July 4.—Bargain days for • neckers" are a thing of the past in West Orange and any couple desiring such diversion must be prepared to pay $lO for it. “Bargain days for the moonstruck lovers who park themselves in the Orange mounts are over,'* Judge Herbert Lighthite told four couples in police court. "The customary tax of $5 from tonight on will be doubled.”

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HOLLYWOOD, Cal. July 4.—“ They don’t know what a moving picture looks like when they see it.” In this fashion. June Collyer. “talkie” queen, decries the smokedglass manner in which movie folk view pictures. "Everybody out here sees only the part they play in movies screened. ' The cameraman sees the photography; the actor the acting, the director the direction of the picture; and the elocutionists th words they’ve taught us to say,” say June. “The general public knows more about what a movie looks like after its completion than those that make them, for they view a picture in its entirety,” she declares.

SITES FOR JUVENILE COURT ARE STUDIED

Selection Expected to Be Made Within Next Few Days. County commissioners are expect- ; ed to select the site for the newjuvenile detention home within the next few days. Action by the board has been de- J layed due to the presentation of twenty-one sites by Indianapolis j persons and real estate firms for ! consideration. County officials orig- ; inally were given four to inspect, j but this number was increased to j twelve, to sixteen and now to twen- : ty-one. The most recent sites submitted for commissioners’ approval are: j 1109 North Delaware street. 604 East New York street and 605-09 Lockerbie street, $45,000: southeast corner New- Jersey and North streets, $87,500; 224 East North street, and southwest corner of St. Clair street . and Capitol avenue. Before it became known that com- j missioners were looking for a site, they had picked one at Walnut and Alabama streets for $99,000. The council passed an ordinance appropriating SIOO,OOO for purchase of a site to replace the one at 225 East i Michigan street, now leased by the | board. County officials plan to erect a two-story fireproof building in w-hich j will be included the detention ward and juvenile court room. DUST GOES TO TENANT Floor Is Landlord’s, But Not What’s Underneath, Says Court. Jiz Times Special BUDAPEST. July 4.—Supreme court of Hungary has decided that, although the floor of an apartment belongs to the landlord, the dust collected beneath it is the property ; of the tenant. The decision is worth $2,500 to Frau Simon Sichelmann, for the dust over which the case arose is j gold dust which accumulated there | during the fifteen years that her husband carried on the trade of goldsmith. On his death the widow decided on a floor mining enterprise which her landlord opposed, claim- i mg the dust and floor both as his. Nine pounds of gold dust already have been recovered. Halt T. A. T. Flying Officials of the T. A. T. today announced that flying from the local field has been halted until Monday, j On that day the first regular; cross-country train and plane journey with passengers will be inaugurated. Previous trips have been made for exhibition and test purposes. The first plane will arrive here from Columbus, 0., at 9:13 a. m., | Monday. Itching Skin Banished By Antiseptic Zemo If bites or stings or such summer afflictions as poison ivy make life unbearable quickly apply Zemo, the soothing, cooling, invisible antiseptic. Zemo brings swift relief from itching, helps to draw out local infection and restore the skin to normal. For 20 years Zemo has been clearing up skin, relieving pimples*, rash and other sklja irritations!’ Never be without itAsold every-® where— 3sc, 60c and *PO. —Adver-V Usement. _

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Gains by Name Bu United Press CHICAGO. July 4.—A 7-year-old boy brought in with a cut on his head after he rolled off his porch step had the laugh on attendants at Lakeview hospital. “What’ your name?” asked an interne. “Orange,” said the boy. A nurse got him an orange. She, too, asked his name. “Apple,” she was told. Then she got him an apple. Again they sought his identity. "Orange Apple,” the boy replied. So they looked in the telephone directory and called up Orange Apple Sr. to come and get his son.

LIKE 'JAVA 1 Coffee Favorite Beverage of Soldiers and Sailors. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. July 4.—Uncle Sam's fighting men are heavy drinkers—of coffee. Three times as much coffee is consumed by service men—soldiers, sailors and marines—as by civilians, according to a recent check of commerce, war, and navy departments’ records. Soldiers are allowed an ounce and a half of coffee a day, or 34 pounds a year, while sailors on battleships drink about 36 pounds a year. On destroyers and other small craft where duties are more arduous the consumption is greater still. “Java” is the navy’s favorite drink. It is always available and is served to the men before and after "watches.” When officers aboard ship get together to discuss news from home and incidents of ship life, the bv-word is: “Let’s have a cup of coffee.” SOBER FOR 50 YEARS Judge Discharges Man on Novel Alibi. Bu United Press BUTTE, Mont., July 4.—“1 was born in Butte and have lived here all my fifty years, judge, and have never been in your court before.” “That makes fifty years of sobriety,” the judge replied. “You’re discharged. Gome back after another fifty years and I’ll do the same thing for you again." John Weiner had been arrested on an intoxication charge.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

POLICE RECORDS SHOW DROP IN AUTO CRASHES Decrease in City Traffic Mishaps in Six Months Indicated in Report. General improvement of traffic conditions and decrease in the number of traffic mishaps as the result of activities of the Indianapolis police accident prevention bureau are seen in the bureau’s records for the first six months of 1929, made public today. Automobile accidents decreased the first half of this year more than two hundred under the corresponding period for 1928, although fatalities have shown a slight increase. Thus far in 1929 there have been 2 067 accidents, with fifty-eight resultant deaths reported to police, while ninety-six persons were killed throughout 1928 and 2,214 mishaps reported in the first six months of that year. June, which authorities say always is one of the chief accident months of the year, due to increased travel on highways, this year contributed a few' more accidents than the first summer month of the preceding year. In three years accidents in Indianapolis have decreased more than 20 per cent. In its battle against automotive vehicular travel dangers, the bureau seeks constantly the causes of the majority of the crashes, and has discovered that simple lapses of care, and recklessness, contribute heavily to the total disasters. Driving on the wrong side cf the street, exceeding the speed limits, disregarding right of way rules, and cutting in and out of traffic on narrow streets and pavements cause most smashups, the bureau reports. Improper signaling for turns, and failure to observe preferential streets and boulevards come in for a large share -of the blame. PASTORS JOIN MOONEY PLEA Clergymen Ask Pardon by Governor, Bu Scrippß*Haward Xewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, July 4.—Five clergymen of different Protestant denominations join in a plea for pardon for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings in a letter just sent to Governor C. C, Young of California. The five are Henry Sloane Coffin, Presbyterian president of the Union Theological Seminary: Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Park Avenue Baptist church, New York; Hubert C. Herring, secretary of the Congregational Commission of Social Service; Francis J. McConnell, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church and president of the Federal Council of Churches, and Howard Chandler Robbins, former dean of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, now at St. Pauls, New York City. The letter says: “We are particularly impressed with the statements of the trial judge and the jurors in the Mooney case and of the police officials and ! prosecutors connected with cases declaring them innocent. “Our reading of the confessions and revelations of perjury since the trials and of the findings of President Wilson’s mediation commission all prompt us to the belief that there was a grave miscarriage of justice in convicting these men ” GIRLS”STUDY ENGLISH And College Men Like Economics Best, Survey Shows. Bu United Press & CAMBRIDGE. Mass., July 4. English is the most popular subject among college girls and economics amonb college men, if a survey conducted at Harvard and Radcliffe is an accurate barometer. Twenty-eight per cent of Radcliffe girls are concentrating in English, compared with 16 per cent of Harvard men. Seventeen per cent of the Harvard students are majoring in economics, while less than 3 per cent of the Radcliffe girls have shown preference for that subject.

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Tanning Your Body Helps Keep You Young; Tan Your Face —and Look Old

Bu Times Special PHILADELPHIA. July 4.—“ Paradoxical as it may sound, tanning your body will help you to keep young, but tanning your face makes you look old.” Phyllis W r ray, beauty and health authority, sounds this note of warning particularly to girls and women who are going in hurriedly, but neither wisely nor well, for the prevailing suntan vogue. Don’t, above all. try to acquire all your tan in one day or over one week-end, admpnishes Miss Wray, writing in The Farm Journal, for sunshine

TRACTION CAR DEATHj’ROBED Mrs. Mary Lowder, 75, Is Killed by Interurban. Investigation of the death of Mrs. Mary Lowder, 75, of 1135 Kentucky avenue, who was struck by an interurban car in front of her home Wednesday night, was to be made today Coroner C. H. Keever said. Returning from the home of a friend, G. W. Louis, 1132 Kentucky avenue, she hobbled on her crutches into the path of the car. Motorman Ollie Smith, 39, Martinsville, said there were a string of automobiles ahead of him, and he did not see the woman until she was between the tracks. Smith was not held by police. Mrs. Lowder is survived by two sons, Oliver E. and William Lowder, with whom she lived. She was a widow for thirty years. girl7r owns one OF OLDEST PIANOS Possesses Instrument Made by Swiss Artist in 1767. Bu United Press CHANDLER, Okla., July 4.—One of the three oldest pianos in America belongs to a 14-year-nld girl, Sara Elizabeth Crieder, here. The instrument is one of the three made by John Huber of Switzerland in 1767. One of the pianos is in the Metropolitan museum, while the other is on exhibition in the Mt. Vernon home of George Washington. The instrument, entirely hand made, has a keyboard with but five octaves. The soft “pedal” is operated by hand and is located on the player’s left. The sounding board is on the player’s right. The strings, made of various materials, fasten to iron turn keys.

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Here is Michael Eicher of Milwaukee, Wis., in the home-made boat in which he rowed across Lake Michigan, a distance of eighty-five miles, in twenty-seven hours. Only a few sandwiches were taken as provisions.

‘GOOD LITTLE GIRL' POSE OF ANN HIT

Ex-Roommate Takes Stand to Blacken Her Past Life. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 4.—The “poor but good little working girl” character which Ann Livingston, Tulsa stenographer, has striven to impress upon the jury in the trial of her $250,000 breach of promise suit against Franklin S. Hardinge, 62-year-ald millionaire, was clouded considerable today by surprise defense testimony concerning Ann’s “past.” The surprise witness of Hardinge, who contends he jilted the pretty young stenographer two days before the date set for their marriage because he learned she was a “gold digger,” was Mrs. Bessie Heath, wife of a Ft. Omaha YNebj army officer. Mrs. Heath identified herself as a

former chum and roommate of Miss Livingston and then proceeded to blacken the plaintiff’s character with a dramatic talc of Ann's early loves. The witness said her friendship with Ann terminated in a fist fight after she had reproached Ann for misconduct with a young army officer in their apartment at Little Rock, Ark. Tire officer named by the witness was Lieutenant Robert Puderbaugh, who later married Ann and then divorced her. Mrs. Heath testified she was employed as a theater cashier while Ann worked in a department store. She charged Ann brought Puderbaugh to their room and allowed him to remain all night. Miss Livingston returned to the stand then and denied she even knew the defense witness. She asserted she met Puderbaugh in Kansas City, not in Little Rock as Mrs. Pleath had testified.

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SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASES OF 3 PACIFISTS Yale Professor, Quaker and Mennonite to Appeal for Citizenship. Bu Scrinps-Houard Xeirspaper AWnnen WASHINGTON, July 4— Three cases instead of one will be taken to the United States supreme court to test the right of the government to exclude pacifists from citizenship. The three raise issues silghtlv difj ferent from those in the case of Rcsika Schwimmer. In the case of Fhofessor Douglas C. Mclntosh of Yale divinity schools, the right of individual conscience is paramount, according to Arthur Garfield Hays, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union who will have charge of the cases. Professor Mclntosh stated, in applying for citizenship, that he would fight in any way he believed to be right. The cases of Martha Graber. a French Mennonite of Lima. O. and Mrs. Margaret Webb, a Canadian * Quaker of Richmond, Ind., involve ; the question of whether or not | members of sects historically op--1 posed to war may be forced to violate their religious convictions. Hays will raise the issue of his-* toric rights of freedom of conscience in contesting these cases. He will invoke the provisions of state constitutions of the draft act in force during the World war and contend that- policies established there should be continued. The Civil Liberties Union points out that refusal to grant citizenship to aliens professing conscientious scruples against war has originated within the past two years. Only since then has the department of labor included in its questionnaire for applicants the question which raises the issue. GUESS FOR DRINKS Weight of Huge Cheese Decides Serving of Champagne. LONDON, July 4 —An old house off Cheapside holds one of the ; strangest parties in England. Once j a year city men and women gather j here for a feast. At the conclusion of the repast, a ! huge cheese is brought in. If any i one of the guests guesses the weight, height and girth correctly, chamI pagne is served. | Since the custom ha been insti- ! tuted, however, champagne has been l served only fifteen times.