Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1932 — Page 14

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MOTIVES FOR CO-ED SUICIDE BAFFLE COPS Shoots Self to Death While Laying at Side of Sweetheart. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. April 2. —An Inquest into the suicide of a moody and brilliant young Stanford medical co-ed was ordered today as authorities mane a baffling hunt for her motives. Evelyn B. Chapman. 23. fired a bullet into her heart as she lay beside James A. Cary, 32. of Mandan, N. D., a fellow student at medical school here. Confronted at first by the obvious motive of frustrated romance, police later were convinced she had taken her secret to death. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evan O. Chapman of Surf. Cal., flew here and indicated they may have their own theory in the suicide. ‘Must Have Been Mad' Reading letters left by the girl— j strange, incoherent notes that gave no hint of a shattered love affair— j her grief-stricken mother murmured over and over, “she must have been mad." Cary, bewildered by his experience, protested he and Miss Chapman were not in love. She often came to his apartment to study, he said. Earlier in the week she telephoned him she wanted to talk about “her future.’’ “When I came home late Thursday night she was in bed,” he told police. “We talked over inconsequential matters, and then I went to sleep. The next thing I knew, a terrible roar awakened me, and I heard Evelyn gasping my name. Suicide Note Is Left “Blood was streaming from a wound over her heart. I ran for a doctor, but it was too late.” On a table she left a note to her mother and her sister Helen. “I’ve felt this way for a long time,” it read. “I know I am so made that I never will be able to do the things that will make me happy.” Dr. William E. Ophuls, dean of Stanford medical school and noted psychologist, said Miss Chapman seemed “emotionally unstable,’ 1 but that her school work was good. It had been believed possible that she was despondent because of difficulty with her studies. FESLER RENOMINATED FOR I. U. TRUSTEESHIP Local Attorney Has Held Place on University Board 30 Years. Jahies W. Fesler, Indianapolis attorney, today has been renominated as one of three alumni members of the Indiana university board of trustees. Fesler, president of the board, has served thirty years. He was graduated from Indiana university in 1887, and has practiced law here since 1890. First elected trustee in 1902, he served as vice-president of the board, 1916 to 1919, and has been president since 1919. He is sole nominee this year in recognition of his long service, the committee said. Aid of Fesler in securing gifts of ten large buildings for the university and other gifts toward endowmen was mentioned among his many contributions to the university. POLO TEAMS TO MEET AT COLISEUM TONIGHT Proceeds of State Indoor Tourney Will Give Jobs to Needy. Culver military academy and the Eleventh infantry polo team from Ft. Benjamin Harrison will meet tonight at the state fairground coliseum for the state polo championship. Culver defeated the Rolling Ridge Freebooters, 12' a to 5. Friday night in the first round. The army team won, 19 to 4, in its game with the Franklin Saddle and Pony Club. The tournament is being held to raise funds for the program of the Made Work Fund, Inc., to aid unemployed. Franklin and Rolling Ridge will meet at 8:15 tonight in a consolidation game while Friday night’s winners will meet at 9:15. HOTEL AD BOASTS ‘KING’ French Hotselrv Makes Capital of Alfonso’s Patronage. BfJ United Press FONTAINEBLEAU, France. April 2.—Modern advertising has no respect for an exiled monarch and his family. “Have a royal vacation: sleep under the same roof as a king,” says the advertising for the'hotel where ex-king Alfonso and his family live here.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen below; to: Frank Sere. 824 North LaSalle street. Bulck coupe, 116-425. from Noble and North streets. Oeoree Warford. 135 West Vermont street. Oakland sedan. M 1-941. from in front of 413 North Illinois street. M. H. Schumacher. 2005 Colleee avenue. Whippet coach, from rear of 2005 Colleee avenue.

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Stolen automobiles recovered bv police belone to: Chronicle Blanks. 2553 Shriver avenue. Chevrolet sedan, found rt 900 Torbet street. Buick sedan, no license, no certificate of title, found at Forest avenue and New York street.

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With the closing of entries for The Times miniature model house contest today, final preparations were being made by committee members for selection of the wini ning models. The tiny houses will be judged Monday afternoon at the Manu- : facturers’ building, state fairground, i w'here they are on display in connection with the realtors’ home complete exposition, which will open formally at 7:30 tonight. Members of the contest committee, shown above, are: Left to right: W. T. Clifford,

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BY BEN STERN A NNOUNCEMENT by AttorneyGeneral James Matlock Ogden that he is a candidate for the Republican Governor nomination seems to have caused little excitement and less comment. In fact, as one of the deep leather cushioned chair gentlemen at the Columbia Club said: “He might as well quit campaigning right now, because Ogden has got as many votes today as he can hope to get with all possible pressure from now on.” Which is just about the truth, if all reports are to be believed. On Sept. 14 this column declared that Ogden would be a candidate for the Governor nomination. His three years’ record in office was reviewed impartially—and it is hoped accurately at that time —and the summation was that if the sports editor were checking the list it would read: “No hits, no runs, five errors.” In tabulating the score today it would be necessary to change it to “No hits, no runs, six errors.” And it is the last evidently willful babble upon which candidate Ogden

A fl bOOK BY BRUCE GAJTQN THE places people pick out in which to get murdered are sometimes odd. The current crop of mysteries, for instance, finds a woman getting stabbed in a dentist’s chair (she probably didn’t mind, much), a man getting killed on a crowded street car and a woman getting killed on a big yacht. ‘'Murder in the Dentist Chair,” by Molly Tynne (Covici, Friede: $2) starts well and ends badly. There are, apparently, only two people who could be guilty, and when the crime finally is fastened on a third person the complications of the plot have grown a bit tangled, and the author does not seem to clear them lup very well. It is, though, a bit : better done than the average, and J it holds your interest. "The Tragedy of X” is the widely heralded Drury Lane mys- | tery issued by Viking at $2. Drury 1 Lane, a superannuated ShakeI spearean star, has to find out who killed the stock broker on a crowded - street car, who pushed the conductor off a ferry boat and who shot the broker’s partner in a railway coach. It’s a fairly good puzzler, but the author does play one trick on the reader which, by all the canons of the detective story, isn’t fair. Drury Lane himself, too, is a somewhat tiresome ham. Best of the trio is “Murder on j the Yacht," by Rufus King (Crime Club: $2). Mr. King takes a party yachting, has one of the guests vanish mysteriously just as the yacht sails, and gets a lady stabbed j in her stateroom; and Valcour, his detective, is quite human and believable. Mr. King displays a tendency to over-write that doesn't help his book, but it's a well-constructed 1 thriller for all that.

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Raymond Franke, Ray Durham, H. E. Redding, E. E. Spickelmier, chairman; J. Ray Monaghan, consulting colai, W. S. Gibson and R. L. Wilarchitect; R. E. Hueber, E. J. Niliamson. Judges who will decide which youthful contestant will receive the free trip to Washington, D. C., offered by The Times as first prize, were announced today by Hueber, judging committee chairman. They are Mrs. Mary A. Hurt, prominent clubwoman; Louis Borinstein, Chamber of Commerce president, and Merritt Harrison of the architectural firm of Harrison & Turnock.

is said to be basing his hope of support from the remnant and former contributing members of the KuKlux Klan. # tt it His friends declare that the vocal reformer also will be accorded the Anti-Saloon league support, because of his persistent stand in favor of law enforcement and his pronounced dry attitude. But it is with the bid for klan aid that we are concerned primarily. Records reveal that in 1928, Arthur L. Gilliom, then attorneygeneral, began suit to prohibit the klan or similar incendiary organizations from existing in Indiana. This move was made with the view of clearing up the state’s record and setting a precedent. For months Gilliom collected information and obtained answers to eighteen interrogatories describing in detail the activities of the secret organization. The suit was filed before Judge Harry O. Chamberlin in circuit court here. He sustained the state when the klan sought to have the action dismissed. • n n tt Pursuing dilatory tactics, klan attorneys asked for a special judge and Frederick E. Van Nuys was appointed. Van Nuys also ruled against the klan, which they obtained a change of venue to Noblesville. There the court set the trial for Feb. 11, 1929, which was after Ogden assumed office. Upon completion of his term, Gilliom offered to assist the state, without fee, in prosecution of the case. The offer was made in writing and verbally and he twice was rebuffed by Ogden, who, as the trial date drew near, asked the court for a continuance, which was granted. Since Feb. 21. 1929, Ogden has not made a move in what is believed to be a strong case against the hooded order. Why the delay? The answer came last Monday, it is believed, when the attorney-gen-eral announced for Governor in a beautifully indefinite statement and platform. The record to date is: “No hits, no runs, six errors.” Attempts Suicide in Jail James Persley, 32, Negro, of 616 West Twenty-seventh street, is in a serious condition at city hospital today after he was frustrated in an attempt to commit suicide by hanging himself Friday afternoon in city prison.

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Besides the trip to Washington, cash prizes have been provided by the Real Estate Board. They are: Second, $25; third, S2O; fourth, sls; fifth. $10; sixth, $5; seventh to twelfth, $3 each. Three separate prizes of $6, $4 and $2 will be awarded for the best landscaped lets. The miniature house display is expected to be one of the drawing cardL for the exposition.

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OXNAM TO TALK AT CONFERENCE Methodist Parley Will Be Held in Muncie. By Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., April 2. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, president of De Pauw university, will be one of the headline speakers for the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which will be in session at Muncie, April 6, 7

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and 8. Dr. Oxnam will give one address each day before the general session and also will address the Layman's Association Thursday. Wednesday. Dr. Oxnam will speak on the subject: “In the Light of the Present World Situation, Must We Abandon the Christian Dream of Universal Peace?” His topic for Thursday will be “America and the .Manchurian Situation.” Friday he will speak on “In the Light of the Present Economic Situation. Must We Abandon the Christian Dream of Brotherhood?” The topic for the layman’s meeting has not been announced. Dr. Oxnam is delegate to the general conference at Atlanta in May from the Northwest Indiana Conference. He recently returned

from the Orient, where he was a member of a commission charged with making an educational survey of Christian schools in Japan. De Pauw will be further represented at the North Indiana conference by the De Pauw university choir under direction of R. G. McCutchan, which will give a concert before the conference Friday. Professor Van Denman Thompson, noted organist on the faculty of the De Pauw music school, will give an organ recital. Washington Mayor Improved WASHINGTON, Ind., April 2. Mayor John W. McCarty, ill in the Daviess county hospital, continues to improve, attaches reported Friday.

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700 Gallons of Milk Spilled If/; United Press WELLINGTON, Kan., April 2.—A spot on highway 81 south of here was transformed into a cats paradise when a milk truck overturned. John Seikle. Okeene (Okla ), dairyman, apparently dozed at the wheel and 700 gallons of milk was spilled over the highway when his truck struck a concrete abutment

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