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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
Runaway Skips Out
When Mother Comes

Donald Moore Head, 10-year-old
runaway boy Of Cincinnati, was en-
gagged in a game of hide and seek
with Juvenile Court attaches and
police here today.
Found i'll at the Union Station
last Monday, the lad told fictitious
story Of having been deserted" by
his stepfather, who, he said,
brought him here from Dayton,
Ohio. He was taken to the Indi-
annapolis Orphans Home while po-
lice sought his mother.
Located at Cincinnati, the mother
came to Indianapolis today only to
find that Donald had skipped out"
from the Orphans Home, Thursday
afternoon.
The boy ran away from their
home at Cincinnati, she said. He had
told police he had left after quar-
rel with his mother, explaining, Il
thought she would love me more
after got back"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
MOTOR CLUB WILL
TEST KANGAROO
COURT AUTHORITY
Habeas Corpus Proceedings
Chosen as Means to Bring
Showdown.

A martyr was being sought by
the Hoosier Motor Club today to as
sist it's attorney, Walter Pritchard,
in bringing about a court SHOW
down" or the authority Of justices
of the peace to impose fees and fines
upon motorists for alleged violations
of the State motor laws.
Motor club directors Thursday eve
ming decided on this course to de-
termine the legality Of kangaroo
court" edicts with the hope of curb
ing speed trap" arrests and fines.
A motorist is to be fined. in a
justice of peace court and refusing
to pay the fine will be lodged in Jail.
The test CT the officers power will
come when the motor club attorney
institutes habeas corpus proceedings
to get the martyr out.
Club directors decided not to in
stitute suits for the recovery of fees
and fines alleged illegally assessed
against motorists by justices Of the
peace and smali-town mayors, be-
cause of the vast number Of such
cases.
The test case will be based on the
United States Supreme Court ruling
that fair trial cannot be had before
judicial officer whose fee depends
on conviction of the defendant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to the
police belong to:
william Roberts, S35 Fayette ST.,
Cole, 538-341 stolen from the 400
block w. North st.
Chief Of police, Greenfield, Ind;
Buick; stolen from Greenfield.
Charles Goldstein, 3S43 Park Ave-,
Ford; stolen from his residence.
John Myers, $50 S. Alabama ST.;
Chevrolet; 519469; stolen from GIL
Buchanan st.
Paul watkins, 521 Fleming. Ford;
357-387; stolen from 1913 E. Mary
land.
r. F. Hewes, S432 E. Twenty
Fourth ST.; Ford; 519-SS5; stolen from
901 N. New Jersey st.
Norton Automobile Company, 419
N. Capitol Ave; Ford; M-1-S40;
stolen from 419 N. Capitol Ave.
Wayne Burdge, 80 N. Illinois St.;
Ford; S1-217; stolen from New York
and Illinois SITS.
w. B. Harding, S545 Evergreen ST.,
Studebaker; 503-S49; stolen from
Earring Theater.
James o. Moore, Greenfield, Ind.
r. r. 8; Ford; 402-119: stolen from
Greenfield, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
REED CONTINUES Y
TO HAMMER AT
i SAP|RO'S WORK
Senator Still Engaged in
Opening Statement for
Ford in Libel Case.

BIZ United Press
DETROIT, Mich, March 18.-Sen-
ator James A. Reed, continuing his
opening statement in the Ford
Sapiro libel suit, today charged
Aaron Sapiro collected $299,950 in
organization and counsel fees from
eight of the more than 100 farmers
cooperative marketing associations
organized under the "Sapiro plan"
Reed promised to prove that the
Tri-State Tobacco Association alone
paid Sapiro $122,000 in counsel and
organization fees.
He charged that a manager, al
legedly forced by Sapiro on the
Carolina peanut growers, involved
the association in litigation and
Saplro collected $4,000 for untan-
Cling it. in addition to a $4,000 or
ganization fee.
Maine potato growers paid ST..
500 for Sapiro's services in organ.
izing their association, Reed charged:
California tomato growers paid
$500; the Kentucky Burley Tobacco
men, S4S,500 for organization and
counsel fees; the dark tobacco grow
ers, $50, 900 for organization and $22,-
$50 for counsel fees; $1,000 from
Colorado potato growers, and $500
from the fruit men of Oregon.
The first witness in the trial
will be the spokesman for Henry
Ford-the mouthpiece of a billion
dollars.
William Cameron, editor OF the
Dearborn Independent, will be called
to testify as soon as United States
Senator Reed ends his opening
statement, probably today, William
Henry Gallagher. attorney for Sa-
piro, told the United Press. Saplro Is
suing Ford for a million dollars,
charging Ford libeled him 141 times
in articles printed in The Independ-
ent.
Cameron will be called in his ca
pacity of editor of The Independent
rather than as Fords spokesman,
but nevertheless he Is the man a
person must see when he has ques.
lions to ask the worlds first bill.
lionaire.
Cameron's testimony will be used
to establish details of the publication
Of the alleged libelous articles. liz
will be followed by the manager OF
The Independent, who will be asked
about The Independents circulation
business affairs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
SCOUTS TO DIRECT. CITY,
STATE AFFAIRS ONE DAY
Youngsters Will Take Over Rens of Government March
80 as Civic Day Feature of Boy Scout Week.

The weeks events will start with
Sunday mass meeting at Roberts
Park M. e. Church at p. m. Troops
will attend in a body.
Aquatic Events
Monday afternoon a swimming
meet will be staged at the Hooosier
Athletic Club and instructions in
life saving will be given at the Y. M.
c. A. pool.
At least 500 are expected to at
tend the city-wide fathers and sons
banquet Tuesday night at Central
Christian Church, Delaware ard
Walnut SITS.
Following "civic day." Wednes-
day, Scouts will participate in a
court of honor at Tomlinson Hall
Thursday evening. when Scout
awards and merit badges will be
distributed.
Theater Party
Friday morning theater party
will be held at Circle Theater.
Scouts will assemble at 0 a. m. at
University Park, and, accompanied
by several Scout bands, will march
to the theater.
From p. m. Friday until Satur-
day night, Scout exposition will
be held at Tomlinson Hall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
BURGLARS BREAK
IN FOUR STORES
Scatter Stocks About After
Looting Cash Drawers.

Wreckage Uttered the floors of
three Indianapolis groceries and one
drug store this morning. The same
burglars were responsible, police be-
lieve.
Entrance was gained in all cases
by shattering the front door glass
and, following a search for cash.
merchandise was thrown around the
stores.
John Moore, Standard Grocery
manager, 113 E. Forty-Ninth St.,
reported SIS in cash taken.
Will A. Woods, owner Of Quality
Drug No. 2, reported So in cash and
SIS In merchandise taken.>
J. S. Coker, Atlantic and Pacific
Tea Company, store manager. 1850
Boulevard Pl., reported $11.30 taken
from a hiding place and fruit and
groceries cast about the floor.
Willard James, manager of A. and
P, 1887 N. Sherman Dr., reported no
cash stolen, but the store ransacked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
To Halt Abuse of
Free Clinics Here

Free medical clinics here are for
the use of the poor and not for the
use of persons financially able to OBJ
tain private medical advice and treat
ment.
This is the ruling reiterated by
DR.. f. E. Jackson, board of health
president, who after a meeting of
the board, said today that the re-
striction would be closely adj
hered to.
The health board learned that
many persons with a bent for
economy were avoiding doctor bills
by attending the clinics, when they
were well able to engage the serv-
les of a physician.
"'That's unfair to the taxpayer"
Jackson said, land we won't stand
for it any longer"
The board has recommended a
general cleanup Of restaurants and
all eating places in the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, March 49,
Justice Department officials indicated
today some action may be taken by
the Government to prevent DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook from being released
from Leavenworthk penitentiary on
probation writ issued by Federal
Judge Wilson at FIT. Worth, Tex.
1t was pointed out that the 1926
probation law was intended to allow
Federal judges to free conditionally
law tiolators only at the time
sentence is passed and not after a
prisoner has served a portion of a
Jail term.
1.-THE case undoubtedly will be
taken to a higher court for a de.
cision," Edward Dodge, assistant to
Attorney General Sargent said.
DR.. Cook, erstwhile north pole ex-
plorer, is serving fourteen-year
sentence for using the mails to de-
fraud. He would not be eligible for
parole under the parole law until
March S, 1880.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
S1,OOO,OOO NEED
FOR COUNTY ROADS
Engineer Campbell Says I'm
proyement Is Slow.

Marion county needs $1,000, 900
worth of paved roads,"
That is the statement of County
Engineer Henry Campbell, who is
preparing specifications for the re-
construction of several roads as soon
as the weather improves. The speci-
fications will be submitted to the
county council March %.
Year by year the county has at
tempted to increase the mileage of
improved roads. Several attempts
to make large Improvements have
failed because of lack of funds or
because appropriations were not
granted.
Among the roads which Campbell
said should be improved are: Tenth
ST., from Arlington Ave-, to Cumber-
land; the High School road, which
will join the Rockville and National
roads, west of the city limits; College
Ave-, north of Broad Ripple, and
Eighty-Sixth ST.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
CAT HEIR LOSES OUT

BN United Press
LOS ANGELES, March 1S.-Kitty
Boy, a 5-year-old cat, almost fell heir
to fortune that would have made
all his nine lives a continual round
Of feline luxury. Kitty Boy was the
pride Of Mrs. Elizabeth Lynch, Long
Beach, who died several months ago,
leaving no immediate relatives.
A soiled document purporting- to
be Mrs. Lynch's will left Kitty Boy
$500 worth of personal property, a
life insurance policy and real estate,
including house. The house was
to be tenanted by any person who
would take good care Of the cat.
But Public Administrator Bryson
ruined Kitty Boys prospective "cat
heaven" I'VE can't appoint a
guardian for cat" he ruled yester-
day." so the will is invalid and the
estate will go to the school fund.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
Z STORM DEAD;
s. OTHERS HURT
Terrific Cyclone Strikes Near
Benton, Ark.
Ru United Pressl

BIZ United Press
LITTLE ROCK. Ark, March 49,
The death toll Of a terrific cyclone
that wrought destruction near Ben
ton. Ark. late last night rose to
twelve today, as rescue workers went
from house to house through the
devastated area, seeking out dead
and injured.
At least thirty-five more have
been seriously or slightly injured,
and have been taken to hospitals
in Benton and surrounding towns.
Telephone and telegraph lines in
the storm-ravaged area were blown
down and the only information avail
able here today camo from the res
cuers who are making a canvass of
the district and administering to
victims.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
Urges Sex Schools
for Happy Marriages
Ry United Press

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, March 1S.-"Sex
schools are the solution Of modern
marriage problems, DR.. ]. Whitcomb
Brougher, president Of the Northern
Baptist Conference believes.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, famous for
his work in the Denver juvenile
court and for his advocacy of COM
panionable marriage" is "75 per
cent right on those subjects" DR..
Brougher said in an address here.
Two schools, the first to teach fun
second to teach the simple rules of
married life were advocated by DR..
Brougher.
young people," he said, fear to
take their problems to their elders,
preferring to muddle through them
in the best way they can. The So
luton of the whole question is man.
datory schools for teaching funda-
mentals of sex and married life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
ELEPHANT HERD
TO Be INCREASED
New Republican Club Has
Initiation Tonight.

An initiation, which is expected to
bring the membership Of the Nation
al Committee Order of Elephants
to 1000, will be held at Elephants
headquarters in the knights Of
Pythias Bldg. tonight.
The ritualistic ceremony will be
followed by a dance. Both men and
women are admitted into the organ
ization.
The organization purposes, It is
said, to strengthen the Republican
party in Indianapolis and to take
the place of the old Marion Club,
which went bankrupt a few years
ago.
Adherence to the Republican party
is the only requirement for men,
bership.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
DE PINEDO IN BRAZIL
Italian Filler Headed North With
Intention TO Visit United States.

Italian Filler Headed North With
Intention to Visit United States.
BIZ United Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 49,
Col. francesca De Pinedo has ar
rived at Matte Crosse, Brazil, from
San Luis Caceres, a National Tele-
graph dispatch reported today.
Communication facilities in CEN
trail Brazil are poor and no more
definite word Of the Italian fiier had
been received. 1t was believed his
next flight would be to GuaJara
Miro.
De Pinedo, on a fight from Italy
through Africa, across the south At
lantic to South America, up through
the United States and across the
north Atlantic to Europe, is now
on the Brazilian stage fof his jour-
ney, headed north.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18

A dime has taken Henry l.. Dith-
mar long wayi
That is the way he feels after his
recent appointment as head of the
81, SOC, 900 merger Of four artificial
ice companies in Indianapolis, FIT.
Wayne, Marion and Muncie into the
Indiana Ice and Fuel Company. The
company will serve fifteen other
communities.
IT started with a dime-thank
goodness I've still got one," Dithmer
president of Polar Ice and Fuel
Company, said.
The story Of Dithmer's career is q
local business romance which started
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
.LEV|ATHAN, i. S.
SHIP, DECLARED
NOT|CEABLY WET
Ranchman, Fined in Liquor
Case, Makes Charges
Causing Inquiry.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, March 1S.-With an
investigation of charges Of liquor
selling aboard the S. S. Leviathan of
the United States lines promised to-
day, the question of dry law observ-
ance on American ships threatened
to become once more an important
issue in SVolstead enforcement.
David Burke, general manager of
the United States lines, operators OF
the prize vessels of the shipping
board fleet, told the United Press a
rigid inquiry would be made into
charges of Frederick Amy, Arizona
cowboy and widower of an English
peeress, that "those who want a
nip" on the Leviathan have no
trouble getting it.
Almy's charge came after he had
conditionally paid a $835.80 fine for
failing to declare seventy eight
quarts of champagne, four cases of
whisky and two cases Of cognac
which were found outside his cabin
on the Leviathan. He denied the
liquor was his.
Almy said stewards on the Levi
athan sold liquor to thirsty passen-
gers.
"Take Charles M. Schwab, for in
stance" he said. "He was aboard,
and I'm very sure that if he had
wanted bottle the stewards would
have broken their necks to get it
for him."
He said many passengers drank
champagne with their meals, and
that he himself had consumed some
within a few feet Of Commodore
Hartley, commanding the Leviathan,
while the ship was at quarantine
which is inside the three-mile limit.
Commodore Hartley wasn't much
interested in the charges.
<"It's an old story" he said. I'VE
are constantly receiving anonymous
communications bringing UP these
charges. They have been investi-
gated and each time they have fall
len fiat. It's about time they sprang
a new story"
He denied that liquor was sold
aboard the, ship, but declared that
if passengers chose to take liquor
aboard for their own use. that Is
their business
I'm not going around sticking
my nose into passengers glasses
to see what they are drinking" he
said. MANY passengers drink with
their meals. I don't know what
they drink. Maybe it's ginger ale"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18

when he sold newspapers on Indian
apolis' streets.
Born in Brooklyn, N. Y, fifty-six
years ago, he came to Indianapolis
when two years old. Educated at
school 2, classmate of Booth Tark-
ington, Dithmer as lad went
through the second year at Short
ridge High School, when he left to
take his first job firing boilers at
the city's first ice plant owned by
Shower & Dixon.
Later a collector, Dithmer learned
the ice and fuel business from the
ground up" and with the organiza-
ton of the Polar Company he was
chosen president
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18

Indianapolis Boy Scouts will take
over the reins Of city and State gov
eminent March 30 as part of the
Civic day program of Scout week.
March 81 to April 2.
Traffic duty by Scouts in down
town district, under supervision of
city traffic police, will also be a
part of the days program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
MAN IN LAWS MESH

F. D. Webb, 20, of 431 N. ILL
nois ST., was arrested Wednesday
night on a charge Of embezzlement.
Detectives McGlenn and Mullin, who
made the arrest, say the warrant
was signed by Arthur Peters, GIL E.
Thirtieth st.
The affidavit alleges that $1,000 or
the value of 29O shares of stock in
the Rub-Tex Products Company,
was enlbezzled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
PLEA OF FORD SPURNED
Commerce Commission Disapproves
Railroad Merger Plan.

BIZ U,'ited Press
WASHINGTON, March 1S.-The
Henry Ford railroad merger, involv-
ing consolidation of the Detroit &
Ironton Railroad with the Detroit,
Toledo & Ironton Railroad and the
ToledoDetroit Railroad, was disap-
proved today by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The commission dismissed a series
of applications proposing the
merger, holding the proposals in
volved consolidation Of the proper
ties. Under the law, actual CONSOLE
dalton cannot be made because the
commission has not prepared gen.
eral plan grouping all the railroads
Of the country into limited num-
Der Of systems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18

He served from 1918 to 1921 as the
Democratic member Of the board of
public safety and is past president
Of the Chamber Of Commerce. Dith-
mer has headed civic improvement
movements for many years, and Is
leader in the present city manager
campaign.
He is a member of Oriental Lodge
F. & A. NJ, Scottish Rite, and Murat
Shrine.
Henry, Jr., is secretary of the Po-
lar Company. Dithmer has two
other children, John, known for his
swimming accomplishments, and a
daughter, Mrs. Harriet Gray. The
family live, at 2130 N. Capitol Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18
CONTINUES LONG FLIGHT

Portuguese Aviator Hops for Brazil
ian Mainland.
BN United Press
BUENOS AIRES, March 49,
THE Portuguese Transatlantic flight
seaplane with Sarmento Beires in
command left the Island of Fernando
Noronha, off the Brazilian coast, for
Port Natal on the mainland at 11:16
a. m.
Beires arrived at Fernando Moron
ha yesterday after flight across the
south Atlantic from the Bissangos
Archipelago. off Portuguese Guinea,
West Africa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-18

Continued From Page y
III stick by you to the last: I'll walk
to the electric chair with you. I
think It will be best. It's hard, WAL
ter, but it was terrible crime and
love you love you
but think it's right"
Straight and firm then. Scholl
walked before City Judge c. M.
Greenlee and pleaded not guilty in
the hope he might be kept in Gary
to attend the funeral of the children
he killed. At the same time Scholl
made the contradictory plea to off,
GERS that he be given an early trial
and sent to the electric chair.
Judge Martin Smith and Sheriff
Benjamin H. Strong of Crown Point,
however, refused his plea TO attend
the funeral and ordered him brought
to the jail at Crown Point.
Reconciliation Affected
Through a reconciliation effected
by Scholl before he left Gary, bis
Mrs. Charles w. Scholl OF Pitts
burgh, attended the funeral to-
gether.
The parents had blamed the wife
for domestic troubles which caused
their son to kill his two children.
Scholl was subjected to a brief
sanity examination at the request
of oliver Starr. Lake County prose-
cutor, before being brought to
Crown Point.
Met Twice Tuesday
Evidence at the inquest added lit
tie to what already had been made
known about the crime. but It did
disclose the amazing fact that he
had met his wife twice Tuesday, be-
fore he was captured. had confessed
the crime to her and that she had
taken the gun from him and per-
suaded him not to kill himself.
Part Of this he told from the
stand. Part was supplied by thel
wife. She did not appear until the
inquest had ended and then en-
sued the scene that decided Scholl to i
accept death as his punishment.
He said he met her first at Chi
cago. outside st. Peters Church.
They went in. He told her OF the.
crime. A policeman entered andE
knelt in the pew before them. They
walked quietly out.
Did Not Believe Him
He kissed her. She did not believe.
his story of the crime. She told hind
he had always been a weaver OF
fanciful stories. He showed her the
gun. She took II. He took her home.
Then she called the Gary police
They told her of finding the bodies.
The wife recalled Scholl had said
he was going to st. Ignatius' Churchk
to pray. She hurried there, and
found him on his knees. She left0
him only when he had promised I'd
surrender to police.
His aged father and mother todd
the stand. They told Of receiving 4
letter telling OF the murder of the
children, but said they disbelleved "a
for the reason that a year ago then
received similar letter from scholI
saying he had killed his wife and
asking for $1,000 with which n PAY
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