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The Washington times., 1928-09-20
ND[ D COP
ON RIAL FOR
DRINKING

Policeman Claude At Fzell. of the
Third precinct was afrafgned today
before the Police Trial Board en-
Ischarge OF intoxicatfou.
EzeH was suspended from the
force September ST after Lieuts.
Hugh Groves and James Metlnade
alleged they found him intoxieated
at his home in Lyon Village. Va.
a dozen character Witnesses were
called by EzeI1's attorney. Joseph
Kelly, to testify before the trial
board to Ezell's reputation. Among
the witnesses were Lieut.. Michael
Ready Of the Eight Precincf, who
said that Ezen had served Under
his command more than two years
and was ga very good officer.
Policeman 8. F. Gravely, 'wlaislkey
man. in the Third Precinct, tesfi-s
fled that Ezell's reputation for
sobriety was excellent
Alleil Hazel, a taxi driver, testi-
fled that on September s he was
called to the Naval Hospital gate
at Twenty-third and E Streets
Northwest. and that when he ar-
rived there, two men naet him ana
put Private EzelI in my cab The
men instructed him to take the 81
flcer to Lyon Park, Va, Hazel said.
When he finally found the EzeH
home he told Mrs. Ezeil, Hazel said
that her husband was in the cab
outside. She told him to take her
husband around to the back door.
EzeH got out of the cab and went
into the house without paying him.
Hazel testified, and when he asked
Mrs. Ezell for the money. and she
told him to come around the next
day.
Gun Found On Seat
On the way back to washington
Hazels cab was hired by a voi11sg
woman. Before they reached the
city she found policeman's service.
revolver on the back seat OF the
cab. She gave it to Hazel and he
turned it in at police headduarfers.
Lieutenant Groves said that when
ne went to the Ezell home after.
Hazel turned in the pistol, he found,
t1zell apparently under the Influence
p intox1cants and smelIed liquor on
his breath SO he suspended him.
EzeH admitted that he had mad
two drinks of prescription wlTisksys'9
l short time before McQuader and
Groves called at his home.
He denied that he was drunk. and
said that he had been sick alt 5av.
out ii necessary could have worked
IN the night he was suspended.
A charge of conduct preludicaal
o the good reputation of the police
,orce" against Policeman 3.
Vaughn was heard by the board.
oday. Mrs. d. E. Hilton. whose
husband was dismissed from the
'orce several weeks ago, was the
principal witness against Vaughn. :
Mrs. Hilton alleged that Va0rnr
her husband and two
women to Atlantic City on July sc
! hotel register from that city was,
nown to members of the board ahfr
handwriting expert testified ti1asa
he names Mr.. and Mrs. g. B..
Williams had been written by
faughn.
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
ALLEGED DEATH
ARM YOUTH
IN JAIL

VANCOUVER, British Columbia,
Sept 20 Closely guarded BY q
squad Of provincial police, Gordon
stewart Northcott, alleged abuser
and slayer OF at least four boys.
was to be returned here today and
held for California police.
Presentation OF a 500 American
note and a request for q statercOn
ON. a day ferrybOat aroused the
etispicfon OF the. ships purser.
When the boat arrived AT Okanagan
Landing, the purser told Constable
Morley Greene Greene boarded the
Train taken by the suspected
traveller and engaged In conversas
ton.
Both Named in Papers
The youth at first denied his
identity, but later admitted he was
Northcott. He was unaware that
his mother had been appre1endad
by Calgary police in that city.
Both Northcott and Mrs Sarah
Louisa Northcott, his mother. were
named in murder complaints issued
in southern California.
The youthful proprietor OF the
sO-called murder farm at WinaS.
vile, Calf, appeared unmoved by
his arrest and answered questions
nonchalantly.
Northcott is accused by his
nephew, 15-year-old Sanford Clark.
OF having mistreated and killed four
youths at the Riverside homestead.
The first inklings of the killing,
however, came from sClarIr,s younger
sister, Jessie. who is now under the
protection of provincial police in
this city and is said to be reveal
ing further details.
Los Angeles police, according to
dispatches received here. appear
confident that not all of the shay.
ings at the Riverside homestead
have been disclosed in the confess
sions.
Other gruesome practices in ad.
vance of the murder rites" took
place at the farm. they believe.
They are continuing an intensive
survey of every building on the
farm.
The confession of Sanford Clark
involves the killing of four boys,
but it is surmised that other MUIR
search for human bones continues.
The police are trying to identity |
some of the boys alleged to have
been slain by Northcott.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 90
Three developments of major impor-
lance in the Riverside murder |
farm case We're apparent today. |
They were:
Confession of the boy recently re-
turned from Dekalb, ILL.,, that he was |
not Walter Collins, who was kid |
mapped recently. The boy said he
lid not know who he was nor his
correct name.
He could give no explanation of |
mis- seeming Identification of places,
persons and things familiar to the.
ZEAL Walter Collins, a supposed MUIR
Ter farm victim.
The disappearance of Mrs. Winni-
red Clark, mother of Sanford Clark,
who uncorked the murder farm ex-
pose, was the second development.
Mrs. Clark was supposed to have
been travelling with. Stewart North
,ott and his mother before their ar
'ests.
Police have been unable to locate
Ter since and it was said that
authorities fear foul play It was
llsO stated that young NOrthcott,
row held by British Columbia police.
had threatened Mrs.. CIark's daugh-
er Jessie II she ever diVulged anyd
Of the happenings at the {
chicken ranch. f
Third in the complicated horror {
anch story is the positive identifi- |
alton by Los Angeles City Chemist s
rex E. Welsh of human blood
ningled with earth removed from
raves on the farm, g
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
5 ORPHANED BY SUICIDE

CONCORD, N. c., Sept. 20.--F'ive
small children were orphaned today
by the suicide of Roy B. West, 81,
who killed himself by firing a pistol
bullet into his head. No motive
for Vests act could be furnished
by police.
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
Appears to be Wealthy
ROTARY CLUB AIDS

The Rotary Club of washington
has voted $500 from its treasury for
the American Red Cross relief fund
for the hurricane victims In Porto
Rico.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
VACATION FROLICS CAUSE
DEATH

A new murder stirred the town of
Queens Village, Long Island, where
Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray killed
and received their sentence Of death
for the murder of Ruth's husband.
Mrs. Frances Kirkwood was charged
with stabbing her husband to death.
She said it was accidental, that her
husband, 26 years old, was stabbed
when he attempted to take from her
a knife with which she intended to
end her own life.
They had quarreled because she
had learned he had been on wild
studio parties while she was on a
vacation, she said.
And Albert Hoover and AL Smith
continued their courses of action
which each hopes will lead him to
the presidency of the United States.
There was more news from AL
Smith A friend of Hoover let it
be known that the Republican can
didate will lay and began an in
tensive campaign six weeks before
the election, in order that the Re-
publicanS may get in the last blows
in the election fight and laugh last.
Hoover quietly celebrated his
fifty-fourth birthday at his home at
Palo Alto, Cal, and prepared for his
formal notification Of his nomina-
ton and his acceptance speech
which was to come today.
On the other side of the con-
tinent AL Smith, the Democratic
candidate, challenged DR.. John
Roach Straton. pastor Of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
IN HONOR OF VALIANT
DEAD

Eleven thousand British World
War veterans, the Prince of Wales,
Admiral Jellicoe and other British
dignitarieS joined in a ceremony at
Ypres, Belgium, in honor Of their
comrades who died in that bloody
battle of the World War. The
opening hymn was ooh Valiant
Hearts" sang to the $1,000 British
soldiers whose unidentified graves
are strewn over that battlefield.
Will there be another great war in
the lives of those men who gathered
at that ceremony?
Sherlock Holmes, fiction detective
of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, came to
life to free oscar Slater from the
prison in England in which he had
served twenty years for the murder
Of woman which he never COM
mitted. Conan Doyler aided in
proving Slater never convicted the
murder. The British Government
gave Slater $4,000 to compensate
him for his twenty years in prison.
Out at Los Angeles, the Califori-
ans found a novel way of amusing
themselves. Ten thousand, it is said,
over the last weekend journeyed
to a ship seven miles off the coat
fitted up as a gambling palace. BY
staying seven miles from shore the
owners said they kept themselves
out OF Federal and State authority.
Fred Stone, veteran song and
dance artist and comedian, who has
amused hundreds Of thousands with
his antics on the stage, wiggled his
toes at New London, Conn, and
hoped he soon would be able to
dance again. But both his legs were
in plaster casts and doctors were
not so hopeful that he ever would
be able to return to the stage. Both
OF Stones legs were broken when
an airplane in which he was at
tempting solo fight crashed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
SCOOTER DERBY
TRIALS ARE SET
FOR FIVE PARKS
First Preliminary Races for
Valuable Prizes to Be
Held Monday.

With hundreds Of children ready
to vie for $500 prize money, scooters
are being tuned up for the first pre-
liminary races Monday in the
Times Capitol Dairy Scooter Derby.
Races are scheduled for five parks
each day for six days, starting Mon
day, under direction of matrons and
instructors of Fairgrounds at the
parks.
The start of each days races was
set for 10 a. m. by Jesse P. Mcclure,
city recreation director, who is as
sisting The Times in the derby.
Report at Five Parks
Children will report before 10
a. m. Monday at the following
parks: Brightwood, Brookside,
Camp Sullivan, Christian and Dear
born.
Children who already have signed
entry blanks printed in The Times
will report to instructors to have
their name checked on the starting
list. Children who have not signed
blanks also will report to instruc-
tors for a post entry blank"
Failure to sign a Times entry
blank does not bar child from
competition, but all entrants must
report to instructors at the play
ground before the race. Select the
recreation center nearest your home.
Those Already Entered
Children who already have en-
tered:
BrightwOod
James Mcdonald, 2425 Stuart st.; Frank
1925 Adams St.; Edward HALEY 1921 E.
Twentieth St.; Harry Staley, 2942 n Gale
St: Tressie J. Clark, 1929 Stuart St.
Rzabe team M GGbaes 5 s5 oefSy ss
Ave; Edal Yeager. 2l3s N. Olney st.
BroOkside
Norman Won Burg. 80 Parker Ave-;
Robert Jodapp, 1919 N. Denny St; Anna
Jane Reeyges. 1925 Ewing St; Thomas
296O E. Michigan St: Bernard Reilly. 2247
y. La Sale St.; Ralph Matzke. 2422 E.
Sixteenth St; Leroy SilcoX, 1904 e.
Twelfth ST.: Charles Schwab, 17l5 N
Beville Ave: Evelyn Ruth Williams 1853
Brookside Ave. and Virgil Jack O'BTien,
1918 N. Keystone Ave.
Christian
Stanley H. Brown. 1919 University Ave.
and Ralph Schmid. 280 S. Sherman DR..
Lorraine May Gardner, 1850 n. Denny
lodges 423 w. New York St.. Camp Sui
Ivan Park.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
WHERE WILL THEY DE-
BATE, IF?

Smith asked that he be allowed
to answer the charges in the church
in which they were made. Straton
gleefully accepted verbally and sug-
gested Madison Square Garden for
the debate, but when he learned
Smith would insist that the de-
bate be held where the charges
were made, in Straton's church,
Straton insisted that if they de-
bated in his church, that he also
must debate in st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral.
AS it is certain Smith would not
agree to this, and it would not be
possible, it appears likely the de-
bate will not be held because Of
failure to agree to the arena.
And during the week another big
business man joined the forces
backing Smith. Pierre S. Du Pont
submitted his resignation as chair
man of the board of General Motors
Corporation to devote his time to
aiding Smith during the campaign.
But the directors of the motors corr
poration refused to accept the resig-
nation and granted him a leave Of
absence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
HICKMAN TO DIE SOON

Out at Los Angeles another mo-
ron. William Edward Hickman, was
sentenced again to die. He was
sentenced to die some time ago. out
appealed to the States highest court
and lost. The lower court then
pronounced the second sentence as
a formality and Hickman must Gle
between Oct. 8 and Nov. because
he kidnapped and cut into pieces the
body of Marian Parker, l2-year-
old schoolgirl.
The Polish fliers provided prac~
tically the only worldwide aviation
news of the week. Wrecked in the
plane in which they were attempt
ing a Paris to New York flight sew
entv miles off the coast of Portugal
the fliers, Majors Idzikowski and
Casimir Kubala, declared they
would try it again. Lucky for them
their plane crashed near an ocean
liner which rescued them. They
had been in the air thirty-eight
hours. half of the time flying west
ward ana lIlC 1CllAeiAAASaSA SN~A~C
reach Europe again because the fuel
line of the plane was not feeding
properly.
disaster descended on the Italian
navy. Thirty-one men died wnen
the Italian submarine Fla collided
with a cruiser during maneuvers.
The submarine crashed to the DOT
tom of the Adriatic Sea. Within
forty-eight hours the ship was
raised from the 100 feet OF water
in which it had sunk, but 1t was
too late. The men had been killed
by the fumes which had flooded the
ship from it's batteries.
Disaster, too. again visited Flor
ida. A seventy-five to ninety-mile-
an-hour hurricane swept the penin-
sula from coast to coast, doing dam
age estimated at 100000, although
there was no confirmed loss OF life.
The devastated regions now are
threatened with floods.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
AL HOME AGAIN
AFTER FUNERAL
Returns to Albany From
Brennan Rites.
Bv United Press

By United Press
ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 11.-Some-
what wearied by more than 1900
miles of travel in thirty-six hours
Governor Alfred E. Smith, Demo
cratic presidential candidate, ar
rived at Albany shortly before
o'clock this morning from his trip
to Chicago for the funeral OF
George E. Brennan.
He drove to the executive mansion
to rest, and said he would not be
available until late this afternoon,
if at all.
Political situations we're practical
ly forgotten by the Governor while
on the trip, but he was not allowed
to forget that he is presidential
candidate by the crowds in Chicago
and at several of the more impor-
tant cities along his route.
Smith made an unexpected ap-
pearance at Cleveland, Ohio, last
Friday night, when several hundred
persons crowded around his car.
Without coat or hat, he descended
to the station platform and shook
hands with we'll wishers, but did
not make a speech.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
EXPLO RERS find
HUGE MONSTERS
Largest Prehistoric Beasts
Unearthed in Asia.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
SHANGHAI. Aug. 11.-Prehistoric
monsters. colossal beasts the like of
which mankind has not even
dreamed, have been found by the
Roy Chapman Andrews expedition
in Mongolia, it was announced here
today.
The report was brought back by
a missionary who visited the Ameri-
can explorers at their base in the
interior.
The newly discovered monsters are
unknown to science and were de-
clared by Andrews to be the ex-
petitions greatest find, the mis-
sionary said.
The beast is the "grandfather" of
the largest monsters hitherto known,
Andrews was quoted as saying.
The headbones alone weighed 400
pounds. The head was shaped like
a saddle, with the nose narrowing
towards the middle and widening at
the ends.
The expedition is returning on
Aug. IS, the missionary said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
FROM MINER TO BIG BOSS

Fit material for a great book, a
book which would dramatic the in
sides of American politics, is the life
of George Brennan, Illinois Demo-
cratic political leaders, who died this
week at Chicago.
Brennan was 63. For many years
he has been regarded as one OF
the three or four determining men
in the Democratic party. He never
held a public Office, but he held
votes and power.
His career carried him from coal
miner to a minor Statehouse posi-
ton, to school teacher, to the in
surance business and political infiu-
ence.
Governor Al Smith Of New York
Democratic candidate for the presi-
dency. and other political leaders
from over the nation journeyed to
pay tribute at his funeral.
But a brutal crime stole much of
Chicagos attention from the death
Of George Grennan. Miss Jennie
Constance, AZ, head of the English
department of Bradley Polytech-
nical Institute, Peoria, Ill, was bru-
tally slain with a piece of pipe in
Evanston.
Size was studying for a Phi. D.
degree at Northwestern University
summer school. On her way from
the university library she was
sprung upon from behind hedge,
killed and attacked. A moron, OF
course, did the deed. Police ques-
toned scores, but as yet have not
solved the crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
Indian Tries Recipe of
Ancestors BYe7Q; Cured
Drinking Potion of JimSon
Weed Has Unexpected
Effect.
BIZ Science Serrice

LOS ANGELES, Aug. ia
young Diegueno Indian who found
the white mans bootleg hard to get
recently has tried connecting the
old-time whisky of his ancestors
with results that have scared of
any other young Indians who might
be seized with the same inspiration.
Facts of the unusual incident
were learned by Arthur Woodward.
anthropologist of the Los Angeles
Museum. This youth of the Volcan
reservation, near Santa Ysabel, had
heard stories of how his ancestors
used the jamestown or jimson
weed in ceremonials before the
white men came into the West.
The Indians dried the roots and
crushed them in a special cere-
monial mortar and made a power
full narcotic drink, Woodward states.
Young men who drank it fell into
a Stupor for one to four days and
in their dreams they learned which
aA44AAAd1S VI O4AOO WClC W NC bllClI
personal totems to help them
through life.
Weaker boys sometimes died from
overdoses. Early Spanish mission
aries undertook to stamp out such
customs, but this "toalache cere-
mony" survived to some extent up
to half century ago.
"The young Diegueno noticed that
jimSon weed was plentiful" says
Woodward. 1.-THE old folks said that
it made a man drunk and happy.
So, this ambitious youth gathered
some roots, pounded them, and
made a small keg of jimson weed
brew. He drank heavily of the stuff,
and for several days was like man
possessed of devils. His companions
did not learn what made him act
so crazy for several days."
The young Indian is cured" So
are the other Indians who saw him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
START PROBE IN
MYSTERY DEATH
OF 8 BY POISON
Two Women and Girl in One
Family Die; Murder
Theory Held.
By United Press

BIZ United Press
CABOOL, Mo-, Aug. 1l.-Three
mysterious deaths, resulting from
slow-acting poison, are be ing in
vestigated here tonight by physi.
clans and authorities of Texas
County.
The dead we're Mrs. Cecil j.
Weatherman, q, of Kansa City,
who died here Aug. at the homo
Of her mother, Mrs. Joueph Nc
Ghee, Cabool, Mo-; Mrs. McGhee,
who died the preceding day. and
Nancy Louise McGhee, 9, daughter
of Mrs. McGhee.
Family Was Threatened
Cecil Weatherman, 8, son of G.
J. Weatherman of Kansas City, Is
in the hospital at st. Joseph, crit
ically i'll and his death is expected.
Nancy Louise McGhee was the
first to die, her death occurring
Aug. 8. It was not until the third
death that authoritieS began an in
vestigation.
A theory that the three had been
poisoned by enemies of the family
was given credence after Weather.
man declared threats had been
made against him. Nature of the
threats was not revealed.
Men Not Officers
So far the investigation has re-
vealed nothing and officers admit
they are puzzled. Examination of
the water and food supplies used by
the family gave authorities no clews.
They claim, however, that the poi
son is Of a slow-acting nature.
None of the men in the family
have been affected by the poison,
thus adding more mystery to the
case
Mrss. Weatherman and her chill
dren had been visiting with her
parents here. Last Saturday
Weatherman was called from Kan
sas City to come to Cabool. Arriv-
ing here he found his wife and
mother-in-law seriously ill and his
sister-in-law dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
'GiUe the Little Girl a Hand
Says TEX of Fair Crusader
Holds No Ill Feelings for
Mrs. WiIIebrandt, Who
Started Raids.
BY HORTENSE SAUNDERS
NEA Service Writer

/
NEW YORK, Aug. fishes a
great woman. I'm proud of her,
said Texas Guinan of Mabel Walker
WilIebrandt. I'D like to know her
She's got more spunk than dozen
mentor at least she's trying to do
something about prohibition-even
if I do think she is going about 1t
the wrong way. You bet-I'm for
giving the little girl hand"
"Tex" Guinan is the acknowledged
symbol OF night club life in New
York. Mabel Walker Willebrandt
is the United States assistant at
torney general who started the re-
cent night club raiding in New York.
She is the reason why Tex and
Helen Morgan, two of the city's
most popular night club hostesses,
are wearing $1,000 balls these days,
and awaiting trial in the Federal
court, along with many others, for
conspiracy to violate the Volstead
act.
Wishes Her Luck
mo, I wouldn't want her for my
lawyer" went on Tex. Il wouldn't
want any woman, because I want
to have the last word myself-even
if it is only good-by.
"And besides, I have so many
lawyers now, couldn't possibly take
on another. But wish her all the
1iInL in IoeY. Y,rof accioy1 -
Going to court has no novelty,
no terror for Texas Guinan. This
is her fifth try.
Appearing at the Federal build
ing and going through the court
scene is just like going back to a
town you have played before and
made lots of friends" said she. 81
have no stage fright.
CATER the session, I always go
to Kahn'S for lunch-that's where
all the commissioners and judges
go-they are all so charming and
so clever. We stage a regular show,
as good fun as any night club.
They Like to Pay
people have to have a place to
spend their money. Suppose per-
son with a few millions comes to
New York-what does he want to
do? He wants to go to night club
and see fun and gayety.
"He wants to pay for it. And he
does. I've seen Harry Thaw spend
1900 a night, and think nothing
of it. That meant, of course, tips
for all the entertainers and the help.
Others do the same.
IT love a night club, and have a
circus every minute, I really ought
to pay all the checks, I have such
a good time-but I don't. Instead,
7 go round with bushel basket
and collect the checks.
I'm one club where I was host
ess, we took in 100000 in ten
months. The average one makes
$4,000 to $4,000 a week-as much
as a show. But there's a load Of
expense, and a lot Of overhead. And
if people drink, that's not my fault"
Texas Guinan has never been
blue or discouraged in her life. She
refuses to start just because she's
in court again.
Sure, could be happy in jail"
she laughed. I'D organize a field
day and give the crack runners a
chance. And with all that time on
my hands-maybe I'd get caught
up. That's the only problem have"