davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1931-12-25

One of the first novels dealing with
the theme has been written about mod
ern Jewish life in Palestine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
WOMAN DIES; PUSH
HUNT FOR CLUBBER

davenport. The blood-soaked side
had been turned downward.
The death instrument has not
been found. Clad in kimono and
house slippers, Mrs. Earl appar-
emily had been waiting for her hus-
band to return from work when her
assailant dubbed her. Covers on
the bed were turned down, but it
had not been slept in, and the house
had not been ransacked.
Funeral services will be held at
II a. m. Tuesday at the Moore &
Kirk undertaking establishment and
the body viii be taken to Columbus,
Ca, for burial.
Mrs. EARL was treasurer of the
Wcman's Auxiliary, local 1870, to the
national Federation of Postoffice
Clerks. In addition to the husband
she is survived by her mother, Mrs.
Margaret Fuller and two brothers,
John and Henry Fuller, and a sis
ter, Mrs. Ruby Downs, all Of Co.
lumbus, Ga.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
KILL PLAN TO
WIDEN Street
46th Street Action Baked
by demonstrators.

Plans for construction of a wide
north side crosstown traffic artery
were baked today when the works
board acceded to demonstrators and
killed a resolution for widening and
improving Forty-siXth street from
Meridian street to Boulevard place
A remonstrance with nearly nc
signatures was presented at the as
sessment roll hearing today by Will
liam Bosom, representing the But
ler-Fairview Civic Association. The
Fairview Presbyterian church also
demonstrated.
The board confirmed resolution
for widening and reSurfacing Forty
sixth street from the alley west of
the Monon railroad to keystone
avenue.
Resolution for paving Of College
avenue from the alley north of
Arch street to Eleventh street was
adopted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
See It Foam!
SiameSe Boy Aviator Is
Proud of Home Brew
Recipes.
YOU'VE heard the one about

YOU'VE heard the one about
Il the Trojan shepherd who
went to Greece to judge a beauty
contest and returned with the til
tian-tressed Helen. the whole
Greek navy on his trail.
Now listen to the tale Of Luan
Phonse Sobhan, dispatched to
America nine months ago by the
king of Siam to learn aviation
and establish the first CONNER
cial aviation system in hts native
land.
Luan foresaw that the intrica-
cies Of the man-made. birds here
would be difficult to understand,
so he found a short cut into ethe-
real realms. 1t dubbed from the
neck Of a large bottle, and lay in
tall glass, a delicious amber
fluid beneath a white, foamy COL
lar.
~ . C44Gy WILL JIG OA4444S ACO w
N another, and now Luan
prizes five recipes for home brew
almost as highly as his flying abil-
ity, he told Edward M. Johonson.
assistant superintendent at Mu-
nicipal airport, where the Siamese
boy stopped Sunday en- route 10
washington, D. G.
There he is to visit with the
Siamese royal family, which ar
rived in the United States last
week, and is to be received by the
President at the Capitol.
With $50 solo hours flying time,
Luan is almost ready for his
transport license and the return
to Siam With five home brew
formulas he is far beyond his
American flying pals, and more
than qualified to teach all of
Siam the combination of salt,
hops and yeast, Johnson said.
"I got him to give me some of
those recipes, Johnson admitted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
slain GUNMAN
is IDENTIFIED
Killer of Police Chief Pays
With Own Life.

The gunman who fatally wounded
Police Chief Troy Clevengar at Win
chester Saturday night and died
from bullet wounds inflicted by
Clevenger, today was identified as
Lawrence Schank, 80, of Muncie,
state reformatory parole yiolator.
The Identification was announced
by E, L. Osborne, of the state bu-
reau of criminal Identification.
Osborne said Schank had escaped
from the reformatory while serving
a Undertaking sentence imposed in
1928 at Muncie. He later was ar
rested in Richmond for robbery in
1929 and had been paroled.
Throughout Indiana today a
search was being conducted for the
other bandit who fled, after throw
ing Schank's body from the car.
1t was learned that the fugitive
returned to within half mile of the
Staying scene after he wrecked the
car. A farmer offered him ride,
he said, and let the man out when
they arrived at Winchester. From
here it is believed he went to Bluff
ton, stole another car and continued
his flight
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KEY TO SAFETY BOX
MAY SOLVE SUICIDE

the Community Fund, 5000 to the
indianapolis Foundation and 5000
to the Family Welfare Society. Fri
day she took back all but the Com
munity Fund contribution, and
wished to add the $500 to the lat
ter fund. She was advised to place
the money in bank. The fund still
has the $3.50.
Social workers, believing her
a mental case, Swallowed her after
she left the fund offices, watched
her purchase a bag at a downtown
store, visit other shops, and then
go to Union station, where she
asked the fare to Bloomington and
Springfield, III.
Henry Spearing, manager of the
apartment building, said tenants
smelled gas fumes early Saturday.
All day he searched for the leak,
and finally traced it to Apartment
100, where he found the body.
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First CIeW to Identity Of
Woman Is Discovered
by Coroner.

Whatever a key in possession Of
Coroner Fred Vehling mays have
been intended to open, it may un-
lock the mystery of the suicide of
a blonde, middle-aged woman in her
apartment at POLO North Meridian
street, Saturday.
The coroner said it was the first
clew to identity Of the woman. APP
parently a safety-box key, it bore
number and was made by Chi
cago firm. The coroner found 1t
in the woman's purse.
He telegraphed the Chicago COM
pany, giving the number on The key,
hoping a record of its manufacture
might be kept there. He expected
a reply today.
A cryptic message left by the
woman still puzzled authorities to-
day, they admitted.
The message, deciphered from a
strange code, revealed nothing, &C
cording to Coroner Fred Vehling.
The woman has been identified
tentatively under two names. Identi-
fcation marks were removed from
her clothing before she turned on
gas jets and was asphyxiated.
According to the coroner the de-
coded message read:
MCKENZIE 1853 DEARBORN
ALBERTSON ISABEL MCKE Sill
CAPTTOC."
Friday she had opened a $500 ac-
count in the Meyer Kiser bank I'M
der the name Elizabeth Mckenzie.
She had rented the apartment as
Lillian Wilmer, the name found on
several calling cards among her
meager possessions.
Tied in a handkerchief, and
pinned to undergarments the cor
oner found s225. The body was sent
to vehling's undertaking establish
ment.
Thursday she had donated $40 to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
CITY BLACKMAIL
PLOT is Fooled
Police Say JObIeSS Man
Admits Guilt.

Desperation induced by unem-
ployment drove George R. Taylor,
Sc, of GIG Russell avenue, to at
tempt blackmail of three promi-
nent men, he admitted to police
today.
He confessed he wrote threaten
ing notes to Albert M. Rosenthal,
1850 North Meridian street; George
J. Marott, 1868 Washington bou-
ievard and Ralph Spann, 1929 North
" 9ridian street, asking 5000 from
Marott, and 500 from each of the
others, declaring he would bomb
their homes if they refused pay
ment.
Detectives told Rosenthal to plant
a decoy can of money ina ceme-
terry on West Tenth street, three
quarters Of mile west of Tibbs
avenue. They hid in vacant house,
and, hearing a noise there, searched
and found Taylor.
Today they sought to link him
with other threatening letters to
prominent persons in the city more
than month ago. He denied i'm
plication in those notes.
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Acquaintance Suspected in
Brutal Attack on
Mrs. EARL.

Confronted by a murder mystery
and with only meager clews, detec-
tiyes this afternoon were to ques-
ton Hugh Earl, 1401 Bellefontaine
street, whose wife, Mrs. A9ollie EARL,
Is. was wounded fatally when at
tackled by an unknown aSsailant.
Police said they expected to ar
rest a suspect within a few hours
and desired to obtain a formal
statement from Earl. who found
his wife lying in the living room OF
the apartment, suffering from head
wounds inflicted by heavy, blunt
instrument.
Mrs. EarlI died Sunday afternoon
at the Methodiss hospital. EARL dis
covered the crime when he returned
from work early last Tuesday morn
ing.
throughout the days before her
death, Mrs. EARL did not regain
consciousness. She muttered the
words Negro" and John" and
hospital" shortly after she was
taken to the hospital.
Police said they believed the crime
might have been committed by an
acquaintance Of the woman and her
husband, who had entered the home
either to rob or crirninally assault
Mrs. Earl.
Two blood stained pillows, one OF
which was under Mrs. Earll'S head
led police to this theory, pointing
out the unusual act Of an attacker
in placing a pillow under victims
head.
Another pillow, from the seat Of
davenport, which also had been
blood soaked. was found on the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
HOOVER NAMES BOARD
TO RULE PERSONNEL
Council to Coordinate in Manage.

Council to Co. Ordinate in Manage
ment of Government Workers.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 27-Presi-
dent Hoover issued an executive
order today creating a council Of
personnel administration to CO.
ordinate in management Of govern
ment employees.
The order directed that the new
commission should develop in the
government "a more effective and
economical system of employment
and personnel management and
promote the general welfare Of gov
eminent employees"
The commission will be composed
Of heads Of the various government
departments, the civil service COM
mission director, budget director.
chief Of the efficiency bureau.
chairman Of the interstate COM
merce commission and veterans af-
fairs administrator.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
KILLING FROST FORECAST
THROUGH STATE TONIGHT

wind was cutting. No damage was
reported to field crops and fruit
from unreasonable cold.
Rain that fell Saturday and until
Sunday morning in most sections of
the state brought an aggregate pre-
cipitation Of 81 inch in Indianapo-
lis. Snow fiurries wer. reported in
indianapolis and in the north-cen-
trail part Of the state, snow mingled
with tree blossoms that were driven
on the high northwest wind.
Many unimprovsd roads in the
state we're impossible Sunday, but
we're reported dried today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
ATTACKS, STAYS GIRL
ASSaiIant Shoots, CruShes
Victim With Rock.
By United Press

By United Press
HAMDEN, Conn, April 27.-Pret-
ty Emily Kirk, 21-year-old daugh-
ter of Charles Kirk, prosperous
country gentleman and member Of
a family which colonized Hamden
nearly three hundred years ago. was
beaten with a ginger ale bottle,
criminally attacked and shot four
times before a f1fty-pound boulder
crushed out her life, Coroner James
j. Corrigan announced today.
County, state and Hamden police
united in search. A drenching
rain which fell on the wooded scene
OF the Staying Sunday destroyed all
helpful trace of the assailant or
assailants.
The autopsy performed by medi-
cal examiners revealed the girl was
shot twice in the head, once in the
upper right arm and once in the
palm Of the left hand.
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Farmers and fruit growers were
warned today of a dangerous frost
that will blanket Indiana tonight.
Weather bureau officials said to-
nights frost will be critical and
warned that vegetation be protect
ed against it. Only two cities in
the state reported frost Sunday
night. The remainder Of the state
having been protected by cloudy
skies. These we're Evansville and
Farmland, but damage was not
great.
Lowest temperature over the
weekend was 80, but the gale-like
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
ITALY TO TURN DOWN
FRENCH NAVAL PACT

Government Reported to Have
Found Proposals Unacceptable.
By United Press
ROME, April 27.-The govern
ment Semi-ofhcially was reported
today to have found unacceptable
the new proposals advanced by
France in connection with the ma
val limitations deadlock.
The Italian reply to the French
memorandum will be delivered in
Paris the middle Of this week. It
will contend that the proposals
radically change" the Franco-Ital-
ian accord, in which Great Britain
was a party, reached March 1.
The Italian reply will concur with
the reply Of the British government
rejecting the proposals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
CHURCH URGED
TO ADVOCATE
Birth CONTROL
Commission Report Asks
PreSbyterianS to Favor
Curb.
INJUSTICE TO CHILDREN
Many Brought Into World
When Support Means
Are Lacking.
INJUSTICE TO CHILDREN
BIZ Tnfted Prcsa

BIZ United Press
PHILADELPHIA. April 27-Im-
mediate approval of birth control
by the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in the United
States is recommended by a special
commission appointed to study
marriage, divorce and remarriage.
The assembly will be asked to 60
on record as favoring the use of
contraceptiveS, but only in fidelity
to the highest spiritual ideals of
the Christian home"
The commissions favorable re-
port comes after the Federal Coun-
Gil Of Churches in America, as well
as the New York Academy of Medi-
cine, has approved birth control.
Guidance Is Needed
Earnest Christian people the
report states, ARE asking for the
church's guidance on the subject Of,
birth control This subject de-
mands attention today as never be-
fore.
Economic conditions and a
worthy standard of living clearly
make it wrong to bring children
into the world without adequate
provision for their future and
proper consideration for the health
Of the mother.
THE Christian conception of sex
clothes the relationship between
husband and wife with spiritual sig
niflcance, sanctifying marriage as a
divine institution. Moral control is
the basic essential to a worthy ex-
perience of a marriage rela ton.
Would Change Chapter
"In expressing its Judgment on
this subject, the church in no sense
modifies its condemnation of sex
relations outside of marriage"
The commission recommends fur
Their that committee be appointed
to consider changing Chapter XIV
Of the confession of faith, now en-
titled "of marriage and divorce"
to a new charter consisting of six
SecGlonS, TO be entltled "oT marriage
divorce and remarriage."
The suggested new chapter would
require that each party to mar
riage obtain a health certificate be-
fore entering into wedlock, and
discusses other problems of mar
rage and the home.
The church would continue to
froWn upon divorce under the new
chapter While divorce is allowed
on two grounds-adultery and will
full desertion-'it is the duty of the
church to deplore most earnestly
the prevalence of divorce, and
especially to condemn the deliber-
ate steps taken by married people
to secure divorce in order to re-
marry
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
HOOVER TO SEE KING
SiameSe Ruler Will Visit at
White House.

BU United Press
PURCHASE, N. Y, April 81
Preparations were being made today
for the departure Tuesday for
Washington of King Prajadhipok Of
Siam and his party.
The king, staying at Mrs. White
law Reid's estate here, will visit
President Hoover Thursday and
then motor to Baltimore for an ex-
animation at Johns Hopkins hos
pital.
The king was relieved by informa-
ton from Paris that his half-broth-
er, Prince Chanbaburi, i'll in the
French capital, is improved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
What's He'll?
Profane, View of Radio
Censor; Not So, Is
Buffers View.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April a.
i Hell" became a word of
discussion today as the result of
its use Saturday night over a
radio station by General Smed-
ley D. Butler.
Is it profane, obscene, indecent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27

D OTARY'S wheel will boone
Az an important cog in the
restoration of health to Hoosier
children when Indiana Rotarians
Tuesday afternoon lay the corner
stone for the new conyalescent
home at James Whitcomb Riley
Hospital for Children here.
Attended by Rotary's founder,
international officers and Ro-
tarians from all parts of the state,
the ceremony will eliminate Ro-
tary'S nine-year campaign for
$25O,0O0 to finance the conva-
lescent unit.
Paul P. Harris, Chicago, founder
of Rotary; Chesley r. Perry, Chi
cago, international secretary, and
DR.. M. Ashby Jones, st. Louis,
Mo, speaker at several interna-
tional conventions, will speak at
the luncheon at the Claypool
Tuesday, preceding the ceremony.
William F. Hodges, Gary, Indi-
ana Rotary district governor, will
preside.
DUSSES will take Rotarians and
- their wives to the hospital
for the corner stone laying at 3.
Robert E. Heun, Richmond, chair
man of the Riley hospital adj
yisory committee, will introduce
Samuel D. Miller, representing the
Riley Memorial Association.
Miller and DR.. William Lowe
Bryan, president of Indiana uni
versity will express the graft
tude of the university. Harris will
lay the corner stone and Perry
will deliver the address.
Contribution of the $250,000
convalescent building to serve
nder-privileged sick and crippled
children Of Indiana has caught
the popular approval of Rotary
clubs throughout the world and
has been accepted as q worthy ex-
ample for charitable public well
fare endeavor in other countries.
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By United Press

By United Press
LOS ANGELES, April 27.-
G. G. Lands teed up his golf
ball on Ell Caballero course,
took a preliminary swing and
drove it far down the fairway.
At the same time a jack
rabbit decided to cross the
fairway. He and the ball ar
rived at the same spot sinful
taneously. The jack rabbit was
killed.
Lands said he didn't shout
''fore."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
STRUCK BY FOUL TIP;
ASKS $4,000 IN CITY
City Railway Employe Sues Perry
and Ball Club for Injury.


Fifteen thousand dollars for a
foul ball is the price sought in a
damage suit filed in superior court
three today by Guy L. Berry, In
dianapolis Union Railways employ.
against the indianapolis Baseball
Club, Inc, and Norman Perry,
owner.
The costly foul strike is alleged
to have been made by a member
Of the club last Aug. 10, in game
at Washington park.
The bali hit Berry, who was
sitting west Of homeplate, in the
temple, knocking him unconscious,
the suit alleges. Berry was confined
in the city hospital one month, and
since has not been able to return
to his work, it is charged.
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or is 1t appropri-
ate upon occa-
sion?
How ard r.
Miller, owner of
station WELK,
stuck fast to his
contention t h a t
the word is pro
fame, obscene and
indecent. Miller
took Butler off
the air" when he
said hell" in ex-
planning his cap
ture of Ft. Ri
Were in Haiti;
be said the use
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
LEGS DIAMOND
AGAIN IS SHOT
BY Foe; LIVES
Four SIugs Tear into Body
of Gang Chief, but He
May Recover.
UNSEEN ENEMY FLEES
VOIIey Fired at Midnight
From Ambush in
CatSkiIIS.

By United Press
CAIRO, N. Y, April 27.-The
amazing luck which has saved Jack
Legs) Diamond from assassination
twice before in his unsteady gang
land career came to his aid again
today, when he emerged alive,
though dangerously injured, from a
terrific volley of enemy gunfre.
A midnight ambuscade in a Cat
skill mountain roadhouse near here
was the latest trap set for the New
York underworld leader by the foes
who long since had marked him for
death.
Ten charges of buckshot blazed
from a sawed-off shotgun as the
young Broadway beer runner walked
out On the porch of the Saratoga
inn shortly before IL o'clock Sun
day night. -Four of them tore into
his body as he reeled backward. The
others, which would have finished
him, splintered the door through
WHICH ne passed.
ASSailant Makes Getaway
The assailant, unknown, escaped
into the darkness.
Scarcely six months ago Diamond
was shot four times and left for
dead in the Monticello hotel in New
York by two men whom he unwit-
tingly admitted to his room. Sur
geons said he had a chance in a
hundred to survive.
Thin, emaciated, and tubercular
he was in no condition to resist
death. But he fought it with de-
termination so strong that he re-
covered and several weeks later was
released.
Since that time he has remained
almost in seclusion in the strongly
guarded house at AGRA, six miles
from here, referred to as his fort
ress' in the mountains. The under
world has expected another attempt
on his life.
Target of volley
He was sitting with a party Of
three in the roadhouse, located a
mile and half from town. AS
the midnight hour drew near, he
rose from a table, crossed the
threshold of the room, passed
through an adjoining room, and
started to go out the door that led
on to porch closed in by glass.
Just behind him walked his
bodyguard, John scaccio.
AS the gang chieftain appeared
in the doorway, there was blind
ing, deafening roar from the dark
ness. Diamond was hurled to the
floor, screaming as he lay there.
my God, I'm shot again! I'm
shot againY"
The firing continued Scaccio
ducked and the passageway and
nearby walls were riddled by the
shotgun charges.
Rushed to Hospital
When the gunf1re stopped, the
body guard rushed to the side of his
fallen chief and lifted him up.
81 guess they got me that time, "
Diamond moaned. "They must have
used a machine gun"
But the gangster was less seri-
ously wounded than he thought. A
hurried call brought a private am
bulance end a dash was begun to
the Albany hospital, about thirty
miles away. Diamond was carried
into the hospital at a. m, with
one arm broken and painful wounds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-27
BURKE PLEADS GUILTY
Lie Imprisonment Faces KILLER,
for Murder of Policeman.
By United Press
By United Press

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, April 81
Fred Burke, alleged professional
killer, whose long reign as a hired
glnman and bank robber ended
when he was captured a few weeks
ago in a farmhouse in northwestern
Missouri, this afternoon pleaded
guilty to murding Charles Skelley
st. Joseph policeman.
Burke will be sentenced later in
the afternoon, it was said, and prob
ably will be rushed to the Marquette
prison at once. Life Imprisonment
is the maximum sentence he can re-
ceive.
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Then a chance visit to a New
York broadcasting studio won
Beryl a voice test and con-
tract to sing on the air. Soon
she was promoted to stardom.
Berry, sang tender love songs,
trying to conceal the ache in
her own heart. To forget
Tommy she accepted atten-
tons from Prentiss Gaylord,
son of her employer. She
could not forget. The dra-
matte adventures of these
thoroughly modern young
people are told in Ruth Dew
eu Gr0uaSf O hcOrHiy1 nam
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of the world was in violation of rul-
ings of the federal radio commits
sion.
DR.. Percy Van Dyke Shelly, pro-
fessor of England at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, said Gen.
Buffers use of the word was quite
in character and appropriate to
the occasion.
The Rev. B. c. Mackie, Presby-
terrain minister, said: There are
Times when in my opinion the
use Of the word is quite appropri-
ate. I do not think the word is
profane per Sc"