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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-19
CHAPMAN PRICE
TO Be MERGED
Kokomo, Indianapolis and
Ohio Firm United.

Merger of the Chapman-Price
Steel Company, Indianapolis, with
the Superior Sheet Steel Company
Canton, Ohio. and komo, Ind, into a
$4,000, 600 organization to be known
as the Continental steel Corporation,
was announced today in a United
Press dispatch from Canton.
Niles Chapman, president of the
Chapman company. will be chair.
man of the executive committee of
the merged companies.
At Canton, announcement was
made Of the new officers of the Con-
tinental Corporation by Henry A.
Roemer, president of the Superior
Company.
Roemer will be president, ]. f.
Frederick. secretary and general
manager of the Kokomo company,
will be chairman of the board of
directors.
d. A. Williams, vice-president and
general superintendent of the Su.
perior Company will be vice presi.
dent of the Continental Corporation
and will be in charge Of all opera
tions.
B. B. McCandless IS secretary.
treasurer of the Chapman-Price
Company and George c. Haerle, vice
president. The Chapman-Price plant
is at 5000 Shelby. st.
About 500 men are employed and
the pay roll is approximately ST.
100000 year. Whether the merger
will mean additions to the plant here
has not been determined.
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one who ran might read. Here
was life in the raw; and only
coward would take to his heels at
the revelation.
Come and see the home where
the tragedy took place. 1t is at
1927 Twenty-Second St, Queens
Village. What an address! AL
ready one visions little house in
an endless row of similar dwell
ings, like the cells in a prison
corridor or the wards in a hos
pital, and it is almost so.
The home of Albert and Ruth
Snyder differed only in minor de-
tails from the hundred homes
that ran down the street on
either side in long succession.
What internal "realtor' has
deposited these houses upon the
unoffending soil of lovely PAU
monok? Is it any wonder that
this stupefying Standardization
drives men and women to desper-
ate and reckless expedients in
the effort to alleviate the gray
prose OF their monotonous lives?
Go back of the Snyder home
and you find more individuality.
Here was once a garden, ruined
I with winter and now touched
with the green of spring, but left
unkempt and disordered by the
death of the man who loved it.
In the rear of the, yard is bird
fountain-a vessel held up by a
pole and replenished daily, In
normal times, with food and
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One of them was Henry Judd
Gray, a corset salesman. No
doubt he, too, was hungry for
romance; selling corsets is a
thankless task in this uncorseted
and unmoored age.
Men who have made wide in
vestigation into the matter re-
port that corsets are no longer
among the impediments of mat
rimony.
Gray had to go forward into
the provinces to find the custo-
mers for his strait Jackets; and
his long absences from his East
Orange home must have taught
him to forget the wife and daugh-
ter who waited for him there.
He was ripe for adultery. Misled
by imagination.
What could have made him
value Ruth Snyder-the adven-
turess who chose to ruin her own
home and another's to risk the
desolation of her own child and
another's for the sake Of a love
that was half contentAabove the
woman who had borne the pain
and perils of motherhood for.
him?
Doubtless the hunger for variety
fingers in us from our polyga-
nous and restless past. But
again it is imagination, and lack
of imagination that makes men
faithless.
They dress the new temptress
in all the warm colors of desire
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FLOOD AID
ASKED OF
THIS CITY
Estimate of $4,000 Home
less Made by National
Headquarters.
DANGER IN MORE RAIN
Mississippi and Tributaries
Swollen.
DANGER IN MORE RAIN

BB HifGd Press
An appeal to aid victims of the
Mississippi flood, broadcast by the
National American Red Cross from
Washington, was received today by
William Fortune, indianapolis chap
ter chairman.
Fortune said the request for dis
aster relief funds would be consid-
cred further before an appeal would
be issued here. The matter was ta-
ken up by the chapter executive
committee today at luncheon at the
Chamber of Commerce.
I'VE want additional information
regarding the extent of the need be-
fore acting" declared Fortune.
The national appeal was issued by
the American Red Cross on receipt
of reports that fully $4,000 persons
are homeless in the flood zone.
No limit was set on the amount
needed, and national headquarters
of the Red Cross gave an initial con-
trlbution of $4,000.
Govrnors of Missouri, Arkansas
and Mississippi issued proclama-
tions saying all moneys contributed
to relief should be addressed to the
Red Cross. Radio station KSD (St.
Louis will broadcast a Red Cross
fund appeal tonight.
Twelve Dead
Desolation spread over the Mis-
aiesipp basin today as the octopus
like waters of a score of rivers
reached out and covered thousands
of acres Of land. Reports this morn
ing indicate at least $4,000 persons
are homeless. valuable spring crops
are ruined at least twelve persons
are dead: hundreds of head of live
stock have been killed; farm houses
have been wrecked and homes aban-
doned.
The menace Of high waters spread
today in face of fresh rains. The
Mississippi River continued rising
while tributaries were swollen. Re.
ports from United Press correspon-
dents over the territory disclosed.
ST. Louis. Mo.-Rain fell agair
overnight. Crest Of tho flood, prob
ably about thirty-five feet. expected
today.
Cairo. Ill.-Many refugees arriving
from flood swept regions. High
levecs remain intact.
lola, Kan.-One hundred families
forced to move as Neosho river over
flowed. The river is more than three
miles wide today.
Burlington, kan.-More than a
foot OF water spreading through
main streets OF town following over.
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There are so many things-I want
to see them all!''
But the little boy who wants to
see so much, won't run away any
more for a long. long time. It's
practically certain that since the
apple-cheeked fellows adventures
Monday, he'll be confined in an insti-
tuition for incorrigibles.
TOO bad" said the matron, 'but
these adventures OF his age are. get
ting beyond the harmless stage"
ut was so. SO sort of like some
thing was going to happen, Monday.
just felt it in the air, the boy said
in explanation. $50 | just went
toward downtown in Indianapolis
instead Of home The lives at Ben
Davis). | met a boy and he was
selling papers and said I coluld too.
SO did and then went to a show
and then the boy said he knew
whore we could get some nice, pretty
things for nothing. 1t was in a five
cent store.
"On our way there We stopped at
tattoo mans on w. Washington
St. and he put some purple ink on
my hand. see here, and it won't
come out. It's in with a needle.
Then we got up close to a counter
in the big store and the boy took
some bottles of perfume. l did, too.
We had our pockets full. The. big
boy knows where he can Sell them.
Then l wanted q paddock and the
big boy said, take it, So l did,
but ] guess they cared, all right,
for man grabbed me and then they
called n big policeman and then they
brought me here. Maybe they won't
let me go back to my mama and
papa any more. I guess I was a
bad boy, but don't know. I was
just seeing things"
The older boy. who confessed to
having a che on the south side,
where he stored numbers of small
stolen articles. has been known to
the police for some time, although he
is only a bit older than the boy who
went adventuring with him Mon
day.
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new BOARD
MAY SWING
TO ASPHALT
Action on 10 Street Paving
Projects Watched After
Body Resigns.
CONCRETE STAND FATAL
Mayor Orders Shake-up,
Appoints Successors.

Whether asphalht or concrete will
be the material chosen for approx.
mately seventy street improvements
hanging fire, today became the chief
topic of discussion in connection
with the appointment Of an entirely
new board of works by Mayor John
L. Duvall late Monday. The next
regular meeting is Wednesday.
The old board. Roy C. Shaneber-
ger, president; Lemuel Trotter and
Oren S. Hack, resigned in q body
Monday afternoon after Mayor Du.
vail had asked Shaneberger to get
,out.
This board had stood In a body for
the cheaper concrete paving where
citizens indicated they desired it.
The board had repeatedly blocked
attempts of City Civil Engineer
Frank C. Lingenfelter to swing them
to asphalt.
Despite requests of the board that
the seventy resolutions be brought
down to It for action, Lingenfelter
has held them in his office. So per-
sons interested in street improve
ment awaited the next board meet.
Ing to see whether the resolutions
will at last be sent down and what
action the new board will take.
The new board consists of Virgil
Vandagrifft, 3633 Hemlock ST.,
president of the Cotton Belt Land
Development Company, and prime
mover in its subsidiary. the Ken
Saw Petroleum Corporation; Frank
Cones, real estate dealer, SSiS Coli
scum Ave, and John w. Friday,
Democrat, who was shifted from
the board of safety; John A. Kuhn,
3149 \. Capitol Ave-, a meat dealer
at 407 w. Ohio ST., was named OH
the boar dof safety to replace Fri
day. This becomes effective this
afternoon after the safety board
meeting.
In the midst OF the regular board
of works meeting Monday, William
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Infant win Be in Hospital 8
WeekS-Mother Tells of
Accident.
By Eldora Field

Just because OF a hole in the
street
Not n bad one, is holes so in lndi-
annapolis stfec-s-
\ tiny, tender baby lies swathed
in bandages. a cast around one leg
and at the city hospital they say. 1T
will be about eight weeks before little
Eileen can be taken home. Their
oh, one always hopes for the best"
Safe With Daddy!
Sunday evening. Edward Tomlin,
g nottingham living at 1918 w. Yer
mont ST. took his family riding.
There ere five little children in the
family Where could they be safer
than with mother and father. chug-
gfhg along Indianapolis streets?. 81
always drive slowly when the chill
dren are along" explained Tomlin.
They turned into Harding st. from
Raymond St. Mrs. Tonlin sitting be-
side her husband with flve-months-old
Eileen. Then the car struck one of
the Indianapolis chuck holes.
Whoever is responsible that this
break in the street has gone unre-
paired. was responsible for that one
horrible. GREATNESS minute when the
lives and limbs OF five little chill
dren were endangered as the car.
down in the chuck hole. snapped
radius rod, shot out of control and
turned conpletely over.
Mother Hurt, Too
1T held little Eileen high as we
were being turned over" explained
Mrs. Tomlin. Then guess 1 was
unconscious for a while. So was
Eileen. The other chldren-all
more or less bruised-were gotten
out quickly, but where was our
baby? They finally found her under
the hood OF the car. Her little face
was all bruised and we hope for the
best about her little leg. She's r.
nursing baby-you know what that
means to have her away from me
at the hospital"
Mrs. Tomlin was badly injured. her
self. but was taken home, suffering
from a fractured shoulder; which is
in a cast. Tomlin has bad bruises
and 2. badly wrenched arm. "We're
grateful that we all escaped alive
anyway" said both parents. Who'd
think, just driving slowly"
Who would?
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Mother, Daughters
Slayer, on Trial

FEEEHOLp, y. J., April 19.-The
disgrace which Mrs Christina Stohle
killed her daughter to avoid came
full upon her today as she sat IN
crowded courtroom and heard the
state preparing to demand her life
for MURDER.
Prosecutor John ]. Quinn's impla.
cable determination to seek thc
death penalty was demonstrated
early whcn four talcamen were eH-
cusod from tho jury because they
opposed capital punishment.
Mre. Stoble, although only 40, was
weak and bent like an old woman as
she was led into court. She pleaded
not guilty to tho murder of her
daughter, Rosa. elG whom she shot
on March when she found Rosa on
the cellar floor of thei rhome with
n newborn baby in her arms. The
child was dead then or died shortly
afterward.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-19
1O-YEAR-OLD BOY WON'T
SEE THINGS ANY MORE
Stolen Paddock Becomes Symbol Of Lost Liberty for Rosy
Checked Lad Held in Detention Home.

This is a little boys birthday
his tenth.
He's an apple-cheeked fellow with
true.blue eyes and curling wisps of
hair that cling MOSTLY to a broad,
honest-looling forehead.
But the little boy is spending his
birthday in the Detention Home, at
2225 L. Michigan st. He's spent
days there before-many of them, for
Fate, or whatever decides for US the
thing we want to do, put something
in this littleboy's heart that makes
him anxious to roam.
Where are you going when you
run away. boy?" Miss Susanna j.
Pray, the matron. has asked him the
many. many times he's been brought
to the home after being picked up.
"Oh. every place" he has said.
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ONE AMONG SIXTY
PASSED AS JUROR
At SNYDER TRIAL
Young Married Man First
Placed on Panel in Muir
der Case.

BU Cntted Press
LONG ISLAND CITY, n. Y, April
19.-The first juror was passed to-
day in the Ruth Brown Snyder.
Henry Judd Gray murder trial, He
is William e. Young, advertising
manager for a New York hotel.
1t had required six hours and
questioning of sixty men to find one,
who had no knowledge of the case,
had formed no opinions, knew no
one connected with the trial, and
was without bias for or against
women or capital punishment. and
so could qualify.
Young is married and has no chill
dren. He said he was somewhat op-
posed to capital punishment, but be-
lieved that as long as the law is on
the statute books, providing death
for murder in the first degree, it
should be enforced.
After selection of Young, the
State soon exercised peremptory
challenge, its second out Of sixty
permitted by the law. Then Gray's
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TEST LEGALITY
OF DEARTH CASE
File Suit This Afternoon on
Validity of 1897 Act.

Suit to test validity Of the Act Of
1897, under which the Judge Dearth
impeachment trial was prosecuted,
and to recover $3.50 State pay with
held from the Muncie jurist from
the time his impeachment was voted
by the House of. Representatives
until he was acquitted by the Senate,
was filed in Marion Supedior Court
Five this afternoon by Frederick
Van Nuys, Dearth's attorney.
Attorney General Arthur Gilliom
had expressed desire to have such
an action brought. He has con-
tended that the Impeachment trial
was unconstitutional. He will ap-
point as attorneys for the State
lawyers known to support the con-
stitutionaIity of the trial.
Auditor Lewis S. Bowman refused
to issue Dearth's pay.
At request of f. r. Tenplen, Nun.
Gle attorney. Circuit Court Judge
Harry o. Chamberlin dismissed the
suit brought by George Duddleston
of Muncie to compel Governor Jack
son to appoint a. successor to Judge
Dearth, filed before the trial.
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Hourly Temperatures

water for the sparrows around
about.
Here the Snyders came some
FIVE years ago, in the seventh
year of their marriage. They
had daughter, Lorraine, now 9
years old.
Apparently it was the husband
who liked the garden and the
home, tending the flowers and
decorating the walls; loving pic.
lures and content, for adventure,
with his modest car and his mo-
tor boat.
He was a perfect example OF
the modern domesticated man,
who, tired with the days labor,
has come to love the home at the
time when woman, immured in it,
half idle all the day long, has
come to look upon it as a jail.
So the contrary currents of
life cross. and we are tossed on
the waves.
One can understand how this
simple home grew too small for
the dreams of Ruth Snyder.
In olden days a woman's hands
we're so full that she had little
time for dreams.
There we're a thousand chores
to be done and a dozen children
to be washed and dressed and fed
and beaten out of savagery into
decent respect for the conven-
tions of mankind.
And life was quiet out on the
farm. Moving In a groove too
deep for many deyiations. Con-
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and they have not intelligence
enough to understand that this
woman, too, is very much like
their own mate at o'clock In the
morning.
So, suddenly, they we're lovers
if that fine word can be spared
for relations that dispense with
honor.
Within a little time, they we're
thinking of murder. The woman,
ruthless as Catherine De Medici,
once the die was cast, compelled
her reluctant husband, who was
earning $115 a week, to raise his
insurance to $4,000, and in case
of death by violence to 100000.
Surely she was no real lover,
even of her paramour; for what
can money be to one who loves?
Nothing could be more brutal
than that murder. Think of the
coarseness of soul that could buy
deadly poisons and hold them
ready, week after week. for some
cowardly opportunity; that could
buy weights and carry them long
distances, hate never falteringH
that could encourage the intoxicar
ton of the victim to render him
more amenable to murder; thai
could follow blow with blow, and
striking with strangling, and,
strangling with chloroform--
while the little daughter slept i'm.
prisoned in nearby room, inno-
cent and damned!
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While teachers in the fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth grades
of thirty-one grammar schools IN
Indianapolis today were coach
ing their grade champions for
the City Building Spelling Bees,
to be held Wednesday morning,
April q, the Spelling Bee Com
mittee of the city schools was
drafting a set of rules and regu.
lations to govern the City Zone
Spelling Bees, to be held early
in May.
The meeting today followed a
conference last Friday after
noon with Miss Flora E. Drake,
assistant superintendent of city
schools, who is directing the city
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firmed in a circle too narrow for
much wandering.
But now that little Lorraine
was grown to seven (Which used
to be called "the age of reasonO
and had begun to go to school,
and now that the husband went
off every morning only to return
for the evening meal, time
dropped and seemed to stop for
Ruth Snyder.
The stiffness and solitude of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-19

When Albert Snyder came
home he vas tired. while Ruth
was fresh with energy and hun
cry for a varied life.
She saw the conflict in their
desires, and knew that he could
not satisfy her.
They quarreled, more and
more perhaps. If we may believe
the woman's mother, he taunted
her with his memories of an
earlier love. Probably he did not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-19
SALARY BOOST UPHELD
Supreme Court Rules for $40 Pay
for Legislators.

The Indiana Supreme Court today
reversed the decision of. the Marion
Circuit Court which refused a petit
ton by James J. Nejdl, Republican
Senator from Whiting, Ind, seeking
to mandate State Auditor Lewis S.
Bowman to pay members Of the 1927
Legislature at the rate Of $40 day.
Bowman, upon advice of Attorney
General Arthur l.. Gilliom, refused
to pay the legislators more than
their old rate Of Sc day, holding
that the increase they voted them
selves at the start of the session was
illegal and unconstitutional.
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CARROLL GAINS SL0WL \

BB United Press
GREENVILLE, 6. c., April 10
Earl Carroll, dieting on orange juice,
continued on the road to recovery
today, but very. very gradually" "
his physicians announced.
The theatrical producer, now out
Of danger, following his collapse on
an Atlanta-bound train taking him
to the Federal penitentiary, was re-
ported to have. lost fifteen pounds
during his illness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-19
Township
Spelling
Bee Day
Marion County Rural
Schools Pick Candidates
for Zone Match.
They're Chosen!

Nine Township Spelling
Champions were chosen today
i'm Marion County schools. A
building champion was select
ed in the Beech Grove school.
The oral spelling bees were held
i'm school centers in Center, De-
catur, Franklin, Lawrence,
Perry, Pike. Warren, Washing
ton and Wayne townships and
at Beech Grove. The ten cham
pions will meet in the County
Zone Spelling Bee to be held
next Tuesday in building TO
be designated by County Super
intendent Lee Swails. The win
ner will represent the Marion
County schools in the State
Spelling Bee. Forty-one schools
competed in the township
matches today in centers chosen
by Swails.
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BY Or. viii Durant
Author Of 1.-THE Story OF
Philosophy"

NEW YORK, April 19.-Does
It seem strange that a lover OF
philosophy should concern him.
self with so coarse aud revolving
an affair as the murder of Albert
Snyder?
Certainly it seemed strange
when the proposal came.
The first impulse was to with
draw into the traditional ivory
tower of philosophy, careful lest
metaphysical fingers should be
soiled with the flesh and blood of
life.
Bernard Shaw had sat in at
prize fight; but could one i'm
agine Herbert Spencer sitting
in at a murder trial except, in
Huxley's phrase, "The murder of
a theory by fact?"
But then, here was reality in
stead of an abstract definition
of It; a cross-section of it, in all
it's color and vital heat, dripping
with the essence of things.
Here were our changing NOR
ais in the very act OF change;
| here one could see, as If written
large for better understanding,
the emergence of women from
the narrow home, the reduction
Of motherhood to a minor aspect
Of woman's life, the passing Of
the family as the basic institu-
ton of society. There was
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.,APS MAYOR
AND COUNCIL
GOVERNMENT.
ESterIine Appeals to Rotary
Club in Behalf of Man.
ager Form.
CITY BIG BUSINESS
Think of Indianapolis, Not
Politics. Is Plea.
CITY BIG BUSINESS

"The management OF a city is a
business proposition and should be
taken out of the field of political
controversy"
m This was the plea of j. W. Ester
Wine, president of the Esterline.An
Company and city manager cam
paign leader, at the Rotary Club
luncheon at the Claypool today.
City council Monday evening set
the election upon adoption of the
manager form here for June 2l.
Tho Rotarians heard Esterine COM
pare city management principles and
those employed in private enterprise
with the "wastcful political system
OF municipal rule.
'"There is nothing new or untried
about the system" Esterlinc said.
while partisan government has
been a miserable failure. in private
business the manager system has
made us the most prosperous people
on earth.
Tried by $50
Adopting commission manager
form of government has increased
over a period of twenty years. Now
$50 American cities and towns oper.
ate under it. Only four towns have
gone back to PARTISAN politics.
Ability OF the people to direct and
control officers after their election is
more important than the privilege
OF electing them, Ii is tho right Of
the people to determine the form and
nature of their government.
what has made necessary
such innovations as the direct
primary. publication OF campaign
expenses, registration CT lobbyists,
and administrator by nanrar, isan
commissions? These are hut Efforts
= of the people TO defeat the interior
q designs of that class Wh'eh has
" always been willing t, sc3ttle tie
ship OF state fo: Their personal
agcrardiceneEt.
City mGl9 scr rlaa & government
is simply another invention OK hone1r
citizenship, born out Of necessity, in
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