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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
SIX COTTAGERS
BRUTALITY SLAIN
IN WASHINGTON
Four Men and Two Women
Tied, Gagged; Beaten
to Death.
BvUnited Press

~ UffQ PFcSS
BRENIERTON. Wash, April a.
Luke S. May. star Pacific coast
criminologist, found his abilities
taxed today by the brutal slayings
of four men and two women in an
isolated cottage at Erland's Point,
near here.
May found little to point to the
killer or killers in the northwest's
most CHASTITY crime" Robbers may
have beaten the six occupants of
the cottage to death. Several per-
sons were taken into custody but
none was charged with any crime.
Victims of the Slayings were iden-
titled as Frank Fielder. As, owner of
the cottage; Mrs. Anna Taylor
Fielder, so, mis- wife; Magnus Jor-
dan, 80, former sailor; Fred Bal
som. Bremerton bartender; Eugene
Chenevert. 38, and his wife Peggy.
30. The ChenevertS were known in
vaudeville as Bert and Peggy Vim
cent.
All the victims had been tied and
gagged with adhesive tape Each
had been blindfolded and it was APP
parent that knives and a heavy
hammer had been used.
Drawers were pulled out and up
set. Closets were ransacked.
Investiga tors learned that the
Fielder cottage was the center of
heavy drinking and of wild par
ties" Authorities claimed, too, that
one Of the victims was known as a
drug user and had been seen con-
versing with a suspected dope ped
dler earlier in the week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
HINT TONG CLEW
IN CITY MURDER
Detectives in Muncie to
Quiz Chinese Held
in That City.

While Fred Simon, chief of de-
tectives was inclined to disparage
rumors that a tong war was respon-
sible for the murder of Gong Dun
Jung, Chinese laundryman, other
detectives laid the mysterious death
OF the Chinese to hatchetmen.
Lieutenant Donald Tooley and
several detectives were ordered to
go to Muncie today to follow a cIew
which police were informed might
lead to a solution Of the crime.
Harry Ping, alias Pink, member
OF a powerful Chicago tong was ar
rested last night in Muncie by Cap
tain Harry Nelson of the Muncie
police on information furnished by
Albert MOy, head of a tong in Chi
cgao, according to information re-
ceived by police here.
Local police will compare Pings
f1ngerprints with those found on a
hammer with which Gong Dun Jung
was slain in the Willie Sing laundry,
AT North Illinois street, on the
night OF March II. Police here will
await Identification of the finger
prints before attempting to bring
Ping here for questioning.
Ping, according to information to
the police here, admitted that he
had been in Indianapolis the week
end before the murder, but went to
Muncie the day before Jung was
found murdered. Albert Moy, who
is alleged to have involved Ping in
the murder investigation, is said to
be a cousin of the slain laundryman.
Detectives assigned to the murder
of Jung had advanced the theory
that the indianapolis laundryman
was killed during an attempt to rob
his store. The entire place was ran
sacked. The body of the Chinese
was found in a large rotary clothes
washer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
TAX TO BE DISCUSSED
Associated Retailers Group Head to
Talk at Meeting.

Effects of the gross income sales
tax on the retailer will be discussed
by L. F. Shuttleworth, president of
the Associated Retailers of Indiana.
at the meeting in the Hoosier Ath-
letic Club tonight. The meeting will
be sponsored by the Indianapolis
Retail Meat and Grocers' Associa-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
FIX. UTILITY VALUATIONS
Millions to Be Added to Worth of
Properties by Tax Board.

Annual valuations of utility prop
critics was begun today by the state
tax board. Previously it was an
nounced by Albert Walsman, COM
missioner, that millions of dollars
will be added to old valuations this
year, making them more like the
values used for rate making pur-
poses by the companies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
'MOONSTRUCK' MUSICIAN
FOUND AT CANAL BANK
Too Much Liquor Diagnosed as
Aged Negroes Ailment.

Holding a guitar in the light of
the moon, John Doe, No. l." an
elderly Negro, was found late Satur-
day night seated in a wheelchair on
the banks of the canal near Indiana
avenue.
When police arrived, the old man
was unconscious with the guitar be-
side him. Fearing that the elderly
bard was dead, police rushed him to
city hospital.
Nothing wrong but little too
much liquor" diagnosed an in
terne.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
REC Authorizes Rank Stocks

WASHINGTON. April 2. - Pur-
chase of $4,000 900 in preferred stock
and capital notes in four large st.
Louis downtown banks TO increase,
their capital has been authorized by
the reconstruction finance corpora
ton. it was announced today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
CHOIRS ACCEPT OFFER
Jordan and Whiting, Ind, Groups
Will Sing in Chicago.

Choirs from the Arthur Jordan
Conservatory of Music and Junior
high school pupils of Whiting, Ind,
will take part in the National Music
Conference and Festival to be held
at the Stevens hotel in Chicago
April to 13.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
WINS UNIVERSITY JOB
City Woman Will Be Registrar at
New School.

Miss Florence Newlin, 3466 Car
rollton avenue, has received word
of her appointment as district
registrar for the Reset roix univer-
sity, now under construction in San
Jose, Cal. The university will pro-
vide post graduate courses for men,
berS of the Rosicrucian order living
in various parts of North America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

tour of European capitals, said to-
day that investigation of japanese
trade competition was one of the
important detectives of his mission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
War Ceremony Will Be Held

Seventeenth anniversary of the
entry of the United States into the
World war will be commemorated by
a formal guard mounting by
Eleventh infantry troops at Fit.
Benjamin Harrison at 1880 Friday
morning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Business Men to Visit Marion

Twenty business men from She
boygan, Mich, will make a good
will flight to Marion" on April 7, to
inspect the new Kiley Brewing Com
pany of Marion and visit William E.
Jung. general n mayer and master
brewer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Three Killed in Havana Fire

By United Press
HAVANA, April 2-Three men
were killed today when fire be-
lieved to have been of incendiary
origin destroyed a garage of the
Havana Bus Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

.1t took more than Luck
to sope my Lite..t took
n Sofety-Steel Body

nnrurD on the Bakersfield nigno
v azr1 By Arnold m was making r iins
for Los San. Angei Suddenly :. but let him
ton It in his own words:
"suddenly another car s wv l9,e on
the curve :. . coming right at ln9 4 crash
the .Orong side: had my .t cno m',1lv."
wv or the gully. took the SunSi ,;,,h-
Arnolds Plymouth shot from t the hsses
way and rolling e.. E t%ss They
said nd \ ne LIN; 1u'f from behind the wheel
pulled pu31;sad h1 but with with no bones broken!
II wouldn't give a plugged I'd a nlVf Ior
says Arnold, 'f0r ny Pyr 1noufb. It's Safety
Steel Body undoubtedly saved 10y '''
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

Child Investigating japanese Trade
By United Press
LONDON, April 2. - Richard
Washburn Child, special representa-
tive of President Roosevelt in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

Peru were importing American avia-
tors in anticipation of an early out
break of warfare in the disputed
Leticia territory far up the Amazon
river.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Alliance Francaise viii Meet

Feature of the meeting of the
Alliance Franchise at Thursday
night in the Washington will be a
mock trial in the manner of a
French tribunal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
DEMOCRATS TO DEPART FROM
PRE-PRIMARY ENDORSEMENTS
EXCEPT IN FEW INSTANCES
New Party Policy Will Be Announced on
Return Of City and County
Leaders, Is Report
BY DICK MILLER,
Times staff Writer

Democratic city and county organization leaders are
ported ready to depart from ancient primary CUSTOM that
of stating favore candidates for the respective Offices
make favored lists in only the state representative county
commissioner and city council races.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

Upper LeftOne of the Oldest Catholic Indianapolis
St Johns
Upper Rghndianapos spent summers at
in the northern Charles
Layon standing with their Dorothy
formerly Miss Gertrude Buer prepared in one
of the northern
Lower Lef-Mrs Ind
of homemade
farm made her
of than
thirty $1,000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Statehouse Slate a Problem

The party leaders are reported
ready to let the boys" fight it out
for most of the offices. However,
there are couple of angles that
have them bothered. There is the
importance of sending eleven repre-
Sentatives to the StatehouSe favor
able TO city and county legislation.
Added to this is the Importance
of a city council that will work in
cooperation with the mayor and
the county commissioner group,
functioning without the alleged
blunders that have marked recent
activities of the group
With these thoughts in mind,
party leaders agree that a slate of
those known to be right" is neces-
sary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Colombia Peru War Feared
By United Press

GENEVA, April 2.-League of ma
lions officials expressed alarm to-
day at reports that Colombia and
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08

The first Lockheed Electra" trans
port was delivered to Northwest Air
lines in st. Paul a few days ago. It
was piloted across country from the
factory at Burbank, Calf, in record
time, flying the 1900 miles in an elaps-
ed time of 9 hours and 46 minutes OF an
average cruising speed Of 1876 miles per
hour. This 10 passenger plane repre-
sents the peak development in fast air
transports for commercial operators.
It is not only the fastest transport yet
developed, but it is most comfortable
and has unusual elements Of safety"
said Croil Hunter, vice president and
general manager Of Northwest Airlines.
AS contrasted with the Ford tri-
motored type Of ship it has a cruising
speed Of 203 miles an hour as compared
with 10 miles an hour with the Ford.
with q pay load Of 2200 pounds and
. gross weight Of $500 pounds, the
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08
GIBBONSVILLE
PASS IS NOW OPEN
SKALKAHO ONLY ONE IN STATE
REMAINING CLOSED; WILL OPEN
IN FEW DAYS

Motor traffic from western Mon
tana over snowy Gibbonsville pass
south into the Salmon district OF
Idaho was resumed recently with the
clearing of drifts from the highway
and its grading and leveling into good
condition, it was announced by the
information bureau of h Butte
Chamber of Commerce a few days
ago.
The pass, the only direct contact. be-
tween the Bitter Root valley M Sal
mon, had been closed since early last
fall. Travellers report that, although
it has been open for only a few days.
the road is already in good condition
The Skalkaho highway between Butte
and Hamilton, now the only one IN
this section of the state still blocked
by snow, probably will be opened IN
a few days.
The Gibbons pass road from the Big
Hole country into Salmon is n gooc
shape, as are the Yellowstone trail east
and west of Butte and the Sunshine
trail north and south.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08
BLACKSNAKE WHIP
FEARED BY MEN
BIG FOOT" STURMAN RECALLS
INCIDENT IN BILLINGS WHEN
WHIP WAS USED

The 10-foOt shot loaded blacksnake
whip the Oldtime string team freight
er carried draped over his shoulder
was a weapon feared by the freigbtef
as well as horses.
A story told by c. B. big Foot" Stur-
man OF Zortman, who was a colorfu
figure when Lewistown received It's
freight from Billings, Great Falls and
Fort Benton, illustrates the fear OF a
freighter, who realized the effective
ness of the whips use in the hands Of
one who wa experienced.
"It was down in a Billings bar"
says Big Foot. 1.-TWO freighters whom
we shall call Buck and Sandy were the
men. Buck was a big boned fellow,
active as a cat and hard as nails, q
tough nut and as fearless as they come.
Sandy was a we'll built, squatty fel-
low, with the tenacity of a bulldog. Like
most Of their kind, they spent con-
siderable of their time n money af
the bars when in town. This I
summer night they got to arguing about
| some trifling matter and soon became
! engaged in a rough and tumble.
Eye gouging, kicking and biting,
/ snarling and cursing, they rolled over
the floor. Getting to their feet, pool
balls and cues were used freely. Sandy
made a pass at Buck with a chair.
missing and smashing the chair to
splinters over the pool table. Buck
grabbed a cue and smashed Sandy over
the head, knocking him out the open
door, where he disappeared into the
night.
"Buck returned to the bar and lined
everybody up, where drinks were served
while Buck crowed loud over his VIC
tory. Time passed and Buck was in
the middle Of a story when he was at
tracted by the b~artender's gaze to-
ward the back door.
Turning his head in that direction
Buck saw Sandy striding confidently
up the floor. One eye was closed and
a red welt along the side of his head
showed where Bucks billiard u had
landed.
Buck stepped out with a smile to
renew the battle but when Sandyh
right hand jerked something from
across his shoulders Bucks smile froze,
he whirled and dove through the
swinging shutter like doors into the
, street.
"Bang-the report wa defeaning. No
Sandy didn't shoot-it was the repor,
of his blacksnake as he came within
inches of the fleeing Buck"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08

I was very warmly clad. I sat and
faced the wind and so stray hairs from
my buffalo overcoat could not get into
the mixture and I was careful that my
mittened hands were kept outside the
edge of the pan. I stirred and stirred.
When my right hand got cold I took the
long iron spoon in my left hand, but
this gave me no relief, for both hands
were employed in holding the pan or
using the spoon. BY the time little
splinters of ice began forming on the
fluid they were also forming in my x
tremities and the end Of my lose. ]
dared not stop stirring eggs, milk and
sugar were too valuable to be wasted
at the cost of human life.
Reporting on this experiment, which
I have never repeated, it can be saio
that it was a qualified success.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08

Electra has a top speed o f 221 miles
per hour, a cruising speed of 203 miles
per hour and a landing speed of 60
miles per hour. Sound proofing by
Western Electric engineers brings the
noise level in the cabins down below
that experienced in a modern pullman
car. The ship has two pilots, two-way
radio so necessary for safe reliable op-
Grafton, and every proven safety device
including complete blind flying in
struments, radio beam receiver, and
wind flaps which reduce the landing
speed.
It has a cruising range of $50 miles,
a ceiling of 10000 feet with both motors
and will fly and maneuver on one
motor at 5000 feet with a full load.
The first of its kind In the world,
it was built to the order of Northwest
Airlines. It will be placed on the Twin
Cities Chicago run within q few days,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08

tana. It was in the holiday season of
the hard winter of 1880-81, and within
30 feet of home that I suffered most
from cold.
We had been so successful with i'm
itation pork sausage and synthetic cider
that we decided to try our luck with ice
cream. We had no freezer and mother
was not hopeful of the outcome, but I
was 16 years old and, of course, very
wise, 1 assured her the cold in a freez-
er was very little below 80 degrees. The
thermometer by the cabin door showed
% degrees below zero! I felt confident 1t
would only take a few minutes to COM
plete the freezing. My wife tells me
that our experiment wa conducted with
a custard and could not properly be
called ice cream, but, whatever it was, I
took a painful of the warm mixture
around to the north side of the cabin
sat down on a snowbank and commenc-
ed to stir.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08
Howitzer Company
of Livingston Wins
Guard Rifle Shoot

Howitzer company Of Livingston, tai
lying 1,112 out of a possible 1880, won
the fourth annual southern district ma
tional guard rifle shoot recently.
K company of Lewistown placed Sec
ond with 1902, L company OF Blnlngs
third with 1862 and company H OF BILL
ings, winner of the championship
the last two years, fourth with LOSS.
Bozeman and Whitehall companies
also competed. ,
Individual honors went to Sergt. Fred
White, howitzer company, who scored
233 out of a possible $50. Sergeant
Archer, L company, placed second with
232.
The shoot was supervised by Capt
Charles H. Perkins of Bozeman, ma
tional guard inspector for Montana.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08
COACH LAMP DID
NOT LIGHT ROAD
CONSTRUCTION OF OLD COACH
LAMP EXPLAINED BY JOHN r.
BARROWS
By JOHN R.

by JOdN n. DAMN VVS |
Everybody knows that the early
day stage coaches had lamps to light
their way on dark nights over dan
gerous roads. Almost everybody
imagines something similar to auto
lights, with which he is familiar. This
mistake would not be made if it was
understood hat the coach lamp was
only one candle power and not de-
signed to illuminate the roadway.
On each side of the Concord coach,
Just below and behind the drivers high
seat, a wrought iron bracket was at
tached to the body frame. The outer
end of the bracket was formed into a
two-inch ring. The lamp was a rec
tangular, boxlike affair dts sides seven
inches high and six inches wide) built
Of sheet metal and having two glass
sides. The other two sides were so shap-
ed that they acted as reflectors, and
the rejecting surfaces were OF polish
ed metal. From the bottom Of the
lamp there was a cylindrical extension
nearly two inches in diameter and seven
or eight inches long. The extension
fitted inside the ring at the end of the
bracket, when the lamp was in place,
but its chief function was to hold the
coach candle.
To put the lamp in service, a hinged
| side of the lamp was opened, disclosing
nothing but a metal trap door in the
lamp floor with a central opening
three-fourths of an inch in diameter.
The trap was opened. The coach
candle Git was about seven inches long
and one and one-third inches in dia-
~,ako,N v,oe r,,chnI Inyyr onoircf tho
thrust of a spiral spring into the cylin-
drical stem. The trap was shut and
latched, holding the candle in place, the
wick protruding through the central
opening. AS the candle burned, eat
ing away its substance, the spiral spring
kept it burned to the very end, re-
quiring no further attention.
In use as a lantern, the lamp was
lifted from its socket and held by its
stem like a torch. On clear o. moon
light nights. lights were not used. When
the lamps were needed they could cas-
lily be taken into the coach to be lighted
in any wind or weather. The flame
was so small little ventilation was need
ed; indeed, I never knew a coach lamp
to be blown out even in the Creates
gale. 1t was not intended to illuminate
the road ahead Of the team. The ligh1
was strong enough to show the lay o:
the land beyond the leaders on botf
sides of the road. The horses, ia
miliar with every inch of the way, coult
be depended on to follow the accustom'
ed track without guidance, under or
binary circumstances. The ground, II
the right and left of the coach, wa
quite plainly lighted S o the driver coult
tell at once if the team left the travel
ed road.
In the winter, when wind sifted snoI
across the road, covering all signs o
the highway over grassy up lands, n
light, however brilliant, would serve. o.
! one such night I walked ahead of tn
l leaders, dragging n foot in the whee
\. run for nearly two miles.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08

and when the entire fleet of Electras
has been delivered they will fly the
various day and night schedules from
Chicago across the continent via the
Twin Cities and Spokane to Seattle.
Nonstop the ship will cruise o st.
Paul to Chicago in one hour and fifty
minutes and from st. Paul to Seattle
in approximately 10 hours.
Spacious comfortable ships, sound
PROCEED by Western Electric engineers
and unexcelled heating and ventilating
facilities provide passenger comfort be-
yond that Of any other means OF trans
portation.
with this fine type of equipment,
complete ground facilities, and person.
mel unexcelled in experience such as
provided by Northwest Airlines, we an
ticipate immediate tremendous gains
in mail, passengers, and express traffic.
said Mr.. Hunter.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08

ed on a ring dependent from the center
of the yoke, and that operation is rapid
ly repeated until the entire team is
hooked up. The first team starts at a
word of command; slowly the cattle
shoulder into the Jokes and the swaying
wagons follow.
The driver walks besides his cattle
carrying a giant whip as his badge of
authority, a whip with a lash 20 feet
long and a stock one-fifth its length.
A most terrible scourge, welded when
necessary with two hands grown unbe-
lievably expert. But now the coils of
the whip are draped about the bull
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08
Duststorms Are
What Start Deserts

THAT is the way deserts start" said
E. A. Sherman, associate forester OF The
United States forest service, in discuss
ing the dust storms that recently swept
over almost one-half of the United
States.
The tremendous dust clouds origi-
mated largely, he said, on overgrazed
semiarid lands and on lands east of the
Rocky mountains that once were used
as cattle ranges, but since have been
plowed for wheat raising.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08

ABSOLUTE ZERO
I am also reminded of the greatest
cold I felt during my % years in Mon
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-06-08
DI1MONT A POOL A

DUMONT A POOL SHARK
In the rebellion of the Red river half
breeds that troubled Dull Canadian
neighbors in 1885, Louis Rel was the
agitator who brought on the conflict,
but the general in the field was Gabriel
Dumont.
This defeated leader in a lost cause
visited Ubet after the rebellion had
been put down. I think he was on the
way to visit the halfbreed settlement
near Lewistown. I was interested in
the man for many reasons. There was
considerable sympathy for the Can
adam rebels, not so much because OF a
dislike for England as sympathy for the
underdog. We could find some parallel
between the Riel rebellion and our own
revolution.
I would have said Dumont had no
Indian blood. He was dark, but his
hair was curly and he had the sturdy
build of the typical French-C Canadian.
He might have been a foreman in a
Wisconsin logging camp. Before I knew
he had conducted a remarkable cam
paign, I had been puzzled by the fact
that this man, who seemed to be g
solid, alert and successful business man
wore moccasins.
I do not know that Gabriel Dumont
has any place in history, but I can test.
ify that he was a pretty good pool play
| er, for he had time to beat me two
| straight games before he left us.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
r o~ oIco ronoirIod of tho Craafnct