Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1931 — Page 1

LOVE LETTERS INTRODUCED IN HENLEY TRIAL ‘Trickery’ Charge Hurled by Woman, Asked to Identify Missives. GENERAL TO TESTIFY Handwriting Expert to Pass on Penmanship on License. BV BEN STERN, Times Slaff Corresoondfnt GREENFIELD, Tnd., March 20. love letters of Mrs. Ethel Williams Henley to Adjutant-General Manford G. Henley were brought forward by defense attorneys today to batter the allegations that Mrs. Henley is married to the adjutantgeneral. Mrs. Henley took the stand and added to the general courtroom contusion when she refused to identify some of the letters and envelopes and yelled charges of “trickery" from the stand at defense attorneys. Henley still has to take the stand in his own defense to the suit seeking support money and attorneys lees, filed by Mrs. Henley preliminary to her divorce action. Judge Arthur C. Van Duyn must sift the charges, and countercharges of fraud, blackmail and love piracy that have been hurled from the stand to determine whether Henley married Mrs. Henley in Toledo, Sept. 12, 1929, as she alleges. Trickery, Woman Charges When Mrs. Henley was asked to Identify a packet of letters and envelopes, .she refused, “I know you lawyers are trying to trick me," she shouted. “I won’t recognize my handwriting until T know what is back of all this. In fact, I won't identify any of them." She said she would have to examine ‘these envelopes thoroughly, they are so changed about.” “Why are you trying to deny you wrote these letters?” defense attorney asked. “I’m not trying to, but you've put so many tricks over on me I’m just being prepared for you." Writing Expert Called Mrs. Henley’s dilatory tactics on the stand irked her attorneys who demanded: “If that is your handwriting tell the court, and if it’s not, tell that.” High, point of the trial today was expected this afternoon when plaintiff’s counsel said they would bring a handwriting expert from Indianapolis to examine the marriage licenses and other admitted specimen’s of Henley's writing. He will take the stand to tell whether the license, in his opinion, was signed by Henley. Henley has charged that Mrs. Henley obtained another man to pose as him for the ceremony and preliminaries. Henley said he was in Camp Perry. Ohio, a few miles from Toledo, with a rifle team of the Indiana national guard, when the marriage was being performed. Letter Is Read A letter, the envelope of which was dated Aug. 1, 1930. was introduced. It was addressed to Henley at Camp Knox. In the. letter, signed “Ethel," the writer said she “had gone as far as 1 can without some word from you.” “I think and think-about you and try so hard not to do this, for your sake, but I don't seem able to change," the letter read. “Please forget what I said the last time I saw you. You know I never would hate you. It does not make the least difference what comes up I have the same great love for you. Guard Officer Is Witness "You seem to inspire people to love you. I have heard that the ’boys’ just worship you. I stopped going with a wild crowd. Things I like stop the ache in my heart for a while or a few hours, but I did not like to think that it do in the long run. Then there is someone I must think of. “I wish I could write all the things I feel. I wonder if it would do any good and make you like me just a bit. At least we are not today as we were last fall. Grant, dear, I just love you. Ethel." Lieutenant Roy L. Proffitt, New Salem, Ind.. member of the national guard rifle team, testified that he had been on the rifle range at Camp Perry with Henley about an hour before the marriage was supposed to have taken place. Mrs. Guinan Testifies Mrs. Norman Beck Guinan, head of the Florence Crittendon home at Indianapolis, said Mrs. Henley talked with her about adopting a four-months-old boy because “he looked so much like Grant." Mrs. Guinan testified that Mrs. Henley said she was important in social affairs, being “the next lady in line to Mrs. Harry G. Leslie in the social affairs of the state." Additional testimony that Henley was at Camp Perry Sept. 11 and 12, 1929, was given by Milo G. Snyder. Cromwell. Ind., salesman. ACADIANS PLAN TRIP Delegation From Land of Evangeline to Visit Louisiana. By United Pres* TRURO, March 20.—A delegation of Acadians from the land of Evangeline, heroine of Longfellow's poem, will begin on April 12, a pilgrimage to Louisiana, to repay a visit Acadians from that state made to the Maritime provinces last summer. They will be headed by A. T. Leblanc, chief Justice of the supreme court of New Brunswick, and Monsignor Henri Trudel of Lamcque, flew Brunswick.

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Stuff Test By United Press DETROIT. March 20.—Douglas Dow, newly appointed city purchaser, has passed the acid test of offfice. emerging with wan face but flying colors. Dow, appointed seven weeks ago, learned after he accepted the office, that the city purchaser must sample all foods bought for city parks. So he called the bidding food dealers together and bade them offer their wares for his sampling. He proceeded to sample nearly forty brands of pop. dozens of slices of bread, scores of Vienna rolls, and enough “hot dogs” to have wrecked the digestion of Huckleberry Finn. Dow came up smiling. He gave his verdict to the assembled dealers, suppressed a mild desire to bark, arid went home to dinner. “This job,” he said, “is just a matter of taste."

AIRSHIP WRECK PLOT SUSPECT ‘FELL FOR’ TRAP Defects on Akron Left Purposely for Him as Detectives Watched. By United Press ' AKRON, 0., March 20.—Paul F. Kassey, 37, charged with a plot so destroy the world's largest dirigible, the Akron, pleaded not guilty today to charges of violating the Ohio criminal syndicalism laws. “By spoken word and by word of mouth" Kassey. a rivet inspector for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, was charged with communicating to fellow employes a plot to destroy the Akron, now in process of construction for the United States navy, as the greatest lighter-than-air craft ever designed. He had worked at the Goodyear plant since last June, and for the last month as the unwitting fellow worker of two secret service men, who watched him approve faulty construction work, which purposely had been left there for his inspection. Planned for Crash Gradually working into his confidence, the agents said the inspector told them of his plan to leave out rivets at vital points in the ships framework and a more serious plan of gaining access to the control room of the craft when it was ready for launching—scheduled for July. At that time, the agents declared the checker planned to maim the mechanism so that the ship would crash upon its first trial flight. ‘Willing to Give Life’ In substantiating the agents story, another fellow worker quoted a statement from Kassey that he was “willing to give his life” to cause the destruction of the Akron. After the warrant had been interpreted to him, Kassey revealed what probably will be his defense. He replied that he was trying to trap radicals and was trying to get information out of the two federal undercover men who had been “planted at my side to get information out of me.” “I w r as to check on the radicals,” he said. “I was trying to do something to help and now everything has been turned against me. It is a frameup.” Held on $25,000 Bond The plea of not guilty was entered before Police Judge Frank Harvpy after officials quoted him with a confession and a boast that he was “more valuable to the Communist party than 100 ordinary Communists." Bond was fixed at $25,000 which he was unable to provide. He was returned to jail to await preliminary hearing Saturday. The inference of a political plot shied officials somewhat from their preliminary belief that, the asserted machinations were self-contrived. They planned to question Kassey’s wife and an unnamed woman companion in an effort to learn if there were other possible accomplices or existence of Communistic intrigue. At the same time, anew investigation was launched in Cleveland where sabotage reportedly had been attempted against a group of naval planes which were constructed in the plant of the Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation where Kassey formerly was employed. 11. S. GOLD LEADER Bullion Store Is Largest Ever Accumulated. By United Press NEW YORK, March 20.—The United States now has concentrated within its borders the largest store of gold ever accumulated by any country, the federal reserve has revealed. The total monetary gold holdings of this country now total $4,685,000.000. This is more than twice as much as that held by France, which ranks second, nearly seven times as much as that of Great Britain, and exceeds by $1,000,000 the previous high record of the United States, which was set in 1927. BODY IS RECOVERED Negro Drowned When Truck Slipped Into Fall Creek. After dragging Fall creek, near Indiana avenue, since Wednesday afternoon, police today recovered the body of Frank Stafford. Negro. 715 North California street, who was drowned when his truck slipped into the acck.

LEGISLATORS SEE CONVICTS ! STAGE RIOTS Disorders Are Renewed at Stateville, 111., as Probe Is Begun. INQUIRY BROKEN UP Quiz Board Speeds From Old Joliet Prison to Help Quiet Men. By United Press JOLIET, 111., March 20.—Two riots occurred in quick succession today among 729 convicts in cell block F of the Stateville penitentiary. National guardsmen, who had wheeled a machine gun into the I yard and quickly quieted the first disturbance, were ordered into the section. They had gone to the prison on reports of rioting to find the prisoners brandishing clubs, cursing and shouting. One shot from the machine gun caused the prisoners to run back to their cells and they were locked in. There they started the second demonstration. National guardsmen armed with machine guns were ordered into the riot sector to restore order. Members of the state legislature, sent to the penitentiary to investigate three mutunies earlier in the week, watched from the prison walls. Order Is Restored Warden Henry C. Hill, who broke off his testimony before the investigating committee’s meeting in Joliet, took command. After comparative order had been restored, a Negro convict was placed in solitary confinement as the leader of the rioters. Representative Michael Igoc of Chicago and other legislators, went Into the cell black and tried to calm the men. Warden Hill said he had been warned of impending trouble in cell block F, but did not expect the uprising until tonight. The word that “hell has broke loose at Stateville” came after the five state legislators had completed a tour of the old Joliet penitentiary and were questioning Warden Hill regarding prison unrest. Highway police and national guardsmen were driven hastily across the four miles of highway between the old and new institutions. They were accompanied by the warden and the legislators. Convicts Into Solitary The first rio occurred shortly after noon, while the legislative committee still was in session at the Joliet penitentiary. The men, locked in their cells since the third revolt earlier in the week, started yelling and throwing everything they could lay their hands on. A tower guard fired on shot from his rifle as other guards dropped their steel clubs and ran for weapons. The shot checked the convicts for a moment, but the din was renewed. A squad of national guardsmen then marched into the cell block with a machine gun. The appearance of the uniformed troops ended the bedlam. All was quiet when Warden Hill arrived by automobile. Three convicts were removed to solitary confinement as the instigators o fthe first trouble. Then Yelling Is Fenewed Hill said they we r e ihe men whose sudden defiance was the signal for their fellows to join. Before further steps could be taken, the yelling started anew when a Negro convict kicked out the glass of his cell. Mattresses, tin cans, clothing and newspapers were hurled in all directions. Additional national guardsmen, also armed with machine guns, followed a squad of state highway police into the block. The men could not be checked, however, and Representative Igoe ventured inside with Hill. “Let Them Yell,” Is Edict Other parts of the Statesville priion were quiet although the convicts could hear the yells in cell block “F.” The Negro prisoner who had smashed the cel window' was placed in solitary confinement with the other three trouble leaders. Inside the cell block, most of the disorder came from the fourth tier, high above the heads of the troops and guards. Frank Kness, deputy warden in charge of the Statesville prison, conferred on the floor below with Hill and Igoe. “Let them yell themselves out of breath,” someone suggested. This apparently was what the prison officials intended to do. ‘SPAT iS NEWS TO JACK Dempsey Doesn't Know of Any 'trouble With Estelle. By United Press NORTH PLATTE, Neb., March 20. Jack. Dempsey, who passed through here on his way to Chicago, said he hadn't heard about the “spat” he was supposed to have had with his wife, Estelle Taylor, in Hollywood. He added that there ! was nothing to the divorce rumor. Quake Shakes Luzon Island MANILA, P. 1., March 20.—The province of Ilocos Norte on northern Luzon island was shaken Thursday by an earthquake, according to word received here today. Two teachers and several girls were Injured by falling debris i at the ancient convent of Baccarra.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931

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The cream of Indiana's scholastic high school basketball teams literally leaped into action at Butler fieldhouse, and in these pictures two of the best jumpers of the lot are shown.

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MAYOR SILENT ON SAPGHARGE Doesn’t Defend Detroit on Jobless Aid Policy, By United Press DETROIT, March 20.—There was no comment today from Mayor Prank Murray on the statement of Marvey Campbell, vice-president of the Detroit board of commerce, who asserted Detroit was known as the sap city of America, because of its expenditures for- the unemployed. Speaking before the committee on city fmanres, Campbell asserted other cities were sending their unemployed here, because they know “we are soft.” Detroit has spent more on its jobless than any other city in the country, he said. SCALPER ARRESTED Detectives Nab Youth at Basketball Tourney. Charged with ticket scalping, Morris Cohen, 18, of 637 Union street, was arrested by detectives at the Butler fieldhouse today when he is alleged to have attempted to sell tickets to the state basketball tourney. Detectives said Cohen's high-priced tickets had been offered several persons who reported him to them. Indianapolis police today sought Jack Horowitz following the arrest of Fred (Mickey) Cosgrove of Indianapolis, at Muncie, where it is alleged Cosgrove was selling counterfeit tickets to the state basketball tournament. Cosgrove, police said, named Horowitz as the promoter of the sales and said he had aided in disposal of the “tickets” at Muncie. Cosgrove maintained to police that he believed the "tickets” were genuine. The counterfeits sold for $5 each, police said. ii hold up Tank Crowds, Customers Faced by Machine Guns. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, March 20. *- Eleven men, armed with ;sub-ma-chine guns and sawed-off shotguns, held up the Seventieth Street and Elnuggod Avenue branch of the City National bank shortly before noon today. Working with military precision, six of the bandits covered the three tellers, four clerks, six customers and special officer and a patrolman and then forced them into the vault. Hastily they scooped up $35,000 and dashed out through the crowds which had congregated as news of the holdup spread. Leaping into four cars, all carrying New Jersey licenses, the men sped from the scene. KING SMOKES 150 DAY Zog of Albania Ordered to Cut Cigaret Consumption. By United Press TIRANA, Albania, March 20. King Zog of Albania, returned to the capital of his tiny kingdom today after a visit to Vienna, where he underwent treatment for a throat ailment. Viennese specialists ordered him to cut down his daily consumption of cigarets, said to be at least 150 a day.

Left. Big Dave De Jemett, center on Washington’s championship five, took the tip-off in the ShortridgeWashington game, and right, Jack Mann. Muncie center, reached for the ball in the Muncie-Mendall-ville contest this morning.

Father Killed by Train as He Drives Home Car of Attending Physician. By Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind., March 20. Tragedy flew on the wings of a stork Friday night and after permitting the stork's bundle to have a father for one hour, deprived the new arrival and six other children of their “daddy.” Orphaning of the seven children occurred when Clarence Brooks, 35, laborer, was killed by a Pennsylvania passenger train while driving the motor car of the doctor that aided the stork in his visit to the Brooks home. Dr. J. L. Allen was called early in the evening to the Brooks’ home to attend Mrs. Brooks. Dr. Allen’s son drove him to the home and then returned with the car to the physician’s residence. Sent Him After Car The baby was born at 9:50 p, m. The doctor, after attending the mother, sent Brooks to his home to get the automobile. Returning to his home, Brooks drove out of the alley on to the Pennsylvania tracks. He did not see the engine of Pennsylvania passenger train No. 244 until it was upon the cqr. Witnesses said he had time to jump, but attempted to save the borrowed machine. Engine Is Derailed The train’s engine was derailed by the crash. A delay of three hours ensued before the engine was placed on the track by a wrecking crew. The train crew was uninjured in the derailment. The fatal'accident occurred at 10:48 p. m. The mother, informed of the death of the newborn babe’s father, suffered a relapse. The Brooks family are in poor circumstances. Dr. Allen was ill today at his home. He has been suffering from a flu attack for several days. His car was demolished in the wreck.

Line-Up for H.S. Cage Classic FRIDAY SATURDAY KENDALLVTLLE (16). \ 9 a. m. : MUNCIE \ MUNCIE (37) ) i 8:30 a. m. . WASHINGTON (23)...\ \ J SHORTRIDGE (22)....) f 2:30 p.m. " BROWNSTOWN (19)..\ ( 11a.m. 'LOGANSPORT V x LOGANSPORT (23)...) ! J 9:30 a, m. / BLUFFTON ...\ \ 2 p. m. [ FRANKFORT . ) 8 p. m. f f EVANSVILLE \ # *3 p. m. / \ GREENCASTLE ) / X 10:30 a. m. \ MARION \ 4p. m. , / ELKHART ) ’ f 3:30 p. m. V j RUSHVILLE \ . i 7:30 p. m. / \ 1 HORACE MANN ) ' J 1130 a.m. / GREEXSBURG \ \ 8:30 p. m. f 1 WILEY )

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BALGHEN OFF ON AIR RESCUE Flies North to Search for I Viking Survivors, y By United Press NAUGATUCK, Conn., March 20. —William Wood, local radio amateur, today reported receiving a radio message from Father J. Kerwin, Harbor Breton, Newfoundland, saying all three Americans in the sealer Viking disaster were safe. BY JOHN T. MEANEY United Press Staff Corrcsoondent iCoovrlsht. 1931. by United Press) BOSTON, March 20.—Bernt Balchen, youthful hero of many a perilous air adventure, started for the far north today to conduct an aerial search for twenty-eight missing members of the sealer Viking expedition. A giant silver-winged Siworrky amphibian, with Balchen at the controls and two other able birdmen aboard, took off from Boston airport this morning on a projected flight to Horse island, Newfoundland. Sitting beside Balchen as the plane took off was Randy Enslow, Roosevelt field flier and close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. In the roomy cabin was Meriam C. Cooper, directing the expedition in behalf of Dr. Lewis Frissell of New York, father of Varick Frissell, one of those missing from the Viking disaster. ■ ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, March 20.—The last group of nine wounded survivors reached his ship by disaster awaited the arrival of a rescue party today to remove them from Horse island. The men will be loaded into dories for the difficult trip over five miles of rough ice to the rescue ship Sagona, where 110 other survivors in less serious condition were given quarters Thursday night with eight comrades who already had twen taken from the ice floes. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 32 10 a. m 39 7 i. m 33 11 a. m 42 Ba. m 34 12 (noon).. 43 9 a. m 35 1 p. m...., 44

THRILLING RALLY FEATURES FINALS BASKET TOURNEY AS HATCHETS BEAT SHORTRIDGE De Jernett’s Two Field Goals in Last Thirty Seconds of Play Send Indianapolis Five Down to Defeat, 23-22. MUNCIE AND LOGANSPORT WIN Thousands Hurry Back to Giant Butler Field House for Afternoon Round of High School Court Clashes. Details of Fi-st Two Games on rage 2*. BY DICK MILLER Muncie, Washington and Logansport advanced into the quarter-finals of the tournament with morning victories and at 2 this afternoon Frankfort was to meet Bluff ton. At 3, Evansville and Greencastle were to clash, and at 4, Marion will meet Elkhart. The first round will close tonight with two games, Rushville facing Horace Mann of Gary at 7:30, and Greensbu.rg meeting Wiley of Terre Haute at 8:30. ,

Muncie had little trouble sweeping into the second round of play, thumping Kendallville, 37 to 16. After a hard-fought first quarter, the Bearcats got the range and scurried into a 13-7 edge as the half ended. The third quarter found “Big Jack” Mann, Muncie’s giant Negro center, hitting the hoop with regularity and the Bearcats held a 22-9 lead at the conclusion of the third period. The Muncie crew continued its drive through the fourth quarter and Bearcat subs were on the floor as the game ended. Collects Seven Goals Mann had collected seven field goals in the conflict and Chuck Icerman, star floor guard, had made five on his part. Washington, however, ran into a stone wall defense that Shortridge flung up in the iccond game and the champion Hatchets were forced to stage the most thriling rally in the tournament history to eke out their victory. After leading, 7-4, at the first quarter mark, Shortridge evered things up and only a field goal hy De Jernet in the last seconds gave the Washington team a 13-11 lead at the half. The Indianapolis team fought the 1930 basket kings to a virtual standstill in the third quarter and the period ended with the rivals even at 17-all. De Jernett Makes History Shortridge rushed into the lead in the last quarter, and in the last minute held a one-point edge. Heckman found himself open and made it a three-point margin. On the next tip-off, De Jernet batted the ball back, rushed to the foul line and received the pass. He feinted and dribbled under for a field foal. The players went back for the next tip-off and “Big Dave” again tapped the leather back into Heavenridge’s hands. The giant Negro star dashed under the basket, turnnig to receive a marvelous bulletlike pass from Heavenridge. Leaping into the air “Big Dave” flipped the ball through the meshes for the winning field goal. Only two seconds remained as the ball passed through the nets and the gun went off before the players could even move from their places. Easily Star of Fray Veterans of tournaments and old coaches could remember no such thrilling episode in tourney history. It easily eclipsed the magnificent Muncie rally of several years ago when Secrist’s field goal in the last thirty seconds won the champion-

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ship for the Bearcats over Martinsville. De Jeruett easily was the star of the gamp, collecting nve field goals. Heckman was Shortridge s star with three goals to his credit. Logansport rushed into an early lead over Brownstown, but the little downstate five came back with a rush to even the score in the second half, and from that point the Berries were forced to fight desperately for control of the ball. Brownstown connected for several thrilling long shots and the Logans’ last-minute spurt sent the “dark horse” team down to defeat. All Seats Are Filled The giant arena was not quite filled when Muncie and Kendalville started play, but by the time Shortridge trotted on the floor for pre-game practice every seat seemed filled and only the aisles remained vacant. The battle between the Indianapolis team and the defending champions had every fan in the fieldhouse in a frenzy of excitement and deafening roars rolled to the rafters as each point was registered. AH three of the morning victors were.pre-tourney favorites and the dope will be about even when Muncie and Washington open thenstruggle at 8:30 Saturday morning in the first quarter-final tilt. Radio Pleases Thousands At 9:30 Saturday Logansport will swing into action against the victor of the Frankfort-Bluff ton tilt this afternoon. Tw-o other quarter-final games will be staged and the four survivors then tangle in two semi-final matches on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 and 3:30. The finalists meet for the crown at 8 Saturday night. Thousands of fans over the state poured telephone and telegraph congratulations to The Times and WFBM throughout the day for the broadcast of the tournament. With Blythe and Tommy Hendricks at the microphone, assisted by a galaxy of noted coaches and experts, fans were being given the very best in news from the state tourney floor. Crowd Is Colorful High school boys in yellow corduroys and jubilant throngs of carefree girls joined the crowd of fans that pushed their way past doormen, ticket-takers into the giant arena. Hundreds of the arrival* carried traveling bags, while others bore pillows with which to make their seats more comfortable. Inside, the morning sun flooded through the east windows of the fieldhouse above the surging mass of 15,000. It w-as a great day and a great crowd. Shortrige rooters at the east end directly faced their opponents, Washington, who sat at the south of the playing floor. Along the sidelines were the Marjon, Frankfort, Evansville, Greencastle teams—all smiles and all confident of winning at least a part of the fame that goes with every state tournament. Police Patrol Arena Police and firemen patrolled the passageways inside and outside the field house keenly watching for ticket scalpers and directing the crowd. Among coaches wtchirg the games from the sidelines was Maurice Kennedy of Wiley. He was alone, for, as he explained, the Wiley team was at home in Herre Haute at their books today—a quieter, more restful place than the fieldhouse for the team which plays its first game against Greensburg at 8:30 tonight. Scores of telegrams were received by the Muncie team after it defeated Kendallville. One fan who wrote Put them on the spot, Bearcats ” signed himself A1 Capone. $8,500 IS SPENT ON~ GOVERNOR’S OFFICE Leslie to Return tFrom Vacation to Renovated Quarters. When Governor Harry G. Leslie returns from his post-legislative vacationing he will find his office refurnished to the extent of about $8,500 from his emergency contingent fund. Frank Caylor, superintendent of buildings and grounds, has taken the occasion of the Governor’s absence to install new light fixtures, desks, chairs, furniture and an enormous blue rug with the state flag in the center. i I