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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
TECH BOWS TO EVANSVILLE CACERS
SeUen Men LaShed at
Dela7Oare Whipping Post
By United Press


WILMINGTON, Del, March 19The catonine tails in the
hand of Warden j. Elmer Leach had busy session today the
Newcastle workhousseven having received
forty blows each their bare backs
Warden Leach who personally the whipping post
administered the $50 ahes with the whip
nine separate straps.
their cells, each victim marched down
paSsageway guard, time taken
into the wohouse where the whipping located The
post in reality is stone wall with mbedded steel
With his the wall the
tened securely his the stepped
back Warden Leach applied forty firmly
This punishment completed the prisoner taken back into
the Wkhose examined physician Cuts and bruises
treated and the next victim the post.
OF witnesses stood about the courtyard hoggngS
are open to the public usually held Saturday
Those logged today Lundy, Joseph Garry 3d.
James s. Hughes, TO- Edward Mick
whom guilty robbng Wilmington pawnshop Ne
Leon Butler Griffith petty larceny
In addition to the foggngs each will prison
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
POWERS DIES
ON SCAFFOLD
BIuebeard, Accused of Five
Murders, Calm at End.

BIZ United Press
MOUNDSVILLE, w. Va, March
19-Harry F. Powers, calm as he
was the day police dug up five
bodies behind his garage at Quiet
Dell, was hanged Friday night for
the murder of Mrs. Dorothy Press
lar Lemke of Northboro, Mass.
Hers was one of the five bodies,
all of which bore evidence of hav-
ing been hanged or Strangled.
The mail order Bluebeard"-
called because he wooed his victims
by mail through a matrimonial
agency-was asked if he had any
thing to say before he died.
NO. he replied quietly. A slight
twitching of the lips was his only
indication of nervousness.
Powers was dressed in a black suit
with a pin stripe. He wore a
rather flashy blue tie and white COL
lar.
Just before 9 o'clock he was led
to the platform of the state peni-
tertiary gallows.
A crowd of forty, including state
and prison officials, doctors, police
men, and one of the jurors who haS
convicted him, stood in the area be-
low, watching tensely.
The moose was adjusted. Three
deputies pulled at ropes, none
knowing which was opening the
trap over which Powers was stand
ing.
The trap swung open. Powers
squat body dropped heavily. 1t was
snapped short at the end of the
rope-and Powers was dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19

Tech, local pride and title
hope, and Lebanon, one of the
two three-title winners in the
twenty years of titular bat
ties, were ouSted in sensation
al upset battles this morning.
Tim Campbell's local FASTENERS
bowed to the Pocket City Bulldogs,
q to Is, while Lebanon'S Tigers took
the count before Winamac, "a to 81.
Strong Teams Collide
Newcastle and Greencastle. only
survivors of the pre-tourney favor
ties, tangled in the opening matinee
encounter at 2::30, in which one of
tonight's finalists will be decided.
Both were rushed to the limit by
Second-round foes, the TrojanS be-
ing forced to turn on full force to
humble Cicero, Is to Is, while Nc
Anally's laSt-minute field goal was
all that saved the day for Green
castle in its "a to % struggle with
ConnerSville.
Winamac and Bose are slated to
tangle at $3.50, with the title battle
carded for 8 o'clock tonight.
A crowd of $4,000 was present
today.
A swift finish by Newcastle's
fast-stepping Trojans eliminated
Cicero, dark horse conqueror of
VincenneS, in the curtain-raiser
today, rs to Is.
Newcastle Finishes Strong
For nearly three-fourths of the
game, the gallant small-town hoop
SterS logged the heels of the touted
Trojans. Late in the third quarter,
Cicero trailed IA to II and missed
two free throws which would have
tied the count. At the gun, New
castle led Is to 10.
Vernon Huffman, NewcaStle's
brilliant all-State guard, took COM
mand of the final period and the
fast-tiring Cicero boys wilted under
barrage of baskets. Free throws
helped the Trojan cause, Newcastle
counting nine from the charity
stripe while the Red Devils regis
tered but one.
A last-minute under the basket
flip by McAnally, lanky GreencaStle
center, after he had intercepted a
Spartan pass, gave the Tiger Cubs
"a to % triumph over Corners
vile.
Loses After Uphill Fight
Connersville's uphill battle, after
trailing throughout the fray, was
one of the highlights of the sec
ond-round action. Greencastle
swept into an 10 to II advantage
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
Slayer FLEES
HAUNTED HILLS
OF FAR NORTH
Roaming Pack of HuSkieS
BareS Two Murders in
Lonely Tent Year Ago.
ESKIMO IS SOUGHT
MountieS' New Man Hunt
May Require Months, and
Reach Far Into Arctic.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
FIT. SMITH, Mackenzie, March
1.-TWO rock cairns in the haunted
Thelon river hills today started the
Royal Canadian mounted police on
another man hunt-one that may
take three years, and lead the red
coated corps to the Arctic oceans
border.
The cairns mark the bodies of Ed
ward Olson and Emanuel H. Bode,
slain about Dec. 5, 1880, as they
slept in their solitary tent on The
lon river, northeast of Great Slave
lake, in a country called by the
Indians bewitched.
For the murder, police officers
seek Tekaluk, an Eskimo last seen
a year ago about to start long
journey to the Arctic coast, 800
miles northward.
Pack of Huskies Bares Murders
In September of last year, How
ard George Price, trapper of the
Thelon river region, saw pack of
huskieS roaming through the woods
which he believed was that of the
slain trappers.
He investigated and found the
mems bodies. Nearby we're the
skeletons Of seven dogs, chained to
post.
For weeks in the solitary hills
he met no one to whom he could
entrust his finding. Then by an
Eskimo he sent note to trapper
Clark Croft.
Croft sent the news by an Indian
courier to F't. Reliance on the east
ern end of Great Slave lake. The
Indian arrived there Dec. % anC
told his story to Constable Gray.
Then came a wait until the Arc.
tic patrol reached FIT. Reliance
bringing Inspector Gagnon, with
whom Gray set out over the snow.
banked trails, reaching the Thelor
river camp Feb. 13.
Rude Cairn Marks Graves
They held a rude inquest and de-
termined the men were slain with AK
and knife more than year before
Travelling by dog team, Gray and
Gagnon questioned the few trap
perS and Indians of the district.
They learned Tekaluk was nearby
at the time of the Sayings and that
he carried a rifle similar to one
missing from the camp.
Trapper Evan Peterson said he
met Tekaluk in snow hut near the
Bode camp last March and that the
Eskimo signed something with his
fingers about two men,"
Peterson could not understand the
Eskimo's sign language, but said
Tekaluk was frightened and about
to leave for the Arctic coast.
Leaving rude cairn of stones to
mark the two graves, the police
officers trekked back through
binding storms and bitter weather
Friday after an 800-mile round
trip in the heart of winter, they
arrived with the report, and the
radio which links the northern out
posts cracked the news to listen
ing officers and trappers from Mac
Kenzie to Hudson bay.
The message was to watch fol
Tekaluk. Meanwhile, patrols are
being fitted out to hunt the desolate
wastes.
The Thelon river region is Saic
by Indians to be cursed Four other
murders and suicides in the dis
trict are pointed to by them as evil
dence of evil spirits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
HUNGER STRIKE
OF SCHOLAR IS
IN 10th DAY.
Depression Faster Will
Refuse Food Until He
Gets Job, He Says.
REMOVED TO HOSPITAL
No Law to Force Ending of
Hard Times Protest, Say
Capital Police.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 19.-Dr
Frederick F. Wolter entered the
twentieth day of his hunger strike
against the depression" today, while
police searched in vain for law
kto make him eat.
He was placed in Gallinger hos.
pital here for care and observation
this afternoon. Wolter did not pro-
test.
They can watch me there and SCI
pfor themselves that I don't eat" hi
vsaid.
j Meanwhile, DR.. Oscar Hunter o.
hGeorge Washington Medical schoo
reported that he had made COM
rsDlete examination of Wolter anC
HAD found evidence that Wolter hac
p}aken a small amount Of food.
4 Wolter admitted eating one pea
nut this week, in a weak moment,
vbut Immediately repented.
Futile" Says COngresswOman
r. P. Stumph, sanitary officer
cior the District of Columbia, ap-
called to the police for some action
1hich would break DR.. VOTERS an
tpounced determination to starve
himself.
til DIR. Wolter appeared perfectly
ational" said Captain w. E.
sEolmes, commander of the first
precinct police, after an investiga-
ton. He refused to intercede.
n DR.. John A. Ryan, Catholic uni
rersity sociologist and famous as a
ocial work expert, said he believed
cgolter should be fed forcibly.
wit is practically case of sui
be-" he said
Representative Mary T. Norton
Dem, N. j., chairman Of the Dis
Dict of Columbia committee Of IT,:
slouse, called VOTERS action "fu-
I lie way of arousing public opinion.
The German-born scholar, 81, is
nowly starving himself to death in
rotest against unemployment, par
cularly that aspect of unemploy-
hent which deprives an educated
professional man of suitable work.
: He resigned from the library Of
congress in 1926 due to failure tt
rin promotion.
Can't Be Forced to Eat
Wolter, holder of three university
degrees, is not insane, according Il
psychiatrist who examined him al
lis own request.
"A bit abnormal, perhaps" the
,)sychiatrist said, but not insane"
And since he is sane, and since
There is no law to make him eat
Washington is being treated to the
spectacle Of one-man hunger
itrike against the depression.
When the depression ends fol
Wolter he'll eat, he said.
An offer of a temporary $15-a'
week job did not mark the end o.
his personal depression, he ex.
plained. Such a job, in his own line
aof work, was offered him by uni.
0versity library.
IF I am destined to a life o.
starvation" he remarked, II prefer
ito starve rapidly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
Recall MaCSWiney Death
lBy United Press

10y CHtttW fN"o
| NEW YORK, March 19.-The
;prolonger and fatal hunger strike of
Terrence MacSwiney, Irish patriot
and lord mayor of Cork, Ireland,
in 1920, was recalled today by the
efforts of Frederick F. Wolter,
Washington librarian, to "starve
himself to death" in protest against
the depression.
MacSwiney died in Brixton pris-
on, London, Oct. IS, 1920, after re-
esfusing food for seventy-four days in
! protest against his imprisonment,
land to call attention to the Irish
republican movement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
'HASTENS' FIRE; BURNED

Thomas Potter Injured as He Poors
Oil on Flames.
Thomas Potter, 80, suffered severe
burns on the face, arms and hands
today when coal oil he threw into
a furnace to hasten fire, exploded
at his home, 626 North New Jersey
street.
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at the half and maintained a 81
to IA margin at the three-quarterS
mark.
Dillingham; and Sleet stepped out
for the Spartans and banged the
hoop with regularity to send the
SpartanS into % to % lead just
one minute before the final gun.
McAnally's two-pointer ended the
ConnerSville hopes, however.
A new northern hope lined up
for action this afternoon as the
result of Winamac's thrilling "a to
81 decision over Lebanon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
ROCK DERAILS TRAIN
Engineer, Fireman Killed as
Engine Is Knocked Over.

By United Press
PLAINS, Mont, March ia
ten-ton rock rolled down noun
tain side and derailed the North
ern Pacific North Coast Limited
near Eddy last night. The en-
gineer and fireman were killed.
The rock hit the locomotive and
knocked it over. A baggage car
also left the rails.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
CLAIM H0LDUPS SOLVED
Suspect in City Theaters Robbery.
Alleged to Have Confessed.

Robbery Of the Fountain Square
and Granada theaters here about
month ago, was confessed today by
Harry Fields. IS, held at Columbus,
O., according to a press dispatch,
quoting Sheriff Harry Paul. Loot
Of $500 was obtained.
Fields and Maurice O'Flaherty
were arrested at Columbus a few
days ago and O'Flaherty was iden-
titled as one Of the robbers by Earl
Cunningham, manager of the Foun-
tain Square tneater. OiFlaherty,
however, denies his guilt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19

Doors" Easter shopping trip
ID was one grand success!
Which means that every young
ster is going to have the finest
possible collection of Boots" pa
per doll cut-outs!
Boots" had the fun of getting
ten new, beautiful dresSes-and
right from her own personal fash
ion expert-none other than Ed
gar E. Martin, who sketches all of
Boots gowns, in the Boots and
Her Buddies" comic strip.
And now YOU are going to have
the fun of fitting these dresses to
Boots trim little figure.
The first sketch of Boots" with
one of her dresses, will appear in
The Times Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
SOVIET STILL IGNORED

U. S. Attitude on Recognition Is
Unchanged, Capitol Announces.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 19.-The
state department, in reply to ques-
lions, said today there had been
no change in the American attitude
toward recognition of Soviet Russia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
Butterworth, Giant Center, Stars in Sensa-
tional Fashion for Crack Down
state Aggregation.
Greencastle Noses Out Connersville and
Winamac losses Way to Tri-
umph Over Lebanon.
BY DICK MILLER
Times Sports Writer

With two unexpected faces in the cast Hoosierdoms
nual prep cage carnival played semnal engagements at
Butler fieldhouse this afternoon.
Winamac, of the strongest teams to come out of
the north in recent years. and Bosse of Evansville Harry
Kings battling southern hopes, were the newcomers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
FLOODS MENACE WEST
Washington Fears Renewal of Dis
asterS Which Took Ia Lives.
By United Press

DU CHtttU I'FtSS
SEATTLE, Wash, March 49,
The state of Washington was
threatened anew today by land
slides and floods which recently
took fourteen lives and caused
thousands of dollars property loss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
NAMED FESTIVAL QUEEN
Descendant of Washington's Brother

Descendant of WaShington's Brother
Is Shenandoah Valley Choice.
By United Press
WINCHESTER, Va, March 49,
Miss Helen Ames Washington, 10,
of Overlook, Pa, has been selected
queen of the famed Shenandoah
valley apple blossom festival, which
will be held here early in May.
Miss Washington is a descendant
of a brother of George Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
MADISON EDITOR DIES
Moses Hodge Cochran Passes at
Age of 81.

By United Press
MADISON, Ind, March 10. -
Moses Hodge Cochran, 81, editor of
the Madison Daily Herald for more
than thirty-five years, died here
today after years illness. He was
one of Indiana'S Oldest active news
paper men.
Cochran formerly was publisher
of the Columbus Evening Repub-
lican.
The widow and six children sur
vive him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-19
INCOME TAXES SLUMP
$24,269,O71 Total March IL Was
$19,9O9,O72 Les Than Year Ago.
By United Pres,

915,5U5,U1H les Ihdn rear Ago.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 19.-In-
come tax receipts tabulated by the
treasury on March II were $24,-
269,071. This was $19,909,O72 less
than receipts on the corresponding
day last year, when $44, 1914 of
income taxes were recorded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-12
REGTN HERr rnnAv

LINDA AvERILL believes her e,d.r,v
cousin, AMOS PEABODY, was murders
Mnen ne Ien from the second story
pelcony OF the AveriilS' Long Island
nome because Of few words ne aasned
1eIore MS death. Linda rushes UPSTAIRS
someone tries TO strangle her and aha
There are four guests in the house
AL suspects OF the crime. They are:
Mr.. STATLANDER. business associate
OF TOM AyERILL. CAPTAIN DE VOs.
nanosome Belgian; MARVIN PRATT.
5 rsr 1,, sultor Of Linda's; and LIAM
bHAUGHNESSEY Irish writer.
since there is no evidence on which
70 pase an arrest, Linda and Tom
ner husband, agree they must keep the
Tour men in the house until they have
discovered who is guilty.
They pretend to believe the death was
an accident. They are aided in their
plan when DR.. BOYLE. medical examin-
er, sends word that every one must re-
main until he has questioned them.
Boyle Is on a fishing trip and can not
return for several hours.
Linda finds the towel with which
the attempt was made to strange her
Identified by smear Of sunburn ONT
ment 1t was in 5tatlander's bathroom.
She overhears Rosie, the maid, talk
Ing to ShaughnesSey about a shirt Rosie
has promised to launder.
come to play bridge for the evening
Linda talks to Statlander about the
happenings OF the morning.
He says he would like to have been
present when the body was examined,
adding. 1T would have been very in
now co on WITH THE STORY
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4 BOX
"A DAY
~ BRUCE CATION

A YOUNG Man of Fifty" by
L "A Rose Field, is the ironical and
amusing tale of a sap and how he
finally got taken.
The sap in question is a dealer
in rare books, a chap who is get
ting on in middle age, but who still
is quite a lad among the ladies.
He's no philanderer, to be sure;
indeed, through all his countless af-
fairs, he has remained strictly vir-
tuous. It's just that he can not
live without getting into an emo
tional ENHANCEMENT with some
woman.
So his life is dotted with long
series of platonic love affairs, in
which he lnourishes his soul by
standing as best friend, unselfish
counsellor, and chivalxous protector.
Indeed, this incredible ass can go
to the length of establishing a
woman in an apartment and sup
porting her for more than year
without-believe it or not-asking
anything more than chaSte kiss
on the brow in payment.
Well, all goes along Swimmingly
for a long time, until finally the
man chances to bump into beau
tiful but hard-boiled young chorus
gal; and then, as you can imagine,
the fireworks are touched off.
1t takes her a little while to APP
preciate what monumental sucker
the fates have dropped in her lap,
but once she gets wise she goes
through him the way Sherman
went through the sunny south.
"a Young Nan of Fifty" is pub
lished by Dutton for $3.50.
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LIGHTNING Rods

EIRST opportunity since the re-
L cent election for politically am
bilious Republicans to make a bid
for preferment came Sunday after
noon.
And the manner in which many
utilized the meeting of the Repub-
lican Editorial Association at the
Columbia Club to raise their light
ming rods was enjoyable to the dis
interested observer.
There was Scion Carter, with a
tremolo in his voice, reminiscent of
the attorney pleading with a jury
for the life of client, describing
the achievement of the party of
Lincoln, ad infinitum. Then Carter
veered sharply to the role of Jer-
emiah bewailing the bitter dis
appointment of the American peo-
pie two years hence when they
find out that the Democratic prom
ises are empty"
1t was very impressive and would
have been more so if it was not
known that Carter, aspirant for the
G. o. P. senatorial nomination in
1928, had been in a huddle with
Ivan Morgan, state chairman, be-
fore the meeting. opened; and if
they weren't telling me that he is
anxious to wrest the senatorial
nomination from Arthur r. Robin
son.
HpH n
And along came Judge Noel Neal
of the appellate court with care
fully prepared manuscript setting
forth the accomplishments of the
Republican party which was a pat
ent play for the Governor nomina-
ton four years hence.
And Edward Everett Neal inter
nal revenue collector and arch de-
fender of the indefensible Ed Jack
son, also rose to make a few re-
marks regarding the greatness of
Herbert Clark Hoover and the purity
of the party.
OF course Meals defense of Re-
publicanism might have carried
more weight if it were not believed
universally that he wandered about
the last state convention as brist-
ly with lightning rods carrying the
Governor sign as a porcupine is
with quilts. And that he continues
to be in receptive mood.
Il Il
Neal got his happy opportunity
to defend the administration which
appointed him to the lucrative col
lectorship when Henry Marshall,
Lafayette publisher, read his mas
terly and able survey of the causes
of the Republican defeat, in which
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Every one else seemed so busy with
me and elsewhere"
n
LIE studied her face narrowly and
4 4 then seemed to absolve her of
any Interior motive.
Well" he said grufny, Il was
interested in the scene Of the-ac-
cident." Was it true or did Linda
imagine a hesitation like her own?
i stayed behind the others and
looked about a little"
Was it you who so thoughtfuIly
put back the upper railing?" She
felt the form of her question should
disarm him, but again he studied
her closely.
Was the railing put back?" he
countered.
She nodded.
Perhaps 1 did it. I really do not
remember. I went on the balcony
and absent-mindedly might have
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Strengthened anything that was
amiss."
Why was he suddenly so cagey,
Linda reflected. Either he did or
he didn't, and if it happened as he
suggested, then there was surely no
reason to evade the question. She
continued her attack.
did you find anything else of
INTEREST,""
"Nothingl"
The answer came promptly. No
hedging, none of the annoyance he
had shown previously. 1t was al
most as if he expected the question
and was prepared with a fat mega
tive.
"Trippingly on the tongue,
thought Linda. Now why we're you
so ready with that? 'NothingP Why
not look surprised and ask what ]
expected he might find?"
She laughed an inane little
sound that was meant to preservs
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NNeg&keTB MHRDER%I; s1 szlH

Aloud she inquired placidly, THE
railing?"
we'll simply laid my hands
on it." Again the gleam in his eyes
He certainly disliked being called
to account! His habit of authority
was entrenched so firmly that he
probably believed he never should
be put on the defensive.
And you say it seemed quite
sound and drm?" She flashed a con-
flding smile at him and sensed that
he imperceptibly relaxed.
why, yes-entirely So Gradu-
ally he became again the informa-
tive, condescending man. of affairs
talking to pretty but rather stu
pld little woman. Naturally, I did
not give it any violent treatment.
How did it seem later?" Linda
inquired blandly.
We'll, of course, the upper rail
was broken through the center, but
otherwise"
OAl-olleu you WenG Inere aICer
Cousin Amos fell?"
How quickly that ugly color came
upl Linda, feeling literally in dan
ger of having those dark, square
fingers go around her neck (again?)
noted dispassionately and entirely
without fear the rush of dark red
that changed his whole aspect so
markedly. Her shot in the dark
had told!
"Yes-yeS, Mrs. Averill. 1 did not
know it was forbidden
oh, sorry!" She managed to pre-
serve her casual, idle air. "No--of
course not. 7 thought if you had
looked at it you could tell me if
you'd found anything of interest.