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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Miss Frances Gutelius inaugurated a
series of recitalS in her studios on Du-
pont circle Tuesday night. AS assisting
artist, Miss Betsey Lane Quinlan read a
charming group of modern poems. The
young pianists presented were Miss
Clara Boiling, Miss Barbara Boiling,
Mrs Arthur Hathaway, Miss Geraldine
Kelly, Miss Kathryn Latimer, Miss
Margaret Marie O'Meara, Miss Lourdes
Altman, Miss Rosario Picazo, Miss Vir-
ginia Shankland and Masters Billy DeX-
ter. Ted Crum and Walter Drumr1ond
Swank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

The new docks at Calcutta, india
have n double moorings for ocean-go-
ing vessels, 10 moorings for smaller
craft, and Is swinging moorings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

The Theta Chapter of the Theta
I Sigma Sorority will entertain at a
founders day banquet tomorrow evening
at the Wardman Park Hotel There
will be about 35 guests at the dinner
and others will attend the dance fol-
lowing. Miss Rebecca Troth is in
charge of the arrangements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

nor S. Jameson. Mrs. Whitman Cross,
Mrs. Percival Wilson, Mrs. James M.
Spear, Mrs. Lester Wilson, Mrs. Boyd
Carpenter and Mrs. Karl Loos.
Mrs. William Lee Corbin will be host
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

The officers of the Ladies' Aid of the
Christian and Elenora Rupert Home
will receive the members and their
friends Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5
o'clock at the home on Good Hope road.
An informal program Of singing, dane
ing and a sketch will be rendered, the
occasion being the twenty-seventh an
niversary of the home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Latest sports hats in Paris are
trimmed with leather belts to which is
attached a metal disc bearing the mon
ogram or full name of the nearer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Gov. Frank C. Emerson OF Wyoming
arrived in Washington today and is at
the Willard, where he will remain I'M
til next Saturday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Sir Croydon Marks of London is pass
ing some time at the Carlton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

American industrial machinery is be-
ing installed in new plants in Poland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

DR.. and Mrs. w. F. r. Winnard Of
Los Angeles are at the Grace Dodge
Hotel while visiting Washington. with
them are Mrs. NJ T. Hunt Of Warsaw,
ILL.,, and Mrs. w. L. Winnard Of Los
Angeles Calf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Little of East
Orange, N. j., are at the Grace Dodge
Hotel until some time next week Mrs.
G. H. Hampton Of East Orange is with
them,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Mrs. Clarence E. GroSner will enter
tain at luncheon tomorrow in honor
Of her sister, Mrs. Louis GARFIELD, OF
Dayton, Ohio, who is her guest, at the
Town and Country Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Mr.. William Randolph Hearst of New
York is passing a few days at the Will
lard, where he arrived today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Mrs. Robert Garrett has joined Mr.
Garrett at the Wardman Park Hotel
after passing most of the Winter at
their home in Princeton, KY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-23

Mrs. Gertrude Morton Of 9l6 Allison
street northwest has returned from an
extended visit in Louisville and Green
vile, KY. She also visited Mrs. Herbert
P. Yeaton at Chillicothe, Ohio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01

Immediate nortgaging of the
Citizens Gas Company property for
enough to retire the $2,000,0O0 in
outstanding common stock certifi-
Gates was outlined today by Mayor
L. Ert Slack as the first step neces-
sary in the movement of the city
to take over the gas properties in
accordance with the 1905 franchise.
The mayor said this was the duty
of the gas company trustees, who
have declared they are sympathetic
with the move to carry out the
franchise agreement to turn the
property over to the city.
The mayor issued a long state
ment outlining the procedure to
John w. Hoffman and Fred C..
Cause, special counsel for the city
in the gas fight, who began their
duties TO-DAY
Personally, I think the trustees
should take proper steps to bring
about this situation and I do not
see why it is necessary that the
board of works should demand that
such action be taken said the
mayor. 1T seems to me that the
duty is imposed upon the trustees
to make the first move in the mat
ter
The mayor said he agreed with
the gas trustees in not desiring that
the gas plants fall into political con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
Only Dozen Arrests Made;
Churches Greet 1929
With Prayer and Song;
Business at StandstiII.

New Years liquor, flowing copiouS-
" here, caused only twelve arrests,
the lowest number in years, police
records showed today.
OF the twelve slated on liquor
charges, four were arrested for
driving while intoxicated, six for
drunkenness and two for operating
blind tiger.
Conyivial merrymakerS with a
thirst for forbidden stimulants
found variety of circumstances
working in their favor New Years
eve.
Police, in uniform and tuxedo,
were as numerous as ever, but fed
eral agents and deputy sherifS were
almost a minus quantity. So many
federal men had failed their civil
service examination that their ranks
were all but wiped out.
No Deputies on Job
From midnight until this morning
not deputy sheriff even existed.
Their terms expired at midnight
and they were Storn of their
authority until sworn in again this
morning.
Thousands of revelers attended
elaborate dances at the city's clubs,
where bedlam was loosed as the
midnight hour passed, ushering in
the new year.
City detectives in formal clothes
attended these functions, but exer-
cised little restraint. Lawlessness
was held to a minimum at public
places and traffic officers kept a
sharp eye for unsteady drivers.
While revelry was at its highest,
congregations of many Protestant
churches observed the new years
advent with prayer and song.
Church bells and whistles sounded
the knell of the parting. year and
welcomed in the new.
Many Social Events
While business and industry was
stilled today for the holiday, num-
erous social events were held
throughout the city.
The annual New Years day open
house was staged at the Central
lY. NJ. C. A., 80 North Illinois
street, open to the public. Games,
athletic exhibitions and concerts
were en- the all-day program.
An exhibition of student branch
activities has been arranged by the
indianapolis Hi-Y Council, the art
school of the John Heron Art In
titute, the intercollegiate Cosmopoli-
tan Club and the Indiana university
school of dentistry.
Shriners and their ladies' will at
tend the open house reception at
Murat temple this afternoon, 2 to 5
O'Clock, when dancing will be
feature Potentate William H.
Bockstahler and his official divan
will receive the guests.
The New Year celebration extends
over tonight. Jack Westf1eld, i'm
presario in various forms of enter
tainment for a quarter century, is
giving free, public party Cor as
many persons as can be packed into
Tomlinson Hall tonight.
Dancing and vaudeville will be
provided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
GUILTY or BANDITRY
Amos viii Be Sentenced for
HohIt HoIdup.

Carl Amos, found guilty of par
ticipation in the F. w. Hohlt &
Son dry goods store holdup Dec. 8,
by criminal court Jury Monday
afternoon. will be sentenced by
Judge James A. Collins, Saturday.
The jury deliberated IS minutes.
Amos faces a five to twenty-one-
year sentence on the charge of auto
banditry and robbery. He nd three
other men we're alleged to have
p nned the robbery at the store,
1889 Kentucky avenue, the night be-
fore police entrapped them in the
place. killing Carl Kittrel and Otto
Price, two of the bandits.
Closing arguments were made in
the case by A. G. Manning. defense
attorney: the retiring prosecutor,
William H. Remy. and Prosecutor
Elect Judson L. Stark Manning
bombarded Herman Arnf1eid, the
states chief witness, who informed
police Of the contemplated robbery,
although he was one Of the group,
70 planned the stickup.
Throughout the arguments, Amos
sat In front of the jury and cried.
The defense will not appeal, Man
ming said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
WOMAN CONFESSES
DEATH FARM GUILT;
TRIES TO SAVE SON
Mrs. Louisa Northcott Is
Given Life Term in
Murder Case.

BB United Press
SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON,
Cal. Jan. 1.-The doors of San
Quentin prison will open today to
receive Mrs. Louisa Northcott,
mother of Gordon Stewart North
colt, who has been sentenced to life
Imprisonment for the murder of g.
year-old Walter Collins.
In an effort to save her son from
the gallows, Mrs Northcott pleaded
guilty to the murder charge in
Riverside superior court yesterday.
Judge o. K. Morton pronounced SEN
tence after she had told the court
her son was not at the Ri"erside
county murder farm" on the night
Of March 16, when, she said, she
killed the boy.
Mrs. Northcott previously had en-
tered a plea Of not guilty, but broke
down at a conference with Riverside
authorities and made q, signed con-
tession, in which she said she struck
the boy "on the head with an ak
to put him out of his misery after
she had found him in chicken
house with the top of his head
crushed in"
The statement inferred that the
first assault had been made by San
ford Clark, her grandson, whom she
saw leave the chickenhouSe the day
after the Collins boy had wandered
to the ranch. She said the latter
had told her he had run away from
him home in New York to go to San
Bernardino.
Mrs Northcott said she had given
the boy permission to sleep in the
chickenhouse, where he had re-
manned all the next day. That night
she murdered him, she said.
Before leaving for San Quentin
last night, Mrs. Northcott sent a
note to her son in Los Angeles
county pail, telling him of her con-
fession and sentence and urging him
likewise Ito finish it out of court if
possible" rather than ito drag life
history through court"
Northcott hurled the note to the
floor of his cell, shouting, Mother is
crazy, anyhow. She doesn't know
what she is saying"
Northcott will be placed on trial
in Riverside tomorrow on a charge
of numbering an unidentified
Mexican.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
CITY CONTROLLERS BOOKS
SHOW DEFICIT OF 1896, 900

Books of the city controllers Of
flee we're closed Monday night, with
a deficit of almost $396,000 in the
city general fund.
The deficit was due mostly to the
cut in the city tax levy from 61.25
to 56.08 cents on each 500 of tax
able property. The state tax board
cut the 1928 levy AS cents. but
failed to reduce the appropriation
for departments.
The budget was figured on a
basis of the higher rate of taxes
Some of the deficit was expected
to be cared for through elimination
of the police and firemen's salary
increase, voted by the old CITY
council, but a court decision forced
the city to -'re the pay boost Ia
all members of the department
which totaled about $3.50, 600.
The original appropriation for
utility bills to the board of works
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
Liqu0r F7ozgs Freely at Fetes
Welcoming Ne7o Year; Federal
AGENTS Missing at FeStiOitleS
Close Watch by Federal and
Other Officials Fails to
XIII Off All Fetes as
Year Ends.

Combined forces of federal, city
and state officials patrolled cities of
the nation on New Years eve and
effected one of the quietest celebra-
tions in the history of the country.
Advance warnings sent out tended
in most cities to keep the liquor
from flowing too openly and in
others patrols of federal and city
officers broke up parties where
liquor was being displayed. A few
cities reported lots of liquor and
little official interference.
The weather joined forces with
authorities in the midwest, a heavy
blanket of soggy snow falling ov
the entire area and tending to keep
the celebrators at home.
Booze Is Plentiful
Liquor was plentiful, and in some
cases officers acted merely as sort
of chaperons to keep the exuberance
down.
In New York City the crowds were
forced to quiet down shortly after
midnight, when raids were staged
in many parts of the city. Liquor
was in abundance, but tho officers
broke up a, number Of parties where
the liquid refreshment was too
much in evidence.
In Chicago, Speakeasies reported
large sales of whisky, gin and beer,
but the hotel. night club, and
restaurant parties were unusually
quiet. There as in New York and
other cities, federal prohibition aids
dressed in evening clothes guarded
the parties. But few instances OF
much liquor being in evidence at
the dance halls and night clubs were
reported.
In st. Louis and Kansas City,
many celebrations were staged IN
homes, and for the most part the
New Year was ushered in rather
quietly.
Wet in Philadelphia
Cleveland experienced "just an
other night" with few wide-ope
celebrations. Washington expert
enced rather quiet night.
Philadelphia and Boston reported
more OF. the usual New Years activi-
ties. In the former, 1928 persons were
arrested for intoxication. Hotels
and night clubs were crowded. Bos-
ton had one of its greatest celebra-
tions in years, despite advance
warnings that the city would be dry.
Detroit, too, was more or less open.
No arrests we're made there by
federal authorities. Some arrests
were made by city officials who
picked up jewellers who had had
zone too many" Liquor was plenti-
full and the crowds noisy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01

was 100000, about 100000 below
what was estimated to be spent
The As cents cut in the levy
brought about $296,0O0 deficit.
Most of the unpaid bills are due
utilities for service to the city in
the last year. A year ago the city
issued bond issue when a judg-
ment was granted for bills due.
Attorneys say the only way the
city can pay the overdue accounts
is through court judgment which
permits issuance of bonds.
Board of works records in the
office of Emmanuel Wetter, book
keeper. show that the city board
owes these bills at the close of the
year:
Indianapolis Water Company
sos. .408; Indianapolis Power and
Light Company. $i43,000; and In
diana Bell Telephone Company
$S45.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
MOB SEXES
KILLER, BURNS
HIM AT STAKE
Mississippi Rioters Take
Convict From National
GuardSmen.
CAPTURED BY WOMAN
Forced to Plantation by
Hunger, Desperate Is
Taken Easily.

BIZ United Press
ROME, Miss, Jan. 1.-The charred
body of Charles Shepherd, Negro
convict, today rested against stake
two miles north of here, where he
was burned to death for violating
the unwritten law of the south.
A mob, eager to avenge the mur-
der of ]. D, Duvan, prison guard,
and the abduction of DuvalIs 1e-
year-old daughter, Ruth, lynched
Shepherd last night.
1t was MisSissippi's fourth lynch
ing of the year.
Earlier in the day the long search
for Shepherd ended when he was
captured by Miss Laura May Keller
80, who found him in one of tha
cabins on her plantation. Since tie
murder of Duyall, Friday, posses had
been hunting for the Negro, aided
by bloodhoundS and airplanes.
Father Was Murdered
According to the story told by
Ruth Duvall, Shepherd murdered
her father and forced her to flee
with him her night dress. After
staggering thirty hours through the
woods, Ruth collapsed in front of a
Negro woman's cabin and told her
story.
The lynching was quick and thor
ough, according to j. r. Walters,
jailer at Sumner, who witnessed it.
First reports said Shepherd was
killed and then his body was burned
but Walters denied that.
He said the stake was driven into
the ground in cotton field just of
the highway between Rome and
camp No. IL. Wood was piled
around the convict after he had
been tied to the stake and the pyre
was soaked with gasoline.
Walters said he believed Shepherd
implicated another Negro inmate
of the Parchman prison farm in the
murder and abduction.
Driven by Hunger
Reports received at Parchrnan saic
Shepherd was driven to the Keller
plantation by hunger and that he
made no resistance when Miss
Keller, armed with shotgun, en-
tered the cabin
a mob of about 100 men met the
detail of National Guardsmen who
we're taking Shepherd to Jackson
for safekeeping, the report said
The men took the convict away from
the guardsmen and started fol
Parchman with their prisoner where
he was to have been hanged and
then burned.
Apparently the members of the
mob feared the National Guards
men would return and recapture
Shepherd, for they suddenly
changed their plans and took him
short distance off the highway
where they burned him.
Miss Keiler's plantation is neal
Mound Bayou, Miss, ard Shepherd:
brother is an employe there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
Stay! Stay!
And Bullet Was Stayed
When 1t Hit the
Corset Stay.
THE life of Mrs. Edith Ayres

THE life of Mrs. Edith Ayres
L 35, of 2O15 Barth avenue,
probably was saved early today by
a corset stay.
Mrs. Ayres had returned from
en- early watch party New Years
we and was sitting in the front
room of her home. Some one
walked up on the front porch, po-
ice say, and fired two .38-caliber
bullets through the glass of the
door.
One of the shots went wide,
and the other struck Mrs. Ayres in
the side after DETECTING from some
ether object. The corset stay
stopped the bullet.
Police are investigating the af-
fair, and the family of Mrs. Ayres
is naystified over the motive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
CUT PHONE RATES
Day Long Distance Calls
Are Lowered.

A new reduction in long distance
telephone rates, the third in two
years, was announced today by G. H.
Rottger, president of the Indiana
Bell Telephone Company.
The rate reduction, which applies
only to day Standardization and
personal calls, lowers the tariff on
phone messages from 10 to Is cents
on virtually all circuits and is ex-
pected to result in a saving of more
than 100000 year to Indiana
telephone users.
For a call from Indianapolis to
New York, under the new schedule,
the basic station -to"Station rate is
reduced from $3.50 to $2.55.
New rates for Indiana calls are
being compiled. Three new an
nounced rates, however, show the
scope Of the reduction. They are:
Indianapolis to Evansville. reduced
from $1.05 to 95 cents; indianapolis
to Michigan City, $105 to 80 cents;
indianapolis to South Bend, 95
cents to 85 cents.
No reduction in rates on evening
and night calls was announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
ACCIDENT IS PRODED
Victim Is Suspected in
Chicken Thefts.

Police today attempted to link the
hunting accident" of Arthur Price.
835 East Georgia street, Saturday
afternoon with the shooting OF
chicken thieves Saturday night at
the farm of DR.. H. E. Phares on
State Road 20, north of Shelbyville.
Henry Paris, a tenant on the
Phares farm, told police he heard
providers in the chicken yard and
fired his shotgun In their direction.
One of the men was hit by the
buckshot. They returned the fire,
and a bullet went through Paris
trouser leg and lodged in the
kitchen wall
Price is the brother Of Otto Price,
the bandit shot by police in the
Hohlt dry good store robbery at
tempt recently. Price told police
he was shot by a man nam s.
Slim while on a hunting expedi-
ton Saturday morning in the White
river bottoms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, Jan. Alma
Rubens, film star, is scheduled to
be arraigned tomorrow on charges
of disturbing the peace. A COM
plant issued by the city prosecutor
office here yesterday cited the
charge.
The complaint, sworn out by Mrs.
M. Uhl, proprietress Of the Bunga-
low court, in which Miss RuoenS
lives, charged the actress with Civ
ing wild parties and proving about
the court at all hours of the night
with a fiashlight, apparently hunt
ing something"
Witness for the prosecution in
eluded Leroy Mason, Rita Carew
and Mr.. and Mrs. Finis Fox, all
prominent members of the screen
colony.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
IS CAUSED BY
NEW CITY TRAFFIC CODE

Automobiles parked at an angle Of
IS degrees on downtown streets
Tere conspicuous today because Of
The new f1at-to-curb parking rule.
Many motorists who went to work
early this morning we're hazy as re-
suit OF New Years festivities and
gnored the new regulation.
Flat parking on Washington street
is expected greatly TO aid the down.
own area and relieve considerable
Nongestion, traffic officers stated.
Parking on Monument Circle is
permitted landeg the new code.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
ASKS IMMEDIATE
MORTGAGE IN GAS CASE

troll nor to private interests, and he
preferred safeguards to make public
ownership benefit citizens.
The mayor recommended that the
trustees offer certificate holders
their money and if any opposed the
move it would be up to the oppo-
nents of. the move to go to court,
thereby sparing the city the neces-
sity of starting the battle in court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
ROOSEVELT ON JOB
Succeeds Alfred E. Smith
as N. Y. Governor.
By United Press

By United Press
STATE CAPITOL, ALBANY,
N. Y. Jan. 1.-Franklil- y. Roosevelt
was inaugurated today as Governor
of New York state, the second time
in twenty-eight years that Roose-
velt has been the chief executive of
New York.
Shortly after noon today he ac-
cepted responsibility for the states
guidance from Governor Alfred E.
Smith, who four times has served
as New York's Governor, and be-
came the forty-fourth man to hold
the New York governorship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01

Enforcement Of the new city
traffic code, which became. effective
today. was accompanied BY consid-
cradle confusion on the part Of
motorists.
Police Chief Claude NJ Worley
said the department VIII show leni-
ency a few days until motorists
are familiar with the new regula-'
tons. WorIey urged the public TO
fauailiarize itself with the new code
and obey the officers seeking to in
struct them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
COLD WAVE ON WAY
Snow Is on Program for
City Today.

Snow, but not enough to hamper
traffic, was the weather pro-
gram for today. embellished with
cold wave with temperature as low
as from 10 to Is degrees above zero
by Wednesday morning, according
to the weather bureau.
The thermometer should rise to
moderate temperature by Thursday,
the bureau believed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
MOTHER SENT TO JAIL
Arrested for Selling Booze to Help
Pay for Home. \

Mrs. Lizzie Beck viii have thirt'
days to think over her New Year
resolution and plan a way to pay I'd
her home by other than iileg
methods. She will serve a senteH
in the county jail for violation
the national prohibition laws.
Il never Will sell liquor again
said Mrs. Beck, So, mother Of !
children who could not ca
enough selling milk and chickens
pay for her home.
Judge Robert g. Ba1tzeII "a
Mrs. Beck until Thursday to arran.s
matters at her home and for tIS
care of her husband. who Is deaf.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
NIBLACK GETS PARTNER
Carl Kandiver to B1 Associated with
State Senator Elect.

John l.. Niblack, state senator
elect, and retiring deputy county
prosecutor, today announced that he
will be associated with Carl Van
diver, also former deputy county
prosecutor, in the practice of law at
All Indiana Trust building. Niblack,
prior to becoming a deputy prose-
cutor, was an indianapolis news
paper man.
Paul Rhoadarmer, who took Office
today as chief deputy prosecutor
and who has been associated with
Vandiver and Niblack, retired from
the law firm, it was announced.