Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1931 — Page 9

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MYSTERY IS LIFTED FROM CZARSDEATH Only Few Links Lacking to Complete Details of Execution Story. FAMILY SLAIN BY REDS Loyal Retainers Risk Lives to Get True Facts in Drama of 1918. ThJ (s th* flr*t nt fcor articles baaed nn Investigation* bv a United Press eorresoondent Into the artual taels of the rieeatlon of Crsr Nicholas H of Russia, •he cxarlna and their children hr Bolshevists I* 1918, the .recovery of their ashes which were reipoved to France and •he .circumstance* sarronndlng their secret burial there. BY SAMUEL DASHIELL United Pres* Staff Corresnondent PAHIS, Feb. 16.—Mystery and conflict around the story of the Bolshevist annihilation of the imperial Romanoff family of Russia m a blaze of machine gun fire almost have been solved after twelve years. Only one or two links in the long chain of episodes—deathless acts of loyalty, incidents of treachery, fearless adventures and international intrigue—whicli rose from the deaths of the imperial family remain to be disclosed and these will not be known while a Communist government rules from the Kremlin and the imperial white army wanders in exile. From men and women closest to the action, came an account which had as its prelude a crash of gun fire in the dark cellar of a house at Fikaterinburg in 1918 and as Its climax the secret burial in France of. the remains of the czar and his family which had been found and transported from Soviet territory under greatest hardships. Disguised as Peasant The former minister of justice, M. Stamkevitch, appointed during the short-lived Koltchak regime explained to the United Press how the investigation .was conducted. The actual investigation was carried out by Judge Sokoloff, a man of unquestioned probity, who braved death a hundred times, disguised as a peasant., to reach Ekaterinburg about the time of the White army. Staryakevitch sain: "Five days after the murder of the imperial-Ru sian family white Russian detachments occupied Ekaterinburg. Various members of the judiciary chose Judge Sokoloff to conduct the investigation of the murder. Moreover, it must be remembered that I was an ardent Socialist, I was not a Monarchist. "The judicial inquiry showed that the central Soviet section of L’Oural, near Ekaterinburg, feared the approach of the White army of Koltchak would result in the escape of the imperial family probably to Germany. Lenin Was Opposed "It thus was decided that they should be shot immediately. Tire resolution was confirmed by the regional committee who transmitted the information to Moscow. Lenin was against the assassination, fearing eventual complications. "The order having arrived at Ekateringburg, a certain Communist. Jourovsky, in charge of the imperial family in the house where they were being held, informed the czar and his wife and cWldren that the White army was getting so close Ekaterinburg, a certain Commuof rioting in the streets, and that the entire family had better go down into the cellar for safety. -‘As soon as the imperial family. their servants and one dog had descended into the cellar, Jourovsky snot the czar with his revolver. A special firing squad Irad arrived at the house and the members of the family were killed one by one. “The Grand Duchess Anastasia, then 18. and the youngest, wept and entreated the soldiers not to shoot her sisters, but the inquiry shows that, she herself was beaten, bayoneted and then shot, while the terrified children were lined up and slain. . _ _ . Servants Met Same Fate "The four servants shared the same fate, and the firing squad did not even spare the little dog. -■The remains then wire moved to a remote village of Kortiaky, near Falga, where they were covered with oil and burned, then cut to pieces and thrown into an abandoned mine pit, where they were found by Judge Sokoloff. "Pieces of jewelry, clothing and other objects, deluding the ring finger of the empress with the gold band battered to prevent recognition, were carefully gathered up and subjected to the closest examination, so that Judge Sokoloff and his aides were convinced that the remains were none other than those of the murdered imperial family. "The objects were put into four cases and their shipment out of Russia, after Ekaterinburg had been reinvested by Red troops, only could have been accomplished with the aid of Allied and so-called neutral officers and officials." Next: How Allied Troops Aided Loyal RosstanJ.

COSGROVE SAYS STATE WOULD LOSE ON BILL SIOO,OOO Is Estimated Cost of Depository Measure. Loss of SIOO,OOO in interest on the state general fund will result from passage of the state depository interest bill now pending in the senate. it waa predicted today by William P. Cosgrove, chief deputy state auditor. The bill, which has passed the house, would require banks holding public money on deposit to pay interest quarterly on v ir\iimum balance on deposit for the previous three months, interest now is paid on tee aU.v balance. _

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Elope Twice in 90 Days

Twice in the last ninety days, youthful Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Senger, above, of Cleveland, have eloped. Three months ago Senger stopped his flivver in front of the high school attended by his sweetheart, Miss Helen Huff, 16, picked her up and drove her to Indianapolis, where they were married. When they returned home, the bride’s parents sent her to visit friends, and Senger could not find her. Finally she tossed her suitcase out of a window, jumped out after it, and went to join her husband.

CATHEDRAL TO BE SCENE OF FUNERAL

Rites for Louis Budden* baum Second to Be Held in Scottish Rite Home. For the second time in the history of Indianapolis Scottish Rite, funeral services were to be held in the order’s home today for Louis G. Buddenbaum, active member of the supreme council for Indiana, thirty-third degree, who died in Methodist hospital Saturday. The body lay in state from noon until 2:30, hour of the funeral, in Scottish Ritya cathedral, which he helped build. Around it a uniformed guard from Raper Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, stood, and the knights were to escort the cortege from the cathedral to the grave in Crown Hill cemetery. Other Funeral in 1905 The only other funeral in the home was in 1905. in the old temple on South Pennsylvania street, where final tribute was paid John Caven, former mayor and first Indiana deputy for the Scottish Rite. Dr. Lewis Brown, pastor of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, orator of Indianapolis chapter of Rose Croix, who officiated on that occasion, was to serve also for today's ceremonies. Mr. Buddenbaum was an organizer and officer of the Raper drill teams of more than two decades ago that won several national competitive drill prizes. He was a past thrice potent master of Adoniram Lodge of Perfection; potentate of Murat temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of St. James Conclave No. 16, Red Cross of Constantine, High in Masonic Order He was a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F, & A. M.; Indianapolis council, No. 2, Royal and Select Masters; high priest of Keystone chapter No. 6. Royal Arch Masons, and became a thirty-third degree Mason Sept. 18. 1923. He was bom in Indianapolis, and established the Buddenbaum Lumber Company. Survivors are the widow, and a brother, Harry Buddenbaum, Indianapolis. Mr. Buddenbamn lived at 4859 English avenue. SHOE MENMEeThERE Representatives of . 100 Firms Hear Bush. Lieutenant Governor Edgar Bush addressed representatives of 100 firms attending the Indiana Shoe Travelers’ Association annual convention at the Claypool. James H. Stone, general manager and secretary of the National Shoe Retailers’ Association and former editor of the Shoe Reader, was the honor guest. Homer H. Beals of Noblesville will speak Tuesday. Annual ball will feature the close of the convention Tuesday night.

Pope Talks to World by Radio

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Back to Farm By Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., Feb. 16.—“ This joint has run down like the very devil since I left,” declared Thomas Robbins of this city as he entered the state penal farm at Putnamville to serve six months for possession of liquor. “It’ll take six months to get that cow barn cleaned out, so I might as well get busy.” Robbins’ sentence was affirmed recently by, the Indiana supreme court, almost two years after conviction in Decatur circuit court here.

LINTON WIDOWS TO GET 5115,000 23 Bereaved Women Will Receive Compensation. By United Press LINTON, Ind., Feb. 16.—Compensation of $115,000 will be paid twenty-three widows whose husbands were among the twentyeight men killed in the Little Betty mine disaster near here Jan. 28, according to an agreement signed by John Riddle, general counsel for District 11, United Mine Workers of America, and John S. Taylor, counsel for the Lynch Coal Operators’ Reciprocal Association. With the twenty-three cases settled, there is but one other to be closed out of court as soon as certain information can be obtained from the widow, now in a hospital, leaving four cases to be tried. These cases will be heard in court to determine dependents, if any. The last act in the official investigation of the disaster was filing of a report of Coroner Walker: McHugh of Sullivan connty, and a statement by Jesse Hedwell, county prosecutor. Hedwell said: “I am personally satisfied that no living person could be charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of twenty-eight men in the Little Betty mine explosion.” MELOYIS NAMED TO KEEP MARSHAL’S POST Senate Confirms Nomination by Hoover; Four-Year Term Over. Nomination of A. O. Meloy of Indianapolis by President Hoover to succeed himself as United States marshal for the southern Indiana district was confirmed Saturday by the senate. Meloy just has completed a fouryear term as marshal. He formerly was assistant street commisisoner of Indianapolis, and later head of the department.

in the program that marked the formal opening of the Vatican's powerful new radio broadcasting station. An official of the new station Is shown holding the microphone over which the pope Is speaking. Prom New York the picture was transmitted throughout the United States by telephone,

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16,1931

TAX BILLS IN SPOTLIGHT IN LEGISLATURE Strong Pressure Is Brought to Bear for Special Assembly Session. GOV. LESLIE SAYS W Democratic Income and Corporation Tariff Measures Up. Indiana's legislators, harried by the necessity of putting through tax reform measures within three weeks or resisting strong pressure for a special session, reconvened in both houses today with the Democratic income and corporation tax bills occupying not merely the center, but the entire stage. Week-end conferences between Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush and Walter Myers, speaker of the house, brought from Bush the announcement the senate would be resolved into a committee of the whole Tuesday if the house can get all its amendments into the personal income and corporation bills at a special order of business session tonight at 7:30. Farm organization leaders, fearful that income tax measures will be the only ones enacted during the present session and that they may be declared unconstitutional, are behind demands for a special session at the close of the current session, March 9. Leslie Standing Firm However, Governor Harry G. Leslie has announced himself uncompromisingly opposed to a special session and If he refuses to call one, there would be only one recourse. This would be by failure of the assembly to pass the biennial appropriation bill and leaders of both houses say they entertain no thought of such a recourse. Farm leaders are discussing introduction of a bill calling for a constitutional convention referendum in 1932. believing the referendum was defeated last fall only by insistence of newspaper,? and party leaders that tax reforrrs can be accomplished without constitutional changes. Speaker Myers said today he is making every effort to bring the budget before the houst this week for consideration as a committee of the w r hole. Slashing Is Threatened Ways and means committee members took copies of the budget home with them over the week-end with the announced intention of making suggestions for plain and fancy slashing of several items. Lieutenant-Governor Bush has informed Speaker Myers the senate under no condition -will railroad the budget bill as it did two years ago and that it needs plenty of time for consideration. The measure appropriated $28,000 for state departments and institutions and $48,000,000 for department* supported by funds not derived from direct taxation. Preparatory to the night session Democratic members of the house will discuss the income tax bills at the close of today’s adjournment in caucus. OPEN PEACE MOVES Ghandi Makes Effort to Restore Indian Quiet. By United Press ALLAHABAD. India, Feb. 16. The Mahatma Ghandi will depart tonight on the most important mission yet scheduled in an effort to end the civil disobedience campaign against British rule. The Nationalist leader will go to New Delhi where he will meet with Lord Irwon. the viceroy, to discuss the possibility of a peace agreement. The interview probably will take place Tuesday and may definitely mark the future trend of the independence movement.

GET FAT? NEVER, NEVER!

Curves Shunned by Famous Beauties

Irene Delroy .. . gym work helps Mary Plckford . . . psychology Winnie Lightncr . . . lost twenty her survive the pace. does it for her. pounds in three weeks.

CURVES may come and curves may go, but woman's abhorrence of excess avoirdupois lives on forever. Just because the high priestesses of fashion put their stamp of approval on curves some time ago, it doesn’t mean that women have abandoned their war on the waistline. Take Mary Pickford. for instance. She once weighed 118 pounds. But Mary isn't very tall. So curves or no curves, “America’s sweetheart” intends to retain her present weight of 102, which she says she achieved by psychology. “I just think what I want, to weigh,” she said recently, “and when I decide on that weight strongly enough it is no effort to maintain it.” tt tt tt A ND Mary,Garden, perennial bouquet of operatic vivacity, isn’t going to let the scales balance against her for more than 120 pounds. Time was when the opera star admitted 149 pounds. She has a number of reducing formulas. “Say ‘no’ at the dinner table” is one. If this scheme doesn’t work, Mary steps out into the Mediterranean from her villa in southern France and indulges in swimming without inconvenience of a bathing suit or takes sea massages. Winnie Lighlner, of stage and screen fame, prefers gymnastics to keep pulchritude in step with Recently, Winnie found herself a bit too hefty. She engaged a trainer and went to W'ork in a gym. In three weeks she took of twenty pounds and now she knows she can make her figure to order. tt tt tt TRENE DELROY, feature of many Broadway hits, also turns to the gymnasium to survive the pace of stardom as well as to add to and substract from her figure without missing a line. Kathleen Key, movie actress, is another exponent of gymnasium exercises, but her reducing efforts ended somewhat disastrously recently. Kathleen, you remember, was accused of attacking Buster Keaton, the funster, in his dressing room. The vogue for comparative plumpness may end some of the dangerous reducing fads. Girls like Molly O'Day, who became too fat for ingenue roles and submitted to a surgeon's knife to remove excess poundage, will not be forced to resort to such drastic methods. And the new type of figure should put an end to such tragedies as that of Allvh King, Follies prima- donna,; Marietta Miller. German film actresses; Barbara La Marr and Katherine Grant, who paid with death or dangerous illness for their drastic diets.

FIRE OVERCOMES 20 Several Deaths Averted in Explosion.' By United Press - 4 CINCINNATI. Feb. 16.—Twenty persons, including eight girl employes, were overcome when fire broke out in the Pick Pen Company plant here today and fumes from burning celluloid and other materials filled the building. An explosion preceded the fire and only the fact that the plant had three exits through which seventyfive other employes escaped, averted loss of life, firemen declared. Five firemen were overcome and with the girls were removed to hospitals. None of the victims was believed affected seriously.. All available police and firemen were ordered to the scene and the blaze was quickly controlled. The company maintains a supply of celluloid and similar materials for the manufacture of its products. Gas emanating from the celluloid quickly spread and many employes became nauseated and fainted as they reached the exits,

POWER COMPANY SUED Real Estate Dealer Demands $12,600 for Service as Appraiser. Suit for $12,600 damages against the Indianapolis Power and Light Company for services as an appraiser in right-of-way easement proceedings, was filed in superior court one today by Frank F. Woolling, real estate dealer. Woolling alleges he was an employe of the utility from January to August, 1930, and that his fee should have been $12,600 more, than he received. GASOLINE PRICE IS CUT IN CITY 2-Cent Drop Announced by Oil Companies. Reduction of 2 cents a gallon on gasoline made motoring cheaper for Indianapolis autoists who took advantage of the rise in temperature Sunday to do their driving. Shell and Standard companies announced new prices for regular gas at 16.3 cents a gallon while high tests and Ethyl dropped to 19.3 cents. Other companies also lowered prices which are applicable in Indianapolis including Lawrence, Broad Ripple and Ben Davis, PRINCES HEAD FOR~ HOMELAND OF INCAS By United Press vAREQUIPA, Peru, Feb., 16.—En route to the heart of Inca land, the prince of Wales and Prince George traveled toward Cuzco, high in the Andes, today. The royal brothers arrived Sunday afternoon by airplane from Lima. After five hours, during which they attended a reception at the Arequipa Club, they boarded a special train for the ancient capital, where royalty reigned 400 years ago.

Fall Kills Circus Queen

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Miss Lillian Leitzel, queen of the tanbark and world’s premier gymnast, died early Sunday morning in'Copenhagen, Denmark, from injuries suffered in a fall. She was the highest paid circus

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MURDER TERM TO BEJFOUGHT Lawyer Acts to Set Aside Youth’s Guilty Plea, Legal tilt to set aside a life sentence pronounced on William A. Brown. 19, of Indianapolis, Saturday after the youth pleaded" guilty to the murder of Patrolman Walter Garrison of Rushville, was to be started in Rush circuit court today by William Brown, the boy’s father. The youth, his attorney, Paul Scharffin, charges, pleaded guilty to first degree murder without consulting his relatives, and was to have been tried today on a plea of not guilty to the killing. Life sentences was given the youth Saturday when C. M. George, Rush country pauper attorney, announced to Judge John A. Titsworth, that young Brown was willing to accept life sentence rather than take the chance of being sentenced to the electric chair. Scharffin, asserting he is .'he youth's attorney, said a defense was being prepared preliminary to, trial. Scharffin failed in an attempt to have the case venued out of Rush county when Titsworth overruled the petition Saturday, it was said. WORKS BOARD 0. K.S IRVINGTON FIRE PLAN Proposed $167,449 improvement program of the Indianapolis Water Company to give Irvington adequate fire protection was approved by the works board today. Contract let to the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company calls for construction of a 100-foot tower topped by a 1,500.000-gallon tank. Work will begin within ten days. Higher than downtown Indianapolis, Irvington now does not have adequate pressure for fires during crises, the board was told by W. C. Mabee, engineer, and H. S. Morse, water company general manager.

performer of the world. Indianapolis residents will remember her as the star performer yearly for the Ringling Brothers when they showed at the Keystone avenue circus grounds.

RITCHIE SEEKS PRESIDENCY ON REPEAL STAND Law Regulating Shipments His Only Substitute for Dry Amendment. . + FRIENDS PRESS BOOM Rising Tide of Opposition to Prohibition, Asserts Maryland Governor. BY RAYMOND CIJAPPER., United Press Staff Ccirresoondenf I Copyright.. 1931. by United Press i ANNAPOLIS. Md., Feb 16—Unconditional repeal of the eighteenth amendment without any federal substitute except a law regulating interstate shipments of liquor to protect dry states is the platform upon which Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland will offer himself as a receptive candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination next year. Governor Ritchie, just entering his fourth term, has made no formal announcement of his candidacy, but his friends already are at* work on his behalf. Large campaign buttons bearing his photograph and the slogan, “Our Next President,.” are being worn around the statehouse here. He stepped aside for Governor Smith in 1928 and his friends believe he has. earned the right to press his candidacy next year. Repeal Is First Task Governor Ritchie will stake his case on a conviction that there is a rapidly growing tide of opposition to prohibition which by next year will lead the Democratic party to take the anti-prohibition side of the contest. “In enacting federal prohibition the government of the United States entered upon a field which it, should never have invaded.” he said. “Numerous suggestions have been made for dealing with the unfortunate conditions which have resulted from this unwise step. But I think the first thing to do about it is to repeal the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act and turn the problem back to fhs states. “There is just one safeguard that should be insisted upon and that is federal legislation similar to the Webb-Kenyon act of pre-prohibi-tion days by which the federal government would prevent shipment of liquor into states having prohibition. This is a control over interstate commerce w'hich the federal government should properly exercise. Cites Wickcrsham Report “What I said in my recent address regarding the injury prohibition has done to the cause of reasoned temperance, the unhappy temptations it has offered to the youth of the land and the lawlessness and disregard for law which have resulted from putting prohibition into the Constitution, has been fully borne out by the report of the Wickersham commission. “It is a pity that this report was subjected to a misleading interpretation as favoring the present experiment when at least six of the commission favor repeal of the eighteenth amendment.” The Governor pointed out that two of the commissioners favored unconditional repeal while four others favored immediate revision or modification to permit flexible control, which, in the words of Dean Roscoe Pound, would be “adapted to local conditions in places where, as things are at least, it is futile to seek a nationally enforced general total abstinence.” Preserve Respect for Law “Respect for law, and the fundamental conceptions of personal integrity and decency; these must be preserved at all *,osts. Without them, neither this nor any other country can long endure.” Ritchie said that while he could not indorse Judge Anderson's plan or the suggested revision of the eighteenth amendment, he was glad to see them put forward for discussion . “I think it would be unwise for us to bind ourselves to far in advance of a change as to what we would do once that point had been reached.” he explained. “One plan of control might seem 1 the best now. But as discussion proceeds it might be found that other plans were better. “We should not bind every state in ad vane# to adopt such a preconceived plan. “That would be a restriction by the federal government as unwise m principle as the present restriction which a large proportion of the country has now rebelled against.” AIMEE A VISITOR AT EARLY HOME, SHANGHAI Famous Evangelist Stops During World Tour for Health. By United Press SHANGHAI. Feb. 16. Amice Semple McPherson, traveling arour.d the world to recuperate from a nervous breakdown, arrived here today for a visit to the scenes where she started her career as an evangelist. Mrs. McPherson was accompanied by her daughter, Roberta Semple, who. was born here. She said she will stop at Hong Kong in an attempt to locate Matilda hospital, the birthplace of her daughter. The evangelist told how she started missionary work as a tribute to her first husband, the late Robert Semple, and said all her religious activities years ago were in the Hong Kong area. New Seal for Notre Damr By Times Specie; SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Feb. 16 —A new official seal, with armorial bearings, has been adopted by the University of Notre Dame. It i* the work of M, Pierre de Chaignon la Rose of Harvard university, considered one of the foremost authorities on heraldry in the Unitpd States....