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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
HOLD SLAYER
IN HAL.L-M|LLS
MURDER CASE
Wait Word From New
Jersey Officials Checking
Confession Details.
KILLED PAIR FOR $4,000
Prisoner Charges Relative
of Dead Woman Paid
for Crime.
KILLED PAIR FOR $4,000
BY DON A. HIGGINS


Ell RENO, Okla, April ia
square jawed, bushy-haired man of
90, who startled the country Wednes-
day with the sudden announcement
that he was the slayer in the famous
Hall-Mills murder case, was held
incommunicado here today.
Authorities, skeptical of Elwin F.
Aliens confession, awaited word
from New Jersey officials, who are
checking the details of the confess
sion.
Allen reopened the widely known
murder mystery with a 2,000-word
confession in which he described in
detail how he purportedly was hired
by a dentist, relative of Mrs.
Eleanor Mills, to kill her and the
Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall near New
Brunswick, N. j., the night of Sept.
IA, 1922.
Woman Was AccOmplice
The relative ordered the killing
because the family had been dis
graced," Allen charged.
A woman, whose name he could
not reveal because of his love for
her, helped him murder the couple,
he said. The name of the dentist, a
resident of Elizabeth, N. j., was
withheld by authorities here until
his story could be investigated.
Sheriff T. G. Shacklett refused to
allow any one to interview Allen
The prisoner, an adventurer who
has served penitentiary terms in
Connecticut and Oklahoma, main
tanned he was the mysterious slayer,
however, and said he would return
willingly to Essex County, New
Jersey, to face trial for murder.
If his story proves to be a hoax,
officers here will be at loss TO ex-
plain Aliens motive. If he is sim
cere, they believe he was moved to
repentance by religious fervor.
I'm tired of rambling and dodg-
ing the law" he told them. Il want
to unburden my conscience"
The story, as far as officers here
could determine, tailed with the
circumstances of the murder, for
which Mrs. Hall and her brothers.
Willie and Henry Stephens, twice
were tried and acquitted.
Paid $4,000 for Crime
Allen received "$5, 1000 and a car"
for committing the crime, he said.
The confession told of his first
meeting with the Elizabeth dentist
and of the offer; how Hall and
Mrs Mills were pointed out to him;
how he and his woman companion
followed the couple on the fatal
night, forcing them from a motor
car near Elizabeth; how he and
the woman shot them and how he
collected his money, gave his COM
panion most of it, and fled the
country.
His efforts to hide carried him
into Mexico, then back to the
United States
Allen was brought here late in
January to face burglary charge.
He has served two prison terms in
Connecticut on similar charges
and one in the McAlester, Okla,
penitentiary for forgery. He made
his confession to Sheriff Shacklett,
County Attorney w. P. Morrison
and William Hutchins, his jailer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
Find Flaws in Story
By United Press

By United Press
SOMERVILLE, N. j., April 49,
While New Jersey authorities are
inclined to place little credence in
the statement of Elwin F. Allen
that he killed the Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor
Mills, they intend to make a thor
ough investigation.
The New Jersey officials said there
were several points of the statement
in variance with the known facts of
the case. Included among them
were:
That the murders occurred in 1921
instead Of 1922.
That Rev. Mr.. Hall and Mrs. Mills
were seen walking in De RuSsy'S
Lane shortly before they were found
murdered, whereas the statement
said they we're in a motor car.
No dentist is known St Elizabeth,
N. j., who is relative of either of
the slain couple.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
Stut& Wins
and Loses
Long Races
Black Hawk Is Forced Out
of "a Hour Event With
HiSpano.
pictures on Page q

The HiSpano-SuiZa, which wor
the twenty -four hour endurance
race against one Stutz Black Hawk
this morning when the Indianapo-
liS-made car was forced out of the
race by broken connecting rod
was defeated in three -and-a a-half-
hour exhibition race by another
Black Hawk at the Indiana Motor
Speedway today.
The Stutz won by three laps, hav-
ing Travelled 265 miles when the race
ended at l p. M, at an average OF
75.71 miles an hour. The French
car had covered 257.5 miles at an
average of 1857.
F. E. Moskovics, president of the
Stutz Motor Car Company, who bet
Charles It. Weyman, of Paris
France, owner and driver of the His
pano $4,000 the Stutz would win
the twenty-four hour race con-
ceded the event to the Hispano
when the car went to the pits for
the ninth time at 1921 a. m.
He arranged for the second race
between another Black Hawk and
the Hispano which was run from
$50 to 1.
The Hispano had made 1855
miles and the Stutz only 1925 miles
when the big race was stopped. The
HiSpano averaged 70.14 miles an
hour. The Stutz average, Slashed
by frequent engine trouble and long
hours in the pits was only 1859
miles an hour.
Nine Hours in Pits
During the nineteen hours the
Stutz spent nine hours and twenty
three minutes in the pits.
The Stutz went in for the follow
ing reasons: Twice for valve trou-
BILE; once for a new valve spring,
once for cylinder head leak, twice
for connecting rod repairs and the
other times for tires, gas and oil.
The ninth and last trip was for
the second broken connecting rod.
In contrast with this are the four
teen pit trips of the Hispano. Most
of these trips were made for con-
versational purposes and to send
kilograms to friends and motor
enthusiasts in this country, England
and France. Weyman took the
wheel of the foreign car shortly
after day-break this morning from
Bloch, who had driven since mid
night.
Claim Loss Due to Jinx
The Hispano changed tires during
the heavy thunderstorm late
Wednesday night and after the
track dried put on another set OF
tires. During the most severe
stages of the storm, the Hispano re-
tired to the pits for sixteen minutes.
The foreign roadster had trouble
with one of its lights this morning
and was forced to take six minutes
out.
The Stutz in the second race was
No. 6, which had been on exhibition
in the infield Wednesday afternoon.
The drivers stepped heavy on the
accelerators at the start. The Stutz
speeders were intent on proving
that the car has speed and stamina
and that the failure in the first race
was of the jinx variety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
Spare Parts and Propeller
Are Being Rushed to
GreenIy Island.
FRAULEIN GUIDES PLANS
Miss JunkerS Gives Up
Idea of Making Flight to
Tip of Nowhere
BY CARL ID. GROAT
United Press STAFF Correspondent


MONTREAL, Quebec, April 49,
Fraulein Herta Junkers, blonde
daughter of the Rhineland and ex-
ponent of German efficiency" told
the United Press in an exclusive in
terview today sne hopes Baron Won
Huenefeld, Captain Koehl and their
Irish companion, Maj. James Fitz-
maurice, can fly from Greenly Island
by the end of the week-"maybe
Sunday"
She revealed, too, that she her
self has practically abandoned any
idea of making the perilous journey
to the winter -wracked island in the
Straits of Belle Isle, the top of
nowhere" She is at Murray Bay di-
recting relief plans.
Miss Junkers said her talk with
Maj. James Fitzmaurice, member
of the Bremen's crew, had con-
vinced her the Bremen could be
put in shape with the equipment
now on the way.
rlJHLlduIlCe, Sne SalQ, VIII return
to Greenly Island in the plane that
carries the propeller to the Bremen.
She said she would return to New
York to join in the welcome to the
fiiers.
Winter is still in the northland.
Montreal was visited by a snow
storm today and conditions farther
northeast toward the tip of
nowhere" are such as to make fly
ing a real venture still.
However, at Greenly Island
preparations for the early takeoff
for New York are going forward.
A runway has been cleared and
the Germans are ready for the
ririVal Of their benzol and spare
parts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
BILL CUTS MAIL RATES

Senate Seeks Reduction to Level
of 1920 Scale.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April 19.-Rates
on second class mail will be reduced
to the 1920 level if Congress adopts
a bill reported favorable late
Wednesday by the Senate Postof1ce
Committee.
AS passed by the House, the bill
provided for return to the 1921 rate
schedule but the Senate committee
voted further reduction.
The committee also recommended
that the service charge on parcel
post be discontinued and the rate
on third-class mail be reduced from
liz cents to 1 cent per ounce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
FIND ELOPERS' MOTHER
Wires From st. Louis After Search
for Twin Daughters.

Mrs. Margaret Parr, 524 w. New
York St., who has been keeping
Lucille and Henrietta Williamson,
14-year-old twins, who eloped with
neighbor boy last Friday while the
parents have been searching for
their daughters, received a wire
from the mother today from st.
Louis, Mo.
The girls parents left by auto to
hunt their daughters as soon as
they learned of the elopement last
Friday, and did not know the girls
got only as far as Plainf1eld and
were returned Saturday. Mrs. Parr
Immediately wired the mother that
the girls are here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
AWAKE TO CROOKS
U. S. Ready for Political
Revolt, Says Jim Reed.
BIZ United Press

BB United Press
WASHINGTON, April 19.-"The
people are awake to political is
sues and are ready for just such
revolt against crooks nationally
as they were against crooks locally
in the recent Illinois primary"
Senator James A. Reed declared
today upon his return from a
three weeks campaign tour.
Reed characterized as ridiculous
fiction" a story printed in morn
ing newspaper here that he was
dissatisfied with tactics of cam
paign leaders for Governor AL
Smith. He said he had returned
to Washington in accordance with
a schedule adopted three weeks
ago, and that he would go to New
York Friday night for speech
there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
FLOOD BILL REVISED
House Factions Send Draft
to Coolidge.
Bu United Press

BU United Press
WASHINGTON, April ia
compromise Mississippi flood relief
plan was drafted today at a con-
ference of Republican House lead
ers and southern Mississippi Valley
Congressman. 1t will be presented
later to President Coolidge for his
approval.
Those present declined to reveal
the nature of the compromise
agreement, stating publication
might disrupt their plans. 1t will
be presented to the President late
today or Friday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
REVERSE ELECTION CASE
Vigo County 1920 Contest Suit Or
dered Tried Again.

The Supreme Court today re-
versed the decision of the Vigo
County Superior Court in the elec-
ton case of Forest Kensinger VS..
George A. Schaal.
The case centered around the
Vigo County treasurer's election in
1920, when Kensinger received 16,-
979 votes, as compared with 1904
for Schaal. Kensinger protested,
but the Vigo court finally allowed
Schaal to serve. This verdict was
reversed today and Kensinger's pro-
test must now be tried again, de-
spite the fact that the term of Of
flee ended in 1924.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19

and reported seeing the towns of
Borisovgrad and Tchierpan in ruins.
More than 5000 houses were de-
Stroyed in the two places. Techpan
was destroyed and thirteen neigh
boring villages were crushed.
There are hundreds of needy vic
TINS of the disaster, many of whom
now are living in tents. The min
lister of war personally is direct
ing the relief measures while King
Boris already has visited the dis
trict.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
FORD PLANT READY
City Assembly Works Will
Open in Three Weeks.

Reopening Of the Indianapolis as
sembly plant of the Ford Motor
Company within three weeks was
indicated today.
Manager George Steinmetz said
he could not give the exact date for
the reopening He said former en-
ployes will be hired before new la
bor is taken on. Workmen have
been revamping equipment to han-
die the new models for several
weeks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
BY HORTENsE SAUNDERS

BY HORTENSE SAUNDERS
NEA Service Writer
NEW YORK, April 19.-Tall,
L Nslender, nimble, as smart in
looks as in mind-that is Herta
Junkers, aviatrix aeronautical
engineer, and vice president, #
you please, of the great Junkers
Company of Germany.
She. is the daughter of Hugo
Junkers, designer of the trans
Atlantic. airplane Bremen, and is
in Canada today, directing rescue
plans for the fliers who Spanned
the Atlantic.
She probably knows more about
aircraft, it's construction and per-
formance, theoretical and prac-
tical, than any other woman in
the world.
She is no stunt flier like Thea
Rasche. She is no Ruth Elder,
eager to have the wind of adven-
ture blowing in her face. She is
an airwoman of the scientific sort.
Il n Il
CHE has the same easy familiar
- ity that an expert horse
woman has with a horse. She
looks much more like a rider, in
her gray habit with the tan
leather boots, than she does like a
flier-until she pulls on her avia-
ton cap and coat.
She treats her big Junkers plane
the one that flew to the Bre-
mems aid-as if it were a living
mechanism.
You feel she would coax 1t
along understandingly if it got
temperamental, and would handle
it firmly if it became skittish.
Even with Fred Melchior at the
controls and her brother Erhardt
in the cabin, you feel the plane is
actually manned and directed by
this very efficient German woman.
She took off from Curtiss field,
for Montreal, as casually as if she
were going for a cross country
ride. She paid no attention to the
crowd.
Her interest lay in getting aid to
the stranded transatlantic fliers,
not in any sensation she might be
creating herself.
Half her life, and she is now
80, she has been working with
airplanes. During the war, she
left her university and entered her
fathers factory.
WE were short of help" she
w explained in a very mu-
sical voice, in excellent English.
"The men were needed for service
at the front. For six years 1
worked in the research depart
ment, testing wing contours in
wind tunnels and studying prob
lens of aerodynamics.
my father, you see, is both a
metallurgist and an engineer. AS
a metallurgist it was his theory
that whatever could be made of
wood and fabric also could be
made of metal He conceived the
idea of the metal plane when avi-
alton was in its early stages.
"The idea being new, every one
laughed at us. Even the scientists
called our machines tin boxes
The German government scorned
them. So we had to convince the
scientific world that they were
superior to wood and fabric
planes"
Today, the Junkers experts can
be pardoned for saying IT told
you so."
Besides her highly scientific
pursuits, lFraulein Junkers is an
expert with an automobile.
She was born in Dessau, Ger
many, and is one Of nine children,
most of whom are interested in
aeronautics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
QUAKE AGAIN ROCKS STRICKEN BALKANS;
FEAR HEAVY DEATH TOLL IN BULGARIA
Rn Unite6 Press

By United Press
BERLIN, April 19.-An earth
quake of serious proportions rocked
the Balkans during the night.
Latest dispatches from Belgrade,
Sofia, Bucharest and Athens indi-
Gates the earthquake centered in
Philippopolis, Bulgaria, where, it was
feared, there were many casualties.
The earthquake was also felt in
Jugo-Slavia, Rumania and Mace
donia. Several houses in Bucharest
were damaged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
Filling Facts
By Times Special

By Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April
19.-In the days before prohi-
bition, there were 253 stomach
filling stations here. There are
now 153 auto tank filing sta
tions. Police gathered the sta
tiSticS after an unidentified
person put this telephone query
to headquarters:
Are there as many gasoline
filling stations in Terre Haute
now as there we're saloons back
in the wetter days?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19

pletely altered as result of the
temblors.
Hundreds of springs have been
started and some hot water springs,
long dormant, have again become
active.
Cracks a yard wide have ap-
peared.
The earth disturbances continue
and Tuesday there were fl fteen
shocks which destroyed the remain
ing houses at Givreso.
A United Press correspondent
has just returned from the area
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
SEEKS MARKET REPAIRS
Prepare Council Appeal for Passage
of $4,000 Bond Issue.

Passage of a bond issue for about
$4,000 to repair city market and
Tomlinson Hall will be asked of
the new city council by City Market
Master Springsteen.
Springsteen has urged repair of
the market since he became market
master several months ago. The
building has been neglected for
years, the repair program having
been shelved by numerous boards.
Reroofing, painting of the inside
of the market and repair of win
dows and doors will be recommend
ed by Springsteen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
SIGN PACT WITH ITALY

Kellogg and Ambassador Affix Sig
natures to Treaty.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April 19.-Secre-
tary of State Kellogg and Italian
Ambassador De MARITIME today af-
fixed their signatures to an abritra-
ton treaty between the United
States and Italy.
The pact, the second of a series
of eighteen being negotiated with
various countries, is identical with
the French arbitration treaty signed
here Feb. 6.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
Exchange Seat at Record Price

Bulgaria, already suffering from
an earthquake Saturday which took
fifty lives, destroyed 5000 homes and
resulted in the injury of 200 per-
sons, was hardest hit by the fresh
tremors, which caused more than
$1,000,000 damage.
By United Press
SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 19-The
physical appearance of the terri
tory between Haskovo and Givreso
where an earthquake did great
damage last week.-Mrs. been COM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
LAY FARM BILL PLANS
House Debate on Aid to Start After
Flood Measure Passes.
By United Press

House Debate on Aid to Start After
Flood Measure Passes.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 19.-PlanS
for House consideration of the Hau-
gen farm relief bill next week were
prepared today by the House Rules
Committee, which gave the meas
ure right-of-way after the Missis-
sippi flood control bill is passed.
Twelve hours of general debate
we're allotted for the Haugen bill
with the option of night session in
addition if necessary. The bill
probably will be taken up Tuesday.
Exchange Seat at Record Price
By United Press
NEW YORK, April 19.-Sale of
a Stock Exchange seat has been ar
ranged at $395,OOO, a new high rec
ord and an increase of $4,000 over
the last previous sale, it was an
nounced today.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-09-14

ana SAID taxes Wnen collected
shall be placed in a fund to be
called the Redemption Fund to
Pay Refunding Bonds dated Sep
TENDER 1, 1925" and said taxes
shall be applied solely for the pur-
pose of the payment of the said
interest and principal of said
bonds respectively, and for no
other purpose whatever until the
bonds authorized under this ordin-
ance. principal and interest, shall
have been fully paid, satisfied
and discharged, but nothing here
in contained shall be so construed
as to prevent said City from ap-
plying any other funds that NAV
be in the treasury of the City and
available for that purpose to the
payment of the said interest or
principal as the same respective
ly mature and the levy or levies
herein provided for may there
upon to that extent be diminished.
Upon the redemption of said
bonds, the levies hereinbefore pro-
vided for interest may be reduced
proportionately.
Section 8. That the provisions
of this ordinance and each Of the
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-09-14

bonds and the interest coupons is
sued pursuant thereto shall con
stitute and the same are hereby
declared to be a binding and ire
vocable contract between sait
City and the holder, from time tc
time, of each of said bonds anC
the interest coupons thereto ap
pertaining until said bonds and
interest coupons are fully paid.
Section 8. That this ordinance
shall not be altered or repealed
until the bonds hereby authorized
shall have been fully paid, both
principal and interest.
Section 10. That on the 18th
days of December and June, re.
spectively, in each year hereafter,
so long as any of the interest
coupons appertaining to the bonds
hereby authorized to be issued re-
main outstanding and unpaid, the
City Treasurer shall and he is
hereby ordered, authorized and di-
rected to remit out of any moneys
in his hands belonging to said City,
in the form of check or draft pay
able in New York City, u. S. A., to
the National Bank of Commerce of
New York. U. S. A, a sum suffi-
cient to pay the semi-annual inter
est accruing on said bonds on the
first days of January and July,
respectively, in each year, and
any and all escrow charges made
by said bank for handling said
coupons; and the 18th day of
August in each of the years 1929
to 1916, inclusive, the said treas
shall and he is hereby order
ed and directed out of the sink
ing fund created under the pro-
visions of this ordinance, to remit
by check or draft payable in New
York, to the National Bank of
Commerce in New York City.
U. S. A, a sum sufficient to pay
the principal amount of said
bonds maturing on the first day of
September in each of the years
1929 to 1913, inclusive, together
with interest accrued thereon. and
any and all escrow charges made
by said bank for handling the
same.
Section II. That it be and is
hereby certified, recited and war
'anted that all conditions, acts
ind things necessary and essen
ial to the validity of the bonds
lereinbefore mentioned and re-
by law to be done, have
'een fully done and performed.
Section IL. That all resolutions.
rdinances or orders, or parts
hereof, in conflict with the pro-
isions hereof, be and the same
re hereby repealed, recinded and
nnulled.
Section 10. That this ordinance
eing for the purpose of preserv-
1g and maintaining the credit of
aid city, it is hereby determined
nd declared that said ordinance
) Immediately necessary for the
reservation of the peace, health,
nd safety of said city, and there
ore this ordinance shall be in full
Orce and effect from and after it's
passage and approval and publica-
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