Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1930 — Page 9

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CONDEMNED TO DEATH. YOUTH ESCAPES JAIL 22-Year-Old Killer Flees From Prison 7 Hours After He Is Sentenced. By United Press SALEM. N. J., Dec. 23.—Charles Tithian, 22, who effected a daring and weil-planned escape from Salem county ja.l here Monday night, only seven hours after he had been condemned to die in the electric chair, was believed secreted today by confederates who helped him make his get-away. The condemned youth, who had been sentenced to die the week of Feb. 8, in connection with the murder of J. William MacCausland in a holdup, used a revolver, obtained in some mysterious manner, in his dash for liberty. Goes Through Hole in Wall Fithian had been turned with; other prisoners into the main exer- | cise corridor, on which his cell faces, early Monday night. He managed to creep around to the rear of the cell block, where he .squeezed himself through a narrow space between the back of the cell and the wall until he reached a point behind his own cell. In the wall about fifteen feet above the floor was a hole made by another prisoner in an escape attempt several months ago. Using the criss-cross of cell bars as a ladder, Fithian climbed up, ripped off a piece of tin covering the hole, and climbed through to a hospital ward for juveniles. He drew his revolver on four boys, the only patients in the ward, and threatened to shoot them if they made an outcry. Escapes in Auto Fithian, a six-footer, then leaped for a window high up in the wall, drew himself up, ripped out two steel bars and wriggled his body through. From the window he climbed up to the roof, a few feet above. Then he leaped fifteen feet to an adjoining one-story building and another jump of ten feet found him in Broadway, one of the town’s principal streets. Parked nearby was a green sedan with a man at the wheel. Fithian got into the car and it was driven away. CUT CATALOG PRICES Montgomery Ward Slashes Range P rom 10 to 25 Per Cent. lit) United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Price cuts ranging from 10 to 25 per cent will be listed in the mid-winter catalog of Montgomery’, Ward & Cos., it was announced today. The reductions cover approximately 4,000 items. The company announced the budget payment plan would be operative on the purchase of all goods except groceries.

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VATICAN, LITHUANIA * BREAK SEEMS LIKELY Bishops and Priests Fight Move for Legal Civil Marriages. By United Press KOVNO, Dec. 23.—The Lithuanian government’s intention to introduce civil marriage as legal appeared to be leading toward a rupture of diplomatic relations between Lithuania and the Vatican today. The break appeared imminent as bishops planned to ban the governmental party, and priests urged Catholics to resist the government’s plans. The papal nuncio, Monsignor Bartoloni, has ceased seeing Foreign Minister Dr. D. Zanunius either officially or socially.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appeared in Monday’s Times: Don Robledo Wen at the Odds of 3,037 to I—A new record for long odds was established when Don Robledo, mounted by Bill Tingle, won the race at the Kiangwan race track, Shanghai, China, on June 11, 1929, paying the sensational dividend of $15,193.70 for a $5 ticket on the winner—at odds of 3,037 to 1. Only one lucky ticket was sold, and the purchaser’s collection of that large amount caused a wild commotion among the race-goers. Don Robledo, leading all the way, won by one and a half lengths. See: “China Press of Shanghai,’’ June 12, 1929. An Apple Bigger Than a Pumpkin—This great apple was raised on the Oregon State college farm at Corvallis, Ore. 1930. It is of the Spokane Beauty variety, and weighed two and one-fourth pounds. The abnormal grow'th of the apple can not be explained by the horticultural specialists of the

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5,000 SCIENCE EXPERTS TO GO TO CLEVELAND Fifty Organizations Will Meet During New Year’s Week. ! By Science Service CLEVELAND. Dec. 23.—More i than 5,000 scientists from all sec- | tions of the United States and ! Canada will attend meetings of more j than fifty scientific organizations to be held here New Year's week. More than a thousand papers will' ; be read in this year's largest meet- | ing and millions of words will be i uttered by the scientists in announcing their new researches, j The American Association for the ' Advancement of Science is the nuj cleus for the annual meetings. Joinj ing with this organization are spej cialized societies covering all fields jof science, from anthropology to zoology. Millikan to Speak Dr. Robert A. Millikan. Nobel I prizeman in physics, will deliver the I retiring presidential address of the i American association on “Atomic Disintegration and Atomic Synthesis.” A prize of SI,OOO for a notable ; contribution’ to science will be | awarded to one of the many papers presented at the meeting. The future of man will be pre- | dieted by biolgoists and anthropolI ogists. Mathematicians will give j thought to economic cycles and j crises as well as their theoretical studies. Biology Is Subject Latest battles in man’s war upon the insects will be retold and new campaigns will be planned. How j better plants and animals can be I secured will be discussed by bio- | lpgists. Engineers will describe I telephones, metals, telescopes and water problems. Economic and sociological socie- | ties will hold annual meetings coincidently with the biological and physical science groups. The Ameri- ! can Statistical Association, the j American Political Science Associa- ! tion, the American Sociological So- | ciety, and the American Economic Association will bring many sociologists to Cleveland. Western Reserve university and the Case School of Applied Science will be hosts to the visiting scientists.

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By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 —Marjorie Crawford, aviator, who refused alimony of SSO monthly when she was awarded a divorce Frida.- from Gail C. Crawford, is to be married to William Wellman, motion picture director. Wellman admitted today. The ceremony, however, must be postponed until Christmas of next year, when Mrs. Crawford’s interlocutory decree of divorce becomes final. Wellman will receive a final decree from Marjorie Chapin Wellman next August. Wellman is best known as a director for his production of “Wings.”

BOY HURT BY AUTO Youth, 8, in Hospital After Being Struck by Car. William Howe Jr., 8, of 661 South New Jersey street, was in city hospital today with head injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile driven by Lon Bolding,

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YUGOSLAV KING ACTS TO UNITE CAROL, HELENE / Alexander in Bucharest to Act as Peacemaker in Marital Tangle. : By United I‘rcss LONDON. Dec. 23.—King Alexander of Yugoslavia was due in Bucharest today to assume the role of peacemaker between King Carol and his divorced wife, the former Princess Helene of Greece, accordI ing to a dispatch to the Daily Herald from Bucharest. King Alexander is the brother-in-law of King Carol. He married the Rumanian princess, Marie. The Daily Herald said that Alexander would at least seek provisions enabling Helene to leave Rumania with the status of a former queen, and not an outcast, if he could not reconcile Carol and his divorced wife. He was also expected to negotiate the vexatious question of an allowance for Helene, who is said to have very little money in her own right. ' Alexander’s role of peacemaker is likely to be acclaimed in Rumania.' ; the Daily Herald said, for Helene ; is very popular with the Rumanian j people. Truck Injures Pedestrian I By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Dec. 23.—Henry ' Shaul, 53. was seriously injured I when he was struck by a furniture ; truck driven by Emmerson Ottinger.- ' The elderly man’s left leg was crushed.