Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1931 — Page 9

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JAPAN DARING WHOLE WORLD TO DOWORST U. S. Leaders Can See Peril of Warfare Growing Each Day. FORCING TRUMP CARDS Nippon Serenely Confident Powers Will Take No More Steps. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Serlpps-Howard Foreicn Editor WASHINGTON. Nov. 11.—Behind a facade of official optimism, Washington today was more concerned over the Manchurian conflict than at any time since the Japanese assumed the offensive eight weeks ago. Dispatches from the far east indicated a number of alarming developments. First, that public opinion in Japan is lining up more solidly than ever behind the army in Manchuria and is showing increasing resentment against “foreign interference.” Second, that the independence movement is being fostered openly by the Japanese in Manchuria where, under the sponsorship of Japanese officers, a puppet government was installed at Mukden, the capital. More Force Trump £ards Third, that more troops are being rushed to Manchuria by Japan, instead of those already there being withdrawn as demanded by the League of Nations. Fourth, the impression apparently is growing in Japan that both the league and the United States are bluffing and actually will not go much farther than they have already gone to stop aggression in China. Accordingly, it is feared that Japan shortly may force the league and the United States to play their trump cards instead of the deuces which they have thrown on the table thus far. Having three times warned Japan to withdraw from Chinese territory, and having met with rebuff every time, the league is expected to remove its hand from the velvet glove when the council meets in extraordinary session in Paris next Tuesday. What its next move will be, however, is still a matter of conjecture. Express Scorn of League First, as a sign of world disapproval, it might order the simultaneous withdrawal of diplomatic representatives from Tokio. Second, the severance of all trade and financial relations would be in order. Third, expulsion from the league is provided for, and fourth, armed intervention to support China, should Japan be declared the aggressor. What vastly adds seriousness to the whole embroglio is the report that the militarists, now in the ascendancy in Japan, openly express scorn of the league and anything it might do. The Japanese general staff is said to believe that the world loves a winner and that if they succeed forgiveness would not be long in coming from a short-memoried world. Recall of foreign diplomats, therefore, would not worry the militarists greatly, however much it might upset the more modernminded civilian faction. Nippon Is Serene As for the boycott, reports indicate the Japanese believe the world is too involved in the depression to make it effective, while dispatches announce that Tokio already is considering withdrawing from the league without waiting for possible expulsion. Armed intervention, the extreme sanction prescribed by the league, apparently is considered unlikely by those in control of Japanese policy. If the Japanese general staff really believes the league and the United States are bluffing, therefore, and decides to call the bluff, disastrous consequences would be well-nigh unavoidable. For, if the bluff succeeded, the world's existing peace machinery would be wrecked and if it failed something dangerously approaching a world war would be in sight. MAIL MEN NAME CHIEF John Stettler to Be Elected President of City Letter Carriers. John Stettler will head the Hoosier City branch, No. 39, National Association of Letter Carriers, as president. Stettler was nominated to that office at the monthly meeting of the association in the Severin Tuesday night. He will be elected formally at the December meeting. Other officers nominated are: Claude Franklin, vice-president; Charles Michael, recording secretary; Donald Scearce, financial secretary; Charles Reed, treasurer, and Walter Buchanan, trustee. SLUGGED, ROBBED OF $1 Barbecue Operator Beaten; Taxi Driver Held Up. Bandits who slugged T. D. McCormack, operator of a barbecue stand at 3259 Madison avenue, and stole $1 from him, are sought today by police and deputy sheriffs. McCormack told authorities he had stepped from the side door of the place when one of the pair slugged him. The bandits fled on foot. John W. Mathews, taxi driver, told police todgy a Negro bandit robbed him of $3 Tuesday night. Luke Foley, 25, Negro, 521 North Senate avenue, said bandits who halted him near his home, obtained $2.45.

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Yo Yo Is All the Rage; Whole City Twirls 'Em

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RUTH'S PARENTS OFF TO PHOENIX McKinnells to Aid Her at Trunk Murder Trial. By United Press DARLINGTON, Ind., Nov. 11.— The Rev. and Mrs. H. J. McKinnell, parents of Ruth Judd, were en route to Phoenix today to be by the side of their daughter when she goes on trial in December on charges of murdering two women companions. The aged minister and his wife are making the journey on money raised by townspeople in benefit movies and basketball games. Before friends came to their assistance the McKinnells had planned to sell their small home and belongings to finance the journey, “We don’t expect to obtain our daughter’s release,” Mr. McKinnell said before departing. “But we are certain we can save her soul.” They expect to arrive in Phoenix Friday. In Phoenix Mr. and Mrs. McKinnell will stay at the home of Mr. Reynolds, a Free Methodist pastor. Mr. McKinnell is of the same faith. Mr. and Mrs. McKinnell say they will return here to live when the murder trial is completed. ABANDON HOPE FOR 13 Storms Dim Rescue Chances for Shipwreck Survivors. By United Press BALBOA, Canal Zone, Nov. 11.— Wind and rain storms off the coast of Colombia today dimmed hopes for the rescue of thirteen persons sighted last Saturday adrift in a rowboat and raft. Officials said vessels in the area where Pilot Frank Ormsbee of the Pan-American Airways reported sighting the men had failed to report any sign of the lifeboats. ADOPT RATE RESOLUTION Civic League Calls for Reduction of Water, Light Prices. Resolution calling on the public service commission to reduce rates of the Indianapolis Water Company and the Indianapolis Power and Light Company has been adopted by. the Brookside Civic League. ' The resolution was drawn up following an address against high utilities rates by Boyd Gurley, editor of The Times.

Mayor Wins Battle for Telephone Rate Change By United Press AMARILLO, Tex., Nov. 11.—Amarillo’s fight for lower telephone rates, led by red-headed Mayor Ernest O. Thompson, bore fruit today, with the announcement that city and Southwestern Bell Telephone company officials will negotiate within ten days on

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The city council supported him. Although the present franchise does not expire until June 28, 1882, local telephone company attorneys said £ley would be prepwed to negotiate within ten days on terms fora new agreement.

The Indianapolis Times

THE yo yo situation rapidly is becoming no better. The dizzy discs, which have been whirling and twirling here, there, and everywhere in Indianapolis, have all the time been sneaking up on new territory, it now appears, and the yo yo epidemic is raging in all parts of the city. At some of the public schools it has become necessary to have the pupil “check” his, or her, yo yo cur entering the classroom to resume studies. Meanwhile, the cavortings of this sly Philippine top are getting to be the talk of the neighborhood. Wherever yo yo puts in an appearance, conspicuous behavior seems to be the result among the citizenry. Yo yo sets them spinning and they just can’t stop. In spite of all the ways the top knows how to fool people, yo yo experts are getting more and more numerous, and what’s to be done about it, nobody seems to know. The problem of making yo yo behave is just something that calls for a special meeting. Try making him behave yourself, and you’ll see exactly what is meant by that remark. CITY' AIDING JOBLESS Park Department Leading in Made-Work Plan. Seven hundred and fifty men are working for the city on the program of made work of the Emergency Work Committee, Inc., department heads announced today. In the park department 400 men are working on boulevards and in parks. Some of these will be assigned to preparing a tract of land west of the city hospital for a park, A. C. Sallee, superintendent, said. The works and sanitary departments each is employing 100 laborers, while cleaning of leaves from city streets has provided employment for an additional fifty. Starting next week, 100 men will work on a sewer project at the municipal airport, south of Ben Davig. Bowman Elder, official of the work committee, said that 2,200 otherwise unemployed men now are working on the schedule throughout the city. Duck Hunters’ Requests Denied WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Requests for extension of the duck hunting season have been received from various sections of the United States, it was said at the department of agriculture today, but all of the requests have been denied.

terms of anew franchise. The telephone company made one rate reduction on Sept. 1. Mayor Thompson was not satisfied, however, and, with the Chamber of Commerce, started to fight for still lower rates. Mayor Thompson's two hotels, the city departments, and the Chamber of Commerce officials had their phones taken out. The city’s executive, warming to the fight, made radio speeches, asking citizens to discontinue their telephone service. City officials claimed 1,700 orders to disconnect telephones were turned into the telephone company. Company officials said they curtailed service to only 1,075 homes. The rate fight then became an exchange of charges and counter charges. Mayor Thompson lost patience. “The telephone company either will reduce rates, or the city of Amarillo will grant anew franchise to an independent organization,” he said.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931

GIRL ASSAILS BROTHER WHO SLEW SUITOR Story Told by Debutante May Cost Life of Philadelphia Man. THREATS ARE REVEALED Tragedy in Wealthy Family Follows Attempt to Halt Romance.

My United Press PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 11.—Pretty Rose Allen’s bitter words may help the state exact the life of her brother Edward, for that of her slain sweetheart, whose death finally thwarted their forbidden romance. Her deep brown eyes flashing a spirited defense of Francis Donaldson 111, clubman and socially prominent, the 18-year-old debutante charged her brother and her father “were entirely responsible” for Donaldson’s death. She charged her brother had threatened “to blow Donaldson’s head off.” The girl’s charges came as her 23-year-old brother, Edward H. B. Allen, was arraigned on a charged of first degree murder in connection with Donaldson’s death. Donaldson was killed by a shotgun in Allen’s hands while in the Allen apartment, attempting to overcome family objections to his proposed marriage to Rose. Deathbed Request Edward, and his father, Horace Allen, wealthy manufacturer, had objected to the romance in deference to the deathbed request of the girl’s mother, they had said. An argument which preceded the shooting resulted in the girl leaving the apartment before Donaldson arrived, evidence indicated. “My •'brother ordered me out. I am out and I’m going to stay out,” she declared after the arraignment late Tuesday. She said Donaldson later went to the apartment “to ask father to treat me like a daughter,” she said. In an earlier statement to Detective Captain Mullin of Lower Merion, she had said: “For some time my father Las been against Francis. Trouble has been brewing since about a year ago. Agreement Is Made “In August there was an agreement between Francis and my father, whereby Francis was permitted to see me twice a week. But at every opportunity father would say something disagreeable about Francis. “I told father that I loved Francis. “These arguments led up to Monday night. That evening my brother told me that I could meet Francis in the lobby of the hotel, but that if he came up to the apartment, he would blow Francis’ head off.” Such testimony, if offered in trial, might be used to show premeditated murder, inasmuch as Allen made a twelve-mile Ynotor trip from the apartment to get the shotgun with which Donaldson was killed. He made the trip after a fist fight with Donaldson in the apartment. Went to Hotel “One word led to another,” the girl’s statement,, continued. “My brother said that he was running the house from now on, and that if I didn’t like it, I could get out. I told him I would and packed my bags and went to a downtown hotel.” Rose attended the hearing Tuesday night with her father, who had worked all day in an effort to see his son—and failed. Both appaared worn and weary. She was an attractive figure, with dark, wavy bobbed hair, wearing a black dress trimmed with georgette collar and cuffs, a black broadcloth ccat and black shoes and stockings. The girl refused to see her brother, who will be lodged in jail at Norristown today. MILES HEADS BUILDERS New Officers to Be Installed Tonight at Dinner. New officers of the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association will be installed after a dinner to night in the Washington. They are: J. Harry Miles, president: Charles T. Grinslade, vicepresident: Walter L. Stace, treasurer; Carl Lindeman, secretary, and Frank F. Wooling, Walter M. Evans and Clyde M. Pike, directors.

SURPRISE SPRUNG AT MURDER TRIAL

By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 11. Testimony of four witnesses introduced Tuesday as a surprise by the state in its effort to send George Adams to the electric chair for the murder of two federal prohibition agents, _ was continued up to adjournment of court this morning. Defense attorneys, in cross-exam-ination of Harold Cutter, 19, and John Potter, failed to shake their story that they saw Adams crawl from his car, walk to the side of John Wilson, agent whom he is accused of murdering, and fire several shots into him. This story, with virtually no variance, also was told by David Gillie, driver of the machine occupied by Cutter and Potter, and by Alpheus Potter, 17, brother of John. It appeared that the state was concentrating its case on the four occupants of the Gillie machine, whose presence at the shooting scene was not revealdfi until Tuesday. All testified that the first shots they saw were two fired through

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NAB 3 FOR HOLDUP, KIDNAPING, ASSAULT

Indianapolis Gang Captured in Rushville After Night of Lawlessness. Charged with kidnaping and attacking a girl and the robbery of a Brazil, (Ind.), filling station, tlyee Indianapolis youths were arrested in Rushville today, after they were charged with staging a crime wave across the center of the state during the night. The youths gave their and addresses as David Lockridge, 22, of 2434 West Michigan street; Dennis Cleveland, 18, of 46 Berwick street, and Ed Hall, 214 Geisendorff street. They were captured after they had hurled Miss Ruth Bereman, 21-year-old Cartersburg (Ind.) girl from their stolen car in Connersville, Rushville police said. Caught With Guns The trio were apprehended by Sheriff Roy Compton and patrolman John Adams of Rushville, as they attempted to hold up a filling station there. Compton said he found four revolvers, and a rifle in the car. The girl asserted two of the youths attacked her east of Indianapolis, after she had been forced to take part in the robbery of a filling station near the Eagle’s ball park at Brazil. She said she was walking along a bridge near her home when the youths, at the point of guns, forced her into the car. She told Connersville and Rushville authorities, the Brazil filling station attendant surrendered $6 to the bandits. From there, she said, the trio drove her through Plainfield, where they escaped pursuit by town authorities, and to Indianapolis. License Plates Smeared Compton said the youths reached for their guns when he and Adams approached, but the officers had them covered. The license plates of the car had been smeared with grease to avoid detection, police said. The plates were those of a car formerly owned by an Indianapolis man, and sold several weeks ago. The girl said the youths talked of stealing the car in Terre Haute. Lockridge, according to Compton admitted serving three terms and is said to have confessed the Brazil robbery The triq said they picked up the girl believing her to be a man hitchhiker.

the windshield of Adams’ car. None saw any firearms displayed by the four federal agents, but it wa> brought out in cross-examination of the first three occupants of the machine that they could not determine definitely whether the federal men were armed. The fifth occupant of the machine occupied by the surprise witnesses was the four-year-old son of John Potter. Another accusing statement of two of the surprise witnesses, which the defense was unable to shake, was that they heard Adams shout, as he crawled bleeding from his machine: “I’ll kill every one of you!” They testified also that Adams stopped, after emptying his revolver into the prostrate form of Wilson, and inserted a fresh clip of cartridges into his automatic pistol.' During the morning session Adams was very attentive to his wife and small daughter, who have been beside him during all court sessions.

on a “d:ad” siding. Lower Right—Police guarded the wreckage while the debris was being cleared. This shows the remains of a Kingan & Cos., Ltd., refrigeration car, broken in two in the accident.

Bitter Tactics By United Press FLOYD, Va., Nov. 11.—A candidate for constable literally was bitten out of office here in the last election. Forgetting to file for the job until too late to get his name on the ballot, he provided rubber stamps at the polls. A rival, voting in the largest precinct, bit the name off the stamp.

BRAND TRIO BANDITS Suspects Accused of Indiana Bank Stickup. State authorities today sought to return three bandit suspects, identified as the robbers of the Gas City, Ind., state bank last August, from Ottumwa, la., to face trial in the Indiana city. Identification of the trio, one of whom is Melvin Furlong, of Indianapolis, was made by j\ M. Hundley, cashier of the Indiana bank and his daughter, Florence, who were the victims of the $5,700 stickup. Hundley said Furlong was the leader of the trio and as the man who slugged him during the robbery. % Others held in connection with the bank robbery are Robert Kelso, of the lowa city, and Frank Brdwn, of Jeffersonville, Ind. Furlong and his companions were nabbed in the west in possession of burglary tools. Apples Stolen By Times Special VINCENNES, Rid., Nov. 11.— Theft of 125 bushels of apples of four varieties is reported by B. F. Nesbitt, a Knox county orchardist.

Pat Crowley, Famed as Rail Chief, to Step Out By United Press NEW YORKj Nov. 11.— The famous “P. E. C.” of the New York Central lines, Patrick E. Crowley, the road’s president since 1924, resigned today after fifty-three years of railroading, in which he had become one of the dominant figures of the industry.

Illness was given as the reason for withdrawal of this “cinder railroader,” known and liked throughout his great railroad system and whose initials had been translated in f o “Pull Eighty Cars” Crowley for the verve he installed in transportation methods^ Crowley was one of the hardy leaders of American business. He started at $5 a month and worked through successive stages to head the big line which operates vast mileage in the east. Small of stature and slight of frame—he stands 5 feet 8 inches and weighs about 150 pounds—Crowley is the typical dynamic railroader of fiction. Born of Irish-American parents, Dennis and Helen Crowley, at Chattauraugus. N. Y.. he started his railroading career with the Erie on Dec. 1. 1878, as a messenger boy. The work was hard and he practiced tajegraphy, going into that branch of the service. Then he became a trainmaster, and in H|l2 came to New York as general man-

ager, under A. H. Smith, thei* assuming the vice-presidency. During the war Crowley was made federal manager of the Central along with several other roads and in 1£24 was made president. “Nobody Ar'as more surprised than I,” he said. “YtAi could have knocked me down with a feather, I was that sipprised.”

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ENGINE PLOWS INTOBOX GAGS Crew cf Three Thrown Clear in Siding Crash. Telescoped when struck by a switch engine, three freight cars were hurled from railroad tracks in the 1300 block, Massachusetts avenue, to the street, Tuesday night, barely missing passing automobiles. Crew of the switch engine was thrown clear of the locomotive when the occurred. The trainmen were uninjured. Traffic in the vicinity still was blocked today as police cleared Vreckage from the thoroughfare. Charles Hockery, 69, of 1910 West Michigan street, engineer of the Peoria & Eastern railroad switch engine, said the locomotive had been switched from the main track to a siding on which the freight cars were standing. He said he did not know his locomotive had been switched from the main track and so did not slow its speed. Riding with Hockery in the cab were N. H. Marling, fireman, and Robert Nelson, head brakeman. Charles Jarvis, 6148 Buckingham drive, motorist, said he applied the brakes to his car to avoid crashing into the wrecked cars. He said another automobile struck the wreckage, but was not damaged. APPROVE CORN LOANS Standard Oil Directors Vote to Aid in Credit Finance. By Uniieil Press CHICAGO, Nov. 11.—Directors of Standard Oil of Indiana approved today participation by their company in financing the National Corn Credit Corporation. The corporation, designed to increase by about $50,000,000 credit available to corn growers, is to have paid-in capital of $1,000,000 and its purpose will be to lend money to farmers on corn remaining in their cribs.

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DRY AGENT IS MENACED FOR KILLINGYOUTH Hissed by Indignant Crowds as x He Enters Courtroom to Plead Self-Defense. LYNCHING THREATENED Colorado Town Inflamed by Slaying in Seizure of Three Ounces of Wine. By Seripps-Uoirard Xetespapcr Alliance LITTLETON, Colo., Nov., 11.— Before a threatening crowd of indignant citizens which overflowed the m rooms and hallways of the Arapahoe county courthouse here, Henry Dierks, federal dry agent, was arraigned late Tuesday on charges that he murdered Milford G. Smith. 20, of Englewood, Cclo. Smith died of a fractured skull suffered when he was struck over the head by Dierks during a scuffle over possession of three ounces of wine. The dry agent was granted freedom, pending trial, on $5,000 bail, fixed by District Judge Samuel V. Johnson. Smith suffered his injury Saturday night. In company with an uncle, A. L. Green, he visited a small Englewood restaurant. Dierks entered, telling the owner, Leonard Carpenter, that he wished to search the place. Struck With Revolver At, that instant, according to Dierks’ report to Ralph L. Carr, United States district attorney, Smith displayed the bottle of wine. Dierks says he grabbed for the liquor. A scuffle followed in which, according to Dierks, Carpenter and Green joined with Smith. The agent said he was forced to draw his revolver and club Smith over the head as a measure of selfdefense. Refusing the appeals of Smith’s fiance, Victoria Johnson, that the youth be given medical attention, the boy was lodged in the Denver city jail. More than seven hours later a turnkey, observing Smith in convulsions, called a doctor. Smith died shortly afterward. State District Attorney Joel Stone filed murder charges. In addition the Englewood city council passed a resolution branding the killing as “an unwarranted and ruthless slaying.” Lynching Threatened Copies of the resolution were sent to Amos W. W. Woodcock, head of the federal prohibition department, President Hoover and the Colorado senators and congressmen. A warrant was issued for Dierks’ arrest, but was not served when United States Attorney Carr agreed to produce the agent in court. The arraignment was scheduled for morning, but was postponed because of the crowds which packed courthouse square. Threats to lynch the prohibition officer had been made and authorities feared violence. But as the day wore on, the crowd remained and Dierks was brought from Denver by Carr. Special deputy sheriffs sworn in to preserve order kept the crowd back as Dierks was led to the courtroom. Agent Is Hissed The mob, however, booed and hissed the agent and while he was before the court let the air out of the tires of his auto. Following arraignment, Dierks was taken to a court ante-room but was not locked in a cell while bond was being provided. Due to the show of feeling it was believed that Carr, who as district attorney, will defend Dierks at his forthcoming trial, the date of which has not been set, will demand that the case be transferred to the federal court in Denver. Funeral services for young Smith will be held Thursday. Many Englewood storekeepers, who knew the boy since childhood, have announced their intention of closing during the hour of the service. It was predicted several thousand persons would attend. GIGOLO GIVEN 30 YEARS Pleads Guilty to Killing Husband; Wife Is Freed. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—The murder trial of Mrs. Amy Conlin and her gigolo lover, James Depew, ended today when she was acquitted by a directed verdict and he pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge in connection with the killing of John Conlin, the woman's husband. Depew was sentenced immediately to thirty years’ imprisonment. Depew s decision to change his plea came after the court had instructed the jury to bring in a verdict acquitting Mrs. Conlin. Mrs. Conlin immediately was released, then rearrested on a charge of conspiracy to rob in connection with the slaying of her husband. Bail was set at $7,000. LINDY’S kin run Half-Sister Sought as Third Party President Candidate. By United Press OMAHA. Nov. 11.—if she can be induced to run, Mrs. Ava Augusta Lindbergh Christie, Red Lake Falls, Minn., half-sister of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, may be named the presidential candidate of a third party which is to be organized here Dec. 1. Mrs. Christie, who was the chief aid of her father, the late Congressman Lindbergh, in his many political battles in Minnesota, is the editor of a farmer-labor paper in the little Minnesota town. — 0 $70,000 for Charity ELKHART, Ind., Nov. 11.—The 1932 community chest drive closed with a total of $70,255. The amoifct is $20,000 greater than was subscribed last year.