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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-16
CHAMBERLIN IN AIR
Starts Third Attempt to Set
Endurance Record.
Ell Tnitrd Press

EU United Press
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y, Jan.
16.-Undismayed by two previous
failures, Clarence D. Chamberlin
and Roger @. Williams today began
their third attempt within week
to set a new world record for Sus-
tanned flight.
The flierS left Roosevelt Field at
1852 p. m. in the huge Bellanca
monoplane they used in their pre-
vious efforts. 1t is owned by A.
r. MARITIME, Wall Street banker
Chamberlin and Williams came
within an hour and a half of better
ing the present record Saturday
when they were forced to descend
because a leaEy full tank had wasted
some of their gas supply. They
are trying to regain for the United
States the endurance honors lost in
August when Johann Risticz and
Cornelius Edzard stayed aloft in a
junkers plane for 50 hours % min
ues and 81 second.
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BOMBS WRECK BUILDING

TwO-StOry Indiana HarbOr Struc-
ture Wrecked-NO Motive Disclosed.
BIZ United Press
INDIANA HARBOR, Ind, Jan.
16.-The Fraelich Block, a two
story brick building, was destroyed
Sunday night by two bomb ex-
ploSions. Fire following the ex-
plosions, destroyed the building.
Damage was estimated at $4,000.
A clothing store in the building
was the object of the first bomb,
and a second was hurled at clean
ing and dying establishment. Police
could give no reason for the bomb
ingS.
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Death WITNESSES SPLIT ON ARoLsHNe EXECUTIONS

William asserted. st think it has
failed as a deterrent to murder"
Nothing could be worse than
seeing a woman put to DEATH"
argued Killgallen.
Terret's objections to capital
punishment were divided into
practical and ethical grounds, he
said. On the practical side the
death penalty has not been fully
tried because it is not alright, he
explained; on the ethical side, So
ciety ''has no right to take away
what it cannot give"
The witnesses reticent about
discussing opinions were DR.. Syl-
vester Leahy, Brooklyn; Edwin G.
Hill, New York Sun. and w. w
Chanmau Qf the Associated Rgea
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THOSE opposed include: Dud-
l. ley Nichols, New York World;
Gene Fowler, New York Ameri-
can; James Killgallen, Interna-
tional News Service; Courtenay
Terrell, New York Telegram;
Richard Williams, New York Jour-
nal; Frank Donoghue, Long
Island Star; Wilbur Rogers,
Brooklyn Eagle; Charles v. Slat-
terry, New York Mirror; Lou
Wedemar, New York Graphic;
Earl Schaub, Universal Service,
and Whitney Bolton, New York
Herald Tribune.
"You have only to see an elec-
trocution to be against it." said
Nichols.
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ROBBERY Laid
TO CHAMBERS
Marion JeWeIer, Victim Of
$4,000 HoIdup, Identi-
fies Gang Leader.
NOW SOUGHT AS KILLER
Woman Companion Be-
Iieved Third Member of
Fatal Triangle.

En- LHtCd Press
MARION, Ind. Jan. 16.-The trail
of the Gordon Chambers gang led
into Indiana. it was established
here today when Ralph Roessler, a
jeweler, identified a photograph of
Chambers as the likeness of one of
the men who assisted in the $4,000
robbery of Roessler's store last
Sept. 8.
Chambers is fugitive from Chi
cago police, who are seeking him
for the murder of his wife, Betty
Chambers, whose body was found a
few days ago, a lamp cord around
her throat and adhesive tape cover
ing her mouth and nostrilS.
Roessler, while identifying Cham
bers, said that BettyS photograph
did not resemble the woman who
accompanied the gangster into the
Roessler store the day before it was
robbed by five men. Chambers and
his woman companion merely got
the layout" of the store, he said.
The robbery was carried out
smoothly, the five bandits beating
Roessler into submission and fore
ing clerks to lie on the floor while
choicest gems were taken. Roessler
said Chambers was not among the
five.
Marion police are investigating
the possibility that the woman with
Chambers was Marion Kirk, for love
of whom Chambers is said to have
slain his wife.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-The mystic
rious life of Betty Chambers, which
led to death by blows and strangu-
lation amid her silken f1nery,
puzzled police Monday, as. they pre-
pared for a coroner's inquest into
her murder.
Two pictures of the girl had been
uncovered, but which was the true
one police could not tell.
She was the brains of a gang of
jewel thieves, according to one
version, which credited her with
staging a 100000 diamond robbery
in Cleveland.
But the others picture presented
her as just another of the hundreds
of girls of the underworld whose
silks and jewels came from a success
sion of men.
Police believed they had proved
that Betty was in Chicago when the
Cleveland robbery was staged,
although Alexander Swirsky, the
victim, identified her from a picture
as the girl bandit, who led the hold
up Of his store.
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mond Wylie, Standard News As
ISOLATION; Willard Williams,
Brooklyn Times, and Alfred Turk,
Long Island Press.
Capital punishment is not a
pleasant thing to look upon, but I
feel it is a strong deterrent and
should be retained" johnson said.
Keemle argued that capital pun
ishment should be enforced more
often in cases of first degree mur-
der to be a deterrent.
Sutherland said he never had
heard of a life prisoner asking for
the electric chair, and thence
there can be no doubt about which
punishment is the more Isared.r
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WAGE CREDIT CAMPAIGN
Twenty New Unions in State Sought
in Drive.

Twenty new credit unions in In
diana, to be affiliated with the Ma
tional Credit Bureau, is the goal of
a campaign to be waged in the
State beginning this week and ex-
tending until the middle Of Feb
ruary.
Fourth annual meeting of the
State organization, the Indiana,
Credit Union League, will be held
at the Y. w. G. A. Thursday eve
ming, Jan. 26, following a dinner.
C. Leroy Austin of L. S. Ayres g. Co.
is the State president.
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CITY STORE ROBBED
Loss at Miller -WohI May
Reach $1,000.

Burglars obtained from $500 to
$4,000 worth of clothing from the
Miller-Wohl Company store, As E.
Washington ST., over the weekend
in the most daring downtown
burglary of recent weeks.
Police believe the burglars used a
truck to carry away the dresses,
underwear and hosiery stolen. A
front door glass was broken and
another door broken open to gain
entrance to the store.
The burglary probably was COM
mitted Sunday night or early today,
according to Al Feldman, manager.
The total value of the loot will not
be determined until an inventory is
taken, he said.
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Hourly Temperatures
BY PAUL w. WHITE
United Press Stah Correspondent

NTEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Execu-
L Y ton Of Ruth Snyder and
Judd Gray, with its widespread
publicity, has renewed interest in
the theory of capital punishment
and has left a trail of arguments.
Numerous newspapers have be-
gun campaigns to do away with
the death penalty. The Legisla-
ture probably will be asked dur
ing the present session to vote
on the proposal.
A poll Of opinions held by those
who witnessed the Snyder Gray
AxecUtlQQ ceYealed that there was
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Her notoriety was due In
part to certain legendary tales
Of her affairs with one or two
obscure potentateS in the back
washes of Europe.
She had spent two years abroad
after her first success in "The Bre-
tonne Maid"-a popular musical
comedy in which she had been mys-
teriously raised from obscurity to
the rank of "star"- one may
cynically imagine her press agent
took full advantage of her absence
to circulate vermillion tales,
Her appearance went far toward
sustaining her somewhat equivocal
fame. There was no question that
she was beautiful in, hard, Slight
ly f1amboyant way. I remember
seeing her dancing one night at the
Antlers Club-a famous rendezvous
for poSt-midnight pleasure seekers.
She impressed me then as girl
of uncommon loveliness, despite the
calculating, predatory cast Of her
features. She was of medium height,
slender, graceful in a leonine way,
and, thought, a trifle aloof and
even naughty in manner-a result,
perhaps, of her reputed association
with European royalty.
She had the traditional courte-
sans full, red lips, and the wide,
mongoose eyes of Rosetti'S blessed
Damozel." There was in her face
that strange combination of sensual
promise and spiritual remuneration
with which the painters of all ages
have sought to endow their concep-
tions of the Eternal Magdalene.
Hers was the type of face, volup-
tuous and with a hint of mystery,
which rules mans emotions and, by
subjugating his mind, drives him
to desperate deeds.
Margaret Odell had received the
sobriquet of Canary as a result of
part she had played in an elab-
crate ballet of the "Follies," in which
each girl had been gowned to repre-
sent a variety of bird.
To her had fallen the role of
canary; and her costume of white
and yellow satin, together with her
mass of shining golden hair and
pink and white complexion, had
distinguished her in the eyes of the
spectators as a creature Of out
standing charm. Before a fort
night had paSsed-so eulogistic was
her press notices, and so unerringly
did the audience single her out for
applause-the Bird Ballet" was
changed to the Canary Ballet" and
Miss Odell was promoted to the
rank of what might charitably be
called premiere danseuSe.
She had quilted the "Follies" at
the close of the season, and during
her subsequent spectacular career in
the haunts of Broadway's night life
she had been popularity and fa-
miliarly called the Canary. Thus it
happened that when her dead body
was found brutally strangled, in her
apartment, the crime Immediately
became known, and was always
thereafter referred to, as the Canary
murder.
My own participation in the in
vestigation of the Canary murder
case--or rather, my role of Boswell
liam Spectator-constituted one of
the most memorable experiences of
my life. At the time of Margaret
Odell's murder John FIX. Markham
was district attorney of New York,
having taken Office the preceding
January. I need hardly remind you
that during the four years of his in
cumbency he distinguished himself
By his almost uncanny success as q
snru.A..-. GHEn t2 Raga Il ] .-......
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revealed strange and bizarre ramcaons many dark
Of mans unexpored nature and the urcanny ubey
of human mind shapened by desperate and tragic despair
Margaret Odel product of the bohemian demmOnde
Of Broadway-a scntilan figure seemed somehow to
py the gaudy and spurious of transient gae For
nearly before her death she had been the most
picuous and in popular figure of the cys night life
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AL GETS cox BACKING
Smith Would Make Great President,
Says 1920 Nominee.
By United Press


NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Governor
AL Smith will be the Democratic
party's choice for President, ex-
Governor James M. Cox of Ohio,
nominee in 1920 believes.
Smith would make great presi-
dent" Cox said on a visit here. 81
think he would have a very excellent
chance of election, because he has
captured the imagination of the
man in the street. President Cool
idge would have been made to order
as candidate for Governor Smith
to run against, but it now looks to
me as if Hoover would be the Re-
publican nominee"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-16
DELAY HAMMER TRIAL
VeIma West Gets Delay to Undergo
Minor Operation.

BU United Press
PAINESVILLE. Ohio, Jan. 16-
Trial of Velma West, confessed
husband slayer, was set back by at
least week today when her attor-
neys were granted a postponement
of the scheduled arraignment.
Francis w. PoulSon, co-counsel for
the blonde housewife, and promi-
nent Cleveland criminal attorney,
pleaded a necessary minor opera
ton as his reason for asking the
delay in conference with Judge A.
G. Reynolds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-16
ALLEGED RUM RUNNER
FALLS VICTIM OF MUD
La Porte Police Make Capture After
Chase Over BOggy Fields.

ChaSe over BOggy Fields,
BV United Press
LA PORTE, Ind, Jan. 16.-Im-
passable roads did not prevent La
Porte police from capturing James
Wilson, 81, South Bend, alleged rum
runner, who is now awaiting trial in
the La Porte County Jail on default
of $500 bond.
After a thrilling chase down
muddy roads both the police auto
mobile and that of Wilson stalled.
Police leaped from their car and
chased the alleged bootlegger
through fields knee deep in mud
until he fell exhausted and
surrendered.
Wilson is said to be a former
South Bend policeman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-16
Highest Court to Recess

WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.-The
United States Supreme Court will
recess from Jan. % to Feb. 20, Chief
Justice Taft announced today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-16
Buses Cut Honeymoon Fares

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Jan. 16.-
So heavily have busses cut into the
honeymoon passenger traffic be-
tween New York and here that the
railroads have cut their rates al
most in half.
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almost an equal division.
OF tWenty-One witnesses int

almost an equal division.
OF twenty-one witnesses inter-
viewed, eight favored capital pun
ishment, ten opposed and three
failed to vote.
= r.
THOSE who favor the death
A penalty were: Alva. johnson,
New York Times; Sidney Suther-
erland, Liberty Magazine writer,
and representative of the New
York Daily News; Tom Howard,
who represented the Chicago Tri-
bune Press service, who is said to
have taken a photograph of Mrs.
Snyder in the electric chair; Louis
E Keemla United Press; Ray
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OUR OWN PIES and pastries.
rry them. FLETCHER CAFETERIA,
Basement Fletcher Trust Bldg.
$3.50 q p t2 Ssa9 q. na-~Adxartiss-
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JEWS PROTEST
De MILE film
King Of Kings ReviveS
Race Hate, Say Leaders.

Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht, a
leader of Jewish thought in Indian
apolis, today refused to join in the
nation Hebrew protest against the
film, 1.-THE King of Kings" until he
has seen the picture. The film will
open next week at English's.
II wish to make no comment
now," he said, 'but I probably will
preach on the king of Kings" Fri
day night at the church."
The Independent Order Of B'nai
Birth thought the international
president, Alfred M. Cohen, Cincin-
natl, Ohio, led protests against the
picture. Jews say the picture gives
a version of the life of Christ, which
revives old prejudices, and that it is
historically incorrect from the
standpoint of the Jew.
Nationwide protest over the
movie version of the cruciflxion of
Christ will result in complete re-
vision OF the film, it was learned to-
day.
Cecil B. DE Mile, director and
producer of the Biblical epic, it is
said, is planning a special prologue
generating the Jews and casting
the entire blame for the cruciflxion
of Christ on Caiaphas, the high
priest, and "other hirelings of the
Roman empire"
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Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to po-
lice belong to:
Joe Michael, 3419 N. Pennsylvania
ST., Apt. E-4, Nash, 508-612, from in
front of that address.
William Martin, 1909 Ashland
Ave-, Ford, 584-333, from Madison
Ave. and Prospect st.
Wade H. Young, Gil E. Twentieth
ST., Ford, from New York and ILL
noiS SITS.
DR.. J. N. Collins, GAG N. Meridian
ST., Chrysler, 1902, from Vermont
and Meridian SITS.
Quentin F. Stultz, Zionsville, Ind,
Ford, 509-177, from Capitol Ave. and
Washington st.
William Jackson, 333s N. Meridian
st., Cadillac, 1917 from Merrill and
Meridian SITS.
Otis F.. Whitley, so N. Chester
Ave, Ford, 586-416, from Blake ST.
and Indiana Ave.
John Wineberry, 1875 Eugene st.
Ford, from 949 HoSbrook st.
Vernon L. Seatom, 1921 w. Yer
mont ST., Ford, 505-903, from In
front of that address.
Dale Smith, Bargersville, Ind.
Ford, from Virginia Ave. and Penn
sylvania st.
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LEGION WILL MEET
New Commander Takes
GaveI at Sunday Farley.

Five hundred American legion
naires, including post commanders
adjutantS and service officers from
all parts of Indiana, will attend a
one-day conference at the ElkS Club
Sunday, Department Adjutant John
H. Klinger announced today.
The Legion'S 1923 program will be
outlined and launched at the ses-
sion, opening at 10 a. m. Luncheon
will be served at the club. Retiring
State Commander Paul v. McNutt
Bloomington, will turn the gave
over to the new commander, Frank
M. McHale, Logansport.
Speakers will include Edward B.
Spafford, national commander
Howard P. Savage, past national
commander; Bowman Elder, ma
Tional treasurer; McNutt, national
executive committeeman for In
diana; Dan Sewers, national director
of AmericaniSm; Frederick Lands,
former Congressman; Gen. L. R,
Gignilliat, Culver, vice president of
Fidac; McHale, and other depart
ment officers.
Announcement Of winners in the
1927 membership drive will be made
1.-THE Legion in Indiana is in a
stronger position than at any time
in its history, owing to its record ac-
complishmentS and service to
veterans" said Adjutant Klinger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-06
FLORISTS TO GATHER
King of Sweet Peas to Be
Crowned at Meeting.

The king Of Sweet Peas will be
crowned Tuesday at the forty-first
annual meeting Of the State Flor
lists Association at the Elks Club,
st. Clair and Meridian SITS.
Annual competition for the rose
and carnation trophys will open at
2:30 p. m, the start of the session.
A banquet at p. m. and dancing
will close the convention. Charles
G. Pahud is president and Edward
G. Grande is secretary.
Election of officers will be held
from this slate: President, Charles
G.. Pahud of Indianapolis, H. Dale
Roth of Lafayette and Len Elder of
Indianapolis; first vice president,
Fred Hudson of Lafayette, William
KluS of Anderson and Edward Neu-
man of Richmond; second vice
president, Joseph Hillman of Indi-
annapolis, c. w. MacVean Of Roches-
ter and H. M. Henley of Terre
Haute; secretary, E. G. Grande, AL
bert Fox and William Horn, all of
indianapolis; treasurer, Arthur
Heidenreich, William Fox and Will
liam Brandlein, all of indianapolis.
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B1o70-Out
Nicholas, Alice Entertain
Police and Firemen at
Big Furnace Party.
NKTASHIN GTON, Jan. g.

VIVA HIN GTON, Jan. g.
w Speaker Nicholas Longworth
demonstrated today, as usual, that
he can run an unruly House of
Representatives, but he had to
admit failure where an obStreper-
Gus heater was concerned.
Wednesday night he telephoned
frantically for police and firemen.
Something terrible is happen
ing in my cellar" he declared.
1.-THE furnace has gone flooey and
is going to explode"
Forth sped police reserves and
a fire truck and engine, and a
second truck when the first de-
veloped congeSted lungs.
Servants led the relief squad
down to where ominous clanks
and grunts shattered the base
ment darkness. The LongworthS
Nicholas and Alice-took posts
at a discreet distance and watched
and cheered.
The rescuers took the furnace
apart and found a coil broken. A
chill settled over the Longworth
home, where baby Pauline slept
peacefully and undiSturbed.
It all ended rather happily.
Nicholas got furnace f1xers on the
job, Alice got out his best box Of
perfectos and the police and fire.
men got one each.
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Indicted POStn1iStTgSS Is
Worrying OUer Children

$l,7OO short. Where it went I don't
know. I might have suspicious, but I
cannot prove anything"
The postmaster's salary at Mid
land is $500 a year.
Shortage Over Is Months
eff it hadn't been for the rent
from three small properties I in
her1ted from my first husband, who
died three years ago, I wouldn't
have had enough to get along on"
she said.
Postal inspectors reported the
shortage covered a period of fifteen
months. They charge Mrs. Fewton
gave wrong totals on her money
order reports when the accounts die
not balance.
Mrs. Fenton's first husband. g
railroader, died in 1924, leaving hel
with the two small children tt
support.
She was appointed postmaster Feb
IA, 1925, and about three months
later remarked, later divorcing hel
second husband. Inspectors reports
indicate she was contemplating
another marriage when she was in
dicted.
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Shortage of $1,712 MyS-
terry, Woman Says; Small
Hope of Making Bail.

Mrs. Helen G. Fenton, IS, former
postmaster at Midland, held in the
Marion County Jail on a Federal
grand jury embezzlement indict-
ment, is the second woman post,
master at Midland to be indicted in
the past three years.
Her predecessor in office, Miss Inez
Jewell, pleaded guilty to embezzle-
ment of $1,319 Dec. 10, 1925, in Fed
eral Court and was given one-day
jail sentence by Judge Robert C.
Blatzell.
Mrs. F'enton, mother of two small
children, aged 6 and 8, was placed
in the Marion County Jail Wednes-
day night when she was unable to
raise $4,000 bond.
Greatly worried over her two chill
dren, left with a bachelor brother
at Midland when she was arrested
she has small hopes of providing
bond.
Girls Aid in Office
"If could only get out of Jail ]
could sell my home and raise prob
ably enough to make up the short
age" she told friends.
The Indictment charges her with
SLIP shortage. The money must
have been stolen, from time to time
she said. But she declared she die
not steal it.
Midland is a town of about 30C
population. AS postmaster, Mrs
Fenton was permitted to keep not
more than $50 in cash on hand at
one time.
Il have not been well for some
time" she said, land during the past
fifteen months I have employed
eight or ten girls to help out in the
poSt-off1ce while I was away.
Il noticed my accounts were short
and called in the postal inspectors.
They told me I was more than
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the monarchistS polled 95 per cent
of the total vote cast.
Ex-King George II of Greece, who
occupied the Hellenic throne fol-
less than a year, spends a great
part of his time in England. He is
still popular with thousands of his
former subjects as recent demon
STATIONS In his favor in Macedonia
and Salonica show.
Ex-King Manuel Of Portugal is
another former royalty residing in
England. He lost his throne during
lightning revolution in 1910. An
agitation to restore him to the
throne is attempted sporadically.
Two other royal eXiles. are the
Grand Duke Cyril of Russia anc
the Ex-Shah of Persia. The former
is a familiar figure on Partisan
boulevards, while the latter can fire.
quently be seen in the popular re-
sorts of the Riviera. Both have ad-
herents working in their cause.