Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1934 — Page 2

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ASSASSINATION ROUSES FOREIGN EXPERTS HERE Butler Professor Predicts Double Tragedy May Lead to War. (Continued From rage One) might result, because relations between Yugoslavia and Italy were badly strained. France and Yugoslavia had enjoyed friendly relations and both belonged to the encirclement of nations around Germany. “As it is, I am astounded and shall await other details with interest,” Dr. Oxnam declared. The Rev. E. J. Unruh, executive secretary of the Indiana Council of International Relations, pointed out that It is almost impossible this early to conjecture about the effect of the assassination on European affairs. Grave Results Feared “If the assassin is identified as being affiliated with any of the /evolutionary groups in Europe,” he said, “King Alexander’s killing may ha- 3 grave results. “There is the chance that the assassin may be wrongly or correctly. identified as being a Nazi sympathizer. There also is the possibility that the killing may have been so calculated as to throw the responsibility on France, because it occurred on French soil.” Like Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, De Pauw university president, who recently returned from Europe. Mr. Unruh expressed surprise that the killing occurred in France. It is practically impossible to judge the significance of the assassination until the killer’s political sympathies and connections ) become fully known, the Indiana council head pointed out. “Although Germany is showing a strongly militaristic attitude, Europe is not very anxious for war,” ! Mr. Unruh asserted. Yugoslav Native Horrified Steve Yovanavitch, 474 West, Washington street, a banker and I native of Yugoslavia, said today j that the large Yugoslavian settle- ! ment here would be deeply shocked ’ at the news of their beloved king’s j assassination. He said that relations between

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Yugoslavia and France were those of close friends and that his people regarded France warmly. Italy, he said, was regarded by the country as an enemy to be watched. The relations with Russia. Mr. Yovanavitch asserted, were friendly. Abbot & Hoppm, stock brokers, reported a frantic selling as the result of the assassination. There was much confusion in the brokerage offices when the news flashed through the ticker. “The assassination of King Alexander will have a good effect on the Balkans because the monarch was a tyrant disliked by the Macedonians,” Christo Nazimoff, editor of the Macedonian Tribune, published here, said. Cupid and European politics will be disturbed by the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. That is the opinion of Bertita Harding, author of "Phantom Crown,” a story of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico, which will be published Friday by the BobbsMcrrill Company. In private life the author is the wife of Jack Harding, 3518 Balsam avenue. “The assassination of King Alexander will decidedly affect the gaiety of the coming wedding of Prince George of England and the Princess Marina.” Mrs. Harding said today

The death penalty for killing the poet who wrecked his home will be demanded for Judson C. Doke, upper right, when he goes to trial in Woodland, Cal. Doke will plead the unwritten law, it 15 indicated, for fatally shooting the suitor of his wife, Helen Louise' upper rs - Doke - P°l ice say, admitted intimacy with the victim, Lamar Hollingshead, 23, left. Doke is a San Leandro, Cal., ex-city official. The trial is set

at her home when informed by The Times of the murder of the monarch. "It was,” she said, ‘at the estate of King Alexander in the Carpathian mountains, where Prince George of England and the Princess Marina were engaged. "The dead king introduced the two some years ago and rather patriotically protected the match. “As it takes only a match to start a fire, it is difficult to say what the political results will be of this assassination.

CORN-HOG PRODUCTION CONTROL IS FAVORED Approximately 65 Per Cent of State Farmers Approve. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 9. Approximately 65 per cent of Indiana farmers favor continuation of the corn-hog production control program of the AAA in 1935, official tabulation of the federal referendum in eighty-seven of the ninetytwo counties in the state showed today. With only Tippecanoe, Floyd, Randolph, Starke and Rush counties to report returns, the vote stood 24.022 in favor of the plan and 13,257 against.

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BOYCE RESIGNS SECRETLY AS CHIEFJAILER Quit Several Days Before Break, Times Probe Reveals. (Continued From Page One) its original container. Mr. Markey declared it was possible the coffee sack containing the contraband had not been emptied according to custom. Failure of the jail’s parcel inspection system to disclose the pumice also may account for the comparative ease with which the escaping prisoners obtained two hack saw blades, penal investigators insisted. Another section of a hack saw blade was discovered in the waist band of “Red” Giberson’s trousers after his escape had been thwarted, Mr. Markey admitted. The jail system also was found faulty in checking spoons issued to prisoners for their meals. A crude key, capable of opening the locks on the barred doors leading from the “prisoners’ runs” to the corridor of the jail, had been manufactured by the Giberson gang from a jail spoon. Mr. Markey declared that the pie tins, used by prisoners during their meals, as well as the spoons, are checked by civilian employes of the jail as the prisoners file from the jail mess hall on the third floor of the jail. Prison experts informed The Times that the practice in well organized prisons and jails is to count the dishes and spoons as they are issued and again after the prisoners have dumped them in boxes as they leaving the dining rooms. Failure of the final count in such jails to tally exactly with the number of spoons or dishes originally issued always results in a “frisk” of the entire prison or jail and the solitary confinement of every prisoner until the missing articles are found, penal authorities said. A "shake-down” of the entire Marion county jail is conducted every week, Mr. Markey said, for the purpose of discovering weapons, drugs or other contraband that might have been smuggled into the jail. The malleable metal of the jail spoon was carefully tempered by the escaping prisoners to harden the metal of the crude key. How the hack saws were smuggled into the jail probably never will be known, Mr. Markey declared. Screen Mesh Too Large

Because of a shortage of supervisory personnel it could have been possible for a visitor to have passed the blades through the screen separating the visiting room from the enclosures in which prisoners are placed. The mesh of the protective screen is too large to be effective in preventing the passing of such an article as a hack saw blade. A similar size mesh covers the exterior barred windows of the jail. By dropping a weighted thread through this protective mesh to a confederate below, prisoners plotting escape might easily haul one or more hacksaw blades into the jail without discovery. Frustration of Saturday night’s jail break can be attributed wholly to a hunch by Buster Lee, Negro night jailer, he has said. The plotters carefully had observed the custom of the night jailer in making his rounds. The dash for liberty was made at a time when the plotters had no reason to believe Mr. Lee would not follow his usual customs. This would have given them a whole hour to saw away the corridor bars and lower themselves to the ground below. Lee, however, altered his usual schedule. He made his rounds on the third tier at 7:40 Saturday night instead of at 8. The prisoners, sawing the restraining bars, heard his approach. Using their crude key they opened the doors at the head of the corridor, thus keeping ahead of the night jailer as he walked down the enclosure. Weapons Are Exposed One of the desperados was late in passing through one of the doors. Mr. Lee saw him. Mr. Markey described the administrative practices to this writer in the Marion county jail in his private office on the first floor. This office is separated from the first cell block only by a barred steel tfoor. On the walls of the office are two wooden cases containing machine guns, rifles and other fire arms for use by prison employes in the event of an escape. The locks are of the weak, mortised type. There arose the uncomfortable question of what would happen if another prisoner fashioned a key from another spoon, unlocked the barred door after overpowering the single guard, and crushed in the door of these cases with his fists. It would be much more comfortable if these guns were kept in steel, barred, locked cases, safe from escaping prisoners, the reporter reflected as he walked to the comparative safety of the city street. The secret of Mr. Boyce’s resignation had been guarded closely at Sheriff Charles L. (Buck) Sumner's office. Chief Deputy Ralph L. Hitch confirmed news of the resignation after a Times reporter had been told at the jail that Mr. Boyce no longer was there. Mr. Hitch said he was not certain the exact date the resignation had been offered and accepted, but was of the opinion Mr. Boyce had resigned "a week or ten days ago.” It was admitted at the sheriff's office complaints had been received that Mr. Boyce, who recently opened a tavern on West Washington street, had been devoting part of his time to his private business enterprise while on the county pay roll.

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SLAIN KING WAS MONARCH WITH COMPLETE RULE Acted as Dictator Backed by Army: No Reds in Country. (Continued From Page One) developed among the Yugoslav agrarians. The only Yugoslav aristocrats are member of the recognized government party, which holds the country together. Yugoslavia has a navy, including submarines, which operates on the Adriatic. Many of the ships were inherited from the extinct AustroHungarian fleet, along with the Aus-tro-Hungarian naval bases on the Adriatic coast. There is a large army (200.000 men), well trained and equipped. Relations with Italy have not been good, due to territorial disputes affecting the Adriatic region, and the Italian and Yugoslav dictatorships have glared at one another ever since their very inceptions. Yugoslavia is a member of the Little Entente alliance, which also comprises Czechslovakia and Rumania. These three states received war territories at Hungarian expense, and their compact calls for centralized staff work and co-oper-ation in diplomatic matters to consolidate their gains. The Little Entente, in close accord with France, has played an important part in the League of Nations; and economic agreements are indicated as following military developments. Czechoslovakia supplies heavy industry, Rumania has wheat and oil, Yugoslavia enjoys farms and seaports; and the three countries have a combined population of more than forty-five million, which constitutes a tripartite great pow'er. Communism in Yugoslavia is almost

ASSASSINATED KING WAS EUROPE’S MOST ‘SHOT-AT’ MONARCH

By l nitrd Press MARSEILLES. France, Oct. 9 King Alexander of Yugoslavia was one of the most shot-at monarchs in Europe. In 1916 he narrowly escaped death when a man threw a bomb at him. In 1920 he had a second narrow escape from a bomb at Sarajevo. In 1921 another attempt was made on his life. This time one member of his entourage was killed and six wounded. The incident occurred at Belgrade. In June, 1931, another bombing attempt was unsuccessful. A year later—in May, 1932—the king's palace was bombed. nonexistent, but sectionalism Is a pressing national problem. * * • King—Alexander I, assassinated today in France. Area—96.l3s square miles, comprising the former kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro, and the Yugoslav provinces of Austria-Hungary. The area approximates that of Oregon. Population—l3.93o.ooo. of whom almost ten million are Slavs, about j half a million each Germans. Hungarians and Albanians, and the rest Rumanians and Italians. Capital Belgrade, population, 241.000. DENTAL SOCIETY MEETS City Group Hears Chicago College Instructor. Dr. Warren Willman, instructor in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, discussed “The Preservation of the Dental Pulp” at an Indianapolis Dental Society dinner at the Washington last night. Lieutenant Stanton T. Smith, commandant of Schoen field, Fr. Benjamin Harrison, spoke on modern combat aviation. Dr. Harry G. Mayer, president, was in charge of the meeting.

OCT. 9, 1931

DENIES HABEAS WRIT IN TAVEBN SHYING Judge Orders Suspect to Face Murder Charge. Cyril M. Elwood, 31. Tibbs avenue and state read No. 52, today awaited action by the county grand j jury on a charge of murder followI mg denial of his pica for a writ of habeas corpus yesterday by Criminal Judge Frank p. Baker. Elwood is alleged to have shot and killed Joseph Calvert, 35, of 1237 Oliver avenue, in a beer tavern at 3228 Oliver street the night of Sept. 21. Calvert was an innocent bvs.ander who was wounded fatally when. It Is alleged, Elwood shot blindly Into the tavern in retaliation for remarks said to have been made about him during an altercation in the tavern earlier in the evening. In petitioning for the writ of habeas corpus, Elwood contended that he was being held on a charge of first degree murder whereas he only should be held on a charge of manslaughter. State Woman Dies in Plunge j By United Press NORTH VERNON, Ind., Oct. 9 iMrs. Daisy Hurst, 25, ieaped or fell | to her death from the second floor of her father's downtown restaurant late yesterday.

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