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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09

no circumstances will I post any
bond"
Sheriff o. E. johnson said the
mayor did not ask for any special
privileges and that none would be
extended.
Mayor Bangs and five employees
of the municipal electric plant were
found guilty in Huntington Circuit
Court yesterday on contempt
charges preferred by the power COM
pany.
The power company charged they
had violated court injunction for
bidding extension of city light plant
facilities into the commercial field
and asked $4,000 damages.
SPECIAL Judge David E. Smith, Fl.
Wayne, exempted five customers OF
the city plant who were defendants
IN the action with the stipulation
that they sever connections with the
city plant within five days. He as
seSsed the mayor and city employees
a total of 1881 damages.
Judgments against the others we're:
Mayor Bangs $500; w. Reid Clark
solicitor. $3.50; Cecil McGregor, con-
struction foreman, $3.50. and w. K
Ziegelman and Jesse Earhart. line
men. SIS each.
In a series Of legal maneuvers
which fOI10ured T1i6oo Gy,,i+t, o,,o,
ruled a motion for new trial
granted an appeal to the state Su-
preme Court, but denied the de-
PENDANTS release on their oWr
recognizance.
approximately 500 citizens par
ticipated in a torch-hght parade
through the city last night and de-
manded to see the Mayor. They
dispersed after Sheriff johnson
threatened to file charges of dis
orderly conduct against them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
WOMAN GIVEN
1 TO 10 YEARS
Marc aret PoIsgrove Sen
fenced by Baker; Denies
All Fixing Charges.

Miss Margaret Polsgrove today
was sentenced to serve l to 10
years in the Indiana Woman's
Prison by Criminal Judge Frank P.
Baker, after she had repudiated
statements made to Indianapolis
newspaper men that she had paid
money to fix" her case.
After passing sentence, Judge Ba-
ker told the young woman he be-
lieved she was not telling the truth
about the alleged attempts to fix"
the proceedings and said he would
exert every influence to prevent her
receiving an early parole.
Miss Polsgrove was convicted OF
involuntary manslaughter in con-
nection with the fatal injury of
Wallace Geisendorf. 10, on the Ma
tional Road near Ben Davis, July
%, 1884.
Judge BeSer turned to newspaper
men, present in the court. and asked
them if Miss Polsgrove had made
the statements attributed to her in
the newspapers.
Only one of the newspaper men
present was among those who had
interviewed Miss Polsgrove.
He said Miss Polsgrove's state
ments had been accurately pub
lished.
Miss Polsgrove repeated her de
malls
She denied that she had told a
Times reporter she had expected a
break" in Criminal Court.
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lODoy.
In a speech bitterly assailing the
banking system and bankers. the
priest last night led an audience OF
10000 in a mass booing Of Senator
Robert L. Buckley ID. o.. In out-
lining the purposes of his union, he
said it would be made stronger
than any President"
Last nights meeting was form
al organization of the Ohio unit OF
the union. Michigan was organized
first at a similar mass meeting IN
Detroit. The New York meeting, the
third, will be followed by 10 others,
which Father Coughlin hopes viii
organize the union so closely and so
extensively that no Congressman or
Senator who hopes for reelection
will dare oppose its demands.
Hereafter. any one who writes a
platform for a presidential candi-
date must consult the National
Union for Social Justice he shouted
at last nights enthusiastic audience
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MARKS
MAR PETITION
But Word Jail Is Visible on
Document Signed by
Baker.

Marion County Jail was de-
scribed as the place where Lee
Barker was confined when, over the
signature Frank P. Baker, the fol-
lowing statement appeared on
Barker's petition for pardon;
I'VE have been unable to locate
this man to sentence him or rather
to commit him"
An effort had been made to oblit-
crate the words Marion County
Jail" hut pencil markings only par
tally concealed them.
Petitions for both Lee and Del
Barker were circulated while Lee
was being held prisoner in the
county jail on a contempt of court
attachment issued out of Judge
Bakers court.
Dell Barker's petition, circulated
at the same time, contains a blank
space after the question: Now con-
tned at ...........e...
Lee Barkers address was given as
6O49 Forest Lane. Dell's address was
given as Acton, Ind, r. R. Az, on
the same petitions that bore the
name Frank P. Baker and his COM
mentS.
In the space provided for the
judges recommendations the words
Il concur" were written on Dell
Barker's petition, but two pen lines
were likewise drawn through them
and, instead, the statement, We
have attempted to locate this man
to commit him since 1882" was writ
ten.
Judge Baker refused to comment.
Joel A. Baker said he has never
seen the clemency petition, and that
il was presented 20 Judge Baker
after Barker had been released from
the county jail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
CHEAP MONEY
DRIVE WORRIES
NEW-DEALERS
Printing Press Champions
Nearer Their Goal
Than Ever.
SENATE BATTLE SCENE
Beat Roosevelt, Is Cry of
InflatlonlStS Backing
Bonus Bill.
BY THOMAS l.. STOKES
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 9.-Paper
money inflationists, nearer their
goal than ever, organized a frenzied
drive today along all fronts to break
the Administrators defense, pass
the Patman greenback bonus bill
over the veto that awaits it. and
start the Treasury presses a-rolling.
The ex-soldier, long the poll
ticians' meal ticket. has become the
screen for the cheap money attack.
II became manifest as the battle got
under way-behind the scenes IN
Senate cloakrooms and lobbyists
offices, and IN the open with the
public pronouncements of such
evangelists as the Rev. Charles E.
Coughlin.
Various congressional blocs and
groups and numerous organizations
which differ on other issues-and
some on their reasons for support
OF thiS-united in this campaign 10
force the Administration to adopt
printing press initiation.
The cheap money champions have
no fears about the House. 1t is in
the Senate that the Administration
must make its stand, and it was
there that the buttonholing pro-
ceeded today at a furious pace.
When the showdown would come
was uncertain today. Bonus advo-
Gates we're holding the bill tempo
rarily in the Senate to marshal their
forces and corral absentees before
giving President Roosevelt his on
portunity to say no"
Senator Bennett C. Clark I'd.
Mo-. son of the late Speaker of the
House, was engaged today in an
eleventh-hour move for a Missouri
compromise" which would extract
the paper money fangs from the bill.
He did not hope to ward of a
veto-but to insure passage of an
amended bonus bill after the veto.
His maneuver appeared futile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
DEATH FROM FIST
BLOW is CHARGED
Killing Attributed by Cops
to Jealous Rage.

Lawrence Newbold, 33 of 1925
Lockwood-st, today was charged by
city police with having killed a man
with blow of his fist during a
jealous rage.
Newbold. police say. found Ed
ward Doremus, As, of 1248 Lawton-st,
with Mrs. Alma Newbold on Pleas
ant Run-blvd last night
What are you doing with my
wife?" police say Newbold asked
but they charge that without wait
ing for an answer he struck Mr.
Doremus and knocked him uncon-
scious.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newbold then took
Mr.. Doremus to a physician, who
called the coroner's office.
Newbold is held for murder and
Mrs. Newbold is held as an acces-
sorry, both without bond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
ILLINOIS POOR
LAY SIEGE TO
STATEHOUSE
We'll Starve on Capitol
Steps, Is Threat After
Bill Is Beaten.
By United Press

By United Press
SPRINGFIELD, H., May g.
Hunger marchers laid starvation
siege" on the state Capitol today.
Seeking to force the state Leg
islature to pass bills that will re-
open closed relief stations, the
marchers poured into Springfield
from all sections of the state.
The marchers gathered at the
bare ruins of the old state arsenal
across from the Statehouse and an
nounced they would camp in the
city until the Legislature has end
ed a deadlock over the method Of
raising state unemployment funds
to match Federal aid.
All but seven Of the states 102
counties exhausted their Federal re-
lief funds today and thousands Of
families are without food Even
children in many cases are able TO
find barely enough to keep life IN
their bodies as the entire relief bur
den descended upon local and pri-
vate charities.
Gerry Allard, unemployed leader,
predicted a representation OF more
than 1000 by tonight and said the
ranks would swell with each passing
day that the states relief crisis re-
mains unSolved
Although we have but started he
said, our food situation is serious
and it will be up to citizens of
Springfield to take care of u.s."
The starvation siege started
within II hours after the House of
Representative of the State Legis-
lature last night failed again to pass
increased sales tax proposals on an
emergency basis that would have
brought immediate relief.
Meanwhile the statehouse and the
executive mansion we're under ex-
ira guard. Even the House of the
General Assembly had half a dozen
uniformed state police stationed IN
the galleries. corridors and on the
floor.
we are faced with starvation if
the relief stations don't reopen, 8"
said Mr.. Allard. why should we
quietly submit to starvation in our
homes while politicians bicker over
responsibility as to how relief funds
should be raised. We might as we'll
starve on the statehouse steps as
in our homes"
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MORE CROP LOSSES
FEARED IN INDIANA
More Showers Are Due,
Farmers Still Fleeing.

Substantial rains upstate last
night, a light rain in this region,
and promises of thunder showers
this afternoon or tonight put the
fear Of greater crop losses into
southwestern lowland farmers who
had begun. after two rainless DAYS
to believe that the worst of the
food was over.
While only .04 of an inch fel!
here, and none to the south. Lafa
yette received 80 inch and Rochester
AZ inch. The United States
Weather Bureau forecast for Indi-
ana generally is thunder showers to-
day or tonight. to be followed BY
generally clear weather.
Meanwhile. the White and Wa
bash Rivers continued to rise in the
fertile Knox and Daviess Counties
and farmers still were fleeing their
homes near Mt Vernon. N Posey
County.
Although water still was rising at
VlncenneS and Decker. some water
was draining from winter wheat
fields protected by levees. But new
lands unprotected. were flooded as
the rise continued.
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W0MEN'S NAMES NOW
APPEAR IN JURY LIST
Move to Use Female Jurors Comes
After High Court Ruling.

For the first time in the history
of Marion County the jury list in
the County Clerks office this eIUer-
noon was literally sprinkled with
feminine names.
The jury commissioners yesterday
dumped out the old list and drew
from the tax duplicates the names
of women as we'll as men. Previous
ly, women JUROR have been so rare
as to be a curiosity.
The move to use women jurors
more literally came when attorneys
for Julian j. Kiser, former official
of the closed Meyer-Kiser Bank. re-
queSted legal jury. basing this re-
quest on the recent ruling by the
United States Supreme Court that
women and Negroes must be in
Guided on the jury rolls.
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sent out $50 cards, they should have
sent out TOO cards" he said
Besides he continued. my I'M
derstanding was that I was to De
consulted on the manner in which
the vote was to be taken No, I am
afraid the matter is pretty much as
it was"
Thus the Southport situation re-
turns to status quo, not much to
the surprise of the members of the
association who last night counted
the ballots and found themselves
winners by large ma jority
Even though he said ne had a
written and signed promise from Mr.
Hohlt that If the referendum turned
out as il actually did he CNfr Hohltl
would not tamper with Mr. Adding
tons status in the faculty. George
Hacker. association president. sur
missed that there would be objections
70 the vote. AE
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
STOLE $3.50 FROM
WIDOW, POLICE CLAIM
Negro Faces Grand Larceny Charge
$500 Re gvered.

Robert Chanoult 80, Negro, was
arrested today on charges of having
stolen $3.50 from middle-aged
Negro widow who had befriended
him. Detectives claimed to have
recovered $500 of the money
Chanoult was charged with grand
larceny.
The widow. Mrs Carrie Thomas
40. of 20S2 Highland-pl, told detec-
tives that she had received $4,000
from an insurance company at her
husr And's death and that ChanoulI
had helped her hide $3.50 in salt
bag in the wainscoting Of door two
weeks ago. -.
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Reached for the first time since
he made himself unavailable 20 one
and all during A three day period
when the Perry Township Civic
School Association tried to ask him
for cooperation in counting he
votes. Mr.. Hohlt. Perry Township
trustee. observed that he had not
been consulted in the matter.
But the association says it sent
TWO emiSsaries to your Office 10 in
vite YOU. and that you were not at
your ONCE for Considers BILE periods
cf time while they waited, he vas
told
Well" Mr. Hohlt countered, I
was out of town"
Even so. he was told. the as
ISOLATION said it sent you a letter
telling you when and where the
votes would be counted"
4 didn't get any letter of that
nature Besides, / figured out this
morning that whereas they only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
PAID FOR HOP,
AMELIA ADMITS
Mexico City-New York Trys
UneventfuI, Famed
Filler Says.

81 United Press
NEW YORK. May Refreshed
by a long sleep Amelia Earhart re-
ceived the press in her flower-f1lled
hotel room this afternoon and
csndidly admitted that her record
flight from Mexico City was for
commercial purposes as we'll as good
will.
of course I make money" the
flier said. I've got to be self-sup-
porting or I couldn't fly"
The flight, she added, was I'M
eventful although she completed the
2100-mile hop in IA hours, %
minutes and so seconds.
Among the floral gifts was a
handsome offering from Portes Gil,
head of The Mexican foreign reia-
tons department.
More exhausting than her fight,
it seemed, was the reception she re-
ceived on landing. A crowd esti-
mated at 10000 to $4,000 persons
welcomed her in scenes reminiscent
of the transatlantic flying days of
1927. Sweeping aside the As police
men who had been assigned to
maintain order, the crowd swarmed
over the field toward Miss Earhart S
ship.
Efforts to take her to the New
Jersey National Guard hangar in a
police car we're baked by the wildly
cheering mob. Four policemen
placed her on their shoulders and
surrounded by the good-natured
throng, slowly made their way to the
hangar.
She seemed to be the only calm
person on the field Smilingly she
complied with the commands of
photographers to look this way and
that. Good naturedly she answered
the questions some so reporters di-
rected ot her
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Noblesville, and Henry K.
Winkler. Indianapolis.
I'VE knew nothing of Mr..
Spencer until August, 1884,
when Jimmy Carr advised the
boys the heat was on and that
they should see an attorney by the
name of Herbert Spencer in the
Castle Hall Building Mrs. Barker
said.
Points to Records
Mrs. Barker called attention to
records of Indianapolis Municipal
Court which do not show that
Herbert M. Spencer appeared as
Lee Barkers attorney Oct Is, 1884,
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that packed the public auditorium
You members of the national union
are stronger than any President.
Never again will an elected Sem
ator or Representative out of his
own state be able to hide himself in
the District of Columbia
Senator Buckley was booed dur
ing Father Coughlins denunciation
of Senator'S who voted against the
Patman inf1ationary bonus bill. The
booing. which he led by thrashing
his arms like a cheer leader, might
have continued indefinitely had ne
not stopped it with gesture. SEN
ator Robert F. Wagner ID, n. "
was criticised on the same score.
While Father Coughlin did not
attack President Roosevelt directly.
he did denounce this banker
minded Administration. which he
said was doomed. He laid most OF
the ills of the country to the Fed
eral Reserve system, terming il the
chief cause of the depression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
GREAT AIR ARMADA
STARTS 1900 MILE
TRIP OVER PACIFIC

By United Press
HONOLULU, May 8. = The
Nays air armada of AZ planes
started taking off for the Midway
Islands at 7:20 a. m. u1;50 a. m,
Indianapolis tilne) today.
The aviation part of the war
games on the Pacific Ocean called
for participation of the AZ planes
in 1200-mile trip to tiny Midway
Island and return. Two hundred
officers and men were aboard the
planes in units of from four to
10 men plane.
The takeoff of the planes from
Wheeler Field was kept as secret
as possible. All spectators were
barred from the field. The fight
is the most pretentious mass
flight ever undertaken by any
aviation unit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
BANDITS, DRESSED AS
POLICE, TAKE $1,000

Grab Edison Co. Pay Roll. Flee in
Chicago Squad Car.
By United Press
CHICAGO, May 9.-Five men,
three of them dressed as police off,
GERS. held up the Edison Electric
Appliance Co. today and escaped
with $4,000 in a car with police"
lettered on the door.
The three bandits CARRIED as police
entered the company's Offices on the
South Side and asked:
Who reported a holdup here?"
Before the dazed employees could
answer, the bandits disarmed them.
snatched $4,000 pay roll from the
hands of Mary Monihan. 40-year-
old cashier, and fed to the waiting
car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
CHALLENGES SPENCER TO
PROVE HE EVER SERVED
As BARRIERS ATTORNEY
Wife of Convicted City Rum King Asks
Prosecutor to Produce Records Showing
He Served as Lawyer in Case.
Former Judge Who Sentenced Brothers
Originally Gives The Times His Views
on Amazing Circumstances.
Circumstances.

Mrs Lee P Barker today challenged Prosecutor Herbert
Spencer show by any record that he appeared
attorney husband his brother Dell either before
the State Clemency Commission elsewhere.
Mr. Spencer had told The Indianapolis Times that $3.50,
left in escrow by Mrs Barker with prominent Indianapolis
physician Nov 26 1884 the day Lee Barker released
from Marion County Jail, represented contingent attorney
fees
According to Indiana Supreme Court records the Barker
brothers court appeal handled by Floyd Christian
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
Two Cleaning shops Stoned

Two cleaning and pressing estao-
lishments located near each other
were visited last night by vandals
who threw stones through the front
windows of the shops. One firm is
at $40 Massachusetts-av and the
other at $50 College-av. The Col
lege-av shop is said by police to
have lowered its pressing price re-
Gently.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
MELLON Is PICTURED
AS SHREWD BARGAINER
Noted British Art Dealer Appears
Before Tax Appeal Board.
By Unitcd Press

By HitCd Press
WASHINGTON, May 9.-Lord
Duveen. noted British art dealer
today pictured Andrew w. Mellon
former Secretary of the Treasury, as
& shrewd purchaser of art who had
bargained Soviet Russia into selling
the cream of its famous Hermitage
collection.
Lord Duveen's testimony was
given before the board of tax ap-
pesls in the suit brought by the
government charging Mr.. Mellon
owes 100000 or his 1881 income
tax.
Mr.. Mellon. said Lord Duveen, is
a keen bargainer of art. One paint
ing for which the former Treasury
secretary paid the Soviet $500 900 Is
worth $1,000 900, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
INITIATION EVILS

With the greenback bonus
bill the center Of the nations
attention. the evils OF imitation
are presented to readers of The
Times.
On the editorial page today,
readers will find an editorial
commenting on the terrific
burdens placed on Germany
and France due to imitation.
Tomorrow William Philip
Simms, Scripps-Howard for
eign editor, Will relate his own
experiences in Germany when
a trillion marks was only a
snub 10 a waiter
Read today's editorial and
the Simms column tomorrow
on the editorial page.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
CHICAGO BELLIES BOND
IS REDUCED BY JUDGE
Woman Arrested During Raid Must
Now Post $500.

NUIHdH ATTesIeu DuTIng RAID Must
Now Post $500.
The bond Of Mrs. Seattle Chap
man, young Chicago beauty contest
winner, held on vagrancy charges,
was reduced from $4,000 to $500 to-
day by Municipal Judge Charles J.
Karabell at the request of Detec-
tive Chief Fred Simon.
Mrs. Chapman was arrested Sat-
urday during raid on her apart
ment, 1l04 College-av, Apt. c, in
which police claimed to have found
a large supply Of dynamite. burglar
tools and three loaded revolvers IN
the rooms.
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with the declaration:
If it is necessary that l go to
Jail to win freedom from power
company dictation for the people of
Huntington, I'm ready to go. Under
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
PALE FACE BITES DUST
Indian Herb Doctor Fined for At
tempt TO Scalp Rival.

VALPARAISO Ind, Nav 9.-R. j.
Fernandez, Mohawk Indian herb
doctor, was fined s25 and costs for
attempting to scalp Harold Bolliver.
Judge Mark E. Rockwell said Fer
nandez was drunk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09

the day he was arrested on charges
of intoxicated driving.
IF, as he says, he was our at
torney when the money was placed
IN escrow with DR.. - on Nov. 26.
1884, and that he had entered the
case in August, 1884. why was it he
did not represent us in the Munich
pal Court case?" Mrs. Barker chal-
lenged
The Municipal Court charges were
lodged Is days before Lee Barker
was placed in Marion County Jail
on a contempt of court attachment
issued out Of Judge Frank P.
Bakers court.
Met at Jail by Spencer.
Lee Barker was released from the
Marion County jail Nov. 26. 1884. q
few hours after the $3.50 had been
placed in escrow. on a release order
bearing the name Frank P. Baker
and the initials j A. b" Those are
the initials of Joel A. Baker. Grim
inal Court investigator and proba-
ton officer.
He was met at the Jail by Mr..
Spencer, who was accompanied
there by Joel A. Baker.
Barker had been held IS days and
was released without being commit
ted under the 1926 dry law sentence.
Meanwhile prospects doomed to-
day that the indianapolis Bar AS
Turn to Page Threel
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BRAZIL AGAIN STRUCK
BY WINDS, transform
Homeless Total Mounts as More
Villages Are Inundated.

BIZ United Press
BAHIA. Brazil. May 9.-Wlnds
and torrential rains again lashed
northeastern Brazil today after a
brief respite. Several ships were
held in Bahia harbor and the Jo-
annes River overf1owed, inundatlng
the village Of Parafuso.
The rains started last night after
an intermission of "a hours. Con-
tlnued collapse of dwellings brought
the number of homeless in the Ba-
hia area-the most seriously at
fected-tO 5000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-09
AddingtOn Winner but
1t DOesn t Mean a Thing
Postcard Referendum on Southport Principal Won by
Parents. 325 to 19; HohIt BaIks

The through which Southport
School
on the department. e