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The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
Taxi Ordinance Nav he Presented

Taxi Ordinance May Be Presented
Ordinance providing a $25 license
fee for taxicabs, licenses to be
issued only after obtaining GER
tificate of convenience and necessity
from the safety board, may be in
troduced before city council tonight.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
NORRIS MAY RESIGN IF
SHOALS BILL Is SIGNED

By Scrtpps-H otoard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, March BE
cause, he says, President Hoover
and the Republican national COM
mittee have been so anxious to get
rid of him, Senator George w. Nor
ris has suggested to the President
his willingness to resign from the
senate after March 4.
The proposal is contingent upon
the Presidents approval of the Nor
ris bill for operation of Muscle
Shoals, which now is at the White
House awaiting approval or disap-
proval.
The offer was made through a
mutual friend Of the President and
the senator.
It stipulated that if the President
would sign the bill and then appoint
Norris and two men whom he would
recommend as directors of the
Muscle Shoals Corporation, which
will operate the properties, Norris
would resign from the senate.
The Nebraskan will begin his
fourth term in the senate Wednes-
day. A senator's salary is $4,000 a
year.
Directors Of the Muscle Shoals
Corporation will receive a maximum
Of $500 the first year and maxi
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
DEATH CLAIMS
SPRINCSTEEN
Ex-PoStmaSter, Councilman
SuCCumbS at Hospital.

Complications following a long ILL
ness early today caused the death
of Robert E. Springsteen, 73, former
postmaster and city councilman, at
st. Vincent's hospital.
Mr.. Springsteen was taken to the
hospital Friday noon after he be-
came seriously Ill.
He had been a resident of In
dianapolis all his life, residing dur
ing recent years at the Dolly Mad
ison apartments, 234 East Twelfth
street.
Funeral services will be held at
2 Wednesday afternoon at the Rags
dale & Price undertaking eStab-
lishment, 1919 North Alabama
street, followed by burial in Crown
Hill cemetery. The body will lie
in state Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. Springsteen served as post
master from 1913 to 1922, being ap-
pointed during the early part of
the administration of the late PreSi-
dent Woodrow Wilson. Prior to this
he had been manager of the When
Clothing Company and later oper-
ated a merchant tailoring estab-
lishment.
During the Duvall and Slack city
administrations, Mr.. Springsteen
served as city councilman
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.
John H. OFT Jr., Coral Gables, Fla. !;
a sister, Mrs. Anna Beerbaur, st.
Louis, Mo, and cousin, Harry
Springsteen, 5255 North Illinois
street, city market master.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
BONUS SEEKERS
JAM OFFICES
Rush Increases With Total
of 5000 at Noon.

Rush of former service men ap-
plying for loans in adjusted COM
pensation certificates increased to-
day with more than 1000 veterans
applying the first three hours after
the United States Veterans bu-
reau opened.
A line of men two blocks long
waited at the office entrance at
the stream Of applicants, which
started Friday, following passage of
the bonus law over President Hoo
ver's veto, passed through.
Total application at noon were
estimated at more than 5000 by
John H. Ale, regional manager of
the bureau Clerks had paid about
700 loans and prepared to work
overtime tonight on thousands of
applications already filed.
The Office in the Test building
is open from $3.50 a. m. to 4:3O p. IN.
to receive applications, Ale an
nounced.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
Postpone Real Job
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 2.-Treas-
ury officials explained today the
March Is financing was held to
$1,400,0O0 instead of the $1,6OO,O00
originally contemplated, because it
is postponing the real job of fl
nancing the bonus in order not to
burden the bond market too heavily
at this time. ~
Brigadier- -Cenefal Frank r. Hines,
administrator of veterans affairs,
asked the treasury for 100000, 900
in March, but the treasury said it
will give him now only 100000, 900
in connection with the March f.
nancing. It will borrow the other
$500, 100000 this spring through an
issue of short term bills.
In June, the treasury revealed, it
expects to borrow another $780,
100000 for the bonus, thus giving
the veterans bureau a total of
$70O, 100000.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
Cuban Girl, Said to Have
Vital information, Gives
Up to Police.

NEW YORK, March "A girl,
said to be a Cuban maid and mas
seuse, with information perhaps
vital to solution of the Vivian Cor
don Staying, surrendered today to
police at Mt. Vernon, according to
the Mt. Vernon Daily Argus. Mt.
Vernon. adjoins New York an' is
not far from the Gordon kilnng
scene.
She was said to have given the
Gordon woman massage treatments
daily, and to have ridden with two
men in an auto the night Miss
Gordon was Strangled, apparently
in taxicab after which the body
was thrown out into Van Cortland
park on the edge of New York.
The Cuban girl, according to the
Argus, entered the car at Fortieth
street in New York and rode to Mt
Vernon.
Surrender Follows Tip
The paper said that its reporters
had discovered that two taxicab
drivers and a patrolman, who chased
a speeding taxicab containing a
screaming woman Wednesday night,
no>longer were to be found in their
customary haunts.
Surrender of the Cuban girl fol-
lowed a tip to police by a man
friend, who said he noticed that
the masseuse was highly nervous
after the night on which Miss Cor
don was killed.
John E. G. Bischoff, divorce huS-
band of the murdered woman, and
Andrew j. McCloughlin, vice squad
patrolman, we're questioned here
Sunday and denied they had con-
spired to frame" Miss Gordon on
the vice charge for which she was
sent to Bedford reformatory eight
years ago.
Each Claims Innocence
Each insisted he knew nothing
about why she was strangled to
death last week.
Cassie Clayton, believed to have
received the last letter ever writ
ten by Miss Gordan, arrived this
morning from Erie, Pa, under es-
cort of a process server for Referee
Seabury.
She was taken at once to Sea-
bury's office and it was indicated
that she will be kept out of the
hands Of police investigators in view
of the fact that her story may be
damaging to police against whom
Miss Gordon was to have given evi-
dence.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
SISTER OF ARLENE
ON WITNESS STAND
IN GIN DEATH CASE
Lost AUiatYix
Found; Injured
By United Press

By United Press
MONTEREY, Cal, March 2.
Edna May Cooper, joint
holder of the worlds endur-
ance flight record for women,
who disappeared week ago
in Hollywood, was identified
today as a patient in the Mon
terey hospital.
Suffering from a lapse Of
memory apparently induced by
a hard blow at the back of her
head, Miss Cooper could give
no explanation for her pres
ence in Monterey.
Besides the head wound
an ugly abrasian and swelling
the right side of the avia-
trix's body is black and blue,
as though she had suffered a
severe beating or had fallen
heavily.
DR.. Hugh Ormody, hospital
psysician, was inclined to be-
ieve Miss Cooper had not been
in an automobile accident.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
TH0MPS0N'S GUESTS
UNWELC0ME IN HOTEL

Owner Fears Politicians, So Big
BilP Moves to New Quarters.
By United Press
MT. CLEMENS, Mich, March 2.
Mayor William H. Thompson of
Chicago is taking his customary
prediction mineral baths here at
the Park hotel instead of the
Colonial hotel, his previous head
quarters, because the proprietor of
the latter house refused admission
to Thompson's proposed guests.
DR.. Gustav Persons, proprietor
Of the Colonial, indicated the
and his present encourage
of five Chicago political allies
might" have been welcome but
for the fact that he feared that the
hundreds Of political workers who
Will visit Thompson before th1
weekend might not reach the
standard of the hotels discriminate
ing clientele.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
VICTIM IN TORCH CAR WAS
STABBED, FORMER DEPUTY
CORONER SAYS ON STAND
Instrument Was Plunged Into His Heart
Before Death in Fire, Testimony
of DR.. Lawrence A. Lewis.
SCHROEDER SHOWS WEAR OF ORDEAE
Defendant Pale as He Comes to Court
for Fifth Day of Trial; Women
Spectators Voice Sympathy.
BY EDWARD C. FULKE'

Testimony that a death-dealing instrument
plunged into the chest of unknown before the charred
body was found Harold Herbert Schroeder flaming sedan
High School road May 81 unfolded before criminal
court jury today
Prosecutors played their high card against the Mobile
garage this morning when Dr. Lawrence A. Lewis for
deputy coroner told the jury that Schroeders alleged
victim died of stabbing.
breathles mob of spectators that listened eager
to Dr. flash grewsome picture of the legess
less fame-blackened torso before the jury.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
Testimony Against Gary
Youth Is Expected to
End Today.
BY CARLOS LANE
Times STAFF Correspondent

VALPARAISO, Ind, March q
Her voice choked with emotion, Miss
Elsie braves, Highland school teach
er, today took the witness stand to
identify clothing worn by her sis
ter, Arlene, the night of her death,
following gin party at Gary,
Nov. %.
Miss braves, a surprise witness,
appeared as one Of the final wit
nesses before til state rests its case
today against Virgil Kirkland, whom
the prosecution seeks to send to
the electric chair for the alleged
murder of Arlene.
The defense, with eight or nine
witnesses to present, including
Kirkland, may 'lose late WedneS-
day or Thursday.
Courtroom Is Packed
Before a packed courtroom, Miss
braves identified stockings, dress,
brassiere and stepins worn by her
sister the night of her death and
showed where they we're torn.
Her voice was choked with sobs
as she described bruises on Arlene's
head, throat, arms and hands as
she viewed the body next day in
morgue.
In describing wounds on her sis
ter's body, Miss braves said.
II noticed her hands. They were
all scratched-like some one had
clawed her."
Nick Christof, owner of a hot
dog stand who was on the stand
Saturday, was recalled for cross
examination today.
Oscar Thiel, defense attorney,
asked Christoff if the day after the
alleged murder Christoff had not
told a man he did not know Kirk
land. Christoff denied the CONVEX
sation.
He identified four photographs of
the hot dog stand and said a street
light in front Of the stand burns
all night. This line Of questioning,
it was believed, was to show that
Arlene was not attacked in front
of the hot dog stand, as the state
charges, because of the light from
the street lamp.
Near the close of the morning
session, Judge Grant Crumpacker
ruled that the alleged confessions
Of Kirkland's four companions, also
charged with murder, could not be
used against the defendant.
81 Think She's Dead"
William Davidson, who said he
knew Kirkland "by sight" and was
called to the youths car by Kirk
land after the latter had left the
restaurant where he and his COM
panionS went for sandwiches, teS-
tilted.
Il saw him in the back seat of
the auto" Davidson told the Jury.
''He had the girl in his arms. Virgil
called me over and said My God,
feel her pulse-I think she's dead
"I didn't think she was dead, So
didn't feel her pulse. 1 figured
she had just passed out. I did
feel her hands and face and they
we're cold. I told Kirkland to get
her cup of coffee. Virgil seemed
scared and said she couldn't drink
anything"
The defense will attempt to show
that the romantic yearnings of
youth, the laxness of society today
the bootleg emporiums of Gary
Ind, were responsible for the crime
and not Kirkland's character.
Although the defense, surprised
the state with the announcement
that Kirkland would take the stand
in his own behalf, the prosecution
in Ss-eXamining him is expected
to bolster its case by querrying him
regarding his dismissal from the
Gary high school for alleged sex
delinquency.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
IT, S. Reaction
Is Awaited on
..NaUaL Accord

By United Press
PARIS, March 2.-Reaction OF
the United States to the new naval
limitations accord reached by
France, Britain and Italy was await
ed today with obvious anxiety in
official circles.
Attention of British, French and
Italian officials centered, on the re-
ception of the new accord in Wash
ington, where, it was suggested,
there may be opposition to pro-
posalS for limitation Of battleships
to $4,000 tons.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02

ranging toward the back and
downward" Lewis testified.
Schroeder claims that the victim
died of a broken neck when he
(Schroeder) fell asleep at the wheel
west of Terre Haute, and the auto
plunged into ditch.
"a search of the outer chest was
made" DR.. Lewis stated. "a wound
corresponding with the one in the
lung was found. Behind the lung,
the back had been burned away
Wilson questioned Dr. Lewis on
the dimensions of the wound.
'It was about one-half inch wide,
entering the chest and piercing the
lung" DR.. Lewis said.
Knife May Have Been Used
Holmes and Mattice argued for
several minutes at this point when
Lewis was asked to state what in
strument might have caused ths
wound.
Judge Frank P. Baker, on the
bench, overruled Holmes, and Lewis
state:
"In my opinion the wound was in-
f1icted by some such object as
knife or other small instrument.
WAS, in your opinion, the wound
sufficient to cause death?" the wit
ness was asked.
I'm my opinion it was" Lewis
answered
Did it cause the death of the
man whose torso was found?"
i don't know" Lewis answered.
Holmes Again OverruIed
"Was death cause by burningq"
Mattice asked.
Holmes objected TO the question.
and was overruled.
An examination Of the bronchial
tubes did not disclose ashes Or SCOT.
as is common in persons who burn
TO DEATH" Lewis responded.
Was this person alive when he
was set fire to?"
would say that death had oc-
Cured before the fire, or that death
was so imminent when the fame
started that no breathing occurred"
Lewis answered.
Trinkets Are Shown
Mattlce then asked a hypothetical
question on circumstances of the
crime, asking DR.. Lewis how long
the man had been dead when the
fire started.
Holmes objected, and arguments
enSued. Baker overruled Holmes.
L couldn't tell that" DR.. Lewis
answered.
Grim reminders Of the torch car
tragedy, trinklets found in the car
were introduced in evidence before
Lewis took the stand. They INCLUDE
ed a small square compact found
imbedded in the hip flesh of the
torso, rosary and some coins. Bell
identified these as being taken from
the torch car.
State Again Scores
When prosecutors attempted to
have Bell identify coat bearing
the initials III. H. S." found near
tne car, Holmes objected, but was
overruled.
Holmes based his objection on
the theory that the state first
should prove the corpus delicti.
When Baker held that he would not
undertake to control the states
order Of proof" prosecutors chalked
up their second victory.
Holmes was given an exception
When the objection was overruled.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02

Beginning the fifth day OF
his fight 60 escape the electric
chair, Schroeder was pale and
wan as he came into court this
morning.
Ordeal of a psychopathic examina-
ton over the weekend at city hos
pital apparently taxed the strength
of the Alabaman, for he faltered as
he walked to the prisoners chair.
Smiling feebly, he greeted rega-
tives and hugged his sons, Harold
Herbert Jr., IL, and Ernest, 8, while
chorus of sympathic "ahS" went
up from women spectators.
AIieniSt Test Important
On the scientific findings of two
alienists who made the examination
may hang the fate of Schroeder.
who claims to have inherited in
sanity.
DR.. Lewis, Negro, graduate of
the Indiana university medical
school and a physician more than
eighteen years, spent the entire
morning session relating results OF
an autopsy performed on the body
two days after it was removed from
the sedan near the intersection OF
the High School and Rockville
roads.
Preceding DR.. Lewis on the stand
were Charles Bell, former deputy
sheriff, and Earl Miller, 1902 North
Meridian street, an embalmer. They
were questioned on circumstances
of the finding of the body.
Identification Impossible
DR.. Lewis described the torso as
that of a man between % and 35
years of age, about 5 feet inches
tall, and weighing about 140 pounds.
Neither race nor color of the VIC
tim could be established, DR.. Lewis
testified.
every vestige of skin and all
marks we're burned away with the
exception of a three-inch area at
the base of the spine. The peak of
the skull was burned away and the
bones of the face had crumbled. The
Uranium contained one-half the
normal amount of brains, and they
were coagulated," DR.. Lewis testi-
fed.
"Only stunps of the legs and
arms remained, burned away, as
were the vital organs and the back.
The upper portion of the chest suf-
fered least, as parts of it had re-
manned intact" he testified.
"The abdominal contents were re-
duced to a conglomerate mass, half
charred, decayed and infested" he
continued.
Photo Is Barred
Attempt to introduce photo
graph of the charred torso at this
point by Prosecutor Herbert Wilson
and Floyd Mattice, chief deputy,
failed when Ira Holmes, defense
attorney, objected, on the ground
that it was not identified satisfac-
torily.
DR.. Lewis continued testifying
with the statement that the victim
died after being stabbed.
inspection of contents Of the
chest showed there had been a
hemorrhage of considerable magni-
tude around the right lung, or the
pleural cavity. In and around the
other lung there were no indica-
tions of hemorrhage," Lewis said.
when the right lung was lifted
from the chest during the autopsy
a quantity of free blood, approx
mately three and one-half ounces
ran down to the base of the body
cavity.
Search was made for wound,
DR.. Lewis continued, "and a definite
wound of the right lung was found
near the level of the sixth rib
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02

mum of $4,000 the second year and
thereafter.
The bill contemplates the appoint
ment of three directors, all of whom
shall be in sympathy with the OBJ
jects of the law.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
FINDS LARGE METEORlTE
Discoverer Stakes Mining Claim TO
Obtain Legal Title.
81 Science Service

81 Science SerUicc
LONDON, March 2.-The worlds
largest meteorite is reported found
by a johannesburg land surveyor in
the Tanganyika region of Africa.
1t consists of a mass of iron and
nickel Weighing seventy TO eighty
tons and measuring nearly fourteen
feet long. It's discoverer, w. H. Mott,
staked mining claim in order to
obtain legal title to his discovery.
The meteorite was found in open
country about half way between
Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-03-02
Bandit Pays for Kisses

FRANCISCO 2The latest value placed stolen
kisses three 81, police reported today
The ping quotation given by amorousy in
cned bandit who held and robbed Brown OF $3.50 while he
seated in automobile with Miss Nina Wolfe 23
The bandit said Pretty sweet kid you got here got
told police "I told
my money Miss Wolfe
he back a5dolar.g
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So he got in behind the wheel and
they started off again.
Rowena settled back in the rum
bic seat with a malicious little grin
After listening to Bobby's chatter
about Carter for an hour, she leaned
| forward.
"Do you mind if I close this win.
low?" she asked sweetly "Pm try.
| ing to think out the plot to a story
and I must have perfect silence te
decide whether I want to have
BoDby's Garter commit the MURDER ol
be committed"
From that moment the rumble seal
was Rowena's own.
She seemed to take morbid pleas
ure in providing comfort for her
privacy, and often smiled to herself
in complacent and not unmalicious
satisfaction when she heard the
steady soft roll of Bobby's voice re-
calling Peter with vivid accounts
about Carter and their last quarrel
which caused her to apply for the
trip.
Peter was in possession of a COM
plete biography Of Carter long before
they reached Buffalo, where they
were to pay their first official visit
to the Rackruff salesrooms, and
where he was to make his first pic
ture of the roadster and Rowena
7 For all the secldsion of the rumble
seat, Rowena was able to break in on
Bobby's 1ove-affair long enough to
voice her disagreement with Peters
plans when she wanted to, which was
pretty often. 1t went without saying
that they did not agree about the
financial management of the trip.
Rackruff Motors, Inc. had agreed to
pay all expenses for the car en- route,
and had allowed Peter and Rowena
a joint salary of one hundred dollars
week-an expense allowance, it was
really.
Peters idea of the way to carry on
was obviously the simplest and most
natural. He said he would pay
expenses for both of them and then
divide equally with Rowena what
ever was left of the hundred dollars
at the end of each week.
Rowena said it wouldn't do.
In the end, Peter agreed to divide
each weeks allowance with her i'm
mediately upon it's receipt every Mon
day morning, each thereafter paying
his own bills, bearing his own respon-
sibility, and saving what he could
from the amount.
Even before they reached Buffalo
he realized it would have been money
in his pocket to have stuck to his
original idea. Certainly it was no
great drain on the expense account
buying food for Rowena. While
motoring in the fresh air made both
him and Bobby ravenously hungry,
so that they wished to eat often,
fully and expensive1y, it seemed to
have no effect whatever upon Row.
ena, who ate so rarely and so little
that Bobby accused her of trying to
reduce
'Well," smiled Peter good-natured-
ly, eff you carry on like this for the
next three months you will get rich
off your share of the expense ac-
count"
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dreamed that every time I made a
suggestion it would just lead to a
bitter argument"
why, | didn't argue with you,'
protested Peter.
"I'd much rather sit in the rumble
seat where | can think my thoughts
in peace and not have my most inno-
cent ideas ,contradicted before they
are out of my mouth" continued
Rowena.
why, I wasn't contradicting you"
protested Peter.
But Rowena insisted, so Peter
helped Bobby gently out of the rum
bic seat and was just turning to give
Rowena hand when he saw that
she was already in, sitting very erect,
chin high and ewes extremely blue.