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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 31 INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JUNE 17. 1929 Entered as Second-Class Matterat Tostoffiee. Indianapolis TWO CENTS

HOMEOutside MsriooCounty 3 Cent*

FIGHT TO PUTFARM BOUNTY

IN TARIFF BILLBorah Opens Sharp Attack

on General Increasesin Rates.

AID MONEY IS VOTED

House 0. K. on 151 MillionAppropriation Given

Without Dissent.ft 9 ’ 1 v rtf'! Prf *

WASHINGTON. .Turn 17.With-out a dissenting vote, the house 1today passed a bill appropriating*151.500,000 for the new federal farm jboard.

Although one hour's time was al-lotted to discuss the bill, less thanfifteen minutes was used.

The President's budget messagerequesting the appropriation arrivedat the house a few minutes after thebill was passed:

The general tariff battle opened onall fronts in the senate today whenthe farm bloc put forward the de-benture plan as an amendment tothe bill and Senator William E.Borah, the leading Republican cam-paigner of last fall opened a. sharpattack upon the general increasesoffered in the measure.

Wants Debenture In Bill

The same language of the deben-ture provision which was eliminatedfrom the farm releif bill signed Sat-

, urday bv the President wa* proposedas a tariff amendment by SenatorGeorge W. Norris s bound overto the grand jury on manslaugh-

ter charges.

I “I don't know if I was driving.'! Lewark told police this morning be-fore he waived preliminary hear-ing in municipal court and wasbound over to the grand jury.

Linne's hearing was continued un-til Wednesday, while his parolefrom the state reformatory on aburglary charge is investigated.

“Bob, I'm going to get you drunk,"Linne is said to have toid his com-panion when the latter quarreledwith his lover Saturday night Lew-ark's mother said her son left homeat 2 p. m. Sunday.

Both claimed they drank onlyhome brew, but Jem- Patterson, 78,Negro. 1049 East Elliott street, in-

Halt the ‘Grab’The Times offioe Saturday

looked like the county treas-urers office on the last day topay taxes. Only, the morethan 1.000 citizens who facedTimes notaries across the coun-ters were not there to payeither money or tribute to any-body—and there was no wait-ing in long lines.

In fact, they were there toregister protest against, thelatest form of political tribute—the 25 cents notary fee whichpoliticians set out to pocketunder the new' driver licenselaw. The Times still is no-tarizing driver license applica-tion blanks free—hence, thecrowd.

More than 7.200 drivers hadbeen served by The Times bynoon today.

Sufficient notaries are on thejob to prevent any one fromhaving to wait more than afew minutes during the heav-iest rush. Tell your neighbors,not. The office is open untilThe service is free to all citi-zens. whether Times readers or8:30 p. m. ISLAND FEELS QUAKE

Temblor in New Zealand IsWorst Since 1901.

Bv United PressAUCKLAND, New Zealand, June

17.—The worst earthquake of New'Zealand since 1901 w'as felt on southisland Sunday night.

Several deaths are feared, al-though none had been reported hereearly today.

Wireless is the only means ofcommunication with the affectedarea remaining, since both telegraphand telephone lines are dow'n.

LINDY IN CONNECTICUT

Colonel and Bride Believed EnRoute to New York on Yacht.

Bv United PressNEW LONDON. Conn, June 17.

Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind-bergh were believed skirting theConnecticut shore today on a re-turn trip to New York in theircabin cruiser. Mouette. in whichthey sailed to Maine.

The Mouette left Block IslandSunday after the flier bought gaso-line. ice, one fish and a newspaper.

formed police that they were drink-ing whisky and said Linne was atthe wheel of the car when theydrove through his potato patchshortly before the accident.

On Patterson's information, policethis morning arrested Herman Huth,38. of 1952 North Emerson avenue,cn blind tiger charges. The youthssaid they were too drunk to identifythe person from whom they gottheir liquor.

Neighbors sitting on front porchesof their homes watched the auto,swerving from side to side of thestreet, suddenly veer into the curb,strike the little girl, walking withher brother. Durham. 6. on the side-walk. and then crash into the home

Wins Game for Bride

HOOVER DROPS ALL OFFICIALBUSINESS TO TAKE ACTION

ON DRY KILLING PROTESTSof Foster Kimberlin. 2317 Station

i street.Kimberlin. sitting with his wife

and friends on the porch, freed him-self from timbers and debris thatfell about them, and extricated thegirl from the wreckage beneath thecar. She ’’as dead. Her brotherwas touched by the machine, andscratched slightly on the leg.

In the crowd that gathered abouther body were her father and moth-er. who collapsed when they recog-nized their daughter. The mothertoday is in a physician's care.

Funeral services for the child willbe held at 2 p. m. today in Christchurch. Denny street, and the bodytaken to Greensburg. Ky.. for bur.a)

STORM BREAKSSHIP IN HALF

Heroic Rescue Work SavesLives of All but One

of Crew.Bv rutted Press

ASTORIA. Ore.. June 17. Buf-feted by towering waves and brokenin two a’cross a sandbar in themouth of the Columbia river, theS. S. Laurel of the Quaker line tooka toll of one dead, seevral injuredand seven members of the crewstill more helpless today on the halfof the vessel that remained on thebar.

Twenty-four of the crew wererescued by the coast guard cutterRed Wing which braved heavy seasand a gale Sunday to snatch themen from what appeared certaindeath.

The man drowned was RussellSmith, 19. Dorchester. Mass.

The vessel became unmanageablewhen she was crossing the Columbiariver bar Sunday night in a heavywind which caused a cross sea.

Ships Breaks in TwoThe steeering gear sanpped and

the ship immediately lieadied. P'orthe next two hours she wallowedhelpless in the high waves, her bot-tom striking ground fifteen times.

As the ship wallowed, a deckloadof lumber broke loose and wentoverboard, the heavy timbers lash-ing against the side of the driftingvessel and threatening to stovethem in.

SOS signals were sent ou* untilthe masts went by the board.

About 2:30 a. m. the shipstraddled a sand bar and snappedin two. Smith went down with the

| fore part of the vessel.In response to th eSOS signals,

life boats put out. from the Ft.Canby station, but were unable toreach the stricken ship on accountof the heavy seas.

Later a lifeboat from the CaptDisappointment station and the

: eRd Wing succeeded in making con-tact with the marooned men.

Wait for RescueFor the next fifteen hours there

1 remained nothing so rthe crew toj do but wait for rescue.I Twice during ’ the morning thelifeboat from the Ft. Canby stationattempted to get near the derelictbut could not approach because ofthe heavy timbers which were beingtossed about by the high runningwaves.the lifeboats approach the wreckagain. This time there were twoboats, the one from Ft. Canby andthe one from Cape Disappointment.Heavy lines were cast from theLaurel to the two boats which hadto use their full power to pull away

Not until near 6 p.m. Sunday didfrom the ship to keep the lines up.

SPENCER BANK FAILSInstitution Will Pay Off De-

positors in Full.Exchange bank. Spencer. Ind.,

failed to open it? doors today andwas reported by Luther F. Symons,state banking commissioner, as thefirst Indiana bank failure since May16. This is the longest period with-out failure during the last few years.Symons reported.

Thomas Barr, assistant commis-sioner, and William Dexheimer, ex-aminer. are in Spencer and reportthat the bank expects to pay off de-positors in full.

"Depleted cash reserves and ex-hausted credit." were given as thereasons for failure by Symons. Theinstitution was capitalized at $50.-000. John H. Smith is president andR. H. Evans, cashier.

Death of Rum Runner. 20.by Shot in Back Is

Called ‘Accident.’

DEFENDED BY CHIEF

Men Who Bring Body toHospital in Silence Have

Good Records.D

OGDEN,SBI"RG, N. Y.. June17.—Arthur Gordon, 20-year-old bootlegger suspect, whowas shot to death by customsagents was killed by accident.William C. Tullocii, chief agentin charge of the border cus-toms patrol, said today.

Tulloch said Weldon Cheatham, acustoms guard, shot Gordon.

Cheatham and Francis L. Ceveney.both #of whom, he said, had longrecords in the customs service, werethe two agents who attempted tostop Gordon, driving a car loadedwith ale.

Tripped Over StoneTn pursuing Gordon, Tulloch said,

Cheatham fell over a stone and hisrifle was discharged accidentally.

Tulloch said he considered theshooting a "most unfortunate thing."

“I have talked with both offi-cers and they told me a straightfor-ward story," he said. "Both menhave long and honorable records inthe customs service and I believe inthem implicitly.”

The chief agent, whose headquar-ters are here, did not indicate whatwould be done should Clinton coun-ty authorities take the men intocustody."

Tulloch said Gordon was not killedinstantly but talked with agentsbriefly. He told them he was work-ing for a “New York man,” Tul-loch said.

Quit Meat Market JobAs so far patched together, the

story runs thus:Gordon who has been aiding iq

sunport of his family by working ina meat market gave up that work aweek ago and decided to try for theheavier profits of running rum fromthe Canadian border.

He was intercepted in his journeyto Plattsburgh last week by thecustoms officers’ device of block-ing the roadway with their cars.

When he fled he was pursued intoa thicket and fired upon.

He apparently died en route to thehospital, and his body ' as left therewithout comment from the uni-formed men who delivered it.

O'Connell was told that five shotswere fired at Gordon after he hadjumped from his car.

Murder Charges FiledBv Unit'd Brens

NEWPORT. Ark.. June 17—Firstdegree murder charges were filedtoday against George Johnson,deputy sheriff, in connection withthe liquor killing of Mickey Dil-lon, 22, El Paso, son of a Texasranger captain. Dillon died in ahospital here today from twobullet wounds inflicted Sundaynight by the deputy when theyouth tried to escape after he wasarrested on a charge of intoxica-tion and possession of liquor.County Prosecutor Hugh William-

son, who filed the murder charges,said Johnson had arrested the youthand was taking him to jail whenDillon broke away.

The deputy fired two shots at adistance of not more than ten feet,both striking the youth in the back,Williamson said.

Johnson, who previously hadserved a five-year prison term forkilling a man under similar circum-stances. was arrested shortly afterthe shooting.

FT. WORTH PARK BURNSMillion-Dolar Casino Octroyed;

Gorilla Dies in Flames.Bv United Press

FT. WORTH. Tex., June 17.—Firewhich followed a blast on the board-walk swept the Lake Worth Casinopark today leaving the million-dol-lar playgrounds in ruins.

“Big Boy,” 300-pound gorilla, wasburned to death. Workmen de-scribed as almost human the weirdcries of the giant beast as the flameslicked into the cage

IN GRID UN HURT IN C R ASHSwedish Princess’ Car Crashes With

Another in London.Bv United Press

LONDON. June 17.—Princess In-grid of Sweden and her uncle, theduke of Connaught, were jarred butuninjured today when their automo-bile was rammed head-on by anoth-er car under the narrow archwayleading from the ambassadors’court.

‘For God's Sake. Help Us,’Says Plea to President

From Minnesota.

NEW ORDER ON ARMS

Weapons Must Be DrawnOnly in Self-Defense.

Says Lowman.'Results of writer's in.esdfation In

Virkula sbootinc. Pajr* Thr^.)

B\f 1 iiitud I'm*WASHINGTON, June 17.-

President Hoover moved todayto quiet the protests whichhave arisen during the pastten days over prohibition en-forcement, shootings.

Finding on his desk at the ex-ecutive offices this morning a tele-gram from a group of citizens atInternational Falls, Minn., askingfor "protection" against over-zeal-ous border patrol officers, the chiefexecutive dropped all legislativeand administrative business for atime to give personal attention todisposal of the message.

The International Falls telegramwas a direct appeal to PresidentHoover for vigorous action to placeresponsibility for the killing ofHenry Virkula. Big Falls (Minn.)confectioner, by Border PatrolmanEmmett J. White.

“For God's Sake, Help"The telegram ended with the plea:

"For God's sake, help us."Treasury' officials declined to con-

firm reports that the White Househad asked for a detailed report onthe Virkula slaying, but it waslearned that President Hoover con-ferred with both treasury and jus-tice department officials relative topossible courses of procedure.

While the whole matter of pro-hibition killings was before thePresident, two of the foremost dryleaders cf the nation were WhiteHouse callers. They were SenatorWesley Jones (Rep., Wash.), authorof the Jones “five-and-ten" law, andBishop Cannon Jr., of the MethodistEpiscopal Church South.

Both denied having discussed any-thing but semi-private business withthe chief executive.

In other quarters it was learned,however, that, dry organizations havetaken a keen interest in the wholesituation which has developed overrecent shootings. Dry leaders arepressing Hoover to stand firm.

New Warning to OfficersAt the same time Seymour Low-

man. assistant secretary' of treasury,j made public today anew warning

; lie sent customs officers on June 13j against the careless use of firearmsjin enforcing prohibition and customslaws. He said a weapon should bedrawn only in self-defense or toprevent commission of a felony.

The present enforcement troublehas confronted President Hover withprecisely the situation he sought toavoid at the outset of his admin-istration.

He declared emphatically soonafter inauguration that his adminis-tration policy on enforcemeit wouldbe to avoid all dramatic or sensa-tional acts and check at everyopportunity the acts of overzealousagents.

PICK NEW CONGRESSMANMinnesota District Votes on Succes-

sor for Representative Newton.Bv United Press

MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. June 17.The fifth Minnesota congression-al district voted today for a suc-cessor to Representative Walter H.Newton, who resigned recently to be-come one of the secretaries of Presi-dent Herbert Hoover.

The three candidates in the raceare Lieutenant Governor W. I. No-lan. Republican; Ernest Lundeen,Farmer-Labor, and Einar Hoidalee,Democrat.

TWO TRY SUICIDE; FAILGirl. 16. Jealous of Young Man,

Takes Poison.

Miss Mildred Watson, 16, daugh-ter of Mrs. Jesse Watson, 214Geisendorf, was recovering todayin Indiana Christian hospital, whereshe formerly was employed, fromeffects of poison she took Sunday.

Her mother told police the girlattempted suicide because she wasjealous of a young man.

Mrs. Lillian Wetzel. 55, apartment4, at 2432 Park avenue, swallowedpoison early this morning at Merid-ian and New York streets. Cityhospital attendants say she will re-cover.

FIND AGED WOMAN DEADDeath of Mrs. Margaret E. Painter,

Follows Long Illness.Mrs. Margaret E. Painter, 86.1102%

Fletcher avenue, was found dead onthe floor of her kitchen, early to-day. Her physician said she hadbeen ill for some time.

PROFESSOR’S LOVE TRYSTSBARED IN CO-ED MURDERSv * nited Frets

Columbus. 0.. June 17.—Dr. JamesH. Snook. Ohio State university!professor who is held as a suspect jin the slaying of Miss Theora Hix. a;co-ed in the college of medicine, in- jsisted today he had no connection jwith the crime.

The 49-year-old professor, mar- jried and the father of a 3-year-old jdaughter, who confessed he main- itained an apartment with Miss Hix 1and helped finance her education, jhas been held in the county jail;here for more than forty hours.

Marion T. Myers. Ohio State grad-uate now employed in the horticul-turist department of the university,also is being held.

An analysis was to be made todayof stains found on a gray suit whichSnook took to a cleaning establish-ment to be cleaned Friday.

When Snook was taken to therifle range Sunday, where the bodywas found, detectives said Snook

shuddered at sight of the blood-stained grass, although he neverflinched at their questions, whichhe refused to answer directly.

Snook, for several years championpistol shot and a member of thewinning American Olympic pistolteam to Antwerp in 1920. admittedhe had gone to the rifle range tohe kept his love tryst with the slaingirl, the middle-aged, mild-man-nered veterinarian said nothing, ac-cording to detectives.

Taken to the apartment, wheredle-aged. mild-mannered veteri-narian said nothing, according todetectives.

Mrs. Margaret Smalley, the apart-ment landlady, reported to policethat Snook had rented the roomlast February. She said he repre-sented himself as Howard (his mid-dle name) Snook, a salt salesmanfrom .Newark, O. Miss Hix, thelandlady said, was introduced to heras Snook’s “wife.”

KANSAS CITY. Mo.. June 17.—Poverty, the specter which wreckedthe lives of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Helms, vaudeville “troupers."continued a problem to Mrs. Helms today.

Held on first degree murder charge for the shooting of her hus-band, Mrs. Helms was not worried about the lack of money for bail.

the court having denied bond in the case, but she grieved because

she lacked funds for her husband's burial.Depressed by poverty. Mrs. Heims shot her husband."Good-bye, old boy, I'm going with you," she erried to the life-

less form. S’

JESTER FATE’S GRIM PRANK SPLITS TEAM,’ BUT THE ‘ACT’ MUST GO ONShe pressed the gun to her heart and pulled the trigger. There

had been but one cartridge in the revolver. Miss Helm? was takento fail, charged with murder.

“I don’t care about dying." she declared today, “I'll welcomeescape from poverty, but i do wish I had money to give Frank adecent burial.

Mr, and Mrs. Kenneth William Penner

Kenneth william penner,star pitcher for the Indian -apolis baseball team, hardly couldhave done otherwise than hold theMilwaukee Brewers to four hitsin that thrilling, fourteen-inning,2-to-l victory for the IndiansSunday afternoon.

It was the first game Mrs. Pen-ner, as such, saw' her hero-hus-band pitch. Mrs. Ken Penner andthe pitcher’s mother, Mrs. FloraPenner, 337 Downey avenue, werein the grandstand and. testifyingto the fact that baseball bloodruns clear through the family, themother remarked: "We nearly hadheart failure."

Mr. and Mrs. Penner were mar-ried last week in Little Rock, Ark.,and arrived here Saturday after

YOUTHS HELD IN CRASHThree Arrested for Rush Co- nty

Officers in Fatal Accident.

Three Indianapolis youths wereunder arrest today for Rush countyauthorities on charges of vagrancyand being fugitives from justice,after an auto accident near Rush-ville Sunday in which Paul Maple,20. Rushville. was fatally injured.

They are Richard Nash, 22. of1422 Broadway; Haywood Smiley,23. of 1428 Ashland avenue, andSamuel Gillespie. 20. of 1140 Parkavenue, said to have abandoned amachine which struck a chassis onwhich Maple was riding. A quan-tity of liquor was found in their car.

CHILD BITTEN BY DOGOwner of Animal Ordered to He

Him Up for Ten Days,After her German police dog bit

Leslie Herndon. 11. of 1126 St. Paulstreet, in the leg. Miss Anna Weaver.1115 St. Paul street, today was or-dered by police to tie up the dog forobesrvation for ten days.

Hourly Temperatures6 a. m 70 10 a. m 817a. m 72 11 a. m 83Ba. m 78 12 (noon).. 849 a. m 80 1 p. m 86

a harrowing motor trip. Thepi toher snatched a few hours sleepand blithely set the Brewers ontheir ears.

Circus Will BeHere Tuesday

Duration of Stay—One day.First time for Ringling Broth-ers and Barnum & Bailey's cir-cus in Indianapolis in fiveyears.

Show' Grounds—South Key-stone, near Prospect street.

Performances—At 2 and 8p. m. Menagerie dors openhour earlier.

Tickets—On sale from 9 to 5at Clark & Cade drug store.Claypool Hotel building. Yel-low ticket wagon continuouslyopen for purchase of reservedseats at show grounds. Red andwhite ticket wagons start sell-ing admission tickets onlywhen doors open.

Features—Hugo Xacchini, thehuman projectile; Goliath, themonster sea elephant: 800 menand women arenic stars; me-nagerie of 1.000 rare animals:200 trained horses in the ‘Tour-ney of -Jewels": 100 horses andzebras performing in a singledisplay: “Yasso." the wonderelephant: side show, wild westshow.

VOLCANO IN JAPAN BURIESTOWNS IN LAVA STREAM

Bv United PressHAKODATE. Japan, June 17.

Komagatake volcano, twenty-fivemiles north of this city, broke intoviolent, eruption today. Earthquakesfollowed the eruption.

The villages of Honbetsu andTomesawa. were partly destroyed bylava.

Some visitors to the hot springs

resorts at the base of the mountainare missing.

The village of Shikabe. near thebase of the mountain, was evacu-ated.

The town of Sunshara was report-ed in flames.

Most of the Waterishima penin-sula was enveloped in smoke.