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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-18
CITIZENS PROPOSE MERGER
PLAN OF THEIR OWN

A rate Of return less than per
cent.
Adequate service both on cars and
on buses.
One-half fare for children.
Free transfers from cars and
buses.
A. clause protecting labor.
Labor Important Part
The federation at it's meeting to-
night probably will give its special
utilities committee free rein in
presenting it's plan at the hearing.
1t was indicated that the labor
question will play an important part
in the ultimate plan.
Fleharty is girding his lions for
a fight on behalf of the public at
the hearings and yesterday began
a detailed study of figures compiled
by his statistical assistant.
Surplus is Question
Meanwhile, the question of what
shall become of the Washington
Railway and Electric Companys
$4,000, 900 surplus, which will re-
main after it meets the $1,0O0,00O
surplus of the Capital Traction
Company, was showed to the fore in
the discussion that is confronting
the Public Utilities Commission.
Under the terms Of the proposed
merger, it was declared by William
NICK. Clayton, the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company would
transfer to the new company as
sets equal to the net current assets
of 1000, 900 and the latter 81 ,0O0, 900,
Clayton declared.
Juicy Melon
That would leave $4,000, 900 as a
melon to be cut by stockholders in
the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio, as there is no provision made
for use of this fund, it was pointed
out.
And here is what Harrison
Brand, vice chairman of the Utili-
ties Commission, says about it.:
And what of it?-they are en-
titled to it, II It IL there"
Brand cited court decisions In New
York to uphold. hiS contsuttoSA
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Hamilton and William F. Ham
officiating, was filed with the
commission this week.
Citizens Plan
The citizens plan, the outgrowth
Of 20 years Of study and public dis
cussion by citizens organizations.
will be virtually perfected tonight
in the Board Room of the District
Building at the regular melting of
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
ton.
1t will incorporate what Fedora
ton leaders claim are constructive
elements which would be acceptable
to the man and woman who puts
the token in the fare box. The
citizens plan was tentatively drafted
by the public utilities committee of
the Federation at q meeting Thurs.
day night.
Back Citizens Plan
On this committee are several
lawyers, public utility engineers
and students of utility problems.
some of them have devoted years of
study and research in regard to the
District transportation problem.
William NICK. Clayton, chairman
of the committee, and w. A. Rob-
erts, vice chairman, will be among
the leading spokesman to insist on
adoption Of the citizens merger
plan.
Ralph B. Fleharty, peoples coun.
sci, will conduct the attack on the
company plan.
Fleharty today held long con-
ference with Roberts at which the
latter explained the committees OBJ
tections to the company plan.
1t was indicated that the peoples
counsel and the federation are in
hearty accord in the present matter
and will join forces when certain
questions arise involving both
agencies.
In brief the federation plan fol-
lows:
No $50, 900 900, or any fixed valua-
ton whatever. r.
No pa1pstnaa fRAneh3HA
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band, but / want to live and / don't
want to die on foreign soils
The message came in an inter
view granted by the assistant
mother superior Of the Montreal re.
ligious order, in whose charge the
provincial authorities have placed
all female criminals.
Tale Of Conversion
The tale of the religious CONVEX.
sion of the girl came from the
English-speaking nun in whose
charge the young wife was first
placed after a Canadian jury had
sentenced her and her husband to
the goilows for the murder OF a
French-Canadian taxicab driver,
Adelard Bouchard, last July.
1t was her first interview con-
corning the girl, whose maiden
name was Snyder. The nun, who
in Quebec takes the place that
Warden Lawes filled for the other
Snyder woman, Ruth of Sing Sing,
constantly referred to her con-
demned charge as Doris" or "this
child''-a decided departure from
the hard-boiIed attitude OF the
Canadian press and public here.
Love Notes Exchanged
Telling Of the girls conversion in
the death cell, the nun described
an amazing somehow the girl
had been arrayed in robes Of white,
how a blue silk ribbon, bearing the
emblem of the Virgin Mary, had
been placed about her neck, and
how the girl. already received into
the Catholic church by confession
and communion, had become a
member of the religious order
known as Daughters of Mary.
Love letters, passionate notes of
an affection which the writer's vow
will never die until they stand on
the gallows Of Valleyfield prison,
March %, have been exchanged
each day by the condemned couple.
Although the jury recommended
mercy for her, 1t is far from GER
tain she will escape hanging. Less
than an even chance, according to
authorities who have looked up
precedent. Her fate rests with
Viscount wilmington, governor gen.
eral of Canada. and Minister Of
Justice Ernest La Pointe at Ottawa.
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NJ DONALD GIRL
GAVE THR|LLs

Continued from First pasel
crawl back on the folded top ana
sit with her legs dangling over
the rear Of the car, laughing and
shouting.
Maybe she was BIT too Wild, .
bit too unrestrained. but she en-
jOyed It. and her merriment was
contagious.
Serious About Stage
think about the only thing she
was ever serious about was her
stage career. she was an excellent
dancer. She wanted to Be ! great
dancer, She wanted 70 interpret
in her carefree. abandoned way
the Joy and unrestraint Of 8 happy
being. She wanted to do this BY
dancing.
have seen her In amateur theak-
ricals in Mount Vernon. but / was
never greatly impressed BY dancing.
She was good. I'll admit. but she
seemed to be suddenly s0lf-conscious
and seized with stage fright when
she got before her audience. and
something Of her real nature Was
lost.
She would leave the stage silent
and morose. But she would not be
disheartened. She believed Iii her
self 30 utterly.
Julia would hardly stop At any.
thing to attract attention.
One day she came 10 town dressed
as q sailor MILDLY blouse, flare
bottom trousers and all. OF course,
she was q pretty girl. had lovely
figure and attracted attention.
But think the most startling
thing she ever did was staged one
day in the spring Of 1925.
It was one OF those days when
you can wear an overcoat or leave
it off.
/ was standing on q corner on
Fourth Street In Mount Vernon
when saw Julia coming down the
opposite side OF the street.
She wore . fur coat, but no hat.
Only . Fur Coat
She looked as cOnventionally
dressed as any other young girl on
the street. But, leave it to Julia,
she wasn't.
There was q rougish gleam In her
eye as she passed me. ] nodded
back at her, but I felt that she
was up to something.
Pretty soon one Of my friends
came up and said:
What win Julia do next?"
What do you mean?' / asked.
why, she's running about town
with nothing on, he declared,
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Continued from First Rage.l
ID the state Asylum Tor the Crirni-
nal Insane here al an aftermath
Of the staining OF his wife, limo
gene, would be freed Monday, were
denied BY officials Of the institu-
ton today.
al nearing before the Appellate
Court here today resulted in testi-
1nony by Or. w. j.. Neville. defense
alienist in Remus' murder trial,
that he Is sane, A sanity hearing
is to be held Monday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-18
Doomed Girl Sends
Out Plea fer Mercy
From Her Death Cell

MONTREAL, Feb. 18.-In Mon.
treats gray city of silent women,
that prison ruled by nuns who have
renounced the world and peopled
by women whom the world has re-
nounced, slim, brown-haired Mrs.
Doris Palmer Mcdonald, 20-year-old
former New York actress sentenced
to hang next month, today sent out
her plea for mercy.
Its not true that / have re-
nounced all hope of life" said the
girl, who once lived in Mt. Vernon.
ct want to live. / know l said
weeks ago that I wanted to. die
on the same scaffold with my huS-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-18
Girls Father Engages
Counsel in Wheeling
To Go to Montreal
y InternationAl NeWs SerYica

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 1S.-After
fleeing from Montreal where they
murdered a taxicab driver, last
summer, George Mcdonald and his
wife, Doris Palmer Mcdonald, now
awaiting death on the gallows in
the Canadian city, came here and
passed worthless checks and coun-
forfeited securities, Secret Service
agents revealed today.
Government agents became aware
OF the counterfeiting activities when
imitation Government drafts were
passed in New York The MeDoTl-
aids suddenly took leave from
Pittsburgh, the woman's birthplace
and Secret Service men tracked
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BABY SON Will VISIT
DOOMED GIRL

them to Chicago where their trial
vanished.
Shortly afterwards the couple was
arrested in Butte, Mont, and re-
turned to Montreal to answer for
the capital crime
Mrs. McDonald's father, Lee Sny-
der, has engaged counsel in Wheel.
ing, w. Va, to try to save her
from the gallows. He is expected
to go to Montreal with his attor-
neys soon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-18
ON BIOLOGICAL SURVEY

Stanley p. Young. Of Colorado,
yesterday was appointed chief OF
the division Of economic investi-
cations of the Bureau Of Biologi-
cal Survey, Agricultural Depart
ment, to succeed DR.. A. K. Fisher,
who has been assigned to scientific
research work in economic ornitho.
Iogy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-18
Pennsy Freight Clerks
To Hold Annual Dance

Capitol Lodge TO. SIO, bronze
hood of Railway Clerks. and en-
the Pennsylvania railroad win hold
its annual dance Monday evening
at knights Of Columbus Hall, go
Tenth st. N. w.
The proceeds win go to sick mem.
bers OF the organizations. III. A.
ments.
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Continued from First Page.l
The orphanage more than twelve
years ago.
girl was her own daughter until a.
few days ago. The condemned girl
had kept her identity a secret, hid.
ing behind the name OF her hus-
hand, with whom she declares she
wants to die.
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Continued from First Page.)

Hamilton and William F. Ham
officiating, was filed with the
commission this week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-18
CRUISERS TO SAMOA

WELLINGTON. New Zealand,
Feb. 1s.-ThA cruisers Dunedin and
Diomede have been sent to Samoa
to aid In quelling continued unrest
among the native chieftains, it was,
officially announcDd today
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CALLS MOTHER.
SLAYER
CONTINUED from First Page)

CONTINUED from First Page.9
asked p. NJ. Gidewell. defense
counsel, and didn't you get so
drunk you had to cancel minis
terial appointment"
Absolutely not" replied the en-
ragged preacher.
Deputy Sheriff Dick Stokes told
of finding Petty's sbody In the base
ment.
Other witnesses included DIR. f.
J. Jet, who examined the body,
and Sidney Perry, an engineer,
who sketched the Petty premises.
Girl Unmoved
Mrs. Gatlin, the 20.year-old bride
of Reidsville's fire chief, on trial
for her life, was unmoved as the
minister, former itinerant evan
gelist, swore she confessed to him
that she killed her father.
The Rev. Pardue quoted Mrs.
Gatlin, then Alma Petty, giving the
following version of the account:
Il interfered in the quarrel and
I decided to kill my father. The
family all retired except him. He
sat up, cursing and playing the
monograph. For two years I had
kept pistol to kill him with but
decided to do it with an ak.
Put Off killing
IT lay awake waiting for my
father to go to bed and to sleep.
When I heard him get in bed, /
went to the cellar and got the az.
Then I decided that If he were
found dead in bed the chances Of
detection would be too. great. I
put off killing him until the next
morning.
Mother and sister left the house,
and father came down for breakfast.
/ gave him his eggs and went to the
kitchen and brought in the an.
Standing behind him. / raised the AK
in both hands and brought it down
on his head. He fell to the floor
and pleaded for mercy while I dealt
him two more blows.
II then dragged him into the
kitchen. where beat him with a
pipe. He opened his eyes once and
said: DO you believe in hell now?
He said: Yes, pray for me-
After an hour he died. I put his
body in q trunk and showed 1t into
a closet. For two days It stayed
there while I dug a grave in the
cellar. After all, decided not to
bury it there and took it away from
the house in an automobile"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-08

Notice - Films Developed
Free! In at $3.50 a. m, out
at 5 p. m. Buy your films
at Haag's Stores where you
are sure of getting fresh
stock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-08
DALEY PRIMARY
EXPENSE S1,847
Files Statement of Amount
Spent in Race.

Frank G. Daley, Democratic
nominee for Governor, spent only
81 ,847.79 in the primary campaign
in which he received a plurality Of
upward Of $4,000 votes His ex-
penditures were filed with County
Clerk George o. Hutsell, Thursday,
the last day for filing.
Scion D. Carter in the race for
United States Senator spent
$3,11662; Charles w. Jewett,
$4,62262 III the G.. o. P. governor
ship race.
County Surveyor Henry r. Camp
bells statement listed $1,122.30
spent.
Alvah J. Rucker spent $1,319
seeking the Republican governor
ship nomination.
George Snider spent $35S.70 be-
ing renominated to the county COM
mission.
Other Republicans who filed ex-
pense statement: James M. Wal
den, precinct committeeman, moth
ing; william M. Hough, State Sena-
tor, $66; Ennis E. Jones' precinct
committeeman, ST; Grin E. Davis,
sheriff, $470; B. Alfred Raitano,
State Representative, $3.50; Her
man L. Seeger, State Senator, $40;
r. Alfred Hayes, delegate, $1.5O;
Ulis B: Hine, coroner. $17660;
James r. Norrell. Seventh district
Representative in Congress. $748O;
Jacob Morgan, State Represent
alive, $423.81.
Evans Woollen listed expenditures
Of $1,884.79.
Other - Democrats who filed:
Henry H. Winkler, Seventh district
REPRESENTATIVE in CONGRESS. SOD. so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-08
INDIANA MAYOR
IS DEAD AT 80
William Spooner, VaIpa-
raise, Had CoIorfuI Career.
BIZ Times Special

By Times Special
VALPARAISO, Ind, June B.
William F. Spooner, 80, who was
serving his fourth term as mayor
Of Valparaiso, is dead at the home
Of his daughter, Mrs. Ben Schuldt,
the final chapter of one of the most
colorful political careers in northe
ern Indiana's history.
Success in his fourth campaign
for mayor was due, Spooner de-
clare6, to votes he received from
persons who as children, twenty
years ago, we're recipients of gifts
of candy, pennies and smiles from
him. He was the first Democrat
to be elected mayor here in forty
five years and the only Porter
County Democratic winner in the
last election.
Mayor Spooner was a native of
Leicester, Mass. He came here in
1882 and opened grocery and grain
store. For ten years prior to that
date he was manufacturer OF
soap and perfumes in Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-08
Uses Ruse to CajoIe Wary
Motorists for Lift
Along Highway.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, June "a
hitch-hiker who passed through
Wisconsin recently had devised a
new method of inducing wary mo-
florists to give him lifts.
Despite the fact that others are
ignored when they beg for rides,
due to fear of highwaymen, he has
made rapid progress across the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-08
JUNE 5. 1928

hiker would explain cheerfully after
he became comfortably seated
He opened a can from one side
an ingenious trap door-and dis
closed a change of clothes, tooth
brush, comb, etc. Saves carrying
a suitcase or knapsack, too" he
smiled
"I was broke end had to make up
a trip from Macon, Ga, to North
Dakota, so I devised this scheme, 1t
works almost 100 per cent"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-08

can, apparently a gasoline continer.
He leaned to one side and staggered
along as if almost exhausted.
His left hand mopped his brow
with large handkerchief. AS a
car approached he stopped and
gazed wistfully.
"Here is a man who has run out
Of gas" his Intended victim would
think, "I'll give him a lift"
ooh, no, I haven't any car. I just
carry this can as little STALL" the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-08
Hitch-Hiker Carries CAM
Tired Look, Stops Autos

State and at last reports was some
where in North Dakota, still going
strong.
The youngster, who never di-
vulged his name. carried a large
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-08

Adolph zwerner, State Represent
alive, $3.50; Walter T. Blasengyrn,
coroner, $686; Art j. Probst, county
commissioner, $12; William H Elan
derS, State Representative, SIS; For
rest w. Littlejohn, delegate, Moth
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-08
indiana Missionary Dies

SHEL8YVILLE, Ind, June g.
Relatives here of the Rev. John
Newcomb. 70, Baptist missionary in
India, have received word of his
death in the Holy Land while en-
route to his nome in Shelby County
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-08
HooSIERS WIN HONoRS

Culver Military Academy Announces
List of Awards.
By Times Special
CULVER, Ind, June ACADEMIC
and military honors awarded Thurs
day at commencement exercises at
Culver Military Academp include
the following Indiana students:
Neal A. Swearingen and Joseph
D. Coppock, Peru; Benjamin H. An
derson and John r. Crimmel, Hart
ford Ciyt; Robert S. Cuthbert and
John ]. Sailors. Kokomo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

meath the wheels and he died in
Stantly. The truck was pushed along
in front Of the train for 200 yards
and vegetables scattered.
Engineer Ore Horton, Peru, said
he saw the truck coming on the
Monon tracks which parallel the
Nickel Plate and that he didn't ex-
pect it to turn in front of his train.
Run Over by Tractor
The boys body was sent to city
morgue by Coroner b. H. Keever,
and the father is reported recov-
ering today at city hospital.
The 5year-old Human boy, son
Of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hin
man, SIS N. East ST., is in critical
condition at city hospital as the re-
suit of a skull fracture received
when struck by an automobile in
the street in front of his home
Thursday.
The car was driven by Carl
Waterman, %, of 1915 Madison
Ave-, who was held on an assault
and battery charge. Witnesses said
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Thomas, 10, were also burned and
are at the hospital, but their con-
dition was reported as not critical
today.
Auto Turns Over
\ The mother, seeing the accident
screamed and passing motorist
came and rolled the children in the
grass to extinguish their flaming
clothing, most of which was burned
away. They were treated at the
office of DR.. G. j. Kneer in Oaklan-
don and then brought here in the
city ambulance.
La Noir was riding with Fred
Nordyce, %, when they swerved the
car to avoid striking some women
repairing tire on the pavement
near Lizton, Ind, Wednesday and
the car turned over. He died at
Methodist Hospital Thursday night.
The Num- DO was killed and his
father injured when their vegetable
truck was struck by a Nickel Plate
passenger train at Seventeenth st.
late Thursday.
The boys body was hurled be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
TOLL OF five
DEAD TAKEN
IN ACCIDENTS
Three Die of Injuries in
Auto Crashes; Burns
Are Fatal.

Five violent deaths three of whom
we're children, and two critical
cases, one a 5-year-old boy, is the
tragic harvest here for the last
twenty-four hours.
The dead:
Edward Harmening, SIS, of 1912
N. Dearborn St., thrown from his
bicycle beneath truck at East and
Washington Sts., and killed instant
ly, shortly before a. m. today.
Elizabeth Klinger, 9, Oaklandon,
died from burns caused by an ex-
plosion.
Frank j. LaNoir, 81, of 6511 Fergu-
son ST., died as the result of in
juries in a motor accident at Liz
ton, Ind.
Arthur Num-, Jr., IA, Negro, Key
stone Ave. and Seventy-First St.
was killed instantly when train
struck truck at Seventeenth ST.
crossing Thursday.
Louis Altherr, 3, died from in
iuries received in fall from a trac-
tor at his farm home in Upton
County.
Death Driver Is Held
The injured:
Eugene Hinman, S, of 525 N. East
St., skull fractured when struck by
automobile in front of his home.
Arthur Num-, ST., Negro, father
of boy killed, skull fracture and
shoulder broken in same accident.
Harmening was riding to his work
as saw filler at the Furnas Furni-
ture Company, 139 S. East ST., when
the front wheel of his bicycle caught
in the front wheel of a Standard
Grocery truck and he was thrown
beneath the truck and the rear
wheel passed over his body.
william Betz, 35, New Bethel, who
was driving the truck north on East
ST., was held on charge of man
slaughter. The truck was turning
west on Pearl ST., and Harmening
was riding south on East st. when
the accident occurred.
Can Thrown in Fire ExplOdes
Ernest Brown, 258 N. Pershing
Ave-, also a Standard grocery en-
ploye, was riding on the truck run
ming board when the accident oc-
Cured.
Betz was released by DR.. G. A.
Hadden, deputy coroner, on his own
recognizance.
The Klinger girl is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Klinger. She
died at James Whitcomb Riley
Children's Hospital Thursday night.
She had been severely burned late
Thursday afternoon when a can
thrown into a rubbish fire at the
home exploded. 1t is thought to
have contained gasoline.
Two brothers, Frank, 7, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
SEEK TO INSURE COPS

Group life insurance is being con-
sidered for police and firemen by
city officials as an outgrowth Of the
death of Paul Miller, motor police
man, who was fatally wounded by
bandits.
Several life insurance agents have
conferred with the safety board and
Police Chief Claude M. Worley
relative to the accidental death
policies. The rates would be more
reasonable under the group plan.
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the boy darted from behind another
machine into the path of the
Waterman car.
Louis Altherr, 3-year-old son of
Andrew Altherr, Upton County
farmer, died at st. Vincent's hos
pital Thursday night as the result
of being run over by tractor at
his home. The child slipped from
the tractor beneath one OF the
heavy wheels and was almost dead
when brought here.
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