Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1930 — Page 1
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Trapped Bandits Fight Gun Duel With Pursuers
FRENCH LICK GAMING SMASH IS THREATENED Voiced by Ogden When Plea for Jeffersonville Dog Track Is Made. LAW TO BE UPHELD 200 in Delegation to Statehouse From Ohio River City. Led by William (Navy Bill) Ingram. head football coach at the United States Naval academy. Annapolis, Md., more than 200 of the leading citizens of Jeffersonville, Ind., descended on * the attorneygeneral’s office today to plead to be allowed to retain dog racing there. Attorney General James M. Ogden gave the pleaders slight consideration so far as retention of gambling is concerned. He also launched a threat to take action against alleged gambling in Orange county, which includes the world-famous resorts at French Lick and West Baden. ‘ When I took this office I swore to upheld the law,” Ogden decla :d. “Someone has said something about enforcing laws against gambling in Orange county. I want to tell you that I have already taken steps to co-operatc with the Orange county proseculor in investigation of conditions there.
Official Spokesman "I am not trying to single out j Clark county, but, with God's help. I expect to live up to my oath of office and enforce the laws everywhere throughout the state.” Ingram, who war official spokesman for the Clark county crowd, had jxmited out that nearly half of the 200 citizens from Jeffersonville were women. They made the j trip here in three special interurban 1 cars. He based his plea on the idea that the dog track, vailed “The Dog Mart,” because dogs are auctioned there, offered “wholesome entertainment” and is a source of new life to Jeffersonville. It nets the towm folks about $20,000 a week and is paying for the new municipal bridge *4? Louisville, Ky., he said. Dommenting on the French Lick situation, after Ogden had said he was to investigate there, Ingram said: Home on Vacation “We have no idea of bringing Orange county into this thing. Os course every one knows that things are harbored there that make it nationally known. “The Clark circuit court has said that the system used at our dog track isn’t gambling, and I do not consider it so. We all have followed the races and take a drink occasionally. all of which may be against the law. “But the people in my home towm want this dog track and want it bad.” Ingram is a native of Jeffersonville and is home on vacation. He said that his mother enjoyed the dog racing as did most residents of the community. Complaints, he said, may have been inspired in part by the Louisville Jockey Club. In Kentucky they have banned dog racing, but permit the ponies. Race Investigated The Rev. E. Arnold Clegg of the Jeffersonville Methodist church is chief complainer against the dog raciag. He is reported to be doing this as mouthpiece of the local ministerial alliance. Ogden sent two deputies. Merl Wall and Bert Walker, to investigate the race Memorial day. They found it run on the usual system of buying interest in the dog, except that a high-hat auctioneer appears, which isn't the case on most tracks. Both deputies admitted it was good sport. It is sponsored by the American Legion post at Jeffersonville, to the profit of the post treasury. Ogden arranged further conferences with Walter E. Prentice, Clark county prosecutor, as to how to proceed against alleged gambling there.
CUSTOMS COLLECTOR TO RESIGN OFFICE George Hawkins, 32 Years Head of District to Quit Tuesday. George M. Hawkins, 74, 2120 North Pennsylvania street, for thirty-two years collector of customs for the Indianapolis dictrict, today said he will retire from office Tuesday. Ralph E. Compton, for many years In the customs office under Hawkins, has been appointed to the position. Auto Breaks Store Glass Bm fjiJfrf Pre** BRAZIL, Ind., June 2. Grover Williams, Cloverdale. is held in the Ciay county jail here charged with drunken driving. His automobile crashed into a store front, breaking Kterml plate glass windows.
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Five Bank Robbers Are Barricaded in Farmhouse; Two Members of Posse Are Shot. Bu Vnitni Prrg* BELLAIRE, Mich., June 2. —Barricaded in a farmhouse near here in which they are holding captive two members of a sheriff’s posse, while a wounded posseman lies in the farmyard near the Bellaire fairground, five bank robbers this afternoon were defying 150 armed possemen, determined to “shoot it out.” Dr. J. R. Gerver, wounded while guarding a highway, is lying in the farmyard, unable to aid himself, wnile his companions are unable to help him because of the gunfire of the barricaded bandits. Any effort to reach Dr. Gerver has thus far been met by a hail of bullets. Herbert Sullivan, another member of the posse, also has been wounded. The hostages held in the farm house are Dr. Gerver’s son and Henry Lindmere, in whose home the bandits took refuge after they abandoned their car when Dr. Gerver blocked a highway with his automobile. Take Refuge in Farmhouse As the bandits saw the highway blocked they skidded to a stop and started firing. Dr. Gerver fell wounded, and they seized his son, and herded him into the house along with Lindmere. As members of the posse began gathering the bandits prevented with shots ail efforts to rescue the physician. The five bandits, four white men apd a Negro, were said to have indicated they would not submit to arrest and would die fighting. Sullivan and Dr. Gerver were wounded with slugs from a sawed off shotgun, the sheriff’s office said. It is not known how heavily the bandits are armed.
The robbers held up the Mancelona State bank at Mancelona, Mich., at 9:30 this morning. The four white men, yearittg masks, rushed into the bank and ordered all to lie down. The Negro remained outside in the automobile. Shot at in Robbery As the leader shouted for all to lie down, three bank officers rushed into a directors room. William Mills, cashier, picked up a telephone and cried “fire.” As he did so the bandits apparently became unnerved. Grabbing what cash they could reach, they fled to the car. As they drove off Sullivan stepped out of a store and fired, and they leturned the shots while he jumped iiVo his automobile and gave chase. It w T as not known how much cash was obtained. HOLMES SPENT $1,256 IN CONGRESS RACE Defeated Wet Candidate Vists SI for Ticket to W. C. T. U. Talk. Ira M. Holmes, attorney and defeated wet candidate in the Republican congressional race, spent $1,256 in his primary campaign, according to an accounting filed today with the county clerk. Holmes listed a $1 expenditure as an admission fee to a meeting of 1 the W. C. T. U. at the Roberts Park M. E. church. Anonymous contributions to ; Holmes’ campaign fund totaled $245 | the list shows.
Final Broadside on Tariff Made Coalition Leads Forlorn Hope as Debate Is Opened; Passage in Week Looms,
BY PAUL R. MALLON United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. June 2.—The Democratic-Independent Republican coalition’s last stand against the remodeled $630,000,000 Smoot-Haw-ley tariff bill opens in the senate today. Odds apparently are against success of the protest demonstration to be made by the coalition and considerably in favor of final passage of the measure within a week or ten days. This is indicated in polls by the administration leaders. However, the record for swift vote changes which has marked senatorial activity during this session added the zest of uncertainty to the outcome, as final debate starts upon the eighteen-months-old tariff measure. The publicity organizations of the Republican and Democratic parties cleared the way for this week’s developments in dual statements issued Sunday night. The Republicans quoted Senator Fess (Rep.. O.), Senator Capper (Rep., Kan.) and Representative Til son and Chairman Hawley of the house ways and means committee in praise of the new flexible provision which will allow the tariff commission to adjust rates with presidential approval. The Democrats quoted Senator
BLOOD POOLS NEW CLEWS IN TORCH DEATH • Slaying Spot Is Believed Revealed Near Where Car Was Found. WOMAN LINKED TO CASE Sheriff, Coroner Declare Schroeder Is Alive; Police Disagree. Blood-matted patches of grass and a .22 rim-fire revolver cartridge found today in the municipal airport woods, about one and a half miles from where the High School road torch murder was committed last Saturday morning, were new clews uncovered in the mystery slaying today. That the spot possibly was where the torch murder victim was slain was being investigated by city detectives. City detectives said bumper marks on a shattered tree stump at the spot do not correspond with the bumper on the car owned by Harold Herbert Schroeder, 35, Mobile, Ala., business man, w r hich held the torch murder victim and which was ruined by the fire. That Schroeder is alive was declared early today by Sheriff George Winkler and Coroner C. H. Keever. Their declaration followed evidence that Schroeder had been seen near the scene of the fire shortly after it was discovered. City detectives, however, believed the body that of Schroeder. Strive to Trace Woman
Identification of the charred and unrecognizable body found in the blazing car and tracing of an Indianapolis woman with whom Schrceder had been seen during her recent visit to Mobile, occupied attention of authorities today. The victim was a man of 135 to 140 pounds weight, while Schroeder weighs 175 to 180 pounds, Sheriff Winkler and Coroner Keever, said. While Schroeder’s name was found on an identification card in the pocket of a coat near the burning car, the coat was for a man of 135 pounds, Sheriff George WinkIcr declared. ,1 That tho murder was committed in the woods and the body, dismembered. was taken to the High School road in Schroeder’s car where the car was fired after some liquid possibly acid, was poured on the dismembered body, was one theory of the crime reconstructed by authorities today. Cartridge Is Found A lover’s trysting spot in a dense " oods may have been the scene of the murder, more than a mile and a half from where the charred body was found, authorities believe Near a stump was evidence of a large pool cf blood, now drieo’. Leaves and grass prevented any signs of a body at the spot, but a trail of blood led about seven yards to another larger pool of blood. Beating the weods nearby detectives found another pool of blood. Near the stump a .22-caliber cartridge was found. The blood pools were found by 1 Raymond Plummer, *1407 South Blaine avenue, and Floyd Kirschner, i 1125 East Georgia street, employes at the municipal airport and engaged in clearing away trees from ! the edge of the woods. Tallies With “Hitch-Hiker” Detectives found no trace of dismembered legs, feet or hands. Coroner C. H. Keever previously had ! declared that the body had been j dismembered before being placed in the car, saying no traces of some parts of the body were found. Schroeder’s car was narked at (Turn to Page 3)
Barkley (Dem., Ky.), who said the bill, “Under its disguise as a farm relief measure, will cost the farmer $lO in increased duties on manufactured products for every $1 he gets in increased duties on farm products.”
CHURCH IS ‘SICK AND DISABLED,’ BAPTISTS TOLD
BY PAUL WEBER United Press Staff Correspondent - CLEVELAND, June 2.—The Northern Baptist Convention of America today the reaction of modernists in its rank to the declaration of its fundamentalist leader Sunday night that the Protestant church is “sick, beleaguered and disaoled.’’ In a vigorous address to the convention, the fundamentalist chief, Dr. William B. Riley of Minneapolis, characterized church as “sick from maladministration, beleagured by enemies more powerful than ever before, and disabled by mistaken remedies for existing evils.” His challenge, the first note of pessimism heard at the convention, was received by 5.000 delegates in an apprehensive silence, which later changed to spplause when h* 5 declared: “The words of Christ still live: ‘The gates of hell shall not prevail.’ ”
The opposite wing of the church will ha> *ts turn tonight when Dr. Havy Emerson Fasdick of New York leader of the modernists, will address the final session of che convention. “Never since Pentecost has the church of God faced more or greater enemies than at the present time,” Dr. Riley said.
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1930
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An interurban speeding toward Indianapolis from the east today ground bodies of two men in this wreckage of their Ford roadster. The men, Charles Kunsch, 21, and J. H. Hays, 60, were tourists, from Brownsville, Tex., and were killed on a crossing at the side of National road, east of Irvington, as they drove away from a tourists’ camp.
CHIEF NAMED FOB SUNNYSIDE lowa City Doctor Selected for Sanatorium Post, Appointment of Dr. H. V. Scarborough of the lowa State Tuberculosis sanitarium, lowa City, as superintendent of the Sunnyside Tuberculosis sanatorium, was announced today. Institution trustees have sought a man for the post since Dr. Stephen A. Douglass resigned last December after holding the position about six months. Dr. H. S. Hatch preceded Douglass. Scarborough will take the position July 1. He has been superintendent of the lowa institution twenty years. He is sVJparri®d an<f has two children, a girl in college and a son ifi high school. Dr. William McQueen, assistant superintendent under Hatch and Douglass, has been serving as head of the institution pending selection of a successor. It is not known whether McQueen will reassume the assistant's position. GIRL FLO HONORED Decoration Is Expected for Australian Flight. fi ,T " ’ n LONDON, June 2.—Miss Amy Johnson, the 22-year-old girl aviator who flew from England to Australia, was understood today to be in line for the decoration of commander of the British empire. Her flight excited the most interest in England since Colonel Charles A. Lindberg flew to Paris, and many sources urged that the achievement be recognized.
COLLECTOR IS SLAIN Body Discovered in Barrel; Robbers Blamed. Bn 1 lii'rd Press DAYTON, 0., June 2.—The body of William G. 72, collector at Forest amusement park, was found jammed into a rainbarrel behind his cottage ‘here today. Police believe Moore was slain by robbers who followed him from the park last night, NAVAL AID IS CHOSEN Captain Train Is Named to White House Post by Hoover. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. June 2.—Captain Charles R. Train, who commanded the battleship Utah when it brought President Hoover back from South America, was designated new White House naval aid today. He succeeds Captain Alien Buchanan, who has transferred to the naval war college &t Newport.
“Bolshevism, which is a combination of atheism in philosophy and communism in government, enjoys at this moment a fungus growth, having conquered in Russia by killing its Christian opponents. “Modem education largely has succumbed to the Darwin philosophy and modern investions enorm-
Texas Tourists Die Under Wheels When Auto Is Demolished. Two men, tourists from Brownsville, Tex., were crushed beneath the wheels of an inbound T. H., I. & E. interurban car, one and a half miles east of the Indianapolis city limits on the National road shortly before 10 this morning. The men, killed instantly when the interurban struck their Ford coupe broadside, were identified from the register of the Hoosier tourists’ camp, where they had been staying since May 29, as Charles Kunsch, 21, and J. H. Hays, 60, both of Brownsville. Driving out of the Hoosier camp, the two were squarely on the interurban tracks when the car struck them. The auto was carried more than 250 feet down the track, the men’s bodies being pinioned in the wreckage. Chess Croslajc of GreenfieW. motor man of the interurban car, said he applied his emergency airbrakes once, setting the wheels, then released them when it appeared the auto Would cross the tracks safely. Then, he Mid, he applied them a second time, but was unable to avoid the crash. John McLaughlin of Cambridge City was conductor. John F. Robbins of Richmond, staying at the tourist camp, who said he witnessed the crash, related that the Texans’ auto seemed to come to a dead stop on the tracks. The wreckage and bodies could net be removed until the interurban was backed away. The car did not leave the rails and no passengers were injured. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 62 10 a. m 76 7a. m 65 11 a. m 79 8 a. m 69 12 tnoon).. 80 9 a. m 74 1 p. m 81
Nevada Slayer Coolly Goes to Death in Lethal Gas Chamber
Fumes Claim Third Good-by to Bu United Fires CARSON CITY, Nev„ June 2. Nevada’s novel method of executing convicted murders by lethal gas claimed its third life early today when R. H. (Bob) White, 40, died in a small gas-filled room at the state penitentiary here. A string extending from a gas generating apparatus inside the death house to an adjoining “operating room” was pulled. A moment later the room was flooded with deadly fumes and the body of White, strapped in a chair, relaxed as life left him. White was convicted of the murder of Louis Lavell, gambler of Elko, Nev. Evidence against White was circumstantial. He contended to the end that he was not guilty, but insisted he would rather die than spend his life in prison. Lavell’s body was found in a
ously have contributed to man’s neglect of God.” Turning to what he termed evils within the church itself, Dr. Riley j bitterly condemned modernism in: church doctrine and administration. ' “The confusion that has resulted from the present-day coalition against the church,” he said, “has produced cults without number and divisions past enumers.tion. “It has undermined in a large measure the seat of authority: it has evilly affected the morale of the church itself, and it has deluged the worid with staggering waves of crime, and prospects of. war that leave it no rest better than a nightmare. "Country and village churches are being sold to secular uses. City churches are failing in attendance.
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FORMER BUDGET DIRECTOR DEAD General Lord Served Under Three Presidents. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 2.—General Herbert M. Lord. 70, formerly director of the budget during three administrations, died at his heme here today. Lord died about 9 at his apartment home. He had been suffering with stomach trouble for some time. Lord was appointed director of the budget bureau by President Harding July 1, 1922, succeeding Charles G. Dawes, former VicePresident. Lord Served in that capacity until May 31. 1929, when he resigned to enter private business in New York City. Prior to becoming budget drector, LOrd served as chief of the army bureau of finance and had a distinguished record in that position. He was especally noted when director of the budget for his urgent advocacy of strict economy. U. S. CITIZEN IS SLAIN Body of Stage Driver Is Found in Chihuahua, Mexico. EL PASO. Tex., June 2.—J. W. Mclntyre, 50-year-cld United States citizen, was found slain forty miles south of Coiumbus, N. M., in the state of Chihuahua. Mexico, said a message today to William P. Blocker, United Stages consul in Juarez. Mclntyre drove a stage every other day from Columbus to Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, where he made his home.
Life at State Prison; Killer Calls Cheery Witnesses, Including- Two Women.
burned cabin in Elko county. White nad left Elko on May 8, 1928, just two days after Lavell was last seen aiive. White was arrested in Chicago, tried in Elko and found guilty of first degree murder on Oct. 27, 1928. Refusing breakfast, White a former Texas cowboy who came to Nevada years ago and became a gambler, said he slept well when awakened at 4:25 a. m. He was calm as death approached, gazing toward the nearby towering mountains. Just before crossing a narrow corridor to enter the death house at 4:37 he shook hands with everyone and called a cheery good-by to a group of fifty spectators. Death was painless. Dr. E. E. Hammer, prison physician told the United Press. The physicians listened through-
Missionary contributions are suffering annual decline, and denominational combinations are being resorted to keep up an appearance of progress. “What is the conclusion? Is the church dead? I answer no! It may be sick from maladministration, and disabled by mistaken remedies, but it will not die!” As Dr. Riley left the platform the delegates responded by joining in a hymn. The 5,000 voices, singing "Faith of Our Fathers, Holy Faith, We Will Be True to Thee Till Death.” The meeting ended in a silencq, broken only by the words of a minister who prayed: “Give us strength and wisdom, O Lord, to combat these evils, that the work of the kingdom of God may be carried 0r.,”
SIX DIE IN MASSACRES AS BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN BETWEEN RIVAL GANGSTERS Further Wholesale Murders Are in Prospect Following Bloody Outbreaks in Chicago Over Week-End. TWO NEAR DEATH FROM BULLETS Capone Aids Launch Warfare on Joe Aiello and Followers; Roar of Guns Is Reply of Rival Hoodlums. CHICAGO, June 2.—Bloody reprisals were feared today in the latest outbreak of gangland warfare which flared up over the week-end and resulted in a casualty list of six dead, two dying and two seriously wounded. The new hostilities were believed by police to have arisen primarily from attempts to corner highly profitable summei resort beer territories. A drawing of battle lines was seen between the gangs of Scarf ace A1 Capone and Joe Aiello. The latest victim of gang guns, a man about 35, was found today in an alley on the northwest side. He had been shot four times and hit on the head. The body apparently had been tossed from a motor car. Police were unable to identify him and expressed the belief he was a minor hoodlum.
The wave of gang murders started Saturday with the assassination cf Phillip Gnoflo, alcohol racketeer, known as “king ot the extortionists,” Three of the dead were murdered early Sunday in a Fox Lake (111.) roadhouse by a burst of machine gunfire from the darkness. Two wounded, one of them a woman, Mrs. Vivian McGinnis, wile ol an attorney, were brought to Chicago and dumped into the lobby of the University hospital, where they are near death. Climaxed by Masacres Previously in Washington, or “Bughouse” square on the near north side of Chicago, three minor hoodlums associated with Aiello had been shot down in a quick move oi vengeance by rival racketeers. “Do ftway Aiello and his mob,” said . orders which spread through Capone ranks here two weeks ago. Aiello’s men roared defiance with revolvers, shotguns and submachine guns. More than a dozen ensuing shootings, murders and abductions were climaxed by the week-end massacres. Three men ran screaming late Saturday night into the calm Washington square, tiny park in the north side, when hoboes and malcontents gather. Behind them were three pursuers, whose revolvers barked a tattoo of lead. Bullets Whine Death Chant When the three in front fell dead on the grass the attackers ran to a waiting automobile and escaped. Their victims were identified as Samuel Monistero, Joseph Ferrari
cut the execution to the first rapid and then faltering heartbeats of the condemned man. A stethoscope placed over White's heart gave full details of his dying A slender tube w'as attached to the stethoscope and ran outside where Dr. Hammer listened. When the string was pulled which caused gas to generate, White's body twitched suddenly and his heart beats advanced from 108 to 120 very rapidly, and then the beats dwindled j away, gradually growing slower. Official time of death was placed at 4:49. The smile which adorned White’s face as he told Warden Matt Penrose and others good-by never left his face. White declined to receive visitors and refused to accept the services of a preacher or priest. * When Warden Penrose visited him during the evening, before he dropped off to sleep, and asked if there were any last-minute requests White smiled and said: “You might give me a gas mask.” Just before being strapped in the chair, White let his eyes wander over the wall where the gas generating apparatus had been placed The death instrument was a twogallon jar containing two quarts of water and one quart of sulphuric acid. Over this acid solution wa'i suspended a screen holding ten oneounce capsules of cyanide of potassium and attached to the screen was the string. When the string was pulled the screen tilted and the capsules tumbled below into the solution and in an instant the generation of gas began. Fifty witnesses, including two women, saw the execution. One of the women was Margaret Keeter of Virginia, one of the residents of Reno’s divorce colony. The other was Miss Maye Kinney of Reno. Both are nurses.
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and Tony Tornatora, all associated with Aiello in beer running. Monistero died today in a hospital. His two companions in the shooting are critically injured. Five hours after this shooting five man and one woman, meanwhile, had dropped into the quiet dining roor of the Manning hotel at Fox Laki, summer resort, about thirty miles north of Chicago. No other guests were present. Hardly had the sleepy waiter served them with sandwiches when an automobile crunched up the gravel path outside and stopped in front of a window. The black muzzle of a machine gun poked in through the curtains. Its unseen Operator swung it in an arc while it sprayed a stream of bullets into the heads and bodies of the diners, who lurched, one by one, to the floor. Gang Population Drops Michael Qttirk, west side rackctee*4eii dear< fir;t with, a coffee cup still in his hand. The ftulets nc/i sprawled out the body of Sam Pcllar, another prominent west side gangster. Quickly the machine gunner turned his weapon on Joe Bertsche, a third associate of *he same gang. He also was killed instantly. George Druggan, brother of Terry Druggan, millionaire post-prohibi-tion brewer, jumped up from the table when the shooting started. He was wounded seriously. So was Mrs. Vivian McGinnis when she tried to dodge the deadly aim of the executioneer. Tire other member oi the party apparently escaped by duckiflK under a window ledge. When the shooting stopped and the murderers drove away, he lugged the unconscious forms of Druggan and Mrs. McGinnis to his automobile. He raced them thirty miles to Chicago, placed them in the lobby of the university hospital and hurried off befor attache? could question him. Druggan and Mrs. McGinnis were hurt so critically that they could not tell abcu 1 the murder, even had they oeen willing. Dies With Cup in Hand Back of the war of extermination between Capon? and Aiello was seen the hand of the Chicago crime commission. the “secret six” of the Association of Commerce and the police department. All three organizations have been struggling for six months to make gangsterism unprofitable. They shut gambling houses, closed dog race tracks and raided breweries so frequently that all of Chicago’s gangsters could not exist on the business available. The gangsters started warring among themselves for what profits were left. The battle rapidly is depopulating Chicago's criminal population. said police. It Is just getting off to a good start, added, with further wholesale murders in prospect.
Twin Wives Is Amazing New Serial
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