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had sold their papers after making
every possible effort to avoid it.
But" they said, economic con-
oltlons have proved inexorable."
They pointed out that had The
World been only a commercial en-
terprise they could have undertaken
a profitable sale years before it be-
came compulsory.
THE trustees can not pretend that
it is anything but q painful duty
to pass The World newspapers into
other hands" their statement said
But there is fortunate mitigation
in the spirit of the new owner
ship which is thoroughly hospitable
to The World tradition. May it
carry on that tradition with the
fullest measure Of public service
and success"
Surrogate Foley's decision involved
three major principles, as follows:
1. That sale of the World pa
perS is just and proper.
2. The trustees, as a matter Of
equity, must exercise due diligence
to preserve the remaining assets of
the papers, which admittedly have
suffered economic losses.
3. That the court could not be
converted into an auctioneer's room
for reception of various bids for the
World assets.
Foley's document was scholarly
presentation of facts, arguments,
and presidents, through which ran
a human strain of desire to protect
the interests of the estate which
Joseph Pulitzer ST.. had built up by
his untiring energy and fearless
journalism.
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Times VIII Broadcast
State Basket DruN,ingS

Out Of the hat la Thurston, will
rg for the twentieth annual Indiana high
nanent this afternoon
Fans coaches and team members approximately
towns villages throughout anxousy awaiting
results of todays the A L Trese H
A. A.
Saturday morning at o'clock the commissioner will issue the
schedules for the sxtyfour sectional
later. The Times giving complete
program in each center
throughout the entire state opponents
their tayore IN the sectional
worlds largest and greatest eventa minutes after they
announced officially
Blythe and Tommy Hendricks announcers
every sports fans in the state
Blythe win go on promptly at past
Journeys and the last
The Times and WFB pioneers basketball and sports broad
casts also viii stage their rngsd
Bue heohouse when the sixteen
regona events start the final gruing grind March and 81
Don't forget-tune in WFBM Saturday at
learn who plays at what Complete schedules in the
secionals will be published editions The Times
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A tense audience listened
to opening statements and
first witnesses as the grim
picture of the flame-seared
body Of Schroeder's unknown
victim was flashed before the
jury.
Three days of tedious questioning
Of talesnen ended when Virgil Nc
Claim, 906 North Graham street.
was accepted as the twelfth juror.
Opening Statements Made
Judge Frank P. Baker ordered
opening statements made, and
Prosecutor Herbert Wilson rose to
outline the murder solution of which
has baff1ed authorities for nine
months.
Jurors heard Wilson declare the
state will draw picture of
Schroeder as a man whose actions
before the murder forecast "dire
crime
Schroeder sailed into Indian
apolis under false colors, under a
false name, and with strange ac-
tons. We believe the state will
show beyond any doubt that he
perpetrated. the crime"
Wilson called attention of jurors
to the indictment, charging
Schroeder with ending the victims
life by 'the use of deadly weapons,
by burning, or by methods un-
known"
Attacked by Holmes
This was attacked shortly after
ward by Ira M. Holmes, defense at
torney, as the states most vuler-
able point.
Holmes first attack was sounded
when he interrupted the trial to
file a motion to compel the state
to elect on which count of the in
dictments Schroeder will be tried.
The jury for the first time was ex-
cused, and arguments followed.
Baker overruled the motion and
the jury was recalled
Holmes argued that Schroeder is
entitled to know the charge he must
face.
Schroeder will have to prepare
a double defense under the indict-
ment," Holmes declared.
Defendant Smiles
Watching events with vital in
.terest, Schroeder smiled as Holmes
argued. He chewed gum vigorously
and smiled now and then at rela-
tiveS who we're at his side. 81
When Baker overruled the motion,
jurors were recalled, and Marvin
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G.. Owen. 1907 North Warman
street, a city fireman, was placed on
the, stand as the states first wit
ness.
Owen, with Notra Trulock, an
other fireman, were at the High
School road torch car scene short
ly after the burning sedan was dis
covered.
owen told Of extinguishing the
flames with no knowledge that the
car contained the lifeless cargo re-
moved later.
Body Is Discovered
After the fire went out, I walked
around to the front door Of the car.
saw the body of a, man inside. 1t
was slumped down in the seat.
"The skull was burned to the
bone. The arms and legs and one
knee were burned off. The first ap-
peared to be mostly inside the car.
Only two tires on the outside were
flaming"
Holmes, in opening statements,
told jurors the defense will prove
Schroeder set fire to the car and
its cargo in a delirium of fear.
1--WE further will show Schroeder's
passenger died in an accident
twenty-five miles west of Terre
Haute while Schroeder was leaving
indianapolis, and that fear of being
accused of murder led him to fire
the Car and its cargo"
Insanity Is Cited
Holmes declared, after outlining
Schroeder's life, that jurors will
hear testimony showing Schroeder's
grandmother and mother were in
mates Of hospital for the insane
victims of establishments and hal
fluctuations which may be traced to
Schroeder"
Attack on the alleged grilling of
Schroeder for days after he was
returned from Mobile, where he was
captured in a weed patch, was
made by Holmes.
Schroeder would have made any
statement to escape the abuse that
was heaped upon him. Holmes de-
clared.
People believe that Schroeder
is not all together upstairs, !"
Holmes said.
Winkler Is Assailed
He attacked Winkler, ex-sheriff,
as "perpetrating a rank forgery
when he gave Schroeder a letter at
the county jail purported to have
been written by the Alabaman's
wife, Mrs. Leah Schroeder.
Holmes asserted that Schroeder
left his Mobile home May l, thirty
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JOHN HAYES, VETERAN
PRINTER CHIEF, DEAD

Succumbs at Home in Minneapolis;
Served Union for Twenty Years.
Word was received at headquarters
of the International Typographical
Union here today Of death Thursday
of John Hayes, for more than TWEEN
ty years an officer of the organiza-
ton, at his home in Minneapolis.
Death was due to blood poisoning
from carbuncles.
Mr.. Hayes was secretary treasurer
of the union from 1909 until 1928,
and was president from 1905
until 1909. He had lived in Mime
apolis, his former home, since 1928.
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Greater" Paper

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-The
first edition of the combined
World Telegram appeared to-
day as a forty-four-page news
paper, with many features of
the two newspapers combined.
The new paper carried both
the former mastheads of THE
Evening World and 1.-THE New
York Telegram"
Included among the Evening
World features appearing in
the combined newspaper were
q page of cartoons. a sport
page cartoon, an inside news
cartoon, and the dramatic COL
unln Of Bide Dudley, Evening
World dramatic critic.
The Morning World ceased
to publish after it's late morn
ing edition today.
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.-MONTH JAIL
Term IS GIVEN
SCARFACE AL
Convicted of Contempt, of
Court; Free on Bond,
Pending Appeal.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. -"Scarface"
Al Capone was found guilty of con-
tempt of federal court today by
Judge James H. Wilkerson and SEN
fenced to six months in Cook county
Jail.
The judge made his decision I'M
expectedly as soon as final argu-
ments were finished. He had beer
expected to take the case under ad-
visement.
The gang leader, forewarned by
the judges remarks during final
arguments, gulped and flushed when
the Jail sentence was decreed. He
refused to comment.
The decision marked the first
time in Capone's ten years of gang
leadership in Chicago that he has
been convicted in a local court The
only other conviction behind his
name was in Philadelphia in 1923,
and that was for carrying a pittol.
Claimed He Was Ill
The contempt case grew out of
Capone's alleged illness at his
Miami (FTla.) estate in March, 1929,
when the government ordered him
to appear here G~sd tell what he
knew about the Chicago Heights
liquor conspiracy.
Instead Of appearing, Capone
sent an affidavit that he was too
i'll to travel and that the Chicago
climate would be dangerous to his
condition.
The government introduced sew
eral witnesses at the hearing the
last two days to testify Capone was
not i'll, but attended horse races and
took airplane rides during the time
he swore he was suffering from
pneumonia.
Judge Wilkerson granted Capone
a stay of execution until Monday
when his bail of $4,000 will be con-
tinued and an appeal entered.
Capone's attorneys said the court
of appeals probably would not act
until August and that Al would be
free Oh bond until then.
Aggravated Whole Affair
In his ruling, Judge Wilkerson
brought out several times that Ca
pone had not testified in his own
behalf and that his whole attitude
during the trial had been to
aggravate the whole affair"
1.-THE trouble with this whole pro-
eeedings," the judge said, was that
the defendant was trif1ing with the
court. His petition stated on
March II, 1929, that he had been
out Of bed only for the ten days
past, whereas, as matter of fact,
it was common knowledge in Miami
that he was out and around"
Capone dozed the fore part of the
morning as attorneys argued his
case, but was all attention later
when the judge clashed with Ben
janin Epstein, one of the gang
leaders many lawyers, over ap-
parent discrepancies in the testi-
mony.
Face Is Fiery Red
Before they had finished, the gang
king was sitting upright in his chair
chewing a whole package Of gum.
He had added to the wad, stick by
stick, as the judge came nearer the
decision.
AIS face was fiery red by the
time the judge reached the point of
cOnSioninC him IN Sly months in
jail. He left the court with his
escort Of police, crestfallen and
sullen.
Outside, from nearby restaurants
and hotels, his bodyguard appeared
silently and surrounded him. The
strange party Of police, gangsters
and chief drove away and Capone
had been convicted in Chicago for
the first time.
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enUs that Laura
Lou Brookman,
popular author of
newspaper fiction,
has mixed into a
breath-taking new
serial, Mad Mar
rage" which starts
March 4 in The
Times.
This is the story
Of Gypsy Mcbride,
l9-year-old New
York typist, who
married an utter
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First Witness i'm
Schroeder Staying
Case Is on Stand
BY EDWARD C. FULKE
Opening Statements of Attorneys on Page 2e

Plunged to spectacular start after mpanelng of a
jury, Harold Herbert Schroeders fight for life against
murder charge opened this afternoon in criminal court
Shortly after Schroeders twelve peers were seated at 10
the defense launched into unsuccessful but hard
foungh preliminary tilt to clear the Mobile garage man.
charged with the grewsoe High School road torch
der May 81 The state demands Schroeder die in the electric
chair for the alleged crime.
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Woodland avenue, real estate
dealer; and Edward w. Pierson,
Pike township, farmer.
Rear row, cleft to right)-Virgil
McClain, 9O6 North Graham
street, stearnhtter; Omer Ford,
1857 Hiatt street, carpenter; Harry
Ayres, Mars Hill, mechanic; Earl
Dillinger. 1866 Winter avenue, gro
GER; Charles w. Reed, New Angus
ia, farmer; and William I. Camp
bell, 324 West Maple road, manu-
facturer,
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Order Aid Deported
BIZ United Press

0B Ctttt1 FFCSS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The Ia
Dor department announced today
that a warrant has been issued for
deportation Of Antonio (Mops)
Volpe, reputed henchman Of Al
Capone
Grounds for the deportation Of
Volpe were given as moral turpi-
tude, prior to entering the United
States, and fraudulent entry.
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Sbu9-ned!

CPURNED love bewilderment
~ =. heartache :. jealousy /.
and happiness.
These are a few of the ingredi-
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Jury which will hear evidence
in the trial of Harold Herbert
Schroeder is pictured here as it
will sit in the box in Marion
county criminal court:
Front row, cleft to right)-Albert
Shaw, Pike. township, farmer;
Floyd Graham, 2942 North Illinois
street, contractor; A. H. Skinner,
910 East Thirty eighth street,
manufacturer; Morris E. George,
631 North LaSalle street, bank
clerk; William H. Joyce, 1920
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stranger The day after She met him
Lecause the man she loved had jilt-
ed her.
Be sure to start this thrilling new
serial Wednesday. March s, in The
Times.
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Deal Is Closed for
Sale of N. Y. World
to ScribbS-H Oz0ard
By United Press

NEW YORK, Feb 27.-The New York World nation
ally known institution passed out of existence today and in
it's place born the Telegram an afternoon
dedicated to perpetuaon of the independent ideals of two
of Americas greatest liberal journalistic W. Scripps and
los prit Or,
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Approve Marshal Nomination

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The
senate judiciary committee today
authorized a favorable report Of the
nomination of William N. Cromie to
be marshal in the northern district
Of New York.
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A Congressman Learns

Hamilton Fish Jr. Ham Fish. Hamfsh Current
congressional Joke: Q-What is hamhsh A
IT'S red herring.
Now this would be pretty good if it were basically
true but 1t is beginning to that 1t is not First
let's explain the joke on the theory that you haven't
been reading the headlines concerning Congressman
Fish and his hectic red hunt Well, the idea back Of
the joke is that the congressman in all his wild DASH
ing about the country seeking evidence of Russian
Communist activities in the United States, merely has
been drawing a red herring across the trail to dis
tract our attention from wrongs that should be
rghted in our own country. Really to get the joke,
you have to spen red with a capital "R." And you
mustn't forget that Fist's last name is Fish
You are entirely welcome. No trouble at all. Al
ways glad to explain joke.
But, as said, there may be no truth in the jest.
Indications are that Representative Fish is perfectly
serious in his red hunt. He apparently believes the
menace is real and that should do something
about it. In any case, he has discovered lot Of
things about his own country in the course Of his
official sleuthing, things lot Of people haven't
known or thought about
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Better Than Charity

There might be no problem of public relief for
unemployed today If employers regarded labor as a
fixed charge upon industry. This would imply that
each industry should protect its labor less than
its stockholders in hard times.
Failure Of capital to accept this responsibility to
labor explains the great paradox Of $780, when ma
tional dividends distributed large or larger
than in prosperous 1929. while the national wage
distribution was calamtously less
Not only labor was the victim. AL business
suffered because labor, the great consuming mass,
was too poor to buy goods The depression is not
due to a shortage Of wealth There is more wealth
in the country than before-but it is IN fewer
pockets. The basic cause OF the depression is the
uneven distribution Of this wealth.
To provide funds for its workers in hard times
and to keep up their purchasing power consumers,
the General Tire and Rubber Company of Akron has
announced unique and interesting experiment.
In declaring a special dividend, it gave stock
holders only half Of the total setting aside equal
amount an employment fund to prevent layoffs
and 70 provide loans for workers who laid of.
Workers who need their wages in winter months
10 buy fuel food and shelter win be given more steady
employment through the dull winter months through
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People Voice

Editor Times: am not much of
a writer, lawyer or policeman, but
I am trying to express myself on a
matter that is exciting every citizen
Of Indianapolis,
Policemen and f1remen can be shot
by gangsters, and we say it is too
bad, but when a confirmed criminal
cries that he got third degree treat
ment from the police, he gets front
page sympathy and the safety board
starts an investigation.
1t seems to me that if our police
were given a chance for little
more use of their guns in making
arrests, we might save some livees,
and the outrage of an innocent citi-
zen who might have to submit to
so hurniliating an arrest would be
Offset by the safety that would re-
suit from the catching of some of
the desperate characters who are
shooting their way through anybody
who crosses their path.
If our police dared use their guns
as freely as our paroled and escaped
convicts are doing, we might read
of a different sort Of character dying
from bullet wounds and the firearms
OF the country would be falling into
safer hands
DAILY READER.
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the use Of this fund which viii help to absorb inter
est charges and obtain business at the time when
it be handled to the most advantage" according
to the company announcement. Eve do not regard
this as philanthropic move nor do we have any
intention Of INDUCING in any crack-brained theories
1t is simply matter of good business"
Certainly this is a hopeful experiment, even though
it stops far short of making permanent employment
first charge upon industrial profits coming before
any special dividends to stockholders No loans to
workers ever can take the place of wages
The difference between industrys attitude toward
its stockholders and its employees stated at che
recent meeting Of the American Association for the
Advancement Of Science by Professor william NJ.
Leiserson Suggesting that solution Of unempIoy
ment would be the conversion Of industry to regard
wages legitimate overhead" expense he said:
TN contrast to this doing out of dividends to in
vesors in periods when their industries are not work
ing only partly working, consider what the same
business arrangements do to their wage earners.
During the first nine months of $780, when divi-
dends increased by more than 81 900 over 1929
the wages paid to working people declined by $780,
100000 according to the Standard Statistics Corpora
ton At present it is safe 70 say that the wages paid
out to wage and salaried people in 1880 are
lower by more than $1OOo0OOO0OO compared with
1929
N1Ee reason for this is plain Working people are
not overhead. Interest payments are fixed charges
and dividends must be stabilized to maintain the
value Of the stocks so homogeneous must treat them
as overhead charges. The magic is in that word
overhead
IF only working people could convince the di-
rectng managers of industry that their upkeep or
subsistence is as much fixed or overhead charge as
the regular dividends stock they would not have to
worry about unemployment"
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Lost His Head

TINE ninth figure in the book Is
4 Lavoisier, the father of scien-
tiflc chemistry, who lost his head in
the French revolution because of a
belief OF certain politicians that the
republic had no need Of scientists.
:. The tenth is Dalton, the Quaker
who founded the modern atomic
theory. Then Faraday and Maxwell
who laid the foundations for the
understanding Of electricity, light
and radio. And next, Helmholtz,
the brilliant German, who estab-
lished the modern understanding OF
energy.
DR.. Ginzburg goes to the realm OF
biology for his next four figures,
Lamarck and Darwin, founders Of
the theory of evolution; Pasteur.
who established the germ theory Of
disease, and Mendel, pioneer in the
scientific study Of heredity and
eugenics.
His eighteenth figure is that Of
Einstein, the most modern Of the
universe makers.
The eighteen form an interesting
list. Other scientists come In for
incidental mention here and there.
1t goes without saying that the
list will not please all students of
Silence. Many for example, will
question the absence Of Josiah Will
lard Gibbs, or perhaps Sir William
Eerschel.
But the criticism does not seem
particularly important. This is the
book which DR.. Ginzburg has chosen
to write. There is nothing to pre-
vent others from writing more
books.
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Lucas, Political Morality

Any lingering doubt of rank and file Republicans
as to the fitness of Robert H Lucas to serve man
aging director of the Republican national committee
may be dssipated by letter just published by the
New York World
In this letter, Lucas, former commissioner OF in
ternal revenue apparently sought to enlist the aid
of the army Of internal agents throughout
the country to support Republicans in the November
elections There are some $4,000 internal revenue
employees; most OF them forbidden by law to par
tcpate in politics. because they have civil service
ratings.
"You can not, of course take an unduly active
part in politics" said Lucas letter. but you can be
of great help to me in keeping me advised of po-
litical conditions in your community You are ia
miar with the political situation in your county and
adjoining counties
IF you will write from time to time, letting
know just what is going on politically, such infor-
nation will be of great value to me in my work"
II there is any single agency of the government
that should not be turned into an adjunct of the
Republican national committee it is the bureau Of
internal revenue, with its broad powers to grant
material favors to influential and wealthy citizens
in taxation.
Indeed, there have been repeated charges that the
bureau has been used politically in the matter of tax
refunds and Attachments and in other ways, and In
vestigations have been made in congress
Lucas apparently lacks political morality. His
cent activities against Senator Norris in Nebraska
were enough to have demonstrated this. The Presi-
dent would do well to get rid of him.
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Young Ones

TN speaking mournfully Of the
l. present fashion in games 1 have
no intention OF saying anything
against the revival of ping pong. I
never could understand why it went
away.
AS in several other phases Of life
and affairs, the restoration has
come too late to be Of much use
to me. At the age of 10 or II I
was the second-best ping pong
player in my family and I also
could beat the youngest Of the three
boys who lived directly across the
street. But now my skill has waned.
In respect to recreation, I am a
Victorian and a fundamentals.
The restlessness of the younger
generation perturbs me. Science has
made no great improvement in
runny and stud poker.
No, I'll have to take part Of that
back. Modern research has done
at least one thing which was beyond
the capacity Of our Puritan fore
bears. They never thought up con-
tract bridge-the more fools they!
Reluctantly I will have to admit
that here is something new which
should remain for all time. Indeed,
I somewhat have altered my con-
ception of what might be an attrac-
tive heaven.
I think Of heaven as a place
where I always will be able to bid
two spades and never have a fool
Of a partner.
Copyright. 1881. By The Times)