Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 275, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1930 — Page 1

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The New Racket: Society

BY MARGARETTA ROBERTS Who Ha* liren Social Secretary in the Home-, of Some of the Country's Wealthieat Famllie*.) SEVERAL of the best known women in society today have entered it via Europe. That may seem like a long way to go to get to Long Island, Bar Harbor or Newport but. in the end it frequently proves the shortest. Since the war it has been comparatively easy for rich American;; to crash London. London’s titled folk have been badly hit and the old estates are taxed unmercifully. The owners of these estates are not adverse to taking “paying guests,” or perhaps letting the estate to excessively rich Americans for a rather fabulous sum. And many impoverished titled women, diplomatically approached, will take aspiring rich climbers under their tutelage and for a very considerable sum will make what is generally termed "interesting social contacts.” This method, too. has Its disadvantages. All too many oT the titled friends brought back to this country have proved to be owners of only second rate titles, or no title at all. A good way for a woman to get i wedge into society is for her to elect a few good charities and be very industrious in their behalf. Eventually this will lead to conict with some socially desirable *> -ople. The trouble with this sysm Is that it has been worked to eath, and now is considered an bvious method of attack. Another method, and one which growing, is to invite guests to ieet some important actor, author, c musician. Many of the people nvited will come out of curiosity. The celebrity, the guest of honor. iay be engaged at a price of SSOO > $1,500 for the evening. This is :i angle of the society racket, which as grown greatly during the last vo years. nan r KNOW one society climber, a A. woman who, confronted with the tnpending collapse of her first really big and important dinner, engaged a particularly popular and distinguished English novelist to act as her guest of honor. It cost her $1,500 to have him on hand, but she probably considered it cheap at the price, for her dinner turned out to be a great success. Many climbers depend a great deal on publicity. It is their ambition to keep their names and pictures on the society pages of the great newspapers and magazines. To accomplish this, they cultivate a decidedly cordial attitude toward all members of the press and, in many cases employ on their personal staff a newspaper man or woman whose sole duty it is to see that the press is kept fully informed of the doings of Mr. and Mrs. So-and-So. Many of the most energetic social climbers are men. In days gone by Americans liked to think of society as a woman’s game; now one finds increasingly large number of 4nen openly out to scale the social heights. I worked for one such man. He was a charming person. Yet he never quite arrived socially. The owner of an enormous ranch in California, he made frequent trips there in a private train loaded with his guests. His hospitality was unbounded, and it was not unusual for him to import an entire orchestra, and I (Turn to Page 22)

FAMOUS PITCHER'S SON MAY LOSE LEG Surgeons Consider Amputating Leg of Young Walter Johnson. By UnitedPre** WASHINGTON. March 28 Walter Johnson's fondest hope for his son—that he follow the big league trail in his father’s footsteps —may never be realized, it was revealed today as surgeons considered amputating one of the boy’s legs. Form the time Walter Jr. has been ble to hold a baseball in his hand Valter Sr., Washing* ■'n's “Big rain,” has hoped the bi. would be>me a major league pitcher. LUB KEEPS HANDS OFF od Government Group Not to Indorse Candidates. N'o candidates will be supported the primary election by the arion County Good Government üb. Roy Coombs, president, anounced today. Leaving choice of party candidates > individual members, the club will ,ir all candidates from introducicn o: speeches at a public meeting it the Lincoln at 8 Monday night Judge Paul C. Wetter of municipal ourt four, and othei speakers will oe on the program and a musical program will be given. DIES IN TUNNEL BLAST One Killed, Nine Injured When Workman Explodes Dynamite. NEW YORK. March 28 —A workman In a water tunnel. 600 feet underground* today deposited his compressed air drill in a hole that already housed a stick of dynamite. One man was killed and nine others injured. Hourly Temperatures Ba. m 28 10 a. m 37 7a. m 28 11 a. m,.... 37 Ba. m 32 12 <noon.. 39 S a. m 35 1 p. in 40

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STIMSON PACT OFFER ROUSES SENATORS’ iRE Challenge by Borah on Consultative Pact Is Backed by Others. PATH TO WAR CHARGED New Hope of Five-Power Pact Shivers in Gale of Disapproval. BY LYLE C. WILSON I'nited Press Staff Correspond-r.t WASHINGTON, March 28. Senatorial wrath beat today against Secretary of State Stimson's offer to consider open-mindedly a proposal for American participation with European nations in a consultative pact. The furious blast-tossed conclusions reached during forty-eight hours of optimistic London reports into a chaos of speculation. The new-born hope in London that a five-power naval limitations agreement might, after all, be consummated by the United States, France. Great Britain, Italy and Japan shivered in the gale of senatorial displeasure expressed by Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee, Senator George (Dem„ Ga.) and Senator Shipstead (Farmer-Labor, Minn.) Charge Path to War Borah's challenge of the consultative pact idea struck with devastating effect and gained force from the fact that prior to its issuance. Borah conferred with Senator Swanson (Virginia), ranking Democrat on both the foreign relations and naval affairs committees. Press reports that Senators Reed and Robinson, members of the American delegation, would join in pledging the United States to consult with European powers in event of an emergency were received doubtfully on Capitol hill. Borah called a consultative pact a security pact in disguise which only would lead the United States into trouble unless it became a pious fraud. Shipstead said a consultative agreement would be a path to war. Blasted by Borah George said the senate would not ratify such an instrument. Borah and Shipstead’s statements vigorously dissented from Stimson’s opinion that a differentiation could be made between a consultative treaty, minus the implication of military support, and a direct pledge cf American aid in maintenance of French security. Borah said Foreign Minister Briand of France frankly had slated he had no faith in treaties which were not backed up by armies and navies. What Briand wants, Borah continued, is a consultative pact pledging signatories, in event war is threatened, to consult and, if necessary, use force to defeat and punish a wrongdoer. There was no need, he said, to misunderstand the French position.

Parley Changes Course BY WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON March 28—The London naval conference radically changed its course today, and now is headed toward a general European security pact, long the dream of Aristide Briand of France, supplementing the League of Nations covenant. A committee of French and British experts began an examination of the possibility of drawing up an agreement which, without materially increasing British military obligations, would give France the feeling of security she demands before she becomes committed to armament reduction. Much Expected by Briand Briand's decision not to return to Paris Tuesday, as he had expected, together with the statement of a spokesman for the French delegation who said flatly that the recent announcement of American views toward the so-called “consultative pact" was largely responsible for the turn in events. There is no question but Briand expects to see out of the coming negotiations the furtherance of a security pact much broader than the agreement first suggested by the French delegation. Back in the mind of the veteran French diplomat is the thought that the proposed agreement may crystallize the obligations of European nations under Article XVI of the league covenant. Goal Is United Europe Efficacy of that article long has been a matter of different interpretation. France has held that it expressly stipulates that members of the league mutually shall support each other in the event of aggressive violation of other sections of the covenant by other nations. Great Britain lias argued that the question of military action is largely optional with the interested nations. Briand’s goal, therefore, actually Is the creation of a "United States of Europe" as a counter-balance to the United States’ dominance in the western hemisphere, and the formation of such a European pact would be a step toward that IdeaL

Wealthy Ohio Woman Suspect in Kidnaping of Grand-Daughter, 17

By United Pres* NEW YORK. March 28.—A corps of private detectives were tracking down various clews today in the search for a 17-year-old gir) and her 74-year-old grandmother, one of Cincinnati’s wealthiest women. Detectives were engaged by Mrs. Henrietta Hanke Shiel Bethell, wife of a British army general stationed in India, and mother of the girl, Marjorie Shiel. Mrs. Bethell believes her own mother,

STORM ENOS AS MERCURY RISES Sun Helps Snowplows in Clearing State Roads. Traffic moved through northern Indiana again today as the sun came out to help laboring snowplows clear highways of huge snowdrifts piled across them by a vicious two-day blizzard. Forecast of the United States weather bureau here today indicated that Saturday and Sunday will be fair, with little change from today’s thermometer readings. Starting at 28 degrees at 7 a. m., the thermometer leaped four degrees the first hour, and three degrees between 8 and 9 a. m., indicating it would reach seasonal normal of 44 degrees this afternoon. State highway officials today said a few roads still were closed, but promised they would be opened by noon. Concentration of efforts to clear roads was made in the Val-paraiso-La Porte region, where the blizzard struck hardest. Twentythree inches of snow fell at La Porte. State highways in the Winamac district all were opened today. Roads in the Plymouth district also allowed travel today; Monticello region highways were open, and those in La Porte rapidly were being cleared. State Road 31 between Kokomo and Peru was closed Thursday, but was open today, providing communication between South Bend and Indianapolis.

BANDIT SENTENCED Ten Years Is Penalty for Fishers Bank Theft. B,u Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., March 28. James William RVan, Indianapolis, charged with robbing the Fishers National bank a few weeks ago when $12,000 in cash and securities were stolen, entered a plea of guilty in Hamilton circuit court here before Special Judge T. E. Kane today and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Ryan had two accomplices in the robbery, but the officers say he has refused to disclose their identity or say where the missing bonds and stocks might be found. At the time of his arrest in Indianapolis a few days after the robbery. $5,200 in securities were found on Ryan’s person. LIBEL SUIT NEARS END Houston $200,000 Case Against Liberty Magazine Draws to Close. Bit United Press FT. WORTH, Tex., March 28. Closing arguments in the Temple Houston $200,000 libel suit against Liberty magazine, began here today, after argument by defense counsel had been completed. Mrs. Temple Houston is suing the magazine on the basis of an article by Don Seitz, describing her late husband a;- the son of an Indian woman and a “dangerous citizen of Oklahoma.” The case was expected to go to the jury today.

SOMERSAULT IS FATAL 16-Year-Old Youth Breaks Neck in Leap From Springboard. B v United Press DETROIT, March 28—His neck broken while attemptnig to turn a somersault from a springboard on Wednesday in Northwestern high school gymnasium, Robert S trick - root, 16. a senior, died at midnight Thursday. DRIVER TO PAY WIDOW Motorist Ordered to Help Support Crash Victim’s Family. Bu United Press GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., March 28.—Marinus De Raad, 22. must pay the widow and four children of George Turkey, whom he ran down and killed with his automobile, $8 a week for the next five years, under an order in superior court. ELECTROCUTED IN BATH Toledo Woman, Knocks Heater Into Water; Shock Is Fatal. Rn United Press TOLEDO, 0.. March 28.—Death had come today in a strange manner to Mrs. Pauline Gallos, 35. Standing in a water-filled bathtub, Mrs. Gallos accidentally knocked a small electric heater into the water. She was electrocuted.

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Mrs. Adolph Hanke, “kidnaped” the girl to prevent their meeting. Mrs. Bethell recently arrived here to take her daughter to India. She was unable to find the girl and learned that her mother's home in Cincinnati had been closed. Private detectives lost the trail in Washington, Thursday. "I knew my mother was deeply attached to Marjorie,” Mrs. Bethell said, "but I never dreamed she virtually would steal my daughter.”

DENY LINK WITH MISSING BROKER Smith, Raskob Witnesses in $1,000,000 Deficit Case. By United Press NEW YORK, March 28.—Alfred E. Smith, John J. Raskob and Michael J. Meehan went before the grand jury today to deny all connection with Robert Lee Harrison, broker of Syracuse, who disappeared some time ago leaving a $1,000,000 deficit. Harrison supposedly obtained plans for Ills luxuriously brokerage offices on Park avenue by representing himself as a member of the pool that included the former Governor, the chairman of the Democratic national committee, and Meehan, a prominent broker. One of the creditors is Edith Y. Robinson of the Hotel Duane, who alleges Harrison stole $26,700 in securities from her. Another is Howard G. Bean, interior decorator, who asserts that he did $31,000 worth of decorating and received a bad check in payment. Just before the market crash In October Harrison married Dorothy McCallum of Wilkesbarre, Pa.

HINT BOOZE SCANDAL Looting of Rum Runner by Guards Intimated. By United Press CLEVELAND, March 28.—Reports that part of the big liquor cargo of the rum-running tug Sambo G disfederal guard at Lorain, 0., are unfederal guar dat Lorain, 0., are under investigation by Lieutenant Martin Rasmussen, commander of the ninth coast guard district, it was learned today. Detectives are said to have told Rasmussen that Lorain has been flooded with a certain brand of whisky, of which the Sambo G carried a large amount. COOLIDGE BANK CLOSED Run Affects Institution in Former President’s Home Town. By United Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass., March 28.—The Hampshire County Trust Company, where former President Calvin Coolidge does some of his banking, was closed today after a run which the head of the institution said was caused by “serious defalcations.” Harold E. Newcomb, manager of the savings department, was arrested last week charged specifically with $15,000 defalcations.

TAX HEARING DATES SET State Senator Beckett Announces Arrangements for Meetings. State tax conference public hearing dates were announced by State Senator Joe Rand Beckett at a meeting of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board Thursday. The meetings will be held in the senate chamber as follows: Tangible property tax discussion, April 23; intangibles, April 24; corporations, May 7; income tax, May 8; fees, licenses and excise taxes, May 21; sales tax, May 22; inheritance taxes, June 4; exemptions. June 5, and administration, June 18. HOOVER TO BE SPEAKER Heads Imposing List for Red Cross Convention May 5. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 28.—President Hoover will head an imposing list of speakers at the annual Red Cross convention beginning here May 5, Karl A. Bickel, president of the United Press Association, will address the Red Cross annual luncheon at the Hotel Mayflower May 7.

DELAY GAS PROJECT Board Objects to Placing Tank Along Boulevard. The park board today held up a permit to the Citizens Gas Company to building a 6,000,000 cubicfoot gas holder at the Prospect street plant. The board objected to erection of the $350,000 tank along Pleasant Run boulevard and asked Park Engineer J. E. Perry to investigate plans for the improvement.

THREE KILLED IN SERIES OF AUTO CRASHES Death of Aged Man Brings Manslaughter Charge Against Youth. $5,000 TRIP IS FATAL Morristown Banker on Way With Funds; Messenger Boy Victim. The third traffic accident death in twenty-four hours in Indianapolis, William Blocher, 76. of 2006 North Pennsylvania street, died at the Methodist hospital at noon today. He was injured Saturday night when struck by an automobile driven by Joseph Potts, 24, of 5246 Broadway, while crossing Meridian street near his home. Potts was arrested at the time on charges of speeding, reckless driving and assault and battery, manslaughter being added to the charges today. Two men were injured fatally Thursday in automobile accidents, while another had a narrow escape from death when his automobile was crushed between railway cars early today. Auto Overturns William Sutherland, 44, of Morristown, president of the Morristown State bank, was injured fatally Thursday afternoon when his car overturned near New Palestine. Joseph Dowton, 19, of 1703 M Howard street, Western Union messenger boy, was injured fatally Thursday night in an automobile collision. Allen Todd, 31, living half a mile east of Cumberland, driver for the Polk Milk Company, narrowly escaped death this morning when his truck was caught by a switch engine, backing two cars on tracks at Massachusetts avenue and Newman street, and was crushed between the moving train and another box car. Despite the fact his truck was wrecked. Todd escaped with minor cuts on his head. Carried $5,000 Sutherland died six hours after his automobile overturned near New Palestine Wednesday afternoon while he was en route to Indianapolis with a $5,000 non-negotiable bond for deposit in a bank. His car skidded on icy paving. He was brought to the Methodist hospital here, where he died of internal injuries. Besides being president of the bank, Mr. Sutherland was owner of a department store and variety store at Morristown, a director of the Morristown Canning Company and a member of the Masonic order, the Methodist Episcopal church, the Order of Eastern Star and the Morristown Community Club. His widow Mrs. June Alexander Sutherland, a son Robert, 14; his parents, residing at New Bethel; a brother and sister, survive him.

Caroms Into Truck Downton purchased a secondhand automobile Wednesday and an hour later, was injured fatally when he lost control of the machine on Kentucky avenue near Morris street. It crashed head-on into a car driven by Leroy Friels, 23, of Plainfield, and caromed off to hit a parked truck owned by Winder and Son. 1057 West Thirty-first street. Friels, his sister, Miss Ruby Friels, and Mrs. Effie Hurin, all of Plainfield, escaped injury when Fi-iels, seeing the collision was inevitable, stopped his machine just before the crash. Downton died en route to city hospital. Friels was arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter but released on his own recognizance. Downton, an orphan, lived with his uncle, Thomas Downton, at the Howard street address. ‘STEVE’ ASKS PAROLE Predict Plea of Former Klan Chief Will Be Denied. Parole petition of D. C. Stephenson will be considered by Indiana state prison trustees at their monthly meeting today at the Michigan City institution. Argument in support of granting the one-time Klan dragon a ninetyday parole was presented at the pardon and parole board meeting of the trustees last month by Paul Newman, Gary attorney. Governor Harry G. Leslie was present at the meeting and seemed unimpressed. It was generally predicted that the parole plea will be denied.

No Left Turn Bu United Press MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 28.—A red light means stop at the Middle West Society of Physical Education convention Just as It does in traffic. A regulation street traffic light stands In front of the speakers’ table. The green light flashes when he starts. The orange flash means his time is nearly up and the red one concludes his remarks.

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Mrs. Gertha Fox and her daughter, Frances, 3.

2 MEN HELD ON BANDIT CHARGES Suspects Are Trapped in State Capitol. Two alleged gunmen, whom state and city police say have long criminal records in the state, were arrested by state police in the statehouse early today and are being held for questioning in connection with a Columbus (O.) robbery, March 17, in which more than SSOO was stolen. They are Donald Joseph, 22, of 2044 Olive street, and Paul Pierce, 19, of 446 Shelby street. Tip that led to their arrest came from a used car dealer to whom they offered to sell for half price a new Marquette sedan, for which they admit having paid more than $l,lOO cash in Mansfield, 0., last Saturday. The machine had been driven only 1,300 miles, according to police. Informed of the arrests, Detective Chief Fred Simon declared: “We’ve been planted for those fellows several times, but they’ve slipped through our hands. We’ve got so much on them they’ll never get back to Columbus.” It would “take three pages,” Simon said, to list all the stickups, car thefts and other offenses for which the two are wanted.

CALLS CABINET German Centrist Leader Is Asked to Form Group. BERLIN, March 28.—President Paul Von Hindenburg today called upon Heinrich Bruening, leader of the Catholic Center party, to form anew German government. The president’s invitation to Bruening hacl been forecast by unofficial reports that an attempt would be made to form a cabinet with the Centrist group dominating, and with the possible exclusion of the Social Democrats who brought about the collapse of the Hermann Mueller government Thursday. FIND POISONED GINGER Creosote or Crude Carbolic Shown in “Jake” Beverages. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 28.—Analysis of several hundred samples of the ginger beverages which have caused widespread paralysis in the south and west has revealed that it contained Creosote or crude carbolic acid, Prohibition Commissioner Doran said today. CHARGE LOVE TRIANGLE Seeks Divorce. Accusing Husband of Keeping Pretty Paramour. By United Press CANTON, 0., March 28.—Charging that her husband, J. Fred Strough, secretary-treasurer of the Timken Roller Bearing Company, kept a pretty paramour in a suburban cottage here, Mrs. Frances Strough today filed suit for divorce.

ELECTION IS SLATED Club Federation to Meet at C. of C, Tonight. Officers will be elected tonight at 8 by the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs at Chamber of Commerce. Action looking toward reduction of minimum city water rates will be discussed. South side paving projects will be considered.

Lost Address Results in 48 Hours of Maternal Anguish. A mistake in a name and address that resulted in forty-eight hours of maternal anguish was rectified today when The Times restored a “lost” baby to her mother. And the outcome of the restoration will be to keep a baby boy from being separated through life from his sister. Wednesday, a young woman came to the home of Mrs. Gertha Fox, 1230 English avenue, In answer to Mrs. Fox’ newspaper ad asking for a home for her two small children, John William, 4, and Frances, 3. “I’ll be glad to take the little girl,” the woman said as she gave her name and address. Mother Regrets Move Mrs. Fox permitted the woman to take Frances. Thursday, Mrs. Fox found her boy, John William, crying from the separation from his sister. The same day a married couple answered the ad and offered to adopt both children. Regretting she had permitted the children to be separated, Mrs. Fox attempted to locate the woman who took Frances. The name as she remembered it was “Mrs. Wetchall, 1312 Roache street.” She searched the neighborhood and could not find either her baby or the woman who had taken her. Today, police received a telephone call from Mrs. Albert Wilkins, 1322 Roache street, saying, “I’ve got Frances. Her mother must have gotten the wrong address.” The Times notified Mrs. Fox of the finding of the child and reunited her with her mother. “She can have these dresses I bought for her,” offered Mrs. Wilkins as she turned Frances over to her' mother. Yields to Son’s Sobs “Both my husband and myself have been wanting to adopt a child but it’s been a trial trying to. Os course I’m willing for the mother to have her again, but I would have liked to kept her,” she said. In turn, 'Mrs. Fox, remembering the sobs of her son, John William, vows that she’ll not separate the two children. “They’ll both go into the same home. Why the married couple that wanted them even helped hunt Frances last night.” And as for Frances, if you ask her, her big, baby girl opinion whether she wants to “go home with mama or stay with the nice lady who cared for her in the last fortyeight hours,” you get a shake out of a rattle in her hand and a nod of the head, which may mean “yes” or “no,” or nothing at all.

DRUG REVOLT PROBED U. 8. Agents on Way to Evansville to Quiz Narcotic Addicts Federal narcotic agents from Chicago today passed through Indianapolis en route to Evansville, where they will investigate a revolt Thursday of three patients of the Hollingsworth sanitarium. The three patients barricaded themselves in a room and seized supplies of narcotics. That the three are wanted in Kansas City on narcotic charges is belief of government agents. They bore pictures of the wanted persons. The three who rebelled are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garfield and Frank Winer. They are held in jail at Boonvllle. SOLDIER IS EXECUTED Brooklyn Youth Hanged for Murder of Regimental Mate. Bv United Press WILMINGTON, Del., March 28 Louis Galvano, 20-year-old Brooklyn youth, was hanged at the workhouse, six miles from here, today for the murder of Arthur C. Cline, Amsterdam (N. Y.) soldier. Both were members of the First Engineers’ regiment at Ft. Du Pont, near Delaware City.

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ARTIST ‘WOOED INDIAN MODEL WITHOOT LOVE^ !‘Seemed Easiest Way sor 1 Art,’ Marchand Says at Murder Trial. ‘MERE CASUAL EPISODE' Calls Letters to Girl ‘Just a Lot of French Pooh-Pooh.’ BY HARRY VAN LUNGER United Tress Staff Correpondent BUFFALO. March 28—Henri Marchand. who accepted the love of Lila Jimerson for the sake of his art, today told the story of a career that stretched from Paris’ Latin quarter to the courtroom here, where the state of New York seeks to punish the killer of his wife. The artist resumed testimony In the trial of Lila, his Indian model, on a charge she conspired to kill Mrs. Marchand because of her love for the French sculptor. Responsibility for the actual killing has been assumed by Mrs, Nancy Bowen, an aged squaw, who said Lila told her Mrs. Marchand was a “witch” and persuaded her to beat the white woman to death with a hammer before evil spirits exterminated the Bowen family. “Carnal, Indifferent Adventure” Thursday Marchand told how Ills affair with Lila had been for him a casual, indifferent adventure, something done because it seemed the easiest way to persuade ths 35-year-old Indian to pose for him, for her, he admitted, it had been a case of genuine love, and the state--, will seek to show that she was so much in the grip of love she Inflamed Nancy Bowen to the point where she was ready to kill. Mrs. Bowen will be tried on a charge of murder after the Jimerson trial. Marchand casually confessed he had had many love affairs, so many he could not remember them all, and offered as his defense the varying standards of morals in France and the United States. Keeps Eyes on Marchand Lila never removed her eyes from Marchand as he testified. The sculptor was dressed in a bright blue serge suit and wore a white collar and black necktie. His gray hair was brushed back from his forehead and he smiled as he answered questions of John Maloney, defense counsel. Marchand said that two years age Lila asked him to give her a lock of his wife’s hair and that he refused. “When you went to the reservation, didn’t you mold Lila’s minds* Maloney asked. 1 “That's true ” 1 “Did you have a deep, tfTfi friendship for Lila?” twM?. "No.” ; I “You’re lying, aren’t you?” I loney shouted. “You are afraid i might find yourself in difficulty Y you admitted it. aren’t you?” | \ “No, I am not." | * Snaps Back at Attorney \ % \ Marchand grew angry ns Maloney led him through the details of hiV affair with Lila. “You’re trying to paint me as black as you can,” the witness shouted. “I can’t be as black as you are trying to make me out.” Then Marchand revealed he had wooed the Indian woman with aU the traditional technique of the French gallants. Most of it, he said, was Insincere. “Do you mean to tell me,” Maloney said, “that you did not care for this girl when you wrote in a letter ‘it will be a real love meeting when I return’?” “I did not care for her. That's just a lot of French pooh pooh about the love meeting.” Marchand identified a $2 necklace which he had bought for Lila. He said that on Christmas, 1928, he had sent a 48-cent box of incense to the woman, a blanket to Mrs. Anne Snow, Lila's aunt, and a sweater to Anson Jimerson, the woman’s father. Shouts Answers to Questions Lila smiled when Marchand said she was “a terrible cook,” and winked at newspapermen as she grinned. Marchand denied a newspaper story which quoted him as saying he held Lila in “utmost contempt.” He-leaned over the witness box and shouted answers to Maloney’* questions: “Do you hate this woman?” “No.” "Don’t you hate the woman charged with your wife’s murder?" “No, I have only pity for her ignorance.” "In everything you said or wrote to Lila were you lying?” * “Yes, I lied to her.” ‘Til Write You One!” “Do you admit saying you wer* not an angel?” “Oh, yes, I recall it.” “Don’t you call those missives ycu wrote Lila, ‘love letters?’ ” Maloney queried. “No. If you want to see a real love letter, I’ll write you one,” the witness snapped. “Have you any regret that yon deceived this woman—professionally?” “Professionally—no.” t Court then recessed for luncheon.

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