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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-19
downtown ART
STORE ROBBED
Negro Bandit DaShes Into
Traffic, Tossing Away
Loaded Pistol.

A neatly dressed Negro bandit
this morning held up James Waka-
ba, operator of Japanese art store
at q East Ohio street, obtained $50
from the cash register and fled
through downtown automobile traf-
fic, throwing away his loaded pistol
as he ran.
I'm just back from the world
fair at Chicago and I forgot to get
my wife a souvenir" announced the
Negro Show me some silk XII
monos." Waksba took his Gus
toner" to the rear of the store
where the Negro jabbed a gun in
his ribs.
Selling the money. the bandit
fled headlong through the store,
nearly knocking down Mrs. Mar
garet Baldwin, 1888 North Pennsyl-
vania street, an incoming customer.
The Negro ducked through traffic
and threw away his pistol near Me-
ridian and Ohio streets.
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Repeal by Christmas
BY WALKER STONE
Times SpecIal Writer

WASHINGTON, July 19.-Al OF
the nation knows today that the
eighteenth amendment will be re-
pealed by early December.
The last Doubling Thomas" must
admit today that there is no pos
sible way for the outnumbered, out
generated, disorganized drys to stop
the repeal stampede.
BY their sweeping victories in
Alabama and Arkansas elections
Tuesday, the vets cracked the once
solid-dry south, the last stamping
ground of the prohibitioniSts.
Joining the east, the west and the
north, where the voters already
have spoken, the south Tuesday
served notice that it, too, had tired
of the noble experiment"
The vote in Alabama and Arkan-
sas was not only triumph for the
repealiSts.
1t was personal tribute to Pres
ident Roosevelt, the response of the
Dixie democracy to the Presidents
appeal to the people to help him
carry out the party's platform
pledge.
In those states, repeal was made
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BIRD CASE IGNORED
BY U. S. ATTORNEY
Passes Over Prosecution of
Evansville Man.

Prosecution of Foster Lewis,
Evansville business man for harbor-
ing a red bird is not receiving very
serious attention from the United
States district attorneys office
here.
Charged with violating the federal
migratory bird act, by illegally pos
seSSing" a red bird, Lewis awaits &C
ton of the federal grand jury which
will convene in Indianapolis next
September.
Il think I'll let my assistant,
Alexander Cavins, who is an au-
thority on birds. handle this mat
ter" District Attorney Val Nolan
asserted today.
In fact" he continued, Il have
something else to think about be-
sides that redbird.'
Reported defense of Lewis to the
charge is that he was playing the
role of Good Samaritan" He says
he found the bird with a broken
wing and was harboring it until
fully recovered.
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Please, Davy!
Aimee Wires Plea for
Husband Not to Get
Divorce.

BIZ Hited Press
r OS ANGELES, July 19.- Da-
- vid L. Hutton Jr. today
turned deaf ears to the pleas of
his wife, Aimee Semple McPher-
son Hutton, to suspend his suit
for divorce.
For the second time since her
250-pound husband filed the suit,
the noted leader of Angelus Tenn
pie begged him to halt his plans
in a wireless from S. S. City of
Havre, on which she is returning
from Europe.
David, precious husband" the
message said, IF you must do this
thing, please, in Gods name, wait
till I'm physically able to face it.
Shock was terrific following oper-
alton. 1 need you, so postpone
plans. Listen to nobody. Oh,
dearest, come and get me. Your
wife.
Hutton, excited by prospects of
his stage debut Thursday, stated
fatty:
Il am not going to be in Bal
timore when her boat docks"
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Fear of Losing NeW Auto
Drives Man to Suicide

with a pocket knife at his home,
1855 South New Jersey street, while
his wife, Mrs. Alta Baker, and two
children slept.
Mrs. Baker, who found the body
when she arose, told police her hus-
band had been deranged mentally
since he was injured in an auto
mobile last November.
Recently he bought a new auto
mobile TO be paid for in INSTALL
ments. Although employed regu-
larry at good wages, he expressed
fear of losing his job and of being
unable to keep up payments on the
new car.
III die before I'll work for a city
basket" the widow quoted him.
He was employed at Beech
Grove railroad shops as a black
smiths helper. The children are
Paul, Is, and Martha, 10. Funeral
arrangements have not been COM
pleted
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ARKANSAS AND ALABAMA
JOIN MARCH FOR REPEAL
Bone Dry StronghoIds
Voice by Votes Aim to
Kill Amendment.
MARGINS ARE LARGE
Prohibition Leaders at
Birmingham Concede
Their Defeat.
By United Press

By United Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July
19.-Alabama, long conSid-
cred one of the strongholds of
the drys, Joined the process
sion of states approving re-
peal of the eighteenth amend
ment, tabulations of Tuesdays
election of repeal convention
delegates revealed today.
Returns from 1866 of the states
2,115 precincts give:
For repeal, 93,829.
Again repeal, 52,729.
Charles E. Rice, and Henry L.
Anderton, who led the campaign for
the dryS, conceded defeat when the
repeal vote reached the $4,000 mark.
The returns included both rural
and urban sections and were con-
sidered a fair cross section of the
state.
The results revealed that Alabama
sentiment on the repeal question
differed little from that in the six
teen states which previously APP
proved repeal, although the wet ma
jority was smaller. Prohibitionists
had counted upon Alabama and
other southern states to keep the
eighteenth amendment in the Con-
StitutiOn.
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Law Yields to Child's Tears; Remains With Parents

after completion of the case July
81.
Comprehension dawnCd for
Joann. Her lips puckered and her
eyes filled with tears. Suddenly
the storm broke and wild sobbing
sounded throughout the court
house corridors.
Il want to &C home with my
m o [ h r and daddy" Joann
shrieked over and over.
All attempts to quiet her failed.
She was taken from the room,
hysterical and incoherent. except
for her repeated demand to go
home.
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Vets Win Arkansas

o. tUtleU PfeSS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, July 49,.
Arkansas, with more than half of
the vote tabulated, today seemed
certain to join with Alabama in
breaking down the traditiopally dry
ranks of the south and vote to re-
move the eighteenth amendment
from the Constitution.
Returns from 1,O67 precincts out
of 2,100 in the state gave:
For repeal, $685..
Against repeal, 3e,913.
Arkansas, with few cities and
those of moderate size, had been
considered ideal for the last ditch
fight of prohibitionists. Numerous
Of the rural communities remain
staunch for the dry cause, but the
swing to the wet standard was sur
prisingly uniform throughout the
state.
Crittenden county, which in
cludes West Memphis, rolled up an
eight to one Majority for repeal,
and vets saw it as a forecast of the
sentiment in Memphis, which votes
on repeal in Tennessee's election
Thursday.
Garland county, which includes
Hot Springs, where beer is sold de-
spite the state law against it, went
four to one for repeal.
Pulaski county, including Little
Rock, was wet three to one.
Convocation of special session
of the Arkansas legislature to legal
ize beer was brought up as soon as
the returns indicated Arkansas had
entered the repeal column. H. K.
Coney, Speaker of the House of rep
resentatives, said he would confer
with Governor j. M. Futrell today.
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To Joann contempt of court
meant nothing. The long arm
of the law was only something
that was going to place her among
strangers and away from her
parents. Right or wrong had no
meaning to a little girl, barely
past babyhood.
Faced with a block more in
Surmountable than any plea of de-
PENDANTS or attorneys, the law adj
mitted defeat.
Take her home with you, and
give her the home she deserves,
Geckler told the Brandts. Final
decisiop will be given later
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answer charges of child neglect.
Evidence of drunken parties,
which lasted from dusk to dawn.
while little Joann was in the
home, was introduced by the
state.
Other witnesses testified to be-
ing served drinks in the presence
of the child. Bit by bit, the state
constructed its case against the
parents, while Joann sat wide
eyed. understanding little Of the
proceedings.
At the conclusion of the evil
dence, Geckler sternly ordered the
child taken from her parents until
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ARRESTED ON
ISLAND EDEN
Prison Sentences Feared
Near on Spanish Posses
sion in Mediterranean.
BY LESTER ZIFFREN
Copyright, 1898. by United Press
Irni4aa Prorr S4am Hnrrnsnnnd0na


PALMA, Mallorca, July 19.-Five
Americans, including woman,
awaited anxiously today the result
of the American governments efforts
to effect their release from jail
A sixth American came under Of
fetal diSpleasure and was threatened
with civil trial for defaming the
island in a magazine article.
Theodor Pratt was the latest
American to find thorns on the roses
of this Eden in the Mediterranean,
widely advertised as haven for
those with a desire to live cheaply
in ideally picturesque surroundings.
American residents feared Pratt
might have to pay a fine OF more
than $1,000, or undergo inprison-
ment, because he wrote critically of
Mallorcan morality. Natives pc
titioned the governor to eXpel him.
Bomb Exploded on Door Step
Threatened with lynching because
OF a magazine article in which he
spoke disparagingly of the Mallor-
cans, Pratt appealed to the civil
guards for protection.
A bomb was exploded on his door
step. His house was plaza ded with
signs calling him an indecent spy
in the pay of the American chamber
of commerce"
The civil guards brought Pratt and
his wife to Palma. His passport was
seized, and he was ordered to hold
himself at the disposition Of police
pending decision whether he would
be deported or prosecuted.
He registered at a hotel, but so
strong was the popular feeling, that
the landlord, though friend, asked
him to leave. He was staying to-
day with friends. A trial seemed
inevitable unless authorities at Ma
drid, in order TO avoid further in
ternational unpleaSantness, decided
to permit him to leave.
Exodus of Americans Looms
An exodus of Americans from this
island refuge of writer's and artists
of painting and music since Chopin
and George Sand found haven here
may be the result of the cafe fight
that brought the imprisonment of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton B. Lockwood
of Springfield, Mass; Rutherford
Fullerton, Columbus, O.; Roderick
F. Mead, New York, and Edmund
w. Blodgett Stamford, Conn.
The five imprisoned Americans
interviewed in a private dispute in a
cafe between a civil guard and a
man whom he sought to arrest. The
guardsman was struck, and the
Americans we're put in jail to await
court martial.
To their dismay they found their
offense was military one, and that
even the Spanish foreign office
could do nothing to soften the mil
itary laws they had houted.
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Romance First
Court Case Continued
So That Counsel
May Wed.
THE case of Thomas Bressler,

THE case of Thomas BreSsler,
i .1015 Congress avenue, charged
with operating a lottery and gift
enterprise, was called today in
municipal court three.
Instead of attorney and client
stepping forward, a bailiff tolo
Thomas Whallon, judge pro TEN:
Your honor, Mr.. Sisson is
counsel for the prisoner and Mr..
Sisson would like a continuance. 3"
Why would Mr.. Sisson like a
continuance" queried Whallon.
Mr.. Sisson is getting married"
rejoined the bailiff.
That's grounds cnough-con-
tinuance granted" ruled Whallon.
Mr.. Sisson is Frank T. Sisson.
well-known attorney with offices
at 532 Circle Tower. His engage
ment to Miss Rosemary Dyer, 2848
Washington boulevard, recently
was announced and the marriage
was scheduled to be a September
social event.
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COURT LISTENS
TO DEAD MAN
GeCkler Orders Hal Adams
to PSychopathiC Ward
for Examination.

Another chapter was written to-
day in the strange case of Hal Roy
Adams, 81, whose mysterious dis
appearance was solved" several
weeks ago when his widow buried
a body believed to be his.
Today he appeared before Juvenile
Judge John Geckler to answer
charges of child neglect, filed in an
affidavit signed by his wife, Mrs.
Rachel Adams. 2436 Jackson street.
The affidavit was filed before his
disappearance April 18, and a war
rant was served several days ago
when he appeared at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Mary Mitchell, r. R.
10, Box 405.
Neglect of his two children,
Evelyn May, IA, and Frances, 10, is
charged by Mrs. Adams.
An incoterent story of wandering
in Chicago for weeks, without
shelter, sleeping in parks and beg
ging food from door to door, was
related by Adams.
He spent his time in Chicago,
Gust walking around" he told the
court.
why did you come home?" Geek
Ter asked.
Il had no place else to go"
Adams declared his health was
generally shot to pieces" His plea
was supported by Mrs. Mitchell
who declared the belief her brother
was suffering from general nerv-
Gus breakdown"
Geckler ordered him sent to the
city hospital psychopatic ward for
examination, expressing the belief
Adams was suffering from mental
trouble. Adams was placed in Gus
tody of Mrs. Mitchell until arrange
ments can be made for his admiS-
sion to the hospital
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Students at Anderson TO
Urge Re-Hiring of Case
By I Rited p eSs

By United p oss
ANDERSON, Ind, July 49,
Eleven high school students today
signed their names to an adver-
tisement in favor of re-employing
Everett N. Case, former basketball
coach, who resigned after Ander-
sons expulsion from the I. H. S
A. A.
Glen Curtis, Martinsville coach,
was scheduled to speak. The board
of education last week signed
Archie Chadd. Canton Qll) coach
and former Butler star, for Cases
job. The board is to meet again to-
night.
Case is considering an offer to be
head basketball coach at the
University of Colorado, Boulder.
People of Anderson asked for a
high school athletic department
cleanup when our school was dis
missed from the I. H. S. A. A., and
that is our duty" spokesman for
the board of education said in dis
cusSing the protest meeting.
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WHEAT TAKES HEAVY
SLUMP IN TRADING
Futures Fall 9 to IL Cents
in Chicago Dealings.

By Httcd Press
CHICAGO, July 19.-Wheat fu-
lures dropped heavily in closing
minutes today on the Chicago board
of trade. At the close prices were
down 97s to u cents.
The plunge was one of the sharp.
est recorded on the board of trade
and came after directors had placed
restrictions on fluctuations in bar
ley, which had been making sensa-
tional gains.
Corn was off 37s cents a bushel,
oats down 81 cents to SIS cents
and rye plunged between IL and II
cents. Barley was halted at s.
cent loss by the restrictions.
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BY STEVE RICHARDS

CHICAGO, July 10. - General
Italo Balbo pointed his Silvery sea-
plane into clear eastern skies today
leading his ninety-six daring airmen
away on the first leg of the long
flight back to Italy.
Commanding the Armada of
twenty-four ships, General Balbo's
plane skinned gracefully over the
water of Lake Michigan and rose
into the air at 6:42 a. m. Central
Standard Time. A moment later
the other two planes of the first
triad left the water.
1t was 7:45 a. m. when the last
of the twenty-four ships got away.
Weather reports indicate excellent
flying conditions over Toledo,
Cleveland, Buffalo and Albany, the
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POST HOPS FROM
IRKUTSK, 3 HOURS
AHEAD OF RECORD
BIagOveSChenSk Next Goal
of World Filler; Plane
in Fine Shape.
FACES PERIL0US ROUTE
Altman Rapidly Approaches
Course BeSet by FogS;
Craft Repaired.

m ' HfkfU FfPff
IRKUTSk, Siberia, July 49,.
Wiley Post, American world
flier, took off today for Bla-
goveschensk, continuing his
effort to better the world rec
ord he and Harold Gatty made
two years ago. Posi- took off
at midnight 90 p. m. Indian
apohs time).
Post was 3 hours and "a minutes
ahead of his former record. He was
here IS hours and IS minutes. due
TO bad weather.
The Oklahoma flier decided to
make Blagoyescrensk, 1920 miles
eastward, his next stop, instead Of
Khabarovsk, $50 miles farther on.
Post had planned to fly from
Khabarovsk, near the eastern coast,
direct to Fairbanks, Alaska, 1900
miles. and then halt only ct Edmon-
ton, Canada, on his way to Floyd
Bennett Airport.
Plane in Good Shape.
Arriving here feeling fine and with
his plane in first-class condition,
he then was Is hours and 81 minutes
ahead of the former record.
He planned to malt here but few
hours to have his plane cyerhauled
by Russian mechanics, who awaited
him, and sleep for the second time
since he left New York at $40 a. m.
Saturday.
But the weather was eXecrable
and he decided to wait for it TO get
better. His lead over the former
record decreased alarmingly, as he
and Gatty remained here for but
2 hours and 10 minutes.
However he and Gatty were held
Is hours 20 minutes at their next
stop, BlagoveSchenSk, and 26 hours
30 minutes at Khabarovsk, the one
after that. Post was conceded an
excellent chance, with good luck, of
getting back to New York before
9:0l p. m. G:0l p. m. Indianapolis
time) Sunday, the deadline.
Faces Dangerous Course
He arrived here at 6:35 a. M,
Seventy-five hours twenty-five min
utes away from Floyd Bennett air
port.
Posts planned stages from Bla-
goveschensk, his programmed halt
in eastern Siberia. were Blagove-
schensk to Fairbanks, Alaska, 5000
miles; Fairbanks to Edmonton,
1850, and Edmonton to New York,
1900.
OF these by far the most danger
Gus Usage was that between Bla-
goveSchenSk and Fairbanks, over the
treacherous Okhotsk sea, with its
fogs. up over the northeastern ST.
berian coast, where James Mattern
came TO grief on his world flight,
and across the narrow top of the
Pacific to Alaska.
Weather conditions could be ex-
pected to grow worse as Post moved
eastward.
However, the Oklahoma iron
man was proceeding coldly and
calculatingly. flying at the earliest
safe moment and taking advantage
OF all enforced haltS to sleep.
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The technician signed the
report, ''Dr. L. r. Sante."
He did not know that a few
months before he penned that sig
nature the man whose chest he had
x-rayed had suffered beating with
cane in the Indiana penal farm.
He was oblivious that this hap
pened to a fellow townSman, Daniel
Roy Shipper of st. Louis, according
to Shippers AFFIDAVIT:
Guard Mike Finn ran down from
the brushes. beating me with a
cane. The cane broke in three
pieces. Force of the blows knocked
me down."
Complained of Condition
He did not know that two months
before, almost daily, Shipper had
complained to state farm authori-
ties of the condition of his lungs,
with declarations that he had been
hoSpitalized for tuberculosis.
He, DR.. Sante, did not know, as
his pen scratched his unbiased re-
port on Shippers lungs, that the
state farm never had given Shipper
an X-Ray examination to determine
whether his story of chest trouble
was true.
Nor did DR. Sante know that the
st. Louis youth had lived for 140
hours in the state farm on bread
and water, much of the time hand
cuffed to cell door.
He only knew that sciences
camera showed that the farm in
mate they called a "ma,ingerer"
really had tuberculosis beyond the
minimal stage"
Beat He'll Out of Me"
One guard showed Shipper a lit
tie compassion. He permitted him
to pick up small rocks and put
them in car"
Il got sick again. continues
Shippers affidavit, and they took
me up to the captain. He beat hell
out of me in his Office with his fist
while I was sitting down on
bench. He let me sit in the Office
all day without my meals"
He tells, in his affidavit, of E. L.
Arment, assistant superintendent
of the farm in charge of discipline,
pulling his hair and cursing him.
But the records of the st. Louis
city hospital show that Shipper, in
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APPROVE JOHNSON'S
WACE-RA|SINC PLAN
Special Roosevelt Board
o. X. on Proposal.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 19.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt's special industrial
recovery board today gave it's ap-
prevail to Administrator Hugh S.
Johnson's plan for a uniform agree
ment throughout industry to raise
wages and shorten working hours.
The agreement still must be ap-
proved by President Roosevelt be-
fore it is offered to industry as a
voluntary arrangement under which
industry could cooperate to speed
the return of prosperity.
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FIGHT INSURANCE PLAN
Award of Illinois Life to iowa Com
pany Contested.

By United Press
CHICAGO, July 19.-ObjectionS OF
the proposed reinsurance of the TO-
600 policy holders of the Illinois Life
Insurance Company with the
Central Life Assurance Society oil
Iowa will be heard before Judge
James Wilkerson, in federal court
here today.
An advisory board appointed by
Judge Wilkerson last week recon
mended the Iowa company as the
best in which to merge the interests
of the Illinois company, but group
known as the policy holders pro-
tective asserted the Iowa Societys
financial condition was not suffi-
GENTLY strong to carry the re-
insurance.
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FLEEING FARMER SHOT
Sought on Bad Check Charge, Rush
County Man Tries Escape.
By United Press

z WIItU fTFHN
RUSHVILLE. Ind, July 49,
Fred owens, Rush county farmer,
was shot as he ran from his home
here in an effort to escape Sheriff
Ed Compton and a deputy who
sought him on bad check charge.
Owens, wounded in the left leg.
said he had intended committing
suicide. He was charged with issu-
ing SIS in worthless checks TO Shell
byville merchants.
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POSSE TRAPS BANDIT
Bank RObber. Wife Captured in Gun
Battle in Michigan.
By 7 nited Press

~ Mfcd Press
FENNVILLE, Mich, July ia
posse of aroused citizens captured
an escaping bank robber and his
woman accomplice on a farm near
here today after a gun battle in
which the robber, Edward Austin,
As, and two possemen we're reported
wounded
AuStin's companion was identified
as his wife, Mrs. Grace Austin. The
posse recovered approximately So 700
loot taken from the Old State bank
here.
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THE majesty of the law capitu-

THE majesty of the law capitu-
u lated today before the heart
broken sobs of a 5-year-old fiaxen
haired girl.
Bewildered by strange surround
ings and faces, but knowing in
tuitively that things were not as
they should be, little Joann
Brandt sobbed her way out of
temporary detention in an Or
phans' home.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Brandt, 319 South Lynn
hurst drive, were brought before
Juvenile Judge John Geckler to
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BALb0 FLEET
HEADING EAST
TONEW YORK
Leave Chicago on First Leg
of Flight Back to
Italy.
By United Press

By United Press
CLEVELAND, July 19.-Genersl
Italo Balbo's armada of Italian
seaplanes passed Cleveland at $50
a. M, central standard time, f1y-
ing far out over Lake Erie. They
we're headed due east.