Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1935 — Page 1

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NEW YORK GUN FIGHT ECHOES INDIANA CRIME Gang Robs Frances Faye in Night Club District of $6200 Gems. POLICE CAPTURE TWO Answer to Description of Couples Living in Local Hotel. A gun battle in New York’s night rlub sector, arrest of two men and recovery of $6200 in jewels taken in a holdup early today, echoed in Indiana as city and state police said they believed the mobsters operated here in October. Automobile theft records and holdup reports were being checked in an effort to connect the two bandits, one of whom gave his name as Leonard Jennings, 34. of Indianapolis. with Indiana crimes. Jennings, according to New York dispatches, said he was a clerk in a downtown hotel here. Guests in Downtown Hotel A check showed that a “Mr. and Mrs. L. Jennings" were guests from Oct. 13 lo Oct. 23 in a downtown hotel with two other married couples. The oilier bandit held in New York gave his name as James Alvin, 24. Detroit, Mich. The holdup occurred as Miss Frances Faye, entertainer who has appeared with Bing Crosby and Harry Richman, stepped with her escort into a parked car in the New' York night club district. Two men snatched diamonds valued at $6200 from her fingers and $l6O in cash from her escort. Detectives chased the bandit car and, in attempting to force the car to the curb, were met with a burst of gun-fire. Shots were exchanged and the bandit car skidded on the rainy street and crashed into a parked car. Three men leaped from the car. One escaped. The other two bandits, Jennings and Alvin, surrendered after a battle. Remember Couples Here A. D. Ferris of the Central States Hotels Association, with headquarters here, said he remembered the three men and women who registered at the Indianapolis hotel. He told The Indianapolis Times today that he first met them in Cincinnati, where he was an assistant hotel manager. He said they seemed to have plenty of money and had been playing the races. Later he met them in Indianapolis after he had given them an introductory card to a city hotel. He said the men told him they were salesmen. Two children were w’ith them during their stay in the Ohio city, but did not accompany them to Indianapolis. Mr. Ferris said. A S4OOO jewelry store robbery in Fort Wayne on Oct. IS, the day the suspected couples arrived in this city, is being checked by police. URIEL HERWITZ. LOCAL MILL EXECUTIVE. DEAD Trojan Hosiery Official Succumbs in East; Funeral Here. Uriel B. Herwitz, New York City, formerly of Indianapolis when he was sales manager for the Trojan Hosiery Mills, died last night in the East. He was, at the time of his death, in charge of the Trojan office there and also sales manager. Mr. Herwitz spent the major part of his life here, being transferred to New' York three years ago. Services are to be at 2:30 Sunday at Aaron and Ruben Funeral Home. Mr. Herwitz is survived by the widow. Rebecca: Mrs. Eli Herwitz. his mother; Robert. Raymond and William, sons, all of New York, and Mrs. Yetta Schatz. Kenton. Tenn., and Mrs. Frieda Wittoff, Indianapolis. sisters, and Samuel Herw'itz. Sidney. N. Y., a brother. PRISONERS’ ESCORT CAR SKIDS ON ICY PAVEMENT Mason and Dean Being Taken to Prison as Accident Happens, The car which escorted* the auto in which William Willie Mason and Edward (Foggy) Dean, convicted bandits, were being taken 10 Michigan City last Saturday, was involved in an accident near Michigan City, Sheriff Ray revealed toda\fc The auto, a private car containing armed deputies, skidded on icy pavement and turned over. None w as injured and the car was able to proceed. Sheriff Ray said. Mason and Dean were riding in the other car and were not in the crash. Sheriff Ray said. Times Index Amusements 20 Births, Deaths 3 Books 17 Bridge 11 Brmn 17 Church News 23 Conurs 29 Crossword Puzzlp 29 Curious World 29 Editorial 18 Financial 28 Johnson 17 Radio 22 Serial 5t0ry. ................. 13 Sports . 24-2 > Want Ads 26-27 Womans Pages 12-13

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Clearing- followed by fair tonight and tomorrow; continued cold tonight, lowest temperature near 20; slowly rising temperature tomorrow.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 228

Snow, Arctic Gales Bring Winter to City

Left—This is the first snow she really can talk aoout and so Marcia Ann Leader, 2, Frankfort, just had to get time out from her mother’s Christmas shopping expedition in Indianapolis so she could make her first snowball cn the Circle. Right—Dolly, 12 years old. didn’t keep her master worrying about carburetor trouble and frozen radiators this morning. Dolly just plodded on her ash wagon route. A cast-off overcoat, which you can see in the photo, aided her in warding off frigid breezes.

MERCURY DIVES TO SEASON LOW Biting Winds and Snowfall Bring Real Touch of Winter to City Temperaturee remained in the 20-degree bracket today, after raw j winds and snow forced the mercury ( to 19 this mormng to set anew low j mark for the season. Snow flurries during the morning added to the chill discomfort of the day. Weather forecasters said there would be no letup in the cold wave until tomorrow. At noon the temperature reading was 21. A girl was injured in an automobile accident early today when the car in which she was riding skidded on ice and overturned in the 300 block. S. West-st. The injured gill is Mary Hooper, 14. of 314 Bright-st. The driver of the car was Fortice Skaggs, 21. of 216 Hiawatha-st. She was taken to the City Hospital suffering from a broken left arm. She was pinned under the overturned car. First sled accident of the season resulted in a cut face to’ Richie Noller. 6. of 1220 Fletcher-av. He fell off his sled while playing near his home. He was treated at the City Hospital. Light snow fell throughout Indiana during the night, Fort Wayne reporting the heaviest fall and 18 above zero. The fall here was about j one-tenth of an inch. Motorists who escaped the first! cold snap and failed to take pre- | cautions, found radiators frozen this 1 morning and also learned that congealed oil blocks a motorist's progress. The weather bureau said the cold j was general, the cold snap having come out of the far West where it relented today and temperatures rose. In Ohio heavy snowfall was reported and the lake region was re- | ported blanketed in snow and with j temperatures lower than here. INSECTICIDE POISONED JAIL FOOD. JURY SAYS Act Believed Fart of Break Plot by Unknown Prisoners. The Marion County Grand Jury reported to Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker that its investigation of the recent jail food poisoning was caused by roach powder in the gravy and recommended that the investigation be continued until tho.se who put it there are identified. The report stated the jurors believed the powder was placed by prisoners who hoped it would create enough confusion to cover a jail break.

Jesse Livermore Jr., 16, Shot Down by Mother

By United Pres, SANTA BARBARA. Cal., Nov. 29 —Jesse Livermore Jr.. 16. son of the New York stock speculator once known as “the Boy Wonder of Wall Street,” was shot down by his mother today as he tilted a quart of whisky to his lip?. "I'd rather see you dead than drinking," police quoted the mother as saying before she shot the boy. Young Livermore, weakly protesting. “Thn’s all right—'t’s nothing." was removed to the Cottage Hospital, where some hours later he was

Well-Oiled Glen Howe. 28. of 1232 Col-lege-av. sat in his coupe at Alabama afid Louisiana-sts last night and raced the motor. Pretty soon it ran out of oil and the motor began to pop. All the connecting rods were thrown through the motor block, some of them so vigorously that they were found 10 feet from the car. Patrolmen Harry Hayes and Earl Halstead looked in on Mr. Howe after all this had happened and the motor, which was just out of connecting rods, stopped. “What’s the matter?” they asked. “It’s all right, officer There’s nothing wrong with my motor,” he assured them. They arrested him on a drunk charge and sent the car to a garage.

AIR CUPPER LANDS ON BAY AT MANILA Cuts 16 Days From Time Required by Ships. By United Press MANILA, P. 1.. Nov. 29.—PanAmerican Airways’ giant China clipper, sweeping out of a cloud-banked sky, landed on Manila Bay today, completing history's first transpacific airmail flight and the first, air crossing from California to the Philippines. Cheered by thousands who had lined the shores of Manila Bay for hours, the clippper appeared over the city at 2:44 p. m. (12:44 p. m. Thursday (Indianapolis time.) The ninth of a series of articles on the blazing of Pan-American’s Pacific Air Trail is in Second Section, Page 1. After circling the city and dropping low over Manila Harbor, she slipped to a. smooth landing at 3:31 p. m. Thus was forged the last link in an aerial chain which clipped 16 days from the time required to transport passengers and mail across the Pacific. In approximately 60 hours’ flying time after the four-motored airplane soared from Alameda airport on San Francisco Bay, Capt. Edwin C. Musick and his crew of six aviators were hopping from the great ship's silver cabin. In four almost leisurely hops, the airship completed the crossing to Manila, 20 days from the United States mainland by steamer. The first halt was made at Honolulu, the second at Midway Islands, the third at Wake Island and the fourth at Guam, from where the clipper took off this morning.

lin “poor condition." A .22-caliber rifle bullet pierced his chest and ranged downward through his liver. His mother, Mrs. Doiothea Livermore. divorced wife of the stack trader, found by her son's side on the floor of their Montecito home, screaming. “I've shot my boy. I’ve I shot my bov.” was held on suspicion of assault with intent to commit murder. She was under opiates in a room several doors away from her son’s room in the hospital with a deputj sheriff standing guard at her bed.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1935

PEACE HOPES RISE IN EUROPE Diplomats Believe Answer Will Come Within Ten Days. By United Press LONDON, Nov. 29.—Some competent diplomatic observers believed | today that the question of war or peace in Europe would be decided within the next 10 days. The present situation between Italy and Great Britain and other League countries is most serious. But many believe there is a good chance for peace. An important interpretive article on the war situation by William Philip Simms is on Page Three. The view is taken that Premier Benito Mussolini would not be able long to combat such penalites as an embargo on oil, coal, steel and iron and that despite threats, he is likely to think long before adopting warlike measures involving hifn not only with Britain but with all League nations. Hence there is some disposition to believe that Mussolini may yet, as it is put here, listen to reason because nobody wants a war with Italy. It is emphasized here that regardless of anything Mussolini may threaten or essay the British government is unlikely to budge an inch from its present attitude. With the United States inclined to co-operate in an oil embargo, it is thought that the embargo must be effective. Also it is felt that Premier Pierre Laval of France is determined to stand by Britain in any emergency. May Declare Policy By United Press ROME. Nov. 29.—A declaration of policy on the threatened League of Nations oil emoargo against Italy is expected to follow a cabinet meeting tomorrow morning. It was said on reliable authority today that the declaration was likely to include a reiteration of Premier Benito Mussolini’s viewpoint. made known to France, Great Britain and the United States, that Italy would consider an oil embargo and an accompanying embargo on coal, iron and steel as an unfriendly if not hostile act. Speed Up Ethiopian War By l nitrd Press ADDIS ABAI A. Nov. 29. Emperor Haile Selassie was well on his way to Dessye today to direct Ethiopian resistance to the invading Italian legions. There he will be opposed to Mar- ! shal Pietro Badoglio, newly arrived Italian commander-in-chief, who is expected to speed up the war. He left yesterday with most members of his cabinet and high government officials, traveling by motor car in a 100-car caravan. Six trucks mounted with antiaircraft guns accompanied the expedition to ward off enemy airplanes. They will remain at the grand headquarters at Dessye. Italians to Attack Soon By I nitt and l'r< ** ROME, Nov. 29.—Gen. Rodolfo Graziani. Italian commander on the southern Ethiopian front, will launch a big scale attack scon, dispatches from Asmara, Eritrea, said today. *v*

BLOND AGAIN LINKS GANG IN MURDER QUIZ She Admits Pals Had Guns of Same Caliber Used in Levy Slaying. ANDERSON POLICE HERE They Hope to Quiz Girl Suspect With Use of Lie Detector. The discarded blond of a gang of predatory gunmen today told state police that her male friends carried .45caliber pistols and thus once more implicated them in the murder Monday at Anderson, Ind., of Patrolman Frank M. (Pete) Levy, who was killed with bullets fired from a gun of that size. Although the blowzy girl, who has lied smoothly to police since her arrest Wednesday in Vincennes after she was beaten by her companions and abandoned, had insisted she would not talk, she made this admission to Capt. Matt Leach of the state police. Having no technical knowledge of guns, she picked out two .45 A caliber pistols from a variety shown her by Capt. Leach as those most closely resembling the arms carried by the men. Just as she made this admission, police officers arrived from Anderson and they went into seclusion with the girl to again crossexamine her, this time with the aid of a lie detector. Blond Appears Nervous Attached to the lie detector the blond appeared nervous under crossexamination, and had to be w'arned repeatedly not to watch the machine but to look straight ahead. She began to be flippant in her answers, but was warned to answer “yes” or “no.” “Were you in Anderson the night of the murder of Patrolman Levy?” she was asked. “No,” she shouted.. “Is that statement true?” “Yes,” she said more calmly. “Where is your boy friend?” “I don’t know.” “Is that statement true?” “Yes.” Name? “Neither One” “Is your name Janet Henderson?” She hesitated a long time and ! then returned the following mean- | ingless answer: “Neither one.” They asked her several other questions and after the examination had finished Lieut. Donald Kooken of the state police said the graph showed plainly that she had lied on several occasions. There were marked fluctuations in both heart beats and respiration when she was asked, on two differITurn to Page Three) AUTO CRASH SCATTERS EIGHT TONS OF TIRES Truck Split in Two by Impact at Intersection. When an auto struck a truck and trailer yesterday at 30th-st and Keystone-av, eight tons of tires and rubber heels were scattered over the street, the auto was split in two. and Mrs. Mabel Thomas. 53. of 1909 Hill-side-av, was injured seriously. She ! is in Methodist Hospital. U. S. BARS WRESTLER Dauno O’Mahoney. Heavyweight Champion. Returns to Canada. B\f Unit rd Press DETROIT. Nov. 29.—Danno O’Mahoney, world’s heavyweight wrestling champion, was refused admission to the United States today and was returned to Windsor, Ontario, pending an investigation. United States j immigration officials here announced.

Accused Murderer of U. S. Agent Faces Federal Court Trial Monday

Charged wffh the murder of a Federal agent. George W. Barrett, 48, is to be brought into Federal Court Monday for a trial which may end with a death sentence. Barrett is at City Hospital suffering from bullet wounds in the knee following a gun battle at West College Corners, Ind.. on Aug. 16, when United States Agent Nelson 3. Klein, Cincinnati, was slain. Agent Donald McGovern was the companion of the slain officer. Preparing for the trial. District Attorney Val Nolan has collected a mass of data on the record of Barrett. who is native of Jackson County. Kentucky, which is but one county removed from “bloody Breathitt,” scene of numerous feud killings. In the data is a record of two trials of Barrett on a charge of slaying his 73-year-old mother. In each trial, juries disagreed. The

Fntpr>d m Seennd-Clas* Matter ••• at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Ind.

Educators Center Fire on Hearst •Reactionaries’ Are Assailed by English Teachers in Parley Here. Calling the Hearst publications a “debasing influence unrivaled even in the Dark Ages,” the National Council of English Teachers today launched a sustained counter-attack on the "reactionary press.” Their counter-attack, one speaker said, aims at teaching children and adults to read newspapers intelligently and critically and to learn to distinguish between news and propaganda. Holland D. Roberts. Stanford University, second vice president of the council, warned the teachers this morning at the Claypool meeting that again today are gathering the propaganda forces of reactionists. “It is,” he said, “our prime special responsibility to teach adults and children to take an active part in the rebuilding of American Democracy in the interest of all who work lor their bread. “The choice of a Fascist or Democratic society in the United States may be decided by the type of thinking and reading taught pupils. We can not ignore the fact that the Hearst press boasts 25,000,000 readers in the United States. “Many millions of children and adults are being systematically poisoned and debased by a flagrant yellow journalism which has had no parallel even in the Dark Ages.” Later in his address Dr. Holland said: “It is not that men are taught how to use guns, but that they are (Turn to Page Four)

11, S. TRADE BOARD ASKS NEW POWERS Additional Authority Sought by Commission. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Recommendations for new legislation giving the Federal Trade Commission additional authority to regulate fair trade practices were emphasized by that body today when it made public its annual report to Congress. The report, covering the multifold activities of the commission during the past year, recommended that new legislation be enacted strengthening both the basic Federal Trade Commission act and the Clayton Act. The suggested laws would give the commission regulatory powers not only in preventing unfair commercial practices, but also in stopping unfair or deceptive acts and practices which might not necessarily harm a competitor, but which are designed to mislead the buying public. The Clayton Act would be clarified, in the commission’s recommendations are carried out, not only with respect to price discriminations, but also with respect to purchase of capital stock of competing corporations.

HEAVY SELLING THIRD HOUR LOWERS PRICES One to Three-Point Drop Recorded, Then Rallies Moderately. By United, Press NEW YORK, Nov. 29—Storks ran into heavy selling in the thiid hour today and offerings attained such proportions that tickers ran two minutes behind. Prices fell back one to more Uj an three points in a few minutes. Before that sell-off the list had been quiet and irregular after a firm and active opening. The drop was rrested almost as quickly as it started with some of the leaders rallying moderately from the lows as shorts covered. Drown as Seaplane Capsizes By 1 nited Press ST. RAPHAEL. France. Nov. 29 A naval seaplane capsized off here today, drowning three of the crew and injuring another severely.

aged woman was shot in her home at McKee, Ky., Sept. 2, 1930. dying within an hour. A daughter, Rachel, died six weeks later, from a bullet wound and the results of a severe beating on the head with a revolver butt. No charge ever was filed as a result of Rachel’s death. Shortly after the final trial Barrett became a body guard of Frank Baker, the commonwealth attorney, who had prosecuted him. Baker later was slain as the result of a feud of the Baker and Stiver families which previously had resulted in the death of Judge C. P Stivers, Clay County, Kentucky. One of Bakers bodyguards was killed and another wounded during a gun battle that raged for hours, but Barrett escaped unscathed. For the judge’s murder, Bobby Baker, brother of Frank, was sent to prison. After serving ? term, he §

CRISIS SPENDING OVER, HE TELLS ATLANTA CROWD

Highlights 3,125,000 Now at Work in Relief Jobs, Says Roosevelt.

By United Press Atlanta. Nov. 29. Major points in President Roosevelt’s speech today: “It gives me a certain satisfaction to be able to inform you. and through you the nation, that on Wednesday, two days ago. there were 3,125,000 persons at work on various useful (relief) projects throughout the nation.” HUB “We have passed the peak of appropriations; revenues without the imposition of new taxes are increasing; and we can look forward with assurance to a decreasing deficit.” BUB THE credit of the government is today higher than that of any other great nation in the world, in spite of attacks made on that credit by those few individuals and organizations which seek to dictate to the Administration and to the Congress how to run the national treasury and how to let the needy starve.” b a b “American life has improved in these two years and a half, and if I have anything to do with it, it is going to improve more in the days to come.” a a a “TT'ARM income in the United r States has risen since 1932 a total of nearly three billions. . . . The additional three billions of farm income has meant- the rebirth of city business, the reopening of closed factories, the doubling of automobile production, the improvement of transportation and the giving of new employment to millions of people. ’ a a a “I can realize that gentlemen in well-warmed and well-shocked clubs will discourse on the expense of government and the suffering that they are going through because the government is .spending money for work-relief.” MRS. WOODBURY, GO, PASSES IN HOSPITAL Widow Dies Month After Husband Succumbed. Mrs. Josephine Hyde Woodbury, 32 E. 32d-st, widow of Dr. Herbert E. Woodbury, who died Oct. 29. died to in St. Vincent’s Hospital c ter a long illness. She was 60. Mrs. Woodbury was born in Indianapolis. the daughter of the Rev. ; Nathaniel Alden Hyde and Laura I Fletcher Hyde, and received her education here. She was an accomplished musician and sang for several years in the quartet of the First Congregational Church, where she also taught a boys’ Sunday school class for 12 years. Services for Mrs. Woodbury are to be at 1:30 tomorrow in Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary, with the Rev. Ellis W. Hay, First Congregational pastor, in charge. Burial is to be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Woodbury is survived by three children; Mrs. Manley Elliott Branch, Martinsville; Nathaniel Hyde Woodbury, Danville, 111., and Stoughton Fletcher Woodbury, New York City. No Word From Misiing Explorer NEW YORK. Nov. 29 —No word had come today from *he ice fields of Antarctica to give the location of | Lincoln Ellsworth, the explorer, and i his pilot. Herbert Hollick -Kenyon.

was slain, presumably in a continuation of the feud. No indictments ever were returned in the case. Convictions of Barrett include a fine of SIOO and a 30-day jail term for liquor law violation. He was arrested at Clifton Mills, Ky., by a Federal agent and resisted arrest. There is also a record of two pleas of guilty in Federal Court here to transporting stolen automobiles, a charge on which he was sought at the time of the slaying of Agent Klein. Barrett is described by Federal officers as a "big time’’ dealer in stolen cars. Trial of Barrett is said to be the first under an act of Congress passed in May, 1934. relating to the killing of Federal agents. Incidentally, it will be the first murder trial heard by Judge Baltzell in more than a decade, the previous one having been at Princeton while he was Gibson Circuit Judge,

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Decreased Deficits Promised by Executive: 90.000 Hear Address. SEEN AS ’36 KEYNOTE Defends Administration in Home City of Talmadge, His Bitter Foe. (Complete text and photos on Page 3.) BY FREDERICK A. STORM United Pres, Staff Correspondent ATLANTA, Ga„ Nov. 29. President Roosevelt, in an indirect but forceful reply to New Deal critics, told 90,000 persons today that lavish government spending was over and that the nation could “look forward with assurance to a decreasing deficit.” Political observers took his speech as an outline of his party's campaign stand in next year’s national election, and. therefore, as his most important public utterance of recent months. He spoke before a throng that jammed Grant Field, stadium of the Georgia School of Technology, part of a ' home-coming day” celebration arranged by the Georgia congressional delegation in hi3 honor in which approximately 250,000 persons took part. Because he spoke in the capital of Gov. Eugene Talmadge. one of the bitterest of his critics and a passible rival for the Democratic nomination, his speech took additional political significance. While he mentioned no individual in his opposition by name, his references to conditions when he took office three years ago were frequent and often pointed, and their pointedness in reference to the lecent criticisms of his immediate White House predecessor, Herbert Hoover, was inescapable. He devoted some time to pointing out the improved condition of farmers under the New Deal. Mr. Talmadge has been a leading critic of his agricultural program. Expects Decreasing Deficit “As things stand today,” he said, “and in the light of a definite and continuing economic improvement, we have passed the peak of appropriations; revenues, without the imposition of new faxes, are increasing and we can look forward with assurance to a decreasing deficit. “The credit of the government is today higher than that of any other great nation in the world, in spite of attacks on that credit made by those few individuals and organizations which seek to dictate to the Administration and to the Congress how to run the national treasury and how to let the needy starve.” His speech was all embracing, an accounting of a stewardship since March , 1933, he pointed to economic, social and agricultural gains. He announced that on Wednesday the government had transferred 3 125 000 persons from the dole to work relief and that the “small remaining number have received orders to report to work on projects already under way or ready to start." Relief Critics Are Assailed This, he said, constituted a successful realization of his work-re-lief program “to end this business of relief,” and had been accomplished although "week after week .. . some individuals and some groups, careless of the truth and regardless of scruple, have sought to make people believe that this program was a hopeless failure and that it could not possibly succeed.” “I can realize that gentlemen in well-warmed and well-stocked clubs will discourse on the expenses of government and the suffering that they are going through because the government is spending money for work-relief." he said. I wish I could take some of f hese men out on the battle line of human necessity and show them the facta that we in the government are lacing. If these more fortunate Americans will come with me. I will not only show them the necessity for the expenditures ol this government, but I will show them, as well, the definite and beneficial results we have attained with the dollars we spent. ’Some of these gentlemen tell me that a dole would be more economical than work relief. That is true. But the men who tell me that, have, unfortunately, too little contact with the true America to realize that in this business of relief we a:e dealing with properly self-respecting Americans to whom a mere dole outrages every instinct of individual independence. “Most Americans want to give something for what they get. That something, in this case honest work, is the saving barrier between them and moral disintegration. We propose to build that barrier high.” Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that under the Hoover Administration the government debt rose from "a I little over 17 billions to 21 billion*.” . v H