Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1931 — Page 3

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SHOTGUN BLAST KILLS PROWLER; FAILSJO HALT John C. Gnas, 28, Alleged Peeper, Succumbs to Wounds. Annoyed several nights by a prowler around his home, Harley D. Cooke, 38, of 805 North Denny street, early Sunday wounded John C. Gnas, 23, fatally. Gnas lived at 226 East Twelfth street, Apartment 45. He formerly lived in Evansville. The shotgun charge struck Gnas in the abdomen from about twentyfeet. He dropped to the ground, crawled to his auto and drove to 332 Chester avenue, where he was forced to call for aid. Gnas was carried inside and dispatched a telegram to his uncle, Harry Hitch, in Evansville. Police sent him to city hospital, he died several hours later. Peeper Spied Before Cooke told detectives he had been bothered by a peeper on several occasions for a month. Saturday night he and his wife sat on the front porch and watched a car drive slowly past the house three times. He said he was certain it was the man he wounded. Some time later, an auto stopped in an alley behind his house, but was backed out of view when Cooke peered from a kitchen window. Mrs. Cooke became frightened. Together they searched the house to quiet her fears. It was while Cooke was in the unlighted basement that the car came back in the alley. A man got out and walked toward the house. Refused to Halt "When he was about twenty-five feet away, I called for him to stop, but he came on. I aimed at his legs and fired. He took two or three steps backward and fell. I could have killed him there, but I didn’t want to," Cooke said. In a deathbed statement, Gnas said he had attended a show downtown Saturday night, and admitted stopping in the alley behind Cooke’s house. A friend of Gnas told police the man had been arrested once in Evansville for peeping into houses, but the uncle, who arrived here Sunday to take care of the body M said he had not heard of that arrest. Cooke was arrested on a vagrancy : charge, but Coroner Fred Vehling ; released him on his own recogniz- i ance. ABANDONMENT OF OLD RAILROAD SCHEDULED Delaware & Hudson Bows to Truck Competition. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—One of the country’s oldest railroad lines is i to be abandoned, a victim of motor , truck competition. The interstate commerce commis- j sion today authorized the Delaware | & Hudson Railroad Corporation to! abandon twenty-four miles of Its j Honesaale branch in Lackawanna ! and Wayne counties, Pennsylvania. To transport coal from the mines at Carbondale on the Hoosic mountain to Honesdale, a narrow gauge gravity railroad was completed in 1829. Stationary steam engines furnished the necessary power on the upgrades. Passenger service on the branch, which has kept pace with modern developments, was discontinued in 1928, and the D. & H. finally applied for authorization to abandon the branch except for a four-mile stretch through an anthracite area. ; KNIFE VICTIM'S WIFE ' HELD AT FRANKFORT Tells Authorities She Can Not Recall Details of Tragedy. By United Press FRANKFORT, Ind., Aug. 3.—Mrs.; Minnie Fudge is held in jail here to-; day while an investigation was be- j ingfmade of the knife killing of her husband, William Fudge, 62, a farm- | er. He was stabbed to death dur-: ing an altercation at his home, po- t lice said. Dan Powers, sheriff, reported that.' Mrs. Fudge had said that her hus-j band came to the home intoxicated, as she was preparing a meal. She: charged that he seized a butcher j knife and threatened to kill herr according to Powers, but she was un- j able to remember what transpired; after she attmpted to take the j knife from him. When neighbors whom Mrs. Fudge summond arrived; they found her holding the body of her husband. No charges have been filed filed against Mrs. Fudge. DEMPSEY SOON TO FILE Attachment of Estelle’s Car Seen as Start of Divorce Action. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3.—Estelle Taylor, screen actress, expected her husband. Jack Dempsey, to file suit for divorce today. Dempsey is in Reno. Miss Taylor said Joe Dempsey, brother of Jack, appeared suddenly at a party Sunday with a deputy sheriff and attached the $15,000 automobile Jack gave her. She said she thought it was preliminary to a divorce action. The j couple's attorneys recently ' l -1 tempted to reach a property settle- ! ment without success. RARE GUNS ARE~STOLEN Thieves Break Into Locksmith’s Shop, Take Exhibit Guns valued at approximately $350 were stolen today while on exhibition in the widow of Audley Dunham, locksmith, 601 North Illinois street. The guns belonged to Patrolman Harry Bridway, a collector of antique revolvers and guns of odd makes. The front window of the locksmiths was broken to gain entrance i to the exhibit. Dies of Wagon Injuries Bernard Coy, 11, of near Edinburg, died in St. Vincent's hospital Sunday of injuries suffered when a wagon tongue pierced his abdomen : July 22. The mishap occurred on! his father’s farm.

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How the Akron Will Look When It Takes the Air—ln this remarkable composite picture, the artist has combined a picture of the U. S. Akron with that of its dock, or hangar, to show how the mighty airship will look when it takes the air on its maiden flight over its huge “nesf,” that is the largest single room in the world.

This Is the third of six stories on the U. S. Navy’s new Akron, mightiest of the world’s great airships, which is to be christened by Mrs. Hoover of Akron, on Aug. 8. Previous stories have told of the sire of this great 55,000,000 Zeppelin and of the safety measures taken during construction to preclude the possibility of another disaster like that of the Shenaandoah. BY ISRAEL KLEIN Science Editor, NEA Service (■Copyright. 1931, bv NEA Service, Inc.l AKRON, 0., Aug. 3.—Launching of the United States Akron here will mark the end of a series of exacting constructional tests and the beginning of anew series of operation tests designed to prove the complete safety of Uncle Sam’s sky dreadnaught. These operation tests will determine whether the world’s greatest airship really answers to the specifications and designs of the engineers who built it. First will come the dock tests, or shed trials, which will be made before the Akron is allowed to leave its dock. Next will be a series of trial flights in which the ship will be maneuvered under certain specified conditions prepared by the engineers. "In the dock,” explains Dr. Karl Arnstein, designer of the Akron, “our chief purpose will be to determine the agreement of our stress calculations with actual stresses on the ship. We shall do this by bending the ship first up and then down. This will be done by concentrating loads on both ends in order to bend her down and by concentrating a heavy

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Negro Children Stricken After Meal; Probe Plot Angle. Two children are dead and their father and a third child arc in a serious condition as a result of ptomaine poisoning suffered Sunday following a meal of succotash. The dead are: Robert Kerr Jr., Negro, 5, of 1728 Martindale avenue. Hattie Louise Kerr, 6. Dorothy Kerr, 17 months old, is in the city hospital suffering from effects of the poisoning, and the father, Robert Kerr Sr., is in bed at his home. Autopsies conducted Sunday show that the two children died from septic colitis, the chemical action CHARGE NEGRO WITH SHOOTING IN QUARREL Bullet Strikes Participant in Back; Stabbing Being Probed. Charged with shooting with intent to kill Alonzo Johnson, Negro, 38, of 1919 Cornell avenue, early Sunday, Elijah Edmonds, Negro, 42, of 1924 Cornell avenue, gave as his defense that Ir and Johnson had quarreled. He said that he had shot once when Johnson tried to enter his home. The bullet struck Johnson in the back, but did not wound him seriously. Johnson was arrested on charges of drunkenness and vagrancy. In another shooting scrape, at 809 Blake street, two Negroes were injured. Albert Naupins was shot in the foot, and Sam Lefthridde, 24, was shot in the shoulder. They said they were shot by a man arguing with a woman in an alley. Later police found Walter Bush, Negro, 31, of 2407 Paris avenue, in the rear of 537 Bright street, suffering from knife wounds. He was weak from loss of blood. Police were told that Lefthridde had stabbed him. ASKS SUGAR TARIFF CUT Senator George, Georgia, Replies to Republican Challenge. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—A lower tariff on sugar was asked by Senator Walter George (Dem., Ga.) in replying to a Republican challenge to name specific commodities on which he thought the ta.lT too high. George named sugar and countered with a demand that President Hoover and Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee express themselves on that rate.

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load in her center to bend her upward. ana “'T'HEN all control lines running A to the rudders, the elevators, ballast bags, gas cells, etc., will be tested. Every instrument and electrical device will be tested. “All gas cells will be inflated to various proportions and tested for their ability to retain gas. This will be done by measuring the purity of each cell and of ail cells combined.” Still in the dock, the ship will be allowed to ride statically—that is, by the lift of the helium in its cells alone—and observations will be taken on all phases that enter into its static equilibrium or “trim.” Then, thoroughly satisfied with the static performance of the Akron, the engineers will permit it to be taken out on its first trial flight. This first venture out of the huge dock will be one of the mast ticklish and exacting operations- in the entire schedule of tests. For the movement of a huge airship like the Akron in and out of its berth involves a very difficult job of ground handling. ana FIRST the 115-ton mobile stub mast will be moved up to the nose of the ship and the Akron’s cone made fast into the cup on top of the mast. The heavy side handling cars on rails 200 feet apart will be run alongside the Akron at the stern and cables attached between them and the ship. Then will come the slow procession of the dock. Most likely, during this first ven-

resulting from certain foods after contact with unclean pots and pans. The father became ill Satit-day night following the meal of succotash. Sunday the boy and girl died at the city hospital and the third child was admitted late Sunday night suffering from the effects of the poison. The mother and a fourth child, Kelly, did not partake of the supper. Green beans, corn and milk formed the fatal meal. City detectives* are investigating the deaths to determine whether foul play is a possibility. GIRL CASHIER ROBBED Two Bandits Escape With S4OO to SSOO at Columbia City. By United Press COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Aug. 3. Two men entered a branch of the Franklin Security Company here today, held up Miss Marjorie Cusick, 20, cashier, and escaped with between S4OO and SSOO. Miss Cusick was bound to a chair by the bandits. She broke the bonds w’ithin five minutes, she said, and reported the robbery. The company, located on the second floor of an office building, is a branch of the Franklin Security Company, Hartford City. Lantern Flare Burns Negro While putting gasoline in a truck by the light of a lantern, Saturday night, William Majors, Negro, 5:2 years old, 1928 Martindale avenue, spilled some on the lantern. It caught fire, and burned Majors on the head and hands. At city hospital his injury was reported not serious.

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ture out a trained ground handling crew will be on hand to take hold of the ship in case anything goes wrong with the mechanical apparatus. Perhaps, the first time the Akron sticks its nose out of the dock it may not even be released for any sort of flight. Once assured of the proper methods for the handling of the Akron on the ground, the engineers will proceed with the trial flights. tt tt tt ONE of these flights will be made over a predetermined route and for a very limited distance, to determine such things as the turning qualities of the ship and its maneuverability, or how easily it responds to the various controls. In another flight the amount of dynamic lift will be ascertained, that is, the load which the ship can carry under the power of its motors and beyond the lift furnished by its buoyant gas. Another flight will enable the engineers to determine the rate at which the ship will be able to ascend. Here the new type of propellers, which tilt from horizontal to vertical position, will be tested under various conditions. Finally, a special speed trial flight will be made over a specified route. Next: Ground handing and docking of an airship as long as a city block and as high as a 14story building. ‘SUICIDE'PRANK INJURES WOMAN Acid Burns Result From Joke About Death. A prank suicide threat may result in Mrs. Kate Whiteford, 809 West New York street, being scarred for life. Mrs. Whiteford prepared to take a bath Sunday afternoon. She filled the tub with water and intended to pour some acid in it as a deodorant. Her aunt, Mrs. Kate Gibson, spied the bottle of acid in her hand and said, “What are you doing with that bottle?” “I am about to commit suicide/’ dramatically retorted Mrs. Whiteford as she lifted the bottle to her lips. Mrs. Gibson screamed and attempted to seize the bottle of acid. The bottle tipped spilling the contents on her niece’s face. Mrs. Whiteford was burned severely, but physicians today said her condition is not serious. “It’ll be a few days before we can tell whether she’ll suffer scars,” doctors said. Cheated, Bandits Take Man’s Pants CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—Angry because their victim had only 25 cents for them to steal from him, three bandits forced Harry Erickson to give them his pants, then hide behind a bush until a policeman rescued him.

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FEDERALGUURT SYSTEM LAUDED GY COMMISSION 'Bargaining’ Speeds Up Work, Finding in Wickersham Report. BY JULIUS FRANDSEN l'nitd Prfss Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—lncreasing use of the federal district courts “for the kind of offenses ordinarily designated as police court offenses” was reported today by the Wickersham commission. The commission transmitted to President Hoover a minute study of the federal court for Connecticut j for three years ended June 30, 1930. ! It found that by the end of that period minor prohibition cases had increased so greatly that they constituted 81 per cent of the criminal : docket there. Despite the growing number of cases the court was found to be handling them expeditiously and ; with “a complete absence of pro- ; cedural delays and difficulties which commonly are thought to be inherent in and peculiar to the system.” Jury Trials Fewer Great numbers of weak cases are dropped by the federal enforcement agencies and prosecutors. "Bargaining” with defendants to plead guilty also speeds up the court’s work, the commission said. Asa result there were 682 convictions in the 740 criminal cases in the three years. Ninety-two per cent of them were on pleas of guilty. In 585 prohibition cases, there were 537 convictions. Sixtyfive per cent of the prohibition cases were disposed of on the day the information or indictment was filed. Eighty per cent of them were disposed of by fines. In all the 740 cases there were only nine j,ury trials. "The falling of the jury into almost complete desuetude is most strinking,” the commission said. Eight of the trials were in prohibition cases and three of them brought convictions. Ask Additional Funds Evidence of the "bargaining system between prosecution and defendants was found in the fact that 95 per cent of those who pleaded guilty when arraigned before th\ United States commissioner changed their pleas to guilty in court. Such a pretrial agreement between the government and A1 Capone was denounced by Federal Judge Wilkerson in Chicago last week. The Connecticut data was contained in a “progress report” on the commission study of federal courts in thirteen representative districts of the country. No data has yet been tabulated for the other districts. Chairman Wickersham in transmitting the report to President Hoover said $25,000 was needed to complete the survey. The commission’s federal appropriations expired July 1. The survey of the courts is to be completed by the American law institute, to which the Rockefeller foundation has contributed $25,000. An equal amount must be secured “from other sources,” Wickersham said. He added the commission found it “inexpedient” to ask congress for this money. 2 DROWN IN CANAL Deaths Sunday Raise Toll to 16 for Year. Drown-ngs in Marion county mounted to sixteen Sunday afternoon when Frank Cauldwell, Negro, of 1138 Fayette street, and an unidentified man were drowned in the canal. Cauldwell walked into the canal at Indiana avenue. John Smith, Negro, of 515 Indiana avenue, failed in an attempt to rescue Cauldwell. The bcKty was found later by police with drag hocks. The unidentified man jumped into the canal at West street. Efforts were being made today to identify the body. Movie Seats for Wheat By United Press CANTON, 0., Aug. 3.—Joe Calla, manager of two Canton moving picture theaters, has his own way* of contributing to charity. Calla is accepting one bushel of wheat as the price of admission to his theaters for three adults. The wheat goes to the Salvation Army.

DEMAND RELEASE OF REDS HELD AT GARY Leslie Receives Protests Against Alleged Police Brutality, Two telegrams from alleged Communist societies in Hammond and Gary today demanded of Governor Harry G. Leslie release of men arrested by Gary police Saturday night during a public demonstration. Demanding immediate release of their comrades, a committee of the Gary chapter of the Mutual Aid Society also protested against “bloody brutality of drunken policemen and gangsters. Another message, signed by G. A. Fritz, secretary of the Unemployed Council of Hammond, berated “Brutal slugging by Gary police of peaceful workers holding a peaceful meeting.” It charged police with unprovoked attack on the meeting about 7 Saturday night.

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DEMOCRATS SEE COLORADO WON Count on G. 0. P. to Split in 1932 Senate Race. By Bcrtpps-Tlotcnrd Sewspaprr AUianrr WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Democratic national leaders are counting confidently upon adding Colorado to the party column in 1932. Their confidence is based on general prospects entertained for a Democratic victory and the belief that Senator Charles W. Waterman, Republican senior senator from Colorado, will not be a candidate for re-election. Waterman’s health is such that it is rumored on Capitol Hill that he will not again attempt a campaign. No word of his intentions, so far

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