Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1931 — Page 1

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LONGER TERM PENALTY FOR TRIAL BY JURY Judge Baker Adds Extra Year for Failure to Plead Guilty. MADE COURT’S POLICY •Consideration’ Promised to Those Not “Wasting Time’ of Justice. Defendants found guilty in criminal court after choosing jury trials will receive added penalties, Judge Prank P. Baker announced today upon sentencing John Perkins of Carmel to serve eleven years In the Indiana state reformatory on a robbery charge. “Perkins will serve an extra year for taking his case to the jury which found him guilty May 21,” Judge Baker announced. “Otherwise a tenyear sentence would have been meted by the court.’’ “This oourt gives consideration to defendants who plead guilty, but will not be easy on those who tak* the court’s time by asking for juries,” Baker informed Perkins from the bench this morning. Charge Kidnaping Perkins is alleged to have kidnaped James J. Coyne, of 1421 Finley avenue, March 24, and to have taken him to Noblesville in an automobile and robbed him of S2O. Judge Baker has followed a policy of “stern and speedy justice” in his court since taking office Jan. 1. Supporting his contention “that the way to reduce crime is to let the criminal know he will not get off easy in court,” Judge Baker previously has declared “that attorneys and defendants who persist in slowing up the court action by jury appeals and requests for continuances In cases will not receive leniency.” Three Youths Sentenced Three youths who plead guilty to conspiracy to commit a felony were sentenced to serve two to fourteen years each in the state reformatory by Judge Baker today. Mothers of the three youths, Walter Eugene Edwards, 17; Wilbur Garringer, 18, and Edward Piper, .17 appeared in court and tearfully sought leniency for their sons. AH three were charged with beating John Van Schock of 1145 West Twenty-eighth street, on the head with a revolverxwhen they entered his home the night of May 7 with intent to rob. W .A. Boyd w'ho w’as found guilty of issuing a fraudulent check was sentenced to five months in the state farm. t Maurice Partonfwho confessed a part in the holdup of Coyner w'as sentenced a week ago to serve ten years. Article VI of the Bill of Eights, adopted by the first congress of the United States in 1789 and which became effective in 1791 as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, declares: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury . . . and to De informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against nim; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his iavor and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.” CRIPPLE SEA RUM RING Seizure of Nine Speed Launches Crimps Operations. By Scripps-Hoicard Xcicspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON. May 26.—Recent seizures at New York and Boston of nine high-speed launches were believed today to have placed a temporary crimp in the rich liquor-smuggling operations out of St. Pierre, French island off the coast of Newfoundland. Five schooners normally engaged in smuggling whisky from St. Pierre to America’s rum row have been tied up since the seizures, according to information reaching customs commissioner F. X. A. Eole trom United States Consul Joseph P. Ragland at Halifax. Seizure of the small speedboats is believed to have cut off a vital link in the smuggling operations. ENGLISH QUEEITTs 64 Celebrates. Birthday, Quietly. Surrounded by Royal Family. By United Press SANDRINGHAM, England, May 26. —Queen Mary of England celebrated her sixty-fourth birthday quietly today, surrounded by members of the royal family at Sandringham.

Imagine This! You’ll hop off from New York tonight and you’ll be in Paris or London in time for dinner tomorrow night, with a theater party afterward. That’s the picture of aviation’s future painted today by John A. Macready, famous flier, in the second of his se-. ries of five articles in The Times today. to Page 3 and read his startling forecast of what’s going to happen in the air. And Wednesday he'll tell you thftt, in a few years, most of th#‘nation’s farmers and ranehefß will be piloting their own planes. It’s a great series by a great airman, written in amazingly tntereapng style.

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Four Die in Crash of Plane By United Press CHICAGO, May 26.—Four men were killed today when the Chicago Daily News twin-motored Bellanca airplane crashed two miles north of Wheaton, a western suburb. The dead are: Shirely Short, pilot and famous flier; Richard E. Peck, co-pilot; Lewis S. Riese, radio operator, and Robert U. Gormley, mechanic. The plane was making series of test flights over a measured course between Curtiss-Reynolds airport and Serena, 111. Both motors of the big plane died simultaneously as it crossed Highway 6, and the ship crashed into a field. The scene of the accident is about twenty-five miles west of Chicago. GAMBLINGORiVE ORDER ISSUED Safety Board Tells Cops to Clean Up City. With a hundred thousand visitors arriving in the city this week for the auto races, the police department was ordered to mop up gambling dives—and keep them mopped. The command was delivered to Major Herbert Fletcher, acting police chief in absence of Jerry E. Kinney, by the safety board, after Frank Dailey, board member, said the town was wide open, but three picked men could shut it up. Fletcher admitted he, too. had reports of open gambling, but said when his men went into suspected places they found only a few loafers and no games. Donald S. Morris, board member, countered with a statement that he rode downtown today with a judge, who remained unnamed, who told him the police bothered only the small fry and left the big game fish to their liberty in open resorts. That statement Fletcher challenged. Referring to a recent conference of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan with police captains and lieutenants, Dailey said the gambling in Indianapolis must be stopped, not with a drive, but with continuous pressure. If necessary, said Dailey, small gamblers should not be molested while police enforcement -was concentrated on the “big shots.” 2 ALLEGED ’LEGGERS BOUND OVER TO JURY ‘‘Delivery’’ to Federal Agents Results in Arrest on Liquor Charge. Lewis and Irvin Goldman, 1402 North Alabama street, classed as alleged “society bootleggers” by federal agents, today faced grand jury action on charges of manufacture, sale, transportation and possession of liquor. In addition, Carey McMillan, janitor at the north side apartment, w'as held on similar charges. According to agents, they are alleged to have called for and obtained delivery of two quarts of gin from the Goldman's Monday night. A raid at the apartment followed the arrest of the men. United States Commissioner Fae Patrick today set bonds of the Goldmans at $5,000 each, and that of McMillan at $2,500. ALFONSO’S DAUGHTERS TO MARRY BROTHERS Betrothal of Members of Spain's Exiled Family Indicated. By United press FONTAINEBLEAU, France, May 26.—Marriage of the exiled Spanish princesses, Beatrice and Christine, to two brothers, was indicated today. An invitation by Alfonso of Spain to the Princes Alvaro and Alonzo of Orleans-Bourbon, to spend the spring holidays with the princesses here was taken as unofficial announcement of the engagement. Take Swim Tests Tonight Thirty-five applicants for the twenty posts as municipal swimming pool and beach guards tonight will take the Red Cross life saving tests at the Butler university pool.

PLAN BORDER CASINOS Government May Dot Boundary With Palatial Gambling Houses. By United Press MEXICO CITY. May 26.—Palatial gambling casinos rivaling the gaming tables of the Riviera may dot the Mexican border, near the United States line, if plans under consideration by the government 1 materialize. TWO CUT AND BRUISED Women Injured Painfully as Result' of Auto Collision. Mrs. Louise Pfarrer, 26, of 1118 Burdsal parkway, and Mrs. Earl Allen, 21, same address, were cut and bruised when an automobile driven by AUrti was struck by a car driven by Bernard Havercamp. 42 West Eleventh street, in the 1100 block North Illinois street today. Appeal for Higher Tariff on Shoes By United Press WASHINGTON. May 26.-Rcpre-sentatives of domestic shoe manufacturers and organized boot and shop workers appealed to the tariff j commission today to increase the present duty of 20 per cent ad- ! valoreijf to 30 per cent on shoes. j

JURY TO GET KIRKLAND CASE BEFORE NIGHT Testimony of Two Accused Companions Assailed by Defense Lawyers. PERJURY IS CHARGED Shirk and Barton 'Dirty, Filthy Rats,’ Attorney Shouts in Plea. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind.. May 26.—The testimony Henry Shirk and Paul Barton gave when they became state’s witnesses in Virgil Kirkland’s second trial on of murdering Arlene Draves was assailed by defense attorneys today as the case neared the jury. Ronald Oldham, Chicago attorney who presented the defense’s closing arguments, declared that Barton and Shirk, who testified Kirkland led criminal attacks on Arlene during a Gary liquor party, were “dirty, filthy rats.” Prosecutors John Underwood and Robert G. Estil, were to present the state’s final summation, after which Judge Grant Crumpacker had a list of- sixty instructions to read. Kirkland’s fate was expected to go to the jury around 5 p. m. Assails Barton and Shirk Oldham declared ironically that although the state objected to making prohibition an issue in the trial, it constantly referred in the testimony to liquor in an attempt to arouse the jury’s prejudice against Kirkland. He charged the testimony of Barton and Shirk was the result of a deal by which the youths hoped to escape trial on the same charges as Kirkland, with whom they were indicted. Oldham called attention to the refusal of two other defendants, David Thompson and Leon Sanford, to testify, drawing from it the conclusion that “either they were innocent and wouldn't make a deal with the state, or they were afraid to testify.” Perjury Is Charged “The state's witnesses perjured themselves from start to finish in this case,” Oldham said. “I never saw so much obvious perjury in my twenty years before the bar.” Underwood and Estil Intended to reiterate the demand that Kirkland be convicted of murder by criminal attack ,to receive the death penalty which Indiana law makes mandatory. The prosecution denied that Barton and Shirk bergained their freedom for testifying as state’s witnesses and asserted the youths took the stand “to clear their consciences,” without hope of immunity. BANKER IS ACQUITTED Clear James B. Brown on Embezzling Charge. By United Press LOUISVILLE, May 26.—Trial of James B. Brown, Louisville banker and newspaper publisher, on charges of embezzling $2,000,000 on a note cashed by the Bancokentucky Corporation, has ended with an acquittal, after Brown's attorneys declined to call witnesses. The jury deliberated three hours. Brown was indicted several months ago after the collapse of the Bancokentucky. foufThunrt - us autos COLLIDE AT CORNER Philadelphia Man, Wife and Child Sustain Cuts in Crash. Four persons were injured today when two automobiles collided at | the intersection of Vermont street and Capitol avenue. Mrs. George Parkon, 28, of Philadelphia, Pa., and her daughter, Phylljs, 4, suffered bruises and cut'when the car driven by her hut* band crashed into an auto driven by William Bowman, 39, of 537 Udell street. Mrs. Bowman and her daughter,! Betty, 3, suffered cuts and bruises. J The injured were treated at the city \ hospital. No arrests were made. J

SLAYER IS EXECUTED * — Ohio Man Dies for Killing of Bank Guard. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., May 26.-James Romeo. Canton, was executed in the electric chair at the Ohio State penitentiary Monday night for the murder of the Charles N. Riblet, 69, a guard at the First National bank. Riblet. who was carrying $60,000. was shot to death last July during a holdup by Romeo and Charles Kish. MARCH AGAINST REBELS British Troops Ready to Quell Revolt in Rangoon, Burma. By United Press CALCUTTA, India, May 26. Four British battalions proceeded to Rangoon today and three other battalions were under orders to proceed to Burma, providing 5,600 troops to quell a rebellion reported to have been planned to center in the Lashia district. Villagers there, have bee ntattooed with the of a hawk, <

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GRANT EXPULSION STAY 30 Days Given Chinese Communist to light Deportation From U. S. By United Press NEW YORK, May 26.—Affidavits that Tao Tsuan Li, Chinese Communist waiting deportation, would be killed in his own country for his political faith were viewed by Judge John M. Woolsey and a stay of thirty days granted to allow time to take the case to the circuit court of appeals.

BRIGHTER OUTLOOK IS SEEN BY HOOVER, AIDS

By United Press WASHINGTON, May 26.—President Herbert Hoover and his cabinet have made a study of the economic situation and after today’s cabinet meeting announced they “found many factors that are favorable.” A one-sentence statement was given to the press by the White House, reading. “The President and advisers

The photographs show the machine before it was lifted from the spot where it crashed, twenty feet below the top wall of the track, and as it was being taken away. In the photograph of the two

OUSTER IS PROPOSED Tennessee Legislators May Impeach Governor. By United Press NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 26.—8 y a vote of 71 to 65, the Tennessee house of representatives today passed a resolution creating a committee to investigate the advisability of an impeachment move against Governor Henry Horton.

have been going over the economic situation and have found man/ factors that are favorable.” The statement is the first direct word Mr. Hoover has given the press for several months concerning economic conditions. Since the beginning of the business depression, Mr. Hoover has refrained from making any comments or prophecies concerning its possible duration.

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men, Caccia is seated at the wheel at the left, with Grove beside him. In the background in the top left photo will be seen the outside retaining wall over which the car hurtled, carrying the driver and his mechanic to death.

BEBE TO BE MOTHER Screen Actress Looks to Event Next September. By United Preaa HOLLYWOOD, May 26.—Bebe Daniels, motion picture actress and wife of Ben Lyon, also a screen player, expects to become a mother next September. ADMITS ROBBERY PLOT Bank Teller Confesses Engineering Holdup by Airplane. By United Preaa PONTIAC, Mich., May 26.—Gerald Grandon, 29-year-old teller of the Pontiac Commercial and Savings bank, today confessed he was the chief plotter in the spectacular airplane holdup of the bank here last Friday. CONGRESSMAN IS DEAD Matthew V. O’Malley, 54, Brooklyn Representative, Succumbs, By United Preaa NEW YORK, May 26.-Repre-sentative Matthew V. OMalley, 54, of the Seventh congressional district, Brooklyn, died at his home today, Ha was a Hamper at.

SPEEDWAY SMASHUP KILLS DRIVER AND MECHANIC; CAR \ LEAPS WALL, THEN BURNS Bodies Pinned Under Flaming Wreckage; \ Joe Caccia and His Aid, Clarence \ Grove, Are Victims. ACCIDENT AT TREACHEROUS TURN Southeast Curve Is Tragedy Scene; ‘OverN Driving’ Believed Cause of First 1931 Fatalities. Skidding, crashing, and hurtling the wall of the treacherous southeast curve of the Indianapolis motor speedway this morning, a race driver and his riding mechanic lost their lives in the flaming wreckage of the machine they had planned to qualify ihis afternoon for the annual 500mile race Saturday. Joe Caccia, 31, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., driver, and Clarence Grove, 23, of Haverford, Pa., mechanic, lived only a few seconds through the terror that probably gripped them as their car smashed. They had driven about ten laps and were traveling at an estimated speed of 104 miles an hour when their machine took a slight depression on the curve, skidded into the wall and then plunged over the outer retainer.

FIRE DAMAGES LAUNDRY PLANT Wash-Rite Flames Loss Is Put at $75,000. Fire of undetermined origin that broke out early today destroyed machinery and parts of the building of the Wash-Rite laundry, 1414 Cornell avenue, causing damage estimated at $75,000 by Charles Sherrer, branch superintendent. The blaze originated in the center of the one-story brick and frame structure, near several boilers. Many bundles of clothes, prepared for delivery today, were not damaged. Office of the laundry was not damaged by fire, but firemen were forced to use axes on this section of the building to gain entrance. They battled the flames three hours. The flames communicated to the residence of J. A. Hoke, Negro, 1410 Cornell avenue. The roof and second story of the frame house were damaged by the blaze. Loss to the property was estimated at $3,000. WAR WITH FASCISTS Holy See Officials Charge Catholics Mistreated. By United Press ROME, May 26.—An increased strain was placed on the relations between the Holy See and the Fascist regime today by recent clashes which resulted in charges from the Vatican that Fascists were guilty of frequent mistreatment of Catholics. Counter charges were m&de immediately by the Fascists, asserting that- parish priests in several instances openly had prayed against Fascism. The strain was intensified Sunday when Fascists beat the driver of a Vatican City mail truck carrying personal letters of Pope Pius XI to the station in Rome. The driver had failed to halt his truck during a Fascist parade. A Fascist militia officer struck the driver’s assistant. PLA N EUROPEAN^TOUR Fanny Hurst, Ruth Bryan Owen to Visit Britain, Denmark. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 26.—Ruth Bryan Owen, Florida congresswoman, and Fannie Hurst, novelist, will leave New York June 18 for a “caravan” trip through Denmark and the British Isles, it was learned today. Mrs. Owen will take her automobile trailer across the ocean and the two will live in it while on the tour. PRAISES AIR CORPS Comparable to Best, Says U. S. Army Chief. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 26.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the army, returned here today from his inspection of the first air division at Boston convinced that the army air corps is “comparable to anything the world has developed.” BOYS TO VISnT~MEXICO Caravan to Be Guests of Educational Department of Sonora. On its torn- of the southwest this summer the Indiana Boys’ Caravan will be guests of the educational department of the state of Somora, Mexico, visiting that country by special invitation of F, Ortio Rubio, president of Mexico, and Senor Francisco 8. Elias, Governor of Sonora. The caravan will travel in motor buses from July 2 to Aug- 20. y

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The car smashed into a tree, throwing both men clear. The machine, breaking into flames, rolled on to the unconscious pair, covering them partially. Grove apparently had been killed almost instantly, while Caccia was gasping the last breath of life. Both are survived by their mothers in their home towns. Although Caccia had wide experience on the Indianapolis track and had piloted machines in past 500-mile races, he was guilty to some extent of “overdriving” the turns at various times. Over-Driving His Fault Racing experts confided often that Caccia sometimes atempted to steer his car out of natural skids on the track, that it might have corrected by itself. The car was a Jones-Maley Special, a Miller-motored eight-cylin-der mount, and it was almost ready to take its qualification tests this afternoon. Up to today, only twenty-four drivers had passed their speed tests. Unless more than have qualified in the last two days appear today and Wednesday, the 500-milc race will get under way without the full field of forty cars. Trials this afternoon ivere to start at 2 o'clock and continue until 7:03. It was estimated about noon that a dozen cars might attempt to qualify this afternoon. Only two cars qualified Sunday and five Monday. Some drivers are experiencing mechanical difficulties and are endeavoring to Iron out the troubles and get their cars through the tests as soon as possible. Jam Sure Wednesday A few others, however, merely are tinkering around and trying to get a few more mile an hour out of their cars. They still figure that enough cars will take the trails to make it tough on some of the slower boys. If the expected list of qualifiers today doesn’t materialize, however there is certain to be a terrific i am at the sta rting linn Wednesday, the deadline for qualifications. "They’ll qualify today or Wednesday, or not at all,” was the edict handed down by W. D. (Eddie> Edenburn, A. A. A. representative in charge of the race, today, “and there will be no ‘post-qualifvine* sessions in this race.” Gleason Is Faster Os the five qualifiers Monday, the fastest was Jimmy Gleason of Philadelphia, in a Duesenberg, at 111.400 miles an hour. Gleason is a veteran pilot and knows the track well. The second fastest w r as Francis Quinn, who provided the sensation “tj® da y b y turning in his trial at 111.321 miles an hour in a car that has a Model A Ford motor. Race drivers stood agape as the little speed wagon hurtled down th straightaways at a terrific clip. Those already qualified and their positions in the race: Driver—C.r n “ !T “ BUI Cummin*. (Entire State Sol.) 115.V*3 Taul Host (Empire SUte Spl.) 115.1JS SECOND ROW Deacon Liu (M,l ey Special, ... ln >M} EUbT ' Bu ’ ke ”- Dn *l>r*) 111.019 Babe Stapp <Rl*ljn*, Hennl* Spl.) 110.125 THIRD ROW FreO H F , Garne /„' NUtmer StaU SB, -> Fred Frame (Hartz-Duesenber*) 109 211 Stubblefield (Jones-Miller Spl.) UH.m fourth row Ralph Hepburn (Harry Miller Spl.) 101.933 Phil Pardee (Duesenber*) 107*13 Luther Johnson (Richard* 5p1.,!.! m’<K2 FIFTH ROW L. Schneider (Bowes Seal-Fast Spl.) 101210 Cliff Rerrere (Eleo-Royale) 100.101 Chet Miller (Marr Special) 106.185 SIXTH ROW Joe Russo (Unnamed car, KM. 822 Dave Evans (Cummins Diesel, 90.811 Billy Arnold (Harts-Miller 5p1.).... SEVENTH SOW Tony GulotU (Hunt Special). .... 111.728 Jimmy Gloaoon (Duesenber*) 111.4 M Francis Quinn (Tucker Tappet Spl.) iu.s2t EIGHTH ROW Frank Farmer (Jones-Miller Spl.). 108.908 Phil Shafer (Shafer Ei*ht) 105,103 John Botin* (Grapho Spl.) 105.860 Hourly Temperatures 6 a m 54 10 a. m 67 7a. m 57 li a. m 70 Ba. m 62 12 (noon).. 72 9a. ra §4 Ip. m 72

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