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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
BULLET IN HIS
HEART; LIVES
Youth Recovering in Ball
Hospital at MunCie.
By United Press

By United Press
MUNCIE, Ind, Oct. 20. A
parallel to the case of Mrs. Helen
Smith, 81, Chicago, who baffled
science by recovering from a bullet
wound in her heart, was revealed at
clinic in Ball Memorial hospital
here.
Cletis Sweeney, CASTOR youth,
was shot by a jealous husband six
weeks ago. He walked to the hospi-
tai, where an X-ray photograph
disclosed that the 80 calibre bullet
was lodged in his heart.
1t was thought at first that
Sweeney's recovery was impossible
No effort was made to remove the
bullet.
AS days passed, the patient
showed signs of rapid recovery, and
now is able to walk about the hos
pital yard. He appears to be on the
road to normal recovery, physicians
report, and soon may be released
from the hospital.
DR.. John r. Hurley, resident ply
sician, who described the case, ano
Dr. L. R. Mason, who discussed il
with him. said that medical litera-
ture, both domestic and foreign
fails to list a parallel.
However, Mrs. Smith recently suf-
fered an almost Identical wound in
suicide attempt, worked three
hours after firing the shot before
her husband noted anything wrong
with her, and since has recovered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
BULK OF EDISON
ESTATE TO SONS
Provision Already Made for
Widow, viii Says.

NEWARK. N. j., Oct. 29.-All
shares of capital stock, Thomas A.
Edison, Inc, are to be divided
equally between his two sons,
Charles and Theodore Edison, who
are named executors, according to
the will of the inventor, filed for
probate today.
The sons also are given, as ten
ants in common, the land and
premises known as the Edison lab
oratory; and all the inventors
shares of the Edison Portland Ce-
ment Company.
No provision was made for the
widow, but a supplemental state
naent of the testator said:
my dear wife, Nina Edison, al
ready is provided for adequately
through gifts from me and other
wise. For this reason, I make no
provision for her in this will"
Frederick P. OFT, veteran en-
ploye of the Edison company, was
bequeathed $4,000, and his brother,
John F., who died the day after
Edison died, is left $4,000. William
H. MeadowToft, for f1fty-two years
the inventors secretary, was be-
queathed $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
HALFWAY MARK PASSED;
COMMUNITY FUND TEAMS
REPORT FINE PROGRESS

The drive closes Monday. Many
subscribers who never have ap-
peared on the funds books before
were listed by workers, Liggett said.
This is an extraordinary cam
paign for an extraordinary cause, -
said Arthur v. Brown, chairman of
the drive.
I'VE can not halt. We must dou-
bic our efforts. Although the re-
suits to date are encouraging, the
time is getting short and we must
not become overconf1den We must
not think of failure. because we are
not going to fall
Two teams in the branch house
division went over their quota
Wednesday, and others neared their
goal. Several teams in the indi-
vidual gifts division also have sub
Scribed the quotas allotted them at
the beginning of the drive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29

Passing the halfway mark in
the Community Fund drive for
S1,04S,6S6, workers at the fourth
meeting today reported additional
gifts totaling S116,225.79, bringing
total contributions to date to
S541,006.
With as per cent Of its goal at
tanned, the Community Fund looked
to 5000 volunteer workers today to
carry it's drive for $1,04S,686 on be-
yond the half mark. ~
At the daily report meeting
Wednesday in the Claypool the
workers reported $126,244.07 in sub
scriptions to raise the total amount
subscribed to date to $424, 781.79, OF
ASS per cent of the goal.
David Liggett, executive secretary
of the fund, said this mark was
$4,000 above tie total raised at the
end of three days in last years
campaign.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
RUTH JUDD Is FIGHTING
LOSING BATTLE AGAINST
EXTRACTION TO ARIZONA

train. He had considered using an
airplane, but Mrs. Judd refused to
travel in that manner.
CAS- soon as we get her over to
Phoenix" McFadden said, It think
we'll learn the truth about those
killings. Mrs. Judd had an accom-
plice-we're sure of that-and I
believe we can persuade her to tell
us the whole story"
The accomplice angle was some
what refuted by DR.. Benjamin
Blank, county jail physician, who,
after thorough examination of
Mrs. Judd, declared that she, like
anybody else" could in a moment
of emotional stress and rage be
capable Of unusual feats of strength.
Arizona authorities have con-
tended that Mrs. Judd could not
have handled the bodies of her VIC
TINS to the extent of lifting them
on to a bed and into trunks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29

TT would have been easy for boy
4 of his pounds and inches to play
around with class football. He
would have been assigned to the
lightweight division and called up
on to engage only men Of his own
meager measurements.
But his aspirations-his inter-
probation of the code of the cadet
permitted no such thought. A
place on the varsity team was the
goal he set, and, after two seasons
of dnrecognAzed but persistent
endeavor, that goal was realized.
Bugle notes. Bugle notes. The
haunting sound # taps. A flag
draped coffin is lowered in a new
grave. Cadet Richard Brinsley
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
ARIA OF TAPS ROAR OF MUSKETRY AND DICK SHERIDAN SIZE

Sheridan Jr. lies beside Winfield
Scott, George Custer, and others
who have been nurtured by the
Spartan mother.
Then the roar of musketry.
Three volleys and the tang of
spent powder in the October air.
Quivering lips in the uniformed
lines once more are firm. The
dauntless spirit, the splendid name
of their comrade becomes a memory.
These boys are soldiers.
Only little lady in black re-
mains obviously affected. And she,
as true soldiers mother. has said,
ut would be Dicks wish. hat you
carry on"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
Hourly Temperatures

So into the ranks he went and,
when the time came, he turned in
the finest marks ever made in such
tests.
That achievement indicated the
energy, determination, and courage
that was housed in his small
frame. 1t was in evidence through
his plebe and yearling terms in all
the curricula phases of academy
life, never in any subject did he
receive mark below go per cent.
He earned the star of a dis
tinguished cadet, won the highest
rank in the corps for which he was
eligible, and became president of
his class. The same qualities were
strikingly in evidence on the athle-
tic field.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
COlIidge Shoots Skunk
as C!in1ax of Vacation

Mr.. and Mrs. Coolidge were
spending the evening in the old
Coolidge homestead.
Suddenly Mrs. Coolidge's pet
chow, Tim, began barking.
1t is an old Yankee custom in
such cases for a New England
farmer to proceed outside to in
vestigate, usually accompanied
by his wife carrying a lantern
or fiashlight.
The Coolidges followed this
procedure. Mr.. Coolidge went
outside, espied the polecat on
the opposite side Of the road, re-
turned to the house, procured
his shotgun, and killed the ami
NAL.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
BIZ United Press

By United Press
LOS ANGELES, Oct. Winnie
Ruth Judd tossed restlessly on her
cot at the county Jail today while
a last desperate attempt was made
to prolong her stay in Los Angeles
She does not want to return to
Phoenix, where she assertedly killed
Hedvig Samuelson and Mrs. Agnes
Anne Leroi, her former companions,
and stuffed their bodies in trunks
for shipment to Los Angeles.
She pleads that she is too i'll, that
her wounded left hand hurts too
much to permit her removal.
But Arizona authorities were con-
fident she would be en- route to
Phoenix tonight, despite pending
action on a writ of habeas corpus
and plans Of defense attorneys to
apply for a second writ.
Sheriff j. r. McFadden, Phoenix,
said the journey would be made by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
CALLS FARLEY
TO SlFT CITY'S
UTILITY RATES
Mayor and Corporation
Chiefs Summoned by
CuthbertS0n.
COMPROMISE is SOUGHT
Commissioner Says He
Hopes to Avoid Expensive
Appraisal.

Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbert-
son Of the public service commission
has called a conference Nov. 5 to
discuss the petitions for Indianapo-
lis utility rate reductions assigned
to him, with the hope of settlement
by compromise, without commission
action.
Cuthbertson contends that if 9
compromise can be reached on petit
tons asking reduction of rates BY
the Indianapolis Water Company
and the Indianapolis Power &
Light Company, it will mean an
eventual saving of between 100000
and 100000 in audits and ap-
praisals.
He pointed out that the cost OF
such surveys are borne, in the last
analysis, by the consumer.
Civic Leaders Invited
Those invited to the conference
include Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan
Edward H. Knight, corporation
counsel; James E. Deery, city ats
torney; G. L. Harrod, president OF
the Indianapolis Power and Light
Company; Joseph J. Daniels, attor-
ney for the Indianapolis Water
the water company, and Taylor E
Groninger, attorney for the south
side civic clubs.
Rate reduction petitions were filed
jointly by the city Officials and citi-
zens. Signatures of the citizens were
secured by representatives of the
south side civic clubs.
Calls for Conference
Text Of the Cuthbertson invita-
ton follows:
I have before me petitions for
reduction of rates in each of the
above entitled causes, these petit
tions having been assigned to me
this date.
I have not as yet ordered an in
ventory and appraisal of the
property involved in these mat
tiers, nor an audit of the books
of the respective utilities. I feel
that it might be possible that
great deal might be accomplished
in the way of materially reducing,
at least, the great expense in con-
nection with a matter of this
kind. would be pleased if each
Of you gentlemen to whom this
letter is addressed could arrange
to meet at my Office on Thursday,
Nov. S, 1881, and have with you
such representatives of the re-
spective companies as might have
authority to speak on behalf of
these companies and such repre-
SentativeS of the signers of the
respective petitions as you might
feel should attend this meeting.
/ feel that a great deal might
be accomplished by a meeting of
this kind and be beneficial to all
concerned.
If those who have authority to
speak for the utilities attend, they
will include Clarence H. Geist,
Philadelphia, owner of the Indian
apolis Water Company, and Harley
Clarke, Chicago, owner and promo
ter of the Indianapolis Power and
Light Company.
Petitions invited have indicated
they will attend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29

boundlesS joy and unusual &C
complishments in West Point life.
1t was by no favor or patronage
that Sheridan became cadet. No
congressman or senator could or
would put his name forward as a
candidate for the academy, al
though every qualification, with
the possible exception of size, was
in Sheridan's favor and. in size. he
met the minimum requirements.
A lad made of stuff less stern
might not have persisted. But
Sheridan learned that, by enlisting
in the ranks of the regular army,
he could qualify form competitive
examination at the emf of year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29

"It was evident that some
one had tempered. with the
sandwiches" she told the
jury.
Her accusation of the mysterious
poisoner came after states attor-
neys again had heard several times
her denials of the murders of Alice
Jean and her sister Virginia, since
Mrs. Simmons took the stand
Wednesday morning.
CroSs-Qu Near End
The state was expected to COM
plete its battering questioning
shortly after the afternoon session
begins today.
Mrs. Simmons, more confident o:
her answers and braced by a pill.
low in the witness chair, told TIT
jury she had arrived at the picni,
tables June 81 to find some of he,
sandwiches already placed OF
plates.
81 went to the can to get one TO-
myself and had to pry the lid of
by using my fingernails," she testi
fed. ut was evident that the sand
wiches had been tempered with.
"The one I got was mashed ano
had no toothpick in it,
She also testified she had placed
a common toothpick'' in each OF
the sandwiches before she left her
home in Hancock county.
Pry Into Family Affairs
States attorneys today switched
from their polite and considerate
questioning of the accused woman
and bored into minute details of her
family affairs and the picnic, time
after time.
They walked with her several
times over the trail Of testimony
from her home that fatal day to
the deaths of her daughters in a
hospital here.
And, each time she denied having
given the children poison at any
time, of having poison in the house
of having any intention of murder,
ing them or other members of her
family, and of inserting the small
poison capsules into the sand
witches.
The courtroom was jammed to
overlooking, as the questioning con-
tinued. Friends and relatives of the
woman held the best seats, while
others from Hancock, Boone, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29

attention about a new grave in
the school cemetery-is pronounc-
ing, through the lambent notes,
a last good-by to Cadet Richard
BrinSley Sheridan Jr.
Bugle notes. 1t was with bugle
notes that Cadet Sheridan was
welcomed to the academy, for
Bugle Notes is the title of the tiny
pocket manual which is presented
each new appointee as he reports,
eager-faced and alert, to begin
the four-year course which is to
prepare him for duty as an officer
of the United States army.
= = .
DERHAPS the difficulty he found
1 in obtaining an appointment
had something to do with his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29

WHEN a city hospital ambu-
w lance, its siren screaming,
roars to stop on an emergency
run Sunday, instead of the usual
male physician, a dilninutive
woman inferno will step forth to
minister to the i'll or injured.
She is Miss Frances T. Brown,
the only city hospital woman in
terne in twenty years and the
second in the hospitals history.
Starting Sunday, DR.. Brown will
alternate with three male in
ternes, taking her turn riding in
charge of the speeding ambulance,
regardless of the character of the
emergency call.
II know it is dangerous, riding
an ambulance as it lodges through
traffic at high speed on an emer-
gency run, but 1 am thrilled at
the prospect" she said.
XXTHILE admitting she loves
W the thrill of speed, even
hoping some day to find time to
learn to fly an airplane, DR..
Browns principal desire is to gain
experience in her life work-min-
istering to the i'll and injured.
even back in my girlhood days
in Martinsville, my chief ambi-
ton was to become a physician
so I could help Others" she ex-
planned.
Her training at Indiana uni
versity medical school has taught
her not to finch at even the
worst accident cases.
She never has tainted in her
life, not even while watching sur
geons working on badly mangled
bodies, and is not f1ustered at
sight of mice, she boasts.
"I know I'll like the work." she
said, and I'm going to do my
best to prove that women can be
just as good physicians as men,"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
FIND BODY IN CANAL
Mrs. Anna Kennedy Victim
of Water Death.

Body of Mrs. Anna Kennedy, sic
Patterson street, was found today
by police in the Indianapolis Water
Company canal at West street.
AT first unidentified, the body was
viewed at city morgue by a sister,
who left the hospital before police
arrived to question here.
The body was dragged from the
water after the canal had been low
cred more than six inches in order
to dislodge it from beneath a
bridge.
Coroner Fred Velnling, who inves-
tigated, said the woman apparent
ly had been dead about six hours.
He did not make a decision on the
cause of death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
BY CHARLES E. PARKER
Yiuaa~ SfaH rorres~ordart


NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-The
IN voice of a bugle breaks the
hush of West Point 1t does not
give off the strident, insistent
strain of reveille. Nor does it
fashion the urgent, ringing runs
of other calls to military action.
From its muffled throat, softly,
caressingly, comes the sound of
taps-that haunting little aria
with which the soldier bids fare
we'll to departed comrade.
The corps, 200 straight, strap
ping. clear-eyed young men who
constitute the student body of the
UnitG States military academy
and who stand under arms and at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29

DR.. Deitch said he parked his car
at the curb near the building, sc
South Pennsylvania street, between
several other parked cars, and hur-
ried into the building.
Car TOwed In
Less than five minutes later. he
returned to his car with the fluid
The automobile had been towed in
DR.. Deitch said that was at 8:45
He said he fastened to police head
quarters to recover the car and pre-.
Sented check at the traffic office
window, only to be told payment
would have to be made in cash.
Deitch said he then was forced
TO cash the check, and paid the S:
fee. More than an hour later. his
car was released.
In a statement to The Times. DR.
De1tch charged police with "unrea-
Sonable interference" and branded
the toW-in law violation of the
rights of every taxpayer"
Charges USurpation
He charged business houses with
"usurping" parking space that
''rightfully belongs to the taxpayer. 4"
''The hands of the citizens are
bound and there doesn't seem to be
an agency in the world to help
them. Charged with my duty as a
physician, I only was performing
that duty when the authorities, en-
forcing a despotic law, barred my
way" he charged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
By United Press

~ Dntfed Press
PLYMOUTH, VT, Oct. o.
i Former President and Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge killed a skunk
Wednesday night.
This was learned today as the
famous couple left by automo-
bile for their Northampton,
Mass, home after spending a
fifteen-week vacation in this
town where Mr.. Coolidge was
born.
While Mrs. Coolidge held
flashlight on the polecat, hover
ing in the distant darkness, the
former president raised his
double-barrelled shotgun and
fired, killing the skunk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
RULES ON LICENSE FEE
Ogden Holds so Cents Must Be Paid
on Chain Stores.

Acknowledgement James M. Ogden
ruled today that license application
fee of so cents must be paid for
each store under the chain store tax
law.
The ruling was made on request
of L. c. Johnson, store tax admin
istrator for the state tax board. The
fee charge is assessable for the years
1929-30 and 81, Ogden ruled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
MARINE AIR CHIEF DIES
By United Press

Colonel Turner Succumbs to In
juries; Struck by Propeller.
By United Press
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti Oct.
29.-Colonel Thomas G. Turner,
chief of the aviation force of the
United States marines, died here
Wednesday night of injuries re-
ceived Monday when he was struck
by the propeller of a marine plane.
Colonel Turner and seven others
aboard the pane were shaken up
when the machine, ten-passenger
Sikorsky. landed in heavy mud at
Gonavesi. Colonel Turner stepped
out to see whether the pilot could
attempt to continue the flight, and
fell head first into the propeller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
TRAILER CRASH KILLS 6
50 Others Injured When Van
PlungeS Down Embankment.

By United Press
MARION, Ark, Oct. 29.-Six
persons were killed and thirty
three others injured near here to-
day when a trailer broke loose
from a motor truck and plunged
down a Six-foot embankment spill
ing its cargo Of cotton pickers.
All of the dead we're from Mariet-
ia, Miss, little farming community
located in north Mississippi. The
truck and trailer were en- route to
the Stillman plantation which is
located near Lepanto, north of here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
DOCTORS
CAR, WITH PATIENT
NEAR DEATH DOOR
DR.. 0. S/Deitch Parks to Buy Drug in Case
of Critical Illness; Hour Is Lost
Because of TOWN.

NEFlVD Oh MS automobile after hurryng
typodermc drug for stricken patient Indianapolis physician
To-Day eyed authorities for despom in ton law
wa the lie OF patient aSseredy
west ashgo street speeded early this morning
ceS OF e Farke-Davs Chemical Company
obtain the drug The patient DR. Dech suffering from
heart ailment. 49, -e 4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
BANDITS KILL JAPANESE
Chinese Marauders Shoot Down
Soldiers Near Mukden

BIZ United Press
MUKDEN, Manchuria, Oct. o.
Three japanese soldiers and a
civilian were killed today in en-
counters with Chinese bandits out
side the walls of Mukden, center of
the Manchurian strife between
China and Japan.
An army captain and two privates
were killed while defending the
Supingkai-Taonan railway from the
bandits attack. The civilian was
killed by sniper as he walked
through the south gate OF the walled
city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
DEFENDANT IN POISON TRIAL
CHARGES 'TAMPERING' WITH
PICNIC FOOD SHE PREPARED
Mrs. Simmons Parties Every Blow Aimed at
Her Testimony; Subjected to
Searching Quiz.
GAINS CONFIDENCE IN HER ANSWERS
Admits That She Has Slept Only Two Hours
Night in Last Decade, Tells of
Long Period of Illness.
BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT

LEBANON, Ind, Oct. 29-Charles w. Friedman, In
dianapOis druggist who identified Mrs. Carrie Simmons
the purchaser of sixty grains of srychnne June 1S
three days before the fatal picnic to take the stand
this afternoon as states first rebuttal witness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29

LEBANON, Ind, Oct. 29-Her period of testimony linz
ed Mrs. Carrie W. Simmons Hancock county farm mother
today sought strengthen her defense against the charge of
numbering her daughter Alice Jean by declaring that
had tempered with her picnic sandwiches
With this assertion the defendant attempted to support
of placing srychnne capsules in the food and lay
the blame on the shoulders of another perhaps member of
he
The Washington times., 1931-01-09
Paddy Was Last to See Her
Alivea Ion Murder Morning

been sent to an undertaking eS-
tablishment.
Preparations for burial were be.
ing made when the bullet wound
was discovered in the head.
Hair had been forced in the
wound to plug 1t up and stop
bleeding.
The coroner was at once noti-
fled and a post mortem revealed
a .25 calibre pistol bullet in the
brain.
Investigation of thu murder at
once started, and the names Of
Langdon and two other policemen
were drawn into the case.
"ToO Fast" for Him
The other policemen are Paul
Berger, Of No. 9 precinct, who
admits having known and quar-
relied with the girl, and Thomas
Carter who declares that he had
gone out with the girl, but dropped
her because her crowd was too
fast" for him.