Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 154, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1929 — Page 13

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WORK STARTS TODAY ON LARGEST DIRIGIBLE IN HISTORY OF WORLD

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Here's a sketch showing the great size of the Master Ring for the ZRS-4. first of two superZeppelins being built by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation for the United States Navy. The ring la 133 feet in diameter. This great circle will be featured at the ring laying ceremony today at the mammoth airship factory and dock in Akron, when Rear Admiral William A.

BY HAROLD E. RIGHTER United Press Staff Correspondent AKRON, 0.. Nov. 7.—A little gold rivet no larger than a collar button will be drilled here today into the largest dirigible ever planned and work will be started officially on the navy’s ZRS-4. The rivet, which Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the navy bureau of aeronautics, will drive into the highest part of the biggest rib-ring of the giant craft, was fashioned in a dentist's laboratory. Moffett will use a small hand drill to drive the rivet. Goodyear-Zeppelin corporation is building the ZRS-4 for the United

GAS EXPLOSION TAKESONE LIFE 20 Others Injured. Toll in Chemical Experiment. Bv United Pnxs ORANGE. N. J.. Nov. 7.—A comparatively slight explosion during an experiment in the laboratory of the Kessler Chemical Company here cost the life of a fireman and resulted in injury to nineteen other firemen and a chemist. Fireman Edward A. Schwab, 54, is dead, a victim of lethal gas, generated in the laboratory after a threegallon proving Jar filled with chemical mixture exploded Wednesday while being heated by Joseph Stonis, 62, chemist, and Walter Freeman, his assistant. Stonis and fireman Max Sauger were burned so severely that they were taken to Orange Memorial hospital. RAILWAY DAMAGE TO FREIGHT IS REDUCED Decrease of 585.000.00 fl in Claims Listed by Big Four Agents. Reduction of $85,000,000 in freight claims since 1920 was announced Wednesday at a meeting of freight claim representatives and other freight officals of the Big Four railway Chicago claim conference in the Severin. Paul Q. Richey, president of the Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the visitors. P. T. Whte, general superintendent- of the Big Four railroad; F. E. Winbum. special freight claim official of the American Railway Association; W. D. Browning, supervisor of stations for the Big Four, and Earle G. Reed of Columbus. 0., agricultural agent for the New York Central, were speakers. KIWANIANS TO ELECT Two Tickets in Field for Club’s Balloting on Dec. 4. Two tickets are in the field for the Kiwanis Club election Dec. 4. They were announced by Harry E. Yockey. chairman of the election committee at the Kiwanis Club luncheon Wednesday. The tickets: Herman C. Wolff, president; Milo H. Stuart, vice-president; Joseph A. Kebler. treasurer; Clements O. Mueller. Frank A. Montrose and T. J. Llppincott. directors, and M. L Miller, district trustee. Herman C. Wolff, president; Irwin Bertermann, vice-president; Robert H. Bryson, treasurer; O. F. Hammer, John Paul Jones and Clyde Titus, directors, and Frank B. Flaaner, distent trustee.

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Moffett will drive the gold rivet marking completion of the ring. With driving of the gold rivet actual assembly of the ZRS-4 will have begun. Some 50,000 persons will attend the ceremony, including federal and state officials and aviation notables throughout the country

States navy and the ZRS-5 will follow. Both are to be larger than the Graf Zeppelin or the Los Angeles. More than 50,000 persons were expected to attend the ceremony at 2:30 p. m. Shortly before the ceremony, the huge cylindrical door of the gigantic plant will be opened. P. W. Litchfield, president of the Goodyear enterprise, will welcome the visitors. Governor Myers Y. Cooper of Ohio, Dr. Karl Arnstein, designer of the super-dirigible, Commander Jerome Hunsacker, Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, Major Clarence M. Young, assistant secretary oY commerce in charge of aeronautics, William P. McCracken, Young's

Wins by 9 Votes

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George A. Henry A lead of nine votes over Henry C. Denker, Sixth district Republican candidate, resulted in the election of George A. Henry, Fifth district Republican candidate for city council, according to official tabulation of returns. Early returns gave Denker a lead over Henry. The final count was Henry 36.966 and Denker 36.957. Henry will serve in the council with Fred C. Gardner and Maurice E. Tennant, Republicans, and the six Democrats. Tennant received 36.999 and Gardner 37,918.

FRAT CHAPTER TO MEET Sigma Delta Chi Will Select Delegate to Convention. The Indianapolis alumni chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, will meet tonight at the Spink-Arms at 6:30. to elect a delegate to the fifteenth national convention at University of Missouri. Columbia, Mo., Nov. 18-20. Alumni and local newspaper men have been invited to attend. S .P. Ochiltree, president, will preside.

AGED BANKER WILL FACE FORGERY CASE

Bj Timex Special SULLIVAN, Ind., Nov. 7.—James E. Lang, former president of the defunct Citizens Trust Company bank here, will go on trial In Sullivan circuit court on a Forgery charge during the November term which will open Nov. 25. The charge was filed in connection with transactions said to have preceded the bank’s failure. After the crash, Lang disappeared from Sullivan, where had been a leader in

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predecessor and John Vorys, state director of aeronautics, will be among the official party. The ZRS-4 and ZRS-5 will be 785 feet long, 146 feet high and contain a gas capacity of 6,500,000 cubic feet, nearly twice as great as that of the Graf Zeppelin. A unique feature of the Zeppelin will be provision in the hull for a complete airplane hangar housing five scouting planes. Before today, tne public never has seen the 'huge factory under construction for housing and building the two airships. When finished it will be the largest structure in the world.

The ZRS-4 is expected to be completed by July, 1931.

AUTO NITS MAN IN SAFETY ZONE Unidentified Driver Strikes Victim, Speeds Away. George Manz, 57, of 3707 Stanton street, suffered severe injuries today when a hit-and-run driver struck him as he stood in a safety zone at College avenue and St. Clair street. Police coupled the search for the autoist who struck Manz with the hunt for the hit-and-run driver who injured Preston Morris, Negro, 26, of 948% Hosbrook street, Wednesday night, at McCarty and Maple streets. Manz suffered a compound fracture of the left leg and received .severe face and body lacerations. Manz Is a street car motorman. Morris and Manz were taken to the city hospital. Shafter Coffey. 30, of 928 North Oriental street, today was recovering from injuries he suffered Wednesday night when struck by an auto driven by Emanuel Green, Negro, 36, of 324 West Twenty-first street, at West street and Kentucky avenue, After treatment at the city hospital, Coffey was taken home. When his auto overturned, William Leonard, 27, of 738 Prospect street, escaped serious injury Wednesday night. Leonard’s car overturned after a collision with an auto driven by Lemuel Spear, 21, of 529% Lord street, at South and Illinois streets.

Dirty Bet Election bet paying has started. Mike Stewart’s judgment regarding the outcome of voting at La Porte was wrong, so he will not shave or wash his face for a month. He works in a foundry. Chester Starr, a loser at Anderson, rolled a peanut with a pencil over-half a block of pavement.

church and civic circles, but resumed early this year, after friends had located him In the south, where he was In poor circumstances. He is past 70 years old. The trial date was set after Judge Arthur E. Debaun refused a change of venue, holding that application for the change was not made until after legal time limit had expired. The judge sustained a state demurrer to the defense’s plea of abatement of the forgery charge.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1929

ROBBERY NETS GEM FORTUNE AT ANDERSON Roos Jewelry Store Yields SIOO,OOO in Diamonds to Bandits. POSED AS CUSTOMERS Onlooker Too Frightened to Give Alarm During Daylight Job. Bn Times Svecial ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 7.—Detectives today are investigating a SIOO,OOO holdup in the Leo Roos jewelry store late Wednesday afternoon. Roos was alone in the store when two men and a woman entered and pretended to be interested in the purchase of diamonds. When most of the stones in the store were laid out on a counter one of the men drew a revolver and kept Roos covered while the other man looted a safe and a cash register, taking $3,000 in currency, in addition to diamonds and watches. The woman stood guard at the door, telling persons who attempted to enter the store was closed for inventory. Robbers placed the loot in anew leather bag and left the store after cutting telephone wires and threatening to kill Roos if they were ever caught and charged with robbery. The bandits took a three-karat diamond ring from Roos’ hand and a valuable stickpin. Less than 25 per cent of the loss was protected by insurance. One of the men and the woman, posing as Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Dalton, were in the store Saturday. They picked out two diamonds for a purchase price of S4OO, made a $25 deposit and left, saying they would return and pay the balance. A man who witnessed the robbery through a window was too frightened to give an alarm. A policeman stood near while the robbery was in progress.

OPPOSE CHAIN MM State Association Groups End Two-Day Session. Educational methods for banking were discussed by two major committees of the Indiana Bankers’ Association today as they wound up a two-day business session at the Columbia Club. Ways of interesting bankers In eleven counties of the state where bankers organizations do not exist were discussed at the session, presided over by W. L. Stump of Crawfordsville. W. Lowell Cox of Richmond, chairman of the better banking practice committee, discussed progressive measures toward making banking safer. Secondary reserves and establishment of regional clearing houses were some of the more important topics discussed. Opposition to chain banking was expressed. Next Thursday the committee will discuss protection, and on Friday, agriculture. Fourteen persons besides Stump and Dickinson make up the committees in attendance. Alleged Slayer Held Bjj Timex Special ALEXANDRIA, Ind„ Nov. 7. The sheriff of Overton county, Tennessee, is on his way to Livingston, Term., today with Osco Walker, 30, charged with first degree murder, it being alleged he killed his father, Frederick Walker, with a shotgun. He was arrested here where he had been employed since being a fugitive.

Fund Leaders Named

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H. Joseph Hyman, secretary, (left), and Randolph O. Beane, captain, of the individual gifts division of the Community Fund drive, Nov. 15-25. The goal of the campaign has been set at $785,853.

HOLD NIEMAN FUNERAL Last Rites Scheduled Friday for Deceased Furniture Designer. Funeral services will be held Friday for Elmer H. Nieman. 51, of 1802 East Forty-ninth street, furniture designer, who died Tuesday at his home. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Gertrude Nieman; two sons. Paul Nieman, Lansing, Mich., and Richard Nieman. Indianapolis; ■> daughter, Mrs. Glenn Bracken, this city, and two sisters and three brothers.

Raise Fund to Defend Young Husband in Murder of Nurse

Friends of Accused Man Resent Interest of Senator in Case. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—A fund to aid in the defense of Robert A. McPherson Jr„ accused of the alleged murder of his pretty young wife, was being raised here today by Clive Wilson, a friend, who said in a petition McPherson was being “politically” persecuted. “The friends” circulating the petition said they “are convinced that through the entrance into the situation of Senator Overman (Dem., N. C.) and other political forces, with purely political motives, that a young man 5s being persecuted severely purely because of the unfavorable publicity redounding therefrom to the above mentioned senator.” BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer W ashington, nov. 7.— no killing short of a presidential assassination has ever excited the national capital as has the mysterious death of Virginia McPherson. The McPherson case has all the important elements of any half dozen good mystery novels. The mystery and its complications, which have cost some of the highest police officials their jobs and now threaten the post of the superintendent of the force, have attracted the interested attention of the White House, the senate, the Attorney-General and every one else in town. Every one in Washington, it seems, has a' theory as to whether Mrs. McPherson was murdered or committed suicide. And, if murdered, whether her indicted husband, Bob McPherson, committed that strange crime.

Strangled to Death Mrs. McPherson, 24. was a nurse, pretty, blonde, vivacious, popular and attractive to various men. On the night of Thursday, Sept. 12, or the early morning of Friday 13, she was strangled with a silk pajama cord tied into a surgical knot. Bob McPherson found the body Saturday noon in the bedroom of their three-room flat. It lay, half clad in a pajama jacket, against the closed door leading to the living room. Bob McPherson is a handsome, dark-haired, hard-boiled bookkeeper in a bank. His mother has been confidential secretary to Secretaries of War Weeks, Davis and Good. Husband’s Story Supported He said he had last visited Virginia between 7:30 and 8 Thursday night to arrange the financial details of their separation. He then had gone to attend a meeting of his football team. The meeting broke up about 11 and McPherson rode around with some friends, stopping at an aunt’s about 11:30 and reaching the home of his parents at 12:30 or 12:45. He talked with his father until after 1 o’clock and went to bed. His story is well supported by witnesses. The police called it a suicide. Virginia previously had attempted suicide at least once. A coroner’s jury confirmed the verdict. Patrolman Robert J. Allen, who previously had been a storm center on the force and on whose beat lies the Park Lane, assented that while patrolling he had seen a man leave the McPherson window, cross the low roof and descend and disappear into the alley some time after midnight early on the 13th. The grand jury met, heard evidence and voted 13 to 10 to indict McPherson for first degree murder. The star witness had been located by newspaper men in the person of Garnett Frye, taxi driver, who swore he had taken a man whom he identified as McPherson to the Park Lane between 1 and 3 a. m. on Friday the 13th.

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MAN IS FOUND SLAIN Bloody Gas Pipe Only Clew in Crime at Pontiac. By United Pre PONTIAC, Mich., Nov. 7.—Edward McCrumb, 49-year-old electrician for the Consumers Power Company, was found murdered today in the living room of his boarding house here. A lead pipe, smeared with olood was found beside the body. The house had been robbed. Police immediately started search for other boarders In the house.

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Here are some of the important figures in Washington’s mystery of the death of pretty Mrs. Virginia McPherson, upper right. Her husband, Bob McPherson, upper left, has been indicted for first degree murder. Eleanor Sheppard, left center, is the last person known to have talked with her before her death. Below is Robert J. Allen, young patrolman whose private investigation reopened the case after a verdict of suicide had been rendered. He declared he had seen a man leave the apartment through a winow and disappear in a dark alley.

HOMS SHOW KEBENOV, 12 Floral Exhibits at Claypool Lasts Three Days. Floral exhibits from all parts of the United States will be shown at the national chrysanthemum show at the Claypool, Nov. 12, 13 and 14, Edward Larsen, superintendent of the show, said today. Mums of all colors and sizes will be on exhibit. The show will be held under j auspices of the State Florists’ Asso- j ciation of Indiana and the Chrys- j anthemum Society of America, j Larsen is vice-president of the lat- j ter organization. Through courtesy of Indianapolis; florists who are members of the j state association 400 mus will be ■ supplied Butler university co-eds,! who will “say it with flowers” as a \ greeting to the Wabash college football team when it opposes Butler at the Butler bowl Saturday afternoon. In addition General William G. Everson, head of the militia bureau in Washington, will be honored and will review 1,400 R. O. T. C. marchers. Officers of the State Florists Association of Indiana, who are arranging for the show, include Oliver E. Steinkamp. Indianapolis, president; William Roepke, Indianapolis, first vice-president; Robert Catron, Richmond, second vice-president; Arthur Heidenreich. Indianapolis, treasurer, and Edward C. Grande, Indianapolis. secretary. Members of the entertainment and publicity committee are William Fox, John Heidenreich, Roepke, J. A. Grande. Lennis Elder, William Brandlein, Irwin Bertermann, George B. Wiegand and Clarence Greene. Wife Dies if, a Timex special RICHMOND. Ind.. Nov. 7.—Funeral sendees u’ere held today for Mrs. Marianna Kenworthy, 70, wife of the Rev. Truman Kenworthy, formerly pastor of the Friend’s church at Dublin. Recently the couple observed their fortieth wedding anniversary.

SEVEN YEARS FOR NARCOTICS AGENT

Howard Harding, 27, Negro, 2307 Indianapolis avenue, alleged head of an Indianapolis narcotic ring, today faced a term of seven years in Leavenworth penitentiary, one of the longest sentences imposed in federal court in months. Harding was sentenced by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell late on Wednesday after the Negro changed bis plea to guilty. He had served a fifteen-months term at the federal prison. Frank Harvey. 28, former Milroy (Ind.) garage owner, was acquitted of implication in embezzlement of sums from the First National bank at Milroy by Lloyd T. Nelson, former cashier, now serving a prison term. S o ntences on liquor charges included: Joseph Cohen, 813 Maple street, sixty days and SIOO fine; John Cicroianu, 506 West Washington SSOO fine; Flore a Cracu-

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AUTHOR'S WIFE TO MAKE TALK ‘Modern Russia’ Topic of Lecture Friday. Living conditions, social and economic organization, and the love-life of modern Russia will be explained by Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, wife of the noted author, in a

lecture at 8 Friday night in the auditorium of Irvington school, No. 57. The lecture Is under the auspices of the Irvington Union of Clubs. Mrs. Lewis, known under the pen name of Dorothy Thompson, has distinguished herself as a journalist and news-

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paper correspondent in Europe. She is the author of “The New Russia.” Tickets for the lecture may be procured from Mrs. J. S. Milligan, 44 South Bolton avenue. Mrs. Josephine Ostrander, 323 North Audubon road, is chairman of the lecture program. COUNCIL ACTION ASKED Board of Works to Appeal for Street Widening Order. The board of public works may ask city council to approve the widening of East New York street, from Randolph to the Belt railroad, despite protests of property owners. Theodore Dammeyer, works board president, conferred with Councilman John F. White relative to the project and asked White to discuss the need with the other city fathers. Dammeyer said the city is willing to pay 50 per cent of the costs, the remainder to be assessed against property owners. Remontsrators insist the city pay 75 per cent.

inoiu, same address, six months; William H. Secrist, 1621 Howard street, nine months; Robert Goodale, Col-Ten apartments, one year and a day, Chillicothe, O.; Albert E. Wemke and Walter G. Dailey, 1621 Howard street, each one year and one day; William Mealure, Negro, 928 North Senate avenue, six months; Forest Eadler, Richmond, one day; Herman Shillingford, Richmond, sixty days; Mrs. Amandah Sittloh, Richmond, one day; Nick Gulef, 221 South Illinois street, six months, S2OO fine; Louis Potcoff, Spencer hotel, six months; Dale Preston, 27, 1722 Thaddeus street, one day. Narcotic sentences included: Mrs. Frances Easton. 611 North Senate avenue, sixty days; Joseph T. Dawson, Negro, 714 North Senate avenue. one year and one day; Alton Whitlock, Negro, 1020 North Illinois street, one year and one day.

LIQUOR CASE AGAINST TRIO GOESTO JURY Urban Pope, Carl King and Edward Whittington on Trial in U. S. Court. NEGRO MAIN WITNESS Damaging Evidence Given for Government by John Price. A federal jury this afternoon 1 found Urban Pope, Carl King and Edward Whittington guilty of conspiracy to violate the prohibition act. Federal court Jurors this afternoon were deliberating on the case in which Urban M. Pope, 731 North Senate avenue; Carl E. King and Edward Whittington are charged with conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. John Price, Negro, 811 North Senate avenue, was the government’s chief witness against the men. He testified that he called Pope’s house and then federal prohibition agents and police arrested Whittington and King when they arrived at his house. Pope told the jury he knew nothing of the call and was not involved In the attempted delivery of twentyfour gallons of alcohol. The other men said they were not aware of the phone call by Price, but “just dropped by.” Pope served twenty months in the federal penitentiary about two years ago as the ring leader In the Pope conspiracy case. Whittington is the brother of Jimmie Whittington, who was shot while driving from Chicago to Indianapolis with Pope several months ago. Pope today testified that he had not been involved in liquor activities “since my sentence.” BRIDGE TOURNEY ON Broadmoor Team Sweeps Week’s Trophy Play. A team representing Broadmoor Country Club swept this week’s play of the Interclub Duplicate Auction Bridge League of Indianapolis ,t ! Broadmoor. The league is in its third annual contest for the Charles E. Coffin trophy, permanent possession of which will be retained by the club winning three consecutive years. The Indianapolis Athletic Club has won the trophy twice. Joseph Jackson and Mrs. M. 8. Cohn, north and south, and Dr. Louis H. Seegar and M. S. Cohn, substituting for Ferd Meyer, east and west, made up the Broadmoor team. The Auction Bridge Studio team was second.

PRIZES OFFERED IN DRAMA TOURNAMENT Religious One-Act Play Contest Will Open Friday Night. First annual religious one-act drama tournament, sponsored by the Sutherland Presbyterian church, Twenty-eighth street and Bellefontaine streets, Friday and Saturday nights, will be opened by Mrs. A. Starr Best of Chicago, chairman of the religious drama section of the Drama League of America. Mrs. Best will speak on "The Drama in the Church.” Several local church groups will participate 4n the tourney and awards will be given the first and second highest group at the close of the Saturday night presentations. Mrs. Best, Ted Nichols, Walter D. Hickman and Corbin Patrick, Indianapolis dramatic critics, will act as judges, Norman Green, Sutherland Players’ director, announced. TIRE TEST CARS DUE U. S. Rubber Company’s Fleet Is En Route to Arizona. A United States Rubber Company’s tire test fleet of eleven cars, en route from its summer proving grounds in Michigan to winter activities in Phoenix, Ariz., will pas:; through Indianapolis this afternoon. The caravan has made stops at various cities on its way south. It is estimated these cars cover a million miles yearly in the sandy terrain of Michigan and Arizona, the travel determining causes oi tire wear. A police escort will meet the tire fleet as it comes into the city, to remain until Friday noon REPARATIONS PROBED Formal Conferences Between U. S. and Germany Started. Ba United Press BERLIN, Nov. 7—Negotiations between Germany and the United States for a separate reparations agreement, independent of the Young plan, entered a formal stage today with the arrival here of Edwin C. Wilson, first secretary of the United States embassy in Paris. Wilson, who acted as an observer for his government at the Hague conferences in August, will co-oper-ate with Jacob Gould Schurman. United States ambassador to Berlin, in conducting the negotiations on behalf of Washington. Author-Veteran Dies fill F'pitr/1 Prfgtt MARION. Ind., Nov. 7.—Richard Dobson. 89. a Civil war veteran. Is dead here. He was widely known as author of books and contributor magazines.