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$3,000,000 IS PAID FOR VAST LOANBUSINESS Chain, Built Up by Forty Years of Hard Work, Changes Hands. CITY MAN SELLS FIRM William A; Zumpfe Lies 111 in Hospital While Deal Is Consummated. Only a game fish swims upstream —that’s natural history; and only a game man wins against odds—that’s the history of man, demonstrated today with the disclosure that a loan business which had its inception in the orchestra pit of an old theater here has netted its owner more than $3,000,000 in a recent sale. In the Methodist hospital today there is seriously ill a man whose career is the epitome of perseverance and work. It would make a tale that Horatio Alger Jr. could have written. But unlike Alger’s heroes, William A. Zumpfe didn’t save the life of his employer’s daughter, beat off a host of beetle-browed villains and then marry the girl. Instead, he worked and persevered and the results of his labor have made him a multi-millionaire, his friends say. Within the past few weeks and with the disdain for publicity which has characterized his every act, Zumpfe has sold his chain of general mortgage loan business in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania to the Merchants and Manufacturers Securities Company of Chicago, for a figure reputed in excess of $3,000,000. Entwined With Friend The properties included in the sale are: The Provident Loan Companies, located in six Indiana cities, Valparaiso, Elkhart, Michigan City, South Bend, Hammond and East Chicago: two in Ohio, one of which is at Youngstown; several in Illinois and his largest, ”'at connected with the Wanamaker store in Philadelphia. The out-state concerns are operated under various names. Will Chandler, a brother-in-law, who was active in the management of properties, which had the general offices in the Odd Fellow building here now is in Chicago with thepurchasing concern. Zumpfe’s financial activities Cover a period of forty years and were for a period entwined with those of his friend, John H. Aufderheide, prominent Indianapolis investment and securities dealer. Bom in Shelbyville Born in Shelbyville in 1865, Zumpfe was brought to Indianapolis at an early age and went to grade school, Shortridge high school and business college here. In about 1880 he entered the Indiana National bank, where he became a teller. At the now defunct Indiana Banking Company he was a bookkeeper, Aufderheide, his close companion and friend. Incidentally another bookkeeper, who worked next to Aufderheide was Frank D. Stalnaker, now president of the Indiana National bank. To eke out his salary, Zumpfe organized an orchestra which played under his name, at the English and other theaters. Zumpfe was first violin and his friend Aufderheide, played the viola. Organized Own Firm The Indiana Banking Company was forced to close its doors and 'Aufderheide engaged in various businesses for several years, obtaining experience in the real estate, insurance and loan business in that period. In 1887 Aufderheidec ruized a loan, real estate and insurance business under his owm name. Four years later his friend, Zumpfe, resigned from the bank to become a partner and the firm was known as Aufderheide and Zumpfe. The two men v ere partners for several years when their connection was dissolved and Zumpfe started the Central Loan Company which he operated under that name for seven years. Then he started branching out. His interests became varied and several years later he gave up the Indianapolis business, but continued his far-flung activities from the office here. For the past few years various large banking and mortgage corporations have been attempting to purchase the companies founded by the banker-orchestra leader, and it was only recently that he decided to sell. The deal finally was consummated while he was ill at the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Zumpfe reside at 1211 North Alabama street, and have a summer home at Long Beach, Ind., on Lake Michigan.

From Liberty to Prohibition That is the striking title of the fourth article in the series on "The Crime Against Temperance,” written for The Times by James A. Reed, former United States senator from Missouri. It portrays in the masterly style of this great statesman and writer how the AntiSaloon League has fastened its .paralysing grip on the United i States. Turn to Page 9 and read it. Then watch for Friday’s u-ticle—“lntolerance: the Heart o t Prohibition.’’

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 40

H. C. Stutz, Pioneer in Autos, Dies K: : :

Harry C. Stutz

Leader in Motor Industry Passes at Hospital After Operation. Harry C. Stutz, 53, organizer and first president of the Stutz Motor Car Company and a leader in the automotive industry, died at the Methodist hospital here at 12:07 this morning. Mr. Stutz underwent an operation for appendicitis Monday. Mr. Stutz, for years prominent in the Indianapolis automobile industry, was brought here from his present home at Orlando, Fla., Monday for the operation. The funeral will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the McNeely & Sons undertaking parlors, 1828 North Meridian street. Friends may view the body there Friday and Saturday morning. Other burial arrangements are to be completed. Interested in Mechanics The story of Mr. Stutz’s life is linked closely with the rise of the automobile industry from its pioneering stages. He was bom at Ahsonia, 0., son of Henry J. and Elizabeth who now reside at New Carlisle, O. From his earliest years he was interested in mechanics anew was one of. the first experimenters with the “horseless carriage.” Among his early experiments, undertaken at Dayton, 0., where he conducted a small machine shop for some years, was the designing of one of the first water-cooled motor cars. In 1903 Mr. Stutz left this business to come to Indianapolis as head of the Lindsey-Russell Axle Company. Later he was in the experimental department of the G. & J. Tire Company. Designed Race Car He designed the first Stutz car which ran in the first 500-mile race in 1911. Prior to this he had become associated with the Marion Motor Car Company, where he spent four years, 1906 to 1910. In 1911 the Ideal Motor Car Company was organized to make the Stutz car. In 1913 the Marion Motor Car Company and the Ideal Motor Car Company were consolidated into the Stutz Motor Car Company, Mr. Stutz becoming its president. After disposing of his stock in this concern Mr. Stutz joined in organization of the H. C. S. Motor Car Company in 1919, and five years later left the automotive field temporarily and moved to Orlando, Fla., where he became interested in fruit growing. Designed Plane Motor About a year and a half ago hfe began working on airplane motors, and had designed a four-cylinder airplane motor for small planes, about which he was negotiating with airplane manufacturers at the time of his death. Mr. Stutz was married to Miss Clara M. Dietz, at Dayton, 0., in 1898. They later were divorced. He was married to Mrs. Blanche Miller, Indianapolis, in 1926. Other survivors besides the widow, father and mother, are two sisters, Mrs, Almada Brewbaker, and Miss Iva Stutz, both of Carlisle, O.; a daughter, Mrs. William S. Horn, 3656 Washington boulevard, and one grandchild, William Horn Jr.

THE KING IS A LITTLE BOY—HIS THRONE IS IN THE BLEACHERS

BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN Vnitfd Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 26.—A small boy sits way back in the sunny left field bleachers. The mighty Hack Wilson stands at the home plate swinging his menacing bludgeon. The pitcher grips the new white ball and starts his windup. The ball streaks up to the batter. Hack swings his tremendous shoulders into his “cut.” The sound of bat meeting ball is drowned out by the deafening roar of thousands. The ball sails upward—up in a great parabola straight toward the small boy. His squeals of delight choke in his throat as the ball dips and arches suddenly into his lap. Be grins, the fans applaud, and I

OCEAN FLIERS ARE HALFWAY TO NEWYORK Head Winds, Fog Cut Down Speed at Start From Newfoundland. ALL IN GOOD SPIRITS Chatter by Radio of Food, Need of Smokes and Cloud Effects. 8y United Press* GLOUCESTER, Mass., June 26. —The Southern Cross reported her position as one hundred miles “easterly” of Portland, Mg,, at 12:30 p. m. (central standard time), today, the Gloucester coast guard station announcea. BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 26.—Captain Charles E. Kingsford-Smith and his three companions, flying from Harbor Grace, New Foundland, to New York to complete their transAtlantic voyage, were believed to have passed the half-way mark some time between 10 and 11, central standard time, today. Head winds and fog had cut down their speed until for more than three hours, they had averaged only about sixty miles an hour. But as they approached Halifax, near the halfway mark, conditions grew better. Head winds were less violent. They avoided some of the fog by flying inland and they raised their average speed of sixty-five miles. . Seen Over Mainland At 9 a. m. (central standard time) it was seen for the first time over the mainland of America—the first time any plane, which had flown from the other side of the Atlantic, had been so sighted. It fell to the villagers of Country Harbor, 100 miles from Halifax, cn the Nova Scotian coast to be the first to see the plane. A little later the Southern Cross called for radio bearings to check its course. , The four* men aboard were in high spirits. They sent word that" they would head for Lynn, Mass., to give a greeting to Bernt Balchen, Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s polar pilot. They chattered about the food and told of the clouds which hemmed them in at times. Inroads on Food “Beautiful masses of heavy cumulus clouds up here,” KingsfordSmith said in one message relayed to the United Press by the Canadian Marconi Company. “The old ship is plowing through them steadily. All of us are cheery and making inroads on our provisions.” He called for weather reports from the Maine coast, indicating he was preparing considerably ahead for the progress of his flight. The fliers were in good spirits. They prattled along over the radio with operators on land, telling of their lunch, of the clouds effects they could see from their perch in the skies; and when they hit particularly foggy stretches only it drew a half-amused “gosh.” Flew by Reckoning For hours they flew through fog by dead reckoning, checked against occasional compass bearings from land stations. In addition to the troubles of navigating by dead reckoning and fighting headwinds, air-sickness annoyed Kingsford-Smith and Everett Van Dyk, who rode with him at the controls as co-pilot. “A little while ago,” KingsfordSmith radioed, “ Van Dyk and I got sick from an overdose of petrol fumes and did the obvious, but now o. k.” J. W. Stannage, the radio operator, complained to shore stations that those aboard were craving a smoke but could not indulge. OUSTS 900 DETECTIVES Chicago Police Chief Sets Sleuths to Walking Beats. By United Press CHICAGO, June 26. Between 1,200 and 1,400 policemen were transferred today in a shakeup order issued by acting Police Commissioner John Alcock. Nine hundred detectives were removed from the detective bureau and assigned to walk beats. The traffic patrol was warned that policemen found guilty of swearing at citizens would be taken off the pay roll.

the little lad pockets his prize— Hack Wilson’s home run ball. a a a Approaches a Wrigley field usher in imposing blue and gold uniform. •

“Give me,” says he in effect, “that ball. It is worth $1.65 and it is the property of the Chicago Cubs.” The small boy squirms in his seat, ae hieacherites

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 26,1930

Growing Healthy in Sun , Wind

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THERE’S health in the tops of sweet clover and new vigor in the country breezes, say these girls who are attending the summer nutrition camp of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association near Bridgeport. Outdoor gymnastics at the camp, demonstrated by Grace Cooke and Bernice Stansbury (upper left), call for a rest period under the big umbrella such as Margaret Spreen (upper right) is enjoying. And when the sun beats down there’s a cool spot along the camp’s brooklet, say Marie Hartley, Helen Wagner and Bula McKinney (center photo). If it’s a shade tree you’re looking for, well, what could beat this spot where Betty White and Evelyn Riley (lower photo) argue over an apple? Twenty-eight girls from Indianapolis and Marion county are enrolled in the girls’ camp, which opened last Tuesday and lasts five weeks. Miss Grace Malsbury, La Porte hygiene teacher, is in charge of the camp.

VETERANS’ BILL IS VETOED BY HOOVER

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 26.—The house voted today to sustain President Hoover’s veto of the W’orld war veterans’ compensation bill, thereby paving the way for a substitute measure which would meet with the President’s approval. The vote was 182 in favor of overriding to 188 against. WASHINGTON, June 26.—President Hoover vetoed the liberalized ■World war veterans compensation bill today, and sent it back to congress with a vigorous message restating the objections he has raised previously. House leaders were confident the veto would be sustained, thus killing the bill in this form. “The bill,” the President declared, “in a wasteful and extravagant manner, goes far beyond the financial necessities of the situation.” Director Hines of the veterans’ bureau, he said, estimated it will cost $110,000,000 the first year and that this will increase to an annual cost of $235,000,000. “These cc&ts are beyond the capacity of the government at the present time without increased taxation,” Mr. Hoover warned.

growl. They look around for pop bottles, but find none. A cautious management has served refreshments in paper cups. The usher retreats, nevertheless, because the perspiring gentlemen in the

bleachers look furious and menacing. Soon returns the usher, with three blue coats, swinging clubs. They line up before the frightened small boy, the ball bulging in his trouser pocket. X ....

The President said it is unfair to provide relief for part of the veterans, and that if the “presumptions” were extended to cover the entire 380,000, then the cost would increase by $150,000,000 or $200,000,000 yearly. It would cost $140,000,000 to build additional hospitals, he said, beyond those now being built, with an annual maintenance cost of $60,000,000 —all in addition to present expenditures for veterans’ relief.

Torch Man Tells Story of Life in Interview at County Jail

Flier’s wings never decorated the bosom of Harold Herbert Schroeder, Mobile (Ala.) radiator man, who today sits in the shadow of the electric chair. No exploits in Mexican wars were his. He is no ardent lover or Don Juan

“Let’s have that ball!” They swing their clubs idly, as blue coats do. The boy starst to reach in his pocket. tt U U A HUSKY gentleman with a sunburned nose gets to his feet, winds up and takes a poke at the nearest officer. Another fan tangles with the usher. The two other policemen find themselves the targets of flying fists and kicking brogans. The small boy keeps the ball. Reinforcements come. They take the usher, the three battered patrolmen and their vigorous assailants to the police station. The small boy goes, too. He still hangs on tightly to the ball. The scene changed Wednesday to the courtroom of Judge Francis AHegretti. The judge listened to tlie story, fitting before him were the tibyjfflkatrolm.en, the usher,

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INDIANS MAKE 3-PLAYER DEAL Close Transaction With Red Sox; Sign Collegian. The Indianapolis baseball club today purchased three players from the Boston Red Sox, two outfielders and a pitcher, and also picked up a collegian hurler recommended by Ownie Bush, Chicago White Sox manager. Pastimers coming from Boston are Joe Cicero and Graves, outfielders, and Frank Mulrooney, pitcher. Cicero batted .340 in the Eastern League with Pittsfield last year and Mulrooney, on the same club, was rated the seventh best hurler in the lop. He is a right-hander. Outfielder Graves, with Portland in the New England League (Class B) last year, batted .343. The collegian signed is George Kepler, right-hander, .former Penn State star. Mulrooney won thirteen games and lost eight with a fourth-place team in 1929 and Cicero was among the Eastern League’s leading sluggers. He collected thirty doubles, twelve triples and twenty-five home runs and stole twenty-one bases.

‘SHYLOCK’ ON REDUCING Kiss for Pound Lost, Blow for Pound Gained; Asks Divorce. By United Press MASON CITY, la., June 26.—Mrs. Myrtle Larson has asked a divorce from her husband, Eugene, charging that he "made it a rule to kiss me every time I lost a pound and strike me every time I gained a pound.” Lately, Mrs. Larson said, she has been gaining rapidly in weight. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 67 10 a. m 74 7 a. m 69 11 a. m 77 Ba. m 69 12 (noon).. 78 9 a. m 71 1 p. m 80

—tut just a radiator repair man and garage mechanic, who wandered from town to town making “comfortable living and never eating meals I couldn’t pay for.” Nervously playing with his gaily striped tie, puffing at a cigaret and pulling at the hair on his arms,

an assortment of baseball fans and a sober little boy. The latter still has a suspicious bulge in his pocket. Says the judge: “The usher had no right trying to take back the ball.” The judge points to the bleacherites. “And you had no right in fighting with the police.” FINALLY, the judge looked toward the small boy, Arthur Perto, 12, quaking in his shoes. ‘And the ball, Arthur, belongs to you. I don't blame you for taking it. If one came my way et a ball game, I’d take it, too.” The small boy grins. So does the judge. The bleacherites chortle and the blueeoats and the usher smile, too, though somewhat ruefully. For when little boys go to ball games they have inalienable rights. .

SCHROEDER, WORN BY STERN GRILLING, WAIVES HEARING ON TORCH MURDER CHARGE Defense Move of Mobile Man Preliminary to Habeas Corpus Proceedings on Constitutional Right Grounds. HELD TO GRAND JURY MINUS BOND Ira Holmes Charges Defendant Subjected to Third Degree by Cops; Flames Victim Thought Cincinnatian. Haggard, his eyes showing the strain of long hours of grilling, Harold Herbert Schroeder was brought into Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter’s court today. He waived arraignment and preliminary hearing on charges of the murder of the man whose body was found in the torch car. Bound to the grand jury without bond, the move of his attorney, Ira Holmes, was announced as one to permit filing of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to free Schroeder on the murder charge. Attorney Holmes announced he would file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court this afternoon. The grounds will be that Schroeder’s rights as an American citizen are being violated.

The petition will set out that Schroeder was returned from Mobile, Ala., on an arson charge and that his return here was a pretext for “third degree” methods im attempts to force a confession from him on the murder charge. Holmes had insisted on Schroeder being produced in court, authorities planning to delay arraignment until Friday. Authorities turned to anew clew which may establish identity of the torch car victim today. Sheriff George Winkler declared facts indicate there is a strong probability the charred body may be that of Frank Macy, 30, formerly of Cincinnati. Admits Story Flimsy Schroeder, questioned until 2 this morning, maintained in essential details the story he told when arrested at Mobile. He admitted, calmly, inquisitors say, that *“the story is flimsy,” but maintained it to be the truth. He also admitted, authorities claim, that prior to his trip to Indianapolis for the Speedway races he had desired to change his identity and disappear. He also admitted that a letter written to his wife after he had fired his car with fss burden of the man’s body here May 31, asked her to claim the body as his and to give it “decent burial,” the questioners declare. Attorney Holmes declared questioning of Schroeder illegal, and said steps would be taken to “protect the constitutional rights” of the prisoner. “I’ll make any kind of a statement to get away from this grinding,” Schroeder is said by Holmes to have declared at midnight Wednesday, when his inquisitors permitted the prisoner to telephone his attorney. Earlier in the night, Holmes and deputy sheriffs had engaged in a brawl which led to actual physical violence after Holmes had demanded fruitlessly to confer with Schroeder while the latter was under grilling. Resume Quizzing Today This morning, declaring the state and city authorities are well withing their rights in questioning Schroeder, Sheriff Winkler declared the prisoner will be permitted to rest until this afternoon when quizzing will be resumed. Information indicating the torch car victim may have been Macy was given Sheriff Winkler by Isaac Abner, 1100 Hiatt street, and Arthur

Schreoder told at the county jail how he “came ‘in between’ in a family of thirteen children living on a farm on the outskirts of Clarion, lowa, thirty-five years ago, May 8.” Schroeder faces charges of murder and arson for the burning of his car, in which the body of an unidentified man was found May 31. The car, with its death cargo, ♦'as found blazing on the High School road, west of Indianapolis. “I didn’t get much schooling,” he said. “Just went through country grade schools. “Yes, it was a pretty big family. Os course, three of she thirteen children died before I was born and one later, but with nine kids, well, you know, that although we didn’t starve to death we didn’t have much chicken. My father, Ernest W. Schroeder and mother still live in Clarion.” From an early age Schroeder was interested in motors, he said. “When I quit school I used to drive the doctors of Clarion around. One day in 1915 I decided to travel,” he said. Schroeder stopped and looked out of the window. After several promptings, the dark, curly-haired mechr lie said: “I went to la-, and stayed there for some t* . I worked (Turn to PtiA

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Simard, living in the 1100 block River avenue. Macy, employed at the Moorland poolroom on River avenue, told, the two men the night of May 29 he t intended to go to the western wheat fields to seek work, but would wait until after the Speedway race. He declared it would be easy to get a ride west with a race visitor after the speed classic. Description Tallies He was wearing a suit which tallies closely, Sheriff Winkler declared, with a scrap of trousers taken from the torch car. Macy was a Catholic and carried a rosary similar to that found in the ashes of the car. He also had been in Massachusetts and worked for a short time in. Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh street car token was found in car. Macy was 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed, about 130 pounds, this description tally gig witt\. that of the car victim. Schroeder, in his story of the affair, claims he picked up a hitch hiker who said he was going to the wheat fields and who mentioned having been in Massachusetts. Schroeder claims his hitch-hiking companion suffered a broken neck when Schroeder fell asleep at the wheel of his car and it went into a ditch west of Terre Haute. He declares he drove back through Terre Haute to near Indianapolis and, fearing accusation of murder, set fire to the car and body after soaking them with gasoline. Holmes, Officials Brawl Authorities hold to the belief Schroeder murdered the man, pointing to the fact an autopsy showed the 'dctim died of a bullet or knife wound in the right lung. Macy left a grip of clothing at the pool room and has not returned or written for it. He lived at various places in Indianapolis. Attorney Holme.', his son, Horace Holmes, Chief Jailer Rollin Snider and Deputy Sheriffs Lewis Meredith and William O’Nan engaged in a brawl in offices of Judson Stark, prosecuting attorney, Wednesday night while the southerner was being questioned on the case. Holmes hammered on the doors of the room where Schroeder was being questioned and demanded to see his client, yelling to the suspect to “keep your mouth shut.” Prosecutor Stark ordered the attorney ejected. Snider grappled with Holmes and the attorney’s son entered the battle. Deputy Sheriffs Meredith and O’Nan overpowered Holmes and aided in separating Horace Holmes and Snider. Court Order Threatened “I’ll get a court order to force you to leave this man in Jail,” Holmes shouted. “You can’t browbeat and try to intimidate him. Even defendants have some rights.” Holmes refused to leave the courthouse and Schroeder was removed to rooms at police headquarters. Holmes demanded police refuse to permit Schroeder to be questioned, but police refused to interfere. “I am not against any real prosecution by the state,” Holmes declared this morning, “but it is a damn shame to grill a man this way. There are laws against it. "I will ask a writ of habeas corpus to protect him.” At midnight Schroeder was permitted to telephone Holmes. Grilling Is Defended “Shall I confess something that’s not true to stop this grilling,” ha asked Holmes. The attorney again told him to “keep your mouth shut.” Sheriff Winkler today declared the grilling justified. “The state- has a right to learn the facts of this case, he declared. "Schroeder has admitted one crime, that of burning the car. His story of the accidental death of the hitch hiker is absurd and the law gives authorities the right to learn the facts. “We are not questioning an innocent man, but one who has admitted partial guilt and whom we know to be guilty of a more serious he hasa&acdtted,"

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