Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1929 — Page 1

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SCHOOL BOARD AWAITS REPLY OF APPOINTEE Donald DuShane, Columbus, Considering Post of Superintendent. CHARLES MILLER FIRED Dismissal Receives Almost Unanimous Support of Commissioners. Indianapolis today temporarily was without a city school superintendent following summary dismissal of Superintendent Charles F. Miller Tuesday night by the board and the naming of Donald DuShane, Columbus find.) superintendent, to succeed him. Miller's dismissal was effective at once. DuShane's appointment also was effective at once, but he still was undecided this afternoon whether or not to accept. DuShane came to Indianapolis today to confer with friends, and possibly, he said, talk the matter over with the incoming board. He will discuss the situation with his own board at Columbus, Wednesday afternoon. Inclined to Accept "My inclination is to accept the post,” he said. "I can not expect the new board members to promise anything. All I would wish would be assurance that my retention would be based solely on the showing I would make. If I accept, I will have no entangling connections."

To accept the Indianapolis post DuShane must resign the Columbus superintendency and if he failed to receive approval of the new commissioners, he might be ousted after a tenancy of less than a month. Miller’s dismissal came as a surprise, although dissatisfaction on the part of certain board members has existed for some time. Attempt to oust Miller in favor of DuShane. last spring by President Charles W. Kern and Theodore F. Vonnegut, minority faction members, was defeated by Mrs. Lillian G. Sedwick, Lewis F. Whiteman, and Fred Kepner, majority faction members. Mrs. Sedwick. alleged by Kern and Vonnegut to have controlled Miller, was the only board member to support him when a resolution for his dismissal was proposed during an executive session at the close of the meeting Tuesday night. Greeted Warmly The open meeting was attended by Julian Wetzel, Russell Willson and Mrs. J. Don Miller, board mem-bers-elect. They were greeted warmly, particularly by H. F. Osier, assistant buildings and grounds superintendent, and other appointive officials. Whiteman and Kepner are reported to have been dissatisfied with Miller for some time, partly, it was said, because Miller permitted Mrs. Sedwick to dictate all the most desirable appointments. Their defection Tuesday night from the side of Mrs. Sedwick is viewed by observers as a lastminute slap at both Miller and Mrs. Sedwick. It was conceded generally among school officials that Miller’s resignation would have been asked by the new board members. It was reported the only discussion of the motion to oust Miller was expression of doubt by Kern and Vonnegut on advisability of the action so shortly before the new members will take office. The dismissal resolution is reported to have been made by Vonnegut, seconded by Whiteman. The board took no action on removal of Millers' two assistants Byron B. Williams, research and publicity director, and C. C. Underwood. elementary education director named in June. 1928. Took Post in August Miller became school superintendent in August, 1927. At that time he was state superintendent of public instruction and attempted to hold both positions, finally resigning the state post. Miller was reappointed for a four-year term last spring. DuShane has been Columbus superintendent eleven years. He was bom in South Bend forty-four years ago, is a graduate of Hanover college and University of Wisconsin He taught four years in high school at South Bend and was principal one year at Shelbyville, 111., high school, resigning to become superintendent at Madison. Five years later he went to Clinton where he was superintendent two years, going from there to Columbus. He has been active in affairs of the Indiana State Teachers' Association several years, serving as president in 1921. At present he is editor of the Indiana Teachers, official publication of the association, and is author of the teacher tenure law adopted in 1927. DuShane will receive the same salary as Miller, $9,000 a year. Millet was voted SIO,OOO a year last spring but the increase was not paid, attorneys holding it was illegal because it was not in the budget. The 1930 budget includes an item for the SIO,OOO salary. Kiess Is Selected WASHINGTON Dec. 11. —The Pennsylvania delegation in the house today elected Representative Kiess as its representative on the Republican committee on committees, to succeed the late Representative priest.

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‘NERVOUS MAN’ IS HUNTED BY POLICE AS CLUB SLAYER

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Many loves of Cordelia Gummersheimer, 35-year-old Rockford (111.) high school teacher, have been revealed by investigators probbing her murder. The woman, a brilliant linguist, shown at the left below, was found dead in bed in her apartment with her skull crushed. The open window through which the murderer entered and escaped is shown hi her bedroom, pictured above. Coroner Walter Julian is shown at the right, below T ANARUS, with the lead pipe with which the crime was committed. Several former lovers of the teacher are being sought for questioning.

ALGER DELIVERY THOUGHTFOILED Gunmen Caught With Saws Near Vernon Jail. Bjl Time* Special VERNON, Ind., Dec. 11.—Two Chicago gunmen were held in jail here today, suspected of having plotted to deliver Gene Alger and his wife from the Jennings county jail, Tuesday night. Sheriff Wilbur Bannister arrested them as they loitered near the jail. Two automatic pistols and ammunition, and several hack saw blades were found in their possession. The gunmen gave names of Howard Mackey, 21, and John Ross, 21. A Stutz sedan they were driving was stolen Sunday night in Chicago, Sheriff Bannister said. Chicago detectives asked him to hold the men. Both denied the plot to free Algor and his wife, awaiting trial for robbery of the Paris Crossing State bank last August. “I dont’ know Alger personally, but I knew he was in jail here,” Mackey told the sheriff. Alger also disputed allegations of the jail delivery, asserting he knew neither Mackey or Ross. Ross said he found the saw blades on a Chicago street recently. On the machine were strapped two twelve-foot poles, with which, the sheriff said, the saws could have been elevated to Alger’s cell.

ASK COOLIDGE TO RUN Unapposed Senatorial Nomination Broached to Ex-President. Bu United Press BOSTON. Dec. 11.—Robert Washburn, president of the Roosevelt Club, today wrote Calvin Coolidge, asking the former President whether he would accept an unopposed nomination for the senate. Coolidge’s name has figured in senatorial speculation since the recent announcement by Senator Frederick H. Gillett that he would not be a candidate in 1930. Thus far. the former President has given no public intimation of his feeling in the matter.

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Gas Station Attendant’s Story Clew in Death -of Teacher. Bu United Press ROCKFORD, 111., Dec. 11.—A swarthy man, nervous and apparently fearful of being recognized, was hunted today as the possible murderer of Miss Cordelia Gummersheimer, language teacher, who was clubbed to death in her oneroom apartment early last Sunday. The tip came from Sam Hyland, a filling station attendant at Belvidere, about six miles east of Rockford and on a road leading to Chicago, almost simultaneously with the burial of the teacher at Belleville. Hyland said the mysterious motorist stopped about 2 a. m. Sunday morning and demanded quick service. The only other occupant of the car was a white Spitz dog, Hyland said. “He appeared extremely nervous,” Hyland said, “and he asked me to hurry up and service his car. There was another customer and I waited on him first. Then I pumped four gallons—all it would hold—into the tank of the machine.” Spoke Perfect English “The man, who was neatly dressed in dark clothes, with a soft, dark hat, spoke perfect English and his skin was very swarthy,” Hyland said, “He may have been a foreigner.’ “He said to me that if any one came along asking if anew Dodge sedan had stopped there, to say nothing about it. “ ‘She’ll probably have someone out looking for me,’ he said, ‘and so just forget it if any one inquires.’ I gathered that the man had had some trouble with his wife and was driving into Chicago to get away from her.” “The car had been driven beyond the reach of the hose and before I filled the tank, I asked the driver if the dog would bite. He told me no, so I opened the door, loosened the brake and pushed it back nearer to the pump. The Spitz jumped down and the man called him, but whether by name. I don’t remember.” “Fill ’er up.” Hyland quoted the man as saying, "because I want to be sure to have enough gas to get to Chicago.” Reassured Attendant “Before he left, he smiled nervously at me, as I thought at the time, and told me that I needn't worry; that he wasn’t driving a stolen car or anything like that — just some domestic trouble. I believe he had a small black mustache, and I’m sure I could identify him if I saw him again.” Hyland said the motorist showed no evidence of having been drinking. Police considered Hyland’s evidence as important, inasmuch as a Cuban has figured in the case before. The Winnebago county board of supervisors considered offering a cash reward for the capture of Miss Gummersheimer’s slayer, and similar action may be taken by the city. Postponement of the inquest into the murder has been ordered by Coroner Walter Julian until authorities have some tangible evidence to put to the jury.

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HAITI FAVORS U. S.. CONTROL OF ELECTION Release of Prisoners and Diversion of Marines Aids to Peace. RIOT FEAR IS SUBSIDING Lifting of Martial Law Is Urged Widely by Native Leaders. BY SAM LOVE, United Press Staff Correspondent PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 11.—Release of ninety-eight political prisoners, including twenty-six arrested as instigators of the street riots last week, coupled with word that marine reinforcements en route here had been diverted to Guantanamo Bay, caused great rejoicing throughout Haiti today and served to dispel considerably fear of further bloodshed in pciitical revolt. With only a few prisoners remaining in confinement and with infinential business leaders insisting that the disorders were ended, lifting of martial law which was declared last Wednesday, was urged widely by native leaders. Even the opponents of the administration of President Louis Borno. against whom last week’s revolt were directed, showed a willingness to accept peace, assuring the United Press correspondent that they would welcome a marine-supervised election such as was held in Nicaragua and Santo Domingo. No Hostile Reaction Despite the fact news of the clash at Aux Cayes in which from five to twelve natives were killed, had penetrated throughout the island, Haitian garde officials reported there had been no hostile reaction and that all indications pointed to a speedy return to normal peaceful conditions. Another toward peace was the announcement of President Borno that the marriage of his daughter, Madeleine to Daniel Brun, Port Au Prince architect, scheduled j for Dec. 14, would be held. Government opposition leaders! said the people of Haiti would welcome a marine-supervised election of a president to succeed President Borno who announced recently that he would not seek a third term in office. Such a general election would choose senators and deputies for a two-year term, who in turn would name a president to succeed Borno in April, the informants said. AII Want U. S. Control

“All parties want the United States to supervise and control a loyal and honest election by the people,” Placide David, editor of the newspaper La Presse, said. Ernest G. Chauvet, editor of Le Nouvelliste, and Charles Moravia, editor of Le Temps, agreed with David. Seymour Pradel, attorney, former minister of the interior and mentioned as a possible candidate for President, characterized the proposed supervised election as “the only one to satisfy all Haitians according to the Constitution.” “The sacred official promise made by the United States government in 1915 to help Haiti have a President by the people never has been kept,” the editor, Chauvet said. “The actual president has been elected and re-elected by a body of functionaries called the council of state, appointed by the president to re-elect him. We have peace in the streets, but that Is not enough. We want peace in everybody’s mind and a supervised election would leave no complaining.” 'BABY FACE’ REPRIEVED Willie Doody Gets Execution Stay From High Illinois Court. Bti United Press SPRINGFIELD. HI., Dec. 11.—A stay of execution was granted by the state supreme court today to Willie Doody, pint-sized bandit and gunman of Chicago, who was to have gone to the electric chair Friday night for the murder of Police Chief Charles Levy of Berwyn. The stay means that Doody will not know his fate until the court has passed on his appeal, probably at the February or April term next year.

MAIL DEADLINE SET Monday Last Day to Insure Distance Delivery. Monday is the deadline for Christmas mail to distant points of the United States, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson said today. It takes four to five days for mail to reach the west coast and three to four days to reach the northern part of the New England states, Bryson said, with even longer required to reach small towns on branch line railroads. All Christmas mails should reach their destination postoffice not later than Dec. 23 to insure delivery before Christmas as there will be no mail service on Christmas day.

PAWN ‘DUDS’ TO EAT Runaway City Girls Are Found

PAWNING their clothing, garment by garment, in order obtain food, two runaway Indianapolis girls were detained today by Detroit police after pawnbrokers had gotten all their wearing apparel except their coats, shoes and stockings, a pair of pink pajamas and a red bathing suit. The girls detained are Jeanette Allman, 15, of 1409 Marlowe ave-

nue. and Georgia Conant, 349 South Hamilton avenue, according to dispatches. “We’re not sure that the girls held in Detroit are Georgia and Jeanette,” said Mrs. Elmer England, mother of the Conant girl. “As soon as we know definitely they have the

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right girls, we’ll go after them,” she said. The detention of the two missing Arsenal Technical high school misses occurred when a passerby on a Detroit street noticed Jeanette’s red bathing suit as the wind blew her coat open. Georgia was found attired in pink pajamas

NURSES STRIKE AT HOSPITAL Internal Strife Reported Behind Rebellion. Because of ill feeling toward two hospital sub-executives, thirty-two nurses in training at Indiana Christian hospital were reported today to have refused to perform their duties. Charles Young, superintendent of the hospital, this morning is said to have gone into conference with the insurgents at the nurses’ home, but at noon any efforts he may have made to influence them to return had failed. Whether he sought to get them to leave the hospital, likewise was not learned, but one informant stated that the nurses “would not budge either way.” Attempts to recall alumni nurses , to fill the hospital's needs were understood being made. Names of the sub-executives against whom the nurses rebelled were withheld, although it was stated that neither of them was Young. The superintendent of nurses refused to comment on the situation. Vigorous efforts to obtain official information on the reported rebellion were blocked at all sources. REPORTERS ARE FREED Get Time Off of Court Contempt Terms for Good Behavior. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Three reporters who preferred jail to naming the source of confidential information contained in certain news stories they wrote, were at liberty today after serving forty days of a forty-five-day sentence for contempt of court. The three, Linton Burkett, Gofman M. Hendricks and Jack Nevin Jr. of the Washington Times, were released shortly after midnight Tuesday. They had five days clipped off their sentence for good behavior, on recommendation of Lieutenant-Colonel William Peak, superintendent of the District of Columbia Jail.

RESCUED SEAMEN LAND Captain and Crew of Fishing Boat Are Saved From Flames. By United Press PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Dec. 11.— Captain Frank Savazza and the five members of the crew of the twomasted auxiliary schooner Julia were here today after being picked up from a dory ten miles southeast of the Isles of Shoals, by the flounder dragger Antonina. The Julia, returning to Boston with a large catch from the Grand Banks fishing grounds, caught fire Tuesday and burned to the water line near the place where the crew was rescued. Coast guards said the vessel is a total loss.

SUFFERS SERIOUS CUTS Found Unconscious on Lawn, Man Remembers Nothing. Badly slashed, Joseph Rounder, 36, of 553 Goodlet avenue, is in a serious condition at city hospital. He was found unconscious on the lawn at 318 Blake street late Tuesday. He declares he lost all memory while awaiting a street car at Blake and New York streets and does not know how his trousers were cut and he was slashed badly. He has been out of employment several months and was seeking work, he said. He admitted having several drinks during the day, hospital authorities reported. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 35 10 a. m 34 7a. m 35 11 a. m 35 Ba. m 35 12 (noin).. 36 9 a. m..... 35 Ip. m... 36 i

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beneath her coat, Detroit police said. “Georgia didn’t have a pair of pink pajamas with her when she left home, Nov. 12,” Mrs. England asserted. Questioned by Detroit police as to where they slept and why they pawned their clothing the girls said: “Oh, here and there, mostly in hallways or in parked cars. Our

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money ran out, we couldn’t get work so we started pawning our clothing in order to get food.” The Misses Allman and Conant ran away from home with Esther Henderson, 16, of 502 Drexel place. Esther was found in Detroit two weeks ago and returned to her home.

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The trio were the “survivors” of a “mass” runaway planned by six girl pupils at Tech. They planned to meet at the school gate, but on the day they left, only the trio showed up for the adventure. Desire to dance in a cabaret or to enter the movies is believed to have caused the girls to leave home.

FOUR GUILTY IN GAMINGjASES First of 53 Arrested in Slot Machine War. Four defendants, who are among tire first of forty-four to face trial on gaming charges as result of a war on mint-vending machines, were found guilty today of keeping a gaming device by Criminal Judge James A. Collins and fined $25 and costs. Trials of the remaining cases were deferred until later dates, and, according to attorneys, requests will be made for trial by jury for at least fourteen of the defendants. Four “slot machines” which were held by Collins to be gaming devices, belonging to the four persons tried today, were ordered confiscated by the court. Money found in the tills of each machine, as well as the proceeds of sale of the scrap metal will be turned over to the charity funds by orders of Collins. Those convicted: Louis Morlan, 1227 North Illinois street; Ross Clark, 304 Virginia avenue; Vasil Karsachoff, 335 Virginia avenue, and William E. Merrick, 2131 Prospect street. The convictions today bring the total penalization of slot machine owners to eight. Four others were convicted three weeks ago.

PURCHASER STAND Council Will Approve Car of Chief Worley. City council will receive an ordinance approving the purchase of the La Salle automobile for Police Chief Claude M. Worley at the last meeting of the old council next Monday night, it was understood today. ” It was said that the council agreed to pass the measure if properly presented, although the machine was bought “in an emergency” last July on split requisitions to avoid going to council for approval. “That’s the proper procedure. We’ll consider it on its merits as though nothing had happened before,” said Council President Edward B. Raub Sr. SMALL AID CONVICTED Colonel Miller Found Guilty of Medical License Conspiracy. Bti T'nitrd Press . . CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Colonel W. H. H. Miller, head of the state department of registration and education under ex-Govemor Len Small, must serve seven months and a day in the county jail and pay a fine of $2,000 for conspiring to issue fradulent medical and dental licenses. Miller was convicted by a jury in Criminal Judge Jacob M. Hopkins’ court Tuesday night after four hours’ deliberation. Arguments for anew trial will be heard Dec. 19.

TOWN DRAINED DRY Seventy Agents Raid Forty 'Tigers,’ Arrest 57. By United Press SUPERIOR, Wis., Dec. 11.—Superior was almost bone dry today as the result of a raid by seventy federal prohibition officers, the largest number ever assembled in the northwest. Swooping on forty speakeasies simultaneously, the raiders arrested fifty-seven men and seized more than 400 gallons of lio.uor, breaking bottles and smashing in casks in the streets. The federal men were recruited from Duluth, Madison. La Crosse, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Superior. The federal office was kept open all night while prisoners were booked.

PRISON WARDEN, CAPTURED BY CONVICT MUTINEERS, IS FREED AFTER BOMB ATTACK State Troopers *and Police Quell Rioters With Tear Gas in Outbreak at Auburn (N. Y.) Penitentiary. SEVEN GUARDS WOUNDED IN CLASH Machine Guns and Rifles Are Used to Battle Uprising; Leader of Thugs Killed in Affray. flu United Press AUBURN, N. Y., Dec. 11.—Prisoners, led by fifteen desperate men, rioted at Auburn state penitentiary here today, killed George Durnford, principal keeper, and for three hours held Warden Edgar F. Jennings ana twelve guards as hostages while they demanded freedom on the alternative of killing Jennings and the guards. Finally massed forces of state troopers and police from Auburn, Syracuse and nearby cities, attacked the north cell block, where the rioters were standing siege, routed them with tear gas bombs, and rescued Jennings and the twelve guards. In the attack, Henry Sullivan oi Buffalo, one of the riot leaders, was reported killed whe nhe attempted to flee from the gas-filled cell block.

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START SCHOONER HUNT Coast Guard Cutters Search for Ship Month Overdue. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11.— Three coast guard cutters cruised Pacific coast waters today in search of the schooner Charles R. Wilson, thirty days overdue between this city and Seattle. The sailing ship left San Francisco Oct. 30 with a cargo of salt, and has not been sighted since. The vessel was not equipped with wireless or auxiliary engines. Fears were expressed that the vessel may have been swept off its course by heavy seas and that the food and water supply may have run low. Captain J. J. Kelly and eight men were aboard. addsTeputy to staff Elmer Shellhouse Given Post by State Fire Marshal. State Fire Marshal Alfred E, Hogston announced today that he has added Elmer Shellhouse of Marion to his staff of full-time deputies. Shellhouse was the editor of “Farmer Dick’s Pitchfork,” a political pamphlet published before and during the 1928 campaign. The pamphlet, which was filled with personal .attacks, was distributed partially through Hogston’s office. NAVAL CLOCKS TO GO “Super-Accurate” Time Pieces Will Be Placed at Oaservatory. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The scrap-heap beckons three great clocks, veteran guardians of the nation’s time, which have ticked the seconds in the Naval Observatory here since 1907. The observatory today recommended the congress that they be replaced. Since installation of these “master docks,” whose time is passed by wire to smaller clocks throughout the country, many advances have been made in precision clocks, the observatory said. New “super-aceurate” timekeepers will be installed If congress accepts the recommendations. SON~SOLTd BY~MOTHER Bu T nited Press JUAREZ, Mexico, Dec. 11. An 18-year-old mother sold her 2-year-old son here for $22 because her husband objected to the child. Mrs. Gaudalupe Romo sold the baby to Issidoro Gonzales when her husband threatened to leave her, it was charged by Mrs. Louisa Flores, the child’s aunt. Both parents signed the contract and under yfoTir-Ti iaw the sale is

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At 1 p. m. the battle at the prison still was in progress, with the attacking force using gas bombs, rifles and machine guns, and the prisoners returning a desultory fire. Up to that hour, Jennings had been stabbed slightly as well as overcome by gas, and seven guards had been injured. They were: William Dempsey, stabbed. Albert Holshauer, shot, Vanuhasen, shot. Hudner, stabbed. Milton J. Ryther, stabbed. Walter Bailey, abrasions about the face. George Atkin, shot in the face and believed dying. Warning Is Issued ALBANY, N. Y„ Dec. 11.—Acting Governor Lehman this afternoon issued a warning to rioting prisoners at Auburn penitentiary that the state would not concede their demands for release. Fifteen ring leaders of the riot had demanded freedom, threatening to kill Warden Edgar F. Jenkins and eight guards they were holding as hostages if their demands were not granted. Meanwhile, extra guards were ordered on duty at Dannemora and Sing Sing prisons, as a precaution against trouble spreading to those penitentiaries. State troopers also were held ready to go to Great Meadows, the so-called “model prison,” if needed.

Break Is Thwarted Bu United Press SALEM, N, J., Dec. 11.—An attempted break from the Salem county jail by three of the fourteen prisoners confined with in its walls, was frustrated through a note smuggled to the warden. The jail delivery was scheduled for Tuesday. The attempted break was not revealed until today by Sheriff George Dixon. An investigation disclosed the bars of a window in the southern end of the seventy-flve-year-old prison on Market street here had been sawed to within a breaking point. french Tears aroused| Deputies Wage Disorderly Debate oir 1930 War Budget. Bu United Press PARIS, Dec. 11.—France’s fear that Germany secretly is preparing for another war was revealed clearly today in the prolonged and at times disorderly debate on the 1930 war budget in the chamber of deputies. Suspensions of the chamber wad necessary on several occasions when the debate led to disorderly scenes between the right and communist benches. 200 AT LEGION PARTY, John Holliday Jr. Post Presents Christinas Gifts to AIL Approximately two hundred persons received gifts at the annual Christmas party of the John Holliday Jr. post, American Legion, at the First Presbyterian church Tuesday night. A committee was appointed to work with the Seventh district organization of the Legion in the movement for removal of churches on the World war memorial plaza.

Look for It The Times’ annual AllState high school football teams will appear Thursday. Week after week throughout the season Dick Miller, who selects the teams, has covered the state, officiating at games and looking over the prep teams and spotting stars. The selections are used in Spalding’s official interscholastic guide and have an official atmosphere. Don’t miss the selections Thursday.

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