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DR. WYNEKOOP SERIOUSLY ILL IN JAIL CELL Murder Suspect Is Treated for Bronchial Cough, Blood Pressure. 2 INDICTMENTS ASKED Grand Jury Hears Evidence Against Physician and Son Earle. By l ml "I Press CHICAGO. Nov. 28. The jail physician veas called this afternoon to the cell of Dr. Alice Wynekoop af*rr the jail matron indicated the prisoner's physical condition was becoming worse. Dr. Wynekoop. charged with murder m connection with the mystery murder of her daughter-in-law, Rheta, is suffering from a bronrhial cough and high biood pressure. Dr. Francis McNamara, jail physician, said Dr Wynekoop's pulse was very rapid and that there were indications of increasing hardening of the arteries. The elderly woman also complained of congestion in her lungs, he said. Dr. W'ynekoop was placed on a special di°t and two jail inmates were assigned her as twenty-four-hour nurses. Dr. McNamara reported his patient was running no fever. Two Indictments Sought Upon two repudiated confessions and a maze of circumstantial evidence, state prosecutors this afternoon sought the indictment of Dr. Wynekoop, and her son Earle on charges of killing Rheta Gardner W’vnekoop, the son’s unwanted wife. The meeting of the grand jury was the last active session of the present panel. Dougherty charged that Dr. Alice shot and chloroformed her titianhaired young daughter-in-law to death and that Earle planned the crime, purchasing cartridges, teaching his mother to shoot his revolver, and inciting her to the deed. Roth suspects were held in county jail on warrants charging murder. Rheta’s body was found on an operating table in the basement of the Wynekoop family's outmoded mansion on the west side a week ago. ‘Confession’ Repudiated As though for a medical examination, it had been stripped of clothing. A bullet wound in the back and presence of chloroform in the body explained the death. Subsequently Dr. Alice signed a statement admitting that she administered chloroform to the girl. When Rheta died from the chloroform the physician shot the dead body, the statement said. Dr. Alice first ascribed her daughter-in-law's death to a prowler's bullet. This statement was repudiated late yesterday for the physician by Frank Tyrrell, her attorney. Earle, likewise, signed a confession to having a part in the killing. He admitted the shooting. Later, he admitted his story was a hoax. Police proved to their own satisfaction that Earle was out of the city at the time of the killing. ST. LAWRENCE PLAN IS FLAYED BY CLARK "Strangulation of Mississippi Valley” Threatened. Senator Claims. By l nited Press ST. LOUIS. MO.. Nov. 28 United States Senator Bennett Champ Clark tDcrn. Mo.) this afternoon denounced the pending St. Lawrence river development treaty with Canada as “strangulation of the Mississippi valley.” “It is time that the people of the valley should awake and gird for defense," he told a joint meeting of thp Mississippi Valley Association and the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. WALKATHON MAKES PEACE WITH FEENEY Officials Agree to Keep Aisles Open at Exhibition. The walkathon at the Indiana state fairground successfuly hurdled another obstacle this afternoon Officials of the contest visited A1 Feeney, state safety director, 'and agreed to keep crowds away from fire escapes and keep aisles open, to avoid being ordered to close the exhibition because of the fire hazard. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southwest wind. 7 miles an hour: temperature. 44: barometric pressure. 30.07 at sea level: general conditions. high, scattered clouds; ceiling unlimited: visibility, two miles, hazy. Times Index Page BLACK HAWK 17 Bridge 15 Broun 12 Classified 15. 16 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 18 Curious World 17 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Fishing 8 Hickman-Theaters 3 Lippmann 13 Notre Dame—A Series 11 Radio 8 Sports 14 State News 8 Woman’s Pages 6. 7

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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 172

Trade a Tear for a Smile —Clothe a Child!

WIGGIN GRANDS FOX' TALE 'LIE' Deposed Bank President Denies ‘Bawling Out" Hoover. By I nited Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 28.—Albert H. Wiggin, deposed head erf the Chase National bank, this afternoon denounced to the senate stock market committee as “wholly and absolutely false,” the sworn testimony of William Fox that in 1929 the banker sent to President Hoover a message to “mind his own business." Fox told the committee that Claudius Huston, former chairman of the Republican national committee. was told by Wiggin to take the message to Mr. Hoover. "Is there any statement you care to make in connection with the. testimony given by Mr. Fox?” Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, asked. "The statement by Mr. Fox regarding word I was alleged to have sent to the President is absolutely and entirely false,” answered Wiggin. SCHNEIDER, CITY RACE DRIVER. IS DIVORCED * Extreme Cruelty Is Charged by Wife in Detroit Court. Ry J nited Pr*fts DETROIT. Nov. 28. —Mrs Barbara Schneider. 24. this afternoon was granted a divorce from her husband, Louis F. Schneider. 32, Indianapolis! auto race driver, on grounds of extreme cruelty. Mrs. Schneider received custody of their 3-vear-old son. William George. They were married in August of 1922 at Merrill. Wis., she alleged. Schneider was not located and no defense was made to the suit. BLIND WORKERS DANCE No Toes Mashed. No Collisions at Unique Party. By l nited Pres* NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 28—Blind workers at the Lighthouse for the Blind here danced modern steps to the strains of jazz at their party without a couple colliding or a toe being mashed.

For Want Ad RESULTS at the Lowest Rates in the City Phone Want Ad Headquarters Riley 5551

The Indianapolis Times Increasing cloudiness tonight, probably followed by some rain tomorrow; not much change in temperature.

“Your Clothes Aren't Warm ’Enoughs Maybe The Times Will Help Us."

Roosevelt Signs Code Aimed at High Film Pay

By I nited Press WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Nov. 28.—A code aimed at excessive Hollywood salaries stood approved by President Roosevelt this afternoon. The code <tl fair competition for the motion picture industry, signed by the President last night after lengthy hearings in Washington and frequent meetings between the chief executive and Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, has for its salient feature, a provision for an investigation and report within ninety days of unfair practices of the industry. including salaries. It provides for inclusion of Marie Dressier and Eddie Cantor in the code authority.

Mason Again Is Branded as Jones Killer Gangster Harold Butts. Passenger in Commandeered Taxi, Points Out Defendant in Noblesville Courtroom. BY JAMES A. CARYIN Times Staff Writer NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 28.—For the second time, I the finger of positive identity was pointed today at William H. Mason, as a member of the bandit gang which murdered Lester Jones, Indianapolis police sergeant.

Mason was named by Harold Butts, mechanic of the Union Cab Company. Indianapolis, who was Kidnaped with Paul Luthmers, a driver, as they sat in front'of Luthmer's home. 1704 Carrollton avenue, in the early morning of Feb. 7. Both men were forced into the cab by the bandits and taken with them, being released several hours later on the Post road. Blood Smeared Seat Butts also said that Edward 'Foggy) Dean drove the cab, after putting on Luthmer's uniform cap; Mason sat on the left side ot the rear seat. Harold Thompson on the right side, and that George Swartz held Fred Adams on his lap. in the center. During the ride, Adams held a machine gun and other members of the gang were armed with pistols. Butts said. One of Thompson's hands was wrapped in blood-stained handkerchief and a bloody smear was made on the rear of the back seat where the hand rested. Butts said. Mason previously had been identified as a gang member by Michael McAllen. Indianapolis police officer who testified yesterday. All other witnesses failed to recognize Mason as a gang member. Flight Route Described Seated with Mason in the courtroom today were his wife, and his sister. Mrs. Marie Wolff, both of Clifton, Ky., his home town. The wild ride in the com-

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mandeered taxi was related in detail by Luthmers. Cab was driven with lights out, ’ and one stop was made to disconnect the stop light, which operated independently of the headlights, he said. When court opened, the defense moved to strike out testimony of patrolman McAllen, regarding identification of Mason as one of the members of the gang. The defense lost the point when Judge Hines overruled the motion. FIFTEEN AUTOMOBILES PURCHASED FOR POLICE Price Is 57.364 After Deduction of Trade-In Allowance. Fifteen new Chevrolet cars were purchased for the police department today by the board of safety for a I net price of $7,364 from the A. M. Bowen Company. The new 7 cars will supplant fifteen j decrepit vehicles now in use by the department. A trade-in price of S2OO a car w'as allowed for the cud machines. Bids on Bridge Filed Eighty-seven bids on fifteen bridges in eight counties were re*ceived by the state highway commission this afternoon. The lowbids totaled $294,727. Counties in which the bridges are to be built include Cass, Clay, Fulton, Jay, Owen, Tippecanoe and Warrick.

BOOK VALUE OF UTILITY SCORED Mark Wolff Testifies in Public Service Company Valuation Case. Mark Wolff, key man in the Sherman Minton investigation of rates of the Public Service Company of Indiana, took the stand at the public service commission hearing today to attempt to establish a lower rate base valuation than that contended for by ’the company. He gave th evaluation of the Indiana Electric Corporation on April 1. 1933, as not more than $14,190,500, while the company has asked a “book value” for this property of $19,816,342. Figures of Stone and Webster, accountant appraisers, which Commissioner Moie Cook got into the i record over company protests at the preliminary hearing, were used as the basis for his figures, Mr. Wolff asserted. He continued as a witness this afternoon.

POLICE CALLED IN STOCKYARDS STRIKE Riot Squads Fail to Stop Threats of Violence. By United Prces CHICAGO. Nov. 28.—Police riot squads were called this afternoon to the Chicago stockyards, where a strike of livestock handlers threatened to develop serious violence. Fist-fighting broke out in streets surrounding the great stockyards. Despite vigilance of police squads, half a dozen affrays were reported within an hour. The fighting w-as sporadic. Hundreds of men thronged the streets watching progress of the strike. COLD WAVE ARRIVAL IS DELAYED 36 HOURS Light Rains Forecast for City Tonight and Tomorrow. There is little possibility of arrival of a cold wave within the next thirty-six hours, according to forecast of the weather bureau today. Possibility of light rains and increasing cloudiness tonight and tomorrow was reported. Mercury was expected to remain above freezing tonight. Lowest last night was 40 degrees. Heavy smoe which blanketed the downtown area early today soon was dispelled when the sun broke through the clouds.

Clothe-a-Child! SIMPLE words, for a simple cause, that come each year to Indianapolis as winds snap, snow hovers and chill oozes in stuffed window panes along the city's Poverty Row. The words are explanatory. This year, as for the last four years. The Indianapolis Times seeks to cheer the Yuletide and the year beyond—l 934 with warm clothing for school children. Clothe-a-Child means the brotherhood of man, the leading of a little girl or boy to a city department store and the transplanting of new stockings for ragged ones, new pants for those with isles of holes, new warmth for sruvenng cold. In 1932. The Times, through girls in the shops, telephone operators and men at clerical desks, through locomotive engineers and crack bowlers. merchants and mailmen, clothed 435 children. a u a THIS year the need is just as great. Life's on the upturn but there are many who will find Christmas day just another day abed to keep warm and a worry for the mother of the family of whether she'll have clothing enough to go around for Johnny and Jimmy to attend school in the New Year. The Times, through Clothe-a-Child donors, reaches the city's needy children between the ages of 5 and 12 years, the years when winter really freezes. Here's the plan: You call The Indianapolis Times and ask for the Clothe-a-Child editor. The number is Riley 5551. He will give you the name of a child. The child is then your very own to clothe before Christmas day. You dress him or her as to the needs to keep the rack of disease away from another victim of a household with thin or empty purse. ana IF you can't dress a child by yourself, then band together in an office group, a fraternity, a sorority, a club, a Sunday school class, or your own family, and take a boy or girl. You can pick a girl or boy, and If you're early, almost any age you desire. But if you're crowded and rushed in holiday work and you just haven't the time to shop for your girl or boy, then The Times will do it for you. Mail a check to the Clothe-a-Child editor of The Times, or bring to The Times the amount you wish to spend on your child. The Times will clothe that boy or girl and then send you his or her name and address. So that whether you clothe the child yourself or The Times does it for" you. Christmas will bring the two of you together in the smooth, warm feel of anew coat, shiny weather-proof shoes, earcozy caps. a a u IT is your Christmas from the time we give you the name of the child to clothe. You spend your own money—unless you want us to act as Santas for you. You decide just how much is necessary to keep your boy or girl from blowing on chapped hands, running to school to keep warm. If you desire, and sometimes donors do, you can remain always just the “Man” or “Lady—who dressed me up.” The Times will not print your name in the list of donors if you desire to be anonymous. You can be a mysterious Santa to the one you clothe. You can call yourself “Mister Doe” or just “Mrs. Santa,” but whatever you call yourself you never can still the grin at anew coat taking the place of rags. Simple isn't it? You just call the Clothe-a-Child editor of The Times, Riley 5551, to make a bargain between you and a boy or girl who needs you. You put smiles where tears might have been. You make a heart beat lively, hopefully, because it’s your Christmas and you are in the heart of a child and the heart of a child is in YOU. BLACKMAIL CHARGED TO CHARLES GEISKING Help by Police on Bogus Court Case ‘Fixing’ Count. Affidavits were signed this afternoon charging Charles Geisking, 26, of 5764 Franklin avenue, with blackmail. Geisking has been held at police headquarters on a vagrancy charge. Two men. Arthur Wiley, 525 East Walnut street, and George Hepsher, 314 East Walnut street, signed the affidavits and told police that Geisking was one of two men, who attempted to obtain SSOO from them to “square” an alleged charge in juvenile court. Wiley and Hepsher told police that Geisking and another man represented themselves as officers of the juvenile court. They said the men offered to settle the alleged bogus court case for SSOO.

Projects to Employ 1,000 Include Fort Air Field

Two federal civil works projects, the first under the United States board in Indiana, were announced today at the state civil works division in the State House. The projects will employ 1.078 men. They are, improvement work at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Schoen field. Indianapolis; the quartermaster's depot at Jeffersonville and national cemetery. New Albany; and the second project consists of a

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TROOPS ESCAPE MARYLAND MOB AFTER RATTLE " Soldiers Flee Salisbury After Arresting* Men Accused in Lynching of Negro Last Month. TEAR GAS BOMBS HOLD OFF CROWD Infuriated Eastern Shore Dwellers Rise in Anger, Storm Armory; Denounce Governor Ritchie. By United-Press SALISBURY. Md., Nov. 28.—State militiamen escaped an infuriated mob this afternoon with four alleged lynchers in trucks which rolled out of Salisbury toward Baltimore after a fight in wihch the soldiers threw more than 100 tear gas bombs at citizens bent on freeing four men. The thwarted citizens, who had engaged in wild disorder all morning in front of the armory where the prisoners were held, threw stones and clubs after the fleeing trucks. The sedan in which Attorney-General William P. Lane

M'NUTT TO SET LIQUOR DETAILS Governor to Give Views to Control Committee in Session Today. That Governor Paul V. McNutt will be the final arbiter in the matter of handling legalized liquor sales in Indiana was indicated today when it was learned that no official opinion regarding such sales has ever been asked of the attorneygeneral. The Governor said that he would lay his views, including that of “no saloons,” before the first meeting of his liquor control committee this j afternoon. Commenting upon the misunderstanding surrounding his part in the matter, Attorney-General Philip Lutz. Jr., had this to say: “I have never been asked for any official opinion regarding liquor sales by Governor McNutt or any other state official. The data I prepared was upon request of Wayne Cox, secretary to the Governor, and was submitted as a memorandum | and not an opinion. The only ruling I ever have made was on legalization of draught beer sales.” Governor McNutt said that the board meeting this afternoon will be for the purpose o f organization and laying out a plan of procedure. One of the most important problems to be considered will be how, if at all, liquor shauld be sold in less than bottle lots, he said. SCHOOL BUS SAFETY CAMPAIGN IS BEGUN State Police Lend Aid to Effort to Protect Children. Steps to prevent violation of the law prohibiting motorists from passing school buses stopped to or unload children were started this afternoon by A1 Feeney, s’tate safety j director. On suggestion of W. E. Koenig- | kramer, Washington township trusj tee. Decatur county, state policei men will be instructed to aid in for- ! mation of parent patrols in each I county. These patrols would operate to ; obtain affidavits against violators of ' the school bus law, and cause j offending drivers to lose their oper--1 ating licenses. JURY DEADLOCKED IN TRIAL OF TOUHY Fails to Report Kidnap Verdict After 17 Hours. I By 1 )iitf and Pri ss ■ ST. PAUL, Nov. 28.—The jury in ! the William Hamm Jr. kidnaping ; case was deadlocked this afternoon, j More than seventeen hours after ! receiving the case against Roger Touby and three other Chicago j beer gangsters, the two women and ; ten men made no move toward reporting a verdict when court re- ; convened. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 41 10 a. m 51 7a. m 42 11 a. m 55 Ba. m 42 12 (noon).. 53 i 9 a. m 47

sanitation program under the bureau of public health service. Work at Ft. Harrison and Schoen field will take 96 men; at Jeffersonville 98 men wull be employed and at New Albany 28 men. The sanitation program will hire 834 men. When all state-federal projects are completed 24.000 men will be hired in addition to the 74.000 men employed on state, city, county, and township civil works.

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and Brigadier-General Milton A. Reckord were riding was struck by the stones. Several windows were smashed, but the officials inside indicated ; they were unhurt as they signaled for the troop trucks to hasten I through the bedlam of Salisbury's Main street. The four alleged ringleader| of j the mob which lynched a Negro at | nearby Princess Anne last month | were arrested shortly before dawn | by the soldiers at order of Governor Albert C. Ritchie, who vowed that j the lynching should not go unpunished. When word of the arrests spread i through the historic Eastern Shore | of Maryland, incensed citizens hurried to Salisbury, muttering against | Governor Ritchie. Troops Parade Sidewalk When the prisoners arrived in Salisbury early to<ay from Princess Anne, only about 300 citizens were waiting in front of the armory. Troopers paraded the sidewalks with ; drawn bayonets, but still the resi- | dents of the district, the oyster men, 1 the farmers, and the poultry raisers, i continued to arrive, to denounce theGovernor bitterly. By noon about 2,000 men and women stood in the cold sunlight, | shouting down imprecations upon j the Governor’s head, demanding his I impeachment and insisting upon ! the release of the captives. The troopers bared their bayonets and threatened to stab the leaders | of the mob. but still the bitter citiI zens pressed forward. When it seemed the rushing of : the army was but an iastant away, j General Reckord ordered his soldiers |to release tear gas bombs. The j troopers stood in windows and doors I of the armory, flinging the bombs I into the crowd. When they exploded, releasing I gas which swept Main street, the resident fled, with tears in their eyes, to the outskirts of the village. Hardly had the gas cleared away under a brisk breeze, however, when they ran back looking for Lane and Reckord. whom they held responsible for the gassing. An innocent traveler in an old j sedan approached at that moment. The crowd thought he was Lane, stopped his car, smashed the win- ! dows, overturned it, and pulled the I terrified passerby from his seat. He was tossed to the ground when it was discovered that he was not Lane. The latter, meantime, was inside I the armory with General Reckord. : After hurried telephone conferences with officials in Baltimore and An- | napolis they bandoned all idea of | taking their four prisoners to Prin- | cess Anne for a hearing before a magistrate. Instead, they arranged to take j them at once to Baltimore. The prisoners were distributed in I the military carvan, one to a truckI load of soldiers. The latter stood on top of the heavy lorries, with rifles at shoulder, ready for action. The prisoners were inside, secreted under the olive drab canvas. Gives Order to Go Record then gave the order to go. He jumped into his car, with Lane, and they sped out an alley behind the Armory, careened into the street and roared northwestward. The crowd was noplussed for an instant. Then a barrage of bricks, stones and clubs followed the car as it ran through a veritable gantlet of enraged Marylanders. Although some of the weapons j struck their mark and the windows of the sedan splintered into the I street. Record and Lane appeared unscratched as they waved back vigorously to the truck drivers to follow. The great trucks lumbered from the alley, pushing into the midst of ! the citizens who packed the street. The latter screamed and cursed when the trucks bore down upon them, but the drivers held to their course. Many escaped narrowly from being crushed under the heavy wheels. The whole caravan rolled out of Salisbury safely and along the road j toward Baltimore, while excited leaders of the mob made curbstone speeches, urging further action. Some suggested that they give chase apparently was forthcoming. Half an hour after the trucks had ; left. Salisbury had settled down almost to its usual normalcy, except for the street, corner groups of citizens, who discussed heatedly the possibility of obtaining the im- ■ peachment of Governor Ritchie.