Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 165, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1934 — Page 3

NOV. 20, 1934

BAIL PLEA FOR KILLER SUSPECT ANNOYS BAKER Lawyers Criticised for Not Using Usual Habeas Corpus Method. Avoiding the usual legal channel of habeas corpus, 192 P:ke township r*Md*nts today presented a petition to Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker asking that he admit Alonzo Vandeman. under indictment on first and second degree murder charges, to bail. Vandeman. a plant superviser for the Van Camps Inc., packers. Is alleged to have shot and killed Thomas Coffey. p;ke township, June 1 af’er an argument involving some tomato plants which Vandeman had delivered to Mr. Coffey. Judge Baker, obviously irked by the strange procedure, ordered the peiition stricken from the files as 'lmproper and prejudicial’’ and criticised Frank J. Ross, former proba'e judge, and Em ley W Johnson, defense counsels, for not availing themselves of habeas corpus proce- 1 dure. The petition said that because of the fatal shooting. Vandeman is confronted with a civil action and that, as he has a good defense for the criminal action, he should be admitted to bail to protect his interests. The petition also stated that Vandeman is an asset to his communiy and has done much to improve the economic condition of the farmer.

EUROPE NOTIFIED IT OWES $154,729,976 U. S. Treasury Duns Debtors for War Payments. * I'nitr4 Pr< WASHINGTON. Nov. 20—The treasury dunned the war debtors today. pointing out that on Dec. 15 they will owe $154,729,976 on account. The twelve nations to which the notices were sent and the total amount due Dec. 15 follow: Belgium. $3,109,454; Czechoslovakia. $1.682813; Esthonia. $531,350; Finland. $228,538; France. $22,308.312; Great Britain. $117,670,765; Hungary. $50,211; Italy. $2,141,593; Latvia $220 683; Lithuania. $121,467; Poland. $6,616,040, and Rumania, $48,750. These amounts due are exclusive of amounts defaulted previously. NRA RULES AGAINST WORKING OVERTIME Extra Hrlp. Not Extra Pay, Held Purpose of Codes. Payment of overtime to employes will not excuse firms consistently working thPir men longer hours than are allowed under the code, NRA officials announced here todayafter receiving a communication to that effect from Washington. Penalties for code violations will be inflicted where persistent overtime \iolations occur. NRA executives said. Exceptions will be made when employers obtain certificates from Martin F. Carpenter of the United States employment service. Chamber of Commerce building, that no more workers are available In their lines. Where such workers are available, Mr. Carpenter will supply them to end the overtime employment of those already working.

STATE TEACHER LOSES $15,000 ‘LOVE SUIT’ Seattle Musician Wins Damages From Evansville Woman. By l Hit.il P>,* SEATTLE. Nov. 20 Ml*. Jeanette M. Groesch. Seattle musician and social leader, today held a $15,000 alienation of affections judgment from Helen Vickery, Evansville j ilnd.i high school teacher. Mrs. Groesch. divorced from her husband after fifteen years of marriage. sued Miss Vickery for $50,000 in King county superior court. She won by default, the award being scaled down by judge J. T. Ronald. DEPARTMENT CLUB BOASTS HOSPITAL GIFT Group Increases Flower Mission Contribution to $750. The Woman's Department Club announced today it had increased its contribution to the Flower Mission Tuberculosis hospital fund to $750 and consequently is entitled to a bronze name on the door of a private room m the new hospital. Mrs. Everett Schofield has charge of the fund within the club. BANDITS OBTAIN $3,000 Outlaw Believed Wounded in Raid on Milk Company. By Unite* Press PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 20 —Seven bandits, one of them believed critically wounded, were sought by police today following a holdup at the office of a Darby milk company. The robbers, armed with a machine gun and revolvers, escaped with $3,000 after wounding two persons. Newark Editor Is Dead By Unite* Press NEWARK. N. J . Nov 20 —John T Burke. 71. associate editor of the Newark Ledger, and known on two continents as a newspaper man. died today m St Michael s hospital, of a complication of diseases. John Alden Descendant Dies By l mitt* Press STAFFORD SPRINGS. Conn.. Nov. 20—A long illness resulted in the death of Mrs. Ida Green Shaw. 81. direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden. Her husband. Ansel H Shaw, survives. Cavalry Instructor Passes By l nit'* Press PHILADELPHIA. Nov 20—James Greer, 91. former cavalry instructor at West Point, died at the home of his daughter here. Greer was a civil war veteran. Thief Takes Auto Radio Mrs. C. J. Knurck. of 3777 North Meridian street. Apartment 104. reported to police today that someone stole a SSO automobile radio from her car while it was parked in the rear of the apartment last night.

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Mobs Threaten Negro, Slayer of Two Sisters Giant Laborer Confesses Criminal Attack, Murder of Young Girls, Virginia Police Say. Hy United Press RICHMOND. Va., Nov. 20.—A giant Negro laborer, alleged confessor of the criminal attack and murder of two young white girls, was lodged in the Richmond jail today for safekeeping after being threatened twice with mob violence.

The Negro, Philip Jones, was brought here by officers shortly after midnight. Mobs had threatened the prisoner at Roanoke and Clifton Forge, scene of the attack and murders. Bodies of the two victims. Alice B. Hill. 13. and her young sister. Ellen. 9. were found near Jones’ farm yesterday. Both had been killed by heavy blows on the head. A bloody shotgun butt was found under Jones’ house and he had been shot in the leg. Officers believed the gun had been discharged in struggling with the girls. Jones, according to officers, admitted besting them to death Alice's hands were tied together and she was reported to have been criminally assaulted. Late last night, after a checkup had shown all apparently quiet at Clifton Forge, someone slipped past a guard at the Jones’ tenant farm and set fire to the house. It was burned completely. E R. Hill, father of the slain girls, is a painter and paper-hanger. There are twelve other children. Mob Threatens Youth By Unite* Press NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Nov. 20—E. K Harris. 22-vear-old Shelbvville | (Tenn.) Negro, was safe in David- ; son county jail here today after officers saved him from a gathering mob in Bedford county, fifty miles from here, where he was accused of attacking a 14-year-old white girl. Hams was brought here after he is reported to have signed a confession admitting the attack.

DENTAL GOLD STOLEN Physician's Case Valued at S2OO Also Taken. Dental gold valued at SSO was stolen yesterday afternoon from the office of Dr. Robert G. Botkin. 310 Bankers Trust building, by a thief who gamed entrance with a pass key. A physician's case, containing medical instruments and morphine with a total value of S2OO. was stolen from the automobile of Dr. John A. Aspv. while it was parked in the 900 block. Middle drive. Woodruff Place. WINDOW IS SMASHED Barber Shop Owner Blames Labor Trouble for Vandalism. Harry M Dumont. 1009 Carrollton avenue, owner of a barber shop at 834 Massachusetts avenue, today reported to police that sometime during the night someone threw a rock through a plate glass window of his shop. He said that about a week ago somebody fired a shot through the window and that he suspects labor trouble is behind both acts of vandalism.

MOTHER TO CONTINUE BATTLE FOR GLORIA Mrs. Vanderbilt to Appeal Any Uni ivorabie Ruling. By l Hited Press NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—A supreme court order in the custody case in\olving Gloria Vanderbilt, 10, apparently will mark only the first phase of the legal battle between the Whitneys and Vanderbilts, it was indicated today. While Justice John F. Carew delayed decision, counsel for Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, mother of the child, announced an appeal would be taken from any ruling that did not give their client immediate custody. Obviously Mrs. Vanderbilt's attorneys had little hope of winning such a sweeping victory. SAAR MINES RETURN SOUGHT BY GERMANS Delegation Leaves for Italy for Parley With French. By United Press BERLIN, Nov. 20.—A delegation of German experts was en route to Rome today to seek an agreement with France for financing the return of the Saar mines to Germany. The delegation also will seek a guarantee of foreign loans to the Saar territory and conversion of its currency from a franc basis after Jan. 13. the date of the plebiscite.

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Fall has stripped the trees of leaves and turned the students toward winter activities at the Indiana Central college, six miles southeast of here. Anna Lascu. 1024 North Belle Vieu place < left), and Miss Frances Hite-Jones, Hillside, are raking part of the campus < upper) for exercise between classes. Archery is a popular sport at the school < lower left). Miss Ruth Kizer, 325 North Bancroft street, left, and Miss Grace Morgan. R. R. 15, Indianapolis, both are first prize winners in recent contests there. Miss Mary Lou Prench. pilot (lower right), is the only woman member of the Men’s Gl?e Club and serves as the club's mascot. The club will present a minstrel, show next Friday.

MOONEY RELIES ON SINGLE LEGAL POINT Attorneys Believe They Have Key to Situation. By Scripps-Hoicard Xcwspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON. Nov. 20.—Freedom for Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, California labor leaders now in their eighteenth year of confinement, hangs today upon anew legal point to be tested within a month before the United States supreme court. A pardon for Mooney is out of the question for the present. Gov-ernor-elect Frank Merriam of California has said he will not consider the pardon plea while the case is pending in supreme court, nor even thereafter until his new legislature adjourns in late spring. But Mooney's counsel here believe they have the legal key to unlock the iron doors of San Quentin. The key was tried by Mooney’s attorney, John F. Finerty, in the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti of Massachusetts. Then, however, the evidence was only of testimony suppressed by the state.

OUTSIDERS PERFORMED HOLDUP, POLICE SAY Point to Submachine Gun in Union Trust Case. Police today scoffed at reports that the $2,000 holdup of the Union Trust Company branch at Kentucky avenue and Morris street last week was the work of amateurs. The four detectives assigned to the case have all reported to their superior that they believe the job was done by a professional gang from out of the city. They pointed out that no gang or single gangster in Indianapolis known to police has a submachine gun such as that used by one of the bandits in the bank robbery.

COLORFUL RITES HONOR CARDINAL ON HISJUBILEE Silver Anniversary Celebrated by High Catholic Church Dignitaries. By l nits and Print CHICAGO, Nov. 20—The silver jubilee of George Cardinal Mundelein was celebrated with colorful pageantry and impressive services today by dignitaries of the Catholic church from all parts of the world. The jubilee celebration began with a majestic religious procession that moved from the rectory to the Holy Name cathedral. The cathedral is situation on Chicago's near north side, not far from the lake front. The line of march for the procession was kept open by hundreds of smartly-uniformed police. They kept back crowds of thousands that lined the curb and filled adjacent streets. The site of the great jubilee celebration was lavishly decorated. The motif was the papal colors of yellow and white bunting and flags of these colores covered the front of the cathedral and two immense pillars which rose on each side of the entrance. Cardinal Hayes Present The celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the elevation as a bishop of Cardinal Mundelein provided the greatest Catholic service in Chicago since the eucharistic congress in 1926. Heading the long list of church dignitaries were Cardinal Hayes of New York and the most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. papal delegrate to the United States. Seventeen archbishops, eighty-seven bishops, ten abbots and 800 priests joined them in the tribute to the archbishop of Chicago. The procession to the Qathedral was headed by churchmen in flowing purple robes. One carried a big gold crucifix and on either side were others with gold candlebra. As the procession moved slowly toward the entrance, over which hung the cardinal’s shield, the bell in the big Gothic structure tolled constantly. A lignt shower was falling and many in the audience raised umbrellas. Church Is Decorated The church seats 5,000, but many more listened to the services by means of loud speakers than were able to find seats. Police had difficulty keeping the line of march open as the crowd grew. Spectators found vantage points from every housetop. Nuns were seated atop a nearby convent. Inside the Cathedral where a solemn pontifical votive mass of thanksgiving was sung, elaborate decorations had been arranged for the ceremony. The altar and special throne on the gospel side of the sanctuary was covered with red roses. Lavish floral pieces were arranged throughout the cathedral.

FILM CELEBRITIES AT WILLARD MACK RITES Famed Actor-Writer-Director Is Laid to Rest. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 20.—The stage and screen world took their final parting from Willard Mack today. Mack, who attained fame as an actor, playwright and director, was to be accorded final funeral rites in an ivory-walled mortuary chapel crowded with many of Hollywood's great. Father Joseph Vaughn of Loyola university was to deliver the eulogy. Honorary pallbearers included Joseph B. Schenck, Pat O'Brien, Hobart Bosworth, Ben Lyon, Bryant Washburn. Lowell Sherman, Frank McHugh, Irving Thalberg, Samuei Goldwyn, Bryan Foy, Rupert Hughes and James Gleason. SHARPSHOOTING GUARDS _BALK PRISON ESCAPE Two Oklahoma Convicts Wounded in Dash for Freedom. By United Press MCALESTER, Okla., Nov. 20. Straight-shooting guards of the Oklahoma penitentiary were credited today with breaking up an attempt by five inmates to escape by use of a ladder with which they hoped to scale the walls. Bill Anderson, serving seven years for burglary, and Melvin Gatlin, sentenced to life imprisonment for robbery with firearms, were wounded, Anderson critically. Grady Nichols, serving ninetynine years for robbery with firearms; Gordon Blood, twenty-seven years for the same offense, and Clarence Irons, thirty years, also for robbery with firearms, also were in the group which attempted to escape.

‘I Did Not Murder Him,’ Henninger, Hemry Death Suspect, Tells Court ‘We Had Some Trouble and We Clinched; I Hit Him With My Fist; He Fell and His Head Must Have Struck Ihe Floor,’ Says Accused Man. Ralph Henninger. 27. of 1002 North Warman avenue, denied in municipal court today that he had murdered Earl H. Hemry. 30, of 909 North King avenue, but was bound to the grand jury without bond by Judge Dewey Myers. Prosecutor Jake Steinmetz asked Henninger if he had beat Hemry to death during a drinking party. "I did not murder him.” Henninger said. Judge Myers: “What happened?"

“We had some trouble and we clinched. I hit him with my fist. He fell and his head must have struck the floor.” Witnesses yesterday told police the fight Henninger and Hemry had developed over the disappearance of a shotgun Hemry owned. They said Henninger and Hemry fought in the front room of the home of Mrs. Rachel Richwine, 57, of 2816 West Tenth street, and that when the fight was over Hemry was prone on the floor. Previously they all had insisted Hemry merely dropped dead. The shotgun had entered the party, they said, when Hemry, who just had returned from a hunting trip with six rabbits, presented one of them to Mrs. Richwine and showed the party the shotgun. Through the whole of the testimony were many references to the drinking of beer and purchases of whisky. Those who filled in the story for the coroner were Mrs. Richwine, Mrs. Henninger, wife of the man held, and Forest Herring, 36, of 1216 Gross street, and John Conway, 1144 Centennial street. They all are held for vagrancy.

BUSINESS GIVES TO RED CROSS First Returns Surpass Last Year’s in Annual Drive for Membership. Indianapolis business institution employes are meeting the American Red Cross’ appeal for funds in larger numbers than last year, according to the meager returns so far received from institutions that have completed their canvass*in the annual roll call. Campaign leaders at the headquarters, 109 North Pennsylvania street, said today that they are encouraged over prospects of increasing the total Indianapolis Red Cross membership. Among institutions reporting 100 per cent employe membership in the Red Cross are the Fountain Square State bank, the Peoples State bank, the Atkins Building and Loan Association, the William H. Armstrong Company and the C. M. Bundy Company. QUINTUPLETS’ MOTHER GETS $25 FROM KING Dionnes Given Royal Bounty for Multiple Births. By United Press CALLANDER, Ontario, Nov. 20. Mrs. Oliva Dionne, mother of the famous quintuplets, today showed friends a check to her by a king. The check, for five pounds ($25), carries the signature of King George V, and represents the royal bounty for multiple births. MUSSOLINI TO ATTEND GASPARRI’S FUNERAL Crown Prince to Represent King at Last Rites. By United Press ROME, Nov. 20.—Premier Benito Mussolini and Crown Prince Humbert—the latter as representative of absent King Victor Emanuel —will attend the funeral of Pietro Cardinal Gasparri at St. Ignatius’ church Thursday. Mussolini was very fond of the cardinal since their contacts while they w’ere drafting the Italian-Vati-can treaty.

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NEW MEMBERS VISITCOUNCIL Body Acts With Dispatch on Five New Ordinances: Tables Dental Bill. Impressing three members-elect with its swiftness and dispatch, city council last night passed five ordinances in the time that it took fasitalking Henry O. Goett, city clerk, to read the ordinances and call the roll. Duly stunned by the ten-minute session were Mrs. Nannette Dowd. Silas Carr and Adolph Fritz, the three members-elect. The proposed ordinance to curb misleading dental advertising was tabled until the next session. The new bills provided for a transfer of $13,772 from the sanitary board for itemized expenses, a transfer of S4OO from the municipal airport temporary salaries and repair budget to the airport repair budget, the transfer of $11,854 within the sanitary department for itemized expenses, the establishing of Fifty-ninth street from Central avenue to Keystone avenue as a preferential street and the establishing of a preferential street on either side of Barth avenue from the Belt railroad to and including the loading platform of the Bemis Bag Company. A delegation which arrived in the council chambers at 7:50 found that their bill had been tabled and the meeting adjourned. MARKET IS UPHELD State Supreme Court Refuses Plea of Standholders. Right of the safety board to control space in the city market house was upheld in an opinion yesterday from the Indiana supreme court. The opinion, written by Judge Michael Fansler, held the safety board had a right to enforce the city ordinance cutting the number of restaurant stands from twelve to two. Thomas Sloan and Edward Saunders, standohlders, had contested the ordinance. Denied a superior court injunction, they went to the supreme court which sustained the lower court. HUEY TO TAKE WIFEON BELATED HONEYMOON Kingfish Prepares for Visit to West With Mate. By United Press BATON ROUGE. Nov. 20.—Mrs. Huey P. Long, who has remained quietly in the background while her famed husband maneuvered himself to the political heights, today was to receive a reward. She was going on a honeymoon trip that had been delayed twentyone years and seven months. The Kingfish was in a jovial mood as he hummed snatches of old melodies and prepared to depart for the west. “We're going away from all the hurdy-gurdy,” said the senator. Revolver, Jewelry Stolen Louis Schwartz, 2620 East Michigan street, last night reported to police the theft from his home of a .38-caliber revolver and its holster, a diamond necklace valued at $25 and sls in cash.

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UTILITY STRIKE IS OFF PENDING PEACEJPARLEY Mediation Meeting Called for Tomorrow With Labor Board. The threatened strike of nearly 1.200 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers employed by electric railroads and electric companies serving 800 Indiana cities and towns has been called off. pending a mediation meeting with the regional labor board at 10 tomorrow. Irwin V. Knott. Chicago, brotherhood business manager, announced yesterday that a strike would be called within the next few days because the Public Service Company of Indiana had recognized the Brotherhood of Utility Employes as the collective bargaining agency of a section of the company's employes. Sixty cmplovos of the Dresser plant of the Public Service Company at Terre Haute had threatened to strike unless their union were recognized. The regional labor board called a hurried meeting and late Friday night the strike was called off as company officials agreed to recognize the Brotherhod of Utility Employes. Several weeks ago Mr. Knott threatened to call a strike, but a mediation board appointed by Governor Paul V. McNutt intervened. Robert H. Cowdrill, regional labor board associate director, today contacted ISIr. Knott and the utility officials for the conference. Members of the board to sit at the hearing will be Mr. Cowdrill. Dr. Earl R. Beckner, chairman; John Millar Smith, industrial representative. and Alex Gordon, labor representative.

STUDENTS ROUT COPS IN TWO-HOUR STRIKE Police Baffled as Victors’ Flag Waves to End. By l Hi ted Pr< ss NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Flailing fists of dozens of students drove a score of policemen from the Ctty college campus today as a two-hour strike went into effect in protest against the expulsion of twenty-one students for participating in an anti-Fascist demonstration last month. A blue flag bearing the word "strike” fluttered over the campus as a reminder to students of the walkout. The flag flew from the top of a fifty-foot pole greased to prevent it from being hauled down. The halyards had been eaten away by acid and two police emergency squads were unable to figure a way of getting the offending banner down. ARMS CONTROL PLAN OUTLINED AT PARLEY American Proposal Is Made at Disarmament Meeting. By United Press GENEVA. Nov. 20.—Hugh Wilson, United States minister to Switzerland. today outlined to the steering committee of the world disarmament commission an American plan for governmental control of traffic in arms. The proposal included a permanent commission to forward the effort to effect disarmament. The plan is based on a draft agreement adopted here last June, providing that governments should assume full responsibility for the manufacture, import and export of arms in their territory; issue licenses for manufacture and import and export of arms and insure full publicity of manufacture, import and export through a permanent disarmament committee. STILL BLAST KILLS TWO Mother of Nine and Daughter Dead; Three Injured. By United Press MILWAUKEE, Nov. 20.—Explosion of a still in the attic of her home resulted today in the death of Mrs. Ethel Kachikus, mother of nine children, and her 10-year-old daughter, Frances. Three other children were mjured.