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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
BABY GIRL AFRAID TO
JUMP; BURNS IN BARN

Brother Leaps to Safety; Father
Watches Catastrophe.
BR TTnftpd Press
BRITTON, Okla, Aug. 15.-Fear
OF falling was greater to 2-year-old
Willamay Zeilney than fear Of fire
and she was burned to death in the
barn Of her father.
Willanay and her 4-year-old
brother were playing in the haymow
Wednesday when the fire was dis
covered in the barn. The boy
leaped to safety into the arms Of his
father.
Willamay looked at the distance
down to her fathers outstretched
arms and cringed In fear. A moment
later she fell back into the flaming
hay and died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
Plan Regular Routes
IN United Press

BIZ United Press
LONDON, Aug. l5.-Berlin dis
patches to the London Morning Post
today said the legal representatives
Of the Zeppelin works, builders and
owners of the dirigible Graf zeppe-
lin, would leave fcT the United
States next week to begin negotia-
tions for the institution Of regular
Zeppelin air routes.
The dispatches stated at the same
time that DR.. Hugo Eckener, COM
mander, would remain in Lakehurst
after his dirigible had completed its
trip around the world, to obtain
definite agreements with American
flnanciers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
AIDS
TO ACCUSE z
Death JURORS
Motion for New Trial to
Escape Electric Chair to
Come Up Monday.
By MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY
limited Press staff Correspondcnt

United Press staff Correspondent
COLUMBUS, o., Aug. 15.-AI-
though the electric chair cast its
shadow over DR.. James Howard
Shook today, the convicted muir
derer of Theora Hix will fight for
his hold on life.
The fight will begin at 9 a. M,
Monday, when the former university
professors attorneys argue a motion
for new trial. They will charge,
among other things, that two of the
jurors, who convicted Shook, had
determined upon conviction before
they retired from the jury box"
Affidavits will be filed against the
two jurors, E. o. Ricketts,, chief Of
Snook'S counsel, said today.
He refused to reveal their names,
but said he would claim they were
actuated by undue influence"
Shook Rests in Cell
Shook, meantime, rested in his
cell at the county Jail. The steel
nerve which carried him through
the first phases of his trial, and but
seldom cracked, supported him to-
day and he seemed composed.
Shook spent restless night, he
told his jailer, and awakened this
morning with a severe headache.
Wasn't that trial an awful strain
on you, doctor?" t1e jailer asked.
mo, it wasn't any strain at all"
he said. 81 never had any real in"
terest in what was going on.
THE jury didn't even need to re-
tire so far as I was concerned. With
all that stuff (meaning evidence of
the most sordid type) before them
I'm surprised they even retired"
Snook's wife and mother, whose
loyalty bolstered him during the
three weeks of his trial, remained
In seclusion today.
1--WE have many grounds to ask
for new trial." Ricketts, said.
Hasn't Told All
The motion, he said, will charge
prejudice and bias and "the inf1u-
ence OF pubic opinion. IL also Will
allege court fans were planted" to
applaud when Prosecutor John
Chester concluded his final appeal
to the jury.
The jury returned its verdict in
twenty-eight minutes after retiring.
Mercy was not recommended, thus
making mandatory imposition of the
death penalty.
Judge Henry L. Scarlett formally
will pass sentence after hearing the
motion for new trial.
Ricketts, said that if the motion
is denied he will carry the case to
the court of appeals.
Shook, according to his jailer, in
timated that he has not told all OF
what occurred on the New York
Central rifle range on the night of
June 13, when Miss HiX, with whom
Shook had held trystS for three
years, was slain.
Efforts of newspaper men to draw
him out we're rebuffed with the
statement that "Ill have to see my
attorneys before can talk"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
FIGHT AMENDMENTS
Speculation and Farm Aid
Plans to Be Rejected.

BB United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. l5.-The
Norris debenture plan of farm relief
and the Glass proposal to limit Wall
Street stock speculation were slated
for a rejection today by Republican
members of the senate finance COM
mittee who took up these two
among twenty other independent
amendments to the tariff bill.
A check of the committee indi-
Gated almost unanimous opposition
to these two proposals as tariff
amendments, indicating they would
be left out of the bill to be reported
to the senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
BERLIN, Aug. 15.-The
Graf Zeppelin, flying steadily
northeastward at sixty-five
miles an hour, reached the
shores of the Baltic sea today
on its adventurous trip into
Russia.
Leaving Friedrichshafen at 1926
p. M, eastern standard time,
Wednesday for Toxic on the second
hop of its flight around the world,
the great dirigible passed over the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
DUAL TRAGEDY
ENDS TRIP TO
KIDNAPPED GIRL
Clarence FIener StabS Wife,
Wrecks Car and STashes
Own Throat.
USED CHILD AS LURE
Mother Consented to Go
With EStranged Husband
to See Baby.

BIZ United Press
WEST CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. IS
The body of Clarence F1ener was
found today within 200 yards of the
spot where he was believed to have
killed his wife Wednesday. FIener
had cut his throat, apparently with
the same knife which caused Mrs.
Flener's death.
The husband had lured Mrs. File
ner to West Chicago with promises
OF permitting her to see her baby
he had kidnapped.
She had been stabbed in the alb
domen and her throat had been
Slashed, while she was riding in a
speeding automobile. Her body lay
near the wrecked car.
Back Of the wreck scene on a
paved highway near here lay a story
Of domestic strife, the kidnapping of
Dorothy, a wild ride during which
Mrs. Flener was stabbed and her
throat slashed, and the subsequent
disappearance of her husband, who,
witnesses said, had mistreated his
wife the three years they were mar
ried.
Car Hits Phone Pole
Late Wednesday a speeding auto
mobile wobbled along the road just
outside West Chicago. 1t crashed
into a telephone post and was
wrecked. Mrs. Ann Hughes noted
the car as it went past her bungalow
and with her husband went to the
scene.
Mrs. F1ener, stabbed, and her
throat cut, was beneath the wreck
age.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes extricated
her and with her last breaths she
gasped:
my God, my husband stabbed
me-"
Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes had seen a
man run from the wrecked auto
mobile across the fields in the di-
rection of the Chicago & North
western tracks.
Kidnapped His Child
From Roy Flener, brother, Du
Page county authorities learned
Flener had kidnapped his daughter
Dorothy Monday.
Mrs. Flener, anxious over the fate
of her child, begged him to bring
the little girl back, but he refused,
his brother said.
Wednesday Flener appeared at his
brothers home where Mrs. Flener
was staying and, after an apparent
reconciliation, the husband and wife
drove toward West Chicago.
Roy Flener said his brother had
beaten Mrs. Flener for three years,
refusing to work and depending on
his wife's earnings for his support.
Il tried to stop her from going
away with Clarence" Roy said, "but
he had promised to take her to
Dorothy and she said to me I'll do
anything in the world to see my
baby"
Roy said Mrs. Flener had sworn
out a warrant for the arrest of her
husband on kidnapping charges but
the warrant had not been served.
In the pockets of Mrs. Flener's
coat was found a bank book showing
deposits of 1891 in the name of her
child. Her brother-in-law said she
had saved it from her meager earn
ings so she might provide an educa-
ton for the little girl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
DEATH NEWS WAITING
Kokomo Girl on Vacation Does Not
Know Brother Was Killed.
By LHilcd Press

BU United Press
KOKOMO. Ind, Aug. 15.-Two
Kokomo girls are vacationing some
where in southern Michigan today,
oblivious of the fact that a brother
Of one was killed in an automobile
accident Tuesday evening and is to
be burdied Friday.
Miss Veda Covalt, school teacher,
and Miss Frieda Haseltine, society
editor Of newspaper here, left on
the vacation without leaving an
itinerary OF stops, and may not be
reached until next week. when they
viii be st Lake James, Ind.
Miss Covalt is a sister Of Walter
Covalt, one of the four victims in
the crash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
POLICE ORDER ELECTS
Pennsylvania Man Chosen Head at
Meeting in TT. Wayne.

By United Press
FT. WAYNE, Ind, Aug. 15.-Ed-
ward j. Allen of Erie, Pa, was elect
ed president Of the Fraternal Order
of Police, and Reading Pa; chosen
as the 1890 meeting place at to-
days session of the national eonyen-
ton here.
Other officers are: vice-president,
John Taylor, Ft. Wayne; recording
secretary. Harry Hyer, Pittsburgh,
Pa; treasurer, j. d. Beatty, Canton,
o.: conductor. David Evans, Bethle-
hem, Pa; guard. Charles laval,
Alletown, Pa: national organizer,
John B. Keuspert, South Bend;
trustees, George Scrmartzer, Pitts
burgh: Francis Knight, TT. Wayne:
Frank Taylor, SteubenviIle, o.; j.
J. FEMME, Lackawanna, N. Y, and
A. Hixenbaugh, Wheeling. w. Va.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
CITY GETS CONVENTION
Fire Chiefs of State to Meet in
indianapolis Next Year.
BH United Press -

BIZ United Press
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Aug. IS.
Roy Knoblock, South Bend, today
was elected president Of the Indi-
ana Fire Chiefs Association, in con-
vention here, and indianapolis
chosen as the 1880 convention city.
Other officers are: First vice
president, Harry Voshell, Indi-
annapolis; second vice-president,
George Rosenberger, Alexandria;
secretary, Archie McCabe, Muncie,
and treasurer, John StahIhut, TT.
Wayne.
seyenty-hvs chiefs we're in at
tendance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
TELLS OF PRESIDENTS
Congressman Ludlow Places Wilson
First.

Congressman Ludlow Places Wilson
First.
Intimate views of seven presidents
he has known during his thirty
seven years as a newspaper cor
respondent in Washington were
given by Louis Ludlow, congressman
from the Seventh district, before the
Advertising Club at the Columbia
Club today.
Ludlow gave close-ups of Harri-
son, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Hard
ing, Coolidge and Hoover. Wilson,
he said, will be the outstanding man
of the group historically, but Har-
rison would have been the equal OF
Wilson if he had had equal tests
to bring out his great reserve power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
Payday!

If your taxes are delinquent,
get your furniture near the
front door. It's threatened with
conflscation.
Thus Clyde Robinson, county
treasurer, today warned 25,0OO
delinquents who owe the county
more than 100000 today as he
started out in charge Of a huge
truck, labeled on both sides:
Delinquent Tax Wagon"
Inside the truck were five
helpers.
"If they don't pay up, out go
the pianos and the rugs" he
declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
River No Menace to City

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug f5.-Latest
reports received at the war depart
ment indicate the city Of Corning,
Mo-, Is in no immediate danger Of
being destroyed BY the Missouri
river which Is cutting into farm
land along its lett bank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
Balloon Travels 1sO Miles

BIZ Times Special
MARION, Ind, Aug. l5.--A
small rubber balloon released here
was found five hours later at Blan-
chester, O., distance of 1S0 miles,
according to word received by Mrs.
Blanche Ethel Archer, whose name
was on the balloon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
DEATH OF BABY
BRINGS ORDER TO
PROTECT CHILDREN
1900 DIE IN INDIA
1880 Others Stricken by Typhus
After River Indus Floods.

BIZ United Press
LONDON, Aug. 15.-An exchange
telegraph dispatch from Bombay
today reported 1900 dead and $500
others stricken by typhus in the
sind division of India. The out
break was caused by floods of the
River Indus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
WOMAN ELECTED FROM
CAFE; ASKS $4,000
Charges She Suffered Nervous
Shock and Internal Injuries.

Shock and Internal injuries.
Alleged permanent injuries, suf-
fered when she was elected from a
restaurant she operated at 375
North Illinois street. today led Mrs.
Abbie Collier to file a suit for
$4,000 damages against Charles
Davidson in Superior Court 2.
In the action, Mrs. Collier charges
that Davidson entered her restau-
rant at l a. m. Aug and forcibly
elected her. causing, she alleges.
bruises, internal injuries and nerv-
Gus shock.
Davidson entered complaint for
possession of the restaurant in mu-
nicipal court Aug. 3. This was
granted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
SUICIDE PACT FAILS
Couple Writes Thirty-five Letters
Then Turns on Gas.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-After ad-
dressing thirty-f1ve farewell letters
to their friends, Sophie Burges, 81,
and Edward Smith, 80, who had
been living as man and wife at 2511
Cruger avenue, the Bronx, turned
their radio on to a jazz program last
night and then opened the gas Jets.
Tenants, smelling gas, called aid.
Bv means of an electric fan and a
pulmotor. the couple were revived in
a half hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
PAPER DOLLS TO BE
GIVEN CRIPPLED TOTS
Children at Finch Playground Work
for Riley Hospital.

for Riley Hospital.
Children at Finch playground are
turning their play INTO actual pur-
suits. For several weeks they have
been making paper dolls, which they
will present to crippled children at
Riley hospital, 1t was announced by
Matron Ida GeIderman today.
Small dolls are bought by the chill
dren, who dress them in fancy col~
ored paper dresses. Some of the
dolls are decked out with shining
parasols and paper hats. The work
is done at a regular period each
day, generally when 1T Is too hot to
engage in sports.
Matrons also are teaching the
children to make paper flowers.
These will be presented to elderly
persons confined in the hospitals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15

BH JnttP1 pTesS
LONDON, Aug. 15.-The Daily
News reports today it understands
the physicians to King George have
advised that the monarch abandon
his projected visit to Sandringham
palace Tor the summer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-15
Air Monarch on Earth Tour

Here's the
latest views of
the Graf Zeppelin,
which Is on its
way to Toxic
on the second
hop of its
rOund-the-
world flight.
Left, above,
is the
huge craft
in the hangar
at Lakehurst
and also soaring
above the navy
air station.
Left, below,
is the
Zep's route
around the
earth, and
below, right,
Commander
Hugo Eckener
and his son
Knute,
an officer
on board
the craft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
Mr.. Einstein.

OF Einstein's greatness we're assured
by scientific friends. His fame, they
say, will have endured when this old
planet ends. He must be great, we all
confess-we're eaSy-going wlghts-al-
though it causes us distress to read the
things he writes. The more he writes
the less we know Of what he's driving
at, and certainly it must be so-he
wears q great mans hat. A dozen men
Cathay are learned enough to under
stand what Einstein has to say. These
dozen men look deep and wise and say
he's truly great, and. being easy-going
guys, his worth we celebrate. His shin
ing, universal fame I would not over
throw, but If you ask me what's his
game, I answer, don't know. He has
discovered something fine concerning
curves in light, but promptly take In
my sign when he begins to write. I've
read old Col. Euclid's works, and
thought understood, although his mes
sage sadly inks q head that's built OF
wood. I've read three miles of Brown
ing's verse, which has a complex plan,
and wasn't feeling so much worse than
when first began. I've read what Mil
ton used to dream In language high and
tense, and here and there I found q
gleam of something like horse sense.
pride myself on struggling through the
cryptic bards and Seers, discovering a
line or two that sensible appears. But
Einstein has me on the run. my hide Is
on the fence. An essay that will weigh
a ton yields up gram of sense. And
yet his worth I celebrate with fireworks
day and night, for II men tell me he Is
great, and they are surely right.
WALT MASON.
(Copyripht 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
UNFRAMED INSTRUCTORS.

Pilsudski Favors inexperienced
Athletic Teachers.
WARSAW P-Untrained women
are better instructors than expert ath-
letic instructors who boast diplomas, in
the opinion of Marshal Pilsudski.
Don't introduce trained instructors
into classes for small children" he said.
Leave it all to the women who are
endowed by nature to approach the
children in the right way and to take
suitable care of them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14

One Of the features advertised by the
International Aero Exhibition in Lon
don this year was that all who desired
would be given air pilots tests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14

One-of- kind dresses. quite q few
ensembles. and some lovely dance
frocks in tulle. don't fail to see
them If you want a high-priced
dress for q low Thursday price.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14

Little to pay. but certainly q lot
to get. tailored crepes. plain and
printed chiffons. some with all
around plaits. even tuck-in blouse
effects. In white, flesh, nile, orchid.
Hurry!
The Washington times., 1929-01-12
Mrs. Whiting Hostess
At Luncheon For
Mrs. Herbert Hoover

Mrs. Whiting, wife OF the Sec
rotary OF Commerce, entertained
at luncheon today in her apart.
ment at the Mayflower in compli-
ment to Mrs. Herbert Hoover.
There were IL guests. Mr.. Whit
ing, it will be remembered, sue
&c eded Mr.. Hoover, the President
elect, as Secretary OF Commerce.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Deiano
Robbins have returned to Wash.
ington from New York, and are
at the Mayflower. Mr.. Robbins,
who has been named U. s. min.
lister to Salvador, served as Sec
retary of the American delegation
to the International Conferences
of American States on Concilia-
ton and Arbitration, and he and
Mrs. Robbins were here for sew
eral weeks while the conference
was in progress.
Mrs. Francis Nash win entertain
at dinner this evening in the Palm
Court of the Mayflower, having
"a in her party. Mrs. Nash and
Miss Nash will leave Washington
on Tuesday and viii; sail for Eu-
rope on January 10. They Will
join DR.. Nash in Monte Carlo and
will remain there for the rest OF
the winter. .4
The Washington times., 1929-01-12
Dancing Glass To Meet
Tonight; Many Dinners
Before Gay Erolic
Photos

The Dancing Glass will meet
this evening at the Montgomery
Country Cluh--the second OF the
annual series of three meetings.
Among those entertaining at
dinner before the Dancing Class
are Mrs. Joseph Letter, former
Representative and Mrs. John
Philip Hill, who will have among
bers, OF New York: Mr.. and Mrs,
Lee p. Warren, the Commercial
Secretary of the British Embassy
and Mrs. Leandef McCornhfck-
Goodhart, and Miss Alice Davis.
daughter of the Secretary of War
and Mrs. Dwight Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. McCormick. Good.
hart's guests are asked to meet
Miss Eleanor Mccormick, of Chi
cago, who is visiting them.
~
Nine. Medina, wife of the Minis.
ter of Bolivia, will be the guest
in whose honor Mrs. Jorge e.
Boyd, wife Of the counselor Of the
legation, will entertain at q
luncheon on Thursday.
Representative and Mrs. Hamil.
ton Fish, jr., entertained at din
ner last evening before the New
York State Society's Knicker.
booker ball. Their guests were
Senator and Mrs. Royal Copeland,
Representative and Mrs. Daniel
Reed, Representative and Mrs.
Frederick Davenport, Representa-.
tive J. Mayhem Wainwright, Mrs.
Henry F. Dimock and the. former
ambassador to Chile, William Mil
Ter Collier.
The second of a series Of dances
to be given by the United States
Air Corps was held last evening
in the patio of the Carlton Hotel,
where Brig. Gen. and Mrs. b. D.
Foulois entertained a company of
IS at supper before the dancing.
4 \ "
Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose il en-.
tertaining at tea-dance this after.
noon at the Mayflower in COM
pliment to Miss Marian Jardine,
debutante daughter of the Score.
tary Of Agriculture and Mrs. Jar
dine. The hostess will receive in
the Chinese room and dancing will
be in the large ballroom.
The Washington times., 1929-01-12
LOSOPHERS
PLAN MIND
SURVEY

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. IAN
intellectual stock-taking." inter.
national in scope, was announced
today by DR.. Francis X. Dercun,
president of the American Philosoph.
ical Society, under whose auspices
this survey il being made.
The first step In the "stock-taking"
already has been taken by this
Oldest OF Americas scientific 80.
cieties-founded more than 400 years
ago.
A national Committee on de.
yelopment" has been appointed by
DR.. Dercum from the membership
of the society, to make survey Of
the intellectual situation. with a
view to formulating "a future pro-
gram of service to all branches Of
learning"
The committee is composed Of
AZ members. with DIR. Dercun1~ ss
chairman. It's membership includes
five college presidents, in addition
to more than score Of others
actually engaged in educational
work.
A definite course to be followed
by the committee had not yet been
worked out, according to DR.. Der.
cum, but tentatively at least it
will endeavor to answer one general
question and three secondary ques.
tons, as follows:
what today is the worlds In
telleetual situation?
Is there "a drifting apart of
the purely scientific interests and
the humanistic interests?
Is there loss OF perspective
and of grasp Of great principles
by reason of specialization in edu.
cation and in thought?
The Washington times., 1929-01-12
Dinner Last Night

The Attorney General and Mrs.
Sargent were the guests in whose
honor Representative and Mrs.
Sol Bloom entertained at dinner
last night. Their other guests
were the Minister Of Panama and
Nine. Alfaro. the Minister Of
Egypt and Nine. Samy Pasha,
the minister Of Persia, Mira
Dayoud Khan Meftah; Senator
and Mrs. James A. Reed, Senator
Samuel M. Shortridge, Represent
alive Florence P. Kahn, the Coun-
selor Of the Austrian Legation
and Baroness Hauenschield, Dis
trict Commissioner and Mrs. Sid.
ney F. Taliaferro, and Miss Vera
Bloom.