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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
DIES IN SIX-STORY
LEAP FROM HOTEL
Fatal Plunge Is Taken by
Suicide After All Night
Vigil on Death.

After an all night vigil in which
ne apparently thrashed out his prob
lem of life and death, Carl
Schramm, so, of Lafayette, Ind,
chose death and leaped from the
window of his room on the sixth
floor of the Puritan hotel. Market
and New Jersey streets.
Eis crushed body was found on a
first floor court ledge by MIR. and
Mrs. Emory Knight at 7:30 a. M,
two hours after he had plunged
from his window. The knights saw
the body from their second floor
room in the hotel.
A long suicide note, in which he
said death was preferable to the
finger of suspicion" and blamed a
former friend for all his troubles.
was found in his room, which bore
evidences of the soul struggle that
preceded the suicide plunge.
He apparently had written all
night long, had smoked two pack
ages of cigarets and had paced the
floor for hours.
The note declared the former
friend had used many means to
bring about his ruin, had stained
his reputation, and often had
threatened his life. 1t was unad-
dressed and unsigned.
Early Sunday night Schramm
called Bert Atkins, manager of the
hotel, and talked irrationally of his
false friend. Then, a wishful note
in his voice, he had said:
st think I'll go to visit my family
in the morning."
The dead man had lived in the
hotel since Jan. 90, and had stayed
there frequently in the last four
years, Atkins said.
He was piano tuner, and ap-
parently was employed regularly. He
had a large account with the La
fayette Loan and Trust Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
PREDICT COLD WAVE
Mercury to Fall TO 5 Above
Zero Tonight.

A cold wave sweeping in on In
diana from the northwest will bring
a temperature drop to above zero
here tonight, j. H. Arlington,
United States weather bureau head,
predicted today.
Temperatures of from 20 to 38 de-
grees below zero were reported this
morning in North Dakota and up
in Canada, Armington said.
There is little likelihood of snow
with the cold and it will continue
fair and cold Tuesday, he said.
Comparatively spring-like wealth
er prevailed over the weekend.
Sundays temperatures averaged 80
degrees above zero, which was 9
degrees above normal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
BLOCK LENROOT
JOB FOR PROBE
Appointment as Judge to Be
Sifted by Senate.

BI United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-The
nomination of Former Senator Len
root of Wisconsin to be member of
the court of customs appeals was
held up and referred to a sub-com-
mittee for investigation by the SEN
ate judiciary committee today.
Lenroot's selection was challenged
by Chairman Norris of the COM
mittee, who recollected Lenroot ap-
peared as attorney for public util-
tiles interests in recent so-called
power trust Investigations"
The nomination of Representative
Finis ]. Garrett CDem., Tenn.), also
named to the court, was ordered
favorably reported to the senate
without opposition.
The committee decided to refer to
a subcommittee the nomination of
Henry H. Classic of Louisiana,
former tariff commissioner, named
as justic Of the district supreme
court. Objection to the tempera-
mental qualifications of Classic was
made in the committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
BOY MAY EAT AGAIN
Operation May Eliminate
Tube Used Six Years.

BIZ United Press
NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb. 49,
Eight-year-old Winton Strickland
lay on a hospital cot today, happy
over the prospect of eating for the
first time in six years.
That long ago, Winton swallowed
a small quantity of lye while play
ing about his parents home at
Magnolia, Miss. The lye caused
his esophagus to close, preventing
food from passing through the
proper channels into his stomach.
A rubber tube was inserted in an
opening made in his chest below the
affected area.
Winton weighs only twenty-nine
pounds, although he is three feet
five inches tall, almost the normal
height for his age. Recently ply
sicians decided to operate in order
that he might swallow food. They
expect to perform the delicate
operation within a few days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
.DOHENY BROKEN
BY SONS DEATH
Murder Leaves Oil Man
Critically Ill.
By United Press

BN United Press
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 49,
Frustrated by grief over the murder
of his only son, E. l.. Doheny, oil
man, lay in a serious condition at
his home here today, with ply
sicians fighting desperately to keep
his strength from failing COM
pletely.
E. L. Doheny Jr. was shot and
killed Sunday by his private secre-
tary, Hugh Plunkett,, who then fired
a bullet through his own brain.
Plunkett had suffered a nervous
breakdown and became mentally
deranged.
He had evidenced anger at his
employer because Doheny desired
him TO go to a sanitariurn.
The elder Doheny had surren-
dered nearly all his duties in his oil
companies to his son. He had
pinned on Junior all his hope of
continuing the name Doheny
prominently in the oil industry.
He is IS years old and in the last
year has nearly retired from husi-
ness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Curb on inside
Bank RObbeYieS
Sought in, Bill

There have been more bank rob-
berries from the inside than from
the outside in Indiana lately" de-
clared State Senator John H. Hew-
lit Of Terre Haute today as he pre-
pared a bill raising the penalty for
defalcation by bank employe or
officer from two to fourteen years
to five to twenty-one years.
"This legislature is raising the
penalties for the bad boys who op-
crate from the outside with guns
and high-powered cars. The only
way to protect the banks fully now
is to raise the penalty for the slick
gentlemen who operate on the in
side"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Seek Ugly Girl
to Shoe Beauty
but iSkin-Deeb

BR United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-Cne ugly
girl is going to have the time of her
life and will be more beautiful than
she ever dreamed of being when the
national beauty exhibition is held
in Grand Central palace, March 27.
The plan to make an ugly woman
beautiful has resulted from claim
made by Haywood Broun, columnist,
who declared that looks, or lack Of
them, were a matter of accident and
that beauty aids could not make a
woman beautiful.
The contest is open to the world,
with red-heads only barred. The
exposition did not explain the
clause against the titians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18

Alma RubenS Taken From
Hospital to Mothers
Ranch.
BY GEORGE H. BEALE
United Press STAR corrssnnnnent

United PreSs STAN Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18.-Dorothy
H Davenport Reid, widow of
Wallace Reid, believes that the
beautiful Alma Rubens will win her
fight against the use of narcotics.
Mrs. Reid, widowed by the same
habit which has caused Miss Rubens
to be confined in a sanitarium, told
the United Press that the film &C.
tress first turned to morphine dur.
ing severe illness.
Miss Rubens, wife of Ricardo Cor
tez, also of the films, was transferred
Sunday night from a Hollywood hos
pital to the ranch of her mother,
Mrs. Theresa Rubens. It was said
she had caused considerable trouble
at the hospital.
Calls Dope Disease"
One Of her attending physicians,
DR.. Cecil Reynolds, said Miss Ru-
bens was "just about the same" He
refused to aInplify his statement, al
though previously he had an
nounced Miss RubenS was well on
the way to recovery.
Mrs. Reid, since her husbands S
death, six years ago, has produced
motion pictures, lectured and con-
Quoted clinics to benefit "unfortu-
nates." She will not recognize use
of narcotis as habit" choosing to
call it a disease"
Miss Rubens' case, she said,
parallels in many instances that Of
Wally Reid.
"Wally and Miss RubenS were the
victims of disease just as much
as if they had scarlet fever or diph-
liberia" she said. Doping is a dis
ease and not habit
Confident of "COme- Back"
In the living room of her home,
Mrs. Reid has six photographs of
the former film celebrity and as an
other constant reminder she has
their son, William Wallace Jr., 13,
who bears a great resemblance to
his father.
"The disease is a dreadful thing"
she said. ''I don't know what we
would have done if the public hadn't
been so kind to Wally. Wally ap-
preciated the kindness, too, al
though he never had a. chance to
say so.
"Just as the public was kind to
Wally, it will be kind to Miss
Rubens and I am certain she will
win her battle and return to picture
stardom."
eff she has recovered from the
illness which caused her to turn to
morphine she will regain her health
because she has the character and
will power to fight off the drug"
Husband at Side
knowledge that Miss Rubens was
using morphine became general
only last week. Her use of the drug
was said to have followed recent
illness when she was in great pain.
Public attention first was attract
ed to her by a series of irrational
escapades which preceded her re-
moval to a sanitarium for treat
ment.
Her husband, Ricardo Cortez,
also of the films, and her mother
have been with her constantly
since her illness.
Federal authorities are consider
ing action against those held re-
sponsible for supplying the actress
with drugs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18

Arguing against the proposed
increased penalties providing in
the pending Jones bill, Reed
continued:
claw has been the instru-
ment of tyrants and the wea-
pom of brutes since time began.
A cruel law may be as much a
crime as an assassin who kills
in the dark.
"The Savior of mankind was
crucified according to the Roman
and Jewish law. Joan Of Arc was
burned at the stake in accordance
with the thing that was then called
law. The British government
dragged our ancestors across the sea
to try them under British law.
Can't Make Wrong Right
"But those laws were atrocious
and the penalties were outrageous.
"a few men in a legislative as
sembly can not make wrong right
OF right wrong. The right way to
proceed is to repeal an outrageous
law and change the Constitution.
"This law has introduced corrupt
ing agencies and debased morals
into the very political life of our
country"
At the outset, while women in the
galleries Uttered, Reed said he
wanted to correct the impression
that he might name the senators
and representatives who drank wet
and voted dry. His statement Satur-
day to that effect had led to some
uneasiness, he sadi
But I am not going to do it be-
cause I will not violate the con-
fidence Of my friends or the hospi-
tality of my neighbors," he con-
tinued, especially when they are
trying to get little sunshine out
of life. I may have done many
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Statutes Instrument of Tyrants Since Time
Began Missouri Senator Asserts in
Debate on Liquor Penalties.
LASH, PRISON, GUN ARE WEAPONS
Few Men in Legislative Assembly Cannot
Make Wrong Right Shouts Orator;
Borah Waits to Present Drys' Side.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb 18,-The Borah-Reed debate pro
hbton opened before crowded today
ling Senator James Reed Dem, Mo) the of satire
attacked the existing prohbitory law enthusiasm gone
mad"
While Senator William Borah (Idaho), Republican dry
champion scrbbed notes his desk preparing reply Reed
ironically told the senate how applicants the
Dant prohibition prize had suggested prohibition law
voator be dragged the country with their tongues tied
to apanes and advising the to distribute poison
liquor through booteggers ony few hundred thousands
would die IN order that the country would observe law
Ii these diaboica suggestions unusual would not
take the time to mention them said Reed 'but the spirit
abroad and people generally with the idea that
whatsoever could be done under any law just right and
righteous They believe law sanctions and stes any cruelty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
FIGHT FOR HOSPITAL
Renew Demand in Congress
for Veterans Institution.
By Times Special

BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-Repre-
sentative Rankin of Mississippi will
demand Of Speaker Longworth late
today whether there is any way to
secure a meeting Of the World war
veterans committee to consider the
$1o,000,000 disqualification bill in
which Indianapolis hope of a vet
eran hospital is tied up.
Representative Luce of Massachu-
sets, chairman of a subcommittee
having the bill in charge, told the
house late Saturday the subcommit-
tee had decided against the bill. In
this he is supported by Representa-
tive Royal Johnson of South Da-
kota, committee chairman.
Democratic members led by
Rankin believe the full committee
would approve the bill and have de-
manded of Johnson that he call a
meeting which he has refused to do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
burned child Imr,rnued

Ethel Viola Armstrong, z, of 30
North oxford street, who was Sc
riously burned Saturday when her
coat brushed against a stove and
caught afire as she was removing
it, was reported slightly improved
with a chance for recovery at city
hospital today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
FAST TO END; FATHER WILL JOIN CHURCH

martyrdcm began after a revival
meeting conducted by the Rev.
Ray Dotson, a former Lima (O)
newspaper man.
George Conrad capitulated Sun
cay, assuring his son that he has
no objections to joining the
church, but Fred chose to con-
tinue his meal-less existence un-
til Friday, when, like Christ" he
said, "I will have tasted for forty
days"
Meantime, the church Of the
Rev. Mr.. Dotson, who allegedly
inspired the fast. has lost heavily
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18

in membership and Dotson viii
be subjected to questioning by
the Rev. E. S. Weaver and the
Rev. D. F. Helms Of the Lima
Methodist area.
Some sources have charged the
fast was a publicity scheme to
draw attention to Dotson's re-
viyal meetings.
Conrad is 81 years old and is
ticket agent at the traction depot
here. When his fast began he
weighed in at 200 pounds. He
has lost sixty pOund&
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
By United Press

bU UHtted Press
NEW HAMPSHIRE, O., Feb. 1S.
In Fred Conrad, the fasting
martyr of New Hampshire, is go
ing to dine copiously Friday night
if his father, George, a grocer,
keeps his promise.
The elder Conrad has promised
to join the New Hampshire Meth
odist church, thus effecting COM
promise with his son, who began
fasting thirty-six days ago be
cause his father was possessed Of
the devil.
Young C0nrad's self-aIp pointed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
John d. HELPS

BD United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., has bought
267 acres of the estate on which
George Washington was born
and will aid the Wakefield
National Memorial Association,
Inc, to rebuild the Washington
family home.
The Wakefield association
will make a national shrine of
365 acres, running from the
mouth OF Bridges creek and
the Potomac river, southeast,
to Pope's creek.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
AVIATION HEAD CRASHES
Chief of Naval Aeronautics Escapes
Injury.
BIZ United Press

BH Untted Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-Flying a
De Haviland Moth plane, Assistant
Secretary of Navy Warner, in charge
of aeronautics and Capt. Frank
Courtney, British ace, owner of the
plane, escaped injury late yesterday
when the plane made nose dive"
in the mud
Warner had made a perfect land
ing at Boiling field but the wheels
stuck in the mud and when an at
tempt was made to extricate the
plane under its own power, the nose
dipped forward breaking the pro-
peller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
SnOOt! No Loot

Awakened in bed ct his home
by an intruder who flashed a
light on his face and demanded
money, Ben Eggleston, 1850
Quill street, said he had none.
The prowler, after a search
ing look in Eggleston's face.
said:
"Oh, you're not the man I'm
looking for" and departed. H
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
SCARLET FEVER GAINS
125 Person in the City Have Disease,
Says Health officer.

More than 125 cases of scarlet
fever have been reported to the city
board of health this month, DR.. Her
man G. Morgan, health board Sec
retary, said today.
The number is above normal DR..
Morgan urged early diagnosis and
use of the serum treatment to pre-
veatt complications.
The rapid weather changes have
brought another wave of respiratory
infections the past few days, DR..
Morgan said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Dawes Nephew's Auto Stolen
Bv United press

BU United pyess
EVANSTONE, Ill, Feb. 1s.-The
automobile owned by Palmer Dawes,
son of Rufus Dawes and nephew
of Vice President Charles c. Dawes.
was stolen from in front Of the First
Presbyterian church here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Hoosiers to National Meeting
~ Yimes Speoial

Dy tHtSS Gp6CtuS
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb. 1S.-
Operators of quarries in the Bloom
ington-Bedford district left here to-
day in q special car attached to a
Monon train for New Orleans, La,
to attend the stonemen's national
conference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Man, II, Dies of Burns

ANDERSON, Ind, Feb. 18.-
George Mullen, II, grocer, is dead of
burns suffered when he fell against
a heating stove, igniting his cloth
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
SUIT ASKS RECEIVER

President of CrandalI- Donnell Com
pany Is Petitioner.
Suit asking appointment of re-
ceiyer for the Crandall-D Donnell
Corporation, distributors of oil
burning heating equipment, 325
North Pennsylvania street, was
fled in superior court two today by
Frederick L. Donnell, president.
Donnell alleges that the firm owes
his S27,734 salary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
JAIL 400 STRIKERS
Arrests Occur When 5000 Workers
Parade.

R,B United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Between
5000 and 5000 striking members of
the Industrial Needle Workers
Union and their sympathizers en-
gagged in a demonstration in the
garment area today which led 20
the arrest of between 400 and 500
of the paraders, including Mrs. Rose
Pastor Stokes. noted socialist and
divorced wife of the philanthropist
!. @. T. Phelps Stokes.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-03

NEW YORK-Abby Milton has
sl1-90 in dimes presented by her
great-grandfather. John ID. Rookie
Teller. At her birth a year ago he
gave her one hundred dimes. Each
time she has visited him since then
one has been added to her bank.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-03

Shipping states was 1885 cars. Arr
IONA shipments had decreased TO L.
020 cars but central California
moved 455 and other sections Of
California 10. North Carolina add
ed 90 cars to the supply. The five
peck hampers from North Carolina
ranged S1.O0-2.50 in consuming CEN
tiers.
Cabbage Prices Unchanged
Cabbage held about steady in
producing areas and in large dis
tributing centers. Movement de-
creased to 1000 cars. with output
Of South Carolina lower at 400 cars
and Texas moving only 155 during
the week. Alabama forwarded 100
and Mississippi 100 cars. Terminal
markets quoted barrel crates from
Louisiana. Alabama and MiSsis-
sippi generally at $2.00-3.00 COM
pared with similar packages from
South Carolina at s1.65-2.25. The
l 1-2 bushel hampers OF South
Carolina cabbage ranged 75c-sI.25.
Arrivals from Texas and Louisiana
brought $3.50 per ton at Cincin-
natl. while Texas stock jobbed on
a 10 ID. basis at S1.T5-3.OO. Z.
Texas Onions Past Peak
Movement Of the southern Texas
onion crop probably is omre than
half completed. Shipments during
the last two weeks were very
heavy and prices low but some i'm
provement Is expected during the
remainder OF the season. Forward
irgs decreased to LOO cars for the
sever day period but we're still 800
heavier than a year ago. CONNER
cial pack Yellow Bermudas were
bringing $4,000 per crate IN the La
redo district. with u. S. No. I
grade I'm the Crystal City area
about 10c higher than The mixed
stock. Crystal Wax onions were
generally lower at s1.00-1.20 T. o. b.
southern Texas. Following the re-
cent liberal receipts. city prices
closed considerably lower. around
Sl.25-l.s0 on commercial pack yell
lnw Bermudas and Sl.50-2l5 on
Crystal Wax stock. Arrivals meet
inE requirements Of u. s. No. 1
Grade brought 10-25c more. Ship
n2ats began to move from South
e-n California. and Texas iobbers
will now have some competition.
Imrorted yellows from Egypt were
icbHinr lower in a few markets at
Sf2S-I.50 c sack Of 10 lbs. Ar
rivals Of Egyptian onions have been
Fighter than expected. and only a
few carloads recently have come
from Chile.
Tomato Market Weaker
As increased supplies OF tomatoes
reached consuming centers prices
tended downward. In the Lake
Okeechobee section of Florida six
basket crates of best stock had de-
clined to $500 and city dealers
quoted most sales at s3.O0-6O0 with
repacked stock ranging from a o.
1000. Lug boxes from Mexico
ruled SS-50-6.O0. Florida Shipments
mad increased to TAO cars for the
week. Southern Texas started
with a dozen cars and about a5
came from Mexico. Civil war in
Mexico has hindered the movement
OF West Coast vegetables.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-03

Sadie Thompson best. She played
In that production all over the coun-
try for five years and only missed IL
performances.
In The Letter" Miss Eagels' tall
ents are ideally suited to the role Of
a wife who falls in love with another
man and kills him because he
throws her aside. Her emotional
acting in this all-talking picture
equals that in any OF her stage per-
formanceS.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-03
POTATOES ON
PRICE ADVANCE


FORT WORTH. Nav 3.-Potato
markets. howed further price adj
vances in spots during the week
ending April ~. says M. c. Greg
cry. local representative Of the
market news service Of the United
States department Of agriculture, IN
his weekly market review.
The review continues:
Most other vegetables and fruits
registered lowr prices during the
week. Movement OF Florida citrus
fruit was heavy, possibly due in
part 70 the rushing of fruit to mar
ket before any more sections OF the
state are quarantined because Sof
the fruit fly menace. Recent ad-
vices confirm the previous reports
81 serious damage to California
deciduous fruit crops as a result
OF freezing temperatures some
weeks ago. Severe weather in
January and February damaged Pa
cific northwest apricots and
peaches 10 some extent. but produce
tlcn may not be greatly reduced.
cherries and prunes suffered some
injury from cold rains and possibly
VIII make light crops Potatoes
advanced considerably in price
tnrolghout the Pacific northwest
curing recent weeks. Supplies OF
1000 table stock apparently are
Early arrivals Of Florida water
melons In Chicago were iobbinq AZ
Sl.4O-l-50 per melon of 25 pounds
average weight. Weather was too
DOL Tor melons. Bushel baskets