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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Sol Spattered
Kindly Mr.. Bloom Breaks
Egg in His Hand With
His Autograph.
By scyipps- Horcqrd Newspaper Alliance

By ScrippS-H OtCGrd Newspaper AilidHc,
NTASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-Rep-
" resentative Sol Bloom of
New York, energetic sponsor of all
things pertaining to the George
Washington bicentennial arose
early to watch 5.733 pigeons fiutter
above the Washington monument.
The pigeons were released as q
feature of the Bicentennial
Futurity "a big pigeon race.
AS the birds tapped aloft with
a great "br-rr-r-rr" of wings,
some one made a discovery. One
of the pigeons had laid two eggs
in its cage before flying away.
will you autograph an egg for
me, Mr.. Bloom?" asked a quick
witted bystander.
Sol donned his prince-nez, with
drew his fountain pen, smilingly
wrote "Sol Bloom" on the egg.
"Oh, please autograph the other
one, too" begged another
spectator.
Obligingly, Sol took the second
egg. wrote his name on it, started
to hand it back. He must have
squeezed it just a bit too hard.
Crack The shell crumpled in
Soils fingers, and his white buck
skin gloves were inundated with
the contents.
Hal Hal" laughed onlookers.
The jokes on me-" said Rep
resentative Bloom good naturedly,
and-like true sportsman-he
laughed also.
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think, myself, old man, I did good
work in that one
The Troy case. That takes you
back through the files to May 4,
1919, when Mrs. Bessie Troy. q,
was found in a huddled sidewalk
heap under her window at 1855
Amsterdam avenue.
Mrs. Bessie Troy had been
bellhop at the Pennsylvania hotel.
A bare ten lines told the story at
first in the papers.
A nilkman found the body at
2 a. m. He summoned Policeman
Bart Wilson, Historically. While
the policeman gingerly was prod
ding the body, Michael Troy put
his head out of fifth floor
window. Mike was Bessie's hus-
band.
Hey, what's wrong" quavered
Mike.
Plenty wrong" answered the
policeman "A woman. Looks like
she's dead"
MIKE came down in his pa
AA jamas. He stood there awk-
wardly. with the wind whipping
up his legs, mumbling, Its my
wife"
He said she had been beside
him in bed. He got up to get a
drink of water. When he CROPPED
back to the bed she was gone.
DR.. George Hohmann, assistant
medical examiner, came and ex-
amined the body there on the
sidewalk, said it was suicide.
Dear old George" parenthe-
cized Chief Norris. 1.-THE slickest,
incest kid I ever met. He was
wizard, old man. He knew it was
suicide just looking at the body.
"ChriStopher COlon1hOl there
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short, the detective of detectives.
But try to get him to talk about
that. 1t goes something like this:
None of that detective stuff,
old man. Christopher Colombo!
Go easy on that"
But look, Doc
Il picked up a paper the other
day and read that I was soaked
in crime. I've been soaked in
lot Of things, old man, but not in
crime"
But, Doc, you've performed.
$4,000 autopsies -
"TF you want detective stuff, go
Il to the homicide squad. Those
fellows have done the most beau
tiful work done anywhere in the
world. Steve Donahue, Tom Mar
tin, Chubby Trainor, and the rest
of them. Good observers, old man.
julius Colombo! You can't beat
those fellows!"
II know, chief, but you can tell
the scientific side of
There's an awful lot of bull
written about scientific detective
work. An awful lot of hokum, old
man"
And you can tell the truth,
Doc
Now look. old man, Christopher
Colombo! You can't make an old
son of a Seacook like me into de-
tective. You can't make fat
bellied doctor into a sleuth."
So, it took a lot of talking to
make him talk.
We'll, " he grumbled, and he has
a very good grumble, indeed. IF
there is any case I have a right to
be proud of it's the TROY case
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was no one like dear old George.
He died of overwork, trying to
make ends meet. Thank God, he
didn't have any children"
1t was slick story, an insig-
niflcant suicide. Looking back at
it from this distance, there are
incidentals that become impor-
tant. Michael Troy had been an
inspector in a New Jersey rnu-
nitions plant. After the war he
had become a golf caddy in Van
Cortlandt park.
That was the caliber of man
who judged in wartime whether
shells were fit to be shipped to
the army in France. But no one
was interested in that in 1919.
The story got ten lines.
y Bessie Troy. was embalned ard
ready for burial before those ten
lines grew. They grew when her
father, Sanford Cook of Ridge
field, N. j., complained to Dis
trict Attorney Edward Swami
that New York police were try
ing to cover up what he, the
father, believed to be murder.
The district attorney ordered
his medical assistant, DR. Otto
H. Schultze, to perform an
autopsy.
n 81
NOW DR.. Schultze and DR..
1 y Norris, both brilliant patholo-
gists, were the two men chiefly
responsible behind the scenes for
wiping out the old coroner sys-
tenn and inaugurating the medical
examiners Office the year before.
The offices of medical examiner
and medical assistant to the dis
trict attorney had come into be-
ing, as it were, simultaneously.
There was q bit of rivalry.
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Accord With Germany Urged on France
By L. S., Arms Fate Hinges on Decision

The fate of disarmament is seen
here as Ringing upon the decision
of France. Unless Germany can be
included in a general disarmament
treaty. along with France and the
rest of the world, it is feared Ger
many will take matters into her own
hands.
The American thesis is that while
France is relatively secure from in
vasion for the time being, time and
nature run against her She has
a population of 10000, 600 and Is al
most at a standstill because Of
balanced birth and death rate.
Germany has IS, 200, 900 popula-
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Women Battle Savagely :.
to Buy Castoff Finery
Honest Crooks

Miss Betty McClain, 81 East
st. Joseph street, reported to
police she was dragged into an
auto at st. Joseph and Illinois
streets. Thursday night, by two
men and woman, who robbed
her of two diamond rings at
the point of a gun.
When she complained that
the rings were not paid for,
Miss McClain said the trio
drove her to her home, accom-
panied her inside, where she
obtained $40 in cash, and gave
back her rings in exchange
for the money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
JEAN HARLOW FACES
BATTLE OVER ESTATE
Dorothy Millette's Relatives to Seek
Half of Bern Requests.

By United Press
SACRAMENTO, Cal, Oct. 2l.-
Definite plans to oppose court ap-
prevail of the will of Paul Bern
film executive made in favor Of
Jean Harlow, his platinum blond
wife, have been announced here by
attorneys representing the estate of
Dorothy Millette.
The contest is to be made on the
ground that Miss Millette, who
committed suicide by jumping into
the Sacramento river shortly after
Bern took his own life, was recog-
nized as Bern's wife.
A claim for one-half of the Bern
estate will be made on behalf of
Mrs. Mary Hartranft of Findlay,
o.. sister of Miss Millette.
A telegram received today by
Chester Gagnon. Sacramento attor-
ney, from Marcus c. Downey. Find
lay lawyer, said: Have been in
vestigating. Find no marriage
license, although facts sufficient to
establish common law marriage"
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BY EARL Sparkling,
Times STAFF Writer

Copyright. 1882 by the New York World
Telegram Corporation
DOCKS will be written about
~ him one day-the bewhis-
kered old pathologist who worked
to destroy the coroner system in
New York City because so many
murders were going undecided,
who became first chief medical
examiner and therefore mogul of
this metropolis of murders.
DR.. Charles Norris has been the
anonymous hero of more fic-
tional detective stories than ever
you might suspect.
For fourteen years now he has
been the pattern from which the
boys have struck off their cul-
tured, scientific Philo Vances.
A good pattern-erudite, aristo-
cratic, temperamental, Rabelai-
sian, man to teach you how to
love life and how to delve. even
through the awful muck of death.
for truth.
Withal, perfect personifcation
OF the scientist, a six-foot-
man with a gray Van Dyke and a
many-syllabled tongue, but hui
man.
When he doesn't have time to
get the beard barbered, which is
often, he will complain that he
feels like goat, and the reason
he isn't seven feet tall, he argues.
is because he began drinking at
IA.
He washes his hands after a
stenchy f1oater and goes home to
hnger Keats and Shelley.
He saws through the skull of q
BoWery bum or a Broad street
banker to prove alcohol. and dis
courses half an hour later on the
beautiful promise of America.
MOST of all, however, he is the
Iva man who has sat in on
crime in the most violent CITY of
the western world. There were
eighteen murders in London in
1928, and eleven of the murderers
we're convicted, the other seven
committing suicide.
To measure Doc Norris. COM
pare these figures: There were
$500 deaths by violence in New
York City last year, there were
1913 shootings, 100 Standings. sixty
six assaults, thirteen baby-kilI-
lngs; 636 miserables inhaled cook
ing gas; 239 hanged themselves.
243 jumped from windows, 1877
shot themselves, thirty eight
drank I've, twenty-four took cyan
1de, l,O65 died in automobile acct
dents, 446 drowned, 326 died bv
fire, 169 died by accidental poi
soning. etc.
All of those $500 violent deaths
had to pass through his hands. In
each case he or his assistants. had
to decide whether the violence
was murder or accidental.
Such is the grewsome kingdom
Of this hulking man with the
gray beard and the quizzicaI eyes.
No one in the whole world. per-
haps. has studied horror as he
has.
He has dissected it, scrutinized
it through a compound micro
scope, brewed it in cauldron to
obtain the legal essences. . In
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Sliding too rapidly down a pole
in response TO fire alarm, Harvey
Davis, So, of 1924 Shsldon street.
city fireman stationed at Engine
House 7, 3Ol East New York street.
incurred severe leg injuries when
he dropped on the cement floor. He
was asleep when the alarm sounded
He is in city hospital.
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COUNTY GROUP WILL
MAP RELIEF BUILDING
Money for Projects to be Borrowed
From r. +. C..

A county organization to launch
self-iquidating builc>ng a1d i'm
provement projects was to be formed
today by business and labor rep
resentatives at the Y. w. c. A.
A H. Worsham, Eleventh and
Twelfth district organizations Sec
retory, will have charge of the meet
ing.
The county group is expected to
cooperate in the statewide move
ment, as part of Governor Harry G..
Leslie's unemployment relief work.
FUNDS to finance projects will be
borrowed from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
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him this tribute in the senate:
They say you are dreaming
dreams, sir. Perhaps they are
right; perhaps they are dreaming
dreams. But since the birth of
civilization, sir, it is dreams like
yours which have emancipated
mankind and made the world a
happier and better place to live in.
Dream on, you senator from Ne
braska"
Colleagues Follow Lead
Today, as he campaigns for the
Democratic nominee and 'denounces
"partisanship" as the greatest evil
Of politics, Norris has the salts
faction of feeling that the majority
of his progressive colleagues have
shaken off the partisan spirit to
support Roosevelt.
In fact, eight western states hav-
ing ninety-three electoral votes may
go to the New York Governor be-
cause of the progressive opposition
to Herbert Hoover. announcement
of the La Toilette brothers that
they will back the Democratic
ticket leaves only two progressive
senators actively in the Hoover
camp-Howell of Nebraska and Nor
beck of South Dakota.
Those taking the field on behalf
of Roosevelt are, besides Norris and
the La Follettes, Johnson of Cali
fornia, Bronson Cutting of New
Mexico, and Governor Floyd Olson
of Minnesota, a Farmer Laborite.
COuzens May Bolt
It is reported that Senator
Couzens of Michigan yet may in
dorse the Democratic candidates
social reform program, and that
Cutting will make q nation wide
radio talk for Roosevelt.
Still silent, but regarded as con-
flrmed in their tacit hostility to
Hoover, are Senators Borah of
Idaho. Nye of North Dakota, and
Brookhart of Iowa Frazier of
North Dakota has said he will not
support Hoover.
This realignment marks a break
up of party lines as revolutionary as
the swing to Theodore Roosevelt by
western progressives in 1912. In view
of the Democratic plan to permit
progressives backing Roosevelt to
retain their Craftsmanship, some
predict that the long predicted or
ganizstion of conservative and pro-
gresSive parties may follow if Roose-
welt is elected and carries out his
campaign pledges.
Norris Is Missionary"
Such ideas have been vainly adj
vanced many times in the past, but
the combination of the depression
and development of liberal thought
among leading Democrats, it is
contended, would give new mo-
mentum to such a movement.
1t is no secret that this is the
great hope of Republican and Dem
ocratic progresSives supporting
Roosevelt. especially Norris.
The Nebraska senator is given
most of the credit for attracting
his colleagues into the Democratic
camp. Resting at his summer cot
tage in Wisconsin last summer, he
became q veritable missionary.
He wrote letters and distributed
Roosevelt's speeches and legislative
messages to his associates. When
he found a Roosevelt statement he
knew would please johnson, he sent
it post haste to San Francisco.
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In the files Of this erudite. tempers
mental giant. DR.. Charles Norris are
more gripping detective stories than YOU
ever might imagine AZ chief medical
examiner Of New York City, DR. Norris
has studied greater horror than that
which comes in dreams has disseeted,
scrutiniled IL through 4 compound mi
eroscope.
What are some Of these stories? How
has ne. through the tools Of science and
logic been able to solve the mysteries
OF violent death? Earl Sparkling has
talked with the crime chief at the
mor9ue where he plies the knife at his
Office in the Municipal building where he
keeps the histories of accidents. suicides
and murders.
In series Of articles the following OF
which deals with the Bessie Troy case,
he reveals what DR.. Norris told him.
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BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
S.s-.. uo.-.-a E,.-.l... rail..

NtTIuFls-NIvWd u FuIFIkH LuItUE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2l.-In an
effort to save the world arms con-
ference. the writer understands.
American diplomacy is attempting
to convince France that security for
her lies not in superior ornaments,
but in an accord with Germany.
Premier Herriot, it is said. is con-
vinced of the wisdom of such
policy. but he must reckon, first,
with the French general staff and.
second, with French public opinion,
now genuinely alarmed over the
menacing turn taken by German
nationalism.
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NlCCOOk. NeD., SEN
ator Norris again
unused over t h e
prospect Of a real
realignment 0 I
politics t hrou g h
placing another
Roosevelt in the
White House" and
abolition of the
electoral C ollege
machinery.
And the 72-year-
old senator was as
thrilled rs a child
on Christmas eve
as happy as he
was that day when
Hiram Johnson of
California n a n
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INSTALL LEGION HEADS
;. A. Thompson Begins Second
Term as District Commander.

Officers of the eleventh American
Legion district formally took Office
Thursday night at meeting in
Pendleton.
G. A. Thompson was installed for
his second term as dictrict COM
mander. Ceremonies were in charge
of William o. Nelson of Anderson,
state commander.
Nelson f1ayed the National Econ
omy League for its attack on the
legion's bonus attitude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
NEW STYLE IN BUSES
Giant Motor Coach Has 12-CyIinder
Pancake Type Motor Under Floor.

By United Press
CLEVELAND. Oct. 21.-Develop-
ment OF new type motor coach
calculated to meet the problem of
mass transportation in cities has
been announced by White Motor
Company.
1t Is motored with a new twelve
cylinder horizontally opposed or
pancake" engine. which is carried
beneath the floor leaving I'M
restricted passenger area for forty
folr, and room for ffty-six to stand
The designers claim the coach has
mere unrestricted floor space. and is
easier riding than street car.
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DIR. Schultze telephoned me
that day" reeounted DR.. Norris,
and told me he was going to per-
form an autopsy. He asked me If
1 cared to be present. said,
No. I am busy today.
you felt pretty sure of DR.,
Hohmann's findings?"
I did" replied Chief Norris.
He was brilliant fellow, poor
boy
DR.. Schultze performed the au-
topsy and asserted the woman
had been strsngled and thrown
from the window
Detectives reinvestigated the
Amsterdam avenue fiat and
found blood stains on a pillow.
Michael Troy was charged with
murder. He was we'll on his way
to the electric chair.
Mikes father was a gardener
for an influential Westminster
family, and through that connec-
ton got good attorneys, Charles
A. Perkins and Arthur c. Train.
They sought Chief Norris.
Doctor, you claim this was
case of suicide?"
Il do, old man"
But they claim it is murder.
", can't help that, CID man
THE attorneys urged Chief
i Norris to make a second
autopsy. He declined, but sug-
gested that they obtain his friend,
DR.. George B. Magrath, the Bos-
ton medical examiner, as pictur-
esque figure as DR.. Norris him.
self.
So on the night of May %, the
body of Mrs. Bessie Troy was ex-
humed secretly from a cemetery
at Ridgef1eld.
DR.. Magrath, wearing his newt
able black artists tie, bent to the
job. DR.. Norris, smoking his in
evitable black cigar, stood at his
elbow witnessing.
"Magrath did as beautiful
piece of work as I've ever seen,
old man.
christopher Colombol 1t was
wonderful. There was g beauti-
full blood aspiration in the lungs.
That proved that she was alive
and breathing when she hit the
sidewalk"
The upshot was that DR..
Schultze was accused in court of
having performed a careless and
hasty" autopsy. Michael Troy
went free.
There" grumbled Doc Norris,
that shows you how things can
happen, old man."
Eyes, a strange case, Doc. But
how in the world we're you SC. sure
all the time that DR.. Hohmann
was right?"
We'll, old man, the woman
weighed about las pounds. The
husband weighed only about 125.
Il knew little fellow like that
couldn't choke such large woman
and then carry her all the way
from the back room to the front
room and throw her out the
window
NOU did do little detective
Il work, then"
We'll, little bit, old man. If
he were going to kill his wife, why
wouldn't he drop her down the
dark back window into the air.
shaft? Why would he carry her
all the way to the front and
throw her out of a lighted win
dew?"
But what about those blood
stains on the pillow"
He had bleeding teeth, old
nan. He could spit blood any
time During the trial he spat
blood all over the courtroom.
1t was wonderful. Every time
Arthur Train would point TO him
he would spit some more blood"
Next-Dr. Norris discusses the
EIWell case with Earl SnarIinr
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GREAT DREAM
OF NORRIS IS
NEAR REALITY
Nebraska Senator Happy
as He Sees ProgreSSiveS
Aid Roosevelt.
FIGHTS PARTISAN RULE
Senators Turn On Hoover
to Wage Battle for
Liberal Policies.
BY RAY TUCKER
Times stan Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-An old
mans dreams may come to pass as
a result Of the eagerness with
which western progressives are
embracing the doctrines of Cover
nor Roosevelt.
Only few weeks ago. sitting be-
fore the tiny fireplace Of his $4,000
stucco home on the main street Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Retires After 30 Years on job


Retirement of Sol B. Prater. 966
North Gray street, from the sales
staff o.. the International Harvester
Company after thirty years service,
was announced today During his
long service he never missed a day
due to illness.
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AUTO CRASH IS FATAL
Second Traffic Fatality in
"a Hours Here,

Second traffic. fatality within
twenty-four hours was recorded
early today when A. C. Hendricks,
40, Negro, 1160 North Sheffield av-
enue, was killed instantly when the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
GLASS FIRMS MERGED
Root Company of Terre Haute and
Owens Interests are Combined.

By United Press
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Oct. III
Merger of the Root Glass Company
Of Terre Haute with the Owens n
Enois Glass Company was an
rounced here. The Root company
will continue to operate here in the
same capacity. The Owens Com
parry has headquarters in Toledo.
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auto ne was driving
overturned following
collision with another
at Twenty-fifth street
and Boulevard place.
His death raised the
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toll for the year in Marion county
to seventy-one.
Hendricks car struck another
driven by Martin Violet, 81, Negro,
of 2741 Columbia avenue, who is in
a serious condition at city hospital.
Hendricks was pinned beneath
wreckage of the car, owned by Mrs.
Sadie William, Negro, 1920 Paris
avenue, where Hendricks was 60
ing when the accident occurred.
He was dead when reached by
rescuers.
First fatality Thursday was that
of William Small, AZ, Negro, of
1919 College avenue, who died at
city hospital of injuries received in
an auto crash Sunday at Forty
second street and the Monon rail-
road.
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Bobbs-Merrill has a best nonfic-
ton seller in Let's Start over
Again" by Wash Young. This man
has a cure for personal depression. ;"
I have reviewed it in this depart
ment.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
Depression Plants Should
Be ssProsperity''' Flowers
10 the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
was interested today to read in an
article in The Sunday Star directions
for making a depression flower. just
a few days before I had heard OF 1t
for the first time. A friend at the
office told me about it and that eve
ming, curiously enough, I received a
letter from my little niece in Rocnes-
ter, N. Y, telling me about the same
thing, but it was made with coke and
was depression plant"
Now so much has been written about
the causes and the nature of the de-
preston that one could scarcely add
ANYTHING worth while in few words.
However, believe that there is a con-
siderable degree of agreement that the
depression is characterized by the
throwing out of kilter of the several
factors Of production and distribution,
and that 1t is prolonged by the gen.
eral spread of the psychology of pes
simism, which for the time being has
grown so strong that it pushes aside
the youthful, cheerful, optimistic spirit
of America.
Let us not encourage the spread OF
this spirit of the depression by intro
ducing depression flowers" or "de-
preston plants" into our homes and
offices. However. I wouldn't advocate
throwing these pretty and interesting
flowers away. Why not rather rename
them prosperity flowers?"
Let the soft coal or coke represent
the industry needed to pull us out of
the slough of despond; the blue rep
resent the fair and new day Of promise;
the pink the sunrise of a new hope
fulness; the gradual spread Of the
beautiful flower caused by the wonder
full process of osmosis represent the
welcome growth of the new prosperity.
CARLETON Z. LEWIS.