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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
DOHENY TRIAL
FOR OIL BRIDE
NEARING CLOSE
Aged Millionaire Is Called
'Bribe Giver,' Patriot
in Arguments.
JURY GETS CASE SOON
Target of Bitter Sarcasm
During Review of
Fall Loan

" WASHINGTON, March 2O.-Ed-
ward L. Doheny was described
diversely today as a "scheming glVer
of brides" and as a patriot whose
innocent loan to an old friend has
been made the subject OF unjust
suspicion" in final arguments be-
fore the jury in the California mil
uonaire's bribery trial.
Frank J. Hogan, brilliant defense
attorney, began his argument AFTER
A speech of more than two hours IN
which Atlee Pomerene, former sem
ator from Ohio, had assalled the
aged defendant with biting sarcasm.
The jury is expected to begin late
today or Friday the task OF decld-
ing whether Doheny gave Former
Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall
a 100000 bride in return for rich
government oil leases.
Pomerene, denouncing the aged
California millionaire as giver OF
brides, reviewed the history OF Une
oil cases and the governments allie
cations that Doheny in 1921 gave
Fall 100000 to influence his award
of Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases
to the defendants companies.
Before the jury was called in to
listen to the closing arguments,
owen ]. Roberts for the prosecution
and Hogan for the defense con-
cluded their debate over matters to
be included in the charge of Justice
William Hitz to the jurors.
Hogan argued that if the jury
concluded the 100000 was a loan,
it should follow that there was no
intent % bride. On compromise,
it was agreed to instruct the jury
that evidence OF the loan was not
necessarily conclusive OF innocent
intent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
Gun WOMAN
SCORES POINT
Wins Right to Attempt to
Prove Insanity.

BIZ United Press
Irene Schroeder was recalled to the
witness stand to prove herself in
sane after defense attorneys scored
victory over the prosecution in the
tenth day of her trial on a charge
of murder in connection with the
Staying of Corporal Brady Paul last
Dec. 81.
The defense triumph came when
Judge r. L. Hildebrand ruled that
evidence may be introduced to prove
Mrs. Schroeder's life was controlled
by irresistible impulses to rob, steal
and fee"
If this narrow form of insanity
defense is successful, it means the
gun girl was at the scene Of the
Paul killing and legally, but not
mentally, responsible for the Butler
chain store robbery which preceded
the fatal shooting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
SUITS ASSERT
BANKER Slain
At sullivan
Insurance Claimants Deny
Edgar D. Maple Died
by Own Hand.
SHELBURN CASE HEARD
Former Cashier Being Tried
on Charge of
ENLIGHTENMENT.

The federal court at Terre Haute
and circuit court at Sullivan are
the -~7res of two aftermaths OF
banking troubles in Sullivan county.
On the federal court docket are
three suits seeking to collect on
insurance policie- carried by Edgar
D Maple. found fatally shot in the
building of the Peoples National
Bank and Trust Company at Sull1-
van. He was the company's trust
officer.
Two of the suits are by the bank
er's widow, Mrs. Joy D. Maple, and
the other by the Peoples company,
and the now defunct National bank
of Sullivan.
Insurance companies are resisting
payment on the ground that Maple
killed himself. The plaintiffs rely
on finding by w. H. McGrew, Sui
Ivan county coroner, he was muir
dered.
Maple was found dead following
closing or the tlTSC OCdCe pdIlh VI
Shelburn, whose president, Jessup
F. Bolinger, is serving two to four
teen year prison term for forgery.
Notes of the Shelburn bank were
held by Naples bank.
In the circuit court at Sullivan,
Richard Kirk, former cashier OF the
Shelburn bank, is on trial charged
with bankers ENLIGHTENMENT. 1t is
alleged he accepted a deposit by
German & Miller, Shelburn con-
tracing firm, at tine when he
knew the bank was insolvent.
Bolinger has been returned to
Sullivan from the prison at Michi-
gan City to be a witness in the case.
Attorneys George Humphreys OF
Greene county is special judge in
the trial.
Many residents of Shelburn are
the proceedings and at
times have become SO noisy that
Judge Humphreys threatened to
clear the room. Most of them ap-
parently are in sympathy with Kirk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
INDIANA DRyS
ADOPT PLANkS
Penalty for Liquor Buyer,
Party Objective.

Declaring that the two dominant
political parties are divided inter-
nally on prohibition, nine members
of the Prohibition party of Indiana
today adopted a platform at their
state convention in the English, de-
termined ito eradicate the liquor
traffic"
Enactment of laws that would
make the buyer of intoxicating
liquors equally liable with the ma
ker and seller are advocated in the
platform framed by the nine.
With few exceptions the platform
planks submitted to the convention
by a committee headed by B. L.
Allen of Indianapolis, state chair
man of the Prohibition party, were
accepted.
The party platform favors cleo
ton reforms, old age pensions, COM
pulsory reading of the Bible In
public schools and economy in adj
nlinistration of governmental offices
A plank stating the party opposes
calling of a constitutional conven-
ton of Indiana was adopted unani-
muosly.
An amendment calling for law
providing free text books for school
pupils was voted down.
Allen served as temporary chair
man for the convention and Miss
Hogan Richardson of Richmond as
secretary.
Candidates to head the party
ticket in the next general election
we're to be selected this afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
CITY ACTS TO END
STREAM POLLUTION

Steps to eliminate pollutions Of
streams in and near indianapolis
were begun today, when the city
sanitary board issued an order to
the Citizens Gas Company to stop
the flow Of tar product from the
Langsdale and Prospect street
plants by June /.
officials of the gas company were
ordered to appear before the board
at hearing next Thursday, when
a report on the pollution will be
made by G. G. Calvert, city santa
ton chemist.
Repeated warnings have been
issued to the utility, but its efforts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
Commencement in Issue

By Times Specidt ~
ANDERSON, Ind, March 90
Whether formal commencement ex-
ercises will be dispensed with this
wear in Anderson senior high school
will be decided by graduates. City
school trustees voted to discontinue
the usual program with a speaker,
resulting in complaint from some
seniors. Members of the class will
vote on the question, the board hav-
ing decided to abide by their deci-
sion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20

Second report of The Literary
Digest's prohibition poll, to be an
nounced in Fridays issue, will show
that of 29,468 ballots returned from
Indiana, 1885 favor enforcement of
the prohibition amendment, 8,842
favor modification and 8,271 adj
vocate repeal.
The combined vote from Indiana
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20

assessing a delinquent fee, the asses
Sor said.
Coincident with the survey costing
the county less than $1,000 addi-
tional miscellaneous property of an
assessed valuation of 1851 $40 has
been located. Revenue on this
amounts to S15,617, Brattain said.
Under the probe system inaugu-
rated by Brattain for the first time
in Marion county, check will be
available on every auto owner who
fails to list his car for future tax
alton. Hereafter delinquency charges
will be levied. he indicated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
TWO HURT AS AUTO IS
FORCED FROM ROAD
City Men Recovering From Injuries
Received in Accident.

w. D. Keenan,, 327 Laynan ave
nue., and Earl w. Kiger, presiderN
of Kiger 81 Co., today we're recover
ing from injuries received Wednes-
day night when the auto in which
they we're riding hurled ditch
near Greencastle.
keenan,, advertising director Of
the Star, and Kiger were accom-
panying M. L Miller, state manager
of the La Sale Extension university
and Lester c. Nagley, Indianapolis
Kiwanis Club secret ~, to a divi-
sional Kiwanis Cluo meeting at
Greencastle.
Miller, who was driving, said he
was forced from the road when an
other car crowded his auto. He and
Nagley we're uninjured.
keenan, was taken to the Meth
odist hospital suffering from frac-
tured knee and cuts and Kiger was
taken to his home, suffering from
cuts and bruises.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20

ton. It is believed to have been
present when the singer was slain.
SO the Gou- arinho family,
reading DR.. Cardoso's history and
listening to the parrots cries of
Help! Help! MacBreck!" believe
they have solved the mystery.
the night of the murder.
MacBreck is known to have been
a later caller at Arletti's home on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
HOLD CITY MEN IN JAIL
Clinton Authorities AlIege Local
Persons Are Hi-Jackers.

b. ItnitS NUtTfIf
CLINTON. Ind, March 20.-Three
indianapolis men were under arrest
here today. under $1,000 bonds each,
on vagrancy charges, after they are
alleged to have hi-jacked two auto
loads of bootleggers in this vicinity
Wednesday night.
They gave their names as Theo-
dore GeiSking, %, Of 1923 Central
avenue; George Evans. "a. of 104O
North Delaware street. and Law
renee Hyatt. Is, of 1862 South Bel
mont avenue.
The men pleaded not guilty and
will be tried Friday morning in city
court. Police said they found a
loaded rifle in their possession.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
BY DAN THOMAS
NEA Service Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 20.
4 L Mary Aston is carrying on.
For months, during which she
had no work, Mary's spirits were
kept buoyed up by her husband,
Kenneth Hawks, prominent film
director.
Hawks had faith in his actress
wife. He knew that all she needed
was break and she would attain
even higher success in the talkies
than she had in silent pictures.
He instilled this faith and con-
fdence in Mary and she kept hop
ing for the break he knew would
come.
THEN came that fateful plane
M crash early in January that
sent Hawks and nine other studio
workers to their deaths.
That was when Fate stepped in
with all her irony. Hawks body
scarcely had been recovered from
the blue Pacific when Mary started
getting offers of jobs.
She didn't want to work-she
didn't want to do anything. But
she thought of Ken, his faith and
his hopes for her and decided to
carry on-for him.
u
THIRST the authenticated &C
Il tress went to Paramount to
play opposite George Bancroft in
Ladies Love Brutes."
Then she moved over to the
RKO lot and played the leading
feminine role in Cooking Her
Goose"
And she is moving back to
Paramount again in week or so
to appear with Gary Cooper in his
next film, as yet untitled. After
that she will make three more
pictures on that lot.
RKO wants her for two more
films. And First National is seek
ing her services for one or two
productions.
81
A LII of that, when her only
N reason for working are be-
cause she knows Ken would want
her to and so that she won't have
time to grieve. Mary doesn't like
to talk about Ken, preferring to
think of him when she is by her
self. She has taken good many
blows on the chin since coming
into this business and she believes
she can take few more without
Spilling her SORROWS to the world,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
AUTO TAX DODGERS
MUST PAY COUNTY

Five thousand taxpayers who
failed TO list automobiles for taxa
ton in 1929 have been called to &C
count and will be forced to pay adj
ditional taxes totaling $3.50,
Frank J. Brattain, Center township
assessor, announced today.
Recovery OF taxes on that number
of autos reached after probe of
eight months, represents total
assessed valuation of S1,S65,190,
Brattain said.
Notices have been forwarded to
owners of unlisted cars, demanding
payment of taxes. although not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20

ousy entered into the relation
ship, and one morning the opera
singer was found dead, with
sword thrusts across her body.
An ancestor Of the Gouvarinho
family purchased Arletti's belong
ings, including the parrot. The
parrot has been handed down,
OUTLYING generation after genera
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
LAUDS SCOUT TRAINING
Criminal Court Figures Are Cited
in Talk by Judge Collins.

Advocating Boy Scout training for
all youths, Criminal Judge James A.
Collins spoke Wednesday at a COM
mittee conference Of the indiana
apolis district Of the Boy Scouts Of
America in the Lincoln.
He declared that Of 10000 boys
between the ages Of 16 and 81, who
have been tried by him in court
only two were Scouts
This has awakened me to the
value of scouting" Judge Collins
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
HOLD RITES SATURDAY
FOR SCHOOL TEACHER
Miss Evelyn West Instructor Here
for IS Years.

Last rites for Miss Evelyn r.
West, 60, teacher in indianapolis
public schools for thirty-five years,
who died at her home, 1868 West
Thirty-first street, Wednesday, will
be held a THE home at p. m. Sat-
urday. Burial will be In Crown Hill
cemetery.
Funeral services will be attended
.1y immediate friends of the family
only. Miss West was teacher in
Mckinley school, No. 80, until her
illness. She was born in Plymouth
and formely taught there.
Miss West is survived by q Sis
ter, Miss Mabel West, teacher In
Manual high school, and brother,
Leslie West.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20

Cast of characters in the
murder mystery are: Bonita
Arletti, singer and dancer attached
to Johns court; Queen Carlota,
and John MacBreck, the British
officer.
Carlota was enamored of Mac
Brock. MacBreck was fire.
Quenter of Arletti's home. Jeal-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
ESTIMATE OF SHEERIN
ESTATE is $4,000
Four Daughters. Two Sons Receive
Bulk of Fortune.

Estate of Mrs. Mary D. Sheerin,
90. Of 1880 Central avenue, who
died in Nice, France, March ID, is
valued at $4,000, according to her
will up for probate before Judge
Mahlon E. Bash.
Requests provided in the docu-
ment include $1,000 to Bishop Jo-
Seph Chartrand of the Indianapo-
lis Catholic diocese. to be used for
religious purposes, and a division OF
the remaining S15O0O0 in personal
property and $4,000 in real estate
among four daughters and two
sons
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
Maximum Engine Size viii
Be Much Higher; Speed
to Be Decreased.

This years 500-mile Memorial day
race at the indianapolis Speedway
will come closer to testing the
qualities of the stock automobile
than has any similar event hereto
fore.
According to the new rules, par
| ticipating cars must be confined
in design more closely to the stock
automobile than ever before.
There will be larger engines, there
will be no SuperchargerS except with
engines of the two-cycle or the
Diesel type, valves will be limited
to two for each cylinder, each car
will have to carry a mechanic beside
the driver, not more than two car
buretors may be used on four-cycle
engines, and the weight of each car
is limited to minimum of 1,750
pounds and a. minimum ratio of
seven and half pounds to each
cubic inch displacement.
The maximum engine size is to
be 366 cubic inches, quite a jump
from that specified for last years
racerS-ninety-one inches. The
larger size permits the entry of most
stock cars in use today.
Maximum Much Higher
That such automobiles will be en-
tered in this event is the opinion
of the officials of the indianapolis
speedway. In fact, they predict
that as many as seventy-f1ve A1ner1-
can and several European entries,
the largest number of record.
OF course, the stock cars entered
will not exactly conform to the types
used in everyday motoring, but the
engines will be practically the same.
The only changes that may be
expected will be limited to a racing
camshaft with cams affording high
er and quicker valve lifts, cylinder
heads of higher compression for use
Of special fuels, larger valves and
carburetor and smaller differen-
tial gear ratio in order to speed up
the rear wheels with the motor.
Carburetor to Eight Cylinders
Due to the ban on super
chargers and more than two car
buretors, engines of such small
capacity as those used last year
will not be seen on the track this
year, nor will any larger than 16-
cylinder engines appear.
One carburetor to eight cylinders
in a racing car, is believed by
engineers to be about the limit Of
usefulness.
Since, however, the limit on
superchargers and carburetors does
not apply to two-cycle or Diesel
motors, racing fans may see few
of these types on the track, more
as experiments than in hopes of
coming in winners.
Keep Identity Secret
Although many cars closely akin
to the stock cars now on the streets
are expected at this years race,
some of them, if not all, will appear
incognito.
Only when a car comes out among
the winners will its identity be
known.
This is done in fairness to the
manufacturers entering their prod
ucts in this event, in which any
kind of freak rnishap or failure
might put a good car out Of the
race or far behind.
No speed records are expected to
be broken this year, as a result OF
the new rulings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20

Publication by DR.. Silveira Car
dose, the eminent historian, Of a
book dealing with the life of the
court of King John VI, during its
exile In Brazil when Napoleon
invaded Portugal, revealed part OF
the story. The family of Mario
Gouvarinho, owners of the parrot,
revealed the rest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
Suicide Theory Unfounded

By Times NptciGI
PERFECTION. Ind. March 20
Death from acute indigestion was
the verdict of Paul Eandis. Kosciu-
sko county coroner, in the case OF
John Bell. druggist here, disproving
a suicide theory advanced when the
body was found Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
G. o. P. ASPIRANTS TALK
Speak of Weekly Meeting O. North
east Republican Club.

tdSE KNtpGUIINaII NIUU'
Various candidates in the Repub-
lican primary spoke at the weekly
meeting of the Northeast Repub-
lican Club in Compton hall Wednes-
day night.
The speakers included w. Todd
Young, candidate for sheriff; Judson
L. Stark, candidate for reelection
as prosecutor; Henry Campbell, can
didate for county surveyor; Patsy
Butler. candidate for county audi
tor; H. E. Eickhoff. candidate for
first district Commissioner; Fred
Akin. candidate for assessor, and
John Marshall, candidate for coun-
Gilman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
HONORED ON BIRTHDAY
Retired Veteran Engineer Feted by
Friends at His Home.

The birthday of Newton NJ. Camp
bell, 10, retired veteran engineer Of
the Big -Four railroad, was cele-
brated today by friends with an
open house at Campbell's home, zoos
Fletcher avenue.
Campbell retired from active rail-
road service nine years ago. He be-
came an engineer at the age OF Il
and throughout his service never
had an accident
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
TWO CONVICT SLAYERS
GIVEN LIFE TERMS
Third of Trio Which Escaped May
Not Be Tried for Killing.

BIZ United Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 20.
Two of three convicts who escaped
from the Connecticut state peniten-
tiary at Wethersf1eld Jan. 4 and
wound up by killing detective here
Jan. II, today faced life imprison-
ment following trial and conviction
on charges of first degree murder.
The two convicted were Watson
Moullhrope and Roland Lalone.
Leo Landry, third member of the
gang, who turned states evidence,
probably will have all Florida
charges against him dropped in re-
turn for his gesture, which he said
was prompted by the belief the
shooting of Detective w. D. Smith
was unfair and unjustified."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
PICKENS IN RACE FOR
SUPERIOR JUDGESHIP
Attorney Seeks Democratic Nonsina-
ton for Court Three Bench.

ton for Court Three Bench.
William A. Pickens, attorney, 1043
North Pennsylvania street, today
announced his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination as judge of
superior court three in the May pri-
mary.
He served as corporation counsel
Of Indianapolis from 1914 to 1917,
and has been president of the Indi-
ana State and indianapolis Bar As
sociations. In addition, he is a
member Of the American Bar Asso-
citation.
He was a member of the commit
tee Of two that drew Indiana's
secret ballot law which, when
adopted, was the first secret ballot
law in the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20

By United Press
r lisbon, March 20.-A parrot,
IL $50 years old, whose raucous
voice never Shrieks anything but
a repetition of three words
Help! Helpl MacBreck!"-may
solve an ancient murder mystery
involving an Italian opera singer,
a Portuguese queen, and a DASH
ing British naval officer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
Jump Prevents Arrest
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, March 20.-An
unidentified man jumped through a
second-story window an6 escaped
when police raided the alleged gam
bling resort of Jerry Chappell.
Thirteen others face charges of
gaming and frequenting a gambling
resort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
HOME, CHURCH RITES
FOR HEART VICTIM
Funeral Services Slated Saturday
for Thomas Donahue.

Funeral services for Thomas j.
Donahue, 48, 407 West McCarty
street. who died Wednesday while
working in grocery store at 1902
North fremont avenue, will be held
at BIS a. m. Saturday at the home
of lister, Mrs. Catherine Holloran,
$3.50 West Washington street. Burial
will be IN Holy Cross cemetery.
Following services at the home,
short rites will be held at at st.
Johns Catholic church. Donahue
was found dead on the floor of the
store by a brother. David Donahue,
owner of the store.
Surviving him are three sisters,
Mrs. Mary Costello, Mrs. Holloran,
and Mrs. Celia Reeder. and three
brothers, David, John and jeremiah
Donahue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
SEEK ALCOHOL PROCESS
Wealthy Real Estate Man Held for
Formula, \. Y. Telegram Says.

Bu United Press
NEW YORK, March 20.-The New
York Telegram said today that
Samuel Barron, wealthy real eStaN
man, We kidnapped recently and
held for los hours, because gangSterS
wanted to obtain from him a secret
process for eliminating poison from
alcohol.
The information was obtained,
The Telegram said, from an I'M
named informant who commended
that members of an alcohol ring
had been trying TO get the formula
from Barron for years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
'0NE BLACK CROW ILL

Moran in Hospital at Los Angeles
Recovering From Operation.
BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, March 20. -
George Searcy, until recently q
member of the 1.-TWO Black Grows"
stage and screen team under the
name of George Moran, was IN a
hospital today recovering from a
serious operation.