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The Washington times., 1929-11-30
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The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
L SHALL HEAR YE'
Electrodes We're On, SyitCh-

GAN ANTONIO Tex Oct 221ay Mother of God have mercy
~ This muttered fill the
prison. here Anastacio walked the
cell to the death chair.
He innocent of the woman-but
seemed to For four he had been confinement
after
seemingly cleared him Of murdeer guilt state
believe
feverish lips in the death house.
His shaven head gstened the nandecents Of the
electrodes clamped his his
PRIEST stood repeating with the doomed Mary
"A mercy
Newspaper spectators the little audience
black cap placed his head.
thick silence grapped with the with the spectators
execion stepped the swch physicians
scopes
the death pounding
prison attendant paper
Mary Mother Of God Mercy" muttered the priest full
for death chair that sought claim
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22

Bu United Press
CHARLOTTE, N. c., Oct. %. -
Protesting that the conviction Of
seven union textile workers in the
Aderholt murder trial was the re-
suit of "class verdict" the de-
fense laid plans today for vigor-
Gus appeal.
After pronouncing sentence Mon
day, Judge M. v. Barnhill allowed
ninety days for the appeal. The
American Civil Liberties Union,
backing the defense, has announced
it will carry the case to the United
States supreme court if necessary.
This is a class verdict" saIu a
statement issued by the defendants.
The southern capitalist class has
won temporary victory over the
working class. We are innocent of all
the charges against us, Of which the
jury, its prejudices inflamed by the
prosecution, convicted us in accord
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
Former Congressman Dies
After Accident on
City Street.

Friends of Merrill Moores, 72,
congressman and prominent Indian
apolis attorney, today mourned his
death Monday night from injuries
received when struck by an auto in
the 900 block, North Pennsylvania
street.
Mr.. Moores was struck by an auto
driven by Richard Crozier, %, Of
1903 North Pennsylvania street, Apt.
65, as he was crossing Pennsylvania
street from his parked auto. He
died at the city hospital at midnight
from skull fracture and spine in
juries.
Mr.. MooreS was holding an UNI
brella over his head and apparently
did not see the approaching auto.
Mr.. Moores was not married. He
lived at 6 West Michigan street,
Apartment BOB. In recent years
he practiced law and was vice-presi-
dent of the American Systems and
Audit Company with offices in the
New City Trust building.
Born in indianapolis, April 81,
1856, Mr.. Moores attended Butler
and Willamette universities. He re-
ceived his A. B. degree in 1878 at
Yale, where he was claSsmate of
William H. Taft, chief justice of
the supreme court and former
President.
Mr.. Moores was admitted to the
Marion county bar in 1880 and
served as county Republican chair
man from 1892 to 1896. He also
was assistant encouragement from
1894 to 1908.
He was five times elected to the
house of representatives and was
president of the Indiana Bar AS
sociation in 1907 and 1908.
Mr.. Moores was a member Of the
Columbia Club, the Literary Club,
the Indianapolis Country Club, the
Yale Club of New York, the Army
and Navy Club and the Arts Club of
Washington, the Society of Colonial
Wars, Sons of the Revolution and
the Board of Trade.
He was the brother of the late
Charles Moores, whose son, Charles
w. Moores Jr., of indianapolis, and
daughter Miss Emily Moores, OF
Dayton, O., survive him.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
GASTONIA STRIKERS
TO APPEAL FINDING

ance with the dictates of the mill
owners. Not the evidence but our
beliefs convicted U.s."
Sentences imposed by Judge
Barnhill after the jury reported
were as follows:
Fred Erwin Beal of Lawrence,
Mass, II to 20 years in the state
prison.
Clarence Miller, New York, seven
teen to twenty years.
George Carter of Mizpah. N. j.,
and Joseph Harrison, Passaic, sew
enteen to twenty years. Louis Nc
Laughlin and William McGinnis OF
Gastonio, twelve to fourteen years.
K. Y. Hendricks, Gastonia, five to
seven years.
Lighter sentences, to run concur
rently, were imposed for the shoot
ing of Policeman Tom Gilbert dur
ing the riot in which Police Chief
o. F. Aderholt was slain.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
SCHOOLBOYS
STABBING LAID
TO JEALOUSY
Clinton Youth, 16, Asserts
He Killed Rival in
Self Defense.
DARED TO OFFER FIGHT
Tells Authorities Victim
Gave Him Open Knife,
Struck Him.
By United Press

By United Press
CLINTON, Ind, Oct. 22.-Jeal-
ousy over a high school girl was
ascribed today by Robert Crabtree,
16, as the motive for the fight Mon
day night in which he stabbed
Ralph Howe, II, to death with a
pocket knife.
After hours of questioning the
high school youth stood by his story
that Howe, whom, he claimed, has
served a reform school science, at
tackled him because of the belief
that Crabtree was going out with
Howes girl friend.
''I had just recovered from an op-
Grafton and was very weak" Crab
tree told police. Howe started the
quarrel and insisted that I fight. He
handed me an open knife and said,
Here, take this and fight. Then he
hit me in the mouth, and as he
came att me again, stabbed him.
Howe died almost instantly.
Crabtree, Howe, Crabtree's brother
Sherman, II, and another boy were
en- route to a political meeting when
the fight occurred, the boys said.
Homer Ingram, Vermillion coun-
ty prosecutor, said that a grand
jury investigation of the killing
would be made soon. Meanwhile,
he and other officials were en-
deavoring to get more details from
the surviving youths, but gave no
indication that they had shaken
Crabtree's story.
They we're interested particularly
in establishing ownership of the
knife with which the stabbing was
done, inasmuch as they have learned
that Howe was not in possession of
a weapon-not even knife-when
slain.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22

BN United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-Wall street
plunged itself into another tre-
mendous day today, with stocks on
the upturn and tickers running If
teen minutes behind.
An hour after the opening, the
market was operating on an 100000
share day basis, tickers were tagging
and trading was reaching the
frenzied point as traders started
bringing the mart back from its de-
cline Of the past few days.
First hour gains ranged from 1 to
Is points. Auburn Auto jumped Is
and Eastman Kodak spurted more
than 16 points. Industrials gained,
joined by oils, rails, coppers, amuse-
ments, foods and special issues.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
STOLEN AUTO
RIDE ENDS IN
Boys DEATH
Companions Admit Leaving
Ralph Michael, 19, After
Accident.
DROVE AT HIGH SPEED
Father Identifies Lad on
Hospital Bed, Following
Search by Police.

Death was the penalty that Ralph
Michael, 10, Of 1414 Richland street,
paid today for his 10y ride" Sun
day night in a stolen automobile.
The car careened into a ditch on the
Rockville road at a speed of ninety
miles an hour, police were told.
Michael died at the city hospital
at 4 a. m. today after lying uncon-
scious more than twenty-four hours.
His father, Orvi1le Michael, identi-
fed the youth as he lay on his death
bed Monday night after police
sought for hours to learn his ident-
ity.
Cecil Strange, 10, of 1927 Kappes
street, was arrested on vehicle tax
ing charges, and another youth,
who is said to be Robert Westfield,
10, of Indianapolis, is sought by
police.
Deserted Injured Boy
Strange said he and Westfleld ac-
companied Michael on the death
ride" and left him lying in the car
after the accident.
Elmer Schrader, 18, of 2217 West
McCarty street, who was with the
youths earlier Sunday night, was
charged with vagrancy.
Trials Of Schrader and Strange
were continued by Municipal Judge
Paul c. Wetter today until Oct. 20,
while detectives continued their
search for Westfeld.
Strange told police he and West
field were asked to go riding by
Michael when he saw them at
Pershing avenue and Morris street.
The car, owned by Mrs. Letta B.
Rogers, $40 Middle drive, Woodruff
Place, was stolen when her son, Lee
r. Rogers, parked it at Twenty
eighth and Meridian streets Sunday
before midnight. Strange said
Michael wanted to see what the
bus would do"
Car Was Not Safe
Rogers said the car was damaged
In an auto accident several weeks
ago and it was not safe to drive
more than thirty miles an hour.
Strange said the car began to
weave on the road and crashed into
the ditch. He said he and Westfleld
fled from the scene and boarded a
bus back to Indianapolis.
Michael was found lying in the
wreckage by w. T. Brill of Danville
an hour after the accident and was
taken to the city hospital.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
AT
CINC|NNATIFOR
Dam PROGRAM
5000 Stand in Rain to
Hear Tribute to Canal
Project.
LAUDS ENGINEERS SKILL
Presidential Party Leaves
Late Today by Boat
for Louisville.

BIZ United Press
CINCINNATI, Oct. 22.-Celebrat-
ing completion of the nine-foot
channel throughout the thousand
mile course of the Ohio river from
Pittsburgh to Cairo, President Hoo
yer today paid tribute to the contri-
button which the engineers skill and
learning has made to the advance
ment of modern industrial organiza-
ton.
"It is the glory of our scientific
age that its sooty processes in the
end bring results that make child
hood stronger and happier, and give
to manhood and womanhood a life
richer and more varied" the Pres
ident declared.
His address was delivered in a
drizzling rain in Eden park over
looking the Ohio.
5000 Hear Address
Defying the inclement weather. a
throng of approximately 5000
cheered the Presidents address.
The ceremonies were arranged by
the Ohio Valley Improvement AS
sociation which blazed the trail for
the river improvement for a quar-
ter of century.
Secretary of War Good and Major
Lyttle Brown, chief of army engi-
neers, were participants in the cele-
bration with the Chief Executive
and Mrs. Hoover.
The Presidents speech was In
dedication of a monument in Eden
park commemorating completion Of
the new artery of commerce.
"The engineering mind about
which I see so much in the paper"
the President said, here does come
to the surface and luXuriates in ap-
probation of a great engineering job
we'll DONE"
Reviewing the long struggle of in
land America for a national pro-
gram of waterway development, the
President told his audience that to-
days ceremonies marked a new
epoch in that history.
"The whole Ohio valley and the
nation as we'll should be congratu-
lated upon this occasion.
Means Untold Blessings
"This new instrument of COM
merce from which untold blessings
will come year after year, is an en-
during monument to those patient
men of my profession whose lives
are spent in devising means to in
crease the comfort and convenience
of the world.
president and Mrs. Hoover and
their official party will devote to-
day and Wednesday to the Ohio
river celebration. Following the
Eden Park address, the President
called for luncheon in the Gibson
hotel, to which 500 persons were
invited, and departed at 2 p. m.
on the government steamer Green
brier for Louisville, where Wednes-
day night he will deliver the
principal address Of his tour.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22

In replica of the laboratory in
which he perfected his first in
candescent light bulb, the electrical
wizard performed again the epochal
feat. Then he almost collapsed.
The laboratory had been con-
structed at the new Edison Institute
of Technology, which was dedicated
by the ceremonies. Regaining his
strength, Edison went to the BAN
quet table in the administration
building of the institute, where he
spoke to millions of radio listeners
over the world, as well as to the 500
persons seated in the hall.
His talk was the essence of mod
esty and simplicity. He stressed the
Importance of the work of pioneers
in the electrical field before him
and of the loyal men who worked
with him.
''If 1 have contributed to the hap
piness of my fellowman, I am
happy" he said.
Praises Scientists
President Hoover then spoke, pay
ing tribute to men of science.
Our scientists and inventors are
among our most priceless posses
sions," the President said. There is
no sum that the world could not
afford to pay these men who have
the originality of mind, that devo-
ton and industry to carry scien-
tific thought forward in steps and
strides until it spreads to the COM
fort of every home; not by all the
profits of all the banks in the world
can we measure the contribution
which these men and women make
to our progress"
Experiment Demonstrated
Edison's waning store Of strength
was not equal to the demand. He
listened to the Presidents words for
few minutes, then went back to
the couch in another room where
he had gone to lie down for brief
rest after concluding his own talk.
President and Mrs. Hoover, Mr.
and Mrs. Ford and Mr.. and Mrs
Edison went from the banquet table
to the reconstructed Menlo park
laboratory before the addresses were
given.
There Edison and Francis Jehl
the only man besides the great in
ventor now living who witnessed the
original experiment fifty years ago
on Oct. 81. 1879-prepared the
elaborate equipment for the event
that took on the gravity of a ritual
in the minds of the spectators.
Light 'er up, Francis" Edison
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22

the prosecution, as in the trial of
the Gastonia Communists at Char
lotte.
I feel certain that Judge Harding
has been desirous Of getting at the
truth. But I hope that never shall
be on trial for my life-unless, like
Sheriff Adkins, I have these attor-
news defending me-before such an
array of attorneys as those repre-
senting the mill-and, by the quaint
custom of North Carolina, therefore
representing the state, which APP
pal emily is following its mill-cwn-
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The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
WATER WALLS
Lash CHICAGO:
LIVES PERILED
Two Men, Adrift on Lake
in Oil Barge, Feared
Drowned.
BULLETIN

Bu United Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-Two men,
adrift all night in bobbing barge
in the terrific Lake Michigan
storm, were rescued today by the
steamer Schwab, radio advices to
the Chicago coast guard said to-
day.
The Schwab came upon the
helpless oil barge shortly after
dawn, stood by several hours try
ing to get a line to the drifting
barge, and then rescued the two
men when the barge sank under
the high waves.
BH United Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-One Of the
worst storms in memory of the coast
guardsmen lashed the western
shores of Lake Michigan today, i'm
periling lives of sailors caught out
on the lake and battering moored
pleasure craft.
A wind of thirty miles sustained
velocity, rising at times in gusts to
fifty miles, dashed waves twenty to
thirty feet high against the protect
ing breakwaters along the Chicago
coast line.
Two men drifting somewhere on
the lake in an oil barge, were sought
by a coast guard crew, headed by
Chief Mate G. E. Howell.
The barge broke loose early today
from the tug Butterf1eld when
waves, some of them described by
the Butterfeld's captain as forty
feet high, snapped the tow line.
With the burden of the barge gone,
the tug rolled and pitched so much
it was unable to pick up the line.
1t put into Chicago and notified
Captain John O. Anderson, chief
of the coast guard, who dispatched
the crew to search for the barge
and its crew.
The Butterfeld and the barge
started late Monday from Muskegon,
Mich, and was struck by the storm
when twenty-five miles out. The
barge broke loose about twenty-five
miles from Chicago,
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
They Emulate N0ah-Laugh off Rain

When Noah and his good old
ark Wallowed over this world of
ours he did a good job of wish
ing to be beached.
But-he didn't have the above
feminine Ark-ites of Indianapolis
sitting on his chaiSe lounge.
Noah "poo-poohed" a forty-day
rain just like the gentler sex under
the above umbrella and news
papers "poo-poohed" the one inch
precipitation in Indianapolis in
the last twenty-four hours by 60
Ing to school and work today
and punching the time clock on
the dot.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
NAME DEPUTIES TO
SAFEGUARD POLLS

Sixteen deputy election commits
Sioners to safeguard the polls in the
Nov. 5 municipal election were
named today by the city election
commission.
Announcing the names. William A.
Boyce Jr., city clerk and ex-officio
election commissioner, said the dep
uties will carry all the powers Of
the election commission in protect
ing the ballot. settling disputes and
expediting the election in the 255
city precincts. They will report to
the election board proper hourly on
election day.
The appointments were made by
Boyce and Russell J. Ryan. Demo-
cratic election commissioner. Ira
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22

L. Holmes. Republican member of
the commission, is out Of the city
and had no part in the selections,
Boyce said.
Those appointed:
Republicans-George L. Denny,
Harry G. Hendrickson, Albert E. Uhl,
Ralph K. Kane, Thomas Daily, Rob-
ert R. Dalton, Henry B. Krug, and
Carl E. Hyatt.
DemocratS-Fred Van Nuys, Paul
Y. Davis. Edward R. Raub, Frank
C. Daley, James E. Deery, John F.
Geckler, Walter Myers, and Charles
E. Cox.
Uhl is a real estate dealer and
Hyatt a mechanic. The other dep
uty commissioners are attorneys.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22

81 and 81. All accounts, on all sides,
agree that when the sheriff had
thrown tear gas Mr.. Jonas attacked
him with a stick.
One side says that Mr.. Jonas was
very lame and rheumatic. and there
fore carried a stick normally: the
other side says that he had brought
the stick only for wicked purposes.
Anyway, there at GAS on the dawn
of Oct. 2. in that darkness before
the Marion Manufacturing Com
pany, after the sheriff had thrown
tear gas; man more than so years
old struck him with a stick.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22

pie and not by the officers OF the
law.
Well, then. You have, so far as
tourist has been able to get 1t, a
history of what has happened in
Marion.
I come now to the trial of Sheriff
Adkins and his men for murder.
There was a rather curious mixup
Of attorneys, for in this case, as
Sheriff Adkins and his men were on
trial for murder. The attorneys for
the defense we're mill lawyers, the
mill lawyers we're not attorneys for
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22

And now, again, the versions diff
fer.
One is that after knocking Jonas
down, the sheriff started shooting.
Another is that all through the
battle, in which six we're killed and
twenty wounded, Sheriff Adkins
who is broad, fat. strong and an
elected officer of the law, was tus-
sling with old man Jonas; that the
sheriff put old man Jonas in car
only so that he might be taken to
the hospital.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22

shouted, his voice choked with ex-
citement.
II want you to do it." answered
Jehl, assisting the great inventor
from his chair.
Edison arose, aided by Jehl and
his son, and took off his derby hat.
Then he lifted the thin copper wire
from the battery plate.
At the same time Jehl sealed the
vacuum bulb with a torch and
placed it in the socket. AS if un-
certain, Edison set the wire to the
lamp stub.
There was weak glow, as If
symbolic of that conquest of dark
ness a half century ago.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22

But whichever version is true,
every one agrees that old man Jonas
arrived in the hospital, that he was
put on the operating table, with
handouts on.
He died a little while after that.
Old man Jonas no longer cares
whether the mills of Marion are
giving to the illiterate Carolina
mountaineers a chance to encoun-
ter our civilization. I hope they
took his handouts of before they
buried him. I think they did, be-
cause be was buried by his own peo-
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
ILLINOIS FLIER WINS

Pilot of Open Plane Gets First
Place in Air Tour.
b. Emitted Press
DETROIT, Oct. 22.-John Liv-
ingston of Aurora, H.. unofficially
was announced the winner of the
5.OlT-mile reliability air tour, which
ended here at the starting point
Monday Afternoon. Twenty-Five Of
the twenty-nine original entries
completed the tour.
Livingston, plotting an open Waco
biplane, was adjudged the winner
on the basis Of speed, reliability,
carrying capacity. and general eff
cheney. Prices totaling 1000 are
70 be given the winners.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
RAIN DUE TO STOP
Clearing Weather Possible
for City Tonight.

Possibility that Indianapolis and
Indiana will get relief late tonight
from more than two days of inter-
nlittent rain and overcast skies was
predicted today by ]. H. Armington,
meteorologist.
Arnington said the state is on the
edge of storm area now centered
over eastern Kentucky and that the
clearing may be slow. There will
not be any serious drop in temper
ature. he said.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
INVESTIGATE BRIBERY

Coast Guard Connection With Rum
Ring Is Under Probe.
BIZ Trnftpd press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-The
treasury department is investigating
reports that some members OF the
coast guard crew accepted bribes
from the rum ring recently exposed
in New York, Assistant Treasury
Secretary Seymour Lowman said
here today.
"We are suspicious that some coast
guardsmen have taken bribes from
this ring" Lowman said. But we
have no proof of that fact and are
investigating.'
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
FRENZIED TRADING
AS STOCKS RISE

The features of the opening were
topped by General Motors sales Of
1000 shares. U. S. Steel had 10000,
Standard Oil of New Jersey 5000,
Columbia Graphaphone, 7,700.
Cities Service again featured the
curb exchange opening. It's initial
sale today was $4,000 shares at 591z,
off Il point,
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
Yep TO TOUR ARCTIC
DirigibIe Will RefueI in
Alaska for Trip.

BH United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22-Ar-
rangements for the dirigible Graf
zeppelin's Arctic flight are being
made with the United States gov
ernment, the war department re-
vealed today. This government has
been informed the Zeppelin will visit
Fairbanks, Alaska, next April or
next May to refuel.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
BY SINCLAIR LEWIS

fCopvright- 1873. by The Tir1esl
TN telling the story of the fight at
i Marion, N c., did not tell the
story of Jonas.
I have heard several versions of
the age of Jonas. Apparently he
was-get that. was, because he died
on the operating table after this
little party Of the sheriff between
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
TOOTH CAUSE OF DEATH
Cult Is AbsOIved in Girl Mystery by
Surgeons Report.

bN JHlTtU FFtNN
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22.-Willa
Rhoads, 16, priestess of the Royal
Arms of the Great Eleven" cult,
probably died of septic poiso~ing re-
sulting from an liberated tooth,
County Surgeon A. F. Wagner has
decided.
Violence during cult rites was be-
iieved a possible cause Of death. Her
body was preserved for four years
in a coffin beside another contain
ing the bodies of seven puppies.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-22
BLANCHE SWEET FREED

Mickey Neilan Neglected Her on
Honeymoon, Says Actress.
BIZ United Press
LOS ANGLES, Oct. 22.-Blanche
Sweet, film actress, has obtained
divorce from Mickey Neilan, direc-
tor.
She charges cruelty, which she
claimed began on their honeymoon
seven years ago. "He took me to
Tex Guinans night club in New
York, then left me alone all evening
while he was in another part of the
club with another woman" she
charged.