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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18
MANIAC SHOOTS
z; HIS COAL IA
MORE MURDERS
Announces Plans in Note to
Paper; Victims Escorts
of Pretty Girls.
BV United Press

NEW YORK, June 19.-The en-
tire strength of the metropolitan
police was called upon today to
find maniac who considers it a
moral obligation to kill fourteen
people, in addition to two men al
ready murdered.
He has threatened, in a letter to
a newspaper, to strike again to-
night at College Point, unless he
RECEIVERS some important papers"
Noel Sowley, a 26-year-old radio
salesman, who was shot to death as
he sat in ain automobile with a
girl, is the latest victim of the man
who refers to himself as "3X, the
man behind the gun"
Sowley's body was discovered
Tuesday in Sparsely settled sec
ton of Queens.
On the lap of the dead man was
newspaper clipping describing the
killing of Joseph Moynski, whose
body was found a week ago in a
parked automobile in Whitestone,
Queens.
Pencils Grim Toast
| the murderer of Sowley had
penciled this grim toast on the mar
gin Of the clipping:
Here's how"
All the clements that go to make
up detective fiction were present in
the murders that were so singular
ly similar.
Besides the missing papers" and
the coded letters to the New Ys1k
Journal, two beautiful girls are in
volyed.
They are Miss Catherine May and
Miss Elizabeth Ring The former
was in Moyznski's car when he was
killed and the latter was Sowley's
companion.
Detectives surmised the maniac
also considered himself as an
avenging force whose duty it was
to kill the escorts of young women
whenever he found a couple in a
parked automobile.
Credit Story Now
For the first time since Miss May
was arrested as a material witness
and held in $4,000. bail, detectives
place some credence today in her
story of a fantastic man Who shot
down her escort.
/
at the Jamaica police station was
similar in almost every respect to
that related by Miss May.
Neither could furnish an adequate
description of the killer.
In both cases he had been ex-
tremely polite to the girls and even
escorted Miss Ring to bus station
and told her to have no fear.
Both girls were hysterical after
the killings and could not calm
themselves sufficiently to recall what
the maniac looked like.
Miss Ring said she and Sowley
were sitting in the automobile when
/ they saw shadow behind the car.
Suddenly a man appeared on the
left side of the machine, calmly
opened the door and fired twice at
Sowley.
The maniac stood silently for a
moment until he was sure Sowley
was dead
Got Some Dose"
Then, according to MISS Ring, he
leaned over the body and whiS-
pered: Now. you've got the same
dose as the other fellow
Police interpreted that as referring
to Moyznski. Miss Ring told how
the man went rapidly through Sow
ley's pockets, seized a slip of paper
and cried:
."I have it"
He then tossed the newspaper
clipping into the dead mans lap
and escorted Miss Ring to the bus
station.
today ordered all police leaves SuS-
pended, including those of high Of
f1cials, and has put a patrol about
the neighborhood where Sowley was
| killed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, June 1S-Stock
tickers were jamme dtoday-operat-
ing more than an hour behind-as
the market moved at 100000
share per day rate with prices col
lapSing.
The market met the best support
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18

gathered up Louise, whose leg was
bruised by the rough edges of the
pipe.
Today the casing is plugged with
brick to prevent a repetition of
the accident.
The McNIichael girl is looked upon
as little mother" by the neighbor-
hood.
I'D trust her to take care of my
children any time" Mrs. Cook de-
cl2Tes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18

The girl, former employe of
Schroeder's radiator business, who
admitted soon after his disappear
ance, IT love Harold" was ques-
toned by officials of the state fire
marshal's Office and claimed she
went to New Orleans to visit a man.
State authorities believe she
knows something of Schroeder's
whereabouts. She declared after
Schroeder's disappearance that he
had urged her to disappear with
him. sr.v--
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18
FRIGHT SHOCK FATAL
Bank Messenger. in. HOIdup Dies
Following Collapse.

UElVW IAIH NVI1EI ~
BIZ I7lrtted Press
PITTSBURGH. June 1S.-Frank
B. Stauff, 37-year-old bank mes
senger, who collapsed after he was
held UP and robbed. was dead today,
a victim Of fright and shock, while
police renewed their search for one
Of the two bandits who perpetrated
the robbery.
Stauff was robbed Of more than
$1,000 by two men last Monday. He
collapsed in Central police station
after identifying suspect as one OF
the men who held him up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18
Milk BootIeggers Fought

By Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, June 10
City health officials here are en-
gagged in a campaign against milk
bootleggers, persons selling milk in
violation of an ordinance on the
subject. There is a penalty of a
$50 fine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18
INDICT BANK MANAGER
Cleveland Man Charged With EN-
bezzl.ng $1,000, Playing Stocks.

BIZ United Press
CLEVELAND, June 18-Whit-
more L. Pinder, 81. former man
ager Of branch of the Cleveland
Trust Company, was indicted today
on charges of embezzling $4,000
from the bank.
Police claim that Pinder has adj
mitted he took more than 100000
of the banks funds to cover stock
market losses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18
Movie Star Greeted
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
COLUMBUS, Ind, June 18.-Ken
Maynard, movie star, on visit here
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Maynard, was rendered a well
come when he arrived at the local
airport during the visit of the sec
ond annual Indiana air tour squad
ron
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18

Mobile was the second since
Schroeder disappeared.
r. A. MacMahon, foreman Of the
radiator shop. vas questioned by
authorities today regarding possible
gangster connections of Schroeder
after Mrs. Leah Schroeder. his wife,
told friends she feared her husband
was held captive by racketeers.
MacMahon gave officials no infor-
nation Of value, police declared.
, Miss Gene Gibson, 25, restaurant
itress. was .estioned again to-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18
Can Command Strength
Reported Seized

n, Ind. June "a
connscated thirteen pints OF
rye whisky and a vet of home brew
in a raid at the residence Of Roy
Alwine. He was arrested and
charged with violating the liquor
Law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18

whose foot
o the easily under ChOe's guidance.
police officers and nghbors worked francay to free
w and Mrs Charles Cook, 130
the valve which her foot
caught little mother" of the neigh
borhood
at play CHLOE daughter of Mr. and Mrs Homer Mcchae
succeeded where other had failed because
needed her play mother than she did her real mother
half Tuesday night two policemen and neigh
which
child workers had
the free
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18
PLAN LYNHURST BANK
State Board Orders Investigation Of
Pending Project.

Investigation Of proposed plan
to organize private bank at Lyn-
hurst vas authorized by the state
artsr board, Luther F. Symons,
aki commissioner, an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18
Morrow Strong Figure
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER,
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, June ia new
national political figure rose. up on
the horizon today when Dwight w.
Morrow won the New Jersey Repub-
lican senatorial primary by an over
whelming plurality exceeding 200,-
900 on the chief issue of repeating
the prohibition amendment.
Political Washington saw two
points of national political import
ance in Morrow's sweeping victory.
First Morrow, by his personal
prestige Sand ability, conceded on
every side, becomes the national
leader of the movement for repeal
of the eighteenth amendment and
return to the states of control Of the
liquor traffic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-18
Presidential Possibility

Second, the possibility that Nor
row, with many points of available
ity in his favor, may become a Re-
publican presidential possibility
should the question of replacing
President Hoover for a second term
arise.
Until now the anti prohibition
movement has been largely in the
hands of extremists. some of them
with little political acumen and none
pos sessing any strong popular back
ing such as Morrow has commands
ed in New Jersey.
Morrow, like Mr.. Hoover, has been
in business most of his life, and
this was his first campaign for pub
lie Office Until three years ago he
was a partner of j. P. Morgan.
Like Mr.. Hoover, Morrow repre-
sents the new type Of public man,
a product of the modern business
world rather than the ward school
Of politics.
Can Command Strength
He could command the support
Of an influential element in BUSH
ness circles. and large proportion
Of those opposed to prohibition,
combination that would make him
a strong candidate in the large
eastern states once Mr.. Hoover was
eliminated.
The President has been unable to
command enthusiastic support
within the Republican organiza-
ton, factor which would weaken
him in any fight for denomination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-19

One does not need to succumb to any
silly alarm that American institutions
are about to be overthrown by the
Soviet system Of disagreement. or
even that our institutions are remotely
in danger of being undermined. But
any American who takes his mind of
OF money, movies and motors long
enough to think about such things
ought to realize that Communism is
stealthily and sleeplessly at work in
this country; that it is playing for the
long haul, and that it is aiming partic-
ularly at the younger generation, with
its contempt for ancient shibboleths
and standards.
Every American boy and girl in whom
can be inculcated the doctrine of to
with-the-A merican-flag" becomes
an agent for the accomplishment of
Communism's eventual purpose in the
United States. 1t is wholesome thing
that a rural magistrate has had the
courage and the homespun common
sense to hit this thing when he meets
it, and, in Lincoln's words, hit it hard"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-19
Mechanical Theaters.

The impending fight between the
theaters and the theater musicians
concerns the matter of wages and wage
contracts. The theater-going public,
and It's preferences in music, whether it
likes to watch, as well as hear, an
orchestra play, or is willing to have
canned music, blared at it from a
record has nothing to do with the case.
The musicians have held the whip
hand over the theater owners for some
time. But q machine age has reversed
the tables, the theater owners ap-
parently have the musicians cornered
and the public will take what the
theaters offer or leave it alone, while
the fight goes merrily along.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that there
will be an amicable settlement of the
dispute, and that, after 1t Is over, one
will still be able to find an orchestra
in a theater-an orchestra that does
not blare forth its so-called music from
a mechanical apparatus concealed by
artificial flowers.
So mechanical already are the NOV
ing picture houses that the ushers are
beginning to be regarded as curiosities
They at least appear to be human. But
some day there will be an inevitable
reaction. Some enterprising theater
magnate will hire piano player. Men,
women and children will rush to see
a human being "in person" and the next
step will be for still more enterprising
magnate to engage violinist, and from
such beginnings great things will grow.
Millions will stampede the theater that
offers the spectacle of a living orchestra,
directed by a man of flesh and blood
instead of an automaton. Other
theaters will follow suit and the day OF
the musician will have dawned again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-19
Country Continues to Marvel
At S pread of Little Golf Fad

The country continues to marvel at
the speed with which its newest fad,
miniature golf, has won public favor.
This sport first made its appearance in
California in 1928, and in the brief
space of two years it has grown to be
one of the successful amusement VEN
lures of the country. According to the
combined claims of this novel games
proponents and opponents, it is in
huencing all phases of American life.
1t creates new industry, helps old in
dustries, relieves unemployment and
entertains both the unemployed and
employed, increases interest in golf and
removes tin cans from vacant lots. It
also creates bedlam centers in residen-
tial areas, which doesn't appear to be
a point In its favor.
The effect of Tom Thumb or minia-
ture golf on the original game has at
tracted considerable attention. That
the Tom Thumb golf courses are turn
ing out recruits for the larger courses
in vast numbers is indicated in the exc
panding field of the latter" according
to the Charlotte Observer The crowd
ing of the courses has created a new
demand for night illumination for
them. The Ithaca Journal-News de-
clares that might base ball is still an
experiment of dubious merit, but con-
corning night golf, which has already
been launched on at least one golf
course, there can be only the heartieSt
enthusiasm from all serious followers of
the game" The Dayton Daily News,
referring to a trial of lighting at
Kansas City, feels that lit remains to
be seen how the experiment will work
out, Proof of its feasibility will be all
the rest of the country needs to fol-
low suit"
The New York Sun suggests rlu-
minated golf balls, and remarks: What
golfer is there who has read in the
Aeneid of the shining arrow of Acestes
without profound regret that the pious
Aeneas was so dumb he didn't learn
the trick of what made it shine?"
Whatever the system employed, the
New York World states that, ION the
whole, it seems to us that an excellent
thing has been started here, one that
the electric light companies ought to
encourage"
The only condemnation of miniature
golf has come because of its effect on
the communities in which the courses
are situated. The Harrisburg Patriot
tells us that residents object to the
noise, the glare of lights, the clutter of
automobiles and other features" which
is an ampliflcation of the view of the
Buffalo News that, operated without
restrictions in residential districts, these
play places may become a nuisance"
However, the Baltimore Sun, in discus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-19
A Crisis in Books.

The times are out Of joint in the
book industry AS in some of the lesser
arts of trade, the merger is being in
voked by publishing houses as means
of salvation. Now the National AS
ISOLATION of Book Publish and allied
organizations have takec ieaf out OF
Herbert Hooyer's lexicon and decided
upon a comprehensive fact-1inding sur
vey TO find out what's wrong in the
realm of reading. A Observation-Disclosures
man, Orion H. Cheney of New York, is
to have charge of the investigation.
His assigned task is to determine "the
most effective means for the widest
possible distribution of books"
Meantime a variety of causes is adj
vanced for the slump in sales The
general business depression is the
readiest explanation. Radio, the movie
and automohiling long have been ear
marked as natural enemies OF the
once more popular pastiIne Of reflective
reading, In more recent times, the adj
vent of the low-priced novel has en-
tered into the picture as another dis
turbing factor. at least as far as old
time standard-priced So, "a and 81
books are concerned. 1t is. Significant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-19

that the officers of the publishers as
ISOLATION which plans the impending
survey are all representatives of firms
that characterized as suicidal the pro-
gram of five concerns for selling novels
at fifty cents and dollar through mass
production and radical merchandising
methods.
-Four publishing houses which are
after the dollar book" trade acknowl-
edge that their venture is still an ex-
pertinent. They think it may take a
year to demonstrate its financial FEAST
bility, or otherwise. While they are
waiting to see, their attention is not
likely to be diverted from the fact that
one of their neighbors, who has not
been stampeded into the dollar book"
field, is Illustrating in a seasons best
seller, which retails for $3.75. A ro-
mantle autobiography, it has gone into
Midsummer nineteenth edition. Its
success seems to indicate that there is
still market for good books at good
prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-19
A Good Example.

Justice Of the Peace Westbrook of
Van Etten, N. Y, has rendered sig
nal service 10 the cause of patriotism
in an age when a changing sense OF
values" is causing that finest of ma
tional virtues to be practiced little
casually. He has just sent to jail Tor
FIVE months each a couple of girls,
aged, respectively, twenty-three and
twenty, for insulting the American nag
They were fined and given imprtson-
ment as the result of reliable evidence
that they calculated TO he'll with the
American flag and the American Gov
ernment!" when they refused to &C
cept a flag for the Workers Interna-
tional Relief Camp of which they are
directors. The camp was flying q red
flag. The young women declined TO
hoist the Stars and Stripes because
they regard 1t the emblem Of the
capitaIistic bosses" This is the par
rot language of Communism. 1t is
such doctrine that is being taught at
the camps now maintained in different
parts Of the country for the educa-
ton OF American youth in the Com
munistic creed.
Our advanced" group Of liberals, ="
who think loyalty TO the flag Is old
fogylsh in this "forward-locking' era,
may be depended upon to berate the
upstate New York justice of the peace,
They are sure TO hurl their most
precious shafts of irony at his obsolete
notions OF the symbolism of Old Glory,
hopelessly out of keeping, as they are,
with the ideals of Greenwich Village
and Union Square. But there are mil
/ lions Of old-fashioned Americans who
would like to clap the country justice
of the pea"e on the back and say well
donei" He has struck a blow for the
kind Of patriotism they grew up on
and which. in their stolid way, they
would like TO see perpetuated.
1t is the dearest hope OF the ThirC
Internationale 10 substitute the "Ret
! Marseillaise" for THE Star Spangle,
Banner" and the blood color of Com
munism for the Red, White and Blue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-19
Birth of a New Industry.

One of Henry Ford's panaceas for
business depression is new industrial
leaders" who will find out what the
people need and give it to them cheaply
-bathtubs, for instance. Bathtubs, as
some one has pointed out, would probably
be glut on the market by the time
one of the new industrial leaders began
applying quantity production methods
and making them cheap, because the
modern trend is toward the shower
bath, Besides, it is not the bathtub
that costs so much, but the plumber
who installs it, the water to fill it. the
gas to heat the water AID a house to
put the bathtub in.
Discovery of what the people want
and need is probably due more to &C
cident than to the high-powered brains
of new industrial leaders who can sit
down and figure it out with pencil and
paper. 1t would be interesting, in that
connection, to trace the history of the
discovery and commercialization Of
carbon dioxide as the concentrated es-
sence of frigidity" that we are now be-
ginning to know. Chemists obviously
knew long ago that the solidified gas
possessed a temperature of ITO degrees
below zero, and somebody may have
figured that one pound of solid carbon
dioxide could do the work Of sixteen
pounds Of ice. But what man of vision
decided to wrap ice cream in q tiny
layer Of frozen carbon dioxide and de-
liver 1t in neat packages to homes so
that it would keep for hours, hard as
brick? Who was the genius who
looked ahead to the time when the
bulky freezer" from the confectioner,
containing a hundred times as much
ice and salt as ice cream, would be as
out of date as herdic cab? And who
was the man who knew that within the
space of year or so q new industry
would be required to supply the demand
for frozen carbon dioxide; that one
company alone would increase its pro-
duction within twelve months by IT'S
per cent; that factories to make the
product would spring up all over the
United States; that the oil fields Of
Mexico would be called upon to aug
ment the domestic supply; that chem
lists are saving the gas as a by-product
of industrial alcohol and refineries are
cracking oil to obtain more of it.
because it now sells for 500 ton?
Solid carbon dioxide, demand for
which already exceeds the supply, &C.
cording to the Department Of Com
merce, will probably reduce the cost
of preserving vegetables in transconti-
mental shipment by as much as SO per
cent. The meat packing industry and
the fish industry and vegetable associa-
tions are trying to get more of their
products to more places in shorter
time and in better condition. Solid
carbon dioxide may eventually scrap
present methods of refrigerating prod
uce in shipment and lead to entirely
new outlets.
One wonders, however, whether an
industrial leader planned all this, or
whether there Is not a hard-working
chemists clerk somewhere trying TO
collect on the idea he proposed. And,
what is still more important, whether
an industrial leader will point the way
to giving new jobs to those who will
lose their old ones, because solid car
bon dioxide has left them with nothing
| to do.