Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1931 — Page 1

LOAN SHARKS BILL GOES TO FLOOR FIGHT Lower Rate of Interest Is Urged by Report of House Committee. SLAMS STATE OFFICIAL Banking Office Attache Is Assailed at Hearing for Defending Lenders. Loan companies of Indiana were dealt their first serious wound in years when the house of representatives today adopted, 75 to 3, the majority report of the judiciary B committee recommending for passage reduction of the interest rate from 3Vs per cent to 2Vi per cent a month. Tlie house rejected a minority report which would have retained 1 lie provisions oi’ the Karrer bill, which cut the rate to 1 per cent a month. Thirteen members voted for the minority report, although the author of thc*bill, Representative Clyde Karrer (Dent., Marion) declared he was willing to accept the amendment. "The 1 per cent rate was made in the bill only for the purpose of trading,’’ he said. Fight to Cut Interest At the same time the house adopted 74-16 a majority recommendation of the committee for indefinite postponement the bill which would have increased the petty loan licensing fee from SIOO to SI,OOO. ■ It was contended that although loan companies in the larger cities could afford the increased rate, the small town operators could not. Fight to cut the interest rate to 1 per cent and increase the licensing fee was led by Representative Howard S. Grimm (Rep., Dekalb).

SULLIVAN, Ind. Feb. 19, 1931. Editor Times:—Every coal miner and working man in Sullivan county endorses your editorial condemning inhuman 42 per cent interest rate, and trusts bill to regulate same will be passed. NORVAL K. HARRIS Charles Parker, attache of the state department of banking, who made a lengthy speech at tne public hearing on Wednesday night in behalf of the loan companies, was scored by all speakers, except the Republican minority leader, Representative Miles Furnas (Randolph), who declared that he believed no ulterior motive was behind the speech. _ Grimm pointed out that 130,000 pec pip in Indiana did business with the loan companies. These companies, he said, had assets totaling mere than $21,000,000. He touched lightly on the mysterous transfer of the small loan bills from judiciary A to judiciary B committee. Speech Stirs Karrer First clash of the public hearing came after proponents of the 3 Vz per cent rate declared it equitable in view of the losses encountered. Parker had read a speech praising the small loan business in flowery terms, bringing in Christ’s scourging of the money-changers from the temple and Shylock’s alleged attempt to collect his grisly forfeit from Antioch. Questioning the propriety of Parker defending and praising the small loan business instead of merely confining himself to elaboration and explanation of he banking department report. Karrer scored him bitterly. Ought to Be Discharged “This is the first time I’ve ever heard a state official represent the very people he's supposed to watch," shouted Karrer. "If he’s paid to represent the petty loaners, then we ought to have him discharged from his state job.’’ Karrer then referred to the comment surrounding the transfer of his and other petty loan bills from judiciary A to B committee. -I'm a member of judiciary A. too,” asserted Karrer. “and they waited four weeks to report on my bill. The banking department got a report together as soon as the bills got out of judiciary A. Why did the loan sharks get sanctimonious so suddenly and decide a report would be all right?” , Speaker Is Angered F. L. Thompson, representing the Indiana Association of Personal Finance Companies, defended Igorously the 3 l * per cent rate id the Russell Sage Foundation wl -h sponsored it and now is under fire before a United States senate committee for alleged lavish expenditures in defense of the rate. As Thompson was concluding, H. A. Busby, Indianapolis manufacturer. questioned him with: “What per cent of that $25,000 slush fund are you getting?” He referred to persistent reports that a $25,000 fund has been set aside bv loan interests to lobby against any repeal of rate reduction In Indiana. “I don't understand you,” said Thompson. "I mean just that,” said' Busby. "How much of it are you getting?” Thompson retorted angrily that if Busby can make affidavit there is a $25,000 slush fund, he’d better place it in the hands of the committee. Busby earlier in the hearing had charged that "the petty loan Sharks pride themselves in having enough money to control enough legislators Us defeat any reduction measure.”^

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High Power for Radio Approved Examiner Proposes to Allow 50,000 Watts to Eight Additional Stations. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Ellis A. Yost, chief examiner, recommended to the federal radio commission today that eight radio stations, now operating on clear channels, have their powers increased to the maximum of 50,000 watts. The stations are: WJZ, New York; WCAU, Philadelphia; WSB, Atlanta; WSM, Nashville. WGN, Chicago; WCCO, Minneapolis; KPO, San Francisco, and KOA, Denver. ib* recommendations must be passed upon by the commission before they can become effective. The examiners’ report recommended also an increase in power to 25,000 watts for these eleven broadcasting stations: WBZ, Boston; WHAM, Rochester; WOR, Newark; WHAS, Louisville; WBG, Charlotte; WAPI. Birmingham; KVOO, Tulsa; WMAQ, Chicago; WHO-WOC. Des Moines; KSL, Salt Lake City; KGO,. San Francisco.

'GIVE JOBS,'IS MAYOR'S ORDER Council Passes Measures for Unemployed. Two hundred unemployed men will be given jobs within the next few days following passage of two relief measures this afternoon at a special city council meeting. The fund measures call for distribution of $35,000 to the city engineer and $25,000 to the street commissioner from the /gas tax funds paid this week. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan stepped into the council fray late Wednesday after George Henry, Republican member, balked Monday night and refused to vote for suspension of rules to pass the employment relief ordinances. Henry was irked in a pre-meeting caucus when a taxi fee ordinance he is backing was postponed. He left the caucus, informing councilmen of his unwillingness to co-operate on any rules suspension motions. He later asserted he did not know the unemployment relief measures were included.

PASS VETOED BILL House Overrides Leslie on Mortgage Measure. Although Democrats bolted right and left the Indiana house today overrode Governor Harry G. Leslie’s veto of the McKesson mortgage exemption bill 54 to 32. The senate must vote again on the measure. Introduced by Representative Delph L. McKesson, (Dem., Marshall), majority floor leader, the original bill increased the present mortgage exemption at SI,OOO to $1,500, and was amended in committee, with McKesson’s consent, to $1,300. The vetoed measure came back,to the house with a statement from Leslie that "the rates are discriminatory and unwarranted and will cause an undue burden of taxation on agricultural interests, and for the further reason that to date, no provision has been made to offset the revenue that would be lost.” SAVES HER CHILD; DIES Mother Crushed by i Truck as She Throws Son to Safety. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Mrs. Minnie Schwartz today sacrificed her life in keeping with the tradition tbflt a mother must think first of her child’s safety. She was going to market with her son Arnold, 4. A truck, out of control, made toward her. She tossed the child to safety and was crushed to death a moment later. Had she not thought only of the child, she could have jumped and saved herself as well. WIGGINS’ KIN IS " ILL Louis Brown in Critical Condition at His Home. Louis Brown, 60, politician, bondsman and stepfather of Chuck Wiggins, pugilist, was critically ill at his home, 521 West Twenty-ninth street, today. Physicians held but little hope for his recovery. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 37 10 a. m 38 7a. m 36 11 a. m 39 Ba. m 36 12 (noon).. 39 9a. m 37 Ip. m 42

PRISONER STROLLS OUT OF JAIL; DEPUTIES FIRED

Two deputy sheriffs and a turnkey were discharged today by Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner for negligence in permitting a prisoner to escape Wednesday during visiting hours at the county Jail. The officers discharged, all Democrats, were: Michael F. Bauer and Charles W. Bauswell, deputy sheriffs, and Wesley A, Stout, assistant turnkey. The Jail escape occurred Wednesday when Charles Horton, 17, of 230 East Vermont street, sauntered to freedom while relatives of prisoners were visting the Jail. Deputy sheriffs were apprised of! the ,*'ulk-out by an acquaintance/

VETERANS’ BILL UP IN SENATE FOR PASSAGE Unanimous Consent for ' Debate Limit Refused by Reed. 0 VETO APPEARS CERTAIN Fewer Than Dozen Votes Counted Against Plan in G. 0. P. Bolt. Jty United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Opponents of the veterans’ loan bill in the senate won a minor initial victory when the measure came up for debate at the opening of today’s session. Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.) asked rnanimous consent to limit debate, but Senator David Reed <Rep., Pa.) objected. Reed’s objection serves only to defer adoption of the bill a little, as its passage is assured. The only question regaining now is how soon the vote will come. The house passed the bill Monday under suspension of the rules, and the senate finance committee reported it favorably Wednesday in the face of direct presidential opposition. It is understood a veto awaits it at the White House, but it also is understood that there are more than enough votes in both houses to enact it over the veto. Administration leaders in both house and senate have deserted the President on this issue. Administration Protests In the face of administration protests, the house had passed the bill 363 to 39, with Speaker Longworth leading the rebels. Wednesday the senate finance committee reported the bill favorably and without amendments, 13 to 3. Undersecretary of Treasury Mills pleaded with the committee to restrict the benefits of the measure to veterans actually in need. He said the bill in its present form would require a bond issue. He urged the necessity of keeping the government out of the money market as much as possible at this time. The committee rejected all suggestions. No Changes Likely The bill, which would allow World war veterans to borrow up to 50 per ceilt of the' matured value of their adjusted service certificates, will be open to amendment in the senate today. But senate leaders believe the bill will go through without change. If passage is delayed until Friday or Saturday, it still could reach the Wnite House in time to prevent a pocket veto. Mr. Hoover’s final word of protest was as follows: ‘‘The country should - not’ be called upon, either directly or indirectly, to support or make loans to those who can by their cwn efforts support themselves.” So far as is possible, the letter containing that statement is to be utilized in an effort to obtain votes in the senate to support Mr. Hoover. A two-thirds vote is required to override a veto. However, at present fewer than a dozen votes are counted against the bill.

‘VOLSTEAD ACT’ IN STATE IS PROPOSED

Undaunted by the summary disposal of the medicinal whisky bill, wet members of the Indiana house today proposed to support a new measure of Representative Fred S. Galloway (Dem., Marion), which virtually is a state Volstead act, and thereby repealing the Wright bone dry statute. Following introduction the bill was referred to the house public morals commitee. t Galloway’s measure creates the office of state commissioner of prohibition, to be appointed by the Governor, and his salary fixed b£ the state budget committee. As under provision of the national Volstead act, the commissioner would be in charge of whisky sales and oversee the issuance of prescriptions by physicians who would be limited to prescribing one pint of Whisky to any one person oftener than, every ten days. Manufacture of wine for sacramental purposes would be under jurisdiction oi a priest, rabbi or minister appointed by his conference or diocese to supervise the work. The new Galloway bill, twentyfive pages long, includes every pro-

of Horton’s who reported to police that he saw Horton on the street following his escape. Horton was held in the county Jail on an auto theft count. In dismissing the two’deputies and the turnkey Sumner said, “I find that the escape of the prisoner can be nothing else than gross negligence of our jail attaches.” The sheriff also announced the dismissal of Louis W. MiireseH, deputy sheriff, but said MikeseU’s dismissal had nothing to do with the Horton escape. He gave no reason for Mikesells discharge. Search is betag made for Horton.

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Drys’Wire Tapping Hit by Mitchell Issues Order for Ban on Practice by U. S. Booze Sleuths. 1 Bp United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Attor-ney-General Mitchell has issued a temporary order against wire tapping by federal prohibition agents, except in cases where such practice is approved by the chiefs of bureaus concerned. * , He revealed his action in appearing today before the house expenditures committee, which began investigation of the extent of wire tapping, its cost and its legality. Mitchell explained he had issued the order pending a complete investigation into the whole subject with a view to establishing a definite policy. The order was issued Jan. 19 this year. “Something can be said for wire tapping in cases of dangerous criminals,” Mitchell said. “Police agents generally about the country use wire tapping. I don’t believe anybody believes that indiscriminate wire tapping should be permitted. It ought to be safeguarded with every precaution.” “I agree entirely with Mr. Mitchell in favoring the restricted use of wire tapping as a means of procuring evidence,” Prohibition Director Woodcock testified. He said wire-tapping is used in about forty or fifty cases out of 58,000 or 60,000 cases every year.

TIE UP WOMAN, RANSACKJiOUSE Thieves Loot Home While Husband Sleeps. While her husband slept upstairs, Mrs. Bertha Walls, 50, of ~ 917 English avenue, was bound by two robbers who took $9 and a $250 diamond ring early today. The pair entered the front door as Mrs. Walls lay dozing on a day bed in the living room, after seeing her son, Frank Nelson, off to work. One muffled her with his hand, and said: ‘‘We’re going feo get even with you. Don’t scream, or we’ll kill you. Your boy got his pay yesterday and we’re after it.” ‘ They bound her feet and hands with a pair of her hose, and then ransacked the dining room, until noise of a neighbor woman shaking the furnace in the basement of the double house frightened them and they fled through the back door. Unable to rouse her husband or two children who weje asleep upstairs, Mrs. Walls rolled from the bed, wriggled to the stairway and inched her way up backward till her husband, James Walls, awakened. JUDICIAL B]TI~PASSED Measure Would Affect Jurisdiction in Contempt Cases. With but four votes in opposition, the Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic fraternity, bill providing for change of judge in indirect contempt cases, passed the senate today. The bill had previously passed the house and now awaits the signature of the Governor.

vision of the Volstead act and defines in detail the legal procedure in prosecution, revocation of liquor permits, search and seizure and closing of resorts adjudged nuisances by courts of competent jurisdiction. Section of the bill striking at the heart of the Wright bone dry law covers possession of liquor in the home and reads: “It shall not be unlawful to possess liquors in one’s private dwelling while the same is occupied and used by him as his dwelling only and such liquors need not be reported, provided such liquors are for use only for the personal consumption of the owner thereof and his family residing in such dwelling and of his bona fide guests when entertained by him therein; and the burden of proof shall be upon the possessor in any action concerning the same to prove that such liquor was unlawfully acquired, possessed and used.” Prescription blanks numbered up to 1900 to a book, w uld be supplied free of cnarge to licensed physicians holding permits and dated both by him and the pharmacist filling the prescription in order that an accurate check might be maintained by the state prohibition commissioner

Dry enforcement would be under county prosecuting attorneys acting on affidavits of violation sworn to by the commissioner. Action to enjoin nuisance defined by the act could be started by the attorneygeneral for the state or by the commissioner. BRITONS CHEETcHAPLIN 4,006 Londoners Jam Station to Greet Famous Actor. By United Press LONDON, Feb. 19.—Charles Chaplin, star of the silent motion pictures, returned today to the acclaim of the city where he was born and where he first practiced his dramatic talents. A crowd of some 4,000 persons jammed into Paddington station to cheer the famous aetdr) /

MOVE TO KILL ROADS BOARD GAINS POWER Senators Adopt Minority Committee Report by 26-19 Vote. KET % CHUM LEADS FIGHT Measure to Set Up New Commission Goes to Second Reading. First step toward passage of the senate bill which would abolish tlje present state highway commission and set up a full-time commission of four members, was taken today when senators adopted, 26 to 19, a minority committee report for passage of the measure. Senator Anderson Ketchum (Dem., Bartholomew, Decatur, Franklin and Union), co-author of the bill with Senator Charles L. Strey (Kosciusko and Wabash), led the fight against the majority report of the roads committee for indefinite postponement. . Strey and Senator James B. Brewster (Dem., Crawford, Floyd and Harrison) signed the minority report.

One to be Chairman Ketchum explained the plan proposed in the bill of having the Governor nominate a bypartisan commission from the four present highway districts, the appointments to be approved by the senate. Each commissioner would get $6,000 a year and serve full time. One of the four would be elected chairman. “The total cost would be $24,000 a year and SII,OOO of this would be had by abolishing the present offices of director and assistant director,” Ketchum explained. At present the directorship is on a full-time and the commissioners on a per diem basis. Rowley Against Bill Senator Earl Rowley (Rep., Laporte and Starke) took the floor against the bill, contending it,, should have been introduced only if the senate highway investigation committee disclosed corruption under the present scheme. Strey and Ketchum are leaders in the investigation. Ketchum urged the bill be kept alive at least until the committee’s findings are returned to the senate. “There will be something in. that committee report regarding failure to collect federal aid under the present setup that the senators should know in deciding their vote on this bill,” Ketchum declared. A roll call vote was taken and the bill went to second reading. If the authors retain the twenty-six votes for final passage the measure is assured a constitutional majority in the senate. The committee report was brought in by passage of a motion demanding the report be made today. Th* motion was adopted at the Wednesday session. Brought in on Motion Debate on the moiton caused Strey and Senator John C. Sherwood (Rep., Lawrence, Martin and Orange), to come almost to blows. Strey called Sherwood “liar,” but later apologized. Sherwood said Strey had asked the bill kept in committee until the senate highway investgiation report was made. Having failed to undermine the position of Jess Murden, Peru, as a state highway commissioner, Strey, who is chairman of the senate highway investigating committee, today directed his guns on Chairman Albert J. Wedeking of the state highway commission.

Wedeking was in the senate chamber during the debate today. Strey announced Wedeking will be summoned to re-appear before the | committee and explain statements 1 regarding the Evansville bridge at variance with those made by Vanderburg county commissioners. Wedeking previously testified that Vanderburg county was securing the Indiana right-of-way for the bridge, but the county commissioners have denied it, according to Strey. The senator Wednesday secured a seven-page opinion from AttorneyGeneral James M. Ogden upholding the legality of Murden’s appointment as commissioner. THIS MAN HAS DRUNK $54,000 IN WHISKY Three Pints Daily for 25 Years Is Barber’s Record. By United Press DENVER, Colo., Feb. 19.—P. H. Thomas, barber, sentenced to spend thirty days in jail for possessing forty pints of whisky, admitted he had been drinking three pints a day for twenty-five years. Statistics gleaned from his statements showed: He has drunk 1,095 pints a year for twenty-five years, or 27,375 pints, more than 13,000 quarts. At present reported prices, he has spent more than $54,000 for beverage in the quarter of a century. ANDREWS UNDER FIRE ‘Gross Abase’ and ‘Breach of Trust’ Charged in Investment Crash. By United Press HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 19. Guardian Investment Trust, into which Connecticut investors poured millions, today faced reorganization or receivership, with charges of “gross abuse and breach of trust” against five trustees, including General Lincoln C. Andrews, former assistant secretary of treasury, in ; charge of prohibition enforcement.

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Miss Telsie Madden, postal clerk, and Postmaster Robert H. Bryson

More than 300 postoffi.ee employes today paid tribute to Postmaster Bryson for his interest in their welfare and presented him with a plaque. A. B. Mundelle, assistant postmaster, delivered the presentation speech and Miss Madden is shown giving Bryson the plaque.

GOLD RUSH STARTS

Find Ancient Spaniard’s Mine

By United Press C RESTONE, Colo., Feb. 19.—A phlegmatic prospector threw Crestone into great excitement Wednesday when he calmly announced he had found “out there in the mountains” what he-belie ved was a longlost gold mine of the early Spanish explorers. The discoverer, John Glasgo, brought with him his many samples of the “pay dirt” ore. Much of it, he said, panned free gold. He forwarded some of the samples to the Colorado school of mines in Golden for assay. Glasgo said his belief that he had found one of the old mines which the Spanish Conquistadors had abandoned or been driven away from was strengthened by the finding of many rusty bits of iron which looked like they might have been parts of armour suits. n # tt n n Madness, Death Lurk on Island , By United Press CONCARNEAU, France, Feb. 19.—A tale of suffering, starvation, madness and death on an isolated island in the Indian ocean was told when ihe ship lie St. Paul arrived here today. The ship was sent to the volcanic island of St. Paul to- aid members of a party of seven who were landed on the island in 1929 to exploit lobster fishing there. The ship’s crew found only two men and one woman, Europeans, alive. Three others had died of fever and madness and one man set out from the island in a frail boat and never was seen again. Fire destroyed the expedition’s food store soon after landing and the survivors lived on shell fish, they said. tt n tt * ft ' Girl in “Iron Claw’s” Clutches By United Press BROOKLYN, N. Y , Feb. 19.—When she received a letter signed “The Iron Claw” and demanding that she place SIO,OOO in a designated ash can, Mrs. Yetta Levy obeyed police instructions and put a bundle of papers at the place named. Four hours later her 17-year-old daughter Lena disappeared, police revealed today. The letter had mentioned Lena. “if you tell the police, Lena will be taken for a ride,” said the letter. m m tt nun Angry Spouses Halt Marathon Bridge By United Press CHICAGO, Feb, 19.—Six hungry husbands broke up their wives’ marathon bridge party today with a grand slam of protect after the game had run twenty-three hours and showed no signs of abating. The game started Wednesday morning at the home of Mrs. William > K. Ryan, with eight players. tt tt u * m m Bandage, Buckle Are Left in Operation By United Press . ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 19—Charges that a gauze bandage and a buckle were left in her. abdomen after an operation were made by counsel for Mrs. Bessie R. Blackburn, Glens Falls, in arguments before the court of appeals. n * Makes Up Mind; It Stays Made Up by United Press BRIDGETON, N. J., Feb. 19.—The assasination of Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s theater in 1865 had such an effect upon John Lindsey, who witnesses the shooting, that he never since has entered a legitimate theater, he revealed today. He is now 90. st m tt m m Sure, Young Fellow, Try a Nice Cell By United Press PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 19.—“ Give me a hand here, will you, officer?” asked Leon McChesney of Syracuse, N. Y., who was struggling to push a balky automobile. “The battery’s gone dead.” “Sure, I’ll give you two hands, young fellow,” answered Patrolman Roy Belgenhurst, as he yanked McChesney away from the car to a police station. “The car you’re trying to push is mine.”

CITIZENS KIDNAPED, MADE AIDS IN $22,000 ROBBERY

By United Press CEDARVIILE, Kas., Feb. 19. Two Cedarville citizens were kidnaped today and compelled to be STATE BANK HELD UP Bandits Flee From Scircleville Toward Indianapolis. Holding up two girl employes and a customer in the Farmers State bank at Scircleville, on State Road 28, forty-five miles north of Indianapolis shortly before noon, three young bandits escaped with between SSOO and SI,OOO. State police, deputy sheriffs and city police squads are covering five highways leading into Indianapolis, awaiting appearance of the black Buick sedan in which the trio drove out of Scircleville. The bandits attempted to get into the safe, but one of the girls they ordered to open the vault was unable to open the inner door. In the bank were Miss Lois Ploughe, granddaughter of the cashier; Miss Maude Storms, assistant cashier, and Dr. Thorpe Grove*?’* customer.

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Employes stated in the gift that they were honoring Bryson for his desires to aid them in securing “these benefits that make for our personal happiness.” Bryson recently supported the congressional bill that permits employes Saturday half holidays. i

the unwilling assistants of two bandits in a robbery of the Citizens National bank. The robbers escaped with $7,100 in cash and $15,000 in Liberty bonds after cutting telephone and telegraph wirei to block pursuit. Movement of trains on the Missouri Pacific railroad was paralyzed by the cut telegraph wires. The robbers, masked and carrying revolvers and shotguns, appeared first at the Santa Fe railroad station and commanded Carl Osborn, night watchman, to accom - pany them. Then they went to the Missouri Pacific station and awaited A. C. Cijosley. When Crosley reported for duty he was covered by shotguns. “You two fellows are going to help us rob the bank,” one of the bandits informed Crosley and Osborn. The quartet moved up the street to the Qtizens National Bank building and forced Crosley and Osborn to break open the door. Crosley and Osborn were put to work helping blow open one safe. Taking the money and the bonds, the robbers hastily left the bank. “We’re through,” said one to the captives. “You can go now." The bandits ran down an allrjc entered an automobile and drovo

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PINCHOT GETS BLONDE IRENE’S PLEA FOR LIFE Governor Asked to Save Trigger Woman From Electric Chair. BOARD DENIES MERCY Decrees Pair Must Die for Slaying of State Highway Officer. By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa.. Feb. 19. A final plea to Governor Pinchot to intervene in the case of Irene Schroeder and Glenn Dague sentenced to die in the electric chair Monday night, was made today by relatives of the condemned woman. John Crawford, father of Irene John Crawford, her brother; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Muldooy, a sister and brother-in-law, and Irene’s 5-year-old son Donnie, all of Wheeling. W. Va., visited the Governor and urged him to grant a respite. ."The Governor was very nice to us,” the girl’s father said. “I am heartbroken. I don’t know how I am going to stand this.” Refuses to Comment Pinchot refused to comment on the visit, but it was said at his office that the Governor would not intervene unless some new' evidence is presented or unless some “justifiable cause” presents itself. Irene, 22-year-old blonde gunwomah, and her Sunday school teacher lover, who is 28, are to walk to death through the little green door of the western Pennsylvania penitentiary at Rockview. Their appeal for clemency following conviction for the murder of Corporal Brady Paul of *the Pennsylvania state highway patrol Feb. 27, 1929, after a minor holdup, was denied Wednesday night by the Pennsylvania state board of pardons. Deny Killing Blame They will be electrocuted. Mrs Schroeder is the first woman t- be so executed in the history of the state, and the first woman in fifty years to pay for a crime with her life. Their appeal was marked not only by various pleas for mercy on technical grounds, but on the charge of both Dague and Mrs. Schroeder that a bullet from the gun of Patrolman Moore, Brady’s companion at the time of the murder, killed > Brady. ’ Calm Not Disturbed By United Press t NEWCASTLE. Pa., Feb. 19. Irene Schroeder and W. Glenn Dague, ponvicted slayers of Corporal Brady Paul, received calmly the information that the state pardon board had refused their plea • for commutation of their death sentences. Showing little emolon, Mrs. Schroeder and Dague in'mated they had expected such a decision Members of their families are expected to pay their last visits to the condemned pair this week..

DEMOCRATIC EDITORS OPEN SESSION HERE Midwinter Meeting to Be Featured With Banquet Tonight. , Midwinter meeting of the Democratic Editorial Association opened today at the Claypool. The session will close Friday night. Annual banquet will be held at 6:30 tonight at the Claypool and the chief business on Friday’s program will be election of officers at 10 a. m. Speakers on the dinner program tonight will be: Walter Myers, speaker of the Indiana house; Paul V. McNutt, dean of the Indiana university law school; R. Earl Peters. Democratic state chairman; Mrs. A. P. Flynn, Democratic state vicechairman; Miss Telia C. Haines, representative from Sullivan, and State Senators Thurman A. Gottschalk and Walter S. Chambers. SPEED KING KNIGHTED King George Makes Captain Sir Malcolm Campbell for Record. _ By United Press CHERBOUBP, France, Feb. 19Captain Malcolm Campbell, who recently set anew world’s automobile speed record of 245 miles an hour at Daytona Beach, Fla., was raised to the knighthood today by King George of England. WED AFTER 40~YEARS New York Importer, 76, Marries Woman, 69, of Historic Family. By United Press SCARSDALE, N. Y., Feb. 19.—Miss Julia Stimers, 69, of Staten island, whose father served aboard the ironclad gunboat Monitor in its memorable battle with the Merrimac during the Civil war, and Walter Durbrow, 76, president of the New York importing firm of Atkins <se Durbrow, were married Wednesday at the home of Miss Stimers* sister. They had known each other for forty years. WALES NOW IOOLIVIA Heir to Throne and Brother Crocs World’s Highest Lake. By United Press PUNO, Peru, Feb. 19,-The prince of Wales and Prince George traveled by steamer across the highest lake in the world today when the steamer Inca, built in their native land, carried them from Puno to Guaqui, in Bolivia, on the opposite side of Lake SEiticac*

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