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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
FIRE THREATENS
ENTIRE BLOCK
$4,000 Damage in Blaze on
North Alabama.

Flames that threatened an entire
city block of residences today in
the 1900 block North Alabama street
were conquered by twelve fire COM
panies after they had damaged three
duplex apartments more than $4,000
A frame dwelling owned by Thorn
ton L. Guerin, 1838-40 North Ala
bama street, suffered $4,000 loss
from fire and water. The roof was
burned away and the upper story
occupied by three families, was
burned and water-soaked.
Another residence Immediately
south of it, owned by Mrs. Clara
German and Chester o. Parrish, was
damaged $500, and the third house
north of the Guerin residence, suf-
fered more than $500 loss.
When Battalion Chief R. A. Nc
Kinney arrived with the first fire
company two homes were blazing
like torches, he said, and the flames
spread quickly to the third. He or
dered a second alarm that brought
additional help.
Chimney sparks settling on the
shingle roof of the Guerin dwell
ing caused the blaze, according to
Mckinney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
Best i'm Radio SerUice
Offered By The Times

ference department and person.
ally is investigating all cases of
trouble.
Mr.. Hawkins will be pleased to
talk about your radio troubles
personally and all that is needed
him at Riley 5551.
is a prompt telephone call to
The Times was the first news
paper in Indianapolis and one of
the first in the nation to step
into this branch of service for
the benefit of radio owners and
now is making every effort to ex-
pand and improve the depart
ment, to make 1t the most eff
cient and most prompt staff in
the nation.
The Times will be glad to hear
from you. Readers also are in
vited to write us giving sUgges-
tions for ways in which we may
improve our radio service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

CTEP right up and join the
~ many radio owners of Indi-
annapolis and nearby towns who
are taking advantage of The In
dianapolis Times radio interfer-
ence service.
With the expansion and i'm
provenent Of this department of
The Times, many city dial twist
ers are calling and writing,
describing the many sorts of
radio grief and interferences
with which they are troubled,
and prompt steps are being
made to locate the trouble and
see that they are reported i'm
mediately to the correct sources
for elimination of the disturbing
factors in radio.
John T. Hawkins, radio editor
of The Times, one of the most
able radio experts in the state,
has assumed charge Of the inter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
ALGER SUSPECTED
IN BANK ROBBERY

bandit declared on being shown 8
picture of Alger that there was a
resemblance.
Loot in the the robbery totaled
about $1,000. Paul Clupper, book
keeper. was counting the days re-
ceipts when the bandit entered and
drew a revolver.
Hand over your money and ]
don't want any trash" was the
command to the bookkeeper.
Clupper turned over $500 in SO
bills and about $12o in $40 bills. The
robber refused some bills of smaller
denomination and some change.
MSS Polly Wanger, assistant
cashier, was with Clupper. In a
conference room was A. It. Harper,
president, who was talking with a
patron. The latter two did not
know of the holdup until it was
over.
After obtaining the money, the
robber backed across the street on
which the bank was located. He
tripped and fell on the way, but
quickly regained his feet and
entered an automobile driven by a
young woman. Clupper and another
man pursued the car for a few
blocks but soon lost its trail.
Clupper and Miss Wanger de-
scribe the bandit as being about %
years old, and small. He appeared
sickly, his complexion being sallow,
and there were deep circles beneath
his eyes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

Evidence offered by the state was
to the effect that Davis and Terrill
beat up Smith at the scene of the
arrest and that he also was at
tackled by Captain Anderson after
being brought to headquarters.
There was also testimony that
friends Of Smith who sought to aid
him by providing bond, were ordered
by the captain ito get the hell out
Of here"
Nose Was Mashed
DR.. Frank Tourner, physician
here thirtyf1ve years, in teStifying
for the state, said he examined
Smith the day after his arrest, find
ing his nose had been mashed, an
eye blackened, his face scratched
and that wounds wereSfound behind
both ears. There was a bump on
his forehead as large as hickory
nut
The Riggs boy told Of treatment
given Smith. His testimony was
mistaken on oss-examination by
@. Austin East, defense counsel
Riggs was released soon after being
taken into custody, but Smith was
held until the next day.
Was Called Liar"
Smith from the stand said a
strong effort was made by Captain
Anderson to force him to confess he
was the prowler. When he per-
sisted in maintaining he was in
nocent, Smith says the officers called
him liar.
you're another" the youth re-
sponded, and with a shout from An
derson, We'll teach you to call a
policeman liar, the alleged third
degree" beating was on. Afterwards,
Smith says, he was placed in a cell
held himself against an almost
cold steam pipe in an effort to keep
warm.
In the opening statement for the
defense, Attorney East admitted
Smith had been slapped twice by
the officers, once by Terrill in self
defense. and then by Anderson ito
keep him quiet"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
DeraiIment Thought Error
in Plot to PIunder
Mail Train.

Federal agents, deputy Sheriffs
and police today were attempting
to find persons responsible for
wrecking Pennsylvania railroad ex-
freight train No. 81, three and
one-half miles east of Indianapolis
late Wednesday night, injuring one
of the crew.
A kit of tools, including two
wrenches and crowbar, was found
in weeds near the track this morn
ing. r. c. Miller, Columbus, O..
railroad superintendent, said he was
positive they were used in breaking
the rail connection that derailed
the train.
Nine of the fifteen freight cars
were thrown into the ditch along
with the locomotive. Four cars die
not leave the rails and two turned
over on the sides.
Bloodhounds were to be brought
from Bedford in an attempt to
trace the train wreckers and Cap
tain E. B. Reed Of the Pennsylvania
police force prepared to take finger
prints from the tools.
Reed advanced the theory that
the wreckers planned to derail and
rob a mail train which was due in
Indianapolis at HOP p. m. Because
the west bound freight was an hour
behind schedule they apparently be-
came confused and derailed the
wrong train.
Belief that hi-jackers might have
sought to obtain whisky on the train
was dispelled today when officials
said there only were three cases
aboard, under government super
vision, for a st. Louis hospital.
The mail train that was due later
was to have carried a large ship
ment of money and valuables, it
was said.
F. B. Lehman. express helper and
M. L. Peters, train agent, aboard
the freight, were entrapped in one
of the overturned cars and had to
be released by railroad employees
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
D. A. r. UP TO ITS OLD
TRICKS PASTOR CLAIMS

the Massachusetts D. A. R. at
Springfield Wednesday:
William B. Shearer never spoke
before any group in Continental
: in Washington, the national
headquarters, nor before any ma
tional group of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution"
DR.. Stidger declared that similar
to statements made by D. A. p.
leaders in the past, this sentence
does not mean what it says. He
averred that Mrs. Hobart's declara-
ton in no way denied that the D. A.
r. had connection with Shearer.
'I have convincing evidence" DR..
Stidger said, that the D. A. r. and
Shearer worked hand in hand in
the dissemination of propaganda
against President Hoover's program
for world peace"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

BH United Press
SEATTLE, Oct. 17.-Fire, break
ing out in an old hotel in the Skid
Roads district Of Seattle, early to-
day trapped a number of guests at
the head of the stairway, the only
exit, and before fremen could bat
tie their way through the flames,
seven persons were killed and fifteen
injured.
Hospital attendants said some OF
the injured probably would die.
The hotel, the Portland, was an
old, three-story brick structure con-
Quoted by Japanese, and tenanted
by loggers and laborers.
The fire, believed TO have been
incendiary, broke out on the second
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
PRICE WAS COSTLY
Death Lurked i'm Last Out

TOHOES, N. Y, Oct. IT,
~ Jimmy Flynn died the base
ball hero that he hoped to be.
Jimmy was but 7 years old. He
played with the sandlot crowd on
diamond bordering the old
Champlain canal.
Wednesdays was the champion
ship game. Jimmy played center
field on his team and his family
had given him a new fielder's mitt.
Through the early innings he
stood in center field, hoping for
a fly, that he might use his new
mitt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

LIE was successful at bat and
- u his side was leading. Then
came the last of the ninth. Two
strikes were on the batter. He hit
to center field. Jimmy scampered
back. He had a chance to use the
new mitt and to be a hero.
But he ran too far. He made
the catch, but his momentum was
so great he toppled into the canal.
His body was recovered eight
hours later. The new mitt and
baseball were in one hand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
TEACHERS ARE
IN CONVENTION
$1,000 STRONG
Delegates Spend First Day
Scattered in rs
Meetings.
HOLD SESSION TONIGHT
Anderson Woman Is Slated
as Next President of
Association.
HOLD SESSION TONIGHT
(Other details of Teachers Convention IN
Page One. Second Section.)

(Other details of Teachers Convention, on
Page One. Second Section.)
Fifteen thousand delegates to the
annual convention of the Indiana
Teachers Association today were
separated in twenty-five sectional
meetings at schools, hotels, churches,
clubs and other auditoriums through
out the city.
The first general session of the
convention will be held tonight in
Cadle tabernacle, when DR.. Thomas
H. Briggs, Teachers college, New
York, will address the teachers on
Beyond Facts" President Ralph
N. TREY, Bloomington, will deliver
the inaugural address on "Unifor-
nifty of Educational Opportunity in
Indiana"
Assembly of the delegates by con-
gressional districts at Cadle taber-
nacle at 4 p. m. will see selection of
a vice-president from each district.
and a nominating committee to
choose candidates for executive
offices of the association.
The name of Miss Matte FRY,
grade school supervisor, mentioned
for the presidency next year, was
most prominent as candidate for
that office in the present election.
At the last annual convention a
deadlock between supporters of Miss
Fry and Charles F. Miller, Indian
apolis schools superintendent, re-
suited in choice of TREY as COM
promise candidate.
Delegates believed that Miller
would rebid for the Office, and saw
possibility that Roy P. Wiseheart.
state superintendent of public in
struction, might enter the race.
The nominating committee will
meet early Friday to make it's Sc
lections before the annual business
meeting.
General sessions will be held at
the tabernacle Friday and Saturday,
with addresses by Roy P. Wisehart,
state superintendent of public in
struction; DR.. Paul r. Mort, Teach
ers' college, New York; DR.. Frank
D. Boynton, Ithaca; Lena Madesin
Phillips, president of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs, New
York; DR.. Otis Caldwell, Teachers
college, New York; DR.. Ellwood P.
Cubberly, Leland Stanford univer-
sity; DR.. Henry Turner Bailey,
School of Art, Cleveland, and Gov
ernor Harry G.. Leslie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
GRID PEACE URGED
West Point Is Willing to
Play Annapolis.

BU United Press
WEST POINT. N. Y, Oct. IT,
A definite overture towards re-
sumption of the Army and Navy
football rivalry was made today by
Major General William R. Smith,
superintendent of the United States
Military Academy, in telegram to
Rear Admiral S. S. Robinson, super
intendent of the United States
Naval Academy.
The academies severed athletic
relations in 1927.
General Smith suggested that
Admiral Robinson arrange to meet
me, preferably in Washington" to
discuss the situation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
BOYS TESTIFY TO
ABUSE BY POLICE
IN THIRD DEGREE
Standing Room Is at Premium in Court While
Students Accuse Three Officers of
Beating and Cursing.
RI Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct 17-Even standing
policemen with battery degree
being tried
bert Rundl without jury 1t expected will be ruling
by the judge Friday morning.
Captain Davis and Homer
Terr the officers trial. Smith,
high school student after areng
patromen the being
o a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

BIZ United Press
BOSTON, Oct. 17.-Charges that
the D. A. r. has created a new
blacklist "even worse than the one
revealed last year" were made here
today by the Rev. DR.. William L.
Stidger.
The pastor of the Copley Meth
odist Episcopal church. who declared
recently the senate should investi-
gate the alleged connection between
William B. Shearer, big navy propa-
gandist, and the D. A. R.. said that
the new blacklist showed that the
D. A. r. was up to its old tricks. :"
In an interview. DR.. Stidger
charged Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Ho-
bart of Cincinnati, president-general
of the national D. A. R, with re-
sorting to subterfuge when she told
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

The IT'S commissioners argued
over the proposal, finally voting
it down by a margin Of one vote,
only to have 1t bob up again to-
day. All proposals approved by
the commissioners will be given
the National Bar Association next
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

said. when they get a divorce
in this part of the country, they
want to get married again the
next day. If we passed such an
act, it would mean revolution and
sweep us of our feet"
Il disagree with Judge Rose,
said Judge William largest Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

BN Times Special
LAFONTAINE, Ind, Oct. IT.
Gene Alger, play boy killer, Who
ended the life of an Indianapolis
policeman during a vacation from
his studies as a university student,
is the object of an intensive search
today following the robbery OF the
Lafontaine bank here Wednesday
afternoon.
Three men who saw the bank
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

separation" Judge Hollis R. Bal
ley of Boston said. "In South
Carolina, bedrock of fundamen-
talism, no cause for divorce Is rec
ognized. 1t therefore is a simple
matter to see that no uniform
law could be impressed generally" !"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

week for convention considera-
ton.
Judge George B. Rose, Little
Rock, declared such law could
be passed in few states west of
the Alleghenies.
THE people of this section
would be up in arms" Judge Rose
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

Harrisburg, Fa. His geography
is all wrong. This applies to
Pennsylvania as well, or possibly
Judge Rose considers Pennsyl-
Vania in the west too."
"In Nevada, famous principally
for Reno, there are fourteen stat
utes admitting cause for marital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
BOLSTER TUITION FUNE
School Board Transfers S55,420 b
Meet Deficiency.

Transfer Of s55. .42o for the specia
fund to the tuition fund was voteC
by the school board today.
The transfer was necessary Y
remedy deficiency in teachers ans
principals salaries at several higI
schools. and for transfer tuition, G
G. York, business director, sal
Transfers made from item TO tteF
within funds included: LinrnFl
fund. $4,000: special, $4,000 az11
tuition. s78,740.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
DIRIGIBLE is WRECKED
Goodyear BIimp Vigilant Crashes
Into Airport Building.
Ia Thfted Prcss

EH IHftCn FT(sS
PITTSBURGH. Oct. 17.--1Hs
Goodyear dirigible Vigilant crashed
and was wrecked at the Pittsburgh
Butler airport today after 1t had
lost its way Wednesday night en-
route from New York state to its
pase at Akron. None was injured
in the accident.
The blimp was about to take OF
from the flying field to complete its
trip to Akron when it was caught
by gust Of wind and crashed
against a small airport building
which was demolished by the inn
pact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

DIT NFIfW FFfNN
NEEMPHIS, Oct. ia pro-
1F1 poSal 10 make divorce de-
crees final a year after provisional
decree has been granted, has
provided the fireworks for the
annual session of National Conf
mission on Uniform State Laws.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
DRY CHIEF RESTS WELL
No Change Seen in Condition OF
DIR. Edward Shumaker.

No change was reported today in
the condition of DR.. Edward S.
Shumaker, superintendent of the
Indiana Ant-Saloon League, who
is at his home. 2232 Broadway. suf-
fering from an incurable liver dis
ease. Mrs. Shumaker today said
that Or. Shumaker had a restful
night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
AUTO RING is CHARGED
Police Arrest Five Negro Youths,
Question Four Others.

Five Negro youths were charged
today with vehicle taking and de-
tectives questioned six others in
connection with operations of an
alleged auto theft ring in the city.
Detectives said efforts are being
made 10 trace the theft of nine
autos 10 the Negroes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
SEVEN DIE, Fifteen HURT,
IN SEATTLE HOTEL BLAZE

floor. Guests on that floor and the
third were unable to reach the stair
way, in which the flames were roar
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
B0MBINGS AT CHICAGO

Chinese Restaurant, Garage are
TERRORISM Targets.
BR United Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-Two bombs,
the one hundred third and one hun
dred fourth in Cook county this
year, were exploded early today, one
in a Chicago Chinese cafe and the
other in an Oak Park garage.
Police blamed the cafe loss to sub
stitution of Negro for a white
orchestra.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17
WEATHER MENACES HOP

huSSian Fners MAY NOT Leave
Seattle Due to Conditions.
SEATTLE, Oct. 17-Four Rus
sian f1iers of the Land Of the SovietS,
en- route from Moscow to New YORK,
arrived at the Sand Point naval
station today. They we're undecided
whether to make their fight to San
Francisco today. The weather was
unfayorable.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-17
Dawes Figures In
English Press AS
Oratory Volcano

LONDON, July N17.|(P-Ambas-
sador Dawes today is in the English
public eye more spectacularly than
ever, with the English press carry
ing highly colorful accounts of his
appearance yesterday noon at a
luncheon at the famous old WHIT
mars Hall.
He INDUCED there in a vocal out
burst on Anglo-American relations
which brought him the characteri-
cation "~oratorical volcano in some
papers and caused others to revert
to his sobriquet, Hell and Maria"
The ambassador abstained from
drinking any of the wines and Ii
quorS offered the 200 diners. He
could not refrain from taking part
in the ancient ceremony of passing
a huge loving cup around the circle
Of guests. The cup, filled with a
special brew was handed to Lord
Derby, who presided.
He turned to General Dawes and
drank with due ceremony. The am
baSsador then was supposed to drink
to the health of the guest on his
left, Lord Riddell, London publish
er. Instead he lifted the cup to his
lips, held it there a moment, and
then passed it on.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-17
Please Feed Kitty is
Plea of Patricide, II,
Facing Reform School

PINE BLUFF. Ark, July 17.-R
The reform school looms in Otis
Hankin's future. but the 14-year-old
boy who slew his father, Yves. w.
Hawkins, seems unperturbed. His
only tender recollection of home is
a small black at, which he begged
newspapermen to feed.
Testimony now being prepared
for the jefferson county grand
jury, which will assemble July 20.
already has been published to the
effect that Otis and his father
were known to quarrel frequently
and violently.
The elder Hankins, according to
those who knew him as a vegetable
farmer, was a large man, somewhat
striking with his iron gray hair and
deep, heavy laugh. Stern. they say
he was, a scrupulous churchman,
and the father of four other chill
dren who left home at early ages.
When authorities found him, lying
shot to death in his shack under d
bloody quilt, they questioned Otis.
Il shot him with his shotgun"
said Otis, because he fused at me-"
And that is the nearest Otis has
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-17
Poincare Resting
After Victory on
Debt Ratification

PARIS, July IT. up While
Premier Poincare was confined to
his bed today with exhaustion and
extreme fatigue from his strenuous
efforts on behalf of the debt &C
cords with America and Great Bri-
tain, the French chamber Of dep
uties gave him a second vote Of con-
fidence, $50 to 238, emphasizing the
governments victories Of yesterday
One victory yesterday came with
out a roll call when the eloquence
Of Aristide BRAND led M. Franklin
Bouillon to withdraw a motion for
postponement of ratification until
the Young plan becomes operative.
M. BRAND denie1 America was a
"Shylock." However bitter may be
our internal debates in this painful
discussion I can hear the heart Of
France beating in gratitude to
America" he declared.
The entire chamber arose TO its
feet and cheered as M. Franklin
Bouillon withdrew his motion.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-17
Mexico To Abolish
Border Patrol, Says
immigration Chief

The Mexican immigration border
patrol will be abolished and the
method Of preventing foreigners
from illegally entering that coun-
try will be changed, Pedro Nunez,
chief Of the administrative branch
Of the immigration service an
nounced on hi arrival Wednesday
in Matamoros from Nuevo Laredo.
The men now employed along the
border will be set to watching trains
and aliens will be detected in that
manner, Nunez declared.
Members of the patrol stationed
on roads leading out Of MatamorOs
and all other border cities will he
maintained in their present posi-
tions, Nunez said, to patrol the bor-
der against smugglers and persons
who enter the country Illegally. The
number Of men thus employed may
even be increased.
NuneZ also said the key immigra-
ton office at Monterrey. which has
been closed for some time would
be reopened for the purpose If
checking on persons entering and
leaving Mexico by rail.
Nunez is completing a tour Of all
border ports of entry where he is
checking administration of the Va
rious offices. He will remain in
Matamoros until the end of the
month. This official has nothing
to 60 with the new immigration
regulations, other than to see that
they r obeyed. he declared.