Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1931 — Page 2

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SLA Y PRODIGY WHOSE TALENT FREED HIM FROM PRISON

BODY IS FOUND RIDDLED WITH SHOTGUN SLUGS Ex-Columbia U. Student Is Shot Down in N. Y. Water Front Case. FOUR BELIEVED KILLERS Roy Sloane Mastered Law Behind Bars to Win Freedom. By Vnitrd Brett* NEW YORK, May 12. —Roy Sloane, 26, boy prodigy and former Columbia university student, who attracted nation-wide attention when he won his freedom from Sing Sing prison through use of his knowledge of the law, gained while behind the bars, was shot to death today in a waterfront case. His body was riddled with slugs from shotguns, operated, police said, by four men. Sloane, ■who was out on bail awaiting trial on a charge of participating in a gem robbery barely two months after he gained his release from Sing Sing, was the son of Mrs. Anna Bogenholm Sloane, N. A., M. A., Ph. D., founder of the National Arts and Crafts Institute at Washington, D. C., a former investigator for the department of labor and an author of several books. She had stuck by her son throughout all his difficulties. Police said the shooting occurred in the Mad Dot Boat Club, a Dykeman street case, shortly after midnight. Sloane's body was not identified until several hours later. His death recalled an assertion he made shortly after his release from prison. “When a man has seen the ivorst—and I have—,” he said, “life doesn't hold any terror for him.” Sentenced to Sing Sing Sloane was convicted six years ago on a charge of stealing an automobile in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. When it was discovered he had served a sentence in Pennsylvania for two similar offenses he was sent to Sing Sing for ten years. Hardly had the gates of the prison shut behind him than this paradox of prodigy and profligate began to study two exits from Sing Sing. One was through the law. The other over the walls. His study of the latter was interrupted by a vigilant keeper. The keeper, who had received ■word of an escape plot, searched Sloane’s cell and found a strangely filed tool, a guard’s cap and the blue coat of a prison band uniform. Conducts Own Defense The state contended the tool was a set of “brass knuckles,” possession of which, in Sloane’s circumstances, constituted a misdemeanor. Sloane maintained it was a key with which he intended to escape. Although the youth had been assigned an attorney by the court, he insisted on conducting his own defense. Still clad in prison denim, Sloane arose in court and announced he was ready to prove the ambiguous tool was a key—if the prison guards would produce a screw driver he had hidden in his cell. The guards, who had thought they previously had removed everything from the cell, searched the cubicle again and found not only the promised screw driver, but two chisels as well. Years Added to Sentence Blandly, he showed how the tool could be used as a key. Then he rested his case. For six hours the jurors deliberated. Then they brought in the verdict that while the instrument was a key, it could have been used in the manner of brass knuckles. So even more years in prison were added to his previous sentence. But on his return to Sing Sing, prison authorities would t ' e no chances with the slippery genius. They put him in solitary confinement. In solitary, the youth avidly resumed his study of the law. Five times subsequently he sought to obtain an appeal of his second conviction. Planned Wholesale Break Then one day, prison authorities said they discovered that Sloane and two desperate long term prisoners had planned a wholesale break in which his mechanical talent was to be used in crippling the prison power plant. Sloane and his confederates were placed in the death house for safe keeping, a precaution taken only a few times in the history of the prison. Despite his complete *eparation from prison society, Sloane continued his bid for freedom by legal means. Finally, the youth won anew trial on the automobile theft charge. He conducted his own case—and did it with the shrewdness of a first-rate criminal lawyer. He produced two fellow' prisoners, both long termers, as his main witnesses. They testified they had ctolen the car in question and that Sloane had been “framed.” The jury acquitted him. But the brass knuckles sentence still was against him and he w T as sent up to Dannemora. At Dannemora. Sloane finally discovered a legal loophole which won him his freedom.

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Some Lucky City Boy to Get Trip East as Marble Champ

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Here’s a scene that will be repeated before long on one of the city's playgrounds. It’s the final match in the 1930 city-wide marbles championship, won by Jimmy White. His prowess earned Jimmy a trip to Ocean City, N. J., and a chance at the national marbles title. He didn’t win it, but he had a great time.

GIRLS' MURDER SUSPECT HELD Suitor Linked to Crime in San Diego. By Unite es, Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 12.—Moss Edward Garrison, 37-year-old suitor of Hazel Bradshaw, 22, who was stabbed to death a week ago, was ordered arraigned today on a charge of murdering the girl. Thomas Whelan, district attorney, formally charged Garrison with the crime late Monday, after a coroner’s jury found the girl had been stabbed to death by a person or persons unknown, but with evidence pointing toward Garrison. Meanwhile, authorities sought evidence against Richard Ward, 56, ex-convict, who has been held in jail as a suspect in the kidnaping and murder of Virginia Brooks, 10-year-old schoolgirl. A search of Ward’s shack near Lake Hodges had revealed a tattered bit of blotting paper on which the name “Virginia” was scrawled in a childish hand, officers said. Another possible killing had been feared by police when Louise Kestler, 17, was reported missing. She returned home Monday and after relating a story of how she had been kidnaped and attacked, finally confessed, officers said, that she had spent the week-end with a sailor. PLEAD FOR MOONEY Prominent Authors Join in Clemency Petition. By United Press NEW YORK, May 12.—Thirtythree prominent American authors today signed a telegram to Governor James Rolph Jr. of California, urging that he give prompt consideration to the new pardon application of Tom Mooney, now serving a life term in San Quentin prison. The group of authors, headed by Sinclair Lewis, includes Sherwood Anderson, Mary Austin, Harry Elmer Barnes, Stephen Vincent Benet, Konrad Berkivici, Heywood Broun, Elmer Davis, John Erskine, Edna Ferber, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst, H. L. Mencken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, William Allen White and Will Irwin. RAID WARRANT ERROR WINS MAN FREEDOM Judge Sheaffer Dismisses Charges When Papers Prove Faulty. Error of police officers in making out an affidavit for a liquor raid today resulted in Martin Bresiger, 2937 West Tenth street, being dismissed on blind tiger charges by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. Police had a search warrant for a residence at the address, but found the liquor in a storeroom beneath Bresiger’s residence. Sheaffer ruled Bresiger could not be held due to the faulty search warrant. Mrs. Josephine Kromsck, 2914 West St. Clair street, received a suspended fine of SIOO and costs on a blind tiger charge. Police said they confiscated 125 gallons of wine and beer at her residence. GIRL PRISONERS RIOT Break Dishes, Shatter Windows Before Subdued by Police. By United Press BIRMINGHAM. Ala., May 12. ; Rioting inmates of the Alabama training school for girls broke dishes, hurled bed clothing from windows and stripped girls who refused to join them today, before they were subdued by police. All windows in the building were 'shattered during the outbreak.

Some lucky Indianapolis lad, be- > tween 6 and 15 years of age, will | board a train for Ocean City, N. J., next month, with all expenses paid and a chaperon to see that he; doesn’t take too many chances, doesn’t eat too much, and doesn’t i do some of the other things that i are dangerous for little boys. That boy will be the winner of The Indianapolis Times city-wide marble tournament, preliminaries for which will start at four playgrounds Saturday. Centers, in every section of the city, are Willard park, Ellenberger park, Brookside park, Spades park, Fall Creek playgrounds, Sixty-first street playground, Riverside park, Municipal Gardens, Hawthorne school playground, Rhodius park, Riley playground and Garfield park. Rings for the marble games will be drawn in the vacant spaces between the baseline and wire screen of tennis courts on each playground or park. Play Starts Saturday On May 16 tournaments will be held at Spades park, Rhodius park, Willard park, and Garfield park. On May 23 play will be at Municipal Gardens, Ellenberger park, Riley playground, and Sixty-first street playground. On June 6 tournaments will be held at Brookside park, Riverside park, Hawthorne school playground, and Fall Creek playground. Winners ar.d runners-up at each playground will compete in the finals at Willard park, Monday, June 15. At each playgrounds entrants will be divided into groups for first round games. Winners of first round games will meet in second round games, and so on until the field is narrowed to a winner and runner-up at each center. Boundaries Are Given Willard District—Bounded on the south bv Prospect and Virginia avenue, west by Meridian, east bv Sherman Drive, north bv Michigan street. Ellenberger Park District—Bounded on the north by Tenth street, west bv Sherman Drive, east by city limits, south by city limits. Brookside District—Bounded on the north bv Thirty-eighth street, west by Rural street, south bv Michigan from Rural street to Sherman Drive and Tenth street from Sherman Drive, to city limits, east by city limits. Fall Creek District —Bounded on the west bv Meridian street, east by Rural street, south bv Nineteenth street, north by Thirty-eighth street. Sixty-First District—Bounded on the south by Thirty-eighth street, west, north and east by city limits. Riverside Park District—Bounded on the east by Meridian, north by Thirty-eighth street, south Fall Creek and Burdsal boulevard. west bv citv limits. Municipal Gardens District—Bounded on the east bv Meridian street, south by Big Four Chicago Division Railroad and New York street, north by Burdsal boulevard extended, west by city limits. Hawthorne —Bounded on the east by White river, south bv the Pennsylvania Railroad. St. Louis Division, north Big Four Railroad, Chicago Division, and New York street, west by city limits. Rhodius Park District—Bounded on the north bv the Pennsylvania Railroad. St. Louis Division, eiest Harding street, and bv city limits on south and west. Riley District —Bounded on the east by Meridian street, west Harding street, north by New York street, south by Raymond street. Garfield Park District—Bounded on the north bv Prospect and Virginia, west by Meridian street, from the Circle to Raymond street, thence west on Raymond to Harding, south by city limits, east by Sherman drive. Spades Park District—Bounded on the west bv Meridian street, south bv Michigan street, north bv Nineteenth street, east bv Rura! street. BANK FAILURE ‘LUCK’ TO WOMAN ON TRIAL Convicted of Liquor Charge, She’s Given Time to Pay Fine. Bad luck followed Mrs. Lyda Mann into municipal court today, but before her case was ended. Lady Luck had made a bid to aid her. Police told Judge William H. Sheaffer that in a raid on Mrs. Mann's home recently they found a quantity of home brew. Mrs. Mann admitted she made it “for my use and I never sold or gave any away.” Sheaffer fined her SIOO and costs and suspended a thirty-day sentence at the Indiana woman’s prison. Then Sheaffer suspended the costs. As Mrs. Mann prepared to leave the court, her attorney told Sheaffer that Mrs. Mann’s only money was in the Meyer-Kiser bank that closed late Monday. Sheaffer placed her on probation, allowing her sixty days to pay the fine. YOUNG CITY MOTHER IS REPORTED MISSING Police Search Is Started on Plea of South Side Husband. Police search for Mrs. Lavern Mlkesell, 23, of 502 Missouri street, was started today after her husband, Carl Mikesell, reported she has not been seen since April 16. Mikesell told police that his wife was to have gone to the home of her parents at Bedford, Ky., but it has been learned she had not appeared there. Mrs. Mikesell is the mother of two children. She is described as being 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 145 pounds and has brown and hair, v S

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NOT A SMILE i EVEN ST 51,030 Renaud LeClaire Refuses Even a Grin. Renaud LeClaire just won’t smile —not even for SI,OOO, he says. Just to make good on that, he challenges anyone in the city to make him do anything so undignified. Renaud is the automaton who attracted hundreds of persons as he stood in front of the Lyric theater Monday afternoon. Ray Gilpin, electrical operator, refuses to divulge the secret of whether Renaud really is human. LeClaire will appear at 12:30 Wednesday at Kline’s, Market and Illinois streets; at the Leader store, Washington and Delaware, at 2 o’clock, and at the Capitol Clothes Shop, Washington, near Meridian, Thursday afternoon. It isn’t the depression. It isn’t that Renaud Le Claire just naturally is sour. It’s just that he won’t smile. Not even for SI,OOO, he repeats. TOW-IN SERVICE BIDS RECEIVED BY BOARD Impounding of Autos to Be Let on Contract Under New Code. Bids of seven concerns seeking the right to tow in and impound automobiles found violating the new traffic code to go in effect Friday, or in other police investigations, were received by the safety board today. Bid of the Indianapolis Auto Service, operating garages at 319 East New York street, 1011 North Pennsylvania street, and 424 North Illinois street, appeared low as bids were read off publicly, but board members refrained from announcing the award until all bids were tabulated. Their bid was $2.75 a car whether it be a tow-in or require crane service. Board members indicated the new ordinance would not be to the letter at the outset because signs warning drivers of the new law will not have been placed for several days. It was indicated police will give warning stickers until the signs arrive. BAKER URGES CITIZENS TO DO JURY SERVICE Plea of Criminal Judge Is Given Before Mercator Club. Plea for intelligent citizens to answer willingly the call of the courts to serve as jurors, especially in criminal cases, was made today by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker at the noon luncheon of the Mercator Club. “Success of law enforcement depends in a large measure upon the willingness of good men to serve on our juries,” Baker told the club. That a judge can not mete strict sentences unless juries do likewise was pointed out by Baker. Baker’s statements were supported today by information brought back from a convention of lawyers in Washington by Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, who attended the week’s convention. FATHER OF 4 ADMITS LOOTING SAFE OF s7l Confesses to Robbing His Employer’s Office, Police Say. Said to have confessed to robbing the safe of his employer of s7l, Richard Shirley, 31, of 1905 Draper street, father of four children, today was held by police on grand larceny charges. According to officers, Shirley admitted he entered the Ellsworth Heller Coal Company offices Saturday night and took the money from the open safe. He said he gave some of the money to his wife, paid a bootlegger’s bill and spent the rest for necessities, police stated.

Fort Falls By United Press NSW HAVEN, Conn., May 12.—Yale university, long regarded as a fortress of classicism, has abolished the classics —Latin and Greek—as a requirement for the bachelor of arts degree.

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MANIAC-SLAYER 15 CAPTURED IN 'ARSENAL' LAIR Fights Off 40 Officers in Gun Battle Before He Is Taken. By r nited Press M’CONNELSBURG. Pa., May 12. —Marshall Lodge, 31, an insane man who shot and killed Sergeant Timothy G. McCarthy, 42. of the Pennsylvania state police, and wounded Russell K Knies, 24, a state trooper, was captured in a barricaded house today. He was overcome by tear gas and shot in the arm before officers could reach him. The man was armed with pistols, rifles and shot guns and held off more than forty state policemeh, sheriffs and other officers before he was overcome. Threatened Neighbors According to author). es Lodge recently had been threatening the lives of neighbors and several times engaged in shooting escapades. Frank Lodge, father of the man, requested authorities to place his son in a state institution. Young Lodge had been in the habit of wandering into the woods during the night, so it was decided to apprehend him this morning. F. Glen Younker, sheriff, of McConnellsburg, a deputy and three state policemen were detailed to take Lodge into custody. The officers were fired upon by Ledge, and McCarthy fell, fatally wounded. Knies was seriously wounded. The maniac then leaped through, his bedroom window and escaped. State police were sent into th? mountains and sheriff and county officers joined in the pursuit. Barricaded in Old House Lodge barricaded himself in an old house and began sniping at the officers. Hundreds of shots were fired and then tear gas gombs were used. State policemen shot at the man every time he appeared near a window. The parents of Lodge huddled in the kitchen of the house, outside of the gun-fire range. Lodge roamed from the cellar to the attic, taking pot shots at the officers. As he moved about his father and mother changed their positions. Hundreds of shots were used before tear gas bombs were brought into play. These led to Lodge’s capture. TAYLORJOUNB OVER Alleged Blackmailer Held to Grand Jury. George Taylor, 56, of 619 Russell avenue, alleged to have written blackmail letters to several Indianapolis business men, today was bound over to the county grand jury under $5,000 on a blackmail charge. Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer turned the case over to the jury. Taylor was arrested May 3 while waiting for SIOO to be placed by one of his intended victims. He is alleged to have threatened the men with bombing their residences unless they met his demands. DELAY TRIAL OF TWO LOCAL PATROLMEN Prosecuting Witness Fails to Appear Against Men. Failure of the prosecuting witness to appear resulted in a continuance by the safety board today of the trial of Patrolmen Arthur Reeves and Veryl Davis, charged with neglect of duty. Davis and Reeves are charged with visiting a double house at 71416 North Pine street, one side of which is vacant, three hours before another police squad raided and found liquor. Clyde Milled and Tom Aegan since have been convicted on blind tiger charges as result of the raid, the board said. The prosecuting witness is a woman who reported police cars stopped behind her garage, blocking the doors while the officers went into the house and drank liquor. Her complaint resulted in the raid. CHAIN LEASES STORE Betty Gay Shop for Women to Be Established About June 1. A lease on a storeroom at 5 and 7 East Washington street has been acquired by the Alpo Distributing Company, operators of a nationwide chain of ready-to-wear shops. The company will establish a Betty Gay shop for women in the storexpom about June 1. The opening of the new shop is part of a program of expansion planned during the ensuing tw r elve months. J. O. Olenick of New York, vice-president of the -company, negotiated for the lease with Klein & Kuhn, Inc. Country Club Elects By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., May 12. Harry Lawson has been elected secretary of the Blue River Country Club, succeeding Gordon Woodworth, who resigned. C. V. Crockett is anew director.

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Rabies Declared Serious Menace to Hoosier Lives

Back of this mask is the badly bitten face of 4-year-old Susan Singleton, latest dog-bite victim to be treated by the state health department for prevention of rabies. Miss Hervey Hocker, employe at the laboratory where treatments are given, is holding the child. Rabies treatments have been greater in Marion county this year than ever before.

Childhood Threatened by Alleged Carelessness of ‘Dog Lovers.’ “Cult of the dog” is threatening Hoosier childhood much as the “cult of the deadly corba” threatens the dusky children of India. This was the charge today of Dr. William F. King, director of the state health department, as he pointed to thirty-five patients treated by his department today in an effort to stem the tide’of rabies which is rising alarmingly in Marion county. Dr. King scored those who “think more of their dog than they do of the life of a child.” “We consider the natives of India who worship the sacred cows and sacrifice children to the deadly cobra as barbarous and ridiculous,” Dr. King declared. “Yet the cult of the dog lovers right here in Indiana has made the dog somewhat of a similar sacred animal. Surely the rights of the dog should not be placed before the rights of mankind.” Hundreds Are at Large To illustrate his point, Dr. King declared hundreds of dogs are running at large throughout the city daily and little attention is paid to the order to keep them penned up. The dog pound is not given to executions of stray and vicious dogs to any great exent, he asserted. The consequence is, he asserts, that children with faces and limbs terribly torn are In-ought to the statehouse annex for anti-rabid treatments almost daily. Latest victim is little Susan Singleton, 4, who has been making daily visits for double-dose treatments since she was bitten in the face last Sunday. The dog belonged to a neighbor and is under observation in a local dog hospital. So far no rabies has developed in the dog, but the little girl will be frightened for life and nearly lost the sight of one eye. Dag Owners Not Responsible Last week a child was saved by the treatments after being badly chewed and dragged into an alley by a dog which developed positive rabid infection, Dr. King said. Under the Indiana law, dog owners can not be held responsible for any damage done by their dogs, regardless of how vicious they may be or whether they have rabid infection or not, he pointed out. Under the quarantine, supposed to be in force here now, no unleashed dog may be permitted to roam at large. The Singleton girl, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Arthur Singletop, 2403 Coyner avenue, was bitten while climbing the steps at the home of the dog’s owner. FEDERATION WILL BE GUESTS AT DINNER Annual Meet, Forum, to Be Held at St. John’s Evangelical Church. * St. John’s Evangelical church will be host at the annual dinner and meeting of the Church Federation of Indianapolis tonight at 6:15 in the church parlors, Leonard and Sanders streets. Annual election and business session will be followed by an open forum discussion of co-operative church work and its opportunities. Dr. W. A. Shullenberger of the Central Christian church will preside. The federation recently closed its nineteenth year.

Gone, But Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: - Ray Hord, 1001 Albany street. Chevrolet coach. 16-275. from 1861 Shelby street. Davis Milner. R. R. 8, box 114 M. Essex roach. 56-397, from Shelby and Prospect streets. John Moore. 830(4 North California street. Buick touring. 75-879. from 825 West Pratt street.

Even as You — NEW YORK, May 12.—Alexandre Gastaud, the best cook in America (by Park avenue standards), made the remark today that he likes ham and eggs, with the eggs turned over. Alexandre has been engaged as chef, which means overlord, of the new WaldorfAstoria hotel, where he will boss 150 cooks.

RAPS TRADE CHIEFS Borah Scoffs at C. of C. on Business Depression. By United Press WASHINGTON, May l ' pressing dissatisfaction wit achievements of both the V States Chamber of Commerce t.-d the international chamber at their recent meetings. Senator William Borah (Rep., Ida.) Monday night urged a meeting of business men “unfettered’ ’by connection with any such organization. Such a meeting, presumably, would include such men as Senator James Couzens CRep., Mich.), whose suggestions for combating the business depression to the United States chamber prior to its Atlantic City convention, met with a cool reception. Borah said results of the Atlantic City meeting largely were negative. He attributed this to inability to agree and to fear of antagonizing the present United States administration. FULL WEIGHT DEMANDED City Official Says Stores Must Give Full Potato Value. After a conference with Grover C. Parr, city weights and measures inspector, heads of chain and independent groceries have agreed to weigh potatoes before selling them to retail customers, Parr told the safety board today. He said he had found that fifteenpound sacks were sold under this weight after shrinkage had reduced the weight of the contents more than a pound. Potatoes will be added to sacks that are under weight after shipment, Parr said.

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BRITISH AIM TD MOTORIZE NAVY STARTLES U. S. Aligning of Powers Seen on Stand to Reduce Battleship Sizes. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scriocs-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, May 12—Reports that Great Britain now deflnitely is planning to motorize her navy, from destroyers to battleships, thus doubling its radius of action, have stirred if not startled high naval circles here. Already the Navy league has expressed the conviction that Britain. France. Japan and Italy will line up against the United States at the next arms conference, and demand a reduction in the size of battleships. London reports prove true, therefore, America’s lone stand against smaller capital ships will be extremely difficult to sustain except arbitrarily. The logic will all be on the other side. Argue Need of Wider Radius The chief argument put. forward by spokesmen for the United States oJ£ V ? r 0f retainin S the present 38,000-ton maximum is that, lacking strategically placed naval bases it becomes a vital matter for us to build vessels capable of a wide radius of action. Now, according to figures published in London, the British have developed plans for battleships of between 20.000 and 25.000 tons equipped with Diesel-type engines of 45,000-horse power and capable of driving the craft at twenty-five knots an hour—or. at cruising speed, 20,000 miles without refueling. Guns, Armor Problem Such a battleship could make the trip from the Pacific coast to the Philippines and return, and still have fuel left for another 6,000 miles. Or it could do the round trip from Honolulu to Manila twice without taking on oil, and still have a lot of distance left, in her. If the British designs live up to expectations, the American argument for 35,000 tonners would seem m fall of its own weight.

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