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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
STEVE ESCAPE
PLOT REPORTED
Planned to Get Liberty as
Corpse, Dispatch Says.

BIZ [ Hited PrcGe
CHICAGO. May 6.-A fantastic
plot to free D. G. Stephenson from
the Indiana state prison where he
Is serving q life term for the mllr-
der of Miss Madge Oberholtzer is
described by the Chicago Tribune
today in q, special dispatch from
Indianapolis.
The Tribune's story says that
Stephenson, former grand dragon
of the Indiana Ku-Klux Klan and
a political power in that state was
to be set free by giving him a drug
which would enable him to feign
death.
He then was to be carried out of
the prison as a corpse and revived.
The alleged plot is said to have
involved a change of physicians at
the prison to facilitate admins
tration of the drug and the
diagnosis
The Tribune story was written in
a light vein, its author comparing
the alleged plot to Dumas Count
of Monte Cristo."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
TALLEY'S FAREWELL
SONGS THRILL 5000
Critics Land Last Performance
With Metropolitan.

NH mica FftSS
CLEVELAND. O.. May 6-An
audience Of 5000 persons who we're
thrilled Saturday as Miss Marion
Talley sang her farewellS in the
Metropolitan Opera Company as
Lucia in Lucia Di Lammermoor'
today could not understand the de-
cision of the youthful operate star
to retire at the apparent height of
her colorful career.
Miss Tallev sang as she never
sang before" critics said of her
farewell performance. The wildly
enthusiastic audience called her to
the curtain eight times at the end
Of the third act.
Marion told newspaper men after
the opera Saturday she was retir-
ing ito go back to the farm"
Marion. her father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Talley. and
her sister Florence departed Satur-
DAY night for New York
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
Ministers DenounCe Drama
as Immoral, 'DefiIing City
With SIM
CITIZENS FORM JURY
Drama About Japanese Is
About Heathen,' Wall
of Preacher.
Ell HARRY FERGUSON
United Press staF Correspondent

TOMS RIVER, N. j., May g.
Residents of this town resolved
themselves into one vast jury today
TO ponder the problems of whether
fifty boys kissing fifty girls in a high
school play sufficiently was immoral
to deflle the city with sin.
Sidney r. Harris, vice president
Of The school board. is ready to
break a lance in defense of histri-
onlc osculation, while the villages S
three ministers are laundering dis
approval because. among other
things, the play was about Japa-
nese and therefore about heathens. "
said the Rev. Ira E. Hicks, Bap-
tist:
This town is defled with sim
Stoy About "HeathenS'
Said the Rev. George Washington
Hammer, Methodist:
THE play was SC checking I had
to leave in the middle of the per-
formance. There was card playing.
The play had utter disregard for
decency. 1t had sexual appeal
In one scene 100 American boys
and girls come on the stage with
their arms about each other and,
later. they actually kiss.
The story is about Japanese and,
therefore, about heathens. We want
clean, wholesome plays
Said the Rev. Gordon Ham, Pres
byterian:
u believe firmly in the Rev. Mr..
Hammer. His hand should be up
held
Then Harris pointed out that the
play, Miss Cherry Blossom" is
twenty-five years old; that it is an
old favorite among high school
actors; that there lis nothing often
Sive In the production"
He concluded by agreeing to leave
it up to the $500 inhabitants of the
town.
The committee on public morals,
composed of the three clergymen
and laymen, was unappeased.
Drinks Only Tea
They found fresh flaws in the
production, insisting that it ridi-
culed the eighteenth amendment,
glorifled drinking, made fun OF
President Hoover and failed to en-
body uplifting ideas.
Then Fred G.. Bunnell, assistant
stage manager, came out in defense
Of the drinking in the play. The
beverage, he explained, was nothing
but tea.
The orgy of stage kissing was
started by Louis Elverson, II, the
leading man, and Margaret Ander-
son, II. the leading woman.
The play calls for them to meet
in garden along with 100 other
pupils.
Apparently the proper develop
ment Of the plot demands kissing.
When it came time TO kiss, ElVer-
son and Miss Anderson kissed.
Their colleagues, taking up their
cue like seasoned actors, fell to
kissing too, and everybody was
happy. Everybody except the Rev.
Mr. Hammer.
He fled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
Four Villages Are Wiped
Out, Reports From
Capital Say.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
TEFERAN, Persia. May 6.-Ad-
vices received here today said 1000
persons have been killed by earth
quakes in the state of Korassan,
Persia, on the Tursian frontier.
The villages of Kushan, Shiryan,
Kifan and Boiuyan, near the Turk
eatsn border, we're wiped out.
No damage was reported at
Meshed, capital of the state, but
a large flsSure opened there.
Earthquakes were reported in
Turkoman, a region in Turkestan,
last Thursday, when a number Of
casualties and heavy damages oc-
CURED.
Turkoman and Korassan adioin
on opposite sides of the Persian
Turkestan frontier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06

'UnWritten Law Is Ad-
VanCed in Defense of
Texas for Killing.
SHOOTING in OFFICE
Youth Had Taken Advice of
Mother to Reveal His
Marriage.

+ q y Z ViIEQ EVf&E
AMARILLO, Tex May 6,-The
southwest's "unvritten law" which
sometimes allows men to defend
their homes with guns was ad-
vanced today by Judge r H. Ham
ilton to Justify himself for killing
John Walton, 21-year-Old Uni
versitv of Texas student, who had
married the iurist's daughter.
God knows I didn't want to kill
anyone the father said in explain
alton of his act. But this was too
much-it involved my daughter
and I'm certain that the authorities
will sec that l was justified"
Judge Hamilton holds a high
place before the Texas bar. He
once served as commissioner of the
state supreme court and is known
as q prominent and active church,
man.
The shooting, for which he is
now at liberty on bonds of $4,000,
accurred Saturday when young
Walton walked into the jurist's
Office to announce he had married
Hamiltons daughter, Theresa.
Mothers Advice Costs Life,
Walton's own mother had advised
him TO make q, clean breast of the
while thing before Judge Hamilton
advice which cost the boy his life.
Attorneys for the Judge may in
clude in his defense a denial of
knowledge of the marriage,
IF Tom Walton and the Judges
daughter were married. the father
did not know it." Lloyd Fletcher,
attorney for Hamilton, said.
Judge Walton surrendered to au-
thorities with the contention that
he had shot to defend his home"
The daughter only recently had
left q hospital at Austin, seat of
the university and since has been
living with her mother.
The boy had told his mother that
he and the judges daughter we're
wed last Feb. 10, eliminating a ro-
nance at the university in Austin.
The mother advised her son to
go TO Judge Hamilton and bare his
secret. "tIe will understand" she
said.
Jokes With Phone Girl
John walked over to the Judges
Office snd steeled himself to meet
an irate parent
In the outer office suite he paused
jokingly to tell a, telephone operator
that IF she heard any shots she
would know what it's all about"
He entered.
A few moments later shots were
heard
Young Walton died before he
reached the hospital.
Although the judges partner, II.
G. Hendricks, and Miss Florence
Hendricks, secretary, we're in the
suite at the time. they did not wit
ness the shooting in the inner
office.
None could tell whether the boy
had delivered his message.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
POLICE Chief
Gets THREAT
Warned as Result Of Raids
on HaughvilIe.

The police drive on Haughville
blind tigers brought two complain
ing letters. one threatening, to
Police Chief Claude NJ, Worley's
desk today.
IF you don't keep your nose out
of things that don't concern YOU. you
will wake up missing one of these
nights. said one of the letters. writ
ten on brown wrapping paper. This
is not bluff. so YOU had better take
warning before it's too late. You
know what YOU are and have been"
Unsigned. the letter bore the
scrawled pictures OF two reVolyerS
at the bottom. one labelled 80 and
the other As"
The second letter, from which the
signature was torn by the sender,
had appended to it clipping from
Saturdays Times which read:
"Worley said he Was going TO do
the same thing TO Haughville as We
have to the West Washington street
neighborhoo0 between the river and
the business district where for rent
signs hanging on former dives prove
We meant business and did business
in the drive there recently
The letter. Said Hey Claude,
What the hell? How come you crave
to plaster the city with for rent
signs? Too damned many hanging
out now! If YOU were paying taxes
Oh three vacant properties like I am,
you wouldn't be so keen to post for
rent signs. Your friend"
Both letters bore en- Indianapolis
postmark of Sunday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
COFFIN DECLARES WAR ON
DISLOYAL POLITICAL AIDS,
FIRES ; WARD CHAlRMEN

boundaries in the county so as to
increase the number by about fifty,
it was understood.
Their efforts to increase the num-
Der by fifty-three last year we're
abandoned when it was learned the
1927 legislature inadvertently had
repealed that section of the election
laws giving them such authority.
Hutsells efforts to build up a
strong Republican organization in
the county are said to be directed
toward precinct e-committee-
women as we'll as ommitteemen in
view of the 1929 act which gives
women equal voting privileges with
men in all party organizations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
MANAGER SUIT SET
Arguments to Be Heard at
9 A. NJ. Saturday.

Lawyers for Contending parties
in the city manager suit before
Superior Judge william Q. Dunlavy
today agreed upon a. m. Satur-
day for argument upon the petition
for temporary restraining order
Clifford Keane, one of George V.
Coffin's candidates for city coun-
Gilman in the primary which would
have been held Tuesday but for the
city'S having adopted the manager
form of government, is asking for
the order to prevent the city clerk
and others from proceeding with
plans for the city commissioner
election in November.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
NORTH SIDE YOUTHS
CONFESS ROBBERIES
Arrested Sunday After Saturday
Search for Thrills.

Confessions TO the robbery of a
grocery delivery boy and filling
station attendant have been OBJ
tanned. police said today. from two
north side youths who we're ar
rested Sunday.
Walter z. Eichholtz. 10, of 27l0
North Talbot street. and Bernard
6. Miller. %. OF 43 West Twenty
fourth street. are held under $1,000
pending further investigation.
They have admitted. police as
serted. the theft Saturday night OF
two quarts of oil at an Indian Re-
fining Company station. 1929 East
Washington street. where they are
said to have threatened the at
tendant with a pistol, and the theft
of three dressed chickens from Mil
lard Rodgers. 3116 East Washing
ton street. grocer's boy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
KILLS ; TOTS,
Stays Wife IN
HOSPITAL BED
Father Then Turns Gun on
Self and Is in Critical
Condition.
HOME TRAGEDY FIRST
husband Believed Deranged
Over III Health of
His Mate.


PHILADELPHIA. May 6.-After
-hooting and killing his three chill
dren IN their beds at home. Peter
Thomas, IS today vent to the Jew
ish hospital, where his wife vas a
patient, shot and killed her and
then turned the gun on himself.
He is in a critical condition in the
hospital with tTo bullet wounds in
the head.
The dead Mrs. Margaret Thomas.
IS; Catherine. 10; Jacob, 10. and
Helen. 6.
Police could a5cribe no reason for
Thomas act.
When he asked TO see his wife at
The hospital, attendants said he ap-
peared perfectly normal
Granted permission, he went into
his Tife's room. A few seconds later
there was the sound of shots.
When physicians ran into the
room, they found Mrs. Thomas dead
ana hOmaS on the moor, uncOn-
ecious.
When police went 70 the Thomas
home 10 report the hospital tragedy.
they found the three children dead
in bed
The children we're BY Mrs.
Thomas previous marriage. Her
first husband died several years ago
and she remarked about a year ago,
neighbors explained
Police believe that Wor1y over his
Wife'5 health had deranged Thomas
mind. Mrs. Thomas had been in
the hospital for some months.
The Youngest child was killed In
the parlor of the Thomas home and
the other two older children in sec
Onj floor bedrooms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
BUS MERGER HINTED
Negotiations for ,00o,- :
900 Deal Under Way.

BIZ United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6.-Tent-
ative plans for q s35,0O0,000 merger
of the major bus lines in the United
States are being laid, it was learned
here today.
Charles F. Wren, president of the
Pickwick Stages, Inc, admitted ne
gotiations for the merger v-cre under
way, but said that they were too
premature to permit definite an
nouncement.
It is expected the merger will af-
feet the PickWick, YelloWay and
Greyhound lines. Such a consolida-
ton would form a nationwide sys-
TEN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
FAST TIME DOOMED
Council Is Expected to Re-
peal Daylight Saving.

City council tonight is expected
to pass the ordinance repeating use
of daylight saving time in Indian
apolis.
The ordinance putting into effect
daylight saving time last year will
be in conflict with the new state
law which prohibits daylight saving
in Indianapolis. Unless the council
repealS the measure the fast time
will be in effect from the second
Sunday Of May until the promulga-
ton of the new statutes.
Council also win consider an
amendment to the ordinance pro-
viding a s550,000 bond issue for a
new power plant at city hospital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
HUGHES JR, H0N0RED
Chosen Solicitor General of
U. S. by Hoover.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, May 6.-Ap-
point,nent of Charles Evans Hughes
Jr. to be solicitor general of the
United States was announced to-
day at the White House Hughes
son of the former secretary of state
is law partner in his fathers firm
Hughes will I'LL the post left va
cant when William D Mitchell, at
torney- general, was named to the
cabinet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
JAIL ORDER ISSUED
Harry Sinclair May Start
Term tuesday.

BU United Press
WASHINGTON. May 6.-Final
papers ordering Harry F. Sinclair,
millionaire oil operator. to begin
serving in Washington jail his
ninety dag sentence for contempt of
the senate, we're issued today by JUS
tice Hitz in the District of Columbia
supreme court.
Sinclair is expected to start his
term Tuesday or Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
CITIZENS HELD AT BAY
WITH GUN AFTER CRASH
Motorist Escapes, Companion Is
Captured.

An unidentified Negro held citi-
aens at bay with a gun Sunday,
then escaped with a companion tol-
lowing an automobile crash in the
500 block on North Illinois street.
William Duncan. Negro, of 9l5
North Senate avenue. was arrested
later as the companion of the gun
wielder and driver of the automo-
bile. He denied knowing the name
or address of his companion.
The accident occurred when Dun
cans car collided with one driven
by Luther Williams. 1850 Lexington
avenue AS Williams stepped from
his demaged automobile one of the
Negroes drew a gun and threatened
to shoot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
YOUTHS FOUND DEAD
Girl Shot in Back. Young
Man in Chest.
BIZ Tnit.d PrlSs

81 nttf0 FflSS
HOUSTON, Tex. May 6.-A dou-
bic tragedy was revealed today with
the finding of the bodies of pretty
young woman and a Young man
near Aldine, north of here.
The bodies were identified III first
reports as those of Olena Wuensche
of Spring, Tex, and Edward Stone,
81, of WeStfield. Tex. The girl was
shot through the back. the youth
through the chest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
PASTOR RECOMME MENDED
The Rev. Everson, Muncie, Urged
for High Army Post.

BIZ Times Sncciot
WASHINGTON. May 6.-The pas
tor of the First Baptist church of
Muncie, Ind. the Rev. w. G. Ever
son. has been recommended for the
post of chief of the United States
militia bureau, by Senator James E.
Watson.
Mr.. Everson is a brigadier- general
in command of the Seventhy-sixth
brigade, organized reserves. He
served on the Italian front during
the World war, and at one time
commanded the whole American
contingent east of the Adriatic.
Watson made the recommendation
in personal interview with j. w.
Good. secretary Of war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
M'GUFFEYITES TO MEET
Contest on Quotations From Old
Readers Planned.

McGufeyites of indianapolis will
hold a memory contest on quota
tions from poems in the old Nc
Guffey readers.
The person remembering the
names of the most selections in the
contest will receive copy of Mil
tons Paradise Lost" The next
meeting Of the McGuffeyites viii be
at l p. m. Saturday in the Central
library.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
PERKINS GETS SUPPORT
Reappointment to State Industrial
Board Urged.

Indianapolis Typographical I'm
ion No, Sunday Endorsed the work
OF Edgar A. Perkins, former printer,
as a member of the state industrial
board, and recommended that Gov
ernor Harry G. Leslie reappoint him
when his term expires May 25.
Friends of william Mitch. Secre-
tary of District II, United Mine
Workers of America, at Terre
Haute. are boosting him to succeed
Perkins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
1000 KILLED BY
QUAKES IN PERSIA
The Lord Calls

PHILADELPHIA. May 6
Walter Glass, Al, Salvation
Army worker. stood under a
Pickering arc light and told a
group of listeners. Il am ready
Tor the summons of the Lord.
I am ready
He fell to the street dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
MiChaeISon Faces Liquor
Smuggling Charge in Key
West. Fla.

RN Upifcd Press
KEY WEST. Fla. May 6.-TTia.
Of Congressman NJ. Alfred Michael
son Of Chicago on liquor law viola
tion charges will begin Tuesday
Judge Hasted Ritters setting the
date at the opening Of the May
term of federal court today.
The Illinois congressman. indicted
al Jacksonville. Fla, last fall on
charges Of illegal transportation Of
liquor from Cuba. again denied his
guilt in 3 statement made on his
arrival today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
WILD DEPOSITORS TO
EXAMINE BANK H0L DING
Committee Will Be Picked to 60
and View Florida Property.

A committee representing the De-
positors' Protective League of the
J. F. Wild & Co. State Bank will
go to Florida in company with In
dianapolis bankers soon to look over
the properties on which the bank
held mortgages, it was announced
today.
Joseph R. Williams. league attor-
ney. said league member will be
selected by the organization to make
the survey. The bankers group will
represent local banks that hold pa
per OH the properties,
Names of the bankers and the
league representative will be made
public after the date of the trip is
decided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
ROWS ACROSS OCEAN
Crosses Atlantic in Small Boat on
Way to New York.

HAVANA, May 6.-Advices re-
ceived here today said Paul Muller.
a German, who completed q cross
ing of the Atlantic ocean in a small
sail-and-roW boat. left Ciibara.
Sunday for. Havana. He will con-
tinue to New York.
Muller left Hamburg, Germany,
JulY 6, 1923.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
EX- WOMAN EVANGELIST
BADLY HURT IN CRASH
Car CoIlides With Truck; Condition
of Mrs. D. D. Barr Serious.

Car COllloeS WIN Iruck; C0ndt1on
of Mrs. D. D. Barr Serious.
Mrs. Daisy Douglas Barr, former
ly widely known evangelist, wife of
Thomas Barr, 1884 Ashland avenue,
assistant state bank examiner, suf-
fered serious injuries on the legs
and head Saturday when the auto
mobile she was driving collided with
a gravel truck near ScottsYille, Ky.
Mrs. Barr was returning from
Florida when the accident occurred.
Accompanying her was Miss Ruth
Ellen BrushWiller, niece.
The two women were brought TO
indianapolis Sunday by Mr.. Barr
who went to Scottsville when he
heard Of the accident Saturday.
Mrs. Barr is in Methodist hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06

Thomas A inventive Of his Is looking
youths scholastic science
will nominated by Governors and sent to
laboratory subjected the famous Edison
missionaries scholarship will be given to the winner
leading psychologists students Of human ab
Service comment
genius tell they would pick budding Edsons Their
should aid Mr. Edison and
locating exceptional individuals and aordng them
unities first Arnold GeseI of Yale will in The
Times Following this series presidents Of Indanas lead
colleges will their ideas this subject through columns OF
Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
HEADS GIVEN POWER
Right to Employ, Direct Upheld by
Attorney General.

Attorney General.
Department heads Of the school
city have the right to employ and
direct employees of their depart
nentS, subject to school board ap-
provaI, according to an opinion
given today by James M. Ogden,
Indiana attorney general.
The opinion was asked of Law
renee F. Orr, accounts board chief,
by Charles F.. Miller, city school
superintendent. Orr passed the re-
quest on to Ogden.
The request IS believed to date
back several months ago to a dis
pute between Miller and Albert F.
Walsman, former business director,
over the business directors right to
require reports on absence and
working hours Of some employees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
ATTACKS WET PRESS
Indiana Anti Saloon League Head
Speaks at Evansville.


By United Press
EVANSVILLE. Ind. May 6.-E. S.
Shumaker, superintendent Of the
Indiana Anti-Saloon League. con-
tinued his attacks on the wet press"
of the nation in an address before
the leagues annual field day here
Sunday. He charged that the press
was concealing facts about prohibi-
tion'S success.
Dry leaders from eleven states. in
cluding DR.. Frank Jenner, field sec
retary; Frank E. Wright, author of
the Indiana "bone-dry' law. and the
Rev B. ~E. Ewing. former dry ad-
ministrator of Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin, attended the meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
DEATH VERDICT DEBATED
Jury Deliherates Fate of Man
Charged With Love Killing.

5R United Press
NASHVILLE. Tenn. May 6.-The
second jury TO try Walter Liggett on
charges of numbering Turney NJ
Cunningham. hotel manager. with
whose wife the defendant admitted
a six-year old love affair, was eX-
periencing difficulty at a verdict to-
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
STATEH0USE TO CLOSE
Employees Permitted TO Return to
Homes for Election.

Governor Harry G.. Leslie today
ordered the statemause closed all
day Tuesday so state employees resi-
dent elsewhere in Indiana may re-
turn to their homes to vote In
municipal elections.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
VESTRIS cUIZ RESUMED
Overlooking Partly to Blame for
Disaster, Officer SAYS

BIZ pitTd Press
LONDON. May GA combination
of circumstances. including over
loading, caused the sinking of the
liner VestriS. Leslie Watson, second
officer, testified today at resumption
OF the board OF trades inquiry into
the disaster.
Watson. on the stand for re-croSs
examination. denied that an S o S
should have been sent out earlier
than il was