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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
SALE Of LOTS
!. ON NORTH SIDE
NETS S47,5OO
Court Approves Action of
Fletcher Trust Co.
as Trustee.
66 PARCELS INVOLVED
All Are in Meridian Hills;
Washington Bank Bond
Holders Benefit.
66 PARCELS INy0L WE'D

Sale of Sc Meridian Hills lots,
averaging 1O0-foot frontage and
300-foot depth, was approved today
by Probate Judge Smiley N.
Chambers.
The sale was made by the Fletcher
Trust Co., trustee for the Meridian
Hills Realty Co. and substitute
trustee for trust bonds of the former
Washington Bank and Trust Co.
now in liquidation in Probate Court.
The Globe Investment Co. was the
buyer. The investment company
was represented by the Paul L. Nc
Cord Co.
Although officials of the trust
company and realty company would
not. comment on the sale price it
was reported by Probate Court at
taches that the lots brought $47, 500.
Three Dividends Paid
Proceeds of the sale will result,
according to Fletcher Trust officials,
in another distribution of sub
stantial amount to holders of trust
bonds of the Washington Bank and
Trust Co. The trust company has
been liquidating collateral trust
bonds, Series A, of the Washington
bank for some time. Three liqui-
dating dividends have been paid
bond holders by the trust company
The sale includes 1000 feet of
residential frontage on N. Meridian,
Pennsylvania and Illinois-sts, at the
edge of the city limits, and on list
and 72d-sts. The area is near the
Meridian Hills Country Club and in
close proximity to many costly resi-
dences, realtors say.
Buyer Believed Local Firm
twenty-five lots are in Meridian
Hills, first section, and A lots irl
Meridian Hills, second section.
Early development of Meridian
Hills is seen by realty men as an
outcome.
Probate Court attaches and trust
company officials said they did not
know the home Office of the pur-
chaser, the Globe Investment Co.
The company is said to be an Indi-
corporation. Mr.. McCord,
realty agent in the transaction,
could not be reached.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
HOME BURNS;
LOSS $4,000
Flames Destroy Part of
House and Valuable j.,
Furniture.

A fire of undetermined origin
early today destroyed the first floor,
and four rooms on the second floor,
of the residence of Mrs. Genevieve
G. Denham, 1885 N. Pennsylvania
st early today. The loss has been
estimated at $4,000, and is covered
by insurance.
Mrs. Denham was awakened by
smoke at $3.50 a. m. but after in
vestigating went back to bed. Two
hours later she was aroused again
and found the living room in flames.
With her two daughters, Roberta
and Patricia, and house guest, Mrs.
E. E. Gates, she fled to a neighbor-
ing house where the alarm was
turned in. Two dogs also were
saved from the burning structure.
The furnishing destroyed included
$500 grand piano, Is oriental rugs,
a large library, much valuable furni-
ture and a collection of etchings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
KIPLINC IS WEAKER
IN FIGHT FOR LIFE
Poets Condition Not Quite
So Satisfactory
BIZ United Press

By United Press
LONDON, Jan. 16-Rudyard Kip
ling took. turn for the worse today
in his sturdy fight against death
A bulletin issued at Middlesex Hos
pital said:
"Mr. Kipling's conditicn is not
quite so satisfactory and still gives
cause for great anxiety"
The Poet of the Empire" is suf-
fering from the effects of a perfo-
rated gastric ulcer, for which he
underwent an emergency operation
That the unfavorable turn was
unexpected was shown by an earlier
bulletin which said:
Mr.. K;pling had a fairly quiet
night. Improvement has been
maintained"
AS the result of improvement
throughout yesterday, it was added
his surgeon, DR.. A. E. Webb-John-
son, was most optimistic.
The unfavorable bulletin was
issued after an examination by DR.
Webb johnson. Kipling's wife and
daughter arrived at the hospital at
10 and stayed half an hour at the
bedside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16

Eighteen miles away, in the Tren-
ton State Prison, Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, occupant of death
house cell No. 9. still outWardly
hopeful of a reprieve, awaits the
climax in his way.
In Hopewell, the one -street, whis-
tle-stop which for 70 extraordinary
days in 1892 was the news capital
of the world, the folks talk reluc-
family about Hauptmann's decreed
end or the flight of the Lindberghs
overseas.
If the Hopewell jewellers used the
sort of Anglo cliches
current in city cocktail lounges, they
would express themselves as "fed
up with the bitingly sensational
course of events which began upon
Sourland the night of March /, 1882.
Being what they are, unadorned
country folk, they remain noncom-
initial when questioned by a prying
Journalistic outsider.
Town Almost Deserted
revisited Hopewell last night
48 hours before Robert Elliott is
slated to throw the switch at the
Trenton death house. In 1882, I
passed six tense, racking weeks
along the villages main street, at
Gebhart's restaurant, the Hopewell
House and in the Reading station.
In those far-off days, the village
had a 24-hour- a-day existence A
transient population of 500 news
paper men, news reel operators,
radio technicians and assorted
hangers-on churned Hopewell into
a replica of Times Square on pres
idential election night.
Last night ut 10 literally no one
was abroad. An occasional motor
car painted through Main-st. A lorn
traveller awaited the gasoline local
at the railway station. In 1882,
travellers were robbed of their wait
ing room. Pine tables with type
writer's and telegraph instruments
usurped the public's privileges. At
G p. m. in the Hopewen House lobby,
Ma" Williamson chatted drowsily
with Mr. Richie, the local tailor,
PA" Williamson mapped on a couch
in the dining room.
The Hopewell House once with
stood hordes of hungry strangers,
its lobby, bar and dining room
jammed to the window sills.
No one at the Hopwell House
wished to comment on the APP
preaching execution except Mr.
Richie, who wholly in an academic
spirit expressed some doubt that
Hauptmann did the job alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
PROBERS STILL SEEK
PLANE CRASH CAUSE
Mechanical Defect May
Have Been Responsible.
(Photos on Page in
By United Press

By United Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 16.--The
little evidence available to investi-
gators today indicated that me-
chanical failure may have sent the
American Airlines' luxury ship
the Southerner, crashing to earth
at cost of II lives.
While sorrowing relatives identi-
fled and claimed their dead at a
local morgue, Department of Com
merce officials, headed by Eugene
Vidal, chief of the Bureau of Air
Commerce, pressed an investigation.
The plane itself, torn to bits in a
swamp, As miles west of here, Of
fered few clews, and the few wit
nesses told stories indicating me-
cnanical failure.
A Senate subcommittee investi-
eating plane crashes sent its inves-
tigator, Harold E. Hartney. The
committee was appointed after the
plane crash that took the live of
Senator Bronson Cutting.
The speed indicator had been
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
SENATE TO DEBATE
BONUS TOMORROW
Bill Replacing United Front
Gets Right Way.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. - The
baby bond" bonus bill today was
given legislative right-o way in the
Senate, with debate scheduled to be-
gin tomorrow.
Chairman Pat Harrison of the
Senate Finance Committee pre-
sented his committees report which
substituted the bond bill for the
United Front" bill passed last week
by the House.
He then obtained unanimous con-
sent to have the bill brought up for
debate tomorrow.
The Harrison bill would pay the
1945 value of the certificates at q
cost to the government of more than
$4,000, 000, 600.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
SNOW BRINGS
SERIOUS PERIL
TO MOTORISTS
Highways Likely to Be Glare
of Ice Tonight and
Tomorrow.
POLICE WARN DRIVERS
Rise in Mercury to Be Fol-
lowed by Freezing
Temperatures.
POLICE WARN DRIVERS

indianapolis motorists this after
noon received warnings from the
Weather Bureau and from the po-
lice department informing them that
they would have to drive carefully
tonight when drop in tempera-
lures is expected to turn the heavy
snowfall into a solid sheet of ice.
The snowfall, which started dur
ing the night, continued intermit-
tently through the day and late in
the morning. the Weather Bureau
predicted temperatures tonight OF
around 20.
Freezing will make removal of the
heavy snowfall difficult, officials say
Heavy traffic on arterial highways
is expected to pack the snow into
an ice-like covering even before the
mercury skids to low levels.
Snow was falling also at Terre
Haute and at some places in Illinois.
The storm, however, is not we'll
enough developed, and already is too
far east, to attain blizzard intensity,
the Weather Bureau reported.
Police today issued an appeal to
all drivers to exercise extreme eau
ton since the stop and go intersec-
tions in particular are certain to
become glares of ice with the fire.
quent friction of auto tires, through
starting and stopping.
800 Men Clear Streets
An offensive against the heavy
-blarket began early today
when claude E. Shower, city street
commissioner, sent 300 men and so
trucks into the mile-square to clear
streets and intersections.
Several crews of white wings"
placed salt at street intersections to
reduce the traffic hazard while other
crews began clearing the cutters OF
drifts.
Mr.. Shower said that arterial high
ways of the city would be cleared
after the mile square" has been
restored to normal traffic condition.
IF the snow continues we will
work all night tonight" he said.
He estimated that 1t would take
SO hours to clean up the city un-
less the heavy snowfall continues.
Prepare Coasting Places
The city recreation department is
preparing coasting places for chill
dren in parks today, Walter Mid
ellsworth announced.
No streets are to be blocked as
at the previous snowfall because the
barricades were destroyed and $40
worth of red lanterns carried away,
Capt. Lewis Johnson, head OF the
traffic squad, said.
Parks to be used are Garfield,
Erookside, Christian, Riverside, Cof-
fin Golf Course, Rhodius, Douglas
and Ellenberger.
The toboggan slide at Coffin also
is being put in condition. No skat-
ing at Lake Sullivan is to be per-
mitted until time to be announced
by the department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
BRUNO ASKS HIGH COURT STAY:
HOPE FOR LIFE DIM, SAYS WIFE;
GOVERNOR MAY, MAY NOT ACT
New Motions Presented to
Supreme Justices by
Attorneys.
APPEAL HIS SECOND
Favorable Action Unlikely,
Is Report as New
Plea Is Made.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 49,
The fate of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann today lay once
again with the nine auStere
justices of the Supreme Court
with the hour of his scheduled
execution little more than "a
hours distant.
For second time attorneys for
the German carpenter sentenced to
die for kidnapping and murder of the
infant child of Charles Augustus
Lindbergh presented petition ask
ing the Supreme Court to intervene
in the case.
In asking a stay and a writ Of
habeas corpus, attorneys today
raised three new charges:
That vital letters between Haupt-
mann and Isador Fisch, his fur
business partner, had been with.
held by the prosecution.
That vital testimony concerning
the kidnap ladder had been SINH
larly kept from the jury.
That the jury itself was exposed
to numerous outside hostile" influ-
ences.
The brief also commended that trial
testimony asserted that the ransom
note has never left the hand of Col.
H. Norman Schwartzkopf while ac-
tually it had been given to third
person almost Immediately after
receipt.
Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz was
charged with delivering an unfair
summation in asking the jury at
Pennington for Hauptmann's con-
viction.
Two Motions Filed
Bruno's lawyers made two motions.
One was for permission to file an
original writ of habeas corpus. The
other was for a stay of execution
pending the courts decision on that
motion.
In view of the urgent nature Of
the proceedings it was believed the
court might break precedent to act
on the matter later today or at
noon tomorrow.
Action on the stay, at least, must
be taken before Hauptmann's execu-
ton scheduled at p. m. tomorrow
night.
Favorable Action Unlikely
If the Supreme Court move fails,
virtually the only chance of
Hauptmann for life will depend
upon reprieve by Gov. Harold
Hoffman of New Jersey.
Favorable action on the Haupt-
mann plea by the Supreme Court
was regarded by those familiar with
the court as most unlikely. Only in
rarest instances has the court in
tervened in such a situation.
Courtroom attendants offered bets
that Hauptmann's chance for SUI
preme Court intervention were
hardly more than one in thou
sand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
MURDER CONVICTION is
UPHELD BY HIGH COURT
Walter Wolfe, Elkhart, Loses Appeal
to Supreme Body.

Walter Wolfe, Elkhart, Loses Appeal
to Supreme Body.
Conviction of Walter Wolfe, SEN
fenced in 1888 to to 81 years for
a murder in Elkhart, has been
affirmed by the Indiana Supreme
Court.
Wolfe first was sentenced in 1918
to life Imprisonment, but petitioned
for a new trial in 1888 on the
grounds of newly discovered evil
deEce. He then received the 2-to-21
sentence at a trial presided over by
special judge. Wolfe charged in
his appeal to the high court that the
special Judge did not have jurisdic-
ton. The Supreme Court, however,
upheld the ruling of Elkhart Circuit
Court that Wolfe had no grounds
for appeal because he did not
attack the special judges jurisdic-
ton at the time of the trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
TAXI MEASURE
REVISED AGAIN
Changes by Committee to
Delay Vote on Bill by
City Council.
BY TOM OCHILTREE

Members of the City Council safe
ty committee continued to perform
major operations on the pending
taxicab licensing ordinance today.
This alteration work has been
conducted so thoroughly that the
city fathers will not be able to col
lect all the pieces and report the
bill back to the council Monday
night, DR.. Silas j. Carr, chairman,
said. He indicated final action
probably will be taken next month.
A storm center since its introduce
ton on Nov. 4, the measure, as
drafted, was opposed by a majority
of taxi owners and some drivers, a
recent survey conducted by The In
dianapolis Times revealed.
The provision which would have
prohibited taxis from cruising on
streets served by trolley or bus lines
has been rewritten, DR.. Carr said.
The committee decided cabs could
run on all streets, but could not
stop and solicit pedestrians.
AS originally drawn, owners would
have had to pay 50 to renew licenses
on each car. The committee has
sliced this down to Is cents.
Companies will not be allowed to
charge a fiat rate of As cents to
transport passengers to all parts of
the city, DR.. Carr said. Instead a
regular meter rate at so much a
mile has been substituted.
Inserted into the measure is a
provision that liability insurance
and property damage policies must
be carried by owners on each cab.
I'VE have not been swayed by
outside influence of any kind" said
DR.. Carr. 1t is our aim to get a
measure that will be fair to the
general public, the taxi industry and
its legitimate competitors"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
Key Words

Yesterday the case of Miss
Ruth Grant came up in Mu-
nicipal Court and Miss Grant,
although in Jail, was not in
court. Judge Charles Karabell
ordered her brought in and
Bailiff Joe Gibbons went after
her.
He returned in few mo-
ments without her and an
nounced he couldn't get her.
Why not?" Judge Karabell
asked.
well, judge" he said,
they've lost the keys to her
CELL"
Miss Grants attorney jumped
to his feet and demanded that
she be produced in court. A
bondsman signed her bond and
it was approved and still she
was in Jail.
Finally they found the keys,
which were in matroa's
smock pocket and locked IN her
locker, and Miss Grant WIS re-
leased.
But court was over and the
whole thing has 20 come up
again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
PROSECUTORS TO HOLD
MEETING HERE JAN. 81
United States District Attorney to
Address Annual State Gathering.

The Indiana Association of Prose-
cutting Attorneys is to hold its sec
ond annual meeting at the Claypool
on the evening of Jan. 81 as a pre-
liminary feature of the annual mid
winter meeting of the Indiana Bar
Association, Cecil F. Whitehead,
president, announced today.
Val Nolan, United States District
Attorney, is to speak. Fred c.
Cause and Thomas C. Bachelor,
president and secretary, respective
ly, of the Indiana State Bar Asso-
citation, also are to talk.
Oficers of the association, in adj
dition to Mr.. Whitehead, who is
Madison County prosecutor, are
Raymond j. Kearns, first vice
president, Terre Haute: Horace A.
Foncannon, second vice president
Vincennes; Fred A. Egan, secretary,
Crown Point. and Herbert M. Spen-
Ger, treasurer, indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
ALIBl TO BE DEFENSE
IN JAC0BY GANG CASE
Karrer Gives Hint in Questions
Put to Veniremen.

An alibi defense was limited today
as prospective jurors were ques-
toned today in the Criminal Court
trial OF Forrest Jacoby, Al Head,
John Head and Jerry Dukes,
charged with the robbery of the
William H. Roberts g. Sons dairy
last August.
Clyde C. Karrer, defense attorney,
limited at the alibi in questioning
the veniremen.
Defense and prosecuting attorneys
are to go to Springfield. H., Satur-
day, to take dispositions of witnesses,
who are i'll in hospital.
A venire of so reported for jury
duty today. Evidence will not be
heard before next week, it is be-
lieved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
Condemned Baby Slayer
Continues Fight to
Escape Chair.
VISIT is UNCONDITIONAL
Anna Sees Husband for
Perhaps Last Time
at Prison.
By United Press

By United Press
TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 16.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
fought for life today with all
the resources commanded by
shrewd lawyers, only to be
told by his wife that she saw
no hope.
Seeing him for perhaps the last
time before he goes to the electric
chair in State Prison tomorrow
night, she spoke the discouraging
words to him through a. screen
placed before his cell in death row,
next door to the execution chamber
True, lawyers in Washington ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court of the
United States to stay the execution
and leview the conviction of the
man found guilty of numbering the
first-born of Charles and Anne
Lindbergh. Chief Justice Charles
Evans Hughes tersely granted them
permission to submit the papers"
Visit May Be Last
But pale Anna Hauptmann knew
there wasn't chance in thousand
that the court would stop the state
of New Jersey from putting her
husband to death at 8 p. m. tomor-
row. And despite flood of rumors
which surged about Trenton and
New York, she apparently held lit
tie hope that Gov. Harold G. Hoff-
man would save him.
During the visit that will he the
last unless the Governor does act,
she told Hauptmann according to
Col. Mark o. Kimberling, principal
keeper of the prison, that $50 far as
she could see there was no definite
promise of any further changes"
Then they talked of other things
with no show of emotions each con-
cealing thoughts Of the doom that
awaits HauptYnann just through the
heavy door that leads from death |
row.
Hoffman Is Silent
Gov. Hoffman, who previously had
been so voluble in his discussion of
the case, cancelled all appointments
and secluded himself to make what
probably is the hardest decision he
ever has faced.
His secretary, William S. Conklin,
said the young Governor still had an
open mind on the question of
Hauptmann's guilt or innocence.
That was the only positive state
ment that came from the. Governors
Office, which in days past had buzzed
with statements of doubt about
Hauptmann's conviction and threats
to arrest DR.. John F. (Jafsie) Con-
don, whose testimony was instru-
mental in booming Hauptmann.
The rest was all rumor, conjec-
ture. and denial.
Confession Rumor Denied
One rumor was that the Cover
nor had received a confession"
Conklin promptly denied that, say
ing "the Governor has no knowledge
of any confession" Other rumors
had it that Hoffman had talked to
Mrs. Hauptmann this morning and
that he was comforting with high
Federal and state law enforcement
officials.
Mrs. Hauptmarn said her husband
continued to keep up his courage
and that she had hopes of seeing
him again, although she did not in
tend to take their baby, Mann
fried, to the death house.
1t was cold outside the prison, de-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
BETHLEHEM STRENGTH
FEATURES STOCK MART
Trading Outlets After Squirt in Early
Dealings Today.
BIZ United Press

BU Uhtted Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Strength
in Bethlehem steel issues and rise
in communications stock featured
afternoon trading on the stock ex-
change today. Trading quieted att
er a squirt in the early dealings.
In the communication division,
International Telephone featured in
activity and rose to new high at II
Bethlehem Steel common reached
54ls. and its preferred reached 1921
a new high. other steels were firm.
Rails were mixed, oils irregular and
utilities and aviations steady.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
FLOATING BAR CASE
OPENS IN EVANSVILLE
State Claims Jurisdiction Over
Tavern Boat" on Ohio.
By United Press

by CHue0 f'Te8s
EVANSVILLE, Jan. 16.-A test of
the state excise departments juris-
diction over sale of liquor on a
floating bar" began today with the
arrest Of Lee Pfafflin, owner of a
tavern boat" at Cypress Beach,
above Newburg.
Ray Hinkle. chief Of the excise
enforcement division. said Pfafflin's
boat was the Only one Of its kind in
Indiana.
Although the boat was in the Ohio
River. under Kentucky jurisdiction,
it Tas tied to q tree on the Indiana
shore and gangpkuk led to the
Indiana bank. MAXIM it subject Il,
Indiana liquor laws, Rnkle claimed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
MINT0N ASSAILS HIGH
COURT IN SENATE TALK
Speech Said to Strengthen Report
He Would Accept Bench.

Nos"ty Va OFGe0 UA rage <S.J-
WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.-Fiery
first speech of Senator Sherman
Minton, assailing the Supreme Court
AAA decision before the Senate to-
day, was considered here as
strengthening the report that he is
receptive candidate for the Fed
eral bench.
The speech pointed out that de-
cisions upholding New Deal laws
might well be given within the Con-
Stitution.
Senator Minton has been saying
privately that what this country
needs are young New Deal lawyers
as judges in tho Federal Courts.
Several posts are open, including
one on the Chicago appellate bench.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-16
LAVAL WINS CONFIDENCE
In DESPERATE GAMBLE
Gains Debate Priority for Farm and
Flood Relief Program.

By United Press
PARIS, Jan. 16.-Premier Pierre
Laval, under violent attack from the
left and in danger of overthrow in
the midst of delicate international
and domestic situation, won a pre-
liminary victory today in the Cham.
Der of DEPUTIES.
The chamber voted confidence in
the cabinet on motion by Laval
demanding priority of debate for
the governments agricultural and
flood relief programs. Laval staked
his governments life on the motion.
He thus gained time for a show
down when the debate on general
policy starts and a motion is pre-
sented expressing lack of confidence
in his foreign and domestic policies.