Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1929 — Page 1

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LINDY TAKES OFF FOR TWO ISLAND STOPS Jumps to Haiti, Porto Rico Scheduled on TrailBlazing Flight. ANNE GOES DEMOCRATIC Lone Eagle Dodges Storms; Party Due to Reach Guiana Monday. BY SYLVESTER M DOWELL j trailed Pres* Special Correspondent SANTIAGO. Cuba, Sept,. 21.—Beginning the second day of his pio- ! neer mail and passenger flight from Miami to Dutch Guiana, Colonel Charles A. Lindebrgh left today for Port au Prince, capital of the republic of Haiti. The tri-motored Fokker plane of the Pan-American Airways, with Lindbergh at the controls, and with Mrs. Lindbergh as one of its passengers, cleared the runway here shortly after 7 a. m. In addition to the three other members of the crew, the plane, the West Indias Limited, carried six; passengers. They were Mrs. Lind- j bergh, J. T. Trippe. president of the! Pan-American Airways; Mrs. Trippe i and three newspaper men. Guests of Broker The Lindberghs and the Trippes j were overnight guests of Robert I V/etmore, fruit broker, at his home neat San Juan hill, made famous by Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. The first leg of today’s flying was to end at Port au Prince, from where the party was scheduled to continue on to Santo Domingo and San Juan, the latter the overnight stop. The flight is due to reach Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, Mon- : day. We arrived here at 6:07 p. m., 1 eastern standard time, Friday night, ; after a flight from Miami. Military j and civil officials and several thou- j sand spectators welcomed us. A reception committee presented flowers to Mrs. Lindberg and accompanied the couple to Governor Sil\a's palace, where they were guests at dinner. They returned to the Wetmore home for the night. Lindbergh’s first flight with paid passengers began at 9:05 a. m. Friday when he took off from the PanAmerican Airways terminal at Miami. Six sacks of mall weighing 133 pounds were aboard, bound for j points along the new’ extension route and the east coast of South America. The party reached Havana shortly after 11 a. m. and an hour later, after Lindbergh and his bride had been greeted by prominent officials, the flight was resumed. Mrs. Lindbergh acted as hostess to the rest of us and took great pleasure in vying with cameramen during stops for pictures. She dispensed with formalities soon after the flight began by turning to the passengers, saying: “Please call me Anne.” Lindbergh remained at the controls throughout the journey to Havana. He piloted in his shirt sleeves despite the fact that the air was cool. The next stop was at Camaguey, where the party stayed thirty-six minutes. Jose Miguel Tarafa. son of the Cuban sugar magnate, who had replaced Curtiss as a passenger at Havana, left the party at Camaguey. Tha tri-motored Fokker. whh Lindbergh at the controls, easily outraced storms which ft encountered along the northern coast of Cuba. Lind? Confident A weather report was received from Camaguey warning of a heavy squall in the northeast. The radio operator opened the pilot s door and handed the message to Lindbergh recalling that this is the gulf hurricane season, but Lindbergh merely smiled and said he was certain the plane could outdistance the storm Like a runner on a football field, he piloted the plane in and out of the clouds, always avoiding the storm. In less than an hour the sky again was clear and Lindbergh left the controls to eat a lunch of fried chicken, salad, apple pie and coffee Lindbergh received another report on the weather in a message from Santiago, asking him to "speed up” to avoid a threatening rain. And at 6:07 he brought his ship to a landing. At San Juan the party will change to a two-motored Sikorsky amphibian and on Sunday will start for Paramaribo. In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9:30 a. m. East wind, six miles an hour; temperature, 58; barometric pressume. 30J3 at sea level: ceiiinc unlimit'd: visibility three miles, smoky; field, good.

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Mabel Normand By t'nited Pres;; HOLLYWOOD. Cal., Sept. 21. The condition of Mabel Normand, screen actress, removed to a sanitarium recently when she suffered a relapse in her long fight against lung trouble, was reported improved today. Miss Normand’s health has not been good for several years.

$135,000 FIRE DAMAGE 10LL Three Successive Outbreaks Laid to Incendiarism. Bm t'nifed Prc.B* MALDEN, Mass., Sept. 24.—Three incendiary fires occurring in rapid succession caused damage estimated to total $135,000 today. Two firemen were injured, one perhaps fatally, while fighting the flames, which drove thirty families from adjoining tenement blocks. Aid was summoned from Medford. Everett, Melrose, Revere and Chelsea. Hundreds of volunteers assisted. The first fire occurred at the wood-working mill of F. A. Mfelanson, where flames swept a warehouse used for the storage of kilndried lumber. Damage was estimated at $35,000. Shortly afterward, fire broke out at the Malden Grain Company’s building not far from the scene of the first fire. Damage was $75,000. Fireman Pete Kelleher was struck on the nead and seriously injured. Firemen on the roof of the grain building discovered the third fire In Hammond Lumber Company’s plant. This building was owned by Edward C. Hammond of Auburndale, who estimated his loss at $25,000.

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MAN'S CLOTHING, BLURRED NOTE CLEWS IN MYSTERY OF MAD HEIRESS’ DEATH

AIRFIELD. Cal.. Sept. 21.—Her own fortune of nearly $1,000.000 and the financial resources of a relative were placed at the disposal of authorities to clear up the mystery surrounding the death or Irene Wolfskin. 57, self-styled “empress of the world.” whose bodv was found in Wooden Valley creek Thursday. Ms* -nd New Wolfskill, brothers of the “mad heiress," are here from Los Angeles and were

LACK OF FIRE EXITS BLAMED FOR 18DEATHS Detroit Night Club Owner Held for Negligence in Tragedy. ESCAPE TORN DOWN Investigation Shows Crowd Sought Cloakrooms to Avoid Flames. By United Press DETROIT, Sept. 21.—Investigation to fix responsibility for the fire which raced through the waxen hangings of the Study Club cabaret and took the lives of eighteen merrymakers was under way today, with the proprietor, Marty Cohen, in jail facing charges of criminal negligence. Charges that a fire escape had been torn down and not replaced and that exits were not marked plainly were made by Prosecutor James E. Chenot as he prepared a sweeping investigation into the disaster. “Cohen had been ordered to replace a fire escape, but had not done so,” Chenot said. “He also admitted there were no exit signs to mark openings where the trapped guests might turn when the cry of fire started a panic.” Chenot also said he would attempt to place the blame for “failure to enforce building laws” in connection with the popular and crowded night club. Cohen spent the night in jail, but was scheduled to get a habeas corpus writ hearing at 10 a. m. Meanwhile, three of the fiftythree injured in the blaze e--’ panic early Friday lingered near death as tales of heroism and sacrifice ’were recounted by those of the one hundred or more guests lucky enough to escape the swift flames. As the flames started in the hangings, swift currents of air fanned them along the walls, where they licked at the panic-stricken guests. The night club became a madhouse, with every one dashing for cloakrooms because the main stairs were cut off by flames. Police, firemen and passersby aided in the rescue, but before the flames could be quenched, seventeen persons had died and another was so seriously injured she died. The crowd was made up largely of couples and half the victims were men and half women. Cohen was attending the opening of another night club, but was ar- ; rested soon after the fire. At first ne laid the blame on a bomb, thrown, he said, in a racketeer war. The theory was dismissed, however by police.

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to be questioned today by Sheriff Jack Thornton, in an attempt to solve the mystery’ of her death. Both brothers are heirs to their sister's estate. “Every Indication points to the murder theory." New WoflskLll said. “We will co-operate in every way possible to clear up this matter Our own resources will be used " J. W. Backman. trust officer of the Citizens and Trust Savings

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Here is anew portrait of Mrs. John H. Trumbull, wife of the Governor of Connecticut, whose daughter, Florence Trumbull, is the bride-to-be of John Coolidge, son of ex-President Coolidge.

DISMISS CO-ED BANDITS JURY State May Not Act Again in Thrice-Tried Case. By United Press NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex., Sept. 21.—Otis Rogers today awaited the decision of Prosecuting Attorney Fred Brundell on whether he would drop the charge of bank robbery against Mrs. Rebecca Bradley Rogers, which three times had been heard in Texas courts without a verdict being reached. Rogers was confident the case had been called for the last time, when, early Friday night, a jury, which had argued without agreement for almost fifty hours, was dismissed. The vote stood nine for acquittal and three for conviction. Brundell had gone to his home at Lockhart. Tex., and made no announcement Friday night as to his probable course. He had told the United Press that he did not desire to try the case again. Brundell said Mrs. Rogers should be taken before a county court, examined for sanity, and placed in an asylum for treatment. An insanity defense had been entered for the girl. Rogers, who has conducted Becky’s defense since her arrest three years ago for robbery with firearms of the Farmer’s National bank at Buda, Tex., and who married her when both were students at the University of Texas, said he would not follow’ the course suggested by Brundell. SCHEDULER RAGE Indianapolis-Marion Flight Closes State Tour. * An air race from Indianapolis to Marion Sunday morning will be the closing feature of the Indiana air tour sponsored by the Iniana Aircraft Trades .* ssociation. The planes left Evansville this morning and were to stop at Bedfor, and,' after a tour of the city, continue to Indianapolis, arriving here at noon. The fliers and newspaper correspondents were to be guests of the Exchange Club at a luncheon in the Chamber of Commerce after the arrival.

FLAMINGO PILOTS BREAK GRIND BY CINCINNATI HOP

Monotony of the sustained flight record grind was to be broken today for Lieutenants Walter R. Peck and Lawrence Genaro with a five-hour flight and refueling contact over Cincinati at noon. Peck and Genaro, in the Indianapolis Flamingo, were ready to leave for the Ohio city at 10 a. m., after having been in the air thirty-four hours in their second record attempt. They were to be accompanied by the Travel-Air monoplane refueling ship, flown by Lieutenant C. O. Perry, with H. C. Brooks, Hoosier

bank of Los Angeles, sent a wire to Sheriff Thornton “to spare no money in clearing up the case.” The bank held Miss Wolfskin's fortune in trust. Police and private detectives, employed by the Los Angeles bank, are working on two theories. One is that the woman r-as murdered and her body taken to the spot where she was found after searching parties left he vicinity. The other is that she wandered

HOBO JUNGLES SEARCHED FOR CHILDSLAYER Body of 11-Year-Old Idaho Girl, Mutilated, Found Weighted in River. MISSED SINCE THURSDAY Motorists Describe Tramp Suspect Seen Near Site. By United Prats TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Sept, 21. Falls were being searched today for trace of an unidentified ivinerant who is believed to have brutally attacked and murdered an 11-year-old girl. The body of Marie Meisechal, weighted down with heavy stones and bearing mute evidence of her death, was found late Friday in the Snake river near King hill. The girl left her home early Thursday and fears were felt for her safety when she failed to appear at sch|ol. Search parties were organize* and peace officers were notified that the child was seen last near the railroad tracks. Discovery of a pool of blood near the river bank indicated that the child had been seized near the tracks and dragged through the weeds to the river. Her throat had been slashed and her body bore numerous bruises. Motorists reported they had seen a tramp near the scene of the crime Thursday and were able to furnish a partial description of the man.

SCORES USE OF WET TICKETS BY PARTIES

W. C. T. U. Speaker Claims Liquor’s Reek- Gone From Capital. Prohibition is so widely approved that party leaders no longer need to place a “wet” candidate on ticket to insure success, delegates to the fifty-fifth annual W. C. T. U. convention at the Murat were told today by Mrs. Stella Courtright Stimson, Terre Haute, director of the Christian citizenship department. “A nation-wide awakening of citizenship consciousness is at hand. Ten years ago the capitol reeked with the odor of liquor. It does not now. But why party leaders still think it necessary to put on the ticket even one wet candidate is a great mystery,” said Mrs. Stimson. Dr. E. H. Barnard, Indianapolis, spoke on “A White House Conference on Child Health and Protection;” Dr. Valeria Parker, New York, talked on "Social Morality;” Dr. M Len Hutchins, Los Angeles, spoke on “Medical Temperance;” and others included Miss Cora Frances Stoddard, Boston; Mrs. Edith F. Lee, New’ York, and Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, Atlanta, Ga. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Indianapolis, will present a medal to the winner of a speaking contest at tonight’s meeting, and Mrs. H. C. Gorman, daughter of J. Frank Hanley, -will give her father’s noted address, “I Hate the Liquor Traffic.”

airport, as refueler, and another plane, flown by Sergeant Earl Halstead. carrying Colonel John S. Fishback, Indiana National Aeronautical Association representative, as official observer. The refueling contact was to be made over Lunken airport, Cincinnati. The fliers expected to be back over Hoosier airport, the flight base, by 3 p. m. Peck and Genaro, in messages dropped from the Flamingo, declared they were feeling fine and expected to 4reak the 520-hour sustained flight record by remaining in the air until after noon Oct. 7.

through the hills “of her domain” in a demented state, and fell exhausted in the creek bed, where she died. Miss Wolfskill, who was heiress to nearly $1,000,000, disappeared from her palatial ranch home in Solano county in July. A $5,000 reward offered for her recovery by the bank created widespread interest. More than 500 persons joined in the search for the eccentrict daughter of one of California’s well-known pioneers,,

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MOTHER OF SLAIN WIFE AIDS PEACOX WITH TESTIMONY

Comedy Riot By United Press FITCHBURG, Mass., Sept. 21.—50 heartily did James Raymond laugh during the showing of the comedy picture at a local theater that these things happened: He swallowed his false teeth. He tumbled down the balcony stairs. Someone yelled “fire” and firemen were summoned. Raymond was injured slightly and an ambulance was called. Later, doctors recovered the teeth,,

EVERSON SILENT ON NOMINATION Adjutant-General Awaits Official Tidings. “A soldier doesn’t make statements until he receives official orders,’’ was comment the general offered regarding his acceptance of the federal job. He stated the Governor now is his commander-in-chief and he wanted to confer with him. At Washington, where he visited President Hoover, Leslie expressed approval of the promotion of Everson and also his regret at losing him to the state administration. Everson will succeed MajorGeneral Creed C. Hammond, whose term expired in June. The appointment is for four years.

TWO MEXICANS KILLED Seven Others Wounded in Political Fight in Street. By United Press MEXICO CITY, Sept. 21.—Two men were killed and seven were wounded Friday night in a street fight between followers of Jose Wasconcelos, the anti-re-electionist candidate for president, and the supporters of Pasquale Ortiz Rubio, candidate of the Revolutionary party. The fight started when 200 anti-re-electionists staged a demonstration in behalf of their candidate, arousing the anger of their rivals. PARDON IS OPPOSED Sinclair’s Petition Sent to Hoover by Mitchell. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Efforts of Harry F. Sinclair to obtain freedom from prison prematurely appeared today to have met defeat. Pardon petitions of the multi-mil-lionaire and Henry Mason Day. codefendant and confidential assistant of the oil magnate, were transmitted to President Hoover late Friday by Atiomey-General Mitchell with strong recommendations against clemency. It is not expected President Hoover will override this recommendation. HONOR GIVEN TECH Recognized for R. 0. T. C. Unit’s Activities. Technical high school has been named one of thirty honor R. O. T C. high schools in the nation, according to word received here today from the war department. The schools were named on a basis of a igh standard of military training and soldierly discipline, maintained by the junior units of the R. O. T. C. The schools were designated for the academic year of 1929.

, What baffles authorities and i leads them to believe that her i death was the result, of foul play is that her body was found in a spot every inch of which, it was believed, had been covered by searching parties. The body was clothed in brown overalls, although Miss WolfkiU was wearing old-fashioned ankle-length dresses when she disappeared. Anew development was expected today when handwriting experts complete deciphering A note

Admits Daughter Lived in Apartment of Man in New York. By United Prtss WHITE PLAINS. N. Y., Sept. 21. —Earl Francis Peacox, young radio technician, who killed his 20-year-old wife, Dorothy Heinzelman Peacox, and burned her body, today was Spending what may be his last, week-end in jail here. When court adjourned Friday until 10 a. m. Moncay, the state had introduced virtually all its important testimony in its effort- to send Peacox to the electric chair. District Attorney Coyne said the state expected to rest its case Monday, after calling one or two more witnesses. The defense is expected to complete its case by mid-week, and young Peacox’ fate, it is believed, will be in the jury’s hands before the end of the week. Os the state’s witnesses Friday, Mis. Adelaide Heinzelman, mother of the murdered girl, proved the least damaging to Peacox’ case. She admitted knowing Dorothy was living in New York in the apartment of a man called either Carleton Carroll or Carroll Carleton. She also said she heard her daughter was living with three men in one room in New York. Aids Defense Case This testimony, it was believed, may prove of some benefit to Peacox’s case, as his defense is expected to be based on grounds of temporary insanity induced by his wife’s alleged infidelities. It was not until Frances Newman, 20-year-old red-headed dancer in a Harlem # dime-a-dance palace, took the stand, that the youthful defendant took more than normal interest in the proceedings. He paled as she told, in the jargon of the dance hall, how she danced her way into being his girl.” The state used the “taxi-dancer” in an effort to prove two important points—that Peacox had threatened to take his wife’s life and that he attempted to use the dancer as the “spine” in his home-made alibi. Met in Dance Hall She said he first met Peacox in a Broadway dance hall on presidential election night last year. They gyrateji through a dance or two and then left the dance hall together for Earl’s room. They took a liking to each other, she explained. From then on, she said, she visited Earl’s room several times. On the night of April 24, last, three days after Peacox strangled his estranged wife to death, he went up to the Mount Vernon apartment with Miss Newman. “Earl told me he had some trouble Sunday night,” she testified, "and that in the morning the housekeeper probably would come up to clear up the apartment. And if anybody was to ask about somebody screaming in the apartment Sunday night, I was to say it was me and that I had been drunk.” FIRM GOES TO WALL 40 Millions Are Involved in British Crash. Bv United Press LONDON, Sept. 21.—The hearing of Clarence Charles Harty and his three associates in connection with the most sensational financial collapse seen in Great Britain in a generation was recommended today in old Guildhall police.court until next Friday. The four promoters and financiers who were arVaigned after the collapse of the so-called Harty group of corporations with an estimated market loss of $40,000,000 within four days, were charged formally with conspiracy to obtain money under false pretenses. The magistrate refused to grant the defendants bail in spite of the pleas of their attorneys. STICK PIERCES PALATE Boy, 2, Falls While Playing and Suffers Injury. Robert Lee Hendrick, 2-year-old son of Mrs. Mary Hendrick, 144 North BlackfOrd street, fell while playing near his home Friday and a stick ran through his palate. He was treated at city hospital and taken home.

found in a pocket of the overalls. The only words discernible were “the,” "not” an<J “fooling.” First examination led authorities to believe it was the handwriting of Miss Wolfskill. Sheriff Thornton is having a farmer watched who wore overalls similar to those found on the woman. Another discovers’ that puzzled authorities was that around Miss Wolfskill's waist was wound a portion of a man’s undergarment.

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ALLEGATION IS MADE IN LAKE COUNTY QUIZ Assurance of Judge Slick Repeated as Hearsay Evidence. GARY HEAD TESTIFIES Tells Federal Authorities of Chicago Meeting Between ‘Bosses.’ Assurance by Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick that nothing would come of the Lake county investigations, and that the Watson organization would “get” the job of Oliver Loomis, United States district attorney for northern Indiana, was repeated as hearsay evidence before the federal grand jury at South Bend Friday, according to the Chicago Tribune. Ralph B. Bradford of Gary, Republican politician, not connected with the organization of Senator James E. Watson, testified before the grand jury concerning a story told him by a “Mr. X.” The mysterious “Mr. X” told Bradford, the Tribune says, that on July 4, Senator Watson. Judge Slick, and M. Burt Thurman of Indianapolis, Republican national committeeman, met in Chicago. During the conference, according to “Mr. X.” Judge Slick is said to have told Watson that nothing would come of the Lake county investigation; that only a few bootleggers would be indicted and certainly no officials. ‘Through’ With Loomis “Mr. X.” is said to have quoted Thurman as saying that “they” were “through” with Loomis and were going to “get” his job. Bradford first made this statement to the department of justice operatives in Chicago. When it became known, Judge Slick admitted that there had been a meeting in Chicago and gave out correspondence dealing with the event and denying that the Lake county situation was discussed. The first letter is from Judge Slick to Senator Watson and, in part, says: "A matter Just has come to my attention which surprises me very much, and it is needless to say is very annoying and I know will be as much a surprise and quite an annoyance to you. “The story is to the effect that, at an interview which I had with you in Chicago recently T gave you positive assurance that nothing would come of certain irregularities in Lake county, I think the irregularities were with reference to the illegal voting at the last election. “Os course, you know, as well as I. that this matter was not discussed between you and myself and no such assurances were asked by you or given by me.” ‘Annoyed at Thurman’ Judge Slick continues to say that he could not give such assurances “that would involve any control of the return of the indictments by a grand jury, because all I have to do is to summon the grand jury and instruct them.” “What particularly annoys me is the report or rumor that Bert Thurman gave out information to the effect that you and Bert and I alked over this matter in Chicago and I gave you all the assurance described above. "I think Bert Thurman should make a positive statement either to the effect that the report is true and he gave it out as the truth, wfiich of course is not the fact, or else he should say that he did not make the statement, if in fact he did not; or else he shoul dsay, if he did make the statement, that it is not true.” n answer, Senator Watson declared that Fred Miller, publisher of the South Bend Tribune, wrote him about the statement and “I sent him one assuring him that you and I never had discussed the Lake county situation and. of course, that is true,” Watson wrote. Denies All Knowledge “I am writing Bert Thurman a letter and am sure he will comply with your request.” Thurman complied with Slick’s request on July 31, saying: “I assure you, my dear judge, that I never have, on any occasion, made reference to the Lake county case. “First, I know nothing whatever about it. Second. I am not interested. Third, because you know that I have too much respect for you as a judge to even hint such a thing. “It does seem rather annoying that friends can not meet unless some sinister person misinterprets the occasion ” Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 44 8 a. m 49 7a. m 44 9a. m 57 10 a. m..... 63

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