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$1,020 Is Stolen; Thug Handcuffs Victim to Auto

Handcuffing James A. Helmbrecht, 35, attendant at the Central State hospital to the steering wheel of his car at the Lafayette road and Fifty-fourth street this morning, a bandit escaped irt another car with an accomplice with $1,020, police were informed. The holdup was a plot, police believe, to get the pay roll of the hospital, and was planned by persons familiar with pay day. Helmbrecht went to the Citizens State bank at Michigan street and King avenue with $872 in checks of fellow-workers to get the checks cashed, a procedure he has followed for years. He has been employed

at the institution ten years. When he emerged from the bank and entered his automobile a man, appearing to be a foreigner, arose from a hiding place in the rear seat and threatened Helmbrecht with a revolver, Helmbrecht told deputy sheriffs. He was forced to drive to Lafayette road and Fifty-fourth street and to turn into a lane at the side of a wooded spot, he said.

BISHOP CANNON WALKS OUT ON LOBBY PROBE Church Head Challenges Two Senators to Issue Subpena for Him. Bu Vnitrd rrc* WASHINGTON, June s.—Bishop James Cannon Jr. brought his defiance of the senate lobby committee to a dramatic climax today when he picked up his papers and walked out of the crowded committee roc n while two senators were still questioning him. This unprecedented defiance of senatorial authority left the committee dumfounded and an adjournment was taken shortly afterward until next Wednesday. Chairman Caraway, who is in Arkansas, is expected to be here then and the committee will decide at that time whether to proceed against the Methodist bishop for contempt of the senate. ••No Longer a Witness” “I am no longer a voluntary witness,” said the bishop, picking up his papers. “We have not excused you,” said Senator Thomas J. Walsh iDem., Mont.), acting chairman. “I am at my office, if you want to issue the subpena.” said Cannon, walking out of the room. “We realize you are challenging the committee, but we do not take that view of it,” said Walsh. “I want to read you some telegrams showing how you came to be here,” said Senator Blaine (Rep., Wis.), wet member of the committee. Cannon paid no attention to either as he elbowed his way through the crowd and out of the room. Charges Wet Plot Cannon, who has refused to answer questions since he began testifying Tuesday, charged directly that the inquiry into his use of a $65,300 fund in the anti-Smith campaign was part of a “wet and Roman Catholic plot” to discredit him and prevent a recurrence of the southern Smith revolt. Shortly after Cannon elbowed his way out of the room the committee secured a quorum for the first time since the dry leader began his longdelayed testimony. Senator Borah • Rep., Idaho) was the third committee member to appear, but Walsh said he thought it advisable to await Caraway's return before proceeding. In challenging the committee to issue a subpena. Cannon asserted he was a voluntary witness called by Caraway. Was Under Jurisdiction No subpena will be issued at present, Walsh said. He added that he did not regard one as necessary because Cannon had appeared, was under oath and thereby had pieced himself under the jurisdiction of the committee. Before any contempt proceedings are instituted the committee may issue the subpena and propound the disputed questions again for the record. It will then be up to the committee and the senate to decide whether contempt proceedings shall be instituted. After Cannon left the room Walsh apparently laid the grpund for further action by reading the record of the anti-Smith Democrats of Virginia. showing the organization • loaned” the bishop $2,800 in SSOO advances during July and August, 1928

CHICAGO COPS ARE DRY At Least, They Co-operate Best With Federal Units, Says Doran. Bu l Prr*s CHICAGO, June s.—Chicago police rate first in the United States in co-operating with federal prohibition authorities. Commissioner James A. Doran said while visiting Administrator E. C. Yellowley "Philadelphia is second and New York the worst," Doran continued. Stole S3O From Laundry Driver Four bandits took S3O from Ivan Lovett, 32 of 2415 Bellefontaine street. Progress laundry truck driver, at Thirty-eghth and Gray streets, law Wednesday, he reported to police.

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He was handcuffed to the wheel and the $872. plus $l5O from his pocket, was taken by the man, who then entered a light blue coupe which had followed the car, and drove away. Helmbrecht called to Milton Taylor, Negro, R. R. 17, Box 283, who was driving by the scene and deputy sheriffs released him with a hack saw.

Denies Plea for Recount in Primary Court Dismisses Petition of Garvin, Murray on • Technical Point. Recount of votes in the May primary election was denied today by Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin, when he sustained motions of defendants in two petitions which asked recount of votes, alleging wholesale frauds. The petitions were those of Thomas Garvin, municipal judge and Democratic candidate for probate judge in the primary, and of Raymond F. Murray, Democratic candidate for prosecutor. Frauds in votes in practically every precinct of the city were alleged. Judge Garvin upheld motions of the defendants to dismiss the petitions on technical grounds that Garvin and Murray did not file sworn and proven statements of their defeat for the respective offices with Harry Dunn, county auditor, prior to filing the petitions, as required by law. Defendants named in Garvin’s petition were Smiley E. Chambers and other candidates for the probate court office and those in Murray’s petition were Herbert E. Wilson, Herbert M. Spencer and Edward C. Brennan, rival candidates for prosecutor. arsontriaT GIVEN TO JURY Stark Demands 2-to-H-Year Term for Maxewll. A criminal court jury at noon today began deliberating whether Rese A. Maxwell, former grand juror, shall serve a two-to-fourteen-year sentence at the Indiana state prison for allegedly engineering a plot to burn his home sixteen months ago. Maxwell was termed “a master mind in this plot, and an incendiary bug," by Deputy Prosecutor Paul Rhoadarmer in his closing arguments this morning. Rhoadarmer and Prosecutor Judson L. Stark demanded the two-to-fourteen-year seintence be imposed. Defense Counsel Merle N. A. Walker attacked the state’s case, but offered no alibi for Maxwell. FIRE PANIC IS 'AVERTED Theater Audience Departs Calmly as Film Is Burned. Thirty persons in the Savoy theater, 1223 Oliver avenue, walked out in orderly fashion when a film caught fire in the projection room at 7:30 Wednesday night.

Sleepy Governor in His B. V D.s Greets General in 11 A. M. Visit

Bu I'niletl Prr ** NEW ORLEANS, June s.—Governor Huey P. Long of Louisiana. who created a stir during the Mardi Gra when he received a group of German diplomats while attired in gieen pajamas, today was credited with going himself one better—receiving a United States army genera 1 and his staff while garbed only in his underwear.' According to the New Orleans Item, General Frank R. McCoy, commissioner of the southeastern army corps and his staff called at the Governor's new $150,000 mansion at Baton Rouge Wednesday. The call was one of official business and the Governor ■had been informed of the visit, the Item said, but when the general and his staff arrived the executive had just arisen. rhe officers, wearing the full dress regalia of the United States army, were received in Governor Long’s

bedroom, the newspaper reported. It added that the bedrcom was “:n great disarray." The Item said the call was made at the executive mansion at 11 a. m.

HOOVER SEEN WAVERING ON HIGHTARIFF Pressure for Presidential Veto of Measure Gains Volume. FORD SEES PRESIDENT Intensity of Foreign Protests Is Playing Big Part in Changing Views. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June s.—Pressure for a veto of the new tariff bill appeared to be growing so strong today that some here believed they saw signs of wavering on the part of President Hoover. Recently senatorial friends said they were certain President Hoover intended to sign the bill and all other reports in circulation here were strongly for the same nature. Within the last twenty-four hours, however, the White House inspired press dispatches that President Hoover is open-minded on the tariff and will give it the closest scrutiny. Following this the President had Henry Ford, an outstanding opponent of the tariff, as an overnight guest at the White House. Ford drove directly from the White House to his private car at Union station and left at 10 a. m. Neither he nor the White House would divulge the nature of the discussions. Many Leaders Join Ford Many leaders in the automobile industry have joined Ford in his denunciation of the bill. Senate Republican leaders, hewever, have said they were certain the President would approve the bill. They cited his anxiety over eliminating objectionable features of the flexible provision as proof that the President was working to get the bill in form which would permit him to approve it. They have said that the President feels to veto the bill now would be to keep the issue open and that it would seriously embarrass many Republican congressional candidates in the fall elections. Gains in Importance Finally, Is was said the President feels he could change undesirable duties through the flexible provision after the bill became a law. This view went unchallenged at the White House until Wednesday when word was passed out unofficially that the President intended to consider the bill with an open mind, go over rates piecemeal and ask the opinion of various government department heads before making his decision. Intensity of foreign protests have added to the importance of the issue. More than thirty nations have registered complaints and some already have embarked on retaliatory measures. Many here believe Hoover's political future is involved to a marked degree in the tariff bill, recalling the fate that overtook the late William Howard Taft after approving the Payne-Aldrich bill in 1909. Morrow Move in Open At the same time a movement to | make Dwight W. Morrow of New ! Jersey the 1932 Republican pres- | idential nominee came into the open i today .following a period of underI ground discussion. Former Governor Stokes of New Jersey and President John Grier Hibben of Princeton publicly advocated Morrow’s nomination. Morrow has kept silent on the tariff, but his friends here have said he is opposed to the pending bill. Bej cause of his standing in the business world and the desire of opponents of prohibition to get behind him, many politicians in Washington expect a serious effort to push Morro v forward as a candidate will take place provided he wins his primary and election contests in New Je sey and provided they feel Mr. Hoover has lost i popularity in the meantime.

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The New Orleans Times- Ficayune in its story of the visit said, “the ceremony consisted of a general conversation while the Governor completed his toilet and. donned conventional attire."

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930

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THE city has “elepiiantitis.” And here’s some snapshots of its rampant activites as the G. O. P. state convention got under way today in Cadle tabernacle, the operating room for the “candidacy” fever. Upper Lest —Elza O. Rogers, state chairman, center, holding the microbe, “elephantitis,” which he received for his services as state chairman, with Michael Hanrahan, left, attache at the state G. O. P. headquarters, and Harry C. Fenton, right, secretary of state committee.

TORCH MURDER MYSTERY CALLED INSURANCE PLOT

$1 British Derby Ticket Wins Youths $149,000 Bu Timm Sftcritil NEW YORK, June s.—Two young Wall street clerks, brothers, shared a fortune of $149,000 today won on a $1 ticket in the English Derby. Edward Dougherty, 18, held the lucky ticket in the army and navy veterans’ sweepstakes, but he had agreed to share possible winnings with his brother Daniel, 22. Edward said he would keep his job, buy a house in the suburbs, and invest the remainder of the money. He was in Easton, Pa., on a vacation when the prizes were announced and was not informed until summoned home by his family. Sudden wealth caused some confusion at first in the Dougherty $25-a-month four-room flat in Brooklyn. The father, Daniel T. Dougherty, a doorman at a Brooklyn apartment house, claimed he had paid Edward for the ticket and would get the money. Edward’s winning represents the equivalent of 143 years’ salary at his present figure. - a a a

ZEP LANDS IN SPAIN Giant Air Liner Battles Way Through Fierce Rains. r> SEVILLE^ 88 Spain, June s.— The dirigible Graf Zeppelin arrived from New York and Lakehurst today after a trying flight across the Atlantic ocean where storms and rain greatly delayed her progress between the Azores islands and Portugal. The dirigible landed at 5:05 p. m. (11:05 a. m. central standard time). A fast pace on the first stage of the flight from New York to the Azores had indicated that Dr. Hugo was attempting a record trip, but choppy winds which buffeted the ship and rain areas off the'coast later slowed her down. Approximately sixty-one hours and twenty-eight minutes were required for the trip which was considerably more than 3,500 miles due to deviations from the direct route.

GOVERNOR LONG was reported to have received his guests befor dressing and completed his toilet while they chatted with him i in his bedrocm. Governor Long, asked to comment on the reported bedroom meetng today, told the United Press, “I won’t say J had on B. V. D.s. At least I didn't have on pajamas.” ’But you know’,” the Governor went on, "I've been back up in the country since I wore these green pajamas for that German captain at the mardi gras, and I promised my folks up there I’d never be caught in pajamas again. I won’t say I had on B. V. Ds. I'm not telling. At least it isn't going to cause any more of these international complications.” General McCoy’s visit was in the interest of anew citizens’ training camp at Alexandria, La. The general is reported amused at the incident.

Upper Right—Peck Murray, Conncrsville, a delegate, caught as he took a big “chaw” of “Red Horse” in preparation for the convention ordeal. Lower Left—Miss Louise Giban and Mrs. Mary Merrill Strohl, left to right, employes of Roy P. Wisehart, State superintendent of public instruction, lobbying outside Cadle for renomination. Lower Right—The Everton fife and drum corps stirring up the oratorical chords of candidates with a big noise blast in the entryway of Cadle at the opening of the convention.

Seek New Home Bn United Press GUTHP.IE, Okla., June 5. When Luther Smith, railroad brakeman, came to the end of his run today he found he had won $49,000 on five $1 tickets on the English derby at Epsom Downs. Smith, his wife and two children looked about for anew hqme today which they can purchase with his winnings. a a a • ‘New Car and Trip’ Bu United Press READING, Pa., June 5.—A new automobile and a trip through sections of the United States “I have always wanted to see” is what Mrs. Anna D. Katzenmoyer, bride of a year, will buy with part of the $49,000 she won in the English Derby. She held a ticket on Iliad, which finished second in the Canadian lottery. Both Mrs. Katzenmoyer and her husband work in a hosiery mill. “This money that Anna won won’t make me a loafer,” said Katzenmoyer. “I will keep right on working and see to it that the money is invested wisely.” ana Aid for Church Bu United Press NASHUA, N. H., June der the name of Sister Therese de L’Enfant Jesus, Mrs. Rose Heon. 50, and one of her nine children, Mrs. Lillian Gagnon, bought a $1 lottery ticket on the English Derby. Their ticket drew Ruston Pasha and today they were $7,000 richer. Mrs. Heon. wife of a railroad foreman, said she and her daughter would use part of their winnings to buy a statue of St. Therese for the new church of the Infant Jesus, which was destroyed in the recent $5,000,000 Nashua fire. a a a Refrigerator for Him Bu United Press PORTLAND, Me.. June s.—With the $24,877 which he won in the Canadian army and navy derby lottery. Robert I. Lynn, 59. local tailor, plans to enlarge his garage, buy an electric refrigerator, and take his family on a camping trip. The ticket which he bought for a dollar drew Diolite.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofflce, Indianapolis

Authorities Say Schroeder Planned Flaming Car Crime to Aid Family. Harold Herbert Schroeder, 35, Mobile, Ala., business man, carefully planned his disappearance and arranged to leave his wife and two children a large sum in insurance, authorities said today, before he came to Indianapolis for the Speedway races. His car was found on fire with a charred body of a man in the front seat on the High School road early last Saturday morning. Sheriff George Winkler, returning to Indianapolis by rail from Mobile Wednesday night and Coroner C. H. Keever, returning with Indianapolis newspaper men by auto today, declared investigations at Mobile proved Schroeder planned to disappear long before he came here. Last April 1 he took out anew life insurance policy for $5,000, despite the fact conditions of his business are said to have bordered upon bankruptcy. His insurance policies totaled more than $30,000, investigators found. April 27, 1929, he took out a policy in the Southern National Life Insurance Company for $lO,000. Previously, he carried $7,500 with the Aetna Life Insurance Company, SIO,OOO accident insurance with the Pan-American Life of New Orleans and a policy of $2,500 with an industrial insurance company. Conferring today with Prosecutor Judson Clark, Sheriff Winkler and Coroner Keever urged early action toward indictment of Schroeder on charges of murder and of conspiracy to defraud insurance companies. New evidence that Schroeder’s disappearance and the murder of an unidentified man whose body was placed in his car and burned may have been the result of a plot involving two other men was being investigated today. Schroeder was seen in his car at Fruitland, Ala., forty-five miles northwest of Mobile, May 21, the day he left Mobile, and had two men in the machine. Descriptions cf these men were sought today from authorities and witnesses at Fruitland in belief they may check with descriptions of two men with whom Schroeder engaged in heated argument at Mobile the day before he left there. \ Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 69 10 a. m 80 7a. m 73 11 a. m 83 Ba. m..... 76 12 (nooni.. 83 9 a. m 79 1 p. ,m 84

Wife, Back From a Visit, Finds Mate s Body in Home

RETURNING home after a visit with a friend, Mrs. Margaret Stewart, wife of Delbert Stewart, 44, of 55 North Tremont street, found her husband's suitcase in the bedroom, but believed he had left the home for the night Wednesday. She slept in the home. This morning, in the basement behind a furnace, she found the bedy of her husband, with his throat slashed. Deputy Coroner

G.O.P. DELEGATES BRAND PARTY PLATFORM WEAKEST, MOST VAGUE IN 20 YEARS Voice Their Complaints From Floor; Seven Unopposed Candidates Nominated; Dry Vote Attempt Quelled. NEJDL CHARGES RAILROAD TACTICS Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, as Keynoter, Takes Jabs at Senator Robinson; Irked by Inattention. (Other news of the Republican state convention on pates 6 and first pat*, second section.) BY BEN STERN Disappointment at the platform cn which the Republican party will seek success in fall elections dampened spirits of two thousand delegates to the state G. O. P. convention in Cadle tabernacle this afternoon, as the convention prepared to nominate its state ticket. From all points of the floor delegates complained the platform is the most vague and the weakest in two decades;, according to Lieutenant-Governor Edgur D. Bush of Salem. Farm bloc leaders said that although they had been given a "sop” in the form of a declaration for relief of heavy tax burdens on real estate, they were distraught because no remedial plan, such as an income or excise tax, had been advanced.

With addresses concluded at 1 p. m. today the convention by acclamation nominated seven candidates unopposed on the state ticket. Nomination of candidates in offices contested was to follow immediately. Desperate, last-minutes attempt to keep open an avenue for introduction of a wet and dry referendum in the platform was quelled shortly after the convention opened. Originating the move, and its chief supporters, were delegates from Lake county, headed by State Senator James Nejdl, Whiting, familiar on convention and legislative floors, where his oratory, embellished with picturesque gyrations, fiercely has opposed and supported many a political and legislative measure. As the report of the rules committee was read, Nedjl arose to demand that the rules be kept open, permitting him, when the platform will be read, to reattempt insertion of a plank he submitted unsuccessfully to the platform committee Wednesday night. Nejdl Fights for Planks A chorus of “ayes” answered call of Chairman Elza G. Rogers for vote on the original report, and, though as he rose to announce adoption of the rules, a delegation in the rear of the convention hall shouted “no,” the report was accepted Nejdl’s referendum plank would ask the legislature to submit the wet and dry question to the voters in 1932 general elections. Nejdl also would have tried to insert a plank calling upon the 1931 legislature to pass a registration law and repeal primary election laws. Fighting for his motion to keep open the rules, Nejdl declared: “You will take out of the hands of the delegates on the floor an opertunity to voice t heir opinions, and that will be using railroad tactics.” Following invocation by the Rev. Elmer Jones, pastor of the First Methodist church, Lebanon, messages from United States Senators Arthur R. Rcbinson and James E. Watscn were read. Alexander on Job Both expressed usual regrets at inability to attend, confidence in the state ticket the convention will select and pledged support in the fall elections. W. A. Alexander, Rushville, state ! champion hog-caller, was on the floor, ready to take his twenty-year-old post of calling votes when nominations are made. The rules committee, headed by Elmer Hastings, Washington, presented a motion that unopposed candidates be nominated by acclamation before contested nominations are voted upon. The motion was carried. Seven of the eleven nominations to be made are uncontested. Save in one instance, that of state treasurer. incumbents are seeking renomination. Keynoters Speak Nominations are to be made for a judge of the supreme court from the First judicial district, judge of the supreme court. Fourth judicial district; two judges of the appellate court, southern division; two judges

O. H. Bakmeier held death due to suicide. Stewart had spent three weeks at Indian lake, Russell’s Point, 0., while his wife visited with Mrs. Mabel Hickman. Richelieu apartments No. 3, Massachusetts avenue and East street. Deputy Coroner Bakemeier believes Stewart ended his life early Wednesday. He left no note to indicate his motive.

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Judge Thomas Coulter Thomas B. Coulter, Vincennes, said to be the Anti-Saloon League favorite, this afternoon was nominated as candidate for the Indiana supreme court from the First judicial district, defeating Benjamin M. Willoughby, incumbent. of the appllate court, nor,hern division; secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, clerk of the supreme court, and superintendent of public instruction. Two keynoters, Governor Harry G. Leslie and Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of the department of agriculture, praised the state and national administrations. Lauding the progress of the nation under the Republican party, Hyde praised President Herbert Hoover and hs administration in addressing the convention. Triumph Against Panic “The party now stands charged with being the ‘tool of the interests* and with responsibility for ‘robber tariffs.’ “We answer that the party of Lincoln has been true to the principles of the platform which bore Lincoln triumphantly to the presidency. We answer that the progress of America during those seventy years has been an unparalleled achievement.” Hyde departed from his written speech to praise leadership in congress of Senator Watson, and to slap at Republican insurgents, among whom may have been included Senator Robinson. Watson he characterized as “the grand cld Nestor of Indiana Republicanism.” Scat on 50-Yard Line “I wen to Washington expecting to see politics as it should be played,” Hyde said. “I got a seat on the ‘fifty-yard line.’ Two teams trotted out.-; The captain gave his signal and a good proportion of our team turned around and tackled the captain. “Commotion and noise are not signs of prgoress. The spectacle of the dog chasing his tail may be good for those whose taste is for the bizarre; who have a nose for news: and who like tall headlines; but it doesn’t change the position of the tail.” In his scantily veiled figures of speech. Seventh district leaders read a direct blow at Senator Robinson, who has played with Republican insurgents in Washington. Prior to his visit here. Hyde narrated, he received a letter from a woman official of the Wabash Valley Farm Bureau, who complained that farmers’ wives in the state are frantic over destitution prevailing in Indiana, and a terrific struggle to obtain finances. Hyde declared no greater triumph ever has been scored in peace time than “the victory which President Hoover has won against panic.”

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