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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11

gagged in the affairs of women's
clubs and popular socially.
Il
A MONG the witnesses, j. r.
"A Shepherd is something of
this towns. dilettante. His art
shop is decorated with one of
those come in and browse" signs.
His family stem runs far back
in town history.
Had young Reynolds lived,
Shepherd would have had the
job of furnishing the period
chairs and tables. He provided
many of the luxurious appoint
ments of the local Reynolds
castle.
He was, it is said, the last man
to leave the party.
Every one knows Uncle Jim
Dunn" garrulous uncle of the
dead youth. He is one of the city's
fixtures and occupies an estate adj
joining the Reynolds kingdom.
There are less colorful others
but, altogether a worthy cast to
appear with Miss Holman in her
forthcoming trial.
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Communists were per Sc atheists,
and hence could not take a wit
ness Biblical oath Judge Stack
held that a mans oath held good,
atheist or no.
For the defense is Benet Poll
koff, who arrived from Aiken, S.
c.. some seven years ago, and
William Graves, who is the Clar-
ence Darrow of criminal trials in
these parts.
Not overlooking, o. course, the
father, Alfred Holman, as chief Of
defense for his own daughter
there is drama.
Holman was not a criminal law
yer. His practice in Cincinnati
was connected largely with bro
kerage deals.
The histrionics of Libby may be
traced to the father-a slender
emotional man who does not re-
veal his 65 years. Seemingly gen.
tie, he is given to hasty outbreaks
of emotion, during which he up
braids and praises in turn.
The mother is described as a
chatty, friendly individual, en-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
NATION AWAITS
HOOVER VERSION
ON BIC ISSUES
President to Accept G. 0. P.
Nomination: No Replica
of 1923 Scene.
Continued from Page One)

must be solved if we are to bring
prosperity and contentment to one
third of our people directly and to
all of our people indirectly"
Tonight he is expected TO discuss
the present farm distress, the ac-
tivities of the S5O0,000,oo0 farm
board he had created, and kindred
farm problems, now more severe
than four years ago.
Four years ago, Hoover said: I'VE
have pledged ourselves to make
such revisions in the tariff laws as
NAV be necessary to provide real
protection against the shifting OF
economic tides in our various in
dustries."
Tonight, he is expected to COM
ment on the HaWley- Smoot tariff,
which revised upwards several hun
dred rates, and the international
demand for reduction of tariff walls
to stimulate international trading
again.
Four years ago, he said: L do
not favor repeal of the eighteenth
amendment. stand for the ef-
fcient enforcement Of the laws en-
acted hereunder. Our country de-
uberately has undertaken great
social and economic experiment,
noble in motive and far-reaching
in purpose. 1t must be worked out
constructively.'
Tonight, he is expected to an
nounce his attitude on his partys
stradoling proposal for submission
of a dry law revision plan.
What He Has Done
These excerpts give only a partial
nicture of what has occurred during
the last four years, between that
August in Palo Alto and this August
in Washington.
Hoover appointed the Wicker
sham commission, a majority OF
which declared for modification or
repeal of prohibition.
He appointed two unemployed
commissions.
His secretary of state acted quick
ly in at least two instances to bring
peace between warning countries.
His administration has Stunned
the recognition of Russia.
He modified the democratic War
Finance Corporation, and had con-
gress create the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation to help banks
and business.
Out of lengthy and acrimonious
controversy grew the act intended to
relieve unemployment, just now be-
ing administered.
Hoover recommended, and got,
the home loan bank system, to-
gether with a provision which per-
mitted limited currency initiation.
Got Some Economy
He took a strong stand for wage
maintenance, which stood until
such large corporations as United
States Steel cut wages, to be fol-
lowed by the railroads and humer-
Gus other smaller employers-and
the government.
He fought vigorously and success
fully against payment of the SOL
diers' cash bonus, he demanded gov
ernmental economy, and over the
protests of some of his cabineet Off
GERS, got a little.
Circumstances forced an increase
in federal taxation, and he spoke
personally to the senate asking a
sales tax, which it and the house
refused to approve.
He improved the administration
of the Indian bureau, he helped ar
range the German moratorium, he
has promised to take the troops out
of Nicaragua, and he called out the
army to dispense the bonus army in
Washington and burn it's huts.
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OLD NELL REWARDED
Ringling's First Elephant Sent to
Florida Pastures.
81 Times SpcciaI

81 Times Special
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-Forty-five
years of circus life ended today for
Old Nell, 76-year-old elephant with
the Ringing shows.
The first elephant with the shows,
which have grown into the great
est in the world, Old Nell hauled
seven wagons across the Wisconsin,
Illinois line to escape a deputy with
plasters,' when Ringing started
with his one-ring outfit.
She saved the show. Charles
Ringing raised the money to meet
his bills and started his spectacular
rise
Old Nell will spend the remainder
of her days in the company's pas
lures at Sarasota, Fla, head
quarters.
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arrest, charged with shooting Of
Margaret, Mrs. Byers showed no
interest
"Oh, I don't care. Nothing any
body can do Will bring her back"
she said.
Three brothers and a younger
sister survive her. William and
Charles. 20 and Is. respectively. are
employed at st. Vincent's hospital.
Joseph, Is, and Katherine, II, at
tend school in West Newton.
The body of the girl was taken
to an undertaking establishment in
West Newton.
Funeral services Will be held at z
Saturday afternoon in the West
Newton Methodist church. Burial
will be in the West Newton ceme-
terry.
Left Orphan at II
Kenneth has been making mis-
home with George Kelly, R. R. 10,
Box $40, located on Thirty-eighth
street. a half mile west of the High
school road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles S. Mendeu-
hall, who live west of West Newton,
took the boy into their home when
he was IL, at the death of his father
and mother, who died two weeks
apart.
A younger sister of Kenneth's
Mary, IA, is living in Martinsville.
A brother Floyd, 10, makes his home
with Charles Balm in Valley Mills.
Lad Steady, Reliable
Kenneth lived with us and we
sent him to West Newton high
school, MendenhaH said. About
two years ago, he decided to quit
school and go to work He wanted
to earn money to support his little
sister, Mary, and he told us many
times of his plan to have her come
and live with him in the home he
would provide"
Hard working, steady and relia-
BILE, Kenneth earned the reputation
among the neighbors of being a
good boy" He frequently came to
visit the Mendenhalls from the
Kelly farm.
1t was in the West Newton high
school that he met Margaret, and
began escorting her to parties and
dances.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
LAY MUNCIE
POLICE KILLING
TO CITY MEN
Two City GangSterS Admit
Part in MCCracken Muir
der. Is Claim.

Two indianapolis gangsters, men,
bers Of q mob that participated in
at least sixteen theater robberies in
three states, we're held at Muncie
today after they are said to have
confessed completely in the Staying
of patrolman James (Obie) Nc
Cracker of Muncie.
Caught in indianapolis Wednes-
day, Donald Rohr. alias Melvin
Price, 81, of 222 North Mount street,
and Edgar Luker, alias Bill Cope,
IS, Of 225 North Richland avenue,
were rushed to Muncie.
Only one member of the gang OF
six-whose guns are believed to have
brought down three policemen-still
is at liberty
Their arrests have ended the rob-
berry career that netted the gang
S10,589 in loot, local and Muncie
police said.
Used City as HideOut
The mob. using indianapolis as a
base and hideout, staged robberies
in Indiana. Illinois and Ohio, 1t is
charged.
Rohr and Luker, under heavy
guard in the Muncie jail today,
confessed aiding in holdup Of two
Muncie theater messengers April %,
when McCracken was killed, police
said. The bandits obtained STAT In
the robbery.
Three other members Of the gang
are awaiting trial in Springfield, O.,
for the murder of patrolman
Charles Holt in that city. They
are: Russell lanes alias Campbell;
Sherman Clemens and William
Garrison, all Of Indianapolis.
Rohr said, according to police,
that he drove the bandit car while
Luker was stationed in doorway
to grab McCracken as he passed.
Police nabbed Rohr in Indianola
park, where he was preparing to
play a game of ball. Luker was cap
tured at his home thirty minutes
later
NO Guns round AT homes
Both were taken to Muncie by
Frank Massey, Muncie police chief,
who for weeks has conducted a
widespread manhunt for slayers of
McCracken.
The duo was unarmed and police
found no guns at their homes.
Ilker was at home with his wife
and two small children.
Lukers wife brought his coat and
sobbed on his shoulder as she kissed
him goodbye.
You'd better take your coat,
daddy" were her only words
In his purported confession, Luker
said Rohr and Ijames made three
trips 70 Muncie planning the rob-
berry.
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FRED MERz IS DEAD
Official of Home Building
and Loan Association.

A weeks illness resulted in the
death Wednesday of Fred Merz, Sc,
of 4555 Guilford avenue, -presi-
dent of the Home Building and Loan
Association, in st. Vincent's hos
pital.
He was a member of Prather
lodge, F. & A. M, Scottish Rite,
Shrine, Germania lodge, I. o. o. F.,
Schweitzer Bund, the Academy of
Music, and the Christian Science
church.
Funeral services will be held at 2
Friday in Flanner & Buchanan
mortuary. Burial will be in Crown
Hill cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
Effort to Free Steve
Is Thwarted in House
Cop Logic

By United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. ia
secretary of state is a secre-
tary of state, nothing more,
nothing less, to New York
police.
A sergeant in charge of an
escort detail called State Secre-
tary Edward j. Flynn at the
Biltmore Democratic head
quarters.
Your escort is ready"
But I'm not going any
where"
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
gave the sergeant an idea.
You must want State Secre-
tary Henry L. Stimson-of the
United States. He's also stop
ping at this hotel"
And Stimson it was.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
PLAN FOR AIR DERBY
Pilots in National Race Will
Be Greeted Here.

Arrangements for arrival of
planes and reception of pilots TAX
ing part in the 1882 National Air
Derby, which will land at Munich
pal airport at 1890, Aug. 26, are
being completed by Charles E. Cox,
airport superintendent, and w. v.
Terry, superintendent of the block
aid" plan of the southside poor re-
lief.
Proceeds of ticket sales for the
stop here will be used to establish
babies milk fund. Tickets are be-
ing sold by workers of the poor re-
lief organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
IS SHOT
Negro Is Arrested, Charged
With VagranCy.

Bullet wound in the left leg was
suffered early today by James Greg
DRY, Negro, 2430 Columbia avenue,
when one of five shots fired in an
apartment building at 2152 North
Meridian street found its mark. Po-
lice who followed trail of blood
arrested Gregory.
The shots were fired from a re-
volver in the hands of Ebert Hunt
er, %, Negro, custodian of the build
ing, who said he found Gregory
prowling near a stairway leading
to the basement.
Gregory is charged with vagrancy
and entering a house to commit
felony.
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SET STALNAKER RITES
Funeral Services to Be Held
at 2::30 Saturday.

Funeral services for Frank D.
Stalnaker, president of the Indian
apolis National bank, who died
Tuesday after a months illness, will
be held in the Scottish Rite ca
thedral at 2:30 Saturday
The body will lie in state from II
until the funeral. DR.. Lewis Brown,
rector of st. Paurs Episcopal church
end chaplain of the supreme council,
highest body in masonry, will have
charge of the services.
Burial services at Crown Hill GEM
etery will be conducted by Mystic
Tie lodge, F. e. A. M. Pallbearers
will be Mr.. Stalnaker's associates in
the bank. Honorary pallbearers will
be members of the supreme council.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
TWAS COLD IN THERE
WITH ICE CREAM BARS
So Fire Department Rushed Up to
Rescue Prisoner.

By Times Special
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE heat
didn't bother Joseph Taylor
Wednesday.
In fact. he had strange visions
of leaping flames in flreplaces and
gloated over the thought of leaning
against the side of an active fur
mace.
1t was cold in the vault with the
ice cream bars and Joseph craved
to go some place from there.
Then the fire department came
and the police. No one knew why
the fire lads had been called and
all employees of Polar Bar, Inc, dis
claimed any knowledge of the sum-
mons.
Then police decided it must have
been the robber, who departed with
500, after locking Taylor in his
chilly prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
Two Injured in Auto Crash

Chest injuries were incurred by
a man and wife Wednesday night
when a truck in which they were
riding collided with an automobile
at Twenty-fourth and Delaware
streets. The injured are Dad
Yassenoff, 81, and his wife, SO, of
337 Sanders street. Driver of the
automobile was Max Emmrick, 419
North Linwood avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
BOOZE SUSPECTS FLEE
Two Alleged Rum Runners Elude
Police Squad in Chase.

Two alleged booze runners, one
armed with a rifle, escaped from
a police squad today after an au-
tomohile chase over west side
streets, during which the officers
fired one shot.
The radio patrol squad. in charge
OF Sergeant Arthur Hueber. sighted
the men in light coupe near Bel
mont avenue and West Michigan
street. After pursuit at high
speed the squad lost their quarry
at Fourteenth and Mount streets.
License number of the coupe was
obtained BY officers.
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BY GILBERT SWAIN
NEA Service Writer

WINSTON SALEM, Aug. IL
w The quiet-mannered, hos
pitable, untheatrical Blue Ridge
foothill folk well may challenge
Broadway to provide better sup
porting cast of characters for the
mystery drama IN which Libby
Holman, throaty chanteuse of
melancholy ballads, is starred.
Assembling this dramatic per-
sonae of the Smith Reynolds death
inquiry, you'll find, in order of
their appearance:
Transou Scott, sheriff. The
name Transou, uncommon as it
may seem elsewhere, appears fire.
quently in the phone books and
directories hereabouts. The SCOTS
have been up to their necks in
politics hereabouts these many
years.
Sheriff Scott halls from Pfaff-
town, German colony sprung
up in the Moravian settlement.
The Moravian settlement is that
historic area which established
Salem, later to become hyphen-
ated into WinSton-Salem when
tobacco interests intruded civic
government upon people who
we're religiouSly and socially above
jails and courts and the like.
SCOTS grandfather was a So
cialist candidate for Governor
some twenty-five years ago. Scott
himself had held several govern
ment jobs.
The story goes that he opposed
a candidate for sheriff who was
supported by the Reynolds inter
eSts
1t requires but a few hours in
this community to determine that
such opposition plays no part in
the current case. This is a direct,
truth-seeking sector.
The people hereabouts are not
pointing any accusing fingers.
They are asking What really
happened that night? They will
accept the verdict of the facts
when they are all revealed.
CHIEF of the prosecution is
~ Carlisle Higgins, solicitor.
Higgins halls from the Lost Prov
ince,' q colortul epithet applied
to sector of the AlleghenieS
where the world has been admit
ted only during the last fifteen or
twenty years
His home is a hundred miles
away from the scene of his activ-
tiles. Higgins has Travelled far
both in space and achievement.
He is mountain man" who has
made his way in the local legal
world.
Next comes the judge-Judge
A. M. Stack They'll tell you here
abouts that the lawyers view him
as the most hard boiled" of the
iuristS.
He is tall. Still wears choker
collars about two inches above the
Adams apple, with a small half
inch bow tie. He has a bristly
mustache.
Each morning, when the six
county circuit brings him to this
town, he arrives with his wife.
Their attachment has become
town legend. With one hand on
his cane and the other holding
her arm, he leads her into the
courtroom.
There. despite her position as
the wife of the presiding judge,
she sits in the chair of the court
Stenographer and scribbles notes.
1t is her pastime TO function as
notationist. although there is no
necessity.
When court adjourns they leave,
arm in arm.
IN the many years during which
Il he has presided, as many leg
ends have sprung up concerning
his kindness as. his severity.
Negro offenders are in prepon-
derance. 1t is recorded that he
deals with them in Solomonic
fashion, tempering the sentence
according to the offense.
During a disturbance involving
Communists in neighboring mill
town the prosecution held that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
DRY AGENTS ARREST II
Federal Raiders Stage Series of
Attacks in Dubois County.

Federal dry agents under John
w. Morrill,, deputy dry administra-
tor, arrested eleven persons in
series of raids in Dubois county
Wednesday.
Six'Stills ranging from ten to sixty
gallons capacity, ninety-four gallons
of whisky, seventeen gallons of
wine and small quantity of home
brew were conf1scated. Defendants
were to be arraigned in city court
at Huntingburg and before a United
States commissioner at Evansville
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Fishing the
Air

Ward Wilson will impersonate Pat
Barnes and his One Man show during the
ROYAL Vagabonds program Thursday at
5:l5 D. m, over WENR and an NBC net
work.
Gene Austin. the American tenor,
shows fsvoritism in his song I'm Com
ing, Virginia" heard during the program
Thursday. at 5:45 p. m, over WLW and
an NBC network.
An Irsh-Scottish program will be Of
fered by the band of Edwin Franko Gold
man Thursday. at $50 p. M, over WLW
and an NBC network.
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In Rome it is possible to arrest
a person on suspicion, and the ar
rested man has to prove his inno-
cence.
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Radio Dial Twisters
WFBM (1200) indianapolis
indianapolis Power and Light Company
THURSDAY

P M
5.30-Skippy.
5:45-Records.
600-Edwin c. Hill fCBSl
6.15-Abe Lymans band (CBSl.
6:30-Mdsummer Nights (CBS).
6:45-Joe Palooka (CBS).
700-Columbians (CBSl.
7:15-Mills Brothers (CBSl.
7:30-Bohemians.
8:00-Music That Satisfies (CBS).
8:15-Fast Freight tCBSl.
830-President Hoover speech or accept
ance tCBSl.
900-Entertainers
9:15-Bohemans.
Q 30-Olympic summaries (CBSl.
45-Columbia symphony tCBSi.
10 00-Noble Sissle orchestra (CBS).
10 30-The Columnist.
by the Sea tCBs).
4 00-Sign of.
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HIGH SPOTS OF THURSDAY
NIGHT PROGRAM

545-Columhia- George Price and
Kreuger's orchestra,
600-NBC (WEAF)-Vallees or
chestra.
6:30-NBC (WJZ)-Goldman band
Irish-Scotch program.
7:15-Columbia- Mills Brothers.
-Columbia-Love Story hour
drama.
NBC (WJZl 49, Real Folks
Thompkins Coroner.
Columbia-Bo Sisters and
Shilkrets orchestra.
MIC (WEAF) walter
Winchell.
9:00-NBC (WEAF) Whiteman
and orchestra.
9:l5-NBC WJZl-Cesare Sodero and
concert orchestra.
CoIumbia-Co Columbia symphony.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-11
DEATH WRECKS
PARENTS HOPES
FOR SLAIN Girl
Mother SobS as She Tells
of Plans Cherished for
Daughter.

Continued from Page One)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03
Against the Theory Of Spontaneity
in Our Work

economic struggles where they are employed.
They should be made to understand that such
struggles are possible to result from the proper
approach to the workers in the shop, through
the organization Of methods to discuss the shop
problems and the initiating of struggles against
the worsening conditions or for better condi-
tons They should be made to understand that
struggles do not only mean strikes; that better
conditions can be won without the launching
of strike.
To make our shop workers understand this,
special classes should be held, special discus
sions with shop nuclei should be continued; the
problem of how to develop struggles should be
taken up with individual workers in big shops;
1t should be discussed in the district buro, in
the district organizational department.
Anigh pitch of enthusiasm must be awakened
among our shop nuclei and shop workers. There
must be constant, careful-but not so careful
that 1t cannot be known to anyone-agtation
carried on against the conditions in the mills.
Discussion among the workers must spread from
individual to individual, from department to de-
partment, against the common grievances.
The tone Of the agitation must be one of ac-
tuauy organizing TO fight against new forms of
worsening the conditions or for betterment of
the existing conditions, choosing those issues
which are upper -most in the mind of the work
ers as necessary to be improved.
The making of contacts, the visiting OF con-
facts, the calling together Of contacts In meet
ings in private homes, must develop rapidly.
Not weeks and months, but only days. must
go by in which to call these contacts together.
The meetings must involve above all the dis
cussion Of demands, the probability Of develop
ing struggle around these demands and the man
ner In which to involve larger numbers for these
demands,
The question of distribution Of agitational ma
terial, leaflets, stickers etc. must be taken up
concretey. An air of struggle must filter through
every individual brought together in the group,
to every contact and to go further to the rest Of
the workers.
The problems must be taken seriously. The
revolutionaries In these groups must take initia-
tive In all the work, must themselves be active,
or else they will not secure real activity from the
resi-. Our comrades must be punctual; must car
Ky through the tasks to which they are assigned.
These are vital to winning and keeping workers
for the struggles in the shops
What is grossly neglected in our shop work,
aside from what has been above mentioned, is
winning the youth. OF the element in the shop
that could put up the most militant struggle,
of this element which has the greatest amount
Of enthusiasm for carrying through struggle for
better conditions once put into motion. Is the
youth. But this requires correct srrepard to