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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-12

Imagine "Dracula," a restless,
roaming spirit that in human form
infested the countryside from mid
night until dawn and casting forth
the ominous warning of his COM
ing and leaving terror and moan
ing mortals in his wake. he fastens
mis- pale lips to the Threats Of sensi-
tive girls and draws them to him
with menacing hypnotism to a
frightful doom.
The American version Of ORA
cula" was made for Liveright by
John Balderson. from Bran Stoker's
novel of the same name which has
been read by two generations Of
story readers, and Is still listed as
one of the largest sellers, though
it is more than thirty years since it
was first published.
The engagement will close
/ Wednesday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-12

where they have been staff artists
for several years. Their keen vocal
ability and distinctive style in which
their numbers are rendered have
won for them the title of the new
Van and Schenck of vaudeville"
The show will be rounded out by
one other Keith vaudeville act and
a goodly program of film short sub
jectS, including a news weekly and
AeSop's Fables.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-12
Dolores to Start East

Dolores del Rio will leave Holly
wood next week, for New York. She
will shop for gowns to be worn in
her first all-talking picture, The
Bad One" be guest of honor at the
opening of the new Kings theater in
Brooklyn with "Evangeline" as the
feature, and renew acquaintance
with New York City, which was not
visited during her personal appear
ance tour of eastern and southern
cities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-12
English Cast Will Be Seen in Thriller That Is Hit
BaIief Will Bring His New 'Chauve- SourS' for
Weeks Engagement Here.

THE heatergoer search of thrill should present
on the opening night Of Horace Lveghts "Dracu
at Engshs Monday for the history
with positive
the hardened
n
thrilling still
playing the outstanding hit
of horror and veryen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-12
Al to Start Work Again

Al Jolson shortly will begin work
on his fourth Vitaphone produc-
ton for Warner Brothers. 1t is
called Nanny" based on Irving
Berlin's play, "Mr. Bones" Song
numbers are also by this composer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-12
POLICEMEN
HELD FOR BRIBERY
Nine Other Warrants Await
Service in Los Angeles
'Shake- Down" Probe.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, September 1.-TWO
police SergeantS and patrolman were
under arrest, nine warrants were wait
ing to be served and another was being
withheld here today as the result of a
grand jury investigation of charges that
a "shake-down ring" composed of police
officers had collected thousands OF dol
lars In brides from one Los Angeles
bootlegger in five years.
The investigation was undertaken 10
days ago by District Attorney Buron
Fits, upon information furnished by
j. B. Westman, alias Harry D. Mac
Donald, confessed bootlegger and police
''pay-off man.
Sergts Harry NJ. Hill and Leonard S.
Sale and Patrolman Thomas B. Wash
burn of the vice detail were arrested
last night. Washburn later was re-
leased on $4,000 bond.
Three May Surrender.
The three officers were named in In
dictmentS returned by the grand jury
late yesterday. At least three other Of
ficerS were indicted, one of them a for
mer police captain. Their names were
not divulged. but it was understood
they would surrender today, after they
had arranged for bond.
Bail bond companies early today pre-
pared bonds, by direction of Joe Fainer,
who said he was attorney for the want
ed officers, in the names of Lieut.. Bob
Evans, at one time captain in charge
of the vice squad; Patrolman M. II
Ledbetter and Patrolman Oscar L. Pc
terson. The district attorneys Office
and investigators declined to say, how
ever, whether these were the men that
were expected to surrender.
Whether the three persons named ir
the John Doe warrants were police
officers was not revealed.
Westman In Jail.
The grand jury previously had ISSUED
four true bills against Westman. hi.
partner in q bathhouse- bootleg enter
prise, Gus Pongrantz, and two Johr
Does. The warrant against WeStman
who already was in Jail on liquor
law violation conspiracy charge, wa!
issued chiefly to forestall any actor
on the part of his attorney to obtair
his release on habeas corpus proceed
ings, and pending developments haC
not been served. Pongrantz had no
been found.
Westman was under special guard O.
two deputy Sheriffs in the Los Angelo.
County Jail last night. and an armed
squad of deputies was thrown about hi:
home, in Whittier, Calf, during the
night, after Frank Dewar, chief of thu
sheriff's criminal investigation detail
had received a report that three mer
in an automobile, armed with machine
guns, had been seen twice in the down.
town district.
The license number of the car, in.
vestigators said. showed it to have beer
registered in Whittier. Westman's wife
previously had been removed from hel
Whittier home and placed under guarc
in the home of relatives in Los Angeles
Westman, when arrested 10 days ago
confessed to bootlegging activities over
a period Of six years. during which
time his business totaled. he said more
than half a million dollars. He tolc
District Attorney Fits he was "sick anc
tired OF being shaken down" by the
police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-12
GOV. SAMPSON TELLS
JURY OF BOOK FIGHT
Kentucky Executive, Questioned
8 Hours Yesterday, Will Be
Quizzed More Today.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRANKFORT, KY, September IL
For two hours and 40 minutes Tues
day. Gov Elem D. Sampson was ques-
toned by the Franklin County grand
jury which for three days has been eX-
aiming the affairs of the State text
book commission. When he was eX-
cused late yesterday afternoon the gov
ernor was instructed to report at $50
O'Clock today for further questioning.
There was understood to be proba-
bjlity that their investigation would ex-
tend through tomorrow. Other wit
neSSeS in addition to Gov Sampson and
the Is already questioned, may be
called.
During the morning session the jury
questioned three members of the text
book commission and one representative
| of a publishing firm that bid on books
to be adopted for use in the public
schools.
In a Labor day speech at Louisville,
Gov. Sampson said lone big book COM
pany" was approaching nominees for
the 1880 General Assembly in hope of
using them for corrupt purposes
Gov. Sampson, a Republican, was
elected on platform of free text books.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-12
AIR COLLEGE is SOLD.
Detroit Corporation Buys Parks
Properties at East st. Louis.

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, September IL
(P.-Purchase of the Parks Air College.
Inc, with more than 800 students and
It's affiliated companies, by the Detroit
Aircraft Corporation, for consideration
lin excess of 81 .000, 000," was confirmed
by officials of the local company here
late Tuesday. Announcement also was
made In Detroit by Edward s. Evans,
president of the purchasing company.
The deal involves the air college, a
10O-acre airport on the outskirts of East
ST. Louis, an airplane factory and IL
buildings used by the school. According
to the terms of the agreement, the
Parks directors will request stockholders
to deposit their stock in escrow in a
st. Louis bank until majority has been
placed. when the Detroit Corporation
formally will take charge.
1t was reported Oliver L. Parks,
founder. and Harry p. Mamman, presi-
dent, will remain in charge of the
operations of the school, the aircraft
factory. which manufactures two models,
and the airlines for aerial taxi business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-12
COURT IN HARD DRIVE
ON DRY LAW VIOLATORS
KEEPS Pledge by Imposing Severe
Penalties in Punishment of
Second Offenders"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ELGIN, ILL.,, September 12.-When
Judge o. C. Allen threatened several
days ago to invoke an 1877 statute to
punish second offenders against the pro-
hibition law, he wasn't fooling. Grady
Vaughn, Negro, found that out yes
terday.
It was his fourth conviction. Judge
Allen fined him 500 and costs and
ordered that the fine be worked out on
the county highways at the rate of 81. so
q day. II there is no work to be done,
Vaughn, colored, found that out Tues
daV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-12
DEVELOPMENT URGED
FOR TWO PROJECTS
Power Engineers Pass Resolutions
for Immediate Muscle Shoals
and Boulder Dam Action.

BY the Associated Press.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. September
12.-Immediate development of natural
resources at Muscle Shoals and Boulder
Dam was urged in resolutions presented
at yesterdays meeting of the National
Association of Power Engineers.
The resolutions, offered by commit
tee headed by John Callahan of Jersey
City, declared that the association recog-
nizes the advantages of the South in
natural resources, and especially in
potential hydro-electric power, and
pledged the associations support of a
movement for the early settlement OF
the Muscle Shoals project. Immediate
action on the California project was also
declared urgent.
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
MISSING " IF {
IS SOUGHT

Mrs. H. N. Mcfarland, of the
200 block G st. n. W., who is said
by members of her family to be in
a dying condition, wants to see
her daughter Mrs. Katherine
Bowles, pretty 23-year-old blonde,
before the end.
Mrs. Bowles mysteriously vanished
Tuesday from her home in the 400
block of Ninth st. N. w.
Her husband assumed that she
had gone to work, but when she
did not return home that night, he
called the home Of his mother-in.
law. The condition of Mrs. Nc
Farland already i'll, was rendered
dangerous through the worry
caused by her daughters unex-
planned absence.
No motive for Mrs. Bowles dis
appearance could be supplied by
her friends. She was exception
ally popular and is known as
"Bootie"
The missing wife wore a brown
coat, hat and shoes and the shoes
were trimmed with alligator skin.
She is about $50 pounds in weight
and was described as a decided
blonde.
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
Replies Are Awaited
On Conference
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the efforts which the League of
Nations hi s been making along this
line.
80 l should like to empha
size said the British note, that
His Majestys government have dis
covered no inclination in any quar-.
ter to set up new machinery for
dealing with the naval disarmament
question; on the contrary. it is
hoped that by this means a text
can be elaborated which will facili-
tate the task of the League of Ma
lions Preparatory Commission ="
In the Scant ln0.WOrd CommuniCa
ton which expressed American will.
ipgness TO participate in the con
terence, Secretary of State Stimson
struck an entirely different note.
He spoke of the conference as an
undertaking that will unite the
powers signatOry to the Washington
Treaty which VIII anticipate the
problems raised under Article u of
that treaty as we'll as broaden its
whole scope by the inclusion of
other Categories of ships"
There was, significantly enough.
no mention of the League Or of
Facilitating the task of the League
in the American communication.
The metiCulous wording of both
the British invitation and the Am,
The Washington times., 1929-10-11

eriran acceptance is illustrative OF
the extreme care which is being
taken in both London and WASH
inGton to avoid wounding the sensi-
biities of France nd Italy. and at
TIE same time of the care which
tnis government is taking to main
tain it's position independently OF
the League.
The British invitation conveys the
impression that the January gather
ing is 10 assist the League in lis
noble work-this in order 10 aIlaY
French suspicious that the London
meeting is purely an AnSio-Amer
lean independent affair.
The American acceptance conveys
the impression that the London con.
ference is merely an extension OF
the Washington Conference of 1921,
10 which all of the powers were
party.
Such are the WAYS of diplomacy
LONDON, Oct. II UN.S0.-Dur-
ing the course of their converse
tons in Washington, President
Hoover and Premier Macdonald de.
liherately refrained from coming to
a hard and fast agreement on the
question of cruiser tonnage, it was
stated in authoritative circles here
today.
Reports had been current the two
statesmen had actually disagreed on
this subject.
The Washington times., 1929-10-11

police We're bending the efforts to
prove a suicide, the coroner's jury
would not have brought in such
verdict which the Grand Jury set
aside by its subsequent Indictment
of the husband. Blood was found
on the bathroom floor the day the
body was discovered, and the new
theory held by the Government
agents was said to be that an
operation may have been performed
on the young woman prior to her
death.
Several new mystery" witnesses
have been unearthed by the Depart.
ment of Justice, another last night
in the person of an attractive vel
dressed young woman Efforts to
learn her identity or what she told
the investigators, could not be
learned. The care with which she
was guarded, however, indicated she
was considered important to the
case
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
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Young nurse was found In her apart
rnent In the Park Lane, September
IA, a paiema cord knotted about her
throat, many startling events have
transpired in the investigation of
the mystery death of the girl.
With inc failure of the police de-
partment to make more than q
cursorv investigation of the case,
the subsequent report of the Grand
Jury, which recommended disciplin-
ing Inspector William S. Shelby and
Lieut.. Edward j. Kelly and
their removal from the detective
bureau, the case has moved rapidly
from one phase to another.
Getting New Clues
The many conflicting reports and
mystery about the case that seems
to BATTLE the minds of the best
criminal investigators in the United
States.
Despite the many angles of the
Staying of the nurse, agents of the
Department of Justice are each day
unearthing additional clues which
will eventually prove the manner
in which Virginia Mcpherson met
her death.
The new autopsy, which will be
performed by skilled Federal path
ologists, will no doubt throw much
light on the mystery death, Justice
operatives feel.
More than 100 witnesses have
been questioned by agents thus
far, and it is expected that DR.,
Thomas Ballard, of New York,
friend of the slain girl, will be
questioned at length as to his re
lations with Mrs. Mcpherson.
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
DAYTON To PUT
. UP BATTLE
FOR LIFE
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(Continhen lrDIH FIiSt IdEsj
to do with this, SO why bring up
his name"
The boy, though nervous and
Thoroughly upset over his act, was
warm in his feeling toward Capt.
Robert +. Doyle of the Eighth
precinct and other officers who
quizzed him. lie said that his
statement Of the killing was entirely
voluntary and that the police
treated him with every considera-
ton and courtesy.
Just what defense the boy will
make is not known, but more than
likely it will be based on a plea OF
temporary insanity. 1t is hoped
that persons who saw the couple
on the tragic Monday night will
come forward and explain just what
the youths condition was ana what
his movements were after leaving
the O'Donnell home.
While the friends Of the accused
youth are building their defensive
ramparts to cheat the electric chair
of another victim, members Of the
slain girls family are preparing TO
lay her body at rest in her child
hood home at Pittsburgh.
The body of the love victim"
was taken to Pittsburgh last night,
accompanied by her sister. Miss
Katherine O'Donnell. A younger
sister, Margaret. is in Washington
with friends of the family.
That Marjorie was a happy, hard
working girl Is borne out by letters
to her people in Pittsburgh in
which she outlines how hard she
and her sister worked TO see that
Margaret, "the baby of the family
got every advantage in school
here.
Wrote Of Death Party
She also wrote at length to her
grandmother, telling of the dance
she was to attend Monday night and.
describing the party gown, which
turned out to he her shroud. No
mention was made in the letter Of
Dayton, the miId-eyed, dapper lad,
who in a few short hours was to
turn from devoted swain to a Wild
eyed, maniacal stranger.
Dayton, in his cell, frequently
looked at his shapely hands as
though trying to puzzle out how
those lithesome fingers which had
often tenderly stroked the auburn
hair of his intended bride could
have choked the life from her body.
At first the boy was ready to
walk to the lethal chair and join
his sweetheart in another world.
Now he is ready to defend his ac-
ton and will fight to live and try
in some way to atone for his act,
he said.
Even the close friends Of the dead
girl are inclined to feel for Deck"
as he is known to them and de-
spite the brutal manner in which
Marjorie met her death. are ready
to speak a word for the soft-eyed
boy who Is still puzzling out the
strange mental condition caused by
cheap whisky that inflamed him
to the point of murder.
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
Boys Club Members
To Exhibit Handicraft

The Transformation OF lumber and
packing boxes into useful house
hold articles will be demonstrated
by the Boys Club of Washington
at the Fifth Industrial Exposition
held by the Washington Chamber
of Commerce at the Washington
Auditorium. October 81 to rs.
The exhibit has been arranged
by the National Committee on Wood
Utilization of the Department of
Commerce to call attention to- its
plan for utilizing old boxes and
crates heretofore carelessly de-
stroyed. Arrangements have been
made for members of the Boys
Club to be on hand to explain
their work.
The Washington times., 1929-10-11

j. s. PHYSICIANS WILL
MAKE POISON PROBE

Although DR.. Ballard has stated
that be was in New York at the
time Virginia Mcpherson died 4
great deal of Importance Is being
attached to his testimony by the
Department Of Justice.
Light q Mystery
One point that is being run out
Is whether or not a light was burn.
ing in the apartment when the
girls body was found. Police made
no report to this effect when they
were first on the ground. but now
many proponents of a suicide theory
claim that a boudoir lamp was
lighted the morning Robert A. Me
Pherson, jr, found his slain wife.
Practically all witnesses, who are
supposed to have seen the apars.
ment windows about the hour Nir-
ginia Mcpherson died, are emphatic
In their denials that any light
burned in the apartment.
This is also considered ore of the
most important clues in the case.
If a light burned when the girl died,
then the suicide proponents say she
came to her death by her own hand.
If, however, the apartment was
dark, as most witnesses, including
some members of the homicide squad
agree. then the girl was slain and
her attacker turned out the lights
following the murder.
Young Mcpherson, who found the
nearly nude body of his wife on that
tragic Saturday morning. still clings
to the belief that she was a suicide.
Charged with her murder, McPher-
son maintains that he is innocent
and knew nothing of the manner in
which she died.
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
BOOK CENSORS
ARE SCORED
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Treasury Department had combined
in drafting a black list of IS9
hooks-which are barred from the
United States and from the mails.
On this list, Cutting said, there are
but ia books written in English
all the rest being in Spanish, Italian,
French or German. With so few
people reading Spanish, he added.
there could be no danger to public
morals in admitting the Spanish
books, of which 379 have been black
listed.
Cutting revealed that the books
of Havelock Ellis and krafft-F,b,
hing. the Golden Ass of LuCius
Apuleius," the works of BoccaC-
clio and Casanova we're on the
black list" Noltaire's "Candide,"
used by English classes in many
universities. was barred for time.
"All Quiet" on List
The Senator told of "All Quiet
on the Western Front" being cen,
sorsd so that 40 pages We're left out
of the English translation. This
prompted Sen" II Tydings Cd of
Maryland. a " d War veteran, to
declare the boon was a true story
of the war" and "one of the great.
est documents for peace in the Eng
lish language."
IF the decision of the Customs
Court on the Well of Loneliness
were use as a criteriOno," Cutting
added. 1.-The most dangerous book in
the English language would be the
dictionary, because it contains not
only a few indecent words but all
OF them. Under that decision, all
dictionaries could be excluded"
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
Say Autopsy Will Reveal
Operation on Mrs. Mcpherson

The Federal agents took the
case over when Attorney General
Mitchell appointed a special prose-
cutor after local detectives had
fought hard before the Grand Jury
TO show the strange case was one
of suicide. The Grand Jury, in a
scathing special report. denounced
Chief of Detectives Shelby and
Lieut.. Edward Kelly, chief of the
homicide squad, for the way they
handled their investigation.
The trail was cold when the De-
partment of Justice agents began
their investigation almost two
weeks after the woman was found
dead on the floor of her apartment.
Much new evidence makes another
autopsy necessary, investigators
say.
The Federal agents are said to
believe that if a more thorough
autopsy had been made by the
coroner's physician at the time the
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
TOWnsfOk Dislike Order
=, To Ethume Virginia s B0du

Mcpherson. ir.. now in Jail charged
with having killed her.
They see, however, in the proposed
exhumation an opportunity to obtain
evidence which will tend TO lift the
stigma of suicide from the name of
the young nurse.
The Hurley family, of which Mrs
Mcpherson was a daughter. is well
known and respected in this com
munity. Nirginia's father. A. A.
Hurley. served as mayor OF China
Grove for several years prior to NOV
ing to Chester. S. c.
Beside the freshly marked grave
of Virginia there is the grave Of her
brother, Otis E. Hurley. Today. as
preparations went forward for dis
interinS the remains. the faded
flowers which were heaped upon the
girls grave at the time of burial
We mute evidence of the love
which the towns people felt for her.
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
BY Times Staff Correspondent

CHINA GROVE, N. C.-The little
village of China Grove, where Vir-
ginia Mcpherson grew to girlhood
which ended in tragedy today, is
awaiting the disinterment of her
body from it's grave in the cemetery
of the Mount Zion Reform Church.
No definite word has been received
by county health authorities as to
when the exhumation will be made.
It is expected that it will take place
late this afternoon or tomorrow
morning.
Country folk in general are OPP
posed to disinterment of the body,
claiming that the young girl should
not be disturbed in her final resting
place to which she was carried after
her body had been found in her Park
Lane apartment in Washington,
D. L, by her husband, Robert A .
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
Baby Born, 5 Fingers
And Thumb On
Each Hand

LYNN, Mass, Oct. II 0.N.S).-
Tiny joe today gave every
promise of growing up to be a
super two-fisted man.
With five fingers and thumb
on each hand. the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Victor J. Whitehouse today
was reported 'in the pink of
condition." in the maternity ward
OF a local hospital.
The Washington times., 1929-10-11
Phi Delta of G. w. u.
Holds Initial Session

The Phi Delta Gamma fraternity
chapter of George Washington Uni
versity last night held its first meet
ing of the season. D. w. Stump,
of the Ohio Industrial Commission
and national secretary of the fra.
ternity, spoke.
A special meeting will be held
Sunday at p. m. in the Lombary
Apartments TO elect officers to fill
the places of Edward B. Moulton,
president, and Ray C. Crowell, sec.
rotary, resigned.
The Washington times., 1929-10-11

whether the appropriation could be
obtained.
Mitchell also made a recommends.
ton for increased pay for assistant
district attorneys, whose present
salary is about $1,000 per year.
The Attorney General hopes to
raise the salaries to $500 OF
$500. he said.