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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-30

Sports dresses, IL to a., of washable
silks and cottons, some with jackets;
junior misses dresses of wash crepe,
Summery prints and shantung, sizes II
to 10; dresses from the inexpensive
Shop-of wash silks, shantung, dark
erepes, and novelty cOttons; sizes IA
to A..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
ROAD PATROL
FIGHT TO FLARE
County Council to Get Plea
of $4,000 at Session.

Fight to force retention of the
county road patrol is expected to
be waged at the meeting of the
county council Wednesday, when
petitions signed by $4,000 Marion
county farmers, business men and
citizens urging this step, will be
presented.
At the same time, the council is
expected to act on proposed bond
issues totaling $1,000, 600.
Among these is one for $65, 900
for the track elevation at the Belt
railroad and Raymond street;
S350,000 for a temporary loan until
the taxes are received; SPAS, 900 for
poor relief in all of the townships,
and $23, 1000 for the erection of a
mems dormitory at the county poor
farm.
The council also is expected to
authorize a $348, 900 refunding issue
to pay off outstanding bonds total
ing this figure in order to relieve
the treasurer of paying off the old
issue, which has matured.
The council expects to sell this
4 per cent issue which will mature
i'll twenty years, and thus save the
outlay of $348,00O necessary for
present redemptions. It is esti-
mated, however, that if the 4 per
cent bonds can be sold. the staving
off of redeeming them will cost
100000 over the twenty-year period.
Doubt has been expressed if an
issue carrying so low an interest
rate could be sold at this time.
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chung to life until a week and a
half later.
But, said DR.. Karl r. Rooms,
deputy coroner, the knife wounds
were only a contributing factor in
the death of Steele, who died of
empyaema, as shown by the Of
ficial record.
A post mortem examination,
according to Koones, disclosed
that the aged inmate long had
been i'll of a critical lung infec-
ton. The knife wounds, which
were only minor, may have
fastened death.
Carter declared that Steele'S
assailant will not be prosecuted as
result of DR.. Rooms verdict. Carter
discussed the matter with Prose-
cutor Herbert Wilson, he said.
Other inmates today charged
that William Miller, another aged
pauper. was treated abusively be-
cause he made statements that
Steele was murdered Miller
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Gluten Makes Millions
as Wheat Prices Soar

BB United Press
NEW YORK. Nov. 3.-Rising
wheat prices that mean bread and
butter TO American farmers are
adding millions of dollars to the
riches Of Arthur w. Cutter, who
made SIS, 000,0 0 in 81 wheat back in
1925, Wall Street reported today.
Cutten. who at that time bought
and controlled more wheat than
ever under control of one man, pre-
diets the present rise will continue
until wheat touches 81, those same
reports declared.
Persons believed to know of Cut
ems actual operations today said
lc personally was directing the buy
ng in the present market. 1t has
ontinued since last August, even
turing the rise of the last four
weeks.
They said he was not acting for
other interests, that he was buying
because wheat was too cheap"
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Total. of S821,080 Reported
by CampaignerS for Com
munity Chest.

Up the last, almost impregnable
crags, today climbed 5000 workers
in the 1881 Community Fund drive
They are bent on achieving, in the
next two days, the highest summit
for which they ever fought, a fund
of $1,O43,686 to carry or the city's
charity work in the next year.
At a report meeting in the Clay
pool at 6 tonight, they hoped to
reach a ledge from which it would
be but n more leap to the peak.
Monday they passed the three
quarters post on their journey, add
ing new subscriptions of $132, O28.9O
to 609,051.83 previously subscribed
for a total of 1921 ,080.73.
Today, and again at the final
meeting in the Claypool Wednesday
night, the campaign army must
turn in pledges of more than Sill, 900
to reach its goal.
Pushing the workers, leaders of
the campaign Monday stressed five
points which the pledge-seeking
contingent must remember, they
said, If the drive is to succeed.
They were: No overconfidence:
every dollar is needed; citizens may
call Riley 2406 and a worker will
call on them; no money is being
held back to spur the workers on,
and small subscribers must be
sought.
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passerby gave each a dollar to buy
food.
But We decided to use it for
subway fare down to the munich
pal baths" Mrs. Jaeger said. we
would go down and back once a
week. There was a pool about
half a mile away where Herman
would get drinking water. We
always boiled the drinking water"
Jaeger didn't even have to go
without his smoking tobacco.
Jaeger simply stripped the paper
of cigaret butts, roasted the to-
bacco on a tin plate over a fire,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03

TINE batting average of Urban
4 (Johnny) Hodapp, Cleveland
Indians star second baSeman,
slumped a little last year in the
major league, but he batted 1000
in the matrimonial league today.
The former indianapolis In
dams infelder and his bride, the
former Miss Martha Garaghan,
1921 Broadway, above, graciouSly
consented to pose for The Times
photographer as they left SIS.
Peter and Paul cathedral, follow
ing the elimination of their base
ball romance.
Hodapp, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hodapp, Cincinnati, began
his baseball career with the Indi-
annapolis American Association
ball club, being sold to the Cleve-
land American League team sew
eral years ago.
Mrs. Hoddapp, the daughter of
Francis x. Garaghan, Indian
apolis, met Hodapp while he was
a member of the Indianapolis
baseball team.
MI. and Mrs. Hodapp, who will
reside in Cincinnati, left for New
York early this afternoon, follow
ing a wedding breakfast at the
Marott. They will sail Nov. 5 for
a three-months tour of Europe.
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MARION county's infirmary,
A'A last haven of the penniless
aged who can hope for little but
to spend their last days in quiet,
today figured in a story of violent
tragedy.
Tt is a drama of faring hate, a
murderous attack on an eighty
year-old inmate, and a climax
of death.
George Steele, 80, inmate at the
poor farm for several years, is the
central figure.
He died Thursday.
Ten days before, he had been
stabbed three times by a 24-year-
old fellow inmate. Morris Jen-
ningS.
Steele wanted a door closed in
the mems quarters. Jennings in
sisted that it be left open. Their
argument ended in the stabbing.
WITH two wounds in his neck
Wand one in his back, Steele
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fer their household belongings to
the polo stable in the park. Colo
mel Clarence H. Higginson, COM
manding officer of an artillery
unit whose horses are stabbed
there, had extra blankets.
A few old folding chairs were
in the stable. Mr.. and Mrs. Jae-
ger placed them in a row in a
vacant stall, laid on them a deep
pile Of empty oat bags, and made
themselves comfortable.
Somewhere they found an old
rag rug for the floor.
They're set for the winter.
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NP IN PARK BUSHES AND WIN A HOME In. HORSE STALL

and the rain didn't help. But we
got along"
= Il n
THEY never went hungry. They
Il couldn't bring themselves to
ask for money. But Jaeger did
visit bakeries and butcher shops
near the park late at night when
few customers could hear him ask
for a loaf of leftover bread or a
few sausage ends.
Once, when Jaeger and his wife
were sitting in the park, holding
newspapers over their heads to
keep off a cold, drizzling rain. a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
AKRON CARRIES
2O7 ON FLIGHT.
RECORD IS SET
D0-X Mark of 1863 Beaten;
Takes Air Easily With
Heavy Load.
SWINGS OVER EAST
California Trip Scheduled
in January; Millions
Crane NeCkS.
BIZ United Press

06 wv
LAKEHURST, N. j., Nov. 3.-The
new naval dirigible Akron rose from
the mooring mast at the naval air
station today for a training flight
over New York and Philadelphia,
carrying 207 persons, the largest
number yer carried at one time
by any type of aircraft.
The German Sesquiplane DO-X
carried 1859 passengers during a
flight over Lake Constance, Switz-
erland.
Despite the heavy load, the great
dirigible took the air easily and
swung toward Philadelphia. The
cruise may be extended along the
~seaboard. depending on the weather,
but it was believed the Akron would
travel only between Philadelphia
and New York. The airplane is ex-
pected to return at shutdown.
The air giant took aloft almost
the entire personnel of the naval
air station.
When the Akron returned here
Monday night to pause for an hour
before weighing off again for a
nights cruise, Rear Admiral Will
liam A. Moffett revealed that the
vessel will fly to California in Janu-
airy or February for duty with the
Pacific fleet.
The Akron may make a fight to
Honolulu soon after that, he said.
The big craft few over Washing
ton, Philadelphia, Trenton, Staten
island, then up the Hudson to the
new George Washington bridge
linking the Jersey Palisades with
Manhattan. Then it swung south
ward over the towering midtown
skyscrapers.
New York police estimated 3,000,-
600 persons gaper and craned neckS
from vantage points in Manhattan
and the Bronx. Traffic was tied up
H11oInrrIr-- -. 100000 ~IaaoH
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was an inmate of the section in
which Steele lived.
byron CARTER, acting super
II intendent, denied that Miller
was m~altreated.
Il ordered him to stop talking
about things he didn't know
about" Carter admitted. Miller
is one of the oldest inmates of the
in1rmary, and, aside from the
lecture, I gave him no further
trouble"
SteeIe's fellow inmates also
charged Carter with neglecting to
provide proper medical care for
the wounded man.
Carter stated today that Steele
was examined and treated four
times within ten days by DR.. r.
r. Noble, deputy county physi-
clan.
1t was further charged by in
mates that Howard Wiseman, as
siStant superintendent, who is
without medical training. had
dressed Steele'S wounds and had
provided medical treatment.
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three spoons and a couple of
empty coffee cans.
Jaeger, a printer, had lost his
job two years ago. Moneyless,
and jobless, there was nowhere
else to go, they said, after their
landlord evicted them last June.
Neither he nor his wife, both of
whom were spic and span when
found by a mounted policeman,
was bitter because of the exist
ence fate had decreed for them.
I'VE rather enjoyed being out in
the OPEN" she said. "Of course
it got rather cold toward the last,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
LAUNCH
E FINAL DRIVE
FOR l. n
BI0ndSN S1OON

If you're a blond, you may
be 500 richer this week! Why?
Just be sure to read The Times
Wednesday for full details of
the contest to find the most
perfect platinum blond in
Indianapolis. One hundred
dollars in prizes will be spent
to find the girl whose hair is
of the unusual blond hue al
ready immortalized ON the
screen and in Hollywood by
Jean Harlow.
No entry fees or charges are
required to compete for prizes
in the contest. If you or any
of your friends have platinum
blond hair, be sure to read The
Times Wednesday for complete
information about the contest.
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BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Moving
~ day for Herman Jaeger, SIS,
and Nellie Jaeger, A. transferred
them to an lever so humble" home
in a polo stable from their refuge
behind a screen of underbrush in
Van Cortlandt park where they
had lived jobleSs since June.
There, with the soft damp earth
for a bed, and discarded news
papers for bed clothing, they had
kept house" with an abandoned
bath tub, a frying pan, a tin cup,
a glass mug, one knife, two forks,
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filled up his pipe, and pulled
away.
DOUGLAS HURLE, a mounted
IL policeman, after he had seen
the couple twice at the same place
in the park, asked if they were
picnicking.
"Well-uh-yes." Mrs. Jaeger
told him.
How long have you been here?"
he asked.
Since June she replied.
After they had told their story,
police arranged for them to trans
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
U. S. DEFICIT MOUNTS
Totals S661,120,850 With
Third of Year Gone.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON. Nov. 3.-The
treasury deficit reached a high of
1861 ,120,850 today with only a third
of the fiscal year gone.
This would indicate a deficit of
close to $4,000, OOO,O0O for the fiscal
year when the treasury closes its
books next July 81. The deficit for
the last fiscal year ending July 81
was 5000, 000,O 900.
Secretary of Treasury Mellon now
is considering a tax revision pro-
gram to be submitted shortly to
President Hoover.
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declared the druggist had started
with a falsehood on his lips and
left the witness stand with a false
hood on his lips"
Il thought he was a dumb liar at
FIRST Tindall said. THAT little fell
low (pointing to The Times re-
porter, brought Friedman up here;
Friedman, who half-bowed his way
into the witness chair, and, after a
cursory look, identified Mrs. SIM
mons as the poison buyer.
Says Friedman Lied
He told his story just like a little
boy. I knew he was telling false
hoods all the time"
Pausing a moment, Tindall opened
his final plea for Mrs. Simmons
acquittaI.
Send this mother back to her
little home in the country, where
she can breath the fresh air of the
farm" he begged. Send her where
she can visit the dell where her
two girls lie buried.
Her future, her liberties, and her
life depend on you. The eyes of the
world are on you today.
Return a verdict as soon as YOU
can.
do so, that you can return to
your homes and sleep the sleep of
the innocent, never troubled in
conscience"
T1ndal stressed the jury's duties
in deciding whether any reasonable
doubt existed on Mrs. Simmons
guilt and if they believed anv one
else might have committed the
crime, to free the 47-year-old farm
mother.
Held All CircumstantiaI
Reading from the jury instruc-
lions, Tindall pointed to the states
evidence as wholly circumstantial"
and declared the state had not RE-
moved the mystery around this
case"
He praised Mrs. Simmons char
acter and her testimony, declaring
her soul was revealed" to the jury
while she withstood the battering of
the states counsel on crosss-ex-
animation.
Weakened in body and UNDER
going the tortures of hell. she With
stood the cross-examination," Tin
dali shouted. why? Because she's
innocent. that's why"
Tindall opened his argument with
lavish oratory and praise for the
jury, the judge, other defense at
torneys, and the prosecuting staff.
After calling the prosecutors able
lawyers with few peers" he turned
suddenly and demanded of the jury
What is the reason they have
failed utterly in this case?"
Mrs. Simmons watched closely as
Turn to Page -
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CHINA YIELDS
TO TOXIC EDICT
Threat Brings Repair of
Railroad Bridge.
By United Press

By United Press
LONDON, Nov. 3.-Chinese forces
in northern Manchuria ~capitulated
today to Japanese demands for re-
pairs on a railroad bridge over the
Nonni river, a Daily Express dis
patch from Toxic said. The Jap
anese had threatened military &C
ton, if the bridge were not repaired
today.
The correspondence placed much
significance on the statements by
General Jiro Minaru, war minister
of Japan, to the cabinet Monday in
which he was quoted as saying the
Soviet government had provided
arms to the Chinese forces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
S FIREMEN INVOLVED
IN SHIFT BY V0SHELL
Department Chief Changes Given
Safety Board o. X.

Shifts involving five members of
the indianapolis fire department
were approved today by the safety
board on recommendation of Fire
Chief Harry Voshell.
Bernard A. Lynch. captain III the
fire prevention bureau, was pro-
noted to second assistant chief in
that department. and Cecil Scott,
also in the bureau. was promoted
from chauffeur to lieutenant.
Captain John Fitzgibbon of Com
pany 80 was promoted to battalion
chief.
Virgil P. Ferguson. assistant chief
of the fire pre- ention bureau, was
reduced to captain, and John w.
Blackwell, battalion chief, was re-
duced to captain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
MERCURY TO DIVE
O-Degree Slump Predicted
by Weather Bureau.

Mercury slide of about 10 de-
grees overnight, was predicted today
by the weather bureau.
According to j. H. Arlington.
chief %forecaster, the temperature
would pass sc today, by Wednes-
day so will be the maximum. Fair
weather is expected and no frost
warning was issued by the bureau.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
KILLS 3 CHILDREN, SELF
21-Year-Old Mother Ends Life;
Worried by Lack of Food.

BIZ United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3.-While
her husband vas away from home
today looking for work, a 2l-year-
old mother, worried over the lack
OF money and food in the home, shot
and killed her three small children
and then committed suicide.
The victims were Mrs. Anna Ma
than, Charles Nathan, 5; Herbert,
4, and Eva, 2.
Police found a note of explanation
which Mrs. Nathan had written to
her husband, Charles Nathan ST..
but they refused to disclose its con-
tents.
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SEN. WATSON TO SPEAK
Scheduled for Address Friday to
Journalistic Fraternity.

Senator James Eli Watson will
speak Friday night at $50 at the
Columbia Club before members of
the indianapolis alumni chapter of
Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic fra
ternity.
Watson will tell OF his experiences
with newspaper men at the national
capital. The meeting previously had
been set for Nov. II.
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KILLED IN STORE BLAST
Revenge for Coal Strike Activity
Seen in PennSylvanian's Death.

2 JUtttU PTtSS
WASHINGTON, Pa, Nov. s.
James Spragg, q, former deputy
sheriff, was killed instantly today
when two bombs exploded in what
vas believed possible retaliation for
Spragg's activities in the coal strike
here.
Spragg, who resigned his deputy's
commission three months ago, was
caught in the second blast after he
climbed through a window to in
vestigate the first explosion in the
store owned by his grandfather.
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BIZ United Press

~ CHttCu 1000
TOXIC, Nov. 3.-Forces under
Chang Hsueh-Liang, Manchurian
dictator, defeated the independent
army of General Ling Yin-Ching
near Chinchow today, marking the
first victory over revolutionist
troops.
It was reported that General Ling
was captured and executed.
Chang virtually has been BAN
ished from Manchuria by the Jap
anese and was not in the field when
his loyal troops broke up Ling's
army, Ling had been cooperating
with the Japanese and it was x
pected that his defeat would
strengthen General Chang's position
in Manchuria.
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DENY BRYAN UNTIEDT
CARNEGIE HERO AWARD
Commission Refuses to Comment On
Refusal of Consideration.
BIZ United Press

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Refusal of Consideration.
BIZ United Press
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 3.-Members
of the Carnegie hero fund commits
sion said today they could not COM
ment OH action of the commission
in declining to consider Bryan I'm
tiedt, 1~3-year-old schoolboy and Carl
E. Miller, bus driver, for Carnegie
medals for their heroism in the
Colorado school bus tragedy.
Taylor A~lderdice, secretary and c..
B. Ebbersol, assistant secretary, said
commission rules prevented any dis
cussion of cases unless a medal were
awarded. Governor William Adams,
Colorado, who presented the names
Of the two for consideration was in
formed the cases were not within
the scope of the fund.
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JACKSON ulu uO IL, 1lIludll
yelled as he pounded on a
table. jackson did do it and
I'll prove it to the jury before
I'm through"
He addressed his remarks to
Prosecutor Ben Scifres and the
jury. Scifres, in his statement to
the jury Monday, had dared" Tin
dali and other defense lawyers to
assume some one other than Mrs.
Simmons of the crime.
Target Throughout Trial
Through the more than five weeks
of the trial, Jackson has been the
object of testimony darts hurled
by the defense, which, time after
time, intimated he might be the
slayer of Jean and her sister, Vlr-
ginia.
The jury is expected to receive
the case before z tonight and Judge
John w. Hornaday probably will be
prepared for several hours to re-
ceive a verdict before directing a
sealed decision.
Tindall was followed by Roy Ad-
ney, special prosecutor, delivering
the states final argument.
Tindall, after berating Jackson
and the state for three hours, closed
with an eloquent plea to send this
mother back to her little farm home
and the. dell where the bodies OF
her two girls lie buried"
Tindall charged the state was
obssessed with Mrs. Simmons guilt"
and did not look far enough into
the facts. He said ScifreS could
love Jackson if he wanted to-"
When Tindall made his charge
against Jackson, Scifres smiled and
remarked:
GO right along, Tindall; go right
along"
81 felt compelled to answer the
dare of the prosecution" Tindall
continued. Il believe the evidence
proves Jackson did it.
Silence Is Cited
"It was done by some n who had
the opportunity, knew strychnine,
and had it in his possession. I agree
a depraved mind conceived this UNI
speakable crime and its commits
sion.
"One person of the twenty-seven
at the picnic fits the decription Of
possessing a deprayed mind. He's an
habitual criminal and intent on mis-
chief.
why did I say Jackson did it?
Because he had the motive; he was
capable of it. He knew strychnlne
and he was lear the cars before
the picnic"
There was one day when Jack
son. the bosom friend of the prose-
cutor, did not joke and was not so
laxative. That was when he sat in
front of the Pollard home Tor two
hours. He didn't say anything to
any one.
"I don't care wnere he did it, at
the Pollard home or at the. picnic
ground. Jackson tried to avert sus-
picion from himself by laying the
blame on Mrs. Simmons.
Branded Jekyll-Hyde
Ten thousand doctors could not
make me believe he was sick. l
could throw one of those commissions,
myself.
Holding his arms stiff before him,
Tindall had a member of the jury
feel them.
Feel my arms" he said. They
are as stiff as Jackson's were
My God, haven't 1 the right to
say that about him. If 1 were
prosecuting him and didn't convict
him, I'd feel I failed miserably.
And then they say this innocent
woman and mother is guilty.
jackson is a Jekyll-Hyde. a man
of two minds
Describing Charles w. Friedman,
Indianapolis druggist, who said he
sold sixty grains of strychnine to
Mrs. Simmons, as a ghost" Tlndall
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EDISON STILL ABSENT

Late Inventors Son Believed in
New York to Contest Will.
By United Press
WILMINGTON, Del, Nov. B.
William L. Edison, who has an
nounced his intention of contesting
the will of his father, the late
Thomas A. Edison, remained away
from his Westover home today, SER
wants said.
1t was believed Edison was in New
York, as he had said he would go to
New York Monday to confer with his
attorney. His Negro butler said
Edison left his home Sunday night.