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The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
DEALS 'EM OFF THE ARM!
Chuck No70 Obeys Different Gong

a trusty, with an individual cot in the iail'S
n dormitory and his duties as waiter consuming
only a small part Of the day. the fighter finds much
time to think about the future.
If all our prisoners were as obedient Wig
gins, jails would be wonderful place." his jaier
said. Hes tolerant toward us and his fellow pris-
oners; he asks nothing and gives nothing"
Exercise? III say Chuck gets plenty of that.
Every morning after he dons his coverals he's per-
mitted to go, outside, where he shoulders 100
pound bread box. He carries it up two flights Of
stairs and enjoys it. He hasn't lost an ounce Of
weight"
Among the few visitors who have paid calls to
Virgins, who has thirty-nine days yet to serve are
his trainer and former sparring partner Of Jack
Dempsey, who is said to be interested in Virgins
future.
Chuck went to jail Sept. Is on his plea Of guilty
before Criminal Judge James A. Collins to assault
and battery and eight other charges growing out
Of bout with two policemen and fireman. He
fined $500 and each Of the charges was
given a sixty-day sentence. all to be served
concuTrentlk -
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
Pair dies in
Hotel Room
Death Pact
BB United Press

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WALLINGFORD, Conn, Oct. IS.
The mystery of why Mrs. Anna
Ayres, a woman who became so
successful in business that she COM
manded salary of 100000 yearly,
should seek death in a hotel room
where she had registered with a
married man, engrossed her many
friends in New England today.
Deputy Coroner James J. Corri-
gan, who probably will waive the
formality of an inquest, said he be-
lieved William Gaylord, 41-year- old
bookkeeper Of East Hartford, shot
Mrs. Ayres and then committed sui
eide with the .22-calibre pistol
which was found near their bodies.
Mrs. Ayres, divorced wife of a
former Amherst college professor
and the mother of three children,
was found dead in a chair, fully
clothed even to her gloves. Gay
lords body was on the floor. Author
tiles expressed the opinion the
couple had made a death pact but
no notes were left to explain a
motive.
Since her divorce from Professor
Ernest Ayres, who left Amherst
when President Alexander Meikle-
john resigned, Mrs. Ayres had been
employed as an advertising man
ager for a large New Haven corset
factory. Her reputed salary of $780,
900 year was considered the larg-
est received by woman in the
United States. Recently she wrote
an article for a magazine entitled,
How to Be Successful in Busi-
ness"
Mrs. Ayres left three children,
aged 7, 10 and 13. Whereabouts of
her former husband are unknown.
Gaylord, bookkeper for a Hartford
electric transportation company, had
lived quietly with his wife and
mother in East Hartford. Friends
of Mrs. Ayres said she did not know
Gaylord was married.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
CO. HEAD
HURT Fatally
IN CAR MISHAP
Arthur G. IIIingWorth, az,
Is Run Down Crossing
Street.

Struck by young pharmaceutical
students automobile as he crossed
College avenue at Thirty eighth
street, Arthur G.. IllingWorth, 42, Of
3730 North Capitol avenue, secre-
tary-treasurer of the Haag Drug
Company, Inc. was injured fatally
Tuesday night.
Robert Anderson, 21, of 834 Col
lege avenue, driver Of the auto, to-
day was held on manslaughter
charges. His home is in Decatur, Ill.
Mr.. Illingworth's skull was frac-
tured, and he died at city hospital
an hour after the accident.
Mr.. Illingworth walked to the in
tersection with Keller r. Brock,
president Of the drug company, and
William c. HARRISON, 2446 North
Pennsylvania street, behind whom
he stepped into the street. None
Of them saw the car until it struck
Mr.. Illingworth, Brock and Harbi-
son told police.
Mr.. IllingsWorth was born in
N1uAACAC, dIAu Wdo SIdUuoISu 1IOIl d
school Of pharmacy here. He owned
several drug stores when he and
Brock, in May, bought the Haag
chain of ten stores.
Surviving him are the widow,
Mrs. Margaret McCord Illingworth;
two children. Joseph and Kathryn
Illingworth; his father, Fred Hing
worth, Muncie, and a sister, Mrs.
Mabel Kelly, Glendale, Cal. Funeral
arrangements are incomplete.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
Wife, Is, IS Ak
Ml)RDE:RE:SS OF
AGED HUSBAND
ConfeSses Killing Mate as
He Slept in Drunken
Stupor on Floor.
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BIZ Unttcd Press
SUMMIT, N. J., Oct. 16.-James
Titus, 78, was found dead on the
kitchen fooro of his home here to-
day, his head crushed. A bloody
ak lay beside his body.
Titus aged wife, Mrs. Laura M.
Titus, rs, was held on a charge of
homicide. Police said she confessed
she slew her husband of fifty years
as he slept on the floor in a drunken
stupor.
Mrs. Titus, according to authori-
ties, said her husband left the
house at a. m. and returned a
little later under the influence of
liquor. He dragged her out of bed
and threatened to kill her, she said.
About 7, the confession continued,
she went to the kitchen. Titus was
asleep on the floor AS she watched
him, Mrs. Titus said, she recalled
the many times he had abused her
during the last ten years of their
married life. She decided to kill
him reached for the ak, which was
near the kitchen stove.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
DRY AGENT MOBBED
Federal Man Beaten by
Angry Pittsburgh Crowd.

BIZ United Press
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 16.-William
Walkr, federal prohibition agent,
was dragged from a government
automobile and beaten by an angry
crowd in Logan street, near Fifth
avenue, today when he attempted to
arrest an unidentified man as a sus-
pected liquor law violator.
The man was taken from Walker
and released by the mob who then
left the agent unconscious in the
street and made of with his auto
mobile.
A paSSerby found Walker and
took him to the West Penn hospital,
where several stitches were required
to close wounds on his face and
head.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
USE OF UTILITIES DATA
BY STATE BOARD Barred

Mcintosh took the matter under
advisement.
1t was pointed out that Wenger Is
in charge OF the property survey in
the S70,000,000 insult utility merger,
now pending.
Following the hearing, Mcintosh
declared he was opposed to paying
commission auditors and engineers
to go out and copy figures from
company books and offering them
i'll evidence. The company will Go
that for itself, he asserted.
"If we permit this system to con-
tinue," he asserted, "it will mean the
utilities think this commission Is
composed of monkeys and we are
letting them come in and prove it."
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
BANDITS LOOT
SAFE or $375
Two Trap Manager of Drug
Store at Opening.

Two armed bandits nonchalantly
entrapped two men in the Haag
Drug Company store, Audubon road
and East Washington street, shortly
before 7 a. m. today, after forcing
one of them to open the safe and
hand over $375.
AS c. w. Echols, assistant store
manager, opened the place for busi-
ness, two men came in. The taller
asked for a box of matches.
Before EchoIs could supply them
the bandits showed revolvers in his
face and said:
"That amt all we want. Let's
have the money, too"
While the tall robber walked with
Echols to the rear of the prescrip-
ton case, where the safe is located.
the other demanded the door keys of
the store. After Echols handed them
to him, the bandit was unable to
lock the door and Echols was
marched to the front Of the store at
the point Of the bandits gun to lock
the door.
Before Echols opened the safe
there was a disturbance at the door
and one bandit stood guard over
him, while the other went to the
front of the store.
Unlocking the door, the bandit
admitted A. B. Martin, 1919 East
washington street, manager Of the
A. and P. store, 5646 East Washing
ton street.
Martin then felt a revolver jabbed
into his ribs and was walked to the
rear of the prescription counter,
where Echols was opening the safe.
When Echols gave them the con-
tents of the safe, the bandits or
dered the men into the store base
ment, through a trapdoor in the
floor.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
FATHER OF 13, ASLEEP IN
CHAIR, SHOT BY DAUGHTER

skull and neck, is near death at
Rockville city hospital. An emer-
gency operation for removal Of the
bullets was performed early today.
Police said jeanette, one of thir-
teen children, admitted the Shoot
ing. She had an argument with her
father early Tuesday night, she said.
Then she decided to kill him, she
told officers.
Taking her fathers .32-caliber re-
volver, the girl re-entered the room
where heI was sleeping in a chair
and shot five times while two broth
ers, who had been playing cards,
looked on, Mortified.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
THE Times, expanding an

THE Times, expanding and
l. improving its radio inter-
ference department, announces
to its readers the most prompt
and most efficient service Of its
kind in the state.
The Times was the first news
paper in Indiana and one Of the
first in the country to step into
the field of radio interference,
aiding in locating and clearing
up all types Of grief to radio
owners, and with the expansion
Of this service is ready to carry
on" with the most expert and
most prompt attention.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
Al the Goat

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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16.--
The only thing that hasn't
been blamed on Al Capone is
the World war, Bernard L.
Lemisch, attorney for Scarface
Al, told the United Press today.
"It is an accepted fact that,
for the last few years, any
large crime committed in the
United States has been directly
or indirectly blamed on Ca
pone, and this latest outburst
by Mrs. Frank Biege is moth
ing but another attempt to stir
up a lot of trouble and scam
dal," LemiSch said.
"Capone doesn't know who
this woman is and has never
seen or heard of her. AS to
the letters, he knows nothing
about them"
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16

The twenty four page
statement details intrigue and
wholesale slaughter rivaling
that of the Borgias and De
Medicis.
The Valentines day massacre, IN
which seven men were lined up
against a wall and moved down
with a machine gun; the Staying OF
Ben Newmark, Chicago politician,
and the asSassinationS Of number
of other men who assertedly galnef
the enmity Of Capone, are mel
toned in the statement. 81
Paid S25 for Statement
Chief Investigator Pat Roche of
States Attorney Swanson's staff,
said he paid Mrs. Biege $25 for her
statement, although he did not
Know it's contents at the time. She
told him Biege was threatening her
life.
"a substantial part of her state
ment dovetails with details already
in our possession" Roche said, "and
I believe this Office now will be sue
cessful to a great extent in solving
some Of our principal gangland
murders.
I'VE are convinced Biege had one
motive in threatening his wife. He
feared she might 'squeal.'"
BIackmaI Attempt Failed
Biege was arrested for questioning
in connection with the murders and
IS being held in lieu of $1,000 bail on
a charge of extortion.
Every time AL Capone hears the
name McSwiggin, he shivers," Mrs.
Biege quoted her husband as saying
to her. She named Biege as the
slayer of Newmark, on Capone's
orders.
The Bieges attempted to get money
from Capone, her statement de-
clared, and when they were unsuc-
cessful, both feared for their lives.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
OTHER KILLINGS ALSO CLEARED UP.
Mrs. Frank Biege Says 'Scarface Az Operated
Machine Gun in Fatal Raid; Tells
ofValentine Day Massacre.

Bu
CHICAGO, Oct. 16-A startling story of assassnatons
that the state attorneys office said today might prove the
opening wedge in solution of Chicagos major gangland
MURDERS has from the disgruntled wife of gunman
held in jail here.
Scarface Al Capone grand mogul of the gangsters
jail in Philadelphia named by the the man
riddled States Attorney William H. McSwiggin and two
companions with machine gun bullets Cicero street in
1926
"Al just small leader then and he shot McSwig-
gin and the others when they beer raid in Cicero
said the statement made by Mrs Frank Biege whose hus
band formerly Capone bodyguard and released by the
state attorneys office.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16

III 4IUHl W eII SII5tU dIIu IIaVt gone OuC
supon Wall street, mixing with the
crowds which mill all day long in that
narrow old lane and have been recognized
by but few.
Their business is not finished, but the
story, as yet unconfirmed, which is be-
ing told around New York as the reason
back of this extraordinary association, is
that they are engaged in the adninistra-
ton Of a huge philanthropic fund
A man living in the vicinity of New
York, whose name no one has as yet an
nounced, is said to have established a
fund Of millions to be used for the public
good. Either this man or the Bankers
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16

w 1AO1 Cdo OA4IC Virgins 4SSlJO1lOSO
to gongs with hop, skip and
jump across the resined canvas to
match his strength against strength,
he now finds the gong means to
lift up his tray and walk.
For Virgins is waiter in the
county Jail, having laid aside his
mop and broom for the more
serious duty of providing 300 other
prisoners of the county with food
and kitchenware.
Twenty-Five days of jail routine
have made a model prisoner of
Virgins, his jailers say. He is
silent, doing his Jolt" with malice
toward none. Virgins hustles
prisoners food from kitchen to din
ing room three times day. Be-
muses. reDOrtS have il. Duff1nC at
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
ARM0RY BOARD MEETS
Leslie Announces Session of New
AppOintees Next Week.

Governor Harry C. Leslie an
nounced today that he will call a
meeting Of his newly appointed
state armory board some time next
week" He refused to comment on
any action that might be taken re-
garding the continuation of the SEN
ate probe on armory costs which the
Governor promised to carry on, but
about which he has done nothing
thus far.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
Prompt Efficient SerUice
to City Radio Oz0merS

John T. Hawkins, radio editor
If The Times, has taken charge
of the interference department.,
and can be reached every after
noon between 4 and 5 o'clock at
The Times Office, either by tele-
phone or in person.
Mr.. Hawkins, one Of the most
able radio experts in the state,
will be pleased to talk over your
troubles in person.
A fully equipped radio inter-
ference car with a specially
constructed radio interference
set is on service continually.
All that is necessary is a
prompt call to Mr.. Hawkins at
The Times, Riley 555l.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
THREE KILLED IN WRECK
Two Local Freight Trains Collide
and Six Are Injured.
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bU CHtteu PTeS8
PETERBORO, N. H, Oct. 49,
Three railroad employees were killed
and six injured today in collision
between two local freight trains at
Major, near here.
The accident, cause of which could
not be determined, occurred on the
Peterboro branch Of the Boston and
Maine railroad.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
Hourly Temperatures

BIZ United Press
ROCKVILLE, Conn, Oct. 16.-A
defiant, blonde factory girl, jeanette
Gerich, Is, was under arrest here
today after confessing she shot her
father Steve, So, because he abused
his children.
Gerich, with bullet wounds in
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
CITY SUED FOR $4,000
Five Property Owners Seek Dam
ages in Street Widening.

Suit of five owners of abutting
property for $4,000 damages against
the city of Indianapolis in the Wild
ening of College avenue between st.
Clair and Mary street, was filed TO-
day in Marion circuit court by Ed
ward Prange, co-owner Of the prop
erty.
The complaint AYERS the owners
were assessed $1,000 for the i'm
provement, and charges the assess
ment is excessive.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
CHILD ABUSE CHARGED
Miner Held for Hanging Babe by
Hands From Ceiling.
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GREENSBURG, Pa, Oct. 16.-
Alleged to have punished 3-year-old
Jack Hickey by hanging him from
the ceiling by his hands and later
tying him in front of burning
stove, Earl Pahel, %, miner, Of Edna
No. 2 near here, was held today.
The child'S mother, Mrs. Anna
May Hickey, forced to leave her
home because of straitened circum-
stances, left the child with the
Pahels, who were acquaintance.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16

principals will talk
1t is related that Governor Smith and
Mr.. Coolidge have found each other quite
delightful and that neither finds irk-
some the luncheon engagements they
are said to have had frequently at
private dining places in the financial
district.
1t further is told that they have spent
social half hours together riding about
the city in Smiths automobile.
And it even is recited that one after
noon not long ago Al Smith took Calvin
Coolidge to the famous tiger room"
Isl,.-- s... -
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
Road Contract Awarded

County commissioners today
awarded contract for grading and
improving the Noel road in Pike
township to Fred W. Reid, Indian
apolis, on 9 low bid OF $o.ls6. The
road is almost one mile long.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
DR.. SHUMAKER BETTER
Dry Chief Spends Most Restful
Night Since Confinement.

DR.. e. S. Shumaker, superintend-
ert of the Indiana Anti Saloon
League, 2232 Broadway, was i'm
proved today, according to DR.. C..
H. Winders, temporary league SUI
perintendent.
Members of DR.. Shumaker's fam
lily said he spent one of the most
restful nights since he has been
confined to his home with an in
durable liver ailmenU.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
EDISON AIDS JUBILEE
Inventor to Appear in Public for
First Time Since Illness.


WEST ORANGE, N. j., Oct. 16.-
Thomas A. Edison will make his
first public appearance since his re-
cent illness when he attends a
banquet tonight as guest Of honor
of the Chamber Of Commerce and
civic clubs Of the Oranges and
MapIewood in connection with the
celebration of Lights Golden
Jubilee.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
FOOD STRIKE CONTINUES
130 Members of Religious Sect
Resist Feeding Attempts.
BIZ United Press

By United PTess
VANCOUVER, B. c., Oct. 16.-
Still holding out against attempts
Of the provincial police to induce
them to eat, 100 Doukhbors in the
Oakala Jail near here today entered
their fifth day Of a hunger strike.
The Doukhoborswere placed in jail
for staging a nude parade in protest
against an order to send their chill
dren to provincial schools.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16

Roman Catholic, and Rosenwald Jew, noted for his phan
thropies his skill business agreed said to
accept the responsibility.
Before very long announcement expected to reveal
foregoing to be the correct approximately the
rect version brought these together For
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
BY EDWARD c. FULKE

DESPITE the fighters confinement within
~ prison walls, Charles (Chuck) Virgins, the
master Of fiSticuffs, finds that the cang Of gong
still is guiding influence in his career.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
AUTO INJURIES FATAL
Theodore Ross Succumbs as Result

of Accident Oct. s.
Theodore Ross, 241 West New
York street, died Tuesday night at
the city hospital as a result of in
juries received Oct. 8, when struck
Ey an auto driven by Maurice Ball.
go West New York street. Ball has
ben arrested on an assault and
battery eharga
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16

spun. For instance, Calvin Coolidge and
Alfred E. Smith, some time ago, walked
together in that shadow with julius
RosenwaId at their side. And, as far as is
known, almost no one recognized them
Since then they have done it again, not
once, but at least three times of recent
weeks, probably more often. What is more
they probably will be doing it frequently.
Wall Street and some other parts of
New York have built up happy story of
this association of the former Republican
President from rock-ribbed Massachusetts;
the former Democratic Governor of New
York, from sweltering Oliver street; and
Jewish philanthropist and Chicago
/ weeks ago that the three first were seen
nnnt1 at the Rankprs, Cll1h Ham
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
MADAME CURIE RESTS
Woman Scientist Prepares for Pub
lie Appearances.

Z NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-Mme. Ma
RE Curie, elderly distinguished wom-
an scientist, who arrived here Tues
day from Paris, motored to West
chester county today to spend sew
eral days resting, in preparation for
the ordeal of the public appearances
she viii make during her visit to
this countrE ss.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
TRAITOR FACES DEATH
italian Tribunal Pronounces Firing
Squad for Alleged PlOtter.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Pre85
POLA, Italy, Oct 16.-Vladirnir
Gortan, charged with action pur-
porting to bring slaughter amidst
citizens Of the kingdom" was SEN
fenced to death by shooting today
after a three-day trial before a spe-
cial tribunal.
Four other defendants in the case
each were sentenced to thirty years
imprisonment.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16

Trust Company with which the money said to been
deposited sought representative trio of whose
ing would be reproachabe to control the expenditure of
the fund, the story goes
Mr. Coolidge, Protestant; former Governor Smith,
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16

outside Of handful of who knew and still kept
secret the story Of what it is all about recognized them
Twice at least since that time, they have met in con-
ference at the Bankers Trust Company. They have come
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16

maintained by w. E. Kenny, millionaire friend OF Smith
1t is private lair frequented only by the inner circle
of Kennys friends and in many stroke Of statesman
ship the part of Smith Tamry is said to have
been conceived.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16

tween times he muses.. reports have it, puff
black cigars, which are his one dissipation
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY
United Press stan Correspondent

AIEW YORK, Oct. 16-Down where the shadow of
' Trinity churchs spire falls Wall Street, many
strange things happen and the webs Of many stories
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
PERRY Is IMPROVED
Monument Superintendent Reported
Better bY Family.

Condition of Colonel Oran Perry.
superintendent of the Soldiers and
Sailors Monument, was improved
today. according to members of his
familq. Perry has been suffering
from heart disease at his home, 1920
Central avenue.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-16
BRANDED Slayer Of
BILLY M'SWIGGIN And TWO
COMPANIONS IN CICERO RAID

Wife of Gang Chiefs Former Bodyguard
Bares States Attorneys Murder in
1926 in Statement to Detectives.