Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1931 — Page 13

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15,000 STATE TEACHERS TO THRONG CITY Schools Close and Pupils Watch Instructors Go to Own Classes. CITY HOTELS JAMMED Convention Will Start on Thursday, With Over 40 Meetings. Fifteen thousand Hoosier school teachers today were preparing to begin their annual trek to the state capital to attend the seventyeighth annual Indiana State Teachers’ Association convention Thursday and Friday. Schools throughout the state closed their doors this afternoon until Monday to permit the teachers to attend the convention, giving pupils a four-day vacation, while their instructors themselves go to schooL Hotel rooms were filled to capacity by advance registrations and thousands of teachers will be forced to take rooms in private homes. Assignment of rooms in private homes is being made by the Indianapolis convention bureau, from a booth on the mezzanine floor of the Claypocl. Full Program Arranged A full program for the two days has been arranged, leaving the teachers little time for other matters such, as their annual shopping expeditions. t The convention will open Thursday morning with the holding of more than forty sectional meetings, in which all the convention visitors will participate. These sessions will continue in the early afternoon. The teachers will meet at Cadle tabernacle at 4 Thursday for assignment of meeting places for district sessions, when each district will elect one vice-president, one nominating committeeman and one nominee for delegate to the N. E. A. convention In 1932. More than 160 speakers of state and national prominence are scheduled during the convention, which will be opened formally with a general session Thursday night at Cadle tabernacle.

Stuart to Give Address Milo H. Stuart, Indianapolis, state president, will give his Inaugural address, “The Child Himself in Our Schools,” at the session Friday night. High point of the sessionwill be address on “Mussolini” by Tom Skeyhill, famous Australian poet and student of world affairs. Friday w'ill be devoted to general sessions. Election of officers and report of the resolutions committee is scheduled for the Friday morning business session at Cadle tabernacle. Two general sessions will be held Friday afternoon, one at Cadle tabernacle and the other at the Murat theater. Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio supreme court and Cameron Beck. New York Stock Exchange personnel director, will speak at the tabernacle session. Dinners Scheduled Speakers at Murat theater will be Dr. William E. Dodd and George J. Laing, University of Chicago, and Dr. James E. Rogers. National Physical Education Service director. Principal address at the closing session Friday night at Cadle tabernacle will be that of Bishop Frederick B. Fisher of Ann Arbor on “Mahatma Gandhi.” Forty-seven dinners and reunions of social and professional fraternities and sororities, and alumni and other groups, are scheduled for Thursday and Friday nights. Several auxiliary' meetings are being held, including the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers’ \ convention at the Severln which opened Tuesday and will continue through Thursday, sessions of the County Superintendents’ Association, which met today at the Lincoln. and meeting of the Indiana High School Athletic Association tonight and Thursday. BUTLER IUNIORsTICK LOOKABILL AS CHIEF Wins Over Robert Halbert by Singl, Vote in Election. John Lookabill was elected president of the Junior class at Butler university Tuesday. He won over Robert Halbert by one vote in the closest election ever held on the Butler campus. ( Marjorie Lytle was named vicepresident, Mary Harvey won the race for secretary and Allen Bailey was elected treasurer. All the new' officers are from Indianapolis except Bailey, who lives in Burlington. la. The Butler student council was in charge of the election. Lookabill is a Sigma Chi and a member of the student council. Miss Lytle belongs to Alpha Chi Omega. Miss Harvey is a Delta Delta Delta and Bailey is a member of Phi Delta Theta. ARTS BOARD TO MEET Indiana Committee to Hold Animal Dinner at Claypool. Indiana committee on the cooperation of fine arts will hold its annual dinner meeting at 6 tonight at the Claypool. Dr. L. N. Hines, president of Indiana State Teacher college, committee chairman, and executive committeemen. Including Robert Cavanaugh, director of the Indiana university extension division, J. E. Walter of Purdue, and Miss Edna Shover of John Herron Art school, will attend. Announcement was made by the committee that bookings are being taken for an exhibition of Frank Schoonover’s illustrative painting.

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The photo speaks for the fishing prowess of George L. Turner, 1525 West Twenty-seventh street, who says the fish are biting in Lake Webster and it’s just a matter of knowing the tricks to bring home a string like this. Monday he caught twentyfive crappies and as many blue gills, with an average weight of IVi pounds each.

FORD SEES BENEFIT IN U. S. DEPRESSION

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DOOLITTLE SETS SPEEMECORD Links Ottawa, Mexico City in Dawn-Dark Flight. By United Press MEXICO CITY, Oct. 21.—Successful in linking the capitals of Canada, the United States and Mexico in a dawn-to-dusk flight, Major Jimmy Doolittle received the tribute of Mexicans and Americans here today and prepared to fly back to St. Louis. He expects to leave Thursday. Doolittle landed at Valbuena flying field twelve hours and twentyfive minutes after leaving Ottawa. He made brief than 200 miles " DoS?* an hour on his 2.500-mile flight. He landed here soon after George Pocaterra, wealthy Venezuelan, and Luke Hoover of Trinidad, Colo., who are flying from New York to Bogota, had arrived. Doolittle had no previous record to contest on his Canada-Mexico flight, but he beat the time made by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh between Washington and Mexico City in the Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh made a nonstop flight between the American and Mexican capitals in 27 hours, while Doolittle’s .speed plane covered the distance in 10 hours and 15 minutes. NEWS LEAGUE ELECTS Associated Press Group Retains Old Officers; Hear Police Head. Asking aid of Indiana newspapers to make police efforts more effective, Grover C. Garrott, state police chief, addressed the fall meeting of the Indiana Associated Press here Tuesday. Present officers w'ere re-elected. They are: George Crittenberger, Anderson Bulletin, president; Louis Hiner, Rushville Republican, and John Conner, Seymour Tribune, vice-presidents, and S. P. Ochiltree, Associated Press, Indianapolis, secretary.

MINIMIZE JOB PLAN OF HEALTH BOARD

Possibility that state health board orders for sanitary district construction in Indianapolis totalling $500,000 might give work to several hundred unemployed laborers today was minimized in statements at city hall. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan denied competition of long-pending sewer projects w'ould provide many jobs. “Work on projects in Broad Ripple, Pogue's Run and Irvington, necessarily must be done mostly by machinery, and the number of men will be negligible,” Mayor Sullivan said. “Contracts for these projects were

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Doing People Much Good, • He Says in Interview in Magazine. By United Press NEW 'YORK, Oct. 21.—The business depression is “a wholesome thing, in general,” Henry Ford says in an interview' in the October issue of the American Automobile, published today. “Anything that increases wages, increases business; anything that lowers wages, injures business,” Ford is quoted as saying. The depression “has done less harm to the people and the country than a continuance of our previous false property w'ould have done,” Ford is quoted. “More people will survive this period than would have survived a continuance of the former period. “Our so-called prosperity was not prosperous in any sense. It did great harm to the business and to' the morale of the people. “The depression will be broken (1) when people cease to believe that something can be obtained for nothing: (2) w'hen the people get back their self-dependence, that is, w'hen they cease to lean on the initiative of a few either to provide w'ork or charity, and T3) when the public understanding is capable of seeing that the profit of life is life and not monev.”

BAHDIT IS CONVICTED Police Character Fined SSOO, Given 180 Days. John Ford, 30, police character, today faced a 180-day farm sentenca and a fine of SSOO and costs on conviction pf a charge of robbery Tuesday by Municipal Judge Pro Tern. Sol C. Bodner. Asa result of Ford's conviction, an alleged city gangster is hunted by police to face a contempt of court charge for alleged attempts to intimidate the prosecuting witness in the Ford case. Ford held up Gilbert Buck, 1210 West New York street, in September, escaping with $3, it was charged. Detectives asserted attempts had been made to intimidate Buck by a man W'hose identity is known. MISSING MAN SOUGHT Brownsburg Citizen Came to City to See Injured Father. Search for Donald Griffith of Brownsburg, who disappeared Oct. 11, was opened today by Indianapolis police. Relatives said he came to Indianapolis on that date to visit his father, George Griffith, 4901 WeSt Sixteenth street, who was injured recently in an automobile crash. Griffith last was seen at the terminal station. He wore a dark suit, light cap and black shoes and carried SSO.

let more than a year ago, but the work w’as held up by an injunction suit filed by a disgruntled contractor,” B. J. Jeup of the sanitary board, explained. The city won its case, but it w r as appealed to the appellate court. Proposal of Dr. William F. King, state board of health secretary, that the city be ordered to complete construction of its sewage disposal plant was frowned upon by city officials. “This would necessitate the issuance of bonds which would raise the tax levy,” Jeup said. “We intend to finish the sewer projects, but-, have decided this is not time toHssue bonds,” Sullivan said.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931

LEVY SLASHES ANGER MAYOR, SCHIMCHIEF State Tax Board Protects. Big Business, Charge of Russell Willson. SULLIVAN IS WRATHFUL Men Will Lose Jobs and Work Will Be Dropped, He Declares. Big business, rather than the average taxpayer, will benefit by the state tax board’s slash of the school city levy for 1932, Russell Willson, school board president, said today. He also accused the board of forcing the school city to evade a state law mandating collection annually of 5 per cent of its bonded indebtedness for a sinking fund, and said unless attorneys for the school board find a statute invalidating the mandatory payment act, suit will be filed enjoining the tax board’s edict. Likewise Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan attacked the tax board’s cut in the civil city levy, charging it would throw many men out of work this winter and check seriously administrative plans for development of municipal utilities. Association Is Accused “I have not seen ifhe tax board's order. Indeed, when I telephoned for a copy of it this morning I was informed it has not yet been drawn up. I understand, however, the board saw fit to cut 6 cents from our budget levy of $1.01,” Willson said. “Os that reduction 5 cents was to have been for the sinking fund. Only 1 cent was taken from the active fund we asked. “The Indiana Taxpayers’ Association. under the banners of taxpayer relief, sought this cut. Now, let’s see what they actually did for the taxpayers. “The average taxpayer, let’s say, pays taxes on $5,000 assessed valuation. The actual average, I think, is about $2,000, but we’ll go to $5,000. He is saved 50 cents a year. Not Their Concern “He is the man with a child or children in school. But the big corporations, who really will profit by this slash, have no children in schools. It is not their concern whether our educational facilities are what, they should be or if our schools are even safe for children who attend them. “I understand $12,500 is taken from our fund for repairs and betterments of schools. We could have made that an item of $300,000 easily, but we pared it down to $120,000. That means there will be no new schools and we must repair only the worst of the buildings that now need repairs. “There are schools in this town that actually are fire hazards. But what can w r e do about it? There are boilers in schools that are dangerous. The tax board forces us to choose between fixing one boiler ovpr which 800 pupils sit, and another over which there are only 500.” Wilson told of a visit of James Showalter, tax board chairman, to the school board. Showalter asked that newspaper reporters not be told of the meeting, Willson said. Sullivan Is Irked Willson said Showalter admitted -that the reduction sought would not aid the taxpayer, but would “have a good moral effect.” Mayor Sullivan protested cuts totaling $75,000 from the park board and streets commissioner’s appropriations, and a reduction of $15,000 from his $25,000 contingency fund. The park and streets cuts, he said, will necessitate use of inferior township labor. The cut in his contingency fund will hamper the working out of any emergency, such as an epidemic, as Indianapolis suffered from spinal meningitis two years ago. and will curtail his work for municipal utilities, Sullivan declared. “We shall be forced to use incompetent and inefficient labor. We can’t accomplish anything,” he said. GIRLSVSPORTS, SUBJECT Field Secretary of N. A. A. F. Will Speak Here Thursday. One of the principal speakers before the Indiana High School Athletic Association Thursday morning at Manual Training high school ? will be Miss Anne Frances Hodgkins, women's di--1f1p... vision field secrea tional Amateur y||fP?Sls 1 Athletic Federa- ' * The federation was founded in j 'Jt 1923 in Washing-fllljßpK'..-|r ton by Mrs. Herty& bert Hoover and ... „ ._. ards for girls’ Miss Hodgkins athletics which would prevent them following the trends of men’s sports toward commercialization and professionalism. Miss Hodgkins will discuss “Are Girls’ Athletics Educationally Sound?” DEMOCRATS TO FROLIC Halloween and Bridge Party to Be Held at Dance Studio. A Halloween and bridge party at the Stockman dance studio, Thirtyeighth street and College avenue, Friday, October 23, will be under direction of the Women’s Democratic of Washington township. Hostesses are: Mrs. Timothy P. Sexton, chairman; Mesdames Hodge Worsham. Harvey R. Belton. Charles Bailey. Joseph Raub. C. W. Dowd. Prank Seidenstickar. Louis Kirsch. Cora Walker. John AnaEer, J. J. Blackwell. Robert Bosson. X. RT Waymlre, Oscar Pox. Homer Olvey, Jacob Weiss, George Rice and Lloyd Me lie U.

Wild Parties Are Revealed in Trunk Murder Probe; Lives of Women Veiled in Mystery

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PERRY CITIZENS FIGHT TAX HIKE

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More than fifty citizens of Perry township appeared before the state tax board today to argue the appeal of a proposed $32,812.92 additional current appropriation and the new budget rate of $1,635. plus a 16-cent road levy. Defense of the added appropriatiion was undertaken by Omer Green, tow nship trustee, and his attorney. It was explained that $16,000 of the amount is for teachers’ salaries, and the remainder for “old bills inherited by the present administration.” Cutting the teachers’ salary budget to $77,000 last year was blamed for the present shortage. Willis Nusbaum, attorney for the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, led the assault on the additional appropriations and proposed new levies. He asked that all bids for school busses be submitted to the tax board, since ten bidders submitted bids alike, all being $7 a day.

ENDS LjFEJY GAS Seals Car, Breathes Fumes of Motor Exhaust. Breathing fumes from the exhaust of his automobile motor, Ira Cramer, 41, of 5231 Park avenue, employe of the Indiana Wall Paper Company, early today committed suicide in his car near College avenue, north of White river. His body was found in the rear seat of his car. the window's and doors of which had been closed and padded, and covered with heavy paper. The car had run out of gasoline and the interior w'as filled with the poison fumes when M. E. Glick, 328 West Thirty-ninth street, found it. The fumes were directed into the auto by use of rubber tubes attached to the exhaust pipe and brought through floor board openings near the clutch and brake pedals. Mr. Cramer had been in ill health several months and had left his home early Tuesday night, police were told. HOOVER JOB RELIEF AID TO SPEAK HERE Community Chest Workers to Hear C. M. Bookman Friday. C. M. Bookman, a member of President Hoover’s committee on unemployment relief, will address a the opening campaign meeting of Community Fund workers Friday night at the Claypool. Bookman is president of the National Conference of Social Work, executive director of the Community Chest, and past president of the Association of Community Bookman Chests and Councils. The Friday night meeting will begin at 6 with a dinner. Bookman's address will be broadcast over WKBF. More than 500 workers are expected to attend.

NEED OF EDUCATION IN LEISURE CITED

“We know such reforms as the sixhour day are coming and we must prepare now so that our people will know how to enjoy the added leisure,” Dr. R. L. Lyman, head of the University of Chicago English department, told the county superintendents’ section of the Indiana state teachers’ convention today at the Lincoln. Speaking on “The Junior High School,” he asserted that it is one of the chief tasks of the junior high school to teach children to use their leisure hours. State aid was discussed by Charles R. Herrerstein, state aid auditor; E. P. Erannan, field examiner for the state board of accounts, and

Man May Have Helped in Committing Crime, Police Think. (Continued From Page 1) or ever revealed an abnormal mental condition. “I don’t want to talk about that. There are some things that are too close to me to discuss.” He said he never treated Mrs. Leroi or Miss Samuelson. but that all four of them occasionally had played bridge together. Miss Caroline Lucy Judd, the physician's sister, said she had never seen a more devoted couple than Mr. and Mrs. Judd. A letter from Mrs. Judd to the doctor, dated last Saturday, read in part. “Doctor, I am lonesome. I will be so glad to have you here. I love you, oh, so tenderly, with arms of love. I will be glad if you are here Tuesday or Wednesday. I need you and have for some time, but we needed money so badly. Come soon. XX—Ruth.” Letters indicating the close relationship of the three were found in the Phoenix apartment recently occupied by the two victims. Claims Sister Is Insane Inspector Davidson said he was certain that the letter, publication of which in newspapers was certain, was meant for Mrs. Judd, although it was addressed to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. McKinnell of Darlington, Ind. It asked the parents to go through old letters, “which will be evidence to show her insanity.” “The girl is mentally off balance, I am sure,” he concluded. “She is innocent in the eyes of the higher court, I am certain.” County Attorney Andrew's, seeking to reconstruct the crime, attempted to learn if drugs played any part in the events preceding and following the tragedy. He claimed that a woman of Mrs. Judd's slight build—she weighed no more than 120 pounds and was in poor health—would have found it physically impossible to cram the body of Mrs. Leroi, weighing 150 pounds, into a trunk —“unless madness or drugs had provided abnormal strength.” Cites Drug Angle He admitted the possibility that an accomplice might have aided in the act. “Behind these murders might be the shadow of morphine and heroin,” G. A. Rodgers, deputy county attorney, added. Rodgers also declared a Phoenix man “knew something about the narcotic situation” and probably would be placed in custody today. Miss Samuelson, 25. and Mrs. Leroi, 27, went to Phoenix last spring, Mrs. Evans told officers. She was summoned to the Arizona city on June 8 to care for the women, both tubercular patients. Miss Samuelson had been a school teacher in Juneau, Alaska, while Mrs. Leroi was a nurse there. Both were sent to Phoenix with funds raised by the board of education and school teachers in Juneau, Mrs. Evans said the women told her. Lived With Mrs. Judd Ten days after their arrival, Mrs. Leroi left for Portland, to be gone three months. Miss Samuelson collapsed the following day, but refused to remain in a sanitarium, and finally Mrs. Evans secured an apartment in a duplex next door to where Dr. and Mrs. Judd were living. After Dr. Judd left Phoenix for Los Angeles in search of work two months ago, Mrs. Judd moved into the apartment w'ith Miss Samuelson and upon Mrs. Leroi’s return from Portland, three weeks ago, Mrs. Evans left. Mrs. Leroi was to have been mar-

R. E. Eckert, superintendent of Duboic county. Fred T. Gladden, superintendent of Marion county, officially took office as president of the superintendents’ association. In his inaugural address, he criticised “those short-sighted persons who believe that the best way out of this depression is to cut salaries, including teachers.” He also stated that “those who criticise and spread propaganda against the amendments to our Constitution, whether it be the eighteenth or t£e sixteenth, are as dangerous to Mis country as anjj Russian Communist.”

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ried next June to Emil Hoitola. Portland traveling salesman, police were informed. She was the daughter of Mrs. Alex Imlah, Portland dressmaker. Miss Samuelson’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. A. Samuelson of White Earth, N. D.

Man Believed Involved By United Press PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 21. —From a maze of conflicting rumors, conviction grew today among Phoenix investigators that a man was implicated in the slaying of Mrs. Agnes Anne Leroi and Miss Hedvig Samuelson. Police said a search of Mrs. Ruth Judd's apartment had revealed a small quantity of veronal, several bottles of wine and a quart of rum. Mrs. Judd was accused of the killings. Dr. William C. Judd, the woman’s husband, told Los Angeles police that she had used the mild drug to quiet her high-strung nerves. Police Chief George Brisbois was informed. Neighbors of Mrs. Judd declared a car bearing a California license plate stood in front of Mrs. Judd’s home Thursday and Friday, just prior to the time it was believed the women were killed. Man With Mrs. Judd Police also were informed that a man accompanied Mrs. Judd to the station Sunday, when she checked two trunks to Los Angeles. Although it at first was believed someone had aided Mrs. Judd in moving one trunk to her own apartment, it later was established that the work was done by Richard M. Swartz, a truck driver. Mrs. Judd was in the women’s apartment w r hen he arrived, and accounted for the weight of the trunk by saying it was filled with books, he said. Police now believe both bodies first were placed in the one trunk, and that Miss Samuelson’s body was removed, dismembered, and placed in a smaller steamer trunk. A case of surgeons’ instruments was found in Mrs. Judd's home, police said. H. U. Grimm, Mrs. Judd's landlord, took the two trunks to Union station Sunday, he said. Parties Are Revealed A series of parties had been held recently in Mrs. Judd’s apartment, police learned. Liquor was consumed. Miss Samuelson and her companion attended, it was learned, and letters found among their effects indicated the former could “drink hers straight.” Police tentatively fixed 10:30 p. m. Friday as the approximate hour of the slaying: Miss Evelyn Nace, a fellow employe of Mrs. Leroi, called upon the couple about 9 p. m. Friday. Mrs. Leroi then was dressed in pink silk pajamas and Miss Samuelson was in plain white pajamas, she said. An hour later, Mrs. Jennie McGrath, a neighbor, said she heard three sharp reports. Autopsy surgeons agreed that the women were shot before being beaten. Finds Place in Disorder Saturday morning. Dr. Percy Brown, who employed Mrs. Leroi, was informed by telephone that she would not be at that day. Disturbed because he recognized the voice was not that of Mrs. Leroi, he sent his wife to investigate. Mrs. Brown, f iping through the windows, found the place in disorder and blood-stained towels and bed spreads visible, she said. She thought nothing of the blood, knowing Miss Samuelson was suffering j from tuberculosis. Shortly after 10 a. m., Mrs. Judd 1 reported for work, “pale as a ghost,” j Miss Nace told police. Crashed Under Falling Tree Crushed by a tree he felled, Jess Goins, 60, of Crawfordsville, is in the Robert Long hospital today suffering from fractures to#fln arm, a leg and the hjpu

‘SLEUTH’ TELLS OF TRAILING POISON SALE Amateur Detective Details Activities in Behalf of Mrs. Simmons. BOLSTER SALE STORY Hatchery Man Is Called to Verify Bargersville Witness’ Tale. BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT LEBANON, Ind.. Oct. 21. An “amateur sleuth,” working on his first case, testified in the Simmons poison case today, telling how he ruvhed Miss Louise Robinson. Bargersville farm woman, here last

Wednesday, when he learned that she claimed to be the buyer of poison in an Indianapolis drug store, three days before the fatal picnic. He is Lawrence Kirkpatrick, postoffice clerk. He said he started working on the case at the request of John Simmons, husband of Mrs. Carrie Simmons, being tried for the alleged poison murders of her daughters. June 21. He said he spent one day investigating the character of Charles W. Friedman. Indianapolis druggist, who sajd Mrs. Simmons bought 25 cents worth of strychnine from him June 18. “I went to Friedman s store last Wednesday and was in there when Miss Robinson told the druggist she was the woman who bought the poison,” he testified. “I saw her show him the bottle and I nearly fell through a showcase.” Denies He Is Paid He said after he was able to persuade her to go to Lebanon with him to testify, he denied being paid for his work and said he had been a neighbor of the Simmons family seventeen years. During recess this morning, W. H. Parr Jr., defense counsel, and Roy Adney, special prosecutor, neared blows in the corridor, when Adney shouted “There’s a lot of lying in this case.” “It’s on both sides” Parr retorted. “If you got any more to say, do it now.” Mrs. Simmons refused attention of picnic guests after the poison was found in the food. Miss Lois Retherford, companion of Mrs. Simmons* son Dale on the picnic, testified. “I tried to rub her hands, but she told me not to pay any attention to her,” the girl related. Sandwich Picked Up She said when Alice Jean Simmons neared death, Mrs. Simmons cried she “would have to give up my baby.” Miss Retherford said she saw George Simmons pick up a piece of sandwich from under a table after the deaths of his sisters. This, she testified, contained a strychnine capsule, which nearly was dissolved. The defense swings into the home stretch of its case today. Wearisome repetition of avowals of the good character of the farm wife by her friends was finished. So today the defense sought, through a Franklin hatchery man, to rivet tight the story of Miss Louise Robinson of Bargersville that she was the strychnine purchaser in the Indianapolis drug store of Charles W. Friedman, June 18, and not Mrs. Simmons, as Frkdman charged on the witness stand. Husband to Be Called The manager of the hatchery, L. S. Winslow testified he handed a hatching of chicks to Miss Robinson on June 19. Miss Robinson declared she set the date of the poison purchase by the chicken purchase. She used the poison to destroy vermin or weasels that she feared night bother her new’ly purchased chicks. Winslow produced records to show June 19 as delivery date of the chickens. In addition to the homestretch drive to protect Miss Robinson’s story, the defense is expected to call John Simmons, husband of the defendant, to explain away the “fortyminute” period in Indianapolis June 18, when his wife attended the Riley Cheer Guild breakfast. The “forty minutes” have been unaccounted for in an alibi of the defense that Mrs. Simmons could not have purchased poison in Indianapolis June 18. Sons of the defendant, George and Dale Simmons, and the daughter , Elizabeth, also are expected to testify in behalf of their mother regarding the morning of the fatal picnic tragedy. Many Praise Character They arc expected to show she could not have inserted the poison in the sandwiches at the farm home near Greenfield. Charles L. Tindall, defense attorney, said today Mrs. Simmons would not take the stand in her own behalf before Thursday and added: “It might be Friday before we get that far.” Numerous character witnesses Tuesday afternoon, reiterating that Mrs. Simmons was noted for her “peace and quietude in her community,” glowed the progress of the trial. The state dismissed them with only cursory cross-examina-tion. ALKY PLANT IN HOTEL Roy Huey Gets 30 Days, SIOO and Costs After Raid. Charged with operating an alcohol mixing plant in the Grand hotel, Roy Huey today faced a thirty-day farm sentence and a fine of SIOO and costs following his conviction, Tuesday, in municipal court of a charge of operating a blind tiger. Police testified that Huey, an occupant of the hotel leased a second room under the name of Moore. Raiders charged they found twentytwo pints of alcohol in the room.