Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1932 — Page 1

NEWCASTLE FIVE ELIMINATES CICERO

SLAYER FLEES HAUNTED HILLS OF FAR NORTH Roaming Pack of Huskies Leads to Baring Secret of Double Tragedy. ESKIMO IS SOUGHT Mounties’ New Man Hunt May Require 3 Years, Reach Far Into Arctic. By United Press FT. .SMITH, Mackenzie, March | 19.—Two rock cairns in the haunted ! Thelon river hills today started the ! Royal Canadian mounted police on ! another man hunt—one tjiat may lake three years, and lead the red- j coated corps to the Arctic ocean’s border. The cairns mark the bodies of Edward Olson and Emanuel H. Bode slain about Dec. 5, 1930, as they slept in their solitary tent on The- i lon river, northeast of Great Slave 1 lake, in a country called by the Indian's bewitched. For the murder, police officers seek Tekaluk, an Eskimo last seen a year ago about to start a long journey to the Arctic coast, 300 | miles northward. Discovery of the slayings gave a ■ graphic picture of the subarctic ■wilderness where the newest drama* of the “mounties” is being played. Pack of Huskies Bares Murders In September of last year, Howard George Price, trapper of the Thelon river region, saw a pack of huskies roamifig through the woods which he believed was that of the slain trappers. He investigated and found the men’s bodies. Nearby were the skeletons of seven dogs, chained to a post. For weeks in the solitary hills he met no one to whom he could entrust his finding. Then by an Eskimo he sent a note to trapper Clark Groft. Groft sent the news by an Indian courier to Ft. Relance on the eastern end of Great Slave lake. The Indian arrived there Dec. 23 and (old his story to Constable Gray. Then came a wait until the Arctic patrol reached Ft. Reliance, bringing Inspector Gagnon, with whom Gray set out over the snowbanked trails, reaching the Thelon river camp Feb. 13. Rude Cairn Marks Graves They held a rude inquest and determined the men were slain with ax and knife more than a year before. Traveling by dog team, Gray and Gagnon questioned the few trappers and Indians of the district. They learned Tekaluk was nearby at the time of the slayings and that he carried a rifle similar to one missing lrom the camp. Trapper Evan Peterson said he met Tekaluk in a snow hut near the Bode camp last March and that the Eskimo “signed something with his lingers about two men.” Peterson could not understand the Eskimo's sign language, but said Tekaluk was frightened and about to leave for the Arctic coast. Leaving a rude cairn of stones to mark the two graves, the police officers trekked back through blinding storms and bitter weather. Radio Sends Word to Searrh Friday after an 800-mile round trip in the heart of winter, they arrived with the report, and the radio which links the northern outposts 'crackled the news to listening officers and trappers from MacKonzie to Hudson bay. The message was to watch for Tekaluk. Meanwhile, patrols are being fitted out to hunt the desolate wastes. The Thelon river region is said hv Indians to be cursed. Four other murders and suicides in the district are pointed to by them as evidence of evil spirits. ILL, MAN TAKES LIFE Steve Barry. 72. Slashes His Throat With Razor. Despondent because’of a long illness, Steve Berry, 72. of 327 Minkner street, committed suicide early today by slashing his throat with a razor. He lived with a son. Cash Berry, who. with another brother, Elmer of Tulsa (Okla.) and a sister, Mrs. Lots Christ of Noblesville, survive.

SCHOLAR FASTS 20 DAYS IN DEPRESSION PROTEST

By United Pres* WASHINGTON, March 19.—Dr. Frederick F. Wolter entered the twentieth day of his voluntary fast today, while police searched in vain for a law to make him eat. • The German-born scholar. 57. is slowly starving himself to death in protest against unemployment, particularly that aspect of unemployment which deprives an educated professional man of “suitable work.” He resigned from the library of congress in 1926 due to/ failure to win promotion. According to his own account, he has taken no nourishment in nineteen days save one peanut, devoured in a moment of weakness two days ago. Wolter, holder of three university

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 269

U. S. Dancer Betrothed to British Peer

— „ nirnrnimr" < • Adele Astaire and Lord Charles Cavendish. By United. Press LONDON. March 19.—Official announcement of the engagement of Adele Astaire, American dancer, and Lord Charles Cavendish, son of the duke of Devonshire, appeared today in the London Times. “The marriage arranged between Lord Cavendish and Miss Astaire will occur very quietly in London in a few weeks,” the announcement said. Miss Astaire evaded interviewers when she reached Southampton with her mother Friday aboard the Majestic, and again when she arrived at London by train. Lord Cavendish was waiting for her in a taxicab at the station here. Miss Astaire ran to him from the train. The cab made a circuitous journey before arriving at the home of Lady Anne Lunloke, Lord Cavendish's sister. Miss Astaire hid in the chart room of the tender coming ashore from the Majestic; and waited until all passengers had left the tender before running to a compartment with drawn blinds reserved for her on the boat train.

How the Market Opened

6.7 I nit id rrr*x NEW YORK, March 19.—Restoration in a bill passed by the house of war-time surtaxes ranging to 65 j per cent of incomes in excess of $5,000,000 together with a drop of $33,000,000 in income tax collections on the first tax day, was responsible for further selling on the Stock Exchange at the opening today. Steel common opened at 41%. off %, and then dropped to 41!-1. American Can was down nearly a | point at 64% and other leaders lost ; fractions to a point. Trading was dull, featured at the j start by a block of 5,000 shares of j Kreuger <fc Toll at 1%. off %. Later, Kreuger & Toll appeared j 6.000 shares at 1%, equaling the I record low. International Match! opened at 9%. off %. Another block of 10.000 Kreuger & Toll appeared at 1%. General Motors equaled its record low for the present shares at 10 . ofT is. Auburn slipped back tc* 89' *. off N. Railroad shares continued to decline with Union Pacific at 74. off 1; New \ r ork Central. 27%, off %, and Chesapeake <fe Ohio. 19%, unchanged. and Pennsylvania. 17, unchanged. Chicago Stocks Opening (By James T. Hamill & Cos.) —March 19— Bendix Avia .. 10%|Insull pfd .... 1% | Cities Service.. 5-*!lnsull 6's '40... 7 Cord Corp .... Mid United com Cont Chi com.. 1% Mo Kan Pipe L % Comm Edison. 89 Middle West ... 1% Gt Lks Arcft.. l'i Nat'l Sec pfd.. 35Vs Instill com .... 1 US Gypsum ... 22 11 *

degrees, is not insane, according to a psychiatrist who examined him at his own request. ' “A bit abnormal, perhaps." the psychiatrist said, "but not insane.” And since he is sane, and since there is no law T to make him eat, Washington is being treated to the spectacle of a one-man hunger strike against the depression. When the depression ends for Wolter he’ll eat, he said. An offer of a temporary sls-a---week job did not mark the end of his personal depression, he explained. Such a job. in his own line of work, was offered him by a university library. “If I am destined to a life of starvation,” he remarked. “I prefer to starve rapidly.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932

APACHE’S FATE WITH JURY IN CO-ED KILLING Testimony of Indian Closes Evidence on Slaying of Columbia U. Girl. DEATH IS DESCRIBED Herder Claims That White Girl Lured Him to Deed While He Was Drunk. ; By United Press GLOBE, Ariz., March 19.—A fedj ei al jury today considered the story of a young white girl’s flirtation with an Apache Indian youth as told by Golney (Mac) Seymour in his own defense on a charge of murder. His story of the death of Henrietta Schmerler, Columbia university student of anthropology, was told in staccato Apache guettrals, and given to the court by an interpreter. His attorney, John P. Dougherty, is attempting to show Miss Schmerler was killed accidentally, and in self defense, in a quarrel. Previously, Elizabeth, Seymour’s 19-year-old squaw, mother of his two children, had testified in defense of her man. The timid little woman said she saw her herder husband drinking tulapai (com brandy) the night he met Miss i Schmerler. I Apache Mind Is Bared Seymour’s own account of what the prosecution called his “brutal murder of an innocent girl” was an eloquent record of his Apache mind. “I bought 50 cents worth of beer and drank a few times,” he said. “Got Elizabeth. We both had horses. Reached my father’s wickiup (tepee) Robert Gatewood (his brother-in-law) invited me in to drink. I drank some tulapai. “I rode past white girl’s house. She spoke of the dance. Asked me if I would lend her a horse. I said I only had one. She said ‘maybe I ride behind you, eh?’ I said ‘those people married?’ She said ‘that’s all right,.’ “Then she asked me in. She had something in a bottle. She said ’drink it.’ I said ‘what, is it?’ She said ‘whisky.’ I drank some. "It burned my neck. She mixed some with sugar and water. It tasted good. She kissed me. Indian Says He Was Drunk “We started for dance on my horse. We stopped at Muddy Draw to walk across. Then she began hitting me with her bag, teasing me. I thought she wanted to ‘marry’ me. So I did. She didn’t fight. \ “Then I felt very bad about Elizabeth. I told her I ought not to have done this thing. I told her I i was going back to Elizabeth at the dance. She got very mad. She threw a rock and hit me in the breast. She cried she was going to tell on ! me. Then she got a knife out of the bag and tried' to cut me. “I didn’t know what to do. I threw her down and took the knife. I hit her with a rock and cut her neck. I don’t know how long we fought. I was drunk. “Then she got up and walked few steps, then fell down. Then I felt very bad. I cried. Then I jumped on my horse and road away,” Fails in Suicide Effort Miss Ruby Deane, 37, of 732 East ! Ohio street, is recovering at city j hospital today following a suicide attempt Friday night, when she swallowed poison at her home. Mo--1 tive for the act was not revealed.

High School Cage Classic Progress + -———■■ * Friday Saturday VINCENNES (15) \ 9:00 A.M. CICERO (13) CICERO (17) ) 8:39 A.M. NEWCASTLE \ SEYMOUR (20) \ \ \ 10:00 A.M. 1 NEWCASTLE (25) ' NEWCASTLE (25) ....) ( 2:30 P.M. \ ' WILEY TT. ft.) (17) ( 11:00 A.M. ' CONNERSVILLE \ CONNERSVILLE (20) .) f 9:30 A. M. / COLUMBIA CITY (19). \ 2:00 P.M. I GREENCASTLE / GREENCASTLE (32)..) O 8:00 P.M. f f LEBANON (31) 1 • 3:00 P.M. DELPHI (29) ....(LEBANON j 10:30 A. M. \ WIN AM AC (48) \ V 4:00 P.M. WINAMAC / I BLUFFTON (30) ) [ 3:30 P.M. > - BOSSE (EVANS) (25). \ 7:30 P.M. ( BOSSE \ 1 MICHIGAN CITY (21)) j 1 11:30 A.M. / COLUMBUS (21) \ \ 8:30 P.M. ' TECHNICAL './ TECHNICAL (33) ) >* **

BLUEBEARD POWERS PAYS IN NOOSE FOR KILLINGS

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Harry F. (Bluebeard) Powers In his cell awaiting death, and Mrs. Dorothy Fressler Lemke, one of his victims. For her murder he went to the gallows.

Death Is Met Calmly by Mail Order Romeo, Accused of Five Murders. By United Press MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., March 19.—Harry F. Powers, calm as he was the day police dug up five bodies behind his garage at Quiet Dell, was hanged Friday night for the murder of Mrs. Dorothy Presslar Lemke of Northboro, Mass. Hers was one of the five bodies, all of which bore evidence of having been hanged or strangled. The “mail order Bluebeard” —socalled because he wooed his victims by mail through a matrimonial agency—was asked if he had anything to say before he died. “No,” he replied quietly. A slight twitching of the lips was his only indication of nervousness. Dressed in Black Suit Powers was dressed in a black suit with a pin stripe. He wore a rather flashy blue tie and white collar. Just before 9 o'clock he was led to the platform of the state penitentiary gallows At his trial irt Clarksburg the state contended he had executed his victims two women and three children —In his garage, a windowless structure with a noose and trap door. Friday night he stood high on a platform over a trap door., A noose of thick bull rope was passed over his head. A crowd of forty, including state and prison officials,' doctors, policemen, and one of the jurors who haft convicted him, stood in the area below, watching tensely. Accused of Five Slayings The noose was adjusted. A warden reached out and pressed a button. The buzz could be heard plainly. In answer to the signal three deputies pulled at ropes, none knowing which was opening the trap over which Powers was standing. The trap swung open. Powers’ squat body dropped heavily. It was snapped short at the end of the rope—and Powers was dead. Eleven minutes later physicians who applied stethoscopes pronouced Powers dead. In addition to the murder of Mrs. Lemke, Powers was accused of killing Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher of Oak Ridge, 111., another widow wooed by mail, and her three children. Police believed he may have been implicated in other murders.

FAWCETT RESCUE PLANS ARE MAPPED

New Deal By United. Press CHICAGO. March 19.—Mrs. Augusta Schneider asked for a divorce from her husband Hjalmer, testifying among other things that she “saw” him with other women when she told her fortune with cards. But Schneider told the court his wife used a pinochle deck with eight queens to tell fortunes. When Schneider explained he had married on advice of a spirit voice, and came home one day to find his wife, furniture and $564 gone, Judge Graber suggested Schneider better get a divorce instead of his wife.

SEARCH FOR 7 IN LOST PLANE Business Men, Pilot Missing in Frozen Backwoods. By United Press TORONTO, Ontario, March 19. Six business men and a pilot missing three days in the snow-covered backwoods of North Ontario where they flew in a large cabin plane were sought by airplane searching parties today. Planes left Porcupine and Haiieybury early today to fly over the sparsely settled thickly wooded regions between Toronto and Timmins, destination of the missing plane and passengers. The pilot of the plane was Ernest Levine. Hie passengers were the Rev. Father Charles Thaviault, Wilfred Gauley, C. M. Chinn, C. L. Evans, H. D. Marshall and L. Stone, all prominent Timmins citizens. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: West southwest wind, 16 miles an hour; temperature, 40; barometric pressure, 29.79 at sea level; ceiling, high, thin cloud, overcast, lower scattered clouds, hazy, unlimited; visibility, 5 miles; field, good.

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Trapper Convinces British Officials in Brazil of His Sincerity. BY C. A. POWELL IJnHed Pres* Staff Correspondent • (Copyright. 1932, by United Press) RIO DE JANEIRO, March 19. Stephan Rattin prepared today to plunge into the dense, green wilds of the Brazilian jungle, infested with deadly reptiles and insects, in search of Colonel P. H. Fawcett, whose relatives were “overjoyed” at Rattin’s description of a white man he found held captive by Indians. Colonel Fawcett’s wife, at Montreux, Switzerland, was “overjoyed and confident.” The explorer’s sister in London said hope greatly was increased that Fawcett was still alive. The United Press told Rattin that Mrs. Fawcett was convinced that the bearded, tanned white man he found at an Indian village was her husband, who disappeared seven years ago in search of a “lost civilization.” Wife Gives Description Mrs. Fawcett furnished a description of a few characteristics of her husband, which Rattin expected to be very helpful. His hands were very unusual, she said, with very long palms and short fingers, conspicuously webbed. He carried a strange black statuet, given him by Sir Rider Haggard, on all his exploration trips. He wore a signet ring bearing the family crest, a dolphin. British Consul General Charles Goodwin said he was convinced of Rattin's sincerity after seeing his maps and listening to his strange siory of the jungle. “Rattin’s story is so close to the facts in Colonel Fawcett’s disappearance and his statements ring so true that we are going into the matter further,” Goodwin said. Rattin is a short, swarthy man, deeply tanned by years of exposure to the jungle sun. He has a moustache, is 5 feet 6 inches tall, and weighs about 130 pounds. Rattin was born at St. Galent, Switzerland, in 1890, and came to the Argentine twenty-six years ago. Trapper Long in Jungle Two years later he went into the region of the Gran Chao and began trapping and living with the Indians. He was known among them as the “Cacique Rubio,” or blond chief. He traveled extensively on the frontiers of Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Brazil, trapping and seeking gold and precious stones. Rattin went to Mexico in 1915, where he made a living as a trapper among the Bacatete and Yaqui Indians. He came back to South America in 1916 and began trading, trapping and hunting for diamonds in the Matto Grosso country fourteen years ago. Hourly Temperature* 6 a. m 35 9 a. m 41 , 7a. m 35 10 a. m 43 8 a. m 39

ATTEMPTED KIDNAPING AT WEALTHY HOME IS FOILED

By United Pres* NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J., March 19.—Using methods similar to those of the Lindbergh kidnapers, a man today tried to gain access to the nursery in the home of J. Seward Johnson, millionaire hospital supplies manufacturer, but was frightened away by a nursemaid and watchman. Diana Johnson, 3 months old, was asleep in the room in which the intruder sought entrance. The nursemaid. Albertine Filiatrault, also occupied the room, and saw the man working to open the screened window. Shortly after man had been frightened home, police detained George Malden of New

TROJANS AND RED DEVILS WAGE TORRID BATTLE IN DAY’S FIRST BASKET TILT Henry County Lads Get Away to Big Lead and Annex Combat by 25-13 Count. CONNERSVILLE PLAYS GREENCASTLE Crowd Again Jams Fieldhouse and Cheers Game Quintet From Little Town in Uphill Fight. Newcastle, one of the favorites in the race for the twenty-first annual Indiana high school cage championship* defeated Cicero, 25 to 13, in a second-round game. Cicero, the dark horse that upset the dope Friday morning by toppling the Vincennes Alices from a title favorite! position, faltered in the stretch, and was outdistanced badly; by the Trojans’ fourth-quarter attack. The big fieldhouse was only about two-thirds filled when the teams got into action for the first game. Thousands could enter in a few minutes, however, and by the time the teams reached the half way mark the gym practically was packed.

The crowd was partisan and naturally behind the dark horse Cicero team. Newcastle was out in front 14 to 8 at the half, but Cicero displayed gallant fight to pull up 16 to 13 at the three-quar-ters mark. The dark horse stood at a standstill in the fourth quarter, while Newcastle went out and annexed eleven points in the fourth quarter to win by a wide margin. Greencastle Is Favored Newcastle will play the winner of the Greencastle-Connersville game, second contest of the morning session, at 2:30 today. The Greencastle athletes entered the game this morning decided favorites, because they were run-ners-up to the state champions last year, and because of the fine showing they made Friday in the first round, defeating a big and husky Columbia City te§m, 32 to 19.

Cicero-Newcastle

Cicero tried a couple of shots, Thompson was open under the hoop, but apparently was nervous, and missed. Huffman took the ball off the backboard, dribbled down, passed to Dakms, who tossed a long one and Newcastle was out in front, 2 to 0. A fake pivot at the foul line gave Thoman a one-handed counter. Newcastle was not underestimating Cicero, as did Vincennes Friday. Coach Orville Hooker gave final instructions to get out there and win. While Newcastle put on pressure, Cicero appeared nervous, after its mighty upset of the Alices, and there were frequent fumbles and wild shots at the hoop. Makes Point on Foul Thoman made a point on Sherer’s foul. Thompson fouled Huffman, whose shots from the line rolled around the hoop and out, but Hickman batted the leather in for two points. Score: Newcastle, 7; Cicero, 0. Voss shot from out in midcourt, but the try was short. Scherer was waiting under the hoop and as the ball came down caught it and pushed it back up for Cicero’s first field goal. On an out-of-bounds play in the corner, Scherer passed in to Voss, who made a one-hander over his head for two more Cicero points, as the quarter ended. Score: Newcastle, 7: Cicero, 4. Scherer fouled Thoman as the second quarter opened, and the Newcastle star made two free tosses. Huffman dribbled in fast and Voss fouled him before he tried for the hoop. Huffman connected for one point. Cicero Creeps Up Scherer, standing in the center circle, sent one on its way for two points. Thompson brought the throng to its feet with one from past center, and Newcastle called time with the Cicero dark horses

York after finding him in a South Plainfield (N. J.) lunch room. The similarity between the Johnson incident and circumstances of she kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., were marked. The ladder had been propped against the second-floor window and at the base of the ladder was found a chisel, just as in the Lindbergh case. Johnson, wealathy member of the Johnsdn & Johnson Supplies Company, told police the attempt was made about 3a. m. The nursery occupies a suite on the second floor in which the four Johnson children live. Besides Diana, the children are Mary Lee. 5; Elanie. 4, and Seward, 3. The infant ind nurse occupied one room.

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galloping at their heels. Score: Newcastle, 10; Cicero, 8. Wildman was substituted for Hickman of Newcastle. Thoman fouled Ferris, who failed to gain. Ferris fouled Thoman as he ' tried for the basket, and he made both, giving him five consecutive free tosses. Hickman replaced Wildman. Score: Newcastle, 12; Cicero, 8. Huffman went to side center and banked one high on the backboard for two points, just before the half ended. Thompson passed in from out of bounds to Voss and the little Red Devil was falling away from the basket as he heaved the ball into the net. The crowd was in a turmoil when Thompson threw one in from side center. Miss Chance to Tie Score Cicero tried another of those short shots and Scherer was under the basket to catch the ball, and was fouled by White. He missed boili shots, a chance to tie the score: Newcastle, 14; Cicero, 12. Cicero resorted to a man-to-man defense in the third quarter and Newcastle found it much more diificult to penetrate. The crowd groaned and booed as a couple of Cicero attempts came close. Thompson was under the basket and took a pass, but was fouled by Hickman as he sought a field goal, but the center made only one of two free tosses, leaving Newcastle still one point ahead. Huffman, from the center circle, gave the Trojans a three-point lead at the end of the third quarter. Score: Newcastle. 16; Cicero, 13. Huffman gave the Trojans a. wider working margin as he sent in another long one. The Trojans were using a delayed offense, holding the ball in the back of the court much of the time. They broke quickly, however, and Hickman went down for a short field basket. Thoman broke fast and went down for another try, but was fouled by Ferris. He missed his first foul shot out of six attempts, making one out of two tries, to (Tam to Page Three)

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“ DOOTS’ ” Easter shopping trip JO was one grand success! Which means that every youngster is going to have the finest possible collection of “Boots” paper doll cut-outs! “Boots” had the fun of getting ten new, beautiful dresses—and right from her own personal fashion expert—none other than Edgar E. Martin, who sketches all of “Boots’ ” gowns, in the “Boots and Her Buddies" comic strip. And now YOU are going to have the fun of fitting these dresses w “Boots’ ” trim little figure. The first sketch of “Boots." with one of her dresses, will appear in? The Times Monday.