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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
LABOR FORCES
MASS FOR WAR
ON INJUNCTIONS
Millions of Workers VIII
Watch Unions Battle
in Congress.
BY ROBERT TALLEY

B1 United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Millions
Of workers will watch the Senate
Judiciary Committee next month
when the American Federation of
Labor launches what promises to
be one of the biggest battles in its
HISTORIAN effort to break down the
growing abuse of injunctions against
labor by Federal judges.
Already the battle lines are FORM
ing. The Federation's legislative
committee is preparing data and
material.
President William Green of the A.
F. of L. personally will conduct
labor's case before the committee
He will be assisted by Andrew
Furuseth, president of the Interna-
tional Seamen's Union and regarded
as labor's greatest authority on hui
man rights, and a host of others.
Briefly, the whole battle will re-
volve around a proposed amendment
to the Federal code by which Con-
gress would declare, in effect, that
the potential labor of human being;
or their patronage is not property
and, therefore, property rights shall
not apply to same. That an en-
ployer's property rights were being
menaced has been the crux of prac.
tically all anti-labor injunctions.
A favorable report will be sought
from the Judiciary Committee, but
either with or without this the bat
tie is sure to go to the Senate floor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
Opened Suitcase, Grinned

"He opened the suitcase so you
might see what he had there?"
Eyes, sir"
"where were you when he did
that?"
THAT was in the apartment"
what did you say when you saw
that?"
''I let out a yell Of surprise and
wanted to know why he did a thing
like that. 1t was quite a shock to
me, because he was not SUPPOSED to
bring her up to the apartment.
when he brought the suitcase
III. wanted to know where the girl
was. He said, Wait a minute and
sort of grinned and then set the
suitcase down and opened it. have
already told you what saw and
everything"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
PARTIES MOVE
TO CLEAR AIR
ON PRESIDENT
Sentiment for Candidates Is
Expected to Crystalline
After Holidays.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Dec 23-nefnii


WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Defnite
clearing of the 1928 presidential
situation in both major parties is
expected soon after the Christmas
holidays.
The Democratic national commit
tee will meet here Jan. IL to select
convention city and to hold a
Jackson day dinner attended by vir-
tually all of the party's notables.
The occasion of the dinner is to
be used by friends of Senator Reed
Of Missouri, to advance his presi-
dental candidacy and Reed himself
may deliver speech.
Governor AL Smith Of New York
will be unable to attend because his
State Legislature is in session. his
friends here say, but they plan to
reconnoiter the present Smith senti-
ment among the party leaders.
With the first of the presidential
primaries scheduled for March Is
in New Hampshire, Republican &C.
t1vitieS are expected to gain more
momentum.
d Other primaries are to follow
shortly thereafter.
Candidates must file for the pri-
maries usually about six weeks be-
fore they are held. Organization
work must be done for the various
entries in the States involved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
BN United Press

BN United Press
PENDLETON, Ore, Dec. %.
Edward Hickman, 19-year-
old Los Angeles bank clerk, sat
in the presence Of three men in
the city hall here last night and
told his story of the kidnapping
and murder Of 12-year-old
Marion Parker.
He admitted the kidnapping,
but denied he had any part in
the murder.
He blamed two mysterious
individuals - Andrew Cramer
and a girl whose name he
thought was June Dunning-
for killing Marion.
They did it because she cried too
much, he said.
The first he knew Of Marion's
death, he commended, was when
Cramer came to his apartment in
Los Angeles and opened a suitcase
he brought with him. 1t waa then
Hickman saw the mutilated body of
the girl he had kidnapped, according
to his confession.
Desire to raise money for a COL
lege education, he said, caused him
to kidnap the girl. He denied he
sought revenge upon Perry Parker,
the girls father, for prosecution of
him for forgery.
ct intended to get the money and
then go to college and live straight
the rest of my life," he told officers.
District Attorney Cyril Proebstel,
City Attorney Charles Randall and
Parker Brannin, newspaper man, all
of endleton, heard the confession
and conducted the questioning of
Hickman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
Weird Story Related

1t was a weird story which Hick-
man told in rapid-f1re fashion, with
no cropping for words, as he sat
with the officers in city hall here.
1t seemed strange, even to the Off
GERS, that this town, in the heart
Of the east Oregon cattle country,
should be the place where one of
the weirdest stories in criminal his
tory should be unfolded.
Here is the story Hickman told:
Il ran away from home" Hick-
man said. II was working in the
First National Bank and forged
some checks and got paroled and
went back to Kansas City with
mother, and I wanted to go back
to California again.
$50 then I got this coupe (the
car in which the mangled form of
the girl was returned) in Kansas
City. It belonged to DR.. Mantz,
think. came out here, but did not
come direct. First, I went to Chi
cago, and then / went West and
rented that apartment in Los An
geleS at the Bellevue Arms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
Hears kidnapping Idea

This man (Cramer) asked me
what thought of kidnapping some
one, and I thought I would not
mind doing it.
II happened to remember Mr.
Parker had a daughter, because in
working at the hank this girl came
in with him sometimes. I noticed
especially and I remember it was
his daughter and because she was
his favorite daughter I thought of
her.
$50 this man (Cramer) and I
both went out and he wanted to
see where Mr.. Parker lived.
Il went to the house to see he-::
when she came from school and I
saw her riding around on a bicycle,
but I didn't know she had twin
sister until Thursday morning.
IT parked by the house early, so
would see her leave for school
and could see which school she went
to. And it popped into my mind
that If I went for her at the school
I could get her that way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23

This rare example Of the watch
makers art reposes in the detective
Office at police headquarters today.
1t is a gold watch made of two
$40 gold pieces. The two gold pieces
were followed out and thinned and
fastened together, with the watch
one inch in diameter, inside.
Outwardly the watch can scarcely
be distinguished from a single
$40 gold piece. A small spring
on its edge by which the watch is
opened is the only noticeable diff
ference between gold piece.
w. P. Hurley, Chicago travelling
salesman, lost the watch when hi
was here ten days ago. He phonec
Detective Chief Jerry Kinney
Wednesday. Detectives Reed anc
De Bassette found it in possession
of man who had found it. Hurley
had shown it to him, but he did no
know Hurley's name.
According to Hurley the watcI
was made in France during the wa
and there are only three of them il
existence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
WIDOW CHARGES PLOT
TO OBTAIN $4,000
Brazil Woman Sues McNutt Com
p pany Minority Stockholders.

Brazil Woman Sues McNutt Com
~ pany Minority Stockholders.
B1 United Press
BRAZIL, Ind, Dec. ga plot by
minority stockholders to obtain con-
troll of the Lewis McNutt Company,
Inc, was charged by the widow of
the founder, Mrs. Nancy C. McNutt,
in obtaining an injunction in Clay
Circuit Court here.
Fraud that would deprive her of
$4,000 annually on a jobb'ng b',si-
ness crossing $250,000 is alleged by
Mrs. McNutt.
q An injunction was issued, pro-
hibiting the stockholders, David M.
Colwell, William G. McNutt and
David T. Boculus Of Akron, Ohio,
from holding a meeting to increase
the capital stock of the company
from $1,000 to $4,000.
Mrs. McNutt, who has a majority
interest, said the four planned to
buy the additional stock issue,
knowing she did not have funds to
take it up, and thus get control.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
PAGE 8

submit to an illegal operation.
Alarmed by her continued absence,
her husband led police in a search
which ended when the Office door
was battered down. DR.. Cole was
missing and the Office had been
stripped Of all his personal effects.
The body of Mrs. Buckles lay on
an operating table. Above 1T was q
canary singing in a cage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
Gets Girl at School

There was no plan, but had
been thinking about it and it
popped into my head when I saw
the girl that morning.
II did not plan out the results
ahead Of that until saw the girl
that morning. And that afternoon,
you have read in the papers how
it all happened. went and told
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
PARK BOARD MEMBERS
4 MAY FIGHT RESIGNING
Two Asked to Quit Are Silent on
Az Plans for Future.

ANAAo AVA WUuACs
z Whether Adolph G.. Emhardt,
Democrat, and Mrs. j. D. Hoss, Re
publican, will resign Jan. 1, in &C.
cordance with the request of Mayor
L. Ert Slack, was matter of con-
lecture today at city, hall.
y Friends of the park board men,
bers were inclined to believe they
would make a fight to remain on the
board through court action to test
the tenure of office statute. Emsley
w. Johnson and Frank Manly, board
members in the Shank administra-
ton, contested their right to the
posts when former Mayor John L.
Duvall ousted them. They later re-
signed after considerable con-
.troverSy.
IT haven't even thought about it
and will not take it up until after
Christmas" Emhardt said.
Z Mrs. Hoss said, "I have no COM
nent at this time"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
WOMAN Dies;
DOCTOR FLEES
Body of Former AttiCa Resi-
dent Found in Office.
ma. 3 Head-see Puzzle-
Ru Times Special

BV Times Special
ATTICA. Ind. Dec. 23.-Mrs.
Betty Buckles. Is, found dead in
the office of DR.. Irwin A. Cole, at
Oakland, Cal, formerly lived here.
She was here a few months while
her husband, Clarence K. Buckles,
was employed in the grocery Of his
brother, Roy Buckles.
Press dispatches said Mrs,
Buckles, mother of two children,
went to the Office of Dr. Cole to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
'HoTSY ToTSY CITIZEN
Woman Knows Tue Duties Of
Mayor; Passes irSt.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-One Of the
questions asked by the naturaliza-
ton examiners is What are the du-
ties of a mayor7 Mrs. Samuel Chot-
zinoff, sister of great violinist and
wife of a music critic, who was ap-
plying for naturalization, answered
the question thus: ITO see that
everything is kept hotSy-totsy." She
DaSSed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
PICK TEMPORARY JUDGE

Charles o. ROemler VIII Preside
During ChamberIin's Vacation.
Charles o. Roemler, attorney, will
sit as circuit judge pro tenn. next
week during the absence Of Harry
o. Chamberlin. Judge Chamberlin
left Thursday for Montgomery, Ala,
to spend the holidays with his
daughter. Mrs. Harvey Hunter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
Air Ace Gives Children Planes

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-In the
guise of Santa Claus, Clarence D.
Chamberlin, transatlantic pilot,
distributed toy airplanes among
three hundred children in hospital
here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
When You Feel a Cold Coming

Take Laxative BRoMO QUININE Tab
let's to work of the Cold and to fortify
the system against Grip or Influenza
A Safe and Proven Remedy. Look
for signature of r. w. Grove on the
box. SOC .-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
Suggests U. S. Be Given Islands

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Supreme
Court Justice Thomas c. T. Grain
suggested that nations owing war
debts to the United States might
liquidate them by turning over
Islands in the West Indies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
Plane Lands ON Skis without Snow

CURTISS FIELD, N. Y, Dec. %.
With a pair of skis as landing
gear, a pilot from Quebec made a
safe landing here, even though there
was no snow on the ground.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-23
Chatted With SIeuths

ct is interesting the way I sang
and played the photograph and
then the detectives came in and
looked around and didn't express
Evening star., 1927-10-04
Episcopal Clergymen Note Tendency
Toward Vulea Pagan Church Wedding:

Charlie r. Anderson Of Chicago drew
a distinction between "marriage" and
holy ma trimony," saying that herein
lies the heart Of the problem OF mar
riage and divorce.
Il think there is tendency for
church weddings today to become vul-
gar and pagan because of display and
elaborate decorations" said DIR. Nor
| man o. Hutton of st. Chrysostom 8
Church. ITO meet this, 1 recommend
simple decorations and no display.
We have certain restrictions which
tend to make this effective.
II do not see any particular danger
Of progressive polygamy and respect
able promiscuity. I have never known
of divorce where both husband and
wife have been church-going Chris
tian persons"
Rev r.. Ashley Gerha I'd, rector of
Evening star., 1927-10-04
MINISTERS LOVE
!; LETTERS ARE READ
Speedy Trial Promised for
Rev. Willis Jordan, Charged
With Bigamy.

b the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., October "a
speedy trial was in prospect for the
Rev: Willis +. Jordan. charged with
bigamy, when the minister at hear
ing here was bound over to the pres.
ent term of Mecklenburg County
superior Court under $4,000 bond.
solicitor John G.. Carpenter said he
expected to call the case tomorrow.
Testimony of Mrs. Emma Land.
ridge j Jordan. whom Jordan is alleged
to i have bigamously married here
August 10, figured prominently in the
preliminary. Counsel for the defense
has announced that Mrs. Veasey
Ware Jordan, now with her brother
at Winding Gulf w. Va, whom
Jordan claims as his true wife,
will he present to offer testimony in
the minister's behalf when the trlai
begins.
Love Letters Are Read.
Admission that she spent the night
with Jordan in Charlotte hotel the
night before they were married was
made on the stand by Mrs. Landridge-
Jordan. She said she left Washington
with Jordan after having met nm
oniv twice. because Il thought that
,here was man ] could have conf
depca In, thought he was man nj
to hive with
His white hair and misfortune had
q touching appeal for me- she saio'
'I was not deeply in love with him
hut honored and respected nm:
According to Mrs. LandrIdge-
Jorda MS testimony. she first met Jor-
dan AT the home Of her daughter, at
n r street. Washington, ID. c., in
June or July On August ~, less
than two months, they were married
at the office of Magistrate j. M
Alaxa ander She met the minister.
Mrs. Laudridse-Jordan testified. as
result of her activity in Christian
work.
4. series of love letters. the first
beginning with the formal address OF
"My Dear Mrs. T.andridge." and
later one with my Precious Sweet
heart Emma" figured prominently III
the courtship, it developed at the
hearing.
Reciting various "tribulations =
loss of his pastorate and trying ex.
nerience i'm which he avowed he had
sheen set upon by bandits and robbed
of SI37. beaten into Inconsistencies
eud left for dead"--.Torda in a letter
dated August from Herndon, w.
Va. wrote:
listen dearie. if you can get pos
session of your home in Birmingham
or rooms there or elsewhere, let us
always he together. Am so broken
m and robbed and / do want you so
much"
"True Wife" Pledges Aid.
Mrs. I.andridge-Jordan. somewhat
handsome woman of middle age, who
entered Magistrate Alexander Office
In company with w. T. Gloer of the
Gloer Detective Agency. whose investi-
cations resulted in the arrest of Jor-
dan, in Grand Rapids, Mich, main.
tanned quiet composure as the ap.
pearance OF the accused was awaited.
When he arrived she showed only
slight interest, but burst into tears
when Solicitor Carpenter began read.
ing the letters from the minister.
Jordan seemed not 10 be aware of the
presence of the woman to whom he
is alleged to have addressed the nu-
merous endearments. The woman
the minister declared is the true Mrs.
Jordan" Mrs. Veasey Ware Jordan,
is with her brother. Rev. f. B. Ware.
Evening star., 1927-10-04

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October "A tendency
toward the vulgar and the pagan in
modern church weddings is noted by
a number of Protestant Episcopal
clergymen, who express their views in
the October issue of the Diocese Of
Chicago, published yesterday.
Recently Rev. DIR. Caleb K. Stetson.
rector of Trinity Church, New York.
declared there was too much display
in church weddings and that many
weddings were vulgar and pagan and
based purely on physical appeal. He
also expressed alarm over "progres-
sive polygamy and respectable prOmis-
Guilty" Local clergymen were asked
to express their views on the subject
through the diocesan publication.
One clergyman stated that Bishop
Evening star., 1927-10-04
ew ; Minute
Corn Remedy Used
by Thousands

/ There's a new, marvclOuslT easy
/ way to end a corn or ca llouS---
| you can do 1t i'm only 3 minutes.
Just get so cent bottle Of Shur-
or of any druggist; wet your corn
with it. Immediately all pain and
soreness stop. Then after two min
utes you can remove the corn or
callOus and all.
Doesn't hurt a Bit: positively
won't make your foot sore. In
stead Shur-Off takes ont The sore
ness and pain and YOU can walk.
work and play in comfort. Get rid
Of that corn or callous TODAY. Get
bottle of Shur.Of at Peoples
Drug Stores (all over town. or Of
any other good druggist now. Ad,
vertIsement.
Evening star., 1927-10-04
GIRL STUDENT RELEASED.
Neighbors Pay Fine for Conviction
on Rum Charge.

BURLINGTON. n. J., October 4
R.-Bertha johnson, Is years old
who last Thursday was sentenced to
serve 45 days i'm the county Jail for
selling liquor 'for money to purchase
clothes for return to high school,
was released yesterday when Judge
william A. Slaughter reconsidered the
case and permitted the payment of j
fine of $500. NeighbOrs paid.
Evening star., 1927-10-04
OLD CARRIER RETIRES.
John F. Clark, Brightwood Station
Veteran, Ends Service.

John f. Clark. the oldest letter car
rier at the BrightwooJ station Of The
Washington Post Office. performed
his last service with Uncle Sam yes
terday. when he reached the age Of
So and availed himself of the ret ire
ment law to- retire from duty.
Mr.. Clark has been continuously
employed as n letter carrier since
1896. most of the time being assigned
to suburban mail delivery routes to
the. north of the city.
Evening star., 1927-10-04

at Winding Gulf. w. Va. She de-
clared in a letter to Jordan last week
she is ready Ito give her life" for
him, il it Is necessary. In the letter.
protesting unwavering love and truth.
she declared Jordan suffered from
severe headaches and periods of IN
consciousness and that she knew
something was "the matter" with
him lever since he went to Washing
ton"
Evening star., 1927-10-04

the Winnetka parish, scene of many
fashionable weddings. declared the
emphasis upon divorce is taking hold
on the problem at the wrong end. He
contended the solution was a question
Of education.
Evening star., 1927-10-01
CORN CROP is SAFE
FROM FROST DAMAGE
Warm Weather Still Needed to
Improve Quality of Yield
in West.


CHICAGO, October 1--As a really
first-class terror, jack frost has about
retired from the ring insofar as 1927
is concerned. Trade reports at hand
today indicate that the country's corn
crop except in some sections Of east
ern Iowa, Illinois and Indiana is now
practically safe from frost damage.
Faced by the fact that despite
months of anxiety, no frost damage of
consequence has yet taken place in
the main corn belt, prices in the corn
market this morning were at virtually
the lowest level of the season, i 70 to
43s off, compared with week ago.
At the same time, wheat was at rs
decline to 1a advance, oats, Il down
to "a up, and provisions varying from
15c setback to 22c advance.
According to current unofficial re-
ports here, it would take either a
heavy frost or a light freeze to do Sc
rious damage to corn now, even in the
sections that are late. Experts, how
ever, say that moderately warm and
dry weather 10 much to be desired
from this time on for several weeks
to improve the quality of the crop,
which at present promises to be very
irregular and with a yield smaller
than last years final returns.
Liberal stocks of lard in sight tend
to make lard prices sensitive to ac-
ton Of tke corn and cotton markets.
Meats are more responsive to the
fact that materially increased arrivals
of hogs are not looked for until cold
weather sets In.
Evening star., 1927-10-01
BUTTER DEMAND UP.
Storage Supplies Favored During
Past Few Days.

CHICAGO, October / R.-Light
supplies Of fancy butter and compara-
lively high prices for this time Of the
year have brought about improved de-
mand for the better grades of storage
butter. Many large users are now
paying as much for fancy storage as
for fresh arrivals.
Withdrawals from storage exceed
the reduction of the corresponding
period a year ago by 1,097,471 pounds
at the four principal markets.
Production of butter is considerably
below that of year ago, but cool
weather and ample supplies of feed
are expected to check the decline of
the make. Indications are that
larger number Of fresh cows are now
on the farms and that this is espe-
cially the case in the "whole milk"
sections of Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Iowa.
Evening star., 1927-10-01
NEW HIGH LEVELS
IN CURB ISSUES
Gains of Several Points Are
Noted in Many Stocks in To-
days TWo-HOur Session.
Ry WILLIAM f. HEFFERNAN.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October If there
had been any thought early in the
week that the curb market had
reached the stage where an over
bought condition existed. it was not
reflected in the movement OF prices
today. The demonstration on tne
buying side indicated that not only
the professional element but that the
outside public favored turthef price
appreciation,
Among stocks reaching new high
prices were Tubize Artificial Silk, well
across 800; Central Aguirre Sugar, up
a point to 1165, and Dominion stores,
up almost points to 80. But what
was Of most significance was the man
ner in which stocks in the investment
category were taken up.
Other Issues Go Higher.
That the demand from this source
was still unlimited, despite the de-
clining yields because of recent price
appreciation, was evident by the ac-
ton of New Haven new preferred.
New York Central new and the new
Canadian Pacific fire preferred stock,
dealt in on a when-issued basis. All
three issues went to their highest
pliCcS, TIC gam Aii tiAS NN*'S~
amounting to points when 1t
changed hands at %.
Commonwealth Edison, paying ~,
was considered attractive even at the
prevailing high price and also went
to it's best. Southeastern Power
equaled its previous high of 39M and
Philadelphia Electric was still reflect
ing the benefits expected through the
recent agreement with United Gas d
Improvement, which is to result in an
exchange of stock.
Strength on Bond Side.
The new Boston and Maine SIS We're
taken up again, while the st. Paul "a"
SIS gained more than q point to their
best. In the mining division United
Verde extension was bid up into new
high ground for the year. Noranda
Mines established new high under
the same sort Of buying that has char
acterized trading in the issue for the
past two months. 1t was one of the
strongest Saturday markets of the
wear,