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The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
Trustee Control Provided
for Feeble Minded
Colony.

The Indiana senate today passed
80 to Is the Moorhead-Lo bill
which removes the State Colony fol
Feeble-Minded at Butlerville from,
the control Of James Jackson
superintendent of the School fol
Feeble-M Minded Youth at FIT. Wayne
and brother of former Governor Eo
Jackson. The bill now goes to the
house.
Predetermined persons in both the
institutions are treated like hogs
it was charged in the bitter debate
on the measure.
The measure provides a special
board of trustees for the Butlerville
institution and that the trustees
shall select a superintendent, AT
present both places are under di-
rection of the trustees of the FIT
Wayne school.
Half of Teachers Quit
Senator Robert L. Moorhead, In
dianapolis, who with Senator J.
Francis Lochard, Milan, sponsored
the measure, made the charge that
inmates at both places are treated
like hogs, and blamed present ad-
miniStrative head, of which Jack
son is chief.
Only 10 per cent of the feeble
minded in the state are being cared
for and that explains the "econo-
my" of the present administration
in returning $4,000 from its ap-
preparations to the state in the past
four years. he said.
Moorhead also declared that his
refusal to stand for" conditions
at the feeble-minded institutions
probably was the reason for his re-
moval from the state budget COM
mittee by Ed Jackson when Cover
nor.
Senator G. Olive Holmes, Gary,
also argued for the bill, declaring
the present administration of the
two schools is making no efforts to
care for hundreds of applicants for
admission.
Half of the veteran teachers of
the administration of DR.. Byron
Biggs. who was replaced as super
intendent by Jackson, have resigned
because. of conditions under the
present regime, he said.
Soldiers Home Bill Passed
Although the present regime has
cut down expenses by treating in
mates as if they were prisoners in
a detention home instead of CIV
ing them opportunities to live in the
normal life of the community, il
has been a ''ridiculously expensive
policy" he declared.
And while Dr. Biggs spent more
for the care of inmates he rode
in a Dodge car while Jackson rides
in q Packard of Cadillac, Holmes
charged.
Senators Lee J. Hartzell, FIT
Wayne, and Otto w. Koenig, Ft
Wayne. defended the present adj
ministration, citing that the pei
capita cost of caring for inmate:
has been cut from $500 to $700 9
year to less than 5000.
The senate also passed, 43 to 8. g
bill providing a bipartisan boarc
of trustees for the Indiana Soldiers
and Sailors home at Knightstowr
instead of the present board repre-
senting patriotic organizations.
The bill is being opposed by some
veterans on the ground that it re.
quires the trustees TO farm out
orphans at the home as chore boy'
or house servants and provides fol
adoption of orphans without the
consent of the living parent.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WTAsHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The White House
mechanical horse, the most famous gift to be
received by President Coolidge is to be turned "out
to pasture" at Northampton, Mass. after March 4,
is 1t learned.
The machine is to be Grated and sent to the
Coolidge home at Northampton along with many
other personal belongings which are now being re-
moved from the White House.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
MAPS BEAUTY PROJECT
Development of North Bank Of Fall
Greek Planned.

Harrison 81 Turnock, architects.
today submitted to Mayor L. Ert
Slack proposed plan for beautify-
ing the north bank of Fall creek
between Central and College ave
nues.
The program includes construc-
tion of playground, boathouse,
community building, and several
Handicapped tracts. Slack said the
community building will be erected
and the tract beautified. He de-
clined to reveal the cost of the pro-
gram.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
BAR JOURNALISTIC FRAT

Razz Sheet Draws Ire From Uni
versity of California Officials.
BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. L.
The University Of California's Los
Angeles chapter of ri Delta Epsilon,
national journalistic fraternity, has
been abolished from the campus by
the university board because of al
legged obscenities contained in the
organizations annual "razz" sheet,
Hell's Heels.
Six students were dismissed and
three suspended for participation in
the publication Of the sheet.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01

L
AS soon as her corpulent
body had been cut down, DR..
Dreher was led into the small
wooden Enclosure and took his
place on the metal scaffold. He
was pronounced dead at u 40
p. m.
Thus. nine years after it's in
ception, ended the love affair of the
Morgan city housewife and her
family physician--the courtship
they tried TO hide by Turing James
lie Boeuf into a rowboat on July l..
1927, shooting him through the
heart, weighting mis- body and DROP
ping it overheard into Lake Pa
lourde.
Lovers Say Farewell
Half an hour before the noon hour
set for their hanging Mrs, LIE Bouef
and DR.. Dreher had been brought
together in the jail
"I-hope see you over there" the
doctor said.
They shook hands and were re-
turned to their nearly adjacent cells.
That was the last sight the lovers
had of each other.
Once during the early morning,
DR.. Dreher has shouted to his Illicit
lover in a nearby cell:
"Good-by, Ada. I have made my
peace with God. BY this time to-
morrow I will see you in Heaven.
We will have no more trouble there"
His former sweetheart did not
reply.
The beads in Mrs. LIE Boeuf's
hands dropped behind her back as
the trap was sprung. Her high
heeied shoes looked strange on the
uncouth rope-bound figure. The
woman wore lavender dress and
flesh colored stockings.
. Doctor Protests Death
The voice of the Rev. ]. J. Ros--
seau was the only sound in the
chamber. Bible in hand, he stood
in front OF the still figure, praying
in low voice.
A moments hush-then, the body
swung like a pendulum.
DR.. C. M. Horton ordered the body
removed. He said Mrs. LIE Boeuf
had died almost instantly.
A few minutes elapsed. The rope
was being adjusted to DR.. Dreher.
The doctor walked forth steadily.
God in heaven knows we don't
deserve this" he was saying. 1.-TWO
innocent souls gone for crime that
were never could commit. God have
mercy. God hear our prayers"
The doctor spoke constantly to
Martel, the jailer.
Its too tight. Do you want me
to choke?" he complained.
The trap sprung on this note of
protest. Dreher sank to his death.
The doctor had proved the strong
er Of the two victims. His vigorous
protestations of innocence were in
strong contrast to the moaning fear
of the woman he had loved.
Delayed Four Times
The doctor was dressed in the
same gray business suit he had
worn in his cell. His white shirt
and striped tie we're neatly ar
ranged.
The hangings ended, the execu-
toner disappeared as quickly as he
had arrived.
Five men carried out the doctors
body, as they had removed Mrs.
LeBoeuf's few moments before.
Preparations were begun to place
both bodies In coffins.
In less than an hour the state OF
Louisiana had atoned for an Illicit
romance which had endured nine
years. The state had ended fight
for life waged more strongly than
any recent legal battle in the south.
Four times, with execution immi-
nent, the couple had gained new
hope on life by winning stay of
their sentence.
Their hope faded Thursday night
when a court rejected their final
plea and the Governor declined to
interfere.
Collapse Before Execution
Mrs. LIE Boeuf and Dreher were
collapsed as the hour drew for their
execution.
The former lovers scarcely touched
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
PASS BILL TAKING STATE
INSTITUTION POST FROM
BROTHER OF JACKSON
SEAL UP PUPIL S MOUTH
Teacher Stops Talker; Quits Job to
Escape Criticism.

BIZ United Press
RIVERSIDE. N. j., Feb. miss
Louise May, %, teacher resigned
rather than face criticism after she
closed the mouth of Frances Newell,
z, with transparent mending tissue.
The girls talking had disturbed the
class.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
LINDY OFF FOR FLORIDA
Takes of Alone; Flies to Panama
Monday.

BU Unifcd Press
CURTISS FIELD. L. L, Feb. L.
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh set
out today for Miami whence on
Monday he will start new air
venture into Central America.
Flying a CrlrtiSs Falcon open
plane, Lindbergh started from this
1ield early today, alone, for the
Florida city.
Monday he will open the first
airnail route from the United
States to the Panama Canal zone.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
ASSASSINATION BALKED
Arrest Man for Attempt to Kill
PapaI Legate in Spain.

HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor-
der, Feb. IA man accused of at
tempting to assisinate Monsignor
FREDERICK Tedeschini, papal nuncio to
Spain, was held by Madrid police
today, reliable reports from the
Spanish capital said.
He was arrested by policeman
who saw him level a pistol at the
nuncio, who was driving through the
park.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
BEATS JAIL BY DEATH
Fights Gun Battle With Sheriffs,
Then Shoots Self.

Then Shoots Self.
BIZ United Press
NEWCOMERSTOWN, o. Feb. /.
Rather than be taken alive and
despite his wife's plea that he sur
render, Charles Buzzard, 45, stee-
plejack and ex-convict. engaged Co
shocton county authorities in half
hour battle here Thursday night
which ended when Buzzard fired the
last bullet of his revolver through
his brain.
Sheriff j. r. Stofer and deputy
had sought to arrest Buzzard on
charges of stealing.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
SALOON LEAGUE FAILS
In PADDOCK EFFORT
Case Against Former Messenger Of

Case Against Former Messenger of
John L. Duvall Thrown Out.
An Anti-Saloon League attempt
to paddock the home of Hays Will
son, Negro, who was messenger for
former Mayor John L. Duvall,
failed today when Superior Judge
Linn D. Hay threw the case out of
court.
Wilson and his wife were ar
rested after raid on their home
at 1448 Martinda1e avenue two
months ago.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
MERCURY TO5
BELOW; COLD
TO CONTINUE
Slow Rise Is Forecast for
Today and During
Saturday.
REPORT CITY SUFFERING
City IcieSt Point in State;
Lakes Save Northern
Indiana.
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REPORT CITY SUFFERING
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

The most severe cold wave of the
winter gripped indianapolis today
forcing the mercury down to a new
low mark for the season, degrees
below zero.
The low mark was reached at 6:15
a. m today after a night in which
the temperature slowly slipped from
- above at z p. m. 1t reached l
below at midnight, struck below at
1 q. m. and continued lowering near
that mark until a. m. when l
degree rise occurred. BY 1 p. m.
it had risen to 8 above.
The mercury will rise slowly to-
day, according to j. H. Armington,
United States weather bureau head.
Tonight's lowest temperature
should be 5 to 10 degrees above zero.
Slow Rise Saturday
The rise will continue slowly
Saturday, but it still will be cold, he
said. 1t will be increasingly cloudy
Saturday and more snow is likely.
Indianapolis was the coldest
point in the state today, according
to the weather bureau reports. The
lakes held of the extreme cold from
northeastern Indiana, Arlington
said. Terre Haute reported 2 be-
low, the Chicago district 3 below,
Ft. Wayne 2 above and Evansville
8 above. .......
The coolest point on the continent
was Bismarck, N. D., "A below zero.
But that mark was a rise from
Thursday.
Welfare organizations reported
some suffering here, but not sn ex-
treme amount. Family Welfare So
ciety officials said they had no cases
which could not be blamed especial
ly on the frigid temperature.
Sergeant Thomas BledSoe Of the
Humane Society reported North
Dearborn street family cared for by
his organization. The husband and
three children were sick with scar
let fever and the home was without
coal and food.
Coal Is Provided
TIE Salvation Army records
showed TWO cases. One family. the
father at the point of death in a
hospital, had only a half bushel
of coal to keep warm mother and
seven children. Coal also was pro-
vided a family with seven children,
four of whom are sick with diph-
liberia.
The Salvation Army hotel, 26
South Capitol avenue, has been
filled to capacity for two nights,
some transientS being forced to
sleep in chairs.
The indianapolis Street Railway
Company records show a 35 per
cent increase in street car travel
during the rush hour this morning.
The cold caused two trolley breaks.
one on the College avenue line at
Eleventh street tied up service on
that line for twenty minutes and
one at South and Meridian streets
stopped traffic on the Garfield,
Stockyards and South Meridian
lines for ten minutes.
Trolley Collapses
The cold caused the collapse OF
nearly a mile of trolley on the In
dianapolis and Southeastern Trac-
ton line to Connersville near Nor
ristown and no early cars left the
traction terminal. 1t was hoped TO
have the line repaired to run car
at 1910. No trouble was reported
on other traction lines. Union sta
ton officials stated there were no
serious railroad delays, although
some trains were running to 10
minutes late.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
$4,000 LEFT IN CAR

Messenger FOrgets Pay I'll Checks
in Subway; Found and Returned.
BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. IA messen-
ger carrying $4,000 in checks, the
pay roll for 200 health department.
employees, left them in q subway car.
A subway guard found them and
returned them to the city.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
ExTINGUIsH AUTO FIRE
Short Circuit on Car Ties Up Traffic
Early Today.

All downtown fire apparatus was
called to Ohio and Illinois streets
early this morning to extinglish a
minor blaze in the automobile of
Walter Wire, 6328 College avenue.
The fire, caused by a short circuit,
did little damage. Traffic was tied
up several minutes.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
SHOALS BILL UP AGAIN
Congress Reconsiders Plan TO Turn
Property to Company.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. by a
vote of IS to Z the house military
affairs committee today decided to
reconsider the Madden bill. which
would leave Muscle Shoals to the
American Cyanamid Company pri-
marty for fertilizer manufacture.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
CRIME QUIZ NEAR CLOSE

Grand Jury at Angola Expected TO
Hear Last Testimony Today.
BIZ United Press
ANGOLA. Ind, Feb. 1.--Examina-
ton of witnesses in the grand jury
investigation of Steuben county S
crime ring probably viii be COM
pleted today. according to Theodore
Redmond. Kendallville, special
prosecutor.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
Fire Damages Duplex $1,000

Fire started by sparks on the roof
caused $1,000 damage today to q
duplex at 2915-17 North Pennsyl-
vania street occupied by Russell
Townsend and ]. P. Monaghan.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01
ASSEMBLY ADJ0URNS

Both Houses Take Recess Until
Monday Morning.
Both houses of the Indiana legis-
lature today adjourned until Mon
day at 10 a. m, after busy sessions.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-01

HOTBLAsT-Florence large size; Al
condition Bargain for quick sale.
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"Swee Adene" whom male quares
generation will praised the by the Sberg Carl
o'clock Just aLongn Dear Dear Old Gt also
in the nature of sentimental numbers
version of Beyond Pardon will
resume original by Hank Sim
Tuesday night at o'clock stations OF the Column
bia broadcasting system.
of Waldteufel waltz to
several modern will be broad
orchestra through the NBC system Tues
day night at $50.
q
AS special tribute entitled "Beau
fm Lady naugated night at 1880 stations OF
Columbia Broadcasting system
Winter" and other
Frank Dumonts Minstrel Palace In Pha
the show by the Dutch Masters Mnres
broadcast through SYSTEM Tuesday night at $780,
the opportunity in January OF hear
of $4,000 in the Victor Talk
competition compositions 1.-TWO
direction Nathaniel Shkre WF and
National Broadcastg Company Red network
wide range of of the Voice of Co
coasocoaSt broadcast on Tuesday ngh at O'CLOCK over
stations o Columbia broadcasting system.
operatc contributions Gounods Faust
the Madonna and Setanas Bartered Bride
Caprice Epagno" "savonicG Minor and the Gypsy
Henry VIII"
Lanne heard solOis with the Freshman
through network OF
associated with the NBC system al
=
"sontags Am Rhen" and Schuann will be
her through Tuesday night at o'clock
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Radio --
WHITMAN TO
co ON AIR FOR
9-WEEK SERIES
Famed Conductor at Last
Falls for Radio; Signs
With Old Gold.
By Times Special

By Times Special
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Paul
Whiteman, for the first time in all
his reign as the king of jazz, is
going on the air in an extended
broadcast program. On Feb. 5
Whiteman and his orchestra will
begin a series of at least nine week
ly concerts, to inaugurate one Of
the major broadcast programs of
the year-the Old Gold hour, for
which the P. Lorillard company,
manufacturers of Old Gold cigarets,
just have signed a contract with
the Columbia 8roadcasting system
involving an expenditure of about
a million dollars for the air alone.
The broadcasts subsequent to the
nine or possibly fifteen weeks of
Whiteman will maintain the same
high standard of entertainment, SO
that hour, which is to be called the
-Gold-Paul Whiteman hour is
to represent an additional expendi-
ture for talent of about $25o,Ooo in
a year.
The contract just signed between
Lorillard and Columbia is to run for
two years, which means that Old
Colds are undertaking a nation
wide radio program representing an
outlay of $1,500,000.
Whiteman has flirted with the air
been broadcast on two or three not
able occasions, but hitherto he has
withstood all Establishments toward
inducing him to undertake a regular
and extended program.
The Old Gold hour is to be from
8 to 8 o'clock central standard time,
Tuesday nights, and will include in
its hookup forty-thre stations, so
that this musical treat will be made
available in homes in every nook
and corner of America. The forty
three stations and the cities in
which they are located are:
WABC. New York; WAN. Philadelphia;
WNAC, Boston; WEAN, Providence; WFBL,
Syracuse; WCAO, Baltimore: WAS, Pitts
burgh; Wade, Akron; WKRC, Cincin-
natl; WGHP, Detroit; WOWO, Ft. Wayne;
KNOX, st. Louis; KMBC, Kansas City;
KOHL. Council Bluffs: WSPD. Toledo;
Wink. Cleveland; WLBW, Oil City; WNIAI,
Washington; WDBJ. Roanoke; WTAR, Nor
folk; WWNC. Asheville: WLAC, Nashville;
WOOD, Chattanooga: WBRC, Birmingham;
WREC, Memphis; XIX. Denver; KDYL,
Salt Lake City; KYA, San Francisco;
KMTR, Hollywood; KJR. Seattle; KEx,
Portland; KGA, Spokane; KFJF. Oklahoma
City; XIII. Wichita; KRLD, Dallas; KTSA,
San Antonio; KLRA, Little Rock; WCCO,
Minneapolis; WISH, Milwaukee; WDSU,
New Orleans.
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had had her husbands confidence.
she said she had found letters from
Houdsni to the woman, who, she
added had often brought her mes
sages'' from Houdini.
"But none ever came in our secret
code,p she said,
Dunninger then gave an exhibit
ton of reading messages reporters
wrote and secreted, and offered
Ford $4,000 if he and his spirits
could read a message he would
write and secrete.
Later Daisy White at Ford's
apartments admitted knowing the
handler slightly, but said she
had never discussed Houdini in that
quarter or never had said she had
got Houdini'S code message before
his death.
The Rev. Mr.. Ford observed:
MRS. Houdini accepted the mes
sage as genuine and that is the inn
portant thing"
He denied having any material
or spiritual assistance from Daisy
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'JEKYLL-HYDE'
PLEA MADE BY
THRILL KILLER
College Student on Trial to
Blame Flu Attack
for Murders.

BIZ United Press
ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 15.--George
Harsh, handsome and reckless col
legial, crack pistol shot, and alleged
thrill slayer" goes on trial today
in Fulton superior court for murder.
With him he brings defense, ac-
cording to his counsel, as bizarre
and different as the case itself.
1t is the defense of a dual per-
sonality, a youthful Jekyll and
Hyde who, sober, is a brilliant stu
dent interested in such subjects as
moody Russian literature, and who,
under the influence Of intoxicating
liquor, is an Unsuitable thrill hunter
who viii go on even to murder.
Accused Of Two Killings
Harsh is charged with two kill
ings. He had confessed, police say,
to the murder of S. H. -NIeeks, killed
during the robbery of a grocery
store on the night of Oct. 6, and
TO the Staying Of Willard Smith,
who fatally was shot in a drug
store robbery ten days later.
With Harsh on the night raids,
according to police, was Richard
GallogIy. Gallogly, perhaps not as
colorf1l as his companion. still is
a prisoner in Fulton Tower, await
ing his own trial for the same muir
ders, to be neld Jan. %.
The young man who faced Judge
f.. D. Thomas today, is, according
to his jailers, still the rather calm,
cold-eyed ultra-modern who was
placed there nearly three months
ago. His face is pale now, they say,
and he does not look crazy.
To look at Harsh, they will tell
you, it is easy to believe he is the
son of wealth-he comes of a mil
lionaire Milwaukee family - but
rather hard to imagine him the
cruel gunman who shot down men
who resisted his efforts at robbery.
Strange Story Told
The story of these two young stu
dents who have come to grief, is
strange almost unbelievable.
Harsh was the leader, Gallogly
the willing follower. Gallogly drove
the car and waited outside while his
more venturesome companion drew
his revolver and entered the stores
they robbed.
Harsh suggested, planned and
executed the raids. And he did it,
his lawyers will try to show, while
half drunk, driven to fulfilment of
a queer desire for thrill.
They say, this desire is the I'M
fortunate leftover of a severe juve-
nile case of influenza, and will sub
stantiate this claim, they insist, 3,
with the sworn testimony Of medi-
cal men, diagnosticians and alien
lists.
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Fishing the Air
(lhI references Are Central Standard Time)

FOLLY comednne Of the stage long headner
vaudeville the principals On the Air. mirthfu
Station o'clock Tuesday night
Downing Jack Acroyd John Max
include oh How Hate to Get
Morning My Hero from 1.-THE Chocolate Soldier the
character comedian in laugh
Wells favor1te
singing Gypsy With You When the Clouds
Roll By"
viii
in SerIanos broad
cast through system Tuesday night
at
feature program the snok presented
itself
sent the widely program possible arranged
the chief entertainer
with Wgleys Royal Canadians boadcasng
lumbia system Tuesday night at 10 o'clock
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AIMS BLOW AT
HOUDINI SPIRIT
NOTE TO WIDOW
Magician Declares Woman
Knew Code Before
Wizard Died.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-The mys-
tic message, Believe allegedly
sent from the realms of the spirit
world by Harry Houdini to his
widow here, was under a new at
tack today.
Joseph Dunninger, magician, an
unrelenting foe of spurious psychic
phenomena, like Houdini in his life
time, was the generalissimo in this
latest effort to disprove the validity
of the message which Mrs Houdini
herself had declared convinced her
of its genuineness.
Aiding him in his attack was Jo-
seph Bantino, %, from the Fulton
fish market, old stamping ground
of former Governor Alfred E. Smith.
Dunninger, Bantino, and small
army of press folk descended upon
Mrs. Houdini's apartment Monday
night, while Dunninger without
even rolling up his sleeves pro-
duced Bantino, and Bantino pro-
duced a story designed to cast
doubt upon spiritualism in the be
1ieve" message.
Bantino related that he had
courted girl who knew one Daisy
White, herself a magician and &C
quaintance of Houdini Bantino
opined that the Rev. Arthur Ford,
medium in the transfer of the mes
sage, had received it from Daisy
White who in turn had had her
code and the message from Houdini
long before he ever became a spirit.
Mrs. Houdini seemed bewildered
at this new turn, but Indignantly
refused to believe that Daisy White