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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
COURT UPHOLDS
TAGS ARRESTS
Police Await Official Word
of License
Ruling.

Indianapolis police today can
start arresting motorists without
1894 auto license plates, but can not
impound cars of erring drivers.
The license plate situation, which
has been muddled for days follow
ing issuance of a superior court
order against arrests, by state po-
lice. was cleared by ruling of the
Indiana supreme court.
The ruling makes permanent a
temporary writ of prohibition
against an injunction issued by Su-
perior Judge Joseph R. Williams
upon petition filed by Attorney T.
Ernest Maholm. 1t prohibited city
and sttae police and deputy SheriffS
from arreSting motorists driving
cars with old plates. State orders
had been to start such arrests on
Jan. /.
Al Feeney, state safety director,
took the case to the high court,
where the writ of prohibition
vitiating the injunction was issued.
The temporary order did not apply
to city police and no arrests were
made by them or the sheriffs' Office.
Apprised of the ruling. city police
officials said they would delay ac-
ton until notified officially.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
FARMER NABS
TEXAS CONVICT
One of Five FugitiveS Is
Captured at Home
of Negro.

By JHited Press
CROCKETT, Tex, Jan. III. B..
French, one of five convicts who
escaped from the Eastman prison
farm near here yesterday, was cap
tured early today four miles from
the camp by a Negro farmer in
whose house he sought refuge.
Gebe Wright, the Negro, held the
unarmed French until Sergeant
Charles Flournoy and his pack OF
bloodhounds from the prison farm
closed in on the house.
Manager B. B. MonIngo of the
farm said French was not included
in the escape plot which resulted
in the wounding of two guards.
Meantime, NJ. H. Crowson, one Of
two guards shot down in a barrage
of machine gun and pistol fire at
the Eastman prison farm, was re-
ported in a dying condition at the
main prison hospital.
Officers believed the break was
engineered by Clyde Barrow, motor
ious gunman wanted for crimes
throughout the southwest. Fore
most among the prisoners liberated
was Raymond Hamilton, Barrow's
former ally, serving a total of 263
years for robbery and murder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
Senator Quezon to Present
New Proposal to
Roosevelt.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17-Inde-
pendence of the Philippine islands
by 1910 was proposed definitely to
the United States today in new
plan drafted by a mission headed
by Senator Manuel L. Quezon, ma
jority leader of the Philippine leg
islature.
Senator Quezon led the fight in
the legislature for rejection of the
Hare Halves Cutting bill, providing
for independence by 1914, on the
ground that various of it's clauses
fell short of Philippine national
aspirations. He came to the United
States last November seeking more
equitable terms. The present plan is
the result of the suggestion by
President Roosevelt that the mis-
sion itself state its objective.
All delegates in the mission voted
in favor of the Quezon plan except
Isauro Gabaldon, former resident
commissioner of the Philippines in
Washington, who favors immediate
independence as provided in bill
presented to congress by Senator
William H. King Dem, Utah. Mr.
Gabaldon told the United Press he
will send a memorandum to the
White House today expressing his
views.
Unless a last-minute effort Is
made to extend the re-Hawes-
Cutting bill it will lapse at mid
night tonight. That bill was passed
over the veto of President Hoover
last January.
Last Monday, Resident Commits
sioner Camilo OSias made a speech
in the house of representatives,
urging that the bill be extended for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
BOOTLEGGERS' FATE
BEFORE HIGH COURT
Disposal of Pre- Repeal
Arrests Studied.
BV United Press

By JnfIed PfPSS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE
fate of $4,000 prohibition law vio-
lators hung in the balance today as
the supreme court heard arguments
on test case which will decide
whether repeal of the eighteenth
amendment means anything to them
or not.
They compose the vast army whose
roster is to be found on the unf1n-
ished cases pending in the crowded
federal court dockets of the country.
They were arrested or indicted I'M
der the Volstead act before repeal
and have not yet come to trial.
Courts from all parts of the
country have tried to decide their
case. One judge in North Carolina
ruled on Dec. that the Volstead
act was dead and the federal courts
had no power to hear cases under
it. He held that Byrum Gibson and
Claude Chambers, charged with dry
law conspiracy, were free men,
thereby furnishing the test case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

Rudy stepped off the train, but
Rudy and his attorney, Hyman
Bushel. were anything but
pleased. Rudy hurried through a
rush hour hrong to his car, leav-
ing the girls in high dudgeon.
They had expected to be photo
graphed for the newspapers.
Later, in his plush carpeted,
walnut paneled Office, Rudy sat
at his desk with Attorney Bushel
at his elbow and told how he first
came to suspect Fay Webb Vallee.
Most of you know my brother
William" Rudy said to the bat
terry of reporters. ''On Friday,
Jan. Is, 1888. left for Albany to
keep an engagement. My wife en-
tertained Leon in my apartment
at IS Central Park West that
night, until a. m Saturday.
When 1 got back from an en-
gagenlent at the Cleveland auto
show, William told me about it.
1T took me on my feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
Perfect Split
1t Seems to Ruth Hale
She's a SpinSter.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. Truth
L Hale, head of the Lucy Stone
League, which advocates women
retaining their family names after
marriage, today explained why
she got a divorce from Haywood
Broun, columnist and author.
II always wanted to be an old
maid" she said. Il should never
have married at ALL But being so
much in love with Broun, and
thinking I could outride my own
psychological being, 1 did marry,
and I did have a most enchanting
boy. Then it was long road to.
travel to get back to being a
Spinster"
The BrounS married in 1917 and
the divorce which Miss Hale OBJ
tanned in Nogales, Mex, several
months ago, seemed to have little
effect on their routine. Mr. Broun
and Miss Hale dined together last
night and they are collaborating
on a play and book. They have
separate apartments in the same
building.
Miss Hale said she went to Mex
leo for her divorce because she had
no particular cause for divorce.
Il wouldn't make an accusation
against that man for anything in
the world" she said. He has been
perfectly magnificent. Our part
ing was quiet, gentle, and refined"
The -BrounS have one child,
Haywood Hale Broun, now Is. The
divorce awarded the child to thes
custody of both parents and a
property agreement for him was
signed last spring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
You Should Hear Some of the Infections Whispers Rudy of Records

for Hollywood l didn't say any
thing. She forced me into this.
THE most asinine part was the
statement referring to the rec
ords. Leon says they were only
kidding, why not publish the
whole thing? Why, the amount
published is only about 40 per
cent of the whole. The rest is
worse. The man must be mad to
want it all published.
Even the printed record doesn't
reveal everything. You should
hear some of the infiectionsl"
The interview ended when some
one asked if he would make A
statement regarding Alice Faye,
named by Miss Webb in the sepa-
ration action.
I'll reiterate the old bromide,
that Alice and 1 are just good
friends, dear friends. She is a
fine girl-they don't come any
better. Any reference to her by
my wife is just a smoke screen
to cover her own guilt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
CAR SMASHES RAIL-;
-FOUR ESCAPE DEATH
Auto Drops 40 Feet After
Missing Double Jog.

Agitation for removal of danger
Gus double jog on High School road
at the Pennsylvania tracks was re-
newed today, following an accident
last night in which four persons
narrowly escaped death.
Failing to make the turn, car
driven by Morris Epstein, 1915 Park
avenue, plunged through the guard
rail ana down a steep embankment
forty feet to the railroad right of
way, turning. over several times on
the way down. No one was in
jured.
Several surveys for removal Of the
jog are said by residents of the
vicinity to have been made without
definite action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

treat you like one. Any man who
would take a poke at his rival in
a situation like that is a damn
fool"
Rudy said that he telephoned
Police Chief Clarence Webb OF
Santa Monica, Cal, Fay's father,
to come east.
Those recorded telephone con-
versations, Rudy said, were the
Straws that broke the camels
back" Among them were two,
each of couple OF hours dura-
ton, preceding and following a
visit made by Fay to Icons dress
ing room. The visit lasted two
hours.
The dressing room rendezvous
occurred, Rudy said, on March
81, 1888, just after he had left
town to play an engagement at
Delaware, N. j.
Significantly enough. 1 was
playing at the Black Cat BALI
room at Delaware, Rudy said.
The picture at the Paradise that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
CHASTITY DEATH CHAMBER Is
PORTRAYED IN COURT; RHETA
KILLED SELF, DEFENSE HINTS
Operating Table and Slain Girls Clothing
Prominent in Grisly Exhibit; Police
Describe Finding of Body.
DON'T SPARE ME- SAYS DOCTOR
why Don't You Bring in Corpse, Too?' Kisses
Catherine; Jury on Feet to View
Grisly Exhibition.
By United Press

y
CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING, CHICAGO, Jan.
17-Attorneys who hope to Dr. Alice Lindsay Wyne-
koop from death the electric chair demanded by the stae
limited in crossexaminaion today that Rheta Wynekoop
might have died by her hand.
Examining police witnesses called by the state, De-
tense Counsel w. w. Smith and Milton Smith inquired
infinitely into the position of the slain girls body
the operating table in the basement of the Wynekoop home
where it was first viewed by police,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
OVERHEAD OF
POWER CO. IS
UNDERATTACK
Expenses Are Unreasonable,
Is Charge of Minton,
Public Counselor.
PROBERS STILL AT WORK
Cost Three Times Average
Gas Co. Fee, Is Claim
of Accountants.
BY BASIL GALLAGHER
Times Stan Writer

Probing deeper into the alleged
unreasonable overhead expenses
Of the Indianapolis Power and Light
Company, Sherman Minton. public
counselor. today revealed that the
total cost of this item to the av-
erage light consumer is two and
half times that of the gas COM
pany and three times that of the
water company.
That is to say, for the item
overhead expenses" an accountant
has computed that in the year 1882,
for example. it cost the average
light customer 1927 for overhead
expenses" of the Indianapolis Power
and Light Company.
In contrast to this figure, &C
cOuntants point out. that computa-
ton of this item for the Citizen Gas
Company and the indianapolis
Water Company reveal that The
overhead charge per customer for
the year 1882 amounted to only
$3.50 and 1897 respectively.
Hearing Set for Feb. 1
Mr.. Minton declared that the
overhead expense item in the local
utility picture has a definite bearing
on the present action Of the public
service commission in issuing an
order to show cause why electric
rates in indianapolis should not be
reduced"
Because of the efforts of Mr.. Min
ton and The Times. hearing on the
order to show cause has been set
for Feb. l.
The following table of figures re-
veals that the alleged exorbitant
overhead expense of the light COM
pany. in comparison to the same
expenses for the gas and water util-
tiles. were not confined to 1882. The
computations from reports to the
public service commission have
been made by an accountant for
The Times on per customer
basis"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

"XXTILLIAM asked me If 1
w would permit him to get
the proof. I told him that if he
got the proof, I'd face the facts
Mr.. Vallee said that at his
brothers suggestion he installed
dictaphone in an unused maids
room of the apartment. and had
an extension telephone run to the
room. From that time on every
conversation on his line was re-
corded, Rudy said, adding that
his lawyer knew nothing of the
arrangement.
I'D rather not have heard what
I had to-" Rudy continued. My
marriage had cost me lot OF
money and l hoped to make a go
of it. But I had no alternative. =
What did you feel like doing
did you want to take poke at
Leon?" a reported asked.
Rudy f1ared in anger.
Lay OF the silly questions" he
shouted. Lay OF the batting
Treat me like gentleman and Ill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

Bv nifed Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Rudy
= ' Vallee. his hair uncombed
and sleep IN his eyes after trip
across the continent. said today
that when he heard dictaphone
records of telephone conversations
between his wife and Gary Leon,
adagio dancer. he had TO do
something, or be a sap"
Il had no alternative" Rudy
said. L either had to pull out
the offending tooth or be sap"
Mr.. Vallee arrived from Holly
wood at a. m. to find a bevy Of
blondes from the Hollywood
restaurant, where he leads the or
chestra. waiting TO welcome him.
They had stayed up all night after
the last show and were tricked out
in the white duck pants and white
sweaters as cheer leaders.
The restaurants band struck up
My Time Is Your Time, when
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

night was Sign of the Gross. AND
the next day was April fools day.
He smiled bitterly.
y y
"COME of those dictaphone con-
- versations,' he said, I'VE
hope we'll never have to give any
one-or some one will jump out a
window. There is one reference
too horrible TO mention"
The proofs" of his wife's in
fidelity were obtained, Rudy said,
after his reconciliation with Miss
Webb after their first separation.
Someone showed the crooner
clipping detailing Miss Webb's de-
mands for 81 400 a month in her
Los Angeles separation suit now
pending, and asked if he thought
it reasonable.
Are you kidding me?" Rudy
answered. Its outrageous!
Remember. Rudy said, for
eight months I've not had any
thing to say. Even when I left
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

TINE Governor recalled, however,
lthat when he was dean of the
Indiana university law school at
Bloomington, he called on Mr..
Dresser in New York in behalf OF
a university project.
Mr.. Dresser was not interested,
the Governor explained.
Yet. the writer's admirers point
out, Mr.. Dresser published a book
about Indiana that expressed his
affection for his native state, and
the book was not issued as a COM
mercial venture.
His brother, Paul Dresser, reared
with the author at Terre Haute, is
the writer of "On the Banks Of
the Wabash"
Congressman Ludlow, who is in
GUIDED in the literary notables list
at the expense of Mr.. Dresser, has
written a recent book entitled
America Go Bust" 1t is study
of the governments fiscal opera
tons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
BISHOP M'MURRY OF
M. E. CHURCH DEAD

Officer of Southern Branch Is
Stricken in st. Louis.
By United Press
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 17.-Bishop W.
F. McMurry of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, south, and former presi-
dent of Central college at Fayette,
Mo-, died in Barnes hospital here
today
Death was attributed to heart dis
ease.
At the time of his death, Bishop
McMurry was assigned to Illinois
and kentucky as ranking officer of
the church. Previously he served as
Bishop of Missouri.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
ONE HURT IN
$4,000 BLAZE
Three Story Building al
Evansville Is Destroyed
by Flames.

By United Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan. ia
three-story building was destroyed
and one fireman was injured today
in a downtown fire which ragged two
and a half hours before being
brought under control.
The fireman, Carl Wyer, was cut
by falling glass.
The blaze started at the machine
shop of a leather company and
spread to a restaurant and rooms
formerly used as a traction station.
Damage was estimated at more
than $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
SAFETY DIRECTORS FOR
CWA ARE SELECTED
Marion County Leader Is Named to
Works Projects Post.

Twenty eight district safety di-
rectors for civil works projects have
been announced by the state CWA
board.
Included in the group were two
Indianapolis men, John Irons, as
signed by w. Pierce Mccoy, assist
ant CWA safety director, to District
II, including Warren, Fountain,
Montgomery and Park counties, and
and w. E. Paul, assigned to Marion
county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
CONVENTION OPENED
BY LUMBER DEALERS
Special Made Woodwork Division
Holds Code Meeting.

Fiftieth annual convention of the
Retail Lumber Dealers Association
of Indiana was opened here today
at the Claypool. First on the pro-
gram was code meeting of Indiana
special-made woodwork division.
A luncheon in honor of past
presidents was to be followed by
officers reports. Various demon
STATIONS and election of officers are
included on tomorrows program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
726-KARAT DIAMOND
DISCOVERED IN AFRICA
Stone Is Believed to Be Fourth
Largest Ever Found.

By United Press
CAPETOWN, South Africa, jan
II. A f1awless white diamond
weighing 726 karats, believed to be
the fourth largest stone in the
world, has been discovered on a
farm at Elandsfontein, near Pre-
toria, it was learned today.
1t was found within three miles
of where the famous Cullinan
diamond was discovered in 1905
Another diamond of 500 karats was
found on the same farm. The
owner. J. j. Jonker, refused $4,000
pounds about $380,00O for the
present stone.
The Cullinan. the largest diamond
ever found. was presented to King
Edward VII and was cut into nine
large stones and number of small
ones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
Ex-Judge,s Wife to Speak

Youths Challenge to the Church"
viii be discussed tonight at the
Garfield Park Christian church by
Mrs. Frank J. Lahr, wife OF he
former Marion county juvenile
court judge. The program is spon-
sored by Jhe Garfield Builders or
ganizafion OF vhson Mrs. Glen e
Gahhart is president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17

Needing the admonition of
the frail defendant not to
spare me-" the attorneys re-
constructed deliberately in the
courtroom the scene of the
death chamber.
The opera ting table upon which
Rheta's body lay was placed square,
ly before the staring eyes of the
twelve jurymen.
The pillow on which the girls
head rested was placed in the posi-
ton it was seen on the fatal night
of Nov. 81 and by the answers Of
the officers the scene was sharply
etched in the minds of auditors.
Officers Arthur March and Walter
Kelly described the girls body, COW
cred with heavy blanket. She lay
on her left arm with her right hand
clutching at her breast, said the
officers.
Revolver Few Inches Away
A few inches away, said the off,
GERS, was the revolver with which she
was shot to death. BY inferenee.
the defense showed that it was
within the realm of possibility for
Rheta to have placed the gun just
above her head before she died.
Defense counsel was unperturbed
by newspaper reports of a second
confession" supposed to have been
made by DR.. Wynekoop a few hours
after her first disputed confession"
statement.
Or. WynekoOp made no second
statement to police said Counsel
Frank Tyrrell and his associates.
THE first supposed statement will
not go into evidence If we can help
it.
Minister Sits Near BY
Near by DR.. Wynekoop today sat
the Rev. John Henry Hopkins, a
high church Episcopal minister and
long time friend of DR.. Wynekoop.
He told reporters he carried the
religious oils for administration OF
the rites of the church. He said
he was advised by DR.. Wynekoop's
physicians she might be stricken
with a fatal heart attack at almost
any moment.
Obviously shocking to the prose-
cution itself, the portrayal of the
death chamber brought angry re-
monstrances from the defense.
Over heated objections from the
defense, the table was set up in front
of the jury box yesterday. Sergeant
Marsh gingerly placed the little
articles of clothing which Rheta had
worn the day she was killed in a
neat pile at the foot of the table.
He arranged the bloody sheet and
blanket. In all, tWenty-seyen state
exhibits we're introduced to build. the
picture. The jury was on its feet for
a better view.
Effect Is Electric
The effect was electric. Even the
prosecution was shocked. Across
the counsel table, DR.. Wynekoop
shuddered and collapsed in her
chair. Her daughter, DR.. Catherine
Wynekoop, administered treatment
and then leaned across the table to
denounce the prosecution.
Why don't you bring in the
corpse, too?" Catherine Kissed.
Assistant States Attorney Charles
S. Dougherty, who had considered
introducing an effigy of the slain
girl, had abandoned any such plan
for fear of a mistrial.
The introduction of the exhibits
forced the prosecution to show its
hand on a statement that DR..
Wynekoop gave police shortly after
the killing. Defense counsel object
ed to the introduction of the ex-
hibits, saying they were preiudicial.
The state contended the exhibits
were being shown to break down
parts of this statement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
Higher Expenses Revealed

In the expense item marked col
lection salaries and commissions, 3"
the Indianapolis Power and Light
Company reports to the public serv-
ice commission reveal higher ex-
penses than the two other local
utilities.
The light company in 1881. for
example. reported TO the public
service commission that collection
salaries and commissions cost
$l56.1e3. The same item was re-
ported by the gas company as cost
ing only 1896 and by the water
company as S5.675.
Since the merger. reports of the
light company to the public service
commission reveal that this item
has always bulked large in COMPARE
son TO the reports of the gas and
water companies.
The following figures reveal the
contrast:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
JeweIrv Valued at s4s Stolen

Entering through a side window
last night. thieves ransacked the
home of Theodore Buch, 518 East
Thirty third street and stole
jewelry valued at SAB.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
SIS Clothing Is Loot

Clothing valued at $25 was taken
from a Trans American Freight
Lines truck parked in front of 305
North Senate avenue last night,
Everett loot, driver, reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-17
Found!- Indiana's Forgotten Man
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Times stan Writer

of letters Theodore Dresser is the forgot
- compiled
Ludlow Twelfth polnc
tribu to Congressional remembered.
acclaimed
literary contributor the American
classics McMuay state superintendent OF
publ