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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
MOONEY, BILLINGS
RETRIAL DEMANDED
Water Is Sold
for Nickel a
Glass i'm State
United Press

BIZ United Press
MONTICELLO, Ind, Aug. 8.
h-Water in the southern
part of Indiana Is being sold
for cents a glass or so cents
for enough to fill an auto radia-
tor, A. G. Brown, Lafayette
business man, said today,
after returning from a trip
through Brown and Jackson
counties.
Armed men stand guard
over the few remaining wells
that still give water, and skele-
tons of fish, landlocked when
the rivers and creeks gave out,
line the dry banks" he said.
Leaves of trees have turned
brown, water is being shipped
in milk cars from Louisville,
and farmers have been forced
to sell practically all their live
stock-even to the hound
dawgs-because of lack of
food" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
Defense HurIs Challenge for
Decision by Jurors on
Conspiracy Charge.
BY MAX STERN
Times staff Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8. - A
challenge to the Fickert proSecu-
ton to retry Mooney and Billings
on conspiracy charges in connec-
ton with the preparedness bomb
outrage was hurled Thursday by
Edwin Mckenzie, Warren K. Bill
ingS' counsel.
1t was his answer to the amazing
declarations on Wednesday of Ed
ward Cunha, MONEYS 1916 prose-
cutor, and James Brennan, Fickert
aid against Billings, to the effect
that they had relied in trying the
pair on indirect evidence and "out-
side circumstances"
Destroyed Own Case
1.-THE prosecutions own witnesses,
Macdonald and Estelle Smith, have
destroyed its entire case so far as
direct evidence is concerned"
Mckenzie said.
''These two witnesses now are
completely discredited by cameras,
clocks and logic, regardless of even
their confessions of perjury. Now
the state suddenly contends that
even if Mooney and Billings were
convicted on perjured testimony,
they are guilty of conspiracy.
Conspiracy finds no support In
the records in either case. So far
as my client, Billings, is concerned
he gladly will meet any conspiracy
evidence either at new trial or at
this hearing.
"If the prosecution will not mud
die the case and concede that he
was not at the bombing scene, then
their case should be tried over again
on their new theory.
Trial on Any Theory
1--WE submit Billings for trial on
any theory. We will waive any
claim of jeopardy. We will take
the first twelve jurymen called, risk
a hanging verdict and waive all
hearsay rules. There can be no
possible objection to this, since
Cunha has announced he has the
evidence.
For years we have asked for a
new trial, and it is only because of
legal obstacles that we have asked
a pardon. We would much prefer
a new trial It always was in the
power of the prosecution to grant
it, never in our power to obtain it. :"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
Odd 'Vagrant
ROan1S Streets
With $4,000

~ United Press
u ENDALLVILLE, Ind, Aug.
N ga fortune of $1,000
was found on the person of
Frank Brown. IS. odd charac-
ter, who roamed the streets Of
Ligonier apparently penniless,
when taken into custody by
Sheriff william Hoffman. after
being adjudged insane
Brown was found to possess
$4,000 in cash and a $4,000
certificate Of deposit on a Can
ton (O) bank
It was thought he inherited
the money recently. as he had
not paid taxes for years.
The money was placed in the
Ligonier bank and Cleland Cal
beck. Ligonier, named guar
dian Brown win be taken to
the Richmond insane hospital
sturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
DOUBLE INQUIRY STARTED
into LYNCHING OF TWO
YOUNG NEGRO SLAYERS
Barred

The Times obtained q
number of closeup pic
tureS of the Marion
Iynchings, Snoring the
victims, but is not repro
ducing them. We believe
that printing such pic
tmres is q harmful prGc-
tice, serving no purpose
of Journalism, catering
only to morbid tastes,
and trust that oar read
erS 10iU Vie1U the matter
in the same light.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
DESERT MAY BE PARK

Death Valley Considered by United
States as National Monument.
BIZ Science Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-Death
Valley, picturesque but forbidding
trough Of almost absolute desert IN
southeastern California, may be-
come the newest addition to the
lands administered by the United
States national park service.
President Hoover has signed an
executive order temporarily reserv-
ing from entry certain strategic
POINTS in and about the valleys
pending investigation by the DEPART
ment Of sne interior Of its Suitable
ity for q national monument.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08

only in forcing a general circling
movement. He then called the fire
apparatus.
The hook and ladder truck scat
tered the crowd, but they reassem-
bled nearer the jail. When the
murmurs became shouted threats,
curiously mixed with good -natured
laughter, Sheriff Campbell and
deputies went inside the jail and
locked all doors.
= r. =
ID ELATTVES of Deeter and his
~ sweetheart were in the fore
front of the crowd. Hoot Ball,
father of the girl, was among
them. So was Deeter'S father, the
girls uncle, and several young
men who had gone to school in
Paramount with Deeter. To not
more than thirty had the previous
nights tragedy been personal.
Hoot Ball drifted into the
jail and spoke to Campbell. tell
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
BY WILLIAM E. HALLBERG
United Press Stan Correspondent

MARION. Ind. Aug. s.-Scars
WI at the doors anG windows
of the Grant county Jail remained
today to remind citizens that the
second mob in forty years had
formed, carried out its work and
scattered, leaving two Negroes
dead by strangulation, as victims
Of its fury.
1t happened that this CORE
spondent also saw the 5000 per-
sons who gathered more or less
peacefully in 1919 to demand Sun
day movies, and won its point.
That was the only other mob to
form here since the lynching OF a
Negro some four score years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
GIRLS DREAMS
SHATTERED BY
ROAD TRAGEDY
Youth Slain by Negroes to
Have Bought BetrothaI
4 Ring Saturday.
WEDDING DATE WAS SET
i've Life Trying to Save
Sweetheart, Outraged
by Mob Victims.
BY CARLOS LANE
Times stan Correspondent

MARION. Ind. Aug. IA narrow
auto trail leads from Marion's out
skirts through wide vacant lots rank
with weeds, to suburban Bucktown,
home of families of foundry laborers.
over it shortly after dawn today
q Sorrow-bent man trudged, seeking
again to view evidence of vengeance
for a crime against his daughter,
leaving behind mother whose grief
was alleviated a little by fate melted
: out to her child's violators, and a
19-year-old girl whose brightest hope
in life lay dead with her lover in a
Marion morgue.
He was Frank Ball, father OF
Mary Ball, assaulted by two Ne
groes Wednesday night, while her
sweetheart was murdered by third
Negro as he fought to rescue her.
Two Pay With Lives
Two of the three assailants late
Thursday night paid for their out
rage with their lives when a lynch
moi Of 10000 persons stormed Grant
coLsIty jail here and wrested the
prisoners away from the law.
Although Mrs. Ball this morning
admitted the double lynching lifted
a portion of the burden from her
heart, she shared the pangs of her
daughter.
That affection was one glimmer of
light that shone flercely for Mary
amid the squalid surroundings of
q tiny shelter she shares with her
parents, four sisters and two broth
ers and known as home.
September Wedding Date
In September she was to have we'd
Claude Deeters, Paramount, slain
while attempting to defend the girl.
Yes, he was going to buy the
ring Saturday" the mother
mourned. He was good boy.
Everybody liked him."
Mary and Claude were sweet
hearts more than four months be-
fore the fateful auto ride Wednes-
day night during which a fiat tire
necessitatsd a stop on lonely road
not far from the boys home. From
the bushes at the roadside Sprang
the Negro trio.
One of them forced Deeters to
march down = cornfleld at the point
of a gun. The other attacked the
defenselesS girl.
She screamed. There were sounds
of a struggle in the cornfield, and
then three shots. Finally the
Negroes ran away.
CrawIed Part of Way
Il went to a house. The farmer
called the police, and we found
Claude lying by the road. He
crawled that far" Mary narrated.
Deeters died of the bullet wounds
Thursday, a few hours before the
mob applied the ancient law Of the
hemp to two of the Negroes.
Mrs. Ball and Mary watched the
sun rise from behind a cloud with
eyes that ha6 not closed during the
tumultuous night.
Frank was there last night.
don't know whether he helped. Now
he's gone back, guess Just to get
away from here. Those niggers got
what they deserved the mother
pronounced through tight lips.
But that doesn't bring Claude
back" Mary lamented, with a nod
toward the courthouse spire. be-
meath whose shadow a crowd, still
sullen with hatred, guarded the tree
that gave them their revenge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
Drought Boosts Milk Prices

BU United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. S.-The drought
will drive the price of milk UP l cent
quart here Monday. That may not
look like a formidable advance, but
the added cost to the city will
amount to SS5,00o a day. PaSturage
has been burned out, producers say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
DANCE 1881 HOURS
Hammond Couple Wins
Long Grind at Chicago.
United Press

Bu United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Mike Gou-
vas, Hammond, Ind, and Miss Ann
Gerry, Chicago. are the new claim
ants of the worlds marathon dane
ing championship.
Mike and Ann danced for 1881
hous and Az minutes in contest
which began at the Merry Garden
ballroom, April IL and ended Fri
day night. after Jack Ritof, Joliet,
III, and Theresa Tito were forced
to withdraw because Nitof's ankle
was so badly swollen physicians
would not allow him to continue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
Maddened Throng Batters
Down Doors of Jail,
Kills Prisoners.
THOUSANDS ON SCENE
Tear Gas Bombs Hurled in
Vain; No Shooting Is
Sheriff's Order.
BY LOWELL NUSSBAUM
Times STAFF Correspondent


MARION, Ind, Aug. s.
Downtown streets of Marion
through which late Thursday
night and early today surged
a tempest of hate, climaxed
by lynching Of two young
Negroes, this afternoon we're
calm. 1t was a calm, however,
that authorities feared might
be only a lull before a new and
more ferocious outburst of
race antagonism.
Only a few stragglers re-
manned of a crowd of several
thousand that tore the Ne
groes from Grant county jail.
But groups of youthful Ne
groes, ostensibly under the
influence of liquor, were re-
ported roaming through the
downtown section in autos,
mumbling threats of re-
taliation for the lynchings.
Deputy sheriffs and police will be
on the alert to quell any fresh out.
burst, chiefs of the county and city
law enforcing bodies indicated.
Throughout the night they patrolled
the Negro district, after threats were
reported against residents there.
Bodies Cut Down
After the night of rioting, quiet
was restored around the courthouse
and county jail early this morning,
and the bodies of the mob victims
were cut down without molestation
from a thousand citizens who nilled
around the grounds.
Spirited to the state reformatory
at Pendleton, another Negro, one of
the trio accused of killing a white
youth and attacking his sweetheart,
was safe.
Two other Negro prisoners were
taken to Huntington county jail.
The lynching victims were
Thomas Shipp, 10, and Abraham
Smith, 10.
Smiths body dangled until this
morning from the same maple tree
where ne was hanged by the infuri-
ated mob at about $50 Thursday
night.
Shipp was hanged in the jail yard,
his body cut down a while later, and
dragged to the courthouse lawn to
be hoisted up to another maple,
grim reminder of the night of terror
Bodies Cut Down
Sheriff Campbell cut the bodies
down at 5:32 this morning, after
they had swayed from the tree
limbs approximately eight hours.
There was no gentleness about the
procedure. The victims feet were
about five feet off the ground when
the sheriff's knife cut the the ropes.
The Negroes dropped with a thud.
1t was the signal for a morbid
crowd to surge upon them. Pen
knives were invoked to slash shreds
of clothing from the corpses. Others
pulled buttons from what torn cloth
ing still remained on the bodies.
Authorities did not interrupt the
vulture-like scene, witnesses said.
Finally an ambulance arrived and
carried the bodies to the Higgs I'M
dertaking establishment.
Coroner o. L. Stout held brief
inquest, after which he returned a
verdict that the Negroes had met
death as the result of riot by per-
sons so far unknown.
Oficers said the two Negroes and
a companion, Herbert Cameron, 16,
confessed that on Wednesday night
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
GREEN APPLES FATAL

Four Year-O Boy Dies From
Eating of Fruit.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Aug.
Screen apples, eaten earlier in
the week, caused the death Thurs
day of Thomas Franklin Dowell, 4,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. George Rowell,
who live north of Charlottesville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
Ogden Sends Three Aids to
Grant County Capital
for Probe.
JURY C0NVENES SEPT. |.
Prosecutor Declares He
Will Do All in Power to
Find Leaders.

A two-day investigation of
the double lynching at Mar
ion was opened today by state
and Grant county authori-
ties.
While Attorney General
James NJ. Ogden sent two
deputies and an investigator
to Marion, Prosecuting Attor-
ney Harley V. Hardin of
Grant county began his
probe.
The Grant county grand
jury will convene Monday,
Sept. 1, and will plunge i'm
mediately into an investiga-
ton of the hangings. Hardin
promised that before the jury
meets he will conduct a COM
plete investigation of the mob
action.
Grant county's officials are law
abiding and perform their duty re-
CARELESS of any temporary influ-
ence," Hardin declared. Grant
county's citizens as whole respect
law and order and they have con-
f1dence that justice will be done to
the full extent
Subject to Death Penalty
Declaring that participants in the
double lynching are subject to the
death penalty or life imprisonment,
Attorney General Ogden sent Earl
Stroup and Merle Wall, deputies, to
Marion to aid local authorities in
steps for apprehension and prosecu-
ton of mob leaders. An investiga-
tor for the encouragement accom-
panied the deputies.
The penalties provided in the
law against lynching are the same
as those for murder. Witnesses who
made no effort to stop the lynching
are subject to imprisonment for
terms Of two to twenty-one years,
the encouragement declared.
1t was estimated some 10000 per-
sons would be imprisoned or put to
death if all participants and wit
nesses were convicted.
Ogden DeplOres Outrage
Although any official comment
should come from the Governor,
who is the chief executive Of the
state, there is no doubt such an af-
fair gives the state black eye and
generally should be deplored," At
torney- General Ogden declared.
you know they SOW the whirlwind
and reap the Storm" he added, re-
ferring to recent bombings at Mar
ion, in which FIVE persons were
killed.
L. o. Chasey, secretary to Gov
ernor Harry G. Leslie, termed the
lynching "deplorable incident"
There should be an investigation
of the riot and if the local authori-
ties do not do it properly, someone
else should take charge" he de-
clared. Il feel sure, however, that
Marion authorities will do every
thing they can to bring the instiga-
tors Of the riot to justice"
Q. E. Clawson is Grant circuit
judge.
Leslie in Canada
Governor Harry G. Leslie, who is
spending this week of his vacation
in Canadian forest camp forty
miles from a railroad, knew nothing
about the Marion rioting early to-
day his secretary, L. o. Chasey,
reported.
Marion officials, in seeking the
Governors aid to quell the mob
Thursday night, called Gaylord
Morton, also secretary to the Cover 4
nor. Morton told them to call At
torney-General James M. Ogden,
who in return referred them to
Chasey.
The latter got in communication
at once with Camp Knox, KY, and
Adjutant- General Manford c. Hen
ley, who is there with the entire
Indiana national guard, reported
troops in readiness to go to Marion
if t1eeded eChaSev said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08

they shot and fatally wounded
Claude Deeter, %, of Paramount,
and attacked his sweetheart, Miss
Mary Ball, 10.
The Negro youths we're arrested
Thursday morning. In the after
noon crowds began forming about
the county jail. Word went out that
all three Negroes had confessed.
Feeling began running high.
BY nightfall crowd of $500 per-
sons was milling about in the vi
cinity of the jail. The story of
how the Negroes had held up Dee
ter as he drove along highway,
dragged him from his car, robbed
and shot him and then attacked
Miss Ball, was retold over and over
and with each re-telling the general
anger grew in intensity.
Father Sees Sheriff
About 9 o'clock fyoot Ball, father
of Mary Bali, entered the jail to
talk with Sheriff Jacob Campbell.
About the same time group of
men arrived from Paramount,
Deeter's home town, eleven miles
from Marion.
Ball remained in the Jail short
time, then walked out into the
crowd. He has been LII recently and
was weak. The crowd jostled him
and he fell.
1t was the signal for violence,
and within few minutes the crowd,
then numbering about 1000, was
storming the jail.
It was estimated that only about
seventy-f1ve men actually took part
in the rioting, but hundreds of
others packed about the jail, shout
ing encouragement. Sheriff Camp
bell issued orders, to his deputies
that no shots were to be fired, but
police clubs were welded freely and
several heads were bruised.
The mob attacked in two groups,
one from the front of the Jail, the
other from the side. Tear gas
bombs were tossed from the jail
windows, but the supply soon was
exhausted and they stopped the
mob only temporarily. One bomb
was picked up and hurled back into
the Jail, where it exploded among
the forty-five prisoners quartered
there.
Rip Doors OFF
Using croWbars and hammers, the
mob ripped iron doors from hinges,
tore out windows, punched holes
in the inside walls, and forced its
way into the jail, where more than
a dozen terror-stricken Negro
prisoners knelt in prayer.
Shipp and Smith were dragged
from the jail, beaten, kicked, and
hanged.
Smith was taken block away to
the courthouse, shrieking in terror
as he went. The rope with which
he was hanged was fifteen feet too
long. The rioters tore the extra
part into bits and passed them out
as souvenirs.
The mob then returned to the
jail and found Cameron. The youth,
begging for mercy and protesting
innocence, was dragged down the
street toward the courthouse lawn,
scene of the two previous hangings,
but was returned to the custody of
officers when Sheriff Campbell and
Prosecutor Harley F. Hardin con-
vinced the leaders they were about
to hang an innocent" man.
Police reinforcements we're arriv-
ing by that time from Indianapolis,
Anderson, Huntington, Alexandria,
Kokon1o, Wabash, and Muncie and
there was such heavy guard
around the jail that the crowd,
satisfied to some extent over the
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08

william E. HaIlberE WIS an eye
witness to the IynohinE Of two Negroes
at Marion. Ind, last night. His re-
action, describing the unusual nature of
the mob, is given in the following story:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
BABY DROWNED IN BATH

Child, 2, Falls in Six Inches of
Water Reaching for Toy.
b. United Press
BELLWOOD. Neb., Aug. S.-As
Caroline Eberly, aged 2. reached for
one Of her toys in a bath tub. she
fell and was drowned in six inches
of water. Fl
The Washington times., 1930-03-07
Good Retirement Legislation
Is In Sight

1TH only friendly Senate remaining express It's views
" on the retirement legislation passed by the House few
days the outlook for approved law seems to be ex
ceent That law will if it is finally interpreted AZ Il reads
be the best squarest and most liberal yet enacted
The sincerity OF Congress as liberal retirement legislation
has frequently been exhibited It is again exhibited in the
action of putting the Lehbach amendments. an
the Dale BILL which unanimously passed the Senate That
renders it unnecessary for the Senate to consider the whole
In the present status the amended bill zoe. IN conf.r. -
the two houses The Senate cOnferees accepting the
amended have only agree conference reuort
Then the Senate merely accepts that report the
House. for the bill to to the White House. where there
certainty of its approval
The Senate sympathetic to the cause Of
employees to put obstacles of kind in the way Of salts
factory legislation.
The b which seems to be on fair wav to and
approval by the President substantially increases he an
nuites OF those already retired and hereafter to be retired
whose salaries under ST. 400 The minimum basic an
nuity will hereafter be not less than $3.50 per year
The maximum basic annuity will be $500 but fuura an
nuitants will get additional annues according Is their
credits in the retirement fund.- on established tables Of
annuity values Those receiving the present maximum an
nuity of $1,000 will get at least $780,
For the first time law will make definite and certain
the rights of all participants of the retirement system il the
money they contribute Likewise for the first time it will
make definite and certain the obligations Of the
to appropriate for the purpose Of carrying system
The BILL if it becomes law will exceed the cost az The
law by $16000000 annually Of which will come
from the salaries of Government employees
Another excellent feature that retirement for disability s
available after five Of service instead Of is yaars g
before -
The amended bill retains the provision Of existing law that
after August 2 1880 empoye shall be continued in the
civil service beyond the age Of retirement for more than cur
years This will eliminate mighty good workers no noat
ter how sound they may be physically or mentally
It the opinion Of executive heads of the Government that
of the most valuable employees those well past 70
of Their experience and knowledge almost in
valuable These and women will be automatically sepa
cials wish them to continue how much they would like to
remain ct work
The Washington times., 1930-03-07
Do You Know

An instrument has been In
vented in France which indi.
Gates the presence Of. oil and
mineral deposits in the earth
and shows at what depth they
can be found. The device is q
glass tube which can be filled
with q mixture Of oil and cer-
tain chemicals when prospec.
ting for oil, If copper or nickel
deposits are sought, particles Of
these minerals are placed in
the tube, which is suspended by
a wire attached to its centre.
When suspended over. ground
where oil or mineral deposits
are to be found in the vicinity,
the tube begins to vibrate and
the two ends bob up and down,
and when the person carrying
this detector reaches q spot
directly over an ore vein or oil
deposit the glass pendulum gy-
rates in q circle.
A. cross-country motor fire
truck has been developed in
Germany to travel anywhere
over railroads, plowed fields,
streams, etc. The chassis is
similar to the type designed for
French army tanks used on the
Sahara Desert