Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1931 — Page 9

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Crackin’! And It’s Crackin’ That Is Crackin’ When ‘Cornbread’ Clicks ’Em.

BV H. ALLEN SMITH fnitrd PreM Staff Correapondmt NEW YORK, May 13.—Cornbread Stokes, late of the Kentucky hills, sat In a Fourth avenue office building today, stared down at the jangle of traffic in the street, and shed a bitter tear for the ‘passing of a noble art. For Cornbread Stokes is one of the last, if not the last, of the cowrib bone-crackers. Cornbread comes from Kentucky, where, back in the hills, they actually used to crack bones. And today, rather sadly, he pulled a handful of cow ribs out of his coat, pocket. In a moment the room reverberated with the roar of cracking bones. “That there,” he explained, “is what I call the machine gun.” Then Cornbread cut loose with his "cricket.” Next came “horses trottin’ ” and then “horses gallopin’.” By that time Cornbread had proved his point. “I been crackin’ bones,” he said, “ever since I was big enough to hold on to a cow rib. Down on my paw’s farm I used to get all the ribs offen the cows, and I found some mighty fine cow ribs in my day. Cow ribs is best for bone crackin’ excepting only that they get dry and start crackin’, I mean actually crackin’. Not just crackin’.” tt tt tt CORNBREAD used to be the star all through his district whenever the boys had a barbecue. He built up quite a reputation in the hill county as a bonecracker and one day he just suddenly decided to come to New York and see if Broadway wouldn’t enjoy a good old-fashioned bonecracker. He tried the booking offices here, but nobody seemed to get the idea. “Then one night,’* he said. “I got into one of these here night clubs, thinkin’ it was a Hungarian restaurant. I was settin’ there at the table and the people was dancin’ and the music was playin’. All of a sudden they started playin’ a two-step and I picked up a couple of forks and started crackin’ them. “Well, sir, purty soon they shut off the orchestra and a hundred people. I reckon, gathered around me. Then I got out my bones, which I always pack around with me, and started crackin’ them.” a a tt CORNBREAD’S celebrity, as a result of that night club incident, has at last brought recognition to this art. He has been signed up to crack bones over the radio. “Boge-crackin’,” he said, “is the purtiest music you can think of when a real good cracker does it. Now you take me. I was out to a party's house one night and they turned the radio on to onft of these sympathy orchestras from Philadelphia. “Well, sir, T got out my bones and cracked to the sympathy concert, and I want to tell you I improved that music. Every good sympathy orchestra ought to have a bone-cracker or two.’’ The best music for bone-crack-ing, Cornbread said, is the oldtime stuff, like “who threw th’ Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowrdef.” and “Climbin’ th’ Golden Stair.” “You got to have two-step music for crackin’,” he said. “You can’t crack bones proper to this croonin’. His first name, he said, is Herbert, but everybody calls him Cornbread. FORMER CONVICT IS SLAIN AS ‘SQUEALER’ Suspected in Jewel Theft, Prodigy Believed Silenced by “Pals.” fly United Press NEW YORK, May 13.—Vengeance of former inmates at Sing Sing or the fact he was feared as a “squealer’’ were believed today to have been the motives behind the slaying of Roy Herbert Sloane, scholarly youth who studied law and argued himself out of prison. Sloane was out on $20,000 bail on charges of being implicated in an SB,OOO jewel robbery when he was shot to death in front of the Mad Dot Boat Club, a waterfront case. Two other men were in:plicated in the robbery of the jewels from the office of Karos & Stein. Police expressed the opinion Sloan was killed to silence him as a witness in the case.

SETTLE GETS OUT OF CORN BELT COMMITTEE Quits Because Group Seeks to Discredit Farm Board, He Says. Withdrawal from the corn belt committee, an organization sponsoring legislation for farmers, by the Indiana farm bureau was announced today by William H. Settle, president of the bureau. Settle charged the withdrawal at a recent meeting in Des Moines, la., was due to alleged designs of the committee to discredit the activities of the federal farm board. He charged William Hirth of Columbia. Mo., was responsible for the bolt by Indiana's bureau and those of seven other states. BUST GIFT TO STATE George Washington Statue Will Be Presented by Commission. Indiana's state Capitol will receive a plaster bust of Washington such as the George Washington bicentennial commission is presenting every senator and representative in congress. The presentation late this month may be made the occasion of a ' public ceremony in the statehouse, with Congressman Louis Ludlow making the presentation in behalf of the commission. The bust is a c#py of the one executed by Joseph Nollekens, English sculptor of the late eighteenth and I nineteenth centuries.

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HOOSIER LIONS SESSION WILL OPEN SUNDAY South Bend Will Be Host for Convention of Three Days. TRIBUTE TO LA SALLE Tuesday Afternoon Program Memorial to French Explorer. By Timet Special SOUTH BEND, Ind„ May 13. The annual convention of Indiana Lions clubs will convene here Sunday with an attendance of more than three hundred expected for a three-day program. Following registration, delegates will be taken on a sightseeing tour of the city. Sunday evening they will attend a service at the First Christian church, of which the Rev. Elmer Ward Cole,* past district governor of Indiana Lions, is pastor. Formal Meeting Monday The first formal meeting will be held at noon Monday, with James. T. Cover, president of the South Bend club, presiding. Mayor W. R. Hinkle will give an address of welcome and Carl L. Hibberd, president of the South Bend Chamber of Commerce, will speak. The Scottish Rite choir will provide the musical part of the program. At 3 p. m. there will be a business session with T. O. Plummer, district governor, in charge. Monday night will bring the first social event of the session to be known as “Stunt Nite.” The recently organized all-state Lions band will make its first appearance. Election Tuesday A song fest and business session are on the morning program for Tuesday. Submission of reports and election of officers will follow. A La Salle memorial program will be held Tuesday afternoon, closing a state-wide movement sponsored by Lions clubs to commemorate the explorations of LaSalle in northern Indiana and the 250th anniversary of his council with the Indians near the site of South Bend. In connection with this part of the program, there will be a parade, including the all-state band and ten others from South Bend and surrounding cities. The governor’s banquet and dance Tuesday evening will conclude the session. Earle W. Hodges, New York, president of Lions International, will be the banquet speaker. Clarence E. Manion of the University of Notre Dame Law school will be toastmaster. STOLEN AUTO CRASHES Three Men, Two Girls Hurt Slightly; Held in Custody. Three men and two girls were injured slightly when a stolen auto crashed into a street car at Virginia avenue and Delaware street early today. Under arrest are: Arvin Toney, 826 Harrison street; Herschel Lewis, 1030 Harrison street, and Harold Bender, 1212 West Twenty-ninth street, all held on vagrancy charges. The girls are held in Marion county detention home.

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THEFT OF LEGATION LIQUOR THWARTED

By Vnitcd Pres* j WASHINGTON. May 13.—Bryant McMahon. 36. was arrested and held for investigation by police today in connection with an unsuccessful attempt to raid the liquor supply of the San Salvador legation here. Charge D’ Affaires Senor Don Carlos Leiva was struck on the head with the butt of a revolver during i the attempted robbery. Leiva's condition is not serious and it is expected he will be able to leave the hospital late today. McMahon's arrest came after the night .manager of a delicatessen store, across the street from the legation, noticed a suspicious car parked outside. He took down the license numbers. Two other men also were held, but police released them after brief questioning. The men escaped with only ten cases of the liquor and this late’was found abandoned. It consisted of choice whiskies. The brazen attempt to remove legal liquor stores frem foreign property in the capital is the first of its kind on record here. Entering the legation early this morning, - Leiva saw four men \

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STATE WALTHER PARLEY CALLEB Laporte Will Be Host to Church Workers. By Times Special # LAPORTE, Ind., May 13.—This city will be host to one of the largest meetings in its history May 31 and June 1, when the Indiana district of the Walther League will be in session. Attendance’of 1,200 to 1,500 young people is expected. An inspirational service at 10 a. m. Sunday, May 31, will open the meeting. There will be a business session in the afternoon and in the evening a fellowship banquet in the auditorium. This event is expected to be attended by about 900 persons. The speaker will be J. W. Bosse, long active in league affairs in northern Ind/rna. A business session will be held at 9 Monday morning, June 1, and another at 1 p. m. A sightseeing trip to cover Laporte and vicinity will start at 3:30, concluding the meeting. SCORES LIQUOR CASES Baltzell Again Criticises Minor Cases in Federal Court. Prosecution of minor liquor offenses in federal court was scored again Tuesday by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, when William (Gippy) Gavin, was brought before the judge on charges of maintenance of a nuisance in a poolroom at 2f)4 South Illinois street. Gavin and Peter Lukaszvich pleaded guilty, and Edward Beyers was found not guilty. Sentence on the first two will be pronounced later, the judge said.

descending steps which led to the floor on which the liquor locker was located. All of them, he said, were armed, and warned him to leave the premises. Disregarding their threats, he leaped upon them, at the same time drawing a revolver and firing two shots, which lodged in the ceiling. The shots freightened the thugs who, after brutally pummeling the diplomat, rushed out the front door and sped north on Connecticut avenue in an automobile.

SOURDOUGHS GATHER FOR ANNUAL FROG HOP DERBY

By In trd Press A NGELS CAMP, Cal., May 13.—01d timers of the mother lode country plastered bear grease on their boots and washed their red shirts today in preparation fer the annual renewal of Mark Twain’s great frog-jumping jubilee here this week-end. Every year since Twain revealed the antics of the jumping frog of Calaveras to an incredulous world, the prospectors have deserted their hermitages in the old gold range to watch the croaking marsh denizens perform. This year, the old timers promise, the jumping'jubilee will be bigger than ever—an international event, in fact. From Berlin will come Wilhelm, holder of the Rhine record of 4 feet 8S inches for the standing broad jump.

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Left, Mrs. James Cordell, wife of >ne of two banUts sentenced in :riminal court toJay. Above, Cordell, her husbahd, and, below, Charles L. Palmer, Cordell’s accomplice.

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Arrives From Detroit for Bank Robbers’ Trial; 15 Years. True to the end—and it isn't the end, even though fifteen years of steel bars will shut her from her husband. Mrs. James Cordell came to Indianapolis today from Detroit to cheer her husband, who was one of the two bandits who robbed the Oaklandon State bank of $3,000 several weeks ago. Cordell and Charles Le Roy Palmer of Cleveland, the other bandit, were sentenced to fifteen years in state prison at Michigan City, when they admitted the robbery in Judge Frank P. Baker’s court. Mrs. Cordell did not know of her husband’s arrest until she read of it in a newspaper in Detroit. Then she packed her luggage and came to Indianapolis to save him from a long prison term. “I love him. He’s all I’ve got now,” she sobbed this morning after sentence was passed. “I’ll wait lor him forever, if I have to.” Decision to plead guilty and accept fifteen-year sentences was agreed upon between Prosecutor Herbert Wilson and Ira M. Holmes, defense attorney, in conference with Judge Baker Tuesday afternoon. SET MARDI GRAS DATE Sherman-Emerson Celebration to Be Held July 23 and 25. Sherman-Emerson Civic League annual mardi gras will be held July 23 and 25, it was decided at a meeting of the league Tuesday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd E. Baber, 1125 North Bancroft street. Committee chairmen named are: A1 Muehlbacher. civic league concessions; C. McConahav. finance; Baber, light; Arch Hindi, police and safety: Albert Neuerburg, stand space; L. K. Harlow, program; Mrs. Harlow, decorations, and John E. K.eller. children’s contests.

$30,000 IN GIFTS GOES TO U. OF CALIFORNIA 2.670 Seniors to Graduate at 68th Commencement of School. By United Tress BERKELEY, Cal.. May 13.—Gifts of $30,000 to the University of California were announced by President Robert Gordon Sproal today prior to graduation of 2.760 seniors at the sixty-eighth commencement exercises. The gifts included a total of $12,500 for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Cal., of which $2,500 was given by Robert P. Scripps and SIO,OOO by the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation. Another gift of SIO,OOO was from the estate cf Phoebe A. Hearst.

MARTIAL LAW RULES SPAIN; RIOTSHALTED Valencia Is Only City Not Under Control; Banks Remain Open. CARDINAL IN PORTUGAL Churchman Held Partly at Fault in Trouble Leaves Country. By United Press MADRID, May 13.—Spain, after two days of rioting and burning of churches and religious institutions, began to return to normal today, with Valencia the only city not in control. Martial law was imposed firmly in the leading cities. I It was disclosed that Cardinal ; Segura, primate of Spain, whose recent pastoral letter on the Catholic attitude toward the republic was held partly responsible for the rioting, had left Spain and entered Portugal. He was accompanied by his mother and sister and crossed the frontier at Caceres, the information said. Miguel Maura, minister of the interior, said touay that in view of malicious rumors about disaffection in the army, he had ordered a strong display of troops in the streets of Madrid, “to make a graphic and visual denial” of the rumors and serve warning on any one wishing to create disorder that the army was ready to repress any disturbance. Banks Remain Open Most of the troops were withdrawn later. Maura said he had ordered all banks to remain open and transact normal business. The news from the provinces, he added, indicated a return to normal everywhere except in Valencia. Three persons were killed and five wounded at Cordova when civil guards repulsed a mob attack on a church. Two of the wounded were guardsmen. Martial law prevailed, but numbers of the terrified populace fled. In the south, the exodus of panicstricken refugees was particularly great. Hundreds, many of them prominent persons, sought to escape over the border to Gibraltar. Ordered Back by Troops They came in automobiles and afoot from Malaga, Cadiz, Seville, Jerez and other cities and towns where convents, churches and other religious buildings had been sacked and burned in the last three days of rioting. Soldiers stopped the refugees, however, and ordered them to return. Strict enforcement of martial law maintained order in Madrid. Army engineers with machine guns and an armored car were stationed in the Plaza Cibeles, the most important public square in the capital. None was permitted to approach the square. Traffic was paralyzed. Alfonso Is Blamed By United Press LONDON, May 13.—A Madrid dispatch to the London Daily Express today said Attorney-General Gallarza had asserted the republican government of Spain intended to apply to France for extradition of Alfonso XIII, former king.

The bread line! And what a line! Here you see some of last year’s fifty city marble champions, getting ready for lunch at Valley | Forge, famed scene of Washington's headquarters during the Revolutionary war. Every year the marble champs spend the Sunday before the national tourney at Valley Forge, as the guests of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. This year some Indianapolis boy or girl will be taken over the Revolutionary battlefields at Valley Forge, will see Independence hall, and visit other historic places. The winner of the marble tourney being conducted by The Times will be taken to Philadelphia the day previous to the national finals at Ocean City, N. J. First of the three sets of preliminaries will be played on four city playgrounds Saturday, starting matches for the city championship All boys and girls between 6 and 15 years are eligible. They wall play* Saturday at Spades, Rhodius, Garfield and Willard parks, and all children living in the vicinity of those centers are eligible. Send in the coupon today and get in the running. It'll be a great trip, this journey to Ocean City the week of June 21. BA3Y’S HAND SCALDED Hot Gravy Sears Tot's Exploring Fingers at Table. Exploring fingers of Robert Stev- | enson, 18-months-old, of 2420 North j Talbot street, were responsible for j his residence in city hospital today, i The baby pulled a bowl of hot gravy j over on himself at his home Tues- j day. His condition is not serious. 1

Wilhelm, billed as a special type cf “streamline” frog, has a special nurse to give him a daily bath in wart remover to reduce wind resistance while jumping. At least the jubilee backers gave that out as advance information. Another jumper will be Zenobia, insured for his face value of SI,OOO by the Kinston (N. C.) Kiwanis Club. Zenobia is en route here in a EO-gallon moss-lined bath tub filled with Kinston water, so he won’t feel lost. The jubilee also will include “La Fiesta del Squirt,” a fire fighting contest between the crews of two hand engines, eighty-one years old. To make everybody w-elcome, the last piece of rope used in a Calaveras lynching party is hung at the entrance of the town, with the sign: “Go as far as you like. The rope is your limit."

‘Out of Politics, ’ Says Mrs. Willebrandt Here

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Former Hoover Aid Makes Flying Stop on Way to California. It’s the “d'ough-re-me” now for Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Politics is out. Aviation and her legal work are “aces up” in her public utterances and thought, and, says she, “I’ll take a job and work for any one that hires me.” Between cigaret puffs and the churning drum of the motors of a T. and W, A. plane today at the municipal airport the former governmental dry crusader discussed her present private life while making a stopover here en route from Washington, D. C., to San Diego, Cal. She wants it distinctly understood that she represents the “fruit growers of California, not the grape or wine” interests. “I’m attorney for the Aviation Corporation, too, and ready to work for any one who employs me as a lawyer,” said the former United States assistant attorney-general. Asked what part citizens could expect prohibition to play in the coming presidential election she waved the question aside with “I’m not saying anything about politics or prohibition. There’s just two things I'm interested in—my legal work and aviation.” Mrs. Willebrandt has made several visits to Indianapolis. She campaigned against A1 Smith, Democratic nominee for President, in a stump tour of Ohio with his “wet” leanings as the topic of her attacks.

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BRIAND IS OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE

By United Press VERSAILLES, May 13.—Aristide Briand, foreign minister, acting in concert with the cabinet, announced today that he was withdrawing his candidacy for president of the republic. In officially withdrawing his candidacy, Briand refused to waive in favor of Paul TDoumer, president of the senate. He announced that he was happy to remain foreign minister. He will start for Geneva Thursday. The left parties conferred and decided, after consulting with Briand, to present as their candidate Senator Pierre Marraud, former minister of interior and minister of public instruction in the

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ARREST MAN ON WIFE'SCHARGES Woman Says Mate Wanted by Denver Police. Detaining Carl Hamilton, 30, of 453 East Washington street, under a $3,000 vagrancy bond, police today probed charges of his estranged wife that Hamilton is wanted by Denver police. Hamilton was arrested late Tuesday night, following two calls for polce to rout burglars at 1707 South Emerson avenue, where Mrs. Margaret Hamilton is housekeeper. Mrs. Hamilton made the first call during the afternoon, but when police arrived she said her brother had broken a window to enter the house, having forgotten his key. When the second call came a few hours later, police and deputy sheroffs found furniture wrecked and clothing torn. Mrs. Hamilton accused her former husband, declaring that when police answered the first call, Hamilton was in the house armed with a shotgun and threatened to shoot her is she revealed that he was there. The gun, which he is said to have used, was found in the bathtub. Eagle Shot Down By Times Special STROH, Ind., May 13.—An eagle which swooped down on a litter of six pigs at the farm of John Bell, near here, and succeeded in picking up one, was shot down by Bell.

Briand and Tardieu cabinets, respectively, and members of the same left Democratic group in the senate as Doumer. Briand’s withdrawal was construed as definitely clinching Doumer’s election. The first ballot had disclosed a close contest between Briand and Doumer. Doumer had 442 votes and Briand 401. Briand was understood to contend that the result of the first ballot was not a reflection on his foreign policies, but the outcome of bitter party quarrels. BLAST ENGULFS CRATER ON SACRED MOUNTAIN Hump on Peak Flanking Fujiyama Reported Gone. By United Press TOKIO, May 13.—The Hohei crater on Mt. Fujiyama, Japan’s sacred mountain, was reported to have disappeared today after a mysterious explosion. Hohei crater formed a hump on one of the mountains flanking Fujiyama, an extinct volcano. It was believed that the crater disappeared as the result of the explosion on a landslide. No earth tremors were felt. The mountain was covered with heavy clouds after the explosion.

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CONTRACT TO HINGE ON PLOT TRIALVERDICT Conservation Chief Holds Up Signing for Purchase From Indicted Man. STATE POLICIES CLASH Highway Board Buys Stone From Contractor Held for ‘Looting/ Although his department never has been connected with the conspiracy for which Ralph Rogers, Bloomington stone contractor, now Is on trial, Director Richard Lieber of the state conservation department announced today that the stone contract on which Rogers was low’ bidder will not be signed by him until Rogers is acquitted. This policy is exactly opposite to that pursued by the state highway department. Rogers was indicted by the Monroe county grand jury for conspiracy growing out of the alleged short delivery, through check-off padding, of hundreds of tons of stone to the maintenance division of the state highway department. Continues Dealing With Him The scheme was alleged to have been worked in 1928 by collusion with department employes. William E. Sayer, then Bloomington district superintendent for the highway department, also was indicted. Although the indictments were returned March 15, 1930, the highway commission has continued to purchase thousands of dollars’ worth of stone from Rogers and on Feb. 24, 1931, awarded a $280,000 paving contract to U. R. Price Company, in which Rogers is a partner. Conservation commission engineers received bids for some $20,000 worth of stone for a road in the Brown county state park. Rogers was low bidder by some $3,000. He signed the contract and sent it to Lieber. But before the conservation director affixed his signature, the indicted stone contractor took the stand in his defense and cited the state highway and conservation contracts as evidence of good character. Contract Not Signed Lieber sent the contract to the office of Attorney-General James M. Ogden today, to show that it was not signed by him and therefore is not a contract, as Rogers testified. Lieber further declared that It will not be signed unless Rogers is found not guilty. “I hate to lose the $3,200, but it is best for public policy,” Lieber declared. Director John J. Brown of the state highway department defended their purchases from Rogers on Tuesday. Whether Lieber’s leadership would cause a change could not be learned. No one w r as in highway department offices this morning who knew where Brown or any department head had gone. Commissions ‘Missing’ All were reported out and expected back Thursday. It was said a commission meeting was being conducted somewhere, but even the commission publicity man admitted no knowledge of it. It was recalled that a secret meeting at the Lake Manitou cottage of Commissioner Jess Murden last year resulted In failure to collect federal aid, due to shifting of departmental funds. The matter was investigated by a senate committee and all highway hands admitted the failure, but promised to collect everything this season. Ogden has two deputies prosecuting the Rogers case. Action of the highway department gives the appearance of the state being divided against itself, It was pointed out. MRS. COAPSTICK TO BE BURIED ON THURSDAY Wife of State Chamber of Commerce’s Traffic Manager Expires. Last rites for Mrs. Rilla Coapstick, wife of R. B. Coapstick, 3538 Birc-hwotrd avenue, traffic manager of the Indiana State Chamber cf Commerce, will be held at 2 Thursday afternoon. Sendees will be held at the W. H. Richardson undertaking establishment, 1901 North Meridian stret, and burial will be in Washington Park cemetery’. Mrs. Coapstick died Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Coapstick came to Indianapolis twelve years ago and formerly lived in Ft. Wayne. Survivors, in addition to the husband, are two sons, Ronald and Glenn Coapstick of Indianapolis, and two daughters, Mrs. Fred Wilson of Ft. Wayne and Mrs. Edwin Wilson of Indianapolis. STATE HOMEOPATHS HERE FOR MEETING Indiana Institute of Homeopathy Head to Preside. Dr. A. W. Records of Franklin, president cf the Indiana Institute cf Homeopathy, will preside at the institute’s annual banquet tonight at the Columbia Club. Homeopathic physicians from throughout the state were in attendance today at the organization’s sixty-fifth annual meeting, which will end Thursday. Speakers at the banquet will include Dr. Lester E. Seimons, Cleveland, 0., and Frank W. Lynch, Chicago, executive, secretary of round table international. Professional problems are holding the attention of the physicians. . Barber Kills Self SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 13. 11l health was blamed for the suicide here of Joseph Kohajda. 42, who shot himself to death in a rear room of his barber shop.