Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1930 — Page 1

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Bomb Slayer Is Blown to Bits by Explosion in Cell SMALL BOTTLE OF NITROGLYCERIN USED IN SUICIDE BY KILLER OF WIFE

ISu United Pm* i AMARILLO, Tex., Aug. 30.—A. D. Payne, one-time hriliant attorney, killed himself in a county jail cell early today by lying face downward on a small bottle of nitroglycerine and expoding it. The attorney murdered his wife -wo months ago with a dynamite bomb. Payne timed his suicide, with cold accuracy. At mid-.

CROWDS RUSH TO STATE FAIR AS GATES OPEN Children, Admitted Free, First Guests as Annual Event Begins. HORSE RACES TO START Three Radio Stations Go On Air as Festival Gets Under Way. With* “moos," ba-a-a’s," and •whinnies of prize livestock in the receiving line and an unending lane of agricultural displays for decorations Indianapolis and the state was welcomed today into its annual playground—the Indiana State Fair. The opening of the gates at 8 a. m. today, admitting children under 12 free, began a week of frivolity, fame, and fortune, to exhibitors and visitorsAnd in the crowds milling through the Coliseum and around the damp grounds was praise for the stability and courage of the heart of the Hoosicr farmer who despite drought and depleted granaries helped make the 1930 fair edition a success. Auto, bus, tram and train brought their quota of sightseers to the grounds. Clouds and threatening weather did not deter fair visitorsTwo Bands Give Competition It was truly Children's day at the fair, as Ijiiled, for gatekeepers said that opening hour found children their first guests. The Farm Bureau's quartet in the bureau’s tent west of the grandstand vied with two bands and the Indiana university stage show for the musical spotlight of the morning. Calf and swine clubs' judging were the orbits of interest for the agricultural minded. Amid the musical refrains of bands and livestock were the rau*coug notes of “hotdog” barkers as they wooed the hungry. Three Stations on Air Noon will find church booths with chicken dinner bill-o-fares filled. The “clop-clop” of harness horses’ hoefs as they worked out in front of the grandstand for the afternoon’s races probably will drum up grand stand trade and the start of the afternoon's first rape is expected to see a goodly crowd awaiting the “go” flag. Radio stations WLS, WFBM and WKBF broadcast music and messages throughout the morning. On the Midway the Dodson World’s Fair shows attracted their quota of patrons. Sunday the fair exhibits will be open with band concerts thorughout the day. Judging will be resumed Monday in cattle, sheep and swine classes. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company is operating special busses and tram service to the fair ground. Fair officials say plenty of parking space is available inside the grounds for autos. General admission is 50 cents a person and 50 cents for vehicles. ' Red Jackson in Exhibition Prize money totaling $56,500 will be awarded during the six days of grand circuit and night running races at the fair ground. Vaudeville acts will intersperse the races. Dale (Red) Jackson with his two record holding endurance planes, “Greater St. Louis” and “St. Louis Robin,” will feature the aviation exhibition at the fair Sept. 6, William rs. Pickens, manager, assured fair officials. i A refueling demonstration in front of the grand stand is scheduled and the crew will demonstrate how repairs were made on the ship during the twenty-seven days of continuous flight when they established the present world's record. Headed by Captain H. Weir Cook of Stout field, Indianapolis aviators arc planning an aerial reception for the noted aviator and his crew.

200 TO TAKE PART IN STOCK JUDGE CONTEST Fifty Counties to Be Represented at Fair Competition. Two hundred boys from fifty counties will assemble Monday morning in the coliseum at the fairground for the annual cattle judging contests sponsored by the board of agriculture and various state Industrie 1 corporations. Prizes totaling $l,lOO and two scholarships to Purdue university will be awarded winners. Each entrant will Judge two classes of draft horses, beef and dairy cattle, hogs and sheep, giving a written reason for his selection. Winners will be announced Tuesday’ by U. O. Brouse, Kendallvilla, president of the board of agriculture.

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Klan Parade to Be Given Escort Here x Police Will Lead Caravan Headed for Kentucky Through City. The automobile caravan of Knights of the Ku-Klux Klan to Louisville will be met at Broad Ripple at 10 a. m. Sunday by two motorcycle policemen and escorted through the city, Police Chief Jerry Kinney announced today. "The request for a police escort came from the Kokomo police chief and was duly honored,” Kinney said. Robert T. Humes, chief of state police today announced that in response to a telephone request, identity unknown, Dow Chappel, state policeman at Kokomo has been instructed to escort the parade to Indianapolis. Asked to Bring Flats “I haven’t assigned any man beyond Indianapolis,” Hum:s said. W. H. Kijippenstapel, R. R. 1, Kokomo, is m charge of arrangements, according to the grand dragons bulletin. Members and ex-members are asked to bring their flags and klan decorations and robes. A detail from Westfield and Carmel will halt cross-road traffic in those town so that no stops will be made for traffic lights. Delegations to Meet Delegations from Logansport. Peru, Winamac, Rochester, South Bend, Marion and other points will meet with the Kokomo group in the courthouse square there at 8 a. m. when markers will be distributed. “A photographer will take a picture of the delegation in the public square just before the start. “Let’s show" Grand Dragon H. C. Moore of Kentucky that Indiana is alive,” the bulletin declares. .

PLAGUE KILLS 6 ABOARD SHIP Liner Docks With Story of Death and Madness. Bu United Fre** SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.—A story of death and madness in the steerage of the Dollar line steamer, President Monroe, was told here today by seventy-three passengers who survived a plague of pneumonia. Five persons died at sea and a sixth, overcome by delirium, hurled himself into the water. The- ship hospital was crowded with twenty patients and fifty-three others were being cared for in the steerage when the ship docked lute Friday from Manila. Dr. I. E. Gibson, ship physician, said virtually every steerage passenger suffered from the disease after the vessel had been a week at ea. All of the dead were Filipinos.

PACIFIC JOP FAILS Bromley Hopes to'Take Off at Dawn Sunday. Bv United Pre** * TOKIO, Aug. 30.—After an unsuccessful attempt to start on a flight from Tokio to Tacoma, Wash. today, Lieutenant Harold Bromley, American aviator, hoped to take off at dawn Sunday, on his projected flight of nearly 5,000 miles. Weight of the 1,021 gallons of fuel token aboard Bromley's plane made it impossible for him to get the machine off the ground in his first attempt. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Ceiling 2.000 feet; visibility, three miles; field, good; wind, south, six miles an hour; barometric pressure at sea level, 30.03.

What to See at Fair Sunday Horseshoe pitching contest at _ . . „ 8 a. m. to noon in front of Gates open at 8 a. n._ grandstand. Exhibits open to public Farm bureau quartet sings throughout day. from 10 a. m. to noon in Sunday school. Womans bureau's tent west of grandbuilding, 9:30 a. m. stand. Concert music, afternoon and Indiana university's stage night, Kryl’s band. show, 8:30 a. m. to 9:30 p. m., Labor Day I. U. building. ' Running races on lighted Gates open at 8 a. m. track and “Hawaiian Nights’’ Livestock judging In Coli- pageant at night at grandstand, seum and livestock building. Horseshow and vaudeville at Harness races, featuring SB,- 7 p. m. in Coliseum. 000 Horseman's Futurity, and Band concerts throughout vaudeville, grandstand, in after- day by Kryl’s, Arndt's, Collins noon. Boys and the Boy Scout bands. Baby contest in baby build- Dodson’s World* fair shows ing. on Midway. *

night the suicide clause of his SIO,OOO insurance policy expired. Fifteen minutes after midnight he detached the nitroglycerin bottle fj*om the string around his neck, where he had carried it since he was arrested. He lay face downward on the cot in his cell and exploded the makeshift bomb. H ewas literally torn to pieces. The interior of the cell

CHILD KILLER’S HUNT MAY END IN MOB RIOT Police Fear Lynching If Fiendish Murderer Is Captured. NEW SUSPECT IS HELD Search for Slayer Turns to Owner of Car Used in Crime. BULLETIN Pit Time* Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 30. Police today arrested James N. Name, 30, of Mihawaka, whose car is said to be similar to the one in which Marvinc Appel last was seen. Police said the car had what they believe to be bloodstains on the front seat. Name denied any knowledge of the girl’s murder. BY CARLOS LANE Times Staff Correspondent SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 30. With one suspect under arrest, police today moved to quell rumblings of mob violence as they sought clews to solve the brutal murder of Marvine Appel, 8, whose body was found near her home Thursday night. The girl had been attacked, beaten and strangled with a piece of picture wire., Several reports of crowds threatening to lynch the man who killed the girl, should he be found, led to shiftflMotfL .police schedules to have majority of the officers on duty at all times. The man who now is held was arrested Friday night and authorities refuse to reveal his name. He is of swarthy complexion and is said to be of foreign birth. Police said they would question the suspect this morning. Bloodstains On Barn Two smudged fingerprints, bloodstains, a piece of picture wire and the print of a child’s foot were the only clews obtained in the barn in which the girl is believed to have been tortured and murdered before her body was found in a vacant lot near her home. The findings at the barn were of but little value, police said. Coroner C. B. Crumpacker announced that the bloodstains were human blood. Excitement caused by the murder was increased Friday when two men attacked Mrs. Josephine Wisniewski, 44, and police feared violence if any of the searching parties of citizens should come across any one who resembled the slayer. They tried to dissuade the volunteers from continuing the search. Mrs. Wisniewski was ironing in the kitchen of her Home when two men burst in and attacked her. Her cries attracted neighbors, who called police. The men fled, but later were captured and taken to police headquarters as possible suspects in the death of the girl. Automobile Basic Clew The clew' through which authorities hoped to identify the slayer was the automobile in which Marvine accepted a ride Wednesday. The car is a foreign “midget” model introduced only recently in this country. m Authorities learned that the South Bend dealer for the car has distributed thirteen in the community. Twelve of them w'ere sold to business concerns and individuals unsuspected of the murder. Authorities refused to make known the name of the thirteenth owner. Police said there was little chance that any of the suspects held were connected with the murder. It was believed some of them might be able to get some information about w'hether a demented man had frequented the neighborhood of the Appel home. Investigators believed the man who attacked the girl and then strangled her to death wdth wire was well acquainted in the neighborhood.

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DEATH CLAIMS J. A, ROHBACH I. U. Law School Dean Is Heart Disease Victim. James A. Rohbach, 65, dean of Indiana Law school, died of heart disease early toda’y at his home in Plainfield, Arrangements are being made to hold the funeral at the home Tuesday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery here. He is survived by his wife ar,d a brother, W. R. Rohbach, of Pennsylvania. TRFE RECORD CLAIMED City Youth Descends From Perch After 1,040 Hours Aloft. After 1,040 hours aloft, Wilbur Gauthier, 2000 Bloyd avenue, decided he had established anew national tree sitting record and came down Friday. Friends claimed the record for Gauthier today upon knowledge that Dick Foster, Huntington, survivor of that city’s tree sitters, had come down after 1,012 hours. Jimmy Sugonits, South Bend, had claimed the national championship after remaining aloft 1,033 hours. CATCHES 6-FOOT FISH Hook and Line Catch Made on Mississippi River. Bu United Press ' MARQUETTE. la.. Aug. 30.—Eldon Saeugling, manageir of the United States bureau of fisheries station here, had a “fish” story of his own today. He caught a catfish six and onehalf feet long with a hook and fine, while fishing in the Mississippi. Saueglng said he got the fish into his boat by thrusting his arms down its throat. PLANE FALLS ON HOUSE Four Persons Are Killed When French Ship Plunges. Bu United Press ROCHEFORT. France, Aug. 30. , The fourth French airplane crash within less than a week occurred here today when a tig plane crashed in flames on a farm house, killing lour persona.

was partly wrecked. The explosion was heard for several blocks. Payne’s suicide was interpreted as an act of self-retri-bution. He had brooded over the murder of his wife, which he accomplished by figging a dynamite bomb to the mechanism of the family automobile. It exploded when the motor became warm as Mrs.

are shown above. (1) Brothers of the dead girl, Ottis, 13, and Comer, 10. (2) The Appel home on Bronson street from which the girl

Fill the Coal Bin, Laugh at Winter cy/TROUND the south pole, Antarctic blizzards beat tempestuously, with temperatures ranging to 70 below zero. Explorers say > t is the coldes't, dreariest place on earth. Human beings must dress heavily in animal skins to survive there. It is never so cold here, even in ivintcr. But winter here without a iveit-tillcd coal bin may be tragically uncomfortable, perhaps unbearable. Summer is the best time to Stock coal bins. Wise men know this and never wait. September is particularly seasonable for coal buying. Dealers can offer lower prices, quicker deliveries, and better service than will be possible later in the fall. Coal now is 50 to 75 cents cheaper vn the ton than at any time in the last year. * Now’s the time to act on the hunch. It’s a great way to save money. The Indianapolis Times

18 PURDUE EXHIBITS AT 1930 STATE FAIR Displays Represent Every Department of University. ' Efficient farm and home management is stressed in the eighteen exhibits in the Purdue exhibit building at the Indiana state fair. The displays are representative of every department of the schools of agriculture and home economics at Purdue university. Uses, of electricity and care of cattle are the bases for two of the feature exhibits. 5 ROB JEWELRY STORE Sneak Thief Takes Three Diamonds Valued at SSOO. Three diamonds, valued at SSOO were stolen from the Kay Jewelry Company, 137 ' West Washington street, by a sneak thief, Friday afternoon, according to reports to police today. \

disappeared Wednesday evening. (3) Marvine, the victim of the fiend, pictured with her doll. (4) A view of a barn a short distance from where the body

NOTIFIES CORONER: SHE SHOOTS, KILLS SELF Complete Funeral Arrangements Made Before Woman's Suicide. By United Press McLEANSBORO, 111., Aug. 30Even in death Mrs. Dee Carson, 45, was particular. She wrote a letter to the coroner explaining she was gonig to commit suicide, making arrangements for the funeral, selecting the undertaker and naming the pallbearers. Then she shot and killed herself. SENTENCE 2 AMERICANS Workers Imprisoned by Soviet for Attack on Negro. Bu United Press STALINGRAD, Russia, Aug. 30. Two American workers, Lemuel Lewis and a man named Brown, were sentenced today to two years’ imprisonment for attacking a Negro worker in the tractor factory.

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Payne drove from their hometo the business district. Before he committed suicide, Payne wrote letters to his mother and mother-in-law. “I am writing to say good-by,” he wroteto Mrs. J. C. Johnson, Lovington, X. M., his wife’s mother. ‘This is the best way out. Eva and I will await you over yonder. I did all this because I loved her and the children.”

was foi~,d, in which police discovered blood stains, and a picture frame from which the wire had been removed. It is regarded as the death scene.

NEW BORN BABY. DESERTED, DIES Infant Is Found in Garbage Can in Alley. Anew born baby boy, found in a garbage can in an alley between Kelly and Wade streets this morning and rushed to city hospital, died in the hospitals admitting room, despite frantic efforts to save its life. Artificial respiration and administration of adrenaein and caffine were used in the efforts to save the child. Identity of the babe, bom probably only an hour and a half before it was found, was unknown. Police and the coroner's office are making an intensive investigation. Mrs. Anna Carrico, 1310 Wade street, told police she was walking down the .alley in the rear of her home when she thought she heard the faint cry of a child. Mrs. Carrico went,to the home of Mrs. Mary Watson, 1325 Wade street. The two joined Mrs. Ella Bramlet, 1329 Wade street and returned to the alley, Mrs. Carrico related. Lifting off the lid of the metal garbage can. Mrs. Bramlet disclosed the new born baby. 'HANDS UP!’ ‘I CAN’T,’ REPLIES ARMLESS MAN But Two Bandits Relieve Him of 51.45 and Escape. Bu United Press BEVERLY. Mass., Aug. 30. “Hands up!” chorused two bandits as they confronted John Johnson, 60, on his houseboat early today. “I can’t. I haven’t got any hands,” explained Johnson, , who, though armless, is widely known along the taorth shore as a boatman. The holdup men relieved him of $1.45 and escaped. LABOR CHIEFS ON AIR By United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 30.—Addresses by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation, will be broadcast on Labor day by the national broadcasting cqmpany's network, it was announced today. Green will speak from the state fair grounds at Syracuse. N. Y„ at 1:30 p. m. (central standard time>. Morrison wil speak from Perry Hall Inn, near Baltimore, at 8 p. mM

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The other letter was to Mrs. Etta Payne, Pecos, Tex., his own mother. It read: ‘I am writing a few words to say good-by. I will await you over yonder. It was His will that Igo this way. It is best that I close the last chapter of this horrible thing in this way.” Ben Payne of Roswell, N. M„ and Sid Payne of Tulsa, brothers of the attorney, arrived at the jail soon after the explosion. Neither displayed much emotion when told of their brother's death. “He has been dead as far as we are concerned ever since he took his wife's life,” Sid Payne said. “We have mourned him since, and the fact that he has taken his life adds little to our quota of grief.” Waits On Insurance Policy The final page in Payne's diary told of the spiritual visits of his wife which prompted him to commit suicide. “Until Friday night my wife objected to my taking my own life,” the diary said. “But she appeared to me again and has assured me she believes suicide the best way. “I waited uni. 'fter midnight. Aug. 29, to take m> nfe because my insurance policy would be a year old then and my children will be able to collect. “A few days ago my wife appeared Lo me in spirit and told me the Lord would take matters into his own hands. Soon after. I had a heart attack and believed it would be fatal. * “She now tells me that it is all right to take this means to hasten my joining her.” Wanted to Be Alone Three other prisoners had been in the cell a few' minutes before the explosion, but two left when Payne said he wanted to be alone. The attorney's chest was crushed, by the blast and his body was torn. Payne’s cell-mates were R. L. Condor, Commodore Pulliam and Vernon Churchill. Condor said Payne had shown him a tiny bottle which the attorney said contained nitroglycerine and w'hich he carried for several weeks. Pulliam and Condor were in an adjoining cell when the explosion occurred, but Churchill was sleeping in a cot near Payne's. Churchill' was uninjured. The jail cell was partly wrecked. Since he confessed to killing his wife, Payne had said he hoped for the death penalty. He insisted that no defense be prepared for him. Thankful of Indictment Shortly after he was indicted Friday on a charge of murdering his wife, the attorney called the jail officials and said: “Please put me in solitary confinement. I want to be alone with the spirit of my wife. Even now I can hear her calling to me.” The attorney had insisted for several days that he was in constant spiritual communication with his wife, whom he said he killed to obtain $40,000 insurance money. He appeared to find solace in the thought that he soon would join her in death if he received such a sentence. “I’m thankful,” he said when informed that the county grand jury had returned an indictment against him. “All I want now is a quick tsal and the electric chair.” Wife Killed June 27 He had promised authorities, however, that he would not attempt suicide, even when he was threatened by a mob from which he was saved by deputies who took him to Stinnett, a nearby town. He was brought back to Amarillo only a few days ago. Mrs. Payne died in much the same way that her husband lost his life. She was driving the family motor car last June 27 when three sticks of dynamite, attached to the motor, exploded. A 14-year-old son was Seriously injured and another child escaped because the mother decided at the last moment to leave him at home. Apparently grief stricken by the tragedy, which he said “undoubtedly was caused by enemies," Payne asked Gene Howe, militant editor of an Amarillo newspaper, to conduct an investigation. In Love With Steno Howe, nationally known for his criticism of Charles A. Lindbergh and Mary Garden, opera prima donna, enlisted the aid of a Kansas City newspaper man. They learned that Payne had made advances to his stenographer, Verona Thompson, a pretty divorcee. Miss Thompson testified her employer had said he would "get his wife out of the way so we can elope.” She declared she did not make the statement sooner, because she was afraid of losing her position. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 68 9 a. m 70 7a. m..... 70 10 a. m 72 8 a. m 70

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