Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1929 — Page 3

.DEC. 21, 1929.

GIRL IS SEIZED BY ‘HYPNOTIST,’ HELD PRISONER Attack Attempt Charged; Child Found Chained in Garage Den. Bv United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 21.—A 53-year-old man who claims to be a student of hypnotism and mental characteristics and had fitted a cave room under his garage “to find seelusion for study,” today was held by police here, charged with imprisoning a school girl and attempting to attack her. Russell Arnold, a former street car operator, said he called Dorothy Van Camp, 14, to his door Thursday morning while she was going to school. He told in a written statement last night how he forced the girl inside the house and attempted an attack. She screamed, he said, so he put her In a trunk and carried it to the underground room, which was reached by a stairway beneath a trapdoor in the garage floor. There the girl was manacled to a chair with chains. Arnold was picked up by police on suspicion that he knew the girl’s whereabouts afte. she was reported missing. Officers went to his home late Friday and, hearing cries from the garage, discovered the cave compartment. The girl’s ankles were bruised badly by a chain lashed to them and her back was br\*ised by blows. She was suffering from exposure and hunger. The girl said Arnold made a second attempt to attack her in the cave and when she cried threatened l to kill her with an ax. Arnold is the father of four children, three of whom are in a charitable home. His wife divorced him two years ago. WRONG ADDRESS GIVEN Hotel Proprietors Ask Correction on Arrest Story. i Proprietors of hotels in the 300 ulock West Ohio street have asked correction of an erroneous account o arrest Dec. 13 of Turner Robin- j son, 30, Negro traffic officer, at Capitol avenue and Ohio street. Robinson was found with a white woman in the 200 block West Ohio street, instead of in the 300 block, as was stated incorrectly, Robinson was suspended from the force and is awaiting trial on a charge > of immorality. The woman was returned to the Indiana woman’s prison upon revocation of a suspended sentence for shoplifting. LIVERMORE IS GUARDED Speculator Blamed in Stock Crash j Retains Crack Marksman. Bu United Press SANDS POINT. L. 1., Dec. 21. Jesse L Livermore, speculator stock market operator, has retained a special guard to protect him and his family from possible attacks by disgruntled market losers. Livermore is reported to have made millions in the recent Wall Street crash. Frank Gorman, crack pistol shot and athlete, is the guard. He occupies a room in Livermore’s mansion here next to that of the millionaire's two small sons, who several times in the past have been j guarded against kidnaping threats, j FOG BOOSTS LIGHT BILL Gotham Breaks All Records for Ar- I tificial Illumination. Bv United l’rcss NEW YORK. Dec. 21.—New York City rolled up the largest electric I light bill in its history during the four days of fog which made artificial illumination necessary in offices and homes. During one period of twenty-four hours the consumption of current toaled 17.289,820 kilowatt hours, according to the New York Edison Company, 11 per cent more than the previous record. HONOR FOR MME. CURIE France to Confer Legion of Honor j Collar on Radium Worker. But niti and Prt ss PARIS, Doc. 21.—France soon will j repair a neglect by conferring on | Madame Curie, famous worker with radium, the collar of commander of the legion of honor. An exception will be made in the case of Madame Curie, for she never has been named a knight, but will <itep up into the third grade of the order without passing through the ; other two. She will be the first woman ever honored in that fashion. SLACK FETE SCHEDULED Dinner Will Be Given for Retiring Mayor by Official Family. Mayor L. Ert Slack, whose term expires Jan. 0. will be feted by several members of his official family at a dinner Monday night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Purchasing Agent Joel A. Baker secretary to Slack's cabinet, invited a group of Democratic department heads and board members to attend 4ie affair. Robert E. Springsteen, council president pro tem. and close riend of the administration, was the >nly councilman invited. SIX OF FAMILY KILLED Crossing Crash Is Fatal to Seven; j Had Completed Shcpping. . ii U nited Press CLARINDA, la.. Dec. 21. —Seven persons, six members of the Fay E. i Glass family of College Springs. Ia„ vere kll'ed here Friday night when heir auto was struck by a rail oad :ascline coach as they left Clarinda after doing their Christmas shopping. I Glass, his wife, their sons, Frank Bind Bee. and daughters, Mary and A2va, were Identified by Clar ndr. Merchant*. while Ch r!e. H Atkins. jjFlso of College Springs, was identi"ued by letters.

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LECTURES AT FORUM Professor Smith Will Talk on Modern Life. Thomas Vernon Smith, professor of philosophy at Chicago university, will be the lecturer Sunday night at 8:15 at the open forum of the Kirshbaum Community Center. Professor Smith will have as his topic “The Trend of Modern Life.” He is one of the modern school of philosophers who have the gift of presenting philosophy in a way that captures the popular fancy and appeals to th eintelligence and interest of the average man. EMPLOYES TO BE GUESTS Choir And Double Quartet Will Feature Lilly Company Party. More than 1,000 Eli Lilly & Cos. employes will be guests at the annual Christmas party at noon Tuesday in the cafeteria. A turkey dinner will be served. A choir of forty voices, made up from the company’s personnel, will sing, and a feature will be a double male quartet. Fred Davis will direct the choir, which will be aided by the Weber trio. The choir program will be broadcast over WFBM from 11:15 to 12. GETS 24-YEAR SENTENCE Chicago Gunman Found Guilly After Short Deliberation. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, Dec. 21.—William Rutkowski, 29. Chicago gunman and gangster, Friday was sentenced to twenty-four years and eleven months in the Ohio penitentiary for his part in the United Baking and Trust Company holdup here last February. A jury of nine men and three women deliberated only fifteen minutes to find Rutkowski guilty anc‘ Common Pleas Judge Will P. Stephenson, assigned from West Union immediately pronounced sentence.

CRIPPLED VETERAN TAKES LONG HIKE

One-legged Walker Has 85.000 Miles Toward Goal of 100,000. Loss of a leg at Chateau Thierry has not prevented W. A. Kogle, 32 of Los Angeles, who arrived in Indianapolis today, enroute to Ft. Wayne, from hiking 85,030 miles since March 7, 1920. Hogle is attempting to hike 100,000 miles and hopes to finish his endurance contest in 1931 or early in 1932, returning to his California heme A gunner in the Sixth field artillery in the World war, Hogle learned of the Iron Clad Walking Club of America, organization of hiking enthusiasts. It has thirty-four Hoosler members in California who hiked to the west coast. Hogle set out from California to “see how far a onelegged man could walk." In Indianapolis he obtained the signature of Mayor L. Ert Slack for his collection and arranged for the 'ostoffice to certify his arrival here o his California home. He receives 838.50 monthly as a ar veteran and pays expenses from his. stopping at hotels nightly. He eats one meal daily, in the evening His pack weighs seventy-two pounds •vithout his crutches. He averages wenty to thirty miles daily. If two groups of electrons weighing one gram each could be ollccted and placed one centimeter epart thev would repel each other ill a force of 320,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

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PASS NEW PHONE RATE HIKE ORDER

Public Service Commission Acts Again on Boosts at Terre Haute. Majority members of the public cerv.ce commission, at their conference Friday afternoon, rescinded the $96,000 rate increase order of the Citizens Independent Telphone Company of Terre Haute and passed another which Chairman. John W. McCardle has revamped. Thus a third chapter was written 1 nthe history of the order wheih has had a hectic carer. McCardle claimed that the latest juggling of the order “does not change the rates.” So Terre Haute citizens will pay the $93,003 increase, despite the opinion of Commissioner Frank Single'on that they are being assesssed on $404,736.98 in excess values. McCardle said the latest changes n the order puts rules and regulations into it which were admitted in his first order and certain rates which also were omitted No copies were available for tho press and McCardle, became incensed when newspaper men sought to scan the original, which had figures written over in pencil. “Theer is nothing wrong with it,” he assured them later. Originally, the rate increase order was written by .Commissioner Calvin Mclntosh, who heard the case and granted a few increases. Only Singlton joined in approval. So Mcltosh was instructed by majority commissioners to rewrite it, putting in more and greater increases and adding about $500,000 to the valuations. When he proceeded to do this, McCardle told him that he (McCardle) had written the order himself. Tt was this order to which Singleton objected in a dissenting opinion, which was rescinded and changed ’riday. ,

PARTY FOR EMPLOYES AND CHILDREN GIVEN 600 Youngsters Receive Gifts; “Ham” Tree for Men. Two parties w T ere held today at the Prest-O-Lita Battery Corporation's plant in celebration of ChnTcmas. At 10, children of employes, between 500 and 600 strong, gathered for a party at which Santa distributed gifts and candies. An elaborate program was given. At noon the employes of plant and office gathered for the third annual “ham” party. A large tree in front of the plant was decorated with hams, each employe getting one of the hams as a present. Awards for suggestions for plant efficiency and methods were announced at the party. NORRIS CONSULTS ELLIS Asks State Officials for Copy of Utility Inquiry Talk. Ctmmissicner Howell Ellis of the public service commission today received a letter from Senator George Norris, veteran liberal leader of the Un.ted States senate, asking for a copy of the remarks made by Ellis before the utility inquiry commission cflf New York. Ellis attacked the present procedure of appealing local utility decisions to federal courts, and argued lor greater state instead of federal utility control.

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SUES FOR DAMAGES IN REAL ESTATE DEAL Local Civil Engineer Files Claim for $25,000 Against Firm, Damages of $25,000 against the Northwestern Terminals Company of Evansville and Ethel P. Donnell and Edward J. Hartenfeld of Indianapolis and Evansville, respectively, were asked In a suit filed Friday in a superior court by John A. Shafer, local .civil engineer. Shafer charges in the action he was solicited by Ethel Donnell to become a member of a group composed of herself and Hartenfeld to obtain real estate near St. Paul, Minn., for situating a terminal and docks on the Mississippi river. Shafer alleges he was to be onethird owner of the interests, and was to act as an engineer in the project. He charges that he received insufficient funds for his services, and that he was damaged in the amount asked in a partfinancing of the organization. Hiker Dies of Pneumonia pit Tirn'-s See "ini NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 21. Raymond Olsen 32, of Minneapolis, Minn., died at a hospital here of pneumonia. He was employed for several weeks on the roads in Boone county and started to hike home. He walked from Thomtown to Noblesville in a drizzling rain and his clothes were soaked when he reached here.

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MAN CAUGHT IN BURGLARY HITS JANITOR, FLEES Bandit and Woman Bind and Gag Store Manager; Get Away With $370. Slugging Robert Walker, janitor of apartments at 1402 North Alabama street, when Walker caught him late Friday attempting to enter an apartment, a burglar escaped. Walter found the man attempting to enter an apartment occupied by Mrs. Murray Garland, No. 312, and grabbed him, only to receive a blow in the face. A woman and a man held up Albert Hand, 18, of 302 North Mount street, manager of a Kroger store at 3963 Boluevard place, Friday night in the store, binding and gagging Hand and two customers and escaping with $370 in loot. Customers Tied Up Albert Hite of 3749 Boulevard place and Emerson Brock of 3845 Byram place were the customers tied up with Hand. The woman took $15 from the cash drawer; sls in cash was taken from Hite; Brook was robbed of $8 cash, a watch valued at $75 and two diamond rings valued at $250. John Virt of 240 North Tacoma avenue, attendant, was held up in the Sinclair filling station at Capitol avenue and Pratt street by a Negro and robbed of $30. A Negro bandit took $45 from James Quinn of 1124 St. Paul street, Progress laundry wagon driver, at Thirteenth and Talbott streets, forcing Quinn to drive into an alley. The Negro drove the truck away and It later was found at Tenth and Delaware streets. Watchman Robbed Edward A. Williams, 40, Lyndhurst drive and Washington street, watchman for the Price Brothers Construction Company at Ghent avenue and state road No. 34, was held up by two Negroes in the watchman’s shanty and was robbed of a small amount of money, the bandits draining his car of gasoline. Clothing and jewelry valued at $375 was stolen from the home of Rufus Wharton, Negro, of 371 West Twenty-sixth street, by burglars. Two women were victims of thieves while shopping. Miss Clara Buchanan of 1206 Orange street, reported her purse containing $4.75 stolen while she shopped at a downtown store and Mrs. Stella Branson of 3530 East Vermont street, reported her purse containing $4 stolen at another. MODERN SANTA CLAUS Drops Gifts to Children From Plane; Performance Is Convincing. Bv United Press WOODBURY, N. J„ Dec. 21. Gifts for the children were dropped on Woodbury Central school by a Santa Claus who abandoned reindeer for the more modem airplane. The plane and pilot were hired by teachers and the flier did his bit to make the performance convincing by dressing as Santa and swooping so low the children could see him. financeprobeTooms Senate May Order Investigation of Reserve and Stock Market. Bv ficripps-Haward Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Investigation of the federal reserve system’s relationship to the New York Stock Exchange, and an inquiry into the operations of the stock market may be authorized by the senate banking and currency committee, when it reconvenes after the Christmas holidays, Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, chairman, indicated Friday. The committee will consider the resolution of Senator King (Dem., Utah), which directs such a study. King’s resolution was offered last May.

OLD TURKISH HABIT

Bathing Defended by Nicholson

ONE Turkish bath is mathematically and physically equal to a season of teeing a golf ball. This opinion is held by Meredith Nicholson, Hoosier - author, In defending his right to enter the pre-prohibition throne room in the

December issue of Indac, monthly publication of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Recently Nicholson received a typographical barrage in the magazine for his bath penchant from Ray Long, editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine and former Hoosier. 0 Nicholson replies thus; "It may not be a bad idea to let-it be known that an Indiana Democrat does bathe regularly, and I regret I might not make observations encouraging bathing among certain members of the opposite political religion whose scorn of the moral efficacy of my ablutionary pactlces has not been for the good of the nation. “When I step into the hot box it is not as an old soak saturated with rum, but as a buttermilk addict who seeks purification of body and soul. "The highest medical authorities certify to the

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effect of a good, honest ‘sweat.’ This word, regarded by the over-nice as vulgar, is one of the noblest words In the dictionary.

FEARS AROUSED FOR AIRMEN IN EIELSONSEARCH Crosson, Gillam Are Missing in Far North After Takeoff. By United Press NOME, Alaska, Dec. 21.—Siberian wastes and waters that for a month and a half have concealed the fate of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, Arctic fliers, had swallowed up two more Intrepid airmen today. Pilots Joe Crosson and Charles Gillam, who took off Friday from Teller, Alaska, to search for Eielson and his mechanic, either were braving hazards of snow, ice and storm on the Asiatic mainland or had met disaster there or in the icy Bering sea. Crosson is from a family of fliers. His sister, Marvel Crosson, met her death during the recent womens’ air derby. Other search expeditions are scheduled to get under way soon. Two aviation corporation planes are being equipped for flights in Canada. Crack Canadian pilots will bring them to Alaska. Soviet pilots are prepared to start flights soon, and still other planes are bound northward on a coast guard cutter. Search for Aviators Bv 7,r ' 7 Pr-'s PARIS, Dec. 21.—Flying scouts and sea craft of France, Italy and Great Britain joined today in a search for three French aviators, missing six days on a flight from Tunis to Saigon, French Indochina. The searchers wor|pd systematically, covering land and sea between Tunis and Egypt, seeking Victor Joseph Lassalle, Marcel Rebard and Raymond Saltot, who last were reported on Sunday ,as they left Tunis. Heavy mountain storms were reported in their path. olives causOlness Co-Eds Show Symptoms of Food Poisoning; Investigate Source. Bv United Press COLUMBIA, Mo., Dec. 21.—A federal food inspector today was checking the source of food used in lunches given girls of Stephens college here when they left for the holidays. Many of the girls were made violently ill, twenty-three being removed from a special train at Kansas City for emergency treatment and thirty-eight at Bloomington, and Springfield, 111. Dr. James M. Wood, president of the college, said he believed the illness was caused by contaminated olives. Most of those who escaped sickness said they had not eaten the olives.

THE novelist and city councilman tells how after a Turkish bath, one may venture “into the coldest January air ready to meet creditors, the police or old college friends in a cheerful frame of mind. “All my life I have avoided exercise beyond an occasional stroll to the mall box. Golf I consider an evil. The human machine should be saved from the wear and tear of the so-called manly sports. A manage intelligently given is better than a whole season of golf,” he asserts. “The citizens I meet in club baths are sensible, buoyant men, who may well laugh at their friends who foolishly raise their blood pressure and enlarge their hearts by chasing golf balls, or breaking their legs and collar bones playing polo.” He concludes by urging a weekly stand In a Turkish bath. Jury Holds Man Sane By United Press DETROIT, Dec. 21.—For fifteen months Peter Sweeney was held at St. Joseph's Retreat as a crazy man. It took a Jury five minutes to decide he was sane after hearing his story.

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POPE OBSERVES GOLDEN JUBILEE OF PRIESTHOOD Half Century of Service in the Church Marked by Ceremonial. By United Press ROME, Dec. 21.—With much of the simplicity that marked his first celebration of mass in the Church of St. Charles in the Corso, fifty years ago, Achille Ratti observed today the golden jubilee of his priesthood at the altar of the Great Basilica of St. Peter’s—as Pope Pius XL While the Basilica overflowed with wirshippers of high degree, and the streets and plazas surrounding St. Peter’s were thronged with thousands of spectators, the ceremonial by which the pope marked his half century of service in the church was remarkably brief. The basilica was crowded when the pope entered, borne on his aedalia of state, and was adorned with banners and hangings which lent all the dignity of medieval time* to the scene. In the central nave, the Palatine guard, in picturesque costume, was drawn up. As itsual, upon a state occasion, a silver bell announced the arrival of the pope, whereupon the thousands within St. Peter’s turned their faces to the doors of the chapel of the sacrament, through which the ipe entered. Preceded by bearers of the famous "flabellae," great white ostrich feather fans which give such ceremonies the aspect of an Oriental state affair, the pope was borne in on the “sede gestatoria.” carried by six stalwart noble guards. The mass itself was brief and simple, and at its conclusion, the pope once more was carried from the church in state, while the worshippers kneeled for his blessing. Bonus Cffven ‘Journey’s End’ Cast Bu United Press __ „ , .. LONDON, Dec. 21.—Following the 400th performance of “Journey’* End.” a bonus of 1,850 pound* ($9,250) was distributed among the actors and stage hands at the Prince of Wales theater.