Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1930 — Page 1

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THUGS TERRIFY FAMILY AFTER BREAXjNGDOOR Armed Gunmen, Believed Hijackers, Smash Way Into Home. OPERATOR GIVES ALARM Marauders Drug Two Dogs, Lock Man, Wife and Children in Room. Through southeastern suburban districts early today deputy sheriffs’ emergency cars sped in response to a report of a Beech Grove telephone operator that over a phone she heard several shots, and a woman’s screams. At the home of Ben T. Baker, Bethel and Southern avenues, they found Baker, his wife and two children prisoners in a bedroom after a night-riding outrage that left Mrs. Baker and the children in hysterical terror. An hour earlier the family was awakened by pounding on a rear door. “We'rf the law,” a male voice replied to Baker’s query as to what they wanted. “We’ve got a search warant.” Door Is Splintered ‘‘Read the warrant, and I’ll open the door.” Baker demanded. A kick resounded on the panels. A gun barked several times. Inside the house the family huddled, awaiting the marauders’ next move. Herding her children, Margaret, 14, and Rollie, 11, clad only in night-clothing, into the living room, Mrs. Baker ran to the telephone. Meanwhile the men outside had splintered the door. One of them rushed into the house. Covering her with a revolver he ordered: “Drop That Phone” “Drop that phone, damn you, or I’ll kill you!” He fired once as the telephone fell from her hands. At the switchboard Mrs. Louie Frittsi, 2023 Maple street. Beech Grove, night operator, tried vainly to talk with the person calling. Then through her headset she heard ♦he screams, and six or eight shots. She called the sheriff's office. "Youve got Ujuor here. We’re going to find it,” one of the two men in the house told Baker, punctuating his threats with revolver shots. Deputies today said they believed all the cartridges were blanks, after a futile searching for bullet-holes. Flee in Two Cars , Herding the Baker family into one bedroom, the gunmen locked the door and left the house. They fled east on Bethel avenue, in a large car and a small one. Deputies said the men probably were hi-jackers. Although community records of the Baker family reveal no connection with liquor traffic, recently there was a bootlegger in the neighborhood, according to rumors. The hi-jackers probably had a false address, deputies declare. The bootlegger is said to have moved away several weeks ago. That the marauders marked the house prior to the assault Mr. and “ Mrs. Henry Krukemeier, neighbors to the Baker family, told deputy sheriffs this morning. Dogs Are Drugged The big car in which one of the men escaped, a long, gray touring car. passed the Baker house slowly several times Wednesday, with one man, the driver, in it, they said. Shortly after 9:30 p. m. Wednesday two dogs owned by the Bakers, one a big, savage animal and the other a small terrier, began frenzied barking, but quieted down a few minutes later, deputies were told. After the attack they were found, drugged, but recovered several hours 2ater. Baker is yard manager at the People’s Coal and Cement Company. SIDESHOW IS NUISANCE Operation of Carnival Feature Pleads Goilty in Municipal Court. Clarence McClug, operator of a sideshow in a carnival here, supposedly featuring a rat eater, pleaded guilty to maintaining a public nuisance before Special Judge Paul Rochford in municipal court today. Judgment was withheld and McClug was restrained from putting on his show in Marion county.

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Beauty and the Bathing Pool —‘Its Fine — Super-Fine/_She Cries

REED TO VOTE YES ONTARIFF Formal Pledge to Senate Viewed as Assuring Bill Will Pass. Bu UnitrArrest WASHINGTON, June 12.—Assurance that the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill will pass ihe senate Friday gained added weight today when Senator David A. Reed (Rep., Pa.), announced in a speech to the senate he would .vote for' the measure. For several days the Pennsylvanian, an intimate of Secretary of Treasury Mellon and an influential leader of his party, had maintained he was in doubt whether he could support the measure. Republican leaders maintain his vote will pass the bill. Previously Senator Norris (Rep., Neb.) attacked the SmootHawley measure as “protection run perfectly wild.” “From whatever standpoint it is considered,” Norris told the crowded senate and galleries, “this bill is indefensible.” “It was conceived,” he continued, “in the interests of victorious l siness organizations which are u-,mg the power obtained by unfair practices to thrust upon us one of the most selfish and indefensible tariff proposals that has ever been given consideration by the American people. “These interests have used their power to bring about their own destruction, in my opinion. “A tariff bill which is built upon such discriminations between the different groups of our people will work out its own destruction.” WRECK IS PREVENTED Fast Train Stops Few Feet From Overturned Truck. Railroad men who lighted signals for the engineer of a fast Pennsylvania passenger train early today averted a wreck at the State avenue crossing. The train screeched to a stop within a few feet of a gravel truck, which had been overturned on the tracks when hit by a freight engine. Joseph Duffy, 27, of 1546 Tabor street, truck driver, was injured slightly. He told police the'crossing lights were not operating when he drove on the tracks, although railroad men and a watchman contradicted his statement.

SENATE’S VOTING ON SEA PACT DEFIES PRESIDENT

81l Vnitctl Press WASHINGTON, June 12.—The senate foreign relations committee adopted today by a vote of 10 to 7 a resolution asserting the senate’s right to secret London naval conference papers which have been refused the committee by President Hoover. Chairman Borah was i: .acted by the committee to send a copy of the resolution to Mr. Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson, through whom the former’s refusal to produce the papers has aijade known to the committee. \ The resolution will not be presented to the senate for action but merely is an expression of committee opinion. The roll call on the resolution was as follows: For: Republicans. Borah, Johnson, Moses. La Follette, and Robinson of Indiana; Democrats, Swanson. Pittman, Black and Wagner; Farmer-Laborite, Shipstead. Against: Republicans, Capper, Gtllett, Reed, Fess and Vandenbfirg; Democrats, Harrison and George. Senators Goff (Rep., VaJ, Walsh

BEAUTY baptized the new $45,000 Garfield park swimming pool today. “I pronounce thee ‘swimmable,’ ” shouted Miss Patricia Jane Saunders, 2720 North Meridian street, and with a big splash was the first bather in the city’s newest aquatic course as the above photo shows, shows. Here’s Pat’s trip by photo through the pool: I—Receiving her bathing suit from W. Harrison Marsh, manager of the pool and its concessions. 2 —pat walking out of the arched doorway to toe-test the water with the fir it feminine toe to test it. 3—The toe test. 4—“ Heavy-heavy-hangs over thy head!” calls Pat and into the water for the natal splash she went. s —“ Fine, super-fine,” she exclaimed as she paddled about the pool’s first Australian crawl. 6—Leaving its limpid waters reluctantly. 7 —pat sunning herself after the plunge. B—The pool as seen from the shelter house before the water was turned in. Dedicatory exercises for the pool will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will speak. It will be opened to the public Monday. Frank B. Hunter, city architect, designed and built the pool.

‘CITE cannon: BLAINES PLEA Wet Senator Charges Probe Group Shirking Duty. Bu I'nitrd 1 rest WASHINGTON, June 12.—Senator Blaine (Rep., Wis.) today charged the senate lobby committee with shirking its duty and moved in open session that it cite Bishop James Cannon Jr. to the senate for contempt because he refused to answer its questions. Action on the motion was deferred until later in the day, so a full meeting could be arranged. “This committee will be subject to the contempt in which the bishop holds it if it does not do its duty,” said Blaine heatedly. “The senate will be held up to the contempt of the country if it dees not act. “The committee can not purge the bishop of his responsibilities as a witness.” At the opening of today’s meeting Chairman Caraway had informed Cannon the committee had decided to accept as valid the bishop’s refusal to answer questions pertaining to his anti-Smith activities during the 1928 presidential campaign. The committee had voted, four to one, with Blaine dissenting, not to require Cannon to answer. City Bonds Sold Bu Timet Special MARION, Ind., June 12. The Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, Indianapolis, was the successful bidder on a $39,000 bond issue offered for sale here, Tuesday, by Ray E. Norman, city clerk. Proceeds are to be used to pay for remodeling Civic hall into city offices.

t (Dem., Mont.) and Robinson iDem., Ark.) were absent. i Borah said the committee began considering its report on the treaty after adopting the resolution, and ! would continue with its consideration in an executive session Friday. Shortly after the committee’s action it was indicated at the White ; House that Mr. Hoover would maini tain his position of withholding the papers.

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A WEEK’S trip to one of America’s most famous summer resorts, in care of a responsible chaperon, with all expenses paid! That’s worth shooting at, isn’t it? Some Indianapolis boy or girl will win this tempting prize, the biggest free vacation offer of the year. Hie TJtfies next Monday will start its -.great marbles touxna-

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PRESS INQUIRY IN SMASH Radio Operator Charges Order of Silence. Bu United Press BOSTON, June 12.—Testimony that his superiors ordered him, immediately after the collision, not to broadcast details of the FairfaxPinthis disaster, was given before a federal board inquiry this afternoon by J. Wesley Geweken of Baltimore, chief radio operator of the Fairfax. Captain Achie H. Brooks previously has refused to hold himself or his officers in any way responsible for the collision in which his ship rammed and sank the oil tanker Pinthis off Scituate Tuesday night with a loss of forty-seven lives. The master of the Fairfax insisted that his ship was moving at “moderate speed” despite computations by steamboat inspectors indicating a speed of 11.2 knots, nearly full speed Confronted with charges that he had neglected to send an SOS to the coast guard cutter Tampa, only fifteen minutes’ steaming distance from the scene, the Fairfax’ master maintained no boat could have offered assistance because of the blazing, oil-filmed sea. WASHINGTON, June 12.—Fearcrazed seamen aboard the liner Fairfax knocked helpless women to the decks in their mad rush to leave the ship after its collision with the tanker Pinthis in Massachusetts bay Tuesday night, two Washington girls, survivors of the tragedy, charged here today. Only the bravery of sailors, marines and a few passengers averted a worse tragedy, lona Brown anfl Sara Poynton declared upon their arrival here. SENTENCE IS UPHELD —v Ft. Wayne Man Must Serve Term for Automobile Death. Edward Kraft, well-known Ft. Wayne bowler, must serve the one to ten-year sentence imposed by Allen circuit court for involuntary manslaughter it was determined today. Petition for rehearing of the case by the supreme court was denied. The high court upheld the sentence some time ago. Kraft was convicted of running down Charles Pens with his automobile during a fog, Jan. 16, 1926. Pens died the following day.

ment, for all children in the city not more than 14 years of agf. The winner will go to the national tourney in Ocean City, N. J., to compete with representatives from > nearly sixty other cities, for the . marbles crown of the United ’ States. v The winner of the city n *t will leave here Saturday, June 21, for the east. The trip, wit all expenses paid, will include tour of

Schroeder’s Wife Admits Receiving Letter Week Following Slaying. Communication today from Mobile (Ala.) police indicated tc Detective Fred Simon here that since the High School road murder May 31, Harold Herbert Schroeder, Mobile, missing link in the mystery, has written three times to his wife in the southern city. In Schroeders car, wj-it of the city early May 31, the charred body of a man was taken from ruins of the auto, which had been burned. That the body was not Schrceder’s seemed established definitely Wednesday with report of Dr. R. N. Harger, instructor in the biochemistry department of Indiana university school of medicine, that clothing on the body and a coat found near the burning car were not of the same material. Adults Receiving Letters A telegram from Police Chief Warren Burch, in Mobile, today convinced Chief Simon that Schroeder still lives. Burch said Mrs. Schroeder finally admitted receipt of two special delivery letters postmarked from Indianapolis May 31, after the murder, and of an air mail letter postmarked from Nashville, Tenn., June 6, almost a week later, all evidently from her husband. Burch did not inform police here of the missives’ contents. None of them bore a return address. Sheriff >n Way Here Informed by Deputy Harry Bendel this morning of Burch’s message, Sheriff George Winkler said he would leave Terre Haute, where he finished testimony in federal court cases, for Indianapolis at once. He did not indicate whether he would revisit Mobile in investigation of the murder mystery. Simon pointed out that the letters from Indianapolis were not sent by Mrs. Lynn L. Sams of Elkhart, Schroeder’s sister, as previously had been suspected. She was not in the city then, he said. 6,644 IN TWELFTH WARD, FIGURES SHOW Final Revised Census Returns Reveal Increase of 37 Persons. Final, revised census returns for the Twelfth ward were announced by Delbert O. Wilmeth, supervisor of census, this morning. The previous figures were 6,607; the revised figures 6,644, showing an increase of 37. The new figure was sealed, signed and sent to Washington. ward and township is being rechecked as rapidly as possible, Wilmeth declared. Boy Dies of Injuries Bu United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 12.—Injuries sustained by 6-year-old James Earl Daugherty, son of a lumber mill employe, when a log was dragged over him by a pair of mules, resulted in his death Wednesday.

Revolutionary war scenes, Valley Forge among them. All during the next week entertainment galore will be given the boys and girls at Ocean City, where, under strict safety supervision, there is fishing, boating, swimming, free shows pony rides, and everything else that any lad could wish. Complete rules for the tourney are on Page 10 of this edition. The enti-y blank is on Page|. Fill

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Mother Plots Death With Children; Foiled ‘Don’t Turn on the Gas,’ Pleads Youngster; Relatives Break Into Fume-Filled Home in Rescue. WHILE one child begged on her knees by a bed, “Mama, don’t turn on the gas,” and another child lay asleep, Mrs. Dorothy Miller, 24, of 2838 Gale street, today attempted to end her life and that of her children by asphyxiation. The suicide attempt was frustrated by relatives. The story of the frustration of a triple burial is one of frustration in life. Mrs. Miller liked her work. Her home, her husband, Kelso Miller, an electrician, and her two children, June, 7, Madeline, 5, were her all. She became ill. Doctors ordered an operation, and after it was over she never regained her strength. She couldn’t do as she always had done, cook, wash dishes. She had to depend on June, her oldest daughter, and Thursday night she told June and her husband she was “going to end it all.”

“She said, she’d ’turn on the gas’,” related June as she stood between the knees of Fred Drinkutt, motor policeman, and looked with wet eyes into his kindly face. “Did you know what that meant, June?” asked Drinkutt. “Uh-huh it meant mama would go away,” nodded June as her mouth twitched. ss st tt THURSDAY morning Miller left home early. He had informed his wife’s half sister, Mrs. Ellen Schmidt, 1922 Jones street, of his wife’s threats to commit suicide and urged her to go and stay with his wife. “Daddy was no sooner gone than mama made our breakfast, dressed me, but wouldn’t let me go to school. She made me go back to bed,” June told Drinkutt. “I tried to go anyway. She acted

Play News Activities of the city’s playgrounds again will be covered thoroughly by The Times this year, a special page being devoted each week to news of Indianapolis’ recreation centers. The first playground page will appear next Wednesday, June 18, and on each following Wednesday, until reopening of schools, the page will be a Times feature. Watch for your picture; watch for the standing of your baseball team and the scores of your games; watch for news of all the activities in other sports. You’ll find them all on The Times Playground Page.

SLAIN REPORTER BURIED AS 655 THUGS ARE JAILED

Bu United Press • _ _ , CHICAGO, June 12.—Representatives of law and order today gave to Alfred (Jake) Lingle a funeral as impressive in magnitude and floral tributes as many which have •zn accorded by the underworld uo less respectable victims of gang vengeance. Ttoe Chicago Tribune police reporter was murdered Monday while walking through a crowded subw’ay passage to a suburban railroad station. Monday, while civil authorities sent their expert marksmen out to end, with bullets, if necessary, the perennial beer wars which were climaxed on Monday by Lingle’s assassination.

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so funny. She called, ‘Come back to bed I’m going to turn on the gas.’ I knew that meant she was •going away.’ I begged her not to. She turned on two burners on the range in the kitchen. I smelled it. Madeline was asleep. I tried to get out of bed, but mama wouldn’t let me. The gas made me sick. Madeline woke up. Mama went to sleep,” June related. a n IT was at this juncture that Mrs. Schmidt and Mrs. Estee Miller, 2139 College avenue, Kelso’s mother, arrived at the home, found it locked. Breaking a window with her hand, Mrs. Schmidt entered the house. She found the mother on the bed unconscious. The children were crying. Gas jets of the range poured fumes into the house. She turned off the jets and called police. The mother was restored to consciousness. The three victims of the gas were left at home after treatment by city hospital attaches. Mrs. Miller was not arrested. She refused to talk to police. QUEEN MARIE HOME Carol Honors Mother on Return From Germany. (EarV.er Details. Pae Two) Bu United Prett BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 12. —Dowager Queen Marie arrived tonight from Germany and was welcomed with the highest honos her son, King Carol 11, could bestow.

The funeral procession for the star reporter, headed by an escort of motorcycle policemen and including men and women from all the walks of life which Lingle’s career had touched, was moving through Garfield park on the west side when an announcement came from the detective bureau that the hoodlum roundup of the last twelve hours had put 655 men behind jail bars. “Our flying squadron of six detective units, each headed by a man with numerous gang scalps in his belt, will clean this town up if it is humanly possible to do so,” said Police Commissioner William F. Russell, a close personal friend of Lingle. The pomp and magnitude of the Lingle cortege was impressive. Behind the mounted policemen in front marened a union musicians’ band, companies of policemen, a band from the Great Lakes naval training station where Lingle served during the war, a detachment of the Illinois Naval reserves and several hundred city firemen in uniform, led by Fire Commissioner Edward A. Maloney. City and county officials were represented. Pallbearers included Commissioner Russell; Hary Ash, first assistant i attorney-general, and staff members of Chicago newspapers^4

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75,060 TO SEE SHARKEY AND GERMANFIGHT Clear Skies Promised for Heavyweight Title Clash Tonight. EX-SAILOR IS CONFIDENT Pledges All in Effort to Keep Crown in U. S., Betting Light. Bu United Prrtt NEW YORK. June 12.—Jack Sharkey weighed in at 197 pounds this afternoon, Max Schmeling tipping the beam at 188 pounds. BY FRANK GETTY United Press Snorts Editor NEW YORK, June 12.—Gloved hand of anew heavyweight champion of the world will be raised aloft in Yankee Stadium tonight. It may be the hand of Jack Sharkey, cold-eyed, enigmatical Bostonian, descendent of Lithuanians, but fighting to keep the title in this country, where it has remained since John L. Sullivan's day. Or it may be that' of Max Schmeling, the ambitious German youth whom the fates have raised to sudden prominence. The United States weather bureau this morning forecast “fair” weather for tonight’s fight. The skies still were overcast slightly at the time of the forecast, but indications were that there would be no rain, the bureau officials said. 75,000 to Pack Park A throng numbering nearly 75,000, the seventh largest fight crowd of all time, will be packed in the big ball park when Sharkey and Schmeling answer the opening bell of their dramatic fifteen-round encounter at approximately 1"' p. m., eastern daylight saving time. There will be present celebrities galore, including Gene Tunney, who tossed aside the heavyweight crown undefeated nearly two years ago. Mayor Walker, Secretary of War Hurley and representatives of the German diplomatic corps in this country. Jack Sharkey, who awoke today for his brief limbering up stroll through Central park fit and quietly confident, is favored by a majority of the country’s fight fans and experts to defeat his youthful opponent within the limit of fifteen rounds. The last minute odds were 8 to 5 on the Bostonian, although there has been surprisingly little betting on this fight. $800,070 Gate Looms While the battle tonight will not approach in attendance and receipts the great fights in which Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney participated, it is expected to draw nearly SBOO,OOO. The nation’s fight fans, slow at first to warm to the encounter because of Sharkey’s frequently disappointing bouts and Schmeling's inexperience and long absence from the ring, has come to accept the .-.flair in all its championship aspects. The boxing commission also has moved to protect Schmeling’s interests by withholding its decision as to the referee and judges until a few minutes before the bout. Four leading referees will be at the ringside, ready to serve if called upon. Tonight or Friday In event of a downpour before evening, the fight will be postponed until Friday night. Ringside seats in favorable locations were selling today for as high as $125 each, although the Madison Square Garden, which is assisting the milk fund committee in promotion of the show announced that plenty of ringside seats—thirty and forty rows back—still were available. Sharkey and Schmeling are fighting on a percentage basis, and each will receive considerably in excess of $150,000. It is estimated that the championship, will be worth more i than $1,000,000 to the winner. CITY POLICE ON WATCH Kinney Orders Cops to Be on Lookout for Chicago Gangsters. As Chicago police tightened their grip on gangland today, Police Chief Jerry Kinney ordered the Indianapolis police force to keep strict lookout for fleeing Chicago gangsters. “If any gangsters are recognized here they will be arrested immediately and given a hot reception,” Kinney said. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 63 10 a. m 74 7a. m 63 11 a. m 76 Ba. m 67 12 (noon).. 75 9a. m 70 Ip. m 72

Blow by Blow Starting at 7:30 tonight, a nation-wide hookup of the National Broadcasting Company will broadcast a blow-by-blow account of the SharkeySchmeling heavyweight championship fight. Stations on the chain for this evert include WTAM, WWJ, WSAI, WGN, KTHS, KYW, WLS, WSM, WHAS, WDAF, WJZ, KDKA and short wave stations W2XAF and W2XAC. The RCA hour will follow immediately on conclusion of the fight broadcast, continuing for one hour regardless of time of starting.

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