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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-03
BUDGET BILL
CUT REDUCED
House Rules Suspended
to Pass Measure On
to Senate.

Voting Y to II to suspend the
constitutional rules. the Indiana
house today prepared to pass on to
the senate the $76,0OO,000 biennial
appropriation bill.
Amendments in preparation likely
to add considerably to the $459, 1922
reduction effected Monday by the
house as a committe Of the whole.
Giving practically an entire day
and night session to the bill, the
committee of the whole had Topped
off some 100000 after an hours
consideration Monday and it ap-
peared for time that the $750,000
scheduled reduction might be
reached.
However, the Democratic irsur-
gents swung over to the Republican
minority on many items and the
slash dwindled sharply.
Reductions Are Voted
Representative Earl Crawford,
Milton banker and Democratic eau
Gus chairman, was spokesman for
the majority and offered in addition
to amendments prepared at a joint
session Of the ways and means, pub
lie expenditures and budget commit
tees, some ideas of his own.
Chief reductions of the session,
slashes Of 100000 from the Gov
errors emergency contingent fund
of 100000 for the two years,
brought forth some bitter debate.
Crawford charged there has been q
loose construction placed on the
word emergency during the Leslie
administration and quoted from The
Times in connection with purchases
of expensive bric-a-brac for the
Governors mansion.
Representative Fred S. Galloway
(Dern., Marion) won a fight to re-
duce the Governors $4,000 house
hold fund to $4,000 a year. A per-
sonal clash within the Democratic
ranks developed when Representa-
tive Fred Egan CDen., Lake. moved
to eliminate the Governors $4,000
civil and military fund.
Debate Governors Fund
ST can't see where he needs this
fund when he has huge emer-
gency fund.-" declared Egan. Rep
resentative H. Curtis (Dem., Dear
born and Ohio, budget committee
member, interrupted with, what do
you know about it?"
Egan continued his remarks in
support of his motion and Bennett
again interrupted. what do you
know about it!" he repeated.
You're just from Lake county!"
Representative DELPHI L. McKes-
son, Democratic floor leader and
acting chairman, gaveled vigorously
to stop the heckling.
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Chief differences between
house and senate bills are the
provision for an optional vote
by counties and raising of the
age of pensioners from 65 to
20.
This line of policy was adopted
after the difficulties encountered by
Nejdl and his dramatic defense of
the measure showed that only an
insistent public demand for its
enactment had secured the neces-
Sary twenty-six votes for the milder
measure.
Democrats Omit Fold
Several Democrats bolted the bill.
which was a platform pledge, with
the excuse that it would fall I'M
fairly as between counties.
The real opposition came from
powerful financial and industrial in
terests which fought the bill as
socialistic.
Reconsideration Of the house vote
was obviated by prompt action by
Representatives DELPHI McKesson
(MarshalD Democratic floor leader.
and Jacob Weiss (Dem., Marion).
who threw up a parliamentary
blockade against a maneuver to kill
the bill by this route.
NejdI Is JubiIant
''1t Is the end of a nine-year
fight" said Nejdl, overjoyed at the
success.
The bill has been the chief con-
sideration of his long legislative
career, and he went to the extreme
of threatening to quit the Repub-
lican party if his fellow workers
refused to vote for the bill at this
session.
Delegations will call upon the
Governor, urging his approval be-
cause of a broad public sentiment
among voters Of both parties in its
behalf.
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When the smoke OF fiery debate away the good
snip Kitty Hawk slowly sinking beneath
CraWfords opening shot
preparation This had the Kitty Hawk hadn't
lmbered up his heavy armament yet.
This is my idea Of how effect
Crawford and while speaking majority
Earl Crawford, think might eliminate
Indiana needs Rockefeller needs money
called up
Michigan, but it's all covered with barnacles."
One representative andubber interrupted point
What barnacle?"
As matter Of continued think this got ap
preparation bill promising
committee ride and they haven't
This drew laugh when recalled insinuatons
Representative John T. Bold De,
and COMMITTEES members the
Mars Hill airport appropriation because National Guard officers took
flights.
Crawford has opposed the naval militia appropriation ap
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Special Deputy Describes Scene When He
Crept Up to Murder Suspect and
Snapped on the Cuffs
WIFE TO HUSBANDS REFUGE
Knife Alleged to Have Been Taken From
Defendant in Alabama Jail Is
Displayed Before Jury
BY EDWARD C. FULKE

Graphic story Of how simple thwarted Harold
Herbert Schroeders fight three weeks after the grewsoe
High School road torch tragedy May 81 told today
to criminal court jury at Schroeders trial for alleged
der of unknown man.
The scene in deserted weed patch at Mobile Ala.
where covering fugitive submitted arrest described
by Earl c. Dykes special deputy sheriff of Mobile county,
from the witness stand
States attorneys laid vital points of their case before
the jury crowd of record proportions watched develop
ments with bated breath.
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sured schroeder's car, waited to tes-
tify.
| During tense parts of this morn
ing's session, Schroeder evinced act
i've interest in events.
While Dykes was testifying,
Schroeder kept his left hand to the
side Of his face nearest the jury.
He chewed gum vigorously as Dykes
told of the capture. Several times
Schroeder nudged Holmes and made
whispered remarks.
Most Of the morning, Schroeder
held his younger son, Ernest, 9, on
his lap.
Wife Turns Pale
When Dykes testified he had seen
Mrs. Schroeder leave an auto near
the weed patch, Mrs. Schroeder
paled and talked hurriedly to her
husband.
During recess, one of Schroed-
er's sisters staged an argument at
the courtroom door with a Negro
woman. A policeman stopped the
argument, but not until the de-
PENDANTS sister had showed the
woman from the entrance.
Although prosecutors indicated
Miss Gertrude Kittrell, sweetheart
Of Schroeder, would be present for
the trial today, she did not appear.
1t was said the woman fears being
charged with completely in the
crime if she appears in Marion
county.
Schroeder was to collect insur-
ance on the burning car and flee
the country with her, police allege.
A grim word picture of the
charred remains of the unknown
victim was heard by jurors Mon
day, when DR.. Lawrence A. Lewis,
/ former deputy coroner, told OF an
autopsy of the torso.
A death-dealing instrument was
plunged into the mans chest before
the body was found in Schroeders
flaming sedan, DR.. Lewis testified.
Holmes Has Ten Theories
On DR.. Lewis testimony, Ira
Holmes, defense attorney, uncov-
cred ten theories as a likely de-
Tense of the ALBANIAN.
Holmes theories follow:
That the victim" was a cadaver.
That the chest-lung wound may
have been caused by a FREAK in
the hands of f1renen when the
torso was removed from the fam
ing car.
That the wound in the victims
lung may have been caused by the
explosion of air under intense heat.
That the accident near Terre
Haute may have fractured the mans
skull, burned away in the fire.
That the wound in the torso may
have been caused by fragments of
a broken windshield.
That the wound may have been a
skin fisSure caused by intense heat.
That the victim died of a broken
neck, a fact which, according to
testimony, could not have been de-
termined in the autopsy.
That the victim burned to death.
That unknown persons may have
placed the body in Schroeder's
sedan.
That death was the result of a
natural hemorrhage.
DR.. Lewis testified that three
ounces of blood were discovered in
a lung cavity when the organ was
removed from the torso.
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Open BATTLE
OF DEFENSE TO
Save KIRKLAND
Judge Denies Motion to
Direct Verdict of
Not Guilty.
DOCTOR is. ON STAND
Psychologist Testifies He
Found Alcohol in Con-
tents of Girls Stomach.

By United Press
VALPARAISO, Ind, March B.
Plea of Oscar Thiel, defense at
torney, to free Virgil Kirkland on
the charge of numbering Arlene
braves failed today when Judge
Grant Crumpacker overruled q
motion to direct a verdict of not
guilty, made by Thiel on grounds
that the state had not proved a
crime.
There has been no direct evil
dence Of a crime. All evidence has
been circumStantial, proving only
one violation, that of the prohibi-
ton law" Thiel declared.
'It has been shown that the de-
fendant voluntarily took Arlene to
a physician, notified her family and
then submitted to arrest.
There has been no evidence that
he struck a fatal blow. The only
evidence in Kirkland's own confess
sion is that he slapped Arlene on
the cheek to revive her from a
drunken stupor.
Deputy Prosecutor John Under
wood said the state charged and
had proved "forcible rape" Kirk
land slugged the girl and then at
tackled her" he charged. -
Found Alcohol in Stomach
First witness for the defense was
DR.. r. N. Harger, toxicologist at the
University of Indiana school of med
icine, who examined contents Of
Miss braves stomach.
What did you find?" Tlaiel quer-
led.
Grain alcohol, a trace of wood
alcohol and trace of formalde-
hyde" DR.. Harger replied.
Enough wood alcohol or formal
dehyde to cause death?"
mo. I tested the contents of the
stomach on a rabbit and it suffered
no i'll effects" Harger said.
DR.. Harger was followed on the
stand by Howard Nelson, %, Gary,
chauffeur for the undertakers to
whose parlor the girls body was
taken. He said he watched DR..
James Burchafn, coroner's physician,
perform the autopsy and take the
contents of the stomach for DR..
Harger's examination.
Before court opened today the de-
Tense indicated it might request ex-
hurnation of Miss braves body from
a cemetery in Reynolds, Ind, but
later attorneys said they had not
determined what course they would
take in that matter.
States Case Rested
The state rested its case late Mon
day, after summoning Murrel Glenn
ems, brotller-in-law of the girl, and
second member of her family to
take the stand against Kirkland,
Clemens testimony recited
graphically the incident at his
home after Arlene's death, when
Kirkland appeared to notify him
and his wife.
my wife and had just retired.
heard the doorbell ring. and my
wife went down to answer it. I
went down, too. I heard some one
shout Open quick, it's Virgil, !"
Clemens said.
He was carrying Babes coat. We
asked what was wrong.
Babes dead he said. My wife
collapsed and carried her in the
bedroom.
1--WE all were drinking-we all
were drinking Virgil moaned. I
asked if it was poison liquor, and he
said Yes Then he got the doctors
number and called. A policeman
answered the phone. He said he
would come right over, and when I
told Virgil he cried oh, I'm sunk p"
Clemens testified.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-03
ROXY TO VISIT HOME

Theater Magnate to Take Day OFF
for Trip to Saltwater.
By United Press
SALTWATER, Mimi, March s.
Roxy promised his home town folks
here today that he will pay them a
visit next week.
Roxy or Samuel L. Rothapfel, as
he was known here before he went
to New York to seek and find his
fortune in the theater business, will
take day of from his appearances
in Minneapolis to revisit the scene
of his boyhood, he wrote friends
here.
Saltwater has made plans to re-
ceive him in style.
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senate old Age PENSION
BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE,
NOW GOES TO GOV. LESLIE
Vote of 81 to 80 Brings Victory After Crusade
of Nine Years. Democrats
Bolt, Despite Pledge.
NEJDL IS JUBILANT OVER TRIUMPH
Veteran Lake County Legislator Has
Devoted Main Part of His Career to
Determined Fight for Relief

At the end of nne-year crusade the legislature today
passed the old age pension bill and its fate rests with Gov
.ernor Leslie.
This morning by vote of 81 to 80 the Indiana house
substituted the bill passed time ago by the senate for
its own measure
This strategy agreed upon by the of the
measure the belief that in the closing days of the session
the more drastic provisions of the BackGaloway bill would
have no chance passage and that the present BILL fahered
by Senator James Nedl Rep Lake, and Chambers (Dem
Henry Hancock and Madson) would establish the principle
involved.
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Raked from bow whitening
ana wiped out Monday and today theoretically
fathomS deep under the waters Of Lake Michigan.
catastrophe 1881 entaed heavy
Neither is CONSERVATION Washington panic
conferences a schedule of parity
For the of the engagement in the Indiana house
resentatves and the hroadde
sentative Crawford Milton banker, Democratic
chairman which the house strike from appro
piation bill $4,000 the Indiana militia
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jOBLESS fight
N. Y. TROOPS
800 Clash With Soldiers in
Legislative Hall in
Albany.
By United Press

By United Press
ALBANY, N. Y, March s.
Three hundred unemployed, who
marched into the state capitol to de-
n1and relief, rioted and clashed for
forty-f1ve minutes today with state
troopers before they finally were
forced from the assembly.
There were a number of casualties,
though none appeared severe. Cap
tain John Kiely, commander of the
state troop force guarding the as
sembly, was clawed and beaten and
was saved from falling from the
gallery into the assembly hall by
trooper who came to his aid.
William Bell, a senate page, was
knocked unconscious and had to
be treated in an emergency hos
pital after he had gone to the aid
of Trooper (Spike) Sullivan, who
was being pummeled by the demon
strators.
Other Troopers CIawed
Other state troopers were clawed
and scratched when they went into
the galleries to quiet the crowd
shouting, jeering and booing state
officers.
The 800 unemployed composed
groups who had marched into Al
bany, mostly from New York City,
to present to the legislature a pro-
gram which included:
Unemployment insurance.
State wages for jobless.
General unemployment relief.
They marched to the capitol and
filled the east and west galleries and
one small group-Seventeen men and
three women-went to the main
floor, and were separated from the
legislators only by railing.
Had Promised Quiet
The clerk of the assembly started
reading the journal for opening of
the session when Jack tombstone
of New York City, one Of the group
on the main floor, arose and started
shouting for relief.
The unemployed had given as
surances they would be quiet if per-
n1itted to enter the hall.
The clerk finally started to re-
sumo his reading, raising his voice
to drown out tombstone.
Then the others in his inmedi-
ate group rose and added their
voices to Johnstone's demands.
Troopers, falling to calm them,
started ejecting the twenty in john
stones immediate party, one by one.
The twenty were screaming. shout
ing and trying to cling to the rail-
ing, but all were elected.
Meanwhile, the crowd in the gall
lery started shouting.
Troopers went into the galleries,
where Emma Rollins, a red-haired
woman, seemed to be the leader. The
troopers attempted persuasion, but
to no avail.
Soldiers Use Clubs
The unemployed became more RI
otous and started throwing rolled
up papers on the heads of the legis-
lators and shouted epithets at the
state leaders.
The troopers resorted to their
clubs.
The unemployed fought back.
clawing and hitting at the guards.
Finally reserve troopers arrived,
took command of the situation and
in a few minutes started pushing
and showing the unemployed down
the various MISUNDERSTANDING the
so-called million dollar stairway
to the outside.
Once outside, the crowd. formed
again-augmented by many who
could not get inside the assembly
and there listened to speakers
harangue the state government.
A Gordon of troopers formed at
each entrance to prevent any of the
group from re-entering the chamber.
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DELAY BANK REPORT
WASHINGTON Denositors
Must Wait Several Weeks.

Depositors in the defunct Wash
ington Bank and Trust Company
will have to wait several weeks be-
fore they will be informed as to the
possibility Of collecting funds from
the institution, Brandt G. Downey,
receiver, stated today in a report to
Circuit Judge Harry o. Chamber
lin.
Downey outlined operations as re-
ceiver and pointed to the large
amount of work necessary due to
the connections of the bank with
various real estate operations.
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Tilted!

Girls, what would you 90
if the man you loved, who
once had begged you to be
his wife, threw you over IN
favor of another?
That's what happened 10
Cvpsy Mcbride, 19-year-old
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MYSTERY MURDER JUST
GOOD PAIN IN BACK
Fresh Mound, Like Grave, Keeps
Deputies Digging and Digging.

What they expected to be revealed
as a mystery murder today proved
merely pain in the back to Deputy
Sheriffs Frank Craig and Burrel
Lindsey.
Notified by Mrs. Mary Lunsford.
1902 Holt road, that she had found
a mound Of fresh earth, resembling
a grave, on her land, Craig and
Lindsey rushed to the scene and
began digging.
After digging down six feet, they
gave up and returned to the Jail to
dig out bottle Of liniment for their
backs.
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the bill decvy during
the Indiana running
inland lakes White
during emergencies"
Representative NJ. Marion) feeble
voley for the rapidly kitty Hawk asserting
joke
luton required that Crawford be made admiral
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Speakeasy Paws His Schooling

DETROIT, March 3. - Sam
Gayre's speakeasy was just a side
line, by which he earned funds to
put himself through law school, he
told a judge in federal court when
his case was called. The fine was
$1,100.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-03
HOLDS UP BANK WITH
CAP PISTOL, ARRESTED
Charles Carl, II, Imprisoned After
Banditry Attempt.
By United Press

PLYMOUTH, Ind, March s.
Every window in the Marshall coun-
ty Jail was broken out today as the
result of efforts of Charles Carl.
17-year-old Bourbon high school
pupils attempts to convince officers
he didn't like confinement. The
sheriff, however, was unable to
place Carl in solitary confinement
as he was the jail's only occupant.
Carl was arrested Monday after
he allegedly attempted to rob the
bank of Bourbon of $1,000. When
his demands were unheaded, he was
said to have drawn a toy cap pistol
but was overpowered and arrested
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Gypsy The woman
he had hoped to marry had
chosen a millionaire.
The problems Gypsy and her
husband encountered make
one of the most fascinating
serial novels ever written. 1t
is called Mad Marriage" and
begins Wednesday in
THE TIMES
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RING LARDNER i'll
In Sanitarium to Avert
Nervous Breakdown.

BIZ United Press
TUCSON, Ariz., March S.-Ring
Lardner, humorist and baseball
writer, has entered the Desert san
itariun for a rest to avert nerv-
GUS breakdown, it was learned to-
day.
He. entered the institution Satur-
day night and expects to remain
for several weeks.
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RUN OVER BY TRAIN.
MAN Is SCRATCHED

Pebble Between Rails Does More
Damage Than Locomotive.
By United Press
NEW YORK, March 3.-An elev-
en-car train rushed toward Michael
Lamana, track walker for the
Long Island railroad, who threw
himself face downward between the
rails.
The train passed over him and
curved away into the distance. La
mana arose, walked away brushing
his clothes and bitterly complaining
because he had scratched his hand
on a pebble in the road bed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-03
WAGE BILL SIGNED
Contractors Required to
Pay Highest Scale.

By Unite0 Press
WASHINGTON, March 3.-Presi-
dent Hoover today signed bill re-
quiring contractors on government
work to pay the highest prevailing
wage scale Of the communities where
the work is being done.
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10 WEDDINGS KILL LOVE
BIZ United Press

Childhood Sweetheart Develops Bad
Disposition, Man Tells Court.
By United Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mo, March B.
Ten marriages developed a Jealous
and disagreable temperament" in
his childhood sweetheart, Charles F.
Stutzman recited in his petition for
a divorce. He married her, he said.
when he met her after years of
separation before learning of her
intermediate experiences. The di-
vorce was granted.
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FORM CENSoRS BOARD
New York Theater Organizes Own
Chiefs to Control "Offenses."
By United Press
-

By United Press
NEW YORK, March 3.-The New
York theater, in an effort to avert
legislative censorship, has formed
its own board Of censors, to control
offenses against public decency in
the theater."
Creation of the board was decided
on at meeting Of representatives
of the Actors Equity Association,
the Dramatists' Guild, and the
League of New York Theaters, Inc,
the producers organization.
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BOOZE BELIEVED SEIZED
Freight Car Under Guard; Said to
Contain 5000 Gases of Whisky.

A freight car, believed to contain
5000 cases of whisky, was seized at
noon today at Evansville, Ind., by
police on orders from Charles Britt,
deputy prohibition agent, at Indi-
annapolis, he said.
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1900 49, N@O@SJ ~~~-~~ y OA4AA
E. Vaudeville. Lower: H. Daaron
Wood.
ID ESIDENTS OF Mobile (Ala.),
N who figured in the life Of
Harold Herbert Schroeder, on
trial for the alleged murder of an
unknown man, were summoned to
criminal court today to testify in
the torch car case.
Dykes is the special deputy
sheriff who captured Schroeder in
weed patch near the latter's
home after he had been the OBJ
ject Of a nationwide search for
three weeks.
Vaudeville, secretary to B. B.
Chamberlin, Mobile county prose-
cutor, will testify how he obtained
statement from Schroeder after
his capture and Wood will relate
details Of the sale of the Chrys-
Ter sedan to Schroeder. The car
was found burning on the High
School road. the body Of the I'M
identified man inside.
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ARREST ILLINOIS MAYOR

Charged With Breaking Poll Work
ers Nose During Primary.
By United Press
LA SALE, Ill, March 3.-Mayor
Charles Spur of Oglesby was ar
rested today and freed on $4,000
bond after an alleged attack on
Walter OlSewski, worker for John
Gorgiat, Spurs opponent in the
mayoralty primaries held today
Spur was charged with breaking
OlSewski's nose with a cane.
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Urges Senate Continue Survey

Governor Harry G. Leslie today
requested the Indiana senate con-
tinue the survey committee for the
Negro orphans home. another two
years.
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KILL OIL IMPORT BILL

Senate Action Is Virtual Death of
Capper Measure.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The
senate today laid over without a
vote the Capper bill to limit the
importation of foreign crude oil and
its products. This action, taken
during consideration of bills to pass
with unanimous consent, virtually
killed the measure.
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New York
typist. And
so Gypsy
married an
an utter
stranger the
day after
she met him.
He, too,knew
the bewil-
derrnent and
heartache OF
spurned love.