Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1929 — Page 9

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NAVAL PARLEY PERILS REIGN OF MACDONALD Deep-Set British Idea of Ruling Waves Can Not Be Overthrown. THRICE NEAR DEFEAT England Never Will Agree to Play Second Fiddle at Sea. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrlpos-Hnward Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Three times saved from overthrow by the very skin of his teeth in the last thirty days, Premier Ramsay McDonald of Great Britain will go into the London naval conference seriously namstrung, so far as his being able to put through his own preferred program is concerned. While both Liberals and Conservatives of late have been rather driven by events into accepting the principle of naval parity with the United States, it is only necessary to cast back a very short while to see how deeply even the most progressive of them felt on the subject of Britannia continuing to rule the waves. What the Lobar premier faces at the coming conference is the task, on the one hand, of working out a formula which will satisfy America's demand for naval equality, while not running afoul, on the other, of the Conservative-Liberal almost religious conviction that Britain must remain the dominant sea power or perish. Between Devil and Sea Thus does MacDonald stand precariously perched between the devil of Uncle Sam's pretensions and the deep blue sea of political defeat if he goes too far granting them. On Nov. 27, or less than a month ago, only the absonce of many Conservatives and Liberals from the House of Commons saved the government defeat on the new dole bill. The vote was 237 to 167. Five days later the government came through by a still narrower squeak when a vote on the unemployment insurance measure netted only thirteen majority. Last Friday came a third neardefeat, the closest call of all. A vote on the coal mines bill gave the government only eight majority and observers seem agreed that MacDonald surely would almost have been overthrown but for the fact that both Liberals and Conservatives are agreed that now is not a favorable time for anew election. Stands on Shaky Perch Labor musters only 288 seats in the house of commons, while the conservatives are 260 strong and the liberals 59. The slightest shift in the voting would suffice to throw MacDonald out., and this may be expected the moment his opposition believes some gesture of his lacks popular support. And even Premier MacDonald is not unaware that the British masses still regard their navy as pretty much their all in all. In fact, he took occasion while in this country to warn Americans to this effect, signifying that he might have trouble carrying out his plans. Even Lord Robert Cecil, the most peace-loving of them all, outside MacDonald himself probably, back in 1919 wrote to Colonel House, President Wilson’s friend, saying he was concerned greatly over reports he had heard that America’s ambition is to have a navy at least as large” as Britain’s. Said he: "I think you will believe me when I say that I am passionately desirous of Anglo-American friendship ... but I must freely admit that if I were British minister of the navy and I saw that British naval satfety was being threatened, even by America, I should have to recommend to my fellow countrymen to spend their last shilling in bringing our fleet up to the point which I was advised was necessary for safety.” Limits to Concessions Seven years later Lord Cecil resigned from the British cabinet becaused he disagreed with the policy of the extremists of the big navy crowd of his admiralty, but from that to backing MacDonald in any drastic naval reduction program which would leave the United States as Britain’s absolute equal as a sea- ' power, is a still longer step. Much water has gone over the dam since 1919. Considerable has gone under the bridge even since the Geneva deadlock and fiasco of 1927. And all the signs point to some sort of Anglo-American naval understanding for 1930. Nevertheless, it requires mighty little imagination to see that there are very definite limits to which MacDonald can go.at London and still survive.

SEVEN FAMILIES AIDED Indianapolis Mailmen Fill Bask ts; Pay Month’s Rent. Seven Indianapolis families h fl mounteous Chirstmas dinners today through generosity of Indianapolis postoffice carriers. Raising a fund of $79, the caniers filled seven large baskets with food, each comainin gat least one chicken and a ham. In addition to the baskets, carriers paid a month’s rent for a substitute carrier, confined to his home with injuries. Veteran Doctor Dies LEBANON, Ind.. Dec. 25.—Dr Henry N. Coons, who has practiced medicine here forty years, is dead, He was a graduate of Wabash college.

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The famous William Desmond Taylor murder case at Los Angeles Is near a solution at last—or else it isn’t, depending on which set of authorities you wish to believe. District Attorney Buren Fitts says that only one link in the chain of evidence is missing, and Ex-Governor F. W. Richardson says he has definite evidence to identify the slayer. Former District Attorney Asa Keyes, however, scoffs at the story, and Charles Eyton, production manager at the Lasky studios, where Taylor formerly directed, characterizes the disclosures as “a fairy tale.” In this layout Taylor is shown with two movie actresses whose names were linked with his following his murder. Above is Mabel Normand; below, beside Taylor, is Mary Miles Minter.

FLIER TO VISIT RELATIVES HERE Herman Koehl Comes From Germany to U. S. Captain Herman Koehl, distinguished German aviator and member of the crew of the Bremen trans-Atlantic plane, will be in Indianapolis next week to visit relatives. it was learned today. Captain and Mrs. Koehl arrived Sunday in New York aboard the steamer Deutschland and have planned to spend several days in the east Jjefore visiting their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Kurtz, at their home on Seventy-first street. The captain, with Major Janies Fitzmaurice and Baron Gunther von Huenefeld, flew from Ireland to Greenland in a monoplane in the spring of 1928. In a brief tour of the United States, the fliers were guests of Indianapolis.

Take That A Merry Christmas to You —Plus a Sock in the Eye.

IT may be Marry Christmas to the rest of the world, but to two Indianapolis men today it’s not only a pain in the neck, but a couple of socks in the eye. Four men suffering from an excess cargo of ‘‘Christmas cheer.” asked George Bailey, Yellow cab driver, parked in front of the Coffee Cup case, 1118 Shelby street, to take them riding at 3:20 a. m. A glance at the condition of the merrymakers was sufficient for Bailey, who refused. Perturbed because of Bailey’s adamant stand, the four climbed Bailey's tree and decorated it. In the midst of the melee George Shaffer, night man at the case, rushed out to help Bailey. The four gave him the balance of the decorations. Bailey was taken to the city hospital. Police this morning arrested two of the quartet. John Essex, 21, of 1150 Spruce street, and Charles Doyle, 21, of 1322 Spann avenue, at the Spruce street address. The two men were in bed and beside them, police say, were two loaded shotguns. Civil War Veteran Dies RENSSELAER, Ind.. Dec. 25. Martin V. Sands. 87. who as a soldier in the forces of General U. S. Grant witnessed the surrender of Genial Robert E. Lee, is dead here.

‘WHO WAS THAT BUM I SEEN YOU WITH? WELL, YOU SEE, THAT WASN’T NO BUM!’

BY ARCH STEINEL DAY drops out of the Brightwood yards. The wind is nippy. The sleet cuts like tiny saws. The long, drawn-out whistle of a train halloos at the night coming out of the east. A railroad ‘‘bull”—a "cinder dick”—had said you could find them n/far here. "Over there’s a Jungle, where they cook their mulligans, sometimes. Maybe you'll see a ’’bo,* maybe you won’t. Good luck!” he called as his brogans crackled down the iced right-of-way. “Crack-crack-ack-crack-ack.”

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The post of head keeper of Auburn, N. Y., state prison, which was held by George A. Dumford when he was slain at the outbreak of the rioting which cost ten lives, has been given to Edward B. Beckwith, top, veteran attendant at the institution. The convict who shot and killed Dumford is said to have been identified as Max Becker, below, former Brooklyn, N. Y., ganster.

LOUISIANA BISHOP DIES Heart Attack Is Fatal to Aged Episcopal Churchman. Bv Times Special NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 25.—Bishop Davis Sessums, head of the Protestant Episcopal church of Louisiana, died at his home here after a sudden heart attack. Bishop Sessums was 71 years old. He had been head of the Louisiana diocese of the Fpiscopal church for more than ten years, and recently had returned from the biennial convention of the church at Atlantic City.

A good place for a murder, this place, while waiting for a knight of the road. “Crack-ack-crack-ack,” a becapped head deep in a coat collar walks along the right-of-way toward you. It’s now or never. man Nonchalance is attempted an ease of manner that is hard to simulate, with: “Saysay pardner, are you on the bum? Hitting the rods?” The head of the coat collar bobbs up. Young eyes made old too soon stare at you quizzically, haughtily. ,

INDIANAPOLIS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1929

POLICE RADIO BALKS HOLDUP OF CITY BUS ■ ■ ■ ■■ ■— Suspect Is Taken by Squad After Tip Is Relayed by Driver. CAFE OWNER ROBBED N Temple Avenue Resident Hands Over $lO7 at Point to Gun. Carefully laid plans for holdup of a bus driver were frustrated early today and two alleged bandits were arrested through use of the new police radio service, inaugurated Tuesday. C. A. Woodall, bus driver, noticing peculiar actions of Hobart Chandler, 22, of 5438 North Pennsylvania street, who boarded the bus at Spencer avenue and Brookville road, asked another passenger to get off and call police. Lieutenant R. A. Pope and squad, cruising in the vicinity, received a radio broadcast and caught up with the bus at Delawafe and St. Clair streets, arresting Chandler, who they said, was carrying a .38-caliber Colt revolver. Officers also arrested Jack Dillon, 31, of 2234 Ashland avenue, in an Essex car with license M-106, which Woodall had noticed following the bus. An extra license plate was found in the car. Held Under High Bond Police said Chandler admitted he intended to rob the bus driver and that he was to make his escape in the car driven by Dillon. The latter refused talk. Dillon was held under SIO,OOO bond on a vagrancy charge, and Chandler was held under $5,000 bond on charges of vagrancy and , carrying concealed weapons. Jack Raney, 1538 Bellefontaine street, another bus driver, was not so fortunate, being relieved of $1 near Arlington and Rawles avenues, about 11:30 p. m., by a stickup man who got on the bus downtown. Raney ran into the home of Mrs.. Nael- Stark, wife of a police officer, and notified police headquarters. Two bandits, one about 55 years old and the other about 18, held up Frank W. Roberts, proprietor of the Midway case, 4102 East Washington street, at 11:25 p. m„ and at the point of guns relieved him of sl2. After forcing Roberts to lie flat on his face, the bandits escaped. Rob With “Merry Christmas" Shouting “Merry Christmas” a. man and two women, passengers in the taxicab driven by Charles Nugent, 32, of 312 East North street escaped after robbing him of 55 cents, all he had on his person, near Capitol avenue and Market street, at 4 a. m. today. Henry Loughrey, 58, of 668 North Temple avenue, was robbed of $lO7 by an armed bandit as he was putting his car in the garage at the rear of his home at 6 p. m. Tuesday. When Loughrey turned to look at the bandit after a command to raise his hands, he w'as struck on the head. The bandit was described as about 40 years old, weighing 165 pounds, 5 feet 9 Inches tall and with a heavy growth of beard. He wora a sheepskin-lined coat, dark cap and dark trousers. Piloting their roadster Into the path of a truck driven by James T. Overman. Beech Grove, employe of the Settler Baking Company, two men held up Overman and took S7O and his truck about 3:30 p. m. Tuesday on Hanna avenue. One of the bandits got in the truck and, threatening Overman with a gun forced him to drive to Stop 6 and Gray road, where Overman was ordered out.

DEMONSTRATION HELD BY JOBLESS IN BERLIN Christmas Eve Selected as Time to Present Grievances. By T'nitrd Press BERLIN, Dec. 25. Unemployed men held a demonstration in the streets of the wealthier residential districts Tuesday that brought families from their Christmas trees to windows and cast a sobering shadow over their festivities. The workless selected Christmas eve to hold a parade to call attention to their plight, and greeted householders with such shouts as “We are hungry!” Communists joined the parade, and sang their revolutionary song "Internationale.” There were but minor disorders in connection with the parade, police told the United Press late tonight.

“Sure! What’s it to you. You ain’t no cinder dick. I ain’t done nothing. What’s the big idee? Oh! a newspaper man! Warn to know about the? road, what the rods are like. Say, how do I know you ain’t a cinder dick?” A card—one that Jeff Davis, prince of hobos, gave us for telling the world that he was trying to keep “kids” off the bum (kids like this one)—was shown. “Hum-m-m never heard of no Jeff Davis, and ‘I-tin-nerant Work-ers Un-yun.’ Me I’ve bin lots of places, done lots of things. The rods ain’t much good any more for going places. I’m waiting for a Big Four coal train now.

‘ Viking ' Father of Lost Airman Refuses to Believe Son Is Dead

Parent Will Fly North to Seek Carl Eielson If Present Hunt Fails. Hu .V/T.4 Ferric* Hatton, n. and., Dec, 25.— if can Ben Eie’son, famous Arctic flier, has lost his life in the northland—he has been missing in the desolate North Cape district since Nov. 9—his aged father, Ole Eielson, will not do any whining about it. The Viking-like old man is ready to accept the decrees of fate. He will grieve, of course—but he feels that his son has had a full, useful life; and he believes that that is the main thing. Eielson and a mechanic disappeared while making a second relief trip to the fur schooner. Nanuk, frozen in the Ice off Siberia. Eielson. a pioneer Dakotan and a retired banker, however, is not ready to give up hope. He is confident that his son is alive, and if he Is not found by Feb. 1, the father plans to go to the Arctic himself and ask Joe Crosson, famous Alaskan flier, to take him on a searching trip. “Crosson was one of Ben’s closest friends.” he says. “If my boy has been killed, I want to bring his body back to Hatton and bury it beside his mother.” The father refuses to give his son up for lost. Three of his sisters feri the same wav, Alma here; Hann>* at Mayville, N. D„ and Helen at Grand Forks, N. D„ all holding out hopes that their brother landed safely and will be found as soon as a searching party is able to make headway. But Adelaine, at Wenatchee, Wash., believes her brother a victim of the Arctic in which he has flown successfully for the last seven years. There are also two brothers. Arthur R. Eielson, who is with the Westinghouse company in New York, and Oliver Eielson, who is with an American meat packing agency at Lima, Peru. Eielson’s last letter to his family, dated Oct. 12. and written from Fairbanks, Alaska, reads as follows: “Dear Dad and Folks: “There is not much to report from here except the usual round of flying. The consolidation of the companies has worked out well and business has been fair so far. We have some peculiar errands to make, carrying Eskimos, herding reindeer, carrying live foxes, mink and dogs, gold, fur, machinery. We carry a lot of sick people to hospitals. This morning a plane left on a 300-mile trip to take a doctor to a place where a woman was bleeding to death. This is certainly an interesting place to fly in. “Hope everything is going good at home. Best greetings to all. Your son, ’BEN.”

HURLED FROM SPEEDING CAR Scantily-Clad Woman Is Unhurt, However. Hurled from a ’speeding cqupe, Miss Irepe Ball, 25, of 966 North Meridian street, scantily clad, escaped injury except for bruises when she fell in a snow bank at the side of North Meridian street near St. Clair street, about 7 a. m. today. George Taylor, 646 Blake street, Service Cab driver, who saw the incident and called police, said Miss Ball was thrown out of the car, traveling probably fifty miles an hour, by either two or three men. She was attired only in a coat, shoes and stockings. After being rushed by motor police to city hospital, where her bruises were treated, she was taken to police headquarters and slated on an intoxication charge. She refused to talk to police.

Oldest Senage Page Sees Big Capital Change WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Norman R. Smith, 75, of Trinidad, Cal., the oldest living page “boy” of the United States Senate,

who served in 1869 - 70, visited the capitol last week to look over familiar sights. Smith was appointed by President Grant. He and William Tyler Page, now clerk of the house of representatives, were pages together. Mr. Smith is now 7 a surveyor.

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Nothing like riding the ‘flats.’ “Do yer think about Christmas on the road—h —no. You’re too busy picking coal lumps out of yer eye. Me—what’s my name. Oh! make it the Kokomo Kid. That’s a good one. Did l~know T A-No-1? Sure they don’t make bo’s better’n him.” ‘Crack-ack-ack-crack,’ our footsteps’ crunch on the snow in tune as we walk in the same direction the "railroad detective took. a’ a a “wtctHY once,” his head lifted W like a peacock.—"me’n the Frisco Kid made the west coast in five days on the ‘b’inds’. That was some trip. More’n one

Above, at left, is Joe Crosson, noted Alaskan ace, who is undertaking a search in the Arctic wastes for Carl Ben Eielson, right. Below is Eielson’s father, Ole Eielson, of Hatton, N. D,

PROGRESS IS SLOW IN MOONEY’S CASE

Prisoner Has No Hope of Freedom Until Late in Spring. By Scripps-Howard, Newspaper Alliance SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25.—Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings will spend New Year’s day as felons, working eight hours at their stints. This became certain here as the two new official bodies called into the case by Governor Young began a tedious set of investigations of the “frameup” evidence. The state supreme court, to which the Billings case was referred, is busy on the mountain of briefs, affidavits and perjury evidence, each of the seven justices delving separately on the case. The advisory pardon board, headed by Lieuten-ant-Governor H. L. Carnahan, has organized for a long set of hearings. On this board are Attorney-Gen-eral U. S. Webb, Chairman James J. Johnston of the state crime commission, Warden James Holohan of San Quentin, and Warden Court Smith of Folsom. As these bodies dug in for the winter, it became evident that it will be March or April before Governor Young wall be able to act on the pardon pleas. Mooney Works as Waiter Mooney spent Christmas at his regular task of waiter in the San Quentin guards’ mess hall. He has had only nine days off in fourteen years, and these nine days were spent in the hospital. Billings has anew job. He has been transferred from his old trusty job as gardener to a place as laundry worker inside the Folsom prison walls. Both Mooney and Billings are hopeful, but stoical. On Dec. 8 Mooney "celebrated” his fortyseventh birthday. A local radio program announcer told of this event and over the air congratulated Mooney upon “his calm spirit.” On this occasion Mooney’s aged mother sent him a cheery message via the air. “My boy,” she said, “I hope you’ll be out soon! Happy birthday.” Papers Criticise Young As officialdom lumbered heavily forward toward the pardon, believed inevitable in view of recent revelations of corruption, newspapers throughout California became restive and openly critical of Governor Young for “sidestepping” the decision and “passing the buck” to the pardon board and court. Even the rural press has joined the chorus demanding quick pardon action. While here and there a country paper refers to Mooney as “a dangerous anarchist,” not one important paper has urged further incarceration of the men. Even the anti-union Los Angeles Times has held its peace. Mayor Fills Offices Bu Times Special WABASH, Ind., Dec. 25.—Homer T. Showalter, who will become mayor of Wabash, Jan. 6 announces appointment of Harry Ridgeway as police chief; Carl Elshire, fire chief; James Philpott, city engineer, and Frank W. Plummer, city attorney.

time I’ve got tossed off the ‘tops’ by a ‘shack.’ Don’t know what a ‘shack’ is—why a brakeman, ‘course. Say I’ve bin places, done things. Stay ’way from the road if you don’ wan’ to lose yer home, mother, and friends.” Eyes almost blinked at that. If the "city editor could only, know that we were out here, alone, in the cold, the wind making a flag of our pant-legs. We would go home! That was resolved! Better to have passed a freight train than to have hopped one. The Kokomo Kid stopped. He stopped as they do in blood-and -

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In a suit for divorce which Mrs, Woodworth, pictured above, has filed at West Palm Beach, Chauncey Clark Woodworth, the wealthy perfume manufacturer, is charged with “publicly humiliating” his wife. They, well known in New York and Palm Beach society, figured in the news at the time of their marriage when a former wife of Woodworth sought to have her divorce decree set r f de after the perfume magnate had remarried.

Canadian Mob Daubs Coat of Tar on Doctor VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 25. Tarred and feathered, ur. V. E. Latimer was left several m’les from town, clad only in an over-

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that his wife, a patient of Dr. Latimer’s, had been mistreated. Death Driver Acquitted P.U Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec. 25. Philip Buerele, Chicago, was acquitted in Porter circuit court here of the manslaughter charge filed after the death of Elmer Pecinka, 11, in an automobile accident in July.

thunder magazines, “dead in his tracks.” “Who’s that coming?” “A—a what you call a cinder dick,” we replied. “S’long. I got ta beat it,” he called as he loped off across the tracks. The detective drew abreast of us, “Where’d he go?” “Who, that bum,” we answered. "Bum,” he snorted, “Bum nothing! He’s not a bum! He’s a coal thief. We’ve been trying to catch him for a week. “C rac k-a ck-a c k-crack-ack,’ mocked the detective’s steps as he ran the tracks..

BORAH WANTS REAL SHAKEUP i IN DRY ARMY Law Can Not Be Enforced With Present Personnel, Senator Declares. SKEPTICAL ON SURVEY. Commission Will Discover Only What Every One Knows, He Says. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Dec. 25.—Presi- | dent Hoover's law enforcement coraj mission is prepared to submit a report that the chief need of prohibi- | tion and other laws is better public j officers to enforce them, the United Press was informed authoritatively today. Such a report may be expected early in the new year, if differences which have developed among some of the commission members can be ironed out successfully, it is learned. Just now the commission is split over methods of procedure and harassed by dry critics in congress, but President Hoovier is known to have taken a hand toward maintenance of peace and is understood to favor presentation of the report to congress as soon as possible. The report conforms almost exactly to the views of Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, announced Tuesday night. The dry’ leader who stumped the country for Mr. Hoover in the last campaign, only to break with him over the tariff issue after election, declared “with the present personnel, nothing will be accotn-

plished.” Not Worried About Commission Borah stated he was not interested in a report of the commission, although this is the question which has been agitating other prominent drvs recently, including Senators Harris tDem., Ga.) and Glass tDem., Va.). Following Harris’ public denunciation of members of the commission, and his statements that the drys lacked the necessary confidence in it because of its secret activities, he was called to the White House Tuesday by the President. He declined to discuss his conference, but intimated he would not press for action on his pending senate resolution if the commission report can be expected within the next few weeks. His resolution calls upon the President to get a report from the commission. For months the commission has been holding secret hearings and accumulating a mass of information concerning law violations, none of which has been made public. Its work is nowhere near finished. The coming report would be only in the nature of a preliminary statement, designed among other things to appease the disgruntled drys in congress, who have been looking askance at the commission headquarters here.

Law Changes to Be Asked It is expected to contain other suggestions aside from the recommendation for a. shakeup in the enforcement agencies, including proposals for technical changes in the law to encourage prosecutions and discourage violations. Those who have knowledge of the intent of the report saw a possible connection in the secret demotion Tuesday of John J. Quinn, assistant prohibition director for Maryland I and the District of Columbia. Quinn : was transferred and reduced to ! ranks because he “did not have the necessary executive ability.” ing to Commissioner Doran. Charges against him were made puu±.w “The great fact that stands out with me,” said Doran, in a statement which may have the effect of hastening the committee report, is this: We have the law; the supreme court'has construed it. “There is no difficulty about the officers understanding it. But have we the officials willing to execute the law? A commission will not throw any light upon what the law is. Neither will it have anything to do with the selecting of the officers to enforce it. Must Find Officials “Having the law clearly defined, the next thing, and the only thing, is to finer the kind of officials who will enforce it. In my opinion it never will be enforced with the present personnel, from top to bottom. “If the commission should report,, it will not tell us anything we do not know, either as to the law or as to the facts. We still will be back to the one proposition, and that is, that with the present personnel nothing will be accomplished. “I am very much more interested in the kind of officials which we are to have, district attorneys, marshals, sheriffs and enforcement officers generally, than I am in the theories and dissertations of the commission.” BOOK 358 YEARS OLD Collection of Bible Commentaries Was Printed in 1571. YAKIMA, Wash., Dec. 25.— H. P. Ve.mhye owns one of the world’s oldest books. It is a collection of Bible commentaries printed in 1571, at which time there were only 200 printing presses in existence. The author, Petti M. Vermilli, was an ancestor of the present owner. Aged Man Kills Self Bti Times Special ELIZAVTLLE, Dec. 25.—Theodore McMannis, 65, killed himself by shooting at his home Despondency over illness is believed to have been the cause of the suicide.