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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
HEARSAY ONLY
WARRANT FOR
RAID ON home
Negroes House Searched
With No Court Authority,
Police Admit.

Her home raided by police who adj
mitted they had no search warrant,
Mrs Elnora Wathen, Negro, 2911
Paris avenue, today awaited action
of the federal grand jury on a
charge of illegal possession of a still.
According to police reports, officers
entered Mrs. Wathen's residence
Monday afternoon without a war
rant, armed only with hearsay COM
plants that the liquor law was be-
ing violated on the premises.
The officers, headed by Sergeant
John T. WEIGH, are alleged to have
gone to the kitchen of the house,
where they said they found two
gallons Of liquor in a kettle.
Mrs. Wathen refused them adj
mittance to the basement, police
said, and then WEIGH called Ser
geant Irwin Landers and requested
that he bring federal man" to
the house.
Enter Basement
Revelation of the raid without a
warrant today recalled various other
activities of police and enforce
ment authorities who have broken
into private homes without warrants
or with John Doe" writs, and,
sometimes, faulty ones, on complaint
of persons.
Police, in the raid on the Paris
avenue residence, said that after
LanderS and a federal agent named
Wilson arrived, they gained entrance
to the basement, where they claim
they found a ten-gallon still, warm
from operation, and five gallons of
alleged liquor
In his report, WEIGH said the Off
GERS went to Mrs. Wathen's home
on information that had been sup
piled one of the patrolmen.
Evidence Lacking
I'VE tried to gain enough evidence
to get a search warrant, knowing
that Judge Clifton R. Cameron
would not issue a search warrant
without the proper evidence" the
report read. I'VE we're admitted by
Elnora Wathen, 80. We smelled
liquor and walked to the kitchen,
where we found a two-gallon kettle
of whisky.
I'VE were refused admittance to
the basement without a search war
rant.
Called Sergeant Landers and
squad and told him to bring fed
eral officer, after which we entered
the basement and found a ten-gal-
lon still which recently had been
operated, as it was warm
Lander's report tells of taking the
federal men" to the house and ar
resting "Elnora Walthan' for illegal
possession of a still
The rail, according to records. was
made Monday afternoon, but reports
were not recorded until Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
HINDUS TO Be HERE
Author viii Lecture at
KirShbaum Open Forum.

THE Russian Problem" will be
discussed Sunday night in the open
forum of the Jewish Community
Center Association at Kirshbaum
auditorium following an address by
Maurice G. Hindus, Russian author.
HinduS has gained widespread
recognition as an authority on Rus
sian affairs, because of his writings
and discourses.
Born in Russia he came to Amer
lea as a youngster and worked his
way through Harvard and Colgate
universities.
He revisited Russia and work.
ing as a peasant lahorer learned the
attitude of the people.
He is best known for his book,
Humanity Uprooted."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
Her Error!

By United Press
DENVER, March 25.-Mrs.
Franklin Hornaday, socially
prominent young Denver ma
iron, gained distinction six
months ago when she exercised
her feminine eloquence to win
for the affirmative debate
entitled Are Husbands Worth
Holding?"
The emphasis she placed
upon her personal experience
had much to do with her vic
tory.
Tuesday Mrs. Hornaday filed
suit for divorce, charging that
her husband, a singer, failed to
support her and her 2-year-old
daughter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
INTERURBAN SCRAPPING
BRIEF IN TEN DAYS
Greenfield Only Director to Aban-
Comment of T. H., l. g. L. Line.

Greenfield Only Director to Aban-
Comment of T. H., 1. G. L. Line.
Attorneys representing the city of
Greenfield, who were the only Of
fetal protestants at hearing on
plea to abandon the Richmond
division of the Terre Haute, Indi-
annapolis & Eastern traction line,
have been given ten days in which
to file briefs, it was announced to-
day by Commissioner Jere West of
the public service commission.
West was in charge of the hear
ing before the commission Tuesday
and other commissioners sat with
him.
City Attorney Robert E. Reeves
and William Hough, former tax
board member, appeared on behalf
of the city of Greenfield. They will
urge in briefs that the line be re-
tanned as far as Greenfield at least
Abandonment plea of Elmer W.
Stout, receiver, is based on the
ground that the line operates with
growing loss.
President David E. Watson of the
T. H., 1. Sc E. was principal wit
ness regarding the losses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
BID ON SCHOOL LOAN
ACCEPTED BY BOARD
School Sc Construction Estimates
Are Submitted.

Bid Of the Merchants National
bank and the Indiana Trust Com
pany on a 100000 temporary loan
to meet current expenses until
spring tax installment is received
was accepted at a special school
board meeting Tuesday night.
The bid was for 3 per cent in
terest with a premium of $39.
The American Construction Com
pany submitted the lowest base bid
for general construction of School
Sc, Twenty fourth street and Mar
tindale avenue, the bid being $79,-
600. Bids of eleven other companies
ranged as high as $95,875. Final
award may be affected by several
alternateS.
Strong Brothers bid of $30546
was low on heating and ventilating,
while Roland M. CottOn'S base bid
Of $9,981 on plumbing was low.
Low base bid of $4,887 on cleo
trical installations was submitted by
Robbins Electrical Company. Bids
will be tabulated and the tabula-
tons will be submitted at the meet
ing next Tuesday night.
There now are more than 290
persons living on Robinson Crusoe's
| island.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
mo MERCY FOR
GUN-TOTER,' IS
BAKERS PLEDGE
Heaviest Penalties None
Too Severe, Declares
Criminal Judge.

No leniency can or will be shown
in Marion criminal court for men
who, armed 10 the teeth, set out to
rob and pillage, and to kill if neces-
sary.
This ultimatum to the lawless
was decreed by Criminal Judge
Frank ?. Baker before the Indian
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
CALLED KILLER
IN COURTROOM,
'HYMIE' SMILES
Prosecutor filings Opening
Charges in Cleveland
Politicians Murder.
By United Press


CLEVELAND, March 25.-The
Parkwood drive apartment where
former Councilman William E.
Potter was killed Feb. 8 was rented
by pittsburgh Hyrnie" Martin, who
was in Cleveland from Jan. &c I'M
til the night of the crime, Ray T.
Miller, county prosecutor, charged
today in his opening statement to
the jury which is trying Martin on
first degree murder charges.
The debonair Martin viewed the
proceedings with interest. He
smiled as Miller, aroused by the
ardor of his own words, pointed to
him accusingly and named him es
the assassin.
Under the alias of M. J. Mar
kus," the Pittsburgh racketeer rent
ed suite No. in the building on
Jan. %, in a conspiracy to assassi-
nate the former Republican leader,
the prosecutor said.
Martin has been identified as
"Markus" by several tenants OF the
QeaCn hat, the state charges.
While the suite was reserved for
preparation OF the conspiracy, the
prosecutor alleged Martin was liy-
ing with his paramour, Akron
Mary" Outland at the downtown
Auditorium hotel under the alias of
H. Chambers. the maiden name Of
his sweetheart. The hour in which
the couple left Cleveland for Akron
on the night Of the crime was set
at an hour later than that claimed
by the defense.
In his address Miller disclosed the
state was at loss to explain the
motive of Potter's death. While
asserting that the defendant was
hired TO engineer the deed, he ad-
mitted the principals behind the
purported plot we're unknown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
ASKS $1,000 JUDGMENT
Rub-Tex Products Firm Sued for
Alleged Unpaid Royalties.

Suit for a $500 judgment against
the Rub-TeX Products Company,
Inc, alleging breach of a contract
for royalties on a machine used in
the manufacture OF auto battery
boxes, was filed in superior court
five Tuesday by Louis w. Hotel, Is
West Forty-ninth street.
Hotel AYERS he holds the patent
rights on the machine, and that,
according to a contract with the
Rub-TeX company, he was to re-
ceive a 2-cent royalty on each box
manufactured. To date, $1,359 is
unpaid and owing, he charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25

against him She was supported by
the baroness of Ravensdale, LADY
Cynthia Mosely and Lady Alexandra
Metcalf, all daughters of the late
Mary Letter Curon, wife Of the late
Lord Curon, viceroy of India. Lady
Cnron also was sister of Joseph
Letter
Father Pioneer Merchant
Their father, Levi z. Letter, was
a pioneer Chicago merchant. His
business prospered so well that he
socn became known as "the merch-
art prince of the middleWest," the
owner of vast riches in the form
Of stores, factories, coal mines,
ranches and forests. In the nineties
he aided his son Joseph in an al
most fabulous corner in the grain
market, deal which made his
name household word around the
globe.
When Levi died he left his estate
TO his four children, three daugh-
ters and Joseph, with the instruc-
ton that the latter be made man
sger of it's affairs.
Two Of the daughters, in becom-
ing Lady Hyde and Lady Curzon,
were in the vanguard of middle
western heiresses who obtained
British titles through marriage.
Nancy on Brothers Side
The other daughter, Nancy, re-
NAMED in America, married, and
when the litigation started in 1926,
aligned herself on her brothers side.
The duchesses, baronesses and
ladies of Letter heritage came to
Chicago for the court trial thus
giving local society writer's the thrill
of their lives.
The titled women glared at bald
headed Letter in court. testified that
they thought him unfit and too ex-
trayagant to manage the Letter
fortune. and brought out among
other things that he once ordered
fifty dozen pairs of silk socks for
his personal use.
Il am hard-headed American
business man." Letter replied.
While my sisters were going to
Europe, marrying titles, I stayed by
our property and managed it.
Knits ShawIs in Court
Nancy Letter Campbell, in odd
contrast to her brilliantly goWned
relatives from England, sat in court
throughout the tria,, dressed plainly,
knitting shawls. Occasionally she
smiled and nodded encouragement
to her brother.
The case was settled in Josephs
favor by Superior Judge Denis E.
Sullivan in 1927. The other heirs
filed an appeal, to which todays
decision was an answer.
The Anal opinion set forth, in
cidenSally, that during the twenty
six years Letter has managed the
widely scattered properties he has
increased his working capital from
$l2,920000 to S17,3S7,OO0 cash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
A JOYFUL SURPRISE
New 48 Hour Treatment
For Rheumatism
Over the Weekend Goes Pain.
Agony and Swelling or Money
Back, Say Hooks Dependable
Drug Stores.
LARGE 8 OF. BOTTLE 85c

They call this the Allenru weekend
treatment for rheumatism, Sciatica and
Neuritis because you can 90 to bed on
Friday night-stay there as much as
possible till Monday morning and while
there drive the uric acid from your
ailing joints and muscles.
But during that time you must take
Allenru as directed-fOr Allenru acts
with double speed when the body is re-
Taxed and rested.
You can purchase Allenru from
Hooks Dependable Drug Stores or any
progressive druggist in America
large OF. bottle s. cents-and money
back If it doesn't do as advertised -
Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
MAN RECEIVERS MEMORY
Amnesia Victim Identifies Self as
Joseph Ellis, NTuncie.

Recovering at city hospital today,
man who was found wandering on
the National road by a motorist on
Monday night, told authorities he is
Joseph Ellis of Muncie.
The man appeared to be suffering
from amneSia when he was found
forty miles west of Indianapolis. He
also had sustained hand wound
prior to being picked up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
bandits Stay PatroIman

BIZ UnttC6 Press
CINCINNATI, March 25.-Pa-
trolnan William Sorrell, %, was
shot to death here Tuesday night
when he walked into a drug store
while two Negro bandits were rob-
bling the place. The bandits es-
capped
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25

apoliS Purchasing
Agents AssOcia-
ton at the Sew
erin Tuesday.
1t was a state
ment Of policy
from the man who
assumed the Grim
inal court bench
Jan. l, succeeding
James A. Collins,
criminal judge for
siXten years.
The h e aVi est
penalties the law
provides are none
too severe for the
potential killer,
Baker declared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
Curb Kick ,

By United Press
LOUISVILLE, KY. March 25.
"A team of sleek black mules
and a wagon in which Eugene
Howell, 80, and Eugene Green
well. 26, were caught hauling
liquor. were ordered forfeited
here to the federal government.
Howell and Greenweu ~ led
guilty to violating the prohi-
bition law and we're sentenced,
to six months.
The government has taken
many automobiles because of
liquor transportation, but this
was believed the first time a
team of mules was impounded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
DcmOlay News Editor Dies

Zoo
KANSAS CITY, Mo, March Is
Frank A. Marshall, newspaper man
for forty years in Kansas City, died
Tuesday night On the staff OF the
Kansas City Journal Post for forty
years prior to 1928, he then be-
came editor of the Demolay News.
He was author of the Demolay
ritual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
Form RoosveIt-Presiden Club

bU JWJLtU I'TeSS
COLUMBUS, O., March 25.-Ar-
ticles of Incorporation for the
Franklin D. Roosevelt-for- Presi-
dent Club we're filed with Secre-
tary Clarence j. Brown today by a
group of Cleveland men who listed
themselves as the incorporators.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
JOSEPH LETTER
WINS FIGHT TO
HANDLE ESTATE
Second Court Rules Son of
Famed Merchant Ably
Manages Millions.
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAfI
United Press stan Correspondent

CHICAGO. March 25.-The in
tensely dramatic saga of the Letter
family in its rise TO enormous riches
and then to international social
prestige reaches another climax with
the appellate court holding Joseph
Letter capable of managing the $50,
o0o 900 Letter estate.
The decision ended a legal
gtruggle of wears standing in which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25

opinion that the
senate is among
the most valuable
branches in our
governmental sys-
tem," Curtis said.
Differing from
those who think
S e n a t e rul e S
should be modi-
fed to permit the
majority to rush
through legislation
eat bre a k n e C k
speed-as is some
times done in the
house Curt / S
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
VICE-PRESIDENT
SAYS SENATE is
MOST VALUABLE
Curtis Defends Upper House
Rules After SO Years
in Congress.
BY WILLIAM c. MURPHY JR
United Press STAFF Correspondent
lrnnrrirht 1921 BY United Pressl

WASHINGTON, March 25.-After
observing the United States senate
from both sides of the presiding
officers desk for more than twenty
years. Vica-President Charles Curtis
still thinks that much criticised
body is among the most valuable
branches of cur governmental sys-
tenn"
MY two years of service presiding
over the senate as Vice-President
have not in anyway altered my
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
REPORT HoLDUPS, THEFT
Negroes Rob Two Men; Clothes Are
Stolen From Room.

AS he parked his car in his garage
early today, Clifford Phillips, 1923
Ashland avenue, was robbed of SIS
by two Negroes. he informed police.
Theft of clothing valued at SIPS
from his room was reported to po-
lice by Paul Payne, 81 North West
street.
Two Negroes late Tuesday robbed
Henry B. Long, 1922 West Twelfth
street. operator of a street car, of
81, he told police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25

people home are forgotten half an
hour after taking few of these
remarkable tablets. So are the little
nagging aches that bring fatigue and
nerves" by day, OF sleepless night.
Genuine Bayer Aspirin tablets cost
so very little after all, that it doesn't
pay to experiment with imitationsl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25

Letter, who de-
scribed himself as
a hard headed
American business
man." battled with
four British noble
women over adj
m inis tration Of
the Letter millions.
JoSeph's sister,
Lady Marguerite
Hyde. countess oil
S u # o ! k and
Berks. led the fight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25

Arnold Bennett Has TRANSMISSION
By United Press
LONDON, March 25.-Arnold Ben
nett, British author who has beer
seriously i'll here, underwent a sue
cessful blood transmission today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
CITY ATTORNEY FACES
CITING FOR CONTEMPT
Accused of Trying to Influence
and Intimidate" State Witness.

and Intimidate'' State Witness.
Accused Of having attempted to
influence and intimidate" a prose
cutting witness to stay out Of court.
Horace H Garvin, attorney, 1913
North New Jersey street, was Or
dered to appear before Criminal
Judge Frank P. Baker this after
noon and show cause why he should
not be cited for contempt of court.
Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson said
Garvin approached Dorothy Wycoff-
man. II, Of 927 East Eleventh street.
and urged her to get out of town
and not testify against her father,
John Wyooffman. who will go on
trial today on Q statutory charge.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25
STAY OF DOOM
IS GRANTED TO
NEGRO Slayer
St. Joseph Judge Recalls
Death Warrant Signed
for Frank Scott.

Frank Scott, South Bend Negro,
knows today that he will not die in
the electric chair in Indiana state
prison at Michigan City at mid
night Thursday, as scheduled.
Judge J. Elmer Peak of st. Joseph
superior court recalled the death
warrant late Tuesday following
arguments in his court at South
Bend by r. L. Bailey, Indianapolis
Negro attorney.
Sheriff Walter I. Pagan of st.
Joseph county visited Scott in his
death cell, where he remains, Tues
day night, and told him of the war
rant recall.
Il prayed and God heard me, "
Scott declared, filled with JOY over
the shevifT's message.
Holds for Two Weeks
The warrant recall will hold for at
least two weeks from last Saturday,
when former Judge Orlo r. Deahl,
who sentenced Scott last Nov. a,
first signed the court order. His
failure to sign had been disclosed
by Bailey in investigating the case
at South Bend.
Bailey declared today that at
least two weeks must elapse from
the time the court order is signed
before a death warrant may be
issued He won the warrant recall
from Judge Peak by proving that a
death warrant had been issued with
out the court order ever having
been signed.
Peak succeeded Deahl on the SUI
perior bench Jan. l. In recalling the
warrant, he did not grant any def
mite stay of execution in the mat
ter of time.
Serves Appeal Notice
Bailey stated he is studying the
case in regard to further procedure.
While in South Bend Tuesday, he
served notice on the st. Joseph
county prosecutor of an appeal to
the supreme court. Bailey and his
partner, R. L. Brockenburr, Negro,
originally planned to file appeal
with the supreme court and secure
a stay of execution there.
L. o. ChaSey, secretary to Gov
ernor Harry G. Leslie, had assured
them that, if necessary, the Gov
ernor likely would grant reprieve so
that appeal could be perfected.
But the warrant recall puts a
new complexion on the entire mat
ter and the case may be reopened
for retrial in the lower court, in
stead Of on appeal, Bailey declared
today.
Scott was sentenced for the muir
der of ISham Hampton, Negro, whom
he alleges stole his wife. He was
defended by pauper attorney APP
pointed by the court.
No motion for a new trial or APP
peal was taken, as he was with
out funds. His was the first death
sentence in st. Joseph county in
the last forty years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-25

Pleas of politicians and friends of
the defendant or Of the court will
have no effect in preventing the
carrying out of stern justice, he said.
No Back Room Whispers
Il shall be glad in open court to
hear everything that can be said
in a mans favor in making up my
sentence, but 1 don't want any of
my friends or my enemies coming
to me in a back room and whisper
ing in my ear" Baker said.
Doubling the possibility of ever
completely hating crime, Baker
declared he believed heavy penal
ties will have a tendency to curb
activities of gunner.
He commented that some Of the
penalties he has imposed have been
criticised as too severe, but that in
his own mind he doubted if they
really we're severe enough.
Effect Of the prohibition law in
filling prisons was touched on
briefly by the speaker when he re-
feTed to building of the new re-
formatory at Pendleton several
years ago.
Two Schools of Thought
THE board of trustees were per-
picked as to how large an institu-
ton to build" he said. I'VE just
had passed the Volstead law to
clamp down the lid upon intoxicat-
ing liquor and there developed two
schools of thought at that time.
"One group felt that now we had
outlaWed liquor that a prison to
house 900 inmates would be suffi-
GENTLY large. The other thought it
ought to run up into 1000 or 1,700.
Finally we compromised by
building a prison which would hold
1850 1t was thought this would be
sufficient for all time.
Checking upon it recently. I find
that there are, at the present time,
in the Pendleton reformatory, in a
prison built for 1850 persons, 2,155
prisoners. The prison up north
likewise is much overcrowded."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-02-27
Good Method of Rearing
Calves With Nurse Cow

Here is a method of starting calves
without skim milk that comes from
dairyman who has used it for years.
The calf is left with the mother for
the first four or five days. 1t is then
removed to a Holstein nurse COW, a
low tester, that can start three calves
nicely at one time If the nurse COW
is producing more milk than the calves
should have, the cow is partly MIXED
before the calves are allowed to her.
When the calf is three or four weeks
old a mixture Of equal parts Of coarse
ly ground corn, rolled oats, bran and
half part of powdered skim milk is
put in hopper in the calf pen; good
alfalfa hay and water are kept before
them from now on. At ten weeks the
calf is eating regularly Of other feeds
and can be taken off the COW. The
amount of powdere, milk In the meal
is doubled and fed twice a day, all
the calves will clean up until the calf
is six months old.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-02-27
Clean Milk Important
for Human CONSUMPTION

No greater field of usefulness exists
than the production of milk for hu-
man consumption. Milk is the food
on which growing children are reared
and from which they should receive
the strength and vigor necessary to
make them strong, useful citizens.
Adults, too, especially invalids and
those weakened by improper nourish-
ment, need milk in the diet TO re-
pair waste and build up strong new
tissue. Recent Investigations in nu-
triton have shown that milk contains
certain other substances which are
essential for the proper growth of the
human body.
Milk production also carries respon-
sibilities. When carelessly produced
and improperly handled, milk may be
the means of spreading disease. Ev-
cry owner Of a dairy herd should con-
slider it his duty to himself and to the
community TO keep only healthy cows,
supply them with wholesome feed, and
keep them in clean, comfortable quar-
tiers.