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POLICE CLAIM CONFESSION IN HOLDUP SERIES Youth Trapped as Suspect in Fatal Gun Battle Grilled by Cops. BULLETS LAY TWO LOW One Shot to Death, Second Wounded Fleeing From Robbery Scene. Trapped by detectives in his home today, Henry Schekels, 19, 3322 West Vermont street, alleged third member of a bandit gang that engaged m a gun duel wish Terre Haute police, is alleged to have confessed two recent holdups here and robbery of the Em-Roe Sporting Goods store, 209 West Washington street, last Sunday. From the store, he took SSOO worth of guns, he is said to have confessed. Holdups were of filling stations at Belmont and Spencer avenue, and Belmont avenue and Morris street. Police assert he also :onfes and two holdups in Danville. Schekels is charged with auto banditry, robbery and unlawful (xissession of fireaims. Police also were questioning Joseph Burray. 18. of 640 East Georgia street, arrested with SchekLs as the two entered Scheckels’ home. One Is Killed Meanwhile Terre Haute police v.rre holding Joseph Facconi, 17. ' < armor Arsenal Technical high ; chool student, on charges of \ banditry, while the body of Roscoe j Parsons, 19, of 719 Lord street, alias Joseph Costello, was in a Terre Haute morgue. Parsons was killed and Facconi wounded by Motor Officers Robert Van and Ralph Warner of Terre Haute Tuesday night after they are i alleged to have staged two filling { . i Gii;ps in a stolen automobile owned by the Thornburg-Lewis j Motor Company of Indianapolis. Shots fired by Officer War-j nor Iroirt a shotgun killed Parsons : almost instantly and wounded Fac-! coni when the two attempted to escape alter abandoning the carj following a chase. Schekels, who ! admitted to Indianapolis police, it is | alleged, that he was with the two, I but denied taking part in the holdups, escaped on foot. Both Had Guns When he entered his home here this morning in company with Burray, Detectives Patrick Roache nd Louis Fossati, hiding behind a door, seized the two. Both had largecaliber guns when arrested, police say. Facconi was believed by his parents to be attending night school when the shooting occurred at Terre Haute. He was expelled from Arsenal Technical high school fifteen days ago and was facing charges of auto banditry for alleged holdup of the Kennedy pharmacy, 4001 Shelby street, on Nov. 13. He j had been released on bond. Parsons was discharged from the state penal farm ten days ago after serving a term for auto banditry and vehicle taking. In a statement to police today, Schekels is said to have admitted driving the car when the two filling stations at Terre Haute were robbed. He denied firing at the officers, saying he fled when his companions opened fire. THREE DIE IN FLAMES Children, Mother Victims; Twins Tossed to Safety. , / 1/ 1 nited Prrgg BLUEFIELDS. W. Va.. Feb. 12. Two children and their mother were burned to death and three others suffered serious injuries today when fire destroyed the home of J. Harmon Mullins, Brush Creek, Va., west of here. The dead are Mrs. Mullins. Emma Lee, 14. and Vernie James. 12. CLEANERS END SESSION Officers Named by State Group in Convention Here. Officers of the Indiana Association of Dyers and Cleaners were elected at the closing session of the convention at the Lincoln Tuesday. Those elected are: Charles Matins. president; Walter Bcno and Ruel M. Beebe, vice-presidents: George L. Turner, secretary: David Anderson, sergeant-at-arms. and Charles Eichel, James Powers. Ernest Schubert. Albert C. Schoen and C. E. Worrell, directors. NEW CITY PARK ASKED Butler-Fairview Group to Confer With Board on Request. A city park in the territory bounded by Capitol avenue, Fortyninth street. Graceland avenue and Forty-seventh street was asked today bv the Butler-Fairview Civic Association. A committee will confer with the j park board on the proposition Thursday. William Low Rice, real estate dealer, who ow ns considerable property in that territory; H. O. Cherry and Gustave G. Schmidt compose park committee.

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‘INEFFICIENT’ BRAND STAMPED ON CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT BY DICK MILLER CONSIDERABLE portion of $1,084,257 loss in three big fires here in ten months probably was due to inefficiency of Indianapolis fire department. This charge, gleaned from Investigation of complaints that firemen several times were slow 7 to answer alarms, that they have violated departmental rules, and displayed general inefficiency at fires, is supported by records of the department. When the Central Wall Paper Company, South Meridian street, uffered a fire March 30. 1929. loss was estimated at $274,257; another blaze damaged the U. S. Corrugated Box Company plant $310,000, May 8, 1929; lass in a fire that swept the American Foundry Company, 531 South Warman avenue, Jan. 25, this year, probably will be fixed at between $500,000 and $600,000.

LASH IS LAID ON HUGHES BY WESTERN BLOG Dill and Brookhart Advance Torrid Arguments in Fight. llu United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.—The fight of westerners of both political parties to block confirmation of Charles Evans Hughes as chief justice of the United States spread in the senate today, with Senators Dill <Dem.. Wash.) and Brookhart (Rep., la.) protesting hotly against confirmation. Before crowded galleries, but with a small attendance of senators, Dill and Brookhart made speeches contending Hughes represented the theory of government which would exalt property rights above those of the people. “You Democratic descendants of Jefferson and Jackson and Republican descendants of Abraham Lincoln are going to vote to put a man on the court who preaches doctrines which will overturn and destroy practically everything Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln stood for,” Dill said. The Washington senator used Hughes’ brief as a private attorney representmg the General Electric Company in the WGY suit against the government. He said that if Hughes had his way, as expressed in this brief, “the people would not own the air they breathe.” TAFT IS UNCHANGED Former Chief Justice Rests Well at Home. Tin United Pet ss WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.—Little change was noted today in the condition of William Howard Taft, who has been w T aging a courageous fight against death for more than a week. The Taft home w r as dark throughout the night, indicating the former chief justice had enjoyed another comfortable night. His physicians said that because of the completeness of his breakdown, improvement will be gradual. Robert A. Taft, who visited his father for a day. left Tuesday night for his home in Cincinnati. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 42 10 a. m 43 7a. m 42 11 a. m 44 Ba. m 43 12 (noon)., 45 9 a. m 44 1 p. m 45

COOLIDGE DISTRICT GOES DEMOCRATIC

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 12. The second Massachusetts congressional district, home district of Former President Calvin Coolidge, has gone Democratic for the first time in the forty years since its creation. In a special election to fill the seat of Representative Kirk Kaynor (Rep.), killed in an airplane accident at Washington. William J. Granfield of Longmeadow was chosen by more than 6,421 votes over the Republican candidate. Fred D. Griggs. Granfield ran as an out-and-out wet. Griggs had said that, although he personally was dry, he would vote for repeal of the eighteenth amendment if the issue came up in congress. A third candidate, Whitfield Reid of West Springfield, running as a bone-dry independent, received only 1,082 votes. Fourth place went to William H. Feiker. dry and former Republican

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r iv United Press TT OKOMO, Ind.. Feb. 12.—Death in an unusual and horrible form was the fate of William McKinney, 49, while he was engaged in working as a millwright at the plant of the Superior Tool and Machine Company. The worker's clothing was caught in a line shaf turning 215 revolutions a minute and driven by a 75-horse power motor. His body was whirled around the shaft, nearly even - bone being broken. His right arm and legs were shattered and the left arm tom off. .

After each disaster charges were hurled by business men, underwriters' engineers and others familiar with fire fighting duties, alleging that the department was appallingly inefficient in allowing these blazes to get beyond control. Whitewash Is Charged Investigations said to have followed these accusations apparently brought nothing but vindication of firemen. So brazenly, It Is said, was whitewash applied following one of the fires that department records were altered to give firemen the benefit of five minutes, changing their performance from one of extraordinary tardiness to fair efficiency. Next week the safety board will act on recommendations of Fire Chief Harry Voshell and William B. Griffith, Gamewell division superintendent, to retire William G. Tallentire, 74. and Frank M. Sloan, 71, on pensions. Neither was on duty when the fire for which it is charged records were changed was reported. Inefficiency Alleged Asa result of the failure of fire apparatus to arrive on the scene of the American Foundry Company blaze for several minutes after the alarm- was turned in, and because of inept handling of equipment when companies finally did arrive, it is said, a blaze that might have been checked without tremendous loss swept everything in its path and was halted only by blank space. There was nothing left to bum. Had the wind shifted direction, officials of the company have charged, the entire neighborhood might have been swept by the fire. At least ten minutes elapsed from the time of the alarm until the first company on the scene turned a stream of water on the blaze, company heads told insurance investigators. Speedy Time Made Five years ago, when the Chand-ler-Taylor Company, located near the American Foundry Company, suffered a fire, a battalion chief was on the scene, looked over the situation, turned in a second alarm, and had his apparatus in action, all In four minutes, according to official records. One member of the board of safety, connected with the insurance company holding policies on the foundry, and another board member are said to have been familiarized with the alleged blunders. RACE RIOTING FLARES Mexican Is Stabbed in Battle With Filipinos. Hu United Pres a LA VERNE. Cal., Feb. 12.—An augmented police force was on guard here today to prevent recurrence of a race riot in which a Mexican was stabbed and a Filipino clubbed into unconsciousness. Animosity was incited when a number of Mexicans Jeered Filipinos Tuesday night because the latter were attending school.

mayor of Northampton, who polled 87 votes. The total number of ballots cast was 57,088, of which Granfield received 31,170 and Griggs 24,749. The victorious Democrat carried every ward in former President Coolidge’s home city of Northampton. Griggs’ defeat was interpreted by dry leaders as a rebuke for his paradoxical stand on prohibition. They argued that his willingness to favor repeal of the eighteenth amendment made him a wet in spite of the fact that he is a nondrinker. Depression in the Republican ranks today was not confined, however, to speculation solely concerning the vote-getting power of opposing prohibition views. Senator Walsh, who enthusiastically supported Granfield, had asked for ballots as a protest against the adminstration of President Hoover.

Edgar Hendy, foreman, shut off the power witmn a few seconds, and the body fell fifteen feet to a concrete floor. McKinney was standing on a ladder when caught by the shaft. The dead man had been out of work for a year and a half. He had obtained employment at the plant Jan. 20. During his long idleness, the millwright had been unable to keep insurance premiums paid and no policies were in effect at the time of his death. He leaves the widow and eight children.

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D. A. R. SLAP AT OXNAM IS PUTTOSCORN Reformatory Head Asserts Talk by De Pauw Man Was Inspirational. VIEWED DISCIPLINE AID ‘Outrage’ Charge of Muncie Woman Based on Error, Is Defense. Indiana state reformatory prisoners are better disciplined men today as the result of the speech there Sunday of Dr. G. Bromley Oxnara, president of De Pauw university. This was the opinion today of A. F. Miles, reformatory superintendent, who has had thirty years’ service in such institutions, and is considered an authority. Miles was amazed w r hen he learned that Dr. Oxnam’s speech had been termed an “outrage” by the D. A. R. He at once took issue with the charge that it tended to make the 1,900 prisoners disloyal “traitors and anarchists.” Charged Slanderous The charge was made Monday in a letter to Attorney-General James M. Ogden from Mrs. Electa Chase Murphy, Muncie, state chairman for national defense of the Indiana Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. She urged Ogden to prevent Oxnam from again making such a “false and slanderous utterance” at the Pendleton institution. Her objections were based on press accounts of the speech in which the De Pauw president was quoted as urging “America First” in terms of world service rather than first in theft of Mexican oil lands. “I do not know where Mrs. Murphy could get such an erroneous idea of Dr. Oxnam’s speech.” Miles said. “Prisoners here were highly pleased wtih it and it aided discipline, rather than tended to make the men more disgruntled. Prisoners Comment "Instead of weakening their patriotism, it strengthened it. I have heard several prisoners comment on what a fine talk Dr. Oxnam made, and what a splendid man he is personally. “The sfpeech Sunday was a little different from the average sermon. It was more of a lecture and the boys heartily enjoyed it. It did them all great good.” Miles has been at the Pendleton institution for twenty-six years. President Oxnam laughed when told of the Murphy allegations. “The best defense against the person who talks first and fathers facts later, or perhaps not at all, is silence,” he asserted when interviewed at Greencastle. "Mrs. Murphy depended upon somewhat hastily prepared and condensed press reports to base her attack. She could have heard the straight story of the speech from Superintendent Miles at the reformatory.” MARKET REPAIRS ASKED Board Told Refrigeration System Is in Bad Condition. Repair of the refrigeration system at city market was recommended to the board of safety today by Building Commissioner William Hurd. Hurd told the board that repair of the plant would reduce costs greatly U. S. SHIPS FIRED ON Chinese Bandits Attack American Vessels of Standard OiL Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—American vessels belonging to the Standard Oil Company have been fired upon by Chinese bandits in the Yangtze river, Frank P. Lockhart, American consul-general, at Hankow informed the state department today.

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MASS FOR DEAD IS RIOT SIGNAL 31 Held by Police After Haiti Demonstration. /l ii United Press PORT AU RINCE, Haiti, Feb. 12. —Tire rioting and bloodshed of last December were recalled today when a crowd of Haitians held a manifestation in front of the cathedral here after a mass had been said in memory of the natives killed by United States marines at Aux Cayes in December. Authorities broke up the demonstration and made thirty-one arrests. The crowd, estimated at 50, was addressed by three speakers who blamed the government “aided by American machine guns for misery” existing in Haiti. After those arrested had been taken to the police station, a crowd of 100 gathered before the building, shouting, “long live liberty.” They were dispersed quickly and the city was quiet late in the morning. Bn United Press _ WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The state department said today President Hoover’s Haitian commission would sail from Key West, Fla., Feb. 25 aboard the U. S. S. Rochester. YOUNG DAUGHERTY DIES Son of Former Attorney-General Passes After Operation. By United Press SARASOTA, Fla., Feb. 12.—Draper Daugherty, son of former Attor-ney-General Harry M. Daugherty, died here today at Halton hospital, where he underwent an emergency operation Tuesday night to relieve complications which followed an operation for appendicitis performed two weeks ago. INSTITUTE IS ARRANGED Home Garden Show to Be Held at Tomlinson Hall, March 3-5. Schedule for the annual Home Garden Institute, to be conducted at Tomlinson hall March 3, 4 and 5 by Purdue university, was announced today by C. A. Henry, Marion county agricultural agent.

tion of limiting ships by global tonnage, or total strength, and by categories, or comparative strength in each class of ship. A compromise between the two methods was sought. The British spokesman said experts had reached an agreement on some points, but that other points, including actual figures, had been left for decision of the committee of the whole. Oppose Ship Scrapping Bu United Press LONDON, Feb. 12.—The British government dees not intend to scrap either of the latest British battleships, Albert V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, told a questioner in the house of commons today. A tentative American suggestion was made that the United States build anew battleship, scrapping one of its older ones in its place, to equalize the two navies to greater degree. An alternative suggestion was that Britain scrap some of its newer class ships, such as the Royal Sovereign or Queen Elizabeth type, rather than the old Iron Duke ckjss. J-.u- fY i . *

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Goodness of Emancipator Impresses Itself on His Students. BY H. O. THOMPSON TJnited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Under the brooding, melancholy marble face of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln memorial here, a legend is being bom. It is a legend that all who gazed upon that sculptured countenance take away in their own characters something of the fundamental goodness of the great emancipator. In various individuals the legacy takes different forms. The aged, some of them barely able to struggle up the steps to the shrine, gain back something of their youth. The young are sobered by the atmosphere of veneration which clings to the glistening marble structure. In the case of John W. Wheeler, who has a record of thirty years of service, at home and abroad, with the United States army, the Lincoln tradition works in still another way. Always Admired Emancipator Wheeler is a guard and attendant at the Lincoln memorial, but his work signifies more than a means of livelihood to him. “I’ve always admired President Lincoln,” Wheeler said today, while preparations were being made for the two Lincoln birthday exercises at the memorial. “But since being here I’ve lived Lincoln, studied Lincoln and been helped by Lincoln. “Sooner or later all the lovers of Lincoln come here. There was ons just the other day who could just barely get up the steps. He claimed that story about Grant and Lincoln was true. You know they tried to tell Lincoln that Grant was too much of a drinker to have charge of the Union army. And Lincoln said, ‘Find out what brand of whisky he drinks; I could use it for some of the other generals’.” Left His Card Just a few weeks ago a visitor talked to Wheeler and the guard told him about the statue, how it measured nearly twenty feet from massive shoe to heroic brow, and how a Spaniard, Royal Cortissoz, had written the words above his head: “In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever.” “Imagine my chagrin,” Wheeler chuckled, “when I looked at the card he left with me. It read—- “ Royal Cortissoz." INJURED IN CAR SMASH Woman Hurt When Autos Collide at Intersection of Highway. Mrs. Samuel Jordan, 26, of R. Ft. 4, Box 518, suffered severe cuts when a car driven by her husband ran into the rear of a machine driven by Miss Dorothy Deineke, 19, of R. : R. 4, Box 628, on the Hanna road j this morning.

Loses Mongage Money; Kills Self, Three Sons Bu United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 12.— America seemed very strange to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Weidauer, who came from Germany five years ago. They couldn’t get used to the city and they always spoke in their native language, talking often of “the old country.” Stolid and hardworking, the Weidauers, however, were not the sort to give up. They settled down gradually and bought a little home in Ozone park, Queens. Nearby was the Bayside cemetery, in which Mrs. frequently walked. She said it was the nearest thing she could find to the Saxony countryside she loved. When her husband returned from work Tuesday night he found this note: “I lost the mortgage money ($100) when I was walking in thi cemetery. The payment was due today. I asked Goodhart. Harvey and Hans, and they say they want to go with mother. God bless you, Oscar. Your loving wife, MARTHA.” On the floor lay Mrs. Weidauer’s body. 9 rouped around here were those of their three children. Four burners on the gas stove were open. I

MERCURY DROP FORECAST HERE Colder Weather Will Grip City Thursday Night. Colder weather is in store for Indianapolis within a few days J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist, predicted today. Whether a temperature decline expected Thursday night will continue until the city experiences a mid-February cold wave, was uncertain, he said. Zero temperatures in western Canada and the Dakotas are traveling eastward, and their effect will be felt here by Friday. Armington declared. Thursday probably will be cloudy and rainy, he said. WRECK INJURES 19 Suburban Train Is Struck by Backing Cars. CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—Nineteen persons were injured, eleven seriously, when an incoming Chicago & Northwestern suburban train from Aurora was struck and derailed today by an empty passenger train backing out of the northwestern station. The rear coach of the backing train smashed into the second car of the commuters’ crowded nine-car special, demolishing the wooden coach and throwing the rest of the train from the rails. Most of the passengers in the second coach were severely bruised and cut. Several suffered leg fractures and internal injuries. MAN DIES FROM POISON Worry Over Father's Condition Is Blamed for Act. Clifford L. Masterson, 36, of 2 Plum street, who took a large quantity of poison Monday at his home, died at city hospit* Tuesday night. Worry over th mental breakdown of his father is believed the cause for his suicide. GERMANS GREET ENVOY Sackett Presents Credentials to President Hindenburg. Bv United Press BERLIN, Feb. 12.—Frederic M. Sackett, America's new ambassador to Germany, presented his credentials to President Paul Von Hindenburg today. “My Instructions,” the ambassador told Hindenburg, ‘look toward increasing the friendly intercourse between Germany and the United States, and to this I 6hail devote every effort."

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POLICE SMASH BARES RADIO THEFT RING Seven Negroes Arrested as Alleged Members of Gigantic Plot. SALESMAN AIDS COP Chicago Believed Disposal Point for Stolen Receiving Sets. Arrest of seven Negroes and recovery of $2,500 worth of allegedly stolen radio receiving apparatus here Tuesday night and early today is expected by police to result in the breakup of a gigantic radio theft ring, believed to operate throughout the middle west, with Chicago as the disposal point for stolen goods. Further arrests are predicted by police. Leonard Davis, Negro, 33, of 767 West Twenty-sixth street, is held by police as the suspected ringleader of the Negroes, who are charged with looting many radio stores here. Questioned Closely Charged with burglary and grand larceny, he was being questioned closely by detectives today regarding traffic with Chicago dealers who are believed to have accepted stolen radio apparatus for resale in Chicago cut-rate radio stores. Davis, night man at a garage at 4206 College avenue, is alleged to have operated from the garage. Closing it at ni Q ht, he used automobiles from the garage with which to cart radio apparatus away from stores entered, police charge. Federal agents will be called into the case by city police in an effort to determine whether a truck load of stolen radio apparatus, abandoned near Gary when the truck went into a ditch recently, was being shipped to Chicago by Indianapolis members of the alleged radio theft ring.

Others Arc Held Others held with Davis are: Wilton Allison, 35, Negro, 254 West St Clair street, charged with receiving stolen goods; Carl Carson, 32, Negro, of 1017 West Twenty-seventh street, charged with receiving stolen goods; Harold Newbolt, 33, Negro, of 906 Edgemont street, charged with burglary and grand larceny; Oliver McClellan, 28, Negro, of 3606 Balsam avenue, charged with receiving stolen goods; Robert Dudley Hooks, 35, Negro, of 1177 West Twenty-seventh street, charged with burglary and grand larceny; Jesse Bryant, 33, Negro, of 429 West Twelfth street, charged with receiving stolen goods. The charges of receiving stolen goods are based largely upon alleged efforts of the gang to conceal a radio apparatus stolen from the Curtis E. Burke Hardware and Plumbing Company’s store, 650 East Forty-ninth street, the night of Jan. 8. Salesman Aids Keeness of a radio salesman, J. B. Messier of 3608 Balsam avenue gave police their clew. Messier, in the James Dunbar case at 1167 Fairfield avenue when Allison, McClellan and Carson are alleged to have entered and attempted to sell a radio stolen from the Burke store, noticed the serial number of the apparatus. When he began to ask questions, the three Negroes took the machine away. Detectives George Hubbard and Edgar Deeter, assigned to the case, allege the stolen radio was hurriedly changed from one hiding place to another. It finally waa located at the residence oi Bryant. Radio store burglaries and burglaries of homes In which radio apparatus was the loot in Indianapolis totaled more than SIO,OOO in value within the last three months, police records show. Apparatus recovered by police in the arrests of the seven total $2,500 in value, including a number of expensive radio sets. One apparatus recovered sold retail at $950, according to police. Three Sets Recovered One radio stolen from the Burke store was recovered at the home of Edward Best, 90S South Capitol avenue. Best having paid S3O for the $l5O set, according to police. A $740 apparatus stolen from the Indianapolis Music shop at 417 College avenue on Jan. 7, was recovered, police said, at the home of James Hill, Negro, 1818 Boulevard place, having been left there for “demonstration” by one of the arrested men who asked $l5O for it. Police asserted a third set was recovered from the home of M. Aberhardt, 652 East Fifty-second street, where It had been left on approval, and another from the home of Hughey Watts, Negro, 2536 Burton avenue, where it had been left for trial.

WEINKE IN RACE AGAIN Former Representative to Seek State Secretaryship. Herman J Weinke of South Bend, state representative from St. Joseph county in the 1927 general assembly, has announced he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for secretary of state. He sought the nomination in the 1923 '#tate convention. /

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