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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
WIDOWS BARE
H|GH-PRESSURE
SALES OF LOTS
Workings of Alleged Fraud
Ring Are Revealed in
Federal Court.
THREE ARE ON TRIAL
Charged With Using Mails
in Campaign to Sell
Land Here.

How flashily- dressed statesmen
lured indianapolis widows into buy
ing lots in Morningside addition
with promises of quick profits we're
described today in federal court at
jury trials of three operators of the
defunct Indiana Estates Company.
Eleven women, most of them
widows, testified before a courtroom
crowded with spectators, as the
government sought to convict the
operators of using the mails to de-
fraud in the alleged 100000 real
estate swindle.
Defendants are William M. Dozier,
president; Mel j. O'Keefe, his part
ner, and James F. Huteson, Toronto,
Canada, alleged financial hacker.
Mrs. Bertha Mozier, widow, and
mother of four children, told the
jury she paid as a down payment
$475 on a lot which statesmen told
her would make her profit of $500
within sixty days.
widows Are witnesses
The witnesses wildly described
how glib-tongued statesmen talked
them into investing their savings by
free automobile rides, lectures and
lunches.
On promise of obtaining a job
with the company, Mrs. Halle
Lamb, 658 Arbor avenue, signed a
$1,000 note and paid $500 in cash
for each of four lots, she testified.
Other widows who testified to
purchases were Mrs. Cecilia Hutch
ison, Mrs. Eva Cunningham, Mrs.
Alice Pierce, 4S North Sheffield ave-
nue. and Mrs. Constance Roach.
The other widows Who were in
duced to invest in the lots were
among witnesses Thursday describ-
ing sales methods Of. the company.
Mrs. Luella l.. Hunt, els East
Twentieth street, related how a
neighbor induced her to visit the
sales pavilion at the addition.
Taken there in luxurious cars, she
testified, the prospects were guests
at free chicken dinner, which she
said was very good"
Introduced as Scholar
Next, she added, they heard a
very interesting" lecture by Dozier
on the investment value of real
estate and the ''lack of safety of
banks"
After being shown several lots, she
said, she was taken into a booth
by closer" or closing salesman,
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18

/ qron NAM Alcock, deputy police
commissioner, who formerly headed
the police department, and of Police
Lieutenants Michael and Patrick
Alcock. She also is cousin of Police
Sergeant Thomas Alcock.
All four Alcocks begged for ex-
ira hours and assignment to the
case.
Police believed the suspect held
is the quick trigger" bandit who
killed Frank F. Gordon wednesday
night and half an hour later kid
nared Miss Henry
Miss Henry was held prisoner for
more than three hours by the ter
rorist, was bullied and attacked,
then released and sent home, by
serical, to her mother.
1t also is believed the youth is
the same one who on Tuesday night
wounded James F. McElligott in a
holdup. McElligott and a girl were
sitting in a parked automobile when
the man appeared.
Jordan, likewise, was sitting in an
automobile with girl when the
bandit appeared.
Half an hour later, and only a
few blocks away, Miss Henry and
her escort, James Guisinger, we're
accosted as they sat in Guisinger's
automobile near Miss Henry's home.
The bandit boosted he had lust
killed a man."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
WINTER DEATH
TOLL MOUNTS
TO 4 IN CITY
Man Is Stricken With Heart
Attack as He ShoveIS
Snow.
WRECK MAY BE Fatal.
Slightly Warmer Weather
and Cloudy Skies Are
Forecast.

Death toll in Indianapolis due
to heavy snow was increased to four
today and a motorist, whose car
was struck by train after skid
ding from pavement to a track, re-
ceived probably fatal injuries.
Stricken with heart disease today
while shoveling snow, Henry Lahm.
65, of 628 Udell street died within
few minutes. He was working on
the sidewalk in front of the home
of Mrs. A. L. Hall, ga Uden streets
when the fatal attack came. DR.. E.
R. Wilson, deputy coroner, investi-
gated.
Tom Porter 65, Negro, 3413 North
wester avenue, died at city hospital
of fractured skull incurred when
he fell on an ice-coated sidewalk
near his home.
Condition of Anderson Day. rs.
resident of Hooverville, town of
evicted families on White river,
who is in a critical condition of a
cerebral hemmorhage due to ex-
posure. remained critical today at
city hospital.
Injuries May Cause Death
Injuries which may cause death
were incurred by Charles Jessup.
As, R. r. 10, Box 438, when the
automobile he was driving was
struck by freight train at Arling-
ton avenue and the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad crossing.
Grew of the train, including Her
bert B. Johnston, conductor, 250l
English avenue, and Ed Fitzgerald,
engineer, II West Twenty first
street, told police that the auto
mobile approached the crossing at
a slow rate of speed.
Apparently due to applying brakes
while the car travelled on slippery
pavement, it turned around three
times and stopped on the tracks.
Hurled thirty feet, the automo-
bile came to rest against a steel
block signal tower. The car was
demolished.
Slippery streets and sidewalks
were responsible for several minor
accidents Thursday night and early
today.
Suffers Fractured Shoulder
c. r. Sheaffer, So, of 500 Highland
drive, suffered fractured shoulder
when he fell on a ice-covered side
walk.
Mrs. Louise Gregory, 90, Negro.
1411 North Arsenal avenue, frac-
tured her left ankle when she
slipped on ice in front of her home.
She is in city hospital.
Winters three-day grip weakened
slowly as slightly warmer weather
and cloudy skies were forecast.
While the citys force of $50 work.
men continued to clear snow from
streets in the downtown area, j. Fl.
Arlington, weather man, said there
is little likelihood of more rain or
snow.
The mercury stood at 80 at to-
day. Lowest temperature tonight
Will be about q, Arlington said.
Rising temperatures were expect
ed to facilitate clearing of streets
and highways. There is no irnme-
date indication that the snow will
turn to slush due to rising tempera-
lures, Arlington said.
Insterstate traffic generally had
recovered from effects of the rec
ord-breaking snowfall of more than
eight inches Tuesday night.
All branches of transportation
were operating on new regular
schedules.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
BY HELEN WELSHIMER
NEA Service Writer

VONKERS, N. Y, Nov. 49,
Il Rose Gonzales has come to
the end of her quest. She be-
lieves she has found the men
who murdered her husband.
Nearly two years of sleuthing
that led her across the ocean to
Spain, and home again to Yon-
kers, may have been rewarded at
last.
Julio Perez and Bernardino
Arias we're arrested in Yonkers
the other day, charged with hav-
ing killed Manuel Gonzales on
Jan. 8, 1881. Back of their arrest
is the story of woman'S desire
for vengeance.
When police lost the trail of the
men whom Mrs. Gonzales had ac-
cused of shooting her husband,
she picked it up. First, she
searched Tor them around New
York City. Then she heard that
Perez and Arias had gone to Spain.
An ocean couldn't stop her pur-
suit.
She needed money, though.
Therefore, she sold the hotel and
boarding house which she and her
husband had conducted They
brought $4,000. She put the money
in her pocket, engaged a trans
Atlantic passage and the chase
was on.
=
A IL the way across the ocean
4 n she remembered things. She
remembered how she and her
husband had been happy and
prosperous with their little hotel.
Laboring men who lived there
formed the habit of intrusting
their earnings to Manuel, when
they were paid after banking
hours. They knew that they could
trust him. One night he had
$1,000 on hand.
Julio Perez and Bernardino
Arias often came to the restaur-
ant of the hotel, thk young widow
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
$1,000 MORE is
DONATED FUND
Special Gifts Are Reported;
Over $4,000 In.

Special gifts division of the Com
munity Fund campaign reported
total pledges of $500 at noon to-
day at the Claypool as follows:
Indiana Lumberman Mutual In
surance Company. $1,000, increase of
$700 over last years gift; Grain
Dealers National Mutual Fire IN
surance Company, $3.50, increase
of $3.50; George S. Olive, $4,000;
Gibson Company, $1,S5C, and Hook
Drug Company, $4,000
With nearly third of the goal
reached, volunteer workers of the
fund pressed on today after report
ing total of $223, 75643 at the
meeting in the Claypool Thursday.
The total is more than 80 per cent
of the $1,052,632 sought for poor
relief
Among the large gifts reported
Thursday by Hugh NICK. Landon,
chairman of the special gifts COM
nittee, were $4,000 from Mr. and
Mrs. G. A. Efroymson; $4,000 from
the Belt Railroad and Stock Yards
Company; $4,000 from the Diamond
Chain and Manufacturing Com
pany, and $500 from the Fletcher
American National bank.
Landon's own subscription of 81
900 was included in Thursdays
total. An anonymous donor in
creased the gifts by $4,000. Belief
of officials that the momentum of
the drive is increasing with each
succeeding day was strengthened
when Thursdays report showed a
gain of nearly $4,000 over the first
report Wednesday.
The total pledges announced
Thursday amounted to $185,11528.
The first report Wednesday totaled
$138,64115.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18

Investigation of methods of adj
ministering poor relife in every
Marion county township will be in
stituted soon by the state accounts
board, it was announced today by
Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner.
He announced the probe after
committee had presented petition
bearing signatures of eighty persons
asking an inquiry.
The committee was from the South
Side Civic Clubs, headed by James H.
Foster. His aids were Samuel Har-
rig, Sidney o. Smoch and j. Ed
Burk.
Harrig, as spokesman, declared the
committee is not charging any one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
STATE WILL PROBE
POOR RELIEF HERE

with specific wrongdoing and as
serted the inquiry was desired as
much for the benefit of those re-
ceiving aid as for taxpayers.
He said he was aware that Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivan has a COM
nlittee with the same purpose, but
expressed a belief that investigation
by a state board, not SO close to the
community, would be more helpful.
Lack of confidence in administer
ing relief is one of the Objectionable
features of the situation, Harrig
said. Cost of relief for one year in
Marion county. is $1,000, 900, the cost
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
THIS IS YOUR HOME
SAY RULES OF JAIL
Keep 1t Orderly and Clean Plea
in Baltimore Cells.
By United Press

By United Press
BALTIMORE, Nov. 18.-The Bal
tlmore city jail board has decided
70 post a new set Of rules in every
cell, and at the top of the regllIa-
lions Will be the quotation:
BE it ever so humble, there's no
place like home"
This cell is your temporary home. {"
the rules continue, Treat it az
nome. Keep it orderly and clean.
with everything in its proper place. :
Then there is the admonitions
All valuables should be checked
with the guard on your section. valu-
snies Kept by you at your own risk :,
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recalled. They knew that Manuel
kept money around.
Then, on the fatal January
night, she wakened.
II saw the men in the room"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Dozen Breweries Chartered

SPRINGFIELD, H.. Nov. 49,
Illinois breweries are preparing for
the rush. Charters for establish
ment OF twelve were issued by the
secretary Of state Thursday.
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she says. st knew them well.
They often came to the house. /
screamed When I did they began
to shoot. I slipped over the side
Of the bed, and lay on the floor,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18


CHICAGO youthful under arrest it learned
~ today the sweetheart killer who erod the south side
south side the police squads thrown into the
after hodup VICTIM the abduction mstreatment
of young girl
Awaiting questioning by
victims held without
charge
He police said Varecha 1yearold mental defective,
who is being sought.
eral the description given by victims Of the criminal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
HARTFORD CITY
TO
DIE IN CHAIR
John {. Moore Pleads Guilty
to Charge of Killing
Farm Couple.
SWIFT ACTION TAKEN
Judge Rules Slayer Must
Be Put to Death on
March 2.
SWIFT ACTION TAKEN
By United Press

HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Nov. 10.
John E. Moore, 20, was sentenced
to death IN the electric chair Thurs
day night after pleading guilty to
charges of numbering and robbing
his aged uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. A. Moore, Pennville farmers.
Events moved swiftly after Moore
was returned here from Virginia,
Mimi, where he had been captured
at the home of woman.
The Blackford county grand jury
was called into session. In a short
time it returned an indictment
charging murder committed while
in the act of burglary. a crime max
ing the death sentence mandatory
in Indiana.
Moore was permitted the services
of an attorney for brief confer
ence. Then ne went before Circuit
Judge E. w. Secrest to plead guilty.
Reads Death Sentence
Almost before any one realized
what had happened, Judge Sc
crest read the verdict:
Il sentence you to death in the
electric chair at Indiana State pris-
on, some time before sunrise,
March g"
Moore was asked if he had any
thing to say. He shook his head
negatively. He appeared on the
verge of tears, but seemed to be
otherwise composed.
Sheriff Ira Mannix led the pris-
oner away. He must take him to
the state prison at Michigan City
some time within the next two
weeks.
Father Stays Away
Moore's father, Ray Moore, De-
troit Mich, came to Hartford City
VIXEN informed of his sons predica-
ment. He was not present for the
court proceedings, however, having
previously told friends that he did
not care to see his son.
Young Moore had been living with
his aunt and uncle on their COM
Portable little farm near Pennville
until recently. They learned that
he had prison record and sent him
away.
Angered, he came back there Fri
day night, waited in the house until
they finished the chores, and then
shot them dead.
Fingerprints Found
Moore'S body was found lying on
the kitchen floor the next morning
by milk collector Hi wife's body
was lying in an adjoining room.
In his confession, Moore told of
stealing the couples automobile,
ransacking the house for money,
the car at Whiting, Ind, and then
took bus to Minnesota to visit the
home of his girl friend.
Right from the start, Hartford
City authorities said, suspicion
pointed toward the nephew A pic
ture of his girl was found on the
floor and numerous f1ngerprints were
registered by experts from the state
criminal bureau.
Il Don't Know Why"
Two transientS were arrested and
told of riding to Hartford City the
day before the murder with a
young man who told them he was
going to Pennville to get some
money and an automobile.
Moore denied his guilt when ar
rested at Virginia, but readily con-
fessed when confronted by Mannix
and Prosecutor James Emshwiller.
Maryland for Lame Duck Ban
By Scripps-HoWard Newspaper Alliance
BALTIMORE, Nov. 18.-Ratifca-
ton of the lame duck amendment
by the Maryland legislature when
it meets in January is deemed GER
tain. Governor Richie said re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
USES HAIL FOR ICE

Farmer Fills Storm Cave; Beats
Refrigeration Cost.
BANCROFT, Neb., Nov. IS. -
Chester Graf. farmer, filed his
storm cave with hailstones after 4
severe storm last spring. and all
summer and fall he used the stones
in his refrigerator, not buying arti-
fetal ice.
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Leading the police activity today
were four policemen relatives of
Lillian Henry, 20, the telephone OPP
orator, whom the terrorist kidnapped
and attacked twice during night
of crimes that included the Staying
of Frank Jordan 38, because Jor-
dan was slow in obeying his COM
mands.
Miss Henry is the niece of John
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Maryland for Lame Duck Ban
BIZ Scripps-Hoicord Newspaper Alliance
BALTIMORE, Nov. 1s.-Ratiflca-
ton of the lame duck amendment
by the Maryland legislature when
it meets in January is deemed GER
tain. Governor Richie said re-
Gently he has heard of no opposi-
ton to the proposal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-18
The Little Big Horn Tragedy.
(New York Times)

General Edward S. Godfrey of the old army died in quiet little village in New Jersey on Friday at ripe age of 88 He was a typical West Pointer ol the old school proud of his profession, and having certain standards of behavior that rather uneom-
 mon in this age of political influence He never at tained higher rank than that of Brigadier General, but he was retired for age long before the World War General Godfrey was at the time of his death the oldest graduate of the Military Academy and the only surviving officer of the Little Big Horn cam paign in which Colonel George A. Custer and 2tt troopers of the Seventh Cavalry were killed to a man by Indians ten times their number, who were better armed with repeating rifles
 In the Little Big Horn campaign Edward S God- frey was a Lieutenant in Captain Benteens 1orce which with Major Renos troops was operating Tn support of Colonel Busters main body. When scouts had reported an Indian village in an unexplofed country Custer divided his command into three pat talions" Reno was ordered to begin an attack on the village; Custer to proceed up the river to reinforce Reno; while Benteen had orders to scout to the left and deal with bands of Indians he en- countered Major Reno had only 112 men, and finding in his front greatly superior body of the enemy halted, took cover, and finally retreatea across the river Godfrey severely criticised the tac- tics of Reno holding that if he had engaged the h. dians their concentration Custer might have been prevented Reno had his defenders, among them General w E. Eagerly, who also Lieutenant lin Benteen's command. Judge Advocate Graham also championed Reno. In spite of a distinguished Civil War record Reno was dismissed from the Army There is no doubt that General Godfrey dic his duty "as he SEW it" in condemning Reno. The llatters fate was however, another tragedy of the Little Big Horn campaign
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-18
BACKYARD GARDENS COMING BACK

This spring and summer if predictions come true there will be more gardens in backwards and clty lots than in any year since the World War. By vegetable garden however small, the family hard hit by unemployment often eke out the neces- sary food supply. Many localities have planted Subsistence gardens" planned to provide jobs for men out of work as well food for their families. Thousands of acres of idle land, it is said, lie in vacant lots within the boundaries of large cities In smaller cities and towns there are more back yards and probably better soil than in large cities Owners and tenants have been planting many of those spaces to grow food they not afford to buy and for the same reason community gardens developing in many cities All this is officially announced by the Department of Agriculture
 It is easy to sec says the Bureau of Home Econ omics of the United States Department of Agri- culture, that by raising vegetables people can provide part of their food supply which they may not have the money to buy. In one group of we'll cultivated community gardens some years ago, the average return from tenth of an acre of land was about $50 worth of vegetables the basis of present prices This represented 100 hours of work-four hours per week-which all the time that the garden needed throughout the season.
 There is another advantage in having back yard garden When the housewife must buy every- thing for the table, in home where funds are short, there is often serious lack of minerals and vitamins in the family diet. This is true because vegetables and fruits, which are rich in minerals and vtamins, among the most expensive kinds of food The backyard garden will provide, at very little cost the foods-the vegetables, at least-whch not only improve the flavor and variety of the daily meals but also furnish the minerals and vitamins necessary for a balanced diet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-18
A New Mode of Conquest.
(Manchester Guardian)


 Japan has evolved mode of conquest. It has the advantage of being, in a diplomatic sense entirely respectable You begin as with other modes of conquest by taking possession of piece of ter ritory and by either driving existing authorities over the frontier or putting them to death Then comes the variation Instead of hoistng flag and an nouncng to the world, Whereas this was once part of China it is now part of Japan" you establish independent State cajole bribe or kidnap some un- employed royal parsonage him King or Elm peror President of the State create Ministries and dscreetly bestow portfolios, and invite the Powers to recognise your State, mentioning that for your own part you have not quite made up your mind in the matter, but that on the whole you are in- clined to take kindly attitude towards any people rightly struggling to be free. The plan has worked admirably in the case of Manchuria. An ex-Manchu emperor transported to Mukden and now there is a Manchurian Ministry whose members, though obscure appear to have high sense of duty and to be inspired by excellent ideas. One says obscure but there is an exception in the person of General Ma Chan-shan, who after taking part in what now seems to have been rather spurious fighting round the Nonni River has accepted the portfolio of war Unless he is aSSaSSinated, he should go lar lin the Manchurian State service The forces under his control being entirely Japanese may be relied upon to serve him faithfully and to protect him In the event of any of the thirty million or so Chinese Inhabitants of Manchura failing properly to respect their Minister of War. What the British Govern ment intends to do about the new State of Man churia remains to be On Monday Sir John Simon stated that present information would make lit premature" officially to recognise the State But there will be more information presently
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-18
NO DANGER OF EXTREME
 RADICALISM.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says conservatism and sanity dominated. the German election and it IS not unlikely that in France and the United States the popular response will be much the same" That is true in the United States matter what polti- cal party might control the election, and it is almost certain that in France they will continue to have conservative coalition Government no matter which party might win the plurality in the parliament
 None of the parties political factions Of i'm portance the United States are really radical as they understand radicalism in Europe And nons of the important political parties of France, includ- ing the Socialist radical in the sense that they have radicalism in other leading European powers Great Britain and Germany have already chosen conservatism and other great countries will do so before the year is out without doubt.