Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 20 December 1929 — Page 3
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929.
COLD WAVE HERE ON SCHEDULE TIME
The cold wave predicted by the weather bureau Tuesday, arrived about oil scheduled time. The temperature began falling about five o’clock last night and has continued steadily since that time. The wind changed to the north about (> o’clock, which had the effect of stopping the downpour of rain which had lasted most of the day. At ah early hour this morning a heavy north wind, ushered in a sleet storm, with snow and rain. This assumed the proportions of a. blizzard several times today, to the discomfort of pedestrians and animals exposed to the weather. Traffic was also endangered.
INDIANAPOLIS PREDICTION. Indianapolis, Dec. 18.— (UP)—A chill rain early turned to sleet today, endangering auto traffic and temporarily halting interurban service on several lines and heralding the arrival of the cold wave predicted ' by J. H. Armington, meterologist, which was to arrive
tonight.
Although no trouble has been reported on telephone lines in the state, maintenance gangs are alert for wire trouble as a result of the
sleet and ice.
Rivers in the state are reported
near flood stages as a result of the
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bureau. This danger is believed to have been averted by the promise
of fair weather after today. / On the interurban lines in opera-
tion the majority of cars were running from a few minutes to several hours late. The busses are also considerably behind their schedule both in the city and on the state
highways.
leu degrees above zero tonight in the north portion and about ten above in the south portion is pre-
dicted.
The drop in temperature which checked the rain, has undoubtedly prevented much damage by flood waters, along streams in this county, many of which were beginning
to overflow their banks.
LESLIE CHOOSES 13 TO LOOK INTO SCHOOL FINANCE!
CONVICT ALGERS PALS; THREATEN TO KILL JUDGE
New 1930 Auto Plates On Sale Now In Indiana
fndianapolis, Dec. 17—(U.P.)— the string would reach from South New blue and gold auto license I Bend to Louisville. Weight of the plates made their appearance in the (total number is estimated at 462
state Monday as the 1.8th annual Itons. ’
sale of plates opened under the sup-j The new licenses were manufacervision of Otto G. Field, escretary j tured at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, by of state. [the national colortype company at The 1930 licenses are printed in:an approximate cost, of eight cents state colors, having a tylue back- per pair and five cents for single
ground with the gold numerals. Approximately 925,000 pairs pf plates will be sold in the state next year, Fifield believed. If these were shipped at one time there would be sufficient numbers to make a train load of more than 20 cars and if the plates were placed end on end
plates ,such as motorcycle, trailer
and semi-trailer.
In comparison with states having similar plates, the price is lower than any other, Fifield said. An investigation of costs showed that other states pay from 22 cents to 10 1-2 cents per pair he said.
! great personal success iu “The jjsence, Don Terry, Gwen Lee, j Man I Love” and ‘‘River of Ro : : Holmes Herbert, John Miljau, Edmance” is co-featured with Fred- die Nugent and Grace Cunard. ric March as one of the leading — — —
characters in the production. She is Judith Wheater, the eldest of the children. March is Martin Boyne, the American who befriends the parentless children. Among the favorite players cast in supporting roles are Huntley Gordon, Seena Owen, Kay Francis, I Lilyan Tashman, William Austin j and Jocelyn Lee. Six child actors j play prominent roles in the pro-!
duction.
Lothar Mendes, who produced j “Illusion” and “Dangerous Curves” j directed “The Marriage Play-
ground.”
The original novel, “The Child-1 ren” had the distinction of being j chosen by the “Book of the Month” ! club in September 1928.
went after comniiting the thefts. But even at that the police may be not too muet to blame for not acting on the information. The automobile was old and the value of the chiickens was not great, j Wood had left a plain trail and j could be easily captured at any
(time.
Consequently the report
Give Protection To Employes of Tobacco Plants
Winston-Salem, N. C., Dec. 17.-y
In furtherance of its policy of giv-, consequently the report was ing practical consideration to the taken and the police no doubt in-
Goramission to Meet at Call of (Two Mon Found Near JenGovernor, Will Prepare | nin^s County Jail With Data for Assembly. j Revolvers.
Indianapolis, Dec. 18—A com-; Vernon, Lnd., Dec. 17.—Howard mission to study the state schoolijyjaekey and John Ross, former priaid. dilemma and recommend rem-j son ma t e8 of Alger and held in the (.'dial legislation to the 1931 Geu ;Jennings county jail after they eral Assembly was appointed by |Were f ouml uear Uie j ail in p0S8es . Governor Harry Leslie Tuesday. i 8 j on of hacksaws which, it was beSelection of the committee wasjijeved thev were going to smuggle regarded an important step toward (to Alger to engineer an escape, solving the problem which lias be-(pleaded guilty to charges of poscome steadily more pressing for (session of firearms following con-
several years. i viction for a felony.
A resolution adopted by the 1929 They were sentenced to five years Legislature provided for the com-jj u the state reformatory by Judge mission and gave it specific duties. ! John Carney. After receiving their Thirteen members, including two sentence they bitterly assailed the ex-officio, comprise the ( commission. 1 co hrt for what they termed unfair Ex-ofticio members are Roy R. Wise-j treatment and stated that they hart, state superintendent of pub- would make an escape from the inlie instruction, and Lawrence F. stitution at the first opportunity in Orr, chief examiner of the state order to murder the judge, Sheriff board of accounts. i William Bannister and State Po-
Lindley and Freeman in Group | liceman Carl Losey.
State Senator Alonzo H. Lindleyj Start Term Today, of Kingman, who is considered lead-1 Under an escort of state policeer of the farm bloc of the Senate, men, they were to be taken to the -iliUl Jleiu^en tativp Geo. W. Free- refaj inatm-y tonigirt by-Sheriff Ban-
man of Kokoi'no, are the legislative .nister’s deputies,
members. j Judge Carney has set Dec. 26 as The nine other commissioners the date for the trial in Jennings were selected as representative citi-(circuit court of Gene Alger, ohargzens. They are Arthur H. Sapp of j e d with robbing the Paris Crossing
Huntington, past president of Ro- state bank.
tary Indernational; I. L. Wimmer His wife, Josephine Alger, arrestof Greencastle, field agent for the e d with him, will he tried Dec. 30. Indiana Taxpayers’ Association;} Sheriff Wilbur Bannister was ac.lolm G. Rossman, superintendent of jeoinpanied by four state policemen Bast Chicago schools and former (when he brought Alger from the
well-being of its employees, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, makers of Camel cigarettes and Prince Albert smoking tobacco, has entered into a contributory group insurance contract in excess of $10,000,000 for approximately 10,000 members of its organization including all employees in the Winston-Salem factories and representatives in all other sections of the country. This insurance has been placed with the Equitable Life Insurance Society of the United States. Although thirty days were allowed for employees to accept the plan, within three days of the first announcement eighty per cent of those in Winston-Salem had registered their
wish to participate.
The plan consists of life insurance, total and permanent disability insurance and non-oceupational
tended to take the matter up at their leisure. The law unfortunately provides no' funds for running down criminals and the value of the stolen articles was so slight that the police no doubt intended to get their maid some time or other by. mail communication with Ken-
tucky peace officers.
No one thought Wood would come hack from Kentucky and brutally murder the old couple that he had robbed. But the fact re-
Monday Preview
“Pointed Heels” Opens at Mid-nite With a Showing. The fans of William Powell,: Helen Kane, Fay Wray and “Sheets” Gallagher will be in their; glory in Muncie as for three days | starting with a mid-nite previewing showing Monday night, this j clever quartette of screen and stage stars, will be seen and heard for | the first time in “Pointed Heels”! which is a combination of pathos, rilyracking humor, funny situations, a great plot and a great lot of ear-tickling songs along with a great singing iftid dancing beauty chorus, with many beautiful scenes in a big New York musical revue, with many handsome gowns, many of the scenes of this successful musical comedy will be in natural
color.
Powell is the sauve semi-villian; Helen Kane is the vodvil performer who “boopa-doopa_doops” her
mains' that he did that very thing, t wa y illto a bi K revue; Fay Wray If the police had had any idea j is tlle beautiful girl from the chorthat Wood contemplated murder I us wbo fulls in love with Phillips they would have gone after him! Holmes, a young composer; and as soon as the thefts were report-1 “ Skeets ” Gallagher is the faired. They did get busy when the ba ' ie ^ husband of the luscious murders were reported. Helen who completes the comedyWhether or not they are to lose j ^ eam °*~ Kane and Gallagher,
their jobs when the new adminis-1
accident and health insurance. Onlyjtration comes in has no connection employees who have been with the (whatever with the fact of whether Reynolds Company for six months (or not they did, or did not do theijr
or more are eligible for policies, which are graduated on a salary basis. The amounts of the policies range from $500 to $10,000, and mider the accident and health feature the weekly indemnity varieties from $6 to $40, depending upon the worker’s income. When the insured leaves the company he may convert his policy and continue it if he
so desires.
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state superintendent of public instruction of Arkansas; George C. Cole of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn •ounty school superintendent; J. W
jail to the court room to be ar-
raigned before Judge Carney at 10 ion his head
KILLER SOUGHT; BONDS ARE FOUND
Weajt hy Chicago Merchant Is Fugitive With Price
On His Head.
Benton Harbor, Mich., Dec. 17.--Frederick Dane, 40 years old, until Saturday night regarded here as a wealthy Chicago merchant Sunday was being hunted throughout the middle West as a murderer and bank robber, with a $10,000 price
“The Untamed'' Joan Crawford’s First All Talking Picture From The Pen of Charles E. Scoggins, A Muncie Author and Writer of
Fiction.
Friday and Saturday, December! 27-28, Joan Crawford will be seen and heard in her first all talking! picture, “The Untamed” which will be heard on the Rivoli Theat-| re perfect talking screen for the
„„ , . i , .. first time. One of the interesting I L vi In V P . H )y r e pollce » facts of Joan’s latest picture is | have long been the lurWpg places ' ,^ the author of the storv is uo of desperate criminals. Youngsters I other than Ml , €harle E s »oggins
a VP prlupal prl mi pvi rvi li but tllP I ^ uul luc Muncie a popular writer ot
duty in this particular case. It takes a distorted and illogical mind to conceive such a connection. There have been so many cases where the police have not done their duty that the law of averages
sould obtain.
Liquor dens and gambling hous
fic- 1
o’clock this morning. The state guards, one of them with a machine
Jones member of the Terre Haute j gun, were stationed in the court normal college faculty; T. M. Me- j mom while Alger was in court. Donald of Frineeton, attorney; Guy! Prisoner Nervous. C. Cantwell of Gosport, member of Tl>e prteoner appeared nervous the state board of agriculture; (when the affidavit was read to him Dwight S. Ritter, Indianapolis busi-;by County Clerk Edward J. Welker, nessman. and Mrs. E. C. Rumpler j He pleaded not guilty. His attorof Indianapolis, clubwoman ami > noy, Claude McBride of .Jeffersonformer member of the board of; ville, asked for ten days in which
state charities.
INTIMATES FARMER DENIED CHEAP LOAN
Barnes Test ilies Private Dealer ami Agrieullurist Get the Same Rate.
to get ready for the case. Ik' also asked the judge to name bond mid Judge Carney placed Gene Alger’s bond n( $20,000 and Josephine AlIger’s at. $5,000. Only a few persons were present in (lie court room.
Schwab Predicts Business Growth
j Indianapolis, Dec. 17.—“Business
Washington, Dec. 18. Congres- .in the United States is going to sional agricultural leaders were dis- j grow just as surely and just as fast turbed and puzzled Tuesday over in the future as it ever did in the
insinuations rhat the federal farm past.”
board has changed its “cheap j This was the prediction of (’has. money” policy for the former, re-’M. Schwab, chairman of the hoard garded as one of the basic princi- of directors of the Bethlehem. Steel pies of President Hoover’s farm re- Corporation and world famous
lief policy.
The intimations came from Julius Barnes, big grain exporter and close friend of the President, who tesfi-
financier, in an address to the Indiana Manufacturers’ Association,
Monday night.
The association’s dinner, at which
lied before the senate lobby inves.ti- Mr. Schwab was principal speaker,
was held in the Columbia Club. “Bear Fearless” Leaders Told. “Be not afraid as manufacturers in this progressive country of ours,” Mr. Schwab said. “When you have Presidents such as you have in Washington today, sound in their administration of the nation’s busi-
your
gating committee regarding charges that he sought to influence the board’s policy on behalf of the
grain trade.
Barnes denied he had brought pressure upon the board, but said that Chairman Legge had assured grain commission men the board
would not afford cheaper money to j ness, you may be fearless in
co-operatives for grain buying than] undertakings and go ahead.” is afforded private grain buyers. ! »—o — As Barnes understood it, the farm | _ __ a »«•»/*,
hoard’s policy is to loan money atlQf^rri^ Ap TD Aljyw
the government rate, around 3 t-2||j| Eiixi/ V/jT
per cent, to the Farmers’ National Grain corporation at Chicago, a government project, which would, in turn, charge the prevailing commercial rate to co-operatives, thus eliminating competition with priv-
ate interests.
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The sudden change in his reputation here resulted from a minor traffic accident Saturday night. In the argument which followed Dane shot and killed Charles Skelly, 30, St. Joseph motorcycle patrolman, and escaped in a stolen automobile after wrecking his own
car.
$319,850 Bonds Found
are educated in crime
schools are not molested. | ti(>n
I he sol) sisters should paint the j “Untamed” is a new and inter-1 whole panorama instead of using j es ting story of “young America” in the brush on a few square inches, j the process of adjusting itself, i! At least they are not going to make (When Joan Crawford foils in love | anybody else cry with their soul- at first sight with Robert Mont-! ful wails. j gomery on a boat enroute up from I
o—. | the jungles of Central America,;
RIVOJLi THEATRE OFFERS yhe sees no good reason why there i A GREAT LINE-UP OF be such a bother about their j ALL-TALKING PICTURES I T ania 5 e * 3ut th T is ’ au,1 1 m ; uiy l
TTRUI? ixirk utx ADTU ,lramal,c Hungs happen before
I ORE SEEN AM) HEARD: Director Jack Conway brings this!
DURING XMAS WEEK. 'picture to a striking close. Others! jin the cost include Ernest Tor-!
Mid-Nite Show Monday Nite PreView Showing of “Pointed Heels” Aisn Turkey Night At This Pre-
vffw.
The Rivoli Theatre offers during j “Christmas week” a great line up i of all talking feature pictures, along (, with Turkey night, ...onday, at the | Pre-view showing of “Pointed j Heels” the first performance of , this big musical comedy success j’ starting at eleven-thirty Monday i
night, December 23.
The all talking filmization of "The Children” Edith Wharton’s ! famous novel which ran in “The | Pictorial Review” will be seen and
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DECEMBER 22 AND 23 SUNDAY and MONDAY
BOLD! UNIQUE! Told Without Restraint! “The Marriage Playground” A Startling and Frank Melo-Drama with Mary Brian, Fredric Marsh, Lilyan Tashman, Huntley Gordon And they all talk in this sensational story.
December 24, 25, 26 Tues., Wed., Thurs. Mid-Nite Show Monday, Dec. 23 Starting 11:30 Pre-View Showing of “POINTED HEELS” All Talking, Singing and Dancing Musical Comedy in Natural Color with William Powell, Helen Kane, “Skeets” Gallagher Fay Wray Famous Singing and Dancing Beauty Chorus.
December 27, 28 Friday, Saturday You Hear Her Now In Her First All Talking Picture! Joan Crawford ' IN “UNTAMED” The Star of “Our Dancing Daughters” in a new style story. You Now Hear Her.
The Perfect Acoustics Theatre Geo. S. Challis. • WYSOR GRAND Muncie’s Leading Theatre
Continuous Daily 1 to 11
Two Great Talking Pictures Xmas Week
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY December 22, 23, 24 The Screen’s Most Beautiful Blonde Mary Nolan In the All-Talking Drama “Shanghai Lady” See this amazing and colorful drama of the love that changed the lives of a man and woman adrift among the dens of the Orient!
Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat.
Dec. 25, 26, 27, 28
Cl Talking, Singing,
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In Her First Talking Picture “Songs of Love” The American of Song in a beautiful Musical Drama of mother love.
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't',,.*',— , • i , j i iULui icii neviuw win oe seen aim St. Joseph officers who invaded, ^^rj Sunday and Monday, DecemDane’s home found two machine. ber 22 . 2 o ) on the perfect talking guns with several hundred rounds i screeu at ,fie Rivoli Theatre. The of anuminiton, two high-powered title 0 f the all-talking picture ver rifles, a sawed-off shotgun '» a 8« • s it m is “The Marriage IMayground.” and cans of shells, teal bom is, and ; j t describes the revolt of a family in a locked closet discoveied $ > of seven children against the diSfdi worth of securities which Shei- vorce-mad, thrill-thirsty antics of
iff Fred G. Bryant and Prosecutor j their el(le rs.
Wilbur M. Cunningham say were stolen from the Farmers and Merchants bank of Jefferson, Win.,
November 7.
The bonds were identified in a telephone conversation today with L. M. Smith, president of the hank.
Mary Brian, who made
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QUICK ACTION MIGHT HAVE PREVENTED TWO HORRIBLE MURDERS ll Muncie and Delaware county were shocked at the clubbYig to death of Mr. and Mrs. George Heath by the moron Wood. The police and deputy sheriffs acted promptly as soon as the murders were reported and the man was caught in the hills of Kentucky and will shortly b& given a trial. The capture of the murderer has:| offered an opportunity for those ! who critize in advance to take a few sly, left handed digs at the; imanning d/jmocrjtiAj: administra- !•
lion.
Coals of fire are being heapetd, upon the head of a cruel mayor-j (elect who may discharge these po-! |licemen, notwithstanding their act | (of valor. * Building a man of straw and (then knocking it down has become! ja favorite indoor sport for 'those ( who are seeking to criticize a ( mayor who has not yet taken the I oath of office. .The murders were bad enough, I but that the slaughter of these in-j offensive old people, and the ulti-;
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down to eight miles an hour while a * ata uaptuve of the murdered !
Petersburg. Ind., Dec. 17. At a depth of 1,200 feet, Fred Hilleis, independent oil operator of Law-(The
should be taken as an excuse for the construction of one these men
passing -through here may be ad-
vocated hy the Koscuisko Society. . , .
inuepeuueiiL uu ^ ,The move to do this has _ bee ni^ ^ ra ^ ls uot a P leasaHt to
renceville, IU., Saturday drilled in; aroused through the talal accidents thirUv about.
the biggest oil well in Pike county at the New lork Central Railroad Candidly speaking, these mur me oiggesi. crossing at Central and Division (hers might have been prevented it
streets. iH. 16 police had taken seriously the The society will advocate en-1 complaints made by one of the vicfarcement of this ordinance already Urns, the late Mr. Heath, when he
on the statute books unless the railroad improves the crossing in such a manner as to make it less dangerous, it was announced.
PAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
on the W. H, Lindy lease in the new Clay township field. Twelve feet of sand was found and more than eight hundred feet of oil rose jn the hole in a few hours. The oil was found in the Hoover sand, one of the biggest payir *ands in the
field. . ■ „
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reported, two we/eks before the! murder, that Wood stolen his an-1 toinobile, the report giving the lo-j cation in Kentucky whers Wood!
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