Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1930 — Page 9

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$300,000 TO BE COST OF PERU HOTEL Negotiations Completed for Erection of Six-story Fireproof Building. DATA ON EMPLOYMENT Only 46 Less Now Working at Huntington Than Year Ago. BY CHARLES C. STONE, Closing a deal for erection of a $300,000 hotel at Peru is the outstanding event of the week in Indiana industry and business, a survey ended today reveals. The hotel will be of brick and Indiana limestone construction with terrazo floors. It will be fireproof. There will be eighty-four guests rooms and the top floor will contain seven apartments. The building will be six stories high. There will be two storerooms, lobby and shop rooms, and banquet hall on the ground floor. In the stone industry, developments during the week included announcement that a mill is being erected for H. A. Woolery & Son, with completion set for Aug. 1. The mill will employ twenty-five men. The Carl Furst Company mill and quarry is being opened on a fulltime basis. Recent additions to equipment include four channeling machines and a large derrick. Huntington Prospers Huntington is among cities of the state reporting a healthy industrial situation. President J. L. Brenn of the Chamber of Commerce announcing results of a survey, says that only forty-six less persons employed than at the same time a year ago. The following .ummary shows conditions in oeveral cities: Bloomington—The city has purchased for $15,000 a tract of 242 acres to permit expansion of the water system. Greenwood—The laboratory of the Stokeley Brothers Canning Company is being moved here from Tipton and will be operated in connection with anew canning factory. Columbus—The Power-plus Oil Company has purchased a refinery plant south of here from the Graver Corporation of Chicago, which has owned the property since 1925. The old Indiana Oil Refining Company built the plant at a cost of $450,000. The price in the sale was not announced. New Radio Sets Shown Marion—Four new model radio sets, products of the United States Radio and Television Corporation here, have been shipped to Atlantic City, N. J., for display at the national radio show which will open Monday. Terre Haute—The Root Dry Goods Company, operating one of this city's largest department stores, has signed a thirty-year lease on the building it occupies. East Chicago—The Graver Tank and Manufacturing Company announces sale of water softening equipment to two railroads. The Lehigh Valley road bought one of the largest outfits of the kind ever manufactured. It will soften 68,000 gallons of water an hour. The Chicago, Milwaukee & Ft. Paul road bought a 35.000-gallon outfit. Laporte -The board of works has awarded contracts for paving and resurfacing of seven streets at a cost of $44,000.

Fewer Calls for Aid Muncie —Evidence that economic conditions are improving here is seen in a report by the Social Service Bureau, showing a decrease of 33 per cent in calls for aid. Valparaiso —The Klin-McGill Golf Manufacturing Company Is experiencing the best season of its career, according to Urban Klin, manager. Receipts during April and May lack but a few thousand dollars of being up to the total for all of 1929, when 70.000 clubs were sold. Tell City—A contract has been awarded for erection of St. Paul’s parochial cshool at a cost of $105,000. Wabash—Sugar beet crop prospects in Wabash county are the best in several years, according to L. O. Holthouse. field representative of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company, who has completed a survey of the 600 acres of beets planted in the county. 18,000 IN INSTITUTION Governor Leslie Tells of Crowding of State's Wards. Iniicd Pres* BLOOMINGTON. Ind., May 30 Indiana's wards in state institutions number 18.000, Governor Harry G. Leslie told Bloomington Kiwanians. Thursday. He said the state’s five insane hospitals are full and names of many persons wishing admittance are on a waiting list. Leslie pointed out the urgent need for anew hospital. The state home for feeble minded at Ft Wayne cares for 2,000 wards, and the state prison at Michigan City har 450 life convicts. ’ Only three pardons have been granted during his administration, the Governor sa ! d. Two in Auto Hurt Time* Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. May 30. An automobile driven by Mrs. Michaels. Buscher. went down a fif-teen-foot embankment when it sledded, the result of applying brakes to keep from crashing into another car. Mrs. Buscher’s daughter, Mrs. Cecil Bennett, was injured in the chest and her son Joseph was hurt on the bead.

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Tribute! ‘Boys in Blue’ Honored Throughout Nation on Memorial Day.

Bt Cailrd Press Kansas city, mo. May 30. A bugle that called the 32nd | Ohio infantry to duty during the ! civil war today summoned Kansas i Citizens to Memorial day services. The bugle was used by Ross A. Landes, owner of the instrument which is an heirloom in the Landes ; family, having been carried by Landes’ father during the Civil war. a a a CHICAGO. May 30.—Looking 1 back on his fighting days. Williams Finley, veteran of Civil and Indian wars, remarked today that, “it was fun only when the battle was five miles away,” Though 83 years old. he said: ‘Tm really pretty young considering the fact, that the boys who fought in blue now average 87.” a a a IBERIA. Mo., May 30.—1 fa physician today attends John Ferguson, 91, who “hails from the hills of Scotland” but who saw war, it will be the second time in his life he has needed a doctor. The first time was when the little finger of his left hand was shot away during an engagement in the Civil war. Ferguson for forty years has been a justice of peace here. a a a DENVER, Colo., May 30.—Airplanes of the 120th observation squadron dropped floral wreaths in cemeteries here today in tribute to the heroes who died in service under the American flag. a a a OMAHA. Neb- May 30.—Still spry at 90, Thomas E. Moore, Omaha's oldest Civil war veteran, is looking forward for “new worlds to conquer and new places to see.” Moore has traveled in forty-six states, Canada and Mexico in the last six years. He has two pet peeves—disarmament and foreign entanglements. He doubts whether the boys in the World war saw more service than he did fighting through the entire Civil war with the second lowa cavalry. a a a OKLAHOMA CITY, May 30. Enfeebled by old age, but bright and cheerful despite his 101 years, Henry Morgan. Oklahoma’s oldest yivil war veteran, harked back today to the days when he was a mule skinner in the confederate army. “Reckon as to how a mule skinner wouldn’t have much show in war now, but I can remember when they did back in Dixie,” he said. a a a OSKALOOSAN, la., May 30. Oskaloosa citizens today honored three branches of military service where formerly only two had been remembered. In addition to strewing fllowers on water in memory of sailors, and placing nyreaths on graves in memory of soldiers, blossoms were showered from the air by D. A. Hansen as he flew an airplane over graves of men who died in the air service. a a CEDAR RAPIDS, la., May 30. James W. Good, late secretary of war, was remembered today by citizens of Cedar Rapids, his home, as they placed a wreath, sent by President and Mrs. Hoover, on the secretary’s grave during Memorial day services. a a a VINTON. la., May 30.—Two unknown dead of the Civil war were remembered in Vinton today as the annual Memorial day exercises were held. Graves of Vinton’s soldier dead were registered recently and it was discovered that the names of two of the men who are buried in plots reserved for veterans of conflicts since the War of 1812 had been lost. BLAST CAUSES DEATH By Vnited Press LEBANON, Ind., May 30.—Clifford Jones, 27, Negro, Chicago, died here Thursday night of injuries suffered when the automobile he was driving collided head-on with a truck and trailer carrying fireworks near here. Miss Elma Turner, 19, Negro, Chicago. Jones’ riding companion and partner in a vaudeville act, suffered a crushed foot. William Myers, Cincinnati. truck driver, was uninjured. The SIO,OOO load of fireworks was set off after the crash

HUGE PLANE FLEET IN CITY FOR RACE

Air Pilots Swoop Down on Three Airports From All Directions. Airport attaches were kept busy from an early hour today as airplanes carrying race fans swooped down on the city from all directions. With more than fifty planes already crowding the Hoosier, Capitol and Mars Hill fields and hangars, airport officials estimated that all records for Memorial day visitors by air would be broken. Most pilots of the ozone, evincing great interest in the ground motor classic, and restricted from seeing it from the air by orders prohibiting planes flying over the giant oval track, parked their planes and proceeded to the Speedway by automobiles. Air transport lines ran special planes to Indianapolis, all of which were crowded with passengers. The T. A. T. lines were expecting a special plane from St. Louis and Em-bry-Riddle air mail lines and four specials running today. Hoosier airport was host to a pursuit squadron from Selfridge Field. Mich., consisting of fourteen fast planes. Gaar Wood, motorboat speed demon, and Puke Schiller,

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WATSON FOR INDIANA VOTE ON DRY LAW Decision at Hoosier Polls in Referendum Would Be Accepted by Him. VOTED FOR AMENDMENT Says Representatives of Public Should Learn True Sentiment. BY NATHAN ROBERTSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 30.—Indications that the popularity of prohibition may be tested at the polls in many states next November were seen today when Senate Republican Leader Watson said he favors a referendum in his home state, Indiana. Watson, who has voted dry throughout his senate career, announced he would abide by the decision of his constituents on the prohibition question. He thus aligned himself with a small group of dry senators, who have announced they are willing to see the issue submitted to the electorate again. • Holds Open Mind The first menfber of the group was' Senator Jones (Rep., Wash.), author of the Jones “five and ten” law. He was joined by Senators Walsh (Dem., Mont.), and Oddie (Rep., Nev.). Senator Watson’s satement indicated he has an open mind on the prohibition question. “I am heartily in favor of a referendum on prohibiticn in the state of Indiana,” he said. “Many people on both sides contend the state Is one way or the other and I think it should be settled.” Representing People “I voted for the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act because I believed I was representing. If they now have changed ing. If they no wnave changed their minds I will abide by their decision. “I distinguish between a fundamental principle and"a matter of this kind. On a fundamental principle I wouldn’t change my convictions no matter how the people voted. “But I am not wedded to either side of this and I think it would be a good thing for the representatives of my state in congress to know how the people there feel about this issue.”

DE PAUW FACULTY SHIFTS ANNOUNCED

Seventeen Changes of Instructors Made for Next Term. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 30. Seventeen additions and replacements on the faculty of De Pauw university are announced by Dr. W M. Blanchard, dean of the college of liberal arts. Seven of the new members are De Pauw graduates. Dr. Fowler D. Brooks will come from Johns Hopkins university to be head of the combined departments of education and psychology, and Dr. William E. Eddington from Purdue university, to head the department of mathematics. Miss Vera L. Mintte will take the place of Mrs. Elizabeth Proud as associate professor and director of the home economics department. She comes from Simpson college. Indianola. la. Professor Vernon Lytle has taken a year’s leave of absence from the psychology department. and his place will be filled by Dr. Stephen M. Corey, from University of Illinois. Dr. Glen W. Giddings from University of Wisconsin will be the new assistant professor of physics next year. Dr. Winona H. Welch, graduate from De Pauw in 1923 and now instructor at Indiana university, will be assistant professor of botany,

one of the fastest pilots of the air, were among visitors at Hoosier. Capitol airport officials reported a crowded field. Fifteen planes had arrived at the Curtiss-Wright hangar at Mars Hill airport a few hours before the races and more were expected. SUICIDE LAID TO REST Funeral at Anderson for Suspect in Fire Deaths of Three. Bj/ Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 30. Funeral services were held here Thursday for Otto Gooding, 48, who shot himself to death in an Indianapolis hotel a few hours before affidavits were to have been filed by Alfred Hogston, state fire marshal, charging Gooding with arson in connection with burning of a farm house causing death of three persons the morning of March 31. Death of Gooding, against whom the fire marshal said he had a strong case, will probably close the inquiry. Those who perished were Mrs. Sarah Gooding, her sister, Miss Jennie Rife, and a farm hand, W. M. Moore. The deceased was a nephew of the two women. Old Mill Burned MARTINSBURG, Ind., May 30. Fire destroyed the Martinsburg mill, built in 1840. It had been operated continuously since It was erected and had nine owners.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1930

Wrong Change Bj! Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 30. —A woman exercised her right to change her mind, but it only added to her difficulties. She called at the office of Sheriff Fred Puckett and asked to see Charles Heaston, arrested shortly before on a liquor charge. She said she was his wife and the sheriff told her he was looking for her on the same charge. Then she denied she was Heaston’s wife. But she’s still in jail.

SIMONS' DEATH AGAINPHOBED Pathologist Holds Broker Probably Murdered. By United Press KENTLAND, Ind., May 30.—Evidence indicating that murder rather than suicide was responsible for the death of William Simons, member cf the Chicago Board of Trade, has caused reopening of investigation of the case. Simon’s body was found May 20 on a main highway some distance from his country home here. He had been shot three times. The coroner attributed his death to suicide. A post-mortem examination which caused authorities to renew their investigation was made by Dr. E. R. Le Count of Chicago after Simons’ body was secretly exhumed at the instance of the broker’s son, Richard Simons. Dr. Le Count, professor of pathology at Rush Medical college and a member of the coroner’s staff at Chicago, said he found that two bullets had entered Simons’ head from behind, taking a course that indicated it would have been impossible for the broker to have fired them. The third bullet, believed to have been the immediate cause of death, pierced Simons’ heart and probably was fired last, the physician reported. MAGICIANS TO MEET AT FT. WAYNE NEXT WEEK B.y Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., May 30.—The men who take rabbits from hats, make automobiles disappear and saw human beings in two without shedding a drop of blood, will be guests of Ft. Wayne for four days beginning Tuesday, when the convention of the International Brotherhood of Magicians will be held. The meeting will be attended by both professional and amateur magicians, and public sessions will be held at which every trick known to the profession will be performed.

taking the place of Dr. Grace Barkley. who died recently. Charles W. Smith, assistant professor of Spanish. University of Mississippi, will take the place of Marcus Chadwick, who has resigned. Dead Instructor Replaced Miss Frances P. Studebaker, De Pauw, ’2B, is anew instructor in home economics, taking the place of Eleanor Whittinghill, who will go to the faculty of the Kansas State Teachers college. Miss Studebaker taught home economics in Laporte high school this year.. Miss Helen I. Tucker, De Pauw, ’24, will be the new instructor in the geology department. She has been teaching biology at Elmira academy, Elmira, N. Y. William H. Hargrave, De Pauw, ’2B, will take the place of Hiram Stout as instructor of political science. Lloyd Messersmith, Shortridge high school coach, Indianapolis, will join the physical education department. He was graduated from De Pauw in 1928. Louis A. Vigneras, instructor in French, will take the place of Miss Gertrude Olmstead, who resigned to be married. Vigneras taught French at Ohio State university last year. Miss Jean McDowell, instructor of speech, will take, the place of Harold T. Ross, who will be on leave of absence to work on his degree. P. J. Smith will take the place of Miss Clarora Bell in the same department. Miss Bell' will go to New York university. Graduate Given Position Dr. G. H. Gruninger, instructor in ‘German, will take the place of Gustav Arlt who will be on a leave of absence Dr. Gruninger comes from Northwestern university where he was exchange professor. George W. Burkett, De Pauw *29, will be a new instructor in botany. He had an assistant instructorship at the University of Kansas where he will receive hi- master's degree this summer. Albert Eugene Reynolds who will be graduated from De Pauw In June, will be added to the faculty as an assistant in the department of zoology. His home is at Staunton. The greatest change in the university for next year was combining of the departments of psychology and education under the leadership of Dr. Brooks. He is a leader in education and his presence in the middle west is expected to do much for teacher training.

Great-Grandmother at 48

Bu Times Special RICHMOND. Ind., May 30. Mrs. Mamie Jones, now a lesident of Cleveland, 0., who became the bride of Manuel Eadler here when she was 12 years old, claims to be the youngest great-grandmother in in the United States. She is 48. Forrest Eadler. her first child, rjid one of her grandsons, Forest Eadler Jr., reside here. Mrs. Jones became a greatgrandmother when a daughter

LINCOLN IDEAL IS HELD OP IN HOOVERS TALK Martyr’s Tolerance Plea Is Repeated by President at Gettysburg. CALM VISION IS NEEDED Value of Temperance in Actions Is Voiced by Chief Executive. BY H. O. THOMPSON United Press Staff Correspondent GETTYSBURG. Pa., May 30. President Hoover pleaded for peace and tolerance in his Memorial day address here today, pointing back to the ideal held up by Abraham Lincoln on this same battlefield during the trying days of the Civil war. It was the Civil war President’s “call to moderation” which Mr. Hoover reiterated here today, as he gazed over the rolling stretches where the north and south once engaged in bloody conflict. “The weaving of freedom,” the President said, “is and always will be a struggle of law against lawlessness, of individual liberty against domination, of unity against sectionalism, of truth and honesty against demogogery and misleading, of peace against fear and conflict. “In the forming of this pattern,” he added, “the abuse of politics often muddies the stream of constructive thought and dams back the flow of well-considered action.” By Charity to AH “Our history,” Mr. Hoover declared. “would be even brighter than it is if his predecessors and his contemporaries had spoken as temperately as he, if they had been moved by charity toward all, and malice toward none. “We shall be wise to ponder here what precious wealth of human life might have been preserved, what rivers of tears might never have flowed, what anguish of souls need never have been, what spirtual division of our people might have been avoided, if only our leadership always had been tempered by the moderation and calm vision of Lincoln.” Concluding, the President set "forth an ideal for the nation: “The things of the spirit alone persist. It is in that field that the nation makes its lasting progress. “To cherish religious faith and the tolerance of all faiths; to reflect into every aspect of public life the spirit of charity,” the practice of forbearance, and the restraint of passion while reason seeks the way; to lay aside blind prejudice and follow knowledge together; to pursue diligently the common welfare and find within its boundaries our private benefit; to enlarge the birders of opportunity for all and find our own within them; to enhance the greatness of the nation and thereby find for ourselves an individual distinction; to face with courage and confident expectation the task set before us; these are the paths of true glory for this nation.” Met by Governor Mr. Hoover motored to Gettysburg from Washington, with a brief stop for luncheon at the Maryland fishing lodge of Lawrence Richey, White House executive secretary. The presidential party was met at the outskirts of Gettysburg by Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania and escorted to the battlefield. President Hoover was the sixth President to speak here on Memorial day. He spoke, not from the spot where Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg address, but from a large brick roofed rostrum at the eastern end of the cemetery. Vete.’ans cf the Civil war were <r the audience. Children scattered flowers upon the graves of the dead as part of the exercises.

SLAYER WILL MAKE NEW TRIAL MOTION

Man Who Killed Kin of Feudist Pleaded SelfDefense. Bn Times Special JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., May 30. Counsel for Clyde Thompson, sentenced to prison for one to ten years for slaying Louis W. Hatfield, a member of the feudist family, are preparing a motion for anew trial. Thompson, a cripple, was convicted during a trial this week in Clark circuit court here. He pleaded defense of himself and family. A jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter after four hours deliberation. Although the accused man and his wife testified that Hatfield was an unwelcome visitor to their home, the state offered evidence that Hatfield had been in her company frequently and had introduced her as his wife.

was born at Cleveland to her granddaughter, Mrs. Edward Lane. The baby’s grandmother is Mrs. Ruby Kennedy, who is only 36 years old. Mrs. Jones was a grandmother when 23, due to a stork visit in 1910. So youthful a grandmother attracted nation-wide attention and she received a congratulatory letter from Theodore Roosevelt, then President. Mrs. Jones is the mother of ten children.

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The call of adventure will lure Captain Dieudonne Costes, famous French airman, away from his pretty wife, pictured above, when he attempts the perilous westward crossing of the Atlantic by plane, probalby in June. He is planning to fly from Paris to New York with his companion pilot, Maurice Bellonte. This is anew portrait of Mme. Coste, who is a noted French beauty.

Tough Summer Ahead for Roadside Petters

BY ARCH STEINEL PETTERS are being put out with the agility of a double play started Rabbit Warstler. Nobody wants the turtle-doves of the drive-your-self cars. The city doesn’t want them. The county says, “Beat it,” and so this summer bodes ill for neighboring counties as the influx of backlane loungers begin their seasonal junket nightly.

“You can’t park here,” declares Noah H. Romine, the park board’s motorcycle policeman, when he comes upon a “mugging” pair in Garfield park. , , , ._ “You can’t park here.” echo the “petters” patrol under Sheriff George L. Winkler as they come upon a cuddling duo on a county highway. . . A , _ ’ And so it goes. If 1929 was a tough year or. the hearts in flowers, 1930 promises to be a tougher one. “Well keep them moving from spot to spot. It’s for their own benefit we do it. The petters take a chance of being robbed whelp they stop their car on a lonely road,” Asserted Deputy Sheriff Harry Bendel, chief of the county’s petters’ patrol.

But if you just won’t believe in signs and warnings, zodiac or otherwise, and persist in killing the old motor in a supposedly quiet nook with the girl friend, don’t be surprised if you get a traffic tag from Bendel’s men. Yep! Sparking on the public road will cost you one traffic tag which reads “parking on a public highway in violation of the law. “And how they pray when we give them the tags,” exclaimed Bendel. „ “One married man and woman, he continued, —“not married to each other by the way— reported to the patrol office with their

JAKE FLEAGLE HUNTED ON MEXICAN DESERT Two Colorado Sheriffs Search for Bank Bandit Leader. Bp United Press MEXICO CITY, May 30.—The long arm of the law groped in the mesquite and sand wilderness of Chihuahua state today as two Colorado sheriffs took up the bandit trial in search of J. H. (Jake) Fleagle, whom they think is leader of a band of bank desperadoes. The plan of Sheriff Lloyd Aiderman of Lamar, Colo., and Sheriff David Houghton of La Junta, Colo., was to drive from Saltillo, state of Coahuila, northward toward Monterey, in Nuevo Leon state. Anderman and Houghton returned to Saltillo Thursday, after making preliminary arrangements here for the extradition of Fleagle—if they find him. They proposed to drive in Alderman’s motor car up through the sparsely settled northern provinces, working on the theory Fleagle, wanted in connection with the Lamar <Colo.) bank holdup and murders in 1928, has run to cover somewhere in that vicinity, possibly near the Rio Grande. Pool to Be Opened Bji Times Special PLAINFIELD. Ind., May 30. A swimming pool owned by G. F. Calbert, president of the Quaker Oil Company, will be opened Saturday. It is 110 feet long and 90 feet wide. There is a section for children in which the depth is ten to twelve inches. The main pool depth ranges from three to nine feet.

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tag. ‘Please don’t do anything with us. Please.’ Well, they’d suffered a plenty, so with a warning they were freed.” “Where’s a good place to park? Nice and quiet-like where my men won’t bother you! Well —the city cops don’t so I guess there’s just one thing to do. Just salvage the old sofa out of the attic and put it in the backyard and then when it’s a dark night and the neighbors have gone to bed and her dad’s snoring—then you’ve a chance to do a bit of spooning.” And that’s the best consolation Bendel and Romine, compositely, can give the palpitating papas and mushy mamas of our fair city. Anderson- Rotarians Elect B.y Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 30.—E. W. Cooney, manager of the Anderson Engine and Foundry Company, has been elected president of the Anderson Rotary Club for the ensuing year. Other new officers are M. E. Masters, vice-president; R. B. Earley, secretary; H. B. Thomas, treasurer; John Carter, L. E. A. Hirsch, directors. W. A. Denny, superintendent of schools, gave an illustrated talk on Europe, where he has visited frequently. Putnam Bankers Elect By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 30. The Putnam County Bankers’ Association held a dinner meeting at the Greencastle Country Club. J. B. Crosby, retiring president, presided. Officers for the ensuing year were elected, C. K. Hughes being chosen president, Kenneth West, secretary and Paul Goff, treasurer. Professor G. R. Redding of the Indiana university school of commerce was the speaker.

Justice! Editor Times—You were right about the supreme court in your recent articles. Justice certainly is blind in Indiana. It would be interesting to know the average cost of its decisions. In many instances it is much more than the amount involved. I am interested in a case which should have been decided years ago, but the delay is costing me hundreds each year. Yet, our Constitution promises justice speedily and without delay. If I signed my name, the court might take a whack at me.

MAIDSERVANT KILLS WIFE OF MAN SHE LOVED Confesses Conspiracy With Contractor in Roadside Murder Plot. BREAK UNDER GRILLING Volley Poured Into Victim as She Clasped Baby to Her Breast. By United Press ASHTABULA, 0., May 30.—Mrs. Maude Lowther, 22-year-old domestic, confessed to police here today that she shot and killed Mrs. Clara Smith, from ambush near here Thursday night, by prearrangement with Mrs. Smith’s husband, T. L. Smith, Ashtabula contractor, after they determined to “get her out of the way.” Mrs. Lowther was arrested after Smith, breaking under relentless police questioning, repudiated an earlier story that three bandits had killed his wife and admitted he and Miss Lowther arranged to kill Mrs. Smith so they could "run away together.’’ Mrs. Lowther was arrested after Smith’s alleged confession. Police said they found the revolver, with which Mrs. Smith was slain, concealed In the girl’s room at the home of Seymour Hubbard, prominent Ashtabula business man, where she was employed. The gun, a .32, was purchased by Smith Saturday, according to police. He gave it too Miss Lowther Tuesday, and they fixed 6 p. m. Thursday as the time for Mrs. Smith’s death. Loaded in Truck Smith loaded his wife and two children, one of them an infant, into a truck on the pretext of taking them to Austinburg, a village ten miles distant, to spend Memorial day with relatives. At a thickly worded point eight miles out, Smith, according to his confession, stopped the truck at the side of the road on the pretext of motor trouble, and alighted. A moment later the Lowther woman emerged from the woods and opened iire, killing Mrs. Smith who was clasping the three-months-old baby to her breast. The maid withdrew into the woods and while Smith turned the j truck and sped back to Ashtabula j to notify police his wife had been I “slain by three bandits who were | disgusted because we didn’t have | any money for them,” Mrs. Lowther | began tramping the eight miles ! back to her room. Note Discrepance Noting discrepancies in Smith’s story, police began questioning him and early today he broke down and confessed. The Lowther woman’s arrest and finding of the death weapon followed. Smith said he met Mrs. Lowther, who Is estranged from her husband, three weeks ago. They fell in love, he said, and a week ago they began planning the death of Mrs. Smith, who “was in the way.” Smith said he took Mrs. Lowther to the death scene about 5 p. m., then returned home and started for Austinburg with his family. As he stopped the truck, he said, Mrs. Lowther appeared, ordered him to the rear, then shot Mrs. Smith. The woman readily confessed, when confronted with Smith’s admissions, officers said. Both were charged with first-de-gree murder and will be arraigned Saturday. MAN’S NECK BROKEN BY WHIRLING AUTO SHAFT Evansville Garage Mechanic Loses Life in Odd Accident. B,y Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 30. Peter Weiss, 23, Haubstadt, was killed instantly here when he was caught by the drive shaft of an automobile under which he was working at a garage where he was employed as a mechanic. J. M. O’Bryan, owner of the car, was at the wheen operating the engine, while Weiss tested the brakes. The rear wheels were raised on jacks. The mechanic’s clothing caught on a grease cup of the shaft. The cloth did not tear and caused Weiss’ head to be battered against the bottom of the car. His neck was broken. FOuf EDITORS CHOSEN Staff Will Direct Student Paper of Indiana University. Bu United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 30. Editors of the Indiana Daily Student, campus publication at Indiana university, have been announced for the summer session and school year of 1930-31. They are Robert C. Pebworth, Indianapolis; Stanley A. B. Cooper, Brazil; Vincent Fowler, Indianapolis. and Jessie Borror, Rossville, 111. Miss Borror will edit the paper during, the summer session. Cooper and Pebworth will serve during the first semester and Fowler will become editor-in-chief for the second semester. All four students have spent from two to three years on the student staff. Pebworth also will edit the state fair edition next fall. Poison Fatal to Child Bit Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., May 30.—Swallowing several pills, each one of whi<s contained a sixtieth of a grain of strychnine, caused fatal poisoning of Richard Bechtold, 17-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Bechtold. The child took the pills while playing with a bottle in which they were contained.