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S SCAIPPS~-JIOWARr>7k Outside Marlon Entered as Second-Class Matter County 8 Cents VOLUME 40—NUMBER 2 INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 14,1928. at Postoffice, Indianapolis TWO CENTS Fickle NINETEEN / Fate Expert Yeggs ON DIE By Blast Pettis TO FACE QUIZ United LEWIS, Press DAVE Safe WATSON NEW YORK, May 14.—Grief reigned in two homes today because of Mother’s day. A BY VIOLENCE daughter’s forgotten promise RACE DRIVER, CHARGES OF DAWES ‘DEAL’ to her mother of a Mother’s day visit is believed to have lead Mrs. Leila McKillop, 48. OVERSTATE to attempt suicide by gas. She NEWSPAPERS HERE is WITH in serious IS GUNVICTIM condition. Arising early Sunday to cele- Five Persons Killed Gary brate the day, May Driscoll, at 26, fell to her death from the Famed Speedway Star Is Agreement With Fairbanks and Shaffer When Train Strikes kitchen window of their third floor apartment. Found in Cabin, Bullet Alleged, Senator to Grab Delegation Auto. A desire to pay a visit to his Through mother’s grave, brought Joseph Head. to Help Vice President. Richatsky, escaped convict, back to his cell. He was ar- BLAST TOLL STILL FOUR rested as he knelt at the grave PROBE MURDER THEORY of his mother in Linden. FAVORITE SON BOOM SEEMS DYING In November, 1927, Richat- Two Fatalities Due to sky, made a sensational escape Auto Pilot Here from Flushing police court by Due This Headquarters Reported Dropping Burns knocking down a 65-year-old Here as Swell Week- ' Week; Scene of Death attendant. All Activity for Hoosier, Working End List. Near Los Angeles. for Chicagoan’s Candidacy. Violence took a toll of nineteen Dave in Lewis, 43, veteran auto- lives Indiana over the week-end. mobile race driver, and BY RdSCOE FLEMING Donald Poole, 7, of 606 Twenty- DEATH well known W. CLAIMS for his feats on Times Stall Correspondent Eighth St., died at the the Indianapolis city hospital Speedway, where he appeared in today from injuries suffered Sun- WASHINGTON, May 14.—When Senator Watson of In- the 500-mile classic annually since day when struck by an auto driven 1916, diana faces the senatorial campaign quiz this afternoon, it is by YOUNGLAWYER is dead at Los Angeles. Edward Cook, 639 E. Thirty- Authorities there are investigating that in addition to the ordinary queries he will be Sixth St., as he ran across the the understood street in front of his theory of a possible murderer, home. according to a United Press dis- asked concerning a reported agreement with Warren Fairbanks, The father, Charles Walther Lieber Passes boy’s Pooole, patch today. of News, to aquiesced a street car motorman, saw the ac- publisher the Indianapolis and said be in After Brief Illness. Lewis was found shot to death in Terre cident from the controller of a his cabin in San Francisquito can- bby John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Indianapolis Star, Northwestern Ave. car he was driv- 33, yon. First reports made by deputy ing past the scene. He jumped out Walther Lieber, attorney, 617 Haute Star and Muncie Star. E. Maple Rd., died in Methodist sheriffs were that Lewis had and was the first to reach the boy. Statements concerning the reputed agreement, published Hospital at 5:30 this morning after started a brush fire and it got be- Donald was in the second grade yond a few days’ illness of septicemia. his control. Surrounded by in the Chicago Tribune, have been read by members of the sena- of School 36. He is survived by his flames in the cabinet clearing, he father He was the son of Richard Lieber, committee and will be the basis for the projected ques- and mother; five half- State had committed suicide to keep from torial brothers, James and Harry West, director of conservation. Private funeral services will be burning to death, they said it ap- tioning on what the Tribune characterizes as a political deal. Cheveland, Ohio, and Edward, Mar- peared. shall and held Wednesday. The family re- will be asked, it is understood, whether he did not Woodrow West, Indian- quested Relatives, however, refused to Watson apolis, and by four half-sisters, that flowers oe omitted. Ma- Mr. accept this theory. Tom Gardner, into an agreement with Fairbanks, two years ago, which bel, Gertrude and Thelma West and Lieber was bom in Indian- enter apolis Nov. 22/ 1894. He was mar- nephew, told authorities that Lewis Mrs. Lloyd Thomas, Indianapolis. never had a gun on his ranch. This POLICE HUNT FOR resulted in the Indianapolis News’ support of him for re-election West, 13, is with ried to Miss Elizabeth MacClintock, Woodrow ill dou- Chicago, led to investigation of the murder to the senatorship after thirty years of hostility to him. Fur- ble pneumonia and is not expected in 1921. Mrs. Lieber and theory. to recover. two children, Richard, Jr., and Wil- ther he will be asked if he agreed at that time, to obtain the liam L., survive him. Due Here Soon CRACKSMEN FUTILE Sam Henry Waldon, 72, Negro, to grab the Indiana delegation to the 1135 After his graduation from Short- Lewis had expected to leave this News’ support, and hold Garfield PI., was killed when ridge High when a street car backed into him School, Mr. Lieber at- week for Indianapolis, where he Republican national convention in 1928, in the interest of Vice at Fourteenth and West St. Satur- tended Indiana University for two was to drive anew car in the Expert Yeggs Still Free and went to Drivers’ Charles G. Dawes. day night. Waldon was blind. years Chicago Univer- Decoration day event. Relief President sity, where he was graduated from not listed By Times Special SIO,OOO Five Chicago residents were killed Although among the With Loot From The Tribune reports, which and Missouri, and Ar- the literary and law departments. drivers, Speedway authorities de- NEW YORK, May 14.—Peter Minnesota at Gary when the auto in which have committee’s kansas. riding struck by He began law practice here with clared that it likely that Lewis Jones, wealthy British steel Pettis Store. aroused the they were was a Jones, Hammond would have Figures gathered by the commit- train. The dead are James E. Rich- Idaho, nothing: Norris of an hour. Pete De Paolo was first the persons at the wheel be- opening. It further was said that Vincennes Boy Killed Indorses Secretary Dawes, Goff of West Virginia, that year with an average of 101.13, cause they can see traffic The daring and the skill of the as art Evanston neighbor of Nebraska, $6; Robert Lincoln, 10, Vincennes, was his • ahead. step yeggs they expert long has been Interested in pres- approximately S6O. killed while hurrying to Sunday By United Press the fastest time ever made for the His first was to showed that were * The report said Democrats—Governor A1 Smith. school, NEW YORK, May 14.—George K. entire 500 miles. cut off the lew and make the criminals. Detective Chief Jerry idental aspirations. when struck by an auto Shaffer, although not orig- $92,909. (not including local State In 1920 Lewis drove one of the interior of the car so comfort- Kinney and Police Claude M. Wor- that an driven by Philip Miller, 17. Morris, chairman of the Republican inal party to the agreement, had expenditures, except those made Harry 54, Indianapolis-made Duesenburg able that any one in the back ley declared. Above, Pettis Dry Goods O. Davis, Pleasant Mills, State committee, issued a statement Com- acquvesced it and that the Indi- from money furnished by the straight eights. He was affiliated seat would forget about the Open Third-Floor Window pany safe, wrecked by in killed himself by shooting, due to today declaring himself in favor of yeggmen anapolis Star, Terre Haute Star and Smith New York headquarters); his job rural as driver with the company at vari- danger of collisions. They entered the store by climb- who took approximately worry over losing as a Herbert Hoover for the Republic* •. SIO,OOO papers, Reed of Missouri. $31,196; George times and close personal ing a fire escape from Pearl St., in Sunday morning. Muncie Star, his Indiana mail carrier at which he had worked presidential nomination. ous a James Lannan, had Watson in the re- of Georgia, approximately $156; friend of Fred Duesenburg. the rear, and opening a third-floor 1625 Barth Ave., Pettis employe, supported twenty-three years. Morris said he just had spent ten primary with that end in vieV- Cordell Hull of Tennessee, approx- bullet had been fired through window, the lock which, accord- examining fragment cent James McGhie, whose body was days on a tour of the State, sound- One on is a twisted It here that Watson $1,000; Walsh of Montana, Lewis’ head. His mountain cabin ing to police, had been broken for of the gteel was'recalled imately found in the Wabash river at Vin- ing out sentiment of delegates and door. Below, Wil- went out of his way to assure his (retired), $1,190; Hitchcock of Ne- four miles above the wrecked CASE some time. Cope, Pershing cennes is believed to have com- that the Secretary of Commerce was liam 1042 N. Ave., Indiana supporters In the recent braska, $1,744. mitted suicide. He had been in poor St. Francis dam. DELAYSJILTON William S. Cope, 31, of 1042 N. watchman handcuffed and blind- was “an overwhelming favorite.” primary that he was a candidate in Campaign Expenses Low Revolver Near Hand Pershing Ave., day watchman went folded by the health. Morris added that in view of the 1 burglars. Cope is his own right and not a stalking Judge Fails to Appear in on duty at 5:15 a. m. A few min- examining a door from the There is little safety in com- prevailing feeling for Hoover’s nom- A revolver, containing one dis- which horse, and that once he was done of the however, be- Woman. 89, Dies in Fire utes later as he started for the rear robbers a heavy lock to parison figures, ination, he saw no reason for with- charged cartridge, rested on the bed burned with Indiana’s delegates, they could only Mrs. Sarah Reef, 89, died in a fire Conspiracy Trial. of the building the yeggs leaped make a safe getaway. cause a few of the statements holding any longer his indorsement within reach of Lewis’ hand. go where they wish. purport to represent all that at her home farm near Geneva. of Lewis, from behind the silk counter with even on a Hoover. The widow, Mrs. Laura and Trial of Charles W. F.e therefore is expected to deny will be spent in behalf of any single Cause of the fire has not been de- Tom Gardner both made light of Tilton, for- drawn revolvers and overpowered mer Internal Revenue Bureau De- him. the assertion of an agreement. candidate. termined. the suicide theory. They pointed partment employe, year Leading to the Enough has been learned, how- Vera Hirschy, 13, is dead of burns out that a man who had faced convicted a him the office on DELAYS KLINCK TRIAL clothing became ago of conspiracy to steal a Fed- fifth floor, they had cuffed him to Lowden Denies Deal ever, to assure the committee that suffered when her BREMEN WIVES HERE death on the racing track as Lewis this is the least expensive pre- explosion of coal oil eral Government check wtih Rus- a water pipe. By United Press ignited in an had, was not likely to become panic convention campaign in she using to start a fire in a sell V. Duncen, former State Rep- Leave No Prints WASHINGTON, May 14.—Frank recent was stricken over a minor brush fire. resenattive, Defendant’s Illness Brings years. Less than $400,000 thus far stove at the family home south of Gardner believed the fire might was postponed until Their hands covered with gloves O. Lowden of Illinois, denied to the Mrs. Koehl, Mrs. Fitzmaur- Tuesday in Federal Court today. so that no fingerprints were left be- is reported to have been spent by Bluffton. The house was destroyed. have been started by persons who Postponement. Senate investigating committee to- Harbison, 17, died of a Duncan and Tilton were con- hind, the yeggs knocked the com- Court twelve of the candidates. George ice in City Today. had murdered Lewis in a robbery day that he had any agreement to a similarly broken neck suffered when a trac- victed a year ago, but the United bination off the safe wtih a sledge In close campaign In attempt. States Trial of Earl Klinck, Evansville, trade delegates with Vice President 1920, Gen. Leonard Wood spent tor he was operating on a farm Circuit Court of Appeals at hammer, opened an inner door Indianapolis will be host today to former lieutenant of D. C. Charles G. Dawes, but pointed out $1,700,000 and Lowden, $414,000. west of Francisco turned over, Chicago set aside the conviction. which was unlocked and poured Stephen- Mrs. Herman Koehl and Mrs. Duncan also is scheduled to go son, on that they were close friends and After Lowden and Watson have catching him beneath it. MONTANA TURNS TO AL nitro-glycerine into an inner strong a charge of being an acces- that represented the same on trial again with Tilton, but Til- box which contained the money. they been heard, the committee intends Marshall Miller, 21, Negro, killed James Fitzmaurlce, wives of Captain sory to the fraudulent use of a views on agriculture. Major ton will ask a separate trial. Cope said he heard them drive to call witnesses to give expenditures himself with poison at Gary, fol- Koehl and Fitzmaurlce of With Walsh Out, Indorsement of notary seal, was postponed until Pounding the committee table, The was postponed today away in automobile from Pearl which have not been included by lowing quarrel with his sweet- the crew of the Bremen, first east- trial an June 7 in Criminal Court. Lowden said he the cam- a to-west Smith Expected. when Special Judge Walter C. Lind- St. Cope made two futile attempts entered the candidates in the lists they and heart, Thelma Scroggins, and her trans-Atlantic plane. Special Judge Thomas Garvin paign because he believed it was The fliers’ will In- Ry United Press ley, Danville, 111., failed to appear. to toss alarm notes out a window their managers submitted. brother, Homer Scroggins wives come to postponed the case upon presenta- up to Republican party to re- dianapolis by Mont., May 14.—With- found when American Dis- the George B. Lockwood, former C. Jeffries, 18 months old, this afternoon motor HELENA. He was tion of an affidavit from an Evans- establish the alliance between Marvin from Chicago to visit Richard drawal of Senator Thomas J. Walsh trict Company employes Muncie man, associated with the (drowned in a lard can filled with A. C. OF Telegra|h ville doctor that Klinck is ill with agriculture and industry. Kurtz, assistant secretary and man- today as a candidate has detracted C. WILL MOVE investigated His failure to ring in at Hoover campaign, will be the first water at the home of his parents, influenza. To further his campaign along of these to be heard, ager of the foreign, new business interest somewhat from the presi- 7:15. those lines, probably this Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jeffries, Evans- dential preferential primaries here Judge Garvin ordered the special he said, his Chicago afternoon. child found dead in and service departments of the Offices to Be Shifted From Third venire of men called for the headquarters had received $64,700 ville. The was Tuesday. fifty when the mother returned Union Trust Company at the Kurtz to Second Floor. jury to again 7. and spent about $60,000. the can home, and On of the eve of the convention it report June to the kitchen of the home after Seventy-Seventh St. His testimony brought the known HORSE SHOW MAY 26 White River. generally was predicted that Gov- The Indianapolis Chamber of BOOSTS UTILITY TAX a expenses of candidates in- being absent only few minutes. Commerce will move general thirteen Mrs. Koehl is a cousin of Kurtz ernor A1 Smith of New York would its WINS IN WILD SESSION terrogated to date $440,184. Albert H. Huntsinger, 24, R. R. P, visited in receive the unanimous indorsement offices from the third to the second to Plans Complete for Meridian Hills from in- who the Koehl home Natural Outcome Seen box 382, was recovering year. Democracy. floor of the Chamber of Commerce Country Club Event. • Germany last of Montana Valuation of Power Firm “I want to ask,” said Senator juries received in an auto accident building, Secretary Ed Hunter has Evansville Mayor Again Chosen All preparations have been com- morning when Harry John- Dale (Rep.), Vermont, “if this talk Sunday announced. The present third floor G. O. P. County Chairman. pleted for the Meridian Hills Coun- Chicago, admittedly driving a Raised One Million. of a trade between you and the Vice son, quarters have been leased to the Pji Press try Club horse show to be held on Marion (Ind.) machine, United President comes about naturally be- stolen George S. Olive Company, account- More than $1,000,000 boost in tax EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 14.—1n the outdoor ring of the club May 26, crashed into Huntsinger’s car at METHODISTS HEAR cause you hold the same views re- ants, for five years. The industrial valuation in properties of the Indi- what was termed one of the wild- Mrs. C. Willis Adams, chairman of Emerson Ave. and Washignton St. commission offices on garding agriculture.” the stable committee will remain anapolis Power and Light Company est sesssions ever staged in the city “Os course, that something announces. was arrested. the third floor. The change will not has to The show will be open to the public Johnson CHINA PEACE PLEA was announced today by the State council chamber here Mayor Her- do with it,” Lowden replied. His car skidded into a telephone be completed until July, because tax board. The increase, they said, bert Males today was re-elected and is scheduled to start at 1:30 of alterations. Lowden said he knew of no ar- p. m. pole at Harding and Twenty-Ninth was based on increased earnings. Vanderburgh County Republican rangement pay expenses to of dele- Trophies, and two Sts., Roy Cartwright, 6154 Critten- By United Press morals, containing proposal of Total increase, State and local, gates. He ribbons S2OO a a chairman. 1 said he was sure noth- prizes will be offered in three-galted, den Ave., told police. Besides Cart- KANSAS CITY, May 14.—A reso- union of church forces oppose ORGAN IS DEDICATED amounted to $1,139,466, the 1928 The mayor’s election brought to a to ing of the kind had been done. flve-gaited and riding only events. wright, Cathrene Owens, Craw- lution calling upon President Cool- “nullification candidates” was ex- total valuation being $26,036,315. In close a bitter factional fight which “I am indebted to you for a very fordsville, Ind.; Mirim Owens, 3005 idge to use his power to avert R. E. Goddard of Harrodsburg, a pected to be presented to the con- Vesper Services Held at Hillside 1927 the State valuation was placed started several months before the pleasant visit to Washington,” Low- Ky., will be the judge. E. Washington St.; Vassie Whitley, conflict between China and Japan ference today. Christian Church. at $23,607,600 and 1928 $24,596,530. primary election. He was opposed den said as he left the stand. Neusing, same address; Harold 1001 was introduced before the general The report, already prepared, Anew $5,000 organ, recently in- Local valuations were increased by the Republican Better Govern- The committee then adjourned Ashland Ave.; Cecil Nease, 20 S. conference of the Methodist Epis- deals primarily with the prohibition stalled at the Hillside Christian from $1,289,255 to $1,443,785. ment League, which has charged until 2:30, when it will hear Senator FIRE~HAZARbr"7OUND Theobald, 819 copal Colorado St.; Harold Church here today. question, and contains the charge Church, was dedicated at an im- that Males’ administration as chair- Watson of Indiana. E. Eleventh St., and Helen Alex- The resolution was presented by that one of the moves to nullify the pressive vesper service Sunday at 4 Hourly Temperatures man was marked with graft and Lowden has accumulated dele- 24,000 Inspections Made During passengers, a ander, 341 Grace St., Dr. Y. Y. Lo of Shanghai, editor of Eighteenth Amendment is promo- p. m., conducted by 6a. m.... 50 10 65 corruption. gate Clean-Up Campaign. the Rev. Homer a. m.... strength to date estimated in were slightly injured. Chinese Chirstian Advocate. tion of Government officers opposed Dale, pastor. The musical program, 7a. m.... 52 11 a. m 67 Today’s election was marked with United Press reports 202. These Helen Greer*, 6, of Mr. A report of the at Fire prevention bureau inspectors daughter committee on to enforcement of the prohibition arranged by Mrs. Carolyn Ayres Ba. m.... 57 12 (noon).. 69 screams, yells and denunciation delegates particularly from under Prevention Chief temperance, prohibition come Fire Horace and Mrs. Freeman Green, 1145 and public law. Turner, was broadcast over WKBF. 9 a. m.... 62 1 p. m.... 73 from both sides. mid-western States, Illinois, lowa, DeLoss Ave., was bruised when she Carey made more than 24,000 in- into car driven by Frank M. spections during the recent clean- ran a up Reed, 812 W. Drive, Woodruff Place, campaign, Carey re]x>rted today. reported Sunday afternoon. FIVE WOMEN, RADIUM POISON VICTIMS, WAIT DEATH’S SLOW APPROACH Inspectors 1,013 defects Mrs. Lola Kellog, 55, Los Angeles, which were ordered removed in the The Time* and the United Press drive cut fire Is in Methodist HQspital following presents herewith the nrst of a series The strange death sentence, poration, painting watch dials to filed within years the one hearing several According to Berry, to down hazards. dealing two after the thirteen of an accident Sunday at Meridian of three stories with one of passed Fryer, make them luminous. the most unusual cases in the history on Miss Grace Mrs. cause of the accident. ATphysicians testified that the seventy women who worked and Forty-Third Sts. A car driven of Jurisprudence and medicine—the Albina Larice tt u a TRUCK DRIVER HELD UP Standard plight of five New Jersey working ar.d Mrs. Quinta In this instance, the symptoms nothing could be done for the with his clients by John A. Miller, 1236 women who are slowly dying from between 1917 and poisoning. fight McDonald, Orange; Mrs. Edna A LLi of them painted 250 develop years. plaintiff; Ave., collided with the one driven radium Their for did not for seven that their bones were 1920 already have died of radium Two Bandits Get $l3O From Polk redress from the law has attracted day, wetting by Mrs. Kellog. wide attention. Hussman, Hillside, and Miss watches a the Raymond Berry, Newark attorney being eaten away, and that poisoning. Milk Company Employe. John Summers, 862 N. Bosart Ave., Katherine is brushes with their lips between probably within year their bod- Two in a green I! Schaub, Newark, a employed by the plaintiffs, then a The damage suit by men Chevrolet (was injured Sunday evening when II United Pres* ies‘would be so devastated that which Ber- coupe, held up Clyde N. J., May 14.—While result of radium poisoning. strokes. In that way they took attempted to enjoin the Radium ry hopes to gain redress seeks Paugh, 554 W. bis car was hit at Linden and they would no longer have the a Twenty-Eighth ORANGE,the scientific world looks Physicians know of a certain amount of radium into cash settlement of $250,000 for St., Polk Milk Com- Orange Sts., by the auto of Adolph something Corporation from employing the insistence to live. pany wagon at 9:30 on five former powers systems. each of the five driver a. m. to- (ghith, 1520 S. New Jersey St. helplessly, New the curative of radium, their statute of limitation. Vice Chancellor Backes. who women “to com- day Ethel Ave., just Jersey factory girls are slow but know nothing about fort and maintain them to the on south of dying they Seven years later, in 1927, the There has been hearing granted the postponement, was Twenty-Ninth St., and took wholesomely and painful deaths. Science has treating one on last days of their lives.” $l3O. Best foods, cooked. the effects of radium five watch painters developed astounded at the helplessness of The men drove in front of his prices. FLETCHER despaired of saving them and poisoning. The malady was con- radium that ’njunction, a month ago. Reasonable poisoning. Seeking redress science to save the women, but (The second story tn this series wagon and forced him to stop, CAFETERIA, basement Fletcher Jersey justice has been unable tracted between 1917 Then the case was continued to contain will and 1920, against the company, the women said the docket was so crowded an Interview with one ot the Paugh said. Flourishing a revolver (Trust Bldg. 10:30 a. to 7:30 thus far to comfort their last when the women were found that the statute victims of radium poisoning and an ex- m. employed of limita- Sept. 28, because of a crowded that he could not put the case planation of the nature of the malady one jumped out and seized the days. by the United States Radium by a prominent physician, who has Cor- tions had expired. Suits must be docket. ahead of September. treated the five plaintiffs.) money, he said.