Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1931 — Page 3

. 5, 1931

PDS RUNAWAY SON IS IN CELL, AWAITING DEATH Father Sees Picture of Con- % victed Youth; Will Go to His Aid. by t tilled Piers '• CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—A picture of a convicted murderer, which ap- ' pea red recently in a New York City newspaper, stared a dramatic chain of even's which will culminate in high tragedy, Feb. 13, in the death house of the Chicago jail. The subject of the photograph, 18-year-old Charles Rocco, wept in his cell today, not because of his impending death, but because his lather recognized the picture as that of the son who had run away from home years ago. “I was going to be brave,” sobbed Rocco, “and go to the chair like a man. My father didn’t know what I was doing or where I was. I didn’t think he’d ever know. I Knew it would break his heart if he found out. “And then I let them take my picture for the newspapers, and Dad saw it. Now he’s coming to sec *ne.” Collapses in His Chair Young Rocco, who had maintained an air of bravado until the episode of the picture, collapsed in i his chair, put his head in his hands, and wept. The father, Louis Rocco, toil worn laborer, saw the picture in the New York paper when he finished work one day last month at SufTern, N. Y. Recognizing the picture captioned “Condemned Slayer,” as that of the son he had hunted for three years, Rocco sought aid of Police Chief C. L. Lunney. Telegraphic inquiry resulted in the following message from Chicago: “This is to inform you that the young man you seek, Charles Rocco, is to be electrocuted next month with John Popescue for the murder of Courtney Merrill, a banker, during a robbery.” Tile elder Rocco, 41, quiet and Industrious, said that somehow lie would rase money enough to come to Chicago, hii'e a lawyer and ntlempt to save his son’s life. Murder Branded Brutal The chances of staving off the death sentence are exceedingly slim, .however, said prosecutors here, who pointed out that both Rocco and Popescue confessed to murdering the banker, pleaded guilty at their trial and calmly received the death sentence Imposed by Judge Philip J. Finnigan, who characterized the murder as one of the most brutal and needless ever committed. Rocco and Popescue said they killed the banker so “he couldn’t talk.” They robbed him while he was putting his automobile in his garage, then shot him to death. After young Rocco ran away from his father, he drifted west and entered a career of crime. He was charged with killing another man at Indiana Harbor, Ind., and with a series of robberies at Gary. Indiana police relinquished their hold upon him because of the clear-cut evidence against him in the Chicago •murder. “I thought I was a tough guy, - ’ said Charles. “And I was. I still would be. too, if it weren’t for my father. I don’t mind being electrocuted, but it’s going to be hard on him.” RADIUM MANUFACTURE BY U. S. PROPOSED Plenty of Ore Available in Colorado and in Utah. Kit Scrivvs-Tfoward Ncwsvaver Alliance WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. Plenty of ore is available in Colorado and Utah for the manufacture of radium by the government, under the terms of a bill introduced by Congressman Clyde Kelly of Pittsburgh and now pending before the house committee on mines and mining. The existence of ample supplies of vanadium ore, from which uranium and radium may be extracted as by-products, has been deter- , mined by the United States geological survey, at the request of the committee. A report to this effect has been made to Chairman W. L. Sproul of Kansas, by former Director George Otis Smith. On the strength of this survey by government scientists, it is believed the Kelly bill will be reported favorably soon after congress resumes work. CLUB AIDS SELECTED Committee Chairmen for 1931 Announced by Universal President. Committee chairmen for 1931 have been announced by William Henry Harrison, Universal Club president, who will make the principal address at the club luncheon Tuesday at the Columbia Club. New chairmen are: Ralph J. Hudclson. program; Forest J. Wilkins:. entertainment: Urey M. Warmoth. civic affairs; Albert M. Rust, membership: W. D. Lewis, attendance Frank G. Sink, welfare: Robert Smith, athletic; George Woody, rules and regulations; Bernard Schotters, publicity. HUSKING CHAMP QUITS fly United Prets FT DODGE, la.. Jan. 2.—Frank Stanek, who this year won the world’s corn husking championship for the fifth time, has retired from active competition. 'The strain of training for contests has affected his health, Stanek said. Lafayette Aviator Killed IJjt United Peers LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. s.—Fatal injuries were suffered by Harry F. Baughey, 37, when his private airplane crashed three miles southeast of the city Saturday. He had a record of thirty-five hours of solo nying.

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This is Colonel Augustine Faramundo Marti, chief aid to the Nicaraguan insurgent general. Sandino, whose troops recently killed eight United States marines in a Jungle skirmish. Colonel Marti, captured in Mexico, deported to his native country, El Salvador, and exiled thence to the United States, was seized by American authorities as he reached Los Angeles. Highly educated. It is said that he has been the “brains” of Sandino’s long campaign.

SCHOOL PUPILS' VACATION ENDS 60,000 Children Return to Classrooms Today, Classroom routine will be resumed by 60,000 school pupils today and college students will return to the city as the annual Christmas vacation ends. It was a happy reopening for pupils of School 81, Brookside parkway and Nineteenth street, where anew building is being used for the first time. The school replaces a portable at 1701 North Rural street. Pupils of School 49, at 1902 West Morris street, also began ! work in new quarters, an addition just completed. Students began work at Butler university looking forward to semester examinations scheduled for the next few weeks. Classes will start again at Indiana Central college Tuesday morning with the college facing several major projects. Chief of these is the college’s campaign for $300,000, which Is extended into the present year. The second semester will start Jan. 27. BUY GAME REFUGES Two Ohio Men to Provide State Sanctuaries. Powell Crosley Jr., Cincinnati radio manufacturer, and Alexander | Thomson, paper manufacturer of ; Hamilton, 0., have purchased large | holdings of southern Indiana hill : land and, with co-operation of State Forester Ralph Wilcox, will develop game and bird sanctuaries and forests, it was announced today by the state conservation department. Crosley bought 1,500 acres in Jennings county, northeast of North ! Vernon, and Thomson 2,200 acres in : Ripley county, northwest of Verj sailles. i Wilcox recommended to the Ohio owners that they plant 150,000 black | walnut trees next spring. These, | he said, will insure food for certain i wild life and later the trees develop ! into valuable timber. In addition, the two estates will plant 30,000 pine and spruce trees to provide cover and protection for all forms of wild animal and bird life. Plantings will be provided by the forestry division at small cost, Wilcox said. MISTAKE IN IDENTITY BRINGS BANDIT CHASE Deputy Sheriff, Gas Attendants Engage in Game of Tag. A deputy sheriff and two oil station employes played a ring-around-j the-rosie and robbers and cops game Sunday night, each mistaking the other for bandits. Suspicious of Elwin Patrick, 3254 Martindale avenue, and Cecil Wills, 2940 Schofield avenue, filling station employes carrying a sum of money, Deputy Sheriff William H. Smith gave chase, and thinking him a bandit the two men fled from the officer. The queer chase ended finally In engine house No. 2, where Patrick and Wills fled for protection. A policeman there settled questions of identity.

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ANNUAL MIAMI AIR RACES WILL OPEN THURSDAY Famous Pilots of Nation to Take Part in Many J Thrilling Events. ty Times Special MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 5. —Miami's three-day third annual air meet will be opened formally Thursday with dedication cf the new Miami naval air base by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, navy aeronautics bureau chief. Other speakers at the dedication will be David S. Ingalls, assistant secretary of the navy; Doyle E. Carlton, Florida Governor; Irving Glover, assistant postmaster-gen-eral, and Mayer C. H. Reeder. Events on the race prog~am, for which SIO,OOO prize money lias been posted, include bemb dropping, dead stick landings, balloon bursting, parachute drops, a wide variety of races and flying exhiUts by navy, army, marine, national guard and foreign pilots. W. L. Stribling, candidate for heavyweight pugilistic honors, and an ardent flying fan, was the first to sign entry blanks to the air meet. He is entered in five events, flying his 300-horsepower Travel Air plane. The events are: Bomb dropping, free for all race r dead stick landing contest and balloon bursting. Among the race features will be exhibition of autogiros and the first

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This is Robert L. Williams, University of Texas student, charged with the murder of his sweetheart, Elizabeth Johnson, 16, who was found shot to death in his auto at Fort Arthur, Tex. Williams, who declares he Is innocent, has been released on $lO,000 bail pending grand jury action.

public demonstration of the Arrowhead Safety tailless airplane, dream of the late Glenn L, Curtiss. Seventy-five military planes, including navy, army, marine corps and coast guard pursuit ships, amphibians, seaplanes, attack planes and giant army bombers will participate in the meet. Fifteen navy Commodores, accompanied by their tender, Sanpiper, were to attempt a nonstop flight from Norfolk, Va.

STUDY OF CITY CAR OWNERSHIP PLAH STARTED City Hall Group Awaits Word From Mayor Before Taking Action. Study of legal aspects looking toward legislative action for acquisition of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company by the city, was underway today at city hall. This was the only semblance of a step toward' further action relative to the company since the city hall street car committee Friday turned down the Insull proposal to buy and operate the defunct utility. City officials would not commit themselves on probable moves relative to municipal ownership, asserting directions by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan are awaited. Municipal operation, has been proposed by civic organizations and business men as well as security holders of the company. The latter proposal was made by Insull proponents after the city turned down the franchise proposal of the utility powers. It is understood that if the city takes over the street car company it will be necessary to enact a law In the next legislature creating a taxing unit for issuance of purchase bonds. Revision of the present utility district, enacted for acquisition of the Citizens Gas Company, would have to be carried out, should it be decided municipal ownership, if

Float ‘Loan’ By United Press KANSAS CITY, Jan. 5. Police records today showed that the safe in a filling station here was robbed without forcible entry, although it was locked and the combination was not touched. The bandits flooded the safe with water and removed $57 in floating currency through a slit in the top.

agreed upon, would function in that manner. The city hall committee, headed by E. Kirk McKinney, today had not yet received from attorneys of proponents an official statement that was given to the press. Until the committee formally receives word, it will consider Insull interests still active, possible in preparation of anew proposal. ONE KILLED IN CRASH Three Injured in Collision • Near North Vernon. By United Press NORTH VERNON, Ind., Jan. 5. One youth was burned to death and three companions burned and injured when two trucks collided three miles east of Holton in Ripley county last night, one of .them catching afire. Richard Jordan, 20, North Vernon, driver of a light truck, was killed. Jordan’s companions were Miss Oral Cartwright, Miss Betty Kimple and Frank Fry, a teacher in the North Vernon schools. All three suffered burns and body injuries. They were taken to a hospital in Milan.

CHICAGO FAIR SITE SCENE OF BRISHCTIVITY Buildings and Exhibits for 1933 Event Already Taking Shape. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. s.—There is so much work to do and so many millions of dollars to spend before Chicago’s 1933 world's fair opens that even now the 6team shovels, the pneumatic Tiveters and the typewriters are pounding away at the fair grounds. Exotic towers are beginning to rise behind high board fences on man made ground which once was Lake Michigan. The “most modern building in the world,” and perhaps the most modernistic, already is in use. An exact replica of old Ft.’Dearborn Is standing, ready to repulse Asthma Treatment On Free Trial D. J. Lane, a druggist at 1413 Lane Building, St. Mary’s, Kan., manufactures a treatment for Asthma in which he has so much confidence that he sends a $1.25 bottle by mail to anyone w r ho will write him for it. His offer is that he is to be paid for this bottle after you are completely satisfied and the one taking the treatment to be the judge. Send your name and address today.—Advertisement.

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