Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1929 — Page 9

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CARL WILLIAMS—He is president es the American Cotton Growers’ Exchange' . . . and he knows just about all there is to know about cotton.

SNOOK JUROR ILL, ANOTHER MAN SELECTED Radio and Theater Programs for Panel Will Be Censored. &Y MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY. linitrd Prfss Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS, 0.. Aug. I.—The Jury which will decide the late of Dr. James Howard Snook, accused of the murder of Theora Hix, was completed for the second time today. Newton Tracy, a railroad man, was named as alternate juror. He succeeds Mrs. Harry Cassady. Mrs. Cassady had been seated as an alternate juror w’hen Mrs. Helen Lunsford suffered a hemorrhage and had to be discharged. Judge Henry Scarlett took notice of the incident when a farmer on the New York Cfntral rifle range, which the jury was visitin. shouted: “To hell with Snook; hang Bnook.” He asked each juror if any impression had been made by the incident. All answered “No.” Tracy was taken in a motor car, with a deputy sheriff, on a tour to various poi. s involved in the case which other jurors made Wednesday. Court then adjourned to reconvene at 1:30 p. m.. when opening atatements will be made. Judge Scarlett laid dowm additional rules for the conduct of the jury. All conversations with outside persons must be held in the presence of the entire jury. A radio will be installed in the Jury’s quarters with censorship of programs. The sheriff will take the jurors for automobiles rides at night. Magazines, properly censored and newspapers from which all references to the Snook case have been removed will be provided. The jury will be taken to theaters after the programs have been approved. Jurors will not be permitted to talk on telephones and mail will be censored.

FOUR EVANSVILLE MEN WEAR PAJAMAS ON JOB Managing Editor of The Press Leads Heat Combatting: Group. EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. I.—The fashion revolt of W. O. Saunders. Elizabeth City. N. C., editor, was Joined by four fellow newspaper men of Evansville today. Four pajama-clad officials of the Evansville Press, Scripps-Howard newspaper, drew a crowd of curious onlookers as they strolled to their office. Reporters looked up in discreet amazement as Charles A. Anerdson. J. Robert Smith. Larry Tres end Victor Green, managing editor, eity editor, telegraph editor and state editor respectively, sat down in • the cool attir and started the day’s .Work. Appearance of the pajama vogue Jn Evansville was timely. For the pest two days the city has been among the hottest in the country, well above 90 degrees. EXCURSION RATES MADE Reduction Announced on Fares to Louisville, Ky. A special vacation excursion fare rate, effective Friday, by which round trip excursion tickets may be bought for the price of a fare and a half under the regular rate on all Interstate Railway trains between Indianapolis and Louisville. Ky., was announced today by C. D. Hardin, traffic manager. The excursion rates will apply on both through and intermediate point fares and will remain in effect until Aug. 31. The vacation tickets will carry a return privilege of thirty days. EMPLOYES in picnic One Thousand Workers of Insurance Company Take Annual Outing. With fried chicken and speeches the State Automobile Insurance Association held its annual picnic for employes and agents of Indiana today at Broad Ripple park. One thousand employes and their families attended the picnic. Addresses were given by W. E. McKee, president of the company, Arthur Wolf, vice-president and H. L, Craig, •ales-manage*.

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WILLIAM F. SCHILLING— He's a big butter and cheese man from Minnesota . . . and thoroughly conversant with the problems of the dairying industry.

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RECORD FLIERS AREJONORED St. Louis Pays Tribute to Jackson, o'Brine. Bv United Press ST. LOUIS, Aug. I.—Climaxing two and one-half weeks of forced inactivity, Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest (Obie) O'Brine, world champion endurance fliers, faced one of the busiest days of their lives today as St. Louis prepared to jam a week of hilarious celebration and adulation into twenty-four hours. The first day of their return to earth after more than 420 hours aloft was comparatively uneventful as they attended the funeral of George Lambert, flying son of the donor of Lambert-St. Louis flying field, who was killed in a plane crash Monday . Reverence for Lambert was the principal cause for ending the record flight, since both members of the crew of the St. Louis Robin declared they were secretly pointing for 700 continuous hours in the air when they learned of the death of Lambert, close friend of both. Concentration of festivities was the order today following announcement of Major William R. Robertson, president of Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Company, sponsor of the flight, that the champions would leave Friday for Chicago and points east on a tour of refueling exhibitions. The schedule for the tour has not been completed, but it is known Detroit will be the next city to receive the fliers after their show in Chicago.

POLICE ARREST 87 Traffic Drive Ordered Continued by Worley. Eighty-seven persons, two of them women, were arrested late Wednesday and early today in the police drive on traffic violators. Chief of Police Claude M. Worley said today that the drive would continue until the number of traffic violations had decreased appreciably. One woman was detained by police on a speeding charge and the other was held for improper lights Thirty-three speeders, 22 without proper lights on. 22 who failed to stop at preferential streets, and 8 who failed to obey automatic traffic signals were arrested.

-IT TEST ORANGE. N. J.. Aug. V ▼ I.— Thomas A. Edison, who has bridled electricity and harnessed light, was experimenting today in anew field in search of the intangible thing called human genius. For raw material he had fortynine nervous young Americans — one from each state and another from the District of Columbia. Today Edison will peer into their minds through the medium of a five-hour examination at his laboratory. He will be looking for knowledge, inagination and initiative —the three things he considers requisite to success —and the boy who possesses those qualifications to the highest degree will become Edison's protege

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C. B. DENMAN—He’s president of the St. Louis Livestock Exchange . . . and a husky cattleman from the southwest who looks the part.

SEES WORLD FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS Massachusetts Lifer Is Taken From Behind Gray Prison Walls. Bu United Press CHARLESTOWN, Mass., Aug. 1 Jesse Harding Pomeroy rode out today through the grim, high gates of Charlestown state prison, his compulsory home for the last fiftythree years, on his way to Bridgewater state farm, amout forty miles away. It was the first time since his imprisonment fifty-three years ago for the mfirder of Horace Millan that the 68-year-old prisoner had seen the outer world, with vision unhampered by prisons walls and bars. Shortly after 11:30 a. m. the prison gates swung open and two automobiles containing long-term prisoners, including Pomeroy, filed out. followed by two other cars containing newsaper men. Pomeroy was in the first automobile with two other prisoners and two agents of the department of correction. Pomeroy was dressed in a gray flannel shirt, gray suit and black tie. His eyes were filled with tears. He had just bid good-by to his fellow prisoners as he passed down the long corridors from his cell to the warden’s office. In the warden’s office he shook hands and embraced the Rev. Ralph W. Farrell, prison chaplain. As he stepped out of the warden’s office he was confronted by a group of neewspapermen. Camera flashlights boomed. He glanced neither right nor left and continued on his way to the automobiles. He quietly took his place in the first car. The other prisoners entered the automobiles. Then the guards took their places. There was a signal everything was in readiness. The prison gates swung open and the procession filed out.

PUBLISHER DENIES BOOK OBSCENITY IS OPPOSED Copyright Law Violations Are Basis of Seizures. Bu United Press BOSTON, Aug. I.—Little. Brown & Cos., publishers of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” said today custom authorities here are refusing entry of the English edition because its importation is in violation of United States copyright laws. “The copies are being seized at our request and not because it contains alleged obscene passages not included in the American edition,” the company said in answer to a statement recently issued by Senator Cutting (Rep., N. M.), which said the seizure was made because the English edition was unexpurgated. OPERATE ON POINCARE Recovering After Surgeons Remove Cause of Illness. PARIS. Aug. I.—M. Raymond Poincare underwent a successful operation today for the prostate trouble from which he had been suffering for some time and which last week caused him to resign as premier of France. Elwood Boy Drowns Bn Times Special ELWOOD. Ind., Aug. I.—Max Jones, 10. son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Jones, was drowned while wading in Pipe creek, seven miles south of here. The body was recovered by Ernest Alexander.

EDISON PEERS INTO 49 BOYS’ MINDS TO PICK HIS SUCCESSOR

It may be no one will win, for Edison has reserved the right to call off the contest if the candidates fail to attain a certain intellectual standard. There is enough at stake to make any youth nervous. The winner will receive the Edison scholarship, entitling him to a four-year course in a technical school. The older boys among the forty-nine may be apprehensive over the first examination which Edison gave six years ago. Then it was said 99 per cent of the young men who took it failed. a a a AT Edison’s elbow in the brain clinic today were five famed experts to assist the inventor Ja

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ALEXANDER LEGGE—He gave up a SIOO,OOO a year job as president of the International Harvester Company to become chairman of the farm board.

War Clouds Fade Away atManchuli Peaceful Negotiations in Orient Result of Peace Parley. Bu United Press MANCHULI, Manchuria, Aug. I. War clouds which for weeks have been hovering with varying intensity over this strategic spot in the Chinese-Russian imbroglio today seemed definitely to have been rolled away. Chinese and Russian delegates met in a railroad car on the border near here Wednesday and agreed to appoint delegates for a peaceful negotiation of the dispute centering about the seizure of the Chinese Eastern railway. “The Russian ultimatum will automatically be withdrawn,” Tsai Yun-Sheng, Chinese delegate, told the United Press after the conference. “It is expected that both sides will name delegates within a week. It seems most likely that these delegates will meet, at Harbin, where the crisis originated. Moscow has issued orders for the Soviet demonstration on the Siberian-Manchu-rian frontier to cease.” S7ST3SFoiFTS IN CAMPAIGN Hospital Drive Teams Hear Adress by Attorney. “While we hear many rumors of injustice and read of happenings that make us think the present age is not as good as was the past, the tendency today is to show more and more consideration for the other fellow,” William H. Remy, Indianapolis attorney, told the second report meeting of the workers of the $300,000 campaign of the Indiana Christian hospital at Columbia Club Wednesday night. ‘The unselfish purpose exemplified in the building and the maintenance of hospitals is one of the finest reflections of the tendency of our times,” Remy asserted. Gifts totaling $75,356 were announced by Robert L. Moorhead, general chairman. Among contributions was one of 50 cents from a newsboy who was at one time a patient in the hospital and another from a group of four Indianapolis physicians who plan to provide for and equip a surgery department at a cost of net less than $5,000.

YOUNG COMPARED WITH ELDERS IN SURVEY Recreation Director Seeks Old Diaries to Solve “Riddle.” Diaries depicting how young people a generation ago spent their spare time were requested today by Eugene T. Lies, Playground and Recreation Association of America, 823 Meyer-Kiser Bank building. Lies is making a recreation survey of Indianapolis under the auspices of the Council of Social Agencies, and seeks to compare the present methods of spending “spare time” with those of the elders. Attorneys, doctors, business men, housewives, clerks were invited to write letters contrasting modern pastimes with those of yesteryear.

gauging mentality—Henry Ford, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, George Eastman, Samuel W. Strattpn, head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr. Lewis Perry, headmaster of Phillips-Exeter academy. After the examination those men will consult with Edison and their decision will be announced tomorrow. Edison, the man from whom science has kept few secrets, admitted the possibility of error in his quest for genius. “There is no test," he said, “no suitable yardstick which can positively determine the relative value of the human being as compared to another.” Wednesday the inventor assem-

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CHARLES A. WILSON—He’s a New York fruit expert . . . and former state commissioner of agriculture and professor of horticulture at Cornell.

BROOKSIDE TO HOLD ANNUAL FETETONIGHT Pogue’s Run Bridges Decorated for Twentieth Feast o’ Lanterns. Bridges over Pogue’s run are decorated, Spades park looks like a Japanese village, and all is in readiness for the twentieth annual Feast o’ Lanterns tonight and thousands of Indianapolis persons are expected to attend. The fete is sponsored by the Brookside Civic League. Twelve stands have been erected for sale of candy, homemade cake, ice cream, sandwiches and other dainties. Prizes will be given for the best decorated homes in the Spades park area. Contest judges will be A. W. Brayton, chairman; Albert Neuerburg, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Clubs, and Mrs. Charles H. Smith, former president of the Indianapolis Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations. Grand prizes have been donated by the following persons and firms: Herman Burns, jeweler, 3223 East Tenth street, lady’s wrist watch. Shepherdson Dry Goods Company, 22332235 East Tenth street, one pair of blankets. Carter's Hardware and Variety store, 3406 East Tenth street, fifty feet of garden hose. Hamilton Dry Goods store, 2108 East Tenth street, a pocketbook. Rossiter Cut-Price drugstore, Beville and Tenth streets, bath salts and powder set. Indianapolis Reed Company, 2217 Massachusetts avenue, one reed basket. People’s Coal and Cement Company, 1109 East Fifteenth street, one ton of coal. Smith, Hassler & Sturm, 219 Massachusetts avenue, one bathing suit. H. W. Ott, gasoline filling station, 2801 Masaschusetts avenue, one electric auto horn. John J. Keller Coal Company, East Twenty-first street and Sherman drive, one-half ton of coal. Darmody Candy Company, 25 West Maryland street, two pounds of candy. Harry Redfern & Cos., 20 South Delaware street, six five-pound cream cheese loaves. Hoffman Sporting Goods Company, 245 Massachusetts avenue, one steel fishing rod. Sears, Roebuck & Cos., one tire. Hauger clothes, 117 North Illinois street, one auto jumper suit. Bethard Wall Paper Company, 421 Massochusetts avenue, one gallon of varnish. Metropolitan Coal Company, 945 North Davidson street, one ton of coal. Rivoli Tostee Shop, 3157 East Tenth street, one box of cigars. Herman’s Candy Shop, 3329 East Tenth street, two-pound box of candy. Fred Lang. Jeweler. 2112 East Tenth street, one pair of silver salt and pepper shakers.

FARM BOY SETS FIRE TO BARN ‘FOR FUN’ Confesses to Burning Building Near Orleans, Ind. Wanting to see “a big lire,” Clifford Russell, 15, farm boy from near Orleans, in Orange county, set fire to the bam on the Lloyd Baker farm, four and one-half miles west of rleans, on the night of July 26, according to a confession said to have been obtained by H. R. McCune, investigator for the arson division of the state fire marshal’s office. Albert Fowler, arson head, announced the confession today. Russell, he said, admitted emptying the powder from a shotgun shell into hay in the bam and then touching a match to it. The bam and its contents were destroyed at a loss of $4,800, of which $1,500 was covered by insurance. Russell will be arraigned in juvenile court at Paoli.

bled his raw material and passed out radio-phonograph sets and advice to each of the forty-nine boys. The candidates were ticketed and seated in the approved manner of scientists. Each boy wore a placard giving the name of his state. They assembled quietly and took their seats. Edison spoke: “You young men represent a selection made by the best judgment of many minds. You are here at my invitation for a final competition to determine which among you shall be awarded the Edison scholarship. The purpose of this scholarship contest is to stimulate the interest of the youth of America in mental development with particular emphasis on scientific matters."

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CHARLES C. TEAGUE—He is president of the California Fruit Growers’ Exchange and general manager of the world’s largest lemon ranch.

FORTUNE’S FROWN!

Convict Wants Riches Wife Earns

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Above is Mrs. Henrietta Davis, who has built up her husband’s firm of Davis & Geek, manufacturers of surgical supplies, Brooklyn, from a $57,000 business to a $1,800,000 business since he was sent to prison for killing a man eight years ago. At the right is Davis, now a convict in Dannemora prison. o tt n tt b u BY EORTENSE SAUNDERS. BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. I.—Mrs. Henrietta R. Davis is an outstanding figure in a generation of successful women, who in less than a decade has turned a small surgical supply business valued at $57,000 to one for which $1,800,000 has just been offered. And she is a charming woman, with a delightful manner, a smart hair cut, an air of prosperity and assurance, and a directness that make her just the right type for the successful business woman. But behind her smiling face is hidden the heartbreaking struggle of this successful achievement.

During the eight years she has been building up the business, her husband has been in prison. It has always been her plan to sell the factory when she had made enough for herself and husband and her two sons, and then, as soon as he was released from his cell, they could go away and start life over again. Now Davis has shattered all that. From his cell at Dannemora prison, he has brought a suit to restrain the sale of the business, although a purchaser is all ready, and has announced he intends to take it over when he is released. Suddenly, he has turned against the wife who has befriended him, reared his sons, and given them a substantial background and made his business one of the largest surgical supply houses in the world. It was fear that caused Dafls to shoot and kill Detective Joseph Bridgette and wound two other detectives who called at his factory eight years ago. It was fear that had made him go about for years, armed as if for battle, that made him carry a shotgun and a piece of lead pipe in his automobile when he took his family for a pleasure ride in the park. His factory resembled an arsenal and was equipped with a siren to warn against an attack. He also feared invisible enemies, germs and poison. It is not surprising his mind

EASTMAN spoke. Stratton spoke. Perry spoke more briefly. Ford said: “I am glad to see you, boys." Lindbergh stood up and grinned, winning the loudest applause without saying a word. Edison passed out $19,600 worth of phonograph-radio sets to the boys. Everything was proceeding according to schedule, until finally it was suggested Edison be interviewed. It was as follows : Q— Is the introduction of younger men into your organization *n indication that you intend to retire? A.—No. I never intend retiring. It’s unhealthy. Q.—Do you think tim ttiaaiifl*

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JAMES C STONE—He grows lots of things, but mostly tobacco, in Kentucky . . . and he's the vice-chairman of the farm board.

prompted the violence which occurred in 1922. His automobile had been stolen and the insurance paid. Davis bought anew car, but neglected to notify the license department of the change in numbers. It was reported to the surety company his old car had been found —a mistake that could easily have been explained had the three detectives approached a normal man in regard to it. He refused to see the officer;;. Finally they forced their way into Davis’ office. Davis snatched up the revover on his desk, shot Detective Bridgette and wounded the other two detectives. Bridgette died instantly, but the others recovered. Davis was sent to jail. Every day Mrs. Davis visited the prison. He turned over his share of the business to her and she became the owner and manager of the Davis & Geek Company—a business they had started in their cellar on a capital of SSOO and which had grown to a fair paying proposition. Davis was declared insane—a paranoiac, suffering from delusions, and was committed to Matteawan hospital. Two years later, state alienists declared Davis sane, and he was tried for murder. After six hours the jury declared him guilty of first degree manslaughter. The judge gave him the maximum penalty of from ten to twenty years.

field offers as great opportunities to women as to men and why are girls not included in this contest? A.—Nearly as great. The first experiment was with boys as they act in wider fields. Q— Do you agree with George Wickersham the state should assume the burder of local prohibition improvement? A.—No. That was all. Edison beamed, then frowned. During the interview one of the newspaper men's cigarets started a small fire on the canvas-covered bleachers. The fire was put out and then some one recalled Edison once had referred to cigarets as “tho6e

DEATH DECREE IS SVEN GIRL BY GANGLAND ‘Bad Luck’ Corrine Griffith Marked by Gunmen as Police Start Search. DROVE AUTO IN SLAYING Sweetheart of Cracksmen Is Decided as Participant in Beer Slaying. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Aug. I.—Gangland marked “Bad Luck” Corinne Griffith today. The sweetheart of gunmen and widow of a cracksman was hunted simultaneously by gangsters and “the law.” Police wanted to question her about the killings of Thomas McNichols and James Shupe and the probable fatal wounding of Edward Riggins in the latest outbreak of Chicago's bitter beer war. But gangland sought the “gun girl” only to assassinate her in retribution for the aid she gave McNichols when he went gunning for Shupe and Riggins. Remained at Wheel “Bad Luck” Corinne, both gangland and authorities agreed, was the girl who remained at the wheel of McNichols’ car while bullets whizzed around her as the three men fought it out in a crowded throroughfare night before last. The girl’s death was decreed, detectives learned by Shupe’s convict brother Tommy, over the “grapevine telegraph" from .Joliet, penitentiary Wednesday. Tuesday night’s shooting, the first gang killing in which a woman has i figured, Vvas attributed by authorj ities to James Shupe’s ambition to j cut in on the west side “alky-cook-ing” business. Pushed “Alki” Business Shupe, investigators pointed out, | was foreman of a garage owned by 1 two brothers, who frequently were J employed by McNichols, a former municipal court bailiff and son of a former alderman, to transport his beer. Finally Shupe became too greedy and pushed his alcohol into McNichols’’ territory, they said. This incurred McNichols’ wrath and he decided to put Shupe out of the we , detectives related. “Back Luck” Corrine first came into police notice as the sweetheart of Jimmie La Porte, a holdup man who escaped the county jail with “Terrible Tommy” O’Connor, in 1922. He later was arrested with Corrine in Wisconsin and sent to prison.

HAYES CORPORATION TO HOLD OUTING SATURDAY Grand Rapids and lonia Plants Will Co-operate. Employes and officials of the Hayes Body Corporation will hold an all-day picnic at Riverside park Saturday.* Delegations will drive to Indianapolis from Grand Rapids and lonia (Mich.) plants. A parade from the plant on Morris street and a baseball game between the lonia and Grand Rapids teams will be the features. The Indianapolis team will meet the winner in the afternoon, and the Patent Leather Kid will make a balloon ascension. A beauty’contest to select “Miss Hayes” will precede dancing in the evening. BEITZEL WILL HANG FRIDAY FOR MURDER Bids Farewll to Fellows Prisoner in San Quentin Jail. Bu United Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal., Aug. I.—Russell St. Clair Beitzel of Philadelphia, convicted murderer of his common-law wife, bade farewell to nearly a score of fellow prisoners in condemned row here today and prepared for the walk to the death cage in the execution building. Beitzel has been sentenced to be hanged Friday morning for the slaying of Barbara Mauger, whom he brought to California from the eastern city. Testimony at the ■ trial indicated he killed the girl when his relations with her became complicated. The condemned man claimed he had been convicted on “framed” evidence and contended Miss Mauger was still alive, hiding from the public because of fear she will be arrested on charges of committing a felony.

GIVES BALL BACKSTOP Advertising Company Improves Highland Diamond. Lack of funds has prevented the j recreation department from erecting a much-needed backstop at Highland ball diamond and “pigtails” have Seen kept busy there all summer. But now “pigtails” will get a rest, for a fine backstop has been erected through the courtesy of the General Outdoor Advertising Company. Jesse P. McClure, recreation director, expressed appreciation. “I am glad to see other people and business firms take hold and do what our department is prevented from doing tgr fun da,”