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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14

daughter in the hall. They called,
20. Miss White, fire!"
Slamming the door, she ran back
and opened a back window and
waited until she felt the heat COM
ing through the apartment door.
Catch me; I'm coming!" she
yelled to a man she saw at the bot
tom Of one of the air wells. His
body partly broke her fall. She
was shaken up, but able to climb
into a first-floor window, where
some one gave her coat, in which
she took refuge in a nearby restau-
rant.
Her back and ankles we're injured
in the leap and she was taken to
city hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14
Spends Life Sending Ne7os
of 7xudegy Dies i'm Fire
Western Union Clerk Leaps
to Death to Escape
Hotel Flames.

For nineteen years messages OF the
tragedies OF others passed through
the hands of Miss Stella Kimberling,
As, counter woman at the Western
Union office.
Today the wires are carrying the
story of her own tragic death in the
Graystone apartment fire Sunday.
Nineteen years ago, Nov. l, Miss
Kimberling went on her job behind
the Western Union counter. Thou
sands of Indianapolis senders OF
kilograms came to know the tall,
haired woman with a pleasant
voice and twinkling eye.
She befriended many persons.
Some returned the favor. Through
wise investment Of her savings she
is said to have gathered together
sufficient funds to build a pretty
cottage in Brown county where She
kept an invalid sister and where she
planned to spend her last years.
The death of Miss Kimberling
was as terrible as any Of the sad
stories which passed through her
hands.
Miss Ruth Mcdowell, 932 N.
Chester Ave-, friend was spend
ing the night with Miss. Kimber-
ling in her third floor apartment.
The two women awakened by
smoke, tied bed clothing together
for rope.
"Who goes f1rst?" Miss Kimber-
ling asked, as they raised win
dow.
''You go, Stella said Miss Nc
Dowell
Miss McDowell's heroism probably
saved her life. Firemen arrived at
that moment and shouted up to the
two women:
Don't jump. Well have ladder
here in a moment"
But Miss Kimberling, frantic, told
Miss Mcdowell to hold the impro-
vised rope, she swung out the win
dow. Miss Mcdowell could not sup
port the weight of her friend and
Miss Kimberling fell. Her back was
broken. She died in city hospital
at 7:50 Sunday morning.
Funeral services will be held at
Flanner & Buchanan's motuary,
Fall Creek Blvd and Meridian ST.,
at 8 o'clock tonight. Burial will be
at Norristown, Ind.
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RETIRED FARMER TO /
BE BURIED TUESDAY
George ID. Hardin Was Leader in
Democratic Politics.

Funeral services for George D..
Hardin, 81, retired farmer, of 2311
w. Washington ST., will be held at
1870 p. m. Tuesday from the home,
with the Rev. Edwin w. Dunlavy,
pastor or Roberts Park Methodist
Episcopal Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Crown Hill
cemetery with Masonic service. Mr..
Hardin died Saturday following a
strokeof paralysis four days ago.
He was born in Wayne Township
near Ben Davis. Mr.. Hardin had
been active in the Democratic
party for many years. He was DEM
oeratic nominee for county commits
sioner in 1920, 1924 and 1926. He
was trustee of Wayne Township
from 1908 ito 1914 Mr.. Hardin
quit farming and dairying six years
ago
He was a Mason, member of the
raternal Order of Eagles, indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and
the Mt. Olive M. E. Church.
Surviving him are the widow; two
sons, Joseph A. and Raymond B.
Hardin, and daughter, Mrs. Fran
els H. Jennings, all of Indianapolis.
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Walked Into Death

Her desire to spend the night with
Mrs. Erna Busselle, Al, and her
daughter, Elizabeth, 10, brought
death to Ruth Rawlins, 9, only child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Wendell Rawlins,
1705 Park Ave.
Mrs. Rawlins and her daughter
had been visiting at the BuSselle's.
When the mother left a half hour
before the fire broke out, the girl
asked to spend the night with her
mothers friends
Women Attempted Rescue
Her daughter was very much
afraid of fire, Mrs. Rawlins said.
She believes that the girl became
aware of the fire first and terror
stricken ran out into the hallway.
The Busselles, she thinks, followed
the girl in an attempt to save-her.
The childs body, found in the
hall, was charred almost beyond
recognition. The mother and
daughter we're found in the third
floor bathroom, clasped in each
others arms. The mothers body
was badly burned, but the daughter
was hardly touched by the flames.
Ruth was identified by her moth
err by the shoes and stockings, parts
of her dress and coat and by her
teeth. She was in the 5B grade at
School 81.
Mrs. Busselle and her daughter
were identified by Mrs. RusselPs
brother-in-law, Fred Fly, 1854 Con-
gress Ave. Bodies of all three were
taken to the Flanner & Buchanan
funeral parlors.
Legion Operator
Mrs. BusSelle was telephone oper-
ator at American Legion National
headquarters. Miss Busselle had
been a telephone operator for the
American Telegraph and Telephone
Company for fourteen months.
Previously, she attended Shortridge
High School.
Mrs. Buselle is survived by a son,
Arthur E., of Paris, S. c.; two
brothers. Walter and Delbert Brane-
man; her father, William Brane-
man, and her sister, Mrs. Fly, all of
Indianapolis.
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ONE HELD FOR
WATCH THEFT
Youths Arrested Tamper-
ing With Store Lock.

Following a police emergency run
to the Wolf Sussman Jewelry Store,
239 w. Washington ST., where a
brick had been hurled through the
window, police arrested man Civ
ing the name of Hugo F. Smith, 81,
of 1741 N. Illinois St., as he ran
from the store at midnight Satur-
day.
Three women's wrist watches,
bearing sales tags, identified by
SuSsman were found in the mans
pockets by police.
Three armed men held up SamuO
Lockard, grocery store proprietor,
1850 Mcpherson ST., Saturday night
and escaped with $3.50.
Three boys under Is are in Mar
ion County detention home after
they were arrested early Sunday,
after entering a Standard Grocery
at 1859 Speedway Rd. They took
$65 from cash drawer.
Ray Bryant, 1854 Main ST., Speed
way City, held the boys until police
arrived. They had broken one lock
off the door while he watched them
from across the street, Bryant said.
They told police they had run
away from home and were trying
to get supplies to maintain camp
on Eagle Greek near Sixteenth ST..
Other burglaries reported in
Guided: G. w. Hardy, 1431 Hoyt
Ave-, home ransacked; Milton Jack
son, 300 Blake ST., Apt. 8, $55 in
clothing; Lena Martlace, 1859
Union ST., $500 worth of clothing;
D. L. Masters, 961 w. Thirty Second
ST., says burglar fled as family re-
turned; S. E. Woolensnider, SGT Vir-
GINA Ave, jewelry valued at $3.50.
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0. K. MERGER DEAL
Approve Financing of Bus
Transaction.

Public Service Commissioners to-
day approved the 100000 note of
the Indianapolis Street Railway
Company turned over to the In
diana Trust Company to finance the
bus merger deal.
Under the order written by the
commission upon demand of Judge
Harry F.. Chamberlain of Marion
Circuit Court ten-year notes bearing
8 per cent interest are to be issued
to finance the purchase of the
Peoples Motor Coach Company by
the street car company.
The note was brought to the
Statehouse for APPROVAL by Attorneys
w. H. Latta and David E. Watson
of the company. This afternoon they
were to confer with President Robert
I. Todd, regarding coordination of
lines and universal transfers. All
changes of service must be taken on
petition for approval by the COM
mission according to Commission
Chairman Frank Singleton.
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Hotel Employe Victim

Miss Alice Fur, long-distance OPP
orator at the Claypool, another vic
tim, had attended English's Theaber
with Miss Mary Jones, stenographer
at the Claypool, Saturday night.
Miss Jones went to her apart
ment after the show and visited
with her a short time. Miss Jones
did not know of the fire or of her
friends death until fellow en-
ployes told her Sunday afternoon.
Miss Furr's mother lives at lions
vile and a sister is employed at
the H. P. WATSON g. Co. store there.
The body has been taken to lions
vile.
Mary C. Moulton, 90, and her son
returned to their apartment and
locked the door, after seeing the fire
sweeping the hallway. Nothing in
their apartment was burned and
only the outside of the door was
charred.
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GruySt0ne Tenants Tell Tales of
ReSc1feS and Deaths i'm Hotel Fire

Hodnick the hotel was on fire. Hear
ing scuff1ing on the floor above, he
was awakened. The bird was almost
overcome by the fumes, although
they had hardly entered the apart
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hodnick fed the
building in their night clothes, saw
ing the canary. After the hre, they
returned to dress and found little
damage was done in their rooms.
Edward ]. Fitzgerald. 81, remained
in his apartment, No. 800, until
saved by flremen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14

William S. Nelson, 48, bind, and
his wife, Ruby, 80, who is partially
blind, escaped from the Graystone
fire by leaping from the window
of their second story apartment.
1t was Nelson's second narrow
escape from death within a month.
Several weeks ago two of the six
bullets which Claude Jenkins fired
when he killed his wife and then
himself at Ohio and Meridian Sts.,
splintered Nelson's news stand. AS
he started to run, Nelson fell over
the wife's body.
Led to Open Window
"Mrs. Nelson saw the flames. I
told her to close the door and come
to me. Lead me to the window 1
said. insisted that she jump first,
because in her nervousness 1 was
afraid she would rush into the hall,
a mass of flames by this time" Mel
son said.
They jumped in one of the air
and light wells Of the apartment
hotel.
Hemmed in by Fence
"When I alighted," Nelson said,
Ruby directed me to wire fence
where we stood helplesSly trying to
tear it away and get out. Finally a
man came and aided u.s."
Mrs. Nelson broke her left ankle
in the leap and was held at city
hospital. Nelson returned to the
apartment, which was not seriously
damaged.
Mrs. Nelson told of hearing per-
sons screaming and running in the
Railways, as she opened the apart
ment door,
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Saw Husband Overcome

Leroy B. Zimmerman, 38, was an
inspector for the Peoples Motor
Coach Company and a World War
Veteran. When he discovered the
fire he awakened his wife and told
her to get out as soon as possible.
Come on, Roy, hurry up" she
called as she ran to the front stairs.
He was overcome in the third-floo
hallway near the apartment door.
He is survived by his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John F. Zimmerman, and
three brothers, John c., Frank and
Albert.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14
COOLIDGE EN7ER7ALNS AMERICAS GREATEST FILTERS
Too HOLSTERS VIII Sing at Chicago
in National Addition Semi Finals
Fl. Wayne ContraIto and
JaSonviIIe Bass Repre-
sent Indiana.

Indiana's champion amateur sing
ers-Miss La Rue Schmidt, con-
tralto, of Ft. Wayne and Charles
Oeffler, bass, Jasonville-this week
will go to Chicago to compete for
Interstate honors in semi-f1nals of
the Attwater Kent Foundations ma
tional radio addition, which will be
broadcast from station WGN Satur-
day at p. m.
Charles G.. Dawes, vice president
of the United States, will receive
and congratulate Miss Schmidt,
Oeffler and twenty-five other cham
pions of mid-western States with
whom they will compete, when they
reach Chicago. Oeffler and Miss
Schmidt will represent Indiana in
this semi-f1nal try for the founda-
tons gifts of $17,500 and musical
scholarships by virtue of having
won first place in the Indiana State
Addition, broadcast by radio station
WKBF, Indianapolis, Oct. 10 and 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14
BRIDGE PLAN
OPPOSED BY
EVANSVILLE
Delegation Urges Building
/ of Span by State, Out
of State Funds.

Citizens of Evansville, who have
been fighting for years for bridge
across the Ohio River, we're to APP
pear before the State Highway Com
mission today to advocate State con-
struction, with State finances, and
oppose a plan for private financing
submitted by Chapman 81 Co. OF
Chicago.
The Evansville citizens contend
that while on its face the proposal
of the Chicago finance house APP
pears to offer the State opportunity
to build the bridge without tying
up highway funds, in reality 1t
would mean hundreds Of thousands
of dollars in added cost, in the long
run.
Representative of the Chapman
firm conferred informally with two
members of the commission last
Thursday.
Contract T. Presented
The formal proposal, contract
which the finance firm hoped would
be signed at once was put before
the commission only today, it is
said.
Under the contract, the State,
through the Highway Commission,
would enter into an agreement with
a Chapman-fostered corporation
known as the Evansville Ohio River
Bridge Corporation, to which the
banking company would transfer the
private franchise for bridge con-
struction.
This franchise was issued to the
Indiana Bridge Company by the
Federal Government at the same
time the State was given one. 1t
was purchased by the Chapman
company to aid its private financing
plan.
Plans for the bridge and one and
one-half miles of road to connect
with u. S. Highway al on the In
diana side will be prepared by the
newly formed company and must be
approved by Director John d. Will
liams of the Highway Commission
within sixty days from the time the
contract is signed.
May Be Modified
Modification may be reached by
agreement of both contracting par
ties.
The Highway Commission, as
agent for The company, must re-
ceive bids on the project bids to be
advertised for within thirty days
after approval of the plans. All con-
tracts will be signed with the COM
pany, after approval. Bonds Of con-
tractors will guarantee that work
will be under way by March 1, 1923,
and completed not later than March
/, 1890.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14
VAST ARMY OF
PRIVATE SPIES
0vER-RUN U. S.
Government Joins in Game
With Thousands of Its
Own Shoppers.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. IA few
months ago Scripps- Howard news
papers, in a series of eleven articles,
exposed the methods and menaces
of private and public detective
agencies, now SO forcibly brought to
public attention by disclosure Of the
activities of William j. Burns In
ternational detective agency in
connection with the Fall-Sinclair
jury case.
The articles reviewed the manner
in which spying grew from an OBJ
ject of adherence to a certain re-
spectability in this country in the
last $50 years. only to come into
ever greater disrepute in the past
few years.
Briefly, this is the story they told:
Large industries have adopted the
habit of employing spies to learn
what labor unions are doing. Pri-
vate detective agencies hire men to
take jobs in the employers plant
and join the unions. These men
seek to be elected to union posi-
tons of trust.
Job to Report Trouble
The labor spy's job is to report
trouble. His job leads him frequent
ly to falsify his reports, or create,
through his own influence with the
workers, a basis for reporting trou-
BILE. If he had no trouble to re-
port his job would be at an end.
Until after the Civil War, the
United States Government, had no
undercover activities of any kind.
Now there are $500 men and
women on the United States payroll
doing undercover work. Every gov
eminent department has its spies.
The Bureau Of Investigation in
the Department Of Justice grew to
abnormal size and power during the
World War.
When the war ended, a great cry
of reds, bolshevism and anarchists
was raised. Much talk of bomb plots
followed.
Deportation raids were organized.
Hundreds were accused of commu-
aism. The Departments activities
II this connection were called into
question again and again.
Spied on Officials
The Bureau of Investigation, I'M
der William j. Burns, raided a
Communist convention in Michigan
and arrested a number of men.
Long afterward, it developed that
Department of Justice Agents, dis
guised as delegates to the conven-
ton, had supplied the necessary
votes to swing the meetings over to
a resolution with illegal declara-
tons of policy.
William j. Burns activities in the
Department Of Justice were called
into question repeatedly by Con-
gress.
He was at the head Of that bu-
reau when Senator La Toilette was
investigated to stop his investiga-
ton into the leasing of Teapot
Dome.
Condemned by Courts
Men were sent out to Montana
to Smear" Senator Thomas j.
Walsh, chief inquisitor in the naval
oil scandal.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler led
an inquiry into the Department of
Justice itself.
A few months before Burns left
office, a series of letters was pub
lished, apparently establishing be-
yond doobt that Burns was operat-
ing both the Government and his
own spy systems at the same time.
In the Internal Revenue Bureau
and in the prohibition unit equally
large and powerful undercover sys-
TENS flourish.
Courts and legislators have con-
demned this growth of Government
espionage.
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HELD AFTER ACCIDENT
MotOrist Fleeing From Officer
Crashes Into Another Car.

Loren Frost, Is, of Greenfield, is
in City hospital suffering a broken
collar bone and is charged with
reckless driving, failure to stop at a
through street and driving with four
persons in the front seat.
He was fleeing from Motorcycle
Policeman Tim Mcmahon when his
auto crashed into one driven by
Harold Headlee, "a, of 4246 Cornelius
Ave, at Capital Ave. and Thirtieth
ST., Sunday night
Both autos were overturned and
two girls with Frost were hurled
through the top of the car. Frost's
three companions fled after the &C
cident.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14
ATOM ROUGE, La, Nov.
14.-One of Americas most
oacy1iar~ murder trials was

scheduled to begin here today,
with Ed Payton, a Negro leper,
as the defendant.
Payton is charged with the
murder of Lloyd Richards, a fell
low inmate in the Federal lepro-
sarium at Carrville, La.
Authorities were admittedly
skeptical as to whether citizens
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Saves Self by Jump

Miss Edna White, 33, Apt. 304,
next to the Busselle's, escaped death
by remembering warnings of a rela-
tive, City Fireman George E. Friel,
who died recently in fire. She
jumped from her third-Story apart
ment window.
Miss White said che opened her
door and saw Mrs. BusSelle and her
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14
WOMAN, 104, WILL
REMAIN IN KOKOMO
Mrs. Mary Walker Says 102 Years
in Kentucky Enough.

BIZ Times Special
KOKOMO, Ind, Nov, 14.-Mrs.
Mary Walker, 1o4 years old, who
spent the first 1O2 years of her life
in the hills Of Kentucky and the
last two in Kokomo, is here to stay.
I'm not goin' back thar no more"
she has announced. tive climbed
enough hills down thar in Kahn
lucky" a
The automobile is the invention
for which Mrs. Walker has the most
admiration. II could ride in one
of them automobiles to the end of
the world" she says. Quilting is
the favorite occupation of the
venerable woman, and her eyes are
still strong enough to enable her to
thread a needle.
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could be induced to sit on a jury
where the defendant was leper
and ten of the witnesses were
afflicted with the disease.
DR.. o. E. Denny, in charge of
the leprosarium, attempted to put
these fears at rest with state
ment in which he said "the dan
ger of contracting the disease in
the courtroom is nil"
"Leprosy is contagious through
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14

might bring Payton into court in
a glass case, but this was not
considered probable, since the ten
witnesses, who are lepers, could
not be encased.
According to DR.. Denny, Payton
has ten or twelve years to live,
at most.
1t was charged Payton shot
Richards to death without prov
ocation."
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constant contact or association
such as living in the same house
with a leper for a period of years
and wearing his clothes or using
the towels he uses" DR.. Denny
said.
However, there was much skep-
ticism as to whether jurors would
adopt the scientific attitude.
1t was ruinored the Government
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14
Old Coaches France Out

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.--William
H. Vanderbilt and E. Won Der
Koch, turned time back a good many
years Sunday when they took their
friends on coaching party through
Central park-each driving a great
coach and four.
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Order Groceries at Club Meeting

BIZ United Press
The members of the Ladies ANAL
gamated Sewing and Mending So
ciety decided today they can't be-
bothered with grocerymen calling
for orders every day. Instead they'll
receive the statesmen weekly at their
club meeting.
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CELEBRATE AT CHURCH
Observe 10th Anniversary of East
Tenth st. NJ. E. Congregation.

The sixteenth anniversary of r.
Tenth Street M. E. Church was OBJ
served with special morning and
evening services Sunday.
More than 500 persons visited the
church during the day Two hun
dred were served luncheon in the
Community House.
The Rev. j. w. j. Collins, former
pastor, and the Rev. George S. Hem
ninger, pastor. conducted the serv-
ices.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-14
RETURN HOME
TO CITY WIDOW
Judge Scores Method Used
in Beer Search.

Mrs. Martha Copeland, 81, widow,
of 2110 N. Rural St., today han
possession of the home for which
she had worked eighteen years.
Criminal Court Judge James A.
Collins, who reprimanded Attorneys
William Waddell and w. K. Nav
son, who represented ner in the APP
peal of liquor law violation case
for taking the deed to her property,
took the case under advisement.
Her attorney, Miss Jessie Levy,
told the court Mawson and Waddell
returned the property and that
members of the woman's family will
care for her.
The attorneys had a contract
signed by her in which she decided
her home to them. According to
the contract a mortgage was to be
Obtained on the property, out of
which the attorneys were to collect
a fee, pay costs and fines.
Mrs. Copeland has been victim
of circumstances" Judge Collins
said. There is no evidence to show
how the police obtained the two
quarts of beer that has been used
as the basis for the search warrant.
The warrant was predicated, actu-
ally, on the sight Of two quarts of
beer. The law is not and never was
intended to be exercised in such
manner"
WE CAN SUPPLY MONEY NOW
for current needs. Confidential and
ntIick Canit01 T0an Co 1A1ib E
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Cured, Boy to Face Trial

BIZ United Press :
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Edward
Lyle, "a, was arrested few months
ago for robbery, physicians found a
brain ailment responsible, operated
upon Lyle and cured him. Now he
must/b be tried for the robbery.
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MAN, 80, SUES WIFE
Civil War Veteran at Denver Wants
Property Back.

BIZ Times Special
PERU, Ind, Nov. 14.-JoSeph w.
Warren, 80, Denver, has filed a
suit here seeking to have real estate
conveyed by him to his wife about
the time of their marriage, two
years ago, turned back to him.
The realty suit is the sequel to an
action for divorce started by the
husband June 80 last, but later dis
missed.
1t is alleged by Warren that he
was induced by fraud to convey
the property to his wife to whom he
was married two years ago. Warren
is a Civil War veteran and draws a
large pension.