Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1931 — Page 9

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STORE HOLDUP WOUNDS KILL L. A. JACKSON Merchant Genius Is Victim of Bloody Clash With Hoodlum Gunmen. HIGH TRIBUTE IS PAID He Astounded Associates by Grasp on Details of Huge Business. (Continued from Page One) colonel. It was an honor Mr. Jackson prized highly. There were frequent storms In the vicinity in which he happened to be when his energy, ahvays sapped by a multitude of details, gave way momentarily. “Who ever happened to be nearest caught it,” Hoffman related. "For a while then everything would be still. We would w*atch him from the corner of our eyes, and he would be looking at us the same w'ay. There was a big gold tooth in one corner of his mouth. When he smiled it showed. "Pretty soon someone would say. Well, the old gold tooth's out again,’ and then everything would be all right. Did Dozen Things at Time “Mr. Jackson could do a dozen things at once, and still had time for who ever was down and out, for salesmen who had to have orders, for charities and organizations. Why, just today one church club called for a donation. They hadn’t heard of his death. “I remember one day a salesman came into the office. Mr. Jackson never looked up, and the salesman talked away. Finally Mr. Jackson said: “ ‘Can’t use anything from you today.’ “ ’Why. you don’t even know who I am.’ the salesman said. “ 'Yes, I do,’ Mr. Jackson said, and then told him, without ever looking up. Was an Enemy of Crime 'Another time a fellow came in, and went away with a big order. “I told Mr. Jackson we shouldn’t have bought that line because we already had enough for a long time. “‘I know,' he told me, ‘but the chap needed that order badly.’ ” Mr. Jackson didn’t believe in robbery. In a pigeonhole in his desk he kept a revolver. ‘‘They'll never take anything from me. I'll shoot first,” he said often. Reminded that there wasn’t much chance to shoot when a bandit held a gun at him, he replied:

Died Thursday Night “Well, I still say they’ll never take anything from me. I don’t believe in crime. Criminals get off too easily nowadays. If anyone pokes a gun at me, I’m going to let him have it. ’Maybe I’ll get killed, but I’ve got to die sometime. Even if I am shot, I still can shoot.” Wednesday morning two bandits walked into his store, and one covered him with a pistol. Calmly Mr. Jackson picked up his own gun and the battle began. One bullet struck him in the head, and as he reeled into a washroom the bandit brutally shot five times at him, point-blank. He was - taken to St. Vincent’s hospital, but his wounds were hopeless. He died there Thursda' night. Press Killer Search Into the underworld today police thrust inquiring fingers in a gamble that one might entangle some shred of a clew to two gunmen who murdered Lafayette A. Jackson, wealthy owner of the big Standard grocery chain. Mr. Jackson, 68. died in St. Vincent's hospital Thurscay at 5 p. m. less than thirty-four hours after he was wounded in a gun battle with the bandits wno attempted to rob his headquarters store at 419 East Washington street, Wednesday morning. The thugs also wounded detective Charles Bauer, who is believed to have shot one when he dashed into the store after he heard the shq|s that slew Mr. Jackson. Investigate Phone Cal] With collapse of evidence pointing to a hijacking-rum running gang rounded up Thursday, as the bandits, police turned again this morning to a telephone call received Thursday that a man with a bullet wound in the neck was carried into a camp at Flat Rock, near Shelbyville a few hours after the battle here. In a statement after Mr. Jackson died, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan demanded all forces of law in the city be put on the trail of the fugitives. Funeral services for Mr. Jackson will be held at 2:30 Monday afternon at Central Christian church, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Tlie body is to be taken from Flanner &: Buchanan mortuary to the home at 2258 North Illinois street at 3 this afternoon. His eldest son, Chester H. Jackson, was his chief assistant, and a younger son, Howard, also was active in the central office management. Both survive him, as do .wo daughters, Miss Charlotte Jackson tnd Mrs. Edward Wiest, both of Indianapolis. Wife Died Two Years Ago Mrs. Lafayette A. Jackson died two years ago after a long illness. Contributing to her ill health, friends say, was her concern over her son-in-law, Edward Wiest, who lingered between life and death in a hospital sixteen weeks after he waa shot by bandits as he came upon them in the Standard grocery at Twenty-sixth street and Capitol avenue about a year before her death. It waa Wiest who fired the tear gas-gun that terminated the gun battle in Standard grocery headquarters May 27 when Mr. Jackton received his mortal wounds.

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Balloonist Sets Record in 50,000-Foot Ascension

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THIS graphic chart shows the upper regions of th earth's atmosphere which Professor Auguste Piccard, a modern Jules Verne, and his assistant, Charles Kipfer, sought to penetrate by flying higher than any human being or bird ever had been before —their goal being ’ approximately 50.000 feet (or about ten miles) away from our world. Professor Piccard set out to beat the world record lor altitude established by Lieutenant Apollo

GALL ACTRESS IN DEATH QUIZ Blonde Says Police Told Her to 'Keep Mouth Shut/ By United Press LOS ANGELES, May 29.—June Riley, a blonde motion picture actress, who claims police told her “to go home and keep her mouth shut” when she tried to tell them she had information about the killing of Charles Crawford, politician, and Herbert Spencer, newspaper man, here last week, was called today as a witness for the preliminary hear- j ing of David H. Clark, charged with the double murder. An open rifht existed betw*een the police department and the district attorney’s office over the story of the actress. W. Joseph Ford, attorney appointed by District Attorney Buron Fitts in the case, provided a surprise when he called Miss Riley. “I want to be fair about everything,” Ford said. “Mine is not an attempt to convict Dave Clark, but to get at the truth of the tragedy and find out who the killer is. It is not my purpose to suppress any evidence.” DENY CAPONE PURCHASE By United Press OCEANSIDE. Cal., May 29.—Reports that A1 Capone, Chicago underworld figure, had purchased the Santa Margarita ranch, near here, were denied today by Charles S. Hards - , manager of the ranch. The story was printed in the current issue of the magazine Liberty under the signature of Homer Croy.

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The diagram above illustrates motor, bus and taxi routes to Indianapolis motor speedway Saturday. as ordered today by Major Herbert Fletcher, acting police chief. Motorists going to the race will have a one-way street, westbound, on Speedway road (.West Sixteenth street) from 4 a. m. until 1 p. m. Meanwhile, eastbound traffic into

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Soucek, United States navy, who soared 43,166 feet over Washington, D. C., in a small seaplane on June 4, 1930. This beat the high mark for balloons, established by Captain Hawthorne C. Gray of the United States army, who paid for his fame with his life. Captain Gray ascended Nov. 4, 1927, from Belleville, 111., and a day later the balloon, with Gray dead in the basket, was found in a tree near Sparta, Tenn. He had perished when his oxygen tanks became exhausted in the thin air of the upper spaces, but the ballon’s instruments showed he had reached 42,270 feet. Above the five-mile line the illimitable reaches of outer space begin, for no mountains or clouds exceed this height—higher on is nothing but the bitter cold and gradually darkening regions of the great void. Mt. Everest, highest mountain in the world, does not penetrate above this line and even the highest cirrus clouds—those white, fleecy wisps formed by the tiny ice particles—never go above it. The cold is intense, reaching 90 degrees below zero in the higher altitudes. Only a little less than tw*o miles above the earth, the temperature is always freezing, even on the hottest of July days. The photos above show Professor Piccard on his ballon and the a'uminum ball in which he and Kipfer were sealed for their trip, With oxygen tanks designed to sustain their lives.

YOUNG WOMAN SLAIN Believed Killed by Gangsters; Body on Road. By United Press NEW YORK, May 29.—The body of a young woman, about 25, bearng marks indicating an automobile had been driven over her repeatedly after she was killed, was found today on the Old Country road, near Westbury, L. I. Police believe she may have been killed by gangsters, w*ho then ran their car back and forth across the body to make certain she was dead. The body was so badly mutilated that police were unable to determine immediately whether the woman had been shot or stabbed.

the city will be routed over Thirtieth street, also a one-way street between those hours. Coming from the race, motorists will use Speedway road, a oneway street eastbound from 1 p. m.. until 6 p. m., while Thirtieth street at the same time will be a one-way street westbound. Taxis and J) uses will use the fol-tt-w.

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ATLANTIC SETS RECORD; FREE OF ICEBERGS Floating Mountains Absent for First Time in Coast Guard Memory. PATROLS IDLE IN PORT Scientists Are Puzzled by Phenomenon; Expected Average Number. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 29.—For the first time in the memory of the coast guard not a single iceberg has appeared in the north Atlantic this season. None of the majestic white mountains of floating ice which always constitute a menace to transAtlantic liners has been seen, and none even has been reported, either by commercial vessels or by the trim and sturdy 125-foot cuttter General Greene, lookout for the coast guard in protecting shipping lanes. The two larger coast guard cutters, the Mojave and the Pontchartrain, which originally would have been scouring the chilly north Atlantic seas sighting and charting the movement of the bergs and advising vessels, are idle at Boston, their crews like firemen when there is no fire. Scientists Are Puzzled While this phenomenon is gratifying to steamship companies, it has stumped scientists who know about such things. Lieutenant-Commander Edward H. Smith of the coast guarrd, who perhaps knows as much about icebergs as any living person, and who will accompany the Graf Zeppelin on its trip to the north pole this summer to make a further study, was as much confounded as any one else, for he predicted 250 icebergs this summer, which is about normal. Smith expressed the belief today that the bergs have not moved down into the Atlantic this year due to the absence of an "ice fence” along the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland, which usually forms there and shunts the icebergs back out into the current when they run to shore. Bergs Along Shores He said the bergs undoubtedly have piled up along these shores, and has recommended to Admiral Frederick H. Billard, coast guard commander, that the General Greene be sent on an expedition after the ice patrol is over to locate and enumerate those which have foundered there. This is one of the best opportunities ever afforded for the study of icebergs, he added. But the mystery hinges around the absence of the “ice fence.” One theory suggested is that the same drought which played such havoc with the farmers in this country last year was responsible for the lack of ice along the far northern ~hores. The co. st guard cutters moved out on their ice patrol early last year, when word came down that the bergs were moving. They were fairly numerous last year. 440 being reported, but it was not a record year. Broadcast to Ships Extent of the coast guard activity is shown in a total of 952 radio broadcasts to ships last year from the two cutters, with a total of 688,723 words sent out, enough for about seven average length novels. The vessels rove over a radius of 5,000 to 6,000 miles on the lookout for the bergs, their radios crackle w r hen one is sighted, four reports normally being seent out to ships daily, in addition to a report here, but when a ship is entering the iceberg area and requests it, more numerous reports are broadcast, giving the exact location, so that a map can be made up on the vessel to guide the pilot.

lowing route: West on Washington to Tibbs, north to Cossell, northwest to Grande avenue, north to West Tenth street, west to Main street, in Speedway City, and north to the Prest-O-iLte plant, returning over the same route. All police will be on extra duty all day Saturday. amma * r

Broad Ripple Park Will Hold Formal Opening Memorial Day

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Exhibits Are Added, Pool Is Improved; Picnics Will Be Featured. Broad Ripple park, the city’s northeast side amusement plant, presented an “all dressed up” appearance today, as workmen made final preparation for the 1931 opening celebration Saturday. They have been occupied for several weeks w r ith new construction plans, refinishing and repainting of the park proper and installation of new exhibits. The animals w r ent into outdoor quarters for the first time today, and the sunshine was given a hearty welcome by all the inmates of the city’s only zoo. Little Henry, one of the African blue nfonkeys, and the pet of the outfit, showed his jubilation by causing the whole park an anxious two hours when he broke loose and had keepers running all over the long ski ride after him before he finally was netted. New Exhibits Obtained The rest of the monkeys watched the chase with seemingly as much interest as the chasers, chortling and scampering about their cages. In addition to improving what already is the world’s largest and finest concrete swimming pool, the park officials have arranged for several new exhibits. Among these is one of petrified wood, from the great petrified forest in Arizona. The exhibit shows perfectly the makeup of wood which nature has seen fit to turn to stone. In addition to the swimming pool, another leading feature this summer will be free dancing. E. W. Mushrush, originator of the St. Louis hop and Campbell glide, is manager. Hot Thompson’s Rythmr4es will provide the music. Picnics to Be Featured Again expecting to feature industrial and professional outings, the management plans to hold several big picnics during the summer and has enlarged the picnic grove. More than 25,000 persons attended the Delco-Remy outing two years ago. Children have not been overlooked in the special amusement plans. Their times will come on Saturday and Sunday evenings, when Jac Broderick’s Kiddie Review will entertain them.

Stores Close By unanimous action on the part of the Merchants Association the retail stores in the association, which includes all of the larger dow-ntown stores, will remain closed all day Satday, May 30, Decoration day. A bulletin to this effect was issued by the association to the membership today.

STAYS SINGLE, WINS SIOO,OOO JUDGMENT Girl Who Broke Engagement Attacks Will of Employer. By United Press CHICAGO. May 29.—Miss Nan Kamp was $100,009 richer today because in 1924 she refused to be married. Testifying in probate court. Miss Kamp said she' was offered that amount by Samuel Levitt, her wealthy employer, if she would break her engagement and continue as secretary for his hotel concern. Levitt died last December, leaving her $3,735 of an estate valued at more than $1,000,000. Miss Kamp, a St. Jxiuis resident, brought suit for $96,265 and was awarded that amount after telling her story to Judge Harry C. Daniels. ARRANGE HOOKUP FOR PRESIDENT’S SPEECH Republican Editors Hope to Put Local Address on Radio. Arrangements for a nation-wide radio hookup for broadcasting the address of President Hoover from the state fairground June 15, are being made by the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, sponsors of the dinner. Definite arrangements for broadcasting the address over both the Columbia and National networks can ftot be made until the plans are approved in Washington. More than 5,000 persons are expected to attend. Tax Conference Predicted By United Press WASHINGTON, May 29.—President Herbert Hoover is considering summoning a national tax conference of state officials next fall, according to members of a delegation which urged such a step at the White House.

The girls pictured in the upper left couldn’t wait for Broad Ripple's official opening Saturday, so they beat the starting gun by becoming the season’s first 1930 swimmers at the park today. Miss Lytha Cross, 1325 Park avenue, is shown ready for her initial plunge from the high board. Behind her is Laverne Miller, 6 North Traub avenue.

WILL FIGHT TURNS INTO LAWYER WAR

Charges of 'Crook, Coward' Flung Back and Forth by Counsel. Closing stages in the probate court fight over the Bartholomew D. Brocks will today turned into a personal combat between attorneys hurling charges of “crook” at each other. The case is expected to go to the jury this afternoon for its decision as to whether the 1930 will or the 1922 document on Mr. Brooks’ $209,000 estate is valid. Charity organizations are seeking to collect bequests under the earlier will, set aside in the 1930 document. In this Robert Hackney, business associate, was chief beneficiary. The plaintiffs allege the 1930 document is fraudulent. In closing arguments to the jury, Claude Anderson, defense counsel, charged “the defense has introduced hypocrisy in thi:> case under the cloak of charity.” He said slander and abuse were forced into the trial by attorneys for the plaintiffs. Thursday plaintiffs had charged “crookedness” on the part of the defense, and in reply Anderson said: ' “Paul Davis, plaintiffs’ attorney, has tried to dominate this trial. This suit should be tried on the evidence presented, not on prejudiced beliefs. If they have evidence that Hackney, and A. F. Zaney, defense attorney, are crooked, why didn’t they prove ff? Why doesn’t

HAUNTED BY EYES; CONFESSES KILLING

By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, May 29—The strange story of a sailor who said he had been haunted for thirteen years by the eyes of a man he had killed, provided a puzzle today for San Francisco authorities, after he had surrendered to them. Antonio Solano, 32, alias Antonio Nicholas, begged the police to send him to New T York on a charge of killing a sailor named Alberto aboard the Mallory line steamer Concho, a South American vessel. Solano said Alberto caught him and other members of the Concho’s

New Tarzan Thriller Monday in the Times IN the crotch of a great tree crouched Tarzan, his mighty shoulders arched against the storm. Rain fell in torrents, blunder crashed with deafening reverberations. There was a olinding flash of light and the branch upon which Tarzan squatted sagged and broke. HURTLED to the trail beneath, the ape-man lay stunned where he had fallen, the great branch flung across his prostrate body ... Read the Thrilling New Tarzan Picture Story TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE By Edgar Rice Burroughs DRAWINGS BY REX MAXON BEGINNING MONDAY, JUNE 1, IN THE TIMES

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Upper right: “Not so cold,” they say as they climb out of the huge 4,300, 000-gallon pool. The lower picture shows Mike and Ike, out for their first exercise stroll of the spring. Keeper Chet Ballard is shown separating them just after a peanut had caused a temporary argument between the two buddies.

Davis oust Baney from the bar association. “I say that Frank B. Ross (another plaintiff lawyer) and Davis are cowards, when they take advantage of men in a law suit, as they have done in this one.” STOP HIS HOWLING 'The Lone Wolf’ Sentenced to Reformatory Term. “The Lone Wolf,” who left that scribbled title behind him when he burst the chains that held him to a bed in city hospital’s detention ward several weeks ago, will not howl, as he promised, for the next ten years. Pleading guilty ( > a robbery charge in criminal court today, “The Lone Wolf,” Aaron Frazier, Negro, 21, was sentenced by Judge Frank P. Baker to serve ten years in the Indiana state reformatory. Frazier and four Negro companions robbed John and Daisy Casw r ell, 3125 Central avenue, of $349 on Feb. 28. The others, already under ten-year sentences at the reformatory, are Robert Fuqua, Robert Boyce, Elmo Johnson and Robert Phelps. Caught soon after the robbery, Frazier was confined to city hospital but escaped, leaving a note, “The Lone Wolf will howl again.” He soon was recaptured.

crew stealing cargo. When two days out from a Cuban port bound for New York, he shot the man and then convinced the captain that Alberto had conynitted suicide, Solano said. Municipal Judge George W. Schonfeld delayed the case until he could consult federal authorities on whether the asserted crime constituted murder or piracy on the high seas. Solano said the memory of his victim’s eyes staring at him had followed him until he no longer could keep his secret.

NO CURB ON PINCHOT, SAYS GOUESLIE Pennsylvania Executive Is Welcome to Talk on Utilities. SEVERAL ARRIVE EARLY First Distinguished Guests Here for Pre-Parley Entertainment. Absolute freedom of speech will prevail in business programs of the Governors’ conference at French Lick, so far as the host, Governor Harry G. Leslie, is concerned . This pronouncement was made by Indiana's Governor today, as he greeted early arrivals for the event. It was called forth by the announcement of Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania that, on Tuesday morning, he will talk on the subject of utilities rather than “Timber and Its Phases,” as scheduled in the printed program. "The business program is entirely in the hands of the executive committee of the conference,” Governor Leslie explained. “So far as I am concerned. Governor Pinchot or any other Governor can talk about anything he cnooses.” Several Arrive Early Governors scheduled for early arrival. who will attend the dinner given by Governor and Mrs. Leslie at the Highland Golf Club tonight, include Harry H. Woodring of Kansas, George H. Dern of Utah, George White of Ohio, Henry S. Caulfield of Missouri, Ibra C. Blackwood of South Carolina and L. G. Hardman of Georgia. Each Governor is to be presented with a bound volume, with his name in gold letters, of the illustrated story of Indiana, a picture of the Governors and the statehouses, and a short account of each state and insular possessions. Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland and his party, including Frank Kent, famed Baltimore Sun correspondent, are scheduled to arrive Saturday at 11 a. m. Will Attend Race They will be with the Governors attending the speedway race and the Columbia Club dinner Saturday night. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, and Norman S. Case of Rhode Island are scheduled to arrive Sunday. Governors coming here will be takeen to French Lick Sunday in a bus caravan.* Other Governors will go direct to French Lick Springs hotel and about thirty are expected when the business sessions start Monday morning. The conference closes Wednesday night. Governor Leslie attended a final meeting of the local committees on arrangements Thursday night and thanked Wallace O. Lee, chairmaV and others who have taken part in formulation of the plans.

‘READY-MADE’ HOMES PREFERRED BY MANY Few Wealthy Persons Want to Develop Own Country Estates. By United Press BALTIMORE, May 29.—Six out of seven Americans prefer their homes ready made to the last detail, and have no desire to carry out plans of their ow*n, R. A. White of Great Neck, L. 1., said today at a meeting of the National Association of Real Estates Boards. White, who represents a company specializing in high-priced country estates, defined a country estate as “any property with at least ar acre or two of land and a minimum valuation of $100,000.” Few purchasers of such estates want to develop them themselves, he said, adding that improved properties with house, stables, formal garden and swimming pool are easier to sell to the wealthy than vacant home sites.

VACATION STARTS IN 3 COUNTY SCHOOLS Washington Township Grades to Be Last to Close for Summer. Vacation days were here again for pupils of three more Marion county schools, outside Indianapolis, as they cast books aside ending the’ 1930-31 school year. The last of the schools in Washington township will close June 5. County high schools sent 303 pupils on their ways toward college and other pursuits this spring. There were 950 pupils promoted from the forty-one grade schools to the eleven high schools in the county. Schools in all other townships closed May 23.

ROY DOOLEY FUNERAL TO BE HELD TONIGHT Engine House 11 Fireman Dies In Government Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 7 tonight for Roy Dooley, 36, of 38 North Grant avenue, firemen at Engine House 11, who died Wednesday in the government hospital at Dawson Springs, Ky. Rites will be held at the Shirley Brothers chapel, 946 North Illinois street, and the body will be taken to English, his birthplace, for burial Saturday. Mr. Dooley has been ill since April 12. He served overseas in the World war. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Stella Dooley, and two chll* dren, Norma Jean, 4, and Harold Dooley, 8. Mr. Dooley had served at Engine House 11 since his appointment to the fire department, July 2, 1920. Park Opening Deferred By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 29. Formal opening of Mounds State park, originally set for June 1, has been postponed to July 4. Improvements are being made at the park which was presented to the state of Indiana last year.