Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 159, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1934 — Page 1

1 - /TO WAIT P

RICKENBACKER FAR BEHIND IN RECORD FLIGHT

Transport Plane More Than Hour Late in Dash for Miami. BUFFETED BY WINDS •Florida Flyer' Expected to Make Round Trip Run Before Night. ft; • .!'<# tress MIAMI Fl* Nov, 13. -The Florida Flyer. world * speediest pas- | senger plane. was running behind *rhedu> today on a dawn to dusk, mund trip New York to Miami fllKrlf. Reading headwinds drove against the Douglas transport s nose ! as it roared down the seaboard Horn Newark. N J. Cilonel Eddie Rickenbacker American war ace. was in command. Sixteen persons were aboard, in-• lud;ng newrspaper men. officials ol Eastern Airlines. Inc., and the , crew. The ship, holder of transcon- . tmental air transport records, took off into a headwind at Newark air- | port at 506 a m < Indianapolis Time Colonel Rickenbacker * pilots brought the plane down at Wash- j mgton to refuel at 6:40 a. m.. thir-ty-five minutes behind schedule. Buffeted by the same headwind, the plane was running behind schedule at ft >2 a. tn. when Colonel Rickenbacker reported his position as ten miles south of Ft. Bragg. N C At 12:13 p. m. the plane landed at .Jacksonville, an hour and twenty minutes behind schedule. Jacksonville was a refueling stop WINTER DRUG SUPPLY IS RECEIVED AT JAIL ,'t.iMM \pirin<. Bicarbonate nf Soda. Ointments Included. It looked like a long, hard winter at the Marion countv jail toriav. j with more than enough headarl*s! to go around. The occasion was the delivery of the institutions winter; supply of drugs. For the benefit of inmates* headaches. the authorities have laid in a supply of 5.000 aspirin tablets, which arrived all in one package Jail officials were noncommunicative as to the reason for another 5000 bicarbonate of soda tablets. Remarks as to jail menus were not in order. Ointments used to combat winter eolds formed a large part of the medical supplies, which filled one ■ of the jail corridors. M'NUTT. ROOSEVELT WILL CONFER FRIDAY Governor to Meet President at llarrodsburg. Ky. The long anticipated conference between Governor Paul V. McNutt and President Roosevelt will take place Friday at Harrodsburg. Ky. Governor McNutt announced toriav that he would go to Harrodsburg to attend the unveiling of the Pioneer memorial for which the President is coming from Washington to make the dedicatory address. While the Governor said that Jre would talk with the President he did not announce the particular subjects which will be discussed in tneir conversation. POLICEMAN. BROTHER OF CORONER. IS SUSPENDED Frank \rhuckle Draw* .W-Dav Penaltv for Unbecoming Conduct. Patrolman Frank Arbuckle. brother of Coroner William E. Arbuckle. was suspended from the police force for thirty days by the safety board today on charges of conduct unbecoming a patrolman. Arbuckle is alleged to have tossed a bottle of whisky confiscated in the home of Mandy Johnson. Negrr. 91“ Hosbrook street, on the floor and to have said to another officer that if Chief Mike Momssev wished to discipline him that he would have the coroner intervene. POOR FARM INMATE IS KILLED BY TRAIN Coroner Probe* Death of Man Found on Big Four Tracks. Deputy Coroner John E. Wyttenbach today was investigating the death of Clarence Chew, 54. county poor farm inmate, who was struck and killed by a Big Pour train while walking along the tracks near the •.nstitution yesterday. No information as to what direction the train was traveling or whether it was a passenger or freight tram has been obtained. Mr. Clew s body was mangled almost be\onri recogntion. He is said to have a sister living on North Harding street, but police have been unable to locate her. TWO RADIOS STOLEN Taken from Car* in Garage. Owner* Report. One thief stole two automobile radios valued at 104 from an apartment basement garage at 3002 Fall Creek boulevard last night, police were Informed today by J. E. Alexander and Walter Guy of the Fall Creek boulevard address. The radios were stolen from the car* of Mr Alexander and Mr. Guy.

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy tonight, followed hv fair and colder tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 38.

NR A Xf i do oua rare

VOLUME 46—NUMBER 159

Willie Mason, Jail Breaker De Luxe, Guarded in Cell; Refuses to Discuss Noblesville Escape, Slaying Charge

fm#J± ; | cuf 'JJjB BBS* ■■ •* - y ... % ™ : -k £4 ; W MM

William H. • Willie) Mason, hoodlum accused of the submachine gun murder of Police Sergeant Lester jones. was decidedly unhappy today as he paced up and down in a cell in “federal row” in the Marion countv jail. Mason, dapper in his more prosperous years of crime, felt deeply the mortification of being photographed in a farmers costume, worn in Kentucky as a disguise.

William H. (Willie) Mason. 32-year-old hoodlum accused of the submachine gun murder of Police Sergeant Lester Jones, was safe in the Marion county jail today, with carefully locked and bolted doors between him and freedom and with vigilant deputy sheriffs determined that he shall not continue here his extraordinary jailbreaking career. Mason, crippled safeblower and robber, is being held on the second floor of the jail, in the north corridor, commonly known as “federal row.” because prisoners being held for the government are quartered there.

Edward Foggy> Dean. also, charged with the murder of j Sergeant Jones in the Peoples Motor Coach Company barns holdup Feb. | 7. 1933. is being held in the south j corridor on the same floor. Each knows the other is there, j Mason has had ample opportunity, since his escape from the Hamilton i county ja<l. Noblesville. Aug. 22. to read in the newspapers of Dean's incarceration and his trial two months ago, which resulted in a hung jury. i Mason had not been in the jail two minutes last night—he arrived at. 5 30 in the custody of two city detectives and a state policeman—when Dean knew of his presence, so quickly did the prison "grapevine'’ communications system work. Art* a* Own Attorney Detective Sergeants Fay Davis and Orville Qumnette and State Policeman Russell Coons encountered no difficulty in returning Mason from Covington. Ky, near which he was captured in a sensational raid Saturday morning, once .they had obtained extradition papers from Governor Ruby Lafoon. Frankfort, yesterday. Mason, apparently appalled at the last minute bv the thought of returning here to face again the murder charge, for which Ernest ißed Gtbberson and three lesser hoodlums already are serving time " at the Indiana state prison, made a feeble effort to fight extradition, acting as his own attorney. His court appearance in Covington was a matter of only a few minutes. however, and the trip from Covington to Indianapolis was un--1 eventful. The hoodlum was met at the jail entrance by Deputy Sheriff Pat Kinnev. one of his keepers before he was transferred to Noblesville when his trial was moved to Hamilton county on a change of venue. •You Couldn't Blame Me’ Mason, still in the farm clothes he was wearing when he was seized and very badly in need of a shave, presented an abject figure as he limped into the jail, surrounded by his captors. "He looked like a hunted animal. Deputy Kinney remarked afterwards "I told him later that he and i have done better to stay here with us and he answered me. ‘You couldn't blame me. as I thought it was a case of life and death. This appearance, in contrast to the dapper manner which has been customary with Mason, apparently made him exceedingly self-conscious and he proved camera shy this morning when visited bv an Indianapolis Times photographer. Deputy Kinney searched Mason was extreme care. The soles of his shoes were examined, as was his artificial foot, purchased for him by his wife while he was still in the Noblesville jail. At the time of his escape from Noblesville. there was a belief that, the hark saw blades used to saw the jail windows there might have come into the jail inside the "foot.” Mason lost his left foot through amputation shortly after he was

captured at Erlanger, Ky.. a few weeks after the holdup in which Sergeant Jones was shot down in cold blood. He said the wound in his leg had been inflicted accidentally w'hile he was cleaning a gun. one theory of police, however, was that he had been shot while attempting a Kentucky holdup. This may have been one of the robberies which, according to Detectives Sergeant Quinnette, Mason offered to “clean up” if he were allowed to stay in Kentucky. The detective said that Mason was so anxious not to return here that he went so far as to offer to plead guilty to whatever charges might be placed against him in the Blue Grass state. To the members of the Indianapolis police department. State Policeman Cons and the deputies at the Marion county jail, however. Mason was most uncommunicative, refusing to discuss the Noblesville iailbreak and saying nothing about the Jones murder. WINTER GRIPS EAST: 2 SHIPS IN DISTRESS Great Lake* Area Also Swept by ley Gales and Snow. H* Vnit/d Pr* Blustery winds and snow brought wintry weather to tne eastern seaboard and Great Lakes region today, with two vessels sending out distress calls. The S. S. Boisrose. a small French ship, was in distress off the Newfoundland coast and asking for immediate assistance. The tug Ballenas. with nineteen men aboard, called a coast guard cutter to its aid in Lake Erie Snow fell in Buffalo during the night and New' York City and Connecticut reported flurries beginning shortly before noon.

U. S. ACTS TO HALT STOCK SALES FRAUD Securities Committee to Open Nation-Wide War. By I nil fit Press NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 13- Over-the-counter" manipulations of stocks must go. James M. Landis, member of the federal securities commission. told the National Association of Securities Investors at the opening session of a three-dav convention here. A nation-wide attack on fraudulent practices in stock sales has been planned by the commission and goes into effect immediately, said Mr. Landis. "More management and less market speculation.” said Mr. Landis, is what we need—and what we are going to have.”

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1934

EARLY TRIAL ASKED IN PASTOR MURDER Wilson Will Go to Lebanon for Parley. County Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson tomorrow will go to Lebanon to seek to have a trial date set for the murder charges against Theodore (Ted) Mathers, 19, and Mrs. Neoma Saunders, 36, accused of the slaying Feb. 2 of Mrs. Saunders hu.band, the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders, former pastor of the Wabash Street Methodist Episcopal church. Wabash. Mathers, a former embalming student from Coalmont, Ind., is alleged to have killed the preacher for SlO, which, the state charges, Mrs. Saunders gave him to hire someone to commit the crime. Also under indictment and held in the county jail here is Masil Moe, a former Indianapolis restaurant employe. The cases against Mrs. Saunders and Mag hers were transferred to Lebanon when the defense obtained a change of venue. 18 DIVORCE REQUESTS FILED; RECORD NEARS Fivt More Will Shatter One-Day Mark, Clerks Sa.v. Anew all-time record for the filing of divorce cases in Marion county neared today as clerks reported that eighteen suits for divorce had been filed at noon. The record is twenty-two cases filed in one day. Five more today would establish anew mark. The sudden rush of this type of suit is attributed to the fact tha v many lawyers have been busy in | election work. Many judges, also, I did not care to take divorce cases prior to election, it was said. Farmer Gored to Death by Bull ! By United Prrss PERRY. N. Y.. Nov. 13.—Search for Homer Fisher. 57. ended with the ! finding of the farmer's mutilated body in a field with a mad bull. It ; was necessary to shoot the animal before searchers could recover the 1 body.

PHILADELPHIA G. 0. P. LEADER SHOOTS SELF Despondent Over Democratic Victory; Wounded Critically. 1 B'l United Press PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13. George Oestreich, 42. Republican 'committeeman and county detective, shot and critically wounded himself at his home today. Police said they believed Mr. Oestreich was despondent over the Democratic victory in last week's election. Times Index Bridge 9 Broun 11 Comics ...... 1" Crossword Puzzle 9 Editorial 12 Financial I 3 Pegler 11 Radio 15 Sports 14. 15 State News 15 Woman's Pages 8, 9

$2,000 BLAZE AT NORTH SIDE HOME QUELLED Park Avenue Fire Discovered by Passerby; Response Comes Swiftly. SPARKS SPREAD FLAME House Next Door Catches and Roof Is Damaged to Extent of S2OO. Fire, which threatened for a time to spread to the proportions of a neighborhood blaze, did $2,000 damage to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Collman, 2534 Park avenue, today and lesser damage to two neighboring houses. The blaze at the Collman home, a large two-story structure, was discovered by a passerby, who notified Mrs. Collman. She called firemen at once and their prompt response was credited with stopping at its source what might have been a conflagration. A few minutes before discovery of the fire, Mi s. Collman had asked her brother, Everett Coryell, 1409 Bellefontaine street, an employe in the Collman grocery, 1831 Bellefontaine street, to look at, the furnace as she felt the house was not heated properly. He reported a hot fire in the furnace and left the house. A minute later the passerby told Mrs. Collman that the roof of her home was on fire. Sparks spread the fire to the roof of the home of Mrs. Ethel West, 2530 Park avenue, and did S2OO damage there. The roof of a vacant house at 2540 Park avenue, owned by Mrs. Emma B. Twiname, 2548 Park avenue, also was singed.

SCHOOL CITY LACKS BUDGET: TAX BOARD ACTION IS AWAITED

The Indianapolis school city is In a peculiar position that is causing A. B. Good, schools business manager, sleepless nights. The school city is operating without a budget. The budget, which is to cover a period beginning in July still is in the hands of the state tax board after more than two weeks. Mr. Good thought that perhaps the election was holding up budget action, but with no word from the statehouse at this late date, Mr. Good is contracting a case of jitters. The county tax board has passed upon the budget, but until the state board registers its approval or disapproval the school city does not know where it stands financially. •STARTLING - EXPOSE IN JAIL BREAK PROMISED Lutz to Furnish to Hoover Today, He Says. By 'Times Special WASHINGTON. Nov. 13.—“ Startling disclosures” in connection with John Dillinger's spectacular "wooden gun” escape from the Lake county jail, Crown Point, Ind., this afternoon were promised J. Edward Hoover, chief of the department of justice's division of investigation, by Philip Lutz Jr., Indiana attorneygeneral. The attorney-general declined to reveal what these disclosures would be. but it was presumed that they were facts gathered by J. Edward Barce, assistant attorney-general under Mr. Lutz, in his sensational investigation, late last month, into the jail break. DISARMAMENT HOPES SLIGHT. U. S. ADMITS General Agreement Among Nations Believed Unlikely. By l 'nilrd Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 13.—Tacit admission that the United States practically has abandoned hope for any immediate general disarmament agreement among the nations of the world was made at the state department today. Veteran Eidtor Dies By United Press ST. LOUIS, Nov. 13—Herbert A. Trask, 62. associate managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, with which he had been connected in an 1 executive capacity for thirty-one years, died in his sleep today.

FEDERAL FACTORIES FOR JOBLESS DENIED Relief Shops Report Gets Laugh From Hopkins. By United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 13.—Direct action to investigate charges of wasteful relief expenditures was taken today as relief officials scoffed at reports that the government was planning a gigantic system of government shops and factories to absorb the unemployed. A plan of this kind has been worke out, but is not to be put into operation in the immediate future. “Boo!” said Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, when asked about the reports.

STICKS TO GOLD

B JSB lb fl f* 2

Pierre Flanin . . . Businesslike

STABLE FRANC PARIS' KEYNOTE

Government to Stand by Gold, Says Flandin to Deputies. By United Pres* PARIS. Nov. 13.—The government's determination to maintain and reinforce the stability of the fiance was proclaimed today by Premier Pierre Etinne Flandin in the first declaration of his new ministry, drafted for presentation to the chamber of deputies. Flandin's statement, unusually short and business-like, announced a program of economic and financial measures to fight the crisis and aid agriculture. He appealed for continuance of the existing political truce. He urged parliament to co-operate in maintaining a stable government—not one subject to defeat at a moment’s notice —but warned that he will resort to dissolution of parliament if necessary. In urging political peace. Flandm appealed for • union for action and action in union.” He warned of dissolution if in the framework of present parliamentary institutions it becomes impossible to assure stability of government and restoration of power to the executive authority. Flandin announced measures to maintain order, control parades and demonstrations and prohibit the carrying of unauthorized weapons. “The republican state will not capitulate to factions,” he warned. Flandin termed the reform of the state “an immense and necessary task on which the fate of the regime depends.”

RALSTON TO REDUCE OFFICE STAFF BY 12 Curtailment Is Blamed on ‘Off’ Election Year. Glenn Ralston, first county clerk to be re-elected since Marion coun- | ty came into existence as an entity in 1822, today announced* that, effective about the first of the year, he would reduce his staff by twelve employes. This reduction is due to the fact that next year is an “off" year for the election officials. All twelve to be dismissed are from the registration board, where only five employes will be kept. These five will include William P. Flanery, chief deputy i registration clerk; Charles Ettinger. chief deputy clerk, and John Beatty, cashier. Mr. Ralston said he would retain such of his aids as his room and file ; clerks and as the marriage license and probate clerks. Probate Judge Smiley Chambers will retain Harry C. Toner, baliff; Mrs. William L. Clinton, assistant clerk; Miss Flora Paetz. official reporter, and Horace Morgan, chief clerk. CIVILIANS MASSACRED BY CHINESE REBELS Retreating Soviet Force Blamed for Outrage. By United Press SHANGHAI, Nov. 14—'Wednesday)—Chinese Soviet troops massacred non-combatant citizens who refused to evacuate with them as they fled from their capital at Juiching, Fukien province, before The onslauaght of government troops. I it was reported officially today.

HOOVER OPENS U. S. 1934 CHARITY DRIVE Individual Human Service Is Urged by Ex-President. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 13 —Only individual human service can mitigate suffering and lift the nation's 1 unfortunate “into the full sun of American life,” former President Herbert Hoover said last night in a nation-wide address opening the 1934 Mobilization for Human Needs. “No government can replace that individual devotion which cares for human beings through kindly contacts of the cheerful hospital, the playground and the sheltering foster home.” the former President said in appealing for support of the annual campaign. Re-Elected Sheriff Die* By United Press DELPHI. Ind., Nov. 13 —Albert G. Clifton, 58. re-elected Carroll county | sheriff, Nov. 6, died yesterday.

Entered * Second-Clas* M*er at Pottoffica, Indianapolis. Ind.

FATHER PLEADS FOR RETURN OF KIDNAPED GIRL Tennessee Business Man in New York to Pay $5,000 Ransom to Abductors of 6-Year-Old Daughter. CHILD DISAPPEARED ON SEPT. 19 | Pupil Seized on Way to School ‘Alive and Well,’ Parent Claims After Receiving Four Letters From Gang. By United Pre *. NEW YORK, Nov. 13. A. E. Distelhurst, Tennessee business man, today announced he was willing to accept “any intermediary” the kidnapers of his 6-year-old daughter, Dorothy Ann, might name to facilitate return of the child, | abducted at Nashville last Sept. 19. Calm and apparently refreshed after four hours of sleep in his New York hotel room, where he has waited in hope that the kidnapers would again contact him, Mr. Distelhurst said he had received no word since the last message from Nashville advising him to come to New ork for further | instructions.

A Dog's Life By Leon F. Whitney

Here is where I am treading on thin ice. I know that if I say that a dog does not reason, there will be those who will come forward and ask me how I know, and proceed to tell me about instances of how their dog showed reasoning ability. Still, I shall risk it. I never have known of a single authentic instance of a dog having actually used reasoning ability. Oh,

m—mmmmmmmmmmmmrnm *

can not put two ideas together and make a third, but maybe it's just as well for us that they can not. It might make some of us blush at being out-reasoned. It is one thing to say that a dog does sensible things, but quite another to say that he is able to reason in the psychological sense of the word. If any one thinks that a dog can reason, it would be a wonderful thing if he could show us convincing evidence. Time and time Bgain experienced psychologists have devised experiments to test this ability which is often attributed to the dog, but all their tests have resulted in negative evidence. If you know of any test that can be applied to dogs that will be convincing, and which can be used to test dogs for this ability which is supposed by many to exist, you will confer a blessing on the dog and on science if you bring it forward. I've seen lots of feats out in the open, when dogs have been hunting or roaming freely, and yet I very much doubt that, as much as I'd like to call them reasoning, I can not. What do you think about it? Do you know of any actual instances? Tomorrow I am going to tell you something about breeding for intelligence. Do you have a dox problem? Address communications to Leon F. Whitney care The Indianapolis Times, inclosing 3-cent stamped addressed envelope for reply. LAFAYETTE FARM BOY SHOT IN FAMILY FEUD Grand Jury Probes Slaying of Youth by Neighbor. By t nilrd Press LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Nov. 13. The Tippecanoe county grand jury met in special session today to investigate the slaying of Robert McGhehey, 15, shot in a feud between neighboring farm families near here. Robert Hawkins. 15, is charged with the slaying. The shooting resulted from a dispute over adjoining property rented by parents of the two youths, according to police.

POWER RATES TWICE TOO HIGHJS REPORT Consumers Pay $194,000,000 Extra, Probe Shows. j By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—The New York power authority today reported to President Roosevelt that electric rates in northeastern United States are almost twice as high as necessary. The conclusion was based on i three-year study to determine what savings could be guaranteed the ; consumer through development of the St. Lawrence river power project. The authority reported that rates based on co6t and reasonable return , would save consumers $194,000,000.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. $ Cent*

“There is only one party we want to get in touch with,’’ he said. “If that party wants to offer an intermediary, we’ll he only too glad to work with them that way.” Dorothy Ann disappeared from a NHshville street on her way home from school. The abductor sent four communications to the distraught parents advising them to have $5,000 ransom in bills of small denominations ready for their call. The last message advised Mr Distelhurst to come to the Hotel New Yorker here, make himself as conspicuous as possible, and await contact. Previously he had sent a friend here, but the kidnapers made no effort to deal with him. Mr. Distelhurst, accompanied by his brother-in-law', W. Lloyd Hamilton, answered questions in a soft voice. He appeared cheerful despite his protestations that he had not heard from the Kidnapers. Clears Hist Son, 18 Mr. Distelhurst revealed that all four communications from the alleged kidnapers were printed, and that some words appeared to have been misspelled deliberately. All but one of the notes were mailed from New York. An early theory that Dorothy Arm had been killed by a. hit-and-run driver had been eliminated definitely. he said. The final note received from the gang, he said, advised him the child was alive and well. Mr. Distelhurst said that his 18-year-old son, Alfred E. Jr. ran away from home last year, and was found in Jacksonville, Fla., on Oct. 24 of this year. Two days later he returned. He knew nothing of the disappearance of his sister. "He merely was attacked by wanderlust.” his father said, "and he had absolutely nothing to do with this case.” Original Demand SI7S,*MHI Explaining the trust fund which had been set up for the children, Mr. Distelhurst said that his father had left an amount —perhaps SIOO - 000—in a trust, to be turned over to eight grandchildren, when they reached a mature age. The fund was largely in New’ Jersey property. From other sources, it was learned that Mr. Distelhurst received the first note from the kidnapers six days after the child disappeared. Mailed from Augusta, Ga., it demanded $175,000. A second note, mailed from New York, fell into the hands of the department of justice. It merely required that Mr. Dlstelhurst come to New York and bring $5,000 w'ith him. The second note also bore out a promise from the kidnapers that he would hear from them on a certain day. A department of justice agent registered at the New Yorker to receive the kinapers’ further communications, but a subsequent letter to Mr. Distelhurst asked him to come personally to New York. It was believed the kidnapers knew Mr. Distelhurst by sight. BELGIAN CABINET QUITS IN ECONOMIC BATTLE Foreign Minister Named to Succeed Count as Premier. Bil ( nitr<i PrruH BRUSSELS, Nov. 13 —The cabinet headed by Count Charles de Broqueville resigned today because of internal dissension over economic matters. Henri Jaspar. foreign minister, was expected to form anew government. TODAY’S WEATHER Hourly Temperature* 6a. m 40 10 a. m 50 7a. m. ... 41 11 a. m ... S" Ba. m 43 12 <noon> 52 9 a. m. ... 47 1 p. m. ... 52 Tomorrow's sunrise. 629 a. m.J sunset, 4:30 p. m. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 am.: Southwest wind, twenty-five miles an hour: dusty: barometric pressure, 29.79 at sea level: temperature, 46; general conditions, high, thin, broken clouds; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, twelve miles.

yes, I’ve seen many an action that might be interpreted that way, but in every instance thus far, it could be explained in some other and more probable way. Some times it seems too bad that these comforting creatures of ours