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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-11-22
John Byron Reed Funeral
In Charge of Musicians

Under auspices of Musicians Pro-
tective Union No. 492 funeral SER
vices were held Sunday afternoon at
Mt. Zion Baptist Church for John
Byron Reed, local musician, who
died at King County Hospital. The
funeral cortsge to and from the
church was headed by the Tenth Di-
vision Band. Rev. j. Sterling Moore
officiated. Vocal selections were
rendered by Mrs. Estelle Slater Jack
son and Msssrs. S. T. McCants and
VIM. Bunch.
Mrs. e. Mildred Howard and Mr..
]. Calvin Russell were married at
the A. NJ. e. Parsonage Tuesday
evening by Rev. A. II. Dobbins. The
couple are residing at the Douglas
Apartments.
Mrs. Ora E. Brooks suffered an
accident last week when she fell
from the back porch of her home
cutting a deep cash in her right
arm. necessitating six stitches. Mrs.
Brooks is recovering at her home,
2415 Day st.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Hart enter
timed with dinner and theetre
party Wednesday complimenting
Mrs. j. II. Smith of Vancouver, who
is the house guest CT Mrs. VIM.
Green.
Mrs, Ida Moore of Kansas City,
Mo-. is house guest of Mrs. Carrie
Robinson, 1T2 18th Ave.
A letter of The Enterprise from
Rev. u. S. Robsinson, formerly pas
tor of the A. NJ. 4. Church in Van
couver, B. c.. who is well known in
Seattle, gives Information that ne
is conducting revival meetings sin
Baltimer, Md. He also conducted
successful meetings in Washington,
d. c., Detroit and indianapolis. Tn
til December Sth mail can be adj
dressed to Rev. Robinson at 784
Huber st., ohnstown, Pa.
The local chapters Of the Order
of Eeastern Star win hold union me-
mortal services Sunday afternoon at
Masonic Hall.
Miss Alta Locke of Kansas City,
Mo-, has arrived in Seattle on Wis
it to her mother, Mrs. +. A. Locke
and her sisters. Mrs. H. Waggener
and Mrs. Carter.
FOR Beautiful oak dining
table and buffet, like new, $25.
Radiant gas heater like new, sic.
Beautiful growing house palm.
$40. Telephone Prospect 3406.
THANKSGIVING DINNER
at the
FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH
Thursday, November 2eth
Beginning at P. NJ.
A REAL TURKEY DINNER
Price rs Cents .6
Given under atisDice of fishers Roard
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CIT is SENT To
ISLANDERS
BY international News ssrvie.

by international News Service
MONTREAL, Quebec, Jan. -
When the Canadian liner Express
of France" leaves New York on Jan.
Uary "a. for a winter cruise TO South
America and South Africa she will
carry in her hold an assortment of
gifts ranging from a package of
gTamophone needles to a skeg of lin
seed oil soap, with almost every CON-
celvable item of apparel and food
included In bizarre consignment Of
gifts from Montrelefs to the 40 in.
habifants of Tristan de Gunlla, the
worlds smallest autonomous nation,
an island dominion of Britain in the
middle of the South Atlantic.
Appeals for gifts to the only
settlers were made through the CAN
adam Pacific and the daughters of
the empire and resulted in the receipt
of many gifts.
Without regular shipping connaG',
ton with the outside world since the
days of the windja inner the natives
of Tristan de Gunha will pu off from
shore on RATS when the Empress"
Stacks speed off the islans late in
February. to receive their presents
from civilization The island colony
was founded in 1917, when a corporal
of royal artillery garrisoning the fort
and his wife We're left behind when
his battery sailed away. Several
other men and women arrived later
and by the normal increases in
population" have brought the total
70 l4O inhabitants in 11C years.
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.YNPA1H
STIRRED
FOR HER

NEW YORK. Jan. TO- Veteran
attendants at Sing Sing, stirred BY.
the possibility OF the eleventh hour
hysteria 81 Ruth Snyder. ,sashweight
nnurderess. recalled how Martha
Place, first woman TO precede Ruth
In the lIp-river death chair, pre-
served her calm to the end.
Mrs. Place, sentenced for strang-s
ling her attractive step daughter,
walked to the chair on March 20,
1899, with firm tread and died
with a New Testament in her hand.
Many other contrasts appear In
the records OF the two wOFnenss
crimes and demeanor after convic-
ton.
Mrs. Place, ain ungainly, silrew.
isll. iddle-aged Brooklyn matron.
killed in i Jury 81 jealous hatred
and Tor revenge She tried also %
kill her husband, but he escaped
her after she dealt two smashing
blows on his head with an AK.
First Mate Deserted Her
Life had been cruel to her. Born
to Il poor New Jersey farmer. her.
first husband. Wesley Savacoll, de-.
serted her after she bore q son,
Ross. Grinding poverty tore her
child from her and after he was.
adopted BY wealthy Newark har-
ness manufacturer she lost him alto
gether.
Brutalized by her experiences, the
woman In 1895 went to keep house
for William Place, q widowed in
surarce adjuster, in a broWnstone
house ait 598 Hancock St., Brook
Iyn. Place and his daughter, Ida
Mildred, were above the house
keeper In breeding and education.
Nevertheless, the following year
Place Inundated members Of his
family by marrying the slatternly
servant.
Quarrels Disrupted Home
Places relatives insisted. in his
behalf. that he had been forced to
marry the woman by threats that
she would disclose intimacies in their
relationship.
The humility which characterized
Mrs. Place as housekeeper disap-
peared when she became the lady Of
the house. Presently the quiet
brownstone front was filled with dis
cord. Once Mrs. Place was arrested
for striking her husband.
The quarrels came to a climax in
a vicious row on the morning Of
February Z, 1898. Place went to
business angrily, leaving the women
to conclude the dispute.
What happened then was partly
revealed in Mrs. Places incomplete
confession and by the evidence.
The enraged woman went to the
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was able to reach the stOop before
he collapsed.
NeigaborA Saw Attack
His wife pulled Place back into
the house and barred the doors SO
that neighbors. who had heard Place
scream Murde saw him fall on
the stoop and who tried to enter
with police had to burst down the
door.
When police searched the house
they came across Ida's bruised
body.
Making pretense Of insanity,
Mrs. Place refused to admit she had
killed her stepdaughter.
But In the trial the following
July. in Brooklyn county court
District Attorney Mcclure proved
her guilt TO the jury.
Wide Sympathy Stirred
Once convicted, Mrs. Places
plight stirred 4 wave OF sympathy
far more intensive than what has
been aroused for Mrs. Snyder.
Prominent persons and orgamiza-
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talk about 1t later" was the dec.
laration of Juror Alfred r.. Kramer.
He'd Like TO See 1t
Charles Meissner. so, a landscape
gardener and q quiet. retiring type,
said the pair ought to die. and
added: I'd like to see that execu.
ton. wrote to Warden LaWes
asking him to send me an invita-
ton. and / also wrote 10 Governor
smith. expect to hear from him
today"
Al poll among all the jurors
brought forth the following COM
ment.
BOLLWEG, HERMAN, So, mar
ried, retired builder:
Psychosis, what about IT? It
doesn't mean anything to me. We
all said what we had to say when
we gave our verdict That was
my decision and it stands. It's
too late to talk about it now. j
can't see that there is anything
that can be said for them either
then or now"
CONNOLLY. JOHN F.. IS. mar
ried. department store engineer:
II haven't changed my mind
since we brought in the verdict.
What / cannot understand is all
the delay in carrying out the exc.
cutions. The State shouldn't be
going through all this expense en-
tailed by delays and chickering's.
Governor Smith should let them
90 where they belong, and that's
the electric chair. They didn't
strike me as insane-that's a lot of
boshr'
GR0B. FREDERICK T.. married,
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JURY NOW.
I02 FOR
DEATH

NEW YORK. Jan. 1O.The jury
that sent Ruth Snyder and Judd
Gray on their way to the electric
chair stand fast by Il big majority
for the carrying out or their YER
dict on Thursday night, when the
pair who loved too well are SEIZED
nled to pass into eternity.
One, the foreman Of the jury,
william e. Young, Is against the
execution. He has had change
Of mind since that evening Of
May 3 last, when he faced Ruth
and Judd and pronounced the YER
dict that meant their doom.
Before taking his place in the.
jury box he declared under oath
that he believed in capital punish
ment.
Against 1t Now
But now he declares: :
Il want to see capital punishment
done away with. / think Judd was
kidded into the chair
George Zeigler is the only other
juror who wouldn't feel bad If Ruth
and Judd were saved at the last
minute.
The other 10 expressed themselves
yariousIy. but In the same tenor
they wanted to see their verdict
carried out
I'm in favor of Mexico's way:
take 'em out and shoot EN-. then
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basement. where her husband had
his Photographic dark room. and
filled tumbler with carhglic acid
She found Ida in her bedroom,
where she had retreated In tears.
Dashing the acid in the girls face.
obviously to destroy her hated
beauty. she then sprang upon her.
choking and beating the child
savagely.
SnlOfhered Her
AS Ida's resistance weakened the
woman smothered her with a pillow.
She had nanifestly planned some
such act, for the day before she
had discharged their one servant
and packed a trunk for departure.
After making sure the girl was
dead she locked the bedroom door
and finished preparing to SO.
Place returned at $50 p m. to-
q darkened house. Walking back
into the hallway. he called out and
heard rustling as OF skirts NOV
ing. Then he was stunned BY a
blow from an ak. He staggered
back, the ak fell again. and he
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tions opposed her execution ID
the is years since the electric chair
had been installed IN sing sing ana
Auburn prisons no woman had been
executed. The last woman to -
hanged had been Mrs. Rcvalana
Druse, executed iii Herkimer Ia 1884
for killing her husband and feeding
his shredded flesh to the hogs.
Theodore Roosevelt, then gOv-
ernor and headed for national politiv
cal honors was besieged with petit
tions for clemency, to which he
replied:
Under no circumstance win I
BE- influenced bv n1awlxish and
naudIin sentinentaIity.
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HURT IN BALL ALLEY
RUTH CAKES

While bowling in the King Pin
alleys, 1880 Fourteenth st. N. W..
last night, Mrs. Clara Mingel. rs
years old, 1902 Randolph st. N. W.,
fell and was struck on the knee
with a ball. She was taken to-
Emergency Hospital in the ambu
lance and found to have suffered
a dlelocated knee.
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&
piano tuner:
Il am one.way man. don't
change my mind. haven't changed
my mind on the verdict. / feel the
same as the time the verdict was
brought in. would I vote for com.
mutation IL all the others should?
No, sir, wouldn't. Let them be
executed. That's the law
KRAMER, ALFRED r., IS, mar
ried: clerk:
I'm sick and tired Of it all--dis-
gusted. Al man goes down there
and does his duty and then along
comes all this bunk about medical
science and the psycho-whatevef-
you-calI-it.
.'The things done. The law is
the law. Take EN- out and have
it over with. 1t should have been
done dozens of Thursdays ago. I'm
in favor OF Mexico's way. Take 'em
out and shoot 'em and talk about
MccABE, PHILIP, 80, married.
electrical trade school instructor:
'.AH / can say is that l gave
my opinion out at the trial Let
them be executed, as the law de-
mands.
What OF Psychiatrics?
MEIssNER, CHARLES. SO, mar
ried. landscape gardener.
II believe now, as did then,
that both Ruth and Judd are guilty
and that the sentence should be
carried out. I'm not impressed at
all with all this talk OF medical
science. What do know about
psychiatrics? While I feel that
Mrs. Snyder was the leader in the
murder plot, do not forget that
it was Gray that gathered the tools
together for the killing. There may
be something in Mrs. Snyder's per-
sonal magnetism, but it never car.
ried all the way to Syracuse.
Her testimony didn't impress me
at all. ! had already read her
signed statement which she denied
for the most part on the stand"
RUCKDASCHEL, LOUIS, IL.
"One was as bad as the other.
She could have kept him out of
the house il she wanted to, and
he had murder in his heart when
he was in Syracuse. My vote is
the same today as 1t was when
we returned the verdict, and I'm
in favor of capital punishment.
Calls Guilt Plain
SCHNEIDER, JOHN r., 20, mar.
ried, florist.
LET them die, they deserve it.
Their guilt was as plain as the
nose on your face. I admire Gov.
ernor Smiths stand. / haven't any
sympathy for them at all.
AS a matter of fact, l haven't
paid much attention to the case
since the trial ended. j am sick
and tired Of all this hullabaloo and
stalling around. Why don't they
serve the ends of Justice swiftly?"
VANDERHEIDE, JOHN, So,
clerk:
Il have not changed my mind. I
am for the execution of both on
Thursday night and haven't given
any thought at all to Communication
or insanity stuff"
VAN VRANCKEN, EVERETT j..
46, married. a secretary:
There is nothing to choose be-
tween them. Both were at fault,
both are guilty and the sentence
should be carried out. firmly be.
lieve in capital punishment as the
only deterrent to murder.
IF medical science is listened TO
at a time like this it will break
down all the work OF juries, be.
clouding the truth. In fact, l have
always believed that murder juries
should be made up entirely of ex-
perienced judges"
YOUNG, WILLIAM E., SO, mar
ried, publicity man:
''T have been doing much thinking
since we brought in the verdict. I
didn't realize the import of 1T. i
want to see all capital punishment
done away with. OF course, neither
should be pardoned or ever have
their liberty"
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cITIzENS ELECT NORBERT
international Newsrsei Photos

Hugh S. Torbert today Is presi-
dent Of the Edgewood Citizens Aan
ISOLATION. Other officers elected last
night were H G. Turner. vice presi-
dent; Mrs. William Won Bernewitzs
second vice president; j. w. Dun.
ham, secretary; +. r.. Tierney, treas.
urer; Carl Brown, Mrs. M. u. Ryans
j. H. Dick and B. w. BelingeE, axes
cutive committee.
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talk about 1t later" was the dec.
laration OF Juror Alfred r. Kramer.
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NEW CIVILIAN OFFICERS

New officers OF the Cititan Club
win be installed at q dinner meet
ing tonight In the Lafayette Hotel.
The meeting win be la charge q
the past presidents of the organizas
tion. under direction Of =. s. Bras
hears.
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CITIZENS TO MEET

The Federation of Citizens AZ
9ociations will meet in the board
room of the Fai f'i' B-iJ' $ +,ir-
day night, James G. Yaden. presi.
dent announced today.
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The movie cast in Lights" is
really up against a stiff experiment.
1t will take much training and
thought until the earlier defects ap-
parent in the talking-acting game
are eliminated. In other words, the
movie actor must feel at home while
talking his lines and acting at the
same time. Directors for the talk
les must be specialists in this line
of work.
Sound pictures do not call upon
the actor speak. but all effects, such
as a train leaving the station,
cheering of a crowd, the playing of
bands, report of a revolver are re-
corded. Sound pictures have a con-
tinuous musical score.
The takers have a musical score,
also, often the actor speaking be-
fore a musical background.
Il
Have received the following in
formation from Dom Wermuth
manager for STUART Walker here
this season:
Stuart Walker is known to have
turned down an offer to appear in
London, England, this summer with
his repertory companies. He turrhd
down this offer that Indianapol S
might again see the very best plays
that have been produced in Amer
lea during the last two seasons.
fourteen plays have been pro-
duced, all of them first rate New
York productions.
Scores Of inquiries have been re-
ceived by Mr.. Walkers manager
here regarding next summer. At
this time it is not known whether
the producer will return to Indian
apoliS next summer.
walkers repertory company will
continue in Cincinnati at Taft Au-
ditorium. Mckay Morris and Beulah
Bondi are now being seen in the
leading roles. Vivian Tobin and
Elizabeth Patterson are expected to
appear in a few productions before
the season comes to an end.
Several of the players now with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
A Dance
Marathon

Champions from many of the
larger cities of Indiana will COM
pete with the best dancers from
Indianapolis in the first marathon
dance ever staged in Marion
County.
The marathon dance will start
Aug. IL and will be held at Days
Casino, dance palace three miles
southeast of Monument Circle, on
the Shelbyville r., west of Emer-
son Ave.
Contestants wishing to enter the
first marathon dance must have
filed their entries and physicians
certificate with the management of
Days Casino not later than noon,
Aug. II. Only dancers who are at
least Is years oil will be permitted
to compete.
Chicago rules will govern the
marathon dance. These rules re-
quire all contestants to have doctors
certificates as to their good physi-
cal condition.
They require the management OF
the Casino to provide expert men
and women trainers who will care
for the contestants. Each couple
must dance 70 hours to qualify, and
following that each couple will be
permitted IS minutes rest to each
As minutes of dancing.
Between and 5 o'clock each
morning the dancers will be given
complete rest, following a physical
examination by a physician.
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the Indianapolis company join the
Cincinnati company and will be
seen there unit the end of the
present season. Many of Stuart
Walkers players return to New
York, where they have met with
considerable success.
George Gaul, a favorite in In
dianapolis, plays the leading role
in the Theater Guild production,
Faust Carlotta Irwin will appear
in War Warehouses drama of the
press. Eugene Powers will appear
in one Of four productions he has
received offers from, and Larry
Fletcher has received an offer to
appear in one Of the leading roles
in 'Jarnegan.'"
n
Robert st. Clair is preparing to
so to Decatur, Ill. where he will
be leading man for a stock company
there for several months, then 60
ing with the company on to Dan
vile. st. Clair will not go with
Berkel to Chicago.
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New Brooms" deals with a COL
lege lad who goes home from
graduation with the big idea that he
can show his father how he can
handle his business to make a larger
success of it than his father ever has.
The father is skeptical, he has
been burdened with the care and
expense of his family for so long
that his genuinely big heart has be-
come hid under a crust of grouchi-
ness, and in a moment of nervous
tension, when the boy is haunting
him beyond endurance, he turns his
business over to the boy.
For year he lets his son fight
all the business troubles alone, and
the manner in which he handles
certain situations constitutes the
fine comedy of the play. 1t is
jolly piece of theater, with the usual
touches of heart interest.
The author has drawn his char
acters we'll, and while the play does
not allow the son much glory, yet
he is pictured so that one is quite
satisfied that with due amount of
experience he will, in the future,
probably become a better business
man than the father.
Every father with a boy in col
lege will see replica of him in
Tommy Bates Jr. He is withal a
good-natured, optimistic lad, with a
lovable disposition despite his too
ambitious leanings.
All of the members of the COM
pany will be cast in the roles. The
last performance will be Saturday
The play opens Sunday
night at $50.
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Dancing
Act Will
Top Bill
George De Torgeo and His
Company to Be at
Lyric.

I'm T E r P r ETATIVE dancing is
Il scheduled for headline honors at
the Lyric next week. 1t will be Of
fered by George De Torgeo and COM
pany. De Torgeo and his youthful
Kansas City wife open with a spir-
tied number in evening dress,
change to a whirlwind tango and
feature an interpretatiye Indian
worship dance.
The dancers are assisted by Lou
Mcneil, young Nova Scotian, who
composed the music for the piece,
and Frank Decker, young tenor from
Boston, who sings the story related
by the feature dancers.
The bill will include:
CAMILLA'S BIRDS-Miss Ca
milla and her company Of over
twenty snow white cockatoos pre-
sent a very original offering where
in these beautiful plumed thespians
present a diverse athletic program
of feats usually believed to be be-
yond their ken.
BRADY AND NIAHONEY-J
comic and his lawyer involved in
a real estate misunderstanding
arising out of the comedians evic-
ton on the grounds Of non-payment
of rent. They close a clever comedy
show with some very amusing up
to-the-minute couplets.
BORDNER AND BOYER-Two
athletes in a comedy casting nov
city which is sensationally humor-
Gus, offer Worlds Ace Casting
Act"
JONES AND GRANNON-Present
a comedy act which is neatly put
over and greatly strengthened by
some excellent baritone singing,
titled Gust Between Themselves"
FLORENCE SEELEY & CO.
Miss Seeley and her two man-sized
cats present a realistic novelty en-
titled KAT Maps"
KEN AND DEBARD BROTHERS
Three men who offer routine Of
Tunes and Taps"
ON THE SCREEN-A Fox COM
edy, elephants Elbows; a Uni
versal comedy king of Shebas,"
one Of the Scretn Snapshots, and
a Pathe News Reels.
RUTH NOLER-The console Of
the Lyric organ, will present a
speciality number.
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Balloon
Ascension
To Be Held
Patent Leather Kid VIII
Make Another Hop
at Park,

CUNDAY afternoon the balloon
~ ascension at Riverside amuse-
ment park will take place at 3
o'clock, and it is believed the new
time for sending the Patent
Leather Kid on his skyward jour-
ney will be welcomed by the park
patrons, especially by those from
out of town.
1t has long been the custom to
send the balloon up late IN the
afternoon, it having been found,
according to balloon men, that at
mospheric conditions at that time
are most favorable for getting the
big hot air bag off the ground.
However, the Riverside balloon
crew is going to take a chance, and
promises that it will have the
Patent Leather Kid ION his way"
promptly at 3 o'clock Sunday after
noon.
A five-parachute leap will be at
tempted by the Kid, and as a
novelty he is taking a Riverside
bathing beauty up with him and
will send her down in a parachute
from a heighth of thousand feet,
making an effort to have her land
inside the park.
This afternoon and tonight, en-
ployes of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills
are holding their annual outing at
Riverside, and they invite their
friends to join them in their day
of fun.
Games and athletic contests are
on the program and by an arrange
ment with the park management
reduced fares prevail on the various
rides and other fun devices.
Next Wednesday the Nu-Grape
Bottling Company will hold its an
nual customers picnic at Riverside,
on which occasion a Nu-Grape bot
tie cap and cents will be accepted
as fare on the rides, while a bicycle
will be given to the boy or girl who
brings to the PARK the largest
number Of bottle caps.
The gates will open at 9 o'clock
on this day, and, of course, admis-
sion will be free as it is at all times.
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Death Valley

A caravan of 125 automobiles,
trucks, camera cars and buses, re-
Gently left the Tiffamy-Stahl
Studios in Hollywood for location in
Death Valley, where scenes are to
be photographed for the Reginald
Barker special production. THE
Rainbow" Several trucks were
filled with camping equpmSnt and
a huge crate of chickens was one
of the principal items for the COM
missary department. Heading the
cast Of 1.-THE Rainbow" are Dorothy
Sebastian, Lawrence Gray, Harvey
Clark, Sam Hardy, Kate Price and
Gino Corrado.