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j SCRJPPS - HOWARD j ADMIRALS ARE NAMED DEHIND PROPAGANDIST William Shearer Declares He Was Furnished Naval Data. SUIT CAUSE OF PROBE Dismissal by Shipbuilders Urged by Kellogg, Says Statement. Bu United Press STAMFORD. Conn.. Sept. 9. Four American rear admirals were among the naval officers who be sought him to work against reduc tion of the naval armaments of the United States, William B. Shearer said here in elaborating on his propaganda campaign for parity in sea power. The admirals. Shearer said, were Samuel S. Robinson, now superin tendent of the naval academy at Annapolis; Charles P. Plunkett, Wililam V. Pratt and Henry A. Wiley. Their plea, according to Shearer, was made in 1924. Shearer, whose suit against three shipbuilding concerns for salary al legedly due him for propagandizing the American press section at Ge neva and similar w'ork elsewhere has caused a senate investigation to be ordered, issued a statement here Sunday in which he also said he was supplied with “naval intel ligence data officially.” Eager for Probe He admitted “presenting facts and figures to American newspapermen at Geneva” without revealing to them he was a propagandist, and he professed to be eager for the in vestigation which was recommended by President Hoover. Mr. Hoover contended it was against the public interest for shipbuilding concerns secretly to oppose naval reduction. The three concerns which Shearer Is suing are the Newport News Ship building and Drydock Company, the American Brown-Boveri Electrical Company and the Bethlehem Steel Company. His statement also identified him self with the National Council of American Shipbuilders, by reveal ing that all the Shearer reports sent from Geneva were addressed to Henry C. Hunter, attorney for the council. Sunday night in New York, Hunter denied ever having any deal ing with Shearer and he had re ceived no reports from him. Kellogg Took Hand Shearer contended he was dis charged by the three shipbuilding concerns and said the dismissal was urged by Frank B. Kellogg, who at that time was secretary of state. He refused to give the names of the officers w’ho supplied him with the "official data” that he took to Geneva. Shearer styled himself “a naval expert” an dtook credit for putting through the bill in congress to in crease the salary of naval officers. OPERATION IS SUCCESS Psi Mortem Caesarian Birth One of Few in History. Bv United Press WHITE PLAINS. N. Y.. Sept. 9. One of the few successful post mortem Caesarian operations ever performed was accomplished early fodav bv Doctors W. A. Lawrence and Charles Witte at the White Plains hospital. At 3 o'clock this morning. Mrs. James Purrici. about to become a mother, was admitted to the hos pital suffering from a severe heart attack. She died three minutes aft er arriving. The doctors were sum moned and the operation was per formed immediately. The Infant, a nine-pound baby girl. Is alive and doing well. SLAYING TRIAL STARTS Murder of Pennsylvania Policeman Is Involved. V* United Press ERIE. Pa.. Sept. 9.—Fred Halver son. 42, of Minneapolis, went on trial for murder here today in con nection with the slaying of State Highway Patrolman Russell T. Swanson early last spring. Sam Bard and Joe Invie. also of Minne apolis. charged with the same mur der. will be tried as soon as the present case is completed. Bard con fessed that he killed the officer. The trio, en route to Buffalo. N.Y.. in a stolen car. were halted by the officer. BRIDE TO ‘SPITE' GILDA Wife of Dancer's Ex-Manager Sues for Separate Maintenance. Bv United Press ST. LOUIS. Sept- 9.—Convinced that she became the “spite" bride of C. D. Krepps. former manager of Gilda Gray, only because he and the dancer had a falling out. Mrs. Krepps has served legal notice on her husband that she will file suit for separate maintenance, her attor neys announced today. Tm certain now that he married me only to spite Miss Gray." Mrs Krepps said, from behind a counter of a department store where she is working. Complete Wire Reports of UNITED PRESS, The Greatest World-Wide News Service The Indianapolis Times Showers and thunderstorms tonight; Tuesday- fair and cooler. VOLUME 41—NUMBER 103 JUROR’S INSANITY' ENDS TRIAL OF 16 TEXTILE STRIKERS Carried Screaming to Cell After Collapse Under Three-Week Strain of Hearing Murder Evidence. Bu United Preen . ~ , . ~ , , ~ CHARLOTTE. N. C., Sept. 9.—Acute emotional insanity of one of tpe twelve jurors today caused collapse of the trial of sixteen textile strikers of Gastonia. N. C., for the murder of Police Chief Aderholt, just as the trial opened its third week. Judge M. V. Barnhill ordered a mistrial after defense attorneys made several attempts to avert the order. Judge Barnhill took action after J. G. Campbell, newspaper vendor, suffered a nervous collapse on his way to today’s session. Deputy Sheriff Johnson reported Campbell fought and screamed as four deputies tried to calm him and struck savagely at them as they took him to a cell. Amused Spectators Campbell was the fourth juror accepted. He amused spectators during his examination by pointing dramatically to the heavens, say ing; “I believe in law and my good God." Dr. John Q. Myers took the wit ness stand when court convened to day and said he treated Campbell shortly after 5 a. m. and found him crying and suffering from emotional shock. Myers said Campbell was mental ly unbalanced and termed his ill ness as “acute emotional insanity.” The physician said he did not be lieve Campbell would De fit for fur ther jury service. Deputy Sheriff Johnson took the witness stand and said on Friday night he was awakened by Camp bell’s screams. Begged for Pistol “He begged me to give him my pistol, so he could end it all,” John son said. On Saturday, Johnson said, Campbell awoke again, awoke some of the jurors and asked one of them to read him a chapter from the Bible. “He confessed his sins to me; said he was ready to die. and asked that I bury him face down,” Johnson said “Today I found him crawling un der beds and it took all the strength I had to get him up on his feet. “He again asked me for my pistol. I then called a doctor and then had the judge called for instructions,” Johnson said. Solicitor John Carpenter told the United Press he had asked Gov ernor Gardner to call another spe cial term of court beginning Sept. 30 to try the case again. The North Carolina statutes re quire drawing of a jury panel twenty days before the special term of su perior court. NO CHALLENGE TO LEWIS , AT MINE UNION MEETING Revolt against the dictation of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, predicted to occur at the called meeting of thirty-one mine district representatives today failed to PLAN NONSTOP TRIP Zeppelin Will Attempt World Flight. Bu United Press BERLIN. Sept. 9.—The next major flight of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin will be an attempt for a nonstop flight around the world in fourteen day dispatches from Friedrich shafen said today. Officials of the Zeppelin works, according to dispatches, plan to have the giant dirigible refuelled in the air. LAND PURCHASE IS UP Council Will Consider Fund of 525.000 for Airport. An ordinance appropriating $25,000 to purchffce. additional land for the northern entrance to the municipal airport, west of the city, will be con sidered by the city council tonight. Smiley N. Chambers, assistant city attorney, will present an ordinance asking an increase in capacity of gasoline storage tanks from 6.600 to 8.800 gallons. The increase has been recommended by the safety board. Men Teachers Urged to Stop ‘Feminine Thinking ’ Bu l nited Press NEW YORK. Sept .9. Solemn warnings against “feminine thinking" and nerv ous breakdowns for their chil dren rang in parents' ears to day as they bundled off millions of young Americans to the class rooms. Professor Robert E. Rogers of the Massachusetts Institute of Techniologv. who recently urged college graduates to be “snobs,” introduced the feminine note. “For hall a century now the larger p6rt of our young people have been trained exclusively by women teachers." he told the thtete-jnth annual national busi ness r-mferenc*' at Hills. Mas.. Sunday. “Fifty years of this has produced a Up Goes Ante B.u Times Svecial CLINTON, Ind., Sept. 9. "Can you beat that?” Mrs. Mollie Wade remarked to the world at large after she was fined SSO and sentenced to thirty days In the women’s prison on a statutory charge by City Judge G. E. Bingham. “Sure,” said the judge.’’‘Sixty, days.” ENDURANCE HOP START IS NEAR 0 - Weather Delays Flamingo - Over Week-End. Balked by bad weather and technical details in attempted prac tice refuelings over the week-end, Lieutenants Walter R. Peck and Lawrence Genaro, pilots of the In dianapolis Flamingo refueling en durance plane, planned to take off today. The pilots will attempt to break the present 420-hour endur ance record. A crew of mechanics from Hoosier airport and Ft. Benjamin Harrison installed a 175-gallon gasoline tank in an army Douglass 02C biplane from Ft. Harrison, to be used as an emergency refueling plane. A refueling attempt was to be made this afternoon. Use of the army plane was author ized in a telegram from the war de partment received by Bowman Elder, flight trustee, and Major H. Leßoy Muller, flight manager, late Satur day. In addition, an army Consolidated PTI biplane will be flown by Ser geant Earl Halstead, the “flying cop.” to carry instructions and signals to the endurance pilots. Messages will be conveyed by means of chalked figures on the side of the plane. materialize and from indications Lewis still was in control. The fight was to have been based on the selection of a representative of District 12 of Illinois to replace Harry Madden of Benton. 111., who resigned. This district formerly was the do main of Frank Farrington, enemy of Lewis, and it was believed that opponents of the president would taket advantage of the vacancy to urge the election of one favorable to their side. Approval of the election of five new district representatives and select a representative for Illinois, was to be made during the session. Behind closed doors the confer ence was devoted to ironing out difficulties in the Illinois field be tween miners and operators, it was said. seek^fiveTorlsaming Quintet, Fails to Appear in Dog Track Case. Five men. alleged to have been connected with the defunct Indiana Kennel Club, Ltd., who are charged with keeping a gaming house, must appear in criminal court Wednesday or bonds of SSOO each will be for feited. Judge James A. Collins said today. They failed to appear for arraign ment today. They are Ray Cant well. Reuben Creeger, Richard Haist. Charles Smith and Aimer C. Eaxter The club operated a dog track on Aliisonville road and closed a month ago. public incompetent to think po litically and philosophically. "Our American thinking is feminine thinking, inculcated by women teachers, highly compe tent in detail, rigidly idealistic, regardless of the working facts, and weak in critical examina tion.” He urged the business men. as community leaders, t opav saN aries large enough “to attract competent and strong men teachers to teach our young people." The warning against nervous breakdowns came from Dean Vir ginia Gildersteeve of Birnard ''O’lege. She sai£,it was better for the average yoimg woman to stay away from college than try to work her way through. INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 9, 1929 VAREATTACK IS BLOCK TO TARIFFACTION Move for Denial of Seat in Senate to Delay De bate on Bill. POLL FRAUDS CHARGED Norris Agrees to Respite, but Gets Precedence Ruling From Curtis. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—An old fashioned monkey wrench, the Vare case, was dropped deftly into the tariff machinery in the senate today when George W. Norris, the farm bloc senator from Nebraska, de manded immediate settlement of the 3-year-old dispute over seating Sen ator-Elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania. Asa strong opponent of the tariff bill, which he believes will not bring further relief to agriculture, Norris proposed a resolution denying Vare his seat. The resolution has the highest privilege and supersedes even the pending tariff bill. Its effect will be to delay indefinitely the debate upon the pending business, unless Repub lican leaders find some means of sidetracking it. Watson Asks Time Republican floor leader Watson managed to block it for the day, when he requested time to look it over. Norris agreed to the brief respite, but only after he had ob tained a ruling from Vice-President Curtis that his resolution was bigger business under the senate rules than the tariff bill, allowing him to get it in place of the tariff at any time. The Vare resolution may lead to extended debate. The same coalition group which is fighting the tariff bill, the farm bloc members and the Democrats also are fighting against Vare. They contend his primary cam paign expenditures of more than SBOO,OOO consituted fraud and cor ruption in his election, and there fore. he should be denied a seat. The Norris resolution cites the facts in the 1926 election cas°. reasons for delay in acting upon it, and reason why it should be no longer post poned. Smoot. Simmons Mix Confronted with this new prob lem. the Republicans went ahead slowly with the tariff debate. A row between Senators Smoot and Sim mons, leaders of the opposing fac tions, required forty-five minutes to decide what facts should be printed in the comparative tariff tables to be made for use of sena tors. Simmons won. scya five-pound book will be printed containing all the facts. During the debate, Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.), charged Smoot with “censoring” facts which would be of benefit to the opposi tion. He cited figures which he claims Smoot deleted from the tariff report, showing increases in the house and senate bills, over the present tariff law. Sends Nominations Bu Vnilcd Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 9.—The fol lowing nominations were sent to the senate today by President Hoover: Albert L. Watson, Pennsylvania. to be district judge, middle district of Pennsylvania. Leland Harrison, Illinois, now minister to Sweden, to be minister to Uruguay. Scott Wilson. Maine, to be United States circuit judge in the first circuit. Theodore Roosevelt. New York, son of the late President Roosevelt, to be Governor of Porto Rico. John Boyd Avis. New Jersey, to be United States district judge in the district of New Jersey. Mortimer W. Byers. New York, to be United States district judge in the eastern district of New York. Alf Oftedal. California, to be col lector of Internal revenue, in the first district of California. CONTEMPT IS DENIED Fall-Sinrlair Witness Files Answer to Citations. Sv Vniti(l Pre** WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Harry M. Blackmer. oil milliona're and president of the Mid-West Refining Company, now in Paris, today an swered two citations for contempt of court in failure to appear as gov ernment witness In the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trials, contending his testimony would have been worthless in the Fall-Sinclair trial because the case ended in a mistrial. STREET CONTRACTS LET Delaware and Massachusetts Will Be Widened. J. N. Morgan & Son. contractors, today received contracts to widen and improve Delaware street from Massachusetts to Ft. Wayne avenues and Masachusetts avenue from New York to North streets. The Delaware street bid was $43.- 000 and the street will be widened fr -m fifty to sixty feet and paved w'th asphalt Mas ave nue will be widened fr.'m sixty to sixty-six feet and paved with brick at a cost of $17,733. School Bells’ Summons Is Answered on Opening, Day by 60,000 Youngsters That good times are not all shattered by thoughts of readin', writin' and such things is demonstrated in the pictures above, taken as school opened today. They include: Above, left. Police Officer W. R. Thomas safely conducting William Franks Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Franks. 2124 North Penn sylvania street, across the street; above, right, girls on their way to Benjamin Harrison school, Delaware and Walnut streets. City, County Enrollment Records Will Fall, Offi cials Assert Approximately 60.000 boys and girls answered the call of the school bell today as Tncianapolis grade, pa rochial and high schools opened for the fall term. Grade schools opened at 8 a. m. with an estimated enrollment of 50.000. The twenty-three city pa rochial schools were expecting 9,000 pupils, according to the Rt. Rev. Francis H. Gavisk. chancellor of the Indianapolis diocese. A half day schedule will be followed in grade schools this week. Charles F. Miller, city school superintendent, has announced. Three thousand teachers will be employed in Indianapolis grade schools, and 600 in high schools A total of 11.000 pupils will be en rolled in the thirty-one grade and eleven high schools of Marion coun ty. it is announced. The total en rollment for all city and county schools will exceed that for last year, officials said. HIT-FLY’ PLANE RAMS BOAT; ONE IS KILLED Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—What per haps was the world's first “hit-and fly” airplane accident resulted to day in a technical charge of man slaughter against Henry Ramsdell, 32-year-old commercial pilot. After a night of questioning, Ramsdell was held in the death of William Brown. 52. of Brooklyn, who was killed when a seaplane struck a motorboat Sunday and continued across Jamaica bay without stop ping. Brow-n and John De£. 55. were in the motorboat. Brwon's neck was SENATOR SWORN IN William E. Brock . Takes Place of Tyson, Bv United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 9.—Wil liam E. Brock of Chattanooga, suc cessor of the late Lawrence D. Ty son. as senator from Tennessee, was sworn into office today by Vice- President Curtis. 15 LOST IN SHIP - FIRE Twelve Believed Burned and Three Are Drowned. Bu L nited Press . _ ROTTERDAM. Holland. Sept. 9- Twelve of the crew were feared to have been burned to death and three drown ad w hen the British tanker Vimeria. bound for Glasgow, caught fire here today. The float ing fire brigade fought the flames but made no headway. Below, left, John Hillock, fifth grade pupil at Benjamin Harrison school, doesn't like school and show's it. Below', center, Solomon Service. and Lee Ducker Jr., w'ho enrolled at School 32. Twenty-first and Illinois streets, playing leap frog. Below', right. Martin Junior Kirby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kirby, 828 North East street, is all smiles, because he likes school. NEGROES HIRED AS STATE DRY SPIES Attorney-General Expects Two to Uncover Cases of Protection, Acting on numerous complaints regarding alleged protection of boot leggers by law enforcement officers, Attorney-General James M. Ogden today announced he had employed two Negroes to work out of his of fice as dry spies. This action, Ogden stated, is in line with requests made by both President Herbert Hoover and George Wickersham, chairman oi the Hoover investigation committee, for the state to co-operate with the federal government in dry law en forcement. “The men have been instructed to confine activities to three points which, in my opinion, are handi capping dry law enforcement in the state," Ogden explained. “They will get the big still operators, the truck broken Dee received a fractured arm and leg. Several hours later Ramsdell’s plane, which he piloted for the Coastal Airways, was found with the pontoon greatly dented. He said he believed he had struck a “log” taxiing across the bay to take off. but was “positive” he had not hit a motorboat. It was the second unusual accident attributed to a Costal Airways plane in two days. Late Saturday a seaplane be longing to the company ran out of gas in a fog and crashed down upon bathers at Coney Island, killing two boys and injuring nine other per sons. Coi~pse Bells, Lights, Stop Burial of Living LONDON. Sept. 9.—Relating blood-curdling stories of persons being buried or cremated alive .the Society for the Pre vention of Premature Burial has started an active campaign in Great Britain for construction of a mortuary chapel where bodies can be placed until there is no further doubt of their wish to remain longer on this earth. Maxwell Johnson, secretary, said there was such a mortuary in Munish. Attached to each body under suspicion is an elec tric cord, which rings a bell at the slightest movement. Attend ants are on duty day and night to listen for the life-ringing bell. 1 Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffiee, Indianapolis transports and uncover local, or other protection of bootleggers wherever possible. “The idea is an experiment, but within the last few days these two men have uncovered information which assures me it is worth while.” The men employed are Horace Lyle and Robert West, both of In dianapolis. Ogden indicated, as a result of recent investigations in Lake coun ty and several northern towns, there may be startling disclosures. Delphi, in Carroll county, where the Negro population is almost nil, has been one of the scenes of ac tivity. This district is alleged to be a production area and it is said there are numerous stills in opera tion. Indianapolis is among the towns and cities from which complaints regarding protection of bootleggers have been received, Ogden asserted. Others include. Clinton. Rockville, Veedersburg and Logansport. Tne investigators now are in Terre Haute. They will watch for corrup tion at the polls Tuesday during the city election there. Ogden said. Under the appropriation of the last legislature the attorney-general is given $13,000 for enforcement of anti-trust and “other laws.” Em ployment of dry spies come under the' latter heading, Ogden points out. OHIO BANK IS ROBBED Two Bandits Get $5,000 in Columbus Holdup. Bp United Press COLUMBUS, 0.. Sept. 9.—Two armed bandits entered the North High Savings and Trust Company here today, forced the cashier and a woman clerk to lie on the floor, rifled the safe money drawers of approximately $5,000 and escaped in a parked automobile. "Amazing precautions,” John son said, "are sometimes taken by people to make sure they will not be buried alive. They have ordered a stiletto shall be thrust through them, a vein severed, or they shall be decapitated and their body be buried at sea. “A Russian nobleman invented an electric switch for coffins. If this was touched by the .corpse it lighted a red lamp, rang a bell and waved a flag in the ceme tery above.” This recalls the story of a domestic servant named Annie Green, who was hanged in 1850. fourteen hours later she revived, was pardoned and later married. HOME Outside Marion County 3 Cent* TWO CENTS REMOVE EIGHT BODIES FROM T. A.T. PLANE Probes Start as Identities Are Established by Charred Jewelry. LINER HAD EXPLODED Ship, Racing Too Low, Struck Tree and Plunged Against Ridge. Bu United Press GALLUP. N. M„ Sept. 9.—The charred remains of seven men and a woman, victims of the crash of the T. A. T. air liner, City of San Francisco, into the side of ML Taylor last Tuesday, were moved to ward their final resting places to day, while officials began a series of investigations to determine, if pos sible, responsibility for the latest tragedy of the air. A grewsome caravan carted the remains of the five passengers and three crewmen from the scene of the liner's plunge, near the summit of Mt. Taylor, over a precarious trail twenty miles to Grants. The bodies then were placed aboard ambulances and sent to Gallup and Albuquerque to be prepared for burial. Thrown Off Course First official investigation of the crash came late Sunday when a coroner’s jury assembled at the al most Inacessible spot on Mt. Tay lor, around the strewn wreckage of the once proud airliner, peered at the burned bodies, and tangled mass of plane, and returned the routine verdict that the party of eight pas sengers came to their deaths as a result of an airplane accident. The great ship appeared to have been racing at an altitude too low to permit of crossing and struck the mountain a side blow-. First a lofty tree had been decapitated. This ac cident alone probably was enough to doom the sky cruiser and its party. The craft was thrown off its course and plunged through the tall trees, cutting off pines as a mowing machine would have trimmed meadow grass. The terrifying plunge had ended against a rocky, timber sprinkled ridge, where the plane crashed and then exploded with a force that threw stones, branches and rocks in all directions. It was a sight that appalled many of the strange party of searchers, fifty-seven in all, including In dians, white guides, business men, ranchers, government employes and newspaper men. Watches Are Stopped The tense position of the bodies, all with hands firmly clutched, left more than a hint of a brief terrify ing experience—the hurtling of a great plane through the trees, the explosion and death and incinera tion for all. There were eight burned bodies, only two of them not too badly seared to make identification possi ble. These later were given names through various articles, including rings and watches. The bodies were identified as: M. M. Campbell, Cincinnati; Wil liam H. Beers, Merrick, L. 1., N. Y.? Harris Livermore, Boston; A. S. Mc- Gaffey, Albuquerque; Mrs. Cornia Raymond, Glendale, Cal., passen gers; Chief Pilot J. B. Stowe, Co s Edwin A. Diets, Courier C. F, Canfield, crew. The time of the disaster was set at 11:01 a. m. Tuesday by the fact that all the watches of the plane and its passengers were stopped at that hour. Charges that Chief Pilot J. B. Stowe did not want to leave Albu querque at 10 a. m. last Tuesday be cause of the adverse weather condi tions, but had taken the plane up on its fatal flight at the orders of his superiors, were made at the scene of the wreckage Sunday, but official confirmation of Stowe’s ob jections were lacking. Reward to Be Split Bv United Press ST. LOUIS, Sept. 9.—Pilot George K. Rice, of the Western Air Express and his co-pilot or any passenger on the plane who aided in the discovery of the charred wreckage of the Trans-Continental Air Transport liner. City of San Francisco, will re ceive the SIO,OOO reward offered by T. A. T. officials and parents of C. F. Canfield, courier oboard the wrecked plane, Donald A. Bartlett, assistant general-manager of T. A. TANARUS., announced today. Overhaul Planes Bv United Press PORT COLUMBUS. 0.. Sept. 9 All planes of the Trans-Continental Air Transport Company will be overhauled before coast-to-coast sevice is resumed. Charles W. Den nis. division passenger agent, an nounced here today. Lindy N. Y. Bound Bu Unit <f Press WAYNOKU, Okla.. Sept. 9.—Fly ing the fast monoplane in which Captain Frank Hawks set a trans continental record. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife will taka off here today for New York. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 70 10 a. m 77 7a. m 70 11 a. m 79 Ba. 71 12 (noon).. 81 9a. m..... 73 Ip. m..... 82