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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
DID BECKY SHARP GIVE
RUTH HEARTLESS IDEAS?
Murder Defendant Reads
Vanity Fair Says
Maurine Watkins.
BY Maurine Watkins
Author of "ChicagO"

NEW YORK, April 22.-"Van-
ity Fair" is Ruth Snyder's favor
ite novel.
The heart skips beat or two
at that: Ruth Snyder, the win.
dow-sash-weight murderess, and
the gentle Thackeray. Does all
reading go by opposites-our Pres
idents and philosophers find relax
alton in detective tales and our
slayers revel in the -Victorians?
Then the mind quickens, for
VANITY Fair" traces the rise and
fall of a brilliant and hard little
adventures, Becky Sharp" first
and most lasting of unlovely
heroines.
The story, you recall, of little
governess who rises from nothing,
by means of nothing-except her
own shrewd wit, and not unpleas-
ing body. At first she sets her
cap for her employer, then passes
him up as too old and marries his
young relative. This achievement
excited, elated and then bored her,
for Becky was keyed to ambition,
an appetite that grows with feed
ing.
1t is probable that Ruth Snyder
was likewise happy for a time
after her marriage, because it was
decidedly an upward step for the
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WHOLE BOOK MISSPELLED!

handed to the visiting princi-
pal" who will pronounce them
to the building champions. Pro
nouncers will represent another
district, that there may be no
cry of partiality.
Assignment of pronouncers
was made at a meeting of prin'
cipals Thursday evening. They
will not be announced, however,
until just before the day of the
zone matches.
Judges to serve in each zone
oral bee will be chosen from
among the teachers of that
particular zone.
Miss Flora E. Drake, assist
ant superintendent of city
schools, supervising the contest
in Indianapolis for The Times,
declares that plans for the build
ing and zone bees have practical
ly been completed and that In.
dianapolis is determined to win
the State title and the trip to
the National Spelling Bee at
Washington, in June, at the ex-
pense of The Times. The Ma
tional prize is $1,000 cash.
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YEGGS GET
$4,000 At
STATE BANK
Robbers Loot Institution at
JoIietviIIe, Near Mobiles
vile.
BLAST WRECKS SAFE
Fails to Awake Sleeping
CitizenS-0ne CIeW.
BLAST WRECKS SAFE

BU Times Special
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, April a.
Bank bandits during the night looted
the State bank at Jolietvllle. twelve
miles west OF Noblesville, Of cash
and securities amounting to $4,000.
The robbery was not discovered
until early today when persons
passing the bank found the front
door open and notified w. f.
Thomas, cashier.
The explosion that wrecked the
bank safe failed to awaken sleeping
inhabitants and no one saw the
yeggs at work.
Telephone wires were cut, delay
ing the alarm.
Thomas said that all the money
and securities in the safe were taken,
but that safety deposit boxes were
not molested.
The yeggs entered the bank by
breaking the lock on the front door.
An acetylene torch left behind
furnished the only clew.
Hamilton county officials and the
protective division of the Indiana
Bankers Association were notified.
The bank is capitalized at $4,000.
A. w. L. Newcomer. president, said
the loss was covered by insurance.
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words before the May 5 compe-
tition. For it is quite likely that
many of them will be used in the
building contests next Wednes-
day. Words for future contests
will be chosen from the pages
devoted to fifth, sixth, seventh
and eighth grades.
The word list for building
matches, however, will not be
selected by the Spelling Bee
Committee. Principals of each
building will choose the words
to be used in that building and
will pronounce them to the
grade champions in a written
contest. Papers will be graded
by a committee of teachers ap-
pointed by the principal. Ties
will be spelled off orally. under
direction of the principal. One
winner from each building will
enter the Zone Bees.
Words selected by the SPELL
ing Bee Committee for the Zone
contests will be sealed and
locked in vaults until distribution
on May 5. Then they will be
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Pupils of the city's grade
schools have misspelled the
spelling book.
That's the way the Spelling
Bee Committee, in charge Of the
contests in eighty-one grammar
schools, conducted under aus
pices of the Times in Indian
apolis, sum up results of the
grade spelling competition held
this month.
And it shows the need for
better spelling and more con-
tests in the public schools, teach
ers will tell you.
Checking papers submitted by
thousands of the 10000 pupils of
the fifth, sixth. seventh and
eighth grades, in grade contests,
has revealed the general lack of
ability to spell.
While spelling is a difficult
thing for most adults as we'll as
children, teachers hold that
closer application TO the spelling
book is necessary to eliminate
existing conditions. Study is es-
sential in spelling as well az in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
NEGRO FLOCK GOES TO
COURT WITH TROUBLES
Ex- Communicated Members Seek Reinstatement Denied
Them by Mt. Zion Baptist Church Pastor.

1.-THE lion may lie down with the
lamb, but only one Of them will
get up"
Such a perverted parable may
be apropos for the meeting to be
held tonight at Mt. Zion Baptist
Church (Negro), Twelfth and Fay
cite SITS, judging from the temper
of the pastor, deacons, deaconesses
and others who appeared in Superior
Court Five today.
Is Peace Move
The meeting was brought about
by attorneys as a last effort TO eff
feet peace in the congregation. 1t
met with the approval Of Judge Jo-
seph NJ Miner, who has been called
upon by Robert A. Harris and thir-
teen communicated church mem
bers to reinstate them in the fold
and restrain their pastor from GUST
ing them again.
The Rev. Sandy B. Butter, SIS w.
Twenty-Eighth St., pastor, is charged
in the complaint with acting in ian
unchristian and unministerial man.
ner." 1t alleges that he refused to
resign when requested and used
church money to buy himself a
"Studebaker Special Sedan A
meeting of the congregation was
called by Harris and others for the
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any other subject, and the SPELL
ing Bees, sponsored in Indiana
and indianapolis by The Times,
is revealing to school authorities
the necessity for additional at
tention to 1t.
There are those, and they
were in the majority in the grade
bees, who found the word "im-
mediately" a stumbling block.
This was the word most fire.
quently misspelled, the papers
showed.
Other words, easy for some,
were handicaps to others. And
so much did spelling ability
vary that practically every word
used in the contest was mis-
spelled.
1t is from this very lengthy
list that the Spelling Bee Com
mittee will select the words for
the eight Zone Spelling Bees May
5, which follows rather closely
the Building Bees next Wednes-
day morning.
But those who enter the Zone
Bees will have another oppor-
tunity to spell most of these
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
ARTILLERY ROARS
IN CHINESE WAR
NorthernerS Shell Forces
of M0derateS.


LONDON, April 22.--Artillery
bombardment OF moderate national
lists in the vicinity of Nanking by
northern Chinese troops across the
river at Pukow continued today,
communique issued by the admiralty
said.
Premises of the various consul
lates at Hankow, the communique
said, had been vacated after Eu-
gene Chen, foreign minister of the
Hankow nationalist government. in
formed the consuls that his gov
ernment could not guarantee their
safety.
The. 1900 United States Marines
now en- route from San Diego, Cal,
to China, on the S. S. Henderson
probably will be sent directly to
Hankow, a Shanghai dispatch to
the Morning Post said today.
The situation continued to grow
more serious at the capital of the
radical wing Of the Nationalists, the
dispatch said Six American war.
ships and thirty-three of other
powers now are stationed at Han
kow.
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Indianapolis Cash
Needed for Relief

Appeal for indianapolis to open
its purses to aid the Mississippi
River flood sufferers was made to-
day by the Indianapolis chapter,
American Red Cross.
"With President Coolidge appeal
ing for aid in behalf of the food
sufferers, ii is time for IndianapO-
lis to do its share" William For
tune. chapter chairman, said.
Edmond X. McCOmb, son of f.
III. Kemper McCOmb, Manual
Training High School principal,
left today for Vicksburg. Miss, to
join Red Cross relief workers. In
Florida at the time Of the hnrri
cane, McComb was engaged in
Red Cross relief work there until a
few weeks ago.
Contributions for the relief fun
should be sent to III n. Meridian
ST.. payable to Frank ID. Stalnaler.
treasurer.
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9 MEN SEATED
FOR Jury DUTY
IN SNYDER CASE
Rudolph Valentines Widow
Appears in Court as
Reporter.
By Paul w, White
ted Press staff Correspondent

United, Press staff Correspohdent
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y,
April 22.-Spurred by threat of be-
ing kept in continuous session until
a jury for the Snyder-Gray murder
trial is completed, attorneys took a
squirt just before the noon recess to-
day and two more jurors were Sc
lected in quick succession, making
a total Of nine.
Previously, the morning had
dragged interminably, forty-six tales
men having been examined before
the eighth juror, Louis Ruchdaschal,
was chosen. Then the next, Everett
]. Vrankenwn, was accepted and the
box was three-fourths full.
Mrs. Ruth Snyder, on trial with
Henry Judd Gray for the murder of
her husband, Albert Snyder, was led
from the court at the noon recess
without meeting her mother, Mrs.
Josephine Brown, who had come to
court.
So familiar had the proceeding be.
come to those in the courtroom that
the spectators welcomed the diver
sion supplied by the appearance of
Natacha Rambova, widow of Ru-
dolph Valentino, who stared in un-
disguised curiosity at the blonde de-
fendant, Mrs. Snyder.
Miss Rambova, in court to report
her impressions Of the trial for a
newspaper, said she thought Mrs.
Snyder "plainer than her pictures"
When the attention of Mrs. Snyder
was directed to the actress, she
smiled perceptibly and made an
inaudible comment to the Jail
matron beside her.
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.Rn Tniffd Press

BH tUtted TfeSS
KENDALLVILLE. Ind. April %.
Postal officials today lauded the
heroism of Mrs. Eletus Hooley, a
farm woman, who risked death to
rescue from a flaming plane the
body of John Milatzo. 27s United
States air mail pilot, killed near To-
peka, Ind, near here, Thursday
night when his ship crashed.
Mrs. Hooley heard the plane fall,
saw it burst into flames and ran
to the scene. pulling the lifeless body
Of the pilot from under the wreck
age. Miltatzo met instant death, it
is believed when the plane hit the
ground.
Milatzo, flying low in a severe sleet
storm, was apparently banking his
plane to make a turn and land when
it crashed.
The plane and eight sacks Of mail
were consumed by the fire, famed
by a high wind.
Milatzo who had been in the Gov
ernment air mail service for two
years, had stopped at Goshen during
the storm and resumed his flight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22

INNOCENT
OF CHARGE
De HasS Not Guilty of At
tack on Roomer in Me-
ridian St. Home.

DR.. 7. Warren De Hass. 20. of
1852 N. Meridian St., physician with
offices in the Hume Mansur Bldg,
was found not guilty Of assault and
battery on Miss Bula r. Davis, a
former roomer in the home, in
municipal court this morning before
Judge Pro Tenn. Earl Cox.
The courts ruling was heard by
crowd of $50 persons, including,
bankers, physicians and dentists.
No Testimony
Judge Cox held that no testimony
had been offered to show that DR..
De Haas had choked Miss Davis;
that it was the Doctors right. if he
chose, to order Miss Davis from his
home, and that evidence revealed
that DIR. De Hass had been the one
who was beaten in the fistic entan-
clement.
DIR. De Hass, arrested after the
row on March 90, testified that the
argument followed his request to his
wife, Alice DE Hass, 40, to sign a
paper that he wished to use in re-
covering a $400 mortgage.
Bitter words were exchanged at
breakfast, with the result, De Hass
testified, that Miss Davis picked up
chair and started after him. She
discarded the chair, he said, but at
tackled him with her fists while his
wife held him, beating and bruising
his face.
Bruises Treated
The women left the house while
DR.. De Haas went to his offices
where DR.. Amos l.. Wilson treated
him, and took up residence at 2152
N. Meridian st.
Miss Davis declared DR.. De Hass
was the aggressor in the fight, and
that he choked her. Mrs. De Hass
said that she had pulled her hus-
band away from Miss Davis.
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Asks Prosecution of
Mellon's Company
RI United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April 22.-Sena-
tor Thomas J. Walsh Dem.), Mon
tana, has called on Attorney Gen
eral Sargent to prosecute the Alumni
mum Company of America. con-
trolled by Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon and his family, for alleged
violation of the antitrust laws and
the 1912 consent decree against the
company.
The Senator made public letter
stating his belief that the company
had entered into contracts with MAX
ers Of automobile bodies, giving 1t
all scrap aluminium. As a result,
producers of "sand castings" were
unable to get raw materials from
usual sources and had to buy new
aluminium, of which the Mellon COM
pany has a virtual monopoly in this
country. according to Walsh.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
MANAGER DATA
SHOWS SUCCESS
Local Campaign Commit
tee Collects Information.

Comparative figures to show how
taxes have been reduced in cities
with manager form of government
are being compiled by the local city
manager organization for use in the
campaign here before the election,
June 21.
officials of the manager form in
other cities have provided hgures
showing remarkable reductions in
taxes and increased improvements.
Claude II. Anderson, executive sec
retary, said.
Anderson and Delbert o. Wilmeth,
ex-city judge, debated the city man.
ager plan at the Optimists Club
luncheon at the Claypool today.
"Only three cities have returned
to the political form after having
adopted the manager form by pop
ular vote" Anderson said.
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avoidably kills person on the
street, and they convicted her Of
that degree OF crime, the crime of
manslaughter.
Denounced by Court
But the court, on the other hand,
considered the crime atrocious, de-
nounced the woman, and declared
the jury had been "misled."
"A crime of this kind is committed
only by fiend incarnate," the court
told Mrs. Stoble. my regret is that
the court cannot give you more
severe sentence"
The jury brought in its verdict flf-
teen minutes after it had asked in
structions as to the various phases
of the insanity plea.
nm The court gave the instructions
md told the jurors that IL no verdict
were returned in fifteen minutes
Judge Lloyd would leave for Tren-
ton. In fifteen minutes the jury
came into the room.
Mrs. Stoble was called back from
the county Jail. Her heavy features
were accentuated In their pallor by
her garb Of black.
THE jury finds the defendant
guilty Of manslaughter," announced
the foreman.
Judge Lloyd turned to the pros.
ecutor.
What is the extreme penalty for
nnanslaughter?" he asked.
"Ten years" said the States at
torney.
Mrs. Stoble sat unmoved and
stolid.
THE defendant Mrs. Christina
Stoble, will come forward" ordered
the court.
Slowly, without assistance, the
woman walked to the bar.
II am about to sentence you, Mrs.
Stoble" said the court. Have you
anything to say?"
II cannot understand; / cannot
understand" she answered in a
high pitched voice.
well, you have been found guilty
of manslaughter and -" began
the court, but Mrs. Stobel inter-
rupted;
II cannot understand" she cried.
Judge Angered
'Yes, you can understand, fired
back the court. You cannot mis-.
lead the court. although you have
in misleading the jury to
<Sbme extent"
This killing Of your child by you
was one of the most atrocious things
that ever came to my attention"
went on Judge Lloyd, evidently
much aroused. "In childbirth, a
time when under other conditions
you should have come to her help,
you committed the most cruel crime
imaginable by shooting your own
daughter. Your insanity plea was
so fictitious that it nearly fell OF its
own weight. A crime of this kind
is committed only by a fiend incar-
nate. My regret is that the court
cannot give you more severe SEN
tence."
But Mrs. Stoble did not change
expression as the judge entered the
formal order that she be confined
TO the New Jersey State Prison for
ten years, the limit under the law.
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purpose OF asking the pastors resig-
nation.
''NO New Members"
Then what happened?
Well, when the folks got to the
church, the reverend was in the
chair and refused to bulge. Weld
ing the powers of his chairmanship,
he turned his opponents out of the
church, the complaint continues.
They asked to be reinstated and The
pastor said, I'VE are not taking in
any new members"
So the case was brought to court
and unless it can be settled tonight
it will be back in court again Forty
five witnesses were subpoenaed by
the plaintiff. Seventy-fve members
of the congregation were on hand
this morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
PLAN BUTLER STADIUM
Gymnasium and Field House Also
TO Be Erected.

Plan. for a stadium and COM
bined field house and gymnasium at
Fairview Park, new suite of Butler
University, were announced today
by Arthur V. Brown, chairman of
the schools athletic committee. The
Butler school Of physical education
and athletics, a new corporation, will
finance the $75O,0OO porject.
Work will start in June. The
gymnasium and field house, with 49,
600 seatss, will be completed in
um, later to be increased to Co..
600, will be ready for the 1928 foot
ball season. The stadium will be
Of concrete, the gymnasium of steel
nd concrere construction.
The new Butler forty-acre athletic
field and buildings will be available
for use by Indianapolis high schools
and others when not being used by
the university.
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PLANE TO
ARRIVE TUESDAY
Midwest Aircraft Company
Plans Passenger Trips.

Incorporation papers of the Mid
west Aircraft Company have been
filed and their first plane, Stinson
Special, will be delivered in Indian
apolis Tuesday. Officers are Mar
mon Motor car officials. The COM
pany will try out the speed possi-
bilities Of the planes between Indi-
annapolis. Chicago, Detroit and Cleve-
land. The plane is of super-safety
design, built by Eddie Stinson, vet
eran pilot and president of the Stin-
son Aircraft Company, Detroit.
Speedy passenger and freight serv-
ice is to be developed by the local
company. including a regular Indi-
anapolis.Detroit run of two hours
and forty minutes.
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Senator Reed Better

BIZ United Press
DETROIT, April %. Senator
James A. Reed of Missouri passed
a comfortable night at the Henry
Ford Hospital and probably will
leave here for his Kansas City home
Sunday or Monday, Judge Richard
J. Higgins of Kansas City informed
the United Press today.
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BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind, April 90.
Wilbur Wilson, SO, today was
sentenced to two to fourteen years
Imprisonment in the Indiana State
prison for wrecking a freight train
on the Pennsylvania railroad here on
Feb. 1S.
Wilson, in a confession, said he
caused the wreck by placing piece
of car coupling at switch. Twenty
seven cars of fast freight train,
loaded with perishable goods, were
ditched, causing a loss of more
than 100000.
For months he had brooded over
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WOllldIlb dll OL
them parents of
families of their
own, debated all
night long with
out rest over the
question Of Mrs.
of Mrs. Stoble's
& uilt. Finally
the jury ruled
that Mrs. Stoble
was acting under
stress so great
that her RESPONSE
bility was much
the same as per-
haps the respon-
sibility of an
automobile driver
when he un-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-22
COLUMBIA CITY TRAIN
WRECKER is SENTENCED
Discharged Brakeman ConfeSses to 'DeraiIng Freight,
Gets Two to Folrteen-Year Term.

his discharge from the service of
the railroad for drunkenness and
finally decided to get revenge, VIII
sons confession said.
He told OF wedging the heavy
piece of car coupling in the switch
joint and going to the home of a
friend and drinking beer while await
ing word Of a wreck.
Later he said he called the train
dispatcher and was told that
twenty-seven cars were in the ditch,
the confession declared.
The freight train which was
wrecked was running nineteen min
utes ahead of the Manhattan Flyer.
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Eight Thousand Square Miles Inundat-
ed as Swollen Mississippi Con-
tinUes to Rise
THIRTY FATALITIES IN "a HOURS.
Many Missing-Cold Weather Adds to
Distress of Refugees
BULLETIN
By United Press

MEMPHIS TennY April 22.-The delta country of Mis-.
ssspp is flooded today Residents fleeing in panic Two
breaks in the evee yesterday uneashed waters in the vcn
ty OF Greenve Miss Today large sections of Mississippi
are inundated and the water creeping steadily inland Two
train loads of flood refugees reported lost today some
where in Arkansas.
Officials of the Missouri Pacific railroad have had no
word from the trains since they left Hughes Ark late Thurs
day The trains believed marooned by high water An
airplane has been sent to locate them
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MOTHER WHO
KILLED GIRL
HELD GUILTY
Mrs. Christina StobIe, SIay-
er of Daughter, Gets TO-
Year Term.
4 CANNOT UNDERSTAND
Only Comment as Sentence
Is Passed.
BR United Press

BR United Press
FREEHOLD, N. j., April 22.-
Ten years in prison is the punish
ment of Mrs. Christina Stoble for
shooting to death her 16-year-old
daughter Rosa, when she found
sRosa, unwed, had borne child.
6 A jury of eleven men and one
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Death stalked in the wake of the
mad river. AT least thirty drowned
in the Mississippi flood area within
the last twenty-four hours. Many
others are missing. The additional
deaths by drowning bring the total
who have died from floods and ac.
companying tornadoes in various
parts of the country since March 10
to approximately 200.
Suffer From Cold
Biting cold added to the tragedy
thousands are in concentration
camps with no shelter but canvas.
Rise Of the rivers has affected water
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Hourly Temperatures

supplies and sewers have backed I'M
In many instances. Epidemics Of
typhoid, diphtheria and other
diseases threaten.
Break of a levee near Creenville.
Miss, and drowning of eighteen DOR.
sons on a launch near Knowlton.
Ark, were major Developments in
the flood situation.
More Levees Weaken
There probably will be between
$4,000 and 100000 homeless by to.
night, and possibly more. ONLY
miracle can save threatened levees
south of Memphis.
Property damage cannot be esti.
mated. foundations exceed 5000
square miles, relief officials esti.
mated. The figure includes whole
towns. valuable city and farm build.
ings and farm land.
There Is no hope Of immediate re-.
lief, according to weather observers.