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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-25

Of the national Defense since credit the foundation Of
all borrowing, whether by governments or individuals
Nations burdened by debts almost exactly in the
position individuals in like financial condition
They have better claim possible lenders for pa
rotc reasons but when the average lender fears for
the solvency Of the he does permit pa
the shyest Of all things the fear Of loss is felt
retires precpitately.
Hence, debt extinction, the basis for new credit,
is indispensable to the national webeing It is one Of
the essential elements Of national preparedness. While
paying its debts is building confidence in
its strength and honesty.
SEES REDUCED ACTIVITY AHEAD
Colonel Leonard p. Ayres, the famous economist Of
the Cleveland Trust Company sounds note Of caution
in his September business bulletin.
Despite the present Of high prices and the
companyng expectation Of continued industrial profits
Colonel Ayres foresees possible period Of declining
construction for the future This while affecting
primarily the building trades, would reduce the demand
for structural steel and bring about reduced activity
many lines of industry.
Why does Colonel Ayres foresee this?
There has been, this summer, sharp decline in the
volume Of new bonds issued by corporations. This
chasing Of equipment which ordinarily would have been
under way this fall has been postponed.
Colonel Ayres blames the decline in bond volume
the high interest rates that have prevailed since spring.
His comments make wonder if the ''bull market"
of the past year has been altogether wholesome in
fluence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
Wrong Windo1C
Alas! Poor Tony!-Love'S
Labor Lost; May
Not Maying.

SOMEWHERE abed in Indian
- apolis early today lay a pleas
antly palpitating lady named
May.
Abed she lay. thinking in a rosy,
romantic way, for
Eftsoon her Tony would arrive,
flivver achug, ladder in arm, to
watt her away on a soft blue
cloud of cold weather carburetor
smoke to minister, justice of
the peace, or what have you2
But Mays madcap october mar
rage was a flop.
Here's why, taken from po-
lice report:
Mrs. Louise Carney, 813 Stevens
street, was awakened by the crash
of glass, just smashed from the
window of her second story bed
room.
What are you doing here?" de-
manded Mrs. Carney of the young
man who, standing on a ladder,
thrust MS well-barbered head
through the broken window.
where's May?" asked the young
man hoarsely.
II don't know May. Who are
your" countered Mrs. Garvey, with
ill-concealed asperity.
I'm Tony" meekly. There
must be some mistake"
And Tony fed down the ladder
while Mrs. Carney called the cops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
[NDICT EDDIE TRAUGOTT
FOR BUYING HOT WATCH
Bought TimepleCe Stolen
From Brother at Club,
Is Charge.

Edward Traugott, already under
indictment in connection with the
interstate automobile theft ring and
on a charge Of conspiracy to violate
the dry laws, was indicted by the
Marion count ygrand jury on a
charge of receiving stolen goods.
The indictment is based on the
charge that Traugott bought from
some one a watch stolen May 80
from Leo Traugott, 3771 North Me-
ridian street, his brother, in the
Broadmoor Country Club dinner
dance holdup.
The watch was found in the safe
of the Traugott clothing store, after
the store was wrecked by an explo-
sion, Aug. &c.
Its Identification came only after
a long search of all city jewelry
store books by detectives. One iden-
LITIGATION number had been
scratched off, but another was found
on the inner works. From this
number detectives learned the watch
ndQ Oeeu repaired at Cne WINDSOR
Jewelry Company, 1875 North Illi-
noiS street.
Leo Traugott has identified the
watch as his, it is understood. Other
witnesses listed on the indictment
are Harry Sussman, Traugott's part
ner in the clothing store, and the
Windsor Jewelry Company.
Although the indictment does not
set out the charge that the watch
was obtained by Edwardd Traugott
from one of the BroAdmoor ban
dts, it sets out that the timepiece,
worth SOS, was stolen from Leo
Traugott and that Edward Traugott
bought, received and concealed it,
knowing it was stolen"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
JURY INDICTS 3 men
Tom Dillon, Politician, Held
on Gambling Count.

Thomas Dillon, Republican poll
tician, was indicted by the Marion
county grand jury today on a charge
Of operating gambling house at
Ill w. Maryland street.
The names of six men alleged to
have gambled there about April 1
were listed as state witnesses.
Ray (Railroa6 Smith, well-known
local professional gambler, was in
dicted on charge of gambling.
Smith on about the same date is
alleged to have won $1,100 from
Joseph Bailey, 1906 Ashland avenue,
in craps game. Bailey also was
one of the witnesses against Dillon.
A third man was indicted on a
charge of visiting a gambling house,
but his name was not made public.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
Take One

County election commission
ers got rid of another practice
voting machine Thursday, but
still have three on their hands.
One was placed in the ro-
trInda of city hall. The remain
ing machines will be given to
any responsible organization
that desires.
Voting machines became a
nightmare for the commission
ers when they were roundly
criticised by several organiza-
lions for not releasing them for
practice. Then when the ma
chimes were made available the
organizations which cried loud
est did not want them, COM
miSsioners said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
SMITH WON'T SPEAK
Democratic Candidate to
Leave City Hour Earlier.

Governor Al Smith will not speak
in Indianapolis.
A last minute change in his time
schedule will cut his indianapolis
visit to one hour Saturday after
noon while his special train stops
here en- route to New York.
The Democratic standard bearer
will arrive at the union station at
3 and leave at p. m. The parade
line will be heightened and ar at
tempt will be made to cajole the
New York Governor into making a
few remarks at Monument circle,
according to r. Earl Peters, Demo-
cratic state chairman, who an
nounced the change in plans.
Due to the curtailment of his
time, Governor Smith will be forced
to cancel his conference with Indi-
ana farm leaders, scheduled for the
Claypool.
BY his original schedule Smith
would not have departed from In
dianapoliS until S p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
JACKSON GIVES CLEMENCY
TO STATE DRY Chief after
He REACHES PRISON farm
Pastor Fails to Show Surprise When Word
of Reprieve Comes; Booked and Given
Number After Arrival
DEPARTURE LIKE TRIUMPHAL TOUR
Scores Of Friends Gather at Home to Say
Farewell; Must Pay $3.50 Fine
Before He Goes Free.

Governor wrecked the martyr chances of the
Rev. Shumaker superintendent Of the Indiana AntiSaoon
League, today
When Shumaker in custody of Sheriff William l. Rosner
supreme court arrived Indiana farm at Putnamnvie
10 02 this morning start serving xyday sentence for
contempt supreme court found waiting egaphc orders
for pardon from Governor jackson.
s that e the dry leader asked when informed of the
telegram by Superintendent Ralph Howard Of the farm He
evinced little surprise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19

ton chamber. Without he found
Hickman waiting in the condemned
cage, dressed and strapped for the
march.
Pale on Trip to GaIlOws
Father Fleming had been with
Hickman alone in the cell for time,
administering to him the last rites
Of the church.
Suddenly the door to the execu-
ton chamber opened. 10 was just a
little more than nine minutes and
a half past 10.
The chaplain stepped through the
door. with the warden at his side.
Behind followed the condemned,
stocky youth with curled hair.
His face was ghaStly white. His
head was thrown. back and he
looked up at the gallows platform
before him.
1t seemed that his jaw was thrust
out just a little more and that his
teeth clinched together as if he
were Summoning all the will power
Of his being to go on with it.
Although he made no final speech
to those who had assembled to see
him die, Hickman'S attitude indi-
Gated plainly that he had repented.
Previously he had admitted that
he deserved to hang, a last con-
ceSSion on the part of defiant boy.
Braced by Guard
The procession mounted the gal
lows platform quickly and Hickman
waited on the trap. Just as tho
moose went around his neck it
seemed as If his knees were about
to crumple under him.
The guards braced him as lie
stood and in another second 1t was
all over.
It was so arranged that the three
guards who were in the wooden
booth at the back of the gallows
platform would never know Just
which one cut Hickman down to his
death. The three cords leading
down to the mechanism that sprung
the trap were thrust up through
holes in the floor of the platform
by guard who did not see in what
position they were put on the board
before the three men holding the
knives.
Restless Last Night
The two guards of the death
watch, Charles Aston and Fred
Hogaboom, said Hickman was rest
less during the second night in the
cell of the condemned. He had
slept Soundly the night before.
Most of the early part of the
night he spent in short periods of
f1tful slumber, broken by turns of
walking about the cage.
He told the guards of his entire
life, from his early boyhood In Ar
kansas, through his high school days
in Kansas City and down to the
killing Of Marion Parker In Los An
beles last December, for which he
Is to be hanged.
During the night Hickman went
again into details of the killing of
the girl and described how he dis
membered her body.
If they shouldn't hang me, then
they never should hang another
man." Hickman told the death
guards. my crime was one of the
most grewsome in history"
IF you want to know why killed
Marion Parker, read the first chap
ter. Of Romans" he remarked. THAT
will tell you better than can
greed"
AT a. m. Hickman got up from
his cot and turned on the phono-
graph that had been brought to the
death house for him.
One of his favorite records was
I'm Monastery Garden"
Hickman watched the dawn
through the window of the room as
the sun rose across San Francisco
bay. He then turned to the guard
and said:
"Just a few hours now. i klss&k.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19

attempting to spread his feet apart
and support himself on the planks
around the trap as it fell.
The hangman drew a mask of
black cloth over his head, shutting
out for the last time the light Of
day from his eyes.
The mask was slit at one side so
that it fitted neatly over the rope
knot against Hickman's cheek.
With a swift backward ftep, the
hangman held his right hand above
his head. 1t was the signal for
Hickman to die.
Inside a wooden booth on the
back of the platform, three guards
watched for the signal.
They we're standing so that Hick-
man could not see them.
Three strong cords we're stretched
on board before them. The guards
drew knives of razor sharpness
across the cords and cut them.
Body Drops Through Gallows
A heavy iron ball was attached
to one of the three cords.
AS the cords we're cut, the iron
ball fell and released the trap.
1t dropped through the gallows
platform and flew back against
clamps that kept it from swinging
under the body.
Hickman plunged down five feet
and three inches, his exact height.
The noise of the trap reverberated
through the stiffness of the death
house.
The black mask shut from sight
any expression of fear or hate that
might have been written on Kick
mans features.
For few seconds after it fall,
the body swayed slightly.
Then a guard stepped forward
and placed his hand against the
middle of the back to steady it.
Perform Execution Quickly
A short stepladder was pulled
alongside the body. One of the
prison physicians climbed up, tore
open the front of Hickman's shirt
and placed stethoscope against his
heart.
Another physician grasped his
wrist and felt for the faint throb-
bling of pulse beat.
In that position they waited as
the minutes dragged slowly by.
The law was taking all precau-
tons against mistake and making
cretain tht Hickmn would be dead
before he was cut down.
So quickly were the various move
ments of the execution performed
that barely twenty-five seconds
passed from the time Hickman
stepped from the cage of the con-
demned until he was swinging from
the rope.
-Four letters had arrived for the
condemned youth on the morning
mail delivery to the prison. The
warden carried them to him.
One was from Mrs. Eva Hickman
of Kansas City, Mo-, his mother.
He tore thee nvelope open and
read it. Then he threw himself on
MS COT and burst Int otearS.
Gives Way to Weeping
1t was the only time in his months
of imprisonment in San Quentin
that ickman gave way to weeping
the guards said.
Then with final effort at COM
poSure, he braced himself for the
few remaining moments of his life
Warden Holohan went through a
doorway into the execution cham
Der and received a report from the
guards within that all was ready.
The heavy iron doors on the east
side Of the gallows room were
thrown wide open at 1905 a. n,
The spectators slightly more than
200 in number, filed in.
In two minutes they we're all III
their places, standing around the
gallowS platform--all eyes glued on
one spot, the door where Hickman
was to enter.
Warden Holohan left the execu-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19

DRESS BETTER ON CREDIT!
H. & r. Clothing Co., % E. Ohio.
Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19

they must submit a recommendation
on the matter to the Governor.
Although the Governors pardon
ing power in contempt cases never
has been decided in Indiana, Judges
Clarence Martin and Willard B.
Gemmill of the supreme court, in
a dissenting opinion on several an
giles of the Shumaker case, declared
the Governor has that power.
A motor cavalcade was formed
in front of the Shumaker home,
1882 Broadway, and the 45-mile
trip to the farm at Putnamville got
under way at a. m.
Instead of the aspect of a way
of sorrow" the procession took on
one of triumphal Joy, with only
here and there a catch in a throat
or Il tear in an eye.
Or. Shumaker, himself, was the
prime mover in this business of
making defeat seem victory. He was
up with the sun and when news
paper men and friends arrived he
was beaming joyously.
Takes Martyr Role
Some time ago he declared In a
public address that were he to ep'
TO jail he would he a martyr "just
like Jesus Christ and John Bum
yam" Today his conduct was such
as to convince the most prejudiced
observers that he really believed
what he said
There has been great delay in his
"martyrdom" After citation for
contempt of the supreme court in
1926, due to a report made to league
trustees in 1925, he was sentenced
TO serve the sixty days and fined
$3.50 last June.
Wonders About Election
While awaiting arrest in league
headquarters in the Roosevelt build
ing, Thursday, DR.. Shumaker re-
marked:
II wonder what the effect of this
will be on reelection of Judge
David A. Myers"
Myers, a Republican candidate,
was one of the majority members
of the court who held for convic-
ton.
II had dandy nights sleep, a
good breakfast, and have said fam
lily prayers" DR.. Shumaker told
newspaper men, while awaiting ar
rival of the sheriff. I'm ready to
go now"
Only when he kissed his daughter.
Mrs. Lois Morrison. and youngest
son, Arthur, farewell was there q
catch in his voice. Mrs. Morrison Is
a bride of three weeks and wife OF
James Morrison, Plainfield, Ind,
Told Not to Worry
Don't worry, children" ne adj
viSed. "I'll be all right"
Then turning to the small crowd
of newspaper men and friends
standing in the hallway, he again
smiled and asserted: I'm going to
a place where maybe can do some
fellows good"
Then, to the Rev. G. H. Winders,
chairman OF league headquarters
committee, whose eyes we're moist,
and the Rev. E. H. Evans, secretary
of the Indianapolis Church Fede-
ration, he said: Keep the home
fires burning"
Poses for Pictures
At the threshold he posed for
pictures, with Mrs. Shumaker, the
sheriff, and the ministers who we're
to make the trip with him. The
group included the Revs. Orfen w.
Fifer, district superintendent of the
Methodist Church; j. w. McFall,
Methodist pastor; E. M.
Christian minister, Leroy
Huddlesten, league field secretary;
Winders and Evans.
In the car, piloted by Carl Res
nor, son of the sheriff, the prisoner.
Mrs. Shumaker and their son, AL
bert, who was graduated from But
Ter University last year, sat In the
rear seat. The sheriff sat with the
driver.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
Nick Nicotine
Officials Butt Butt From
Butler in Vicinity
of Jordan Hall.

Smoke, II you must. an old black hod,
Cigars or cigarettes,
But those who cross this sacred line
Wen plant beneath the sod
-S0ng of the Butler Vigilantes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19

NNE million dollars worth of
~ beautiful architecture on the
new Butler campus at Fairview is
not going to be Uttered up with
the garbage of nicotine addictS.
Directors have established a
dead line, thirty feet beyond the
walls of the new Arthur Jordan
Memorial hall, past which no one
smoking, cigar, cigaret or pipe
shall pass, it was announced to-
day.
Leaders of the chief campus or
CARNATIONS pledged themselves to
obey the rule and see that others
do not to the end that the beauti-
full entrances and halls of one of
Americas finest college buildings
be unmarried.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
'VIRTUoS0' LooTS AUTOS
Musical Thief Takes Two ViOlins
From Parked Cars.

A musical thief looted automobiles
here Thursday night. Two violins
we're stolen.
A violin valued at more than 500
was taken from the automobile of
Harry Platt, 189 East Walnut street,
parked near st. Johns church,
Maryland street and Kentucky
avenue. A violin also was taken
from the car of r. L. Sherman, 1906
Wade street, at Delaware and Mar
ket streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19

Hickman stood for mo-
ment on the gallows trap before
it was sprung, his white face
and his youth contrasting
sharply with his dark suit and
somber surroundings.
There was an ominous silence
in the death chamber as the 200
witnesses looked up at the boy
of 20 who was about to pay the
penalty of murder.
Warden James Holohan went to
the condemned cage just before the
hands of the clock in his Office crept
around to 10 and informed Hickman
that the hour of his execution had
arrived.
He had been Invested of his prison
uniform and was clad in a civilian
suit of black troadcloth. Under
meath was a viii e shirt, unbuttoned
at the neck.
Start on Death March
A heavy leather belt was buckled
around his waist. Straps on the
belt pinned his arms securely to his
sides.
Father William A. Fleming of
San Rafael and Warden Holohan
heard Hickman's last words and the
death march started.
Out through the door of the wood
en- cage, where he spent two nights
and a day in solitary confinement,
Hickman walked with a guard at
either side holding him under the
arm pits.
The hangman and one of the
guards of the death walk were his
escort.
The priest walked in front read
ing the Idtany of the Saints.
The door of the execution
chamber, barely thirty feet away,
opened and the little procession
filed in.
Inside was roped-off space
around the gallows platform. There
waited the prison physicians and
more guards.
Outside the ropes stood the off,
cial witnesses, most of them peace
officers and newspaper men.
Is Steps TO Death
Father Fleming mounted the thir-
teen steps to the top of the plat
form, breathing a last prayer for
the repoSe of Hickman's soul.
The murderer followed the priest
up the stairway, the two guards
never releasing their grasp on his
arms.
The hangman took his place there
beside the upright posts of the gal
lows. A three-quarters inch rope
of hemp, already noosed, dangled
from the cross beam.
Hickman stepped upon the trap.
Down below him he saw the up
turned faces of the witnesses.
His face, blanched by months of
Imprisonment was pale, but there
were some among the spectators who
turned whittier, still
The light from outside filtered
dimly through the white glazed
windows of the room that sud-
denly seemed to grow close and
stuffy.
The hangman, whose identity was
cloaked in anonymity threw the
heavy moose about the youths neck
and drew the rope tight.
The big knot that formed the
moose settled close against his left
cheek.
Signal to Die
A guard on the opposite side
stopped quickly, circled Hickman
legs with a leather strap and fast
ened them together.
That was to prevent him from
nDECr DErrPUED nNY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
Slayer of Marion Parker Goes to Doom Before 200
Witnesses at San Quentin Prison; Makes
No Address From Scaffold
Blames Greed for Kidnapping and Murder in Final
Night Talk With Guards Plays Photograph
While Waiting for Priest to Arrive
BY GERALD P. OVERTON
United Press STAFF Correspondent

QUENTIN PRISON, 9-Wlam Edward Hickman
gaows Quentin
Marian Parker, 12yearod bankers daughter
City school boy hanged
after the closing his life the
which adc climax ed his crime
by
1925 m.
the end Of the exactly fifteen minutes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
CONCLUDE BRIBE CASE
Police Captain Suspended at
Hearings End.

BIZ United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19.-The
commonwealth at 1880 a. m. today
concluded its case against State
Representative Matthew Patterson
and suspended Police Captain
Charles w. Schoeleber, who are
charged with accepting brides from
nearly a score Of saloonkeeperS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-19
ENDEAVOR UNION MEETS
Holds Rally at Second Moravian
Church Today.


Church Today.
The Indiana Illinois district of
First Moravian ChurStian Endeavor
Union will hold a rally at the Sec
ond Moravian Episcopal church,
Thirty-fourth and Hovey streets,
today.
Sessions today include confer
enceS on methods and missions and
devotional services in charge of the
Rev. E. P. Stocker, pastor of the
First Moravian church. A candle
service will be held at 4:3O to be
followed by a supper at o'clock.
The evening address will be made
by the Rev. Frederick Gd Fulmer of
Hope, Ind.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06
Common Smut of Corn Is
Most Familiar Disease

Common smut of corn is one of the
most familiar and widespread of all
plant diseases. 1t undoubtedly is the
most destructive disease of the corn
crop that is now known if we take
into account the whole wide range of
its occurrence. Smut attacks only the
parts of the plant that are above the
ground. 1t lives through the winter in
soil, in manure, and in other decayins
organic material such as compost,
and spreads by means of spores (vir-
tually it's seeds) which drift through
the air. The spores lodge on the corn
plant and enter its tissues through
wounds or bruised places. They
terminate and grow rapidly and soon
form on the surfaces of the plant the
Iustrous lead-cOlored bolls which dark
en- and swell until they burst and let
loose the black smut spores that car
nv over the disease In the soil for an
other year. If the smut hollis form in
the ear, the ear is ruined. If they
form on another part Of the plant, the
whole plant is weakened and the yield
is reduced though the ear may not be
directly injured.