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

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THREE SLAIN IN REVENGE SHOOTING

VISIT TO TORCH CAR SCENE WILL BLAST SCHROEDER’S COMPOSURE, OFFICIALS HOPE Mobile Man Promises to Lead Police to Private Residence Where He Lived During Stay in Indianapolis. ACCIDENT STORY TO BE ASSAILED Investigators Cling to Belief Victim Was Slain at or Near Spot Where Blazing Machine Was Located. The private residence where Harold Herbert Schroeder says he lived during his stay in Indianapolis prior to the burning of his automobile on the High School road, May 31, was to be located this morning. The bespectacled southerner, who police say has admitted firing the.car, and who they believe killed the man whose charred body was found in the blazing machine, was taken by Sheriff George Winkler and a group of police officials, in an automobite to locate the house. He had told officials he can find the house. From that place, where authorities believe some valuable evidence may be uncovered, the accused man was to be taken to the High School road scene of his car burning.

• That the calm with which he first met questioning on the mystery and which was shaken Thursday afternoon when he was quizzed across the plain pine box bearing the charred remains of the torch car victim, may be further shaken by a visit to the scene of the car burning, was the belief of authorities. Investigators hold to the idea that the torch car victim was slain at or near the spot where the car was burned and was not injured fatally, as Schroeder claims, in an automobile accident west of Terre Haute. In case Schroeder does not give Information indicating fallacy of his earlier story, the inquisitors will take him from the High School road to west of Terre Haute, where he will be asked to designate the spot w r here he claims his car left the road when he fell asleep. It was this accident, he claims, in which the hitch-hikr-r he had picked up near Indianapolis suffered fatal injuries. , . Story to Be Assailed His story that he drove back toward Indianapolis, passing through Terre Haute without stopping, and burned the car and body because he feared a murder accusation, will be assailed at every part of the trip today. Schroeder's sisters, Mrs. Ferne Sams of Elkhart and Mrs. Faye Speight of Clarion, la., will arrive here this afternoon. Letters he received today from Mobile, Ala., indicate his wife’s parents will arrive tonight. Whether Mrs. Schroeder, who has declared she will “stand bv” her husband in his troubles, will come with her parents, was not stated in the letters. Trace T ~tal Work Further evidence supporting belief the torch car victim may have been Frank Macy, 31. of Cincinnati, 0.. was gathered by authorities Friday night and today. A wrist strap found near the torch car w j as identified by several witnesses as similar to one worn by Macy. Mr. and Mrs. Roy B. Keener, rooming house proprietors at 1608 North New- Jersey street, with whom Macy roomed, declared he tallies with the description of the torch car victim and said he had a suit similar to the bit of trouser goods found on the burned body. Efforts will be made to trace dental work Macy is known to have had done in order to establish whether ne was the victim. Schroeder appeared calm today after his more than twenty-four hours of rest He was not questioned all day Friday, but read newspapers in his cell. Gasoline Theft Alleged Am United Pres* BRAZIL, Ind., June 28.—A man who gave his name as Earl Eggert, Toledo. 0., was arrested here a**r police caught him siphoning gasoline from the tank of a parked automobile. A companion escaped. A search of Eggert’s car revealed a large amount of tobacco. Dismissed Teacher Sues Am United Pre** TERRE HAUTE. Ind., June 28. — Suit to test validity of the state teachers’ tenure law is on file in Vigo superior court. Grace Barnes, a teacher in Terre Haute schools, filed the suit, naming the school city as defendant She was dismissed as a teacher. Man With SIOO Held J?m Vnitrtl Pre** c TERRE HAUTE. Ind., June 28 William C. Kisley, 46. Is held in the IBgo county jail on a’ warrant from gttvansville charging him with beatmm a board bill in Evansville. Kis|had SIOO on his person when ar-

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AYRES ROBBER PAROLED FROM INDIANAPRISON Trustees Keep Their Word to Gangster; Fire Hero Also Freed. Bu Time a Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June 28. —Thomas Toohey, Chicago gangster, who has served time for robbery of the L. S. Ayres Company store, Indianapolis, since December, 1924, was released from the Indiana state prison here today. Trustees, who had promised Toohey last fall that he would be paroled this summer “if politicians and lawyers cease their pleas,” kept their word. The release was voted at the monthly meeting of the trustees Friday night. Toohey was reported by the prison doctor to be in bad physical condition. He was sentenced to from two to fourteen years and has served more than two years over his minimum. One of the largest slush funds ever raised for fighting for release of an Indiana prisoner is reported to have been spent in vain in Toohey’s behalf. Prominent politicians of both major parties and high-priced lawyers besieged both former Governor Ed Jackson and Governor Harry G. Leslie on his behalf. Announcement that he would be paroled only if this activity ceased, was made last fail by Michael E. Foley, prison trustee from Indianapolis. Toohey has had two brothers shot down in Chicago in gang wars. His wife and two children appeared before the board on his behalf, and Dr. C. H. Weeks testified that he is suffering from palsy, from which he is unlikely to recover. Parole also was granted William Adams, because of heroism in the Ohio state penitentiary fire. After the fire he had been paroled from the Ohio institution, because of his courageous conduct, only to return to Michigan City, where he had violated a sick parole.

How the Market Opened

Bu I'nilrd Pr> NEW YORK, June 28.—Stocks were quiet and irregular in a narrow range at the opening on the stock exchange today. Fractional declines were made by such issues as Packard, International Telephone. Westinghouse Electric, National Power and Light, Chrysler and United States Steel, the latter opening at 1554, off 4. Southern Railway was down I*4 to 914, within 4 of its low since 1925, touched Friday. Small gains were made by Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Kennecott, Vanadium, Atlantic Refining and Fox Film A. Texas Corporation, American Telephone and Lorillard held unchanged at the previous closing levels. The market lacked feature in the early trading. Utilities were expressed more than other groups, but selling was not in large volume. Rails continued to drift lower on the decline cf 33 per cent in May net as compared with 1929. Prices held steady near the openings in the first few minutes of trading. General Electric met support and rose 4 to 664, while Bethlehem Steel was up a point at 794. General Motors held steady at 384, the previous close. Steel dipped to 1544, off 4 from the opening. Tickers were idle for several seconds at a time. The market was one of the dullest of the year.

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Jill United Preaa’ SAUGUS, Cal., June 28—After a weding befitting one of the screen’s most versatile cowboy actors, Hoot Gibson and his bride, Sally Eilers, were speeding north today for a honeymoon in Canada. Gibson and Miss Eilers, once a Wampus baby star and now a leading screen actress, were married Friday night at Baker’s ranch —famous for its rodeos. Miss Eilers was attended by Miss Carmen Pantages as maid of honor and Marion Nixon, Mae Sunday and Marie Prevost as bridesmaids. William (Buster) Collier, screen actor, was Gibson’s best man. The ranch where the wedding occurred recently was acquired by the actor, who spends much of his time there.

FOUR KIDNAP, ATTACKWOMAN Criminal Assault Reported to City Police. Reporting she was kidnaped by four men in an automobile at II Friday night, Mrs. Nell Key, 41, of 825 Birch street, told police today she was taken to the country in the car, was stripped of her clothing and criminally assaulted by; (the four. She was beaten during the attack, she related, a black eye, she says, resulted when she attempted to get the license number of the car and was struck by one of the men. Mrs. Key told police she was entering her home when one of the men called to her from the car, parked in front of her home. Believing an acquaintance was calling, she stepped to the car and the men seized her and pulled her into the machine, she claims. She was held prisoner until 2 in' the morning when the men returned her to the city and to within a block of her home where they permitted her to leave the car, she related. She declares she can identify all four men and believes she injured the face of the car driver when she kicked him. Mrs. Key is separated from her husband.

PORKERS MOVE UP 25 CENTS AT CITY YARDS Cattle and Calf Markets Extremely Dull Over Week-End. Decided strength held hogs to an upward trend at the union stockyards this morning. The week started slow and lower but later, based on the opinions of many traders, livestock picked up in sympathy with the stronger tone exhibited in other markets following the recent setbacks on the country’s stock exchanges. Hogs today were a good 25 cents higher, mostly 10 cents up, with the bulk, 160 to 300 pounds, selling at $9.35 to $9.40. Top price paid was $9.50. Receipts were estimated at 2,500; holdovers were 950. Cattle receipts were 100, the market nominal. Vealers were steady at $10.50 down, calf receipts numbering 150. Sheep were quctably steady with receipts of 150. Chicago hog receipts were 9,500, including 8.000 direct. Holdovers were 2,000. Today’s trade was steady with Friday’s average. A few loads of choice 170 to 220-pound weights sold for $9.15 to $9.20. Around 260pound weights brought SB.IO. Cattle receipts were 300, sheet* 5,000.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1930

FORMER PALS SNUB STEVE IN PRjSONTOUR Only Lieutenant-Governor Says ‘Hello’ When G. 0. P. Editors File By. JACKSON PLAYS SAFE Stays in Warden’s Office; Mrs. Robinson Tries to Dodge. BY BEN STERN Times Staff Correspondent MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June 28. —Powers of Indiana Republicanism of today passed by their leader of i yesterday within the grim confines ‘ of state prison, but neither did they salute nor did they smile. Garbed in the white of a prison mess hall waiter, instead of the i flowing white he once wore—the j regalia of a grand dragon of the I Ku-Klux Klan—D. C. Stephenson, ; grim-faced but eager, watched the procession. Only one of today’s great had the courage to speak. Others who had anticipated seeing the once-great, dodged and turned behind loaves of bread to avoid meeting the eyes of their former czar. Pass Making Tour Members of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association who came to Michigan City for their mid-summer outing today were not speaking of the program of entertainment which had been arranged for them, but instead, of the whitefaced, pudgy figure standing near a stack of bread before whom they had passed while making a tour of the prison Friday afternoon. The teeming hives of prison industry did not attract the attention of the editors, candidates and their wives who are attending the outing. Instead, their eyes roamed, searching everywhere for the man who had made a Governor, a senator and other state officers. No One Asked None was so brave and outspoken as to asx Warden Walter Daly where Stephenson could be found. Finally, after filing through the entire prison, they came to the mess hali. As they rounded a corner of the loaves of bread, they came upon the man about whom their thoughts revolved. “There is Steve,” went the whisper down the line of the sightseers, There he stood with other convicts of the kitchen and dining room staff. Silently, they filed before him. Not a word was said. Then — “Hello Steve!” And all turned around to see who had the termerity to hail the one-time Warwick. It was Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush, Salem, who may be a candidate for Governor if the price of wheat stays down. Answers Unsmilingly “Hello Ed,” came the answer. But no smile lit up the white face. Bush afterwards hastily explained: “I never was a Kluxer and Steve once kept me from being nominated lieutenant-governor. He supported Harold Van Orman of Evansville, but I just had to say ‘hello.’ ” Stephenson’s eyes, behind the steel-rimmed glasses, searched up and down the line of passers. Perhaps he was looking for Ed Jackson, whom he had helped name Governor; but Jackson was sitting in the warden's office. Maybe he wanted to greet United States Senator James E. Watson. But the senate Republican leader was busy in Washington. Or maybe he would see the man he helped make senator, Arthur R. Robinson—but “Robby” was not present. What was that flash of white? The life prisoner's face took on a look of interest. It was Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson, she to whom he had given a necklace of pearls during his hey-day. Mrs. Robinson Dodges Just at that moment the wife of the junior senator, accompanied by her husband’s law partner, Frank Symmes, saw the once Klan dragon. Mrs. Robinson stopped and turned her head. Instead of keeping on in the line which would pass before the pudgy, pasty faced man she attempted to turn. Mrs. Robinson scurried back and forth behind loaves of bread in a frantic attempt to avoid passing before the one-time close friend of Mrs. Robinson and her husband. But all in vain. The line kept moving ahead inexorably and she passed before him. Not stopping to say a word of greeting or to smile, she turned her head and appeared to be interested in the stacks of bread. Stephenson said nothing. A grim half-smile passed over his lips and his eyes continued to search the crowds. E. E. Neal. Noblesville publisher internal revenue collector, anl apologist for Jackson, passed an 1 said nothing. “I never saw Scephenson until today and although his trial was held in Noblesville, I never saw him at that time,” Neai said.

CONDEMNED KILLER OFFERED CHOICE OF CHAIR OR DISEASE

Chinese Slayer May Be Inoci as Martyr Bu United Preaa SANTA FE, N. M., June 28.—W00 Dak San today pondered one of the most perplexing problems that ever confronted a condemned man. The Chinese slayer tried to decide whether to die in the electric cljair or seek escape by permitting physicians to inoculate him with trachoma germs. If Woo submits to the physicians’ proposal, an effort will be made to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. And while the Chinese attempted to reach a decision at the state prison here, word came from an Albuquerque medical authority that should he offer himself for experimental purposes he would not die from the disease. Medical authorities said furthermore that chances of Woo becoming blind were remote. It is blindness that the Chinese fears more than death. He has indicated his willingness to be inoculated if assured there is no danger of him losing his sight. Dr. Folk Richards of the United

BOLIVIA CITY IS TAKENINSIEGE Oruro Armies Win Capital in Short Fight. Bu United Presa BUENOS AIRES, June 28.—The armies of the Oruro military government seized La Paz, the Bolivian capital, at 4:30 p. m. Friday, authoritative radio advices received at Lima, Peru, said today. General Blanco Galino commander of the Oru,ro troops, marched in triumph into the city after a brief encounter with defending police. The fall of La Paz, a city of 140,000 inhabitants, marked the triumph of the military government set up in Oruro several days ago over the military government at La Paz which ousted the provisional government of the council of ministers Friday. The Oruro militarists claimed in a statement that their movement had spread throughout the country, and was supported by the populace. Their seizure of Potosi and Cochabamba, two provincial capitals, was confirmed. TAXI DRIVER DIES Succumbs to Heart Disease While on Call. While answering a call for a taxicab at 130 West Twentieth street, early today, Harry Sellers, 49, of 2210 Central avenue, chauffeur, became ill suddenly and died before physicians could be called. Sellers had gone to the West Twentieth street address on a call for cab from Mrs. Harriett Milroy. Mrs. Milroy told police Sellers was seized with a choking spell as he knocked on her door. He was taken into the home and died shortly afterward. Heart, disease is believed to have caused his death.

HOOVER DENIED FUNDS BY CONGRESS FOR CRIME QUIZ, SEEKS PUBLIC DONATIONS

Wealthy Men and Women Asked to Contribute to Carry on Work. BY PAUL R. MALLON, Unl.ed Preis Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 28.—President Hoover started work quietly today to raise a SIOO,OOO unofficial fund to substitute for the appropriations w'hich congress denied his law enforcement commission. The President is communicating, the United Press learned from an authoritative source, with a number of wealthy men and women who recently informed him they would be glad to contribute for such a purpose. Their names will not be divulged by the White House. There is no hurry about raising the money as the commission has nearly $120,000, including the $50,000 carried in the pending second deficiency appropriation bill and $70,000 left over from its $250,000 expense fund provided by congress for the fiscal year ending June 30. The President’s vigorous statement refusing to abide by ti e senate’s decision to limit the commission’s fund met with no response in congress, where final action already has been taken on the second deficiency bill including the commission’s appropriation. “If any one is simple enough to give money to this commission, let

ilated With Trachoma Germs to Science. States Indian hospital at Albuquerque, advanced the proposition to Woo. The physician said he and his colleagues wished to determine if the germ isolated by the late Dr. Hideyo Noguchi four years ago is the true germ which causes Trachoma. Dr. Richards said that various experiments performed on monkeys and chimpanzees produced a disease similar to human trachoma, but lacking certain complications that appear in human beings affected by the malady. Trachoma is a disease of the eye, sometimes causing blindness. It is prevalent among the Indians, particularly the Navajos and Lagunas. No one has ever been known to have died from the disease. Human inoculation, it is understood, is necessary to prove whether or not the germ isolated by Dr. Noguchi in this region is that which causes human trachoma. Sufferers of the disease have been cured. If after being inoculated with the germ, Woo developed the disease, he would be given the best of medical care and an attempt made to cure him. Woo killed a Chinese store keeper at Culver City, N. M., in 1926. He had been sentenced to die next month. Originally he was sentenced to die on the gallows, but subsequently the state of New Mexico substituted electrocution for hanging. Next week Woo will be taken to Grant county and resentenced to death—by electrocution. At that time it is expected he will make known his decision to his attorneys.

DOEL STAGED IN SPEEDING CARS Seveg Shots Fired as Autos Race Along Abreast. Shots blazed from two speeding cars on Ohio street early this morning, residents reporting men in each car were firing shots at each other as the two cars sped down the street side by side. Seven shots were fired, according to Patrolman E. A. Landis, who saw the cars at Ohio and East streets. The battle continued to beyond the Monon railway tracks. „ Police had no report on wounding of any person. That the gun battle was another outbreak of hijacking or rum running rivalry was the police theory. PECK IS TRANSFERRED Flier to Take Up Work in Alabama. Transfer of Lieutenant Walter R. Peck of Schoen field, Ft. Harrison, to Montgomery, Ala., July 1, was announced today by army aviation officials. Peck, in his five years at the fort, has built up the most competent organized reserve squadron in the United States air corps, officials said. Announcement of Peck’s transfer was made by Captain R. E. Whitehead of the air corps reserve.

them go ahead and do it,” commented Senator Carter Glass (Dem. Va.),a dry, who sponsored the move to reduce the commission appropriation from $250,000 to $50,000 with explicit instructions that it be used only for prohibition investigations. Glass charged the Wickersham body has made “wanton expenditures” including SII,COO for food at the most fashionable hotel here and $560 for an auditor to go over its own expense accounts. Mr. Hoover stated Chairman Wickersham informed him that the work of the commisison would go forward without hindrance. When it will make its report is still problematical. It has employed a number of social workers and crime experts who are investigating conditions in various sections of the country. It is conducting a questionnaire of crime conditions and has more than fifty employes on its pay roll. Twelve sub-committees are at work, going into all phases of the causes of crime and law enforcement problems. In his statement issued from the White House soon after the senate voted 35 to 30 to cut the commission appropriation, Mr. Hoover stressed the necessity for investigating matters other than prohibition law violations. Seventy per cent of the prison population is composed of men imprisoned for offenses other than liquor law violations, he said.

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HOUSEKEEPER ENOS OWN LIFE AFTER KILLING SMALL SON AND HER EMPLOYER Bu United Preaa * TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 28.—Three bodies, each with a single bullet hole through the forehead, were found in an apartment above a grocery store here this morning. The body of Wesley N. Oakley, 55, storekeeper, was found in his room in his apartment above the store. The bodies of Clara Raney, 28, Oakley’s housekeeper, and her 6-year-old son Carl were found in an adjoining room. A .32-caliber automatic revolver was held in Mrs. Raney’s hand. Police expressed a belief that the shooting was done by Mrs. Raney because Oakley was to discharge her today after two years as his housekeeper . It was reported that the housekeeper became angered at Oakley’s daughter last week and threw a heavy lead weight at her. The door of Mrs. Raney’s room was locked from the inside and her body and that of her son were not found until the arrival of police. Oakley’s daughter, Alice, 15, found the body of her father when she went to call him to open the store this morning.

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INJURED CRASH Loses Control of Auto Near Oaklandon. Losing control of his automobile near Oaklandon on road 67 early today, Adolph Wooster, 55, of .624 Linden street, was injured seriously. He suffered internal injuries and was burned when the car caught fire and he attempted to extinguish the flames, although injured. He was taken to Methodist hospital where his condition is serious. WOMAN ENDS LIFE Dies at Hospital After Taking Poison. Placing $l5O in bills on the bed at her side. Mrs. Clara Junker, 48, of R. R. 9, Box 386, ended her life by taking poison Friday night. She separated from her husband, Charles Junker, three weeks ago and it is believed domestic difficulties caused her act. She was unconscious when found by Mrs. Opal Reed, with whom she has lived since the separation, and died at city hospital a short time later. The couple had no children. 50 BURIED IN LANDSLIDE 800 Workmen Are Digging Out Train in Japan. By United Press LONDON, June 28.—A railway train bearing fifty passengers was buried by a landslide near Yamaguchi, Japan, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Tokio said today. The fate of the passengers wins unknown, but 800 workmen were put to work immediately to dig the train out. Hourly Temperatures 6 a . m 63 8 a. m 69 7 a. m 65 9 a. m 71 10 a. m 72

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Husband, Enraged at Wife’s Church-Going, Wounds Her, Bystander. Bit United Press NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y„ June 28. —Frank Ross, 37, who Friday night shot and killed the Rev. Edgar R. Wood, 37, and wounded his wife and another man, surrendered to police today. “I’d been planning to kill four people for two months,” he said, explaining that he considered his wife too friendly with the minister, Ross said he had been practicing markmanship to be certain not to miss. He shot Wood at the conclusion of the evening service in the Tenth Street Mission, killing him instantly. Then he shot and seriously wounded Mrs. Mildred Ross, his estranged wife. Leonard Towe. 27, who tried to prevent Ross from leaving the church was wounded in both legs. The shooting culminated a long standing quarrel between Ross and two of his three victims. He opposed his wife’s attendance of mission services. Wood just had completed his evening sermon with the passage, “In the midst of life, we are in death,” when Ross, who was sitting unnoticed in the back row, walked up the aisle and fired his first shot. Wood fell dead. Then Ross wheeled around and fired one shot at his wife. The bullet struck her just below the heart. The small congregation was panic stricken. Most of the men cowered behind chairs But Towe attempted to stop Ross as he started leaving the church. He was shot twice in the legs. Ross and his wife, both in their late thirties, had been estranged for some time. The yhad quarreled violently on several occasions over church affiliations. Mrs. Ross was reported in critical condition. Towe was not wounded seriously. FOUR POLICEMEN ARE APPOINTED TO FORCE Safety Board Also Names Four to Fire Department Posts. Four policemen and four firemen were given appointments by the safety board in session Friday night. Made patrolmen, second grade, were Walter Baase, 329 North Jefferson avenue; Donald S. Milbum, 318 East North street; Edward F. Griffin, 1530 North Illinois' street and George Rusler, 1520 South Randolph street. Appointed to the fire department were John W. Hahn, 1922 West Minnesota street; Charles H. Ogle, 729 West Thirty-second street; Edgehill E. Thompson, 916 South Randolph street, and John F. O’Brien,, 235 North Walcott street. George McCloskey, fireman at No. 26 engine house, was found guilty of reporting late for duty and was suspended for thirty days without pay. EVACUATION MARKED German Eagle on Bridge Symbolizes French Troop Withdrawal. Bu United Press PARIS, June 28.—A German republican eagle was erected today at the Rhineland end of the International bridge linking Strasbourg and Kehl—symbolizing the departure of the last of the soldiers of occupation from German soil. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Northwest wind, eight miles an hour; temperature, 71; barometric pressure, 30 at sea level; ceiling unlimited; visibility, five mile*; Held,