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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
HALL MILLS
ACCUSED HIT
CARD POINT
Fingerprints on Bit of Paste
board Not Those of
Willie Stevens.
TWO EXPERTS TESTIFY
Both Positive in Attack on
States Theory.

BB United Press
.S2MERNILLE, N. j., Nov. 23.-
a#&@ H. Taylor, a fingerprint ex-
pert of the Navy Department,
testifying for the defense in the Hall
Mills murder trial today, said the
fingerprints introduced by the
State were not those Of Willie
Stevens.
The prints in question were on a
card found on the body of the Rev.
Edward Wheeler Hall. The State
experts had identified them as
Stevens prints.
"There are seven or eight distinct
differences in the two prints" he
said in answer to a question by de-
Tense counsel.
The defense attorney then asked
long hypothetical question tracing
the history of the calling card, and
asking if the print would have en-
dured for development under the con-
,ditions to which the card was sub
jected.
Taylor said he thought it would be
unlikely that the print you'd have
! lasted.
Fred Sandburg, in charge Of the
criminal Identification bureau of the
a. Washington Cd. c. police depart
ment, was. the next witness. Sand
burg said he had been a finger print
expert, since 1906 and had person
ally handled and classified 10000
prints. He attacked Identification of
the card.
"Are the two prints the same?"
he was asked.
More to Exhibits Der, DIS
'They are not from the same
finger replied the witness.
Saidburg came from the stand and
pointed out the alleged differences
in the two prints.
Indications that the prosecution
wi enter much of it's fire against
WIZ Stevens, erratic brother of
Henry Stevens and Mrs. Hall in
the trial of the.trio on charges of
murder in connection with the death
four years ago of the Rev. DIR. Ed,
ward w. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor
Mills have developed in cross-exami
nation of defense witnesses.
Willie, 54 years old, has sat quietly
and at times smilingly in court while
Special Prosecutor Alexander Simp'
son has attempted to prove that he
was excessively dull witted, was
subject to eplieptic fitr, was inclined
to outbursts of fiery temper and un'
accountable RACES and was nursing
a secret hatred OF Mrs. Mills for
having worried his sister. The de
tense side of the picture is something
else. His counsel admits that he
mentally, but insist that he is bet.
ter read than the average man. He
is interested in engineering and
science, DIR. Lawrence Runyon
family physician, testified yesterday
ibid he read books ION SURGERY
Simpson put in at this point, and
the doctor answered In. the negative.
One detected that Simpson was
insinuating' Willie might have been
responsible for the slit throat ot
Mrs. Mills, who was murdered on
the night Of Sept. IA, 1922, as she
kept a tryst with DR.. Hall on the
Phillips farm, near New Brunswick.
The defense claims = that Willie
has never had epilepsy, has never,
in fact, been the victim Of a serious
disease such as would tend to de-
range his mind and make him liable
to sexual Or. anti-social abnormal
ties.
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Is MEN TRAPPED
BY MINE BLAST
Two Bodies Taken From
Shaft in Canada.

BIZ United Press
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov. %.
Fifteen men are entombed in the
McGillivray coal mine at Coleman,
Alberta, as the result Of an explosion
of mine gas and dust today, accord
ing to advices reaching here. Re-
ports also say two bodies have been
taken out.
Thirty men are believed to have
been in the mine at the time of the
explosion, but sfifteen of them made
their way to the surface.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
SER VICES TO MARK
CITY THANKSGIVING
Business Houses Will Observe Holiday individuals, Not
Organizations, to Provide for Poor.

Thanksgiving day promises to be
ON devotion rather than gaiety in
InH8hapolis this year. thus carrying
out the original idea%of the Pilgrim
founders. TheresS1ills he feasting. of
course. in homes. clubs and hotels,
But the public programs are con-
fined largely to the special church
services and the routine round of
stheaters.
& The poor will be provided for by
individuals in quiet manner
RH'hursda5. None Of tho welfare or.
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Sleepily Confesses
in Staying of Two
By Tinted Press

BIZ Tinted Press
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Nov. "a
Thomas Red" Moran, S2-year-old
taxi driver, was held in Jail here to-
day after he sleepily walked into a
police station and confessed that he
was the gunman who murdered Pa
trolman Edward T. Byrns and fatally
shot Patrolman Frank Dazkiewicz,
in Brooklyn last Friday.
I'm the bir'' you have been look
ing for about those cops" he told
Acting Captain John j. McCloskey.
IT did it. Let's 60"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
CITY FILES BRIEF.
ATTACKING
CONF ANY merger
UphoIdS Contention Commits
sion Has No JuriS-
diction.

Briefs attacking the commissions
jurisdiction over the proposed
merger of the Indianapolis Light and
Heat Company and the Merchants
Heat and Light Company were filed
today before the public service COM
mission by Alvah J. RucKer, Charles
Mendenhall and John w. Becker,
representing the city.
Rucker, in his brief, supported the
plea made by other opponents of
the merger before the commission
Monday.
The commission took under adj
visement the jurisdiction matter and
granted attorneys two days to file
briefs. No definite time for ruling
was set
Quotes Definition
In his brief, Rucker quotes the
definition of a public utility in the
dianapolis Power and Light Com
pany, which it is proposed should
take over the two local electric util-
tiles, is not a utility under the def
milton as it has not commenced OPP
GRAFTON.
He declared the consent of the
majority OF the voting-stock of the
two utilities to be merged had not
been shown and denied that any
public necessity of convenience
would be served by the merger Of
the two firms.
He also charged that full details
Of the proposed consolidation were
not explained in the merger petition
Turn to Page 16)
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Blu United Press

BRAZIL, Ind, Nov. 23.-The
old horse Runyan Upton drove
back and forth to work returned
home at it's usual deliberate gait
this morning, walked up the
driveway and into the barn.
Mrs. Upton busted herself in
the kitchen getting her hus-
bands morning meal. He worked
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
Three Die Instantly
in BlolUer Explosion

BIZ United sPress
DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 23.-Fhree
men were almost instantly killed
here today when a blower at the
American Blowing Company ex-
polded. The dead are: John S.
Shearer,. 80, Windsor, Ont; H. H.
Graves, 27, Detroit, and William
Badgeley, 43, Detroit. The accident
occurred shortly after noon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
TRAIN KILLS STUDENT
High School Boy Drives Auto on
Tracks at Lucerne.

ON NWFtNW 7
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Nov. "a
Cecil Clary, II, son Of Mrs. and
Mrs. Arthur Clary, was instantly
KILLED at Lucerne, north of here,
today when has automobile was
struck by a Pennsylvania passenger
train. The boy was on his way to
Lucerne High School, where he is
a student.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
SHOOTSH|S WIFE
AND KILLS SELF
Children Unable to Explain
Ft. Wayne Tragedy.
By United Press

BH United Press
FIT. Wayne, Ind, Nov. 23.-Chil-
dren of John Winicki, AZ. were I'M
able today to give a motive for the
act of their. father in shooting his
wife and then committing suicide.
Without warning Winicki drew
revolver at their home and shot his
wife through the head. She is not
expected TO recover.
A moment later he turned the gun
on himself, dying instantly.
The two children said their par
ents had not quarreled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
oath TUB" HOST SAILS

-, Nov. 23.-Earl Car
roll. theatrical producer. under Fed.
eral sentence for perjury in connec-
ton with his famous "bathtub" party
left here for Southampton today to
return to the United States. Aboard
the Leviathan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
RAID NETS S};
MANY WANTED
Criminals Taken in Road
house Near Cleveland.

Bu United Press ~
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. %
City police officers raided a road
houre at Berea, suburb, early to-
day arresting thirty-three men and
women. According to police 1t was
a blow which smashed one of the
most highly organized bands Of
criminals and auto thieves in the
State.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
DAYLIGHT SAVING VALID

BW TNffcd PreSa
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-Massa.
chusetts daylight saving law was
held valid by the United States Su-
preme Court today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
BOOZE SALE CHARGED

Federal Prohibition Agent II. l..
Bendell arrested William Almstead,
"a, Puritan Hotel Monday night, on
a charge Of sale and possession Of
liquor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-23
All-State
College
Football
Teams

The all-Indiana football
honors are passed out on
The Times Sport Page to-
day by Dick Miller, Times
football expert.
Miller's selections have
an authoritative note some
times lacking in the choos-
ing Of these mythical "all-
everything" a t h ! c t i c
groups. Miller has officiated
in a number of college
games and has seen the
men he honors in action.
He knows football and he
knows the men.
Spalding's Official Foot
ball Guide for 1926 prints
Dick 'Miller's selections in
its Indiana list of "Out-
standing Players for 1925"
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PAVING
REPAIR COST
INTERESTING
Patching With Asphalt Plant
Material for $1.60 a
Square Yard.
'AMIESITE' FOR $685.
Comparison Made After
CounciImen'S Attack.

When city councilman late Mon
day scored the condition of Indian
apolis pavements, two sets of figures
gathered from the city civil en-
gineering department records be-
came unusually interesting to tax
payers.
Throughout the summer the board
of works experimental with street
patching, ran out of funds, decided
it might start the city asphalt plant
again with funds from the State gaso-
line tax and at present is debating
whether the city shall patch streets
or let the job to contractors.
Early in the Duvall administration,
the board and George Schmidt, then
city civil engineer, decided to patch
streets with "Amiesite,' a type of
material which could be laid on the
street cold and obviated the neces-
sity Of operating the asphalt plant.
Here was to be a great saving for
the taxpayers. From March "a to
May % the city bought from J. A.
Mcdonald, Apt. 2, $40 Z. Fall Creek
Blvd, S1S,7S2.63 worth of Amiesite
and the street repair gangs patched
some streets with it. 1t took only a
few weeks for 1t to be seen that the
patches made with this material
would sink below the rest of the
street or wrinkle out Of place. Some
stretches on Senate Ave. bear wit
ness.
New Engineer
Meanwhile, the board of works and
Engineer Schmidt disa greed over
something, exactly what has never
been made public, and Chester Ober-
civil engineer.
The city soon thereafter stopped
patching with "Amiesite."
The following figures. from the
engineering department records,
partially tell the story:
During nine weeks Of the summer
the city patched asphalt streets
with the regular asphalt mixture
from the asphalt plant, laying a total
OF ALL square yards at the rate of
1S.5123 yards to the ton. This cost
the city $1,50S.54 for operation of the
asphalt plant, $3,295.61 for the labor
of laying and $2,446.5S for material.
The average cost per square yard Of
this patching was $1.6072.
Amiesite Cast Higher
During six weeks of the summer,
the city tried to patch with
Amiesite. The city used 1929 tons
Of the special material, laying 6.752
square yards or an average of 6.5,617
square yards ton.
This yardage per ton is in contrast
to the 1S.5123 yards per ton with
regular asphalt.
The price comparison also is In
teresting.
Whereas the average cost a square
yard of the asphalt patching was
S1,6072, the Amiesite cost $3.356S a
square yard.
The city paid $7.535.53 to lay the
Amiesite, paid $14,5OS.90 for the ma
terial and $619.35 just to unload the
1929 tons.
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Harry Emerson FoSdick, New YORK
minister's; President William II. p!
Faunce, Brown University; Cardinal
O'Connell, Boston, and Rabbi Ste.
phen S. Wise.
To Have Been Presented
The petition was to have been pre-.
scented to the Queen upon her de-
parture from this country, but it is
preeumed her early departure will
make it necessary that it be sent to
her. The petition reads:
ITO the Queen of Roumanla:
'We present to your Majesty our
respectful salutations, and as citizens
Of the United States we welcome
you to our country as an honored
guest.
I'VE take advantage of your pres
ence here to petition your Majesty
to give your distinguished personal
consideration to those religious
minorities in Roumania suffering un.
der the practice Of determinations,
Baptists, Jews, Lutherans, Presby-
lSA idiACs ChANell anu LNbiAicNAi
Catholics. We know that hopeful
progress has already been made by
the Roumanian government toward
solution of this problem. We re-
joice that the condition of these
minorities has been bettered, but
much remains to be done, and II is
our conviction that If your royal
Influence could be further eXerted
on their behalf their present condi
ton would be vastly improved.
1--WE hope that Your Majesty may
continue to enjoy your visit. and
wish you Godspeed upon your home
ward journey"
Unjust Treatment
The Rev. Hayward called atten
ton to the unjust treatment accord
ed Roumanian Baptists in a state
ment published in The Times.
One of the objects of the Queens
visit to America was to float loan
from Roumania, supporters of the
petition declare.
American bankers have found that
the Trianon treaty, under which mi
norities are supposed to be governed
is not honored in that country, they
assert, and ask The bankers to in
quire into that fact before making
any loan.
"Roumania pledges full liberty, Sc
curity Of property, equity before
law, the full use of minority Ian.
guages, especially in the courts, the
preservation of endowment lands In
violate for the churches. schools and
colleges and State aid to the
churches" they say. "All these OBJ
legations have been flagrantly vic.
lated. with the single exception of
aid to the churches, which continues
greatly reduced"
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LOCAL CHURCHIMAN
TO PETITION QUEEN
Baptist Official Others Will Join in National Plea to Marie
Asking Just Treatment of Religious Mnorities.

Harry Emerson Fosdick, New York
ministers; President William II. p!
Faunce, Brown University; Cardinal
O'Connell, Boston, and Rabbi Ste
Dhen S Wise
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Forecast

Increasing cloudiness to-
night; unsettled, probably rain
Wednesday; rising tempera-
ture; lowest tonight somewhat
above freezing.
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Milton c. Works Bridge
Lesson is printed on the Edi-
torial Page today.
Smyrna times., 1926-12-08
MEMBERS OF LEAGUE
Continued from Page Two

blocked by huge square chimney.
That the smoke sometimes escapes is
apparent from the blackened wall sur
face.
The rooms sole method of lighting
and ventilation is by means of four
small windows, located on three diff
ferent sides of the room. There is a
tin roof under each window, a fact
which made the room unbearably hot
during September and October. Now
it has its compensation, however, for
the teacher remarked, 81 often think
in case of fire I'd have to get the chill
dren out on the roofs for they can go
only single file on the stairway" The
steps, old, wooden, and dark, are, by
actual measurement, thirty inches in
width. The only toilet facilities at the
disposal of the children are in the
rear of the main building, across the
highway, $50 yards distant.
Little first grade children find their
school home in an abandoned store
room on the opposite side of the pike.
Every time they go to their play
ground, visit the drinking fountain or
wash room, they cross the main Lin
coin Highway, at a point where the
road curves at the foot of hill,
dreaded for its skidding possibilities
by every motorist who drives over it.
Across the bridge, facing another
danverous curve, the fifth grade Gear
ries on" in a rented lodge room. There
is not even a sidewalk between the
doorway of the school room and the
main thoroughfare over which the We
hicles surge, in literal thousands,
every day in the week. A wooden
stairway, broken by a landing with
right angle turns, leads to the second
floor school room. On opposite sides
there are three windows. The rear is
partitioned off with dreary faded cur
tains. Gaping gaps reveal a mass of
old lumber and discarded furnishings,
genuinely ideal lodging places for
germs and dust accumulation. "My
attendance is below normal now," the
teacher remarked, "for there is scarlet
fever in the district"
As the bell rang for recess the chill
dren adjourned merrily to the rear of
the building, attempting an organized
game on a rough bit of ground steep
ly sloping to a rocky little stream that
batters its way noisily to White Clay
Creek. At one end Of the playground
there is a sharp drop to the streams
bed Of perhaps eight feet. Entirely
open and exposed, there is no attempt
at protection. The pump and anti
quated out houses, which the children
Smyrna times., 1926-12-08

At the final organization meeting of
Milford's new Chamber of Commerce
in the Community Building on Mon
day evening of last week, DR.. G. Lay
ton Grier was unanimously elected
president of the new civic organiza
ton. Other officers elected were.
First vice president, DR.. S. M. d.
Marshall, of Milford; second vice pres
dent, J. Benton Counselman, Of Hous-
ton; third vice president, Robert J..
Clendaniel, of Glendale; temporary
secretary, G. Donnan Holzmueller;
treasurer, William G. Powers.
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be used exclusively for official muni-
cipal business.
The completion of the harvest sea-
son of sweet potatoes is being rushed
in Accomac County because Of the
cold weather. Approximately $3.50 of
the crop has been dug. 1t is estimat-
ed that at the close of the season the
two counties will have yielded one
million barrels of sweets this season.
Washington College, Chestertown,
Maryland, has recently added $4,000
to its Endowment Fund. The college
is now preparing to wage an active
campaign for the purpose of securing
additional funds for endowment pur-
poses.
Within the next week or ten days
holly will be gathered on the PENN
sula preparatory to the Christmas
Smyrna times., 1926-12-08

Sweeping changes in the prohibi-
tion enforcement staff in Delaware
were made Wednesday. Announce
ment was made that Captain Thomas
Bailey, Of Philadelphia, an assistant
on Mr.. Cavanaugh's staff, had been
placed in charge of the Delaware en-
forcement Office as acting director. He
conferred with Director Hill and as
sumed charge of the office Wednesday
afternoon. Announcement also was
made that Ira H. Melvin had resigned
as group head, he rendering his resig
nation to Director HILL The change
will effect every member of the staff
which has its headquarters in the Old
Postoffice Building, Sixth and King
streets, Wilmington.
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these conditions" Mrs. A. P. Mote,
principal of the school declared, "were
it not for the marvellous and courage
GUS spirit of the teachers"
The fact that thousands of Della
ware children are required to go to
school, day after day, in the face of
conditions which threaten their per-
sonal safety, represents the big issue
in the Delaware school situation.
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struggle hard to keep neat and clean,
figures prominently in the picture.
Every child has to cross the road at
the dangerous curve, in going to his
home. The teacher is in the habit of
taking position in the middle of the
highway and holding back traffic un-
til the children are out of harms
way.
"School could not be held under
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season. Millsboro, Delaware claims
to be the holly wreath center of the
world and will be going at full speed
until the Christmas holidays seeking
to meet the demand for Del-MarVa
holly wreaths.
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r,R.vA PENINSULA

Y Is5 Ins5aIti-colo red highmay sardsr Iige lige
s.i% 1'.sS and virginia MIA. e entering ta he
y & C9Ihrn Illuminated at night gian anf of
1alg graphic description I.l4 tnair Gr
ary ,ouBties and point 5.u ~ 1i@nr tne,r
y '0Illlre Another Of i these signs gn
lt'.ss, 'sscted At Cape Charles. ftrs An An
'iif'sI t5s erection Of these ;5, signs signs
l1g lgBsr ts' d Commerce ,th WI ,,'nton ereGo
S'aloii lsaS markers in Northampton 3.5la11t
i..,,c lara Counties immediately
...,. If Salisbury have Sc
D 'n =. for 4 new fire house
d nranared for occupancy
init the present lo"n ii"ii -
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STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF SPICY ITEMS
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We Know
In and Around the Larger PENN
sula Towns and Communities

At a sheriff's sale at Dover, We'd
nesday, the farm of Aubrey J. Good
en- and Catherine H. Gooden, located
on the stone road from Dover to Cam
den, including 10 acres of land, new
buildings, brought $9,925. It is one
of the best located small farms in
Kent county.
Smyrna times., 1926-12-08

Muskrat trappers in most sections
Of the State are on the job early and
late. Trappers anticipate a profitable
season as skins now are worth S1.25,
with the prospect that the price will
reach 81 or even better in the season.
For this reason many trappers will
hold their skins for the anticipated
rising market. Many trappers report
that offers are busy on the marshes
of New Castle county destroying the
muskrats, and that bear traps are be-
ing set to catch these enemies of the
muskrat, which not only destroy the
"marsh rabbits" themselves, but their
burrows. Raccoons also are reported
as being very plentiful in the northern
part of the State and their skins in
demand at from Sc to 81 skin. Very
little effort will be made to trap
skunks. These animals are very plen-
tiful in the upper county, but there
is very little demand for their skins.
Smyrna times., 1926-12-08

Joshua Derrickson, 70 years old, of
Selbyville, and Edward Hickman, 81
years old, of Roxana, were drowned
Tuesday afternoon in the Assawoman
canal at Ocean View, when an auto
mobile truck driven by Hickman on
his way from Bethany Beach to Ocean
View, crashed through the guard rail
and plunged into the canal. The men
were pinned beneath the truck and
were dead when their bodies were re
moved from beneath the wreckage
twenty minutes later. A small boy
who witnessed the accident ran for
help but before he could return with
rescuers the men were beyond aid.
The drop from the bridge to the canal
is a distance of twenty feet.