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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
AGREED TO KILL
Wife, Let LAW
TAKE HIS LIFE
Details of Unusual Death
Pact Are Revealed by
Stevedore Slayer.

BIZ United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. IL
Garland Williams, 28-year-old
stevedore and World war veteran,
was held in city prison today-the
confessed slayer of his former wife
while police investigated his story
of an unusual death pact.
Williams told detectives when ar
rested in a. local hotel that he and
his former wife, Lorraine Ambrose,
made a death agreement-he to kill
her and then let the state take his
life.
He said he had planned to give
himself up but that after Strangling
his former wife he found he had
several little things to attend to-
''We were not happy and we both
wanted to die" Williams said. 1--WE
made suicide agreement. I agreed
to kill her and then give myself
up"
The body of Mrs Ambrose was
found in an apartment occupied by
Williams, Monday. She had been
srtangled and there were deep razor
cuts on her wrists.
Williams offered no resistance
when detectives walked into his
hotel room.
"It was a double-crossing friend
who caused it ALL" he said. "We
were happy, so happy, for four
long years until he began telling her
false tales" Williams said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
DELAY TRIALS
FOR VIOLATIONS
OF TRAFFIC LAW
Another Period of Grace for
225 Slated on 'Sticker'
Charges.

Still another period of grace in
which to report on traffic stickers
today was given the first list of 225
persons slated for prosecution by
police for violations of the new
traffic ordinance.
An eye infection from which
Herbert Spencer, city prosecutor, is
suffering caused postponement of
the actual arrests.
Spencer explained 1t would be
impossible for him to write Aft
davits upon the stack of stickerS,
three inches high, which Traffic
Captain Lester Jones turned over to
him, until Tuesday. If the delin-
quents report to city clerk before
TUESDAY prosecution would be
avoided.
Work Out New System
When the accumulation is cleared
up Spencer said he hoped to have
system working whereby weekly
round-ups of sticker delinquents
could be made.
Spencer said he had not looked
through the stickers and SO could
not state whether the police had
yet turned over the names of several
policemen whose cars have been
tagged.
Sergeant Clifford Richter, who was
in the list given out by police 9s
having been tagged today. offered a
perfect "out'
Richter pointed out that the
sticker was for a car with license
1898, 1929. He had 1888 last year
but has 1888 this year.
Members Are Checked
He said that whoever checked the
license number list apparently got
the years mixed. He said he never
has found a Sticker on his car.
Another tangle appeared when
Sergeant Michael Morrisey and
Lieutenant Ralph Dean disclosed
that they jointly own a car which
was "Stickered." Both are on the
list as sticker evaders. Morrisey said
he had the car at the time the
sticker was placed on it and Dean
should not be involved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
U. S. LINER GROUNDED

Captain of President Adams Falls
Overheard, Swims Ashore.
BIZ United Press
BALBOA, Panama Canal Zone,
Jan. 1.-THE Dollar liner President
Adams grounded on the reef out
side the west breakwater here today.
1t was reported that the captain
of the vessel fell overheard, swan
ashore and returned to the ship on
a tender
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
MAJESTIC RADIO
DEALERS MEET
$50 Distributors From
State Present.

More than $50 Majestic radio
dealers from all parts of the state
are meeting today at the Hotel
SEVERN to discuss sales, advertising,
and merchandising. G. C. Mathews,
treasurer and general-manager OF
the Capitol Electric company, dis
tributors of Majestic radio in cen
trail and southern Indiana, is in
charge of the meeting.
The convention opened with a
luncheon at noon and will close with
q banquet tonight at 7:30. Jack
Mueller, representative of the Ma
jestic factory, is attending the
meeting. Franchises of the dealers
will be renewed and plans for adj
vertising and merchandising for the
year will be discussed.
r. P. Oblinger, president of Capt.
toll Electric, and Mr.. Mathews at
tended the Majestic distributors
convention in Chicago last week and
report that orders were placed at
that meeting for more than one and
one-half million Majestic sets, with
a cash value of more than $120,000,-
900.
With the addition of several new
factories under construction, the
Grigsby -Grunow Company, manu-
facturers of Majestic radio, will have
a daily output of 5000 sets.
According to Mathews, Majestic
is putting radio sales o. a yearly
basis by holding the convention in
January, rather than in September.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
JOSE APPOINTED
PROSECUTOR IN
JUVENILE COURT
Dispute Between Lair and
Stark Is Ended by
Assignment.

The alteration between Juvenile
Judge Frank j. Lahr and Prosecutor
Judson L. Stark over the appoint
ment of a deputy prosecutor for
juvenile court ended today when
Stark appointed Victor r. Jose Jr.,
attorney, 80 North Audubon road,
to the post.
Jose took up his duties at once
and was received by Lahr IN a
friendly fashion. The appointment
followed a conference Thursday be-
tween Stark and Lahr, during
which Stark told Lair that a let
ter the latter had written him
which announced that Lahr had
named John F. Engelke to the
place was plain indication OF
your unfriendly attitude to the
prosecutors Office"
Lahr in his letter had stated that
since Stark had neglected to ap-
point any one as deputy after Will
liam H. Remy, former prosecutor,
resigned, that he thereby notified
stark under the authority lodged in
his court have appointed En-
gelke."
Lair denied that his letter was
intended as an unfriendly move and
stated that he would show courtesy
to any one appointed by Stark.
STARK told him that he did not con-
slider the job a political one and
asked Lahr to pick the man for the
place from a list Stark submitted.
Judge Lahr refused to make the Sc
lection, and suggested Engelke.
Stark, however, picked Jose, saying
Engelke was not one of the men he
would consider.
Jose is a graduate of the Univer-
Sity Of Michigan and a member of
the Indianapolis Bar Association
and other local clubs and organiza-
lions. He practiced law here several
years ago, but of late years has been
secretary of the Indiana Wall Paper
Company. He is 40, married and
has two children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
CLEWS TO NORTH SIDE
FIREBUG RUN DOWN
Officials Join in Probe; Report Ex-
pected Saturday.

A number of clews to the fire
bug who is believed to have started
fires in apartments at 1920 West,
Thirty-fourth street, Thirty-fifth
and Illinois streets and Thirty
sixth and Illinois streets Tuesday
and Wednesday nights were being
run down today by city fire pre-
vention inspectors and George l..
Pugh, investigator for the nation
al board of fire underwriters work
ing in cooperation with the state
fire marshaps office.
Captain Vernon Lynch of the city
bureau said the fires were very
similar to series of apartment
house blazeS started by a firebug in
the north side about a year ago.
Virgil T. Furgason, chief of the
city fire prevention bureau, said
report on the fire would be handed
Fire Chief Harry VoShell tonight
or Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
JAN. II, 1929

of them threatened to ''get even"
with her.
The federal officers stated, how
ever, that the gangster who made
the threat is serving a sentence in
federal penitentiary. They con-
coded he might have arranged for
an accomplice to give highly poison
Gus liquor to Mrs. Sanford, but said
they doubted it.
Mrs. Sanford assisted her sister in
collecting evidence against airplane
bootleggers operating between the
border and Roswell, N. M, IN No
veyY,hpr 1927
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11

i
Serenade 80 $50 7s4t,
Mother OMine" ............: .Burleigh
viking Song" ;,:;i ci,,i ;coieridge-Tayior
Thus Saith the Lord"
.eRut Who May Abide the Day of His
Coming - from 1.-THE Messiah
......-........... Hanoel
Mr.. La Shelle.
s'I,iebes Walzer' (Love Waltzes) Brahms
ARRANGED for male voices for the
Harvard University Glee Club. by Dr.. A.
Choral Club.
''Lungi Dial Caro- Bene" .......... .Secchi
''Bootsl" (Kipling) ..:;..,;;........'F eiman
Mr.. La Shelle.
Com hf me rso ~ The New D World
Words and adaptation by Will
liam Arms Fisher.
Danny Deeyer" Walter Damroscn
Choral Club.
The public is cordially invited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11

while cold And for
the cold before develops into something Take HILLS
at the first of cold and you'll stop the cold in
day HILLS ends colds quickly because does the four things
4Tones the system That's the quick and complete action
Get HILLS and get quick relief
HILLS CASCARA-OUININE
Ask for the RED BOX-At An Druggists
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
REAL LIFE OF
A GREAT ARTIST

Whether Sergei Rachmaninoff,
eminent Russian musical genius
should be termed a muSician-f farmer
OF a composer-agriculturist all de-
ponds on ones inclination, for when
Rachmaninoff is not ON a recital
tour, either in this country or
abroad, he is to be found at his
summer home, a beautiful farm,
which he operates himself and in
which he takes the greatest of pride.
Rachmaninoff likes to get close to
the earth. He likes it so much that
as often as the occasion affords he
dons oVeralls and works, either in
his garden or his fields. His wife
and two daughters, one of whom is
a student at Columbia university
also have their individual garden
sports which they too, attend, so
the summer months are busy times
at the Rachmaninoff home, each
member of the family striving to
out do the other.
This outdoor work is of great
benefit to Rachmaninoff. He is tall,
broad of shoulder, and powerful.
His great frame demands physical
exercise, and he gets in the practi-
cal work of farming and gardening.
Music is in nowise neglected, how
ever. For hours at a time Rach-
maninoff is secluded in his study
either engaged in composition,
transposition or arranging programs
for his annual recital tours. At
such times he is never permitted
to be disturbed In the evening
there is talk, books in many
languages, and good Russian
tobacco.
And it is thus that he gains re-
taxation and renewed vigor for the
exacting demands of his recitals.
Rachmaninoff comes to the Murat
next Sunday afternoon under the
local management of Henry K.
Burton. Seats for his recital are
now on sale at the Murat box Office.
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
my Maryland" at English's, Sen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
LA SHELLE CHORAL
CLUB IN RECITAL,
Singing Ensemble viii Give Program Sunday Afternoon
at the John Heron Art Institute.

Shee Choral Club will 49, at
4 m sculpture at the John Heron Institute
organization of selected
regularly
Shele.
personnel Bradley William
Ralph
Maddu Cornelius Sheridan Smith, Carl LAUDER
Gallagher pianist and Pauline Ton assistant pianist
foIou
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11

orita Alcaniz at the Lyric, "Bowery
Burlesquers" at the Mutual, ION
Trial at the Apollo, "a Lady of
Chance" at the Palace, Charlie
Davis at the Indiana, interference
at the Circle, THE Wedding March
at the Granada and Buddy Kane
at the Colonial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
GRANGE FOR LIFE TERMS
FOR BOOZE OFFENDERS

Connecticut Farmers Also Want
Buyers to Be Punished.
BIZ United Press
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Jan. IL
The Connecticut state grange stood
today in favor of proposals to send
fourth-time liquor law offenders to
prison for life and hold liquor buy
ers equally culpable with sellers.
There is no room in the grange
for any one who does not believe
whole heartedly in prohibition" de-
clared Arthur Welton, secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-11
WOMAN DETECTIVE is
POISONED FOR REVENGE

Blinded BY Bad Liquor After He
Traps Bo0tleggers.
BIZ United Press
Ell PAS0, Tex, Jan. 11.--Federal
agents of Ell Paso confirmed today
that when Mrs. Thelma Sanford OF
Ell Paso, blinded by poison liquor in
Los Angeles, aided in the arrest CT
a gang of airplane rum runners, ont
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19

money due to fluctuations in commits
sions and discounts are not shown in
the report because these were not in
cluded in the inquiries.
"Out of 80 replies received, 80 stated
that the demand for mortgage invest
ment securities is the same this year
as it was a year ago, 20 replied that it
was less and "a reported a greater
demand
Prom the replies received to the
question on the demand for mortgage
investment securities grouped according
to geographic sections Of the United
States and sizes of cities, it is noted
that the greater decline in the demand
for mortgage investment securities took
place in the larger cities, whereas
the greater increase in demand took
place in smaller cities. Out of the
9 answers received from cities Of 500, 900
or more. 6 reported smaller demand
and only 2 reported a greater demand,
whereas In cities under IS 900, out of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19
MORTGAGE RATES
SHOWING INCREASE
Commercial Loans Also
Higher During II Months
Ending Last July.

The average rate of interest on first
MORTGAGES for the United States as a
whole increased 0.04 per cent from July,
1928, to July, 1929, whereas the average
rate on commercial loans increased OLE
per cent, while the rate of interest on
second mortgages for the United States
as q whole remained stationary, accord
ing to a report received by the Ma
tional Association OF Real Estate Boards
from IS executive councillors of its
mortgage and finance division. Mort
gage councillors in 139 cities were APP
pointed some months ago by the divi-
sion to keep the association informed
as to mortgage conditions in various
localities.
According to replies received from the
local executive councillors OF the divi-
sion, the average rates on commercial
loans from 1928 to 1929 advanced near
" one-fifth of per cent and the aver
age interest rate on first mortgages has
increased only one tWenty-f1fth of !
. per cent, The fact should not be over
looked. however, that the bare interest
rate on mortgages does not represent
the actual cost Of first and second
mortgage money, because it does not
include commissions and discounts, the
amounts and fluctuations of which were
not included In this inquiry. The te-
port states:
Reports Statement.
SIT is interesting to note in the report
that from July, 1928, to July, 1929 the
average rediscount rates for the IL Fed
eral Reserve banks In the United States
increased from All per cent to S per
cent, or an average increase of 0.29 per
cent and that during the same year
the monthly average interest Iate for
renewals on call loans increased from
sos in July, 1928, to 9.23 per cent in
1929, or an increase of 3.18 per cent.
1.-The fact that the average late of
interest on second mortgages has re-
NAMED practically stationary Is not
surprising, because the majority of re-
plies stated that the rate of interest
charged on second mortgages Is the
legal rate and consequently there is
little or no fiuctuation in the actual
rate Of interest charged on second
mortgages in most communities.
Changes in the cost of second mortgage
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19
1929 CONSTRUCTION
LESS THAN IN 1928
Contractors Chart Shows
Jobs 7 Points Below Index
Level During September.

The volume Of construction job ac-
tivities during September as measured
by shipments of construction material
rose 20 points above the previous month,
although remaining points below the
index level for September last year, ac-
cording to a statistical study just COM
pleted by the Associated General Con-
tractors of America.
The maintenance of construction ac-
tivities during 1929 to level approx
mately equal with performance last year
checks closely with such employment
data as is available. It does not, how
ever, check with cumulative total
Of contract awards for the first eight
months of this year, which show de-
cline, according to the F. w. Dodge
Corp. figures, of approximately per
cent.
The maintenance of job activities at
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rates higher than the volume Of con-
tract awards would seem to indicate, is
accounted for by the contractors asso-
citation through the fact that greater
speed is being shown on contracts under
way. Because of improved methods,
more efficient machinery and higher eff
ficiency of labor, the reserve supply of
uncompleted contracts is being eaten
into faster than in previous years.
Eventually. it is pointed out, there
will be a readjustment of the relation
ship between volume of shipments of
construction material and the volume
of contract awards. 1t is expected that
Job activities will either decline to the
comparative level of contract awards
during the next few months or that
contract awards will increase In an
amount sufficient to maintain the rela-
tionship with activities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19

a total of rs replies, reported greater
demand, whereas reported less.
THE reason given most frequently as
the cause of the decline in the demand
for mortgage investment securities was
the great volume of activity on the
stock market While the stock market
with its large speculative opportunities
for gains has attracted an enormous
volume of speculative money which
might otherwise have been available for
consumption expenditures, it is impos-
siple to estimate the extent to which
this type of investment has made in
roads upon the funds ordinarily avail
able for more conservative longer term
investments in real estate, although the
effect may be appreciate.
1.-THE fact that the average rate of
interest on first mortgages during the
past year increased only one-fifth as
much as the average interest rate on
commercial loans would appear to indi-
cate a relatively greater money supply
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19

available for first mortgage invest
ments than there was for commercial
loans. The policy of insurance COM
panies and other large investors who
either by law or by preference choose
real estate investments creates an enor-
nous fund of money constantly seeking
investment in real estate. When to
this large fund are added the sums
which many individual investors prefer
to put into real estate, rather than
into more speculative investments, the
aggregate volume of money seeking
comparatively conservative investments
in real estate is enormous. Undoubted-
ly this is the chief explanation for the
failure of the average interest rate on
first mortgages to keep pace with the
rediscount rates of the Federal Reserve
Banks or the interest rate on call loans.
Educational pictures are being shown
for prisoners In the Vienna, Austria,
Criminal Court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19
BUILDING INCREASES.

Baltimore Home Construction
Gains 20 Per Cent in 1929.
BALTIMORE, october 1g-An in
crease of 20 per cent is shown in home
building in Baltimore the first nine
months of this year, compared to the
corresponding period in 1928, according
to H. Findlay French, director of the
industrial bureau Of the real estate
board
The peak Of dwelling construction
was in 1925. but from then to 1928
it continued to decline until the pres
ent rise began.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19

eight-room English group dwelling at
1851 Forty-fourth street, in Foxall, it
is announced by Waverley Taylor, Inc,
the builder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19
Jerman Buys Home.

B. D. Jerman of the b. d. Jerman
Auto Service Co. has purchased the
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The attracttUe en-
trance to flashing
tons latest and most
desirable home COM
manity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-16

in command Of the Alamo, did not re-
cetve reinforcements. A large force Of
Mexicans gradually invested the town
until Travis 200 men were driven to
the Alamo for refuge.
Bowie Carried Across.
Travis assembled his men and, de-
claring he never would surrender. drew
line in front of him and requested
all who would stay with him to step
across the mark. All but one walked
across the line. The exception was Col.
James Bowie, who, because Of illness
with pneumonia, ordered the soldiers to
carry him across, and he fought until
all his ammunition was exhausted.
After a 13-day siege the Mexicans
broke into the fort March 6, 1885. They
slew every defender.
No man knows where the ashes OF
the defenders rest. Santa Anna had
the bodies burned on two great pyres.
When Texans recaptured the town,
they buried the remains. but the exact
spot is not known. A tablet has been
erected on the approximate location.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-16
BYRD RADIO ENGINEER
GRANTED YEARS LEAVE

Secretary Wilbur Extends Absenc e
Of Nava1 Man With Polar
Expedition.
SECRETARY Wilbur late yesterday grant,
ed q years extension Of service with
the Byrd Antarctic Expedition to NAL
colin Hanson, radio engineer Of the
Naval Research Laboratory, Bellevue.
D. c. Hanson. whose address Is 1920
Ontario road. is with the expedition to
carry on radio research and other ex-
perimental work.
The Washington radio engineer built
the radio apparatus used by Comdr
Byrd on his North Pole flight and ac-
companied him to Spitzbergen. Hanson
likewise designed the radio equipment
now used by the Byrd expedition in
the Antarctic and also designed and
built radio apparatus for the wilkins
Polar Expedition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-16
LEAPS AND BREAKS LEG.
Colored Woman Said to Have Been
in Domestic Row.

A broken leg and face decorations, at
tributed by police to leap from a Sec
ond-story window during domestic
trouble. sent Rebecca Ross, colored, 81
years old, 744 Sixth street southeast, to
Casualty Hospital early today.
Fifth precinct officers. investigating,
were told Mrs. Ross made the jump
when she became frightened.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-16
RITUAL MURDER FOUGHT.
British Combat Native Supersti-
ton to Halt Killings.

NAIROBI. East Africa P).-A series
of murders has thrown one part Of
Kenya Colony into disorder. They are
believed to have arisen out Of the old
native superstition that the young war
rior cannot enter manhood until he has
"bloodied his spear"
The killings followed celebration Of
religious rites of young men of the
Nasal tribe. Disturbances usually arise
this tribe.
The situation is serious enough to
induce the governor to proclaim a GER
tain area Of Nasal province "a dis
turbed area" and to send in additional
police forces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-16

by permits granted last month, reached
. total valuation of 11,ASo,i60. Thd
figures from q statement compiled by
the bureau Of buildings marx an IN
crease over December, when the total
was Si,994.O4O.