Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1929 — Page 11

Second Section

LESLIE WILL STAND BY HIS PAROLE POLICY Caustic Reply Is Sent to Bank Association Head for Criticism. DEFENDS HIS ACTIONS Sites Example of Leading Citizens, Signing Pleas for Clemency. Governor Harry G. Leslie today 1 declared that he will continue his policy of granting paroles from penal institutions in cases which he deems worthy, "and take the responsibility.” Upon arriving at his office for the first time since his return from the Governor’s conference in the east, j he received a letter from Arthur G. j Brown, Greer.castle, president of the j Indiana Bankers’ Association, criticising him for paroling the Hagerstown bank bandits and asking that in the future the bankers’ association be apprised of parole plans. The Governor answered the letter at once, defending his action in parole matters and inviting the bankers’ co-operation. He also took issue with Brown on his particular criticism and on the fact that Brown had written regarding his stand to a Richmond paper, which Leslie termed "unfriendly and unfair ” Reply Is Caustic "In the future I would consider if a favor to me if you learn more of the facts about a case than the mere fact that a bank was robbed,” Leslie advised the bankers’ chief in his letter. He pointed out that bankers have urged executive clemency in cases of hijacking, murder, rape and thievery and that even in the case of the Hagerstown pair, Anderson bankers had written urging their parole. The parole, which has caused considerable criticism in the press throughout the state, was that of Carl W. Roberts and John Pritchard, former Ft. Wayne policemen, who robbed the Hagerstown bank of $1,500 and were sentenced to the Indiana state reformatory for from ten to twenty years. They had; served less than five years when i paroled to the Ft. Wayne police chief I two weeks ago. The parole w as signed by Gaylord j Morton, assistant secretary to the j Governor, but Leslie pointed out j that he was present at the board hearing and the secretary's signature was a mere office detail. Oswald Ryan Intercedes He declared that numerous Anderson persons had written, urging executive clemency for Pritchard, who father was former superintendent of police there. Among them was a letter from Oswald Ryan, Anderson prosecutor, who two years ago represented Pritchard. It introduced Pritchard’s father, recom. mending him highly and urged clemency for the bank bandit sin 6trong terms. Uie letter points out that the robbery was carried out when both Pritchard and Roberts were drunk and that the money w r as returned. It closes as follows: “I always have held that these boys, in spite of their splendid previous record, should be punished, but I believe they have been punished sufficiently.” The Ryan letter is dated June 28. CALL DEATH JURORS Trial of George Sutton Starts. Questioning of prospective jurors began in Marion criminal court today for the trial of George Sutton. 29. of 3303 West Tenth street, charged with fleeing after an accident Sutton's auto struck and killed Miss Elsteth Urquhart. 16, of 2922 West Tenth street, at Haugh and West Tenth streets Jan. 29 as the girl was crossing the street. The girl was a Scotch immigrant, who had joined her mother and brother here only a few days before the accident. She was crossing the street with a basket of groceries for her brother’s birthday dinner w hen killed. A venire of fifty was being examined before Special Judge Robert Dalton today. Another venire of fifty has been called for Tuesday. William R. Ringer and George W. Eggleston, deputy prosecutors, will conduct the state’s case, with Alva Rucker defending Sutton. CITY TO BUY TRACT Bridge Approach. Boulevard Planned. Plans for the purchase of the Jcse-Balz track north of the Delaware street bridge for the construction of an approach and widening of connecting streets will be completed at a conference of the park and works boards this week. It is understood that administration leaders have arranged to buy the two lots between Washington boulevard and Talbott street at a reasonable price. The city has been negotiating for the property for three years, but was unwilling to pay $125,000. the price asked. The property will be used to construct a boulevard, retaining wall on the north side of the stream’ and widening of streets leading to the bridge.

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Faces Murder Trial

Appearing in a wheel-chair at a Los Angeles court to answer charges of murder and driving an automobile while intoxicated, Mrs. Lois Pantages, wife of the theatrical magnate, was released on $50,000 bond. The charges grew out of a crash in which Joe Rokumoto, a Japanese, is alleged to have received fatal injuries. With Mrs. Pantages here are her husband, Alexander Pantages, at right, and her two children, Roday, left and Carmen.

EIGHTEEN DEAD AS TOLL OF VIOLENCE

Diet Divorce Bv I nited Press COLUMBUS, Ind., July 22. Mrs. Lucille Black has been granted a divorce from her husband because, according to her testimony, he forced her to indulge in a diet of tomatoes, rice, macaroni and rolled oats. The woman’s testimony was in part supported by Dr. J. W. Denham.

OFFICERS' CAMP OPENS AT FORT Reserves From Four States Enroll. Reserve officers from Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia today enrolled in the annual summer school encampment for organized reserves at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Colonel Cromwell Stacey, is commanding officer of the camp; Lieu-tenant-Colonel Jason M. Welling, Toledo, 0., executive officer and Captain Robert H. Neely, Indianapolis, senior instructor. Indianapolis officers attending the camp are: Major Myron M. Andrews, 405 Peoples Bank building; Major Levi Eeem, 3858 College avenue; Second Lieutenant George S. Blue. 4233 Boulevard place; Second Lieutenant Vernon A. Brown, 1104 Windsor street; Captain Charles A. Cassaday, 5935 University avenue; First Lieutenant Charles R. Cook, 41 West Thirty-fifth street; Second Lieutenant Harry W. Craig, 111 Sixteenth street; Second Lieutenant Elmer L. Day, R. R. No. 6, Box 79C. Second Lieutenant Harold N. Fields. 221 North Sheffield street; Second Lieutenant Gerald Frazier. 5914 uulian street; First Lieutenant David O. Gibson, 3000 W. Washington street; First Lieutenant George M. Hann. 1438 Samoa street Captain Frank H. Henley, 3118 College avenue: First Lieutenant Allen P. Julian, 1866 North Pennsylvania street; Second Lieutenant Virgil F. Katterjohn. 1041 West Thirty-fifth street. Captain Louis E Kruger, 2413 Belief ontaine street; LieutenantColonel Harry W. Mason, 327 West Thirty-ninth street: Major Arthur C. Newkirk, 127 West Twentyeighth street, and Captain Charles H. Vance, Box 104, R. R. O. Two Face Liquor Charges. B.v Times Special MARION, Ind., July 22—Funeral services for Hiram Elder, Marion architect, will be held Monday at the family home in charge of the Rev. Frank Dougherty, pastor of the First Methodist church. Burial was made in the I. O. O. F. cemetery.

TARZAN OF THE APES

In 1838 young Lord Grey stoke and his bride of three month sailed from Dover on their way to Africa. He had been commissioned to investigate alleged atrocities on black subjects in a British West Coast African colony. Lord Greystoke never made the investigation; in fact he never reached his destination.

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Two Richmond Families of Seven Members Killed by Train. Eighteen persons are dead today, the toll of violence over the week end in Indiana. Seven of the dead were members of two Richmond families wiped out at Eaton, 0.. when a train struck an automobile. The dead, ranging in age from 25 years to 6 months, are: Mrs. Melinda Clark, 18; her husband, Frank Clark, 24; Roy Holeman, 25; Mrs. Roy Holeman, 20; their children, Junita Holeman, 6 months; Odell Holeman, 3, and Cecil Holeman, 4. Clark was Mrs. Holeman’s brother. The families lived in the same house. Bits of the automobile, which was demolished, were found several hundred feet from the scene of the accident. The motor was found nearly a quarter of a mile away. Eleanor Delp, 4, Mulberry, is dead of infection which developed after she ate weeds. Ohio Boy Drowns Eugene Hall, 15, Hicksville, 0., was drowned while wading in a gravel pit near Ft. Wayne. He is said to have suffered an attack of heart disease as he stepped into deep water. Eric Bontrager, 6, near Elkhart, suffered fatal injuries when a pony cart he occupied was struck by an automobile. A shaft of the cart penetrated his chest. Asa Moorehead, 69, farmer, ten miles south of Wabash, was killed when he fell from a wagon load of hay. His neck was broken. Charles E. Collis, 77, is dead at Evansville of injuries received while he -was being ejected from a restaurant by the proprietor, Ulysses Alexander. According to Alexander, he removed Collis because he was “undesirable.” River Claims Victim Ernest May, 13, Lawrenceburg, was drowned in the Ohio river while swimming. Otto J. Sealing, 15, son of the Rev. and Mrs. John Sealing, Holland. was killed by atrain near Baybridge, 0., where' he was with his parents on a camping trip. Fred Ainley, 20, Caraway, Ark., died at Elkhart of injuries received when an automobile in which he was riding was struck by a street car. Henry Knecht, 79, Brazil, former street commissioner, was fatally injured when struck by an automobile. Harlen Hull, 6. living west of Newpoint, was killed when struck by an automobile while walking on State Road 46. . Elmer Peckinka, 11, living west of Valparaiso, was killed when an automobile in which he was riding was struck by another.

Arrived at Freetown, they chartered the Fuwalda, which was to bear them to their final destination. And here. Lord and Lady Greystoke mysteriously vanished forever from the eyes and from the knowledge of man. Two months later, six British vessels were scouring the South Atlantic for trace of theqj.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 22. 1929

KOKOMO MAN FEARED SLAIN IN SOUTHWEST Seventeen Days Pass Without News of Delbert Butz, Leader in Business. LEFT WITH STRANGERS Start of Auto Trip to Yuma, Ariz., Made Phoenix July 5. EJ! Timex Special KOKOMO, Ind., July 22—No trace has been found today of Delbert W. Butz, 44, president of the Indiana Lumber Company here and active in church and business affairs, who has been missing seventeen days from his temporary home in Phoenix, Ariz. He was in the southwest in the hope that the climate would benefit his health. Butz left Phoenix, July 5, in his automobile with two men who are said to have been strangers in that city, to go to Yuma, a distance of seventy miles, ostensibly to arrange for the financing of a ranch property in which he had invested. He has not been seen or heard from since by his wife and daughter, who are at home in Phoenix. In letters to relatives and friends here, Mrs. Butz frankly admits she is greatly worried over her husband’s absence and her inability to obtain any information regarding him. She says his health was poor when he left and expresses the fear that he either met with foul play or has become mentally deranged and wandered away. She asserts her belief that if something extremely serious had not befallen him, he would have gotten some word to her. She intimates that in traveling by automobile through the desert he may have fallen into the hands of gangsters who could have slain him and stolen the car. In letters to George L. Davis, president of the Howard National bank, and Otis C. Howard, local insurance agent, Mrs. Butz appeals to them to look after some business interests of her husband that need immediate attention. , The daughter, in Phoenix is Miss Josephine Butz, who was graduated from the Kokomo High school in the class of 1928. NEW STORE TO OPEN Sears, Roebuck Hires 300; Ready Thursday. Faces familiar to those who are j acquainted in the retail mercantile life of Indianapolis will be seen in | new suroundings when the new re- j tail department store of Sears, Roebuck & Cos., is opened for business here on Thursday. All of the men in important executive positions in this new department store are Indianapolis men, except one. John Burke, general manager, was reared in Indianapolis. W. C. O’Mara, sales superintendent, has been connected with the retail busi- | ness life of Indianapolis for about fifteen years, having been with H. P. Wasson, Pettis Dry Goods and Rink’s cloak house. F. M. Gyger, operating superintendent, has been in Indianapolis for thirteen years. Os the 300 persons who will be on the new pay roll all but six are residents of Indianapolis. Practically the full crew of the store took up duties today, gettingready for the opening. DEATH CLAIMS WIDOW Mrs. Dorthea Laut Is Survived by Six Children. Mrs. Dorthea Laut, 78, widow of Henry W. Laut, former city councilman, died Sunday night at her home, 316 South Noble street. Mrs. Laut’s husband died four years ago. Mrs. Laut was a member of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Anna Gale, Miss Flora H. Laut and Mrs. F. W. Vehling and three sons, William F. Laut, Henry W. Laut Jr., and C. W. Laut, all of Indianapolis.

Beyond sight of land, the Fuwalda's captain, with a terrific blow, felled an old sailor who accidentally had tripped him. The swarthy bully’s brutality caused big Black Michael to rush the captain to his knees. This was mutiny. The enraged captain suddenly whipped a revolver from his pocket and fired.

The Times Will Aid Quest for Physical Culture Girl of 1929

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Marjorie Jane Douglas, a New England society girl and 1928 Physical Culture girl winner, is dark blonde, blue-eyed and an eager participant in outdoor sports, especially riding. She is still attending a private school in Boston.

RURAL POWER LINES ORDERED Service Board Requests City Firm to Complete Job. Norman C. Evans, president of the Evans Electric Company, Indianapolis, builder of rural electric lines, today was ordered by Commissioner Howell Ellis of the public service commission to complete and energize two of his lines as soon as possible. This, according to Ellis, means within a week for the line between Clayton and Hadley and not more than a month for the Reelsville, Pleasant Gardens line. Ellis confronted him with a mass of correspondence from customers of the Evans lines who had contributed sums to line erections but failed to receive service. According to the evidence of W. F. Lebo, commission engineeer, Evans leased some old poles along the National road for the Reelsville line from the Postal Telegraph Company, with the understanding that he would buy them. When he failed to pay notes on the purchase the line was tom down by the Postal linemen. Evans contends that it had been abandoned when the road was to be widened. County Pioneer Buried. B.v Times Special , „„ _ . MARION, Ind., July 22—Funeral services for Mrs. Harriett Lane, 74, pioneer Grant ' county resident were held today at the family home in Washington township. She leaves two sons and two daughters.

DRUNKEN DRIVERS MAY FORFEIT CARS

Bsj Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 22.—A concerted drive has been opened here and elsewhere in St. Joseph county to enforce a dormant 1925 Indiana statute providing for confiscation of drunken drivers’ automobiles in addition to punishment by fine and jail sentences. The statute has not been enforced heretofore because of a conflict with other laws on drunken driving, but Harry S. Taylor, county prosecuting attorney and other county and

Lord Greystoke struck down the captain’s arm, saving Black Michael’s life and thus forged the first link of what was destined to form a chain of amazing circumstances ending :.n a life for one then unborn such as has probably never been paralleled in the history of man.

Indiana’s Choice Will Have Chance at Rich Prizes Given by Magazine. The Times, co-operating with Physical Culture Magazine, today starts the search for the girl in Indianapolis and nearby cities who is the most nearly perfect physical representative of her sex. This is not a bathing beauty contest. It is a campaign wherein athletic ability, physical rather than facial beauty and the wholesome type of American. girlhood are the > paramount considerations. The winner’s reward will be great, so watch The Times this week for announcement of the prizes. One thing can be said now—the mother of the winner in the national contest will receive SI,OOO from the MacFadden Publications for her exclusive story of how she reared the perfect specimen of American girlhood. All America Competes The local choice will compete with girls from all other sections of America in this great contest. Contestants must be unmarried, between the ages of 16 and 25. They may enter at once by sending in ; their names, addresses and pho--1 lographs. The closing date of The Times contest is Aug. 10. Your proportions should be along this scale of figures: Height, 5.3 to 5.6 in stocking feet; weight, two pounds to every inch in height: bust measurement, around 34; waist, 27; hips, 38; calf, 14; ankle. Bt£. With your photograph, send name, age, weight, height, color of hair and eyes, size of bust, waist, hips, thigh, knee, calf, ankle, wrist, upper arm, forearm and neck. Outdoor Girls Wanted All you girls who have always had a love for the clean outdoors, who have indulged in body building sports, who abstain from smoking, drinking and using cosmetics, should lose no time in entering the 1929 search for America’s physical culture girl. Especially is the appeal made to those mothers who have reared I their daughters along the proper, I health-building lines. Every mother j who is proud of her daughter’s I physical developments will not fail ; to see that she is entered in this ! campaign, wherein physical perfec- ! tion is sought, and not just facial prettiness. The college girls, the high school girls, working girls and those who stay at home, all are eligible. Their chances of winning will depend entirely on their measurements, their ability in sports, and an all-round adherence to the rules of clean living. Physical Culture Magazine will pay the expense of the girl and her mother from Indianapolis to New | York, provide for them during the | finals, and then pay their expenses back when the campaign is over. Watch for further details in The Times Tuesday. And get busy at once, for the reward is great. $25,000 LOSS IN FIRE Building of Waste Paper Company Burns at Ft. Wayne. Bn United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 22.—The four-story building of the Ft. Wayne Waste Paper Company was in ruins today after being swept by fire which caused damage estimated at $35,000. The fourth floor, heavily loaded with paper, crashed in, imperiling the lives of several firemen.

city officials have decided to employ it. It is regarded as certain by the officials that the first car seized in the campaign will result in a bitterl. tought legal battle. Finance companies backing sales of automobiles on the instalment plan are protected by the statute, which provides they shall share in proceeds of car sales by the sheriff after payment of the $25 fee and other costs.

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Virginia Howard, 1927 Physical Culture girl winner, is blonde, blueeyed, a splendid swimmer and an all-around athletic girl. Asa result of the prominence gained. Miss Howard enjoys a place in Ziegfeld’s “Whoopee.”

HELPER SUES ‘GREAT PASHA' Negro Asks $2Bl for Aiding Oriental Mystic. If “The Great Pasha” doesn't pay Edward Turner, Negro, Oran hotel, $2Bl asked in a suit filed in municipal court today for back salary 0%. attorney’s fees, the oriental mystic may some day find himself buried with no one around to dig him out. Pasha, since May 30, daily has undergone the ordeal of burial alive for a stated length of time as an entertainment feature at Broad Ripple amusement park. Asa sideline he drives automobiles through city traffic blindfolded. He lives at the Plaza hotel. When Pasha began his stunt at the amusement park. Turner was engaged at S2O a week to dig the hole in which the performer lay in a rough box, fill it up, and then remove approximately 144 cubic feet of earth to free the wizard. When not engaged in digging, Turner alleged, he drove Pasha’s card and acted as his valet. Not since his digging career began, Turner said, has a full pay envelope been forthcoming at the end of the week. INSPECTOR IS NAMED Smoke Abatement League Chooses J. T. Brown. J. T. Brown, 539 Fletcher avenue, smoke inspector during the administrations of Mayors Samuel Lewis Shank and Charles A. Bookwalter, was appointed smoke inspector of the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League, Inc., today, Roy Johnson, secretary, announced. Brown will work along educational lines. He will demonstrate to firemen and janitors how to fire furnaces with minimum of smoke. Brown will oversee installation of new furnaces and secure more efficient operation of present heating plants. Three full time men will be on smoke inspection w'ork by Jan. 1. Brown will work with City Building Commissioner William F. Hurd. All complaints and inspections of the league will be sent to Hurd for investigation.

With suspicion of organized mutiny confirmed, they hurried to their quarters. Even their beds had been tom to pieces. A thorough search revealed the fact that only Lora Greystoke’s revolvers and ammunition were gone. An undefinable something presaged bloody disaster 1

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AVIATION WILL BE BRITAIN’S CHIEF WEAPON New Air Secretary Bares Plans for Development of Sky Branch. LONG ROUTES VISIONED Both Planes and Dirigibles Will Have Part in Conquest. BY HENRY T. RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1929. in all Countries by United Press. All rights reserved.) LONDON, July 22.—" The airplane is a gun of prodigious range and considerable accuracy. For this reason and because of the .secret of success in war is mobility, it is to be the greatest of all our weapons,” Great Britain's new secretary of state for air. Brigadier-General Lord Thomson of Cardington, told the United Press correspondent in an exclusive interview. During the conversation the minister also revealed that the new govj ernment's plans would include conI siderable development in commer- ! cial aviation. This, he said, would include the j esctablishment of a regular air line between London and Captown “in j the not distant future.” Later, he said, lie hoped to ex- | tend the London-India route to Aus- ! tria. With regard to trans-Atlantic flights “before the end of the year.” ; R-101 would be ready for her trial flights ‘before the end of the year.” Force Must Be Efficient “While it is the policy to have an air force, this force must be efficient. This fact i$ recognized by the leaders of labor throughout the ; country,” he replied in answer to a ; question. “The Labor government’s policy.” s he added, “would be to run the air i ministry on reasonable, common 1 sense lines. “While everything possible will be | done to reduce armmaments all j around, desires will not be con- | founded with realities,” he continl ued. "The air ministry is a permanent I state department with two main functions, defense and the development of aviation.” i Picture the fiction writer’s con- | ception of this “sympathetic, middle- | aged but youngish looking retired I army officer—an immaculately well- ! dressed man carrying a cane”—and i you may have some idea of the apj pearance of Britain’s bachelor air j minister, the first Baron Thomson ! of Cardington. Requires More Faith | “Aviation requires more faith, | more courage and more knowledge j than almost any other line in which | progress is being sought by human | beings,” he continued. “This progi ress is not easy to accomplish. There still are many obstacles to overcome. But I believe we are on the confines of a great development of which the ; political and economic effects are i almost incalculable.” Asked to say whether he anticipated any serious development in trans-Atlantic flying by means of airships, as differentiated from airplane flights across oceans. Lord Thomson replied that considerable progress remained to be made before trans-Atlantic flying could be made a commercial success. “But it should be borne in mind, ! it seems to me,” he continued, “that dirigibles and airplanes are complimentary. Both will play their part in conquest of the air.” TUDOR TEACHER DIES Miss Geneva Carpenter, 44, to Be Buried in Maine. Miss Geneva Carpenter, 44, of 3536 North Meridian street, head of the department of history at Tudor hall, school for girls, died Sunday night at St. Vincent’s hospital, following an illness of three months. Miss Carpenter was bom in Waterville, Me. She was a graduate of Smith college at Northampton, Mass., and received her master’s degree at Columbia university, New York City. She was a member of the board of trustees of Tudor hall and had been head of the history department for eleven years. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. George S. Southworth of the Church of the Advent at the Flanner & Bnchanan funeral home at West Fall creek drive and Meridian street. The body will be sent to Yarmouth, Me., for burial. Miss Carpenter left no direct relatives. HUSBANDSHOOTS WIFE Negro Woman Dying as Result of Quarrel Over Man. Because she refused to give up another man and return to his fireside, John Irvin, 49, Negro, 337 Patterson street, shot and perhaps fatally wounded his wife, Mrs. Leila Irvin, 38, in her home at 1508 Martindale avenue, early today. City hospital physicians said there was little hope for her recovery from the wound in her abdomen, caused by a .38 caliber revolver slug. Irvin is held by police on charges of shooting with intent to kill. Tom, Dick and Harry in Family. ”>/ Times Hite rial HAMMOND, Ind.. July 22—New twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Malo. who have another son. Harry, will be named Tom and Dick*