Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1933 — Page 9

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STATE SLAYER WILL DIE IN CHAIR TONIGHT Glenn Shustrom. Killer of Whiting Child. Loses Last Chance. CALLED MENTAL CASE Attorneys Declare Refinery Worker Should Be Sent to Asylum. R-i I n.f >4 f'r. .. MICHIGAN CITY. Ind July 27 Glenn Donald Shustrom 24-year-old oil refinery worker and former Galesburg 111 > high school student, will die in the electric chair at the state prison here shortly after midngiht. Hts electrocution, on his plea of guilty to murdering Alberta Knight. 12-year-old Whiting girl, was set definitely by the supreme court for July 28. after three postponements. Tradition of setting electrocutions for Friday thus was carried out by the high court Tonight, another ti adit ion of executing the death penalty a few hours after arrival of the day set will be observed. It had not been announced today whether Louis E Kunkel, warden since July 1. or Harry D. Claudv. deputy warden, would switch the current into the chair. This will be the first execution since Kunkel took office. Claudv was executioner under Warden Walter H. Daiv. Loses Last Chance Shustrom lost his last chance to live last week when Governor Paul V McNutt denied a petition to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. In making their plea before the Governor, attorneys for the condemned man depicted his background as deplorable, and said Shustroms mentality was subnormal. He was born of mentally deficient parents and should be committed to prison for life, to be treated psychopathually. they raid. The slaying and assault on the small girl occurred as she slept on April 10. 10.72, in her parents' home at Whiting. Shustrom was intoxicated at the time, the defense sa id. Shustrom has admitted drinking liquor with two roomers in the Knight home on the night of the attack Under the influence of liquor, he confessed, he stumbled into the girl's room and the attack was committed. Error Is Charged An understanding that he was lo rereive a life sentence for pleading guilty and saving a trial is mentioned in briefs in the supreme court appeal. Defense attorneys claimed the lower court erred in overruling a motion to vacade judgment and giant Shustrom permission to plead not guilty. They planned to base their new plea on the ground that the slaying was not premeditated. Affirming the lower court's derision. the supreme court also denied a rehearing. Shustrom's parents, Andrew J. and Jessie Shustrom. living in Galesburg, said today that the youth had been arrested only once before, at Princeton. 111., where he was sentenced to thirty-five days for possession of liquor. The parents, along with thir son's uncle and grandmother, are mental cases The father, according to Shustrom's attorneys, is due for recommitment to an institution. Greenlee to Be Present Pleas Greenlee. secretary to Governor Paul V. McNutt, will be one of the witnesses at the execution of Glenn Donald Shustrom. condemned murderer, at the Indiana state prison after midnight tonight. Greenlee is going to Michigan City to be present at a meeting of prison trustees. This will be ihe first operation of the electric chair by Warden Louis Kunkel. He has asked Greenlee. Captain Matt Leach of the state polire and Dick Keller, secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor, to attend. Greenlee will go to Dunes state park Sunday and return here with his family. They have been spending a month at the park TAX LAW APPEAL FILED Friendly Action Result of Wayne County Poor Aid Problem. Another step toward finding a solution for poor relief problems caused hv failure to sell poor relief bonds because of the $1 50 tax limitation law has been taken through appeal to the supreme court. The appeal is a friendly suit from Wayne county, where judgment was obtained against a township for poor relief bills by merchants. Should this method of payment be upheld by the high court, it might be used to collect more than $1,000.000 in similar overdue poor relief accounts In various counties of the state, it was said. The suit was originated in the name of Clarence Brown, creditor, against Wa\ne township, Wayne county. SCHOLAR WILL LECTURE Farmer Fducator in Australia to Speak at City Church. "The World Before Adam." will be the topic of the Rev. Morns Morris, former research scholar at the University of Melbourne. Australia, when he gives an address at 7.30 tonight at the First Presbyterian church. Sixteenth and North Delaware streets. Mr. Morns’ lecture will be illustrated. He will show the Ice Age m its seven phases. Bible students, teachers, and those interested in the scientific viewpoint have been invited.

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Stricken with heart disease, while at work on a North Pennsylvania street house Today, George Cochran died while workmen held his body to prevent it falling to the ground. He was a pioneer city carpenter-contractor. Story on Page One. CITY DEFICIT TO CURTAIL PAVING Failure to Collect Revenue and Cost Increase Cited as Cause. Curtailment of improvement of East, New York and .South Meridian streets loomed today, with announcement at city hall of a Jeficit of $65,227 in gasoline and auto license funds. The deficit has been caused by failure of the city to collect anticipated revenue and the sudden increase in construction costs that has discouraged previous estimates. A. H. Moore, city engineer, said that the street department will be affected seriously and that the program will have to be curtailed to stay within the new restriction. No employes will be discharged at this time. The works board will seek a legal opinion on whether certain parts of the funds set aside for the board could be transferred to the street department. Friendly court action is expected to follow halt in the New York and Meridian street projects, to determine legality of carrying on despite the deficit. Realtors to Discuss Vote Law The voters' registration law will be discussed by Indianapolis realtors at their luncheon today in the Hotel Washington. Herbert C. Knight is in charge of the program committee and J. Harry Miles, president. will preside.

Ideal' Romance of Doug and Mary Crashes on Rocks of Temperament

BV ALANSON HOWARDS I nitrd Staff Corr**oondent Hollywood. July 27 J Scrcenland found only mild surprise in Mary Pickfords dis- i closure of a separation from j Douglas Fairbanks, her partner in the "perfect romance" that endured for thirteen years. Since 1930 it had been an open secret here that all was not well at Pickiair. the $400,000 honey- j moon house where Doug and Mary spent so many happy years. Only their brave ’front" and constant denials prevented the break long before. The blind devotion that marked their love match for a decade may have had something to do with the estrangement. Certainly, they did not lack warnings from well meaning friends. “This sort of thing is a mistake." they told Mary. "There is bound to be a reartion." Mary always had the same reaction : "Our lives are too short as it is. We are not going to lose a single day b-’ing together." Love even so strong as this cannot surmount every obstacle. For one thing there's temperament. BUB DOUG is a bundle of nerves and energy. Somewhat under medium height, he is able at 50 to outdistance larger and younger men. He is restless and "on the go" constantly. If there are not pictures to be made. Hollywood bores him. Mary's temperament either has her touching the clouds or in the depths of despondency. There's no

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On President Roosevelt's day held a night eonfertrce with h s headers at the Wfvie House, to consider The presdeat on March 9 asked legislation dealing with the banking crisis. The president's first official act was to the banking crisis and Congress qu>ckly complied. He was summon the new Congress 'Mo special session. Then he given control over nabonal banks; federal reseirve opera* issued a proclamat on decreeing a bans mg holiday, and tiont, com and currency, and foreign exchange, and the assuming dictatorial power over banks money and goto. nght to call in gold and suspend gold payments. * c *

The Indianapolis Times

C. OF C. WARNS CITY Os CRISIS ON FINANCES $1.50 Tax Limit Law Blocks Increase of Levy, in Beckett's Opinion. CREDIT IS ENDANGERED Sweeping Budget Reductions Rise to Confront Municipality. Destruction of credit standing, or sweeping reductions of $6,000,000 from 1934 budgets are horns of the dilemna upon which county, city, and school officials may be impaled. An ultimatum was sounded today by the budget subcommittee of the Chamber of Commerce group on civic affairs, after a study of probable effect of ’he $1.50 tax levy limit law on county finances. Interpretation of the limit law. as given by Joe Rand Beckett, chairman, prevents increase of the 1934 tax levy beyond the $1.50 limit fixed by law. Last year the Marion county tax adjustment toard declared an emergency, to establish the present $2.82 rate, and later won a fight in circuit court to uphold its ruling. Move Is Balked However, difficulties were encountered in disposing of bonds and notes for loans, because of opinions by bank and security house attorneys that funds for repayments and interest could not be included legally in levies beyond $1.50 a SIOO of taxable property. These opinions also form the basis of the subcommittee's interpretation on 1934 levies. Changes in the law. enacted bv the last legislature, permit inclusion of a levy to care for debt service. Beckett pointed out that the maximum levy, with provision for debt service, could be only $2.15. and the difference between the present and 1934 revenue would total $2,500,000. New Complications Enter The $6,000,000 cut would apply if debt service is taken from the $1.50 levy, Beckett said, a probability subject to interpretation of the law. Distribution to Marion county of revenue from new state taxes will not bring greater than a 10 per cent reduc'ion in the levy, Beckett estimated. The situation is complicated further because of the great increase in tax delinquencies and possibility ot reductions in valuation of taxable property.

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middle ground for America's Sweetheart.” Too, she loves Hollywood. Movies are her life. And there's money. On most matters, Doug and Mary agreed. When John Fairbanks died and Doug asumed his picture company's finances, he and Mary established trust funds to assure a comfortable living should a film venture fail. There was, however, this difference: Money neither affected nor impressed Mary. Doug believed money was made to use, and wanted to do the things a big income permits—travel and all that. He wasn't niggardly. He still is reputed to have the film colony's largest private pay roll of relatives and friends. B B St IkJ' ARY had a mind of her own no less than Doug. The world sa'w an example of Pickford determination in 1928 when she bobbed the famous golden curls for her role in "Coquette." Mary still gets fan letters both for and against the change. At the time, her mail was delivered in truckloads. The latest Pickford surprise, her announcement of separation and possible divorce, was a sad one for "the only Mary." But she saw the inevitable and cut the Gordian knot in typical Pickford fashion. Their friends believe now that Dougs solo trip to Europe in 1930. the first he had made without her. was the beginning of the end. There were elaborate explanations at the time, of course, as to why Mary couldn't go along. Doug made other trips after that—to the South Seas, to Africa.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933

Blight of Pollution Descends on ‘Old Swimmin’ Hole’ Made Famous by Riley

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Billy, in a reminiscent mood of those "Old Swimmin' Hole” days with the man he calls "Jim.” “You know Jim wasn't such a water-dog. H" liked to swim, but he liked to sit and dream, too.

to China, to India, Mary smiled, and stayed at home. Occasionally the flying Fairbanks paid brief visits to Pickfair. The first time he let it be known he didn't plan any more "gigantic" pictures. Another time he confided a greater fondness for Europe than for Hollywood. BUB ALL the while Doug and Mary continued to pretest their devotion. Often Mary traveled to New York to meet Doug as he returned from abroad. Only a month ago Doug rushed drama’icaly by plane to Albuquerque, N. M.. to overtake Mary's train and publicly embrace her. When a fateful cable arrived a few days ago. Mary felt the time for maintaining appearances w-as ended. In the cable Doug >.old her she must maintain Pickfair hereafter at her own expense. It developed he had wanted to close Pickfair some time ago. And thus "the little iadv of a hundred successes" admit’ed sadly. wistfully, that her greatest bid for happiness was a failure. ”... If there is a divorce, the grounds will be incompatibility." Incompatibility' The two love birds who ate together every night for six years couldn't get along. The partners in Hollywood's biggest business and social success now were the best of enemies. The greatest romance in Hollywood's history ended like most other Hollywood marriages on the shoals of discord. Mary waits now in Pickfair for a real estate agent to tell her the dream house is sold. Doug is in Europe with his friends. THE END

‘‘He wrote one poem, on a postal card, and used to recite it down at the old hole. Let's see if I can remember it." the aged man scratched his head. Recalls Old Poem “It went like this: Hfrf I am away out hrr in a *tran*r land, away from stranfer*. Whyrr the yummwrs are yo short and the winter* so lon*. Takes two pee-wee* to sin* a son* One sin** P and the other sin** Wee Oh. I wish this postal rard was me.' "Uncle" Billy tells of how they would dive from a "big old sycamore log." "They couldn't see you from the road. We'd go in just natural. Many's the time we'd tie knots in each other's clothes. That was very fashionable. Mud Tossed on Jim "Jim got his tied, too," added Uncle Billy, "and mud thrown on him.” “Uncle” Billy relates of another evening as they grew older and how a crowd had congregated on the railroad track. "Jim had on his father's old swallow-tail coat. Each one in the crowd was doing something, singing and such. It came Jim's time. He buttoned up the coat tight, looked up at the moon that was shining and said: ‘Oh moon, you think you're pretty dam vmirl. You're full once a month and we’re full everv nifht e—(tad.’ M "Uncle" Billy says they took Riley down to the Brandywine in 1909 to locate the "Old Swimmin’ Hole.” AH Along the River Riley walked up and down the Brandywine, pondered various spots and then announced, with the merry quip that always emerged from his eye before he spoke, in a judicial manner: “It's the whole length of Brandywine." "Uncle" Billy and others have set the "Old Hole ' as being about one square north of the state highway and diagonal from the new swimming pool. Where the pool once coursed stand a few trees and a picnic grounds. The town of Greenfield In the past has been polluting the Brandywine below the state highway. But the city fathers awoke to the desecration of the creek made famous as "THE Swimmin’ Hole" of all

', " The legislation also permitted appointment of conservators the bank n „ Iy “ tem> paised in 9 the clotl £ uri # ? Con . li|^ l^ a c ba c*ta^ , |i^h^^*hfluld^llo^ a^n2roerlev*!ar t a ' ,ef a led by Senator Glass. The act by h * R ,'. ‘ tO , a '.Jt f | W C, ‘wi L* ? guarantees bank deposits up to JIOjOOO and seeks to pre* rency was aoe ava abe tor,ssuanc aga st gove n- t fllvtrtlon 0 j funds into spsculativs channels, men,' obligations and other secunt es. - , ... . r BEXT: Balancing the ludgst.

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Upper Left—Swimming in the Brandywine, or what might be the "Old Swimmin’ Hole,” to the test tube tune of colon bacilli, while in the background is the new swimming pool at James Whitcomb Riley park near Greenfield.

1882 and 1933 Written June 17, 18S2, by James Whitcomb Riley: Oh! the old swimmin’ hole! whare the crick so still and deep Looked like a baby-river that was laying half asleep. And the gurgle of the worter round the drift jest below Sounded like the laugh of something we onc't ust to know Before we could remember anything but the eyes Os the angels lookin' out as we left Paradise; But the merry days of youth is bevond our eontrole. And it's hard to part forever with the oid swimmin' hole . . . Oh! the old swimmin’ hole' When I last saw the place, The scenes was all changed, like the change in my face; The bridge of the railroad now crosses the spot Whare the old div’-lcg lays sunk and forgot. And I stray down the banks whare the trees ust to be— But nevpr again will they'r shade shelter me! And I wish in my sorrow I could strip to the soul. And dive off in my grave like the old swimmin’ hole. a a Written July 5, 1933, by state bureau of sanitary engineering, laboratory results, Brandywine near Greenfield (Old Swimming Hole): Colon bacilli per 100 cubic centimeters—l,ooo.

"Old Swimmin' Holes.” They plan a sewage disposal plant. A modern swimming pool has supplanted the creek's old banks, except for those who have not the price every day of the week. And they swim as Riley swam, in a newer, not a cleaner, pool along the Brandywine. They're hampered by clothes and convention. There are no pants to tie knots in on the creek bank and no suspenders to twine around a tree branch. If they fish, their lure will bring few bites. Gravel pits above, at the head of the Brandywine, have been dug so deep to build mod .’n toads, foundations, that the fish stay in the pits.

Solve the Honeymoon Problem; Win Tickets Stella and Victor were married exactly three weeks five days nrd nineteen minutes when storm clouds appeared on their matrimonial horizon. Brides want a honeymoon to last forever —and it does as long as the bridegroom continues to display tenderness, respect and chivalry toward the one he has promised to cherish.

But the honeymoon is ended when the relatives are allowed to assume control of the couple's affairs, when the bride first runs to her mother, when there are continual lapses into annoying personal habits—and foi as many other reasons as there are weddings. From your own experience or observation of married people, when would you say the honeymoon is over? Pick out the fault, omission, point of neglect—the reason the devotion and romance of most honevmoons are replaced so quickly by the casaual companionship of married life. Just give qs your reason for the

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Upper Right—Fishing with hope for bait and a lot of that—but no catch in the Brandywine. Lower Left—" Uncle" Billy Davis, who swam with "Jim" Riley in the "Old Swimmin' Hole." Lower Right ■>— A view of the modern "Swimming Hole."

But they do swim with a gusto of a Riley or an "Uncle" Billy Davis. They are unhampered by the water sampling bottle and its analysis of "B. coli per 100 cc . . . 1.000" They don’t know that the state sanitary division rules that B. coli should not show a positive test in one cubic centimeter of water on one sample to be good swimming water. • "Jim" Riley would have enjoyed watching them on a summer day in 1933. But old cronies of "Jim’s" believe he would have frowned and would have written the same last lines r ,o his poem if he had known that "13. coli" live in the shadow of his "Old Swimmin’ Hole."

failure of most honeymoons to endure. Your opinion or theory • lone is sufficient—no detailed explanation is necessary: twenty-five words at most should cover it. If you're logical and right-think-ing and correct in your surmise, you'll stand a very good chance of winning one of the thirty pairs of guest tickets contributed by Loew s Palace theater in this contest. The picture is "Another Language." coming to that theater for one week, beginning Friday. It brings together for the first time Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery

NRA TO WRITE CODE TO GUIDE OIL INDUSTRY Production and Refining to Be Covered in Rules Drafted by U. S. AND THEY LIKE IT! Petroleum Heads Glad for Aid in Solution of Delicate Problem. BY MARSHALL MrNEIL Times SDerlal Writer WASHINGTON. July 27 Tho great and the small oil men heard Hugh Johnson. NRA administrator, tell them that he and his outfit were going to write a code covering petroleum production and refining. And they liked it! This tough ex-arm.v general with the grin of a happy kid thus took away from the potentates the petroleum industry— the men representing the' Rockefellers and tha Mellons, Harry Sinclair himself and all the others—the most delicate j issue projected into the oil coda hearing. I Between puffs on his cigaret. and with that grin again, he made it evident in his picturesque fashion (hat the oil industry. NRA and President Roosevelt were here to I agree on an oil code. And the quicker this was accomplished tho better ;t would be for all concerned. "This isn't czarism.'’ Johnson said, squinting his eyes, his glasses perched on his forehead. "This is industrial seft-government cooperation." Oil Leaders Applaud There was the hint that somebody might chisel in on somebody else's business. "Maybe somebody might put something over for a litte while." General Johnson admitted. "But they’re not. going to get away with it Jong." And ihe oil men. several hundred of them, who these years have wanted a czar for their industrv, applauded. So here is the present set-up: Committees representative of all branrhes of the industry liave reached an agreement, unofficially reported, on hours of labor and rates of pay, the elements Administrator Johnson regards as paramount. Under this reported agreement, workers in the production and refining branches of the business would get from 45 to 52 rents an hour, depending upon regions; maximum hours of work would be thirty-six. Work on Marketing Code In the marketing end. *he formula is: 40 to 47 cents per hour, depending upon regions; a 40-hour week. In production, incidentally, operators of stripper wells arc exempt | lr °m the maximum hours provision. Committees equally representative arc at work on the marketing provisions of the rode. Here, the "lease and agency" issue is foremost. Independents claim—their argument was presented by Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war, and others—that the major companies by a unique leasing system which operated to their benefit dominate filling station operators and force them to sell only their products. Independent lubricating oils and gas are prohibited. If the filling station operator flouts the refinery offering the j "lease and agency" system he is faced with competition, especially provided by this refinery on nearby corners. Finally. General Johnson and others are at work on the production code. "Insiders’ say that the proposal made in the American Petroleum institute's code will not be followed, that production control will not be imposed from above by Washington. ( ode Ready Next Monday They predict that something like the formula quietly proposed to the hearing by red-headed Colonel Eri nest O. Thompson of the Texas railroad commission may be in the final code. Thompson and many o'hers at the hearing would have the slates regulate their own production, with the federal government standing by to prohibit interstate shipment of oil produced in excess of state laws. On Monday night General Johnson will present his proposed production code. He hopes the great and small in oil will agree. Then, also, the marketing code and the labor provisions will be ready for submission. By late next week, perhaps, this bucking broncho of all industry may be saddled and bridled. THIEF RANSACKS HOME Jimmies Front Door to Esrape With Goods Worth $33. Clothing and a wool blanket, i valued at approximately $33 were stolen from the home of Mrs. Leona Lydle, 612 West North street, i Wednesday night, she reported to police today. The front door of the house had been jimmied by a burglar, who evidently had left hurriedly. Two winter coats, wrapped In a bundle, were found on a davenport. Stolen were a blanket, a pair of shoes, a dress and a coat. ‘BENCH HAWK' JAILED Court Convicts Man Who Accosts Woman in Park. "A park bench hawk" had his wings clipped in municipal court Wednesday afternoon. John Horsely. 1631 North New Jersey street, charged with accosted Mrs. L. Beck, 243 North Hamilton ’ avenue, in University park I Tuesday, was fined $lO and costs for | disorderly conduct. He was sent to | the state farm upon failure to pay 1 the line.