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The Alaskan., 1929-12-06
THE WOMEN's CLUES TO THE
 RESCUE


 indignation of American women
 It was Women-the Federated
 Women's ClubS-Who, in 1921
 first launched an attack on th'
 maladminiStration of Indian af
 fairs. They fought a gorgeous
 battle. They made history. I was partly due to their unremit- ting warfare, under the leader ship of Mrs. Stella M. Atwood that the Bursom and Lenroot bills were defeated. These bills
 would have deprived the Pueblo
 Indians of the land necessary
 to maintain their continued eX- istence and have handed it over without compensation to white settlers. The Indian Bureau sponsored and promoted these bills.
 The women helped, too, to de- feat the scandalous Indian oil bill' of 1926, which would have destroyed the Indian ownership of 22,0000O0 acres of reservation land. This bill, endorsed by the Indian Bureau, would have made a gift of 37 1-2 per cent of the Indian oil royalties from this entire area to the States where the reservations are lO- cated. The white oil lessorS would have escaped without any taxation.
 Other public-spirited women are working today through the League of Women Voters. Tn several States this organization is doing a wonderful job. Leag- ues have been organized on some reservations; and the Indian women members are being help ed to battle for better conditions. for their race.
 All the Wisconsin Indians are
 plucked clean save the Me nominees" is the sad, yet indig nant statement of Mrs. Q. J. Lit tie, of Stone Lake, Wis. Mrs Little is chairman of the depart ment of Indian welfare of the Wisconsin League of Women Women Voters. And now the 'Aenominees are making the fight of their lives to keep their valuable timberlandS from being 1enuded," she continued, and tO protect their Water-poWer ,ites. But in spite of their fight, in spite of the assistance given them by the club women of the State and Nation, the Indian system goes right on crushing down opposition and carrying put it's plans.
 "The work of that archaic. Was:cFH. system, cCSts the taE- oayers ot this country more thar the entire Federal il iicial system When we as tax Hayers reali1 just how much that staten, means, we sh&1l not be '~s'cering how U c.large the Indi; l. Bureau or to inClta.e it's power over the unhappy eO- pie WhC have struggled in vain to free themselves from it's bond age : e shall be consi44a ing how to delegate it to the - place that the F'reedmen's Blu reau waA relegated to when it was ah0IiShed."
 Al 0vcl the United Stare; to- day, greedy, covctous hands are reac1-ing out to clutch at Indian timber, oil, water power, grazing lands, cattle irrigation systems, and what not.
 The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, as this article goes to press, are facing a desperate cri- sis. Because of a contract made between the Interior Depart nnnt and tha middle Rio Gr9nHp
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
HELD IN DEATH
or AGEDLOvER
Young Mother Must Face
Trial in Killing.

BD UHlted Press
SOUTH PARIS, Me, May SAC
companied by her two young chill
dren, one of them an infant in arms,
Mrs. Anna Merrill Welch, 26, ap-
peared in court today and pleaded
not guilty to a charge Of murder
in connection with the death of her
lover, Elihu H. Turner, 75-year- old
Hartford farmer.
Albert D. Park, trial justice, found
probable cause and ordered her held
without bail for the county grand
jury.
Turner's body, charred and head
less, was found in the ruins of his
barn following a fire last week.
Mrs. Welch was an unWelcome
guest at his home at the time the
fire started.
The state contends the young
woman, in a jealous rage because
Of Turner's friendship for a former
housekeeper, hacked him to death
with an AK dragged his body to the
barn and set the fire to hide the
crime.
During today's court session Mrs.
Welch lost completely the attitude
Of Indifference which she previous
ly had displayed. She broke down
and became hysterical as she heard
the Judges decision.
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BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, May 3.-Illegal ex-
penditure of quarter million dol
lars of public funds for liquor par
ties. like the one in the Waldorf
Astoria hotel in New York in 1927,
when cost $1,000 for broken furni-
turc, was reported to have been
charged against fifteen former off,
cials and employees Of the Chicago
sanitary district in a series OF true
bills voted today by the county
grand jury.
The indictments are expected to
be returned later in the day before
Chief Justice John j. Sullivan OF
the criminal court.
For nearly a month the grand
Jurors have been hearing evidence
in the sanitary district scandals
presented by Frank J. LoeSch, as
Sistant states attorney.
Loesch showed the jurors records
Of automobile companies and hotels
intended to prove the district officials
and employees entertained their po-
litical followers lavishly on public
funds rented entire hotel floors for
drinking parties, kept expensive
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AGAIN BREAK OUT IN
BERLIN: TWO WOMEN KILLED

protest against the shooting Of the
three subway laborers.
Police were using airplanes to
find the position Of snipers who we're
firing on the officers from rooftops.
The rioters were making a des-
perate stand against the squads Of
raiding police, who went from house
to house searching for arms and
making arrests.
The police vigorously enforced the
order:
"Strassen frei; fenster zu''-"Clear
the streets; close the windows"
The two women who were shot
had appeared on their own balcony
despite the prohibition.
Snipers exchanged continuous fire
with policemen, who were using
rifles and hand grenades.
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Cold Wave IntenSifieS Suf-
fering After Storms
Over South.
DEATH LIST UP TO 35
More Than $50 Injured in
Wrath OF Elements;
Rush Relief.

a cold wave intensified hu-
man suffering IN storm-stricken
areas of the south today as the
death toll from a series of tor
nadoes in Virginia, Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas
and Tennessee mounted to 35.
Temperatures were falling rapidly
in the southeastern states bringing
a threat of frost damage to crops,
and in all the territory east of the
Mississippi and below the Mason
Dixon line the mercury was from
10 to 80 degrees below normal May
readings.
Although the severest storms oc-
CURED Thursday the death toll of
thirty-five included the loss of nine
lives Wednesday in Arkansas.
At Gate City, Va, fifteen school
children and a teacher died in the
wreck Of a school house.
Three were killed in Tennessee
and once each in Florida, Georgia
and Alabama. Weaverville, Va, re-
ported four dead.
Treatment for more than $50 in
jured and assistance for the many
homeless became the paramount
task of relief workers today.
Georgia, Alabama and Florida
fruit suffered heavily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
WIFE-AIDED
BICAMIST IS
GIVEN TERM
Judge Asserts 0rganist
Who WedS Pupil Should
Get Life
LENIENCY Is REFUSED
Music Teacher Should
Have Protected Girl De-
spite Wife'S Stand

BH Uttf0 Press
RIVERHEAD, L. T. May 3.-Her-
bert Leigh-Manuel, church organist
and music teacher, who pleaded
guilty to bigamy recently when he
married Miss Martha Van Weyen,
former pupil, with his own wife as
witness, was sentenced today to
from two years five months to four
years and ten months in Sing Sing.
County Judge George H. Furman
imposed the sentence.
Leigh Manuel is SO and father of
four children, the, youngest 3
months old, born two months after
the bigamouS marriage to Miss Van
Wyen.
Judge Furman rejected Leigh
Manuels cOunseI'S plea for leniency,
asserting that he would give the
defendant life, if it were possible
The judge asserted that a girl in
her teens-Miss Van Wyen is now
l9-"knows nothing of love-; that
the relation of teacher and pupil
was one of trust and confidence;
and that Leigh Manual should have
protected the girl.
Alfred E. Fireman, attorney for
the organist, asserted that Miss Van
Wyen became infatuated with
Leigh Manuel three years ago; !;
married him knowing that he was
married; that she was a graduate of
Sayville high school and had gone
to college in Michigan and was in
telligent enough to be as much to
blame as was Leigh-Manuel.
Both Mrs. Leigh Manuel and the
parents Of Miss Van Wyen, Fireman
argued. were aware Of the growing
attachment. between the girl and
the organist and as early as 1927
Mrs. Leigh-Manuel and her hus-
band has discussed the possibility Of
divorce to permit him to marry the
girl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
SLAY farmer
With VOLLEY
THROUGH DOOR
Killing Believed to Have
Been Revenge Deed,
for 'SqueaIing.'
FUGITIVE Is SUSPECTED
One of Shots Cuts Pipe
Victim Is Smoking Into
Two Pieces.
BVYuitcd Press

BH CHitCd Press
KOKOMO Ind, May 3.-Authori-
ties today searched for an unidenti-
fed assailant who killed Alonzo
Whalen, so, retired farmer, by firing
a volley Of shots through a door in
his home.
Some time ago Whalen told Ko-
komo police that Willard Carson,
wanted at Liberty on a charge of
Staying his father, was living across
the street from him. The authori-
ties made an investigation, but Car
son escaped after a gun battle.
Police announced today that they
would search for Carson in con-
nectiOn with the Staying of Whalen.
One of the shots which crashed
through the door cut a pipe Whalen
was smoking in two pieces, the
widow said. AS he smoked, the vic
tim fondled a dog in his lap.
When police arrived at the home,
they found the body in chair, un-
touched after The fatal bullet had
struck. The stem Of the pipe was
clenched in his teeth.
1.-The first shot broke the glass in
the door and the flash from the gun
blinded me. I thought one of the
light bulbs had broken. I looked
at him and saw him sitting there
with blood streaming down his
face said the widow.
Carson's father was slain Aug. 2,
1920. Since then the son has been
seen at various times in this section
of Indiana, but even the most
strenuous attempts to capture him
have failed. At one time airplanes
were used in the search. There is
a price of $4,000 on Carson's head,
The fugitive was suspected year
ago in the murder of Carl Schoen,
policeman, at indianapolis, car
answering the description Of one he
owned talIying with that used by
the slayers in escaping.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
Gales Lash Mid West


CHICAGO, May 3-Frigid gales
which laShed destructive lake waters
over the shores of the Great Lakes
and snow storms which damaged
crops in several states held the CEN
tral states in the grip of unseason-
able weather today.
Great Lakes states we're blanketed
with snow carried on the driving
winds from the north and east
A wind storm struck Columbus,
O.. killing two prisoners and injur-
ing three others at the city jail.
In Missouri. Illinois and Indiana,
rail traffis and communications
were crippled.
Lake traffic was demoraliZed by
the tossing waves of Lake Michigan,
which we're believed to have en-
quilted two men in an airplane
which was seen to fall into the lake
during the storm.
Central Illinois reported the
heaviest snowfall ever recorded in
the month Of May. Four to six
inches Of snow fell.
Thousands of fruit trees were in
bloom and it was believed that
much Of the crop would be lost.
Hail. snow and rain prevailed in
Indiana.
At Valparaiso rescue workers were
clearing wreckage caused by cyclonic
winds which demolished houses and
up-rooted trees.
Cherry, peach and apple crops in
the Missouri valley we're virtually a
total loss, farmers reported.
Southern Missouri and northern
Kansas reported the greatest
orchard damage.
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They started a bonfire. Mrs.
Samuel Horner, 430 Division street,
noticed them and started to warn
them against playing with fire.
AS she approached, little 10 Ellen
switched her coat into the fire.
Before Mrs. Horner could reach
her the flames had swept up heT
body, badly burning her chest and
arms, but the child was so seriously
injured that death resulted today.
Surviving besides the parents are
q sister, Virginia, 6, and an uncle,
j. B. Thompson, a policeman.
Funeral services will be held at
the home Monday at 10 a. m. with
burial in Floral Park cemetery.
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too much. Cerebral apoplexy
caused Joe's death, the doctor
said.
Joe, whose full name was jose
phus B. Gonterman and who
shared the Joys and sorrows Of his
passengers, watched their court
ships. went to their weddings and
mourned their deaths. will be
buried Saturday afternoon in
Crown Hill cemetery after simple
services at the home at 2 p. m,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03

Joe was found dead in bed at
lis home, 1877 East Pratt street,
when his wife went to awaken
him at 9 Wednesday morning.
Given Tuesday off" Joe had
taken Mrs. Gonterman, their
daughter, Mrs. Beulah Brenton,
and her two children, Loveen, u,
and Wayne, 8, TO the circus.
He hadn't seen q circus in years.
Thrilled by the trapeze PERFORM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
STATE COPS GET RAISE
Salaries of Chief, Captains and
Lieutenants Boosted.

Salary increases for State Police
Chief Robert T. Humes, two cap
tains and ten lieutenants in the
state police department were ap-
proved today by the state budget
committee.
Increases in maximum annual
salaries which may be paid them
are. Chief, form $4,000 to $4,000;
captains, from $1,920 to $2,40O, and
Iieutenants from $1,000 to $2,10O.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
MELLON CASE SNACS
Senate Committee Unable
to Agree.

BIZ Hftd Press
WASHINGTON. May ga dead
lock on the Mellon case was reached
in the senate judiciary committee
today when it held its sixth day
session and found it was unable
to agree on anything, including the
manner in which the committee
should proceed.
Friends of Andrew j. Mellon, Sec
retary of treasury, presented eyi-
dence to show nearly every secre-
tary of treasury since Alexander
Hamilton held corporate stocks,
arguing that, therefore, the COM
mittee had no cause to proceed
against Mellon under the old statute
that treasury secretaries
have no direct or indirect interest
in trade or commerce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
BORDER GUARDS
GET SENTENCES
Eight Admit Guilt in Aiding
s50,000,000 Smuggling.

Bg United Press
DETROIT, Mich, May 3.-Eight
former border customs patrolmen
were sentenced today in federal
courts for their parts in the alleged
liquor conspiracy which is estimated
to have been responsible for
smuggling $50,000,000 worth of
liquor across the Detroit river from
Ontario to the Detroit section.
The men, all of whom had plead
ed guilty, we're given sentences
ranging from six months imprison-
ment and $1,000 fine to one year
and a day Imprisonment. Two were
placed on probation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03

which overlook 10
Ellen Fields, 5,
daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John
Fields, 430 North
Division street, in
city hospital to-
day.
The child was
playing with Mary
Blanche Anderson,
Richard Budd y
Parker and Frank
Wallace, neighbor
children, in the
rear of 422 DiVi-
sion street, April
%.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
GAS BANDITS SOUGHT
Two Men in Stolen Auto
Rob Filling Stations.

Police are searching for two
bandits who held up two filling sta
tions Thursday night in stolen
car, obtaining $23.
A bandit robbed Earl Thayer, at
tendant at a Standard Oil gasoline
station at the Brookville road and
Emerson avenue, of So, and escaped
with another man who was driving
the automobile.
An hour later the same men held
up Edward Jones, attendant at a
Western Oil and Refining station at
Pleasant Run boulevard and Madi-
son avenue, escaping with SIS and
a money changer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
FRUIT FLY BILL SIGNED
Hoover Approves Measure Providing
S4,25OOOO to Fight Pest,

BH UHitcd Press
WASHINGTON, May 3.-Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover has signed the
emergency bill diverting $4,250,000
to fight the Mediterranean fruit fly
in Florida
Representative Ruth Bryan Owen
Dem, Fla,) called at the White
House today to witness the signing,
but learned that the President all
ready had affixed his signature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
QUARTER MILLION IN PUBLIC
FUNDS FOR JOY CHARGED

hmousines at their disposal and
charged the district fancy prices for
ginger ale, whisky and women.
The Waldorf Astoria party. said
to be the most fragrant misuse of
public money. was put on after sani-
tary district officials had chartered
a railroad club car for trip to
Washington to testify in a lake wa
ter hearing. Champagne corks were
said TO have popped aboard the train
all the way from Chicago to Wash
ington and New York.
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Hourly Temperatures

ers. Wayne lost his balance and
slipped between the seats. With
a chuckle, Joe reached down and
pulled him up.
When John Smead, neighbor,
came home after midnight, he
saw Joe leaning out Of the win
dow.
7 had more excitement than
ever before in my life, he told
Smead.
But the excitement had been
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
THE discordant rumble anc

ME dlScorQant rumble and
Il clang Of the Cornell avenue
"dinky' as it shuttled back and
forth over its siX-block course car
ried pathos for the neighborhood
today.
For Joe Gonterman, 81. "cap'n,"
skipper" motorman. of the ave
nue'S "Toonerville trolley" for the
last eighteen years. was not at
the helm. The bell changed under
another's foot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
TUG is BLOWN ASHORE
High Winds Force Vessel Aground;
in No Danger.

BIZ United Press
BROOKLYN, n. Y, May 3.-The
U. S. navy tug Iuka, towing scow
laden with refuse from the navy
yard here to the ocean dumping
grounds, was blown aground by a
high wind on the mud flats off TT.
Lafayette, an ammunition depot q
short distance from Fl Hamilton.
There were thirty men aboard.
The tug is in no danger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
Box, Bonfire;
Then Death
for Girl, S
NeighbOr'S Warning Comes
Too Late as ChiId'S
Clothing IgniteS.

An old box. some paper, some
matches-a bonfire.
Childish shouts of glee, a misstep,
CONSERVATION, screams, pain, doc
tors, hospital-death.
This was the story of the tragedy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
AWAITS DEATH 40 YEARS
Italian Cabinetmaker Carved Own
CaSket Long Ago.

CREMONA. Italy. May 3.-Forty
years ago Giuseppe Cigolani. cab
inetmaker, believing his death would
come soon. made himself a hand
Somely carved coffin. Today he was
buried in it. having died at the age
of los.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
Black Whirl70i11d Scoops Upon School,
Takes Toll of Is LiUes; 100 Injured;
Vanis|1eS as BY Magic, Says Eve Witness
BabbIe of Many Screaming
Children Drowned by
Crash of TimberS.
PRINCIPAL TELLS STORY
Carried IS Feet to Pond
When TWiSter Strikes
Structure.
Bp United Press

~ - tftL''" L ''9'
RYE COVE, Va, May s.
A vivid eyewitness story Of
the tornado which demolished
a consolidated school here
Thursday, killing fourteen pu-
pills, a teacher, and injuring
more than 100 others, was re
lated to the United Press today
by 4, S. Noblin, principal of
the school, who suffered minor
injuries,
1T was 1885 o'clock" Noblin
said, "and classes were stille re-
cessed for noon. A light rain was
falling and about twenty-five chill
dren were inside the building. The
remainder were on the Fairgrounds
despite the rain.
II was walking down the hall,
Noblin continued, when I saw what
looked like a WhirlWind coming up
the hollow. Trees were swaying. AS
the whirlwind neared the school
building it became a black cloud,
appearing as though a tremendous
amount of dirt had been gathered.
"It struck the building, and be-
lieve I yelled. The next thing l re-
member I was standing knee-deep
in a pond seventy-f1ve feet from
where the school building had stoof
q moment before. I was badly
shaken up and frightened and sur
prised that I was able to wade out
of the water"
NeighbOr Tells Story
Noblin said bodies of the dead
children we're scattered over a wide
radius. Many of them were killed
outright. Others, badly manned,
were deposited at random.
j. M. Johnson. a nearby resident,
said he was standing on a hillside
near the school when the storm
struck, telling everything in it's path.
when the cloud struck the school
it seemed to exert some supreme ef-
fort and the tornado and school
house vanished as if by magic" >"
said.
Johnson said the school building
before his eyes and
there followed a veritable rainfall Of
timber and debris.
The babble of screaming children
was drowned out in the crash of
timbers, he said,
Pupil Saves Life
Henry Mitchell II, a pupil, was
credited with saving the life of Ma
bel McDavid, 8. AS the storm struck
young Mitchell gathered the child,
who was nearest him, in his arms
and dashed toward the door Both
were cut and bruised, but otherwise
were unhurt.
Johnson said two hours elapsed
after the storm before outside help
was received.
The eight-room school was at
tended by children from a radius Of
ten miles around in the picturesque
valley
The students ranged from kinder
garten age to high school seniors.
The building, struck with sudden
and shattering force, collapsed in a
tWinkling as the roof was torn away.
The children were trapped in the
some being killed out
right. Others were pinned helpless
ly under heavy timbers, unable to
move, their groans and screams ris-
ing above the storm.
Alva Garter, high school teacher,
and fourteen children were killed.
Probably six others will die.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
GARAGE MAN ARRESTED
Frank Rosner Held for Alleged Part
in Liquor Conspiracy.

Frank Rosner, 1907 Virginia ave-
nue., arrested today by a deputy
United States marshal on fed
eral liquor conspiracy charge, was
to be given a hearing before John
w. Kern, United States commits
sioner, at 4 .. m. today.
Rosner is charged with conspiracy
with Don White. 1909 East Mime
sofa street, who was fined $500
Wednesday on a liquor charge. and
others to violate the prohibition law
He operates garage at 749 Virginia
avenue.
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Rn L-nited Press

BU United Press
BERLIN, May 3.-Fatal rioting
broke out again in southeast Berlin
this afternoon, despite the procla-
nation of a state of siege and the
presence Of a powerful force Of po-
lice. More than a. dozen have been
slain since May day.
Two women were shot and were
believed to have been killed. Three
workers employed on subway con-
struction were wounded.
Fellow workers went on strike in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
PHOTO STUDIO BURNED
Damage of $4,000 Caused by Spon-
taneouS Combustion.

A FIRE caused by spontaneous
combustion did damage estimated at
$1,000 at the Photographic studio OF
Dudley Lee in the Cole building.
42l6 College avenue, early today
Fixtures valued at $1,000 were de-
stroyed and damage to the building
was estimated at $4,000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
Tear Gas Checks Robbers

BJ I ines SDecidl
CAMDEN, Ind, May 3.-Burglars
who blew the safe of the State
Bank here left with less than 500
loot. having been driven away by
tear gas released when the safe was
opened
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-03
FIRED ON
Chinese Wound MiISadu's Soldiers /:
Disturbances Feared.

3" --Tf|I I'TI@S
TOXIC. May 3.-Two Japanese
soldiers on duty at Tsinan-Fu. in
Shantung. were seriously wounded
today when they we're fired on by
Chinese, dispatch from Tsinan
said. The japanese school there
was closed for q week as a precau-
ton