Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1933 — Page 5

FEB. 10, 1033

KIDNAPING GUILT ADMITTED BY WOMAN MUSIC TEACHER AND EX-CONVICT COMPANION Former Pupil of California School Dean Confesses Abduction of His Wife, Los Angeles Police Say. Ry I nihil Pres it LOS ANGELES. Fob. 10.—Mystery surrounding the abduction of Mrs. Mary B. Skeele was lifted today, according to police, with the confession of a young woman music teacher, and her ex-convict companion. Exhausted from an examination that lastfd through two nights and a day, Louella Pearl Hammer finally yielded in the face of growing evidence. detectives claimed, and admitted she was a member of the kidnaping gang. i

The 65-year-old woman was lured from her home last Sunday night, held captive twenty-four hours and then released without collection of SIO,OOO ransom demands. Questioned separately. M. P. Howard, ex-convict from San Quentin prison, also confessed, officers said. Both were booked on suspicion of kidnaping, pending action of the county grand jury. Hour after hour, detectives had battered away at the stoical silence of the 28-year-old music teacher, who once studied under Dean Walter F Skeele of the University of Southern California college of music, the husband of the kidnap victim. Detectives said she finally “broke” when confronted by evidence found in a Pasadena house she formerly owned and which officers are convinced was the prison where Mrs. Skeele was held captive. The evidence included a typewriter, said to have been the one on which the ransom note was written.

VENUE CHANGE IS WON BY DETECTIVE AGENCY Mistaken Identity Trial to Be Heard in Hancock Circuit Court. Two suits seeking $13,000 damages from the Metropolitan Secret Service, Inc., Frederic P. Carson, manager of the detective agency, and the Metropolitan Casualty Corporation, for alleged mistaken identity in reporting to a client, will be tried in the Hancock circuit court. Motions for changes of venue were granted today by Superior Judge Clarence E. Weir. The agency pleaded local prejudice against it in the venue change motions. Plaintiffs in the actions. Karl J. Hamilton and his wife, Nadene, 3112 MacPherson avenue, allege the agency was hired by Mrs. Hamilton to trail her husband. The suits charge the agency mistakingly reported seeing a man kiss a woman on a downtown street, the report .is alleged to have referred to Hamilton as “the subject.” Hamilton had no personal acquaintance with the other woman whatsoever, the suits allege. MRS. ELLA A. BOOLE IS WELCOMED HERE Drys Adopt Resolutions Against Nation's “Wet” Politicians. Mrs. Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn, N. Y., national president of the W. C. T. U„ was greeted by officers of the Indiana state board of the organization today. Mrs. Boole placed a wreath before the plaque erected to the mcmeorv of Frances Willard at the statchouse. The state officers attended morning sessions of the legislature. They are Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley of Liberty, president; Mrs. Ida M. Mix of Kokomo, vice-president; Mrs. Mary C. Donnell of Grecnsburg, recording secretary, and Mrs. S. C. Stimson of Terre Haute, treasurer. Resolutions against "wet” politicians wero passed at the opening session of the state board's meeting at the Y. W. C. A.

Three California Men May Keep High Federal Posts

Reclamation, Education and Park Heads Likely to Remain Chiefs. by Sr rippx-Hotninl Vi wtpaprr Alliance WASHINGTON. Feb. 10.—In the caravari that will start the trek back to California after March 4, three sons of the Gold State probably will be missing. They are United States Reclamation Commissioner Elwood Mead, United States Commissioner of Education William John Cooper and Director Horace M. Albright of the national park service. All are in the interior department, all are specialists, all are in offices that traditionally have survived the storms of partisanship. Mead Cooper and Albright all are University of California men. All three had the beginnings of their official careers before the Hoover dynasty. Their friends are betting that if they could survive the ‘ Stanford putsch" they will be hardy enough to survive even the job-hungry Democrats. Against only one. Cooper, is a job campaign on. Senator Sam G. Bratton of New Mexico is out for the appointment of Dr. James F. Zimmerman, president of the University of New Mexico, for Dr. Cooper's place. Mead's appointment is at the President's disposal without senate confirmation. But his record as the nation's chief reclamation authority and his water and power views, said to conform to those of the President-elect, make his tenure relatively secure. He was called into federal service first by Woodrow Wilson’s interior secretary. Franklin Lane, who brought him from Australia in 1915 as consultant on reclamation. Hs is father of state land colonization in California, and would be useful if Mr. Roosevelt carries through his idea of putting 5.000.000 families back on the land. He believes in federal development of power in connection with reclamation works, and fought for the present plan at Boulder dam. Few Americans know irrigation, reclamation and power problems as well as he. The office of education, too, has been considered one for expert edu-

DRYS TO MAP STATE BATTLE Policies Will Be Outlined at Meeting Here on Monday. Mustering their forces for a fight against repeal of prohibition laws, dry leaders from all parts of the state will convene Monday at First Baptist church to outline future policies. Call for the session, which wil be in charge of Dr. Albert E. Monger of Greencastle, was issued by seven ! temperance organizations and the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. They are the Indiana Council of | Religious Education, Indiana Wom- | en's Law Enforcement Committee, Indiana Council of Federated i Church Women, Allied Youth, Indii ana Christian Endeavor Union, In- ! diana Church Federation, Indiana j W. C. T. U. and the league. L. E. York, anti-saloon league superintendent; Miss Grace L. Scott, W. C. T. U. national secretary; Major Howard Long, northern Indiana deputy administrator, and Oliver M. Loomis, northern Indiana district attorney, will be speakers during the day. In the evening. Arthur G. Barnhart. president of Illinois Conference of Organizations Supporting the Eighteenth Amendment, and Dr. J. Raymond Schutz of Manchester will speak.

DEATH TAKES AUTHOR HERE Wallace C. Wadsworth to Be Laid to Rest on Saturday. Funeral services for Wallace C. Wadsworth, local writer and author of children's books, will be conducted in the Irvington M. E. church at 2:30 Saturday. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Mr. Wadsworth, a Butler university graduate and traveler, died Thursday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wadsworth, 911 North Layman avenue, where he had made his home since his illness. He was author of several books for children, including “The Real Story Book,” “Modern Story Book” and "Paul Bunyan and His Great Blue Ox." He also wrote many magazine articles for children. He was connected with the advertising department of Rough Notes Company, Inc. He was a member of the Masons, a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and of the Irvington M. E. church. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Laura Wadsworth, a public school teacher.

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Vast Du Pont and Raskoh Incomes Disclosed by Suit

-1929 Stock Crash Failed tc ‘Crush’ Two Men, Records Show. By Rcrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. ID.—That fateful year, 1929, in which thousands of Americans saw their fortunes vanish in the stock market crash, yielded to Pierre S. Du Pont net income of $37,355,922.68, and to his friend, John J. Raskob $9,597,426.69. But the public is not to be let in on the secret as to how they did it, despite the fact that Du Pont and Raskob have protested the government's attempt tto collect additional income taxes—from Du Pont $164,4777.31, and from Raskob, $15,977.61. What the public can learn, however—by examining the two documents open for inspection—is that the respective incomes of the two men were derived almost entirely from investments. Petitions Are Filed The two documents available to the public are the petitions for reds Lei mination of taxes, fiied by Du Font and Raskob last week with jthe board of tax appeals. They re- : veal that Du Pont's net capital gains amounted to $9,927,797.56. , Du Pont paid in 1929 income taxes | to the government $4,563,988.87. The ! government says he should have j paid $4,728,466.18. Raskob paid 51.183.344. Tlie government claims $1,199,678. Du Pont had an “ordinary net income” of $74,323.80. Raskob had no “ordinary’ net incomes.” Approved by Bureau Du Pont, in filing his tax returns, deducted from his total net income, under the head of “contributions,” | $982,473.85. Raskob’s “contribution" deductions totaled $127,820. Those deductions were approved by the bureau when filed. But un--1 der anew ruling, the bureau has

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held that a taxpayer is entitled to deduct, as contributions, only 15 per cent of his “ordinary net income” plus his total contributions. Du Pont and Raskob were two of thirty-eight Americans whose incomes in 1929 exceeded $5,000,000. The average tax paid by each of these 38 was $1,419,610, about onethird of Du Pont's tax, and only slightly more than Raskob’s. LAWRENCE TO SPEAK Washington Newspaper Man to Talk at Butier Founders’ Day. David Lawrence, Washington newspaper man, will be the principal speaker at Founders’ day celebration Feb. 25 at Butler university. Program for the events will include an academic program at 10 in the fieldhouse and a banquet at 6:30 in the Claypool. Dr. Bruce L. Kershner is general chairman, with Professor Corrine Welling and Dr. L. O. Garber assisting in arrangements. Dr. Walter Scott Athearn, president, will preside at exercises and the banquet.

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Venus would appear much brighter than ever, if the entire | disc of the planet could be seen when it is nearest to us, for the apparent diameter of the disc at that time is nearly seven times larger than when w r e see it at the planet's greatest distance from the earth. We see less than half of the planet’s face when it is at its greatest brilliancy . . . the rest being unilluminated. Next: What are the two “specks” on the opposite sides of ivory billiard bails? A. &-P. SALES DECLINE Four W’eeks Show Decrease of 17.01 Per Cent From 1932. Sales of Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company for the fourweek period ending Jan. 25, amounted to $57,235,494. This compares with $68,966,450 for the same period in 1932, a decrease of sll,730.956, or 17.01 per cent. January sales, expressed in tons, were estimated at 371,394, compared to 395,427 in January, 1932. This is a decline in quantity of merchandise sold of 24,033 tons, or 6.08 per cent. • Average weekly sales in January amounted to $14,308,873, compared with $17,241,612 in 1932, a decrease of $2,932,739. Average tonnage sales totaled 92,849. compared with 98.857 in January, 1932, a decrease of 6,008 tons.

TEN LEISURE HOUR CLUBS TO MEETTONIGHT Sergt. Timothy McMahon to Direct Group's Safety Program. TONIGHT Christian Park community house. Fietcher Place community center. Ft. Wayne and Walnut Club. Municipal Gardens. Michiean and Noble Club. Oak Hill Club at School >•* at 2030 Winter avenue. School 12 at *33 South West street. School lfi at 1402 West Market street. Nebraska Cropsev Club. School 22 at 1331 Sooth Illinois street. School 26 at 1301 East Sixteenth street. School 34 at Keilv and Boyd streets. Sergeant Timothy McMahon will direct the safety program at the Christian Park Communty House tonight. Music will be furnished by the South Sea Melody Boys; Catherine Muench, accompanied by Catherine Otto; Betty Marie Starr; Tommy Moriarty. accordion player; Harry Garner and Vera Nicholi will give readings, and dances will be given by Betty Craig and Gloria Metzler. The program at the Fletcher place community center tonight will be in charge of the women's auxiliary to the Railway Mail Association, under the direction of Mrs. E. H. Hughes. Mrs. W. H. Vinzant, president, will act as mistress of ceremonies. The program will include a group of songs by Albert Breden; music by Patty Lou Pluess, Jeanne Ann Pluess, and Betty Zignor, the Girl Scout trio; vocal solos by Mrs. John Allen; violin solo by Gale Graber. reading by Mildred Beai*d, and selections by the Little German band, composed of high school students under the direction of W. H. Shepherd, The Beriault School of Expression wall present “Miss Leisure” at the Ft, Wayne and Walnut street club tonight. Steiner’s Junior Hawaiians, composed of Fred Birk, Louise Blunk, Richard Geckler and Orvin Tetor, will be on the program. Other music will be given by Theodore Bluemel, Herbert Mascher. John Click and Robert Davis, the trumpet quartet, and by members of the Mitchell quartet, pupils of Olive Kiler, violinist. The Kendall Players will present, a one-act play, at the Municipal Gardens Club. Twilight Club boys will give two comedy acts, one under direction of J. O. Comstock. Indianapolis boys who are staff members of the 1932 expedition of the Children's Museum to the southwest will be shown tonight in motion pictures at the Michigan and Noble club. The pictures will be shown by Hillis Howie. Music will be furnished by the Hoosier Land Silver string band, members of which are Edward Wolfley, Roy Gibson, Charles and Guy Padgett and Orvin Teter. Hoosier Fiddlers Three will appear at School 16 tonight. They are Thomas Wikoff, Irvin Noblitt and Raleigh Greene. Music at the Nebraska Cropsey Club tonight will be furnished by Paul Connor, pianist; Urban Voltz, harmonica player; the Odd Sized Four; Hendrickson's orchestra and the Kentucky Cardinals. Members of the Kentucky Cardinals are Earl Troutman, Donald Gallon, Mitchell Lender, James Hines, Emmett Gaddis and Mart Montague. August Fraul, at one time with the Sun circuit, will be master of ceremonies tonight at the program at School 34. Joe Warner, pianist, | will be accompanist. The program : will include music by Melvin and I Elvin Shupper. the Harmony Twins; I monologues and songs by Jack LeI roy, blackface comedian; oance re- | vue by pupils of the Wilde Sisters.

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