HOME The Indianapolis Times EDITION Generally fair tonight and Sunday; colder tonight with lowest temperature about 15; warmer Sunday afternoon. PRICE TWO CENtS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents lArWPPN^fOV^|j?l>| 201 Zv Entered as Second-Class Matter VOLUME 44—NUMBER INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1932 at Fostoftice, Indianapolis MINIMUM RATE 1933 Arrives FOUR, HELD IN Plea Made by Grand Jury STATE’S RIVERS New Year Sees Premiere May Rescue Ruth Judd on Chatham Islands LEGION PARTY FOR WATER IS in Pacific. From Death on Gallows AT FLOOD STAGE By United Press Wealthy Phoenix Man to TT7ELLINGTON, New Zealand RAIDJREED II BOOSTED HERE (Sunday) Jan. I.—Shep- Judge Dismisses Charges of Face Trial as Killing IN MANY POINTS herds and fishermen of the Chat- Accessory. ham Islands, 414 miles southeast Gaming; From to Ordered by 51 Others Increase SI.OB $1.25 Is of Wellington, welcomed the new BY GALE D. WALLACE Highways Under Water in Southern Indiana; year today while milkmen in the Appear in Court. United Press Staff Correspondent Public Service Commission; Other Emer- PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec, 31.—The United States were making their Serious Damage Reported at Evansville; gency Reductions Are Unchanged. early morning rounds of the last CHARGE LIQUOR TAKEN Arizona state board of pardons and day of 1932. paroles became the sanctuary of Artificial Lake Dam Gives Way. The British colony of 200 per- hope for Winnie Ruth Judd today, sons in Swoop on Hilton U. Brown fighting desperately to escape the THOUSANDS OF CONSUMERS AFFECTED the Southern Pacific was WAVE TO the first place in the world to gallows to which she was con- COLD GREET NEW YEAR Post Event Caused by demned for the murder of Agnes Ruling welcome 1933. When the bell in Ann Leroi. Written by Commissioner Ellis, and the little church on Hanson island Angry Wife. Her hope for clemency was re- Dangerous of pealed out midnight, the clock of Coating Ice Formed on City Gambling charges against four vived when the county grand jury Turns Down Pleas of Civic Groups Big Ben in London sounded 12 after indicting men were dismissed today by Mu- John J. (Happy Streets When Rain Changes to noon, and it was 7 a. m. in New Jack) Halloran as an ac- Snow; York. nicipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron, alleged and City for Further Cuts. cessory after the “strongly” Tne Chatham islands ending a case which had its in- murder, Mercury Will Rise Sunday. are the ception Friday recommended her be nearest point to the starting line night when police sentence com- Thousands of consumers of the Indianapolis Water arrested the four during muted to life imprisonment. The of time. The starting line is the a stag Flood conditions prevail today at many points in south- Company will be forced to start the New Year with an in- date line. The Chat- party sponsored by Hilton U. Brown grand jurors expressed their convic- Admiralty’s post, American tion that the ern Indiana, and several highways just to the east Legion, on the doomed woman shot are flooded. crease from SI.OB to $1.25 in their minimum water rate. ham islands are fourth building of floor of a at 116 in self-defense when she killed Mrs. So far, the only serious damage has reported the line. East Maryland been at The “lame duck” public service commission late Friday The year began street. Leroi. new its race Anger of a wife who wealthy Evansville, where and from westward along did not wish Halloran. a local lumber- v* 's- x-: streets, sewers basements were issued a permanent rate order raising the minimum rate for the islands her husband to man, pend- the equator at a speed of 1,000 attend the party led was free on $3,000 bail, flooded. by water, a section to the raid. arraignment Undermined of the brick wall consumption up to 500 cubic feet. The new rate is effective miles an hour. ing next Tuesday. Proceedings in court today were He frequently had been drawn f > mmm mum. surrounding the Lincoln high school athletic field collapsed. Sunday. enlivened I by a physical encounter into the case by stories of the con- The dam of an artificial lake at Jasper gave way. With the exception of this between Sergeant Edwin Kruse, one demned murderess that he helped of the of increase, the emergency rate leaders the raid, and dispose of the bodies of Mrs. Leroi Rivers :n the southern part INJUNCTION ON HONEYMOONER Arthur Dinsmore, a defense attor- and her friend, Hedvig Samuelson, ney, the of the state still are rising, reductions made last summer when latter tried to take whom she also is accused of killing. a box containing money and dice Jury ifcording to J. H. Armington, remain unchanged in the from the officer. Believes Her Story ROOSEVELT AT * The accused a meteorologist permanent order. TAXES IS ASKED HAVEN BURNED Judge man. popular figure of the local Warns Pair in local night life, denied the jjjpjr On November United estimates of their Bailiffs to charges, hinting they States weather bu- the company receive rushed separate the were only part billings, will pair, of strategy OF reau. clash woman’s to cheat the END TERM 450,- but the ended when the increased annual tribute from Suit Brought to Enforce Famous Clifton House at Cameron admonished, gallows. Conviction of about $77,530. “Gentlemen, under the in- Pointing out that within the last 000 minimum users you are in the courtroom.” dictment carries a maximum penalty thirty-six order, by Commis- $1.50 Limit Law in Niagara Falls Razed; hours, one to two and The written The four discharged Art of five years imprisonment and a Service as Governor of sioner Howell Ellis, practically were one-half inches of rain has fallen in Linne, Barton hotel, charged with fine. the Wabash and “apologizes” to the company for Marion County, Loss $1,500,000. keeping By White river valleys, a gambling house and recommending leniency for New York Will Close Armington predicted not making it more. By gambling; Mrs, a rise of the A bill for an injunction to pro- United Press Clifford Carmody, 410 Judd, the grand jury placed the waters to a It was one of the most rapidly South Jersey squarely Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd smiled Midnight. pomt five feet above the hibit collection under any tax levy NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, Dec. New street, visiting a issue before the state board at flood stage during written orders in the history of the gambling house, of pardons as she returned to jail after “tell- the next twenty- 31.—The Clifton and Charles G and paroles, which super- By United Press four at commission. The case closed eight in Marion county higher than the house, one of Ni- Duckworth, 940 North sedes the ing all” about the ‘‘trunk murders” hours Elliston and Edwards- Grant ave- Governor in authority in ALBANY, N. Y„ Dec. 31.—Presi- port. days ago. $1.50 limit set by act of the special agara Falls’ most famous hotels and nue, and Frank Hamilton, 735 Cot- this of two women to a grand jury state. in dent-Elect Franklin City Had Urged Cuts a historic take avenue, gambling and The grand jurors Phoenix. Now the grand jury has D. Roosevelt Wabash River Is Rising session of the legislature was filed haven for honeymoon- visiting revealed they leaves office as Governor of New a gambling house. believed Mrs. recommended her death sentence At reproduction today in circuit court. ers, was destroyed today by a fire Judd when she ap- York midnight tonight Anderson and Noblesville, the Finding of new val- Insufficient peared be to life in prison. A at to become west evidence led to dis- before them three days ago commuted a private citizen, free to devote all fork of White river is a foot uation of the commission engineers Plaintiffs are Gavin L. Payne, which firemen with difficulty, were missal of the charges. jail matron is behind Mrs. and and reputedly told “the whole story” shown his time above flood stage. At Seymour the of $19,337,338 is rejected, and the B. B. Wood, George J. Marott seeking prevent from Besides the four, fifty-one of Judd. to the problems of the na- rise to spreading others how she killed her two friends tion he will guide after March 4. is nearing three feet above the rate increase .s designed to produce Dan W. Legore. appeared as witnesses. About after a flood Timothy Sex- to nearby buildings. one jealous quarrel over Hal- The office he took over from his stage. more than a 6 per cent return on a Defendants are P hundred men were in the po- loran’s A. place, affections. illustrious predecessor, Alfred E. Forecast of the excess of flood valuation of $22,500,000. ton, county treasurer; Charles The Lafayette hotel, adjoining lice said. stage of Grossart, county auditor; Walter Prosecutor Smith, will pass to Colonel Herbert the Wabash river is six Plea to at least retain the emer- the Clifton house, caught several According to Lieutenant “Burns Up” feet Boetcher, president of the county Leo H. Lehman. Lehman is the at Covington, two at Terre gency rates was made by Harry K. as the Clifton was burned to routman, the raiders County Lloyd INDICT OF times large Prosecutor HEAD two at council, and members of the county seized Andrews Lieutenant-Governor Mr. Roosevelt Haute, Vincennes and six at Cuthbertson, in a brief filed as at- the ground with a loss quantities of was incensed by grand tax adjustment board.