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The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
SKEEN TRIAL
is NEAR JURY
Murder Case May Close
Late Today.

Fate of Carl Skeen, %, butcher
boy, charged with numbering Mrs.
Pearl Jarboe, "a, waitress, by shov-
ing her from his automobile, may
be in the hands of the jurymen in
Criminal Court late today.
The defense rested its case at
11:25 a. m, after failing to intro
duce testimony damaging the char
acter of the dead woman.
In rebuttal the State was pre-
vented from introducing evidence
of an autopsy performed by DR.. o.
H. Bakemeier, deputy coroner, which
was designed to show that no traces
Of alcohol was found in the woman'S
stomach. Skeen testified that the
woman had been drinking with him.
Much of the morning was devoted
to lawyers arguments regarding
whether or not the questioning was
incompetent, irrevelent and innma-
terial." Twice the jury was eX-
cluded.
Under the leisurely cross -examin-
alton of Deputy Prosecutor Paul
Rhoadarmer, Skeen made damaging
admissions when he took the stand
both this morning and Tuesday
afternoon.
Time and again he declared that
he was not drunk and knew well
what occurred.
1t was this emphasis that lent
an opening to the State. Rhoad-
arr1er obtained admissions that he
had been drinking on w. Wash
ington st. before the ride and also
that he had been in company with
certain persons who were not in
cluded in the original story.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
Spirit VS.. Rum
PhiIIy Mayor Calls for
Billy Sunday to Help
Clean City.

BIZ United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12.-De-
L spairing of cleaning up Phila-
delphia by rule of the mailed
f1st, Mayor Harry A. Mackey was
ready today to rely on spiritual
revival" to drive the bootleggers
and racketeers out of the city.
He has invited the Rev. Billy
Sunday, internationally known
evangelist, to conduct a revival
meeting, hoping to institute an
era of piety and brotherly love.
IF the citizens of this city re-
fuse to buy liquor from bootleg
gers, the liquor ring will have to
go out of business" the mayor
said.
While Mackey and representa-
tives of the church organizations
were holding a mass meeting in
the Arch st. Methodist Church,
county detectives raided a dis
tillery.
Detectives found a ledger that
piled up more evidence against
the city police.
District Attorney John Monga-
han said the ledger contained the
names of police and the sums of
money which each officer received
weekly.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
OILERS HOP /
in NONSTOP
PLANE DERBY
Clifford MCMiIIin Leads OFF
From New York for
Los Angeles.
NICK MANER IS SECOND
Near Crash Marks Start of
Great Flying Contest
Over Continent.
NICK MANER is SECOND

BU United Press
ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. J., Sept
i2.-The most spectacular airplane
race ever undertaken began from
this flying field today when Clifford
E. McMillin took off for Los Angeles
in his Stinson-Detroiter monoplane.
McMillin was the first to take
the air of nine pilots whose planes
were lined up for the nonstop
trans-continental fight. He left the
field at 11:25 a. m.
The pilot from Syracuse, N. Y,
carried as navigator, G. A. Herrick
of Hampstead, L. 1.
Only two airplanes in the brilliant
history of aviation in recent years,
have succeeded in flying from coast
to coast without a stop. Lieuts.
Oakley Kelly and John A. Mac
Ready accomplished the flight from
Mitchell Field, L. l., in 1923, and
this summer, Arthur Goebel flew
here from Los Angeles. Last year
a race similar to today's was under
taken with fewer entries, but no one
finished.
Nick Maner OFF Second
Nick Maner's Buhl air sedan took
off second. 1t is a seSqui-plane.
Maner'S bid for the $12,500 first
prize almost failed completely on
the first attempt to take off. BY 4
miracle he stopped his plane JUS
short of the fatal gulch at the END
of the runway where Rene Fonck
crashed in 1926. :.
McMillin and Herrick carried
fourteen sandwiches, two bottles OF
coffee and water, one of lemonade
and a half dozen chocolate bars They
hoped to span the continent in
twenty-four hours. Goebels time
onhis recent flight to New York was
just short of twenty hours.
Others to Go Are;
Other machines ready to go are:
Lockheed-Vega, John P. Morris,
pilot; william Thaw, owner and
navigator. Both from Pittsburgh;
Bellanca, Emil Burgin, Mineola, N
Y, pilot; Captain L. A. Yancy, New
York, navigator; Bellanca, George
Haldeman, pilot; Shirley Short, Chi
cago; Bellanca, Lieut.. Jack Iseman,
commandant of Rockaway naval
station; Bellanca North Star, Oliver
Leboutillier, East Orange, N. j., pilot;
George King, Mineola, N. Y, CO.
pilot; Lock-Hed Verga, Col, Arthur
Goebel, Los Angeles. pilot; Harry
Tucker, Santa Monica, Cal, owner
and passenger; Stinson Junior, Ran
dolph Page, Worthwhile, Mich, pilot.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
FEDERAL JUDGE
RAPS PADLOCKS
U. S. Anti-Liquor Crusade
in New York FIayed.

BU United Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-Padlock-
ing of twenty-six night clubs of the
city before the charges against the
owners had been decided by trial
was declared shocking" by Federal
Judge Thomas D. Thatcher Tues
day and today the padlocks are
due for removal.
The decision appeared to be a
direct blow at the summary method
Of law enforcement inaugurated by
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant
attorney general
After the night clubs were raided
six weeks ago, padlocks were
snapped across the doors.
This action, Judge Thacher said,
was the owners first warning Of
the charge which had been brought
against them and constituted a de-
prival of property without due
trial.
Among the night clubs to be un-
locked as a result of the decision
are Helen Morgan'S Summer Home
and Texas Guinan's Salon Royal.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
CITY OWNERSHIP
OF GAS FAVORED

company and feels it is up to the
city to purchase it."
II know of no one in the council
who opposes the proposal" Spring
steen said.
Mark H. Miller, Board Of Trade
president, has been authorized to
name a committee to study the con-
tract.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12

by utilizing some form of non
equilibrium or free energy in their
environment.
THE cells of the human brain
continue to act, because the blood
brings them chemical free energy
in the form Of sugar and oxygen
Halt the stream for a second and
consciousness vanishes.
Without that sugar and oxy.
gen there could be no thought, nc
sweet sonnets of a Shakespeare,
no Joy and no sorrow"
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12

insurance company had had no
trace of the car heretofore.
Officials are known to have been
searching for a smooth-t talking,
well-dressed Salesman" who dis
posed of the stolen cars to prom
inent Indianapolis persons. He sold
such expensive cars as Cadillacs for
as low as $1,500, making the trans
action. appear legal by presenting
false certificates of title from New
York State.
Whether the Chicago arrests
throw any light upon this glib sales
man was not disclosed.
O'ROark Before Jury
Fred (Pickles) O'Roark, 307 Agnes
ST., former policeman, testified be-
fore the county jury today. O'Roark
is friend of Edward Traugott.
Called for questioning by Prose-
cutor William H. Remy, ORoark
asked that he be permitted to tes-
tify under oath and was taken be-
fore the jury by Deputy Prosecu-
tors John l.. Niblack and William
H. Sheaffer.
For the third time since his re-
turn from New York after the
Traugott fire, Attorney Paul Scharf-
fin was questioned by Remy.
Scharffln and Edward Traugott
declared they left for New York
several hours before the explosion
and did not learn of it until several
days later.
Remy also quizzed three women,
whose names were not made pub
lie.
Federal authorities, it was report
ed, may 4sSue warrants for four
more men Anvolved in the theft
ring cases. One might be an Indi-
annapolis business man, one a for
mer Indianapolis policeman, a man
held in the explosion investigation
and a known bootlegger,
Edward Traugott and Harry Suss-
man, partners in the clothing store,
and Elmer Sussman, now are under
arrest.
Recovery of another stolen car by
the ring was announced by Robert
Humes, State police chief, and State
Policeman Charles Bridges.
They are on the track of three
other machines, they said. The car
recovered today was found here, hlt
it's make and from whom .olen we're
not made public. This car made a
total of fourteen recovered. A fif-
teenth machine was found destroyed
by fire. The cars were La SALES,
Cadillacs, Packards and Lincolns,
stolen in Cleveland and Chicago.
LibOwitz Had Stolen Car
A car in the possession of Harold
Libowitz in May when he was ar
rested at Lebanon on a robbery
charge was one of the stolen cars
handled by the theft ring, State
police said. Libowitz has been
charged with arson in connection
with the Traugott fire. He is in
Methodist Hospital seriously burned.
He was found in the rear of the
store, clothes aflame, few minutes
after the blast.
The Federal grand jury con-
tinued in session but as yet has not
considered evidence in the auto
theft ring case. The jury session is
to continue until next Tuesday and
he may have his case ready for pre-
sentation by that time, Albert S.
Ward, United States attorney said.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
PLAN RABIES FIGHT
Health Authorities Map
Drastic Campaign.

Plans for concerted drive
against the spread of rabies in In.
dianapolis and Marion County in
which the board of safety will be
asked to adopt stringent measures
in enforcing a quarantine were
formulated today by city, State and
county health authorities.
Meeting in the Office of DR.. Will
liam F. King, secretary of the Indi-
ana health board, the health author
tiles framed a proposal to enforce
a siXty-day quarantine in which un-
leashed dogs not under direct super
vision of their owners would be shot
Immediately.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
POLICE SEIZE $1,000;
ARREST II IN RAID ON
CITY PLEASURE CLUE

seized $289 in raid on the club.
Solly Epstein paid $25 and costs on
a charge of keeping gaming house,
but thirty-day Jail sentence was
suspended by Municipal Judge Paul
G. Wetter.
Louis Epstein was discharged Aug.
Z on a charge of keeping gaming
house after raid.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12

oxygen keeps this intact and pre-
serves life.
Death" said Donnan, 'is the
breakdown of this structure, al
ways present and only warded off
by oxidation"
Donnan explained Hills theory
from another angle. The world is
a living world because it is un-
balanced. he said.
1T is the non-equilibrium, the
free or available energy of envir-
onment, which is the sole source
of life and activity" he said.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
ADMINISTRATORS NAMED
FOR ALLISON ESTATE
Miami mad City Men Appointed By
Judge Blanton

Thomas J. Pancoast, Miami
Beach, Fla, and Eugene H. Iglehart,
Indianapolis have been named ad-
ministrators of the estate of the late
Jmaes A. Allison, according to a dis
patch from Miami Beach today.
They were named Tuesday by
Probate Judge w. F. Blanton on re-
quest of Mrs. Lucille Musset' AlIi-
son, bride-widow of Mr.. Allison, and
his mother.
Pancoast, who is to administer The
estate in Florida, posted 100000
bond, and Iglehart, $4,000.
The value of Mr.. Allison's personal
property in Florida has been esti-
mated at $1,25O,O00, but complete
inventory of property has not been
filed. Marion county hold ings have
been estimated at 100000.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12

A steam engine moves and
IA works because the coal and
oxygen are not in equilibrium,
just as an animal lives and acts
because its food and oxygen are
not in equilibrium" Donnan con-
tinued.
Equilibrium is death. The
chief source of life activity on
this earth arises from the fact
that the cool surface of the earth
constantly is bathed in a flood Of
high temperature and light.
"All living things live and act
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
FIRE DAMAGES SCHOOL
Students Save Trophies and Rec
Ords at Prep Building.

o~Working swiftly while flames
swept the main building of the
Boys Preparatory School on River
side DR.. late Tuesday, students and
workmen succeeded in saving rec-
ords, trophies, and much equipment.
The blaze is believed 10 have started
from a defective f1ue.
Damage to the building, concen-
trated on the study hall, bedrooms
and kitchen, was estimated at $25,-
900. Workmen we're installing desks
and their student aids were practic-
ing football when the fire started.
The blaze will not delay start II
school, C. o. Page, head master, an
nounced.
The fire department was delayed
nearly half an hour in reaching the
scene when signals were confused
and the trucks first made the run
to the Prest-O-Lite plant, near the
speedway.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
EATE life; RESEARCH POINTS WAY TO lift VEIL OF DEATH

researches of Professor Archibald
Vivian Hill, noted physiologist,
and later issued a statement to
the press.
Donnan qualified his statement
by explaining that although the
day was nearer" it still might
be far of, but that present knowl-
edge was such that there was no
reason why living cell should
not be constructed in a labora-
tory"
Hills researches have revealed
the nature of the vital spark"
that makes an organism live.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12

Scientists already have analyzed
the chemical nature of the cell,
Donnan pointed out. The mys-
terry has been what makes it go.
NERVE and muscle cells are
4 ' like batteries, Hills discov-
cries indicate. They constantly
are running down but as con-
Stantly are being built up, not
by electricity, but by oxygen.
The different elements that
make up a cell are arranged in a
certain structure. The action of
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
HOLMES VOTE Chief
Same Commissioners It
Handle November Vote.

Ira M. Holmes, Republican cleo
ton commissioner, was reelected
chairman of the Marion County
board of election commissioners
County Clerk George Hutsell an
nounced.
His election assures the same
election board personnel that han
died the May primary for the No
ve:Zber election. Other board men,
bers are Hutsell and James Deery
Democratic member.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
By United Press

By United Press
GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. IL.
~ Man apparently is about
to solve the riddle of the ages
the mystery of life and death.
Scientists even have dared to
predict that "the day was nearer"
when they will create life itself.
This is the substance of star
tling announcements made here
Tuesday night to the British AS
sociation for the Advancement Of
Science by Prof. Frederick G.
Donovan, London, who outlined
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
PHAYER GIVEN
GRILLING ON
CLUB HOLDUP
Suspect in Broadmoor Job
Rushed Here at Night
by Auto.
COOL AS He FACES QUIZ
Held in Solitary After He
Reaches Jail; Loses
Freedom Moves.
COOL AS He FACES QUIZ

Charles Player, 80, coolly, Smil-
ingly and emphatically stuck to his
story that he was in st. Louis, Mo-,
May 80, the night the Broadmoor
Country Club was robbed here,
when Indianapolis detectives Seevre-
ly grilled him today.
Detective Chief Jerry Kinney and
Detectives Donald Tooley and John
Marren questioned Player, accused
OF being the leader of the Broad
moor bandits, for more than an hour
but got nothing from him, Kin
ney said.
Player is being kept in solitary
confinement.
Tooley and two st. Louis officers
brought Player to Indianapolis by
automobile during the night.
Federal Judge G. B. Davis, in St.
Louis Tuesday afteruoon, denied
Players petition for a writ of
habeas corpus to prevent removal
to Indianapolis. Before the high
priced lawyers of the East st. Louis
gang leader could start further legal
steps, the st. Louis officers rushed
Tooley and the prisoner to a waiting
fast automobile and started, pell
nell, for Indiana.
Player already had lost moves for
freedom in the lower courts of ST..
Louis and Governor Sam A. Baker
Of Missouri had approved his ex-
tradition in a hearing at Jefferson
City.
Is Partly Identified
Four indianapolis business men,
victims in the Broadmoor holdup of
the night of May 30, partially have
identified Player as the leader of
the holdup gang of six or eight men
who took more than 100000 in
money and jewels.
Player had the $3.50 watch of E.
w. Fisher, 1840 N Meridian ST., in
: the waistband of his trousers when
captured in st. Louis last week.
Most of the trip from ST..
Louis was made in the rain. The
detectives were heavily armed and
constantly on the alert for an at
tempt at rescue by pals Of Player.
1t was expected that several other
victims of the holdup would be asked
to view Phayer for possible further
identification. Tooley returned to
headquarters about $3.50 a. m. and
went into conference with Kinney.
Player was led out of his Soli-
tary cell and "paraded" at the de-
tective roll call this morning.
He was perfectly groomed, giving
no appearance of having sat in an
automobile seat from 3:45 Mon
day afternoon until 2:30 this morn
ing. Tooley said he had talked most
of the way. discussing everything
but the Broadmoor robbery.
Player walked Sedately out in
front of the detectives and stood at
attention, heels together and arms
at his side, like soldier.
Well Groomed for Ordeal
He wore clean panama, with
fancy band. blue shirt with collar
to match, dark blue tie, light grey
suit and tan shoes. He appeared
more like business man who be-
longed in the lobby of an exclusive
hotel than a suspected bandit.
Upon request of Prosecutor Will
liam H. Reny, when court opened
this morning, Criminal Judge James
A. Collins raised Players bond
from $4,000 to $4,000. No at
torney nor bondsman had appeared
at police headquarters to represent
Phayer.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
GUST KIN OF KAISER
BrOther-in-Law of William Nabbed
and Expelled from Belgium.

BERLIN, Sept. IL. - Alexander
zoubkoff, brother-in-law of the for
mer Kaiser, was arrested by Belgian
police and expelled from that coun-
try, a dispatch received here today
said.
zoubkof tried to enter Belgium
illegally from Luxembourg in a
street car, the dispatch said, and
was taken off the car by police.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
Wales Arrives in Cairo

BIZ Untt6I Press
CAIRO, ept. 1.-THE Prince of
Wales and the Duke of Gloucester
took up temporary quarters in the
British residency after their arrival
from Marseilles, on the start of their
African tour.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
FAKES H0LDUP, BUT
FAILS TO FOIL COPS
Collector, Is, Hid S127 in Car; Told
Bandit Story

Bandit Story
Joe Bell, 18, collector for an In
dianapolis real estate firm. is bet
ter stage hand than an actor. And
because his performance lacked real
ism, Joe failed in $127 coup and
today is held in Jail on vagrancy
charge.
He appropriated $127 of his firms
money, hid it in the car; feigned un-
consciousness and fell in the street
at White River and w. Michigan St.,
where police found him late Tues
day.
He asserted he had been slugged
and robbed by two Negroes. This
morning he confessed the plot to
police.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
Coolidge Thanks HOosiers

DVVlIWbD NA1aIlRN9 AAVV71VE9
BB Times Special
VINCENNES, Ind, Sept. 12,-The
Vincennes Chamber of Commerce
has received a letter of thanks from
President Coolidge in return for
basket of Knox County peaches.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
CHAMP RUNAWAY FOUND
Joe, 4. Sent Back Home for Tenth
Time in Year.

BV United Press
SECAUCUs, N. j., Sept. IL
Joseph Barnett, 4, champion rum
away of the East. has been found
here, nine miles from his home in
Gutenberg. Police cannot remem-
ber whether this is the tenth or
eleventh time Joseph has run away
from home this year.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-09-12
Hourly Temperatures
And the lost
shall be found.

The quickest way to locate the
finder or loser of valuable articles
is through the Lost and Found
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babies aUhiLe
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16

theology and reactionary aims, but
but exert little influence on the
Canadian labor movement as a
whole.
Reactionary Groups.
The two leading trade union or
CARNATIONS in Canada are the
Trades and Labor Council Of Cana
da and the All-Canadian Congress
of Labor Of the 180,755 Canadian
workers claimed by the craft unions
affiliated with United States groups,
105,847 are affiliated with the for
mer, in addition to some 5000 men,
bers of local Canadian unions and
trades councils. Thus the majority
of Canadian trade unionists are
subject to the control of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and the
American railway unions, while the
largest single aggregation are SUBJ
ject to the reactionary Trades and
Labor Congress. This body, per-
meated with craft theology, follows
the same policies in. Canada as the
A. F. of L. in the United States, and
often Directly adopts A. F. of L..
policies. 1t has approved the B. &
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16

Although there are in Canada
more than 100000 workers, only
100000 are organized in trade
unions. There are four main trade
union groups. The largest group
consists of the so-called "interna-
tional" craft unions affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor
and the railway brotherhoods in the
United States, with a total of $780,
755 members. The second largest
consists of Independent Canadian
unions, unaffiliated with any group
in the United States States, with
S0,127 members. In addition there
are the catholic unions, with $4,000
members and the l. w. w. with A.
400 members.
The l. w. w. and the catholic
unions play minor roles in the Can
adian labor movement. The catho-
lie unions are confined almost en-
tirely to the province of Quebec;
they are dominated by the catholic
clergy and exist by the sufferance
of the employers. They resemble the
A. F. of L. unions in their craft
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16

o. plan of class collaboration it has
expelled Communists; and it has re-
jected resolutions for the resumption
of trade relations between Canada
and the Soviet Union. Thus, the
Trades and Labor Congress may be
said to represent the extreme right
wing of the Canadian labor move
ment.
The All-Canadian Congress of La
Dor is in many ways more progress
sive body. 1t was organized in 1927
by twelve Canadian trade union
groups not affiliated with the A. F..
of L. The announced purpose of
the new federation was to unite all
Canadian labor unions in strictly
Canadian body. The new organiza-
ton was the result of agitation
which has been going on for several
years to throw off the domination
of the A. F. of L. This agitation
has been supported on the one hand
by Canadian patriots who look upon
the connection with the A. F. of L..
as foreign interference, and on the
other by left elements who object