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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-16
Other Thrilling Features in
This Issue

TheTapped Wire Tip-off, Canton's
Death Battle
Life and Death of New York 3
Gambler Rothstein
The Clue of the Sun Glasses, New
Hampshire's Strange Case
Red Riddle of ST. Andrews Place,
CALIFORNIA; great Mystery
Confessions of Mrs. Frank Silsby
Expose of the Black Hand
How to Test Your Detective Ability
Why Detective Stories are Popular,
byMary Roberts Rinehart, famous
authoress
One Thousand Dollar Prizes for
Crime Detection
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-16

YOU gasped in amazement
l. as the sordid but fascinat-
ing romance of the little corset
salesman with the tigerishly
beautiful Ruth Snyder, and
the eerie murder of her Gull
tured husband-was blared in
screaming headlines to a wait
ing world.
And yet-and mark this
despite the millions of words of
publicity given this sensational
case, not one person in a thou
sand knows the FULL TRUTH,
the truth that couldn't be told
at the time.
Why did "a certain man tell the
police that Ruth Snyder was a
''hot mama" and what did he
know of her amatory escapades9
What were the articles in the no
torious ''little black bag that
the erring wife carried to her
clandestine ''love-meetings" at
the Waldorf Hotel? And what
made the calm temptress finally
talk turkey" to 1t. Smith?
These are only a few of the never
told secrets. :.
At the time the papers would
not or could not print all the alb
sorbing details in this strange
saga Of passion run riot! But now
for the first time it is told to you,
in every uncensored episode-the
FULL TRUTH of the Snyder
Gray Murder Case!
Read for yourself this avidly
interesting recital of TRUE
STORIES-as told by the man
who knew everything, the bril-
liant Asst. District Attorney who
tracked down the clues. You'll
find it thrillingly told, startling
ly told-beginning in the great
November issue of TRUE
DETECTIVE MYSTERIES,
now on sale at all news stands.
Don't miss it!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-16
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

TRUE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES
prints only the authentic reports of
actual crimes and the apprehension
of criminals. Every dramatic incident
is told, absolutely uncenSored, but
always holding to facts, and facts
alone. TRUE DETECTIVE MISTER
les is the only detective magazine
which deals exclusively with true
criminal mysteries, and is a con-
vincine moral lesson that CRIME
DOESN'T PAY.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
Slayer of
Too GiUe11
Life Term
BIZ United Press

BN United Press
MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. A jury
filed into the Delaware circuit court
room at 9:05 Wednesday night and
announced it had found James E
S. Wood guilty of numbering George
and Elizabeth Heath and recon-
mended life Imprisonment.
The jury deliberated less than four
hours, and found Wood guilty on the
first ballot. The rest of the time was
spent deciding between the death
sentence and life imprisonment.
Wood betrayed no emotion as the
foreman read the verdict. Silent
and with the dull, indifferent eX-
preston that marked his appearance
throughout the trial, he was lee
from the courtroom.
1t was expected Judge L. A. Guth-
erie will pronounce sentence today
Wood ignored the questions OF
newspaper men with silence.
The defense counsel had laid its
case on the theory that Wood was
insane when he dubbed to death
Mr.. and Mrs. Heath, former employ
erS. It was said the defendant had
been mentally unbalanced since his
return from overseas service during
the World war.
In the verdict, the jury disre-
garded dispositions of Woods neigh
bors and acquaintances, and the re-
port of a commission Of Muncie
doctors. that Wood was mentally
unbalanced.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
TWO RETAIN POSTS
Governor RenameS Moor
man as Prison Trustee.

Reappointment of John L. Moor
man CRep., Knox as trustee of the
Indiana state prison and Sanford
M. Kelton (Rep., Anderson as trus-
tee of Indiana State Normal COL
lege at Terre Haute was announced
today by Governor Harry G. Leslie.
Norman, chairman of the prison
board, has served for sixteen years
under five Governors. At the board
meeting last week he launched
the movement against giving pa
rolled indeterminate sentence men
publicity in the press as an aid to
their return to society.
The Governor also announced the
appointment of Perry Mozart, man
ager of the West Baden Springs
hotel, to succeed to the place of the
late Jerry Mugivan, Peru, on the
Indiana committee to cooperate
with the Chicago Worlds Fair cor.i-
mission. Organization meeting will
be held in the Governors Office at
2 p. m. Thursday.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
CROWDS VIEW
CITY PRODUCTS
Mild Weather Aids Success
of Achievement Week.

Mild temperatures and snow
cleared streets aided in drawing
large crowds to the business district
Monday night and today to view
window displays in the Achievement
Week celebration.
More than 1000 exhibits, featuring
Indianapolis made commodities
provide a visual review of the city's
activities. Displays have been
arranged in outlying business dis
tricts as well as the downtown sec
ton.
The Indianapolis Ministerial AS
sociation Monday adopted resolutions
urging all citizens to acquaint
themselves with the city's activities
during the week. The association
set Feb. 16 as Civic Sunday for the
churches of the city.
Charles E. Watkins. aiding in the
Forward Indianapolis" campaign,
today addressed RotarianS at the
Claypool, declaring the motto of
Rotary demands that all members
aid in the Forward Indianapolis"
and Achievement Week movements.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
APPEAL VERDICT
IN Mine DEATH
Cop -SIayers to Ask Ruling
by Higher Court.

By Scripps- o11Grd Newspaper Alliance
FRANKLIN, Pa, Feb. 1.-Two Of
Pennsylvania ex-coal and iron po-
licemen, found guilty of manslaugh-
ter in beating to death John Bar
coski, a miner, will appeal their
case to the higher courts.
After five days of trial, a jury
of eight men and four women
brought in the verdict. They de-
liberated several hours to reach the
agreement.
The guilty men are Walter j.
Lyster, a former lieutenant of the
private police force of the Pitts
burgh Coal Company, and Harold
P. Watts, private in the same
organization. Frank Slapikis, a
third member of the group of de-
PENDANTS, also a private in the po-
lice force at the time of the crime,
was found not guilty.
Announcement of granting plea
for arrest of judgment, pending a
motion for the new trial, was made
by Judge William B. Parker of We
mango county, as the verdict was
read.
Under the law, the conviction is
involuntary manslaughter, a misde-
meanor punishable in the maximum
by q sentence of two years to a
penal institution selected by the
court. The judge may impose fines
instead of sending the men to
prisons.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
The Gty
in Brief

A collection of old pewter, brass
arj copper, owned by Charles Val
Clear, an art student, will be ex-
hibited in the art and music room
of central public library during Feb
ruary. Two early American rum
bottles, property of Mrs. Arthur
zinkin, also are on display.
A three-h course in higher or
ganic chemistry will be offered stu
dents of Butler university, DR.. Rob-
ert Alley, president, announced to-
DAY. DR.. F. E. Cislak, who came
here recently as research chemist
in the laboratories of the P. c.
Reilly Republic Creosoting Com
pany, will give the course.
Plans for construction of model
home as centerpiece for the real
tors home show at the state fair
ground in April will be made by the
Indianapolis Home Builders Asso-
citation at the Sphinx Arms Wednes-
day night.
Dinner and business meeting will
be the semi-annual event of the In
diana chapter of American Institute
of Architects at $50 Friday night
at Columbia Club.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
PROGRAM RELAYED
Radio Listeners Hear Long
Distance Broadcast.

SCHENECTADY, N. Y, Feb. f.
Radio listeners-in on Station WGY
today heard a program which came
to them after having travelled ap-
proximately 10000 miles, according
to an announcement by c. D. Wag-
oner, General Electric Company Of
fetal. The program was broadcast
from Station 2XAF, the General
Electric Company'S short wave sta
ton.
VK2ME, at Sidney, Australia,
picked it up and broadcast it back
to WGY, which in turn rebroadcaSt
it.
Wagner believes this is the first
time a program has been broadcast
approximately four-ffths around
the world. 1t required only about
one-eighth of a second to traverse
the entire distance, he said.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
ACTOR DEMANDS BRIDE

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4.-Grant
Withers, he-man of the movies, is
going to fight for his bride. The
screen player has filed a demurrer
against the suit of his wife's
mother, Mrs. Gladys Belzer, who is
trying to have the marriage an
nulled because the bride, Loretta
Young, actress, was only II when
the ceremony was performed.
The laws OF this state do not per-
NIT a girl under 18 to marry with
out parental consent.
However, Attorney William Mann,
representing Withers, pointed out
the ceremony was performed in
Arizona.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04

Because it is SO helpful IN keep
ing babies and children healthy and
happy, every mother should know
about Phillips Milk of Magnesia.
This harmless, almost tasteleSs
preparation is most effective in re-
lieving those symptoms of babies
and children generally caused by
souring food in the little digestive
tract, such as sour -belching. fire.
quent vomiting, feverishness, collie.
AS a mild laxative, it acts gently,
but certainly, to open the little bow
els in constipation, colds, children's
diseases.
A teaspoonful of Phillips Milk of
MagneSia does the work. Of half .
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
MASSACRE REPORTED
Mass Killing by Soviet
Police, Charged.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LONDON, Feb. A massacre of
former Russian naval officers, which,
II confirmed, would prove to be the
most sweeping mass execution since
the Red revolution, was reported to-
day by the Daily Mails Riga COR
respondent.
The report, which lacks vertical
ton from other sources, says that
the Soviet secret police have put
to death between 400 and 500 off,
cisls, confined in various prisons,
in the last two weeks.
News of the executions, it was
said, has reached relatives of the
victims at Riga, from Moscow.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
ATTORNEY IS GUARDED

AUBURN, N. Y, Feb. 4.-Police
have been detailed to guard the
home of District Attorney James j.
Hosmer after a telephoned threat
against his life, it became known
today
Hosmer is prosecuting six con-
.victs. charged with murder in con-
nection with the Staying of another
convict during the Auburn prison
uprising of Dec. IL.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
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preventing hard curds. It's many
uses for mother and child are fully
explained in the interesting book,
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sent you FREE. Write The Phillips
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In buying, be sure to get genuine
Phillips Milk of Magnesia. Doctors
have prescribed it for over fifty
years.
Milk of Magnesia" has been the
U. S. Registered Trade Mark Of The
Chas. H. Phillips Chemical Co.. and
its predecessor, Chas. H. Phillips,
since 1875.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
SCHOOL RUMOR DENIED

Denial that Paul C. Stetson, su-
perintendent of schools at Dayton,
O., is being considered more seri-
ously for the post Of schools su-
perintendent here than some twenty
others was made today by Russell
Wilson, school board president.
Stetson's name was canvaSsed
with other possibilities for the posi-
ton here, school board members
said. D. T. Weir has been acting
superintendent of schools here since
the new board took Office Jan. 6.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
HALF OF INOIANA'S
STATE ROADS PAVED
Highway Report Shows 2,670 Miles
Are of DustlesS Type.

hIC vi DuSticSS Iype.
OF the 5,065 miles of road in the
Indiana state road system, 2,67O
miles are dustless types, the state
highway department announced to-
day upon receipt of tabulated re-
port from A H. Hinkle, maintenance
superintendent.
This mileage is exclusive of 1000
miles added to the dotted line" SyS-
tenn recently and which will come
into active maintenance as funds
permit.
OF the 2,67O miles of dustless
types, all are pavement except 218
miles of bituminous retreated top.
OF the 1894 miles of on-duStleSS
types, 780 miles are stone and 1,348
miles gravel surface. There are
forty-eight miles of earth roads in
the system and 173 miles torn up
preparatory to paving At least 500
miles of concrete will be laid in 1880,
commissioners said. During the f1s-
cal year 1929, the department added
40S miles to active maintenance.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
DELAY STOkER MOVE
Council Defers Action on
City Hall Smoke.

City council Monday night de-
layed the ordinance authorizing
stokers for city hall, although a
smoke screen continues to pour from
the city hall smoke stack in viola
ton of the city building code.
The ordinance was prepared by a
former works board and the appro-
priation for Stokers included in the
1880 budget by the former city
council.
The council postponed action on
the only ordinance up for passage,
to confer with the present works
board. 1t was introduced two weeks
ago.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
EMPLOYERS GATHER
200 Make Reservations for
Dinner Tonight.

Two hundred reservations had
been made today for the twenty
sixth annual dinner meeting of the
Associated Employers of Indianapo-
lis, Inc, to be held at the Columbia
Club at $50 tonight.
Constitutional Principles of Gov
ernment" will be the topic of Harry
F. Atwood of Chicago, and Prob
lens of Business Management" will
be discussed by John B. Mailing of
Hammond.
James M. Ogden, attorney-gen-
eral, will preside as toastmaster. At
wood is president of the Consti l.
ton Education Association, Inc, and
Mailing is a retired industrial execu-
tive
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
CITY PHYSICIANS NAMED
Hospital Head Recommends Seven
for Resident Duty.

Seven resident city hospital physi-
clans, for the year beginning July l
were appointed today by the board
of public health. on recommends
ton of DR.. William A. DoepperS
hospital superintendent.
They are: Elwood J. Meredith
Moreland, Ind; Donald j. White
Indianapolis. and D. c.. BernoSke
Michigan City in medicine; l.. Jew
EFT Hord Jr., Shelbyville; Donald H
McKeenan, Ft. Wayne, and James
E. Jones. indianapolis, in surgery
and Louis F. Reiseis, Colorado
Springs, Colo, ear, nose and throat
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04


sets. When we haven't got fiddlers,
We'll use the secondhand player
piano"
Junior, the barbecue-keeper, ex-
planned that Virginia reel or some
variation of the square dance would
be alternated with the fox trot for
customers.
So as the Courts nurse the "sev-
eral thousand" they have left from
the $84750 they won on Trigo, and
as Trigo nuzzles his nose in his
barr in Erin, the black painted
shadow of Trigo on the horseless
Court barn will gallop nightly to
strains from the dance hall of "Tur-
key in the Straw, Hee Haw, Haw. -
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
STATE ROADS CLOSED
Bus and Truck Traffic Is Barred Be-
cause of Thaws,

Thaws brought closing of two
roads to bus and truck traffic today
The state highway department an
nounced state road No. 29 between
state roads 80 and 26 in Boone and
Clinton counties has been closed to
trucks and busseS and that state
road No. 26 from Lafayette to state
road No. % also is closed.
State road No. Sc was opened to-
day for the first time in three weeks
having been closed by the southern
Indiana food. All flooded roads are
now open except No. 81 west of Mt,
Vernon.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
TALK FAIR EXPENDITURE
Agriculture Board VIII Outline I'M
prOvement Program.

Members of the state board of
agriculture will meet at the state
house Thursday and Friday to make
plans for $4,000 building improve
ments to be made at the Indiana
state Playground.
These include a $4,000 addition
TO the agriculture and horticulture
building and a $4,000 addition to
the horse barn.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
THREE WAY RULING
Is GIVEN IN AID SUIT
Mills Firm Gets Fund Division in
National Lumber Case.

Final decree in the Mills Adver-
tising Company'S injunction suit
against the National Retail Lumber
Dealers Association has been hand
ed down by Judge Robert c. Balt-
zell in federal court. BY its pro-
visions. an advertising fund held in
trust by the Peoples State bank
and claimed by both parties is to
be apportioned so $50,095 will go to
the Mills company, S27.l52 to the
association, and the remainder,
s12,12l. to the association to be re-
turned to various subscribers.
The Mills suit. filed in April. al
legged the company had a contract
with the association TO sponsor a
five-year advertising program at a
cost of approximately S4,OO0,000. and
that the association failed to pay
amounts due from the fund.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04

celebration on the
university campus
in Fairview Satur-
day morning.
DR.. Robert j.
Alley, president of
the university, will
act as chairman
of the program.
Dean Thomas Ar
kle Clark of the
University of Illi-
nois will be the
principal speaker
Assistant Profess
sor Corine Well
ing will speak on
Buffers history.
nr uy T Diah
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
CANUCK, SHOT IN
BORDER AFFRAY,
GOING CUNNING
Sounds Warning to u. S.
Agents Who, He. Claims,
Wounded Him.

WINDSOR. Ont, Feb. ARMED
United States officers who cross
the international border in search
of rum runners. henceforth will
be arrested by Canadian authori-
ties, District Inspector Sidney
Oliver of the Ontario provincial
police announced today.
The announcement came a few
hours after Inspector oliver ar
rived here to investigate the
shooting Monday of Arthur La
framboise. a Canadian. by men
whom he claims we're American
border agents.
BIZ United Press
WINDSOR, Ontario, Feb. Ar
thur (MuskraD LaframboiSe, shot
by mysterious gunmen whom he
claims were American border agents
acting in Canadian territory, is
going cunning" for his assailants
as soon as he gets out of the hos
pital, he said today.
I'm going to get my friends TO-
gether and if we find those fellows
snooping on this side of the border
again it'll be too bad
LamframboiSe was rec 7Vsrlng
from his wound today, the second
escape from death since he started
out Sunday night to help friend
drag a load of liquor out on the Ice
of the Detroit river.
Followed Custom
''Muskrat' claims he never crossed
the international border line, but
followed the usual practice of taking
the liquor part way to be picked
up by American rum runners who
crossed the line.
Near the boundary line, the ice
cracked and Lafromboise heard the
water swish over the top of his
sedan as it sank. He smashed the
windshield, fifteen feet under water
and managed to come up at the
same hole in the ice the car went
through.
COllapseS Over Wheel
Friends hardly had pulled him
from the icy water when they saw a
Group of men running toward
them. The group scattered. La
framboise climbing into one OF the
automobiles nearby on the ice and
starting to drive away.
A rattle of revolver shots came
from the group and he collapsed
over the wheel. The car careened
on across the ice and the shooters
gave up the chase.
United States customs border pa
troll headquarters here has had no
report of a shooting by agents and
officials insist Muskrat probably was
shot by hijackers.
Colonel S. c. Robinson and j.
Eccles Gott, members of the Cana
dian parliament, announced their
intention of demanding that the
Canadian government investigate.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
FILE COURT ACTION
TO CONTEST WILL
Relatives of George Mas Seek to
Set Aside Document,

Relatives of George Mas Seek to
Set Aside Document.
Suit contesting legality of the will
of George Johann Mas, Indian
apoliS resident who died last fall,
was filed Monday in probate court by
three nephewS and niece.
Defendants are nine persons who
are beneficiaries under the will, and
two executors of the estate, value of
which was given as 100000.
Petition seeks to have the will set
aside on the ground that Mr.. Mas
was of unsound mind when the
document was drawn and contends
plaintiffs are entitled to share N
the estate. Petitioners reside in
Marion county.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04

with E. J. Black,
educational author
as principal. Black
has had twenty
five years expert
ence as principal
of high schools and
superintendent of
county schools.
On the faculty
are the following
chosen from the
stats of Indian
apolis high schools:
A. r. Stacey, chem
iStry; G. S. Flick.
history and Eng
liSh. J. p DOnnellV
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04
CITY SANITARY BODY
PETITIONS 100000
Sum Asked of Council Intended for
Sewer Improvements.

Appropriation of 100000 of 1925
$166O00 unappropriated balance was
asked of city council today by the
city sanitary commission, to enable
the board to make several sewer i'm
provementS.
Adequate pumps at the Meridian
street and WeStf1eld boulevard
pumping station, repair of the Fifty
eighth and Sixty-first streets sewers,
to stop infiltration of 100000 gal
Ions of water daily, and creation of
stream pollution crew are included
in the program, according to B. j. T.
Jeup, president.
Pogue'S Run, north of New York
street, will be excavated to abate
nuisance to that vicinity. Jeup
said.
The stream pollution crew will be
headed by an engineer with an an
nual salary of $4,000.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-02-04

Weather conditions in the air at
$3.50 a. m:
East wind, 10 miles an hour:
barometric pressure. 29.79 at sea
level: temperature. 40; ceiling. 1900
feet; visibility, three-quarterS mile;
field. muddy.