Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1931 — Page 1

BRIDE IS SHOT AIDING MATE IN BURGLARY Girl In Serious Condition, Wounded by Owner of Lizton Store. DRIVEN BY POVERTY Pair Forced to Crime by Need, Husband Tells Police Here. Driven by poverty beyond the law for a livelihood, a pretty, 20-year-old bride was wounded seriously early today, fleeing from a general store in Lizton in which she and her husband were surprised at robbery by the owner. She rode more than four hours with her husband in a stolen automobile with forty shotgun pellets in her body before she received medical attention. At city hospital, physicians fear tetanus may develop. The bride is Mrs. Roxie McCreary, whose parents live in Jamestown, and who March 30 married James R. McCreary, then living at, 107 West Tenth street. Man Also Wounded McCreary, who admits entering the store, but who insists his wife is innocent of any crime, also was wounded when Sol Ellis, 65, proprietor, ran from his house across the street about 1 a. m. and opened fire on the couple as they clambered into the stolen coupe. At 5 this morning McCreary beat at the door of Dr. Joseph L. Storey, 1832 Central avenue, and begged medical aid for his wife, who, he said, had been hurt badly in an accident. After Dr. Storey treated her at his office, 3415 North Illinois street, heslipped to a telephone and called police. Lieutenant Marion Van Sickle’s squad took McCreary into custody and sent Mrs. McCreary to the hospital, where she is charged with vagrancy. McCreary had a story ready wlien police first questioned him. and it was substantiated by his young wife. Tries to Shield Wife Out of work for many w’eeks, he said, they have been forced to live in the automobile. Early* today they drove into a small lane near University Heights to park for the night, and suddenly someone shot at them, he told Lieutenant Van Sickle. Taken to the scene he described, McCreary broke down when police pointed out that no car had been driven in there during the night. He confessed the robbery, but said his wife stayed in the car while he went into the store, and was shot while trying to help him into the machine, after Ellis’ shout to his son announced discovery of the robbery attempt. When he opened his store for business this morning, Ellis did not know how true his aim had been, and when he learned a woman had been his quarry, his anger melted Into sympathy. Sorry W'oman Is Wounded "I hate that.” he said. ‘T heps che will get well—but they shou-d have stayed at home.” He said when he was aroused this morning he saw two persons in the store with flashlights. He called to his son Lyman, 25, only recently out of a hospital after a serious operation, picked up the shotgun, and ran into the street. He saw two forms crowding Into the car and from a distance of a hundred feet took hasty aim and fired. The son shot twice with a revolver as the car drove away. Holding the couple on vagrancy charges pending investigation and almost certain reslating, police began investigation of the stolen car. It had been reported missing in January, was found almost at once, and never had been reported stolen again. SEEKS RETRIAL FOR 8 Ex-Magistrate Takes Up Fight of Negroes Condemned to Die. By United Press NEW YORK, June 4.—Former magistrate Joseph R. Brodsky left today for Scottsboro, Ala., to plead anew trial for eight Negro boys, condemned to die in the electric chair July 10 for criminally assaulting two white girls. Brodsky said he would present to the judge who sentenced them a charge of racial injustice. If another trial is denied, he said, the International Labor Defense, whom he represents will carry the fight to the United States supreme court. COOKING CLASS ERRS And Thirteen Girls Are in Hospital With Ptomaine Poisoning. By United Press BALTIMORE, Md., June 4.—Excited parents stormed a girls’ vocational school here today when word leaked out that the student body was overcome with ptomaine poisoning from food prepared in a cooking class. While the frightened parents swarmed about the door, thirteen girls, all violently ill, were removed to ambulances. Pair Separates; He Takes Bathtub By United Press CHICAGO, June 4.—Mrs. Lillian Floring told Judge Rudolph Desort that when aha and her husband, Herman, separated on April 12, he took with him the dog. the piano and the bath tub. Desort ordered Floring to return the tub.

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EXILED HEDJAZ XING IS DEAD Hussein Will Be Buried in Jerusalem Tomb. By United Press LONDON, June 4. —An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Assam today said Hussein, exiled king of Hedjaz, Arabia, died at dawn. King Hussein, at one tinje one of the most powerful potentates in the near east, long had been ill. Two of Hussein's sons were at his bedside when he died, the Exchange Telegraph report said. They were former King Ali and Emir Zeid, the eldest and youngest of the old monarch’s offspring. King Feisal of Irao had returned to Bagdad the day before, believing his father u f ould recover. The funeral cortege proceeded to Jerusalem shortly after Hussein’s death, the dispatch said. Hussein will be buried at Jerusalem, according to present plans. Hussein, Ibn Ali of the Hedjaz, once a proud monarch and the father of three kings, died an embittered old man. He lived in Cyprus for most of the six years after his exile from his country in 1925, where he was in bad health much of the time.

HIS ‘FAG’ IS COSTLY Bandit Robs Driver as He Stops for Smoke. His morning cigaret cost Dean Lynch, 1340 West Thirtv-second street. sl6, and the Pittsford Purity Pie Company. $35 today. Lynch habitually drove north on Osage street off Washington street with the company’s truck. And almost as habitually he'd stop at times on Osage to light a cigaret. Today his fag puffs were halted by another smoker, who wanted to borrow a light, and. aided by a gun, got Lynch’s money and the company’s. ' He was white, wore a blue suit, and had a scar on his face,” Lynch told police. ASKS AUTOPSY OFEARS Post-Mortem Study of Deafness Urged Before U. S. Federation. CHICAGO, June 4.—A plea to save the ears of deafened persora for scientific study after death, in the hope of learning more about deafness, its causes and possible cure or prevention, was made by Dr. E. W. Hagens of this city at the meeting here Wednesday of the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing.

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NOTED BANKER DIES SUDDENLY Mortimer L. Schiff Is Heart Attack Victim. By United Press NEW YORK, June 4.—Mortimer L. Schiff, noted financier and philanthropist, died today at his home at Oyster Bay, L. I. Schiff, 54, was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Cos., a member of the New York Stock Exchange, active in several large business enterprises, and a member of several clubs. He was noted for his philanthropic work. The banker was found dead in bed. He was sitting up and apparently had succumbed to a heart attack. One of his chief interests was the Boy Scouts of America, of which he recently was made president. Eorn in New York. June 5, 1877, he entered the class of 1896 at Amherst college, from which he received an honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1906. After studying railroading with the New York, Ontario & Western and the Great Northern, he spent two years in London and Hamburg studying European banking methods. He had been a partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Cos. since Jan. 1, 1900.

BOY ADMITS ARSON Fires Foster Parent’s Home 'to See It Burn.’ ‘‘l wanted to see it burn,” was the explanation Ray Thomas, 16, gave for burning dowm the residence of his foster parents in Muncie, according to H. R. McCune, state arson investigator, who questioned the boy. Thomas was released from the orphans’ home at Muncie to a couple there on May 4. A few' days later occurred the fire, which he is said to have confessed he started. Albert Fowler, chief of the arson bureau, announced the conviction of Raymond Scase, 27, of Salem; Ind., who confessed to burning his automobile to obtain the insurance. He was given a one-to-three-year term in the state prison. RICHMAN CO. TO BUILD $4,000,000 Structure Is Planned in Detroit by Clothing Firm By United Press CLEVELAND, 0., June 4.—Plans for erecting an eight-story mercantile structure at Woodward avenue and Clifford street, Detroit, w f ere announced today by the Richman Brothers' Company, men’s clothing manufacturers and retailers. The building, the company’s first in Detroit, will cost $4,000,000. N. G. Richman, chairman oi the board, said the store will be the largest in the country devoted to the exclusive sale of men's and boys’ clothing. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 67 10 a. m 76 7a. m 68 11 a. m 80 Ba. m 69 12 (noon).. 81 9a. m 72 Ip. m 82

SCHOOL BOY, 7, IS INJURED BY TRUCK

A truck driver, who police say passed a street car at reckless speed while passengers were being discharged. was arrested this afternoon after his truck hit a 7-year-old school boy on his way home to luncheon. The child, Frank Barrett, son of Mrs. Hazel Barrett, 1135 East Washington street, was taken to city hospital with critical injuries. His right leg was fractured and his forehead badly gashed, but he did not lose consciousness. The accident occurred at East

COLLECTS BACK ALIMONY FROM SCHNEIDER IN COURT

A BLONDE young woman today faced her now famous husband in superior court four after she and the judge awaited him two hours while he was receiving compliments of friends. •'Hello, Louie,” she smiled; “how are you?” Hi. Helen; I’m fine,” he answered. And a few minutes later, Loula Schneider, ex-motorcycle cop and

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EXTEND STORE KILLERS HUNT ACROSSSTATE 300 Indiana Police'Chiefs and Sheriffs Asked to Help Capture Gunmen. CITIZENS’ AID SOUGHT Lafayette Jackson, Chain Store Owner, Shot Eight Days Ago. Through underworld haunts today, detectives sought two men j suspected as slayers of Lafayette A. Jackson, wealthy owner of the Standard Grocery chain. At the same time 300 police chiefs and sheriffs and the entire citizenry of the state were asked by Indianapolis authorities to aid in the search for two gunmen who fatally shot the grocer executive in a holdup attempt May 27. At least one of the bandits, and probably both, were wounded in their battle with Jackson and three detectives, police believe. One May Have Been Slain One of the killers is thought to have been shot in the neck, and may have been wounded mortally. Gangster fashion, Major Herbert Fletcher, acting police chief, has theorized, the body may have been thrown into some out of the way place as the others escaped. Search of woods and valleys throughout the state was Included in Majoi\Fletcher’s request to police in other cities for co-operation in the man hunt. For information leading to arrest and conviction of the murderers, rewards totaling $3,100 have been offered by The Times and friends and business associates of Mr. Jackson. Several Inspectors Held Os the pair sought here today one, an ex-convict, is said to parallel in description one of the two gunmen who staged the battle in the store, detectives said. Os several suspects under arrest since the shooting, none has been identified by employes of the firm, and Chester Jackson, son of the dead man. who were in the store during the fight. Throughout the country Indianapolis police have broadcast the following descriptions of the slayers: No.l Twenty-five to 30 years old; 5 feet 5 inches in height; weighing from., 130 to 140 pounds; long nose; hollow cheeks which give the appearance of being either a narcotic addict or an anemic; wearing a brown suit with a stripe; long gray overcoat and soft brown hat pulled down over his eyes. Third Man Also Sought No. 2. Twenty to 30 years old; 5 feet 10 inches in height; weighing 165 pounds with dark hair; medium complexion; dark eyes; wearing dark suit and neatly dressed. A third man also believed to be a 1 member of the gang and who was! seen around the store a few mo-j ments before the attempted robbery! was described as being from 28 to! 30 yearst old, 5 feet 5 inches in height, weighing fro m 145 to 150 pounds; dark complexion and wearing a light brown suit and stiffbrimmed straw hat.

CONFESSES HE HAD NO DERBY POOL TICKET Ship Oiler’s Admission Clears Tangle Over $145,090. By United Press LONDON, June 4.—Over enthusiasm led Joseph Kennedy, a member of the crew of the steamer American Banker, to announce that he had drawn a ticket on Cameronian in the Irish sweepstakes on the English Derby, officials of the United States lines said today. It was explained that Kennedy was over-eager to celebrate when he read of the drawing of a ticket by a Boston man with a name and address similar to his. The Kennedy of the American Banker is a white man, not a Negro, as erroneously reported at first. The Boston Kennedy who drew the ticket is a Nerro.

Washington street and Highland avenue as the street car motorman, not knowing a truck was approaching from the rear too fast to stop, motioned the youngster to cross the street. Witnesses said Arthur Schwengert, 19, of 1331 McKim street, driving the West Baking Company truck, skidded forty feet in a futile effort to avoid hitting the child. Motor policemen Tony De Barr and C. O. Johnson charged him with reckless driving, passing a street car, and driving without a chauffeur’s license. Frank is a pupil in School 14.

winner of Saturday's 500-mile Speedway race paid Mrs. Helen Schneider, his first wife. $324 in alimony due her for the support of their daughter Mary Ellen, 6. Mrs. Schneider, who was divorced from the race driver in 1929 after four years of marriage, now is living with her parents at 2239 North New Jersey street, and attending art school. Schneider has married and is the father of a 6-months-old boy.

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DRY AGENTS STIR SOUTH BEND’S IRE

By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 4 Battle lines for a fight to the finish over prohibition were being drawn here today as the outgrowth of charges that federal dry agents used ’’brutal, cossack methods” in conducting a raid at a South Bend home. District Attorney Oliver M. Loomis, replying to the charges, said

A. G. BROWN ELECTED TO HEAD MERCHANTS Marott Shoe Shop Operator Named at Annual Session. Arthur G. Brown of the Marott Shoe shop, Wednesday was elected president of the Merchants’ Association at the annual session in the association’s Illinois building headquarters. Other officers of the organization were re-elected. They are: E. A. Kahn of the Peoples Outfitting Company, vice-president; George Vonnegut, Vonnegut Hardware Company, secretary; F. D. Stalnaker, president of the Indiana National bank, treasurer, and W. E. Balch, manager. Directors of the association include the officers and Frederic M. Ayres of L. S. Ajres & Cos.; M. S. Block of William H. Block Company; Albert- S. Goldstein of Goldstein Bros., Inc.; C. A. Taylor of Taylor’s, Inc., and Albert Zeller of Charles Mayer & Cos. GIRL HURLED FROM CAR Accepts Ride With Unknown Man; Rejects Advances; Thrown out. Thrown from an auto by an unidentified man, Miss Louise Brown, 23, of 709 Ft. Wayne avenue, Wednesday night suffered a broken right wrist, cuts and bruises. She told police she had accepted a ride with a man. whom she did not know and after she refused his advances, the driver shoved her from the car at Sixteenth and Delaware streets.

Judge Clarence E. Weir turned over summons fer Schneider on court contempt charges to deputy sheriffs, but did not press the charges when Schneider came into court with Deputy Sheriff Jcsepfc Tragesser. “I’m sorry, your honor, but I started to court and met so many friends who congratulated me on the winning of the race that I was late.” the driver explained.

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that the government “would not be intimidated by mobs and that raids would be conducted, even if an army of agents had to be used.” Hie Kosciusko Civic Club held a protest meeting on the west side of South Bend at which it was alleged that violence by raiders had contributed to the death of Anselm Przybysz, who just had returned from a hospital to his home, an alleged speakeasy. The club charged that agents used illegal methods and that Thomas Scott, one of the raiders, was drunk and fought with Aloysius Przybysz, brother of the dead man. It asked Colonel J. E. Herbert, Chicago, regional director, to investigate actions of the agents, who said their work was hampered by a mob which threw stones at them.

DOX RESUMES HOP Forced Down at Sea, but Takes Off Again. By United Press PORTO PRAI, Cape Verdi Islands, June 4.—The German seaplane Dornier DOX resumed its long-delayed flight across the South Atlantic today, and a short time after starting was reported to have come down at sea about sixty miles southwest of here. The report came by wireless, but the same sources subsequently said the DOX had not met with an accident. A tug was sent out from here and it was believed news of the airplane’s whereabouts will be received soon. Wilkins’ Sub Ready for Test* By United Press PROVINCETOWN, Mass., June 4. —The submarine Nautilus which Sir Hubert Wilkins plans to sail to the north pole arrived here early today to prepare for standardization tests on the measured mile course off Wood End coast guard stations.

The money obtained by Mrs. Schneider, is for $6-a-week support for the little girl. “I don’t want anything,” Mrs. Schneider said. "It is for my daughter. I think Louie should do the decent thing.” The first Mrs. Schneider said she was “glad Louie won the race.” "He had worked hard to drive a winner at the Speedway,” she said. “It gave me a lot of Joy when he won.”

Flight Will Start Within Next Month, State Department Officials Are Told by Sky Ace. BABY TO STAY HOME WITH NURSE Course Expected to Follow That Traced by U. S. Army Fleet in Its Round-the-World Adventure. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 4. to follow the northern route. Charles A. Lindbergh, who Lindbergh told Undersecwon fame four years ago by retary of State William R. making the first nonstop Castle that he expected to use

flight across the Atlantic, is making plans to fly across the Pacific with his wife and tour Japan and China, it was learned today at the state department. Lindbergh outlined his plans today to the state department, explaining he would cross the

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STICKERS AID LAW Motorists Fast Learning New Traffic Code. Police warning stickers being placed on cars improperly parked under the new traffic ordinance, to be enforced Monday, are proving highly effective in winning obedience from motorists, Police Captain Lewis Johnson said today. The warning stickers, coupled with newspaper stories explaining provisions of the ordinance, have resulted in 100 per cent improvement in traffic congestion. Johnson said. "Alleys were cleaner of parked cars this morning than ever before in my recollection.” he asserted. "At 8 a. m. today there were few cars parked in the downtown area, which will be forbidden territory for parking between 7 and 9:15 a. m., starting Monday. Starting Monday police will order all cars Improperly parked to be impounded, motorists being charged from $3 to $3.50 to recover their cars. OGDEN’S DAUGHTER, INJURED, IS IMPROVING Gradual Recovery Is Reported by Girl’s Aunt in City. Improvement in the condition of Miss Mary Ann Ogden, 20, daughter of Attorney-General and Mrs. James M. Ogden, who received serious injuries Tuesday in an automobile accident near Chester, Pa., was reported today by her aunt, Mrs. Claus H. Best, 5345 North Delaware street. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden went to Chester immediately after being notified of the accident. Driving to Swarthmore college with a friend, Henry Parrish of Riverton, N. J., the car in which Miss Ogden was riding collided with another and she was hurled against the windshield, sustaining a fracture of the skull and cuts and bruises. DEMPSEY’S PAL KILLER Slays Gambling Dealer in Shooting Melee at Reno. By United Press RENO, Nev., June 4.—W. H. McCracken, a gambling dealer, was killed today by William Graham, prominent gambler and an associate of Jack Dempsey in boxing promotion. Graham, who was wounded in the arm in an exchange of gun fire, was placed under technical arrest after he explained the shooting was a result of a quarrel over gambling matters. Graham said McCracken sought him out and fired first. TRICKERY IS CHARGED Heflin’s “Propaganda Agents” in Washington, Claims Bankhead. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 4.—Charges that "propaganda agents'’ of former Senator Thomas Heflin (Dem., Ala.) are at work in Washington seeking to swerve the aim of the senate committee investigating the Alabama senatorial election were made today by John 11. Bankhead, Heflin’ successful Democratic opponent.

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secretary by telephone from New York early today and amplified the plans he had outlined earlier. The flier asked Castle to make known his plans. Lindbergh emphasized his desire to make the trip purely for pleasure, and said he would pvceed cautiously to avoid exposing Mrs. Lindbergh to danger. Leaves Within Month He expects to leave the States within a month and to spend about three weeks flying through Japan and China. His plans became known today when he requested the state department to secure permission for him to fly over foreign territories. Castle immediately dispatched a telegram requesting the necessary permission. The state department said should Lindbergh find it necessary t 6 fly over or land on Siberian territory, he would have to secure permission directly from the Soviet government, due to lack cf diplomatic relations with that country. Must Get Soviet O. K. Aviators seeking similar permission in the past have made application through the Amtorg Trading Company of New York, or the Soviet information bureau here. Lindbergh has not yet determined, he told Castle, whether he will return from the Orient by boat or plane. Many details of the trip, he explained, remain to be worked out. In taking Mrs. Lindbergh, the former Ann Morrow, daughter of Senator Dwight Morrow of New Jersey, Lindbergh will have a companion who is a skilled aviator. Ever since the pair married, Mrs. Lindbergh has flown with her husband and recently received a pilot's license in her own right. Trip for Adventure State department officials emphasized that the tour had no official significance, being merely an adventurous pleasure trip for the personal enjoyment of the Lindberghs. The jaunt will be the third international tour the flying colonel has made since he came into the spotlight four years ago by spanning the Atlantic alone in his Spirit of St. Louis. Following that famous Journey, he flew to Mexico and later on a good-will trip around Central and South American countries. t Officials of the Soviet information bureau told the United Press that Lindbergh will have no difficulty obtaining authorization if he chooses to fly or land on Soviet territory. Welcome in Russia They said that the bureau has received no application for such permisison, but that three permits to American fliers projecting flight across Soviet territories had been granted within the last month. The Soviet bureau informally expressed the view that Soviet Russia would be delighted if Lindbergh flew to Soviet territory. They said that Soviet aviators have a great admiration for Lindbergh. It was recalled that when the ’'Land cf the Soviets” plane arrived at New York in November, 1929 after its flight from Moscow, Lindbergh was at Curtiss field to greet pilot Semyon A. Shestakov, leader of the expedition, and his three companions. His cordiality and friendly interest at that time was appreciated greatly in Soviet Russia, it was said. Lindbergh’s infant son will remain in this country while its parents fly to the Orient, either in care (Turn to Page 2)

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the low wing monopl an e in which he established a speed record across the United States. It will be equipped with pontoons. Lin and b e r g h came here Wednesday and discussed hi a flight plans at a luncheon with Castle. He called the under